:in the employ of Mr..J. Spalding, of this
Look at that! Look close, will you !’ push-
ing it closer to his‘ eyes- ‘Cim ,Y°“ beflt
it.’ Jack stepped back and looking delib-
,,,-melyv at the board target, said very dry-
ly —‘Psli-aw! the cross ain’t clean out! I
shoiiltliit think [was (loin any’ great
things to beat sticli shootin as that l’ :1 on
shoultfnt, should’nt yott '1.’ roared Hinc_l3:
furious at Jack’s coolness. ‘You'll try ll,
wont you’! I‘d like to see you l YOLI must
try it! You shall try it! \Ve’ll see what
sort ofa swell you are !’ ‘Oh !’ said Jack,
altogether unrufiled, ‘If! must, I must -
Put up his board thar, men. If you “'11”!
to see me shoot through every hole ‘you
can make, l’ll do it for ye !’——an(l \Vfll“"“‘o’
back t.o the ‘off-hand’ stand at forty paces.
by the time the ‘tnar'a<ers’ had placed the
board against the tree, he had ‘Wheeled,
and slowly swinging his long rifle down
from his shoulder to Elie le\'f:l. fi!‘C‘_d 3:
quick as thotight. _‘It s :1.l'.l'lC-\' Of mine-
remarked he, nodding -liis head t0WiH‘tl
Hinch who stood near, while he was low-
ering his gtin to the position for re-loading
-—‘It’s a trick I caught from always slioot-
ing at varmint’s eyes! I never takes ’em
any whar else! _lt’s a notion l’ve got!’ At
this moment the men standing near the
tarcret, who had rushed instantly with gt-eat
D to see the result, shouted, while
one of the ‘markers’ held it aloft over their
hcads—‘He’s done it! His ball’s the big-
gest—he’s driv it through your hole and
made it wider!’ _
Hinch turned pale. Rushing forward he
tore the target away from the ‘marker’ and
examining it minutely, shouted hoars.ely—
‘It’s an accident! he can’t do it agaiti 1--
He’s a Iiumbug! I’ll bet the ears of a baf-
falo calf against his that he can’t do it_ a
gain! He’s afraid to shoot with me again!
‘Oh said Jack, winking aside at, the men,
‘if yoti mean by that bet, your ears again-st
mine, I take it up! Boys, fix a new board
up thar, with a nice cross on the center,
and I will Show the Captain here the clean
thing in shootin’ !’ AS lie Said this he
laughed good humoredly, and the men
cou’d not help joining him. Hinch, who
was loading his gtin, said nothing, but
glared aroutid him with white compressed
lips and a chafed loo‘: ofstifled fury,which
made those who knew the man shudder.
The men, who were in reality puzz'ied to
tell whether Jack’s manner indicated con-
tempt or unconscious simplicity, looked
on the progress of this scene, and for the
result of the coming trial with intense cu-
riosity- The new board was now ready,
and Hinch stepped forward with great pa-
rade to make his shot. After aiming a
long time——-he fired. The men were a-
round the board in a moment, and instant-
ly proclaimed it a first rate shot. And so
it was. The edge of the ball had bro’ en
without touching the center. Jack, with
the same inexplicable coolness which
marked his whole bearing, and without
the slightest hesitation, shaking his head
as he took his stand, remarked, ‘Twon’t do
yet--’taint plut_nb——’taint the clean thing
yet, boys;’ and throwing out his long rifle
again in the some hccdlcss style, fired be-
fore one could think. The men sprang
forward and announced that the center
was cut out with the most exact and per-
feet nicety. At the same moment, great-
ly to the astonishment‘ of" every one, Jack
walked deliberately offtoward the house,
without waiting to hear the announcement
‘Halt !’ shouted flinch furiously after him,
‘I thought you was a coward! Look at
the sneak! come back l’ He fairly roared
starting after him, ‘come back, you can’t
shoot as well before a muzzle!’ Jack
walked on without tttrning his head. ‘Ila,
l1a!’latig;lied the Regulator, almost con-
vulsed with fll«l‘y,. ‘see, the coward is run-
’-Frig away to hide under his wife's petti-
-:t:u':!’ and long and loud he pealcd the
eagerness
. ‘-2. 2; -- t after Jack’s retreat. The men
-.-.~~':». . -. . 4 been greatly astonished at
the . ‘:. *.'hich could thus have
venture -:1 -*t:- .7-1‘ 2.; lion in. his most for-
midable ll"l1l."\ t, .-i., ‘- “ML '-.~.~.‘- insti:nctive- ad-
miration with wi’-.*»r;-.v '‘--:‘-..= i: -' salwnys in-
spire such breasts; in. A... what
appeared to be so palpa§‘::-1:: . tt,’
oined also in the laugh with il:=.-.1.-;.. ‘Y
lioaglit it was cowardice ! —A« li...lj.‘
merit they could not understand, ‘-.::~,i‘..
watch and ward over the terrible repose cl
passion. If they only could have seen how
that broad massive face was-wrcnchcd and
grew white with the deep inward spasm of
pride struggling for the mastery, as those
bitter gibes, so lizird lobe borne by a free
hunter, rung‘ upon his cars, they would
have taken warning to beware how they
farther inolested that dangerous slumber
of fierce energies.
reality: had never waketll His conscious-
ness was only aware of a single passion,
and that controlled and curbed all others.
Tneiimge of his wife and children rose
above the swelling ttimult which shook his
heavy frame. He saw them deserted and
hopeless, with no protection in this wild
and lawless region, should he full in a
struggle with such fearful odds. For all
these uien were the willing slaves, the ab-
ject tools of the ferocious vices of his bru-
tal insulter; and it would have been a
contest, not with him alone, bttt with all
of them. This was stronger than pride
with Jack, and he walked on. But he had
incurred the hate_ of Hinch—relentless
and unsparing. To be sliorn, in so un-
ceremonious a manner, of the very repti-
tation he prided himself most upon, in the
presence of his men ; to be deprived of so
fruitful a theme of self-glorification and
boasting, as tlicrcputation of being the
foremost marksman he frontier afforded,
was-too-in.ucli-.f.or the pride of the thick-
blooded, malignant savage-;, and. he swore
to dog. the.inoffensive-liunterto the death,
or out f.roin.the County.
'1'o.be continued.
Sud’ ./Icciclimt.-——Oii _l\—/Ibnday afternoon a
young man by the name ofHenry H. Peck
city, was reaching-under the-frame of a
buzz saw which was in operation. in the
mill of Mr. Spalding, when.-liis shirt sleeve
was cziught in the teeth of the saw, his
Atrocious .Murder.——'\'Ir. Orrin VVood-
ford, of \-Vest Avon, Conn., who has here-
tofore been regarded as a respectable Infill.’
and is a farmer of some pr0PL’T!.l’a—“"‘
Tuesday last, in the most inhuman manner
butchered his wife. He had been in the
habit of using ardent spirits pretty freely.
though he was never reputed ml |fll€"]Pe‘
rate ‘man, and on this day had been drrnk-
ing immoderately of cider. A short time
before the murder, he had used some
threatening language toward his wife,—to
which, when in that condition, he was ad-
dictcd, and he had often been guilty of
violence as well as insolence towards her.
Their only child, a boy 14- years, was sent
away by his fatlierabout :3 o’clock, P. M ,
to attend to the ca'tle—-the parents being
the only persons remaining in the house,
in his abscence. On his return, about
half an hour after, he met his father at the
gate, who requested him not to go into
the house, as he feared he had killed his
mother. The boy ran away in alarm. and
aroused the neighbors, who soon arrived
and entered the house, where they found
the body of Mrs. Woodford, horribly inan-
gled, lying in a pool of blood on the floor.
Her forehead over the left eye was beaten
in apparently by three bl )WS with the head
of an axe, directly upon one place, crush-
ing and mangling the head in the most
ghastly manner, there was also a cut, as
with the edge of an axe, on the side of her
head, above the ear. Also a cut, as with
a sharp knife, from the corner of her motttli
down the cheek, an inch or two. Also, a
dreadftil gash in her stomach 4- 1-2 inches
long, and so deep as to let out the intes-
tines, evidently inade by a sharp knife.——
he was still gasping when discovered,
and continued to breathe faintly for about
fifteen minutes. An axe stained with
blood was found near the body. Mr. Wood-
ford is a man of very violent temper, and
at this time seems to have given way to
fancied provocation, under the influence of
unnatural stimulus. Mrs. W. was a chttrcli
member, and highly esteemed as a mild
and pleasant \voman—-and as an excellent
member of society and ofher family.
\Voodford made no attempt to escape,
but allowed himself to be bound by the
neighbors, and the next day he was exam-
ined beforc Justice Day and committed
for trial. He seemed, through the whole
examination, to be entirely unmoved, and
his eye was not once seen to moisten as
the sickening detailsoftlie evidence were
presented; and when he left in custody of
the offi:-er for prison, although the trial
was at his own house, and the mangled
corpse ofthe wife with whom he had lived
for fifteen years, lay in the next room, he,
did so, without requesting to be allowed
to look at the body. Mrs. '\V., was 47
years of age--Mr. VV. of abottt the same
age.—-Hur(ford Courrmi, '1'/itzrsday.
Kidd's money, says the Tribune, is cer-
tainly coming now—as. it has been seen
by a clarvoyant—so somebody says.—lf
a respectable, well approved clairvoyant
can be produced who can see it, we will
believe it. At present, however, we will
be excused. The cannon that was fished
from the wreck we are stire was genu?ne,
—we know the man who says he ptit it
there. The pumping on the Coffer-dam
has been abandoned, because the water
ran in a little faster than it could be-pumped
out.——~'l'he money ho‘-vever is all safe.
A prophet, aged '19, has started up in
Nauvoo, and announces liimselfas :1 ines-
seuger of two, to many. Among other
revelations, is one of especial warning to
thi: saints, iiifoi'iiiitig them that Naiivriti is
to be destroyed and that the true C-hutch
should place themselves under the direc-
From Tea2as.—By the arrival yesterday
of the sch. Atalanta, we have intelligence-
from Galveston to the 8th instant,:iltlioti,r_vh'
the date of our latest paper is only the 6th.,
As yet we have no intelligence of the?
proceedings of the convention at Austin,
th.it body commencing is session on the
4th, and it taking some six or seven days
for news to reach Galveston.
The Galveston Civilian contains Presi-
dent Jones’ veto of the ‘bill reinstating‘
Com. Moore to his rank in the navy. tis
a frothy document, so long that we have
no room for it. _
On the day of the adjournment of Con-
gress a resolution was proposed to the
House of Representatives, severely cen-
suring the course of President Jones, and
recommending to the Convention about to
assemble, his removal and the es-
tablishment ofa government at! z'..{er-iui tin-
til annexntioii is complete. The motion
failed,but the vote in favor ofit was strong
showing in how suspicious and obnoxious
a light the Executive is regarded.
./V‘. 0. Pic. July 16.
final/2.2-r Body Fm/.nd.——Tlie remains of
Henry Ottman, a German porter in the
employ of Me.-srs. Holly & Gager, were
found yesterday morning, in the ruins Of
the store in Broad street, adjoining the
Gas House. He has let a fa nily. This
is one of the persons before reported as
missing.
A great ntiinber of workmen are em-
ployed in recovering goods from the ruins,
others in repairing buildings which were
only partially damaged. .
Among the property recovered, in a
damaged state, is considerable iron and tin.
We saw a large quantity of what had been
nails. They were completely welded to-
gctlicr from the intense heat, retaining
scarcely anything of their original form.
Jour. of Com.
Anothr Body was taken from the ruins
ofthe store in Broad street next adjoining
that of Crocker «$5 VVarren, where the ex-
plosion took place.
of Henry Medigos, a German, who accom-
panied the Gerinan porter, I-Ienry Ottman,
into the store from whose rttins the two
bodies were taken. This makes four bol-
ies, in all, which have been recovered. It
is known there are some others yet to be
found. Medigos was a single man, aged
37 years.—Jour. of Com.
Immense quantities of burnt and dam-
aged goods continue to be taken from the
rtiins, -which over their whole area present
a scene of the greatest activity. One
more body was discovered yesterday, un-
der the rtiins near where the explosion oc-
curred. There were a bundle of account
books, half burnt, and one hundred and
five dollars in gold found with the skele-
ton.
The stores 48 and 50 Exchange Place,
occupied by Messrs. Stone &. Co., «and
ped the progress of the late fire as it ap-
prouchcd from Broad street on the VVest.
The stores on these same lots, also stop-
ped the progress of the Great Fire in Dec.
1835, as it approached from Wfilliam street
on the East. At that time the stores were
blown up ;—but now they stopped the fire
without blowing up.
The preservation of Delmonico’s Coffee
House in William street, is in part owing
to the fottr stores west oftl:e Coffee House
on Bcavar street having Iron Roofs.——-
They were built by Mr. Titus. It is lio-
ped that iron roofs will be hereafter gencr.
ally adop‘.ed.—Jour72ul of Co/nme.ce.
The number of deaths in the city of N.
tion of the young prophet, and repair at
once to California. '
LegvlCc-mplt'ment.——At a late term ofthe
"-Cointnon Pleas in Norfolk. Va., two ofthe
attorneys having some altercation, coin-
menced bandying epithets, by no means
complimentziry to each other, (as these
§:IOO(l men do occasional_y,) when his hon-
it}.-, the Piw-siding Judge ititerfered, and re-
='..-ke.l that “it was presumed the mem-
‘f the bar were szentlemeri, and
‘7'-7;.‘ --..l.l treat each other as such.”—
" 3 I, ll‘ honor,’ said one of them,
llllti’.""i.1l1(l it, but it is one of those legal
iictions not always borne on! -in prac/2't‘e.’
The thunder storm of Tuesday morning
’0flast week, which passed over this bor-
lougli, with some violence, though not wi h
lacy destructive effect, appears to have
idonc some damage in other plzces. In
The strong man in 7 New York, the lightening struck a tree in , years.
‘the Park, and antithcr on the corner of
;Prince and Wooster streets, shattering
{them to pieces. A chimney was blown
ldo ' n in Broadway, and a house ttnroofed
iat the corner of West and Courtlaindt.
-,street; the roof, says the True Sun, was
=,(-.nrrie(l some two or three blocks. ln
!Bl‘OOl\'l_'-ill, considerable dairiage has been
' done in the way of blowing down buildings,
uprootiiig trees, and sliivcring awnings.
The Free Church of Scotland has recent-
ly encountered much opposition from land-
holders, wlto have refused to grant sites
for the erection of free churclies. It is
rumored that Sir Robert Peel intends to
bring a bill before Parliament rendering it
comptilsory on landholders to grant sites,
on the requisition of not less than fifty
persons in parishes where their estates
are situated. It is also said, that the Pre-
mier has it in contemplation to propose a
grant of thirty thousand pounds towards
the endowment of the projected College in
connection with the Free Church of Scot-
and. One journal alluding to these ru-
mors, says, ‘we suspect Sir Robert, what-
ever may be his opinions, is too politic to
interfere again with a dispute which he
previously foundsuch difficulty in settling.
This doubt is graturitotisly thrown out by
a Church of Eiigland journal for as the
Premier has already astounded the nation
by granting a large annual sum to the R0-
man Catholic College of Maynooth, it is
not at all‘u'nlikely' that he may bring for.
arm drawn in and cut completely‘ 0ffjj,tst;
below the eliow.-—-.N’orwi'ch flurorc...
ward‘the~measure referred to for the Free
that
‘I so
before occurred in one week, except du-
ring the prevalence of Cliolertl. The ave-
rage weckly number, takinga yeartogetli-.
er, is about 160. There is nounusual dis-
ease prevailing, an l the increased mortal-
ity last week may be attributed to the ex-
tremelyliotweatlier. VVeck before last
the number of deaths was only 2l2.
The Commencement at Yale College
will occur on Tliurstlay August ‘list. On
Tuesday the 19th, Dr. Bethune will deliv-
erlthe Ovation before the Societies. On
\Vednesday Rev. Leonard Withington will
that day Henry Bernard Esq. will address
the Phi licta Kappa, and Elizur Wright,
will deliver the Poem. '
President Day. and Professors Sillimrin
and Kingsley have been connected with
Yale College as instructors upwards of 40
./I Rival for Toni '1'/zumb.—-lltlr. Samuel
C. Tucker, of North I~laven,informs us that
he has a child overa year old, and perfect-
ly healthy, which weighs only eight and a
half pounds. Tom Tliumbliad betterlook
out, or he will be surpassed by this new
wonder. Perhaps the General is ‘a mar-
rying man ;’ if so, we advise him to strike
a mritch with his young rival,who is 1 girl
and then they can share their laurels.
.x\'ew I-Iavm Herald.
The posts for the New York and Phila-
delphia Magnetic Telegraph will be erect-
ed through the city in a day or two, and
as far up the riveras Fort Lee, along the
track‘ of the I-larlem Railroad, where the
wire is to cross th- river. The posts
through the city are to be twentv feet; in
height and the New York Depot for all
lines ofthe Telegraph radiating from this
city will be at the establishment of \Vells
& Livingston, Express agents,\V-all-street.
Sixty miles of the'wire for this Telegraph
is already finished. The Boston andfN'ew
York line will probably be the first entri-
pleted, as Mr. Pomeroy has been liberally
seconded by.Boston capitalists, and the
work is to be vigorously puslied. A mee-
ting was held in Utica yesterday for ma-
king final arrangements for extending the
line to Buffalo—East of that to Boston,
things being already definitely fixed.-—
Soiithwardly there is no progress. The
initial arrangements for prosecuting the
work North from New Orle.ans- have fallen
' be false.
lt was doubtless that
Y. last week, (47l-) is greater than ever‘
flltempt [0 Burn t/ta Sterling Hotel at
Bridgeport.-—Aii attempt was made‘ Sitti-
dtiy evening 20th, about 10 o’clock. to’ burn
the Sterling House,
child as a Hotel, in Bridgeport. A per-,
son who‘ came from New York in thel
stearrrboitt on Saturday afternoomivas seenl
and ran into the barn and smothered thel
bursting from a pile of buy.
one of the boarders. It has since been
ascertained that he has escaped to New
York. He is known by several ofoiir cit-
izcns as a notorious character, and it is
hoped that the authorities of Bridgeport
will take some efficient’ m‘e‘ans to’ arrest
him.—J0u.". of Com.
Front the Bii.-ton Atlas, July It’).
\Vc intended to have copied, from the New
.. \ -- - »..-«.—.,..‘. . . ._ ,. .._._._(
..._i......... .,
A most reprehensible joke was perpe-
trated bya young clergyman and some
very foolish young men and women, on
occupied by Mr.--Fair-‘ b_oard the Delaware, day before yesterday. ington Union as the paid organ ot'a South-‘
The victims of this serious hoax are a
young gentleman and lady, scarcely at all
acquztinted with each other, who were
cominrr out of the stables attached to the married in fun, during the pleasure ex -ur- North.
hotel, 0y a gentleman who drove his horse sion, but found out on getting ashore that that Nortlien dough faces or their organs
to the’ barn at the moment. The scoun-ithe voyage upon which they had embarked should so exalt. It argues a base‘ and de.
are-_t finding his retreat ctit off, cried fire, ;promised to be longer than they had inten- graded nature, dead 15 all sense ofshame,
dcd-—being for life and death. The gen-
lady, however we believe, is much morti-
tied and chagrined at the affair. The voting
clergyman who could behave so théughf
lessly ought to travel to Jerico and ‘tarrv
till it's heard he grown.’——Tri5u; e. I
SUMMARY.
We see it stated in Hunt’s Merchants’
Magazine‘ t int the quantity of__ cheese ex-
York Tribune, some ivet-ks since, the following
article in relation to the Patent Democracy of
Thomas Rite-hie— but we mislaid it at the time.
Asit is too good to be lost we give it a place now.
MR. lII'l‘CIlIl'I OF “'l'I-IE UNION."
During the late abscence from hispost of the
responsible editor of the Tribune, his Assistant
in cliarne of the olitical de ailment sioke of
3 P l
‘the 01:1 Fccleralism of Thomas Rztclue, the ap-
pointed organ of the party.” Mr. Ritchie rcpt-ls
the imputation in the following terms——perbap-:
overdoiiig the business, perhaps not:
“And now wlntt will our frlf‘.iitl.- in Virgiiiia—-tiny’.
tlirougliout the Ulllnll-—.~‘PI_Y to the truth or libeialiiy
of this \Vhig ‘organ 1?’ The diletniiia is liefoi'eliiiii,
and M r. (Freely cannot escape fruin it. He either
asserts what he knows to he l'::l.~c. or is .-'li:iinel'ull_\'
careless in asscrlitig wli:iihcunglit to have known to
"l’liuiii:is Ritchie’ a ft-dcr:ilisl ! a man who
has been (levotcd lo the can.-e of Virginia Stale-riglits’
tlciiiticracy for more than l'orl_v years; who lizistakcn
lurhi.-i political tcstauicnt Madi-'on’s (-,clelir:iteil reso-
littions of '98 and ’90; who has ever been ridzculctl
forhis \"irgiiiia €ll>.~ll‘.’1(‘.il()llS; and (lcvotcd to the
saint: school with Jeffci‘:-‘oii, Spencer, Roaiic, I’. I’
Barbour. &c. &c."'
“\Ve beg here, must respectfullv. to tell the whigs
ol'i\'ew York. that if -the New York 'l‘riliinie' be 21
sample oftlieir qual':t_v, and if thiscxtract of the ‘Tri-
bune,’ no honest man can confide in their truth or iii
theirjuslicc.” ,
Directly over the paragraph of _ which
Mr. Ritchie complains so bitterly, were
the in2'tiuls of the Editor of the Tribune,
whose name be here invokes amended to
’ 0
at letter from Boston, showing beyond
question that Mr. Urcely could not have
been the author of the blunder in question.
Anal, although our Assistant was very nut-
urally led into his mistake by confounding
Jacksonism with Democracy or anti-Fedc-
ralism, we beg leave to assure Mr. 2.,
that that mistake could not have been
made by Mr. Greely, by any possibility.
He knows well that Mr. Ritchie has always
squared his politics by the most rigid re-
quirements of party “Democracy,” and
M95575» H“!°'l‘!"gS""i T!m"’3’~ & C0‘, Swiss has probably appealed to “the Resolutions
of '98" as the touchstone of Political Or-
thodoxy, at least ten tlionsand times.—
ll/hoever shall take ‘away his character
for unspotted Democracy would leave him
“poor indeed.” \Ve retract, therefore,
the imputation of our mistaken Assistant,
and pronotince Mr. Ritchie the model,
the paragon, the Chevalier Bayard of
Democracy.
When it was democratic to assail Gen.
Jackson as utterly unfit for ci/il or politi-
cal trust, no man assailed him more
‘fiercely than Tlionxas Ritchie. But. wlicii
;a few years thcrcaf er, it became. Demo-
cratic to commend Gen. Jackson, as the
, paragon of statesniansliip and trttstwortlii-
:ncss, no man laid it on thit l-I6!‘ tlatin Thom-
gas Ritchie! In 182.‘, it was Democratic
‘to advocate Ono Torin only for a Presi-
gtlcnt, and Mt’. Ritchie was very earnest for
lthat. In I831’. and lH4~0, it was Democrat-
lic to support a I’:-csidcnt for aSccom1 term
;and .Mr.Ritcliie did his utmost on that side
‘ In ".l.)-—’30, it. was detnocratic to advocate
‘the Nullifying doctrines of Calhoun and
Ilaye, and declare them the very counter-
jpart of ‘the Resolutions of ’98,' and Mr
‘Ritchie did this very tliorougly. In 183;!
l and ’3 l-, it was Democratic to c.m«.'emn. Nul-
gification as utterly i':iconsistent with ortho-
{dox Democracy, and Mr. Ritchie did tink-
addrcss the Alttmni, and in the evening ofgquitc effectively. ln. 183‘-l--5, it was dem-
locratic to praise the Pet Bank System,and
‘nobody did i-'. more heartily than Mr.
Ritchie. In ‘I838, it had become ‘Demo-
vcratic to go the whole hog for the Sub
Trettsttry, and denounce the Pet Banks;
and though t!:is was the hardest (lose he
had had yet, Mr. Ritchie gulped it dowti
for Dcmocracy’s sake. Nobody was more
ardent than Mr. R. in support of Van Bu-
lren while ‘Democracy’ smiled on him ; no-
body did more to crush ll-lr. Van Burcn.
when Southern‘democracy’ ttirned against
him. Nay, more: our paragon of Demo-
crats can be oti both sides of a vital ques-
tion at the same time, when the interests
of‘Democracy’ require it—can advocate
Dorrisin for the North, and stand fast by
Slavery in the l3outh——-can sympatliyve
with the victims of ‘Algerine’ tyranny in
Rhode Island, but breathe not :1 whisper of’
dissatisfaction at the Constitution of hisl
own Virginian, which not only denies any
vote at all to a poor white man, while_ it
allows his rich neighbor a dozen, but actu-
ally vests the political power of the State
in about one third of its legal voters. We
insist, then, that our veteran cotempora-..
ry is the beau it/eul of the swindle which
passes for democracy. His case irresista-
hly retninds us ofaii anecdote in friend
Porter’s new volume “l'he Big Bear ofAr-
kansas,’ &c. where ‘Jim,’ threatening to
tell how he put ‘Chunkey asleep in a pan-
ther’s nest, is asked,
“\Vas you not apprehensive they would
kill him 'l" "
-“Apple-hell ! No !
ced biting Chuiikey, they’d been looed
as that’s a game Chunkcy invented!”
VVe are not quite sure that democracv
is a game that Mr. Ritchie invented, bull
we are confident that the inventor must
have been a near relative, who has taught
Mr. R. to play it most adroitly and entire-
Ghnrch of Scotland. _ t .
through.-— Tribune.
gported from this country to England has
‘quadrupled during the last three years.—-
Fifty three thousand one hundred and fif-
teen cwt. were exported in 184-4.
A party of ‘Corkonian’ and ‘Fardowncr’
ladies, occupying opposite seats in a fune-
ral carriage in the Bowery, the other day,
got into regular fistcuffs over a political
argument which they could not postpone
sight.
A. fire was discovered in the lower story
of the Mt. I-Iolyoke Seminary on Monday
morning oflast week, but it was extin-
guished without doing mticli injury. Sev-
eral hundred yonng ladies of the Institu-
tion were rons d from their dreams rather
morcsuddenly than was usual or conve-
nient. _
Fire Tm-1u‘ancc.——Tl‘ie Manliatfan Fire
Insurance Company, which has now lost
its capital, has, sinc'- its resuscitation,
paid back to the stockholders in the shape
of dividetids, the whole amount ofits cap-
ital, with seven per cent interest.
A IVashin_r__rton correspondent says that
the Psesident is very much worn down
with business and overwhelmed with ap
plications for office. One day last wee‘-
he received so many papers from office
seekers that. it would take seven days
to examine them without reading! I
The True Sun publisltcs the rumor that
Rev Daniel Newcll,,Editor of the Chris-
min I“amil_V I\'I."lf_Y."IZl!l8. has been suspen-
ded from his ministerial functions by the
Presbytery, for"immorality.
F-rnm?2's L’r1.co72., Esq.. of Litclifield, a
young gentleman, but long in the i\’Iilitarv,
was elected Bi-igradier General at a meet-
ing ofthe Field Officers ofthe (ith Brigade,
held at Litchfield on the 16th inst.
“Pat,” bawlcd out an Irish stevedore.
addressing one of his men from the decl:
ofa ship, “how many of ye are they in
the honld ’l.”—-“l7ive, sir.” “Come up
here the lial_f ye.”
S7/_fl'(imtir:n.—;‘\n infant aged 4- months.
while asleep in a box bed, at No. l3O V‘."a-
ter street, New York, was suffoca-
ted by the closing up of tl e bed by :1
young woman who '
tliere.—-four. Com.
low Treasury of England
upwards of $17,000,000 annually.
fund is made up by two and three pence
weekly contribnti-ins from each member,
and the members number 200,000.
_ Andrew Reynolds, of Greenwich, had
his pocket liglitencd of $50, whilst look-
ing at the great frc in New York.
_ The Telefifrapli posts are '0 be forty feet
high tlirotigli Rl'O:l(l\\’fl_V,- and handsomely
painted—elsewherc, thirty five feet,
Dr. Durhin has resigned the Presidency
ofllic. in;-on College, and accepted the
pastorial charge of Union Church, Phila-
dclphia.
U’/‘If .9//1' 7m.’;ln.——I7’or locofoco papers to
inform their readers of removals from of-
lice.
A merchant. in Illinois has ordered his
wholesale dealer in New Yorkto send him
out a large fall stock by Morse’s I'ele-
graph !
One of the best jokes of the season is
told by the amiable Goines, of tonsorial
D0t<N‘lt-'ly. A Southern Adonis, no way
celebrated for his personal attractions, on
cornpletinga somewhat protracted toilet
one morning, turned to his servantand en-
qttired—
‘How do I look, Caesar T
"Plendid, massa, ’plendid !’ was ebony’s
delighted answer.
‘Do you think l’ll do Caesar 1’
him a piece ofsilver.)
‘Guy, lllassa, never see you look so
fierce in all my life; you look jist as bold
as it lion .7’
‘Why, what do you know about a lion’!
—you never S-d\V one Caesar.’
“Nebbcr see a lion, Massa! Guy, I see
Massa Peyton‘s Jim ride one obcr the mill
ebcry day.’
‘No, you fool, that’s a donkey.’
‘Can't help dat, h‘lassa—-you look ji,’
/ti/cc/u'71z.’ .
‘no
(fuiv ng
A COAT IN CHURCH.
Under this head the Barre Gazette tells
the following good one :-—-
A he-goat, (with whom we had many a
butt and piill,) once entered the tillage
clittrchduring servine, and passing to the
pulpit stairs, entered the place always to
be found in old fzisliioned churches, be-
tween the old pulpit and the dcacon’s seat.
He there laid down, quietly, until nearly
the close ofa long prayer, such as the Re\?_
If they’d commen- Mr. F —-——-—, was accustomed to make
“Dick” seemed to partake of the weari-
ness of the congregation at “lontrpi-aye;-S "
and rearing his fore feet upon tlic commit-_
"I0" table. he lookcl up beseechiiiglv in
the face of the preacher, and sent forih a
long 11012.’ If there was along face in
church, it was out of our sight, and the
ly without scruple.
prayer soon wound up..”
until the ‘dear departed’ was fairly out of
did not know it was
The amount of money in the Odd Fel-
is enormous,
The
_ : From the Detroit Daily Adv.‘
srzlotrrs or THE DOUGH FACES.
It°is tiattiral that the South and the Vlfash-'
ern administration, should sliotit over the‘
anncxaton of Texas. They have gained
avgreat triumph at the‘ expense of the‘
But it is not natural or becoming
Southern slaves do not make H fr '
. re y in
fire with a horse blanket just as it was itleman behaves very gallantly on the siib- their clan’ ing cliains, as they are dragged
In the con-'ject, and leaves the matter entirely at the to the deadly swamps of Texas. ’ '
ftision occasioned by the alarm,’ he passed ‘choice of the lady. If she chooses to con- then Sllotlltfflle Northen serfs of the same’
into the hotel, and succeeded in stealing a sider herself a bride, he will accept in masters be jo\?'fuli'! The chains ofslavery
gold watch and dress coat belonging to earnest the hand he took in sport. The are on their sduls, i'.“n.;ttlieirlimbs. They
\V l’. y
are sold to the South and for a mess of
P0tlflg0- Where is lllartin Van Bitten and
every other Nortlien 17.-ei‘i'iot-rat that dared
to say that his soul‘ was his aunt All, all
dead! And yet the liircling sycopliams
that fed on his bounty in his day ofpower,
and mocked his cars with lying tales of
eternal gr-.i‘tit(;:dc, pig.’ sliputing over the
cause 0 its own a . as t ; ".
gone! Hide yourselves fl'f)IYl‘a1X’ffi:l§l'lS):I
scorn Hear ye not the liisses of the free
and the true in every bréeic . Away.-
The JV'ew Jersey Slave Case.-—Tlie very’
interesting case which has been before 11,9‘
Supreme Court of New Jersey. rel.‘-Itive ta’
the liberation of the -1000 persons now held?
as slaves and apprentices, has been (lecit-
ded. “flicn before the court, it was most
ably argtted b_v Alvan Stewat, E.-q. ofNew'
York. in behalf of the slaves. The court
has decided, l—That the relation of mas-'
ter and slave existed by laiv at the mjnp;
tion of the Constitution in 18.34; 2——'I‘hat
the Constitution has not (,'esgm\-Cd that
relation, or abolished slavery ;—"I'hat the’
particular slave, who was bronglit tip on‘
habeas corpus in order to test the law, be
remanded to the custody of the defend;mg'
his master. The Chief Justice dissented.‘
Propel/rrrs. -The craft to which the end-
less screw power has heretofore been ap-'
plied, has been of a small class. The ex.
pcriment of emp'oying the Arcliimetlian
screw in ocean st.eaii'iei's hnsbcen made in"
England, and the. laige new steamer Great‘
Britain is advertised to start for New‘
York on the 526th instant, with such a mo-
tive power. The vessel has been tried
and “the revolutions made by ll‘.C m-mine
wrrc eiglitcen per minute, and the lot_rC\\'as
repeatedly hove in the presence of the na.
val officers on board. when it was fotliicf
that the average speed of the vessel tliro’
the water was I] 3 4 to I12 knotsper liour,
The great aclvantagcs of sncli a poivcr in
case of war, are plainly apparent. All the’
machinery can be placed beneath the wa-'
ter and out of the reach of cannon. A
vessel can thus, also be turned in a small
space, during a perfect calm. The expep.
Britain.
Speru.-lahing in. Jmts-ey b’lacIrberr7'es.—On
the line of the Camden and Amhny Rail-
road—for miles on each side—hlackberries
green grapes, whortleberries, Stc. are pick-
ed for the New York market daily. Many
a blac' berry field is worth more in black-
berry bushes than it was in corn. The
liurksters go around and btiy them at cer-
tain placesiat certain hours every day, and
announce what they will pay the next day.
Great is the excitement and activity among
the barefootcd Tot'ain_v swampers when
the market is “tip.” Already the owners
of blarltbcrry patches forbid others tal-ing‘
them, and the poor children that could
forinerly pick such things on their own
account, must now, if they wish to earn
anythingnt it, pick‘ for others. Speculgj.
lion in blue’ berries, li' e spc.cul;.tion in
everytliing else, needs to be done with
_iti(lgriient4—\i'e wot of some, who like Pat,
msxl: a loss by the operation.
1’r2'nt'e/on W/zig.
—./IFrn'l/if l Se,»-I-ant.——lt is related ofthe
keeper of the Light House on Norwalk
Island, that the inacliinery by which the
lights revolve, was recently broken, and
he was obliged to send to this city to ef-
fcct rt.-pairs. In the mean time, fearing
that some mariner miglit be deceived, by
the lights becoming stationary, he moun-
l"(l"‘3.-‘1’"l<1I'lyintothctop, for several nights
and from dark till sunrise, kept the lights
revolving, by turning them with his hand!
' A most commendable discharge of duty.
Register.
Coming down.-—’I'l:e New York corres-
pondcnt ofthe Boston Post predicts that
the “suspension” of Bishop Ondcrdonk
is about to ccase—as follows:
“The friends, advocates, and partizans
of Bishop Onderdon", in every section of
this and the distan'; dioceses, are busily
engaged in endeavoring to obtain the Bish-
op’s restoration. 'I here is to my mind,
not a doubt of their complete success.—
There is an evident reaction in the public
mind in favor ofthe Bishop.”
Remarkafile C/Ise.—An Irishman employ-
wliich are to be planted through the city,
and are now being prepared, on the Jersey
side of the River, died on Tuesday undel-
most extraordinary circumstances. Being
requested to get some water to drink, he
took the pail and started offin the direc-
"ml °l’_P9-‘-lle 10 the well, (which he had
0000 Visited.) The others called after him~
and told him of his error, when he turned‘
about. went to the well and filled his pail,.
and began his return—at first in an ordin-
tiry walk, then faster,and gradually increa--
sing his speed until he passed his compan-
ions on a ftill run, which grow faster and
faster until it seemed to far surpass the
utmost conceivable power of the human‘
frame. One of the men motinted a horse’
standing neariand pursued in. the top of
his speed, but without overtaking the fu-
-zitive. After nearly a mile, the man sud-
denly fell; and when the horseman came
tip with him he was stone dead, still gras.
ping the pail in his hand.—Tril)uI:e.-_
Col. \Vebb:of. the Courier Enquii'er,.
has sued‘th'e- publishers of the. Tribune for‘-
a libel.
iment will be ful‘y made by the Great '
ed on the posts for the Magiietic'I'elegraph. I
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Norwalk Chronicler