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n.say~ Last Thursday evening +

s@y" Last Thursday evening two
ladies, Miss Phebe Lewis and Mrs.
Chase, walked off the bridge at Asha
way and fell into the river Miss Lewis
tell into water about ten feet deep and
Immediately sank, but Mrs. Chase man
aged to save herself from sinking, and
gave the alarm Her cries were heard
at the store Of Jacob D. Babcock, ESQ,
few steps off, and Mr.. b. and a MIR.
Albert Burdick rushed to their rescue.
The night Was very dark, and the light
they took with them lasted only long
enough for them 10 catch glimpse OF
Miss l.. as she was sinking, but Mr.
Burdick Immediately jumped into the
river and succeeded in rescuing her
after swimming under the bridge to the
edge Of the dam, Mrs. G.. was helped
out before she sank. Much praise il
due Mr.. Burdick for his heroic daring
and perseverance, in hazarding his owl
lite to save that of another. We learn
that Miss Lewis is very i'll of injuries
received by the accident, and some
doubts of her recovery are entertained
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RESOLUTION authorizing an invita-
ton to the President elect, to visit
this State.
Resolred, That Select Committee,
consisting Of Messrs. c. c. Potter, A.
V. Potter, and G f. Browne, of the
House, and Messrs. N. Porter, and j.
B. Francis, of the Senate, be, and they
are hereby empowered to transmit to
the President elect of the United States,
an invitation to partake of the hospitali-
ties of the State of Rhode Island, on his
way from Concord to Washington.
And the Governor is hereby authoriz-
ed to draw on the State Treasurer for
the expenses accrueing under this re-
solution.
Trne copy-attest.
A. POTTER, Sec'ry.
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DG" Mr.. Wilton has given $40 to
the New Hampshire State Agriculture!
Society for a premium for the best spe-
cimen of patching and darning. The
premiums upon embroidery and worsted
work are well cnongh in their way, but
the encouragement Of good darning and
patching is of much greater Importance.
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D2~ No. 2 of the Illustrated Maya
s'ne Of Art, for February, has been re-
ceived by Barnes. This Magazine is
started. in a supurb style, connected
with a large quantity of valuable reading
matter, engravings of tho finest quality,
the whole forming one Of the best publ
cations of the day. See advertisement.
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eY- The New jersey Legislature
has bill before it, providing that
commission may be issued in the case of
an habtual drunkard, in manner simi
lar to commission for lunacy, to prevent
him from wasting his property. This is
wholesome provision, and much good
would result from its enactment.
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ay- The new Liquor Bill passed the
House on Tuesday last by IL majority.
The act as passed is the same as it was
first introduced. Ayes 80, noes 81.
The bill now goes to the Senate and will
probably pass that body, when it will
become law. The temperance folks
may now cheer up; the rummics will
growl, but the cause will eventually tri-
umph, and intemperance with its attend.
ant evils will be banished from our State
never to return.
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Another Scientific Wonder, J,,r,

DyspciRes.-Dr. 5 ou.hton's P.psin. The True Di.
gestive Fluid or Gastric Juice prepared from Rennet
or the Fourth Stomach Of .he OK srcr directions q
BARON LfEBIG, the great Physiological Chemist by
J HoUGIToN, VI ID, Philadelphia. This is truly
wonderful rcmey for Indigestion Dyspepsia Jaundice
Liver Complaint Constipation and Debility, curing
after Natures method by Natures own agent tho
Gastric Juice. Pamphlets containing scientific evil
dence Of its value, furnished by agents gratis See
advertisement in another column
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Ca AT typographical festival held
at Columbus, Ohio, on the 18th ult.,
Mr.. Harris, of the Ohio Cultirator, gave
the following toast:-
" The Printers DEvIL-Harmless, if
kept in his place."
And suiting the action to the word,
he poured the contents Of his goblet into
an old shoe.
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bsS~ The people of Norwich, c., are
about to build new hotel, at cost of
$4,000. We know of place consid-
erably this side of Norwich, where the
people, although reputed entcrprising
and spirited, show very little disposition
to do anything in the matter except to
taM.
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A fine picture of Gen. Pierce, hang
ing in the Office of Maj. Avery, at Gin
cinnati, suddenly fell and was broken in
pieces, at the exact time that the Gen
eral and his wife were made childless by
the fearful accident at Andover.
s@- What a remarkable coincidence
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Cows of labooc 1slan6.
state Of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations.

In General assembly, Jan. Session, 1853
AN ACT in amendment of T" an act in
relation to the publication of the pub
lie laws"
His enacted by the General assembly
osJollocs:
SECTION /. The proprietor of every
public newspaper in this State, who
shall comply with the provisions Of the
act of which this is in amendment, shall
receive in addition to the compensation
named in said act, the sum of ten dol
lars, annually.
True copy-attest,
A. POTTER, Sec'ry.
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sD- The Postmaster General publish
es an official notice, ordering that on
all letters to and from France through
England, the single rate of United
States postage be 81 cents, and on news
papers A cents, such postage to be COL
lected in and retained by the L. S.
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pI~ Petitions very numerously sign
cd have been presented in the Legisla-
ture Of Michigan in favor of the" |" Maine
Law.n
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ea- A liquor law of ifty-four Sec
tions has been prepared by the Temper
ancc Alliance of New York, and will be
forthwith presented to the Legislature.
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ES- The three candidates for Mayor
of Pittsburgh are printers. j. b. Gu
tbrie is the democratic candidate; j.
Heron Foster, editor of the Dispatch,
is the free soil candidate; r. NJ. Riddle,
editor Of the Journal, is the whig can
didate.
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Bay" The Democratic State Conven-
ton will be held at Providence Feb. "a.
The Eastern and Western District Con
vcntions for the nomination of Congress
sional candidates will also be held at
Providence on the same day.
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BsJ@ We would call the attention of
the reader to A. G. Goodman & Co.'s
advertisement of the Life of Napoleon
Bonapartc, in another column. 1t is a
valuable book, and should be in the pos
session of all. ... ....
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RESOLUTION authorizing Justices O!

1tHoOHO IION auUuUrIZlHS JUSTICES UI
the Peace tc make returns.
Resolced, That the justices Of the
peace in the several towns, whether
elected by the General Assembly, or by
the people in town meeting, who have
neglected to make their returns to the
General Treasurer, pursuant to law, are
hereby authorized to and permitted to
make said returns to the General Treas,
urer at any time on or before the third
Monday in February next and said re-
turns shall be as valid and effectual, as
if they had been made at the last May
session according to law.
True copy-attest,
A. POTTER, Sec'ry.
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BS- A petition for a law. prohibiting
the sale of spurious liquors has been pre-
sented in the Legislature of New Jersey,
signed by $4,000 persons.
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1a~ The Fourth Lecture of the Citi-
zens' Course will be given this evening
by Francis j. Dickman, Esq. Subject
:" The Cooperation of the Mind and
Hand.n
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1a~ In the churches of Milwaukee
the members of the congregation are not
allowed to smoke either pipes or cigars.
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M A IL IL lie ID ,

At Stillmanville, in this town. on the 9th
inst, by Rev. +. Denison, Mr.. HORACE d.
BURDIcK, Of Stonington, and Miss LYDIA
ANN CHEsEBRo, of Westerly.
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Mystic Academy.

IHE Spring Term will open Feb. %,
l. For further information inquire Of
j. l.. DENISON, Principal.
Mystic River, Feb. 1853. 9St2
The Nevada journal., 1853-03-11

as some of the nations of Europe ana
America, who have done away with
the promises, and deprived themselves
of the blessings of Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob. The nations do not know any
thing about the blessings of Abraham !;
and even those who have only one
wife cannot get rid of their covetuous-
ness, and get their little hearts large
enough to share their property with a
numerous family. They are so penu-
rious, and so narrow and contracted
in their feelings, that they take every
possible care not to have their families
large; they do not know what is in
the future, nor what blessings they are
themselves Of, because of
the traditions of their fathers. They
do not know that a mans posterity, in
the eternal worlds, are to constitute
his glory, his kingdom, and domin-
ion
The Nevada journal., 1853-03-11

JOAQUIN AND HIS GANG.-Neither in
the pages Of romance, nor in the authen-
tic annals Of history have we found q
robber whose career has been marked
with atrocities half so dreadful as that
of Joaquin Carrillo, who now ranges the
mountains within sixty miles of this ci-
lty. 1t has been the fashion of the his
torian and the novelist to trace in tho
characters of their bandit heroes some
redeeming traits, but in the conscience
of this blood-thirsty villain there ap-
pear to be no qualms no mercy or re-
proach. He rides through the settle
ments, slaughtering the unprotected, as
if mania for murder possessed his soul.
So daring and reckless is he, that no
marches in day time through thickly
peopled settlements, and actually corrals
the Chinese by the score, and yet so
fertile is he in expedients, and SO eecu-
rate in his knowledge Of that wild re-
gion, that he battles his pursuers, and
defeats the plans of the many thousands
who are lying in wait for him. So com
plete is the organization of the band
under his control, that we are told, re-
laws of the feetest horses in the country
await him at almost every step.-Rep.
The Nevada journal., 1853-03-11

Horrible Atrocity.-Yesterda NOR
ming, two Mexicans, who were sleep
ing near the Centre street bridge, were
shot by balls from Colts revolvers
and probably mortally wounded. Ra-
fael Eredia received one ball in the
heshy part of his arm another entered
his left side and lodged among the in
testines. Jose Maria Moreva receiv-
ed a wound in his left side, the ball
entering at the terminus of one of the
short ribs, and passed into the abdo-
men, lodging among the bowels. The
attack was made by two very respect
ably dressed men, while the two Mex
leans were lying in their bed, made
among their saddles. Should either
of the wounded men recover, they will
probably be able to identify the cow
ardly assassins, as they had fair view
of their faces and forms.
A friend, upon whose judgment we
place great reliance, says that Mex
ican informed him that two Sonorians,
whom he recognized as dangerous
characters, having known them in the
State of Sonora, were prowling in the
vicinity of this city on Monday eve
ming. He thinks it probable that
they belong to Joaquin's band, and
that they have gone in the direction
of San Jose. So look out below.
Stockton ReDubicau.
The Nevada journal., 1853-03-11

PROPOSED Salaries Mr.. Bush has
introduced bill in the Assembly, afix-
ing the annual salaries of officers as fol-
lows; Governor $4,000; Secretary Of
State, $4,000; Treasurer, $4,000; Com p-
troller, $4,000; Attorney General, ST.
500; Surveyor-Gsneral and Superinten, n,
dent of Public Education, Sl00; Su-
preme Judges, s6,000 District Judges,
$4,000, $1,000, $4,000, and $4,000, ac-
cording to the District; District Attor-
nies, to be fixed by Board of Supervisors,
or Court of Sessions; Clerks of Depart
ments, $500; Lieutenant Governor and
Speaker, SIC per diem, during the Ses-
sion Members of the Legislature, SO
per diem. Read twice, and referred to
the committee on Ways and Means.
The Nevada journal., 1853-03-11

Mormonism. AT a Mormon Con,
ference held at Salt Lake, speeches in
favor of polygamy were made by sew
eral of the patriarchs of that denomi-
nation. Elder Pratt discourses at
great length on this subject, of which
we find the following in the s. r. Her.
aid, taken from the official report of
the conference:
"He says Abraham received the
promise that his offspring should be as
numerous as the sand. But, he con-
tinues; sit would have been rather a
slow process, if Abraham had been
confined to one wife, like some of those
narrow, contracted notions of medern
Christianity. Ithink there is only a
bout one-Hfth of the population Of the
globe that bolieve in the one-wlfe sys'
TEN; the other four ffths believe in
the doctrine of plurality OF wives
They have had it handed down from
time immemorial, and are not half so
narrow and contracted in their minds
The Nevada journal., 1853-03-11

RAILROADS IN KENTUCKY.-Tht
Maysville Eagle gives the following
gratifying report of the progress o.
railroad matters in that part of Ken
lucky:
"NIr. Childe, Chief Engineer of the
Maysville and Big Sandy Railroad,
has organized party to locate the
line of the road between Maysville
and Springville, opposite Portsmouth.
He is now at Springville, at which
point the work of location will COM
mence and proceed down to Maysville.
The company will be prepared to put
the graduation and masonry under
contract as soon as the locating party
shall have prepared the line.
The Maysville and Lexington Rail
road company are still vigorously pros
ecutin9 the graduation and masonry
of their line, having very heavy
force of wolkmen employed. They
have been very fortunate in the sale
of all the county and corporate bonds,
as we are assured by the President
Mr.. Waller, who has just returned
from New York, at first rate prices
and are now in possession of ample
cash funds to push forward their work
with increased and unusual vigor.--
They have purchased all their rails
chairs, spikes and machinery, at pri-
ces considerably below the market
rates, and have contracted for laying
the entire track of superstructure be-
tween Maysville and Lexington. That
portion of the road lying between Pa
ris and Lexington will be completed
and in running order, with all the ne
cessary engines and cars, in July next;
between Paris and Millersburg, and
between Maysville and johnson, in
September next; and the remaining
GAP between johnson and Millersburg
early in the spring Of 1854. Mr.
Waller, during hi, late trip East, pur-
chased three more locomotives, making
five in all, and secured them at the cost
of engines before the late rise in iron.
The Nevada journal., 1853-03-11

THE DEAD OF l852.-The list of the
dead for the past year includes such
names as Daniel Webster, Henry Clay,
John Sergeant, Prince Schwartzenberg,
David Graham, Robert Rantoul, David
Henshaw, Roger Jones, Arthur Welles-
/ ley, John McKinly, William Ware,
Thomas Moore, Samuel Prout, Horatio
Greenough, Edward Seguin, Ada Byron,
Junius Brutus Booth, John Frazee, John
Haviland, Sir Jehn Harvey, Admiral
Wormley, Marshal Marmont, Robert
Blackwood, Baron Krudenor, A. J. Dewn-
ling, Pugin, D'Orsly, Johanot, Mapleson,
among the statesmen, artists, scholars
and eminent citizens while among the
clergy are recorded the deaths of three
Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal,
(Chase, Gadsden and Henshaw,) and
one (Hedding) of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church together with the learned
Drs. Stuart, BaIlou and Mott, three most
eminent clergymen.
The Nevada journal., 1853-03-11
Indian Marriaqe Promise.

Indian Marriage Promise. - A
young Indian had failed in his atten-
tions to young squaw. She made
complaint to an old chief, who appoin-
ted hearing or trial. The lady laid
the cause before the Judge and eX-
planned the nature of the promise made
to her. 1t consisted of sundry visits
made to her wigwam, "many little un-
defnable attentions" and presents, a
bunch of feathers and several yards of
red flannel. This was the charge
The faithless swain denied the sun
defnable attentions " in toto. He had
visited her fathers wigwam for the
purpose of passing away time, when
| it was not convenient to hunt, and
given the feathers and flannel from
| friendly motives, and nothing further
During the latter part of the defense,
the squaw tainted. The plea was con-
sidered invalid and the offender SEN
fenced to give the lady ga yellow fea-
ther, a broach that was then dangling
from his nose, and a dozen coon
skins"
The sentence was no sooner conclu-
ded, than the squaw sprang to her feet
and clapping her hands, exclaimed
with joy:
Now me ready to be courted a
gain
The Nevada journal., 1853-03-11

SANAToRY ARRANGEMENTS OF THE z.
Nj S. CoMPANY's STEAMERs.-lmmedi-
ately upon arriving in port these steam
ers have all their spare Goals and stores
taken out, and their holds, store rooms
and coal bunkers whitewashed. The
mattresses of the past voyage are con-
demned, and new ones furnished, SO that
one passenger never sleeps on bed that
has been previously used by another.
The linen and other bed clothing is sent
to the laundry to be washed. The ves-
sells are then thoroughly cleansed ven-
tilated, dried and fumigated from stem
to stern, and disinfecting agents placed
throughout them. They are we'll pro-
vided with wind sails, air ports, Sky
lights, &C., which are kept in constant
use, giving free circulation of air
throughout the ship. These are also
constantly used when on the voyage
and at sea- the cabin and steerage are
daily washed and dried. A stream Of
water from the sea cock, is kept con-
stantly running into the ship, while un-
der way. which is discharged by the en-
CINE bilge pumps, thus keeping every
thing sweet between the floor timbers.
Great care and attention is given to pro-
vide stores, provisions, &C., of the very
best quality, which are kept on ship
board in large airy store rooms, and are
carefully examined and inspected before
given out for consumption.
New supplies Of fresh meats, poultry,
and vegetables are produced at the way
ports on the route. Each steamer has q
surgeon of the highest reputation, eff
cheney and skill, and their dispensaries
are supplied with drugs and medicines
of every variety, and of the best quality
"a certain portion of each ship is ex-
pressly appropriated for the purpose Of
hospital, and nurses are provided to
wait upon the sick, and afford them eve-
ry attention Medical attendance, med
icines and nurses are furnished to pes
sengers free of expense. '-
The above is furnished us as most
reliable statement of the facts in the
case of the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany's steamers.
The recent mortality via. Panama, is
doubtless wholly owing to the presence
of the yellow fever, that scourge of the
tropics at that point. 1t has probably
abated ere this. 1t is evident that the
company have taken unusual precaution
to prevent disease, and to mitigate it
when it occurs. Capt. Knight, the agent
of the company here, gentleman of ca
pacity, integrity, and benevolence, de-
votes himself with great energy to the
duties of his Office. Christian Aduoeats.
The Nevada journal., 1853-03-11
The Seasons of Life.

Life is like the passing year
Budding hopes with Spring appear;
Urging on the sultry hours
Summer-noon brings wealth of flower!
AuIumn's afternoon is rife
With the golden grain Of life;
Frosty age in twilight dim
Trembling hears the vesper hymn
Ere the bell has ceased to toll
Heaven will claim another soul!
Hope and life have passed away,
Winter-death, secures his prev.
The Nevada journal., 1853-03-11

lRON.--The Boston Post states that
nearly three hundred thousand tons of
railroad iron were imported into this
country during the last year, whilst
during the same period only eighteen
thousand tons were manufactured in
Pennsylvania. Were it not for the
undoubtel facts by which this state
ment is sustained, it would appear in
credible. And what language can
properly characterize the fatuity and
utter folly of a system of public policy
that encourages the importation of an
article which in its raw state lies in
immense quantities beneath our own
soil, and for the manufacture Of which
we are possessed Of every capability
Such course can only be compared
to the criminal folly of a man who di-
reefs his efforts to the assistance of
those who have no claim on him o the
manifest neglect and injury Of those
of his own household, whose interests
should be his own. What would be
censurable in an individual is still more
so in nation, from the wider sphere
through which its actions operate -
Such, however, is the course of the
dominant political party, and instead
of a return to a proper system OF en-
couragement to the iron manufacture,
the tendency is rather to strip il of the
incidental protection which tortuitous
circumstances have created. Under
such circumstances argument and re-
monstrance are alike useless, and the
only remedy seems to be to wait pa
tiently until experience teaches its bit
ter lesson, and we learn, to use a
homely phrase, how far too dearly we
have "paid for our whistle"
We take the above extract from the
Hartford (Ct) Cowa,2t, 1t contains
facts which should commend them
selves to the attention Of American
Legislators.
The recent extraordinary rise in
the price of iron (said to be nearly or
quite 100 per cent? has confounded
the calculations Of political spectators,
and knocked into "pi" the predictions
of those free-trade advocates, who pre-
dicted that a low duty would give the
consumer low priced iron. One OF
the leading arguments against this
free trade low duties system was, that
the effect of the law would be to re-
duce the price for given time, or un-
til the American manufacturers were
driven out of the market, and forced
to suspend operations after which the
price would again rise to a higher fig
ure than ever before reached. Such
a result follows, as a matter of course,
after breaking down the American
producers. The foreign capitalists
then have the market in their own
hands, and can control the price. A
merican makers can return to the bu-
siness, but it will result in loss, for
as soon as they get fairly under way
the heavy foreign capitalists will again
reduce the price SO low as to force
them out Of the Market Sac. Union