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Miscellaneous
STANZAS.
ft ? rare to find in the same cum-
j.asN more exquisitely polished j
!' tlV.frCailOn, aim mun- irniini.,
than are contained in the follow
ing verses:
' ;iri;n, is thy journey drear?
Ate its lights extinct forevei !
j Still suppress the rising fear. .
j fiod totsakes the righteous never.
Storms, mav gather o'er thy path,
All tiu- ties of life may sever
v,;i, ilthe tearful si uth,
God t'iirs.ikes the righteous never.
i P.i'mmay rack thy wasting frame,
' Health desert thy couch forever,
I F..:tli stUl burn, wiih deathless fl.ime,
j Ciod forsakes the righteous never !
1 Jackson City. The President,
j attended by the Heads of Depart
! rcenis, yesterday laid the corner
stone of the new city, which it is
) designed to raise on the Virginia
shore of the Potomac, connected
wiih Washington by the bridge
recently constructed by the United
I Slates. The advantage of this
1 scite for commercial purposes, is
I derived from lite circumstance of
? its being the head of navigation
for ships of the largest class near
1 et to Washington, and to the ba
son ofilieOliio and Chesapeake
canal. Several thousand persons
. uere present at the ceremony,
which was conducted with a maso-
nic parade and military eclat,
j George Washington Park Custis
I addressed the assemblage. His
oration was received with great
I and well-merited applause. We
I shall publish the proceedings, if
I furnished to us. Globe.
Judge Philip P. Barbour tie
dines the nomination to the Vice
Presidency, tendered him by the j
(jeor;ia Nullifiers: the Richmond
Inquirer says the Judge writes as '
follows: "It cannot but be gratify- j
lng h any man to enjoy enough of I
tlie confidence of his fellow citizens J
l he nominated to such an office;
lor their good opinion 1 feel much J
obliged; yet 1 shuult! certainly de- i
dine the nomination. For thisj
urse I have two decisive reasons; j
l! one a personal, the other a po
litical consideration." He as-Sl-5ns
the personal reason, and
len adds: 'The political consi
deration is still of a higher and
Nore decisive character. 1 have
tot little doubt, that there are a
ntongst the supporters of Judge
)v'me, many who accord with me,
111 swme of the prominent political
prinriples on which I have acted,
""t, I never could consent to place
j11) self in an attitude which would
be in direct conflict with an irn
"le"se majority of the political
Party, whose principles I have
professed, and in whose ranks I
llave stood, since my first entrance
0,1 t-'e theatre of public life, to act
"7 part. 1 ,ave not a political
aspiration in the world."
KfU is stated in the Xew York
Ulh that amount of revenue coi
ned at the Custom House in that
'ty durinir lne qUarter ending on
le)t!i September last if no less
than $5,472,042 01, being more
than double lite 'amount during
the same quarter of 1834, and
more than hall' the ainonni secur
ed during that entire veaV.
Tennessee. The Legislature
have a Rill before them proposing
to. appropriate 500,000 dollars to
Nashville and New Orleans Rail
Road; '300,000 dollars to the Wes
tern Rail Road Company; 1,500,
000 dollars to contruct a Road
from the Nashville and Orleans
Rail Road to the eastern extremi
ty of the State: 750,000 dollars
for a Rail Road from Charleston
to Cincinnati .through East Ten
nessee; and 300,000 dollars to the
Atlantic and Mississippi Rail
Road.
Making an aggregate of three
millions three hundred and fifty
thousand dollars! Where is all this
money to come from?
Raleigh and Gaston Hail Road.
We call the attention of readers)
to the advertisement in this day's j
paper, opening the books for sub-j
scription to the stock of the Ra;
ieigh and Gaston Rail Road. j
Already more than 100,000
has been subscribed here, and
$200,000 i:i Raleigh, and the
county of Wake in , C. an a
nioutu more than sufficient to or
ganize the Company, and to com
mence with the work. We are
ii.torii cd that this will be done
immediately after the 1st Februa
ry, and that in course of the pres
ent year, more th in 30 miles of
the road will be completed, besides
the Riidge over the Roanoke at
Castoo, (formerly called Wilkins'
Perry.) If our citizens relied on
the importance to them of this
improvement, they will not hesit
ate to add largel' to the amount
they have already subscribed, for
the consequence of the completion
of the Raleigh and Gaston Road,
will as a matter of course lead toj
iis continuation, to the Towns!
of Fayetleville and Wilmington,!
.and ultimately to the extreme
South of these States, and as a
matter of course, loan immediate
connexion with Salisbury and the
Palls of the Yadkin.
The immense travel which this
extension ofour Rail WaysSouth.
added to the cominnus line of Rail
Ways South of this, will enable
the Petersburg and the Greens
ville Rail Road Company, to put
down their transportation to so
low a price as to defy under any
and every circumstances, all corn
potion, and will augment consider
ably our present receipts of pro
duce, and consequently our trade.
We may present our views on this
branch of the subject hereafter.
To citizens of Richmond and
more especially the Stockholders
of the Richmond and Fredericks
burg Rail Road Company, the
Gaston and Raleigh Rail is all im
portant. With the addition of this
link, all the travel must take their
line of direction, without it, a por
tion may be diverted. Let them
then look to it; they cannot too
soon be sensible ol its importance
to them.
The line of the Road will no
doubt run in the vicinity of War
renton, Lewisburg and Oxford,
and it is more than probable late
ral Roads will be run to each of
these places. To the inhabitants
of these towns then, and all their
adjacent country, this iniprove
ment is one of vital importance
nor will it be of less value to the
inhabitants of Nash and Johnston
counties in truth, there is no
portion of the Suae of North Car
olina, which has not a deep inter
est in the success of this enterprize.
As an investment, we hesitate
not to recommend this stock. We
believe it will always yield divid
ends of from 10 to 15 per cent, and
we are confident in tbe opinion
that so soon as the work is fairly
under weish the stock id this com-
pany, will command as high a
premium as any of the Roads in
this State, say from 7 to 15 per
cent, interest.
Let us then "go ahead' let us
make once more a long pull, a
strong pull and a pull altogether.
Let us stretch out our right arm to
our own dear Rip and aid dim on
in his undertaking. Pet. Con.
Up to the Hub! We know not
when we have met with an offi
cial paper which imparled to us
siuli unalloyed pleasure as the
Message of Governor Marcy of
New York. On the exciting
Abolition question, it is "up to the
hub hvb and all." It stamps
with the seal of fasehood all the
panic-making Whig orators in ref
erence to Northern Legislative
action against Tappanisrn. In
the teeth of the confident declara
tions to the contrary, Gov. Marcy
does recommend such action, and
says to the Legislature of his State
with both truth and emphasis, '!
cannot doubt that the Legislature
possesses the power to pass such
penal laws as will have the effect
of preventing the citizens of this
Slate and residents within it, from
availing themselves, with impuni
ty, of the protection of its sover
eignty and laws, while they are
actually employed in exciting in
surrection and sedition in a sister
Slate, or engaged in treasonable
enterprises intended to be executed
therein." ib.
Abolitionists find no quarter in
New Hampshire. A Rev. Mr.
Stotts, while at prayer, preparato
ry to delivering a lecture against
slavery, in the town of Northfield
in that state, was arrested by a
constable, and put in confinement
preparatory to standing his trial
before a justice of the peace, un
der the vagrant act.
"JVever meddle with edge tools"
A remarkable . robbery which
was commuted in this Borough,
on Sunday night, has led to con
jectures and surmises, which we
forbear at present to name, but
which will probably occur to the
mind of most readers cn learning
the particulars: The workshop
in Col. John G. Colley's ship-yard
(fronting on Wide Water st. and
adjoining the Custom House lot)
was- burglariously entered some
time during that night, and twen
ty five chests of tools broken open
and the contents carried off. One
chest only remained, which was
so well secured as to resist the at
tacks of the robbers. Among the
tools taken from the chests were
25 axes, as man)' adzes and other
implements convertible into wea
pons of offence!
On ihe discovery of his loss,
Col. Colley immediately applied
to the Police, and before 3 o'clock
on Monday, we are happy to state,
nearly the whole of the stolen pro
perty was found. It was traced
to an old wooden building on
Rothery's lane, occupied by an
individual who had been only
three months in the place, as a
circus of wooden, or flying horses,
in other words a nightly resort for
negroes and other promiscuous
gentry of the vilest description.
The proprietor of this hopeful
establishment, who, it seems, is
quite an Ephraim Smooth in ap
pearance and conversation, had
remarked to the Collector of the
Corporation tax, on renewing his
license only a few days before,
that he did not think he should
remain here much longer, as he
found ihe people too depraved,
and that it was quite disgusting
to him to minister to the amuse
ment of such despicable charac
ters as those who came to ride his,
flying horses! As this man, how
ever, is nvv ",n lne proper hands,
we shall abstain from any further
remark that might tend to pre
judge his case. He was promptly
taken into custody by the police
and carried before the Alayor.
where he underwent a brief exa
initiation and was committed to
jail. Norfolk Herald. .
Blooded Stock. We announc
ed a few days a'go, the safe arri
val in James River, after a tem
pestuous and perilous voyage,
Messrs. J. S. Brander &i Co.'s
fine Ship the Caledonia Brander,
Capt. F. Dawson, from Liverpool,
with several blooded horses, mares
and fillies on board, imported bv
a company of Virginia gentlemen
engaged in, the laudable undertak
ing of improving the racing stock
of the United States. It is now
a source of no small gratification
to nave it in our power to state
that the Horses, fourteen in num
ber, were all landed at City Point
on Saturday last in good heath,
high spirits, and without the oc
curience of the slightest accident;
the arrangements for that purpose,
planned and superintended by
Capt. Dewson, having been so
convenient and perfect in every
respect, as almost to preclude the
possibility of any casu ilty. Tin
whole !ttil, was on the same eve
ning brought up and quartered
in the extensive stables of O. P.
Hare, Esq. the liberal proprietor
of the New- Market Race Course.
In a few days, we expect to pub
lish a complete list of the names,
blood and performances of this
new importation of the1 noblest of
animals designed lor man's service
and amusement. In the mean
lime, we beg leave to offer to Dr.
Merritt and the other gentlemen
concerned with him, our hearty
congratulations on the successful
result, thus far, of their enterprise
an enterprise, which in its ex
tent is without a parallel in kind,
in the Importing annals of this or
any other country, lo ihe pub
lic also we offer our congratula
tions for the additional means pla
ced before them for improving the
value of their stock of racing, rid
ing and other Horses. Pet. Con.
Carrying a Joke too far. In a
neighboring village a few days
since, a fellow was tried for steal
ing a wood saw. The culprit
said he only took it in a joke. The
justice asked how far he carried
it, and was answered . about two
miles. That is carrying a joke
too far, said the magistrate, and
committed the prisoner.
Detroit Jour. "
Inhuman occurrence. It is sel
dom that we have to record a
more disgusting case of inhuman
ity than -the following which oc
curred in our city within a few
days pasl; On the evening of the
Sin instant, a female infant not
i.jore than thiee days old, was
found at the Iront door of the
house No. 104 Bedford st. by the
occupant, Mr. Haff. w ho conveyed
it to ihe Alms House, where it was
named Sarah Bedford: and put
out lo nurse. On Monday last a
young woman calling herell
Eliza Black, wife of James Black,
of Ao. 1 50 King street, came lo
Colonel Mann, Superintendent of
the Alms House, and .entreated to
know from him whether a child
answering ihe description of the
little foundling had been received
in the Alms House. Her anxiety
on the su'.ject naturally excited
suspicion ot Col. Maun that she
vas private to the abandonment of
the child, and by adroit question
ing he drew from her a statement
of the following circumtances.
On Saturday night, ihe 5ib
December, she was-delivered of
this her first child, and on Tues
day following, under the pretext
of having it baptised, her husband
took the child away and never re
turned to his home.
Distracted at the doubtless loss
of husband and infant, the poor
woman though in the most feeble
condition left her bed, and sought
for her. husband in every quarter
where he was known. Her suf
fering and entreaties at length so
wrought upon the feelings of a
young man, her brother in-Lw,
that he confided to her the secret
of her husband's place of abode.
She immediately sold her little
properly to defray the travelling
expenses, and set off tor Philadel
phia in pursuit of him, and instant
ly went to the house where her
husband was staying. The mo
ment he heard from an adjoining
room, that his wife was in search
of him, he absconded and she find
ing all. chance of reclaiming
ihe scoundrel hopeless, returned
and made application to die Alms
House. A permission was imme
diately given lo see the foundling,
which she at once claimed as her
own child, and it was accordingly
surrendered to her.
She could not assign the sligh
test reason for her husbands bru
tality in abandoning the infant,
and we hope that the strong arm
ofjustice may yet reach ihe mis
creant, and that he may receive
the punishment due to his crime.
JY. Y. Cour. Enq.
tt7"Mr. Ocran Clapp, of East
Hampton (Mass.) who had
been for some time in feeble
health, and who was returning ai
night from an anti-slavery meet
ing, was overtaken 03' a snow
storm, and frozen to death in a
field on the road.
The first Duel in the United
States. The first duel in the U.
Stales happened in New England,
in the year 1GS1. About a year
after the settlement of the North
ern States, two servants, urged by
a mutual spirit of animosity, de
termined lo put an end to their
quarrel, by what in France and
England was termed the mode
honorable, the duel; thev appoint
ed a place of meeting to which
they both repaired. They fought
with great fury, but after a while
left the field of battle, without ei
ther having experienced the slight
est scratch. The puritans, whose
wisdom and religious scruples are
well known, caused them to be
arrested, and to puuish them for
a conduct which they considered
so impious, so criminal and so op
posed to public quiet, condemn
ed them to be bound together,
hand and foot for twenty-four
hours, without either food or
drink. Bugara's Translator.
Corns. A correspondent of the
Boston Mercantile states, that a
few applications of common bees
wax, as hot as it can be borne,
will effectually cure these pests to
the feet.
Character made whole. At a
late term of the common pleas in
Monroe county, a Miss Hudson, a
girl in indigent circumstances, and
also an orphan, recovered a ver
dict of $400 of a man by the name
of De well, on an action of slander.
U appeared that the defendant,
who, e believe is a widower, had
made overtures of matrimony to
the fair plaintiff, which she chose
to decline whereupon the jilted
lover all at once discovered that
the grapes which w ere beyond his
reach, were sour, very sour in
somuch that he fell to defaming
them publicly, lest per-adventure,
some of his goodly neighbors
should unwittingly have their
teeth set on edge, by nartakiim
thereof.
The libellious imputation con
sisted in charging the plaintiff
with theft which the defendant
did not attempt to substantiate on
trial. Lockport J Y. Balance.
Plenty Enough. A southern
paper in describing a place called
"Alligator Sink," says lhat it 1 -
one ct these innumerable fathofu-
less pools oh the barrens of Flori
da, where the number of these
monsters is so great, lhat when
they ascend in spring from its Un
known recesses, the w hole circle
is as full as a tub oj eelsi
frTThere are now 46 Baptist
churches in the territory oi Michi
gan. Two or three ears ago
there were not more lhan five or
si).
fj?"An intelligent writer in the
National Intelligencer, under the
signature of Tacitus, gives some
interesting statistics of the Reli
gions of ihe world. His state
ment however of ti e sum total of
tiie inhabitants of the earth is be
low the estimate usually given.
He puts down the whole popula
tion at seven hundred and seventy
four millions; most statistical wri
ters make it between eight hun
dred and a thousand million. He
gives the following table of the re
ligious subdivision of ihe whole.
"Christians 2C0,0C0,0OO
Bouddhism 200,000,000
Mahometans 100,000,000
Brahmauism 70,000,000
Judaism 4,000s000
All other religious
Tetkhism 140,000.000
The Christians are divided as
follows:
Catholicism 139,000,000
Greek Church G2,C00,00O
Protestants 50,000,000
The Mahometans are divided
into two sects; those of Omar and
Ali, represented respective!' by
ihe Turks and Persians, and in
veterately hostile to each other.
The vast number under the head
Bouddhism are divided between
China and Japan. It is here that
ihere is a numerical deficiency in
ihe statement of the writer, the
united population of countries be
ing generally supposed to be wot
less lhan four hundred millions.
Baltimore lmer.
Tomato. It is said that the
juice of the Tomato vine contains
a most , superb innate greenc ol
ouriug, which is said to have been
used as a dye, and may be made of
ail the various shades of green,
from the dark to the light pale
green, and when mixed with oth
er colours, this green colouring is;
thought to have a stronger basis
than any other vegetable.
' 'St. JJurriistlnp.. Dpt. QCi.'
ar" at war with the Seminoles,
Much individual mischief will
be done many small settle
ments, and all, large or small,
which are or shall be deserted,
liavr been and will be burnt.
Young Henry Woodruff of Spring
Garden, when out cattle bunting
with a netrro bo v. was shot from
his horse and killed his brother
Joseph, who had taken 3 different
1 i
course, escaped. Forrester and
an wtiites, immediately on getting
the intelligence from the negro
boy who esj.anedi deserted the
plantation unless the slaves are
very faithful it will be burnt,
Lancaster has been shot in the
neck though not dangerously
Tall ;c .. ti m: t.i. a
is ncilV' III llll il
5TO
mounted volunteers below. ( linen
Mcintosh. Anderson, and
jomo.
others, have their places guarded
Charleston Pat
(r?Miss Amanda Sill, of Beth
any, Genessee county, N. Y. while
engaged in the filial duty of at
tending a sick mother, on ihe night
of the 12tb, fell asleep 'be fere The
fire, when her clothes unfonuate-
ly caught the flames, and thoiigii
her shrieks awoke her mother,
who unfortunately was too feeble
to -assist htir, ihe poor girl perished
tp. a few minutes near the well,
v, hither, she had run in the vain
hope to find her father.
ffT8! fe that serves :he public,
(obliges nobody.