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LITERARY MEN AND THEIR FAILING. Sur
prise Is often manifested that men Of genius and
learning should have their "failing;" in other
words, stoop to so debasing vice as intemper-
anee. Never having heard any reason assigned,
We mention, without giving them as excuses,
several causes, 70 Us apparently provocative Of
and conducive TO spiritual indulgence Ia those
who lead literary life.
As mankind in general wish to appear learn.
ed, they think to acquire such a reputation BY
acquaintance with those really 50. This dispo.
sition renders the society OF literary personI
greatly sought after; and, from being courted
tlattered and caressed, they naturally and b.
degrees fall into habits Of dissipation.
A continual habit Of reading and reflection
creates an ideal world so different from the rea
one, that communion with the latter excites dis
content and disgust, which seek the letheal
waters in the poisoned bowl.
BY constant exertiOn, authors become so wear
and fatigued, they fly to the wine cup for thu
sustainment Of the body and reinvigoration o
the brain.
That persons Of the largest sympathies ant
most generous motives are the most ready vic,
TINS TO intemperance has long been the sub.
ect OF remark. ALI literary men, from theil
associations, prOpensities and professions, ac-
qaire, if they do not originally possess, an ex-
pansiVeness Of soul and tenderness Of senti-
ment, easily influenced for good or evil, which,
together with our first mentioned cause, are
prone to render them what so often they be-
come.
Their excessive sensibility may also be men
TONED as principal efficient. In this life, we
poor mortals are necessarily exposed to vexatious
dlsappointments and troubles, which, upon
trgld hearts and rugged constitutions, produce
but little effect; but upon the delicate aud SEN
sitive nature Of those whose thoughts are heav-
en-, whose souls are music, the thick -strown
thorns Of life generate dissatisfaction, misery
and despair, which, temporarily drowned, are
finally redonbled.
These causes Gf they be such) appear to us
explanatory Of dissipation in superior minds.
They occurred to us this morning, and so we
jot them down for what they are worth-an ex-
tremely low value. No one will doubt such
profound researches into human nature are
original.
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persons soon assembled, and much excitement
prevailed while the Coroner was holding an in
guest over the body. The following is The Cor
lNouEsT No. l72 was held BY A. W. Pstter.
son, Coroner, on the body Of Hannah Hart.
aged about twelve years, lying In house on
the Miami Railroad near the corporation line.
Cincinnati township. Verdict OF the jury;
That deceased came to her death BY falling off
the cars, while the locomotive was going faster
than the law permits.
At dusk, q large crowd Of persons assembled
near the spot where the accident occurred, and
commenced tearing up the rails. Several Off
GERS were upon the ground, and endeayored to
stop the lawless work, but they were driven
away BY force. Another party proceeded far
ther up the road, and tore up some fifty Yards
Of rall near the crossing in Fulton. And
still farther up another party made sad havoc
upon the track. About o'clock, large BODY
Of the police, headed by the Mayor, proceeded
along east Front street to the corporate limits
stopped the work Of destruction, and arrested
one or Two Of the rioters. This stopped the
rioting.
The evening train from Columbus was mott.
fled by eiegFaph Of the injury to the track. Il
stopped about hall-phst 10 clock at the uuper
depot. sboFe Fulton, where the passenrers
were set mo the omnibuses Of the Rail
auea D1 brought 10 tha citv. which
aEfar had been promptly carried out by
Gen. SgRApER, The agent. The train was d
very large one, but We believe ell the passen.
gers were accommodated in the omnibuses. -
Some fears were entertained that the omnibus
es would be attacked by the rioters, but all
was quiet and peaeeable as they came throogh
Fulton.
This morning, woFkmen were busily engaged
in repairing the track. Within the corporate
limits there was no excitement, and the work
was progressing rapidly. In Fulton, party
Of some forty or fifty men and boys appeared
disposed to interrupt the proceedings. They
threw elOds and stones at the workmen, and
used abusive epithets, but did not deter the
work Of any consequence. One Of the Directors
of the Company was grossly insulted, and
threatened with "belting." We heard sever
al threaten, that the track should mot rest long
in peace.
The Express train which left this morning,
received passengers at the crossing about mile
above the passenger depot. The passengers on
the down trains were receig ed at the same place
by the Company's Omnibuses. 1t was expected
that the track would be completely repaired bv
2 O'Clock this afternoon.
II was currently rumored in Fulton this
morning that the riotOus proceedings of last
night we're partially sanctioned by Mayor TAY-
LoR-that he was applied to by person as to
what would be done with persons caught in the
act Of destroying the track, and he replied that
il any persons were arrested and brought before
him for the offence, that he would discharge
them if it was proven that the train which run
over the girl was going at a greater rate than
live miles an hour. We mention this rumor,
because we believe it is not true, and to allow
Mayor Taylor an opportunity to reply to it.
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A NEFARIoUs OUTRAGE was committed
Monday night upon the person of an elderly
woman, whose name we could not learn, re-
siding on Webb street, below Smith. The per-
petratOrs Of the objectionable assault were two
men, whose dastardly and unprovoked attack
upon defenceless, aged female, renders unpOp-
ular in our mind the present efforts to abolish
capital punishment, The injured woman was
brutally beaten in her own apartment, by the
villains, who forced their way into the house
without the slightest cause or provocation. AZ
ter satisfying their malignity upon her, they
entered another roem Of the building, and
shamefully abused two OF its inmates, also wo-
men.
Such high-handed outrages as these, are be.
yond liberation. Colts pistols, it seems, will
have to usurp the place Of the crippled law il
Cincinnati. They operate much more speedily
than the latter sleepy humbug.
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Carding and Spinning Machinery
FOR SALE

7 WISH to sell the Carding and Spinning Estab-
ishment situate in the town Of Ripley, Brown 90.
Ohio, on the Ripley & HlsborO' Turnpike Road.
All the machinery belonging thereto. One Picker,
one Breaker, one Condenser, one Finisher, one
Spinning Jack 100 Spndles, with all the fixtu es and
apparatus to the same belonging, Also, one steam
engine, and one boiler, with the necessary fixtures
and apparatus for running said machinery.
will sell the machinery, engine, &c, separate from
the building and rTemses. Said building is a three
story frame, 50 feet long and 2j feet wide.
The terms will be reasonable. As any one wishing
to purchase will of course examine the premises and
machinery, it Is unnecessary to give any tuFiher de-
seription ID. NJ. SAYREs.
April 81, 1852. ByL. b. sAYREs, Agent
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THENAPOLEON OF TEMPERANoEl

GKETCHEs Of the Life and Character ofthe Hon.
- NEAL Dow, Mayor of Portland, and author OF the
Maine Liquor Law with portrait, and an Appen-
dix containing the law, Mr.. Dow's Report, &c. NC
Price, 20 cts.
The MAINE LIQUOR LAw.-Six Reasons why the
State Of New York should adopt it. 5 cts.
TEMPERANCE DOCUMENTS of the American Tenn
perance Society, containing the Reports &c. Of that
body. In three volumes. S4.OO.
= TEMPERANCE ANECDoTRs.-A choice collection Of
more than two hundred anecdotes, Illustrating the
evils of intemperance and the power of the pledge.
40 cts,
TEMPERANCE TALEs-A Drop from the Bucket, for
the Sons OF Temperance. 80 cts.
JOHN B. GoUGH-His Life and experience. so cts.
YoUrH's TEMPERANCE ADVOCATE. "A Monthly
Sheet of sterling interest," for the Of families and
Sunday Schools Price, % cts. per years $500 per
hundred. For sale by -
Agent Of the Am. T. Union,
ap.S4w No. College Hall, Walnutst
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Nh. EprroR You have doutless already
noticed, in some of our Minnesota papers,
the action Of the legislature in relation to
the Maine Liquor Law. A bill containing
the provisions of the Maine Law passed
both branches Of the legislature by quite a
large majority on the last day Of the session,
but with provisional act which it is sub
mitted to the people. The election is to
come off in April, where we shall probably
have a very exciting time. The law is to
take effect in May, If majority Of votes are
cash in its favor. There will doubtless be
a desperate struggle, that day, between the
friends of humanity and the hosts Of king
alcohol. 1t is very difficult to predict with
any degree Of certainty, what will be the
result of the approaching election yet the
friends of the law feel quite confident of
success. There piH probably neper be so i'm
portant an election brought before the people OF
Minnesota in our dag; and there are not a
few in the territory who feel it and labor
accordingly.
Should the Maine Law thus early become
the law Of Minnesota, and be sustained by
our citizens, our yonng and beautiful terri
tory will be entitled to the honor of taking
the lead in the fair north west, in relation
to the greatest and by far the most impor.
tant question of our time. Minnesota will
then be fairly entitled to the banner and
we may expect a class of emigrants and
such as no other state or territory in tht
Union has ever known.
The papers in the territory do not helI
the cause we are therefore making an efor
to start temperance paper, which il
very much needed, and without it, W,
can hardly expect favorable resul
from the approaching election. Meeting
are held weekly in different parts of tn,
territory, and will be held until the contes
is over /; Sons and Watchmen, are beinI
thoroughly organized, as well as the terri
torial and local societies lecturers are t
be employed for some days before the eleC
tion torch-light PROFESSIONS will be go
up, conventions held &c. In short we ar
drilling our forces, for great and despei
ate conflict, for the cause of humanity an
for the glorious right.
Respectfully yours Il. NJ
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THE MAELsTRom WHIRLPooL.-The follow.
ing description Of this great phenomenon is
from a letter to Judge Woodward, Of Florida
from friend travelling in Europe:
"This wonderful phenomenon, that has ex-
cited the wonder and astonisbment Of the world,
have seen. There are few Of my countrymen
who have had the opportunity, in consequence of
the situation Of it being remote from any point
Of commerce. Its latitude and longitude I do
not exactly recollect 1t is situated between
two Islands, belonging to q group off the coast
Of Norway, called the Low in staff Islands,
between Dortheim-being the most southern
point Of Commerce--and the North Cape. ]
suppose the latitude TO be about So north, but
will not be certain.
4 had occasion, some years ago, to navigate a
ship from North Cape to Dortheim, nearly all
the way between the islands and rocks, and the
main. On inquiring Of my Norway pilot, about
the practicability Of running near the whirl-
pool he told me that with good breeze it could
be approached near enough for examination
without danger. | at once determined to satisfy
myself. We began to near it about 10 o'clock
A. NJ, in the month Of September, with fine
wind northwest. Two good seamen were
placed at the helm, and the mate on quarter
deck, ali hands at their stations for working
the ship, and the pilot standing on the bow
spits between the night heads. Invent on the
maintopsail yard, with a good glass. l had
been seated but few moments when my ship
entsgsd the dish Of the whirlpool, the velocity
Of the water altered her course three points
towards the centre; although going eight knots
through the water
This alarmed me extremely; fora moment
thought destruction was inevitable. She, how
ever, answered her helm sweetly, and we ran
long the edge, the waves foaming around us in
every form, while she was dancing gaily over
them. The sensations | experienced are diff
cult to describe. Imagine to yourself an i'm
mense circle, running around diameter Of one
and half miles, the velocity increasing as il
approximated towards the centre, and gradually
changing its dark blue color to white--fOaming
tumhling rushing to the vortex, very much con-
cave, as much 50 as the water in funnel when
half run out the noise, too, kissing, roaring,
dashing--all pressing on the mind at once
presented the most awful, grsnd, solemn sight
ever experienced.
We near it about eighteen minutes, and
in sight of it about two hours. It is evidently
a snbterranean passage that leads--the Lord
knows where From its magnitude | should
ni lsaht that instant destruction would beth,
hse d dozen Of our largest ships, were they
drawn In at the same moment. The pilot say
that several vessels have been sucked down
and that whales also have been destroyed. Tn
first think probable enough, but rathe
doubt the latter"
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go, ,l8l
mnn uaa

VWHPaPoI . . o 'VOOi 100 NVW5pdTIoIas' to01I lou
Showing an increase in favor Of the past quar-
ter, Of 67 ,lOl letters and 6S, $40 papers.
To the gross amount Of Sea Letters, l ,332,-
46l, add the domestic correspondence of the
quarter, s, SOB, ,493, and $50 900 circulars, and
it will give 1884 letters and circulars, that
have passed through the office during the quar-
ter, or daily average Of nearly $4,000.
The gross amount Of domestic and foreign
letters sent and received for the quarter ending
June 30th, l85l--being the last quarter under
the old Law, was 4 494 430, showing an increase
in favor Of the quarter ending March 3IsJ, 1859
Of lis, ,O63 letters, or about l5per cent, inde.
pendent Of the vast increase Of ciTculars.-J0ur
of Com,
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LEE, ATHENS CO, ", April 10th l552.
At meeting Of the "Quartery Council" for
Athens Co., held in Hibberdsville, on the 9th
inst, the following resolutions we're adopted
RssOlUsd, that this council heartily approve
Of the Maine Liquor Law firmly believing
it to be constitutional and imperatively deman-
ded by the people Of this State, and are now
waiting in anxious expectation for the passage
of said law, by our present Legislature assem-
bled
ResolUed, that in case the presant legislsture
fails to enact the Maine Liquor Law" or one
similar, land thus treat the citizens Of Ohio
with contempt,) that we will make it test Of
Office until the prayers Of an injured people are
responded to.
Resolved therefore, that for the purpose Of
carrying out the above resolutions, we will
withhold our suffrage from any candidate for
state, county or township officers, who is not
firm advocate of the temperance cause.
Resolved, that for the farther carrying out
these principles, we will act entirely free from
party or political tramels.
LEoEARp BRoWN, Cor. Sec. pro tenn
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ATTEMPT AT SuoIDE.--Quite respectable
man stepped into the drug store Of Frederick
Eekstein, Jr., corner Of Fourth aud Main
streets, on Tuesday evening, and called for a
dimes worth Of arsenic. One Of the clerks.
observing his excited manner, suspected he had
sinister designs, and, instead Of the poison, did
up some palverized prepared chalk, which the
man, as soon as he received it, swallowed with
gusto. He then sat quietly down by the stove
and awaited with the utmost stoicism the ex.
Pected period Of dissOlution-which, of course
didn't come. Thinking he had not taken
enough arsenic, be rose up suddenly and de-
manded more, which the clerk refused with the
remark: g If that dose don't kill you, nothing
will" He insisted upon having the poison,
but finding the clerk ineXOrabls, he took his
departure, with threats Of arrest against the pro-
Prietor for selling arsenie--prepared chalk. The
man got out Of sight before his course could be
traced, and has not been heard Of since. He
may be the individual who died Of delirium
tremens in the WatCh-house.
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stood there in the midst of that group,
minister OF Christ. The Bible was before me
the Bible so full Of denunciations against sin.
But as looked around me, it seemed as Il sin
had denounced itself There were the visible,
tangible, heart-rendering fruits Of q goddess
lie, and 1t possible the more revolving spectacle
OF goddess death, upon all which seemed writ
ten, fOrsaken, hopeless, miserable strove to
direct attention to the necessity Of religion to
preserve us from the vices and miseries Of life,
and to its holy consultations to support us under
the trials Of our earthly pilgrimage. But |
feared them and still fear, that it was too late
tor such advice. There were hearts there
which had been SO long accustomed to the
treachery Of men, 50 STEPPED in sorrow and ac-
customed to sin, that they could hardly be led
TO repose confidence in God. Having commen-
ded them to the care Of heaven and especially
to the God Of the poor, the coffin was carried
down the narrow stairway, and the drunknrd's
family, half clad, and shivering in the keen
November wind, was placed in that one horse
open wagon at the dooF, and following the
hearse, drove lonely and sad through the
streets of our Christian city, to the PotteT's
Field, the last resting place Of the friendless
poor, where the drunkard sleeps to-day unhon-
ored and unknown,-Seatinel.
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Form of Application for a Union of the
Daughters of Temperance

The undersigned, inhabitants of -----, be-
eving the Order of the Daughters of Temperance to
he well calculated to extend the blessings Of total
abstinence, and promote the general welfare of man
kind, resnectfuliy petition the Grand Union of the
State of Ohio to grant them Charter to open new
Union, No. -, Daughters of Temperance, to be To-
Gated in ----, and under your Jurisdiction.
We pledge ourselves, individually and collectively,
be governed by the Rules and usages Of said Grand
Union.
Enclosed in the Charter, s5
70 be directed to Mary Cooper, G. S. s., Cincin.
natl, Ohio-free Of postage.
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HAMILTON AND EATON RAILwAY.-There is
now over eight miles Of track laid on The Ham.
iltOn and Eaton Railway. The work is going
ahead rapidly. The cars will run to Camden
in May, and that over one Of the best tracks in
the country. The track is all well graveled
and will be in every way first class road, it
will do credit to the Engineer and eontrac-
tnrs
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1.-THE Boston Journal describes as one Of
the curiosities Of the age an electric clock, re-
Gently completed by Mr.. N. Farmers; on an
entirely new principle, and pronounced by
scientific men to be the most perfect and simple
Of any. All wheel-work in the time. keeping
part is dispensed with, therefore all friction is
overcome. The time-keePing part Of the clock
is simply pendulum, an electro magnet, and
two armatures. The vibrations Of the pendu-
lum break Eand close the circHit Of electricity,
while the combined action Of the electro o-mag-
net and armatures keep it in motion.
1t is clock that runs without weights or
springs, or Oranything Of the kind. Its moving
power is a galvanic battery, which requires a
small quantity Of sulphHric acid once or twice q
year. or il the workmanship Of the clock is deli
cate, copper plate buried in the ground will
keep It in motion. There is no friction to be
overcome save the suspension points Of the PEN
dulum, and the two aHaatuFes. Hence, it ap-
prOaches the nearest to perfection as time
keeper Of anything in existence. One hundred
or thousand clocks all over the city, all tick
ing at the same instant. and keeping the same
time, may be carried By one pendulum.
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PosT OFFICE BUSINESS. The following sta.
tistics show the business done at the Post Office
in this city during the quarter ending March
81, 1852, in comparison with the correspond
ing quarter Of preceding year:
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Form Of App,iGlt.pnfOr a Clltt8r
Temple of Honor,
tDate)

The undersigned, believing the Temple OF Homo
to be well calculated to cement more firmly ha
ternal relations, and add to the general prosperity OF
the cause OF Temperance, respectfully petition the
Grand Temple of the State Of Ohio to grant them q
Charter to open a new emple, to be called tho
Temple of Honor, No. -, of the State OF Ohio, to be
located III, and under your jurisdiction.
We pledge ourselves, individually and collectively
to be governed by the rules and usages of the Grand
Temple, and also by those Of the Order at large.
Enclosed is the Charter Fee, $50.
To be directed to J. WadswOrth, G. w. r, Gin
cinnati, Ohio, free Of postage.
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ET Wanted, man Of undoubted poverty
and happiness, to preside over the Society for
the AmeliOration Of the Deploiabls Condition
Of the Rich.
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CoLUMBUs AND JEFFERsoNvILLE RAILRoAD.
I'VE learn that snffieient quantity Of rails
have been received at Jacksonville for the
construction of the road. This will extend
the road 211S milss beyond the Vernon fork
Of the Muskukutuk creek,
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pEx- Governor YOU'VE, of N. Y, died
at his residence, New York, on the 23d inst.
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Showing an increase ia favor of the past quar-
ter Of 81 ,I89 letters and II, ,54S papers.
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ON Jan. Sent from Jan. Ist to
ST 1851. March 3lst, 1852.
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We are indebted to the g Daily Times
for the following report Of John B. Cough 5
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1852-10-22

SINGULAR DIscovERY.--It is stated i'm one
of the English papers that the work of drain
ing the Lake of Hacrlem has led to the dis
covery of an immense mass of human remains,
deeply imbedded in mud, and placed precisely
on the spo; where according to topographic
chart, laid down in 1911, and which has al
ways been considered as perfectly accurate.
the unfortunate village of Nicrewenkrk was
situated, and which was in 1880 swallowed
up by one of those irruptions OF the North Sea
which formed the immense Lake of Haerlam.
Gin. Citizen.