New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-11-15


unforeseen difficulties from executing his favorite
plans. Immediately after his return to his farm
in Warren County, he was attacked with ner-
yous fever and died few days afterward on the
Sd OF October.
Noble, upright and amiable in temper, he was
worthy of the highest esteem. At the same
time he possessed qualities which under other
circumstances would have made him distin-
guished as a statesman, and if his lot was the
more modest, and, in the eyes of the world, lower
condition of farmer, he was at least contented
with the happy domestic life and the feeling OF
independence which 1t secured TO him. Peace
10 his ashes
How TO PREVENT EVIL Law seldom is SO
readily operative as good custom, AID those who
have lived in New Enelan will recolect the sort
Of unlimited power, rarelg If ever abused, of "the
Seectmen" of the towns. They are the real
dctators, and care as little for habeaS corpus, or
any other in,err ming act, IS did Roman dc.
ator. If a II an did not treat bis wife well. they
would, and perhal DO. axe htm 'G rand and
If couauy hoy was di>ohedi-rt t. :; wi6o ed
mother, an appeal to me SeIectmca was worth
hunnreG compla hts to a megis'ratr. The 'ol-
losing is an instance of whole some in esfetencs:
"The Srlectmen OF Mer, di last week ap-
Piled by pt,i1on to the Jurge Of Probate for the
cnuniy of Beiknnp, FIR guardians TO be appointed
over he persons and property of eight or ten In
dlvdu lis in Mer, di who have en- neglecung
their business and suffering their property 10 20
TO waste, to run after he a1iller pha"t"m Judge
L1ven Immediately issued an order upon all the
individuals to appear at the next court, 10 show
eau cit any they have, why the prayer of the
~
The Selectmen, we Learn, in several OF The
towps in this part of the State, have nteriered,
and told those who are neg'ec,Dg 10 harvest their
crops that they must 60 10 work, or they will be
taken caro- of as idlers and spend,hrifts usually
are" Meredith Gezette.
A VIRGINIA HoMEsTEAD.-The Editor of the
Cincinnati Herald is travelling in Virginia. He
thus describes an ancient domicile in Sussex
County:
Dickens complained when in this country that
every thing looked new. Had he visited Virginia
his taste for the ancient might have been graft
fed Sit now in the attic of one of those old
peaked roof domiciles, so common in this part Of
Yrsina--unpromising on The outside, but
inside, full Of hospitable cheer. 1t IS of only
about ninety years standing, and was never paint
ed. lis corner cupboard and old.1ashioned Sec
rotary are highly venerable. Nothing can exceed
the neatness in the interior of one of these aged
dwellings. The floors arc polished and without
staln-every old fashioned rush-bo chair is
nlts place. Not an atom of dust rests upon any
thing. The beds, with their pure white beauti-
iu.ly wrought counterpancs, almost make you
!eel drowsy Every thing is Clean still and stead
fast. The owner of this tenement an old man
aged cighty-six, of great moral worth, died a few
weeks since, and is now the tenant of small
family grave yard, just in sight, ornamented by
four or FIVE fine cedar trees. For sixty-one years
without change, or thought of change had he
occupied this dwelling and there now hes
eeole me Book of Common Prayer, near
y century old, containing the family re
co'd since 1893. Every thing about me has a
grave aspect, which is enhanced by the sadden-
ing sight and sounds of autumn. On my way
mere this morning, we passed through forest OF
Nnes In 1919, said venerable old lady, tn 3
was planted in corn. Just in my eye, arc two
90 covered with pine, which seems to delight IN
relieving desolation. like pine forests my first
INST breath Yves drawn amid their shadows, and
when boy, nothing was more pleasant than to
1--WE INTO their cool and fragrant depths. The
through their peculiar foliage.
LYELLs LECTURES IN ENoLAND-In lecture
en- The Geology OF the United States, recently
eelyered IN England by the celebrated Mr.
LrELL, he stated that the Ohio coal field ex.
Gnds for length of seven hundred miles, and
that that of illinois is larger than the whole of
England. The coal is formed in workable beds
Of considerable thickness: and in one instance
there is bed of coal forty feet thick--whch
comes up 10 the surface and is quarried like
stone. Another brauch of Mr.. Lyeli's lecture
vas the consideration of the recession OF the Fdlls
Niagara. He exhibited large pictorial scene
Npiesentlng the. bed OF the Niagara River. The
,S'ine formed by the gradual wearing away Of
We rocks by the waters of the Falls extends for
Sven miles, and there is no doubt that at one
SH'i'd the Niagara River fell over the cliffs at
. saeensown three hundred feet high. The pre-
ca' height OF the falls is ITO feet, and the rate
recession Is about one foot in year.
1 Bait American.
/ ihe hissIssIpPr.-We learn that the channel
I become exceedingly difficult to pass at Tow
I nt .aaad. Tho water 10 very shallow, and d.
\ nv eo mo several channels each of which, it is
/, .' ,uas with Immense rapidly. The fficul-
M "''h o'ats Is to s'ralghten tnems Ives up in
II ~ ine'e channels 30 as to stem the vlol. nee
1 In, o current. The Missouri is detained at
4 fA' st. Louis Rep.