The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1822-08-13
DUELLING.

We extract The following from an article
which appeared in The Trenton Emporium.
| have no objection 10 admitting that there
Is statute law, on the book against duelling
and criminal code which anaexes penalties
10 the violation Of that statute bu: il is a dead
letter II is not enforced therefore il is viz
tually abogaied. What says history Ham
'iton was an eminent Jurist, and, ii j. assert
ed, good man he fought duel with Burr
was Burr arrested no Gen. Mason went
tom the senate to The field, and fell within
sight OF the capitol has M'Carty. who shot
hlm been arrested Ne Decatur fell under
the nose Of the executive Of the country, and
his antagonist Com. Barron, lives has he
been tried by court martial since was lhis
offence charged against him No He is 10
command the North Carolina IA they say (;
and those engaged in that affair as seconds
are now both IN high command. ri Dufie and
Cumming gave notice that they would fight.
Did any one attempt 10 prevent them 10y APP
plying 10 the law no they fought. Have Ell
iher a them been arrested No some time
since Mr. Writ the attorney Gen. of the Uni-
Ted States challenged Mr.. Pinkney at The We
ry moment when he was in the exercise Of lis
official duty enforcing the laws Of the Union.
lie wrote challenge with one hand, say,
while be held in the other The book contain
ing the statute against ''sending challenge
or lighting a duel" He is still The United
States attorney. Other instances innumerabie
might be cited, but what think you Of these7
On Saturday one of the workmen employed
IN finishing the extensive Hotel at Nahant, fell
from the third story to the cellar, and sustained
no other injury than breaking enc of his thigh
bones.
Age and love associate not If they are
ever allied, the hrmer Tue friendship, The more
fatal is It's termination and an old man, like
spider, can never make love, without beat
Ing his own death-watch.
GJNote.-It may not be generally known that
the male spider is supplied with little bladder,
somewhat similar to drum, and that ticking
noise which has been termed the death-watch,
Is nothing more than the sound he makes upon
this title apparatus in order to serenade and al
lure his mistress.
AS an illustration of the singular character of
the last winter, it may be mentioned, that while
the thermometer was some degrees above freez-
ing point in Russia and Sweden, they were
skating and driving traneau at Madrid through
the whole of January, and several persons were
frozen to death in the streets of Lisbon.
newly invented boat, which is put in motion BY
wheels operated upon by men, has been recently ex-
hlbited III Scotland The inventor wishes human be-
inss should be employed rather than horses
1t is said, that if horses be rubbed down with
chesnut-tree leaves in morning, they win not
he annoyed BY flies during the day.
A Cermon professor gives the following H.
tie to one of his publications. Observations
on all things and several other things be-
sides"
One lrishman telling another that be had
once so excellent gun, that it went off i'm
mediaiely upon iheTs entering the house,
aitho' il was not charged. How the deuce
can that be 2 said the other. Because
said he fist, the thief carried It off. and
what was worse, before had time to charge
him with IT,
Affecting Anecdote-A miller going TO bis
mill TO get some meal TO bring home, borrow
ed bag of neighbour. The poor miller
was some how or other Knocked into the wa
Ter by one # the wheels, and the bag went
with him. tie was drowned, and when the
nelaacholly intelligence was brought home to
his wife, " Lac" said the old woman, sssrhct
a fuss ihersU be about the Bag"
law overchsrged with severity. like
blunderbuss overloaded with powder, viii
grow rusty by disuse neither viii be resorted
Ia, from the shock and The recoi tha, must
inevitably follow their explosion.