, 1839-11-23

1t SO happened that or ons occasion his paren-
IS had left within reach more than apint ofar-
dent spirits for which ~unhappity, he had
contracted a liking. On their return home
they found the bottle empty and their epilep-
tic son stretched senseless on the floor. He
slept continuously for upwards offorty hours,
body and mind. He lived for several years,
and during all that period had no return OF
his maladay, nor any desire for violent stimu.
ants. The other was the case of a poor
woman, the mother of a large family who,
for a considerable period, had been in a state
of violent seemingly confirmed arrangement.
Her husband was so harassed and exercised
with her distressing situation, that at length
his mind became unhinged also and one night
10 a tit OF impetuous distraction, he rushed from
his cottage, and drowned himselfi in the'Gare-
loch. So awful and sudden an event wa
not unblest to the poor widow, the result was
her entire and almost immsdiate restoration
to s~oundness ofmind.
New Statistical Account of Scotlhnd.
Emp,ying German prisons upon us.-The
mos. consummate act Of audacity, we have
heard of, is this conduct of certain contempt
ible principaiities Of Germany. They. it
seems, openly announce their determination
to feed our population with the felons OF their
prisons, in the same way as they do poor
Jno. Bull with hungry applicants, for any
vacancy in the Royal dynasty of Eneland.
A letter from the American Consul at Hes
Sc Cassel, as we learn from the Newbury-
port Herald, states that the government of
Hamburg deports from time to time those
who nave either been condemned
for life, or a long period. They give them the
choice either to endure their time or to emf
in which case the government pays
their passage. They bring ,teerage paSsen-
gers from Bremen to the United State, and
find them with good provisions at SIG a head
for each grown person. The Consul says:
"This price the Bremen ship owners could
oaly afford by always carrying a large num-
Der, to obtain which they had their agents
the interior of Germany, and induced the
class, which live in Il very impover-
state, to emigrate, by making them
believe that labor was SO much demanded
the United States that able boiled men
could earn as soon as landed two dollars a
Aletter from Mr.. Trist, Consul at Leipsic
says:
Not only paupers, but even criminals are
transported from the interior Of this country
in order to be embarked there for the United
Mr.. De Stien. formerly an officer in the
service of the duke of Sova Gotha, has late
ly made propositions to the smaller states of
for transporting their criminals to
the United States at S75 per head; which
offers have been accepted by several of them.
The first transport of criminals, who for the
greater part have been condemned to hard Ia
Dor for life, [among them W notorious rob.
bers Pfeiel and Albratcht] will leave Gotha
the 18th Of this month, and it is intended
by and by to empty all the work-houses and
jails Of the country in this manner. There
little doubt that several other States will
initiate the nefarious practice.
1t has of late also become a general prac
in the towns and boroughs of Germany.
to get lid of their paupers and vicious mem
bers, by collecting the means for effecting
heir passage to the United States, among
the inhabitants and by supplying them from
The public funds. |.
The aforesaid Mr.. De Stien must be a
niscreant of the first water. Ii
An hcidenL-The following passage &C.
in the recently published Memoirs of