The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1835-06-17

Il may DC lnpIlcluy Ttlen Oh, ohu VIII hau IL uHcCt
from Perez, that when Garcia was ordered on board
of the Mexican, he asked De Soto GO if the crew
were to be despatched" Dc Soto replied" No !;
do not touch a hair OF their heads-ior human life
is sweet" To this Garcia simply answered.
;, Dead cats don't mew,"
| Perez also said that Montenegro refused to go
board the Mexican till Capt. Gilbert threatened to
shoot him,
Sam Patchism,-A large concourse ofpersons as
sembled in the neighboruood of the Schuylkl Phil
adelphia on Thursday afternoon, about o'clock,
for the purpose of witnessing sailor spring from he
top of the mainmast of fu-rigged brig, into the
Schuylkill-a distance of more than a hundred
feet. The adventuIer vas dressed in light panta-
looms trimmed with red was without vest jacket,
and had q bandanna handkerchief tied round his
head After reaching the "dzzy eminence," he re-
manned there for about ten minutes, giving directions
to those charge ofthe boats in the river below and
appeared throughout perfectly calm and compos-
ed. Just before stating he made short address to
the crowd-stated that he was about to make
pretty" considerable of leap"-that several of his
friends would take up collection in his behalf, and
expressed hope that no would contribute 80 less
than ftp or more than quarter" After this he
bade them all an afectionate farewell and down.
ward plunged.'' He continued under water but'a
short time and on his reappearance was cheered as
a matter of course by the crowd.-N. Y Sun.
Another breach mended.-Miss Mary A. Tubbs,
of Troy, has recovered five hundred dollars of MIR.
David Harris, for breach of promise of marriage.
1t appeared from evidence, that Mr.. H. had visited
Miss NJ. for about two years-durng the latter part
Of which time he had become so intimate as to cx-
tend his visits from two to three O'Clock in the after
noon to ten at night, and to address Miss Il. as
Z" Mary" instead of" Miss Tubbs." The 2Sth of
January was fixed for the wedding dav when says
the Troy Whig-
The plaintiff repaired to Albany a short time af
terwards, and procured her wedding dress, and
suitable preparations were made for the anticipated
marriage ceremony, the defendant intended to live,
after his marriage, with his father and mother in
this city, and pretended to be the owner of a house
well furnished, where they resided day two
before the 2Sth of January, he called and the first
time communicated to her, that change had come
over the spirit of his affections, and gave area
son, that his mother was unwilling. that he, being
partly French, should marry American girl.
From that time the visits of the defendant were
abruptly discontinued and few weeks afterwards
he married young GIRL sixteen years of age, of
French extraction, living in Lansingburgh, by the
name of Margaret Deaubrix. The plaintiff was
twenty one years of age on the 10Th of April last.
Suferings from Insanity-The New Hampshire
Patriot, in urging the necessity for erecting State
Hospital for insane persons, enumerates the follow
ing instance of horrible suffering:
1t was officially communicated TO our Legislature
three years ago. that seventy-six deranged persons
were known TO be IN close confinement in New
Hampshire, and returns from all the towns not
received and others were erroneous. Some of them
were reported 10 be In chains or cages, made for
theii confinement; some Of them N out buildings,
garrcts cellars of private houses, in county
jas, shut up with felons and criminals of every de-
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warmed by fire br lighted by the rays of the sum-
One insane woman who had wandered from her
friends reported to have been confined in one
of our ails In winter without fire. From the sever
ity OF the cold and her fixed posture, her feet became
so much diseased that 1t considered necessary
to amputate them at the ancle which was according
ly done, and the afterwards restored to her
friends in this mutilatcd condition. Another female
was confined in garrett where from the lowness of
the roof and her consequently constrained position,
she grew double, and is obliged TO walk with her
hands as well as feet on the floor "A man was re-
ported II have been confined in a cellar, nearly
naked, with bed Of wet straw for his couch, and
there to have pined away in lonely wretchedness
and want, uunotced and unattended.
TnE MARsEnLss HyMN.-Irs ORIGIN AND HIS
roRY.-Thc celebrated song of the patriots and war
nors of the French Revolution, was composed by
NJ JOSEPH RoUGET DEL ISLE, while an officer in the
engineer corps at Strasburg, early in the French
Revolution, with view of supplanting the vulgar
songs in vogue, relative to the struggle then going
on. lie composed the song and the music in one
night. 1t at first called l. Ofrande Ia hberte,
but subsequently received Its present name, because
it was first publicly sung by the Marsees confeder-
ates in 1892
1t became the national song ofthc French patriots
and warriors, and was famous through Europe and
America. The tune is peculiarly exciting. Il was
suppressed, of course, during the reign o:the Bour-
bons but the Revolution of 1880 called it up anew,
and it has since become the national song Of the
French patriots. The King of the French has be-
slowed on its composer, who was about 20 years old
at the time of the last revolution, having been born
i'm l16O N pape;o,, 80 I,nO frapce from, bis