Vincennes Gazette, Volume 3, Number 6, Vincennes, Knox County, 20 July 1833 — Page 2

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u. -k . ..- -e. Our leaders will perceive, that we have devote- a Inrge portion of our paper of this week literature. to anecdote, agriculture and We 6 hall always endeavor to select such . . . . matter as will tend to impart Ulerary and mora! instruction to our patron?, feeling assured that to a majority of them, our paper will he esteemed valuahle, in proportion to the amusement it affords We are enlisted in the service of the public, and pledge ourselves to use every exertion to merit their approbation and support; an in the absence of news, shall eludy to entertain and instruct. On the morning of Sunday last, the 14th tnst. the body of John liasdon, a man of color, was found in the river three miles below this place, supposed to have been murdered He was seen late the night previous, rather intosicated, in the company of a boat's crew who were unlading salt, and as hlooJ was discovered on the ban els and sand at oar landing, suspicion attached to them. A number of our citi Sens accompanying an officer (who had the warrant of a magistrate to bring them back.) started on Sunday niqht, and re turned the day following, with 4 out of 5 of the ciew; alter a patient investiga tion, finding no evidence against them, they were immediately discharged. Marks of violence appeared on the head of the deceased, w hich led the jury of inquest to believe that he had been struck with a boat-pole, or some dull instrument, knocked senseless, and in that Slate, was thrown into the river. The deceased wavery inoffensive , but intemperate in his habits. On the night cf the 17ih inst. we had a tremendoti3 thunder Storm, more severe and of longer continuance than any in the mem rv of our oldest citizens. The ightning was most vivid, and continued aimost without intermission, and the accompanying thunder was truly appalling. Peal succeeded peal in rapid succession, and so stunuing in their effect as to appear i inmP.lintplu -ibovp ni With the exception of the destruction of a number of trees in the town and its vicaiity and a horse being killed on our common:', we have heard of no mischief it lias done; but we fear the damage in the neighborhood has been considerable. Wc publish to-day an article over the signature of "Livingston," copied from the Louisville Public Advertiser, on the caucus, symptoms and treatment ol Chole. ra,. which we think worthy of the attention ef the public generally, and Physicians pni tit uhir'y. It is co. .ceded, on all hands that this dreaded epidemic, its nature and its cure, are vet mysteries, and mat no mocie oil 1 . t 1 r ! treatment basket been practiced, which Under itj many varied foims and stages, is capable of counteracting its piogiess and di;aiming it of its mortal sting. - . . - ' umher.ess diseases, en their Iirst appearance as epidemics in the world, prov ea equally as destructive as Cholera does new, but science and investigation found ' i tintidotp tor each and all of them. Wt ! have no rinnbt fhnt nn fficipnt r.,r ill!a J lt be discovererl for this prevailing

SATUK1AY, JULY 2,

-ease, mid as little that after it has ceased u, r.V w,th a llttieJcl11 w ami, to rage as an epidemic. It will settle down 1 proportions given m like manner with intervals! into one of th,. ( t u iv of an ho,ir untl1 -action takes place, which is imo one ot the many foes to human liegem.ral,y from twolo six hour9 1 ' Common to the country ; we feel, therefore i II ,s llt for its immediate, but for its ulterior;

every desire to ge publicity to every r.ew idea on the subject, ior the mlorma tion of our leadeis. V"- J ' "" 'urerttscr. PATHOLOGY AM) TKEATJirjiT np tilOLI.it A. Smiihi.anu, Nov. 6, 1G3. nr. Edi'or Louiille newspaper, (the Herald ol Oct. olst.) was accidentally placed, this alteruoot: m the hands ol the author of this communication, m-rn which it appears that tne pa li ology and treatment f the epidemic dis-ea-e. called (miscalled) Cholera A-phxm, i? ;J subject of anxious debate among the gentlemen cf the uudieal profession in your city; also, lha! the remedies upou which they principally rely, are blond b-itiiig, (from what ves-els is not stated.) calomel given with a liberal hand, frictions, &.c , and op-.uiii anil c amphor in the asphyxiai stag' and that the success attending this practice has not been equ.d lo thetr wishes. We too have experienced a visitation from this mala ly, and for She last fifteen da) s have hpen actively engaged in administering to th inmates ot ,mr little hospital ; m.t that our resi dnt population has been particularly affliotcd., .crsfcjve fct.al;-:3 tUan a. doze-a cais amai.'g;

then but patients lave been furnished by the

atp:imfin:tts which l-lv between louisville and' St. Louis; and from the corps 01 pioneers unuei the command of Capt. Tyson; two hundred ot whom are at present engaged in removing obslrucMoes I'roin the bed of the Ohio opposite to the Month of the Cumberland. During the fir-t three or four da) s after the appearance of the malady among a", soir.o of our rase? terminated unfavorably ; but during the last ten days we are happy to state, that such termination? have ceased, which i one reason (and the only one as we believe,) why we have not fully vended our views of the pathology of this epidemic malady . As our pathological views differ somewhat from those taken bv our professional brethren - - ' i I in Louisville; and as our practice has been dif-

fcrent, and we have, as we believe, found our! renders are these: 1 r.at no patient in wnose account in following it, we solicit their and your jstoniach there existed suhicient vitality to be indulgence in laving our pathological views, excited by the salt and water vomit has died in and our system of practice, before them. We the Smithlaud hospital voce the adoption of this have learned from careful and repeated esami-1 practice, and that hat.itual drunkan s and pronations of the dead and living body, that the 'sons of impaired constitutions have been cured balance between arterial and venous rircuhi- j 1 hat the salt and wafer vomit and absolute rest

!i;....r. .Llrnro.l n n,l t I , l ,1 T I t 1 1 T .1 1 C 1 1 1 f t ( Tl t V of i I II " " . ' -l " ' ; ,V. u rdpr The lanmiid faltering, failing pube from the fir-t accession to t the disorder, and the engorged of the o-reat veins alter death' the final close ot ami lf.r..1 cllto r f .,..- :...!.. ,i ..I i.,".. erHi,l in thf- nbdo'll I'll IlkumiM "i iiiwt'; i i - J . . . . - .i v. ! men s languid, and that there mir-t be venous con - . mo rush lie tn-'.t I he ai: nn I) l ie Ileal l is ection in the central parts of the body What nre the symptoms? The disorder

trenerally or uniformly preceded by considerable , anu mai mt- appropriate iemeuiC .Ucirf...n,.c r,f iho .native organs. n!)e Chv-and water vomit, calomel, opium

lopoiet'ic viscera,) by colic or flatulence, by, in the proportions above stated, hi ' : .. r. r.iirri,irp fre- remedies as stated ; and that the se:

umisra ui nii;iii,iii iuo n" u..mu .....-.- . - . . . . . . t ' quently, however, by the latter. These sj mP- j hibition of the salt and water vomit, and calo- annuay amj empJ0v about 275 operators are speedily followed by a feeling ol load mtl, and opium, and camphor in the PPr-j t:yea J

i ;k waronnfihn .imniirli.i ClllU U ( IICOJIUU HUlMll "II- VL.vju w ... i(K n cr.ncsi rf inforiml hr.!lt in ilin nbdomrn. Willi u c L u ' u Jk iu v i ih - l - 7; with "reat thirst fthat is to say trreat heat of the stomach,) a whitish tongue, ha-irard ex-! pression of countenance, nervous tremors, muscular debibty, cool -Uin, shortness of breath, and muck feeble strus'irlmir nulse. state vo n. - - . . .

piou evacuations upwards and downward? ot . ms nrsi impressions upuu uiu auu, ivncic - a fluid resembling dirty rice water, soon occur, (reived before he had seen a case of the disorder, with cramps and spasms in the muscles of theifrom a publication bearing the name of Doct ... .i .m r- . i i I 1 I ..1rirt.- ni' Phi In l I th ia on iivtrrirl t frt ty irhirn

extremit.es, he necU, and lastly ol tne aDuoiuen.

Jd stage An aggravation ot tneie sympiomsjii puuiuu.i i iu rapidly takes pl ice, and in an houf or two the i Medicine for August and September last. skin every where except immediately over the ; Neither does he claim to have introduced them stomach, becomes icv cold and covered with! into the Sinithland hospital, having found the large drops of cold sweat; the skin of the hand;, j practice hi successful operation there upon his and feet is corrugated; the nails are blue; the j fust visit, under the direction ol regularly ationgue and breath very cold, and the appetence I tending surgeons, 1). B. Sanders and Sand. M. for cold w ater insatiable; the skin around the I Quertermous. lie claims to have verified the eves ami at the roots of the naiU, becomes of a j pathology, and to have somewhat improved the dark color, and this appearance gradually dif- j practice Calomel in the practice above re. fuses itself (partaking of various shades of liviil j Commended, is more sparingly exhibited than ,w.on,.,..ii f,.... (knf..t.,rc J.rit.l.- ; iiif iili-.-ited bv Dort. J lonkiiison. A little onium

the voic beomes inaudible, and death takes'" place accoraoanied by indications of great pain and distress mlient avvrarinz to retain his consciousness to the last. This disease, Cholera, (-o called ) disfigures its dead more than any other known in our climate, if we consider the short duration of its attack ; ami it is to be ob served that the body is not nfftnsive immediately

after death, and that it does not pass speedily into ' Doct Channing of N. York. Having thus ac- : advantages which she enjoys over all the world. decomposition. I mark these facts in italics, be know ledge.l his obligations, he proceedi tojThe laboring classes of Europe are not oidy cause they are important in naming and class-! state in what respect he has presumed to differ compelled to pay for the support of a lazy indointr the diense and while the name is under from the tiih authorities, undc r the sanction of 1 leut, and insolent aristocracy, and a numerous

di-cu?ion, he it also remembered, that the mat-1 ter which flows that is the matter evacuated ' upwards and downwards is not bile, (Choice ) i ou pronaniy nave no ureett type? MT. JLilitor, l i ii i -. i . t-i v but a fluid rcsunhlin? dirlv rice water: so that I Hydora would be a more appropriate Wioi de! 'guerre' than Cholera And as lor the "bouhnfiiet, it is proposed to discard that altogether tor the reasons above stated. Here is our pathological system. The atmospheric poison, universally admitted to be the remote cause of this disorder, admittpd intr. the! lungs, and absorbed by the blood, has impaired j

its power to impart the usual stimulus to the! been proved to he a tnie cau-e, ana suiuneni heart: languid action of that organ ensues, tbe;'(,r the production of all the effects according to arteri"S, us a convenience, carry less blood, and t the first principle of reasoning as inculcated by

propel it more feebly than usual; the remote parts of the body first feel the ws-nt of their ac j customed supplj: hence the coldness of ths skin,' the languid, tailoring, failing pulse, and all the train of symptoms above detailed, advance

nipully from the extremities upon the citadel of; of his second position. ; d ; besides from three to four hundred thousand life. The stomach from its proximity to the Your correspondent disclaims all interest in exempts, all ready to breast the shock of invabeart, and from the fact that it possesses a high- the discussion of this subject, save the interests' sion or insurrection. .V. E. Ruicu: er degree of vitality than any other viscus con- of Science and Humanity. He has no concern tained in the abdomen, requires our tirst atten-1 whatever in the Sinithland Hospital, has for tioii; its distension and consentient loss of tone.1 some ears past declined the practice of Physic, 31 UK I) I'll!

and the influence which it exercises over the wnuie system, hy reason ot its extensive sympniuit?, lenuer us immediate restoration a ter of the first importance, and an indispensable hrst step in the modus medendi. It is through the medium of the stomach then only, that we must hope to act upon the rest of the system; anil n r l-.-: . ....... I . . . i aim ii u 1 Liiai sirp iiiusi iu 10 prejiaro mis organ for so important a dutv: we must evnl the black venous blood, excite contraction of the muscular times, and endeavor to restore arterial action to its accu-tomed superiority What' can lulfil these indications but an emetic' and the choice ot an emetic is of much importance; antiruonials and other relaxing emetics must bel reiPCtdl lor fihvinne rcincimc OaIa.e ft.,,, lman and llopkimon. of I'hiladeb.hia. rreomri c ti i c1f ninl . . . C a. 1 . 1 . I Ul aiti, huh ior mai anu omer i,ao. we nave unuormiy prelerred it the contraction and evacuation of the stoma, b is ' cine. Nothing in these cases excites the heart to action so certainly as the retching that ac-'0' i.u. ..uiuumgc uviiu'ii irnm mis luuiii-, nnf Hn nrili? fidi- mi.. . ,1..-. .1 c i . .1: companiestheartofvomitingfromit.operation.i Thus the milsp Titurt ih 1 - - - m v. . , . Vl,, II I lldUJJU 1 Ml t: stomach in a great degree relieved, ami the -rand ohjects ol the tirst remedy accomplished If the first pint of salt and water fail to excite vomiting, a second and third must be immedi -! ately given : for u this medicine fails to ePerate,i the case is desperate. Second nreserintion :i lninied,nt,dv nttrr th.. nni.r!if;.-,n , ,i, i J. . v''v toii-wu, compound powder, containing ten grains of dis-jcamphor is to be pi teed in the patientVs inouth.i rtiumn, nun a t;iaiii oi opium ana one cram ot UDu, thus early, as will appear in the sequel. The next important step is to do for the rest of the system what we have done tor the stomach; that is to overcome or remove the univer-.-al venous congestion. This is to be accomplished by bleeding from the veins. ISleeding from an artery would be aiding the disease, u-ml undoing our own previous work. Bleeding however is not always necessary and mut be resorted to, sub modo, if not at nil. J.et blood be taken from the abdomen or the hemorrhoidal veins by leeching aud cupping, and if the pulse n-es, let a vein be opened in the arm. IilMers over the cpi-astrio region, (which are deemed to do well if lricy produce redness of the skin without much vesication.) Frictions with dry ihtmu-1 or the U:vktul hall(. caK(or oil. ;ind inor'e caUmel ,, necessary, to restore the natural secrcions fij up the treatment. Returning irritation ot tac stomach, cr rico WHttT vvaciiitons or cramp, ,s to he rn,mpliy inPt ilh tliy Fa!( and water remedy, which ,3 the Herculean club of our practice, ad relapse prevented by oh serving to chew well e.ery n)or,t., it is .wa lowed, by warm clothing, ret in a recumbent posture under warm cover, and by a re -i-men of thin oup, or tea, or Irish potatoes ant; lUlllv. Such is a brief outline of the pathology ami practice which have been adc ".'. ir. tbe-th-

Ibnd Hospital. If these pathological views be

correct: that is to say, it languid action ot the heart be the immediate cause of the disorder; not only are all the symptoms previously enumerated susceptible of an easy explanation, but we can be at no loss to understand why habitual drunkards are more liable to suffer from the disease than temperate persons, (indirect debility of the heart from excessive stimulation,) or why absolute rest in a recumbent posture is so essential, upon the firt appearance of the disorder, during its whole progress and for some days after recovery, or why intemperance, premature lbor, or bodily fatigue so certainly produce a relapse (deficient stimulus ot the heart and relaxed state of its muscular fibres ) The facts to which, Mr. Editor, we wish par ticularly to solicit the attention of your medical a recumbent posture are ueemeu nere 10 oe Jthe niagne and efficient ramedies, and that calo i mel, and camphor, and opiums and blisters, and j the lancet are only auxiliaries. 1 he conviction !"f no fart or series ot lactJ is more nrmly un - re - atd upon the mind of the w riter of this com . r At r 11 . L . 11 I ...iim.vi I ii .n tSn nf f!ir fi iltn wi mi- that all the - n - deaths by the disorder called (miscalled) Clio lera ApUysia nave leen in consequence oii.L - iswy . , c.n.w.s ... and camphor, id the other isonable es - tions ;uid at the tune and under tne circum- ... .11 -.I .1 I C stances as above stated, will, wun me aui oi the other remedies never iail to arrest the symptoms, and cche the disorder. ' uuUuiu.u...,u claim to be the original author ot the patholog - ical system and practice which he advocates J m.. u , u . .u -.. . . - added to jreentthe calomel from passing off; too quickly. This is in accordance with the ! practice or tne i nysiciansoi niuia, a nine cam phor is also added to each dose to impart activity to the calomel, and to produce the specific effects ascribed to it by the advocates of its exclusive exhibition. I h:s upon the suarantv of the German Physicians, a? vouched for b"y whose published opinions, he has in part been acting lie denies that ttte Drain or ine nervous system were at all affected otherwise than by .i... .1 i; . l.. ,.uv in (hi) .i:nc iiilMit! me ueuciriu uppi ui uiuuu, va-... .nn icient supply ot Dioou, in ine ca-es wnicn have fallen under his observation; und heatfirms his belief and conviction thru there is no tvphoid action and no disposition to typhoid ac-1 . i i -m... .1. : , . .. i llOU ill the disorder. l nai inert- ia uu pc-iiiia-ncnt organic derangement, hih) no derangement at all of anv oran. save only what results from the languid action of the heart and consequent venous congestions. Languid action of the heart and consequent venous congestion, having j Sir Isaac Newton (see IVewton's i nncipia,) no other cause can be admitted. And the speedy and perfect recovery ot patients who have lacored under all the symptoms (escept loss of excitability iu he stomach) afford sufficient proof and has been temporarily engaged in it of late i c-niy in consequence oi tne numoers oi panenib . mal-,""'"'" ie " 'llBli ,,M- "U4 Ul " C l disease and the illness of one of the regularly 1 attending FhyMcians. He frankly submits his pathological views; and his practice to the Gentlemen of the Pro-j f.- . . . . . I., T 11. . .1 .(.i...-...r... Ir.. : .1 ' icniuu m ijuit. emu ciaviiucir ii&iiijiu only a candid examination for the former, and 1 lair iriai tor tne letter. LIVINGSTON. Frcm theLowell (Massachusetts) Journal. LOWELL. The rapid growth of Lowell, in consenn rinrii d t tJtO OnPAllrmnnnnt An rl rtrl r 'iiir"-r n"-uiogcmcui ciiomcu w manutactures , is perhaps unexampled in tu;. tl,,rf nf H.p rnnr.trw It ic ..Cf ,n. 1 t:',B pu,.uiiiioii, uuu 19 ,a,r to perhaps in the course of a - ,u l...: l

few years, one of the most populous andjThe crime passed by unpunished

wealthy inland towns in the United States.! It ma not be uninteresting to our readers to learn the state of the manufactures of1 cotion and woollen goods in Lowell at the present time The whole amount ot capital at present , .1,. ir.nnaii p,. The number of arire mills in actual operation is 1J. i i .i - .

These mills aie each about lo7 feet in

PnRtlj n.M 45 (cet in breadth of brick, ? f10""'";'. C 1 :iVerin? rum 10 10 13 (eet ,1,2!h' thus Rlwug oppoitumty for a fVee circulation of air. The aggreeate number of spindles used is 84.0U0 The whole number of ope rative employed is anout o.uuu, ot which 1.200 are males, 3,800 are females. The quantity of raw cotton, used in these mills per annum, exceeds 8,000.000 lbs. or 20,000 bales. The number of yards of cotton goods of various qualities manufac tuied annually is about 27,000.000. Weie the different pieces united, they would reach to the distance of lo,309 miles! In this estimate is included about 2,000,000 of yards of coarse mixed cotton and woollen negro clothing, in the manufacture o! which about 80,000 pounds of nool are used per annum. The quantity of zi'ool, manufactured annually into Cassimeres, is about 150,000 ) ards. The Lowell Carpet Manufactory is in itself a curiositv. Sixtr eight looms are kept in operation by hand labor, viz: 50 for ingrained or Kiddei miuster carpeting, 10 for LniS'sels, and 8 for rugs of various kinds. M0. 000 lbs. of wool in the course of a year are manufactured into rich and

beautiful carpet?, the colors cf which mil vie with any imported. The number ol yards of carpe imp: made per annum is upwards of 120,000 besides rugs The operatives at present employed in all mills receive for their labor about 1,200,000 per annum. The Lawrence Company has now but one mill in operation. One other is erect

ed, and will be in operation in ab6ut threej months. The foundations ot twn others are laid which will he ready to go into operation, one in 9 months, the other in 12 These mills will contain about 16,500 additional spindles for cotton, and 550 looms, and will use 2.500,000 lbs. of raw cotton annually, furnishing employment for 700 operatives. These three mills will probably be the means of adding at least 1500 to the population of Lowell. The Middlesex Company has lately erected another mill, lor the manufacture of Cassimeres and Broadcloths, w hich is said to be one of the first manufacturing edifice? in the United States. It is 153 feel in length, by 16, and six stories high. Nearly 1,000.000 of bricks have been ,ugej ,n its construction. It will go into operation in about two months, and will contain 2,880 spindles, and 64 looms for ; Uassimeres. and 40 tor Uroadcloths. It inil work un about 300.000 lbs of wool The edifice, in which all the machinery j. - . . . . .- employee! in the mills is manufactured, i.5 termed the "Machine Shop." belonging lltrt Iha I .l-o ,i i ' i . . v.l is. 1 , , ,,- J, probably the largest "shop" in the counI . . A - I.I. ij.nig imjih .i uuu, ioui ;wi 220 feet in length and 45 feel in width, AI,0Ut oqq machinists, some of. them the I ' most skilful and incenious workmen in ingenious the United Slates, or in the world, are con stantly employed . About 600 tons of cast ;and wrought iron, two thirds of which at least are of American production, are annually converted into machinery, besides a large quantity of imported steel. It is computed that upwards of 5,000 tons of Anthracite coal are annually con sumed in the Lowell Manufacturing esta blishments and Machine Shop, besides im menee quantities of charcoal and pine and hard wood fuel. STANDING ARMIES. In whatever hht we view the institution of our own country, we cannot but see the immense J clergy, but their hard earning? are wrung from uu m 10 mamiam large sianuing armies. i ne i.uiowmg table snows the ratio wliicti tne stand- ! "i i im " pimcipai iiauuns i inff nrmiro til Ti- rriYr.irnil natinno nr -ii rnun ; ---f, ........ ... r. .... . u.A.w,.b and the united states bear to their respective population. It is i a

France, one to every 17 Belgium, do. 42 Holland, do. 4i Kusia, do. 67 Denmark, do. C9 Bavaria, do. 2a Prussia, do. 115 Austria, do. 1 1 G Great Britan, do. COO Spain, do. 273 United States do. 2500

We have estimated the standing army of this republic at about 5,000. In case of emergency, however, this country can bring into the field one million and a half of troops, who are enrollJlosf foul, bloody . and horrible. Among e (- details of outrage and crime

which rrnwrl nnon iia fmm ill ninrlPi snf h,ch crowd UP" UJ ,rom al1 quartets Ol

ine couuiry, uie louowing case or com, bloody, and brutal murder, IS the most revolting and horrible which has long met "... our eye It is with reluctance that we present these details stained a9 they arc with all that is black in depravity, and tiger-spirited in malice to the readers of the Intelligencer. No one can hear the particulars of this fiendish act without a shudder of horror no one can regard its cowardly and brutal perpetrator as a membei of our race "nor blush to think himself a man." It is by no means the first case of cruel and deliberate femicide in this vicinity. In other instances the murderer escaped. The followinsr details are the best come comment on the prudence of mercy so bestowed. In Front, above Otter street, a poor family of the name of Sparks, and consisting of a man, his wife, and several children, have for some time resided. On Monday evening, Thomas Sparks, the father, who is represented as a man of the

worst passion9, returned home in a partial j nd it these glorious reforms progress in an tin. state of intoxication. The fiend in his; diniiuirtied ratio, we may shortly expect to find- , ,,1 1 , ., -, the iron-stiffness ot the puritans shamed by our bosom was wholly tmcha.ned-the ev.b supprior riKidi!v Hnd excellence. Onr wholo passions ot his nature careered in freedotnj ed-? of laws will become blue; men will be and having no other being near upon; made to go, like clocks, just as they are wound whom to vent his rage he struck the; "P and set by the societies; their appetites will

wife of hisbosom-the mother of hisr.h.l-i dren, one of whom, an infant, was clinging to her breast at the time One Mow was insufficient ; and procuring1 a heavy stick he commenced the task of murder with renewed determination and vigor, lie struck her with this club, until at length with a heavy blow upon the head he felled her to the carlh. lie then dragged her into the house. Here, while her lifeless and bloody corpse lay upon the floor before him, with the infant hanging at her breast, and the larger children clinging, silent and pale, around her the demon threw himself upon the couch and slept! The night passed away with the horrible witness of his crime in the same room, and within a few feet of him yet he slept on as if murder were a sport as if blood the blood of his wife could be spilled upon his own hearthstone, without exciting regret or apprehension. Even in the morning when the fumes of passion had passed off, he arose from his bed and leaving the body of hii victim

remain untouched and almost unnoticed, repaired as usual to his work- .When the neighbors came in they found the body extended on the floor, with one child laying asleep beside it, and the infant vn a its murdered mother's breast seeking nurture from that source which its unnatural and fiendish father had forever closed. The wretch was apprehended and taken before Alderman Huchinson and committed. A coroner's jury was cr.avfiied, the corpse examined by several physicians, and a verdict returned that she came to her death by blows inflicted by her husband. rkil. Times

COTXTEiirEITlXC. From all parts of the country we are constantly receiving accounts of the detection of tu ff counterfeits to an extent heretofore unexampled in the annals of viilany. The business nppeart to have been reduced to a perfect system, arid spurious bills are put in circulation (perhaps a thousand miles from the place where manufac lured) before the banks from which they pretend i have emanated have issued any bills. The execution of many of the counterfeits is so good a3 almost to defy detection. A formidable gang of swindlers are now carrying on their operation in the northern part of Vermont, having their head quarters in Canada. They are said to carry on the business "in all its various branches,' including horse-stealing and uttering base coin. 9 X'ilvtsler. We are particularly stiuck with the . . ,- .i c r u . ibeauty ot ttie loiiow ing iran oi a r itncu u; ficer.as related by Mr. Rush: Sir Felton Harvey, aid de camp ot the Duke cf Wellington had lost an arm in battle. Whilst one of the battles in Spain was raging, the' Duke gave him an order, to convey to an other part of the field. Hall' across it, ft French officer was seen galloping toward him. Sir Felton'a sworn hur.g by his side, though he could not wield it: it was hia right arm he had lost, and the other held the bridle; but he faced the foe looking defiance. As thev swiftly drew near, the Frenchman raised himself on hiseiinups, his sword uplifted. Discovering at the verv moment for the stroke, his adversa ry to be defenceless, he brings down his weapon in the torm ot a c.ompiimeiuaiy salute, and lapidly passes on. He gave his salute in silence.' This was true chivalry. JVat. (jclz . Distinction betn-een Discovery and Invention 'j'be object of the former is to pro duce something which had no existence before; that of the latter, to bring to light something which did exist, but which was concealed from common observation.Thus we say, O'to Guemometcr, Newton ami Grogery invented the reflecting telescope ; Galileo discovered the olar spots; and Harvey discovered the circulation of the blood . It appears, therefore, that im' provements in the arts are properly cal!-; ed inventions; and that facts brought to-, lifrht bv means of observation, are nroncrn - - - , ly called discoveries. Dugald Stfxart. The following bill for work done is sta ted by a recent tourist to have actually been delivered for beautifying and repair, ing the ornaments of a Lutheran church at Hamburg: To mending the Ten Commandments. To a nose and three fingers to one of the robbers on the cross. 10 scouring and brushing Pontius Pilate. " To gilding and paintiugthe wiogsoflho an-gel Gabriel. To half a breast for Mary MatrHalen. To cleansing the sky in the East, and aciuing sunury Mars. To cleansing and painting the High Priest's maid, and adding colour lo her cheeks. To putting a new feather in the cockade of St. Peter. To brush and brightening hell fire, ami providing tails for two devils. To strengthening the chain? of some cf the damned . To beautifying and ornamenting some of the elder?,and straightening their backa of frames. To supporting one of the Apostles. ANTI-TOBAC CO SOCIETY. We fiiid in the United St ites Gazette of yesterday, the Constitution of a Society , to disclaim and discountenance the use of Tobacco. It is formed on the plan of the Temperance Society; like it. requires a pledgp of abstinence, and liko it, will probably denounce all trade in "the noxious weed" as immoral. To what absurd height will this folly go? May we not shortly expect to find one half of society banded against the other half, and waging war about "a pinch of grniff." Will we not have our anti music, our anti-dancing, our anti-eating-any-thine? but bread and but ter, and drinhivg-any-thing-but-cold water-Soae-. ties? This is termed the age of Associations: granca on tne stiumaro o. r,nam; ineir ineiiuauon win jog aiong on trie pain marKeu oy the societies; and their very pulse beat lo th tune ot Old-huudred A wag recommends the institution of an anti-bo s-tbree-years-old-smokrng long-nines-in-lhe street-society. A JS'ovel case. Chf.no and Yang, the Siamese Twins, have been tried in Trumbull county, Ohio, for an assault and baN tery committed on an old and respectable citizen. The defendants plead guilty, and were each fined five dollars and costs. Bait. Pat. It is apprehended by some of the friends of Mr. Van L5'iren, that in consequence of continued indisposition General Jackson will relinquish the Presidency and retire to the Hermitage. Pennsylvania Enq. Paganioi , it is said, netted no less a sum than 1660J. by hu visit to Dahlia.