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EUHBUUV, PA.
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Office opposite the Court House,
Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pa.
Prompt attention to business in adjoining
Counties.
WM. M. ROCKEFELLER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
SlINBUItY, PA.
Tier. 13, 1851 tf.
M. L. SHINDEL,
ATTOP-ITET AT Li-V",
SUNBURY, PA.
December 4, 1S52. tf.
rFFICE on P.roadway, nenr the Episcopal
" Church, Sunbury.
Sunbury, May 14, 1853. tf.
SLAYMAKER & HASLETT.
C 0 1 u tu D C a ?u on tit
Chestnut Street liel.nv Till,
PHILADELPHIA.
Board t.50 per day.
Piuln., May 28. 1853.
X. M. Newiiuin'a
Bea'tu's Rote Norwcsiaii street, PottsviUt,
l'enna.
Plumbing fchop,
nAX CONSTANTLY ON HAND A PLT
ulv of nil sizes of Lead l'iiie. Sheet Lead
lil.u-U. Tin. Bath rutin. Shower Bull)", Hjdranls,
Hose, Double and Single Acting Pumps and Wa
inr Closets -. also, nil kinds of Brass Cocks for
water and steam. Brass Oil Cups, and Globes
All kinds of Cornier 01k and
Plumbitiff done in the neatest inanner at the
shortest notice.
JV. B. Cash paid for old Brass and Lead.
PotUvillc, Aug. 27, 1853. ly
THE POOR VOTER ON ELECTION
DAY.
BV JOHN O. WHJTTlElt.
The proudest now is but my peer,
The highest not more hiyh;
To-day, ol all the weary year,
A King of men am I.
To-day, alike aro great and smull,
The nameless nnd the known ;
My place is in the people's hall,
The ballot box my throne!
Who serves today tipnn tlie list,
Heside the served sh.tll stand
Alike the brown and wrinkled list,
The ploved and dainty hand '.
The rich is level with Ilie poor,
The weak is slroiic; to day ;
And sleekest bioaileloth counts no more
Than homespun fiork of yiay.
To-day let pomp and vain pretonca
lily stubborn liiiht abide ;
I set a plain man's common senbQ
Asiamst the pedant's pride.
To day frhull simple manhood try
The strenjlh of sjohl and land ;
The wide world has not wealth to buy
The power in my light hand !
While there's a grief to seek redress,
Or balance to adjust,
Where weighs our livina manhood less
Than Mammon's vilest dust,
While there's a light to need my vote,
A wiona to sweep away,
Up! clouted knee and raided coal '.
A man's a mail to-day !
THE DEAD BROUGHT TO LIFE!
Old Sunbury rising out of her sleep of many
years.
The Iron horse snorting and blowing has arous
ed her sleeping energies and infused new vigor
into her prostrate system. One of its first effects
is seen in the vast amount of new and fashiona
ble goods, just now arrived at
I. W. TEN Ell k GO'S STORE.
Their stock is elegant and varied and well worth
seeing : aye, and buying ton at the prices they
offer them ; all are respectively invited to inspect
and purchase.
Sunbury, Sept. 10, 1S53.
WM M'CAltTY,
n O O K S K I, I, K II ,
.Market Street,
SUNBURY, PA.
"I I'ST received and for sale, a fresh supply of
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fur Singing Schools. He is also opening at
this time, a large assortment of Bouks, in every
branch of Literature, consisting of
Poetry, History, Novels, Romances, Scientific
Works, Law, Medicine, School and Children's
Books, Uililcs; School, Pocket and Family, both
with and without Engravings, and every of vari
ety of Binding. Prayer Hooks, of all kinds.
Also just received and for sale, Purdons Di
gest of the laws of Pennsylvania, edition of 1851,
price only Sfi.OO.
Judge Heads edition of Blackstone Commen
taries, in 3 vols. 8 vo. formerly sold at SI 0,00,
and now oflercd (in fresh binding) at tho low
price of 80,00.
A Treatise on the laws of Pennsylvania re
specting the estates of Decedents, by Thomas V.
Gordon, price only $1,00.
Travels, Voyages and Adventures, all ol
which will be sold low, cither for cash, or coun
try produce.
February, St, 1853. tt.
Btogvapl)ieal.
Vrmn the Southern Literary Mcssengur.
ANDREW JACKSON.
It is vain lo deny tr Jackson a title to
o-reatness. He achieved great minus, am
won a succession ol splendid triumphs, un
equalled 111 the history of any man, save
one, of his generation. Ileaclieived them,
not by the force ol accident but because
of the power within hiin. It is idle to dis
cuss the ability or the merits of a man, who,
in dilleictit, and these the highest depart
ments of human enterprise, succeeds, not
in one department, or as to one measure,
but in all departments, and in all things,
throughout a long succession of years and
of struggles, airainst Jhe greatest and most
various opposition. Such successes do not
come bv chance. But if we will not take
this general conclusion, let us look to par
ticulars. What did he accomplish? He
raised himself, in a profession the least suit
ed to his genius ; of all others, at a lime ol
life when men of real merit are only pre
paring themselves for local distinction, to
the office of Attorney General and of Judge,
and when the scene changed from peace
to war, he rose at once lo the post of Gen-
. - e ... . I. .. . 1
eral, anu, in a lew mouuis, u 111c mun
brilliant successes and the brightest laurels
of the war, and placed himself side by side
with the great captains of the world, lie
took his seat in the Senate of the United
States; he was soon the strongest candidate
before the people for President, bearing
the palm from the veteran politicians and
established statesmen of the country. De
feated in the house by politicians, he turned
defeat into victory, and established upon it
a sure and lasting ascendency. He was
lifted by the strongest tide of personal pop
ularity to the first ollice ol his country
NOTJCK,
Baxk or NoiiTiii'Mnr.uuMi. )
Northumberland, Juno 25, 1853. J
The Directors of the Bank of Northumberland
give notice that they intend to apply to the next
Legislature of this Commonwealth, for a renew
al of its charter with the same capital, and with
its present title, location and privileges. By
order of the Board.
JNO. TAG G ART, Prest.
June 25, 1853. Gin.
NOTICK
"TVTOTICE is hereby given, that application
i-' will be made to the next Legislature of
Pennsylvania, for the incorporation of a company,
with discounting privileges, to lie located in the
borough of Sunbury, in the county of Northum
berland, with a capital of One hundred thousand
dollars, to be callod the "Susquehanna Havings'
Institute"
Sunbury, June 25, 153 Cm.
LEATHER.
FRITZ k HENDRY,
Store, 29 N. 3d street
PHILADELPHIA
Morocco Manufacturers, Curriers, Importers,
Commuion and General Leather Business.
WHOLESALE & RETAIL.
OCT" Manufactory IS Margaretta Ktrcet.
Phila., August 20, 1853 ly.
I.RESH Vanilla Bean of a superior quality
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- jusi rareiTcu aim 101 w vj
Jim, lJ H.H.MA3SEH.
and held power against an opposition more
poweiful than ever before assailed an ad-j
ministration. But he did much more than
this; he impressed his name and character I
upon the country more deeply than any
man, the father of his country only excep
ted, ever did belore him. He gave a fresh
and awakening influence to the popular
,ind taught, more 1 ff.-ctively than Jefler
son, the masses their power ; threw oft" the
influence of old politicians, and started the
government and the people onward in a
new and more impulsive career. lie
opened a new era in American politics,
with new measures, new tueas, anu new
politicians. He founded a party more per
fect in its organization, more lasting in its
duration than any before established giv
ing its own line of statesmen and its own
course of policy to the country ; a party
from which was to rise a stronger influ
ence upon the worm ami Ilie intietinite in
crease of the wealth, territory and popula
tion of the republic. He consolidated the
strength and energies ol the government;
made it formidable, feared and respected
by foreign powers; insomuch that he ad
dressed the head of the second power of
Europe with the imperious tone of a rich
creditor pursuing a bilking bankrupt, and
lorced him to a settlement ol a claim upon
an open threat of chastisement. He found
a confederacy and left an empire. lie
altered the monetary system of the govern
ment struck down the Hank ol the United
States raised up and sustained the State
Hanks, and finally blew them up as so
many torpedoes; and, for a time nearly
abolished the whole credit system of a
great trading people. He struck down
the doctrines of States' Rights in their
sanctions and substance, and in their strong
holds, and with them, the flower of h
disciples of that school to whom he had
owed his elevation, in great part; and es
tablished national doctrines and ideas which
placed the government on the basis vainly
contended for by Washington and Marshal l.
He subdued the Senate. He placdd his
rejected minister at its head ; it rebuked
his course. He made it draw black lines
around its records ; and he raised up anoth
er, if not two, Presidents to rule after he
had withdrawn from office; and continued
after his retirement, and to the close ol his
life, the ruling spirit of his own pajty
Thi he did without the aid of polisicians :
he needed no conduit between himself
nnd the people. He operated directly upon
the public mind ; indeed, the most popular
of his followers held his popularity on the
tenure of his will and as a reflection on
his chief's; desertion of him and his cause
was popular ostracism. If he were power
ful enough to raise up whom he chose
he was powerful enough to put down whom
he chose. His name and his influence
were as pervasive as the atmosphere; it
fixed the selection and promotion of the
cabinet minister, even ol the President
and also that of the lowest official of an
obscure municipality.
Mr. Calhoun was sitting upon the com
fortable perch of the Vice Presidency,
thinking no harm, evidently quite content
with the prospect before him. It was
seemingly a good time for him. His foible
was not supposed to be criminal indiffer
ence, much less an unconquerable aversion
to the high posls of the public service, lie
was young just reaching the meridian
glory of faculties equal to the discharge of
any civic duty to which he could be called ;
he had already won the highest distinc
tion ; and he had won it without calling
into service hall of the talent he possessed.
Jackson was in the heydey of a popularity
such as no man of his country, its father
and founder only excepted, had ever held ;
and he was Jackson's lieutenant: and yet
so unexceptionable had he borne himself,
that, though identified with the administra
tion and its early supporter, he had given
no offence to the opposition : indeed he
had run upon its ticket, too, for Vice Pres
ident. Slates' Rights tloctrir.es were in
ascendant, and the executive countenance
shone kindly upon them and their suppor
ters. The long-sighted politicians had be
gan to look upon hint and fawn around
him as the successor; Clay was under the
ban ; the man of Braintree, like a greater,
was on his ocean rock; Crawford was a
paralytic. Who anil what stood between
him and Dwight's prediction, or rather the
fulfilment? Serenely we may imagine
him gating throngn the bow-window ol
the Capitol, up towards that building at
the oilier end ol the avenue, and bethink
ing him that only a few more years, with
all tne accidents which might shorten that
peiioii in his favor, stood between him and
golden guerdon for which so many hearts
were fevering. Jackson's angry stamp
disturbed the reverie, and with that stamp
the platform fell beneath him, and he drop
ped down a thousand feet into the political
charnel house below! Where were now
the legions of friends with whom his slight
est utterance was the tiefintion of a proverb
"the condensed wisdom of a nation !"
lie c lun'.ed them at break of day,
13 11 1 when Ihe bimi .!. where were they ?
Who offended Jackson was doomed.
Like a mighty Nimrod, he threw his lariat
from the Capitol, and throttled and broke
down to death or submission the niot pow
erful senators even at the remotest corner
of the republic. Talent and genius, and
learning, and eloquence, and statesmanship
cordoned themselves around him in stren
uous wariare ; but nis single arm, like
Mural's on the Mount of Transfiguration,
rolled back the brilliant charge and left
him still unhurt not a feather of his plume
awry- in possession of the heights of
power.
And. finally, according to Thomas Mar
shall, when he was about quitting the
world, he turned Presbyterian and tram
pled Satan under foot, the last, and perhaps,
the greatest ol his victories.
Is may well be doubted whether the rec
ords of ancient or ol modern times transmit
or exhibit to us a name more distinguished
for sublime and unfaltering courage than
that of Andrew Jackson. He never seem
ed to rise to, but ever to stand level with
its loftiest exigencies. There was nothing
in the shape of danger or responsibility
which he leared to brave not to meet
merely, but to go in quest of not to en
dure, but to dety and to master. He was
chary of his fame ; he loved applause ; but
when did he pause in the execution of a
purpose to count its cost to his reputation,
or when did he ever falter when the chiv
alry and the (lower of his early and better
suppoiters deserted his banner by battal
ions ! II anything can appal a politician's
heait or stay his hand, civil war may do it
But in the case of South Carolina, he con
templated that result, and prepared for it
with the ccolness and determination of a
common-place business matter. He stood
forth a peculiar and original man in the
great attribute of conceiving and executing
purposes a,nd plans, Irom the very contem
plation of which common-place politicians
snrink in dismay.
Yet one thing this great man lacked.
He lacked the crowning virtue of magna
nimity. Generosity towards 1 personal or
political enemy, and charity lor opposing
opinion, wern not numbered among the
virtues in his calender. We are pained to
be forced by trull) to say it ; but the hero's
character of such robust and stalwart pro
portions, and vital with such massive and
masculine strength, was incomplete. Like
some Gothic power dimly seen by star
light, it leaves the impression ol power
akin to the terrific and sublime ; but wants
the mild and softening light of this absent
grace to make it lovely to the contempla
tion, and dear to the heart.
TIIK DIVISION OF TIME.
M;m na must have, elapsed after the
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Apples by Railroad. The crop of apples
in this vicinity proved a failure last season,
but sine railiuuda have been extended foa
hundieds of miles into the country, a local
failure in any nue crop causes but lillle in
convenience. The state of Ohio has fine
crop of fruit, and we now get by the Ohio
and Pennsylvania railroad a supply ol supe
rior apples. A large quantity of this fruit
has reeu recently brought to this oily, some
specimens of w hich, received by Paeehall,
Monis & Co., Girard Row, Market street,
weigh 221 aunces each twenty-lour till a
half bushel. Fruit always pays well in the
eas'eien cities, and farmers in the vicinity
of railroads could not do better than to raise
a crop especially for this markot. Lffger.
creation of the world before any method of
computing Time, or of dating events, was
brought into established use. At n very
early period time was measured by the rev
olutions of the moon, the seasons, nnd the
successive returns of labor and rest ; but so
late as Ihe age of Homer b formal calendar
seems to have been unknown its a guiilo 10
history or a register of events.
The division of days into weeks is ihe
most ancient modo of marking time, nnd
probably took place nl the Creation. The
next division was that of months, which ap
pears to have been in use even before tho
Flood. The months were maiked by the
revolutions of tho moon, consequently were
lunar months.
The highest nattiiul division of time is into
years. At first a year comsistnd of only
twelve lunar moi.ths, li is supposed that this
method of reckoning was in use as early ns
the Deluge, nnd that it continued for many
ages after. But this was a very imperfect
mode of computing time, for n lunnr year
was neady eleven days shorter than a solur
year; hence Ihe months could not long cor
respond with the seasons. And even in the
short space of seventeen yenrs ihe winter
months would have changed places with
those of summer.
The calender which i now generally
adopted in the Christian world was instituted
by Romulus. His year began on the 1st of
March, and continued only ten months, or
about 304 days, hence was very iinerfect.
Numa gave the year 355 days, ridded two
more months, nnd transferred tho beginning
of Ihe year to the Is of January. But this
was still making the year too short.
When Julius Ctesar obtained the sover
eignty of Rome, he found the months had
changed from tho seasons, and in order lo
bring them forward to their places he formed
one long year of fifteen month', or 445 days.
This has been called the year of confusion. It
ended January 1st, foity-fivo years before
Christ. From this period the Julian year of
3C5 days and 6 yours commenced. The
common year continued only 365 days, but
once every four years the 6 hours amounted
to another day, and this day was added to
23d of February, or the sixth calends ol
Match, which was to be reckoned twice
hence this year was 6!) led Bissextile, or
Leap Year.
The Julinn year, however, was still imper
fect, for the earth pei forms ils annual circuit
rutind tho sun in 3U5 days, 5 hours, 4S min
ute?, 45 i seconds; hence the solar year was
shorter than the Julian, or civil )ear, by 11
minutes, 141 seconds, which in 130 years
amounted to a day.
In the course of time this inconvenience
becomin'; too considerable to be unnoticed.
Pope Giegoty XIII. substituted a new calen
dar, called the Gregoiian Calender, or new
style. It was published in March A. D.
1582. Ten days had now been gained by
the eld mode of reckoning, and these were
struck out of the mouth of.October following,
by reckoning the fillh day uf that month the
fifteenth.
And in order to prevent Ihe recurrence of
a similar variation in time to come, ho or
dained that one day should be added In every
fourth year as before, nnd that from the year
1600 every fourth centennial year should be
received as leap year, and Ihe other three
centennial years as common ones. Thus the
yenrs 1700, 1800, 1900, 2100, 2200, etc.. nre
to be reckoned as common ones, a'-a lr00,
2000. 2400. etc.. as lean veat. Kver.- ifii
correction is not absolutely exact, yet the er
ror is so small as to hardly vary one day in a
thousand yeais.
The mode of eomputins time as establish
ed bv Gteoory is called New Sl)le, and that
bv Julias Cnsar, Old Style. The New Style
was adopted by Spain, Portugal, and part of
linly on the same day as at Rome, and in
France on the tenth of December following:
which was reckoned the twentieth day.
But in Great Britain this change was not
adopted until September, 1752, when 170
years had elapsed since the Gregorian alleru
lion consequently a little more than another
day had been gained. It was therefore enacted
by Pailiamenl that eleven days instead ol
... ... . .1 .L f
ten, should De stricken out 01 tne mourn 01
September, 1752. On the second day of that
month the Old btyle ceased, and the thud
dav was reckoned the lonrieeuth. By the
same act Great Britain changed the begin
ning of the year from the 25th of March lo
1st of January.
The time for commencing the year has
usually been determined, among different
nations, by the date of some memorable
event, such as the Deluge, the Incarnation ef
Chiist, eto.
The Egyptians began the year with Ihe au
tumnal equinox. The Jewish eclesiastio
year began in Ihe springMbut in civil affairs
they retained the epoch of the Egyptians.
The ancient Swedish year began about the
lime of the winter solstice. The Turks and
Arabs commence their year about ihe mid
dle of July.
When Romulus began Ihe year of March,
he named the last four months according to
their position. The names September, Octo
ber, November, December, designated their
order seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth.
But Numa changed the beginning of the year
to the 1st of January without altering the
names of the months: hence they do not now
correcnond to their order in the calender.
Owing lo these changes in the modes of
reckoning time, if we wish to asceitain to
what data in Old Sytle woulj a certain day
in Nw Style correspond, er what date in
, New Stylo any day of Old Style would rep
present, wo must obseive I'fio following
rules :
If Ihe event happened beforo the fst of
March, 1700, add ten days to the Old Style,
and you have it corrected for the new ; if it
happened between the last day of February,
1700, and the 1st of March, 1800, itdd elev
en days ; il between the same dates in 1800
and 1900, add twelve days ; nnd if between
1900 anil 2100, add thirteen days. If yon
wish to ascertain the Old Style from the
New, snbslract from tho New instead of nil"
ding to tin OI.I.
A It EMArtKAltl.Y VK IOt.S WIIAI.R.
The Edgcrtown Gazette published tho fol
lowing paitictilars relative lo the attack upon
and final rapture of nn ugly whale, by n
boat's crew fiom tho ship Hector, of New
Bedford, furnished by Capt. Thoa. A. Noiton,
who was tho first mate of ihe Hector at the
time :
"In October, 1832, when in lit. 12 S. Ion
80 W, the ship 90 days fiom port, we raised
a large w hale. The joyful cry was given of
'there she blows!' and every thing on board
at once assiitrud an aspect of busy prepara
tion for the capture. The boats were low
ered, and the chase commenced. When vc
got within three ships' length of him, he
turned and rushed furiously upon us. He
struck us m the same moment we fastened
to him. He stovo the boat badiy, but w ith
the assistance of sails, w Inch we placed un
der her bottom, and constant bailing, she
was kept above wuler. The Captain John
O. Morse came lo our assistance. Told
him he had better keep cleat of the w hale
but he said he had a very long lance, nnd
wanted to try il upon the rascal. Capt. M
went up to the whale, when all at once ho
turned upon the boat, which ho took in his
mouth, and held 'right up on end' out ol Ihe
water, nnd shook it all to peiees in a mo
ment. The m:t were thrown in evety di
rection, and Captain Morso fell from a dis
tance of at least thirty feet into the water. No
being satisfied with total destruction of the
boat, he Set lo work nnd 'chewed up' the
boat kegs and lament kegs, and w hatever
fiajjments of the boat he could find filiating
upon the water. At this stase of Ihu 'fight,'
I told Capt. Morse, that if he would give mo
tho choise of the ships' company, 1 would
try him again. It was desparate work to nil
appearance, and up to this time the vicious
fellow had had it all his own wav. The
Captain was in favor of trying him from the
ship, but finall consented for uslo attack him
again from a boat; With a picked crew,
we again approached the whale, now lying
perfectly still, apparently ready for another
attack, ns the event proved. Seeing our ap
proach, he daited towards us wiih his mouth
wide open, his ponderous jaws coming to
gether every moment, with tremundous en
ergy. We gave the word tu 'stein u 11,'
which was obeyed in good earnest. As we
passed the ship, I heard the captain exclaim,
'there goes another boat !' She did go, lo be
sure, through the wuler, with all speed; but
fortunately nut lo destruction. The monster
chased us in lhis way for half a mile or
more, during most of which time his jaws
were w ithin six or eight inches of the head
of the boat. Every lime ho brought them
together the concussion could be heard at the
distance of at least a mile. 1 intended to
jump ovei board if he caught the boat Told
Mr. Mayhew, the 3d mate, who held the
steering oar, that the whale would turn over
soon to spout, and that then would be our
time to kill him Afler becoming exhausted
he turned over lo spout, ami at the same in
stant we stopped the biat, and buried onr
lantes deep in 'his life.' One convulsion of
the frame followed, and nil was still. He
never troubled us more. We towed him to
Ihu ship, fried him out, and took ninety bar
rels of oil fiom him.
When we were cutting him in, we found
two irons in his body, maiked with tho name
of the ship Barclay, and belonging to the
mate's boat. We afterwards learned that
three months before, when the same whale
was in lat. 5 S. Ion. 105 W , he was attacked
by Ihe mate of the ship Barclay, who had a
desperate snuggle with him, in which he
finally lost his life."
Capt. Norton, at the time of the adventure
with lhis whale, had "seen some seivice,"
but he freely confesses that never before nor
since, (ihouiih he has had the buttons bitten
off his shiit by a whale,) has he come in
contact with such an ugly customer as this
"rogue whale," as he was lerned in sailor
parlance. lie seemed possessed of the
spirit of a demon, nnd looked as savage as a
hungary hyena. Our readers may imagine
tho effect suet an encounter would have upon
a crew of 'green hands.' During the fiiuht
ful chase of the boat by the whale, 1 heir
faces were of a livid while, and their hair
stood erect. On iheir arrival at the first port
they all took to the mountains, and few if
any of Ihem, hve ever been seen since.
Capt. Norton informs us that n whale) was
never before known to attack a boat before
being struck. In lhis rase Ihe whale had
evidently experienced much trouble from
ihe irons left in his body, and ts the first op
portunity which presented for revenge. Ta
ken altogether, we think this will rank high
among the whaling stories of our day.
TIIK LATE MALIGSAXT I EVI It.
Tho Medical Examiner for November, nnd
the Quarterly Transactions of the College of
Physicians, have a very satisfactory and ait'
thoutio history of the fever recently prevail
ing in the neighboi hood of South street wharf.
The baik Mandarin, which it is supposed
brought the fever, arrived nt the Lnzeretto on
ihe 12th of Jul', fiom Cirnftigos, having lost
two men by fever on her passage.
The first case of suspicious fever wns on
tho l!)ih of July, tho day before the Mandar
in left her position at Lombard street w harf.
A young man whnsn stand was Rt South
street wharf, took sick and died. The next
case was that of a captain, whoso brig lay nt
Lombar street wharf, nnd w ho slept on board
the brig, r.nd took his meals nt tho Champion
House. Me took sick on the 20th. The next
W its tho son of Mr. Kochlcr, who lived with
his father at the Champion House. The next
ihe keeper of the Bed Bank Ferry house, and
his wife, in tho same vicinily, I'p to July
the 27th, there weio seventeen cases, of
w hich eleven died. There were only eight
of these cases which exhibited black vomit,
and they all perished. In the mouth of Au
gust, there weio twenty-seven additional
cases, presenting in all respects, evidences of
ellow Fever, twenty-three of which died.
In eleven of lha thirty-four deaths a post
mortem wan made; in nil of which the yel
low or ochre-coloied liver was detected in
whole or in part. In all of Ihem the "coffee
grounds" fluid, or melenic blood, was found,
either in the stomach or intestines, with
other evidence of a pernicious fi.im of fever,
t'he moitalily being feat fill, being 80 per
cent., or fivu to one of recoveries.
The disease still continued to prevail till
tho 7lh of October, w hen Ihe last case occur
red Duiidg this period of eighty days there
were 0:10 hundred ami twenty-eight deaths,
equal lo 75 per cent., or one death in every
1 12 humlrelh. These include every varie
ty of Ihe disease, called respectively, Yellow,
Malignant, Malignant Billions, Pernicious,
Malignant Remittent and Typhus Icterodes
fevers. Out of these 170 case, 147 were
distinctly traced to tho immediate, vicinily
of ihe infected distiict of w hich South street
I w harf was the centre.
Tiu: (.11 11. i s u.uidev
Beneath tne budding lilacs
A little maiden ciied
The fiist flower in her garden
That very morn had died.
A primrose tuft, transplanted,
And watered every day,
One yellow bud had opened,
And then it pined away.
1 thought, ns that child's sorrow
Rose wailing 011 the air,
My heart gave forth an echo,
Long bound in silence there.
For though time brings us roses,
And golden fruits beside,
We've all some desert garden
Where Life's first primrose died !
Fred Docolass seems to be now engaged
in a bitter waifare wi;h Garrison and his in
fidel associates of the American Anti Slavery
Society. Of the cause of this warfare we are
not fully apprised, but learn from the Coloni
zation Herald the hallowing :
We appreciate the sympathy and appre
hension of Mr. Douglass for his brethren
yea, more, w e honor his honesty and fidelity
in denouncing the Garrisouian Infidel Aboli
tion party, and separating himself and his
influence fiom their fanatical movements
These men have been the scourgo of the
slave, the cursu of tho free colored people,
and the reproach of their country. It is
known for some time past that Mr. D. has
expressed his confidence in uud devotion to
tho Bibio and tho ChiiMiau religion, in oppo
siliou to the infi.lelity of the Gairisonian
School. His aversion to the Abulilion infidels
and profession of the truth, has exposed him
lo ihu fiery dails of his adversaries. Tiuo lo
God, lo the Bible, himself and his brethren
hu will be fully able to withstand his cue
mies, and command the respect of the iutel
;eut and Christian public.
OLD SERIES, VOI-. 14, NO. 10.
THE I.OLISVII.I.l.; TflADftF.DY
The late tragedy nt Louisville, in which an
eminertt nnd accomplished teacher, in tl 0
full tide of health, activity nnd usefulness,
came to a sudden and violent death, by Iho
hands of a man ef wealth nnd fashion", has
exerted a profound sensation The offence
of the teacher, who had formerly been a fa
vorito tutoi in Mr. Ward's family, was, lhat
ho had chastised a young brother of the
Wauls, for a violation of (he regulations of
the shoo, nnd telling a falsehood lo hide his
offence. Malbew Ward, Iho brother, and
another brother, armed themselves, one with
loaded pmto.s and the other wilh a bowie
knife, wont to Iho school and shot the teach
er, Mr. Butler.
the evidence of the scholars, nn the exam
ining tiial, which resulted in Ward and his
brother being committed for murder in the
first degree, all concurred ns lo ihn shooting
and the character o! the provocation.
John A. Campbell, a pupil in Ihn school,
was first fnfrnifuceif as a witness. He testi
fied that M. F. Ward, accompanied by his
two brothers, Rnbertjarm William, and about
10 o'clock, entered the school-room of Mr;
Butler, and William Ward, the youngest, took
a seat, nnd Mat. Ward asked for Mr. Butler.
One of tho scholars informed Mr. Butler that
some one desired to see him. lie went into
the room, nnd Mathew F. Ward accosted him
by saying ho had something to say, and ask,
ed whsch he thought the worst, Ihe mean little
puppy that nsked his brolherfor the chesnots
and then lo'd on him, or his brother who
gave him Ihe nnts?
Mr. Butler made some reply, tho witness
did not exactly know what. Ward then, in
an impatient mannci, said he would ask Mr
Butler another question ; and asked w hy her
called his brother a liar.' and then said that
Mr. Butler was n d d liar, and immedi
ately struck him. The w itness then turned
his back and picked up Ihe tongs, anticipa
ting a fuss, when he heard the report of a
pistol; saw Mr. Butler fall, but saw nothing
more of Mathew Ward. His brother, Robert
Want, was there, however, armed with a
large ilirk flourishing it about, Mr. Butler
was shot in the left breast, near the heart,
wiih a small single barrelled pistol.
S.'vernl other scholars testified to lf.) gamer
lctail of facts. Gillmore, a gunsmith, test!-
tied that Ward got the pistols at his store, and
had ihem loaded before he started out.
Mr. Mathew Ward, here implicated, is a
young married man, son of Robert J. Ward.
one of Ihe wealthiest men in Kentucky. Ho
is aiso tne oroti:er or Miss Sillie Ward, the?
belle whose divorco case made so much talk
a few years ago, Mr. Ward has also some
literary reputation, having published a book
entitled "English items." Mrs. Wm. H fl-
Butler, Is a native of Indiana. He was one)
of the best educated men in the Western
country, and one of the best and most suc
cessful teachers. Three years ago, he was
a deligate from Iho American Peace Society,
to the World's Peace Convention, at Frank-
tort-on-the Maine. After his return, and
since he established the Louisville High
school, in association wiih Professor Sturges,
tie was again ottered the situation of private
tutor in Mr. Ward's family.
A gu.i for duck shooting has been imported
from England by a gentlemau of Baltimore.
This handy little plaything is only 8 feet in
the barrel, 5 feet in the stock one foot and
a half around the breech, and an inch and a
half across the muzzle ! It take two Irish,
men to lift it.
A Bi'shel ok Moxky. The 'run" on I.
hs & Slurges, at Ciueinnali, wi.s kept up on
Thuisday morning, lo some extent, by tho
small depositors, us on ihu day previous.
Duiing the morning, no lillle excitement
was created by the appearance of Dr. Smead,
of the Citizen's Bank, prerreded by two pen
sons cariying a biisliel basket, toll ol notes,
which they proceeded to cany behind the
counter, and plaeed nt Ihe disposal of Messrs.
E ii.S. This suilden and iinexpecled move.
ment rather nonplussed ihe crowd, and many
of ilium retired, fully satisfied thai there wu
no occasion fur iilatm, as the piles of money
stacked up before him being iho aforesaid
bushel, and a "heap'' besides would keep
the paying teller in exercise for several days
to come.
Taking Cakk or thi Baut. Last week a
fire occurred at Home, Cortland Co., in a
building occupied by eight or ten Lish fam
ilies. During the excitement, one of ihoso
crazy busybodies who always attend fues
nnd do more harm lhau good, caught up an
infant, and threw it out of the window of the
second story. Luckily a gentleman below
saw it coming, and eucceedad in catching it
in his arms, thus barely saving it from cer
tain death. We have seen mammoth mir
ror nn. I delicate China ware thrown from
high windows, during large fires, but the
"saving" of a baby in lhat fashion is a
ttreutch of "econonij" and "humanity" un
precedented in our reading or observation
Alb. JRtf.
A MODEL DI N.
A Pennsylvania Yankee publishes Ihe fo!
lowing advertisement in the Doylestown In
tolligpncor. We copy it without chance :
To Money Lenders and Speculators. I want
to pay my debts, and as the only means I
can devise lo get money without sneinrr. 1
have resolved to expose at public sale, at the
Court House, on Tuesday, the second week
of conit, (when thers will be a good many
politicians about.) a large nmnber of unset
tled book accounts, and the like number of
notes of various dates and amounts. Many
of them against nice young men who woar
good clothes, drive fast horses, and pay par
ticular attention to Ihe ladies and of course
b A No. 1. Some ngaiust men w ho think
they do you a favor if they buy yonr goods
ami never pay for them they are No 2.
Some against men w ho promise to pay to
morrow. They are not quite so goo.l. But
a full nnd complete printed catalogue of the
names, dates, and amounts, will be distribu
ted on the day of sale. Conditions, ensh.
R Thornton.
N. It. The above accounts will be onou
for settlement until the day of sale.
TO ANGVLIXE.
I deatly luv the singiii' bird,
And little buziii' bee,
But dearer far lhau all Ihe woild,
Is thy sweet voice lo me.
O ! very deep is daddy's well,
And deeper is the sea,
Bui deepest in my busnm is
The luv 1 bnie for thee.
Then smile on me, Dear Angyline
To make my heart (eel light, '
Chain the big dog and will coma
A courtiu' Sunday Hite.
Just is Time. The Treasurer of Stark
rounly, Ohio, walked into ihe bowels of
Dwight's Hunk, at Massillon, lo the tune of
$10,000 the very day it suspended, lie came
armed with those utensils, pick-azt, crowbar
and the people, and made Ihe securities for
tho bank pay over without bursting a bolt.
It is considered about Clevelaud, lhat the
concern is very much mixed, and the ability
tu pay over su per ceut. is questionable.
Is tho city of Houston, Texas, it is said,
that t73;000 is annually spent ior intoxicaiinn
liters. The population conei.ts of aboul
three thousand w hite inhabitants.