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Democrat and Herald from Wilmington, Ohio • 2

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'r0Jfrom the western line ot Missouri in the was convicted some months ago of the ictedand tjoeaon Ignawneo territory in a little valley of the miirder of rancis Kearney suffered the 9 i prairie called Elm Grove The scenery extreme penalty of the law on riday to thisexhtot U3 is all wildness and beauty the jQ the' yard of the county jail He Ul Santa trail is near us and is the only wa8 attended in his last moments by the The capital employed in manufacturing i T' uiuiiy a iivut urvumu it uiu iuuu tguuivi by machinery is estimated in England count in tbe Legiaature ofthis State and at 200 millions of in rance at rf as wo say to our adver Summer is almost out and gone National and our State Societies have our entire confidence in the management of the funds entrusted to them and that we 120 millions tn the United States at 11U millions An Eastern Editor says that oneted bug will produce 2000 per annum1 have yet done towards the liberation of our enslaved fellow beings if we feel for those in bonds as bound with them Therefore Resolved That we will en deavor to obtain pledges from individuals at this meeting payable by the first of January 1840 to the amount of $100 to our State Society $100 for the National Society and an additional amount suffi cient to pay tbe current expenses of this Society for printing Resolved That the Treasurer of the society be a committee to solicit tbe a mountofthe above pledges from individu als if not subscribed al this meeting Resolved That the executive committee are hereby empowered to have a suffi cient number of petitions printed for the use of this Society and draw on the treas urer for the amount Sarita trail is near us and is the only ibis Miss Jenny Ourang Outang lately im ported form Africa has been purchased by a gentleman in this State for $3000 and is to be exhibited in the principal cit ies throughout the'Union Phil Mess An expedition of colored emigrantsis to leave Louisville Ky for Liberia in October next I is said that the surplus of wheat in Michigan of last years harvest is estima ted to be worth two millions of dollars what happens behind his as the loafer said when he was kicked out of doors Lynching The Wilmington Whig re lates a rather singular decision of Judge Lynch at a late sitting of his Honor's court in this county Until we saw the article we had not been apprised that the Judge had been on this part of his circuit there manv years past Indeed rye yet think the Whig mistaken and that some one has been hoaxing him Western Star The entire cost of defending Canada during the recent troubles there amounts to 1053000 pounds sterling or nearly five million dollars New Arrangement The Philadelphia National Gazette jtates that tbe proposed arrangement between the Bank of Eng land and the Bank of rance by which the former receives a large amount of spe cie has been concluded St Louis rom the 1st of Ju ly to the 31st there arrived at that city one hundred and sixty nine steamboats and departed one hundred and forty five The Mormons It is stated in the Jef fersonian that Gov Boggs of Missouri has called on the proper officers for the necessarypapers with a view of making a demand from the Governor of Illinois Iowa or Wisconsin for the persons of Jo seph Smith jr Sydney Rigdon Lyman Wright and other of tbe Mormons who are now fugitives from justiee iwkinh uhmVR a Qi of himself and remaining followers to pros Inrnie the adventure through notes in the side of the box arrang ed like the keys of a piano The tails Txa 'Si rr coolly you are a you call me a fool 1 fo tirV sir 1wouM call attvm in a fxd who behaves as you fo' ra Cs anv man a I EXECUTION WILLIAMS James Williams the colored man who OCTOBER ELECTION State Senate ISAIAH MORRIS of Clinton Co THOMAS PATTERSON of Highland Representative AMOS DAVIS Commissioner DAVID WALKER PATRICK DENVER 4 County Treasurer GEORGE 1) HAWORTH WILLIAM McMILLAN THOMAS CAROTHERS Prosecuting Attorney MICIIAELIL JOHNSON SAMUEL BUCK Asjtrasor WILLIAM SMITH WILLIAM CRUMLY JOHN ULLER Coroner CHARLES JONES UO 4 ft ft Rev Dr Ducachet and the Rev Mr Allen who administered to him the tionsolations ot religion with great tenderness and care He died with considerable firmness persis ting to tbe last declaring in his innocence of the crime for which he was executed His real name was Lorenzo Dow Seal and he confessed that he was a fugitive slave from Maryland In Michigan they let their children run wild A traveller lately scared up a whole fl ick of girls in the woods fat and plump as pigpons The Methuen Gazette propounds the following mathematical a man is too poor to pay for a newspaper how many dogs can he afford to An answer is requested Tho Gettysburg Pa Star notices a to mato from the grounds of Mr Peter Diehl of Oxford in that county which measured 16 inches in circumference and weighed one and a half pounds pike Corporation in which ill a mischievous bull a few evenings New Lead Mines Tbe Iowa Sun says that a rich lead mine has been dis covered on the side ofa bluff near Stephen I son 111 IS I A Good heeled bbofa and a strut is to my mind's eye the plainest i sign board io the world hung out in capi in tho attic to let in quire at tho Tira This is tho name ofa new instrument said to have been in vented in Cincinnati of course Il is a tising bills Hong box divided into compartments one fur each note for as many octavos as may The total exports from England for tho year ending April 1 1838 were £42 000000 for the year 1839 £50000000 Of those in 1838 about £10000000 came to the United States and in 1839 about £12500000 The Geneva )N Y) Courier save wnoie oi ujb vvesieru larunu uibuigii ur groaning with abundance It is said that there are now ten thou 1 sand persona confined in the various pris ons of the United States CRIME I nttondeii ball at Saratoga 1 i mod hack They itrougnia atamonus worm vwv itentia aQl1 Cntnnaov what a host of poor sick devils contributed which shows a determination or the part towards its purchase by swallowing her of himself and remaining followers to pros panacea! Yes but on the other 'ocute tho adventure Though it had ram hand only think how much good it did led 21 days since the company left Peoria them Phil Messenger Tho Baltimore American publishes the following remedy for Dysentery: Grate a dry oak gall (or ball) fine and i stew it for a few minutes in about a third of a tea cup full of water then add a tea cup full of brandy and sufficient loaf sugar to make it very sweet or a grown person take a table spoonful and repeat every hour or two according to the virulence of the disease or a child a teivspoonful is sufficient Two or three doses will gener ally effect a cure 1 have known this remedy to succeed in the most violent cases of dysentery Worms in Cabbages A lady yester day morning called at our office with pari ofa head of cabbage which had been cut in pieces by her in preparation for dinner in the very heart of which was an ugly looking monster in tbe shape ofa worm an mCb end a halflong and large enough to poison a whole family It would be well for those who performed the culinary op erations to examine carefully among the tender leaves of a cabbage previous to us ing tor such monsters would tMuoagi able adition to a feast Public Ledger wants to know if you settle dis small bill to day kase be wants de mon ey said a darkey yesterday to a gen tleman I This is (he third time you have come for that money to day Your master afraid I am going to run away is but lk said tbe darkey slyly end myHr rmdy a awiv tfntt Then I it pewaal Wanff to make a big New Orlcacu kA 1 1 A i JZa'ilBtiy (JG11U rlij trclrliy UUuo xr111 iUA ll laying his knife upon the first said his dad i that two' tinting to tho sec nd one and two added together said the father turning to the old lady who was listening with amazement at the immense learning of her son wife the boy is a genius and deserves to be encouraged for it Here old lady do you lake one fowl and take the second and John may have the third for his learning1 An Editorial Bull(X)yi) Tho Canton Repository speaking of a rabid dog save: same dog bit his owner a Mr Haag ofthis town and some other fogs' We find from the following in the Cin cinnati News of Saturday evening last zxnZzxarAr) kflolfll Oinf6 AvAl A UUS XJUJUJ VU UUU Uvruvu I his labors in the Legislatures in 8 Ho was a man of undoubted talents high ly esteamed in private life and the author of the celebrated Quo Warranto Bill Statesman Melancholy Suicide Last evening Robert A Thruston Esq of Dayton for merly a Rcoresentative from Montcomerv i IIibben in the Chair An election was rs beid ibr officers lb serve the society the ensuing year whereupon Thomas Hibben was elected President Solomon Madden Artmnas Nickerson and James Brooke ien Presidents Dr A Brooke Secre tary Eli McGregor Treasurer and Ab salom Douglass Abraham Allen Jesse Hughes sen Perry Dakin Elijah Pee ples Thomas Woodmansee sen Charles Gallaher William Ireland Clark Nick erson and VVm Irwin Managers A resolution was offered and carried inviting any friends lo tho cause of immediate mancipation who were present and not members of the society to assist in the proceeding? A committee to prepare resolutions for the consideration of the I meeting reported tho following to which one or two were added by consentofthe 1 meeting most of which elicited animated fe1 debate and all ot them were carried Resolved That in 'consequence of the general subserviency of political pa'rtizana to pro slavery dictation it is incumbent on abolitionists to hold themselves free and independentof both parties prepared when ever they appear at the polls to'mako their voles tell for the principles offreedom with out regard to party names Resolved That we will support no can didate for any office in which his official acts will effect the interest ofthe slave unless he will publicly avow his adhe rence to the principles respecting natural rights and the equality of man set forth in the Declaration of Independence and consequently to the doctrine of immediate I emancipation Resolved That the opposer of the prin ciples ofa! oliuonism can be no true Dem ocrat because he practically denies the democratic doctrine of equal rights $nd no true Whig because he is against the fundamental article of the whig creed of that all men have an inalienable right to life liberty aud the pursuit of happiness and therefore no consistent Democrat or Whig can vote for any such man for any office in the gift of the people Resolved That Thomas Patterson late Representative and now said to be a candidate for election to the Senate from this district can receive the intelligent support of no man who believes liberty to be the equal birthright of all and who has sincerity and independence enough to vote us he thinks Resolved That while we condemn the colonization principles of our fellow citi zen Isaiah Morris we feel bound to of fer him our thanks and approbation for hts efforts to defeat the infamous of the last session Resolved That believe the triumph of the abolition cause to be as certain as that the government of the world is based on righteous principles and administered by a being infinite in justice goodness wisdom and power Resolved That therefore we esteem it a high privilege to be made instrumental in achieving by strenuous and self denying exertions a triumph so desirable so glo rious so fraught with the richest blessings to slave to master and to tbe whole land Resolved 7 hat the enterpnze in which we are engaged is of such magnitude and importance as to demand the exercise of 1 1 ft a i ft a ifo ft ft ril i civ fWC fl Ull UUl UUVIIVD 1U1 113 aVVVlllllU(UVMi ANT! SLAVERY MEETING Theuntiual meeting of the Clinton Coun a vorv whs hnid Altha are pinched by a sort of spring and loveripr08i)ylerian meeting house in Wilming machinery and the effect is said to be de A1IU3t 23d 1839 the President Mr I I If 1 I I I ft ft I ft Ilgnnui lue pigs uro wco cuicwu will says the bun wear anounnreo years without tuning A NEGRO iUV merican Kingsley sailed from St Johnsy East lorida the ZOin tnst wnn one nun i dred liberated negroes chiefly mechanics and agriculturists to be employed by i Mr Kingsleyjwho is a lorida planter on his estates in Hayti San Domingo An Ugly A marine rarity but by no means a delicacy was har pooned in Provincetown harbor last week According to the Boston Transcript a body thirty feet long a brace of fins each five and a half feet in flakes six feet by four seven hundred teeth one) hundred in a row in the lower jaw and ktimrlvftd zlft rl in lx ft nnnns 1 1A? i 2 3 1 A UUUUICU UW UM 1X1 mu uupvk i I I a cavern a inouiii aooui sour uuiu eter when from some of the of this long low piratical looking denizen of the seas which is a large specimen of the Elephant Shark i (squalus E'ephas) the most formidable in appearance of all tho shark tribe 1 Logic said a hopeful sprig many fowls are there on the said the old gentleman as he looked complacently on a pair of finely roasted chickens that were smoking on the dinner table son there are replied young smartness are three sir and prove it1 hree" replied the old gentleman who was a plain matter of fact man and under like to la gentleman of fine talents committed sui ciue at me nygeian vveu lour nines south of Covington Ky by shooting him i self through the head Mr has been in ill health Jor two or three years ana itiaii our energies tor its accomplishment is supposed that he was partially derang that the executive committees both of tho ed when he committed thetatai deed 1 HUZZA OR ALABAMA The news from this patriotic State still as a society by the blessing of Providence adds to the Democratic triumphs Truly are abundantly able to do more than we federal Bank whiggery is in a bad It will want a new name and new leaders to get along hereafter Statesman rom the Lebanon Star Legal Advertisements To prevent misunderstanding we state in this public manner that hereafter wre will not continue in our advertising columns any chancery notices sheriff sales or other legal adver tisements beyond the first insertion unless the fees are then paid or some satisfactory arrangement made to secure their payment If not then paid or secur ed they will be dropped from our columns We are obliged to adopt this measure in self defence We have hundreds ofdol las now due us for this class of advertising much of which we will inevitably lose as some of the parties have to parts unknown1 seme are tired of lawing and have off1 forgeling to pay cost many cases are undecided and have been pending for five or six years and may go on year by year to the end of time with out thq payment of costs trnl nlnrniin'? Pleas have just adjourned after a nna aaajinn 1 and the variety a Crimes brought to light puti anftttrvk tn fitfirtla thfi aAinmtlfifl' UUUMgil WW have instant additional cause oi aiarm recent occurrences Early last weekan incendiary attempt was mhdto uurndown two new houses on Seventh Street not yet completed for occupation the property of Messrs Jacob Burnet and John Groes beck This attempt was defeated with very little injury On Saturd iy morning ot the same week August a we nau uDO Cructive fire that destroyed the oil and flou ring mills on the canal with their con tents and that occasioned tho death of one individual having them in charge In pen day about the time this tire at the mills was subdued on Saturday morning fire was again set to the Burnet and Groes beck buildings which was detected in the 1 fti IJ nroiflTVftfi ast moment ws case a8 been decided in Massachusetts ax tna mAfll Tariiinu lnSu uWM 1 reu uu uuuua 1 ftftftft Dft it ''I 1 1 lttiA i THOUtu 1 OI IDV services 1U VUUIVU ft ft 1 1 ft ftft ft ft A LBftftftftn rv lA UAfi I ID U4O VI QULAJil ll until aZ nary busmess of fatntly concerns going (Pa ft0(1 munched up 600 worth of trees gregation separated but very soon after wards and was discovered in the last mo I meat that could have saved the building 1 The contemplated arson was evidently 1 directed against the lives of the congrega tion as well as against the church edifice evincing an atrocity of purpose of which I have no recollection that the history crime furnishes any How TO TELL A DRUNKEN If OU wish to ascertain whether a man is really in liquor put the word tn his mouth If he can shell that out pro nounce it plain and distinct he is sober enough to deliver a temperance lecture take our word for it The words al are even hard to get over and may be given as a test to any one 1 where tho least suspicion is entertained 1 that he is come you Some fifteen years since their lived in a pleasant east1 village a worthy minister ot the Presbyterian persuasion Dr The Ductor hud a hard case of a son a wild harutn scarum dog a ever lived named David David was good hearted fond of stones and Santa Cruz rum slings and seldom camo home at night without betraying that he had rubbed hard aaainst every tavern in tho village were the admonitions and excellent the advice hi worthy father gave David and one night after a lecture rather more eqvere than cemmop the young scape grace faithfully promised a mendment Some few days after this while the min ister was out visiting his flock he saw hts hopeful mounted on a young colt with a large bush lied to his tail riding furiously down the road towards him By whirling his hat and cane and shouting the old gentleman arrested his progress and brought him to a halt said the minister told me faithfully you had sown all your wild I have father Pmonly brushing them and away ho went down the street as fast as ever tho bush top tied to the tail whisking about in ev ery direction That night David came homo as the saying is the worse for It is a known fact that a drunken man in tryingto make himself appear sober al ways overdoes the thing and by the very means is uses detects himself So it was with Da id said he has the Nacial Inlel lencer come you dog you have been to the tav ern again You are drunk sir: Ret out of tny house and never enter That door David went at he was bid but the next 1 morning bis father was astonished at see 1 ing bitn walk down the chamber stairs and seat himself at the breakfast table Sirrah I tell you never enter that door said the father sir I know you did so I got up on the shed and camo ia at tbe chamber win dow I come in at the door at Dirid is still living and has sons who bid far to become as wild es ever he was NO Picayune 4vrr utVCTiW TIIHRSDAV AUG 00 i I I Ltau A vn A ft i rv ft ftrs ri i tr i ii in ri 1 1 1 i i A 1 A ftRT Werfttrw ftt HhliAHAM it! iSllCU 1ULU vnvt vttiatvu 1'1 ft ft TY I ii ri 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i ii i i i 1 1 ill The Oregon Company 6 a few placed and the tails of the porkers rui i ii ftftrt niHt i uini i i i i i lucre Ui IUQ A cuua tuui i'll ftftftrO7 nAfMOnR I Uoun OI IrMUlHUU uuuuv ft ft ft rS ft ri convicted ano seaienccu ry at hard labor amounting in the aggro rate to 172 years 16 were convicted and sentenced to hard labor on the chain gang amounting in the aggregate to 8 1 montns or (thev were aii jn good health We gave an 16 wero convicted of moor tho Cleveland Herald fined and imprisoned in tbejat nye arenow encamped about 29 miles tv 10 were convv lai conviction 69 In mfi'rence to ityand in addition to it the Cincinnati Gazette has the io owing a of civilization within view multiplication ot crime in every direc vur vourio in nil that breaks a ft iitoi uv iiiiiinu aw light mmibhed are hatesand every holy assoctabon of hfe the soinSufty Butwe are left together behind pa i rc ftinrA in is before us the Santa 1 trail 0 tne af aiavw' 1 ftft ft ft ft They brought a diamonds worth $20000 Only think ft I 1 ft Ift 4 rt i is before the Santa trail to tbe Ar kansas river thence up that stream to its through the gorge of the moun tains down Lewis river to the Pacific Ocean and into this ocean wilderness our brave little band has launched its fortunes its all shall accompany the Santa re traders to jthe Arkansas river where by agreement we shall fall in with Mr Ande Sublette who has promised to send a com pany of his traders and trappers with us to the orks of the Columbia are therefore relieved from all anx iety about our personal safety on the Important decision to Travellers A I JDuk luw wi 1 ft Sunday AuguBi4 Towards the close an action 'against the Bramtroo and Wey ft ft ft 1 kt vn ft nr ww kill 11 rr I iftr1 lull 11 in i i i it i aoffiel was settled that a person travelling over Bince broke into the multraulis fields of stood things as he saw them tuu 1 nrivvft ri a an 1 turnnikn unon the common anu tnui MeBrB Hunter ci wiasser near ounoury 1 1 1 1 oiinn i nunn air to a grist mill exempted from the payment of toll These exemptions extended to procuring fuel for the fire and other necessaries for the use ofa family 1 and such other business as necessarily apperiains to the support thereof was adjudged in this case that the plaintiff recov er back the amount of money paid the defendants for toll while passing their toll gate fur the purposes aforesaid Boston paper say is nothing new under the sun but if there aint a new pair of said an old woman as she took the last stich mistaken Exploring Expedition Journal of Commerce publishes a letter from Guay aquil under date 21st May which says the Garafiita in the remarkable short passage of four days from Velpairaso I have learned of the arrival of a part of the Exploring Expedition viz Pea cock and Reliet Tbe last advices from Callao advises Richmond lour al $17 bbl on board Gamara is still in command and it was thought the Chilians would soon find it best to retire trom uuna Ctn Daily Whig Counterfeiters Two coun terfeiters were arrested a tew days ago in Lewis county Ky on whose persons were at 200 millions of dollars 1 xae 1 Ltl ftZ IT izftJ tounu auuul uuv luvuuuiuuon uuia uu the Bafety und Banks of New York A fellow went to a patish priest and told him that he had seen a ghost what shape did it asked the priest the shape of a great Go home and hold your tongue about said the parson have been frightened at your own a yi J' eh zx zs A 1 1 liiHiT 7 jlf A 1 if KhK fcW' IB If if 1 ll til 1' a Rw HI Bi' lira'' 'J V': rYv YY Y' Mr1 4 I 4 4.

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1836-1840