Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 2 April 1859 — Page 1

A Thrilling Tale of the Sea Side.

The task is over, Hilly is killed and called good boy and while his mother combs his yellow bair in smooth and equal /portions toward either temple—"There my king," she says, "and now where is brother tg take you out to play

The naughty great boys were quarreling with Charley on the beach, mother, When he sent Billy home to his task to be »id of them."

And what game did they quarrel over, Billy?" No ga-om mother but Dick Saunders called Charley a bad name." "Tell mother the bad name, my man."

Billy caunt—he docs not know it now, mother."

Their conversation was interrupted by

The boy was about thirteen. Let Billy go play at tho door, and I'll tell you, mother," he said after she had addressed many anxious inquiries to him.

She led the little fellow out, and shut the door upon herself and Charley. Jle dropt into a chair, flung his arms over tho table, laid his facc upon them, and burst into tears.

Naughty Dick .Saunders has hurt you, 'Charley," she cried, approaching him. No—not as well as I have hurt him— 1thc utory teller! the puppy'!" sobbed

Charles.. Mother, Dick Saunders spoke ill of me and of you."

What did lie say, Charley I can't repeat it after him—I wont. But mother, 1 be old enough to ask you ,what I am going to ask. Was Master Turner, who died last year, Billy's father?"

To be sure he was, Charley." She grew uneasy. And your husband

Yes." And my father, too She changed color, and dropped her .eyes beneath the deep glance of her child.

Now, Charley, I know what they said of you and me and the time is indeed now come for me to speak to you of what nearly concerns %nu..'

Did Dick Saunders tell no story, mother interrupted Charley, sitting upright, and again unconsciously scrutinizing her lace. She raised her eyes, nir

his for an instant, and then sank back in

her chair, covering her features with liei hands, and weeping dolefully. I ask pardon, mother," said the gen rrous and hitherto gentle hoy, as he gain e.d *r side, and put his arms round her

She stepped into her little bedroom returned with a small, oval, red leather ease •••placed it in his hand sat down, averted her head, began to move the work

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the

table, and would vainly liido her continued tears, as she added, Open that and you will know more of your father ."

While he obeyed her commands, Charley recollected that he had more than once detected his mother weeping over the little red leather case. When the miniature met his eye, the boy started.

My father was a ship's captain!" lie said. He. was an officer in the king's navy," she answered. '. "And a gentleman, mother

His commission made him one. Charley, hut. he would have been a true gentleman without it." "And he. married you "before Master 'Turner married you, mother

Charley, your father and I were never married." A pause ensued. Charley's features betrayed a bitter and fierce inward combat, as his glaucc still fixed on -the miniature.

Ts he dead? he at length asked. I hope not, but I am not sure. Sometimes I think one thing, sometimes anlOthcr. Listen, my child. I was very -young when met your father aud 1 wondered, and many others wondered, what-lie could sec in rac to love. I was his inferior iu every way. To be sure, my poor mother had managed to keep me at good schools till I was a great girl, and perhaps this made me something in his eyes. We kept, the village postofiice at that time. Then, •when we began to keep company, with father and mother's consent, lie taught 111c like a master, himself, a great many things that improved my mind and manners, ay, and my heart too but I am not going

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with my story. We were

to be married at the end of two years.— Before the first year came round he was ordered from the blockade servicc to a ship, at only a few hours' notice. He ran down to our shop, and showing the letter, prayed mother to let us be man and wife that very evening. She would not hear of it, saying I was too young, and did not know my own mind, aud would not know how to behave ai his wife. He begged and prayed onceTplgain, and cried tears,

and wont on his knees sho held firm to her word. But alas! Charley, it had been doin^ better if she had not. Crying and sobbing, in sorrow and love, wo parted, Charley and next day, ay, before it was day, your father left our village, and I have never seen him since."

But he has sent letters to you, mot tier "1 have got none, if he did though I believe he did, antL that an enemy kept them from my lianas. A short time after he left us, my father died, my mother grow poor, and we wure turned out of our comfortable house^ noi being able to pay our rent. The sWp wap^e-opencd by a wo-

man and her daughter who bore me no good will, and "on your father's account too. He had paid some compliments to the daughter before he met me, and they blamed me for taking bim from them.— And—God forgive me if I wrong either mother or daughter—tut I do fear that letters from your faaher to me and from me to him, were stopped by the new keepers of our post office. Well Charley, you were born while my mother and I lived in a very poor way, trying to support ourselves with our needles, and keep out of the workhouse. Your father's silence almost broke my heart. I did not suspect foul play about the letters then 'tis only lately some people gave me some hints, and all I could think was that he had forsaken us both, my king. Mother died too,

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Keep it—'tis your own, Charley— here," passing a ribbon through the loop at its top, hang it round your neck."

As his mother secured it, lie once more felt her tears drooping fast mi his head, and looking up into her face, he stole arms around her.

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Charley unusually silent.

•.rroeii, with dark purple or deep blue.—

pointed to shore, and was rapidly rowed toward it. For some time the near roar of waters had been ringing in Charley's ear, but he made light of tho warning, for he confidently argued from experience, whenever his thoughts reverted to the matter, that there was still sufficient time to return to the shingles with scarce a wet shoe. But he did not reckon that the spot of sand, along with which he now stood enclosed, was much' higher than the outer sands which stretched to the base of the rocks. He did .not. reckon that the tide, at a certain period of its flows, after turning a near point of land, usually ran with almost the rapidity of a mill stream against the right-hand segment of the barrier, and

then, directed by its curve, inundated in-

and you and I were left quite alone, Char-la trice the previously open space between sea, but it seemed evident quite dead.— ley. Years after, when, try as I would or it and the shingles. Above all, he did not Still the captain cried, Pull, men, pull!''

the quick entrance of Charley himself. faster Turner came from his village parting, for indeed her omen proved true orders they ran the lively boat upon the The mmnimt hii mnthor «iw him sliput- to ours on business, and knowing my whole it was a spring tide. (shingles, a good distance below the point story, asked me to marry him. He was aj The ship's boat, still seen at a distance, at which the low cliff gradually dipped to man well to do in the world at that time, glanced athwart the patch of sea revealed and a kind man too, and so, after giving up through the fissure at which the boys all other hopes, I thought, Chariey, that looked out. More alive after its. disappeareven for your sake, I ought not to refuse a jance to the unusual noise of the waters,

tercd an alarmed cry. His clenched hands were thrust into his trowscrB' pockets he frownecl, for the first time in his life his mother had seen him do so his lips quivered tears glazed his eyes his face, nay his forehead and cars were scar- comfortable home and a comfortable living, Ghailoy took his bi odicr hand to lead let, and blood trickled down his checks. Obviously he had been fighting a hard .."battle, but as obviously was the victor.—

But it seemed ns if everyone was to have'him home by the tvay they had come. To ill-luck with me. Good Master Turner began to grow poor from that very day, till last year, when he died, leaving us as badly off. as lie fouud .us, and that's the whole story only-,-here are you and 1 living alone again, wiflijoiir little half-broth-er I3illy, to keep us company."

Well, and be glad of his company, mother,", said Charley. I always loved little Pilly for his own sake, and because lie loved me,"—the mutual affection of the boys was indeed very remarkable—" and now, though, as you say, lie turns out to be only my half brother, I'll love him better for his father's sake who was a friend to you when you wanted a friend. But we must open tho door and let him in." Billy's voice had been heard calling on Charles to run down with him to the beach, and see the grand tlireemastcd ship that was passing but a little way out, and the people said seemed about to send a boat ashore. Ere Charles went to the door, he held out the miniature and asked, May I see it often again, mother?"

tepped down the shingles, looking ieal-.aiKi pud towards the spoi where the bo} usly around to note if they were alone, had sunk. Presently Charles reappeared.

Behind him, as lie began to move to- swimmin_ ward the waves, was a low line of cliffs, ever, but back again

M, we were getting worse and worse remember what his mother had hinted at Vigorously and skillfully obeying his

Most probably lie had now caught its notice. It put round and pulled toward hiiu but soon seemed deterred from venturing too near the dangerous rocks.

Oh, God oh mother, mother Your Billy! Mother's darling he, at least, will be drowned, though may swim till they pick me up—and all my fault! but no, no!" He pulled off his jacket and vest, aud tore his shirt into long strips.

No, he shall not! Come Billy, I will his 'tie you to my back never fear, my king !—and sec if I don't swim like a fish for

Go now, mother darlings," as hand 1 you in hand they leu ner humble threshold "but it will be a spring tide, I. fear, and his the breeze comes fresh from the sea." ..and as it struck with Charles'noble con- planation proved that her suspicions 0

communicative, sympathizing with them, answered:

S'lill hand in hand they proceeded on (duct and sentiments, and uuconsciouslv revengeful rival at the village post

fury. Sun and cloud, light and shade, al la.-1 time to Billy, and seized him in h:s Sonic inquiries, teriiated their effects over the wide bosom'arms to compel him to do his bidding.—.«sceiidcd to make of the sea, streaking it with gold and pea-'The ribbon which held his father's miuia-

little Billy had spoken lay to about a mile from the shore. Charles knew her to be an Kast-Iiidiaman. His brother urged him to approach her as closely as the sands permitted. Still wrapt up in his own thoughts and feelings, Charles silently

of half a mile, wheu it was met by an ir- formed in the low line of the. elift. At that

The tide had for some time been coming land gained thc slippery shelf. Many peoin. Often, before, however. ("harles had pic followed her to the top line of the ventured farther out, when it was more precipice, but

around them until he gained this opening except that, formed by the pinnacles amid

then, assisting his little brother to climb which thc child stood wedged a curling

up to itj the two boys soon stood upon a I chaiu of foam supplied its place. And

projection inside thc rocky belt, and turn- now, bis mother from thc shore, his broth-

cd their faces toward the sea. They could er from the sea, and thc captain and his

Indiaman, now so near to them, that a boat would soon be lowered from her side.— They looked out, much interested, until thc boat lightly touched the tossing waves near the vessel's prow and became strongly manned, as if to put off to shore. Still, however, the men rested on their oars, and seemed waiting for some other person to descend. And in a mood, that sympathized with the scene, Charles continued to -watch the boat, dancing to and fro, and- sometimes almost jumping out of the water for thc breeze grew stiffer, and the waves rougher.

Half an hour ho stood motionless, disregarding, for the first time in his life, the prattle of the little boy at his side. At last thc individual for whom the boat waited, clad in bloc and white, and gold lace, to Billy's great delight, jumped in among his men. stood up at their head.

perceive, by a bustle OU the dcck of the from tli«ir boat. wit.nA«soithv ondii.t-!. 1. 1

mu now

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regular circlc of black rocks," closely moment, not only the platform and rugged through his tears. wedged together, and enclosing the last buttress base, but the shingles beneath' The child lives, by Heavens!' patch visible, even at low tide. Charles wore perfectly dry. the captain.

had not intended to approach the spot Now the raging surf of a spring tide, but- as he walked iu oblique direction from oxeitcd by a stiff breeze, foamed up to it, some straggling boys appeared coming level of the former, and almost siniultaagainst him, and lie hastily led his little ucouslv with Charley's reappearance, a charge to the convenient .-crcen of the woman, screaming loudly, descended the tall rooks difficult passage from the brow of the cliff,

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be stood up—a breaker struck him—he S

staggered—another came he fell—dis appeared was still seen, however, upon a point of rockj raising his hands, and clapping them over his head, until at the third blow the little fellow became engulphed in the whirling waters.

The boat was now very near Charles, and at last, seemingly attentive to the remonstrances of its orcw, he turned aud languidly swam toward its side,. :.-

What the deuce has the young grampus fished up between his teeth!" said the captain, as ho assisted in reaching out an oar. A boiled crab, I reckon though where they got afire to boil it, at the bottom of this surf, is more th&n 1 can imagine."

Charles dragged into the boat, and without a word or cry, fell stupefied upon

NEW SERIES--VOL.'X, 10. 37. CRAWFORDSVILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA, APRIL 2, 1859. AVHOLE NUMBER 877. THE HALFBROTHEES.

its bottom. The miniature dropped from his unclenched teeth the captain took it up, opened it, and startled liis men by uttering aloud exclamation Then he stooped to Charley's fact, and peered into it then glanced to the cliff and finally, ordering every oar to pull for the shingles,

the vouwer bov remarked his brother's you, and we should be drowned together I Mary had believed him cruel and faithless, some internal convulsion snapped asunder taciturn'i^v, and" taxed him with it. They then, and no one left with mother." the holding back, also, of her letters to

met groups of their former playmates in All this while breakers had been dash- him, had caused her sincere lover to eon- rents. his idea rests, however,^on rather the village-street, whom the child wished ing from witlftmt nearly up to the summits I a that she was in/better than a village slender grounds, if" wo except- the e.aboto join but Charles, chucking him closer of the rocks at tho opposite sweep of (he coquette, who, the moment he left her, for-1

but lost his balance, and the next instant was kicking among the breakers. The captain of the .East Indiaman had witnessed the greater part of the scene between the young brothers, and as he I saw Charles tumble from the rocks, gallantly ordered his men to dare a good deal,

son

ture snapped in the exertion the uiinia- ascertaining whet!

Now a distant sail was a white speck 0:1 ture itself was rolling outwardly into the dead,—tor "death a Ion the horizon—now a spot of dark, dotting surf lie snatched at it, aud secured it, a clear sky. The three-master of which

for the purpos'

m- Had crop

gcther with her

one ventured fo her side.

advanced, and returned to shore, with 011-j Her cries reached the young swimmer, ly wet feet and a splashing. The rocks through all the roars of the sea, and he could not at any point be easily scaled, so redoubled his vain efforts to reach his lithigh and broad was their barrier nor tie brother. But very soon exertion hedid they admit, of egress into the sandy came useless. At one enraged and reinarea they girded, save at-a particular forced charge of the breakers, the area spot, seaward, where some feet from their enclosed by thc rocky circle, hitherto little base, appeared a narrow fissure, still diffi-1 intruded on. was^inundated, and no -P^tjing^n estimate based upon the best aseer cult of acccss. Charles therefore walked of the black barrier-line remained visible,:

cerNsined by

more surprised to see their bluff captain Conversation with gentlemen who have embrace the almost senseless lad, kiss his h_ad opportunities for extended .observachcck and forehead, and weep over him profusely, though in silence.

The boat hail not shot far, when little

Billy floated ahead. The captain gently, though hastily, put Charles down, and with much energy assisted in picking ftp the child, who isoon lay stretched beside his half-brother, rescued indeed from the

their surfaee. The mother flew down to meet her children, and their unknown friends. TheaiiSious crowd followed her. She received-Charley from the captain's arms

his consternation a fiercely crested wavclsom. At her first word the elder boy leaped into their faces through the narrow opened his eyes after straining him to her opening, drenched both to the skin. He [heart she flew to his brother. No word let go Billy's hand, and sprang up to the had effect tipon him. The captain called top of tho circular wall of rocks. A out for a surgeon the village practitioner foamy sea tossed all around him. His eye and tho blockade surgeon were both at caught the gallant boat about a quarter of (hand. They caused the child to be cona mile distant. lie scrcamed to it, .jump- veyed into a neighboring cottngc, and

sailor followed, holding "Billj*. present appearances arc not disturbed by wrapped in the captain's jacket, to his bo-

cd down to his little brother, dragged him (there, in the presence of tho mother and 1 stimes a new aspect, completely at variup to the spot he had just quitted, and the captain, promptly engaged in all the!

scrcamcd again. There was a little cavity measures for restoring animation, but all I economy. Instead ot a ponderous orb, formed bv The irregular junction, at their foiled Tli-y repeated their exertions, Isurpassing in magnitude the diameter of ,. ,i ..." .. \r -i «. sharp extremities, of the rocks, aud in this he placed the now bewildered and and weeping boy, to preserve him from being dashed inward by tho quickly increasing sea, and clinging himself to the highest pinnacle he could grasp, once more he wildly hailed the boat.

nouueing Billy to be a corse, left the cottage. Charles had been Stretched across the foot of the bed, upon which, wrapped in blankets, lay his half brother. At first he did not comprehend his situation, or notice the occurrence around him. Now, however, he seemed to hoar the departing words of the surgeon, for raising himself,

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gry resolutions. tod for some crime, aud

stoutly not for the boat, how- They stepped around to the bedside. He with, aud that he vi ack again to the now almost iu- ]ia,[ crept under the blaukcts, and clasped dination whatever.

tormiiH', at a -particular point, a jutting visible rock. J.he captain aud his men tnc child iu his bosom and now, indeed, lie man hew into open resistance, and drinks are poured out. the glasses arc platform, from the outward edge of which called to him, hut lie did not heed them, the efforts of the surgeons, although de-: declared he would kill any one who at-1 touched with a loathsome air of custom, and lenee by the arriv tho continuation of the cliff, swept, like a! It has been mentioned that when the .^paired of by themselves began to yield a jmpted to coerce liiui. The Warden had

t.ions, for the subject offspriug of kindred parents.

ta nc a

twenty

untoward calamity, the next crop of wheat will be unequaled in this country.

TKU3IISOU I'USETS.

IT is one of the notable facts in astronomical science, that after Mars, more tiiau one hundred millions of miles intervene before any other body presents itself, when the system, hitherto so regular, as-

ance

still without effisst: and at length, pro- Marsi there comes a knot of minor planets. wiiosc si/.e is comparatively insignificant. This remarkable group, the existence of which has but recently been discovered, chiefly through the vigilance of Mr. Hind, the well known English astronomer, constitutes an auotnally which the most sagacious philosophers appear unable satisfactorily to explain. It consists of no less than twenty-one planets, describing orbits on his elbow he grazed first into his moth-!

er's facc as she sat in silent anguish by I of the ecliptic, and intersecting each otlihis bedside, and then lie tried to move up-

boat. Mary was the captain's word soothingly whispered at her ear.-

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their walk, Billy uuusuallv communicative,!sympathizing with them, answered I (office were well founded. "While, from the |considers this astral archipelago to ha\e

Indeed wout't, Charley, T. won't I should sink I suppression of the captain's letter fo her, I originally formed one compact orb,

ward towards Bill v. While making this.

effort, the captain, gentlv laving his hand

'ihese bodies are respectively named Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta, Astrca, Ilebc,

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l!a, llliU

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The child, havinir heard and noted all She drew back, looked up into his face,! hirgest has not a creator diameter than and often lasting'injury to the physi-, .Top on a single acre. is words and actions, and stopped eryiiiir, and was caught in his arms. A brief ex-1 France. Dr. Olbers, the eminent Ger-1 cal structure, particularly to die stomach

buttress, to the shingles. Before him bo\s walked out to the sands, the\ dncct- trotftl result-. him seized and taken to a cell set apart! impassive countenance he would the house and kept hr.u locked up until hi** stretched the strand to nearly the distanoc 'y turned their baeks^ upon a platform "He would not die, to let you say I kill-j for the rebellious, and told him that he!u.,-..,,.

fling business which first called him to the than before. He had chalked out. a death's

shore, he conveyed his wife to his snip, to- :head and bones, and held it up token 01

two sons, and pursued his

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Mahuving

CorsiNs.—It has been careful investigation into not change his cousanguini- Day by day the eent. I

thc influence of marriages of tv upon offspring, that over ten per of the blind, and nearly fifteen per cent,

United States, six thousand three

unt

e( an(

cous ns

hundred^ml nine deaf and dumb,

meu from their boat, witnessed the conduct I Hli^dTd'iotic -n insane, distributing as sentence, he was a perfect model of obe of thedittle sufferer. He had becu sitting

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"aiul dumb l'HG idiotic. I,8fi4

insane, 299. Then it the figures of the last United States census be still applied to our population, there would now be

From tho Detroit Tribune, March 23. THE IS'EXT PRESIDENCY. ^THE GROWING WHEAT CROP. Speaking of the next Presidency, the Our exchanges from all sections of the

State report the growing wheat crop to be in a most promising condition. During many years the winter wheat never look" ed so well in March, as at the present

he knelt on one kuec, raised Charley's'time. It is most likely, also, that more! Judging by present, popular fcel'n"

head to the other and his crew was still spring wheat will be sown than usual. the northern States, there is but one man

tion during the last few weeks, fully con firms the 'reports of the newspapers. A

citizen of Detroit, who is a most attentive

observer, as well as a thoroughly practical business man, and who has just returned from a tour through Ohio, Indiana, Northern Kentucky, and the southern couutics of Michigan, says that during his entire experience hi has never known such an uniform promise of a good crop, as exists at present. The peculiarity of the season is that there appears to be scarcely any poor fields. It is not merely iu ad-

an astronomer, speculating on so strange

office were well founded. "While, from the considers this astral archipelago to ha\e that an. hi to «ic ti exi t(

:oi:ttion ot the principle of

theory which has gained many adhe-

however?"' he eond 1 confidential person merely with a view of

t° computations of Lagrange computa-

I The N. Y. Tribune noticing the recent case in tho Altou Penitentiary of a

Mary was alive or convict-refusing food for two days fogethlie argued, could er, relates the following in the Maine Pen-

explain her supposed conduct. About, the itentiary, as a still more remarkable invery time his emissary arrived iu the vil- stance of cnduranc lage, she had become the envied wife of- A stalwart Irishman of immense

the rich Master Turner, and this intelli- portions, with a temper £0 match, who had

genee licecssarily continued his former an-1 belonged to the British army, was commit-1

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™t-h the apparent principle of its

varied eccentricity, bent to the plane

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thc aI"dp1n ai

•Vnd mak-i declaring his purpose-to than submit-.: but held fast

,)rnin

tweutv-one marriages ofjg

fr0U1 tliat time tlJ1

loncc an

dren of cousins 7,078 blind, of whom for persistently visiting houses of ill-fame, 649 08 1 ner cent are children of cous-j and associating with the vilest characters,

The Wheat Croiv—Thc Paoli, Orange county, Eagle says: 1 We learn from our fanners that the growing wheat crop is looking well, and promises to be a good crop.

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ins 14,257 idiotic, of whom 1,844. or Her mother, "who is a very respectable

being put to "fa

The captain and Mary yet spoke, when his work refused to obey orders. The confirmed Charles' voice sounded shrill and joyfully ardeu was a very quiet, but most reso- les.-ines.s surrounds tho drinking groups from tii bed. \os, Billy, yes! tis lute man, ami at oucc informed the refrric- oxcj*»t oecasiouly and no appeals of' merCharlcy Billy! Mother's darling tifry prisoner that he was not to be trifled jment atone for the act by proving that it

he would permit

cat or drink until he professed a willing-

cried ucss to yield to the discipline of the pris-:

defiance, and declared his purpose to die

vov.-ir'Q. 1 sooner than vic'ld. The Warden calmly f' rush by the Hannibal ana

informed l.iui that he could

... but that he woul 1 call daily to see if he Oi

b-v

thc

aa0U3 lllj

of the idiotic, in the various State institu- Bvc six, seven days ela

-,f their defects are

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t.ll the culprit ie rather

The

Warden

his

ta, there would be. found to tho ...

belief

-millions of white inhabitants in I "nnLJy ^coutroi him. At length, on

01 :.ie eight day, the prisoner

av in

myin^ birth to the three thousand

nine

at 0,1CC nd ni 1

1)155 linee

Pegged for furgn ncs.-

the expiration ot his

docility.

"One More Unfortunate."—A young girl named Ellen Wright, probably not over seventeen years of age, was brought before Justice Stickney, on Mondv mom-

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insubor-: js least unusual. A grim and m»'... cholv air pervades each countenance. T!

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on. The convict declared with profuse I f|

That day Captain Clayton was married oaths that he never would. The Warden to the woman or his eariy choice and visited the cell at the expiration uf 24! Tin-: lahaving dispatched before evening the tri- hours. The prisoner was even more fierce ],

REVIEW

ork Sun an independentpaper.

gives utterance to its opinion of Senator thinks he sous an opproaching revolution'iu Douglas, in connection with the candidacy for that office as follows

that the Democracy cau certainly and tri-! Im. present radroad.-i in I" ranee coat uuiphantly elect: and that is DoiMas, of

Illinois. The politicians mav make°a.s ma-

dependence, at an important crisis in the

vantagcous locations, but throughout en-! nation's history, saved the country from! •I"1-1*'*'' a (..ill lor an American Stat». tire sections, that this favorable condition of the crop prevails. Of course it is far too early to predict any calculation of the next yield, but we can safely say that if

Flora. Metis, Hygeia, Parthonope, ty a largo body of otherwise hidden or

on the mother's shouldJr. asked to speak Victoria, Egena. Irene, J'hinoinia, Mclpo-1 "'tc.it a.lections, it is well known that: aside with her. She arose, in the lau-! »e"o. Portuna, Massillias, Calliope, Tha- Hie habitual u,e of ... oxicaUng drinks four hundred gallons of nu gnid indifference of srief, and followed K". Euterpe. Their appearance is so mi-j not only_ blunts the moral and n.tellee ual sugar cane grown on a smgl P. i? ,i ii'ifp lint ccioiiep .-•vea witIi its most rro- sensimiitics or ic individual, and thus the past season. lie molasses sollini.' linn into a corner room, out ot view ot the I

wiui ils

found calculations, is unable to determine places linn fo a certain extent outside of readily at lifty cents per gallon gives him their precise extent, but. probably the |'he ]iale of sanity, and superadds a posi- two hundred dollars as the return of his

la a!(

which 'he slightest exposure.

I)KI\Z£JN A.1K).\

undeniably

The Philadelphia Sun says that indis-

I'iininate

preparing a pojthan the wretched Aztccf

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tlie hot exuberance of the vouth. It

four

from

comparative inactivity. by uniting tho Lav of Bengal and-Gulfof It is so with Douglas. IIi« fearless in-.

the civil war, and by his bold and untiring zeal, he arrested the progress of sectional agitators and secured a triumph in Illinois which the whole country hailed as a new guarantee of the perpetuity of the Union. The fact is fixed in the people's mind. The principle upon which Douglas fought his battles is so simple, that everybody understands it. His 1'alo Alto in Washington, and his Buena Vista in Illi-j by Mr. La Mountain, nois are the pride of those who admire'

courage and idolize success, lie may be tabooed by the politicians, but having become a popular favorite, he cannot bo killed off by political intrigue.

STilVCHNlNH WHISKY. The annual report of the Inspectors of

the Philadelphia county prison, shows that the cases of munia-a potu arc fearfully on the increase. This is occasioned by thcr introduction of strychnine and other poisonous drugs into those liquors which are now the common drink of so large a portion of ihe people. The report of the resident physician coutains this passage

A large number of cases of mania-a-

the evanescent- impulse of the gay

Voung

fellow who is sowing his wild oats,

if he were drinking a ghiss of plain

him, mother,"' said Charles, laughing should remain there without anything to water. All the eoncomitants^that nartiidlv where he is now confined and oomikUsred

,j em or excuse drinkiug, as far as it

f,.LI1 Iic r0

r]oemcl or excused, are wanting

i,]

fVirmal ceromoriv.

for. 1'I

have

of the 24th, sj-caking of iiie

pape

cxccs

,i travel to Pike

his choice,.! scph Railroad continues

sippi at various terries avoiding the cities, steer by the most di-

was surprised rect roads

itelv. He fell avenues of travel, is estima thousand per diem

(iorw

ofUwhom IPS pcl fcnTtrt chii: ing".^'complaint oThw mothc7and sister. foreigners, they are more than willing to I plioa.its for a severanc

1.20 per ccnt., arc children of cousins widow lady, tried every persuasive means ciuiey iwnu, H973 insane,' of whom 299, or 0.16 per with her erring daughter, aud finding them cent, arc children of cousins-—Boston of no avail, was forced to make the com- Thc 1 ork Police (iaz'iic earnestly (plaint she did. The justice imposed a favors the passage of the bill to keep boys nominal fine of $25, with thc understand ing that judgment should bo suspended on

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WIT AND HUMOE.

•V"'writer*"iii the New York JlcraJd

u:ss ti,an t},reo

rc I)

l"»drcd

annual

uy arrangements and combinations as they A conrespondent form Cuba says it is please, but the people are as thoroughly' eaSicr to land a cargo of negroes from Afibr Douglas now as they were for old rica

i-'.\i:mkil

most pio ... ., .,

nervous system, which preii^jnMjs neighbor, love hi 5. wifo, anil iv for hi3

lation of the principle of our system, body to a long^ catalogue oi di.scascs n\rsp i].iers. 5

said, a cold deliberate trampled them underfoot.. The frighten-: No atmosphere of reck-' "d domestics rushed to the rescue, but the doctor demolished all who opposed him.—

iiicrea.'

Friday three there on a

hundred

Warden went, and day d-y four hundred arrived. M-vc than a

ulj.rit drove him with impre-1 thousand a day pass through this city by

his presence. Two, three, the Missouri River steamers and the Pa-. Stiil i'cific Jlailroad. Numbers cross thc Missis-

wagons, and

the western border, while

that thc stomach nearly all who start from the routhern States go up tho Arkansas river through, Smith. The number going by all

a ted at" two

S'r :o—Thc Piack Ifejju 'o-

licau Legislature of 1'ennsvlvania has in-

definitely postponed the bill to prevent in-. termarriagos of whites and negroes. This

admit the Africans to entire social emiality with thc whites. This act is justly re

... 1 1 garden as an insult to tne wuoie wmte pop-

vlvnTl

Chicaso Journal. }out "f vn-iou? conij«any tion.

hundred persons-

lrnt io

death in the city of Lon-

011 dunn" tho

-vear

millions of dollas. Their

receipts are above five millions,

011

liough aud Keady in 1818. Taylor's A New Orleans critic, in speaking of first victories in the Mexican war made an K.irl Formes, the singer, says his voice impression upon the popular miud, which -'can go just one octavo below the diaall the brilliant events of Scott's campaign phraghm?' could not efface, though old Zachary was

doomed, the later stages of the war, to

that Island, than a barrel of flour.

It is r01)0SC( t0

Verted the voyage

Calcutta to Canton over 1,100 miles,

by ship canal.

convention in New York. They still talk there of State and subordinate councils.—~ They are behind the age.

Tub first pair of buckskin breeches seen in the South Sea Islands were so little understood that tin: natives stuffed them with sea-weed and had them boiled for dinner.

WE learn that the arrangements making by Mr. La Mountain, for the manufacture of the balloon with which he intends to cross the Atlantic, are rapidly progressing to completion.

Tin-: largest comb factory in the world is at Aberdeen, Scotland, where nine million combs, oi' horn and shell, are produced annually. The quantity of ox aud buffalo horn:., worked up is immense.

see it slated but do not know about the facts, that in South Carolina not a single divorce is ever been obtained. Tho morals of that State will probably coinpair favorably with those of any other in the Union.

Tiie Anti-Leco-.n'on Democrats of Pennsylvania, who are opposed to the National Administration, have called a State Convention to meet at, Ilarrisbur^ on tho 12th

potu, 204, and debauch, ot!5, bearing testimony to the power of alcohol in produc- action of the late Democratic State Coning disease, and in stimulating into activi- 'volition, which indorsed Air. Buchanan and denounced Governor Parker.

April. The object is to repudiate tho

on the Wabash has made hisses from tho :i"re of ground

,lKm will .speau well of his

'J'ih.: great centre iron tube of the Vic-

tora bridge, :it Montreal, was completed

YOUNG .mrV. on Saturday, by means of a staging built

llS

drinkin anionu our vounir men 10 feet wide, and ~'2 feethi.irh, elevated 00 eventually makes its mark upon the. popu-j

lation of our cities. We can see it alrea-!

»cc underneath. It. is".:}" iVet Ion-

lOI-t ,ov

,nrs

tne level of the rivi r. which a il

lKISri",! under it o! die steaci-bpils,

This love of j.street, tailed with him, laughed with him.

drink and bar-rooms is every day inereas-' flirted with him, and a second fime refined ing. Every day sees our youth becoming him. 'I hen reason began to totter, flickermore and more the victims of this habit,) ed for a while like an expiring lamp, and for we really think it is more a habit- than on cdne.-dav the last rav ot intelligence passion. It is no love of jovially thattempts them, except in a few cases. It is lpro-•i not

left his brain. He became a raving maniac fierce and cruel, and not able to contain his rage at the sight of a female's face.— His first attack was upon a lady visitor at tho house. He tore her cloth".? off and

He dashed his fist through mirrors—swept vases and clocks from the mantle pieecs— twisted off gas pipes—broke chairs and tables—dashed through a partition, and was oulv urevented from doing further viost' officer? from

his portion with the the Second Station, who removed him froju

friends hi,,, an insane asylum,

incurable.

Siiuv on tho tin

hah" shell, i: the way

eribe.-: a drunken man carried Iway 011 v. -.shutter.

a paper n* along lre

'S PKAK.— A St.

Tin -Mayor of Heading Pa., has or lered the poiiec to arre.-if all minors found liangeat,.

a on

bar-rooms in the evening. -i-a:

A mi.o man in Cincinnati ha.-t bo-

St. Jo-'gun to turn wiiiie—bis back, one of his dailv.: shoubleM, and one arm have comnit-teiv

as3enger» ar- lo.-.t their color. iin, and tne next, ile.brcw coiiirrcgation of Ados Is-

yev n(y

Kv.'. has ooiitribufd

.j ,i„it

ar3 t",

Mou:.t Y-JV:.LU

WhaT'Is fame? W c- observe that ono -of our Knslern exchange snvs that Mn Ten iitrykc, a leading stutrsman. has been (elected Senator from New Jersey.

Bayakj* i'avi,ok it is sail, has refused

::r

"her of nc\"n thousand dollars a yen?,

tft writc

exclusive.y for th: col'iums of a

.Sunday paper of New York.

1 f'oRN.—'1 lie best five acres of corn prc'sontcd to the Indiana State Agricultural Sjcietv for remium produced hfn bu.-h: iield corn, or hiuhels to th»j| eli of

shows what the Republicans are driving Tin: ("!vdien Itnuocrat savs the divon at. Though ready at all times to unite I docket of Kikha'rt. county ha.-, enrolled upwitli the Know Nothings iu proscribing all Ion its pages the names of thirty-nine apof the silken tic.

Mr.

lli'NTKU.of

New York, has matched

his famous horse .- :.,las I," to run, against the mare "Tar Uiver," owned h$?r Mr. Hare, of Virginia, for $ 1 U,000 a i:de. The race is to take place this spring on the Fashion Course.

Thc New Jer.-ej. Legislature received a

of twelve from the theaters, unless attend communication two or three days sincclf ed by parents or guardians. We should from Sarah Hunt, a member of the S

condition of thc girl's becoming an inmate go a step farther, aud favor the passage of ty of Friends, stating that he "00-,. of the institution recently established on a law to keep all boys in towns and cities cern" to pay them a religious vi^it. A Price Place, by thc Sisters of Mercy, for |a/ their homes after dark, unless n«vomp.v time wa- appointed to'recivo her .--id thv thc reception of penitent children ot shame.

nicd bv some suitable jwrsou to keep them occasion, it is to be hoped was fo 'c