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If OR THE TAUBlinV PHESri.
THK VICTIM.
Fare thee well! though many years
Yet may linger o'er my head;
And I ffel that many tears
Are reserved for me. to shed.
Must I resign without a sigh
My brightest hojni? Ay, not repine:
Ah, the heart as well might die.
As all its tav'rite hopes re.Mgm
Fare thee tell! bright hours in youth,
Promised to this heurt most fur;
But alas! what's woman's truth,
Nought but emptiness and air. A.
HORSE TRAD INT. AND MATRIMONY.
For good or for evil,
For better or worse,
Man gets him a wife,
Or buys lihu a horse.
Both are deceptive.
We take them on trust,
The likeliest looking
Oft turns out the worst.
Ofi. in the stilly night,
W hen slumber's chains have bound me;
I tetd the cursed bite
Of something. crawling round me!
From the New Orleans Picayune of
March ID.
TEXAS INVADED.
Fourteen Thousand Mexican Troops
in Texas three Towns taken Som
Houston's Proclamation Great Ex
citement, &c. &e.
The steamship New York, fiom Gal
veston, which port it left last Sunday morn
ing, arrived here today, bringing the start
ling intelligence lhat Texas is actually in
vaded. The following letter from our Gal
veston correspondent gives an outline of
the news:
Galveston, March 12, 1812.
Gentlemen: They have come al last
the enemy is in the country! A Mexican
army computed at 14,000 men, headed by
Arista, has crossed the Rio Grande. San
Antonio, Goliad, and Victoria, have been
taken without opposition. No attempt, at
the latest advices, hail been made on Aus
tin. Gen. Burleson had collected a force
of 1,200 men to defend it, having first bu
ried the uovernmem arcnives. it is
thought that the first battle will be fought
on the Colorado. The country is in arms
some 4,000 of our people, it is estimated,
are on the march for the scene of action.
Houston turned out several hundred a
bout 100 left here to-day, and some two or
three hundred more will follow in the
course of a day or two. The President,
who is here, is opposed to this movement
on the part of citizens of this place; he
thinks that all should remain here for the
protect ion of this, the most important point
in the Republic, and a few of the moie
prudent portion of the community concur
with him.
It would be difficult to convey to you an
idea of the intense excitement and enthu
siasm which pervades the community.
Ever since the first intelligence arrived,
three days ago, the people have been as
sembled almost constantly, day and night
devising ways and means for repelling t he
enemy. All are rejoiced that he has come
the time is propitious all are actuated
by one feeling that of vengeance. We
are determined to exterminate him, or die
in the attempt.
The Government are deplorably deficient
in means to carry on this war it is utter
ly destitute of funds the people have be
gun it and will continue it if necessary un
til the last farthing of their means and the
last drop of their blood shall have been ex
pended in the cause.
Outrageous villany. Catch the rascal.
We learn from a passenger by the south
ern train, that some infernal scoundrel is
busy at his hellish work, placing obstruc
tions upon the track of the Petersburg and
Koanoke railroad, during the night, thus
endangering the lives of the travellers by
the mail train. On Tuesday evening, a
bout 9 o'clock, as the southern train from
Wcldon had reached a point about a mile
this side of Pleasant Hill depot, upon the
line that divides Virginia from North Car
olina, and seven miles north of Garysburg
the engine was suddenly thrown off the
track into a deep cut, by a wooden sill,
which had been placed across the rails, by
some malicious scoundrel. The road was
descending about that spot, and conse
quently the steam had been shut off, and
the train was proceeding quite slowly
had it been otherwise, the loss of hnman
life would have been inevitable.
Immediate measures were taken by
the enterprising Captains of the train.
Messrs. Stiles and Boy ken, to repair the
injury, meanwhile the mail and passengers
were forced to await the arrival of the
Northern train, which came up about one
o'clock. ' The engine of the train from the
South was thrown by ihe collision, com
pletely across the track, thus obstructing
all parage till it should be raised. In this
emergency the train from Petersburg took
the mail and passengers from the South,
and returned with them North. They ar
rived in this city about ten o'clock on
Wednesday. The passengers bound South
vyere not so fortunate, and were detained
till 3 o'clock Wednesday evening, when
ilie engine was placed upon the track and
i hey proceeded on their route. They ar
rived about five o'clock, and were thus de
tained twenty four hours by this merciless
act of a vile anil heartless wretch.
A 9 o'clock of the same evening, the
train left Weldon for the North, and pro
ceeded as usual till on arriving at the very
spot where the accident had occurred the
previous night, a similar obstruction was
placed there, but although it raised 3 of the
track wheels some ten inches from Ihe
track, they fortunately came down 0. K.,
aii't no itamage or delay was occasioned.
This however may be ascribed to the pru
dence of the Engineer who had not for
gotten the danger of the, previous night,
and accordingly had brought his engine
completely under his power. Such high
handed outrages, endangering the lives of
hundreds, call for an immediate action on
he part of the railroad company and peo
pie to use every effort to discover the guilty
perpetrators and bring them to the severe
punishment their crimes so richly merit.
Rich. Star.
(3 The Legislature of New Jersey have
passed an act abolishing imprisonment for
debt.
Abolition of capital punishment. The
Legislature of Tennessee have passed an
act virtually abolishing capital punishment.
It authorizes the Governor, in all cases, to
commute the punishment of death, by im
prisonment in the penitentiary for life.
A bill to abolish capital punishment was
passed in Iowa, and rejected by the council
on the ground that the state penitentiary
was not in a fit condition to receive and
safely keep convicts.
Steamboat explosion. The steamboat
North Star, exploded on the 2f)th of Febru
ary, about 22 miles below Tuscaloosa, hav
ing 1 6 passengers on board. About 15 of
the crew and passengers were killed, and
from 8 to 10 persons severely wounded.
Horrible Murder and Parricide. A
murder was yesterday committed in Hy
ron, which, for its cold blooded atrocity,
is almost unparalleled, A young man, by
the name of Benjamin T. White, having,
for several years past, had a grudge against
his father, on account of not being put in
possession of a portion of property, deter
mined to satiate his revengeful feelings by
murdering both his father and step-mother.
White came up to the house as his parent
wasemeiing the door; he took hold of his
coat collar, pulled him about so as to face
him, took out a pistol from his pocket, and
.slut him through, just under the shoulder.
He then threw him down, and commenced
beating him with the butt of the pistol.
The step-mother immediately ran to the
assistance of her husband, and had the pres
ence of mind to reach down and pick up
the pistol, (which had fallen in the affray,)
and was rising up, when she perceived the
murderer drawing another from his pock
et, which he aimed at her; and she only
escaped her husband's fate by throwing up
her arm, and diverting the aim of the pis
tol, which was fired, but without effect.
The young man then made for the woods,
but was pursued by a number of citizens,
and arrested in three or four hours. In
speaking of the murder to one of his cap
tors, he said, "I don't know whether I kill
ed the old man or not; but 1 meant to 1
took good aim."
I have seen a letter written to his father
last winter, which abound in more abusive,
outrageous, and impious language, than I
ever saw condensed in an equal space. He
closes the letter with: "So fare ye well for
the present, you contemptible old jackass,
and spawn of an adder."
White is safely lodged in our miserable
and ricketty old jail.
Batavia (Ar. Y) Times. March 17.
Fatal affray. The wonted quiet of
our city was disturbed on Monday night,
by an affray, the result of which was as
melancholy as its consequences were fatal.
The substance of the facts, as developed on
the investigation by a jury of inquest are
lhat a quarrel had taken place some short
time previous between Mr. Thomas Hutch
inson, and Mr. McMillan, an engineer on
the Georgia Rail Hoad, which created so
much ill-feeling, that imprudent remarks
and threats were made, tire result of which
was that both went armed for a meeting,
which took place in Broad street about 11
o'clock on Monday night, when McMillan
accosted and assaulted Hutchinson, a short
fight ensued, in which Hutchinson slabbed
McMillan, of which he died in a few min
utes. We forbear further comment, a we
understand that Hutchinson will deliver
himself up, and the matter will undergo a
judicial inves igitioo. The following ver
dict was returned by the jury of inquest:
That the deceased came to his death !y
a wound inflicted in the left side with a
knife, in an affray with Thomas Hutchin
son " ,ugusfa Chronicle.
(Jll is sud that they were both in love
with ihesmic lady.
The Hindoo Girl. The following in
ton si ing fact was slated in a recent lectuie
by Mr. Pierpmi:
-At the prudent day the uneducated Hin
doo girl, by the use of her hands simply,
could surpass in delicacy and fineness of
texture, the production of the most perfect
machinery, in ihe manufacture of cotton
and muslin cloths. In England cotton had
been spun so fine lhat it would require a
thread of four hundred and ninety miles in
length to weigh a p-und but the Hindoo
girl had, by her hands, constructed a
thread, which would require tube extend
ed one thous ind miles to weigh a pound;
and the Daceale muslins, of her manufac
ture, when spread on the ground and cov
ered with dew, were no longer visible. "
Land Slide A land slide occurred at
Algiers, opposite New Orleans, on the 23d
nil., which did much injury. Bell's ten
pin alleys were carried" awav, with several
houses. The Willow Gtove House, ex
cept. the upper story, was immersed in wa
ter. The on i t-r Levee on the ri. er is also
gone, and apprehensions ol further injur)
were entertained.
Removing a City. The St. Louis Re
publican of the ItJih inst. says: The build
ings in Marion city, on the Mississippi riv
er, the same town in which so many East
ern purchasers got their fingers hurried a
few years since, are being removed to
Hannibal, a town some twelve m'les below,
on the bnok of ihp liur l.nts whirli sold
at from two to six and eijrht hundred dol -
lars, and frame houses which cost from
eight to fifteen hundred dollars, can now
be bought at less than a hundred, lot and
building included.
Ice. The scarcity' of ice in the vicinity
of Boston, the present winter, has induced
the laj-ge dealers in the article to cross into
New Hampshire for a supply. For sever
al days during the past week a gang of ice
men might be seen on tl.e Cocheeo, rutting
up with their ice ploughs the "upper crust"
of that noble stream and preparing it for
transportation to the "city of notions " It
is carried over the railroad" in lots of from
sixty to one hundred tons to a train, for a
bout nine shillings a ton, affording quite an
addition to the revenues of ihe road, and a
profitable speculation, no doubt, to the op
erators. It would have startled credulity
itself, if, fifty or even twenty years ago, it
had been predicted that the lime would
come when Cocheeo river would travel off
over the hills into Massachusetts, hj' steam,
at the rate of twenty miles an hour.
Dover Inquirer.
Jl painful transili m. On Monday
last the term of service of one of the con
victs in the Auburn State prison, named
Philip Crater, came to an end. But before
he had been suffered to tate for a moment
the breath of freedom in the open air, an
officer yvas ready to take him aain into
custody. It seems that he was sent four
years ago from Tioga county, having been
found guilty of theft. ; and that during his
term of service, he had told three of the
other convicts, either by way of confession
or of braggadocio, yve know not which,
but likely the latter ; that he had, while
keeping a tavern about 12 years since,
muidered a pedlar that his body had first
been deposited under his yvood house, but
was afieryvards buried near the Susquehan
nah river, about six miles from Owego.
And that the pedlar' s wagon bail been by
him broken to pieces, and the iron worked
up for him by a blacksmith in the vicinity-
These circumstances were soon related
by the convicts to . the keepers, who
thereupon took some pains to inquire into
their truth. On searching on the spot
designated as the one on which the corpse
had been bui ied, the shin bones of a man
yvere found, the river having so far washed
away the bank as to exhibit them about
fifteen inches below the surface the feet
bones were washed off and gone; and on
inquiring of ihe blacksmith, it was ascer
tained that he had not far from the time
designated, worked up old yvagon iron for
this individual.
This same being boasts (to the convicts)
also of having "knock'd over" a felloyv it,
the Alleghany Mountains and robbed
him of 400 or 1400 says the "chap?'
said he had 3000 yvith him, but aftei
killing him he found, one convict says
g 100, another 1400. Crater at this time
owns a large farm, worth Horn $7,000 to
S 10.000.
jThe St. Augustine News has an
article which charges that many of the de
predation in Florida, charged to the In
dians, are commuted by white men in dis
guise, who take this method ta plunder.
J"The Legislature of Louisiana have
unanimously requested the Government
to declare war against Mexico.
Cure for Cancer.
Mr Thomas Tyrrell, of Missouri, adver
tises, that a cancer upon his nose, which had
been treated without success by L)r. Smith ;
of New Haven, and the ablest surgecn in
ihe Western country, had been cured in the
following manner He was recommended
to use strong potash made of the ashes of
red oak bark, boiled down to the consistence
of molasses, to cover the cancer with it, and
in about an hour afterwards to cover with a
plaster of tar, whrch he removed after a few
days, and if any protuberances remain in
the wound, apply more potash to them and
then plaster again, until they shall disappear,
alter which heal the wound with common
salves. Cautery and the knife had previ
ously been used in vain. This treatment
effected a perfect and speedy cure.
Raleigh Star.
Meeting of two Governments.
The Executive and Legislative Depart
ments ol the Governments of the Slates of
New Yoi k and Massachusetts, held a highly
iuteiesting meeting at Springfield, Mass. on
lite 4th inst. upon invitation of the Direct
ors of the Western Railroad. Governors
Seward, of New York, and Davis, of Mas
sachusetts, were present. The Hon. Josiah
Quiiicy, Jr. the Pi esidtnt of Massachusetts
en ate, presided over the Convention of the
two Legislatures and formally introduced
the Governors of the two Stales to each oth
er. The meeting was addressed by Gov.
Davis, who warmly welcomed the New
Yorkers to the old Bay Slate which ad
dress was eloquently and forcibly respon
ded to by Gov. Reward. A collation was
! Prided for the occasion and the utmost
harmo.iy & good fueling prevailed through
out tni; day. ib.
Horrible. A letter in the Kanawha (Va. )
Republican, states that on the 16th Febru-
ry, Mr. William McClung left his peaceful
i habitation, his wife and four children,' in
th' wilderness of Nicholas county. Va..
and went to Summerville to transact some
business, with an intention to return home
that evening; but the mountain storm be
came so intense in the afternoon, that he
declined doing so. His wife and children
having retired to rest, yvere alarmed at a
late hour by the burning of their house.
She escaped with her little ones from the
violence of the devouring fire but, alas!
alas! it was only to perish by the peltinfsof
t lie pitiless storm? The next day, when Mr.
McClung returned home, he found his
house consumed by the flames, and his wife
and all his children frozen to death! The
shock yvas too great for feeble human na
ture; he sunk under it; he became wild; he
desired to be burned with his family, and
his friends yvere compelled to put him in
close confinement.
Annexation of Texas.
A Washington correspondent f the Bos
ton Courier says that a scheme is on foot for
the acquisition of Texas. The idea of its
admission into the Union has been abandon
! ed' but a neyv plan for compassing the same
object has been devised. The writer stales
that Mr. Waddy Thompsou has gone out
Minister, charged with a negotiation for the
cession of the territory of Texas, in satisfac
tion of our claims upon Mexico for spolia
tions. Whether this be correct or not, we
have no means of knoyving, but we believe
it is understood that the acquisition of Texas
is a favorite measure with the President.4
The writer referred to says that theproject
now entertained is to bring the one-starred
republic into the Union by means of the
treaty-making power that is, the assent
of the Senate to its purchase from Mexico.
Great Corporal inn. A bill is now un
der discussion in the Legislature of Penn-'
sylvania, for the creation of the "Pennsyl
vania, Canal and Railroad Company, from
Philadelphia to Pittsburg." It is understood
this company will purchase all the public
improvements belonging to the State, and
manage them as the eastern people manage
their corporations. The capital proposed
is 10,000 000, in one hundred thousand
shares at 100 each. The names of Geo.
M. Dallas, Benj. W. Richards, and Evans
Rogers, of Philadelphia; Harmar Deuney
and William Wilkins, of Pittsburg; and
Charles M. Reed, of Erie, are inserted as
Commissioners.
JJThere appears to be much sickness
of a fntal character in Pasquotank county of
this State, but of what kind is not mention
d. Several valuable citizens of that coun
ty have lately died. IVilm. Chrorh
AT THIS OFFICE.
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