starving order. But if we can have a stump of a war, | ception, whether they hold offices or not) the people then the doctors will come in for snacks. will naturally delegate those in whose wisdom, patriotism, But it is no longer to be disguised, that the nullifiers and experience they can best confide. In the care of have embarked in a most desperate crusade, in which such a body, they will feel that the interests and honor are interested all the fierce and angry elements which of the state ane perfectly safe. And the Richmond Enresult from disappointment and wom hatred. We are inquirer may rely upon it, that if ever South Carolina propossession of their plans, and will watch their move tests again, it will be by such a manifesto, emanating ments. Two thirds of the people are against them.—from such a source, and containing such an exposition of The friends of the constitution and the union will tri- her understanding of the constitution, and of the course umph. she is determined to pursue in the prosecution of her rights, as will compel her oppressors to pause in their career." Col. Drayton's speech at the great dinner in Charleston, is hailed as the precursor of the return of good order and sober reason. It is expected that some person of the union party will be brought out as a candidate for governor, in opposition to major Hamilton. I know something of the public opinion in the large and populous districts of the back country, and I do not hesitate to say, that any man who is opposed to nullification, would receive two thirds of the votes, in preference to major Hamilton, or any other man holding his political sentiments. I trust, therefore, that some person will be placed in nomination in opposition to him. Let any one shew in the annals of the "Hartford Convention" a parallel to these outrageous proceedings of "the republican party!" "One look from Chrononhotonthologos shall stare thee unto nothing!" "Pass-if you please!" ANTI-NULLIFICATION. At a public dinner given to Mr. Clay, one of the representatives in congress from Alabama, at Huntsville, the following were among the regular toasts: The Union-May "spring guns and man traps" catch the fingers and tongue of the man who would write or speak aught against the union. The University of Alabama-Founded on the liberality of the general government, will, with a prudent disbursement of its funds, rival any similar institution in America. We learn that the nullificatory candidates for the le- The American Colonization Society--May its philan gislature were withdrawn at Greenville, the people put-thropic efforts emancipate and remove the last African ting them down by the call of "no convention." The from the American shores. anti-nullification members, it is said, will be elected without opposition. THE COLUMBIA TELESCOPE republishes the observations of the Richmond Enquirer, giving assurances that "the danger was over in S. Carolina, and that no "statute of nullification would be passed”—with the following remarks, apparently from à correspondent:--W'hig. The nullifiers will be nullified when they attempt to nullificate the unnullificatable will of the people-and become nullities. DECENCE AND LOGIC! From the Georgia Journal of Aug. 14. Glorious news.-Dd you ever hear the like of it? They're going to elect Mathew Carey, the grand royal arch lugh priest of monkey craft, to represent the Philadelphia district in the congress of the United States. Did you ever hear the hike of that? We're almost ready to jump out of our skins for joy. We feel, at the bare prospect of his election, like the preacher who used to say, when he got into his tantrums, that he felt like he could storm h-11 and run Bonaparte. Our fortune's made; for if we don't get Mathew to present our petition to congress to protect us in raising raccoons, there's no snakes. Just let him be elected, and let him present our petition, and make a speech in support of it, drest out in all its rambeaus, and flambeaus, and fripperies of true monkey system eloquence-and the monkey sys tem people can't refuse to grant it. Only think of a coons. He can find raw materials for a dozen first rate ones in Niles' Register, and his own writings under the signature of Hamilton. Only think of a speech on the racoon system by Mathew Carey. It makes us poetical to think of it. Who would'nt go to Washington to hear it. Even "SIR: On perusing the above paragraph, I was much | more surprised at the strange course Mr. Ritchie is now pursuing, than at Mathew Carey's convenient want of memory. Every man in South Carolina, who reads Mr. Ritchie's predictions as to nullification, will wonder where he got his information, and exclaim that the Richmond editor is neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet. What has induced Mr. Ritchie to fall in love with Mr. Webster's system of tergiversation, I know not-but he changes sides with wonderful facility. If nullification be the improper remedy, what will Mr. Van Buren, or Mr. Van Buren's man, the Richmond editor, propose instead of n? Patience? Oh aye: this is the very thing patience under our afflictions, and a hap-speech in congress by Mathew Carey on raising rapy issue out of all our misfortunes! The congress majority, with their hands in our pockets, recommend exactly the same thing. The fact is, I do not give any cre dit to Mr. Ritchie's assertions on this subject; lam compelled to lay aside all confidence in his editorial remarks. He has found reason to change sides, satisfactory, no doubt, to himself" The Charleston Mercury has the following pleasant remarks on the same subject. It is not wonderful that persons who change sides" so often should sometimes be opposed, though always seeking the strong side: "Now who the individual is that has undertaken to inform the Enquirer that nothing will be done by South Carolina in relation to the tariff, except to continue to protest, of course, we know not. It is sufficient to say that he evidently knows nothing of the prevailing teeling of our people, or that he has siduously attempted to injure their cause, by creating an incorrect impression in our sister states. The Enquirer may imagine that it "does not speak idly on this subject"-but we do seriously assure it that it never spoke more idly upon any subject in its life. South Carolma has protested long enough. The very idea of protesting again is disgusting to her citizens." Wild geese straight from Canada, To milder climates on their way, Would poise themselves in midway air, And gaze with rapture rich and rare, on such a scene as this. Just elect Mr. Carey and our fortune's made. We would'nt give thankee to be gen. Jackson, or even Hezekiah Niles. No. We would'nt give three-thirds of a copper to have king George call us cousin. MR. MCDUFFIE'S PUZZLE. From the Charleston Courier. The grower pays the duties on the imported article."-McDuffie. A man in our district raised ten bales of cotton, which he sold to a store keeper here for $30 a bale, making $300. They tell me that these thirty bales, when they have been manufactured by British mechanics, will make goods worth three times as much as my neighbor got for "But the danger,' says the Enquirer, is over. No his cotton; that is, $900, if the cloth is the commonest. edict or statute of nullification will be passed in South The duties, Mr. McDuffie says, are equal to 45 per Carolina.' The Enquirer, we suspect, speaks as unad-cent. on such goods, so that the duties on the goods made visedly on this point as on the other. No such statute, out of my neighbor's ten bales of cotton are $375, and perhaps, will be passed by the legislature. The pre- these are paid by the planter. Now I know for a vailing, indeed, the almost unanimous determination of fact, that my neighbor paid his store account, $75; his the people is, that a convention shall be called. To taxes, $25; and bought a wench and two children for such a body, (open as it is to all our citizens without ex-$500; and paid $150 cash, and always kept some small We wish that, in respect to public education, at least, every state should closely follow the lead of Massachu setts. change about him, and calculates to pay as much more next year on his negroes. Now, where did he get the money to pay out of $300, the price of his cotton; his $375 duties, and have enough left for his other purposes? This puzzles me mightily. We farmers don't under- NEW YORK. We mentioned in our last, the nominastand it. We get along, pay our debts, and buy a lit-tion, by the anti-masonic convention at Utica, of Messrs. tle every year, and don't know that we are ruined yet. Granger and Stevens, for governor and lieut. governor The lawyers who go to congress say we are. I'll give a of New York. One of the papers in the interior, and a fat calf to any body who will just let me know who it is supporter of the convention to be held at Herkimer, dethat robs me of money I never had, and ruins me with-nounces these nominations as the result of "an arrangeout letting me know a word about it. AN EDGEFIELD FARMER. ment between the leading anti-masons and the coffinhandbill working men." New York is the head-quar ters for coining political epithets. To preserve the repub POPULATION. The population of the city of Balti-lican party, and prevent the election of either Mr. Adams more,-condensed from the table recently published, may be classified as follows: Free white males, 29,8777 Do. do. females, 31,641 61,518 Free col'd. males, 6,135 Do. do. females, 8,752 14,887 62,738. Gain 28" 66 the right of voting for president, that the undivided vote or gen. Jackson, in 1824, "the party" refused the people of the state might be given to Mr. Crawford-the candidate of "the party," but not of the people. We laughed heartily at professions of republicanism coupled with a refusal to let the people prefer whom they pleased; and the gravity with which the measure was urged, was one of the best specimens of regency powers that we ever met with. KENTUCKY. There is much disputation about the result of the election in this state, as to the political character of the legislature, which may well happen from political apathy, or want of political union, which occurred in several counties. From private and public accounts that we have received, we believe that the parties are ar The population of Providence, R. I. is about 17,000-ranged as follows: In the senate: the "national republiincrease in 10 years, 5,000. The embarrassments of cans" have a majority of two, and in the house of reprelast year caused an astonishing decrease of inhabitants, supposed friendly to the election of Mr. Clay. One acsentatives of thirteen-the majority in both cases, being by scattering persons into the parts adjacent, &c. The whole population of Norfolk, Va. is 9,816-5,131 count says that the parties are tied in the senate. whites, 928 free persons of color, and 3,757 slaves-13 We have no additional returns since our last, that aliens, 2 deaf and dumb, 8 colored persons blind from can be relied on, to shew the results of the late elections old age. Of the white males there are 4 between 80 and in Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, Adverse parties are so much interested in representing the issues as favora old-of the females 2 between 80 and 90, and 1 over 90; there are 2 colored persons over 100 years old.ble to their side of the question, (for effect elsewhere), Increase since 1820-1,338; viz. 513 white persons, and that we think it very probable the real force of the politi 825 colored. cal opponents will not be clearly and certainly ascertainCincinnatti has 25,279 inhabitants—it had 9,642 in 1820.ed, or, at least admitted, until after the meetings of the Georgetown, Col. contains 8,441 persons-of whom 499 legislatures of the states named! are aliens, 4 deaf and dumb, 8 blind-1,209 free persons of color and 1,175 slaves. 90 years THE ANNUAL VISITATION OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS is an important day at Boston. The last took place on the 17th inst. After the transaction of business, a very large party dined in Faneuil Hall, at which, among others, the following toasts were drunk: The day-consecrated by our ancestors to the welfare of the rising generation. As they looked forward to our prosperity, may we recur with fond and grateful emotions to their example. COL. WILLETT. The venerable and the good col. Marinus Willett, the hero of Fort Stanwix--a valued and brave soldier of the revolution, died at New York on the 22nd inst. aged 90 years, 11 days, MR. VAN BUREN has declined a public dinner to which he was invited by certain citizens of Albany, under the "influence of public considerations." A DILEMMA. At a convention of delegates from the counties in Ohio at present represented by Mr. Irwin, the president's veto against the passage of the Maysville The faithful and able instructors of our city schools-road bill was unanimously approved-but Mr. Irwin, who If those are benefactors of their country who can make had voted for that bill, and would have passed it against two spires of herbage grow where one grew before-how the veta of the president, was recommended as their remuch is due to those who enter first on the wilderness of the mind and bring it all into grass. presentative. Old-Harvard-The queen mother of the schools, academies and colleges of Massachusetts-May the heart, the hands and the feet, never say to the head, "we have no need of thee." By Mr. Cowper of Virginia: The states of Massachusetts and Virginia, the one a great navigating state; the other a great agricultural state; their interests have been and will be again identified. By the mayor: The state of Virginia, our older sister the mother of Washington, of Jefferson, of Henry, of Madison and other worthies; may the affection we felt for each other in our days of affliction, be never interrupted in the days of our prosperity. COMPETITION. The price of coal at Philadelphia has experienced a great and wholesome decline, as well from the competition of different miners, as the reduced wages, per ton, paid to the laboring people, and their greater skill, together with new and improved communications from the mines to the navigation. Its present price at Philadelphia is from 5 50 to 6 dollars per ton. The population in the neighborhood of the Schuylkill mines is rapidly increasing." TRANSPORTATIONS! We have seen a letter, (says the Philadelphia Morning Journal) written probably about By J. T. Austin, esq.: Baltimore, the city of monu-the year 1770, containing an estimate of the expense of ments and rail roads-We sometimes send her a repre-carrying goods from Albany to Detroit. The writer calsentative of our industry and intelligence-May we in-culates that the cost of conveying 390 galions of rum, port a little of her energy and enterprize. in 157 kegs, would be eighty-five pounds, our currency, after selling the boat in which they were carried for four pounds. The cost of the rum and kegs is set down at £68 78. 6d. The distribution of the Franklin medals was an interesting ceremony-and the address by alderman Russell very appropriate. "RECIPROCAL TRADE!" The Oswego Free Press says, marriage; and, on getting up in the morning, it was said cast iron hammers have been manufactured in that vil- that he ordered the lady Jersey to receive his young lage, ground off, and blacked very handsomely, in imi-bride-and insisted on keeping her on his establishment! tation of the wrought iron. They are destined for the Canada market, and, like Pindar's razors, made to sell. "Men are engaged in this business, who should, from their stations in' society, blush at such meantiess.' This, we suppose, is an offset for logwood-blue cloths, and some hundreds of other like articles which the owners of Canada favor us with. "FREE TRADE!" A Liverpool paper suggests that the best way of supplying the British West Indies with American flour, will be to send it direct by the way of England-say from Baltimore to Liverpool, and thence to Jamaica! ROYAL MATTERS. Certain of the American papers give us long extracts from the British, that it much surprises us to see inserted. We shall notice three of them-by way of specimens. How edifying-how interesting, are these things to the grave and solid republicans of the United States! The French, however, in old times, went far beyond the English-when the Dauphin was born, some years previous to the revolution, the color of his excrement was adopted as that for fashionable dresses of the ladies, and plainly called by its vulgar name. STEAM COACHES. Dresden, June 25. Between this and the 11th of July we shall see arrived here for the first time, a steam carriage which has been constructed at Leipsic. It will perform the distance, which is twen ty two leagues, which the stages perform in ten hours, at the most in six hours, and hereafter perhaps in four or five hours. Leipsic will thus be the only city of the continent which offers the example of a regular communication by means of steam carriages. One thing remarkable about this carriage is, that the machinery is so arThe "post mortem examination of the late king" de-ranged that the smoke escapes almost without being perscribes the fat and water that was found in the body-ceived, and thus the frightening of horses on the road is the "omentum" was "excessively loaded with fat."Then we have an account of the stomach and intestines-the liver and the spleen-the sigmoid flexture and the bladder-the kidneys and the lungs-the heart and the air tubes-the similunar valves, and so forth. His original disease is pronounced to have been the "ossification of the valves of the aorta"-the immediate cause of his death, the rupture of a blood vessel in the stomach. How strange that a king, though nearly 70 years old, should die! avoided. road; the same force would propel the same weight twenty miles an hour, and more, on a straight one, there being so much less friction. Another great improvement consists in the mode of applying the power, and another in the construction of the boiler, which is perdoes not exceed one fourth of a cord a week, to run from fectly novel. Add to which, the consumption of tuel nine in the morning, to nine in the evening! [Cincinnati D. Adv. INTERESTING ITEMS. The "Cincinnatti" steam coach. We now proceed to give some particulars of this great improvement in locomotive steam engines. This engine, independent of the boiler, is made so compact, that a box two feet long, one foot wide, and one foot deep, would contain it it taken to pieces! and yet, such is its power, the builders, Messrs. Shield & Son, of this city, inform us, that it wili overcome a rise of forty five feet in the mile, without any essential variation in its velocity. We rode in the carNext we have a column about the wife of the pre-from fourteen to sixteen miles an hour, on a circular riage propelled by it on Saturday last, at the rate of sent king, daughter of "George Frederick Charles, duke of Saxe Coburg Meinengen," a prince whose territories are about the size of a respectable farm in our western states-the account saying that the "court of Meinengen was too insignificant to attract the notice" of Napoleon, and so it escaped French "atheism and immorality!" Adelaide was born 13th Aug. 1792, and, in her 26th year, brought to England, by her mother, to be joined to the duke of Clarence, when, because of the decease of the princess Charlotte, two or three of her superannuated uncles abandoned their mistresses, and resolved to have legal heirs, if possi ble. In 1819, Adelaide was declared "pregnant," to the great joy of the nation-but she caught a cold, and the promised sovereign of the United Kingdom, prematurely delivered, though "lively and well formed," died! But the mother recovered her strength, as a woman should do, and was soon declared "pregnant" again, with a flourish of trumpets-but she "miscarried." She was soon again in the "family way," and had a temale child, to the wondrous enjoyment of its "illustrious parents"-but that child died of an "introsusception of the bowels" when only three months old, plunging millions into grief! A fourth time, it was announced that Adelaide was "pregnant," but she again "miscarrried," notwithstanding the loud huzzas of the nation! But the hope is held out that she may yet become "the mother of many sons and daughters." A "great sensation" has been caused by the appearance of a young man at London, the son of a Russian countess, who visited England some twenty years ago, and bedded with the late king, to whom the young man bears a strong resemblance. It is added, that because his "illustrious" daddy was too sick to see the youth, he attended “Ascot races and the opera,” and was exceedingly admired on account of his likeness, &c. It is probable that, if the English keep a sharp lookout, they may discover a considerable number of persons who are sons or daughters of the late king-and the multitude of women with whom he lodged. His affairs with Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. Fitzherbert and lady Jersey, are the most notorious. It is probable that these three women, only, have cost the nation more than two millions of dollars, independent of the vast expenditures which grew out of his connexions with them. It was the latter who, more directly, caused the separation of the king from his wife. She was one of his well known mistresses at the time of his A very respectable woollen manufactory has lately gone into operation at Clintonville, near Buffalo, N. Y. The manufacture of Mackina blankets, as they are called, has been spiritedly commenced-and, out of native wool, the product of our own farmers; it is intended that they shall be cheaper and better than the British. Jonathan is always on the stretch to beat John, and will do it, The steam boat Carroll, of Carrollton, made an excursion to a camp meeting on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake, on Saturday night last, and returned on Sunday night, with about 1,200 passengers. The large floating steam mill at Canandiagua, N. Y. which cost $28,000, has been destroyed by fire-whole loss estimated at 50,000. Stephen Cullen Carpenter, an active political writer, died on the 24th ult. at Philadelphia, in the 78th year of his age. [Such a man, in the vigor of his intellect, and being also an Englishman, would be invaluable to the South Carolina nullifiers, because of the ease with which he changed sides-and the rudeness with which he maintained present expressed opinions!] The Methodist conference at Oneida, N, Y. was attended by 100 ministers. Coal wagons are now making at Port Carbon, Pa. in which 10 or 12 tons may be transported with the same power that it lately required to move 4 or 5 tons. Baron Ferrusac states, that there are in Paris, 500,000 persons who subsist chiefly on bread, and that an increate in the price of this article, at the rate of one halfpenny per day, makes a difference in the year of 9,125,000 francs. A late letter from Greece says-"The most extraordinary modern antiquity which I met with at Samos, is a family of which the father is reputed to be 135 years of age, the mother 132, one son 110, and the other 103,all hardy hearty looking people, working in the fields yet." Paris is in tears, not for the killed at Algiers, bat for | fell off in the large sum of 357,653 pounds. The pauthe death of Herbaut the great man-milliner of the age, pers are increasing, notwithstanding the export of ma the sir Walter Scott of the world of satin and taffany. ny to the United States. An English joint-stock company has purchased his establishment, but his genius and taste could not be legal-quashed by the Dutch. ly transferred. The insurrection of the natives in Java has been The differences between the British merchants and the Chinese authorities are said to be arranged, and trade with the "celestial empire" resumed. The Simplon, anciently called Mons Cæpionis, is one of the loftiest of the Italian Alps. The new military road was planned by Napoleon in 1801: it extends from The late king of England was to be buried on the Geneva to Milan, a distance of 473 posts and 245 miles, 15th July, parliament dissolved on the 19th, and the and it was finished in 1805, after three years incessant present king crowned in October next. There will labor, upwards of 30,000 men being constantly employ-be busy times, because of great events! William has ed in the undertaking, at the joint expense of the king- pardoned 37 persons lying at Newgate, sentenced to doms of France and Italy. death. The motion to appoint a regency was rejected--for it 93, against 247. The loadstone is said to have been discovered, in quantity, in Cabarras co. N. C. We have some details of the proceedings of the During the month ending on the 14th inst. 27,000 bar-French at Algiers. It does not appear that, as late rels of Richmond city mills flour, made of new wheat, as the 30th of June, they had obtained any decided were shipped at that port for South America, in four-advantages. Their loss is not reported as having been teen vessels; the principal part destined for Brazil. It is stated in the western papers that the Ohio canal is now open from Cleaveland to Newark, a distance of one hundred and seventy miles. The population of Rome in its "palmy state" was 3,968,000, at present the "eternal city" does not contain more than 140,000 inhabitants. The place where the discovery of printing was first made has been long a matter of contention. In Mallinkrot's work, published in 1640, on the progress of typography, he enumerates 109 testimonies in favor of Mentz, as the birth place of this art; yet the latest author who has resumed the controversy, declares decidly in favor of Haarlem, and assigns the wreath, which has been variously bestowed, on Gottenberg, Faust, and Schoeffer, to Lawrence Coster, of Haarlem." The rev. J. T. O'Neil, a Roman Catholic priest of Charleston, recently paid to the administrator of the estate of the late John Quinn, merchant of that city, the sum of $536 16 cts. with respect to which he says in his letter to the administrator "It may not be irrelevent to inform you that I have received the above amount through the confessional on the principle of restitution. The debt originally contracted was not much above half the present sum, but the legal interest arising thereon with which the individual bound to restitution became justly charged, has increased the debt to the present amount." "A priest of the parish," travelling in Vermont, to oblige a parishioner, lately took charge of certain trunks, in the hope that a clergyman's baggage would not be suspected-which were found to contain smuggled goods. His own honest account of the matter, procured him an immediate discharge. The coasts of North and South Carolina were visited by a dreadful hurricane on the 15th inst. The wind blew with "terrific" violence. Many vessels were lost or damaged, and much injury done to property alongshore. large--but Bourmont was anxious for reinforcements. They were much harrassed by the Arabs, who act bravely, and reap a rich harvest in French heads, presented the dey, as the Indians obtained for scalps of American women and children, by British purchases of them in 1813. Gen. B. is a prudent or weak man.He has nothing of the "dashing" spirit of the school of Napoleon-as yet appears. It seems that the liberal party will have a large majority in the French chamber of deputies, and, perhaps, another dissolution will take place! France is much agitated. The duty on West India sugar, in England, is to be 24s. cwt. and on the East India $28. Bounty in favor of the West India slave-labor, 8s. to be paid by the people of the United Kingdom. The grand Turk is said to have manifested a bad faith to Russia-his agents have driven the Russian authorities out of the ceded territories. Nicholas will hardly again be diverted from his darling purpose, if his armies shall again cross the Balkan. There was a prospect of good crops in Ireland. We have a full account of the established household of the new queen of England. The first "lady of the bedchamber" is an elegant Baltimore woman-Mr. Richard Caton's daughter, the marchioness Wellesley. There are many others, as well as "maids of honor" and "bed chamber women"-the "maids" are all misses, and several of the "women" are "ladies." The following are three specimens of the splendid griefs of Britain, because of the death of the late king: "Yes, George the Fourth is dead, to fate a martyr, And high and low, like he, must follow arter!" "Britannia on her rocks sits sad-forlornAnd weeping cries, his majesty is gone!" "King George, alas, is dead, the sage and good, The best and biggest of the Brunswick brood!" We have also, a great account of the mass of corruption-the poor thing of "dust and ashes," that lately personified the "majesty of England," lying "in state." Festoons and sconses, wax candles and tapers, were abundant--with many real mourners, because they had From London papers of the 9th July--at Baltimore. to stand still, and become weary of the labor of mourn The weather was wet and unfavorable, and some pur-ing-but they were paid for it, and should not fail to chases had been made of American flour, in bond, on spe- earn their wages, decently! If we could laugh at some eulation. It was worth from 31 to 32 shillings. A small of the fooleries performed, we should laugh. But it advance in the U. S. has taken place in consequence. is no laughing matter, when men are thus called to As the British approach starvation, they reduce the duty weep for one king dead, and hurrah for his successor on our flour; when they have full crops, its consumption very sorry and very glad! O-ho-he! Ha-ha-ha! is virtually forbidden, though offered at half the price of their own. The cotton market at Liverpool was improving. FOREIGN ARTICLES. At Liverpool, July 9, though the average of wheat was 66s. 7d. the quarter, the duty was 208. 8d. This is British "free trade." Barradas, who commanded the foolish Spanish expedition against Mexico, has been fool enough to put himself within the power of the "adored Ferdinand,' that he might justify himself-and, of course, been dungeoned. "THE SALEM MURDER." It will be recollected that a person named Crowninshield was indicted as principal in the murder of Mr. White at Salem. Pretty well assured of being executed, he committed suicide, as has been said, that he might save his friends in that bloody "adventure." John The horrible murder of which you have been convicted, stands in bold relief and deformity in the history of crime. The victim of your ferocity, in a few years, according to the course of nature, would have sunk into his grave in peace, but for the thirst for gain which corroded the hearts of those who conspired against his life. He was living in the midst of as peaceful a community as exists upon the face of the earth, surrounded by his relations and friends, upon whom he had lavished his bounty. In the stillness of the night--while he rested his aged limbs upon the bed-while he was in the arms of sleep--in his own house--in the centre of this populous town-the assassin of your procurement committed the deed of death, while you, in the judgment of the law, were present and aiding him in the fact. Francis Knapp was then arraigned as the principal-the | God and your country for trial. Able and learned' first jury on his case could not agree, and was discharg- counsel have been at your request assigned by the court ed-but he has been found guilty by a second, which, to assist you in your defence. Your case has been comit is expected, will determine the late of the two acces-mitted to a very intelligent and impartial jury, selected saries, who, without the establishment of guilt in the by yourself, who have for six days patiently and attentiveprincipal, could have escaped. He was ably defended ly listened to the evidence and the arguments. All that by Mr. Dexter. Mr. Webster was against him, and in learning and industry, fidelity and talents, could suggest, the course of his concluding speech said→ has been urged in vain in your defence. The truth has "If society were excited, there was cause for excite-prevaited-and the jury of your country have established ment; whoever might be the authors of the murder, your guilt-the court is satisfied with their verdict, and there was in it so little that we ever heard of in New you come now to receive the sentence of the law. England before, so incomprehensible, that who that va- Before we proceed to the last and painful duty, we lued the security of his own repose on his own pillow, are desirous of doing you all the good in our power, by did not see in it a case calculated to terrify the commu-awakening your mind to a consideration of the awful nity. It was a cruel murder; it was a dispassionate mur-doom which awaits you.. Would to God, that any thing der; all deliberate, all skilful. And now that the facts we could say, would have the effect of softening your were exposed, it astonished by the absolute want of all heart, and of leading you to sincere contrition and restimulant except money; it was done in a spirit which pentance. calculated so much blood against so much money. Under our New England example, murder had received a new character. Let him who pourtrays, not make it a Moloch; let him not give the knitted brow, the blood shot eye, but the cool face of an infernal spirit of another stamp, about his ordinary business; there was no more rushing of the blood to the face, than if there was none in the heart of man. They might see the perpetrator entering the house; he treads the rooms; his feet sustain him up a long flight of stairs, he steps within the room, the victim is asleep before him, his back is towards him, the moonlight is shed upon him; his grey hairs are visible; the temples are seen; the murderer strikes the blow; he raises the arm and strikes again; he recomposes the clothes; he feels the pulse-he descends-no eye has seen him-he is master of his own secret, as he thinks-and he escapes. But he is mistaken. There is not a place in the universe where he who has that secret, can repose it and say it is safe. It is in the general administration of Providence, that the secret of murder shall not escape detection. When a thing of this sort happens, it draws attention; a thousand intelligences are directed to the spot, they burn upon it, to discover a train of circumstances leading to the discovery. But a man cannot trust himself with such a secret; the human heart is not made capable of holding it; the secret of which man is master, masters him, and, like the evil spirit, leads him where it will; he has a vulture which he can- Our peaceful city stood aghast at this dreadful deed. not allay; he feels that his inmost soul is read, and he The very foundation of our society seemed to be shaken feels that his thoughts are almost heard; there is no re--and the shock was not confined to this vicinity or state, medy but confession, unless it be suicide; and suicide is confession. The slightest circumstance, often lights up a train which sheds lights upon the whole thing. When a murder was committed of an alarming character, which was to be developed only by circumstances, was it wonderful that there was excitement. It was the duty of the jury to investigate the circumstances-to see who they were who had done it-resolved But there is a providential watch constantly over us. to do no more than justice. But there might be, and The murderers have been detected by means as extraorunhappily for human nature there was a counter ex-dinary as their crimes were atrocious. The assassin hat citement. The enormity of some crimes so astonished men as to subdue their minds, and they lost the desire for justice in a morbid admiration of the great criminaland the strangeness of the crime. This had arisen in part from the writings of one who had affected not only the imaginations, but the principles of the young, by making crimes attractive." Sentence of John Francis Knapp. The circumstances attending the conspiracy, exhibit a cool, deliberate design to take the life of the victim, merely for the sake of gain. There was no other passion to be gratified. The conspirators were all young. They were connected with respectable families. They were born, and reared and educated among us. They had the means of living within their own control, if they had pursued the course of honesty and industry. But they forsake this course, and resolved to cut their road to fortune through blood and murder. but extended throughout this land. Suspicions too horrible for utterance were excited in the breasts of reflecting men. The sense of security which the law inspires, was in a great manner lost. No man's house was considered a sale castle-and men seemed for a time disposed to trust to their own arms, rather than to the protection of the law for their safety. perished by his own hands-and the tremendous punishment for your crime is about to fall upon you. But there is in these awful events a WARNING VOICE, which speaks to all, and especially to the young, as with the sound of the earthquake, in every breeze which wafts the news of this horrid tragedy-"Forsake not the ways of truth and honest industry, which lead to honor and everlasting life, for the paths of vice and profligacy, which lead to ignominy and death." Be not deceived by their enticing appearances. At their beginning, the rose-buds of hope and passion may appear, but they end in anguish, poverty, and destruc tion." This wretched young man received his sentence at Salem, on Saturday last. At 9 A. M. he was placed at the bar. The crowd was as great as at any former time of the trial. He remained throughout the solemn ceremony as unconcerned and immovable as ever. When Our fervent prayer for you is, that you may be preparaked by judge Putnam, if he had aught to say why sen-ed, by sincere repentance, to appear before the Judge of ence of death should not now be pronounced upon him, all the earth. And we would urge you to apply to he replied with great energy and firmness: those pious men whose duty it is to teach our holy reli have only to say, that I am innocent of the charge-gion, to help you with their prayers and instructions and I now declare to the world, that I shall die innocent of the crime, for which I am to suffer." Judge Putnam then proceeded to pronounce the dreadful sentence of the law, in the following terms: John Francis Knupp-You have been indicted for the crime of murder-and upon your arraignment have pleaded that you were not guilty-and put yourself upon during the few remaining days which may be allowed to That you be carried from hence to the prison from whence you came-and from thence to the place of execution, and there be hanged by the neck until you shall |