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a dreary journey, travelling frequently day and
night, and much of the road through pine for
ests, in the winter season.
AT Columbia, the capital of South Carolina
passed day most cordially with our friend
T. dined also with G.. Hi whom had
known in New York, when young man, and
who is a perfect gentleman, though somewhat
Hotspur in politics 1t is really lamentable
to see so fine set of gallant fellows, as the
leading Nulifiers are, so sadly in the wrong.
They have just cause of complaint, and have
been hardly dealt with,t but they are putting
themselves completely in the wrong, by the
mode they take to redress themselves As a
committee of Congress is now occupied in the
formation of bill for the reduction of the Tariff,
hope that such bill may be devised and car
ried as will satisfy the moderate part of the
Nullifiers. But grieve to see so many ele-
ments of national prejudice, hostility, and self
tishness, stirring and fermentlng, with activity
and acrimony
INTENDED stopping but few days at Wash
lngton, and then proceeding to New York but
doubt now whether | shall not finger for some
time. L am very pleasantly situated: have
snug, CHEEKY, cosey, little apartment in the
immediate neighborhood of Mr.--, and
take my meals at his house-and, in fact, make
it my home. | have thus the advantage of "a
family circle, and that delightful one, and the
precious comfort of a little bachelor retreat and
sanctum sanctorum, where l can be as lonely
and independent as please. Washington is
an interesting place to see public characters,
and this is an interesting crisis. Every body,
too, is 50 much occupied with this own or the
the formal visits, l can have the time pretty
much to myself. y y
As to the kind of pledge gave, you are
correct in your opinion. 1t was given IN the
warmth and excitement OF the moment---was
from my lips before was aware of it's unquali-
fled extent, and is to be taken cum granO sails.
1t is absolutely my intention to make our coun-
try my home for the residue Of my days; aud
the more see Of it, the more | am convinced
that can live here with more enjoyment than
III Europe: but shall certainly pay my friends
in France, and relations in England, a VISIT in
the course OF a year or two, to pass loyously
season in holiday style.
You have no idea how agreeably one can
live IN this country, especially one, like myself,
who can change place at will, and meet friends
at every turn. Politics also, which makes such
figure in the newspapers, do not not enter so
much as you imagine into private life-and
think there is a much better tone respecting
them, generally, in society, than there was
formerly; in fact, the mode of living, the sour
ces a quiet enjoyment, and the sphere offriend-
~ and domestic pleasures, are improved and
multiplied to degree that would delightfully."-
surprise you.
Gov. Hamilton, no doubt.
In saving this, Mr. Irving is in the wrong The
Nulhhers had no just cause of complaint whatever.
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fallen town in our country There are near
one hundred houses burnt to the ground-every
tavern and store is consumed persons
did not even save their wearing apparel. |
hope the henevolence of Baltimore and other
cities will do much to relieve the great distress
this calamity has occasioned. Try your
friends in Washington, think if the matter is
properly represented to them they will do
something for the destitute inhabitants, of this
lac fourishing town, now by this disaster laid
totally waste.
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FIRST CLASS,
CAPITAL PRIZE $4,000

To be drawn the City of st. Louis, under the SUI
perintendence of Joseph C. LareiAe, Henry Von
Ptui, Hugh ONeil, ST., Mary p Led,.c and
James Clemens, Jr., Commissioners, or a majority of
them, appointed by the Legislature.
1ackets zciH be reody for sale Saturday, the
3Nh Of March.
First drawing will take place between two and four
weeks from that time. All persons friendly to the
institution requested to send their orders for tick
cts to J.aVES S. THOMAS, Manager; as soon as
convenient, that the days of drawing may be fixed
ithout DELAY
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For the Wing.

NV W MS
Oh happy scenes of other days!
How oft they seem to rise
In union sweet, to mental gaze,
And wipe our fearful eyes,
Around us draw each pleasing scene,
And each its joys contain,
When memory III all their pleasures CLEAN
And veil the form of pain.
But ah how sad when she's withdrawn;
No mystic veil the present hides,
Then swiftly flies hle's pleasing morn
And in the day of sorrow gides
The guardians of our infant years
And homes we loved so well,
Each much-lov'd scene so changed appears,
1t breaks the Joyous spell.
Our friends perchance are doom'd to rove
Through scenes of grief and pain,
Far from the home of early love
Where JOY was wont to reign.
Or we have heav'd the long-drawn sigh,
Or watch'd the Pickering breath,
Or clos'd for them the weary eye
Fast set, and sealed, in death.
The friends, the bosom friends of youth,
They, too, are gone--are fed,
Or worse than this--their love-their truth,
To US is colds dead.
Those friends who once with feign'd delight)
Would greet us in the throng,
Created hopes destined to blight,
And now deride the wrong.
Oh! who would ask longer stay,
Than tbree-score years and ten,
Or who, when those had passed away,
On earth would live again.
Or who could bear this world of pain,
OF treachery, guilt, and grief,
Did not one cheering hope remain,
That death would bring relief;
Did faith not point US to land
Where pleasures ever flow,
A dwelling there at Gods right hand,
When we have done below;
When we have pass'd this busy scene,
This bowling desert through;
The joys of Heaven would intervene,
To hide it from our view! B.
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TORNADO,


Ohio papers contain accounts of vio-
lent and Obstructive storm which occurred
recently in the southwestern part of that
state. The Ohio journal says:
Our exchange papers give some account
of dreadful tornado, which traversed
portion of this state on the evening of the
18th inst. Itappears to have commenced
its destructive course in the neighborhood
of Cincinnati, and striking the upper part
of the city, it unroofed and otherwise in
jured a number of buildings. 1t procee-
ded thence in a northeasterly direction a.
cross the country, passing near Fairfield,
Springfield, and sundry other towns as far
east as GAINESVILLE, where it did considera-
Bile damage to Mr.. Dare's Cotton Facto-
ry. 1t appears to have ragged with the
greatest violence in the counties of Greene
and Clark; several houses and other build
ings having been demolished, fences thrown
down, horses and cattle killed, and we re-
greet to add, several families buried under
the ruins of their dwellings. Fortunate
ly the number of lives lost, so far as is
known, amounts to only three-two grown
persons and child-though it is to be
feared that some of the wounded will not
recover
Another account adds:
Its whole course was marked by the most
destructive violence. Directly northwest
from Fairfield, a family of seven persons
was buried in the ruins of its home. I'M
nn6I tnl of tbr f,Io
men repaired to the house to lend assis-
lance; but were unable either to see or
to hear any thing of the inhabitants. AT
ter throwing off quantity of lumber and
stones, they succeeded in releasing the bo-
dies from their confinement, and ascertain
ed that two were dead and the remaining
five dangerously wounded. At the widow
Wingate's child had its skull fractured.
The teamster of Mr.. Mennard, who was
upon the road at the time of the storm,
perceiving its approach, drove rapidly up
to the door yard of a farm house. After
the shock had passed over, person who
was standing within the house, saw the
teamster stretched upon the ground, and
his team of five horses and large road
Wagon in the bushes on the opposite side
of the road, where they had been dropped
from the suck of the whirlwind.
Great havock was made among the stock.
One farmer had seven horses killed-all
of them horribly mangled. = A
COW was thrown from field into the road
and killed by the fall.
For twenty-five miles, (and how much
farther we cannot imagineD dwelling hou-
SEES have been levelled with the earth, and
the inhabitants killed or wounded-barns
demolished, and the grain scattered abroad
stock killed and crippled-and fences
thrown down and crops laid open to the
depredations Of the cattle. All this will
undoubtedly produce much suffering. The
bitterness of want will be felt by many
who have heretofore lived in the enjoy
ment of plenty. The present is time
if ever their be such time-when the
hand of charity should be nerved to re-
lieve the unfortunate.
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TNHE STOCKHOLDERS of the Quincy Manu-
IL featuring Company will meet, for the purpose
of electing board ofdrector, at Pitkin and Holmes
counting room in Quincy, Monday, the 9Th day of
July next, at O'Clock P. Nj.
Quincy April 20, l333.-68
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v ANDAI.EA:
Wednesday, May 8, 1888.

The uedther for the week past has been excessive
ly warm for the season-equal almost in tempera-
ture to the warmest days of June but notwithstan-
dug the heat, our own sensations, for portion of
the time, have been those of extreme cold and this
with an uncomfortable quakerish propensity to shake
in the time has rather untitled for tending
to our appropriate duties-hence neglect of The
Wing this week.
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A new post office has been established at
RIDGE Prairie, in Madison county-GEoReE
CHURCHILL, ESQ. post master. This Office
is between Belleville and Edwardsville,
on the mail route from the former place to
st. Charles, Mo. The mail will arrive
there on Mondays from St. Charles, and
On Wednesdays from Bellevlle.
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SAINT E.0UzS
HOSPITAL LOTTERY

A UTHORIZED by the last Legislature of the
IN State of Missouri, Gan act to authorize a sum
of money to be raised by lottery to be given to the
SISTERS OF CH.4R ITY in St. Louis for the use
of the Hospital over which they now, or hereafter,
may have the control and managementn
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Three robberes were committed on Friday
night last-one on board the steam boat Win
nebago, another on the Otto, and the third on
the Orion. From the Winnebago, the thieves
carried off all the clothes, both new and old, OF
the passengers sleeping in the berths; and
gained besides, by the adventure, between one
and two hundred dollars in money. Similar
success attended them on board the Otto, IN
getting possession af various articles of cloth
ing belonging to the officers. And those of the
Orion were riiled of different articles of cloth
ing. No discovery has yet been made of the
thieves.-ib
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Most of our readers have heard of Ex-Sher
if PARKINs Of London, and of his difficulties,
and trials for Islander and other matters, in this
country. He has recently been mulcted in the
sum of six thousand five hundred dollars dam
ages and costs, for defamation of the character
of. Isabella Bard, of the city of New York
The plaintiff is widow woman, with several
small children dependent on her for support
Two or three years since the defendant became
a lodger in her boarding house, and took deep
interest in her affairs. Difficulties having "a
rose subsequently, he quilted her house and
became bitter enemy. 1t was in testimony Of
several witnesses, same of them of highly res
pectable character, that he had given her house
a bad name, and herself more worthless char
acter The epithets applied to her were too
gross and indicate to repeat in the report Of
The case. The defendant simply denied that he
had traduced The character of the plaintiff, and
offered no testimony in defnce. The action
was brought before the United States Dis rict
Court of New Y FORK, and verdict rendered as
stated-No. Repub.
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Rev. EDWARD IRvlNG.-This celebrated
clergyman has at length been formally de-
posed from the sacred office. 1t is a very
affecting case of mental delusion. The de-
meanor of the reverend gentleman through
out, was highly impressive, bearing the
strongest evidences of sincerity, and Of
deep and unfeigned piety. How melan
choiy that mind of such noble mould,
should be thus unsettled by the intensity Of
its own powerful action
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From the Globe of April 18th.

The condition Of the Treasury department
since The burning Of the building.
We published yesterday the report of
the secretary of the treasury to the Presi-
dent, accompanied by the reports Of the
heads Of the respective Bureaux. 1t will
doubtless give great satisfaction to the
public, to find the intelligence spread a.
broad by letter-writers and others, tending
to produce the belief that many of the pa
pers and documents in relation to the &C
counts of the treasury-vouchers in rela-
ton to demands-surh as pensions, &c.
had been lost, has proved, upon examina-
ton, to be utterly unfounded. 1t is a re-
markable and fortunate circumstance, that
Eall the material papers in relation to ac-
counts settled and unsettled, have been pre-
served, with the exception of those in re-
lation to the contingent fund-and, there
fore, that no pecuniary loss ofconsiderable
amount can be sustained by the govern
ment beyond that consequent on the des-
truction of the building and furniture.
The papers in relation to the expendi-
ture of the contingent fund were, accor-
ding to the testimony of Mr.. Laub, the SUI
perintendent, consumed in the room in
which, from the report of the secretaries
to the president, it seems that the fire or
iginated.
The following brief paragraph from Mr..
McLane's report to the president. will
show that all the records involving the inn
portant interests of the government were
saved.
"The principal loss sustained in the Sec
|retary's office, was the correspondence;
the whole of which, with the exception of
that relating to revolutionary claims and to
under the insolvent laws, and
with the exception also of two record
books containing letters to banks, and two
containing communications to congress,
was lost. Measures, however, are already
in progress to replace them as far as may
be found practicable. In the meantime,
it is hoped that no serious detriment will
be experienced in the transaction of the
public business for want of them.
s.The reports from the first comptroller,
first auditor, treasurer and register, which
are herewith transmitted, exhibit the state
of the papers and records of their respec-l
ed. In those Offices acre contained all heI
papers and records 7rhich relate to accounts,
settled and unsettled; and Of these tits high
ly gratifying to find that the achote Of the iat-
ter, and all the important portions Of the for
mer have been preserOed."
LADIES FAIR.-At Ladies Fair held in
Salem Mass on the 10th and 18th instant
for the benefit of the New England Asylum
for the blind, upwards of three thousand DOL
lars we're received.
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PLAN OF DRAWING.
There viii be two Wheels, one The Number the 9TH
CT the Prize Wheel

IPU VIII DC TWO FFHVtIs, Ole the Number, the 9TH
CT the Prize Wheel
-Four Drawings .-Prises onig to he Draacn.
To determine the fate of all the Prizes, which will,
be deposited in the Prize wheel on the Ist 3D. Sd and
4th day of the Drawing, Prize will be drawn from
those put in the Prize Wheel and a number from the
other which will be entitled to the Prize drawn to its
number, and so continue to draw Prize and a Num-
Der, until every Prize which will be deposited in the
Wheel on the lst, 3D. Sd and 4th day is drawn, and
the balance remaining in the Number wheel will bo
Blanks.
In the first days drawing there will be put in the
Number wheel all the numbers from to 1926 which is
he amount of Tickets in the scheme, and into the
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MAJ. WRIGHT, paymaster U. S. army,
arrived in town last Monday evening. He
will attend to the duty of paying the Fay
cite county volunteers to-day.
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From the Jacksonville Banner.

MYsrERIoUs.-Great anxiety has been
felt by our citizens, for some days past, on
account of the mysterious disappearance
from our town, of Mr.. Jacob Vanderbilt,
mill-right. Mr.. Vanderbilt left the house
where he has been boarding, at very
early hour on the morning of Monday the
22d ult., taking with himno other clothing
than that which he wore; and has not been
seen OF heard of since. Fears are enter
tanned by his friends, that he left here in
state of mental arrangement, as it was OBJ
served that he had labored under an ex-
IRENE depression of spirits, for some days
previous to his absenting himself Mr..
Vanderbilt is very worthy man and ex-
cellent mechanic, and highly esteemed by
those who knew him. In stature, Mr.. V.
is about six feet, with thin vissage, grey
eyes, and dark brown hair; his age is sup
posed to be about As. His dress on the
morning of his departure, is not particu-
larly remembered, except that he wore
blue coat nearly new, and black hat
Any information respecting Mr.. w., will
be greatfully received by Messrs. Gillett
& Gordon, or Forsyth, Buckner Il Co.
of this place, Or Mr.. d. ID. Page of st.
Louis.
To exhibit the disastrous effects of the
encouragement of domestic manufactures,
lit is only necessary to remark, that mer
chant recently left at the Office of the Bos-
ton Courier, piece of India cotton, as
specimen of what was sold at auction in
1878, at eighty .fve cents per yard by the
bale. 1t would not now bring ten cents a
yard. A system that thus tends to impoOer
ish the country, every good patriot should
use his influence to put down. Don't you
think so, reader9
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LADIES' FAIR.-At a Ladies' Fair held in
Salem (Mass.) on the 10th and 18th instant
for the benefit of the New England Asylum
for the blind, upwards of three thousand DOL
lars we're received.
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Passengers from the steam boat MIcnIGAN,
arrived in town on Saturday and yesterday. =
We learn from them, that there is not rord of
truth in the report brought by a passenger in
the Huntsman, and industriousy circulated,
last week, of the prevalence, to an alarming
extent, of the Cholera on board that boat. The
passengers on board-among whom are several
companies of the U. States. Army-wsre in
good health. The Michigan unfortunately ran
upon a bar some distance below the mouth of
the Ohio, from which she had not been got off
when the passengers left.-ib.
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cite county volunteers to-day.
Last advices from Havana, state that
the cholera, which has prevailed there du-
ring the past month with unprecedented
virulence, was rapidly subsiding. The
number of deaths from the 25th March to
the last of April, is said to be not less than
fourteen thousand.
We hear also that the cholera has APP
peared again at Key West, and at sever
al points on the Mississippi. The intelli-
gence, however is too vague to be entitled
to credit.
A most destructive fire occurred at Cumber
land, Nd, the 18th ult. The following letter
written at the site of the village gives the only
account of the occurrence which we have seen.
The loss is estimated at S262,OOO.
hasten to inform you of the calamitous fire
which occurred in our town yesterday The
fire broke out about 10 o'clock, p. M. and
before many minutes, not less than Is or 20
houses were in blaze 1t commenced in a
cabinet makers shop in the north part of the
centre OF the town, and the wind being high,
it soon communicated to other buildings, and
was not checked in its ravages until about Is
houses, compri sing the very heart Of oar torn
Were in complete ruins, and more than that
number of families are now without homes,
most of them not even saving more than the
clothing upon their backs. l have not time to
give you list of the principal suffers. Our
loss is great-but one store remains in the
town, and the three principal Hotels are burnt
and both printing offices.
Extract of another letter from Cumberland.
arrived here just in time to witness one of
the most awful conAagrations-and perhaps,
one Of the most destructive that has ever be-
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KENTUCKY COLONIZATION SOCIETY. AT a
meeting on the Board of Managers on the
18th day of April, 1888.
ResotDed, That this Board will use its best
and most efficient exertions to fit out another
expedition of free persons of color ito the col
ony of Liberia, during the next autumn, and
that the place of the rendezvous shall be al
Louisville, Ky on the first Monday in No
vember next, and that the agents of this socie-
ty be requested to take such measures as shall,
in their judgments, be best calculated to carry
this resolution into effect.
Rcsolped, That all ministers of the Gospel
in Kentucky, friendly to the cause of Ameri-
can Colonization, be requested to take up col
lections in their respective congregations, on
or about the 4th day of July next, to aid the
society in the accomplishment of this under-
taking.
By the Board of Managers.
Att. H. WINGATE, Rec. Sec.
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Waole amount,

Wbole amount, $4,000
All prizes subject to the usual deduction of Is per
cent discount, the capital prizes payable forty days
after the completion of the drawing. The low prize
on demand. 1t is the wish of the Manager to com
plete the drawing of the whole scheme on or before
the 18th fully, which will be about ninety days from
the commencement of the sale of tickets.
JAMES S. THOMAS, Manager
The above scheme having been presented TO the
board of Commissioners for their approval, it
adopted.
ALFRED TRACY,
st. Louis, 9th Feb. 1883. ISL Secretary
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Drawn Ballots.

Tickets GLE. Halves So. Quarters So.
JAMES r. MCDONALD,
.Agenttor Yates & Mcintyre.
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Gov Hamilton, no doubt.
=, IN saving this, Mr.. Irving is in the wrong, The
Nullifers had no just cause of complaint whatever.
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AN WEDN ESDAY, the 9th day OF MAJ, the
W the drawing win be received at j. r. M'Don-
nald's office, of the Nev York Consolidated Lottery
extra class No. 10, for 1888.
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100 Prizes of 900 Dollars each.
WITH CAPITALS $4,000, $4,000, &c. &c.

q AN Wednesday the 10Th June, the drawing will
~ be received, at J. R. M'Donald's office, of the
New York Consolidated Lottery, extra class no. 10,
for 1888.
When will be distributed prizes in all amounting
Ito 10000 dollars.