The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-05-27

man VINO carried around the letters, both well organized
REWARD OF MERIT sam" said one little ur-
chin to another Sam does Your ever riye
you any rewards OF merit J"
:" s'pose he does" the rejoinder "he gives me
ickn' regularly every day and says merits two ~
DANDY. hat is more hateful than puppyfed
candies, stepping like doll wire and taking as
II the English language too vulgar TO be spoken
We heard one of them thus address lis comuonion -
Foine weathesh this nav ming Wondah how the the.
mometah stands to-day such yolupuous atmos pheah is
most delicious. say, Petah, bring me deo,ghul
Patriot.
o. Washington correspondent of the pha-
ephia Gazette writes that PeTsicos colossal statue Of
Indian woman which has elevated 10y the side of the
statue OF Columbus is somewhat free for this LATITUDE
The President and his family drove up to have look at
it, but the moment they came within sight, the ladies'
| screamed and away whirled the carriage.
FAcr-There are some folks who WRITE talk
and think so much on virtue that they have time
practise it.
"IIave you read Cass' Texas letter 7,
"Yes-ana a statesman such he,
Would show his character the better
To write his name witho ut the CO.
Providence Journal
o. Elder KNAPP in a sermon, recently compared
the old fashionable ministers molssses hogshead with
the ministers inside, preaching cut the bung hole.
o. Philadelphia paper has the following epi-
grant
Mark, what say
Save Henry Clay
In our horizon,
The brightest star,
That beams affair."
Is Frelnghuysen
RATHER VERpANr The "New Haven Regis
ter" relates capital story OF OF the members
Of the Connecticut Legislature who present
Baldwin's scary" on the evening of election day -"
seem lac approached person whom be supposed
ed with the family, and with a ser of m keep shady"
air whispered your cream here as yon call IT, rs SWEET
ened first rae-but guess you didn't know il iroze
did yer"
PAYMENT FOR COOP Books Mr. Stephens, au-
thor of incidents OF travel in Central America, has
received from the Hsrpers, the profits Of this work
000othe same firm have paid recently to Mir Prescott
tor his work entitled the Conquest of Mexico and
paid TO the learned Dr. Charles Anthem more thon $4,000
annually for several years copy right for his various
| classical and school books.
To ENsonsnRs.-We have the highest authority
for saying that the endorser not responsible upon
note, where the protest is not made by duly APP
pointed Notary Public In other words that the office Of
Notary c'nnot be- depu,sed and that where Clerk in
Bank either mails the notice. or serves personally the
Notary cannot give the required certificate We have
pursuing this if SO, the Directors doing
Justice to the stockholders comparison of the hand.
writing of the filing rp Of notice or protest, and direc
on with the signature Of the Notary whose may
he attached, will detect the imposition CHURCH
Dem. :
THE MILLER HuMguG.-The Midnight Cry" Of
the 23d inst SAYS -" We confess that our publish
ed time is pasi and that, honest men, point
definite days in the future We believe the $500 days
will extend TO the and that the end can only be de-
| ayed long published time, reckoning by
inspired chronology may have varied from Gods time"
MAGNETIC TEIEGRAru This telegraph has
been completed from Washington city TO the rail-
road depot in Pratt street where will stop for the pre-
sent. II has excited Considerable attention. people being
curious to in operation he wire (periectly
ed sinst the weather by covering Of yarn and
arr IL conducted the top of ross abou, twenty feet
high and about 100 yards apart We understand that the
nominations Monday will be forwarded TO Wash
ngton by means OF this telegraph. We have doubt
that government will deem II expeden, continue this
telegraph to Philadelphia, New York and Boston when
its utility shall have been fully tested When understood
the mode OF operation ~ plain and simple-BsifimOTe
Clipper, May %.
THE SEASON AT THE SouTH The Macon Tele-
graph OF the 2ist inst says go Though spring
" half gone, we are in the midst Of er-the Their
ranging from 81 % In the shade In fact there
has been no springthe seasons having made but one
step from Writer to summer For eight or nine weeks We
nave not had rain enough 10 lay the dust in church
yard-much less that kicked up by the political gather
ngs which have been frequent of late Consequently
our gardens are almost entirely destroyed, and field
crops about the We are glad 20 learn, however,
hat the drought not extend all the State in
some pafts of the adjoining counties they have had
ood seasons and the corn and cotton crops are poms
M The whss, crop generally fair one; but the oat
crop so far as have heord, viii be failure.
TuE Cgors The crops in all this region of the
country looked better than ut present, The wea-
her has thus far been uncommonly favorable for all
cdpons Of vegetation aud there every promise that
he abos OF the husbandman will he rewarded it'll an
abundant harvest Tho accounts receive from every
section of the country, arc equally favorable Ontario
REPOSITORY
MuRDrr-A man named Runnels. who was on
his way from Shelby county, Texas, with a load Of
cotton with which he was going TO Shreveport, was
uely murdered the night Of Sunday the SIN instant
BY three who rode up 10 the place where he he'd
,amped for the night asked for some water and wihou.
more ado shot him dead and Immediately fled Mr. Run
1ells son and another man were in company with him,
but they did not know the murderers The editor OF the
addo Gazette has been Informed since that the men who
killed Runnells pursued him from Texas and that they
lad an old grudge against him.
NUMBER or GRAINS or Cons N BrsHEL: AN
English farmer has gwen the following as the re-
ult OF an experiment TO ofcertan ne weight snd nnmh'
f winchester bushcl Of each Of The aforementioned
sorts Of grain