Norwalk Gazette, Tuesday, September 17, 1833 · page 2

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the first communication between the two
passages was already closed ; at the second,
they all passed through before him except
two, who could not swim, and who begged
Isambard to leave them and save himself.
Isanibard compelled one of them, the father
of a family, to get on his shoulders, and he
reached the entrance with him. Then,
tearing himself away from those who en-
deavcred to retain him, he returned and
brought out the second. VVhen near the
emtrance of the tunnel, he was struck on
the head by a piece of timber which was
drifting on the water, but a hundred arms
were sireaclied out to save him, and he was
carried senseless to his father’s house, where
his wounds confined him for two months to
his bed.

All these dangers, are now lessons which
will probably ensure the completion of the
work without further accident. The great-
est difiiculties have been surmounted, for
more than half of the distance has been ex-
cavated nud that part of the river where its
bed appraches the nearest to the summit of
the tunnel, has been passed. It is to be
hoped, therefore, that an undertaking which
is the most extraordinary of the present age,
will not be allowed to remain unfinished.

 

To Mr. Dwight—N. Y. Daily Adv.
\Vashington, August 30, 1833.

My good old friend-Ever since we got

“the Government” back here from the Rip

' Raps, we have been as busy as if we was

all on us cocking hay jist afore a shower.

I tell’d you some time ago that I and the
Gineral was fitting and jointin the beams
and rafters of the message, but almost every
day some plagy new notion comes in from
Mr. Van Baron, and some other of our folks
and we have to chizzle new mortises, and
run new braces and string pieces, so that I
begin to think it will look curious enuf
whenitsdone. The Gineral says he dont
care how it fronts, ony he is determined to
show a sharp corner to the Nullifiers. We
shall have a good deal to say about the
Grand Tower; there is nothin since the
the 8th of January at New Orleans tickles
the Gineral half so much. Every time we
talk about it the Gineral gets right up, and
says he, “Major, I only wish I was fifty
years younger, and then,” says he, “give
me the Yankees east of Horse Neck, and
I'd like no better than to have nullifiers all
over the rest of creation.”

‘When things dont go right. and the Giu-
eral gets a little wratliy, if I ony tell him
the yankees are ready to back him, he is as
firm as granite. It would make you crawl
all over to read the letter we writ to France,
when we come to hear that the King there
-kinder shuffled round that bill we drawed
on him. "He wont pay it, wont he 1” says
he—“Major, what do you think of that 2”
“why,” says I, “Gineral, I think its a nasty
mean action—and a darnation rascally one
too, says I.” “\Vell,” “says he that's enuf,”
--and then we writ the letter-—-—its just like
Zekel Bigelow’s speech—it cuts, shaves,
and makes the hair fly—and if it dont bring
the money I’m mistaken.

If Mr. Livingston had stayed one week
longer in York, the Gineral was for sending
me right out, and Captain Jumper was
getten in the“TwoPollies” ready to takeme.

The most curious part of “The Govern-
ment” is to manage the oflice seekers.-
You see, things aiut new as they was afore
Mr. Van Buren’s time ; then it was kinder
divided round among the Departments.

The Post Master Gineral appinted all
the Post Masters, and their folks. The See-
retary of the Treasury, appinted the folkslin
the Custom Houses, and all the folks who
collected money. These two had an ever-
lastin batch of fellers to appint, and made
them feel pretty considerable big, and then
the War Secretary,§had a good slice in ap-
piting the cadets, and lngen Agents, and
the contracts was kinder sifted round a-
mong the departments ; and so by the time
a new President was to be made, some of

these Secretaries was a leetle bigger than
the President himself. Now this is the way
they kinder jockied Mr. Adams, who got
to be the smallest man at VVashington, by
lettin other folks plant his corn, and do his
huskin; and afor he know’d it his own field
was all in weeds-and theirs, well howed,
rich and clean as azwhistle.

But things aint sownow, we’ve got ony
one crib, and thats a wappin one too, and
and when we shell
out our corn, we take good care and
know well who gets it, and where he is
going to plant; and that aint all—we
make em agree about the Huskin Frolic)’
for that‘: the best on’t arter all.

The longerl am in “The Government,”
the more I larn. But I must allow,*~_that
of all the inventions I’ve heard on of Mr.
Van Buren’s, this is about the slickest.

There is ony one thing wantin, and

that he is tryin for pretty hard—and that
is the Bank. If he can ony git that in
“"3 "lb W0: Virginny fences wouldn't
.stop our cattle.
_ Ony think what an everlasting. raft of
‘fellows we should liave—all the Presi-
dents, and Cashiers, and Clerks, and
Many Counters, about the crib, from
Downingville to New Orleaiis!—-and that
oint the best on’t: we would have a
branch alongside every Post Ollice to
ikeep -our postsges safe.

.1 should like this well enuf if I was
sartia I and the Gineral and Mr. Van
Buren was to be here all the while, to
«keep a good look out -on the crib door.
But the Gineral talks of goin hum to put
..the Hermitage to rights, and I am in
the notion that Congress is a leetle too
strong for “the government,” when the

Gineral aim in it—-and I shall go with
him, I am «my most fag’d out myself;
and I begin to think with the Gineral
I have done enuf for the country.

“We are lookin for Amos Kindle now
4e.vry hour. He writ the Ginernl t’other
.day_, and tell’d him my “ Bank Re-
port” warii".t true, and that I must have
got ii loan of Squire Biddle. Now that
jist the way with some folks. \Vhat they
don’t know =th_v guess at.; and it’s jist so
with old Miss Crane, who keeps the tav-
ern :this side of .Ii)owningville—jist as
pure as any one goes by without stopin,
the old crilure says “there goes so and so,

,.-.. .

and has got no money too; and he knows
I wouldn't trust him.”

Howsumever. no one can make the
Gineral wratliy with me. He knows I
am the best friend about; whenever they
get things in any kind of atwist or snarl
says he, “Major do you unravel that.-
I’m the big wheel, and you are the
smasher,” says he; and (then we jist
give Peleg Bilssel’s churn a turn or two
and all is ri it.

You doifltgprint my letters right——you
git some of the words wrong, and spell
cm most infariially. Jist so the printers
sarved the Giiieral’s letters too; and the
folks thought he didn’t know nothin, till
we got to Cambridge where they made
a doctor on him.J. DOVVNING, Major,

Dowuingvillc Militia, 2d Brigade.

"The Major we presume, means the Elections or

Hastings, by this metaphor.

 

ICissing.-—It was among the small talk
of the day, says the Salem Gazette, that,
when President Jackson was about to depart
from Lowell, a lady asked the privilege of
a kiss, which having been granted, the gal-
leiit old gentleman said, “Now, my dear,
I must return the compliment,” and did
accordingly.

If we are not misinformed, another little
kissing accident occurred at Lowell during
the Presideut’s visit to that place, which
has not been alluded to in the papers. A-
mong other gentlemen who called to pay
their respects to the Chief Magistrate was
one who had for many years held a lucra-
tive governmental ofiice at Lowell, but who
was recently reformed, pro bono publico.——-
As this individual approached the President
the latter extended his hand, as he had done
to others; but the reformed ofiicer sudden-
ly threw his arms round the neck of the
President, and embracing him in the true
French style impressed on his cheek one of
the most delightful and soul-stirring kisses
that was ever imparted to human flesh by
lips of sixty years standing! This was
done in the presence of a crowd of people,
who it willbe readily supposed, were dis-
gusted at the conduct of the reformed offi-
cer, who is wealthy, and we believe has a
family. Among others who witnessed the
scene was Mr Van Buren : he, with a del-
icacy peculiar to himself, immediately‘ put
the following question to the gentleman
with whom he was conversing :-—“W/rat
old beast is that l” Excellent. It was af-
ter this that the president received an affec-
tionate kiss from a celebrated widow of L0-
well, whom he complimented, in a sportive
and classical manner, by remarking that
it was of the genuine Etonian stamp.-
Tliere are som other amusing anecdotes
extant at Lowell, in relation to the Presi-
deut’s visit, which it would be well to “put
in the newspapers.”—-Boston Courier.

 

Quantity of Slr:cp.—In one of the North-
ern papers, there is a sensible article on the
qiintity of sleep, in twenty four hours, neces-
sary or proper for a rational being. The
writer says—-

“We shall find that early rising is one of
the indispensable requisite to longevity.—-
VVe shall find, too, of almost all countries
have been healthy, useful and happy, to a
prolonged old age, on six hours sleep in
twenty four, and even less. I do not con-
sider the miniznwn or smallest amount which
is compatible with human health and hap-
piness as yet fixed ; but no person who will
bring his habits to a healthy standard re-
quires more. I speak of adults, of course ;
for infancy and childhood obviously require
more sleep than maturity.

“ It has somtimes been said that if we re-
tire to rest at an early hour, and make it
our daily practice to rise when we first
wake, that is at the end of the first nap, and
never allow ourselves to take the second
nap, we shall in time to come sleep more
soundly than before ; and not only so, the
length of this nap, whether it be four, five
or six hours, will be the measure of sleep
which we need. This is a very good gen-
eral rule ; perhaps there is no better. Ev-
ery one must have observed that he feels
better after rising at the end ofthe first nap,
than if he yield to the second. But it will
take time to return from an artificial state
ofconstitution to a natural one ; though the
process is a plain and safe one, as I have
already shown by the facts which are pre-
sented above.

“\Ve should also remember, that the a-
mount of rest procured by sleep is not in a
direct ratio to the time we expend,‘ but to
the soundness of the sleep. Consequently,
five hours of truly sound sleep may
answer the wants of the pyisical frame, as
well as six or eight of that which is of a
country character.”

 

Diamond cut I)iamond.—Sevcral years
since, there lived in a neighboring city, two
gentlemen of the tribes of lsrael. \Vallack
was a dealer in military goods, and Benja-
min a traflicer in lace. The latter had
been chosen a military ofiicer, and proceed-
ed to the store of the former, to purchase
equipments for his person, according to
law in such case made and provided. On
payment of his bill, VVal|ack took out his
pocket book to return change. As it lay
open on the desk, Benjamin preceived that
it contained a lottery ticket, the number
thereon inscribed he did not fail carefully
to notice. On his return, he stepped into a
lottery oflice, and to his surprise learnt that
those numbers had just come up a prize of
$ I0’000. Before the close ofthe same day,
he visited the armory a second time, for the
purchase of the articles which he had pre-
viously forgotten. Payment was again
tendered, the. pocket book again opened,
and the prize a second time exhibited to
view. “ Ah! Monsieur Vallack, vot you
got there-—von ticket in the lottery ? 1 meat
to buy one, but forgot. I shall be happy
to take yours and ‘give dc price.” “ No,
no, Mons. Benjamin, I cannot tell how
much he draw." “ How much it cost?”
“ Ten dollar." “I give fifteen.” “ No.”
“ I give you tweiity—I have set my heart
on buying von ticket in this lottery, but I
forget." “ No that would be to much sacri-
lice; may be it draw more money, and I
should look like fool " “I give fifty." “ No
——I will sell dis ticket for von hundred dol-

lar bi-ll_,'Boston.bauk. I will not take (1 cent

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J.» «at..-

less.” “ Oh, (with a deep sigh,) I am too
sorry I did not buy one ticket in dis lottery.
But I must have it.” Benjamin with great
reluctance draw the one hundered dollar
note from his wallet, and received the tick-
at in exchange. \Vhen it was fairly pock-
eted, Benjamin clapped the other on his
shoulder, and with it sly wink, said, “ Ah,
hah, Mons. Vallack, I have got you new,
dish ticket isjust draw ten thousand doll-
air!” \Vallack returned the slap, and re-
plied, “ Not quite, Mons. Benjamin—look
at de clash, my dear !’’—The ticket was a
BLANK of the preceding class of the same
lottery.-—N. Y. Gaz.

Singular Stratagcnz.—Wliilc the allied
army was engaged before Savannah, Col.
John \Vhite, of the Georgia line, conceiv-
ed and executed an extrnordidary enter-
prize. Capt. French, with a small party of
the British regulars, was stationed on the
Ogeedliee river,about twenty five miles from
Savannah. At the same place lay five
British vessels, of which four were armed,
the largest mounting to 14 guns. VVhite
having with him only Capt. Etholm and
three soldiers, kindled many fires, the illu-
mination of which was discernable at the
British station exhibiting by the manner of
ranging them, to the plan of a camp.-
To this stratagem he added another;
he and four comrads imitating the manner
of the staff, rode in haste in various
directions giving orders in a very loud
voice. French became dissatisfied that
a large body of the enemy were upon him
and on being sommoned by VVhite, be sur-
rendered, (lst of October) his detachment,
the crews of the five vessels, and one hun-
dred aiid thirty stand of arms. Col. \Vhite
having succeeded, pretended that he must
keep back his troops, lest the animosity, al-
ready stifled with his great exertions would
break out, and indiscriminate slaughter take
place in defiance of his authority ; and that
therefore he would commit his prisoners to
three guides who would conduct them safe-
ly to good quarters. This humane atten-
tion on the part of VVhite was thankfully
received. He immediately ordered three of
his attendants to proceed with the prisoners
who moved off with celerity, anxious to get
away, lest the fury of VVhite’s corps, believ-
ed to be near at hand, might break out,
much disposed as he himselfw.-is to retain it.

VVhite with the soldier retained by him,
repaired as he announced to his guides and
prisoners, to his tro_ops, for the purpose of
preceding in their rear.

He now employed himself in collecting
the neighboring militia, with whom he
overtook his guides, with those under their
charge safe and happay in the good treat-
ment experienced.

The extraordinary address of VVhite was
contrasted with the extraordinary folly of
French; and both were necessary to pro-
duce the wonderful issue. The affair ap-
proaches too near the marvelous to have
been admitted into these memories, had it
not been uniformily asserted, and uniformly
accredited and never contradicted.—Lcc’s
fllemoirs.

Love and 1lIurder.—Anot/zcr Cloug/i af-
fair.—A most atrocious attempt at assassin-
ation was inade in this city last evening.—-
A young German Lady about three weeks
in this countiy, and residing with her friends
in Howard st. was walking in company
with several persons in Fleet st.near the in-
tersection of Happy alley, last evening be-
tween five and six o’clock, when she was
accosted by ayoung man, (one of her coun-
trymen,) after walking a few steps by her
side, demanded of her whether she would
marry him. She answered No ! The
young man retreated astep or two, pulled
a pistol from his pocket, and shot the iinfor-
tuiiate object ofhis affection in the back.
He was promptly seized and committed to
prison, and the wounded body taken to the
house of Dr. Allen in Ann st. The wound
appeared to have been made with duck shot,
the whole charge entered the left shoulder
about equidistant from the vertebrae and the
arm, to which direction may be imputed the
escape of the victim from immediate death,
as the muzzle ofthe pistol was not more
than two inches from the body. The re-
port of the pistol indicated that it was heav-
ily charged, as the assassin unquestionably
intended to do his business effectually.-—
The writer ofthis saw the wounded lady
last evening, and again this morning, and
with much pleasure expresses a belief that
the wound is not dangerous, and that the
unfortunate young lady will escape the
fate which the malignity of her pretended
lover had preineditated.—Baltimora Gaz.

A solemn warning to the enemies of Tom-
pcrancc.—Atthe Circuit court and Court
ofOyer and Terminer for Otsego county,
(says the Cooperstown Republican,) which
adjourned onFriday last, three persons were
sentenced to the State Prison, and two
were sentenced to hard labor forsix months
in the County Jail. Ofthose guilty of fel-
onies, Lorenzo Mills and Huldah Lee, his
sister, were convicted of the crime of
incest, and the first sentenced for ten years
and the lattler five years. These persons
were also indicted for arson, in firing a barn
of Mr. Patrick, of Butternuts, by which the
barn, 200 feet of sheds and 40 tons of hay
were consumed. On this indictment the
brother was found guilty and sentenced
to seven years imprisonment and the sis-
ter acquitted. James Mac Donald, Jr.
was convicted of bulgary, in breaking
open mid entering a distillery to obtain
whiskey, and sentenced to imprisonment
for four years. Ira Newkirk and Joseph
l-Iarper were convicted of petty larcenies.

\Vhen the prisoners were brought into
court to receive their sentence, they presen-
ted a scene we would that every inteinper-
ate man and drunkurd could have witness-
ed; and had it not reformed them, then
would reformation be hopeless. Being as-
ked wliat they had to say why sentence.
should not be pronounced, each responded
[was intozzicatctl. The cause of all this
crime, misery and degration was declared
to be intcnipcrance, and that solely.

The Mechanics Bank in Augusta, Ga.
was entered on the night of the 28th ultimo,
by picking the lock of the Teller’s vault,
and .robbed offive thousand four hundrctl
.t~.went__v eiglit dollars.

_ .

FOREIGN.

From the Boston Daily Advertiser.

One day later from L0nd0n.—By the
British packet Lady Ogal, from Halifax, a
Falnioutli paper of the 10th ofAugust has
been received, containing London dates to
the evening of the 8th. The following are
the only articles of interest which we find
in this paper.

Landon, Tlmrsdagy evening, Aug 8, half
past 7 o‘cloclc.—According to some of the
Paris Journals, the Portuguese exiles have
already received notice, that their allowance
will cease on the lts of September, their
power of returning to their own country by
that date being taken for granted. It is al-
so asserted that the ex-Empress and young
Queen will give up ther hotel in Paris in all
S.°.'ptembei', which proves that great confi-
dence exists in the entire defeat of Miguel,
in quarters likely to be bestinformed.

The Sun of this evening states that the
British and French Cabinets have formally
signified to the representatives of Don Pe-
droin this country, their wish for the ex
Emperor to withdraw all pretensions to the
Regency, in favor of one of the aunts of
Donna Maria, and that instructions have
been sent to Lisbon to a distinguished per-
sonnge to press such an arrangement, mid to
secure for it the approbation of the Duke
of Palmella.

Don Pedro and suite arrived at Lisbon
from Oporto, in the steamer \/Villiam the
Fourth, on Sunday, 28th July, at noon.
He was received with great enthusiasm
\Vlien Admiral Napier went on board the
steamer to pay his respects, the Ex Empe-
ror assisted him up the vessel's side and em-
braced him. They had not met before
since the battle of St. Vincent. The city
rung with shouts of Vival Donna Maria!
Vivnl Don Pedro! Lisbon wore an anima-
ted appearance, and the change of govern-
ment was generally hailed as a blessing.
Don Migual was supposed to be with the
army in the north, and active measures
were in train to expel him from the coun-
try. Lisbon had been illuminated every
night since it was taken possesion of by the
Duke of Terceira.

In the House of Commons last night, the
Slavery abolition bill was read a third time
and passed.

Parliament is expected to get through bu-
siness about the 26th.

SUMIVIA RY.

On the 2d inst. the new and splendid
steamboat George VVashington entered the
port ofBuff-alo on lake Erie. She was built
ta Huron, Ohio, under the direction of her
commander, Captain A. Walkei', and own-
edby the Huron Steamboat Company. She
is 1S6 feet in length an measures over 600
tons. She has two low pressure horizontal
engines of 100 horse power each, and is
ship rigged, with tops and standing top gal-
lant yards. Cost $75,000. In her steer-
age or forward cabin are 40 births well
furnished, a bar steward and table, and
three difiierent prices of passage are named
-—cabin, steerage and deck. VVhole num-
ber of births 166.

Healt/i of New 0rleans.—Tlie New Or-
leans Argus of the ‘£9 ult. sa_vs.—“The
sickness continues unabated, or perhaps
rather on the increase. On Tuesday and
yesterday, we heard of many new cases.
In our own office, three workmen have
been taken. The weather continues
much the_ same. Cool mornings and
nights, and warm during the middle of
the day: On \Vednesday night we had
another pretty heavy rain and yesterday
continued showery throughout the day.—
wind is principally from the north, veering
occasionly, however, to the east.”

Snow in August.—We are informed, says

the Licthfield, Enquirer, by a gentle-
man from Salisbury, that the ground was
literally whitened by the snow which fell
on Thursday afternoon last, on Mount Ri-
go and its neighborhood, in that town.-—
Snow was observed in some parts of Go-
shen andVVinchester during the same after-
noon. In this town, the wind about two
o’clock wheeled suddenly round to the
northwest, and the weather for a few hours
became very cold. There were frosts on
the low lands two or three nigths last week
——in some places sufficient to injury the
corn.
Extensive Forgcric s.—A check for $4860
on the Commercial Bank, purporting to be
drawn by James Musgrave, broker, was pre-
sented at the bank yesterday, and paid by
the cashier in the absence ofthe paying tel-
ler. Two other checks on the Philadel-
phia and Farmer’s and Mechanic’s Bank,
amounting to $9000, purporting to be drawn
by Mr. Parke, brokerin Front street, were
also presented, by the same individual it is
believed, and paid. After the bank closed
it was discovered that all three checks were
forgeries, exceedingly well executed. Ef-
forts for the detection ofthe forger were im-
mediately made, and it is probable the villian
will not long remain undiscovered.—PI:.z'l.
Gaz.

\Ve understand, says the Opelousas Ga-
zette, the Jail in the Parish of Lafayette
was burnt down last Monday night. It is
supposed to have been set on fire by a ne-
gro named Alexander, who was in confine-
ment and sentenced to be hung to-day for
stabbing a white man. The negro perished
in the flames. He was a desperate fellow,
and had recently committed many deprada-
tions in Lafayette and this Parish, having
runaway from his master.

VVe have been informed that a Negro
High School has actually been established
in this city within a few weeks—kept by a
Miss Fowler, of Gnilford-—price Five Dol-
lars per quartcr—Mrs. Tappan and a young
lady Commissioners. \Ve suppose the rea-
son why the existence of this institution,
was known sooner abroad than here, was
that agents were looking abroad for subjects.
We do not think, however, that this School
will amount to any thing worthy of news-
pnperdiscussion.—N. II. Register‘.

Robbery and Burm°ng.—-\Vc learn by a

gentlcinun from Lowell, that the store of

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they lesson the revenue, and depreciate the pro-’
perly of the government. Does the public good,-
and do their oaths require this, or do they re-'
quire a contrary course of conduct ?

M,-_ G, \V, Whipple, dealer in silk goods,
Men-'unack-grreet Lowell, was felonionsly
entered on Monday night, and robbed of
silk goods to the amount of $6,000 or $7,-
000, and after-wards set on fire. Between
12 and 2 o’clock in the morning, a waggon
was observed standing in front of the store,
and it is supposed that the good was carried
ofi'in the wagon. It happens, as we learn,
that the shelves on which the richest por-
tion of silk goods had been placed, were
not burnt, but the goods were gone, evin-
ciiig that the goods had been abstracted be-
fore the fire was communicated to the buil-
ding. It is stated that Mr. \Vhipple was ab-
sent from Lowell at the time, and the store
was closed as usual on the previous night.
—Bosto-n Centinel.

George IV. W’/ripple, of Lowell, whose
store, on which was an insurance of $7000,
was burnt on Tuesday night, coinmitted.su-
icidc on Tuesday morning, by drowning.
Strong suspicions had existed that be him-
self was the incendiary, and rumors to that
effect bad no doubt reached his ears.—N.
Y. Jour. Com.

Lowell T/icat‘rc.—Duriug the past sea-
son, a building has been erected at Lowell,
intended for a Theatre, but, on application
to the Selectmen fofa licence, they very
properly refused to grant one. The pro-
prietor, notwithstanding this refusnl, deter-
mined to open the Theatre without a li-
cence, in violation of the law. After it had
been two ofthree nights in operation, sev-
eral of the actors were arrested and brought
before the magistrate, for pursuing a call-
ing not sanctioned by the law. One of
them was held in bail for his appearance
at Court, upon which a compromise was
made, the theatre folks agreeing to close
the concern, and the prosecutor to abandon
the further prosecution of his complaint
against them. In consequence thereof, the
other defendants were discharged, and
probably no one will appear to prosecute
the one who was bound over for his appear-
ance at Court.—llIass. Spy.

From the Philadelphia Intclligencer.

Hurlick, the Militia collector, is mobbed
almost eve.ry day of his life. The day be-
fore yesterday he was surrounded by sever-
al hundred boys, shouting, pushing, and
polting him, until he was forced to take
refuge in a tavern in Fourth street. The
crowd without, having time to deliberate
upon further opertations, determined upon
storming his place of refuge. They there-
fore provided themselves with eggs and
other missiles; and having stationed them-
selves in such a way as to give him a gener-
eral salute, a number entered the house to
force the poor collecter into the street.—
First, however, they pushed him partially
out ofthe window, while one individual on
the outside discharged a bucket of water
upon his hapless head. He was then for-
ced into the street, and greeted with a gen-
eral discharge of rotten eggs. Almost
blinded and sufiocated, be rushed forward
and broke through the crowd. They still,
however, pursued him, and he only escaped
by leaping several fences and hiding lum-
selfin some private yard. The respecta-
ble and orderly part of the community are
heartily tired ofthcse lawless and riotous
scenes.

NORWALK GAZETTE.

TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 17} 1833.

UNITED STATES B.iNx.—As the time draws
near for the meeting ofCongress, and the election
returns come in, the controversy respecting this
institution occupies .1 greater share of the utteri-
tion of the government and of the press. VVhat-
ever the result may be,it will not,we presume, be
denied, that the institution has been subjected to
a scrutiny as severe as interest, /Lostility er preju-
dice could wisb. Charges and iusinuations have
been sent to Congress in the annual messages 01
the President, and these, and such others as could
be found,have been re-echoed by the press—com-
miltees from Congress have visited it, examined
its transactions, its books, directors,and officers-
confidential agents of the government have trav-
ersed the country, examined the state of its
branches, and hunted up every fault which could
be found. And what has been the result? Every
material charge has been refuted—every insin-
uation shown to be false. The committees of
Congress have either reported in favor of it, or
so weakly against, as to surprise even its
friends, that in the management of so large and
complicated an institution, so little should be
found, in an interested and prejudiced examina-
tion, which hostility could us3,0r prejudice cavil
at. The confidential agent of the government
too, who was sent for the purpose of proving its
mismanagement and unsouolness, was obliged
to report it sound and faithfully managed, and
the Secretary of the Treasury was under the ne-
cessity of recommending its recharter, while his
master was repeating his insinuntions, and re-
commending a withdrawal of the deposits and
its destruction. And now, although no material
charge lies unrefuted against it. 80¢] llv is P"°Ved
not only solvent, but in possession of more than
half of the specie of the country—altbougb its
enemies, even, acknowledge that some such :'-nsti-
lulion is necessary to keep up a sound and uni-
form currency, as a safe place for the deposit of
the government funds, and for the convenience
of collecting and disbursing the revenue, and for
other minor but important purposes--anzl nl-
though the government are one-fifth owners of
the institution, the hostility is unabated, and
Amos Kendall has been sent on to New York to
make arrangements to remove the deposits» Nd
thus fix upon it, as far as an act. of government
can now do, suspicion and injury- F0!‘ W505-8
good? Does the public good require it? It
would seem that when the solvency of the insti-
tution was established, whatever their opinion
of the propriety of recbartering it might be, the
oflicers ofthe government could not be influenced
by the “public good” to injure it ;§but. that on
the other hand, as the nation owns one fifth, or
7,000,000 of the stock, the “public good” re-
quires them to protect it. If they injure the

standing of the Bank, and leuon the dipidends,

crusade undertaken ?

jaw bone.

wrj

 

For whose benefit then, we ask again, is this
'I‘o gratify the personal
hostility of the President ? If this can be made to‘

appear, it will prove the President a despot ; for
such is the character of any officer who performs‘
oflicial acts of so rnucb importance as his acts res-‘

pecting the U. S. Bank, from personal motives-'
his will is the law. The truth is, that neither
the interests of the nation, nor the prejudices of
the President, have had much to do with this bu-
siness, but that it is to be attributed to an exten-
sive and corrupt scheme for political and stock
jabbing speculation. No class of men are more’
thoroughly convinced of the necessity of a U.

S. Bank, than the enemies of the existing one,

and it is because they have :1 plan for the organ-'

ization of a new one, which shall be to them a
fountain both of wealth and political power, that
it has been so perseveringly assailed. The steel:
jobbing of last winter, when the contents of the
message were conveyed to Wall-st., a week pre-
vious to its being delivered to Congress, and of
this summer, to aid which the deposites are to
be removed, corrupt us they are, are but a small
part of the grand scheme, whose principal ob-
ject is to get a new mammoth Bank, upon their
terms, and into their own hands, and then control
the political and monied interests of the country.

Sco'r'r AND REYNOL])S.—-“N0ll]lng ofthe dead
unless good,” is a precept we are disposed to obey,
and we allude to these unhappy men who have
snfi'er'ed ajust peuafty and gone to render an ac-'
count to the Author of all law, for the purpose
of mentioning a fact which we assumed to be true,
in some remarks made in the last number but one.-
The fact referred to is the confession of Scott
that he struck the blow which fractured the skull
and caused the death of Hoskins, another warn—‘
ing that protestations ofinnocence are no proof,
and that the philanthropy which would step be-’
tween tlicjcriminal and punishment,is at best mis-

guided.

We introduce an account of the effect of
hanging on each, which will be highly interesting
to all who may have anything to do with invcsti-
gations which involve the principles of medical
jurisprudence.

IIARTFOD, Sept. 6, 1833.
Mussas. GO0DWlNS,—-

lprofess to feel, as many others do, a‘
deep interest in the phenomena of death as
they occur in those who pass instantane-
ously from a state of entire health to the
world unknown. Having watched these
phenomena intlie case of Czcsarand Teller,-
this morning, in company with several of
my medical brethren, I beg the privilege of
laying a very brief statement of the result
before your readers. And I feel impelled
to this measure, not only to gratify the eu-
riosity of the thousands who have deprived
themselves ofthe opportunity by their own‘
excellent law enforcing private executions,
but to hold up for imitation the liberality of
our Sheriffin admitting the men of my pro-‘
fession to witness the spectacle; believing
most fully that this admission was fouiided
on that gentleman’s knowing that medical
men are. frequently brought into great per-_
plexity in deciding the guilt or innocence of
their fellow men.

IfI mistake not, the case of Sarah M.:
Cornell involved a very close investigation‘
of the effects of strangulation by a cord a-
bout the neck. Should this statement meet
the eye of either the witnesses or any of the
parties concerned in that trial, it can hardly
fail to secure their anxious co'iisider.itiou of
the interesting events ofthis morning;

~ At precisely a quarter paste9 A. M. Sher-'_
iff Hoadly touched the spring ofthe scaffold
on which the two criminals stood, and a fall
of full six feet deeply imbedded the ropes
in their necks. As our deputy sheriffs are
happily exempted from experience in adjus-
ting. a noose to the necks of criminals, there
not having been a capital punishm-en-t" in this
large county, containing, too,- within its bo-
som, all the convicts of the State, within
the period of 35 years, it happened that
'I‘eller’s noose, instead of being in its‘ pro‘-
per place, just over the ear, was carried for-
ward one or two inches towards the chin,‘
while Ca3sar’s knot was exactly in it proper
place. Through this circumstance, the
projecting ridge of bone formed by
the lower edgeof Teller’s undder jaw pre-
vented any powerful pressure on the great
artery that lies deep in the neck exactly un-
der, or in the central direction from, the
above described point of pressure on the

This allowed the carotid artery, which
carries to the head near half the blood it re-
ceives from the heart, to transmit at every
pulsation a quantity of this fluid to the
brain, while the veins, being more superfi-
cial, more minutely divided and more feeble
in action did not probably return from the
head to the heart a single tea-spoonfull of
blood. The necessary effect of these cir-
cumstances every one of your readers can
anticipate. Teller’s whole face _and_ neck.
above the rope became very tumldé In 01‘-_e
minute it was wholly purple and very stri-
kingly so, and blood was seen oozing from
his nose, and although his skin was black
it was evident to all the physicians Whom I
heard allude to the fact, that its hue. was
precisely the same on his face and upon lns
bosom. In this case, the knot was so ad-.

justed over the ear that there was no bony

projection to defend either of the great arte-.
ries, therefore, above the rope were both.
paralyzed atthe same moment, and Caesar s
features remained unaltered.

To all the medical men present, those two.

very different results were exceedingly in-
teresting, and should be known. and remem-
bered by all those who are liable to meet
before a jury the perplexities of Medical Ju,-.

risprudencc.
Excepting the circumstances already des-

cribed, the phenomena of dying were very
similar in both. Teller had rather more
contortions of the limbs; but they were not
violent in either, and ceased‘ within 3 inm-
utes. There was, indeed, scarcely any
movement of the limbs after two minutes-
The instinctive efforts at respltfa!101h, 9“

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