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14
Month
August
Year
1847
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Public Domain
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Despatcii. - On the 20th insl., in i He town of Wheatfield, Monroe county, 300 bushels of wheat were threshed, floured ■and loaded upon a canal bont for inarkct; all n oneday. The Delroit Advertisar notics as n ne'.v nrticle of export, sixipen and a half 1ons of Grind Stones, of Michigan quarry nnd n in nu laclare. Thev havo the Op]earance óf bcing ns good as the best im. ported article. There was to he n ncetingof ihcslavp liolders of the lst and Sih elpction district?, of Anne Arundel county, Md., beldat Mount Zion Cross Roods, on the 16th inst, t.) dopt some measurea lo prevent t)ie frequent absconding of liieir slaves. pella. 'W ell, neiglibor, what's tlie mosl Clnistian news th is morning?" said n pius gentleman to bis friend, tlic Deancon. 'I have just bought a b-irrel of flour a poor wonmn.' - ' Just like you! who is it that you have made hnppy by your cbariiy this time?' 'My wile.' tt7TIe Utica Liberty Press is out for John i'. Hole os ts candidato for i dent. We think well of Mi-, ffnlc, but sliould like to soe his course in Congress for one SDSsion before we ngree lo vote' for hï in. "Conlïdence is a plant ofslüw] growtli." Wbít I'oint Mii.h-arv Acadkmv. - Of! nbout ihrea hundied members of iliis in- Ktilution who have served in the recent: cnmpaigns in Mexico, twbntï-wx hnve eitlier been killed in batlle, or died in the campaign th t lic army. "Flour barrels forour friends, rifle bar reis for our foes." - Au Exchangël "ffthihe enemy hunrger, feed hiin; if! ha. t!:irst, give him drink." "For ifye: love them that love you, what lliaiik have ■ je? So says our Saviour. The Presidency. - The Columbas (Cía.) Times calis upon the Northern Democrati, to bring out Levi Woodburv of N. H. as the next Dnmocratic candidato for the Presidency, as a man who lias a "Southern hcart," and is nut "fishy" on the 'Wilmot Proviso question, and the Charleston Mercury echoes the cali. No Northern man is to be supported at the j South, unless he is wedded lo Southern i principies. Lettino out the Water. - Solomon's illustration of the beginning of iStrife is receiving some enforcement ü-days - both the illustration and thethingj illustrated. Mr. Sheplierd, ut Philips, Maine, built himself a fine stone grisl-mill, house, blacksmith shop, &c., on a small stream, wbich pro ved insuflicient in its volume of water to carry his wheels. lie there'jpoo reipaired to a pond of some eight acres IviRg on a hill above him, and cut a trench by wbich the water was turned froni the pond into bis brook. No sooner had the water commenced runnin" through tlje new cut, than it began to wash the cut deeper, and the deeper il went, the fasler il gullied, till in a rery sliort lime an awful chasm lot on! tl.o whole pond upon the linie brook, and swelling into atorren!, swept away Mr. Shepherd's mili, house, shop and all, and did vast mischief be:ide; afier which all becaiTjc quict, and the linie brook ran along as peaceably as before, bul it had no wheels to turn. As to ihe beginaing of the strife, look at our Me.xican war. It has well nigh emptied the big pond. Whsn shall we see the little brook running peacefully along the valli

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