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Tram the Stii- of Flocida..
An Eastern Tale.
le:e is an eastern story, which gives
accputit of. a certitin gem, or precious
`Mime ,so entirely perfect 'to. te ,, itides- .
iitietilite by any human agency, It Was.
:co'tisequently, greatly esteemett,.and held
price of infinite, value..
}ht length it - became the. property' 91
_,___wealthy merchant, -who, on dying,—b e quaathed it to-his only s m,, as-his pH:milt-11
Patritnony. n
For a- time the young merchant consider-_
n wealthiest mane in Bagi.lad.
ne . di)tilil at any mornens_ have disposed of
hik JelVel, at the •nearest 13,izaar;
• luirn fill: uffe i a
•-. wltvlaWiteet_itif..Lco imp merclantc.Kith_
ail their rati'dhanclise,"tog - 7i - e - e r
merable caravtas froni thellidies„ with the
larest silks, spires, and•other geode, Add
the great Caliph •hirriself,. it Was' supposed,
:would have shared -his throne with any one
. for the possession .of it.
length the.young,:inerebalit become
hiitiensure, - After all,
,• said he to himself, if. this stone should •not
be. what the opinion,of the world- has- so
• 4ono held it to bel . 'hat, if instead of be-.
ing'indestructibte,:as it le said to be, it is
susceptible of . being, crushed .by a :Single
bloW of the hammer! Instead or being
proof against the influence of the must if -
tense heat,.whatif the fire' might blacken
. end deface it !' • .
thni_tormented -with --sos Pinion s- Which.
lola never entered 'the 'breast of any pre-
Vious proprietor of-, the-rare gem, its pus
bession, irtStead of a satisfaction, a pride,
Dna an horior„ became .q. the young liter= . •
. chant only a source of dimulet, of care, and •
• anxiety. ' Ile Was coroinually haunted with
an overweening -desi re try experiments
. upon ill, Suppose, sayS lie, I were to place
- it unde(the hammer, and.prove whether or
Ito it be capable of resisting the efforts of
Mechanical force! 0 were I to. place it in
ftio - furnace for:a few ilays and see whethi.r
or no it cpn Withstand the influence .of_
tense heat!... / • • .
• - this ..state : of. mind be . con Stilted, with
ip 'eh! kv . hi)ll)aci bell), the •frieetl
, .
• rind eiuMsellOr of, his father._ - Ile satit,fied 4 ,
*sun, sail he, with your treasure. Do
• tiara!l men believe it to he perfect/ not
- ItsYaltte in the - market noiv nsgreat as it
•
possi: ly ;can be, after it shall - have resisted
, all your experiments!' Be not the first Ito'
Ihrow'' - suspicion on you:
gift of the prophet.
But, the young insu listened not to the
advice of the old Dervise. lie subjected
•his gem to the test of the .fi and the ham
: the.: "rixr - a whit, it resisted ill his - efforts
- AOdeface . orto—injureAtt—antl-it .seemed- to.
•ii.servp fully the Toputation 'bad so,
borne. - But the more the preciims_ gem
resisted .his earls to dew:y it, and the
more it scented to approach its reputed per
fection, .the-incite was the ambition of the
silly merchant excited to try new
invents (MIL lie went to work. and built
ery exrensitie mael.incry,_with new 'com
binations of mechanical powers, for the
tu'rpose of subjecting it to morn trying
o tests. All being ready, the . precious gem
was placed in a position; to be most easily
affected by 'the arictinpulated force Of the
. 'machinery, and the experinient was made.
The result was soon ascertained. The
costly stone was ground to powder. .
• 'Did I not do well,' said the young mer
chant to the . Dervise, ''when I . suspected
this bauble was not the thing ifluid been
cracked up to be ?'
4 4`ruly, my ton,' answered the Dervise,
I. yobr'6l - perimantrfiave prospered, and you
4ltive - becmne a beggar fur your pains. Al
lah is great; he has punished you with suc
ossin.your endeavors to undermine your
own •fOrtunes, and deface the brightness
and perfeetiOns of his own gifts.'
The young merchant passed away,amid
the jeers and taunts of the bystanders. •
Now it seems to us that a very useful
moral may be drawn from the Eastern
story. •
Ilas not the conduct of those wicked
tpolitieians, who have experimented upon
'tire CrUIDIT of the country until they have
destroyed it, been very much like the
, icourse -of Ike silly young merchant of Bag
dad, who ground his peerlessjewel ti) pow
- der, only-fir the sake_of_ slop wirg_that _it
Was not qUite d so indestructible as it had
been represented -to be? /
The people of this country possessed a
currency based upon - credit, which was to
them a mine, of wealth: It could be ex
changed, for all the necessaries, the coin
forts, and—the .luxuries_of. life.. It floived
and circulated, and cities rose up as if- by
magic; the retests gave-place to fertile
plantations; the savage 'retreated before the
march of civilization, anti, plenty and cheer,
fulness spread themselves over fill the land.
tnilliere;were - a set . of politicians who
'rose up and said the people, This cur
-tency of which . you; boast, and Which , you
"fatteris , waling au - Ch wonders for you, is
all e . mockeryl' worthless! It is based
&n Iveredit'whi6h is . rotteril- And, if you
• will permit us. we will make experiments,
on it, .we will prove to - you that you have
been deceived" in -the perfection 'of these
agents. . •
And to the making of experiments they
• applied.theinselves with' zeal worthy of a
° better cause. 'Every . body knows the re
, soli: • • - •
Ritintrs'a lianker thus ad
dressed his eldest son.-:—You May suppose
you are going to inherit a - large fortune,
but you are mistaken. I have no property.
and the bank is insolvent to the amount of
£200,000. the death of my father,
who died of a broken heart, I found the
. IYank stilt's hardly solvent: lat first resolv
ed' to close the concern, and pay Off. the
creditors, but I afterivards determined other
:Wise. I proved my father's will for a quar
ter of a million, and set up a large estab
lishment. "Chi. gave me the reputation_of
wealth, and increased' the business orthe
bank. I have ;;liven:.in . splendor -as ; ..lrod
know, for many years . All YPpr, brothers
=and . sititers 'are bandsoaiely , prdiideififnr,
''and to, you ,_aa mi. eldest sen,,l
appointed' you sole' fzienio*,
jcor.tny . - . feu bevel only' to;pove - ,my
4roperty loran) , - amount you think.p . eopar
rfailarne.-,aid' if you manage yonr affairs
'Prtidettfiy:ibe bank may last out - your time
'2lO tiliklaOtAt out mine.
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Ttit i. 4 iiiiesoi'),li - iitV ••rENi.i'ls-.
• ,Vome - itueer 'peop l e, thrown Upon this
earth by Dome Nature, in one of her dies
12reeable moods, imagine that the game of
'ten fins consists simply- in - throwing.a der
tain nutfiber •Of balls at a certain number,of
pins ; and reedtdifig' pen' thealaie the•num
ber of pine that
.May be. knocked-,-oiee,z--
Many a Man Loos to.a 'ten pin alley_ analil"
zesat — the players for, hours, seemingly
deeply interested in.:the gameovatehing it
earefnlly,thron4h.all its thantewanil 'fluctu
ations, and yet
.his isole, desire is to learn
hoW man' pins are left standing after' the
appropriate-number of balls have . been,roll
ed: Now that man has no knowledge ,
not a particle'---of the philosophy of ten
pins:.. -No . lace—on L.earth-affords-a—better
opirtuttityll7the singly of
the bowlieg-alleY; •[.
We have a sedate friend, one longtrmil
iar. with the windings orthat strange laby
iinth„ the human heart, 'ty'he is passion.
:Indy fond of that-time-honored aod_menly
proctire; and :yet yeats-ire-hae--not
thro‘rn a ball. His regidar evening- haunt,
for he has neither wife nor children;, has=
ingjoit'agwdeterinitMd„to die . a Single man,
or live-forever--=is 'the ten. pin alley. Ile
lakes his chair :Old watches the game; if
there he a . bad player• at work, as there
generally is, so much the leiter, lorhe then
has a new subject • : fitestutiv. lii. company
with the old fellow, we visited:an alley one
evening; where there was searcely.Lti„fa
-nriliar-fare. and as we pulTeditvay our se
gar, lie talked in his siinpls, familiar style.
'Look at that fellow,' said he ; 'that stout,
boity man, who is gettieg: ready. Away
[ goes his hall; [leiter ; shelter, -in - the &ter
[before it is half . way down; ball nunther`
two off on the other side.
,He has endear
oreti'to throw hiS third - hall - Witlempre tare
and precision;, and, faith,- he - has made' a
[capital hit, :nine" pins down; by Jove
New Iliete,is no mistaking the character of
that roan. He has been a Tough and tom=
hle; go a head i fellow itt"•this world, with
seme. tichand- - soinelud I or
['mainly to his .:earelessiteks.] When • his
; spiri: t, arouSed ,though, • lig,
sure aid•egly customer, It'Zl to get
".t fler'iti'aAliffereitt gen the little fel
' IoW iu !;lark-:-Ite 'nitrite he is going to do
something nice; •he has selected the small
halls, atol is preparing to send one of theth
[ with n mighty deal of care.. ,Down it goes
: plaguey_ ineffi c ie n t way. Jest look--at
has quartered upon the head
and_ knocked down only four! Bah! that
felltiw's intellect is just like hiS balls; for
though her labor ever.--so.-carefully; it - has
Seen so ordained that he shall accomplish
just nothing at all. -- • _
';!low - here's a = men—he - rulls•a fine-bell;
htfatelt-him: •-lle treasures-the-alley-with- his eye, at the instant the ball- leaves his
fingers ! How quietly and yet how quick
ly
,that ball pursues its way, with unerring
' accuracy, to the centre of the group 'of pins.
[lt Will knock doivn every one of them !
[No ! by St. it has gone directly
through the centre, leaving "eight plea stan
ding! Do you observe? Not a uitisele of
his countenance has changed? 'His second
ball.is dispatched upon its errand. It has
Struck the head pin on the right, and, instead
oh Thefour, has taken but two more; and
this, .his last ball, will do the same on the
other side. See ! r7 -it is a fact. 'Three ad
mirable balls, properly regulated in point
of speed, guided by the eye of a master,
and atilt they have left four pins upright.--
Sueliony friends, is luck! Do you observe
with how quiet and composed a' counte
nance that man has : taken his seat--he is
used'io it, as were the eels used' to skin
ning, and it scarcely annoys ,him. I hap-
petted to know something of 'that person's
fortunes. His game of life has been the
same as his game of telitins;—Well play
ed, but always unfortunate. He expended
every cent he had in the world 'a few
months ago,- in the purchase of a piece of,
property. Ile concluded the trade, paitt.
the money, nod went directly to .the ins*.
ranee office; but befitrehe paid the p4ini
um and pocketed • the
: policy, an alarni:c of
-fire was[given; and in 'an hour his buildings •
I were reduced to ashes.! Ile bet five thou
''sand dollars upon the election -of General]
Harrison; hut 'before the- bet was doeided,[]
the, holder of the stake=-a man Supposed to'
be Aviirtlca hundred thousand dollars—bad [
absquatulated. Ile was a 'candidate for ;
Congress, and- received three. thousand
votes. while his opponent received-but fif
teen hundred. The inspector (tithe .elec
don, on 'examining the rotes, found that
through_ thq carelessness of the printer, a
single letter was left Out of his name in
two thousand ballots, aril • his opponent:
was entitled to -the certificate of election !
He married a beautiful anti intelligent wo
man;' devotedly' attached to him, a -few
years ago. ' 'She has presented him with
three children, all natural ...idiots! and
twelve months ago: she - herself eloped with
the best friend he had in the world !. . He
challenged the rascal, antlwas shot through
the body,' just escaping with his life, after
six months'confinentent! Can you won
der that such' a man should roll a-ball di
rectly through the centre of the pins?
'Just glance at, the chap' now, With so
good humored; smiling a. countenance
--
.he knomis no more About the science of ten
pins than[Judas Iscariot; his bull goes lam
bering dove;,-poking : over tthe cornerpin
on the left. en . d'histicruellingilie• one next
to it, over - it falls very gently,lakinganoth
.esin its way-- , see"thein'tumble I all down,
upon inr.soul, and. that, s called . ten
striltel—ltie second ball is about the same,
throw"; at iandoin,it has taken right—the
thir4rolled in the gutter, harknoeked a
'dead wand Ito the , other 'side of-the -alley:
and got the remaining. pins.' hit put-that
fellow , in the middle of' the desert: offilaha
ra, and he ivill'fihd a bottle. of ....Burgiindy
end a heefsteall;htirie , 4 : llt.tite.oattl f _for his
dfuner"..; .
w , comes "the if 013'01.044w:that
'sallow looking,. spindle shacked einstomer,
who-thinksthro ihe beat -halt -of :*seiY
Man ' Creation. He - hes: selected;' the
largest ball with wonderful deliberition,
and with :ti,vaiii. ; dosal of ppra4e, he litts'itart
ed it. ..11efeklud(way,400:.4Wlainle;
triempliently, 'that taltes every phi,!':. Lo
arid. behOloti4asioptiletkeyer jiatitsone.: 7
VuMing and swetirngi goes sec.
.end and -third holleniketiuttlVae eneoelnifil
g.F:_„.,',,9!:::.•k.*.•.!' 1 .0•,,,4 1- :7F
no the first: ''.Cursing theviMy for setting
up the pins Wrong,...a4declarinobeiiallit:
are -not roun4 or iiitralleYlevel, he hne
taken his *seat. I know him; too, of. old;'
a more arrant , hypocrite and
.bag of Wind
never vegetated. Ile is a prominent advo
ate of temperance, :and av'thesametitne.
is a locomotive .bran 4 cask. 7 -he• bohstsi of
his inorality;:while . his real, principlesare
those of r sheep, stealer., Such, a:man may:
Inia of his ten . plni, for in brigging conejets
the-streigth-of his .game.'. „ ,
We left 'the-allq.. Did you !,-now AYH--
son, who died of the yellow fever. yester
day?' asked I, of my 'companion, as we
walked down. street. 'Whit- sort of a man
was •he ?' NI can't say exactly. for 1-never
will him rollten piner—Ar. 0. Picayune:
- -
vharadter dub
—Asitytheyalue.olconversions,-Ged alOrre
can judge.. God alone' an know hciw wide
are the -steps which, the ; soul has to take
heforeit can approaCh to a community with
Him, to the dwelling of the perfect, or'to
the. 'lnterefiuse_antl4riendship—of-higher
natures—Goethe. • ,
. ,
. . . . .
The plays. of natural lively: children are
.the infancy' of art. , Children live in the
world of . iinaginatioh, and . feeling. They
invest the most insigtiificant object With any
form. they please, and sec in it -whatever
they wish to see.r.—Oehlenschlager.
Amity tandle - hati:b - efil invented in Eng
land, It is made •Without a Wick, a hole
running completely, prong!) the centre, in
to .which ‘ a' moveable wick is inserted, not
filling upilib space. Air 'is thus admitted
through this llole; to feed 'the flame, and
thus the "amountof light is quadrupled.--
Whether four tunas the quantity of tallow
is dammed, or 'not, is not stated. Quere
—Would not 'Os talltAv, in burning, melt,
so as to.run down the central - orifice, -- ant/
fill up the passage' between the'candle aria
.the Avicic, thus excluding the current . Orairt
vy ggest— t o f
rye. straw, which Would'admit.a current of
air'through it.4 . cent'i'e, without the
of its being-fiilsUpo.—.—Boatoii
Frolen Potatoes.—A %liter in the NeW
'Etigland Farmer.,statea that potatoes that
are frozen ever so hard, it. , :taken in-that
state and immersed in. water heated to the
point-Iprovidekthey_lhavemptpre—
iiiously
.undergone the operations - of -freez
ing and : thawing) are as ood and - palatable
as if untouched 'by frost. • •.'
The Croup.- 7 --.4 old subscriber'called
upon us yesterday,.and informed' U 9 that,
I•by-the publication in_ our columns a few
_ - . tays•since;• - of a very - simple
,and,easily at.
tained remedy. for the croup; we had been
instrumental iii savinz.the - life.of an infant 1
of his - on•Sunday.night. The ingredients
are, sliced onions, and sugar laid on the
slices•in layers,. the syrup being adminis
tered. • He wishes us to " keep it . before
the. people" afizi - soyereign . and almost in
stantaneous Temedy.—.N. Y. Sun.
CAN'T Go.— By order of Mr. Curtis,
Collector of theeport, a revenue cutter yes
terday paid her complinients to a couple of
splendid schooners, lying in the Hudson,
off Jersey City, by serving upon their com
manders orders not to quit port, and by
placing. herself, like a guardian spirit, be
tween them, to • secure the observance of
thoie orders. These fine little vessels are
recently from the ship yard of Messrs. Bell
& Brown, and do, credit to the deserved
and far-extending fame of those•eminent
ship builders . . They were built ostensibly
for private ac..ount here, but in reality, it is
believed, for the Mexican Government,. to,
be employed against Texas. The cost we
believe was 1 90,000—0 f vt hick s3o r ooo
are said to have been .paid—the balance to
be paid on their 'arrival at their place of
• stination. The law of the United Stated,
making illegal : the fitting oqt of armed ves
sels, at our ports, to. be employed by other
governments, against governments with
which the United States are at peace, was,
as we understand_ the . metier, to have been
evaded by.a pretended sale by the ostensi
ble owners : uPthe Mexican. Governnlent.—
Each is armed .with aVaixhan .thirty.two
pounder at midship, and six eighteen pound
'Carronades; and each is fully officered by
Mexicans, and -manned chiefly, by Ameri
cana. Mr. Curtis also found several Mex
ican ladies on board—,prohably ladies of
the officers.-7N.
. The two schooner' which were detained
by the Collector' of .New York: are Ito "be
released, it being ascertqjped that though
built by order of the Mexican Goiernment,
they were at present the property of Ame
rican citizens,_ who do not intend to part
with their right of property in them,- until
-the balance of their cost had been paid to
thim. The vessels in question will pro
bably be allowed to sail in a few days:
Fatal Sffray.—We learn from . the
burg Whig that an 'affray took place at a
public sale in Warren county,. between a
Doctor Brotivn'and John'Henderson, Bret.,
whiclfroatilted - .in the death of the former.
Praniin g to Wives anti HUtbands.—
Codeiderable excitement . was profit in
this neighborhood last weok,•among those
acquainted withllie,Orties to the affair, by
the news that a man, yhose death had long
since been reported; is- about to return to
his wife near this . place, Ayr a , long ab
sence in the great west., 13traitge as it may
* seem, the information - excited,oul,y calmer
nationxnd grief in that.bosom, which ;night
have throbbed with joyful emotion. :Maid
the cause of Iteitorrow remains to`-bO told.
Unlike , . the constant Penelepe,,echo
mourned sol:Mg for• the return ofPlyeses
from., the siege of Troy, and refused for
twenty years to see a suitor,or to Alen& the
probability of her husband's rettile, the
Peneple of our story,,long , since r yielded
to the.solicitatiOne of , anothor' lover, and her
less &femme Ulyssee : Will return to find
his :Wife. erections buried, and ::::,rival
seated upon the throneef It een. tinder
these circuMitancee, tlicielulter the inter
vit*, may be.anticipated. --011cotts
Rce Press:.
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.• • :B* 6 king.—Tne JonesbOrough,.'ren
neelec t :YVhigi 644 these are two Siirmon
Preachers constantly laboring 'in the coon=
ty. of Smith, in .:Virginia, and now number
about thirty:fiveht that county, With:a fair
pr)spect of increasing. One otthe preach
era, botilfei Wirer day;rose:tup in the. pul 7
pit and• uttered some gibberish, and then
tolil the people that he had; preached., to.
them . in three different languages!, They
profess the gift' of' tongues—the pwer of
worl_t_iug.mikaeles 77 .and nearly, ail that . perl
tallied to Christ and„the Apostles; in the
days of old.
•• •
• Digging foi'Vold.The foiils are ain't
all dead` yet,-it. seems. The attention of
the editor of - the Pensacola Gazette ives
lately_attracted by an imtnense mound of
: earth-ittrown-up at the 7 tilte - '6Uthir:ol4:Go , -
vernment House. -.Going to the spot, he
found that no fairy hands had done the
Work; .about a 'dozen, sturdy negroes were
treasure hunting, under the direction_ of a
-gentleman who. had — ofim erly livetnhere,
and had .noivtravelled two - hundred smiles
. •
. The Gazette adds. "Well, : he eid'in - find
any money,- but the Worst the story is,
that the diseaie of gold finding' being•con- .
lagious, as it -seeenti,•has spread with fear
ful rapidity. among mir. .citizens. We have
'heard of several new cases within a few
days past, and think there is much reason
to apprehend that the disease is assuming
'an epidemic form.":
.
The Bay State.—Within the last tve
years ; ! five and half. millions of _ dollars
have been received into and Aishursed from
the treasury of Massachusetts without•the
loss to the state of a single cent. Twenty
six dollars.of Counterfeit • notes have been
taken in that time, b ut on the Ist of the
present—month.. the , Treasurer, 'who now
goes out of office, mattes this up-frotn his
own pocliet..l:
. •, .
' The II on. 'Tliomas.F. 31arshall,.of Ken
tucky, we rejoice' to learn, Im - signed• the
pledge, of;:thc.-PangressiOnal :TempetiOce :
I
SeieietY, and • eneeforth . will :not, only .ab—
jure and'abho the .poisonous cup,of into 's: .
ieadon, hilt wi 1, as opportunity otibrrs; de
vote his.transce,pdent talents to the cmapci,
ppm'. of'ptliers from the horrible debase
ment of intemperance'.
_lllt—lkiershall_is. a
member newly. elected last spring from. Mr.
Clay's ohl:Histrict, and immediately took
rank as one &film. most ehiqueet and gifted
debatgrs in the House.,. A single fault
marred all his usefulness and rendered_his
great talents worthless,.so that his friends
and admirers saw him take - the floor with
more:of apprehension than . pleasure. He
ihas_nali,_bY-one—noble—risolVe,. broken-'
the web which was fist dragging him down
tq degradation: and' infamy. and resumed
his proper, plade among the foremost states
men and orators of the land.. Heaien give
him strength to persevere in the path he
has so nobly .chosen..—N. :I', 'Tribune.
3 : OBTICE Whey. --We understand that
The Mayor of New York exhibited to the
Judges of the Common Pleas the recent
conviction' against Justice Wiley, and re
that since that conviction he had
continued to sit as a Justice' of the' Peace,
whereupon la County Coilit was ordered
to convene on Monday next at 4 o'clock,
for the purpose of removing him, from his
situation.—N. Y. Express.
DIVORCEB.—'nere - have been'l42 appli
cations for divorce•to 'the - present (.egisla
ture of Alabama. The Eutaw Whig hopes
the-parties will all be divorced, because the
practice of binding people to live together
after they have became dissatisfied, •is anti
republicani
dbmigrtulation.—The Illinois Gazette
says that the President of . , the and
Rock River Railroad, Mr. A. H. Bangs,
has fled the country. His sureties. Were.
in hot pursuit at the last account. •
Kentucky Legislature.—Th is body con
vened at Frankfort on the 13th ultimo.--
Charles S. Morehead, of Franklin; was
.elected Speaker of the-House. The Mes
-sage of. Governor Letcher Was delivered on
the same day. Previous to which, how
+ever, alesoltrtion was introduced 'into the
HousetVnstructing the Senator:4, and re
quevting the Representatives of the State
in Congress, to vote for The -repeal of the
Bankrupt Law.
Governor Fairfield, of Maine, is boldly
out against the law s for the distribution of
'the proceediPof the public lands; on the
boundary , question he is as violent as ever.
lie thinks' Maine must take up the matter
herself, if the general government does not
show sufficient energy, and must take pos
session of the disputed lands by force.
Suicide.;--On• the morning of the 23u1t.,
a much respected young' man of New , Or
leans, named 'Armand Dubertraud; commit
ted suicide by shooting himself. No cause
is assigned fur the act. In his room was
found this brief remark, written upon a
slip of paper—" How painful it is to die so
young." •
The Bible Cause.—tie last , report of
the British and Foreign Bible Society:
sheave that they have 'distributed 900,000
bibles and testaments during" the previous
year. and 22.000,000 sines the -establish
ment of the Society 'in ilBO4. The Bodi
ety has' published the scriptures in 136
languages.
• ,
The New Orleans Bulletin nays—
"If the .Meiican nation attempt ttreon
.„
quer Texas they tofg fail! If they , put 'to
denth,nsingle One of the prisoners belong
ing td• the tate ,Sanbi Fe , eXpedition,
' 40:l
ambent's will die kit him; and ..so in' pro
portion'for where; And that •if a Mexican
army, marches towards Texas, .it will not
reach Austin,4ift,
.nfter - the Texian force
.
Shag have occUpied t he City of Mexico."
Pensioners.—The mu:oer :of pension
erti of ',the V. 2151. , government who have
died tinting, the last year amt to 842; of
thin nombtri '42 reek& in
.she. State of
IWew, York.'
~..~i:r 1 :._ .i:{~:i,
El
BLopp! BLWD 1 BLOOD
. Most cif ..ony , Ireade're,3ol(Teroember. rhai .
in"Aprillast a Mr. Mlston,'of Tallahaise,
challenged Gen.jteeil. of. Florida.. They.
fought' and the , Generahiliot• bidi. . Willis
Allston,..a-brother of the deceased, and the
General had a v.econntre subsequently. and
a second one Wien the former shot the let--
ter.' He since went Texas.-
. .
Pritrareletteta received' in this city yester
day state-that he haa hid further dilEctilties
there, which ended in his taking the life,,of
another, and,in his own life being taken.
Weltearithat arrived in the neighbot
hood,,of&fizoria 'about the 10th ult., that
aboyt-liix or eight miles froin the town; in
he - woods, he met I.lr. John 4,lcNeal,Stew
that an, altercation arose between them
relative to a friend. of 'Mr. Stewart, both
being-,tirmckthat . Allakin drew his knife to
•stab" him, but Sieitrailyerceiving-his_intep ,
Lion, `fired three, shots at him:With-One - of
Colt's'pistols• that Alistori though severely .
Opponent, which instantlyrkilled him.
A: ..memorandum
_from Thomas F:
lleKontia, of . Galveston, r on the back.. of
one of The letters, states that .Allston was
arrested_,Aaken out.an'd shot by the citizens
of Brazoria.:—.-New Orleans .Picaone.
The Savannah Republican . says that a
large . number of 'foreigners,...princlpally
Irishmen, have been induced by The repre;
sentations of shipping agents in New York,
to go to Saiannah during the present' win-'
ter, in ~the belief That they would 'find em
ploymenCon the,Ralfroad•and other public
works. Theseirepresentations 'were most
ly false, 'and a great number of laborers are
withont work 'and consequently, in a state
of suffering. - - •
On thanksgiving evening, a splendid ball
was given it - the Insane Hospital, Augusta,
Me., in which the patients partieipated,
and it was-a Strange sight, they say, -to
see the - various guises that ;insanity puts on,
duffing pigeon wipgs ip-rhe ball room.
ivas,- however, i'salutary .ehangedi disc
.~~
, :.E l trecind 'as . it i.f.—The siluatiMi of
matters: and things in England, are thus
sttrmiteittp_by4he_Loxidon_correspoutlent
of the N. York Journal•oNommerce:
Him is an. every day ctscurre-needistress
stalks.through - the land--the poor ,are dy
ing from starvation—shecp stealing has. in
creased to a-startling extent—but-the Duke
of Cornwall thriveshe - r 'Majesty has_re r _
covered—the - Quedn' Dowager is convales-
Cent—Sir . Robert Peel continues to, !fold
undisturbed positession of power --and more
barraairs - aro - in - be - built - itrilie — ma_irtTfaclu:
ring and distressed districts." .
The feeling of the community fur and
against • 'thc Bankrupt Law, seems to be in
creasing. Meetings of_the two parties,ari
held in various places, •and on some occa
sions considerable excitement has been
manifested. •
The St. Augustine, Florida, News says ;
"that after the return of the navy expedi
tion from the Everglided; the mariners,
who were armed with Colt's rifles,'
in ilis
charging theirpeices; had five. cylinders
and two barrels burst, breaking the )eg of
one man."
A hotel in Willimantic, Ct., was burned
on Friday night, and a girl,of about 10
years of age, lost her life in the flames.' A
man was also killed by the falling of a
chimney. Two gentlemen of Hartford,
Who were sleeping in the house narrowly
escaped with their liVes. •
' Gen. Jaikson.—ln the N. V. House of
Representatives, on Friday last, Mr. Dave- !
zac, of this city, moved a resolution calling
on Congress to pass a law refunding to
Gen. Jackson, with interest and costs, the
fine of $lOOO, imposed an him
,by the
Judge of the Louisiana district in 1815,
for an alleged. offence against the author
ity or said Judge. The question whether
the resolution• should be considered, was
on Saturday decided affirmatively, yeas 87,
noes 37—nearly a party vote. ' The con
sideration of the resolution .was Then, at
he request of the .mover, postponed until
-• Slonday.—Jour. of COm.
The Supreme Court of tile Vnited States
assembled at the Alourt-room, un the Cap
itol, on Mondzy, and began its annual ses
sion. - The Chief Justice and all the Asso
ciate justices were present, except Mr.
Justice Thompson. One of the earliest
cases on the docket, if. not the first to be
argued, is the. great case between the State
of NeW JersaY..atul-lhe Council 'of Propri
etors, in that State, involving the question
of right.of. property in lands tying under
tide-water.,. Eminent counsel Are employ
ed, of course,"on both sides; and Governor
Pennington, the respected Governor of the
State, i s here in person to watch over the
interests
. of the State which .are inyoluedin
the case.--Ncgiond Intel..,
Temperance Deptiklment.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY
• TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.
Your Executive Committee, on;retiring
from Orme, beg leave to present the follow
ing Report :-- • • -
commenced.our duties at'the open
ing - of theyear,' surrounded by some cir
cumstancet embariassment of a local
nature, which, as they were set forth in the
lath reportmade to the society; need not be
here repeated.' ..We entered on the course
vvhich -cireurnstances seemed already to:
hive marked out; and 'as we could Sod op
p6rtunity,'have endeavored to nid .10' carry
ink forward:the Temperance cause:loh the
prinoiplesthen explained.
Early-IM the •yeitir; that we' might know
on Whom -we
. figillo dePend for •counten
ance and support,- we proposed a're-signa-
Aure‘of the pledg't,-and sent a circular ac
companied With' Er illedge into every family
in'the borough. These Were collected by
svccilmmipktivof the Society, and thenaines:
thkni ,returned, With' . thorm they hate been,
==!M=
. .
Selitni; , *liiivelicin ' s ince, number 4iTh..—
.
pies &are - . ne,atlY registered, iin ' a dew ; 604=
proiided''fai4he purpose, and for conven
ience of referenPe are recorded in alphabeti
cal order. By recurring to The Belot' num
bers as it stood when we - commejleed our
duties, . tiii. - are tompelled'ici r )inlieve that
there are many who did not nderstand the
obft , .ct of this resigning Of he pledge, and
it /
thus neglected to put th .ir names down
anew. These are - of coo se still members
of the society, and are . till bound by the
pledge they had voluntar ily made ; though
they are not reported as at present active
members 'of the Society . .. For the purpose
'of giving those who then neglected to re
new their pledge, as well as others,. an
opportunity to arrarthemselves. formally
under the Temperance banner . , we .recom;,
mend to our successors another circutatiod
of-the pledgethroughout the town, , with an
,appr.
.. .
opriateaddress; as soon as convenient.
The manner in which the committees, who
'discharged the day of coilectingithple - dg;
es last year, were received and treated by
those on , whom' they called,• was with' few
and rare exceptions highlY- . gratifying, and
is deserving pf, aircommendatioh. ., .. '
i•
The Temperance . ' Department which
'had just been opened in the papers of our 1
borough, were specially recommended to
our care
. in the last report, with a confident
expression of belief, that such watt the un
derstanding already had with the 't.iitcirs,
" that the responsibility of as failure in this ,
department, in - either paper, would have to
rest on '
The professed _ frienjs of. Temper
ance."
Thiiconfidenee we thiult,.was...not
inisplaced;.•thotighArith one of -the papers
only have we . .been able-iii carry out our
original' purposes.. 'iVe presume the ration
al expectations - of the Editors were not
met by '" the professed friends .of temperr 7
ance. Though, the cause is' One of gen
et'al interest, and - all were freely-invited to
aid in its support, little aid has been giVen
tathe.Editorscinimpartingintereat to such.
a departtnent,,except by the committee •of
our society; and besides,, we have no evi
dence that any ponsiderabli patrOnagshai,
been added to eitfiera the papers;. in ben-_
sequenceof the opening of their 'eoluinns_ ,
ft, die - diseussionof this litilijci." . 'Co ex
pect the continuance, of the departmen
then,. in the paper 'from which it was drop
tied, was perhaps to expect of the publish-
IsacrifiCe4 it -few-,--.-eveii-of, the-mos
. . .
noisy of the friends of , temperance feel
prepared to make.- --W-e--now- have. three
weekly siers — in our boreugh circulating
through every_part- of the: 'county, as well
as into- other counties, and. to
.
sors we comment! the plali'_of endeavoring
to establish' a Temperance_ department in
each, in a permanent buds. - The time is
-- at'itenll - When-iiitelligenci 2 oirj-iliia7-Taubjea
most - intimatelyconeerni every class
of our citizens, -"will be eage'tly sought for
and demanded by the. subscribers to
.politi
ear papers' For ourselves we believe there
are
.few to whom his now unwelcome
nor iire•those•to,be envied, the success of
whose business requires that the people
Bimini& be kept in ignorance of its true
character. We feel that the.success of our
,operations our'borough -and throughout
the•courrtY, the last year, owes much to
columns of the Herald and '_Expositor,
which have been freely-opened to the
cussion of Temperance subjects, and to
the other papers, so far as they have been
made the vehicles of temperance intelli
genee, For light is all that is necessary
to the perfect triumph of our principles:
When .we entered upon our office, we
Were not aware that there existed out
of. Carlisle, except perhaps in, the entire
eastern part of the county., a single Temper
ance Society of any efficiency of action.
We immediately opened a -correspondence
-with different parts of the county; and both'
by. private letters and our public notices de
clared ourselves ready to co-oporate with
the friends of temperance in any part of the
county where our services could do good.
tinge noticeslwere responded to from sever
al places; and by delegations_from-the-com
mittee and Society, we have since January
let 1841, visited and delivered addresses at
Mechanicsburg three times, at . Newville
once, at MeAllister'i School house twice,
at Shippensbnrg once; near Churclitown
four times, at Hoguestow.n on and at an
other in Silver Spring township once:—
Three other public meetings are now ap- , ,
pointed . to be attended by delegates from
our Society. The• aggregate number of
signers .to,the' Total Abstinence pledge at
'these Meetings has been about 200. Our
chief at - Motion, .however, has been directed
to the formation of Societies, and to' the.
reorganization of such as wefound reeng- .
nising the old pledge. The results of our
efforts will be found in' the' following
stracts from the reports received from our
MECHANICSBURG TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.
—Society formed January 1841. Pledge
same as that.of the parent Society. Num
ber of members 212. Bold stated meet
ings monthly. President, Ira Day, M. - D.,
Secretary, Dr. Jacob Weaver.
ZWVILLE TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.--Mwo
Societies, (one old pledge, and the other
new,) re-organized . by incorporating both
pledges in the same constitution, in March
1841. Number of members 410. signed
since January. 1, 1841, 38. Hold stated
meetings quarterly. President, James R.
Irvine. M. D.; Secretary. Scott.Goyle.
We are not informed what proportion of
the members of this Society aro pledged to
Total Abstittence.
110auEsTOWN TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.—.
Society. funned February 6, 1841 - Pledge
same as that of parent , society. Number
of members. 70. Hold stated 'meetings
quarterly. . resident, John Clentlennin;
Esq., Secrete ',John Clendennin, jr.
OVAL ABSTINENCE SO
crETy.--Society -formed February , 18th.
-1841. Pledge.saine as that-of Parent So
ciety. Number of members, 280. - Hold
stated Meetings monthly. President, Rev..
Divid - Smith;- Secretary,-Thomasll, Cris-
IVlOintoE TEMPERANCE SoclETV.—Socie!
ty formed May 8,1841. ;Pledgp , sittne as
that of parent soSiety., •Nutrihar of mem
bers, 60. }fold stated meetinfpi monthly.
President,'4ohn flyer; 'Beetetary, George
Singiser.,
=I
!EMI/
The further-eonsideration of this subject
is commended to our successors in office.
Your committee would also notice as..a . .
matter of:much interest the recent, fornia-.
tion of the " Dickinson' College 'Temper-,
ance_Society,' • on the same pledge with
the county society, now . numbering 64.
We rejoice in this not only for the good it
may do among those on whom it is design.,
ed specially to act, but also for . the
ence we may - hope WI . members will be
enable - to exert on those parts of the county
where. their lectures may
,bei desired:, • We'
cennOt: but ,h.Ope, from. ; tlie--eoergy -
Which iis.OPerations have,been.Ccininicipeedi .- .
thstit, ivilLbeecinie a . valuable auxilliary
'with' Os, in reforming
__the • county. The
President 'is Washington Lee; Secretary,
John W. Tengne.
_ Steep 0n5_14,5: tlannuaLmeetingi4rnewrtawr ,
,has been Oridred, _re quifing thelitiblicatien
of the petition. arid - certificate of those ap
plyingfor tavern licenses. One . .object of.
this law undoubtedly was, to give the Court;
with whom the responsibility rests,
,of
granting the licenses,•an opportunity to
satisfy themselves of the
.necessity of they
tavern.and of the character. of the - upplicanL
Another object was to give.to .the Citizens
-erour commonwealthr-an-opporto-nity-to—
remonstrate before - the Court against the
granting or the renewal'of licenses; to im
proper persons,. or in placeswhere they are:
not needed. The effect of this law,-we
_think, cannot-but be good; and among 'the
72 names appended, to the certificate of the •
seven who have petitioned for, licenses in
our borough, Ore : deem it u matter of grattila-.
tion, that there is but one which 'is record
ed.arriong the tnembers of our society. As
every one is left by the pledge free to 'act
in. this respect as he_ pleases, we:think this'
distinctly shows'the progress of a convic
tion amongst the best friends of man, that
licenses to sell intoxicating liquors ought
not to be granted. •
Your committee ,have found great satis
faction in the discharge of iheir duties the
past year;' and our ardor'has been . 'damped
only by the want of co-operation on the
Part of those who ought td have aided us.
We hat . re indeed never' yielded to a single
feeling of discouragement, except in those
few eases in which we have from our ef
forts countervailed by the opposition or ap
athy of the Ministers of Religion, to' whom
we are wontto look for aid in every good
word'and work. Most of these have come
up promptly to our assistance; while others
we are compelled to say, have done. the
cause great dis-service. But even 'this his
only led us to re-examine the. ground we
Occupy; and to settle our convictions anew,
that the cause of temperance is indeed the
cause of God. And if our convictions are
right in regard to this matter, how fearful
must be the •responsibitity of him; who;
standing as a "watchman" on the walls of
Zion, not only "blows not the trumpet, nor
warns the people," btireven
_cries peace.
while a "sword,", more destructive than
the, warrior's arm ever wielded, is abroad
among the people, of his charge.
We herewith submit to the 'inspection of
the society some Plates prepared by Thom
as Sewall; M. D. Professor in the• Colum
bian 'Medical College, D. C.—exhibiting
the human stomach in the different stages
,of the Drunkards downward progress; from
a state of perfect health even till the delu.
ded victim is immolated on the altar, of his
own folly. With this horrid picture before
us, we pause in wonder, at the counte
nance given by many of the physicians a
mongst us. To their ignorance of the
physical ruin wrought by alcoholic drinks
we cannot ascribe this; these effects are
better known to them than to any other
class of our citizens. In the absence df
.any-exylanation on their part, we are left
to conjecture, for the cause, other' genera-*
tions, we doubt not, will remember Di. -
Sewall, as the benefactor of inau.
'When we took charge or ffgrs . the a
the Society, we found'it in 'debt •7these•
obligations' have'been discharged; and not. ,
withstanding the expenses incurred the
lain year.' have 'been considerable; , by the
liberality nf a ;few They hive all been met.
so that the'Soaietyls now, free from debt.
In conclusion, your committee, after the A
experience of a year, would reiterate the
eeiniment found in ~,the last report, of the
society; to wit---" That in the union of the
friends of temperer) in our boroligh..
Would'he found their greatest strength."
This seniiment, always entertained by this,
society, we believe is gaining gratitid
among all the best friendttof 'Sur common
cause..
RE
=I
bWitINBON VaIetRANCE • SOcarali.—
formed in October 1841. Pledge
sane 'es that of Parent society., Number
Of members, 85. Hold state meetings
monthly.. President, David McCullough;
Secretary, Abraham Cindy.
Of 'the persons registered in these socie
ties, the number supposed to-'have been
confirmed drunkards is not very definitely
reported.- it is not perfectly easy to . deter
mine, to the satisfaction of all the. parties.
concerned, when an intemperate , man be
comes a drunkard. 'The number, howev
er, reported , is 31 and of these It.l are sup-,
posed to have, been reformed, flr - as
reformation, can be predicted of abistinence
ler a few months only+by the direct action
- tiirialaitrCe are
Of the opinion, that 'the organization of 'a
general-society in-Carlisle
- on the Washin
tonian principles, with - branches in other
parts of the county, would be desirable.
First.—lt w_ould thrnw_those-who-haVe
been intemperate and are reformesVinto a
more'responsable position with reference to
society; .and would impose . greater checks
and restraints
, to a, return to their former
- habits. •
Second.—lt.woidd bring into the field's
new class of talent. And
• Thirdly.--This•kind of talent' it be
lieved has proved the most efficient hi re=
forming the intemperate, and restoring him
to society; and also in preserving himfrom
the 'temptations, which aubsequenty stir
riitind.hitir. •
M. CALDVVELL.
L. G. BRANDEBURYi
H. DUFFIELD.
H. AURAND: '
W. V. SPROLE.
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