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TUESDATZy JUZilT 27 1847,
Vol. 5.-No. 37
THE ORPHAN'S LAMENT
cy A WOOD NYMTII.
Alas 1 friendless and alone,
. Life's stormy path I tread;"
My. hopes of other days are gone,
JVIy friends are with the dead!
lcncs bad home and kindred dear, .
.. .But now, alas! they're gone;
And never more shall greet me here,.
Affection's kind, sweet tone !
Not one cheering voice imparts
A comfort to my mind;
For there beats no kindred heart -
la unison with mine. - . - .
Why am I doomed to misery,'' -
When pleasure once was mine?
Ah ! happiness, why didst thou flee.
And leave me to repine?. - '
Oh ! happy, joyous days of bliss, ?: .
Will ye no more return "
To give this aching bosom peace ? ' :
Are ye forever gone ? .; - :
Gone, alas ! forever gone, " . 1 ;
Are those joyous hours! ' '
Faded, like rays of the setting sun,
Or summer's fairest flowers!
Through the dark vale of future years,
No gleam of hope I see;
No star amid the gloom appears,
To light my destiny !
Letter from Jack Downing.
Doicningviite, aicay iloicn East, W
in the Side of JMaine, July G, '47.
Mr. Gales fc Seaton: My 'Dear Old
-Friends:' My letter to you on board the
steamboat on Long Island Sound was cut
oft so short by the bell's ringing for us to
get ready to go ashore, that I didn't get
half through telling you the talk I had
with the President ihat day; and we've
had so much talk since, and seen so much
on the journey, that I shant be able to tell
you one-half nor a quarter on't in a letter.
It would take a whole book to give you a
good notion of the whole story. Bat the
President will be back to Washington be
fore you can get this letter, for he started
to go back last Saturday; so you can get
"the whole account of the -journey from
him. He'll be delighted to set down and
tell you all about it; for he's been amaz
ingly pleased with the whole journey,
from top to bottom, He's been on his
high-hecl'd boots all the way. Instead
of growin' more stoopin' by bowing so
much; it seems as if he stood straighter
than ever. He told the Governor, in his
speech at Augusta, Saturday, "It seldom
happens that the course of man's life is
mark'd by so distinguished a reception as
lias been accorded to me to-day." Well,
so it has been all the way along; hurrah
ing, and complimenting, and , firing, and
speeches, and dinners, and suppers, and
shaking hands. On board the steamboat
from Portland to 'Augusta we got a little
breathing time, and had a good long talk. ;
Says the President to me : Now, Ma
jor, says he, I want you to be candid.
No one is - a true friend to one in a high
station unless he will be candid and speak
the truth. And now, Major, I dont want
you to flatter me; I want you to be can
did, and tell me jest what ' yon. think.
You was along with Prcs't Jackson when
lie made his lower down East, and had a
"chance to-see the whole operation: and
now I want you to tell me candidly, if
you think the people was any more fond
of him than they are of me.' - - -
Well, now Colonel, says I, not wish
ing to hurt your feelins at all but, seein
-you've asked my candid opinion, I wont
'deny but what the people are very fond
of you, amazingly fond, perhaps as fond
'as they can be. . But, after all, these times
sint exactly equal to old Hickory's times.
But what do ycu mean? says he. ;
Well,' says I, the people all seem to be
-nmazin fond, but some how it seems to
have a sort of mother-in-law show a
bout it; it dont seem to be so real hearty
as they showed to old Hickory: r
'"' Weil now,' Major, -says he, and he red
dened a little when he said this; says he,
x that only. shows how strong your prejudi
; ces set in favor of the oIcTGincral. But
I thought you were a man of "a stronger
mind and sounder judgment. I cant a
gree with you against the eviden of my
.own senses. Did you notice all the wav
along how thick the crowds fiock'd round
,me to shake hands Avith me ? . .,.
- Yes, says I; but they didn't go it with
. such a "'rushas they ; did when my old
: friend the Gincral come this way, Thev
jammed around him so they had to climb
over each other's heads to get at him.
And I had to take hold sometimes by the
hoar together and help him shake hands
with 'era, or he never would have got
through with one-half of 'em. '. ---
Well then, says he, did you mind how
loud they cheered and hurrahed wherever
we com o along ? , . . ;J '.
Ycp. Colonel, says I, I heard 7 all that;
but, my gracious wherever old Hickory
made his appearance,' the crowd roared
right out like thunder; - - -;
ell, Major, says he, they couldn't
l ..i lu' .l.l- t - ... j
ucai mem triicers uim me iveioocraus anu
Capt. Ryndersgive me at Tammany Hall,
I know; thunder itself couldn t beat that.'
It's 110 use. Major, for- VOU to arme the
pint; no President ever received such
J ' J O
marks of honor from the people before, I
am sure of that; I mean the whole peo
ple, Federalists as weil'as Democrats; that
is, if there is any such -people as Feder
alists, now days, and Mr. Richie says
there is. Only ; think, the eld Federal
State of Massachusetts did the business
up as handsome and seemed as fond of
me as Governor Hill's State;' I couldn't
see any difference You must confess,
Major, that even your old friend Hickory
didn't receive so much honor in 'Massa
chusetts as I have. -' - ' '' - '- .'
- Weil now, says I, Colonel, I dont want
to hurt your ;ieelins, but you are jest as
much mistaken as you was when "you
sent old Rough and Resdy into Mexico.
Have you forgot how they took the old
Gineral into Cambridge College and made
a Doctor of him ?
- Who cares for that 1 savs the Colouel;
s iys he, turning up his nose. Didn't the
Democrats and Captain Rynders take me
into Tammany Hall and make a Tamma
ny, of me? No, no, Major Downing,
it's no use for you to argue the pint a
gainst my popularity; for I've got eyes
and can sec; and I tell you, and I want
you to mark my words, I tell you, I'm
more popular with the whole people than
ever old Hickory was in his life." He
was very popular with the Democratic
party, but I am fully persuaded he hadn't
such a hold upon the affections of the
whole people as I have. -
Here the President got up and walked
about the floor, and seemed in a deep stu
dy for as much as five minutes. At last
says he: Major, I missed a"flgger in my
speech there at Balu'more 'toUier day. - I
see it now, and I don't know exactly how
to get over it. - -
How so? says I. '
Why, says he, I ought not to have said,
right up and down, pint blank, that I
should retire when this lorm was up. I
should only talked about my desire to re
tile to private life. I was too hasty, and
committed myself too soon. There ne
ver was a belter chance for any body to
be elected than there is for me now, if I
hadn't made that unfortunate remark.
Jackion stood twice, and Jefferson stood
twice, and I suppose it is really my duty
t ) serve my country as long as they did.
But if I should undertake to run agin, I
spose they would be throwing the Balti
more speech in my teeth.
Well now, sez I, Colonel, can't you
see your way out of that? You wasn't
born down East so fur as I was. It's no
great of a job to get over that trouble.
At that the President brighted up a
good deal; and says he, Well, Major, I'll
tell you what 'tis, if you'll get me over
that difficulty handsomely, when we come
to have another shuffle for the offices, you
may choose any card in the pack, and
you shall have it. -
Well, says I, Colonel, about that re
mark of yourn at Baltimore, that you
should give up when this term is out, all
you've got to do is to get Mr. Richie to
take it back in the Union; let him declare
that it was only a sort of a speculation,
hastily throwa out, without much consid
eration, and that, so far as he understands,
neither the President nor any of his cabi
net entertains any such' views. Then
you can go along jest as smooth and safe
as if nothing had happened. " '
Fact, that's it, savs the ' Colonel, snap
ping his fingers; strange I didn't think of
that before. Major, you do beat all for
working out of difficulties ! I believe
I'll make up' my mind to go ahead ano
ther term; I don't see any thing in the
way. : I'll tell ye how I think of working
it. - I've been reading over this letter of
Taylor's to : the Cincinnati Signal. 'He'f
cri old head, but he ain't agoing to come
another Bon3 Vista blunder over me. If
I don't lake the wind out of his sails be
fore long, I'll engage to make him King
of Mexico. "And I'll try him on his
own tack too. -I'll come out and declare
that I won't be the candidate of no party
neither; and throw myself upon the pcor
pie. I'm convinced, from what I've seen
on this' journey , that the Whigs will go
for me almost to a. man. - Van Burert and
Wrirrfhf ivlirt c' In nnl thf nran for thft
N'nrThm nmmU. m m trt rrass. -I
go for the people," the whole people, and j telegraph finished in America, and m op
nothing but thepeople. - , : eration; and other SOOOtoiIcs are under
Well; says I, Colonel, that's the road; J contract, and i will be finished before twelve
and I wish you a nleasant and brosoerous month. ' . '
J - ., i 4.
jonrney. ' '"s ; "' - 'v' '.
We had some more Ualk about .the war
before we reached 'Augusta, bul l haven't
got any lime to explain to you the Presi
dent's views about it - in this letter, lie
nys he. means to keep a tight rein over
Taylor,' and not let him do much," and
when he does do any thing, make him re
port it to the Government through Scott.
I asked him if he wasn't afraid of mak
ing too tall a man out of Scott by placing
him on - Taylor's shoulders, and he said
no, he should look out for that, and if he
see anv dansrer of it he should mnt
Scott Teport to the, Government through
Mr,-Trjst,- - . .
After we visited Augusta, and Hallo-'
j well, and Gardiner, I tried to get the Pre-
sident to co out to Downinffville, but he
1 -t i .i ...i-i. it . r.
. g aiU lie Ulun, I UiinK. II WOUJU ao lor linn
? to stop any longer this time, though there
was no place in the country. that he was
mora anxious tn spp" and ho nromised.
f T
I the first leisure time he could get, tt make
a flying: visit there. ,1 asked him if he
didn't think it would do for me to go out
and stop a day or two, as I hadn't seen
uncle' Joshua or Aunt Keziah or any of
'em for a long time. ; He said, certainly,
by all. means, and he would .hurry back
to Washington and look -round two or
Xtffi
which, according to the letter I brought
on from Gineral Scott, seemed to beget
ting into something of a snarl. He said
he would have things all cut and dried by
the time I got back along to - Washington,
so that we could make up our minds at
once what is best to be done. , ; . -'.
Your old friend, ' .
MAJ. JACK DOWNING. ;
ir ' ; SILAS DINSMORE. ' . - ?
.We see it announced in the journals of
the day that Col. Silas Dinsmore, who in
years past figured in the political world,
died at Bellcview, Ky.i on the I7th of"
June. During the administration of Mr.
Munroe, Col. Dinsmore. held for . some
time the office of Collector of Mobile.
The following laconic correspondence be
tween the then Secretary of the -Treasury
and the Colonel, will show how he
was "rotated." , .. .- : , . '.. ,,
: Treasury Deoartment, ) -.
Washington, Jan. 15, 1822. J ?
Sir : This department is desirous of
knowiug how far the Tombigbee river
runs up. You will please communicate
the information. Respectfully, T
..' r. H- CRAWFORD.
S. Dinsmore, Esq., Collector, Mobile.
Mobile, February .7, 1822. -
Sir : I have , the honor to acknowl
edge the receipt of your letter of the loth
nit., and of informing you, in reply that
the Tombigbee does not Rrs rr at all.'
Very respectfully,
i . i S. DINSMORE.
Hon. W. H. Crawford, Sec'v Treas.
Treasury Department, ) .
Washington, March 1, 1822. '.
Sir : I have the honor to inform vou
that thi3 department has; no further ser
vice for you as Collector of Mobile. -1.
. Respectfullv, -jr'- - . ':.
- W. II. CRAWFORD.
S. Dinsmore, Esq., Mobile. .... -; -i . .. ;
. Hail Storm. A llentown, and vicinity,
was visited by a . destructive hail storm
on Tuesday week. The hail fell for about
thirty minutes in great profusion. Some
of the stones measured one inch in diam
eter. Grain of all kinds was totally pro
tested, and : some fields, ; completely
thrashed. - Many orchards suffered se
verely. Window glass was harshly dealt
with, and it is supposed same 300 were
broken in the neighborhood. ; One man
alone had 180broken. Trees were up
rooted by the storm, and in several ' in
stances houses were unroofed The to
tal damage sustained in the neighborhood
is, said to have been immense. IS. S.
Journal. -., ! - - t-
-r The following toast was drank atSum
terville, S. C. on the4tli of July : : I
General ' Taylor "Old 'Rough and
Ready." "We'll done thou good and
faithful servant ! We once put thee over
a few things we will now make thee
llulcr over many." '' ! ' - '"
- At the late commencement at Dickinson
College, Carlisle, the degree of L L. D.
was conferred upon Major Henry Brew
erton, Superinlendant of the United States
Military Academy, West' Point ; and up
on the Hon. Reverdy Johnson, of Baltt
mcr3,Md. '. ' -'J - :
- The Ne w York Express has received
an unofficial statement of ? Uncle Sam's
Cash account," by which it is made to
appear, and pretty clearly too, that the de
ficiency, to be obtained by loans in 1818,
will amount to about $49,000,000 onlyl
- There are over 1500 miles, of electric
The tent: under which. the Chicago
Convention is holding its session, is capa
ble of accommodating 20,000 persons.
Ten thousand assembled under ir at the
commencement. : ' ::' ''v
; . 1 , . i. I'--
Col Doniphan says that his famous
Missouri boys have one more R than Gen.
Taylor hiraself-they are Rough, Ragged
and Ready. : - ; :--' - ;
, -' The Upper Marlboro' Gazette states
that nearly $1000 has been collected in
' that vicinity for the relief of the p or of
Prince Georg'i county r-I
LOVE POETRY.
The following passionate lines are from
! .i. r : " - ;
I Avmc-Kciuwciwcr;.
Were I court plaster, I would be
A patch upon her lip; -'
To spend a life of ecstacy, "
v And sip, and sip, and sip !
Were' I a pair of spectacles,
How dearly I would prize
A situation on her nose,
To look her in the eves J .
River and Harbor Convention;
- Chicago, July 5, 1847. '
" The convention assembled at 12 o'clock
under - a specious . awning in a public
square. . t - , . :
The following gentlemen were ap
pointed officers: ; ' . ; A 1 i-
PRESIDENT.'
EDWARD BATES, of Missouri.
VICE PRESIDENTS.
John IL Brock way, , Ct.t John G.
Camp, Florida, T. B. King, Georgia, E.
W H. Ellis, . Indiana, W. Woodbridge,
Michigan, E. Carnins, New York, L.
. Kirkpatrick, N. J. Gov. Bebb, Ohio, A.
W. Jioomis, Pennsylvania, Mr. Hopping,
ISew Jersey, J. II. Tweedy, Wisconsin,
A. W. Watkins, Missouri, Judge Wil
liams, Iowa, Chas. Hempstead, Illinois,
M, A. Chandler, Maine, W. P. Eustisi
Mass. .. : .- .'.
; r SECRETARIES. .
. . Schuyler Colfax, Indiana, N, E. Ed
wards, Illinois, F. W. Fenno, N. Y.f AJ
B. Chambers, Missouri, Aaron Hobart,
Massachusetts, David A. Noble, Michi
gan, Peter McMartin, N. J., N. W. Otis,
Ohio, Fred. S. Lovell, Wisconsin, II. W.
Starr, Iowa..- . ... ; ; ; '
After, the report of the committee, had
been readMr. Chas. King of New Jer
sey, from the committee, moved that the
report be amended by substituting the
name of Thomas Corwi.v instead of that
of Edward Bates, ps President of the
Convention. .. -
Mr Corwin immediately rose and pe
remptorily declined to serve, even if cho
sen, under such circumstances.
:c The report of the committee was unan
imously accepted. . r- - . -
Mr. Bates, in taking tlie chair, made
an able and impressive exposition of the
objects and duties ot the Convention. .
Mr Schenck, of Ohio, from the same
committee, reported sundry resolutions in
relation to the forms of proceeding, which
elicited a long debate. . . .. .. '
- Upoa a resolution for. the appointment
of a committee to prepare an Address . a
constitutional debate sprung up, in which
Mr. Field, of New York ; Mr. Schenck,
of Ohio ; Mr. Strixghan, of Buffalo ;
Judge Thomas and Senator Jcdd, of Illi
nois ; and Mr. Hone, of New York, par
ticipated. The resolution was laid on
the table. 4. -
- -5; - - TlTESDAT, JcLT 6,-1847.- ;
'The Convention met at 9 o'clock A.
M; Prayer by the llev. Mr. Allen.
The President announced the arrival
of Delegations frsni the. States of Ken
tucky and Rhode Island" - '
The President then announced the
appointment of the following Committee
on Resolution : " ' -
Ohio John C. Wright, J. W. Gray,
Massachusetts Geo. A. Kuhn, Artemas
liee, Michigan WmV Woodbridge, Cal
vin Britton,: Indiana Daniel Mace, An
drew Osborn, New York Tohn C.Spcn
cer, Alvin BrooaMIssouri-J. D. Cook,
Fletcher M. Haight, Pennsylvania T.
J." Bridgham, J. C. Marshall, Illinois
Jesse B. Thomas, David J.' Baker, Wis
consin N. P. Tallmadge, J. D. Kins
man, Connecticut NV O. Kellogg, Joel
W. White, Maine M. A. Chandler, F.
P. Stockbridge,4 Florida John C. Camp,
Georgia T. Butler King, W. B. Hodg
son, Iowa S. G. Williams, N. L. Stout,
Kentucky-H. J. Blackburn, T. II. Craw
ford, Rhode Island Edward Seagrave,
II. Hopping, New Jersey- R. L Colt,
Charles King ' ' " ': : ' ' . '' J
The following report was. read by the
committee and adopted by the Conven
tion. -. ' ; ' " :: " : .
DEC LAR ATlpN OF SE NTDIEN'I'S.
'The Convention submit to their fellow
citizens and to the Federal Government
the following propositions, as expressing
their own sentiments and those of their
constituents : ... : :
1; That the Constitution of the Uni
ted States , was formed by practical men
for practical purposes, declared in its pre
amble ii uio provide for the common de
fence, to promote the general welfare, and
to secure the blessings of liberty ;" and
was mainly designed to create a Govern
ment whose functions, should and would
be adequate to the protection of the com
mon interests of the States, or of two or
more of them, which could be maintained
by the action of the separated Stales.
That in strict accordance with this object
(he revenues derived from commerce were
surrendered to. the General Government,
with the express . understanding Uut they
should be applied to the : promotion of
i those common interests.
2. That among the'eommon interests
and objects were-lst. Foreign commerce,
to the regulation of which the powers of
the States severally were confessedly in
adequate; and 2d. Internal trade and
navigation, wherever the concurrence of
two or more States was necessary to its
preservationor where the expense of its
maintenance should be equitably borne by
two or more States, and where of course
those States must necessarily have a voice
tn it3 regulation ; and hence resulted the
constitutional grant of power to Congress,
"to regulate commerce with foreign na
tions and among the States." .
3. That being thus possessed both of
the .means and of the power which were
denied to the States respectively, Congress
became obligated by every consideration
of good faith and common justice, to cher
ish and increase both the kinds of com
merce thus committed to its care, by ex
panding and extending the means of con
ducting them, and of affording them all
those facilities and all that protection
which the States individually would have
afforded, had the revenue and the authori
ty been left to them.
4. That this obligation has ever been
recognized from the foundation of the
Government, and has been fulfi.led par
tially by erecting lighthouses, building
piers for harbors, breakwaters, and sea
walls, removing obstructions in rivers,
and providing other facilities for the com
merce carried on from the ports ot the At
lantic coast ; and the same obligations have
been fulfilled to a much less extent in pro
viding similar facilities for a "commerce
among the States," and the principle has
been most emphatically acknowledged to
embrace the Western lakes and . rivers,
by appropriations for numerous light
houses upon them, which appropriations
have never been questioned in Congress
as wanting constitutional'authorifv.
5. That thus, by a series" of acts
which have received the sanction of the
people of the United States, and of every
Department of the Federal Government,
under all Administrations, the common
understanding of the intent and objects of
the framers of the constitution, in grant
ing, to Congress the power to regulate
commerce, has been manifested, and has
been confirmed by the people, and this
understanding has become as much a part
of that instrument as any one of its most
explicit provisions. .
6. That the power to Vregulate com
merce with foreign nations, and among
the States, and with the Indian tribes," is
on its face so palpably in it3 whole extent
to ea.-h of the subjects enumerated, equal
ly and in the same nianner, as to render
any attempts to make it more explicit idle
and futile , and that those who admit the
rightful application of the power to for
eign commerce, by facilitating and pro
tecting its operations, by improving har
bors and clearing out navagable rivers,
cannot consistently deny that -it equally
authorizes similar facilities to "commerce
among the Srates," .. - ;
,7. ..That "foreign commerce" is de
pendent upon internal trade for the distri
bution of its freights, and for the means
of paying for them, so that whatever im
proves . the one advances the other, and
they arc so inseparable that they should
bo regarded as one ; that an export from
the. American shore to a British port in
Canada, is as much foreign commerce as
if it had been directly to Liverpool, and
that an exportation to Liverpool neither
gains nor loses any of the characteristics
.of foreign commerce by the directness or
circuity of the route ; whether it passes
through a custom-house on the British
side of . the St., Lawrence, or descends
through that river and its connecting ca
nals to - the ocean, or . w hether it passes
along the artificial communications and
natural streams of any of-the States to the
Atlantic. ... .- .
: 8; Thatthc General Government, by
extending its jurisdiction over lakes and
navigable rivers, subjecting them to the
same laws which prevail on the ocean,
and .on its bays and ports, not only for
purposes of revenue, but to give security
to life and property; hy the regulations
of steamboats, lias precluded itself from
denying that jurisdiction for any other le
gitimate regulation of commerce. If it
has power to control and restrain, it must
have the same power to protect, assist,
and facilitate ; and, if it denies the juris
diction in the one mode of action, it should
renounce it in the other. -:- - - - -9.
That in consequence of the pecu
liar dangers of the navigation of the lakes,
arising from the want of harbors for shel
ter, and of the Western rivers from snags
and other obstructions, there are no parts
of the United States more emphatically
demanding the prompt and continued care
I of the Government to diminish those dan- j
gers,ahdlo protect the property and life
j exposed to them ; and that any one who
can regard provisions for those purposes
as sectional, local, and not national, must
be wanting in information of the extent
of the commerce carried on upon those
lakes and rivers, and of the amount of
teeming population occupied or interested
in that navigation.
10, That, having tegard to therela-
Itive population cr to the etfter.t of com
merce, the appropriations heretofore mad
for the interior rivers and lakes andtha
streams connecting them with the ocean,
have not been in a just and fair propor
tion to those made for the benefit of the
Atlantic coast ; and that the time has ar
rived when this injustice should be cor
rected in the only mode in which it can ba
done by the united, determined, and per
severing efforts of those whose righu
have been overlooked.
11. That, independant of tht right ts
protection of "Commerce . among tho
States," the right of "common defence"
guarantied by the constitution entitles
those citizens inhabiung the country bor
dering upon the interior lakes and rivers
to such safe and convenient harbors as
will afford shelter to a navy, whenever it
shall be rendered necessary by hostilities
with our neighbors, and that theonstruc
tion of such harbors cannot safely be de
layed to the time which will demand
their immediate use.
; 12. That the argument most common
ly urged against appropriations to protect
"Commerce among the States,"-and to
defend the inhabitants of the frontiers, thai
they invite sectional combination to en
sure success to many unworthy objects
is founded on a practical distrust of tha
republican principles of our Government,
and of the capacity of the people to select
competent and honest representatives.
That it may be urged with equal force a
gainst legislation upon any other subject,
involving various and extensive interests.
That a just appreciation of the rights and
interests of our fellow-citizens, in every
quarter of the Union, 'disclaiming eelfish
and local purposes will lead intelligent
representatives to such a distribution of
the means in the Treasury, upon a sys
tem of moderation and ultimate equality,
as will in time meet the most urgent
wants of all, and prevent those jealousies
and suspicions which threaten the mot
serious danger to our Confederacy.
- 13. That we are utterly incapable of
perceiving the difference between a har
bor for shelter and a harbor for commerce,
and suppose that a mole or pier, which
afford safe anchorage and protection to a
vessel against a storm, must necessarily
improve such harbor, and adapt it to com
mercial purposes.
14. That the imposts on foreign goods
and the public lands being the common
heritage fall our citizens, so long as
these resources continue, the imposition
of any special burden on any portion of
the people to obtain the means of accom
plishing objects equally within the duty
and the competency of the General Gov
ernment, would be unjust and oppressive.
15. That we disavow all and every
attempt to connect the cause of internal
trade and "Commerce among the States"
with the fortunes of any political party ;
but that we mean to place the cause upon
such immutable principles of truth, jus
tice, and constitutional duty as shall com
mand the respect of all partie?, and tha
deference of all candidates for public fa
vor. THE PRESIDENT IN LOWELL.
The President was very handsomely
received in .Lowell. In consequence of
fatigue he was obliged to retire early, af
ter being introduced to many of the citi
zens, on Wednesday evening. On Thurs
day morning the Lowell girls were up
bright and early, and had their iooras in
motion, and every thing in order to re
ceive the President in the mills. About
half past five the President and suite were
taken through the most prominent estab
lishments, and had a fine opportunity to
witness the perfection to which manufac
turing has been carried by improved ma
chinery, united with Yankees skill and
enterprise. The exhibition was quita
imposing, and the President scrutinized
the various arrangements with much ap
parent interest. After taking an early
breakfeast, he proceeded on his journey
to Concord.
, iCTAnother murderous outrage occur
red in Schuylkill county last week. A
man by the name of Hcnlin, desirous of
trying his skill as a marksman, directed a
young man named Patrick Dormer, to put
up a mark for him to shoot at, threatening
in case of refusal, to shoot him. Dormer
did refuse, and Henlin true to his word,
fired and lodged some 29 sht in the baek
part of his neck 'and shoulders. Tha
wounds are serious though not likely to
prove fatal. Henlin has not yet besn ap
prehended. This outrage ccurred be
tween Hcckscherville and Coal Castle..
Schuylkill county has become famous of
late for scenes of violence and ruffianism,
U. 4 S. Journal.
George Mcndav. We are glad to see
that this hatless vagabond, who occasion
ally visits the interior ol the State and re
gales squads of lo ifers with his drunken
ravings, has been committed to prison by
Judgo Parser.?, for some months. A
mong various gojd things the Judge has
not done belter. George will have an
opportunity to te-t the effect of a cold wa
ter beverage n his oratorical powers.
B. & S. Joun al.
To Prevei t Fits. Buy your cIothb
at a slopshcp.
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