Terre-Haute Journal, Volume 4, Number 27, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 April 1852 — Page 1

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Tfce firate^ Attack.

There they are!' exclaimed the captsift, whom eye had taken the direction of mine 'the rascals have rowed clear of us, and are coming on from the St. Domingo aide. Stand to your arm*, boys! the rogues are upon ua.' In an instant every man WM a: hie poet, and on the alert. "Stand in the shadow of the apara and ringing ao as to be out of sight,' continued the captain, afld qol *,oian of you fire till I give the word/ •Ay, Ay,' responded the crew, with nautical precision. 'And now/ aaya (be captain, who reaQy went to 'work in business-tike style. Met ua get tbi* gun on the other tack, Mr. Bt ao, to be ready for the gen* tlemen,*

The mustle of the piece was accordingly throat through the opposite port, keeping a dead aim at the boat which was little more than a quarter of a mile distant. 'Strange/ said I, 'that the fellows should choose to row against the moon, when, by so doing, they must knew we should see the gtitter of the oars.' '1 suspect,' replied the captain, 'that they had no choice about it. You forget that we have more or less wind off the land since tunset, and are at least six miles from where we were then. The probability is that the rogues lost ua after night-fall: but it seems they have found ua at last.'

The boat waa now very near us, atill not a sound came from her. The closest and most painful attention could not hear the dip of her oars, which rose and fell like piecea of mechanism, glittering in 4he moonlight like blades of silver. 'Host ahoy I' oried the voice of captain Boltrop, in its moat startling tones. No anawer waa returned to this summons, and the oar* were plied more lively. 'Keep off, or I'll blow vou out of water!'

This threat and the firebrantl which I flourished with great fierceness, aeemed to make the pirates hesitate. The motion of the boat waa arrested.— Captain Boltrop thought the victory already achieved, and he again raised hi* voice in tonea ot authority—'Throw your arms overboard and come alongside.'

A volley of musketry was the reply to this summons—a doaen bullet* whistled by, and the osptain's bat flew across the deok. A deep imprecation burst from his lips. The next instant a broad atream of flnmo issued from the quarter deck, and the explosion of the piece broke upon the dead stillness of the elements with a voice like thunder A distant crash, a heavy splashing in the water. *hove whioh a cry of mortal ngony was terribly dia tinct. had arisen in the direction of the foe before the smoke had dispersed sufficiently to enable us to see the elfect of our shot. No boat waa then to be seen, nor any trace of her crew we had in all probability sent every soul into eternity. 'By George!' oried the ottptain with something like compunction in his tone, and rubbing his head with his handkerchief. 'I would rather hive taken the rascals and had them decently hanged, than jiout them to the bottom in thU off-hand manner. You oould not have made better ahot, Mr. Brae,

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A hdrrld yell, arising apparently from (he fery depths beneath the ahip, stopped him in the middle of his speeeh. A boat glided out of the smoke, and shooting under our bows, a dozen dark forma were seen springing from it to the aide of the ahip But our precautions had been wisely taken, and were completely successful. No sooner did they touch the slippery sides of the vessel than meet,of them, with the most horrid blasphemies* fell back into the sea, anapping their pistols at us, even after they were filled with water. At the same moment their boat, which had been riddled by our ahot, filled and sunk to the botttom. Three only got upon deok, and were immediately overpowered end secured. Five more were with difficulty dragged out of the water, and dispoaed of in the same manner. One powerful fellow, however, was not so easily quelled/ He bad succeeded In getting one foot upon deek whati a young seaman flew at him with the fteroonas* of a tiger.

They oloeed, and afteroalanclng a moment between the deok and the water, the pirate, who was muoh the heavier man, Mi backwarda overboard, dragging his antagonist with him. They both sunk hut soon rose again about (bur rode from the ship, oliuging closely together. Then commenced a combat the most singular and appalling I had ever witnessed. No one ou board seemed to think of devising means of assisting our champion. No one dared to fire upon the pirate for so closely were they coiled together, so rapid were their evolutions and so dim the light shed by the moon, that it was impossible to hit one without endangering the life of the other. At the commencement of the strog* gle,their efforts teemed to be aimed solely at drown* mg each other. They whirled over on the top of the water, dashing it about like wounded sharks. Both then sunk and for awhile were leet to our eight. Preeently they aroee again, and exchanged thick and heavy blows, and dosing with redoubled fury sunk again. Neglecting to ueu their weapon* which would have put a speedy rmd to the fray, they fought more like aevege beesfct of prey, bent on throttling eeoh other, than like hswMwi beings. 'Shall we stand and see our men murdered?' at length exdetflsed a voice frees among the orew. It operated like magic to break the speU that had fallen upon us all. •Clear away the boat there!' shouted the captain, end six men epreagto exeoute the order. J«et then, after an effort of unusual 6er*eeeee, both of the oombatants sunk. They remained out of right eo long that the aaeo who wore lawHf down the boat cuepottded their eperetiooft, and we all etood breethleee with uncertainty and anuety awaiting their re appeerence. At length, about thirty yards off, the water* parted butooly ofteaeaa was even to rise. 'Bsre Is sees* of him, at Wast, upon my knife Hade/ reeponded the free-booWr, with die aooent and laugh ot a Seftd and springing neerly to hit whole height out of the water, he threw the weepoa laugh

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pared to fire the moment be ahould show his bead above the water. But he rose no more. The winged messengers of death that had been aimed et his fife, sped harmlessly over his bead and bad it bees possible to penetrate the eeerete of the great deep, he Slight have been seen reposing peacefully on its findy bottom by the side of hi* late sntagoniat. A sulten'silenee pervaded Lbe ship.

The men looked gloomily at each other, and with lowering brows on their helpless prisoners, as if a sufficient atonement bad not been rendered for the life of their comrade. To one skilled in the language of the human countenance, it was evident tbat nothing but the restraint of discipline held them beck from a summary set of vengeance and of crime that would have sunk them to a level with the pirates themselves. Judging of the feelings of his crew from their looks, or more properly from his own, ani anxious to remove the temptation to evil, the captain ordered our eight prisoners to be stowed under the batches, and they were accordingly tumbled in with very little ceremony. How many of this band of genuine desperadoes had been lost, we had no means of ascertaing, for our prisoners either did not or would not understsnd English or French. But when they fired upon us, 12 to 16 men were visible, and the yell that followed our discharge, was such as is nev«r extorted from mortal man but by the pangs of the last agony.

Six or eight, then, of the freebooters had certainly perished. What chance of auccess they might fancy that an open boat oould have against a vessel of the siae of ours, it completely bewilders us to imagine. They must either have been intoxtoated, or in the situation of a beast of prey, whom the goading* of hunger will impel him to rush upon foe whose face he would otherwise heve fled.— Viewing it in either light, it was an act of the most daring hardihood. Ine struggle had been fierce snd boisterous, hut had passedT The ship was restored to her usual tranquilly, and was moving before a gentle breeze from the shore yet, so slowly as scarcely to ruffle the faoe of the ocean.— WeekIv Instructor*. .. 7 ,a The Wife of three Husbands.*'

Mrs. Gertrude Kohler says the Pennsyltanian, a lady of Germsn extraction, was charged with making a small arithmetical mistake by having two husbands more than the regular and legal allowsnce. Mrs. K. waa married to Christopher Pheltz, in Carlise, Pa. five ^ears ago. Two years sgo she removed to Lancaster, forgetting to take her husband slong among her other baggage, and in a vershort time, she contracted a matrimonial allianoe with a Lancaster man, named Michael Gephard •One more remove,' as Hamlet says, and we find her in Philspelphia, Messrs. Pheltz and Gepherd abandoned and forgotten, and the capricious lady in matrimonial co-partnership with Jacob Kohler. We have it on philosophic authority, that 'three removes are bad as a fire,'and so they are undoubtedly, if &n addionall husband i* taken with every change of locality ."Pheltx went to Lancaster in search of his lovely absentee there he met with Gepherd, Husband No. K, and after some talk together, both gentlemeh agreed to pursue her to Philedelphta, which city was atcrtained to be her present plaoe of residence,'and they proposed to delay the settlement of their claims until they had found her She was found in possession of Mr. J. Kohler, and the three gentlemen, instead of engsffng in a nonsensiosl quarrel about the contested property agreed to play a three handed game ef 'seven up,' to decide who was to be her husband de fado-*the beer to be paid tor by an equal contribution of the more unfortunate claimants. Pheltz husband No. 1, won the game in two hands, and was about to take possession of the stakes, but Gertrude flatly refused to abide by the decision of the cards, expressing an unqualified^ preference for the third and last number of the matrimonial aeries. Pheltz, therefore, had recourse to another game of chanoe, videlioh the law, and Gertrude was brought up to answer the oomplaint of her Menelaus. When asked what had induced her to leave her first two husbands, she answered that they were

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was worth about 'six hundred suoh tirty rssoals. I try dem all,' said she and take the best est: and if he not goot, tries blenty more till 1 finds a Duohman dat suits jest right.' It was impossible to mske her understand that this kind of experiment* ing was not altogether correct, and she was committed for 'bigamy.' {,•-*. *******&*•••*#* lira. Gataas.

The Supreme Court of the U. S..'only four judges actually oonourring, have decided against Mrs. Osines on all the points, have thus deprived her of her father's estate giving it to strangers—on nice points of law and evidence, pushed to eitreme eonelusions, when there cannot be a just doubt that her fattier and mother believed themselves to be married and this child to be lawfully bora. Tin Washington correspondent of the Journal of Com* raerce, says: "Mr. Justice Wayne dsiaented froth the opinion of the Court and read an opinion of groat length, taking a minute view of the feet* and law of the ease. He came to the conclusion from the evtdenoe that De Grange had not bedn legally married to 2ulieme Carriers, be having another wife at the time whoa bo married her: and ha also maintained U»a? Ae fecta shewed that Daniel Clarke was married to ZuKoane in 1808 or d, in the city of Philadelphia, and tbat Mr, Gaines was his legitimate child. Therefore of oourse, be was of the opinion that Mr*. Geinee was entitled to her father's estate, and that the decree of the Circuit Court ahould bo reversed.

Justice Daniel also diseointod. Thus the opinion of lbe Court is concurred in by lour justice* only, to-wit: Catron, Curtis, Nation and Grier.— Chief Juetice Taney and Justice MoLane declined siumg ht the oause, and Justice Mclnley had a absent during this mm.

Mrs. Gaines has been fcr rtNMk or two that the deoMoo of the Court we# again* her. She was twit prepared fbr such a result, awl has, it •aid suffered deep mental deprseasic* from the disepfwiMtfteot. TW great portion of her life sad the entire fortune of her late hs»bead,Gea. Gaioae had been seert&oed to the prosooatioQ of this suit for t*e poeeeeHW of the vast estate of horfldber,of wfeiokafcc and SMW believed thai she had oqjosify and ftaoda^y deprived.

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Makimg totmfy Land Werramls ed Marck im, tm. Be it enacted* Tbat aB warrants for military bounty land, srhich hefe be#B or may hereafter he issued under any law of the United States, and all valid locations of the same, which have been, or may hereafter be made, are hereby declared to be assignable, by deed or instrument of writing, made and executed after the taking effect of this act according to each form, end pursuant to such lions a* may he prescribed by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, so ss to vest the a with all the right* of the original owners of the warrant or location: Provided, That any person entitled to preemption right to any land, ihall be entitled to use any soch land warrant in payment of the ssme, at the rate of #1 26 per act, for the quantity of land therein specified: Provided. That the warrants which have been or may hereafter be issued, in pursusnce of said laws, or of this act may be located, according to the legal subdivisions of the public landa in one body, upon any lands of the United States, subject to private entry at the time of suoh location, at the minimum price: Provided, further. That when said warrants shall be located on lands which are subjeot to entry at a greater minimum than 1 86 per acre, the locator of said warrants shall pay to 'the United States in cash the difference between the value of soch warrants at 25 per acre, and the tract of Jand jocated on.

SKC. 2. And be it furtfier enacted, That tfie re gister and receivers of the land offices, shall hereafter be severally authorized to charge and receive for their services in locating all military bounty land warrants, issued since the 11th day of Feb ruary, 1847, the same compensation or percentage to which they are entitled by law for sales of the public lands for cash, at the rate of 91 25 per acre the said compensation to be hereafter paid by the assignees or holders of such warrants.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, Tbat registers snd receivers, whether in or out of office at the passage of this act, or their legal representatives in esse of death, shall be entitled to receive from the Treasury of the United States, for services heretofore performed in locating military bounty land warrants, the same rate of compensation provided in the preceding section for services hereafter to be performed, after deducting the amount already re ceived by such officers under the set entitled "An act to require the holders of military land warrants to compensate the land officers of the United States for services in relsiion to the location of those^ warrants," approved May 17th, 1848: Provided, That no register or receiver shall receive any compensation out ot the Treasury for past services, who has oharged and reoeived illegal fees for the legation of suoh warrants And provided further, That no register or receiver shall receive for his" services during any year, a greater compensation than the maximum now allowed by law.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted. That in all oases where the militia or volunteers or State troops of any Slats or Territory were called into military service, and whose services have been paid by tile United States subsequent to the eighteenth of June, eighteen hundred and twelve, the officers and sol diers of such vnilitia, volunteer*, or troops, shall be entitled to alt ihe benefits of the aot entitled "An act granting bounty land to certain officers and soldiers who have been engaged in the military servioe of the United States, approved September twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty, and shall receive lands for thei? servioes according' to the provisions of said act, upon proof of length of service as therein reauired and that the last proviso of the ninth sectron of the act of eleventh of February, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, be snd the same is hereby repealed Provided, That nothing herein contained ahall authorize bounty land to those who have heretofore received or become entitled to the same.

Ssc. 6. And be it further enacted, That where any company, battalion, or regiment, in an organ ised form) marched more than twenty miles to the place where they wenvmustered Into the service of the United States, or were discharged more than twenty miles from the place where such company, battalion, or regiment was organised: in aN ftich cases, in computing the length of servioe of the officers and soldiers of any suoh company, battalion, or regiment, with a view to determine the quantity of land, any officer or soldier is entitled to on* der said act, approved 28th of September, I860, there shall be allowed one day for every twenty mile* from tbb place Where the company, bsttilion, or regiment was organized, to the place where the same Was mustered into the sorvico of the United States and also one day foe every twenty mile* from the place where such company, battalion, or regiment Was discharged, td the place where it was organised, and from whefloe it marched, to etiter

A Kaw Story.

(a l*45 tfc*to was a convention held in Methyl and delegates fifeth this city Were sent to attend it. A certain anti-temperance editor of thi* oity, Who is always honest enough to oarry the signs of his principles in front, was aboard of die boat. He was a great friend of tfartar-keepfcr'k He could'nt be any thing aba. The bar-keepet Was a Oer-

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teddy. The bar-keeper made bins an apple toddy, which then was the favorite drink aboard. The editor took fe fedbed slit, and for alifeodar set it dowa untested, !'Tbai*a not whai Wanted!" eaidfee iagiiy, "1 called for a whiskey toddy, pltm."

You galled for a doddy," said the bar-keeper, "dero ita doddyl" I "That is an apple tix&y.e&ree yotirstaiwa aulili hood* tasked for a whiskey toddy, plain." "No, Myahoor, fee ask ooly for a tfodty." "Too /ie—jws vafabead, yoo la#/" oried fee wratby editor. .*

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Very unlike the 'Swam* *he succeeded in reach* ing the middle of the stage by an effort which certainly suggested to our mind the idea that she car* ri*4 too much weight. When she came to a stand however she stood her ground Very firmly. Nevertheless, Her Voice is more refined than her person. We should judge the term 'sweet* is more applicable to its tone than any other we oan now call To mind. Downward her compass is extraordinary how it is upward, we cannot *ay, far she did not endeavor to retch the highest flight of song. The lower notes are full of Volume, mellow and sonorous the higher notes are rather thin, yet agreeable to the ear. Her manner of singing is as singular as her manner of walking. An impartial observer would say she was indolent It would seem to be with great exertion that she brings her body to the place assigned her to«og. That point gained, the mouth *eems involuntarily to open, and the song to proceed as a matter of course. What agency she has in producing the notes, it would puzzle a near-sighted individual to discover. She aland* motionless, and whether the passage be to her diffi cult or easy, there is still the same rigidity of face and body. w-

Her voice, weftave said, Is swoet. vltySft&eV but her execution will not bear remark. She is judioious, however, in avoiding all attempt at what would be considered difficult passages. That she has feeling and some taste, Her 'Home, sweet home* is a sufficient proof. It was by far her best effort, and was loudly encored by the audience. In pon elusion, we would say, if the Swan possesses remarkable powers of voice, no one would seem to be less sensible of the fact than herself. She sings without effort or pretension, and exhibits an enviable amount of modesty.

Her voice is sweet and clear, of great compass but defioient in volume, with the exception of the lower notes, which are fuller and deeper than we ever heard in woman. The last sentence expres sea our impartial opinion of the Black Swan.—E± Paper. ft

Goon N ATURKL), BUT PASSIONATE.—Addison has made the following observations on a class of persons with whom we occasionally come in contact. Though just, they are by no means flattering to the vanity of 'good naturedl' though passionate people.

It is a very common expression, that sue is very good-natured, but very passionate. The expression, indeed, is very good-natured, to allow passionate people so muoh quarter. But I think a passionate man deserves the least indulgence of any. It is said It is soon over' that is, all the ittlfe chief he does is quickly dispstched, which I think is no recommendation to favor. I have known one of these good-natured passionate itieh Say, in mixed company, even to his own wife or child, such things as the most inveterate enemies of his family would aot have spoken, even in imagination. It is certain that quick sensibility is inseparable froaa a ready understanding but why should not that good understanding call to itself all its force on such occasions, to master that sudden inclination to anger! To restrain the spirit of anger i* the worthiest discipline we c»n put ourselves to. Whon a mao stands combustible and-ready to flame upon everything he touches, life is as uneasy to himself aa all about him. This is the most scandalous disuse of reason imaginable all the harmless part about him i* no more than a bull-dog —they are lame no longer than thoy are not offaaded., ppsf ji

E^Kiof.—°%e love yoiir Upright,T&lrifeTfb ftfett. Kick them this way, and the other, and they only bend but tteVer break. Trip tbem down, and in trice they are oh their feet. Bury them in the mud. ftitd ifl hour they will be out and bright. THey ate Httt eVer ytlWhing away existence, or Walking about the world as if they had come itlto It with only half their soul you cannot keep them down— yoo cannot destroy them. But for these the world would fcooh degenerate. Thejr ire the salt of" he earth. Who but they *lart any noble prefect?— They build odr etiiei and feSir ottr manufactories They WtMen the ocean With their tails, and they blacken the heavens with the crroke of their steam safe and ftimaca fires They dftw their treasure from th« time. They plough the earth. Blessings oe theml Look to them young i»Wsn, snd tefcwcOttrag*} imitate their examjjle, catch Uwaplrit of Uieir energy. WliboOt life what are yoo good for, if it i* passed idly aw*yf W#' should ever messwre thus Itfe's employment.

Tke Arfbwing fixad feels Ire wortK oomteittiRg to memory. Democracy is uiumpbast in all the Slatee but diree Democracy ha* made our oouor

Btsek Swaa, *ls MXRY ox BOARD!'—A litfte girl Was feturmng Well, are have seen this ,ealAe cantatrice, end to England tn O&arge of the captain. She was the she is black, that's a fact anl very fat withal.— only feosale on board, and by her swoet simplicity But why, in the a-of! aH that** black and White one dcDacti* charged to pay bora visit, wo presume no one knows so well aa Col. Wood. Before the commencement of thcconcert, the Colonel afflicted by cetxnmnctioos of conscience, ho doubt, very gravely informed the audience ((heir cash in his pocket), that tira Black Swan, they must not expect to find an artiste, thet she was entirely original, and woqld readily be accorded a remarkable compass of voice. In doe time, the 'Swan* made her appearance—not very swan- like—weighing about 276, or 300 pound*.

Doaaocvaoy is ti^Joindatioa

United Stain CesstituUonii, (fl^our Stafe. Constitution Democracy alwajrs ralli«ninder on§ Osghi war pod in peace Dsmocricyia now as sound and salutary as over Democracy has mtd% all tike nftwiM in our Stale fer the l**t tweoty-fivi, years Desaocraey goe* for the gtiatost good of the ^reatoii number, and regard* the righi* of «linoriiy D^itocracy is decidedly trtumphaat in ibis Sute ax-dhafrieoa* can and ahould conqa« at the »dectaoo^

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had win the lose of the nobis oaptaia and passen genu The poor child era* very, very aick, nearly all the way, and became very much reduoed in atrehgtb. One dreary night, the fancy struck her that soda-water would be refreshing, and it Was given her perhaps ttfo freely. Spasms of the stomach immediately ensoed, and before morning oante the liule sufferer had passed aWay to abetter world, mourning most *11, that no mother's gentle hand would close her eye* In deep, nor a mother's pray er ImgeHast upon her deafened ear.

But the great stalwart captain had almost a titoth er* heart. He whoae voice could be heard high aloft, when the temnest raged in it* fury, had tonea of gentleness add love for the poor dying child and though he scarce knew the meaning of the word fear* tear* fell like rsln from Jlis eye* ppoo the wasted faoe of the little corpse.!

Beautiful, most beautiful, though O of gloom, Was the scene presented in that cabin on that wild winter's night. With exquisite delicacy and almost saored tenderness was the corpse laid out and preserved. But *notber trying time for the generous captain was yet to come, for he knew tbat the mother would hasten to the dock gates to meet her child the moment that the ship's arrival was telegraphed. And she did. The captain saw her in an instant, and as the ship got near enough to enable her voice to be hrared, alia could no longer restrain herself, but cried out in tremulous accents, "Is Mary on board!"

The poof captain sbarce knew what tn say, but requested the mother to go to his hotel and he would soon be with her. 1 dare not attempt a description of the Subsequent scenes of this simple though sad drama. Suffice it to say, that when Thopias B. .Cropper goes to his account, it will surely be aaid, /Inasmuch as ye did it to the least of these toj? little ones, ye did it unto me." ,t -V

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AN INCIDENT.—On Saturday last the publishers of the Evening DispalcK. at St Louis, posted up foljheir bulletin board, in flaming capitals, the news ,(?jnf the assassination of Louis Napoleon, whiclr they found iu a Boston paper, reoeived by due course of mail! The announcement caused great excitement for a abort time, and one very ex citable individual, named Kayer, as soon as he had glanced at the bulletin, rushed into Wyman's Hall, where a great crowd had gathered to hear a speech from Kossuth, and forcing his way to the rostrum, proclaimed the death of the French usurper. Tije

Words were hardly spokeu before everybody in tn* vast hall, men, and Wometi, rose to their feet and joined in one loud, deafening, terrific shout. Hats Were thrown up, 'kerchiefs waved, and the most axtraVagant confusion continued to prevail for sev eral minutes. When comparative order had been restored the hoax was discovered and announced, and not a few underjaws were seen immediately to relax into an utmsual dejection.

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GEN. BorruBa's LETTER.—We have seen, and carefully read Gen. Butler's letter to F. P. Blair, and we have no hesitancy in saying that it is sn open, manly, unequivooal document, and will convince any one that, If the free aoifers are intriguing for Butler's nomination, they do so upon their own responsibility, without having received any unworthy pledges or oonoessions from the Genersl himself. He lully sanctions the resolutions of the Kentucky Democratic 'Jonvsntlon, opposes the repesl of th* fugitive slave law, and speaks of the oompromts* as "a groat national altar erected in our midst, on which every lover of our common Country is invited to lay his offering* of peace, and to offer up his pruyers for the perpetuity of our Union, and the continuance of those Inestimable blessings which we enjoy under its protection," bc.-Pad*ceh Journal

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WHIG Pafesj&EFTTUT CANDIDATES.—A letter from Washington, whet-e the nefct Presidency is just now about all that people are talking of, £ivfes ft *4 ah opinion that Gen. Scott is just now under a cloud, and Mtilard Fiiiittore and Daniel Webster looming up. Gen. Sbbtt's receht letter against ihe Native Americans has produced a violent opposition to him, on the pert of that pOWeHul fiction and his former letter id George W. Reed and others. of Philadelphia, dated Nov. 10, 1841, is quite enough to drive away the adopted citizens. "For the first time, I believe, the i'vaiiabillty of Gen. Sc'dtt begin* to be doubted. With the exception of the State of Delaware, the Whig* of every slave 8tate ip the Union prefer Fillmore 01 Webster id Sbotf and it is said that Mh Webster will carry all New England, bat Maine, Th convention.^

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The most bashful man we nave heard of recently was a young gentleman fVom St. Louis, who wa* married in thfs city the Other diy to a young lidy from Sill adjoining town. We are informed by parlies who are acquainted With the circumstances, that after the friends had assembled, and the parsdn had *rrived, #«d every pfspartHfon had bean made, the .young meh Would not be prevailed upon to ooflew out of bis room to perform hi* part of th* ceremony. Front *hoer diffidence he resisted *11 %ntre*tie«, from nise o'oloch In iim nioming, the Itoseai^bNid forth* wedding, till late la ihe afternoon. At l**t hi* friends succeeded in sle v*ung liif courage to the Sticking piece, and be cam* dftftt, Mid led hi* felr companion to the altar, thus relishing har and fMendi flrOm a Very naibog sitaadotr wdysattageia arexurious to

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If the mi^oriiy of any delilwativi My was atrih* annoyed b» minoritt of trirtyfting politicians, and pore, uoamil»r*ted dewtsyogoe*, OonssnHt of tlte pr«**8t #*8eiai Asaesutdy of Indiana. With a vary few honorable eaoeptiooa, tka whig* of ketb tioasas appear to have no object is view but W relbe bu sines* of Lagtsta^rn kgr factiotousness, maka capltd out ef dbi deta|. Ijf the pkfte

Id but aaa these men at thi* kind of work a* have, pad *hen read tka lamentations of whig ftea aad Money *pentlry a Danaocratftlatare^ Ihey tVoald iaV*4tssitar\ly oxc^skw-*-— for tka depravity of koasaw witamP Nothing bet the evidence of tkeir oWn eya* can give tbem ao adequate idea of tkf rascality of the Iwd-

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THE HBWBT OPIKVCOKNCE.—A young spark wh**^ hoarded at one of our principal hotels, managed' for a lang time, by one artifice or another, to poatpoae the payment of hi* bill. At 1*^ the landlord^ became impatient, and stepping op io his juveniles boar der, tapped him gently OQ ahOpldcr. wd|f^ aaked him for some money. 'I have not got a red cent atout me at present,*1^ was the laconic reply. 'fj||| my dear sir,' iaid the landlortl, 'I can't afford to keep a bbarding*hous» without being paid.' •HVell,' exclaimed our young philosopher, *if you can't afford It, sell out to some ones who oan.'

A colored preacher, who was about to address 4. his flock of dmrknett, commenced his remarks in thiswise—'7 4 "Blubbed bredren, habln forgot to put my testa--ment in my coat pocket, I ahall be obliged to diacourse to you dis ebenin, from de words ob dat good nle prophet, (1 forgot his name he's dead now, God bless him,) when on one memorable occat ion, (I forgot when,) he made use ob dese affeotin' Wolds, 'de world, de flesh and de debil and in ludin' to dis portant subjio, I shall skip ober de. wirld. touch lightly on de/csA, and hasten on tode debil as fast as possible.'

DECIDEDLY WORTHLESS -A correspondent speaks of one of the professional gentlemen of his county thust. 4 'J.C.J, has been a practicing lawyer for tat years, and has never yet had but one cauee to manage, and that was between two dogs. The court decided that he was no/ quaJified to explain the law touching the etfft, and he was dismissed from further service.' k,.

He is what rtifght be termed a Worthless ftllow.

Did anybody ever hear the atory^ of two baokalor brothers, down in Tennessee* who had lived a cat-and-dsg sort of life, to their own and the neighborhood's discomfort, for a good many years, but who having been at a eampmeeting, were alightly 'convicted,'and concluded to reform. 'Brother Tom.' says one, when ttiey had arrived nt their home, 'let u* sit down now. I'll tell you what we'll do. You tell me all nty faults, and I'll' tell you, and so we'll know how to go about mendin* of 'em,' •Goodl' says brother Tom. •Well, you begin.' 'No, you begin, brother Joe.* 'Well, in the first place,you know, brother Tom, you will lie.'

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Our chdnobeiStt. somewhat Indignant, turned to the boy and said, 'My son, do you knoW what th* Scripture* lay about the Wicked t*». sir! 'The wicked stand on slippery placet* SiindaV papers, sirt 8und*y papers.'—iV.

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AHOTASE J*OET toost.—Some waattrn swain baa recently fallen most desperately jo love with a fair oa»—'Miss Betsey* he oa|l* her—and disdaining

OOWMHW and vulgar prose, be allows his burst eat a&d bhuto away la poetry. Ono will give a sttfficiar^t insigbt into his merits, itfc: .0f lav ts my harts 4«!it* r" bar *a«** arts tt«t*y fie go ft aa* bur ikh vary ait* tf gad af*ktty bt* ma.

Crackt goes brotl^ Tom's 'paw' between brother Joe's 'blinkers,'and considerable of a'scrimage' ensues, until, in the oourse of ten minutes, neither aro able to 'come up to time,' and the reformation is postponed sine die.

Lold Montets, Coming on from Washington, a Tew days ago. in the Cars, is said by one of the Sunday papers to have indulged herself in smoking a oigarette. One of the condUotors is related to have remonstrated with her lady ship upon this infraotion of the rules. i-tHZ •Madame, yo6 cSnYsiridkerrors.*

EhV aaid the piquant beauty, leisurely withdrawing the cigarette from her pretty mouthy 'You oan't amoke her*, madam*.' 'But you aee I can,' and she puffed forth a volume of Smoke into tho Very fact) of the mystified and abashed conductor, Who waa fain to leave the beauty to do aa sHe pleased. So sh* finished her cigarette without further annoyanoa or interrupt

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The New York Post concludes a sever* review^*3 of the work* of the late Judge Story with thesep? words: He be* been the au '.hor of a great dud of bad law, aome Of which he lived long enough to regret and there is no capacity nxoept as astateeman, in Which he hae appeared to so little ad vantag* as in th* capacity of an author. He fairly lit-1 tarad law books Whenever belayed an egg, he con* & trived to set ail the newspaper! in the country as, cackling. Ndt drib of hi* works Is deemed at all in-1| diSpensTble to a IsWyor library, and but one or two are fever opened except by atudenla. As to hia f.% Commentaries on th* Constitution, they *re nevera"1 quoted in cbhrt, bko«u*a they obntein nothing new*' whiob good ibr anything, and nothing old which hai r.ot qeen batter slated else^hero^^"^..

Not V6 SUhd^y htdmlng, a few« weeks ago (writes a correspondent—'UV'). while one of our 'aboVe-Blaeker" Christians was cleaning the ica and Snow off tire aide-walk, a little newsboy made his sppeSrance with the pspers. 'Sunday psptrs, sir? Suhiiy Times, Atlutt ftt§taury, Sunday Hersldt'

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A 4iend in writing about fessiciine matieraaay* M* wife is a^KHit retiring from acoiety, fbr the poraaaeof MtMM^of toooa of fboaa Httla aflaira whfoi^ Maw »dd 10 the dories of tba OMMU taker. Hts'dallboad, aacy of eaprasrieh* shoold oaoca tka ladiaa toooch-

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