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-H:. THE ' DISPOMKNT: V" A f veers since. country lhyafcian, m la the rood eld town of CosconJ, oecame rLil?-UK the eharms of young lady, at i deeply IuetSrHo'er, the sugar plumbs, an JSlrirStr toon evaporated, and In short ' SoflttoSnr iwuEinedof thai eventful SrtbrSciptentlune Wnkh greir brig hter 'and Sore troublesome than ever, and which he de terniined to divest, through the mediam.pf a btHeU doSL 'ThAllleUkax was wriuea on -TalenUne paper, ith a dove quill; sealed with cupid darts, and iesparefced : post to the fair damsel in Bos ton. ' It merely contained an encomium to the lady's beauty, and. a modest decoration of Jhe tender oa -ToEisbexpressille felicity, this letter was answered in sac W W f Tvk hUko'Jl eTenent soas ta hint, that the Udy herself had. at first aigbt copeemd something more than friendship for aimjand taat Wsjetter W disenUmrled her from a la.bynnthTf despair. These Istters wera followed by-athersi "quick, thick, snd heavy as a thunder aower." each, dw bright snd ominous than thelast Dke lareaUn Ibm of a volcano, lrhichgeneraTly begins in distant rumbling, but progressing In. flame and bustle, soon become riper fbreiplssKK. ' Nesrly.twe months e lspsed sh 4be taterrtewy-whier tuwe had Men de Hghtftffly eaplojtxi ia writing lore-letters,, and drawing similies between eyes and stars lips and poppies obeek and TOsesend so forth, 'when our aerareceived all but the nmrnun ftsmnii of his h.-ip-fciaess, by a letter inviting bim to Boston.' Ma bad at length given her consent thai Mis should receive she Doctors addresses; and had aided to her list of jewels, and even began to talk of a marriage portion of pin money. The gentleman was farther reques ted tel come as stylish as possible, so as to ensure the old lady's regard, who had a strong hankering after rent rolls and bank stock ; but,' above all, to be sure not to coma without himself, which was everything la the worid. that had the slightest attraction "rer his souTs redaction, his devoted Mary. The geo Uemaa lost no time iia preparing for his journey, he disposed of some canal. stock for a sacrifice, to purchase a barouche, ' and changed two stal worth plough-horses, with all appurtenances to boot, for a brace of ambling fillies, which seemed intended for the convojs . of. love. . When arrived la town, he drove rapidly -down the street of hit charmer, inten ding to bloom forth ia full meridian. After spring ing from the chariot, and extracting thunder from the knocker, the dopr "was opened, aad hi name an nounced. 1 1 I i i ' . V f : ; ' " Walk !a, sir-Wstated sir really, sir, I can not challenge vsy memory as to' your name, but I think 1112X0 some slight recollection of your coun tenance." '-; u ProbaLly an, madam, but I had supposed that yon had been better acquainted with my name than my person ; but your daughter your Mary 1 u Truly, madam, your astonishment surprises me. Lmeaa your daughter, Mary A. F 5 to whom I. lave the hjQor of being husband elect. I am Dr. James S , whoa, you have signified you will receive as a son-in-law, and have come, post taste, from Concord to marry your daughter!" " Upon my .word, sir, 1 can only return thanks fjr the intended heaor, but I assure you, my daugh ter has been taarried these serea months, aad I hope has no thought of becoming a widow.77 .," Hold, madam have I not your letters in my pocket?. , Pid I not reoeive her Uteet on Thursday last, saying., that your sanction was obtained, and that all was waiting t does die not love me, and -'-Beware, sir, that strikes upon my daughter's boner, the lady must be here forthwith,' who must apeak- for- herself" fjleeordingljr. a lady was Introduced; the Doctor at once reoegmsed his Mary in the lovely form be fore him j he foisted no a Updog which was hr leg onrtae carpet, seized him by the aose in his fall, whose teeth, epeiaplifce'T surgeon's lancet, saved bias that extremity. : 44 Madam," said he on rising, and extricating some fifty or sixty billet-doux from his pocket, M are you net the writer of these V 'God forbid f exclaimed the seemingly astonished lady, K letter writing is a thing I have a partieelar aversion to, and with the exception of some few that i sent my mother from school, 1 never wrote three letters in my 'life, ,; The gentleman stood aghast: The lady was con "fused the lap-dog barked, and the husband in re titty entered. He soon. was in possession of the whole aair, and snatcliiog up the letters. with an eye fingering between curiosity and jealousy, glanc ed nastily over the first, and immediately burst in tern immoderate fit ef laughter: "SMealh, sir, I see o causa tor merriment.'' u None, truly, fa the idea of a. man cetaing to kid tap my wife;, bat there is some io the fact ta-at he has, .been courting ; nry mad consin-in-law, Matt F , for, if those are not his true characters, I'm jio true Chia.n.J - Our hero of the billet-doux paused ; such things bight be, and have been ; the name corresponded, and as he aad sever used but the initials of the first, at iast ths truth, fiashed upon hha that he had been all this time the dupe of some sympathizing wag. 'Caa yen tell me wkere thegentleaiaa jou aue fccctreiideil1;. , suppose, sir, as in doty bound,! muitk,Dut I weald adTiee you to take things coolly as he is a real Lucius 0J Trigger, powder and ball, and cares dcj more about shooting a man, than he does about bieaking a biscuit.'' This advice, however, was about as effective in calming the disappointed lever as the love tear in a tody's eye lash would be In extinguishing a volcano. The Doctor flung himself into his chariot and drove down the street, as if the fillies were mounted by a brace of German hunters. To find ehe feeuso he was in quest of, to knock to be admitted and to be seated almost breathless on a sofa ia the draw ing room, was but the workef a minute ; it was mere than ten berore he could collect himself sufficiently to. explain the object of his visits aad at length when he unfurled his jaws, and raised his eyes to essay, lo ! and behold, they encountered an angel - Yes, the sly laughing glances, that stole archly through a pair ef. downcast eye lashes, were never emitted by mortal optics ; so at Jeast thought the Doctor ; besides the summer-browned, dim pie-J cheeked, re tiring, fairy form before him, belonged to a higher order of beauty than he had ever before had any conception of. He at one acknowledged tke influ ence of of the charms by one of bis besVbows,"bat in tbe flutte? of making It, be brought a flush upon the lady's nose, by comiag plumft upon it with his aod--dle., Tbe gentle'.tnaiden, however, smiled a forgive aes, andTso charmingly, too.' that it tjompletely aUggereoy at es( changed the current of his pas sions rfof, -when. hw spoke, his voice was more like the Supplication oT Erato, than that of a disappoint ed lovers -i .-.:. . Madam,1 if this is the sister of Mr. ; when I have the lioaorof addressing) f lament the eircua etincea that brings me atther and yet it were a li bd to lament any thing that introduced me to you." "Surely, sirJ I trust my brother has been guilty T aotbisg that could derange the feelings of so po lite a -here she stopped and blushed, and be fore she could begin again, her brother -entered. He was anarch leekiag body, between fifteen aad mtteen, so, of course could be no great duellist, as brwaa represented. Tending the . gentleman to be Tefr.colmani jolite in his enquiries, Remade a general confession of the hQle,i which ameuuted to tau: Going one day, -with aome ef hia mpmutnw U tT ?$?J?. cived w with o,lmuFjuch was Intended for hu.coo. a?u tlut hu companious .Induced him to "PMdence.:; The genUeman Tk.UaT,w "dibliH daring the;Snfesaion. a ne jaay teaia of t4ty at the talo. and the kov reas'Sfradv? .wemUeS Ti keptift 1 5 ony.foThavinl tornedber y toLrr 2iS?SS US SSnrSnrnSSSSSjSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSBaianSSTami A A. ' l,--sssssBnssBnMSMMMsMMMM y , 1 miU be deUrhted at the honor, but for hersclCslie dased dU permit the visit of a strange gentleman. However, the last sentence was softened fcr a teaile, and a In few momests aier our hero took his leave) and (as some persona have bin ted) a kiss la the bar gain, and promised to. return on the morrowThe morrow came the gentleman was true to Ms word, and love progressed: The next it was established the fifth arranged, the sixth concluded, anXon the seventh a tnorniag paper annoouced.that Dr. James S i u of Concord, bad orr tho'day previoua, Il the accomplished Miss Elizabeth E to the al ter of hymeni. Six months-have elapsed since the tarringe, and as the lady heloat ie aaWedehrew, and the wife he found a notable housewife, the Doctor every day thanks his stars for his cruel disappoint ment. THE BLIND PREACHER.' BT WIliiaM WlRT. 1 " It was Bdodsy t passed thronjh th county of Orange,' that nVy eye wte caught by a cluster of horses tied near a ruinous old wooden bouse, in the forest, dot far from the road side. Having frequently seen such objects before through these States, I had no difficulty , ia understanding that this was a place of religious worship. Devotion klooe should hare stopped me, to join the duties of the congregation; but I must con fess, the curiosity to hear what-the preacher of each a wilderness could say, was not the least of say motive. Op .entering, I wss struck with his paternal appearance. He was a. tall and spare old man, bis bead which was covered with a iight linen cap, his shrivelled hands, and his voice were all shaken under the influence of a palsy,, and io a few mornents I ascertained he was blind. The first emotion which touched the breast were those ef mingled pity and veneration.' But oh ! sacred God ! bow soon were my feelings changed 1 4he lips of Plato were nevermore wor" thy of a swarm of beea, than were the bps of this holy, roan i it was the day of the sacrament, and his subject of course the parsion of our Saviour, I had heard the subject handled a thousand times. I bad thought it exhausted long ago. Little did 1 e appose that ia the wild woods f America, f was to meet with a man whose eloquence, would give this topic a new snd more sublime pathos, than I bad ever before witnessed. As he descended from the pulpit to distribute the mystic symbols, there was a peculiar, a more than human solemnity in his air snd manner, which made my blood run cold, and my whole frame shiver. He then drew" a picture of the sufferings of our Saviour ; his trial before Pilate, his ascent up io Calvary, his crucifixion and death. I knew the whole history, but never until then had I beard the circumstances so selected, so arranged, m colored ! it wa all new aid ( seem ed to have heurd it for the first time in my life. His voice trembled in every syllable, and every heart in the assembly trembled in unison. Clis peculiar phrase had that force of description, that the original scene appeared to be at that moment acting before our eyes. We saw the faces of the Jews, the staring frightful distortions of their maljce and rage. We saw the buffet, my soul muddled with a flame of indirntion,an4 ny hands involuntarily clenched. But when he came to touch on the patience, the forgiving meekness of our Saviour, which be drew to the life, his blessed eyes were streaming to heaven ; his voice breath ing to GoJ. soit and gentle prayer of pardon on his enemies4 Father forgive them, for they know not what they do" the voice of the preach, er which had ai-1 along faltered, grew fainter, un til his utterance being entirety -obstructed by the force of feeling, he raised his haakerchief to hi eyes, and burst into a loud and irrepressible flood of grief. The effect if inconceivable. The whole house resounded with the mingled croaa aad sobs, and ehrie&s of the whole congregation. It was a long time before the tumult had sub sided so far as to permit hWn to proceed. Indeed judging by the usual but fallacious standard of my own weakness, 1 began to be very ameasy for the situation of the preacher; for 1 could not conceive how he would be able to let the audieuce down from the height be had wound them, with, out impairing the solemnity and dignity of the subject, or perhaps shocking them with the ab ruptness ef the fall. But, no, the descent was as beautiful and aobKsae as the elevation had been rapid and enthusiastic. The first sentence with which be broke the awful silence was a. quotation from Rosseau, " Socrates died like a pbiloscpLer, but Jesus Chriat like a God'" I despair of giving you any idea of the effect produced by this short sentence, unless you could perfectly conceive the whole manner of the man, as well as the peculiar crisis in the -discourse. .Never before did I understand what Demosthenes wieant by laying such a stress on delivery. You are to bring before you the venerable fig rre of the preacher, bis bkndnees constantly re calling to ymrr recollection old Horrer, Oesian and Milton, associating with ens slow, solemn, well accentedenunciatKm,andhis ve ice-affecting melody, you are to remember the pith of the wae sion and enthusiasm to which the congregation were raised, and then the few minutes of porten. tous death-like silence which reigned through the whole house ; the preacher removed the hand kerchief from 4ms aged face, (even wet from the recent torrent of tears,) slowly stretched forth his palsied hand which holds it begins the sentence : Socrates died like a philosopher," then paus ing, raiaing'the hands, pressing them both lrtgeth er with warmth and energy to his breast, Iwtfng his sightless 'halls to heaven, and pouring his whole sctoI is hie tumultuous voices " but Jesus Chriat like a God 4" If be had, indeed and in truth, been an angel of light, the effect could scarcely have been mere divine. Whatever I had been able io conceive f lie sublimity of Maesillon, or the force of Bourda loue, it had fallen far short of the power which I felt at the delivery of the simple sentence. The blood which bad just before rushed in a hurri cane to my brain, and in the violence and agony of my feelings Aad held my whole system in sus pense, -new riw back into my heart with a kind of sensation which I cannot describe, a kind of shuddermg horror 1 The paroxysm of the blended f try and indigna. lion' lo which had been transported, subsided in. to the deepest abasement, humility and adoration. I had just been lacerated and dissolved by sym pathy, for a Saviour as. a fellow creature, but now, wua fetr and trembling, I adored him God4 8 A Mammoth Our good friend at Red Moun tain, Col. Abner Farkpr, sent us on Thursday last a mammoth Sweet Potato? raised by his fa ther, Cxpt aVvid I'arker, on Flat River, in this County, which is.certaiuly the n nest we 'hare ev er seen, and -we tro -not remember ever -to have heard or resd of one entailing it -in size. When first taken out f tbcgrouud it weighed ten posted, good dowo. weight, end measured full twenty lwo4nches in circumference mid about fourteen inches in length 4 They boast sometimes of large Potatoes aad otherwegetables in Wake and Chat ham, -can they beat thisaPoiatoet We think we may safety challenge the Stale to do it, sfyat ttiver esn gHe as fine a epeclmea-ef good Whig votiitg, end -produce es-eood individnal specimen of honest-hearted, determined Whi' as any portion of the But-;' and it would eeenw irotn ne size oi mis potaoe, mat tney havw agev neroW soflirespoeding in -a Tneasure io-' the! character' of the people. ' May they ever continue' steadfast th their Whig principles, sod be always blclt with a rich soil, fruitful searoos, and Auo daot harvest- JfiUtboro UecorJtr. Frrmtli FJiUadtTpMa 'Saturday Courier. f. iuk THREES-WORDS WHICH FOLLOW- ED BENEDICT ARNOLD TO "f 'I : ttrcj r5o'aTre f' BT GEOBGC LtFAKD. V, He sailed from our shores Snd re turned no more. .Frona TMjitime forth, wherever he wenf, ibiee whispered Words followed, him, ringing through bis ears into his heart Aitxou the Traitor. Whea he stood beside his King in the House of Lords the weak old man whispering in fa miliar tones to hie gorgeously attired General ; a whisper crept through the Crowded Seaate, faces were turned, fingers extended, and as the .whis per deepened into a murmur, one veoefable Lord arose and staled,, that be loved his Sovereign, but could not speak to him. while by his side there stood Arnold the Traitor. He went to the theatre; parading his warrior form amid the fairest flowers of British nobility and beauty but ao sonnef was his visage seen than the whole audience rose; the lord in his cushioned seat, the vagrant of London in the gal lery they rose together, while from the pitto the dome, echoed the cry, . Arnold thk TrItor." When he issued from his gorgeous vnanskw, the liveried servant that ate bis bread, snd earned it looby menial .offices, whispered in cotitempt, to his brother lacqueys, as he took his position behind bis master s carriage, Arnold the Trai tor. ... One day, in a shadowy room, a mother and two daughters, all attired in the weeds of mourn ing, were grouped in a mml circle, gaxtng upon a picture shrouded in crape. A visitor was an nounced. Tha mother took his' card from the hands of the servant, and the daughters read his name. MGo," said the mother, with a fluked face, while a daughter took each hand : Go !" and tell this man that my threshhold can never be crossed by the murderer of my sou, by Ar nold the Traitor- Grossly Insulted in a public plaee,he appealed to the company ; noble lords and renowned men were there ; and breasting his antagonist with his fierce brow, he spat full in his. face. This antagonist was a man of tried coumge. He cooly wiped the saliva from his cheek. You may spit upon me, but I never can pollute my sword by killing Arnold the Traitor. He left Loodwn. He engaged in cerumerce. His ships were on the ocean ; his warehouse in Nova Scotia; his plantations in the West In dies. One uighl his ware-house was burned to ashes. The entire population of St. Johns ac cusing the owner of acting the incendiary to his own property, in order to dofraud the insurance couipawod. assembled ia that British town: in 8tvhtof his very windows, they hung an effijiy iniKrnbed with these words: Arnold the Tail- to. When the Island of Gaudeloupe was retaken by the French he was aurangfhe prisoners. He was put 4i board a French Prison ship in the harbor. His money, thousands of yellow guineas, accumulated through the course of years, was about his person. Afraid of his own name, he called himself John Anderson, the name once as sumed by John Andre. He deemed himself un known, but the sentinel approaching him, whim pered that ho was sown, and m great danger He assisted him to escape, even aided him TD en close his tressure in sn empty cask but as" the prisoner, gliding down the sides of the ship, pushed his craft towards the shore, that sentiuel looked after him, and ia broken EiigWVh sneered, Arnold the Triitos I v., 4 There was a day when Talleyrawd arrived in Havre, hot foot from Pns. It was in the darkest hour of the French Revolution. Pursued by the blood hounds ef the reign of terror, stripped of every wreck ef property or power, Talleyrand secured a passage in a ship about to sail for America. le was going, a beggar aod a wan derer to a strange laud, toearahis bread by daily labor. " Is there any American ewtleman staying at your house J" he asked the landlord of bis tuMel. I am about to cross the water, and would like a letter to some person of influence in Ue New World." The landlord hesitated for a moment, aad then replied: M There is a gentleman up stairs, either from America or Britain, but whether an American or an Englishman, 1 cannot tell." He pointed the way, and TatleyTand. who is his lifetime was Bishop, Prince, Prime Minister, amended the stairs. A miserable auupticaot, he stood before the 4raagers door, kuocked and then entered. In the far corner -of a dimly lighted roses, sat a gentleman of some fifty years, his arms raided and hie bead bowed on his breast. From a win dow directly opposite, a flood of light poured over his forehead. 11 is eyes, looking from beneath the downcast brows, gazed into Talleyrand's fare, with a peculiar and searching expression. Ha face was striking in its outline, the mouth and chin indicative of an iron will. His form vigorous, even with the snows of fif. ty winter, was clad iu a dark, but rich and dis anguished costume. Talleyrand advanced, stated that he was a fu gitive, and under the impression that the gentle man before him was an American, solicited his kind offices. He poured forth his stpry in eleqaeffl EVeueb and broken English. i am a wanderer, and rvrle. I am forced ts fly to the New World, without a friend or a hope. Yes are an American 1 Give me then, J beseech you, a letter of introduction to some friend of yours, that I may be enabled toearn my bread. X am willing ro toil in any manner; the scenes in Paris have tilled me with such horror, that a fife of labor would be a Paradise to a career of lux ury in France. You will gwe me .a letter of in troduction to -one of your friends 1 A gentleman like you doubtless, has manyfrienda"" The strange gentleman rose. With a look that Talleyrand never forgot, he retreated to wards the -door of the next chamber, bis head still downcast, his eyes still looking from beneath his darencd brow. He spoke as he retreated backward; his voice was full of meaning. " iermthe only man born in the Neio World that can raise his hand to God and say I hate not oke Friend not one in all America." Talleyrand never' Jotgot the look of sadness that accompanied these words. Who are you i' he cried, as the strange rnah retreated toward the next room. Your -name V My name 1" with a emtfe that bad more of mockery than joy in its convulsive expession.: " My name is Benedict Arnold. - He was .gone. Talleyrand sunk into a chair, gasping the werds, . -"Arnold the Traitor:!'' Thus you see, he wandered over.th Aik. an. other Cam, wdth the murderer's mask upon his J wrow.- vtven in ine aectueee room nf that Inn at -Havre, bis crime found htm out, and forced him to tell is name 4 thatame thesynonoute of in famy i .- . The lest twenty years -of his rife are covered with a cloud, from whose darkness but a few glearne of lighiaaah oat spun the paeofbis tory. K . y c . r , The rannaor pf. his -death it Wt; distinctly known. But we cannotdoubt tbat-hetJied uuerlv friendless.- -Tbafliia cold brow was un moistened by one farewell tear ; thai remorse pursued him lothe grare.hivperiog John Andrew in bis ear, and that the memory t4 hm course of glory gnaw, ed like a canker at bis heart, murmuring forever, u'Pmk ommtrtr wViat "mltrht V0Q ha,V8 beecv O, ArwdXd TaTAiTORy . vfV. , ? Who shall dare Mepia the 'closing of ibis irtld drama 1 ' Who eball dare paici tne ag 6ny of his djlcg boart Witji a tremfcUog and unshed, we drop ine. cunam auu iuiu from the death bed of Uenedict Arnoio. ,? IT Fro nth MaysvintiKft VagU below the nartfculara of t horrid, af fair at Sbarpeborg. Bath Countr, we hare heard them. Orf Monday 1af?MrrJ."C RobliK eon. principal.Teacher pf Ftbe Academy jV that place, felt Ci6mplleoV-4n conequence;of a re bellions disregard of the la ws 6f his school, coup led with insulting Isnguage when P0JW.orJt to expel from the. school a aon. of Dr. M. Ashby, 10 or 17 years hid. . Ybeng Ashby vowed revenge, and calling on one of his comradesva young man named Crouch to aid him, procured a long bUded -knife for the occasion. On Tuesday sfternoon,whtle Robmson wss locking bis school room door, ho was set upon by Ashby and Crouch, and defended him self as well as he could with an umbrella until be aaw his opportunity and seized a. stone .with which he felled Crouch. . , ' . . Crouch regained his feet, and jointly with Ash by closed oe Robinson, when the latter received a horrible gash with the the knife ha the right part of the stomach and staggered. A roan named Christian heard of the difficulty, and ran up in time to catch Robinson in his arms, whoexelaim ed. " I am a dead man," and instantly expired. The guilty young men immediately made their escape, and when our informant left on Wednes day afternoon., he. had heard of no efforts being made to arrestthetn. -The long list of the killed and wounded in the recent engagements before the eiiy of Mexico brings palpably almost before the country the horrors of war. How great has been the sacri fice of life, how lamentable the outpouring of precious blood, how excruciating the agtwiee of the wounded. This is paying dearly mdeed for our glorious victories, and for the renown of our arms- And yet Gen. Scot has been careful' of the lives of his soldiers. He haB not wantonly sacrificed tbem for bootless triumph. He has had no battle' which was not neceniy for the attain ment of his object, and he new fraught for the mere sake of obtsining fame s a commander.- Ilrd. clove 6gbtirg has been imposed upon him by the circumstances in which he has been placed, and the loss be has sustained was unavoidable. Alex. Gazelle. TheTafiff, New Loan, Szc. A letter from Washington states that one of the first acts of the Treasury, at the opening of Conprcs. will be to renew the Tariff proposition of Mr. Walk er at the lat session, a 2U per cent, tax on tea I and cotiee, and an advance on Pennpyrvarda iron. ! At the opening of Congress, a debt of more than fifty millions will stare them in the face, with the certainty of an increase of it to more than one hundred millions before the war is eloped A new loan of heavy smoHnt will be immediately called for to meet the pcessine demand upon the Treasury. This will be denied at first, at bead quarters, but it will be called for in the first week in the session. So much for the reign of J. K Polk. Baltimore Patriot. The widow of Dr. Benjamin Rush yet 'ives, and resides in thin city, at the age of nearly nine ty yerotShe retains tle complete use of all her faculties is active. gy and cheerful fn-rhe bosom of her family, and commands the profound and universal respect of a large circle of admir ing friends. We think she is the only surviving partner of any of the fearless and patriotic men who pledged life, and fortune in Independence Hallwho braved the power of a great Empire, and by that act secured a distinguished place for their names and their country among the nations of the world Phila. Inq. NEW COUNTERFEIT. A new fifty dollar counterfeit mite on the Far mers' baiwk ol Virginia, letter B No. 782. dated aichmond, April 4, 1610, payable to N. C. White head J. G. Blair, Cashier, Win. 11. Marfarland, President, has been seen in Pittsburg. ' Vignette,, a farmer reclining near a when sheaf. ilithauaul Rejmb. Monet Lent at the Card Taslc not Re coverable. In the Court f Common Pleas, yesterday, a verdict was rendered in the case of William White vs. Aaph E. Buss. It was a demand for "f ttO, money let, and it appeared that the money was borrowed at a card table, while the parties were engaged in playing. Un der instructions of the court, the jury returned a special verdict for the defendant, upon the ground thai the money was lent as stated above. Bosi9u Post. , . Railboad Scrtet. Col Chitds, having one through with his reconnoitre between this and Camden, has now gone to Raleigh. We under stand that be has tned his price for the survey, and we believe that he has entered upon the ar rangement formating iu He says it will occupy five months time. We understand that he expresses very favora ble .opinions as regards the adaptation of the face tit ibftoonntry tor a Railroad, particularly between Fyeueville and Cheraw, Thinks there is no better country, for labor, materials and cheap coesfcrucuoo urth Carolinian. A Biter Bit An ingenious down-easier, who has invented a new kind of Love letter Ink," which has been selling as a sure safeguard against all actions for breaches of the marriage promise, inasauich as it entirely fa&es from paper in two months from date, was recently most aw fully done brown by a brother down easter, who purchased a hundred boxes of the article, giving him therefor his uote at ninety dayn. At the expiration of the time the in It inventor called for payment, but on unfolding the scrip, fafend '.doth tag but a piece of Wal paper." The note had teen written tcitfr his own ink. KEEPING FOLKS IN MEETING. SewaJl relates the following anecdoteof Han herehief Moody When Mr Moody was on a journey, II ihink in the Western part of Massachusetts, be caUed ou a brorhcr in the ministry, on Sturday think ing to speod the Sabbath jvith Mm, jf f gseeable. I he msn aRpeared-eery glad ; to see him, and said, I ahouid be very glad to haveyouetopand preach Tor one lerl!fow,.buU reel , ashamed to yal, Vht the matter 2 naked Moody. Yhy, our people have got in such a habit of going nut before meeting is clbsndt thatnt seems to he an imposition on a stranger, if tbat4s.alL 1 n1"11." tep and "preach for' you -was "Z. ?.ply; When MUi dar came; and Mr Moody-had opened the meeting -and named the teft, he looked around the assembly and said, my hearerst I am goings lo speak' to two sort of .Jolks jolay, .aiuts and emnerrl-J S.hnew, I itn .gomg to ire you jrour portiimi hrst. and rrbuld have jrotigVve tknl ahembn When be bad preached to 4hem as long ts le thmight best he paused t tbere,wmem,.I have lone with you now j you' may -tnke your hats and JV out of the meeting house as . aoon as .you" ylease But all tarried aud heard him through. Our'i are the plane ef fair delightjuLfface, " Vittbarp'd by part f rage to live like brothere.' Wednesday, November'' 3, We are very reluctantly compelled to post pone to Saturday, the able Communication of Ex rosiT0B,'V in relatioa'lo the recent disturbance's in the North Carolina Regiment, 'in, Mexico' sid. the action of the President of the Uaited States, ia re lation; to 'the cases of - Lieuta- SmoaxTAkr ' and Pk.hoer. ' '' ' '. , , . LIEUT. KINGSBURY;- ";; We invite the reader's attention tb the1 Letter of this gallant young Officer, in d-day's paper, res ponding to the compliment tendered him of a Pub lic Dinner. The estimate in whichbe holds that glorious old chtefj Gen. TaTtcn, will .find ft hearty echo iu every American bosom. ' . " COMMON SCHOOLS. We publish in tedny's paper, a Table showing the proportion in which the "nett income" of the School Fond is distributed amongst the Counties of the State. It is worthy of remark, that this is the larcest Dividend that has been made ftom.fhis source. " LIEUT. SlNGELTAllV. M ince our last publication, this young -Officer passed through Raleigh, on bis return to Ilexico. he having been fully restored, to his command by the President of the United SUtes. So far at Lieut Sing elt Aar is personally concerned .inthemtterj we are gratified at the success which. has attended his appeal to the President, We believe him to be s chivalrous soldier, who will distinguish himself whenever an opportunity is presented.. But, certainly, the President has acted most im properly about this affair. We do not question bis pewer in the premises, for as he can remete. we take it for granted that he can also restore. But would any other President have reversed the order of an Officer, so high in rank as General Wooij who was on the spot at the time nf the occurences, which led to Lieut Sihgeltary's discharge, and must therefore be presumed io have acted on information satisfactory to bis own miod would, we say, any other President have interfered in the matter, with out examining into the facts of the case, or consult ine with Gen. Wool ? Mr. Pole's conduct in this busmess) isaseoond edhfon, revised and enlarged,'7 as we Printers say, of bis high-handed assumption of power with regard to the Mutiny in the Mecklen burg and Rowan Companies; last Winter. It ap pears to us perfect folly, to expect subordination in the Army, when the President, by his mere sk volo, sic jvbeo, thus over-rides all military rule and eU raetts and proclaims from the house-tops li I a the State !' We know not what steps Gen. Wool may deem it proper to take, (o rebuke this interference by the Executive, but we are confident Col. Paine wilU promptly resign his comma nd, and return home. 07" The Ondesdokx Case is settled at last, by net restoring him to his functions. But the Canons of the Church have been amended so as to reach his Case thus : The power to remit judicial sentences has been given to the House of Bishops, and the an fhority has been conferred upon the -Convention er Standing Committee of any Diocese, whose head is under suspension, to invite any Bishop , to serve it, or a Diocese so situated may, by ita Convention, be placed under the charge of a Bishop ef another Diocese. TfO SUCH THING. The Washington Union" denitss the report that despatches had been received by the Government from Gen. Scott, descriptive of the late stirring events at the Mexican Capital, or indeed, any ''einee the 4th of June. The Union also contradicts the report of the arrival of ah express : from the, Rio Grande, with information that 'Urrea was crossing the mountains with 20,000 troops, for the purpose of sweeping our posts in that direction. Letters have been received from Gen. Tatlor's camp, but they say bet&lfcg of Ureea's invasion. Oh, these letter writers! TROUBLE AT BUENA VISTA. The "Cumberland. Civilian" baa seen a letter from Jas. Evsnsj Csq .a member of CapU Alburtis1 company, of Virginia Volunteers, to his father, Mr. Washington Evans, of Cumberland. It is dated ; Buena Vista, Sept 19, 1S47.'J We gather from it the following items:. . ' A difficulty has occurred between Gen. Wool and CoL Hamtfamck of the Virginia Regiment, the history of which is this? One of the soldiers be loneing toCapt AlburtLeompany, Mr. John Jami son, of Martinsburg, was placed under arrest by' voun A., (jooae) HovosV-ntarsba, for scans slleged offence, very trifling in its'haracter. Coh-Ham-tramck addressed a letter to Gen. Wool,' requiting . L . 1 T 1-. . 1 . 1 vi i . i . seems, Is very odious to the soldiers, should be sent back to bis regiment.-- -Gen. W. replied iq effect-, that Col. . had nothing to do with thai Provost Alan dal rae matter was to be referred to Gen. asylor. . ' - - - . r .. - .i - : tflt is Aot,1', says anieUSVebster, "fie Aoisiest waters that are generally ..the. deepest ; Jior has it always been found that that spirit which ia mow lncunea io rpor wnen aangerana aisasxer are at s -distance, is the rmeat in hre breasting . them .an. their near aDproaoh. j , oy The pnion?yJuis(tas following .paraaraph, and if impodvatecano furuet,,weshoald like to see it for tne sake of novelty : i Proniaha bemnninc, therefore, every candid reader must see and be convinced that the President lias made every Teasonable effort te eroid the war be fere it tevunemced, snd to terminate it since; sTbe charge, therefore, that he 'plunged the country into a war,' is a wilful and malicious ouirepresentaiicn and calumny." ; V&?3S Stajvlard,? in publiahing the artf LleUtj fSfOETlaT, seems to suppose that, in J great fat&be foresaw all that has transpi annnpieasaatare in the N. C. Regiment MexicdUhat tt ia all to be ascribed to our HsanGotnnerafutthe Mexican Whig Assembly . presume it can hardly be contended that this Go ' erner appointed either Gen. Ccsuino or Geo. W or that the Legislature of 1846 enacted those'R0011 lations for the government of the Army, which ir the duty of every Commanding Officer to .U ter. Gen: Ctftniso Is the present Loco Powjj date for Governor hvihe Stat of, Massachusetts whose nomination, by, s Convention, the Stand n SKS??? J& 2QJ and over h. r? rr ""V1 f Frr T J "ocoaia succeedj he ! rtidy to nfc'ihjfai that ronld make the weft -ringi-5-He :6econiuct bf CoLpAis, t the affair of the Mutiny, and therefore gate to it the sanction of Democratic authority. 1 Of the politics 'of QeiL Wool, the commander of the post at Buena Vista'' who not only gnTe hU s probation to thecnorse of the Colonel, but the order of-dismission'of two Officers and t0 P Vatea, whlch'ls'the immediate grievance of Lient SwOELtikV complains; we have less inform,, tion. But, as a military authority, we have aW understood that there We few," if anjj higllCr 7 the country Distinguished by gallant services b the fiehl during the last War with Great Britaia. and intimately connected with" the discipline of th, Array 'by ia" long service as Inspector General h, pros selected by the-President to condnct one of n font separate expeditions against Mexico, irliriY iiT bctu uwu iu uio tt nr. a nig ne aid snccej. fullyanddnlteofTils Totcm wfth" Gen. .TayJ shortly before the attle of Buena Vista, where h wsialeoxreatly dlstineuished At th , . . .j. - ...jr.i . - ; - "u' UI oil i rf T " ' "vrTr-? s co-iaooreri ia detraction, objected iq Co1.Paisie for vant of com. petency for his office, arising from inexperiiuct.-. This ground, we suppose, is no longer teuable, inc, s 'experienced an Officer as Gen. Wool has no fault to find witb himr " . Having made these remarks, to show that neither Democracy or experience on the part of Col. Vxm would have prevented the occurrences which har unfortunately taken place, we intend to become c. parties in this controversy, the existence of which We deeply regret - In the meantime, the Stanclura" may as well learn, that accusation ia not conviction, and that no good can come from enffeavors to foment a personal feud among pur Officers, by adding to it feelings of political hostility.' .We are not familiar swith the Army Regulation and de not know where the power of summary dis! mission, which we arc told is not without precedent in our service, is derived, but we subjoin the follow, ing Articles ef War feosa Uie.-Act of Congress, for the iniormauon or our readers: . u Any Officer, or Soldier, who shall begin, or ti die or cause,, or: join in anv mutiny or sedition hi any troop or company in the service of the United States, or in any party, post detachment or guard, shall suffer death, "or such other punishment as h a Court Martial shall be innicted.w " Any Officer, nonccnimii3siohed Officer or SoJ. dier, wild being present at any mutiny or sedition, does not use his utmost endeavors to suppress tin same, or coming to the knowledge of any intended mutiny, does not without delay give information to bis commanding Officer) shall be punished by tha sentence of a Court Martial with death, .or other wise according to the nature of his offence." A BEREAVED WIDOW. Mrs. Hoffman, of Baltimore, lost her husband, while he was serving his country in Texa. less thta two years ago, in the capacity of Lieut CoL to ti. 7th infantry, la the winter of 1844, she lost a ion, . Lieut A T. Hoffman, of the 2d Infantry, who died of a -disease contracted while serving ! in Florid. At the battle of Churabusco, her .youngest and ft vorite ohald was killed, while serving iu the 1st V. S. Artillery, in the capacity- of Lieuteaant. In the same engagement she had another sou wounded, Capt.ftoffman, of the 8th infantry,' who is repre sented as possesdug 'superior attainments as an ofi. cer and a gentleauacW - A YOUNG AMERICAN IN IRELAND. We have been gratified with the perusal of the auly joined remarks,' which we extract from the Galwsj Viadicator," of the 2tt af August, as part of the proceedings at lbs Gal way. Repeal Public Dinner,' on the 16th of that SDoath, Mr. W. H. Donoh, whs w'a narve of Washington City, left his home several months ago, in the Barque Gen. Harrison, on a visit of. mercy to Ireland. .How well he ac quitted himself when called on (as We leran, most an- expectedly) to address a -public meeting composed of a great number of Ireland's distinguished sou, both of the Clergy and Laity, we leave our readers to Judge t ' ' " " Mr. Chairmen-, and. Gentlemen : With feelings of deep emotion I rise to tender my sincere thanks for the enthusiastic reception you have given the nwnj hanov and crateful allusions to mv native land. We have done but our duty and though we sincerely lament the sufferings ef unhappy Ireland, yet that distreee is, in a naaooer lightened, and we are proud of .the opportunity permitted us of benefitting a na tion with whom our affections are so closely entvin ed (hear, bear.) :. -You have mentioned the magic name of Washington; the- American Liberator, u would' have been, the , great' O'Connell, the Irish Liberator, had be been p pared by an all-wise Prot idence. Washington carried us through the nobj struggle, and iived .see os an independent aoj happy peoph?, bnt , alas a O'Connell was snatched away by the ruthless hand of death, before he eonU secure yon that ..peaceable and constitutional free dom which was the fondest object of his mind. Wt, J ItaVe said, an a happy,, people 1 and why are ", so? Because we live under, free institutions, and are not fettered with; that .detestable Union Vhicb rivets' your misery upon yon (bear, hear ) I ye were toe long subjected to tbe tyranny jo Britain, hot, by the blessing of heaven our chains we snap ped aswnder, and w are w great, glorious m free.V (C heers). , Tour Rev. : Chairman has allud- eri in kind iimrm th thn nrnrprial iftterest felt in the I UrStiteslbr the mafoMnnate Irish, How cool4 5t ,be otherarisc. flfrjien heartrending accounts or f and famine desolating your land, poured op us from every quarter 1 We were unused to it That even one individual should ferish from hunger we coaia scarcely realize, but when we heard of .hundreds dy ing -daily by .the road side, we were almost paralj ted at the thought With ua all are provided for, allareoomfortablej all are happy. The first nTe mcQtin the States was thatniade in Washington, an by one whose name perhaps jfou have never heara. ,but it should jsennd from one end of Ireland to otheiw ig Winiam W 00 E-" MaJ0 WsshiAgtpn--thear,. hear) , Af, soon as the first news of the distress in Ireland reached us, be can- ed-n relief meetings contributed a large sum Meauewr;vHoncovongress iorp Kf r y tion, and was a pre to constant rrgrohat be conw nee do nwrefbesibaaavaad .cheats) w "l first movement' laadViri thVUsifed State, spa ib worthyVximple wsaimiaat imitated by theeigi' boring Citiesr nhtil 4wsn the smallest village i13 freely given its mite to suffering Erin. , If ?1 order ,1 would Conclude by proposini liis healta" Then, gentlemen, permit me to give you. "His Hoaoa, Wiuxuc W. Ssatoj. Esq- M7 of Waahington1,,--(C beers.)
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