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MONEY MAKES A MAN BOLD.
At length
From the New York Transcript.
This is an axiom that few perhaps will
deny. The celebrated' Dr. Witherspoon,
President of Princeton College, going to
preach on a Sunday to a neighboring
country congregation, -as he passed thro'
the square to the pulpit, said to one of the
ruling elders, John lend me a crown."
The crown was lent, and the Rev. Dr
putting it into his pocket went into the
pulpit and preached a bold, eloquent and
powerful pathetic Sermon. Descending
from the pulpit after service, he pulled
out the money and said to John, u here
is the crown." "sQh keep it,"says the
Elder. '"No, no,1' says the Dr. "I on
ly wanted it when I preached For a man
is always much bolder with money in his
pocket. This anecdote of one of the most
sensible men of his day, is not only true
as an isolated fact; but it is also true as
a general principle applicable to almost
ail mankind, lhe man with money in
his pocket is invariably bolder than him
who has none. Experience teaches this
abundantly. Go into company where any
thing is to be expended or any thing to be
purchased, and if you are ever so wise
and virtuous, or otherwise ever so fear
less, vou feel on this occasion exceeding
ly timid, ashamed and even sheepish.
While your neighbor, who has not half
pur merit, who has money, is as bold as
a lion. It you enter a market or shop to
buy an article you want, although your
credit is ever so good, you feel a want
of confidence in yourself, and cannot
drive a bargain half so readily or adroit
ly as if you have the cash to plank down
tor the purchase. If you are in debt,
and one of those ugly articles a dun comes
across you, how insignificant and hum
bled yqu feel in your own estimation, and
what a sorry apology you make. Where
as, if you have money to pay with, your
spirits are elastic and light; you are bold
as Bonaparte himself. As a politician,
you present a poor humiliating, posture
without moneys anil are compute! as a
nought in arithmetic, as of no account
whatever. If you enter a gentleman's
heuse to attend a drawing room party or
soiree, if you are known not to have mo
ney, no matter how wise or virtuous you
may be, you feel humbled to the dust al
most, as you hear some rich fool call you
in a whisper "a poor devil."
And whether you are a minister, a law
yer, a doctor, a merchant, an editor, a
mechanic, or any thing else in life or in
business if you have no money, or next
to none, your feelings tell you that you
are despised by others who are rich, and
who have their pockets full of cash, and
your mortification at the contemptuous
treatment you receive, is almost over
whelming, gome may praise you for your
talents, admire you for your amiability,
eulogise you for your virtues and patrio
tism but the epilogue to all this nne
dramatic eulogisrn is, poor fellow, he is
poor and has no money Money then,
not only makes a man bold and fearless,
but is considered, as the chief evidence,
the undoubted criterion of merit. If a
man is rich, the world says he is a good
"van," even if he is leprous with half the
vices that curse humanity, and a jackass
with a pair of panniers on his back, stuf
fed with dollars, is reputedly a much
wiser and better and admirable animal
than the noble lion, who ranges Igrd of
the forest, and is king by consent of his
fourfooted kinsmen. The meanest fool,
the veriest knave, with plenty of money,
an make his way near to the throne while
'ie wisest and most virtuous man, with
out it, must lay like Lazarus at the gatel
A celebrated writer says " wealth is
power," and we add, it isalso courage,
conduct and virtue. Line the pocket,
and the pocket and the man can storm
the rock Gibraltar ; empty it and he
is frightened at a fly. Money is the god
c this wbrld ; all who have it, are of the
orthodor faith ;' those who haVe not, are
considered heretics, and "worse than
Jnfidels.f
ses for many miles around.
he was so much tickled by the encomi
ums which were showered down upon
him from every quarter, tlfat he was un
willing to rest contented with the fame
of being merely the bestblacksmith with
in ten miles of his forge, but he felt with
in him that he was qualified and destin
ed to exhibit surpassing skill and inge
nuity in labors which no blacksmith ever
before attempted.
He had come into possession, it mat
ters not how, of a valuable gold watch,
the manufacture of some of the most in
genious workmen of the age. He often
examined the watch, studied the move
ments of the wheels, the surprizing pow
er of the springs, and listened to itsltcA:
ing with much delight. The watch kept
excellent time, but Mr. Brown gradually
convinced himseli that; it was out 01 re
pair ; that.it did not go regularly ; that
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it was lmpenectiy constructed : mat in
some unexpected moment it might stop,
and involve himseli and lamily, and in
deetl the whole neighborhood (for there
was no other good time piece in the vil
lage) in difficulty. He. conceived that
it was in his power,tfjf con fining himself
more strictly to mechanical principles,
to improve ; its construction, render it
more simple in its action, produce
a '
more uniform and petter motion, and thus
introduce a new era in the art of watch
making. It was in vain that some of his more
sensible neighbors advised him to stick
to making horseshoes and agricultural
implements, and leave watches to those
who were well acquainted with the diffi
Secretary, he felt the most unaccounta
ble wakefulness that could be imagined: he
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was in perlect health, had dined early,
and had nothing whatever on his mind to
keep him awake. Still, he found all his
attempts to sleep impossible, and. from
eleven till two in the morning, had never
cioseci an eye. At length, weary of this
struggle, and as the twilight was break
ing, (it was in summer,) he determined
to try what would be the effect of a walk
tn the Park.. There he saw nothinsr but
the sleepy sentinels. But, in his walk,
happening to pass the Home Office seve
ral times, he. thought of letting himself
in with his key, though without any par
ticular object. The book of entries of
the day before still lay 011 the table, and
through sheer lisllessness he opened it.
The first thing that he saw appalled him;
U"A reprieve to be sent to Fork for the coi
ners ordered for execution. " The execu
tion had been appointed for the next day.
It struck him that he had received no re
turn to his order to send the reprieve.
He searched the " minutes;" he could
not find it there. In alarm, he went to
the house of the chief clerk, who lived
in Downing street, knocked him up, (It
was then past three,) and asked him if he
knew any thing of the reprieve being
sent. In great alarm, the chief clerk
"could not remember." "You are scarce
ly awake," said Sir Evan ; "recollect
yourself: it must have been sent."
The chief clerk said that he now re
collected he had sent it to the Clerk of
the Crown, whose business it was to for
ward it to York.
"Good," said Sir Evan. "But have
cult, delicate, & complicated operation, you his receipt and certificate that it is
But no ; Mr. Brown was remarkable for gone?"
a pig-headed obstinacy, and prided him- "No!"
self on never having acknowledged him- "Then come wjth me to his house; we
self in error, or having relinquished must find him, it 4s early." It is-now
measure which he had once resolved up- four; and the Clerk of the Crown lived
on. He seized his hammer, his pincers in Chancery-lane. There was no hack-
and screw driver, and went to work. ney-coach to be seen; and they almost
The watch was soon taken to pieces, and ran. They were just in time. The Clerk
his neighbors were assured that he would of the Crown had a country house, and
the probability of any one of these occur
rences, a mathematician wotlld find the
chances very hard against It ; bat the
calculation would be prodigiously raised
against the probability of the; whole. If
it bei asked, whether a sufficient ground
for this
covered
drama, which already, iU the course of
the present century, has passed before
us, and closed in rain. h If the project
shall be successful, we are again to see
the paper missils shooting in evety di
rection through the country a derange
ment of all values a depreciated circu
lation a suspension of specie payments
then a further extension of the same
detestable paper a still greater depre-
ciatioir, with failures of traders and fai
lures of Banks in its train to arrive at
last at the same point from which we de
parted in 1817. Suffer me to recall to
the recollection of the House a few more
of the striking events of that day. The
first Bank of the United States expired
in March, 1811. Between the 1st of Jan.
1811, and the close of the year 1814,
more than one hundred new banks were
established, to supply this more uniform
and belter Currency. For ten millions of
capital called in by that Bank, twenty
ntil.lions of capital, so called, were in
vested in these.- In the place of five and
now exhibit to them a sample of watch- meaning to have a long holiday, he was
making that would surprise them. His at that moment stepping into his gig to
design was to dispense with the balance g to his villa. Astonished at the visit of
wheel entirely, and to rely altogether on the Under Secretary of State, at such an
the little wheels, the number of which he hour, he was still more so at his busi
soon found it necessary to increase, al- ness.
though such an idea had never entered 4Heavens!" cried he, "the reprieve is
, into his original plan. He toiled with- locked up in my desk!" It was brought.
out ceasing, dui soon tounu waicn-maK- oir avuu seni 10 uie posi-omce tor the
ing a more difficult business than he ima- truest and fleetest express. The reprieve
gihed. After many weeks of labor, he reached York next morning, just at the
completed it, and his neighbors were moment the unhappy men were ascending
called in to witness the triumph of inge- the carl J
nuity aud strict mechanical principles With Sir Evan Nepean, we fully aree
over the errors and prejudices of the age. in regarding this little narrative as one of
This was an eventful moment in lhe the most extraordinary that we ever
life of Tom Brown. Some of his friends heard. We shall go further even than
who had unbounded confidence in his he acknowledged, and say, that, to us,
skill as a workman, were prepared to it bears striking evidences of what wc
witness an invention which would become should conceive a superior interposition,
the wonder of mechanics, and be a ben- It is true, that no ghost appears, nor is
efit to the whole human race ; others al- any prompting voice audible; yet the re-
ternately smiled and sneered at his folly I suit depended upon so long a succession
and presumption, and gathered around, jot what seemed chances, and each of
prepared to witness the total failure oMinese cnances was at once so improbable
the experiment. lhe watch was put in and so necessary, that we are almost
motion ; its movement at first promised
well ; but it was soon seen that it pos
sessed ho power within itself to produce
regularity or uniformity of action. In a
few brief minutes, although its motion was
considerably accelerated, it became evi
harsh interposition s to be dis-
1
in saving the lives, of a few
wretched culprits, who, as is frequent in
such cases, probably returned to their
wicked trade as soon as escaped, and
only! plunged themselves into- deeper in
iquitythe answer is, that it is not for
us, t,n our ignorance, to mete put lhe va
lue of human life, howeverc; iminal in
the eyes of Heaven. But there was an
other interest concerned, and'one of evi
dent! value.
Iflthnse coiners had been hung. Sir
Evan Nepean could scarcely have escap
ed utter ruin ; populjtr wrath, would have
nared out against him from one end of
the country to another ; he would have
been charged with their mutder. No
man under such circumstances could have
retained office a week. We have seen a half millions, about the amount of cir
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a circumstance or the same nature, but culation in note3 ot that Bank withdrawn
of a much slighter eclor, drivela late chief twenty-two millions were pushed out.
Judicial officer of London from his office Then came a suspension of Specie pay-
in a moment. No ministerjcould have ments, in August and September, 1814.
ventured to screen him ; office in Eng-1 As an immediate consequence of this
and would have been shut imon him for suspension, the circulation of the coun
ue ne wouiu prooaDiy nave Been an-, try, in tne course ot nneen months, in
ven to hide his head in some fojreign coun- creased fifty per cent., or from forty-five
try, even if some Parliament! rebuke, or to sixty-five millions of dollars; and the
Royal mark of displeasure, hajd not broke fruit of this more "uniform currency was
1 t wf.' m I.I w. v
his heart. Yet thus, all, who know the tne failure ot innumerable traders, me
subsequent services ot Sir bv$.n Nepean chanics, and even fanners; of one hun
as becretarv to the Adiniraltv. dunne- dred and sixlv-hve banks, with capitals
, t - j r r- - y - -
the long period of our naval ji or y in the J amounting to thirty millions of dollars ;
revolutionary war, know tha6?a humane, and a loss to the United States alone, in
honest and intelligent man, would have the negotiation of her loans, and in the
been lost to himself and his fjcountry. receipt of bankrupt paper, to an amount
lhe actual neglect was the town LIerk7 exceeding tour millions ot dollars. 7
but it would have been throwj back from
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me nuerior on the principal according The Boston Atlas gives one of ten thou
f i Ilia inn nnnp v f rnnn I n i it tt I r q nd I
doubtless, if Sir Evan had mlde the en- Sand staces of the baneful operation of
quiry the might before, whichlhe made in thc 44 Experiment" on the poor.
his waking hour in the morrttng, thc 1 e-1 The Better Currency Ji Fact. An
it was, would have been his ruin.
prieve would not liave suffered the haz- elderly and respectable female, in reduced
ards of delay. The adventure, slight as circumstances, presented yesterday m the
market a twenty dollar note ot the Plan
ter's Bank of Natchez, one of the Deposite
ret Banks. It was all the money she had
in the world but she found that it would
not buy her a pound of beef. Under these
circumstances, she applied to one of the
men ol whom she had been in the habit of
THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY.
The folio wing, from the Speech of Mr.
j la. y, in the session ot i.b4-yao, is
prophecy itself. It could no have been making little purchases, for advice.
a more faithful delineation if written at
this time, describing what has occurred,
instead of foretelling what vfould be the
consequence of the madness pf misrule
" Mr. Clay thought it extremely for
tunate that this subject of Executive pat
ronage came up at this sessions, unincum-
beted Dv any collateral question. A.i
She toltl him that she was poor, and chief
ly dependent on the pecuniary assistance
she received Irom her son, who was settled
at Natchez and who had been in the habit
her such small and occasional
remittances as he could spare from the re
suits of his constant and laborious indus
try. His last remittance, which was all
the money she had in the world, was this
compelled to regard the whole as matter
of influence not to be attributed to man.
If the first link of the chain might pass
for a common occurrence as undoubted
ly fits of wakefulness will happen with
i 1 .l.ll A ! TT1 V : . 1-
tUa, Let uocc'w.n ,o i.-,.- tlia R.mnv!.! twenty "oiiar note on me riamers lianK.
the Deposites, the Treasury Report su5- He . ,ad n?thfr Yay ot ierait1t,P? ,than b7
famine it. ant lhe Protest btlhe Ftesi- vui..w u,u
debt asainst the Resolution ox the Semite.
The Bank mingled itself m
cushions, and the partisans jt Executive
power availed themselves ofMhe prejudi
ces which had been arttully excited against
that institution, to deceive ad blind the
People as to the enormity of Executive
pretensions, lhe liank has been doom
ed to destruction, and no one now thinks
out a'ny discoverable ground in the state th recharter of it is practicable, or ought Broke
remit was that of a Deposite Bank. De
c.. I rpivpd hv tlp falep nrnmispn nf hp flnvprn
our uis-r : rj ". . . "
menr, ne prooaoiy inougtu inaijinis on
vbuld be redeemed by the Pet Bank in this
city.
The friend to whom she applied, took the
bill to one of the Deposite Banks, and
asked at what discount it would take the
bill. The answer was, that it could not
take it anv price. Being thus driven to
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t j m til V a v kt 7 v uk7 v m
dent that the experiment would not sue- 01 either Dody or mind still, what could toiDe attempieu. 1 iear, saio mr. viay, tCj, TWENTY DOllah note Oi they
ceed ; it soon began to hz and whirl, and be less in the common course ot things thai the reopie win nave just anu severe afforQ to pay ,ut F1Y DOLLXUS !
wnistie, ana sputter away at an aston- man mai a man mus waning snouid take cause 10 regret us ucsnupiuu. x uc Thus is a poor and destitute woman
inning i a lc, luuvii n tut. mm itt 4 nit "ivw ubitu iu uj; unu lung a nam uuiiiiiiiDiimivH j-- j mere tiction ot the Jixecu ti ve deir
wiavillll III auu muse ut ilia n itiiuo miu I m uiv 1 ui ti al l nu v nuwn in me lliuill' jim. , uuu um, -" ..y..-.. " I ded Ol t'lTeP tOUTtllS Ol a SUm, WlllCh I
were confident of his success. He was ing? Yet, if he had, like others, con- admire, the imperturbable tmner or the
unable to control its mo ve-I tented himself with taking a walk round 1 wisdom of its enlightened President.
ments, and after a little time it made a his chamber, or eniovinar the cool air at No countrv can possibly possess a better
loud and start line- noise, resembling a his window, not one ot the sucr.epdino- ireneral currencv than it supplied. The
fearful explosion of gunpowder, and slop- events could have occurred, and the men injurious consequences of tliie sacrifice of
ped! Instead of improving the watch, he must have sacrificed. Or if, when he this valuable institution wulsoon be felt.
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had destroyed it : or at least had so much took this walk, he had been content with There being no longer any sentinel at the!
injured it, that it will be a long time be- getting rid of the feverishness of the night head of our Banking establishments to
lore the best watch makers in the coun- and returned to his bed. the chain would warn them, by its intormatjon and ope-
have been broken: for, what was more rations, ot approaching danger, the local
out of the natural course of events, than institutions, already multiplied to an
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try men who have devoted a large por
tion of their lives to the business
will be able, with all their skill, to
restore it to its original regularity and
excellence of condition. Boston Jour.
1 I , L"i
A REMARKABLE STORY,
From a notice of Illustrations of Human
Life, a new work by the author of Trt
maine and Be ffer, in the New Month
ly Magazine for April.
The story to which we shall now ad
vert, has the double value of being told,
oh Mr. Ward's personal knowledge, and
' TOM BROWN AN ALLEGORY.
We hive heard of a Blacksmith of the
of Tom Brown, who was somewhat
ebratM for his skill in the villas in
wich he resided, and who was
'eded ! to be the best shoer
cknow
of hor
that, at two in the morning, the idea alarming extent, and almosttdaily multi-
should come into.the head of any man to pjyipg, in seasons of prosperity will make
go to his office, and sit down in the rooms jree and unrestrained emissions. All
of his department, for no purpose ofbu- the channels of circulation will become
siness or pleasure, but simply not know- gorged j property will rise extravagantly
ing what to do with himself? Or if, when high, and, constantly lookfng up, the
he had let himself into those solitary temptation to purchase willbe irresisti-
rooms. the book of entries had not lain ble. Inordinate speculation will ensue,
on the tabje; (and this we presume to debts will be freely contracted, arid when
kinv hppn smnno- the chances, as we. can I the season of adversity comes, as come
srarcelv Runnose books of this official im-ltf must, the Banks, acting without con
portance to be generally left to their fate cert and without guide, obeying the law
among the servants and messengers of of self-preservation, wil, all.at the same
the office; or, if the entry, instead of time, call in their issues; the vast num-
of illustrating the extraordinary chances being on the first page that opened to his ber will exaggerate the alarm, and gene
v . v 1 . ' . 1 II I I .! " a. ... 1 -. -. rl iin n nn n n
fr whirh hlitnftn lira la cnmotimoa cntfr. avo harl Haon rn nV n npr. P.VP.n inP Kf. Ifll IllHl ress WlUP-SIireau luiui 4iiu an
ed to depend. The circumitartces oc r.ond.at he never mierht have taken the explosion of the whole Banking system,
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Piirror tn tho urolf Irnnxvn Vii- H'lori n I tmnhlA nt (ffpninrr IhO nOfP ? Or IT ne find I OT tne RSiaUl ISIllTienC Ol U. WW Uaillk Ul
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nean. when in the Hnm llangrtm(nr. I tho hiat cleric hnn hepn Jive minuies later I tne U niietl Oiaies. Will U6 uie uiuuiaic
. tA- . . . . I . ."'.. -r. . I ll
lhe oonular version ot the atorvhad been, at the U erk ot the urown's nouse,- anu enecis."
r ! mm . I-. . i.l" A
that he was warned by a vision, to save instead ot finding him at tne moment: ot
the lives of three or four men condemned getting into his carriage, had been com-j Mr. Binnev, a distinguish Whig' Rep
ioaie,but reprieved; and who, but tor pelted to incur the ae.ay or onng.ng mm resentative frora the cUy of Philadelpliia,
me vision wou d have perished, throuffh back from the country, an me preceumg i. . . v -.-
the Under-Secret.rva nealer.t in ftrr-Lvent. wm.lH have been useless. The tlius spoke in Congress in Jan. iw:
warding the reprieve. On Sir Evan's be- people would have died at York, for e- i "Sir, the project of the Secretary of the
inesttbsequently asked how far this sto-lven as it was, there was not a moment 1 Treasury astonishes me it has astonish-
m was true, his answer waa "The nar-1 tn snarei thev were stoDoed on the vervled the country. It is herejithat we find
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rauve rumancea a nine: out what it ai- irerp-e or execution m uictuauv buuiw 6u,
Ittdes to was the most extraordinary thing ! The remarkable feature of the whole, I St is in the clearly avowed design to bring
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that crer happened to me." The simple l is that the chain might nave oeen snappeu a secona ume, upon . wuu uie cure oi
facts, as told: by himself, are theses at every link, and that every lint was Ian vnregutatea, uncomiQum laie jsarw
une night, during nis oince as uncer- equally important, m vnc caicmanon ui fpcr immwi. m5'" vv bb ui
for the
could
by
au-
10W-
ever insignificant, was to herself of the ut
most consequence, inasmuch as it was her
all. Thus it is not merely those who have
k earned nothing"' & therefore OUGHT
TO STARVE" in the language of the
Globe whd have been stripped and plun
dered by the accursed policy of a Cabinet
of swindlers and vagabonds but the hon
est and laborious poor the very class in
terested above all others in the preserva
tion of a sound and uniform currency.
after, and hd not been in the city three;
days ere he committed the crime for
which he yesterday forfeited hisrlife. j
J-nree days since he was visited in
prison by the Mayor. Denis Prieur. who
asked him how he felt.
" As well as a man in mv situation can V
feel, 91 was his answer:" but I should'
like to have, something to drink.'2 v . j
borne brandy was brought him -whichs
he drank eagerly; after which Mr. Prieur
told hun he did not come lor the purpose
of giving him any hope's of a pardon.
41 And if you should do so, I'd not be
lieve you,' said Tibbetts.
"Would you not prefer imprisonment
to death, and that on a scaffold?'? I
Ah, no!" said he, with a bitter smile't
"if my sentence could be remitted, for;
only a year's imprisonment, (and I know,
that they would not let "me off forso r
short a period j I would prefer to die in- .
stantly."
tLife is said to be sweet," observed:
the Mayor.
"Ali, it may be so to you, and such as 1
you, surrounded as you are by the, com-;
forts and luxuries of life, x But look at
me, (holding up his chains.) Eleven :
long years of my life have I passed in a
miserable cell, chained thus like a galley
slave, disgraced and deserted by all and
every thing that could, render life dear!
tome, vvnat sweetness men iniuic you
las such a life for such a person as I am?
No sir,(seeing Mr. Prieur was about to
s peak, j as a boy, it is true, I was head
strong and wayward, but not naturally;
vicious,. It is true that 1 hated these
who hated me, but I also loved those who
were kind to me. But this I take no
credit for; I but obeyed therein the in
stinct of Nature. But upon one occasion,;
or indulging in a damnable propensity,;
that corporal (his step father) beat me so
brutally, that I seized a musket and shot;-
urn. I was imprisoned, and led to be-
eieve that if I behaved well I should be
released in a year or two; but year after;
year rolled on, and I was, a wretched;
prisoner; the bright morning ot my lite
was wasting away, unsolaceduncheered;
no release came, my heart sunk within
me, iny hopes were blighted and with! .
my hopes died my youth. I then .gave
loose to the worst passons of my, nature,
and joined my miserable companions
in their worst pursuits. Finally my
prison doors were unbarred I was par
doned; I entered that prison not a de
praved boy I left it a desperate man.
I came to this city and joined the volun
teers for Florida: before sailing I was?
arrested as a suspicious character, but
being released, went with Colonel Smith
returned to this city and the rest
you know.
Mr Prieur then hinted that the vice
which led him astray was drinking.
"No, sir," said he furiously, "gamb
ling! damnable gambling! for that was I .
beaten by the man whom, in revenue, I.
killed, i deserve to die but not for the
offence for which I now stand committed:
I deserve todie, however, for deeds that
have lately done."
He was questioned on this head, but
obstinately refused to reveal, a sylla
ble.. -'Mrs Prieur, who is, by-the-bye, a
practical phrenologist then proceeded to
examine his head, 10 ascertain, if the or
gans of firmness and destructiveness
were not strongly developed, anu nna-:
i ng such to he thecasel; he spoke of iti.
The prisoner said nothing in reply to
him on that head then, but, the day be
fore yesterday, he asked for pen, ink and
paper, and wrote tne touowing:
Mt last' Will and testament.
"Give Dennis Prieur my. head.
4 T0M TlBB ETTS. ?' !
THE CONVICT.
FROM THE NEW ORLEANS COMMERCIIL BULLfTIK.
-Thomas Tibbetts. This cxtraordih
arv individual, who was hung yester
day morning, was born, we believe, in
this State. However, be that as it may,
he has spent the, best (or rather the worst)
part of his life in it. At the age of ten
vears, he was a drummer boy in the army,
and was stationed with his step-father, fa
corporal,) in Louisiana. Having been
beaten, as he says, very severely by his
step-tather, in a fit of revenge he seized
musket and laid him dead at his feet,
For this he was tried and sentenced to be
imprisoned twenty-one years; the sen
tence or death being thus commuted on
account of his extreme youth. Aiterre-
maining imprison for the space ot eleven
years,he was,in January,1836, being then
but twenty-one years of age, pardoned
out by-Uov. White, tie arnvea in mis
city just at the time that tne Louisiana
volunteers were about to embark for
Florida; and having enlisted under Col.
Persifer Smith, he went with him to Flo
rida. After serving there four or five
months, he returned to this city and al
most immediately went up the river. He
returried here, however, in & fortnight
At a Public Dinner given to MrWise
at Williamsburg, a few days ago, Presi
dent Dew of William & Mary College4,
made the following remarks: i
"President Dew being called otvibr a
Toast, said that he would tell an anec
dote by way of introduction and expla
nation the sentiment which he should
give.He said that among the character
istics of the interesting people of Ireland,
was that peculiarity in thought and ex
pression, which led, both in Speaking and
writing, to the frequent perpetration of
blunders termed bolls. He.stated; that .
he had somewhere met with an account
of the bill of an Irish Farrier, presented .,
to an English Nobleman, couched in
phraseology which had suggested the--Toast
that would be offered. - It ran as
follows:
" To curing jour honor's mare until
she died, 12s. 6d." ; ,
Mr. Dew then proposed: The monetary
system of the United States; cured to death
by Doctor Jackson Ala poor YorickP
A gentleman paying his addresses to a
young lady, the daughter of a . wealthy
planter, and of course entitledtto the non
or of being very accomplished, inqaired
ornerii sne was not lonesome, -
ing no society in the neighborhood, anu
how she spent Uer timef one
was not lonesome that she amused her
self with reading and writing. He asked
her which she was mosi wn
nii- mie ? Nar v one,7' savt v
lady, ! writes small nana, ::
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