Arkansas intelligencer., 1845-05-17
VOLUME 4-NO. II.
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There are truth. sense and justice in the fol-.
lowing extract from Backwood, and we .rIs, ,ha,
It's expression will tend to rc.awaken the love once
held towards the swoe. old German and o,ber
'unes to the exclusion Of the modern hope ,e.hob
uSurpa,ions:
Ola Psalm Tunes.-'rere is, to US, moro touching
pathos, heart thrilling expression, in some of ,hs
old psalm tunes, feelingIy displyed than in whole
batch OF modernlsms. Tho strains 90 home, and
the fountain of the great deep is broken up''-ths
great deep OF unfathomabe feeling that lies far,
far below tho surface of the world. 6a rdoned heart:
and as the unwonted, yet unchecked tear, Starts
IN the eye, the softened spirits yield to their iufu.
ence, and shake off the load ofearthly care, rising
purified and splrituaIIzed, into clearer a,mos.
phere. Strange. nexplicabIe associations brood
over the mind like the far off dream Of pa radse"
mlnsl!ng their chaste melancholy with musings
of still, subiuod, more cheerful charac,er.e
How many glad hearts in the olden ,imo bayo
relolced in these Songs Of praise--how MANY
sighed out their complaints in those paintiye notes.
that steal sadly, ye. sweelly on the ear-hearts
that, now cod in death, are laid to rest, around
that sacred tune, within those walls they had &c
of.en swelled with motion.-Blackpood,
CLIPPINGS.
Hollowing al Eleciions- the occasion or tbe
late Presidential election, row had occurred n,
oaHot box, IL certain town, during which
pistols. guns, brick bats, &c. were id reouis,ton.
no rIngleaders were taken up, and ono of the
witnesses was called upon for his testimony, in
the following manner:
La~ysr On the night of the election YOU snv
YOU were shot!
Witness. | did that.
l.. Were you shot behind or beforel
w. wasn't shot neither before nor behind.
l.. But you say you were shot!
~ reckon did, for was wppered all over
my left side.
l.. What wero you saying a. the time you
wore shot!
W. Saying! Why, warnt saying nothing:
but was following as loud as could.-"hurrah
for Clay and FreIighuysen"
l.: Did you hollow the same thing after being
shot!
W: 'spect didn't If you had had thirty.
two shot put in you at once, 'spose yor wouldn't
a followed for. amy body but YOURSELF f-Crsscent
City.
. ''"S "P' "a hoI'herh puper says II they
hre cannon when state pays up its liabilities
|hey should hre OFT guns when corporation docs
lhe same thing, and pistols whom grocery or tay.
or's bill is lqudu,ed.
Bloody Afray.-Wo understand that on Thurs.
lay morning. in tho northern part Of the cty, n
sad and bloody aflray took place in the following
woman went into another house, AMI accus.
cd the man of stealing. Upon this he took up
billet OF wood and struck her upon tho head, break.
ing her skull, of which she, has since died. Az.
Tor the woman was struck, her husband rushed in
The other house with knife, and stabbed the man
who struck the blow. The wound is supposed to
be mortal, though The man was alive this morning.
This is the sudden and bitter fruits of passion.
[Cin. Chronicle.
Great Lnduc'm mis- TO Lamyers.-According to
the latest returns from eighty.one counties of
!adIana, thore are seven hundred and forty.one
townships in those counties, and on,y five hundred
and sixty-one lawyers distributed among them
And what is far more encouraging than all, there
are nine counties to be heard from!-Cres City.
A Loan for PMsburgh.-At meeting held in
on Wednesday, resoItion was offered
by the Hon. Geo. NJ. Dallas, and adopted, request
NhS No"hS'' VI i.ios IutSd Uy Ohu inc
sum Of 100000, 10 be lent 10 the city of Pitts
burgh, on conditions that may afford effectual
relefto those sufferers who have lost their homes,
and mems of usual livelihood, by the
late disastrous conhagra,lon.-Er. Paper.
A Noble Gih.-The Mayor Of Pittsburgh on.
the 18th inst. recsivod letter from Hon James
Buchanan. Secretary of State, enclosing check
for $500 for the relief Of the sufferers.
The Providence Journal continues to grunt and
scold at Jackson for joining the Dorrtes and So,
curing to Dorrsm the undsputed and permanen,
ascendency in the counso!s of the State. There
is no doubt ofthe unconditional liberation of Dorr
by the authorities of his State. The voice of the
people of Rhode Island and of the United States
will not be resisted.
John S. Skinner, ESQ.,, late Assistant POST,
Master General, the pioneer in American publica-
lions for improvement of Agriculture. is about
10 oedit "The Farmers Library. or Monthly Journal
of Agriculture"
The new whig Senator from Rhode Island;
Gen. Greene, in speech the evening before the
recent election. said-"ELEcT JAcKs,N AND YOU
CONDEMN Gov. FENNER AND ALL THE ACTS OF THE
STATE FOR TWO OR THREE YEARS PAsT' Very
good. So say the democrats; so says every hon.
est whig.-Dos. Post.
Firing them out.-The Madisoninn says .ha.