Vincennes Gazette, Volume 11, Number 50, Vincennes, Knox County, 21 May 1842 — Page 2

Saturday, 31 a v tI. 18-12. Whiff Principle!. "7'Ac Will of the Nation uncontrolled by the will of ONE MAN: one I dential term, a frugal Government, and no sub-Treasury, open or covert, in substance or in fact: no Government Bank, but an institution capable of guarding the People's treasure and admi?iistering to the Peoley3 zcants. The appointment of the Secretary of the Treasury to be vested in Congress. The just restriction of the nower of dis missal from office now exercised by the President. The introduction of ecowmy in the Administration of the Government; and the discontinuance of all sinecures, and useless offices." Tor President in 1844 12 X K V 1, A V OF KENTIVKV. Democratic Whig Nominations. FOR SENATOR. R. N. C A R N AN. FO R RE PR ESF. NTATIV E . GEORGE LEECH. The Wabash at this time is at too low a stage for steamboat navigation. There has been a good deal of rain latterly at this point, and another rise may be expected. u. . . There were several capital speeches made at Terre Haute during last week on the subject of Intemperance. The speech by U. F. Linder, Esq. is spoken of, as having beeu one of thrilling interest, interspersed with rich humor and 'descriptive scenes of the glories of intemper.nc.' Saml. Judah. Esq., of Knox, entertained the assemblage with a few very appropriate and well-timed remarks, having been called upon by the President. The Express say a the society at Terre Haute numbers. 550 meiiibersand is still increasing. A trial for Crim. Con. look place in Terre Haute on Saturday last. The parties were Wn, McGaughey, of Cleveland, Ohio, vs. Dr. J. S. Wekien. of Edgar county, Illinois. It appears that during the fall of 1833, .Mrs. McGaughey, who had previously lived with her husband in uninterrupted peace and happiness, eloped with Dr. Welden, who had been employed to cure Mrs. M. of some disease of the eye. The efforts by the lawyers on that occasion are mentioned by the Wabash Express as almost inimitable. Messrs. Kinney. Dodge and Linder, appealed for the defendant, and S. B. Gookins for the prosecution. The jury after an absence of 30 minutes returned a ver dict in favor of the plaintiff of -52.000. Rumor says there ha? been a meeting between Messre. Wiso and Stanley, at Blader.sburgh, which resulted in the death cf Mr. Wise. The Baltimore Patriot considers the news doubtful. Our neighbor of tbe Water Street lirilliant, is out upon us again "like a duck upon a June-bug." He's getting as "tetchou9 as a skinned eel." We must have touched him upon his most vulnerable points. He says, among other things, "we must leave Mr. Ewing and our neighbor to settle their own differences." Now that's lucky there's no danger neighbor now that you have backed out from our assistance, but if you hadn't slipped off just when you did, there's no knowing what the consequences might have been, for Mr. Ewing's the man "what'll shoot," and there's uo knowing who he would ?hoot, were he to aim at us. ' n eotemporary of the Brilliant appears to take it a little hard because ivc noticed his notice of the Wabash. Now don't get angry we were not in earnest. No, no we would like to sec two notves of til e Wabash in your paper every week. They are very interesting, particularly when there's nothing else in the way of editorial matter, and the Wabash is falling "hen you say it's rising, and vice versa. We should have used the word suppose in--tcad of hope. Du 'in v you i.iu-t quit quairelling you occupy ;oo much of your valuable paper in discussing unimportant poims wr.h yo it cotomporary.

The next annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church far the Dioces of Indiana, will be held atVinceunes , . , , on Thursday the 26th of Mav.

Two hundred Mormons arrived latelv at St. Louis, in the Gen. Pra't, on their

way to Nouvoo. They were from Eng-1, Since the above was written, we receij2llj. ,ved a note from the Clerk of the Thames,

The New Orleans Picayune says, that' .ii.i.. : -..'u-LL - the Smta Fee expedition, have been released. The Baltimore Patriot says: "The prompt confirmation by the Senate of the Hon. E. M. Huntington as U. S. District Judge for the State of Indiana, is but a just acknowledgement of the ability and fidelity with which he has discharged the responsible duties of Commissioner of the General Land Office. Judge Huntington was called by General Harrison from the bench in Indiana, to the Land Office, and his return to the judicial duties of his new station, we have no doubt, will be highly satisfactory to his fellow citizens of that State." The Patriot is mistaken in relation to the appointment of the Hon, E. M. Huntington. He was appointed Commissioner by Mr. Tyler, and not by General Harrison. The Lawrenceburgh Argus, of Friday last, says the Branch Bank of the State of Indiana at that place, has been paying out small sums of specie for several days, and considers it highly probable it will resume specie payments as early as the first of June. Louisville Gazette. The Branch Bank of the State of Indiana at Vincennes. has never yet refused paying out small sums of specie, in order to accommodate our citizens with change; hence no shinplasters in our town. Mail Contracts. Taylor t Ferguson have the routs from Louisvillo to St. Louis, and from St. Louis to Springfield. lOWherever there is a bank, there is a, federal newspaper, just as natural as crows around carrion. State Sentinel. And wherever Geo. Chapman is, there a fool, ''just as natural as rolling off a log.'' Cowards. A lot of editors at the South, too cowardly to live, have been shooting at each other, and because they shook so bad and could'nt hit, have commenced shooting through their respective papers. If'e shall never fight but one duel; and shant be in a hurry about that. We never s'ruck but one man, and then wo buried our arm to the elbow in his heart's blood! A n't you scared? State Sentinel. The man you struck and buried your elbow in, must have been so long dead that he had become rotten. Buzzards, such as you, are always probing into that which is the most filthy. REMOVALS. Mr. Tyler, some days since, sent orders to Mr. Roberts, collector of the port of Philadelphia, to turn a large number of his subordinates, all Whigs and friends of Mr. Clay, out of their places. Mr. Roberts, on the receipt of the order, hastened to Washington city with a view of remonstrating with the President. We do not yet know the result of his remon strance'. The Washington correspondent of tho Philadelphia United States Gazette, who writes with judgment and discretion, remarks upon the subject f 3 follows: New Albany Gazette. " If he fail in his object, wiil he obey the order and proscribe for opinion's sake? If I know the man, and I think I am nC'M deceived in him, he will not hesitate a moment to give up his office rather than his principles. Nor should he resign. Let turn take his stand, and there remain firm and inflexible, and see whether the President will so far abandon his principles upon which he was supported by the whiga and which he avowed on taking upon himself the duties of the high station he now occupies, a3 to remove him for such a cause. It seems to me this affair is to assume an importance beyond that of individual concern, great as that may be. Should tho President venture to remove Mr. Roberts for refusing to obey an illegal order for refusing to dismiss men from office without cause I greatly deceive myself if the matter would end with Mr. Roberts' official Jife. Mr. Tyler is walking on the edge of a precipice; let him be cautious how he steps, and above all, let him beware of whoso counsels he follow?." The Philadelphia United States Gazette of tin 7th inst., says: "We understand that Mr. Roberts, tho collector of this port, returned from Washington yesterday where, we understand, he was not receiv ed with the cordiality due to a man of his years, of his long faithful service, and his just re gard at home. This augurs poorly for tho office holders. But Air. Roberts cannot be removed until after the adjournment c-f Congress." Religion in Lou-ell. There seems to be a.uch awakening on the subject cf religion in Lowell. Mass. h is stated that a thousand conversions have taken place since the first cf January. Tli8 whole population i about l-Z'OO.

Foul Deed. The steamer Thames, just rom Missouri river, brought U3 a handbill, ring a rew"nr,dT,f 500,,rJhe per,3M who assassinated Liiburn Y . Boggs, hue . r .i o . T.i

on the night of the Gth inst. Gov. Boggs, it is stated, in a written memorandum, as not dead, but mortally wounded. 1 giving the following particulars l,,ov Friday 6th. Gov. Boggs was shot by some villain on in the evening, while sitting in a room in his own hou3e in Independence. His son, a boy, hearing a report ran into the room, and found the Governor sitting in his chair, with his jaw fallen down, and his head leaning back on discovering the injury dona his father, he gave the alarm. Foot tracks were found in tho garden below the window, and a pistol picked up supposed to havo been overloaded, and thrown fiom the hand of the scoundrel who fired it. Three buck shot, of a heavy load, took efTect one going through his moth one into the brain, and another probably in or near tho brain all going in, in the back part of the neck and head. The Governor was still alive on the morning of the 7th, but no hopes of his recovery by his friends, and but slight hopes from his physicians. A man was suspected, and the sheriff most probably has possession of him by this time. The pistol was one of a pair stolen some days previous from a baker in Independence, and the legal authorities have the description of tho other. St. Ijouis Neiv Era. The Army worm and cut worm are doing a vast deal of injury in different parts of Gallatin county, IHineis. The Timothy is almost entirely destroyed. lb. ilr. Espy A new Invention. The Richmond Enquirer states that Mr. Espy has just returned from Norfolk, which he was requested by the Secretary of the Navy to visit, for the purpose of putting into practice one of his simple yet useful inventions. It is intended to clear the ships of the United States from their foul air. The result is stated in the following expose which we copy from the Enquirer: Espy's Conictd Ventilator. This is a contrivance which effects tho following highly important purposes: It prevents all chimneys from smoking, which smoke only when the wind blows. It draws out all the foul air from the hold of ships, when the wind blows, even to the amount of several hundred thousand gallons an hour, when there is a fresh breeze. It ventilates hospitals, coal mines, and all places subject to foul air, and keeps them entirely pure. Ii increases the draft of locomotives and steamboats, especially with a head wind. It has lately been put on one of the chimneys of the United States Senate Chamber, and it appears when all other chimneys puff down the smoke an 1 ashes into the Chamber, as they do sometimes when the wind blows, the one furnished with the vintilator, produces a draft upward, stronger as the wind increases in force. When put on the ship of war, the Pennsylvania at Norfolk, it drew up balls of cotton from the hold and passed them through a canvass bag 2 feet 1:1 diameter, and 30 feet long to the deck in 5 seconds, thus proving that the wholo of the air in tho ship would, with a fresh breeze, be changed many times a day. We have seen a certificate of the Commodore of the station, Shurbrick, speaking of the "great importance of this discovery to shibsof war in preserving the timbers from decay, and the crews from disease." Mr. Espy also invented a mean for extracting foul air from ships and mines, in time of calm, and it was fouriJ that even a stronger current of air could be made to run up the canvass bag by the power of a single man, than existed in the former case with a breeze, such a current as would carry up silk handkerchief?, and even hats. We have not seen a description of this machine, but we understand it cost only a few dollars. Wo have St;en a letter to Capt. Skinner of the Pennsylvania, to Mr. Espy, written after tho Conical Venrilator had proved itself successful in time of a breeze, stating to Mr. Espy the immense additioI ad van- . i. i.i r- i . .r ;r l

tago lie wouiu comer on the nav, "Vjould add greatly to the convenience of

uiuu umhca cuiiirnauce, wnicii wouiu i be equally efficient in drawing out the foul air in time of calms. The same statement was madfl by the Commodore, Shurbrick. A3 soon as the want was known, Mr. Espy was ready to supply it the machine was accordingly made, and proved to be triumphantly successful. A Hole in the Law. At "Oxford, in England, one William Scale was indicted for stealing a bee hive. The hive was found in his possession, but at tho trial it was necessary to prove that it was the identical hivo of the prosecutor. How to do this was the question. There were marks upon it to which he could swear, and it was brought into court, wrapped up in a cloth. But the inmates of the hive buzzed forth threats of mischief if the cloth should be removed and judges, lawyers and jury were in a quandary. One of the counsel inovod for a rule upon the bees, enjoining them to good behavior; but the Court thought it useless to make a ruto which there was no power to enforce. The upshot was that the hive could not be identified, and so the hole in it became a large hole in the law, through which the prisoner slipped into an acquittal. Owing to the scearcety of ice in theoe parts the ice-houses are quite convenient. But look out for brick-bats !

HOHRIO. We have often heard of mince pies made of rats, and sausages of dogs, but we never before heard or read of human flesh being substituted for pork, in the west, where the latter article is so much

the cheapest of tl.a tvfo. The Detroit "Democratic Press," of the 4th inst., contains an account that could hardly be credited, did it not come on au thority that cannot be questioned. We copy it entire: Lou. Advertiser. "A Human Being in a Pork Barrel. A half barrel, which had been standing for some months under a shed adjoining the warehouse now occupied by Mr. Elbert in this city, was opened yesterday, and found to contain the bones and body of a human being, apparently the size of a man. I here was some pork packed upon the top of the barrel. The barrel stood with a number of others, which were there when Mr. Elbert took possession of the warehouse, this spring. No discovery has vet been made as to where the barrel came from. A Coroner's Inquest was held over the matter yesterday, but we have not heard the result." This is worse than the case that occur red many years ago in a village in Maryland. A puncheon of St. Croix rum had been purchased by a retailer, and sold out to his customers. The rum went rapidly, and was pronounced of a 'superior favor.'' On coming to the bottom the puncheon was still heavy. It was opened, when,lo! there lay the body of a man of small stature, about 40 years of age, and dark complexion. It was evident, that although he now looked rather grim, he had, till very lately been in excellent spirits. The bystanders stood aghast for a moment, and in the next were heaving up tho contents of their stomachs. The man was buried application was made to the importer at Baltimore, who wrote to his partner, in St. Croix for an explanation. A rich merchant of Stockholm had died at St. Croix, of yellow fever; his body was put into a puncheon of rum, to be sent home to his friends. It was deposited in the warehouse, to be shipped but by the carelessness of the blacks who attended to loading the vessel, it went to Baltimore, and another puncheon went to Sweden in its stead. In this case, no great injury was done. The Stockholm merchant slept as soundly in the United States as he would have done at home, and those who drank the rum in which he was sent, had an article which they had often pronounced of superior flavor. Dimes. Ourcommuniiy are much troubled in the use of this coin notthat there ia such a superabundance of small change, as to be troublesome, but ten cent pieces, in the difficulty of procuring change in times past, have been transferred from hand to hand at more than their real value, being readily taken as bits, or eight for a dollar, and having thus acquired a facti tious value, which it is difficult to reduce to the proper standard. Consequently, come receive them as bits, while others refuse them unless the deficit be made good. Thus in shopping, the retailer measures his calico and cambrics less than the yard, the huckster takes a handful or two out of his measure, and tho butcher dimin ishes his piece of beef, a pound or so, to come at the change! Were the real value demanded univeisally, there would be nothing but justice and propriety in the stand taken, to put dimes upon their proper level, and hold them at their real value. But it is not so, and too frequently the loss falls where it cannot well be borne. The necessity which prevails with a great many to take what they can get for what is due, induces them to leceive dimes at eight for a dollar rather than wait till the debtor, who is unwilling to lose 20 per cent, can pay them in long change. Were coppers in general use, the difficulty would be obviated. The time when cents and pennies were scouted, has passed by. Tiie3c once insignificant coins look as larje, and are nearly, as dollars used to be. It would be a great convenience in marketing, especially to the humbler portion of our citizens, to introduce this species of small change, and it would have the effect of equalising the small currency. The banks would confer a benefit, were they to procure a supply of coppers, and deal them out as needed by the retailers of the city. A few hundred doltnro tn nonta A i q t r i fin f fffl ffirnnrrf, f V r .ttir . T nuiirille G n etfp ClVliv'"3 - " " Curious Pilgrimage- ar Yohanna, the Nestorian Bishop from ersja, a week or two since paid a visit to Mount Vernon a pilgrim from the distance of six thousand miles, who had come to stand near the dust and admire the fame of Washington. That fame has spread its light to the farther Persia. The Bishop was accompanied by the Rev. Justin Perkins, a Missionary in Persia. Mr. P. remarks, says a letter in the Philadelpnia North American, he had stood on Mount Ararat, where the ark of the ancient and venerable Noah the second progeni, deluge, but not such emotions possessed his soul as when his feet stood on Mount Vernon, where reposes the dust of him, who, after a great moral conflict, in which military force and martial merit were but constituent elements, retired to close a heroic life with a tranquil death. N. V. Express. EPITAPH Here lies the body of Alexander McPherson, Who was a very extraordinary person : He was two yards high in his stocking feet, And kept his accoutrement very clean and neat; He was slew At the battle of Waterloo: He was shot by a bullet, Plump through the gullet: It went in at his throat, And come out at the bad: of his neck.

Our Associate, Kendall. Yesterday

we received letters from our associate, Kendall, the traveller in Mexico, dated as late as the 13th of last month- Ho had been confined by the same disease which had prostrated his fellow prisoners, but although convalescent, was still in San Lazaro hospital. He writes to us with all his old-fashioned good-natured spirit, and in as "free and easy a style as though he was seated in his chair at his old round table. He will be here anon. One ex tract we give trom his letter, in order to show that privation, sickness, and impris onment, all combined, have failed to subdue the elasticity of his temper : March 1 1. This has been a great dw 1 .1 1 .t rr t 1 with us in me nospnai. j nis day, some years since, St. Lazarus suffered, or ra ther his sufferings ended, and in commem oration the hospital has been ried out with all sorts of gimcracksand "conflule ments, and we have been visited by thousands of all ages and sexes high and low, rich and poor, the aged, the middle aged and the young. St. Lazarus, you may recollect was covered with sores, and died from an impurity of his blood. What effect, do you suppose, Dr. Truman Stillman's celebrated and highly concentrated Compound Extract of Sarsaparilla and Pills, sold only at 06 Customhouse street, would have had upon him ? Hemighthavelived aslongas Methuselah, and this hospital never would have been bn ilt. The reflective, the speculative mind should ponder upon this subject. An excellent meal was provided and brought to us by some elegantly dressed and really fine looking ladies. To conclude my observations upon St. Lazarus I will simply remark, that had his days been multiplied. he very probably would have been of some service to his wife and children, and to his mother, had she been living; but then, ive should have lost a good dinner so, what s the umerence : v. u. l ie. A Revolutionary Heroine. The Bunker Hill Aurora contains an interesting account of the festivities at Lexington upon the anniversary of the battle of Lexington, the 19th of April. We have not room for tho entire article, but we cannot refrain from copying the annexed description of one of the visitors at the supper and ball: Cm. Gaz. "There was one elderly lady a much interested spectator of the passing scenes in the company, who deserves especial notice. It is not for her agility in dancing, however, or any other fashionable quali ties or qualifications, that she deserves this notice. She is one ot those interesting memorials of a by-gone age one of the reverenced remnants of our revolutionary living history it was Miss Clarke the daughter of the Rev. Dr. Clarke, the rebel who gave protection and shelter to the proscribed rebels Hancock and Adams. Miss Clarke is now seventy-e ight years of 1 11 . f . 1 r age, ana her recollection ot the events oi the opening of the revolution is as perfect as ever. She was eleven years of age at the time cf the battle of Lexington, and remembers the intense anxiety and excitement of that occation perfectly well. Hancock and Adams, who had been de nounced in the royal proclamation, had been secreted for a fortnight in her father's house, coming there from Concord every night. The mother of Miss Clarke has been dead over fifty years, and her father about thirty yeiirs. She has a sister living at West Cambridge, and a younger sister at home. Origin of the word "News." 'News' is not as many imrgine, derived from the adjective New. In former times it was a prevalent practice to put over the periodical publications of the day the initial letters of the cardinal points of the compass thus: N W E S importing that these papers contained intelligence from the four quarters of the globe; and from this practice is derived the term of newspaper. Arise every morning as soon as you get tired of lying in bed, and if the weather is cold, dress yourself before going out. Take your meals as soon as convenient after your appetite becomes sharp. Never lay out r pay out any more money than you can possibly command at the time. Do not rob your neighbor's hen roost after the hens are gone off. Never pick an editor's pocket, nor light your pipe with a piece of red flannel. Endeavor to find some amusement when you have nothing to do, and cannot sleep alivays be contented when your belly is full, your body warm, and you have nothing to fear or desire. The silent power of example. In an account of the revivals in Barnstable coun ty, Mass., which we find in the New En gland Puritan, it is said that an infidel had his attention nrst seriously turned to the great subject of religion, by hearing a christian engaged in secret prayer. There was only a partition between them, and he supposed, at the first, that the christian was only "practicitig to pray in public." The sincerity and fervency of the christian's prayer, carried an appeal to his heart, which he could not resist, and he is now hopefully a christian himself. How exceedingly desirable 13 it, that such a silent power should emanate from the example of every member of the Church? Protestant and Herald. As your enemies and your friends are to are you. No little man feels and forgive offences.

Tho Washington Banner gives us, in the last number, one of the best stories we've seen of late. It is entitled "Signing away liberty." We wish it was a trifle shorter, so that we might find room for it in the Abstinent. As it is, however, our readers must take the best part ofy" in the concluding letter, written by Jt-. llraddock, the man who signed away Iks liberty to his friend who first put him up to it: Abstinent. Mv Dear S. For six long months I have been trying to write to you, but hang me if I could get time. And now I'm so happy, that I can't write worth a snap. Dang my buttons, but I'm the happiest fellow you ever saw. You see, S., I've signed away ?ny liberty, and am becomo a perfect slave to haitiness. You told me, if you recollect, that my liberty (to drink) cost me a good deal but you will give, up after hearing my story, that have sold it for all it was worth. After you left mo at the rum shop. I went home, told my wife what had happened, and for the first time in three years asked her advice as to what I should do. 'Sign the pledge,' said she, by all means. 'But I haven't got any pledge,' said I, 'S, has gone off, and I'm in a picklo.' 'Cflij't you write a pledge?' said she. 'No.' 'But try.' 'Well, give men pen, and soino ink, and a piece of paper.' We hadn't either in the house, but they were soon mustered from a neighbor. I sat down nt the table, my hand was steady, and I wrote

as follows: 'Rlister my feathers if 1 ever drink another drop of alcohol, sick or well, dead or alive! JIM BRADDOCK." "But that's a queer pledge,' said my wife. 'I don't care a snap,' said 1. 'Its just about no pledge at all,' said she 'ion re an old goose, said I, s ) now give me a hammer and tour nails. U hat do you want of a hammer and four nails?' 'I want to nail my pledge up over the mantlepiece,' said I. 'But it will get smokv,' 9a id she. So will your aunt,' aid 1. But 1 got the hammer and nails, and nailed up the pledge, and there it stuck till I moved into my new house, when I took 1 down, put it in a frame and put a glass over it and now it ornaments mv front parlor. 1 011 will say, 'where did you rret them?' 'I'll tell you, boy. These are pr.i t pay ment for my liberty, that I signed awav. Did nt 1 sell it t a bargain? J ; l; t this is not all. I've got my shop back again, with a good run of custom am tea years younger than I was 0:10 year ago have got the happiest w ife and smartest boy in all creation and don't care a snap for anybody. So now, Mr. S., come down here bring your wife and all the responsibilities, and I'll tell you the whole stnrv; but I can't write. Hurrah for slavery.' Good bye. Jim Biuddock. Thpt pledge takes our fancy, amazing ly. 'Blister my feathers if ever drink another drop of alcohol, sick or well, dead oralhc. Jim Braddock.' Ancient American Curiosities. Eigh teen boxes containing statues and blocks of stone, gathered among the ruins in the Peninsula of Yucatan, were brought here this morning, on board of the schr. Litchfield, from Campeachy. N. O. Courier. Conviction and sentence for Crime. Last week at the Court for Atlantic county, West Jersey, John Henrv wa 'tied and convicted of an assault and battery op. a young girl, with intent to violate her person, and sentenced by Judge Elmer ; eight years imprisonment in tho Peniten tiary. He was taken from the court to the jail of the county, which stands on an open lot, unprotected by a wall, and heav1 r .... ny ironed, l.iunng th-3 night ho made h" escape, having receiv ed, as is supposed, assistance from without. Newark Dailu Advertiser. Discovery of Hidden Treasure. W,published, a short time since, a brief sc. count of the discovery of a pot of money at .ewtown. J he locality of this dis covery is, we understand, rather within me town ot flushing. The fortunate finder is a thrifty farmer, and all such men find money by dirrinir in the c srth. thonrdi s on O " ' O their gains do not always romo so sudd en - We understand that tho wife of the farmer aforesaid was at thg hog pen, end discovered a dollar withi.i it. She as about to seize it, when llv, old sow shewed symptoms of fierceness, which induced her to call her husband. lie speedily secured the prize, and on the suggestion that there might be more close at hand, proceeded to kiek up the earth, and threw up several. A single stroke of the spade struck upon the pot, in which there was a quantity of gold and silver. Before he had secured it, several workmen near by observed him, and becamo aware of his good fortune, and thus the story got abroad. The hog pen is on the site of an old house, in which it is supposed the money was originally buried, the coin is eld, a considerable part of it being joes and half joes. The land has of late years changed hands several times, and it is supposed tho depositor has long since been placed be neath tho sod. - Brooklyn Star. Here's a good 'un. That wife knew the great utility of cotton and the Tarious purposes to which it may be put, nearly as well as old Hickory :-Zow. Gazette" "A man in New Orleans played a firs: of April trick upon Iii wife, but she returned it at dinner. He was extremely fond of 'fritters. She served him up some, done brown; and sauced over, upon which he tried his teeth about half a:i hour, when he discovered that his 'frittero' weremadeof thin layers of cvtton, whic' had been dipped in batter !