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COL - RT.—The attendance at Court this week
is large. A number of criminal cases will
be disposed of, a report of which we shall
publish next week.
LAMGE SNAPPERS.-JACKSON WHITE has in
his possession, two snapping -turtles, one
weighing twenty-two and the other eighteen
pounds.
REsoicm - ns.—Two hundred guns were fired
in Philadelphia, and one hundred in Reading,
in honor of the triumph of Judge DOUGLAS.
A. W. BENEDICT, Eso.—ln our enumera
tion of the candidates for the office of Chief
Clerk of the House of Representatives, in
our issue of last week, we accidentally over
looked our fellow-townsman, A. W. BENEDICT,
Esq. He has served in that capacity, and
made one of the best Clerks the House ever
had, and v►e hope, as, the selection must
come from the other side, that he may again
be successful. •
Wire's TO BLAME ?—Every night, for some
weeks past, the sweet repose of our peacea
ble citizens has been disturbed by the dis
graceful rowdyism of the b'hoys of the town.
Is it not the duty of the officers of the bor
ough to put a stop to such an annoyance ?
The time has not been when rowdyism had
more complete control of the character of our
town, than it has had for some time past. We
hope our borough fathers, Justices and Con
stables, will see that our laws are enforced.
PLAIN TALK.—The Warren Ledger, Dem
ocratic, says :—"lt is a great pity Governor
Packer had not appointed Judge enuncn in
the first instance, as he is a man who will
not grumble at the verdict of the people at
the polls. PORTER. has shown that he is unfit
for Supreme Judge. We voted for him for
that office, but we are sorry for it now, after
his great display of mulishness."
SINGING &nom- —We are gratified to learn
that we are to have a singing school in town
this winter, that it is already in operation,
and that the number of scholars is quite large.
We feel very much pleased at the spirit mani
fested, and hope that the scholars may derive
every benefit from it, they possibly can.—
Our borough ought to support two or three
schools of this kind, for, although we:have
some pretty good singers, yet there is room
for improvement. We delight in good sing
ing, and hope to have the pleasure of hearing
them perform to our entire satisfaction, be
fore the winter is over. We wish the school
all the success imaginable.
STEWARD OF VIE POOR liousE.—The Direc
tors of the Poor, met at the Poor House, on
Tuesday of last week, K. L. GREEN retiring,
and DA ID CLARRSON, the newly elected Di
rector, taking his place. The first business
of the Board was, the election of a Steward
and a Farmer, and we regret that the choice
of the Board promises any thing else than
the promised reform looked for by the tax
payers of the county. JOHN TnomrsoN, Esq.,
of Barree, was appointed to the Stewardship,
and W. P. Hamm, of Shirley, to the farming
department—the appointments to take effect
on the first of January next, when Wm.
GLASGOW, the present Steward, and
_Wm.
PIPER, farmer, will retire. We shall have
something more to say upon this subject at
another time.
Mau Lornto.—Doctors differ as to what
kind of food is best for the health of man--
but printers all agree that good living is not
injurious to their health, and when it costs
them nothing, they can have no objections to
feasting on the best.
Last week we received from Mr. DAVID
MILLER, eight eels, the two largest being
perfect monsters, almost sufficient to make a
feast for fifty able-bodied men.
On Monday evening last we were pressed
into an engagement at KENNEDY M. KING'S
Oyster Saloon, with the finest and freshest
shell-fish, we ever saw in these parts. Ills
room is handsomely fitted up, and we noticed
several ladies seated at a table, feasting upon
the luxuries. Hope be may have a full share
of good customers.
gErA Family in New Bedford, Mass.,
consisting of seven persons, were recently
poisoned by using dogwood for fuel. Dog
wood is generally known to be poisonous.
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The Late Elections
ILLINOIS.—The DOUGLAS Democracy have
triumphed in Illinois. DOUGLAS has carried
both Houses of the State Legislature by a
majority of four or five in each House. This
secures his re-election to the U. S. Senate for
six years more. There is also a probability
that the DOUGLAS Democracy have carried
their State officors. In 1856, the Democratic
party of this State was in a minority of some
twenty thousand on the Presidential vote,
adding the FRE3IONT and FILLMORE vote to
gether. Now, DouoLns, and Popular Sover
eignty honestly advocated, have carried the
State. The Administration Lecompton vote
is not over three thousand, out of a vote of
two hundred and forty thousand.
NE'W YORK.—The Albany Journal foots up
the vote on the State ticket, as follows :
MORGAN, Rep., 116,068
PARKER, Dem., 98,316
In the Assembly, parties stand : Republi
cans, 100, Democrats, 28. The Congressional
Delegation stands : Republicans, 2G, Demo
crats, 7.
MICIIIGAN.-It is certain, now, that the
Republicans have lost a member (How.ian)
in the First District—the latest reports giving
COOPER, Dem., 100 majority, The Republi
can State ticket is elected by a large majori
ty, as was anticipated.
WiscossiN.—The Republicans appear to
about hold their own in this State—nothing
more, nothing less ; but the returns, as yet,
are nothing like complete.
NEw JERSEY.—In Now Jersey, all the Le
compton candidates for Congress have been
defeated, and two anti-Lecompton Democrats,
Annuls and RIGGS., and the Opposition mem
bers, have been elected. The Legislature
has a large majority of Opposition members
on joint ballot.
MASSICIIIISETTS.—In Massachusetts the Re
publicans have carried their State ticket, all
the members of Congress and the Legisla
ture.
The State elections of the second of No
vember have confirmed the verdict delivered
by Pennsylvania on the twelfth of October.
There can be no dodging these results; and
as is truly remarked by the Pottsville Record
& Emporium, there can be no shifting of the
responsibility of the disasters which have at
tended the Democratic party every where.—
The storm of popular dissatisfaction is sweep
ing over the entire Union. Nowhere except
in glorious, staunch, Democratic Illinois, has
it been staved.
The results of the recent elections teach a
wonderful lesson. The election of Mr. Bu
chanan in 1856 was a triumph of conserva
tive principles. This good old Democratic
party, which has always been the very life
and stay and success of the nation, commit
ted to the keeping of Mr. Buchanan, and his
ministers, its good name, its honor and its
victory—and he and they have done such
things that in the short space of twenty
months, among the family of commonwealths
which he and they have been set to rule over,
there is not one to vindicate his actions—
" not one so poor as to do him reverence."—
The lesson taught by this political revulsion
is that the faith of the Democratic party—
its pledges and its men—cannot be sacrificed
and betrayed with impunity.
But without the success of Judge Douglas
in Illinois, the lesson would have been incom
plete. Since Illinois was admitted into the
Union of States her electoral vote has been
given to Democratic candidates for the presi
dency. In not one single instance has it been
otherwise. In 1840, in 1844, in 1848, in 1852,
in 1856, in 1858, over the same, ever true to
the Democratic party and its principles.—
When we look at all Judge Douglas has to
contend against in the contest through which
he has just come so gloriously triumphant, we
are amazed that be has succeeded in electing
so decided a majority of his friends to the
legislature. A singular spectacle was pre
sented in Illinois throughout the canvass.—
The extremes—Abolitionism and Lecompton:
ism—met, shock bands, and conspired to
overthrow conservatism. But Abolitionism
and Leeomptonism have been signally de
feated, and Democratic Illinois is Democratic
still.
This triumph of Douglas in the midst of
the political hurricane raised by Lecompton
ism teaches another lesson. It teaches that
where the principles of the Democratic party
are honestly maintained and brought before
the people in square opposition to the tenets
of the Republican sect, which is only another
name for Abolitionism, the public heart is
still in the right place.
Speaker of the Senate
As the Democrats will have a majority in
the Senate, next session, they will be able to
organize that body in accordance with their
own views and wishes. In this event, we
have no doubt that the choice of the Demo
cratic caucus for Speaker, will fall upon the
Hon. John Cresswell, of Blair county. Mr.
Cresswell is a gentleman of high character,
and is an experienced Parliamentarian. Ile
has served five years in the Senate, and is
familiar with all the duties of the Speaker
ship, as well as the general details of legis
lation. As he received the nomination at
the close of the last session anC, was elected
for the recess, be is entitled to the Speaker
ship nest winter; and we trust that this com
pliment will be paid to his worth and ability
without a dissenting voice in the caucus.—
Courteous in his manners, and prompt in the
discharge of all his Senatorial duties, we
feel satisfied that he will make an able and
efficient Speaker, and not only do himself
credit, but reflect honor upon the party
which will elevate him to the responsible po
sition of Speaker of the Senate of Pennsyl
vania.—Fork: Gazette.
The Triumph of Douglas.
There are some things so full of eloquence
and meaning, that it is vain to attempt to
heighten their effect by any elaborate refer
ence to them. The election of a majority of
the friends of Judge DOUGLAS to each of the
branches of the Illinois Legislature, is an
event of this kind. The contest from which
he has triumphantly emerged, has been
watched with intense interest by the Ameri
can people, and his success will be hailed
with more general and heartfelt joy than the
choice of any other United States Senator
since the formation of the Government. Can
did and intelligent men of all parties have
felt that be was right in the late contest—
right in opposing the enforcement of a Con
stitution upon a protesting people—right in
opposing the establishment of an odious dis
tinction between the ratio of population ne
cessary to secure the admission of free and
slave Territories into the-Union--right in his
resistance to Executive dictation—right in
his fidelity to the pledges of 1856—right in
his hostility to the ultra doctrines of Aboli
tionism ; yet feeling this, they beheld a pow
erful combination arrayed against him, a
strong opposition party led by skillful and
able leaders, working with untiring zeal to
compass his defeat, and assisted by all the
influence the Federal Government could
wield through the anthemas of its central
organ, the machinations of its officials, and
the money of the nation, and they trembled
for the result ! But the right has triumphed !
What a lesson for cowardly, craven-hearted,
treacherous politicians ! When will they
learn that there is a power behind the throne
greater than the throne itself, and that the
American people love bold, brave, true men,
and will sustain them, despite the persecu
tion of placemen and the blind antagonism
of desperate partizans? The election of
DOUGIaS is a proud vindication of the inde
pendence of the American Senate, and a
melancholy exhibition of the impotence of a
malignant Administration. The latter has
shown itself powerless to protect its friends
before the great tribunal of the people, and
as powerless to punish him whom it most
hated and feared. Its energies have been
spent in small deeds of proscription that
would disgrace the. meanest tyrants of the
earth ; and it is rapidly reaching that point
where it will be beneath scorn, and worthy
only of contempt.—The Press.
18,652
The Way to Make Money
" Whatever success I may have had in
business I owe mainly to continuous adver
tising, and I deem it good policy to advertise
long in the same papers. From a chisc.s ob
servation, I am fully convinced that it is im
possible to make much headway in any
branch of commerce, without the faculties
which the Press alone eau c.
JACOB RIDGEWAY. " •
Jacob Ridgeway was one of the successful
business men of Philadelphia, and accumula
ted millions of dollars by his industry and
sagacity. Ills experience entitles his opin
ions to respect, while his successes should
give his advice great weight. Every man
who has had many years' experience in the
busy world will confirm the statement of Mr.
Ridgeway, some of our business men seem
to forget these important lessons of experi
ence handed down from those whose manner
of conducting their affairs made their success
so eminent that their names are familiar in
all parts of the commercial world. By our
columns, those who read the Globe will learn
who among us are following out the liberal
policy of Mr. Ridgeway, and others who have
worked their way to success. It is useless
to look elsewhere to find who are our most
successful and most liberal business men.—
The columns of the newspapers answer that
question.
Tho New Mr* Express, in the course of
an article upon the subject, endeavors to ex
plain how a human being just upon the
verge of manhood, a very boy, indeed, could
have thus been transformed into a fiend;
and the editor assigns the following, among
the principal causes :
First, then,--it is clear, from the evidence,
that Frank (the suicide and parricide) WAS
IN THE HABIT OF STAYING OUT AT NIGHT
Second. firs FATHER WAS IN TUE HABIT
OF SUPPLYING HIM LIBERALLY WITH MONEY!
Third. His companions considered him
a "jolly good fellow," and rather "fast."
Fourth. He had a revengeful and mali
cious disposition.
Fifth. Ile had been on a " spree" on the
day of the tragedy.
We fear that there is much truth in the
foregoing. The young men of the present
day arc entirely too fast. The old-fashioned
notions of sobriety, economy, early hours,
and regular occupation are, in a measure,
ignored. Extravagance, moreover, is the be
setting sin of the times. The wonder is,
therefore, not that occasional scenes of riot,
of debauchery and crime, occur—but that so
many who are subjected to the fearful temp
tations of a great city, and are constantly
standing upon an abyss, do not lose their
foothold, and plunge into the darkness and
the depths of guilt, misery and suicide.
TRAGIC AFFAIR IN A COURT Room.—The
telegraph told us on Thursday, of a tragic
affair at Columbus, Indiana, which equals or
surpasses the most terrific denouement of a
melo-drama. A man named Mehrter, a
suitor in a court of justice, in a phrensy of
disappointment at an unfavorable verdict,
drew a pistol, and shot himself right in the
court-house, before the judge, bar, jury, and
spectators. The Democrat says that as soon
as the pistol flashed, he bounded into the
air, and fell stone dead or, the floor. Court
immediately adjourned, amid the wildest ex
citement.
The Gouldy Tragedy
Fatal Mistake---Two Babes Loat
On Saturday, about noon, a,heart-rending
misfortune happened in the family of Wm.
M. Gold, engineer at the Pearl Mills, residing
on Western Avenue, Allegheny. The wife
of Mr. Gold, is the mother of twins, not yet
two months old. For a. few days past, they
have been troubled with cholic, and the doc
tor prescribed a very common remedy—pare
goric. On Saturday, they were very restless,
and Mrs. Gold, previous to preparing dinner,
took the phial containing the paregoric, (as
she thought,) and gave each of the babes a
portion of the contents. The previous eve
ning she had administered to them five drops
each, which failed to quiet them, and she de
termined then to increase the dose, pouring
it into a teaspoon, without counting the
drops. She then placed the babes in the
crib, and paid no particular attention to
them for some time. Their- - unusal quietness
attracted her attention, and she observed a
langour and extreme drowsiness, which
greatly alarmed her. She fled for a neigh
bor woman, who immediately began to in
quire what she had given the children. The
mother replied that it was paregoric, and
upon turning to the phial, she was horrified
at finding the paregoric and laudanum phials
side by side. She then remembered that she
had placed the laudanum there after having
applied some of it to her fingers, which she
had burnt the same day. An examination
convinced her that she had given her babes
laudanum instead of paregoric, and she cried
out in the agony of despair, that she had
poisoned her darling babes. Dr. Perchment
was summoned, but owing to the length of
time which had elapsed, and the large quan
tity of the drug administered, (about twenty
five drops each,) he at once pronounced their
ease as utterly hopeless.
Every means were resorted to, in order to
keep the little sufferers awake—shaking,
pinching, and such like inflictions. They
were thus prevented from passing into the
eatamose state, but violent spasms super
vened, and they continued to suffer in this
way until Sabbath morning, when they grad
ually fell into a lethargy, in which condition
they remained until evening. The brain of
one of them became affected very much, and
it lay motionless, as if in death, with its eyes
open. The other rested, apparently, with
the eyes closed, as in sleep. This may be ac
counted for, from the fact that one of them,
soon after the accident, was subjected to a
warm bath, whilst the other was put into a
cooling bath. When the physician found
them, the poison had taken such a hold upon
the system, that the stomach pump was not
applied.
The distress of the family is painful in the
extreme, and the mother is almost deranged,
harrassed as she is, between hope and de
spair.
We cannot refrain from alluding, however
painful it may be, to the gross recklessness
so frequently displayed on the part of moth
ers, in administering medicine to children.
The unfortunate mother is not to be censured
in this case, as it was purely accidental.—
But she was totally ignorant of the proper
ties of paregoric, or she would not have at
tempted to guess at a dose of fifteen drops,
which was all that she intended to give.—
According to her measurement, she actually
gave twenty-five drops. Even that quantity
of paregoric. would have had a most mis
-eltievous effect upon those infants, to soy the
least of it. The same deadly narcotic,
(opium,) predominates in both these medi
cines, the difference being only in degree ;
and they should never be administered un
less under the sanction of a physician—and
then, in exact accordance with his directions.
Better far to put up with crying and peevish
ness in children, than to drug them inces
santly, even under advice of a doctor. In
nine cases out of ten, the relief is but tempo
rary, and they are drugged to their subse
quent injury.—Pitisburgit Press.
8 Strange Incident in New Castle,
Delaware
A correspondent of the New York Journal
of Commerce, writing from New Castle, Dela
ware, relates the following strange incident :
"A strange incident happened here last
week, showing how a man may be surround
ed with peril, and even within a hair breadth
of death, whilst unconscious of his condition.
The Rector of Immanuel Church, in this
place, has his residence a half mile out of
town, on what is called the Glebe, embracing,
besides the few arable acres, the rectorial
mansion. He had in his employ; a young
German laborer, scarcely twenty years of
age, who often poured over those works of
fiction and false philosophy, which abound in
his native language. His imagination seems
to have been debauched, and his purposes of
honest life unsettled,. by this vagrant sort of
reading. In fact, he resolved to give a prac
tical exemplification of those pernicious doc
trines, into whose mould his mind had re
cently been delivered. He proceeded to load
a pistol, and entering the private room of
Mr. Franklin, presented it to his breast, and
demanded t6OO on pain of instant death.—
This was a perilous position for any man to
be placed in, and very painful to a minister
of peace and love. The rector told the rob
ber he had not such a sum in the world.—,
He then lowered—not, indeed, his menacing
attitude and tone—but his terms of release
to $4OO. What should an unarmed, un
moneyed man do in such an extremity ?
Robbers usually limit their exactions to those
who are plethoric, with gold, jewels, and the
like. But this villain seemed to have de
manded bricks without straw-. Mr. F. be
thought himself as a cool man should, and,
no doubt, secretly looked up to a higher
power, as a good man would. He then pro
posed to the robber to go with him into the
village, and ascertain what could be done
towards getting the money. To this propo
sal, made to gain time, and, perhaps, relief,
the simple fellow assented. They, therefore,
started together, wending their way profes
sedly towards the bank, after the money.—
In their progress, a friend of the rector was
seen approaching, to whom he contrived to
make known his danger, or at least by the
help of signs, and an occasional word, such
as the significant one Sheriff, succeeded in
putting him on the track of an officer. One
or two other friends arriving about the same
time, with the officer, the German footpad
began to suspect he was betrayed, or that
all was not working well for him, and deter
mined to carry his threat into execution, at
tempted to fire his pistol. At this moment,
one of the gentlemen opportunely stepped
forward and prevented the explosion of the
cap, thus saving the life of a fellow-being.—
The robber was then taken into custody and
safely lodged in jail, not far from the scene
of this strange transaction. He will, of
course, be tried for intentional murder, and
of course, too, the plea of insanity will be
sot up by ingenious and unscrupulous coun
sel."
The Great Battle between Vidaurri and
Miramon---A San Jacinto Victory.
[From the Galveston Civilian.]
BROWNSVILLE, October 12.—Some weeks
ago I wrote you that it was impossible for
the Northern faction in Mexico long to sus
tain themselves in opposition to a government
having its headquarters about the city of
Mexico and sustained by the Catholic clergy.
Recent events have verified that statement.
General Santiago Vidaurri, is emphatically
whipped out and used up I Vidaurri, after
having entered the city of San Luis Potosi
without' opposition, and about which so much
was said, finding that the presence of his
army was obnoxious to the citizens, retreated
from the city to the Hacienda " La Parada,"
about eight leagues from San Luis.
On the 2Gth September, General Miramon
sent a detachment of 1300 men to reconnoitre
his camp, with orders to fall back in the
event of an attack. On the 28th he sent out
a large detachment, with similar instructions,
and after having made himself thoroughly
acquainted with Vidaurri's strength and posi
tion on the morning of the 29th, prepared
for a general attack. His army consists of a
11,000 men, officered by the best men in Mex
ico. Having determined to make the attack
with the bayonet and lance alone, he detail
ed 3000 men to retain as a guard for the ar
tillery and military stores. He then ordered
3000 lancers to take possession on the right
and left wing of Vidaurri's army, at safe dis
tances, and hold themselves in readiness to
cut off the fugitives in the event of a rout.
Placing himself at the head of 5000 infantry
and cavalry, he moved toward the camp of
Vidaurri.
So soon as silence was restored, the bugles
sounded, and the army advanced with fixed
bayonets and lance, orders having been given
for not a musket to be fired until the batter
ies should be taken. As the attacking ar
mies advanced, Vidaurri's gunners's were
distinctly seen holding in their hands their
lighted port fires, awaiting the orders of their
commanders ; but the army of Mexico stead
ily advanced. When within 200 yards of
Vidaurri's lines, the order to fire was given,
and 60 pieces of cannon and 8,000 small
arms belched furth their murderous hail upon
the assailants. In an instant, and before the
troops had time to waver, the order to charge
rang down the line from the sharp voice of
(ion. Miramon ; the order was obeyed—and
before the artillerymen could reload their
pieces, a large portion of them were lanced
at their guns, and the batteries were taken.
Simultaneously Miramon's infantry had fall
en upon Vidaurri's voluntarios with their
bayonets, with such fury as was irresistible.
Lances and bayonets were clotted with blood,
while bullets pierced the:frightened fugitives.
Footmen were trampled under the feet of the
cavalry that had been posted upon the right
and left of Vidaurri, and many of them
lanced.
The plain to the north and east of the Ha
cienda was covered with fugitives, flying to
wards the mountains, almost breathless, from
the impetuous lanceros.
It was a San Jacinto victory ; 500 are 're
ported killed ; 1100 wounded—one half sup
posed to be mortally; 2,000 taken prisoners;
the balance made their escape into the
mountains, with the exception of about 250,
mostly officers, who escaped with General
Vidaurri.
The victors took SGO mules and horses ;
320 wagons, 60 pieces of artillery,' 90,000
pounds of ammunition, besides muskets, and
the usual amount of camp equipage.
General Vidaurri, in an express to Mon
terey, wrote, "All is Lost," which, being in
terpctred, means that he will no longer han
dle the public revenue.
Latest from the 'Kansas Gold Mines
The Kansas Weekly Press of the 23rd ult.,
has the following additional cheering intelli
gence from the new El Dorado:
After the recent conflicting reports, we take
pleasure in laying before the readers of the
Press undoubted evidence of the existence of
gold in large quantities on our western borders.
On Friday, Mr. A. M. Smith, a gentleman
known to Mr. Brace, our Postmaster, and
to other parties here and in St. Joseph, as a
man whose testimony can be relied upon, ar
rived in Elwood from Nehama county. Mr.
Smith has lately seen a kettle of gold _dust
brought by his friend, Mr. Robinson, from
Cherry Creek, valued at from $6OOO to $7OOO.
Mr. Robinson only left Pottawattomie county
in May for the gold region. lie was 30 days
only in going there, and has returned in
in twenty-eight days ; although he had to
make a road for himself some portion of the
way. Ile went well prepared for working in
the mines, and had two men to assist him.—
The three were about two months in obtain
ing the dust which he has brought back.—
He found good feed for his cattle on both
trips, and says there is plenty of grass at
Cherry Creek, in summer. It had not snowed
when he left, but the weather was cold, and
the mines could not be worked to good advan
tage. No trouble was experienced from the
Indians. Mr. Robinson will return in sea
son for the opening of spring. Mr. Smith
lives in Richmond ;
lie says that all those
who have returned from the mines bring
favorable reports—that the cries of "hum
bug" invariably came from parties who have
been to Salt Lake only, and never from the
Cherry Creek parties. He has seen consider
able gold brought from there, but in no in
stance in so large a quantity as that brought
by Mr. Robinson and his friends.
We have given this report in full, because
there is no doubt about its authenticity, and
because it is the largest amount of dust
which has yet arrived. Larger stories have
been told, but we have not been able to be
lieve them.
APPALLING RESULT OF SO3INAMBULIS3I.-^-
One of the most awful results of sleep walk
ing of which we have heard for a long time,
transpired recently at the Upper Ferry Land
ing. A farmer named John Bray, from In
diana, who was removing to some point on
the Missouri river with his wife, father-in
law, and four children, came in on the
Ohio and Mississipi Railroad. Being in strait
ened circumstances, the family obtained per
mission to stop for the night at a small room
on the ferry dock at the foot of Carr street.
Between twelve and one o'clock in the night
Bray arose, in his sleep, and taking his young
est child, aged three years, in his arms, actu
ally walked from the room and into the water !
The piteous, wailing cries of the child, and
the loud calls of the father for help, soon drew
a number of persons to the melancholly scene
from ad jacen tplaces on the Levee. The frantic
grief of the family partook of the incoherence
and wildness of the maniac, and is described
to be of the most heart-rending description.
Before ingenuity could resolve on any means
of rescuing the drowning objects, both had
sunk, to be seen no more alive. We have
rarely been called on to record a more appal
ling casualty.—? Missouri Republican.
A Fearful Judgment
In one of the New England States, I know
a lad, now about twelve or thirteen years of
age, whose condition is a most remarkable
demonstration of the natural law, that, in ev
ery case, the child is a faithful copy of his
parents. The boy is a natural drunkard.—
From his birth-day to the present moment he
has given all the outward indications of being
deeply drunk ; and yet, so far as I know, or
think it probable, he has never swallowed
a drop of ardent spirits in his life. Though
in good sound health, he has never been able
to walk without staggering. His head is al
ways upon his breast; and his speech is of
that character which marks a person in a
very low state of intoxication. If neverthe- -
less, in the midst of his mutterings and reef
ings, something is said to him in a way to
pass through the thick atmosphere of his in-
tellectual being, and penetrate his mind, he
at once rouses, like a common tiplor, and gives .
proof enough that he is not wanting in na- -
tive talents, however, his mental faculties are
enshrouded. He is looked upon as a star
of no mean magnitude, obscured and almost
blotted out by the mist in which he is doom
ed to dwell, till he shall pass from the pres
ent existence to another.
Now, as I understand the law of heredita
ry descent, there is nothing unnatural in this
boy's case. Every individual ever born is
governed by the same principle which caused
him to be what he is. Prior to marriage,
his father had been a secret but confirmed
inebriate; and when the fact became known
to the gentle and sweet spirited being who,
but a few months before, bad become his wife,
the revelation was made suddenly, and in a
way the most impressive and appalling.—
One night when he was supposed to be the
most unimpeachable of husbands, he stag
gered home, broke through the door of his
sleeping apartment, and fell on the floor in a
state of wretched inebriation. For weeks ho
wallowed in misery. During the next six or
seven months, seeing his domestic reputation
had been forfeited, he kept up almost a con
tinuous scene of intoxication. When at the
end of this period it was told him that he
was the " husband of a mother," he reeled
and staggered on without much abatement.
Months passed away but there occurred no
change in the habits of the poor inebriate.—
It was at once discovered, however, that
there was something singular in the appear
ance of the child. When it was three
moths old, there began to be strange specula
tions, concerning it among the people. At
the age of six months the speculations had
settled down into a very general opinion, but
not a word was said 'to the disconsolate wo
man, who had also begun to have her own
f(:rebodings. At last, as she was one eve
ning looking at her child, and wondering
what could be the reason of its strange con
duct, the terrible idea flashed upon her seal
—" My child is a natural drunkard !" She
shrieked aloud ; and her husband who hap
pened to be within hearing came in to her,
She fell upon his neck and exclaimed :
" Dear husband, our.little George is born a
." She could proceed no further, but
swooned away in her husband's arm.
From that hour the father of the boy never
tasted a drop of spirits. The sight of his
eyes and the hearings of his heart entirely
cured him. of his habit. He seldom looks
upon his unfortunate little George without
shedding a tear over that sin which entailed
upon him a life of obscurity and of wretch
edness. He has lived, I rejoice to add, so as
to redeem his character ; and he is now the
father of five children, all of whom are bright,
beautiful and lovely, excepting only the one
whose destiny was thus blasted.
Terrible Scene in Baltimore.
BALTIMORE, Nov. G.—Henry Campbell, a
member of the notorious gang of rowdies in
festing the southern part of the city, and who
murdered police officer Benton, about a month
since, because he was a chief witness against
his brother, on a charge of incendiarism, was
yesterday afternoon convicted of murder in
the first degree. Last evening police officer
Rigdon, who was a principal witness in the
trial of Campbell, was also shot dead in the
western part of the city, by one of the same
gang of rowdies.
The murder was committed about nine
o'clock in the police officer's house, and in
presence of his wife and children. Thus two
tried and faithful police officers of the city
have been brutally murdered for the perform
ance of their duties as officers. The name
of the murderer of Rigdon, is Corre. Great
excitement exists in the vicinity where this
brutal murder was perpetrated. Lynch law
is threatened.
SECOND DESPATCH
An effort was made last night to rescue
Henry Campbell, who was yeSterday convic
ted of the murder of police officer Benton.
lie was conducted to jail by an armed escort
of eighty police officers. The jail was guar
ded all night, there having been rumors of a
contemplated attack.
Peter Corre, who was arrested for shooting
officer Rigdon, turned State's evidence, whilst
under fear of vengeance from the excited
populace. He said that the shot was fired
by Mason Croppes, who was 'subsequently
arrested. Both have been committed, the
former as an accomplice, and the latter as
principal. The police have also arrested five
other notorious rowdies during the night, as
accomplices, and for endeavoring to rescue
the prisoner.
A Striking Picture.
The following, from a coteraporary, is the
best life-like picture of the Huntingdon Jour
nal, that has ever been presented to the pub
lic:
" The stump-tail press is an institution in
this country. It is in the hands of men,
whose avarice is boundless but whose knowl
edge is limited, whose caprices take the
place of prudence and judgment, who know
no other stimulus to industry than gold, and
who recognize no other token of success.—
Its leading object is to got its issues sold, to
accomplish which, it knows no tricks too low
to employ. It eschews consistency as a relic
of the old-fogy age, and finds it easy to ride
on either or both sides of any question. It
is ready at any hour to bolster up any swin
dle for a large per tentage of the profits, and
is always prepared to laud folly or whitewash
rascality 'for a consideration' It is eloquent
in its praise of all other shams, chiefly de
lighting in puffs of quacks' wares and praises
of showmen, actors, circus-riders and wan
dering lecturers. Presents of cheap books
will buy its flattering notices of the most
rapid trash. Journals of the 'swill-milk and
stump-tail' order are continually boasting of
their circulation, and trying to swindle their
honest neighbors out of the patronage which
is their just due. They will often go so far
as to publish advertisements at half price,
relying upon future extortions to make up losses."