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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
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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