Norwalk Gazette, Tuesday, January 17, 1860 · page 2

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Norwalk,'l'oesday, Jan. 17 1859
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Republican State Convention.

nele ates represenling the Freeman
.gaamfiirxo are ipposed to the_preseut Nation
“Administration, will be field at Union Hall in fl).
city of , on Wednesday the 25th day ofJanu.
n, “gt, at lOo’olock. A. M. for the. purpose of imm-
ingzmg candidate for Goveuor, ieufenant Governor.
Treasurer. Secretary of State and Comptroller ; :ilso to
appoint Delegates from this State to the next Nnimunl
Bepnbllun Convention. or to take such n_clmn in rela
tion thereto as ab .11 there be deemed advisable. Th in
several towns In this State are requested to send Dele-
tol equal to twice the number of their Representa—
tlves in the General Assembly. _
-Clall.- Wllfltsn‘, Hartford 00., ‘l .
W. W Sven. New Haven 00., Republi.
H. [1. osmium, New London Co., I can State
A. H. Hunter, Fairfield C0,, }- Central
T. M. cunll. Litchfield Co., | Commit-
E. I. Jam, Windham 00., J tee.

ARI. 3. Gun. Middlesex 00.,
Republican Caucus.

' The Republicans of Norwalk are requested
to meet atltho mus flown. on Wednesday
evening, Jan. 1 th, at 7 t o’clock, P, IL, to
'appofnt Delegates to the several Conventions

Per Order, Town Connrrrss. _
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Editorial CorreSporiderice' of the Gazelle.

Wssnisorox, Friday evening. Jan. 13.

After a weary night’s thumping and hump-
ing in the most wretched cars ever put on a
night route to torture sufi‘ering humanity, we
reached our National Babel, (whereat the
mention of its name is supposed to fill the
heart of every American with emotions of the
loftleat patriotism,) just as Aurora’s earliest
blushes began to tint the Orient.

Early in the morning we noted: own Fan-
ax, honest, large hearted and open handed
Joan Woonnusr, and genial, Ex-Speaker
Bumsnmlr at Willard’e. Our entire dele-
gation, with the exception of Hon. Mr.D1xox,
are at this House. As we sat in the gallery
of the new Hall of Representatives, and
looked down upon Connecticut’s delegfl‘W'
sitting below. we could not help feeling as
proud of' the physical, as the people of lhe
State doubtless are of the intellectual power
our little State has in the present Congress.
There can be nothing hazarded in the expres-
sion of our perfect conviction that whoever
else may be assailed, no personal or «fisticuff
quarrels will be picked with the Connecticut
delegation! , . ,

We met here to-day also our old friend
Knnnooo, who years ago used to exhort the
citizens of our town and State so acceptably
on the subject of total abstinence. He now
hails from Michigan, and seems to bear the

.xaMictivc dispensation of his descent from his

,fifroud position as Temperance lecturer down
to Member of Congress with becoming uumif-
ity. Butmore of this anon. We now new
only the time to mention our safe arrival,
with a few of the more special“ on disc,” be
fore the last will closes which can reach you
before you go to press. ’

The U. S.Agricullural Society closed its
solsiou today. We held the self-imposed dig-
nity of representing the farming interests of
old Connecticut in that body, in conjunction
with Hon. John A. Rockwellof Norwich. Old
Buck was in attendance yesterday, which “set
off" Culvert of Maryland, who gave bimun
awful excoriation for having vetoed the Na-
tional Agricultural College Bill. Several of”
the President’s polilical friends came ’to the
rescue. and triedto save his “ white hairs,”
but Culvert said he was bound that the great
Agricultural interest! of the country should
know and understand the President’s true
position.

Quite a “ sensation” was created in the
House yesterday, in consequence of an angry
debate between Haskin and Clark. of New
York, pending which, in one of Haskin’s vio-
lent gesticulations, a pistol was jerked from
the side pocket of his coat. But of this incl
dent you will see enough from the pens of
correspondents sent here and paid for inditing
sensation articles. More anon, B.

P. S.—Our delegation entire are in excel-
lent health, and as firm in their determination
never to yied to a disorganizing, disunion
and bullying minority, as are the cverla sting
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Hro—The alarm of Fire on Saturday
eveninglast was caused by the burning of
the old " Fountain Castle,” alluded to in our
last week’s issue. Thus one of the vilestdens
of“ iniquity about our village has been purified
by fire. '

 

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”We learn that this (Monday) Morning,
as Mrs; S. E. Olmstead was driving near the
Post Office Building, some part of the Harness
gaveway, at which the Horse took frightand
mad’e'a spring against the corner window of
thePost Oflice. No damage done beyond the
smashing of glass.

 

_ h. The Continentals had a jammed
house just as they deserve, and sang even
better than heretofore.

13‘ The latest list of killed and wounded
at the Lawrence calamity, is as follows:

Dead 99
(Missing 107
.. Total dead 206
Badly wounded 109
Slightly wounded 199

" Total killed and wounded 514

The subscriptions in aid of the sufferers
amount to over $15,000. '
Fire Department Matters.

At the Annual Meeting of thnix En
glue Company, No 1, holden at their new
Engine House, on Wednesday evening last,
the following Officers were elected for the en-
suing year : F. St. John Lockwood, Foreman;
J. S. Waterbury, Assistant Foreman ; J. 8,
Ella. Secretary; E. K. Lockw00d, Treasurer.
we understand that the Company are to give
their first Annual Ball, at Lynes’ Hail. on
lthe 14th of February next, and that it is their

' intention to make it the Ball of the season,
and to have it eclipse anything of the kind
ever before held here'; they will, of course,
succeed, as they are all wide-awake and en-
ergetic‘youug men, and have placed the mat-
ter-in the hands of a very able and eficient
Committee. We predict a good time for them .

Pninxrx Hose COMPANY made choice of lhe
following Ofilcersat their Annual Meeting on
~.tho 11th inst: Win A. Kellogg, Foreman A
.J. Thornton Prowitf, Assistant Foreman;
James L. Ambler, Secretary and Treasurcrf

Silver Gwyn—We understand that there
has been anew Company formed for this En
glee, (No. 2,) and that hereafter “ Young
America” will predominate.

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We have received from the Norwalk Ga-
zette office a handsome calendar for 1860.-
The view it contains of the fine “ Gazette
Building, ’ inches us wonder at the prosperity
ef printers in those regions. . y

. JV. H.- Courier.
fl‘Very accommodating and indulgent
creditors down this way, neighbor. Even the
poor disheartened and discouraged locofocos
.luiye lent. their money and endorsements as
anon y a} nine difi'erent times, for the support
mt an organ which was as sure to “gin ’eout.”
But. seriously, for the peace of mind of many
onvthe “ anxious seat” hereabouts, we will re;
mark, once for all, that we have spent more
money on the old Gazette than we ever got
'out of it, and to long as we can we always
.manto- '

 

 

south Norwalk;

Prof. Matliron gave his exposition Of the
modern humbug of Spiritualism. clearly
showing but while many honest and truly
good persons are or have been scll‘ deceived.
the great mass of professed “ mediums” are
:trrant imposfors. He gave one very goqd'
Ilusfration of how the spirits of those who
Javeu’t paid lhepinfer maybe supposed to
he tormented in the other world One spirit
rapped, he was called lo hear. con be made
to spell out nothing but ‘~ P-a-y 1-1,...-
P-r-i-u-f-c-r !” “ PAY Tm: i’niarnn l” fol-
lowed by the most terrib.e rapping ! The fact
was known to the family of deceased that
when he tabernacled in the flesh he took a
paper for-which he never paid, which accoun-
ted for his torments. Afier the family had
sent and cancelled the debt. the spirit gave
unmistakable signs of fqlicity and “ rest.”
The speaker might have added the following
story told by the Boston Traveller, of a case
of spiritual marriage which occurred in that
city between a city dentist and a somewhat
noted " medium.” and the dissolution of the
" affinity” after eighteen short months of in-
felicity. The dentist" was introduced some
three or four years ago to the lady, whose
husband had deserted her and gone to Kan-
sas, since which she had taken up the profes-
sion of spiritual mediumsbip. She was fair
and attractive, and admiration of her spirit-
ual gifts combined with her personal charms
to captivate the bachelor’s heart. Besides
the spirits told them they were made for each
other, and they were willingly obedient to the
heavenly vision. They were married, but
the honeymoon had hardly began, when the
wife became subject to strange trances, du-
ring which she Would pull her husband’s hair,
scratch him and otherwise violently belabor
him, most commonly when he was in bed and
expoaed and defenceless. When she was
aroused from the trance she was full of re-
grets at chat had happened. At the bidding
of the spirits he took her with him to Texas.
where she proclaimed him an abolitionist and
he narrowly escaped violence at the hands of
the mob. When they got back, the persecu-
tions continuing, and the ,poor husband find
ing that his sufferings of mind, body and es-
tate were greater .au he could bear, sugges
ted a separation. and obtained it by paying
handsomely. After the separation the woman
confessed that she had imposed upon him
throughout, that her trances were feigned,
that she beat and scratched him because she
wanted to, and lhat all the spiritual messages
he had received Were of her own manufacture
The dentist has had an experiebcc hard
enough to make him wise, but he still be
lieves in Spiritualism, only that he thinks
the devil must be in it. '

But we have no reason to fear any spiritu
al marriages, among those who were fortu-
nate enough to hear P‘rof. Mattison.

m, Woodford’s Lecture at South Norwalk
was postponed to Feb. 1st, on account of the
mud and storm. .

 

 

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Tho State Agricultural Society.
This Society held its annual Convention at
Hartford yesterday. The President, Mr. E.
H. Hyde, iu'the chair.
The reports of the Secretary and Treasurer
were readand accepted.
The following officers were chosen :
President—B. H. Hyde, 2d, Stafford.
‘ Vice Presidents—Bobbins Battcll, Norfolk,
John T. Norton. Farmiugton.

00.; Washington Webb, New Haven, New
Haven 00.; James A. Bill, Lyme,New Lon-
don Co.; Geo.'Osborue, Reading, Fairfield
00.; Chas. Osgood, l’omfiet, Windham Co. ;
Abijah Catlin, Harwington, Litchfield 00.;
Levi Coe, Middletown, Middlesex Co. ; R. B.
Chambcrzin, Coventry, Tollaud 00.

A resolution authorizing the Executive
Committee to fix the salaries of the Secretary,
Treasurer, and Chemist, were discussed and
rejected, and after several efforts to reduce
Mr. Dycr’s salary as Secretary, it was fixed
almost unanim‘ously, at the old sum, $1,000.

The Treasurer’s report showed :

 

Expenses (1858 and 1859) $12,024.39
Receipts - $14,726 80
Balance on hand $2,102.41

The success of the last State Fair, was most
gratifying. especially as it has, notwithstand-
ing the niggardly appropriation from the
State, wiped out the debt and left ahandsomc
balance.

The Executive Committee urged the euro”
ment of two or three thousand Life Members
to establish a permanent Fund.

The Chemist’s report was postponed, be-
cause it was not yet completed. '

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The newspapers of the State are nearly all
giving evidences of unusual and increasing
prosperity. The Journal and Courier, of
New Haven, always a fresh, readable and dis-
creet sheet, is now without a superior in size
or typographical beauty. The Waterbury
American is to be enlarged this week. The
Hartford papers are all blooming like Broad—
way belles on Fashion-day. Norwich brags
of anew Daily. ThsBridgcportDaily Stan-
dard is enlarged. and the Winsled Herald
rejoiceth in a considerably larger number of
subscribers than ever before. So we go, all
jolly. Isn’t it abnul lime for that Convention
-how are the bivalves nowadays, neighbor
Byington ?— l‘Vmslrd Herald. _

ha, Bivalves all right, and mouths open
in delightful anticipation oi'the time when
those “ Editors” shall translate them lo the
oyster’s spiritual hereafter, but no “ rakes
shall desecrate their bed” for a month to
come, if Father Cook will then call the mus-
ter roll. What say you for 22d of‘ February ?

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”- B. Gilbert and H. Keeler of Limestone
have been very successful in killing wild
cats during the past season. Mr. Gilbert
killed one in Lewisboro, N. Y.. in November,
which Weighed over 32 pounds; a few days
after he shot one near Danbury which weighed
11 pounds. On the eleventh of December,
Mr.'Keeler killed a wild cat in Redding which
weighed 31 pounds. '

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“Bridgeport keeps step to the music of the
Union.”— Farmer.

Ma. Of couise she does. Hasn’t she be on
growing stcadil y Republican for the last two
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Circus.——We observe that Cook’s Royal
Amphitheatre from Londonppened at 'Niblo’s
Garden last evening. This is said to be one
of the greatest companies in the world; Mr.
Cook having been for a number ofycars the pro-
prietor of the celebrated Astclys Royal Am
pbitheatre, of Landon. has the entire resources
of that famous establishment to draw upon,
and of course be fully understands the art of
pleasing. '

 

.‘.‘.
Godey’s Lady’s Book, for February, has
been received. It opens with a really beauti-
ful steel engraving, enritled, "in Time of
War.” The contents seem to be as varied and
interesting as usual.
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The Tribune Almanac for 1860 can be
obtained on application to our Carri. rs. . Price
13 cents. As a compendium of statistical
and political information, it has become al-
most one of the necessities of the times.—
Buy one. .

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Congress has kept on its usual' routine of
business during the past week.wasting public
time and money, in idle. talking; Sherman
still lacks the three votes necessary to an
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3. For the benefit or those interested in Agri-

Directors—Chas. F. Pond, Hartford, Hart- -

To our Farmers.

culluf'al matters. We publish in full the Pro-
gramme of the course of Agricultural .
Lectures to be' given under the auspices
of the Agricultural Bureau of' Yale Cal
loge. beginning the first of next month. We
thuk if‘ any considerable number of persons 1
would agree to attend bum our County, that
an arrangement might be made for commu-
ling on the railroad. so that parties could go
and come each day. and theriby save a very
conSIderable expense in the way of board
bills: '

First Week—Science in (he Relations to

Agriculture.

Chemistry—Prof. S. W. Johnson.

Meteorology—Prof. B. Silliman, Jr.

Enromology— Dr. Asa Fitch:

Vegetable Physiology—Daniel C. Eaton.
Second Werk—Pamology, Q-c,

General PomolOgy—Hon. M. P.Wilder,

Grapes—Dr. C. W. Grant.

Berries— R. G. Pardee, Esq.

Fruit Trees—P. Barry, Esq.

Fruits as Farm Crops-L. F. Allen, Esq, ‘

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Arboricnlture—Geo. B. Emerson, Esq.
Agricultural Chemistry—Prof. S. W. Johnson .
Third Week—flgrt‘cullurc Proper.

Drainage—Hon. H. F. French, Esq.

Grasses and Irrigation-J.'Stantou Gold.-

Cercals- Joseph Harris, Esq.

Hops, Tobacco, die—Prof. Wm. H. Brewer.

Cultivation of Light Soils-—L. Bartlett, Esq.

English Agriculture-L. H. Tucker, Esq.

German Agriculture—Dr. Evan Pugh.

Agricultural Education and Statistic s—Prof.
John A. Porter. ‘

Fourth Week—Domestic .dm'mals, 8w.

Principle of“ Stock Breeding—Hon. Cassius
M. Clay.
Stoc Breeding in the U. S.-Lewis F. Allen,

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Breeding for the Duiry-Charles L. Flint,Esq
Horses--Sanf'0rd Howard, Esq. ‘ ’
Breaking and Training Horses-e-Dr. D. F.

Gulliver
Root Crops and Sheep-Husbandry—T.S.Gold ,

Es . . '
Piscigulfure—John C. Comsfock, Esq. .
Rural Economy—Donald G. Mitchell, Esq,
Agcultural Associations—Mason C. Weld,

q. .

Aaassosnsnrs-An average of three lec-
tures per day will be given from February
let to February 25th, inclusive,makfng sixty
six. Lectures in all. For the accommodation
of persons desiring to spend Sunday at home,
there will be no Lec'urc on Saturday after-
noon or 'Monday f’oreuoon. Each Lecture
will be followud by questions and a discus?
sion. ‘ Persons attending the Lectures will
have the liberty of introducing other topics
beside those of the above list,aud th'us elici-
ling mformation'adapted to their own case.
Among other distin uished gentlemen, beside
the‘Lecturers, wh ill attend,Jobn W. John-
ston. Esq.. of Geneva. the pioneer. in Ameri-
can Tile Drainage. will be present during the
Third Week of the Course, to give any in-
formation desired as to his own experience in
Drainage. This Course of Lectures will he
made intelligible and useful to beginners in
Agriculture, as well as to experienced farm-
ers. Early application is advisable. Appli~
cation 101 Tickets have already been received
from nearly half the States of the Union.—
Board at very reasonable prices may be ob-
mined by early applicants. ,

Tickets for the whole Course, $10. For
any single week, $3. Single Lectures 25
cents.

For detailed programme, with subjects of
each of sixty six Lectur address

PuorJo . A. Portrait,
New Haven, Ct.

 

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ha. We have received a copy of the Wa-
terbury Almanac and lhe Norfolk filmanac
one published by E. B. Cooke dt 00., of Wa-
terbury the other by the S. D. Northway
Manufacturing Co. of Norfolk. They are both
from the Press of' the Waterbury American
and therefore as a matter of course very neat-
ly printed. They also contain a full list of
the Manufacturing companies in both places.

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- The Litcbfield Enquirer states that a gen-
tleman of that county has made a New Year’s
present of a copy of that paper to every
Congregational 'cle rgymau in that county.—
Th ‘uquirer adds. in true Hibernian style :
" Any such. therefore, who.do n. i. receive this
number, and hear of this notice, will do our
liberal patron a favor by communicating with
this office.” “ If you don’t get this letter,”
says l’at, “ let me know.” ‘

fl“ Nothing fo_ brag on.” We know a
poor Editor, down this way, who has always
chearlully madea present ofhis paper to the
Clergymen of all denominations, to whom it
is supposed if) be acceptable.
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fiWe find the following sketch of one of
the localities in Lifchfield Co., which consti-
tutes one of the border bones of contention,
also bears the name of an old Norwalk famio
ly, in the Enquirer :—

Hrrcncocx's Conxsn.—The village of this
name near the south west corner of Sharon,
has often derived some notoriety from the
tact that if. has presented the principal obsta
cfc to the adjustment of the boundary line
between New York and Connecticut. The
principal sfreet in the village is directly on
the Slate line, so that the hours 8 on the east
side are in Connecticut, and those on the west
in New fork. At no other'poiut on the line
would the contemplated alteration in the
boundaries change the citizenship of f: milies
to so great an extent as to moment the adjust:
ment of the question to the satisfaction of
both parties, but [0 run the line at this point,
so as to conform to “but it was intended to
be, when the treaty for the cession of the Ob-
long to New _l’onk was made, would throw
the greater part of this village into Connec-
ticut. The portion of the'cifizens thus affec-
ted, are stroxgly opposed to such a forcible
change of allegiance, and it seems to be im-
passible to ov’ercome their prejudices in this
matter.

The family of Hitchcock came to Sharon at
an early day, from Norwalk. One member of
it settled . as a'merchant at this locality, and
the village .takes its name from him. Not-
withstanding the districtjurisdictious which
divide the allegiance and protect the rights,
of the different portions of the village, the
citiZens experience no difficulty in managing
their local affairs. An expensive bridge,
across which the station runs, is kept in good
condition by the conventional action of both
jurisdictions. How its repair could be legal-
ly compelled. it is difficult to see.

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NEWS ITEMS.
———The Union Was saved in lhe most gratify-
ing manner of. Bridgeport on Friday evening
week, by a Union mcéting. natiouu 1‘ salutes,
cheers, and speeches by Messrs. J. C. Loomis
of Bridgeport, Edward Tompkins ‘of Binghump-
ton, New York,and William W. baton of Hart
ford. -
—-A fire in New Haven, Tuesday evening,
destroyed Joncs’ blacksmith shop near the
Canal basin. the flour mills of Parsons Jr 00.,
and a quantity of lumber owned by English
dc Tuttle. Joucs’ loss is $700. insured in New
Haven for $300. l'arsons Ar. Co.‘s loss is
$6.000—not insured. English d5 Tuttle,$600
—covered by insurance.
—-'l‘he delegates to the Chanleston Conven-
tion from Indians are all for Douglas, and are
instructed ta go for him throughout.
.—'f‘he arsenic" of Mr. Douglas in the'Senale
that he would not accept the nomination,“
.made at C' arlcstou, except upon the plutfcrm
of popular srvei eiguly. is worth remembering.
...—-'f be people of Boston have already con-
tributed over $10,000 for the sufferers of Law-

E3801. Fremont has: obtained full control
over all the mines adjudged to him by lhe
conrf.s.wifhout any collision with the occupiers
———'l‘he slave insurrection reported by tele-
graph at Bolivar. M0,, was only a Christmas
frolic. The negroes were a little elevated and
the whites the same. and so they exchanged
a few shots, butnobody’ was hurt, and none of
the negroes fried to esc-xpo.

-——-Richard Buff, lhe Secretary of Brown’s
Provisional Government, is on his way to
W ashington from Texas,jn charge of an ofliccr
of the Senate Committee.

——v-’1‘here is much trouble among the Vir-
ginia'ebifltll’y about paying the east. of Gov.

Ferry. Bis General, Taliaferro, who con:-
mauded seventeen hundred ineu,had a staff
of sixty-four. while Napoleon,in the height of
his glory, had but forty-six. Gen.Tafiafer-'
rois eta if received eight dollars per diem,
which may .explain its multitude.

E To cure-amongb, l0 relieve all irritations of the
throat, to prevent happens”, to restore to perfect
soundness and health the mast dellpate organization of
the human trains, the Lungs—sass .‘(Yistar’s Balsam of

Wise’s military demonstrations at Huger? .

L

Inn.
The Northern papers have recently repub-

Mercury, announcing, in a noncbaleut style,
that a workman engaged on lho State House, 1
in Columbia, 8.0., was recently seized by a .

twenty-nine lashes, and was tarred and
fcalbcred, and escorted out of the Staten

It took a very few lines to tell this story,
according to the style of the Soulhcrn press,
for it is a trait of Southern chivalry first to
practice cruelty, and then to suppress the

facts.

We have seen this unfortunate man, and
heard his story and looked at his wounds.—
His name is James Powers. He is an intel-
ligent young man, about twenty three years
of' age,a native of Wexford, Ireland, and. a
stone cutter by trade. He went-from Phila-
delphia torthc South,‘aud obtained employ-_
ment in Columbia, where he had worked for
nine months, . .

The only opinion/ho ever expressed against
slavery was that it caused a white laborer in
the South to be looked upon as an inferior
and degraded man. But this was enough 1-

l The remark was reported to the Vigilance

committee, (composed of twelve members.)
who immediately ordered the police to arrest
him. He was seized two miles away from
town, in attempting to escape. He was
brought back. and put in a cell, where he
remained for three «lays, during which time
he was denied the use of pen and ink, and all
communication with his friends outside.

At length he was taken before the Mayor,
Four persons appeared and bore testimony
to the remark which he made. The evidence
was conclusive, He was returned to prison
and kept locked up for six days. During
this time he was allowed only two scanty
mealsa day. and the food was carried tobim
by a negro. He wos then taken out of jail
in the custody of two marshals, who said _to
him. . ’

" You are so fond of niggers that we are
going to give‘ you a nigger-escort.”

He was led through the main street amid a
great crowd, booting and yelling, the mar-
shals compelling two negroes to drag him
thrOJEh lhe muddy places and puddles of
the street, and of the State house yard 1 AI
he was taken past the State House, three
members of the Legislature. including the
Speaker, stood looking on and laughing I—
The crowd graduallyjncreased, until it num-
bered several thousand persons, headed by a
troop of horse. ‘ ,

After a march of three miles out ofthe city
to a place called “the Junction,” the proces-
sion was stopped,~ and preparations were
made for punishment. The p0poulace cried
" Brand him 1” " Burn him 1" " Spike him to
death 1" and made threats against his life by
pointing pistols at his head, and flourishing
sticks in his face.-

The Vigilance Committee“ ordered him to
strip himself naked and forced a negro to as-
sist in faking off the clothes. A cowhide was
then put into the negro’s bands, who was or-
dered to lay on thirty-nine lashes, (not twen:
ty—nine, at was reported,) and to draw blood
at e.ery stroke. Our informant describes the
pain of this infliction as exceeding in severity
anything which he ever suffered before. His
hack and lower limbs are still covered with
scars of the wounds, -

A bucket of tar was then brought, and
two negroes were ordercred to rub it upon his
bleeding skin, and to ’covcr him from head to
waist. His hair and eyebrows Were cloted
with the tar. After this part of the ceremony
was concluded, he was covered with feathers -
His paulaloons were then drawn up' to his
waist, but he was not allowed to put on his
shirt or coat. He was conducted in this ex-
pOsed condition, amid the shouts of the' popu
lace, to the railroad train. and was put on
board the negrocs’ car. The engineer blew a
coutiuuou blast on his whistle to signalizc
the performance. ,

.A ClUZcu of Charleston on the train, who
saw the poor fellow-’s unhappy condition,
stepped iito a neighboring hotel. before the
starting of the cars, and brought a cup ofcof.
fee and some biscuits to relieve the suffer-era’s
iaintuess. It was a timely gift and gratefully
received. But the Southern chivalry gulh.
erod round the Southern gentleman, and
threatened him with summary vengeance if
be repeated his generosity. The exaspeiated
crowd detail ed the train, and called for more
tar and feathers, for a further infliction upon
their bleeding victim. More tar was brought
but more feathers could not be found ; and
after fresh tar was applied, cotton was siuck
upon it instead , ,

When the train started for Charleston, the
mob bade him good by, and told him that
when he reached that city. he'would receive
130 lashes! At every station between 001-
uinbia and Charleston. the engineer blew ‘a
prolonged whistle, and gather a mob to add
fresh insults to the wounded man. At length‘
on arriving, he was met by the police, con-
veyed to prison and detained in his cell for a
week. Here he received, for the first time,
soap and water lo wash off the tar, and oil to
soften his sores. A'mob several times threat-
ened to break into the prison to carry him
out into the street, and make a public spec

c10sely confined. A physician called to see
him.to examine his wounds. who told him
that him that his case wasa mild ohe, compa-
ring it with that of a man who was then lying
in the city hospital from the efiects of 500
lashes, which had almost put an end to his
life! -

On Saturday morning last, at seven o'clock
the poor workman was taken from prison. and
was quietly conducted on board the steamer
for New York. lie arrived in this city‘ on
Monday last, where he is still staying, rec0v-
eriug from the edema of his ill treatment,
and looking for work, which we hope he may
find.

We have only one comment to task on this
case. This man informed us that, in common.
with the great mass of Irishmen in fhiscouu-
try, he had always voted with the Democrat-
ic party. He had long known in Philadel
phia that the Democratic party upheld Slave

Carolina,-thut Slavery crushed the white
laborer, and that the Democratic party; in
upholding Slavery. is therefore the enemy of
Irishmen.who are anatiou of laborers. In
the Southern States, work is looked upon as
dishonorable. and workmen as degraded.—
This is what an Irish stone cutter learned
learned whiie cutting stone in South Caroli-
na. We hope the lesson of his experience
may reach the ears of his countrymen.
JV‘. Y. Independent.

The above is one of the many instances of

the despotic acts of our good Southern de-
mocracy. lovers of the Union and the Consti-
tution; that Constitution which guarantees
citizens of anyone State of our gloriouscon-
federacy the right and privilege of peacefully
travelling or domg any legal business'in all
of the States of this Union. We see that.
emboldened probably by ‘fhe success of‘ this
stroke, they have since denounced and ex-
pelled another poor Irishman, one James
Cranglcms an Abolitiouisfmliosc only offence
waslthaf he tried to collect moncyhoncstly due
him as a clerk, from a firm in Savannah, and
which two Courts in the State had pronoun-
ced just.

We also learn that Capt. Concklin of this
place. a good Democrat, was recently fitted
out by two of our prominent cilizens,‘ also
Democf‘ats,uud oue‘of them a leader in the
party here, and sent down to Virginia for
Oysters. Onhis arrival he paid the necessa-
ry foxes, &c., imposed by the Slate authori-
ties, and prepared for Cystéring. Just as he
had made ready for business, he was wail ed
upon by aCommiltee who inquired his object
in coming there and wherefrom. On his say-
ing that he was from Connecticut. they told
him that he would not be allowed to stay
there, but must leave instanlcr. He informed
them that be had complied with their State
laws, but it was of no avail, his taxes, drc ,
would be refunded, and he must leave. One

upo‘n Mr.'C.'s chin, made the remark, tli

" that is a d—d pretty neck for a rope, an~ -
you will get one around it if you don’t leave
for the North quickg” whichfunder the cir-
cumstances Mr. C. f'cltcompel led to do.

Oh, ye valiant ‘Virglnians, what a people i
A m...- ,eiilion of Blachwood's Edin-
burgh Magazine for 539.09,!er had to be u-
sued. in consequence of lhe demand for the
article on the 'bulllc'of’ the Pcilio.
'———Flowers flung their wealth upon the va-
cant air, and rich men' fling theirsnpon the

i t If 'r. .. ; . ‘ .
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. Ifsnily will truth

$39,009.

5 MESSBH. ED'iTORS :--l’erlilips a few facts respecting the

lishcd a brief paragraph from the Charleston X’

tacle of him a second time. But he was kept .

ry, but he never learned until he wen to South

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For lhe Not-walk Gazette. | Afil‘u—h 0A: mm !

Ilmufcrisw, Jan. 11th, 1800.

longevity of our citizens may have some interest for
the readers of your journal. Within a few weeks one
person has died amongst us in his 86th, another in her
91st, and another in her 102 year. And there on: still
living, within the town, one in'licr 100th year, another
in his 91st, and quite a number between 80 and 90.},

mOb‘ 01] account" as was alleged, 0‘ llflld'llll'. l The record of one of t he pastors of the town exhibits
anti—slavery opinions, and that he received I,

the following facts for the last nine years. (if eighty-
six persons buried by him in that time, thirty-onc—
more than one-third oftlie number—were over 70 years
of age. The average age of the whole number was 50
years, and only ten of the whole number were under
20 years of age.

These facts certainly indicate that our Connecticut
hills are far more conducive to health and long life
than either the crowded cities or the Western prairies.
'And a word is due to the'memory of Mrs. Danton, the
venerable *‘Jcenteuuarian, who has just passed away
from us. Her active life was passed in Wilton,ftnd she
continued a, member of the Congregational Church
there till her death. One of her greatest delights was
to recount the history of that Church from ner youth
to the present time. She' could give the texts and
lieiids of sermons that she heard from different preach-
ers a half a century ago. Her mind was clear, and
her memory wonderful to the last. For a. number of
years past she has resided with her son-in-law, Samuel
Abbott, Ffsq., of this town, and during her residence
here she has endeared herself to many hearts by her
cheerful and earnest piety. She received many visits
from the Christian people of the town, and not a few
from strangers visiting here, whom she never failed to
entertain and edify by her accurate and earnest recital
of long portions of Scripture and favorite riymns, as
well as by the simple and fervent expression of her
faith and hope. .All the people loved her. As was
well said at her funeral, long as she lived, she did not
outlive her usefulness. Her example was both instruc-
tive and impressive. It shone brightly to the last,lika
a candle that is set upon a candlestick, and “ girl-iii
light unto all that are in the house. ” (l.

———9. «Own——
Ibr the Norwalk Estelle.
wa HAvsl, Jan. 14th, 1860.

M8838. Romans :—1 wish to call the attention of
your readers to the series of Agricultural Lectures to
be delivered here during the next month. The course

' has been designed and arranged with much care, and

the best of talent is engaged lo lecture on all impor-_
tant Agricultural topics, on everything that pertains
to the prosperity of farmers and farming, in the pro-
ductions both of land and live stock There are to be
some sixty Lectures, followed by familiar conversa-
tions on the subjects treated on. They. are intended
to occupy shunt two weeks. The whole cost for the
course is but ten dollars, while board can be obtained
in the city at from three to four dollars per week. it
may be long before those interested in Agriculture in
this State will have such another opportunity. Let
them improve it now.

The Lectures are to he delivered in what was for-

“ merly the Medical College, but has now been enlarged

and remodeled for the use of the Scientific Department.
The Medical Department have recently entered their
new College, a handsome and commodious building on
York street The Commencement exercises of this
department occurred on Thursday evening, when the
Valedictory Address was delivered, and degrees con-
ferred on successful candidates.

The number of students in all branches was never
so large as at present, being when the last Catalogue
was published some seven hundred A member of the
Freshman Class named Londer,from Pennsylvania, was
drowned on the Schuylkill during the last vacation,
while skating.

The new Gymnasium is nearly completed. It is a.
fine large building and will when completed be second
to none in this country. The basement story contains
eight bowling alleys, ‘which are in constant operation
from eight A. M. until ten P. M.

The city is about to build an expensive iron bridge
in place of the woo den one on Chapel-st, by the Rail-
road Depot. -

. We had good sleighing here until the beginning of
this week, since 'which time we have had a mixtur - of
rain, mist and slush, the meanest weather imaginable,
which has now given place to a few inches of snow.

0.
Ibr the Normal]: Gazelle.
NEW Yolk, January 13th, 1800.

. Dun MESRS. Enrrons :—Having read an article in
your paper of January 10th, headel, “ A Chorister
Loose,” concerning a “Card” by John C. Devoy, I
beg leave to state that the author of sai I card is a per-
.sonal acquaintance of mine, and I naturally feel that
it devolves upon me to'vindicafe his literary charac-
ter from the erroneous judgement to which the bare
publication of one only cflris compositions, and that in
prose, must subject. him ; and more especially is the
injustice apparent, when it is so easy to be seen that
liis.slrmgllt lies in the poetical line, as you will judge
from the sample which ‘I enclose and which I think
'should be afforded a place in the Gazette, as some sort
of reparation for the injury which has bel‘n done.

You will observe that Mr. Dovoy was at the time a.
teacher and 1 would therefore suggest as an appropri- _
ate title : “The Schoolmaster Abroad.” This poem
w s printed at the expense of the author and gratuitous-
ly distribu ed among the discossolate friends of the do
ceased, witirthe expectation that its effect would be
that of “ oil and wine.” A limited number only was
struck off and the few that are now extant are preser-
ved with much tenderness and esteemed far beyond ~
any similar production that it has been the lot of inor-
tal to endure.

Very truly yours kc., * '

 

LINES
Suggested on fhe'sudden death of Master John H-
Rhoades, a pupil in Ward School No. 4, New York, oc-
casioned by the accidental discharge ofa pistol on the
4th of July, 1855, by his teacher, .1. C. Dlvor :

’Twas on a bright day in the month of July
As usual we met our number quite full ;

Hope and joy beaming forth from every eye,
With anticipatious for the day-just in view.

We engaged in our studies throughout the daylong,
Until the hour arrived to bring to a c_iose,

With satchel in hand from school we departed.
To assemble at home with hearts delighted.

From school we departed in our much loved way,
Bidding adieu to our teacher at the clinic of the_
day.
With his smiles going with us as we passed from
his sight,
Making our hearts glad for the visions of night.

The sun fast sinking upon the Western sky,
When the signal for the coming day drew _nigli,
Remembering the freeman's heart of freedom’s
By the clamorous noise from the cannon’s mouth .
That day approaches—but oh l that eventful dill“
So long looked for by many with much delight.
With minds soaring high and enjoy'ments in sight
No sooner grasps, but destined not to stay.

The foul destroyer, death met one in the w ay,

All buoyantwith hope and vigorous in mind,
One, too, of our band so social through the day
. \Vlie when we left expected to meet again.

But ab 1 he is gone—his spirit it has fled
To the God who didst give and who dust take away;
Ho’s hid fromour view, he remains with the dead
And awaits the lust ti ump of‘ the great dread day.

His seat is left vacant—his place we cannot fill :
His examples with us which we'll cherish still ;

Ills memory is dear, we’ll not forget the spot,
Near unto Greenwood is selected plot.

We plucked from his grave before we departed,
The “ evergreen” to his memory must dear,
We have dated it, we‘ll think ofit ever,
In seasons l0 come for very many years.

‘Now mother, sister. teacher and classmates all,
A voice speaks unto us; of’a mighty call,
Be ready—foi- the summons awaiting each,
Like unto this one, a lesson it dotli leach.
————oe<.>¢o———— -

“The Hartford papers have lately adopted an orig-
inal and very refined style of reporting police mat-
ters, street fights. &c , which cannot fail to give great
satisfaction to their in telligeiit readers. We give the
following extract from an account ofa late street fight
published in Saturday’s Couranl, as a specinien :—

" A scuffle ensued, during which the floored individ.
al by a lively turn seated himself upon the body of bin
assailant and coiniuciioed Vininying the cmmlenanccqf

hixfoe with mosaic work of brill ianl hues. The rowdy ’s
comrade came to his assistance, when something hit
him and he lay down. The next morning, 3 my and
coat all that remain-'d of the combatants were found
upon the walk in front of the cigar store.”

And the followfug from the Press :--

Bottom—Several (which means six) drunk and va.
grant individuals were dishosed ofst the police court,
yesterday. Among them was a shoemaker bound for
He claimed to be a minor (as did a major por-
tion of the parties) and the appointment ofa (listing.
uislied legal gentleman of this city as his guardian, fdl-
ed gentleman called the attention of
the court to the fact that his client was a shoemaker
and was "‘ pegging” his way to Lynn ; “awl sew”
that the H sole” object of the accused who was .. foot-
ing" the whole distance. was to seek -- quarters” for
the night. The yhpla stgry of his vagrant: had been
“ vampsd” u by theoficers. Ha type! the effect

we Id not be sat-in ourtlie court, and brought thp
“ll‘ll‘fltll” of his urgent to an. "end." Prisoner

lowed The learn

convicted.
. MW

—-Iu what ship,and what capacity .do young
ladies like to. engage? in courtship, as mar-.
ry-neis. _ - . ' . _

rug-Among those buried in the ruins .of the
Fifbfiui'lon ills, at Lawrence, was a young
lady from i-id‘g‘e'pbrt, 33010,}; .Bradley. . She
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. now to determine._ Probably 200 persons, the 1

l
Fall of a great Cotton Mill at Lawrence. '1

Mass.—— 700 persons in the Ruins—The
Ruins on Fire.

The most uppaling disaster which has,
probably, occurred on land during the pres.
ent cenlury, happened at Lawrence, Mass.,on
Tuesday affcrrloon'last. . i ,

At about 5 o’clock the l‘cmberton Cotton
Mills, while between 000 and 7'00 operatives
wore at work inside, '0” with a crush. bury-
ingncarly every person if. lhe ruins. The
immense mills are a. complete wreck—level-
led wilh the ground. Some‘200 or 300 090'
pleare missing, and are supposed to be buried
in the ruins. . .

A special reporter from Boston writes the
following account from the spot, a few hours
after the catastrophe :

The scenes at the place of" disaster beggar
all description. Some two or more acres of
ground are piled up with every description
of machinery and parts of the fallen building
Huge bonfires are burning to light some two
or three thousand persons, who are working
for lhcir. lives to rescue the unfortunate per-
sons, many of whom are still crying and beg-
ging to be released from their tortures. h‘v-
cry few minutes some poor wretch is dragged
from his or her prison, and it is heart-reading
to hear their cries as they are drawn out with
legs and arms crushed or torn out. One man
shockingly mangled and partly under lhe
bricks, deliberately cut his own 1hroat Io end
his agony. The whole city seams in mourn-
ing. Many are running through the streets.
and with frantic cries are searching the ruins.
Temporary hospitals have been arranged for
fhose who have been taken from the ruins.

Since we left the scene of the disaster re-
ports arc constantly coming to 11s of more
dead can dying. Surgeons are coming from
every quarter, and everything that can be
.dons at such a painful moment is being done
for the suffering victims of the fearful ca-
lamity, the mystery of which will have to be
cleared up by an inquest.

Eleven e’clork.P. JIL—About ten minutes
of five o’clock our citizens were alarmed by
the cry of fire which proceeded from the
Pembeiton Mills. about four-fifths of which
had fallen, a shapeless mass. without the
slightest warning to the near 800 human be-
ings who were then at work. The building.
had never been considered as staunch as it
ought to have been It was built about
seven years since,'and was then thought a
sham. Indeed, before thCmachinery was put
in, the wall spread to such a degree that
some 22 tons of iron stays were put in to save
the building from falling by its own weight.
It fell inwards, as if powerfully drawn that
way. The fire companies at once repaired to
the spot, but there being no fire they at once
set to work with a will to remove the rubbish
They very soon reached some of the rooms,
so that the dead and wounded were taken out
as fast as they could be reached.

The City Hall has been converted into a
temporary hospital for the dead and wounded
to remain until recognized by friends, al-
though scores are recognized and taken at
once to their homes,

The laboring force of the mill was about
nine hundred and sixty.and it is supposed
that aboutseven hundred human beings were
actually buried in the ruins.

A New Horror ! The Ruins on Fire !

About half past 9 P. M. fire was discovered.
This additional horror. although somewhat
- apprehended, struck terror to hearts that had
before been hopeful of saving more lives.
Still the work of removal went briskly on.

Those near the breaking out of the fire
were almost on the point of. extricating a
woman not badly hurt, but the flames drove
them back, and the woman is supposed to
have perished in the flames when delivery
seemed so near.

At 12 o’clock, midnight, calamity succeeds
calamity. In ten minutes the whole mass of
ruins had become one sheet of flames. The
screams and moanings of the poor buried
creatures were distinctly heard, but no power'
could save them.

Half past one J1 .Jl!.—The Pemberlon Mills
are now a flat, smoking mass. Brick, mortar
and human bones are promiscuously mingled.
Probably not less than two hundred human
beings perished in the flames. The fire made
quick work, burning not only the main buil-
dings as they lay flat. but spreading to the
material that in kindness been removed.

Two o’clock. .d. .M.-Fire companies are
present from all the neighboring towns. Be-
tweenf'orty and fifty physicians are in atten-
dance ut the City Hall and other places,
wherever the injured need their services.
The ruins having burned up. it will be many
days before a true knowledge of the killed
and wounded can he arrived at. .

The fire which finally sacrificed the buried
human beings,caught. without doubt,from a
lantern burning fluid. which was accidentally

rapped. use fireman dropped dead in the
street.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.
Two Hundred Killed, and One Hundred
and Fifty Wounded.

Further details of the awful calamity at
Lawrence are furnished by the Boston eve-
ning pipers of Wednesday. We take from
the Traveller, Courier, and Journal all that
is of most interest concerning .the dreadful
event.

run FALL or run surmise.

At about 5 o’clock, Tuesday afternoon,
when the mill was being lighted. and was
then in full operation. disaster, with ouesud-
den crash, criook its hundreds of inmates.
The fallin of the walls commenced at the
corner, where a portion of the
,iif‘toen feet high, was seen by
bystanders force itself outwardly. In less
th in a minute hereafter, the walls of the
mills, with the e \ option of the chief wing,
were precipitated'nto a hideous mass of ru-
ins. The sound w 8 board quite a distance.
and was regarded by many individuals as
the shock of an earthquake.

The shock was very sudden and lhe crash
immediate. Those of the inmates who are
able to give a definite account of the sounds
and scenes of that dreadful moment. unite in
this statement. -

J ohn Ward, who was seriously injured,tells
a straightforward story. He was in acard
room in the second story, with the second
oscrsecr, about to light up that room. They
heard a slight noise. and looking up, he saw
some shafts falling doWn. He was astounded
with what he saw, and seeing the oeilingcom-
ing down, while the floor beneath him gave
way, he stood terrified. He had no power-to
move. The next moment he saw the overseer
running from the-room, and he followed him.
He went towards a window and it fell obi.—
He gs.e up all hopes of life, but still pressed
on towards that part of the build ng where
his wife worked. A pile of ruins ready to.
fall hung over his brad. He was struck on
the head a severe blow. and lost all con
sciousness for a lime. When he finally came
to his senses. he found himself in the ruins,
under an immense grindstoue, which had
shielded him from the falling ruins. He rc-
mcmbers of" bearing no cries for help,but
as he worked his way out of" the building he
saw lbree women lying dead. He thinks he
saw as many as fifteen persons in the weaving
room go down in the general wreck. This
man found his wire at the City Hall.seriously
but not futullyjnjurcd, and fbunkfulncss was
the emotion alone exhibilcd by either.

' Some cxnibitfons of heroism and presence
of mind accompanied the spectacle of the
Wild multitude. Miss Olive Bridges, of Cola
is, Me., who worked in the filth story, seized
the hoisting chain of the elevator and went
safely down five stories to the ground,aud
ercaped from the building Without injury:—
Through the whole night she was at the City
Huffman-ing like an angel of mercy among
fhe couches of lhe sufferersuntlcfpplmg eve-
ry want, relieving pain. and breathing words
of comfort and consolation to the wounded

d d in
anWhip illic alarm from the disaster was first
given in Lawrence, it was supposed to be
caused" by the explosion of_a bonfer at the
mill ;-then that the structure. was in flames.
After lhe true ause became known,. lhe
alarm which before existed was intensilwd
into a panic. fearful fo coulem late. Eye
witnesses of the scenes say that it would be
hard to conceive ifs parallel. The whole
town turned out an naasse,uud at once the
work of clearing away the ruins was com-
menced by thousands of willing hands. The
alarm spread rapidly throughout lhe neigh-
boring towns, and people came flocking in
from all quarters. to see and hear and do.—
While there was yet hope of rescuing tee

our sufferers whose voices were constantly.
coming if imip beneath the ruins appealing
for relic . all WOIKE‘l With 8 Will ”If.“ ““5
almost incredible. How many of the proba-
bly 700 under the ruins had thus becu'relcns-
ell-'- dead. injured or dying when the torn-
ble fire broke out at 9 o'clock.“ is imporeihle

 

 
 

~ of saving more lives.

THE FIRE.

But the most appalling spectacle remained.
Sad and terrible us was the wreck of the
buiding, it was nothing to the swift confin-
griitiou that subsequently swept War the
combustible ruins, destroying its hundrcds of
victims within sight and hearing of the count.-
less throng who had been laboring for their
rescue. Before the fire broke out. people had
been able to enter the ruins and in many ca-
ses pass refreshments in to those who, from
their situation, could not he immediately re
leased. There were many parties thus situa
ted in open spaces formedby the material of
the building as it fell in.

Though confined within solid brick walls.
“SEISl-uuce had nearly reached them when illlf
fire broke out. At a late hour a man entered
"I“: films “"3ng a camphene lantern.—
Stopping down} ‘0 give water to a person
buried the??? he dropped the lantern and the
cottoa was Instantly ignited. This was the
easterly caruer of the building, and the wind
blowmg fl'Om that quarter. the fire in a few
minutes swept over the entire ruins and the
remaining Wing. This additional horror, al-
lhOUEh ”' had been.50mewhat apprehended.
struck terror to hearts that had been hopeful
_ The force pumps and
all the engines which were on the ground at
once got streams of water on, and kept pour-
ing on torrents, until at midnight, it was
hoped the fire had been stayed. Volumes of
smoke and steam were still rising. however,
and a few moments later the flames broke out
afresh and with such increased violence that
all hope fled from that instant. The screams
and moans of the poor creatures, burning and
scalding in their charuel house, could be dis-
tinctly heard above the roar of the flames and
the shouts of the firemen, zealously and-des.
perately renewing their labors. Words are
uimvaifing to describe the excitement of than
fearful period ; but it lasted only a few
moments and all was over to the wretched
sufferers within, the wreck, now forever
released from the pains of earth. .

A citizen who risked his own life in attempt
to save the operatives from the burning pile,
worked his way into an inner apartment , and
looking through a hole, saw two men and a
woman walking to and fro apparently entire-
ly unhurt. He reached through and took
them by the hand, and proceeded with vigor
ous blows to make a hole in the partition. A
moment too soon the flames sprang up where
he stood. The flood'of water poured in upon
it blinded him, and be rushed from the place,
warned by the engineer, and narrow] y esca-
ping with his life. ‘

At' the first breaking out of the fire tele»
.grams were sent to Manchester, Lowell and
other places, for assistance, and as soon as
possible engines were on the ground in re
sponse to the call. For‘a time the flames
threatened the Washington mills and the
Duck mill adjoining, but these were saved.—
The ofilce of the Pemberton mill, a little re-
movedlrom the fallen building, was however,
destroyed, and with it nearly all the books of
the concrrn, including the pay roll, which
alone would show to a certainty the number
of operatives in employment. The firemen
bad a night of most severe toil, which they
encounfered mati’ully, and it should be men-
tioned that when they were compelled to de-
sist fora time, the women of the place put
their hands to the brakes and supplied the
vacant posts.

THE NUMBER KILLED.

From the facts furnished the Courier and
Traveller, it would appear that the whole
number killed and missing is 115,and 165
wounded. A later accoant increases the
number of dead bodies alv eady brought to the
City Hall to 130, and a careful canvass oi the
oi 1y yesterday, shows that at least 162 per-
sons are missing. The whole. number of
deaths will probably not fall short 01'200, as
many of the injured were very badly hurt.

There were, as nearly as can be ascertain-
ed, some 800 persons in the building at the
time of the catastrophe. .Upwards of one
hundred dead and wounded were taken to
the City Hall ; the other dead and wounded
taken out were removed to private dwellings
about town. There were manv who extrica~
ted themselves from the ruins, and not being
severely injured have dispOsed of themselves
according to their-own choice. In the exciled

been impossible to make up an absolutely
correct statement of the number of victims

Wednesday, in canvassing the city, and gives
as the result of his labors. 115 dead or missing.
(which is :he same thing.) and 165 wounded.
some of whom will die. but the largest num
ber survive. These figures aie generally be
lieved to be but too lamentably below the
mark.
nnLP son rns sorrsnsns.

David Sears presided over' a meeting of
twenty gentlemen assembled at Boston,.on
Wednesday afternoon, who subscribed $2000
for the relief of sufferers in the Lawrence cuv
lamity. and appointed a committee to solicit
further contributions.

'The New England Society for the Promo.
lion of Manufactures and the Mechanic Arts
held its annual meeting at Boston. Wednesday
afternoon, but voted 'to dispense with the
annual dinner, appropriating the money thus

The members also made up an additional
purse of $5,000 for the same charity.
Loss AND INSURANCE. . _

The total loss of property by the catastro-
phe is put down at $600,000. . There was an
insurance of 8415.000, but the insurance will
not apply except to the actual damage by the
confiagration after the mill had fallen, which
will be a comparatively small amount.

Tun Pannsaron Minis—This concern, the
main building of which fell, belongs to the
“ Pemberton Manufacturing Co.” . The main
building was five stories high, or about 66 ft.,
and covered on area of 284 by 84' feet. Ad~
joining it- were the Cloth and Counting Room,
104 by 54 feet. and four stories high ; the
Repair Shop. 64 by 30 feet, one story high,
and several other buildings, all of which are
a mass of ruins. The Bay State Co’s build-
ings are next to the Pembertou Mills. on the
west. and those of the Plymouth Duck 00., on
the east. The premises of‘ the Pemberton
Mills were well furnished with hydrants and
other precautions against fire. Six hundred
persons were employed in the concern. The
Mills were erected in 1854. at an expense of
nearly $1.000 000, and were carried on by a
corporation until the crisis of ’57, when they
were stopped. and the corporation suspended
payment. Subsequently the Mills were sold
at auction in Boston. and bid ofi’ at $120,000
by David Nevins. Esq.,who is ‘now a joint
owner of the property with Geo. Howe, Esq.,
the former Treasurer of the Mill.

—-—~—-o-<e
Toucnssixo INFANTS—A writer .on
physiological subjects, in Blackwood
gives the, following advice to mothers on
the above subject :

“ Maternal instinct‘has in all ages' and
in all climates taught women to keep
their infants warm. Philosophers have
at various times fried by logic and rhet-
oric, to thwart this instance. Philos0phy
has been eloquent on the virtue of mak-
ing infants “ hardy” and 'zlias declared
cold bulbs and slight clothing must be
as “strongtliening’ to the infant as to
the adult. Listen to none of these, ye
mothers 1’ They are '.to be suspected
when they are talking physiology, for in
all circumstances they are the worst of'
guides, deceiving themsclles and you by
that fatal facility which intellectual pow

or gives them of making ignorance look
like knowledge, and of so speciously ar-
rayiug absurdity that it looks like plain
common sense. It is bad, very bad, to
listen to grandmothers, mothers-iii-law
and . nurses, for their heads are mostly
mere lumber rooms of crotchets and ab»
surdities ; but it is better sometimes to
lsten to them than to philosophers who
inspire more respect, and cannot irrever-
eutly be treated as ‘fiold women." ‘ Mater-
nal instinct must not be perverted by
such unphysiological teachings as that of
“ hardening infants.” It is true that
strong infants canen’dure this process,
but it is certain. that in all cases it is
more or less injurious ; for the universal

 

'law is that the younger the animal the

feebler its power of resisting cold in Spite
of its possessing a higher temperature
than the adult.” '

 

 

a.»
. , . .Goyernmént pays the California and
Oregon members of Co‘ ngress some $37,-
000 a session 'as mileage, and yet it is a
notorious fact, now again declared by

 

 

 

most of them alive and many of them butl

slightly injured, still remained in accessible

arts of the wreck “months, last touch of the.

 

assuming pagcl swept over them.

a
t .

b. ‘

such good Democratic authorities as the
Oregon Statesman and Sacramenfo
Union, that all these members travel on
free} passes. ‘ '

and unsettled condition of the town, it has-

but Mayor Saunders employed his police. on'

to be spent to the sufferers by the catastrophe;

Perpetual Motion—Death of it. In-
' ventor. '

 

About six ycirs ago, we published the first
description of a machine. invented by Mr.
Jamcst. Hendricl- son, of Freehold, New Jer-
sey. “to go itself.” A model which Mr. Hon.
drickson made, after patient whittling for.
forty years. was brought info our office. and
'We found lhat it would go without any im-
pulse from withoutand would not stop unless
it Will! blocked The power was seli’~cmifain-
ed and self-adjusted, and gave a sufijcient
force to carry ordinary clockwork, without
any winding up or, replenishing. In short
we saw no reason why it would not go 1'
it was worn out. Our announcement of a
fact brought a great deal of ridicule ; thein-
credulous pointed at all of' the prefect; to
obtain a‘perpelual motion which .hiid failed
in the past, and predicted the same disgrace
for that new invention. Many scientific gen-
tlemen visited it, and although they could
not dispute the fact that it was “going," they
nearlyall attributed the movement to Home
hidden spring or ingenious trickery. The in?
vector was an old man, who had spent his
whole life in pursuit of the object he had now
attained. He had become so innch accustom.
ed to ridicule, that he wasvrry patient under
it ; and. the only reply be made to the cavi-
fers, who pronounced the thing impossible,
was—"but it does go !°’ The notice we prin.
ted attracted the attention of the curious,and
for the first time in his history, the inventor
found a profit in his handiwork. He was in-

bitious of new inventions, and wherever he
went, his machine formed one ef the chief at-
traclIODS: Science. however. turned up its
9058 I“ lllmfind determined to put him down.
the professors were all against him, and as
they pronounced the hole thing n'humbug,
they were_ determine to prove the. truth .of
the assertion. Accordingly. Mr. Hendrickeou
was seized at Key ort, New Jersey,-for prac-
"0108 "Jllg_glery,’ under the “Act for sup-
pressing vncc and immorality.” At the tri-
a1, several builders, mill-wrights,' engineers
and. philosophers were called, who testified
positively that no such motive power as that
ailedged, could drive the machine, and that
there must be some concealed spring within
the wooden cylinder. There was no help for
it, and the imposture must be exploded. Au
axe was brought, and the cylinder splintered"
into fragments. Alas, for the philosophers,
there was no concealed spring, and them».
chine had gene of itself! But alas! for poor
Hendricksou, the machine would go no more.

With trembling band, he again resumed his'
spectacles and his jack knife. His model once
more completed, he had a new machine con-
structed of brass, hollow throughout, so that
the eye could on mine '8" its' parts. This
was brought to our office nearly two years
ago, when we noticed it once more, and gave
to our readers some of the facts we have now
re-called. '

The inventor was trying to secure a patent
for this discovery,but the work went on slow~
1y. The Patent Office required a working
model to test the principle, and. one was sent
to Washington. The momeutlhe blocks we
taken ont.the wheels started off like ‘ athing
of life,(Z and during the ten months that the
model remained in the Patent Office, it never
once stopped to breathe. [The Scientific
American denies this statement.] The inven—
tor had perfected ‘ two machines, and made a
very comfortable livelihood exhibiting them,

for which it is'peculiarly well adapted.

Age crept upon him, however, before this
point was reached ; his highest art could not
make his heart beatings perpetual ; and'last
Satuiday afternoon he breathed his last,in
the old hu-mestead at Freehold.

He had been so much persecuted by the in-
credulous,that he had provided a secret place
beneath the floor of his shop where his last
two machines were deposited. It was‘in the
form of a vault,covared by a trap door,which
was locked, and the floor so replaced as to
avoid suspicion. After his last illnesscom-
menced, he made known this secret to his
family, who examined the spot carefully, and
found lhe contents exactly as described. The
night after his death the shop was broken
open. the floor taken up, the trap door pried
off. and both models stolen. It is probable
that the family in their visits had not taken
the same precaution as the inventor and some
prying eyes had discovered the secret.

Fortunately, the drawings are preserved,

and there is a little machine, one of the earli-
est made, now running is Brooklyn,where it
has kept. up its ceaseless ticking for nearly
six years.
--Mr.Hendrickson leaves a family of four
sons and four daughters, all of them. we be.
lievc, given to inventions. Had he died ten.
years ago. how emphatically would it have
been said that his life had been wasted in
"the hopeless efforts to obtain perpetual mo-
tion.”-.M:io York Journal of Commerce.

”We well remember a “‘seasou” we
once had with the. old man at the Stale Fair
at Utica. and of his kind. patient and unor-
tenfalious way of instructing our scepticism
into the full belief. of the possibility of per-
petual motion, which he did. The thing a...
accomplished, as stated above, and that too
without hidden springs, magnets, or any oth-
er appliances affecting or destroying the per-
fection of his triumph. We' shall not soon

version to the opinion that a “ perpetual

in actual operation, and would keep on going.
till it was stopped. We soon after met the
Great Showman,nsd inspired him with our.
faith so far that in about a fortnight thereaf-
ter shall-dozen machines were running in the
Museum. Sceptics and philosophers may

ing seen fl. and knowing the thing to heve'
been sufficiently accomplished, there is an
end to the matter With us, as there must be

theory to base an opinien upon, should have
this machine set before their eyes, and its

reason. .
- -—-oe<.>o‘——-
. Progress.

In 1854 there were nineteen Democratic
Senators'from the North, twelve of them
voted for the Nebraska hill Those nine-
teen Senators were Allen and James of
Rhode Island, Norris and Williams of
New Hampshire, Hamlin of Maine, Tou-
cey of Connecticut,Thompson and Wright
of NewJersey,Broadhead of Pennsylvania
Cass and Stuart, of Michigan Bright and
Pettit of Indians, Douglas and Shields of
Illinois, Jones and Dodge of Iowa and
Walker and Dodge of Wisconsin. The
list reads like a directory to the cats;
combs, or the mortuary statistics at a
college commencement. What a melan- '
clioly row of dead men ! ‘Alleu, James,
Norris, Williams,- Wright, Broadhead,
Pcttit, Joucs,.Wulker and both Dodges
are not only dead but forgotten. ’l‘oucey

but were embalmed for Buchanan’s cab-
inet, and are now mummies. Shields
was knocked down and left for dead by
the people of Illinois, but having escaped~
into Minnesota he was again made Sena.
for, but has now been notified that a
second political martyrdom awaits him.
Hamlin became a staunch Republican,
and is still honored by his State. Bright ,
was condemned by the people, and now

s ts in the Senate in defiance of all law,with

another such squatter,Mr. Fitch. Thomp-

sou still survives, but Stuart has fallen.

Douglas, the .arcli agitator, the worst

demagogne of all, was, condemned by. the.
people, a clear' majority of five thousand

being cast against him by his own State,

but he managed to creep into the Senate

again through the present villainous ap-

portionmept,

Dead ! Dead ! Dead 1 With steady
inevitable tramp,fhe cause of Republcau-
ism ‘ marches on, and crushes one after-
nnothcr the demagogues who have “flight
the South that the North lips no rights,
honesty and no backboue- 103““ Of
nineteen Democrats from the Ndflllem
States: of that (lay there are now but five
in the Senate, and two Of them IN squat-
ters who have no right in the Senate,while
another was sent to the Senate in de—
fiance of the popular will. Bigler and
Thompson are rightfully members, though
they are already condemned .by their;
constituents, Douglas, Bright andli‘itch \

 

vited to be present at various fairs and cxhi- '

prosecuting hiseff‘orte meanwhile to secure ,
his patentinlendingto apply it to clockwork,

about in derision of the theoretical, but haw-'-

to all who. having had nothing but abstract '

principles of momentum explained to their

forget. either, the laughs of derision at our .
expense, following the publication of our com "

motion machine” had been contrived and was .

and Cass were beheaded by the people, ' ' '