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Xhe following beautiful lines were cut
from the New York Tribune. Many a bereaved
parent's heart will respond to the feelings so
plaintively expressed :
THE LITTLE BOY THAT DIED.
I am all alone, in my chamber now ;
And the midnight hour is near;
Al the faggot's crack aud the clocks dull tick
Are the only sounds I hear.
And over my soul in its solitude,
Sweet feelings of gladness glide ;
For my heart and my eyes arc full when I think
Of the little boy that died.
I went one night to my father's house
AVcnt home to the dear ones nil ;
And softly I opened the garden gate,
And softly the door of the hall,
My mother came out to meet her son
She kissed me and then she sighed,
And her head fvll on my neck, and she wept
For the little boy that died.
I ehall miss him when the flowers come
In the garden where he played,
I ehall miss him more by the fire-side,
When the flowers have all decayed.
I shall see his toys and his empty chair,
And the horse he used to ride ;
Aud they will speak with a silent speech !
Of the little boy that died.
I shall see his little sister again
AVith her playmates about the door ;
And I'll watch the children in their sports,
As I never did before ;
And if, in the group, I sec a child
That's dimpled and laughing-eyed,
I'll look to sec if it may not be
The little boy that died.
AVe ehall all go home to our Father's house,
To our Father's house in the skies, i
AVhcre the hope of our bouIs shall have no Might,
Our love no broken ties ; Peace,
AVe shall rove on the banks of the river of
And bathe in its blissful tide ;
And one of the joys of our Heaven shall be
The little boy that died.
Cel. Ilfglcr and llic Stale Debt.
FACTS WHICH CANNOT BE CONTROVERTED.
The following communication comes to us,
nay the Pittsburg W, from the highest source.
The writer is a gentleman who commands alike
the respect and confidence of both AVhigs and
Democrats. He states fads in regard to the
State Debt, and the career of Col. Bigleu in the
Legislature, which cannot be controverted by
the friends of Gov. Johnston :
Anr article which appeared in the Tittsburg
(iaicttc, cf the 12th inst., on the subject of the
State debt, and which is taken from the Heading
Journal, is calculated, if not designed, to make
an erroneous impression upon the public mind,
arid to do injustice to the late Gov. Shunk. It
in substance asserts that during his administra
tion, the debt was increased $4,780,523 GO.
The author of this article must have been igno
rant of the facts, or must have wilfully pcrvcr
tod them. To correct his errors and to prescn
the truth of the matter, is my cljcct in appear
itig before the public.
The State first failed to pay the interest on
the debt, on the first day of August 1842, am
continued delinquent till the first day of Fcbrua
ry, 1815. During that period, the Legislating
authorized the issuing of certificates to the hol
ders of the State stock, for the interest, as it
txxame payable scmi-anaually. Ou the lCth
April, 1815, provision was made in the annual
appropriation bill, authorizing the Governor,
upon the surrender of those certificates to tho
Auditor General, to cause certificates of State
stock to be issued in lieu thereof, at an interest
of five per cent per annum, redeemable on and
after the first day of August, 1 855. The holders
of the certificates for the interest, availed them
selves of this provision, and as certificates had
been issued for five semi-annual payments,
amounting to about $800,000 00 each, the ag
gregate of them amounted, of course, to the sum
of $4,000,000 00. The law further provided,
that interest on those certificates should be com
puted from the time they1 were issued at the rate
f 4 J per cent. This interest, added to the
principal, made the amount of $4,555,182 15,
the same which is charged in the article in ques
ts head of ("Stock Loan, April 10, 1815,") as
Part of the debt created during Got. Shunk's
erm. For the act cited, see Tamphlct Laws of
1845, page 512.
Comment on this subject I deem unnecessary,
ibis simple statement of tie facts is sufficient
to escape the falsity of the charge, and to show
at this item of the debt had occurred before
'ov. Shunk was inducted into office, and that
consequently he had nothing to do with its cre
ation. The effect of the enactment of the lCth
pril, 1845, was simply to change the form of
Webtedness.
Much ado is made by certain presses, in the
"reBi oi upv. Johnston, about the credit which
due to him, for tbcCToiyiiKDl ofthc intercut of
' Stati debt.- One would BtippoBc, that to him,
- t0 Lim ttlo&e, btdouga all the credit, and all
the honor .f paying the interest, and that it was
not till his elevation 'to the Chief Magistracy
that it was paid. A more perfectly absurd and
unfounded claim was never set up for any pub
lic man. The honor of redeeming the credit of
the State belongs to the Legislature of 184-1.
That body, by passing an act authorizing the
levying of a tajc of three mills on the dollar for
State purposes, provided the ways and mean'? of
of paying the interest. The first paymet after
the suspension in 1S12, was made on the first
day of February, IS J5, a few weeks after Gover
nor Shunk was inaugurated, and it has been
regularly continued up to the present period.
For this, Governor Johnston is entitled to no
more credit, than any other gentleman who was
in private life at the time that important mes
sage was adopted. Certainly, he is not entitled
to as much credit as Col. Bigler, who was then
Speaker of the Senate, and who, as the journals
of that body will show, sustained the provision
for the three mill tax, upon every vole that was
taken upon it.
A brief history of the passage of this provision
may not be uninteresting at this time. AVhilst
the bill for the sale of the public works, was be
fore the House, an amendment was incorporated,
providing for the assessment of a tax of three
mills on the dollar upon certain property enume
rated, and the bill in that shape finally passed.
The word "three," in this amendment was
stricken out in the Senate, and the word "two"
inserted, thus making ifr read two mills, Col.
Bigler voting against striking out aud inserting.
Upon the question of the final passage of the
bill thus amended, Col. Bigler and other Sena
tors, who were iu favor of the three mill tax,
voting in the vegative, and the bill was lost.
This vote was reconsidered, the House provision
restored, and the bill finally passed by a vote of
10 to 15. Col. Bigler's name is to be found in
the affirmative. (Senate Journal 1811, page
829.) It would not, perhaps, be unreasonable
to claim for Col. Bigler the honor of passing
this great measure, as being the last member
who voted, it was in his power to dcci lc the
question, cither in the affirmative or the nega
tive. The Bill was afterwards referred to a
committee of conference upon disagreeing votes
of tho two houses upon cilcr prti&iuuo. TliO
report of the committee was adopted in the
Senate, by a vote of 20 to 13, Col. Bigler again
voting in the affirmative.
Now, when it is remembered, that at the time
this Bill was passed; the financial affairs of the
State and the country were greatly deranged ;
that money was scarce; that the credit of the
State was so low that her stocks were at about
forty dollars; that the debt, in consequence of;
her failing to pay the interest, was increasing
at the rate of about two millions of dollars a
year; that the opinion was prevalent that tho
people would not submit to an iucrcasc of tP.xa-
tion ; and that the question of repudiation was
entertained, at least, by a portion of the commu
nity, it will be admitted, that it required some
degree of firmness and moral courage in the
Representatives of the people, to meet the crisis.
It wa3 emphatically a crisis in the history of this
good old Commonwealth. For nearly three
years she had stood before the world disgraced
and dishonored. She had failed to meet engage
ments, to which her faith and her credit had
been solemnly pledged. But the crisis was met.
Her sous, then .representing her, nobly, fear
lessly, patriotically came to the rescue, and for
getting their own temporrry interest, in that of
the Commonwealth, they passed this important
measure, and in one short year her credit and
her character were redeemed. In the support
of this Bill all party differences were merged in
the great questions it involved, and AVhigs and
Democrats, influenced by the higher and nobler
sentiments of patriotism, cordially united in ad
vocating and sustaining it. Give honor then to
no particular individual, but to the majority of
the Legislature of 1814, and to no member of
that body more than to Col. Bigler, who was as
active in the support of the bill, as any of his
brother-members. It was a great Pennsylvania
measure, and it is tho duty of the people to
frown down all and every attempt of partizans
and demagogues to rob the Legislature of the
honor which is their just due, for the purpose
of sustaining and elevating any political aspi
rant. For the truth of what I have said in relation
to Col. Bigler, that is not proved by the ltccords
of the State, I appeal to the lion. George Darsie,
who was thou a member of the Senate ; to the
Hon. J. lloss Snowdcn, the Hon. Jasper E. Bra
dy, now of this city; Alexander Erackenridgc
and Col. James A. Gibson, who were members
of the llouso of Representatives. Candor.
Frcals. of Nature.
Two physicians of Georgia, Doctors Cohen
and Durr, have published a statement to tho ef
fect that there was born upon the premises of
David J . AVilliams, in Telfair county, a negro child
weighing twelve pounds, with two well formed
and separate' heads and necks, two arms and
two spinal columns, three leers with feet at
tached, two in their nalurarposition and the
other coining out ou the back in the region of
the hips, with two hearts partially joined to
gether, two luuf, and othjr uuowalits.
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Fellow citizens and horses! Hurrah! There's
got to be war! I'm in for whipping Great Bri-
tain right off, without stopping for compliments 1
AVe must hustle the British lion heels over head
out of the everlasting .borders of this here AYes-
tern Continent! Hurrah for 'tho AnnrntinTwrr
Canada! AVe must have the critter, ' Lc-stf
heels, if we have to wale m blood up to our
knees to pull it from the horns of John Bull.
AVe must do it! I repeat again, we must do it,
if we have to drive the pick axe of vengeance
clear to the handle in Jonny's addled trains !
Where's the possum whose little soul don't echo
them sentiments? He ain't no where and never
was. Can't you and I, and every one of us,
rouse up the wolf of human natur till he'd paw
the whole of Old England clear down below low
water mark? Yes eir-ree! Every citizen of
this tall land, from the owl on the hemlock stub
to the President in his great armed chair, is in
favor of this all-thundering and liberty spread
ing measure. Just let these glorious ideas pop
in the United States cranium fairly, and sec if
an earthquake shout, bursting from twenty-six
millions of India-rubber lungs, don't shake the
whole earth "crack the zenith," and knock the
very polls over ! I tell you there is nothing this
side of the millenium like our own everlasting
institutions! nor you can't scrape up a flock of
civilized beings, on the face of the whole uni- 1
vcrsal terra firma, who know so well how to de
fend and spread them.
AVherc's the Yankee who won't fijrht for his
country within three-quarters of an inch of his i
life, if it " tries his soul, yes, and his upper
leather too ?" AVhat's England ? AVhy, it ain't
nothing at all scarcely ! Uncle Sam will take it
yet for a pocket handkerchief to blow his nose
upon when he gets a cold! AVe arc "bound to
wake up snakes," and no mistake. Let us once
get hold of the job in right earnest, with all cf
Uncle Sam's boys, and if wc don't dig a Lob
as deep as eternity with the spade of Yankee
spunk, and scream the grease spots off the face
of the universal world, and pitch them end over
end clear to the botjtom of it, then I am no " two
lcgr:d crocodile: AVhcn this is done you will
sec the creat roaring, ctu or nucrry ii.rr:g
his broad wings up and down the -tide of the
world, like a big rooster crowing o the top of
a barrel! AVhy, you are all ready and, primed
fur the onset all you want is a live coal or two
dropped on your devoted heads to touch you off!
Mcthinks the flashes of fire in your eyes to-day '
forbodc blood and thunder; only mind that you I
don't Cash in the pan! If you all do your
bounden duty iu this crisis, you'll spit the to
bacco juice of determination in John Bull's C cs
till he has the blind stagger?, wl.cn you can
take him by the LU anI sling him beyond all
htiman recollection ! Ttousc ye rouse ye. Let
the shout penetrate every nook and cranny of
North America from the tip top of the Arctic
regions clear to the Straits of Gibralter, Canada
and the United States forever: Begot in a war
whoop born in blood cradled in thunder, and
brought up in glory. M'arcrly Magazine.
Ro Careful of Cucumbers.
On Sunday evening, saj-s a AVilmington paper,
we learn that a young lady and gentleman at
tended divine service at one of our churches in
this city, after which they returned to the resi
dence of the lady in Brandywinc Village, and
as is customary on such occasions with young
people, taiked over love matters until a late
hour, when all of a sudden the lady complained
of the cholic, caused, as she said, by taking cu
ciuubcrs at tea, and hastened the young man
with all the speed of a locomotive for a physi
cian. The young man ran and knocked up the
physician, and related to him the importance
of his being present as soon as possible. The
physician on approaching the house heard tho
.screams of the females and immediately inquired
into the symptoms of the case, when lo, and be
hold ! instead of the cholic it turned out to.be a
little infant, whose birth had ailed her instead
of the cucumbers, as she supposed. Ladies
should be careful how they cat cucumbers of a
Sunday afternoon, if such is the result.
An Accomplished JJIoriiicm.
A Paris letter to the New YoVk Observer, gives
the following notice of the Mormon missionary
at that place :
"In the house where I live is a gentleman by
tho name of B n, an American, a Mormon,
and a prophet, lie is one of tho most polite
and pleasant men that I have met since I left
home a graduato of the New York University,
and familiar with, several modern languages.
He has a family in the Great Valley, (Dcscrct,)
and has been connected with tho Mormon fra
tcrnity ten years. He is one of the twelve
prophets who conduct the affairs and guard the
interests of the wholo community. He is now-
engaged in the laborious occupation of transla
ting the Mormon Bible into French; and when
I tell you lie has been occupied four months al
ready from eleven to five each day, with a pros-
pect of four more before the work is completed,
you must acknowlcbge that it is no small task.'
lkf Mrs. Amelia Bloomer publishes a card
in one of tho Boston papers, denying that the
1uj returned to "loDg bLul."
. c Sight.
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1 . ""Action in which the light is admitted
ry inilortaut- It should not come directly
' or. on a line 'lth tLc cys, nor below
!;ucrj? fr in these positions the direct ravs fall
W-Vt"0 tLc eJcs so .f'J Uicta with light thai
uey cannot receive the reflected ravs from tho
object at which wc arc looking, while it is from
these reflected rays alone that wc must perceive
the objects viewed. Any one may prove this by
laying a sheet of paper upon which he is wri
ting, directly before him, with the lamp in front
upon a level or below his eyes; after looking at
the writing in this positionor a few moments,
let him remove the lamp so as to cause the litrht
to come a little from the rear and above the line
cf his eyes ; he will at once perceive the relief
afTordcd, and the greater distinctness given to
the writing. Or let him, when the lamp is in
the former position, shade his eyes with his
hand so as to shut off the light but what is re
flected from the paper, and the same effect will
be noticed.
The best direction for the light to come in
reading is a little from the rear of the left
shoulder. In the evening the lamp should be
placed just so that it cannot be seen from the
corner of the eye. But in writing or working
at a family table in the evening it may be ne
cessary to have the light come in front. In this
case the astral lamp with the ground glass shade
is a good light, provided it be high enough and
suCicIcntlJ "V below the shade to permit the
rajs to tail upon the table all round. The
modern solar lamp with the shade wholly closed
at the bottom, is excellent for lighting rooms,
but is not suitable for the centre of a working
I table. The cutting of figures in nlain fines r,n
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Ilc ground glass shades destroys their value
as shades, and indeed makes them more painful
and injurious to the eyes than to have them
wholly of plain glass. But the best of all lamps
for the eyes is the old fashioned bonnet lamps,
or such as arc now sometimes sold under the
name of the study lamp. The interior of the
bonnet should not, however, be pure white or
v-i.v, : t.-t iQvit operates t much "s a.
reflector, casting the rays too strongly down
upon the objects on the table, especially if these
lc white paper or work. A cream color for the
inner surface of the shade or bonnet will be
found sufficient if the lamp be tolerably
powerful."
A Sal Case or Starvation.
The ricdmontcsc Gazette of a late date, con
tains an account of the discovery, in Valais, of
the body of a young man who disappeared five
years ago, and w ho perished from famine, in
the woods. He went on a hunting excursion,
it seems, and never returned, and search was
made for him in all directions in vain, llecently,
however, a party of hunters, passing a place
nearly inaccessible, and where there were, no
traces of human feet, were surprised at the dis
covery of a man's body, upon the leg of which
an enormous rock had fallen, apparently, so
that it could not be extricated. "Tho body, and
even the clothes, were in such a remarkable
state of preservation, that they were without
difficulty recognized.
Both the beasts of prey and the insects seemed
to have respected the body of the unfortunate
young man. JNcar uy was nisiownng-piece, me
brass plate of which was still wrapped in a
handkershicf. It was evident that the your.g
man, in passing this place, which is full of
loose and craggy rocks, had involuntary started
one of the masses from its place, and that it had
fallen upon his leg, and held it as in a vice, so
that it was beyond his power to withdraw it. In
this horrible position the poor victim must have
awaited the apyroach of death, unable to disen
gage himself from the fatal grasp of the rock,
or to make himself heard in his cries of dis
tress. How long he endured this dreadful ag
ony, cannot of course be known, but it is man
ifest that ho must have starved to death.
Rain without Cloiuls.
The phenomenon of rain without clouds, which
the Philadelphia North American notices as
having occurred in that city on AVednesday of
last week, was noticed at Norristown by the
editor of the Free Press, who says:
"Precisely the same phenomenon was observed
at this place about a quarter past ten o'clock on
tho same evening. On the north and north-west
horizon dark clouds were resting, from which
lightning issued at repeated intervals. These
clouds did not rise from the horizon more than
thirty degrees. Overhead it was perfectly clear,
and the stars shone forth with rcmakablc bright
ness. In this state of the heavens tho rain
commenced falling quite smartly; increasing in
volume as it fell, and lasting some four or five
minutes."
The cholera has entirely disappeared
from the towns along the Missouri river, where
it has lately proved so fatal, excepting tho town
r.e a 4V.nf TWo thero were a few
cases, but none of a malignant form.
t7 Our countryman, Leutzc, the artiste, is
from Europo with his great
pictuic, "AViuhii!toii crowing the Delaware
Murray's Kclatious.
Gideon Murray, a young sailor, was taking a
stroll through the southern part of the city,
yesterday afternoon, when he happened to get
into a narrow street or alley which is supposed
to be inhabited by persons cf questionable mo
rality. Murray is a harmless young man, un
mindful of mischief bet plagued with an inor
dinate amoiyit of curiosity. AVhile he wes sta
ring about him, an elderly woman in a dirty
calico wrapper of the gaudiest colors, rushed
from a small frame house and throwing her
arms around Gideon's neck, exclaimed, "Oh
Johnny, have you come back to your poor
mother, who has done nothing but cry her eyes
out ever since you went to sea?" Murray judged
that there must be some mistake, nnd 'iif,,mn-,i
the old lady that John was not his name, and
that he had no mother iu these parts. By this
time, an old man with very red eyes and very
ragged pantaloons, who had been standing in
the door of the house whence the old lady had
emerged, hobbled up to Murray and throwing
his arms around the astonished sailor, cried out,
"Johnny, my boy, it's your father I am; dont
you remember me, dear, and sure it's my own
picther you arc all over, blessings on the mother
that bore you!" Murray answered to this that
his father had been dead two years, and while
he was yet speaking, he perceived the venerable
matron who had mistaken herself for his moth
er, making off with his new Barcelona, which
she had managed to take from Ms neck while
she was giving him the maternal embrace. His
surprise was somewhat increased when he per
ceived that the old gentleman who laid claim to
his filial tenderness, had extracted all the small
change from his vest pocket, and seemed to be
diving after the wallet which contained his
bank notes. At this moment, two young girls
who had been watching the scene from an up
per w indow, made their way to the street and
clung around the seamen with the exclamations,
"Oh, brother John! brother John! what have
you brought me, brother John?" making at the
same time a thorough investigation of his pock
ets and taking possession of the entire contents.
Murray broke from the gang and made his cs-
Cat0- fV o T-i n rr Oi o f !' a 1. -. -
and uncles would next make their appearance.
He made a report of his losses and sent a police
officer with very affectionate inquiries after his
View relatives, but it is highly probable that he
will hear nothing morc-of them as he was una
ble (being a stranger in the city) to give a pre
cise reference to their place of abode. Local
Editor of the r.nnylcanian.
Mother.
The maternal affection is beyond all compre
hension, and it would almost seem as if God in
his mercy had endowed woman with a spirit
little inferior to that possessed by angels, and
too pure for earth. The case of Mrs. Douglass
so beautifully illustrates and exemplifies this
fact, that it has made a deep impression on the
minds of hundreds. From the day her son was
sent home in chains, until the earth hid from
her sight his cold remains, she was constant
ly at his Eidi, when allowed by those
having charge of him. From the mansion
of the President to tho gloomy cell, by
night and by day, through the rain and the
sunshine, she never ceased her efforts m the
cause of her sen; and when her last hope faded,
of obtaining the executive clemency, she ap
pealed to subordinates for mercy. No tongue
can describe her agonizing importunities, no
lanuasre her sufferings. AVhcn all was dark
and still, and while the keepers shunned the
supposed murderer's cell, she could be heard on j
her knees by the side of his cot, imploring the
mercy of the Redeemer on her condemned sou.
And at last, when his sun was set, and the
eternal night of despair took possession of her
mind, the afllictcd mother approached the coffin,
and the instant the lid was removed, she fell on
the body of her boy, exclaiming in ineffable
rief, "Oh, my son, my poor boy, your trials
arc all over on this earth ; your last trial has
proved a fatal one in this world." She knelt
over the body and kissed him again and again,
at the same time cutting off portions of his hair
as a keepsake of her unfortunate son.
Xj" The Investigator, a campaign paper pub
lished at Ilarrisburg, discourses after the follow
fashion of Governor Johnston's Sinking Fund:
Gov. Johnston's Sinking Fund.
"In 1837, Governor Johnston, then being a
member of the House of Representatives, voted
for an appropriation of $150,000 to the Gettys
burg Railroad. 183S Governor Johnston voted
for an appropriation of $255,000, making FOUR
HUNDRED AND FIVE THOUSAND DOL
LARS voted by Governor Johnston, in two years,
to this rapacious tape worn of Gov. Ritner, that
swallowed up $007,1)17 01 of the people's mo
ney, and never yielding one cent of return to
the State. This good sooth was a Sinkins
Fund."
Major General Sco"tt and Brigadier Gene
ral Bankhead, of the U. S. Army, accompanied
by M. N. Falls, Ea., of Baltimore, John S.
Cunningham, Esq., and several other gentlemen,
left Portsmouth, 'a., on Saturday, on an cxtur-
ticn to Nn-'b Hea l, M. C.
VOLUME 7.--I1I! a
Additional foreign cus.
- ENGLAND.
The ecclesiastical titles' assumption act ha. -5.
received tho royal assent The bill is said to'
have been the joint production of her Majesty's
ministers, Mr. Walpole, Sir Frederick Thesi-cr,
and Mr. Keogh. "
The acceptance of the challenge of the New
York yacht America devolves on Joseph AVchT,
Esq., in right of his championship of the royal
yacht squadron. nis champion yacht, tho
Alarm, is 108 tons, old measurement. It is ex
pected that the grand match of the season will
be a contest for $5,000 or 1,000 sterling, be
tween these vessels. The America will have nu
opportunity offorded for trying her rate of sail-
in iue race 01 yacnts of all natious, to take
place at the Isle of AA'ight regatta during the
ensuing month. This will be preliminary to
the great match with the Alarm.
IRELAND.
A Mr. D. Kuttledgc horsewhipped the high
sheriff of Mayo, in front of the court-house, last
week, for neglecting to summon him upon the
grand jury.
The Caors, kc.Tke Potato Crop. In the
neighborhood of Eandcn the general feeling
amongst the farmers is, that the disease which
had during the last five years deteriorated this
crop has exhausted itself, and that the present
will be an cxccccdiiigly plentiful year, a large
breadth having been grown. Cork Constitution.
The board of health of Gibraltar has imposed
a quarantine of 15 days upon all vessels arriving
from Oran, in consequence of the cholera having
broken out in that place:
Two Jews were christened on the 22d ult., in
the Church of the Cross in AA'arsaw one 17,
and the other 58 years of age. Field Marshal
Prince Paskiewitch was sponsor iu both cases.
The Jesuit missions arc making extraordinary
progress in Baden. Forty-two persons in one
day announced their conversion to the Roman
Catholic faith in Ettliugen.
Three distinguished Hungarian exiles have
lately arrived at Paris: M. Messaros, formerly
Minister at AVar ; the artillery Colonel Makk,
scd ; and Colonel Katona, aide-de-camp to Gene
ral Dcmbinsky.
Charlotte Cushmaii.
AVe noticed, says tho New York Express, a
paragraph going the round ofthc papers, having
started on its tour somewhere out AVcst, that
Miss Cushman, the eminent actress, has donned
the Bloomers, during a portion of her late AA'es
tern trip. AA'c now sec that it is authoritatively "
contradicted by those w ho know, and pronounced
an unmitigated libel ; and a friend of the lady's
requests us to notice the contradiction. The
foundation of the story seems to have been sim
ply this: On the arrival of the steamboat at
Sault St. Marie, there happened to be a heavy
shower falling, during which all the passengers,
excepting Miss Cushman and her party, went
ashore to the hotel. Somebody suggested it
would be just the time to "go a fishing." The
idea was immediately adopted, the small boat
was lowered, and brought alongside, and a party
went out on the lake, in the frail craft, including
Miss Cushman, who was indebted to the captain
for an India rubber suit adapted to " the time
and the occasion." Far from displaying the
graceful figure, and freedom of motion so warm
ly alluded to by the author of the story iu the
papers, it was the most nnpoctical costume that
could well have been assumed.
The Ilouiity Land Act.
The Philadelphia Sun states that Judge Suth
erland hascommenccd moving in support of his
patriotic proposition to give to each of the par-
tics interested, under the recent bounty act, at
least ICO acres. He contends, and wc think-
with great justice, that as Congress has given
recruits, who enlisted to go to Mexico, and who
were not in actual service more than a month,
ICO acres, that those who served in the war of
1S12, on land and water, and in the Indian
wars for many months, should also receive ICO
acres. Our soldiers, our tars, their widows acd
childrcn, are deeply indebted to Judge Suther
land for his services thus far in their behalf.
Should his proposition succeed, and we think it
very probable that it will, in his hands, each of
the parties interested will receive 80 acres vwra
than is now allowed. About 20,000 troops left
the State of Pennsylvania, and marched cither
to the defence of Baltimore or were stationed
in the vicinity of the river Delaware, for the
defence of Philadelphia. Allowing each 80
acres additional, according to Judge Suther
land's proposition to 20,000 soldiers, they would
receive one million six ttousanJ acres cf lan I; a
very large proportion of which would be distri
buted among families in the city and county cf
rhihidJphia ; many of whom, especially widows
and children, now stand in great need of this
grant from the government- .
Rev. Jonathan French, of North Hamp
ton, N. II., has preached in the same pulpit
fifty years. He recently announced to his con
gregation his intention of resigning the active
duties of his office, at the clci,e of hs hlt cen
tury of labor, iu Noveiubtr.
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