Indiana American, Volume 13, Number 17, Brookville, Franklin County, 25 April 1845 — Page 1

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Our Country Our Country's Interests and our Country's Friends. BY C. F. CLAKKSOX. BHOOKVILLE, FRANKLIN COUNTV, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AP1UL. 25, 1845. VOL,. XIII. NO. 17.

ESPY ON RAIN.

The first report of Professor Espy on meteorology has been laid on our table. It gives a very succinct account of his theory if min; and, as this is a subject of general interest, we shall endeavor to present it in a few words. It must be familiar to our readers that Professor Espy has, for many years, assertained that rain can be produced by !arge fires. His opinion was verified, last summer, on several occasions, both in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. The rain being immediately over the fire and extended nearly thirty miles to the east, while not a drop fell to the west. Judge CMron, of the U. S. Supreme Court, testifies, in the report, that he saw a heavy rain occasioned by a fire in the forest on the Cumberland Mountains. Several Ears ago, too, when the woods of New Jersey were on fire, heavy rains came up. The Indians of Paraguay have long been accustomed to set the prairies on fire in a drought. Availing himself of this fact, Professor Espy proposed a scheme, in the report befoie us, by which the climate, so fir as it depends on rain, may be made more equable. The summer rains, he rontends, are local, unlike the winter ilorms. This he proposed to remedy by .he following plan: ' Let masses of timber to the amount of j r rty acres for every twenty miles he pre- j cured and fired simultaneously every seven days in the summer, on the west of the United Statei in aline of six or seven hun dred miles long from north to south, then the following result seems highly probab'.e, but not certain until the experiment is made: A rain of great length north and j south w ill commence near or on the line of fires; this rain will travell eastward; it will not break up till it reaches far into the Atlantic ocean; it will rain only a short time in any one place; it will not rain again until the next seven days; it will rain enough and not too much in any one place; it will not be attended with violent wind, neitheron land not on Atlantic ocean; there will be no hail nor tornadoes at the time of the general rain, nor intremediate; there will be no distructive floods, nor will the waters ever become very low; there will be no more oppressive heats nor injurious colds; the farmers and mariners will always know before the rains when they will commence and when they will termi nate all epidemic diseases, originating from floods and subsequent drought, will cease; the proceeds of agriculture will be greatly increased, and the health and happiness of the citizens will be much promoted. These I say, are the probable not certainresults of the plan proposed; a plan which could be carried into operation for a sum which would not amount to half a cent a year to each individual in the U. States; a plan which, if successful, w ould benefit in a high degree not merely the landsman, but every marriner that plies the Atlantic. If this scheme should appear too gigantic to commence with, let the trial be first made along the Alleghany mountains; and let forty acres of four ten acrelots be fired every seven days through the summer in each or the counties of McKean, Clearfield, Cambria and Somerset, in Pennsylvania; Alleghany, in Maryland; and Hardy; Pendleton, Bath, Alleghany and Montgomery, in Virginia. The ten-acre lots should be, as nearly as convenient, from one to four miles apart in the form of a square; so that the upmoving column of air which shall be formed over them may hare a wide base, and thus may ascend to a considerable height before "it may be leaned Jout of the perpendicular by any wind which may exist at tk it lime. " The summer rains at present are local, r,d cf very limited extent; and though they travel towards the east, like the w inter storms, they are not extensive enough 'o cover the w hole country; hence, port.o:u of the country are liable tobeparchtJ with drought and hot weather. ' May it not be possible that this irregularity is in any part produced by the irreguhr burning of Tallows and prairies, thus producing partial and irregular rains, interrupting the wide xtent and general rsins which would otherwise take place, as they do in the winter? "There is at present, and will be for tr.ny years to come, a vast amount of limber cut down and burnt very summer, in the w CEt part of the United States; enough, perhaps, to produce the wide extended and uninteriupted rains so much desired witout any expense. Until the government of the United States can be induced to carry tnto effect the above plan, I earnestly recommend to all persons who have fallows or other large masses of combustafcles to burn, save them till the first very iiy spell in the summer, and to ensure simultaneous action, let all west of west lonf tiide ST degs. set fire to their materials cnly on Thursday, those west of 00 degrees at six o'clock in the evening; and let all east of 87 degrees set fire to their materia! only on Friday, those west of 77 ffraa t Ian in II.. . . . "t."-1 - " morning, ana mosej tCT'" ucgicc at six o ciocKjm the afternoon; and in no case let any Tallow be bvirrt unless there has at least a week elapsed without rain." Professor Espy says, that after these funeral rains, partial rains cannot take f ace for some time. He earnestly invites 'l rersons, who have materials, to send tV resnlt of their observations to the Stirt'n General's Office, Washington. Appended to the report are the following klfieralizations on storms, which rate the 'esu'.is rf observation 1st. The tain and snow storms, and ee the moderate rains and snows, travf hont the west towards the east, in the f'lited Slates, during the months of Janu"y. rebuarv and March, which are the Oil!? llinnili. rnl iill-a.i; t1 The storms are acenmnanied with depression of the barometer near the Aniline of the storm.

This centrclline of miuimum

pres

'sure is generally of great length from

north to south, and mores sido foremost towards the east. 4th. The line is tometimes neatly stiaight but generally curved and most frequently with its convexed side towards the east. 5th The velocity of this line i9 kuch, that it travels from the Mississippi to the Connecticut river in about 24 houns; and from the Connecticut to St. John, Newfoundland, in nearly the same time, or aboul 36 miles an hour. Cth. When the barometer falls suddenly in the western part of New England, it rises at the same time in the valley of the Mississippi, and also at St. John, Newfoundland. Till. In great storms, the wind, for several hundred miles, on both sides of the line of minimum pressure, blow towards that line, directly or oblique)-. 8th. The force of the wind is in proportion to thejsuddenness and greatness of the barometric depression. 9th. In all great and sudden depression of the barometer, 'here is much rain or snow; and in all sudden great rains or snows, there is a great fluctuation of the barometer. 10th. Many storms are of great and unknow length from the north to the south, reaching beyond our observers on the CJulf of Mexico and on the northern lakes, while either east and west diameter is .comparative small. The storms, there fore, move side formost. 11 tli. Most storms commence in the "far west," beyond our most western ob servers; but somejeommencein the Uni ted slates. 12th. When the "storm commences in the United States, the line of minimum pressure does not come from the 'far w est,' but commences with the storm, and travels with it towards the east. 13th. There is generally a lull of wind at the line of minimum pressure, and sometimes a calm. Hth. When the wind changes to the west, the barometer generally begins to rise. 15th. There is generally but little wind near the line of maximum pressure, and on each side of that line the windi ore irregular, but tend outwards from that line. 16th. The fluctuations of the batometer are generally greater in the northern than in the southern paits of the United States. 17th. The fluctuation of the barometer are geterally greater in the eastern than in the western parts of the United States. ISih. In the notthern parts of the United States, the wind, in great storms, gen erally sets in from the north of east, and terminates from the north of west. 19th. In the southern parts of the Uni ted States the wind generally sets in from the south of east, and terminals from the south of west. 20th. During the passage of storms, the wind generally changes from the eastward to the westward by the south, especially in the southern parts of the United States. The next Preside ncy. Although we beiieve jlhe time has not yet arrived for the designation of the Whig candidate for the next Piesidency, as faithful chroncles of pressing events, we do not feel at liberty to withhold the publication of the follow ing letter, on this subject, which we find in the United States Gazette, published in the city of Philadelphia: Ini. Jour. Washington, March 24th. 1845. Dear Sir: You ask me what is the tone of feeling prevailing among the Whigs at the Capitol, in relation to the vital question of Whig ascendency in the government of the country at the next Presidential election? I am sure you will be h'ghly gratified, when 1 tell you, that it is decidely and warmly in favcr of Justice John McLean of Ohio, as our candidate for the next Presidency, In a very extended Intercourse with the multitudes of Whigs, assembled here from all quarters of the Union since the month of November last, I have not met w ith a single individual whose attention has not been involuntarily drawn towatds Mr. McLean, as the man under whose lead victory is sure Rnd certain. Whenever his name is mentioned, all doubt and fear vanish at once, and the feeling of certanity of success animates the most desponding. The most ardent friends of other candidates, freely an 1 frankly admit that no man in the country occupies so commanding a political position as Judge McLean does, nor so deep a hold upon the affections and respect of the people at large. They grant without argument, that he can be elected President, and there is no Whig w ho has not unbounded confidence in the man himself, for his stern integrity of character,for his steady adherence to good old Republican principles and measures, and for his proverbial rectitude of conduct both as a private citizen and in public life curing ins long and honorable career. Not only the reflecting of the Whigs have come to ' conclusion, but the conside rate anJ more observing of the dominenl party entertain a similar opinion, and it is no usual thins to hear the latter arfluinc j that it will be but a short and easy step jkirhim, from the highest judicial seat in i l"e ,an J which he now fills with so much honor to himself and to his country, to the highest executive station among the governments of the earth. But you miy depend upon one result, j "- that is, come what may, happen what will, the Whigs as a parly will move in sol id body and be their nominee who he may, i wnile upon him with a deterniation to eiect nun it it can le none. fj- The F.istern papers ' state that tie sea-serpent his been lately seen off Cape I.-Und. The 'varmint' commences his perfjrmaacc8,arlier in the season than usual.

Not on th feattie Field, EY 1 OHM TlEBrONT. ,; 70 Jail on the baltle-Jiehi fighting for my dear countrythat tcould not bt hard." The Neigbbors. O no, no let me lie

Not on a field of battle, when I die! j Let not the iron tread head; Of the mad war horse crush my helmed Nor let the reeking knife, That I have drawn against a brother' life,' Be in my hand when death Thunders along, and tramples me beneath His heavy squadron's heels. Or gory felloes of his cannon's wheels. From such a dying bed, Tho' o'er it float the stt ipes of white and red And the bald eagle brings The clustered stars upon the wide spread To sparkle in my sight, wings, O, never let my spirit take her flight! I know that beauty's eye Is all the brighter where gay paunants fly, And brazen helmets dance, And sunshine flashes on the lifted lance; I know that bards have stwg, And people shouted till the welkin turg In honor of the brave Who on the battle-field have found a grave. I know that o'et their bones, Have grateFl hands pil'dmonument'lstones. Some of those piles I've teen: The one at Lexington, upon the green Where the first blood was shed, That to my country independence led; And others, on our shore, The"Dattle Monument" at Baltimore, And that on Bunkers Hill. Ay, and abroad, a few more famous still: Thy "tomb," Themistocles, That looks out yet upon the Grecian seas, And which the waters kiss That issue from the gulf of Salamis. And thine, too, have I seen, Thy mound of earth, Patroclus, robed in That, like a natural knoll, green, Sheep climb and nibble over, as they stroll, v atched by some turbaned boy, Upon the margin of the plain of Troy. Such honors grace the bed, I know,whereon the warrior lays his head, And hears, as life ebbs out, The conquered flying, and the conqueror's But, as his eye grows dim, shout, hat is a column or a mound to him? What, to the parting soul, The mellow note of bugles? What the roll Of drums? No: jet me die Where the blue heaven bends o'er me lovAnd the soft summer air, ingly, As it goes by me, stirs my thin w hite hair, And from my forehead dries The death-damp as it gathers, and the skies Seem waiting to receive Heave My soul to their clear depths! Or let me The world, when round my bed Wife.children,Weepi'g friends are gat'ier'd, And the calm voice of ptayer And holy hymning shall my soul prepare To go and be at rest With kindr'd spirits, spirits who've blessed The human brotherhood By labors,cares and counsels for their good. And in mv dying hour. When riches, fame and honor have nopow'r To bear the spirit up, Or from my lips to turn aside the cup That all must drink at last, O, let me draw refreshment from the past! l hen let my soul run back, With peace and joy.along my earthly track And see that all the seeds That I havesealter'd therein virtuous deeds Have sprung tip, and have given, Already, fruits of which to taste in Heaven! And though no grassy mound Or granite pile say 'tis heroic ground Where my remains repose, those Still will I hope vain hope, perhaps! that horn I have striven to bless, The wanderer reclaimed, the fatherless, May stand around my grave, With the poor prisoner,& the poorest slave. And breathe an humble praver, That they may die like him whose bones are mouldering there. Delia A. Webster. The Lexington Observer speaks very severely of this woman's attempt to clear herself from the charge of Slave stealing on the testimony of Fairbanks. It says: 'Now this story, which we say was first manufactured by Fairbank, and is now recorded, tinder his oath, in the Fayette Circuit Court, Fairbank himself afterwards admitted to be false, by pleading guilty to the charge contained in the indictments. And yet Miss Delia A. Webster, with all the air of a persecuted martyr, repeated it at Cincinnati only a few days ago. This woman knows it to be false, and she knows loo that the case for which she was tried and convicted, is not the only one of the kind in which she was engaged while in this city. A letter was found in her trunk on her arrest, from a man in Ohio, returning her the thanks of a negro man belonging to Mr. Berry in the neighboring coun ty of Clarke, for her assistance tn producing for him his freedom, and giving her directions in what manner to proceed to ensure the freedom also of his wife, his mother and sister. The letter was proven to have beeu brought to her from Oberlin, Ohio, by a Mr. Smith, ol Jessamine, and delivered to her. but could not be red as evidence in the case for which she w as then on trial. She was guilty beyond all question. JE fW-a. it Hound. "I often think of the remark made by John Adams lo a person who called uponhim for a con tribution for Foreign Missions. Said the; sturdy Ex-President,' I have nothing lo give for that purpose, but there are here in this vicinity six ministers, notone or whom will preach in the others pulpit,-now 1 than nnv ona el-e to civilize these clerg-ymen."-Ex rarer.

" FIRES. Owing to the long continued drought, and high winds this spring, there have been an unusual numbei of fires in the cities, towns and country throughout the United States more we believe than at

any time within our observation. e could fill columns of our paper every week with notices of the destruction of property in this way. GREAT FiRE IN MILWAUKIE. A large portion of this town was des troyed by fire on the night of the 9th inst. The Tremont House and Cottage Inn are among the public houses destroyed, together w ith about thirty stores and dwelling houses. The particulars of the fire we have not learned, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and are indebted for the aboveto the Travelling Agent of Wells & Co's Express. The next mail will proba bly bring us full particulars. FIRES IN CINCINNATI. Not a day passes without a distructive fire in the Queen City. Saturday night the 6th. there were five fires, all more or less distructive. O.i Tuesday about 8 o'clock, there was a large fire, which commenced in the upper part of Willett's Stock maufaclory, on Broadway, and extended to the building occupied by Franklin f Co., Cap manufacturers. Adams & Grant, Kcsturant and L. M. Sturges, Boot and Shoe Maker. The buildings were saved, but in a dam aged slate. They were owned byRichard Southgate, of Newport, and, we under stand were insured. Distructive Fire. A fno broke out on IheSSth tilt., In New Orleans, in a five sto ry brick building, on Pearl street, compri sing a portion of establishments known as the Orleans sugar refinery. The interior of the building was entirely consumed. The loss is estimated at S16.000; the prop erty being Insured for $33,000. Fire in 7Vot. A fire broke out in Troyi onWednesday night, in River street, a lit tle above Congress street. It consumed two stores, one occupied by Mr. Kerr as a wool store, and the other by ebb& Averillas a liquor store, and injured the adja cent buildings. Fire at Madison, X. J.X fire broke out on W ednesday afternoon in a building occupied in the lower part as a wagon ma ker's shop by Moses Force, snd in the up per part as a carpenter shop by John N., Kitchell, at Madison, Morris county, N. J., which was entirely destroyed, together with several other shops adjacent. Damage about $-2000. A Fire broke out in St. Louise, Main street, in the square above the Bank, on the 9th, which threatened serious damage; but it was checked. At the same time anolher occurred in the old brick house on the corner of Chesnut and Main, which was also extinguished without doing great damage. Phil. Paper. There were two fires at St. Louis on the 3lst till., which destroyed the carpenter's shop of Messrs. Brewster & Hart; loss 8000, insurance $1000: and the tobacco factory of Mr. R. Kyler; loss S2U00j no insurance. The fires which were noticed a few days ago as raging in the pine woods of New Jersey were atrested by a heavy fall of rain on Sunday. The damages sustained in the destruction of thousands of acres of fine limber is said to be immense. A fire broke out in Ihe woods near Cockeysville, Baltimore county, on Monday, which swept over several thousand acres of woodland owned by Mr. David Ryder, Miss Owinf-s, and (Mr. Samuel Worthington. The loss sustained is very heavy, and rests chiefly, we learn, on Mr. Worthington. For some four or 'five days past the mountains in the neighborhood of Frederick have been in a blaze: and aPout G000 acres of woodland have been burned over. The fire Bpproached within five miles of the city on Monday, but its progress in that direction was speedily arrested. A distructive conflagration was raging in the mountains in the northern part of Dauphin county, Pa.; on Tuesday, and on the opposite, side of the River in Perry county. Much valuable property has been destroyed, and the people in the neighborhood were greatly alarmed. The Wheeling limes of Wednesday My?:"We learn lhat the fires in the mountains in Harrison, Marion, ani back part of Tyler counties are fr more extensive than on the verge or the river. Great damages has been done by them along ihe ridges." Fire in Zancsville. On Monday lasl a destructive fire occurred at Zanesville. The Recorder gives a list of the property destroyed. ''Two houses belonging to Gen. Herrick, a valuable brick building, constituting perhaps the principal proper ty of Mr. U. Parke, formerly editor and proprietor of the Zanesville Gazette, and author of Parke's Arithmetic, Parkes Philononhv of Arithmetic. &c: a valuable brick building belonging to Dr. Eastman the tin establishment of Lancton and Fox, the building belonging to Mrs. Prinlz; Ihe store of Messrs Gibbons and Britain besides building belonging to a Mr. Warner; the tailor shop and perhaps other buildings ofC. Clement's &c. We do not know what amount wai insured. A fUl casuality was connected with thej general disaster. A young Mr. Cooper, son of Judge Cooper of this county, and recently student of Mr. Converse, fcsq., i terminated his mortal career. The im dialc c,use of llit death some said was ,UU8Ulion olnerf from a faii." j ..... ., . 1 WfA letter from W ashmgton says hat Mr. Ellsworth, the Commissioner ot t aients, is not to be removed, though he may rw'tfn this year.

Hurders and Suicides. Our exchange papers are filled with accounts of the most horrid murders and suicides. It seems as though the whole human mind had become dieased and is exerting its inventive genius to add to the was which Providence has provided "to hurry mortals home." tCSVIClDE- A man by the name of Henry P. S. Boyle committed suicide a few days since, at Ilut6onvillc, Illinois, by a pistol-shot through the brain, causing his death in a few hours. The deceased was adout 24 years of age, a young man of talents, and with moral conduct and energy might have distinguished himself. He was the son of the late Chief Justice Boyle of Kentucky. E3 Vclancholy Suicide. We learn from Farmington, Conn., that James K-

i-amp, l.sij., ot that place, a retired merchant, committed suicide on Saturday eve ning last, by hanging himself in Ins own bed-rooin. About a year ago, his wife was ku'eu by being thrown iroin a wagon, and a sister Jay dead at the tunc of his commit ting suicide. It it supposed lhat th?ee and ether causes occasioned a partial dorangment o f mind, and such was tho verdict of the coroner's jury. ilj- Murder. The St. Augustine Her ald of the 1st hist, says: "Mr. Theodore Hinsdale was killed by a shot-gun in the hands of Major C. .Taylor, at Enterprise, on Sunday, 22J 'ult. Major Taylor has been bailed in the sum of S8000, by Judge Bronson, to await his examination, which is to take place, wc learn, on Friday next, lib inst. Er Shot his Sifter. A boy named Adams, in Webster, Mass., on Tuesday last, accidentally shot his sister ia the head, killing her instantly. The girl was about 15 years old. l3 Suicide. A. young man named G. W. Sharpelcss, of Norfolk, Va., committed suicide on the 3d instant, by hanging himself by the neck, in a stable, near Armislead's bridge. Embarrassed circumstances in pecuniary matters are said to have induced the act. Melancholy Suicide. corrcspodent of the New Haven Palladium, writing from Bethany under date of April 7th, says: A most melancholy suicide was commit ted here to-uay. imos ueechcr, a man about thirty-lvo years of age, attended the polls and voted. He left home about noon, and unharnessed his horse as usual, while eating his dinner, he lo'.d his wife that it was the lasl meal that he should eat. Immediately after dinner, he took his gun, and said he was going out to shoot a squirrel. He proceeded about fifty rods from his house, went into a coal hut, pulled off one of bis boots, either sat or lay down, and raised his head up so lhat he held the muzzle of the gun lo his neck, and fired it with his feet. His wife soon followed and found him dead. Ho leaves a wife and four small children. JtJ Crime. The Baltimrc Sun says: Although the February term of lie City Court his been closed but about a week, no less than OS prisoners are now in jail charged with various offencce. The unusual character of this fact will be appreciated when we stale tbet the whole jail docket at the commencement of a term is very often not more ' ban half that number. jEj? A horrid murder was committed in Manchester N II. on Wednesday nigbt last. Mr. Jonas L. Parker, a lax collector, was that evening requcstd by some person unknown to go and see a friend in a distant psrt of the town, after which time no more was seen of him until next morning, when his dead body was found, dreadfully mutilated. It is supposed the murder wne committed for the money Mr. P. Jiad about him, tJA duel was fought near Xew Orleanson the 22Jult. with double-barrel fow ling pieces, petween Judge Gilbert Lennnd and Mr. Philip Toca. At the second fire Judge Lcanord received a ball in the side. On the 10th ult. a duel was fought near Winchester, Ky- between Mr. J. Monroe Cook and Mr. J- Palmer Harris, both of that town. Weapons, pistols, distance ten feet. Mr. Harris fell at the first fire, but was not dangerously wcinded. 03- McCurrey, the murderer of Mr. Roux, has had no less than three ives.- all living at the same time, two in Cincinnati, Ohio, and one in Ireland. Ctir Murder. On Sunday evening last, atj settlement near ItuflV.oe, a Frenchman, by the name ot Joseph Monin, while sitting in his chair partially asleep, in his own house, was shot, through tho window two balls, from a musket or horse pistol, passing through the head, entering at tho front and Coming out at tho back pari and died infctantly. il3 Cowardly Suicide. X man named Garret, in Palona county, Miss., committed suicide by drowning, on the 22J tilt. His wife lay at the point of death, of incurable disease; he said he fell incompetent to the task of raising his children and haJ talher leave the world. How are his poor children lo provide for themselves? A couple of young fellows arrived in Pittsburgh on Wednesbay 2d inst. and took lodgings at the Monongahela House. Immediatly after entering the room, they commenced a run on the bar fur punch, &c, which they kept up until l o o'clock on Thursday mtrning, when ihe house was alarmed by ihe cry of murder. On repairing to their room, the inmate of the ! house found on ihe fliwr, one of the young men, apparently dead, with a large gash on his head, his fare beaten, and hideouslv bruised.aud the floor covered with blood Over him stood his drunken brother, wilh Ihe remnants of a chair in his hand,

which he had been beating bis brother j great char.arier and celebrity. It was com-; with. In hi frenzy be had taken his , monced in 1322. contains over 25,000 inbrother, for a robber, and beaten him near-, habitants, has 35 mills, mostly nnnufncinly to death. The injured party it is thought ring cotton cloth, run 201.OOJ spindles,

, may recover", men. An aw ful waminc M young

SPLINTERS. ! cloth per week, consuming 1175 bales of t-s- 1 r- ...c rVT- TTT cotton per week, and employing a capital VtrAr'! f0r'J0f "''"S3"1 of eleten millions? The average w.e ingtonana elsewhere, may be found m the offemales is Sl,75pcr week, clear of board, lonowing: I Amount or wages per month, $138,000. There is a science and a iadr.es 1 Keside, the factorie, belonging ,0 the Among the ofhee-holders now- manufacturing corporations, there ara Some have strange eyes lhat loook lke;,anufaciorie or powder, flannel, blankets, madness ''batting, paper, card, and whips, &c ., cm' And some talk of kicking up a row. j ploying about 550 hand-, and a capital erf True modesty will sooner win ihe heart! SGOOXX).

Than all the tricks of impudence and art. tZj' Early. We notice the conubinlizatioti of Ezra T. Jones with Sally Ladd, in Chilicotbe, Ohio. Ezra has supplied bis table with Sal-fadd at a very early day in the season.

itr A man in Georgia wa. recenll v di-: ture examination of the question, and havvorced from his wife on the grounds'thal!inS availed himscif of eminent legal advice, she refused to mend his trouserloons. !18 of e opinion that the placesof HI AuditServed her rHit ors 0 wore e,ected " ls41 "n1 w11 0 I be fupplied by the next August election ttPvtir children burnt to death, Wc ' and that the places of those elected in 1?43 regret to, learn that on the night of the 19 and 114 will not be supplied until five

! or 20th ult., the house of Mr. McCarty, of

ncauliarnoie, took tire, and before the in-! ..... mates were aware f '.he danger which they -vfrerttsing F.e.'tersPost Office were in, four children were burnt to death; Regulation. The new postage reform S lite father &: mother had a narrow escape law, ait at ihe last session of Congress, from the same dreadful fate; they were how-, and which goes into effect on the first day ever, considerably injareJ. They lost cv-'of July next, contains this provision: -And cry thing the house contained jail avlvertiscments made tinder the orders .V.y. .Mirror, 7S intt. jfthe Pnstmaaler General, in a' newspaVery Consistent. Sir Robert Peel, '. lCT or new papers, of letter uncalled for who is now so horrified at slavery, voted) j nnv Posl 'flices, shall be inserted in the not very long ago, against the audition ' PaVer or papers, of the tow n or place of female flogging in the West Indies. : where the office advertising maj be sustrr i, , Itained having the largest circulation pro rrZ.ttciZ.-'FaiIjer wants j on lo iseml jvided the editor or editors of such paper hun two yards ol black broadcloth; he orpapef3 6han agree 'to insert the same don l care wha color fn is and when he! for a prlfe n, greatcr an ,. now. fixed kills his pig last week, he'll pay you what bv lau.aill in case ..nation 01 dispute ou owe him. Q je amounl of circulation of any pa tC3 The Abolitionists held a ronven-i PPrs tne editors of which may desire the" lion lately, in Madison, and nominate i ! adveaisiii", it shall be the duty of the

candidates for county officers for Jefferson county. Polk and Dallas. Mrs. Story, of Greenville, S. C, give birth to ihree children recently. She named the son James Knox, nnd the daughters Elizabeth Polk and Rebecca Dallas. (VT" Willis nnkr th Irnlli wli.tn Im said ' Editors are the numn-handlea of charily, always helninsr nronli to water. and never thought lo be thirsty them selves." jL3Tlic Cilizeiu of Lawreiircbiirgh. on Monday Inst, decided by a large majority to issue Corporation Bonds to the amount of 25,00J dollars for tho purposo of eoing on with the Lawrenccburgh and Napoleon Turnpike. llf'Prvriiig an Alibi. A clergyman at Cambridge preached a sermon which one of his auditors commended. 'Yes," said a gentleman to whom it was mentioned, "it was a good sermon, but he stole it." This was told lo the preacher. He resented it, and called on the gentleman lo retract what he had 6aid. '1 am not," replied Ihe aggressor, "very apt lo retract my words, but in this instance I will. I said you stole Ihe sermon; I find I was wrong, for 011 returning home, and referring tc the book whence I thought ii was taken, I found it there." Miss IlaicA"hs' Memoirs. A Gallant Man! A bachelor of Baltimore has refused a government appointment in the west, worth $1500 a year, be cause, ns ho says, he is not willing, for that sum, to forego ihe sight ol the pretty girls ol rhiladdphia and IJniiimore. lie knows, we see, where ' beauty blooms?"' and, no doubt, thinks with Hums: 'What signifies the life o' man, An 'Iwrrena for the lasses o'!" Hut what will the girls of the west say to him? Th: re are lilies and rojes there, ton, we ween. JX" Female Clerks. Female clerks arc now, it is said, 'very gennerally em ployed in the New York retail dry goods

stores. Thin u a gieat improvement It j I his is exclusive Difive reguneni. of cavgives employment to tho needy of the i airy nnd twenty-three of infanlrv, 23.332

gentler sex, ana it win turn over some thousands of males to pursuits more consonant lo the physical strength and dignity of manhood. II O M E . The earth has treasures fair and bright, Deep buried in her caves, And ocean bides many a gem, Wilh his blue curling waves. Yet none within her bosom dark, Or 'neath the dahing foam. Lives there a treasure equalling A wot Id of love at home. We learn from tho Cincinnati Chronicle lhat the Astronomicol Observatory ofthe City is now complete. The Telescope is mounted and the lovers of Science, ho are permitted lo rhmb up, Mount Adams and look through the Alronomical Ins'.rement, may gaze with delight upon the heavens above, and. in the Ian-! guage til (h r Urr,nirr. -'.Inu n nnnn n upon a world of beauty.' By this he suppose, the ' Queen City." means, w c ii- Knoae isiana. in tins state inei principle question at issue was tinrondiiimi-1

al liberatian of Dorr from prison: and iheifrom our oil friend Urownlow.

Liberation Candidate for Govenor .( Jack- Jonesborough vMiig it ap,eir that Ii. son) has succeeded by a majority of about lis now travelling in South Carolina; here 1 12 votes over his opponent, Mr Fenner. , hat be &ay s of those southern bloods: the Anti-L:bcration CaidiJate. Jacksonj '"The real Sotilli Carolina assumes to bo and Fenner were both Whig. The a man ol much importance, and in hi Whigs, or the law and Order Parly, have! '-"Try r sulky, he throws himself hack a large majority in the Legislature. j like an English loid, sitting ati ide hifc seat Henry Y Cranston and Lemuel H. Ar-jand sticking his lejis ut in imitation ot nold. botk Whigs, are rle led to Congress.; the man riding a comet, in Elton's comic lh de Island, notwithstanding she has' almanac. No matter m here you rmei u ith

given her voice for the liberation of Dorr, is nevertheless, most decidedly Wing. isnrcii. i ins town is acquiring I ver looms, empioj m reiniies. 2.vl male., niakinj 1 5 lO.OOO xmds of

COUNTY AUDlTOnS. Wc observe; in cur exchange papers, that different opinions are entertained in regard to the expiration of the official term Disservice of County Auditors, grow. ng out of a seeming conflict of the provisions c.f our Statutes. The Auditor of State after ma-

years from the time of their election. Postmaster lo receive evidence and decide upon the fact. The Christian Monthly Magazine. We oughl to have noticed earlier, the nppa iranro of this work. It is a monthly s-heet in Octavo form, 32 pages, edited with ability, by Rev.T. E. Thomas, pastor of the Presbyterian congregation of this i P,aec- I's object and coiiieuU may be ill ferrc1 from ,,le ,i,le 11 '"published by ;tue caitor in 110s3v111e.n1 one collar per year in advance. As it is printed at thi office, we will nt any lime receive subscriptions for h. llam. Int. A Grjvpuic Df.sckiptio of the f?Jt d of Icharoc The following account of the Iland w hence Guano is taken, is from a letter of a sailor, and is a very graphical description: Here I am 011 the father of dung hills; an enormous mass of bird' manure called Guano, lying thirty feet deep, on Ihe island of Ichaboe, (pronounced Itcheboe. Conceive a barren, deso late, and sandy cost but so sandy, so desolute, so barren! without a soul, or a bush, or a stream near, where it never rains. where the dew wets you through, where it is so cold one gets the horrors, where the air is co obscure that 0110 cannot see the land till he gets a mild or two off. A n enormous surf beating over the shore, rocks, reefj, and shoals in all directions. Conceive a barren rock of an island, of this cot it to be covered lo Ihe depth of about thirty feet, with a beastly smelling bottle sort of mass, looking like bad snuff mixed with rotten kitten. Conceive one hundred and thirty-two chips laying packed between thU island and ihe aforesaid surf; fancy one hundred and thirty two masters of merchantmen, with one hundred and thirty two crews nnd one hundred and thirty two sctis f laborers, all fighting; conceive a gale of wind on the top nl these and you will have only half an idea of the place I have at last put into! JCj The Uritish Ai my. The total number of the British nrmr for the year ending March 31st, 184.). is fixed at 100.011 men, and the total charge 5,979.272. men in einpriyed in me i.iJi m iles, and paid by the E nl Iniia Company. A boy 13 years id asc, named Charle Weaver, died in New York on Saturday night, in a fit pioJuced by swallowing tobacco or the juice. ..11 I .t . w J tLj" Poisoned. A lady wss poisoned n j few days ago in New Kenl,V'irginia.by hrr colored girl, only fourteen years of age. jThe drug was sifted upon some turnip jtope, served up for dinner, of which the j unfortunate victim p irtook freely. She j very soon discovered filial fhe had been poisoned, and declaring that it was so, or dered the dish lo be thrown away. A physician was called in as soon as possible, but it was f.mnJ imp-Jisifile to save her, an I b"c u,cu "i'"" .lnother Great Fire. InU'l i?ence bs been received of a destructive tire in Tow. "da on Monday last. It broke out in tl.o . 1 : : i . I l"iei, ana,4l 18 MI'i. uc.-ir..; cu crty to the amount of $1.V1U. ' e v '",a jsn'iare west f f Main street, and between l'onlarand Slate, in one he a. t of ruins II has been some lime since we heard f the I the travelling South Cirolnii u, helwas , nasin wnp in his band, a cigar in his mouth, and upon hi countenance on of great self importance. air Cilvin pHirkank. who was rnnvirtcd of negro sterling in Ky., and sentenced to fifteen jea.is bard Ubor. is sawing j-t.ine in thepiiMin. with a nero 1iuUlin: one rnd ol the saw n:J himself the other.