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Bumont's Recollections of Mirabeau, &c.
Joanna Bailie's Poetical works,
Legends of the Library at Lilies by the Lord and Lady
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Travels in Peru by Edmond Temple.
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Department of State,
March 20th 1833.
4 Resolution of the Senate has called on the Secretary
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comprehended in certain circular addresses made some
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pective papers.
some were to serve the public for two
years, some iu, year, and others for a
few months, according to the Icgal'di; ;ticm
of their various misdoings; and each heard (
in silence his sentence, and looked all
submission, as if he felt that if all was known,
the punishment would have been doubled.
This silence, we have remarked, is the at-1
tribute of the prisoner's box. The bold and
reckless are silent because they would brave
all consequences; the timid speak not, be
cause they are timid. When the whole ar
ray of culprits in the box had been disposed
of, we looked for a movement of people to
wards the door; but instead of that, attention
was directed to an individual sitting on a
bench at the right ot the prisoner's box. Chan
ging our position, we had a full view oi him,
and we will now attempt a sketch of his per
son.
The man was about 75 years of age, and
bore those marks upon his visage which de
noted that labor and exposure had aided time
in his work. As he sat, his body leaned for
ward to an angle of about 45 degress, his
right hand was resting on a staff, and in his
left, but lyinsr on the bench, wasabasr. His
dress was of the most ordinary, his beard had
not that length which adds dignity to age,
nor was it -sufficiently hort to denote any
recent attention to personal comforts; a few
stray white hairs were hanging straight down
from under a coarse cap, with which his
head was covered. Recent confinement had
given more than a common paleness to his
visage, and unusual dimness to his eye.
"Jacob," said the Judgf, in a tone in which
feeling for the age and wants of the prisoner
had evidently obtained the mastery over the
sternness of justice "Jacob, you have beeu
found guilty of stealin": a quantitv of poul
try." Jocob turned his dim eye towards the Judfje
and slowly shook his head, while his fingers
played neivously upon his bag and cane,"
"The jury has pronounced yoii guilty," a
gain said the judge, in a tone which con
veyed a doubt whether the poor old man un
derstood the nature of his situation.
"I heard them," said Jacob; "though I never
intended to steal from any man , whatever my
wants may have been, fc they have been ma
ny and pressing. I never intended to take
what was not my own.
I have lived 75 years in the same neighbor
hood, and and "Jacob had evident
ly lost the thread of his remarks, he looked a
bout as if to catch some hint by which to be
enabled to proceed, but he was unsuccess
ful; he shook his head again, and cast his eyes
upon the floor
"The court," said the Judge in a tone of
kindness, "have considered the circumstan
ces of your case, and pronounce the following
sentence.
"Sentence sentence," said Jacob rapidly,
as he again'gazed on the judge; "sentence I
have labored for a family, I have fought for
the country, I have paid laxes for the state, and
I am now to be sentenced. Who is he that
can say that Jacob -ever wronged him in 75
years? I appea1," continued he, in a low tremb
ling voice, "I appeal to Frederic .G and
William , who were boys and men with
me, whether I have been charged with a crime
let them speak for me."
"They are both dead," said the officer.
"Dead?" said the old man.
"Yes."
"So they are I had forgotten they have
beeirdead these ten years. But no man dead
or alive, ever heard me accused of wrong do
ing till this charge was made; and what had I
to do with the fowls? I could have lived with
out them, or at least I could have died without
them I needed not to steal them, fcteal!
did not steal them."
Again Jacob seemed to forget his subject; he
talked on incoherently, until he seemed weary,
when the judge again prepared to pronounce
the sentence.
"I would call some of my relations," said Ja
cob "but that I now remember that they are
dead also they are all dead.'
When he was again silent,the judge said to
the officer, "take the old man to the prison
and let him wait there 30 days, (the shortest
time allowed by law for his offence) and let
there be endorsed on the committal, an older
for him to be admitted to the alms house as
soon as the 30 days are passed."
Jacob rose when -the officer approached
him but it was evident that he had paid but
little attention to the sentence. He took up
his bag, and as ha was moving out of the eoyrt
room, he mutttered, "sentence I did not
steal," He raised his eyes to the crowd that
were gazing upon him a slight hectic flush
passed over Us visage he repeated, "but they
are all dead' and then began his journey to
the prison.
For more than 70 years, it seemed that Ja
cob had mingled with society, man and boy:
he had been known as honest; no temptation
has caused him to swerve from the track of du
ty, and he had grown up and old, with none
to gainsay his credit. Childhood's sunny
years, the long eternity of boyhood, youths
gay sallies, and man's sober occupations, had
all come and gone, and Jacob had passed
through miscathed by serious censure un
marked br premeditated guilt a:.di h re.
ry threshold ot his coffin, slipping as it were in
to his grave, with almost four score venrs nn
on him, in an unguarded hour, he made ship-
win. iuo wiiiuc vuyaije, anu insight ot port
sunk into infamy. " " '
Do parents, guardians see nothing in Jacob's
late, his only eiror, uponf which to build a cau
tion toi their oflsprmjr and their charge? We
all, it n hoped, hedge about our children with
constant precept and wholesome example, and
fix their influence by earnest prayer. And we
should make them act from principle. Wc
should make honesty not a policy, not a calcu
lation, but a first movement; the inst;nctive
feeling and prompting of the mind: and this
A t I '
must come irom sure lonp; continued wntpb.
ings habitual watchings. This year or this
lustre may pass in safety,temptations may as
sail in vain, and we may look back on half a
century of unsullied life, and thank God that'
we are not as other men; but when the pride
of a good standing fails us, when our outward
relations are less tair, when the strong incen
tives to good from our various connexions
cease, all must then depend upon an infixed,
safe and sure principle of right. We are not
always sate; even the "attendant spirit" of good
which each of us hath to watch overhand
guard us, seems sometimes to have closed the
eye, to have lifted it towards a higher power
it is not on us, and we fail. U. S. Gaz. '
of
Life and Adventures of Col. David Crockett,
West Tennessce.--'r9 is a rmnarnla of
more than 200 pages, duodecimo, made up prin
cipally offhe anecdotes and fairs f fV. M-
doubtable Vol. Crockett that have been goin--the
rounds of the newspapers for several years
uast.
Colonel's
election
The annexed is illustrative of the
electioneering tact:
In the canvass of the congressional
f 18 ,Mr. was the Colonel's onnonenf
a gentleman of the most pleasing and con
ciliating manners who seldom addressed a
person or a company without wearing upon his
countenance a peculiary good humored smile.
The Colonel to counteract the influence of this
winning attribute, thus alluded to it, in a stump
speech.
Yes, gentlemen, he may get some votes by
grinning, for he can out grin me, and you know
I an't slow and to prove to you that I am not,
will tell you an anecdote. I was concerned
myself, and I was fooled a little of the d dest.
You all know I love hunting. Well, I discov
ered a longtime ago that a coon couldn't stand
my grin. I could bring one tumbling, down
from the highest tree. I never wasted powder
and luad when T wanted one of the creatures.
Well, as I was walking out one night, a few
hundred yards from my house, looking careless
ly about me, I saw a coon planted on one of the
highest limbs of an old tree. The night was
very moony and clear, and old Ratler was with
me; but Ratler won't bark at a coon he's a
queer dog in that way. So I thought I'd bring
the lark duwn, in the usual way, by a grin. I
set myself, and after grinning at the coon a sea
sonable time, found that he didn't come down. I
wpndpred what was the reason. T took another
steady grin at him. Still he was there. It mado
me a little mad, so I felt round, and got an
old limb, about five feet long and, planting
one end upon the ground, I . placed my chin up
on the other, and took a rest. I then grinned
my best for about fire minutes, but the d d
coon hung on. So find-ng I could not brin
him down by grinning, I determined to have
him; for I thoughthe must be a droll chap. I
went over to the house, got my axe, returned
to the tre, saw the conn still there, and beau
to cutaway. Down it came, and I run for
wards; ut d d the 'coon was there to ba
seen. I found that what I had taken ffr one,
was a larg:e knol upon a branch of the tree-
and upn looking at it clnselv, T aw tha I had
grinned all the bark off, and left the knot perfect
ly smooth.
Now f How citizens,' continued the Colonel,
"you must be convinced, that in the grinning
line, I myself am not slow vet, when I look
upon my opponent's countenance, I must admit
he is my superior. You must all admit it.
Therefore, be wide awake, look sharp, and not
let him grin you out of your votes."
Mr. William Carver, one of the oldest and
most experienced farriers of this city, who has
written many newspaper articles and pamphlets
against cruelty horses, says 'No horse is
wrote so much bv nventy five percent.) with his
tail cut off." PAz7. Gaz.