The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-07-25

inserted three iceeks for One Dollar, and contin
ued three iDeeks longer for Fifty Cents. Large
acknowledgements IN the same proportion.
u5'Ihe PrOprietOr ofthis Paper aciH hold them
setces responsible for no error, IN any AdUertiSt
'nent beyond the sum charged for It's insertion.
New SPECULATION! Within a few
days there have been runners in most o.
the towns in this vicinity, gathering up
cents coined In 1914. They find but few
and buy them as they can, giving 2, a, 6, 10
10 or II cents each and we have heard Of
rs cents being given for single cent. 12l
cents have been offered in this town. The
story is that in 1914 some gold was acct
dentally mixed with the copper at the Uni
ted States Mint, and that the cents of thai
year contain gold. We verify believe thai
the whole affair is humbug, and that the
cents of 1914 ale of no more intrinsic value
than those of any other year. 1t has been
suggested that the speculation originated
in the following manner. Copper was very
scarce in 1874 on account of the war, and
but few cents were coined at the mint dur
ing that year. Some virtuosi, who were
DESTROYS of laying up in their cabinets spe-
cimens Of the coinage of every year, could
not find any cents coined in 1914, and offer
cred certain toll gatherers dollar or two
to collect for them few cents of that year.
This offer led others to suppose that the
cents of 1914 contained gold. We know
not whether this be a true explanation of
the Observation-Disclosures Gazette.
BIOGRAPHY OF GIRARD. We have derived
information from an unquestiondbie source, that
the accounts made by Grard respecting the
h aIs ha in
ming with nothing, and his reliance on his own
exertions, are all pure fctions and perhaps,
no example is to be found on record of man
belieing mis- own history to so great an extent.
We mention these facts, TO show that in stating
them, we had no intention to mlslcad the public,
for we derived them from men of the highest
veracity, who believed the words Of Mr.. Girard
himself, from whom they derived the informa-
tion Mr.. Girard's family was very respectable
and he received frequent reh.ittonces from his
father to assist him in trade; besides trading on
his brother john estate secretly, 10 the amount
of about 60 900 dollars So that instead of be-
ing fr;endiess boy. it appears in fact that he
was rather .fdpored son, who received large
remttances from his father.-Penn. Wing.
"LEx TAIIoNIs" The subject of Isaac
Hills rejection by the Senate of the United
States, upon his nomination to the Office Of
Second Comptroller of the Treasury, having
been canvassed in the presence of the learned
and witty Judge breckenridge, of Florida, one
of the company remarked, " That il evinced
singular taste as well as obliquity ofmoral Wis.
ion in the said Isaac, TO desire seat in a body
which had so lately put such an ignomnous
mark upon him" The Judge replied, I" that
il was perfectly natural, and was to be account.
ed for upon well known principle of human
action, the lex talionis rs the Senate
had diSgraced Isaac, he was resolved in re.
turn to Disgrace the Senate"
National Union
The French Journal DIES Debats says:-
islands they are the States of North
America. The Constitution of the United
States, still in its infancy, offers delightful
prospect to their Imagination. Time has
not yet discovered its defects. The Amer
lean republic has not yet experienced the
curse of all other republics, military power,
and the hatred of the rich by the poor
And yet who among us is fully acquainted
with the politics of America? How many
among us know that slavery in its harshest
form, prevails in many portions of that coun-
try; that the Anglo Americans have driven
out the Indians with ntolerable barbarlty,
to make room for themselves
Extract of a letter from a highly respec-
table merchant, dated Quebec, July 5.
The Doctors cure all cases now, if called
in time. The excitement and alarm have
completely subsidized. most singular thing
occurred here yesterday. One of the horses
employed in drawing the sick cart was TAX
en- with the staggers, and soon died.
Another was procured, and he also was
seized with the same disease, and died also
and this morning third was attacked in
the same way. 1t was predicted by a naval
officer, who had seen the cholera in the
East Indies, that after it had abated the
dogs would, many of them, 60 mad. This
has been the case with a good many at
Montreal, but have heard of none here.
While the Literary Convention was in session
in New York last fall, Mr.. Adams, in the course
OF some remarks, pronounced the French word
eciat, MS if it were English, eclat, emphasizing
the (. Most of the members of the Convention
looked at each other with expression of surprise
surprising that the Elk President had suffered
his tongue TO get little ahead of his under.
standing They afterwards ascertained that il
was no "lapsus ngug," Mr.. Adams being OF
opinion that The word, having come into yery
general use ought TO be divested ofits French
pronunciation and coniormed to the English
standard.
Mr. Calhoun, in n letter addressed TO a com
miitee Of meeting held at Spring Grove
Laurens District. S. G., on the I'd ult, after de
Ginning their invitation to the dinner given Oh
the occasion, observes:
81 do most sincerely believe, that the cause
of Carolina is the cause of the Constitution, o.
Liberty, and the Union My opinion has moi
been hastily formed. 1t is the result of much
reflection and long observation and am pre-
pared to test IFS sincerity by sharing the fate o
the State, be il what it may"
On "Wednesday, 4th July, a small party started
from Wells river, in the steamboat for Oxford, Il
celebrate the day; Mr.. Ross, Den. Joseph Dear
and two Others went from this place well in tn,
morning; they passed down the river under full
pressure Of steam, till they came within two mile,
Of llaverhill corner, ut the rate of 10 milespe
hour, when the main pipe burst and covered III,
boat with steam in an instant. IL was not so no
as to scald al for they were all at distance from
it,, but Dea. Dean it appears was SO much ffghten
ed that he run off the boat he could not SWIM.
the boat passed away in moment, and he sunk l.
rise no more,-Bah { w paper.
A member Of the u S. Senate remarked