Indiana American, Volume 17, Number 25, Brookville, Franklin County, 15 June 1849 — Page 1

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OUR COCNTRT-Ol'R COUNTRY'S INTERESTS-AXB OUR COVNTllY'S FRIENDS. 15 Y C. F- CL AliKSOX. BKOOKVLLE, INDIAXA, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1849. VOL. XVII XO. 23.

THE TIMES.

Communication. For the Indiana American. Mr. Editor: I notice in a late number of the American that some one hai been finding fault with my communication from Connersville, detailing the particulars of the suicide of Mr. Joshua Gregg, that recently appeared in your j paper. The strictures he indulges in, do injustice to-mvself, and likewise "wrong the daaa, and I bops you will allow me the privilege of briefly examining them. Your correspondent accuses me with lavishing upon Gregg "fulsome praise" when I tell yott that "bating the propensity that ruined him he was a noble fellow, so honest, so noble-hearted, so kind, and so high-toned in all that con- ' - - . i stitutes the rentleman." And what reason nas , . he for pronouncing this "fulsome"? How does j he know it to be such? Has he any better ac-1 quaintance with Gregg than myself? If he has .

he does not intimate it. "tjauug "ol-""6 . BIld Humanity, and have the approval of my from his character that portion blotted by the j conscience e"ven wnen j have diBC0Vered my foul transaction that terminated hi'stenc error, than upon the side of Justice, a knowland why may he not have been an honorable, e(Jge of w h;ch might harrow and distress mo high minded fellow, and a gentleman. Frevi- The phrase "ne plus ultra"which yourcorresous to the affair with Miss S tephens, I never in pondent uses t0 quaiify my .charity' and dismy lire heard any thing alledged against his .seulirnenta,itv js a gtrong one He of reputation. His honesty was unimpeachable. course w;she9 t0 make the impression that I His open-heartedness was exhibited m a thou- m ., h extremest . lt . .

sand acts of kindness and benevoletice-hispurse j being ever ready ot aid at the calls of necessity, or to contribute to the distributfon of the Bible j and the support and propagation of the gospel, I however much it may be said some portions of j

his conduct were at variance with their princi-!ticed

pies and precepts. As a gentleman, there were none even among the many of Connersville whose pretensions to that character were sustained by a deportment more affable and correct, or who possessed to a greater extent that significant evidence of gentility ."troops of friends." His standing in society was of the first order. Notwithstanding a slight eccentricity of manner, there was not to my knowledge a door in the town at which he resided but what was open to him, not a parlor or a fireside but where he was welcome. The common remark, among the elderly citizens of the place, who, although their sentiments do not approach the freeting point of the moral thermometer to g ive one the ague who shonld unfortunately get into their atmosphere, are weli-disposed and pious men, when speaking of the tragedy, even after the developments cf Miss S. was, that Gregg was, not in the lauguage of your correspondent, "a villain of the blackest die, in comparison with whom many who expiate their crimes upon the gallows, or rot in the cells of penitentiaries are as innocent as childhood," but that he was one of their best, one of their finest young men. A gentleman who had been associated with him a number of years in business, one who was better acquainted with him than any one else, and one, furthermore, whose opinion, no one would attribute to the "kindness" of "fellowfeeling" in the meaning of the proverb, told me that he was one of the best men he ever knew. How is it then that I am to be termed a "fulsome" panegytist in speaing not only my own belief, founded upon personal knowledge of the man, but also the belief of those who have been intimately connected with him, as well as the common sentiment of community community that after ten or fifteen years acquaintance, rarely if ever mistakes the character of one of its members? I think that it would be with infinitely more trouble to make the charge even colorable, than it would to establish beyond all cavil the Impertinence of your correspondent in thus contradicting me about a matter I am pretty well arcquainted with, and of which he appears to know nothing. I am again accused with the laudation of a villain. Aud in what have I lauded a villain? Is the mention of honesty, benevolence, and amiability, virtues which Gregg certainly possessed, and which no one who kuew hint will deny his memory, the laudation of villainy? Are they any the less virtues because he possessed them? Are they not to be esteemed the higher that they are discovered iu a heart where there appears to be so much depravity ? Do we not appreciate the more the generosity of Robin Hood and the domestic affections of Aaron Burr, that one was a robber and the other a libertine? Your correspondent feeds with the appetite of a bigot upon the crimes of G regg, and suspicions and distrusts the motives of tny one who disturbs him at his rancorous feast, to point him to food more nttural and nourishing. But where is the evidence of this laudation? Does he mean to intimate that I have animad verted nothing agaiust the worser features of Gregg's character, and thus tacitly gave them my approval? that while I would bring into its strongest light that which the good approve, I endeavored to conceal that that they reprobate. To be sure your correspondent is very careful not to refer to it, but does he find any "lauda t ion" in the allusion I made in my communication, to the fate of Gammon? Who Is there that has observed the character of the astute but depraved, the self-possessed but unprincipled member of that celebrated firm whose names stood so awe-inspiring on the brass plate at Thaives Inn, the polished and insinuating aypocnte, the deep, dark, profound, mysteriou scoundrel, the seducer and suicide, that would call a parallel with him "laudation?" What everer thing could I have uttered than the in evitable inference to be drawn from this allu eion? Not even the author of these strictures through whose letters cells, scaffolds, blackTiltains and murderers glide with an ease and smoothness remarkable from their profusion eays any thing so severe. Indeed it was excess cf severity, an excess hardly attoned for bv that which follows, however charitable. Gregg wa. not a Gammon. He had more that redeem -

ed; and it is as unjust to overlook them in esti- of our we8t'rn Harbors and Kivers. I'no oi .,: L- h. ...... i . . . I the principal reasons urged iu support of the mating his character, as ,t is to select only those J ntojM forly thousand dollars was appassages In which I speak tenderly, omitting i propriated in the bill to the improvement of ihe

tnose where 1 exercised any severity in order to prove a disposition on my part to "laud a vil lain.' The desire that all should be well "after life's fitful fever," I am of the opinion is more consistent with the spirit of our holy religion, which "thinketh" and I apprehend "hopeth no evil," than the devout, heartfelt wish your corresponc.nt inaulf s m, thin a:s turrrani exul'.irg

gratification in the prospect of Greggs going down to his grave "Unwept, unhonored," and in the unknown world to be "Confined to fast in fires Till all the crimes done in the days of nature Are burnt and purged away." And to have shed "a tear" over the tragical

fate of xt friend, my generous but unfornate rRIKJ,D) 0NE crjnle W8.s expiah fc Rnd wh;ch now fcrings on hjm ted so terri bly, and which now brings on him abuse so unmerited, is to say the least, pardonable, and it exhibits on the part of your correspondent a gross want of feeling to apply to it the harsh epithet cf "sickly sentimentality." It is forgotten however when I recollect how many noble instances of the same kind are afforded in the history of human nature. I offend in the company of the great and the good. Possibly " o e j . . . , touchino- eonontinn of Slerne that blotted forever from the record of jeavea the regjsterea oath of ..my unce Toby j prefer err on the side of Mercy sib)e j ..fu,some T wjsh ,ie cou,d haye fciogr8pnica, no. tice of Gregg, lhat appeared in the "White W'a-j tef Vaey new$paper wriUen j presUme, by ' ,ne edilQT -n whjch hig crime ,g nQt evpn nQ ! and where he is held op as a pattern of every qualification "Whereby the world might say this was a man." I wish it might have met his observation for three reasons, 1st, that he might know what j was G's standing at home. Sud, that it might . have saved him the trouble of his strictures, and me that of reviewing them; and 3rd. if he persisted in mentioning Mr charitableness and j fulsomeness in the strong terms that he does, 1 1 have some curiositv to see what kind of a su- 1 perlatively superlative adjective he would have used to have expressed that of the editors. - , . . j i, our correspondent expresses considerable; sympathy for the girl. In sneaking of the sui-i ... r .i r j v. ,c i . j cide he says, "so full of murder washis (Gregg s) i heart, we are told that when the courage of his victim faltered, in the commission of the dreadful crime of self murder that she 'hesitated and reluctantly swallowed a portion of the poison and set the glass on the table,' her seducer, fiend like, urged her to make sure work, to 'be a wonin., Btid linwl, it 11 11a f.--r.t. (l,At ttiA nrn ... . ., - . ,: position to commit suicide was first mads and afterwards vrged to its consummation bv the girl herself! I do not wish to be considered the apologist of Gregg. He committed a great crime, and while 1 am unwilling that his virtues should pass uunoticed, I am equally unwilling that that crime should go unpunished. Let not the pleas ure we feel in dwelling upon the better part ot his character, prevent us appreciating the fall abhorrence due to that which stains and darkeus it. And iu summing up our judgment upon the man, let us not do it upon the dark side alone, but consider all that mitigates and redeems; and ever remember "That earthly judgment showeth likestGods When mercv seasons justice." W G. T. Brookville, June 7th 1849. 3Iatnon and W right at DnnTltte. On last Saturday the candidates fer Governor addressed the people of Hendricks at Danville. They each spoke one hour, and then a second time half an hour. We are assured by a geutleman present that Mr. Matson made a decided impression on his hearers, exceeding their expectations; whilst his opponent did not equal the teputatiou his friends had built up for him. There is a straight-forward honesty, nnd a Statesman-like dignity about Mr. Matson's speeches that must convince the people that he is the very man for their next Governor. We are gtad to learn tha t Mr. Matson presses his opponent so close on the slavery extensiou question. He does not permit him to dodge it, as he would like to do. At Danville Mr. Matson charged Mr. Wright with being at issue with him on that question that whilst he was the unco mpromisiug advocate of the Wilmot rraviso, Mr. Wright occupied the Cass non interference ground. In reply to this Mr Wright attempted to pull the wool over the eyes of his audience by remarking "that hi took high and elevated ground on that ques tion." He then referred to his vote in Comrress prohibiting slavery in the territory of Oregon, and said that Calafornia came to us free terri tory mat ne was in tavor or its remaining free, but was very much opposed to raising sec tional issues, aud did not like the terms "Southern men" and "Northern men." He liked the term "American citizen" much better. He would do nothing which might disturb the harmony of the Union but were he compelled to vote for or agaiust slavery in Calafornia, he 1 Ha - X" -a :U 1: L evasion.it was much nearer the right ground than he had over before taken, which may be accounted for by recollecting that Hendricks county gave near two huudred free soil votes at the last Presidential election. Those who heard Mr. Wright address the people last fall in support of Gen. Cass's position on the slavery question, will recollect with what seeming sincerity he pronounced the pas sage of auy law prahibitiug slavery in our ter ritories to be unconstitutional. Now, when he refers to his vote in Congress in favor ef Pro hibiting slavery in Oregon, we would like to enquire why such prohibition wouui oe cousht,,ti.,ai . liA.i ta Omrod. and unconstitutional as applied to Calafornia? Cau it be that the utter impoasibility of making slave labor profitable in Oregon had any miug to oo .u oecision i cveu .ur. iu ij;u ritim? slaverv in (Won. when he would have vetoed one prohibiting it in Calafornia. Mr. Wright, iu all his speeches, eustain's 1 Mr. Polk's veto of the bill for the improvement harbor al St. Louis. In reply, his characteristic , lusmcetity was exposed by Mr liaison, w n ( read from the iournal of the House, proving, h.tMr.Vri.h h,..lf had voted for an ap- , propriation of fifty thousand dollars for the ranio fc.o well were the people ot enuncas P e-u r;."- intl.,i A than U beeu cast lor anv Whig for several years. Indian Journal

N. T. Correspondence of the Nat. Intelligencer. Reproduction orVegrtnoteA-Animal Forma When the Apostle Paul assures us that there will be a resurrection of the human body after death, he takes care to explain that there will be a very essential difference between the body to be raised and the body that perishes. "It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body;" "there is a natural body and there is a spiritual body." Whether science may ever throw any light npon the sublime doctrine of revelation or not, it might be almost irreverence to offer a conjecture. The christian philosopher, however, has the high satisfaction of knowing that, as far as the developments of science have gone in that direction, their known truths are never found in conflict with the undoubted records and interpretations of the Sacred Scriptures. That there is some mysterious essence about bodies, separate from the "natural bodies," are sometimes presented to the senses, by reflection or some other means, there seems to be much reason to believe. By the help of some chemical preparations the light of the sun transfers to a metallic plate the apparent form of any object with the greatest minuteness and perfection, and leaves it there permanently fixed. Vessels hundreds of miles at sea. in certain states of the atmosphere, have sometimes been seen floating in the air near the shore with perfect distinctness.

! The appearance of human forms about burying grounds, though in most cases perhaps having no existence except in the excited imaginations or BUP"st't'"s of the beholders, may ometim(,s be a reality, the result of a natural cause, which may perhaps hereafter come to be regart,ed 83 natunl process as much as the growth of a plant from the seed My thoughts were turned to this subject at this time by some singular paragraphs in a late I I f 1 T . War 1 "umo" lne OUQOn lecnan,cs -"aganne, one of which is id to be an extract from a work I, '"'"g". ' nougnia on me two la?mue8 01 r aua w'edge," and which 18 89 '"0WS 1 c"PPea UP some Dalm' Pul 11 m " large laS8 retort Poured rain water uPon ".connected the retort with a good-sized receiver, and let it heat at a cuppel gently at first, then more ' .t..H.l TT .1. :. .1 .... . .1 . B11VM1MV. LUVU 11113 111C1C WCUt IUIU HfllCr ' ... ' i ri ii w it rvH 1 1 is nil' i iiiim i iih ut nn a unui'n , of the receiver, and " j e r " "w, ' I'" swam on the surface of the i water me tnickness ot me nacK ot a table knile. This had the form of innumerable balm leaves which did not lap over or run into one another, but lay side by side, each perfectly drawn, and with the distinctness of all the lines of the balm leaf. I let it stand a long time, that all about me might observe it. At last I shook the re ceiver, because I had to pour it out: the leaves ..... ran together, but in less than a minute restored themselves to their former position most distinctly. The writer in the Magazine follows this quotation by saying: "After reading the above I came quite unexpectedly upon a similar account in a place wher(l one wJulJ certainIy not lmarilie any , ... tiling oi tue sort iiaeiy to ne louna, viz. in 1 i taval's "Causes Celebres," a collection of the most celebrated criminal trials in the French courts, (the source whence Dumas has drawn the greater part of his popular work, "Celebra ted Crimes." In the 12th volume there is one entitled "Le Spectre," at the end of whieh Pitaval enters into some reasoning on the subject of spectral illusions, and brings forward the fol lowing experiments to show that the forms of things may exist without their subject matter." The subjoined quotations from Fitaval are given ia the Magazine in French, which are here translated into Knglish for the readers of the Intelligencer "Besides, it is impossible that the appearance of Spectres may have a natural cause for ano ther reason. Chemists show that the palingenesie (being born again) or the resurrection of plants is very possible. Able chemists in great numbers have made experiments by which, pla cing the ashes of a plant in a vial, these ashes exhale and arrange themselves as nearly as they can In the very figure which the Author of Nature first impressed on them. "The Abbe Vallemont, in his treatise on the curiosities in nature aud art, teaches the secret of making this palingenesle. He says that Father Scott, a Jesuit, assured him that when he was in Rome he had the satisfaction to see the rose made to arise from its ashes wheuever it was desired, by simply employiug a little heat. The same author taught the art of using some mineral water which caused a plant dead down to the roots, to become green a in life. From this palingenesie of plants, we come to the palingenesie of animals. "Gafferel, a vry able chemist, states that M. Duchene, one of the. best chemists of the age, reported that he 1; ; i seeu a very able Polish physician in Cracow who kept in vials ashes of almost all plants, so ihat when any curious person desired to ee, for example, a rose in a vial, ! h took one cont uuing the ashes of the rose well preserved, and warming it over a lighted i candle, after becoming warm the ashes were ! teen t0 j motion. A little cloud arose, and after some motion of the vial, soon assumed the form and color of the rose, so fresh, and so perfect and beautiful, that one-would believe he could smell its sweet odor. That learned man said that he had often tried i to do the same thing; but chauce at last euabled ' him to come pretty near producing the same I . . . a Bmu8eU himselfatM.de I " , . ,. ; Luynes de Formentieres, counsellor in Tarha ment, in seeing many curious experiments ith ; tm MU 0r mules burnt. Putting the ley made ' from Uiem out of door9 in a CT cold night, .. . .v. r nd finding it in the morning frozen, w i-ith t)igj I marvelous result, that the different kinds of the nettjeJ their shapes and fi gures, were so neatly f(?cl, repre8elUed n the ice that the liv ing plants were no better deliueated." A Ileinana Oflrncr. The Iudiana Stale Sentinel is down npon John A Mal ,he whig candidate for Governor of Indiana, like -a thousand of brick.' Among other serious allegations, the Sentinel Charges mat UIV aioivcHaiu uminni ms uoujniri . Butoher . 5jnce ,he ,nnouncement of that astounding fact, that the 'Dutch had ta ' ken Holland,' we havo not had anything startling ai this Cincinnati Dispatch.

The Indiana Gazctrer. Mr. E. Chamberlain of this city will, during the present summer, published a work bearing

We above title, which should be in the posses sion of every citizen of the State The need of such work has long been felt.and we are glad ! to know that the forthcoming book will meet the expectations of the public. Mr. Samuel Merrill has been for some time engaged in compiling it, and it is nearly ready for the press. Mr. Merrill's well known qualifications for such a task is a sufficient guaranty that it wilt be ably written, full end comprehensive in its details. It has been fifteen years siuce a Gazeteer of Indiana has been published, and that is now necessarily out of date and useless. The necessity of such a work at this lime ia obvious. It is designed to give full and accurate information in regard to the towns and villages of the State, products, soil, population, wealih, streams, water privileges, mills, manufacturing esublishI ments, schools, seminaries, colleges, railroads and canals, and in short, a mass of political, geographical and statistical information which will be invaluable. It will contain handsome engravings of the State House, State Bank, Insane Hospital and the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylums at Indianapolis; Wabash College, Crawfordsville; Asbury University, Greeucastle; and State University, Bloomington. The work will be delivered to subscribers at $1.50, handsomely bound. Between 6eyen and eight thousand subscribers have already been obtained, and many more are coming in daily. It is expected that an edition of 10,000 copies will be printed. We have seen apart of the paper to be used. It is an excellent article, fine and White, made by Geo. Robinson, Delphi. We will answer for the printing of the book: it shall be done in the best style. State Sentinel. liun nci pn t ion . The Emancipationists throughout the State, are exerting themselves nobly. There really now seems to be a reasonable hope that our neighbors will Boon effectively record their sentiment against human bondage, and provide for its final removal. The prospect has brightened much since the letter of Henry Clay. The Emancipationisls of the State were desponding, and had been for a month or two, when that document made its appearance. It at once gave them a new hope, and infused new spirit into them and since then they have worked like men who had a great end to accomplish, and were determined to bring it about. Success to them. Missouri is coming up to the work just in time to give countenance and encouragement to the friends of freedom in Kentucky. Without these two States, The West, as we are in the habit of marking out its boundaries, is incomplete. With them, it has a compact, well-form ed territory, of nearly 500,000 square miles in extent, and scarcely less than 7,000,000 of population. Let there be no human slavery in it! Let Kentucky and Missouri wipe out the "dark spot," heal up the "festering sore," and take their stand boldly along side of the practical friends of Freedom and of Man. This doue, what a front would The West present to the theoretical advocates and the practical upholders of Slavery. There is hope. With Henry Clay in the one State, and Thomas II. Benton in the other, it may almost be said that there is assurance. In the Btrong and fervid language of Ohio's noble daughter, Alice Carey. "The time will come, as God is just, When mankind shall its rights attain: Even the gnawing teeth of rust Will part the oppressive chain." Let the West be a unit in regard to Slavery, as it really is in respect to political measures and commercial interests, and its power will be irresistible. It is the noblest territory of equal extent in the world; and among its population the communities now formed and forming ou its hills, iu its valleys, and along Its lakes and rivers are sown the Beeds of a freedom and greatness beyond anything the world has yet known. Cin. Gazette. Tlotiw lwrr f iagnrn. Measurements, says a wrUer :n Silliman's Journal, have been made of the volume of Niagara river, from which it appears that the motive power of the cataract exceeds, by nearly forty fold, all the mechanical force of water and steam power rendered available in Britain for the purpose of imparting motion to the machinery which suffices to perform the manufacturing labors for a large portion of the inhabitants of the world, including also the power applied for transporting these products by steam boats aud steam-cars, and their steam-ships of war to the remotest seas. Indeed,it appears probable lhat the law of gravity, as established by the Creator, puts forth, in this single waterfall, more intense and effective energy than is necessary to move all the artificial machinery of the habitable globe. Great West. ;rn. Tnylr's Family. A Washington correspondent represents the domestic relations of the President as remarkably happy. Mrs. Taylor is an amiable and interesting woman, who, like Mrs. Adams, rather shuns thau courts the notice of society, partly from a natural and instinctive feeling, partly from delicacy of health. Both these ladies are from the State of Maryland. Mrs. Bliss, the youngest daughter, will do the honors of the house, so far as the female head is concerned. There is much amenity and sweetness in the air and manner of this lady, and she is said to be quite accomplished; no pains or expense have been spared in educating her at the first schools. Miss Betty Taylor, was for some time iu one of the boarding schools in New York. The son of the President, Richard Taylor, a graduate of Yale College, is charged with the care of has fatiler's plantations on the Mississippi 0"John L. Robinson, made a speech in this city, a few weeks previous to the last Presidential election. The only remarkable feature in it was his denunciation of the Wilmot Proviso. It was not only a humbug, but an unconstitutional humbug. We now understand that he pretends to be in favor of its passage by Con , , gress. nal becomes ot ms constitutional scruA verv convenient conscience has that - PM ; Iudiana Journal. - CTl wonder what make, my eye. so weak?' to said a loafer to a gentleman. 'Why they are in ' weak plare,' replied the latter

FUN AND FANCY.

Curiosities of the Enrlh. At the cilv of Mndena. in Ttnlv. and about 'four miles around it, wherever it is dug, when--..j , , ever the workmen arrive at the distance of sixty three feet, they come to ned 01 clialK, which they bore with an auger five feet deep. ; They then withdraw from the pit before the auger is removed, and, upon iu extraction, the water bursts up through the apperture with . .j :i.i.. n. .1.;. well, which continue, full, and is affected nei- i ther by rains nor droughts. But lhat which is most remarkable in this operation is the layers of earth as we descend. At the depth of fourteen feet are found the ruins of an ancient city, paved streets, houses, floors, and different pieces of mosaic. Under this is found a soft oozy earth, made up of vegetables; and at twenrge trees entire, such as walnut valnuts still clicking on Ihe i i r ty six feet deep large trees, with the w stem, and their leaves aud branches in peifect preservation. At twenty eight feet deep a soft chalk is found, mixed with a vast quantity of shells, and this bed is eleven feet th itk. Under this, vegetables are found again with leaves and branches of trees as before, and thus alternately chalk and vegetable earth to the depth of sixty three feet. From tlie Cincinnati Times. O In a letter from Horace Greeley, written from this city, the writer gives the following graphic description of one of his traveling companions. The sketch is evidently drawn from nature: "I lost at Wheeling my three companions of the mail-coach, two of them fair, worthy men, but the third deserving of especial mention. He was an Ohio retailer of tape and chewer of plug tobacco, some thirty years of age, who had set up for wit on a small capital ef low humor, and had a very narrow miss of turning out a natural fool. It was his chief employment throngh the day to humbug those we met or passed by, pretending to hold out to them some valuable paper, or to call them back by pietence of having some important communication to make. His standing topic ef remark was the fair sex, for whom he professed and doubtless felt the admiration a hog has for artichokes. I lost him quite resigned to the probability of never meeting him again. A Hold Xtrskr for n llnbnntl. A worthy farmer, living in a country village in France, and a widower, was recently aroused at midnight by the barking of a dog. On endeavoriug to quiet the dog, he found him unusually agitated, whereupon the farmer took his gun and went out to look into the cause. All at once he saw a horrid phantom rise up behind the hedge clothed in a white sheet. lie turned quite pule, and his limbs shook with dismay. At length he picked up sufficient courage to ejaculate "If you are from Heaven, speak ! If from the devil, vanish!" "Wretch!" exclaimed the phantom, "I am your deceased wile, come from the grave to warn you not to marry Marie , to w.hotn you are making love. She is unworthy to share my bed. The only woman to succeed me is Henrietta B . Marry hor, or persecution and eternal torment shall be your portion." This strange address from the goblin, instead of dismaying the farmer, restored his courage. He accordingly rushed on his ghastly visitor, and stripped off the sheet, discovered the fair Henrietta B herself, lookiug excessively foolish. It is said that ihe farmer, admiring the girl's trick, had the bans published for his marriage with her. O The following amusing description of a scene in a Menagerie, is from the Cincinnati Dispatch, of Monday: "The thunders rolled the varmints growled the lightnings flashed the rain-storm dashed the lion roared Driesbach swored the canvass tored the rain through leaked the tent ropes creaked the women shrieked and the COIllUllinUOU Wl HIO Cirilirillt., tiri.nau.r., n ..u i . r .U- 1 . 1 V. ..... ..i , beasts and the crowd made the scene "fearfully terrific," as panic makers and romauce grinders say. The only serious damage we hear of, was the tearing of a young gentleman's pants, by the premature discharge of a revolver, with which he had armed himself, in anticipation of this emergency. O "How is your wife to-dny?" said a friend of ours to a French gentleman. "Ohlmoch desem,"said he; "she is no better, and I am 'fraid ver' little waa. If she is gon die, I wish she would do it soon; I feel so uuhappie; my mind is moch unset tel. W'en she die, I shall not be so moch dissatisfied!" ot no Ilari. The Dayton Journal is responsible for the following vicious article. Your Mrs. Partington is'nt so bad Mr. Journal! Our Mrs. Fartiugton read over to herself the list of removals and appointments in a newspaper, several days ago, til I she came to the following:A. F. Terry to be Postmaster at Columbus, vickS. Medary removed.' "Vice" she soliloquized, taking off her specs, is a monster, as the poet says, and people ought to have more sense than to name their children after the horid creetur. Vice S. Medary! No wonder General Taylor removed him the name's perfectly ouldacious aud the old lady bessed her stars that she had given 'Scripter names' to a numerous offspring." Ningulur Drain. Lately, while a party of negroes were engaged in the amusement of "butting," at Savanah, (Geo ) one of them undertook for a small wager, to "butt" over a square bale of cotton. He took a start of ten yards, and won the wager; but the effort cost him his life, the sudden jar breaking his neck and causing his instant death." Taking il Coolly. Many years ago, as Judge Tompkins, afterwards Governor Tompkins, of New York, was sentencing a man to be executed for murder, in Orange county, and while he was in pathetic terms admonishing him to repentance and preparation, the criminal looking up iito the gallery of the church in which the court was held exclaimed in a loud clear voice. "keeD order there, will vou I cannot hear what the Judge! avs to me." I

THE WIDOW KFHOTT. gifted pen. We Wiethe happy pair all Hie writes TO HER DAUGHTER, MRS. jititer smith, felicity which their distinguished a'jiii: if s so richDfaw MrnssA :-I now take mv pen in haud ,y "'"ited Ed. Lumiuary.

to tell you that I rather puesa vou'll h ron.iil'"o.j asioi.isnea wiieii you read what i s-t down In rot-it. I irni ... . ..!.... . .... - -. . ' : jf u m n may es well Eive it nn first as laet fr. vnu hm. ' C"- And you aim to let ou a word about it to " lwrKto r,.ri the t K ' " " . IttiHM. mum m... '..m m.an IhIp PVP,, i:i r' , V 1 . . belter not tell Miss Peudepra.' for I'm afeard she can't keen i, k-ir Vi . .. " Kenipes, and they'd tell ,l,e Crosby's and Lm V. . . ,, , ,1 Jr L0" 8 W"e , widder Je. ,1 , ,e" wilVtb. hit , Je"kl?" h" -she 'twas Pull Bing- ! want talt ? Ver',. iJ,TiCil1 P""01; 1 ; ir ! r l'" 11 bursts upon her ! I'll a.BUlllil,? iiko thunder clap. I guess j 1 11 let her kuow lhat I can hold my head as i"j.uas ner iu lutur, for who did she pit but a I 8C,r 'Pid ola hung head that she wouM'nt a had - &r on lit to Kwr'i wife, for fear rlus'll tell her folks, 1 nn. it, ....Ml :..!.. J i ...... 1 and they'll sartinly devulgate it all around. ii you do tell her, you make her promise she won't hint a word about it to her step-mother she 'twas Kenicler Wickle nor nobody else. You must keep it a secret till I come. 1 1 nothing happens to preveut we shall be iu Wigwletown uext week a Saturday, on our bridle tower. A Sunday morning we calkilate to go to meetiu' long a you and Jupiter, and in the afternoon we shall tend the Baptist meetiu. 1 tell ye, won't there be some starin in Wiggletown that day. I guess they'll find out lhat I'm as good as any on 'em, if" not a litlle better. I shau't have none o' the things they've ever seen me wear. My riggin is to be eulirelv uew. Your uncle Magwirehas made me a present of a handsome green merino dress, and your aunt Magwire has give me a new brown velvet bonnet, and your cousin Jefferson has presented me an elegant plaid shawl, and I calkilate to come out in 'email at Wiggh-iowu. Speaking of my new wardrobes, riMiiinJs me to tell you that if Jabe t lark comes your way a pedliu', not to trade a cent's worth villi him. You remember how he come it over me about the shoes don't ye? Well, it's amazin' I should ever be such a fool to be took in by him agiu but so 'twas. He come along here a spell ago. and sarvad me the awfullest trick vou ever heard on. I was nloue iu the house your aunt had gone to a sick nauor , and the way lie cheated me was perfectly dreadful. Mv blood biles uow a think in on't. He pretended he'd experienced religion, and lamented over the way lie used to cheat aud lie; and as true as 1 live aud breathe, actually got round me so't he persuaded me to swop away an alegant stun colored silk that cost me a dollar a yard, for a miserable slazv blriirri consarn, that he said was all the fashion now called "grody flewry" and what makes it more agravatiu , made me pay tew dollars to boot. But lhat want the worst ou't, for come to onroll it, we found three or four yarjs awav lit t'other eend on't was ail damaged and stained up 'twant lit for nothing. 1 er aunt was mail at me for being so took in, aud yer uncle helalfi and hectored me, and went on about it vou know what a critter he is to bother a buddy. At last I busted out a cry in", and wenl otf and shut myself up in my room and staid there till tea time, and when I cum down, lo ami Ik-IioU your uncle stepped up and gave me a green merino dress he'd been off to the store and Uo't it a purpose for me, fringn and buttons aud everything to trim il with, and I've got it made up, and it sets like a dandy aud I'me gwine tube married in it. Bull can't help feeliu' awfully gauled about the silk. I took it to Parker and Petlibone's and swapped it otf for Home things I wanted They wouldn't allow me but eighteen pence a yard, and 'twas all il was u oitli. Jabe made me take a couple of handkerchers tew, for a dollar apiece saUl he'd stake his reputation ou't they want half cotion and no more they want, for come to do 'em up showed tint plain enuff that they was all cotion did you ever? He got round theelder tew made him pay five dollars for abuzzom pin said 'twas topaz sot in gold, aud it turned out to be yaller glass with a pinchbeck rim round it. I was clear out of pashe nee with the elder for bein so green but sitivated as I was 1 couldn't say nothiu, ye know. It ever I come across Jabe Clark a-rum. if Iih

1, 111"! awful name. Ilo.vdovoulikeSliaHn.ru? ThMf the name of his grandfather that's to be. Yer uncle and aunt and Jeff sends love. P. P. B. P. S. Yer cousin Jeff axed permission to read 1 ",IB "run, auu lie pat. i null! I IUIU 1VU Will)' . ..." : .1 , , weddin's to be, nor nothin'. But 'taint to be l -...v ....... . . . , 1 1 v-1 n in u tin wondered at that I forgot, for I've got such a iiuiunvuK num. nr, ui unuri 11 lllllllt nil I1UW My future companion is to te the Baptist minister of this place, by the name of El.ier Sniill-s. The way we became acquainted was quite sin - gular. You see I took to altendiu' his meetiu' because the Presbyterian i.iinister here was such small pataters that 'twau t edifyiu to me to set under his preachin'.and understand' that F.Iuv . mini o m u .rij niry Mttn ii, . ,'iuuill 1 .1 t .1... .Kfii.11. .a n-na n .... pr nlft.l ....... f !... .!. T 1 go to here him. ell, 1 liked him wouderftil well, he's a wunderful prearher, and his prayers is very in If rest in'. So I goes to here him a uumher of times. He observed, aud was evi dently pleased with me; but duriu all the time I was creatin such a seusalion in his feel ins, I never knowed but what he had a wife. Huw 1 did feel when I found out he was a w iJdiwer. ' Iwasdretful flustrated, and kept myself as scarce as possible but he fullered me up and persevered, till at last I consented to accept of him. It's so melancholly to be alone iu the world; and then ministers don't grow on every bush The weddii,; is lo take place next week a Wednesday eveuin , at your uncles. Lh;er Yarpers, from SUb town, is i perform the ceremony, and preach iu Elder Pniflljs place next Sabbath, when were gone. The Elder lives in a gamble ruff, yaller house. I moii n tn mnkt him nut vi ntr In t. ami inulu it look rulher more fashionable. It stauds ou a descendiu' elevation that slants dowu to a Canal on one side, and not fur beyond it is a morautic grove. He hain't no family but a liltle highlylighty gal that they brought up. I tell ye if I don't make her stan round when I git there,' l'me mistaken. We shall start for W iggletown a Thursday in tho stage, and git there, I s'pose, a Thursday evenin'. Now, Melissy Smith, remember your to keep it a profound secret. I dou'l want anybody iu Wiggletown to know a word about it till they see us cum a walkin into meetiu'. If you answer this before we cum, direct your letter to the Reverend Mrs. Suifiles. Youraffectionatemar, P. P. Beuott. P. S.-1've writau "en ray marriage that Jeff thinks one o' my best poims. HeVgwiuo to send it to be printud iu the Scrabble Hill Luminary, right under the marriage uotice. lie's a keepin it from par aud mar cause they haint do sense o' poity, yer aunt espeshellv has alwavs disencurridged my wriUn' for the papers. But she can't help herself. p. r. B. From ihe Scrabble Hill Luminary 11 i.mrn It, thi. uill..(.a YA. A ..... .! ... .1... 20th Inst, by the Rev. Elder Yawpers,of Slab-

don't ketch it, no mailer. But l'me wonderful " J0"U ial,'Jr- auJ j0" v r'ht for Tvey:bizzy about th-se days, and so no more al pros- j seatatives. eut Iroiu your affectionate mother, Priscim.a P. Bdoott. J j George W. Cutter, postmaster at Wheelr ?",fT.? iv',ny.,aVe Jl'it". I'me grati- Y, , who, through his deputy, recently relied that the baby is so forrard. hat do you - .. ' calkilate to call him? I hope it won't be Jupi- j fu8ed to dliveran Ohio paper tinged with Free ter for somehow I don't egsacllv like the name, 1 Soil, has been removed by fien. Taylor, and a tho' it sounds well for a maa. But don't in all ' good Whig. James E. Wharton, the former edi. favor name him after your par llezikier's au ' . r ,i.. u-i...i:. n , - . .

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town, the Rev. O. Shadrack Sniffles, i.f Scrabble Hill, to Mrs. Priscilly P. Bedott, reliet of tho late deacon Hezekiah Bedott, Esq., of Wiggletown. The fair bride has sent us the following mnrc?au' whi?h ourrread'rs wl unit in pronoun cing equal to a forrm-r effusion trout the smut

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i:. - ?n - . . ...... f "' la.raua ainuenclt, the wise,. II iVo 11 II itm, 1 h.ir f.-. ...... : t , ... And tnntually joined iu the matrimouial con t,on. UaTe t"" adoa to "le,r previeus a&ctiou. Ko more wi llwr 10Urn their K-,, r , " ' wation. " co",inu" 'O'vlhe without mitigation. But Prdners for life to be parted no more. 1 SOrr0" eUled' lroubl" ' "" fWwl!' " Shadrack ! Friscilla did speak While the rosy red blushes surmantled herche.kt And the tear of .flection bedooiJed hereve, O.Sbaorack, my Shadrack i 1'ia yourn tiill die! The heart that was scornful and cold as a stone, Has surrendered at last to the fortunate cue ; art well to the misiriesand pnrfa I havn hi. I'" An i . . ver desert thee, O, Shadrack, my Shad ! World of Pare Mpiril. inveterate dram-drinker beinir InM lhut me cnoiera Willi winch He was attacked was iucqrable, and that he would speedily be removed to a world nf pure spirits, replied, " Well, that's a comfort at all events, for Ii's. very difficult to get any in this world." An Argument for lCinly Iti.iiij., An extraordinary instance of the nower uf. sleep ou the animal economy occurred the day before yesterday. A man, who was a great sleeper, was thought bv his family to be Ivinc i . j .i - . . . . - iou lonjj ; auu, upon ineir going up lo tus room, they found nothing in his bed but his night-cap. From certain circumstances connected with physiology, a medical gentleman gave it as his. opinion that he had slept himself out. ID A country clergyman being opposed to. the use of the violin In the church services, was, however, overruled by his congregation, who determined lo have one. On the following Sunday, the parson commenced his service by exclaiming in long drawn accents: "Yo may fi-d-d-I-e auu s-i-n-g the -1th psalm." IS" If a man reap "whatsoever he soiveth," what a harvest of coats and breeches the laiiwi will have, one of these days! "vrr KutUul. Nobody is satisfied in this worlJ. If a legacy is left a man he regrets it is not larger. If he finds a sum of money he searches the spot for more. If he is elected to some high office hw wishes it a better one. If he is rich and wants for nothing, he strives for more wealth. If 1m is a single man, he is looking out for a wife, anU if married, for childreu. Man is never satisfied. fr'oity Tons of Knccta. The Mobile Herald and Tribune of thelitis publishes the following extract of a letter received in that city, dated Panama, April 25, The British mail steamer arrived here yesterday from Call jo. She has on board forty lou of specie. About two hundred mules have been loaded wilh her freight to be taken to Chagres. Several ships have arrived within a few days euough to take all the Americans that are ca tiio l.-thnius to California. The price of passage has j consequently fallen fifty dollars. Ou Sunday night some of our rowdies entered by force a room where a fandango was goiug on. Two. meu of eai-h ije were wounded, one so severely lhat he died next day. I am sorry to say thai our countrymen do not behave very discreetly. There is, in consequence of it, an increase of bad feeling among the natives. 0The Whigs of Ohio and Switzerland counties have nominated Scott Carter for Senator, I , , t IT. ... . . . . I " " """"s . -a appomieu. Fnira the L.oui.viHr Journal. Whru -wilt ihou rouu t TO MV ABSENT WIFE. . U'l ... ...II. .1 ...I -1. .1 . i - ii. niuu i.uiiiv ) n u n il liivu lUii.. .y me? My spirits languish and my heart is lone: rri I 1 1 . 1 .L it Tho. ghts, hopes aud wishes stretch th. mselvei j . ' Like tendrils to the suu my loved, my own . Ceine from the land of snows; the south is brigh: : And beautiful, though winter's sWmp be here; , ., . . ... , , Cotm'' thoa w,lt Slve the da' a fe,rer ''l': auu uiouui iu hid ieai iiuw urown auo sere. a .i i . i . - . i ,....r i , Come, sweet ideal cf my younger life. Come, purer real of my early lot, Aud title dearer than ought else siv wife!Come, for I have no home where thou art not. Come wilh the bursting bud.the glowing flower; The cheerful breezes, aud the chanting birds; New pinions will thy presence give each hour, New niusic greet me iu thy truthful words, f-'fe is to short to spend it thus apart This sad hiatus growing day by day; What can it give to recompense the heart, . 1 0T ail ti"s "paraxon sleaw away? Joy may be thine I cannot feel its thrill, I may not mark its blush tho' health be thineT listen to thy whiljperau is s,iH; J r TI""ro is D0 throbbing heart to answer mine. Dreams rnmn tm-hent m u ill. ihir ...il , r, , , ... lu Mm' UeV 1 Bee thee l,ure aud W-urt; Thy smiles in visions with my spirit dwell, Our sou!s commingle iu the spirit land v . cWk lh proseuce br?a(heg ; : , , J - ' 1 "v bosom lhrob seems quieted in mine, And that fair bursting bud our own dear boy; An angel on its cloud rests hushed on thine, Ah; dolh he 'et remember me, and how, With feelings born wilh him, in new surprise, My gaze parental resting on his brow, r soB,,t Uis B?ir,t U,roUgh tW az0re il not LJF,t: thus day by daX Alone to linger and apart to pia, While thoughts of me pass from his miud .awav . , , . . , , . A,ld other faCeS trtke the I',afe of ,n"IeOh! let him not forget me! teach his youn?, j Kuir s to nlter with lhine 0 " 1 ' J ' npoui.u i.i nwcc.ri iiuii, uivvtuiiinieruig tongue Than Glory's poeans throngh the trumj of Fame. I think I hear him thus! I think I see His baby hands, besido thee, raised in prayer; But when I strive to clasp my boy and thee. Nought but an empty vi-ii nestles IrWe.