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volume 5. VINCENNES, INDIANA, APRIL 23, 1836. NUMBER 47

POETICAL.

Tin: vv (;oi:u. Pre often thought it I were ta.-ked Whos lot I envied most What one I thii'ijht ra -t lightly asked Of rnni's nnnimib-rM ho-t I'd say I'd be a mountain hoy And drive h untie team, Wo, hoy ! Wo, lioy '. I'd cry, And lightly lly Into my saddle seat; My rrin I'd flack My w hip I'd crack- - What nuiMC is so sweet! Sii black? I'd drivr, of nip!e chest, All carrying hili the head. All harness'il tight, and caily d rest In winker" tipp't with red' ' O yes I'd be a mountain ooy, And such a team I'd drive, Wo, hoy! Wo, hoy ! I'd rry, The lint stioold fiy Wo, hoy! you Dobbin! Ball '. Their feet should ring And 1 would sins:, I'd sinj my la I lie rol. My bells would tingde, tingle ling, Beneath ea h bear-'kin cap, And as I saw them swinsaud swing, IM be the tnr-rrieH chap Yes, then I'd be a mountain hoy And drive a jingline team Wo, hoy! Wo, hoy '. I'd cry My words would (ly, Ka h horse would prick bis ear; Willi tightrn'd rhain My lumbering; wain Would move in its career. The golden sparks you'd see them spriri; Beneath my hordes' tread; F.ach tail I'd braid it up with itring Of blue, or il .uniting red; ?o does, you know, the mountain boy Who drives a ila'hing team, Wo, hoy! Wo, hoy ! Til cry Fach horse's ey e With fire would seem to burn; With lifted bea I And no'Ui! spread Thej'd seem the earth to spurn. They'd champ the bit, ami rting the foam As on they dragged my load ; And I would think of distant home, And whistle on the road O would I were a mountain hoy I'd drive a i hor team, Wo, hoy '. Wo, ho' I'd cryNow by yon sky, I'd sooner drive thuc steeds Thin win renown, Or weir a crown Won by victorious deed. For crown ott prc the I mgui l head, And health the wearer shuns And v ii torv, trampling on the dead, MaT do for CJoth and HunsSeek them who will, they have, no joys For mountain lads and Wagon-boys. TI1F. FALL OF UFA U Till TIRF. OF THF- TPOOFS IN G MlPvlSON PUP TO OF. VP 1 1 COPS. CPiOCKF.TT N1 POWli: KIPLPD! We are indebted lo a gentleman, passenger on hoard the steamer Levant, from IS'achitoches, for the annexed letter, giving the particulars of the lall ol FtX4r il is a cpy of one addressed to the editor of the lied river Herald; Sir liexar has fallen'. Its garrison was only Io7 strorj, commanded by Lieut. Col. W. Trams. Alter standing rtpested attack for two weeks, and an al tnost constant cannonade and bombarding during that time.the las! attack was ma te cn the morning of the 13th insl. by up wards of 2,000 men, under the command f Sanla Anna in person; they catiied Ihe place about sunrise, with the loss of 620 men killed, ami about the same number wounded. Alter about an hour's fight trig the whole gartison was put to death 'save the sick and wounded and seven neo who asked for quarter1) All fought lespsrately, until entirety tut down; (he lest w ere coolly murdered. The brave end gallant Travis, lo preterit his fallinto the handsof the enemy, shot himsel!

Not an individual escaped , and the news . H ' j is ouly known tons by a emzen of Pexar... ,Ven,' lo,ln hvl burnt C.onz .les and : vthocmM our aimv at Gonz. Oes-but 1 b 00 ,he Colorado with about from the cessation of Travis' signal guns, i ' n'n' . there ,s no douM of its truth. " The de- 1 "as , the fort at Goliad, a ,i.ri... f i ..,,.,.. i. ery sirong position, well supplied with'

doubt received, and you will, in t r,w days, receive the constitution proposed bv the republic. Cols. James Bowie and David Crockett are among the slain; the first was mur - uera in nif which ne nan reen J . 1 'ti . I. . t L I a confined bv iUnt- the .alter Oil. tWiiling like a tiger. The Mexican army is estimated at 8,000 men, it may be more er less." A BRISCOE.

1 I UTIUi: IWIITK ILA11S. .await hi trial at the next Circuit Court We learn by the passengers of the 0 that county lor committing a rape upschooner Camanche, eight days fiom the on his own daughter aged "about Jj Brazos liver, that the war in Texas ha This is only another insane, to prove at length assumed a serious character the debasing and conupiing teudency ol Many of those who left thirity, deter- ardent spints when used to excess. This mined to lay clown their liv es in the cause 01an w ho one e occupied a h gh and iesof Texas have bravely yielded them pectable station in society, hustium the up at Bexar Three young men horn our too Iree use of the intoxicating diuughl, cilice, we leaiti. are among the slain degraded himself to the level ol the bi ute tt;e names of Wm. Clazehv and Bohert creation, and bi uughl upon himself di. Moote have been mentioneil to us lhat giace and lum. of the other we could not nsccitatn. Thei e being no jail in Crawford county , On the Jjth of Febmary the Texian ne has been seni 10 this place lot sale garrison in Bexar of I U men only, com- keeping. Since his confinement, he has manded by Col. V. P.. Travi, was at- become, or pietends to be, mentally detacked by the advanced division of San , anged . Cuij Un Invtsli alor. ta Anna's aimv of about 'J.tlOU turn, when

the enemy were repulsed wiih the loss o! many killed pnd wounded, variously ps timated fiom 4ol) t.v 000, w ithout the loss ol a man ot the gatrisim. This great slaughter w as ascribed to the 'act that every man of the garrison had about eight guns loaded by his fide. About the same time Col Johnson, while reconnoitet ing to the Westward of ban Patrn io. vv ith a patty of 70 men, weie surrounded in the night by a large body of Mexican troop. In the moiningthe i "iii ,ii di.i. ir i snu in h T'lumiiuiis io funru- , . , , , . . . der at discretion, w he h was te u'ed.and . ' iivt iu rvii m mill 03 'i iTUiiri ? vi " made. Thi was arceilid to by the Alex ican ollicer, hut no sooner had the Tcxi a ns m !1 t r h t rl mi I n I t Ik t I r -fw u run m p n t :1 n li , , , ., . ' , . stacked their airi'?, than a ceneral 'ire . . , iii m was opened upon ihem bv the w hole Alex, , ican loice, w hen the pi isoners endeavor- ,, , , . , o .i Bit it Cli'ilMI . I krnr ntt ,. nl it Iiai l; drlCll

. .i , - i-.ti vniTT:viiiii,it':iiii-i'' J.i i . , itl , ii , , i r, : , . , and the last a lory. ihe decision ol! if. amono them was Col. Johnson and one ., ,, , J , , , , , ' , , 1 1 lie House relerrio" the election back to man w hn hal been wounded. , . ",, . . . ,,. P.e.wee.heC3:h of Feb. and second i ,he 'eol'le' l'-c ewland.the lo of March the Mexicans were employ -e,l r-V a l "wkiard a,u . i , . . ,i ',, position. I, otti the gent cmen, in then , in loi nnng entiencliments around the AN ' . . b , , . I ii ii ,i i n ii lornier poIiIichI c un ass be ore the peoamo and bombarding the place. On the , ' ' ! o.. i i- r, i f i r," ,i. ,i oniv Ple declaieo thetnscUes tde zealous 2nd ol .March Col. 1 ravis wrote that s.00 ; , . , ,, , , , ! i.u. i. , i i .i ,i vi Iiienclso Jutsje White and the uticomshell had been thrown into the Alamo, p . without injuring a man. p.om,..ng opponents ... an Uuren.-l On the 1st ol March. ,T men from v v .ed with each other ... the,, denun-. Gon .les made their entiy through lhe nation, ol Presioenl Jackson s ,e.r appar-i ene,m, hues and leacheu the Alamo-,ent- " Ue" "'e eltxtio,, ivas , making the whole number in the garrison nvpr a-'d Al, Orahun. was ,e,.ncd . jyo (, ongr ess, AI I . A c w land went to Washing-' "on the Cth March, about mHlmght , the 1 1". ,"J- li,e l'"l"' ut """g CiaAlamo was assaulted t.y the enure lorce h,u" l,om "es'1 ''A ",e of the Mexican aimv, commanded bv "' nnscrupiiluusToiy majo, ,ty , ihe Santa Anna in person. The Mexican house,openly i.,.po.tati.ed Uo, the U lug loouhtdesperately until davlight, when I'")' joined the an I'-uien.tes, and , seven only ol :he c.-rrisoii" were lonnd , utihlushnig knav try , as the result has a!iv r. We regret to sa v , lhat Col. David :,," I,t!U l,P,"ls ccesslul. iow docket and his companion, Air. Penton.!1' n'v well tiemble lor the late, that ol-oihe gallant Col. liuibam ol oolh ;,"a,ls 11 "e 'h-'ieslo abide the; Carolina, weie of the inunoer w ho cried j :" hrtrament. to which Congress has riloi (prarier, but were told there was : lerred his ca-e. lie mu-t be tried by a!

mercy lor them. Tliev then continued : lighting until the w hole were lurtcneied One woinan(Mis. Dickinson) and a wcunded nesrosei'vnut of Col. Travis', weie the only i.erson- 111 ihe Alamo i.hose lives' weie spared, tini, l(oie wasinunlcred 111 his lied, sick and helpless (.icne - ral Cos on entering 1 he loit onletec! Col. Tiavis's servant 10 point out lo him lha hody ol his master; he did so, when Codiew his sword and iiiangled his lace and limbs with the malignant lecluig of a 1 savage. The bodies of the slain were thrown into a heap in the centie of the Alamo and buii.ed- On (Jen. Howie's body bein? bn .us; hi out. Gi n. Cos said tha't he was too brave a man ,o be burned like n log, then added ptv uo ($ cosa t$cha nevei muni, ii.ioiv bn.. m Tb. los, f Ihe .Mexicans n. slot ming the idace was estimated at not less in.ui I ,lUO kiled am

moi tally wounded, and as many inoie ois- It ig said, that there were four persons aided--making w ith then losJ in the- litst engaged in Pur ning the Tieasury, an I, assault between 'J.WH and 3,00u killeu !'a'. they weie in-tig.ited to the act .v and woutuieii. I; is worthy ol lemark Judge 'Pemple , w liose tragical death by that the flag of S.uda Anna's al P.ex it Ins own hands iswuuui ;he I cculleclion was a iloj i. tei o ,e. in the place ol the i t he public. The Judge, having, tieold constitutional tn-roloied llag. Iiu- irauued the Treasury ol an luunense aniediately alier the capture of the phu e. mouul w i-hed the evi.lein es ol his guilt, Gen .Santa Antn sent Mrs Dickinson and detioed. The peison, itcemly ariestCol. Travis' seivant to llou-lon's camp, cd in New oik lor liie p u licipation m accompanied liyaAlexnan wi h a tlig. lueciune and taken to Washington, i who was beaier of a note Iroai S.inla An- one thchard II W lute, an old resident ol D i.ofienng the Texeans peace and a liicNew oi k Peniteutiaiy. One of the geneial amnesty if they would lav down iiu entuai its was attested, more than a their arms and submit lo his govei iimeiit . y eat ago, ntar New ai k, N. J., but sikGen, Houston's reply w as, "'Ft ue sir , ou teeiieu in eiieciiog his escape. Findhave succeeded in killing some ol our mg. however, lii.it he shouhi inevitably oe brave men, hut the Texians are not vet taken, he surrendered himself to the auwhlpped", 'Phe e ifect of ihe fall of p.ex- 'hjiilies at Washington, under the hope ar throughout Texas .vaselectric. F.verv ol pardon and communicated all the lacts tnxn who could use a rifle and was in a lelative to the hu ining of the Tieasury. condition to i . ke the field, m.nciied lortn- 'Flu oug'n his exertion-, liis accomplices w ith to the seal of w a r. It was believed havebten taken. The N. V. Couner that not less than 4.000 I idemen w ere on ami hiquuer promises further iieveloptheir way to the army w ben the Caman- men's heiealter. being for ihe pieseut rhe sailed, to w reak their vengeau e on Under au i junction ol secrecy , the Mexicans, and detei mined logtant no Louisville Jour.

n.unitioni Hnd pruvisiom, and from 400 lo 500 men. The general determination of the peo - 1" -1". ...o I i . . i i ...n.Pr...r.. u ue i o a ua nil on an irnn. ', urmi .', ' 0 nrr n: nn un.i iiiircid e a A..r-n nnd i - - . . - v . of (he Kio del Not te shoufi be exterminated. HUMAN ULTRA VITY. A man by the name of Smuh, of Crawlord Cvuoty, lud., has beta stntericed to

We candidly coiiles-n, that we are furprisetl, agieeahly turpiictd, at the decision ol the United Malta House ol lleplesenlativte. cn tilt; 'j!h ul!., upon the subject of the IS'oi ih Carolina contested election Our Inends will see, ty rt leienct to cur Congi essional sounnary, (hut the House, instead ol deciding, n had been anticipated, in lavor ol the an iJuieii claimant, oicleitd ihe elec

tion, Hi in the case ol Letcher and .Mooie, Uatt l0 ,ie people or the District. The . - i, tl great mass ol the an l,ui en pal t v m the n,.,t,. i . . v House w eie lor srif inir the teal to iew land, the Tory claimant, a lew members ol thalpariv, a veiv lew, either liom Il0lietv. or litnr nr fcllimt. fi'.t osed, the " ' ' ' uaielaced ouliaue, ami it was ueltated . , ''V 8 't'g!e vole, e .. . . ,, I he competitors lor the seat were Mes- ... .. , . ,. . sJTaluui aud A e w tanii .the til ?t lug, I'copie, w noni lor i ne sake ol otnce, ne has insulted and betraxtd, and who have "een ""'cning nis course wu leeiu.gs ot ludignadon too s!i ong io he presented, US "u'lhy ol re.naik, that, il Mr. Clahaiii obtains the scat in Cocgiess, a J A "' xioiiii c. a rol in a J'eiegai i o 1 1 will be Opposed to Mi, an huren, and the vo.e ol the Slate, in the event ot the Presidential election's devolving on Congress, w ill be gu en either io Judge W hile or lo Genera! Harrison, tvuisvtllc Journal. The Whig papers in P.node Island Hre " expepiency ol dropping 'M '" Webster ant! taking ( General llarcandidate lor the Presidency 1 " "ul ouc a,"0,,S lc" l':"U-and signs, buenode ; he elcc lion ol ihe hero ol hie Mniili West, lj. Trxi nol (o appearance. A clean, g,ove ulay coui:cal a filthy hand, - - Extract from a letter received by a k Merchant ol this city , f.orn h-s cor i respondenl, dated Lin. Gaz. j Boston, March 4, 33u. ,Qur m;irke, for prov,nns is rapidly ladTancmg, although most ot our commiinications are closen with ire. let they begin to learn that Poik will he short and are wishing to purchase. Sals heve been made of Clear Pork al b', AIe-s-3. Prime J0; Lud HjHams Ui to 13. A large q i inlitv mii-d be consumed ith us, and we must psy as high bs other

plarps and, in shoit, it must be had L paid for. It is impossible to say what will take place, hut my opinion is. that Pork of rood quality will advance vet considerably .'

A NOlsr.K ACT. We have heard of many pleasing inri-

nents connected w illi the late severe dis-1 siioui'i cmne rigl:t ( U and kill yon and aster which befell the Methmlii Uptsro-; y mir family.' palChurrhin Ibe desti iiction ! their! The above murder tins perpetrated book concern, by lire,- yet we know ot no some live or six years ago. Heller then r.ne whi- h ,as tiven more general satis-1 after his enlargement, 'came e.fl lo this taction than the art ol the American Di-., nuntry -lo I n.on county, Indiana Me Society. Knowii g that the S it hath Nolhiiig extraordinary appeared in his h bonis under the cate of (lie Methodist conduct for something like two years. church would be great sufferers by the (he mean lime he had married a respecdestruction of the scriptures intended lor table .young woman, by whom he had ihs their use, the hoard of managers of the; three children he has murdered together American Hible Society , at their last reg-jwith their mother. It is not known that ular meeting, unanimously voted a dona- j,e ea-t difli, uliy had ever or, nred be. tion of 5 ,W0 BiLlts, and 10.000 7.fa-J wfen him and his familv. The wife aool mcnts, lor rhe use ol the schools under ihe 'children weie fond of him, anil he of

care f the Methodist Kpiscopal Church, A". 1'. Cim. .7id, From lite Lonntrsville li'otchman of JpTil '2d. iif.ij.t:!., Tin: MlTiDFJlEn. Our reader w ill recollect that w e re cently published a communication fiom the I'osl Master of l,ibeily,iri Union Co. , ,.i i . giing mi acccimt ol Ihe mnider ol a i I c i ,i , ,,i ,. wbole lari-ih in that county, in he latter . . . on i i oi i t n i ii a i y iasi , oy i ne i, us oauu ' , . . .- ,1,, ,- and lather. Isaac Heller, alia Naac , , ,'. . . 1 oung. the murder er, had his lual last w eek, in the I nion rti coil court, on nMii-

,., ,. , , , ... I" " . ,i nil hi llicil IIITCIIIILI, diciment lor nuiidei inr his wi e, L izh- .,.,1 c. . , lV , . . ,, . ,. , b . . ' , jSi'd made henuenl eliorts to preach. He belli, was found guiltv by a ltirv, HtidL.,, . i.r, , , , , , ,, . c .1 . . , 3 J . ' w J so" 'el l destitute ot (he most of the sentenced by the court lo ne hung on Iirnirlv ,., ... ,

f t ,1 .... , 1 , , o 1 ocl'jr k nomi. and o o clock I . Al. ; 1. me gian.i jury UKewi.e lounu iniildin. it . 1, . . .. meiiis ugainst hint lor ihe minder of lilsl three.luldico, John U eslev , Smah, and ! xjHIV ' ' The prisoner was projected by Prown ! & Pern. & .iefcm ed by Kay and" Parker. i'i , ' 1 ' , , I he dial came on. on W ednrsday morn1 . iii 1 ' ing. and was not concluded until near one 1 1 .1 . t m' o clock on t he next mm iiin.r On I Inns. n day ,-ilu r the court convened, an unsuccessful motion wa made to arietthe judgment and proi ure anew trial and 011 Kr::hy morning the senten-'e of (he court was pronounced by Judge Piger. Vve say without any (iia liticat ion that these munleis and the attendant circumstances consliitiie the iiio-l fxtranrdinar v case that we ever witneved or heard ol. We have not leisure to sit flown lor our .1 . 1 1 1 . teadeis.al this lime, the detaiN of the ca-e with lhat minuteness which its magnitn.ld , l!rrilti !..nP,.na 'I'l.n ,1 . ', , . i Itnce of tnsanttii was set up and numer : . , "' ,,i i - o. . ou instances ol insanity both in this State uid I inn i ri'ii-iiiuiihi n - ir 'i"iin rif 11 u ru ,i i . f I 1 i .i iii oth bv physicians w ho had attended the 11 .1 ii i risoner and hv ot her intelliireiit and rr,i.n;, ..... ... .. .... . . . ..n I n I spectable individuals. It was shewn that he had murdered a child in D-uiphin Co.. l'Vnt'sv U ania. under Ihe mos! appalling circumstances, and had been acquitted; upon the ground of insanity. This fact was

proven by a witness who was pei feet I v mg 1 he lastsixmonihs.it was not sup. awaie ol it. The cii riimtsnces connect- po-ed that he was ni-ane. lie falkeii hut cd with lhat murder were detailed hv . little, y t I dial little seemed rational eanother witness as he had heaid them nough. O i Itie uioring of the murder of from Ihe prisoner himsrlf, in a conversa- Ins family a neighbor (ailed in lo see him tion had w ith him in October lust. They and found thing" looking much morn w ei e, in shoi t, these; 1 rheei till than iiual 1 l-ller seemed murli The prisoner was living in the family more dee to talk, and did talk considers of si relative, in w hich lamilv theie was hie about his feeling much better than he likewi.-e living a little gn! about 10 vears had for some lime past, and a bout renting of litre lhat had been taken out of the some land and goin lo work on it. The pooi-hon-e. On a certain eveninir. 1 1 e I- neighbor left the family with whom was it r, who was then know n bv the name ol living a sisterof the wile, a little girl a Young, complained o being uu w el I , and b"iit n ine or f en y ear s of age. After he expressed lea I s of going n p i ham her to had been gone, a man passed along the bed. The gentleman and lady of the i oad by the hou-e, whom Heller watch-hon-e pei-u. ided and impoi tut tied him 'd careliilly until he had gotten out of , ti'iich and until a lite hour before he 'ght. The wile and mmher whs sitting i would consent to letire. At length he hy the fire, w uh a sun-bonnet on, nursing con-euted to go. As he was passing up ber infant, about a month old. Heller stairs, he heaid lontsteps follow ing on the took hi axe Irnm under the bed wrnt stair way ,- he passed on however, look oil to the lire, turned round , and commenced hi cloihes anil got i ii t ii bed, iii the same tubbing the lingers of one hand over the room where the litile gul was sleep-. edge. 1 1 is w ile asked him w hat he was ine. Immediately upon getting in bed. going to do he replied that he was go. Ihe door he had enteied, opened a per-' nig to chop some wood. About this sou entered shut the door tinned ilime the woman told the children to get round with its back against the door, and some apples out from under the lied. stood gazing at him. Heller was great-The two little om-s immediately crawled ly alarmed--hut he spitim.' from his bed under the bed nnd the luile sisier-in-lavv : and made at the prison, exclaiming 7'A s'od fear the bed locking at F feller. She A"i j of vf lltaini is al hawi '.' He s iv him ra ise the axe and st i ike his w i(e grasped at Ihe apparition but it wa one Hill blow obout the chin nnd neck gone. He then w heeled amun-f. jumped Sejing this she sprang to the door threw upon the bed w here the little en I lav. and U ' i en and tied lor Ihe nearest neighbor's,

commenced beating her in Ibe moi tun- net w een a q i n te r and a tiai' mue on. crynns in inner. The gentleman and I uly be- 'f murder si eh' rnn. Alter she had low. hearing the exclam.ition. ran up stall lied some two bundled yaid". she saw and rescued the child Heller then ran lief er come r-'ond the end of the house down stairs, and w hilst he w as pi ociu ing and look alter tier. Ilellar stales that an axe the 3 others ran down and fastened j after he had despatched bis wife he went themselves up in a lower room. Hellei out of the hou-e and looked after the litbroke down several doors to lind them,: Oe gi'l that he then went hack intothe and whilst he was breaking down the door i house his little hoy came towards him, of the room in which they had taken re-j when he split him down nl i h. ed hn ln?e. the gentleman and lady escaped j head ofl"--lle then dragged his lillie through a window, he enteted the room j daughter Sarah out from under the bed leaning down at tbe window to ascertain! phi' ed hi- f o' iipc(l her breast she raitrom the sound of their retreating funt-; ed her hands fm pi o rtimi and at ihe first

ste ns Inch wav thev weie tleeinr, he i,o ,nl n ot"i brpaihiiiir And hx-ki n g un der tbe bed, he louml t he In t le gu I hid under it. Ile i;n mediately went up stmr - look hi pocket knite fiom his pantaloouj ietuined--pu;ied tbe little gn I

from her hiding place, anil severed hr head fiomher body with his knife. After detailing the aho e to Ihe witneii who was his near neighbor, he went on to say that he had long had it in his mind to kill (us whole family hut' sns he '1 have not yet (inie brought my mind to t'oit if I shonhi, think it very likely I

ihem. His fondness for his oldest i hihl, John Wesley, was peculiarly noticed by the neighbors. The Iii st sy mptnm of insanity noticed in this country was about three vf his ai by a young man who was going hornsi viih him on a Sabbath evening, lro:n a meeting tliey hud attended in Liberty. The y oung man noticed something very extraordinary in his mHiiner and whs much affected. At length he asked lum f ...... ... i..ptui iik rTnni mm i M iiu, ua Vi i i- c wtial was the m a 1 1 e r. He replied in tf(Br, r, , ., J lect, that n super-human inlheiite or in- ...,,.,,.,,, . . i . c i , spitalion was upon lum. Soon after he .., , r, ,,,(l,- , , oef.inieier much exercised on religious ,,, . ... , . slibiects Kilned liimself In tbp 1'iult'fl , !!.,,iirpn.' ,,, ,. ,, , 1 F i"cia " in mill y rirglecled lo provme lor lis family hut personally he was r.ever . . -,, ... . , , J' ,U t"ne,h" ,a,f(l li,aMor "eral dayi ata l"e, diirin; tne lat two or 3 years, he "'uld Hlr' l,ke n M ma" or a '"""B n,fI,,aC' Um ,ie wa? "lte taken into lite :aie ol the overseers ot "c ''ie poor and keiit some lime a an inane ' ' iimr . u m mic lTisiiii, v7ii 1 ese occas oris, trie i tivnii.va.Kin-, 111c oii sicians pronounced him insane hut Jits malady soon yielded lo their prescriptions and treatment. Pining the last C months he has almost entirely neglected to provide lor his family, who were dining the time, with him, taken care of bv the charity ol the neighbors. He would chop a little wood and place if 011 the lite, and then sit hv it for houis at a time, by night and day. with his head down, apparently i'i a deep study. Thus sitlin" he was ,, , ' ? , . ' "'""r- "c " ill the habit of picking his finger nails, and sometimes (he flesh of his hands, until the Idood would come. He sat thus ai ria- ,, , , . " . renllv taking no notice of w hat wn i,a- - . . .'. C Will) lild liOwl ilnitn a. r- I- t n . m 9 ,.-.,i... in'-ini i-i-niiiiisiiii . , ." gers, during the w in e tune ot his trial. ,. , .. K , , , " He lias tienuent v ol late fXliresed to) . , 1 3 .. I in- wiie ami some neigbbots, great horror ol the poor house stating that he would rather die than be separated from his family. Although his conduct was thus singular blow Iip cut r ll Ibe tickets n one hiind ! and ne a r I v too k ntT ber hend. Ile then went and rolled the rnoiher nfl' the infant ! on which he hud parti- fallen, and rut it' head oil. Ile'heri , (. There were , s ernl tuches ol enow on the giouuJ.