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Uloomington, May 14,1841-25
A V TI TC A K
SVCt'ESSOH
TO
11. MUSUBAVe,
Grocer, Forwarding and Commission Mer
chant, tttid Dealer in Produce,
BLOOMJNGTON, IOWA TERRITORY.
A.
G. BEESON,
RESPECTFULLY
Tailor,
informs the citizens of
Bloomington and vicinity, that he continues
to carry on the Tailoring Business in all its branches,
with neatness and despatch. QCy* AII kinds of coun
try produce taken in exchange for work. He is
s tut lor and in regular receipt of T. Oliver's Fash
21-tf March 10, 1841.
JOHN G. DESIILER,
ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR
(I. I. HAMPTO*.
AT
LAW
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B/oomiiigton, Iowa Territory.
w. n. HAitRisoir.
HAMPTON & HARRISON,
A O N E Y S A A W
IOWA CITI, I. T.
I AVE associated themselves in the practice of
II the Latt. under the above. th*y will at
i id to the business of their profession in the second
i Jcial district, am! to criminal cases in any county
i the Territory. Business committed to their care,
fither of them, will receive the joint attention of
h, February 25, 1841.-19-ly
W I I A E A A N
ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT
LAW,
hicct City, Iowa Territory,
'ILL practice in the several courts of tlieTer
ritory, md particularly in the counties of
mson, Cedar, Linn and Washington. Q^r-Coi
tions in any part of the Territory punctually at
ttieii to. lG-ay Feb 12, 1841
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I -WE associated themselves in the practice of
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iiitits of Muscatine, Cedar, Linn, Washington and
Louis*. Business eotruitcd with either will receive
h* prompt attention of both.
Hisrixcs, itS1'8COTT *ICHMA:f»
Bloomingtcn, 3 fccdar county,
W. F. DEH'EBLR,
Forwarding and Commission Merchant,
BJLO JMISGTOS, I. 'I'.
(^Having been appointed Public Auctioneer for
luMfltine county, he is at all times leaily to attend
)«alw in that way.
DOCTOR M'KEE,
let
OX CUEISTT 8THKET, BETWSUT FJIOJIT
AND SfcCOXP.
A I I E Tailor,
O* SECOND S TREET OPPOSITE THE POET
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lit AD C. DAY,
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OOMIXOTOS, IOWA TEH.
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-l:nce. Recorder's Office in the same building
TTS. PAKVIN,
A O N E Y A A W
BI
.OOMI'«TO\, I. T.
MEDICJTL.
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sociated themselves in the practice of Medi
ci tender their services to the citizens of
p?ii,mgton and its vicinity, in the various branch
protession. Oliice in Holling^wotth's
the present.
GEORGE GREENE,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
MARIOS, LINN Co., I. T.
JF- W. PARKER,
A O N E Y A A W
DAVEVPOHT, I. T.
WILLIAM R. RANKIN,
EY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
TIPTON, CEDAR Co., I. T.
^-tice ia the several courts of the Territory,
JVM. B. TYSOX,
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A RDI N & O IS SI ON
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HAPPUVS8S.
I've been wbere spacious mansions rife,
,** And grandeur hnth its sway,
V-And deemed them kin to paradise,
But found them ail display.
Fve been too at the banqu«t hall,
Surrounded by th« gay,
•, The light of pleasure smiled on
But soon it passed away. v.
And I have bowed at beauty's shrine,
And worship'd her so fair,
And thought that happiness was mine,
But found it was not there.
Beauty and wealth may lure awliie,
aiswy.t:"'
/.ml pl£"»?n,re Mtaj' anpsrt,
But when they lose their rosy smile,
What leave they in the heart?
We look for happiness around,
And dream of all things fair,
As tho' 'twere borne on ev'ry sound,
Or on the fragrant air.
It dwelleth not in outward things,
The fountain is within,
Deep from the heart it only 8prinpM
A heart unknown to sin.
E O I E
In the year 1652 the Black Forest was infest
ed with poachers. When game was scarce
they levied contributions on travellers, and
having eased them of their property, they re
turned to conceal themselves in the woods.
Robbers and poachers are almost synonymous
in fact a man who steals a game at night, arm
ed to the teeth, i9 seldom backward in murder
ing anj one who opposes him, and, when game
is wanting, it is easy to replace it by a purse
of gold and with this advantage, there is no
need of going to market to dispose of the spoil.
Besides it is merely drawing a trigger in either
case. The chief of these marauders was a
young man of good family, born at AschafFen
bourg. Libertanism had hurried him into
crime. In love with a young girl who had been
refused to his address, he resolved to carry her
off and to avoid the pursuit of the law he join
ed himself to a knot of dissolute young men,
who had already taken the Forest for their
abode. Determined and intrepid, they soon be
came the terror of the game keepers and woods
men, who were speedily quieted by an unseen
fowling piece,whenever an attack on these law
less men was meditated. After a time no one
dared to pass through the Forest, nor even to
travel alone in its neighborhood after dark.
Hans Rudinet, who had becouie chief uf the
band, soon grew tired of the young creature for
whom he had first adopted the profession of a
robber the gentleman loved variety, and under
different disguises traversed the neighboring
villages, where, if he saw a handsome woman,
he would watch her movements, and track her
footsteps, until the desired moment arrived
when, pouncing on her like a bird of prey, he
would bear her off to the Forest. Nine young
women were in this manner taken away from
th® vicinity of Frankfort, eight of whom re
turned, socn or late, to their houses, some ill,
some mothers, and all more or less desolate.
Hans Rudinet left other spoils to his comrades,
provided he kept the women to himself. An
excellent marksman, the deer, the wild boar,
or the goat that passed within two hundred pa
ces ofhis arquebuss received its contents in his
heart. If the Forester* assembled to attack
the poBchers, the latter allowed the former to
advance deep into the forest at a signal given
by Hans, all fired at oi.ee, and rarely did it
happen that a man unhurt escaped to#carry the
news to his neighbors. The comrades of Hans
aimed at the trunk of their adversaries, but he
invariably lodged his ball in the left eye of the
man he singled out. When a poor wretch was
found dead, with the left eye pierced, the pea
sants would say, "This is the work of Hans
Rndinef."
These enormities could not but bTing on a
catastrophe. The Senators of Frankfort assem
bled to devise means for destroying or disper
sing this horde of brigands. Some troops were
placed at their disposal, and all the younp men
of the district joined in the crusade proclaimed
against the robbers they were resolved to cap
ture Hans Rudinet, and bring him, dead or
alive, into the town. The forest was surroun
ded, and after a desperate resistance, all the
poachers were taken except their chief. They
were conducted to Frankfort to be tried and ex
cuted, and a great part of the neighboring po
pulation hastened to be present at this specta
cle. Men and women rejoiced in the downfall
of their enemies, but the satisfaction was not
entire, because Hans Rudinet had escaped. A
young woman, holding a little child by the
hand, stood near the gibbet, watching the exe
cutioner preparing to perform his office when
turning to observe a man who pressed close to
her, she observed Hans, and was about to utter
a cry, but he whispered, Silence, or that child
shali soon be an orphan." She was silent,
but the words were heard by an officer of the
police. He looked attentively at the man, for
he knew the young girl was one of those who
had passed some months in the forest with the
poachers, and he felt little doubt but .his must
be Rudinet, for on comparing his features with
those of tbe child, he perceived a strong resem
blance. Acting on this opinion, he signed to
two of hi? colleagues, and the three seizing the
man, couducted him before the senators.
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WHEELING, VA.
f1^,SIGN AND ORNAMENTAL
fAWpms*
t„L: -^^f'AVES will attend to the abwM
I'ccur*16.33'm 'ls
var'®us
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branches, with neat-
an^^^P^h.
Also, Glazing and Gild,
entrueted
to him will receive
anj^executed in
a
workmalnike
**ay Bloomington, Nov. .20
Yon have secured all the poachers but the
chief, and we now bring him before you."
A young woman who entered at the same
time cried out, Pardon, pardon, for the father
of my child!"
"Yes I am Rudinet, and this girl has be
trayed me, but I forgive her."
Tell the executioner that his day's work
is not yet done," said a senator.
This fellow who has just seized me," said
Rudinet, was yesterday within two hundred
paces of my arquebuss, and 1 meant to hit him
in the left eye, but a 6udden emotion of pity
seized me had 1 followed up my first idea he
would have been dead, and 1 should not stand
here before you."
You
really can
put
at two hundred paces 1"
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a ball into a man's eye
mmmmrn m.Jk*mw0k* A
*£*&* &**>%***
Yes, I would engage to put in ten
•'It is not possible,'' said an arquebusier in
attendance.
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You think so, because you are not expert
yourself do you think I resemble you 1 Well,
if it will afford you any diversion, 1 am wil
ling, before I die, to show what a man can do
with an arquebuss."
We should like to see it?" cried several
persons.
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It shall be so," said a senator, and if he
put a ball into the neck of a bottla, without
breaking it, we will pardon him."
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That would be easy," observed Rudinet,
while another senator remarked, that pardon
should not be granted on so easy terms to one
who had been so great an offender.
No," said bo,44 run^vnimg gir!^ ha*o
taken from their homes by him, and he shall
fire nine balls, designing with them the cy
pher 9 in the vane over the gate Ernchitin-
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Well said and if be fails in one ball, w*
will hang him."
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Yes, yes roared the crowd, delighted at
having two exhibitions instead of one.
441
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am quite content," said Hans Rudinet,
if pardon is to attend success
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We will beg it for you cried the arquc
busiers.
•4lt
shall
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From the Cailtot.
Vivat!" screamed the girl.
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Vivai!" shouted the arquebusiers.
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Vivat!" cried the people.
Rudinet was quickly relieved ofhis hempen
cravat, and carried in triumph before the sena
tors.
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How will you deserve the life which we
spare you they asked.
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By employing it in learning t® be an hon
est man
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Why did you not begin sooner!"
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Because my companions would not let me
but they are gone—may they rest in peace?—
If this young woman will consent, I will mar
ry her to-morrow, and the town of Frankfort
shall not boast a more honest citizen than my
self!"
Hans Rndinet kept his word ha became
an honest citizen, a good husband, and tender
father," as we read on the headstone in acem
etry and he was unanimously chosen for the
chief of the arquebusiers.
JM Romance of the Revolution*
The night had already settled down gloom
ily and forbidding on the evening of the I5th
of July, 1789, when the advancing column of
a little army whose uniform betokened it to be
Americans, emerged from a thick wood on the
shore of the Hudson, and in an instant the
whole shadowy prospect disclosed to them
along the bank of the river opened to the view.
Far away lay Verplank's Point, now buried in
a mass of shadow, while on the other side of
the river, dark, gloomy and frowning, rose up
the craggy heights of Stony Point. Washed
on three sides by the Hudson, and protected
on the other, except along a narrow morass,
the fort was deemed ono of the most impreg
nable on the river, and its capture regarded as
almost impossible- Yet to achieve that gal
lant purpose this little army was on its inarch.
A turn in the road soon hid them from the
river, and after a silent march of some min
utes duration, they arrived within a mile and
a half of the enemy's lines, and, halting at the
command of their officer, formed into columns
for the attack. Beginning again their march,
they soon reached the marshy ground at the
base of the hill.
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Hist!" said the low voice of the General,
from the front,
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BLOOMINGTON, IOWA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1841
be granted," said the senator*.
Give me then a piece and nine balls.
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Place him under the gibbet," ordered the
burgomaster,
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put cord round his neck, and if
he miss one shot, tighten
it till
yoti strangle
him."
Hans Rudinet took the arquehnss,and exam
ined it, without seeming disturbed by the pre
parations of the executioner, who was placing
the cord as the burgomaster had indicated. He
then put in the powder, ball, and wadding, and"'
raising the piece with careful attention he fired,
and the vane turning on its pivot, showed that
it was pierced through.
44
There's nothing remarkably clever in
that."
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Oh, no any body might do the same!"
441
would bel a trifle that tbe third ball hangs
him!"
44
The second comes before the third," said
Hans coolly,44 look there it is have 1 placed
it well V'
Yes."
44
Now
then for the third there, does it be­
gin the curve 1"
44
Admirable
Four—five—«ix
Me I have made the cir­
cle it remains but to pot the tail to the cy
pher.*'
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Belter and better bravo, Rndinet you are
the best marksmen in the world
And the people, who a few minutes before
would have doomed the poacher to death, now
hoped tor fits safety. The arqtirbusiers almost
trembled lest the remaining shots should be
less true, and the girl pressed her child to her
heart, which palpitated with the tlread that an
ill-directed ball should prove the signal for ex
ecuting a man who had obtained possession of
her person unlawfully. But the three other
halls were fired with as much accuracy as the
former ones, and the 9 was as well formed as
though the holes had been perforated by tbe
hand.
we are nigh enough now—
Halt!"
The order passed ia a whisper down the
line, snd the column paused on the edge of the
morass. It was a moment of suspense and
peril. Every man felt that io a few minutes
the fate of their hazardous enterprise would
be determined, and that they would either be
cold iu death, or the American flag waving in
triumph over the dark promonotory ahead,
scarcely discernable through the thick gloom
of midnight. Yet not a lip quivered nor a
cheek blanched in that crisis. About twenty
paces in front the column had halted, the for
lorn hope of 16U men, with unloaded pieces
and bayonets fixed, while further on a similar
group of shadowy forms could be seen thro'
the obscurity, accoutred with axes to cut thrc'
the abattis.
Each man had a piece of white paper on
his hat, to distinguish him from the foe in the
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approaching struggle. The pause, however,
which afforded this prospect was but momen
tary. The General had already reronnoitered
the approaches to the still silent promontory,
and waiving his sword on high, he gave the
order. In another instant the dark massive
column was moving steadily to the attack#
It was a thrilling moment, during which the
devoted hand had crossed rapidly over the
marsh. As yet the enemy had not discovered
them. Even the hearts of the oldest veter
ans trembled with the eagerness of that.mo
ment of suspense. Already had the foremost of
the pioneers reached the abattis, and the quick,
rapid blows of their axes rung upon the night,
when suddenljj^a shout of alarm burst from
the fort, the gun of the sentry flashed throngh
the gloom, and in an instant all was uproar
and confusion within the astanished fortifica
tion. Not a moment was to be lost.
Advance! advance!" shouted Wayne, as
he pressed rapidly on towards the abittis, fol
lowed in death-like silence by the indomitable
troops.
44To
arms!" came borne along tbe night
breeze from the fort—44to arms! to arms!"
and then following the quick roll of the drum.
In an instant the enemy were at their posts,
and as tho gallant continentals still maintain
ed their silent and steady march, a fire, such
only as desperation could produce, burst from
every embrasure of the fort. The incessant
rattle of the musketry, the roar of artillery,
the crashing of grape shot, and the lurid light
flung over the scene by the explosion of shells,
and the streams of fire pouring from the fort,
formed a picture which no pen can describe.
Yet, amid it all, the daring assailants steadily
advanced, though not a trigger had been pull
ed in their ranks. Faithful to the rmnmand
of their general, though trembling in every
limb with eagefness, they kept up their silent
march amid that fiery tempest, as if impelled
by some god-like power. On—on they pass
ed. The whirlwind of fire from tbe fort ceas
ed not, yet they dashed along, charged at the
point of the bayonet, over abattis and bulwark,
unfil the enemy, borne back by their impetu
ous onset, quailed before them. The works
were forced. Then, and not till then, was the
death-like silence broken.
A sound rung from the victorious troops over
all the thunder of the battle. It was heard by
the head of the column behind, it passed down
their line, was caught up by the rear, and a
wild &hout, making the very welkin tremble,
rang out as they dashed on to the attack.
The contest was short, but terrific. Over
bulwark, battery, and prostrate foes, the gal
lant continentals, headed by Wayne, pressed
on, driving all before them, met tho column of
their little army, with an enthusiastic cheer,
in the very centre of th« ene-iny'a wck«.
another moment the starry flag of America
waved triumphantly over the battlements.
The enthusiasm of the victors cannot be des
cribed. But though the contest had been so
bloody, not a man of the enemy fell, after re*
fcislance ceased. The prisoners were disarm
ed, a guard placed over them, and sentries post
ed oi all the commanding positions around the
wori. The morning gun announced to the
British fleet In the river, that Stouy Poiut was
lost and won.
THE PARSEE, TIIC JEW, AND THE CURTSTTAK.
—A Jew entcrred a Parsee temple, and beheld
the sacred fire.
What!" said he to the priest, "do ye wor
ship the fire
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Not the fire," answered the priest
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an emblem of the sun, and of the genial heat."
Do you then worship the sun as your
God?" asked the Jew.
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uncultivated man requires a sensible sign in
order to form a conception of the Most High.
And is not the sun,the incomprehensible source
of light, an image of that invisible Being who
blesses and preserves all things?*'
The Israelite thereupon rejoine4 i
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Do your people, then distinguish the type
from the original? They call the sun their
God and descend from this to baser objects,
they kneel before the earthly flame. Ye amuse
the outward, but blind the inward eye and
while ye hold to them the earthly, ye withdraw
from them heavenly light. Thou shalt not
make unto thee any imago, or any likeness."
44
How then do ye designate the Supreme Be
ing asked the Parsee.
44
We call Jehovah Adoni this is the Lord,
who is, who was, and who will be," answered
the Jew.
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Your appellation is grand and sublime,"
said the Parsee,
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J"r"
111
"'M*
4jrjrtrM—J0H*r jfr. tritm m,m*
it is
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Know ye not this
luminary is also the work of the Almighty
Cieatorl"
We know it replied the priest,
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but the
but it is awful tow."
A Christian then drew nigh and said,
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call him FATHER."
The Pagan and Jew looked at each other and
said,
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here is at once an image and reality it
is a word of the heart," said they.
Therefore they raised th» ir eyes to heaven
and said with reverence and love,
We
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OUR FATH­
ER !"—And they took each other by the hand,
and all three called one another brothers.— Dr.
F. A. Krummacher.
A BRIGAND'S PHILOSOPHY.—44 It is because
man's is not God's law that I stand here upon
the mountain. Were laws equal and just there
would be few found to resist them. While
they are nnequal and unjust the poor-hearted
may submit and tremble the powerless may
yield and suffer, the bold, the free, and the de
termined fall back upon the law of God, and
wage war against the injustice of man. If you
and I, baron, (he continued, growing excited
with the heat of argument if you and I were
to stand before a court of human justice, as it
is called, pleading the same cause, accused of
the same acts, would our trial be the same, our
sentence, our punishment No all would be
different because you are Bernard de Rohan,
a wealthy baron of the land, and 1 am none.
A man would make the difference. A mere
name would hxing the sword on my head and
leave yours unwounded. If so it be, I say if
such be the world's equality—I set a retribu
tion for myself, 1 raise a kingdom in the pastes
of these mountains, a kingdom where all the
privileges of earth reversed. Here under my
law, the noble and the rich, and the proud, are
those that must bow down and suffer the poor
and the humble, and the good, are those that
have protection and immunity. Go, ask in the
peasant's cottage visit the good pastor's fire
side inquire of the shepherd in the mountaio,
or the farmer on the plains go ask them I say,
if, under the sword of Corse de Leon, they
loose a sheep-from tbeir flock er a sheaf from
their field. Go, ask them, if, when the tyrant
of the castle, the lawless tyrant, or the tyrant
of the city—the lawful tyrant, plunders their
property, insults their lowliness, grinds the
face of the poor, or wring the hearts of the
meek—ask them, I say, if there is not retribu
tion to be found in the midnight court of Corse
de Leon—if there is not punishment and jus
tice poured forth even upon the privileged heads
above."—James' Corse de Leon.
THE MOTHER.—Those very feelings of the
mother which men call female weaknesses, act
upon the incipient intellect like the volatile oils
and the rainbow colors of the blossom on the
embryo fruit, distilling and refining the dews
dews of heaven, and reflecting the and soften
ing the*tay8 of light, until it swelb into strength
and vigor, to be matured by the redundant
showers of summer, and ripened in the power
ful beams of the sun. The stern philosophy
of the father smiles at the sleepless vigilance
and thrilling anxiety with which the mother
watches the sleeping infant, and her distracted
wildness when its tottling footsteps carry it be
yond her sight yet the actions of the mother
under these circumstances make an impression
on the infant mind never to be errsed, by time,
or change,or circumstance and by an associa
tion of ideas too mysterious to be explained,
but too palpable to be denied, the moral les
sons inculcated under these circumstances can
never be forgotten and many a heartless rake
has been reformed, and reckless renegade re
claimed, by the recollection ot'o mother's pre
cepts, after she had gore to her grave. This
powerful influence id happily illustrated in one
of those speeches of John Randolph, in which
that eccentric orator was wont to wander over
the whole universe. In denouncing a certain
quality of atheists for the mischief they had
done,44 Once," said he,44 they well nigh rob
bed me of my religion but when thelastspark
was nearly extinguished, I remembered that
when a child, my good old mother called me
to her side, and taught me to say,44 Our Fath
er who art in Heaven/^
Jt Poor, Miserable, tJnfortnnate Wretch.
The editor of the Galveston (Texas) Gazette
is in a miserable fix. According to his own
account the musquitoes have established a
large singing school in his beed room, and all
sorts of psalms, hymns, dirges and comic songs
are performed during the night, while the fleas,
for the wan: of a fluter, promenade and dance
over his person to the music. If the choir
would only chant the hundredth psalm, he
thinks Hp stand the slow i«u-cu I/f the
fleas while footing that measure, qut the vex.
atious pipers like to strike up a rigadom in
quick time,
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the Campbell's are coming," or
Leather Breeches," and then the fleas, as
as
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down east lobsters," cut it down on his
hare back with a double-shuffle-heel-and-toe-it
hornpipe, as if it did their souls good. We
really do not know how to advise him in his
pitiable case. In this city the loafers have
adopted a very comfortable plan to pass the
night, by getting inside the old steamboat boil
ers and covering each end with handkerchiefs,
but no such facilities probably exist at Galves
ton. We can do nothing better for our friend
of the Gazette at present, than to recommend
him to adopt a plan stated several years since
by a New Hampshire friend of ours, who was
annoyed in a similar manner. After trying
every other experiment without success, he
finally resolved lo "tin and bear it!-— N O Pic.
THE FLAG OF REPEAL
Is waving from Charleston to the Ohio,
from Carolina to Maine. Enlightened New
Hampshire, the mountain nymph, has
spread it broadly to the free winds of the
nnmoving hilis, and proclaims that she
will not permit Clay's bribing machine to
be established—attempted as it is by false
hood, fraud, and force. By falsehood
for not one Whig Iteader would declare for
a Bank, during the Presidential canvass.
The Whigs voted for Tyler as Vice Pres
ident, who was pledged against it. Clay
himself repudiated in the Senate, the idea
that a Bank was the object or intention,
or in the contemplation of the Whigs. The
Whig leaders in Virginia, in the Char
lottesville Address of last winter, argued
Harrison's opposition to a Bank on Con
stitutional grounds, and invoked the Anti
Bankmen of the South to his support.
The same ground was taken by the whigs
generally of the South and Southwest.
Two States are unrepresented in this dri*
ving session. The other Slates have not
chosen Representatives in reference to the
Bank question—and to force a Bank up*
on them now, is a gross and fraudful tyr
anny. A Bank so established, says the
Baltimore Republican, from which we
take these facts, and adopt these senti
ments, to adopt the words applied to me
by save the country PRESTON—it is to be
rushed upon 'hated—cursed —despised
•—trampled upon. Let the motto of eve*
ry true Patriot he, says the Republican,
from this day forth,
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*J*D YMOMS* MUGMM* DITOMH
Down with the
Banks."
A meeting of Republicans at Carthage
Ohio, have protested against such an un
constitutional project of Clay's—and re
solved that if adopted by Congress, it is
4/t«//
and void'—and they pledge them
selves to oppose it, "until repealed or oth
erwise blotted from existence." They
have
resolved
to vote for no inan to Gon-
gress, who will pledge himself to the re
peal. They denounce the friends of a
National Bank, a National Debt, and an
arbitrary Distribution of the People's Mon
ey,
as
hostile to the safety, interest, and
liberties of the country—and as
enemies."
We rejoice in these signs. The people
will not allow their hand® to be tied by a
w:
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mmm
a r.
ft*.
sw*
trick. As Clay said a National Bank
abroad is to be fought by a National Bank
at home—(owned in part by foreigners)—
so the people say, the Nullification of a
Federal Constitution, is to be fought by
the Nullification of the Unconstitutional
Charter, which is to rise by the violation
of the Charter of American Freedom. The
two charters cannot co-exist and what
Republican wiH hesitate a moment to res
cue the charter of Union, by trampling
down at once the charter given by swindr
ling politicians to swindling financiers*—
ana to arrest the distribution set on foot 19
State beggars by Federal robber* Mam
mon leads on the Whigs, as it led on the
Ministry of the third George, to tax the
Colonies without their consent -and Mam
mon is a strong spirit—a strong man arm
ed, but a stronger than he may be aroused.
The dollar is potent, but not almighty!}
money, the thirst for which is the only
Whig principle—to get which, per fas aut
nefas—\% the end and aim of every Whig
measure, is a great corruption but truth
is yet mighty as she was of yore—and the
same principle that rose in '76 to battle
for principl^, will rise again—and Mam*
mon be again cloven down. From the
moment a Bank, whether called Fiscal
Bank or Fiscal Agent is thru3t upon the
country by Congress—let the delenda est
Carthage be the burden of every RepubH*
can speech. Let U3 take our children t9
the altar to swear immortal enmity against
it.—Char. Mercury.
The discussion in the Senate, on the
Bankrupt Bill, elicited some interesting
information respecting the peculiar laws
and usages of the State of Louisiana, in
guarding the rights of married women and
minors A correspondent of the Philadelphia
North American says—
Louisiana guards the rights of her
women with kind and parental care. Tht.
husband cannot alienate the property, even
by consent of the wife and even the
money given by the parents, either before
or after marriage, is a6 much the separate
property of the wife, as the land and ne-^
groes. She can even make the husban^|
her debtor, and sue him in a Court of la\f^
It was to guard these rights, that induced
Mr. Barrow to nfler thp ^m^rh hf
which were, that no bill that interfered
with that peculiar privilege of wives, could
be supported by him. If I mistake not,
this law was adopted
spend their property within a short period,
leaving them to penury. It is said thi|,
this was to guard against this conduct otfc
the part of unprincipled adventurers, that
the enactment of this law was found neces
sary by the prudent and kind Frendlt
Creoles of that hospitable region. No mal
ter what led to h, the example it worthy
of all praise.
The Madison, Ia. Republican Banner pi
the 28th ult. publishes the letter of Goir*
Noble of that State giving an account
the failure to pay the July interest of thft
debt of that State. In the concluding po^»
tion ofhis letter the Governor says
,4I
am aware that much has been said fl#
the repudiation of Stale debts, and whether
real or imaginary, the minds of those not
possessed of correct information may be
influenced by it. It is true that we have'
our embarrassments to contend with, the
chief of which may be ascribed to the
unfortunate negociaiions with which this
city is familiar.—Bui whilst some of these:
may be the subject of investigation, the'
people of the State will seek no pretext ia
them for the disregard of law and moral
obligation, and if there be any who harbo*5
suspicious of so degraded an estimation of
honor, they may safely dismiss them. The
people of the State do not deny having
borrowed money much of which was re
ceived of stranger*, and in their present
inabillity to meet their engagemente, there
is nothing to justify the apprehension that
they will dishonor the State or nation by
disavowing their sacred obligations."
PHILADELPHIA MORALITY AND JcsTicEi
The grand jury of Philadelphia have fonrtl
several indictments against the
the
geAlfthis
4'
public
is the juHiice
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NO. 43.
since
Louisiana be­
came a territory of the U. States. Daghitig
young fellows used to go there and marry
the beautiful
Creoles
of the territory, and
44Times„^
and two other penny papers, for libels—S?"
that is, for telling too much unwelcon|#'
truth.
In this same city, Levis who forged aiw
swindled to'the amount of nearly $
1,300V*
000, was allowed to run away—-to com*
back—and to run away again, without any
molestation from the grand jury. In the
same city,
directors of a bank robbew
widow, orphan, and ether stockholders ef
Europe and America, out of nearly $35,
003,000, their all—and they are looked up
to as
respectable
citizens, beyond the reach
of a grand jury. In the same city, police
officers
are proved in open court to be
confederates
of burglars, and they are un^
touched by a grand jury. In the sa»#
city, forgers and murderers are trieA a1*
and
A
morality ef
Philadelphia. Oat upon such JjyP°"llef
A double portion of the. fire that Je]1
Sodom and Gomorrah is due to Pelade®-'
phia, without loans, credit, or post noteij
Her Grand Jury is on a level with h«r
grand bank.-N. Y. Herald.
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