The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-06-26

that shall make not only the law, but my own
heart BETTER
Those great books of the great jurst are no
longer smiled upon. The retired Judge will be- |
queath his great wealth to put their spirit into
action; and with Alice i'm her humble duties fit |
Ting round him, de, es plans for the better bear
ing out the great progress question Of reforma-
tory law; anu no longer ending his chain OF
ethic causatives by the galows, sets his hand to
these great princ!p les-'sof crime 10 ignorance
md that 10 so1e md lad this ignoraste torards
good. 10 a service TINT 0ppToI mates the AMMAN
actor fongrds his Dipise Creator.
GLEANINGS.
A SHARP Hrr.-Lord W inchelsea said, at some
meeting in England, that though the world nigh,
be 10 himself the scnffold, he would never desist.
ly scaffods are scarce now-a-days. But 1t adds.
the noble Lord may take comfort, for he carrys
4 block OH his shoulders; nay, it goes further,
and saws, future etymologists now need not be
At a loss whence to derive the word-block head
POLITICIANS. -Thsee gentry DO not escape.
They can abuse themselves well as their op-
ponents. When a caucui is necessary, they use
il; and when not, they reyile il. AS such, the
Bishop Ct London does not escape Punch's as
saults, or the caustic satire Of the Press. lie
published rule and then violated it himself
II made it, sail he, "lut dill lot stick to it,
Thereupon, he, and all like him, are declared
worthy 10 sit for Hudibras' picture Of polili-
clan:
The politician
With more heads than beast in vision.
SO polite, as II one eve
Upon the other were a spy,
And in his dark prsgmaic way
As busy a child at Ilay;
He had seen three houses run down
And had u hand in every one.
Was for 'em and against 'em all,
But vaiorous when they came 10 fill,
Would take all notions in and sickle
From conclave down to conventiclc;
Agreeing or sill Cis,greeing,
According 10 the lights in being:
Sometimes for liberty Of conscience
And spiritual misrule in one sense;
But in another quite contrary,
rs dispensa,ion CHANGED 10 vary;
Keeping folks equally in awe,
For breaking or maintaining law.
CoNTRApICrIoN.-Men resen, nothing more
than contradiction on point which they them
selves feel uneasy about. Truth may be disputed
with inpunity; a sophism only be torn from
out the mind with a violence that laceraies and
emlitters.
PAssIoN.-All human misery. slaughter, fam
inc, plague, peril, aud crime better in the
main avoided. of improbable and hardening
al. 4 AZ
liniei rather than expressed, as may rouse into
noble relief the eternal enduring Of for,itude
md affection. Of mercy and self devotion; or.
wher. as by thrcshing floor of Oman. and ly
the cave of Lazarus. the angel CT the Lord is TO
be in the clasiisemen,. and bis love to The
despair OF men.
THOUGHT AND pEEp.
God thought of hi' creation. and twas done,
.or in God's nature thought, will, deed are one.
And he approache,h unto Col most near,
Whose thoughts in acts their true respc nses hear
The love that groweth like flower
BY sunshine fsi,
May wither when cola winter come.
Until its oead
But mine sprang up in gloom and woe,
And tears have been
Its ample nourishment;-an 10,
An Evergreen,
CHICAGO CoNyE>rIov.-New y ork city sends
large delegation the State will be firly repre-
sented. Philadelphia will be well represented
also, Cincinnati and Ohio, will have a goodly
is, Of delegates. The Convention Lids fair TO
be one of the mos, imposing bodies ever held in
the West
severe storm passed directly over Albany Of
short duration, bu, the quantity of rain which
fell was very great. The heavy rains during
The last ten days have given the thirsty earth
thorough soaking. A, about half pas, two
o'clock a most violent explosion of electricity
took place in the telegraph office. disabling the
| relay magnets of both lines. The wires attach
ed TO the relays and to the battery were meltee
off, and the entire line 10 New York rendere,
for time perfectly useless. The western line
as FAR as Rochester was got into operation during
the evening; but nothing could be ob,ainct
from New York. II was the most serious dis
aster the line has sustained from atmospheric
electricity since II has been opened. AT Troy,
too, we understand the wires were melted from
the battery and the relay magnets.
W. T. Goldsboro ,Whig) has been nominal
ted as n candidate Of his party in Maryland.
| The convention in voice declared their unani
nous preference for Gen. Taylor for the Prcs-
dency.
The destruction Of tho Edna on her way from
| Ouchila to New Orleans caused the death Of
Judge q. Mayo, Of the llth Judicial District ;
l.. NJ. Duty, Claiborne Parish; A. G. Hill,
Champsgnolc, Ark; Mr.. O'Neil, and one per-
son, name unknown, from South Carolina; j.
II. Vass, barkeeper James Pool, pilot, at the
wheel Oliver Mushon. ID engineer; Austin
Stigro, carpenter; two deck passengers anc
also, gentleman from Florila, supposed to be
Mr.. A. NJ. Jones. besiies wounGiug several 9th.
crs. The boa, sunk. The crew were drunk
and reckless. They have paid bitterly for theil
lemeiity. Nevertheless, those in command. the
owners Of the boat. should be held to a stric
legal accountability. II will never do to have
If, sacrificed in this way.
APPLES IN MAssAcHusErTs.-tireata attention
is now paid 10 the culture Of winter fruit II
Massachusetts, for shipment TO Europe, and ex
tensivc orchards are being set out near thei
various railroads. II Is stated In the Boston
Courier, that N. .WvErH, CT Cambridge. Mass.