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From the IS*»w York Weekly lender. THE MAINE LAW.

ure, and have labored to excel Him.—

where, how,

went on nccamc

taste of the individual. They then "sought"

out many inventions,"-ia^d fain would have

They commenced with nutmegs, hams, and

cucumber seeds, manufacturing these-arti-

cles out of wood but unfortunately, these

lie- Know it to be one oj the most

t. It has beet, flu earse of literjrjr

men for cent,,nes. But we are not such a

blockhead as to suppose that a passion

which has bccome all but universal, to

l,e ex ingiMshed by law.. Const,tu'.ed as

society now is ,n gross violation of every

,.r,„c,ple of natural justice, it is not to be

them alcoholic liquors, and tiny will ily to

op,um. chloroform arsenic, etc.: or, adopt-

!.li"

m0r

ciann:

the shape of their bonnets, and, in fffie, the 'substitutes will become very generally dif-j

general cut of thei| jibs. But the women' fused, and their use become so common as

were too smart forlhem, and insisted that to enervate the wb Ie people. We have

dresses, like kisses, must be left to the 'ttyrmich faith, however, in the common'

The Maine Law is the greatest humbug EMIGRATION TO T2IE NEW TEItRIof the day. It hasn't diminished the quantity of intoxicating drinks consumed in the

^""S'-fO^sltmuhint,

ilo\v hnppy shcuM IU' with ct/irr, Were, tile other doar clwirmcr away! The use of other stimulants as a substitute foi alcohol is on the rapid increase.

In 1039 when the temperance movement

in Great Britain was beginning to be for-

inidable, the quantity of opium imported .j,0

into that country was -11,000 pounds in

1052, when the movement was at its height

the lrnpoi tation exceeded 14,000 pounds.

The first tcmperancc editor wc were ac-

quainted with, was addicted to it to such cxccss that he told us he could not live without it. His most eloquent deiJtinciations of drunkenness were composed umlcr

ipenJc except from its inspiration. But the

,• ,.

iintoxicated wirh this drug, w£re 'habit of rushing irito the camns of the

or ps

tcr. Sincc then, they have had more leis* We murht enumerate manv other stimu-' *'c

ts used in

Thoy commenced with an attempt to regu- where intoxj^ late nature, believii^ti'jat, lier works could kfl&wn or prohibited be adjusted Hke^tl^ggof a wooden clock ^doing^o for sanaton

tinaeAVorea to dH«*-.«iine when,

nhould embrace their wives. But kissinir ,tnrv virtno* of s'

sensc

improved upon all haturaJ productions.— 'results. The Maine Law has 2hus far been

oun(

ar thal wi

to ar.-itato.

its influence. The most distinguished tcm-|®uch j»rcsscs as the New Albany Tribune

M^lfiie Law the conso-

the"vi^ims°of the Mflffie Law the'eonso-i

latory. Virtues of so common a plant as

which underlies the Anglo-Saxon

utterly impracticable even in Maine.

j£

ve 0

men

notions wouldn't go down. jbeso far advanced, that healthful exciteSo the sooner the Connccticu!ians get a xnents, growing out of a more perfect orlittle cutcr, and go back again to the T-j'^WS^ g-anizatioti of society, shall take the place of God, the better. It they wish to try any :Qf others, and there will be neither tempmore of their absurd experiments, they^had .tation, nor occasion to rush into any danbetter find out some way, as above sug-1o-er0Us excess. gested, for abolishing humaifcnature. _JL .. t?*

TORIES.

wouUr t)e floutlcd with- *. nrp miin a a 1 a a opposed to dram-dnnking as anybody can

ho rs who may ]ocate

fruitful causes of crime. We have seen its terrible workings in every class of society.' Some of our bust frienda'have been ruined resjions. But wo hope the efforts |,

sllo%t

send Norlhera labor there will bo sue-

ccssfu an

,j tht

lhc Abo

|crriio

un 1)e

t0 ilbovant

wondered »t that its viol,ins rush after^eve- ij,slesld

ry stimulant within their reach. .„i?

a a Ils

a a st llie

ta,-ives

as irregularly as ever, and the law hempifCuit this thing is certain,'that jn lineal enactment. They protest against the Indianans as stupid and ignorant, and a dead letter* They attempted, this countoy. as in England, if we succeed Nebraska Bill as being heterodox and of. therefore proper subjects upon whom to shortly after, to. regulat^ the length of wo- jn forcibly abo^ishin^ the use, of spirituous schematic tendency. ..... "j men's petticoats, the color of then* dresses, stimulants, the knowledge of all narcotic,

rt.

stimulants will be fW?trong ele-

j, jn every nation, until the world shall

The Abolitionists and Whisjs are nowjtb^ni, as a cast of a proiession ecclesiastic.

tfiere_ will,

|1 few slavc holders there nn( liavc no

...afty to overcome. The South has no

design to enter the contest for the control.

nu„

ticr an(J pi cc

to tlicm

nis

ts will now

ow lllt ir zcl for the causc free

themselves, in large

now show a disposition

u-„di,re the hardships of a fron-

,. life, for the sake of their

remaining in the old

States to preach, and agitate, and stir up

a nul dor aml as0

„.

A filir

b( for tllora

,, ,,

av0 ilnv

||'gain'fooiing in Km-

sas, whv not go there themselves in siifli-

vcnt wil lha( the

Liko W

)rv

A iter in Black.*-nod Magazine, com- provit!e for their own safety and com-

mcnting on this fact, savs It is to be observed, however, as a matfe tcr of comfort "that we are not to expect resulted in riot and the murder of a citizen •r either in Christian Europe, or in America, jnnd, instead of joining in the mob, they to sec the consumption of opium evev be- f»f.fd like cowards to their comfortable come so universal as in Mohammedan jhomvs, and called on the Mayor to project, countries, where the use of wine is forbidden them and their proper'v from threatened to the true believer. So lor, of choice is allowed to moral compulsion only thi-m, there is little fear of their becoming land remain in comfort at home themselves, generally addicted to opium. Prohibit the We want to see Abolitionists going to vse of fcrmeutcd Uquors bylaw, and we may Kansas in great numbers. We don't want hope to increase largely the consumers of\ slavery established there, or anywhere

ing as a" freedom I ver-cancc. And so it will be in regard to

the people, or a [this emigration schemes They will ll ^,ct}

is exercised over lustily to'others to ^o to the new territories '*"(j

tk is druo.y' el-c. We don't like the institution. So, Truer or more timely words "than these 'turn out Abolitionists. There is a wide field were never spoken. We have personal ev- {for you in the western wilds and if you idt nee of the fact that in numerous instances where men have been* denied the use of intoxicating drinks, they have secretly 1 indulged in opium to an alarming extent.

nrc sinccre in your professions you will help to occupy it. and prevent the extension of slavery.

It is a luimbur. It is political capital, they desire to make, aud not free States. —Pittsburgh Post.

cient numbers to prevent it. They can g^ten oi disparaged by his professed well be spared from the older communities "lends and followers in this case! and a little disposition to labor, as weli as

is necessary to prove their

Cf ritv We bojjt?VP(

\Vendell Phillips, one of the aboli

tion leaders in New England, with whom

and Indians Journal wish to affiliate the

iK-rance lecturer wc ever kneS, could not and Indians Journal wish to affiliate the f.li "I*''

whio-s of Indiana, spoke as follows at a late

abolition meetin-:

characteristic fact of most men wJio HftVe entirely renounced the use of intoxicating ririnks is, tliat they at once increase their^sarf was now being held it was the treason-

F® extensively used. Among these may sentiment, is the great vortex which swai-

.consumption of tobacco, tT.e extravagant able society and though there were several ,use of which, as we know from our own anti-slavery debating societies in tKe couuoxperience, is deleterious beyond descrip-' try. this was the infidel society, and the tion. [society cling to this fuipe.llation, and hoped ./ These facts out to be known and it that it would be carried do«» to posterity, ... •. .• Nought to be known also that there are ma- It a disunion society, amf lie was

ether dangerous narcotics, noffamiliar to be able to profess his crced at such a

'enientioned hemp, which, "trom the re- lows up the great minds, and they have. Potest times has been celebrated among power enough for the time being to influence,!

But t,ic

Abolitionists of

p]ast, have no intention to

nnt Mll(lir own ]lfxnds (o the p]oU£rh

•"•put "iniMr own nanus 10 me piougn.

,. dell Philips and Theodore Parker,

j]| incite others to exertions, and

fort at home. Those two valourous Boston agitators made speeches to*a crowd that

VOLUME VI CRAWFORDSVILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, IND., JULY 15, 1851.

rcac*

Hlm^t re«ret that we have suwested P«*olest»g against an American-Congress—j the most sovereign contempt/or the "T'loo- (for he was unarmed,) Shelby how often, husbands

'be Se

remonstrate, in

a !linst

Ru"c,\

W0UJ

in vil tu of th

a art in

HPPea®iS^

1 malic il a ,aw of tl,e We sa cd wil

character, seriously to anticipate any such known to oui constitutions, State and Fed- and women for selling a qnart of cider or

11as as

attitude, port and bearing, that we now contemplate them. As unofficial citizens of the United States, they have, in common with all casts of Society—with professors of languages and sciences, with doctors of medicine, lawyers- magistrates, farmers, and mechanics, a common citizen right to sign any petition or remonstrance against any law, statute, or ordinance, .whatever, deemed by them injurious to any of the national or vested rights of American citizens. But against

committed, to be held in terrorem

over our political councils, to be brandished

as a

re re

spiritual swoid^over the heads of the

a ,!Ves

v\lse.

sm-

however, that

oeueve, However, that the

mcn of

a nli to evei

ac cllt:ci

A DEMOCRATIC FAMILY NEWSPAPEli—DEVOTED ,TO* TOLITICS^ NEAVS, MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE, MECHANIC ARTS, tcAr*

o&the U. S.,_ touching a pending po-j when among themselves.

sovereign people of

the Union, we must, and do most solemnly, remonstrate. We regret, profoundly regret, to see the orthodox and heterodox clergymen of Xew England officially ad dressing Congress, and, more especially, the Protestant, clergy of Chicago following their example so forgetful of their duties to their respective flocks, so reckless of the King and law-giver of the Kingdom of Heaven, who would not for a moment turn aside, ex officio, to deci ie a family quarrel about a patrimonial inheritance, which he couli have decided bv one sentence.— What a monumental fact! But alas, how

Washington, at least

great majority of them, felt the impropriety, if not llie indignity, of such appeals to them, and did not, because thev could

prudence can ask or award, and it is alt that any true patriot, philanthropist, or Christran, can ask for himself, his family. and the human race, I feel^thus and

speak thus, witfiout lormmg or expressing

any opinion on the merits or dements of

tne letter, or spint of said bill It comes

not withm the province of my thoughts or

my studies. It has a strong argument on

both sides—one is to give a perpetual qtn-

etustothe public mind on one of the most

zon, and the other is, "whether the extension or limitation of slave territory will ex-

ac er

lltIca,ly or

are

•"It was the infidel society whose nnnivcr- I'n rT ivi^i? *1! l'v' rt

people at lame, which nre ncverthe- time and to snch an audience. The Union thunders or by the bright discontinued. 1,is bounty. k_

in the CLERICAL IVTERFERAXCE IN PO-. YANKEE BLUE LAWSLECTL'UERS. sons, and a neifro, went to Buchanan's*. LITICAI, MATTERS—VIEWS OF ALVDEft CAIttPBELL.

The Connecticutians ha^T^lk£c«i the Christians, committing great ^|voc, being EA ANDMI CA3IPBELL. jersed by a set of fellows who have been him, without giving him a~ chance for hil Maine Law., ,It proposes to aboiu4^ th^- themselves totajjy regaidless of^legri^i that The June number of the "M'dlenial /fur- hired to come here from New England for lit£.^\The jury g«ve a verdict of acquittal. drinking of intoxicating liquors by main these men were known as hashasheqas. f.nd linger,'' contains an article on the.,^subject the purpose of instructing ourgpeople a* to There w'a* fh^^se of Shelby. who killed strength. Wc have looked over |he law that thence came our word assassin jof clerical interference in political affairs, what laws they ought to pass and what Horine in LexintfU^^XJie two dined at with some care, and fj^id but one fault wjth ..... it it, doesn't go far enough. It lack's ^fact, the one thing needful. It fails to provide for the immediate abolition of human the hotter parts of the globe gener-! and read extensively. Alexander Camp- if they have any, is not here. Their wives manner" at the table. Horine answered I he tiriet paragrnplrwas read Dj millions o» nature. The Connecticutians were always ally, wherever the plant produ!ts in abun- bell is known to our readers as a man of and children are not here. Thvy pay no that he was not aware of having looked at

a peculiar peog|e. In the beginning, dance its peculiar ftarco'ic principle its vir-' eminent piety, and is esteemed by his coun-j taxes here. They are simply here because liim in any unusual manner. Shelby said, in the growing light of the early morning, resolved to be governed by the La\vs^n*.tues mav be said to bfe known, and more^rymen as one of our greatest men. An they are paid to come here to traduce, "You did, and if you ever do it again I God liU thei£could find time to make bet-

deep interest:

e#cnsivelv ^ftcle u«e" of." article like this, hailing from such a source, slander, viliify, and misrepresent the best will .blow your brains out. I don't know

not, recognize such a clerical document as as as soon as they get their search, seizure entith to a place on the files of petitions, confiscation, destruction, and imprisonment

will^award them his commendation. (spread upon our statute book, they will not V» ought to rebuke all such clerical, be long in endeavoring to have the nicrrei'gatherings, assumption?, and presumptions, voting"law placed there also.—Xcw as .would officially present instructions, or ledger. advice unasked for to a Stale or a National Assembly of legislators, to influence them in any direction on any question involving christian faith, christian institutions, or So

ciety, further than our Magna Charla guar- fcrring to the Ward ease, gives the follow

jaimo.i) wtt 1 tie as^

and bet dictate of his own reason and conscience.

^te or mitigate tie a ege or con e^s ,.jed

ev 01 s,aver

y»

1 of

lltIca 1

ueint a,l

moiall) considered.

y'P°" the ci

1 hcse

morally considered." These.

on which the greatest, the

cre

fi-r ior one or two generations more, hut time, that great revolutionist, and worldly interest, that special pleader, and philanthrophy, that eloquent orator, under Divine Providence, that Sovereign Arbitrer,

,. sluuinn of tlie bun ot Kignteousness and

.j iMercy on our fallen and bewildered world.

produced by the stimulating decoction dis- challenge any man to tell me what the of the Fourth with the passenger train over dow of his hack, shot him dead instantly, tion these hot heads to attend to their tilled from this plant may 1»e judged from Union has done for us."—X. A. Ledger. the Great Western road, was drcorated Peters was acquitted by the jury, and lived Master's business, and confine themselves the fact, that, according to"-Sylvester dc with the "Flag of our Union," which was here some years afterwards—long enough, to their calling, and save the pulpits of the Sacy, the celebrated Orientalist,'*thc word woman, in attempting to conju- borne through Canada, as a token of re- indeed, to murder, or try to murder, a pros-

assassin is derived from the Arabic'name gate a verb, said ypcct for the citizens of fhe United States titute, upon whose bounty be subsisted.— A. METHODIST. of hemp. "Others say"—we quote fropi "I will marry, thou tfill marry, he will who were passengers. It is a novel and There was the case of the Pendegrasts/ Blackwood—"tiiat during the wars* of *ihe xnarrv, you will marry, and we'll all feed pleasant fact to note, and suggestive of who killed Buchanan, a schoolmaster.—1 JCST" Flour and breaastuas aiC lower and 'Crusaders, ccrtain of the Saraccn aimv, th$ babies together." many,things. The elder Pendcrasts, with two of his falling in New ork.

Senate and House of Represcn-j siers," as they invariably style our peop'e dead. Shelby was indicted, bu

And they caution impose their falsehoods and slanders.— virtue oj their office, (They think that all virtue, honor, integrity,

action on that measure as learning, religion, and morals are compris-

The?Legislature of Connecticut, which

has passed a law for sending people to

the dungeon for the crime of selling a pintl^

of current wine to a sic now being held up by these Yankee Blue Law lecturers as a model eminently worthy of being followed by the Legislature of Indiana. Well, this same Legislature has also passed, as we have already stated, an amendment t* their constitution, by which negroes are allowed to vote, and white men

read, are prohibited from voting! Yes, this is the beautiful Blue Law, abolition State, which is held up before the people of Indiana as the one which they should adopt as their model A gang of hired orators are perambulating the State, telling the people that they can never be prosperous and happy till they do as Maine and Connecticut have done. They may not say in their speeches just now, that they want negroes to vole and unlettered white men excluded from the right of suffrage.— But they have taken the first steps towards that point. They are endeavoring to poison our a'mosphere with their pestiferous abolitionism, by ii-ing a hue and cry about

tiie Nebraska bill. Depend upon it, that

I The State of'Indiana is now being1 tray- scTioolhuuse, with loaded iruns, and killed

men of our Slate—the men who have raised who vou are." Horine responded—"I

bin the six little New England States,

eir office, for the 1^-uty are not They tell the people that because Maine,

their special movement. They Connecticut, 'Vermont, and Rhode Island

clergymen—a cast politically un- have passed laws to fine and imprison men

to our laws. It is in this

current juice, that therefore it must be right, and that the people of Indiana are in duty bound to go and do likewise.— They regard the people of Indiana as little children, incapable of making laws themselves, and such as are suitable to their condition, without their impudejit dictation. They think they are infinitely better prepared to make laws for the people of Indiana than those who have lived here all

Albany

A HORRIBLE RECORD.

The Louisville Journal, in an articlc re-

™n the lightf and protec- ing list of murderers acquitted iu that State:

lat rig it, to thini., jc.icic, There lias been scores of notorious cases

muc er an(

acqui^jjBfcthis city and this

acqu

,, S'ate. There waS\v^

n," 13 nil thai sound political

gc lae|rer

«~.

effer

Ktrike Runz whereu the

dtiadly weaoon into his

hater thrust a

|liim He w*as tried flnd disch wiLh

out punisW it

w]lo kilIec his unc!e) eubcn

Dd himse]f deliberatc]V) and

Wfint tQ t](e

liirn, and shot him dead on the spot.

quarrel was about a prostitute. Delpli wa

1 on

excitable and"ominous subjects in our hori-1met h^nt, sought a quarfel with happens^o beiJng'to the Democratic school beh.w the chin The lace is rather for The but have never had the hardihood to pro-' married ladies than for misses, and forbid*

[From tlio Weokly State Sentinel.]

EDS. SnNTrxKL:—My attention has lately been called to seveal articles in the Hrestern Chrsitian Advocate, (a paper I love! and

whose misfortune it is not to be able to mortified of late, to see its valuable columns death?

whose pages I have beeu a careful reader .^(plaints

many others lately found in the columns of

or nearly all their lives, who expect to con-1 that paper. I desire as an humble memtinue here, and who have the honor and ber of the Church in whose advocacy* the It tbat the departed restim* welfare of the State at heart.,. I paper referred to is en^r.ged, to sav a word ed a duty which she had repudiated, irt

The ar idc

or two.

li'J Olf QJ IU ildU

tne number of June un

ick neighbor, is just the head of "Items from Iloosier land: regretted when shew

Many of fhe warm friends of this Chtirch,

The methddist Church has been one of

K,» fn,inrl

with them, by denunciation

acquitted bv a jurv. There was question and so called iemperance party,

whetht-r P^Hv- P°" the case of Croxton who killed Hawthorn, have afforded them an apparent opportunity Matdens

Hawthorn was in a coffee house sitting in of displaying the long pent up malice ot

chair) dnjnk and as Croxton uck their he rt?

^ea^

likeh di. brickbat, and killed him

that condition with a

abled, Baker supported hi

»u.

Eastern nations for its narcotic virtues."— tho people. The only remedy for the slave NATIONAT. COURTESY.—The locomotive ... The dangerous character of the excitement is the destruction cf the Government. I which arrived at Windsor on the evening when Baker came out and stood at the win- and dcsecrated their holy calling, to cau-1 about 2,000 persons bn the excursion tram

was acquit

ted by a jury. There was the case of Peters, who Killed Baker. In Natchez, a Jong time before, Baker, in a fight, had wounded Peters, and made him a cripple. Peters being thus dism. The latter,

after abou« a year, became very poor, and and Senator Douglas. Like Greeley,

se of Kunz who ky Methodist." "'Rummies" Sarins that Scha-1 tors of the Adm:Mc, and those hot hcaJcd "y are trimmed with l.ounccs an. ruche. had spoken lightly of a member of preachers, had better call

back

breast and killed ters of the Advocate will compare as

Sabbath, by attacking in an indirect way this "ungodly crowd," but the pent up fires of his soul burst forth until he could contain no longer, when he branched out into a political harangue, denouncing in no small terms, by name, President Pierce,

Thereupon Pe- doubt, in his private prayers, (if he makes

ters pursued him to this city in the any.) would be that the "Capitol of the night, in a hack to his house sent a hac~K-~ napkin might smoulder in ruins, fcc." It man to inform him that a getleman and is to be hoped thera arc still enough left friend wished to see o" Kn«inf»^s- nnd n-Vin Imvp not, "howed tiio knee to Baal,

country from

//f:

They consider found no verdict against him. There was tlusis .lie repl} tht an »er n0f or r» lrn was the case of Harry Daniel, of Mount ed, wrought by the spirit into language'. Sterling, who killed Clinton Thomp-on.— Often in the midst of duties which cua*

Daniel and Thompson were lawyers, and torn has rendered mechanical, are we arres-brothers-in-law. Thompson made some ted by

some

imputation upon Daniel in open court.— blood, strikes a pang to the heart, and cans' Daniel drew a pistol and shot him dead, in

es us

the presence of juJge and jury. Thomp- 'announcement is now before us. son had a pistol in his pocket, but did not ]^ut little is known as yet of the melandraw it. Daniel was acquitted bv a jury. 'chol!y particulars of the great truth that ha® stolen, unawares, upon us. We know that

of for many yeas.) I will give an extract States from Mexico, and whilst on board from an aeticle that is but a fac similie of Ie stumer running

"The self-constituted leaders of the Dem- the shattered fortunes of her husband ocratic party in Indiana^irc evincing an a- and prepare for a life of happiness and commount of hostility toward, Christianity, and f,,rt with the children God had given her.christian ministers, that is without a parai- These clnldren are three—a son, who esi-* lei in American History." de.s in Paris, and two daughters who arc irt-

and the advocate, have been exceedingly them the mournful story of their .Mother's-

cannot doubt—

the most successful in the West, and sim- the singers as the players on instruments ply because they have attended to their shall be there?'' business, and left to "Ccesar the things, ••••. that ware Caar"s," perhaps their nunieri-' &-W. Tlie American lady wbo wrt es or eal strength hps inspired a confidence "bet- the Tribune from I ans. thUs discourvcs ter take heed how ye stand, least ye fall/' of liters «n which many of ouv fjur is the admonition of the good Book. The readers will doubtless feel a lively interest.

persons who wri-c the articles «m geircml-1 lMgl" riclilv-figW flouncca

tn ho "old reliable Whigs" ,much worn by I arisian ladies, yet

|y b'i found to Ue Ptonglv tinctured with "Native Americanism," or nuf-e frequently "Know Nothingism," and entertain a great deal cf holy horor at the aggressions of Catholicism, and arc loud in "their denunciations, at the "dreadful intolerance" of this Charon.— Yet we find a spirit of equal intoleranco ex- promenades one oiten sees ercised towards those who chose to differ

their

mem-

lus family, went to his coffee house and ory to the days of 1340, and make an en- wth lace, 01 made graceful in any manner cursed him. Schaeffer picked up a small q-iiry after those giants who wasted their that taste and expense may dictate stick and went roUnd the counter as if to strength in the cause of hard cider and coon I White bonnets

pigmies, "shorn of their strength/ and have except trom her rank wnether your fr^nd

There was the case of. parted their 'birthright for a mess of ot- wears a cap or a bonnet—t ull ruches.-

Lyter. pottage," and k-t their fate admonish them mingled with flowers encircle the lace.-

[he whole truth is, these men entertain the broad lace lies over the top of the bonnet

market house to meet same holy horror at voting for any man who 'fans out from the face, and falls gracelulljr

was claim their sentiments"," unMl the Nebraska a vail. Young ladies here are not allowed auestion and so called Temperance party,! to wear shawls, flounces, laces or feathers

.. ..

NO. 1

TII t: QT: is EN ORI-SO

A few davs since, the telegraph, with its

business-like brevity. after annouccing t^0 arrival of a steamer from Caltfornia, cc

ed to us these words: "The cholera wa?

".Ves

from the damp pages of daily papers,#"*

and w«as afterwards reported by millions of tongues as one of .those startling facts of

which every one must speak. The melon* pen the ear of CHK9Express, passed to some fine instrument, to

sho. him harmonies of nature and of feeling, and but the jurv

announcement that chills thog^ 0

to remember our frailty. Such an

Son tag is dead—that the '"Queen of Song has put away her scepter, takes oft her embroidered robes and laid her down to rest upon the bosom whence she came. Iho cantv information furnished by the telgraph

that returning to the United

,, New Orleans, Madame Sontag was attacked

aihl(jec] to, may be obedience to the stern mandates of nccessi-

ft sbort Ulness peri5jh

ty. She had crossed the sea, passed from

acc

to place—welcomed when she came.-

grettcd when she went—seeking to build

a ofDn ent near London. Who shall tell

Who shall coin

prostituted to subserve the ends ol'liot hcad- tender that they shall notstUn the ear tiport cd partisan preachers, who clothe them-: which"they fall, and crush the hearts inta 4 selves in their sacerdotal robes, and fall, which they sink? Poor, motherless cbilback on their clerical dignity, and with holy drcn! horror exclaim, "Stand aside, f^r I am more Madame Sontag tfas fifty years 01 age. holy than thou." We have always had Her personal beauty was the theme of unijust such hot headed Whig preachers, but versal admiration—he!1 vocal talents of sv the good sense of the Editors of the Adeo- class which will never be copied—for the' cate, has kept them in their placc of late, mould ii broken Her career as a wife, however, under the mere pretext of further- mother and artiste, was one of piirity and in-/the temperance cau=e, such low scur- the ahgel that dime for her, never led ft riious articles frequently find a place in that sweeter spirit to the skies. That she has paper. 'found a pi ice amid the "ten thousand" we

Words so gentle, so

for is it not written "As well

always relieved by a dark mantle and harmonious bonnet. I do not recollect ever to hare seen a variously-colored de laine worn in the streets of Paris by a native. Black mantles are almost universal for the street? but for visits or carriage those of while? short marrow

or lace 1 he are ll!{U

isuch as "Whis- scarfs, fitted low in the neck to the slioulThe E li- ders, where they need to be attached.

ie a me, ^or^

skins: mcn with whom the present letter wri- They are like bubbles bursting mto spray,

mere

ro1

aiar,l

^rc^ r.'r'

unadorned are

.r .i:_i^ ,i,„ 1™. nnnt no malice «f. 3 the maxim of their mirrors, Marriage,

One of this class of preachers gave an Jf'rl, when, even with a Wrinkled husband, exhibition of his oratorical powers on last it brings its diamonds, velvets,- Cnina

this unholy desecration.^

in gcaflon

are

From the front it is difficult to decide,

n!f

adorned the most,

age,

of course, is a great event for a pretty

crapes, and all the elegancies forbidden to youthful virginity. lit

A TERRIBLE ItAII,IttAD ACCIDENT^ rORTY PERSONS KILLED

A terrible collision occurred on the Susquehannah Railroad,- about .5 miles from Baltimore, on the 4th of July. The excursion train from the American celebration a4f. Adams Grove, Were rettlming and came in: collision with the regular passenger train from Baltimore to New York. Ther« were-

occupying 14 cars, and the crash followiac the collision wa3 terrible. It is believed* that over 30 persons were killed, besides 100 injured, 40 of whom are badley and, raany fatally.

(j^r Several deaths from- sun strokes occurred at St. Louis ca. Sunday las ., .•

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