The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1846-11-06
A Inuciainu siialY.

= Touching story.
1t is stated by an apparently WELL
informed Washington correspondent
Of the N. Y. Herald, that if Mr.. Nc
Connell had put off his self-destruc-
ton for three days, he would have
died more natural death. He was
reduced 10 skin and bone lie had
eaten nothing for -four days-his sto-
mach refused every thing; the cla-
viclc, or shoulder blades, were pro-
truding through the skin, and symp-
toms of gangrene were already visi-
bic at the points of abrasion; he
was, even while alive, in a process
of decomposition; lis mind was un-
throncd; his very soul abhorred the
charncl house in vi ich it was cen
fined, and prompted him to its sui
cidal release, Some days before
this sad catastrophe Of his most ru-
inous career, he called upon tho
President for hundred dollars to
take linn home. The President said
he only had about fifty in lis pocket,
to which the deceased was welcome;
but Mae insisted on the hundred,
which, without further parley, the
President sent out and procured for
him; and advised Mac, in a kindly
manner, to go home and try TO do
better. Poor Mac, haunted by SUI
pernatugal fears, frightened up at
the idea that there was still one man
WHO was lis friend-one WHO did
not carry a revolver to shoot him
down the moment his back was turn
ed, and left, protesting his repcn-
lance and gratitude. The Presi-
dent has the satisfaction Of knowing
that Tie death Of the unfortunate
man cannot be attributed TO his fail
ure to borrow ,hc funds desired to
take him home. Had the President,
from even the most benevolent ma
turc refused the applicant his petit
ton there would be ground for some
uncasiness but as he gave him the
money to remove him from the bar
rooms of Washington, and to get
him home to the remedial influences
of wife and family, the Chief Mag
iStrate stands approved as having
done all he could to save the sink
ing man.
We have often heard of the de-
ceased spcall of his little wife and
four children, and tell of her self
sacrificing, enduring and christian
spirit, how she bore with all his
weakness and how, NY kindness, she
cndeared and hoped to reclaim him,
rather than by reproaches. Last
winter, in one of his sprees, as they
are called) he bought her a bcauti-
full Bible, and carried it round from
bar-room to bar-room, saying that
that was a present for his little wo-
man. We hope she has received it,
and that in its pages she will find
comfort to her broken spirit in the
dark hour of this last dreadful visi-
tation. May God bless her, and sus-
tain her through the trial.
Ofsm ofMe Up"s Tree Story.
A real "YaIlcy of DEATH exists in
Java: it is termed the Valley of Poi
son, and is filed to considerable
height with carbonic acid gas, which
/ is cXhaled from crcvices in the
ground. If a man or any animal en-
ter it, he cannot return and he is
not sensible Of his danger, until he
feels himself sinking under the poi
Sonous influence Of the atmosphere
which surrounds him: the carbonic
acid, Of Which it chiefly consists, ri
sing to The height Of eighteen feet
from the bottom Of the valley. Birds
which fly into the atmosphere, drop
down dead; and a living fowl thrown
into it dies before reaching the bot
tom, which is strewcd with the car
cases of various animals that have
periSheG in the dcleterious gas.-Dr.
IHympson's Magic and Miracles.
Say, Unc.c Ben, what sort o. an
imals are them ere pumpkins that
are all over black, Almost blue, and
a lttlc reddish?' Them, Jonathan,
are called egg plants vegetable
eggs Eggs Well should like
to see them hatched, to see what
sort o critters vegetables am