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24
Month
April
Year
1847
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The Boston Cee contuins the following significant notice : Deacon , is rcquested not to commence snoring to-niorrow, until tlie serinon is begun, as some persons in tlie ik ighborliood of his pew, would like to hear tlie 'ext ! The Deanon must l:ave some relations in tliis country, as near as first cousin nt nny rate we sliouM think. In Ithaca, last week, the grand jury hnd under considerntion bilis of indictment ng-iinst sundry persons, members i)f iho Dutch Reformed and Episcopal Churche?, " foc being engnged in getting up and carrying on lolteiies connectcd with the wirs held by ladies of thnse Churehes." The bilis were not acled on finally, but the parties concerned seem lo have had a good fright. In the Jaws of a Lion. - Van Araburgh, on the lst, at Baltimorr-, had just left one of the cnge, and entered anoiher, in which was a lion, a tiger and two lonpards. After playing with the lion n few moment, he turnrd to caress one of the leopard-s, when ihe lion seized him by the breisl, Ii is capaciouè jaws taking in a large moiety of his body. The animal exhibiled no fei'ocity or angcr, but immedialely let go his hold and seated himselfquietly in his cage. So quiclly KU it done on the part of the lion, that the audience would have thought nolhing of it, f it had n'jt cnused a shriek of pain from Van Amburg-h, when he feil back against the side of the cagG. On his bnck and breast llie tiace of the teeth of the animal were indented, but the flesh was not broken. The National Whig is n nevv daüy paper just es!nblished at VVashington. - Itfliesihe name of Gen. Tayloh at its head for the Presidency. Spinning is now all llie faghion nmong the Purisian ladies. It was introduced by the Duchess of Orleans, whoso wlieel is ivory, oi-namented with gold and ebony, ar.d tliis year whee'.s have been offered as New Years' Gift to many elegant young ladies. Mr. Clay, wlio bas been spending the winter at New Orleans, left on lbo 10ih instant for Natchez, by the steriiner Concordia, Qti his way homewnrd. He wcs seventy years old the 12th of Marcli. Citadel, MónTerky, Feb. 15, 1S47; The Arkansns cavalvy have had ü man assassinated by the Mexicans. They went to á rancho, and finding tlie clothrs of the man upon a Mexican, nommonced upon liim, and, befjro tbey got throiigh, killed, it is sajd, 27 of them. - Louisvile Journal What's i a Name? - Tliö slaughter of twenty-five Americans at Santa Fe is called ' mtirder, ' ' mashacre,' and 'conspiacy." íf twenty-five Mexicans had been killed, it would have boen a 'glorious victory.' - Lciocll Courier. Long Range. - The shot froin Vara Cruz which killed Capt. Alburtis had :ravelled two and a half miles before it rcache:! him, passing over a whole Pennsylvania Regiment. Capt. Alburtis wns sh'ingat tlie fooi of a tree, wlien t look bis head completely from iiis shoulders, nnd passing on broko a dnimmer's arm, nnd look off a private's lég' This Alburtis was the brother of the Virginia Volunteer Capiain, who advcrlised thnt liis men shonld be snot if iheydid not assomble nccording to his orders. A terrible accident occurred on the 14th inst., in Dupoit's Powder Mills, near Wilmirigton, Delaware. The accident occurred by thn ignition of the powder, in ihe principal room in pneking house, and instantlv six thoi.isand pounds of powder expludüJ with a tiemendous report. Tho concussKn was so great that it was distinctly feit in Phihidelhin, wliich is thirty miles distant. Eigliteen persons wore killed- the de.id bodies in most instances being hidemisly mtitilated. A Washington correspondent of the N. Y. Heiald, March 19, wriies that "Mr. Harnard, lale an oMicer in ihe Texati navy, who wos senteticed a few doys igo by the court to three years impiisonment in the penitentiarv, for an assnu't upon Mr. Hall, atavern keeperin this city, with an intent to kil!, shooling him in the neck with a pis'.ol, while the prisoner was in a slate of drunkonness was pardoned to-day by the President, 01 condition that the released prisoner slial enlist for the term of five years n the regular nrmy army ns nfprivaU'." PiOEONS ! ! - I f ever pigcons flew with a more perfect looseness ttmn :bey have Jone in ihis región Cor ihe last few days, it must have ben on some occisión wLcn "the oliJest inhabilant" was too young to remember it. We have been accustoined to hear migrnting companies of these birds cnlled flock ; but t his lerm fails of conveying any idea of the infinite mi II ons hat have been moving simultaneously down tiie Laka aeróse the Niagara. Thöy come in proCessiohs, which at times slriped the wholc cinopy from west to nast, and threaiened toturnnll; creation into flocks of pigoons. - HuffRep. Gen. Tnylor has bren nominated for the Preiiclency by n very large anden-' !lmsiatic meeting of the rilizens of Philidelphia. Mr. Juhn Snrgeant presidid, rind made an eloquent addre-jS. Important Discovery. - A learnec] Relgirm, 1W. Maindle, ins recently discovered n very simple means of d i s t i n - guisliingbetwfen real and npparent deslh, It consists in creatinsr a srnall burn ; f i I tliere s üfu, a blisler alwtiys is formed, even in the absence of all npparent seneibility. ff denth hasalready intervened, nolliing of llie kind occurs. During ;hc bombai'dment of Vera Ccuz, i ourarmv have thrown 2200 shot :ind shell, avcraging 62 Ibs. each, making in aU 6780 shot and shell, weighing 403,500 Ibs. Singular retlections will arise, ftlie! present distressed condition of Ireland be i thought of in connection witli ihe revenus of tlie English Church,vhich amount to nbout 840,000,000, ofïbrdïng an av-j erage lo each incumbent, from the preIntes ilownwai-d, of about $6000 per nuil) ! A correspondent of the. " Manchester Guardian" says thnt in the cour&e of one hour, 31 begg.irs called al his door; and in the course of the day, 134. ft In London, there is one public house to 00 others ; in Glasgow, Hiere is one to ten. When it issaid that all these places are mninly supported by the sale of epiritUOUi liquors, a fair ostimate of the moráis oí' those two ci'.ies may be found. The annual cost of the British Colonies to the mother country is L3, 171,646, of which L2,630,804 is for navul and military purposes. The populalion of St. Peterüburgh contains twice as many men as vvomen, nenrlythe reverse of what is the ense in most citie-?. The numberof illrgitimate chilJren annually èü at tbe Foundling Hospita] of Sr. Petersbitrgh is from 4000 to 5000, a gieater number than is left a! the Hospital in Paris, where the population is twice as largo. Out of 470coinsrs, or uttereraof countevfeit money in Éngland and Wales, in l84G,only !34 escaped conviction. In this country, the case would have been exaclly tlie reverse. Hov to Stöi a P.pf.r.. - Firj-t, see that oil have paid for it up to the time you wish t tu stop ; lhë;i write your name and post-office nddress on one of the papers, with the word "discontinue," and mail it lo the pub'ishers. The Knglish Gover nment is about to Creato Tour new bishopric. rerhops it may bc, that, because theïovernmpnt is unable to feed all the poor vith the "bread that pcrisheth," thore is no reason tha! pirilual brend should be withholden, when t can be disperised tl any quantity by onr nnw bishops, each with a yearly saliryofnbout jCöOOÖ. Dr. Bniríl E.tatps, in his letters from abroad, ihnt n ilie Catholic countriosof Spain nn:l Italy, lhere is a strong tendency to Protestant ism ; wliilo tl the Pro'.osant countrics of England otld the United States, there is (1 strong loaning to Caholicism. There were 179 deaths ín tho Corl; vorkhouse the last werk in February. The Frenc-li army hns sufibred ano'.her reverse) in Alg'cis. Tho 19th regiment 'ell into an nmbuscnde prepared for ihom by the Arabs, nnd the pfttire body were made prisonerí. The distress In llungnrv is so grrat, bat the poor grind up tho bark of trees to make into bread. The annual mortaüty in Knglnnd is as one to 45.

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