Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 23 February 1856 — Page 1

TERRIBLE RAILROAD CALAMITY.

Men Crashed and Darned—Three Persons Killed—One Terribly Wounded and Many Others Slightly Injnred—Twelve Mailbags and Much Baggage Burned.

Wo are now in possession of fall particulars of the calamity on the Southern Road near Hillsdale, Michigan, on Tuesday evening, of which we had a brief notice yesterday, through persons who were on each of the trains, and who were eye-witnesses of all the details of the tragedy. The gentlemen to whom we are chiefly indebted for information are Mr. E. Edwards, business ag«nt of Curtiss Brothers of this city, and Mr. S. C. Bostwick, agent of Parmelee & Co.'s Omnibus Line, the former of whom

The train going east left this city at 3.20

the train should hayc been allowed these,

The scene which followed, savs our in-

coming west wns going at the rate of only

twelve or fifteen miles an hour, but that

going east was rushing on at the rate of

which latter there were some half-dozen!

rflrp,'•

.he dead, who were as follows: l'

killed al tho instant of the collision. He resided at Hudson. Mich., where he had a wife and son. His wife was nearly distracted when her terrible loss was communicated to her.

There were two train boys in the same car. One had his knee dislocated, and his face somewhat cut the other escaped without much injury. Both were pulled from .the midst of the fire.

The above are all the persons who were killed. We have now to speak of the wounded.

Patrick Regan, engineer of the "Morrison, had his leg broken, and he was also injured internally.

TTIK WOUNDED.

Charles Porter, brakeman on the train bound west, was standing on the front end of the first passenger car breaking at the moment of the collision. Both of his legs were crushed from the ankles up to the thighs, and his injuries are so dreadful that Jt seems impossible that lie recoyer.

There was a corpse of a lady in this car, sent from Beloit and on its way. to some place io Ohio. This was considerable

was on the train comin" west, and the lat-iff™"d at the instant the engines came toter on that going east. We shall follow' gcther, and received no serious injury. Mr. Bostwick's statement mainly in whatj LOSS OF MAIL DAGS AXD BAGGAGE. follows:

iree

P. M. on Tuesday, and consisted of th lirst-class passenger cars, a second-class passengers, all of wJiicli, AVith the exeeption passenger and a baggage car, drawn by the

]ass

and struck against the tender.—! P"

persons In the midst of the confused mass formed

of the fragments of the broken cars and of.

.the locomotive, five persons were crushed j?ec i-

•or the crash, anil the passeni-ers in the two

Eli J. Parsons, Conductor, was standing Mr. G. supposed that he was bringing to between the two doors of the baggage-cari this city the money collected for the railreferred to above, and by the shcck was road subscriptions above mentioned but thrown entirely out of the car. Notwithstanding one shoulder was dislocated by the fall, he worked for an hour, and then was compelled to go to bed, from whence he has not yet risen.

burned, and was at first supposed to be the has contrived

body of a person who had perished with

the rest—hence the statement that four Der-

sons were killed

The wounded were all taken to the Exchange at Hillsdale as soon after the aeci-

dent as possible. Some six or seven physicians were called, and everything possible was done to relieve the sufferers.

All the passengers in the second-class car on the eastern train were more or less scratched and bruised, though none were very seriously hurt. One man was thrown upon the stove and had his face considerably burned.

Some of the passengers on the other train also suffered from bruises and contusions. Mr. Edwards, the gentleman above referred to, had a contusion on his head, a bruise on his shoulder, and another on his cheek.

The fireman of the "Morrison" jumped off and sprained his wrist. The engineer of the "Ohio" also jumped off, striking the

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utes behind time. According to the rules, The locomotive "Morrison" was broken

twenty minutes to reach the station at Jones-1 go completely demolished, was nearly destroyed.

In the baggage-car of the train going

east were

twe1ve°mail ba^s and a con°ider°

able quantity of ba"garre°belonging to the

passengers, all of which, with the exception

engine "Morrison." The eastern train con-. morning, Mr. W. D. Brown, the general Democracy be open to receive back those fiisting of two first-class passenger cars and Baggage Master of the road, arrived on the ho have swerved lrom reason, and 1st us a baggage car, left Toledo at 9 o'clock in ground and settled with all the passengers' welcome them back to that altar which the evening, drawn by the engine "Ohio."

or os

The train coming west, should, by the time- kg found, givinfr them checks for its esti- fended, and which is to-day in the sole table, have left Hillsdale at 12.07, but did

ina

villc but the western train did not wait, the engineer being assured that "all was right." The consequence was that the trains came in dreadful collision about half a mile west of Hillsdale, where there is a sharp curve, which concealed the trains from each other until they were almost in contact and the western train was not perhaps seen nt all, as owing to some neg ljenr.e, she carried no head-light. T} "c-"7~ it is to oe regretted that the art ot conver m, ii -and the community in general, as to his fate.' •3

I From the St. Louis Intellipcnccr, Feb. t3. HORRIBLE MURDER OF B. II. GORI I)(),V, ASSISTANT ENGINEER OF TIIE

NORTH MISSOURI RAILROAD. I About two weeks ago, Mr. Gordon, assistant Engineer on the North Missouri Rail-

.i A few days previously, Major Walker, Mr. r4i.formant, beggars all description. Ihe train i- •,

SLur cc 1

and himself, had proceeded in I„

Pf ,°

nor ar

0 c0 ec le su

'°,

SEPerated

utLl^1 aiflM-'l|y

up, and in two minutes from the time of the collision the whole was on fire. None,,. him, and day before yesterday thev started bat the cngiucers had an lnstivnt warning

.trains supposed, they hastened out of the ',on p°

u, rch

at Mexico the t»° f°r-.

,„,. mor proceeded to Jeflerson C'.ly, and the

latter starting for St. Louis, were it was ex-

,U1

0 W0U Rrrne a iree

.1 days before his companions. On their ar- %, ays oe tore his companions. speaking of Madame de

.i .• ii n- .i about thirty-tliree miles lrom tniscity, where ,. ,, that the locomotives had got oil the ., things than nne features and cosmetics. they learned he had been seen in company

,. ., with two other persons, apparently farmers,1 3IR. KEITT OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 1 heir first work was to throw snow upon

s!d3

o. »i rri-

the burning wreck, in order if possible to rave hu towards ht. Lou,s all three on lb,, gentleman concluded a speech save the lives of those who were not already }"****. Following up this clue, they Congress, dunng the time speeches were dead, and nest to extricate the living and f™1"1

obo 1

"'',

HOWELL COBB,

the Democratic Association of Washington

also members of the Whig party, rallying

The cause is a noble one. The work is a!

glorious one. Let us not vork. The days of our

rave of

cue frora that

SP'"ts

ne large trunk, was burned. The next' astray. Let the arm and heart of the

baggage, or at least all who could Washington erected and which Jackson de-

not leave till 12.27, being just twenty min- Adrian. not regard the result as doubtful. There rails, and in fact all the stationary or mov-,

fragments, and the "Ofiio" though not

one

A a a

road, mysteriously disappeared, ana no lit- a rli- ,, /'i i* r- our young ladies are expected to acquire, tie interest was manifested by his friends .. f,,

nr *r sation is not included. Iso grace of person

lh.e

scrip ions ma je

rpi counties in that region to the stock in said a a ,-l r-thirty-five. The second-class car was drivhealth and scandal of the day. Lively en entirely through the baggage car, in '.

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rival hero, thev could hear no tidings of .i no means handsome, but a splended conversationalist, said that she 'had the power of talking herself into a beauty.' Ladies

lVs

Y'ta

airen on,

c0 m,l

rjjKsoxs KILLED. ey in the morning. No other information "My object, Mr. Clerk, was to define my Michael Kildufif, fireman of the "Ohio," could be learned ifrom the landlady, who own position. I will add, however, that I xvns caught between the end of the tender mentioned, however, incidently that some believe the democratic party is to-day puand the boiler the wood from the tender of her children had found a saddle in the rer and truer to the constitution than it has was pitched over upon him, and he lay woods, the day after they left. They then been for many years. It has passed thro' against the door of the furnace. The wood set out on a search through the woods, but fire and water, and many of its impurities wns burning, and snow was thrown upon discovering nothing returned toWarrenton have been consumed or washed away. It him to protect him from the fire, but it is for an additional force to prosecute the has the smell of fire upon its garments, and supposed that he was instantly killed by search. They procured the assistance of a while it moves on in the historic track of the collision

Albert Whitman, baggage-master on the hunting dog which proved in the end a val-, God speed! Many of the halt, and lame, eastern train, was only a crisped and black- uable acquisition. They had renewed the and the blind, have fallen by the way had ened fragment of a man when taken out of search but a little while, when the dog this fate overtaken all such, it would have the ruins. lie, too, is supposed to have struck a trail of blood under the snow, which been better. The rrentleman from Pennbeen instantly killed. He was asleep in being followed up, led to the corpse of Mr.'sylvania [Mr. Campbell] says tho Demothe baggage-car at the time of the collision. Gordon, at the head of a small ravine, not cratic parly came into this hall two years

William Van Aiken, who had been for far distant from the place where the saddle ago upon the created wave of popular powKcvcral years track-master of this division had been found. On examination it washer and he asks where is it now? He savs of the road, was also asleep in the baggage found that he had been killed by a bullet! it is a feeble and scanty band, clinging "to, car. His legs were burnt off when taken passing through the back of his head, in a its broken altars. Why feeble'and scanty?

from the ruins, and it is likely that he was slanting direction, showing that he had been: Because it has been much more friendly to

such was not the fact nor did the deceased have any thing about him of any considerable value.

The murderers have not yet been discovered, but the two persons who left Warrenton with Mr. Gordon, and spent the night with him at the house above mentioned, were seen to enter Warrenton next day, leading his horse. A person who recognized the horse stopped them and f.sked if they had traded for it, to which they replied in the affirmative.

The deceased was an unmarried man, about thirty-five years of age, and his connections reside in Maryland and Virginia. He was well known in this community, and generally respectcd as a man of high'honor and integrity.

PORTABLE TELEGRAPH INSTRUMENT.—It

said that one of Breguet's portable telegraph instruments is carried by every train in France. Should any stoppage or accident occur, the conductor alights with the instrument, connects one wire with the ear!1' 'k* Other with the line of telegraph, and can thus commu^:**

Warrenton, where the party election of a Speaker, in the following emhad stopped all night, continuing their jour- phatic, but manly language:

.number of the railroad attaches, and a fine the founders of the republic, I shall bid it

shot from behind, and by a person at the the South and truer to the constitution than left side of him. His pockets were turned either of the other parties. Clinging, savs inside out, and rifled of everything they the gentleman to its broken altars! °WhV, contained. (sir, to what else should it cling? While

There is no doubt that the murderers of abolition fanaticism is sweeping over the free States, prostrating the guaranties of

ilh

on eilher side of him. The same

the stations invC:101-

and au

Rn electr,c

mon"

tomatic controller," by which the supc-rin endentofany line can be kept informed of progress of a train through its whole journey, the signsl being transmitted pas5es each distance-pos\

A DEMOCRATIC FAMILY NEWSPAPER—DEVOTED TO POLITICS, NEWS, MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE, MECHANIC ARTS, &C.,

VOLUME VII. CRAWFORDSVILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, IND., FEBRUARY 23, 1856. NO. %2.

TIIE RIGHT SENTI3IENTS. [Lrom the Baltimore Sun, Jan. SI.] Hon.

City, on the eighth of Jaiwary, in speaking ath

it is to be regretted that the art of rnnv«r-

oi manners can compensate for lack of this.

T0 lh tlie ve S

S 0

of our women is

=P''o bo trifling and insipid, and middle

oy 0 ten con nc

complaints of

conversation, upon instructive and elevatiug

», topics, is but little practised, but whenever

rj!,

Us folmJ T0 a chnrm t0 the socicty

oi. jjuuis, n, »uac.\. triumphs over deformities and old age, and

in a speech before ACTION OF TIIE COLD ON RAILROAD

Know Nothings—buried in one common brought in disabled—some with pumps fro-1

inevitable fate those

good

ted value, o"n the Bawgawe Office at keeping of the National Democracy. I do solidity. The breakage of axles, wheels, stopped. The Chinese

It has spoken in the recent elections and will speak in the election of this fall and we who stand here together to-night, will be hero on the 4th of March, 1857, to witness the inauguration of the candidate of the National Democratic party."

it-fTWecopy the following excellentand truthful paragraph from an exchange:

„,,n i,

which nothing else can

SUBI,

makes ugliness "itself agreeable. Curran,

who was by

!cl think nf thir Beauty lies in other

f» "fitted that body, in reference to the

the constitution, and tearing down the remaining pillars of our republican ediGce, where should the Democratic party be but within the sacred precincts, fighting down the fee? While the lust of northern domination and free soil propagandism is driving the chariot of sectional power over the remains of tho constitution, to what should the Democratic party cling but to those altars reared by the founders of the republic? If it be tiue to the constitution, and steadfast in tho faith of the fathers, let it bind itself to the horns of the altar, and as the angel descended to rescue the son of the patriarch even from the uplifted knife, so may *he genius of the land stoop down to rescue it from the gleaming dagger of the fusion cohorts!''

JF THEY DON'T RUN KISS

a a

'EM.—At Bou-

\r ., -"id of the parchment, At the first• ,-,If

logue, during the reception of Queen Victoria, a number of English Ladies, in their anxiety to see everything, pressed with such force against the soldiers, who were keeping the line, that the latter were in some instances obliged to give war, and generally were, to use the expression of our policeman, "impeded in the execution of their duty." The officers in command, seeing the state of affairs, shouted out— I ty instead of the substance. So far as prac"One roll Cf drum then, if they don't tical temperance is concerned, they practice

3IACIIINERY.

of the time policy of the Democratic party, considerable, not only in detentions, but by count for its disappearance from its accus-

"The National Democratic party of the breakage, fcc. Our roads in this quar- by the Philadelphia North American is the

country has this great work confided to its ter have all suffered more or less lately from most satisfactory. That paper has dug up

hands, and it is with pride I see here not this cause, but those further north have, we from the British Parliamentary statistics,:

only honored members of that party, but should think, a much more costly eiperi- the amount of shipped to the East

cnce

that

oprF,u-,o

The superintendent

the same way.

who, in an hour of evil, have been greatest difficulty was in the broken tires of bring from abroad. And masmu

and wrought-iron bands upon a frozen road,

sentiment pervading the country.— ing iron, has required a most untiring vigi-,spare. theircivilizatioi

should not be reduced.

SUICIDES IN FRANCE.

There have been 300,000 suicides in France since 1800, and the number is increasing with appalling rapidity. There were in France in 1843, 154 suicides more than in 1842, 20G more than in 1841, 200 more than in 1840, 273 more than in 1839, 434 more than in 1838, 577 more than in 1837, 080 more than in 183G, 715 more than in 1816, 942 more than in 1834— that is to say, there has been an increase of 33 per cent in ten years, without any relation to the increase of population, and the total number from 1843 to 1853 will present a still more rapid increase. Suicide is more common among men than among women three times more common in Paris than in the Provinces r.ire among rhil1 dren, it is now spreading among them it occurs more frequently in old age than at any other period of life bachelors and widowers are most given to suicide out of 4,595 suicides, 282 are attributed to poverty, 697 were committed by persons of large fortune, 2,000 were committed by persons who worked for their livelihood, and the others by persons more or less poor suicides increase most .rapidly, and'most common in the best educated departments the number of suicides, crimes and insanity augment invariably from January to July, and decrease progressively from August to December they are more common on the first and second days of the month than at any other period the number of suicides increase in the ratio of their vicinity to Paris charcoal is the favorite means of death outof 4,595 ca^es] 1,426 were committed by this means 989 sought death by drowning 790 by hanging, 578 by lire-arms, 424 by leaping from windows, &c., 207 by dagger, 150 by poison, lu by throwing themselves under locomotives, &c., and one by starvation.

TV HO 31 AMES A GOOD EDiTOi:.: good editor, a competent r.ewspaper like a. general or a poet, born —not made. Exercise and experience give facility, but the qualification is innate, or it is never manifested. On the London daily papers all the great historians, novelists, poets, essayists, and writers of travels have been tried and nearly all have failed. We might say all for, after a displays of brilliancy, brief but grand, they died out literally Their resources, were exhausted. "I can," said the late editor of the Times to Moore, "find any number of men of genius to write for me, but very seldom one man of common sense."

S 0Q :tor

con

ductor,

The "Thunderers" in the Times, therefore, have, so far as we know, been men of common sense. Nearly all successful editors have been men of this description.— Campbell, Carlyle, Bulwer and D'Israeli failed Barnes, Sterling, and Philips succeeded, and De Lane Lowe succeeded.— A good editor seldom writes for his paper he reads, judges, selects, dictates, alters, combines and to do all this well, he has but little time for composition. To write for a paper is one thing: and to edit a paper another.—London Daily Post.

would leave them but the shadow of liber-

a a

they ha( party

English ladies took to flien*. who thus designate been French.'' says a Parisian jourcan....

"thev would nave remained to a woman

EST Democrats have not opposed the city of Philadelphia, and applied himself prohibitory law because they wanted liquor closely to the practice of his profession.— or because it prevented them from getting The whole of his career has been marked it. They opposed it, because they regard- by unsullied integrity of charccter.'both ed it as subversive of private rights and in- 'n public and private life.—3. 1". ITerald volving a principle which, if carried out,

a a a a a a

J. W

The cost of a heavy snowstorm or very steadily decreased and more than one in-

in nreservino- the Union of the States, said: th#» ac.tinn nf fko fmct nnnn flip mn^liinprv A ^H'^^/I which a streamlet takes its crystal covering in preserving the Union of the States, said: the action of the frost upon the machinery, tomed channels.** Amongthese that offered

will pass over our heads before we shall,keep the road supplied with power. [have been required for the same trade »rffe c°tton-wood tree. I stoped the hole hpve all our opponents—Abolitionists and Something like a dozen locomotives were which is carried on by the Atlantic Ports

oblivion and infamy. Let us res-jfen up and bursted some with side rods W pay silver and little else for the teas

.broken some cylinders bursted but the India-silks, spices, indigo, &c.,

wheels. These are of the best wrought supply of the metal does not increase in iron, over two inches thick, but they were'proportion to the increaso of the Eastern

WHAT BECOMES OF TIIE SILVER.

a long railroad is very genious theory has been broached to ac-1

Csilver

dies'"and

with us around the banner of Democracy,, °f the New York & Erie workshops at Sus- from its figures we learn that the enormous for^ water. in defence of our common constitution.—' quehanna reports the beginning of this week sum of thirty-one million of dollars took that 1

he bad never known so hard a week direction in 1855, and that during the last

tire, nor grow ^P®^ iron in jtmg mti muty munuuo on.*.* "j "i ii weary of the work. The days of our oppo- great difficulty, and by working a large the demands of the China and Asiatic trade,! ".

.i.x_ i.~ i,i

j, o-

nents are numbered. But a few months'force of men several nights, that he could addititionto the enormous amounts that

not sufficient to withstand the difference of trade, the demand is growing every sue- f''

contraction between the cast-iron centres cec-dingyear, more and more^brisk, and the

where all elasticity was concealed to rocky do not see where or when this drain is to be I

son River and New York Central roads will wool, are of little value to people who pre-'

^ilVfromGreat BrUaFn Tnd

moun° in circulation less and less. We

man

little that E.nglr.n

lance, and an extraordinary expense. It is I toms, wants—are widely different from things continued so for a while, and we presumed the extra expenses upon the Ilud- ours. Our fabrics, whether of cotton or

be equally large, and the Pennsylvania fernakedncss to the most sumpWs apparel.! '"S without to great a risk of Central of course also comes in for its share, Our breadstuti's and salted pork are not

It is a question worthy of consideration highly esteemed by mon to whom a dab of dogs were at tho outsiue. whether upon our railroads, during such boiled rice is a dinner, and to whom pork

very cold weather, the number of trains is an abomination. Our steam engines and

locomotives, tslegraphs, and. reapers, our

civilization. As long as we continue to indulge in the decoction that is now the daily comfort of the poorest as well as the valued luxury of, the rich as long as we will stimulate our, palates and impair the national digestion with spices which the East alone can furnish, and as long as our wives and daugh-' ters will wear silks which for brilliancy of

a l.

dye, shame birds of the most gorgeous plumage—there is no escape—we must'pay. ?.

The Chinese wiser than the KnHiih, will

have nothing to do with our bonds! In the

"Flowery land" the most skillful negotiator

ADVENTURE

Since the discovery of gold in California, 'correspondent of The Si. Louis Republican the amount of silver coin in circulation has tells the foliowmsr storv:

hrou

the United States. to town and got an ax and the dogs, and the I I a a I a a a a W a mer, and together we returned to cut him out. The dogs were ..anxious, and wo

that

we the

inasmuch as

,ul

and Hindoos de-

—even Kobert J. Walker—would fail to wring a dollar from the iucredulous mandarins. They demand tho silver, and to them it goes.

HON. K0IIU£ JHIFFJ.N DALl.AS, T.L* I)., TSiKpiINISTEli TO E.NCiLANI.), The subjr-ct of this sketch, our newly appointed Minister to England, was born in Philadelphia, the year 1792, and is consequently now in his sixty-fourth year.— His father was Alexander Jame3 Dallas, a native of Jamaica, who emigrated in early lifa to this country, and subquen'ly became Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary at War, in which posts he rendered eminent servises to his adopted country.— The J'jnglish family from which our new Minister is descended is very highly connected, and has from time to time been brought into prominent notice by the literary and scientific talents of its members.—

Sir George Dallas, whose political writings

Mr. Dallas himself entered the civil service of the country at a very early period of life, acting as private secretary to Albert Gallatin, in tho mission of the letter to Russia. On his arrival home he applied himself to the study of the law, and in return for his services rendered to General Jack-j son, he was shortly after the election of the

it3?*The Stute of Maryland derives nn annual income of 621,000 from lottery ii-

ccnse5

the other, and they hurl the charge of 'whisky lor the extinction of the whole with scorn into the teeth of those

that State, after th

them.—Miami County term for which the pp-sent lottery qrants were is-ueri

WOLF.-

WITH A

evr

re.a.r

,of

and whose

rasse ftn

ash arou 1 rho tre0

labor saving machinery af all kinlh, which »°"°r th™ we expected 1- rank Maconduce so much to the prosperity and hap-' i'""

1, the ax 1,fteJ

piness of the Western World, aro powei-•!'over with a crash. The wolf, with less in breaking down the caste system of bristled back, and glaring eyes, and glitterthe Eastern world, that is older lhau our:'.»« le»P«« U~at will, ternble

,ke

The Kansas

days since, while riding in the

our tow 10 sma]] raT,ne

wn ea 9lre ,et

through

V**"

lt3

cr'

irrigation has produced tall

sirubs that make a luding-

place for game, came suddenly upon a arge black wolf. lie was scratching at a

iace anae

«5

ai ac

ln tull

his life. It has been with'five years over ninety millions of lilver by .ed,to ride upon him. He was almost

d011??3-

austed

suddenly upon

ie was scratc in£r at

hin lac in lhe ice

™,d

eemed alra st

When he saw me the

un lor

riv-

the forest in

1 ke ll on

his heels, and in

1 1 I I N

and just as I supposed he would

Pive out. he innrH infn th« hn nw nf a

out ne

supped into the hollow ot a

S» which he entered, and came back

were prepared with our guns to receive him. When wo made a large hole, about

m, nen

w.°

ranae a lar

froiu

uoie aDOyt

the ground, the dog« jumped

al and

'!«w°

the insido

™ch .barling, growling, snappmgand

neve en

cons tt

J'7

rd before.

1 w0 resou a

nd or America can several of the neighbors to the ilization—their habits, cus- ...

It made the

distance, And

'd what had best be done. Wa

ou,d not sh

oot the wolf through this open-

do^s, for he onl)' appeared

c01jcluded

ri nc

an'd

killing the

at the inside

to stop the hold we had

fell1 the treo by cutting a narrow

came down a lit-

a™"" «troke,_a.

ferocity. The decending ax met half way cleaving his skull and laying it dead at his feet, We had no time to express our wonder congratulations at his narrow and singular escape, before our attention was called to that which filied us with amazement if not dread. It was a human skeleton, of medium size, and of a female hidden in tho cavity of tho tree. Its posturo was erect

th"e**bone3 were held together by a kind

integument, that seemed to cover.

transparent skin, the enUre frame. Tho

,ho clkd

'"'ered several of tho

0 and them 1 out RDd

f)"':

ed them again in lurm. Ihe proportions were perfect and the limbs straight—indicating a contour, when in flesh, of perfect symmetry. Who could it have been that thus perished years ago in this wild forest, and how came her death in this strango place, were queries that were immediatly suggested. Could it have been somo maiden, who like the bride in the 'Misletoo Bough,' had concealed herself from her lover in the heart of this old tree, and become fastened there and died?"

LOAI-TNT CLERGYMEN

electioneciing

were so highly appreciated by William Pitt chaplain to the henate and House. Ihis and his brother, Sir llobert Dallas, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, were among its most distinguished ornaments. Miss Dallas, the Minister's aunt, married Capt. Byron, of the English navy, and was mother of the present and seventh Lord Byron. His eldest brother rose to the rank of Commodore in the American navy, and his youngest was the late Judge Dallas, of Pittsburg.

Utter, appointed District Attorney of Ihe Perfectly tri.e. With such pious examples United States for the Sate of Pennsylva- no woadtr Congress com.pt!" nia. In 1831 he was chosen United States. Senator by the Pennsylvania Legislature, CoxsL'Mi'TioN. Dr. Marshall Hall, an and in 1037, on the election of Mr. Van-j eminent English physican, says: ... Buren to the Presidency, he was appointed If I were seriously ill of consumption, 1 Minister to the Court of St. Petersburg.— would live out of doors day anJ night exIn 18.39 he was recalled from his mission, cept in rainy weatheror mid-winter then at his own request, and six years after- I would sleep in an unplastered log house." wards, having received the nomination of He says that consumptives want air, not the Democratic party, he was elected Vice physic—pure air, not medicated air plenty President of the United States, and took the of meat and bread. "Physic has no nut.rioath of office on the 4th of March, 1845.— ment, gashings for air cannot cure you Since the expiration of his term as Vice monkey capers in a gymnasium cannot President, Mr. Dallas has resided in the! cure vou, and .stimulants cannot euro you.

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The Washington correspondent of the Cin-•.» cinnati Times, in speaking of the scramble for the chaplaincy, says: 1 ie most disgusting sight of all, even to worldly men and hardened sinners, is the struggles of a lot ot preachers for tho chaplaincy. No less than ten ministers of different denominations are here, intriguing,

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scramble after 'filthy lucre,' by these godly men, is a horrid parody on their meekness, truth and religious pretences. It is timo that this system of chaplancy at eight dollars a day was abolished. The whole thing is a mockery of solemn subjects, as it is now carried on. Let the ministers of Washington and vicinity be invited to officiato in turn. I have no doubt they would do ii cheerfully, fervently. "Applicants for the chaplaincy even go so far as to recount the services thev have rendered tho 'party,' and promise future labors. They also go into bar-rooms, saloons, boarding-houses or wherever a member is to be cornered, and there bore him for his vote and influence. This is shameful, degrading, basely hypocritical, yet

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wrote: The race of mankind would perish did wo cease to help each other. Prom the time that the mother binds the child's head, till the, moment that some kind assistance wipes the death damp from th« brow of the dying, we cannot exist without mutual lit lp. All, therefore, that need aid, have aright to ask it of their fellow-mortals: nml oo one who ha« it in his power to grant, ran refuse without incurring guilt.