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payable quarterly in atlV=Jt1C€- All °‘,_l‘°','3“,n‘s::_'
tisernentsat the rate of $1 per square or ._ _
fie“. and 25.cems .,.(.,r each, subsequent inse_rtion.
[All casual iatlvertisernentsj sent lqtliti Of-
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- ‘ 5.‘ OF Alzlf-’.lxl":\"l?S-'_ 0PFu_E_
NE7A'l‘l.Y t;x»EcU'i‘i-.t);A-1-IHID. . -
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- Pror(ia’rJ~ii'IoN I.V.s‘UR‘.4NUE '00MP'«4NY~
’ it I I AM .t. s l'.l{l-JET. of Notivalk. -so-H 0‘
I « A the l’i'otr,ction lusuraiuce -G0t",'P‘"’yt-l" Hal.’
[for-d,Connr-ctir-.ut,'offersto In.-‘ore Houses. §Ioi'cl:.
Mills, Factories, Barns, and the contents o eat. ,
together with every otlit*I“s|t|“l3l' 9Pe‘3"_” ‘lfl"°p°r,
ty, Against Loss or Damage by Farm 'll‘°: '."“'l"| -°,
prc-iiiittm offered. 3'e'"”°“' M’ "'0" °f ""y. °,’e’
uiiiiiliii-lnstittttion, iunl every man has‘ now an on-
,m,.,,,,,-,,.,., for a grilling slltll, to protect lllmlel
ngainiit tliix Il9sll'||Cll\" , ,
single hour, _sw'e9t‘‘\\V'd_V “"3 “i“'“"‘8“ °l mun.‘
yr-itrii. '
The couri~‘e |fl
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e otfir-cjiuiwtie in transacting llloit
bit.-incuiaittl_iii tltenil_justiiigaiitl P':‘_)"'_“3"'“°' l""",’,‘:
‘ll lirompt and lmcral. l or terms at ttt~t:‘rIXt:.P. :|P‘l',m
,,,,,~,,,,, may 1“. madgtn the-_a|iove tinnie ,,on., -
uantliorized toixsue P0l|C'°"° “l’l"'C““,“ ""’"_""
Niurwalk. Jan 4. I837. 4’ 8
l ‘V UEN’S UNlVl'JRSA‘LS'l‘R.ENGTHEN-
L ING l‘LASTl§R, Leis-hratcd for curing
pains in the breast, sidc,dlli_ack, or hmlbs. t,'A;.t‘3)v.;
for trout, rheumatism an , tvcr comp ain ‘ o ,
,,,,;e°;,y J. A. WELD.
BY -A NE\V-YORK OFFICE.-
(r'EOIt’GE_ S?1".Ai0§f;(\)l0 .g0(gE..Vfl'. CAPI-
’ ’A'l‘ES of Premium very re:isonable-—lossoa.
: promptly and liberally.-adjusted and paid.
'I"or it stnall yearly_s‘.iiii, save y()l:lfli'B8lVC8d roqli
being suddenly, by the ravages of _ re, reruce
to petiury and want, frorii cll'Cllfl't'Stn}l(c)€ESI& ease
and affluence. GEORGE S1‘. ,
Awent of the Howard giisprancc Company, 51
ll t. t New- or .
“uoiiéiiiti, iiiiéust 7. 1837- j , 22
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Jo.-trtforo ’liI.‘.'i"tlt’c1lIl7_t' _Q:nittii:tit_n
.HAIl‘i‘l-‘ORD, co:s'.Bi:c"ricv'r.NT - '
BE‘l.lA.Vl".'.‘l 1.‘-\A S. AGE .
ncorpqiratird in lt310, Witllwb '.‘-mitul ‘grigiggbooo,
an |)o\\‘L'|' l.0IlICI'.Ch!‘) 68.8‘:-.olo ‘. , .
' ["33 '.:*:t::;‘::’::."::..€‘::.“°;:
Iulflfl qll |'.C|' 'n C ll 'u * . S _
tr-iisive lI:l~’ln(‘:4| on the llltlll just and liberal priiici
pics, paying itc lone; \_vit_li'tlionor.ible proinptiiess:
And the pI'c.'eitl. Board ol l)ir¢lctor« pledgetliemselves
iii this ptrticitlarfullyto ni:tuit:iiri the high reputn
lion ol‘ the Company. lt_in.-‘urns upon the most fa
you-alile terms. public l|ulltllllgF,(!l||lf(‘li83,tlW8lll|lgl,
stores. trier.-l.uml_i:4e, furnttu c, and pr-rsoiirtl proper
(y gem-m|I_\ .:tg3IlIl.1l l0il§|0l‘ul:|lll|tIi_{Pl)_V figs.“ H
II I Dim:tors.— -2 ip -.. rt’ ‘orry, . , not
|.igti;?i:ll |o:fHttritingtoa,.l r. .-\‘ilieit Day, Samuel Wil
liarna, Edwin D. Morgan, Job Allyn,Ueo_rge Put
mam, Jiiiiius S. Morgan. ; _
Hl|.3l['HAll_.E'l‘ TEERRY, Prolidaat.
IJANIES G. Ulzl. is, So rotary. ‘ _
Norwalli, Aug. 10, l836. -‘ 8m039
, MORWALK SJAEAM colirtctiowmv.
THE subscribers are now, prepared to manu-
. faciure all kinds of_Confeciionary. in the
best manner and of .sup§_ridr".stoclt, which for
tlurabiliiynnd beauty, ofttppeiirnnce are surpass-
ed by none. Experience has taught them that
an article made‘ of the best quality of sugars and
S.-,|d air a. proportionate price, is far better, both
fa‘; the buyer and seller, than a poor article at it
low. price. They have therefore concluded to
take the former course. Counlry-merchants can
Qlwgyfl depend upon being supplied at their doors
wiifi a fresh article. ' All kinds of Coiifcoiionary.
both wholesale and retail, at their establishment
No. 5 Wall stt'eet,.whet'e allwisfiing to pur-.
chase are invited to_call., - _ , _
B. ‘A-s»plendiil=article of-JUJUBE PASTE,‘
the real French manufacture." has 2 just been re-
ceived, fresh from the importers, and is offered
at a low price. Call:,and:-aoa‘. . . -
‘ Norw‘alk‘,'.August 6, 1838-“ ' -. '75
. .RO0MS 'TO‘» LET. -.
NE or two rooms over the subscriber’s store,
well calculated -for offices. or some rnechafi
riical ‘business. can be obtained on, reasonable}
terms, - Apply (0 WM. J. STREET.‘
P [NE AND OAK _WO0D—For sale by the
_ .'subscrib_et’ at the Old Well Iqanding. -
‘ . , . THOMAS L. PECK. ‘
Norwalk’, (Old Well.) Ju£|8.-1838. . if 70
IFTY pairs French’ Morocco Blips, for sale
Fby _:,he_gubs‘¢i-iber', Prtce~.'8l.v j ,
fwtiton, August 1.1337. g _ _ , 21;;
'E.|:‘»\l.F-3 6,» SON.-’S .s.uir¢r.i‘<‘>‘i:» writing ‘=‘fluid~‘
fjunt received direct from th_e_:lmporte‘r,- and
foli‘:‘Si|.<*-f.‘.l>i7._ - . .. . :__._ r . _ .E.ED.-.-
1112;-HULL1s ‘~I.MB1_lOJ€ED“ R;Uss_-Ar
En .
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. RED U 1-3.1.3.D.«~.1-?~.1i1<C . 7! ‘
'.
HE’ subscriber would,,igtfortrl.those afllict-..
-ed with H.ettfisi .or}IlIiiiW,r.e. th t th,¢=‘-'sb6_v.e
irsolimept; so. ‘long; gjun;<f!.i‘I§1.‘8.l.l-.v.. @5915: ,. zLit.‘s13d‘.;is.ii‘o.v’v..
réducediih ‘pride’1so"u§‘_!Q7-bijing, 4 r
me“tihgi"vof" 7p"oor_« -as 7' well ‘ as,‘ too lriclt." Itfil ill,
périority o‘véi-ta'll‘ others‘ lTrus“ii;re'§‘ Vi; -‘no’ ‘ longer‘
doiibted...-I F0l”."BlilD£y=":f “ IL-J.1Al'WEED. ff
I’,[;\RDW‘AR“E’- 'H,b.l|9.i° «W#rijCérp98'¢£'é‘
'5 _ 1 tools*o‘fall~-kin_ds,gilSb dgbnér ‘z'issoi"ttnen",
otowcsriwrdiniiatciieapby _ } i
‘(3HAS.‘}3AAC8 ;
.'H0!"W'8ll§‘,06t:'“~15‘.’.l838. -.2 ‘i < f ii}: .. .t '=~
'“ AlSl,N_S.-60 halve§1dnll‘q'tr§h§i bo'itca"tirat-‘
uali l'!_il.8il-l3i‘—".l0f'58 '~l.>arv “ ‘fl '1 .
l: i’ ii . 'fl7.H.&S'‘-z1l!1lAC as‘
eletiient, which often tn :1 ,
;rwiri.in-'iipe;* A
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» » V ' 'aitbNion't‘.' A
Volcelesfi tfs~l,lie.dim yisionaol’ a d__ream_« -' _
Steals the frost-spirit through the ,witirry all-'
'Frm1i leafless forest and frotzi ice-boundnslféllmv
No more the wiridé their gentle ll]’l)’slC’v'll9'il'l'-
The white clouds float in yonder cold blue‘ city.
4 ‘Pure as the ‘Snow. that o'er the fr_o'_zeti‘ pla_I~t1.
‘Glitters’ beneath the Moon, and heart: no slam
Upon its vcsial cheek. Oh! iftliine eye.
Looks with delight, upona‘ nobler scene,i. .
Than Autumn’s tinted woods, or SuiniItet"i
'_ green, I . _ V ;
Come forth at this still", solemn, midnight hour,
"And read a lesion of eternal p‘ower.- V ‘
_ And liowth soul to Him "whose tireless hand
Hurrgihe proud urcli on high, beneath whose
light we stand!
II.
A -WIN?!-R IOBIN.
-Tlirougli Atitriiiiii's onnnydayti. one lonely bird
Lingc-rod. in sntlne,isj,ili‘y its summer neat,
And now tlie-wintryblastq. at midnight heard,
Riilile the plurries.t_,h'at shield its downy breast.
Pcithaps‘ to that lone tree,‘ in gentle mate
Fled from the l'o,w|er's aim to .droop.nnd die‘,
And fondly‘ there the _faitlit't‘il bird d.tith.wait,
, Breastirig the storms‘ that _t-hro’ the, valley fly‘:
Our door: it seeks, with warble ftiirit and low,
_ And ol‘t'its foot-prints’ you may see at morn,
Press'd_‘ deeply in the light and yielding‘ snow,
Wliero some kind band it: simple food hath
borne; _ . '
And yet it trusts not inan——its trembling form -
A mightier bond shall guard rmm wind and storm.
From the Gqncsscc Faruter. I
‘POPULAR _E_RROR$. ' ‘i
That it is.not good policy to burn, green
wood in winter; or that farmers do not find
ample remuneration in providing wood-hous-
es, and securing _wood mm the weather.
That there is no danger in sowing‘ chess
with wheat as chess does not grow. The
truthis, chess will, and does grow, and is. a
h'ardier_‘plar_it than wheat, which accounts for
its occupying the grotind so extensively where
the wheat has been ‘winter killed. 4
That if a farmer is obliged to keep-his cat-
tle oii a,“limited allowance,” or on inferior
the season, or give them the‘ poor food first,
The reverse of both these propositions is the
truth. ’ W .. ‘
That farmers in‘ putting their crops into
the earth should ‘pay attention to the phases
of the moon. On land we'll manured, well
tilled, and the seed put in in good.se_ason, the
moon never doe§'un‘y inj‘til'y‘, . , ,
That ‘Canada thistle does not vegetate, and
hence is not injurious in grass or other seeds.
V Cunzida thistle sced will vegetate, and he who
knowingly sells this seed with other seeds, is
‘as richly _de‘s‘ert'ing a place-lit the penitentia-.
ry as the man who fires’ his neighbor’s barns
or stacks, _ _ _ - _
That it is better to hold on to‘ things 8 form-
er may have for sale, after a fuirreinunerate
ing price is ‘offered, in the hope of obtaining
extravagant. rates. _ The. chances, are ten to
one that a ‘loss is sustained. If . you wish. to
sell. sell; if ‘not. never put an-article into -the
market, ‘ .
deal more work than can be done in season;
or that heacts reasonably who‘ requires six
weeks of Indian summer in November to com-
plete his autumn work. ‘ -
— That it_ is saving to use tools half made
and of inferior kinds, because‘ they are call-
ed cheap." Such implements are not unu’s‘_‘t,‘i’-_
ally much the dearest in the end.
That cheap laborers on the farm, orchezip
teachers in the school. or cheap professional‘
men. are always the best. A good thing- 0.
any kind should always command good pri-
ces; and the sixpence saved here, is frequent‘-_
lyu very dear one to the person saving it.
Thatiit is better to borrow tools required-
by the farmer, than to own them.‘ It cannot
be expected that the farmer should,~poss‘ess'all
the tools’ required by. mechnltilc-.s;. but, he
should own all the implements necessary to
his business of cultivating the earth. , . »
That’ it i_s'better to beg‘ jfruitr from neigh-
boring farmers than to be at the trouble or
expense‘ of procuring from the nursery new
trees or grafts of the kinds of fruit desiredto,
furnish the requisite'supply.at‘nll seasons.- .
That‘ a good education. is not necessa'1,"y‘for
‘a farmer: To simply read and write is well;
. but it is not enough.‘ .A knowledge of men
and things is necessary to 8. good‘ education,
;and this. knowledge can only be aeqll‘il',Bd by
study, obserifation and -"experience. A _
_ That scienceis uselesi . in agriculture..—-
There is scarcely an operation informing in
' which science is not valuable, either in touch-
’ing_us‘ to avoid error, or explaining the rela-
tion between causeand effect in the processes
of agriculture.‘ _ ‘ l ,
That porkers are naturallyiunclean ani-
’ lmals. -Sllqll la" supposition does grossginjus-'
tice to the pig, who, maugrehis wantof. rea-
son, if ‘h‘e"'onl'y have decent Hopportunitiestis
often a more nice and-cleanly animal thanhe
who assumes to be his owner. A V clean pen
and new ‘straw is as much -relished‘ by the pig
sufficiency of'material,l’ it is ;s_iiow;n by an.
'e;xtrar-kink"to‘the tail.” -- 3 ‘
Vnmambiirg]iian.zz.-—,His first; association‘:
in thé._saine cage. of a lioniand: _a/ tiger, —pre-
sfcntodigremarkable-scenes ‘ These ' two ani-
‘rnalsgwould fight whole. inonthS.-and.§orne-
times-he would give, over one: :of:tb"ern: for
dead. On such ooca§lons'Van A-mburgh. af-
ter they‘ had eitl,iausted_.each-other, -wnuld en-
f 84 tlarzthegciige‘, ' end begin his“-course of disci-
imnlfto anirnalttilfihoigotas-‘far as ten ,a‘i‘i‘i-:
-‘ laizinjund cage‘-.~ rnarry. occasion;-‘he
$inéIto“*control both. 9 ’ Gradually he added
l‘-'<"l".l . . ..
-I ‘ had severe’c'onflicts,-gtvith. the‘ tiger‘ ’‘pz:tt'ticu-
- a heavy crowbar.”-
food, it is better to stint themthe early part of
. That it is a good. .pli1n.to undertake a greet .
as/anylrother hon" vivaut';"and?’if,there'is;a 3
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’ li1|.':lY}lJut‘-nothingdzingeijousi “Then he talks
~ of those animals‘, he'is'highly ‘im_eiesiiiig;’_
_"’Th9jllg‘8f.”’,sé_vs Van Amburgh,‘ “is ‘like a
F°°l‘.l_°5S-‘€004-fokfldtlilng. drunken rascal.
_Wll9 39.9945 his tinie carelessly ‘at taverns, and
‘ .‘lf=Thl$="1fi...m0me.nt., Tigers have all bad
« SPIteful,tempe,rs.‘ :T:he lion is not so ii'asci-
ble-; he is slower and cooler, but there is not
the generous .fe‘elitigs about ‘him which he
has been craokediup-for. ' ‘The leopards are
like cats—'—-‘playful, but easil'y"provoked.”
. Va‘n'“A_niburgh has it novel ‘and practical
theory‘ to‘a_cco_urit for his‘ power. over them.
From the ,first moment of‘ his intercourse
with ,t_hem',j'h_egtalked toithezzn its he would to
a human being. I .“ They believe,” says: he,
“that Ihave power to tear everyone of them
in pieces if they do not act as Isay. Itell
them -so. and have frequently enforced it with
The personal 5strength,
the peculiar cast of his eye, the rapidity of
his movements, thetone of his voice. all tend
to present to these animals an idea of a supe-
rior. power, ivhic_l1 in sudden bursts of his
passionmakes them crouchvin the corner of
the cage; Van Amburgh’s eyes are peculiar ;
one of them has a remarkable cast,- which
rather heightens the effect of his’ ‘expressive
face, as is-said of the “terrible eye of f Caliph
Vatheck.” Orioiie occasion in N. York the
tiger l‘)ecame_fero‘cious. . Van Amburgh‘ ve-
ry coolly. took his crowbar and gave _a
tremendous blow on theyhead. He then said
to him in good.English, as if he were,a hu-
man creature, 9‘ You big scoundrel,‘ if you
show _ me any more of: your pra‘nks,,I’ll knock‘-
j your brains out.‘accompanying it with loud
menaces and strong gesticulations. After
this the tiger behaved likea gentleman for a
_couple of months. . ' ‘ . ‘ _ .
" In coming over to this country, "Van Am-
burgh/‘ was separated from these animals for
several weeks They arrived in London, he
in Liverpool. Assoon asbe reached Lon-
don, he tventto see them. On his appear-
ance outside the cage, one of the strangest
scenes was presented - that ever was beheld.
The lions, tigers, and all recognized him at
once, When he- entered among the group
they crouched, they crawled, they lashed
their tails with every demonstration of de-
light at beholding him again. He scratched
the neck of the big lion, and his majesty
growled forth his pleasure in tones like the
sound of distant thunder.—-London Times.
Sublime and-Ridiculous.-'—_Vl7e have never
seen the truth of the maxim, “ but one step
from the sublime to the, ridiculous,” better
demonstrated than in the following lines:
“ Hermit hour, in solemn cell
Wearing,.o.u,t.lif;e}s evening gray.
Strike thy'bo§“ott:$'sa‘g"e, an"d’telI,
V What is bliss. and which the way.
Thus I spoke, and speaking sigh'd,
' Scarce repressed the starting tear, .
When. the hoary sage replied-
“ Come, my led, and drink some beer ."’
Quite as Goo(l.l—-The following is from the
en of the illustrious poet, -Moore: ‘
l'I'_l‘l6y8l"'ll!ld a bird or flower
That did not fly or fade away:
And thus from early childhood‘s hour
‘I've seen my foudest hopes decay." ' _ _
The following subjoined parody was per-
petrated by the; humorous genius of ‘a South-
ertieditor:__'- ‘ , ‘ ‘ '
Ineverliadja bit of bread ‘
‘ Particularly large and wide, ,
. Thatdid not fall upon the floor,
r And alwag/s'on the buu¢'r’d sided
" THE DEATH WARRANT. , ,
A’ thrilling .sto’r_i/‘. of a. wife's attachment.
The mist of the. morning hung heavily on
themoutitain top, above lhevi-llage of Red-'
clifl] but the-roads which led towards it were
crowded _with the varied-‘population of the
sur_i'ounding country from far and near. -At
Alesbur theshops were.closed, the hammer
of the b acksttiith laid upon its anvil—not a
Waggon of any description was to be seen in
the street’, and even the bar‘ of the tavern
was locked, and the key gone with the pro-
prietor towards the cliff, as a token of an im-
portant era which was, without a parallel in
the nnnal‘s;?'of_the‘ place.‘ And save here and
‘'—I‘..
~ there a- _s'o'litar_y-‘ head lookingthrough a
broken‘ pane, in some closed up house, with
anfair of ' sad disappointment, or the cries of
a little nursling was heard, betokéning. that
in" the general «'flight,- it * has been left. in un.-’
skillful hands,» or‘mayha,p hereand there a.
solitary, ragged, and ill"-natured dog,‘elther.
‘seeming ‘or half appeased by the’ privilege of
a holiday, granted on condition of staying at‘
home, the whole village presented a picture
of desertion and silence,.that had forever been
unknown before. . ' ‘ . . _ . '
But ‘inproportion, as you drew‘ near the
poriderous cliffs, in the‘ midst of which the
little townof Redclifl"was_situated, you min-
gled‘ again‘-in tlté‘thiclt:bt1Stle and motion of
the world,'of,me_ri-and; women. and‘ boys, and
horses ‘and dogs,-a'nd'all living, moving and
c"r'eeping»thin'gs,«,that inhabit the wild district
of~Pennsylvnnia; ' 1 " ‘ C
The “v‘i~llz‘ige_ tvaéfcrotvded to overflowing,
loh'g«be’foi‘é theisiifnnhad, gained .suflicier_it al’-'
titude to throw ‘its rays upon thelvalley in
” whi'cl1‘{it lay. ’ There the. bar of lllewlllll was
crotvded,~ and-'the" fumes of tobacco (and
whiskey, the‘ jingling of small change, and
the perpetual " clamor ‘of the throng, -was
s;t1,fl,ic_ient_ t_o_ru_ck,z_t braififof common flexibili-
ty. _-In,-‘tho -_s'treets, 'here was the greeting of
oldlong pai‘.t_ir_i‘g acquaintances; the bartering,
'off‘ho‘i‘se's-';Ythegsettling of ’ old ‘nccounts; the
b,uffo‘o‘nery‘ of half intoxicated men ;" the _cl_at-
ter of‘ wornen ;' -the, crying and hallooing .of
’c,hildt‘eii and boys, ‘and the ‘lbarkitig and ‘quot’-
irellingof strange dogs. Tolook upon the_
...?.
. . v - . .r-.: .m=’«.--"'-‘ll’:5'-'7-'V"i"i"
scene, to mingle -with the cro.wd;.to: listen; to
the conversation; or. to-rsurve the? -6.9111118‘
r‘i_ance$« of “ill6"_’l1'SSelIll)l(-‘."(l fnutitutle, “woulfl
leadtto an unsatisfactory solution -of the cause
was congregated. ‘ ‘ __,
Within the walls of an old_ stone jailhal lllc
foot of the mountain. :1 difl"ere;rit scene, had
ed to a stake in the miserable diliigcptt. clamp
and scarcely illuminated ‘by, one ray ofltgl1t-
now lay the emaciated form of onewhose
doom seemed near at hand.. A few hours
before,‘ . his wife and little daughter jhztd
traveled a hundredmiles to meet him on the
thresholdof the grave—they incl. and from
that gloomyvault the song‘ of praise ascend-
ed with the‘ ascending suii,-‘andjthe. jailor as
he listened to the melodious voi_cé_sfoft_he three
persons whom he looked. upon as the most
desolate, and who of »;-all in the wide world,
blended sweetly together, and chanting the
beautiful hymn——- - I
‘ It is the Lord, should Ildistrust,
Or contradict his will '5’ ,
Almost doubted the .evid.ence‘of - his senses.
and stood fixed in_ast_o_nlsh‘ment at the messy
door, ' Could’ these be the voices of ‘a mur-
derer, and :_1__‘i_nu_ifdereij’s' wife and child. ,
The brief and the final interview had. pass-
ed, however——these unfortunate ones had
loudly commended each other to.the keeping
of their heavenly: parent, and,pai'ted¢-he, to
face the assembled multitude on thescaffold,
and they, as they said, to retui‘n’.by journeys
to their sorrowful home ; the convict, worn
out with sickness“ and watching‘, now slept.
' » Hisname was John Creel, his place of redi-
dence said to be in Virginia.
taken up while traveling from thenorthtvard
to hi§ home, and tried and _convicte_cl ot the
county town some miles distant, tor the inur-
llelf of a fellow traveler, who had-borne«him
company from the lakes, who was ascertain
ed to have at large sum of money with him,
and who was found in the room in wliichhc
slept, at a country inn, near'Re"dclifi; with his
throatcut. Creel always had protested his
innocen_ce,,de6laritlg thiat the deed was per-
ipetratecl ‘by some one While he was agléep.
but the circumstances were againstjhlni, and
though the money was not found. upon him,
he was sentenced to; be hung, and w‘as.'re-
moved to the old stone jail at,Redcliff for se-
‘curity, the county pi'ison.being-deemed. un-
safe, This was the day the execution was
to. take place-—the scaffold lwus already
erected—-—the crowd: pressed around '.the
building, and frequent cries of ‘bring out the
murderer,’ were heard. ,
The‘ sun had at last_ told the hour of eleven,
and”,,tl_i9re could be'_,n,o more delayfthe con-
vic‘t’s, cell‘ was‘ ‘entered b the officcrsin at-
tendance, who roused him _.with the informa-
tion that all was ready; without, ‘and-bid him-
lookcd up towards heaven in astonishment,
as one new born, only said, ‘the. dream‘, the
dream." “ And what of the dream, prisoner?’
said the sheriff ‘ You would‘ do ‘me it great
kindness if you would dréain yourself and
me. out of this acoursod scrape.‘ .‘ I dreamed,’
replied the convict,_that; lw-hile you read the
death warrant to me on the scaffold, a man
came through-the crowd, and stood before us
in a grey dress, with a white hat and
whiskers, and that a bird fluttered over him,
_ and sung distinctly’-—-this is Lewis the mur-
derer of the traveler.’
The oflicers‘an_d jailor, held a short con-
sultation, which ended in "a determination to
. look sharp after the man in grey, withthe.
white_hat——accoinpanied with hints of resig-
nation of the prisoner, and the possibilityof
his innocence/being asserted by a- super-
natural agency—the prison doorswere clear.-
ed, ‘and Creel, pale and feeb e, with a hymn
book in his hand, and a union of all meek-
ness and" humility, was seen tottering from
the prison to the scaffold. He had no sooner
ascended it, than his ‘ eyes beganto wander
over the vast concourse of people around him
with a ‘scrutiny that seemed like faithin
dréams—and while ‘the sheriff read the war-
rant‘ the convict’s' anxiety seemed to increase
-—be looked and then raised his hands and
eyes it mornent towards the clear sky, as it
breathing a last ejaculation, when lo! as he
resumed .his first position, the very person he
described, stood within six feet-ot the ladder!
The prisoner’s.eye caught the sight,- and
flashed with fire while hecalled out, ‘there
is -Lewis the murderer of the traveler,’ and
the jailor at the samemoment seized the
stranger by the collar. ‘At’ first he attempt-
ed to escape, but being secured, and taken be-
fore the magistrates, he confessed the deed,
detailed al'l'the articulars, delivered up part
of the money, riformed where another part,
was hidden, and was’ fully committed for
trial—while Creel was turned loose, and
hastened‘ like a.‘ man out of his senses, from the
scaffold. _ l j. ., V * .
Three days had elapsed-=-Creel had van.-
ished immediately after his liberation. when
the pretended Lewis astonished and confound-.
ed the magistrates by dec|aring,Cr_eel her hus-
band, that she had assumed the disguise, and
performed the - whole .’pa_rt_ of ' its’ direction ;
thatlie had given he'r‘the money ,whieli he
hadltill then succ‘essfully"cn_np,enled about his
person;_jaod that the whole, from the-prison
to the_scene, was a contrivance. to-. effect his
escape, whicli, havin'g.efl'e_cted, she- was re-
ga;i-dless—_of« consequences; blothingr could
be done‘ with her; she was again set atilibéb
ty, and neither her ‘nor her husband‘ was‘
heard of again. .
‘Run nndigletl me l_ln'8.l"|'li’ full ofi.tvood.’said
a woman-to her husband, one rainy-day, ‘aayiott
tire wet and I. run dry,’ The same plea was
nsid for a doycti more erratidg, At last it was
for tvhichvthisrmasslof heterogenoushifialtéil ~:
been that morning t_vitnessed_."_. ;’,l."_ll6l:‘6 chain‘ ~
He had been‘
hasten -to his, exe'cution—‘—they laid hands-
upon him and .pinioned him light, while be
ll get _r_ri_e a’ bucket ‘éfwater, fcr you-' wet. iltttl
‘l‘8_m‘dr’y’."’. ~"l‘he‘,t‘nickér~-. of -‘miter’ was ‘brought
and th‘ir_ow‘n' o'ver~ her, -the ghusband 'e§claimlflg’v
-’ Now do your slia‘r'e“_, foi‘-'_ yoli are‘_wet' _to.o.”‘
. ._. T) .-MAJOR iiownmo‘. ~ -
To the ‘Editors of the New York
j'i_hejsatr_i¢ p;ipe‘r‘iny,'old friend My, wight
' P.'i0;*é<l§ spell .839? '
Gentl men '
_ send you it lettefr,for.CO.n'
gress to tend under Uncle Sam.'.s authority,
who wislies.'_t,'0uutopublish it withimy figu re
head at the top.on’t toshow that it-is gen‘wine‘_.
It must be in Washington on or befoi'e;_New
Year's ‘day, for thatfis at-'day when‘ folks_‘feel«
limbeij and shake _l'lal'I(lS,, and don’t_ ‘feel so
crabbed a,nd crossgrainrd _‘as.,.they»dti on
mogtnther days. in j ,‘ . - : .. - .. .'
, ' .Your friend, - . “ .
’ A ' J. DOVVNING, ‘Major,
. :~ . Dowiiingville Militia; 2d Brigade. H
To Co,ngr¢ss,=-.--Uncle Sam has requested
me to give you my notions about the abolition
matters that now istaking up more of your
time than he thinkshe can afford to pay for,
seeing, that other _ma_tte_i's' want attendingto;
[have ‘never had but one. notion about this
abolition matters-and that is, thatit is one
of that sort that gets into the noddles of old
wornen of both sexes on account‘oftheii hav_in0'
and then they go cac'klin.g'nnd that sets other
folkscackling and so utter a spell all get a
ca'ckling‘till, something else gets uppermost,
and then another eggis laid, and then comes,
another cackling about--the new egg,
. it goes on-from-tir_n'e~t'o‘ete'rnity,
It was j-ist so with ‘Anti-Masonry a spell
ago. Ye.ars,h,a_v,e come and gone ; . General
"—-».;inii:,_;;‘“'to :i‘:ti;.r. ‘
nothing elsegthere at the time tooccupy them,‘
and so"
TVaS’l‘tlngl0n',\Va§ a mason, and sowas pretty.
‘much all our good folks, and nobody~evet‘~
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an I =W-1.1:? é=‘1.Sts‘ ire. rufa u-ii
you. ,_I‘ ,,‘\\'0‘ul_d‘. jtako‘ “efin all‘ ‘ in,
Stopping,-otlie.r ‘bu‘sine.ss v to-‘.reztd‘.ein,'. lat 32¢‘. ‘
for‘! suppose llti-rare DT,ll.l)'..II.I11.0lt:t1 valilso
and then .1 would say-that as. soon as they are "
done coming..so: as to give. all a fai.rc'li‘tttm¢"l
['d.nppoint ‘a committce'.who should agred-to
read 8'." all over carefully, and eee if _thgre__i_s
‘an‘y~_thing in em to s,li_ow,'t'hntnnylpntt_p£Hie
Constitlttiott is‘ violated by ‘not’ _‘gr,rrx‘i,iti;i'g',',v‘t?h§i't*
the pét‘i_tions agsk for; but if. on Iheiéupltflfifyl.
i1’..“Y’.°ll9 9f all .o.f..tli.et.n. petitions'.aalt«Qong—,réss
to do any hting contrary. to the clear mean-
ing of .the.con“aI§iitioti, as'it~>was untlerstbod
when it t\'a7s‘}‘-made End a‘gt'eed:' I
would ‘ call ‘that’ ‘member -of’ ‘Congress; ‘who
offered such a petition rightlup and g‘i_ve’._bitit
n jcopyof jthé‘constitutio,n and tell git.
thut_ by hea‘r_t_,_ _a‘nd:the, next .li_tne'h title _ jpted
another such unlawful 'act 1’ sea hltn
home.’ Well says I; thatzis n.;new-notion.
‘ No it ain’t’ siiyshe, ' it's as old as truthtand
justice and» the constitution = itself; ‘and-they
come ofage pretty much all-at A or‘icp,j -Tit‘;
is the nub of the matter Major; tlic_p_e(_5 e
have to‘ constitution,’ 1'l!’l(l"al_,'_'l!’_iL\'VS"ll’,’!_ll_l,_T’€: u-.
lation’ must agree with‘it’oi’,;th,ey‘_ain:t"
lb!’ .W°lhl"8' i ,lllc, peoplé l_.9fi.ll.d..llt'tll_F‘ tigé_titj,'to_
Cohgress not '0 “ma;/re . or. alter. the? icanstlluw
lion; and any man in or out of.(3ongresa
who brings in ii petition asking the-people's
agents to grant things contrary to ~t_he'~cot_i,s't-l-I
tution are doing an‘5 unlnwfttl act’, ant?-I_'rl_
teach em what the‘ law is; and if ’ui'ftl?1‘;t_l,i‘e;
first offence, théyjrepented ‘it, __Ifif
feel it. If something of,_tliis";l§i_n_d ainfdoné,
Congress will have ‘nothiii l,,._elge.lo do,-but
cackle over all the whims t ,at_o,ld_; grungy’:
all about the cottntrjt will . be_aeading1:in pa;
man south has . jist as good u 4'ight.to petition
Congress; to pass laws to stop my raising‘
punkins as I have to stop hisraising cottpn;
troubled themselves about the matter ; crops
come along one arter the other and all natur
or anti-masonry, wilien all at once up rose an
awful paclrlc and it seemed for a spell that if
folks .Clidn_’t stir ‘theinselvés that all creation
would, otter the coming crops, come _-l0?l1
stand 'stillf+-the‘ Union meltgawny like‘ a
snow ball in June, and the pigsgit intollte
corn, fields. There was my old neighbor
Deacon Doolittle "one of the spriest old chops’
in raising early garden sass‘, and the best
pumpkins in the“htill country round ;_a man
allowcd_ to be so knowing in Lrnost matters,
that it" was a common sayirigthnt tvhoever
boughtwthe deacon’ for 'o.’_ fooliwould lose
money bythim; he heard the ‘ anti-masonic’
cackle and took_up the same notion. I call’d
‘on hirnone day and instead offinding him in
his garden, (which was‘ all overrun with
weeds I found him‘ reading anti-masonic
addresses. _' Its all over with ‘us Major,’ says
he; ‘the end of‘ c"r‘e‘=Tl‘i<_>‘ti", has come thrust.’
and he fetched "a deep groan, ‘ it..is only won-.
derful to r'ne,"j Sayé __l‘ie,.“‘thii't' ;the .country has
prospered as it has ever since the Indepen-
dence‘ with so many Masonsiin _’il;‘ and: we
have all been so blind too all the while to the
sartindestructlon all around us; Lord have
marcy onus,’ says he, andwith that old‘ Miss
Doolittle- and all the young ones set up an
awful howl as if the his day had,come sure
enuf. The deacon however had one ‘thing
to comfort him, and that was he said, that
there was jist enuf ‘anti-masons’ left to work
out an election of a.Presideiit and Congress
who hadn’t hen on a ‘hot Gridiron.-~; and he
didn’t mean‘ to raise another potatoe or ear
of corn or punkin tillthnt was done. I left
the deacon sitting on that egg, and the next
time I seed him, was’ right in about the mid-
dle of the United States Bank war, more than
a year arter, and the times got to bepritty
pinch;/. I dropt in upon the deacon ;._ I
found him hoeing out some, blue grass among
his cockunibers. I twisted and turned all
matters and things of a public natur, "but the
deacon never said one word about ‘the ma-
that the deaconhad enuf of _a humbug ;“and
then, agin, the last time I was down that way,
right in the thickest of t-Abolition Petitions,’
but _the deacon was’nt to be caught but once,
and I see hohad his eye teeth cut ; ‘things
‘go well enuf for me Major,’ says he, land if
any man catches me neglecting my grounds
agin to cackle with him over any egg he
chooses to throw -in» my nest, he is amazing-
ly mistaken. ‘ Why,’ says he, 5 a man would
have nothing else to do all his life time if he
followed up all these idle fancies aud‘some-
times p.ol_i_tical vagabonds who are etarnally
gettin,gIup_ one sketne arter another;-first
masonr and anti-masonry; then nullifica-
tion; then‘ banks’; then nothing but gold;
then abolition and Sub-Treasury, and the
Lord knows what next ; andtelling us from
time to time, that any one of these if not at-
tended to, to‘ the negl ct of every thing else,
would most sartinly end in sending every
created thing all to 8‘erti_al smash,’
But, says I, deacon how do you manage
through em all’! ‘ VVell,’ sa vs he, ‘ Major,
I'll tell_ you; and.I have ha a :little expe-_
rience in the matter as you lrnow; in tilt?
first place Ihave stopt all cackling; when
my work is done, and‘ I have no busitiecgjop
hand, in family matters, I rpa,d_\th'_e fiible a
spell ; and then I take a look into the Con-
stitution of the United States, occasionally.
and nt election times I §e_lcct the best and
honestest men . It-an find to vote for-1-’_and if
every body would do the siimegthing.'my no-i
tion, is we: would ‘ibringi ithinfgfi pu_t*~of ,all‘_
_trouble,‘and get every thing‘ to 't‘vorl‘r‘sn'iootb
'and right, and _we should’ hear ‘no“more of
i j_Co_ngi'éss about this plagyabolition. ques-
iii;i'ri'.';'.one‘_’sct bring in bushels of petitions,
andnuother set say that they hadn’t ought to
be received. at .a.ll'; how i:« that Ml’? ménegsd
work’d without any trouble-about masonry‘,
sons and 'anti=m_aso,n,s‘:—it was pritty clear,
t_lie‘s‘e'drendfti'l,‘things thut so;me',fo_lks are .
talking about that are to bring ruin on. the ;
; ¢-’,o*gmry_,’ , But, says I, here is tt'ouble_now
and on the score of oppression‘ ,,ali_d__ ,‘ _.Yl,¢,‘l_:3,€7_']j,,
and all that,nons‘cnse;' there is noth,ing.jfn,it,;,
we are all slaves, to ‘the necessity, of coining;
an honest living, o_n_dgnl_l necessity. to worlaiis.
an evil but it is an evil like -beards:nnd~:to‘e:
nails, we are born. to ; some: have to workf-at
one calling and some at 'nn‘ot~l,1.él‘.‘ and some,‘
work is harder than another‘; some go (l_t)tt_‘lI’_
under the ‘a'ir‘t‘li_ and dig coal;d,hd’;iijori_fair,i_r_l,_
copper and lead and,‘ gold arid: g_il‘ve_i',';,",and'.
some on the face of enrth dig, plopgh gpcf,‘
hoe, and chop ;wj_o_o3t. (andghot _l.-ind-.ol‘v
work is plagy tu_'ff in wintenawny, ofl? ingzhe-.
woods,.with sno,w,up. to -your-knees and your:
dinner froze. as hard; as a-bficl:--bat,)‘-a‘nd‘?'_
some go on the great deep in storms and tciti-..f
posts and dont know what -it is,td‘have;a'
jacket on for weeks together, and no ,wife‘or’-_
children to‘ sit round in fire with gver'y,‘eve='
nirig ;. and some pick cotton-andglilzive .t-bis.
advantage over all the rest, and that. is—when'
th_e_ ';get.sig-k,.zind. .old,..tbey. are lill(ell::6M'e of-
wit out going it begging ‘or be thrust into.-a~
poor house or prison. Some folks are.by-C
‘natur dependent on others and lean onjern,
like ‘bean’ vinesto polls,‘ Now Sllpp'O',Se,’S0IlI4§.
old women should get a notion to petltlon‘.
Congress against letting folks -digaway down-.
in the airth utter c,oal_and i{Oll,.:§hd_.s't).fol.tli;,.”
and say that a man wasn't boi'ii‘_'lilEe"o zaoodi;
cliuclc to live. in the. airth, a_nd.th‘cn—' agniti {oi
sea, as though they were‘ born wiflt flilié’
a fish, how then, a'nd”‘whii‘t‘w‘o‘tild{be. .,’e:;énd
on’t? Catiimy ‘man ‘tell’ «hag _w,oti,IrlI,«t';g:‘;
the state of things, if ,an,y_‘,of ‘these ,whii'ns.-.wns.‘-
to be acted on only,for,on,e year just for the}; :
trial on’t? And’the.n’.agit_i. .1183;-“anyi onei.
turned-over the matter to see ,wliat=would‘-‘bo'_i
the condition oflhings if. ‘ Abolition,’ —should_ ‘
take root—kick’"jiip a -bobery don;ii”'snn';h',;
and let only one crop of cotton, go .unpickfd_‘; f
folks abroHll’don’t think m_u'c'h_‘of,tliis" niatten; '
but look at it pretty _much as we ;do,at
Chinese, and carelessly talk. of abolition
abolitionists here to keep em I suppose
deviltry .nt .home—possibly that-jfv gh'pji-win-,‘ut;'
schemes were only for one season to prosper"
here, a storm would‘ howl‘ over‘EngInr_id‘~
worse than a universal cholera,‘ri_i'o,rhus’,; Cut..
off one of our crops of_cot_tpnpnly,iand:-tlien-;
let the Queen or her Miniatcrszaltempt to tell .
the thousands of spinners‘ and weavers -of‘-
England, that they and their families must
submit to go hungry and unemployed, on at-
cotint of the great}! and glorious cause‘ of ,
abolition ,- and if they remain content and‘
hungry, why then no harm will conic from ’
that point; but if on the contrary, the‘y‘do_'n’t_‘
understand the doctrine, (and some fglgkjsjsny
that some ofJohn Bull's family ‘get cross and
ugly when hungry) why then there willlie "
trouble and ‘such trouble, as aint cooled
sage or catnip tea. and I for one wpgh
hands out, and say ‘ let‘ well alone.’ ‘ V ‘
!I’ll tellwhat it is Major.’ says‘ t'he'deacoti,, ,
Owe have now ben working, ‘along j;r'eiiy,_
pro: perously for fifty ypgrc underfa constitti;
tion that has. kept. pi; pl]: togetlie_r.n happy‘
family. and any tnan who uttemptsio distufb ',
any matter of thing guaranteed .and secure-df
by that constitution, aint got nnympj-é pang.
otisrn in him than a rotten pnkin ; and all
petitions to Congress, aching llllflg§icQn[fa:!if_:
to the constitution,-are jlstlajs badffor aymnmgg
35" “twill!-"‘ I'*éi1"$ agént ft! Silt: what. ‘a7 . i . .
he has no ‘right tp d5i‘p’_‘g;’;,‘lhg
tornpy he; holds froi_n., 1,t._;—pl'lD¢ip;nl',;,tha1'S’
law: Mater»? .$#¥8.§lJB: drmiii tar-sl cl d°t=l.5?
know,’ says be,,I'if it aint Gospajk-,_too,l'».;: I ;‘.
landiunclnxfialn ‘
this rnattei-.and,1 D" ‘
notion‘ thét‘ ,._
had We‘ h1<’>i2e‘~’i‘b“t‘r-._.v>~.‘.Tl.. . -
Your l’r.i¢.*n.<.l."='!.'r.‘I<1."=‘, “ - ,,. “ .
_ ‘ Do,v§'.rtit,tgV.I.1lt.-’.:%’ls‘32!fil,igade:l
. How l0.Ga.ipid.'_SI'. ‘
that can gain hb-chili?’ 3‘ "
.;-!5,Itl§._I-.._,., Jr. ostra-
mentpn lueotde§»‘;tlie'fi_)‘ __"e,_1je ore,‘m|y
It "l"_"
ggvconaiderprk tbg more e,;tra‘¢_
stop folks from risking their precious lit';es.*it_tf '
matter of moon shine.’. England sends. her}. j
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