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4
Month
September
Year
1847
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Massaohlsetts Regiment. - A letter publi.-ihed in a New Orleans pa)er,speaks of six or eight of the men oí lilis regiment who hail been s mtenced to wear a ball and chain for diunkenness, &c. - One sergeant wns rcduced to the ranks for thtit ofFence. The.-e re the sort of men whom Genera] Taylor sppaks of as " llie fl)ver of ihe country !" A Kincly Act. - The Kingof Prussia has done a very hand.-ome tliing in caus ing the printing, nt liis own expense, of 17,000 cnpies of the Bible, for distribntion in llinl country. A good rnany kings miglit follow this beautiful example wilh good lo iIib world ai:d cieJil to thcmselves. A Daughterof Thomas JeflVrson, is n slave to a widow who belongs to a BaptiM congregal on in Starksville, Mississippi. Miss JeOer.-on is ab'iut 40 years old, and is pretty, moral and intelligent. SIih eo,t S1000 ; lint, boing a SrsI rale seamslres, is very profitable motiev slock to hor inistress. - Sandwich Öbserver. The Wr.ONo .Man Huns. - A young printer nained Boyington, who scrvcd his time in the oiTmeof the New Haven Palladium, was Innig, a t'ew jenrs since in Aiubama, upon a cliare of having morden-d a cooopaaion, with whorn hc wns travelling. Me p roteb ted his inn cence to the last : but without avail. Recently, the landlord, in uhose house the murder was cominitted, confejsed the crime on hisdeath bed! Boyii'gton was a young man of fine tiüenta and prepossessing aipearance, whose g uit was dreined conclusivc only f rum the f;.ct tliat he was the kist person nep v;th the murderrcl mnn. Cuba. - Tlie Charleston Macury, Mr. Calhoun's organ, copies nn article in favor of the annexaiion of Cubu to tlie United Sia!e, tbat la'ely nppeared in the New York Sun. The Boson Alias thinks these Texas and Cuba advocates should idopt as motto: " VV'heie Slavery is theie 'a rny countrv." To Measure IIav is the Mow ok Stagk. - More thmi 20 jreari sinco I copied ll)3 follüwing methoc! of nieafuring hay fiom some pubücution, and having verified its general accuiacy, I liave botlí bougl.t and sold hay by it, nnd believe it may be uscful to man y farmers, whore tlio means for weighitig are not at hand. Muliiply the lengih, hreadtli, and heighi into each oiher ; und if the hay is somewhat settled, 10 solid yards will make a ton. - Cultivator. A Walk on the Waï.ls of the Massachlsetts State Prisox. - Week before last, when in the prison at Charlaatown, and when speaking of the beautiful story of the Prisoner and his Peach Tree, publiihed in a late paper, the Warden kindly invited me to take a walk with him on the wal Is of the prison. Accepting his invitation, I was greally astonished when he showed me nearlv one hundred little gardens, which were cultivnted by the inmates of the prison. God bless the kind Warden for allovving them the privilege of Iaboring a portion of the time in the open air, and of culiivating flowers, vines and plants. - Prisoner's Friend. " Don't put too much confidence in a lover'svo.vs and sighs," said our Mrs. Partington to her nicce; " Let him teil you that you have lips like strawbernes and cream, cheeks like tarna'.ion, eye.s like an asterisk, but such things oftener come fiom a tender kead than a tender

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Signal of Liberty
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