‘if.
iet‘ of the lS'th_ l_\~1a‘y. Dr. Halloran, the author.
was sentenced last year to tra'nspo_‘rt-atipn for 7
years, for having [forged a lettet'-l'rank, value
"zen English fzence ! His verses in'dl’cate a culti-
vated mind and refined feelings. ‘That such a,
'nian'Sll0L|l(l be placed in such a “situation for
such an offence, affords a singular illustration
ofthe constitution of modern society, and ofthe
genius of the I3ritlsh penal code.-—./Vat. Gaz.‘
TO '1‘lfE ‘FUI.[. MOON.’
'Catn1fi03c'i(:' at 10, .P. .M. I8.’/zp June, l8l9, al Sra,.
near the ‘coast of ./\’ew-Holland.
nit rm. 9‘. it. HALLORAN. .
- )‘ J\"o.1: eral ,- ct "C210 fulgebat Luna fierelzo .”
QUEEN of the Night, whose Oll) serene,
Through liquid ether calmly floats ;
By her is thy mild radiattce-seen ‘
On ‘whom my heart with fondness doats.
Oh l at this hour, when Nature sleeps’,
And ‘Want and Misery seek repose»
‘Thy hapless Votary wakes and weeps:
Nor finds an opiate for his woes I .
His wife, his babes, his distant home,
Still on his tortur’d fancy rush :
t He views around the billowy foam,
And tears of burning anguish gush 1
Yet, ‘midst the fever of his soul,
His heart's rctlections never err ;
But, as the magnet to the pole,
VVith trctnhling fondness turns to her .’
And-'-do my Anna’s pensive eyes V
View thee with kindred thoughts to mine?
Ah ‘. no--from distant western skies
On her meridian splcndours shine l
Yet few the hours, and short the space,
Ere thy mild beams ‘her eye shall cheer ;
‘Nhile in renew’d diurnal race
P The sun shall shed her fervors here‘?
Oh l cottltlist then, on thy silver sphere
Inscribed, this ltcnt't’s emotions bear ;
Its yearning hope-——its anxious lenr—-
-. Its fond regat-tl—-—i_ts tender care.
Could’st thou, SW€t'l‘[.‘li‘.IiL‘l 3 fair and calm,
To her its faithful love disclose,
’Twould yield her sofftzring heart a balm
To read c’en ".1-:l'za: so well .91.‘: know-s‘ .’
.B.ut nol his heart than canst not show,
‘,.,Sjli_ll cltanging in thy nightly range,
;ose-lime, whose truth, in joy or woe,
In‘ life or death, ‘can never change 1
FROM BL.\cs~:woor>'S LK.\GAZINE.
The following striking narrative is translated
from the BIS. pl.‘/lt§|'!tCll'S of the late Rev. Dr. Gas-
chen, at Catholic clergyman of great eminence in
the city of llzttisbcnne. It was the custom ofthis
divine to preserve in the shape of a diary, a reg-
ular account ofall the interesting particulars that
fell in his way, during the exercise of his profes-
sion. Two thick small quartcs, filled with these
strange materials, have been put into our hands
by the kindness of Count Litidctiltauntenbergli, to
whom the author bequeathed them. Many a
dark story, well fitted to be the ground of a ro-
mance——many a tale of guilty love and repent-
ance-—many a fearful moment of remorse and
horror, might we extract from this record of dun-
geons and confessionals] ‘
Never had a murder so agitated the inhabit-
,an.ts oflhis city, as that of Maria Von Richerstein.
No heart could be pacified'till the murderer was
condemned. But no sooner was his doom seal-
ed, and the day fixed for his execution, than-a
great change took place in the public fet-llngs.——
,'l'he evidence, though conclusive had been whol-
ly circumstantial. And people who before his
condemnation, were as assured of the murderer’s
guilt as ifthey had seen him with red hands. he-
gan now to conjure up the most absurd and ridic-
ulous reasons for believing in the possibilty of
his innocence. His own dark and sullcn silence
seemed to some, an indignant expressit.n of that
innocence which be was too proud to avow_gome
thought they saw in his imperturable tlemeanor,
a resolution to court death. because his life was
miserable and his reputation was blasted-—and
other:-2, the most numerous, without rear-.on or re-
tiection, felt such a sympathy with the criminal,
as almost amounted to a negoclation of his crime.
'. he man under condemnation ofdeath, was in
all the beauty of youth, distinguished above his
follows for graceful accomplishments, and the last
ofa noble‘ family. He had lain a month in his
dungeon, heavily laden with irons. Only the first
week he had been visited by teligionists, but he
then fiercely ordered thé jailor to admit no tnorc
‘ men of God,’ __and till the eve of his execution
he had lain in dark solitude, abandoned to his
onn soul.
It was near midnight when a message was
sent me by a magistrate, that the murderer was
desirous of seeing me.——I had been with many
men in his unhappy situation, and in no case had
I failed to calm the agonies ofgriel and the _fears
of the world to come. But I had known his
youth—had set down with him at his l'u.t'ncr’s ta-
ble—-I knew also that there was in him a strange
mixture of good and evil--I was aware that there
were circumstances in the lttstnry of his progen-
' itots not generally known--nay, in his own life,
that made him an object of awful commisseration.
and I went to his cell with an agitating sense of
the enormity ofhis guilt, but a still more agita-
ting one of the sense of his misery and the wild-
ness of his misfortunes.
I entered his cell, andgthe phantom struck me
with teI'r_or. He stood erect in his irons. like a
corpse that had risen from the grave. His face,
once so beautiful, was pale as a shroud, and drawn
into ghastly wrinkles. The black matted hair
hung ovcrit with a terrible expression of wrathful
"'-f-t’-‘and savage misery.
And his large eyes, which
once were black, glared with a light in which all
‘ colour .was lost, and seemed to fill the whole dun-
Ageon with their fl-asltings. I saw his goilt——I
saw what was more terrible than his guilt. his in-
sanity ; not in emaciation only, not in that more
than death like silence of his face, but in all that
Stood before me; the figure, round which was
gathered the agonies of many long days and
nights of remorse and phrenzy, and adespair that
had no fear of this world or ofits terrors, but that
was plunged in the abyss of eternity.
For a while the figure said nothing. He then
it
.
ai
‘.~
i ‘ ‘at ., _ .. -~,
‘ ’ _ q _ '?:v§:ved his arm, that m
“Ne fiotl the following verses in the London Cour-.
injgj me to sit.’doWn_ .0 th
wh'en'I did st’>,’j:__, ,
my side. - - —- _ =
A lamp burned on’ a table_ before its
that table there had been dratvn yjtm
for I must indeed so call him,gadeca _ ,
man body, the neck as if st're_aming ;with,-gore,
and the face wrinkled into horrible cpnviulsibiis‘
He saw that my eyesrested on his fearful mock-
ery, and with a recklessness fighting "with despair
he burst out into a broken pcal oflaughter, and
said, ‘ to-marrow you will see tha_t&picture drawn
in,.blood l’ , '
He then grasped me violently by the arm, and
told tne to listen to his confession--and then to
say what I thought of God and his eternal Provi-
dence. I
‘ I have been assailed by ideots, fools. and driv-
ellets, who could understand nothing of me nor
of my crime-—men who came not here that I
might confess myself before God but reveal my-
self to thcm—-—aud I drove the tamperers with
misery and guilt out ofa cell sacred to insanity.
But my‘hands have played in infancy, before I
was a murderer, with thy grey hairs, and now e-
ven that I am a murderer, I can still touch them
with love and with reverence. Therefore, my
lips, shut to all beside, shall be open to thee.
‘ I murdered her. Who else loved her so well
as to shed her innocent blood? It was I that en-
joyed her beauty--a beauty surpassing that ofthe
daughters of men; it was I that filled her soul
with bliss and iroublc, it was I that was privile-
ged to take her life. I brought her into sin, I
kept her in sin, and when she would have left her
sin, it was fitting that I to whom her heart, her
body and soul belonged, should suffer no divorce-
ment of them from my bosom, as long as there
was blood in hers, and when I saw that the poor
infatuated wretch was resolved, I slew her ; yes,
with this blessed hand I stabbed her to the heart.
' Do you think there was no pleasure in mur-
dering hcr? I graspetl her by that radiant, that
golden hair--l bared those snow white breasts-—
Idragged her sweet body towards me, and, as
God is my witness, I stabbed her with this very
d,agger, ten, twenty, forty times, through and
through her heart. She never so much as gave
one shtick, for she was dead in a moment, but
she would not have shtieked had she endured
pang after pang, for she saw my face of wrath
turned upon her, she knew that my wrath was
just, and that I had a right to murder her who
would have forsaken her lover in his insanity.’
‘I laid her down upon a bank of flowers, that
soon were stained with her blood. I saw her dim
blue eyes beneath the halfclosed lids : that face
so changeful in living beauty was now fixed as
ice, and the balmy breath came from her sweet
lips no more. My joy, my happiness was per-
fect. I took her into my arms, madly as I did
on that night when first I robbed her of what fools
call bet‘ innocence, but her innocence has gone
with her to heaven--and there I lay with her
breasts pressed to my heart, and many thousand
were the kisses that I gave those breasts cold and
bloody as they were, which I had often kissed in
all their loving loveliness, and which none were
ever to kiss again but the husband who had mur-
dered her.
‘ {looked up to the sky. There shone the
moon and all her,_stars. Tranquility, order, har-
mony and peace glittered through the whole uni-
verse of God. ‘ Look up, Maria, your favorite
star has risen.’ I gazed upon her, and death had
begun to change her into something that ivas
most terrible. Her features were hardened and
sharp, her body as still‘ as a frozen lump of clay,
her fingers rigid and clenched, and her blood
that was once so beautiful in her thin blue veins,
was now hideously coagnlated all over her corpse.
Igazed on het- one moment longer. and all at
once I rccollectcd that we were a family of mad-
men. "Did not my father perish by his own hand?
Blood had before been shed in our house. Did
not that warrior ancestor of ours die raving in
chains? \-Vere not those eyes of mine always un-
like those ofaoy other men ?.—VVildct--at times
fiercer——and oh l-—father, saw you never there a
melancholy too woeful for mortal man, a look sent
up from the darkness of a soul that God never
visited in his mercy? i
‘ I knelt down beside my dear wife, but Iknelt
not down to pray. No, I ctied unto God, if God
there be, ‘ Thou modest me a madman l Thou
madest me a murderer ! Thou foredoo‘mest me
to sin and to hell! Thou. the gracious God,
whom we mortals worship !——Tbere is the arti-
lice l I have done thy will--I have slain the most
blissful of thy creatures; am I a holy and com-
missioned priest, or am I an accursed and infidel
murderer ?’
‘ Father, you start at such words 1-.-You are
not familiar with a madman’s thotights. Did I
form this brain? Didl putthpt poison in my
veins which flowed a hundred ye'a‘rs since in the
heart of my lunatic ancestor ? Had I not my be-
ing imposed uponime, with all its red rolling sea
of dreams; and will you, a right holy man, curse
me because my soul was 'c‘-1I't'iet'l away by them
as a ship is driven through the raging darkness
ofa storm ? A thousand times even when she lay
in resigned love upon my bosom something whis_-
percd to me, ‘ Murder her I’ It may have been
the voice ofSatan+it may have been that ofGod I
For who can tell the voice of Heaven from that
of Hell? Look on this blood crusted dagger !—-
Look on the band that drove it thro’ her heart l
and then dare to judge of me and of my crimes,
or-comprehend God and his all terrible decrees!
‘ Look not away from me. \Vas I not once con-
fined in a mad-house? Are these the first chains I
ever wot'e ?—-.-No: Iremember things ofold, that
others may think I have forgotten. Dreams
will disappear for a long, long time, but they will
return again. It may have been some one that
I saw sitting in black melancholy in a mad house.
I may have been only a stranger passing through
that ‘wild world. But if it indeed be true, that in
my boyhood I was not as other boys, and that e-
ven then the clouds of God's wrath hung round
me, that God may not suffer my soul everlasting-
ly to perish. '
‘I started up: I covered the dead body with
leaves and tufts ofgrass and flowers; I washed
my hands from blood; I went to bed; I slept,
yes, Inslept, for there is no hell like the hell of
sleep, and into that hell God delivered me. I
but bearing a resemblance not to begmistakfen-. to.{
that of him who had traced the horrid pictur'e.....~
you this.green flow-
d_such- men as those
, , X i ' 9» itiin judgment up-
,_irt \ hoseaoe they verelafraid to look for
iiaimonient, lestone gleam-pf them should fright
gtbem into idiocy ?»-What right have they who are
not as I am, to lead me‘ with their chains, or to
let their villainous executioners spill my blood?
If‘I deserve punishment, it must rise upin a
blacker cloud tinder the hand of God in my soul.
‘I will not kneel ; a madman has no need of
sacraments. I do not wish the forgivenessinor
the mercy of God : all that I wish is the forgive-
ness of her whom I slew ; and well I know that
death cannot so change the heart that once had
life, as to obliterate from thine the merciful love‘
of me. Spirits may in heaven have beautiful bo-
soms no more; but thou. who art a spirit, will
save him from eternal perdition,whom thou know-
est God created subject to a terrible disease. If
there be mercy in heaven, it must be with thee :
thy path thither lay through blood ; so will mine.
Father, thinkcst thou we shall meet in heaven ?
Lay us at least in one grave upon earth.’
In a moment he was dead at my feet. _ The
stroke of the dagger was like lightning, and—-—-
.._.q.«‘,lZ-'§—...
FROM THE NATIONAL ADVOCATE.
‘ He that hath a mouth of his own should never
bid others blow,’ said my uncle Bartholomew to
me one day, as he observed me directing another
to do that which I should have done myself. Now
my uncle was a pretty shrewd chap, and possess-
ed a good fund of such odd sayings as the above,
which he never failed repeating to me when they
were necessary; and as I often had cause to re-
gret my not following them, they made a very
deep impression upon my mind, and were ofim-
mense benefit to me in the long run-affording
me a fine criterion by which to mark the proceed-
ings of my acquaintances. I
'l‘here_was of my companions a young fellow
called Jeremy Measureztvcll. Now .lerry was a
fine jovial young man. of whom I was extremely
fond; he was. when I left my native village, a
sober, industrious and sprightly youth, and had
by his perseverance and frugality, gathered to-
gethct‘ a considerable sum of money, which be
invested in merchandize and was doing very hand-
somely--he likewise married a plain, tidy young
damsel, by whom hehad three fine children.-
Such was Jerry whenl went away; but alas ! on
my return ten years after, the scene was changed!
Jerry had fallen into the practice of‘ bidding oth-
ers blow.’ As his business increased, instead of
doubling his attention, he employed a clerk. In
a short time he intrusted liis affairs entirely to his
management ; and as idleness begets bad practi-
ces, he indulged himself rather often with aj'rz'e7zd-
ly glass, and gave himself up completely to frol-
iclrinn-.’ And what was the consequence ? Why,
his business was neglected-—debtsaccumulated---
creditors became clamorous—he became bank-
rupt-—dic:d a vag-.-.bond—leaving his wife and
children dependant upon public charit_v for sus-
tenance ! And all this arose simply from his ‘bid-
dz'ng' at/zers blow, rv/zilc /ze /lad (Z maul/2 of/22's own.’
Not so was it with Tz’mo.'Izy '['urmuell. Tim
was about the same age with Jerry ; they were
play-mates in their youth, and as they grew older
they cherished the friendship of their younger
days. Timothy was a wheelright--was careful
and thrifty, though not niggarly; he would take
an occasional glass with an acquaintance, but
would not neglect his business in order to have a
frolick .' he was generous to the poor, and punctu-
al to his engagements with the tich-—-but, above
all, he ‘never bid others blow l’ And what was
the result of this prudent conduct ? It was this:
On my return I found him in easy circumstances;
he was made ajustice ofthe peace—-was married,
and had a family of thriving_happ_v children-—
and was beloved and respected by the whole sil-
lage. Such was the good elfccts arising from
merely following the dictates of the old proverb :
‘ never bid others blow, when you have a mouth
of your own 1’ -
Mercltants and mechanics I remember the say-
ings of old Bartholomew! and never intrust the
management of your afl'airs to an agent, when
you can attend to them more carefully yourself!
I$DUCATIOl\l.
The Easton (Maryland) Gazette, in treating
of the importance of Education, and the advanta-
ges, under a republican government, of close ap-
plication to study, concludes with the following
characteristic allusions. _ '
VV ho was Mr. Writ, the present Attorney
General of the United States ? A poor boy of our"
' ate ; of the village of Bladensburgh-—\Vhat has
given him one of the first stations in the country,
with a handsome income ? Good education, labo-
rious study and application, and consequently
knowledge.
\Vho was \Villiam Pinkncy? A poor boy of
Atttiapolis. XV hat has learning made him ? The
first lawyer ; the most celebrated advocate of our
country.
VVho was James Monroe? The son of a brick-
layer in the town of Cambridge, in Dorset. VV ho
is James Monroe? The President of these Uni-
ted States.
Education is the solid granite pedestal of the
column of his fame, stipportiug a shaftofthe most
towering altitude, whose Corinthian capital is
high above the clouds. How emphatically, in this
instance, has wisdom, founded on good education,
and matured by intense study‘ and application,-
proved herself to be power with station, and hon-
ops, and wealth, following in her train. VVhy,
then, should not a son of our bricklayers or hat-
ters, or tailors, or cabinet makers, become a fu-
tnre President ofthe United States? The same
path is open to them ; true it winds up the sides
of ersteep and rugged mountain ; and the eleva-
ted pinnacle is not to be gained without setting
out arigltt, with the earliest and best discipline of
good schools, and the severest and most intense
mental labor-—‘but the prize is well worth the
boldest, the highest exertion.
VVill it be said that nature made these men of
"her best materials? No such thing. Providence
was bountiful to them; but nature left these dia-
monds as rough as many of the pebbles now in
the streets. Instruction mined them; and edu-
cation gave the high polish and the point, which
f I illumes and dazzles .ltrn‘erica“, and tl1row‘§t_hp’- ra
, I”. bid God curse me more;
-most 1’
diance farinto other countries. And hii? A
not at this m'oment," genius and t,alent.§.-I It
g-;tc,ttdemy, equal"‘t'o Writ’s and Pifi i1ti}t’§. 3135
‘Monroe’s? ‘ Yes, without doubt, andIiimong'_theif’i'
sons of our mechanics too ; "and wotild‘ .to‘§1»H<5a\F1f_'7
en, I could fi!‘___’_e:_tl‘tCII‘ young bosoms with the
npblest ambition, without which tlieyjcan never
réach what they aim at; ' . ' .- ' ‘I
- _--"-¢t--‘.l:--3>—- .
Patrick Henry, who was a very devout man,
left in his will the following testimony in favor of
the Christign religion :-
‘I have now disposed of all of my property to
my family--tltet‘e‘is one thing more I wisli' :I
could give them, and that is the Clzristiart rt-lig-ion.
If they have that, and I had not giv(en them one
shilling,’ they ‘would be rich; and if they have
not that, and I had given them all the world, they
would be poor.’ - V
./in animating rt;/Zeclion.——To despair of--access
in any cause. which patriotism, benevolence and
piety recommends, is to distrust the justice or
the omnipotence of Heaven.
- -“€O&-w
The government of one of the New-England
states, some time since, brought about a charge.
to be rivalled only by Ovid's fvlctaniul'plt0Se§.-—-
A number of young gentlemen had petitioned to
be incorporated into a body of horsemen. The
lcrrislature, after stating in the preamble of the
act; the many benefits resulting from such an in-
stitution, passed the following resolution : ‘ Be it
enflcfcda lhi-tfilhe,’25Iitio71c7's be, and they hereby
are, incorporated into a body of lzorsc .” I
1 ‘ -—.
' Bola’ C/large.--A twig at law, an attorney, hav-
mg entered into a volunteer corps, on the first
field day was ordered to c/large--when 11ein,,;m,g
ly whipped out his pocket book, and put down
A French officer, quarrelling with a Swiss, re-
proached him with his country's vice. of‘iighting
on either side’ for money, while ‘ we French men,
(said be) light for/zanor.’ ‘ Yes, sir, (replied the
Swiss) evety one fights for that which he wants
A dandy, in Broadway, a few mornings since,
accosted the old bcll- man as follows :—- You take
all sorts of trumpery in your cart, don’t you ?’--
To which he replied—‘ Yes, jump in, jump in.’
Calca'rmz'an- comfar.'.—T\vo Scotclt travellers
having taken up quarters for the night at a High-
land Hotel. one of them next morning complain-
ed to his friend that he had a very indifferent bed,
and asked him how he had slept ?-—‘ Troth, man,’
replied Donald.‘ nae very well either, but I was
muckle better aft‘ than the Hugs, for dc/ll a one
of them closed an c’e the hale night l’
Liquor mzmcs.--A Hamburg price current con.
tainsthe following ‘list of liquors-—Spirit of Cu-
pid, Fire of Love, Pleasure of Venus, Spirit of
VVellington, Spirit of Blucher, Belle. Alliance,
Choice of the Ladies, Perfect Love, Sacrifice of
Love, (?ouragc 'vVater, Forget me not.-—'-Nat. /Jelo.
German wonllersr/\=X German journal asserts
that an artistat Ccmbergh, in Prussia, has con-
structed a watch which imitates the human voice,
and answers questions in German and Polish, be-
sides cxecuting musical airs.
- 3 4..-..k
(ZUIUSS I’ERFORMI£D,
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Dzr. I€ELF.E’S BC-"1’./IJl’}.’C.At'L D1x’OPS.
MR. S/zcarman, c:.trpcnter of Boston, \'tLl.$ ‘ii:
‘L .
months afllicted with 8. 'l.‘nntour on tit:
track of his hand which i.'tcapaci'.atcd him for
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sul-l‘ered an O[)t‘:l‘E1I;iOI] on his ltaml Ethtl C<:;!):i'.lCl.'L".l
incurable, was cured and restored to health by ta-
king 4 bottles of these drops.
Mr. Wyjig/it of Boston, was 3 years alllicted
with a I*‘evet'-sore on one of his legs,‘bad tried
most medicines without effect, was cured by two
bottles.
«fl c/tild qf M3‘. Burrill of Hanover, was cured
of Ulcers and Blles, some of which hadeateu
down toithe ribs, by 3 bottles. This child was
considered in a dying state when he began taking
these drops. . .
./111 injiznl of Boston, was covered all over with
eruptions, blind with both eyes, was cured by 3
bottles.
./In elderly lady of Boston, was ‘severely afflict-
.
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ed for 16 years with an eruption all over her,
attended with the most tormenting itcltings,
burnings and blotches, had lost thereby one lin-
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she had not left her room for six months and was
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./1 genlleman of Lexington, w as alllicted twenty
years witlj_live ulcers in his legs, could obtain no
relief, was cured by 4- bottles.
./1 gentleman of Boston, his wife and five chili.
(Iran was many years afl-licted with ex options, had
tried every medicine without success, was cttrcd
with these drops. _
./igentlemazz of Roxbury, was 50 years aiiiictcd
with :1 humour on one of his legs, attended with
burning, itching and blotches,was resigned as past
relief, for 50 years could notlie in bed at times,
was perfectly cured by tltese drops.
'11 lady of (lharlestown was 2 years alllicted
with a white swelling on her knee joint, ltatl-tried
every assistance and considered past relief, cmri
traction had formed, when on taking these drzqn
and using Dr. .Iebb’s Linimcnt, in 3 weeks she
had tl)c.perfect use of the joint, the pain left her,
and by continuing them has obtained a perfec;
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These drops are a radical cure for scurvy, scrcr-'
fula, St. Anthony's fire, leprosy, pimpled faces.
enlarged glands, sore legs, ulcers even when tl.e
bone is affected, venerial taints when mercury has
failed, are the best spring and autumnal physio,
and may be given to children with perfect safety.
Price l‘dollar per bottle, or 6 bottles for five dofl-.
lars. QC?” Ask for‘ Dr. Reg’/'e’s liorazzical Dro/is.’
None are genuine unless signed‘ IV. '1'. (‘arm-at .'
Prepared and sold wholesale by the sole propric.
tor, VV. T. Conway, chemist, No. 1, Bumstc-ad
Place, Boston, and by his specialappointment by
B. <3’ G. ISAACS, Norwalk.
Norwalk Chronicler