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THE SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY.
J AS. rTmORHIS, PROPRIETOR. 4
tVOODSFIELD, OIHO, JAN. 19, I8S3.
03" The editor is still absent, but will fee
at hit post next week.
, In looking over our exohanges. we
do Hot see any thing in the proceedings
of the Ohio legislature or of Congress,
that would be interetinr to our readers.
we will therefore omit publishing any of
lh nrmeilinr4. in lo-dav's nailer.
".fjr Tlie Auditor requests us to say that
juslioe of the Peace ure required by law,
tii report to his olHue before the 1st of
February next, the amount of fines as
sessed or collected in criminal cases, dur
ing the past. year.
' 03" The Democratic State Convention
made the following nominations at their
late meeting on the 8th instant:
For Governor Medill. '
? For Lieut. Governor Buss.
,, For Secretary of State Teevit.
. .For Treasurer Breslin.
t - For Supremo Judge Bartley.
For Attorney General McCook.
For Board of Publio VVorks Griswold.
Arrival of the First Through Train.
According to promise, the first train of oars
through from Baltimore, arrived here on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, on Sat
urday evening, the first inst. The train
started about five o'clock, and reached
here the next evening at about eight o'clock.
The trip was accomplished without any
accident, and with etitire success in every
respect, though several hours delay was
occasioned by a side of earth at Glover's
Tunnel. On Sunday evening, the second
trip was accomplished, the train arriving
at a quarter before six 0 clock.
Notwithstanding many causes combin
ed to produce the belief among many that
it would be impossible to have the road
open on the first, the Company have thus
redeemed their pledge, and have justly
won high commendations for their energy
' and perseverance.
Wheeling Intelligencer.
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
NARROW ESCAPE OF PRESIDENT
, PIERCE-INJURY TO HIS LADY,
AND DEATH OF HIS SON.
Baltimore, Jan. 6, 1853.
A terrible accident occurred to-day on
the Boston and Maine Railroad. Frank
lin Pierce, President elect, wife and son
were aboard. Young Pierce was killed,
Mrs. Pierce badly hurt, and Mr. Pierce
only slightly injured.
Lateu. Mrs. Pierce is seriously injur
ed, and narrowly esoaped death, the son
waa killed instantly, and the President
elect severely stunned. Twelve persons
were more or less injured by the same ac
cident. The accident was caused by the
axle of a oar breaking. The cars were
thrown down an embankment SO feet,
turning a complete somerset, and alighting
on a pile ot rocks, ana were smashed to
atoms. Gen. Pierce was the first to ex
trieatd himself, his son was instantly crush
ed to death, and Mrs. Pierce severely,
though not fatally injured. Gen. Pierce
. is sound in limb, though he complains of
pain in the oacK.
A SPICY SPEECH.
At a Democratic supper in Washington
city, on the 30th ultimo, Dr. Olds, of Ohio,
, waa called, upon to respond to the follow
'ing sentiment:
, : The President Elect: The embodi
. ment of democracy lives at Concord. May
Concord live with the. Democracy during
Pierce's administration!
. Mr. Olds, said: Mr. President and fel
low-citizens, I can hardly conceive why I
have been called upon to respond to the
: sentiment just given. To Franklin Pierce,
-Personally I am an utter stranger. I know
him only as he is known to every demo-1
erat throughout the United States. By his '
-Votes in Coifrt:ts bv his NDeeches and I
letters by his patriotism tiiid services
upon the battle-field ha has made him
self known favorably and generally to
every one who admires modest, retiring
merit, and sound, radical, and progressive
democracy. 1 am aware, sir. that our po
litical opponents have u thousand times
. asked us, Who is Franklin Pierce?" I
am aware, sir, that they have called him
General Obscurity." You and I, sir,
hare heard them speak of our candidates
as"Wm. R. King, of Alabama, and that
'tother chap " Laughter. We have
-heard him denounced as the "fainting
general." But, thank God, Mr. President,
the people seem to have known and appre
ciated Franklin Pierce, and if I mistake
net the man and his mission, the whigs
know who he is on and after the 4th
f March next. Such whig office holders
as have denounced him as the "fainting
general" will, I trust, find him no "faint
ngM President. ' The Galphins will find
'him a political Moses, and they will see
the democracy holding up his hands, that
thai alaughter may continue until every
Galphin throughout the length and breadth
of the land has been hurled from power.
This much the people expect; nay. sir, this
mucn nie people aemana irom f ranklin
"Pierce.' Mr. President, in my own beau
'flful Slate of Ohio our democratic ballot
'tarried at its head, even above the names
?Of Pierce and King. the hickory broom,"
bearing the motto of eeep out the Gal-
jmnt. iumu cueera, anu Laugllter.j
vThese tickets, as manifested by her over
whelming'oiajority, were greatly in de-
twend in Ohio at the Jate i-lection. .
)'; it is wonderful,' Mr. President, that ever
since the day of General Jackson, our
whig friends always ''faint" at the sight of
a hickory broom. Loud cheers and
laughter. If, sir, the people of Ohio have
said anything through the medium of the
ballot-box, they have said to Franklin
Pierce, '-sweep out the Galphins." Tre
mendous cheering.
Sir. if Franklin Pierce comes to the
work assigned him by the democracy of
the country, as I have no doubt he will,
there will be as big a muss kicked up in
Washington city on the 4ih of March as
there was at Mrs. Smith's house, (as rela
ted by my friend the "Buckeye abroad")
when little Jake Smith ran over to Mrs.
Brown's to tell her that "dad was dead,
mam was drunk; the old cow had got a
calf; John had swallowed a pin; Jim had
got the delirium triangles looking at the
rora boreax; roars of laughter and that
aint all neither," soys Jake. "What else
'pon 'arth can be the matter," inquired
Mrs. Brown. "Why, Sal has broke the
butter-plate; Susan has spilt the pan-cakes,
and Jo has sot right down in the scalding
tallow we had for dipping candles, and
one of the Maltese kittens has got his head
into the molasses jug, and we can't get it
out and we are all so darned infernal
hungry." Shouts and cheers. Mr. Pres
ident, in my imagination, the 4th of March
is passing before me, and I think I see the
whig Galphin office-holders pouring out of
the various government ceparimenis, wun
the tears running down their piteous noses,
and' their lamentation is, "that Webster is
dead; Fillmore has fillibustered; Scott has
sot a native-American calf; North Caro
lina has swallowed Graham; and Tom has
got the delirium triangles looking for nor
thern abolition votes." Loud and pro
longed cheering. And that aint all either,
Mr. President for "Toombs has broke
their butter-plate; . Gentry has spilt their
nan-cakes; and Seward has set down in
the scalding tallow they had for dipping
higher-law' candles, and frank Pierce
has got into the presidential chair, and we
can't git liitn out; and we are all so darned
infernal hungry." Roars of laughter
and prolonged shouting.
Mr. President, I may be considered
somewhat blood-thirsty toward the Gal
phins, but the war of extermination waged
bv them upon me in my congressional
district, and the fiery ordeal through which
I have lately passed, must plead my apol
ogy. Will you allow me then, gentlemen,
in conclusion, to oner the following seiiti
ment?
Franklin Pierce und his Administration
May its history be written in the "blood of
the Galphins.17
Health of the Hon. Wm. R. Kino.
A Washington correspondent of the New
I York Tribune, writing under date of the
isi insiam says
The Vice President elect, is still confin
ed to his room, and the fact cannot be
disguised that he is alarmingly ill. His
most intimate friends entertain no hope of
his recovery, but his distressing cough
may be relieved, and his life prolonged by
making his contemplated trip to the ''Queen
of the Antilles." Col. King is an amiable
and courteous gentleman, and ha has
proved himself an able, dignified, and im
partial presiding officer. He will not take
passage in a mail steamer from Norfolk
for Havana, as was contemplated, but will
go on board the United states steamship
Fulton, at this place, which vessel will pro
ceed to Havana direct.
The Hon. John Bragg, of Alabama, a
valued and esteemed friend of Col. KLng,
yesterday addressed a letter to the Secre
tary of Navy, handsomely presenting Lot.
K.'s acknowledgements to him for his
kindness in ordering the Fulton here to
convey him to Norfolk, informing him that
it was the opinion of his physician that it
would be unsafe to subject his patient to
the inconvenience of a transfer from one
ship to another, the discomforts and an
noyances to which he would be necessarily
exposed in a crowded Chagres packet,
and that it would be better for hi in to re
main here, unless some other arrangement
could be made by which these difficulties
could be avoided. Mr. Kennedy answer
ed the letter of Judge Bragg promptly,
feelingly, and eloquently. He informed
Judge B. that he would with pleasure,
order the Fulton to Washington, and place
her at the disposl of Col. K. to proceed
to Havana on any day he might name.
This kind offer was acknowledged and
accepted, and the Hteaiuer will be here on
Tuesday next. The letter of the Secretary
is creditable to the head and heart of its
author, and I anticipate the pleasure of
transmitting a copy of it to you in a day
or two.
WAR AHEAD! WHEELING BRIDGE
AND A GRAND STATES RIGHTS
RALLY.
The Baltimore Sun, says: Public atten
tion will soon be called to the remarkable
conflict between the U. S. Supreme Court
and the legislative branch ol the govern
ment, in the Wheeling bridge case. The
Court, by a decreed that the bridge should
be removed as an obstruction to navigation,
or elevated to a certain height, and they
allowed a certain time within which the
bridge company should comply with the
terms of the decree. Congress, at the late
session, and after the adjournment of the
Court, constituted the bridge a post road,
with a view to save the bridge and evade
the decree. They undertake to legalize
what the judiciary has decided to be a
nuisance. '
In February, the U S. Marshall will
proceed to execute the decree, and sum
mon a posse, and, if need be, call upon
the President for military aid. The Gov.
of Virginia, on the other hand, will resist
the execution' of the decree and employ
the militia for that purpose. , ; There is a
clash of authority between co-ordinate
branches of the Government and io which
States are deeply interested on one side
and the other. ' Whether Congress. 0 the
Court ii 1 io yield is the question. ' '
.
; TUB HOLY SEPULCHRE.
",- f ' '' ,1 " ' ' I : .
' ! ' BY AN AMERICAN TRAVELLER, ;
The resident population of Jerusalem is
seventeen thousand, consisting chiefly of
Turks, Armenians, Arabs, Greeks, Ital
ians, and Jews of all nations. It is esti
mated that the average number of Pilgrims
who visit the Holy City every year -is
about fifteen thousand. On partioular
occasions, the influx of strangers is of
course much greater. Sometimes, when
the accommodations ol the city are insui
ficient for so many pilgrims, encampments
are formed outside the walls; and many
find shelter in the convents of Bethlehem
and St. Saba. The uncertain tenure upon
which each sect holds its right of worship
in Jerusalem; the mingled severity and
laxity of the Turkish law; the fanatical
zeal with which all the sects are inspired,
and the bigoted hatred that exists between
them, gives rise to perpetual hostility of
feehni?. and often to sanguinary feuds. It
is deplorable to see how profaned are the
precepts of Him who preached peace and
good will toward all men in this very spot;
whose voice still lingers upon Zion and
the Mount of Olive; to witness in their
worst form, envy, hatred and malice, prac
tised in his name, and the outward wor
ship of God where sin and wickedness
reign triumphant. Perhaps upon the
whole face of the globe there oould not be
found a spot less holy than modern Jeru
salem. All the fierce bad passions that
drive to crime are let loose here in the
8tniL'"le for immortality; all the better
traits of human nature are buried in fan
aticism; and all the teachings of wisdom
and humanity are vitiated in a brutish bat
tie for spiritual precedence.
In the Holy Sepulchre the hatred be
tween the sects is fierce and undying. The
Greek and Roman Catholics, the Copts,
Armenians and Maronites, have each
share in it, which they hold by sufferance
of the Turkish Government; but this union
of proprietorship, instead of producing a
corresponding unity of feeling, acoasions
bitter and constant hostility. The Greeks
and Romans, who are the two largest
sects, and in some sort rivals, hate each
other with a ferocity unparalleled in the
annals of religious intolerance. The less
influential sects hate the other because of
their power and repeated aggressions; the
so-called Frank Catholics hate the Copts
and Armenians, whom they regard as
mere interlopers, without any right to en
joy the Christian mode of worship; all hate
each other for some real or imaginary
cause; and each indulges in the self-glorification
of believing itself fo be the only
sect that can find favor in the eyes of the
Creator. Such is the bitterness of this
sectional hostility that for many years past
it has been impossible to keep the build
ing in a slate of repair. The roof is dilapi
dated, and the rain pours in through the
windows; yet so it remains. I he banns
will not permit the Greeks to undertake the
necessary repairs, lest the mere act should
give an implied ascendancy of power; the
Greeks refuse to give the Latins permission
for the same reason; the Copts and Arme
nians are too feeble to contend with the
more powerful sects; and the more power
ful sects refuse to grant them any liberty
which they do not alroady hold in despite
of them through the Turkish Government.
During the ceremony of the Holy Fire,
which takes place once a year, the scenes
of ferocity and violence that occur are
indescribable. Religious insanity and all
the horrors of bloodthirsty fanaticism, des
troy many of the devotees. Crimes of the
darkest character are committed with im
punity. Half naked men and frantic
women struggle madly through the crowd
with live coals of fire pressed to their
breasts; bodies of the stabbed and maimed
are dragged out dead; the chanting of
priests, the howling of the burnt, the groan
ing of the crushed, fill the thick and suf
focating air, and from the swaying mass
arise dying shrieks of Immanuel! Imman
uel! Glory be to God! Sickened with
the disgusting and humilitating spectacle,
the beholder turns away with the starting
words of Ferdinand upon his lips
Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.
Eclipsks for 1853. There will be two
eclipses of the sun, and one of the moon,
during the vear 1853. The first eclipse
of the sun will take place on the 6th of
June, and will be visible in uaiuornia, me
southern portion of the United States, and
in nearly the whole of South America.
The second will be total; and will take
place on the 30th of November. It will
be visible in California, Mexico, Central
America, and nearly the whole of South
America. Roth of these eclipses will be
invisible here. A partial eclipse of the
moon will take place on the 21st of June,
beginning at Oh. 20m. a. m.; and ending
at 2h. 5m. Digits eclipsed 2 on the
northern limb.
Nearly Burried Alive. An inquest
was held last week in Rochester, N. Y.,
over the body of a man named M'Laughlin,
found in an unfinished building. The ver
dict of the jury wasdied from the effects
of intemperance,' exposure and want of
food. M Laughhn was taken home by
some of his friends, placed id a rough
board coffin, and as they were placing a
cloth, wet in whisky, over his face, to keep
him from spotting, as they stated, he wak
ed up and opened his cues! crawled out of
his narrow resting place, and his first in
quiry was for whisky. ' This unceremoni
ous mode of hurrying a' man out of ex
istence is supposed to have some connec
tion with the . fees which are charged for
an Inquest. '. " ,',' '!.;' : V :', '
' ftr There are one hundred and four
teen bridges on the Baltimore aud Ohio
Rail Koad, between Cumberland and
Wheeling. One of them is six hundred
feet long.and is elevated forty feet above
the MouongaheU river, which it spans." '
A CONVENTION OF THE SPIRITS.
A spiritual convention has lately been
held in Boston, where demonstrations
were made, duly rhapsodical and extatio.
A Mr; Town send, of Ohio, moved in the
organization that the chairman be appoint
ed by spiritual designation, and if the
spirits were noncommittal, then that the
organization go on in a wordly manner.
Now, 13 there not a point heref It the
ghosts would not knock their predilections
for organization, how can the folks know
that they wish a convention at all. How
ever, where there's a will, there is a will
as is a will. So the convoked media went
ahead after the worldly fashion, and made
a chairman. One knocker then read a
communication which he had received the
night previous from a convention of spirits,
recommending a platform for this conven
tion it impressed love, harmony, faith
and patience promising new and beauti
ful manifestations, which would shortly
appear, and also promised the attendance
of several spirits of a high order, who
would be present and unseal the lips of the
faithful. The spiritual communication
was signed John Murray.
Other communications from Spiritdom
were read, predicting the speedy consum
mation of the mission of Jesus.
Addresses were made by the Rev. John
M. Spear, Rev. Mr. Loveland, of Charles
town, Mr. IIewett, editor of the New Era,
and others.
Mr. Hewett contended that Christ and
the prophets were model mediums, as their
inspired writings proved.
But Mr. Hewett is not reportod to have
said, whether the communications of spir
its through Christ and the Apostles, were
made by hameringon tables, kicking over
chairs, jumping up bells, or flinging stones
of incredible avordupois through walls on
to dinner tables, without making holes in
the walls, or making a rumpus among the
dishes. As there is no record of tfie man
ner in which spirits of the early days pro
mulgated their concerts, we should have
thanked Mr. Hewett if he had supplied
this strange omission on the part of Christ
and the Apostles as the manner of the
communication is the kernel of the new
furniture-pounding spiritual theory.
, Another Railroad Collision and Loss
of Life. Tho Harlem freight train of cars
from Albany for New York, on Saturday
morning, in the fog, came with a tremend
ous crash in collision with the up train for
Port Chester, near the Morrisiana station.
The locomotive of the Port Chester train
split in two a passenger car in the rear of
the freight train, and .instantly Killed tne
conductor, Mr. Ming, and broke both arms
and both legs of the brakeman, James
Herring, who died shortly after. Mr. John
Campbell, engineer of tho Port Chester
train, had his face cut in a horrible man
ner, and Hiram Peck, the fireman, was
also very severely injured, as were several
others employed on the emigrant train.
Three or four of the freight cars of the
emigrant train were smashed to pieces,
in the rear of- one of which there was a
quantity of brandy. This being spilled,
and coming in contact with the locomotive,
ignited, set the car and frame of the engine
on fire, both of which were entirely con
sumed; and but for the arrival of the fire
department from Morrisiana, with their
engines, the whole Irain would have been
consumed, together with the contents of
several extensive lumber vards located on
the sides of the railroad at that point.
Tho coroner's jury have returned a ver
dict that' the accident was caused by the
culpable negligence of John J. Campbell,
engineer of the Port Uhester train. A war
rant was issued for his arrest.
FOREIGN ITEMS.
Late Paris letters furnish the following
items:
Tho coronation of Louis Napoleon will
oost much more than that of Napoleon the
Great, and, consequently, than any other
public ceremony that trance ever paid
for. That of Napoleon cost somewhat
over two millions. The marriage will cost
as much more probably; and the birth of
the heir, if there is any, will doubtless be
made the occasion of similar expenditures.
The coronation robes are to exceed any
other coronation robes ever heard of, and
I heard yesterday an indignant Orleanist
say, "The creature has had the impudence
to have the crown ewels sewed in his im
perialmanteau." The crown, for which
M. Lemonnier, the newly appointed court
jeweller, has gone to Russia to obtain
precious stones, is also to go ahead of any
crown yet composed. A model of the foot
of the Princess Wasa has arrived, and has
been confided to the imperial shoemaker.
A model of the princess' hand is expected
for the glove maker; and the necessary
moulds for the corset maker, the bonnet
maker, and the modiste. A daguerreotype
has been handed to the court painter, and
I am astonished that the likeness of the
future Empress has not appeared in the
shop windows. By the time she gets here
she will find herself an old story.
Many people suppose that the Emperor
wears his Imperial robes upon all occa
sions. . These belong, of course, to the
rising generation, who do not remember
so' far back as the other Empire. They
would be undeceived, did they go, on a
fine afternoon, to the Champs Elysees or
the Boiside Boulogne. For there the
Emperor may often be seen driving him
self a two horse phceton. He is dressed
in a heavy, shaggy, blue pilot cloth coat,
with the ribbon of the Legion ef Honor
peeping from his button hole., When he
rides upon .horseback, there is nothing in
his dress to distinguish him from a citizen
or a subject. '. Ho bows to all who bows to
him, and I never' have seen any one so
apparently anxious to salute and be salut
ed. He catches at every thing that can be
construed into a recognition; but with all
his zeal he does not touch his hat.oftener
than, once in ten nods. ' Gentlemen on
horseback pass him without looking at him;
and, as this is an act of downright iuipo-
iteness. you must suppose that the riders
have serious reasons for the commission of
sueh rudeness.: V ' ;
How many sardines do you suppose
have been taken this year upon the coast
of Brittany, , two hundred miles long?
Five hundred and seventy-six millions.
Half of them are to be preserved and sold
fresh, and half are to be put down in oil.
One hundred and sixty vessels, manned
by five thousand five hundred sailors and
fishermen, are engaged in the trade. The
preparation, transport, and sale of the fish,
employ ten thousand persons. Nine thou
sand of these are occupied all winter in
the making and mending of nets. The
fishing lasts two hundred days, and yields
a net profit to all concerned Of three mil
lion francs. The sardines disappear in
November and return in April. Where
they go during thetB four months, why
they go, or what they do while gone, has
never been discovered. Ihe fishermen
say that the same individuals never come
twice that every successive 'arrival is
composed of fish much smaller than those
that last left, and that they appear to be
their young. At any rate, they count im
Dlicitv on their appearance; and no sar
dine was ever known yet to break an en
gagement thus tacitly entered into.
JAPAN EXPEDITION AS VIEWED BY
THE FRENCH.
The Japan Expedition is undergoing
considerable discussion in foreign coun
tries. The opinions thus expreesed are
not devoid of interest to our readers.
We give the following from a French jour
nal. the Patrie. of December 4th:
The expedition which the United States
government sends on the coast of Japan,
was to have sailed on the first of this month,
under the command of Commodore Perry
Conceived at first under the modest
form of a friendly mission, partly commer
cial and partly scientific, the Japanese
expedition, in proportion as its prepara
tions advanced, has taken paces more and
more crand.and it has progressively arnv
ed to the proportions of a military force of
the first order, such as the empire ot J span
never, since the first visit made to it by the
Portugueso, has seen directed to its shores.
Thirteen ships of war compose the
American fleet sent upon the coast of
Japan, of which the following is a table:
The armament is here given.
To this number of 3,045 men of a crew,
must be added 700 marines, who, with the
complement of the officers of convoys, sa
vans and artists attached to the expedition,
under various titles, gives the total figures
of 4,000 men and 330 guns, mostly of the
largest calibre.
The original pacific character of this ex
pedition is, therefore, entirely effaced
before the figures which we have just enu
merated. It is rather a squadron which
the United States send against Japan, and
if no unforeseen calamity occurs, Japan
will, before one year, have struck her flag
and yielded to the legitimate exigencies of
Christian civilization. Befere one year,
the blood of fifty thousand Christians, put
to death during the great persecution of
the Japanese Dioclesian the ferocious
Taciosama will have obtained the only
vengeance for which it has cried to heaven;
the Japanese territory will be anew acces
sible to Christianity and to modern civili
zation. Effects of Railroads upon the price
of Lands and Farming Produce. It has
been estimated, by those whose observa
tion has qualified them to judge correctly,
that the increase in the value of a strip of
land three miles wide, through which a
railroad is constructed, is sufficient to
build and stock it. The experience of tho
whole country has proved that this estimate
is not extravagant. Every mile of a strip
of land three miles wide, one and a half
miles each side of the road, will contain
1,920 acres. The average increase in the
prioe of such a strip of land has been not
far from $15 an acre; in new and thinly
settled districts of country, it has been
much more in many instances. This
would be equal to $28,800 increase to eve
ry mile of road; or in other words, if the
farmers or owners of this strip of country
should themselves build the road, their
land would be worth enough or more to
nay the whole expense of its construction,
and thev would own the road hesides. If
railroads, therefore, conferred no other
benefits upon farmers than this great ad
dition to their wealth, they will see that
they are more deeply interested in their
construction than any other class of the
community. . They receive a direct, pos
itive, tangible advantage in the immediate
rise in the value of their property. The
farmer owning a farm of 150 acres, worth
perhaps $50 per acre, can sell it for $65
per acre the very day a railroad shall have
been completed through or near it. He is,
therefore, made nearly $2,500 richer by
his enterprise.
But there are other advantages to the
farming interests besides the rise in the
value of their farms. The products of a
farm situated at any considerable distance
from a market, where ordinary roads nave
to be depended upon, are of little Compar
ative value to the produoer; but railroads
at once give them a ready aocess to, mar
ket, at good prices and quick sales. The
experience of farmers near the great cen
tres of population is a sufficient proof of
'. r , . i. j.i . i-
the great advantages 01 rauroaus in mis
point of view. Indeed, no one has any
doubt of it. The reasons for it are too
obvious to need proof or argument. ..
t . . ; ( ,, . i , jsewarb Mercury,,
03" Johnson says he was never in a
tight place but once, and that was when
he had an insane bull by the tail. .' Had
he held on. he said he would have been
drggged to death over a stubble field;
while if he had not ' held on, the critter
would have turned round hi gored his
bowels out.'0 The question now is," whioh
did Jolu)son dbrhol(a:,rbn; brief gb? An
swer may be sent by roturn mail.
- HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.
Some years sinoe a man named Wro.
Caton, came to this Country from Ireland
in search of a distant relative, named Tim .
othy O'Brien. .'He did not suooaed in
finding the object or his aearoh, ana n .
tnrnnd home afrain. Subseauentlr ha
again came to this country, and on hie
second visit, he was more suooessfulM
he found his friend O'Brien residing about
18 miles back of Hoboken, and about 5
!l f. TT 1 .1. . ' '"" '
milea iiuiii ixBuneiisaun. . '(1
Ha at onoe took ud his residence 'With
" . . . . r . . , .
U Krien, and snoruy aiterwarus ne piscea
some money in that individual s hands,
which he requested him to deposit in tho
Seamen's Savings Bank in this city, in
his (O'Brien's) own name. He did se,
and a short time since, Caton,1 who ia
about 55 years of age, wished O'Brien to
allow him to marry his daughter, a little
girl about eleven years of age. This, of
course, the father objected to, when Caton
became vexed, and made some allusion to
his money. O'Brien, unwilling to quarrel
with his friend, expressed his willingness
to draw the money out of the bank at onoe,
and again place him in possession of it.
Caton, however, after some words expres
sed himself satisfied, and they again be
came as good friends apparently, as though
nothing had happened. ' '
On Thursday last, Mrs. O'Brien came
to New York city on a visit to the house
of an acquaintance, named Daniel Haley,
residing at the foot of West Twenty-ninth
street, and O'Brien went to work on Fri
day, for a Mr. John Smith, about mile
from his residence, where he intended to
stay over night, leaving his children the
little girl alluded to, and a boy nine yearo
of age, in the care of Caton.
On Friday night, as O'Brien had not yet
returned home, some of the neighbors,
who thought it strange that no light was
visible in the windows, knocked at the
door repeatedly; but receiving no answer,
they became alarmed, and went after
O'Brien. He returned home at onoe, and
on entering the house, a scence whioh
language utterly fails to desoribe, present
ed itself to their horrified gaze. There
lay the little girl, in a pool of her own
blood, with her head nearly severed from
her body; while the boy was nowhere vis
ible; but after searching about for some
time, they discovered the body of the poor
little fellow, on a hill side, among some
shrubbery, about one hundred and fifty
yards from the house. His head had been
entirely cut on oy an axe, while nis noay
was horribly mutilated by six or seven
different gashes made by the same instru
ment. The coroner of the place, Garrett De
marest, on being notified . of the blood r
deed, proceeded to view the body, and
having empanelled a jury, they after a
lengthy investigation, delivered a verdict
that the children met their, deaths by blows
from an instrument in the hands of Wm.
Caton. JV. Y. Despatch.
Losses of Vessels and Lives on the
Lakes. A gentleman connected with the
North-Western Insurance Company, at
Buffalo, has just completed and published
a detailed statement of the losses of ves
sels and livos on the lakes during 1852: :
"The total loss of property was 1992,
659; number of lives, 296, whioh is con
sidered to be muoh underrated. Loss by
collision, $261,950; by other causes,
$730,709. Loss of steam vessels, $633.
620; of sail crafts, $359,039. Of the 229
disasters, seven occurred in the month of
April, nineteen in May, twenty-four in
June, fifteen in July, sixteen , in August,
twenty-one in September, twenty-seven in
October, eighty-five in November (65 in
one gale of the 1 1th and 12th) and fifteen
in December. Six steamers, seven pro
pellers and thirty-five sail vessels have
gone out of existence entirely." ..,7;..
Parliamentary Squables. The Lon
don papers of the first inst., gives an ac
count of a fracas between two members
of Parliament. It happened in the streets,
and in consequence of both attempting io
occupy the same cab. One was struck on
his back with a cane. The other gave
chase to his assailant, caught him, laid
him out in the gutter and then knicked
him. The parties were brought before a
magistrate, who ' held them to bail in
1000. ' ' : ' ""!
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Behind The Times. The Altotj (III.)
Telegraph gives the following account of
Western travel, in those unfortunate local
ities, not yet blessed by the introduction
of the rail: ' ''''
The stage came in yesterday, in a : de
plorable fix, from Jacksonville. The body
and hind wheels were left behind,' perhaps
in some muddy hole up the country; op
posite some anti-railroad man's door.
Upon the front axle-tree ' was lashed1 ft
crockery orate, which contained the Jehu,
his mails, and three passengers. The
whole concern looked as though' it had
searched the bottom of every quagmire In
the oountry, and brought 'away a sample
of its composite and fertilizing qualities!
I FROM BALTIMORE;';!" ;r.
' '. '! Baltimore:' Jan. ."At
OTi. ivui, ooirn ui liumru fcJirSBl BUU
Mills at $5,25. Grain and othftit
unchanged. '"
-The steamer Black Warrka
Mobile from Havana. 'The
report the small pox as raJ
and many dying. : ... .;-.,
V
CINCINNATI i.MAIJ
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: Flour, steady at $4,40a4j
demand. Uata 'have de
Provisions are in fair - d J
change in ratesi Hogs
0.60 good lots are ,
Molasses are 1
of 600 bar,Tf
with tit7'
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