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gay~ One of the ladies connected with
the "Methodist Five Points Mission"
who has under her charge some thirty
little boys, called them together on the
morning Of Thanksgiving day, to per-
feet them in their answers to questions
she intended TO put to them before the
visitors during the afternoon. After
arranging them properly, the first boy
on the right, in answer to the question
"who made you :" was to say "God y
The next, "Of what were you made ~
reply "The dust Of the earth," and SC
on through the Catechism, The all
important moment having arrived, the
little "shavers" were told to stand up.
The head boy it seems was missing, but
the fact being unnoticed by the teacher,
she proceeded with the question, "Who
made you Z" which elected the follow.
ing laughatle answer. 81 was made
out of de dirt Of the 'ert but the little
feller what God made has got the belly
ache, and gone home"
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HOgan's Work on POpery

NAN be purchased at the OFFICE OF THE
" LITERARY ECHO, for 81 ,25 per single
copy or clubs Of twelve can have them for
81 per copy. Sold also by Pierce Handel,
Ayres, and Rev. j. c. Post, Travelling
Agents. | would say to all persons, male
and female, buy one Of Morgans books On
Popery and learn the crooks and wndings
of one Of the most damnable institutions
that has ever cursed the American soil
PIERCE HANDEL.
Ashaway, II. l., Jan. 10, 1854. 145
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M A II RTE ID.

AT Gales Ferry, CT. onthe 4th inst, hy
Rev. q. lluse, Mr.. STEPHEN =. LAwroN,
and Miss SUSAN NJ. IIoRroN, both of this
village.
Also, at the same time and place, Mr..
Irving "A. SHARP, Of Stoningion Ct, and
Miss MARY JANE HORROR, of this village.
In Stonington, Ct, on the 4th inst, by
the Rev. Mr.. Iiubbell, DARIUS II. RANDALL,
of North Stonington, to Amy Z. FRINK, of
the former place.
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Bas~ Among tue marriage notices in
a Boston paper is recorded the wedding
at ct; Paul's Church, Cambridge, Of
MF. B'lggs Gardiner, to Thitza, second
daughter Of Mr.. Smith, of Haverhill
Mr.. Briggs is IL hale and hearty young
man OF seventy-nine. At the copclu-
sion of the interesting ceremony, the
youngster was asked his age, when he
boldly exclaimed, seventy nine Al
this the bride gave a faint shrek ex
claiming, ooh, if / had but known it
Oh, why he has been palming himsel
'n on me as only sixty-six. Oh / la,
no idea Of such thing"
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A bill is before the Georgia Leeisla

A bill is before the Georgia Legisla-
ture prohibiting slave children under
five years of age from being sold sepa-
rately from the mother, and also to pre-
vent as far as possible, the separation of
families.
nES- Our southern friends pretend to
tell us that slave children of that age
are not separated from the mother; if
such is the case, We should like to know
the use of law to prohibit such sepa-
ton.
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nay- At the State Temperance Coz

pzy- At the State Temperance Con-
vention, held at Hartford, Ct, on the Cd
inst, the following ticket was nomna-
ted CHARLES Chapman, of Hartford,
for Governor Col. Lester, of New
London, for Lieut.. GOreraOr; Edward
Mosley, of Hampton, for Secretary
Thomas G. Clarke, of Coventry, fol
Treasurer Rollin l.. Beecher, of Win
chester, for Controller.
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For sale.

TNllE Farm owned by the late Silas Max
l. son, situated on the Pawcatuck River,
from two to three miles rom Westerly, con-
tanning 100 acres. with large proportion
of heavy and valuable timber land, a young
and valuable orchard, buildings convenient,
and in good condition. Terms easy, and
possession given at any time required in the
Spring, If sold. For further particulars,
inquire of the subscribers, or Capt. Joshua
Thompson, Jr. -.
VIM. L. MANSON,
141m3tf* CYRUS II. MANSON.
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Bey" The Legislature of Massachusett

BaS" The Legislature of Massachusetts,
was organized on Wednesday last, by
the election of Charles +. Cook, of Bos-
ton, President of the Senate, and Chas.
Calhoun, Clerk. In the House, Otis p.
Lord, of Salem, was chosen Speaker
and VIM. Stowe, of Springfield, Clerk.
All the officers elected are Wings
The Wings have large majority il
both branches.
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D1~ Rev. Thomas Il. Norris, edito

nJ- Rev. Thomas + Norris, editor
and proprietor of the Boston Olie'
Branch, died at his residence iu Somer,
Vile on Wednesday morning, the 2lst
ult., after a painful illness of three
months. He had been connected will
the Oiire Branch for a period Of eigh
teen years.
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FoRREsTER's BOYS AND GIRLS Mag
AztNE, Published by L. & G.. c. Rand,
Boston, at 81 year, is periodical
which every parent should place in the
hands of the ''little folks" being one
eminently adapted to interest and in,
struct.
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DD- Our particular favorite-the
Plainfeld Goaette-publishes a poetical
effusion entitled" Soliloquy of a
Goose" We would suggest to our
friend, the editor thereof, that solilo-
quizing is a bad habit-action is better
in these stirring times.
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Dg~The New York Express saws, Mr.

ID~The New York Express says, Mr..
Kitching, the owner of the caloric ship
Eric ,on, intends to send her to Havre
in the pla,, Of the Uumbolt, recently
lost at Halifax NO, however before she
makes her trial trip since the new en-.
gines we. put "a. We should think it
might be as well to attend to this last
matter.
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Westerly, January IL, 1854.
Christian Associations.

1t is highly gratifying and encourag-
ing to the Christian mind to observe,
among other gns of the times" a
growing spirit Of bcnevolence and watch
care on the part Of the religious COM
munity in guarding the morals and
furnishing the means Of instruction to
young men in our large cities; and
especially to shat class Of young men
who 90 from the country into the city for
the purpose Of becoming participators
in the active scenes Of life, who, from
not being acquainted with the trials and
temptations which await them there and
frequently, by leaving the country, de-
pIiving themselves Of the advice and
admonitions of older and more ex-
perienced people, are peculiarly suscep-
tible of being lead away from the paths
of rectitude and Christian principle.
In the foremost ranks of these move
ments may be classed the formation OF
the "BOstOm Young Mems Christian
AssOc5atiOn," the preliminary meeting
for the formation of which was held in
Boston on the 18th of December, 1851.
An act of incorporation was granted to
the Association, by the Massachusetts
Legislature in March of 1852, and &C
..cepted in May, of the same year.
The object of this Association, pfima-
rily, is to furnish comfortable and
agreeable room where moral and religion:
young men, who would otherwise be lef
to their own resources and a liability
to fall into vices and bad associations
may spend their time in the perusal o
moral, religious and instructive books
periodicals and newspapers and, also
the privilege of attending lectures ,
eminent and capable lecturers. Meet
ings are held by the Association 70
literary exercises, for conference ant
prayer, for the study of the Bible, 70
intellectual conversation, for the read
ing of essays and for debates. Second
arily, the Association is sort Of
mutual benefit society in the attendanc
of the members upon each other in time
} of sickness in assisting memteYs comm,
in from the country in the selection Q
proper boarding houses, aud in obtainin
employment.
. From the First Annual Report Of til
= Association, we learn that its cash re
receipts have been $69l6, 30; its ex
penditures $5o0S,3l ; leaving a balanc
u u On hand of some $1,000, besides contr
). buttons Of books, pamphlets, public doc
o uments, &C., &c, from various persons
e The Report gives list of one hundre
: and fifty life members-(the paymel
:, of twenty dollars constituting a lfi
! member)-and between fourteen ar
: fifteen hundred active and associa
l. mem bers, which are formed by pa
3 ment of one dollar annually. III
rooms of the Association are in Tr
d mont Temple, Charles w. jerks,
: fremont Row, Corresponding Secretar
Is Since the formation of this Associ
l. / ton, similar ones have been formed
" Portland, Me; Concord, N. II. Pro
A. idence, r. /. 4; Springfield and Wore,
s. ter, Mass. Hartford and New Londc
CT; New York & Buffalo, n. Y
Philadelphia, Pa. Washington, d. {
III Cincinnati, Ohio; Detroit, Michiga
- - Chicago, Ill. St. Louis, Mobile, a
,J New Orleans.
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ss,y- The CITY of Boston has succeed

sg- The City of Boston has succeed,
ed, on the third trial, in electing May
or--Dr. JEROME V. G. SMITH was chos.
en- by more than 1000 majority over
all opponents. DIR. Smith is independ
ent of all parties, though we believe hc
generally votes the Wing National anc
State Tickets. AS Mayor, he vii
know no party.
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psy- Howard Meeks, Esq, of Provi-
dence, and Mr. Campbell, of Con-
necticut, will Lecture on the subject Of
Temperance, at the Union Meeting
House, on Saturday evening of next
week, the 2lst inst at 7 o'clock.
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Bay" Another large fire occurred in
New York on Monday of this week by
which the Metropolitan Hall and the
Lafarge Hotel were burned Loss esti-
mated at about $3.50 600.
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acknowledgements!

OWING to the inclement state of the
" weather, on saturday, the 3lst of De-
cember 1858, the sale of lands belonging to
the estate of the late JOSHUA d. BROWN
described and bounded in previous no
tice)-which was to have take place on said
3lst of December, was adjourned to Monday,
January 16, 1854, Mt 10 o'clock, A NJ.
PELEG MOVES, .qdmr.
Pawcatuck, Jan. 5, 1854. 2tl45
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Notices.

PoPERY,A ,As 1T WAS AND AS 1T is; also
Auricular Confession and Popish Nun
meries, by Wm. Hogan, formerly a Ro-
man Catholic Passt. This work claims,
and We see no cason to doubt its claims,
to be a true and faithful exposition Of
Popcry, from its earlier ages to the pre-
sent time. If such it be, it behooves
all who are interested in the religious,
moral and political freedom of mankiud,
to open their eyes. At all events, the
people of this country will do well to
investigate this matter; and, as an
e fficient aid in so doing, we advise then
to read this book. The copy before us
is of the forty-second thousand--a
pretty conclusive evidence of its popu
larity. 1t is for sale by Pierce Handel
Ashaway; copies may be obtained a
this Office.
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Day i'hen you are short of ideas
use high flown words. To nine per.
sons out Of ten, the bass drum affords
re delight than the guitar.
\. md by most people is mistaken fol
So, Us learning.
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1854.

f. G. BARNES is prepared to receive
subscriptions on all the different papers and
magazines. Come give him call and ex-
amiro for yourselves.
h'so, all indebted to Z. G. Barnes, are
requested to call ard settle their accounts.
Westerly, Jan. 4, 1854. l45
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Corn.

1000 BUSHELS OF White Maryland Corn
1UUU for mealing. Also, quantity of
fresh ground meal on hand, for sale by
j. THOMPSON, JR.
January 10, 1854. 3t
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Notice.

Notice.
WILL be sold at Public
4NNG Auction, on Tuesday, the
,st 18th day OF January, 1854,
kiii6.5 at IL o'clock, A. NJ, on the
premises, (if not previously disposed of at
private sale), the neat and commodious cot
tage House and Lot, lately owned by Mr..
Nelson Brown, and now occupied by Capt.
Peleg Saunders. Terms will be made lib
eral, and may be ascertained, with any
further information, on application to
ROWSE BABCOCK.
Westerly, Dec 2S, 1858. 14itf
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FOUND,

A BUNCH OF KEYS, which the owner
n can have by calling Mt this Office and
paying for this advertisement.
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sa- An adjourned session of the Lee
gislature commenced in Providence, on
Tuesday last.
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AT the Union House.
GREAT ATTRACTIONS!
Instructive anti Thrilling,
POPEKY UNMASKED! }!

SHOWING the enOrmites practised on
~ defenceless females by the Inquisition.
Also, splendid Panoramic Views OF import
ant cities in Mexico, with view Of the most
interes ting scenes in the state, Mexican
War. &c. The whole to conclude with o
brilliant display Of Pyramidic Fires.
On SATURDAY EVENING, Jan. IA, at
the Union Meeting House. Tickets II IL
cents, at the door,
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N Office.

Notice.
WILL be sold at Auction, on Monday, the
w 10th ofJanuary next. on the premises
of the late Silas Maxson, property rs fol-
lows-l loung Cattle, one Horse, n Buggy
Wagon, lumber do. Cart, Hay, Grain, Farm
ing Utensils. and some articles of furniture.
II said day be stormy, the sale will be held
the next fair day.
Sales TO commence at 10 1-2 o'clock \. NJ.
WIN Il. MANSON, ,,,,,rs
CYRUS II. MANSON, A''" 10
Westerly, Il. L., Dec. 80, 1858. 3tl44'
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THE PEopLE's Journal contains
much valuable information for Farmers
Mechanics, Inventors, Manufacturers,
and people Of all professions. 1t is
published in form of 80 pages, pro.
fusely illustrated with engravings, al
fifty cents voume--(two volumes in 0
year by Alfred E, Beach, sc Nassau
ST., N. Y; for sale by Barnes.
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MoNTGoMERY's PICToRIAL TINES, is
the title of new illustrated candidate
for public favor; and judging from the
first number, it will be worthy of pat
ronage. The present form is eight
pages, but the publisher is making ar
rangements for issuing it in form OF
sixteen pages. 1t will then be a splen-
did addition to the illustrated literature
Of the country. For particulars and
terms, see advertisement in another
column.
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MEYER's UNIvERsUM-Nos. IO,11,
and IL, of vol. 2, has been received.
The twelfth number completes this work
the finest work issued from the press
in this country, in our opinion, with the
exception of the Observation-Disclosures
ed" by the same publisher. 1t is pub
lished by Hermann j. Meyer, l64
William ST., N. Y, at $3 90 for the
volume Of twelve numbers-containing
forty-eight large steel plate engravings
views of cities, landscapes, aud scenes
in different parts of the world, with ap-
propriate letter-prcss descriptions. The
subscribers will also receive, as a pre-
MUM plate, a large steel engraving Of
the Maid of Saragossa." This book,
bound in good style, will make a splen-
did and instructive comfortable orna.
ment- one which person of taste can,
not well afford to be without.
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L LILLIBRIDGE, Deputy Sheriff.
South Kingston, Oct. "a, A. Il, 1858.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-10-28
Pierre soule.

Was born at Castillon in the Pyrenees, during
the first consulate of Napoleon. His father
had risen to the rank Of lieutenant general in
the republican armies but afterward returned
to his native mountains, and exercised the
Office of judge, which was hereditary in his
family. Pierre was destined for the church,
and in 1916 was sent to the Jesuits' college OF
Toulouse, where the holy fathers soon remarked
and appreciated his abilities. Young Soule,
however, became dissatisfied with his situation
and left the college. He was afterward sent to
complete his studies at Bordeaux. AT the age
of fifteen he tooI partin a conspiracy against
the Bourbons, and the plot having been dis
covered, he was obliged to take refuge in a lit
tie village of Navarro where he remained for
more than year following the occupation of a
shepherd He was permitted to return to Bor-
deaux; but he longed for more exciting
scene of action, and accordingly repaired to
Paris. Here, in conjunction with Barthelemy
and Merry, he established a paper advocating
liberal republican sentiments. This, of course,
soon brought him under the authorities, and he
was put upon his trial. His advocate, on that
occasion, was friend named Ledru, who ap-
pealed to the cemency of the court in behalf
Of the prisoner on the score of his youth. This
line of defense did not suit the prisoner who rose
from his seat and addressed the court in an
impassioned strain denying the criminality of
his opinions, and defending the rectitude ofhis
conduct His eloquence did not save him from
st. Pelagie, whence be succeeded, with the aid
of Barthelemy, in making his escape to Eng
land. Disappointed in his expectations Of OBJ
tanning situation in Chill. which had been
promised him, and finding himself alone in a
strange country, wholly ignorant Of the Ian
guage, he returned to France. AT Havre he
met friend, a captain in the French navy,
who advised him to seek an asylum in the Uni
ted States, and offered him passage in his
ship as far as St. Domingo. Soule accepted
the proposition, and arrived at Portau-P Prince
in September 1926. From this place he took
passage to Baltimore, and finally removed to
New Orleans IN the fall of 1925.
NeU York Dutchmdn.
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Alexandra Dumas,

The French dramatist and novelist was born
June "a, 1903, at Villers. Cotterets, in the
department of the Aisne. Alexander Davy
Dumas, his father, who distinguished himself
dnring the wars of the revolution, was the son
Of the Marquis de la Pailleterie, q wealthy
planter Of St. Domingo, by negress. On
his fathers death, Alexandra Dumas repaired
to Paris with the hope Of obtaining some situa-
ton through the influence Of his fathers friends,
but he met with very cold reception, and had
it not been for General Poi, to whom he brought
q letter of introduction, he might have been
reduced TO a state of restitution. This gentle
man procured clerkship in the Office Of the
secretary Of the duke Of Orleans 1.-THE late
king of the Frencb.) He devoted all his
leisure to supplying the defects of his educa-
ton, and soon acquired taste for literature,
and desire to excel as an author. A repre-
sentation of Hamlet" by an English company,
which he witnessed, aided in stimulating his
ambition, and he resolved to produce n tragedy
after the model Of the great English dramatist
The consequence Of this resolution was the
appearance Of "Henri ILL.,, ct sd cour," which
received unbounded applause, and spread the
fame Of the author. Many other dramas "too
numerous to mention" followed in rapid sue
cession. Out Of his cwn country, M. Dumas
is probably better knowRles a novelist than a
dramatist, more especially by his "Monte
Christo,n which has been served up in this
country in several FORMS AS dramatic au.
thor he has been bold innovater upon the
old established manner of the French stage
and his writings have perhaps been of some
service to French literature, in assisting to
free his countrymen from subsection to arbi
trary rules of composition. He had some
difficulty with NJ. Gaillaudet, formerly Of this
city, in relation to the authorship of the Tour
de Nesle," but as M. G. was never known as
the author of anything else his claim was dis
credited. The mere list Of Dumas's novels
would eli some pages Of this work. They have
mostly been contributed piecemealto the .teuil
letons of the various Partisan newspapers more
for profit than reputation. 1t would be curiou,
rs showing how much one man can accom-
plisb, we're it not notorious that M. Dumas EN-
ploys a corps Of writers, who work ont hi
IDEAS, and whose labors he simply retouches.
Ne,o York Dufchman.
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Last Letter of Count Raousset Dc Boulbou


The French journals publish the following
letter written by M. Raousset de Boulbon, pre-
vious to his departure from San Francisco, and
which was probably the last he penned up to
the period of his death. 1t will be seen that
he gives expression in it to the presentiment Of
the fate that awaited him.
SAN FnANcIsco, May 10, 1854.
Ny DEAR ALFRED
The last mails have brought me no letter
from you, although mine have been delayed
for nearly fifteen days. This silence has led
me to suppose that we have obtained nothing.
l expected it. 1t now only remains for me to
act.
About four hundred men left on the I'd of
April in the Challenge They must have ar
rived at Guaymas fifteen days ago. The great
part Of these men only started in the convic-
ton of my almost Immediately rejoining them.
| am closely watched by the American police.
The capitalists. terrified at this hostility, will
not hazard cent. / am all alone, and alone l
must act. have Just purchased small boat
of ten tons, and shall embark in it before the
end Of the week.
If succeed in deceiving the watchfnlness
that is exercised over my movements, if shall
escape the American and Mexican cruisers if
l arrive on the coast OF Mexico, and after
having traversed the six or eight leagues which
divide me from Guaymas; if can enter into
communication with the land, ] shall see if my
men are still in the town. If they are, / shall
Immediately disembark.
If my Gauls, discouraged by false reports,
and demoralized by six weeks of waiting, should
have dispersed and penetrated into the interior,
then will endeavor to reunite them-a slow
and difficult matter. shall have to cruise on
the Gulf for at least fifteen days, and escape
all observation. If | can reassemble two hun.
dred of them, | will seize upon Guaymas, in
stall myself there, ard endeavor to draw
reinforcements from California.
Once master of Guaymas, shall not act
upon any fixed plan, but shall avail myself of
circumstances as they arise.
You see to what am reduced. / am con-
WINGED that have ten chances against one in
this hazardous enterprise. The Mexicans have
outlawed me. "If am taken, i shall end like
pirate" Alasl may say like Chenier, in
striking his forehead before his head fell under
the guillotine There was something there. y
Convey my thanks to M NJ. Sym
patty is precious in isolation. Adieu, per-
haps forever.
RA0USSET B0ULBON.