Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1832-12-27
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the Declaration to which the residence oGihs
Siguer is appended The reason why il was
done in this case, we have understood 20 be
as folows:-The Patriots who signed that
document. did IT, almost literally, with ropes
about their neoks. il being generally suppos.
ed that they would. If unsuccessful, be hung
as rebels When Carol had signed his name
some one at his elbow remarked, you'll
get clear-there are several ofthat name
they viii not know which 10 take" mot
So" replied he, and Immediately added, "of
Carrolicn."-- Portsmouth, .Io,unai
MODERN GHOSTS.
The existence OF ghosts is stlll believed a.
mong the savages of Tartary, North Ameri-
ca, rnd Africa, and a mong the equally I'M
cultivated in various parts OF Europe. To
this day. almost every village in the estima-
ton OF the vulgar, had its haunted houses
and. il murder is committed, the spectre Of
the deceased is always believed, by those
whose minds are on leyal with the lowest
savages, to haunt the place. Nor, IN truth,
Is this faith less abused than that Of our pro-
fessors of PHILOSOPHY. Who. to the present
hour, teach the sympathics of inert matter
In their doctrines oil attraction, repulslon and
gravation. Even TO our day by analogy OF
faith, the learned DIR. Johnson and others, in
i770, gave lcnce TO the silly story of a
ghost IN Chok,ane, where a young girl by
scratching the bedstead with a pin, made the
half 0f London believe that she was tormen.
ted by ghost, and SO late as the year 1899,
the celebrated Dr. Prestly actually wrote
To man OF the name Of Henderson, Of Bris-
iol, 10 enquire whether il was true, as report
ed, that the said Henderson could raise spir-
its, Is
Cutting Of The Ears was one Of the cruel
punishments adopted formerly. Some natu.
ralists have thought, and asserted, that CUT
ting off the ear rendered persons barren and
unnrofe, and it was this notion that first
| occasioued the legislators TO order the ears
! Of thieves TO be cut off, lest they should pro-
paga,e young thieves.
The Editor Of the Troy Sentinel tells the
! following good story
almost thirty years since, an English
| gentleman with whom we subsequently be-
| came acquainted, MIR benjamin. Criedland,
| Of Leicester, detected aud brought TO justice
| large gang OF pickPockets, by unwittingly
adopting one Of their private signals. The
! transaction as he narrated il TO us was as fol-
| lows. -
Mr. Criedland was attending the croudcd
annual fair, held in clover field adjoining
Liecester.-H casually noticed that per-
! son in the throng had sprig Of treioil stuck
| In the latchct of his shoes. In few minutes,
| bis attention was arrested by reY1afkng am
other with a sprig similarly situated His
| first and natural conclusion was, The sprigs
| had been thus caught and retained by ramb.
| ling among the luxufiant clover of the field:
but on looking around he discovered so many
| who bore the same sprlg 10 the shoe. that he
| at once concluded il ment something moro
| than met the eye--Accordingly, he retired
| little mounted clo+cr sprig, accordingly,
| 10 pattern, in his o8n shoe; and mingled a.
gain with the croud. 10 a very few minutes
brother sprig logged his arm and 10 an un-
der tone, said, "Do you cut or carry" IL
carry?n said Criedlandp without knowing the
meaning Of either the question or the reply.
| Then come along with me; rejolned his in
| terrogater Criedland complied; and in a
/ few moments his companion shipped OIL the
| skirt Of a gentleman's coat with the pockets
book and thrust il into his hand. The mys-
terry was now unridded MIR, CFiedland sep.
arated from his new friend as soon as posi-.
bic; alarmed the police who were in atien
dance, aud in short time. with their aid,
arrested gang ofabout twenty pick pockets
who were identified by the sprig-to whom
ii had served as signal Of recognition and
fellowship. -
The following among other silly enact
pnents has recently passed the Legislature Of
South Carolina.
A BILL
To prevent persons from holding at The same
time, Offices under the United States, aud
this State.
Be il enacted by the Senate and House OF
Representatives, NV met and sitting in
General Assembly, and by authority of the
same, That no person holding an Office or
trust under the uuited States, shall hereafter
be elected or appointed TO any office OF hon
or, polit or trust under this State, or any
corporate body chartered by the same; and
f any person so elected or appointed shall
accept Of, or exercise any Office or trust un7
der the United States his Office under this
State, or under any corporate body charter
ed by this State, as the case may be, shall
and is hereby declared to be forthwith va
Gated, and shall be filled up, az il such per-
son we're dead, or had resigned.
Before the adjournment Of South Carolina
Convention, we learn, Gen. HAsnE nsoYed a
resolution, that copies Of the ordinance, re-
port and addresses, be transmitted by thu
Governor 20 the PREsrDEEr of the United
States, to be by him submitted TO Congress
and that copies in like manner be submitted
to the Governors and Legislatures Of tho sew
eral States, and that The resolution was adop-
ted: $500
sy'rhe ELECTORAL vote Of South Carolina
has been eiscn fer Gov Floyd, OF Va. as
President | and Mr.. Lee, Of Boston, for