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VOL. XV.I.-29.
Valuable Real_ALstate
.I . l7l o L r L dor_ bo or e t zie .. o Be r d pi t i u n bcl
Court
c u
r S t u f l , e r b d y .
nme p ounty, bfilloiuloy r tfig 6th day of 01-
' tuber next i at the house of Andrew
deed., Mountpleasant township, Adonis
county, the following valuable R,-al lidtate,
of the Heirs of said deceased,—to wit :
A Plantation or. Tract of
.Lana,
situate in Mountpleasant township, called
the MANSION TRACT, containing a
bout 1-10 acres more or lean, on which is e
rected. A TWO STONY WEATOP.R-BOARDED
ti c. % 4 S
411 . .4111i •
. .
1111 • with an excellent well of water
with a pump in it, convenient to the door.
STONE BANK BARN,
and oilier buildings and necessary improve
ments.
-Solo .to commence at 1 o'clocjc, .
,•P. M.;
when attendance and, forme, will .be= made
known by •
CHARLES SMITH, Adminiitrator.
13j-oriler of the Oephan's Court.
August 30, 1845.
ORPHANS' COURT SALE.
VVILL be offered at Public Sale on
Wednesday the B.lh day of (Ma
bee next, upon the promises in Duniingion
township, Adams county, about mile from
Petersburg, and adjoining lands of John
.Saddler, Daniel Fielces, John How and oth
ers,-a small tract-.of land. late the estate of
ABEL WALKER, and
Containing Abo . ut 20 Acres,
more or less upon which arc erected a
6 ONE AND A HALF S 7 ORY
,L 1 11-11
aII I IC*1) 1/ TA72112SZP
MA-RN
with Threshing Floor attached, and sever,
41 other otithooses;—there is a well of good
wator lied a pump in it, convenient to the
do - or.—There la also on the above property
amid excellent , .
APPLE ORCNARD
. . ,
with a variety of other Fruit trees •' "
consisting of Peaches, Pears, .
Cherries, &c.
SA LE to commence at 1 o'clock, P. M.
when attendance and terms will be made
,mown by •
JOAN WOLFORD.
_4dministrolor.
By order of the Orphans Court.
August 30th, 1845. is-24
To the Independent Poters of
admits County.
A ,
A T the solicitation of a number of friends,
1 have finally been induced to offer
myself to your consideration as a candidate
for the office of
PROTHONOTARY,
at the ensuing election; and should I be so
fortunateas to be elected, I.shall discharge
the duties of the office with promptness.
J. It DANNER.
Gettys.urg, Sept. 13,1645.:- a . to-26
S ERIPPALTY.
4 ' . 7lndependent Voters of Adams Co,
r' LLOW CITIZENS:—Being en
couraged by the solicitations of nu
merous friends, 1 offer myself to your con
oration as n candidate for the
orgracE or sErEiurr,
nt the ensuing election, and respectfully so
licit your suffrages. —•Should 1. be elected,
I pledge myself ton prompt, faithful &
hu
mane discharge of the duties pertaining to
said office.
JACOB BUSHEY;
East Berlin ?-
Nay 3d, 1845. S
CLERIC OF THE COUR-TS-
To the Free and independent Voters of
the County of Adams:
GIELLO %V CITIZENS:—At the solic
:Motion of numerous friends, I have
been induced to offer myself as an
4depe,ndelit Candidafe,
for the . office 'of Clerk of the Courts.—
Should I bo so fortunate auto obtain_your
suffrages and be elected, 1 - shall duly appre,
date your kindness, and pledge myself to
discharge the duties of the, office with
promptness and fidelity. .
WILLIAM WITIIV.ROW.
grottysburg, Juno 21, 1845. to-14
REGISTER & RECORDER.
To the" adependent Voters of Adams co.
E1. 4 1,0W CITIZENS:-1 ofibr- my•
. 2C 'self to your consideration as.rt Candi
dste for the office of Register and Recorder
of Adams County. Should' Ihe so fortu•
nate as to be elected 1 shall dirly appreciate
your : confidence and my bestefforts shall bi -
directed to perform the,dutics.of. the : office
with _impartiality,
Julia 21, 1844
JOHN CRESS.
c-14
POETRY.
---- ruiniiiitTi-V4i-E41 7 1
• ,
l'is torne where er the heart is;
AVhcre'er its .loved one _
In cities or in cottan•ei
The heart's a roverever,
And thus on wake and wild,
The maiden with her lover walks,
The mother with her child.
''Tis bright where'er the heart is;
Its fairy spells can bring
Fresh fountains to the Nvildernessi,
And to the desert spring.
There are green isles in ocean,
O'er which affeet ion glides ;
And a haven on each rugged shore
When love's the helm that guides.
'Tis free where'er the heart is; •
Nor chain nor dungeon dim
Noy check the mind's nspirings,
The spirits pealing hymn !
The heart gives life its beauty,
Its glory and its power,—
'Tis simaht to its rippling stream;
And soft dew to its flower.
'won_ or_sucir_is TIM KINGDOM OF
nEnvnyol'.'
A blind old. beggar, with his hat in hand,
Neglected by the passers by,
T noticed shyly at the corner stand, '
With moisture falling from his sightless eye.
A child came by—a laughing little creature—
With joy-and innocence in every feature—
Skipping forth gaily to an apple stand ;
She saw the beggar and became less gay,
Then thing the hit of silver in her hand
Into the old man's hat, and ran away.
ff.A.PPY FARMER.
Saw ye the farmer at his plough,
As you Were riding by,
0 r wearied 'neath his noon day toil,
When summer suns were nigh ?
And &tight you that his lot was hard?
And (lid you thank your God, .
That you, and yours, were not condemned
Thus like a slave to plod'?
Come, see him at his harvest home,
When garden, field, and tree,
Conspire with flowing stores to fill
-- His barn and granary; -
His healthful children gaily sport_
-Amid the new mown bay,
Or proudly aid, with vigorous arm,
His task as best they may.
rim dbg partakes his master's joy,
And guards the loaded wain,
The feathered people clap their wings,
And lead their youngling train.
Perchance the hoary grandsire's eye
The glowing sceno surveys,
And bieatheg a blesing on his race,
Or guides their evening praise.
The Harvest-Giver is their friend,
The Maker of thaoil,
And Earth, the Mother, gives them bread
And cheers their patient- toil. • -•
Come, join them round their wintry hearth,
'Their heart felt pleasures see. -
And you can better judge how blest
The farmer's lift: may be.
MISCELLANEOUS.
WASHINGTON LOVED EIS MOTHER.
Immediately after the organization of the
present government, General Washington
repaired to Fredericksburg. to pay his hum
ble duty to his mother preparatory to his de
parture to New York. An affecting scene
ensued. The son feelingly remarked the
ravages which a tottering disease had rioad,e
upon the aged frame of his 'mother, and
thus addressed her
"The people, MadaM, have been pleased,
with the most flattering unanimity, to elect
m,e to the chief . magistracy of the United
States, but before I can assume the funC-
Lions of that office, 1 have come to bid you
an affectionate farewell. So soon as the
public business, which must necessarily he
encountered in arranging a new govern ,
merit, can be disposed ol; 1 shall hasten to
Virginia, and"—
Here the matron interrupted him : "You
will see me no more. • My great age, and
the disease, that is fast approaching my vi
tals 'warn. me..that tshall_not_belong.in this
world. I trust in God,l am somewhat pre
pared for abetter. But go, George, fulfill
the high destinies which heaven appears to
assign you ; go, my 'son, and may that flea
von's - and - -your-motirees-blessing-cbe-with
you always:: -
The President_ was deeply affected. His
head rested upott the shoulders of his.pareni,
whose Liget! at:in - feebly. yet lendlii encircled
his neck.
__That brow, on which fame had
wreathed the purest laurel virtue ever gave
to, created man; relaxed from his lofty bear
ing. That look which could have awed a
Roman Senate,iii its Fabrician day, was
bent in filial tenderness upon the time-worn
features of this venerable matron.
The great man wept. A thousand recol•
lections crowded upon his mind, as mcino•
ry, retracing scenes iong past, carried hini
buck to his paternal mans i on, and the days
of his youth ; and they° the centre of nitrite- -
lion was his mother, whose care, instruc,
Lion and discipline, had prepared bin) to
reach the topmost height of laudable arnhi,
tion ; yet how wore his glories forgottem
while he gazed. upon her from whom, %r at,
ed by time and malady, be Must soon part
to meet no more !
it red ict ees ways__ Iruc.=
Thb Clisease which had soleng preyed upon
her fraces, completed. its Criumpb, anxl she
expirOd at the age of 85,'contiding in the
promises of immortality to the humble bc,z
hover. . . • .
GETTYSBURG, P . A., FRIDAY 'EVENING, OCTOBER 3, 1845.
I "'rho sunshine
Tiiiit.-Yet a ViCar, -- tyliere'rr-1--,
- - --That there hath paett 8 glpry . ,
_o_oneof gifted mind has pass.sd even
:the first freahness of youth, without feeling
_Knowl,
edge and taste may have increased his in
tellectual riches, and association.,may-add
its powerful spell to half the charms of na
ture ; but the soul does not rejoice - in these,
possessions as it once did, in the simple
wealth of sunshine, birds and flowers.—
When we are old,, we talk very philosoph
ically of the negative enjoyments of child
hood, and try to cpnvince ourselves that
the ligfit and glory which memory throws
around it, is but the delusion of imagina
tion. It is not well to argue thus. •Vhere
is deep meaning in the maxim, "Reverence
children:" and it would be better for us,
both here and hereafter, if we inscribed it
on our hearts, as a spell: to keep away cor
roditig 'passions. I Would not, with sickly
sen , timentalityl-meurn,-over slates'of mind
that can never be recalled: I Would not
be cherishing a diseasel)rhich has Loci often
wasted the strength of genius and been as
sumed by inferior minds, incapable of imi
'piling anything of intelleet, save its disea:
see. But if we 'obserio . that all the world:.
look back to the earlier stages of being with,
a fond regret, ought we not,to suppose
there is rt strong, reason for so:deep feel
ing ? - lf - Ihd thoughts and affections were
then vested in a robe of sunny light; should
'we not ask whence the light came, and why
in after'years, it glances upon us in such
rare and flickering rays? There is but one
answer : We are simple and artless then
and the influerice of Deity Is around us, like
the balmy atmosphere we breathe, sustain
ing life and joy to those who dream not of
its existence. If, then, there , is . sympathy
between childhood and heaven, let us strive
to "be as little children." It is not well io
he too wise for happiness—it is not safe to
be too learned for salvation. He who like
Wordsworth, cherishes the' guileless, feel.
ings which make a flower bring "thorrghts
too,deep for tears," he is a wiser as well
as a happier man than Byron—that in
tellectual Laocoon, writhing in' the folds of •
serpents, himself had wakened into life.
mossy
Everything that we involuntarily love is
true to nature ; and nothing that wo learn .
tO love, produces fresh and glowing emo
tions. What is genius ? It is but a fitting
expression of that 'Thigh nature teaches the
soul; and when we lauglroveep..orarelbrilL
'ed witlr:gurerjOY, 'in sympathy with this
mysterious power, we wonder that those
simple feelings which kiln; the very ele
ments of our common ridture are not always
as'artlessly expressed. A.Vhnt:is
ness? It is but the gliding motion of the
fitwn .or the stately bearing of the eagle ;,
loved-and admired because it speaks ofcare
less happiness, unconscious of observers.—
Art, with the utmost skill she can exert in
conversation, writing or manners, never
touches the heart, unleig.ite makes herself
forgotten by her close imitation of nature.
Why then should we suffer vanity, pride or
ambition, to take from us a gill which we
exert all our faculties, to seem to have
When our religion tells us how to "enter
the kingdom of heaven," when our' - hearts
repeat the lesson with mournhil tenderness,
as we look upon the guilelessness of infancy
—why do we not listen,to it ? Wordsworth
speaks truly—"a glory has departed from
the earth"—and the rich in mind and intro
-cenco of heart, can only rejoibe in a few
transient :indications of its - return. The
ambilieus, high-reachinVoul of man has
- ever - boon - pronn'ta-seorn
that was told to , wash id the _river Jordan
and be healed, was indignant, because he
was not commanded 'to do some great thing;
and thus: it is always with self-sufficient
mortals-,-who are willing to make extra
ordinary sacrifices; and to act, an arduous
part, in order to attain a character, which
would be the natural result of a simple,
straight-fo rward course. We destroy the
vitality of nature, by engrafting , upon her
_motites-taugilLby_Worldly=selfishnoss, and :
areiben--Obligedto'botinterfeithstiwe:ead;
not rega n. If'-by pirri(Y:and--aftlessnesi
we kept,our hearts open ,to the influence of
God's works, as . well as his word,weehould
not so soon mourn over the faded bright
: ness of our youth. The Ikdoninn oracle
spoke through doves and trees, and the
"pure in heart" will still hear from all the
fair things of creation a voice .which speaks
of Poetry and religion.,
Dr. Caldwell, a writer on physical edu
cation, contonds that a well balanced brain
contributor; to long life, while a passionate
one . tends much to3tbridge it—tind . if per,
sons knew how many dangers in !if° they
escaped by possessing mildness of temper,
insults) . ofilto oppciiitO disposition, how, ea
ger would be-the-trim of all men to Cultivate
it.
A great lie, says the pool Crabbe, is liko
a fish on dry land ; it' may trot - and fling,
and 'make a fiightfu' I bother, but tt cannot
-hurt-your—Yotrinaver-only to keep still and
it will die of itself.
Why was Benjamin Franklin the tyrant
fur the elements'? 8C61U930 bo ruled the
lightnings with a rod of irou..
I ATURK__A_NI)- SIMCLICITI'._
Front the cilia;
*—Woon6wowrii,
"FEARLESS AND FREE."
There!li something beautiful in - the-church
bells. Beautiful and hopeful !—the talk to
-high & low, rich & poor ;t in thesa me voice ;
thate's n sound in them that should scare a
way pride and envy and meanness of all sorts
from'the heart of man ; that shoo Id make
him look upon the world with kind, forgiv,
iur eyes ; — ilashatihr make the earth IF- -
solfeeem to him, at least for a time, a holy
"phice. YeS=lliere's a whole sermon in the
very sound ()litre church bells, if We have. on.
Ty the curs to rightly understand it. There's
a reacher in every belfry-that cries, "Poor,
weary, struggling creatures—poor human
things ! take rest ! be quiet ! Forget yj.,l.v,
vanities; your follies, 3 our week-day eitifq ,
your heart-burnings !" And you, ye hamar, ,
vessels, (Tilt - and painted ; believe the iron ,
tongue that tells ye, that. for all your gild-,
ing, all your colors, ye are of the sarne Ad
nnes.carth with the beggar at your gates.—
Come away, come, cries the churbh-bell,
and learn to be humble ; learning • that,
hoWever daubed and stained, . and stuck
about with jewels, you are but grave clay 1
CORM Dives, come ; and he taught thaVall
your glory, easy as, you wear it, is not half
so beautiful in the eye of heaven, as the
sores Pf uncomplainin g Lazarus ! And
ye, poor creature, liyldand faint-stinted . ;
and crushed by Ore' lin& and hardness of
the woi Id—come, come, cries the bell, with
the voice of an angel—coy and learn what
is laid up for ye. Anitlearning take heart i
and - walk among the wickedness, the cru- I
cities of the world, calmly as Daniel walk-1
ed among ihe lions —Jerrold's . Magazine.
The'importatice of making every man of
our count ry.a freeholder, cannot he, in our
judgment, highly/appreciated. It not
only places hitn•beyond thecoutingency of
poverty, but it .identifies him with the inter
est and well being of our cpuntry and serves
to-malte him a better citizen, "as well as a
happier man. _
When education is placed within the
reach of the masses, - and When - they become
owtiei's of the soil, we need have- no fear
abb'ut the perpetuity of freedom, or of our
itistilutions ; .the former will - give him n
just ,conception of the blessings to be deri
ved from freedom, and the latter the st rong •
est interest that can be made to preserve
and :s.sacredly transmit the same: , •:.I . lte
bleib.:Ogs.enjoycd by the'people with.a.pro.
per moral and religious restraint, form the
strongest safeguard against external and in
ternal foes, that can in any evcnt be made
by i "ndtiori: Standing iirnties, - navje.s and
fortifications. are as nothing in comparison;
these, in the hands of a mercenary soldiery,
may spread for a time destruction through
any country ; ,but they. are not the elements
for building up and protecting permanently
a country of freedom. Elevating the.cruidi
lion of the masses ought to be the grent de
sideratUm, of our 'legislation ; for, in
,ac
complishment of :his, almostevery great
object of legislation is attained.
GETTING A PLACE AT A FlRE.,—Every
body has read the anecdote of Dr. Frank
lin, who, when travelling upon a raw and
gusty, day, stopped at a tavern, and found
the bar room fire pre-occupied by a set of
loafers, who would not budge an 'inch in the
way of civility to a stranger. ..
He called for a. peck of oysters for las
horse; and while the 'unmannerly cubs all
went to the stable to witness the novel spec
tacle of a horse eating oysters; the Doctor
selected a comfortable place at the fire, "to
roast his oysters, arid to warm himself."--
Of course the horse didn't eat the oysters
but the_noctor—did-1
About as good a story. is told in the
it of the Times, of a certain captain iti the
recruiting service at the west, who went in
to a grocery where Ahem were a lot of loon•
gers, and no one offered him a seat. Know
trg everything about the grocery,' ho went
behind the counter, and seizing a keg mark
ed powder, threw it upon the fire, excic►im
ing.
"Gentlemen it's my opinion that we've
twod long
,enouglt."
- w
- -77Theay - t hey ran oti itt --- I`t [revere - wee
Of course the keg was empty.
A gentleman once introduced his son" to
Rowland Hill, by letter, as a youth of great
promise, and likely to do honor to ttio,
of which 'he was a Member"; 'but
hop *llly,' added tho lather, "and I fear
Nines his talents in a napkin." A___kirt
_ .
tAme afterwards the:parent
opinion, inquired .what, he thought. of his
son ? "I have shaken the napkin," said
Rowland, "at all the corners, and there is
nothing in jt."
TUE :FOLLOWING' CAPITAL TOAST was
given at a late dinner of the Hasty Pudding
Club, in Boston:
"Our corn-led'boys and corn-fed airts--
tho right material to form a corrtod-era
tion.)! •
TEMPERANCE TOAET IN YANKEE-LAND,
—The following tiinitt was given at a Tern
immune dinner i—" The Revolittlenary .ar
my and the cold water army—the.onedrom
the red goose front the land ) , the other the
snoes
THE Cillißcli BELLS
ELEVATE THE MASSES
nnkious for lii
ANIMAL NfAuxEmtk.---A few days since,
n argo tumor was taken rutin the slittulder
o f NI rs. Dunn, wife•of the incifial . of. the
Academy at Hempstead, I. l l7.,w e ithout . pain,
she having been put in a mesmeric sleep.
After the operation was finished, Mr. Dunn,
by a lew reverse passes, restored her to
consciousness. In reply to an observation
dint slit, had had quite a nap, eke suite she
had, and that'shc felt better for it. The
tumor having been mentioned, she was, told
that the physicians Arad -examined it, and
had concluded to do nothing more, with it at
present. She expressed considerabro dis
; appointment, and being asked if she would
consent next week to, be mesmerized, and
have it taken out, she answered in the neg
olive, and said that if it became necessnry•
to have it removed, she would prefer to be
in a state of consciousness. Dr. CFrencli
asked lier if she had experienced any pain
nr uncorrifortable sensation durityr her sleep.
She so,hl she had not,' and the"_ Dr. then ask
ed her whai die would think if he .should
tell her that it lied been removed. She
turned Sher eyes towards her sheufder, and
perceiving a - small spot ofblorallower driwn
on her dines, with a countenance indicating
much anxiety, she asked her husband if it
was out. The tumor was now shown to
her, and she evinced considerable agitation.
The parties to this transaction, says the
Brooklyn Eagle, are all well known in
llempstead, and their standing and position .
sire such as to preclude all idea of dec-op
don.
Ari Lirrnitruf,nr.n CLOTH, as ii is called,
has been invented in England, and present.
edsmd described at a late meeting of the
ya I nstiitit ion. h. is made of hamri and
wool, the woof of one and.the waft of the oth
er; or of the mixed materials. - flaxcend.cet
ton for the one, rind silk and flax for the nth.
or. 13ut the. invention consists to the situ
_ration of the tissues before weaving- The
fibres are Saturated with boiled. linseed oil,
raw white leadpowdered charcoal, litherage
and-common-salt- They are then worked
into.this saturated state at the uniform tem
peratuie of frern•GO to 80 degrees..Fahren
heir. The fithric is then pressed through
rollers for the pnrpose of hardening and flat
tening the surface of the coarser material,
and it 19 afterwards dried in the open air.—
It is said this cloth is not .iiable to' ipjury
from heat, rot, or. mildew, and is capable".of
being made air-tight. .
AN IMMENSE ESTAIILISIIMENT.--Three
thousand five hundred operatives aro ere
-playa-In the gigantic Locomotive-estab
lishment recently put in' operation in Rue
sia for the construction of the largo number
of Locomotives required for the great chain
of railroads which the Emperor of Russia
has directed to be constructed, Major Wist
ler, a Bostonian, being chief eneineer . .- TO"
keep order in this mixed mass, o!'•'Ameri—
cans, English, Scotch, Irish, Germans and
Russieu,s, a company of soldiers is kept on
duty in conjunction with 'a police for&
whose duties aro confined to the works.
- Lpcx.mw.— I t appears that a remedy for
this horrible disease has at last been discov
ered. The Journal of Commerco records
a cure by-the application of Electricity.—
The patient was a young woman, in.-whom
the disease was brought on by cold and_ fa
tigue, and the jaws had been closed five
days. The electro-galvanic apparatus was
applied to both angles n( the jaw, and had
not made forty revolutions before the com
slaint
AFFECTION IN - A BRUTE*—There are
ttlah ct lorria-a
brute that we do not often find in human be
ings. The Woodville Republican states that
on the Pittsbaro plantation, two little negro
boys ivere recently riding an old rioney .in
pursuit of cattle, - when all of a "sudden, a
wild cat leaped frnM'a fence upon - the po
ney and seized upon one of the-children. -
The poney in a fright l .jumped away. The
older boy seized tirbr cat to rescue the other
from his elawsiind tooth, when tho.poney .
returned. to their-rescue and actually stamp,-
exit 116-Wild- cat—to death'T
pet, some twenty:fiVe yeart - _old-7,lives in
the yard and eats - stops ; is a.greai favor-,
ite—walks.among the cradles with the
-ut
most care ; and, in gratitude for kindness,
has exhibit ed a trait of his character- that
would honor man.
Have we in any manner done wrong to
others? 'Let us not be backward in making
but nobly breaking through tho 'restraints
of pridp - and shatnii that would bo our hin
drance.
What is pined by peofanity ? A bad
raputiiiion---popular distrust. If these are
desirable, .then is profanity benefickll ; tf
not, it is an evil which all sliould avoid as
their worst possible enemy.
Botinsr.— A village , cicntist adyertiees
that 16 , 1wiIt 'spare no puins in gis,opora
tiono .to rent e them satisfactory. : No
doubt of it. - ,
There is avoid lady in Vermont who
cannot light a candle,, because - she is a great
sculd and tianuut fi ed:her mulch.
TERMS -$2 00 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.]
I WHOLE NO.. 50.9.
t.SdLM M A,,R.Y.
A young man Ix:longing to Lenox, Mad
ison entiiity, N.Y . ., met an awful death on.
Thursday of)ast-week; -- Cie. with tiiq filth—
'er and others, were thieshing grain With a
'threshing machine, when — y somgmistcp
the iron cogs of the machine.cau . ht ono
Toot and drew him-into the machine, tear.
ing tints leg at the hip joint, drawing out
all the cords from his body on one side, rind
otherwise shockingly mangling him. lie
lingered for two hours in excruciating
when death :roliered him fie iii his suffer
ings. '
An interesting child, about three years
of ago, died in Bangor, Mo., on Thursday,
from the effects c;rpoisoa. It was at play
in one of the chambers of the house with
a.the.r.chilaen, undin rumaging. a drawer
found a piece of opium, used by winember
of the family for the tootipache. The
child swallowed the opf m, and in a few
hours was a corpse. .
l'ho -Pittsburg Arier saye that' a lady
across the Monongahela river died on Sun=
day week from the bite of a mod-dog.--.
She was bitten in . May last, and died from
the first fit of hydrophobia. - •
A young man named-Charles Williams
received 'a death wound at a military sham
light in Shuteebury, Mass. kit week.., It
wus i n flicted by a wad discharpd-frotnAlid
gun of one of his compaaione. : i:
At Utica, on Wednesday last, as the train
was leaving the depot, a tittle girl. jumped
upon the cars, and rode a' when -
she attetnpted to get.off,again. ,
,In doing
so,. her gown caught upon the step, rind the
lerk throw her across the track. Several
wheels..Pasacd‘ over hot; IP:orally cutting.
her in two, and she gasped a moment or
two, and died.
,
,itiVRDER AT RICiIMOND:•4I4 - e : learn
from 'the Richmond Star that Felii Ferges-;
son, one of the keepers of the penitentiary.;
was killed by Moses_Johnson, a ' free negro
gonvict. Johnson was a workthan in- Mr,r
Fergiisson's. department;; and _while Mr:
Fergusson was sitting down, he
,wetit up be
hind him and without any provocatien in= •
tlicted amound upon his neck with a knife,
the blade of which was about three- inches
lung, severing.the carotid artery add wind
pipe. •IVIr. Fergussonidied within about 30
minutes. - • • , '-` • •
I A •
a NOTitER DEATh IN A .Fein: WELL.--4
Mr. Liszoor LEE descended the well of YIN
SilFzu, near Charlestown, Va.•, on Friday.
list, to ascertain the cause of the. Impurity
of the , water, but without using any precau !
lionary measure to test the characterof.the
air. Immediately after his descent he was
asked whether it was not too daniß for him
to remain,. to which he replieil, "it was
none to hurt." He was c:alled'again, and
fia — ittrd he WO - Uld '&MlO' tip; and got. into the
bucket for the purpose, but before reaching
the top he fell, to the botiom and was in
stantly killed. The day previotis candles
were lot down, but came back extinguished;
which circumstance the unfortunate deceas
ed was aware of, and, of comic+, relieved
every one9from censure.
Tll E RECTOR OF TUE EPISCOPAL CitunOu
in Washington, of which Mrs. Nicholson,
who committed buicido zn afit of insanity,
Was a member, declined to perform the '.(u
neral services_ until ho could , consult • his
brethren in office •
011QCENE PAINTIN:O9.-0400 one 11toils
and ci&ar,smilf and tobacco boxes, import
ed from France, , and seized by the'bollv
ior on account of cementing obscene peia; --
logs, were on Friday burnt by Mr. Rapelje, -
De pu ty arebalLin.Nevit._York,--acelardinc!
to law, which requires that all such things,
when discovered, be seized and des
troyed. Some - of the boxei were ofacost
ly description,
Juir AND GErimtous.—The Hon. Jens
HUNTER, of Hunter's Island; a * large pro..
prietor of kinds in Delaware county, New
York, has ordered a deed to be made-.out
granting two hundred acres of land whirs.
STEELE, the widow of the Deputy. Sheriff
who' wasAilled by the Indiana in the execu
tion_tthisilitty
AMERICAN TEA. — lt appearafthmAhe_Sev_
tember number of the- SouthernPlater,-
that a successful attempthas. btieit - made
urcultivattrthe - Chirtes tea rit. -
,Mr. _whe-has-giviiii-Conitideri
ble attention to the subject, is to have.:ipee
imens of his tea at the fleuriCo 1%660110l
fair in November.
The Mormon Temple, it is still
'n 7 {►rogross-or-orection_h_4B,...abufluo
fourth - the size of Solomon's Teimp le and
can accommodate twelvo thousand persons,
being four thOusand on each floor: yThree
hundred and fifty men are zealously at, work
upon the building, which it iesupposed will
bp finished in a-year and it half4iropal}tyai
cost.of half a million of
The report that the Krarich
ter to Mexico bud demanded. hie PePsPoito ,
le confirmed by a paragraph h lbe-Weih
ingion Union. The, canse2libititlail
this iciicin was the refusal or , the Mexican
Government to giant -bun. the gitiiiiiciOnk
.
he demanded in the-case of the attack mlOO
Upon him by a military - officer. :
-Why is a mill boy like ti - rejtio44l4. Adr
an 3,_ Because - be 4 10 *.imoki