Vincennes Gazette, Volume 7, Number 11, Vincennes, Knox County, 12 August 1837 — Page 1

8yik2I8lS "TRL'TII WITHOUT FEAR." NU3IBER H VOLUME VII. VLCIv.EkS, SATURDAY 310iLLG, AUGUST 12, IS37.

T rc ice ct G: n.Uii jr. Extra'ts from a-i J l lreii delivered to the Medical Pupih of Transylvania University, Xovcmber 4, lti.'U: BY CHARLES CALDWELL, M. D. Gambling is I10t only wicked; it is also, s already intimated, low and ilisronni i-

bl t, jj cn in us origin, as in lis asso ciations. It is the concomitant of a want of useful a:nl agreeable employment, and is often resorted to, by persons of mental tna;iow;itf3, p.:ut vacancy, to occupy the time, which would be otherwise consumed in draamv idle icss, or some grosser form of an; :i d indulgence. It is a native product of tho human mind. rendered vicious by an ill directed or a defective education, which has left certain animal propensities unsubdued, and neglected to strengthen the higher faculties, especially the moral and reflective ones. Or the rebellious propensities may have been maddened and invigorated by protligate associates. IJy persons, whose faculties are moulded into a proper balance, by a thorough and sound education, gambling is nsver indulged in. In other words, it ii practiced only by the uneducated or the badly educated; while they are so trained, that their higher and nobler powers of mind predominate over their lower and comparatively ignoble their moral and intellectual over their animal never descend to it, but shun it, as a pursuit congenial only to the degraded and the vulgar; I should rather say, as a vice, which steep the soul in the dregs of corruption and panders to Us worst habits of. turu.iv.e and pioiligaey. dries up the fountain ot the uome-oe .i.leetio.ts votaries to beTo-ar wives, on .:'l I friends, canals every sentiment of d.i'v and vi;-:.;e, whets an 1 barbs afresh the fangs, and ad Is fiercer v?:;om t.) tho s'.m-' of the worm of often leads to Tki3 is r.ehhsr ; conscience, and ion and suicide. nor extravagance, but i plain recital of recorded facts. 1 1 1 1 the practice no e.l tendency, it ought, nevertheless to be a consideration rn irtifyitig to finishes of standing and (ishion, not to be able to entertain a party cf f.-ieudj, in some mere tasteful and intellect. lai w.y, than by the mechanical r.n 1 often f.ivol.v.is anriscm?nt of a card table. Sa.-'i a:i inn .hity bespeaks, in all who are concerned in the in it'.er, a miserable want of mental resources. From enlightened and refined private society, as well in this as in other countries, names of hazard ai-a now excluded, as tasteless and vulgar. They are driven into exile among barbarians and savages, or consigned to the dram-shop, the tavern, and the gambling-house, in common with profane and and indelicate language, deep drinking, other remnants ol brutal times, lor In which alone thev are fit associates. the advancement of o ir race from semibarbarism, to the state it has attained in the most intellectual and po.lf such games iiave become as otiensive to refinement and good taste, as they have always been f) morality and religion. And th?ir places are supplied by the more pure and elevated amusements of music, dancing, the inspection of paintings, engravings, and other productions of the fine arts, and by rational conversati m. I need scarcely add, that the latter is far superior to all other modes of entertainment, mingling as it does the us ft.! with the pleasing, and should be studied, as an accomplishment, by every member of cultivated society. Yet how small is the number of our well-trained collo'juisls, compared to that of our dextrou s gamesters.' Ai re made, on various grounds, t.--.:.. it ml to tusiilv tna vice ot .-.o'-.-ig. Th"r is no great harm, it is ailcced. m p. tvinj a lew social names, at cards to riss away the time, ai the hazard pf si:: and a quarter, or twelve and a half tents a game. Or, should the wager rise to twenty-five cents, the mischief of the evenin'T, among friends and neighbors. who can afford to lose, is not great. If not perfectly innocent and allowable, the p'ay is, at least, a gratifying amusement to those concerned m it; and, to make the worst of it, it injures nobody but tliemfelves. An indulgence in it therefore, in their own houses, is their indisputable right. Such is the defence of cheap gambling, setup by those, who are themselves adicted to it and there it ends; no others adopting it. How can they? It is not only weak and futile; it is no defence at all, but a mere apology, which is virtually a confession, that the thing apologised for 'j ivrong. Where nothing is done amiss, an apology is not only unnecessary, but out of place. In the present case, moreover, every thin": is amiss. It is not true that the mischief of family gambling is confined to the players. The example is infectious and demoralizing, and renders the vice a spreading evil. He. ice 'he lookers-on. whether children or adults, are soon identified with the perpetrators of it. Beltintr is, in its shirt!, an intend ed violation of principle of rigid, and is. therefore, clearly forbidden by the law of conscience. Hence it is criminal. But a petty crime is not the lt ss . " ''; a crime because it is petty. And it is the usual harbinger of something woric. The brightness of noon-day docs not burst on us, nor the darkness of midnight fall on tis, suddenly. The former has its dawn, nd the latter its twilight, So has vtce.

No one attends the zenith of it at a bound. His ascent to it is gradual. Hogarth s murderer commences his course ol cruelty and crime, bv impaling insects and run-

miitf pi as auJ bodkins into the ncsu oi ins brothers and skiers, iiivanees in it by cutting oil' the oars dogs, matures it by ana tans oi cais ami i . i . . . . . i maining and assassin atmg men, anil ends it on a gibbet. In Iikc manner, he who begins bv pla viiir lor small sums, is easily seduced into a 'gradual ineiease of his hazard, until he acquires a passion for gambling, plays for thousands, and eneounteis ruin. "Lead us not into temptation" is worth all the other petitions that language can express, or imagination conceive. It is an epitome of wisdom indicating the best protection of innocence and preventative of guilt. Hut he who plays for any wager, however small, runs counter to that petition, courts temptation instead of avoiding it, and incurs the risk of becoming a victim to its secuctions. In fine; the man who dallies with crime because it is una'!, is wanting in the moral or the reflective faculties or both, perils bis own reputation and interests, and presents an example pernicious to society. It is again contended that it is not criminal, i;i the gambler, to take the money he has won, because the Io?er surrenders it voluntarily. True; and so does the traveller voluntarily surrender his purse to the highwayman. But he is constrained to do so, by the fear of dcit'h, in the case of rcfa-.d. The booty, tnerefore, is feloniously obtained. And the individual

iisrob'.edby the gambler, gives up his money

from tne . -nn 'dine. ot u'is';,oor accord in t to rules, s.-.ouid lie venture to Wit Heath, moreover, might be 1 rn I'r. e. i n h is dee aho pera docs in gaming having of:-"i committed murder, on account of money won and withheld. The same principle, therefore here alle sd in justification of tne gambier, may be, to justify the wi'.u er-uai lorce. ad laced. footpad or the pirate. In each case money is surrendered alike, by i. a constrained art of the will. But the defence of gambling, on which its advocates most confidently rely, is yet to be mentioned. It is that the hazard of hising at j. lay is mutual, and incurred by the consent of the parties. Each gambler is endeavoring to rifle the pockets of bis companions, they being privy to his d.esign, and by this the vice of the whole is extinguished. 'I lie game is a struggle of self-defenco, in which the only means to escape fraud and wrong, is to com, nit them; and therefore the entire proceeding is innocent, and its issue just. That common men should argue thus, does not much surprise me. To analyze and reason, especially as to subjects of any ahstruseness is n.-t their province. .o wonder, therefore, that they are not at home in it. But, that enlightened and educated men, whose business it often is to defend and inculcate riht and justice, expound law, and award to wrong and injustice, their penalty ard punishment, should thus err, and 'palter in a double senre,' is matter of astonishment. It is a principal in criminal law, that if one person HKtmtionahy induces another to assault him, and kills him, when about to commit the assault, lie is guilty of murder. It is on this ground that duelling is indefensible. The combatants, being under no control of necessity, voluntarily incur danger, and cannot, therefore, avail themselves of the plea of self-defence. Hence to kill in a duel is to commit homicide, it cannot be defended, on any principle of morality or right. In like manner, the gambler who intentionally exposes himself to having a fraud practised on him, is not justified m practising a like fraud on his antagonist, bv wav ot privation, repr.sal, oi-indcmntfiction. On the contrary, he is guilty of a double crime, the unnecessary and forbidden exposure of himself: and the equally forbidden wrong he meditates toward another. If a felon attempts to steal my horse, and even succeeds, I am not therefore justified in stea ling his; much less am I authorized to do so, having sustained no loss by him, however felonious miht have been its tlesifrn. If a highwayman demands my purse, 1 have a riirht to resist, and, if neeessarv. to take away his lif in my defence. Bui J have no rigl to rob him. To do so would be an act in me,- as illegal and crim inal, as that he was meditating against me Nor have I a right to retaliate, in kind on t!i3 pickpocket or the cheat. Much weaker would be mv claim to either o these forms of relation, had I incurred in tentionally the hazard of being wronged. This subject may be stated in yet ano ther light, which will rer.d?r t ie unsound ness and absu-di'y of any and every de fence of gamb.i.ig still more palpable. A party ot regular piekpocuets resort to some rend? zvot'". wo wed! v to practise -"i each other their Imht-fir.ijrcrc'd trade. Will the struggle for victory in addre and dexterity, extinguish the vice, or i tract from its criminality? No on3 will expose his want of j tnlcraent, by an afurmativc answer. It would be nearer truth to sav, that the tlaitiousness of the crone would be niasrnified. by the new ami audaciou3 mode of practicing it. Yet it is just as criminal to play for money, at games of card or dice, as at a game, of pocnet-pidving. In either case, money is feloniously taken by the successful com-

petitor. And mere modes m felony make

111V fVSKPnfin! -il t.ir ti. tn i,i mult fl'l,f There is associate's . ...iv...... ... b.u.. no more crime in pullin watch out ol his pocket, without an inep it, that! there is in plav ing ss without a bet. It is the tention to keep i cards or che unhallowed and lawless deshni, that con stitutes the guilt. To deprive a comrade ot ins waien ny a game at cards, or a throw of dice, is as clearly unjust, and therefore as immoral, as to steal it; though in consequence ot laiiacious views and a pernicious custom, it is not accounted so ignominious or criminal. But why do I dwell on the proof of a position which is already self-evident? To adduce further arguments in maintenance of it, would be a waste of time. Gambling is as indefensible as murder. And from its boundless prevalence, it surpasses murder greatly, in the extent of the misery it produces, and the amount of moral corruption it ditluses through society. For every single individual that is seduced to prolligaey and ruin, by the example and devious of the assassin, thousands are thus seduced, by tboso of the gambler. Hence the deep abhorrence, with which the vice of the latter has been regarded, by the enlightened and the virtuous, as well in ancient as in modern times. Castaline, the chief of conspirators, was scarcely less reprobated for his gambling, than his treason. And, in his career of crime, Arnold became a gambler first, and then a traitor. It is even more th..n suspected that his loss, ia the former character, aided in urging lam to the guilt of the latter. Be that as it may, he was an arch-criminal in both.; and camLlintr was the elder sin. S.ich, I repeat, are the native and mutual affinities of gambling and theft, pock-ct-piki'tg ind robbery the issue id" the same parentage, instinct with the Same spirit, depcn.L.mt on the same principles, aiming at the same end, and productive of like consequences. WJiat, then, is the quality that distinguishes them from each other? On ll ic score ot spirit and prm--ration can l . T . l sii y again, (and the reit hardly be too frequent) no such quality exists; but. in their effects on society, the ditlertne.e between them is immense. For every single instance of ruin and w reteaei less arising lrom thclt, pocketpicking, and rohb ry united, gambling alone produces thousands. Search the i records of the four vices, written in despair, madness, suicide, bankruptcy, the reduction of wives and children from opulence and ease, to want and beggary, with th:-ir withered and tottering frames, u'.ike.n eves, and Sfjuaiic countenances, and the many other lorms ot individual, family, and social desolation thence resulting; and they will amply sustain the truth of my assertion. Yet are thieves, pickpockets and highwaymen called felons, and sentenced to imprisonment, transportation, or the 'ribbet; while ramblers are nominated sporting gentlemen, or gentlemen cf iJcasurt; are welcomed into fashionable society; and are themselves, in many instances, mirrors of fashion, and ' adt rs f the ton. My allusion is to gentlemen gamblers, who assume the 7nmk of some other calling, by day, and! consort with the Btarkdcg and the miliar., by nkrht. And irrieved 1 am to say, that!

there are multitudes of these day-maskers Ly families (? wea;'th anj dsoiinction. j and r.ight-rcve..eri, m ev ery section u!Sjiewas leil mto society, and they tried 1

our country In tho practical neiuriousnes3, theft, and robbery, there is another enormity which attaches to the former, but from which the two latter are comparatively free. It is the contagiousness of the rice. While the gambler robs the youth of the means allotted for his education, or as a capital for business, he imbues him with the fell corruption of the gaming table, J seduces him horn the paths ot rectitude. and honor, and initiates him in r.is own .. . . detestable occupation. Thus is the son not only beggared in his fortune, but made a source ot moriiiication and mourning to his parents and family, and in moments of awakened conscience and sober reflection, of abhorrence to himsell. The. thiei and the robber are innocent of this. They opeu no schools of instruction in profli gacy and fdony, but, in comparison, conline within themselves the guilt and disgrace of their lawless vocation. Nor is the whole yet told. To Fiipply himself with means, for the gaming table, the apprentice pilfers from the drawers of his master, the shop-boy and the clerk from those of their employers, and hand officers rifle the vault and the strong-box. To complete the picture; the ward, for the same purpose, steals from his guardian, the brother from his sisters, atvl the son from his parents! So closely is theft allied to the card-table! This is no fancy piece, but a plain representation of daily eves A catastrophe still more disastrous, not, unfreuuently befalls the gambler. A brief, anecdote will best reveal it to you. There was, not far from this place, a few years ago, an industrious and accomplished young mechanic, of excr-llent promise,1 and highly respected- At a few social card-parties, ho was a successful adventurer, which so infatuated him, that he continued to play, neglected first, and ultimately abandoned his trade, and became a black-leg. lie had married an amiable young woman, who died from mortifica,'tiqn and grief, on account of his lrregular-

Afte rious adventures r v: ic'nn.t and dillieuhies, he at length killed a civil officer, in an attempt to arrest him. By' this murder, he escaped arrest and imprisonmcnt, for the time, and is now a fugi - me from justice, destined, should he be appreheuded, to expire on a gibbet. Cases of this sort are not unfrerjuent. Yet still is gambling not only tolerated and coun-, tenanced, but also practised, in w hat is ' styled the beat society I say "Julsiy" so "styled," bccause'it consists of individuals, who are cu-aged in the habitual; violation of the most di vine precept that lips of a teacher, ever issued from the I "Do unto others, as you would they should do unto vou." When seated at the gaming-table, the members of this best society" practically reverse this ad monition, by endeavoring to do to others what they easterly strive to prevent others from doing to them. Such is the gambler's golden rule the burden of all his purposes, and the motto of his life. And I repeat, that every one icho plaus for money is a gambler, as icell in guilt, as ti name. Emmett and his Intended Bride. Every one must recollect the tragic story of young Emmett, the Irish 1'atriot; it was too touching to bo soon forgotten. Dunn? the troubles in Ireland, he was tried, condemned and executed on a . charge of treasion. His fate made adeep impression on public sympv.ny. lie was so young, so intedigent, so generous, so ; brave a man. I lis conduct under the tri-j ai, too, was lofty and inticpid. The noble indignation with which he repelled the charge of treason against his country; the

I hies and vices.

e.oqueiHviiuucaium oi name, am, Vdcnrf; lnhls skill and coara

tnetic appeal to posterity in tne nope. ess hour "f coml.-mnation; all these entered deeply into every generous bosom, and even his opponents lamented the stern policy that dictated the execution. But there was one heart, whose anguish it would be impossible to describe. In happier days ami fairer fortunes, he had won the affections of a beautiful and interesting girl, the daughter of a late celebrated Irish barrister. Site loved him with the disinterested fervor of a woman's first and early love. When every worldly maxim arrayed itself against him; when blasted in fortune, and disgrace and danger darkened around his name, she loved him more ardently for his sufferings. Since li is fate could awaken the sympathy even 01" hi toes, what must have been the agony of her whose soul was occupied by his image? Let those tell, who have had the portals of the tomb suddenly closed between them and the being they loved most on earth; who have sat at its threshhold, as one sh it out in a cold and lonely world, whence all that was lovely a Invirifr h-iil ir ii-i r tf To render her widowed situation more desolate, she had incurred her father's displeasure by her unfortunate attachment, and was an exile from the parep.tal roof. But could the sympathy and kind olfices of friends have reached a spirit so shocked and driven in by horror, she would have experienced no want of consolation for the Irish are a people of quick and; generous sensumities. The most delicate

d cherishing attentions were paid harijnt

ail kinds of occupation and amusement to dissipate her grief, and wean her f.om the tragical story of love but all was in vain! There are some strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul, that penetrate Iq the vital seat of happiness, and blast it, never again to put forth bud or blossom. She never objected to frequent tl-irt VioiiTif r, f nlr.it.iirl'" but . h t v n nS muoJi a,oae thcre as m l!c j nhs of sol;. , c,, i.i ., :n ,.i ..:. ijuc, i -:iL n jliuu ai.i.L ill a au .l i i,.i.i apparently unconscious of ths world around her. She carried with her an inward woe, that mocked all the blandishments of friendship, and "heeded not the song of the charmer, charm he ever so wisely." The person, says the eloquent author of: the Sketch Book, who told her story, had seen herata masquerade. After strolling through the splendid rooms and giddy crowd, with an air of utter abstraction, she sat herself down on the steps of an or chestra, and looking about for some time ..-.v.. . ii,.i ,l,.,...,l l, n. Mbihtv to the travis'h scene, she began with the capriciousness of a sicklv heart, to warble a little plaintive air. She had an exquisite voice; but on this occasion it was :.i . i.:., ;. 1 fnrtU cM, n,,l r,fwrotM,dnrss. that she drew a crowd mute and silent around her, melted every one into tears. The story of one so true and tender, could not but excite great interest in a country remarkab! completely won tin for enthusiast l. It e heart of a brave ofii- - 'I ,1 f. her irwl thought one so true to the dead could but prove afiVctionate to the living. She dedined hi attention,, f. .r her thoughts were irrrevoeablv engrossed be the memory of her former-lover. He solicited not her ten - tenderness.but her esteem. He was aisted bv her conviction ot his worm, ami me. sense of her own destitute and dependant situation. for she was existing on the kind ness of friends. In a word, he at length succeeded ia gaining h?r hand, though

with a solemn assurance that her heart was

unalterably another s. He took her wiiii him to Sicily, hopin that a change of scene might wenout t:e , remembrance of early woes. She wia an amiable, and exemplary wife, and m-iuc-an ellort to l.e a Happy one; out noting could cure the silent melancholy that had entered into her very soul. She wasted away in a slow but a hopeless decline, at last sunk into the grave, a victim of a broken heart. It was on this lady that Moore composed the following lines: j "She is far from the land where her y oung hero sleeps, And lovers around her arc sighing; 'But slowly she turns from their gaze, and weeps For her heart in his grare is lying." The Pirate Crafi. A noble ship of (500 tons was on her outward passage to India, with a valuable cargo, of specie and American goods. Before doubling the Cape, a suspicious looking vessels was discovered dead to windward, under a press of canvass, bearing down upon the Indiaman:-the experienced eye of the Captain instantly enabled him to determine that she was a small, tight schooner an acquaintance with ! which would not be desirable. lie hail few arms and although her crew was . ..-.,,1.1 ,,..1 n.itf-M.I ndlVi 11 llf a a Ltt 1, Uic iiiuiu inn tu,ui,:iu "in. ,..j.,rm.,J r.irafe. The shin was lhcrefore put awav beVethc wind, and of canvass packed upon her vt- the , , ,j Ti;., e , ,.,, i r, ,,10 ,,,,,, hL (,,,, i ,, dj.i.ii;i icovm ji -i ii...-. ujm'.j ,.w ...... ..j masts, covered with canvass to t: tbr verv (trucks was then turned upon his gallant - i I. t , . - -. crew, who collected, naving enure conuand at last settlfd long and steadfastly upon the chase. S! le gams--s.'ie gams s and there arc manv hours yet of daylight. A ship has the advantage of a small sharp craft with a floating sheet but yet she gains. 1 he 'danger is pressing, is imminent, and lol a new a terrible enemy appears, far to leeward a black cloud rises slowly from the horizon, and gives but too surely an intim: ion of what mav be shortly appre1 bended. The ship cannot shorten sail for the cease wid be upon him and the captain's plan was instantly laid. Every man was ordered to his post the heavens grew more portentous every moment but tho pirate did not start a tack or sheet, as the captain hoped he would, and allow him to gain a little before the hurricane came on. The wind freshens the masts yield to the tremendous pressure which they have to sustain the teeth of the stoutest seamen are set, firm in the apprehension that they will go by the board. The steady eye of the captain is fixed upon the gathering tornado at last it comes the ocean in the distance is white with foam, and bo who was before so quiet and unmoved, is now animated to tremendous exertions. "Let go all fore and aft," rung out clear and cloud "clew up and clew down," "lay aloft," were orders which followed each other in quick succession and were as quickly obeyed the flapping sails are raj. idly secured, the wind lulls, the tornado is upon them, takiiv them aback the ship falls off, she hends to the gale, until heryard arms are lhrJuoh rdl,A u waves. and she begins to move i the water with a constantly aceciclotion. The pirate, with the quickness oi perception so common amongst men ot their class, instantly comprehended his advantage, lie was near two miles dead to leeward of the Imiiaman. which made greater headway under her bare poles than he did the hurricano could not last Inng he would therefore be close on board of her when it passed over, and she must then fall an easy prey to him. The captain of the noble merchantman saw it all there was but one fearful way to escape. He had a gallant and staunch ship under him she had not yet sprung a spar, nor split a sail, be had an extremely valuable cargo, and his men, ho could not gee them strung up to the yard arm, on the principle that "dead men tell no talcs, he therefore set his fore-topsail and closereefed main top-sail, which urged his ship thrmioh the water with ureat velocity. The little black pirate saw the plan, at attempted to make all sail, but nil would nni ln nnd lie aw that his only chance fm m f iv wa. it nossiute, to evaue u.e evade 'shock at the very moment cf the expected j concussion. I The ship fame down upon him with j terrific precision. "Hard to port, s.imwp.I thp nirate to his helmsman. "Hard to port!" echoed the merchantman t ) b.s.

and.One tremendous crash one wild, frantic

shripfe ot' despair and a.l was hushed in death. Phil. Sat. Cou. ExpecUet of an Indian Chief. Mr Irvine, in his "Rocky Mountains,' . iirill51ltf- VU isiderab.c information relative to the Crow tribe ot Indi ext ends from he L.aek Hids to t e Kockj Mountam,. 1 he fo! owing e d , scribes a smgu ar mediod to ch i the , chief ot the tr.be once sorted n orr to induce his people to give up some u . .....v.. ----- tc In the course nf one of his trapping v;,:M. be ouartered in tne vmagc u. . . :u r Arapooish, "r , ,.,.. intr pec lodge ana was ji.

of the chieftain. He had collected a large quantity of furs, and, fearful of being

plundered, he deposited but a part in the iotlge ot the ciie-i; tne rest tie burieu in a cache. One night Arapooish came to the lodge with a cloudy brow, and seated himsell for a time without a word. At length, turning to Campbell, "You have more furs with you," said he, "than you hat brought into my lodge." "1 have," replied Campbell. "Where are they?" Campbell knew the nselessne?s of any prevarication with an Indian;and the importance of complete frankness. He described the exact place whe he had concealed his peltries. ""Lis well," replied Arapooish "you speak strait. It is just as you say; but your cache has been robbed. Go and see how many skins have been takea from it." Campbell examined the cache, and estimated his loss to be about one hundred and fifty beaver skins. Arapooish now summoned a meeting of tho village. He Bitterly reproached his people for robbing a stranger who had confided to their honour; and commanded that who ever had taken the skins should bring them back; declaring that, as Campbell was his guest, and an inmate of his lodge, he would not eat or drink until every skin was restored to him! The meeting broke up, and every one dispersed. Arapooish now charged Campbell to give neither reward nor thanks to any one who should bring in the beaver skin?, but to keep count as they were delivered. In a little while the skins began to make their appearance, a few at a time; they were laid down in the lodge, and those who brought them departed without saving a word. The day passed away. rai.ooish sat in one comer of his lodge. wra pp us rot'e, scarcely moving a muaeleol :.. coun'enance. vvnennignt arrived, he drmr.uded if all the skins had been brought i.. Above a hundred had been given up, and Campbell expressed himself content-!. Not so the Crour chieftain. He fasted all that night, nor tasted a drop of water. In the morning, some more skins were brought in, and continued to come, one and two at a time, throughout the day, until but few were wanting to make the number complete. Campbell was now anxious to put an end to the fasting of the old chief, and again declared that he was perfectly satisfied. Arapooish demanded what number of skins were yet wanting. On being told, he whispirpd to some of his people, who disappeared. After a time the number were brought in, though it was evident thev were not any of the skins that had been stolen, but others gleaned in the Tillage. "13 all right now?" demanded Atrapooisb. ".Ml is right," replied Campbell. "(Jo.d'. now bring me meat and drink." When thev were alone Arapooish hid a conversation with his guest. "When yon come another time among the Crow,' said he, "don't hide your roods: trust to them and the- will not wrong vou. I'ut your goods in the lodge of a ch.tf, and they arc sacred; hido them in a cache and one who finds will steal them. .Mv people have novy given up vour goods for my sake; but there are some foolish voting men in the village, who mav be disposed to be troublesome. I! m t Imger, thcre-iore. out pacit your horses immediattlv, and be oil. Campbell took his advice, and made his wav out of the Crow country. He has ever since maintained, that the Crowe . , I .t t-c. not so liiacK as itiry are panueo. Trust to their honour," says he "and ...! 1 ... I vou are sate: trust lomeir nonesiy, ami ey will steal the hair off your head." - A puzzle for the Curious. These of our readers who may happen to have more time upon their hands than they can con veniently make use of, wnl, no u-or.ht, be nuch obliged to us for the following cu rious .statement, which will occupy some portion of it. We imagine that a few will find it a'j.Jier,' A gentleman married a ladv, whose brother soon after married the husband's daughter; in course of time each party had a child, the former a daughter, the latter a son therefore the firstmentioned lady is mother to her brother, sister to her daughter, and grandmother to her nephew; her little daughter is niece to her s.sser, aunt to her cousin, sister to her uncle; the young man is brother to hi father and mother, son to his sister, uncle to his wife, and brother to his niece; hi wife is sister to her father and mother, davoditer to her sister, his hide son irrandson to h.s aunt the elder hdy, and cousin to his aunt the little pr.'.! but. Ati4. Kntr,,,( We bcani oi.re of a poor wight who in the lia'-itof can.Minu, and had almost ni-'.tlv, sor..e W.i'm- iti the .hoe box or card h,;.; who, vU on he r.Murncd frcln one of hi. I, mt lav in bod ?'l tiictollowins day. He wi fa;;,.Jon bv a f ieri i who enquired how he I'i-too led. "I 'aved myself." was the reply. V. '.v don't vou 7 t up' ' Because I Install my -, :' nnd civ clothes into the baitjain, arid li'jvo 'rine, tbor.-furc to dress myself in." Like that cf t:;ij canibler is die crank remark of th iilobe. The covernmer.t lias saved itself from the r.ia its pambUnrr has made. "the government owes nothing in Europe-" H"t it hs net a t wherewith 10 Ovtrr it nakeJl!i. MVefiugv 7Wf.