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—but that’s between ourselves. When I
got up to the State House I found them at
work on the Rail Road—busy enough I
can tell you—they got a part of it made
already. - I found most all the folks kept
their hats on except the man who was
talking out loud and the man he was
talking to—all the rest seemed to be busy
about their own consarns. As I didn’t
see any body to talk to, I kept my hat on
and took a seat, and look’d round to see
what was going on. I hadn’t been com
fortably there long before I saw a slick
headed, sharp eyed little man, who seemed
to have the principal management of the
folks, looking at me pretty sharp, as much
as to say who are you I but I said nothing
and looked tother way—at last he touched
me on the shoulder—i thought he was
feeling of the puckers. Are you a mem
ber I says he—sartin says I—how long
have you taken your seat 1 says he 1
About ten minutes, says I. Are you
qualified ? says h°. I guess not, says I.
And then he left me. I didn’t know ex
actly what this old gentleman was after—
but he soon returned and said it was prop
er for me to be qualified before I took a
seat, and I must go before the Governor 1
By Jing ! I never felt so before in all my
born days. As good luck would have
it he was beckoned to come to a man at
the desk, and as soon as his back was
turned I gave him the slip. Just as I was
going off, the gentleman who bought my
turkies of the 4th staller took hold of my
arm, and I was afraid at first that he was
going to carry me to the Governor—but
he began to talk as sociable as if we had
been old acquaintances.—How long have
you been in the house, Mr Smith, says he.
—My name is Grant, said I, beg your
pardon says he—l meant Grant. It’s no
offence, says I, I hav’nt been here long.
Then says he in a very pleasant way, a
few of your brother members are to take
pot-luck with me to-day and I should be
happy to have you join them. What’s
pot-luck said I. O, a family dinner, says
he—no ceremony. I thought by this time
I was well qualified for that without going
to the Governor. So ssys I, yes, and
thank ye to. How long before you’ll want
me, says I. At three o’clock says he, and
gave me a piece of paste board with his
name on it—and the name of the street,
and the number of his house, and said
that would show me the way. Well, says
I, I dont know of nothing that will keep
me away. And then we parted, and I
<»außuic<aM« liking; to mm. After
strolling round and seeing a great many
things about the State House and the
marble image of Gen. Washington, stand
ing on a stump in the Porch, I went out
into the street they call Bacon street, and
my stars ! what swarms of women folks
I saw all drest up as if they were going to
meeting. You can tell Polly Sandburn,
who you know is no pink stern, that she
needn’t take on so about not being so gen
teel in her shapes, for the genteelest ladies
here beat her as to size all hollow. I
dont believe one of ’em could get into
our fore door—add as for their arms—l
shouldn’t want better measure for a bush
el of meal than one of their sleeves could
hold. I shant shell out the bushel of corn
you say I’ve lost on Speaking Rugghs at
that rate. But this puts me in mind of
the dinner which Mr. wants I should
help the General Court eat.
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H takes that little
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wont be a
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jßet thro’quicker,
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’■that it wouldnt
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wanted to get
■ancle Nat would
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Hentioning on the
■ming after I got
H street. I then
■ curiously as you
Has down in the
■i enough to look
and now and
■ with the clock in
'■near right as ever
Kept up to me and
■lsays I, for what 1
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■fair shake—upon
■ watch and live
■ ' He gave me
He him the watch.
Hr watch, and says
■isn’t got none—
■ laugh on me.—
H that lose. Soon
Hl over the feller
■ch to his "ear—
H-no says I not
H / began to laugh
Hl couldnt start it
■mb nail into the
Hn says he ? Not’s
■ then the laugh
I turn. Dont you
H Brittania pretty
■then I thought I’d
■d of turkies and
■ed to have gone
Hy load, but Mr.
■ go down to the
Bd folks enough to
■So down I goes,
■feller, with an eye
■is a steeltrap for a
■ 4th staller) came
■ before you could
■ struck a bargain
■d come to weigh
■ I should get as
Bn any of us calcu
■ and had the apple
Bl thought I’d jist
B worked his card
■d a price for the
■side the market
Bht I never expec
■ the 3d staller
By turkies all sorted
yig so much better
B*n ’em. Pretty
Bd the 3d staller
Bies? Why, says
■Hng better than
Bite’s some ’twas
Be for you. You
Bog it’s you. I’ll
■ •lie gentleman, as
■eral Court to dine
Bit well. I shant
y an old customer,
B traded ; and in
Bn hour or more,
Baskets at that rate.
B@d a pound, and
Bn a little too much
■Ws no use to cry
went up to the
Bn was going on
B get off my apple
Boeing a sign of
B stepped in and
B a whole suit of
Bh from top to toe,
ye (which didn’t
Be.) — Accordingly
Ba new suit, and
B I didn’t like the
B were so dreadful
j yaid that all was
y the apple sauce
Bgets down into it
I took out the piece of paste board and
began to inquire my way and got along
completely, and found the number the
first time—but the door was locked, and
there was no knocker, and I thumpt with
rtty whip handle, but nobody come. And
says I to a man going by, don’t nobody
live here, and says he yes. Well how do
you get in ? Why, says he, ring, and says
I ring what ? And says he the bell. And
says I where’s the rope ? and says he pull
that little brass nob; and so I gave it a
twitch, and Pin sure a bell did ring : and
who do you think opened the door with a
white apron afore him 1 You could’nt
guess for a week a Sundays—so I’ll tell
you. It was Stephen Furlong, who kept
our district school last winter, for 5 dollars
a month, and kept bachelor's hall in aunt
Jerusha’s tother end of the old house, and
helped tend for Gineral Coombs a training
days and make out muster rolls. We was
considerably struck at first, both of us ;
and when he found I was going to eat
dinner with Mr. -- - - and the General
Court, he thought it queer kind of doings
—but says he I guess it will be as well
for both of us not to know each other a
bit more than we can help. And says I
with a wink, you’re half right, and in I
went. There was nobody in the room
but Mr. and his wife, and not a
sign of any dinner to be seen any where
—tho’ I thought now and then when a
side door opened, I could smell cupboard
as they say. I thought I should be puz
zled enough to know what to say, but I
had’nt my thoughts long to myself. Mr.
has about as nimble a tongue as
you ever heard, and could say ten words
to my one, and I had nothing to do in
the way of making talk. When he found
out that I was from Hiram, he seemed to
be at a loss to know what part of Massa
chusetts that was, and I did’nt think it
worth a while to tell him without consult
ing Stephen. Just then I heard a ring
ing, and Stephen was busy opening the
door and letting in the General Court, who
all had their hats off, and looking pretty
scrumscious, you may depend. I did’nt
see but I could stand alongside of ’em
without disparagement, except to my boots
LANCASTER, MASSACHUSETTS, TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 13, 1830.
which had just got a lick of beeswax and
tallow—not a mite of dinner yet, and I
began to feel as if 'twas nearer supper
time than dinner-time—when all at once
two doors flew away from each other right
into the wall, and what did I see but one
of the grandest thanksgiving dinners you
ever laid your eyes on—and lights on the
table, and silver candlesticks and gold
lamps over head—the window shutters
closed—l guess more than one of us start
ed at first, but we soon found the way to
our mouths—l made Stephen tend out for
me pretty sharp, and he got my plate fill
ed three or four times with soup, which
beat all I ever tasted. 1 shan’t go through
the whole dinner again to you—but I am
mistaken if it cost me much for victuals
this week, if 1 pay by the meal at Mr.
Doolittle’s, who comes pretty near up to
a thanksgiving every day. There was
considerable talk about stock and manu
factories, and lier bilities, and remedies,
and a great loss of stock. I thought this
a good chance for me to put in a word—
for I calculated that I knew as much
about raising stock and keeping over as
any of ’em. Says Ito Mr , there’s
one thing I’ve always observed in my ex
perience in stock—just as sure as you try
to keep over more stock than you have
fodder to carry them well into April, one
half will die on your hands, to a sartinty
—and there’s no remedy for it—l’ve tried
it out and out, and there’s no law that can
make a ton of hay keep over ten cows,
unless you have more carrots’and potatoes
than you can throw a stick at. This made
some of the folks stare who didn’t know
much about stock—and Steve give me a
jog, as much as to say, keep quief He
thought I was getting into a quog mire,
and soon after, giving me a wink, opened
the door and got me out of the room into
the entry. After we had got out of hear
ing, says I to Steve, how are you getting
on in the world—should you like to come
back to keep our school if I could get a
vote for you I—not by two chalks says
Steve—l know which side my bread is
buttered better than all that—l get 12
dollars a month and found, and now and
then some old clothes which is a darnation
sight better than keeping school at 5 dol
lars and find myself and work out my
highway tax besides—then turning up the
cape of my new coat says he I guess I’ve
dusted that before now—most likely says
I but not in in our district school. And
this brings to mind to tell you how I got a
siglitur youT letter. They tell me here
that every body reads the Boston Daily
Advertiser, because there is no knowing
but what they may find out something
to their advantage, so I thought I would
be as wise as the rest of them, and be
fore I got half through with it what
should I find mixed up among the news
but your letter that you put into that little
paper down in Portland, and I knew it
was your writing before I had read ten
lines of it.
I hope Ive answered it to your satisfac
tion. Your respectful uncle
JOSHUA.
P. S. Mr. Topliff says your uncle Nat is
telegraphed, but I’m afraid the ax handles
wont come to much—l find the Boston folks
make a handle of most any thing they can
lay hold of, and just as like as not they’l
make a handle of our private letters if they
should see them.
N. B. You spell dreadful bad according
to my notion—and this proves what I always
said, that our district has been going down
hill ever since Stephen Furlong left it.
THE STORM OF 1770.
We stated, in our last paper, that the
late gale drove in the tide a foot higher,
than it had been known to rise here.
It appears however that the great tide of
1770, an account of which we have given
below, from the papers of that day, was a
bout a foot higher than the late flood.
We have learned this from an intelligent
merchant of this town, whose store was
overflowed by the tide of 1770. He mark
ed the height of the water, and afterwards
raised the store above that level. He has
compared the two tides, and found that of
1770 higher than the late one by about
twelve inches.— Salem Observer.
Salem, Oct. 23, 1770. Last Friday
night came on aN. E. storm of wind and
ram ; which the ensuing day increased to
a degree of violence scarcely known be
fore by the oldest persons. A minute or
particular description of the general de
vastation among the shipping, stores,
wharves, lumber, &c. on both rivers, is
not easily given.
“On the south shore of the North Riv
er, fora mile or more in length, we had
presented to our view, fire wood, timber,
boards, shingles, plank, staves, barrels,
hogsheads, canoes, boats, &c. the proper
ty of great number of persons, so promis
cuously thrown together as not to be easi
ly distinguished by the respective own
ers. About 50 cords of wood, and 15 or
1600 bushels of floor sand, were carried
off Mr. Barr’s wharf, at the North Bridge.
A schooner of considerable burthen, hav
ing broke her fast, was thrown so high as
successively to beat against the edge of
the Bridge, and it was with difficulty she
was kep” off the top of it. The Bridge
itself was considerably damaged. Anoth
er schooner, just below it, broke her fasts,
drove away from the wharf on to a beach,
and at length quite over it on the grass ; a
third schooner, not far from this last, and
near 80 tons burlhen, late from the West
Indies, was drove up in much the same
manner, and now lies so high as that her
keel is considerably above common high
water mark.
** P n I? 16 side of the town, being!
the principal seat of business, the confu
sion and destruction was much great
er than that above related. Great quanti
ties of boards, shingles, timber, &c. &,c.
with many boats, were drove, with the ut
most violence and disorder, to the shore
i opposite the town. The wharves all over
flowed ; and the perishable articles, tgqoh
as salt sugar, &c. in stores to a great
amount, destroyed by the tides rising to a'
most extraordinary height, so high, ’tis
said, as not to have been equalled within
the memory of the oldest persons among
us< Nine vessels, among which were a
ship, a snow, and a brig, were drove
from their anchors, and forced up the riv
!er towards Capt. Gardner’s mills; several
of them laden for the Streights and the
West Indies. The brig, commanded by
Capt. Warren, was considerably damag
ed. A schooner, Capt. Mottey’s was
thrown an incredible way on to the land,
and much injured. Capt. Waters’s sch’r
was also much damaged. Capt. Samuel
Webb’s schooner was forced forced from
a wharf on to the land the opposite side ;
and it was with difficulty the other vessels
were prevented driving from the wharves,
“ The ship Antelope, Capt. Putnam,
was the only vessel at anchor in this har
bour , that rode out the storm.
. “ Twenty-one sail of brigs, sloops and
schooners, were driven ashore in Marble
head harbour, but happily not any of them
very materially injured.
“ Great numbers of fences were blown
down, and trees tore up by the roots, in
this and the adjacent towns.
“ The bridges between this place and
Marblehead, are so much damaged as to
be rendered impassable.
“ A considerable large Bridge, near the
New Mills in Danvers, we hear is totally
ruined.
" We hear that vast quantities of salt
Hay were carried off the marshes at Lynn
in the late storm.”
“ Boston, Oct. 22, 1770. Last Satur
day we had here a very violent storm of
wind and rain, which continued most of
the day at about N. N. E. attended t
noon with the highest tide that has been
known at this place for near 50 years
past, by which great damage has been
sustained by the loss of sugars, salt, and
other articles in store on the wharves,
which were overflowed in ail parts of the
town. Great loss has also been sustained
by the floating away ofcord wood, boards,
staves, shingles, &c. from different parts
of the town. The water came up into
King street as far as Admiral Vernon’s
Head Tavern, as also into Dock Square,
about the Draw-Bridge,and into the streets
at the south and north parts of the town,
that were nearest the sea-side, so that it I
ran not only into the cellars, but into the
shops and rooms of dwelling-houses, oblig
ing several families to retire up into cham
bers. Many stores on the wharves "ere
almost filled with water. From the South
ward we learn, that the greatest damage
sustained, was the washing away the hay
from the meadows, spoiling the sugars and 1
salt in stores, carrying off the cord-wood,
&c. from the wharves, blowing down
stores, sheds, barns, fences, trees, and car
rying off the roofs of houses. A number
of vessels were drove ashore, and some
sunk. Far Eastward no great damage
was done. At Piscatqua, Cape Ann and
Newbury some stores were hurt, &c. At
Portsmouth, the tide rose higher than it
had been known for 40 years past.
EAGLES.
We have been favoured by Mr. Forbes
with the following particulars relative to
the history of ths eagles which occur in
Orkney. There are two species in that
country, the white-tailed or cinereous ea
gle, Falco albicilla. and the golden or
ring-tailed eagle, Falco chrysaetos. Of
the cinereous eagle the following breed
ing places are known. White-breast,
Dwarfie Hammers, and Old Man, in Hoy,
South Ronaldshay, and Costa Head, in
Mainland. Of the golden eagle : Snook,
to the east of Rack wick, and a rock to
the west of the same place, in Hoy, and
the meadow ofKaims.
Some people were out fishing in a boat
near the Black Craig ofStromness. when
an eagle came soaring slowly along. A
hawk (probably the goshawk) was observ
ed to launch suddenly from the rock and
strike the eagle when both birds fell into
the sea. The eagle was quickly despatch
ed by the boatmen, but the hawk, in con
sideration of his bravery, they intended to
treat in a different way. Finding, how
ever, that he had broken his wing with
the force of the blow, they laid him upon
a shelf of the rock, with a piece of a fish
beside him ; but on visiting the place
next day, they were disappointed to find |
that the bird had disappeared, having
probably fallen into the sea.
The clergyman of Hory was walking
near his house,when he heard the squeal of
a pig, which excited his attention, as he
kept none of these animals. On looking
about him, he perceived an eagle soaring
away to Hoy Head with a young grunter
in his talons. He tossed up his hat but
the eagle took no notice of it. On inquir
ing among his neighbours, he found that
the pig had been taken from one of them,
and was just four weeks old. This cir
cumstance, our informer says, may give
some countenance to the story of a young
child having been carried off by an eagle
in Orkney many years ago.
The following circumstance happened
'in Hara mainland of Orkney. An eagle
i bearing away a hen chanced to pass over
a house, in the vicinity of which was a pig
with a litter. Thinking a nice fat pig a
better prize than a lean hen, the eagle
dropped the latter, and attacked the pigs,
but to no purpose, for they ran up to the
old lady, who defended them courageous
ly and effectually. In the mean time the
hen made her escape into the house. The
fiagle, having forgotten that a bird in hand
is worth two in the bush, looked blue, and
spreading his sails, moved slowly- away.
The hogs, which-run wild in the hills of
Hoy, when attacked by dogs, defend
themselves by collecting and forming a
cirqje, in this manner presenting an armed
front in all directions to their antagonist.
Pig-styes are made in the hills with
turf, of a conical form, with a hole at
the top. A pig happened to be left in
one by mistake, and, being unable to get
out, died in due time. An eagle passed
over the stye, and peeping in, spied a car
cass, upon which he descended through
the hole and feasted gloriously. This ea
gle had forgotten that one may sometimes
get into a place without being able again
to get out of it; and so it fared with him
for he was taken alive, and executed for
house-breaking per caminan.
Ed. Literary Gazette.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
We before reported the lossof the sloop
William, Swain, of Nantucket, at Sandy
Bay, and the rescue of Mrs. Haden, when
life was almost extinct; and we now give
the following particulars obtained from
Captain Swain, in a conversation this
morning. He states that finding himself
embayed in the gale, with the mainsail torn
in pieces, and that it was impossible to
escape being driven on shore, he had no
alternative but to run her on shore for the
better chance of saving the lives of those
on board. As soon as she struck, the sea
roiled over her, and each sought his own
safety on the beach. Capt. S. was the last
who remained on the deck, and then
sprang to the cabin to make an effort to
save Mrs. Haden, who was in a birth in a
state room ; but no sooner had he reached
the cabin floor than a sea knocked off the
skylight hatch, and the water poured down
so rapidly that he was obliged to seek his
own safety by an immediate retreat to the
deck, and thence with difficulty to the
shore abandoning Mrs. H. to her fate.
The sloop quickly beat out her bottom up
to the wales, and the cargo floated to the
shore.
As soon as the tide had ebbed suffi
ciently, the crew boarded the wreck to
save what effects they could ; but Capt.
S. first ordered them to get out the corpse
of Mrs. H., as all thought she must have
j perished ; but on reaching the quarter
deck they heard groans. A faint hope of
saving her life now animated every one,
and they forthwith began cutting a hole
through the deck ; but on getting to the
ceiling, and fearing an accidental blow
from the axe might extinguish what little
of life remained, they desisted, and the
tide by this time having partly ebbed from
the cabin, they descended through the
skylight and took thence to the deck the
cold and senseless body of Mrs. 11. who
had remained in that perilous situation
nearly three hours. She was taken to a
neighbour’s house; medical assistance
was promptly obtained, and her restoration
effected. The bed and birth board on
which she lay were buoyed up by the
water, so that she was pressed close to the
ceiling of the cabin, and how it was pos
sible for her to survive in that situation
for such a length of time, with the sea
continually overflowing the wreck, must
excite the astonishment and wonder of all.
Mrs. Haden is a respectable lady of Nan
tucket, 64 years of age, and was coming
to this city on a visit to her daughter. She
arrived here this morning quite recovered.
Merchants’ Hall Books.
NEW TOWNS IN PENNSYLVANIA.
We are authorized to announce that .all
the stock of the Little Schuylkill Naviga
tion Railroad and Canal Company is taken,
that the railroad will be commenced forth
with, and completed as speedily as men and
money can accomplish it. On the 10th ult.
two towns were laid out under the direction
of a committee of the board of managers of
said company ; one at the junction of the
Little and Big Schuylkill, at the termination
of the railroads, called Port Clinton, and |
the other in the centre of those coal lands I
between Sharp and Locust Mountain,called
Tomaqna, four miles distant from the Mauch
Chunk Mines, and four from the town of
/Tuscarora.
In a few days lots and landings in those
towns will be offered for sale at moderate
prices. The situation of Port Clinton needs
no recommendation, as a glance at the map
will convince any person of reflection that
at no distant period all the principal rail-
I roads of Schuylkill County will terminate at
this point.
The town of Tomaqua is located on the
west side of Little Schuylkill, between the
main railroad, from Port Clinton to the foot
of the Broad Mountain, and the great. Cata
wissa River, which will be intersected by a
lateral railroad from the main branch pass
ing directly through the town. The loca
tion, with the advantages the company pos
sess of making it the centre of the mining
operations pf the extensive coal tracts in
that region, will insure to it a decided pref
erence over any other town that may be laid
out in its immediate vicinity.
Arrangements are making for the imme
diate erection of from 40 to 50 dwelling
houses in the town of Tomoqua, which will
be sold or let by the superintendent of the
company, who will reside on the premises.
DUMBER 15.
Part of the houses will be finished by the
first of June, and all are expected to be
done before the first of August.— Miners
Journal.
MUTTON-Y.
A gentleman at one of our city board
ing houses, after retiring to bed one night,
had his nose strongly assailed by the smell
of roasted mutton. He turned upon the
other side ; but still the same fleshly odour
followed him. He buried his head under
the bedclothes, but the smell grew strong
er. He brought his nose so the free air
once more ; but the air of the whole room
seemed to be more or less impregnated
with the same odour. From whence could
it proceed ? He surely had not taken
lodgings in the pantry, instead of the bed
room. And yet the mutton-ous smell al
most persuaded him that such a mistake
was possible. He, however, managed, af
ter various turnings and shiftings, to get
into a sort of uncomfortable drowse, in
which he dreamed all night of carrying a
sheep on his back, and hearing it’ cry,
baa I baa! Arousing from his dreamy
state, as soon as it was light, he got up to
reconnoitre the premises, and ascertain
the cause of the deadly smell. He look
ed into a closet attached to his bedroom,
he opened the drawer of his dressing ta
ble, he peeped under the bed—but all to
no purpose. At last, he bethought him of
looking in the bed itself when, 10, instead
of finding a quarter of roasted mutton, he
found he had been quartered between two
table-cloths, which, with the greasy col
lections of a whole week, were placed on
his bed to serve their turn in the capacity
of sheets.— N. F. Constellation.
The late Duel. The Philadelphia
Morning Journal furnishes the following
additional particulars in relation re
cent fatal duel between Mr. Miller of Phil
adelphia, and Lieutenant Hunter, of the
U. S. Navy. The death of Mr. Miller,
has excited great sensation in Philadel
phia, and the publick authorities—the
Maj’or in particular—are censured for
their remisness, in allowing such an out
rage upon the laws of the State, and the
feelings of the citizens to go unoticed.
Bost. Bulletin.
Before the suggestion appeared, which
we made yesterday, of the expediency of
the interference of the Mayor to prevent
the occurrence of one or more duels which
were likely to occur, a meeting took place
between Win. Miller, Jr. and Lieut. C. G.
Hunter, of the Navy, in which the former
gentleman was shot down the first fire.
The surviving parties concerned have
fled. Mr. Miller was a young gentleman
who has always borne an excellent char
acter, and although we would not say a
word to exculpate any duellist, yet he was
certainly dragged into the measure by the
most trivial causes. The dispute between
him and his antagonist, was the third of a
series which has grown out of a fend be
tween two other individuals, (Mr. Griffith,
and R. Dillon Drake.) In order to pro
mote a reconciliation between one pair of
the disputants, a letter had been written
by the friends of one of the gentlemen, ac
knowledging that he had been in errour,
and expressing a hope that the affair
would be quieted without further irrita
tion. ' T 'his proposal was addressed to
Mr. Miller, as a friend of th- parties, who
was immediately waited on by Lieut. Hun
ter, on behalf of the gentleman alluded to
in the letter, requesting the return of the
original and all the copies that had been
made of it. The request was immediate
ly complied with by Mr. Miller, who gave
up all the copies within his reach, and
the papers were destroyed. On the next
day, however, the letter appeared in print,
and Hunter at x once accused Miller with
duplicity, and challenged him. Mr. Mil
ler asserted that the publication was made
without his knowledge, and refused to ac
cept the challenge, alleging the insufli
ciency of the provocation. Upon this,
Hunter posted him in handbills, declaring
at the same time that he held himself
ready to met Mr. Miller. Thus goaded,
Miller accepted the challenge, and the
fatal meeting took place.
The acts of Assembly are express in
their provisions against duelling. >.For ac
cepting or sending a challenge, there is
prescribed a penalty of SSOO, one year’s
imprisonment at hard labour, and a for
feiture of rights of citizenship for seven
years. For carrying a challenge, or acting
as a second, the same fine and imprison
ment, and incapacity of ever holding an
office of honour or trust in the common
wealth. For publishing handbills abusing
a person for not fighting, the same punish
ment as if the duel had taken place. Ail
these laws have been openly violated :
the challenges have been published and
acknowledged by the parties ; publications
instigating to duels have been widely dis
seminated, yet no officer interfered, —
none of the offenders were indicted and
held to bail. And shall they yet escape ?
If the murder took place out of the cogni
zance of the tribunals of the State, the
challenges at least were written and sent
in Philadelphia, and the parties are an
swerable for this offence.
It is sincerely hoped that the offenders
may betaken, and brought to justice.
The lines found in Lord Byron’s Bible,
and attributed generally in the American
prints to that nobleman, will be found in the
first voltime of the Monastery, where they
originally appeared, and by the author of
which they were written—Sir Walter Scott.
Charluton City G«z.