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OLARILIS OLD EST.ABLISECOD
LUCKY OFFICE,
N. W. Corner of Baltimore and Calvert Street',
(Under the Museum.)
Where hare been hold Prizes ! Prizes
Prizes!!! in Dollars Millions of Millions
BALTIMORE CITY, MD.
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under the Museum.
March 28, 1836.
• PRIVATE SALE.
T HE Subscriber intending to go to farm
ing in the spring, will offer his
House & Lot
isms
for sale, in Middletown, Freder-
VII
- ick Ceunty,
The House is a two story Brick Building,
well finished and there is also a log building
on the same lot, now occupied as a hatter
shop, also a small barn, together with a
Stable, Corn House, &c. There is also an
excellent pump of water in the yard. The
above property would suit any' Mechanic, as
a is situated nearly in the center of the
town, but more particularly a Hatter, as
there will be none in the place, after I quit
the business. This will therefore, be an ex
cellent opening fpr one.
If the above property 'is not sold by the
middle of February, it will thou be for rent.
Any person desiring to purchase, will call
on the sabicnber, now living on the above
described property.
BENJ. ROUTZA LIN.
January 16,1837. 4t-42
Public Sale.
IN pursuance of an order of the Orphans'
Court of Adams County,will be exposed
to-public sale, on Saturday the 28th of Jan.
uary Instant, on the promises,
A PLANTATION,
OR
TRACT OF LAND,
Situate in , Huntington township, Adams
county,two miles west of Petershurgli,(York
Springs,) and convenient to . the Turnpike
leading from Baltimore to Carlisle, adjoin•
ing lands of Jacob Funk, Moses Funk,Peter
Snyder and othiirs, •
Containing One Hundred acres,
more or less. The improvements are a
convenient .
TWOSTOR Y BRICK
:•.•
well finished, with . Back Buildings, Brick
Sirioke.house,a large Stone Barn with Sheds.
a wagon•shed, corncribs, and other out.
buildings, together with
newly built SilIV MILL ,
with a constant supply of water; a thriving
young orchard of choice grafted fruit, and a
never-failing well of water with a pump near
the house. About AO acres of the land are
cleared, of first rate ['milky, an a good state
of cultivativation and under good fenceL
part of which is excellent meadow, and the
residue in good timber.
also--Another Tract of Land,
Situate in the township aforesaid, adjoining
the above tract and lands of Jacob Funk
and others, containing about
Fort y-Six Beres, more or less,
all in good Timber except about 13 acres,
which are cleared dat principally under fence.
• All to be sold as•tho Estate of DANIEL
FUNK, deceased.
Persons desirous of purchasing, will be
shewn the above property by either of the.
subscribers previous to the day of sale.
KrSale to commence at I.o'clock r.
when attendance will be given and terms
made known by -
MOSES FUNK, Adners de
DANI. FUNK, S heals non.
By the Court,
JONES .4. THOMPSON, clerk.
January 9, 1837. is-41
Carpenter's Compound •Fluid Exit act of
8113 C 111.112.
.Just received from the ware-house of G.
W. Carpenter, and for sato at the Drug
Store of Dr. .T. GILBERT.
UMW Wffi..2221E)0
"With sweetest flowers enriched,
From various gardens w ith care."
!fit-The following b.neitiful Poem, by JOHN quirrcv
Annals, we extract from the New York Mirror:
To fill thy page, beloved maid,
Before me Fancy's visions nit,
Three damsels offer me their aid,
A ffect ion— Van i —And Wit.
Perplext d like Paris, lo— I stand;
Which to prefer, and which refuse—
Now dread the task from mortal hand,
Between three goddesses to choose!
First Wit—a damsel perPand sly,
011 both her rivals cast a leer,
Awl beckoning with coquettish cyo
Proffers her pen for gibe or jeer.
Seduced by her enchanting smile
I took her pen in sportive piny—
The gipsey laughs at me the while,
And tittering, snatches it away.
Next, Vanity wails my cars—
With simpering whisper soft and slow—
" Take but my pen—the verse shall llow,"
Shmseems to say -so sweet, so clear.
"That 01 who rend will straight exclaim,
'glow great a hard is lost to hope.
And buried beneath vulgar fame,
At least an Ovid or a Pope!"
Deceivers! Vanity and Wit .
No more your faces show !
Fame, Folly, Falsehood you may fit;
The verse oulhis page must be true.
If ivords, dear Ellen, could express
The wishes in this heart that glow,
Bow they would burn your life to bless,
Affection's pen alone can show !
Vlll2 Ei32T,Vd2Tfr-DI)Vo
The Farmer and the Soldier.
Boys arc apt to form very ridiculous notions
regarding the splendor and delights of a soldier's
life, which, instead of being one of happiness, as
they imagine, is perhaps the most miserable in the
world. While the youth of genius and industry
is rising up in the pursuit of his peaceful and hon
orable occupations, how often is his thoughtless,
early companion, who has embraced the career
of a soldier's life, - spending his best years in the
listlessness of an unidca'd range of duty, becoming
old in doing nothing, and only preparing for him
self—most likely—a painful conclusion to a
valueless existence!—Boys, who aro not aware
of the sutThrings which often accompany the sol
dier's career, may possibly profit by the perusal of
the following little story, written by Mrs. SIGO un-
NET', an American authoress:—
It was a cold evening in winter. A lamp cast
its cheerful ray from the window of a small farm
house, in one of the villages of New England.—
A fire was burning brightly on the hearth, and
two brothers sat scar it. Several bchool books
lay by them, on the table, from which they had
been studying their lessons for tho next day.—
Their parents had retired to rest, and the boys
were conversing earnestly. The youngest who
was about thirteen, said, 'John, I mean to be a
suldier.' 'Why so James?' have been reading
the life of Alexander of Macedon, and also a good
deal about Napoleon Bonaparte. I think they
were the greatest men that over lived. There
is nothing in this world like the glory of the Ivor.
'lt does not seem to me glorious to do so much
harm. To destroy multitudes of innocent men,
and to make such mourning in families, and so
much poverty and misery in the world is more
cruel than' glorious.'
'Oh, but then, John, to be so honored, and to
have so many soldiers under your command, and
fume of such mighty victories—what glory is there
to be compared to this!'
'James, our good minister told us in his sermon
last Sunday, that the end of life was the test of its
goodness. Now, Alexander, that you cull the great,
got intoxicated, and died like a madman; and Na
poleon wits imprisoned on a desolate island, like a
chained wild beast for all the world to gaze and
wonder at. h was as necessary that lie should be
confined, as that a ferocious monster should be put
in a cage.'
'John, your i 'as are very limited. You fire
not capable of admiring heroes. You are just fit
to be a farmer. I dear any that to break a pair of
steers, is your highest ambition, and to spend your
days in ploughing and reaping, would be glory
enough for you.
Tho voice of their father was now heard, calling,
'Boys, go to bed.' So ended their conversation
for that night,
Fifteen years past away and the same season
again returned. From the same window, a bright A
amp gleamed, and on the same hearth wan a cheer
tire. The building seemed unaltered, but a
tnolig its inmates there were changes. The pa
rents who had then retired to rest, had now laid
down in the deeper sleep of the grave. They were
pious—among the little circle of their native vil
lage, their memory_ was held in sweet remein-
brance,
In the same chairs which they used to occupy,
were seated their eldest son and his wife. A babe
lay in the cradle, and two other little ones breath
ed sweetly from their trundle-bed, in the quiet
sleep of childhood.
A blast with snow come against the casement.
always think,' said John, ia great deal about my
poor brother at this season of the year, and eve-
eta yin stormy nights. But it is now so many
years since we have heard from him, and his way
of life exposed him to so much danger, that I fear
we have strong reason to believe him dead:—
'What a pity,' replied tile wife, 'that he would be
a soldier!'
A faint knocking was heard at the door. It
was opened, and a man entered wearily, and
leaning, upon crutches. His clothes were thin
and tattered, and his countenance haggard. Then
reached him a chair; and he sank into it. .He
gazed earnestly on each of their faces, and then on
tho sleeping children, and then on every article
of furniture, us on.some recollected friend. Stretch
ing out his withered arms, ho said, in a tone
scarcely auiliblo—Aßrother—brotherr —The sound
of that voice opened the tender remembrances
of many years. They hastened to welcome
o wanderer, and mingle their tears with his
'Brother, sister, I have come home to you to
die. Ile Was too much exhausted to converse,
and they exerted themselves to prepare him fitting
" I WISH NO OTHER HERALD, NO OTHER SPEAKER OF IIT LIVING ACTIONS, TO KEEP MINE HONOR FROM CORRIIPTION."-SHA KS.
42WW/rVZULfiIiMq322 O IPdta 9 itits,0 1 21c4Ire aztayattpdtmly aatovc,
°Brother," he would soy, °you have been a man
of peace. In the quiet occupations of husbandry,
you have served God and loved your neighbor.—
Your have been merciful to the animal creation
You have taken the fleece, and saved the slice
alive. But I have wantonly defaced the image of
God,and stopped that breath which I can never re-
store. You have taken the honey, and present:l
the laboring bee. But I have destroyed nian and
ter is now my sorrow for the performance of such
abominations."
He declined rapidly. Death came on with hasty
strides. Laying his cold hand upon the head of the
eldest little boy, who had been much around his
bed in his sickness, he said, "Dear John, never be
n soldier. Sister, brother, you have been as angels
of mercy to me. The blessing of the God of peace
abide with you,and upon your house."
So saving, he expired. Such was the conclud
ing scene in the life of a being who had fondly an
ticipated in the soldier's career nothing but splen
dour and unfailing glory!
THE DEAD Liv E.—l have seen one die: she
was beautiful; and beautiful were the ministries
of life that were given her to fulfill. Angelic love.
liness enrobed her, and a grace as if it were caught
from heaven, breathed in every tone, hallowed
every• affection, shone in every action,—invested
as a halo, her whole existence, and made it a
light, a blessing, a charm and a vision of gladness
to all around her; but she died! Friendship, and
love, arid parental fondness, and infant weakness,
stretched out their hands to save her; but they '
could not save her and she died! What! did all
that loveliness die! Is there no land of the bles
sed and lovely ones, for such to live in? Forbid
it reason, religionl—bereaved affection, and undy
ing love! forbid the thought! It cannot be that
such die, in God's counsel, who live, even in frail
human memory forever.
I have seen one die—in the maturity of every
power, in the earthly perfection of every faculty;
when many temptations had been overcome, and
many hard lesions had been learned; when many
experiments had made virtue easy, and had given
a facility to action, and a success to endeavor,
when wisdom had been learnt from many
nourishment, and to make him comfortable for the
night. The next morning he was unable to rise.
They sat by his bed, and soothed his worn heart
with kindness, and told him the simple nar
rative of all that had befallen them in their quiet
abode.
"Among all my troubles," said he, •sand I have
had many, none has so bowed me down as my sin
in leaving home, without the knowledge of my
parents, to become a soldier. when I knew it was
against their will. I have felt the pain of wounds,
but there is nothiag like the sting of conscience.—
When I have lain perishing with hunger, and
parching with thirst, a prisoner in the enemy's
hands, the utage of my home, and of my ingrati
tude, would be with me, when I lay down, and
when I rose up. f would think I saw my mother
bending tenderly over me, as she used to do when
I had only a headache; and my father with the
Bible in his hand, out of which he read to us in the
evening, before his prayer, but when I have stretch
ed out my hands to say, "Father, I am no more
worthy to be called thy son," I would awake, and
it was all a dream. But there would be the memo
. ry of my disobedience; and how bitterly have I
wept to think that the child of so many peaceful
precepts had become a man of bland!''
His brother hastened to assure him of the per
fect forgiveness of his parents, and that daily and
nightly he was mentioned in their supplications,as
their loved, and absent, and erring one. ,
As his strength permitted, he told them the story
of his wanderings and his sufferings. He had
been in battles by sea and by land. He had heard
the deep ocean echo with the thunders of war,and
seen the ocean drink m the strange, red shower
from mangled and palpitating bosoms. He had
stood in the lists of Europe, and jeoparded his life
for a foreign power, and he had pursued in his own
land the hunted Indian, flying at midnight from
his flaming hut. He had gone with the bravest,
where dangers thickened, and had sought in every
place for the glory of war, but had found only mis
ery.
"That glory which dazzled me in my days of
boyhood, and which I supposed was always the
reward of the brave, continually eluded me. It is
reserved for the successful leaders of armies. They
alone are the heroes, while the poor soldiers, by
whose toil the victories arc won, endure the hard
ships, that others may reap the fame. Yet how
light is all the boasted glory which was ever obtain
ed by the greatest commander, compared with the
good that he forfeits, and the sorrow that he in
flicts, in order to obtain it!
"Sometimes, when we were ready for a battle,
and just before we rushed into it, I have felt a fear
ful shuddering, an inexpressible horror at the
thought of butchering my fellow creatures. But
in the heat of contest, such feeling vanished, and
the madness and desperation of a demon possessed
me. I cared neither for heaven nor hell.
"You, who dwell in the midst of the influences
of mercy, and shrink to give pain even to an ani
mal, can hardly imagine what hardness of heart
comes with the life of a soldier. Deeds of cruelty
anirdwaya before him, and he heeds neither the
sign:rings of the starving infant, or the groans of
its dying mother.
"Of my own varieties of pain, I will not speak.
Yet when I have lain on the field of bank, and
unable to move from among the feet of trampling
horses, when my wounds stiffened in the chilly
night air, and no one cared for my soul, I have
th..ught it .1-.0 more than just, since my own hand
had dealt the same violence to others,perfiaps even
inflicted keener anguish than that which was ap
pointed to me..
"But the g,rcatc.st evil of a soldier's life isnot the
ardship to which he is exposed, or the wounds he
may sustain, but the sin with which he is trirroun
dedcand made familiar. Oaths, imprecations, and
contempt of every thing sacred, arc the elements
of his trade. In this hardened career, though I ex
erted myself to appear bold and courageous, my
heart constantly misgave me: God grant that it
may be purified by repentance, before 1 am. sum
moned to the dread bar of judgment."
His friends nattered themselves that by medical
skill and nursing, lie might eventually be restored
to health. But he said, "It can never be. Ildy vital
energies are wasted."
its habitation, burned the hive,and spilled the ho-
ley on the ground. You cannot imagine how b
takes, and a skill had been laboriously acquired in
the use of many powers, and the being, I looked
upon and just compassed the most useful, most
practical of all knowledge, how to live, and to act
well and wisely yet I have seen such an one die!
Was all this treasure gained, only to be lostl—
Were all these faculties trained, only to he throw
into titter disuse? Wus this instrurnent,—th
intelligent soul, the noblest in the universe,—was
it so laboriously fashioned, and by the most vari
ed and expensive apparatus, that, on the very mo
ment of being finished, it should be cast away for
ever! No, the dead as we call them do not so
die. They carry our thoughts to another and a
nobler existence. They teach us, and especially
by all the strange and seemingly outward circum-
stances of their departure from this life, tha
and we shall live forever
Women often lose the man they love, and who
loves them, by mere wantonness or emjuetry—
they reject, and they repent—they should be care
ful not to take this step hastily, for a proud, high
minded,gifted man will seldom ask a woman twice.
A French writer says that "the modest deport•
ment of those who arc truly wise, when contrast
ed with the amusing air of the ignorant may be
compared to the different appearances of wheat,
which while its car is empty holds up its head
proudly, but as soon as it is filled with grain, bends
modestly down, and withdraws from observation."
If you err to oblige, the person you so oblige
will secretly despise you.
He who knows the world will not ho too bash
Cul: He who knows not be impudent
Don't he frightened if misfortune stalks into
your humble habitation. She sometimes takes the
liberty of walking into the presence-chamber of
If you would add a lustre to all your accomplish
ment, study a honest behaviour. To excel in
any thing valuable is great; but to be above con
ceit on account of one's accomplishments is grea
ter. Consider, if you have rich natural gifts, you
owe them to the Divino bounty. If you have im
proved your understanding and studied virtue,
you have only done your duty; and thus there
scents little reason :eft for vanity.
To defeat calumny, 1, Despise it. To seem
disturbed about it is the way to make it be be
lieved; and stabbing your defamer will not prove
you innocent: 2.. Live an exemplary life and
then your general good character will overpower
it. 3. Speak tenderly of every body, even of your
defamers, and you will make the whole world cry
shame on thein who can find it in their hearts to
injtiry one so inoffencive.
ril'EME?Mal&alOo
From the 31adison(Indiana)Republican Banner
The Wanderer.
Cowper, whose melancholy experience
Aught him too well the truth he uttered, in
speaking of mental derangement, says,
This, of all maladies that man infest,
Claims most compassion, and receives the least.
This sentiment, and with it a lengthened
train ofgloomy associations are always sag
bested to my mind when I see that unhappy
man who is daily traversing our highways,
but for whom I know no other name than
the one by which he is generally called—
" Old Henderson." Twelve) years has he
been a wanderer. Twelve years has the
homeless lunatic been exposed to the pinch
ings of hunger, the scorching heat of sum
mer, and the bleak winds of winter. Twelve
years has lie been to this community equally
an ohject of terror, disgust, and pity.
•Poor, poor, poor man! fallen below the brute!
His reason strives in vain to find her way,
Lost in the stormy desert of his brain;
And being active still, she works all strange,
Fantastic, cxccraole, monstrous things."
Uo you know his history? •Do you know
what brought upon him the heaviest curse
that offended heaven can inflict on man?—
Do you know what made him an outcast up
on society? The cause of all this calamity
to his family, himself, and Cie community,
is summed up in one word—intemperance.
Yes, it was intemperance that deranged his
intellect—rit was intemperance that destroy
ed his domestic happiness—it was intempe
rance that made him an object of terror to
those whom it was his duty to protect—
was intemperance that cast him forth a wan
derer upon the world. And still must he be
a wandering and a fearful beacon to chose
who are treading the same path in which he
once walked.
My heart is filled with bitterness, when I
look upon this wreck of mind, and I shed
tears of sympathy for his afflicted children
when 1 think of what anguish of feeling they
must suffer on his account. But are the
unfortunate "Old Henderson" and h►a rela
tives the only sufferers amongst us from the
evils of intemperance? Has this simoom
swept over no other family? Need I recall
to the remembrance of this community, the
melancholy circumstances attending the
death of Mrs. in this place last sum
mer? %Vilat cut her off in the bloom and
loveliness of youth? The dissipation of her
husband. Shc died of a broken heart.—
Strangers watched around her bedside,
while her husband was at the coffee-house
pawning, the very clothes of his dying tofe,
and when she whom he had dragged from
competence to beggary, breathed her last.
he was lying in the room, beastly drank:
But I need not multiply instances. Were
it necessary, I might produce a list of suffer.
ers from intemperance in this place, that
would startle the most unfeeling. Alas! who
of us are not sufferers? What family is so
fortunate as not to mourn over some one in
its connexion whose .prospects have been
blasted, or whose days have been ten-ruins.
ted, by in:emperance? How indescribably
more happy would be the situation of many
families le.re to day,ifthere had never heetr
any ardent spirits sold in the place! ,flow
miserable will some families. now happy,
hereafter he, &this sale is continued!
CV& 'd
From the New Monthly Repository
THE TRUTH OF SONG.
On! think not that the Muse's child
No heartfelt angnish knows, •
Because his plaint, though deep and wild,
In measured accents flows.
Think not his warmly-gushing; tear
From fabled sources springs;
The living fount of grief is near,
And murmurs while she Pings.
'Tis not amidst the turbid roll
Or passion's whelming tide
That words escape the soul;
But, when its wares subside,
Deep wells of bitterness remain
Within the sufferer's breast,
And then it pours its anguieled strain
- - That will not - be represt,
Oh' never has the trembling Lyre
• To passion's lay been strung,
Save when the heart waked ito fire
Ilatl felt the woes it sung!
It may not be in our powei to excel many pco
lilc
in riches, honors, or abilities; but you may
excel thousands in goodness of heart. Hither
turn your ambition. Here is an object worthy
of it.
Are not the great happiest when most free from
the ineumbrance of greatness? Is there then any
happMess in greatness? •
Why do you desire riches and grandeur? Be
cause you think they will
. bring happiness with
them. The very thing you want is now in yoUr
power—you . have only to study contentment.
The consciousness of having acted by principle,
and without the praise or privity of any person
whatever,is a pleasure superior to all that applause
can yield.
It was n pertinent and forcible saying of the
emperor Napoleon, that , da handsome woman
pleases the eye, but a good woman pleases the
heart; the' ono is a jewel, the other a treasure."
Accustom yourself to strict, observance of your
duty in all respects, and it will in time be as trou
blesome to omit or violate it, as it is to many peo
ple to practise it.
No disputing about taste.—A late Gcnnessec
Farmer offers the opitlion that all varieties of the
apple came from the Compton crab-apple, original
ly. The editor of the Manhattan Advertiser says:
"What a curious tooth our mother Eve must have
had in the fruit line."
The correspondent of a neighboring paper, says
“an old maid is not so great a nuisance as a dozen
yelping dogs." That fellow ought to be hung for
his gallantry.
"You ask me to whom the President elect is
to be married. Mustn't call names in print—.
%Vhen you hear it though, you will doubtless say
if the molehills him, that of course it Firs You!
Hem!"
Fallen greatness.—Tho stone coffin of Juliet,
she of the Cupulots, is now used as a tub for
peasants to wash their ballad in.
Cabal's Treasure.—The boned of Thomas
Paine, carried by William Cobbet from America
to England to make buttons of, now lie at Norman
dy farm, under distress for rent.
A method of preventing iron and steel from
rusting after being newly ground.—A black
smith. who was formerly engaged in the manu
facture of sickles, informed us, that the method ho
adopted to prevent his sickles from rusting after
grinding, was to immerse them for an hour, in
water strongly impregnated with lime. This had
the desire effect.
"A SMALL MATIMIONIAL MILEZE.- 4 Arrah,
Pat, why did I marry yel—jist tell me that! for
it's myself that's had to maintain ye ever. since
the blessed day that Father O'Fianagrin sent me
home to yer house.' , Swate jewel,' replied Pat;
not relishing the charge, 'and it's myself that hopes
I may live to see the day when ye'ye a widow,
weeping o'er the culd sod that covers me—then,
by. St. Patrick, I'll ace how yeti-Apt along with..
out me, honey!'
THE "NAPOLEON Cumn."—On the iris
oldie eyes ofa child, who was lately exhibi
ted in Oxford street, London, the following
inscriptions are seen.
Left eye.
NAPOLEON.
EMPEREUR.
The eyes of ;he child are of pate blue,
and the color of the letters is almost white,
and appear like rays. This ell'eCt is ac•
counted for by the child's mother having
gazed intently
.upon a five franc piece of
Napoleon's, given to her brother previous to
his departure on a long absence, w,hen she
was in a particular situation.
Darrxse.—Our friemb had better take the
advice we gave the other day about bolting, for we
find that a blacksmith of New York who was pay
ing his addresses to a beefsteak, got a hunk in
his throat, which in spite of medical aid Caused
his death in a- short time. Thus we see a man
led in spite of hiit teeth to selfdestruction,--and it
should serve as a "caution to feeders,- and make
them bear in mind the old poet, Chau-cer,
The following will illustrate the'character of
the puritans. At the formation of the Government
'of one of the yankee States, among other things it
"Voted, That we believe in the existence of a
God, who rules hie creatures by laws, and that,
wrefore, we will bo governed by the sumo till we
ave time to make better."
In regulating the meat market they .
“Voted, That all mutton that will not weigh
eight pounds to the quarter, shall be 1wn&"
A butcher about to kill a cow, einfdoYed an
Trifluman to hold hot. The butcher aquintml, and
Ortio - Lsc rsrwriitieTtie 'eerie of the
Rev. SAMUEL STnoNo; accused of a con
tempt of the House, was brought to a doe()
on the 2d inst. JouN C. Witmer and G: W.
ANDREWS appeared as counsel for Mr.
STRONG. After the discussion of the•quei.
tion, the follewing resolution was submitted
and unanimously adopted: -
"Resolved, That this [louse possesses
the constitutional power of punishing kith
viduals for a breach of its privileges, or the
privileges of any of its members; or, for
contempts, whether the same be cominii.
ted in its preSence or beyond its walls."
The question or jurisdiction having beee
thus settled, Mr. McNuri offered it resole.
tion, which was adapted by a vote of 4410
21, declaring SAMUEL S'PRONG guilty of,a
contempt and a violation of privilege, and
adjudging that he be brought to tho bar of
the House on the nest day, the 3d inst. and
be there repremanded by the SPEAKER, and
then be discharged from the custody of the
Sergeant of Arms.
ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT.-It appears,
hat several states have elected electors who
are disqualified for that office in consequedoe
of holding offices under the United States. 7
Several are specified among the electors of
Now York, ono among those of Massachu.
setts, and of those of New IFlampshire, two
or three, out of her seven electors, are said
to be illegally chosen. The present is a
most propitious period rigidly to enforce the
constitutional provision, and we hope both
parties will unite in doing so. . Such a.
"purging of the polls" will not vary the re
sult; and even if it would, it is due to our
selves and those who come after us to show '
our respect for the express declarationti of
the constitution, or we may establish a pre.
cedent of a most dangerous character.
'rho following is the provision of the con
stitution on the subject:
Article 2, sec. 1, 12. Each State shall
appoint, in such manner as the, legislatuTe
thereof may direct, a number of electors;
equal to the whole number of senators and
representatives, to which the state may be
entitled in the congress. But no senator
or representative, or person holding any
office of trust or prat under the U.
shall be appointed an elector.
Right age.
EMI'EREUR.
NAPOLEON.
INDIANA STATE HOUSE:A. correspon•
dent of the Cincinnati Whig, askti—"Did
you ever see the Capitol of Indiana? Ifyou
have not, you have failed to see one of the
most magnificient and beautiful edifices
West of the Allegheny Mountains.-_-The
exterior for beauty and splendor will vie with
any building of the kind in the CC States.
The interior is Olken neat and beautiful, at
the same time possesheo more advantagei
for comfOrt and convenience to a speaker p
than any other building of the kind that hats
yet preseuttd itself to my observation. '
DzsTrLtirm.—ln the Pennsylvania House
of Representative.s. on Thursday week list,
a resolution was'olfered by, Mr. MlLiflirt,
, ,
of Chester county, proposing—on account
of the extensive failure of the Jut' yearis
crop—to irstruct the committee On illglietOw
to inquire Into the expediency of imposshrit
a wax, fora limitedperiod, on the distilletioot
of ardent spirits. The resolution was twici
read and a.'reed to.
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when looking at the covuippeareitto . lotik at du*
Irishman. . r., fearing „iiltt he should gat , the
knock do . . instead of the cow, said in muck of a
hurry, ,‘ iih,roati do you strike where you lookl"
"To be ie . I do,--Where do you think I'd striker
"Then you howld the cow yourself till t got out of
s. ,
the way,st: -
• .
.. .
A women not far from Bangor, 'being.
cursed and tormented by a • drunken' hue•
band, told him, at last, that if he ever cause
home again drunk, she would thrOw'herself
into the river. The next Sattirday even
ing he came staggering home, when ifter
abusing his wife for some time, he retired
to bed, When he awoke in the morning,
his wife was among-the missing—had as he
and the neighbours thought, drowned, her
self. About five years after this sad Stair'
had taken place, the gentleman (who *had
in the mean time refornie appointed
to a land agency in the s
. 111inoiL4
One afternoon having be
,rtaken by' a
storm, he sought shelter Ouse by the
way side. On - knocking the deor, judge
of his surprise to find thasuminons answer
ed by his own wife! -
RIGHT OR Wnorio.—Just befoie the bat
tle of New Orleans, the following dialogue
is said to have taken place between two
iged negroes, who were each wont to
place the event in the hands Of alligher
power.
"I say, Sambo--dat gowin for to be d
berry , bloodv fight—and all I got to say'
is—may God Ormighty 'land by de rightl"
"Go way, Cuill.e,—you fOoll—you got no
gumpsion, I say God 'land by Gineral Jack
son, right or foron."
DEFERRED ARTICLES.
PHILADELPHIA; Jan. 11.
THE LOST MONEY ResTonsn.--Wilearn
that the reward for the $25,000, some
time since lost in this city, having been in
creased to $5OOO, notes to the amount ;
$20,000 were' yesterday addressed through
the Post Office, to Messrs. J. & C. -Ger
lin:
Since writing the above, we have been
informed that only $17,000 have been re
turned; the finder having kept the $5OO r '
e•
ward originally offered by Mr. Nevins,. Of
this citv—the $2500 offered by the New
York house—and the $5OOO offered by the
Messrs. Berlin—in all $BOOO. A .pretty
considerable sum for picking up a Eitraill
package.—[lnquirer. •
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