Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 10 May 1855 — Page 1

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Puritan Courtship.

The following pleasing anecdote, indicative of the habits of our Puritan forefathers, is from the new work of Mr. Danvard, entitled "Plymouth and the Pilgrims," fcc. The valiant Capt. Standish, having lost his wife, is desirous of obtaining another. The story is an old one, but will bear a reperusal: "A short time after the death of Mrs. Standish, the bereaved Captain found his heart filled with tender interest of Miss Priscilla Mullins, daughter of Mr. William Mulling. He cherished the impression that ?if she could be persuaded to unite her fortunes with his, the loss which he had experienced would be repaired. He, therefore, according to Puritan custom, made his wishes known to the father, through Mr.

John Alden, as his messenger. Mr. Mullins made no objection, although he might reasonably iiave done so, the decease of .Ers. Standish having been so recent. He gave his conseut, but informed Alden that the young lady must be consulted. Priscilla was callcd into the room, not knowing for what purpose she was wanted. Alden, a man of noble form, of fair and 6omewhat ilorid complexion, and engaging manners, arose and delivered his message lor StandJjish, in befitting language, and in a prepossessing, courteous style. Priscilla listened attentively, heard every word, and then, after a short pause, as if gathering strength to reply, she fixed her eyes upon the messenger and said, with a frank, pleasant countenance, full of meaning, "Prithee,

John, why do you not speak for yourself?" •-"John's ruddy countenance became red, he took the hint, made a polite bow, bade farewell for the present, and returned to Standish, to communicate the result of his negotiation. Henceforward he visited for himself, and ere long their nuptials were solemnised in due form, and Miss Priscilla

Mullins became Mrs. John Alden. Tradition reports further, that when Alden visited Cnpe Cod, for the purpose of .entering into the conjugal relation with Priscilla, as the colony they had no horses, he went mounted on the back of a bull, which he had covered with a piece of handsome broadcloth. After the marriage ceremonies were performed, he relinquished {his seat to his new bride. Placing her on the back of the bull, he returned home in joyous triumph, leading the ungainly animal by arope fastened to a ring in his nose.

In relation to this event, Thatcher says:— This sample of primitive gallantry, will, ill compare with that of Abraham's servant, when, by proxy, he gallanted Rebecca on her journey, with a splendid retinue of "damsels and servants seated on camels, Isaac going out to meet her. Had the servant employed bulls instead of camels, it ,rmay be doubted whether Rebecca would ihave been quite so prompt in accepting his ^proposals. As soon as the question was tput, Rebecca said, 'I will go.' With equal ^propriety he might have said, had Mr. Alden taken a camel instead of a bull, Priscilla

Mullins would have declined. They both /•mpl~ypd the creatine in nw among their!

own people. We are somewhat inclined to the belief, that in oach case, the lady was influenced more by the man than the animal more by the home that wras offered her than the conveyance thither."

Erom Bentlev's Miscellany.

A CALIFORNIA GAMBLING STORY. A man in a black dress coat and dark trousers, very clean and respectable, had come for seven evenings in succession, to the same table, had watched the game for awhile, until at last he produced a small canvass bag from his vest pocket and laid it on a card. The card won on ihe first evening, and he emptied the bag on the table to count the money. It contained twen-ty-eight Spanish dollars, which the banker quietly paid him. and the "gentleman" quitted the table with his earnings, without deigning to tempt Dame Fortune again. On the seccond evening he returned, staked and the card lost. ..With the greatest coolness, he opened the bag, seized the corners, shook out the money, and it contained precisely the same as on the previous evening —and quitted the room. On the third, fourth, fifth and sixth evedings, the same story. The bankers began to know the man, and amused themselves about his strange behavior. As usual, he lost, took the bag and walked away. The seventh evening arrived. It was just a minute after eight, and the one banker said, laughingly, to the other, "We have treated him too hardly and frightened him away,"— when his comrade laughed, and the man in the black coat, without altering a feature, oi paying any attention to the whispering and laughing, took his usual place, quietly watching the progress of the game, till a quarter past eight and then laid the bag all knew so well, upon a deuce that had been turned up, without the two making its appearance. At last the three fell to the left, and to the right—a scarcely perceptible smile played on the banker's lips—the two. The stranger turned deadly pale, but without uttering a syllable about the change in his luck, he stretched out his hand to the sack, and was on the point of opening it, in order to count the dollars, when the banker said, laughingly "Let it be 1 know how many are in it— eight-and-twenty. Am 1 not right?" "Not exactly said the man calmly, and shook the silver out on the table. He then shook the bag still more, and a roll of bank notes, slightly wrapped together, fell out. "What's this?" the banker cried in altirm, and the audience closed curiously a "My stake!" the man said, with apparent indifference, as he unfastened the thread that bound the notes. "Stop, that will not do the banker cried, as he threw down his cards, "that's false play yon paid only eight and twenty dollars on the previous evening." "False play the man shouted, and his eyebrows were menacingly contracted.— "Prove it, you shufflers Did I not lay the bag, just as it is, on the card, and have you ever refused to pay it, unopened "No that's ail correct—quite right," said those around, who are always glad to oppose the banker, because they are firmly convinced that he does not play fairly, although they continually throw away their money. "He staked and won and must be paid," others shouted. "Count your money—how much is it said the banker, who had hurriedly exchanged a few words to his confederates, seated opposite,—"how much is it "In the first place twenty-eight dollars in silver," he said calmly, while the by-stan-ders laughed heartily. "Then here, in bank note.-:—two, three, four—yes eight hundred dollars and then "What more?" "A small bill on Dollsmith Brothers, as good as silver, accepted and all—the money need only to be fetched—for—-three thousand "Three thousand the banker yelled, starting in dismay from his chair." "Why that would make nearly four thousand dollars, altogether Are you mad Do you expect me to pay that "Dont I the stranger asked in surprise. "Would you not have taken it, if I had lost "Of course he would—of course. Do you ask, whether they would take it Everything they can get, and a little more too,"—shouted the voices round the table "he must pay "Gentlemen," the banker protested with a poor prospect of turning their hearts—• "Gentlemen, this person staked every evening for the entire week "And lost every time," another interrupted hiui—"I have been present several times, and have heard so from others, and he never made the slightest objection." "But that was only eight and twenty dollars." "And if it had been so many thousand— all the same." "But do let me finish the banker shrieked, with aspen lips and furious glances "he only shook out twenty-eight dollars on the table and kept the paper back." "Prove that I ever had a cent more than twenty-eight dollars in the bag," the stranger exclaimed, contemptously "you wont get off by such excuses." "Why did you not keep the bag as well, companero laughed the Spaniard, who stood near. "We always stick to every thing that is staked." "If he had lost again, no more than the confounded dollars would have come out of the bag," the banker groaned. "Possible but it can't be proved,"—the surrounding players laughed,—"you must pay up." "Hanged if I do the banker shouted, and struck the table with his fist.. "This is a new sort of robbery you are trying on me but you've come to the wrong customer—I wont pay." "I've lost two hundred dollars to von in

the last half hour," a tall gigantic Ken-, tuckian shouted, as he elbowed his way to the table, "and was forced to pay up to the cent. If you refuse to pay that fellow, you must fork over my money again." "And mine too a multitude of voices ejaculated: "I've lost, too—I, too—fifty— five and twenty—a pound of gold—out with the money, if he won't pay."

Another banker, from an adjoining table, had in the meanwhile come up, and had whispered a few words to his comrade, in the height of the tumult. The loser for a time refused but at last, yielded to his persuasions, and took up the money to count it, while botii carefully examined the notes and bill. There could be no objection raised against either, aud with a heavy sigh, the banker paid the money—which took all on his table, as well as several packages of gold dust—which the stranger carefully cut open, examined and weighed at the bar. All was in order and concealing the money in various places, quitted the room —after bowing his thanks to the surrounders—which were returned by a thnndering hurrah and shouts of applause.—Bent. Mis.

Ichabod on "Young America." "There are no boys, they're all men— And girls arc ladies when they arc ten." Of all the changes among things in general, that have been going on for the last twenty-five or thirty years, none has been greater than that among the rising generations. The vast difference in speed between the old "lumbering stage coach" and a railroad, or from a "line boat" on the "raging canawl" to a "cracked steamer," is a trirle to the stride taken by Young America.

In old times, children, and other natural productions came to maturity, stimulated by nature and cultivation, and, if they did not ripen as early, the fruits were of a better quality, and "much more abundant."

In these days, children, as soon as they are freed from the bondage of diapers and short dresses, emerge, like young partridges from the shell, 'full fledged,' to occupy the same place in 'society' that their parents did at one-and-twenty. Forced forward like early vegetables, by the hot-bed ot'progression, and burnished over by a superficial gilding of fashionable education, they spring into mushroom greatness, to flourish for a season, and to be swept off by the first tide of adversity, as trees that have no roof, are withered by the heat .of mid-sum-mer, or prostrated by the winds of autumn.

The question is often asked, by those in 'pursuit of knowledge under difficulties,' •What has become of all the children We used, to see them at home, at church, at school, or in the street at play but they have all, or nearly all, disappeared as suddenly as the frogs before cold wather sets in. Young America has sprung up in their place, like nettles in a flower bed, and when we come to look for the flowers, we find only noisome weeds! The "institution" is oinniprescent. We find it at the corners of streets, smoking, chewing, swearing, or using language foul enough to 'drive a dog out of a tan yard,' first at a fire or a fight, on hand at a horse race or circus, patronizing the theatre and other places of amusement, saloons, nine-pin alleys, and other places of infamy and vice, down to the lowest step of degradation. They know where the best brandy is to be had, who keeps the best cigars, the best actor or actress in the theatre, the best rider in. the circus, the best men in a fight, the best engine at a fire, or the most expert roller at nine-pins in short, they are better posted in everything than the catechism or ten commandments know everybody better than the minister or schoolmaster and frequently squander more moaey in one week, than some of their fathers did the first twenty years of their lives. Hence it is, that so many, when they come to occupy places of trust in banks, counting-houses, etc., suddenly have a 'call' to go to France, the Penitentiary, or the grave-yard. Possessing little morai or vital principle, they fall before disease and tempiatian, as easily as flies on a cold morning, before the broom of the sweeper.

So mote it be. Yours till next time, ICHAHOD HoMEKREAD.

A FORMIDABLE UNDERTAKING.—A cotemporary puts the tobacco question in the following shape "Suppose a tobacco-chewer is addicted to the habit of chewing tobacco fifty years of his life, and that each day of that time he consumes two inches of solid plug, it amounts to six thousand four hundred and seventy-five feet, making nearly one mile and a quarter in length of solid tobacco, half an inch thick and two inches broad. Now what would the young beginner think if he had the whole amount stretched out before him, and was told that to chew it would be one of the exercises of his life, and also that it would tax his income to the amount of two thousand and ninetyfour dollars

QUEEN VICTORIA INSANE.—It is asserted diplomatic circles at Washington, says the Buffalo Democracy, ihai private dispatches, recieved by the last steamer, leave no room for doubt that the Queen of Great Britain is rapidly going the way of her ancestors, symptoms of derangement having plainly shown themselves during her recent illness. It was said, and probably with truth, several years since, that the hereditary malady was apparent in Victoria, but she recovered at that time. It is not at all unlikely that we shall soon hear of a Regency, and Prince Albert may yet attain the height of his ambition, and reign over

Jus English cousins.

Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of being thought poor—the shame of poverty—is a great and fatal weakness.

"THE UNION, THE UNION IN ANY EVENT."

VOLUME VII. CRAWFORDSVILLE INDIANA, MAY 10, 1855. NUMBER 38

State Central Temperance Committee. INDIANAPOLIS, April 15, 1855. DEAR SIR:'—It is a cause for great rejoicing that the friends of Temperance have so far succeeded in their endeavors for the suppression of the traffic in ardent spirits, as to have obtained from the last Legislature a stringent Prohibitory Liquor Law. So far we have gained much, but not ALL that is essential for the consummation of hopes of the friends of the cause.

In every stage of the Temperance Reformation the great enquiry has-been, "What will best advance the cause, and most speedily gain the desired end?" Each period has furnished a different answer to every other. Aud it was natural -and right that it should be so. At one period a very different instrumentality was required from another. In the earlier stages, powerful appeals to the public mind on the extent and evils of intemperance, were need from the live orator, that men might be roused from theit lethargy, and compelled to turn their attention to a remedy. In the Wasliingtonian movement, the thing needed was to awaken hope in the breast of every miserable inebriate, and hope in his wretched family, and cause him once to stand upon his feet as a man. It was the relation of experience that was to advance the cause.

The Sons of Temperance, as they saw the reformed men too freequently allured from their steadfastness, thought the one thing needful was the organization of one great brotherhood, which would spread over them the shield of protection, relieve and comfort them in the hour of sickness, and carry them safe from the wiles of the tempter to their eternal home. But we passed all these things add became convinced that the one great thing demanded was the extripation of the traffic by human laws. Moral Suasion had done its work. It had plead the cause to persuade men to do what was right law was needed to compel men to desist from doing what was wrong. To effect the passage of such a law, we directed our energies, as the only hope of the Temperance enterprise. In this we succeeded, but it is not all that is to be done. Many think it enough that we have the law. But the bare enactment of law is worthless, without something farther. We must have the ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW. This is the great thing which we shall need in the future. All other things have had their day. To speeches, lectures, tales, statistics, appeals, organizations, points of loss and gain, we have become, to use a common expression, "Gospel hardened." We nowT need something beyond— something that the people will feel—something that must be complied with, and that shall put the entire matter at rest. This, then, is the great point to be kept before the people—the enforcement of the law we have succeeded in having enacted. Upon its enforcement depends its permanency and value. Men respect and obey the lawjuet 60 far as it is enforced and uo farther. The perfect ability, as well as right of enforcement, cannot be questioned, after what we have seen in other States of the Union.— The venders all expect its enforcement, and cannot believe that men, who, for years, have so laboriously toiled, and made such sacrifices for the law, will, after they have gained it, be driven by threats from that purpose, or sit down in soft indulgence, as if their whole work was accomplished.

Remembering your past co-operation with us, and great efficiency in achieving our success so far, we now call upon you to

PREPARE TO MEET THE LAW. Take the initiative step—consult with your former co-laborers as to the most desirable course to secure a prompt and efficient enforcement of the law aguinst any and all offenders. Let meetings be called in every Township of your County, and numerous delegates sent to a County Convention. Organize what we know in Maine and New Vork as "Carson Leagues,"— where Bonds for large amounts are given, and upon which a tax of one-quarter or one-half per cent, is levied, if necessary, to engage the ablest counsel for the prosecution of offenders, before the Magistrates and Courts having jurisdiction of the Law, and to meet every expense necessary for its enforcement. Let it be known in your resolutions and speeches that the unanimity with which the law was passed, receiving the votes of members of all parties, in the last Legislature, proves conclusively that it is demanded by a largo majority of the people of this State—rises above all party considerations—and refutes the oft-repeat-ed declaration of its enemies, that the enactment of such a law would be in defiance of the wishes of a large majority of the people and that it is emphatically the worK-ing-man's friend, and the poor man's protector. Obtain an attendance at your Convention, if possible, of the Judges, Magistrates, Mayors, Marshals, Sheriffs, Constables, Coroners, and Prosecuting Attorneys, and have them define their position, and let it be known if they are for or against the enforcement of the law. Let those Magistrates, and all other officers, who avow or show a determination to enforce the law, know that they will be sustained, and that they will be supported, and defended at all hazards, and to the utmost extremity of your power and ability. Let those members of the Legislatnre who labored and voted for the passage of the law know that they will be held in grateful remembrance and that their action receives your cordial and hearty approbation.— That the Governor, in approving the law, has performed a work that will send a thrill of joy and gladness in many a rumcursed family, and restored prosperity and happiness to many a scattered and ruined household.

Urge by all means in your power, the people to whom has been given this blessed enactment, to come to your help against the enemy. Show yourselves to be men, and reap the fruit of all your labors. The spirit of all who have passed before you,!

who laid the foundotions of your cities, and churches, and schools, and this land beautiful above all lands, will look down upon you to see what you will do in this inportant crisis and around you will be gatherep all the sons and daughters of sorrow, torn, and scathed, and peeled through the intoxicating cup, hoping for relief and ten thousand children and youths scattered over all your beautiful hills and valleys, and future generations here to receive blessings or curses at your hands, will look up to you with imploring hearts, and say, ENFORCE THE LAW! ENFORCE THE LAW

Yours, Respectfully,

CALVIN FLETCHER, JAMES BLAKE, W. II

ANNA MAN, Committee. W. ROBSON, F. II. BARRY,

Attempt at Robbery—Font Murder! We have just returned from the Wild Cat, three miles north-east of town, where we attended the post-mortem examination held before the coroner's jury, over the dead body of Cephas Fahrenbaugh,. who came to his death under the following circumstances, as sworn to by the witnesses About 12 o'clock last night, three men went to the house of Mr. Fahrenbaugh, a little north of the Wild Cat bridge, and finding the door fastened, asked for admission. Caphes, the eldest of Fahrenbaugh's two sons, got up fron\ his bed where he was sleeping, nnd let them into the house. There was a fire on the hearth, making it light enough to see any objeet plainly.— The three men saw the old man lying in the bed, and asked the deceased if there were any othor men about the house but the two, and immediately commenced searching the house, examining every corner.— They were told that there was another man in bed, which was pointed out. The old man, suspecting that all was not right, got out of bed, when he was immediately knocked down with a heavy bludgeon in the hands of one of the three men.

The other two assassins caught hold of the deceased, and dragged him out of the door into the yard. In the meantime, the younger brother got out of bed and seized an iron poker, used about the fire, and made at the man who had struck his father— knocked off his hat, and drove him from the house. He followed on to the door, wrhere he saw the two in a struggle with the deceased. One had hold of him, and the other immediately drew a pistol and shot him, the balls going in a few inches before the right shoulder, passing through the lungs, severing the main arteries, and producing death almost instantaneously. The three assassins then ran off, leaving a large bowie knife, on the end of the handle of which, were the initials engraved, "T. D." also a chisel, which had evidently been used by a painter and glasier, together with the silk hat knocked off by the younger brother, in which was a black silk cravat. The post mortem examination was made by Dr. Fahnestock, in presence of the coroner's jury.

The blow received by the old man was a terrible one—his forehead, his eyes and face, being badly swollen, and black as the hearts that perpetrated the deed.

The young surviving brother who is 19 years of age, certified that the same three strange men called at the house on Wednesday last, and asking for a drink of water, acted strangely, apparently examining every part of the house, and when asked what they were doing, said they were working in Delphi, and were on their way to the city. They remained several minutes and left. The young man said he knew the men as soon as he saw them last night, and would recognise them again.

As soon as the news reached the city, the sheriff and officer of the police started in search, and took up on suspicion, Timothy and Peter Driscoll, Samuel and Joseph Privot, (step-sons of Charles Miles,) Aaron Beeman, David Clark and Thomas Longley. All of whom were secured in Jail to await an examination. These are all the facts that we have time to get in type this evening.

La-RER.—The two surviving principal witnesses, Fahrenbaugh and son, have been taken into the presence of the prisoners, including Abe Rice, and swore that Abe Rice, Tim Driscoll, and Jo Privott were the three persons engaged in the attempted robbery and murder.—Lafayette Courier.

THE USE OF REMEMBERING.—"What is the use of Remembering all that pettishly cried a boy after his father, who had been giving him some instructions, had left the room. "I'll tell you what, remembering is of great service sometimes," said his cousin. "Let me read you now from the Living Age. Please hear." "My fine dog, Dash, was once stoleil from me," says Mr. Kidd. After being absent thirteen months, he one day entered my office in town with a long string tied around his neck. He had broken away from the fellow tfho held him prisoner.— Our meeting was a joyful one. I found out the thief, had him apprehended, and took him before a magistrate. He swore the dog was his, and called witnesses to bear him but. "Mr. Kidd," asked the lawyer, addressing me, "can you give any satisfactory proof of this dog being your property "Placing my mouth to the dog's ear— first giving him a knowing look—I whispered a little.communication known only to us two. Dash immediately rearing upon his hind legs, went through with a series of manoeuvres with a stick, guided by my eye which seethe whole court in a roar. My evidence needed nothing more, the thief stood convicted, Dash wafe liberated, and among the cheers of the multitude, merrily bounded homevvard." "There, boy, do you hear that? That dog's remembering was of service to him

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it is taken as evidence in a court, and it fairly got the case. Yes, he was set free, and a thief convicted. Well, if remembering his master's instruction served a dog so well, how much more likely is it to be important for a boy to treasure up the instructions of his father, not knowing what they may keep him out of?"

The lesson is a pretty good one, and boys might profit by it. 4

ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER

ATLANTIC!

Thfc steamer Atlantic, with advices from Liverpool to Monday the 23d ult., has arrived.

Wheat and Flour were lower, and the demand limited. Corn had slightly improved.

The Conference at Vienna had broken up, after holding twelve sessions. Russia refused to accede to the demands of the Allies.

The "bombardment of Sebastopol commenced oh' the 9th ult., and had continued without interruption up to the 15th, five hundred guns and mortars pouring in an uninterrupted storm of shot and shells upon the city and forts but up to the latest dates no assault had been made, nor had any practicable breach been effected.

The new British loan is sixteen millions sterling, and had all been taken by the Rothschilds.

Napoleon and his Empress Eugenia had been a week in England, and had been received with the greatest rejoicing.

All hopes of Austria taking the field against Russia are at an end for the present. The advices from the Crimea say that the two first days of the bombardment of Sebastopol, the shot and shell of the Allies done considerable damage to the city and to the Russian works. During the night of the 15th, the left work of the Allies obtained considerable advantage over the Russians, who were dislodged from a strongly fortified position, which was taken and kept by the French. The poisession of this position was of great importance, as it enabled the Allies to fortify the summit of the ravine. Since the commencement of the siege five of the seven Admirals of the Russian fleet at Sebastopol, had either been killed or died of disease.

Gortschikoff published an address to the garrison, stating that matters look more encouraging to the besieged.

Serious trouble had arisen at Kragova, owing to the brutal conduct of the Austrian officers. The people-attacked the'officers and drove them from the city about two hundred and fifty were killed on both sides. The excitement continued up to the latest dates, and a deputation had been sent to the Sultan to demand protection.

Thoughts to Think About. It betokens as great a soul to be capable of curing a fault, as to be incapable of committing it.

Your word is your servant, so long as you retain it: but it becomes your master when you suffer it to escape.

Idleness is the gate of all harm. Great cities are Satans universities. To govern with judgment is to govern with justice

Effects in nature arc never fortuitous. In private we must watch our thoughts, in the family our temper, in company our tongues.

We may live by forms, but there is no dying by forms. Afflictions are God's whetstones—they put a new edge upon our prinfiidles.

We are what we are in private. Our principles are the springs of our actions the spring of our happiness and misery. Too much care therefore, cannot be employed in forming our principres.

Our very manner is a thing of importance. A kind no is often more agreeable than a rough yes.

All is but lip wisdom that wants experience. Never let your tongue go before your thoughts.

Time is like a verb, that can only be used in the present tense. Time never sits heavily on us put when badly employed.

Time is a grateful friead use it well, and it never fails to make suitable requital.

Mortality among Bachelors. The forlorn condition of bachelors has always been a favorite theme among ladies, editors and other wits to expatiate upon. The untidy rooms, the buttonless shirt, the stockings full of holes, and the thousand other inconveniences of the unmarried state are familiar, in this way to the most obtuse of us all.

The poor bachelors have, in fact,'a hard time of it. They have been ridiculed by the sex, and sometimes taxed by legislators, and now staticians deal them "the unkindest cut of all," by proving that they die earlier than married men. The celebrated Dr. Casper, of Berlin estimates the mortality among bachelors, between the ages of thirty to forty-five, at tvventy-sev-en per cent while the mortality among married men between the same ages, is only eighteen per cent. As life advances, the difference becomes even more striking.— Where forty-one bachelors attain the age of forty, there are seventy-eight married men, a difference of nearly two to one in favor of the latter. At the ago of sixty, there are forty-eight man-ied men to twen-ty-two bachelors at seventy, eleven bachelors to twenty-seven married men and at eighty, nine married to three bachelors.— No bachelor, it is said, ever lived to be a hundred.

There are about seven million pores in the body of a man of ordinary size. If .these were joined lengthwise, a tube would be formed twenty-eight miles long.

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(From Ft. Wayne Sen., April 2&th.) Execution of Madden and Keefei*. Yesterday was the d-ay appointed for the execution of these wretched men, convicted of the murder of Mr. Dunbar. At an early hour large crowds of persons began to flock in from the country, and before the hour appointed for the execution, the gaol was surrounded by a multitude of anxious spectators eager to get a glimpse of the awful tragedy about to be enacted. Apprehensions having been entertained that some disturbances might arise, and an at. tempt be made to tear down the high board fence around the gaol yard, where the scaffold was crected, the Mad Anthony Guards and a large police force were stationed around the place to keep the crowd back. For the credit of our people, we are gratified to be able to state that no difficulty arose, and that the whole assemblage behaved in an orderly and decorous manner.

Several ministers had been with the unhappy men from an early hour in the morn*' ing, administering to them the consolations of religion, and joining with them in fervent appeals to the Almighty. The religious services were all performed in the prison when the fatal hour arrived, the prisoners ha!d their arms pinioned, and after bidding an affecting farewell to their companion in guilt and suffering, Romine, they proceeded to the scaffold. Madden was the first to ascend, which he did with a calm, firm demeanor, displaying the utmost fortitude, and made his peace, and was prepared to meet his fate. He was followed by Keefer he to had for a fewdays previous shown a better state of feeling, and expressed a strong hope of salvation but he was terribly affected—the hardihood he had previously shown had de-r serted him, and he was entirely prostrated They both appeared to be engaged in private "prayer until the necessary arrangements were completed and the drop fell. Keefer showed some signs of life, by a convulsive movement of the shoulders and chest, for five or six minutes, when his sufferings ceased. Madden's rope unfortunately hroke, and he fell to the ground. He was speedily raised to his feet, assisted up the ladder, the rope again adjusted, and he joined his companion. His sufferings were brief, apparently not more than one or two minutes.

Sheriff McMullen discharged his awful duty with calmness, dignity and a humane feeling towards his unhappy victims and with the exception of the unfortunate breaking of the rope, everything was arranged and conducted in a proper manner.

Madden, from the time of his sentence, devoted himself almost entirely to preparations to meet his end. He was truly penitent. and gave strong evidence of a thorough change of heart. He was fully prepared expressed a strong confidence of salvation, and met his fate with calmness, and we may almost say cheerfulness. He acknowledged the justice of his sentence, and died in peace with mankind. Almost his last words were—"I am liappy."

Keefer, until within a few days, was buoyed up with hopes of escape, and appeared quite hardened and reckless. When the certainty of his fate broke upon him he was completely cast down and unmanned. He then listened to the counsels of the ministers. who were unwearied in their efforts on his behalf, and became a changed man. He spent nearly the whole of Thursday night in prayer, and on Friday morning "he felt strong hopes of salvation. He frequently said: "It is well with me,"and his last andible words on the scaffold were—"Lord Jesus, to thy care I commend my soul"

Romine, who was convicted with them, and sentenced to be hung on the 15th June, also appears penitent and resigned, and gives strong evidence of being a changed man.

The deceased both made full confessions, not varying materially from those made when they were first arrested. They denied having premeditated the murder, and did not think Romine knew their victim was dead until after his arrest.

An Irish Letter from New York. John O'Conner, late of Parsentown, Kins's County, Ireland addresses to the London Times the following letter, under date of New York, March 5th:

In the name of God and humanity I entreat you to use your powerful and influential paper to stop the emigration of my miserable countrymen from dear old Ireland. They are suffering all kinds of privations here—thousands supported on public charity, lodging in the station houses, and the thermometet 10 degrees below zero no work, and no chance of any. In the midst of this distress 1200 people landed to-day, & thousands arc expected. Arerthd people mad that they thus rush on death and destruction? The Americans are a liberal people thej* do all they can but millions will not sustain the poor foreigners here. Soud houses in all the wards are daily crowded with poor. How can it be otherwise? The emigrants land here at the rate of ten thousand a week. 460,000 arrived hare last year, and there will be mora this year if not stopped by the interference of men in Eugland. The scene here is heart-rending.

The work in the warerooma-

canals, and factories is suspended, which.1: adds to the misery I describe.

There was once an old man who believed that "what waa to be would be." He lived in Missouri, and was once going out through a region infested at that time by very savage indians. He always took his' gun with him, but this time foqnd that some of his family had taken it out. As he would not go without it, his friends tantalized him, saying thrre-w^.s no danger of the Indians—that ho woulft not die tf'H hisi time anyhow., "Yes," says the old fellow, "hut suppose I would meet an Indian and his time was come, it would not do, not to hare ray gun."