Indiana Palladium, Volume 11, Number 21, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 6 June 1835 — Page 2

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r,,i a mostcd arraerchant then in this place, informing him that be had contracted a debt of two hundred dollars to his partner while in New Orleans that tho probability of seeing him again was slight and that ho wished him to receive tho money. Having no small change about him, ho offered two drafts on the Planters' Bank of Mississippi for four thousand dollars, and requested the change, after the deduction of two hundred dollars. The gentleman surprised at such rare honesty, which induced a man to pay a debt contracted two thousand roues ou, uiiu of which every ono was ignorant but tho debtorscrutinized tho drafts closely, and a suspicion of Iheir being forged immediately arose in his mind . Tho young man's behavior confirming tha suspicion, ho was arrested, and brought beforo the proper authorities for examination. At his own request ho was admitted to bail for his appearance on tho subsequent day, for further examination, to give him an opportunity to procure evidence (if within his power,) to rebut the strong presumptions of his guilt. After giving bail in tho required amount, he immediately left town, but not the least deterred from his villainous practices, proceeded to Columbus, Ohio, whero ho sold to the Clinton Bank a forged draft on a Bank in Now York for three thousand dollars. His appearance thero was such as to excito tho sympathy and disarm tho suspicion, if any could havo arisen, of all who saw him. Ho had transformed himself into the confirmed "consumptive;" the feeble gait tho ghastly countonance, pallied as tho hue of the winding sheet, except, when, ever and anon, a "deep hectic flush," beautiful and unearthly as tho flower that blooms on tho fresh filled grave, burned on his cheek the memento of departed health, and tho assurance of speedy and untimely decay tho "churchyard cough," hollow as though sounding from tho depths of the grave the faint and broken : voico, plaintivo and melancholy in its few notes a3 the last tones tho broken harp gives forth from its shattered strings; all told loo truly that Death had drawn a draft on him, which could not bo protes ted, but must bo duly and punctually honored. Ho represented himself as travelling to his home in Now York, with tho hopo of enjoying tho me lancholy ploasuro of dying among his kindred. Tho ofliccrs of tho Bank, moved to pity by his mournful talo, gave him tho money for his draft, wishing to accommodate a dying man by oflering him somo facilities for looking onco more on the land of his father, which ho sometimes expressed doubts (they havo proved too true,) of ever being able to reach. After obtaining tho needful, he journied leisurely, as bofitted a man in delicate health, to Cincinnati, where ho emerged from tho cerements of tho "consumptive," as the bursting Chrysalis from its shell, and butterfly-liko, assumed the glittering colors of tho man of fashion. Hero ho gavo ample evidenco that he was as expensivo and luxurious in his tastes as adroit and skilful in his profession. A quantity of the most extravagant furniture, a pianoforte, rich carpets, glasses, &c, were purchased, with which ho proceeded to Louisville, where ho passed by the namo of Ludlow. Ho immediately rented a house in a fashionabio street, which ho commenced furnishing in tho most sumptuous style. He had nearly completed his establishment, and was contemplating the riches and beauties which were his own, with that kind of good feeling one might suppose old Nebuchadnezzar feet when ho rubbed his hands and looked round on the Babylon thai ho had made, when he was horrorstruck by tho appearance of tho officers who pureuod him immediately after tho detection of tho forgery in Columbus. Without any regard to the feelings of tho man of many states of health, they laid their ruthless hands on him and carried him with them to Cincinnati, whero ho who lately had almost lived in tho atmosphere of a palace, now breathes a "dungeon's noisome air." And, alas! the vanity of all terrestrial things: ho who touched no smaller game than Banks and dealt in no smaller sums than thousands, will, in all probability, have the theatre of his operations for tho next twenty years, circumscribed by tho walls ofa penitentiary. In" his trunk was found all the paraphernalia of the forger; duplicates of drafts, copies of bills of exchange, tho seals of many Banks, and tho signature of their officers. Considering tho vocabulary of cognomens as common property, ho has used it liberally, and there are many names which he has at times honored by his adoption. Every ono must do him the justice to believe that he is no baseborn swindlor, but ono who studied his profession as a science, and who followed it not irora tho sordid . motives of gain, for this must have been a secondary object with him, but from a belief that it was tho legitimate arena for tho employment and exhibition of his talents. It is very doubtful whether ho has accomplices, for his professional pride must havo forbade his association with tho hoard of regular villains. Madison Ind. Banner! A Busy Editor. Tho editor of tho Camden (S. C.) Journal has abetter right probably to use the personal pronoun plural than almost any other member of tho newspaper brotherhood; for his vocation are mora multifarious than those of that versatile gentleman, the celebrated Caleb Quotem himself. In the first place, ho is High ShorifT of the district, and of courso has not only to serve "sum pros" upon his subscribers, but to hang them as occasion may require ; though that portion of bis duties he will never be called to exercise, we trust; for they aro among tho best even of South Carolina's citizens. In the next place he is a merchant, and buys cotton and bacon. Thirdly, he is an auctioneer, and knocks down, indiscriminately in all directions; in which capacity ho has the advantages of a certain predecessor of his, who used somo times to net knocked down himself, but who generally left off about square with the world in tho matter of dry blows.Fourthly , but not lastly, he is "commissioner of locations," which, vc take it, is a pretty important office, sinco it implies the privilege of going where a man pleases. Theft again, ho is agent of an Insuranco Company, and superintendent of Sunday School?. Now, if a man holding all these offices, and divers, others, "too tedious to mention," together with the editorship ofa newspaper, has not the right to say "We" in his multiform capacity aforesaid, wo should . like to know who tho deuce has. The editor apologised a short tirno since for lack of original matter, as it was "return day," and instead of fructify ing his readers with his pen, ho was taking some of mem incontinently into custody by authority of the State of Carolina. Dum Spcro Spiro is a very positive old gentleman of that region, who stands very much upon his nunclillios. and when the sher iff happens to bo tho bearer of ono of his cards, there is no such thing as not being "at home." 1 he editor, therefore, makes a nerfectl v legitimate excuse. It is gratifying, too, to find editorial ser vices so properly appreciated as they appear to be, now adays, in good old Kershaw. Your editors in that country, were wont whilom, to bo content

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and unmanageable wags, sometimes called, par ex cellcnce, and by way of extraordinary distinction, the 'barefooted beat.' It is gratifying also to see the Journal man promoted in the civil department as well as tha military; for tho nullifiers either did injustice to tho sheriff editor's forerunner, or the columns of that paper wero not always upon so civil list as they might have been. At present, howover, the conductor of the Journal is equally good in all his capacities. That he is an excellent sheriff, a good merchant, agent, auctioneer, &c. &c. we haven't the least reason to doubt, because he si in all respects an excellent fellow, and that he is a good editor, is maniiested by his paper; lor it is conducted with a spirit, tact and good sense very rarely found at tho desk of an inland eatablishment like that; and we havo only to express the hope that he may find more roses and fewer thorns in his editorial path, than fall to the lot of all those who spend the best years of their lives in tho endeavor to benefit the public as editors of a newspaper. N. Y. Courier. BUTCHERS AND TANNERS. Ham. -How long will a man lio in tho earth ero he rot? CZotni. Some 8 or 9 years, a tanner will last you nine years; his hide is so tanned with his trade that he'll keep out water a long while. Tanners never die; nay, smile not, wo speak the words of soberness and truth; go to a doctor and he'll tell you, Tanners never die? A very intelligent and distinguished physician of this city told us only a few days sinco that he never through the courso of his practico knew a tanner to die, and he's examined tho point. He onco mado this remark, ho said, in a medical college and they laughed at him; bo desired any ono that ever knew a tanner to dio Uo step forward, nobody came; the next year, and tho next, the remark and tho laugh at tho challenge wero repealed, and always with the same result, no one had ever known a tanner; to die. At length the Dr. made tho remark to a tanner, and the tanner told him his master had died. "And was he a tanner?" "Yes." "How old was he?" "Ninety odd." "And did ho tan up to that age?" "Oh no! ho stopped business 20 years before." " Then ho was no tanner," and so even in this solitary instance tho man died, but the tanner did not. And even after death they outlast other men, at least so says Shakspeare, and ho was no quack. And butch ers though they die, are never sick; they grow lat, and plethoric, and apoplectic and fall down some day as if shot, but are never sick. And let a consumptive man become a butchery's worth all tho dozes and doctoringa in tho world; it seem3 as though he inhaled the lifo of thoso whom ho slays, and lives upon their powers of living. And the neighborhood of butcheries, tho' unpleasant is not unwholesome; vegetable decomposition produces poisonous miasma, but not so with animal; however, upon tho wholo we had quito as lief have pure air both for health and comfort, and would not recommend a removal to BloodyjRun for the sako of tho aroma, though at tho same time the prevailing odors of that neighborhood aro not, as many suppose, very deleterious. The fact is literary men are the scapo goats of tho community, they boar the sickness and ills that flesh is heir to, while tho working men so called go free. Cia. Ckron. The reading world is allagog at the appearance of Fanny Kemble's Journal. It is universally condemned for its flippancy, vulgarity, profanity, ill nature, and superciliousness. The follow iug passages, fairly collated, afford a fair sample of her work: Passengers in the ship in rough weather describe as 'making as many angles, fetches and 6idclong deviations from the point they aim at, as if tho devil had tied a siring to Iheir legs and jerked it every now and then in spite.' 'I think I would rather be descended from a half heathen Saxon Frank than from Willara Penn himself.' 'Sept. 2nd. They tell me that this is their American weather almost till Christmas, for those that like frying.' "Tis my conviction that America will be a monarchy before I am a skeleton.' At New York, 'The women dress very much, and very much like the French women gone mad; they all of them seem to me to walk horribly ill, as if they wore tight shoes.' 'It seems that the blessed people here, (New York) were shocked at my having to hear the coarseness of Farquhar's Inconsistent Humbug!' 'The American fences form a zig-zag wall of wood, which runs over the country like the herring bone seams ofa flannel petticoat.' Rail-road car 'with a full complement of passengers, on a fine, 6unny jMnuucau bummer 3 uay, must make as pretty a little minaturo hell as may be, I should think.' 'At New York, it rained cats and dogs, and the streets were all grey pudding.5 Philadelphia audience 'stocks and stones immoveable; iutolerable, detestable.' 'Heaven bless the world for a conglomerated amalgamation of fools!' 'Shyness appears to me to be a quality unknown to cither man, woman or child in America.' 'At 1 o'clock came home from the ball, having danced myself fairly off my legs.' 'I declared that during a three years residence in America, almost every article of every description, which I have had made, has been ill made, and obli ged to undergo manifold alterations.' 'Set out with my father to fetch a walk which we did to the tunc of near six miles.' 'An American can no more understand a fanciful jest than a poetical idea.' 'Here, I do solemnly swear, never again with my own good will, to become acquainted with any man in any way connected with tho public press.' 'Mr. , is an agreeable man, but as he belongs to the press gang, I will not know him.' 'The mixture of the Republican feeling of equality peculiar to this country, and the usual want of refinement common to the lower classes of most countries, forms a siogularly felicitous union of imprudence and vulgarity to be met with no where but in America. 'Where the devil is the &c.' 'I wished the good looks of my steed and itself at the devil.' Philadelphia 'Passed that bright youth, Mr. ,on the road (Ridge,) riding very like an ass on horseback.' 'Spent my Sunday morning on my knees, indeed, but packing, not praying.' 'The appellation of monumental city never would have befallen Baltimore in any other country under heaven than this.' 'Howl wished I was a caterpillar under a green gooseberry bush.' Pennsylvania and New York Enterprise Associated! If the very remarkable and novel enterprise of navigating the Susquehanna by steam, from Owcgo in N. York to Wikesbarre in Pennsylvania, should succeed as well as the first experiment, which was performed down the river to Wilkcsbarre, 120 miles in 9 hours, tho passage from Ithaca to Philadelphia, when tho Little Schuylkill & Susquehanna rail road is completed, will be performed in less than that time. Mr. Ingham, late Secretary of the Treasury, and gentlemen in Owego, are the proprietors of the steamboat which performed the trip, and which is constructed expressly for this navigation. It will open to Owego, the coal mines ofTowanda, for which purpose a number of barges are being built. star!

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stance with nhsprvn! nn loss than tnn arts ofthpUstTrecrislature, for divorcinsr as many lusrij M beiri" fond of Burkin", obtains a divorce trom ti,..i..i.. ti. uuort liiuinrr hoon vi7,7,7 uuiuaa uurhc, uuu uv. -o - vear or two a?o of his with one Vvritberington, thus withering her husband's affections, nrocures tho nuptial knot to be untied; Robert Starr, (who it is supposed was a sort of a Shootuur Star.) having "shot madly from his sphere," his wife Lydia in revenge sues out a 1ivnra r.orv, hnr hncSnnrl firoon llnctpra-rnvp: and ai, Ann r!hil.L trettinrr tired of Child's nlav. nhtJv.s a divorce from her husband, though a Hale rK!M. iart TnrT; Porrlplifi S. Rirhnrds. not thn rnl-o hnnl nnrl breaks loose from rich hard spouso, Wolcott Richo a T.iLricr -TnconViino PrnririPM f?:irrnrt. wlm. I it seems, has a mouth, and no notion of bavin? a trncr in it. hs.q obtained adivorco from her hnshand. I b-b'-"i . i.:: : ' Lewis Cajjnct. And tho cream of it is, they all have permission to marry again! uacon lelegraph. A professor of phrenology placed in an awkward predicament. A rather laughable denouement took place, as we perceive by the Rochester Democrat, at that place a few days since. A professor, and who was literally nothino but a professor, who had been delivering a course of lectures, and who had been boasting of having successfully determined while blindfolded the character of about 1000 heads, was invited by a wajj to accompany him to the jail as a proper theatre for the exercise of his talent. Accordingly after tying his eyes with a bandage, he was led into a cell, where were four or five most exemplary and reputable citizens ot the town, placea there purposely, ana on wnom ine uoctor, was ms astonisnmcnt aiterwaras to icarn, on the imposed upon of Rochester was locked upon as "useu up." w hen omp imposters, tor the sake ot milling tho public and tor the sake of gulling fleecing their pockets, meddle with "ede tools," they don't understand, they deserve to be cut and marked also. Y. Y. Star. Singular Earthquake. A singular earthquako piaco ana in me imraeaiaio vicinuy wero such as to shake the goods out of tho shelves in tho stores, end wero accompanied by a rum bling explosion like tho "voico of muflled thun der." Tho famile3 residing had all removed except ing one. The shocks were not felt, nor the noise heard formoro than three or four miles, but within that uistanco wero very perceptible. Southern Baptist. Destructive Tornado. We learn from i ; ":tle man just arrived from Liberty! county, (says wie Sa vannah Georgian of tho 26th ult.) that a violent tornado from the southwest passed over the Southern uuiu, uciwn wu vcihkb x vuy uuu mo residence of Mr. Clark, in Bryan, about five miles fi'om ihe 1 erry, levelling tho trees and completely block ading the road for about one quarter ofa mila in wiuin. it, nowsver, did not stop here, but, we regret to learn, proceeded from a south-west direction to Cherry Hill, tho Rico Plantation of Richard J. Arnold, Esq. destroying his cotton house and levelling several houses, which in their fall killed five negroes, and wounded others. Mr. Arnold's overseer was also very much bruised. One of tho negroes killed was, wo hear, tending a plough in the field, and received the blow which deprived him of life from a detached portion of ono of tho buildings, borno against him by the violence of tho wiud. Tho following gentlemen havo been invited by the Secretary of War to attend tho next General Annual Examination of the Cadets of tho Military Academy, which will commence on tho first Monday in June: Maine. Hon. M. Mason. New Hampshire. Col. S. Collins. Massachusetts. IIon. N. Bowditcli. Connecticut. Rev. J. Cogswell, Rev. II. Croswell. New York. Hon. R. Green. Hon. C. G. Ferris Gen. Geo. R. Davis, Georgo W. Clinton, Esq., John Hunter Esq. Pennsylvania. Dr. C. D. Mcig?, Gen. W. S. Roger?, Wm. Robinson, Jr. Esq. Win. J. Lcipcr, Esq. Wm. C. Frazer, Esq. IIon. Geo. M. Dallass, Hon. Calvin Blythe. Virginia. Vr. E.SlI. Carmichael, Col. John iietn , x . XJillllCl. i ortu h Carolina. John Crarr. Esn. doum Carolina. Dr. E. S. Davi o. jjavis Georgia. Col. W. C. Lyman. Kentucky. Thomas J. Pew, Esq. Tennessee Right Rev. J. H. Oihey, Bishop of Tennessee. Indiana. Dr. E. Newland. Alabama. Col. Peter Martin. Army.Jjixg. Gen. Henry Atkinson. Thoso gentlemen who have this mark names, have declined. beforo their Globe. From the Vincenncs Sun. Terrible Hail Storm. Extract of a letter from a gentleman, in Meroin, Ind., to his friend in this place, dated May '28, 1833. -On yesterday in the afternoon wo had a terriblo hail storm, it lasted about thirty minutes, when over, the hail did not lay so very thick, the ground was well besprinkled, but not covered. They were unusually large; I weighed one that was perfectly solid and nearly round, that weighed precisely one pound, half an hour after the slorm was over. Several were picked up of equal weight, and it is believed that immediately after the storm, they might have been found that vould have weighed two pounds; the principal part would have weighed from four to eight ounces. A little north of us it fell in a greater abundance, but not so large. A little south of this on the road was a man with a team, who found one that measured 17 inches in circumference, and one fell on ono of his horses that drew blood. I took a walk on the commons this morning and I saw many places where the hail had struck and broke a well set blue grass sod, and penetrated the earth some three inches, the size of the cavity in many of them from 3 to G inches in diameter. A gentleman in this place, was caught out in it, one of the hail stones struck his hand and injured it severely; it broke and penetrated through the roofs of the houses that were a little old. Fortunately there was but little, wind, or the damage must have been great, as it was a number of glass was broken. Pigs, fowls, &c, stood no chince unless they could get a shelter.

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married couples! Among others, Martha Redman their was. iiciwccn .sixty anu wi gets relieved from her bad man, Elisha Redman, in the house at the time; many had Jcft the billiard andhas leave to marry again. Hester Burke, not room just previous to tho accident. 1 no citizens re-

Frc&uimu- iiiein iu u iwuu, piunuuiiyuu ui cuu Various reports arc in circulation as to tho number very learnedly touching their extcnsjve protuber- of pcrson3 who Were within tho walls when they ancea of combativencss, acquisitiveness, &c. V hat way; but it is supposed there were not less

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was lately experienced at lleedstown, union Dist. condition ol things tor this description ot deer-hunt-It had been felt from ten successive days at that which is probably peculiar to North America.

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in the morning, while many of its inmates were in . . ..-.1 .-.i paircu 10 uie spui wiui gruuv mu.ui.ii.uu., cecded in rcscuinir many from the rums. 1 ami sueho nunv I t ;i . ft.ll cxainination of the mass of rubbish is made. Tho extract below from tho Advertiser gives tho names of the sufferers as far as they had then been ascertained. Louisville .lav. The following aro somo of tho melancholy par ticulars Mr. Morton, slightly woundefi; Mr. Kennedy, severely injured; Mr. Hannah, dead. These gentlemen, together with Mr. Griffith, wero all Irom Daviess County, Kentucky. Mr. tiritlitb was not in the buildiiiff at the timo of the catastrophe, but instantly repaired to tho rescue and relief of his friends. Mr. Talman, portrait painter, had his arm greatly mashed. Mr. Hans escaped unhurt. Mr. Morass slightly injured. The lifeless bodies of Messrs. Mooncy and Hop kins were taken from under tho ruins at about two o'clock yesterday. Mr. R. Uentor, exchango broker, escaped unmhurej Mr. E. Filer, dead. Mr. Ennis, of the Daily News, bruised. Mr. Galliard, clerk to Messrs. Ainsley and Rcan, wounded. Mr. Ellis bruised. Mr. Armstrong, jr., hurt. Mr. Cullcrton was saved by a beam resting on tho bed-posts; he extricated himself by making a paspassage through the partition to tho next house; he " , w;tl -V.ht gatch. A wrnrhman. name not known, severely iniurcd. - - f thansixty What become of the wholo of them, can This year has been more than usually fatal to the .Moose Deer. The Lerctto Indians have killed about thirty this spring, and probably an equal number has been killed by other hunters. Tho deep falls of snow, and the prolonged frosts of tho ppring which form a crust on its Burfacc, aflord a very favorable of tho Rein Deer; it consequently sinks to the ground at every footstep. In tho fall, the brood choose their beat where the shoots of their favorite trees arc most abundant, and treading tho snow at each fall, they manage to pass the winter if undisturbed. The parties who seek them, firt find their beat, and if the crust and snow are favorable, thev start the deer and pursue them on snow shoes. They are exceedingly timid animal, firt rushing off with a Strong bolt, full speed, but soon flag, and a couple of miles, or rather more, according to the fctatc of the enow, brings up his pursuers to despatch him with a fnmhwlr gun, or to cut the sinews ot his hind legs with tho Its senses of smelling and hearing arc exceedingly acute, and it is almosfimpossible to sur priso u, oui it casuy tnus laii overpowered by its own struggles, claiming tho pity of its pursuer with a submission so unresisting, that it somctimcH draws a tear evea from the savage. Quebec Oaz. Col. Crocket Outdone. Mr. John Cheney, of Ticonderoga, while fishing for trout on the Lake Henderson, in the town of JMcwcomb, Essex county, near Mclntyre's works, discovered a catamount in pursuit of two wolves. Tho intrepid fisherman immediately started in pursuit, accompanied by his dog, and no other weapon but a hunting pistol, ten nnd a half inches in length. The catamount, not likin" the additional company, bolted, and made for a high mountain, Cheney after him ou still hunt, while his dog was in pursuit of tho two wolves, and had gone one and a half miles before his dog returned to him. They followed the catamount another milo to a precipice, where Cheney had to go about a hundred rods around, before ho could gain the summit. While going that distance ho was closely watched by his adversary from above. As soon as tho dog reached the top of the precipice, tho catamount took to a tree, and Cheney found himself directly under his ferocious enemy, before he was aware of his new position, lie retreated about three rods, took off his snow shoes, cut a club, trod down the snow, and prepared for battle, lie fired as the catamount lay apparently asleep on a limb. The ball 6truck his shoulder, without, however, disabling him, for he sprang aoout tho tree, making hideous yells, but returning again to the samo limb, fixed himself in an attitude of springing, his tail lashing his sides, his eyes flashed lire, and intently fixed on Cheney, who in the mean time re-loaded and fired tho second ball, which struck the catamount at the point of his breast, passing directly through the heart. He gave a spring on the limb, and tho next moment he plunged a hundred feet down the precipice, which was to him like Sam Patch's last leap. Cheney then drew his fallen foe in triumph to the settlement. Ho weighed 110 pounds, measured nine feet and nine inches in length, and stood thrco feet in height. Ho was taken about tho 20th March. Keesvillc Herald. Accident by Lightning. During the guet yesterday afternoon, and while the crowd were waiting to see the balloon ascension, a gig containing a lady and gentleman, standing in the midst of the crowd near Fairmount, was struck by lightning. The fluid descended on the back part of the body of the gig, which it tore and burnt, and passing bctweon the occupants, killed the horse instantaneously. The lady, we hear, was very much hurt, her bonnet boing torn olf her head, and hair, face and ono arm severely scorched. The gentleman was not injured. The 6hock waa very sensibly felt by many persons in the vicinity. Halt. American. Freehold Suffrage and Viva Voce Vote." During the last year of the revolutionary war, nearly tho whole body of the militia were in the field. They were frequently commanded by Continental ofliccrs, who were then, or had been, in the regular army. These officers sometimes were too much of the .Martinet school to suit the militia, particularly as it often happened that, in civil life, the soldier occupied equal if not higher ground than the officer. In one of the counties above Petersburg, Col. commanded a regiment of militia from his own and an adjacent county, and though a very accomplished gentleman, he was thought to carry a high hand with the militia under him. Whether this was, or was not the case, is immaterial; but it so happened that he very much oflenoed one of his countrymen, of firm and inflexible character, then under his command as a private; and the soldier vowed vengeance when occasion presented. Tho war might be considered as ended by tho surrender of York, in October 1771. In April, 17SJ the election came on, and Col. was a candidate! Every ono knew the determination of the soldier', now the citizen freeholder. His vote was counted upon with certainty, and by nono moro than by Col. . " ho do you vote for, Mr said the Sheriff. Ho answering, replied, "I vote for Mr. and Col. ." It was then a custom for the candidate, on receiving a vote, to say to tho voter, "I thank you sir," which waa done by Col on the present occasion; to which our independent frochold-

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ciliation, with a suitable apology and explanation on the part of Col. . JSorjatk iscacon. NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION AT BALTIMORE. It will bo feen, from tho proceedings of tho Baltimore Convention, that there were 0J7 members in attendance; that tho Delegates from each State, however great or small tho number, voted only tho electoral vote to which tho State represented by them is entitled; that the vote of Illinois and Alabama were not given, tho Delegates appointed from the last named Mate being delayed at sea, and only reached New York about tho day of adjournment: and thoso of Illinois presenting their vote through a letter, which it was considered would not authorize the vote to be counted. The voto was unanimoua for Mr. an Buren, as candidate for tho Presidency, viz: Jf5 For Col. Johnson, for tho . P. Ito For Mr. Rives b7 The selection of the candidate for tho Vice Presi dency, was a matter of very deep solicitude nmong the members of tho Convention. Mr. Rives wan presented by the numerous and most respectable delegation from" Virginia; and his very high qualifications and claim were urged with great warmth and anxiety. There was not, we believe, a single member of tho Convention who did not fully appreciate his great worth. Not ono was unwilling to admit his qualification for tho Vice Presidency; on the contrary, all conceded, that the elevation of his minJ, his pure republican principles, and his high attainments, rendered him every way worthy of the firs t honor of tho Republic. The determination of tho Convention turned upon tho consideration of the peculiar relation which tho two prominent individual presented to the Convention, at this moment bear to the country. Tho principal circumrtanrca which operated on the majority in giving a preference to Cel. Johruion over Mr. Rives, were the following: It was urged, that Mr. Rives was comparatively a young man that his career of active uscfulncfj vaa but fairly commenced in the Senate, when, in violation of the public will of Virginia, he was recalled by a coalition of malcontents in tho Legislature, who acted without consulting their constituents that tho election of Mr. Leigh, by a subsequently elected Legislature, in direct violation of written instructions, which had made the isue betwen them, on which the late Virginia elections lurncd, rendered it proper that Mr. Rives bhould maintain his posture before his own State, and enable the pcoplo to assort their authority, and vindicate tho right cf instruction in the person of the individual, in whoo cato it had been bo cgregiouiJy violatedthat in reserving Mr. Rives to achieve this great victory of principle in his nativo State, higher I'onors awaited him than would be conlerrcd by calling him to the honorary dignity of tho Vice Presidency. It waa inted that wlicn rcbtored by tho voico of Virginia to tho Senate, from which he had been cstraciud by tho foul and hishonest intrigues of the factious Nullifii'M and Nationals, his lofty principles, his admirable clo quencc, and tho moral power acquired from tho persecution he had endured in the cau?o of republicanism, would put him at once at the head of tho Senate, from which ho had been exiled, and enable hini to render still greater services to the causo, nnd to endear himself still more to the great democracy of the Union, which would ultimately lead him to the distinction, for which alono tho Vice Presidency could bo held by his fiicuds, an object worthy his acceptance. Tho consideration which influenced tho decision in favor of Col. Johnson wero his U0 years' fcrvico in support of tho Democratic party tho devotion ha had manifested for tho People throughout all this period, not only by his uniform support of popular rights, but this unwearied and disinterested attention to tho private interests of tho poorest citizens cf every State in the Union, who had claims upon his (Jovernmcnt the ardent patriotism and noblo gallantry which had distinguished him in tho field of battle, where he had received thoso wounds that now, in thecioso of life, begin to bleed afresh, and which may too soon deprive tho nation of an opportunity to mark by its suffrages, its grateful senso of obligation to a veteran, whose unbounded benevolence and patriotism, have marked his course by un tiring labor, repeated nacrificcs, anu, on ono oocaeion; by au act of almost 6elf immolutiou to his county- , Globe. A most disgusting imposture has recently been disclosed in North Carolina, and ono that furnittho almost a parallel to the case of MatthUs. A family in Rockingham county of reputable rank in life, had been observed, by their neighbor, to exclude themselves altogether from intercourse with thoso around them, and even to shut up their Iioufo and confine themselves within it refusing to suffer any iriori to enter, and never showing themselves upon any part of tho premises. This state of things continued for a long time, until the neighbors finally determined to unravel the mystery, and a body of them repaired to the house and demanded admission. This being refused, they contrived to look in at a window and discovered the corpso of .Mrs. Cash, the matron of tho household, lying on a bed in tho most horrid and disgusting state of putrefaction. This woman had evidently been dead for a long time perhapa for months. The eld man and his daughter wcr found lying on a pallet in the 6amo rooni,and a eon, a young man, was found up stair. The btench was overpowering. After the party had broken into tho house, they ascertained that the miserable woman had died about Christmas, and tho body had been kept thus long at the command of tho Witch Doctor," under whose auspices she had gone out of tho world, and under tho promise by him held out, that she should bo brought to lifo in a given time. It is quite probable, the account says, that the scoundrel quack had ordered the family not, to admit any ono within the house in the meantime; lobt his itnnobturo should be detected. This unfortunate family imbibed the idea about a year ago, that they wero btteilchcd, and becomo tho prey of one of those arch villains who, it appears, infest that part of thu country under tho title of Witch Doctors. A more debasing delusion than this is rarely to be recorded, and is only exceeded, as wo havo already said, by tho successful impositions practiced by tho monster Matthias in our vicinity. -V. V. Courier. Mexico. By the Now Orleans Rcp, ofMiy 0th, wo hear, viaTumpico, that the revolution U assuming a serious aspect. Several states Imedclarcd in favor of Alvarez and Farias. These generals intend to conccnlrato their forces on Mexico. Santa Anna has assumed the command of the army, and gono to Tampico. It is thought ho will attack Gomez Farias at Zacatccaf. Barragan is still acting as regent president. A bloody contest is anticipated. Westward Ho! A company of citizens of this Statois now organizing, to emigrate to Upper California, on tho shores of the Pacific. Tho compiny consists of about fifty familics.lprincipally in Jackson, Clay, and Ray counties who havo entered into bonds to emigrate to California. Tho company will rendezvous at Independence in May, lsijfi. when it is expected they will amount to about ono hundred families. Somo individuals of this company havo visited tho country they propose toetnignte to, and find its soil nnd climate all they could wish it to be. St. Louis (Missouri) Itvpvblu an,

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