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133.ZGAIDE INSPECTOR.
TO THE ENROLLED MEMBERS OP THE
SECOND BRIGADE, FIFTH DIVISION,
PENNSYLVANIA , MILITIA.
FELLOW-SOLDIERS:
OFFER myself as a Candidate for the
-IL office of
BRIGADE INSPECTOR,
at the elecriun, which is to Le held on the
first Monday in June next, and most re
spectl'ully solicit your votes.
DAVID SCOTT.
March 24, 18:35. to-31
IraIIZ.4I.EM INSPECTOR.
ID THE ENROLLED INHABITANTS OF
THE SECOND BRIGADE, FIFTH DI
VISION, PENNS YL VA NIA MILITIA.
CITIZHNS AND SOLDIERS
11111110UG your generous exertions I
was elected Brigade Inspector at the
last election, for w h ich I return you my
most sincere acknowledgmrnts. The short
period for which I was elected being about
to expire, permit mo again to enroll my
•name amongst the list'of Candidates for your
consideration at the approaching election.
From the disposition which you manifested
towards me at the former election, I am in
duced to believe, and still continue to indulge
tilt: hope, that you will again stand by, and
not desert ale.
SAMUEL E. HALL.
to-51
March 24, 1835.
I3IEt I 2G.A.DE lITSPECTO7I.
1D THE VOLUNTEERS AND MILITIA
OF THE SECOND BRIO ADE, FIFTH
• DIVISION, PENNS YLVA iNIA MILITIA.
G ENTLEMEN
'IT RETURN you my unfeigned thanks for
-IL the very liberal support you gaiie me at
the last Brigade Inspector's Election; and at
the same time present myself again to your
consideration us a candidate at the ensuing
election. I shall not be able to cull on all
personally—neither do I present any claims
by which I should be entitled to your sup
port, with the exception of my own person
al merit. I shell leave the matter to your
own discretion, and will be thankful for
whatever support I may get.
MarCh 24, 1835.
tirCe:FrOl a)ia - ar Pil,401:4CIL10,1111
TO THE VOLUNTEERS AND MILITIA
OP THE SECOND BRIGADE, FIFTH
DIVISION, PENNS YLNA N/A MILITIA.
FELLOW-SOLDIERS :.
I AM induced by a number of my friends
to offer myself to your consideration us
a candidate-for ilie-011ice of
BRIGADE INSPECTOR,
at the ensuing election. Should Ibe zo for
tunate .as to be elected, I will endeavor to
discharge the duties of that office with fi
delity and impartiality. .
JACOB HERMAN;
to-50
March 17, 1835.
BRM&AD ItEISE'EGTOR.
TO THE ENROLLED VOLUNTEERS .5•
MILITIA OP THE SECOND BRIGADE
FIFTH DIVISION, PENN. MILITIA.
•
•
ENCOURAGED by 'a number of my
friends, I therefore take the liberty to
oiler myself to your consideration us a can
didate for the Office of
BRIGADE INSPECTOR.'
Should I be so fortunate as to be elected, I
pledge myself to discharge the duties of that
office with fidelity and impartialy.
Your humble servant,
JOSEPH E. WILL.
te-50
March 17, 1835.
BRIGADE INSPECTOR.
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AU THE ENROLLED MEMBERS OF THE
‘2D BRIGADE, STH DIVISION, PENN.
SYLVANIA MILITIA.
FELLow•SoLinußs:
AM induced to offer Thyself to your con
sideration as a candidate for the office of
BRIGADE INSPECTOR,
'at the coming election. Your votes : will be
thankfully received and gratefully remem
bered.
SAMUEL S. McCREARY.
Gettysburg, March 10, 1885. to-49
BRIGADE INSPECTOR.
TO THE VOLUNTEERS AND MILITIA
OF THE SECOND BRIGADE, FIFTH
PENNSYLNANIA MILITIA:
pEIALOAVSOLDIEnSt
AVINO on a former occasion receiv
ed u respectable number of votes, for
which I tender you my sincere acknowledg
,tnents, I feel myself induced to offer again
as o candidate fur the Office of
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at the ensuing Election ; and,if elected, will
endeavor to discharge the duties of that of
fice with justice and impartiality. •
JOSEPH J. KUHN.
March 3, 1835. te-18
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THE GARLAND.
-"With sweetest flowers enrich'd,
From various gardens eull'd with care."
MOM THE NEW-VORIC KNICICEREOCKER.
DEATH, TIME, & ETERNITY.
THERE once stood palaces of Kings, whose breath
(lave law to millions! scarce a mouldering stone
Told of their site. Who dwelt there? Ask of Denth„
The king of all: He bath usurped the throne;
Where myriads dwelt, the wild fox dwells alone,—
Where banners streamed,the yew and cypress wave;
Where trumpets pealed,—the hollow breezes moan.
The mail-clad warrior and the naked slave
Mingle their ashes in one common grave.
A common grave! The universal doom
Falls on the monarch's, as the peasant's head;
There dwells no charm within the proudest tomb
Which shrines the dust whence consciousness bath
fled;
Mere it no sceptre for the throneless dead!
And be, who living, kept a world at bay,
Shares with the worm his cold and narrow bed.
The worm, that makes man's soulless form his prey,
Knows not a Cicsar's from a peasant's clay.
What then is Death?. l, the doom di' all that lives;
What is this Earth?—the tomb of all that dies;
And what is Time? A boon that mercy z!Veo,
By fools neglected: 'Tis the test that tries
Love, Honor, Friendship, and all human ties.
What is Eternity? Who shall assign
Form to Infinitude? The theme defies
All finite wisdom. 'Tis the mighty line
That God bath drawn between his state and thine.
Seek not to know what nc'er shall be revealed,
Till thou shalt see thy maker in his might;
Wait, till that hour when all that now is scaled,
Or half concealed, in mercy, from thy sight,
Shall burst upon tboo with unclouded light!
Then shall the universal grave be riven—
The past shall seem but as an arrow's flight;
Then to the soul shall faculties be given
To comprehend the mysteries of Heaven.
COMMUNICATION.
For the Gettysburg Star and Republican Banner.
Varieties of the Human Race.
IT is with no,snuill degree of reluctance,
that I feel compelled to throw myself upon
the indulgence of the public, upon a subject
which I feel perfectly conscious is not cal
culated to interest the general reader.--
Nothing could induce me to pursue the-pres
ent course,. but an anxious desire-to defend
the positions advanced on a.former occasion,
against the attacks of a certain writer in one
of our papers over the signature of "lifelano
philus."
However anxious we feel for the mainte
nance of our principles, we feel stilt more
anxious to preserve a strict adherence to
Timm, which we feel assured ; under pres
ent circumstances, can not be better main
tained, than by supporting those principles
which are so exceptionable in the opinion of
the writer referred to. We are ready to
sacrifice any 'favorite theory, m the cause
of truth, upon conviction, however repug
nant to our feelings, or wounding to our
pride. Our reasoning is very unequivocal
ly censured, as having a tendency to add
still more to the numerous ills of the unfor
tunate children of Africa. If the writer be
lieves that any thing we have advanced,Was
for the purpose of aggravating those ills of
which ho speaks, he is laboring under a de
lusion. Would to heaven that every indi
vidual•entertaiAed the abhorrence to slavery'
that we do, this foul stain would not long be
permitted to blur the page of our country's
history. If he thinks that we have igno
rantly advanced those positions, which he
so much abhors, without a knowledge, as he
presumes, of their pernicious consequences,
we shall at least make an effort to convince
him to the contrary. At present, we shall
confine ourselves to some additional obser
vations on the varieties of color, &c.
We remarked on a former occasion, that
no satisfactory causes had yet been assign
ed for the diversity of color, form and fea
tures, which characterize the human race.
We denied that the influence of climate,food
and manner of living, was adequate to the
establishment of a permanent variety; whilst
we admitted its ability to effect temporary
changes in color, being invariably confined
to the individual subjected to the cause,
without being in a single instance transmit
ted to the offspring. We stated, that chil
dren born of European parents, after a pro.
tracted residence in the tropical regions,up.
on their return to a temperate clime, could
not be distinguished from those whose pa
rents had never left their native country.
In support of
. those facts, we advanced
what we conceived to be satisfactory testi
mony. The writer, above referred to, it
appears, is not so easily satisfied. He asks
whether "we are not aware that those who
have spent twelve, fifteen, or twenty years
in the East or, West Indies, are so complete
ly embrowned as to be readily recognized
137 nonzinr: lannzairoN, =Ton, rtrzLicizzin AND prwornamTon.
"I WISH NO OTHER HERALD, NO OTHER SPEAKER OP XI LIVING ACTIONS, TO KEEP ]LINE HONOR FROM CORRUPTION."--SUARS.
sawailrazatrreco. aka,. tetrramptar. carazima ea. =ea.
on that account during the remainder of
their lives, even when that is passed in their
native northern clime?" He does not inform
us that they are altered in form and features,
neither whether their offspring is of a dark
er color than if the parent had never been
absent from his "native northern clime."—
He merely tells us what we never doubted,
much less denied: thatt he rays of a tropical
sun, had the efli:ct of changing the color of
the skin of' the, European. He likewise
asks the question, "whether the majority of
the Creoles, in those countries, even when
most delicately reared, so that (quoting the
beautiful passage in Hamlet) "the winds of
heaven are not permitted to visit them too .
roughly," of a darker hue, than the corres
ponding rank in their mother country?" All
this merely goes on to verify, what we do
not pretend to controvert, that climate does
exert its influence, as long as the individual
is a resident of a warm climate; we will
even admit that the effects may be percepti
ble during the remainder of life, but we will
venture to predict, that if the Creoles go to
their native clime, their offspring will not
vary in color from those who never left their
native country.
Let us now reverse the case, and take the
offspring of an African, (which at birth is
nearly colorless,) in our own temperate
Pennsylvania, or in Adams County, if Me
lanophilus had rather,and rear it so delicate
ly "that even the winds of heaven be not
permitted to visit it too roughly;" and I ven
ture to assert, that upon attaining maturity,
it would be as perfect an African, in color,
form and features, as any ever reared in,
and imported from, the burning regions of
Africa.
The instance referred to, of the young
man, is precisely similar to many others.
We are perfectly aware °Nile effects pro
duced upon the color of those who labor in
the sun, (having 'ourselves experienced a
share,) the effects produced are confined to
those parts only, • which are exposed to the
immediate action of the sun's rays; but do
we not witness as fair shins among their off:
spring, as are to be met with amongst the
offspring ofthose who have spent their whole
lives in the closet.
Some Europeans, it is true, become whiter
upon exposure to the sun, which 'is princi
pally dependent upon the profuse perspira
tion excited by the heat of the sun; the Afri
can, on the contrary,when bathed in perspi
ration, exhibits an elevation of color. The
colony of Jews in Cochin, no doubt, have so
intermingled with the natives, that it would
be extremely difficult to find a single Jew
of unadulterated origin amongst them. We
aro also informed of some Portuguese set
tlers in Asia and Africa, who are as bla3k
as the natives. But we are told somewhere
else, that those Portuguese are actually
blacker than the natives! If that be : the
fact, we are obliged to seek some other cause
than climate; for it is not rational to infer
that climate alone could produce a deeper
color in the skin of the Portuguese, than in
that of the natives. We are compelled to re
fer the solution to some other cause, of which
we have already expressed our ignorance.
We will now merely advance a few addi
tional facts, of those in our possession, to
demonstrate that climate, food, &c. are not
sufficient to the product Eon of the diversity
of color observable amongst the human
Mr, Jefferson, in his notes on Virginia,
mentions seven instances ofAlbinos,or white
negroei. A late distinguished writer ob
serves, "That deviations are perhaps more
common in Africa than elsewhere." Dr.
Winterbottom mentions eleven cases among
the native tribes of Sierra Leone. Mr.
Bowditch tells .us that the king of Ashantee
has collected nearly one hundred white ne
groes. Wafer says they are numerous in
the Isthmus of Darien. It has indeed been
said, that whole tribes of Albinos exist in
Africa, Java and Ceylon.
Does Melanophilus believe, that climate
will make some men white, and others black
in the same place? or is ho not rather in
clined to ascribe this variety of color in the
same place, to some individual peculiarity
with which we are unacquainted? We are
told that the skin of the Albino is destitute
of the colouring principle found in the skin
of the negro generally; but, according to
Melanophilus, climate should still be able to
turn him black in those tropical regions! A
temperate climate will nut whiten the skin
of the African, neither will the burning rays
of an Equatorial sun blacken the surface of
the Albino. We admit that deserts, cool
ing streams, &c. may elect a change in the
shade of color; but we feel no inclination to
admit that the causes, either individually or
collectively, mentioned by the writer, are
able to efface the original peculiarity.
It was not oar intention to give an expla
nation of the causes of the varieties of the
human race—such an attempt,from the finite
and very limited character of our faculties,
we were well aware would necessarily prove
ineffectual. We did not mean that we wore
ignoi ant why climate, &c. effected such and
such changes; but we really meant, as the
writer seems to infer, that climate has little
or no influence upon the production of co
lour, so far as relates to a permanency there
of From parent to offspring. •
We know that numerous natural phe
nomena are justly attributed to gravitation,
but why One Body tends to another we know
not. We are aware that chemical affinity
operates upon elementary particles, when in
apparent contact and at insensible distances,
but of the_ prime cause we confess our igno
ranee: Were we even acquainted 'with
those imperceptible chines tied, their
causes, they could not possibly subsorve any
useful purposes in the ordinary vocations of
life: those only being useful that fall within
the cognizance of our senses. I should not
have said su much, had it nol been deemed
necessary to convince Melanophilus, that 1
was not ignorant of the causes to which he
refers. It is an axiom philosophy, that
thero is necessarily a cause for every effect,
and that the cause mast be adequate to the
effect. Similar causes produce similar ef
fects, and vice versa.
M=lll==
MIS - CJLLANEOUN.
SONG IN Tur, MASK OF TASSO.
Am—"Drink•to me only."
Breathe, breathe, my harp, that meltingstraiu,
-- -That Love,delights to hear! •
Still, still, my heart those sounds retain,
To early feelings dear!
Transported by their magic power,
To distant years I fly,
And live again each blissful hour,
For Sorrow waked the sigh.
Farewell! farewell! forever fled
The hearts that held me dear!
Wreathe, wreathe with garlands, pale and dead,
That darkly passing year!
My sun is set, my hope is past—
' mourn the Night of Mind;
Conic Death, conic. Sorrow's friend, at last
Thy victim bows resign'd.
Oci-N. P. Mums, one of the Editors of the New
York Mirror, writes from Paris as follows:
I was at LAFAvorres Funeral. They
buried the old patriot like a criminal. Fix
ed bayonets before and behind his hearse,
his own National Guard disarmed and troops
enough to beleaguer a city where the honor&
paid by the "citizen king" to the man who
had made himl The indignation, the scorn,
the bitterness expressed on every side a
mong the people, and the ill smothered cries
of disgust as the two empty royal carriages
went by, in the funeral train, seemed to me
strong enough to indicate a settled and um
versal hostility to the government.
I met Dr. Bowring on tho Boulevard af
ter the funeral was over. s I had not seen
him fin. two years, but he could talk of noth
ing- but the great event of the day. "You
have come in time," he said, "to see how
they carried the old general to his grave!
What would they say to' thisin America?
Well—let them goon! We shall see what
will come of it! They have buried Liberty
and 'Lafayette togethen—our last hope in
Europe is quite dead with him!"
LOVE UP A 011111/TNEY.
Q(-Thc London Monthly Magazine for January,
contain. u humorous article, entitled "Passage in the
Lift of Mr. Watkins Tottle." 'We quote the follow
ing, relating to, Gabriel Paison's courtship aud mar
riage, with the account of which Parsons is enter
taining his old friend Tonle, a crusty old bachelor:
"Well, we made love the usual way you
know--l'ann expressed herself very mis
erable; hinted at the possibility of an early
grave; said that nothingshould induce her
to swerve from the duty she owed her pa
rents; and implored me to forget her, and
find out somebody more deserving; and all
that sort of thing. She said, she could on
no account think of meeting me unknown to
pa and ma; and entreated me, as she should
be in a part of Kensington Gardens at
eleven o'clock next morning, not to attempt
to meet her there."
"You didn't go, of coupe?" said Watkins
"Didn't I? Of course I did. There she
was, with the identical housemaid in per
spective, in order that there might be no
interruption.
.We walked about for a cou
'pie of hours; made ourselves delightfully
miserable, and were regularly engaged.
Then we began to "correspond"—that is
to say, we used to exchange about fouriet
tors a day; what we used to say in 'ern, I
can't imagine. And I used to have an in
terview in the kitchen, or in the cellar, or
borne such place, every evening. Well,
things went on this way for some time; arid
we got fonder of each other every day. At
last, as .our love:was raised ; to such a pitch,
and as my salary had been raised too short
ly before, we determined on a secret mar
riage. Fanny arranged to sleep at n friend's
the night before; we were to be married
early in the morning, and then we were to
return to her home and pathetic. She was
to fall at the o!d gentleman's feet, and bathe
his boots with tears ; and I was to-hug the
old lady and call her "mother," and use my
pocket handkerchief as much as possible.
Married we were morning; two girls—
friends of Fanny—acted'as bride's maids,
and a man, who was hired for five shillings
and a pint of porter, officiated as father.—
Now, the old lady unfortunately put oil her
return from Ramsgate, where she had been
payinga visit, until the next morning; and
as we placed great reliance upon her, we
agreed to postpone the confession for four
and twenty hours. My newly made wife
returned home, and I spent my wedding-day
in strolling; about Hampstead heath, and
d—ng my flither-in-law. Of course I went
to comfort my dear little wife at night,. as
much as I could,with the assurance that our
troubles would soon be over. I opened the
garden-gate, of which'l had a key, and was
shewn by the servant to our old place of
meeting—a back kitchen,with a stone fluor,
and a dresser, upon .which, in the absence of
chairs, we used to sit and make love."
"Make love upon a kitchen dresser!" •A n.
terrupted Mr. Watkins Tottle, whose ideits
of decorum were greatly outraged.
"Ah!—on a kitchen dresser," replied Par
sons. "And let mo tell you, old fellow, that
if you wore really over head and ears in
love, and had no other place to make love
in, you'd be devilish glad to avail yourself
of such an opportunity. However, lot me
eee•--where was 11"
"On the dresser," suggested Ttmson.
"Oh—ah! Well, here I found poor Fan
ny—quite disconsolate• and uncomfortable.
The old boy had been very cross all duy,which
made her feel still more lonely; and she
was quite out of spirits. So I put a good
face upon the matter, and laughed it off,and
said we should enjoy the pleasures of a ma
trimonial life more by contrast,and at length
poor Fanny brightened up a little. I stop.
ped there till about eleven o'clock; and just
us I was taking my leave fnr the fourteenth
time, the girl eame running down stairs,
without her shoes, in a great fright, to tell
us that the old villian—God forgive me for
calling him so! air lie is dead and gone
now—prompted I suppose by the prince of
darkness ; was coming down to draw his
own beer for supper—a thing he had not
done before for six months, to my certain
knowledge; for the cask stood in that very
hack kitchen. If ho had discovered me
there, explanation would have been out of
the question; for he was so outrageously
violent, when at all excited, that ho never
would have listened to me.
"There was only ono thing.to - be done.
The chimney was a very wide one; it had
been originally built for an oven; went up
perpendicularly for a few feet and then shot
backward, and formed a sort of small cav
ern. My hopes and fortunes—the means of
our joint existence almostwere at stake.
I scrambled in like a squirrel;- coiled myself
up in this recess place; and, as Fanny and
the girl replaced the deal chimney-board, I
could see the light of the candle which my
unconscious father-in-law carried in his
hand. I heard him draw the beer--and I
never heard beer run
,so sloWly. He was
just leaving the kitchen, and I was 'prepar
ing to descend, when down came the infer
nal chimney-hoard with a tremendous crash.
He stopped, and put down the candle and
the jug of beer on the dresser; he was a nor.
vous old fellow, and any unexpected noise
annoyed him. He coolly observed that the
fire,place was never used, and sending the
frightened servant into the next kitchen for
a hammer and nails, actually nailed up the
board, and locked- the door on the outside,
So there was I, on my wedding night, in the
light kersoymere trowsers, fancy waistcoat,
and blue coat that I had been married in, in
the morning, in a back kitchen chimney,the
bottom of which was nailed up, and the top
of which had been formerly raised some fif.
teen feet, to prevent the smoke from annoy
lug the neighbors. And there, added Mr.
Gabriel Parsons, as he passed the bottle—
"there 1 remained till half-past seven o'clock
next morning, when the housemaid's sweet
heart, who was a carpenter, unshelled me.
The old dog had nailed me up so securely,
that to this very hour, I firmly - believe no
one but a carpenter could ever have got me
out." •
A ROIVICANCE OF REAL LIFE
fly M. CAREV.
From Me New York Knickerbocker for February
On the 31st of August, 1778, says Baron
Grim, from whom I translate this story, at
9 in the evening, a ship for Rochelle, carry
ing a crew of eight men; with live -passen
gers, approached the head of the pier of Di
eppe. The wind was, so tempestuods that
a coasting pilot endeavored in vain, - four
times, to -go out, and direct its entrance in
to the port. Boussard, another pilot, per
ceiving that the pilot of the ship made.a
false manoeuvre,—which placed it in great
danger, endeavored to guide it, by means of
the speaking trumpet, and by signals; but
the darkness of the night, the roaring of
the winds, the noise of the waves, and the
great agitation of the sea, prevented the'
Captain's hearing or seeing any thing, and
the vessel, running upon a rock, was wreck
ed about thirty fathoms above the pier.—
Boussard, hearing the cries of the unfortu
nate crew, who were in the utmost danger
of perishing, in spite of all the representa
tions made to him of the,irnpossibility of
giving them assistance, resolved to make an
effort to save them and ordered his wife and
'children, who endeavored to prevent him,to
be carried away. He tied one end of a rope
fast to the pier, and girding the other round
his waist, throw himself into the midst of
the furious waves, to carry the rope to the
vessel, by means of which the people alight
be towed on shore. He approached the
ship, but was thrown back again to - the
shore, by the mighty force of the waters.—
Many times he was thus repulsed—and roll
ed with violence along the shore—while he
was surrounded by broken relics of the ship,
which was going to pieces very fast. His
ardor was not diminished; a wave carried
him under the wreck, and he was concluded
to be lost, when he soon reappeared, bear
ing in his arms a sailor who had been thrown
from the ship; ho brought him on shore
motionless, and almost lifeless. At length,
after a great number of vain attempts, he
succeedd in carrying the rope to the vessel,
and those of the crew who had strength
enough remaining, tying it round thein,they
were dragged on shore. Boussard then
thought he had saved every soul on board.
Exhausted with fatigue; - bruised and batter
ed with the blows and shocks he had receiv
ed,.he reached his home with difficulty,and
then fell down in a 'swoon. - He was just
brought to himself, having dischargeil a vast
quantity of sea water, and was recovering
his spirits, when he was told that a groan
ing was still heard on hoard, the wreck.—
Trio moment he heard. this he teemed in
spired With new strength, and breaking a
way from those who .were about bins, ran
to the shore, got nn board, and was fortu
nate enough to save one of-the passengers,
who, from weakness, had not been able to , I
[WHOLE NO. 260iir::
avail. himself of the,assistance.,glVOiltrhisi:..;
companions. Often men who hiiitheezi tt:t,
the ship, only two perished, and their
wore found on the nett day. Ort:.this Occtk l i,r
sion, the following lettei was"writtertby
Necker to Boussard, agreeably to the order. •
orLowis XVI.,
.
"Bravo Man! I did not know, till yester-.
day, by means of the intendant, the coure.c.
geous action you performed on the 31st
August. I gave en account of it to the.
King,who has order me to express his high .
satisfaction, stied to announce to you, on him.,
part, that he makes you a present of st
sand livres, and gives. you an annuity be l ,
sides of three hundred livres. I write
orders to this Oboe to the intendant. C0n...-
tinue_to.succoar others, when_you_c_an i and
put up prayers for your good King, : who .
loves bravo men, and delights to_.rewtirst
them." •
Signech NECKER, Director General of lb*
Finances.
The courageous pilot received tint; letter,
and the reward which accompanied it; with.'
the utmost. gratittide, only expressing:silt: 7 ,
prise, that his action of the 31st of August,
should have made so much noise, since. titi
had shown the same zeal on many otheroe:.
casions,without ever thinking of any reward,:
or receiving any. After paying his debte,..
and buying new clothes for his wife and chi!.
dren—a thing which ho had rarely beep 'a l
We to do before, he asked perinissiori of the,
intendent to go to Paris and thank Mi'...lSlae
ker; and,see, if possible, the young Ding:.
who :"loved braYe men and delighted, to re
ward them." He went to Paris in the sai;..
lor's dress which he had formerly bought:
for his wedding. Some one having asked
him what could have inspired hina.With_liti'
intrepidity so rare, he answered in-these re-:
markable words: "Humanity, and the death
of my Father. Ho was•drowned; I wag Mit
in the way to save. him, and .1 swore from,
that moment to. devote myself to the reseee .
of all whom I might behold:in danger' at .
sea." Was over a more pure, a more - sub: 7
lime homage, offered to filial piety. •
DEATII OF A SEXTON IN THE MIDST OF
HIS VOCATION.—The Stamford, Conn. Sen
tinel, has the following paragrapti;'
"We are informed that en the 10th inst.,
Jonathan. Finch, at North Castle, West-,
chester co. N. Y. was called upon to open a
grave for one of his neighbors. While en. ;
gaged in the labor, lie made_ a casuel
mark to the person who went to p,Oint•ettt . .
the spot for the grave, that he did riot fee(.
very well. He was advised, to give up the.
undertaking, but thought he should be.able,
to accomplish it, and his guide went away,.
leaving him at work. Soon after, another'
person went to the grave yard, found the
grave about half open, and Mr. Finch lying i •
in it, struggling . with the last agonies..of
death, and before he succeeded in removing'
him to the house ho was a corpse." .
The Harrisburg Intelligencer says that'
our worthy Governor invited his eighty;,
three friends in the Convention, to talteia
glass of wine with him after his nomination.
We think the Speaker deserved a bottle.—
Pittsburg Adv. • '
Snocturto.--The dwelling house-01. Mr.
James C. Curtis, of Cocheeton, Tallman
county, N. Y. was destroyed by:fire , a few;
days since, and three children pertahed iat
thejlanies!
IMPQRTANT DECISION.-By letters from,
Washington, we learn that the Supreme
Court of the United States, has finally, deter.
mined the long pending suit of Cohn Mitoli
ell and others vs. the United States, respect. ;
ing lands in Florida,by confirming the churn
of the appellants to the lands.
We understand that this decision will en
rich several individuas.s, who will now come
into Rossession of some twelve-to fourteen
hundred thousand acres of land in Florida,'
including._ the townships of Apalachicola,:
Magnolia, and other very valuable districts..
Their claims have been contested for about'
14 years.—N. Y. Ner. Adv.' •
MURDERER ARRESTED.--FRW things are
more certain,than that atrocious crimes will.
ultimately be exposed and the perpetrator,.
punished, however the offender may think
to elude justice, by interposing time and
space between himself and the, scene of his
villainy. Another instance of this has just
been afforded by the apprehension, in
Orange county, in this State, of the individ.
ual who murdered poor PoiiTErs on ,Cox's
mountain, iu Tennessee, in the mouth of
October last. We have rarely if ever heard, -
of a more cold-blooded and unprovoked mut.
der than this was. The victim was a clerk;
in
in the store or Messrs. E. Phillips & Co. of
Huntsville, Alabama, and was travelling oa
business, when he was met by the murderer
in the road, and inhumanly butchered, for
the sake of his money. Ever since, he has
been wandering about, leading a vagabond
life, his troubled spirit not permitting him
to rest long in onmplace. it will be Fecal,.
lected that he wns in this City, or its'
diet°. vicinity in December last, and (lisps-
ed of a part of his plunder to a aegto boy.
and, amongst other things, a shirt collar;
marked with the name of Mr. Porte*t...
The prompt steps taken , by, Mr., Morrie
(in whose service, the negro,waii)losproiktiL.
the alarm, has been, we , have no
proximate cum%) otitis deteottoth
is supposed to be John Cal ,
lan s but: hill*Ole' l "
we understand, that his Darn. ie CA**
Ho is a Tailor by trade.--Itilk44 il/47;0,
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