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5 i'. It " . t 1.. r f, i it. r: w"hoc name we will not mention, canu to lliis city from St, Mary's county, having in his passes a a sum of mono belonging to las fotV r, end which had come into his hands ia lha settlement ol somo property entrusted to his care. The w hole of this sum he- lost at the gambling Uille. lie the applied to va rious legal gentlemen of his acquaintance and having succeeded in borrowing a considerable amount from ihcnyonce more madly sought the place of his ruin, and onco mors come forth wild, ha- pard, and desperate, without a dollar of h tfwimwiJi tic irau'su rasiuy aim wickedly staked. Ho then succeeded in obtaining six dollars, and with this paltry sum fled to Washington, Some of those whom he had so basely decciv cd and wronged," pursued lum; and straniM as it may seem, the infatuated young man was found within , the walls of a gambling house. The above facts ought to be pondered well by , young . men. They speak louder . than words ; and thev o&r a solemn warning to all. to avoid that dizzy and dangerous von tcx, fronvwtuch, w hen once cngulphcd, a man can scarcely hope to escape w ith property, reputation or peace of mind. Hattimort Tramcriot. f From the Alexandria Gazette, f Mit AVlSES SrEECII AT NORi t , FOLK. ; -1: ;.:; i i An abstract of Mr. Wise's speech' at Uie public dinner given to him recently v' in Norfolk, Va. has been published. It is one of the raciest productions of .the day. We have not room for more of it to-day than that portion which gives a graphic "description o( the Expunging Scene'' in the Senate. Last winter, sir, tlic deed was actu ally done. The scene of , the ICth Jan uary 1837 in the Senate of ibe United States, never has been and never will be disenbed a s it w as. That day the Sen ate fell trampled under the feet of a ty rant's slave, About 4 or 5 o'clock,' 1 M. the " House of . Representatives ad journed. The members generally; all of the mess to wluch I belonged, hasten ed to their dinners as usual Judge White (of Tenncssc) was of my mess, and we waited dnncr for him we wait ed until it was. concluded. the. Senate would sit until the nigh?; and sit ever so late, it was known by all who knew him that he never left his seat until the Sen ate itsetf adjourned. When I hail finish ed my meal 1 looked out towards the Capital and saw the Senate flag'flving. What can detain them so, was theques tion, and they are upon tho, expunging i . f. .i I.. -i ll resolution was ine rvpiy. - js u jmjssiuio that they treat tl farce so seriously as to burn a candle over it? Yes, indeed, this -night Benton is determined to play the Dlav oct Then I determined to sec irum, oi me coiimhuiioii, ui uiu sxums. i weni up u, .uuMmuu, . . iL- -. candles were lightel tho light of day was njt the light to jshmo Upon the inter nal orgies of erasing a truth from a re cord which men were sworn 2 M keep. I entered tlie room where once a Senate sat, I hcard--4f there he any true hearted North Carolian present, I beg his pardon I heard a strange voice car in fculle, broken tones, incohc v -feutly as from a man muttering he kneW not hat, in a dream, as if lie were rid . Iden-by llie nightmare.; After, jliis feeble, fvoicc had ceased, the strong and manly voice of a mind always wide awako llie mind of a man wlwj might be prcscn lied ! to tlie worW as a srccimcn of' A- merica's sc ns strong in frame; wrought inV) labor's moiild--a laborions man, al ways firacticaMe h son tf Viririnia, a Senator of Ohio, a scion of the West, a man VnAy of tlie people, who has done inoro tii V itein than they 'cmiJVf Him he has vindicated his, ; origin and their character Thos. Ewing spoke, as a man should, every argument or pre tence of argument, to siame, lor doing a.sharcfiJ deel , r: When b had condudisa, Dnniel Web ster, win w hen youJvc said the worst f liis politics ;? "the a.ne giant of inteU Wl stih; Daniel Webster rose and read for l.rtMwlf . and his-cojleajrc, and tlw State ti Ma.sachii.'fts,' a iem protcrt, wliich forwmpKeityandlniaulyof wtyle, fa uuceutratkiuand strength and clear l)ssf argument,, n tne and temper, for dignity of-ttiought ami 'expression ' and 6r efevation f moral &v -liag, is un mr)mm, I , venture Ut say, by am State jinr f sy time or nny iwnsbn. Wbiht readi'ig this f''r -tlwre-was not a Whisper; iloiw sonined- U fffrove cvhtv word and : vry sctitiirwnif: a doep -jind. Vven' painful attention wmcd to proViiie that a yumj jUm st wrtmjflit ia th-i milwU ot u.any, and all .0iU f splay: o play did l imd it-no lurcc tonVJ;rom nil speaJkin miauwasnbuimiifu.Uiigira3B. I prayed for a Iiigh ag dv; it was the obsequies of a record, of a JLi ' .i n:?i, i" if ju.-t arrcstod in z act of perr-ctrating soma lrrM ur.iutontluiallv, from Willi' II Y.iZ.t PI! I n'o-ned fr a moment ; : i. . e un within mc to - revtt.t. IL that is t!;2 word, t' .at u tho fpceoh, that is tlicpnpcr, nolhin more, notlung loss than what I prayed for thctn. If any thing could have touched t!.o minds and hearts of such men, the protest of Dan iel Webster and John Davis of Massa chusetts, would have rought upon thein. iSever, ncucr, shall 1 forget the manner in which he uttered tho word "we have collected ourselves to witness theccnc." lie fipok triumphantly of Massachusetts she stood erect, she had not bowed the knee or the neckher soil was mired in the best blood of the revolution. "I was losing mvself. I - wildly looked' to the scats of Virginia, Senators wher.o was Leigh, where was Tyler? I could have shrieked for them tie g6nis of Yir ginia did agonize, No J-cigh, no Tyler was incre tney were already drasscd out from these scats? snatched from the defence of the Journal, of the Senate; of the Constitution, flfo such idecd could he done with such men there.' No, never, never, for .well do I remember the sncech of Leigh; it can never be forgotten by Benton, or by Rives, or any one w ho heard it., it made Rives look like he did during the actual scene of cxnunction like what Judge Wilkins' called Johnny Ncal Said he, "Johnny Ncal-ou aro a smau manr he made Ucnton look like he felt in tho Chanel w hen ho was ex pcllcd from college at the ago of 20, weighing 160 rounds nctt, for petty lar ceny. . Yes, sir, Mr. Leigh was giving many beauului'aud appropriate philolo gical illustrations , from the holy Scrip, lures, to. show the meaning of the verb "to keepw--at lat ho paused, raised his spectacles," settled himself back upon his shortlcg..- caught hisJcfhwrisL in his right hand, and fixed his vo directly and fully on Tom' Benton he seemed tffnirn liim thmnorh nml thrrmcrh I had socn tlie painting of Adam andEve, the picture of tlio temptation. : I had criticised that painting for . the attempt to paint visibly the injlmnee of the Scr- Ecnt upon the fair mother of us alb I ad thought an injiuctict could hot be painted. - But when I saw Leigh look at Bentcn, I at nce yielded the- criti cism I could sob something ' going straight out ol Leigh s eye ' directly mrougti lum. II it had been a teen cut ting two edged sword piercing to the tfc viding asunder of his joints and marrow, he could not have winced wore; he shrunk up to one half his dimensions. He covered his face whh his hands he felt and : could not conceal it : and if liCigh had aimed a pistal all the time, and , tired a ball true intd his side, he could not have hurt him worse than w hen he terminated the awfuf pause by say. ing "And Mr. President, in that cate chism which my mother taught mc, I learned "to keep-IO keep mQ hundt and my ain I looked .:st from knm'mff tn u:m. Tri;,t toll f,!m -- ---- - i .:-ir " . -v -Sir. I would to Hod that this 'em had to pass from yovP He seemed to me to feci humbled, and he replied in sub stance and nearly In words, 6If any suppose that this scene is gotten up by me, itiis a great mistake." He said more; the amount of wluch was, as I supposed, that hd never expected to bo brought up actually to trie damned deed. I cbuld if pif liufC fiein.tigl6WcdnK tempt. Benton knew he had played the h)pocritc; ho knew he was conscience stnckch: lie knew he had before, tlie res- pectdf manv iheti f rth in tlie oci nunjii, ui wiucii na lueuioa; iiau none ; he' knew it would be the bitterness ol ashes to his taste, to bo forced to vote actually- of expunging, and hb was dei termined that Hives, his rival, should be at ckliuus.JuiW cu for himj held it to his lips, held him to it; and made Jmn drink the drcgs.:IIc made more gmnafsy fhow-d mre na sea than a sick man. Benton calculated rightly? he has sunk In self esteem and in the respoct of others ever sinc&He bullies lum and buds lum and his friend. and Rives is already ,plaing second nauie to uenion. l no luucr is asnamed of ootlhng -he glorica m his total want m ur.i. stcr concluded, thcro was for a momcn a dead silence, w Inch was soon, liovtev cr, broken by the harsh tones of Benton. ; Frjmthe(V.) Frmer Register, for Mijf MOSPECT OP. TUB WllfcAf CKOP. BP. FP.CTS OF USING IMPEUPECT OU DAM A GET) SEED. Though there is much difference in the apoearcnce-oi wheat crons in tliflcrcnt places, and rven .?ome times, in a remarkable degree, on similar land on adjoining farms, stil theie can he no doubt of. the fact that the prospect of the crop iu gen ral, throughout Virir.iiis very 1,'and that the product must be ::;;h below a fair aver.s f r tl.r i:;d. Huch s'atcmcnts arc already -jutcd at in some of the leading cws papers, as the regularly recur- rinj, and generally false prophecies of coming bad crops, dictated cither by knaves who desire to sw'e II ..pri ces fpr . their profit, cr by the fear of the desponding and uninformed. There may be good ground, some- . .. L-f . , '- ... . -.. ". y. u ere, mr tntscnarge, ouiweciaira that it shall, not be extended to (his journal s All persons are liable to be deceived on this subject: but We were not deceived last year, while sending forth the worst accounts of expected failure in the then grow ing crops, which then were disre garded or not believed and. our predictions, gloomy aa they were, fell short of the disastrous results. We vamed farmers asrainst re- lying upon the defective wheat of the last crop, for seed, whenever better couM be obtained.' To the very genera) use of this bad seed, is doubtless owing much of the sick ly condition of the, crowing crops. ine tinexamplea com in last No vember, gave a .heavy blow .to the then;very voting plants of the early sown, as well as retarded for a long : At t: . nine ine ccrmiiiauon oi me laie sown seed. But the nroduct of well filkd and welt matured reed might have wiiniooii inese inuicuons, .under which that of shrivelled and ced has dwindled or perished. It . is stated, in the nefrsniipcrc, that a remarkable superiority an- Sears in some crops of wheat pro uced from western ierc, cf the crop of 1835, and for which, the writers seem at a loss to account, It is not because of the origin, or the age of this ccd--hut simply that it was of good and well made grain, while the other crops? were sown with defective grain of the crop of 1836. further confirmation of this is presented in" the facts-' that "the best growing crops we have heard of, are on large farms where much care was used to obtain fur seed the btst icheat that the crops cf these frms, or their neighborhoods, fur nished, 'out of the universally bad crop of lasVyeariY.'.The collection and comparison of numerous facts of this kind, (to which the crop of every t farm ;tnay, add 'something) would serve to settle this iranorta-1 uon question, and prevent a luturc reliance on bad seed.' v ,r drdent Sptrit8.lt h deplora ble and wonderful. in how many ways, and to what extent, the felt' city and integrity of human beings are undermineu, ovennrown or impaired by the -ttse-ef- Ardent spirits. if me punisumenioi men were proportioned to the evils which their couduCt produces, with out reference to motives, he, who first discovered the method of dis-; tilling Xiquors, is entitled, amongst human beings,, to the heaviest load of -malediction. . This reflection is suggested by observing in one News paper the following paragraphs ; Murder Ani another teaming to JJrunkards.iin Saturday last, io4heU(5wer-parLj3t-lhiscountyr Henry Massey was stabbed in the abdomen by Juorris oehorn; which resulted immediately in his death. Hehorn is now confined In the jail of this place, to await his trial at the next Superior Court. There wasno just cause for the committing oi tms ueeo, ami mc prisoner mm self says there was none -but at tributes it to his being intoxicate!. This is another melancholy result from the excessive use of ardent spirit. Charlotte Journal. . Bob ton, April W. Horrible result of Li temperance. Yesterday mornrngn.bctwech i and 12 o'clock, a woman about 30 vears of age, named Mary Jane Wetmore, trll from a window i:i the third story of a building in the rear It en- prcrs sue i;r.3 m.; r.., u in temperance fjr jr::s t yc-ss or 'I I f ....... H 1 . ore. during vl.:..i t.. t;;c has been a great troulJi ta lit f lends, from her continual i:.tnxi"ati-jn. She had not been sober fjr the last three weeks, and has been absent from home for some days past. She returned a day or two since, and was yesterday morning about leav ing the house again, when she was locked in her room, for the purpose of asccruining'whether : something might not be done with her to keep her Trom ardent.spirits.; In a few moments she opened the .window, and iii endeavoring, as is supposed, to get on to a building adjoining,' that she might escape, she ft 11 stri king her head on the pavement, Uhe was considerably bruised, and only lived h say ."it is all over with met" Jtft icl. A man named U. Howell, wh.i was formerly a respectable trader in thisfily, who had latterly reduced himself to extreme t poverty by in temperance, was yc;t?rday found dead in II ester street.' Verdict! deClh from a fit. yVV IV Paper. ; ! Horrid events. e If a r n , from an authentic sourcF, that a laborer living in Hpruce Fttctt near the Schuylkill, went 'home yesterday in a stafe of intoxication, and began 1 to assault his wife, the mother of ; four promising children, . whom It was his design to drprive nf both ' their parents. ."Seizing a flat iron, he rushed upon the mother, and. inflicted !cprrale woutids . upoi J h r nfrson. with fatal intent. ' leaving her senrefess in her blood, J he sprang from a window,' and rush- f ing to , the f br.huylkiii, pmngeU f headlong int its waters, and wasj soon no more, ine wnc nas been conveyed to the Hospital, .where she lingers; mortally wounded," and with no prospect of recovery. Our iniormanc ,reccivcu mc cniei par ticulars here detailed from a person who saw the infuriated husband spring frbn the J windowjrftcr the commission - of his dreadful deed He has left a dying wife, and four unhappy orphans to deplore his de lusion, and perish or suffer from his crimes, Phtladdhhn Evening Uazefte. On Wednesday niht, a man by the name of J. CoGn Pinkham; of Nantucket, died very suddenly in a cellar, on the corner of Clinton and Commercial streets, where be had resided for some time. His habiti hive been very intemperate, which was the eause of his death. ' -IJLZi . ? Eos ton Paper Strong, hr rest it for an Office, The (New Hampshire) News-Let ter relates the following excellent anecdote: . -'- --V --f" ; "A countryman from the north ern part; of the State once called upon Governor, Ay cntwoxth,: at Portsmouth, and begged his accep tance of a saddle "of veriTsoii.1 The Governor loved venison, and smiled most craciously upon Jonathan as he accepted the present, and thank id him for so acceptable a matk of tftis-fcjneei i4iv-i6--.w anci sera ic ncu uis ncau, aim nas iu no horry to depart. . The errand was biii half doner His Excellency inquired of him if tie could in any way be of service1 to .him? when Jonathan' informed bim thal there was no Ensign in the militia com pany at and he would be dreadfully obliged to his Governor ship fur a commission. The Gov ernor would be very happy to ob lige him if he bad the proper rcc i. m mcridations, and ask ed if 1 !. - co a pan v had elected him fjr t' 'r En siirn. or sent any evidcr. : . their wish for his appointment? ;'Vhy, no may it pleafe your Kxcd!:..cyfa honor.' said Jonathan, -i : re are only lvo, other men jn town but .a ' ' a . A I ( rt myseHf.apu cne oi tiiemis tuecap. lain acd the other Lieutenant, antl of 107 YM'rr'" -y ccrehc de and mrJ if - ". " k.i i.s npi.t Uhey'il tnnetjdt-at . ' ASHBOUOUOtI, K. CT SalTAtta, -May , 3,0, vkj - yi tui9uM;r was un expectedly summoned to attend KuuVr, ford Superior Court Jast weeks anJ Burke next j so that it will be a week or two yet, before he will again bo in his chair Editorial1 His absence is suft cicnt apology for some legal question not being attended to. . " I ilr.Thinpon of CUthm Co. l pub!il H direriiumcnt of s toleo mre, tuldle tad bn. Jlf , together with the m-pccl-4 ihitfj but b. furt t bid put tbr JvtrtWment ia type, , learned tbttth m (John D.'K"ff,1 vaiuft. 1 log.leJ in Richmond Jail, vs it a matter f (oarMi decbnt UKhtt txttihctticn. ' FAYETTEVILLR & .WESTEUTi MVc h6pcd by tliis t:Jtic"tQ Lave been ablc.to have given our readers some ecr. tain information relative to the prospccU of our anticipatctl Hail Itoad, but owing perhaps to our limited information in n gard to works of the kind, find that moro time mt ist necessarily be spent than w;c had p wiously all.itted.; There fore our information on tiio subject yet remains very limited. Cut judging from the anxiety that wc ourselves feel on the subject, that our readers generally, and ia particular tho citizens of litis and tlie adjacent counties, from their ownimmc diate interest, ahw feci with us a eon sidcrabfo , anxiety to learn Uto. ultimate result of tho survey now in operation, through Randolph county, b AsLLoro Cross Roads, New Market, &c. W'c tlicrcforq intend giving dicra as early in formation as we can, by statements of facts as they transpire, or as soon as urc rcccivo them in such a way that wo carclyon their accuracy. . . i 7"At presentee catf only say that Qw gentlemen employed to acrvcy thcrojUo had . formed into two companies; one commencing aDrowiung CrccVandtlw other at . tho YadLin river, in order to meet at somo point between tho two ex tremities: that the lower company, or the company from Drowning Creek passed by this place last week ; arid we further understand that on Monday last they lad reached the Cross Roads. "Wc mado somo inquiries of them with re gard to -present prospects of tiki rouc thus far, and found them to bo very flat tering ; that tho project was not only practicable, but tliat tho situation Of the country, together with other necessary facilities accompanying the route-would fender tjic accoinplisluncnt a matter of very little . difficulty, and that tho ex penso'would bo comparatively jpeaking very small: in fact somo of the party stated that it was tho mo?t favorablo ToimiiralHhmgs-Tcrri Jcrc !, tl.atthey had ever . surveyed. TI.cn, fellow citi sens, it is not or;!y j rvcrf but highly n ccasary that w c cordially unite iu pro, moting an ' )l which must beyond all succc" " ' ontra'lidUon ultimately prove if. incalculable ad rantago to tlie ciirn;:.' yr and raise North.Caro lini t;) n honorallo contrast with her slit"' State, 'V J -''" , . Wo aro aware that it will bo objected to ly 'some we had in our zeal like to lave'said narraw-minded miscro, who pursHcstrings arc so contracted that tky connot cheerfully consent to .givo" jl first cent towardsany object of improve ment which they - cannot or do. not ex. pect to rcalbo their ow n individual and immediate gain; but lest should 1 thought .'too harsh,' wo will try Wcwr ...JI ..
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