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F-i?Jr‘r§t’tlARY.
Infamous /l_fi"air.—On Sunday afternoon
last, Caroline Hoyt, an interesting girl of
14 or l5 years of age, the daughter of
Catharine Hoyt, a respectable widow lady,
after attending the Sunday school in her
neighborhood, was importuned by another
girl named Spencer, to accompany her to
L mg Island.—Yielding to the repeat.ed so-
licitations of the latter, she finally went,
without her 1notliei".s_ knowledge or consent,
and was absent until near nine o’clock at
night. Fearing her mother’s displeasure,
if she returned home, she was induced by
the persuasions of the syren, Spencer, to go
to the house of Eleanor Taylor, of 77,
Willet-street, for the purpose of staying the
night. \Vhen there, she was cajolcd and
flattered by Mrs. Taylor and her mother,
and after the expression of a wish to go
home, was refused, and forcibly placed in
anarrow closet, and secreted away, the
" door of which was locked upon her. There
she wept tears of bitterness, but without
effect. In the course of the night she was
visited by a man, who was called Blair,who
endeavored to take improper lrlrerties,wlrich
she resisted with all the strength she pos
sesscd, and in which efforts be preserved for
a long time.
By some means her mother on Tuesday
discovered her situation, went to the house,
and demanded her daughter. She was fi-
nally shown tbe place of her confinement ;
and on the door opening, in the agony of
her maternal feelings she exclaimed “my
God I is this my daughter?” She took her
child home, after her close confinement in
that polluted den, from Saturday night to
Tuesday morning. To seek redress was
the next object, and she preferred her com-
plaint before the Police. Eleanor Taylor
was soon after apprehended and brought
up by George M. Selwyn, an oflicer,and
after an investigation of the case, was corn-
mitted to prison. The girl was uninjured,
except her confinement and her fears.—-
N. Y. Cour. cs’ Eng.
Ship Hellespont.--VVc are happy to state
that circumstances render it certain that
the wreck of the vessel fallen in with by the
Martha, was not the Hellespont. Mr. B.
T. Reed, the owner, states that there was
no carpenter’s bench on board when
she sailed from Boston, and no materials of
which such a bench could have been con-
structed, as was described in the Journal of
Commerce; and Capt. Pratt, who has com-
manded the Hellespont till the present voy-
age, and the ship’s carpenter, say that the
dimensions of the only tri-sail most on board
the Hellespont are materially dif_l'crent from
those mentioned. Mr. Reed’s corresporrd-
ent writes -him from New-York, that the
Capt. of the Martha had no idea that the
wreck he saw was that of an American
ship; and that the tri-sail mast found was
apparently large enough for a ship of 6 or
700 tons. Notwithstanding Mr. Reed feels
confident that the wreck was not that of the
Hellespont, he -has requested Capt. ‘Pratt
to go immediately to New-York, and exa-
mine the spars and other materials picked
u .
pLetters from New-York also state that the
tri,sail mast picked up by the Martha mea-
sures ten inches in diameter. Capt. Pratt
says that the Hellespont had but one tri-
sail mast, and no must for the spcncer.
The tri-sail mast orignally made for the
ship was but five and a half inches in di-
ameter at the upper end, six and a half in-
ches and one third from the top, and four.
inches at the lower end_, where it rested on
an iron trace. Boston Daily Adv.
Opinions abroad come sometimes with
more effect to the mind than those more
familiar ones heard around our own council
fire. Hence even the I-lotspurs of the
South may accept with deference the just
and well stated, though not new, and quite
obvious remarks with which the London
Times concludesa sensible article on the
posture of South Carolina as in opposition
to the Union.
VVhateverthe dissentients from the Union
may pretend, they cannot be insensible to
its benefits, or disposed to throw them light-
ly away. The federal constitution forms
them into a nation of frcemcn, instead of
allowing them to remain .a cluster of un-
connected communities, spread over an in-
definite extent of territory, often warring
with each otherabout their boundaries, like
the savages whom they have displaced. It
secures them internal tranquility, and-.ex-
ternal respect; it gives them a united na-
val force, which, at the smallest expense,
protects their trade on every sea, and -in
every country of both hemispheres, while
it procures at the hands of eve-ry civilized
Government, attention to the rights of every
American citizen. Let this Union ‘be bro-
ken up—let this confcderacy be dissolved-
let the brilliant constellation representing
their 9'2 (24) States he effacezl from their
flag—lct us only hear of Carolinians, Vir-
ginians, Plriladelplrians, or New Yorkers,
instead of Union Americans, and who
would care much in Europe for the coun-
tryman of \Vashington and Franklin’!
Important Invent'ion.—VVe learn from the
Miuor’s Journal, that Mr. Benjamin F.
Pomroy, of Pottsville, and Mr. Abraham
Putt, of Port Carbon, have recently obtain-
ed a potent from Washington, for the in-
vention of a steam engine, the rnacbincry
of which is contrived on new principles,
whereby the weight and bulk of the en-
gins, are greatly reduced, without a pro-
portionnble diminution of power. This re-
duction is said to be in the proportion of
one third, so thatan engine constructed on
the new plan, is in size one-third less than
on ordinary engine, though combining c-
qual power with the same.
A Large E.st‘.'.'»lalz's/rmcnt. ——Tbe Axe Fac-
tory of Collins 6:. Co. at Collinsville (for-
merly Canton) Connecticut, is the most
-complete and extensive establishment in the
United States. They finish from the bar
seven hundred axes per day. This unpa-
ralleled rapidity is by means of an ingeni-
mulyoonsfrucled machine, with which the
head and eye of the axe is formed, and
after a few strokes of the hammer, is
ready to receive the steel, all (If which is
performed 31' I few seconds, '
1lIountVcsuvius.---Tlie following inter-
esting account of an ascent of the moun-
tain,’ since the late eruption began, is com-
municated ih a private letter received from
Naples. The ascent took place in the
week before Christmas :---“Vesuvious has
been burning with great force and majestv
since we have been here. A few days ago
the Hon. Mr. K , Lord H
Lord 0 , and myself made a party to
go the top. VVe took our baskets of provi-
sions, and left our hotel, the Victoria, at
half-past two in the day. At Rosina, the
foot of the mountain, I, who arrived there
first on llOl‘S(.'l):1(‘.l{, engaged Salvatore, the
guide, and a suflicient number of asses for
our party, and presently after we began the
ascent. The address and facility with
which the donkeys chose their way and
got on was quite amusing to see. VVe
stopped at the hermitage ; the friar provid-
ed us with an omelette and a glass of wine.
We deposited our provisions with him. Vile
proceeded another mile on the donkeys.
We then took to our feet, leaving the asses,
each in the care of its owner, to wait for
us, and began the steep ascent, climbing as
we best could over the lava and ashes of
former eruptions. The ordinary path was
occupied by the descending stream of red-
hot lava, and we took ground further to the
eastward, just beyond the stream. After
an hour and a half of much toil, and some
inconvenience, from the rollingdown of the
cinders, or rather stones, which occasionally
became loosened and rolled past us, and
now and then gave seine of us a smart blow
on the legs, we reached the edge of the
great or outer cratur at about half-past eight
o’elock. Nothing could exceed the gran-
duer of the scene before us---two streams of
intensely hot lava flowing over the edge of
the crater, within fifty yards of where we
stood. The great valley between tne in-
ner and the outer crater, which usually is
many hundred feet deep, was all filled up
to the level of the crater edge with a dark
blackish mass, out of which the two streams
were flowing. The inner crater, a sort of
lesser mountain in this plain, with its top
cut off, and for distant from us, was con-
tinually throwing out large volumes ofdeep-
ly red flame, with great massts of dense
black smoke, steam, and light colored
smoke, from which the fire was reflected
on every side, and volleys of hot stones,
which ascended to a great height above the
smoke, quite red, and then quietly fell back
upon the outside of the crater, from which
they were projected. As we descended the
mountain, the lights of Naples were visible
in the lower distance, while out to sea the
thick black volume of smoke from the
burning mountain brooded in dark solem-
nity over the bay. VVe returned to the
Hermitage between ten and eleven, enjoy-
ed our supper, and got home rather before
two in the morning, much pleased with the
sight of this great phenomenon.--Jour. of
Com.
Prospects of tlze Wcst.—A late Illinois
paper states, that although 107,761 bush-
els of Wheat were sent from Buffalo, N.
Y. east on the canal, last season, and
521,932 barrels of flour passed in the same
direction from that city; all this amount
will not quite equal one-third of the an-
ticipated wheat crop in Sangamo and Mor-
gan counties, the coming season. It is es-
timated that the wheat of these counties,
should no disaster attend the crop, will be
more than a million of bushels. They fear
no competition in market; Illinois wheat
will always find sale when there is any
demand for the article. It is by far the
heaviest wheat, per bushel, raised in the
United States.
Excczttion.-At.Nerwicb, Chenango Co.
19th inst. George Denison suffered the
highest penalty of the law, for the murder
of Ruben Gregor-y. In his address at the
gallows, be attributed his sad fate to the use
of ardent spirits—and warned his fellow
beings to beware of the -deadly poison. He
concluded by saying, that he was not guilty
of wilful murder. The vast concourse were
then addressed by the Elder Swan and sev-
vral clergymen.—after which prayer was of-
fered by the Rev. Mr. Bogue. At the close
ofthe prayer, the drop fell, and the unfortun»
ate young man was launched into eternity.
He appeared to die almost without astrug-
gle. The body hung about 38 minutes,
when it was taken down and delivered to a
person who was in readiness to convey it to
the relatives ofthe deceased.
-—.,
Thus ended thelife of a man who was
the slave of ardent spirits.——Norwiclt Jour.
SIroclci7zg.—A man by the name ofJacob
Oyler, who resided in Allegany Township,
\Vestmorelaud county, was lodged in the
jail of this borough, on Friday night last,
charged with killing one, and seriously in-
juring another of his children. From what
we could learn it appears that Oyler return-
ed home on Tuesday evening last, in a state
of intoxication, and after whipping, drove
his wife from the house, threatning her life.
She fled to her father’s a short distance off.
In the morning, several persons wentto Oy-
ler’s'lreuse, where they found one of the
children lying in the snow at the door,blecd-
ing but still alive; and on entering the house
a more horrible spectacle presented itself.
The olhercbild was found on the floor dead,
near the bed where the unfccling father was
quietly rcposing, with its head shockingly
burnt and otherwise injured.
Awful Catastroplro.---Tlie Redactor of
Saturday contains an article from the Corr-
stitutional del Cauca, setting in the month
of July last, while Mass was being celebra-
ted in the Church of Sigchos, near Tacunga,
in the Republic Equador, South America,
on the day of the solemn festival del Corpus,
fire was communicated to the building by
mcansjofa rocket,and that in the rush ofthe
audience to the door, it became shut, and
the whole cogregation perished in the flames,
except the Curate who escaped through a
window! The number oflives lost was es-
timated at more than five hundred, besides
children.
A report of the death of President Jack-
son reat bed at FortressMonroe onWednes-
day of last week, when minute guns were
fired for several hours l At the last ac-
‘ counts from Washington the President had
recovered from his late illness.
The Columbia Telescope, a red hot nul-
lifieation paper---Professor Cooper’s Organ
---tlrus tauntingly and insultingly speaks of
the modification of the 'l‘arifl':---Fred.
“ This little State, in the mere panoply
of courage and high principles, has
foiled the swaggering giant of the Urrion---
Thirty thousand Carolinians have not only
AWED the wild ‘Vest into respect---cor.1PI5L—
LED Pennsylvania stolidity into something
like sense---New-York corruption into
something like decency---Yankee rapacity
into a sort of- image of honesty; but all
this has been loftily and steadily done, in
the face of 17,000---what shall we call
them’! VVlrat epithet is of a shame wide,
lasting and deep enough, for the betrayers
of their own country---the iustigators of
merciless slaughter---the contrivcrs of irre-
trievable servitude, against their own strug-
gling Statcl” _
Large Field of Ice.—-SlripLowell, at this
port, on the l0tlr inst. at{} A. M. lat. 44 15,
ion. 481-2, came in contract with a field of
ice, she was at that time stceringW'. N. IV.
with the wind. Tackcd and stood to the
eastward two hours, when she again tacked
to the westward, and again fell in with the
ice at 2, P. M. Continued heating to the
southward, and falling «in with the ice
on the west tack till the 13th. Passed
the southern extremity of the field in lat. 32.
lon. 49 15, having seen it extending to a N.
N. E. and S. S. VV. direction nearly 150
miles. [Boston Paper.
T/ic Srmfi' Taker and Sir G B-——
Some time since during the argument of a
heavy cause in tlreCourt 0fChancery,africnd
having in vain endeavored to draw the at-
tention of the witty Sir G , then Mr.
R. , from his brief, as a recourse presen-
ted him with a pinch ofsrruff. Sir G ,
however, on declining the offer, observed
with an air of solemnity, “Had the Creator
intended my nose fora dust hole, he would
have turnsd it upside down.”
T Ito right Answer.---“Sir,” said an im-
pertinent and inordinately conceited young
lordling in a quarrel with a gentleman who
had raised himself from the humble station
of a servant to the highest opulence and re-
spectability by honest and successful specu-
lation, “I would have you to know, that I
can remember when you cleaned my father’s
boots.” “ Did I not do them well?” was
the calm and magnanimous reply.
llIumjicencc'---The Salem Gazette of Fri-
day says :- -VVe understand that the late
Hon. Joshua Fisher, who died at Beverly
last week, has bequeathed 520,000 dollars to
the Harvard University, as a foundation of
a Professorship of Natural History,---also
about 7000 dollars to Rev. Mr. Thayer’s
Congregational Society,-~and has made
other liberal don ations.
Escpefimental Szticidc.---A boy named
Ziba ‘Wilbur, recently bring himself in his
father’s blacksmith’s shop, in Rayuham,
Mas. He was discovered and liberated, just
as his spirit was hovering on the confines of
of the eternal world. On being questioned
as to the reason of his hanging himself, he
replied, that he had heard so much of late
about pcople’s hanging themselves, that he
was anxious to know how it felt.
News was received at New York last
week, of the loss of the brig John VVelch,
on a voyage from Leghorn for that port.
She had on board a cargo consisting of
marble, rags, linens and silks, valued at
$150,000 dollars. In a dark and boister-
ous night she was driven on shore five
leagues to the westward of Malaga. The
cargo had most of it been saved, but the
brig and marble would be lost.
Another W/'rcclc.-The ship Marshal Ney
of Boston, Capt. Curtis, has been fallen
in with off Tortugus, abandoned. The
Marshal Ney cleared at New Orleans for
Havre, on the 28th Feb. with a cargo of
1017 bales Cotton. She was of 296' tons
burthen, built at I-Iollowell, Me. in the year
I831. There is considerable insurance on
the cargo, in \Vall-street, New-York, and
probably some in this city.-Boston_pa.
The Montreal Spectator mentions that
the wife of a Mr. 'I‘rotticr, aged 40, died
suddenly at St. Laurent a few days since,
being near her confinement. Dr. Moreau
was called twenty minutes after her death,
and effected upon her the Ctcsarian opera-
tion. The result was, three living infants,
two boys and a girl ; two of these died im-
mediately, the third lived four days by arti-
ficial respiration.
On the 3d inst. the Methodist Episcopal
Meeting House at Square Pond, 1n Elling-
ton, Conn. was consumed by fire. Divine
service had been performed in the house on
that day, as usual, at the close of which the
congregation retired, and about fouro’clock
it was discovered to be on fire. No doubt is
entertained that it originated from the
stove.
At the celebration in Groton on the 4th
inst. in honor of the Inaugration of Presi-
dent Jackson, we notice that the Hon. D.
VVebstcr was highly complimented in tlrr'ec
of the volunteer toasts, proposed by friends
of the administration.
The National Intelligenccr expressed its
belief that there is nothing in the Act of
Congress which gives any new aspect to the
Chorokee case, or touches it in any manner,
further than it may be incidenally afl"ected
by the general provision for cases in which
the ofiicers of State courts refuse to certify
records, &c. to the Supreme Court of the
U. States.
Letters from Vlfashington were received
in this city on Saturday last, announcing
that the President of the United States in-
tends to visit New England in June next,
and will probably pass the next anniversary
of independence in Boston.—Bastonpa.
Carxvrors, (Comm) March 23d. 1833.
The Powder Mill of Messrs. Hazzard, Loomis,
&. Co. (formerly Mills &. Lafliu,) ofthrs place,
W910 blown up yesterday at 5 o'clock, P. M.
with a tremendous explosion. Sixty kegs of
powder were in the barrels and glazing mill.—-
Mr. VVetherby. foreman, and son, aged 5 years
were instantly killed. Mr. Keep, workman,
died in about three hours.—Tho child was
blown fifteen to la from the building, and father’s
head was litterally torn to attoms. The cause
of the accident is not known, as the mills were
uot in operation, but repairing-
Anccdotc.—And how much sugar do you
calculate to give us for a pound, since the
duty has been reduced? Inquired a Ver-
monter of a store keeper. “ Wliy I guess,”
was the reply, “ that we shall have to let
you have a- dollars’ worth for about four
and sixpence.”——JV. B. Gazette.
A macl-:erel,tbree feet ten inches long,
and measuring eighteen and a half inches
round the. body, was recently caught in the
Severn river, Maryland.
The value of the glass annually produced
in Great Britain is estimated at £2,000,000,
and the workmen employed in the different
departments of the manufacture exceed
£50,000.
The London Times, of the first of Feb-
ruary, acknowledges the receipt of a com-
munication, which it characteriscs, ‘from
the first line to the last, asa piece of querul-
ous, old-wouianish, drowsy, pig-headed, e:-:-
quisitely stupid, and unspcakably contempt-
ible nonsense.’
It is stated that Hon. Henry L. Pincl~:ncy,
late Editor of the Charleston Mercury, is
to be put in nomination for Congress, in
opposition to Mr‘. Drayton.
Ih"r1ss(tc.7r2.'sct'ts.---Hon. Mr. Appleton, re-
presentative to Congress from Boston, and
Hon. Jeremialr Nelson, from Newburyport,
have declined being considered candidates
for re-election.
‘We learn by passengers from Baltimore,
says a Philadelphia paper of \Vcdnesday,
that the South Carolina Convention have
passed an ordinance,repealing all their acts,
touching Nullification, in consequence, as it
is stated, of the concessions made by the
Congress of the United States.
A law has been passed by the Ohio Le-
gislature, iuflicting a fine of 500 dollars and
imprisonment for gambling, and incapaci-
tating an offender on conviction, from hold-
ing ofiice, or exercising the right of suffrage
in the commonwealth.
Persons concerned in claims under the
new French Treaty, may do well to notice,
that until the tenth of June, and not after,
they may file their claims.
There are applications pending before
the Legislature of Pennsylvania for twenty-
three new bank charters, with an aggregate
capital of seven millions of dollars.
Clzolcraatlrlavana.-A gentleman who was
passenger in the ship Alabama, from New
Orleans, informs us, that he was shown a
letter from Mr. Shaler, American Consul at
Havana, previous to his departure, stating
that the Cholera was making dreadful rav-
ages at Havana, principally among the
slaves, carrying ofi"1'WO HUNDRED a
dayl
On Thursday last, a genctlman from
Mount Bethel, called at our ofricc, and paid
for his paper six months in advance l ‘We
now look daily forthc comet.— [East. Chro.
On Friday last, fifteenth instant, General
Jackson, President of the United States, on-
tc1'c:l upon the sixty-sixth year of his age.
Fire.---The shoe manufactory of Amasa
Wood at ‘Vest Milbury. Ct. with all its con-
tents, was destroyed by fire, on the morning
of the 17th inst. . The loss is estimated at
$5000. $500 on the building, was insured
at the \Vorcester Mutual Insurance Co.----
No insurance on the stock.
John Randolph, has left VVashington on
his return home.
E.rplosz'on..---A disfressin-','»; accident occur-
yesterday in the town of Richmond, in this
state. The facts as related to us by a re-
spectable citizcn of that town, are these:
A man named VVelcome Presser bad in his
house something more than a nalf a keg of
powder; it was left in an improper place,
it is suppbsed his child had access to, and
ignited it. The explosion killed the child,
and wounded very dangerously its mother,
tearing off the scalp from her head, and oth-
erwise injuring her. One half of the house
was nearly destroyed. Three barrels of flour
which were in the room with the powder,
were blown entirely away. The father
was absent from home. [Prov. J our.
Tlwl-Iu(lsonRz'vcr is now clear of Ice and
steam boats have already commenced run-
ning. The following is from the Albany
Daily advertiser of Saturday 23d.
The ice began to move in the river oppo-
site this city at about-half past cleveu'yester-
day morning, and in half an hour it was en-
tirely gone. At about 4 P. M. the ice above
Bath began to move downwards, and at 6
P. 1\I. was still in rapid motion.
New Orleans.---Santera Cestallano, who
was convicted ofthe murder of a freeman of
color, in September last, was yesterday exe-
cuted on the Cirus Square, near the Basin,
VVe understand that he confessed having
perpetrated seventeen murders,
Mr. Holt’s celebrated hotel in New-York, is
probably the largest establishment. this country
can produce. One of the most complete parts
is, Mr. Holt’s invention for cleaning boots; the
steam engine by which his spit his turned, pio-
pels a cylinder on which are set bristles in the
form of a round brush; there are three differ-
ent kinds, the short and stiff, the long and long-
est; the first is a dirt brush, the second contains
the blacking. and the third polishes; there is
no necessity for a man to take off his boot. hold
alternately against the brushes. and in less than
fifteen seconds, he has a polished boot.
His engine is applied to astill more useful pur-
pose than either of the above; be has a hatch-
way cut in each story, through which be is
enabled to raise what is termed a dumb waiter,
which is capable of containing a large quantity
or‘ baggage; and if it is desired by any of his
boarders who may chance to occupy one of
his seventh story rooms, he has not the trouble
of ascending to so great a height in the usual
way, but steps into this perpendicular railway,
and is safely landed midway between heaven
and earth.
Jllassacltusctls.-—Aftcr along and laborious ses-
sion the Legislature of this Commonwellh ad-
journed yesterday. In the forenoon, the Gov-
ernor returned with his veto, the militia bill to
the Senate. He considered it as unconstitution-
al and illegal and coming in eonflict with the ln ws
of the U. States upon the same subject. In the
opinion of his Excellency a well regulated mili-
tia is indispeusible to a free and well regulated
government.
“His excellency Wm. A. Palmer. Governor
Capt. General and Commander-in-Cheifin and
over the state of Vermont,” has appointed Wed-
nesday, tho 10th of April next, as a day of Fast.
Verily His excellency is most liberally endow-
ed with titles supernumerary.
.41 Thrilling Incz'cler.t.—Some time since, a few
men in Niagara. U. P. perceived a boat in the
river adrift.-They immediately took another
boat. and went after it. Both boats became
fastened in by ice, andwere carried into the
eddy, about half a mile from fort Niagara.- The
wind at this time was very high and the cold ex-
cessive; the waves running eight or ten feet
high, dashing and jambing the ice with great
force. In the morning it was perceived these
men must perish from the severity of the cold,
unless speedily released, for they had toiled until
their energies were entirely exhausted. At this
juncture a boat was despatched from Fort Niag-
ara, witlra number of soldiers to assist them.
In a short tirne, however, it was discovered that
this last boat was itself in a more iunnin:=n§,lv
dangerous COI](‘lll.lOl'l than the other; and the
crew of both must, even if the boats were not.
cruslrrd and sunk by the furious action of
ice, soon frerze to death. For two or three.
hours the painfully excited spectators were Vail‘.-
ly ('llLi(.’:'.1VUl'll”:g‘ to devise schemes for their deliv-
erance. It was determined to make one more
attempt to save tlrc:r..--—.-iccordingly some of
the oflicer.-1 curl s.oldicrs,and citizens, took boards.
and llOlWlillSl,l’.l'ltllllg the urzccrlaiu support of .he
dashing Ice, laid tlectn from cake to cake, and by
bavmg persons stationed along‘ the line. replaced
and llCltl the boards in their places. Two c:m-
plcto litres were thus laid, one to each boa‘, and
the almost frozen crews were lltcd out one by
one, and solely conducted to shore. Tlrc boat
from the fort was out three hours. Some of the
men were so frczerv, that they could ltave existed
but a li no longer. Some of the intreprrl men
who wenlto their rescue. fell in between the
ice cakes several times, so that their clothes be-
came like sheets of ice. All however were s-.=fr-
ly landed, much to the relief of the almost .ago
niziog spectators Vile understand that all the
men who were out. were more or less frozen,
It was after ten o’clock when the last man was
landcd.—-Rochester Daily fldvcrtiscr.
Discovery tl Jllurtlc-r.—--Tlre following sin-
gllilll‘ account is from the Taunton correspondent
of the S/tcrbornc Journal. In 1809, a portion
of the 18th regiment was stationed here ; a
drummer in this regiment had some money left
lnm, and sat down to cards with three other men,
inhabitants of the town, namely ;—Brooks, then
an it‘.-nkceper; ll/lorrck, a butcher; and VVay.
who is since dead. Instead of their pocketing
the drummer’s money, the drummer pocketed
theirs, and they departed late atnight, and some-
what flushed with liquor; and procuring s-sme
mutton chops, took them to the Black Boy lrrn,
then and now kept by Anthony Jerrard, where
the drummer followed them. All that was known
at the time was that the drummer was missed
on the following day, and three weeks afterwards
the body was found floating in the river at
Creccb, but so decomposed and bruised (it was
then supposed by passing through the locks, &.c.)
that the surgeon could not be positive that
nurrder had been committed, and a coroner-’sjur_v
returned a verdict of “ Found tlrowned.”--The
afiin'r- was forgotten, tllllll, on Friday evening
last, Jerrard, the landford of the ion to which
they had retired after their cards on the night in
qltGSll0Il, was much intoxicated, and related to
:1 large party, several particulars which had not
before been disclosed. He stated that, afte:
Brooks, Monck. and ‘Way, entered his house,
the drummer followed, and some violent words
passed between thtm, the unsuccessful party
comtnanding; him to leave the house, which he
did. He had not been gone many minutes be-
fore one of the party said, .“ Let’s go and make
him give up the money.” They went according
ly, and were absent about half an hour--We
have heard two accounts of the rest of the story ;
the first says, that on their return they observed,
‘-they had settled him,” or something to that ef-
fect : the other report relates. that they told Jer-
rard all the particulars of the murder, and that
they had thrown the body into the river. This
extraordinary story, thus related by Jerrold,
Brooks. and l\’lonck, were taken into custody,
and were privately examined on Monday.
Democrary ofthe Country ! l—Reader pry thee‘
can you understand what is meant by the De-
mocracy q/‘the Conntry,which is seen to grace
every paragraph in certain papers in this State P
D’ye give it up ?-then you shall‘ know—-But a
few years since, the Democracy of the Country,
was confined exclusively to that class who were
the true political desciples ofAndrew Ja.ck5on—
and the old here was its fountain head. More
recently. Martin Van Buren, yes Martin Van
Buren, that pattern ofConsistency, excellence.
political integrity, and moral worth, has become
asthe General became exhausted, a sort ofAl-
bany Basin, from which flowed, small butnumer,
ous streams, ofas pure Democracy of the Country
as could be expected for a second hand article-
and now it is given out at a certain reservoir" in
this city whence it flows all manner of filth, and
although, it is stale, turbid, and of a bad odour,
goggle it they must —for it has been demonstra-
ted that there ncver can be “:1 string and healthy
majority without it.” It is afluid, as necessary
to llre existence of the Democracy of the Cuun
try—-as the dews of heaven to springing grass in
the fields. Mercury-
A reward of five hundred dollars is offered for
any satisfactory information recpectrng. the fate
of Mr. James Co1ton.a young man ofununpeach-
ed character belonging to Northampton, Mass
who, while on a VlSllI to this cit.y in October,
l8'29, disappeared in a manner, which has left
the most painful apprehensions on the minds of
his friends. Jour Comm.
Gallal2'n,Tenn. ,March 8th—-l}holcra—We are
informed, by a gentleman direct from the neigh-
borhood, in whom implicit credit may be placed
that seven severe cases of the Cholera occurred
in the family of M. Tribew. in the northwest part
of this county, 12 or ‘J5 miles from this place.
three of which proved fatal within a very short
time. The eyes of one are said to have bursted.
Union.
A Duel.—A gentleman writes from N. Orleans
under the date of the 29th ult. that he bad Just
seen a, “ splendid young man,” one mile from
the city in his last agony. The ball of his antag-
onist had entered his forehead, and brains were
gushing out. A collection of people in carriages
witnessed the sacrifice to false honor. The afiazr
originated in a dispute at. the Theatre.
A very singular fact has been noticed in rela-
tion to the Cholera in England. This disease has
not visited a single place where Itllneml Waters
abound! Bath, Chltcnham, Holwells. Tunbridge,
Harrowgale, Mattack, Buxton and Leaminton,
have entirely escaped. This may be said of our
own country.
By a recent law of Ohio, the prison limits are
made coextensive with the country in which the
person is situated:
Fmznrnmcxsrzuno, Va. March. 26.
Gold.——ln the county of Spotsylvanlaa twelve
miles above this ion n, has been lately discovereila
on the land of _Mr. «——% Smlllls 9- Very “ch
vein of gold, running horizontally for about a
quurter of a mile. What course it may take af-
terwards, is not known. A shaft offifty feet has
not reached the bottom. About 50,000 bushels
of ore have been raised, ofwhich a. small portion
is said to yield $50 per bushel, and the least val-
uable rs estimated at $5.
This is incalculably beyond any thing hitherto
discovered in this part of the world ; and we
have little doubt of the accuracy of the informa-
tion, having derived it from a gentleman of cha-
racter and intelligence, who visited the mine last
week.——.£lrcna.
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VVe have been much pleased with the follow-
ing anecdote, which we present to our readers;
and as our maxim has ever been to render credit
where credit is due. we beg to inform all our
contemporaries that we are indebted for this an
ticle to the columns of the Barnslable Journat.
-Constellation.
ON Jorm\'o.—-An Englishman and an Ameri-
can were lately travelling together between two
of ourlarge cities. The former was a man of
honest disposition, well informed in many matters,
and possessing a very good opinion of himself.
The American was frank, conversablc, not easi-
ly offended, and very well (llSp0SC(l to be amused
with the other in all his humors.
The Englislrmau, although sufficiently liberal,
had not yet an acquaintance with the different
shades of clraracter. and the peculiarities which
tli.=.tingi.rislr our citizens ti-urn his own countrymen,
and very broatlly denounced our ‘common people’
as ‘irrsirlibralily insoleht.’ The American laugh-
c:l,an-'l told bun he tlrouglit they were particularly
civil. but that perhaps the m.u.-mcrs of the two ur-
tions lC‘\Vlil'ilS persons in drti'r:rent conditions of
life were not similar, and might lead to occasion.-
ul misrrnderslarrdirrg. But the Enrrlisllm-'rn dc-
clarcd that ‘you cmltl not be free with the corri-
urott people \‘.li.lr(‘.-tli being insulted, and if you
hold vonrselfalool from them, you were neglccv
cd.’ The Arneric.-in tulll him he should try ‘:1 na.
live.’ On arrivnrg at a tavern they decided to
prove the bostler, who was a plain looking man ;’
and after taking some rt=:freslnnent, the Ameri.
can, in n pleasarxt and easy toncof voice, said to
him. ‘Colonel, did you give the horses any wa.
tcr ?” ‘ No. l di-.lo’t C'ap(trin.’ ‘ Then l’ll thank
you to give them a little,’ said he. ‘ l’ll do that
directly,’ answered the ostler, cheerfully taking
up his bucket.
The Englislnnan bearing these titles used so
coolly by both parties. and having heard of the
appozntrncut ofstrange persons to office in the
United States, swallowed the joke which was
well understood between the others, although
perfect strangers-—and putting on a look amu-
singly combined ofawkwarducss,ridicule,and for-
mality, inquired of the hos-tler ‘ how many men
mustered in his regiment ;' when the ho:-tler,
looking at lnm with astonishment firmness, gruff-
ly replied, ‘ l’m no more a Colonel than you are.
sir ;’ but readily joined in the laugh, which con-
vulsed the Eogli.-‘lnnan’s companion--‘ When
you unbend with a poor fellow, do so thoroughly;
Jonathan likes a, but can't bear ridicule.’
The Senate ofNc\v York have unanimously
adopted :1 resolution for the reduction of the salt
duty to 6 cents per bushel.
FEBREIGN.
By an arrival at N. York. Liverpool pa-
pers have been received to the 24th ult. The
following we copy from the N. Y. Adv. and
Journal.
The King of Holland is said to have de-
sisted from his intention of laying a tax or
toll on cargoes of vessels trading on the
Seheldt, though there are no other manifes-
tations of his yielding in his demands.
Reform is opening many subjects of dis-.
cussion,which are likely to keep the public
mind of England for some time in a state
of excitement. Petitions against slavery
and tithes were pouring into the House of
Commons.
Dublin, Feb. 20.---Ever since the an-
nouncement of the contemplated coercive
measures this metropolis has been in a state
of unusual agitation. Yesterday a meeting
of the trade of tailors, to petition for a re-
peal of the Union, took place at the Arena.
It was intended as the prelude to petitions
from all other trades on this topic, but now
that cou_rse has been abandoned, in the un-
certainty that hangs over the future fate of
this kingdom. Yesterday also a meeting of
the volunteers also took place, but soon af-
terwards adjourned, the members declaring
that they could not trust themselves to speak
or act upon such an eventful crisis without
further deliberation. They met again to-
day. To morrow a great and general meet-
ing of the citizens is summoned to take into
consideration the impending measures, and
concert measures to avert the danger. The
members of the volunteers will be principal
actors, and it is understood that urgent re-
monstrances to Parliament will be adopted,
together with strong recommendations to the
various constituences throughout the coun-
try to react on their representatives, and
urge them to oppose the measures of Lord
Grey to the utmost. All yesterday and to-
day a visible increase in the demand for
Gold at the Bank of Ireland is evident, but
it amounts to nothing of consequence yet.
The majority of the citizens, as well as the
peasantry, want for O’Corrnell’s advice (or
indeed command) in cases of this nature,
before. they decide on taking such a step.
But if he says, “Go to the Bank for Gold,”
every one will run there from the very na-
tural apprehension that his voice will influ-
ence the majority, and that those who best-
tate may be too late.
TURKEY.
There are letters here from Alexandria of
the 10th of January. Up to that date the
Pachahad not received information of the
armistice agreed to by his son, and he was
busy in preparing a large naval expedition,
the object of which was, to take possession
of the city of Smyrna. A considerable
corps of‘ troops was to be taken on board,
and the Pacha felt quite confident that he
would become master of that rich apd im-
portant city without diflicttlty, provided 1
was defended by none but Turks. But be
entertained some fear that the English and’
French ships-of-war, which are always_on
that stotionmight interfere, with the view
of preventing any attack being made upon
the place. It was a similar fear wluch pre-
vented the Greeks in 1823, from attacking
Smyrna, as they had long had a strong
desire to do. The Pacha of Egypt himself
recommended, at that time, that the protec-
tion of the foreign naval squadrons on the
station should be requested, on the ground
that all the powers of Europe were interest-
ed in its being considered and treated by
the Greeks as a neutral place.
GERMANY.
The Berlin States Gazette announces
that the ice on the Rhine suddenly broke
up on the 4th inst. and the next morning.
the masses accumulated near Oberwessel,to
such a height, that the current of the l'lV8l'
was stopped, and the town overflowed to_
the depth of 27 feet, equalling the inunda-
tion of 1811. At seven in the evening,
when the account came away» tile fl°°_d W115
still increasing, and the inhabitants in the
preatest state of alarm. An immense num-
bar of domestic animals had perished.
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