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New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-05
GSEENwIcu, Wash. Co, Friday, July 30, ls52


Since my last visit here, the Troy and
Rutland Railroad has been completed, running
within eight miles distance of this, and a branch
road TO this place is projected. presume it will
be bat. The present year a new and spacious
Hotel has been completed, which cannot have
rival inthis locality and for generation at least,
eau never be any other than a Temperance House.
Summer visitors may pass through several Sta'cs
before they wall fad village of this size combin-
ing more attractions, considering the beautiful
steam, scenery, soil, groges, walks, critivared
ei0GuCs ana tasteful, elesgnc residences. Inc
number OF the trees NAV be inferred from the IN
curry Of stranger. He Was STAYING with a
trend. di,tant if.n the village and cane in from
the Inorih, inqu. &c Tor the Post ONE. Being
tod TO "Ieep Of down the street, he asked" no"
far down ii the woods Is Il
No licenses are granted in tins town Of some
seven thousand people, and tue hune law is
seen with It's practical blessings. che suffering
poor families, such as were numerous ears ag1nr,
are now not to be found and in the same s--c,ts
where numbers might be seen daily drunken,
there hes not one leel seen for several weeks
The young farmers are buying small farms, and
tie oder ones drpo,itiug their money in the
Washington County Bans, 20 he ready iur use ia
TIE approaching season Of traffic.
tpto last evening, this region Of country has
suffered for wour Of rain. Hay is not more than
half crop, and some Of the finest Of th9 ungrown
in the herds VIII be sent down to the butchers.
Perhaps it may be our fortune in the City to buy
beef little cheaper, if not quite so fat. Now
they have rain, which was accompanied by hur-
ricane. Huge forrest trees were twisted OIL AMI
many ofthe village shade-tfees are prostrute; f-ncas
ate strewcd and chlmneys have fdlen, finding
their why through roofs. Onc falling on the h ,use
Of the late WlDiam II. Mo~ry, not only darisged
the house, bat cam- near destroy ing the lie OF IA
daughter Of the family.
This Was AN eahy An,-Slayery place, and in
1913, sm told, near one hale the voters ~ere oi
the Free Sol class. The Pittsburgh canIidate
viii receive a fair vote at this elertion. do not
heer Of Wing who win not vote or Gen. Scorr.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-05
Arrival Of the Ohio.

The steamer Ohio arrived on Monday morn
ing from Aspinwa, July 81. she brings no later dates
The piston of her sarboard engine became loose when
two hour, out and compelled her make the run to
KINGSTON with one engine She sailed from Kingston at
SPIN, Goth ult on Port Royal, spoke steamer Illinois,
Elk days from New York, all well % ulimo, lat 20
long -, passed brig Lima, bound southwark.
The Ohio reports the following deaths ::
July 49, at Navy Bay, J. F. Walter, Band Master 4th
Infantry; July GO, in the harbor Of Kingston, Wm.
Johrson, formerly boat'wain Of steamer OHIO.
The following persons came passengers
10 the Ohio from Aspnwsll
A Gold f. Carey, 5 Buell., J. Fosnsbee, II. Ball, II. A.
Rrynod. c French Capt. Nm. Hudson. Thos. Horton,
{, Feirs jos san born + II Hoag. J. p. Rsyell Dam
ming p l. johnson r. 4. Wheeler &. Howard, D. T Van
porcep j. Brown P Bsebe, Mr. Bache lady and chil.
eTen Mr. JOKES and lady. Lawson, J. Vino, A. Miller,
Ms MscAre Mn. Hll, j. Fsron j. r. Huncs g. Haiti
mer. h Smith, n Basnes J. p. Hunt MCKINLEY, ID.
g. Fuller ~ Wiusus J. Csssrn iceland. }. Lttourete,
Nn. Hughes T. ". Marsh d. liulcnin2s, Francis P.
Vsyrsu s. Drlore w. Williams }. Williams CLARK J.
Hawkins J. W WEIGH, hanealy, n. Gner, NJ .
BOYLE BscL@ d. l.. Parker. @ Ms!ett n. rnloaa.t +.
q K-ttridg- :. scott. j. W. Lewis J Gobmun. -. c
Marc, f. Durham, j. II Dickinson, " n. Otis, !. Light,
Michael ? Kelly, j. Lsndsraye l. Blement ). Johnson,
j. Bysrd J. Patterson. j. FInneT. F. CunlS A. Leighton,
y Blown ~ o. ecti'D NJ Grezel NJ. fully. J. jYo1ty
NcCur b. Rstieiet Mrs AmAooci aid daughter, and - IN
the steeisre.
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IfrnIn the plnIns.

The Fort Smith Herald of July II gives
full account fthe murder Of Cap. Mucy's command
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-05
NORTHERN NEW-YO2K.
An Ouirage-Union village -Crops-Storm-
Politics, &c.

Core sgondence oiThe n. Tubuns
WHITEHALL, N. Y, Wednesday, July g. 1852.
A horrible outrage has been perpetrated
in this village within few days past. The pa
pers here are slow to chronicle the deed, ald |
give YOU the facts as learn them.
1t seems that young widow lady Of French
extract. sufferer by the late fire in Montreal, eft
that city for Whitehall III pursuit OF home aud
employment. She came to Whitehall a stranger,
and was acosted in the French language byone OF
her countrymen. He offered to be her friend, and
directed her where she might find work. She ac-
companied him around hill, and when distant
from the village, becoming suspicious of her pro-
fessed friend. fled to the first house she came to.
Soon after, several persons came up, and charged
the family that they had a bad character" IN
the house, and if they did not drive her out the
house would come down Upon this the stranger
was requested to 20 to a house near .ty. where
she would be protected. That place she reached
in safety, but it proved that there but one
person at home, and she tmid woman. Here
was no protection. The rulians came up, IN the
number of twelve or fifteen, and dragged the
stranger back from the house some forty rods,
gagged her, and subjected her to the most abomu-
able Outrage. She was held by brute force as
their victim for hours, and left a fghtful object
Of abuse-bruised, and even her earrings torn out
and pockCted by the leader in crime. The woman
carried to house, helpless and is not yet ou5
Of danger.
The next day the whole village aroused,
and COnstables placed on the track of the mon
stcrs. Several were secured. rhey proved to be
mostly Canadian French, ranging from sixteen 10
twenty five years Of age. The youngest turned
States evidence, and related occurrences which
were conObOrated by the woman, too revolving -
be read Az one time the populace could hardly
be restrained from inllictlng summary punishment
on the outlaws. They were brought before Jus
t:e Hall, and nine of the number have been sent
10 Salem Jail. 1t is thought that ten years wii be
their shortest term in the State Prison.
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-03-11
EBENSBURG, THURSDAY, MARCH Il. 1852

| smoke and snuff, and Americans by universal
concession combine all the good qualities of all
other nations, and possess besides, an ingenuity
and enterprise that none of them have. This
can only be attributed to the fact that tobacco
grows here, and is used in more shapes and more
generally than anywhere else.
An English King wrote Z" counterblast to to-
bscco.' He hated it most cordially-and he
was the frmest believer in the ssjure divine" of
all the Kings from William the Conqueror to
William the Fourth belief in the divine right
of Kings, most slavish doctrine, and hatred to
tobacco always go together, The English aris-
tocracy won't use it-they revile it as disgusting
say it is plebian practice to use it. Tobacco
is the dread of aristocrats.
1t was the favorite electioneering tool of Davy
Crockett, and chaw'' will conciliate one of
the unwashed quicker than anything but wink
of red eye. Tobacco is a Democratic institution
A dandy viii ask q cub-tailor for q cigar light
wealth will spit in the same box with poverty
and dignity and dirt must sneeze alike if they
snuff. Tobacco is a leveller of distinctions
No true patriot and republican with an aver
age allowance of brains ever opposed it Gree
ly says hard things about it, but Greely is a
radical and an enthusiast. He opposes slavery,
and hanging, and liquor drinking and all the
glorious institutions that our forefathers fought
bled, and all that sort of thing for
Dickens laughs at it, but he is an English aris-
tocrat, and of course contemns any favorite of
the Democracy. "Seneca" abuses it, bet Sene-
ca is a twaddler, and wouldn't have made bad
figure in the Dunciad
But this is not all. Since the introduction of
tobacco into the Eastern continent, Science has
improved, Literature has been more generally
diffused, and we have no doubt but that the
whole system of Inductive Philosophy owes its
origin to this invaluable vegetable. Until about
three hundred years ago, the world had puzzled
itself with the subtleties of the schoolmen, the
chimeras of the alchemists, the absurdties of
astrologers-they had educated nothing practi-
cal-invented nothing useful. Sir Walter Raj
eigh introduced tobacco-then, and not until
then Bacon conceived and published his system
of Philosophy, and the world was many steps
farther in its progress. Experimental philoso-
ply is q result of tobacco
1t is said that it stunts the growth and INJURIES
the health of the unfortunate individual addic-
ted to the use eff it. We know better We have
as extensive developement and as good health
as any man, and we use it habitually and from
practice
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-03-11
Family Secrets.

While ascending the Mississippi, some eigh-
teenmonths since, on board the steamboat Hunts
vile, the commander of that excellent vessel re-
lated the following anecdote of a couple of wor-
thy disciples of old Father Miller:
In Coles county there lived a man named Dod-
son, and his wife, who were both firm believers
in the prophecy of old Father Miller and not
doubling for moment the correctness of their
Prophets calculations for the eventful dav that
was to terminate the existence of all sublunary
things
After having &c set their house in order. the
following conversation took place:
My dear wife, l believe have made every
preparation for tomorrow. have forviven all
mine enemies, and prayed for the forgiveness of
all my sins, and fell perfectly calm and re-
signed. - =
"Wen husband, 1 believe am ready for the
sound of the trumpet. -
81 am rejoiced to hear it. But nv dear wife
have no doubt there are many domestic secrets
which We have hidden from each other, which.
had they been known at the time of their occur
renee, might have produced unpleasant feelings ::
but as we have but one day to live, reckon its
right to make clean breast to each other. l
am ready-you begin husband.
NO, dear, you begin, -
No, husband, you begin-I can't
"No-you know, my leve, Paul says, "hus-
bands have the right to command their wives. 4"
1t is your duty, as a christian woman, to obey
your husband-the father of your children-so,
begin love. -
% In the sight of Ged reckon its right, so
will tell you, dear husband-your Oldest son,
William, Is not your child. -
Great God, Mary! never dreampt of YOUR
being untrue to me! Is that true?
Yes, God forgive me, it is true. know that
did very wrong, but am sorry for it in an
evil hour fell, but there is no help for it now.
William not mine! In the name of God
whose child is he?"
" He is Mr.. Graham's the constable. The
Lord be near your poor wifel"
80 William amt my child? Go on. -
Wen, our daughter Mary, named after me,
amt yours neither " -
Salvation Talk on, Mary-come right out.
Who's Mary's father ?"
Mr. Glrder, the man that built the meeting
house, and went to the lower country.''
Wei. as there is but one day more. I'll bear
1t, SO go on if you have anything else. ("
Well, there is our youngest"
suppose Jimmy amt mine?'
NO, dear husband. Jimmy that we both
love SO well, amt yours either. -
Merciful Lord! Is it so In the name of
the Saviour whose is he9"
He is the one-eyed shoe-maker's who lives
at the forks of the road +"
"Well, my God! Gabriel blow, Jlo,o your
horn! want to go NOW!''
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-03-11
Kidd, the Pirate.

In old times, just after the territory of the
New Netherlands had been wrested from the
hands of their High Mightiness the Lords States
General of Holland, by Charles the Second, and
while it was as yet in unquiet state, the prov
ince was a favorite resort of adventurers of all
kinds and particularly buccaneers. These were
piratical rovers of the deep, who made sad work
in times of peace among the Spanish settlements
and Spanish merchant ships. They took advan-
tage of the easy access to the harbor of the Man
hattoes, and of the laxty of the scarcely organi-
zed government, to make it kind of rendez-
vous, where they might dispose of their ill gotten
spoils, and concert new depredations. Crews of
these desperadoes, the runagates of every coun-
try and cline, might be seen staggering, In open
day, about the streets of the burgh; elbowing
its quiet Mynheers; trafficking away their rich
outlandish plumber, at half price, to the wary
merchant, and then squandering their gains in
taverns; drinking, gambling, singing. swearing,
shouting; and astounding the neighborhood with
sudden brawl and rufian reyelry
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VOLUME Viii.
Il + Il NJ =.

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~
Am Incident for History.

Circumstances have been developed, by the
arrival in this city within the last few days of
family from California, which are characteristic
OF our time and country. They are these In
the spring of 1919 emigrant party started
from their homes in Western Missouri for the
land of gold They were among thousands of
other hardy adventurers whose white tents COW
cred the Plains for many months, and made the
wild prairies of the northwestern territory ap-
pear like the camp of an immense army.-Du-
ring the ascent of the Sierra Nevada daughter
was born to one of the emigrants and the occa-
sion was celebrated by general halt of the
party, and the devotion of a day to such festiv-
ity as the place and their stores would permit
The little stranger was named after the great
mountain near the summit of which she first saw
the light, and the emigrants resumed their toll
some march The placers were gained towards
the close of the year, and a busy multitude were
soon engaged in Withdrawing from the rich val
ley of the San Joaquin the rewards of their toll
Our little emigarnt party became in a short time
the centre of large population; houses were
erected and streets laid out, and the period ar
rived when new city should be incorporated
and named The incident near the summit of
'he great Sierra was not forgotten; and as the
little girl, whose birth was celebrated there pratt
tied upon the knees of the founders of the new
city, they declared il should receive its name
from her. and it was called Nera9a. 1t is now
populous and thriving place, and surrounded
by sources of wealth and future greatness while
the little girl, whose birth occurred when il was
n wilderness and from whom the nrme of the
great mountain descended to it, is, after having
travcrsed California, sailed the Pacific ocean.
crossed the lsthmus and the Gulf of Mexico
still fondied in her mothers arms as they now
ascend the Mississippi towards that mothers
early home. Picaylne
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Curious theory relative to the deIugc.

A clergymen of Cincinnati the Rev. Mr.. Stuart
has broached somewhat novel hypothesis re-
specting the scriptural account of the deluge
He insists that it is an allegory, and assumes
that the ark is intended to represent the church
established by Noah and his posterity, into which
was incorporated every principle of doctrine and
duty necessary for the salvation of man at that
day. To enter the ark was to be confirmed in
the life of religion which it represented. The
flood of waters he considers the emblem of an
inundation of evil and impiety and refers to
various passages in Daniel, Isaiah, jeremiah,
and the New Testament, for the purpose of
showing that the encroachments of fallacious
reasoning and false principles not only COM
pared in the scriptures to floods of water, but
are actually called floods and the overfowing of
rivers. This, he argues, is the real import of
the flood in the time of Noah. The perishing of
the millions by the deluge is to be understood,
he says, in a spiritual sense, the perishing of
souls by the overwhelming influence of sin. In
lecture upon the subject, delivered by Mr..
Stuart, he advances many plausible arguments
in support of his theory. literal flood, like
that described by Moses, the reverend gentleman
says could not have taken place. Men of science
reject as an absurdity the idea of universal
deluge having occurred since the creation of
man. Geology utterly confutes this supposition.
The learned DR.. Buckland, the orthodox DR.
Hitchcock, and many others equally worthy,
have abandoned it, and none stand out for the
literal flood except stubborn few who make
the omnipotence of God the scape-goat of ply
sical impossibilities. These are Mr.. Stuart's
views as we find them reported in a Cincinnati
paper, and we give them as somewhat startling
innovations upon the general belief, without
expressing any opinion as to their soundness.
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The North 4mer1cdn speeulates to a conside-
rable extent upon the probability of such an
invasion, and urges that Louis Napoleon may
be driven to it from the very necessities of his
situation. The French are exciteable people.
They love glory more than liberty, and the re-
nown of their leaders more than the prosperity
of the country. This impulse may drive them
to war; and their ancient hatred of the "here-
dtary foe' force them to attack her. Louis
Napoleon dare not trust his subjects to q period
OF calm contemplation of the extent and char
acter of his usurpation. 1t will seem better for
him to employ the exciteable temperament of
his countrymen against some enemy, than to
allow 1t to gather to head against himself. An
invasion of Eagland would meet the appreciation
of every despotic power on the continent @
On the 26th ult. the following startling state
ment was published by the Morning Chronicle, in
the letter of its Paris correspondent -
VIII France Invade England.
L am credibly informed that at the present
moment the Presidents whole idea is with re-
spect to the invasion of England; that he has
consulted generals, studied the plans Of the
Bologne expedition, received reports ON the
feasibility of the passage of the Channel, sc.
There is not man connected with the Elysee
that does not affect to speak of the invasion as
an affair that is not only practicable, but which
will be attempted. Let it not be supposed that
pretext is necessary. There are unhappily,
too many points, on all of which it would be
easy to rouse the feelings of the French nation,
and any one of which would be an excuse for
The friends of Louis Napoleon imagine
and L fear imagine truly-that the French
people want to have their revenge for the defeat
at Waterloo, and for the Imprisonment of the
Emperor at st. Helena. Such a war, they say
would be popular, and in such circumstances
why should they not undertake it? l know
nothing of the feelings Of other countries but
here the belief is that Russia would join in any
attack which France might be disposed to make
on England. Certain it is that since the 2nd of
December the representative of Russia has been
the most assiduous in his attendance at the
Elysee, and the most honored of the diplomatic
corps; that Russian mobiles are more plentiful
III Paris at the present moment than they have
ever been since 1848; and that both amongst
the French and the Russians it is currently
stated that an arrangement between France and
Russia could easily be managed, for that Russia
would not interfere with the extension of the
French frontier to the Rhine, if France would
permit Russia to seize on Constantinople.
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An Apology for Tobacco,

Excepting slavery and liquor, nothing has ever
been so virulently and universally abused as to-
bacco. From King James the First to ssSene-
ca, nobody has written about it that has not
written against it. Dickens redicules it, Ware
abuses it, Greeley denounces it, and Seneca -
would do all, but from the unfortunate inability
to do either.
Calhoun was the avowed apologist of slavery,
Fallstatf enters plea for a Sherry sack - Tai
ford sold Port, 4" and Redi, the Italian poet, for
liquor generally-but nobody has a word to say
for that weed, which Indian legends say god
dess produced and which history says a hero
first used. Everybody uses it, but nobody de-
fends it. Charles Lamb tried his hand at a sort
OF poetical apology, but the poetry was bad and
the defence was worse. Have chewers, smokers
and snuffers lost all spirit, that one can open
his mouth for this great tooth-cleaner, health
giver, heart-softener, sociability- promoter, and
acquaintance maker? I'VE reckon not. we
'spose not,
We use tobacco-we love tive avow it.
Half the great men in the nation use it, Henry
Clay snuffs, Joe Marshall chews John Van Bu-
rem smokes, and John Quincy Adams used to do
all three, but quit, and-died!
Tobacco cures the tooth-ache-ask any smo-
ker if it don't-and one young enthusiast ex-
pressed his earnest conviction that it was good
for corns. Robinson Crusoe, when he got sick,
chewed it, smoked it, and drank decoetion of
it in rum, and got well.
Every wit ut Wills coffee house, from Dryden
to Sadwell smoked. Tobacco is provocative of
wit. The Scotch all snuff, and the Scotch are
remarkable for the acuteness and subtlety of
their metaphysics, and the rigidty of their right
eousness. Tobacco is a promoter of metaphysics
and morals. The Germans smoke and the Ger
mans excel the world in the extent and minute
ness of their Biblical and Classical research
their persevering application, and speculative
philosophy. Tobacco nourishes learning, specu-
lation and perseverance The French snuff and
smoke both, and the French are the leaders of
taste and the fountain of fashiOn-the best of
mathematicians and most skillfnl of surgeons
Tobacco produces refinement and elegance, pro-
found reasoning and steadiness of nerve. Eng
lish sailors all chew, and their honesty, courage
and generosity are proverbial Tobacco causes
the fullest developement of all the noble feelings.
Indians endure torture with more frmness than
all the stoics from Zeno to Cato. Tobacco infu-
ses lofty contempt Of death Americans chew,