VOL. Vlll, N0014.] 4811111 64 , ....,411131MOMP•mmabamilasa, .110 LA PUBLISHED DY THEODORE H. CREMER. TM.7.110. The tow." will be published every Wedriesday morning, at two dollars a year, if paid IN ADVANCE, and if not paid withie six months, two dollars and a half. No subscription received for a shorter pe• riod than six months, nor any paper discon tinued till all arrearages are paid. Advertisements not. exceeding one square, will be inserted three times for one dollar, and for every subsequent insertion twenty five cents. If nu definite orders are given as to the time an advertisement is to be continu ed, it will be kept in till ordered out, and charged accordingly. P0ET.7.7. AllrTitiiigs Perish save Virtue. BY •rnomns POWER. Sweet morn—so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, Fur thou must die. Sweet rose'—shose fragrance now I crave, To glad my sense and joy mine eyes, 'llly root is ever in it 3 grave, And thou must die.' Sweet spring—so full of shine and showers, It snakes the weary spirit sigh, To think, with all the herbs and flowers, That we must die. Sweet music—e'en the lovely song Which from my harp in window nigh, Is floating on the breeze along, E'en thou must die. And all the bright and glittering train Of stars that stud the deep blue sky, Must they all perish—none remain To glad the eye ? And vales, and fields, and rushing streams, And mountains that invade the sky, Are they as baseless as our dreams? And must they die ? And all that's beautiful and fair On Nature's face—love's meletly, That makes the sweet music of the air, Ml—all must the ? And man, trail form of senseless clay, Though now his glance is proud and.higl Perchance upon this passing day He too must die! Hut the bright soul !—that shrived The quenchless light in mortal form— Though dimm'cl by misery and sin, Defies the worm. When all the stars shall fade away, And suns iu their own blaze expire, Al trackless comets cease to stray With wand'ring fire, The soul shall ever live, nor know The lapse of time, but dwell or: high, And share—in endless Joy or woe— Eternity. XICIZELILANMOI 7 / 3 . COMING TO THE POINT.-" Frank," said a young woman to a diffident suitor, who had fur some time been making evening calls upon her, without fully declaring himself—" Frank, if you wish to marry me, I wish to know it—so that I may make preparation." A long pause ensued—at length Frank broke silence and exclaimed, " No meat, no corn, and fishing almost over! Good Lord!—Nell. I can't!" Frank's answer %vas at least afrank one. " My love," said an amiable spouse to her husband, " don't sell that horse— I Want to keep him." " tie's my-horse sell him," . replied the loving lord. " Did'nt I buy hinil" " It was my money bought Into," retort ed the aristocratic lady. "Yes, madam," said the lmsband, "and by Jupiter your money bought me, or you never would have got me !" People who are resolved to please al ways at all events, frequently overshoot the mark and render themselves retlicu loos by being too good. A lady going to eat a plumb cake and candy at a friend's house one morning, ran to the cradle to see the fine boy, as soon as she cattle in; unlortunately the cat had taken the baby's place; but before she could give herself time to see her mistake, and with uplifted eyes and hands, Oh: what a sweet child -- the Very pictvre of hit father." :4 - Jk . ,A • o r. ; - 44. • 4... p; _ 9.GP.ICVIa~I'V:?.4 w. Early Potatoes. Let him who wishes to succeed with a patch of early potatoes, sieze the first oc casion when the frost is out of the ground, to get it ready. In the first place the ground must be well manures broadcast, ploughed deep and harrowed, then let the furrows be struck oil' 3 feet apart and 5 inches deep. In these furrows strew lung manure, leaves from the woods, or pine shatters, say two inches deep, then plant your potato sett ten inches apart and cover them with lung manure, taking care to sprinkle plaster over them. This done, turn a furrow on either side and cover the potatoes, then roll in order to compress the earth. Don't be alarmed about its being too early, the setts will not come tip until nature teaches them they can do so with impunity from the frost. As soon as you see the potatoes be gin to come up, run your harrow across the rows, so as to lead the earth and give the plants a chance of growing a fresh stir red surface, 'lbis will setare a full &land of plants. When the plants are all up and 2 or 3 inches run a small plough through them, turning a furrow from them, and returning it by the return of the team.-- Di a week Irmo this, run the cultivator through the rows so as to loosen and pul verise the soil : and as soon us this is done let your ploughman turn a small fur row toward the plants, taking care to throw his dice so as to leave a flat surface at top to act as a receiver of the rain.— This ploughing completed, set careful hands with a hue to pick out any weeds which may not have been covered by the plough. In two weeks from this, subject your patch to the same proceos, and un. less the season should be very wet, you may look upon the crop as laid by.— Should weeds however show their thank. less heads, the hoe and cultivator must do the rest. —Ball. American Farmer. Warmth in Feeding Cattle. A late English paper states, that at the clithere aaricultural nicatiou was read from Y&ufeasor Play• willea co:mimeo th e wiiimwm g iae-ts worthy the attention of every taunter in a cold climate: " Heat is an equivalent for food, and by knowledge of this fact we inuy econo mize the latter very considerably. We know tii.ii Lattie f.ttien much more slowly in winter thin in summer, the reason be ing that part of the food is expended in the production of the necessary heat. Lord Ducie was kind enou =h to communicate to me aft experiment of his, on 100 sheep in the open air, and another 100 in the same space, with sheds to retire into at pleas. me. The first lot ate 251bs. of Sweds (turnips) per day, the latter only 201b5., although this lot, with 515.4. per day less, had gained on an everage 21bs. per sheep more than the other, at the conclusion of the experiment. ThroxEN•WiNnno lionsEs.—The are frequently imposed upon by horse• dealers selling broken-winded horses, which are termed “wartis;" and which de fect they contrive temporarily to conceal from the purchaser in the following man ner They thrust a quantity of leaden shot, intermixed with a portion of lard, down the horse's throat, which su type. rates upon the lungs that it keeps the health of the horse in order fur more than twenty-four hours, so as the most ingeni ous dealer cannot detect the disease."— If the animal cult be sold during this time, well and good ; if not, a dose of caster oil removes the shot, &c. The next day the shot is again applied, and so Ctery al ternate day the horse is tit to be exposed to sale which in the end seldom fails to entrap a purchaser. REMEDY FOR THE lIESYIAN FLY.—.-The editors of the American Agricult urisrsay: --To the many invaluable advantages of the roller may be added the perfect se carity it alfurds to the %%heat crop front the ravages of the fly. Whenever this in sect is discovered, whether in the spring or fall, the roller should be applied, and the effect of (me or more applications will be entirely to destroy this troublesome enemy," We recollect to have seen this remedy recommended years ago, have never seen the experiment tried, though we have seen the turnip fly, or flea either killed, or driven off by the application of the roller, and that too, without doing any injury whatever to the young plants; and we cannot concieve any just reason to suppose, that a similar effect would not be produced to a wheat field infested with that curse , bequeathed us by the Hessians during the revolution. A ship recently called from Mobile, with a curgo of 3900 bales of cotton. "ONE COUNTRY, ONE CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY." HUN 'I'INGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1843. From the U. S. Gazette of the 4th April. Trial of Singleton Mercer, Charged with the murder of Mahlon Ilutchenson ifeberton, near Camden, February the tenth. In the Court of Quarter Sessions of Glou cester county, New Jersey, before Judge Elmer and the Associate Justi ces of the Circuit. Mordap, April 3. Lieutenant Charles Crilion Barton, U. S. N., sworn—l know Singleton Mers cer ; this is he ; I have seen him often since the 11th of February; have convers ed with him ; between the 11th and the 18th I did not think Mr. S. M. a reasona ble man; I had many opportunities of see ing him ; and from his conversation due ring this tone 1 ferined this opinion ; he apologised to me on my entering his room fur his lack of comfort; told me in u few days lie would have the walls of his room green, and the ceiling blue; he said he in tended to have sonic terrapins, oysters, pale de foie graa, venison steaks, and an forth; many other things; often daring this interval he so spoke; he wrote me a very singular note on the evening of the , 11th; it was asking the loan of a shirt; it I was hurriedly written, and bespoke irreg. ularity ; I regret its destruction, I compli ed with the request contained in it, when ' I took the shirt he spoke to the of religion; and in consequence of that conversation I I carried a letter for him to the Reverend Mr. Myth of this place ; I noticed him ' very particularly between the 11th and 18th, his manner was restless ; his rye quick ; lie called me by different names several times; I:is whole manner was such! as to convince inn he had nut the right use of his reason; I don't think I ever saw him before; have no recollection of it; called me Dr. Lippincott and Mr. Armstrong ; I am a father, and my heart sent me ihere to sympathise with him. Cross examination declined. Lieutenant James Francis Armstrong, U. S. N. sworn—l reside in this place ; know Singleton Mercer ; my acquaintance commenced on the Monday evening after he arrived here ; visited him frequently; • We: r- rr,, , or ft', Bret visit le. was very touch excited , meg • • ••"' r siiiim, laying down upon the bed, getting up and walking the room ; then seating himself, and immediately altering his pm snion again ; miscalled my name, epuke in a large .ay about eating; and upon one occasion broke WI in something he was • saying, seemed to have forgotten what he was talking about; said "excuse me, what I saying ?" his eye very quick, I had not known runt before ; have repeatedly visited him ; I went to offer him my sym pathy, I don't think that at first he had the perfect use of his reason, his appearance to me was that of a man recovering from some disorder of the mind, on subsequent visits his manner was changed. Cross examniation declined. Charles 1). Hineline, sworn—l reside in Camden at present, I know Singleton Mercer now ; did not before know him ; ' I saw him first at Cake's /Intel; I saw hint last Saturday, I went to Cake's on the evenine• ° I heard that a man had been shut; went to learn the Facts because I was the publisher of a paper and wished to have the facts correctly ; saw the person said to be Mr. Mercer • observed him closely ; wanted to see it knew him, he was laying upon the settee, a black man was sitting upon one end of the settee; I think 1 asked the black man what was the person's name ; / think he told me he did nut know his name and knew nothing about him; I looked at Singleton Mercer closely again to see if I knew him, / con cluded that 1 did not know him; his lace wag not familiar; his actions were very strange, was continually . jumping up and down; occasionally uttering imprecations, his lace seemed distorted, I was iu the room with him perhaps an hour, then went into the room where the corpse was, / re turned again to the room where the pris oner was, I had not got the information who the parties were, L again looked at hint very closely to see if I could recog nise him, his actions were very strange, his hair was dishevelled, his dress out of order and unfixed altogether, the features of his face seemed unnatural, one moment threw himself prostrate upon the settee and then rise, during my stay in the room he required water several times and drank copiously, he once got up quick and cried "come, boys, lets have something to ea , , 1 have not eaten for six weeks," thm he drank unusually large quantities of water, seine one observed audibly "there's no use of your acting so, you've got into the wrong place to act crazy," this was said loudly enough for him to hear, I watched him closely, he took no notice whatever of it, I remained sumo time, he was always drinking water, something indescribably unnatural about his whole appearance, es pecially about his face and eye, my quis ion was then that he was insane, crazy, mad, nut in his right mind, that opinion has been strengthened siuce. Cross examined—l am one of the pro prietors! and editors of the "American Ea g e" at Camden, I have stated all the facts I perceived, his actions were those of one insane or one preLending to be insane, I believed him really ansane. James Graham, affirmed—f was called upon as an officer to take charge of Sin., gieton Mercer, I took him in charge, took him to Gray's office, Mr. Gray not in, while we stood in die porch of Mr. G's office he asked me where my fiddle was, "I want to dance," I told him we had no fiddlers there, a gentleman stepped up who said his name was Vandyke, he said he'd take charge of the man, he said he was aware of all the circumstances, knew both young men; said he was a member of the bar; I - told him he had no jurisdiction; that I would take charge of the prisoner; Mr. Mercer asked ate for a drink of wa ter; we went into die bar room, and he drank two or three glasses of water; I told one of my friends to take charge of the prisoner, and I would go out and see where Mr. Vandyke was, I went out ; he was nut at the carriage; a black tan was, ' they said Mr. Vandyke was tu tin) room where the body was ; I told him, the black mu, he must not go away ; he said lie wanted to take care of the goods which were in the carriage; I asked him what they were; lie said the gentleman's ti unk a gun, and a rifle; I took out the ..-;,,,A1s mentioned, I went back and found the crowd so thick that I took Mr. M. from the bar-loom to a back room, then I went ii,to the room where the corpse was, has lug left Mr. M. in charge of another offi. cer, Mr. Vandyke woo in the room with Cie body ; the people advised the arrest of ''. , u tyke, advised mu to search him, I sta. • ttd to him that I was under the necessity of doing so, lie said I have no weapons but riosel stave taken from the busy of the in•eeased. he gave me a !side and a pistol, ( oduced,) ireturned to Mr. Mercer, he t ' as - sitting on a chair, I searched Mr. i: ei cer, I found a knife on him, he hal leas ed out "Ruche, Rache, Ruche, bring Me some water," I asked him to go in the 1 iriwn Where the iaquest was being held, frig said nothing, but walked in, them he ~.1.:•,i -re.„-•.hih- he, remained dices twenty , miesiamok4. totit . y r ‘........ 5 ni e , he back (06111; we were thnelfitiiiitilk, (OA returned to the room where we had been before, he asked- me if I knew Zebedee \Vas, told Win 1 did, I remained with Mr. M. all night, it was between 12 and 1 o'clock, /think, lie wanted something to eat, said he had not eaten liar 36 hours, Mr. Vandyke asked me to•get him some ! thing to eat, I said 1 could'nt, as the lam ' ily were all pone to bed, Mr. Vandyke said it is your duty to give him food, the officers in Philadelphia do, I told lion I had no more right to go over that house' than a stranger had, I put leg irons on Mr. Mercer from the way Mr. Vandyke talked, if he had left the roam nothing of the kind would have been done, Mr. M. remained upon the chair, lie asked for a segar, said somebody had stolen his se gars, I said they are not stolen, I look them when I searched you, he smoked a segur which was given him, and laid down, he went asleep, slept four or five hours, I ! brought[ him down to jail, I can't say whether lie was sane or insane, he acted very strange, he had not his right mind. Cross examined•-/ told Mr. Vandyke he was out of his jurisdiction, there was a knife on Mr. Mercer's person [produced,] nothing else, un Mr. flebertuo's person were the arms I have produced, Zebedee %Veils is a Quaker gentleman who lives up On Evesham I believe, he was net there that evening, the Mayor of Camden told me to arrest Mr. Vandyke, there was ex citement, I did not hardly know who to arrest, I did not arrest Mr. Vandyke, he went in and out at pleasure, but he was well watched, by Mr. Singleton Mercer not being in his "right mine" I don't mean that he was insane, he did nut act like a man in his right mind. Defence resented— I am acquainted with Evesham township, don't know a man of the name of Wright there. Malachi K nisei!, sworn—l live in Woodbury, 1 know Henry S. Bender who was examined in this case, have heard hint make expressions in relation to the ease in my bar room, it was just after court • adjourned, I forget the day, he observed "there was a bunch of hemp growing in Kentucky to hang Mercer with," I said I did net think he would be hanged, /hoped lie woold'ot be, and he said ir they didn't hang him they shouldn't hang any body, he said it publicly. [Bender endeavors to speak—silenced.] Cross examined de , •lined. . • Richard F. Loper; swern--Singleton Mercer has been known to me frog► his youth up; he in my cousin by marriage; I saw him on NVednesday evenin% the Bth; saw him at his parents' house; I was sent fur by his parents ; I think I uri 'yeti at the house about half past 6 or 7 o'clock; not later than T ; I went into the front parlor ; found Singleton Mercer by the file ; his mother asked me to try and prevail upon that enured tiv evening; eoadubliootoltu: look lie t hint ro wild to stay at the house; I took a chair e and set down witl ro i rose would toi minutes i n s o a e t g e ft o t e , and around the roots ; I told hint to set down and be composed; that he must not go out; he said he must go out; I told him he must not; said he wanted to step into the entry ; lie went into the entry and I followed him ; picked his hat oliol the ta ble; advanced towards the dour; I put myself before him and my hand upon his shoulder; he again said he would go out; I told him he should not; when I laid my hand on his shoulder he trembled all over like a leaf; his eyes were very wild ; he had eve!) , appearance of a man deran ged ; I ant a • judge ; I told him that his poor mother was very unwell ; that. she had inure trouble now than she was able to bear; that if he did not or himself I feared she would die; or that the trouble of the family would kill her ; he said if father, mother, and every friend lie had in the world lay dead at his feet he would go out of that dour ; that he had ruined his family and e mild see him, I knew who he meant, but I give his words; there were several gentlemen present at the time, one of them had hold of him too; each of us had a hand on his shoulder; they told me they had been with himln the afternoon; I then told hits he might go out; I put him under the care of two of his friends, alter being positively assured by them that he was not armed, and that no one furnished him with deadly weapons, and they would see him safe back to his parent* again— they agreed to stay with him all night after they returned ; on Thursday night soon, atter the clock struck 11, my bell was rung, the door was opened, Mr. Singleton Mercer inquired for me ; 1 did not see him but I knew his voice ; I was her! and I sent word to him I would see him in the morning, I heard him tell the driver to drive on; the driver asked him where he should drive to, ire on," he said ;on Friday morning about 7 o'clock I saw Mr. Mercer at Walnut Street House; I walked up to the store; Mr. M. came in the door on Walnut street went up to the bar, drank two turahlerrof guoci , morning, Singleton ; he looked at me with a vacant stare, said nothing, wheeled on door to see S, trio; I went to t h,„ not see him, he had disappeared ; on Fri day morning ten minutes berm. 8, near the time of the dams starting, I was at the Baltimore depot, I tth and Market; I was standing by the cars ready to jump in, at the entrance of the car house I saw Mr. Mercer coming towards me, I extended my hand ; never offered to take my baud ; said I are you going to Baltimore, he said yes, walked clear to the end of the car house, where its side brodght him up ; he didn't go with us, I returned in the same train in the afternoon; about half past 5 or a little later on Friday after, I was con rersibg with Mr. Stereos, my friend, when the prisoner passed on the other side ' of the way; we wets, standing 111 front of Mr. Cope'a buildings at IValout street what f, it was very cold and disagreeable; I went into the Walnut street house, I was standing by the stove, Mr. Mercer came to by the door on the wharf, walked up to the bar, took one or more glasses of water, passed directly by me again, went into a room culled the oyster town, in a • initiate, I don't think longer, I lollowed him, I went in to see where he was, I thought I'd take care of him, fur he cer tainly was not himself, he was gone, his movements were very rapid in every hi ' stance whenever I saw him ; it was later than half past 4 on the Friday I last saw him, the next morning I went over to Mr. Cake's tavern to see Mr. Mercer, I found him in a room chained, I spoke to him and shook hands with him, which I aheays did when I saw hint except on those occa , sions when he was mad; asked hint where his counsel was, he didn't know ; I learn ed from a gentlemen the counsel was in the room with the deceased Mr. Heberton. the would not let me its the room unless I was a friend of Mr. Heberton, Mr. Van dyke very politely showed me Mm'. Mer• eer's counsel; I spoke to Mr. Mercer, told him, putting my hand on his shoulder, to try and calm himself, he was trembling all over, very nervous, I bid him good bye, and he jumped up chained-as he was, and said I'll go over with you, go with you, and looked' very wild—a gentleman ordered him to sit down, that was the last I saw of him until last Monday here I hare been over a huadred days with an insane man; in a passage I think of 1527 days; at neither of the Interviews with him hurl he the use of a sound, good reason, again I say I um a judge, he was insane, a m . ads man, did nut know what he dim i ng, there was an immense excitement in Phil adelphia on this subject. Cross examined—l have given all the facts upon which toy upioion is based— Mr. Mercer would not have any conver• sation with me, he shunned me, never told me he would shout Mr. Ilebarton, uever named hits to me, ccitnnly beltevtd co DI/110LE No. 378. Wednesday that he was insane, I presu - - I surd that he was guarded or / should have taken charge of him, they had promikd not tO leave him until he got right in Isla mind—one of the young men that went out with 111111 on Wednesday evening was Mr. Kelly, dun s % know the other, dOn't know Mr. Kelly's first hame, he in an ar chitect, have nut seen him in court, not the Mr. Kelly who has been examined its this case, be was in company with others also on Friday mcrning at the Walnut street House, I don't know the young man who was with him, they went out tugethet I believe, ant nut positive, at the car house he was wills two gentlemen, don't know them, on Friday afternoon not one ap• peared to belwith him, that was the 'reason why I started so quick, I wanted to stop him and take him home, I have seen pro bably twenty insane persons in my day; been a board a vessel with them. Mr. Thomas Meree;CnireJ but not sworn. Adjourned.. AFTERNOON SESSION. Mr. Brown unexpectedly announced that the prisoner rested his defence. 111 r. Carpenter called, and he and M. Moilison examined. Henry S. Bender-1 was in court this morning,/ heard Mr. Knisell's testimony, I was in Mr. Knisell's bar room, some one asked me my opinion of the case, I said, jokingly, nut maliciously, that ./ thought " there was a stuck of hemp growing in Kentucky to hang Mr. Mercer," I was on hoard the boat, lid not see Mr. Vandyke examine Mr. Hebei ton's body. Cross examination declined. Isaac S. Mulford, M71)::::l saw Mr. Mercer in Camden on the evening oldie 10th of February, I saw him (weir'. twice fur a short time during the evening, and again in the morning, he was mostly sit; tingquietly so far as I observed him, ap peared sunie%vliat agitated, yet 1 observed nothing that appeared to be very extraor dinary, I can only say he appeared pale, with rather an anxious and agitated ex preesion orcountenance, as was natural t s w e i l ce d . under the circumstances, I believe I was id he not w s a e s e l i t i i i in t o h i outer r i on n n u! ,r i room ~ui,po 'either occasion worn than flue sninutes, It was a sufficient space to enable sac to ob serve his appearance, manner, and bear rine,.l, did observe them, l saw his face . eye, 1 satsv - ie) , — , ............ ,, ,,_ A A ‘ ,..,..,a ~,vsk, aiuut his eye particularly noticeable, raz nut know that there is any definition or doctrine of insanity which is universal, I believe in all cases of insanity there iS some disorder dam body, as regards that mysterious essence which we call the mind, or the power of thinking, how or I whether it may be affected independently of the body, 1 say nothing, I know nothing of mine except as it manifests itself limo the organs of the body, that is all I feel at liherty to say as a medical man, I know nothing beside revelation; there may be such a thing as moral insanity, manifested through the bodily organs, there may be passionate excitement without actual in , sanity, doubtless; au individual, I con ceive, may for a while give way to the influence of deep passion, I have nu doubt that may be the case without his becoming positively insane; doubtless the intellec tual faculties may be highly excited with out producing insanity, flushed cottOle mince, restlessness of manner, wildness of the eye, incoherent conversation, and constipation, are among the manifesta tionsuf insanity, these usually exist hi raves of insanity, 1 do nut say that they du certainly indicate it, they certainly would not alone be sufficient to enable us to pronounce a person insane, I should have doubt as to a person's health of mind Or bully under such circumstances, if I found a person with a flushed face, wild eye, excited circulation, with constipation, I should infer that something laud oecur• red to affect the perfect, usual, ordinary state of health, these circumstances alone would nut lead me to conclude a person insane, I should think a patient affected with these symptoms mentally disturbed, the kind or degree would be difficult to say, they often occur in lever, they often occur without the must remote MlOlll6Oll of insanity, I saw no inanifestitionS of in sanity in the prisoner on the evening of his art est, 1 saw him the next !tanning, at least fifteen minutes, had an opportunity to observe hint, 1 saw then no indications of insanity, nothing particular ly in the ex i iressiun ut his eye, an unusual expression of the eye often accompanies mere excited paseious, I heard a part of Charles D. liineline's teetiniony, I heard none of the testimony of Lieutenants Balton and Armstrong, I heard the greater pea of Mr. Loper's trstiniony, nut the whole of it, 1 do not know how long he had been uo the stand nor the first question a:Act] him after I entered the coin t, if my reculltc : lion serves pie ; !weever, it was at that part where Mei cer came to his house in the night, the circumstances winch have appeared in ev;dence, aud been by you • (Mr. Mo ll ison) detailed, would not aloe,' I i lead tee to co..clude a prisoarr cenfineJ
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