Arkansas intelligencer., 1843-07-01
not Be miss 10 add little prudence and modera.


MOI oe miss to add a little prudence and modera.
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:, tnagination.-That great old writer. Thomas
ruiier, relates curious incident, which is truly
Characteristic, showing how fancy will put life
into young limbs, and coufrnng the old adage,
thaf ''conceit IS as good as q consumption" A
gentleman, he says, having led ascompany of
children beyond their usual journey, they began
to be weary, and jointly cried to him to carry
them-which, because of their multitude he could
not do, but he told them he would provide them
with horses TO ride on. Then cutting little wands
one for himself, they mounted, and those who
could scarcely stand before, now full of mirth,
bounded cheerfully homo.
Due respecfJsr the Sabbath. The frigate Uni
ted States arrived at Oahu on Sunday, the 4th of
December. Capt. Armstrong; Lieutenant went
on shore to arrange for salate, but The Gouern-
or sent rord that he uas at dipine corship, and IT
must be deferred to Monday! 1t is said that the
king, chiefs, and thousands of the people have
become Washingtonians, or in other words join.
ed the temperance societies.
Important Decision.-Judge Mullehphy Of Mis-
souri,, has decided that colored people are citi-
zens - that the term citizen with us is equivalent
to Subject" as used under the British constitu-
tion, and that, of course, colored person has q
right to remove into any State he pleases, all ID
cal laws to the contrary notwithstanding.
The Hon. VIM. Henry Daingerfield late Secre.
tary of the Treasury of Texas, went out passen-
ger in the packet ship Sivie de Grasse, to Iavre,
as Texian Charge de Affairs to the Netherlands.
Good advice is thus given by the Louisville
Pennant-"Cease your grumblng about hard
times-bring in your advertisements, and then
if you have a chance to complain Of dull times,
grumbe as much as you please, but until the
proper means of notifying your customers what
you have to dispose of have been resorted to, nev
or expect any improvement of your business.
A pert young upstart while riding in a stage,
was attempting to ridcule the Bible and rudeIy
accos ting aged Quaker at his side on the great
mprobability that the stone from David's sling
should have killed Goliah-said to him - 6
think, friend" replied the Quaker, he had no
icul,y at all in killing Goliah, if his head 'cas
as soft as hine.
The first steamboat that navigated Lake Erie
charged $40 for a cabain passage from Buffalo to
Detroit. This was IN 1918.
Useful Inrcnfion.-W learn from the New
York Courier and Enquirer that machine has
been invented and perfected by CO.. James Ham,
amount of labor in preparing ship timber for use.
The Courier says that it affords to any tolerable
workman the means of directing powerful mill
saw in the most tortuous curpes which be need
ed, and, at the time, the mill itself, adjusted
by dbeautifui, because simple, arrangement, iciU
roll the timber ,rhiIe the same is cutting SO that a.
ny given amount of angle or bevel can be cut in
any length, with the same mathematical and me-
ohn ninal oertointy that 10 attendant on anyotb,r
we'll grounded mechanical combination. Greot
sums have been fruitlessly expended in England
Tor inventlng and Perfecting machine Of this
kind.
A successful surgical operation was performed
on woman in this city yesterday while she was
in the magnetic sleep. The subject, the wife of
Mr. Ebenezer Davis, of Jarvis Gore. was thrown
into the mesmeric state, when tumor was re-
moved from her shoulder by DR.. Rich of this
place: While he was performing the operation
Mrs. Davis exhibited no other symptoms of suffer.
ing, we are informed, than slight twilching of
the muscles and a compression of the lips
When awakened she was uncohcous that any
thing unusual had taken place in regard to herself
-she did not know that the tumor han been re.
moved until informed by others. All of tho par.
ties are most respectable people, and the facts we
have given appear to be indispuiable. This case
Of Mesmerism applied to surgical science is wor-
thy of the serious consideration of the gentlemen
of the medical profession.-B Bangor Democrat.
Death in Harana.---Hunging is not practised
on the Island as a mode of executig criminals, but
they are made to sit down, with their backs to
frame, through which passes screw, attached to
an iron collar. which embraces the neck of the
culprit. BY turning the screw, the collar is
drawn tight across the forward part of the neck,
so as to produce strangulation, willie at the same
time the point Of the screw passes between the
joints OF the neck, producing disocation, and
causing the unhappy sufferer to protrude his
tongue its whole length. This is called CARROT
ing.
A Kiss and The Consequences Ware
Of GIouchester county, N. J. gave Mr.. VIM.
Bateman severe horse whipping at Blackwood-
town, on Sunday tho 2lst., al the door of the
Presbyterian church. The provocation, we un-
derstood, was kissing or attempting to kiss the
sheriH's wife. Mr.. Bateman was flogged till his
clothes hung in tatters and his whole person was
covered with blood. His kissing propensities will
be checked for while, ut least.
Jean Jaqucs tells us, that when his wife died, CIV.
cry farmer in the neighborhood offered to console
him by one oftfer daughters! but that few weeks
afterwards, his cow having shared the same fate
no one ever thot Of replacing his loss by the offer
of another; hereby proving the differnt value peo.