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Pawcatuck th.day Bapt. Church,$1S SO
First Baptist Church, 3 90
Congregational Church, 6 80
Methodist Episcopal Church, 200
Christian Church, ii %
Rev. Mr.. Vail, of the Episcopal Church, so
Members of the Society of Friends, 5 90
Friends at Temperance Valley, Is 90
Friends at Potters Hill, @ 62
Methodist Episcopal Church, Mystic, go
First Baptist Church, Mystic, 6 20
Meth. Episcopal Church, Mystic Bridge, 8 O4
Scventh-day Bapt. Ch., Greenmanville, 10 so
Total, $104 S3
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Wagon for Sale.

THE Subscribers have for sale, q new and
i well made Wagon, with two seats, we'll
calcuted for farm or pleasure use. 1t can be
seen, and the very low price for which it will
be sold known, by calling at our store.
j. & p. MOVES.
Westerly, Aug 8, 1852. 72n
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Westerly, August IL, 1859.
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Dd- We heard pretty good story,
few days since, about good old deacon
somewhere out in " York State," which
was something after this wise: He was
one of those upright, dignifed, sort of
men who make it rule to perform their
duty, and then make the best of the
matter, however the event may turn out /;
but everything on his farm was kept in
the neatest order. /, Itghad got to be
quite late in tho season for moving, and
still the deacon had a fine piece Of grass
which he had been unable to cut, on
account of a press of other matters, sd
one beautiful dayhe put on large force
and by noon he had it all down and
spread about in nice order, when there
came up shower and wet it. After
the shower the old gentleman came ont
and walked about perfectly cool, and
tho next day he had it 81 Iread again to
dry about noon there came up another
shower; well out came the deacon again,
with long face, and the dignifed air
becoming one in his station, looked at
the hay and walked into the house. The
next day being pleasant, he had THO hay
dried, loaded, and driven to thdgbarn
into which they had got just as another
shower began to fall The deacon was
congratulating himself that he had
finally succeeded in securing the hay,
when a gust of wind struck the
barn, rushing through and completely
sweeping the hay, scattering it to
the. four quarters, and tearing the barn
doors from their hinges, one of which.
hitting the old gentleman, prostrated
him in the mud and fell top Of him.
After the door had been removed from
him he surveyed the ruins for few
moments, aud then exclaimed" Well,
I think it is now time for me to express
my sentiments !"
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New AGENT IN AMPUTATISG LIMBs.
In an article on the Uses of Electric
ity, the Scientific American, refers to
surgical operations recently performed
at Vienna, in Austria, by means OF pla-
tina ware heated red-hot, which had
been found to sever the flesh with as
much ease and celebrity as knife. One
great advantage offered by this method
Is the very slight effusion of blood caus-
ed by the wire as a dividing instrument.
The way in which the platina is kept
not is by making it part of a gaivanic
circuit. If the two poles Of a galvanic
battery are united by copper wire OF
uniform thickness, no heat will be de-
yeloped in the wire, but if part OF the
copper wire is taken out and its place
SUPPLIED with thin strip will become
red-hot, owing to the resistance this is
all the name yet used for the phenome-
non) offered by the platina, because it
is not such good conductor as the
copper. This principle is, we see, now
employed to the noble object of our
surgical operations. 1t is an ingenious
application of science. Electricity is
now applied to send messages thousands
of miles away in a few seconds; to re-
cord the transit of stars; to deposit
metals from aqueous solutions, and to
make them assume any form we choose
that of the flower, or the " human
form divine )" to move ponderous ma
chinery; and now it is applied to sur
gerry. We cannot limit its application ;
It is a versatile agent, recording the
fight of the rolling spheres, and irving
asunder huge rocks buried fathoms deep
in oceans bed. s.l i j."
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A GREAT POLAR OCEAN.-Lieut.
Osborne, member of one the British
Arctic Expeditions, read an interesting
paper before recent meeting Of the
London Geographic Society, in which he
contended for the existence of a great
Polar Ocean. Heisaid that in Yelling
ton Channel he had observed immense
numbers of whales running out from un-
der the ice, proof that they had been
to water and come to water, for every
one knew they must have room to blow.
He further said that there were al
most constant flights Of ducks and geese
from the northward, another proof Of
water in that direction, since these birds
found their food only in such water.
He added, that it was his deliberate
opinion, from observations made on the
spot, that whales passed up Wellington
Channel into northern sea. In refer
ence to the abundance of animal life in
the latitude of this supposed Polar Sea,
he remarked that while on the southern
side of Lancaster Sound he never saw
game enough to keep his dog Melville
Island, one hundred and fifty miles to
the northward, abounded in deer and
musk oxen. 1t was thus clear, he con-
tinued, that animal life did not depend
on latitude, but increased, if anything,
after passing the SEVENTEEN degree
Moreover, while in Baffn's Bay the tide
made for the southwark, coming from
the Atlantic, in Barrow's Straits i
made for the northward, which coulC
only be explained on the hypothesis o
sea in that direction. et-.
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A Fool FoR WIFE.-Dr. johnson
said =" Some cunning men choose
fools for their wives, thinking to man
age them but they always fail. There
is spaniel fool and mule fool the
spaniel fool may be made to do by beat
ing, the mule fool will neither do by
words nor blows, and the spaniel fool of
ten turns mule at last And suppose a
fool to do pretty well, you must have
the continued trouble of making her do.
Depend upon it no woman is the worse
for sense and truth is the remark of a
modern author, that no man ever pros
pered in the world without the cooper
alton of his wife. If she united in mu-
tual endeavors, or rewards his labor with
an endearing smile, with what confidence
will he resort to his merchandise or his
farm, fly over lands, sail upon the seas,
meet difficulty or encounter danger, if
he knows he is not spending his strenth
in vain, but that his labors will be re-
warded by the sweets of home ,'.
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DYspEpsrA.-Who is fifty years old,
and has not beeu afflicted at times by
this morbid and dependence giving dis
ease {! Who that has not sometime es
been possessed by this evil demon
Whether there is anything in our clim-
ate or dress which exposes to this de-
baAating disorder, seems not to be fully
aseertained-and yet our most intelli-
gent physicians assure us, that in most
cases, We bring it on ourselves, I'm
moderate eating, variety of highly sea-
soned food, and the omission of bodily
exercise, are without doubt among the
principle causes, if they are not the only
ones, to which this disease may be at
tributed. Those who take simple food,
and avoid stimulants and provocatives,
and who are accustomed to bodily labor,
or exercise much abroad in the open
mir, are sure to escape it. The disease,
then, is of our own creation at least
we may avoid it, if we choose. Pruden
self-denial and moderation, in our diet
corporal labor and exercise to some ex
tent, will save the young and healthy
from this enervating disease and is tht
surest course also to restore to healtl
and cheerfulness, those who have beer
under its morbid influence. A word t(
the wise is enough We will not gve
a lecture on human disease, nor encroacf
Hthe province of the regular physician
Our advice is, use exercise, due abstem
iousncss, and rigid self denial of all lux
aries, and of all stimulants, which give
an unnatural appetite and disease.
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nSy- The house Of Charles Lewis,

nsg- The house of Charles Lewis, in
N. London, Ct., was entered on Sunday
night last, and robbed of Il parse con.
tanning 5000 in money, and gold
watch, both of them taken from the
bedroom in which Mr.. Lewis slept. On
the 9me night, the house of Thomas
Fitch, ESQ.,, in the extreme northwest
part of the city, was entered through a
window, the rooms ransacked, and final,
ly, the sleeping room of Mr.. Fitch was
robbed of $4O0, and the booty taken of
without awakening any of the family.
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pJ- At New Orleans, a man who had

BD- At New Orleans, man who had
but recently commenced business, found
his creditors rather too prompt in urging
the payment of their bills. " What is
the matter - he at length asked; " do
you fear me-" eyes," was the hesi-
tating reply of modest dun. "Foar
me p'he exclaimed, "on what grounds 7
Has any one said that / am not honest;"
"No, no." replied the other butt
" But what, sir 7" Why, to be can
ded with you, we have no confidence in
your business capacity, seeing that yo~ do
not advertise % The man Immediately
made annual contracts with three pa
pers, and now is in excellent credit, and
prospering finely.
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nsy- The North America, one of th,

pey- The North America, one of the
Vanderbilt line of California Steamers,
on the Pacific side, was stranded on the
night of Friday, February 81, at Reme-
tus Menco, small blight or inlet on the
coast of Mexico, about eighty miles
south of Acapulco. The New York
Tribune, publishes number Of letters
from different correspondents, passen-
gers by the North America, all going to
show that the occurrence could not have
taken place but through the grosscst
carelessncss on the part of the command.
ing officer There were near one thou.
sand persons on board the vessel wher
she went ashore but as the weather
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seg- Out of every thousand mt

twenty of them die annually The
number of inhabitants of a city or coun-
try is renewed every thirty years. The
number Of old men who die in cold
weather is to the number of those who
die in warm weather, as seven to four.
The men able to bear arms form fourth
of the inhabitants of a country. The
proportion between the deaths of wo-
men and these of men is 100 to los.
The probable duration of female lives is
sixty but after that period the calcula-
is more favorable to them then men.
One half Of tho e who are born die be-
fore they attain the age of seven.
Among 3l25 who die, it appears by the
registers tnat there is only one person
of one hundred years of age. More old
men are found in elevated situations
J than ID valleys and plains. rr..
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Ba- Last Monday was election i

B1r Last Monday was election in
Connecticut. The accounts, SO far as
received, which are full enough SO that
the result may be pretty definitely in
ferred-we give synopsis of below. n;
In the town Of Stonington the vote
stood as follows For Governor, Whig
800, Democrat col, Free Soif77; for
Lieutenant Governor, Wing 326, Dem
ocrat 1877, Free Soil II for Secretary,
Wing 527, Democrat 1913, Free Soil II !;
for Treasurer, Wing 326, Democrat 1877,
Free Soil II; for Controller, Wing
326, Democrat 1877, Free Soil, II; for
Senator, Wing $40, Democrat 2o3; for
Judge of Probate, Whig a66, Democrat
ll92. ''''
ForRepresentatives, eremiahH Holmes,
received 372, o. M. Stillman 327, K.
Wentworth 2O1, s. Wheeler 1876. q.
The State Senate stands thus Fair
field Co., l Wing, 2 Democrats; New
Haven Co., 2 Wings, l Democrat
Hartford Co, 8 Democrats New Lon
don Co., 2 Wings, Democrat Wind
ham Co., l Whig, l Democrat; Tol-
land Co., 2 Democrats Middlesex Co.,
2 Democrats; ). Litchfeld Co., not GER
tain, but partial returns favorable to
Wings and l Democrat, giving aDemo-
crat majority of 8 in the Senate. .
The vote for Representatives, in 70
towns give 54 Wings, As Democrats, and
3 Maine Law, Independent of party.
For Governor, it is as yet uncertain,
but the probability is that Seymour is
elected. I'D 'a" ' '2 ."t
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UNCLE TOMS CABIN ; or Life among
the .Loply, is the titles of a new work by
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. 1t was
originally published in the National
Era," and is Mrs. Stoves best produc,
ton. 1t is a story which cannot fail to
interest every one, got up in good style,
with beautiful illustrations. Price ST..
For sale. by Champlin & Babcock. :.
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s1- On Thursday evening, a laborcr

RAJ On Thursday evening, a laborcr,
on the banks of the Neponset River,
Dorchester, dug out of space four and
one half feet in diameter, and one and
one half feet in depth, 2ll snakes,
ranging from four to fifteen inches in
length, and embracing all the different
species common to the vicinity, except
the rattlesnake. When found, most of
them were torpid, but soon gave evil
dence of locomotive power. Sometimes
they were found singly, and sometimes
in punches of half dozen. The black,
green, striped, and brown, and the adj
der, were found in the most afectionate
embraces.
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hy~" Winter yet fingers in the lap

By Winter yet fingers in the lap
of fSpring"-says one ofour exchanges
the old fellow ought to bo ashamed of
himself, to linger around where he is
not wanted, when he is received with
such marked coolness but he seems
determined not to leave till he is abso-
lutely driven off by the rays Of old Sol.
The old fellow has asserted his authority
for the few past days with almost as
much rigor, as he is wont to do even in
his prime 1t commenced showing last
Monday evening and continued, with an
occasional variation of rain, until Tues
day night, while the wind howled with a
fury decidedly winterish. I
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cient length of time, which requires
much practice to regulate with exact
pcss, it is exposed to the fumes OF heated
mercury to bring out the impression, for
there is no perceptible alteration in the
appearance of the plate when itleaves
the camera from what it was when put in.
The mercury has the effect of turning
white those parts of the plate which are
acted upon by the light, while it leaves
those parts not so acted upon. The
plate is left over the mercury until all
its tints are fully developed, when it can
be exposed to the light, though it is not
yet finished 1t is now bleached,n or
the chemical coating removed by a solu-
tion of hypcsulphite of soda, and then
fixed by covering it with thin film OF
gold, which secures it from future
change by light or atmosphere. p "
The accuracy of the daguerreotype,
their beauty of finish, their chcapness
and the ease with which they can be
obtained, d,peculiarly fit them for portraits,
and they are. used principally for that
purpose. Uncle Sam, now counts bis
ten thousand sons engaged in this art.
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rag Yesterday was election in this
State but we are unable to give re-
turns from any part of the State but this
town and Hopkinton, which stand as
follows This town gave for Governor,
Whig 224, Democrat l12; Lieut. Gov
ernor, Wing 227, Democrat 9s; Sec
retary of State, Wing 225, Democrat
Ill; Attorney General, Wing 225,
Democrat 40; General Treasurer,
Whig 225, Democrat III; S. Usher 2
for Lieut.. Governor. For Senator,
Charles Maxson, the only candidate
nominated, received 335 votes, A. c.
Hall, 1. For Representative, Nathan
F. Dixon (Whig and Maine Law, ), re-
ceived GIG, Stephen Wilcox (Democat
and Free Soil), l22; for Amos Col.
ins, giving Dixon 81 majority.
In Hopkinton, the vote stands-fo'
Governor, Wing l79, Democrat lO4
Lieut.. Governor, Wing 1s2, Democra
80. For Senator, John S. ChampliI
(Whig) received the full vote. Fo
Representative, George W. Holderidg
(Whig) SO majority.
P.tS. South Kingstown elected
Wing Representative by q majority o
l147.
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Dss~ On examination the lungs will

HGB On eXHHIIdtIUH tHe IuIgo VIII
be found full of innumerable little holes,
like a sponge. These holes are the
cells into which the air enters when We
breathe. So great is their number that
they have been calculated to amount to
10000, 900, forming a surface thirty
times greater than the human body.
Every one of these cells is provided with
network of blood vessels, by which
means every portion of tho blood is
brought into immediate contact with the
air. When this great amount is taken
into consideration, we shall at once feel
how necessary it is to supply pure air to
the lungs with every breath we breathe.
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n1- Many people entertain the idea
that if they possess a good pen, and arc
skilled in the use of it, it is very easy
thing to produce fine specimen Of
chirography but, though person may
be possessed of these very important
requisites, he may fail of writing well
after all, unless he have that sine qua
non of good penmanship, good ink. And
as our readers may wish to know where
this disideratum can be obtained, we
would say that it can be had Of Still
man & Potter. trr -f '-l't I'D.
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Ras- The Boston Post tells of a man
in Maine who kept a grocery store, and
when he sold pint or half-pint of rum,
always put his thumb into the measure
an enormously large thumb-and at the
end of twenty years practice, he estimat-
ed that he had sold his thumb for at
least $4,000, and had it left, after all.
What an old soaker it must be. 4. .,,5
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BLAcKwoop's Observation-Disclosures,
for March, comes to us with large
amount of reading matter, comprised in
the following articles =" Miss Nit
ford's Recollcctions,'' STRUGGLES for
Fame and Fortune, Part 81" Sketches
from the Cape" "My Novel or Varie-
ties in English Life, Pert 1872 Eng
lish Administrations" "Tibet and the
Lamas," Forrest Life in Canada
West,"" Farewell to the Rhine," "The
Reform Measures of 1852" Yfr. .l
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was very pleasant, they were all safely
hnded. Many of them will have to
undergo much suffering and expense be-
fore they will be able to reach San Fran
cisco, the place of their destination
Quite number of persons from this
place were passengers on the North
America.
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Westerly, April 8, 1852.

G5-V. B. PALMER, the American News
paper Agent, is the only authorized Agent
for this paper in the cities of Boston, New
York, and Philadelphia, and is duly en-
powered to take advertisements and subscrip-
tions at the rates as required by us. His
receipts will be regarded as Payments. His
Offices are--BosToN, Scollay's Building (;
New YORK, Tribune Buildings; PHILADEL-
PHIA, N. w. corner Third and Chestnut
streets.
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rD- Horace Mann expressed an i'm
portant truth happily, when he said in
recent lecture, Knives and forks,
hooks and eyes might as well quarrel
about equality as man and woman" That
is what the Comic Latin Grammer calls
" Striking the olavus on the caput"-
hitting the nail on the head
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CoUNTRRFEIT FrvEs on the Bank of
Commerce in Providence are in circula-
ton. The bill is narrower, the sigma
tnres are not good, and the paper is
poorer than the genuine bill. 1a-
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no We have removed our office of publi-
cation and printing dfhce, into the building
nearly opposite the Washington Bank-en-
trance next door to Thomas Perry's Jewelry
Shop, where we shall be happy to wait On
our friends. (See advertisement headed
Printing" in another column)
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pess'r A lady thought it would look
interesting to faint away, at party the
other evening. One of the company
began bathing her temples and head
with bay rum, when the lady exclaimed,
Z" For heavens sake, put nothing on that
will change the color of my hair"
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sB-" Borrowed troubles are the
most distressing" says an old saw.
That accounts for the fact that people
who borrow their newspapers are the
most afflicted by the bad management of
the editor. $500 4
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s5- Among the late counterfeits
mentioned in Thompson's Bank Note
Reporter, we observe los on the Mer-
chants Bank, New Haven, Ct,, ant SIS
on the Woodbury. Bank, altered from
2's, sf
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