,thdrawn the tender plant from the props and stay of moral descipline in which she 14119 been nurtured, and yet make no effort in supply their place; for on him the re• soonsibifity of her errors; on him who had first taught her, by his example to gra& cueless of her duty, and then exposed hir with a weakened spirit, and unsatisfied 1160, ‘o the wide storms and the wily temptations of a sinful world. THE DEVIL MURDERED, The last villainous attempt at robbery, was that of a fellow in Georgia, who put on the livery of the devil, and with match es and brimstone went out to do his masi ter's work. He reaped his reward. The Raleigh (N. C.) Rasp, says: The fellow disfigured himself with a. club foot, went te. the house of an old lady a rich widow, and called himself the dev il, and frightened the family Odle prem ises, took the oil lady's money and elo-' ped. In the act of retreating, he was met a mile or two from the house by a man with a gun, who had been to attend a moo ter, and was returning home; and who, too.had taken a "leetle" too much of over joyful. The man upon meeting him re treated, levelled his rifle, and demanded "who comes there!" "I am the Prince of darkness, but it is not thee Pm after, Jes se Braddock I had but one or two sub jects, and them I have despatched to the lower regions." Jesse not being dispo sed to let his devilship pass presented his rifle and ordered him not to move. Satan commenced swelling emitting smoke nt the same time, and burning sulphur. Jesse not liking the scent of the sulphur, fired, and laid his Satanic Majesty a corpse at its feet: He then made his way to the house of the old lady, where he found the family in the greatest distress. Upon inquiry, he was told that the devil had been there, and they were compelled to fly to the woods for protection, or be carried off by hint alive. Jesse informed them that he had just killed the devil. They immediately took the:road and track 'ed him by the track of the club foot, un til they came up with his body, when they disrobed him of his garments, took oft leis club foot, recovered the money which he hail stolen, washed his face and recogni zed him as a man who had lived a neighs hoc to them for many years. PRINTERS IN LONDON, There is, perhaps, no class of workmen to which the public is more indebted for instruction and amusement than to prin ters. Through their labors, civilization has been extended and Christianity dif fused ; by the result of their employment, youth is educated, manhood improved, sickness relieved, ennui dissipated, and age amused and prepared for the great change- As a body, they are generally intelligent and industrious, and occasion• ally learned. There business is of a na ture which precludes a knowledge of oth• er trades, which debilitates the frame, affects the sight, and produces nervous and paralytic complaints. There are at present in London 1200 unemployed com positors and pressmen ; many of them with large families, are in a state of abso lute starvation. Such is the depressed condition of their trade, that several of its honest and industrious members have been compelled, in despair, to enter the union work houses. The majority how ever, of the , onemployed, suffer all the pangs of hunger•, rather than seek relief from those sources. Their present con dition is caused by the depressed state of the bookselling anil publishing trade, by the little business done by P,:sliameni, and by the substitution of mechanice:., power for human labor.—London Times. AMERICA AGAINST THE WORLD, The following eloquent, and true asl eloquent, description of American enter prise and ingenuity, is taken from the closing remarks of Gen. TALLMADOZ, be fore the American institute of New York: "When Russia wants to build a vessel, she sends to New York, buys one of our vessels, takes it hnme, and puts it on the stocks, as a model to build after. Does she want a steam vessel, New York is the place that she sends to for one. Is a cotton factory wanted, America furnish es it. Does Prussia watt a mill to grind her grain with, she sends to Rochester for it, and to Baltimore for an engineer and machinery. When Austria wants a locomotive, she sends straight to Phila delphia to get one. When Egypt wakes up from her Pharaoh like sleep, and finds that her bull mills are not the best in the world, she sends here for a steam engine. When Texas wants machinery, she sends to Lowell and Patterson for it. And even England—when England wants a locomotive, she sends to Philadelphia— dear Philadelphia—. sister Philadelphia, send one over to us, for we can build no. thing to equal it. (Laughter and ap plause.) Oh! then, protect your laborers —protect your agriculture, protect your manufactures, and when you want a spur to a protective duty take our tobacco and rice for au example." A TEMPERANCK FLAME. Thirteen hundred gallons of spirituous liquors were burnt on the green in Barre, Mass., on Monday evening last. The liquors con stituted the stock of several retailer s, who promised to give up the businees of selling on condition that the temperance people would buy what they had on hand l A SINGULAR CASE.—Some weeks ago, I , an Irish woman presented herself in the house of a lady at the southwest corner of Fifth and Walnut streets ; she brought with her a fine child, a boy about six, months old. The object of her visit was' to ask alms, covering her request with al statement that her husband had shortly previous been killed in the state of New York, in consequence of the falling in up on him a bank of gravel. The child was in almost miserable condition, and was wet from head to toot ; the lady of the house asked the woman if she had no clean clothes for the poor infant ; she said yes, and expressed het willingness to procure them, and accordingly started oft; hour 'upon hour passed away, and the woman, did not return. The child was therefore adopted by the lady, clothed decently and harbored comfortably ; matters re• mauled in state quo for about three weeks,, when one day the mother of the child sud denly rushed into the cellar kitchen, seizs et{ it and carried off without leaving her name or place of residence,—U, States. Melancholy Result of Cupidity.—The Louisville Journal states that two or three weeks ago three hunched foreign enii• grants arrived at the Balize, below New Orleans. The city authorities, hearing of their arrival, and anxious that they should not fall victims to the yellow fever, sent a deputation, warning them not to enter the city, and offering to furnish them means of subsistence until the pes tilence should subside. The emig rants thought that it was all a Yankee trick. "We are told," said the; to the deputa, tion, "that we can make three donors a day in New Orleans. If the authorities will pay us that, we will stay where we are; if not, not." The poor fellows has tened to the city ; and, at the last dates, it is said that not one of th em was living., —Tattler. I MOVEMENTS or SANTA ANNA.--San. to Anna, it is said, has declared himself Dictator of Mexico, and has promised to restore the Constitution of 1824. Other accounts say that he was in treaty with 13ustamente, but that his real object was ,to assume all power. "fle arrived at the ,Icapitol with his troops, on the night of the 2nd September, about three o'clock, cap tured by assault the fort of St Geronimo. Mo. t of the officers and men captured, immediately enrolled themselves among Santa Anna's party. On the 3d, Presi '. dent Bustamente, with 1500 infantry, and 500 cavalry, attacked one of the posts of Santa Anna, but being resisted by 500 men of the corps of Puebla and Largas, was repulsed with great loss, and reti ' red, tearing on the ground his killed and, wounded. Gen. Galindo, on the same day, with 700 men, abandoned the cause of Bustemente, and join Santa Anna. The Censor says, that at the last accounts Gen Santa Anna had completed the be sieging line around the capitoloNM tl prospects of its early surrender. Letters from Vera Cruz states that all I was confusion and it was impossible to pre diet the result, although it was hoped that a compromise would be effected between the parties. Gen Victoria had been call ' ed in as a mediator. EIGHT DASY LATER FROM CHINA. Some further advices from China have been received, consisting of Canton pa pers to the 26th, and letters to the 27th June, being eight days later. It does not appear that during those eight days any important movement had been made on either side, though it was stated that the Chinese were actively repairing the de ' lei;ces of the river; that the fort of Wan tong, which we believe is situated on an island just above the 11,30zue, had been a gain garrisoned by them; and that Macao lighters had been fired upon when going up the river. By the latest Izeounts from Canton, all was perfectly quiet there, anti the Tar. tar troops had not returned to the city ; hut no business of any amount could be done, the Hong merchants refusing to buy imports, whilst very few shipments of tea had been made to Whampoa, and thoes were chiefly green teas for the American market. A few Englishmen and some Americans con' nued at Canton ; the gen eral impression was that it was decidedly unsafe for the English to remain, and tht y were leaving one after another. The Hong merchants had refused to secure the British ship Simon Taylor, which had just arrived at Whampoa, and it was thought not unlikely that they would en• deavor in the way to force the trade into the hands of the neutrals, in which case a close blockade of the river was expected. The settlement at the Island of Hong seems going on vigorously, The chief rents of the choice lots of land offered for sale by Captain ELLIOTT had been run Ll' so high that he had announced his inten. tion of recommending to receive them it. fee simple, on payment of one or two years' rent. The health of both soldiers, which had suffered so severely during their gallant attack on Canton, by hard duty and ex. posure to scorching sun and heavy rains alternately, and to the poisonous exhales (ions from the swampy paddy fields, was i very fast improving. That of the soldiers as being more accustomed to service, was with a few exceptions, perfectly restored; • but on board the ships a good many sailors , and marines, though convalescent, had r not yet quite recovered. I Besides Sir FLEMING SENHOUSE, the (following officers had died in the course' , of the week : Captain BRODIE, of Her Ma- Jesty's troop-ship Rattlesnake, of po plexy Dr. If ALLAOE, of Her MajeOty's ship Conway; Lieutenant FrrzosnALO, of Her Majesty's ship Modesty; and Ad ,jutant WiLsoN, ot the 18th Royal Mai. IA SEVERE BUT JUST SENTENCE. A man named Charles Thompson, for merly Secretary of the Sheffield and Han chester Railway Company, in Engin nd, was recently convicted of forgery, and the Chief Justice in passing sentence upon him, said : ..You have been convicted, on the clear est evidence, of for :rig and uttering a re ceipt. It was forged and uttered In fraud of those who employed you. I have no doubt of the t uth of what you say about witnesses to character, because no one who had not a good character would have held such a situation. Imu =t own it does not appear to me that that charac makes any thing at all in your favor. On AR contrary, it shows that that character was maintained f hrou . :h outward appear. !Ince, when your priociple had given way. Yuu say that it was an unfortunate speeu• lotion that led you into it. 1 believe that hardly any person commits an act of this kind without some such excuse. He hopes to obtain go' by what he is doing, hopes that nil loss will be found out and at some future time he wilt be able to set harmless those who have suffered. I cannot at all allow this character to make' any difference. The crime of forgery is one of so dangerous a nature to property and persons, and is accompanied with so, much of fraud and of concealment, and in' your case of so much treachery, that I am bound to put the whole force of the law into effect. It is with the greatest regret' that I hear you have a family, but the on ly question would be between a long term of transportation and the remainder of your life; hot I think the example of the severe punishment ought to be made in the case. I feel it due to the country at, large to show that the law contemplates' with that degrre of reprobation a crime committed on those who confided their interests in your hands." The sentence of the Court was that the ieisoner should be transported for life. Ile fainted away as he was removed from the bar. The unfortunate man admitted the jus tice of the verdict, but said that at the time he committed the fraud he had not the remotest idea of its terininatingin the way it (lid. He assigned an unfortunate speculation in railway shares as the cause of his conduct. We have headed this par agraph ..a severe but, ost sentence." So we regard it. It should be remembered that when those who hold offices of trust, in banks, railroad companies, andi other corporations, commit frauds, or perpetrate defalcations. which they are especially able to do because the trust reposed in them, that they plunder the widow and orphan, and sometimes turn into the streets, or send to the almshouse, those who, a'er a long lifetime of toil, fondly fancy .4ey accummulated efieu t ;h to keep the wolf from the door, and to smooth the pathway to the grave. The midnight burglar is an honest man compared to these heartless and subtle plunderers.— Alex. Gazette. LIABILITY OF COMMON CARRIBIO.—Pet. Or Farewell lately obtained a verdict in the Superior Court of New York for 83,000, against the Richmond Turnpike company, in compensation for injuries sustained by the plaintiff, from the falling of the prom enade deck of the steamboat Samson, while returning from staten Island on the 4th ofJuly, 1839. The principles settled by the jury are of some importance to travel lers, common carriers, and transporters of passengers. 1, That it was no justification to prove that the bet was constructed as boats usual are, unless it was proved she was safe and secure. Ownt',,rs of public cies are required by law to take great care, and use all the necessary precau tion; and defendants were wrong in sup posing that less care was required in re gard to persons than goods; for goods they are by law accountable, unless that they can show that the loss arose from the • act of God,or the Kings enemies. This is the common law, and the principle was equal ly applicable here. Having charge of hu man life, less cannot be required of the owners of public vehicles. 2. That the proprietors of public con veyances were bound to act impartially, with respect to persons applying for pas iage, though they could not legally take one and refuse another, capriciously ; yet they were bound to take no more than can be taken with safety ; and of this the proprietors, or their agents, are to be judges. S: Passengers crowding into the boat, Ind rushing upon the promenade deck in uinusual numbers, was not admitted to be in excuse for the accident. The proprie tors, or agents, were bound to caution the i fiassengers—caution them of the danger of proceeding, and, finally, to relusg to go at all, if, in their opinion, the boat was too full for safety. MICHIGAN. The Loco• locos of Michigan have been knocked into a cocked hat by the late election, and like that respectable appen dage of an ancient gentleman's dress, they take the head of affairs. The fashion will soon chage, we suppose. These violent diseases never last long.— Untied 6lales Gazette. 1 Tallahassee, the capital of Florida, when first laid out, enjoyed all those na• rural advantages which could be wt ll wished for, in order to insure the health of those who should settle there. Yet time has shown, how illusory are the cal culations of men. With a population ne ver very large, and lately reduced by em igration, 33 deaths have occurred this season from the 3d of September to the 13th October. "These deaths (says the Floridian) have generally been sudden and violent. The victims of disease have been of all classes and ages. Neither• the young or those in the prime of life, any more than those of riper years, have been spared. Both sexes have suffered alike. The affluent and the indigent, the Planter and the Artisan, the Tradesman and the Professional man ; the temperate, and indeed abstinent, as well as those who indulged freely in eating and drinking, have, without distinction, suddenly re ceived the fearful summons to leave this world. We have heard of but three or four families in town, and not more than a dozen individuals, who have entirely escaped the dreadful disease, whether it should be called yellow fever, congestive fever or the dengue.—N. 0. Cour, COST OF VICTORY.—In the inaugural address of Dr. Mott last Monday to his course on surgery at the University of New York, it was related of Baron Lar rey, the friend and surgeon of Napoleon' and of his soldiers, that after the victory of dustedilz, lie cut off 1400 limbs, and' then the knife fell from his exhaualccl hands! Wen considered, what an anti- I dote is this to love of glory s—duly weigh ed in the scale of humanity and religion, what a fearful responsibility for the pro knoters of unrighteous war. TOBACCO A REBIEDY FOR ARSENIC.- A young lady in New Hampshire fell in• to the mistake, so often committed, of eating a portion of arsenic which had been prepared for the destruction of rats. Pain ful symptoms soon led to inquire; and her mistake was discovered. Au elderly la, dy who was present, advised that she should be made to voin:t, as speedily as possible, and as she had always felt a per feet loathing for tobacco in every shape, it %sus supposed that this would at once effect the purpose. A pipe was used, but without producing nausea. She next chew ed a large portion of strong tobacco, and swallowed the juice, and that even with• out a sensation of disgust. A strong decoction was then made of hot water, of which • she drank perhaps half a pint, still there was neither nausea nor dizziness, nor slid it operate at all, either as an emetic or cathartic. The painful sensations at her stomach, howev er subsided, and she began to feel well. On the arrival of phySicians an emetic of blue vitrol was administered, sod produ. ced one operation. One or two days af• ter there was a discharge of dark green color, approaching to black. No ill con sequences followed. Another case occurred in the same place a few years subsequent, in which arsenic was taken through mistake, by a sick person, and she employed tobacco with the same success. She ton had al ways loathed the article, but now chew ed it, and swallowed the saliva, without producing sickness at the stomach. No emetic was administered nor any other remedy.—Sinnun's Journal. TE;MPERANCE SONG Throughout our wide spread Union. What cheering scenes arise, The Temperance Flag is waving, W here;e'er we turn our eyes, Bright in the South, 'tis floating; The North has raised it high, The East and West unfurl it, In glory to the sky. Ten thousand times ten thousand, Around her banners stand, Resolved to drive Intemperance From our beloved land. From every rolling river, From city, town and plain. The cry is heard, deliver! From Rum's destructive reign. What, though the gifts of Heaven, On every hand abounds, And God's abundant blessings, Our dear loved nation crowns' In vain with lavish kindness, Do all those blessings come, While drunkards in their blindnc.s Bow down the slaves of Rum. Shall we whose souls al e lighted, With ardour from on high, Shall we to men benighted, The helping hand deny, No no I our tongue unceasing, Deliverance shall proclaim, Till not one erring mortal, Shall bear the drunkards shame, Waft ! waft ye winds the story, And you ye waters roll, Till like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole, Till the last wretched drunkard, His liberty shall gain, And temperance all victorious, Throughout the Nation reign, THE JOURNAL. One country, one constitutionone destiny Unnlingdon, Nov. 17 t IS4I. MORTALITY IN N. ORLEANS.—W e see by the papers from the South, that dread ful scourge, the yellow fever, has, at length, abated. There were in that fated city 1722 deaths ,by yellow fever, in twelve weeks; and 977 from other diseases, making a total of 2699. Tue CASE or OUR kssesson, which l we referred to just before the election, came up before the Grand Jury, and a I"true bill" was retuned. The trial was then put off until the January Court. We feel assured, that there will then be a full investigation of his conduct; and if inno cent of the charge laid at his door, we trust, he will be fully acquitted. It, on the contrary, he shall be found to have lent his powers to persons for no other than political party purposes, we, as ar dently, trust that he will meet with the fullest rigor of the law. It is unnecessary, as well as improper, that we should say any thing farther on the subject. The cause of complaint was published long since; and we feel no de. sire to do anything which should, in the least, prejudice the minds of any. Previous Pardons Our legal friend of the " fl atehman" has an article in his last paper which classes the action of Judge Kerr, in the case of James Evans, who was brought out of jail on a writ of habeas corpus and held to bail, as of a piece with the previous par don conduct of Porter, Now. one of two things must be true. Either he must acknowledge that Porter done wrong, or, that the Judge did right ; and we cannot be certain from the tenor of the article alluded to, which of the po sitions he is disposed to defend ; but from his previous course relative to Porter's friendliness to Thieves and Pick pockets, we should be left in the dark. From that we infer, that he thinks that Porter was right in releasing a CONVICTED FEL ON, without law, and that •the Judge was wrong in taking bail according to law for a sudpecled thief. This may be all fair and honest in his mind, but to us, it looks as if he really sought for some shallow pretext to sustain Porter's know n viola lion of law. It is true, that our cotem porary has an advantage over us in arg,u log law, but we are unwilling to acceed Miro any thing of the kind in advocating justice (a somewhat different article.) Judge Kerr did release Evans on sail ; and if the Editor of the "Watchman" thinks he did not do right, in so doing, lie will find that there are not a half doz- en of the people in our town why do not only declare their satisfaction, but grati fication at his course, and many are equal ly gratified that Evans profited by the op portunity and made his legs carry his ras cally carcase out of the State and Coun. tv • • Animal Magnetism. This humbug seems to be making consid erable noise in Philadelphia. Some find, ;n the exhibitions, enough to convince them i that the persons under the influence of mag netic sleep, "see th ings in air, and hear' them in the wind;" that they can describe, minutely, any place, or any thing, no mat ter how remote. Others become as com pletely satisfied that there is nothing tutu*e or less than a regular system of gulling the public carried on, in the same manner as travelling mountebanks decieve the crowd, by having accomplices among the audience, who seem strangers, but, who, previously, made their arrangements with the "sleeping beauty." One thing is very certain, our people, with all their smartness, aro a gut table people. They are too apt to believe any thing that they cannot see how it is per formed. It is not many years since, that many in telligent men, really, belieyed that Mael • zel's Automaton chess player, was nothing less than a mere machine, in which was con tained springs and machinery enough to per form all the moves in a chess board, and some of them chess players at that. —when one moment's reflection would have satisfied them that, had Maelzel lived to the age of Methusalah he could not have counted the moves on a chess board. Need we wonder, then, that people believe in clarevoyance of the magnetized sleeper. We only are as tonished that the people do not hiss out of , the public such contemptible charlatanry. Resumption The people can now have a fair oppor ,onity to test the honesty or the Loco Fo t.. They have loudly proclaimed their leterminatton to make the banks resume. l'hey now have the power. They have a najority in the house, and they presume hat they have the same in the Senate.- The Governor Iltlongs to them. Or more' properly speaking, they belong to the Gov ernor ; and now let us ha/se the consuma , ttob of their Utopian Schemes. Our neighbor of the "Ii atchingn" 're sponds to the shout of the people, Resume, Resume!' and says the banks should be 'forced to reckon" after months and ' , years of grace." We are not apt to add our voice in fa vor of any thing, unless we have made up our mind as to what ought to be done, and the means which should be adopted to bring about the desired result. When we wish to direct any servant of ours, as to his duly—what he ought to do, we make it a point to tell him how he can accom plish the wished for object. Will our neighbor have the goodness to inform us, as well as his many readers, in what deft -1 nite manner he desires his servants, the Legislators, to act? Or, do you adopt the practice of the pedagogue who ad ministered a sound flogging to one of his pupils because he could not get the an swer to a sum which he ordered him to do, and which he could not do himself—be_ cause the answer was wrong. We shall wait patiently to see what course our friend will take, whether lie will explain to the Legislators how the 'fixins" are to be applied, or whether in the event, that Porter shall sneer at "the shout of the people," and say ho does not carelor "denunciations from any quarter;” he will, himself, say Porter is right and the people were not shouting at all, Re sume ! Resume ! Or still further, wheth. er he will sing hosannahs in favor of Por ter's messages when he recommends re sumption, in that paper, and then by his in fluence keeps the Legislature from doing any such thing. Remember I people of Huntingdon, the "shout" and the "response" have both said Resume! Resume! The whole will ter minate like the old woman's 'experiment' to make a ems "set." The old lady said, in desribing the "experiment" and its re sult, "Our old goose stood up to set. Yes, she did; and so she did, we laid a big stone on her back, yes we did and so we did; and it lolled off and broke all our eggs, yes it did and so it (lid." Remember we say that their old goose will stand up to set, and in all probability their eggs will all get broke. CONSISTENCY. We do not know when we have seen,, so clear a case of consistency, as is con tained in the annexed articles, both from t he pen of our neighbor of the Watchman. Any reader will see at once the difference between "tweedle dum, and tweedle dee." Several Journals have hoisted the name of Martin Van Buren for the next Presi dency—Pretnature"—Watchman. ..The Towanda Banner has declared in favor of Gov. Porter for the next Vice Presidency—we second the motion"— H atchman. Just observe how very consistent—lt is premature to declare in favor of a man for President, but not premature to declare in favor of a man for Vice President. It is really funny to see how strangely the consistency of some men "sticks out." Hoaxed We Guess. At the time of the military parade in Hollidaysburg, there was a tall ferocious looking gentleman there who passed him self off as the notorious Bill Johnston the Canadian out law , or as some call him patriot. The way he astonished the natives with discriptions of his deeds in arms is a caution to all lion followers. In truth we believe the supposed Bill and his daughter were regularly lionized, and ' some really exulted in the Republican character lie gave of himself. He was an Englishman with an American heart, and Daniel Webster was an American with an English heart," was a favorite ex pression of his, to convicne his hearers that he was a full bred patriot. The best joke is to come yet however. It is pret ty satisfactorily ascertained that it was sat notorious Bill at all, but some fellow who took that plan to sponge his way through the country. We regret that those of our friends who enjoyed as much as if they had seen the real animal himself, have found their die appointment, and learn that their great man turns out in all Kobability sumo blackguard or knave disguised in gently mans
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