Vincennes Gazette, Volume 13, Number 1, Vincennes, Knox County, 10 June 1843 — Page 1

IS 44 TRUTH WITHOUT TEAR. VOLUME MIL VINCENNES, INDIANA, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, 1843. NO. 1

kxr Ti" Suaamtr Ag ain. .Nw joy ta the mountain and joy to the plain, h fT MjmmAf i at fnrrm aaaritK if rUaatiPA aain With the fesntie. of nature all richly displayed I.n the giznuf glory and aplendor arrajad. Ti SsBBmef Bsain! anJ yon briiht sun on hiah Hath Jaried hi life-eiinr beams from tb akv.f An HI wf riaja of beings bave sprang into HrUv, W'itW their mnsic or beaut? to gladen the earth ' Tie Sam oar again! and the hilla and the valaa Aia wafting their perfumea away on the galeaAnd the lovera in haste to the greeen boner are goca, l a prtb forth affection In rapture alone I i the season of lore! but. Oh! how ahort in ita atay Like a Jreasi r f dsliht, soon it faJrth awav: Ti a season the God of all seaaona hath given, To tell ueof bus to remind ua of heaven: And truth's ardent feeling exult' in ita reign. And the chill blood of age flowa with vijor again: And 'be enul, with frpsh energy, rises to soar Away in the region untraTersed before. The spring of it workings proud man cannot trace. frier are hid in that power which presides o'er all spare Dot, rej.wing, we bow j ita mystical away. And feel it ia ours to adore and obey. D. K From tha Sunday Meicarr. Sbort Patent Sermon. BV DOW, JR. The oliowing worUv v :h I lla' ;e se lected, wii! to.-m rr.e text to rn present discourse: Ah. men and women are ye riww Bui balea were ye once! My hearer: The giant oak as has been said by some ancient writer which now spreaieih its branches towards the hea vens waa once but an acorn in the bowels of the earth; and so also the greatest hu man individual either tHe intellectually or physically speaking that ever inherit d the earth, was once the emlrvo of mortality in ihe matrix of generation Vt wpre all once tut a mere mite of mat ter, wedded in between nonentity and ex . -I.- t A a tmenc wimotu lorrn or fashion, soul or sensibility; and had not nature bundled ua tip into babes, and left us on the threshhoM of being to soak, swell and germi nate, we shouidn t have been here at all. However much tome of you, my worthy friends, may despite babies, you ought to bear in mind that they are young and tender plants in the nursery of the world, which require to b-3 cultivated with utmost care, and which are yet to bud, blossom, and perhaps yield ns good fiuit as ran ba gathered from those trees of wis dom and experience which grow in your own mental orchards, and of which you are at proud a a ragamuffin with a ruffled shirt. My friends: Because you are no longer children, and have put away all childish thing, it is by no means becoming for you to turn up your noses at the petticoat of infancy, which you shook by tht way Mde, on your journey to maturity. You were a'l babies once; and not a taw of you are boobies now. It didn't cost you, individually 'peaking, a single red cant to born. You had a free tiokit of admission into the great theatre o the woriu ana when the farces and traf idies of life are over, you must all go home, and retire to your separate beds in the dark chambers of the tomb. When you were babies, you put your mothers to as much trouble as do these litlto effect $ ot matrimony with which you ata surrounded. You fretted, worried and cried, apparently merely for the sak of tke music. You crept into mischief and aftarwards bedaubed your frocks with tha unwashoutable stains of vice; and when your legs first began to perform their destined offices, you ran down the dirty lane of eelf-gralification, and began to paddle in the pulrid pool of impunity. My htartrs: If you are annoyed with the cries, creepings and crawlings of babies, it is no fault of theirs. They are shoved into existence without any solicitation on their part, and nature alotie is responsible for all efrors. The poor babe, like an unfortunate sailor, is shipwrecked on the barren thore of the world, naked, helplesa and hungry. It is there rocked for a timo in the cradle of tenderness and nursed at the boaora of affection It creaps carelessly about the edge of existence and oftentimes narrowly escapes falling back into eternity. It gradually gaine strength to walk, and goes out to play in the blooming garden of childhood, Mrith bliaa in its heart, and bread and butter in his hands. It gathers some of the prettiest posies that grow between the cradle and the grave: the roses of joy the violets of virtue the daisies of delight and the hare-bells of hope. Anon he becomes the wayward boy. He scampers over the fields of youth, where the flowers of virtue and the pernicious plants of vice ell grow together, wfcich he pluck"

indiscriminately. Then he wanders on

through manhood up the hill of honor land ambition, end down thn steen of da gradation and despondency gets scratch eu wuii the tnorni oi care, is he gamer the fruit of wisdem and experience then tie declines into the childhood of age: an finally goes out of the world a bigger baby than when he came into it. .My dear fiienda: If tome of us pou! only hare known beforehand what woes were lying in wait to greet our entrance ,nt thl ring-streaked, spotted and apock ' world, we should havo chosen to re main forever curdled up in tne middle ot I nonentity, rather than come here to be flowed bv fortune, and sent back to be armies, nut. mv menus, oaoies are necessary evils, and we couldn't well do without them. They are small, but im portant matters, and worthy of no incon 1 t t t r sr-a siaeraoie snare ot attention, ror my own part, I am lond ot aucn sweet bitters as babies and the more spunk and spirit ihey exhibit the belter I like them for was a baby mvself; and if squalling be in dicative of future eloquence, then the power of preaching was in me from the beginning. My respected hearer?: Tender infants aeyou have once been, you mustn't suppose that as you grow old you toughen sum ciently as to cause the shails ot Death to fall harmless ct your feet. The thin case ..i. .i . - meni mat encloses trie immortal spirit o man is as brittle as glass: and a gentle rap of disease, if it does not entirely de mo.ish it, may so shatter it that all the raadicated putty in the universe can't hold it together. The rosiamer threads that are woven in the webot men a existence are so finely spun and so feeble in strength that the slightest breeze of physical aflecuoti ft-iit sometimes snap asunder, and have them dangling in the dusky sepulchre like so manv cobwebs in the corner of eserled hovel. My dear brethren: Take good care o your babies, all you who have them; for there is no knowing what figures they nny cut m the world. It you watch over them in their intancv. and instruct them as they crow up, their names may sianu nigh on the roils oi lame; out it you 111 1 11 tfaj m let these little bottles of milk stand ne glected in the summer of existence, till they grow sour in Bin, they cannot be saved, even by the sweets of salvation when they shall have become older, a . a a a iroi-ker ana sum more rancio. dv tne cor ruption and wickedness of the world So mote it be. Let it Never bo Forgottan, l hat the Country was in a prosperous condition, when ten. Jackson was a a - -a v elected to the Presidency, and that neither party then found any fault with the currency or with a United States Bank. which had been the agent for the Government for -40 years, and never lost a dollar of the Public Money. That Gen. Jackson assailed the Bank be cause its Directors refused to make it a political Tnrtchine, and he took from its vaults the Public Money, and put it into the vaults of numerous Pet Banks, telling them through his Secretary, to discount freely upon it. That these Pet Banks did as thev were required, and thereby caused other banks to loan freely, and hundreds of new banks to be chartered, which made paper money soplenty that it began to be used for specu'ating purposes?. rHa.T these speculations were so nume rous and reckless, that the sales alone of the Public Lands rose from an average of about three millions of dollars a year in value, to twenty-five millions in 1636, and imports increased even in creater nronottion, and all trade and c? at commerce wa9 driven forward into the most reckless and ruinou excess of speculation. That in the same year, 1S36, the last of Gen. Jackson's administration, he referred in his message to theje ruinous speculations in the Public Lands as an indication oi public prosperity! and his party through the country called on the people to sustain his administration on account of the high tcages and high prices which they obtained! NOW ON THE OTHER HAND, LET IT NEVER BK FOR30TTEN, That the present exhausted and depressed condition of the country is the ef. feet of the reaction of the ppecclatixo times of Jackson and Van Buren that when the epeculaiing fever left ihe countrv in 1830. the country fell prostrate and palsied tvith dtbt, which has brought on tho loag train of evils predicted by Whig statesmen, such aa Repudiation, Bankrupt laic;, Slay laws, kc. That Mr. Clay, in 1SS2 predicted as follows: derangements of that admirable system of exchanges, which is now acknowledged to be better than exist in any other country on the globe, over-tradj.no and SPECULATION in every part of tlw. Country, that rapid fluctuation iu the value of money, which like the unseen pestilence, withers all J efforts of industry, while the sufferer) is in ulter ignorance of the cause of his destruction; bankrvptcj and ruin, at - the anticipation of which the heart sick

ens, -must follow in the long train of Expedition against Santa Fe. The evils which are assuredly before us. Houston Morning atar of the 2d, notiThaTjMb. Webvter, in 1834 predicted as cing the rumors iu this country of the colfollows have already endeavored to lection of an armed body on the frontiers

want uir cuumry ugauiai irreceemaoio oi Missouri, and the apprehensions that paper; against bank paper when banks they were raised for the purpose of plundo not piy specie for their own notes; dering tiie Santa Fe traders, as well as the against that miserable, abominible and . order of our government sending out fraudulent policy, which attempts to'troopsfor the protection of the traders, give value to any paper, of any bank j say a: Cincinnati Me. one single moment longer than such pa-J "The very fact that more than two per is redeemable on demand in gold and j hundred men have engaged in this expeailver. And I wish meat solemnly and(dition, is evidence that it is not intended earnestly to repeat the warning, I see the 'merely to rob the Santa Fe traders, for danger if ihat state of things ahead. I ; fifty mep would be sufficient for this our-

see imminent danger that more or fewer; oi me state Uanks will stop specie payments. The late measures of the Secretary, and the infatuation with which it seems to be supported, tend directly and strongly to that result. Under pretence, then, of a design to return to a currency which shall be all specie, we are likely to have a currency in which theie shall be no snecie at all. We are in danger of being overwhelmed ...:.L : j it wiiu irreaeemaoie paper mere paper representing not gold or silver; no sir representing nothing but broken pro mises, bad faith, bankrupt corporatious cheated creditors, and ruined people To which we may add. hat Hosace EixitKvin 1S31, in reply to a speech of James K. Polk, predicted that "If the Secretary's plan waa carried into effect theie will be a hun dred banks starting up to take the place of the proscribed united States Bank ni ... 1 hey would have them shooting out their paper missiles in all directions. They would conu from the four quar ters of the Union. ' That Mr. McDlkfie, tho present Demo crane oenator Irom south Carolina, in his celebrated report in 1830 predicted that "If the Bank of the United States were destroyed, and the local institutions lelt without its restraining influence. the currency would almost certainlv relapse into a state of unsoundness rri ... ihe very pressure which the present Bank, in winding up its concerns, would make uton the local institutions, would a compel them either to curtail their DISCOUNTS WHEN MOST NEEDED, OR TO SUSIEND SPECIE PAYMENTS: It is not difficult to predict which of these al ternatives they would adopt under the ciccumatances in which they would be Jaced. The imperious wants of a BHfIcrin? community would call for counts in ih language which could not be disregarded. The public necessities, would demand and public opinion would sanction the suspension or at least an a evasion of specie payments." More Os't. We gnve the oiher day the no tice of Mr. Van Buren's letter by the Charleaton Mercury, Mr. Calhoun's organ. Voaterday'a mail broozht us another article from the fame aource. it is npicv, and uoes noi 'loos, in a iraena way. to him of kinderhook. In publiahini; that part of the Mler which relMea to the Tantf, the Mercurj aiys: We hone every body will read thia extract from the Ei-Preident'e letter there are good thoughts there, notwithstanding in aome reapecta 'cloud and darkneaa raat upon it.' A a to the preciae effect of it a a whole, we can not ay :hst we have very positive concluaiona and it" any of our readers shall be more fortunate in the pursuit, we beg them to gWe ua briefly and pithily, the reiult. If a man will go out and try to meaenre the ehadow of a trec-tnp, in a windy day, he will find two difficulties fust to fix the exact place where it begins, and second, to fix the eiact j)!acrt where it ends. We have experienced a little of thia in aaining the boundaries to .Mr. Vai BrRn' principle of tariff taxation they ell seem to be in motion. We are sorry that the Argus, instead of impressing upon ua how very clear the tariff part of the anawer is, had not had time to state what it is that ie ao clear.' But the Mercury does not aeem Oiapoaed to let Mr. Van Duren Dasa. when it can irive him a re buff. Witneaa the following paragraph. Mini Vait Bcbi Ths Plksidxkct. Tha democratic journala in all parta of tha coun try, (eicept perhapa, thoae of south Carolina.) are inacribing on their bannera tha name of Mr. Van Buren aa the favorite candidate for nomina tion to the office of President. IV. Y. PUbian That -except perAapi,' ia well put in and might nit he been in appropriate, if, to South Carolina had bean added 'and most of the othor Statea.' We wonder if it will support the nominee of the Xotional convention, provided Mr. Van Bu ren should be that man. Cin. Gaz. a3 Murder of a Family A Negro burned.' We learn from the Van Buren (Arkanaaa) Intelli gencer, of the 26th, that a family by the name of Cox was recently murdered near the Choctaw line, on the Poteaa river. Mr. Cot (the Intelligencer saya) waa a blacksmith, and had been working in the Indian country, either among the Creeka or Seminolea, under the employ of the United States, and had lately moved into the State, and settled in 8cott routy, at the place where he and hia family were murdered. An Indian and a negro, who were supposed to bo the murderers, were pursued and arrested in the Indian country, and were brought back and delivered to the civil authorities of Scott county. They confessed that they committed the crime. It appears from the statements that the Indian shot Mr. Cox, and at the report of the gun Mrs. Cor ran to the de-or, when the regro knocked her down with an axe and killed het, and then killed a small child and cut ita head off. They then robbed the house and found something like a thousand dollars. They were placed in jail; but the populace become to enraged that they went to the jail and took' the negro out tied him to a stake, and burned him to death. Cin. Mtss. To know man, borrow the and tie eye cf the deaf. ear of the Hind

pose. We have little doubt that this force

is intended to take possession of Santa Fe. As it has probably marched long before this time, it may not bo 'improper to publish some facts respecting an expedition againstSanta Fe, which have hitherto been ktpt secret. It appears that Gen. Houston about ten months ago, when he issued his proclamation announcing his in tention to invade(Mexico,granteda commiejsion to Col. Warfield, of Missouri, and authorised him to collect a band of volun leers among the Rocky Mountain hunters and back-woods men of the frontiers of Texas and Missouri, for the purpose of overturning the authority of the centralists in Santa Fe. General Houston had received assurances that the citizens of Santa Fe were willing to come under the jurisdiction of Texas, but were only restrained by the fear of General Amijo and his ruffian soldiery. Col. Warfield declared that with;three hundred men he could easily eipel Amijo and his adherents, and immediately after receiving his commission from General Houston, h set out for St. Louis to commence operations. On his arrival there last summer, he'met with some disappointments owing to the pecuniary embarrassments of his friends, and he proceeded to Baltimore to procure funds in that city. Nothing was heard from him for several months after he left St. Louis, and it was supposed he had given up the expedition in despair. The recent intelligence from the western borders of Missouri, induce us to believe that the armed force on the borders of Missouri has been collected by Col. Warfield or his friends; and instead of being a band of robbers, is merely a band of Texian emigranta" who are auihorisrjby the Texian Government to SETTLi. in Santa Fe. And as thev are probably ere this, beyond the territory of 'he o i:ed State, and within th limits o Fexrvs, the troops of the United States will be unable to molest them without trepassing upon our own territory. --e From the Cincinnati Gaxette. Texas. Since Commodore Moore has disobeyed the commands of President Houston, and had his fight with the Mexican Steamers, off Campeacby he has been denounced as a Pirate. On the 33d of March Mr. Houston issued his proclama tion which concludes as follows And I do further declare and proclaim, on fai ure of obedience to thia command, or on hiahav ing gone to aca, contraiy to ordera, that this gov eminent will no longer hold itself responsible for his acts upon the high seas; but, iu such case, re quests all ihe government m treaty, or on any terms of amitv with this irovernment, and all na val officers on the high seas, or in ports foreig to this country; to seize the said Post Captain L W. Moore, the ship Austin and brig Wharton with their crews, and bring them, or any ef them into the port of Galveston, that the vessels may be secured to the Republic, and the culprit or cul prits arraigned and punished by the sentence of a legal tribunal. The naval powers of Christendom wid not peraMt such a flagrant and unexampled outrage by a commander of public vessels of war, upon the rights of his nation and upon his official oath and dutv. to pass unrebuked: for such would be to destrov all civil rule and establish a precedent which would ieopardize the commerce of the ocean, and render encouragement and sanction to piracy. There may be something in the last paragraph Commodore Moore according to a strict construe tion of the law might find himself in an awk ward dilemma, both from th action of his own and other governments. Ha seems to have an ticipated aorae difficulty at Home, ( tnougn evi dentlv he knows the popular feeling of Texas is wiih him,) aa we may judge from the follow ing letter: Texaa aloopof war Acstiv, outside N. E. Pass, (Mis.) April 19, 1843. Mr. F. Pinckard, Editor of Texas Times Gal veston Texas; In the event of my being declared by Procla raation of the Preaident aa a pirate or outlaw you will please state over my aignature that Igo down to attack the Mexican Bquadron, with the consent and full concurrence of Col. Jas. Morgan, who ia on board thia ship aa one of the commis sioners to carry into effect the secret act of Con gress, in relation to the navy, and who is going with me. lelievina aa he does that it is the beat thing that could be done for the country, This ahin and the brig have excellent men on board, and the officera and men are all eager for tie con eat. We go to make one detp e ite strug etc to tum the tide of ill luck that haa so leng been running againat Texaa. You shall hear from me again aa aoon aa poaaible. Youra truly. E. W. MOORE. A colored servant eweeping out a bachelor' room found a sixnence on the carpet, which he car id to the owner. f - You may keep it for your honesty, said he, A ahort time after, he miased his gold pencil case and enquired of hia servant If be had seen it. Yes sir.' was the reply. And what did you do with it!' Kept it for my honesty, sir!' The old bach br disappeared.

Confession of Tharn the Murderer.

I horn, ihe murderer of Wilson, haa made a full confession, in which he im phcates Mr3. Wilson, fully, as will be se(jn. Of course, under the circumstances. noooay ought to attach much credit to i the statements, of themselves; but, as they tally so well with the probabilities ot the case, they undoubtedly will be re ceived with considerable confidence: Thorn saya that he was engaged to Liouisa before he went to sea; but on his return, to his great disappointment, he tound that she had married Mr. Wilson He had then had no thought of injuring her husband in any respect. He went to liis sisters, and stayed a short time, but they were poor and unable to take care of him and so told him. He then went to Mr. W ilson's, where ho renewed his former intimacy with Louisa. She fre quently, he says, expressed a wish that her husband was dead; said at one time, when he was coming from the barn, that she wished he would break his neck. At several other times she said she wished that some one would murder him. lie says it was at her own suggestion that the idea of murdering Mr. Wilson was first conceived by him. One day when she uttered thia wish, he replied "supposing I murder him, and it is discovered, I may be hung." She paid, "then I will die with you;" meaning that she would commit 6uicide. The whole plan of the murder was then arranged between them. The night was selected the wood brought in for a large fire and every thing else was at hand 'hey deemed necessary for the pucessfjl issue of the affair. She told what hour of the night her husband slept the soundest, and promised when he was deeply buried in sleep to knock on the wall. He waited; she did knock as agreed. He then entered quietly with an axe, and struck him one severe blow. He thinks he struck only once. $Jrs. Wilson arose and got alight, and Mr. Wilson in a few moments was dead. They built up a large fire, and both went to work to wash up the blood, and cleanse the clothes. While doing this, they agreed upon the statement of the nffair that should be given, and that statement was made to the coronsr. CANNOT. We very much question whether there is a word in the English language productive of as much mischief as the one placed at the head of this article. In. deed, it has no business -where it ia so frequently found; for it is an intruder on our forms of speech, and deemed unworthy of notice by the lexicographer; yet there are some men who are always using it, and find it ever at their tongue's end. We like a man, aye, and n woman too, who at propeq times enn utter a plain plump No; lor that little word may be their salvation; but if they meet you with a cautious cannot, depend upon it, they will "for a consideration. Ask the farmer why he allows that bot tie of spirits to be carried into his harvest field, and as the ill cut grain attests, to his ninifest loss, he replies that he has been so lonn in the habit of doing it, that he cannot do without it when working hard All nonsense. Thousands if not millions have demonstrated the contrary before his face the present year. The truth is, the farmer loves the 'good creature,' and hi 'cannot' is the partial opiate he forces up on his conscience to disguise the fact. Ask that farmer why he allows hi fields to be overrun with thistles, johns worth, daisies, his crops choked with steinkrout. chess and cockle; his corn overtopped by pigweeds, and his garden bv chickweedu. nurelain, &c; and ha j s answers he c&nnot attend them all, he has so much work to do that some must be neglected. Such an answer only makes . . I. .L.t--a nan matter worse, n proveo mn u i a bad calculator, as well as a bad woiker. The farmer has'no business to plan so much work, as to be unable to perform everv nart well: and the cannot in the j i - case can deceive no one. Neighbor, the bars to your corn field are very defective, and the gate to your wheat field is so insecure, that I wonder at your leaving them in sucn a conuuion, whpn there are so many unruly cattle runmnffat lanre. 'AD, he answerea, ! m . a 1.1 know it well enough. I intended this verv week to have ir.sde some new bars, and had a new gate hung; but I have lost so much time in attending that lawsuit. that I cannot do it now and must put it off till next week.' Ihe next .sun-shiny morninir. he finds a whole herd of unruly animals in his field, his crop half destroy ed, and n beautiful foundation for another awsuit laid See that poor man, once rich and talent ed, reehne through the street: tie is a snrrifir.fl to that accursed cannot. A beau tiful wife has wept tears of entreaty; riends have uttered words of remon- . l. . strance; relormea meoriaiss nave wh.cu him by the hand, and pointed out the way by which he may be again a man; bot to all these the reply, fatal to hope has been, cannot. He can. lie can torsaKe his cups; lie can rring juy niu ia'..iica i his family; he can gain rejoice his fiiends; but he must first renounce and repudiate this soul and body destroying cannot. Young man, Whatever may be your profession or pursuit, you would hope for success, never use the word cannot.

ou may as well attempt to swim with a Scotia grindstone at your neck, and a Paixhan shot at your heels, as lo expect to accomplish any tiling worthy of a man while this word is in your vocabulary. When the gallant Miller, at the battle of Niagara was asked by Scott if hs could carry the enemy'a batteries, suppose, instead of the determined 'I'll try fie had whined out 'I cannot,' where would hove been his fame, end what the result of that day? Cannot accomplishes nothing but the ruin of him who uses it. Farmer, keep shy of cannbts. Use not the word yourself and be careful how you

employ those that do. Napoleon never allowed the use of the word impossible; and in the management of a farm there should be no place for cannot. You can do all that is necessary to be done, if yoa set about it in the ri?ht wav. and at the right time. If you do not, your labor will be like that of Sysiphus, ever beginning, never ending. Neglect nothing; keep a mindful eye over every thing; eee that every part moves in harmony, and together; and you will have no use for "cannot." -ast Pruning Fruit Trees, It will be found upon experiment, that a wound made on tree in March or April will look black as soon as the sap begins to now, and that the sap will ooze out until the leaves have pat out so as to receive it; while a wound made in June will remain white and immediately commence healing and a tree that has been broken by being loaded with fruit, or otherwise, while the treen is preen w'h foliage, the wound will look white and the wood remain sound, while one broken in the winter by snow. or Irom other cause, will Iook DiacK and incline to decay. It has been my humble lot to spend the most of my time in the spring and forepart of the summer, in engrafting and pruning trees, and my experience goes to prove that the best time for pruning is when the leaves are full grown, and tho tree is in a vigorous and growing state; for at this season, when the sap has been spent in foliage, and the pores of the wood are filled, eo.that when the limb is taken off, the sun and warm weather will dry the end of tha limb and close the pores of the wood against the weather, and the sap will keep the limb alive lo the very ena. and the healing will be perceived immedi ately. Slandejr &bl Draach. ef Promise, At the late Circuit of the Supremo Court of Massachusetts, at Barnstable, Capt. Wm. Howes and wife, of Catham, obtained a verdict of 391, against the Rev. Charles Rockwell of the Congregational Church, for defaming the character of the lady. Mrs. Howes had belonged to Mr. Rockwell's Church and left it, whereupon Mr. R. reported that she was grosaly profligate before marriage, to hia own damage 391, as aforesaid. But another case was tried, of which the result did not strike us so favorably. It was that of Miss Hannah Curtis against one Benjamin Baker for breach of promise. Benny, it seems, had paid scattering attentions lo Miss Curtis, "off and on," for fourteen years that is, from 1S24 to 1S3S sometimes happening in rather often, and then staying away for two or three years. lie appears lo have been very cool and considerate about the matter all through, and the only thing like a promise proved against him was the following postscript to a very pious but not at all amorous letter: S. As to matrimony, it doesnft bear with much weight at present on my mind." For this promise! the Jury assessed Benjamin (who has since married another woman) &200 and costs! "Boys! do you hear that?" If you don't, you will wish you had. Now, we are quite willing thai these inveterate danglers, who take years of non-committal courtship to find out whether they are in earnest or only in fun, should be made lo smart well for it, but we insist ihnt they ought to be prosecuted in some rational way say for nuisance and botherbood. To convict them of breach of promise because they ought to be punished somehow, is a gross perversion of justice. Cin. Ales. Naw Prxa or thi Stat Bakk or Iibiaka. The Indiana State Journal saya that at the meeting of the Directora af the State Bank, last week, $742,000 of the worn and defaced paper of the Institution, which haa been laid aside and registered at the Branches, waa burnt. A a from tha worn condition ot tne oitf paper ef the Bank, a substitution of new issue is uniTersally called for, the Bank ia proceeding aa rap idly aa possible to supply new and neat paper at the Branches, "which will be furnished for the worn paper, when presented, and in the rouraa of business, as speedily and convenelntly to the puN ic as practicable. Cm. Gaz. Heavy Loas. W hilc the Maysville pack et was lying at the wharf yesterday morning, a passenger dropped a package of 86,100 into the river. It was folded in a hamlkerehi-f, in nnrolling which the money slipped from his hands and fell over the guard. Efforts were made to recover it, but without success. $240 of the sum was in gold, the balance bank notes, principally of ths denomination of 100. ' Si. Louis Out.