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VOLUME 3. - CAMDEN^ SOUTH-CAROLINA, JULY 20, 1852 A'UMBER 58.
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IOO DREAM OF ME.
Go dream of me, oh! at that haunted hour
fr When midnight's dark and mournful eye
Looks on the earth, and a silver shower
Of light is sweeping from the sky ;
Away, away, upon its viewless wing
^, Through the dim and shadowy air
W To the land of dreams let ihy Bpirit spring,
For mine will be wandering there.
^ A voiceless grief, a wild mysterious spell,
A deep, unchangeable regret
With a strange power upon my being fell
I Long, long, ago when first we met,
I was a child, and knew not then of love,
} Yet when I gazed into thine eye
The strong waves of my spirit seemed to move,
And my young heart throbbed fearfully.
Too well I knew thou ne'er wouldst turn on me,
More than a passing, transient thought,
While I could cherish but one memory,'
One dream, with thy dear image fraught,
anrt vet I loved to eaze UDOI1
X w on ? aim ...... ,J ,
^Thy fare so radiantly bright,
As flowers that turn at morning toward the sun
And droop at eve beneath his light.
j
I But year6 fled on, and my young spirit grew
Too proud to mourn thee in despair,
And hushed the voice ot love, though well I knew,
Its echo still would linger there;
I crushed the genu but every fragment threw
A broken light in memory's urn ?
I quenched the fire, but where its embers strew
My heart, a spark will sometimes burn.
^ 1 learned to smile when thou wert far away,
it To breathe thy name wiihout a sigh,
And schooled my tortured spirit to be gay
H That none might mark its agony.
l'he ciptive bird though pining seems to sing
V Blithely as when it wandered free,
^ And he tints fade not from its prisoned wing?
Vet that bird mourns unceasingly,
I know thy waking thoughts are not for we,
But when the hand of sleep has prest
1 [?h? thy brow, my heart prays silently
Tnat dreams of me may haunt thy rest.
vs a pale star will send its timid beam
I c^s.eep within a lily's bell,
, Oh! let my image wander as a dream
v\ ithin thy slumbering soul to dwell.
Up'?n rhy -hin?ng hair, thy broad, bright brow,
Tuy deep blue eyes, I still may gaze,
For olt we m?*t,) nor do I tremble now
When near tbeeasin other days.
Bu love for ibee my bosom may not thrill,
?ly life is qufet, and my heart is calm.
Though memories ot the past are breathing still
L Around me like a heavenly balm.
I When first I dashed thine image from my heart,
A coldness on ray spirit fell,
> A feeling that can never all depart.
Though lone ago, hope sighed " farewell,"
Yet now, that radiant, sunny smile of thine,
Still sheds a brightness o'er my soul
E'en as the Borealis lights that tv:inp
Their splendorshound the frozen pole.
'Tis strange, that in my sleep thy voice 60 clear
In murmurred accents deep and low,
Thrills forth the burning words I pined to hear,
When first I loved thee long ago.
That time has past, and that spell is riven.
Yet when the night winds sing to thee,
My spirit shall come on the brea.h of heaven
^ Whispering softly, u Go dream of me."
BATTLE OF FORT MOULTRIE.
1,?TflE FORTIFICATION.
The wront, was a square with a bastion at
each angle, sufficiently large to contain, when ,
finished, one thousand men. It was built of palmetto
l<>gs, laid oue upon the other, in two par
del rows, at sixteen feet distance; bound together
at intervals with timber dove-tailed, and bolted
into the logs. The* spaces between the two
. line* of logs, were filled up with sand; and the ]
merlons wejgj walled entirely by palmetto logs, <
notched into one another at the angles?well
' bolted together, and strengthened with pieces of <
^ .timber. They were sixteen feet thick, tilled in ;
with sand, and ten feet high above the platforms: <
and the platforms were supported by brick pil- ,
lars. The fort was only finished on the front or ^
south-eastern curtain and bastions, and on the j
south-west curtain and bastion: the north-eastern <
.curtain, and the uorth-western curtain and has- \
ftion were nnfinished; being logged up only about )
.seven teet high. Necessity, however, devised an
^ .expedient for making the unfinished parts ten- |
able against an escamae; oy placing inicK long i t
planks upright against the unfinished outside
wall, but inclined and projecting over it; \ hich
raised the height to ten or fifteen feet mo <?? 1
and through which, loop holes were cut, fori'ie ]
use of rifles, or musketry. The platform, therf, s
fore, as finished, only extended along the south- 1
eastern front of the fort?and its south-western .
ride. Upon these platforms, the cannon were |
mounted. On the south east bastion, the flag (
staff was fixed, bearing, a blue flag with a white c
crescent, on which was emblazoned the word ' f
Liberty: and three eighteen and nine pounders I
were mounted there. On the south-east curtain, i
six 26 French pounders and three. 18 English 1
pounders were placed; and on the western bastion ]
connected with it, three 26 French pounders, and <
two 9 pounders, were stationed. On the southwest
curtain, six cannon were mounted, 12 and i
9 pounders. Connected with the front angle of <
each rear bastion of the fort, lines of defence called
cavaliers, were thrown up for a small distance
on the right and left of the fort; and three 12
pounders, were mounted in each of them. So
that the whole number of cannon mounted in
the fort and cavaliers on ea^h side, were thirtyone;
of which, only twenty-five at any possible ^
time, could bear upon the enemy, stationed in <
front of the fort, and even then, four nine poun- ,
ders on the two inner sides of the front bastions j
could be scarcely used. Narrow platforms or l
banquetts were placed along the walls, where .
the plank was raised against them; for the men
to stand upon, and fire through the loop-holes.
Such was the situation of Fort Sullivan on the ^
27th day of June; and its garrison consisted of
the second South Carolini regiment of infantry,
amounting to 413 of all ranks; and a detachment
of the fourth South Carolina rgiment of artillery
of 22; amounting together to 435: the whole being
under the command of Colonel William
Moultrie, of the above Second Regiment.
Nearly midway between Fort Sullivan and ?
Charlestown, Fort Johnson was situated; having 1
unwai'/tc nf fwnnfr lienvv cannon of French 2G 1
"J""""" .* J - ? . .
and English 18 pounders. Its.garrison consisted
ot'the first South Carolina Regiment of Infantry,
amounting to about 380; and a small 1
detachment of artillery, commanded by Col. I
Christopher Gadsden of the above First Regiment. I
And nearer the town, on its left, was the battery j
on James1 Island, mounted with about twelve j
heavy cannon, which raked the channel, in ap
proaching Charlestown from Fort Johnson: and
where Captain Thomas Pinckney of the First
Regiment with his company was stationed.
2.?THE BATTLE GROUND.
On the morning of Friday the 28th day of
June, Col. Moultrie rode t> the north-eastern
point of Sullivan's Island to visit the troops sta
tioned there, under Col. Thomson. When he
arrived, he saw the enemy's boats in motion at
the back of Long-Island; as if they intended a
descent upon that advanced post: and at the
same time, he perceived the men-of-war loose their
topsails. This having been the signal of their
getting underway the day before, he burned back |'
to the fort; and on his arrival, immediately or- j 1
dered the long roll to beat, and the officers and ;Ji
men to their posts. The guns were scarcely man- j 1
ned, and jiowder issued from the magazine, when j 1
the British squadron was perceived with their
courses drawn up, bearing down upon Fort Sul
livnn; and at the sanic time, between ten and j
eleven o'clock, the Thunder bomb-shi|? covered !
by the Friendship armed vessel of twenty-six
guns, anchored a inile and a half, bringing the I
salient angle of the eastern bastion to near north
by west, and began to throw shells upon the fort i
?one of wliieh fell upon the magazine, but did j
no considerable damage, The flood tide ln-ing 1
strong, arid the wind fair front the southward
west, the Active, '28 guns?the Bristol, 50 guns j
?the Exjteriment, 50 guns?and Solebay, 28 <
guns, soon came within striking distance of thetbrt:
when a fire oi cannon commenced upon
them front the south-westcjn bastion. But the ,
Active, which w the h-adingship. continued her ]
course, until she arrived within four hundred
yards of the fort when site anchored with springs
on her cable, and poured in her broaddd of cannon
balls. The Bristol, Experiment, and Solebay,
ranging up in the rear of the Active, anchored
in like manner, leaving intervals between
each other; and the Syren and Aecton of 28 uruns,
and Sphinx, of 20 guns, formed a line parallel
with them, opposite the intervals. The example
of the Active was followed by the ships, as they
took their stations; and a heavy and incessant
cannonade issued from their batteries: while from
the fort a return was made, slow, but sure.? ;i
When this severe trial of metal and skill was go- f
ing on between the veteran shijis of the British 1
navy, and the newly raised troops of an infant '
republic, from a low fort of palmetto logs, the {l
Thunder bomb-ships w;is throwing thirteen inch
shells in quick succession?several of which fell 1
into the fort: they wore, however, immediately 'J
buried in the loose sand, so that very few of "
them burst upon the garrison.
8.?THE MORNING AFTER THE BATTLE.
The morning of the 29th June, presented a
humiliating prospect to British pride. To the
south-west of the fort, at the distance of near a
mile, lav Acteon frigate fast ashore on the Low- 1
er Middle-Ground. Below the fort, about two v
miles and a-half, the men-of-war and transport 1
were ridimr nf anchor, onnosife Morris1 Iv'. .?*,,! *
?J, ? - - - I J - -
while Sir Peter Parkers hroau pendant was
hardly to be seen, on a jury main too,-mast, con- 1
dderably lower than the fore-mast of his ship.?
And on the 'oft. General Cli'.iton was kept in 1
jheck, by the troops under Colonels Thompson (
?nd Mehlenburg. On the contrary, how glori- '
jus were the other points of view! The azure v
colors of the forte fixed on a spunge-statf, waved N,
rently on the wind,?boats were passing and repassing
in safety, from and to. the Fort and s
Charleston; and the hearts of the people were
;h robbing with gratitude and the most exhileradng
transports! From this time, in commoinnrition
of the victory, and in honor of Col. Wil- I
iain Moultrie who won it, the Fort was called af- '
x*r his name.
The Bhave Man.?There is nothing which a fi
,ruly brave and perseerving man maypiot accom- v
jlish. Heat and cold, mountains and seas, and 'I
lunslnne, are alike to mm, wnon no is bent ujtou <>
lis subject. lie pushes ahead?never tiring or r
hinting?until his proud design is achieved.? c
vViiether it be riches or honors, lie permits no t
ib tacles to impede his progress. The histories t<
>f R:1 distinguished men, from Alexander to Na- <5
)oleon, t.Lrw that it 19 perseverance that made ti
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them distinguished above their men. And you
if determined in your course whatever end you
have in view, shall be respected and honored.?
Never permit your energies to slumber, but be
Her active in whatever field you choose to labor.
Io lag?to stop-to doubt-to hang your head in
n fear, will prove diastrous to your best iLterists.
" To move in doubt and fear
And tremble at the shades of even?
What is it but a tomb to rear,
And stealing to it, turn from Heaven ?"
The reason so m inv turn out miserable to->is
?without ambition, life, or even wealth?is,
heir lack of courage and their fear of the world.
What has an honest, man or a man of virtue
ind integrity to fear \ All are but shadows that
ook dark and forbidding before you?and these
,vanish before the light of truth and generous
imbition. Let northing stay your progress
vhen you are in the right path?nothing but the
itrong arm of death?then you will accomplish
four blight expectations while
' Shadows fly,
And hope gleams beauteous from atar?
A sea of glory fills the sky,
And wisdom beams in every star."
Husband and Wife.?Among the late deeiiions
of the Supreme Court of the State of
Pennsylvania, sitting at llarrisburg, is the folowing:
" The declaration of an insolvent husband canlot,
under any circumstances, be evidence for
he wife as to her ownership of property. When
roperty is claimed by a married woman, she
nust show by evidence which does not admit of
i reasonable doubt either that she owned it at
lie time of the marriage, or acquired it afterwards
by gift, bequest, or purchase. If the husjand
could create title to personal property in I
he wife by merely saying it is hers, 110 creditor j
vould be safe for a single moment. It is not i
tasy to conceive how a higher premium for d is - j
lonesty could be offered. The relation of hus-1
>and and wife is so intimate, and identity of
heir inierests so absolute, that even the oath of
iither is not and ought not to be taken in favor
>f the other. A mulli fortiori, the naked declaration
should be rejected.
From the Boston Olive Branch.
Advice to Young Ladies.?When the spirit
noves you to amuse yourself with "shopping,"
jo sure to ask the clerk for a thousand and one
irticles you haveno intention of buying. Never
nind alxiut the trouble you make him; that's
mrt of the trade. Pull the fingers of the gloves
on have examining quite out of the shape; in[
11 ire for some non descript color or some scarce !
tumber. and when it is found, 'think you won't 1
ake any this morning. Then keep him an hour j
Hinting for your sun-shade, which you at length ,
eeollect you left at home" and depart without
laving invested a solitary cent.
When you en^r a crowded lecture-room, and
i gentlemen rises politely, (as American gentle
i)?'ii always do.)and tillers to give np his seat, j
hat lie came an hour ago to secure for himself, !
ake it as a muttervf course; and don't trouble j
roiiPH-lf to thank him ever, with a nod of your
it-ad. As to ecling uneasy about accepting it, j
hat's ridiculous! because if lie don't fancy staining
during the service, lie's at liberty to no home;
t's a free country.
When you enter the cars, and all the eligible
laces are occupied, select one to your mind;
hen walk uj> to the gentleman who is gazing at
lie tine scenery through the open window, and
isk him for it with a queenly air, as if he'd lose
astc instanter, did he hesitate to comply,
diouldany peison seat themselves near you, not
xaotly of ' your stamp,' gather up the folds of
our dress cautiously, as if you were afraid of
ontagioii. and apply a " vinaigrette" to your parician
nose!
Understand thoroughly the dextrous u<e of
i sun-shade, in enabling you to avoid the inrticion
of a ' bore' or an 'unpresentable per-oii,'
11 the street, avoiding under that shield the unidvlike
imnronrietv of the "cut direct." (allow
ibleonly in cases of undisguised impertinence.)
Should you receive an invitation to a coiv-,,^
nauage to accept, conditionally; leaving. a
if escape, should a more eligible offer present
tself.
\\ hen solicited to sing a party, decline, unit
you have drawn are UU(j yOU t|1(, p,.0pCr nnin>er
of entreating s'.vnins; then yield gracefully, as
f it wore n grr at sacrifice of your timidity.
Flirt w4?h an admirer till the last end of the
and then?"bo so taken by surprise,"
' aen he makes the declaration you were driving
it! As 'practice makes jrerfect1 every successive
ittempt of this nature will render you more expert
u'angling for hearts, besides exerting a very beneficial
efii ct upon your character.
As t<J cultivating your mind, that's all waste
>owder?you've better amunition to attack the
>nemy; and as to cultivating your heart, there is
io use in talking about a thing that's uufashiond)le!
So always hear in mind that all a pretty
voiuan is sent into the world fbr, is to display 'he
ashions as they come out; waltz, flirt, dance,
ing, and play the old Ilarry generally!
Fanny Fern.
Death from Drinking Ice-Lemonade.?Mrs.
ietsey Grimes, says the Boston Traveller, who
las lately been confined to her bed by iudisposiion,
at her residence, corner of Ann and Meehan5
streets, died a dny or two since from the of-1
acis of drinking a quantity of iced lemonade,
ihich sIk- drank while in a weak bodily state.?
'his should serve as a warning against indnl
ing freely in the use of cold or iced liquids dn_:
ing the very hot weather, wtili the idea of lnng
thirst or moderating the terr- ^ lt,1re 0f
lie system to a cooler, state. T !*'" ^ ?t
o be remembered that i" At ri VR^?
ystem requires less nr' .1 warm wen >'
hat if the quantit- ^riment than in co
of nutriment that * taUu
into the disgestive organs is not modified, (lis
ease will be contracted.
This desire i'or cold drinks in hot weather is
an artificial desire merely to gratify the palate;
this* peculiar sensation of thirst in the mouth and
fauces arises not from a demand for fluids to increase
the serum of the blood, buterenerallv from
a local disease of the parts connected with the
throat, that may be allayed by chewiug some
hard sul>stance.
The effect produced by taking into the stomach
considerable quantities of cold liquids in hot
weather, endangers the health and impairs the
general tone of the system, from a sudden abstraction
of heat from the stomach. This immediately
arrests the digestive process and causes the
food to remain in the stomach longer than its
natural time, producing irritation, and not unfrequently
sudden death.
Extraordinary Adventure.
One of the most extraordinary adventures of
a child of which we ever heard, occurred near
Pawtuckot last week. On Thursday, the 1st instant,
a son of John Keenen, of that place, aged
only three and a half years, disappeared from
his home, and no tidings eould be obtained of
him by his parents. On the following day, bills
were circulated soliciting information respecting
| him. It was at length ascertained that a child
| answering his description had been seen in an
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easterjv direction irom me village, anci an active
search was immediately instituted for the missing
boy. It appears that he was seen by several
persons, but in one instance only under circumstances
that excited suspicion that he was lost,
and in this instance the person neglects to take
charge of him immediately, and when followed
had disappeared in the woods and could not be
found.
The course of the child was followed in part
by the information of those who had s?.en him,
but mainly, we understand, by his foot prints in
ploughed fields and muddy places, lie was at
length found on Saturday evening, at half-past
five o'clock, near the boundary line between Seekonk
and Rehoboth, five and a half miles in a
straight line from his homo, and fifty-four and a
half hours after his disappearance, and fifty-nine
after he ate his breakfast on the previous Thursday
morning. He left his home barefooted and
very thinly clad, having nothing on but a thin
calico dress and an apron, and these were wet when
he was found. In this condition he had wandered
to the place where he was found, through
ploughed fields and woods, and across ditches
and swamps. So far as is known or believed, he
t * . . I /? I i* t* J +\
nnd notear.cn a inouumii OI ioou since me previous
Thursday morning. Two nights the little fellow
must have slept inthe open air on the cold, damp
ground, and ihey were cold nights, too, there being
a fryst ori each, if our memory is correct. His feet
were badly lacerated by stones, briars, <fcc., and
much swollen, but he awpeared to beotheiwise in
good condition, and is doing well. Ili? greatest
anxiety on being found was to be taken to his
mother, for whom he said he had been looking.
When asked if lie did not sleep cold the previous
night, lie replied that he did.
The latter part of the strange adventure of
this child was in and through an extensive swamp
in which people have been lost, and where, some
fortv years ago, a woman, unable to find her way i
out, perished, and her body was not Ibund until
nine days afterwards. In this swamp is a stream j
of water five or six feet wide, and of considerable
depth, and the mud in its bed and on its
banks is so deep and soft that it is difficult to
cross it. 13ut this child did cross it! how, every
one who has seen it is puzzled to conjecture.
From the appearance of his tracks in this swamp,
it is supposed that he wandered about therein
se\oral miles. lie was found on the margin of
the swamp, but was supposed to be in it, and
between one and two hundred men were engaged
on Saturday in searching for hir,i.
\\ ! question whether tlieio another instance
on record in which a chit*.' s0 tender years survived
so much ta;ig-,U!< privation, and exposure.
It this little Keenen lives and does not make a
tough si'< cjmcn of a man, hisage will " belie the
l,rul'.'iise of his spring."
Trlkgraphs Fou Railroads.?Mr 0'Roily, the
telegraph constructor, has for a long time urged
upon railroad companies the necessity of estab
lishing a line of telegraph upon their several
lines of roads, to facilitate business and prevent
accidents. In n recent circular upon this subject,
lie says:
"With n rightly arranged 'railway telegraph
system,' in full operation, there is not a man tit for
the re pmwhle duties of engineer or conductor?
not a clerk, overseer, or a station man, worthy of
employment on any railroad?not a man qualified
for such riilroad ditties, (and upon whose faithful
discharge of duty depends so much of life
and property as well as the character and value
" < !/ ??i 11 .. . i... a
oi ii io railway use it. ;w no couiu uoi i>u iipu mnu
quickly to m ike telegraphic signals from any
point and at any hour of night or day which wot Id
alarm and inform any or all stations along the
whole extent of the line, about any delays, accidents,
or other matters essential to the safety
of passengers and property. Indeed, not only
every station or office, but every train while acactually
under swiftest headway, may ere long
be alarmed and cautioned, whenever necessary,
l?v ringing hells or displaying signals along some
of the posts between the stations, to warn engineers
and conductors about any difficulty or irregularity
which might produce accident along
the track:
"Though the system has not yet been carried
ont K> this extent on any railroad, it can be donr
aiy.j when it becomes generally known that it
can be. done and done promptly, efficiently ami
I nni-.nmniftMllv oublic sentiment will powerful!}
. ,v? y ,
combine, with a sense ofself-interest in railroat
companies, to require that it shall be done; ant
done too in a manner most effectual for protect
ing life limb, and property against the increaset
dangers consequent on the increased and stii
increasing average velocity in railroad travelj
ling.
"A review of circumstances connected with delays
and accidents upon railroads generally, warrants
me in expressing a belief that, by the adoption
of this system, a large portion, a very large
portion of those difficulties might have been avoided
miir>li limp pviw?iis/>_ and ronnf-lti/in cot.*/>d
lives and much property rescued from destruction.
As these various objects can be measureably
accomplished it remains to be seen bow far
and how fast the railroad companies will avail
themselves of the advantage; and also how far the
public and the courts will hold any company
blameless that fails to adopt measures for preven
ting the recurrence of calamities, which occasion'
ally happen for want of such well arranged telegraph
facilities along even the best conducted.
' railroads.
From the Savannah Republican.
The Crossing ok hie River at Augusta.?
We are enabled to state, that the negotiations,
so long pending on this subject, have been closed, i
: and permission given by the authorities of Au!
gusta to the Charleston and Hamburgh Railroad,
j to bridge the river and establish depots within
the corporate limits of the city. We presume
; that this result has been hastened by the acquisition
of ground without the limits of the city
by the President of the Company, whereon to
erect a bridge, the proposals for which, as our
readers mar rpmemher. were advftrtispd snmA
' time since.
i Two propositions were offered to the city of
Augusta by Mr. Conner?one iuvolving the payment
of ?100,000, the other of ?150,000. The
; latter was accepted, and it gives to the Charles;
ton Company the right to establish a bridge at
the distance of one block or squire above the
one now used, with a passenger depot, machine
shops, warehouses, <kc. <fcc, on the bank of the
river, on the Augusta side, at that point. The
J Company has also the privilege of establishing
| another "depot just about as far distant from that
of the Georgia Railroad as the Waynesboro,
j depot will be, and to traverse the streets between
the two depots with cars drawn by horses, not
i more than two cars in any one train.
It is presumed that the whole cost of this
I connection to the Charleston and Hamburg Railroad
Company will be about ?400,000?inclui
ding the sum paid to the city as above, (which
! is partly in lieu of tolls collected on the old
bridge.) the cost of the bridge, of the land which
must all be purchased, of buildings, <kc. <kc.
We infer from the amount paid to the city,
1 as well as from the character of the negotiations,
, so far as we understand them, that the design
I of the contract is to place the Waynesboro' and
I the Charleston and Hamburgh Roads on pre;
cisely the same footing. Both their depots will
be, as nearly as possible, at the same distance
i (some 500 yard-) from the Georgia Railroad
! i\ _ a. rni " f__ i . . _ _ _ 3 1 xi .
uepot. lneoiny advantage enjoyed oy me
Waynesboro' Road?that of reaching their depoi
by steam?flows from the feet that their road
approaches the city without having to pass
through freight, before its transference from the
Georgia to the other roads, and it may be inferred
that if ever one of the tracks is permitted
to run into the Georgia Road, the same permission
will be extended to the other.
General Asskmulv ok the Presbyterian'
Church.?Statistical Reports have been received
from all the Presbyteries belonging to the General
Assembly, with the exception of Angelica,
San Francisco, Kalamazoo, Medina, Elyria, Lexington,
and Newton. No change has taken
place in the number of Synods. Present number.
twenty-one.
The number of Ministers is 155? ; an increase
of thirty-seven. During the year twenty-one
! Ministers have di"d ; a decrease of ten.
The churches are 1002 ; an increase of twenty-three.
The additions to the number of Communii
cants have been 10,256 ; an increase of 374 over
the additions of the previous year. The additions
on Examination were 5616: an increase of
137. On certificate, 4,440; an ienrease 237.
In no previous year since 1837 has so large a *
number been reported. Yet seven of the Presbyteries
and a large number of churches have
made no returns. 1 lie whole number of additions,
therefore, must have exceeded 11.000.
The number of communicauts is 140,000 ; an
increase of 576.
The Contributions to the fund of the Assembly
have been much larger than usual. The
whole sura reported is 83,473 28; au increase of
8727 45. For the expenses of Commissioners
, to the Assembly ; 82,956 02 have been contributed
; an increase of 8589 96. Of the whole
sum, only 81077 88 wore paid into the treasury
o the Assembly ; the remainder, 81877 14,
was paid to the Commissioners bv their respec*
1 1
Presbyteries. In a tew cases no return nas oeeu
made of the sum thus paid. For the continoj-fiit
Fund *518 25 have been contributed, and,
with the exception ot' 84 25, paid into the treasury
of the Assembly.
Hydrophobia.?A son of Mr. Waite of Cincinnati
as we learn from the Gazette was recently
seized with hydrophobia, but by judicious treatment
he has entirely recovered though a running
wound is intended to be kept up where the lad
was bitten in order to prevent the possibility of a
return of the. symptoms. The vasicles which
formed under the tongue rapidiy disappeared under
the administration of Lachesis, a medicine
prepared from the virus of the lance beaded adi
der which was given as an antidote to the poison
' and the spasms were prevented by the use of bellal
donna and other remedies.
|
"The sun is all very well," said an Irishman;
1 "but in my opinion the moon is worth two, of it
1 for the tnoon affords us light in the nigh" times,
when we really want it; whereas, we have the sun
1 with us in the day time, when we have no occa 1
sion for it."