he was grave, frigid and polite—but, alas'i not loveing. Now this was exactly the, contrary to what Miss Pallister wished; she had no objection to coquette, but she had a great aversion to being found out. She knew that her uncle woull not allow her to make a fool of anv man, if Jones were to make a declaration in consequence • of any public cuqueti y, she must either at once accept or incur that nobleman's displeasure; and she was always uneasy if any difference took place with that re lative, to whom she was sincerely attach ed. But all things come to a close; so did Miss Pallister's visit to her uncle—and Mr Jones had neither made a declaration nor seemed inclined to do so; and left alone in her carriage as it bore her to Lon don, her reflections were none of the most , pleasant. She felt that •in playing the pme of coquetry, she had not only tailed in her object, but had lost her heart--and doubts & fears possed her breast, that per haps Jones, disguested with her conduct, might direct his attention elsewhere- —and she burst into tears at the thought. Now, Lord Pallester had seen the game his niece was playing, and was pretty well aware of the state of her heart, and it rejoiced hint that her affections had fallen, where they had; but he laughed heartily ) .at the thought, that a mere country squire like Jones should completely outmanceuvre a practised coquette like his niece. "Jones likes:the girl," said his lordship to himself "and shall have her, but let her seer a little;" and stiffer she did. Letters from his sitter-in-law described his neice as not well, pale, out of spirits. “io,' said his lordship, 'she is in love at last, is she. I must give her another chance I suppose.' Lord Pallister's next letters mentioned incipient symptoms of the gout, and affec tionate niece soon arrived to nurse him, but he was shocked to perceive that she looked horribly ill. 'Poor thing,' thought he, 'I must be merciful,' but in the course of the day he gave her a hint respecting her country beau, Mr Jones--and M;ss Pallister, in a passion of tears, threw her self at her uncle's feet, and confessed at once her love, any besought him not to al lude again to her wicker. and foolish con duct. 'lt was wicked,' said she, 'because I in tended to injure the happiness of the wor thy man, and I suffor now justly.' Lord Pallaster thought to himself, 'Thou art a good and honest girl after all and shall be Mrs Jones yet,' Lords have great power no doubt, but, how his lordship contrived, a few weeks after. to detect Mr. Jones in the act of imprinting a kiss upon the lips of the fair Elizabeth, we cannot tell; neither have we -heard that either his lordship or his niece expressed any violent indignation at the audacity of Mr Jones. Nay, it has been insinuated that the said kiss was given with the full approbation, not only of Lord Pallister, but also with that of his niece--but this seems incredible. From the Charleston Courier, April 4. THE GREAT EXPLOSION. The explosion advertised by Messrs. Taylor and Goodyear, the proprietors of the sub-marine armour, took place yester day afternooa, off the White Point Gar den. A numerous body of spectators gathered to behold the spectacle; the af ternoon was again bright and beautiful; and the enterprise was successfully . a chieved. Previous to the grand explosion two smaller ones of great beauty were ex hibited, uplieaviug the snowy spray, with its arched iris, rich in pristine dies, to a lofty height. After these signales came the catastrophy—the hulk of a schooner, of about 40 tons, was torn to fragments, nay, almost to atoms, by the explosive force of a keg of powder, containing 75 pounds, submerged and attetched to her bottom. 'The convulsed waters lifted up their burthen, and held it up for a while as in a bowl, until with tremendous force it burst ito innumerable fra gments , shoot'. ing high into the air, and telling with an impetuous plunge a wide circumference. The spectacle was one of interest and grandure. and illustrated very strikingly the terrific nature of the torpedo, with which Brother Jonathan was want to scare John Bull out of his seven senses, when he paddled his canoe too near our coast. Many of the fragments fell among or be tween the numerous craft, which lay on their ears observiug the exhibition—and we learn that one fell with such force as to break an oar—no one however was injured. so tar as we are able to learn.. We have been furnished with the fol lowing statement of the times of the sev eral explosions, after the lighting of the match: Ist explosion, 36 seconds; 2d do. 42 seconds; 3d, grand explosion 2 minutes 40 seconds. A mode of detecting . counterfeit coin.— The following ample experiment, which has laid the foundation of one of the most splendid of model n sciences, readily ena bles any person to discover spurious eoin., Take a clean blip of common sheet zinc, about two inches one half, and lay it upon the tongue, place a genuine skiver coin under the tongue and in bringing the silver and zmc together, a pungent and disagreeable taste will be perceived. Sub stitute, now a coln, suspected to be coun terfet, in the place of the genuine crin, Et a very slight tact will be perceived. The false coin at halt dollars, touters, dime. and half dimes, is made msatly of German silver, and produces scarcely any galvanic action with a piece of zinc. The above test is almost infalliable, and reccommends itself from its siinplicitY- Dreadful state of the times ha Mississipi. The tumors we have had of the extreme pressure and pecuniary embarrassment among the planters of this rich State, are, we regret to say, fully confirmed. A number of the Banks have suspended spe cie payments, and we; observe in the, Benton Banner of March 16, no less than 15 or 16 colums of the paper exclusively, occupied whith Sheriff's Sales: such is the alarm created,that meetings have been held there, and at Yazoo city, to devise means to avoid the sacrifice of property under these executions. A state more 'table and opulent in pecuniary resources, derived from her great staple (cotton,) does not exist in the Union; yet, from' some defective arrangement in the bank ing system, or from the malign experi ments Van Buren, Benton, Kendall & Co. upon the currency of the country, the ma chinery of the circulation has received a blow from which it cannot recover. It is to be hyped that the revival of the hard currency commerce with Mexico, and the augmented importation of specie from thence, together with the renewed confi dence and activity in business among the mercantile classes in the North, from the peaceful aspect of our relations with Great Britain, will restore trade to its accuss touted prosperous channels, and prevent the extension of the calamitious event in the South and blest, which at present threaten a convulsion more formidable than that of 1837.—N. Y. Star. Bak:Nore, April 4. THE MURDERER OF Zeramanwen.-- Yesterday afternoon, ;Masselinen, alias [Cobler, the individual arrested in this city, supposed to he the murderer of the Jew pedlar, ner Lancaster, l's., under went an examination before Justice Kemp, which resulted in his commitment, to a wait the requisition of the Governor of 'Pennsylvania. No witnesses were exam• amine& except a German girl, who, how ever, could throw no I;ght on his transac- Lions elsewhere thin in Raliimore, and fur' a day or two in Philadelphia. Sundry queries were pot to him, the subject of a communinationtrom the mayor of Lancaster, to which :ie answered though not very satisfactorily. Ile appeared to have entirely forgotten every thing like dates, and his story is one which will re quire:a Lancaster Dvt^li Lav yer to un ravel. The youth, Wilman, who was with him in the capacity of a servant, seems to be an unsophisticated genius, perfectly good humoured, and altogether incapable of thinking a wicked action, let alone doing it. San. FROM THE FRONTIER. Things are in a said state in the North. Hardly a night passes, without n burning on one aide or the other. On Friday of last week, a barn and a shed owned by Charles Miller, of St Armand, was burn ed down, together with their contents, consisting of eight horses, ten cows, two oxen; live calves and a gun tity of hay, the Missiskoui Standard says, that the perpe trators of this act were traced several miles in the direction of Swanton, but that suspicion does not rest upon any person in particular. As a matter of course this led to retali ation, and on thefollowing night two barns were burned on this side, one of which, we believe, was owned by John Barr, Esq of Highgate. Two companies of the Highgate were under aims on Monday, and a gentlemen who came through on Tuesday informed us that ex citement was at its highest pitch. We further learn that the incendiaries on this side were in one instance recog nized as belonging to the volunteers. They were fired upon and returned the shot, but without any effect on either side. A messenger has gone to Shoreman, to re present the matter to Gov. Denison. We hope his Excellency will adoit prompt and efficient measures to bring to justice, every individual concerned in these atro-' cious deeds, whether citizen or refugee.—, hurlingtou Free Press. AY AMENiCAN NOILEMAN-It Will doubtless be highly gratifiing to the numer ous friends of the Rev. Alexander Gordon Frazer, late of Bottle Hill, New Jersey, to learn that the business which called Ito Scotland bids fair to result in the tri umphant establishment of his claim to one of the finest estates in that country. We are informed by a letter received by the mother of Mrs Frazer, who resides in this village, that on the 16th Feb, last, Mr. Frazer, according to the forms of Scottish law, was proclaimed, at the Cross in Edizburg. heir to the title and estates of die Barony of Lavat. 4-c. &Q.—Norwalk Gazette, LTIICHING--S0 AN DA LOUS OUTUAGF.,- The Easton, (Pa.) Democrat of the C.Bth ult. says:— On Tuesday night last we had a specimen of the Southern amusement called lynching, enacted in our borough, which created fora 'lay ortwo„contitlera-i Isle excitement. A young student be- I longing to Lafayette College, on his re turn to that institution from an evening' party in the borough, was seized by some half dozen chaps in disguise, en the Bush kin bridge and after being run until he was neatly out of breath and life they ..looted him off in a shower of tar and Spanish brown. Ile reached the college in a deplorable plight, and the next day took several hours to remove the vilanous compound from his head and body. A new suit of clothes was nearly ruined-1 and so great was the terror of the poor fellow; and his wtakness from the effects of running, that it was feared serious consequences woul.d ensue. The affair made a great stir. The aid burgess was waited upon hi the college principle and some of the true-1 tees, and a most rigid investigation took' place on the persons of several young Eastonians, who were suspected of hay • ing instituted this lynching affair. ' Noth•, ing, however, was elicited for . some time and the:chief burgess, at] the request of the trustees, was on the eve of issuing a handbill offering a reward of $lOO for die apprehension of the culprit, when, lo! and behold! it was ascertained that some of the students themselves had played Judge Lynch upon their own kind, for some fancied injury, and that the Easton larks were innocent. Here was a denoumcnt indeed! As soon as it was ascertained that 'it was your bull that goared my ox,' the college director said that the faculty could settle the matte: among themselves —that it was merely a boyish caper, &c— -but Justice Heckman very properly re. fused to let the matter pass so lightly, now that the investigation had commenced, and bound over two of Judge Lynch's depu ties to answer the charge at the next April court. THE FLORIDA WAR--ITS COST AND ITS RESULT THUS FAR —The picture of this war is thus tirawn by Senator Benton in his speech en the bill—which was lost in the House-1 . 6r the e3tablishment of a sort of Mintary Colonies in Folrula.— Y, American. 'Troops have been tried, and have failed in accomplishing the object. Evers spe cies of troop% has been tried—rcgulars, r:f'zia, and • volunteers, horse act ! foot.— they have made campaigns and fought battles fur three years, and have done all Ices, men could do cutler such circunistan- ces, and they have stitfered more than men j ought to be required to sailer in such a war; land all winout accomplishing ilia object.! Three years have been consumed in niili- tary operations; and at what colt and wi il, j what results? At the cost, To money, of nearly twenty millions of dollars; in lives, of nearly forty officers, killed or died of svtmnds, or of the climate, cf many woun ded: of nearly four hundred soldiers killed and wounded of the regular army; besides heavy tosses among the militia and volun teers. This is the cost I and what are the results? The results are, four counties of Florida depopulated--the Indians ravaging the country from Cape Sable to the Oke-, tenokee swamp—the frontiers of Georgia attacked—depredations carried into the, suburbs of St Augustine and Tallahassee— j the light-house at Florida Point burnt and j ilestrcyed— ship wrecked mariners on tlie coast of Florida massacreed—and all cut. tivation suspended over a large district of country. part of which was settled awl cul tivated under the dominion of Spain, when Florida was a province of that kingdom. These are the results, after three years of military operations—after this great cost in money and in lives." Office of the Picayune. New Orleans, March 26. CASE or Sins. O'NEttn—Yesterday the examination of this case came on before Recorder Baldwin. The only witness examined P'Et3 a little girl ahou;. 15 years of age, on whose affidavit Mrs. O'N. was arrested, charged with the murder of a stranger, as slated in our paper of Sunday, The testimony of this girl was Lisa and 'contradictory from first to last. She com menced at first to repeat what she had previously sworn to in her affidavit, viz: That about a year ago while she was liv ing in the huuse of Mrs. O'Neill, a stranger came there to board, and that on the second night of his stay in the house, Mrs. O'N. the bar keeper and herself all went into the room where the stranger was sleeping; that white she, (witnesa) held a lighten candle in her hand, and the bar keeper was standing by, Mrs. O'Neill struck him, two blows on the head with a hatchet and he immediately expired. This is the amount of the girls testimony, and it was sworn to in her affidavit so positively and seriously, as to zive it very strongly the semblance of truths. When asked by the Recorder why she had not disclosed , the truth before; she, answer ed that she was afraid to o so, and that she had no ill will towards Mrs O'Neill that induced her to make such a state ment now. On being cross examined she very soon committed herself, became em barrassed, and made a number of contra dictory statements. Site admitted,,that, she had told an untruth in her affidavit and that shehail been prompted to the step, •by a man named O'Brien. After seine farther investigation she finally confessed that no such man had influenced her to 'cake the affidavit, but that she had done' so of her own accord; and that it was alto • gether without foundation. The Recorder then ordered Mrs. O'N. tobe discharged, and stated that no possi ble suspicion could re 4 upon her brow the statement of the witness. Tlie girl was committed to prison, where she will be kept in the hope that home clue can be obtained which will lead to the up.: (prehension of the malignant wretch who must have instigated her to set afloat the unfounded and wanton story. Loss or LIFE DT FinE.--Mr. Stephen Cole, a respectable farmer of Fairfield (N. J.) peri6lied in an attempt to rescue his horses and cattle from the barn which was on fire. Two horses and eight head of cattle were destroyed. Fire at Constantinopue—A dreadful conflagration has destroyed the Vizier's palace, called the Sublime Porte, and which included the different ministerial and administration offices. The catas•' trophy occurred at an early hour on the 21st January, and in a few hours the, palace was burned to the ground. The greater part of the archieves, which were deposited in subteraneon apartments, were saved, but almost all the papers re maining in the offices were destroyed. The loss occasioned by thin disaster is es timated at nehrly 20,000,000 of piasters. When the flames were perceived, the Paellas, and and all the authorities of the capital proceeded to the scene of confla gration, and exerted themselves with the utmost activity and zeal, especially the captain Pacha. The toumruck,'or prison of the Sublime Porte had been provision 'ally transferred to the palace of the .Seraskier. This is the third or fourth ac cident of this kind that has happened wallin fifty years. The last fire took place in 1827, and the new palace was reconstructed in 1829. A coffer contain ing 60 jewels of great value, had been ler` during the fire, and the Government had requeited all the Anibassaderes to have the luggage of every traveller examined hefore leaving the city, in the hope of finding it. Ihnur SPUNKY.—Tieads up, bachelors! There is nothing like looking aloft when the fairer portion ot creation frown upon you, or letting your dander rise when you I have overcome the humiliating rejection or the rollers, of the 'lords of creation. The! bachelors ot Itluncy have taken the rig-',:t view of this matter, and held a 'large and respectable meeting at the house of Col. John P. Schuyler, in said borough, on SaCi urday evening the 23d instant,' at which! divers resolutions were passed defining and defending their rights against the at tack of the 'ladies of Somerst cpunty,' l'orming themselves into a •Mateemon tal l Jun;o,' and urging the Legislature to pass' laws making it peed for a lady to reinsr Ithe first offer, wi;l,..at sufficient cause, or to give any gentleman the 'glove.'—Pit, Telegraph. I We take the following resolutions from ,the proceedings, until we can give them in extenso. Resolved, That if a tax be laid, any gentleman getting; the sack three times ;hall be exempt from Legislative taxation. Resolved, That if a lady 'pops the ques. tion' to any member of the Junto and he backs out, he shall be expelled without benefit of clergy. Resolved, That the gentlemen of Som.: erset who have have so lone basked in the sunshine of the smiles of the petitioners ! and ruthlessly resisted their attractions, deserve to go down HTo the vile dust from whence they sprung ) Unwept, unhonored and unsung.' Resolved, That one great reason of the 'single blessedness of the gentlemen of Muncy and its vicinity, has been the great dearth of marrying ladies. Resolved, That the only thing necessary to stay the crime of ctlibacy here is an im portation of the petitioners. Resolved, That we will, at all times, be in readiness to furnish the Somerset ladle,: with husLands, upon personal applicatiatt (being made to the club; avid that we mau l sasily recognise them, we request that they come conspicuously labelled as fol. lows: S From SowerPo enunty? warran:cd gmeine. Ruoloed, That we feel proud ir, being able to inform the ladies of Somerset county that we live in a rich valley on the West branch of the Susquehanna, and that we have every thing that is good to eat in abundance, and downey beds to re - 1 pose on. Great Fire at Portsmouth. Destruction of life and property—See cral persons dangerously wounded.—We learn, with regret, from an Exprea slip received last night ...11 the Exchlulg - e, that o dreadful fire broke out at Portsmouth, Va. at 12 o'clock on Wednesday night. The handsome edifice in which the Post Office and several stores were situated is a heap of ruins. • The fialliCS burst forth from the bookstore of Mr Anderson. which togeth er with the Post office, and all their con- I tents were entirely consumed The office of the Pourtsinoutli Times news paper, shared the same fate, as well as the hall of the Odd Fellows, all in the same building. The next house, a tin and cop per factory belonging to Mr W It Roberts, was destroyed; and the adjoining dwel ing, a cabinet furniture ware house took fire; Lot here the raging element was stay ed by the activity of the firemen some cit izens and mavens, who had an able aux iliary in Lieut. Piercy, of the Navy-- whose exertions are spoken of as daring and praiswortiiy. While Mr Godwin, proprietor of the ca-' tenet warehouse, was emplopd in saving part of his goods, the chtinntes of the post ellice fell in with a tremendous crash and buried him in the mina. tie was taken out a corpse.. Mr G. was a highly esteem ed citizen, and Las left a wife ano faintly to deplore his loss. Messrs. W, Brooks,' John Nicholas, Revnalds, Burdett, Jack, tad a marine were also wounded—several of them &lige:vasty; and mote than one, we ate sorry to say, are scarcely expected to survive. This melancholy event has thrown quite a gloom over that part of the 'country.—Pa, The Slanderer. who steals my purse steals trash, • • • • • • But he who filches from me my good name, Robs me of that which nut enriches him, But makes me pour ilideed."--.SIIAKSPEARE. All that is damnable in the black cata logue of guilt, all that is foul and corrupt in th., store house of human iniquity, all the demon-like traits of moral deformity, and the blighting mildew of detraction and defamation, are treasured up in the l bahe and cowardly heart of the malicious slanderer. The individual who alms a pistol at my breast, with the threat that "death's lea den messenger" shall cnt the "brittle thread of life," or tells me his sword shall smother its vengeance in my bosom, gives me at least the pririlege of defending my self against his atrocious assaults, but he who, from the dark recess of his perjured soul, pours forth the venom of the asp to poison my reputation, whose breath is like the sirocco, and tongue the "destroy mg angel," who can sport with my "good name" as a "trifle light as air,"and blast at one tell stroke all that I hold inset dear, then turn and smile upon the ruins, de prives tile or the power of acting on the defer..ive, until character is a wreck, re putation gone to the four winds, and hon or as though it had not See the degraded wretch, as lie issues from the charnel house of sin and pollu tion, the green earth is too pure for his unhallowed step, the light from the "glo rious of of day has no charms fcr I virtue and innccence fly from his apH preach, or era crushed beneath the wheel of his ire, and he slinks back again to the society of congenial spirits, whose unholy community is more horrid than the "mingling" ut Macbeth's witches. • MAIDF,NS BE WADE! nen away fr.,!ri tha under;igned, a man by the 1,2.41 C of Charles Rosers, cal ing hi s name David Emery. He is the father of three ci►ildrr'►, and the husband of two wives, and how many more I know not. He is limn st) to 36 years of age, of mid dling size, having light brown hair, and blue eyei,, a large mouth and nose, !(i.he said nose bearing a scar between the! eyes) and do" ncast look; but, on the whole, rather good looking.. He went ! away, Mar:h 12, 1838, wearing blue pan taloons, a striped frock, and an old Cur cap. lie tells great stories, is light fin. tiered, and drinks a little when he can get it. I should advise all ycung ladies to' beware of him, on their own account, for tie is a great deceiver, and as he has de cai,ed me, he may others. The reward !of one cent nitl ta rs.i‘l to any one who !may put him inclose confinement. ELIZA. EMERY. 0::7 - Printers are desired to notice. Croydon, March 12, 1839. A WOIIAIST BY A QUACE: DOCTOR. The New York Sun of Monday gives rite folloeing distressing account of mal practice on the part of a physician in that city. On Saturday night about 9 o'clock, Mrs. Justine Cozzens, wife of Joseph Cozzens, of No. Sthi Madison street, who hitherto enjoyed excellent bodily health. was takva in labor and sent for Doctor Scpti:uus hunter, of the corder of Grand. street and East Broadway, to attend her. The Doctor caine,and about 10 o'clock a' healthy female infant was born. The 'usual after delivery was not however of fected, and the Doctor went his way. In about three hours, as the lady had become extremely ill in ccnsequenee of the Doc to complete his business— die was sent ,for and, on arriving, with much difficulty effected the required removal. Stii i ;le thought he hail not done enough, land declared that something yet remained for removal. He therefore applied him self with great assiduity and force, and after another hour of horrible butchery, in which the cried °Ain her agony, "you are tetring my heart out," and was evidently dying under the diabolical treat went of tile physician—he finished his in ronr.! task by tearing out the lady's ute ras, and she died under his hands, a mar t r to his empirical practice. • Dr. Hunter, the ignorant author of all this murderous mischief, coming to the h , , , !cn where the inquest was held, was immediately taken into custody by the coroner, piaced in a carriage, and ea.:cr. fed to the police, whence he was commit ted to prison to answer for the dreadful died of his quackery. lIARD KNOCKS. In what 52F.00l did Mr. Van BurPn learn the art of Intrigue!--Mica. Herald. He took it :I:aurally just as duck (Ines to swimming, or a sub-treasurer to stealing-- Prentice. If a Whig were born in the sea, he would be it gudgeon.--Pa. Democrat. If a shark were born on land, he would be a sub treasttrer.—Prentice. A loco loco paper in Indiana begs us to take notice, the administration appoints 'oo drunkaris tooflice. We do not now. ''•-t. It ha. at leas;, appointed several to ollice who are more 'Oio half sees over.' —Pi nt: re. A wan in Indiana by the name of Long tale lately hung himselt in a fit of blues, says an exchange paper.— St. L. Garette. The family of 'Lone Tailed Blues' will wear crape on their left arm for thirty days.—N. 0. Picayune. From the Lancaster Intelligencrr. The Murderer taken and the Murder Confessed. We presume that our readers have al heard that Kohler and Wilma, the two men upon whom suspicion rested of having participated in the murder of Lazarus Zellerhach, were arrested on Wednesday ',ast, in the city of Baltimore. We have since learned that a letter has been re ceived in Philadelphia in which it is stated that they had contessed their guilt! We , have this from authority, and are assured lof its entire correctness. There is no occurrence, which has trans pired for a long time, in which the public mind has been more interested than in this atrocious murder. The excitement prevailed not in a mere locality; it affec ted, in a manner, the whole country, and occasioned the profoundest sympathy for the unfortunate deceased, and the most earnest hope that the murderers would Ins taken. We are pleased to have it so an nounce, therefore, that such has bun the case not only, but that the deed is ack. nowledged. The Sheriff of this county, Peter geed, Esq. started on Sunday last for Baltimore, intending to bring ou the murderers to Lancaster. I For the arrest of these murderers in Baltimore, and the circumstances which led to their detection, the public is deeply indebted to Mr. Geo. Hughes, of this city who: exerted himselfvety much in endeav ouring to ferret them out. He elicited a number of the facts which have mainly resulted in their apprehension. Br. IT EVSR SO HUMBLE THERE'S Ito PLACE LIKE Horse.—We think the an. .nals of prisons will hardly furnish a .par ellel to the following facts, says the Nor walk Gazettes, foe which we are indebted to a correspondent:— About the year 1820, James Osborne, of Sher:ran, in this county, was convic ted eon a charge for assault and battery, 'and sentenced to pay a small fine and (cost. The precise amount of the whole i we do nut reccoliect, but was quite incoa isiderable. The amount not being paid, the was committed to the jail in Danbury, where he remained ei;hteen years. As 'the law has stood during that period, he esmid not be discharged from his impris onment, only upon either paying the fine and cost, or giving his note for the amount. This he ever steadily refused to do. The judges of the County Court, the sheriffs and state's attornies have all endeavored to get rid of him, and to per. suede him to execute the note, for without the note, neither one nor all of them had any authority to release him. But all has been in vain and lie has remained a tenant of the prison. During the session of the legislature in May last, a representation of these facts was made to that body, and a resolution passed ordering him to be fortwith released unconditionally. Even then he refused to leave the jail, and was forcibly turned out. lie returned to his native place, but fiends and acquaintances, with only few exceptions, had disappeared. Some had removed, and others were no longer among the living; and he found their pla ces occupied by another generation of men. Re was a stranger in the land of his fathers, and sighed for his former habitation within the walls of the prison. Ile wandered about for a fear months, and in October last returned to the Jed in Danbury and sought admission. The jailer received him and there he now is, occupying one of the cells of the jail, and paying the keeper two dollars per week fur his entertainment. A CHRISTIAN &MT.—The following request appears in an Ohio paper under the advertising head. What a pity it is there are not more Mr. Goddards in the world: "Those of my good neighbors who are in the habit of borrowing from me without my leave, and that too when I ant asleep, are requested not to take any more Potatoes from the hole they last opened—they are my seed potatoes, Take from the hole west of that, and be sure not to leave the hole open, for they will freeze. Yours, with respect. R. I', GODDARD. Posey Township, Dec. 29, 1818,". Mr. Bennet says, in his letters train Washington that, at the late' birth night ball in that city, Amos Kendall was seen filling his breeches pockets with han► and his coat pockets with cold chicken. COAL BED JN FIRE. The Wilkesbarres Farmer says;— The large coal lands owned by the heirs of the late M Hellenback, obout two miles in the rear of this borough have been for some time past on fire,( which is at the pres ent time burning with considerable vio lence. The vein is the largest in the yak ley, being twenty-five and thirty feet in thickness and supposed to exteed at dif ferent elevations and thicknesses through.. out the whole extent of the Wyoming coal region. The bed on fire is at so great an elevation above the surrounding water courses, that water in any quantity cannot he communicated to it. The mouth of the bed and all the outlets have been filled up but fissures continue to open in the range of the fire, caused by the intensity of the heat, and the air thus finds access to ,the flame and continues its excitement. To triumph over our passion is, of all conquests the most &Om,
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