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THE GARLAND.
—"With sweetest flowertenricled. ' % j
From various gardens cull'd with care.",)
SELECTED FOB TUE STAB AND DAWNED
LAUGHING IN CHUITed.
DEDICATED TO currAm LADIES OF TUE
CHIIIICII CIETTIA 1111116, PA.
'IAn eye lit dp-with harmless glee,
A gay and happy tone,
And smiling lip, have charms for me;
And no good reason can I see,
Why teeth, that shame the ivory,
Are never to be shown.
But yet, dear girls, I must confess,
Though you may think it odd,
That I would lovo you none the less,
Did your sweet faces but express
Something liko'decent seriousness,
When in tho house of God!"
DID I SAY THAT I LOVED mutt
I have listened oft, to the converse soft
Of my cousin Mary Moore,
As we sat in the shade, by the spreading made
Of the tail-tree over the door;.
Did I say that I loved her? oh, no;
But her words as they fell,
Had a musical swell,
And a chastening, softening flow.
I have laugh'd with the beck of her merry eye
When my heart with griefwas torn;
Was as clear and blue as the limpid sky
On a cloudless summer morn;
Did 1 say that I loved hell oh, no;
But her heart was as light,
And bar eye was as bright,
As are those of the mountain doe.
I have sigh'd as I heard a measured tread
Come pacing down the hall;
And have frown'd at a glimpvo of the frizzled head
1- Of a beau on an evening call;
Did I say that I loved her! oh, no;
But thorn's naught that my eyes
Ever saw to despise
So moot as a tall whiskor'd beau!
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From tho Christian Keepsake, for IMO.
A Scene on tho Ohio...the Solitary Grave.
DT nay. T. TODD.
Beneath von tree where rolls the flood—
Ohio's gentle wave—
There stands the stone, still mark'd by blood,
And there the stranger's grave.
• *' * It now rained in torrents, and I
took shelter under the branches of a huge
hemlock which stood near the bank of the
river. Seated upon a decaying log, 1 was
in a fair way to rest, and even to sleep, for
not a drop of rain could penetrate the cov
ering of the giant tree whose arms were
spread over me. Just then the hunter's
dog came bounding towards me with a
cheerful look and wag of the tail which
seemed to say I you are just what I was
looking for.' He opened his deep mouth,
and a single bay brought his master to my
side. His hard, weather-beaten, yet kind
countenance lighted up, as he gave me his
sinewy hand ; but the smile and the light
passed away in a moment, as the heat light
ning of summer will flash across the whole
face of the cloud and bo gone in an instant.
I had never seen him so moody before, and
for a long time sat silently watching him,
to see if the clouds which I saw, werethose
which precede or those which follow the
storm.
In a short time the paddles and the ma
chinery of a steamboat were heard, and in
a few moments more she was in sight—a
vast floating ark moving with amazing ra
pidity and grandeur.—The shower had
driven the passengers under cover, and
though she was crowded with human be
fogs, yet scarcely one was to be seen.
gazed upon it as I would upon a moving
thing in beautifulliorame—they were all
strangers to Mt: . It is astonishing to no
ticehoW i3ifferently we look at a moving
'aieamboat full of entire strangers, from
what we do if ire know it contains one be
ing whom we know and love 'I The boat
moved on. ns heedless of the hunter, his dog
and myself, as we could possibly be of her.
We had not spoken a word since she
came in sight; but just as
,she rounded a
point above and was going out of sight, the
old man broke out—`Ay, ay, she can dou
ble the point safely enough now, and go puf
ling on as proud as a boy with a new rifle.
but I have seen the day when she would not
dare go so near that point, or if she did, she
would soon be glad to be otT at nny rate.
She's a grand creature though and goes
like a hound.'
What are you thinking of, friend Ro
gers? —What day are you thinking of, when
that point was so dangerous ? The trees
and the banks look to me as if there had
been no great alteration there since your
day.'
No, no the banks and trees stand just
as they did. I said nothing about them ;
but you Yankees are always for skinning
the bear before you have caught him, and
this )ou call drawing inferences.'
Well, well, I own I was on the wrong
scent for this once, but do tell me the story .
for I can not but draw the inference that
you have some story connected with that
bend of the river.'
At once the face of the old man became
sad and melancholly. He was silent again,
and began to repent that I had pressed him.
He leaned upon his well-tried rifle, and I
thought could see his keen eye moisten.
'Difl 'you notice that I felt bad when I
came find found you here ?'
Yee, I noticed that you were silent, but
did not know it was because you found me
here, trying to keep dry under this hem
lock.'
'On the wrong scent again 1 But look
this way, Do you see that grave down in that
little hollow with a stone at its head l'
' I do indeed, and wonder I had not seen
it before.'
It's easy to see things when they are
shown to us. I have pointed out many a
deer to a young hunter when he was just
going to see it, and wondered why he had
not. But that grave, and that point, and
my story are all connected. The story
however is short, and now that we are here,
I must think it all over again, and L may as
well think aloud and let you hear it.
It was many, many years ago, long be•
fore such a thing as a steamboat was heard
of, or dreamed of, that the event happened.
I was young then, strong, and full of life
and hope ; no one seeing me then, would
have thought that I should ever becotne
this withered old men.'
' As straight as a rifle, and as strong as
a buffalo, and with an eye and an ear as keen
as an eagle's,' said I.
Yes, I can yet split a ball on the point
of a knife at two hundred yards, but this
II not bo long. My hand same
trembles. But don't you talk if you want
my story.'
Go on, and I will not interrupt you a•
gain.'
" Well, it is now nearly forty years since
I first saw the glorious Ohio. I shouted
when I first saw it; I have koked. it ever
since, _and when I die, I tiolittAshall be
buried on its banks. On u eeNii. day I .
engaged to go down the river tO''Ke - ntucicy,
with Captain Ward, as he was removing his
family from the East. The journey was
long, and at best would be tedious. l went as
a kind of pilot, for I was well acquainted
ith the river, , ,rid t all points of danger.
ho country wa9:llien full of Indians, and
no settlementio of ntlY note had been made
in Ohio. The whites and the Indians too
were continually making war upon each
other; I do not know who was the most to
blame s . The whites killed the most and
the Indians were most cruel. We purcha
sed an old, crazy, square-built boat, between
forty. and fifty feet long, and about eight or
ten wide. We contrived to spike on a sin
gle pine plank on each gunnel, and this was
the only thing we had to defend us. We
had a heavy load, furniture, baggage, hor
ses, pigs, fowls and ploughs, besides nearly
a dozen people. These consisted of the
captain, his wife, and their young children,
a widow sister and her son, besides several
men to manage the boat. When we left
we were fearful lest the Indians should ut
tack us from the shorq, but, we knew that
by keeping in the middle o . f.tli,e• river, we
should be beyond the roach Ot .thor rifles,
or could be in a few moments:—Thus we
passed on for several days, till we supposed
we were beyond the haunts of the Indians.
Oki day just at sunset, alter we had become
tired with rowing, we let our boat drift lazi
ly and carelessly along on the current. We
were just getting ready to pin up for the
night. The mother was promising the
children a good run on the shore. The
widow was getting out the provisions, and
making arrangements for our supper. The
captain and his nephew had hold of the oars,
and moved them only just enough to allow
me to steer the boat.
Rogers," says the captain, suppose we
put in this siee of that point, and tie our
boat to one of those big trees, and there en•
camp for the night.'
It's a right good place, captain, and I
like it. Besides, I thought a few moments
ago, I heard wild turkeys just over the hill,
and I should like to have one for supper.'
'So we put in towards the shore, and
had got within about fifty yards of that point
around which the steamboat had just passed,
when I heard a stick clack as if broken by
tho foot.
A deer,' said the captain.
No, no,' I shouted, 4 row, row for life,
or we p 7 all dead.'
At' that instant down rushed scores of
Indians to the shore, with a shout that made
the hills across the river echo it back a
gain. The murderous creatures rushed
down to the water's edge, and presented
their guns and opened a heavy fire upon us.
In an instant the young man snatched his
rifle, and rising up his hill length, fired at
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"The liberty to know, to utter, and to argue, freely, is above all other libtrties."—Miuron.
sanewzreatTnacuo wazixocalr9 azaraoza aacriso
the nearest Indian who had a shaggy head
dress. The Indian fell, and so did the
young man at the same instant. As he fell
his ore dropped overboard, and the rowing
of the Captain brought the boat around and
still nearer. The Indians yelled, the wo
men screamed, the horses were falling and
plunging, and bullets wero flying thick
around us. Yet above it all ; the voice of
Captain Ward rose clear and cool—'Ro
gers take my oar.'
I twit it ; and he at the same instant
seized a piece of plank, and rowed to such
purpose that in a few minutes we were out
in the river beyond the reach of their rifles.
We know they had no canoes, being on a
huntina r' excursion and that we we're then
safe. But oh ! what a sight ! the horses
were all dead or dying, one child badly
wounded, the boat half filled with water,
and the young man in his blood in the bat.
tom.of the boat. By this time the coolness
of the Captain was all gone. He lay down
by the side of his nephew, whom he loved
as his' own son, and exclaimed, 0 John!
John !. '0 Lord have mercy 1, have mer.
cy I I 'have brought the, ildiOr,boy to his'
death !' But the widowed nibther ! She
was pule as a sheet : but she came to her
son, raised his head in her lap, and opened
his bosom where the blood was coming out
still. Ho was yet alive.
John,' said she in a sweet voice, as it
speaking. to a tab°, John,' do you know
me? rr
My mother,' said he in a whisper.
' Can you swallow, John ? said she, put-
ting her hand over and dipping up some
water from the river.
He tried, but could not.
My sop do you know you are dying V.
Yes, mother; but are you hurt V
No, no; but don't think pf me noWit
Can you pray with the heart now, my dear
son 7'
Ile looked up a moment, and gasping
said, God be merciful to me a sinner for
the sake of
Of Jesus Christ,' said the mother, for he
was gone. She bent over him a moment
as if in silent prayer, then kissed his lips,
and for the first time, tears filled her eyes.
Till that moment you would have thought
she hair been talking to a little child going
to sleep--her voice was so, calm and so
mild. She was a widow, this was her on•
ly child and a noble fellow he was. But
she was a religious woman. I never saw
religion like that before nor since. It was
;--'God has done it and he-cannot
*
g Wo lay off in the river till dark, and
then came silently on shore on this side for
the night. We dared not light a candle,
lest the Indians - shiltild see it., We milked
our only cow anattid the childitn, and got
kliaiit,to sleep. Nft,then brought the body
4,-I,heyoung man upThe.biank and when the
Moon hose up, we dug that grave which
you see yonder. We had to bei,cnreful not
to make a noise, nor even to;lsliep aloud.
But after we had opened the grave and
were ready to put the corps in it, the wid
owed mother spoke. Is there no ono here
that can offer a prayer as wo bury my only
child? There was no answer. We could
all sob, but wo had never prayed for our
selves.—She then knelt down, the widow,
and laying her hand on the bosom of her
boy, she, in a subdued voice, uttered such
a prayer as few ever made ! She was calm
as the bright waters at our feet. And
when she came to pray for all of us—for
the poor Indians who had murdered her
boy when she gave thanks to God, that lie
had so long comforted her heart with her
boy, and wSen she gave thanks that God
had given her such a son to give back to
him—it was awful we could not but sob a.
loud ? You preachers talk about sublimity,
but if this was not it, I do not know what
is. Well, there we buried him, and there
he sleeps yet. In thif morning I got up at
day light, and came up hero to place that
stone at the head of the grave. It was
bloody, for his head had rested upon it.
I found the mother was here before mo—
perhaps she had been hero all night. She
was trying to do the very thing, and so,
without saying a single word, I took hold
and helped her put the stone nt the head of
the grave. It, is now nearly sunk in the
ground, bu; it siandi.just now as we placed
it. When %Oa hlad.'done, the widow turned
and said ' Eitlit:•the tears came and
I was thanked fnoZiLth:' I'have sat on this
log many times, and tVeuklieciver the whole
scene : and though the n*46o. has been in
the grave many years,' yet Lcan see her
yen now, just as she looked when she tur
ned to thank me, and can hear her voice
just as it sounded when she spoke to her
dying boy. I have never seen such religion
since.'
Well, Rogers, though you have never
seen such religion since, because you have
never seen such a call upon a Christian
since, may I not hope you have felt some•
thing like la'
' I am an old sinner, and have a hard
heart ;' and the tears ran down his cheeks.
We conversed a long time, and it was
good to do so. As we rose up and cast a
last look upon the grave, and upon the spot
where the Indians fired, I said—
' Rogers, would you like a picture of this
story ?" I have Weir, on my heart, and
need no other; and yet, perhaps my chil
dren could understand it better if they had
one. But the story don't need a picture.'
' No, nor would the picture need the
story.
Gov. MORTON, of Massachusets, has sign
ed the bill repealing the license law.
SPEAKERS OF THE NATIONAL HOUSE
OF 'REPRESENTATIVES.
Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, of
Pennsylvania, was the first Speaker of the
House of Representatives. He presided in
the first Congress from 1789 to 1701, and
in the (Ford Congress, from 1793 to 1795
His father, Rev. 11. M. Muhlenberg, was a
native of Germany, ai,d came to this coml.
try in 1742. He founded the first Luther-
an Church in America ; was eminent for
learning and piety ; and died at• Philadelphia
in 1787. Frederick was his second son,
and was born about the year 1750. He
was a member of the old Congress, as early
as 1776 and was a member under the Con
stitution, from 1782 to 1797.
Jonathan Trumbull, of Connecticut, was
Speaker of the second Congress, from 1791
to 1703. Ho was a son of Gov. TrumbUllt
of Conn., end was born 28th of March,
1740 ; graduated at Harvard College 1759;
was an officer in the army of the Revolu•
lion from the commencement to the close
of the war, being most of the time Secreta•
4.llAnd first Aid of Gen. Washington; was
ti..inhmber of the House of Representatives
from 1789 to 1795, and of the Senate from
1705 to 1796, when he resigned ; was elec
ted Governor of Connecticut in 1798 ; and
continued in that office until his death, 7th
August, 1809.
Jonathan Dayton, of Ntw Jersey, was
the Speaker of the House from 1795 to 17.
90. He was a gradmite of N. J. College
177 .;,
i t
was a member of the House from
179 6'1799, when lie went into the Sen
ate, was a member of that body up to
1805. -
Theodore Sedgwick, of Massachusetts,
was Speaker of the 6th Congress, from 17-
,99 to 1801. He was born at West Hart.
ford, Conn., in May, 1746 ; was educated,
but, on account of poverty, not graduated,
at Yale College ; commenced the study of
Divinity, but soon left it for the law ; was
adrinitted to practice before he was of age,
and immediately removed to Massachusetts;
was a member of the old Congress in 1785
and 1786 ; a member of the House under
the„Constitution from 1789 to 1796, then a
member of the Senate to 1799, when he
went again into the House, and served till
1801. On leaving Congress, or soon after,
he was appointed aJustice of the Supreme
Court of Massachusetts, and held that office
till his death, 24th January, 1.813.
Nathaniel Macon, of North Carolina s
wns Speaker of the House from 1801 to
1807. He was first elected to the second
Congress, and was a member of the House
from 1791 to 1815 when he went into the
Senate and served thirteen years, giving
him an uninterrupted Congressional life of
thirty seven years—a term never exceeded
by any but Gen. Smith of Baltimore. Mr.
Macon was a great friend of the eccentric
John Randolph of Roanoke, and it has been
said that the principal reason of his being
superseeded by Mr. Varnum, was the wish
of the House to see the chair filled by a man
who neither feared nor loved the eloquent
descendant of Pocahontas.
Joseph Bradley Varnum, of Massachu
setts was Speaker of the House from 1807
to 1811. He was born about the year 1750,
was a brother of Gen. Joseph Mitchell Var
num of the Revolutionary army, and was
himself a soldier in the war. Ile first took
his seat in Congress in 1795, and continued
a member of the House till 1811, when he
went Into the Senate and served ono term,
(six years,) in that body. He was of Dra
cut, Massachusetts, where he died on the
11th September, 1821, aged 71 years.
Henry Clay, of Kentucky, was Speaker
from 1811 to 13th January, 1814, when he
went on his mission to Ghent. He was
again Speaker from 1815 to 1820, and
from 1823 to 1825. Mr. Clay was a mem
ber of the Senate one year, commencing in
1801, and another year commencing in
1810. He -was of the House from 1811 to
1821, except ..whtle at Ghent, and again
from 1823 to-1825, when he was appointed
Secretary 'or•Stilte by President Adams,
and continued iu - that office till Mr. Adams
retired from 'o(114 - in 1829. In 1831 he
went into the Senate, and has since remain
ed in that body:. His present term will
expire in 1843. . •
Langd6n Chi. es, of South Carolina,when
Mr. Clay resigned to' go to Europe, was
elected Spetiker fo s r the remainder of that
Congress, a.little more than a year. Mr.
Cheves was 5 sears in Congress, from 1810
to 1915, and was President of the United
States Bank sometime previous to Mr. Bid
dle's appointment.
John W. Taylor, of New York, was
Speaker from 1825 to 1827, and we believe
for a part of the 16th Congress in 1820.
Mr. Taylor was a graduate of Union Col
lege in 1603, and was a member of the
House from 11413 to 1833—a-longer period
than any other New Yorker. The aver
age time of Congressional service, with the
New York 'members, is but three year.—
No other State in the Union makes so fre
quent changes in her representation. Vir
ginia allows the longest term in Congress.
The average term of her members being six
and a half years.
Philip P. Barbour, of Virginia, was
Speaker from 1821 to 1823, and a member
of the house from 1814 to 1825, and again
from 1R27 to 1830.
Andrew Stevenson, of Virginia, was
Speaker from 1827 until appointed Minis
ter to Great Britain. Since that time the
chair has been occupied by the sons of Ten.
nessee—John Bell and James K. Polk, un
til the last year. At the commencemetit of
the present session, R. M. T. Hunter, of
Virginia, was unexpectedly called to the
chair—the duties of which ha has hitherto
had the good fortune to discharge very much
to the acceptance of a!I parties,in the House
and in tho country.—Ereter News Letter.!
A DISGRACEFUL CASE.—The particulars
of a painful case are recorded in a late
number of the Haverhill, N. H. Whig. A
soldier of the late war was permitted to per.
ish in prison for debt. Surely this circum•
stance alone should produce a spirit among
the people of New Hampshire, sufficient to
cause them to erase from their statute books
an enactraeliWdisgracef4 to the State
and to the ages ;The Whigll4"Jecorde,the
case :
• •
" Died at the Common Jail in this town,
where ho had been confined for debt,' and
,after having taken the benefit of the act for
:the relief of poor debtors, retained as secu
iety for the payment of hts board bill, on
the 3d instant, Mr. Ebenezer Eaton, aged
65 years—a soldier of the late war, whose
valor won for him the7scars which insured
from his country a pension of $4B a year.
The case of Mr. Eaton was a hard one;—
the object of charity in the eye of the gee.
eral government, for the performance of
arduous duties and the peril of his life in the
defence of the country in the servive of
which he was disabled—his days dwindled
to their shortest span, his incarceration
cannot - bo viewed in any other light than
that of the most malignant and heartless
tyranny. Had he been young. had he giv
en evidence of having concealed property,
the case would have been different. But
this. was not pretended. And for the crime
of being indebted to a man who must have
known his circumstances long ago, he was
cast into prison, the last abiding place of
the felon, the incendiary and the cutthroat,
to drop and die as one whose hand had been
turned against his brother and his country.
Shame where is thy blush V-"-- 4 Law where
lingereth thy justicel' "
We often come across a good thing go
ing the rounds of the papers in shape of a
toast given at some celebration or other.
This is the last, and is certainly a good
one :—TUE GLortrous THIRTEEN STATES
OF 1776—Like the faithful servant men
tioned in Holy Writ, they can this day ren
der an account of their talents: " Lord
thou deliveredst unto us THIRTEEN talents;"
behold we have gained beside them THIR
TEEN talents more.
STATISTICS OF DRINKING.-By the fol
lowing..curious " statistics of drinking". it
will *sedn'that Scotland in proportion to
her: population, consumes nearly twice as
much spirits as Ireland, and over three
times as much as Englund.
Spirit Drinking.—The spirit shops in
Glasgow amounted, at the last census, to
one in every ten houses throughout the
ty. The proportion is, of course greater
in the low districts. The following is the
amount of spirits consumed in England,
Ireland, and Scotland :—England, popula
Lion, 13,'97,187; galls. ofspirits, 12,341.-
238. Ireland, population, 7,767,401; galls.
of spirits 12,293,464. Scotland, popula•
tint), 2,365,114; galls. of spirits 7,767,715.
Thus it appears that the quantity of spirits
annually consumed in England, is seven
pints and one ninth per head on the popu
lation; to Ireland, rather more than thir.
teen pints per head; and in Scotland, (wen.
ty-three pints per head. When the drunk
ards in Glasgow become too poor to stati
ato their appetite for spirits, they now re
sort in a great measure to laudanum, which,
in an unadulterated state, is consumed in
considerable quantities, and regularly sold
by many of the chemists.
Mr. VAN Bungtv's native county sends 3
whig members to the assembly ; his native
district sends three whig senators—his na
tive state has declared three times for the
good whig cause.
The Uniontown, Pa. DeMocrat Antes
that on the 7th inst., n box containing 81100
in specie, was stolen from the marl stage
between thnt place and Somerfiold, the pro.
party of one of the passengers, a gentleman
of New. Ark, Ohio. It is said that the rob.
ber assisted in loading up the stage at
Uniontown—that he was very acemximoda
ting and polite to the passengers until night
enabled him to filch the box from the stage.
His name is Wright, a stage driver, known
at Uniontown, and it was believed he had
gone west.
PENNSYLVANIA COMING !—One. of the
most distinguished and influential support
ers of Mr. Van Buren in Pennsylvania in
the last Presidential Contest, to a private
letter to a friend, gives the following glad.
dening intelligence with respect to the Pol
itics of that State:
" I have only time to say that by Gov.
PORTER'S Message to the Senate, he has
put the seal of his influence upon the whole
Destructive party of this State. It kills
forever the prospects of Mr. V. B. in Penn.'
sylvania, which will in November next give
for HARRIaON a greater majority than any
State,in- the Union."
A Hoax.-4, Michigan correspondent of
the Albany Argue states that the story a.
bout a wild child discovered somewhere in
that State, is a hoax.
The oldest house in the United States, so
far as can be accurately ascertained, is now
standing in old Guilford, Conn., which was
built in the year 1639; cons2qtiontly, it , is
now 200 years old.'
wia.riaomas Jp(i)o cave
MUNIFICENT BECIVESTB.-M r. T. Hill,
formerly ofSouth ambcth, London and very
recently deceased, !ell by his will nearly
half a million of dollars for charitable pur
poses. Among the bequests of this gentle
man we notice the following :
London Missionary Society, £20,000
Home Missionary Society, 20,000
British and Foreign Society, 20,000
Irish Evangelical Society, 20,000
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, 2,000
School for the Blind, 2,000
Middlesex Hospital, 1,000
Female Orphan Asylum, 1,000
Female Orphan School,
Lord Eldon 's School,
Licensed Victuallers'!School,
It is stated that the amount bequeathed
by Mr:Hill is larger than was ever before
given by an individual for charitable purpo
ses, with the exception of Mr. Day the part
ner in the celebrated house of Day & Mar.
tin, blAking manufacturers. This gentle.
man left' £lOO,OOO for the purpose of en
dowing a hospital for blind persons, having
himself been blind for many years before
his death. The establishment of Day &
Martin is one of the most extensive in the
city of London, and the premises look as if
they were the grand depot of a large for.
warding company, engaged in sending off
merchandise to all parts of the world.--.N.
Y. Com. Adv.
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LANCASTER Comm.—Within a circuit
of fitly miles of Lancaster city, Pa., there
are one hundred and two iron manufactor
ies, and one hundred and forty-two Flour
ing Mills, the latter of which consume five
millions of bushels of wheat annually.—
North. Amer.
An improbable story is told in an English
paper, of a very heautiful girl only 15 years
of age, who had just been discovered in
boy's clothes 'on board in East Indiaman.
It is added that she had done duty for five
years, without licir /lax being detected, and
that she is the daughfer of Lieutenant Ar
nold of the Royal Navy.
BREACH' OF Mama:WE PRomrsE.--ite
cently at West Chester, Pa. Miss Eliza Ann
White recovered 81500 damages from a
fickle swain named Albert Hinamen, for .a
violation of a marriage promise.
The earthquake felt in the Valley of the
Mohawk, at Herkimer,Jan. 16th, was also
noticed at Trenton, N. J., in the same
limertono.region.
VELOCITY or LIGIITNINO:-It has lately
been ascertained by a series of ingenious
experiments, that the velocity at which
lightning, or the electric fluid, moves, to
not less than 200,000 miles in a single sec
ond of time•
A Gentleman, the other. evening, ended
an oration in favor ofthe fair:sex with these
words: lith, sir, nothing beats a good wife.'
I beg your pardon,' rejoined one of the
company,' a bad husband does.
There are said to be in Ireland, at this
moment, five millions of acres of waste land
capable of cultivation, and yet thousands
of people in that ill fated country can
scarcely get potatoes enough to keep them
from starvation.
THE RECENT FRESHET.--TllO Washing.
ton, Pa. Examiner of Saturday says :
" On Tuesday last (the 11th inst.) the
flood in the western waters was greater
than it has been since that of 1R32, when
such disastrous consequences by loss of life
and property took place. The Ohio is said
to have been 40 feet higher than low water
mark, on Tuesday. The bridge at the
mouth of Cross Creek on the Wellsburg and
Steubenville road, has been carried away,
and other serious losses, to a great extent,
along the Monongahela, Allegheny, and
Ohio rivers, and their tributaries have oc
curred ; but no lives lost that we have heard
or. It is worthy of remark, that the high
flood of '32, and that of TuesdAy last in the
Ohio, were on the same day of the month,
the 11th of February, and we mention it
as another coincidence, that they were both
in leap year."
Mon LAW.--It appears from the Vicks
burg (Mississippi) papers, that the terrible
exhibition of mob law, which disgraced that
city, a few years since, in the destruction of
the gamblers, has not answered the purpose.
They have again returned, and resumed
their occupation ; and a public meeting has
been called to devise means to get rid of
them. The papers warn them to be off is
time, and do well so to warn them, both
for the credit of the city, and the lives of
the accused.
A Grarrr or GIANTS. — The proprietor of
Peale's Museum, in New York, has procu
red an engagement with a giant subject of
King Leopold. The man is between 84
and 9 feet high, well proportioned, and of
enormous strength. It is said that he can
raise from the floor three men of ordinary
size hanging to each arm at the same time ;
and on one occasion be threw a man weigh !
ing 170 pounds upon the roof of a two story
house.
The Spy in Washington, a careful obser
ver, says that news from all quarters is high•
ly favorable to the cause of General Mini.
Bon, and he feels no doubt of bis election.
We have some reason to know that appre
hensions are entertained of this result at dm
White House.
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