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TlllESitlNT LOUIS WEEKLY 1iEV'ElLLE.

September I

FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 22.

THE Missoom JUs'rrci«:—New and Valu-
ablc Wark.—-Judge Krum’s compendium of
the law relating to the powers and duties of
Justices, Guardians, &c., adapted to the re-
vised laws of 1845, with the necessary
forms, &.c., we found on our table, yester-
day. With regard to the intrinsic merit of
this work, we can only say that it is en-
titled to every confidence and praise. While
the style in which it is produced is no less
creditable to Fisher 3: Co. It is firmly and
handsomely bound, contains over 500 pages,
and is furnished at $3 00. Every office
should contain one.

DROWNED.—-A drayman named George
Hall, was drowned on Wednesday evening
last, while bathing opposite Duncan’s Isl-
and.

Rr:coimnn’s Coun'r.——There were nine
cases for drunkenness and disturbance of
the peace, yesterday, before the tribunal,
in each of which appropriate fines were
imposed. One case of vagrancy in which
a fine offifty dollars was imposed by a ju-
ry. A fine of fifty dollars was found in a
case for resisting the City Marshal. A
proprietor was fined five dollars for keep-
ing his place open on Sunday.

FORT Si:vi=:nN.-—-Capt. Buchanan is to
take charge of the fort at Annapolis,(Md.)
which is to be converted into a naval
school, or rather the school near Philadel-
phia is to be removed to the former place.

OHIO Rivi:n.——At Louisville on the 25th
inst., there were three feet three inches wa-
ter in the canal and at a stand. At Cincin-
nati, on the evening of the 23d the river
had risen about six inches and was still
swelling. At Pittsburgh, on the 20th, the
river was falling, with two feet two inches
water in the channel.

-Ar-r-oi.\"r.vii:N'r By THE PRESIDENT. -—
Elihu Stout, as deputy postmaster at Viri-
cennes, Indiana, in the place of James W.
Greenliow, removed. »

KC? The lake steamer Empire is said to
consume 500 cords of wood during a tripto
Chicago and back.

“ Buclccye.”—-The Toledo Blade says,
this term originated before Ohio was a State
——that the broad seal of this territory was a
buckeye tree, with logs in the foreground cut
up in preparation for burning. This was
the origin of the name buckeye being ap-
plied to the people of Ohio.

DEATHS IN New Yoiuc.-—There were
263 deaths in New York last week—41
women, 41 men, 107 boys and 74 girls-
under two years of age 136, more than half
the number.

CARPET FACTORY BURNT.—Tile exten-
sive carpet factory of Wentworth &. Smith,
at Camden, N. J., was consumed by fire on
Monday week. Loss about $15,000, and
insured. Some forty workmen are thrown
out of employment by this fire.

 

I3’ Mr. Johnson, a merchant at Fort
Smith, (Ark.) a few days since -found op-
posite that City, a piece ofjaw-bone meas-
uring two feet four inches in length, and
weighing forty-five pounds; and what is
more remarkable it is only three ofthe mo-
lar: of the animal from which it came.

£3’ A female wretch was taken up the
other day, in Baltomore, for having stolen
the covering from off a. corpse.

EXPLOSION or STEAM BOAT B0lLERS.—
A correspondent of the National Intelli-
gencer says, that the only safe-guard against
the explosion of steam boat boilers is the
test of the hydraulic pump. A pump of
sufficient power to test the largest sized
boilers can be constructed of such lightness
as to be conveniently carried on a wheel-
barrow.

Colored Collegiaais.--The abolition papers
state that several colored students, rejected
at Middlebuly (Vt.) college, by advice of
Gov. Slade, have been admitted to Dart-
mouth college in New Hampshire. Mr.
siade is 3 very strong anti-slavery man.

33'' A laborer while engaged at Savannah
in the excavation of a cellar, at the corner
of Congress and Jeffersoii streets, found
ninety-six doubloons, supposed to have
been buried there by the late Joseph Grand,
a Frenchman, who formerly occupied the
spot. __ ~__._____

PRO!-‘ITABLE Horst.-—A writer from the
White Sulphur Springs, Va., says, that the
proprietor of the hotel has one hundred and
twenty-nine dogs, consisting of greyhounds,
pointers, &c., and a corresponding portion
of fine horses. The profits of this hotel,
per season, are never less than $50,000, and
sometimes amount to $90,000.

THE Bnoomr Arrnav AT WASHINGTON.
—Mr. Elliott, who shot and killed W. Z.
Kendall, and wounded Mr.Bailey, at Wash-
ington city, gave himself up. It appears
that, on the day of the homicide, Elliott
was struck by Bailey—that thereupon he
went and armed himself with a revolving
pistol, and took his stand in the street; that
Kendall and his friend Bailey saw Elliott in
the street and interchanged harsh words
with him ; that Kendall advanced upon El-
liott and wrenched an iron cane from him,
upon which Elliott stepped back, drew a
pistol and shot him dead; that Bailey then
advanced to sustain Kendall, and had his
arm shattered by a pistol shot, and that
Elliott then retreated from the ground in a
hack.

Kendall was to have been married in a
short time. His father was absent from
Washington at the fatal moment._

Fast 0x.—At Long Branch, lately, they
got up a race between adull horse and a
fast ox, which attracted a great crowd. A
colored rider mounted each animal, and
strange to say, atthe end of the mile the ox
beat. The ladies were very much excited,
and several expressed a wish to “ride that
sweet ox.”

E3‘ Tammany Hall, New York, is to be
again enlarged. The proprietors have ob-
tained a long lease of the lot adjoining the
True Sun office, and will forthwith proceed
to demolish the old building and erect
another thereon, fit for the embrace of
“ Old Tammany.”

FAr'rH.—A writer from Quebec states,
that while the dwelling house of the Rev.
Mr. Chaderton, a clergyman of the Church
of England, was in imminent danger during
the late great fire, that gentleman remained
quietly in supplication for divine protection,
being even unwilling that his furniture
should be removed from the premises. The
house was saved, although all the neighbor-
ing buildings, within a distance of half a
mile or more, were consumed.

A LONG Row.—We learn from the St.
John’s New Brunswicker, that the Irish
brig Cordelia, from Belfast, t'oundered at
sea on the 26th of May, about 1,200 miles
to the eastward of Barbadoes, at which
place the Captain and crew arrived in the
long boat on the 5th of June, having, by
rowing and the aid of a sail, traversed 1,200
miles of the ocean in an open boat, in thir-
teen days.

That “ Georgia” Costume 0utdone.—The
New York Aurora says: “In fact, Fanny
Ellsler’s costume is the thing; beginning
just under the arms and ending in the re-
gion of the waist, the rest of her person
being completely covered with a long blue
ribbon.”

:13’ We understand that Tom Marshall,
in one of his speeches in hislate canvass for
Congress, declared that, if beaten, he would
go to Texas. We have the pleasure to in-
form him that the navigation of the Ohio
and Mississippi is now open and that boats
are running regularly——-tare low.-[Louis-
ville Journal.

Tom, don’t patronize any thing low.

 

For the Reveille.

Mi-zssits. Eorrons :—I see a communica-
tion in your paper of this morning, overthe
signature of “ Several Members.” This
communication, it seems, was written in
consequence of seeing a list of the compa-
nies coniposingthe “ Legion,” published in
your interesting journal the previous day.

I would here simply remark, that the
Missouri Artillery Company does belongto
the Legion, as you will discover from the
following resolutions, passed by said Com-
pany on the 9th of April last:

Resolved, That said Company respond to
the request of the commanding officer of
the Legion, dated January 13, 1845, to at-
tach themselves to the Legion,and that said
Company, as far as in her lies, does hereby
attach herself to the same.

Resolved, That a copy of the above reso-
lution be forwarded to the Legion.

The writer was not aware that Captain
Kretschmar had resigned; but if such is
the fact, the vacancy should have been filled
by authority of the Legion. If said Com-
pany desire to withdraw from the Legion,
they have not adopted the proper course to
do so, and that they will find out.

Jug. 28th. Om: WHO KNOWS.

Parisian “ Spice.” —- Scarcely had the
scandalous affair of Victor Hugo ceased to
be talked about,‘than another equally scan-
dalous comes upon the tapi:—a member of
the Chamber of Deputies, a man of great

wealth, high rank and good family, plead-
ing foraseparation from his wife, on the
ground of adultery-—his wife pleading, in
her turn, for a separation from him on ac-
count of his adultery—and there being
every reason to believe that both are nearly
etpially culpable.

RATHER Ri:iu.».i:ir.Anr.i:.—-U’iider this
head, the Evening Journal of Boston has a
statement as follows: Capt. Bunker of
New Bedford, a highly respectable ship-
master, engaged in the whaling business,
in the ship Howard, on a cruise some years
since, in North Latitude 30 degrees, 30 min-
utes, and East Longitude 154 degrees, threw
a harpoon into a large whale. The whale
was not captured, and the harpoon was lost.
An occurrence, which, although by no
means pleasant, is not unfrequent.

It was about five years afterwards, that
being in precisely the same latitude, and
east longitude 140 degrees, he made fast to
a noble whale, and after a hard struggle
succeeded in gettingliim alongside. While
cutting him up a harpoon, rusted off at the
shank, was found fast anchored in the old
fellow’s “ cut-water. ” Hallo, said Capt.
Bunker, here is my old harpoon! And
what he said in joke, proved to be truth.
The harpoon was the very one he lost five
years bet'ore—and had on it the ship’s name,
and his own priyate mark!

Rr:L;t'rrnr~:s WITH THE SUBLIME FORTE.
—Iii the Union is published an official no-
tice, that the President has acknowledged
the appointment of Abraham Zipcy-Ogler
as consul-general of Turkey, to reside at
Boston. This is the first consul from the
Sublime Porte who has been sent to the
United States.

ll3’The Theatre Royal, Dublir, on Tues-
day, the 27th ult., presented amost brilliant
appearance, being crowded from the floor
to the ceiling by a most distinguished and
fashionable audience, assembled to pay a
farewell tribute of admiration to Mr. Chas.
Kean and his gifted lady.—-[Liverpool pa-
})er.

Kean played for Hackett’s benefit at Liv-
erpool. 7

BEN. I-IAnDi.\'.—We have heard, from a
highl respectable genlleman,a version of
the a air at Frankfort, according to which
Mr. Hardin is far less censurable than com-
mon rumor has represented him. We in-
tend to publish the truth when we obtain
1t.—[Lanisvil1e Journal.

Boston Scholurs.—A writer in the Bos-
ton Courier says, that at a recent examina-
tion some words were selected from the
reading book of the first class, and the
scholars were required to write the defini-
tions, privately and in silence. The word
given was panegyric, and the definitions
written were the following;

Piayers——A serious man—Satire—Show
—Friglit-—-Criticising any thing—A cure
for all evils—Panic struck—Writing by_
sounds—-Startling—-- Wonder—--Terror —-
Without much sense -Medicine—Custom
—Furious——A great hill-—1’liysic—Unusu-
al emotion—A sudden shock—-Magic—-
Madness—Letters--Exercises—Gymnast-
ics, &c., &.c.,

W3‘ Mr. Lyell,"allndiirgtol the coolness
and confidence with which every one in
the new world is willing to attempt a new
path, relates this anecdote:—

“ A few days afterwards I engaged as
young man to drive me in a gig, from Tic-
ga to Blossberg. On the way he pointed
out, first, his father’s property, and then a
farm of his own, which he had lately pur-
chased. As he was not yet twenty years
of age, I expressed surprise that he had got
on so well in the world, when he told me
that he had been editor ofthe ‘Tioga Dem-
ocrat’ forseveral years, but had now sold
his share of the newspaper.”

Lr:oi>or.n or-: Mrzvi-:iz.—The celebrated
pianists, Leopold de Meyer, “ Pianiste de
sa Ma_jestc’- l’Empereur ~d’Autriche,” now
performing with such distinguished success
at the Haymarket theatre, has been engaged
to give a series of performances atthe Park
theatre, New York, and the principal cities
of the United States. L. De Meyer will
take his departure from England in Septem-
ber.—[London pupcr.

E3’ Willis’s work, “ Dashes of Life with
a Free Pencil,” has just been publish-
ed in London,—-price a guinea and a half!
The same work, elegantly printed, may be
had at the desk of the Mirror office, for fif-
ty cents a part—or a dollar and a half the
whole.

I3‘ Our friend Chambers has come back
to his sanctum, poor fellow! after having
gone forth “ with the vigor of youth, like
the bird freed from the cage, or the colt
from the stall.”

Now, just think of old Chambers going
about the country in that state !

MORE NAVAL PR!-3PARATIONS.—0l'del‘S
have been received at the Charleston Navy
Yard to fit the brig Boxer, now lying there,
for sea; also to repair, partially, the razee
Independence. At the Brooklyn Navy Yard
some sixty men are busily engaged in pul-
ling to pieces, and rebuilding from the wa-
ter’s edge, the sloop-of-war Dale. Her
destination, we understand, is the Gulf of
Mexico, and she will be ready in about six
weeks.

VS:it:TUlt1),A_1_(iEi£VlV{ii‘V'ING.__AiIIGUS;l‘Tt3oTII

Omo Rr\'En.——At Louisville on the 26th
inst., there were three feet five inches of wa-
ter in the canal and rising. At Pittsburgh,
on the 22d inst., 2 feet 5 inches in the
channel and rising slowly. '

.MARRIED-—-On Wednesday evening, Au-
gnstfith, by Rev. Henry Chase, WALTER
W.AKE)1AN to MARY L. Jaconson, all of‘
this cit_v.—[Ncw York paper.

His St. Louis triends congratulate their
old acquaintance. They were led to expect
something of this kind from the desire
evinced by W., on one occasion, to get a
mill-alone about his neck.

REVISED SrA'ru'ri—:s.—.fl. Fisher, Pub-
liaher.——-This long-expected work, printed
under authority of the State, by J. W.
Dougherty, was, yesterday, placed upon
our table. One of the peculiar merits of
this work, strikes us at once in the pre-
face, which contains a legal history of Mis-
souri. Where so many difficulties have
arisen between conflicting claims, a correct
sketch of the different governments, and
their acts, must appear to all invaluable. A
notice of laws of Congress, in relation to
land titles in Missouri, is another point of
consequence. The volume contains over
1,200 pages, the paper is strong, andthe
binding firm and handsome. Let every one
secure a copy.

APPLICATION r-‘on DIVORCI-‘..—-The Rich-
mond papers contain a notice of S. C. P.
Thomas, wife of ex—Governor Thomas, of
Maryland, of her intention to apply to the
next Legislature of Virginia for a divorce,
and that she has filed, according to law, a
statement of the causes therefor, which
will be tried in the circuit superior court of
law, t'or the county of Henrico, at Rich-
mond, in November next.

Suicim-: AT STATEN [SLAND.—A gentle-
man was found dead, on Tuesday week, in
the woods belonging to Dr. Westervelt,
Staten Island. A pistol was found at his
side,which was—and this seems rather sus-
picious-—loaded. In consequence of this
f'act, no verdict was to be rendered by the
coroner’s jury until an examination and
medical opinion could be had.

POLLY BonrNr«:.—Tliethird trial of Polly
Bodine will probably take place next month
before the oyer and terminer of New York
city. The N. Y. Courier says: “ The
course pursued with reference to this wo-
man has been the veriest mockery of law
and justice that ever disgraced any coun-
try, and we doubt whether the annals of
even our criminal jurisprudence can furnish
a parallel. The result of this third trial
may very safely be predicted.”

E3’ The Hon. Edward Everett, the late
Minister to England, will return to this
country with his family, in the Boston
steamer, which leaves England on the 4th
proximo. _

Jlgoiiy .'—A tournament was to take place
at the Fauquier White Sulphur Springs, on
Wednesday 27th August.

Hon. Riivi-:iroi:iJoinNsos.—'l‘his gen-
tleman with liisfainily has arrived safe in
London.

BOSTON l-lAnnon.—The two companies
of the artillery encaniped on the Governor’s
Island are to garrison Fort Independence,
at which place fifty guns are to be mounted
immediately.

Banana or DESPA_'l‘CHES.—A Washing-
ton correspondent of the Baltimore Patriot
says,Lieutenant Ringgold, of the army, left
Washington on Friday night week with
important despatches for our army in Tex-
as, and that such was the emergency of the
case, that the bank of the Metropolis was
opened at 10 o’clock at night for Govern-
ment funds to enable the despatcll-bearer to
proceed forthwith.

SICKNESS on BoAnn.—By a letter re-
ceived in Baltimore from on board the
United States ship Constitution, dated of}
Singapore, February 15th, we learn that
there has been a great deal of sickness on
board that vessel. There had been as high
as one hundred and fifty on the doctor’:
list, with dysentery, of whom one officer
and thirteen of the crew met with a watery

grave before they reached Quallab Battoo."

The letter says:

The officer was Midshipman Mason;he'

was buried at sea with the honors of war.
The Captain and all the officers did all that
lay in their power to help the sick. The
Captain even gave up his cabin for the ac-
commodation of the poor sailors. I Wrote
to you from Zanzibar; I little thought that
we were goin to have so much sickness at
that time. T e cause of the dysentery was
owing to all hands eating too much fruit.

Texas .l-UBILEE.-—ln Georgia they have
proposed a sort of Jubilee in honor of the
annexation ofTexas.

.MESMERlSM—.D'r'. Radclyfie Hall.—Skill.
man has laid upon our table Dr. Hall’s ex-
amination of Mesmerism, originally pub-
lished in the London Lancet. In the first
place, Dr. H. sets out with one sole and,
undoubtedly, honest vie\v—to umleceive lhe
public; the possibility of his being deceived
himself never enters his head. One of his
chief arguments against the reality of Mes-
meric effects, is their contradictory mani-
festation under apparently similar condi-
tions. Every magnetizer has recognized
this fact ; but every magnetizer should, also,
have recognized that the similarity of con-
dition is only apparent. No two beings are
alike, either physically or mentally; and
experience teaches that even where the nat-
ural affinity is strongest, and might be sup-
posed to be most regular in its manifesta-
tion, accidental disturbance of either mind
or body is followed by a corresponding dis-
arrangement, mesmerically. Dr. H., in
quoting from different authors—most of
whom (save, in their unhappy folly, being
Mesmerists,) are far superior men to him-
self—has italicised the passages which he
would, doubtless, point out to the reader as
marking the humbug or the delusion of the
matter. The man y—very many—who know
the facts of Mesmerism, will smile as they
recognize the ingenuity of blindness and
determined prejudice; those who do not
know, will, perhaps, weigh the value of the
Doctor’s assumed discoveries. As the re-
sult of his examination, Dr. Hall “believes”
that “there are proved, quietnde, composure,
sleep "’ Amiablc acknowledgment! Mag-
nanimous Doctor!

“ Probable, but requiring confirmation-
Traction, muscular rigidity, convulsions,
heightened sensibility, diminished sensi-
bility, double consciousness.”

We wonder if editor Wakley didn’t fidget
on his chair, while admitting this into the
Lancet! _

“ Possible, but -not very probable—lnsensi-
bility to severe pain for a given length of
time, at pleasure.”

Dr. H. allows the quality of promelhean
endura-nce to those whom he brands as pre-
posterous liars! Truly they must love a
joke, for they have no other object—who
carry on their humbug under the knife!

With regard to clairvoyauce, intuition,
&c., we are not yet sufficiently strong in
facts of om own knowledge, yet, instead of
believing, with Dr. H., that they are “ im-
possible asfar as any thing can be so,” we
think that where so much is found to be
adrnissable, more may be possible, especial-
ly when the positive existence of that more,
in various shapes, is recorded even in‘the
medical books. The history of discovery
is the realization of the “ impossible,” and
at this very moment we read an announce-
merit, in the New York papers, that the
problem ofair navigation, at will, has been
successfully solved by an Italian, named
Muzzi.

In connection with this subject we have
been amused by a letter from the some-
what notorious Dr. Collyer, published in
the eastern papers. It is a“ by request”
letter, recommending Dr. Hall’s work, and
is addressed to Burgess &. Co., its publish-
ers. Ce cher Collyer says: -

In conforming with your desire, I must
acknowledge that such a book was very
much required, as it thoroughly exposes the
nonsensical ideas propagated by most of the
modern mesmerists. In saying this, let it
not be understood that I am retracting from
my belief, that one body, organic or other-
wise, acts on those afli-nitiziug with itself;
but, as to the prophetic and super-physical
powers of the person acted on, I do and al-'
ways have regarded as delusion attributed
to the blind credulity of persons who al-
wa stake things as they would wish them
to

This isa rich bit of fun, to those who
recollect the Dr. in New York and Boston,
some few years since !- Why this man with
his barefaced placards, his “Spirit World ;”
his simplification of the miracles, &.c., did
more to bring mesmerism into contempt
than any six, who have,f'or the time, degrad-
ed the thing, by reducing it to a matter of
exhibition.

Dr. Collyer says that he has given up
public lecturing. Our private opinion is,
that either way he is a humbug, and that
__his last letter is the clearest proof of it.

Tue SMALL Pox RAGING in VERMONT.
—lt.is stated that in the t0WD Of Starks-
boro'5*'and vicinity, upwards of forty cases
of this dreadful disease have happened
within a short time. Many have died with
it, and it appears to be spreading daily. It
is said to have been introduced from Can-
ada.

 

 

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