cfvollum 6trritson, frorittors. original Vottrg, WINTER MUSINGS. DY Z. F. WILIROF, •M. D Winter, with icy' hand, From the frosen Greenland, Is brooding around: Heir the winds howling; • All around prowling, With hoarse, hollow sound. In a robe of white snow, Clothed is all, Nature's brow; Gloomily toorn'd See the snow falling, Through the air spa:ling, 0 how appalling, • Nature is groomid ! Cold are the winds that blow, Whirling heaps of snow; Filling the air; Skiei are all clouded, Densely they're crowded, Blackly enshrouded, Dressed in despair! Trees - arti all bending "down, Drooping low toward the ground, Gloomily and profound, Seeming to mourn At the wild ravage, Winter so savage ' ,Among them has borne How, the cold winds without, Keep up-a constant , shout; Bekhing their ire: Onward they're drifting, Now, and then shifting, Heaps of snow lifting Higher, and higher. Oa the-relentless night, Something our thoughts invite Where dwell the poor ' : Within their Sad homes, Gaunt poverty roam; No cheering ray comes,• Nor stops at their door. On their low beds of straw, See them together draw, *All to get warm : How their limbs shiver, How their nerves quiver, Colder than ever Rages the storm. Oh! what a sick'niag thought, Unto the mind is brought, Hearing their groans!- 0, thou God of Love, Who sits enthroned above, Will not thy mercy move, At, their sad moans! But can no heart be glad, Must every brow be sad For winter's sake I No! there is pleasure— Joy without measure, If there is leisure Joy to partake. Hark ! through the icy air, Gay sounds, full and clear, Strike plain upon the ear ; Sinking, and swelling, Hear the bells jingling, Gaily, commingling, Merrily tingling, Bliss fortellint. O there are words of joy, That can The mind employt Pleasures without alloy, Through winter's lore. But when December, Disrobes earth's splendor; We should remember, And pity the poor. Great Bend Pa. 1 For the I)emoentt. A FRAGMENT.-THEY - BURIED HIM. BY . NELLIE CLIFTON. TIMM was sorrow and anguish in that oast happfhome. The Angel of Death had folded his sable' wings, over that peaceful dwelling,. and the fairest flower had been transplanted to bloom in Paradise.: In the morning helhad gone out so full of " lusty life," the crimson blood dancing joy fully through his veins, and deepening the rose on his youthful cbeek7 and the ruby of his smiling, lip. ;The sparkle of health,-and am bition, :was in his dark eye, and the glossy, raven tresses were pushed back from the broad, white brow, that he might drink in new vigor with the pure, bracing air.. In the morn so full of life, and heilthoind beauty; the evening fermi him tossing in the wild 'delirium of a malignant4errer ; the hot blood seething thrimgh his. veins 'like molten lava, scorching his brain to madness; the lip parched, and the rounded cheek burn ing with feverish ems. Friends stood around, stricken with anguish, yet using every effort to woo back health to the moaning, still beauti ful, sufferer; but the strong pleadings of af fection availed 'naught to. save; and when the fatal disease had worked its ruthless . mission, and the cold dews of death were gathering on his brew, and his limbs growing into stone-like rigidity . beneath the chilling touch teat (rose his young bloOd to Ice, he -raised his dark eyes, so full of the old ulnas - 'ion of tenderness, and bidding farewell to weeping friends,, he closed them forever on the scales of 'earth. " There was an All-pitying eye that marked the crushing sorrow that fell on theme loving, and bereaved, hearts and angels bent to catch the preyerO: f faith, that, amid the broken idols of kiinal affection, whispered "Thy will, 0 God, be done!" For the Democrat. They folded his bands over his pulseleas breast—they. ,pushed back the _raven hair from the cold, pale brow, and every chizeled outline of the gloriously beautiful face gleam ed, like some sculptured, marble statue, in its lifeless repose. The winds were sighing through the leaf less trees, ; and every eddying gust had a sound like a sob, as it ,moaned amid the dying, Autumn leaves, as they buried him. Large, shrotid-like clouds floated. through the-azure sky, and the sun.shown with a pale, subdued light over the sere, brown fields, as they fol lowed him to "the silent city of the dead" and laid him to rest. A wailing breeze swept through the. thee. swaying willow's branches-- there was a knell-like rattling on the coffin lid, a low moan of anguish from that stricken mother's heart, and all that remained of the bright and beautiful one, the idol of that broken family circle, was buried from sight. * * * * * * * * Tue. Old Year has passed .away. We have heard his dying requiem sang by the wind as it moaned among the leafless branches of the forest trees. But a few days Since and one of the children of Time passed into eterni ty to return no more forever. • What innu merable changes hare been wrought in the aspect of the physical world by those four sisters the Seasons. First came Spring, with her floating tresses, and blue, beautiful eye. The streams, melted by the - genial influence of her smile, burst their icy fetters, and flowed singing at her feet; soft emerald verdure sprang up in her pathway, and the early .flowers and green luxuriant foliage came forth'at her bidding.; the feathered minstrels tuned their sweet songs in her welcome, and after filling the glad Earth with sunlight and song, flowers and verdure, she departed to the sunny south from whence she came. Then appeared her glorious sister, with golden robes and flashing eye. All nature sent up its orisons of joy at her coming. She received the homage of all lovely things ; fruits and flowers, sunshine and roses, jny and melody were gifts brought in profusion to her altar : and I said "Oh would that summer might last always!" but while I said it she passed away. A matron followed with wheat-crowned brow and sober glance. The blushing fruit and golden grain were hers. The reaper sang amid his toils, and bound up his sheaves with gladness, for his garners were filled to over flowing.—Thine, Autumn, were the still, dreamy hours, the pleasant, though melan choly reviews, the gorgeous sunsets, and lessons of fading beauty and sure decay.. Thine is an icy reign, oh Winter ! sage of the.silver locks! and yet thy days are not on dark and unlovely. There is beauty in thy deep, blue skies And snowy robes, in the starry nights, when Heaven wears its brightest gem-decked coronet, and in tbs clear, cloud less mornings, thy glittering ion nod fairy frost frost wrirk. There is health in thy bracing air, and happiness by thy cheerful firesides. Beautiful/ is- the work of thy frost-spirit, whose invisible, and mysterious fingers wear a drapery no art can imitate. Behold every object, from the lofty tree to the lcvely shrub, robed as in a bridal garment, which the clear rising sun, with the skill' of an Alchymist, -is turning into gold, and silver, and gleaming gems. • Gaze npon the chrystal columns and diamond arches of those night-NJ th palaces, and say if any other reason can furnish so wonderful, so enchanting a scene. But "Passing , away" is inscribed upon all things earthly, and , as the last sand runs out in the hour glass of the . Old . Year, we turn from its mingled scenes of joy and sorrow to welcome its successor. More varied, and lasting changes have been taking place in the moral world, than those wrought on the face of nature by the Seasons. From our stand point of observation we look back on the put, and what a scene it pre sents to our view.--ilow vast and complicated the drama of human lite that has been enact ing around us, as it is opened out before us in imagination. The tender ties of love and friendship haVe been tudely sundered.by the remorseless hand of Death. The wail of woe mingles discordantly with the strains-of joy ; the song of mirth, and the moan of sorrow are borne to our ears by the same breeze.— we'contemplate the past an indefinable feeling thrills our heart strings: on one side we hear the groan of anguish from hearts bowed beneath their first, or heaviest grief, or the voice of those who mourn the departue of dearly loved friends; on the other, we hear . the sounds of mirth' and gaiety from those on whom Fortune has showered her golden gifts with s bountiful hand. Prosperity has rolled its tide only upon* favored few, who turn from the contemplation of the want and mis ery around them, and think only of advaue ing their own enjoyment We see the child of wealth and lazuli, painfully contrasted by the starving son of poverty. Those who en-_ tared the, past year yvith bright and hopeful anticipations of future happiness,. and looked forwardlo many years of peace and prosperi=, ty, hare beets: soddenly cut down by the For the Democrat. THE OLD YEAR. DT NELLIE CLIFTON' , . • livRE ALL EQUAL BEFORE GODAIIII, SHE CONSTITUTION.”--Jantes Bite, ontreise, ruthless Destroyer, and their brilliant pros pects in life forever blighted. Thousands who hailed the advent of the year 1850, with joyous festivity, have sunk beneath the fatal epidemic, and gone to " that bourne from . whence no traveler returns." Farewell, forever, Old Year ! Even as the wi!d notes of the sea gull, when heard above the ocean's wave, are mounrful, so those words seem inexpresibly sad, while the moan ing wind wails his death dirge, and echoes the adieu,—farewell, farewell forever, Old Year ! DR. LIVINGSTONE AND THE EX PLORATION OF AFRICA. Dr.' Livingstone is nearly forty. years of ago ; his face is furrowed, through hardships, and is Adrod&A blaelt with expornre to a burn ing sun. He hesitates in speaking, has a pe: liar accent, is at a loss sometimes for a word, and the words of his sentences are occasion ' ally inverted. His language is, however, good, and he haS . an immense fund of inost. valuable and interesting information, which he communicates most freely. He is in good health and - His left' arm, which was broken by a lion, is improperly set, a defect which he will endeavor to get . corrected while he is in England. He has an affection - of the uvula, which Wiliptevetit him from speak ing much in public for• the present. The af fection-has been brought on by preaching in the open. air, in Africa. If ho now speaks niuch, he loses his voice, notwithstanding that be submitted to an operation in . Africa to enable him to speak in public. Ile Ls scarcely spoken the English lan: gunge tor the last sixteen years. - lie liven with a tribe of Bechuanas, far in - the interior, for eight years, guiding them in . the paths Of virtue, knowledge 'kind religion. He, in conjunction with Mr. Oswald', discovered the magnificent Lake Ngami, in the interior of Africa. He traced by himself the course of the great river ZambeSia, in Eastern Africa, and explored one of extensive and arid des erts of the African continent. In the interi or of that continent he reached the eighth de gree of seuthere latitude, that. is twenty-six degrees north of the Cape of Good Hope, far beyond the range of any former traveller.— The Lake Ngami is far to the West of the hunting-grounds of Gordon Cumming. Liv ingstone was in those grounds when the Lion slayer was there, and they bOth met often.— Livingstone never could make the Africans believe or understand that his country-man came for sport. They thought he-came for meat Which he - could not get at home. The last. news that Dr. Livingstone heard from Europe while far away from the - , coast, was when he was near Loando. He. then read of the battle of Balakalava. It was a twelvemonth before he heard further news.— The wife of the Docter is the daughter of Mr. Moffatt, the civliizer of the Bechuana nation. Moffatt had lost sight of his son-in-law for sdme time, and attempted to- penetrate into the interior to see what was become of him. He failed to reach him, however, but he sent on by friendly tribes s package of books, newspapers, and letters. This package was brought - to the southern - bank of a river, which 'seperated two hostile tribes. Living. stone was then living far to the-north of this river. The Southrons called to the Norilt men, and told them that they bad some prop erty belonging to the Doctor, who was held in great roapect by both tribes. Tho North men refused to cross over. for it, saying that the books and papers'• contained witchcraf medicine, "Very well'," said the :Southrons, " we leave them. here, and if they are-lost, on your heads the blame:Aril; fall," They then retired. The Northmen thought better of it crossed over, placed the parcel on an Island in the river and built a hut over it. - Twelve months afterwards,Dr. Livingstone_ found the parcel there. safe. The Doctor has been struck down by African fever upwards of thirty times. He has - constantly slept in the open air in the;most unwholesome climates, and he - has travelled over ".:sands and shore and desert wildernesses," with no earthly de fence, he says, save his own right arm, but under the protection . of the Almighty. It is impossible to talk with the - Doctor without discovering that he has a brave heart, and •possesses quiet and enduring energy. Dr. Livingstone explored the country of the true negro race. lie saw 'a multitude of tribes of Africans, and several laces, many of , whom had never seen a white wan until he visited them. They all had a 'religion, be lieved in an existence after death, worshiped idols, and performed religious ceremonies in groves and woods . . l They considered them selves superior to +him men, who could not speak their language. Lions were numerous and destructive, because many tribes in Af rica believed that the souls cf their chiefs mi grated into' the bodies 'of those These-natives clapped their hands together whenever they saw lions, to cheer and honor them. The doctor and Mr. Osivald discover ed—the lake Ngami by stratagem. The na tives south of the lake always directed travel ers to it in a straight line, which was at most times through an arid desert, which could not be traversed. Messrs. Oswald and Liv ingstone skirted the desert, and thus, reached the lake, which was ertctly where the na tives had pointed to it; by a circitous route. Far north, he found a country abounding in I game, though at some parts the game has been thinned by the natives, who ,bad been supplied with fire-arms by the Portuguese." 'At the tune when Dr. Livingstone was sup posed to have been lost, owing to the ship. Sustittganita otenntt, which contain d his despatches foundering at Maderia, be Ras then in the interior of the country triing to seek a road to the sea coast. A chief was anxious to open a cornmunica tionwith the coast for the purpose of trading and the doctor and a large number of the chiets subjects were seeking . the means .of doing it. The dificulty consisted in finding a rove for vehicles, on account of the marshy state of the country. He describes the lan guagCsof the Bechuanas, amongst whom he lived, to remarkably sweet and expiessive.— It has Done of the clicking sound which dis tingaishtd the Bosjesman language. The whole dale dialects of the African tribes have afliitities one with another, a circum stance which mists a traveller who undtp stands one dialqct to mitke himself intelligible in another. _ i . The doctor left, the interior of Africa by de mending the river Quelamaen, which empties itself in the Mozambique. Channel.. It Was in an attemptfto fund him that several of the crew of 11. M. B. Dart were drowned.e hopes next year to enter Africa by the ef t, and proceed to evend his discoveries. Al-: though so long au ay from the abodes of civ alized men, he has not lost the manners anl polish of a gentleman. . Dr. Livingstone arrived in London on Sat: urday the 14d;, from Southampton, to meet Sir Roderick- Murchison and other saran, in order to prepare corrected maps of Southern Africa for the meeting of the Royal Geo graphical Society. It is singular that the Doctor has found the old maps of Africa. More accurate than the modern ones. lie has found a large portion of that space which is represented by a blank in South African maps to consist of fertile countries, inhabited by populotis tribes, and interspersed by large rivers. It is most important to observe that. the farther he travelled into the interior ,of Af rics, the more chilize.d and numerous .he found the inhabitants. 'They - were less fero cious and suspicious, bad better and more settled forms of governMent, and more wants than the tribes which live nearer the -coasts. He met with tribes in the interior who .prac tieed inoculation, and 'knew the medicinal virtues of quinine, although they did not ad minister it in the concentrated form as prepar ed in Europe ;. and moreover, they- had a tra dition of Noah's. deluge: They traded in ivory and gold, which were sold by one tribe to another 4ntil those articles reached Euro peans do the sea coast.. The number of the lame animals a tLQ chase _which - 11 r. li vi ng stone met with between the Stir and . 2,21 de grees of.south latitude, was .perfectly marvel lous.. They find their subsistence upon exten. sive plains of coarse herbage, which, together with the' abundant watermelons, enable both man and beast to travel in 'Africa. Many tracts in that country, however, cannot be traversed on account of insects_ that sting beasts of burden to • madness. The doctor describes the fear of African wild beasts to be mirch'greater in England than Africa. ' The chief documents which Dr. Living- stone had 'prepared relative to his travels and discoveries he nufortunatdy lost while cross ing an African river, in which also he nearly lost his life, but he has stores of memoranda of the utmost interest as tb the - ethnology, natural history, 'philology, geography, and geology of the African continent. The Commercial Gazette of Port Louis, Mautitius:,,contains an eUtliao of Cb tootu.a do, livered by . Dr. Livingstone; the African travel ler, in which he gave •aninteresting descrip tion of the peculiarities, climates, vegitation and population of AfriCa. The lecturer said that the first, or eastern zone, was distinguish ed by a much more humid cliniate than eith er of the others. :This was caused by the prevailing winds being easterly. The inhab itants were athletic, tall - and brave.. The second or middle: zone v.:as comparatively flat and arid. The inhabitants called 13ech tianaiy though originally of the same stock as the Cafrres, are not so well developed physically;and though as fond of cattle• and agriculture as the Caffres, are by no means so brave a people. They are divided into up wards of twenty tribes, and live in towns gov erned by hereditary chieftains,. who maintain their power by a system of espionage and lending cattle: • Allusion was then made by the lec turer to the rain _doctors, who were chief ly adventurers from other tribes. .They resorted to all sort of devices to gain time, in the hope that•clouds might collect; and•per mit them to gain credit. by bringing their operations to a close just at the moment when rain commenced. They were then sure of a liberal .reward.. In Africa,. where rain was sometimes of so much.importance, prophetic anticipations respecting it . were much looktxl . to. The.l3echuanas *ere- generally!frugal and industrious. They were fond of show and glitter. As much as 30/ ad been given for a superior English ride. The women were irot. well treated by the Bechuanas or Caffres. They were, however complete mistresses of the houses, and the -produce of the garden." A Man did not dare to enter his wife's hut in her absence. . The middle zone was nearly flat and very sandy, but it was not a desert, like portions of the north of Africa. There 'was abundant vegetation, but water was very scarce. The inhabitants, called "Bakilahara," s and Bush men, managed• to subsist with a very small supply of the precious fluid, for there are many . tuberous roots 'which contain . in their cellular tissues supplies of pure.cold In the plains were immense numbers Walt a; Clrsbatt ornin g: lannarn 15.-1457 L triches and herds of large antelope+, which can subsist for months without water. The animals which cannot live without water , were the elephantand Rh inoceros,the gintffe,pallsh, buffalo, lions, and hyenas. When these Ani mals are met, there is almost a . certainty of water beirg found in the country. Immediately beyond the Bushmen and Bakalabari, there was a curious *ace of peo ple called Bakoba or i3az.eiva. They lived on the riier Zanga and . other rivers, and were the Quakers of the body politic in Africa.— They never fight, but submit quietly to every tribe which conquers the country adjacent to the rivers on which they always riside. They say they never fight, because their fathers tried to do so once with bOws - made of palms christi, and as they . broke they gave up the practice entirely. The spirit of trade is strong in the African. There seems to be a scarcity - of diseases in Africa—no consumption or scrofula, hydro phobia, cancer, cholera, small-pox or measles. In every village there were.crovids of children. This explains why, notwithstanding all their ways and kidnapping, they continue to dwell in the presence of all their brethren. It seems as if they were preserved (said the lecturer) by Divine Providence for purposes of mercy, as distinctly as God's ancient people, the Jews- JEFFERSON AT THE •AGE OF EIGHTY-TWO. In the private correspondence of Daniel Webster, now in press for publication by Lit tle, Brown. Co., is found the following de scription by'Mir. Webster, Of the person and habits of Thomas Jefferson in his eighty-sec ond year: Mr. 'Jefferson is now between eighty-one and eighty-two, above six feet high, of an am ple, long frame, rather thin and spare. His bead which is not peculiar in its shape is set rather forward on his shoulders, and his neck Leing long, there is when he is walking or conversing,,an habitual protrusion of it. It is still well covered with hair, which, baring 'been once red, and now turning gray, is of an bdistinet sandy color. His eyes are sm,all, very light, and now nei ther brilliant nor striking.. His chin is rath er long, but not pointed. His nose small, regular in its outline, and the nostrils a little * elevated. Ills mouth is well formed, and kill filled with teeth ; it is strongly compress ed, bearing \an expression of contentment and benevolence. His complexion, formerly light and freckled, now bears the marks of age and cutaneous affection. Ins limbs are oncommonly long; his hands and feet very large, and wrists of an extratirdipary size.— •Ilis walk is not precise and military, but easy and swinging. Ho stoops a little; not so much from age as from natural formation.— When sitting, he appears short, partly from a rather lounging habit of sitting, and partly I from the disproportionate length of his limbs. His dress,- when in the house, is a gray sur tout coat s kerseymere stun' waistcoat, withitn tinder one faced with some material of a din gy red. His pantaloons are very long and loose, and . of the same color as his coat. His stockings are woolen, either white qt gray ; and the shoes of the kind that, bear his name. His whole dress is very much neglected, but not slovenly. He wears a common round hat. His dress, when on horseback, is a gray straight bodied coat, and a spencer of the same material, both fastened with large pearl buttons. When we ' first saw him he was rid ing ; and-in addition to the above articles of apparel, wore round his throat a white wool len tippet in the place of a cravat, and black velvet gaiters under his pantaloons. His general appearance indicatea an extraordinary degree of health, vivacity and spirit. His sight is still good, for ho needs glasses only in the evening. His hearing is generally good, but a number of voices in animated conversation confuse it. Mr. Jefferson rises in the morning as soon as he can see the bands of his clock, which is 'directly opposite the bed, and_ examines his thermometer immediately ; as he keeps a me teorological diary. •He employs himself chief- I T in writing till breakfast, which is at nine. From that time till dinner he is in his library, excepting that in fair weather lie rides on horseback frrm seven to fourteen miles. Dines at' four, returns to the drawing , at six, when coffee is brought in, and passes the evening till nine in conversation. His habit of retir ing at that hour is so strong, thatPt has become essential to his health and comfort. His diet is simple, but he seems restrained only by his taste. His breakfast is tea and coffee, bread always fresh from the oven, of which be does not seem afraid, with sometimes a slight ac companiment of cold meat. Ho enjoys his dinner well, taking with his meat. a large proportion of vegetables. He has a strong preference for the wines of the -,,continent, of. .which he has many sorts of.exe'ellent quality, having been more than commonly successful in his mode of importing acid preserving them. Among others we found the follow ing, which are very rare in this country, and apparehtly not. at all injured by tiansporta tion':-:-L'Fdnau, Muscat, Samian and Blan chette de Limoux. Dinner is served in half Virgia, half French style, in good taste and abundance. No wjne is put on the table un til the 'cloth is removed. In conversation, Mr. Jefferson is easy and natural, and apparently unambitious; it is riot loud as challenging general attention, but usually addressed to the person next to him' The topics, *when not• selected to suit the character and feelings of his auditor, are thoie subjects with which his mind:mm . li partktb: larly. occupied ; and these, est piwve-zty be said to be science and letters, and espe cially the University of Virginia, which is coming into existence, and will rise it is hop. ed, to usefulness and credit uudet his contin ued care, When we were with him, his favpr ite subjects were Greek and Anglo Saxon, historical recollections of the times and.events of the Revolution, and of his residence in France from 11'83-4 14 1789. CRIMINALS WHO HAVE RETURNED TO LIFE The following singularcircumstances are recorded by Dr. Plott, in his Natural History of Oxfordshire: In the year 1650, Anne Green, a servant of Sir Thomas Read, was tried for the murder of her new-born child, and found guilty.- She was - executed in the court-yard at Oxford, where she hung about-half an hour. Being cut down, she was put i into a coffin and brought away to a. house to be disseeted ; where, when they opened the coffin, notwith standingri re the rope wined _Unloosed, and straight about her'nec , 'they pereeived her breast to rise, whereupon one Nassau, a tailor; intending only an act l i d charity, set- his foot upon her, and as some say, one Ortim, a sol dier, struck her agairi with the butt end of his musket. Notwithstanding all which, when the learned and eminent Sir William Perry, ancestor of the present Marquis of Lansd6wne; then Anatomy Professor of the University, Dr. Wallis' anti Dr. Clark, then President of Magdalen College, :and Vice ChnneollOr of- tiso-floiroraity, cutsna. ii.... r t...., pare the body for dissection, they perceived some rattling in . her throat ; hereupon desist ing from their former purpose, they presently used means for her recovery, by opening a vein, laying her in .a warm -bed, and also using divers remedies representing; her sense lessnesi, insomuch, that - Within : fourteen hours she began to speak, and the next day talked and prayed very heartily. Dining the time of thish her recovering, the officers concerned in her execution would needs have had her away again to have completed it on her; but by-the mediation-of the worthy 'doctors, and some other-friends with the then governor of the city, Colonel Kelsey, there was a guard put upon her from all further disturbance until they bad sued out her pardon from the government. Much doubt indeed arose as to e, her actual guilt. CroWds of people in the meantime came to see'her, and many asserted that it must be the providence of God, who would thus assert hellottoceoco: - After some time, Dr. Petty hearing she dis coursed with those about her, and suspecting that the women might suggest to her to re late something of the strange visions arid apparitions she bad seen during the time she seemedto be dead, (which they already begun to do, telling that she said she had been in a fine green meadovi, hiving a river running round it, and all- - .things.there glittered like silver and gold,) be caused all to depart from the room but the gentlemen of the faculty; who were to have been at :the dissection, and asked her concerning her sense and appre hensions during the , time she was banged. To which she answered that she neither re membered how the fetter.s were knockect off; how she went out -Of the prison ; when she was 'turned off the ladder ; whether any psalm was sung or no t; nor was she sensible of any pains that she could remember. She Calllti to nerbe:t. on it ...... : L_l ~,,,o. , a „ a ma of sleep, not recovering the use of her speech by slow degrees, but in a manner altogether different, begining to speak just where she left off on the gallows. . December, 182/, Being thus at length perfectly recovered, after thanks given to God and the persons in strumental in bringing her_to life, and procur ing her an immunity from furthei punish ment, she retired into the country to her friends at Steeple Barton, where she was afi' terwards married, and lived in gontireputi amongst Ler_ neighbors, and not dying till 1659. The following account of the case of a girl, who was wrongly executed in 1766. is given by a celebrated French author, as an instance of the injustice which was oftpa Committed by the equivocal mode of trial then Used in France. About seventeen yeaii since, a young peas ant girl wa.splaced at Paris, in the berme of a man, who, smitten with her beauty, tried to inveigle her; but she was virtuous, and re sisted. The prudence of this girl - irritated the master and he determined upon revenge. lie secretctly conveyed into her box many things beloniing to him,..marl:ed with his name, he then exclaimed that he was iobbe4, called in a commissaire, (a ministeAal officer of justice,) and made his deposition. The girl's box was searched, and the thiits were discovered. The unhappy servant was im prisoned. She defended herself only by her team; she had no evidence to prove that she did cot put the property in her bor; - and her only answer to the interrogatories was, that she was innocent.. The judges bad no suspicion of the depravity of the accouser, wheat) station Iras respectable, and they adMinistered the law in all its vigor. The innocent, girl was condemned to be hanged. The dreadful : of- filen was ineffectually perform:4;as' it was the first. attempt of the son of the. chief. ;exe cutioner. A surgeon had purchased the body for dissection and it was nonVeyed to . _ his honse. On that evening, being about to 'open the head, he perceived a gentle warmth about the body. • The dissecting knife fell from REMARKABLE CASES. arm EXECtiTIO'S. was about toAissect. His efforts to restore her to Reveal eir3O- _. toe], and .at the eame thne he-sentfor a cler- . i gyman on whose &credo!" aril experience he could, depend, in other .to on the strange - event es well as , totave-hius-' for a witness to his - conduct.: The- monienti the unfortunate girl 'opened' herayet she Hared herself in the other world, arid perceiv ing the figure of the priest, who had: sia*jes tic countenance, she joined her hands tremk blingly and exclaimed, "'Eternal Fither f you know my innocence, have pit, on ma Itrs this. manner she continued to invoke the code- siastie, belieiing in her tampliciti, thaislur beheld her God. Thei were - long is pessini& ing her that , she was not dead—sO Much bad' the idea of the .pimisbmentand. of the death :pelesessed herimagination. The girl having returned to lifeand - she retired to hide herself in a distant, village; fearing, to meet the judges or-ilia: oTtcars, who,: with the dreadful tree", incessanily, haunted her imagination. The= accuser-re= mained - unpunished, because his :4,irime, al glough manifested by two individual wiMes ses, was not clear - to the eye of the-Lew. The' people subsequently becameacqueinted-with the resurrection of this girl, and leaded with reproaches the author of her misery. „ : BtILNING OVT A WELL.. - An Alabama. correspondent tells us bow, his friend Bill astonished a New York "d,iy, goods- drummer," lately in`those- :diggilis; Bill the drummer were • riding' strong. and stopped to get some water at a newly located farm in-•the lavrer part of 8et:1636: _ county. The farmer _had set fire- to; tin old pine stump near the front doer, 'and at. the time our travelers_ stopped, the fire waA the Sap root, some - twofeet below; thaitirface. all the wood above. thD.ground havlibeeW consumed. The smoke issuing train a-larri:. hole in the ground attracted the attention of the drummer, and, turning to • Bilkho i aakeo the. meaning of it. - - " Why," says William; "rod frieo Thomp son, here, is burning oat a well." - " Burning Out a well ! What dO ;jou' mean rr- - - - . - • " Just. tvlutti. say,"- rei ulna sill, " is burning out a well. Have.yon ever sea it done I." • • - "Never; nor .did I ever hear of such a thing. I would like_ to haie it exprained."' - „ " Notbinglinspler," says Dill, " Thrpugh eut this section of country the soil is strongly, _ mpregnatei with highly inflammibletnatter, and all .we to do when a well is needed; is to dig a hole a foot deep and four feet' square at the top; wet the ground-arotind" the surface, to keep the fire .frein spreading, fill the hole with pineknots, and set fire to the kn9ts, and In a week's time you 'have* first well." _ • " Do tell !"'exclaimed the wondetingrGoili.Y amite. "Yes," said Bill , Wartninor with the etibjeci',l " the ftre burns straight down, ‘ just, ; the f - - siZe of the hole at the top.. It burns _slowly, ;rid thus bakes the,s;des ts hard as a brick, sma . continues to burn'until it reaches water, when, of course, it ceases to burn." , . " But," says the drummer, " I _should think the mass of ashes and cinders Nottlid extine guish the fire long 'beret° the water is mach-. ed." til" A very natural conclusion," replied : Bill " but ls 13 law! -..--- 45 ----- -- .s.----4 - _ re-are,h, c, no ashes. I am not," Aeolis; enough &explain it, but Professor :Brumby, , of the University,'ettributes h to the-volatile. principle contained in the inflammable. salts:, I wish I could explain it; but this mucitl do know, that out of at least: one_ hatidrei , wells of the steme sort in Benton county, I have never seen, in all, a - bushel of =heir " You don't say so!" exclaimed. the aston ished "aolitltor," as.he pulled out ids pencil and memorandum ' it -book, and "wrote it: down." INGENUITY OF THE GERM/MlL—The folloii ing are soine of the inventions which :have in'originated' Germany, and also this' 'times' when they were made known: 'l3aii mills in; 850; sun dials in 898; fulling . mills in 998; tillage,of hops in 1070;:.wind mills and oil paintings in 1100 ; spectacles in x: 1270; pa per of linen rags in 1300;'organs in 1319 . ; gunpowder and cannons in 1318 ; hats in 1330 ; wire making in 1350; pins in 131p grist mills in 1389; wood. engraving inl436L printing in 1436 ; printing presses in 1439.4 copper-plate engraving and printing , Ink . 1440 ; cast types in 1442 ; chiming, of bilk in 1487 , vratches, letter Teak etcbt.; jug or. bolting apparatu 1509 ;_gurt locks in 1587 ; spinning iNheelsinls3s ; stoves and sealing wax in 1548 ; taltii444* "- in 1590 ; wooden bellows „ in 1.51.0; . micro- scopes in 1820; thertnometertin 1 . 638.; ele7ol - iotint engraving, in 1043; tartans's* 1650; . clectrinmachines in 1051 . ;`pendulum in 1506; clarionetts in._ ; white,ohi , ne — Ware in 1708; Prusdian- blue in_ 170'101M.: reotypifig in ItOD ; mercurial thermometer in 171 - 5; piano rates in 4 717 ; solar microscope in 1738 ; the gairpit lithography in r 1723. Pesidis t thlare ainieveridGerOan -nationsot_which canno t date ) such as deer le - Chi litcheaithe W i ae' - and ern_screw augur and Palets , 0 1 4 1 4! harrestiog, hco. - 'Streit a- - nation made such cantribilgotiw literature' and 'the' erti;: ran): in intellect and in a w mem= in a...bee. Saintionfloir
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