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No. 33.
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The Bachelor.
A Bachelor, a Bachelor,
How pleasant it must be.
A welcome guest at every feast,
A happy fellow he :
"Whate'er ho earns he freely spends,
For home he has no care
The young- and merry Bachelor,
His home is everywhere .
To ball and rout invited out,
A beau to every belle,
The pleasures of a Bachelor,
No tongue can ever tell.
A Bachelor, a Bachelor,
When age with wrinkled faco,
Comes creeping- on him by degrees.
With slow yet steady pace ;
The jovial set whom once he met,
An evening hour to pass,
Some, some are dead, and some are wed,
For Time still turns his glass ;
No friend to cheer his silent home,
No heart responsive beats ;
He bears his sorrows all alone,
And pity nevcr.meeta.,
A Bachelor, a Bachelor,
He lives and dies the same;
No "wife to weep when he is dead,
No child to bear his name !
With mourning garb and measured pace,
Strangers attend his bier;
They loved him not, and scarcely pay
The tribute of a tear.
No silent grief, uo heartfelt prayer,
Hangs o'er his place of rest;
He leaves this world as he has lived,
Unbless:ng, and unblest.
Predictions for IS 1-3.
This year will be famous for a thousand dif- j
tferent things. From January to December, the
!- will consist of twenty-four hours each:
tiiid there will be such a number of eclipses,
tint many wise people will be in the dark.
Those who lose money will look, sad, and
those who are in want ol
of cash when they bor-
u-hnn tVinr rnmn m nar.
row, will want it more wnen iney come iu pay
Quadrupeds this year, will go upon four legs,
pretty generally, and cows horns will be crook
ed.
The celestial aspects indicate that political
parties will not agree for some time lo como ;
hut whoever is President, water will run down
hill, and ducks will waddle as heretofore.
Cabbage this year will be rather round than
three-cornered, and beets will be decidedly red.
Coal will be as black as ever ; cats will love
fish, but hate to wet their feet, and all on ac
count of the late Comet.
Whoever sells his house to buy moonshine
will hardly get his maney's worth. Whoever
runs to catch tho rainbow, will get out of breath
for his pains. For all that, Eastern lands nmy
be had lor the buying.
Locomotives and auctioneers' tongues will
tun fast. There will be mortal war between
cats and rats, as well as between Aldermen and
roast turkeys. People will talk about the ud
of the world, but it is ten to one that the .olar
system will not run against the dog-star be
tween now and next April.
Sea Serpents this year will be hard to catch,
and none but a conjurer will be able lo get a
quart into a pint bottle. Thoe who have wood
en legs will suffer little when they freeze their
toes. Wigs are expected to be fashionable
among the bald, but blind folks will hare some
difficuliy in 6eeing..
Divers steamboats will blow up ibis year, yet
it is hardly possible lhat any Southern slang
ivhanger will be able to set the. Mississippi on
.uet Apples will ripen about October, sooner
nr .Ver; 0,11 tnal u a'l one provided we have
ctde.r enough. Foxes will pay particular atten
tion to poultry ; there will be very few old birds
taken with chaff, and wild geese will , not lay
tame eggs.
A linen factory, upon a large scale,1 is going,
into opera'ion, at ,Paierson Iv, J, .
The Tariff--Yankee Cloclcs, &c.
Correspondence of The Tribune.
Liverpool, Nov. 18, 1813.
Sir: Tho most prominent subjects lhat en
gage the public atteuijon at the present time
aro 'The Irish Repeal,' 'The Anti-Corn Law
League' and tho ' Rebecca Riots' in Wales.
Of the first 1 know not what to say. Tho ac
tion and interference of the Government have
most certainly checked the Repealers in their
;)tWc'detnonstrations, hut that the excilemenl
has subsided, only to break forth afresh, is be
lieved by more than one. The trial of 'O'Con
nell' will soon como on, the result of which
will be an acquittal. It is reported to-day that
he has summoned three millions of witnesses,
all of which will appuar for the defence If it is
true ho will never live to see his sentence, even
if ho be convicted He is an old Fox and will
worry ' his Majesty's Hounds' ere the race is
over.
Tho 'Anti-Corn Law League' are making
tremendous efforts to disseminate their princi
ples, and with great success. They, however,
use some arguments which 1 think might with
propriety, bo questioned. For instance, in
' Lancashire,' Yorkshire, and other manufac
turing districts, they tell the people 'The Amer
ican Tariff was passed only as a. retaliation for
the English Corn Laws, and repeal the Corn
Laws and the Americans will repeal their Ta
riff.' These being districts almost wholly de
pendent on America as a Market for their goods,
the result is as would be anticipated.
Did our own countrymen know as all must
who have vistied England and the continent,
the benefits which lesttlt to our country from
the present tariff, 1 cannot believe there would
be Free
say We
Trade men enough in the States to
jt is astonishing to me that in " New
England" and " Connecticut" my native State,
there should be Free Trade men enough to
make a show of a party. Open our ports for
the admission of the pauper laborers of this
country, and our wheels would stop, and the
machinery would rust in their gudgeons And
can the farmers of our country be made to be
lieve that the Tariff is in opposition to their in
terest ?
The different ships which arrivo from New
York are loaded with cotton, turpentine, cheese,
lard, clocks, &c. &c. Tho idea of our Con
necticut folks furnishing " John Hull" with
time-keepers, is not less singular than true;
and as I am from tho Clock Slate, and acquaint
ed with the particulars of this enterprise, 1 will-,
as briefly as possible, give them to you. The
first iniporiation of clocks into this country was
in i he year 1842, and by Mr. C. Jerome, Bris
tol, Conn., the most extensive clock manufac
turer in the U. S. The clocks were accompa
nied by Mr. C. Jerome, jtm., a chip of the old
block, "an open, decided, genuine " Henty Clay"
Whig, who can calculate well on the workings j
of the Free Trade System, and makes "no!
bones" ui telling "John Bull" that "Brother
Jonathan" knows his own interests too well, to
receive their goods free, and be taxed to defray
ih expenses of the Government.
The first movement of Mr. J., after his arri
val here, was to open a siore in the Broadway
of Liverpool, which was douo more to show the
j article than effect sales. The first clock .-old
I was to one of " Her Majesty's Custom House
j Officers," for ihe modcr.-ue sum of $28. The
next to an "English Officer' for the same pried
Rather a " tall start" thought the Yankee. Af
ter supplying the natives lor a few weeks, a
proposition was made to buy the stock, if he
would quit the premises, and retail no more.
It was agreed upon, and Mr. Jerome directed
his aliontion to the wholesale houses in Lon
don. About this time it was " reckoned" among
ihe cluck speculators in Connecticut, lhat tho
business in England was better oven than it
was cracked up to be, and others engaged in it.
Tho result i. as would be expected, by every
one excrvt a Connecticut Yankee, viz: the mar-
ket in gmttcd, and clocks are bought here even!
cheaper than they can be in New York. The I
original cost is about S3 50. freight $7 50 per
ton, measurement, duty 20 per cent, and 5 ad
ditional, or about, SI per clock, and they are
-old here for $4 50 and $4 75, and these a
amd bras clock. I think H quite wrong that
ihe clock maniifaciurers in Nww York and Con
necticut should misrepresent the state of the
market a ihey do. It only acu as an induce
ment for parties to engage in and loose, who
cannot afford it. 1 trust, sirs, that a regard for
the interests of every American will induce
you lo give publicity to iheae statements, which
i made by one Who Knows.
Information Wanted.
Benjamin T. Cox, a lad uf 15 years old, left
the residence of hi parent in Montgomery
county, on the evening of the lOili ulr., without
any known eaue. Any information ol his
whereabouts, will be thankfully received by
Abraham R. Cox, Upper Providence, Mont
gomery county, Pa.
A New-York paper adu;rii-es that the owner
of the perpetual motion, lately exhibited in the
city, has absronded without paying the nun,
who lurnotj! the crank in the cellar
BISTORT OF MORN.
The Ulodcrn JSlcac I5enrd--ISis birth
at Worms Disposition to Ream
Narrative of Iiis dreadful crimes
filis cEiildreMEEe is uo doubt tEtc
greatest crimiuai ever tried in this
country.
Ilfillman, alias Adam Horn, was born on the
21th June, 17(.)2, and is now in his 52d year,
at the ancient town of Worms, on the river
Rhine, renowned as the placo where the Ger
man Diet assembled in the year 1521, before
which Luther was summoned to answer the
chargo of heresy, and is a portion of the Hes
sian State of Darmstadt, Ho is, therefore, a
Hessian by birth, and ihe son of Hessian pa
rents. We liavo before us (says the Baltimore
Sun) a certificale, signed by a priest, and dated
at the town of Worms, m the year 1792, giv
ing the name of his p.irents, and certifying to
the day of his birth and baptism under the name
of Andrew Hellman; there can, therefore, be
uo doubt as to this being his true name. His
parents gave him a good education, and at the
age of 16 he was bound apprentice to a tailor
at Wisupenheim, in Peteraheim county, where
he remained until ho was of age, when a de
sire to roam induced him to start off with only
his thimble and scissors in his pocket, with the
aid of which, according to his own representa
tion, he worked his way through all the Ger
man States, as well as various other parts of
Europe, returning again to Wisttpenheim in the
fall of 1316, after an absence of nearly three
years.' Ilo could not long content himself
there, however, and hearing of tho golden har
vest that was to bo reaped in America, and
having a desire to see a country that ho had
heard so much of, he took passage for Balti
more, where ho arrived in the year 1817, be
in then about 25 years of ago. As far as can
be learned, after his arrival, he worked for a
merchant tailor of Baltimore, for nearly three
years, when he started lor Washington, and
passing through the ancient city of Georgetown,
soon lound himself in Loudon county, lrgtnia.
Whilst m Baltimore, h made many friends,'
and was a young man of good personal appear
ance, and correct deportment. He seemed,
however, to have imbibed a lasting dislike to
the whole femalti race, looking upon them as
mere slaves to man, whilst he considered man,
in ihe fullest sansu of the term, as the "lord of
creation." Woman, according to his opinion,
was only created as a convenience for the oth
er sex, to aene in the capacity of a hewer of
wood and a drawer of water, to cook his victu
als, darn his stocking, never to (speak hut
when spoken to, and lo crouch in servile fear
whilst in his presence.
He arnred in Loud'in county, Virginia, in
the fall of tho year 1S20, and stopped at the
farm house of Mr. George M. Abel, situated
about four miles from Hillsborough, and about
seven miles from Harper's Ferry. Mr. Abel
was an old and highly respectable German lar
mcr, who had emigrated to this country a num
ber years previous, and had reared around him
a large family of sous and daughters. The old
gentleman took a liking to llellinati. and, unfor
tunaiely, as tho sequel will prove, allowed him
to stop or board with him, and being a good
workman, he soon succeeded in having plenty
of work to do from th farmers of the surround
ing country. Ho remained through the winter,
and in the spring of 1821 slaned for Baltimore.
He however, remained in Baltimore for but a
few months and in July again returned to his
old quarters at Mr. Abel's, whero he had so ef
fectually succeeded in concealing his opinion
of ihe sex, or had perhaps been lulled from its
expression by the scenes of happiness, con
tentment, and equality that prevailed among the
different sexes of the household of the respec
table old Loudon farmer, that he was allowed
to engaga the affections of one of his daugh
ters. Mary Abel was at this time in her 20ih yoar,
totally unacquainted with the dcceitfulness of
the world; and deceived by his profession of
love, she became, in the month of December,
1S21, ihe wife of Andrew Hellman. They
continued for two years in the family of Mr.
Abel, during only a ooriion of which time the
presence of relations and friendi were sufficient
to restrain the fiendishness of his disposition.
After the lapse of a few months ho appeared to
bo gradually losing all affection to her, though
for the first sixteen months, with tho exception
of this apparent indlffereuce, ovry thing passed
off quietly. On the 8h of August, 1822, Lou
isa Hellman, their first daughter, was bo:n,
J KJt
which, however, he looked on as a sertou mis.
fortune, and, had they not been under tho pa
rental roof, sad would doubtless havo bre'a the
poor mother's fato.
In the month of Apri',, he hocatne jealous of
her, and the suppressed ferocity of his soul to
wards the sex, bro'io forth vrilh increased vio
lence. Ha acrujed her nf infidelity of tho
basest kind, and on tho 27:h of tho ensuing
September, wl.cn Henry Hellman, their sec
ond child, w'in is now living in Ohio, was born,
ho whoJ'.y disowned it, and denounced us mo
ther us n hartwt. From thin moment all hopes
o( rnuu-e r happiness were banished, but, like
jP'r Mslind IIyrn)$ihe clung lo him and
prayed to her God to convert and reform him,
hoping that his eyes would be ultimately open
ed to reason and common sense. But, ala.s! it
was all in vain. In return for every attention
and kindness, she received nothing but threats
and imprecations. Instead of tho endearing
name of wife, she was always called "my wo
man," and his ideas of the degrading duties and
dishonorable station of woman, fully applied to
her. He had, however, uover used any per
sonal violence, and she consequently flt hound,
for the. sake of her children, not to dscrt him.
At the time of leaving Loudon county, he dis
posed of property to the amount of at least S3,
000. How he had accumulated so much in
the short space often years, when he had come
there penniless, was, and siill is, regarded as a
nivsterv. Although possessed of a close and
Yniserly disposition, denying hit family nearly
all the comforts of life, with the exception of
food, of which he could not deprive, them with
out suffering himself, it seemed impossible, from
the fruiis of his needle, so large an amount
could have been accumulated.
About a ye.ar aftor their arrival at Logan, 0.
Mrs. Hellinau, on one occasion, had poured
out a bowl of milk, with the intention ol drink
in!' it, hut before she got it to her hps, she
found that ihe top of it was covered with a
quantity of white powder, which had at that
moment been cast upon it. Immediately sus
pecting it, she threw it out, and undoubtedly,
from .subsequent events, thus preserved her life. !
Thorn was no one in tho house at the time bin
her husband, and he denied all knowledge of
it. She was under the impression at the time
that he had attempted lo poison her, and is now
generally believed that such was the case.
In tho month of April, 1839, all three of the
children were suddenly taken sick, and lay in
great suffering for about forty-eight hours, when
Louisa, the eldest, aged 17 years, and John,
tho youngest, aged 12 years, died, and were
both buried in one grave, leaving tho mother
inconsolable, for her loss. Her whole atten
tion, however, was still required for poor Har
ry, who lay several days in great suffering, hut
muly recovered This was a sad siroko
to the heart of the already grief-atricken mother,
which was doubly heavy upon her from the
firm belief she entertained that (heir death had
resulted from poison, and that that poison had
been administered to them by the hand of their
father by that hand which should have brushed
;away from their path uvery thorn that could
harm them. The belief is now general through
out ihe country that their blood is also on ihe
head of Andrew Hellman, but whether true or
false remains lo be decided between him and
his God.
On Saturday, 28ih Srpiember. 1839, Mrs.
Rachael Abel, the wife of Mr. George Abel,
came to see her sisier-m-law, and as soon as
she entered the room she was surprised lo see
Hellman lying in the bed in the front room,
with his head, face, and clothing covered with
blood. Willi an exclamation of wonder, she
asked him what was ihe mailer. Ho replied,
affecting to be scarcely able to speak, from
weakness and loss of blood, that two nights
previous, at a late hour, a loud rap had sum
moned him to the door; on opening itj two rob
bers had entered it, one a large brown man.
I (meaning a negro) and a small white man when
lit 1
he had been immediately levelled to tne noor
with a heavy club. How he had got into bed
he said he could not tell, but said he had bccp.l
lvinT ihero sufferinjr ever since, unable to pel
out. On hearing this story, and from hisblr.ody
appearance and apparent lamtness, nol doubt
ing it, Mrs. Abel, exclaimed, "Whero, in. the
name of God, is your wife?" lo which re.
plied, "1 do not know, go and see." On push
ing open the back room door, a sccno. of blood
met her view that it Would be ir.ipojsible fully
to describe. In tho centre of the room lay the
mangled corpse of the poor wifu with her blood
drenching tho floor, while tb.c ceiling, walls,
and furnituro, were also heavily sprinkled with
the streams which had. evidently gushed from
the numerous woundr, w'jch she had received
in ihe dreadful slrt'gglt
From appearances, u was rendered certain
that he himself, in, cold blood, thus butchered
his wifo. The fact of his having hewn up and
dissected ihe, body of Malinda Horn, can no
longer, therefore, ho considered a mailer of
wond".r. It was only tho second act of the
bloody drama, and well did he understand his
P'-iru The man who had passed, without being
conscience-stricken, through such a scene of
'olood as thai we have jusl described, was
doubtless capable for any emergency, and he
probably disposed of his second subject with
tho amo ease of mind that a butcher would
quarter a calf.
He was arrested and confined in the jail of
Belmont, Logan county, Ohio, bui succeeded
in effecting his escape with the iron on his
legs. On the nighi of his escape he had been
left up stairs laier than usual, and thero being
no fastenings of any consequence on tho door,
ho walked off.
lie was immediately pursued and tracked to
the hor.vj of a matt named Conrad Harpole,
near East Liberty, in Logan county, in the.
neighborhood of which a horse, belonging to one
e. and
it was ascertained that he had there purchased
a horse, saddle-, and bridle, and pursued hia
. T -I -. I ... "..!.-. II...-.
journey, nc was ineti traceu u airmniHi
Carroll countVi whero ho had lormeriy liven-,
passing through in open day. He wa- herd
spoken to by an old acquaintance bui he. madft
no reply. Some of his pursuers actually ar
rived in Baltimore before he. did, and, although
tho most diligent search was made for him; as
aisted by high constable Mitchel-, no further
trace could be found of him. They, howe,r.
were tinder the opinion that he was eono-alml
in the c'.ty, and finally gave up all hops of de
tecting bun. TImj next thing that whs heard
of hint was in York, Pennsylvania, where-, tin
the 28th of September, 1811, about ten irtotilln
after his escape, he appeared before John A.
Wilson, Esq. a justice of the peace, anil exe
cuted a deed for 640 acres of land in Mercer
county, in favor of Charles Anthony, -q. on .;
uf his attorneys.
He made his appearance in Baltimore enmi
ty, in the neighborhood of the scene of his Ln;&
murder, early in the year 1812, and co:ni:ij.,c-d
boarding at the house of William IJnut, i tl
month of May. On the ensuing 17th d:iv wl"
August, 18-12, he was married m Muling '&a
klc, as is already known to our readers, a, well
as his deeds from that time tip to iSic poeii.
If guilty of no other crimes but those of which
he stands publicly charged, he is its duubtecily
'He greatest criminal that his evec be.t-n. tried
in this country.
Since his conviction, however, we ier fh;it
he has become greatly changed, and under tin
guidance of a spiritual teacher, is seeking par
don of an offended God. He h;is axpre9ed a
great desire to see his son, Eeruy Hellman,
and has written to him to cotne on without a.
moment's delay, which ho will no doubt soon
do, as we learn he has expressed a groat de
sire to see his father before lit a death.
Henrv Clay's Wife.
A lady of Northern Penniylvania now resi
ding in Virginia, has wriitea to a friend in Mont
rose, Penn. from which the Ediior of the Sus
quehanna Register has published several ex
tracts. Among ihem we find tho followin,
which will interest the ladies at least, and
shows Mrs. Clay to be the true American mat
ron, as her husband is the true American citi
zen and patriot.
" I happened to get in compaiiy with Clay
men and ladies too. 1 met wui Mrs. H
of Lexington, Kentucky, whr, l,ad visited at
Mr. Clay's during the last summer; and sh
gave mo a pleasant account of the domestic
habits of the family. Mr.. Clay gets up at 4
o'clock in the morning superintends her dai
ry, does much of the la'bor. wii'h her own hand.i,
sometimes churns the cream and always salt-
nnd prepares it for t'.io market, fcc. She said
it was a well arraoged.house, and she described
the place as beavtife.i in the extreme. I en
quired whether. Mr.a. Clay was genteel and lady-like
in her manners. She said yes, exceed
ingly so that i.c was rare to meet one so intel
ligent and. accomplished. Mrs. II. would al
most have n .adn a Clay man of you, if you had
hoard her talk."
Corn Cobs.
'TliO most economical method of disposing of
cor.i cobs, is doubtless to pound them up and
(ft in A llinm MMfK rnrn Trtr GlnnL'
. turn uiuiii u mi ofciswrfc
But as this is
'te neglected, another excellent mode of dis-
posal is to soaR tnem in ptcKie and leed mem
to cows or other cattle in. the yard. A large
tub formed by sawing a hogshead in two, near
the middle, should be placed in a convenient
1 lace near the yard, and being filled with cobs
a sufficiency of warm waier strongly impregna
ted with common salt should be poured over
them to render them soft and palateablc to the
slock.
Most animals devour them greedily in this
stale, bui when it is not too much trouble, grind
ing into meal is much preferable. The meal
of the cob also makes excellent puddings,
Maine Cultivator.
Methodist Episcopal Churcb.
Tho increase of this body within a few years
has been without a parallel. In their last offi
cial documents they publish iheir numbers in
each conference in tho Union and Texas, of
which tho summary is :
Whites CoVd Indians Total.
Totaljthisjear 03G.73G 123,410 3,371) 1,083.525
Total last year 803.2UG 107,206 2,017 Ui",20
Inc. this year 133.440 21,111 7(52 155,316
A man in Huntsville, Alabama offers a piano
forto for sale, and says he'll wait for payment
till Henry Clay is elected President.
No great shakes of an offer, this. If he'll
wait till Martin Van Buren is elected we'll find
a customer for him. Paterson Intel.
A new England paper says: " A young
Quakeress was married a few evenings 'sinco
in Philadelphia, and her bridal dress consisted
of woven glass and satin, which was impoited
from Franco at a cost of $1500 !"
nfhis attorneys, was found miming loo