Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-05-18

anu resign myself 10 death. God has
determined 10 avenge thee, offended man;
thy victim is at thy feet."-Tbe rich
man, astonished, replied, 20 stranger
| see thy misfoetunes have made thee
weary of life; thou seekest TO lose it !;
but my hand cannot commit such a
crime" 81 do not deceive thee" said
lbrahim, thy father was such one !;
we met each other in e''ch place, and
the affair happened such and such a
manner" A violent trembling then
seized the rich man his teeth chartered
as if from intense cold; his eyes alter
nately sparkled with fury, and overflow
ed with tears. In this agitation, he re-
manned a long time at length, turning
TO lbrahim, "To-morrow," SAID he,
" destiny may join thee TO my father,
and God will have retaliated. But as
for me, how can violate the asylum of
my house? Wretched stranger, fly
from my presence There, take these
hundred sequins begone quickly, and
let me never behold thee more -
We give the following as specimen of the
Stories which are manufactured among Us,
in order to crafty sectional feelings and
make our neighbours appear ridiculous
Such we believe is generally the origin of
the ISLANDERS of foreign travellers which
have caused so much irritation and i'll
blood. They have the tales reported here.
and deem themselves perfectly justifable
|. in relating that Of us which they hear
from ourselves.
ALEXANDRIA, D. C. MAY 3.
TRIAL By jury.
A gentleman. who has lately return
ed from the west, informed me that in
passing through the State Of Indiana, he
stopped at county town, during the
session OF the court, in hat place. He
was invited to attend the court, and &C
cordingly found the Judge sitting on
large block, in one corner Of log cab
in, pairing his toe nails, and the mem
bers of the bar next the judge, separat-
ed from the people by poh fastened
to the sides of the house aud extending
across the room. Soon after he enter
ed this seat of justice, the judge inquir-
ed of the sheriff, why the rry were
not forthcoming-to which he replied,
that he had eleven tied, up sairs, and
his deputies were engagedin running the
twelfth down, that the jury would be
ready in few moments. Upol this our
traveller Immediately departed, and
soon after left the State. A.
The Raleigh, N. c. Register, of the
18th inst furnished another evidence of
the "glorious uncertainty ofthe law" in
the termination of a trial before the ST.
Preme Court, in that place. The &C
count is as follows -" The cause which
excited the most interest during the
term, was the trial Of a young man (call-
ed in the Indictment a man of colour.
though he had the appearance of a
white man and had white woman for
his wife, charged. with committing Vi
client assault upon young white female.
The trial occupied the whole of Friday
last; and if the offence had been salts
tactorlly proved, the prisoners life must
have paid the forfeit agreeably TO an act
passed in the year 1823--but the Judge,
in charging the Jury. observed that no
proof had been adduced to shew that the
prisoner was man of colour within the
fourth degree in descent from African or
Indian blood and without such proof he
could not be subjected to the penalties
of the law in question. The Judge left
it with the jury to decide whether the
evidence had been sufficient TO convince
them that the assault had been commit
ted as charged in the indictment. The
Jury withdrew for few minutes, and
returned verdict of Not Guilty.
.fnimat Engratiing.--A Doctor Diet.
feDback, of Berlin, has been performing
some experiments on animal ENGRAVING,
which may perhaps have been the foun-
dalton, by mistake, of those ascribed to
the SieuF Majendie. Besides several
curious transfers of black chickens
feathers into white pigeons tails, and
Uace versa, he has succeeded in the i'm
planting of various plumage into the
skins of puppies, kittens, and rabbits !;
and then again, of cats whiskers into
the back of plucked pigeon. A claw
was also detached from pigeons toe,
and translated successfully TO its tail
Another pigeon, after being scalped, had
its head mended with a flap cut out of
its own thigh, which bore hair, howev-
er, instead of feathers; and rabbit af-
ter having its nose cut of, was repaired
again by the tall scotian operation.
The Doctor, il seems, did not spare
himself or his acquaintance, but depriv-
ed friend "a female one probably of
an eyebrow, and implanted it on his
own arm. Could this secret be known
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