t
like a flash the Sally 'Ann came luffing Into
the wind, and then brought up all standing
Afi tails Mr. Comstock.ahd touching his hat
very cavalierly, '-Cap!. Spoonor,' says ho,
my part of tho schooner's at anchor.'
THE OLD SOLDIER'S STORY.
A few days sinco I stopped at a public
house in Golerain, and while my horso was
eating, 1 sat down iu ilia bar-room, and
heard a sensible old man relate tho substance
of the enclosed account.
Dunne tho revolutionary war, tliare
was.'a point of land on the Joraey side of
the Hudson, and not far distant from New
York, which was tho scene of a bloody
conflict. There were about three hundred
acres next to the river, from which the
wood and timber had been cleared olT; back
of this was a heavy forest. On this cloar
ed point, a large number of fat cattle, des
lined to, suddIv the American army, were
placed. Four or five hundted yards dis
tant in New Jersey, there were three thous
and liffht infantry, under the command of
Lafayette. I vas one of that detachment
'Our business was to seo that tho cattle
wore not taken from the point by tho one
tat.
One morning, intelligence was brought
into camp, that several vessels had ap
proached the point, and that a largo body
of British, soldiers' were landing. My rn-
giraent wasordered to march immediately
for the totnt. Rufus Putnam, n nephew
of the old General, was our Colonel. Ho
was well stocked with the Putnam mettle.
Ho was a brave officer. I could never dis
corn that ho was not just as self-possessed
when goiug into battlo as when sitting in
his tent. We made a hurried match and
upon approaching the edge of the woods,
the Colonel ordered the Adjutant to go
forward and see whste the troops were
and what was the number. Tho Adju
taut soon returned, and reported they were
forming in three columns containing about
one thousand each, 'then, said tno Co
lonel, 'ride back to the canp as soon as
possible and tell Lafayette to como on.'
When the Adiut&nthae. gone, Col. Putnam
rode up to mr Captain, who vras Daniel
Shays, ol insurrection memory, and sai
he, 'Well, Captain Shays, shall we bo play
inr with the unt'l the General comes.
'That must be an you please, 'replied Cant
Shays. Oiders were soon given to ad
vaacft to the open land upon the point.
We now stood face to (ace to our foes.
Tiring vary soon commenced. Cannon
from the shipping in the river poured forth
their vollies; and small arms did fatal exe
'ontion. Colenel Putnam rode back and
'forth in 'frontof his regiment, as calm as a
man at home, though tho balls were whist
ling past him in every direction. We had
werked very fast, and for one regiment,
made a great noise. The eorporal at my
and leu dying, 1 was young, and a dying
nan at my feet, bleeding and gasping,
might causo my color to fade a little. Cap
ta'm Shays stepped forward, 'George,' says
ho, 'never minel it; I will take his place;
and be was as good as his word, he took
the corporal's gun and used it. Shays was
tho best Captain I ever served under, He
was bold aud kind; I was loading my gun
the twenty-second time, when. Genoral La
fayette with the main body of the light in
fantry, issued from the wood. Never shall
I foiget tho fadings of that moment. Wel
lington was hardly more pleased to soe
llUoher in tho battlo of Watorloo, than ws
were to sse our brethsrs in arms.
The main body formed at once, upon onr
left. Lafayette rode forward (an excellent
officer; anil never did he fill my eye so en
tirely as at that moment,) though n strip
pling in appearance, in action ho was a
man; and had Cornwallis sssn him as wt
then saw bias he would not have called him
'ihe boy.' As ho approached, 'Col. Put
nam,' said he 'how dated you fire before I
arrived!' 'Oh 1' said tho Celonel.'I thought
1 -would be playing wilh tbom a little.'
'Lafayette at that moment seemed full of
energy and life; turning toward the line, and
with a load, distinct voice, marked by his
French accent, said he. 'We firo no more
the whole line, charge bayonet, rush on
ward and drive them where the devil drove
the hogs.' The efforts of his presence and
his wards was astonishing, every heart beat
qnick and full. We did rush on, and such
a scene ol carnage my eyes never saw.
At first the British force oharged to meet us
bnt they could not stand agajpst us, and
Hod to the shore, we followed them and
droro them into tho water; of tho three
thousauu about fifteen hundred cot aboard
the vessels. The rest waro slain and most
of thorn at the point ol the cayonet.
1 have described to you tho most cnin
fully interesting and horrid scene I had ev
er witnessed. 1 never enjoyed killing
man. 1 fought because I thought it to be
my duty.' Greenfield Mercury.
A PROFITABLE PRISON.
r. CI I .
vovenmr onannon, in ms late message
to the Legislature of Ohio, gives the an
ncxed account of the State Paniientiary
ii appears io tie eeauneieu prosperous
ly, by its present Warden. Tho toul cash
receipts for the year ending November 30th
are stalsd at 644,1)00. Total cash pay
msnts 827,000. ? he entire earnings of
tho institution, during the year amount to
$52,000, which is a netl $20,000 above all
expenditures for sppenulendance, Sic. Th
number of convicts on tho 30th November
was 480. Uut four deaths have occurred
uuring ll(o year,
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THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
Wo lay before our readers a statement of
tho votes given for the Democratic candi
dates at the last four Presidential elections,
carefully collated from tho official returns.
1 ho immense superiority of tho volo of
Mr. Van Duiien in 1840 over thai of any
previous election a superiority as great as
tho increased population it: 'the country
could, upon the principle of o fair election,
poseiblv justify, cannot fail to trike the roa
der. We have also compared it with the results
of the State elections in tho several ynars
since 1830' including that of 1839; when
the Democracy, after iierco contest, carried
three-fourths of tho states of tho Union,
and find that Mr. Van Buren's vote greatly
transcends also the Democratic vote on ei
ther of those occasions, Thcro are, alsn,
particular portions of tho statement, which
go to show the zeal and power with which
the democracy havo turned out at the recent
eloction, in defenco of their principles.
Whilst General Jackson was elected in
1828 by n majority of 137,870 in 1832
by a majority of 137,524, it appoara that
the Democratic vote in 1840 is vury nearly
equal to tho coinbinad vote of Gen. Jackson
in 1828 and 1831.
Again : Gen. Jackson's majority in Penn
sylvania was 50,000. Mr. Van Buren
loses the state, although his rote in 1S40
was 42,000 moro than Gen. Jackson's in
.1820.
Although Mr.lVan Buren's vote is fotru-
five thousand seven hundred and four more
than it was in 1830, when ue carried tuo
tho state of New York by twenty-eight
thousand, ho now loses it by thirteen thous
and 1
Another rsmarkblo fact is that Mr. Van
Baron's popular vote on the Elecmrial tick
et in 1840 mors than doubles tho Federal
electoral vote nf 'l828,and also that of 1832,
8nd nearly doubles tho Federal voto of
1830.
General Jackson, received throughout1
the Union, in 1828, 051,929; in 1832, 087,
011. Martin Van Buren received, in 1S30,
704,205, in 1840, 1,125,781. Globe.
NORTH AND SOUTH.
The Whig legislature of Connecticut,
the other day, following 'in tho wako of
Vermont, passed resolves in favor of reviv
ing tho protective system. This is Hani-,
sonism on one side.
The Whig legislature of Georgia have
lately passud tesolves, against the protec
tive system. This is .Hanisouisut on the
other side.
Plio legislaturo of Georgia, havo also ra-
olved against a Bank.
- Tartnw- -rruttr lc'l.tu. ( M.;...
will, it is said, resolve in favor of one.
Ihe Hbrrisburg convention coitainly.
stands justified in refusing to ' mako any
goneral declaration of the visws of the op
position parly,' by the best of all imagina
bio reasons. ' The thing was an irupossibil-
In tho peculiar conjuncture of affairs, it
is even thought that Gen. Harrison will de
cline tho delivery of an Inaugural Address,
which by forcing him upon the forbidden
ground of declarations for the public eye,'
might by his friends, bo ' deemed impolitic
One Day for Elections. A resolution
has been introduced into tbo House of Rep
resentatives of Ohio instructing the United
States Senators from that State, and. reques
ting their members in the lower house of
Congress to endeavor to procure the pass
age of a law, fixing the same day or days
throughout the United States for tho choico
f Presidential electors. The nresent nlan
admits of a great deal of fraud, which might
easily be prevented if elections in all the
States were held on tho same day. If the
facilities for transplanting illegal votes
houli not he cut off entirely, they would
be greatly diminished. Pennsylvanian.
Re-Nomination of Mr. Van Buren. A
resolution was offered in the Missouri Leg
islature, ordering tho appointment of a com
mittee. " to report an address to Mr. Van
Buren, President of the United States, ex
pressive of the respect of the General As
sembly of Missouri for his character.public
and ptiv&to. and their approbation of his
administration, and confi dence in his abili
ties, patriotism and disinterested devotion
to the public good, and also, to nominate
him as the democratic candidato for tho
Presidential election of 1844." .
gjWI iff TtamBTI
Maryland. The finances of this State
seem to bo much embarrassed. Bv the
racsaiga 01 wia uovernor, uciivereu on
-f,t. ... .
Wednesday last, it appears that the Sate
dobt is nlready 815,109,000, and will short
ly b ineiessed by the issue of 3237,000
worth of authorised stock. The expenses
of tho Stale will exceed its revenue for the
ensuing year by $171,000, and it is compu
ted that flfter the present year the income
will fall 8000.000 short of tho expenditures.
Notwithstanding this, tho Governor onno-
ess the distribution of the public land among
the Slates, and argues that the State should
depend upon herself alone, for tho pay
mont of her debts and the prosecution of
her nub He works. Ihe messazo discusses
this and other subjects with much force and
ability, and is altogether an interesting doc
uruent. Spirit of (he limes,
Interesting Incident, The Mllledge
villc Standard of the 24lh ull., rolates,lho
following : In tho examination before tho
Legislature, of the claim of 'James Hunter,
to tho legislative clelnCmcy Or pardon, for
the crime of murder, committed 6a U. Lovo-
joy, Mr. Jones, Senator from the county
ol Paulding, nisuo me loiiqwing statement,
which he ssid he had not heard contradicted
" Aftor tho conviction of Hiiuter.he was
visited in his pnsoit by hie wife. During
one of her visits, 'aha clad herself iu his dp
parol, and ho dressed himceU up iu hers;
and in that disguise made his esoape. Af
ter soma hours tho affair was discovered)
and the jailor detained the wife in prison,
as being accessary to the escape of hor hus
band. Hunter, hearing in some way that
his wife was kept in jail, came forth volun
tarily, and gave himself up to the proper
authority, to suffer upon the gallows, in or
der to relieve an affectionato and confiding
wifo from the walls of u prison." Such
conduct is truly ennobling even iu a felon,
and tho mention of it croated a doep emo
tion in tho legislative halls. Hunter was
pardoned by the Legislature, and has been
restored to the bosom of liis family. And
wo sincerely hope thit his subsequent con
duct will prove him not unworthy of the
enjoyment of thoao.civil privileges to which
he has been again restored.
Litsus Nalunc A correspondent of the
Portsmouth (V.) Chronicle gives tho follow
ing account of a singular freak of nature.
Ho is a physician of character, and vouch-,
es for the truth of it.
A negro womau in the country of Math
ews, Va., delivered, on the 25th of Noveaa
ber, of threo children. Ono was a perfect
ly formed child, and is now living and
hearty. Tho other two are a lusus naturx,
more remarkable in every respect than the
notorious Siamese twins. They havo each
a nerfect formation from the cord of the
crown of tho head. They havo four per
fect arms, two separate heads, complete in
their organization, and 'two chests. The
formation flora' the umhlicus downwards,
is that of a. single child. There is only
one abdomen, oncumbilicpl cord and two
legs with one organization of the male ssx.
They wore living until a low moments he
fore birth. They must have possessed two
hearts and two separate pulmonary eigans
with only one set of intestines and lower
extremetics. They have been keptio spir
its for preservation, with tho intention o
nresentin? them to a museum of some mod
ical college, and consequently have not been
uissemeu.
From the Globe.
THE MASQUERADE IS OVER.
Gen. Harrison, pending the election,
wore different visers to suit his aspect to
every party and to all his leading parti
sans. His public avowal to the aspirants
r-iU-f oau1ncyamari(f tjja latlur, Was
thai no human being should ever know
which of them ho preferred as successor
And now it appears from the report of his
own friends, accredited and promulgated
by the presies which support him tho
Louisville Journal, and tho Philadelphia
Gazette that he considers "Mr. Clav
tne fittest man in the nation for the Presi
dency; and that he would himself resign
the office at once, on his arrival at Wash'
inctan, were it possible for him, bu to do-
ng, to confer it on the distinguished Ken
luckian." Of course, he will do all he
can, by holding tho office of President, to
coiifct it on the. fittest man for it, as he can
not accomplish that object by resigning th?
lation.
A public entertainment was pivon the
other day at tfersalires, Kentucky to Gen.
Harrison. In the course of it the Presi
dent elect rose and gave a toast in honor of
Heury Clay. In. the eloquent remarks
with which ho accompanied ihe sentiment,
he stated, ss'thc editor of the Louisville
Journal was informed by one of his audi
tors, that ho considered Mr. Clay the fitlssl
man in the nation for the Presidency, and
he himself would resign tho office at once
on his arrival at Washington, were it possi
ble lor him by so doing, to comer it on the
distinguished Kentuckian. Philadelphia
Uaz.
Domestic Embargo. A bill is now pen
ding in the Lrgislaturo of Georgia, and will
probably become a law, intended to placo
an embargo on the commerce of Maine with
that Slate. The cause of this mocement
is said to be the refusal of the latter Slate
to surrender curtain persons charged with
feloniously taking away slaves from the
former. The bill provides that after the
first day of Maroh next, every vessel from
Maine, which visits the waters of Georgia.
shall perform a quarrantin of ono hundred
days, and during that time no ene of the
passengers, officers or crow, shall be per
mitted to leave tho vessel, on any account
under a heavy penally. The quarantine
ground is to be not within threo mil.es of any
seaport, city, town or hamlet within the
Stale. The penalty for an infringment of
oi tne law is punishment in the penitentia
ry not les3 than five, nor moro than ten
years, Spirit of the Times,
SSSESSSHRtHS
Another Mys,ttriaus Disappearance.
A resprcijble.yptmgmnn from Bangor, Mo.
nomed Henry, noves, lately left his board
ing houso in New York to take a walk, and
has not been sinco heard of. Ho had a
large sum of money on his person flr.d, be
ing of exceedingly correct hab'jls, fears are
entertained for his safety. t
WEIGHT OP MILITARY MEN.
The follnwinir memorandum was found
a number of years ago in tho pocketbook
ot unoiuccroi trie Massachusetts imu ;
August 18, 1783.
Weiahed at the scales at West. Point.
Genoral Washington 209 lbs.
General Lincoln 221
Gcnetal Knox 280
General Huntingdon 132
General Gronlon ,100 .
Colonol.Swift . t 210 ,
Colonel Micheal Jackson 252
Lt. Col. Huntington 232 ,
Lt. Col. Cobb 180
Lt, Col. Humphreys 221
It appears from the above, that tho avor
ago woight of theso eleven distinguished
Revolutionary officers, was 214 pounds.
The heaviest weight having been Genoral
Knox, who weighed 280 pounds and tno
lightest Genoral Huntingdon, who weighed
122 pounds. It is somewhat singular that
tho biographers of eminent luon, uever un
less under oircumstances of a peculiar char
acter, record tho wcisrhl or dimensions nf
tho cIst tonenonts, which were the abodo
of their immortal spirits.
CIDER. THE TWO CANCERS.
A few years since, a revolutionary sol
dier in this county, who retained to advanc
ed age the appolite fer strong drink, which
Was probably fust kindled by tho mistaken
liberality of tho government, who supplied
the poison, afGictud with a cancer. He was
told by his physician, that if ha woud a
bandon the use of strong drink, and pursuo
the measures he pointed out, it was pioba
ble its severity might bo mitigated, and his
life prolonged. But bo could not; at least
he did not resist the cravings of the deprav
ed appetite, and he soon ended his days in
agony. Auother man had a cancer begin
to davelopo itsolf upon his face at tho age
f thirty-live. Hetreraarkod that a single
glass of cider would occasion that pqculiar
twinging pain, which oharaclerizos this
decease. Ho immediately abandoned the
use of every thing that contained alcohol;
was careful as to his diet, lived to old age,
and never experienced and serious incon
venience from his cancer.
Maine Gasetle.
Truth It Potvar. Some meii say that
wealth is power, some that knowledge is
power, so'ua talent is power; but their is
an apothegm that I would placo on high a
Jborn them all, when I would assert that
Truth is power. Wealth cannot purchase,
talent refute, knowledge cannot over-roach,
antbority eannot silence her; thay, all, like
Felix, csnbla at her presence.
Maine Elections. Who late elections in
Maine seen to have been contested with
mora than usual warmth on both sides-
Th prtiet, are nearly balanced in the Stats,
anil in many of the districts a few scatter
ipg votes have occasioned sovoral ropoti-.
lions oi tno ballet, by denying a majority
on the first trials to either candidate. In
ihe Hancock and Washington district three
ineffectual attempts were made to elect a
member of Congress, and tho fourth was
decided by a majority of one vote only, in
fsvnr of Joshua A. Lowell, tho dowocratic
mudidate. This fact while it proves the
sincerity with which tho different parlies
maintain their respective opinion, also il
lustrates the importance of a singlo voto.
Pay of a Legislator in Georgia. Tho
Georgia Legislature have passed a resolu
tion fixing the pay of its members at five
dollars a day, and the same amount for evo
ry twenty miss travej in coming or going
ff tho seat of Government.
Girls Head This.' Health, says tho ed
itor of tho N. Y. American, is tho most in
available of all blessings; without it, life is
a cheorless void; and' health can only be
preserved by attontion, as well to shoes'and
stockings, as to tho other essential articles
of winter apparol.
Russia. Contains n population of 00,
000,000, who speak 29 different languages.
Her chief metropolis, now containing a pop
ulation of 000,000, was little better than it
morass 20 years Hfier tho foundation of
Pennsylvania by Penn. There aro 40,000.-
000 slaves, the properly of tho Czar or his
nobles, the whole number of the latter class
being about 800,000 in Russia.
Population ot Rhode Island 108,837
in 1830 97,100. Increase 11,038. Per
sons over 20, who cannot road or write, 1,-
uuu.
Population of Maryland 407,507 in
1830, 417,040. Increase 20,527, Balti
more city pontains 102,518 persons II,
380 whjte parsans over 20, who eannot
read or write iu tho state.
The population of the state of Indiana,
at the census of 1840, is 683.314. She
can afford a high ratio, and still havo ait in
crease of Congressional representation.
Population in 1830, 343,031. Increase
nearly 100 per cent.
Quite a Furnace. Elna has been con
sidered the Irrgcst volcano in tho world.but
from communications recently made to the
ueograpnicai society ol Ureat Unlian,
appears that Kirncn, a burning mountain
in Owyhee, one of tho Sandwich Islands,
uas a crater oi more man nine miles in
circumference.-
The Mimhrer of Ellen Jewil. Rnlil.
8on( tho murderer of Ellen Jewit, went to
Texas, where ho has sinco lost his right
arm that arm with which ho planted a
hatchet into llio forehead of h frail but to
him ait unoffending girl, and with which ho
then applied an iucendiary torch to tho bed
where she lay walloring in uloou, thus at-
leinpttiig to conceal tho murder by commit
tine arson that right arm, we say, has been
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ole 1 1 ironi ins snouiuur, in a iigm Willi the
Mexicans. Jllbuny Journal.
A Sailer's f.ifc.Hy an abstract from
tho Journal of the American Seaman's
Friond Society, wo learn tho disasters which
have occurred to American vessels on tho
coast, during tho last twclvo months, and
the perils anil hardships a sailor suffers.'
Tho number of vessels wrecked amount to
521, and are classed as follows: Ships
and barques 67; brigs 120; schooners 133;
sloops 14; stoamboats 0; class unknown Ql.
The greatest number wero lost in January,
viz: 211. Tho, next highest number was
in October 44. It has boon asccitiiucd
thai upward of seven hundred lives were
lost in tho wrecks of the several vessels
mentioned above.
National Debt.0( tho (oi Nationnl
Debt of the United Slates there remnina un
claimed and undischarged, 335,892 48.
Much of the largest portion of it is for in-
torost. There has been called for and paid
on nccnunt of tho debt, during the past year,
abtfUf $12,000.
Distressing. A child of Mr. Downs, of
Bennington, Vt. while playing "hanging,"
in the absence of the parents, recently hung
a little girl aged two years, in earnest. The
children ran for help, but it came loo late.
Georgia Silk. Two Judgos of the Su
perior Court of Macon couuty, Georgia, r u-
contly appeared on the bench iu full suits of
silk manufactured in their own famtlius.
An oxcollentoxamplo of native industry and
prido.
Charity. "My friends," said a minister
the Sunday after a monstrous small contri
bution, "when I said that charity was tho
lovo ol our species, I fear you understand
ma to say specie. I trust on this occasion
you will not labor under tho same nistuce.
Luminary Justice. Mr. Thomas E.
Clark, of Crittenden county, Arkansas, was
brutally murdered by two of his slaves, a
week or two since. When the murder be
came known, the citizons in a body turned
out and apprehended tho nogrosH, and hung
them ou tho nearest tree.
Steamboat Disaster, Tho Post Boy
bHrst one of her boilors while towing tho
ship St. Louis out of the Mississippi on tho
19th tilt, by which tho first engineer was
killed and several others sovercly scalded.
TVic fFrong Animal. A man at Que
bee, the other day, iu attempting to drown
a dog in the river, slipped in himself and
was drowned. His body wont under the
floating ice and could not bo rocoverod.
LARGE ARTIFICIAL LAKE.
The Cleveland Herald says that tho
grand Canal Reservoir in Mercer County,
Ohio, covers 13,000 acres ef land, tho wa
ter from 4 to 27 feet deep. It is said to bo
the largest artificial lake in the world.
THE subscriber would respectfully in
form his sustbmers and tho public goner
ally, that he has just received from New
York:
Platos of Fashions
and drafts for cutting garments, by which
he is enabled to cnt in the newest fashions
not only of New York, but of Loudon; and
make up in the first stilo for A'utumu and
Winter wear.
The Subseriber returns his sincero
thanks for past favors, and respectfully
solicits a continuanco, promising on his
part, every exertion to ronder general satis
faction. BERNARD RUPERT.
Ble-msburg; Nov. 28, 1840.
LIVERY
AND
EXCIIAiVGE.
ERy respectfully informs his fncnJa ami tho
jmlilic, that ho has ajtv aysonhand, at tho M-
wij aiamo in uioomsDurg, lor Hie purpose of Htro
or BxcUnngo, a vaiiety of
Eaoi'scs, Sulkies. ig-s,
WAGONS. AND Sl.i'.inirs
which ho will feci gratified to kpep in readiness for
the accommodation f customers.
lie has also maijo arrangements for carrying V"'
scngers from Btoomsburg to Muncv. and from
uiuuuiiuuiB iu uucKitiews on mo uwego turnpiKe.
uiuoiiisuurg lor JUuncy every Saturday
at T o'clock In tho morninir and arrii'o at Muncv
Si WW
K-7JL muAZ2Ay&
AND NEW.
the famo evening. Lcavo Muncy every Saturday L
mornius at 8 o'clock and
samo evening.
Leaves Dlocinsburg every Wednesday morning
for Huckalcws and return the samo day.
Personal application can be rnado at his residence,
when every looans wilt boused to render entire sat
isfaction to Uiono who may give him a call.
, , , NOAH S. I'KBNTIS.
BIoomAurg, March 28, 1810, 18.