Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 29 August 1857 — Page 1

NEW SERIES--VOL. K, NO. 6.

NOBODY'S SONG.

I'm thtaking just now of Nobody, And all that Nobody baa done, JTor I've a pa ision for Nobody,'

That Nobody clae would own I bear tho name of Nobody, For from Nobody I spiring Anil I sing the praise of Nobodj,

As Nobody mine baa sung.

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In life's young morning Nobody To mo was tender and dear Ar.J my cradle was rocked by Nobody,

And Nobody ever was near I was potted and praised by Nobody, And Nobody brought me up, And wlicn I was hungry, Nobody,

Gave mo to dine or to sup.

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I went to school to Nobody, And Nobody taught mo to read: I played in the streets with Nobody,

And Nobody ever gave heed I recounted my talc to Nobody, For Nobody was willing to hear, And my heart it clung to Nobody

And Nobody shed a tear.

IV.

And when I grew older, Nobody Gave me a helping turn And by the good uid of Nobody

I begun my living to earn And hence I courted Nobody, And said Nobody'i I'd be, And asked to marry Nobody,

And Nobody married mc.

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\itcjfj-Thus 1 trudged along with Nobody, And Nobody chccrs my life. And I have a love for Nobody •\Vhieh Nobody has for his wife

So here's health to Nobody, For Nobody's now in tgwn, J\IH1 I've a passsion for Nobody,

That Nobody elso would own.

SOMEBODY.

Somebody's courting somebody. Somewhere or other to-night. Somebody's whispering to somebody, Somebody's listening to somebody,

Under tins clear moonlight.

Noar the bright river's flow, Running so still and slow, Talking so soft and low,

She sits with somebody.

Pacing the ocean's shore. Edged by tho foaming roar, Words novor breathed before,

Sound ewcct to somebody.

TJnder tho maple-tree. Deep though tho shadow be, J'lain enough they con see—

Bright eves has somebody.

•Noono cits up to wait, 'Though sho in out no ]uto— All know she's at the gato

Talking with somebody.

Tip-toe to parlor door—. Two shadows on the floor— ^Moonlight reveals no moro— 4

Su sy and somebody.

'V1' Two, sitting sido by side, Float with tho ebbing tide. -"Thus, dearest, may wo glide

Through lifo,". says somebody.

Somewhere, somebody Makes love to somobodv To-nijcbt.

LLCVI' CII TS.

I've brought the spring roses, Swoet roses to wear.

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Two buds for thy bosom And ono for thy hair: i' I've brouirht tlice new ribbons'

Thy beauty to deck, I.ight blue for thy waist, love, And whito for thy neck. ,,

Oh, bright is tho beauty That woos thee to-niglit ]?ut brighter affection,

And lasting as bright: I've brought thee what's better Than ribbons or rose— A heart that will shield tlioo,

Wherever wind blow?.

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glad Less to view thee, Thus beaming and gay And walking in sweetness........

As if thou wort May! Thospringof thy being Is lovely to see: And ohwhat's diviner,

Atlianeod to me

FOUND DEAD.

There is a certain indescribable pathos in the following lines from the pen of Mr.

Albert Laighton: Found dead—dead and alone There was nobody ncarrnobody near, *Whun tho outcast died on his pillow of stone—

No mother, no brother, no sister dear, Not friendly voice to soothe or to choc r, Not a watching eve or a pitying tear. Found dead—dead and alone, In tho roofless street, on a pillow of stone.

Many a weary day went by, While wretched and worn he begged for bread: Tired of life, and longing to lie

Peacefully down with the silent dead, ," Hunger and cold and scorn and pain. Had wasted liis form and seared his brain, Till at last on a bed of froien ground, With a pillow of stone, waa the outcast- found.

Found dead, dead and alono On a pillow of stone in the roofless street— Nobody heard his last faint moan,

Or knew when his sad heart ceased to beat. •No mourner lingered with tears or sighs, Hut tlicstaTs looked down with pitying eyes, And the chill winds passed with a wailing sound ,0'cr the lone spot where his form waj found.

Found dead—yetsOT alono There waa samebody near, somebody near To claim the wanderer aa his own,

And find a home for tha homeless here. One, when every human door Jjla closed to his children, scorned and poor, ~Wh» opens the heavenly portal wide

Ah! God was near whea th« outcast died.

JVLord Napier,

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bias

British Minister,

accepted an invitation

to

attend the

National Agricultural Fair in Louisville.

THE ORIGIN OF MANXIND.

A CATAWBA

LE6EJJD.'

There waa a time when the world was an unbroken waste of rocks, hills and mountains, save only one small valley, which was distinguished for its luxuriance, and where reigned a perpetual summer. At that time, too, the only human being who inhabited the earth was a woman, whose knowledge was confined to this valley, and who is remembered among the Catawbas as the mother of mankind. She lived in a cavern, and her food consisted of the honey of flowers and the sweet berries and other fruits of the wilderness. Birds without number, and the wild streams which found a resting place in the valley, made the only music which she ever heard. Among the wild animals, which were very numerous about her home, she wandered without any danger but the beaver and the doe were her favorite companions. In personal appearance she was eminently'beautiful, and the lapse of years only had a tendency to increase the brightness of her eyes and the grace of her movements. The dress she wore was made of those bright green leaves which infold the water lillics, and her hair was as long as the grass that fringed the'waters of her native vale.— She was the ruling spirit of a perennial world, for even the very flowers which bloomed about her sylvan home were never known to wither or die. In spite of her lonely condition, she knew not what it was to be lonely but ever and anon a strange desire found its way to her heart, which impelled her to explore the wild country which surrounded licr home. For many days had she resisted the temptation to become a wanderer from her charming valley, until it so happened, on a certain morning, that a scarlet butterfly made its appearance before the door of her cave, and by the hum of its wings invited her away. She obeyed the summons, and followed the butterfly far up a rocky ravine, until she came to the foot of a huge waterfall, when nhe was deserted by her mysteaious pilot, aiul first bccamc acquainted with the emotion of fear. Her passage of the ravine had been comparatively easy, but when she endeavored, in her consternation, to retrace her steps, she found Iter efforts unavailing, and fell to the ground in despair. A deep sleep then overcame her senses, from which .she was not awakened until the night was far spent and then the dampness of'the dew had fallen upon her soft limbs, and for the first time in her life did she feel a pang of bodily pain. Forlorn and desolate indeed was her condition, and she felt that some great event was about to happen, when as she uncovered her face and turned it to t&c sky, she beheld, bending over her prostrate form, nnd clothed in a cloud-like robe, the image of a being somewhat resembling herself, only that he was more stoutly made and of a much fiercer aspcct. Ilcr first emotion at this discovery was that of terror but as the mysterious being looked upon her in kindness, and raised her lovingty from the ground, she confided in his protection, and listened to his words until the break of day.

He told her that he was a native of the far-off sky, and that he had discovered her in her forlorn condition while traveling from the evening to the morning star. He told her also that he had never before seen a being so soft and beautifully fohncd as she. In coming to her rescue, he had broken a command of the Great Spirit Of the Master of Life, and as lie was afraid to return to the sky, ho desired to spend his days in her society upon earth. With joy did she accept this proposal and, as the sun rose above the distant mountains, the twain returned in safety to the luxuriant vale, where as man and woman, for many moons, they lived and loved in perfect tran: quility and jo}\

In process of time, the woman became a mother, from which time the happiucss of the twain bccanic more intense, but they at the same time endured more troubles than they had ever known before. The man was unhappy because he had offended the Master of Life, and the mother was anxious about the happiness and comfort, of her newly born child. Man}- and devout were the prayers they offered to the Great Spirit for his guidance and protection, for they felt that from them were to desccnd a race of beings more numerous than the stars of heaven. The Great Spirit had compassion on these lone inhabitants of the earth, and, in answer to their prayers, he caused a mighty wind to pass over the world, making the mountains crowd closely together, and rendering the world more useful and beautiful by the prairies and valleys and rivers which now cover it from tho rising to the setting sun.

SUGAR COMING DOWN.

Tho New York Evening Post of Monday, says the news received from Cuba per the Empire City, produced an anxiety on the part of holders of sugar to sell, and about 2,000 hhds. Melado and 1000 hhds. sugar were sold, at a decline of one-fourth cent per pound on the prices current the day previous, and one ceut from those current on Monday last. Present prices are about two cents below those ruling six weeks since. Still there is but little disposition to buy at the decline

The crop of Cuba, which, it was confidently predicted up to last month, would fall short of the previous crop at least

twenty per cent., will equal if not overrun the crop of last year, and the coming crop of Louisiana now promises to be a very large one, and intelligent planters now in this city, and recently from their plantations, estimate it will, with usual good weather, reach 400,000 hhds., against 75,000 hhds. last year.

This fact, with an almost doable stock on hand here and at the neighboring ports, and double prioes over former years, prevent speculators and consumers from buying freely. This morning the market is unsettled, and holders are endeavoring to effect sales at priees of yesterday, without sueeess. Thus far no sales have been made.

IV* The weakest spot in any man, is where he thinks himself the wisest.

NEW YORK HOTEL AFFAIR—AN UJiEXPECTED VISIT—A CASE OF CRIM. COW.

The affair of the New York Hotel, which has been the topio of conversation for the last few days, is thus explained by the Courrier des Etats ZJnis:

On Saturday evening the New York Hotel, which, as every one knows, is one of the principal resorts of Southern travelers, was the theatre of an abortive drama, in which one of the principal actors may congratulate himself in having made a fortunate escape. The following are the precise details of the affair, as we have obtain* ed them from the best sources:

Among the transient residents of the hotel was Mrs. W., a young and pretty lady from Louisiana, who was enjoying too freely her husband's absence—'he having remained in New Orleans on account of business. A gentleman, of middle age, said to be rich, an auctioneer by profession, Mr. F., had "overbid" (cncheri) with the greatest success oh the charming Creole, and their intimacy had gone so far that it was noticed and commented upon by several inmates of the hotel.

Among those was a friend of Mr. W., who thought it his duty to advise him of what occurred in his absence, and to enjoin him, either by telegraph or mail, to come on as soon as possible to put a stop to the scandal- As soon as he received the message Mr. W., left New Orleans without advising any one of it, and arrived in New York on Saturday evening, with a revolver in his pocket, determined to take the law into his own bauds. It was in such a disposition of mind that lie went to the New York Hotel, where his faithless better half was boarding, and inquired for the number of her room.

He had no trouble at all to gctiri. Full of imprudent security and not suspccting that the outraged husband—whom he thought far off—was already advancing in the hall, the two lovers had not even been cautious enough to lock the door. Mr. W. entered as if he was at home, and, altho' it was early in the evening, he found his worst suspicions justified in relation to his wife and Mr. F.

Without uttering a word, Mr. W., drew his revolver and fired at the guilty party. Mr. F., not being hit, jumped out of bed, ran to the door, where, on opening it, lie was shot at a second time, and took flight headlong toward the hall, followed by his terrible enemy. The fugitive had nothing on but a single flannel undershirt, and at that moment it seemed the least of his cares.

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But one can judge of the sensation created by this strange apparation among the persons hastening from all sides after the noise of the firing of the pistol. Mr. F. running hcad-forcmost, arrived at the head of the staircase, descended in great haste, turned to the right and stopped in one of the cells of the water-closets of the hotel, in which he bolted himself close.

The pursuit had been hot. He could hear, from his unpoctical shelter, the tumult on the stairs, and the struggle to stop and disarm the terrible husband. He, however, did not rely on his ears, and consented to open the door only when summoned by the police, and upon the formal promise that his life should be protected. I

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It has bceh said that Air. Fi was wounded, but we believe it to be untrue, unless one means the double wound to his love aiid his self-love

As Mr. W. immediately left for the South with his wife wei are inclined to believe that the affair will go no further, after having caused loss blood, than sweat and tears to be shed.

'Til ft NEWS FROM INDIA. The New York Herald has the following article:

The story which was current in London when the Canada left, to the effect that Delhi had fallen, cannot be true. It is physically impossible that news from Delhi should reach Madras without passing through Calcutta and impossible that the Madras merchants who arc said to have reported the fall of Delhi can have known anything later from thence than what every Calcutta passenger knew before. That Delhi had not fallen, at our latest advices from thence, the latest Calcutta advices state distinctly and they even add that General Barnard did not propose to assault the place till reinforcements arrived which could not bo for some weeks.

We learn from the details of the news that our sweeping assertion that the whole Bengal Army was lost was strictly accurate. Fifty-six regimants have mutinied, thirty have been disarmed and one disbanded. In round numbers, one hundred thousand men, in the highest state of efficiency and discipline, with native officers at their head and a vast rural population at their back, are in arms against the British power in the Presidency at Bengal. Of the utter unreliability of any of the natives, the Seventieth Native Infantry, which only a few days ago was publicly thanked for its bravery by Lord Canning, and which has since become so mutinous that it was found necessary to disarm the men, bears ample testimony.

Consternation reigned at Calcutta, and many of the citizens had taken refuge on board vessels in the harbor. All the native troops at the place had been disbanded but as the effect of this measures wo'd only be to throw on the city a swarm of idle and hungry men, the prospect of a general razzia and robbery seemed strong. Marines and sailors from the ships had been mustered to defend the principal buildings, especially the treasury, in -which there are several millions in specie.

It seemed quite likely, when the steamer left that the Mohamedans at Calcutta might strike a blow before the reinforcements arrived from England.

Thirty thousand men, we hear, have sailed already to reinforce the Queen's troops in Bengal. Even supposing this aid arrived, it would be but a handful of men to oppose the swarms of Indians who will now take the field against the English. For the present, in a word, Bengal is lost to England It may be recovered hut just now it is lost, ana the great Indian empire is curtailed by lo much-

CMWFORDSVILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA, AUGUST 29, 1857.

THE BLACK REPUBLICAN—A NEGATITE PARTY. The Black Republican party have .but one governing principle—^-opposition, to the Democracy. That is the .Alpha and Omega of their political creed. When they go beyond that they are lost in fogs and quagmires. In intense hatred to Democracy they live, move and have their being.— And, except in this, the Republican party have no principles in common. The Cincinnati Commercial, by far the ablest Republican press in the West, comes out flatfooted in favor of the enslavement of the negro as his best condition in this country It regards the system of negro servitude as mild, patriarchical and a state of happiness compared with freedom, for that degraded and inferior race. On the other side, the Columbus Journal, the State organ of Republicanism in Ohio, is in favor of the universal emancipation of the race and conferring upon them full social and political equality. Both of these papers, entertaining directly opposite views upon the negro question, go it strong for Chase for Governor and equally so against Democracy.— What sympathy have they in common, uhless the spoils of office and hatred of Democracy

In our own State the Black Republican press-have gone into ecstacics over the prospect of the election of Rollins, the Know Nothing candidate for Governor of Missouri. This is the best proof of their affinity and love of false Americanism.— Although Rollins is a large slave-holder and supported by tho friends of Benton in that State who declared himself emphatically opposed to emancipation in any form, and boasted that he had been instrumental in making a constitutional inhibition against it, yet the Black Republican press would claim the election of Rollins as a Republican triumph! And this, too, when the Know Nothing press of St. Louis accused Stewart, the Democratic candidate, who has no slave property, of being more an emancipationist than his opponent. Why does Republicanism rejoice unless in its sympathy for Know Nothingism and the defeat of Democracy?

As far as slavery in Missouri is concerned, or in any other State, the Democracy of Indiana arc in favor of letting the people of each State "retain the institution, or emancipate the slaves, as to them seemeth good," with the single condition, that whether bond or free, they shall keep the negroes within their own borders. We have no desire in Indiana to be overrun with a race confessedly improvident and thriftless, and who would be a tax upon the industry of the white race.

The Black Republican party is purely and pre-eminently a negative one. Itwould rejoice over the election of the Know Nothing candidate for Governor of Missouri, voted for by the anti-emancipationists of the State, for the reason that it would be a defeat of- the'Democracy and gratify its hatred thereof. For the same reasons it rejoices over the election of a few plug ugly candidates in Kentucky and Tennessee. And, after all, there are biit few Black Republicans in the country who wo'd not rather confide its government and trust the preservation Of its institutions in their integrity in the hands of the Democracy than with their own part}': The experience of the past has taught them that the Democracy have ever shown high capacity for government, and tlieir principles and policy have controlled the country, while that of their opponents have never been successful, and tlieir brief supremacy at various intervals has Only proven their incompetency. A party based upon mere opposition to one which has successfully controlled the affairs of the government, unparalleled in legislation, will remain where it started—in opposition.—State Sentinel.

[From tho Frankfort (Ky.) Yeoman.

SECRET CIRCULAR.

To the Know Nothing Editors of Kentucky. DEAR "AMERICANS —Are you well How do you get along under the rujc of 'foreigners,' 'papists,' 'catholiccs,' 'beer drinking Dutchmen,' 'red mouthed Irishmen,' 'foreign hordes,' 'Sag Nichts,' find anti-Americans' generally? Thought you said thkt 'Americans must rule America?' IIow could you make such a mistake?— That 'great American heart' didn't 'beat' anybody in particular, and that 'intense feeling' passed nivav like a cramp tfholic. What is your opinion of the 'present aspect of American politics' about now? How many years do you think a foreigner sho'd be naturalized before lie is allowed to vote in a Know Nothing precinct? What is your choice for United States Senator?— Can you inform us what particular persons arc now being chased by the officers of Kentucky? Have you auy new hats? Did you win any boots? How are jour maternal ancestors? Who threw that last brick? Are there manjr of those 'foot prints' in your diggings now? Any election news of consequence?

Hoping to hear from you at an early day, wc subscribe oursclf, Yours, &c.,

SAG NICIIT.

p. S.—Who is on guard to-night. S. N.

THE SUICIDE OF SENATOR RUSK. The Washington States of Wednesday gives the following additional particulars of the death of Gen. Rusk:

A letter received in this city last evening confirms the death of Gen. Rusk by suicide. It is stated that but a short time previous to the sad occurrence Senator Rusk had been out working with his men, and was heard to remark regrettingly, that Houstan and himself had heretofore been political friends, but now they were political enemies. He went home a short time afterward, and while standing in the door placed the muzzle of his rifle to his forehead, pulled the trigger with a string, and fell backward into the yard in the agonies of death.

The Galveston Civilian of the 5th says: We have'no further details relative to the death of Gen. Rusk, exoepting that he was not killed instantly, hot five* a short time, though doubtless, in an unconscious state. s. 'i'J: bmi'i:

THE 1HEDICAL PROFESSION BY ONE WHO KNEW IT. The American Medical Gazette for June gives a remarkably interesting letter from an American medical student in Paris.— The writer says that he once heard Magendie, the celebrated French physician and physiologist, open a lecturc somewhat in the following words "Gentlemen: Medicine is a great humbug. I know it is called a science—-sci-ence, indeed! It is nothing like science.— Doctors are mere empirics, when they are not charlatans. Wc are as ignorant as men can be. Who knows anything ab'out medicine? Gentlemen, you have done me the honor to come here to attend my lectures, and I must tell you frankly now, in the beginning, that I know nothing in the world about medicine, and I don't Know anybody that does know anything about it. Dont think for a moment that I hatfl't read the bills advertising the course of lectures at the medical School I know that this man teaches anatomy, that man teaches pathology, another man physiology, such a one thcrapuetics, such another, materia mcdica—Eh Inert! ct aprcs?1''What's known about all that? Why, gentlemen, at the school of Montpcller, (God knows it was famous enough in its day!) they discarded the study of anatomy, and taught nothing but the dispensary and the doctors educated there knew just as much and were quite as successful as any others. I repeat it, nobody knows anything about mcdicine. True enough we are gathering facts every day. We can produce typhus fever, for example, by injecting a certain substance into the veins of a dog—that's something wc can alleviate diabetes, and, I sec distinctly, we arc fast approaching the day when phthisis can be cured as easily as any disease.

We are collecting facts in the right spirit, and I dare say in a century or so the accumulation of facts may enable our successors to form a medical science but I repeat it to %'ou. there is no such thing now as a medical science. Who can tell mc how to cure the headache? or the gout? or disease of the heart? Nobody. Oh! you tell me doctors cure people. I grant you the people arc curcd. But how are they cured? Gentlemen, nature does a great deal. Imagination does a great deal.— Doctors do—devilish little—when they don't do harm. Let me tell you, generally, what I did when I was the head physician at Hotel Dicu. Some three or four thousand patients passed through my hands every year. I divided the patients into two classes with one I followed the dispensary, and gave them the usual medicines without having the least idea why or wherefore to the other I gave bread pills colored water, without, of coursc, letting them know any thing about it—and occasionally, gentlemen, I would create a third division, to whom I gave nothing whatever. These last would fret a good deal, they would feel that they were neglected, (sick people always feel they are neglected, unless they arc well drugged—les imbcciles.') and they would irritate themselves until they really got sick, but nature invariably comes to the rcscuc, and all the persons in the third class got well. There was a little mortality among those who received but bread pills and colored water, and the mortality was greatest among those who were carefully drugged according to the dispensary.

This is pretty plain speaking, fur a doctor.

ifc has many an unseen episode

which were well worth preserving, and, Death seizes many a victim amid circumstances of affecting interest, A case in point incidentally came to our hearing a day or two since, and wc give it.

Early in the Spring just past, the home of Mr. a prosperous merchant. in ono of the inland towns of Ohio, was bereft of its chief ado'rnmcnt, in the decease of his wife, one of those rare beings who scein to unite in themselves all virtues and loveliness. So brief was her illness, and so quick the summons came that her two little daughters scarcely knew of anything serious impending over their parent, till called to look upon her loving features ih their eternal coldness. Tears, childhood's tears, rained from their sunny faces upon her coffin and moistened the clods which covered it and then they returned to their ravished home, their toys and their school. But the great sorrow eould not leave their childish hearts, visions of 'Mamma' were cv their ears ever listened for the music of her voice, and their ever recurring wish was, 'if 1 could only go and sec mamma.' And they did.

now

rer before them, I

the Destroyer was closing his meshes around them. A life size portrait of the departed parent, almost complete when the original was called to the Gallery of Immortals, the artist had finished from memory and now brought home. It was carried to their room and held up before the dying children. One of them could only smile a faint recognition, that lingered upon her lips till death fixed it there: the other with wonderful energy, threw herself from the couch, attempted to cmbrace the painting faintly gasping. 'Oh, mamma, dear mamma, come back!' then the little voice was hushed, the eye altogether glassy, and the little limbs replaced upon the couch, stiff and rigid. Mamma could not come back to her darlings, but they had gone to her. "The grass grows wild o're tlieir little green graves/1

the home of their father is complete in its desolution, and two names are stricken from the roll of children going to school. -rrrt 'Children going to school.' What are we all but children going to school? These have only been dismissed a little sooner. and gone home.—Sanduskey Reg.

wag observes that he loois un­

der the marriage head for the news of the "weak."

PHYSICAL PAIN OF DEATHA paragraph is going the rounds in the papers giving the opinion of Lord Bacon and others, that the pain of hanging is inconsiderable. It is asserted, for example, that after a momentary feeling of suffocation, bright colors dance before the eyes, and stretch away into vistas of indescribable loveliness. There is no reason to doubt the truth of this declaration, becausc numerous instances have occurred of persons being cut down before life was extinct and it was on the authority of well authenticated cxftfnpieS of this character that Lord Bacon and others founded their opinion.— Moreover, hanging, in its effects upon the human organism, produces results verisimilar to those produced by some natural disease, so that this also affords a criterion forjudging. Incases of drowning, likewise, the testimony is universal that the physical pain, up to the moment of consciousness being lost, is quite inconsiderable. The same phenomena of motes, stars and beautiful lights dancing before the eyes, has often been mentioned by persons restored after apparent death by drowning-

It is nearly ccrtairi—indeed, as certain as anything chiefly speculative can be— that in all deaths ihe physical suffering is small. Even where invalids experience the most excruciating agony during the progress of the disease, nature comes to their relief at the last hour, and life goes out- gentljr like a candle in its socket. The persons who have witnessed dent-h beds most frequently, especially if they have been intelligent persons, and therefore capable of judging, agree generally in considering the physical pain of death as inconsiderable. They say that the convulsive motions which frequently attend the parting breath, arc not cvidcnccs of suffering, for that the invalid is insensible.— They say also, that when the senses are retained, there is usually no such spasm.

A leading medical authority states that scarcely one person in fifty is sensible at the point of death, and some physicians assert that they have never seen a death bed in which the patient was sensible. As life fails, nature, it would seem, beneficently interposes, deadening the sensibility of the nerves, and otherwise preparing the individual for the great and inevitable change.

is KOI.LIN* AX EMANCIPATIONIST? The Black Republican papers in the North generally claim the election of Rollins in Missouri, for Governor, as a triumph of emancipation in that State. In so doing they cither evince great ignorance of his position, or arc guilty of unpardonable dishonesty. The St. Louis Intelligcnccr of May 2, the leading Know Nothing paper in the State, and one of his supporters, contained a letter from him, in which occurrcd this sentence: "The effort of Paschall and others will be to identify mc with the emancipation movement in St. Louis, and thus alarm Americans and slave-owners in tho country Opposed as I am to emancipation and all agitation of the slavery r/uestion, our friends must guard this point. I do not claim to be the peculiar advocalc of slavery. am, nevertheless, the oicner of between tiventy and thirty slaves, and have the control of as many more that I do not own."

Not satisfied with defining his own position most explicitly, as being "opposed to emancipation" and slavery agitation, in his speech in Johnson County, he brought- it as a public reproach against Stewart, the Democratic candidate, that "he having the means, and having been so long a resident of the State, should never have 'bought a nigger.'

If he is an Emancipationist, he certainly has a queer way of showing it.

SSf The Boston Post complains that the Democratic press is giving currency to an extract made from the History of Democracy by Nahum Capcn, Esq., without giving due credit to that work. Besides, the extract is not printed correctly—and wc give it below, copied from the work itself:

"The Democratic party represents the great principle of progress, It is onward and outward ifi its movements. It has a heart for action, and motives for a world. It constitutes the principle of diffusion, and is to humanity what the centrifugal force is to the revolving orbs of a universe. What motion is to them, Democracy i.s to

princjpict

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Scarlitina came, took them from their school duties, and prostrated them where mamma had lain. The disease would not be stayed, and at the end of a fortnight

js t]ie

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action. It

conforms to the providence of God. Ithas confidence in man, and an abiding reliance in his high destiny. It seeks the largest liberty, the greatest good, and the surest happiness. It- aims to build up the great interests of the many to the least detriment of the few. It remembers the past, with-1 out neglecting the present. It. establish

the present, without fearing to provi

and prepares the people for instruction "Emma reverses the law and self-respect. It adds wisdom to legis-

lation, and improved judgment to govern-1 ,jat

incut. It favors enterprise that yields a pj,. v.:, reward to the many, and an industry that 1 is permanent. It is the pioneer of liu-.

manity—the conservator of nations. Tt |_u

fails only when it ceases to be trus self. Vox populi vox Dei has proved to be both a proverb and a prediction."

WHOLE NUMBER 786.

SENATOR DOUGLAS.

On the occasion of laying the cornerstone of a new university in Chicago, the land for which waa given by Judge Douglas, Dr. Howard, a Baptist clergyman, passed an eulogy upon Mr. Douglas in tho following style:

Thcro are doubtless many around mo to-day who arc looking anxiously for the time when he shall grasp the scepter, and sway the destinies of this great Republic. But should he rcach the goal of his noble ambition—should the glowing wishes of his friends and admirers be finally and fully realized—this alone will [not securc for him the loftiest and most enviable position which man can occupy. When all his civic glories arc lost in the gathering "gloom of the past—when his eloquenco and his statesmanship have passed from the memory of man, and even from the musty rocords of history—this noble deed, and other kindred benefactions, will keep his namo fresh .and bright to the end of time. This charming grove will never cease to whisper, it—the granite structure which will soon be reared will perpetuate it—and the youth who shall come here to drink it at tho fountains of knowledge will repeat it with ever increasing delight and admiration.

NAPOLEON'S VISIT TO IQI'EKXIfVirTORIA, AT OSBO It NE. The strictly private visit of the Kinpcror and Empress of the French with Queen Victoria, at Osborncs, in England, has set the papers tit Guernsey at surmising as to what can be the cause. Tic is afraid of sonic lurking'ltalian orj French assassin, it is hinted, in one quarter in another that he comes to whisper in the ear of Her Britannic Majesty that there is trouble brewing on the Continent—in Italy and in France, as well as in India and China—and that it becomes Kings and Queens generally to have an eye to their crowns. A third suspects that tho visit has for its object an intimation from Louis Napoleon direct that it is high time the Queen of England had driven from her dominions the French, Italian and Hungarian exiles, who arc eternally hatching in London conspiracies not only against "my life," but against law and order everywhere.

Falling in with fhisjlattor view, some of the journals admonish Lord Palmcrston to have a care. IIo must not cringe to France. He is respectfully reminded that he is Prime Minister of England, and not a chief of police for Louis Napoleon, or Francis Joseph, or the Popo of Rome, or any other continental despot, who is so, afraid of such fellows as Mazzini, Lcdru Roll in and Kossuth that he cannot sleep in his bed o' nights. Alas! for European Royalty, in those days of inquiry and freepress impertinence! If it move among the mob or the crowd, it is afraid of a poignard, a pistol shot, or an infernal machine. If it shuts itself up, its very seclusion is turned to the stirring up of suspicions.' against it, to make it uneasy, distrustful, and generally miserable.

EXTRAORDINARY ROKHERY.—The

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Itock-

ville Republican says that some fellow entered the house of Mr. Jesse Wright of that (Parke) county, and robbed the room of Mr.

daughter, who was sleeping in

her bed After plundering as much as ho could, he proceeded very coolly lo steal the earrings out of the ears of the drowsy damsel. Then he pulled the rings off her fingers, and thinking still that he hadn't made the robbery complete, he cut all the hair off one side of her head. And ho accomplished it all without waking tho girl.

MN. CLAY'S LAST VOTE.—The Lexington Statesman says:

In view of the attempted use of Mr. Clay's name to arouse tho long-buried animosities between Whigs and Democrats, the Statesman deems it not inappropriate to mention the last vote ever recorded by the old statesman. In the first State election under the new Conptilution, sixteen officers were to be chosen. Twelve of those candidates had Democratic opposition, and between these twelve Mr. Clay's name stands recorded on the poll book an follows:—For Democrats, 7: Whigs, 5."'

©S?*The ftev. W. F. William?, Missionary of the American Board at Monsul, has brought to this country a gob! coin dating back to about two hundred and eighty years before Christ. It bears the name and effigy of Arsinoe Philadelphia, one of tho founders of tho Alexandrain library.— It is about the size of a sovereign, 13 a beautiful coin, and seems as bright and fresh as if it had but just come from the mint. The value of the coin by weight 13 •SIS—bad it been put. at compound interst at the rate of 7 per cent at the time of I its coinage, its inrTi asc to the present time '"Vr-'" could hardly be computed in numerals.—

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the'bigot's heart to meekness, and reeon- the newspapers, arc making the most out ciles bis mind to knowledge. Tt dispels

the clouds of ignorance and superstition,

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NORTH CAROLINA ELECTION. In North Carolina it is ascertained that thc Democrats have seven of tho eight members of Congress, which is a Democratic gain of two. Dr.- Shaw is elected in the First District by twelve votes. The following are the names of the delegation First District, Henry M. Shaw Second, Thomas Ruffin Third, Warren Winslow Fourth, L. O. B. Branch Fifth, John A. Gilmer Sixth, Alfred A. Scales, jr. Seventh, Burton Draige Eighth, Thomas L. Clingman—all of whom.except Mr. ilmer are Democrats.

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permits 110 injustice to the strong. It conquers the oppressor, and prepares the _. ... subjects of tyranny for freedom. It melts

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Buchanan received twelve hundred thousand votes in tho North, «nd only six hun drcd thousand in the South.

TENTH DISTRICT.

Thc Democrats of the Tenth Concession al District have nominated Hon. James ,-.. Worden as

their

candidate for Congress to.

supply the vacancy caused by Mr. Brcaton's death. Judge Worden is a popular man in his district and will stand a good chance of being elected.

f6T"'I have very little respcct for the tics of this world," as thc chap said when the rope was put aronud his neek.