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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
May
Year
1842
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Public Domain
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Horrible! - A ptomising child, about five yearsofnge, in Grand Blanc. Genesee county wns nearly depoured alive, by a sow! He was foadly bitten ond bruised in various places, and oneside of ihchead, with the eye and ear were hterally caten ofl. Mr. Dnwson, formerly Editor of the Detroit Advertiser, ia novv connected with the Roch. êster Dcmocrnt. Adenfnnddnmb lady and gentleman were recently married at New Orleans. They will fcaveaqniei house of it; especially if the babies tnke after their parents. John JVorvrll has been appointed clerk of the Supreme Court for the first judicial circuit of Michigan. A foieign gentleman at New Orlenna friend of Texae,writesto the Washington Independent, that the white population of that nation does not exceed 80,000, The Lake Consolidation has been again com. pleted. Cabin passage from Buffalo to Cleveland, $4 50- to Detroit, $6 50- to Chicago, $18. The total amonnt of receipts on the Centml Railroad in April 1842 was $11,406 92 For the same monrh, Ifï4 1 3,392 99 Evidence of Hard Times' - At the sale at nuction of boxes in the New Orleans theatre, for the representation of Belisario, those containing seats for four persons sold as high as Sl.ï - and parquette peats for $3 - being about doublé the usual charge for admisión. In the Easl, the evidonce is found in the great match to be come eflf on Tuesday betwee" two racers, lioston and Fashion, on the Long Island race course, for $20,000 a side. The Courier says that there are more ihan SJOO,_ 000 at stake in New York city. Bets are free 3y offered of r. 75 to 100, tbat if three heats aré run, tliey will be done in bet'er time thnn in the rnce belween Eclipse and Hcnry in lg23. Bhode Island. - The piipers continue to dis_' cuss the Rhode Lsland troubles Inrgelv: bul there appears to be nothing is vet any mor e alarming in progresa there. The Free SufFrage party have held an eloction of their own, and elecíed a Governor, Legislature, and officers throughout. So that there i now a doubl set of officers. The SufTrage parfy were t0 meet at the State House in Providence on n certain duy, to orgnnizr, install the Gr.vernor, fcc. It was concluded by the regular government not to oppose by military force, bat th Sheriff was direcled to lock the State House and if ony one should attempt to break in, tó put him in jail, an.l thus bring the issue before the legal tribunal. The Croles Liberaled.- The followinfr nnregraph is from the correspondence of the Express, dated Nassau, N. P., April 16, 1842. A special session of the Admiraltv Court contened Ihis day to hear the charffe of pirncy agamstthepevenr-ennprrroos irnprisoned from the 'Creóle ' The Attorney General m-.de his motjon tor delay of trial, on the ground that it was imposible ro btain .he necessaryevirlence here, and oftjred for the perusai of the Court n number of affidavils-of the captain, mate, nnd crew and passenger of the 'Crnole. shbwjríg '■ ■ that sufficlent eviderce could be procured from the United States if time was allówod After nn cxamination of the tesMmony offrred, the Court replied that were the captain. crew and passenger.-, us set forth in ' vitB,here present toiestify in this rase, thev Bhould considerihem as notenliiJed to belief or credit, and should charge the j;.ry to that effect: and that no evidence could be procured to ' vier the pnsonersht the bar, for thev were x boord the Creóle, and were about to be set free. 1 ne Cnief Jusrice flien ddressed Uie neffrnes ' son-ethrngmtluss-Ithns pleased G?,d to setvou free from the b.,nds of 6laverV-mav f you hereafier live the Jives of pood and faithful l subjects, of hef iy,s GlJTlM fa , erethenselathbertyby proclamaiion. ' American Skill Jlbroad.- The carnet ( tioncd in the long descriptions of the reTent l In Dreciíií ffateiPart"' of the cas.le. ( Was v;n7 "nre ""? lhe OrdRr was given one thousand yards were at the vevmuch10? -he,flT TJ,e carne!, w e [ very m„ch admired, rH gave universa, satjsf}(C.. nmlPi Í ï,i ñw 'T'" Of ever-V po.ss.ble variety c theretíwi T Carpets n be W hv t y4TndnrTorí0Utthree shiIli" sterling pP"r I More Morman - Tho r ■ f Orleans for thi.noTÍ ' fr"m New ' REVIVAL IN ROCHESTeTn. ? ï The folio wing is from the Rochester " crat, a political paper: H Frotrocted Meetings continue with unnbated n "Jterest m the Washington street [where Prnf s mne prenohed] and Brick churches, and in c those of the First Methodist and second Baptist Bocieties have also daily meeting for prayer and 1 1 convereation, and fiequent prenching eveniners. t No, wt.hstnnding the great number of meetings, k ne andiences are g-nerally large nnd n ly m some of th houses there is a complete tl lam: aWjei íherej but Jittle apparent excite ftrnnnt and scarcely i breath of oppositio The I yjenihng&eliag appels to b that 'now is "ie nccepied tin.p.' and rmph:.ticl!y the dav ofsulvauon.' We should nol be i4pried tí, hndthntthewhole nuinber of conversón in the c.iy dunn? ,j,e last six woeks, exceeda two thous-ancl Men of all ranks. as vve.l a feinnle and chihlren, are included in the numbor. VVe live too near the Millenium to consider his a matter of surprise, in a population of twenty thousaiid, and no w.-nder ot the froq.iency of the expression, 'thfireyptremaineth much landco be possess.-ied.'-April 4. dJSS1? RE.CMEÏ-?ED.-T!ie St. 1Joui9 Repo.ter_a pro.sh,very to tfiê "ensure of Mr. Giddin-s. and to anti-siaveiy penions to Consjress. nudnciously says: The conduct of the House of Represenfanve in the case of Adams, cinmn be too 'sronrrv conlemncd. This new niovement of Mr. Gidtlin ns bee" Inp-t n n little botter spirit, but th ; end ie lUvet. Congrets viusl rrfise tó recave men pstition vpon the suhjtct and RXPFL FVF'i Y VIEMBFR WHO DARRS PRESKNT ONE Mot!nnr else wül 9:,.-e the country from th'o con -mued agiwtion i ..f this exciiin queshon. nnd

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