Terre-Haute Journal, Volume 4, Number 42, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 July 1852 — Page 1

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^WILLIAM MOORE & WM. E. McLEAN, PROPRIETORS AND PUBLISHERS.

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION

•For six months ••••J* Per Annual, If paid with I a 8U Mentha £,00 At tbe end of 81* Month*

After the explraUoa of tip Year y:"i W« will receive tl,50, If paid ©a receipt of the nrwt copy O* N« paper dl*eon tinned nntfl all arrearages «r« pew. except at lb« optima of the proprietors.

TERMS OP ADTBBTMWG^

Os» Square Three Weeks. ...... Each additional Issertfos per Square......

ETLlberal discount made to yearly adrertlsers.

Resolved,That as soon as one thousand shares of slock shall be taken, and a sura equal to two dollars on [each of] the said one thousand shares subscribed shall be paid. That the Secretary of this Board give notice thereof in the •Terre-Ilaute Journal,' published in Vigo county, and in the 'Vincennes Gazette' published in the counly of Knox, stating a time therein, for the alockholders to meet and elect nine Directors, the time of holding that meeting be fixed by said Secretary, and that such meeting be held in the town of Merom in the oounly of Sullivan.

Whereupon, in accordance with a previous resolution, William K. Edwards, of Vigo county. Henry K. Wilson and William D. Blackburn of Sullivan county and Horace B. Shepherd of the county of Knox, were appointed Receivers, to retain the monies paichover until directory are elected who will control tho same.

On motion of H. B. Shepherd it was further Resolved, That the Chair appoint three persons, to correapond with the President and Directors of tho Evansville and Illinois Railroad Company up on the subjeot of the consolidation of their Road with the fTabash Railroad and of a anion of the two roads in interest, with a

RAILROAD JfEETIJIO. TCKSDAT, July 6, IBS*

The Board of Commissioners of the Wabash Railroad Company" met in ihe Town of Merom, In Sullivan county, there being present and acting of the Commissioners, named in the charter of a*id Company, Messrs. Rose, Kester and Ernest, of the county of Vigo, Griffith, Wilson, O'Boyle, Reed, 'Merry, Springer, O'Haver, Blackburn and Marks. 'of the counly of Sullivan, Shepherd and Emmison

*•"'When on motion of II. B. Shepherd the following preamble and resolution* were adopted: V* WHEREAS, The Commissioner! assembled III this meeting, believe that the time has now arrived when they ought to tf*ke some action and effective steps, for the construction and completion of a Railroad from Vincenr.es in Knox county, through the county of Sullivan, to Terre-Haute, in Vigo county, under the oharter of the Wabash R. Company, in whioh they are nominated commisaioners for that purpo^ Jb|^p, jjipu«u ance 4)[ that duty \«L «»..

Retolvcd, That books be again opened for the subscription of further stock in the "Wabash R. R. Company," that such books be opened in the counties of Knox, Sullivan and Vigo, and that solicitors be appointed in each of said counties

When on motion eaoh^ member of the Board was appointed a solicitor, losolioitand receive subscription to the cspital stock of the Wabash R. R. Company, and on further motion, Wm. D. Griswold, of Vigo county, Joshua Alsop and John S. Davis,

Sullivan couuty, were appointed solicitors to obtain slock. Resolved, That notice of Ihe time and places of opening said books be given by the Seoretary of this Board by publication in the ''Wabash Courier* |and 'Terre-Haute Journal* in Vigo couniy and also in the 'Vincennes Gazelle,' in Knox county.

Resolved, That tho solicitors appointed under the first resolution, collect the sum of two dollars per share subscribed from all the subscribers to •aid slock by them severally obtained.

Retolvcd, That such solicitors as are appointed by the resolution above, be requested to colleot the two dollars per share, required by the charter, unpaid, from the several persons who havo heretofore subscribed lo the said Mock.

Resolved, That the President of this Board appoint Receivers in the counties of Knox, Sullivan and Vigo, lo receive and keep the monies lo be paid to tho solicitors, heretofore appointed, until such time as a board of directors shall be organized ft control the same.

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whether suoh a union oan bo obtained ami upon what terms. Wbereupon 'lhe efiatr appointed Mestta. Farrington and Griswold of Vigo county.

Resolved, That the proceeding of this meeting bo published in the Tsr re-Haute Journal, ViueenGaxett* and other papers friendly to the work.

Rvolvcd, That this meeting do now adjourn. JAMES OR AVER, Pre*. Toot, MAKES, Sec'g.

Ta« STATS FAI*.-IFE learn that the Executive Committee of tho State Agricultural Society havo designated IndiaaapoKs as the site of the first Slate Fair, to be held on the 10th of October next. JFe think the selection a judicious one, and do not doubt thai ottr citizens will make trrangementa-ua due season to ensure the bdUtaat raooeea of tbe Farmers' FeetitraJ*

si Miss Fanay Leo Townsend has been appointed one of the delegates from New York, to the Natioaal Industrial Congress,

NewportfR. !,) anti-twiperaaco wmm have nomtciatwiaticket for inapwioo, oorwiadnf ofUimd men, wbooa duty itwiil be *^o see tkat no Kquoc is •old aa a beverage" ia thai iowm

BAiisr* -—Tho Bal'tmore Son sayathat Barnum ia otfertag to b«t oo the oloetSoti of ft«r©e atifl Kins, allowing bis opponent iem perumt. odds,'

When Barnum bets, bebtttsto wi*. He is acknowledged on all hands to be tho shrewde* man io ihe United Suie«.—Ifcw AMmg

W^» ka* tko^ttteoof h,t^Poj»o or AeSoK tin—man witit no srilk or tbe on* wHk two kufiditMl and fifty. 4-

OLF THE FOURTH OF JULY. ST iobm Aami.. Balll thea aa^tk^oae glorious Which care the British chape

I fare the JHrftlsh chape their corn

Wh«* wwrjr patriot here had sworn, Freo that day forth, All British tyranay to scora,

In east or north.

Events that leaf preceded these, Deetioed to ank a noble bnete, it bug as there at* hills or seas,

Or weds to tell, Where armies mastered thick as bees, Aud British fell.

The tyrants of ihe noble's land, Had rode John with eo high a hand, That titiey dated eves to command

The patriots here This pat oar nation to a stand, Bat not to fear.

At Banker's hilt we fare them battle, And pat to proof oar sterling mettle, The British fled away like cattle,

Or stricken deer Wha' fell not on the field o' battle, Fled last for fear.

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We mot the erarena aft again, And give them buckshot wr their pain, Till they were thankful to refrain,

And did decree, (Since they could not keep as in chain) n. To «et cs free.

And now we haijl the giorioas day, Which first giro Uberty Its sway, Which shed Its fi it, Its rising ray

On this blest shore Here may It take its lasting stay, To set no more!

TBS MATCH &IRL OF KENTUCKY. •Sfn |v£ BY FRANCIS S OSGOOD. 'Six for a fip! maichesl matches!' The voice was clear and glsd as the wind's, and Russel Hartley turned to see from whence it proceeded a little, barefooted girl about ten years old, with the sunni est sweetest face ho had ever seen was tripping jnst behind, and, as he turned, she held up her matchcs with suoh a winning, pleading, heavenly smile in her blue eyes, that he bought nearly all she had at once.

Her fair hair fell in soft light waves rather than curls, nearly to the waist, and a hole in her little straw hat let in a sunbeam upon it that turned it half to gold. 1

In spite of the child's ooarse and tattered apparel, in spite of her lowly occupation, her manner, her step, her expression, the very tone of her voice unconciously betrayed a naiive delicacy, and refinement, which deeply interested the high-bred youth whom she addressed. Impelled by an irresislable impulse, he lingered by her side as she proceeded.

What is your name, my child?' he askedc Virginia, sir. What is yours!' ,J Hartley—Ruf»«el Hartley,' he replied, smiling at her artless and native simplicity: and where is your home?'

Oh! 1 have no home, at least not much of one. I sleep in the barns about hare,' and again she looked up in his face, with her happy and touching smiles. 'Anil your mother?'

In an instant the soft brow was shadowed, ana the uplifted eyes glistened with tears. •I will tell you about it, if you will come close to me. I don't like to ta^k loud about it,' she replied in low faltering tones. .^

Ruasel Hartley took her little sunburnt nana in his, and beni his head in earnest attention. We had been in a great ship ever so many days, mother, and father, and 1, and all the other people, and one ntght we were in the room they called the Ladies' Cabin, and mother had just undressed me. nd I was sitting on her knee singing the little hymn she had taught me and she had her arm around my neck—-mother loved me—oh! so dearly and she was ao sweet and good!—-nobody will ever be so good to me again! and here the little ensure tried to repress a sob, and wiped her eyes wtth her torn apron. 'Well, and so 1^ was singing my pretty hymnr

I'll know no fear when danger's near, I'm safe on sea or land, .. For I've In Heaven a father dear,

And He will hold iny hand.

All at onoe there was a dreadful confused sound a rumbling, crashing, shrtekins, noise—a terrible pain, and then—I woke up, and there I was on a bed in

strange room, and some people standing

by the fire, talking about as steamboat that burst her boiler tho day before, and I found that I had been washed on shore, aud that Mr, Smith had found me, and taken me home to his wife, and she had put me into a warm bed tad tried to rouse m«{ but she couldn't till I woke up next day. And when I cried for (tiy own sweet mother they looked sad and said sb« was drowned, and I should never see her again. And then I wanted to be drowned too, but thoy said that was wicked, and I was*orry 1 had said so, for I would not be wicked for the world! Mother always loved to have me good and so I tried to bo as happy as they told me 1 must bat I could't—not for a groat while— I used to pine so at night for her arms around met At last found a little oomfort in doing just as 1 knew she would like to have m*, and in knowing she could see mo still, and in talking to her up in heaven. just as 1 did when sat oa her knee, and I sillg it now every night. Mr. Smith and his wife both died and left me all alone again but I am hardly ever sad now, for 1 am OHM always good, and you knew good pfople must not be unhappy/ and ihe beautiful loving smile, shone aMtn through her lingering tears as she finished her simple stgry.

Russu! was touched to tho heart. His own eyes were moist, and, bettdiog down, bo kisssod the oheck of tho litUe orphan, and bade her go with him, and he would give her money to feed and dot be herself.

But the child drew gently, and somewhat proudly back and said earnestly, Oh! I never take money as a gift mother would not like it,* Then kissing th* gentle hand that still held hers, afco tripped lightly around tjhft comer, and a moment after, Hertly, heard her soft silver voice, tremble for in the distance singing 'Matches! mutches! six for fip! Who'll buy my matches! matches! hot*

Russel Hartler kept that asset picture in Us soul, undimmed through yearn of travel and Change awl oars. He visited with enthusiasm, the nolle galleries of painting awl sculpture in Bng load. Franco and Italy, and many gem of art **a enshrined and hallowed in the mosaic tabfets of memory, bat there was socte to rival tbo gtm aaiitrs—tbe matchless little match girl of Kentucky, with Iter rod cloak okddteh «gr«», through the bole in it old straw bat lo lift** a* with a message Srom hesteo tbe lovely |*ad of tho orpfcan gwf The beaufifb* ray of light!— made move beautiftti bf iis ebosen T«*ti&g piooe, grnug ami receiving grace!—*t aoomtd aaymM of tho Father's lost Ao poor motkeHeos wn^ dorer. ft was only tbe loU IU ttiebal that let in tbe socshioe—it was ber jMcerte ami her lonely, lowiy state, thai mado her espoeiaiy tbe ofciid of His divine pttjr and tenderness: ud they tike tkessto

th Her lair hair streaming on her scanty t, the glad mod innooeot smile in ber syoe. atwl Ike lovely snbboam stealing

changed to gold her daily care, and smiled tbrdugb every cloud that crossed her little heart. Seven years flew by—on butterfly wings to joy and thoughtlessness, on leaden ones to sorrow and 'hope deferred"—and our little Virginia, now a lovely girl of seventeen, had earned money enough by her bewitching way of offering matches for sale, to introduce herself as a pupil in on* of tbe first boarding schools in the country not to commence but finish her education for with a passionate love of books, she had found means to cultivate her tastes and talents ?n many wayi».

The lovely and lonely little orphan had struggled with hunger and cold, and fatigues, with temptation In its most alluring and beguiling forms, with evils in a thousand shspes yet she had kept the heavenly sunshine of her soul pure and unclouded through it all. She had never taken money as a gift nor as a bribe. She had assisted from her little store, many a child of misfortune, still humbler than himself, and with faith, truth, and purity—an angel guard around ber by the light of her own innocent smiles, she glided like a star through the gathering clouds unharmed, unsus* tainea, unshadowed. In the words of our beautiful poet—"Peace charmed the street beneath her feet,

And honor charmed tbe air

and music—the music of her own sweet heart and silver voice, went always with her through the world.

It was on tWiTevenirtg preceding that on which the annual ball of the school took place. The young ladies were discussing around the school room fire, the dresses ihey were to wear. Virginia, a

little apart, listened to them, and half wished she had a fairy god-mother, like Cinderilla's to deck,

her for the festivel. 'Pearls, diamonds, japonicas, satins, laces, velvets!' She, alas had nbne of these! She had only the plain white dress, in which she hsd been crowned Queen of May the spring proceeding. It was so very plain, not even a bit of trimming around the throat.' 'And what are you lo wear Miss Ltndon,* said one of the aristocrats of the school, turning with what she fancied to be an imperial air, towards the young stranger.

Virginia blushed, and said simply, *My while muslin.' "And what ornamentst'

Virginia smiled. 'Oh I can §nd some, bright autumn leaves for a wreath.* Immogeno Grey would have given her diamond necklace for such a blush and smile for her own sallow cheeks was never so illuminated but she sneered neverthless at the white muslin and garland of leaves, and deigned no further question.

Virginia's delicate and sensitive spirit felt the sneer intensely and she left the room with a swel ling heart and tearful eyes. Onoe safe, however in the asylum of her own litle chamber, peace de scended again like a dove into her soul, and after undressing, she knelt in her night robe by the side of ber bed, and said her prayer, and sang her childish hymn—

Of old th' Apostle walked the wave, As seamen walked the land. A power was near htm strong to

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For Jesua held his hand. Why, ahould I fear when dangerte near? I'm safe on sea and land For I've In Heaven a Father dear,

Aud he will hold my band. V. Though on adiszy height, perchance Wtth faltering feet 1 stand, No oread shall dim my upward glance,

Wot God will hold my band.

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But oh! If doubts should elood the day. And aln beside me stand, Then firmest, tot 1 lose mg way, -J

My Father! hold my hand! .• Doubt, and danger, and sin. were nearer th«n she thought, but her little hand was held by One who would not let her fall. As she rose from her devotions, she saw, for the first time, a box on the table by the bed It was addressed on the cover simply to 'Virginia.' She opened tt, wondering arid found a set of exquisite pearl ornaments, for the arms, neck und head. Her little heartbeat with girlish delight. She hurried to the glass, and wound around her hair a chain of snow-white gems less fair and pure than the innocent brow beneath Next she bared her graceful arm. and placed bracelet there. How exquisttely the delicate or naments became her childish loveliness! She thought she had never looked ao pretty—not even when she used to deck her hair with wild flowers by the clear *pool in the woods, and she could wear them to tho ball! But who could have sent them? Again she looked at the box, and this time she saw a note peeping beneath the cotton wool on which the gems had retted/ Virginia's fair cheek flush odasshoread— "Letinooce&ce and beauty accept the gUt of lova.

HASXT Gtrr."

Had the bracelet boon a serpent with its deadly sting in bar arm, Virgioia oould scarcely have tin clasped it with more fearful haste. The chain too was snatched from bar head, and both, with the note replaced in tho box and then the fair child throw herself again on her knees and buried face in h«r hands. After a silence of some min Utes. brokon only by faint sobs sung onco more, in low and tremulous tooes, tho hymn which seemed to her a talisman for all evil, and then calmly lay ing ber head on the pillow, and murmuring the nemo which was music to her soul, sunk into the soft and deep slumber of innocence and youth.

For nearly a year had the young libertine Harry Grey, pursned her with his unhallowed passion, aid«Md, as he vainly imagined, by bis costly and tasteful gifts but there seemed a msgto halo around tho young Virginia, through which no shadow of evil could penetrate. Besides tho native purity and doltettcy of hsr mind, there were two other in fiuences at work in tho beautiful web of hor destiny, to prevent any course of dark thread mingling in its tissue one was hor spiritual communion with her mother, and the other, hor affectionate membracoo of Rnsod Hartley—the only Mog In wfeosoeyos she bad ovwr read the sympathy fx which hor lonely and loving heart yearned always. it was evening again. Tho young ladies had assembled, dressed for the baO, in the drawing room—all hot Virginia. •Where is die child asked an invalid tonohor, to whom she had endeared herself by ber graeefai and aJToorioaats

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nMdestly to her bidding, and then band in hand they descended to the drawing room. Many of the company bad arrived—the doors that led lo the room had been ihr&wn open, and Virginia was almost deeded by the splendor of the scene into which she was thns suddenly ushered. She blushed beneath the eyes that were rivited upon her as she passed. -s •An Angel!' 'A grace!* »A muse!' whispered the gentlemen to each other. There .was oai among them—a noble, chivalrio-looking man-—who did not speak his admiration. An indefinable something in the heavenly beauty of that face had touched in his soul a chord which had not vibrated for many years before. Virginia knew him at onco. Hie rich chestnut curls of twenty had now assumed a darker tinge, the eyes a somewhat softer fire, and flexible graoe bad given place to a manly dignity of mein, but there was no mistaking the soul in the glance of Russel Henley.

And Virginia was decidedly the belle of die ball. Gay but graoefully so, for her sportive mood was softened and restrained by a charming timidity that enhanced ber loveliness ten-fold, she looked and moved like one inspired. She had met Hartley's admiring gaxe, she was almost sure be would ask an introduction, and she felt as if her feet and heart were suddenly gifted with wings. She floated down the dance like a peri, through the air, and then Russel approached and was introduced*

The sunny smile of the little match-girl shone in ber eyes, as she accepted his arm for a promenade. 'Surely, I have seen that look somewhere before!' be exclaimed, half aloud. 'Matches! matches! six for a fip!' murmered Virginia, looking archly up in his face, and the mystery was at once explained.

Imogen Grey's diamond necklace was worthless dross in comparison with the wreath of autumn leaves, with all her brother's costly offerings oould not have purchased the smiles which accompanied the gift.

Rea aer, if you ever go to Kentucky, come lo me for a letter of introduction to Mrs. Russel Hartley. She is looked up to, respected and beloved by all the country round, and I am sure you will enjoy ber graceful and oordial attention, and the luxuries of her elegant home, all the more for remembering that the distinguished and dignified woman to whom you are n.&king your very best bow, was once ihe little match-girl P/ my story.

THS'IRISH SOLDIER.—The Richmond Dispatch thus compliments the "sons of Erin:" In actual battle there is no soldier in Europe, that can compare with the Irish veteran. He is cool and yet full of fire and enthusiasm he stands shot like a hero without returning it: he waits for the word of command, tljat is to let loose his terrible energies, and then he rushes on like a whirlwind. He is more muscular than many others, and therefore adapted to close fighting. He is intractable and hard to manange in camp, but on the battle field is much at home as Nelson was on the deck of the Victory. He apparently has a predileotion for the excitement of the battle but cuts a poor figure in the retreat., When Sir John Moore retreated before the French armies, tbe IrUh regiments lost half of their men by desertion. But no sooner was it given out that the commander-in-chief hslted, and that a great battle was to be fought, than every man rejoined his colors, eager for the fray,

BRISK SA1«S.—Ayoung man, T. W. Donaldson writing to thi Zanesville Aurora, from California, says,'Women are more in demand here*let mo say, than any thing else, and there are a great ra»* nv arriving here every day from Sidney—the place where Ihe English send their convicts—and from Chili and other countries. You don't have to got a priest or a preacher to marry you in this counlry. If you want a wife, all you have to do is, to go on board a vessel that has just arrived from Sidney or Chili and buy you onr. Women sell from five hundred to as high as ten thousand dollars aptcce. If a good-looking young lady was to come to this oountry, I have no doubt but that she might get as. high as twenty or thirty thousand dollars for herself. There was a ship oame from Chili day before yesterday, and let go her anchor within speaking distance of us, aud she bad 93 women on board of her. To-day, at 12 o'clock, there was but ono left, and she was about 70 years old.'

CBANQB OF HABIT.—A gentleman recently from Africa, while at one of the civilized colonies on tbe coast, meta young colored woman whom he had known in old Virgin!*, who had obtained her freedom for good conduct and had emigrated to Liberia. "Where are you travelling to Mary-}'said the gentleman. 'I am going down to the village on the seashore f'am tired of seeing nigger, nigger, nigger! I want to see some white folks. 'But are you doing well here?* •Oh, very well. 1 have four slaves who make palm-leaf h*)*.' 'Slaves. Mary. Too emancipatedto have slaves in your land!' *Oh yes.' said she with great simplicity 'must do as they do in old Virginia.'

No Accotnrrmo FOR TASTE.—A woman 23 years old, daughter of a gentleman in London, has recently been arrested es the wife ef Mahomet Abraham, a jet black, blind, filthy, beggar of that

tion pinned to his coat, and a little dog to lead him and boasted that he brought home 8s. a day, en an average, which supported them sumptuously Acoording to the testimony of the girl's father, she wss brought up and educated in good style by ber grandfather and grandmother, and upon their death was taken home by ber parents, from whom she soon eloped with a married man, and for severnl years h|d ran *onreer^|MBe, dff%Uq| «?d

disease., •Pa, why dent you buy a bw, eo that we could have all the eggs we went!*

My .deer one hen would ooflay all the eggs we want.' •Why, yes woald. Pa. we only use a doaeh a day, and a good ben would certainly lajr tbat ma-

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Lews teyalaiiec the Social Relations. The law of Guardian and Ward is not materially changed, except In this, that the obligation and restrictions imposed upon the guardian are, in their general character, more stringent than under the old law. and that tbe rights of the ward are thus more carefully guarded and better secured.

In the law of Master and Apprentice there Is no change of importance to merit notice. The new law of Divorce follows, in principle, tbe old law of 1643, as modified by several successive statutes, permitting divorce, among other usual causes, for the following also: "Abandonment for one year or for a period, if the Court shall be satisfied, that reconciliation is improbable," and for "Habitual drunkenness of either party or failure of the hubsand to make reasonable provision for bis family."

There is however one new provision in this law. It is that which secures to the wife, if she has just cause of divorce, the pecuniary means of prosecuting her suit: it being provided that the Couit may issue "Such orders relative to the expenses of suit as will insure to the wife an efficient preparation of her case and a fair and impartial trial thercol: and, on decreeing a divorce in favor of the wife, or refusing one on the application of tha husband, the Court shall, by order, to be enforced by attachment, require the husband to pay all reasonable expenses of the wife, in the prosecution or defence of the petition, when such divorce has been to granted or refused."

In the law "touching the Marriage Relation and liabilities incident thereto," there is one material /CTange, from the old provision of Common Law, as it has prevailed among us lo this time. The old provision baoked by English decision is, that the husband is held liable for his wife's debts contracted before marriage no matter whether she brought him property or not, provided, in case of his refusal lo pay such debts judgment was obtained against him before thedeath of the wife but if the wife died before judgment is obtained, he was not liable, no matter how much properly ho miglg have obtained by her. .....

The new provision is, that "The husband shall be liable for the debts and liabilities of the wife, contracted before marriage, to the extent of tho personal property he may receive with or through her, or derive from the adle or rent of her lands and no farther." "Such liability of the husband sltall not be'extin guished by tbe death of the wife."

The lands of ihe wife are of course, al*o liable. This, is undoubtedly, a great improvement on ihe old law the glaring injustice of which has often been acknowledged by ihe English oourts.even while, bound down by the precedent they enforced it.

The right of the wife lo rents and profits of her real estate, is recbgnized in more explicit terms than in the old law of 1846. The provision is: "No lands of any married woman ahall be liable for the debts ef her husband, but suoh lands and the profits therefrom shall be her separate property, as fully as if she were unmarried."

It ivas, we believo, considered somewhat doubtful, under the old law, whether the husband's receipt, in his own right, for the rents and profits of his wife's land, was good or not. Under the new law it is certain, that it would be wholly invalid, except as the agent expressly appointed or tacitly acknowledged, of the wife. Against her pu'ilio notice or express protest, tho husband's receipt would be worthless and the renter would have to pay the amount thus illegally reoeipted for, over again to the wife.

There was no change made, nor was any we believe, proposed during the session, as to personnl property of married women. In this we are still behind Michigan and several other of our sister States.—Sentinel.

ENCOUNTER WITH A BOA.—Mr. Mason, in his recently published work, 'Pictures in Mexico,' relates the following circumstances which occurred to him while loitering along a shady path in the forest:— *1 stepped aside for a moment to admire a rioh tuft of purple flowers, my mule having plodded on about eight or ten yards ahead, when, aa I turned from tha flowers towards the path, a sensation as of a flash of lightning struck my sight, and 1 saw a brilliant but powerful snake winding its coils round the head and body of my poor mule. It was a large and magnificent boa, of a black and yellow color, and it had entwined tho poor beast so firmly in Us folds that ere he had time to utter more than one foeble cry he was crushed end dead. The perspiration broke out on my forehead as I thought of my narrow esoape and only remaining a moment to view the movements of the monster, as he begun to uncoil himself, I rushed through the brushwood, and did not oonsider myself sale until 1 was entirely free of the forest,'

The Editor of the New York Journal of Commerce hss received from Florida four quarts of mosquitoes in a glasi receiver or jar marked 'Preserved mosquitoes from Florida.' They are specimens of the mosquitoes which, according lo statement in the Journal of Commerce, thrust their bills through an eld boiler, in whioh an unhappy Yankee bad taken refuge, to avoid the enormous mosquitoes of the everglades.

Tbe story goes, that the Yankee, in finding how matters stood in the morning, went to work and clinched all the biils inside the boiler, when the mosquitoes taking alarm, rote with the boiler, and flew off at a thundering rate in the direction oi Okfenokea swamp. Nothing is now wanting to substantiate the story but the boiler.

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When you put a letter in an envelope, it should b* fully addressed on the inside or, when the en relope is lost, there may he mistake or confusion. A stolen mail was recently iweovered, hot as the envelopes were torn off the letters, the postmaster does BKM know where to send many of them.

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*Yo« want a flogging thai** what you said a parent to his unruly eon.* 'I know it dad, but iU try to get along without it,' said the impu-

fke Grate qf Aarm Bmrr, at I'tiuoet**, N. 7. —Not a stone marks the spot, though Burr is understood to It*** left rioh widow, and hi* ashes lie surrounded hy the imnresshw suowewei* of J««*than Edwards, John fritherspoon, Aebbsl &££ wad other tbmweed offieersof IVinc*io^||gftige, to"*'!****w*ao«* PEFIWYIBI is th* cud cfetfl gteececes, ..... ..

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dish np Webster in a stew, season him with Fillmore, too So now Old Coon, hope you sea Some point aboat oar nominee."

A tMur eime in the Old Coon's eye, A*d he didn't stoji to make reply Bat put right off a hollow tree, To save his It toe frura our nominee.

NO. 42.

From tho Republican Pri*-«Uer.

"Who is Fraaklla Pierre!**

The Coon eravled out of hfa hob* quite I'ick*— "Who In thunder," rays FRANK. PtxacK A Democrat pacing by, did Mng— "Go Into yoar hole yon thieving tlilAi. And this much learn that onr gallant rank Is down oa yoar rotten United States Bnik A Regular qproat of the Jackson Uree4 From Banker Hill and Concord aeeil The very man to make too hot The "hasty soup" of General £cott ,»

Parsoa Brotvnlow oa Scottt From the Kaoxvllle (Teus Whig, 9$ih ult. THE WHIG NOMINATION.—Tha deed is done! \Vinfield Scott is the Whig candidate for the Presidency! After a six days' fight in convention, anrl after balloting fifty times, wearing out the patienca of the delegates, and disgusting the thousands of spectators present, tho popular will was trodden under foot by an unprincipled band of abolitionists, headed by William 11. Seward, the worst man in America, and the wholo South was forced to cost northern dust! The nationality oi the Whig party is destroyed and the man above all others— Filitnore, who was entitled to the nomination, and who would have been acceptable to his party—has been ungenerously set aside by the wire-workings, intrigue, lying, and vile managomtHtt of as corrupt a faction as ever banded together, for similar purposes, this side of the inferos! regions!

It will not be more than one month from the dav on which Scott wa& nominated, until every sensible reading man will seo that he oan't get the electoral vote of a single State south of the Potomao—not one! He ought not to get one voteJv'It.is due to the Whigs of the South that they should at onco wash their hands of the nomination, and ahake their skirts of its odium, ahame and disgrace.—Tennessee will go for for Pierce and King by a majority of not less than TEN THOUSAND VOTES. Never having voted for a Democratic Presidential ticket, we do not expect to vote for Pierce and King but if we could believe that one vote would give them this State, and the Union, against tho Scott and Seward ticket now before ihe oountry, our vote would be given to them with as much ciieerfulucsi as we ever oast it in our lives! They will not need ur humble effort—the race will be a onesided race—Pierce and King will sweep the ontiru South —they ought lo do it, against the corrupt and freesoil ticket the Whigs have put forth—and we pray God they may do it!

Whig orators and editors may talk about Bridgewater and Lundy's Lane—about Vera Cruz and Cerro-Gordo—about Chapultapeo and Molino del Rev—and about the oily of Mexico—-but they will find the glories of those fields swallowed up in the I'ence-riding course of Scott—his unsulfarable vanity—and the infamy of his political associations. Gen. Scott will now come out for the compromise measures, but it is too late. The distrust pf ihf Southern people oannot now be overcome

In our next, if life is spared, we wilt snow up Scott in his true character, which is that of the veriest humbug alive!

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The nominaiion of Gon. Scott is far I'rorn

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A writer in tbe Detroit Advertiser who was for twenty years* stock farmer, says sheep can be protected from dogs by pasturing them with fat cattle or milch eows. Hie oatde invariably attack the dogs aod thns save tbe sheep.

general satisfaction to the Whig parly. I,i New York and Boston, muoh disappointment cxpreti ed, and at the South, the feeling against it Is strong and decided.

The Boston Journal endorses the nomination with a heavy heart. The Advertiser expressee fears that it forbodes disasirous^conspq'ionces to lo the whig party and the oountry. The Courier will await tbe return of the delegates from Baltimore before deciding whether to sustain Gen. Scott or not. The Atlas feign lo approve the nomination. The Mail says (hat the efTect of the nomination on the crowd in State street was very much like tho sppearanoe of a general collection in ohurch.only the scattering was more g»n?ral and indi^criminate.,

despatch from Charleston say* —'The news of the nomination of Gener«l Scott caused much surprise to the whigs of thit city.'

Another from Savannah runs Ihu*?—1'The an* noun cement of ihe Whig nomination for the Presidency Appears to bo unsatisfactory to the Whi^s of this section/

PoLiTtcAi, ME.xpACtTY.—The Louisville Courier of Thurday pretends to quote from (Jen. Wool lo prove thai Gen. Pierce was not at the bititl* of Chapultepeot This circumstance shows the gam** of falsehood and detraction thai is to obaraciem.* this Canvass. Gen. Wool was with Gen. Taylor when the battle of Chspultepec was fought, indeed, he was not on Scott's line during the whole campa ign, yet tre find a forged extract from a report wbhb he never m«fe bandied ever ihe country, as proof against Gen. Pierce.—Madisonian.

Ms. WEBST®*—-Tbe Washington correspondent of the Commercial Advertiser writes: *1

not *redit the news that the English mission i« to taken by Mr. Webster. But-it is understood that he will, after the close of the term of the pr.'s^nt Administration, retire absolutely from public, ani from active profossonal life/*

Tbe Whigs ef taken fosu^ oa the anti-ib)-W law of teat 8tatr, a»d have uantiaatod a candidate for Governor, who is.opposed to it Jt is reported (bat Mr* Greeley of ihe Kew York Tribune, fainted oat^lgbt oS of the abore, and says tbat fjteott's friends w*r« as eystsrslritMit (be tewpcraRee part of bis hi iu(m

CH course. Gen. fknU win, like Gen. TaylSr under the eame cirowmstano^s, resign his omitiik. akw k» tbe amy, which will pjaee ioiin K. TP«ol/ at the htiad, ae commanJer iti-Chief, be now being in rank,

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A despatch from \ew York, puUIsliod in the Philadelphia Bulletin, says —"There is a growing dissatisfaction among the larger portion of ihe Whigs of this city at the nomination of Gen. Scott, and efforts are being made to get up a Convention to nominate Mr. Webster as an independent candidate. The Courier and Enquirer publishes communications recommending the nomination of Mr. Webster. One of ihem advises a Convention to beheld on the first of August, and adds that tit is more glorious lo fall, if fell we must, with such a man than be secceesful with any other.''

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teed themselves, but they heve- been |h$ of great deal of sin in others. The whig* there say had words—*ay