Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 23 May 1857 — Page 1

VOLUME TIE.

i. MlDJHGIlT POETRY. AMiss Mary Siarr, of Pulton, Oswego county, N. Y., is said to have been in the '(libit of rising from her bed at night, and 'writing poetry, while asleep. She •totes with no light in the room, and has some'times fallen into a somnambulistic state in 'the day time,, and* gone to composing Poe•fry She was awakened while writing in the dark, a few nights since. Her sensations, as described by herself, were very

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peculiar. Her eyes emitted a bright light, the burning of two candles, when turned toward her manuscript, rendering her 'writing perfectly visible, but when turned in any ether direction, all was "dark as jnidnight." Miss Starr will be 17 years old on the 17th of* August next. When ^awoke she never attempts to write poetry, *^and has no particular fondness for it. She ja in feeble health.

The following—the last production of ^bcr midnight pen—is sensible enough to have .been written by any lady when widc"ijiwakc, though perhaps few would be willing to talk right out in this way in broad .-daylight, especially when they are not held /•responsible for what they say in sleep

I'm young, very little winning,

:Uncnught in Cupid's net 1 know I am not sinning To havo heart to lot.' ,,

To I.OVE is quite delightful, ,,

A a

every body knows

-Now don't you think it frightful,. That only ME* propose

Take north or south, take cast or west, Or ronni from polo to pol«, Tho noblo heart that love* the best

Should bout without control. ,.

•Tis foolish custom only,

3 j. Mon nil the courting do Whon I fool sad and lonoly, I'd liko to try and woo.

The other mnidn would follow, While I led the van Tlio world is dull and hollow,

Without tho prcscnec of a MAS '.

The men in their proposing Knch gallant part can try, While we, the heart disclosing, •—.•••.

Alas! can but reply.

'And if we, timid, falter Upon tlie brink of fate, Not led to Hymen's altar,

Wo are "old maids" too late.

ter No one who reads the following will deny but there arc "poicks" in Michigan, and she deserves great honor for the zeal she has manifested in the cultivation of the pootie talent within her own limits. The following mournful ballad entitled the "Soul's Last Sigh," we take from a late Michigan paper:

lie's gone across the sudzy occ llc.'a cro«t tlio Inkov watlur! T» soa Jeriishcy Anjylims

Hen. iSmither's oldest ilawtor.

Mi heart broak I soon ahull di, rruol, cruol .lolin I And when I'm ded and berrayed

I lonp you'll look upon

Tlio grnas that grope-upon :nv tume, Down in tho woods so dark. Where all i* -"ad anvl silent glnsno

And htrcokld skwirrels burk.

And when your cut at nite as late As eleven o'clock or Inter. [ped pine, And beer the ivind whino through the tall toplt::! think uv I.uey Baker.

And d'ye niarrv that.lerushcy Vouve e'ossed tho laix to get, Kemctnher that vuro deerist I.uev

Pied in konsekwenee uv it.

Moore, Malcolmson, and Spcns, came thc last thing behind, riding knee to knee, with spurs in their horses' flanks, as if racing after a hog. In rear of them rushed thc dark troopers of thc 3d, mad to avenge the death of poor Mulct at. Bushirc. In spite of steel, fire, and bullets they bore down upon the nearest face of the devoted square. As they approached Forbes-was ebot through the thigh, and Spcns's horse was wounded, but, unheeding, they swept onward. Daunted by the flashes and the fire and tho noise and crackle of the musketry, the younger Moore's horses swerved an they came up. Droping his sword from his hand and letting it hang by the l. knot at his wrist, he caught up ths reins in both hands, screwed his head straight, and then coolly, as if riding at a fence, leapt him at thc square. If, therefore, any man can be said to have been first, the younger

Moore, is that man. Of course the horse fell stone dead upon the bayonets so did his brother's, ridden with equal courage and determination. The elder Moore— eighteen stone in weight and six feet seven, •T or thereabout, in hight—cut his way out on foot. Malcolmson took one foot out of his stirrup when he saw his brother officer j, down and unarmed (for his aword had been .*• broken to pieces by the fall,) and holding on to that, the younger Moore esjoftpod.-?*-.r' The barrier once broken, and the "entrance once made, and through it poured the avenging troopers. On and over everything they' rode, till, getting olear out, they reformed on the other side, wheeled and swept back—a second wave of ruin. Out of five hundred Persian soldiers of the

First Regular Regiment pf Fars, who composed that fated square, only twenty es•.caped to tell the tale of its. destruction.— •i 'Thus the Third Light Cavalry, to use their own "phrase, gave our enemies a jewab (answer) for the death -pf Malet Sakib

Bahadur,

ROMANTIC IKCIDE2VT.

THE LATE CIIAKGEOF BRITISH DRIM-ED

CAVAt.RY AT BuUAZJOON

ItlDIXO A

SIAN INFANTRY SQUARE.—By

PER

thc steam-

ship Africa we have additional news from Persia, dated at Bushirc, to thc 25th of February.

General Outram was then preparing to send an expedition to capturc Mohamrad on the river Karun or Karoon, and the Persian army was collecting again at Burazjoon.

In thc late affair thc native cavalry bchaved vcrv well. A letter to a Calcutta paper says: When l'orbcs, who commanded this regiment, gave the order to charge, "J he and his adjutant, young Moore, placed themselves in front of the sixth troop, which was thc one directly opposite the nearest face of the square. Thc other

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Still, the

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of six months, matters having been previ ously so arranged, the girl consented to marry thc youth. He did not seek the fortune, for he was in employment, at a handsome salary, as principal book-keeper in an extensive jobbing-house, and his pecuniary prospects were very fair. But the parents were obdurate, and he was driven from the house.

At the end of a twelvemonth they agree to be married, and all the requisite arrangements were made the evening was fixed upon, and even the chaplain had been engaged but on the morning of the day proposed secretly for the nuptials, the whole plan was discovered, and the match broken off peremptorily by the absolute authority of the parents.

Time passed on the daughter was sent to a distant part of thc country for awhile —the youug man was disappointed and disheartened, and left New York for the West, where he remained for two years. Meantime a person to suit the tastes of the parents turned up—a man of considerable means, but old enough to be the young girl's father, and a match was arranged, after a long persuasion, between Emma and this man, and she wedded him at last.

Three years subsequently the young man found himself in New England, where he settled and took a wife also, and some dozen years passed away, with their thousand and one changes of place, of circumstances, and of fortune. From the time of their separation the original lovers had never met.

The young man became the father of three little ones, and then lost two of these, which bereavement was soon after followed by the death of his wifp. Time flew by he had been fortunate in his business, and resided a few miles out of Boston in a cottage surrounded by the comforts of life and in the enjoyment of the society of his dear little daughter.

One day he was returning home in the afternoon, and, upon entering the cars, found them to be full. He sought a seat, and found one occupied by a lady about thirty years of age, beside whom he sat down, aud thc cars soon moved out of the depot. As they entered into thc light, he suddenly turned to the lady and exclaimed, "Madam! Emma! Is this you?" lie didn't know exactly what he said, but it was a fact that he was on thc seat with the girl whom ho had really loved, and whom he had never seen since the cruel separation.

A mutual explanation quickly succeeded. Our widowed friend ascertained that his former intended was now on her way to the north, upon a visit that she had been mar

living, and her husband over two years

ers were actually united in marriage in the city of Boston.

NICARAGUA NEWS.

The New iTork papers contain the details of the news from Nicaragua, an abstract, of which was sent by telegraph. A correspondent of thc New York Times concludes along letter from Panama under date April 20th as follows:

The facts I have collectcd make it quite certain that Walker and the remnant of his forces ero this have cither been taken prisoners, destroyed, or cscapcd from the country. There can bo little doubt that San

Juan del Sur is occupied by a sufficient force to prevent his escape by that route, and every other avenue, and ogress from Rivas, seems to be closcd. Besides, if he shuold endeavor to cut his way to San Juan del Sur, he would probably have also to fight a large forec on the Jocoto ranch, five miles from San Juan. If, however, he could get to San Juan I suppose that Commander Davis would intercede or perhaps interfere for his protection, and take him and his forces on board the St. Mary's. Or as the Orizaba, was at San Juan, on her return to California, from this port, about the 8th of April, he possibly may have escaped, by her. If taken by the allies, it is scarcely possible he will escape public execution, as their soldiers recollect, even if the officers have forgetten, the execution of their favorite leaders, Corral, Mayorga, and Salazar.— The Leonese soldier will not forget, at any rate, the cruel murder of the latter.The burning of Granada and a portion of Rivas, the robbing of the churches of their silver, the melting down of the bells that have so often called them to bow before their alters, will be a bitter remembrance with them. Walker, if taken, will die the death he condemned the noble-hearted Corral to. I-.—

And so the Man of Destiny—he with the blue.gray eyes—has fallen at last. He has met the fate that ever follows ambition unguided by principal. If he lives, he must be made of stone if he ean look with complacency upon the evil he has done in the world. Fivfr thousand men's bones bleaching in the sun of Nicaragua—hearts broken, and hearts desolated everywhere, that he might tyrannize over his fellow mortals^ in wielding the sceptre of a down trodden nation, must be sorry subjects of contemplation to him. when he shall look inwardlv, and be alone, with only his own ooncience for company.

And the rich plant*tion*=rhaciendas— blocks of houses in Gjrapada, Leon, and Rivas—all gone! Pierre Soule's fiftyrthousr and estate, on whioh he was to introduce Louisiana negroes, and his code of laws for Nicaragua,.for which he has been to work .so industriously upon for the past yeifr-

MU«*nuv mv.-'un.. miiuuip xi«u«« vu»i~—^—.—..~ ... O-.

to nav his addresses to a beautiful girl "a wvernmem, on a military

Some sixteen years since a young gen- new Indian Empire—all gone to pot!— life and the nature of men and women. tleman in New York city contrived awhile And the Utopia of American invention He knows that ten tl

qjiu me uvujw* u.

IMS urn umu .HHUC. The British steamer Thames arrived

son and Gen. Wheat came passengers in the Thames. I saw the latter amusing himself a few minutes ago in cracking away with a navy revolver at a man in a crowd, singing out "You G—d d—d thief! You ran away from Capt. Cooper!" One ball struck close to the legs of the Cvane, but did no damage. at Gi sold out by his

ball struck close

The general impression at Greytown was that Walker had been so friends.

The news from Walker is to the 13th of April, by way of the lake and river. A despatch came to Georgetown of that date from Gen. Mora, stating that he had got Walker and his whole force confined to only two houses—that he had dug a trench all around what was left of the city, and that Walker would be forced to surrened by the 20, to-day.

This, then, is in all probability the lastchapter in the History of Fillibusterism in Nicaragua. We may look out for the final scene at Rivas in the accounts to be brought by the next seamer. The allies already regard the war at an end, and have divided among them thc unfortunate State in which this long and bloody struggle has been fought. We hear from San Salvador that the terms of the partition of Nicaragua between Costa Bica, Salvador and Guatemala have been at length definitively settled.

RUFUS CHOATE ON FLIRTATION. The Dalton divorce case, which has been on trial, during the last week or two, before Judge Mcrrick, of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, sitting in Boston, is finished. From Mr. Choate's spcccli on behalf of Mrs. Dalton, the defendant in the case, wc extract a characteristic passage t,.f

It is said that there was an intimacy between Helen Dalton and Sumner, because of the drives, the rings exchanged, thc

of her life, did exist. They will say, as Mr. E. O. Coburn expressed it, that there was only a flirtation that it went no further, and that it might have gone further, but it was stopped.

great piece of uircumstancial evidence in thc words of their witnesses, that it was a flirtation only, and there it stopped. I answer in my own language also, in the next place, gentlemen, which I greatly prefer,

norm, upon a viaiu, m,ii u.iw u«i• that this intimacy, which, since the days ricd nearlv eleven years, had but one child of Joseph Addisoa, has been called a nir

had been dead

tation, (a vulgar, gross, but most expressive word, but with thc sanction of the

He pointed out his pretty cottage as thc great master of classic lore, Addison, howcars passed on, but did not leave the train, ever)—this which we call flirtation, as cirIIc proceeded forward, renewed his ac- cuinstantial evidence, proving the tact ot 1 .1 lii titIin11 *r irrtvtMnca

[uaiutance, found the lady her own mis tress, proposed to her again, and we re

adultery, is wholly worthless I have the honor to say, and shall refer

truss, iJIUUUauu lU iiUt again, uuu nu cord the fact with no ordinary degree of to authority to warrant it, that, as circum nleasure that, within three weeks thc lov- stantial evidence of the crime ot adultery,

.... :i~.i nut. ontitlnrl to tho slightest consiaera-

it is not entitled to the slightest consideration. There is no fact in all our social life better established, than that a young married woman may admire a flirtation and accept a certain degree of pleasure from it, and yet her heart not be touched for an instant by a sentiment of dangerous love and yet start back when a proposition of crime is intelligibly made to her, as if hell yawned under her feet. I submit that our own observation and the books we read our Addisons, our Edgeworths and our Walter Scotts—all we observe and all we read, goes upon this distinction, and turns and reasons upon it—the flirtcrs are in one class, and the adulterers in another. They belong to totally distinct species, with totally distinct moral and sensoral developments. Everywhere we ridicule, gentlemen, and satirize her whom we call van?, and slight, and coquetish—she is ridicu/ed and characterized but from the adulteress we turn with aversion and derision. We satirize one as foolish we turn from the. other as wicked. Wc hold up one as a warning for herself, for her own corrections of the other we say— "Ob no! wc never mention her." /r cv

One is giddy and the other is wicked.— It is a fact not creditable to any of us, that many married women hover, for the greater part of their lifetime, in this region of vanity and flattery, and yet never dream of taking the dark dcscent. Is it not a fact? How many a wife will flutter her plumage to the music of flattery, and yet, when the romance is broken by a solicitation of chastity, will start, and with hands upon her ears, fly as if a goblin damned stood before her? It is a fact perfectly well established by all observations of life, that a woman may indulge in'these sentiments, accept this treatment, and feel this pleasure, whose heart is never touched by illicit love and I submit that, unless the heart is conquered, adultery is impossible. I submit that this conduct upon which my learned brother is about to insist is worthless in the judgment of the law, as circumstantial evidence to establish it, and I opnose it on that ground and we cannot misunderstand each other so much as that you should think I approve this sort of conduct.

I go as far as you, or any one, in the moral condemnation of it, and I have no words to defend it, its undue levity, its frivolity, and its danger but I met you as a lawyer, as an observer of life, on all we know of the heart of man, or of woman, and I submit that tens of thousands of wives have gone so far, and yet could never be justly suspected of having taken the last final step.

Permit me to remind yoiC under his Hqnor's direction, of the decisive express ion the law gives this case. In a case much stronger than these letters make this case, a judgement -has been rendered by one p_f myhrothcr ^ecclesiastical fudges, a

CMWFORDSVILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, ISDIAM, MAY

Randolph's Transit Charte—and Bennett's wise man and a good man, who understands DECI,INE OFLIB1arS~HER

'a Government on a military basis!"—well! women come .home at midnight from parciT-. A.11 find flioif Knfth&'n(in:An. fi.ve. and

there the daughter of an obstinate Pearl We shall never see such another William ties, to find their husbands asleep. aye,and of April ... nrmA.-d to the Walker? to be conscious of a truer when that a ct street merchant, who was opposed to the Walker young man visiting his daughter. He persistea in his endeavors to win the young Asp lady, and at last he was forbidden to enter under the same date: the old man's house

aiker: to

lovers contrived to meet, occa- here this morning from Greytown. Lock- *eart. Iheretore. doubt not we shall Greece,' Ciurthage, Rome, and the sionally, afterwards and, at the expiration ridge remains at Greytown. Col. Ander- agree upon my brothers polished denunci-

thousand, fashionable

wpam.ati wntnn tinrng «'f.

Dasis:—weu:

women uiue .u««x F-"

The same correspondent crossed over to they lie down by their.sides, than from the prance and England. The Times says:— sninwall and writes from there again adniiration, from the dcvOtjon, of the flat- .peop]e ^ho moralize on history have ider the same date: tering throng, whose words have been play-

judge said the letters had been much ^ex-

ammed and commented upon He had

read

them overand over again, but he

1Dtend the

to the legs of an officer of comments. They were written in an ar-

soliciting interviews for criminal purpose—

for it was impossible that his object in ad-

It is beyond all manner of controversy that women do go further than all this, or those moral and beautiful platitudes in which my brother will by-and-by indulge, without being guilty of adultery. To all that we will answer, we agree with him perfectly but it ia worthless for his object, and unless he can go farther than that, and show—beyond the fact of the intimacy, and beyond the fact of the alleged flirtation, beyond and over all these—some act of guilt, and establish it by other and collateral and strong proof, then I respectfully submit to you that the libel fails.

MANIFEST DESTINY.

Hon. Caleb Oushing, late Attorney General, of the United States, delivered a speech on his arrival at his home in Newburyport, Mass., in which he advocated the policy of indefinite annexation. He thinks it will all happen naturally as follows:

No material obstacles can arrest our progress. Wc woo this fair nature which lies before us, and we woo it as its conqueror, like the vi-kings of the old time, winning their brides of the sea in open combat. I say this in thc same confidence of conviction as one who, seeing the sun set forth

tlon as um. VIJU ov,cl„6

books given. An intimacy of some kind— from the portals of thc easr, may speak of a light and frivolous, objectionable intima- jts onward course to the west. For time cy—one which, as long as she is a living

was wjjen

woman, is to he tlio sorrow and repentance ]jttic colonies of England, scattered along

i__ i:c ,i:.i -,'=4 Tl^v will env ns t]ie

sea

fa— ulain

The tribes of Indians who hunted over the land without occupying it, retire before us like the hunted deer and the Buffalo themselves—deeper and deeper into the

parent

power

all such

conscious of a truer-pleasure, pleasure, when that a coolness is springing up between

never

mg around theshead,butcame not near^flie elimination, and its setting.—

beJ tr nsfcrre(1 to

did

tinsel their

demand «^antlc strain, the man (Bush)

......

the United States, were but weak

shore. They then overflowed the

Alleghanies into the valley of the Mississippi. Next they absorbed thc vast do-

of France from Lake Superior all

I answer this second y.ouncl the Gulf of Mexico and westward Oregon. Next they possessed themselves of the two. Floridas, and thcu of

Texas. And finally they have marched on through New Mexico into remote California. But in our conquest of nature with our stalwart arms, and with our dauntless heart to back them, it happens that men, nations, races, may, must, will, perish before us. That is inevitable. There can be no change for thc better save at the expense at that which is—one generation gives place Jo another. Out of decay springs fresh life.

3 ine

incapacity for self-government, arc

suffering one proviucc of theirs to relaps into prepared laws of tl history. Yet, wise that so it was to be

that

now

From the nresent Prcsent

British Minister, recruiting troops within

SQT'Chesterfield was at a rout in France where Aroltairc was one of thc guests.— Chesterfield seemed gazing about the brilliant circle of ladies. A^ltaire., accosted him "My lord, I know you area judge wliicn are thc more beautiful, the English or the French ladies?" "Upon my word," replied Chesterfield, with his usual presence of mind, "I am no judge of paintings."

Sometime afterward Yoltaire, being in London, happened to be at a nobleman's party with Chesterfield. A lady in the

company,

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PpowI

LATIOK IN FRANCE—HER POSI

TION AND HOPES AS A NATION. Under the above title the London Times 10 has an article which intimates

The prevalent feeling which has resulted from these auguries of ill has been deepened by the publication of the last census. Thc increase of population during the five years ending 1856 was only 250,000 souls while the census of 1846 gave an increase of 1,170,000. Now as the Frenchman is not an emigrant, rarely quitting his coun try to cultivate the wilderness of the New World, or thc Antipodes, this almost im perceptible increase of population is ccr tainly a discouraging sign. Not more than 10,000 French emigrate yearly it follows, therefore, that the stationary character which population seems now to have assumed must result from some deficiency in prolific power, thc consequence of deterioration of race or material obstacles

which society should remove. There docs, indeed, seem to have been lately a rapid

innermost rccesscs of tbo contocnt. And ,1 d.cIIispanoMcr.cani.MUngaw.jrbyap. lho increasc ,1M almost

ultP!l'sr i...«

26,DUU,UUIJ

men saw Ion? before

mat

is, it

t^ie

spired prophecj. We may well conceivc thc advantages WALKER AND AKRON BURR REPUDIATED. I pray you not to misunderstand me. I reprobate, not war itself, but all irregular

enterprises of war. I hold that the great

issues of peace belong to the sovereign iia(i

which our

undertakings in thc United States, p]e Frenchmen may laugh at our fami-

cj t0

our jurisdiction for thc purpose of war in the best of it, since within the last two genthe Crimea, or of a reckless American ad- ovations wc have been able not only to asventurer, recruiting them for the purpose

sjst

of plunder and murder in Nicaragua. No, Australia, but wc havc actually raised our let not the small man, Walker, be honored for this, on account of which, the great man, Burr, was damned. -r

prodigiously rouged, directed her

wholo discourse to Voltaire, and engrossed his whole conversation. Chesterfield came up, tapped him on the shoulder, and said: "Sir, take care that you are not captivated." "My lord," returned the French wit, "I scorn to be taken by an English craft under French colors.

fSTDaniel Webster penned the following beautiful sentiment: "If we work upon marble it will perish if we work upon brass it will efiace it if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust but if we work upon our immortal minda—if we imbue them with, principles, with thc just fear of God, and love of their fellow

men,.

wc_engrave on those tablets

something whipji.~will brighten^ to aH^et-cr-nitv."

deal

^onbted that national greatness has

regt

jjave

HTkoot oomo nnBSPTioMs in ations of the vice ofniTtation. .. Empire, on" which the sun never set, has In the case to which I have alluded, the

passed away.

Spain's boast and

England, the ruins. of

whose metropoirs a

read fi ure/a

popular writer has al-

New Zeaiander as contem-

indeed sIl0uld not

gupremacy

ont time yiekl thc

to younger rivals England

aJ risbfi

Qthe eftt 8 of

dressing^a married woman, being himself Russia, Prussia, and the United a married man, could be mistaken for any-

thing else—but still they were by no means conclusive that the woman had proceeded to the last extreme of guilt. The court must be satisfied, not only of the guilt of the mind, but of the body. This case shows again that the woman may be guilty of little or great sins, and still not plunge into the lowest depths of crime. Cf

the

Austrfa

World.

Even

is-no longer the German Empire,

States, they are but upstarts of yesterday. We cannot wonder that all the historians and philosophers, all the tlieorizers about the progress of civilization and the march

uie prugicao ui ««•«. w.v. they used jnanuiaciures, mosujr a of empire, should abound in predictions of

tho HonKno which is to be the inevitable

was annosi equai

populat'ou

of the

Afc that tirae Great Britain

l.J™!11, hardly contained more than 10,000,000 six. Thc wonted accuracy our papers is

i- hardly contained more than 10,000,000

thej inferred tho future, and spoke of it 3 4,000,000 really astonishing. with the positivencss and preeis.cn of in- ^ulim

tban a

of the Union, and should not be wan- three times their own. But now things epuatorial diameter more than 26 nnlcs furnislied ^nd

tonly usurped by individual rashness. I havc indeed altered. The British people longer than its polar diameter, and conse-

what we consider now exclusively

artistie

a comparatively

the decline which is to be the inevitable fate of the leading nations of Europe. But if we feel ourselves young and vigo1 1 fa ***w I*rous, if we are just establishing our colo- yenturious.employments infuse into apopunial system and taking possession of our IATJon

ON-

nial system and taking possession of our jatj If we add to this the land system Asiatic empire, if we are building new

a li? n/nr ..."

houses of Parliament and instituting nation al collections in the fine arts, it is not. tin same with our nearest neighbor. France is very powerful, much richer than she was she has a capital which is the resort of the world, and a court which yields, in magnificence to none. But of late years, aud especially since the establishment of the Empire, there has been a strange dejection among the educated classcs, and all those who think or profess to think on political subjects. Railroads, gold coinage, increase of trade, and increase of revenue, have failed to restore cheerfulness to a large class of Frenchmen. Amid the feast of prosperity they have always seemed to see a sword suspended over the country.— While all Europe has been sounding the praises .of France, France itself has been unsatisfied. The Dc Profandis of the old political world and the old literary world has mingled with the official Te Deum of the Imperial retainers. All thhrwas to be expected. In France the liberty which was battled for during sixty ycars-certain-ly for along time, perhaps forever. Can we wonder, then, that the eminent men who gained fame and position amid tho contests of free political life should in their old age look with anger on the destruction of all they had founded, and anticipate only decay for thc country which has betray ed itself and them?

which

Anglo-Saxon qualities.. They colonicd TEHRIBIJ^HAGEDyiU j^o and conquered they settled .Canada, where frmlof tho Four Negroes/orthc Mnrdir they keep their ground to the present day nf tfu- Jnt/rp fanuIunt^Sriar

they planted Louisiana, ascended the Mis sissippi, and nearly succeeded in checking the developement of the coloines which are now the United States. They got the start of us in India, won battles, formed alliances, and almost effected what Providence eventually reserved for England.— Their fleets, even as late as thc American war, were equal to ours in strenght, and fought.against us without disgrace.' Their merchant marine was, to a still later period Briar Creek, on-the confines^ of je&raon almost equal to ours in tnrnage. But with- and Bullitt counties ^in this State, in tlie present century the two nations have natcd yestarday-,. The trial, occupied sevgone different ways. Hotf much wo have eral days, -resulting last ^evening .about changed it is unnccssary to say, but cer- 5 o.clock in a verdict of accquittal by the tainly France seems to have lost much of jury. The court house had beira throtiffed the energy and vitality of the old times.— during the trial by an excited crowd, The excessive development of the military

primitive fashion, are the

occupation of the people, and these do not give the energy and spirit which iliore ad

J-.I *I.:„

the revolution has established^ and

nation- parceiing out of inheritances, which arc not. the

t0Q s,na]i

property to remunerate labor, we

may partly explain how is the French, with all their taste and genius, are! smitten with inertness and sterility. Yet we cannot believe in the decay of our brilliant and high-spirited neighbors. France has gone through trials which might have destroyed a nation of less vitality. Revolutions, proscriptions, wars in which the youth of the country perished literally by the million, political insecurity, communistic agitation, have all tended to misdirect licr aims and cramp her energies. When we consider all, the wonder is that thc French should have achieved so much. It should be remembered that our own population only began to increase after our politcal troubles were over. We may then hope that, with continued tranquiltty in France, the future numberings, of the people will exhibit results more cheerful and reassuring.

MISTAKES OF PRINTERS. Some people are continually wondering at the "carelessness" of editors in allowing so many errors and blunders to appear in their columns and mar the print. Such people know very little of the difficulties— we had almost said impossibilities—of keeping them out. The most careful attention to these matters will not prevent errors from creeping in, even when professional proof readers are engaged expressly for the purpose. And when it is borne in mind that in most papers such an expense is necessarily dispensed with, and the proofs on that account are hurriedly examined, the fact will no longer appear strange. In connection with this subject the following anecdote is not inappropriate.

A Glasgow publishing house attempted to publish a work that should be a perfect

specimen of typographical accuracy. After having been read by six experienced proof

page remained two weeks in this placc, and yet, when the work was issued, several errors were discovered one of which was in the first line of the first page!

When such was the case in a city long celebrated in Great Britain for publishing the finest and most correct editions of the

mrougii

"one experienced proof reader," let alone

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'5npport. -J

„..V O DOES THE MISSISSIPPI LIRA UPHILL.

rival had in those days from her That's the question. Dr. Boynton takes

superior numbers, and admire the courage thc affirmative and Horace Mann the nega-

witK

tivc

which our forefathers were always

rcady

for war with France, a country which agree? It is a fact that the figure of the

effective population of not far from earth is an oblate spheroid having its

glory in the acts, which it has fallen to me have increased and multiplied and rcplen-1 quently the equatorial regions arc some lu L^r at the East end of of the courthouse, to perform, toward the representation of tised thc earth in a manner beyond exam-

whether on the part of a presumptuous iie5) -n bile their own households are limit- water in the tropical regions would flow

Francc has certainly changed in character since her revolution." Before that creat ronvul?im the- French Had -A good

miles

(poles

two or three but wc have certainly with great rapidity towards the poles,^ un-

in populating America and colonzing

home population to something approaching equality with the French. If wc take Great Britian alone we find that the population has considerably more than doubled since thc French revolution, which that of France has scarcely increased more than thirty-five per. cent. Notwithstanding Irish famines and English strikes, cholera and short harvests, the number of children has been continually in enormous excess over the deaths. But in France we find that every natural or political calamity checks the increase in a marked manner. In 1847 the excess of births over deaths fsll from 2-37,000 to 02,000 on account of the scarcity, and this small cxccss was again diminished to 13,000 by the cholera of 1849. Things grew worse after 1851 under the double influence of scarcity and war, till in 1S54-5 the deaths for the first time exceeded the births. Thus we learn the astonishing fact that at the present time the population of Franco is actually diminishing although emigration has almost entirely ceased. War, a succession of bad harvests, the grape blight, and the disease of the silk-worm, are all pointed to as having a share in producing this startling result but we cannot but feel that there must be some cause deeper and more abiding than any of these. For thc last thirty years, at least, the proportionate -increase has been steadily lessening, and the present, time -only witnesses the change from increase to diminution. This is a fact which may. some^whaL justify a Guizot or a De Tocqueville in their mournful tone.-

quital by a Jury-—Great Indignation Meeting—Riot—Seizure ofthe Arsenal, Gannon, and Muskets by the Meb^ The Jail Stormed—Cannon PidntfdpiSugrender of the Prisoners—Three ttvnj -~in the Court House Yard—The Fumrtii urith,, his Throat Cut—The JBorfie*

BurM~l)oings of the Mob: Thp, trial of thc four negro mcu ior. thc dreadful murder of the Joyce family on

system in Europe, and the attention paid strongest indignation. The negro oen'hjtd to strictly continental concerns, have turn- been brought into court pending the trial ed the French from the field on which they utitil yestarday afternoon, when one by oM wrestled with us under the. elder Bour- they were taken out of thc court room and bons. They do not trade and colonize as safely, as it was supposed, quartered-ill they used Manufactures, mostly of an

kind, and agriculture, carried on in

the reading of the verdict, exhibited the

jail. Soon after the verdict of acquittal Wis made known, an exoited multitude gathered about the jail and avowed a determine tion to take out the negroes and hang then). Mayor Pilcher harangued the crowd Mid sUinmOned the police, and for a brief space the gathering storm was lulled. It bad only ceased for a moment, to gather head,'. w$d soon it was evident that a well organised and preconcerted motement was on foot.— A number of men rushed to thc steam engine house-on Sixth street, almost adjoining the jii.il, bttrkt the door opeif, and took possession of the brass cannon and-.-the muskets of the arsenal.

The cannon was quickly loaded* iiiiii charged With pieces of iron and bOwldtfl*, and dragged in front of the jail door.r*Here an indescribable scene of uproar and confusion ensued: The mob were yelling that they would tear down the jail Ufllen the negroes were given up to them: The Mayor made a futile effort to check them, and ordered the police to arrest otie of tfae ringleaders. The crowd menanccd, and the police retired within the enclose, or jail yard, when bricks, and every kittd of misMl was thrown, Mayor Pilcher btiittlf knocked down the first one, a brickbat. Striking, hits full in thc face, smashing his nose

Several shots were fired in rapid succession, from both sides, but chiefly by the members of the police, a. Spartan band 6( only ten or twelve men to resist a mob., of as many thousand. The fctlces^ front walls, doors and windows of the jail Were quickly demolished, and thc entire destruction of thc building was threatened by tho party in charge of thc cannon. One of the watchmen Jack AYcathcrford had a finger shot off thc jailor and his deputy Were badly bruised Chief Kirkpatrick was repeatedly hit with stones and bricks, but fortunately escaped without losing life or limb, and one or two of thc crowd slightly wounded.

A parley was demanded on the part of the jailor and his assistants who by this time becamc fully aware of the terrible determination of the people. As far its thc eye could reach from the jail door down, thc street was crowded by the cxcited masses, who were determined to execute swift

wjJO werc

readers, it was posted up in the hall of the University, and a reward of L50 offered to

determined to execute swilt

Up0n

University, and a reward of X'50 offered to thorities succumbed to the demands of tho any one who should cetect an error, hac 1

crowcj( an(i

V'-

British Islands at the where the compensation will hardy affor jnfurjatC(j populace could lay hands on him.

arc. If thc earth were at rest, the for jjjg ]ifC)

with great rapidity towards the poles, til the equilibrium as far as the water is

concerned, would be restored. Ihe Wis-

sissippi would flow from its mouth to its

source the former being oyer two miles

father from the center of the car than

the latter. It is therefore evident that the

water in this river as it now flows, rises or j.*

recedes from the earths center between

two and three miles in passing from its

source to the Gulf of Mexico. £cre

"Buthow can water run up hill: asks Horace Mann and others. For the same reason that water on a grindstone in mo tion will mount the center ridge instead of running off at the sides. The revolution of the earth round its axis gives all bodies on its surface especially water, a tendency to the equator and this tendeney is just sufficent to counterbalance the rise in the surface in the same direction in fact thc one is the cause of the other. Water is therefore free to fiow in any direction, which inequalities on the surface thus balance, may occassion. If the daily rotation of the earth becomes slower, tendency of bodies to the equator would diminish, and the water would flow towards the poles, until another "surface of equilibrim" were established. If the rotation became more rapid, the water would rush toward the equator, till the equilibrium was restored.

These opposite forces, the centrifugal and centripetal, will always balance-each other. How Mr. Mann could be puzzled about so clear a matter, is singular. One would imagine "that the mind which could originate the idea of marrying a man to twenty fine ladies of the modern school without subjecting him to a charge of bigamy, would be able to comprehend a very simple problem in natural philosophy.—Quincy (IU-) •publican.

1^"An honest man loveth the Is?!:.

the murderers. The au»

Thomas, the jailor, notified

them that he would surrender the victims. The chief of police went out in the crowd, rcachcd thc gun, and succeded in placing his hand over thc touch-hole.

The inner door of the jail was thrown open and thc four negroes led out between the small bod}' of police that had been stathc sight of their was sent up from ten

thousand brazen" throats, but before the

Samucls^ drcw a razor fr^m

TT 7

rom

ear to car

ti,e

an(j

h-g Go(J Jn mortai

without a stniggle.

of HirMn

^s pocket, and

cut his own throat. Thc de£/J was com-

mittcd with all thc energy ot' despair, in-

flicting a terrible gash, cutting his throat

nearly

hea(j frQm tj)(J

Who shall decide when doctors dis- The other three negroes were seized by I a a a

severing the

and quickly "taken to the court-.

housc wfierc ropeg wcre as

quickly

soon two cf them

were hang-

t0 tregai one at the wesfc en(i an(j

father from the earth's centre than the The first poor wretch struggled dreadfully

for

u,e

aftcr

least ten minutes

he was swung off, he was heard calling

terror. The knot in

not sHPi and

in a half choked

condition fae wag suffered

the thiJd was hung to

to remain until it

adjusted IIc wag then cut dowll( an«|

the same tree abd

man so sammariIy

men in front of the

STRKET EDUCATION.—A

took

cUtting hia throat waa

Jcft

welt(J in his a lifcie88 ma88 on

the

jaii. The others

ha io in the

Courthouse yard up»to

a very late hour, and what disposition, was made of the bodies, we do- not- know. At one time a bonfire was kindled, and it was suggested that they should be burned, and the torch was actually applied to

two.

of the

inanimate bodies, burning fnost of their clothes off. The city authorities appeared to be perfectly paralyzed iu thought, and action, and about 11 o'clock last night a terrible palor overspread the city, and apparent order and quiet seemed to assume sway, and the populace retired to tfneir homes, apparently satisfied with the retributive justice so, summarily dealt murderers. 'J

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eity-missiOBarv

visited an unhappy young man in our

jaii,

waiting his trial for a State prison crigie "Sir,"0 said thc prisoner, tears running down hia chccks, "I had a good home education it was my street education that ?uined me. I used to slip- out of the houne and go with the boys in thc street. In th street I learned to lonnge in the straot I learned to swear in thc street I learned to smoke in the street I learned to gam ble in the street I learned to pilfer. Oh, sir, it is in the street the devil lurks' to work thc ruin of the young!"