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Day
11
Month
July
Year
1842
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Public Domain
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JBiblk fortui: BtiKn. - The Bible society are now getting out an edition of the bible i'or the use 01 the blind - wuh raised letters. The Wabash and Erie Canal, partícula) ly iliat purtion o! ït belonging to the state of Ohio, is a beautiiul work, probably superior to any canal in tlie Union, lt is sixty (eet wide by six deep. wiili locks pioportionably large, so that oats canying 71 to dU tonseaneasily be passed ilirough ir. The Fashion of Defalcalion has reached the church at last - the Treasurer of one of the Philddclpliia churcheshaving aosquatulated with $5,)C0 belonging to his church. The President has not left off the low and vulgar pmciice of profane swearing, even in the )resence of the ladies. VVe move that petition e sent into him asking him to relraia f'rom this disgusting habit. - Maine Paper. Six hundred and seventy four dogs have falen in the c;inine war at present declared in the ity of New "ïork. HIT Dorr, it is oaid, has arrived in New York. nd is, there concoaled Two requisitions for his nest were issued by Gov. Seward, vvho wus at lat time in that city.EF A commiesion has bien appórnted in Rhodi Island, for the exarríinaf ion of ihe prisonerB. This 'is for the more speedy settlement of' iheii severa] cases, and to discrimínate between the wilfuüy guilty, and the ignnramiy deluded. Mr. Marshall of Kcr,tu;ky.-'ÏG Washington correspondent of the Commercial Advertiser. ander date of,29tít uit. savs: "Mr. Marshall, mernber of the House frnrn L''Xi:ityii disriict, Kuntuckv, havir.g been ;ibsë.'U so e iwo or three momhs, nd havin'g, (eanwhilë ad Iressed nunriby riese temper.ince aui icuifs. ii e 'U.l ilie noiorious fqrger. Edwards. uid 'ough: ;i duel, bas to-day resuined bis seat m the U 'Ui'." The expenda f securÍDg the benefit of the Bdhkrupt it'i iu Mussachu6etts,-Í3 nearly seventy live dollars. Gen. Scbt'.- The fiiendsof Gen. Scoit. Pernsylvania have called a Siato Convention be Meld at Harisbiugh, en the 26iB of Jnly. The Mormons have nomina'ed a full tickei for county ofneers of ftierr own rejigious denoniinátion, in the county of fiancoclt, Illinois. The reward ofTercd by the authorities of Rhode Island for the cpprehension of Dorr. has been incrensed from $1000 to $5,000 f he is delivered within three nionths to the SjierifT-of A'ewport or Providence County.There were nearly one thousand conversions in t!ie SSbatK Schools conneeied wiih the Baprist churchcs in Ilhode Island during the p;ist year. The punishmenl for dneiüng in New York is a term of impnsonmcnt not exceding ten years, alid sevenyears for nny "person seu3iDg; delivering. or accepcing a challenge, or who shall be present either as second. aid. or eurgeon. - An' individual lenving theStnte. io he concerned in ;my mánner wijn n c!ucl. is'suRject lo the like pijnishiifanf as if the oflence Ivk! heen committed in 'he Sto.te ol'New Yorü1 Tliis sruute -will probnbly give Mr. Wehb's calf n chance -to heal itself before he returns to his own city. The N. Y. ■Herald's Washington Correspondent, snys - It isundurttoocl that thcJnbors of Lord As'.ibuiton are nearly brought to a close. JS'o doubt is now ontertamtd that the negotiations will be satisfactorily consuminated at au oarly x It lias been estimated that fourtoen thousand millions of human beings havo fallen in war, a great propon ion since 'hc Chrisüan era, and niany ofihe: beloiiiiing to-professed Cliristian nations. Abont (Mghteen til. es the present nurnber numbër now inhabitirjg the eanli! Teil of safety in war! Ader war has depopulated eighteen worMs. mangling, buising, hacking thern inpieces. shall wc resort to war as a source of eafety?Proíessor Bush, in a late lccture. in New York. iren'ed of the íesiiri'ecfion oftliedead. He says ■he diu.i-ne i)l the reunión öf the identical : és o', rjjé humar, body is not according 1 ■ Sc:i;mire- tlie phinse 'resurfc i mi ,■ tjje bo y.' iu wheiüoccuning in sciipuifi. The iiirnse uiiilormly employed is 'resurreclíon ot ihe dead' - implying tliat tlic dead vylll live ng-.'in - tliat tlie sanie perso7i who persh(:S lioii' th Y wo'ld o sense siir.ll live again in he v 01 Id of ' jjri'ils. tt-j'Tlu' U. S tearner Union, veached Wasiingion r;n -Norí'olk, nl Imiari.iy. aliéis tu ecfivc. hu; nicaiíc y ;t tlie riuvy yard in tliat cit ■, which h is een in ie;diness Boñíe time. Aasusslnaúon - A Nashviilc. on Tuosdav, the 2Ist ult. . ;is :i Mr. French ('anis was going to narkel )worc day hrc.ik, he was shot dead ïrom jehind a laruc: pus;, in tho comer of Dc-adericlc treéi and the public square. The gun was heav ly chaiged with common birdshot. There seenid to be no clue to the detection of the assapin.Land oj Ldert.y and Lato. - The Mobile Herald of the 13th uit. states. that the ncgroes concerned in the murder of tho late Walter R. En. gliish wcre hung a day or two before, without triIt s said the great Dtitch house of Hope c i-'re holdersottwcnty-six thousiind shares ot the Bank of the United States, prmcipally acquired by recent purchases. Thia amount of ahnres, at the present rates,would costabout f 100, 000; at the piicesa few years since, three milU lons of dollars- PhiUdelphia N. Ajneriuin. From acommunication from the Stato Department, it appears that fho weight of the census documents t be disti ibuted to the States and TerJitones. wil) weigh seocnty.eiglit tons. Thecost of transportation is cstimated at $8000. "We have just heard the particulars of a meeting which took place on Six Mile Island, on 1 uesday, between two yonng blooíís of our ciiy Samuel Thurston, aged 15, and Williain Huie, aged 1., years. They were attendcd by yóung gentlemen of the same age. The weapons us ed on the occasion were a couple of Dickson'a best rifles- distance 30 yards. Th cy took one lire without any damage being sustained by either pariy, except the ball of Thurston's gun passing through the crown of Huie's best beaver hat. Through the intercession of theloard of honor, a eorporation well known inthis city, the challenge was withdiawn. and the difficulty amical)ly adjusted. Botli parties behaved with perfled coolncss and courage on the occasion. The difficulty, we'hnve heard, óriginated in an affaire du cttur. So we go!" - Louisvüle Sun. Webb and Marshall should boast no moro about thoir courage and coolness, after this exhibition of those qualitics by two persons not one half thei r age. and probably not one ihird their size.

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