Indiana American, Volume 13, Number 40, Brookville, Franklin County, 3 October 1845 — Page 1

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Our Cauntry -Our Country's Interestsand our Country's Friends. BY C. F. CLAUKSOX. BROOKVILLE, FRANKLIN COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1845. VOL. XIII. NO. 40.

Execution of Henry C. Green. This man was convicted in New York and sentenced to be hung for poisoning his wife five days after marriage, without the least suspicion of her purity or fidelity, and without any difficuly or quarrel with her. The Troy Budget of the 10th Sept. gives the following account of Green's execution: "When he arrived at the gallows, he requested the clergy to sing a verse from a hymn commencing with 'Rock of ages, clift for me, Let me hide myself in thee.' After which the Rev. Jlr. Baldwin addressed a prayer to the throne of grace, and was followed by Mr. Van Kleek, imploring divine forgiveness on the prisoner in an eloquent strain. When he closed, Green made a short but very affecting prayer, and then signified he was ready. The weight then fell and he was drawn up. and after a few spasmodic efforts he settled down quietly, still holding his hands grasped 4 together. After he had hung about ten minutes, the Rev Mr. Van Kleek addressed those present and said 'I take this opportunity to announce, in behalf of the Rev. Mr. Baldwin and myself, that a full and free confession has been

nude to us by Henry G. Green, of the

crime of which he was convicted, and for which he has been executed; that he had

no hard and unkind feelings towards the

witnesses, prosecutors, the jury, the officers of the law, or the Governor who refused to pardon him, or to commute his

sentence; that he was deeply penitent and

humble for his offences against God and

rnr n, and thai he died looking for salvation, through the merits of that Saviour, "whose precicus Wood clenselh from all sin," and "who came into the world to save sinners, even the chief." The details of the'eonfession, after being submitted to his friends, will in due time be laid before the public. After the body had hung about half an hour, Dr. Backus, and other medical men present pronounced him ded. The pulse was preceptible at the wrist at 17 minntes, and a slight tremor of the heart was also

perceptible 24 minutes. After hanging

The crowd who gathered, and swarmed,

and swayed to and fro around the place of execution, eager for a sniff of the butchery if they could not be gratified with a sight

of it, went away sofiened, penitent,

meek, forgiving, think you? No, sirs! no more than the wolf who has first lapped

blood. They had taken a striking lesson

from a lofty quarter in the school of "an

eye for an eye." Let one of them but suspect that his sister is wronged, or his

wife untrue, or his friend a traitor, and his hand will instinctively grasp the knife or the pistol. The community insists on blood for blood why 6hall he let his wrongs go ungoverned? Why shall villainy go unscathed simply because human laws have not provided for its punishment? Ah friends! those 'bloody instructions' will 'return to plague the inventor,' and so long as life for life is the law of the land, we shall find Man lifting his hand in passion against his brother perhaps longer. We

do not sav that the worst members or a

community will be uniformly as good as

the laws of that communi ty, but it is idle to expect that they will be better. They

never will.

to take us in at that rate

about five minutes longer,

given to

tne oody was his friends by

taken down and the Sheriff."

There is at this time much serious

thinking, talking and writing upon the subject of capital punishment. We acknowledge that we have favored executions in some instances, and have had a contemptible opinion of those who have entertained what they call "con

scientious"' scruples of taking life.

is "conscience" but m? re opinion or inclination. And if any one can make it any thing else, we should be pleased to hear it explained. Therefore those whohave what the term'conscientiousscruples'againsMhe performance of any act, would very 'much simplify their conversation and manifest most sense by saying such things are wrong in their opinion. But Horace Greely, who writes many good things, and takes such common

Correspondence of the Ind. American Indianapolis, Sept. 15, 1845

Friend CIarkson:l left you in my last

just as we ascended the Salt Creek hills,

journeying westward. It was a fine morn

ing, and we were soon at Larue's, in Andersonville, where a good breakfast can always be had at a fair price. Whether I was ped dling razor straps or engaged in

some other honest avocation is not material, but so it was that we were detained on

the road, and did not reach Rii6hville until

after dark. The day however, had its in cidents, which amused us both, and espe

cially edified me. Ever.since the unsuc

cesstui sallies or my extreme youth, in

search of the lost rib. it is known mv heart

has been untouched by female influence,

and fortified strongly, by observing the

dark side of conjugal felicity. The business in which I have been enpaeed for

some 12 years has afforded me opporlunl

ties sufficient to form a correct judgment on this subject. Some have said mt eyes

were jaundiced, but I have not so under

stood them. Calling during that day upon

a gentleman who had succeeded in catch

ing a hVrer-ary wife I learned the etymol

ogy of the word without recurrence to the

dictionary, uut it may not be generous to animadvert upon the firier-ary appear

ance of a house, taken by surprise. The

gentleman was absent when I called and

did not come in for some half hour.

Knowing the influence which the wife usually has over the husband, I thought it

prudent to gain her consent to the enter

WIibi '. prise which I wished to propose to her

lord, before he came in, as it might expe

dite business after his arrival, though it was in fact, just none of her business how he should act in the case. I began by dandling the children, and praising their blue eyes in true Yankee style, and introducing my business quite incidentally; as if that were quite a secondary consideration'to the interesting specimens of humanity around us. You will not think me vain,

i nope, wnen i ten you l thought alt was

right, and I was quite glad to see him

come in. I supposed of'course that much

depended on his first impression, and I

an opportunity

again. From Rushville to Indianapolis there was nothing'of intersst occurred. The

roads were as rough as ever, and the country has improved but little in eight years. I saw some houses yet unfinished which were raised eight years ago. 1 suppose

the builders got the ague and quit, and ray droll companion insisted that the house had been alike diseased and that the never

failing cure, Dr. Bombasterpuff 's celebrat

ed (ever & ague pills, elixir, syrups, &c., had not prevented their shaking, for some

of the logs were down; and through all

the region from Blue River to within six

miles of this place, the falling chimneys,

shattered windows, displaced clap boards.

and many similar symptoms, told of horrid convulsions. -

We reached Indianapolis before night,

and of course put up with Browning, at

the Washington Hall. We have now been

here several days. There is but little of

interest here now. No courts in session-

nothing to bring in strangers. There are fewer at Browning's thin I ever saw. This is owing in part to the Palmer house, which is quite a rival. I am glad there is such a house: Opposition prevents imposition. Yet the Palmer House cannot be better than Browning's, be it ever so good. The new Methodist church belonging to the Eastern charge is nearly done. It will be a fine house. The congregation yet worship in the Court House. The old Methodist church on the Governor's circle was dangerous and is .torn down to give place to a large one. It is intended to be the most capacious house in the city. It

is to be as large on the ground as any, and have a gallery on three sides. This is the charge in which your former pastor, Mr. Hibben is stationed. He is popular with his people and the citizens generally. He now preaches in the Lutheran Church, w hich has been tendered to him and his congregation juntil their new one can be occupied, which will be about the middle of November. As I am going still farther west, in a lew days you may hear from me again. X.Y. Z.

Hormon Trouble. and for many years have been citizens of ; that armed men were pursuing me to lake Letter from the Editor oj the St. Louis ,tne county. They are respectable men, j ray life. I summoned them as a posse to Republican the Burnings Visit to the ard some of them have filled high official !aid me in resisting them. I dismounted Encampment The opposing parlies on stations, tut in their opposition to the Mor-: and took a postion in the road, with pis-

Ihe Prairies No fight Prospects of a

compromise, and of the Mormons leaving the Slate. Warsaw, Wednesday Evening, cept. 17th. I have just finished an exciting and toilsome day, and witnessed scenes that, for the cause of humanity, and the credit of the law of the land, as well is the good name and reputation of freemen, I most heartly wish had never transpired. The civil war now raging here, has assumed a violence of character, and feeling, of which those who have not witnessed its mani

festation, or heard the expressions of parties, can form no just estimate. I do not believe it could possibly be much more violent or unrelenting. The anti-Mormons are firmly convinced that they and the Mormons cannot live in the same community; that one or the other must go, and by a process of reasoning, if it may be called reasoning, upon their real or supposed wrongs, they have justified to their own minds the right to inflict any violence which willdrive the Mormons away. Under their present impression, they would feel themselves justified in taking

life, if such a contingency, in their view,!

mons they are irrevocably fixed. Those ; lol in hand. I commanded the mob to with them were detei mined looking men. , stop, when one of them held his musket

I regretted to notice among the number, in a shooting attitude, whereupon one of

several youths and two small boys. All breathe but one spirit that is, that one party or the other must leave, and any means are justifiable to drive the Mormons away. About eleven o'clock a couple of gentlemen drove up, in great haste, and announced that Mr Backentos, the Sheriff of the county, was in the prairie near the camp, with five hundred armed men. Instantly there was a call to arms. Those who had

horses were despatched to call in the scouting parties, whilst a small campany on foot were marched through the woods to the prairie. An engagement seemed to be inevitable, and I expected to see a little bit of a fight. I soon reached the prairie, and got in a position to have a near and good view of the conflict. As I belonged to another parish, and was not in any way identified with the parties, I felt ho uneasiness and was not so much interested in the result as the active partizans on the ground.

Upon getting my station, I saw Darken

was necessary to the attainment of the end : tos, with about two hundred mounted men,

desired the dr iving of the Mormons out wet! armed, approaching from the north

-Starling Out-

sense views of matters, has given his opin-1 hence to make it favorable I very gently

ion of hanging, taking this execution of Green as his text. There is more sense and reason in the following from the Tribune than all we have ever read upon the subject of hanging. It appears to be almost conclusive upon the subject. There is none of your nonsensical trash of "conscientious scruples'' in it: "We object most strenuously to the law requiring that men shall be hung, but not to their being hung so long as the law requires it. The Courts, the Governor, the SherilT, have done their simple duty in the premises, and we cast no blame on them. Yet we think the People do wrong in authorizing, commending Executions. Let us consider: Green was a cruel, wicked, w anton, horrible murderer his crime one of the most revelling and inexcusable that we have ever heard of. So long as any bod y is to be hmig he was just the man. Yet we believe no good has been done by hanging him, but much evil.

I. He is not puuished. All his spiritual comforters believe that he died a penitent, regenerated Christian man, and has gone to Heaven, whatever may be the fate of bis hapless wife. His execution, then, was not the dismissal of a malefactor to his doom, as perpetual imprisonment would have been, but the elevation or a saint to glory. God has forgiven him all bis sins, and was ready to receive him to endles joy; but frail, sinful Men decided that, though fit for Heaven, he was unfit for earth, and hung him. Those who most deemed him a saint were most resolute forchoaking him to death as a sinner.

m e irusi no part of the responsibility of

mis umnerciiuideed devolvs on us. 3. The murder is not redressed. Hang-

uucs uumnn'io nte his poor

Mim, nor in any way heal the wounds inflicted on her relatives and friends. It does not wipe out the stain of blood from

tne land; it rather deepens it.

3. does not teach men that murder will

slrelt be punished. Here is one case of

so-called punishmeiit,but all around us

Homicides are committed and the slayers

escape detection or conviction. Innocent men are frequently hung and guilty mur

derers suit often escape. Not half the

murderers in our State are convicted, and

H is ur worse m the newer Western States The punishment of Death often defeats t

conviction; the jurors dreading to convict

umcss on me most positive evidence where the consequence is so terrible and so remediless. 1. It does teach revenge for injuries.

remarked that as w omen generally govern

the world, I had been trying to get his wife's consent to the enterprise in which I wished him to engage. I really thought. Mr. Editor, that such an allusion would act like a charm, and dispose him most favorably to a calm consideration of my proposition. And so it did, iflionid lightning and deafening thunder indicate a clear and calm sky; for his eyes flashed things unutterable, and his voice thundered forth in most frightful tones, "They don't rule me sir." Were you ever threatened, when a fair fight would not be profitable, and a retreat difficult? If so, you can enter into my feelings at that momentous crisis. But I retreated from my position, the best I could, by explanations, and especially assuring him I could not have meant any personal application of the remark, and in a short time the sky seemed calm and he extended to us the courtesies due strangers. As soon as the storm was sufficiently over I stated my business, and was delighted to hear him say it was the very

thing he wished. He had just been thinking about it, &c. I saw, however, that before he was done speaking, his tone was

altered, and he seemed to doubt what before appeared so certain. I wondered at first what could have produced such a change, but looking towards his better (?) half I saw the forebodings of an awful

storm, the premonitory indications of

which he had observed in time to safely retreat. I had lived too long to urge my business much farther tinder such auspices,

and I soon sounded a retreat, in the tune

of the inimitable verse of an inimitable

British poet

Indiana Penitentiary-

rages. We have learned from a source which we can no longer 'doubt, oflhe inhuman conduct of the Manager of the Penitentiary at Jeffersonville. The facts, as detailed to us are, that on one occasion, he assigned a man the labor sufficient to the exertions of three men. He, unable to perform the task, was taken out and flogged, and again commanded to go to work, and threatened repeatedly, that if he did not perform the task assigned him, he

should again 03 flogged, i tie poor man,

fearing death less than the living monster, applied himself until he was over-heated,

then went to the pump, and after quench

ing his thirst hedied. In another instance he compelled one man to perform the labor of three, (that is, attending to five, instead of two fires, attached to a brick kiln.) The man labored until he became exhausted, and was then taken out, and punished

with ninety lashes, and then ordered to his work. He woiked a few minutes, and then fainted away, and was removed to

ihe hospital. Again, he caused a boy to be shan.efully flogged for no other reason than to "break him iu!" These are some oflhe facts as detailed to us, and they are sufficient to make the blood boil in the veins of any being whose feelings and sympathies are not chilled by the influence and practice of constant crime. What! has it come to this? that here, in a Christian land, outrages are to be tolerated which would disgrace the character of an Arab. To take the life of a fellow being by the inhuman lash, is certainly advancing towards refinement in barbarism. We do not know where the power lies, but if the Governor has sufficient control over the matter, he must, and doubtless will, be removed instantly. Humanity itself calls for his removal, if there is no power at the Capitol to put an end to such untoward cruelty, an indignant and outraged community can and will soon find a speedy remedy. New Albany Democrat, Spet. 12th.

"Come all ye brave Lords of wives intellectual, Declare to me truly, have they not hen

pecked you all?" And moved for Rushville as fast as possible. We stopped at Hamilton's, and had an excellent bed, and had we stayed for breakfast, jt would doubtless have been good. Being late when we arrived we got no supper. Our horses were fed, and we lodged and all ,n order, but at the highest prices I have paid for some time, except at the

uouisvuie uau House. Contrasting it with '. the "doings" and price or the previous

mgni i was rerainaea 01 tne western tavern keeper's bill of fare which run thus; For corn bread and common doings, per meal 25cts.

Wheat bread and chicken fixings 50cts. But, sir, we thought SI 00 too much.

Love and Religion. A medical student of Berlin, lately fell in love with the daughter of the lady at whose house he loged;

his passion was warmly returned. But

there was an insurmountable obstacle to

their union, in the fact of the lady being

a Protestant Christian, and the gentleman a Jew. Business called the vouth to Bres-

lau;and when he had been there a few

days, he received a letter from his mistress

couched in the following terms.

"My Dear h Viend: The difficulties

which have so long stood in the way of

our marriage have been put an end to, and

by the intervention of your good angel, as

you have so often called your faithful

Minna, who yesterday became a Jewess."

Scarcely had this letter been dispatched, when its writer received one from her lov

er, dated Breslau, and to the following effect:

"My Dear .Vinna. The obstacle which

presented itself to our union, in the unfor

tunate difference in our religious faiths, no longer exists and I shall hasten to com

plete our mutual felicity; I yesterday be come a Christian."

How these lovers coutrived to get over

this new delemma is not recorded.

rtf-Mrs. Mary Eaton, of Farmington

Ct., stuck a pin in her thumb, and then put

her hands in cold water, which produced

inflamation, which was followed by mor

tificatinn. causing her death in about 22

days font the time oflhe accident.

irJrRitpid. A citizen of Illinois recent

ly travelled from Boston to Springfield

Illinois, bv the wav of Buffalo and Chi

of the country. There are many here, if their language may be taken as indicating their real thoughts, who 'would have no compunctions in killing a Mormon, especially if engaged in a fight or fray.

Nor can it be said that these feelings, this deadly hate of the Mormons, is confined to a few. But I have no time to dwell on (his matter. This morning, having procured a horse, I went out to the theatre of the difficulties, Green Plains, or to Col. Williams', the head quarters of the anti-Mormons. About four miles out I passed the ru'vns of some four of five buildings, the residences of Mormons, which had been burnt down on the day previous. They were still blazing and smokiug. Generally, the houses of the Mormons were but small log buildings, but little intrinsic value; but some of the ruins I passed were of the better class of large log houses. At the sight of one, there stood the stack of three chimneys. In every instance the chimneys were standing monuments ol the ruin and devastation around them. A mile or so further on, I witnessed the process of destroying the houses. The anti-Mormons, as the best means of driving the Mormons away, have resolved to burn down all their dwellings, but at the same time manifest a proper anxiety not to inflict injury on the sick, and not to destroy any moveable property, or any of the

grain or crops. In this they are carelul, and, I believe, where the contrary has been the case, it has been accidental. On arriving at a place called String-town

a number of Mormon residences being built along the road, each having attalched to it a small farm In the lane in fiont of one of those buildings were about

twenty armed men, on horseback, drawn up. Within, the family, consisting of the

parent and a number of daughters and

eons, from about eight years down, assist

ed and urged on by two or three of the armed posse, were carrying and throwing

out every moveable thing. The family-

were working with great assiduity ai.ti in

dustry, and it was painful beyond concep

tion to witness them toiling thus to prepare their oitti house for "the sacrifice. Still, they did It with more composure

than I could have commanded. Except the mother and one of two oflhe youngest children, the rest worked wiih even a

forced appearance of pleasure, and would reply, or laugh with seeming freedom, to the jest and jokes of the men who urged on the work. At length, everything was

removed, and even to the flooring plank

a fire was then kindled in one corner, by the aid of clapboards and other combustibles, and in ten minutes the flames danced over the labor of ten months. In this

way the party served six or seven build

ings ofthe number, a handsome frame

house. As I passed one place, a solitary

female, apparently past the meridian of

i fe, was walking alone, with mo'irnful

steps and downcast eyes, around the smoking heap which constituted the ru

ins of her home. I suppose it was her

only shelter. This sight might have drawn

pity from sterner material than I can boast of. One man who was burnt out had

twelve in family; his house, of hewed

logs, had been recently put up, and a smile of joy and triumph for a moment lit up

the faces of his family, at the suggestion

that the logs being green would not burn;

but it was only momentary, for soon it

was all in a blaze.

From this place, the armed party pass

ed over to the Bear Creek Settlement

and soon the ascending columns of black smoke told that the work of destruction

was going on. In various other direc

tions the ascendingsmoke gave notice that other parlies were out. As far at I could ascertain, from a free conversation with

persons engaged, there has been destroy

edincluding those burned in the Morley Settlement between 70 and 100 houses.

All have been swept in the Morley Precinct, and between 20 and 30 ruins may be seen in a short ride in ihis vicinity.

In many cases, the loss has not been'great, but in deprivation imposed upon the unhappy residents it has been heavy. From the scene of burning at Stringtown, I went to Col. Williams', the head quarters of Ihe anti-Mormon party. We met a number of armed men at various houses w hich we passed on the way, and

at Col. Williams' there were a number,

west, on ihe road to INauvoo. His men were well mounted, and, backed by sufficient courage, ought to have done efficient service. He was marching in the open prairie, in the direction of the burning buildings on Bear Creek. Information of the approach of Backentos had been sent to the scouts engaged in firing these buildings, and they had to return by a road crossing the Nativoo road at right angles. The scouts and a number of others from Col. William's, soon appeared on a hill, each having the other in full v-iew, separated an hundred yards or more. Now

for the roar of the guns, and the clash of

steel, the deadly conflict, the struggle, the

my posse fired, .and, u is teuevea, iook effect on one of the lawless banditti. We remained and stood our ground prepared, for the worst, for about ten minutes. The mobbers, retreating some little, distance made no further assault. 1 then made my way for the city of Nauvoo, where I am at this time."

State Census for 1845. Auditor' a Office, Sept. 20, 1845. $

Editors of Sentinel: The following is

a complete list of the white male inhabit

ants over the age of twenty-one years, in

the several counties in this State, as re

turned to this office under an act of the last

Generally Assembly. Respectfully, your obd't se'vt, HORATIO J. HARRIS, Auditor of State.

iES'We have added, in a separate col

umn, the vote given by s.ach county in 1844.-Eds. Sentinel. Census. 1315. Vote, 1S4I.

groan, and all that makes up the excite

ment and horrors of war! The horses are at the top of their speed, each party keeping on their way. Alas! for my high expectations! The Amies held on for the camp, urging their horses by every possible means. Backentos follows after, and if there was not a fight, it was at least an

excuing race. Some of the Amies took to the corn fields, while the horsemen followed the road they were on, through a lane some returning to camp, and some taking the nearest route homo, or to thick woods. Backenlos's men marched up to the foot of the lane, where they made a sudden hali. I can only account for their not continuing the pursuit, by supposing that they feared an ambush was laid in the cornfields on the eida of the road. I did not hear or see a gun fired, but one man a Mr. Lin Jsey, of the Ami party and his

horse, were wounded by a discharge bf buckshot, but not seriously. Backenlos soon w heeled his men. and returned to the

road on w hich he had been marching, and turned in the direction of Nauvoo, to Gulden's Point, where he is encamped tonight, about II miles from this place, and the same distance from the encampment ofthe Anties. Backentos went, on Thursday night, fiom Nauvoo to Carthage, with

about 509 armed men, and removed his

family from the latter to the former place. His posse of 200 were a portion of the 500. I do not believe it is the intention of Backentos. or of his men, to give the Anties a fight. In fact. I beam to believe there is

no such word in the Mormon dictionary as courage. Men who will suffer their houses to be burned down in broad day, and in their own sight, and will not fight to protect them, caunot possess a particle of courage. In the evening I returned to Col. Williams' camp where I found many of the hero's of ihe day's conflict. It was amusing to listen to the accounts, apologies, and various versions given oflhe affair. No two agreed in all particulars, and not one run from any fear of the consequences to himself. I reached Warsaw about dark. The Twelve Elders, or principal men ol the Mormons, have addressed a proposition to the Anties, which was received ihis evening, and which, I trust, may put a final end to this war. The twelve propose lhat they will leave Nauvoo, and the county, next spring, provided hostilities are suspended, and the vexatious suits which they charge the Amies to have instituted against them, are withdrawn, and they are allowed peaceably to dispose of their propeity, and prepare for their removal. They have appointed a committee of five, to correspond with a committee of an equal number on the part of ihe old seitlers. This proposition is well recived by many of the citizens of Warsaw, and if they do not reject it because of the language in

which it is addressed to lliem, (they thinking it disrespectful.) it will most likely

lead to a settlement, and to the removal of

the Mormons from among them. It is ve

ry desirable that this should be the result. The Death of Mr. Worrell. Mr. Backentos, the Sheriff of Hancock county, who has distinguished himself as the leader of the Mormons in the late civil war in Illinois, has issued a second proclamation, in which he gives the follow ing account of the manner in which Mr. Morrell came to his death: "After parting with the gentleman w ho escorted me from Warsaw I traveled about a mile and a half, when I discovered

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SPLINTER S.

iCJ'M'i JJiptestrian Slalue to G'en. Jarksor. itf talked of at Washington City. Tin? Washington Bee stales thai a meeting of the Heads of Department and other distinguished officers of Government look place on Wednesday, at ihe President's mansion, for the purpose of considering a plan for the erection of an equestrian statue in honor of the illustrious Jackson at the seat of Government. The President ol ihe United States wps present, and hearii-

an armed body of some twenty men on the i ly approved of the object. He intimated

Warsaw and Carthage road, two or t!iree

miles east ward of me, and going towards Warsaw. I watched lliem, and on discovering that four men, -mounted, left ihe

main body, apparently to strike a point in

that he should be rroud to head the list

with a handsome subscription.

SriciiJE. Death of Ex-Spcakcr White, j

-A gentleman who aarived this morning

Toys and Girls. The limes have indeed sadly changed.

One entire portion of human fife is struck out. It is now babvhood or manhonH

There is no conservatice stale, (we do not speak politically.) Once there was intermediate state of boyhood a barefooted and bean poriidge eating state a spelling and cyphering period when there were boys to do the chores and go errands when apprentice indentures were in fashion, and the line between boyhood and manhood well defined by the "freedom suit." But there are no such things now. The child steps out of his diaper and frock into a 'long tailed coat' and calfskin boots. He exchanges the nipple for the segar. Not one of ihe present generation has ever seen a real, bona fide, 'nine day old' pot of bean porridge; Noah Webster's spelling book is crowded out of school by high works on philosophy and metaphysics. There are no apprentices now. Young men take a few lessons in the trade they fancy, and then set up for themselves. John Willet was right as a 'general particular case.' But the present generation is as desli lute of girls as of boys. Il is'ehher baby or lady gout or bustle nursery or par

lor, i ne momer tends noon her infant or

w aits upon her daughter. Instead of spinning flax for their father's shirt, they reel

silk for the ladies fair: and instead of

knitting stockings and mending trousers for their biothers, they work lace and make stays for themselves. The mother milks, churns, wash and iron, and the

young ladies read novels, dress, and make

and receive calls. They make parties instead of puddings, and cook by the book

rather than from knowledge.

We should be delighted to see a genera

tion ofgirls and boys in looks, actions, and dress we should then hopefsr heJth and strength, industry sobriety, frugality and economy, prosperity and hapiness.

ego for protection lo this class of our community. Every father should impose a tariff, one that should amount to an entire proliibitaiion, on the introduction i.f fashionabie fulli's into the lamily. He should protect and enforce home industry. He and his w ife and bis children should enter into a 'Home League' on ihe subject. This is the tariff that w ill restore confidence. This is the bank tint will freely discount and never suspend. tCIJoth Horns Had. The poor tailor, in the following sketch from the N.Orleans Crescent city, fared no netter on one horn of the dilemma than the other. Will you pay me my bill, sir?' said a lailor in Charles street, to a waggish fellow who had ot into him about a foot. 'Do you owe any bodyanj thing ir?' asked'the wag. 'No, hir,' said the tailor. 'Then you can afford to wait!' 'and he walked off. A day or two afterwards the tailor railed again. Our wag was not at hi wit's end yet,so turning on hiscred;tor,he says. Are you in debt to any person7' l es, sir,' says the tailor. Well, why the devil don't you pay?' 'I have not the money.' Thai's just my case, sir. I am glad to see you can appreciate my condition

give us your hand!'

Cr"Jim I was awfully frightened the othei day. Did Itcll you about ii?' N. Hou? 'Why a cup of co.Tee was handed me which was so pale and iliin, that I thought it was thejjhosl of some I upset once w hen my mother caught me Mealing meal off Ihe gridiron.' (fi-Mistakes will ,; r,i 'Col. W. is a fine looking man, ain't he?' saiJ a fiiend of i it r s Ihe other day. 'Ves, replied the other. 'I was taken f.ir hi m once.' You! why you are ns ugly a$ sin." 'I don't care for that. I w .-n taken for him, I endorsed his note an J w as taken for him by the sheriff?' tPopular Ry words. 'Old Ho.-s," 'you ean't come it,'' "yes sir." 'yes sir--I baiu'i g it notliin else," mi l ''w e'd Icn,"are becoming obsolete phrases lo this section. The more euphonious and elegant expressions, ' cool haw k," ''pop the sand from under him." "your runiii up," 'I'll knock the h.nJ sites off of you," 'good lick," ' every lime my dear," "otay an 1 see il," and "doing it up I rown," havo 13ken their place. ITJ"!' is said that nairl in Putsfield n ai struck dumb by the firing of cannon. Since then, a number of in irried men, it i said, have invited the artillery comp'iuiej lo come and discharge their pie.-es on thejr premises. ((t'l.i L'niversity. We have rereived a catalogue of tliw Institution, which represents il to be in flourishing condition . There are 8 seniors, 10 juniors. 12 sophomores, 13 Freshmen, 55 scieniific and irregulars, 58 in preparatory department, and 12 low students. Total 1 1. -S'.'j Sentinel. JCr"A nrgio in New Yik the ruhpr day was impiUoneiKi mouths and,fineJ g-'tf) for cla-ping a lady in Ins arms as she u a wasgoing lo church, and kissing hrr. SCy'Three cannon ball-, one weighing fourteen pounds, were taken from ihe wall of an old building, now being pulled down in Boston. They w ere fired by ihe American iroops from Roxhury heights at the flrilish, w ho had possession of B islon.

They are the first pills which Washington administered for tlie cure of ihe ski -

but the large portion of the anti party en- advance of me, with all the speed of iheir j from Richmond, henlucky.tnrorm us Hi;tt j ' " ic.aicu. ganed in this business were out on scouts, j horses, I put the w hip to my horse. As I ; JuJse While, formerly a member of Con- j Morals in New York. The N. Y

as thev called those parties sentont to 1 was travelling in a buggy, they taking a) gress and Sneaker of the House of Repre-! une of Sep'. 10, says that ihero

though we paid U without a murmur, men-' cago, in six days and seven hours a dis-iCo tally resolving however never to give him ' anceof about 133 miles. 'In

hum down th hnildinns. Col. Williams', near rut, evidently gained on me. The , sontaiives, shot himself

caiis-in2 infant death signed for the deed.

1. McCaulev. and several others, whem i chase lasted for two m:les, I overtook

met and conversed with, arc old men, three men w iih te ims. I informed them

on .Monday la-l. No cause was as-

Tnb-

were din

prisoners in the 1 mill's on Hie previous night, t' horn i ie w l.i'e feina!emtd 8 ci.lnre-J fcitnlt's