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BIG! teeoltcit the patronage of his friends and the public in “_ halt‘ lll|:¢'l;'lD:i':flll\‘!:ltIhf‘ly cull: thhgir attention to ths_ salt with that rriarlret rlhrirrs liiu rseid‘en:.ln.Ne":'IYror‘li?" nqummd Temperance Halt corn in . III Subscribers are respectfully g. myth. p,,j.,,c" due their in h (Ir: Ge1“Besr,jsa.;;.s‘r.ts' Disasters miss it. coot-ha, lss'y. Iy to the Treasurer, EPC!>EB‘CPEB‘£!‘o FORGET TIIEIZ, NO I Faggot thee, no l I never can, ' 7 y fond beloved friend, Forget the one I've loved so dear, n in a foreign land. -. _¢-. , For et thee, no ! can I forget 'Ihe one that I adore ? . The thought doth all my spirit fill I My heart with love runs o'er. V ‘ O for his soflsst, sweetest voice, l A I'll watch o'er'hill apd plain; rid , th t hsin at u Rafi to tilt! again? y In , I never will forget thee, no l My love doth all sustuil; The triumphs of that happy hour, I Save when fond Memory comes, with imileyi long parted, And vanished hours invoke I.8ve's brightening ray. Ilow like an angel visitant it seemeth ! llidiling the clouds of sorrow flee awrt ; “’ould that the blissful hours of which she drettmetb, Could take one tinge from Ilope‘e once radiant dtiy. What now to me is bi.-auty’s flushing eye I Though it ntay wear the glory ofa star; Shedding its brightness frorri its borne on high, A glpnpse of what the inner glories are. Alas ! for down, within the quiet tomb, Eyes tltat I love. are sealed in its culm sleep- Tlieir blessed Ioveliglit brightened mice tity home; That home is dark—and therefore let tne weep. \ Bid me not listen to the thrilling tone, Whose lingering cadence charms the list‘ning car; I turn away, to think ofaccents one. I ne'er can find such mellowed sweetness here. I know that, even in youdeslaebsight world, Her seruph volce gives back the sweetest strain; That when I.ove's be er o'er me is a rd. Those deathleas notes shall greet mine car again. Then shall the clouds that gather mend me now, Fade iii the light of heaven's resplendent ra , Gricf's seal no more shall stunt my heart IIIlt.{ brow, Taking the blessedness of Iilii away; My fetter'd soul would gladly burst its chain, And, dove-like, fly to yonder deutliless shore, Where I might lind my treasure yet again, And denth‘s dark shadow chill me never more. —DoIlar J\’eu~rpaper. fllistellaitcotts. TIII‘. PARDONING I"O\l'I'ZR. \Ve give below a letter of \Vns-hinglrig Ilunt, Governor ofihe State of New York, to the Sherilfof Duchess County. The etter was was written for publication. in answer to numerous nppeols made to Mr._ Hunt to pardon a murderess. He has taken a just view of his IIIIOI 5- "Since granting the reprieve by which the execution of Ann Ilorig was postponed until the 80th instant, I have received from your County. numerous communications, urging the exercise of clemenc in her behalf. It would seem, that many of our citizens regard I e pardoning power vested in the Executive as a personal perog-itive, to be exercised at pleasure from the promptings of law or the guilt of the offender. 'l'his partial and erroneous view of the subject. and the appeals which it naturally suggests. add much to the embarrassments necessarily incidental to the discharge of m duty in capital cases. On recurring to the real design of the Con- stitution, every candid mind must perceive, that the power of par- don lodged with the Executive Department, was not intended to defeat the objects of the law, by arresting its execution or changing its penalties in cases of well-established and deliberate guilt. is a remedial power, to be resorted to for the correction of errors and prevention of injustice. lte exercise is legitimate.-,whenever the conviction is founded upon inadequate proof, or when the verdict is inconsistent with newly-discovered facts; and in cases of frcllltent occurrence, when the crime is accotnpanied with mitigating cir- oumstances, which diminish the moral guilt of the olfender. None of these considerat' as can be advanced in favour of the par- don of Ann llsag. er guilt is conclusively established. A cure- ful examination of the testimony. precludes every doubt. Though circumstantial in part. a complete chain of proof is presented, as convincing to the mind, as the positive evidence of an eye-witness. ‘he most earnest advocates of clemency, with few exceptions, candidly admit the justice ofthe verdict. ‘ ecase presents no ex- tenuating features tojustily ms in releasing her from the sentence o t aw. On tlte contrary, her critne was of the deepest atrocity. Without even the poor lea of resentment. she destroyed a kind and ccnfidiag husband. y mingling poison with his daily suste- nance. Sbs destroyed her lawful protector to gain a parsmour, and obtain free scope for the indulgence of a guilty passion. Iluvin conceived this diabolical purpose, she proceeded to execute it wit a degree of perseverance rarely equalled. Failing in s but at- tempt, she secured poison of a surer potenc , continued to adniineter It, until her trusting victim found relief in death. It was smu or made doubl detestable by the su rsddod crimes of treachery and adultery. The deliberate assassination of the hue- b the wife. has been contemplated with peculiar horror, and penis by the highest penalties in all countries. and in every stage of human society. I‘he ccrnmon law England, r rds it a species of social tresson;and condemns rider to be uracil. Of the various forms of murder, that which is indicted under the diqubs of lriatliiess, disarming suspicion by professions of fidelity, inset be acknowledged the most odlous and rsvoltin . The crime of killing by poison, ises iul'y abhorrent; for the seated malice which it evincee, the faci ity with ishich it may be committed, and the itupossihility of guarding a ainst it. b hunran foresight, render it neseasu for the public satiety, that the punishment should be exsiriplary and curtain. Mun u my fellow-citizens, yieldi sentiments of benevolence, and fo etfal of the enormity of the crime, have persuaded thenisslvse, rtiiai it is my duty to shield the convict front the extreme penalty of the law; because ' man and a mother. If I were at liberty to follow rriymsyrripathiee in the discharge of s hfih eIoial trust, it would be possible to resist this appeal. The execution of capital punishment upon a woinan, h repugnant to the generous impulse of the heart; but — .-s -7 r the criminal code makes no distinction between the sexes ia. the punishment of crime. The woman who has renounced the virtue which adorns the female character, and profaned the laws of God and man by the deliberate murder of her only legitimate p_ro- tector. appears bellire us disrobed of all those moral graces which entitle her to plead the prerogatives of the gentler sex. She ceases to be a woman; or s are stain ' of the inno- cent; she presents a melancholy spectacle of the guilt and degra- dation to which our common nature may descend, when the nobler afsctioue are extinguished by depraved and Iicentious passions. I cannot adopt the arguments which have been uddr seed . subject, without conceding that the law shall not be euforccdsgainst u tnurdersse in an case whatever. 'I‘be demands of justice, the sacredneas of the lzsmily compact, and the safety of society, forbid such a conclusion. It is it painful neceuity; but the law must be my guide. In the case of Janus Williams the coloured convict,who is also sentenced to be executed on the lltlth instant, I tnust adhere to the decision which I communicated to you some weeks a 0. Numerous appeals have been made to me on his behalf; on t e ground that he did not contemplate the commission of murder. at where life is destroy in the perpetration of a felony, the law has pronounced it a capitu olfence, and it is dilficult to conceive a case to which this principle is more justly applicable than the present. Th,“ 5,5,,” you back 393,,‘ A_ The child whose person he violated, was his step-dnugltler. entitled to his protection; and if his crime (which was of a nature calcu- lated to cause death) had not produced that result, his moral guilt c"_qN(;[.;L[.;sg LOVE fiould hardly t'I'I1:.Inglll'l‘lifde‘l"fl!),tn'l|llflI oljghecwilfplgnpfigegzplentg _::__ .ts_convic ion is u y so am y ie av on e.‘ n _ . us ans. ruatrcus u. as. suo-rrtuasoir. :_‘;'I:m‘;°°‘°':'.l|"".':‘i"‘."v "'c':'m:h°m':l" ll.l‘j:‘":';’:"el’;:",','° "V "“h°m" s 0 a tin ion in e - "Ah love l that neither death nor change, '-'-"""_"1 Hath power to sever or estrange." I-"53 IN A PU“ DER MILL- , .._...._ Ob ! urge me not to seek, in life's guy mass - - - - - 1 1 A when rm me Mndin‘ hurt I bar’ I ne:)rI¢ll{08':ldloI"lll:l:.tlesCllCel a visit to the Powder Mill at I oans ow N" bu ‘"° 5‘ ml’ "'°“d°'lo "'"r'l F“: , ‘ ‘ In this si'ent region, amidst whose nirtety-seven work-places _0n the enchantinents that we deem so fair; "0 human voice "er bmnkg upon “Q can an whfle -,,,deed_ no 8"" kl ‘ll’ "”‘kl"'l "'0" l"'I_'" “"9: liutttan form is seen, except in the isolated house in which his allot- I" ‘he d°."l’ "*,°""' "r"'Y,'"'°l‘°" l'°'""v ted task is performed, there are secreted upwards of two hundred Sad rrierportes cling around i_t—_vet so dear. l rind fifty ia'ork.P,,,,p|e. They "G a peculiar “we. no, up 90",”, I won d not, if I could, withdraw the dam by nature. in most cases. but by tlto habit of years. The circum- ~ stances ofmorrientriry destruction in \\'lllclI they live. added I0.Ilt0 I ""'d TY P""l' fll°|19- Ind W"')l'l‘°'l'l9d- j most stringent and necessary regulations, have ‘subdued their nitride "“'l' ‘ "'“d°“' '3'“ “ “ my ‘l"°‘"' W" p and feelings to the conditions oftheir tire. 'I here is seldom any need to enforce these regulations. Some terrific explosion here. or in works of a similar kind elsewhere, leaves a fixed mark in their mefllnfles. and acts as a constant tvarning. Here on sh-Iilow ofn prncticiiljoke. or caper of animal spirits ever transpires; no wit- ticisms, no oaths, no cltafing or slnug, A nugh is never heard; u aniile seldotn seen. ivcn the work is carried on by the men with as few words as possible, and these uttered in it low tone. Not that anybody fancies that more sound will awaken the spirit of combustion, or cause an ex losioii to take place, but that their feelings are always kept sul ued. If one titan wishes to comniu- tticate any thing to another, or to ask for any thing from somebody at a short distance, he must go there; for he is never permitted to shout or mill out. 'l'heic is ll particular reason for this last regu- lation. Amid all this silence, wlienetcr it sltout does occur. every y knows that some iriimincnt danger is expected the next trio- nicnt, and all rush away lie.-idlnng from the direction of the shout. As to running toward it to tender any assistance. as coirimon III all other cases, it is thoroughly understood, that none can be alfo ed. An accident here is inintediale and beyond remcd . If the shout- Rilng be continued for some time (for a area might be drowned in a river), that might cause one or two ofthe boldest to return; but this would be a very rare occurrence. It is by no means to be in- ferred. that the urea are selfish and insansible to the perils of each other; on the contrary, they have the greatest consideration for each other, as well as for their employers; and thittk of the danger to the lives of others. and the property at stake at all times, and more especially in all the more dangerous ‘ houses.’ The proprie- lore of the various gunpowder mills, till display the satne considera- tion for each other, and whenever any improvement tending to lessen danger is discovered by one, it is immediately communicated to all the others. The wages of the men are good, arid the hours very short; no artificial lights are used in the wo.kr. 'l'liey all wash themeelves—blaclr, white and brr-nze—nud leave the mills at 35 in the afternoon, winter and summer.’ —m (From the London Times, August 11.) THE FEMALE I-'..\llGllA'I‘l0N T0 AUSTIIALI I. About a fortnight ago, we gave some account of the departure of thirty-six female emigrants for Auatraliii, under the auspices of the I"entale litnigrution Society, established by the lion. Sydney llerbert, M. P., and his wife, attd to-day, we have to make ll st- miltir announcement with regard to rttiotliar bod of women, thirty- tive in number, who sailed yesterday frotti Gritvcscml in the Black- wull. Captain Mcliirley. an excellent ship belonging to these en- terprising owners, the Messrs. Green. ' ' ' s the twenty- sixth party ofemigrnnts who have been sent out by the society; and it is grittifying to know, that nearly I,-I00 women belonging to a poor and deserving class, have been tltus nssisted, tho great ob- ject of providing them with good and profitable eii-ployment in the colonies has succeeded beyond the expectations of the tttost sanguine prontoiers ofthe association. It is probably owing to n knottledgo oflhis fact, having been tiiude generally known, that iipplications have been recently received from a better and healthier class of women tlinn at lirst came under the notice ofthe society, many oftliem pay in: a portion of the passage-tnnnoy out of their own resources, no others paying the whole, mm a desire to enjoy thegadvanisges which a connection with the society is sure to confer upon them in the colony to which they are seat. It has occasionally been p:tltI- ful to witness the traces which want and overstraincd liibour have left upon the countenance ofs young and fricndless woman, snatch- ed from u live of misery, through the benevolent efi'orts of the olIic'ers of this association; but from \hlIlllt:\'Gt cause the change has arisen, no such unpleasant spectacles were to be seen in the art which sailed yesterday in the Bluckwall. In point of health, spirits, and general appearance, they were rriuch superior to the general run of their predecessors. 'I'be oungest of the party was 14 and the oldest 34, the great majority having hitherto been em- ployed as domestic servants or ncedlewomen. As on all previous occasions. their antecedents have been carefully enquired after. Good character qualifications were required of each; and as these accompany them to the colony, as well as testimonials of good con- duct duri the voyage, if such are deserved, the rigid system of attestation thus followed becomes eventually of great iinportitnce to the emigrant. It is with much satit-faction,wo are able to state, that the accommodation rovided for the poor women. is of the ver best description. '1‘ iey are placed tnidships, where rt large a airy cabin for their common use is board oil‘ from the rest of the ahi . The sleeping berths scout to be exceedingly commo- dious, an every arraiigenient that cotild bothougltt of for remot- ting their comfort has been attend to. Neither ought it to be omitted, that in addition to all this. the Messrs. Green take the female emigrants of the society at a figure vary considerably below the ordinary surige-money. The Blue wall is a fine sltip ofs L000 tons. Besides the wo- weu, above referred to, there are upwards of I70 passengers on board. and so far as s linsty glance at their accommodation enabled us to judge, it appeared to be ofs vary superior kind. Man ' of the passengers are highly respectable, and the appearance it of t om, left a favourable impression on the minds of the visitors. Before the ship was cleared of stran ois, lunclt was served in the main saloon, and toasts to the hash 'ol the owners, the captain, the ssengers. and to the prosperity of the t"einale Emigration I"‘uri , were heartily given and respon istreesing scones followed, when the parting moment came; but a round of , 9 hearty cheers was nevertheless given from the ship, and as heartily returned by the visitors as they moved ofl' in the steamer wbic bore them to town. Very soon after the Blackwell dropped down ,,_ ‘ the river. 112$ Cirtnnaurr or Parsoirsus.—‘ Wheril was in Berlin.’ II]! a popular writer. ' I went into a blie ison and visited every . part of the establishment. At last was itroducedtoa very large ball, which was full of children, with their boolts and teachers, and having the appearance cfa Prussian school-room. . ‘ What !’ said I, ' is it possible that all these children are imprisoned here for crime I’ ‘ Oh no,’ said my conductor. snilhg at my shit i.- city; but, if a rent is iin isoned here for crime, and on t t account his children are lerdestitste of the means of education, and are liable to grow up in ignorance and crime, the veriiirtent places them here, and maintains and educates them for useful sin- ployineut. This was a new ides to me. I knew not that it has ever been in this country. _*’ ROMANCI-1.—AN ENGLISH GROOM, REGENT 01"‘ PAB.IIA_ s The correspondent of the London Daily Times writes as fel- ows :— _ ' 'I‘he elevation of IVurd to the re ency of Purina is not only a singular instance of the mutability a human alfaire, but of the ten- dency of the Anglo-Saxon race, when transplanted to foreign coun- tries, to emerge to eminence, and surpass others by the homely but rare qualities of common sense and unfalterin energy. Ward was s Yorkshire groom. 'I‘be Duke of Luccs, w 0 obtained by his fall from horse-back in Rotten-row, the familiar soubriquet ef ' Fil- thy I.ucre.' spying the lad’s merit, took him into his service, and promoted him through the several degrees ofcomnnind in his sta- bles, to be head groom of the ducal stud. Upon \Vard’s arrival in Italy with his master, it was soon found, that the intelligence which be displayed in the management of the stables, was appli- cable to other departments. In fact, the D a high opinion of \Vard's wisdom, that he very rarely omitted to consult him upon any question that he was perplexed to decide; and the success which never failed to crown Ward's advice, gave him in the eyes of the feeble descendant of the Spanish Boerbons the pres- tige of irifallibility. The expenses of the stables having been re- duced to less than half under his administration, while the Dulis's horses were the envy of all Italy, it struck the prince naturally enough that it woull be ll. good thing if the same economy could be introduced into other departments. So Ward tried his hand on one thing and the other, continually enlarging his sphere of in- lIaence,until from linoeeliold matters, he was led to those connected with the state; which, indeed, is such a miniature alfair, that it does not greatly pass the limits of some private domestic establish- ments. \Vard, now become the factoiam of the knee. won in the di-iturbnnres which preceded the revolutionary year of I848, a diplomatic dignity, and was dcsptttched to Florence upon a con- fidential mission of the highest importance. In I8-I9, when the Duke of Lucca resigned his other States to his son, War the head counsellor of this hopeful prince, who has thus been able to follow out a sporting bent under the best auspices, while he had it minister whose shrewd sense was more than a match for the first diplomaiista in Italy. \Vard' was on one occasion despatchcd to Vienna in a diplomatic capacit . Schwarzenberg was astonished at his capacity; in fast, the ct'-devanl Yorkshire stable boy was the only one of the diplomatic body who could make head against the intpetuois counsels, or rntlier dictates. of Scliwnrzenbcrg; and this was found highly useful by other members of the i o- matic bod Ward visited England e broad dialect and homely phrase, betraying his origin, through the profusion oforderu of all countries sparkling out his breast, he rarely ventured to ap- pear at evening solrees. Lord Palrricrston declared he was one of the most reinarkable men he had ever met with. Ward, tltrougls all his vicissitudes, has preserved an honest pride in his native coun- try. He does not conceal his humble origin. 'l‘he portraits of his parents, in their homes un clothes, appear in the splendid saloon of a.’ the prime minister of arm mmmm I-‘ACTS FOR. THE CURIOUS. The drainage ofthe Castlebrir lrilros by the Board of \'Vorlts, by which hundreds of acres of alluvial deposit once covered by n rang- nificertt sheet of ltmpid water, are now exposed to human gene, has given an opportunity for the labours of the geologist and the anti- quarian. \Ve have learned, th it during the past week. sevo ral canoes of extraordinary structure have been exhumed from the bed on which the lake reposed. One of the canoes. dug a user Blackfort, measured twenty-four feet by three in width. u i I an excellent state of preservation. It seemed to have been formed by the ‘ hollowirig out ' by lire ofu large oak tree. It is also as- sorted, that upwards of 20_ various sized canoes have been d' vcred in the same locality. 'l‘he shores of the lake also present an interesting source of investigation for the geologist, ahounding in beautiful petrifnctions of vniiouu reptiles,as also oftirttber, shells, and shes. But what to us seems the greatest subject for the at tention of the antiquarian, is the presence of two unlcial islands (or once were). composed of piled oak, regularly mortieed in the joints, and of amazing strength; about each of them are traces of u fosse or stockade formed by spiked timber sunk in three regular rows around them. \Vhethcr these could have been the construc- tion of Dattislt invaders, their predecessors or successors, we leave for tlto liistoriaii; but assuredly it is worth investigation, more par- ticul-irl_v, when it is remembered that these relics of antiquity have been found contiguous to It rained castle and fort. and in the imme- diate vicinity oftt churchyard, which line originated many a long forgotten talc. Amongst other extraordinary ‘ diggins,’ the persons engaged in raising the canoes, have on one side of the lake. found embi.-ded, fully a foot berie.ith the gravel surface, a stratum of fir cones in excellent preservation; and on the other side quantities of bones of animals, and also various fossil remains; curiously shaped bottles or flaggons, brass dirks, and specimens of disconnected qnnriz, impregnated with rich ores of copper and tin.—Jllavo Cori- slllallo -3“ Cult: iron Ilvnnoi-itouia.—l\I. Goudet, keeper of the ar- chives of'l‘oulouse, has written to the ./Iuemblu Nationals. to state, that the root of the plant known in France as the Iris Ger- nianique, is an infallilile cure for hydrophobia. About 60 gramincs (not quite two ounces) of the root must be art; they must be well washed and peeled, cut into pieces ofthe size of a die. and fried in hogs’ lard or fresh butter; they must then be mixed with two or three eggs, and made into an onielette without salt. The person or animal bitten, must be made to eat one of these omslottcs on three successive days. lll. (‘roudet says, that c has known dogs bitten by mud dogs recover after eating of the omeletto, whilst other dogs bitten at the same tirite ltave died. He says, also, that a physician of Toulouse gave the omelette to his child, who had been bitten by a mad dog three months ago. and that the child has since experienced no ill effects. 'I‘lie remrd , M. Goudet adds, was comniunicated to hitn by an old monk of t e abbey of Grand Selve, one of the religious houses destroyed in the revolution. This convent was at one time nmous for its cares of hydrophobiu. 'I‘hu are of 'I‘urrctot, near Rouen, has written to the same journal to say, that the family ofa letter carrier of Crequetot l‘Esneval, have been krtown for between filly and sixl years is in ion of a secret for curiitg hydrophobic, and I at they have very frequently applied it with great success. (Surely this statement ought to tested.) “-- i. rnora ‘I'M! Vrzoc-raui.u Ktnoooar.—'I‘wo very ex- traordinary lppllctiliirns oflir-tico leaves to useful purposes, have been his sin a domain called ilie ‘ Prairie of llumbolt,’ near Breslau, in Silesia. One consists in the extraction from them ofs fibrous material which has been termed ' vegetable wool;' the other in the establishment of iricdrciiinl baths with the refuse balsamic fluid, liberated in the course of the former manufacture. 'l‘hu pious syloeslrie, or wild pine, is the species which. In the case under notice, yields tlis fibrous material, but every msniber of the pine and fir tribes may, it would appear, be turned to similar ac- count. The vegetabe wool thus produced, is woven into coun- terpanes. blankets. and other similar articles. It has been used for a considerable period in many of the charitable institutions of Vienna, and is much approved ol'. Amos t other udvuut es. textures of this substance possess the excellent quality of basis iug all manner of insects, which are driven away by a certain odour, not at all disagreeable, which the lbre never loses. jfjj _ Professor 8'll' . that Ih rilllcats ur ' to be sign- him, l’0¢Ol'lI‘IllIO"l't.d'l.n”yl;y0I"I Ch.er°r.y Psctortil, rnumforgsry, and that he always rcf that nostruin in any manner.