Wabash Herald, Volume 1, Number 35, Rockville, Parke County, 10 December 1831 — Page 4

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- - tOR THK WABASH HERAU. A WIFE WANTED, Ye gentleair attention give 1 To one in prime of life, , , "Who only wants, while e're I lire, A sweet," a lorely wife. Come gentle dame, Accept my name. Your own just "nullify ", : Forsake 'dull care, And pleasure share, Through life so happily: i .. JJpre I, upon the 'anxious eat, Shall languish into grief, ; ' i Unless dame fortune dems iv lhect, My "Union" with a wife; . Come lovely maid, .'Tho friends upbraid, ' Desert celibacy,' . And join the cause Of love and laws. And mingle cares with m. r . NARCISSUS. l am not a 'Nulli'er, proper, yet whercI could 'nullify' a na.-an, without effecting the principle, I am constrained to do so; ar.d more especially, when it rusults ia a 'oon)lidation' or 'Union' legally authorized by fthe expressed powers cf the conotitution. o::::::::o From the Laday's, Book.' THE SHrPWllECK. Now for?t trees ar! nhakinar. "L'ko 1':-2 bcl?ufch?s in ths gale; Iv j a- ih- f.'det" flocks are quaking Xe.uh tht: Ntt- 'iiij? of the hail, Frorti a "unle cuT.bc pd r'tvr " , Comes a growl tleng tin? y roitnd, ' ( And the cattle start ant server !, iror tb'-y knov.' r,Jl well f!.o soaijd. Jrv. th ?-fb' 1 , .v.jtllv f creaming, . $;:is,: shelter of t'.e lard; And f. ?gr.&l-ljght is rteiui.ng r Hhr-e r,-n vsffl r. vrs tha strand: Jurt t 5,':w.t rh.?. ve iyiiig All lev I -c-i upon thi main; ' ticx. -v-ii aa.ls in tte- flying, iii to wind'viu scat-in vain lean Vi'lh j tempest fepp-lng . l?t malting wioga aloud . ' Ai..t irhr-rd;, the damons oUppir.f . In the culphurous thundor cl--ud. By the iire-tinucht's glessnj dashing, On the rvef that ship I spy, V"ith h billows o'ar her tKshing lUrkl Oh God!) that f arful cry! Full vc hundred human voices , . In that shriek came on th,blast! . ; , , Now tae teirpest fiend r-ncrg, For nil earthly aid ic past! L, th-. sirrf, like smoks is rho-.vering O r tS- cliSTi that ?ea-,vari frown "IVhi.-h the greedy gulf devouring, - I ike dark bacc4 sucks them d wn ! The I?eat?i Warrant. " f he last, Vv ful bou? hh come." T.;. mi;-:! cf the mountain ) hong heavily on th t-.-i j.ain top about the v-iilngsof Rfrdt :'tr. but the roads which1 1" I toward? r. Aere crowded with the Varied pop i-'.itioi ot the surrounding Coun'rv from far vd rtvar. At Ayl.rsIturp !t i;!ops m:1'.: closed ; the ahiin :r the Ma:Vlm )id upon it'art'; : .l a wagon o! ;;y uosoription wr.3 to be see'i in ti e'refet, and the V-nr cf he tavern was closed, and the lev rcm- wiih its rorif-tor to tVc cllfl, as u.kcn of an imoiiart era which v as v.hhou'- ?. parall?i in tf'.e anrals of th.c -,l-'ce. And snve '-.tr nhd there a ? : try head i lokit j ii;rog' a brokers ; - i.: Ane closed up Wase, with i.n ? of VHt .) -sap.'o'uitmciit, cr tha cries . ihf l ii" ro.i ll: wa? hpard hetol:c;i: tuat iti tac eserat Sight it had he i i-ft fn. :--tiiA)l tttrvW or perhaps hc-re at'd t.ere h flitary, ragged And ithUrptrd sc.&.l ho was seen, or IVt h.;s s.-ktitari.-l!1n:itiirot Airsrt . Jfrcen.KV!; bnthstirHnpci Kv the p Con of laying al home- tV; whli vilIwe fhibit-d a picture of assertion ft i ilence ibat bad , forever , been unPut in propwrtin'ns you' drew near toe poncjtous iti?in tnc-tnidst of winch the JitU-' tov n tf Kedclitr wRS iniaU-d, you mirib-n again in the thick butleand rr'i; no? the woflA men and wwen, bo"i?j"d horse?, and dog?,-all liting mevii things that inhabit the whr.ta ditru r of Pennsvlvanla "Tha villa'. itlf was crowded to venlovvii'-r long before the sun had f; ;t . .5 a m-ii, Knt alii'odeto throw its rays - thr- tJcrp' valley, in which it lay. I her& tin; hat of thfr inn which was c !" 1-d, and t aj furiie of tobarrn nd- wbisko- tU4 pi g ling of small C llge, o!d t'irt perpetual clamor of t.t Mtro,rH ntl!cient to rack a brain cl couiHnijlexibihty.-'Inthe etreet, Vtm 're the g! etlngt of old and Uu jaii:lciuiatanceij the barter -

ing of torses; the settling of old accounts; the buffoonery of half intoxicated men; tha clatter of the women; the crying end hallooing of the children and boys, and the barking and quarrelling of strange dogs. To look upon the scene,' to mingle with the crowd, to lieten to the conversation, or to survey the countenances of the as- , ! lit j

sembiea multitude, would lead to no satisfactory solution of the cause for which this mass of heterogenous matter was congregated. Within the walls of the old stone jail at the foot of the mountain, a different scene had been that morning witnessed. There chained to a stake in the miserable dungeon, damp and scarcely illumi nated by one ray of light, now lay the emaciated form tof one hose final doom seemed near at hand. A few hours before, his wife and little daugtcr had been with him, having travelled a hundred miles, to meet him once more on the threshholii of the grave: they met, and from that gloomy vault the song of praise ascended with theasceding sun; and the jailer, as he listened to the melodious ,voice,uf , the, three persons whom he looked upon as the most dessolate and lost' of all in the wide world, blended sweetly together and chanting the beautiful hymn. ' 5 It ia the l ord! should I distrust, Or contradict his will." , , , ' . almost doubted the evidence of his sen ses, and stood fixed in astonishment at the massy door. Could those be the voices ot a murderer, and a murderers wife and child? This brcf and to the final interview probed, however; those unfortunate ones had Ibudly commended each ctbrr to the keeping of their heavenly parent, utA parted ; he to foce the assembled tw'iitud? o i the vr;tFo!-.i, and they, as th'-y n3, t t-efu-.'!. by reary journeys ' Th(;touvict"'r?) cut by sickness & t a . w.iiruii'g, now sicjK. ; ! us ivn;i Jason I. reel; his place ot resis.enco jui titc ir .rtrsiua. lie had been taken U 'vfh:i- t:ivelling to ia north ward. o h; bone, and tried aw? c -'nvi-'.tcd at the cchnty town some mUes di',lant for the tauider of a fellow traveller, 'vho had norne him company from the lakes, and w.-w ascertained to have a large sum of money with bin), and who was found in the same room in which tl.ey both, slept, ir. h country room near UaJrhtf, with h'S tbroal cut. Creel hr.d always pvohv.te'd his innocence, der.lrti-isi that tt-- d 'ed was perpetrate4 by some one while he was a ;ep; but the circumsfaoefs were ag.ninst him, and though the. money was not. found on him, he was sentenced to he hir g, and he had hern removed to the eld stone jail at'Ita-u 15 tf for security, the county prison bcitg deemed un-afe. There was the execution. to take place; the cafIold was already erected; the crowd pressed remind the tuilding and frequently cries of 'bring out the prisoner were heard. The sun at last told the hour of ele2n, and there could be no more delay; the conviH's cell was entered by the cheers In attendance, who were ready for him without, and bid him hast? n to his execution; they laid hands on h'm and pinioned him tight, while he. looked up towards heaven in will alonhhmcr.t, as one new-born, and said, 'The dream, the dream,!" "And what of the, dream Mr. Jascn?"' satd the sheriff "you would io me a great kindness if .you, would dream yourself and me both out of this cursed scrape" "! d roamed" replied the convict, "that ,Vi!c you read the death warrant to me on the scaftdd, a man came through - he crowd and stood before us in a frrn y dress, with a white hat and laro whi?kers, and that a Mfd Puttered ever bm nd sim distTc! ly this is . Lewis the murderer of tie traveller." I he oftrers ani liilef t:elCi a s'.nrl cnrmaltAtion. which endd jrt a d t. r . ... . rnination to look sharply afi'T the man in grav vtith si white ha accoanled by many hincs of the resignation of the prisoner and the possibility of his innocence being assorted by a supernatural : gene ft, the prison doors were cleared and Cret l, pale and feeble, with a hymn book in bis hand, and a mien all cnoeknees and humility,' was seen totlenrtg frosn the prison to the scaiiold. lie bad bn sooner ascended it, than his eye began to wander over the vast con conre of people around him with scrutiny that' seemed like, laitti in dfearq; And while the sheriff read the warrant, the convict's anxiety appeared to increase he looked and looked galn, then raised his hand and eyes a moment towards the sky, as if breathing a last ejaculation, when lo! as he resumed bis first position, the very peruvat rinea stood within six teet of the ladder! .The prisoner's eye (aught the sight, and the jailer at the Same moment seized the stranger by the Collar At first he attempted to escape but being secured and taken before the mawitratps. be cnnfr'sil Ko,l..,l tailed all the particulars, delivered up 6art of the mohVlnformerf whrA rJL j other part wai hidden, and wai finally

committed for j, triaT while Crc-el was ! can look abroad in the work! and not turned loose, and hastened like a man see this? The splendid sun, the ceruout of his f enses from the scaffold. I lean sky, the majestic trees, the green - Three days had elapsed; Creel had earth, the thousand colbrs that enamel vanished immediately after his libera- the mead; the silver stream, in beauty

tion when the pretended Lewis astonished and coniounaed the magistrates by declaring Creel to bo her husband that he had assumed the disguise &t performed the whole part by his direction; that he had given her the money which he had till then successfully concealed about his person; and that the whole, from the prison to the scaffold scene, was a contrivance to etlect his escape, which having effected she was regardless of consequences. Nothing could be done with her she was set at liberty, and neither her nor her husband was heard of again. Village Tales. o::::::::o From the Sl.inthly Quarterlr Review. MURDER OF THE Laird xV Warriston, 3Y l.IS OWN WIFE. This is the subject of a Scottish ballad, well known' to collectors in that department; and the history of the conversation of the murderess, and of her carriage at her execution, compiled apparently by one of the clergymen of; Fdinburgh, has been lately printed by Mr. Charles Kirpatrick Sharpe, whose merits as an author, antiquary, and draughtsmen, stand in no need of cur testimony. , The story of the young lady is short and melancholy.. She was a daughter of Livingston of Dunipace, a courtier, and a favorite of James IV.; an ill-assorted marriage united her at an early age with the Laird of Warriston, a gentlemen whom she did not love, and who apparently used her with brutal harsh jicss". The Lady Warriston accused her husband of having struck her several blows, besides biting her in the arm;' and conspired with her nurse to murder him. The confidante, inspired by that half-savage attachment which in those days animated the connexion between the foster-child and the nure, entered into all the injuries of which her dull (i. p. foster .daughter) complained, encouraged her In her fa-i tal purpuse, and promised to procure the assistance of a person fitted to act1 the part of actual murderer, or else to jdo the deed with, her own hands. In Scotland, such a character as the two wicked women desired for their associate was soon found in a groom, called Robart Weir, wis anncars. for a very small . hire, to have undertaken the task of nr irdering the gentleman. He was ushered privately into Harriston's sleeping apartment, where he struck him severely uponth flank-vein, and completed his c urie by strangling him. The lvJy in trie meantime lied -"rom the nop' ial apartment into the hall, where she remained during the perpetration of the murder. The assassin took flight when the deed was done; but he was afterwards seized and executed. The lady was tried and condemned to deatii, on the ltjthof June, IG(K). The nurse was at the same time condemned to be burnt alive, and suffered her sentence accordingly; but Ladv Warriston, in respect to her gen tle descent, was appointed to die. by t;ie Mii kiu a sort of rude guillotine, imported, it is said, from Halifax, by ihe Earl of Morton, while recent. who was himself the first that suhored bvit. The printed account of this beautiful mur.'ir--s contains a pathetic narra tive ol the evert ions of the worthy cler-i-vman Hr author) to bring her to re :"r;u i r?. .t first, bis ghostly comfjri was very ill received, and she reJoined with taunts and derision his ex hcrfations to penitence But this hu vt'ror.ly lasted while she had hopes of obtaining pardon through the interest ctf her family. When these vanished it was no longer difficult to bring her, in on human-appearance, 10 a jusisense of her condition; her thoughts were easily directed towards heaven, so soon as she saw there was no comfort upon earth. The pride of Lady Warriston's pa rents sucested . a petition t-.iat she miht be executed betwixt five and six in the morning; but both the clergymen and magistrates seem to have con pnted unwillingly to this arrangement, The clergymeuwas particularly offended that the display of her, penitence should not he as public a3 that of her guilt had been, and we may forgive the good man it there was any sngni regret for a diminished display of his own inrrpci. as a rcliifious assistant, mixed with this avowed dissatisfaction. ; LOVE. ; The true key of the universe is love. That levels all inctpmlities, 'makes low th. mountain and exalts the valley,1 anil bringi human beings of every age and every it ition into a state of brotherhood. -The lion and the lamb he down together j the leopard dwells with the kid,1 and little child shall Icaa them.' What unprejudiced man

composed and serene, living in the end-

iless now of its waters, all talk ot what softens the heart, and inspire kindness and affection to our dispositions and feelings. Has not God made man the crown of his works and staieptd all his limbs with majesty and grace'; and shall we treat with harshness and with indignity what tod has chose for hi? living temple? No: the man that is austere to his brother mortal, is the true prictical atheist. The true system of governing the world, for fashioning the tender spirits of youth, for smoothirfg the pillow of age, is Love. The one thing which most exalts and illustrates man is disinterested affection. We are never so truly what we are capable of being, ns when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves for others, and immolate our self-love of benificencc. There i3 no joy like the joy of generous sentiment, to go about doing good. To make it our meat and drink to promote the happiness of others, and diffuse confidence and love to every one within the reach of our influence. - Cloudlcsley. From the Baltimore Republican. The American Eclipse. This superior horse, who is now in the neghbourhood of Baltimore, and had been running races form a colt until he was a ged, and had never been beaten, challenged the continent, giving six or twelve months notice, to run for 20,000, the adversary to be named starting consequently he stood alone against the United States. The best blood ofVirginia was traincdand tried by the most experienced gentlemeu of the turf, (Lot. Johnson) and several were selected and brought to the course; one was, at the last day, chooscn to have the ' honor of contending with him, who was deemed Jirstin the world and nobly did he contend. The first heat was run in the unprece dented time of seven minutes and thirty-seven seconds. But in three heats all the continent, by virtue of the fail ure of Henry, so selected, yielded to the iiujKlable Eclipse. t A gentleman of respectibility, this week called at our dffice, and requested us to say, that he recently breakfasted at the house of Major John Mclntyre in 1'etersburgh, Indiana, lhere was at the table a venerable lady who excited so much interest in the guest, that he made some inquiries relating to her. To his surprise he was informed her age exceeded one hundred and tzcentv vcflrs, and that she was the grandmother of the respectable gentleman who entertained him. She remarked, her sight was much better for the last thirty years, than it was at the age ot ninety. She reads with facility, but in her reading generally, selects the Bible, j She was born in Scotland, and emigrated in Vmerica in the year 1727, when about sixteen years of age, She landed in rhuaelphia whend that now elegant and populous city contained but very few inhabitants, whose dwellings were log huts- Not a shingled roof was seen in the place. It is with pleasure we add, she still remains in excellent health. Vin. Gaz. Anecdote r of. Lord Norreys. Lord Norreys, a lad of 22, and who looks 14, then presented another petition, and said it should have his hearty support he hated slavery; yet his little Lordship is an Anti-Reformer. He is the son of the Earl of Abingdon, I think, and was returned to parliament as soon as he attained 21. His little, very tittle Lordship, when he applied to a Quaker for his vote, received the following reply : "Little Friend, go thee back to friend Abingdon, and tell him to send thee back to school, and then thou wilt learn a little modesty: for, hadst thou any, or friend Abingdon any sense, he would never have sent thee, nor wouldst thou have come to ask an old man like me to vote for a little boy like thee to be ruler over the people. (Jo back to school, and thou mayest as well take friend Abingdon with thee." Suicide by two Brolhers.--Th6 Rev. C. Semple. Golding, Bedfordshire, last week blew out his brains, and was found in bis bed-room in the agonies ofj death. His hrother, Capt. Semple of the 3d regiment of Guards, on hearing the melancholy intelligence, beceme gloomy and abstracted, and on the morning of his brother's funeral, cut bis throat with a' razor, and imme diately expired. lie was' 35 years of age, and fought at the battle f Waterloo.5 1 " '"' It is computed that one million of millions, three hundred and sixty thousand, eight hundred and seven thousand one hundred and sixty-eight gallon of water are evaported from the surface of the globe In one year Consequently that quantity of rain, cc. must fall.

The effect of music' 6a the senses traj oddly and wonderfully verified, daring a late general mourning in London A tailor had a great number of black suits, which were to be furnished n a short space of time among his workmen, there' was a fellow 'to ho wa always singing Rule Britannia, and the rest of the journeymen joined in the chorus. The tailor made his observations, and found that the slow lime of the tune retarded the work; in consequence, he engaged a blind fidlcr, and placiug him near the workshop, made him play the lively tune of Nancy Dawrson. This had the proper effect the tailors elbows moved obedient to the melody, and the clothes were sent home within tho prescribed period. ' ' LATEST COUNTERFEITS A New Counterfeit.-- Wen dollar U. S bill on the Bank of Philadlphia, waa. presented at the Branch here yester

day, and detected as a counterfeit. It was the first which had appearedThe vigenette Justice, surrounded with, stars. The imitation is so accurate,, that it is impossible to give any marks by which the counterfeits can be detected. The ten dollar note payable at the Branches, are printed from ditlercnt plate. 1 he vigenette is au eagle. Silvester A genteel looking young fellow who calls himself Stevens, was arrested yesterday in Rivington-Street, by high constable Hays, and some other of the police officers, on a charge ox counterfeiting bills on the AlUanr and New-York State Bank. When the officers entered the room, they discovered the prisoner in the act of forging tho name of the President of the bank to one of the bills. On searching the room, conterfeit bills to the nominal amount of about $500, were discovered: of these, ten were for 5 each on the Middletown Con. bank, the others on the New-York Statu -hank. I-j. A meeting, of the sufferers by tte fire which swept down the town of Fayetteville,in North Carolina in Maylast, was held at that place orf the 2Cth ult. The committee appointed on behalf of the unfortunate sufferers, submitted to the meeting a statement of the amount received from the several states, towns and individuals. Although handsome, it has not reached the sum that we thought would have been collected. The gross amount is little upwards f. $92,000. A committee was appointed to make a suitable acknowledgement to the contributors, for their great liberality and kindness Evening Post. From the New-York Courier and Enquirer, IMPORTANT FROM SMYRNA. TREATY WITH TURKEY CONFIRMED. . By the arrival of the .Pavillion,Capt. Devalcourt, which 6ailed on the 2 1st September from Smyrna, we havo received the importantintelligence that the Tre"ty with Turkey has been con firmed by the Grand Seignor, and that the relations of the United States with' the Porte arc placed on the footing of the most favored nation. The following is an extract of a letter from a commercial house of the highest respectability; , Smyrna, Sept 20, 183L ' "Commodore Porter had an audience with the Grakd Seioxor on the 13th inst. (Sept.) Tho negotiation has terminated favorably, but we dont know yet tho particular conditions of the Treaty. There is no doubt, liowever, but we are placed on the footing of the most favored nation.'. fine fyi(nrf i nmrL-Vi1 In tV! intelligence. The reception by the Sultan of a mere Charge des Ajfaire$9 in which subordinate capacity Commo-, dore Porter was sent, is perhaps unprecedented in the annals of the Turkish empire. It has been the custom to admit no diplomatic agent under the rank of Ambassador to an audience of the Grand Seignor himself. In the case of the United States, this piece of c'jV quette appears to have been entirely ; waived. We understand that despatches for the United Slates Government have , been received by the same vessel, and sent by mail to Washington. ,The importance of this treaty to the , commercial intercourse of the United States with the East and the Levant it manifest to every one acquainted with the natural wealth, riches, and awaken-" ing spirit of those countries. A treat j , with the Sublime Porte not only open ! the porti of the Black Sf?a the Sea of A soph, aad other ports beyond the Dardanelles, but it lays the foundation for a more active intercourse with all. thoso maratime nations on the eastern, and southern shores of the Mediterranean which acknowledge fealty to the Satlan.