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A ltoruojia will bj bolil rMuiul for lü 1-tfal aü Truing orderuU by Ukui. ) yAHlW'Uclug uuUIUlctnrr 4-1 t'l , $1 lo atibavnbara, aud 9i lo utuao wuo art uol layuiaul lavaaiaaLr laapvama. Atlvartiaoiuauu uoi uiarktHl on tha copy for a pociltwl DtfibOar of luaorlioua, will t couumitfU uulil vrclvrw.l out, aud a) inaut roquirf! actor-Uma-l), unluM iu7 rotor to a loliuiu data, whoa tu) wilk tM maeriud U Ua4 UaU. If uiaraod "tilt foru J," luajr will, ol votrte. Im losortod autil or drM out, at da uual rate. .ill aUrtfrtiMuidMt f'J aiapjor or traualopt peraouaU bo paid 1. a.Uauco. iKiai .tutica, fmi, and Cmmanicatlort datiyaod ti pruutul privala lutoreata, w i.l bs CUf,d 91 yt miaf lvr ab luaarliuu. .xarrutgaautUaaiba ara an uou itaU fratulU ouaijr. Aa adrertlaemaut will b luertöd without COmuauaaUoU. T. A. OOOOWI.f, Ed. American. C. B. tmStLKi, M. Wutucral. jprottssional Carte. Dr. J. W.KEELY, burgeon lienlist 0KK o. u.E DOOK-SoUTH OP TUE VALLfcY hutab, cr rrataa. All wwrk warrauwu. .No arj" fwrcaatuibatiou oradite. 41-1 J. 13. DAVIS, M." D., riiyici;in .urj;eoii, OFKItÜ at aia rvaidonro, eoruer CI Allill aui Jautoa lrU, Ürouaillaf lud. CYIIX'S KILGOIIEt Jutlc5of tha i-aaco", aud Ailorueji aud Couuatfllor at law, Brookvill, lud. Oiöoa aoaib tal Coruar of Public nuar. 43, liJ. "IT7 .tlOItllOWa Attorney and Coaotellorai If .Law, UiUcw Ao. 7 Hall' buildnir, Urova TUla.tadiaua. Kl-43. DD. JONES, Attorney and Councilor a . Law, Hrixaill,lud. OQlco In Maile'a bull diu. S-iJ Nn'C. CnOOKSIIAWKt AUorney and Comiaalloral Law. Otöce lu llailn'i hml'llUk, Bruokv.lU, lutiiaua. 43- "S3 J II. I't'Ll'Iir Altornnyat Law. Oiflra oil Hurjruaa Hlraoi, two door I uurtn of Oo. iiot laadaOitlc, Brook ill. 43-33 NO T A II Y P Uli LI C. Residence, Alt. Cnrmel, Ind. iosi:s j Attorney at Law iÄkku FM iasklm Co i7ü I ....... . . ." -..".'. . I lTr.Li.takaarfcnnwiiniiuorD. awH. A A L V. WAIII), ATTORNKY&.COUNSKLLOU ATLAW, Brookvilla, In.liana. O 'lc lwodoora uorth Unrioti'a Kiora. i. If. HIOUUIS, M. I)., I It y M i c 1 it & M it r o n Ml. Carmellnd., 2 2-2-' 63 1 year. Putnam's Magazin for M iy, contain 9 a paper written with uncommon ability, and entitled Henry Clay as an Orator. While dissenting from the writer in many of bis opinions conctniing Mr.' Clay's character, e nevertheless admire his article. Deheving it will inteie this numerous friends especially, wo will lay n few extracts before them. I!K.ifKY CLAY IX THE ESAT8 AFTER CAU HiVXU OK. ITU We heard Mr. Clay speak on the day when it was announced to Congress that Mr. Calhoun was dead. It had been known to the city, the day day before, which was Sunday, and the next day a great crowd bad gathered in ths galleries and on the floor. A solemn rxptetation evidently j-ervaded all, of hearing the most impressive funeral eloquence, from the most celebrated compeers of the great man who was dead. The whole Mcene was aweinipiring. Benton was in his place an iron-looking man an 1 it was whispered that in the new made grave, animonitics would sink, and that bis voice would rise in tie chorus of eulogium.' At a short distance from him was a single senator's chair, the only spot unoccupied in that thronged half. On the other side of the main aisle, 8t Webster, drenaeU in depet mourning. Ibis massive features set like stone, with a monumental look; seeming far gloomier and more sepulchral than they looked, when uo very long time alter, in full Senatorial costume, his own dead form lay out beneath the mighty branches of his patriarchal elm. Near bim was Mr. Clay. When the formal announcement was made, there w3 a profound stillness. , No one seemed willing to rise tirst, to give Twive to the sorrow of the Senate. At length Mr. Webster turned his head toward Mr. Clay, as if ho would say, that bis longer Congressional career entitled bim peculiarly to open the great cadence of lamentation. Slowly and quietly he rose. He began very geutly in instinctive harmony with the uuiversal feeling. His rare? voice, beautiful though subdutd, anr. as were muffled, rose gradually as he j pictured the younger scenes of bis association with bis friend. And as le drew a rapid view of bis domestic ! relations, and descanted on the virtues and agreeable excellencies of the wifoj who had cheered the long campaign of the political soldier, grateful recollectious thickened on his raiud; the life ... b!ood began to push its way into dulled meniories, and his eye begun to shine, and his whole form to sway about gently and gracetully, whlethe tones waxed louder, though not at ail vehement, but rather more and more pathetic ani effecting. Never shall our ears forget the touching melody with which he pronounced this closiag pe-

riod of a norrowiD'' climax, 'lie win my

junior io Vfar", in notLiii, tUv, nrnJ un no rvaieu in ido yt nuo iuif oi ihh wird, liu turnu j li'w eycaon tlitmpiy chrtir u mummt uf ikneo intervtiifd tht-n hi uccumuliU-d wiiht of Ictlmg guahid lorih in onabrici", rao. Viii qufUun, as lie gestured toward th chair, "When hall that gre;it vacancy bv tiJld?" forever bm lhosoawelliJa' words, Ulm great vuctncy" Bouadaiid resound in our cars. Their tOllü WHS the lon ofadirge.and of h panegyric, and a prophecy combined. PECULIAR CHARACTEIt OP CLAY'S OUA TUKV. There are many kinds of orators. Ther i the 'magisterial orator of intellect, ia posing and Weldcrian'. there is the gaudy aud polished utterance ol tin rhetorician, captivating with mere tricious ornament; und -theru is the orator ot character und manner, away lug masses like a commander. To itn last order Mr. Clay primarily belonged. Though we ee also in him the action of an intellect free and large, and this, as we hall presently so.ice more particularly, came matt-n ally to the a.d of hi. etiect. Wiiilc of the aits and graces of the rhetorician, the set orator of the school, the ornament rather than the ruler of public bodies, he had nothing. Of narrow education, not bred in very polished tfctnet, aud uever much given o read ing books, hi culture was always chiefly gathered from me society of men, widi whom be came in coutact, and the enterprise in which he wan engaged. We bhall look in vain in his reported speeches lor btholuatic beautie or liteiaiy gems, la vainehall we eck to trace a learned fancy iu an atHii ent imagery. Nothing like die polish edperiuUli of Edward Everett will greet our sens- of barmony of numbers; nothing lik bat pbantom pagvantry conjured up by the impassioned fancy of Kufus Choate will stalk in grand procession before our mind's eye, as on some mimic stage. IN'o, his eloquence was fed from o: her fountains. He had the words which Lc Lad picked up from a few books and from many men;ome of them gool, sonn bad, like the vnriely of human natur which ho bad fallen in with, lie shook bands w'uh ihn hunters of the West, and the scholars of the Ea.t, with wagoa bovs from Ohio.Hnd Presidents fnim Vir-1 ginU. and from them all he had gnth-1 crwlun hi.rommun hut conmu voruh. ulary. lie had the trite h-Mir- or . 1 . .! b "J rni ilbiratioa taken . i . i . r . I i

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th- crudu f ,h.r-hu- ; rru-tnriciurt. and hoth words and ima - ii l,w ium' jifT.luinil Hi. .Verroll i i put his mind into the harness of ,,r. ! pre pared paragraphs. Set Kentences gut up like. Sheiid.in s or cve.i premeditated like Urattau's, never rushed with prearranged fervor from his lips. Nor in r.ry v. y did I r indulge in epideictic oratory, or what we may call show-od" speeches. He poke as the battle of de bate demanded, instant, tervid.io the very pointoflhe moment. He had not time for the preparation of speeches, for choice diction, for culled periods. Indeed the warmth und movement of his powers when in acion was such, that he could never get along very satisfactorily with an apt or eloquent quotation. A little anecdote is told of him forcibly illustrating this. Anticipating a sretcli ononeoccaion, he laughingly asked a representative from Uoslon. Mr. Winthrop, to jrive him the quotation about it rose by any other name smelling as sweet. This he wrote out on a little slip of paper, and when in the march of his speech he arrived at its point of introduction, he began to fumble? among his paper, slid talking on though, for bis poetry. Al is! he could not had it; but us unfortunately ; with too precipilAto a con nuence, lie mid started in the oaota lion, and had already i'ototl the word j a rose," it was absolutely necessary to Laiah it somehow; omeihing at all events must be done with the "Rose." So alter a momentary balk and a prodigious pinch of snuff, ho abruptly wound up his attempted rhetorical bravura, by saying, to the aitonUv raent of ears polite, and very much we may imagine to the enforcement of his argument, 'A Rose whe'er you lind it, still is sweet." A arreat and scholarly oratory of New England we have heard say, that duriog his brief term in the Senate, bo has more than once seen the moment, in listening to Clay, when be would have given moneys numbered for the privilege of thrusting a quotation in his hps. Not at all then in the style of thought, the composition, or the diction of Mr. Clay's speeches shall we find any marvels of eloquent power. Thatpowtr was hidden in his lofty and Ro nan-bko character, and ia bis fervent sensibility. He always appealed with electric fervor to the woWer thoughts and the loftier passions of men. Some speakers make their onslaught on the prejudices aud the more vulgar p ssions of their hearers; some to ihe higher and more hallowed impulses the nobilities of human nature. In short, some appeal to men's greatness, some to their littleness. And ihn who nr themselves great, alwavs prefer, the formtr. U was once said of anodier orator, "that the man-cemed always greater than his word." And so as men looked ou Clay's chivalrous and dauntless front, they feluhat there was something behind the sentences. Tb-re Rre men whose spee.hes sem to us richer and grander than they seem themselves, and they continually surprise us. In atadyb.if such "or I rx . we must anaiyie ,n.ir compositions and their culture carefully, it we want to find themout. But with the school of sptakerv, in the van of whose rauks Clay stood, we mut study th men, not the speeches; we must lock at iSaructtr, rather tkaa sultan . . a I a

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HEN UV CLAY'S I'KKKO AND VOICE. In all the lending bodily em-nlials of the orator, hi perMoaelU, Nature had been proJigal u linn oi'lhu meant producing i-llects.. His figure wastall and lithe, and from its pareiiess looked even taller than it really was. It was apparently easily put together, 0 as tu swing about iu gesture pliantly, aud with marked but dignified grace; ul though considered by itself when not in action, it would by no mean be thought h ny in me trio ally pruportiom-d form. 13ut whea thus muvin'' and swuying, iu angles and lengths disap i i i.l a?l. . . L A..'! earuu, anu tue uign-iowcruig uouy, and long sweeping arms became most etlicient contributors to the grand result. His facu was 'arge, and rendering very striking by the ample and lofty orow which surmounted it; tit temple to crown that gallant 'mind which, one look assured yoa, it enshrined. Cicero's mouth and ears were remarkably large, and strange to tell, some critics have set these down as points in a Hue-born orator's make; marks as infallible as the points of blood in "a thoiough-bred." If, indeed, these are uuiuistakeable testsear marks of a native orator then was Mr. Clay vastly the debtor of .Nature. Fur his niuuth was we had almost said gigantic. Certainly it it was huge, it always reminded us of the stone mouth oi VAeojJt. it looked as if xNature had forgotten to give any aperture there, ou his first being turuea od troin her mould, and afterwards let so rue journeyman mendh.m, by splitting an opening with hi broadaxe. In in ola days, wheu the men crowded ro'und him for a shake of his haud, and the ladies bebet him tor a kiss ol his patriarchal hpa, it was xe marked that bis capacity of gratifying this latter demand was unlimited; for the a-0?13 Uimeusiouj 0f his kissing appar11-11 hbied bim completely to re t one side of it while the other was doing active duly. But there have been limes when wo have seen that broad and uncouth mouth hurl forth words so sharp and hard biting, they were worthy of the orator of old, who was said "to eat swords and iron," while again we have t eta it - radiant wiJi good humor, looking absolutely handsome, and pouring forth tone which called right up before you the Vtry fiUy s'de of lite. His eyes were powerful. They were not deep set. -'I'.v di I not lower upon his enemy; I 'rum cavernous dip'.h like Webster'n ; UUk ",VJ 9lmi 11 ;i n,m u T"" 1..., . I.... , M .1 .... ) i,n,n ll..i "Jversnrv; as if set m the iy front rinL ,if tliu hiltlu 'I li V With nf m arravislLblue. n nd in - . ''5,,-',,,nl'l!, l-v seemed to i. u. .mo or thut color, from the light nnd spark, hng to the deep sea-blue; now whining like the irnttering . 1 i eye 'of tin e ancient mariner, and a ram i; rowing intense. and "darkly, deeply blue." His whole i bead taken together was large and radier iiup-jtiag from its breadth, and its height in proportion to its breadth. Phrenologists used lo estimate it at over seven iuhes in diameter, while its height gave him something of that impressive majesty of mien, which history has attributed to the whole family of the first Greek Oraior Statesman. 1 'ericlts. The complexion, in which I ja t J I oiten no much ol the imprissiveness wi .u;sioiio..iy aeeretij lesio t not in bis case peculiar, or marked. Care: d not withered it into the bloodless parchment hue of Calhoun's lineaments, nor deepened it into a smoky swarthinesa. It was natural and healthy. Years wrote their lines about the face well-detined and square, but not deep furrowed. His temperament was rather of the sanguine than the billious order.though he had enough of the latter for ba"d work. Uut take him for all in all, "a he stood in bis boo'" as the backwoodsmen say, bis presence was magisterial. And sometimes as thai high form was Mated, and lifted up in grand accent 1 of command, he looked more than the magistrate; he looked like 11 more than mortal lawgiver, and he presented a living and sneaking example of the truth of the inspiring declaration, man is born "a little lower than the an gels." But after all, his quick, glowiug. tropical temperament, his Jolty form and sway ng arms, bis glittering eye and flurrying hair, nd his gallant bearing, taken all together, were not a more tlBcient arm of oratorio battle, than one other trrsnl element of his! power, which in i effectiveness equal-1 ed all the rest of his physical quahfica. j lions; and that was his wonderful voice. 1 No orator's voico superior to his in n a .. 9 in at . im n . . as n .1 t at atM .a n . a... I quality, in compass and in raanagement, nas ever, we venture to say, been raised upon this continent. It touched every note in the whole gamut of human susceptibilities; it was sweet and soft, and lulling as a mother's to her babe. It eould be made to float into the chambers of the ear, as gently descending snow-dakes on the sea; and again, it shook the .-Senate, stormy, brain-shaking tilling the air with its absolute thunders. That severe trial of any speaker, to speak in the open air, he never shrank from. Musical yet mi fhty, that marvellous orinin ranged over all levels, from thedispason orgän ' tune to the alto shriek; from the tine delicacies of pathetic inflections, to the drum-beat roils of denunciatory intonations. A-d all the lime it flowed harmoniousily. Ls "quality," as elocutionists would say, was delicious, and its modulations proved that the human voice i indeed the finest and most impressive instrument of music in the world; more iuspi.ing than the I clamorous chimings ot Julien bands, I . .. L .1 .1 .1 Ll more touenmg man me gee tie oiowing of mellow flukes. This, bis great possession, the uuequaled voice, as well as all the other eminent particulars of his unrivalled physique, he had cultivated with assidous 9re, from bis youth up. "Thkii act," b told ths studs at of

BR00KV1LLE. FRANKLIN COUNTY, INDIANA, I'lUDAY, -MAY

K ii i.!..! ii wa:.jti,WMW jWWI.1ffH nllton Lhw f chool, a ft-w ymrs before hi deaih,"lhat nny great excellence of advocacy enn be attained wi hut rreitt labor." And then. In his ra st happy narrative manner, lie went on to tell them how he always practised speaking in hi you'.h, "uni often,' sai I be, I ra1 le ihe hills resound in my walks, And mnny herd of quietly grazing cows ha been the astonished HudiencuoTmy onrpourings." The old story of the great Athenian shutting hinistlf in his owe, for five years,, by patient discipline to learn to wield theoiatafor s whole thunder, i indeed paralleled in ft ''renter or less degiee, in the career of all theoiator. It was (Iiis uncommon scope and flexibleness of bis voice, at once strong and delicate, which in conjunction with his other physical endowments, gave bim the ability of satisfying in some measure in bis delivery, that ideal of Cicero, where he enumerates in the epistle to Drutus, or 'the Orator," three distinct kind of speaking; the neat, tht moderate the mighty. And for all three there is reed, each in thtir appriate place; the conversaional, the ntrong but not passionate, and the headlong torrent-like rush, which the Greeks called agonizing upon the Forum. ITlistcIlnnn. TAKING TOLL. Mr. Smith kept a drug shop in the little village of Q , which WHS situated a few miles from Lancaster. It was his custom to visit the latter places every week or two, in order to purchase sucn articles as were needed in his business. One day, be drove off towards Lancaster, in his wagon, in which, among other things was a gallon demijohn. On reaching the town, he called first at a grocer'1? with. the inquiry "Have you any common wine:" "How common?" asked the groccr. 'About a dollar a gallon. I want it for antimonial wine." "Yes, I have some just fit for that, and not much else, which I can sell at a dollar." "Very well. Give me a gallon," said Mr. Smith. rr 1 I I.-" liie uemijonn was orougui in nonn J . w

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I . . . . .. . ' business. Am.xi other things to ,one n .jMt (1 WM t0 i i if i see a nan i wji0 jxtHj ):ljf R nllt, ,r(Jin X,.,Clattr. t Before -"ingom on 'his erran 1, Mr. b . Moi.prTTXm3Tol Motu ö ill tTitTITinrse or tiM nioiip. 'A hi, uk iiuuic ui ii.i . ... .:-..i .-r:... "i f- f t. i. in ui.ir inruj, IUI. tfU.IC). .Ui J wu happened not to be in, but Mrs. Jones was n pleasant woman, and be chatted . with her for ten minuiesor so. As M be stepped into h'n wagon, it struck him thai the gallon iletii j !in was a bttln i:i the way. nnd so, lilting it out, !hj said to Mrs. Jones "I wish you would take this until I como back.'' O.c-riainly.' 8 id Mrs. Jones, 'with the greate-t pleasure.' And o the demijohn was left in the good lady's cere. Some time afterwards, Mr. Jones Cilmt. jt imd nmou ' the first things Umt ultraCteil Rirun re demii 1 his attention ws tl1L. 6trange demijohn. 'W hat is this?' was the natural in quiry. Something that Mr. SMr. S from (J Yes.' left.' ; 1 won 1 ider what he has here?' Ohl Mr. Jones, taking hold of the demijohn. 'It feels very heav .... . . . i The cork was u hesiU'mgly re Idling rae a glass. Do you think I'm going to let a gallon of wine pass' my way without exacting toll? No' mil Ilrin ' mo a il.iss.' .... - .... Q j The glass, h half-pint tumbler, was ; produced, and nearly tiled with the j execrable stulf as guiltless of the ; grape juice as a dyer's vat which was poured down the throat ot Mr. j Jones. Pretty fair wine, that; only a little ' roug i, sum iur. tiuues, siJtHUJug ui j I ..... I IIa I . . . . . 1 . " '. lip 'It's a shame,' remarked Mrs. Jones, warmly, 'for you to do so.' I ouly took toll,' said ly took toll,' said the husbsnd, laughing. 'No hnrm in that.I'ra j II l-xä ' u .1 . H . -i .1 - Kilt It-1" htHVV trill it ait VI boa. TfiA I replied Mrs. Jones . aM.aji. a aa v i viaa s la ottinva UV'a Meantime, Mr S , having completed most of his bu.iitiess for that day; stopped at a storo where he wished two or three articles put up. While these were in preparatiou, he said to the keeper of ihe store 'I wish you wonld let your lad Tom step over to Mr. Jones's. 1 left a demijohu of common wine there, which 1 bought for Hit. purpose of making auUuiotual.wiue. O, certainly,' replied tbo storekeeper. 'Here Toiui' and be called for his boy. Tom cauie, and the store-keeper said lo him 'Ruu over to Mr. Jones's and get a jug of antimonial wine which Mr. a left there. Go quickly for Mr. a is in a hurry.' 'Yes, sir,' replied the lad and away, be ran. Alter Mr. Jones hid disposed of bis haU-piul ofwiue.be thought his stom ach had rather a curious sensation, which was uot much to be wondered at, considering the stud" with which h had burdened it. I wonJer if that really is wine?' said be, turning trom ihn window a which he had seated himself; and tat

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ling up ibe (hhiijohn pgain, tlte cork was removed, and his noc np plied to he mouth of the huge bottle. Yes, it's wine; but I'll vow it's no: much lo brag of.' And the cork was onco naore replaced. Jut then enme a knock on the door. Mrs. Jones opened it, and the storekeeper's lad .appeared. Mr. S says, please let mc have the jug of antimonial wiue be left here.' Antimonial wine!' exclaimed Mr. Jones, h'n chin falling, and u paleness instantly overspread his face. 'Yes, ajr,' said the lad. Antimonial wine!' fell agaiu. but huskily, from the quivering lips of Mr Jones. 'Send for the doctur, Kitty, quick! 0, how sick 1 feel! bend for the doctor, or I'll be a dead man iu half an hour!' 'Antimonial wine dreadful! exclaimed Mrs. Jones, now as paie and frightened as lit r husband. 'Do you feel sick?' "O, yes. As sick as death!' And the appearance of Mr. Jones by no means beheved his word. 'Send for the doctor instantly, or it may be too late!' Mrs. Jones ran first in one direction, and then in another, and finally, after telling the boy to run for thfr doctor, called Jane, her single domestic, and started her on the same errand. Off sprang Jane at a speed outstripping that of John Gilpin. Fortuuately, the doctor was in his olllce, and be came with uil the rapidity a proper regard to the dignity of his j proiessiou would permit, armed with a stomach-pump and a dozen antidotes. On arriving at the house of Mr. Jones, be found the sutlerer laying upon a bed, ghastly pale, and stretching terribly 0, doctor, I'm afraid it's all over with me!' gasped the patient. "How did it hapneuT V hat 1 vou taken?' inouired the doctor, eaÄ a 4 unit -erly. ! took hy mistake, nearly a pint of antimonial wine.' Then it must be removed instantly.' . . .1 l

sa'U tlie uoctor; ami uuwn tue sici. j j..... n'uiiiviiuin-itu iiiinitnii m mv e-- ; ...... j, - ... ... man's throat Went one end of a long, i ,c lrtK b ,ry shewing perfidy j tim-tion of ,ir. A - by being I have beard expressed on the ubject tKx.ble ludia-i ubber t-be, and p-unpi'd the Douglass Bill, tor the organiri perfectly reckless iu oik ring just such of slavery. . I have heard ?evrl expamp pump went the doctors j '.0il f Nebraska K -msas T-rrio. cogent argumeiits. press themeivea pretty faliy, most of baud at the o.her en I. The -,.vUt ' r;es, and fully expounded ihodema-: liut what capj the climax i., our ' ihem in conversition wi'b Kentuckiin-?, was verv Dalnable Vbout a pint of 1 K al duplicity which leads to ihe I Auditor's account of the Casing scent, when they did not know that nny but

1 na vri v nairiiiiir1. ;vliuiil ii iniib ui , ..-j r ,1 .,. . . n 1J1H111. slnm r vmi' ill'i) ir.e. was wilitdrawn. Titere,' said the doctor, I .'ii.s o

lb 41 will do. Now let me give you an ! j oi me speeci.es u -ocveiea in v.-oa-. .or nypen .,e, or a re;, uescrmtiou ;.' a"., out o. mo er; eantidote.' And a nauseous j,. of : gress. on the same subject. of his delusion indued by Hall's d.mzy o. slavery, I have heard but 't'l.. t i I . . . 1 .1.1 . ... . I I ... . .1 ..M.t.VrM. . i.vM I lt...... . .1 .1 ..

ouietillttji or oinri n.is iiii.vi.vi n. ' i . , .... Un II iiujnJ i Dim. Iol iu u kcuu ul h,i. i - : .7 i ... it . .... .t. I 1 ij--I ÜJ 'a bütr now; in quire. I ihe docoras tie sit hulling the pulse of liio sick man. Hii.l fcniun . with a proles, io:i l eye, his Pile face. thar. wa covered with a clammy perspi ration A little,' was the faint reply. Dou'l you thi..ka!I danger is past?' Yes, I think so. Tlie antidote 1 :n ,m.i:... ,k ..r 1, . .... ... v.. ...... ., ;n rui;r,. il, ,.r. llillllUIIVII IV IMII llllMllV till. V 4 fee. of the drug, us far ask has passed into the ssjsiem. 'I leel as weak its a ,-ag,' said the patient. '1 am sure 1 could not hear ! my own weight, wuat ;i puwenui 1 . 1 1. . . i-. 1 S eticct it bad! ! 'Don't think of it,' returned the doctor. 'Compose yourself. There j at t-triitf flirtirun 1? Ii -i f it fi r til 1 rl T UVt liu Willi i t v- v. a v w j . , ,J The w.ld flight of Jane through the i a. .1.11 Olivet, um t.ju nun ieu IllVllllltlll? ' the doctor, did not fail to attract at-! tendon. Inqairy followet .d. and it soon' l I i , , t. . , t,. i ... became noised about that Mi. Jones ( 'What?' 'Poison!' 'Who? Mr. Jones?' 'Yes. And they say he ennnot 1 . . live.' 'Dreadful! 1 must tec bim.' And, without waiting for further informati. n, Mr. Smith spoke to his hore and rode o!f at a gallop for the residence of his friend. Mrs. Jones met him at tha door, looking very i a anxious. How is he' inquired Mr. Smth. in a serious voise. A lirtlrt rii-ifxT T (h.ir.k vou. Tha ,i, uad n nt ,e k; k trtm ftch ill 1 t fl ' ill you wain mr Mr Smith ascended to the chamber where lay Mr. Jones, looking us white as a sheet. The doctor was by his side. Ah! my friend, said the sick man, in a feeble voice, as Mr. Smith look bis hand, 'that antimonial wine of your has nearly been the death of meWhat antimonial wine?' inquired Mr. Smith, not understanding bis friend. The wine you left here in tho gallon demijohn.' That was not antimonial wine!' "It was no.?' fell from the lips of both Mr. and Mrs. Jones. Why no! It was only wine that T bad bought for the purpose of making antimonial wine.' Mr. Jonesro.se up in bed. 'Not antimonial wine.' No!' Why, the boy said it was.' Then bediJn't know any thing about It. It was nothing but somecommou wine which 1 had bought.' Mr. Jones took a long breath. The doctor arose from the bedside, and Mrs. Jones exclaimed Well, I never!'

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wli'u'h one looked ut the other doubtjngty. (rood day,' raid th doctor, and be went down stairs. "So you have been drinking my wine, it seem,' hughed Mr. .Smith, a soon as the man with the stomach -pump had retired. I only took a liltio toll,' said Mr. Jones, back into whoso pale face the color was beginning to come, nnd through whose almost paralyzed nerves was aain llowin from the brain a healthy inlluenoe. 'But don't s'ay anything about it! Don't for the world!'' I wont, on one condition, ' snid Mr. Smith, whoie words were scarcely coherent, so strongly was he convulsed with laughter. . What is that?' 'You must become a teetoller.' 'Can't do that,' replied Mr. Jones. Give mj a day or two to m" up my mind.' 'Very well. And now good bye; the sun is nearly down, andit will be night before I get home.' And Mr. Smith shook hands with Mi. and Airs. Jones, aud hurriedly re a tired, tyring, but in vain, to leave the house in a "rave and dignified man ner. Long before, Mr. Jones had tuaJe up his mind to - join the teetotallers, the story of his taking toll wa3 all over the town, and for the m-xttwo or three months he had his own time of it. After th it it became aa old storv. cDorresponbtuce. , For the Aiiieric.in. ANTI-HETBASSA KASSAS HTLSG. Wüst ÜMON, May 13Ji. The meeting was organized by callin Cr. Clarkson to the chair and appointing James Eilioit, secretary, 1 Rn J -he loilowingc. j '.evolutions lor the ana me louowirw comimiue to artt a coiisideratiou of the ' meetin . a' viz: Isaac v.ase J. JJ. Jiusi, ! ull, A. 11. lhompson und James Tuttle. ' - 'f he Hon. Charles Heemchn of Ham ilton county Ohio, WM then -introdu"e ".au.vn.w uy iuv ne.uein, I U'I'.n in u nrMiii.rliil iiml iritli ..In in..n, 1 7 I J, s;ructioi of humnn lihertv u,Mru Uu,,m IIL,,D" iil, He m - terestvd the hu liencc lor 11 hour an 1 , , ... , I li.il!, ma tiumrt ana who a torce wn'C" woui i tavoraoiy comparo wuli ' .. .. . . i. .1 i i ri lie VI . ... . . . i f.til.ttiitt t r..ii!ifiMri2 vi 1. if i, u.. r. . t.. "e vjuhuuiho: tuen reuonea tne "'""" 4W v"' "'n-u ""-f'I. , . h?Qleed, fhat we hereby earnestly pn,-.t;tHgiin-' the doctrine that conn - iar Sovereignty, or any Other vcr- j - . a ySl l ' M)OWt'r 10 ria0,tMl '-"'ery in in leiTitoiies. csiavery destiovs j in Jivi hi 1 sovereignty, and istherelore ! meiimpauWe and antagonisiical to tl .e.gn-yof tlu ople. To sa ! if' F''P-r sovereignty may estal thsh hlavery, is but sayinn that fit the stabHsu Matery, is out styin tnat liee . , - - . ' . tnstiiuuons may d-stroy their own ba 1' . , ,, . ... . j XaolveJ, 1 hat the Missouri Com--v ..... . .-tv....ri..t,.v.j .v.v,. roe ana his Lahmet, and by every i resident and Congress since, incltil ding many members of the present Congress. and especially Senator DougIhe haste with which it is now , sougiu to oe repeaieu, certainly evinj , L ll aT i 'l's KJ'S inconsistency; una a rtpre-..r-'hensible disregard ot the will of tin t a . k , , . . . a ' . - , . . , . Miif.i . sJU,1Ta "l T- "V1"'"1" ,H- .! ijio nun cnsuinsg elections, anu we win . . .. . .1 ' . : .. i ... llesoh'ed. That, lo girdle this nation i United States, and to pure and unde bled religion. Jlcsolecd, That we are in favor of a Homestead Bill, granting limited por tions oi ianu to actual settlers. JL'ina ' Monopoly 'should be banished the Union, and our Public Lan.li lioulu be free to, and for tha pos.-eiaa of free settlers, to occupy it, as thtir natural and inalienable right. Resolved, That we will war on and war ever, in the spirit of friendly but zealous endeavors for man's progress, against all forces and manner of oppression, by which either the mind or tho body of man is deprived of the means lor ins tun arid legitimate Hveup menu Rcsolocd, That wo will vote for no man this ftl!,whoe position upon these questions, are cot clear and unequivocal, and decidedly in favor of the progress of freedom, and especially in respect to th'j Nebraska Kill. Resolved, '. bat the Secretary send copies of the above, to the Papers favorable to the progress of I recdora, with a request for its publication. The editor of the Indiana American will please publish the above aud oblige the friends of freedom. Yourn tc, JA MKS ELLIOT. For the American. Lacrel, May 11, 1851. Mr. T. A. Goodwin: We notice in your pap r of the 15. h inst. a cummuuicAiion com Laurel City, under the imposing caption "Ten Pin Alley," written we presume by some (gameater, who understands "telling the pins." much better, than logical reasoning. His "stirring time in L vnrcl" caued by a little boy und bell, announcing that M. R. II all was in town and that there would be a debate on iV "47or Question, gave ao little attraction to our good citizens, that "conscience '

poor attendance of males only to hear x;iid debate. What M. A means by the "fefliri t of pins," We are at a Joss to

ill ' OI pins, We HP' :t'. a los to derermiiv. lie certainly does not! man tlie felling of a pin. to b.- sy - ncnomotn with i!ie producing of a raional arran-'ement. for-he says Mr Hull in h:s (ir-t half hour "suceeeded in felling nt least fcur pins." Now .f Mr. A cm igivy one of the

argument oilVred by ilr. Hull in sup-i admire bim. The fair fame be had port of the Resolution proposed for j won ia sadly tarnished, bis laurel con discUs.sioii, during bis lir.sl half hour ho', Mimed in blaze a of indignation which has a better memory than generally : this aüVir Las kindled nruUn i bim. belong to the 'yewj ÄW0,' indeed lAmong the many rebukes he has reho can recolbct things that never oc-, cetved, none hac been more tevtre curred. , than one be met at St. Ljuis recently. We presume Mr. Hull will r.ctdeay ! During the Medical Convention which bat that his first half hour, was oc : recently met there, Crilteiidc-D, who cupied in declaiming a part of one of ! Happeued to be in the city, attending 8 bis old Hereoyped Vabiiigtonian . soiree, which whs held on the occasion. Temperance Speiche?, which consisted ; Several distinguished men were presin telling what the abuse of Alcoholic ' ent, some of whom were called upon to Liquors had done.bplh in ancient and ;me peeebes - Af:er whUesrvrral -modern times. voices called oat "Crittenden, CriaenHaving rev r called in question that j den." The call was instantly succeedthe abase of Alcoholic Liquors a.;ed by an indignant "No! no! no! " the exciting cause of a vast nmouat of i all over the bouse. Crittenden, it is crime, rcichcdiio, and di?ae, iai -snid, ia a few moment quietly left the the world, we did not feel oursclf c tl- j bouse. This I have from one who' led upon to oppose Mr. Hull's tolerably was prtstnt find witnessed it. fair exposition of the same. Hence! It will be gratifying to vou and many he bad our permission to pais from j of your readers to learn that the friends the further consideration of the evils j of the Temperance cause in this region of drunkenness in general, to the in-; are up and doing. Steps have been vesiigaiioa of the ' great Peciüc pro- taken to employ a Lecturer, if a suit

poed for its removal. "Hull m-Ue eli'ort, fin! within bis half hour felled at ltst :.even of the pins." So says Mr. A. Well, if he did, vu were too blinJ to we them fall, unless. he r.ieaiiS that Hull made three iulJition.il assertion, und then failed to produce the proof to sustain ihem. lie very impartially gives us credit fof "felling one pin" by making a dc-perate. throw at the Maine : Liuuor L-W lor vru ubitnv' ihn ir.ir i . I O I ' eins.; and use of win; for ucramental purposes." IS'oa we have received credit for felling one pin,' by ihu perverting the tru.h, and asserting what every body knows to be false; it may be possible that our all coiri u ring opponent 1 .tlii..i-i. 1 t!.' ..-... 'i, rirft, lt..i.. a 1 Hull's grand rally in. eüort, and its almost ovrrwh, Imin -" ... ,,,, , 0 eii'ect upon his 1 auditors. Wlitilur such a sublime .... a. . . a . a ; iti luo: th i.n iir.atioi w.-. . mreiiJeJ i r i ii . i m i mi. ue i uiuenee. we win not ore.ena , , , 1,1 v i v l'n-itio w.. I tiji,..l f '" n " v" . i . Uiat some inen nie perfect dupes of , an assertioii, w-btther mesnurizi'd or 'no;. Wlio would have tbou'jit tb .t i.ui! v.oiuu n.i-e ni x". sut. a lerrioie oii4Q ;t nniongtl.e pins, iij Lis lust I I .. O III... . 1 - :li eil'ori, when all of them had bten pre iou-ly felled b'lt 0110? how he must ha ve spread himself when In? cleared (Iii. ;;I!y. N'o woadir be took the vote at that time and brought the "er.'ire audience." np standing wiih a few 'Xcepiions. Wim', a perfect farce! Mr. liu. I well knew he- had utterly failed to sustain the resolution, und wus 1 very clear of taking a vo? upon it. luu he did take a vote, which our Au ditor would fain palm upon the pub - lie us having been taken oa the ques 1 tiou at issue, fho vote was taken on temperance vs. iutemperaucc. Temperance irained it. Yours tfce. T, OlFFORD rH0iIOTJ2EVA:;SVILtSC0r.2C3?0DNT. Lc'insvillc, May 10, J834. S'lice my last we have had some remarkable changes in the weather :. . . ,i I , .. ,i i . t i . it was all destroyed but I loam there .V 1 will be fruit rf nil kinds in abundance .1. .. : . :r i .. . . a i .1.. - : u t, 4 t. , iii;it i. ii e ii.n c no coin n r l ilt r lriv.Wltl IV Ul JUU, IV.. i.l Ulli eilllKtll there Uno cert aiutv that th f. nit fafvj until the Spring i over. Ia scrae climates ther! may 1)3 such beauties iri fcpnaj as poets a!, U; ceiuinly ther ure not in this climate; or if they r r t . l ... 3 are I confess I cannot s.-e them. lo - , j

day may be bright and beautiful, aud ; "; T,t , f " l.T J J , I a , . Uie ouo yoa want, or you must outrage to-roirow cold nr.d disagreeable; and ' . ' i i . ... so it generally is throu ..tout ihe sea- ; dyott küOi U hsta 'tyrant , b. ' , . . icustom is said to be. Al this if son. lean tee nothing to fiumire in .. , K is , . . such a changeful climate, in which the 10 .u.an l Ja weather teems only to sport with, and ;,rlh' , Lhp' r generoa us .i ',i and attentive to a stranger in a re10 OurUcommuni:y has. in common with ! d . much p perhaps tlie whole country, partaken of the ex-' " " Kr Cf lm .''.'. . . and lnsi Liilions to which I nbict

citement occasioned by the acou'.tal of I Matt. Ward, the murderer a 1 7 barely a more aggravated murder never was committed. A worthless itilow, ne who was of no use to society; and who if ho hid dit d, would not have been missed by comm-unity, goes wilh his brother, b th armed to the teeth, to the school room of a most estimable and useful citizen, insults him grosly, r.nd iu the next instant shoots him down, ar.d all without any real provocation, and yet a jury of twelve men declare m it aa ou their oath, that he is not guiity of ary crime. Whata;grand farce "was th it array of distin 'uished an 1 talent ed men iu the d-.fense! And how rediculous is the idea that they elfecied his release. The verdict of that jury was ma le, before they w-nt into the box. That they are perjured men. no one ent-rtaiiiS a doubt. The people of Kentucky have spok-n oat in reieience to this disgraceful ail'air in 6uc!i terms a show tli it they are not willing to submit to such outrages on law and justice. The citizen of Louisville especially, have done themselves lasting honor, in literally driving the wretch lioni their midst: and it is to be hoped be will never be permitted to again sei foot oa Kentucky soil.

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!Uui what of John J. Crittenden. iL ! man whom the people delight to hon or"? Henceforth be will b im objec of scorn nnd contempt throughout tin e n ct oi corn ana rouiempt tnrougiiout tne land. Well may we s.iy in refeirnce j to htm, "How u the mighty fallen!' That such a man. at hi t ri(d of .life should have taken such a part in such nn nff-iir i astonisliing beyond measure, and deeply m(riifying to those who have bcreii accustomed to , able nrni can be oblsint i, to canvr.53 'he coantv, between this and the kc- : tioa. We are wiaing to pay r.n el-'ic- . -eat man a liberal salary, if i-ucb a one ! can be obtain-d. AH the people wui is to be waked up. It will surprise us very much if the next Leg'tlaiure is not composed of a majority of men wLj will favor the pHsa.age of a prohibitory law. Morestrion. 15AKKR. fro: KEMLfKli"S A.XD SLWTKV.. II.m..hi- AuoKTummDin.. Xr..l Ajxlt v.', 11. j Friend Goodvtlv: I h ive a greeably disappointed, ia traveling through Kentucky, a, the sentim-nts KentucKiaus Were prtstnt. Ut the right or wrong of hold.ng human bein rs . . ....... . j 'n on Jage, voa will sei Jem hear1 nur . 1 . : I - I - .( tnmg si.ui; mat question lin y setm , . .. ) . .. I.. . . i . i . . t n iihii, ounnuutun inniuuin. i. . i r l i . , h;ti? tii-in fr. i v r nrntl nn. I ... V. those with whom 1 have couvervd, - --v rJnnd tliose whom I luve agreed, that have overheard. ii U the cauru of bad farming; that it clucks im provement, both public ani private; Mid that it leads to idleness, extravagance, and dis.ipa'Joi, with itli their inseparable evils. All these are acknowledged evils, und to thee arc to be ad led those exclusively moral, and all the dark catalogue of wioog and outrage against the cnsluud race. The citizens of this Su'e feel t.nd keenly regret, that she is not let ping pace, especially in her railroads and other pu.Iic improvement., with lit sister States upon the North Ohbv , and In liana, and Illinois ar.d they r cannot conceal from themselves the reason of the inferiority. Yet, in these improvements, she is a far in advunco of lur more Southern neighbors, as she ia behb l tboss on the North. , Though they fco und admit, and many ot them deplore, the eiil, yet tLey neglect to take measures for th removal of its cause. Could they but prejudice out of their minds ceruuu kinds of labor, such g, cooking, ike, A great SU p ... I., .V . .. . . . vi. wiu ti;e leinovm but now, except in a few : rtl 1 It A . i . . . ......... I T . . , u ' tue ijuvi eouuuea, crn v l.tilllir i ,u 1 . , . ' - , ! to do those certain kinds of work, and lor waiters, iioiits ind cows waiters. Horses ind cowa and . , . ,. . . P aa-t hogs ca be dispensed wuh. s u... :.. - r. r . . ? o,,. out it n nitci, at iioiu -aow io Jiuuu.M'vsr b had. And then when you come to j üd Jf U Jf , , J . f . . 'helping others, but must wait .i.V i , ,B UUfc the table, you cannot follow the good , CT of t to be :1,J,.,I . .1 ....... -IM. 1 U .. .. 4 Tho old men say that the voun-: men are wild, extravagant, and reckless, and that as soon as the fathers are gone the sons will bring everything speedily to destruction; that the present state of things forbids any great mental development, and that with the fathers will pass away the palmy days of Kentucky's intellectual greatness. The young men say that the old men ate old fashioned, behiud the age io use an objectionable political term, "old fogies." The 6ame is. I ppo, to a considerable extent. appncaoie eiscwnere, and has long muco been expressed by the poet in the following couplet : Wa think our faihara foola, ia wi w trow: . Our wiaar aoii, riiaM, will thiuS ua aa. . I have always heard, ani presume it is true, that slaves sre better treated in Kentucky than in any other slaveholding State. They are probab'y not abu?ed in any other States, but is it not enough that they are denied the bi-nelits of education, and that very few of them are instructed in wen the leading truths of the Christian religion? How terrible must be the account of those who thus deprive them of the Hreadof UM" J. B.