September 1

E75.-'trri' or‘ PARENTS AND Tmrsniris.

We have recently read a harrowing in-
stance of the effect of a blow on the head,
indicted with a ruler. Dr. Wigan, in whose
work on the Duality of the Mind the ac-
count is found, states that he knew the par-
ties, aiid can vouch forthe general accuracy
of the narrative. We give tnerely a brief
summary, as "a warning against severity,
and especially against blows on the head.

Two children of a respectable family,
one five and the other ten years old,slio\ved
for years a remarkable attuclirneut for each
other, such, that after several trials it was
decided to be dangerous to separate them,
and they were setit away to school to-

ether.

At first all went well; the ardent affec-
tion continued, and their education promised
to be attended with the happiest results.

In the midst of this happiness, news ar-
rived from the schoolmaster that, from
some unexplained cause, the elder boy had
begun to exercise a very unreasonable and
tyrannical authority over the younger; that
he had been repeatedly punished for it; but
that although he always promised anieiid-
ment, and could assign no cause, reasonable
or unreasonable, for his condnct—he soon
relapsed into his usual habits, and the
schoolmaster requested to know what was
to be done. The father immediately sent
for both boys, and entered upon a long in-
vestigation. The little one was almost
heart-broken, and exclaimed, “ He might
beat me every day if he would biitlove
me; but he hates me, and I shall never be
happy again.”

The father now resorted to severe mea-
sures — chastisement, long incarceration,
and days together with only bread and wa-
ter for his diet, but all to no purpose. The
boy promised amendment, but upon the
first occasion resorted to till his former vio-
lence, and finally attempted the child’s life
with all the fury of a maniac.

The family next called in medical advice,
and years passed in hopeless endeavors to
remove a disposition obviously de ending
on a diseased brain. Htid they ta en this
step earlier, these tloggings and imprison-
ments would have been spared, as well as
the father’s heart-rendiug remorse.

The youth now advanced toward man-
hood. When about the age of fifteen he
was taken with a violent, but Platonic pas-
sion for a lady more than forty years of age,
and the mother of five children, the eldest
older than himself. His paroxysms of fury
now became frightful ; he made several at-
tempts to destroy himself; but in the very
torrent and whirlwind of his rage, if this
lady would allow him to sit at her feet and
lay his head on her knee, he would burst
into tears and go off into a sound sleep,
wake up perfectly calm and com osed, and
looking up into her face, with ack-lustre
eye, would say, “ Pity me; I can’t help it.”

Soon after this period he began to squint,
and was rapidly passing into hopeless idiocy
when it was proposed by Mr. Cline to ap-
ply the trepliine, and take away a piece of

one from the skull in a place where there
appeared to be a slight depression. “The
indication is very va ue,” said he, “and
we should not be justified in performing the
operation but in a case in which we cannot
do any harm ; he must otherwise fall a sa-
crifice.”

It was done, and from the under surface
grew it long spicula of bone piercing the

rain! He recovered, resumed his attach-
ment to his brother, and became indifferent
to the lady.

The disease which led to these terrible
results had its origin in a blow on the head
with the end of a round ruler—one of the
gentle reprimanrls then so common with
sohoolmasters.—[N. Y. Mirror.

Law Anr:coo'rr:.—You hive all heard of
Counsellor Higgins. He was exceedingly
adroit in defending a prisoner and would
sometimes almost laugh down an indict-
ment for a small offence. A fellow, (one
Smith) being on trial for stealing a turkey,
the Counsellor attempted to give a good
humored turn to the affair: “Why gentle-
men ofthe jury,” said he, “this is really a
small afl"air ; [wonder any one would bring
such a complaint into Court; if we are go-
ing on at this rate, we shall have business
enough on our hand. Why I recollect
when I was in college nothing was more
common than togo out a foraging. We did
not get the poultry too often in the same
place, and there was no harm done, no fault
found.” Notwithstanding this appeal the
jury convicted the prisoner. After the
Court rose, one of the jury, a plain old far-
mer, meeting the Counsellor, complimented
his ingenuity in the defence, ‘and now,
Squire,’ said he, fixing a knowing look up-
on him, “ I should like to ask you a ques-
tion; which road do you take in going
home, the upper or the lower?” “The
lower,” answered the Counsellor. “Well
then it’s no matter; I only wanted to ob-
serve that. if you were going my way’ [
would just jog on before and lock up my
hen house. ”

I3’ We are informed that on Saturday
last, the Duke of_ Wellington gave Count
D’(_)rsay the final sitting for a portrait, on
which the Count has been for some time en-
§‘§°d- The picture, which is a full-length,
has been with one accord pronounced by
fill who have seen it, including those most
intimately connected with his Grace, to be

e most correct and characteristic resem-

lance in existence, of the Duke’s; and it is
no less remarkable for its singular gentle-
m““‘l|k¢ appearance, and breadth of effect,

than for its merits as a likeness.—[London
Paper.

THE GREAT ARTESIAN Wi:i.r. IN Bos-
'roN.—'I’he project of sinking an Artesiau
well to the depth of some seventeen hiin-_
dred feet, in this city, is eixcitinga good deal
of attention. The iriore it is examined, the
more its importance becomes manifest, and
the greater appears to be the desire of the
public that it should be carried into effect.
The estimated cost is thirty thousand dol-
lars; and for this sum of money, it is us-
serted that the contractors will be able to
complete this novel and most promising en-
terprise within the short period of little
more than a year. It has been proposed to
carry on the work by means of a steam en-
gine, kept in operation both day and night,
instead of employing manual labor, as was
done in constructing the famous Artesian
well at Grenelle. In this way it will be
perceived that a vast amount of labor will
be saved, and that the project can be prose-
cuted with the utmost despatch and advan-
tage; so that, indeed, this Artesian well
may be seen sending up its waters an hun-
dred feet above the surface of the earth,
and furnishing not less than six hundred
gallons per minute, a long time before wa-
ter can be brought into Boston from any of
the proposed ponds or rivers in the neigh-
borhood. And whether water be brought
in from any of those sources or not, this
Artesian well, delivering from a depth of
nearly two thousand feet, waters of the
purest and softest quality, and heated even
to the boiling point, will not only be the
greatest curiosity of the sort on this con-
tinent, but on many accounts absolutely iii-
valuable to the capital of New England.-
[Boston Traveller.

ELECTRIC Musrc.—-A new instrument is
being constructed in Philadelphia, upon en-
tire new principles, for the production of
musical sounds. The active agent is elec-
tromagnetism, which passing through wires,
breathes forth sounds which are said to be
equal tothe IEolian harp for liquid softness,
while at the same time it is capable of ri-
valling the organ in the distinctriess and ef-
ficiency of its notes. Every sensation that
can be produced on the most perfect instru-
ment, can be accomplished upon this,while
the crowning wonder is, the performer is
not required to be in the same room while
playing the most difficult piece of music.

RMIGRATXON INTO C.iNAn_x.—There ar-
rived at Quebec, to the 9th inst., 23,221
emigrants ; to the same period last year,
16,531. Increase in twelve uiontlis, 5,690.

E’ Attorney General Van Buren has
gone to Delaware county, to look after the
anti-renters.

The Genteel Thing.-—A very pretty young
lady accidentally dropped her purse while
out shopping, on Washington street, Bos-
ton. A “ fine looking_young fellow, ” pas-
sing just at the moment, picked it up, and
very politely touching his hat, restored it
to the lady, which act of kindness she in-
stantly acknowledged by placing into his
hand as pretty 2: buoquet offiowers as was
ever gathered. They were evidently stran-
gers to each other and immediately separa-
ted.

Dancing Dogs.-—An original genius has
been delighting the citizens of New York,
for some days back, with six highly educa-
ted dogs. They waltz most gracefully and
go through the quadrille figures with accu-
racy. -Crowds of spectators gather around
the animals wherever they perform.

H3’ The N. Y. News sneers sarcastically
at the new company with which the Park
theatre opened on Monday week. It says
that “ Mr. Roberts, who is announced in
staring capitals as from the leading English
theatres, is the very bad actor of that name
that our readers will remember at Niblo’s.
Miss Moss is but a novice, who leaves her
father’s store in Nassau street to seek her
fortune on the stage at the Park.”

A Woman’ DocKi:n—Stra-uge ./ffl'air.-
A singular sight, or rather scene, was wit-
nessed the other afternoon, says the Bun-
ker Hill Aurora, in the dock between War-
ren bridge and the rail road depot ; it was a
woman completely “ stuck in the mud,” at
low water. How she came there no one
could certainly tell; but there she was,
deep and fast in the mud, so that shovels
were absolutely required to releas her. A
ladder was procured, plank for the men to
stand upon, and shovels, and the woman
was fairly dug out and carried to the aims-
house. The woman belonged to Boston,
and (as she says) was pushed into the deck
by her loving husband.

W1irr:.—Mr. Longworth, of Cincinnati’,
estimates his crop of wine for this year at
five hundred barrels. He has cultivated the

grape for several years, and finds it profita-
ble.

Tllli SAINT LOUIS WEEKLY REVEILLE.

479

For the Rwcillc.
THE PREACHER PHIZ.

Wire is OLD Soi.. ? Has any oue,dwell-
ing in the valley of the Mississippi, ever
found it necessary to ask the above ques-
tion ? Rather would we suppose~it to be,
“ Wrio noN"r KNOW Him ?”—-—for -not to
know him and esteem him is to argue one’s
self uiiknowti and incapable of appreciat-
ing one, tliough not blessed with beauty of
phiz, yet possessed of all the thousand
warm and generous feelings that, congregat-
ed, mnke the man tbat’s worthy all esteem.

Who is there in the wide valley, then,
with its thousand miles of length, that has
not heard, seen and felt “ OLD Sor..,” and
melted beneath the genial intliienccs of his
quit): and qiiiddities and his q‘.ll'l.ZlCi\l mirth-
moving phi’/. ? Fioin a stripling upward to
this present writing we have loved the old
man and his face for the thousand pleasant
times of laughter we to him are indebted
for.

The old gentleman, it seems, is preparing
to hand himself down to posterity by mak-
ing, as an Irish friend says, “ ./9 Bliukrr,” a
“ Printed Bhukc” of /iimi-c/f and the thou-
sand humorous scenes that have grown up
around his pathway, in his nuinberless pas-
sages and peregrinations in this scene of his
fame and fortunes—tIre Valley of the Mis.s-i.s~-
xippi. All success attend him in his every

effort.
In a late number of his sketches the “old

mmi”—(though we know he is not old, nor
do we think him so, yet he has been to us
“ Old Sol.” since ’29, sixteen surnrners
since; we could not know him as Young
Sol, or Solomon, or as Mr. Smith .'—this last
national cognomen would knock the poetry
off our “Old Sol.”)—well, in the number
of his sketches we refer to, the old man
seems to have been struck siulrlenly, for the
first time. with a remarkable fact that has
had existence ever since he was blessed
with a face. He seems startled from his
propriety, and most innocently-and as it
all unsuspecting—asks the why, and thus
discourseth :

“ I do not know how it is, or WHY it is,
but by strrrngers I am almost always tulreri
for 0. PREACHER !”

The only wonder with us, is, that “ Old
Sol.” was ever taken for anything but a
Preucher—- for, without flattery, no man
hangs out the sign more extensively; and
the truth is, fate gave his genius wrong di-
rection, as there is no shadow of a doubt
but that, as a Preacher, he would have
earned fame and reaped reward. Where is
the man better fitted than be for the office ?
for he has a heart that is big and brim full
of kiridliness of feeling, and warm sympa-
thy, and gentle emotions; and then he pos-
sesses an hundred other qualities that would
fit him peculiarly for thisposition or life.

With far less of claim in appearance, and
perhaps in other qualities, we have been
more than once caught in the same scrape;
and though it may be that we fill not,intlie
world‘s eye, as large a space as “OLD Sor.,”
physically, mentally or artistically, yet we
have by error, oftentimes, been made. to fill
as many characters as any of the actor folks
known to us, not even excepting “SoLo-
MON’3” error-provoking self.

That “ OLD Sci.” should be taken for a
“minister of grace” is not wondrous, for
his phiz wont grow a smile if planted there,
and we have often with wonder and sur-
prise looked upon his face to watch the ex-
cited movements of his features, asthe ger-
minating smile, half bursting into bloom
and beauty, would make efforts, huge, her-
culean. to leap into life and being. The
spirit of the smile was there in all its witch-
ing loveliness, but it could not overcome
the physical disabilities that chained it
down and made it the~li'gtitning’s flash, in-
stead of the genial sunshine that glows on
the lip, and playing round the cheek, glis-
tons in the pleased, delighted glance of the
brightened, softened eye.

Reader, have ye looked on such a scene
and sympathised not with theface that had
the smile spirit within enchained, like maiden
fair in olden time, that looked in loveliness
through barred and grated keep, nor could
give to the outer world nearer presence of
her beauty ? Have ye looked on such a pic-
ture, and not pitied yet loved the man that
had spirit within twin-sister of thine.

Our object, in freely indulging this fit of
the cat. scrib. was to offer consolation to our
friend—though personally unknown to us—-
“ OLD SoL,” friend in the spirit,’ and in the
blessed misfortune of being taken by other:
for other than himself.

What think you then, Solomon, ofa chap

of size less than medium—-mien modest-
most mild and unassuming, a quiet, reflect-
ing sort of a customer, that likes ii crowd
rather to look upon than to mix with it-—a
strange lover of quiet fun, that indulges

‘ Mount Tom.

most often in the irilernul laugh that you so
well know as.¢in old familiar friend, stand-
ing five feet seven, and slight in proportion
—-siich an one to be picked up as a 1lIetho-
dist preacher, steam bout Captain, lawyer,
doctor and puller.’ The last two by ladies
fair. We warrant ye they were well qiiizzed
and paid well, richly, for their innocent er-
ror, in calling from the road a Wight be-
cause big saddle bags his horse bedecked!

“ SOLOMON”, or, perhaps, friend Joseph,
thyself in the scene might have found food
for farce tnost ludicrous.

Though we didn’t happen to be Billy
P——, yet a son of the sod hit us a hard
lick, but he hit the nail onthe head—he had
watched us for several days, crossing from
Vidalia to Natchez, and day after day en-
quired of us our vocation——-we quizzed him.
At length one day, with a smile on his lip,
he accosted us. “Hech! Misther, Pa:
l’ve located yees at last; and ye aint a La-
yer, noraDoclitor, nrither—but yer’ one
uv them Irirlylhoriels; it’s that yees are, and
it’s the thruth and the whole tlirutli, it is
that E”

We bowed, blushed, and had the pleasure
to put him down as a subscriber; for, said
he, “Och! but yees got the gift uv the
soft talk, it is that yees have.”
_CoNconni..i.

AN INTERESTING Ri:Lic.—The Trenton
Emporium says: “ A day or two ago,
while in the office of Judge Gordon, we
were shown a manuscript of the territory
known in Cooper’s Spy, as the “Neutral
Ground.” It embraces the country on the
Hudson between Fort Washington and
Fishkill Plains, and extending east into the
State of Connecticut. The map was made
by the direction of Washington, during the
war, and for military purposes. It bears
date 1778, and is the original of the one
used by Marshall in his life of Washing-
ton for the purpose of illustrating the move-
ments ofthe American army in Westches-
ter county. His copy, however, embraces
only asmall portion of the facts recorded
on the original map, which has been drawn
with great care, and all the preciseness for
which Washington was so remarkable. It
has an accurate delineation of all the pub-
lic roads, with the distances from New
York recorded in miles, and the names of
the principal residences, mills, taverns,
forts, ferries, hills, villages, &.c., which are
neatly printed with India ink. This curi-
ous relic ofa former age, is the work of
Sir Robert Erskine, F. R. S., engineer tothe
American army. It is in the possession of
Thomas Gordon, of this city, who designs
to present it to the New York Histori-
cal Society, as it relates particularly to the
history of New York. We trust that it
may be published, as it would materially
aid the reader of American history in uti-
derstanding the localites to which allusion
is often made in the great story of the revo-
lution. ”

To JOIN GLASS 'I‘oor«:1‘rir-zit.-—Melt'a little
isinglass in spirits of wine, adding thereto
about afifth part of water and using a geri-
tle heat. When perfectly melted and mix-
ed, it will form atransparent lue, which
will unite glass so that the racture will
hardly be perceived.

MOVEMENT or-‘ TROOPS.-The De Witt
Clinton left here yesterday for the Maumee
River, with five companies of the 5th in-
fantry, on board en route for the “seat of
war.” They go b the Maumee Canal to
the Ohio river, ant thence to Jefferson Bar-
racks, unless a new order shall direct them
at once to Texas.

The following is a list of the companies
and officers on board the De Witt Clinton :

Sla_[f—Bvt. Brig. Gen. G. M. Brooke,
commanding--Lieut. Geo. Deas, Adjutant,
and Surgeon Wood.

Company F.-—Capt. J. Lynde and second
Lieut. Fowler.

Company D.—Capt. J. L. Thom son,1st
Lt. R. B. Marcy, A. C. S.,and 2d ieut. P.
Lu enbeel.

ompany H.—Ca tain E. K. Smith, Ist
Lieut. A. B. Rossel e.

Company C.-—lst Lieut. J. H. Whipple.

Company E.—-Captain C. C. Sibley, 2d
Lieut. M. Rosencranz. .

The troops were marched from the bar-
racks and embarked at 2 o’clock.

The five corn anies at Mackinac, Sault
Ste Marie, and ort Wilkins,will follow in
a few days.—-[Detroit Jdvertiaer, 21:! inst.

F3" We are requested, by the agents of
Messrs. Strader 8:. Gorman, to state in their
behalf that their evening line of boats, to
leave Cincinnati immediately after the arri-
val of the Eastern mail,will be kept up per-
manently without reference to the continu-
ance or discontinuance of any other line.-_—
[Louisville Journal.

A GREA:_fi7AIT:‘f.ESNAKE.—-lblr. Wright,
of Easthainpton, Mass._. a few days since,
killed a rattlesnake, with ten rattles, on

 

Gas iii LONDON.—IlZ is calculated that

the consumption of gas in London amounts.

to eight millions and a half cubic feetevery
twenty-four hours.

Dow, JR.-The “ sermons” of our friend
Paige, editor of the Sunday Mercury, are
about being published in New York. They
will form a volume sound in morality as it
will be irresistable in humor. Paige adorns
his paper with verse not less meritorious
than his prose: the following song is as
pretty as it is simple:
Wife Clolldren and Frlmdo.
The soldier, whose deedsliva immortal in story,
\Vhom duty to far distant latitude sends,
VVitii transport would barter whole ages ofglor
For one happy day with—\vit‘e children and
friends.
The day-springcf youth,still uncloudcd by sor-
row,

Alone on itself for enjoyment depends;
But drcar is the twilight of age, if it borrow

No warmth from the smile oi‘—\vife, children

and friends.
Let the breath of renown ever freshen and nou-
rish

The laurel which o’er the dead favorite bends

O’er me wave the willow, and long may it flour-
ish,
Bedewed with the tears of—wife children and
friends !

Quietly cured ofplay by his w1fe.—-A gen-
tleman oi the West End, (says the Boston
Post,)who for several years had been in the
habit of meeting a small party, at all fours,
on Wednesday afternoons and evenings,
was recently discovered at the rendezvous
by his wife, who happened by accident to
cast her eye at the window, which was
rather a low one. She wisely determined
to reprove him by “expressive silence.”
On the night ofthe discovery he went as
usual to the cupboard for his supper, but
found nothing on his plate but a jack of
clubs, with the name and number of the
street where she had seen him marked on
its face. He asked for no explanations,but
on the Wednesday following be sent word
to his “ old sledge” companions that he
could no longer make it convenient to at-
tend their parties.

 

MADAME RESTELL.—- -The editor Le
Courrier dos Etals-Urtis is now travelling
in Europe. It appears that among his fel-
low passengers was la famcuse Madame
Restell. There are not wanting, perhaps,
in France and in England, medical men and
midwives who practice the execrable art
in which Madame Restell has acquired so
much celebrity; but no one has ever exer-
cised this infanticidal ‘profession openly,
publicly, by means of advertisements wel-
comed by the press and apologetical me-
moirs. Madame Restell excited the curi-
osity ofthe passengers of the Caledonia by
the luxury of her toilette, before her name
or her “quality” was known. ‘ ‘ She
is about 36 years of age, and musthave been
very handsome; her beauty is still well
preserved. She had no other compagne de
voyage than her daughter, aged 15 or 16,
whom she was taking to England for the
finishing of} her education. The mother
and daughter invariably wore the same toi-
lette, and both appeared to entertain the
mostlively affection for each other. Mons.
Galliardet then says some very harsh things
of the “lady’s ” profession, and very un-
gallantly likens her to an affectionate ma-
ternal hyena.

TRAVELLING THE AIR.—Tlle exhibition
of Signor Muzzi’s model of a grand aerial
balloon, to be guided through the air at the
will of the navigator, took place at Palmo’s
theatre, New York, the other evening, after
a lecture on zerostatics by Robert A. West,
of the Columbian Magazine. The exhibi-
tion, it is said, was perfectly successful.
The plan has received the approbation of
many scientific men abroad and in that city.
Captain Ericsson, Professor Mapes, and
others, speak of the principle with high
favor. If Mr. Muzzi can find there men
of money willing to assist him in his great
enterprise of building a balloon to navigate
the air, this continent may claim the high
honor of putting into successful. practice
the greatest wonder of modern ‘times.

 

IMPORTANT Discovnnv.—-The remains
of an immense Mastadon were discovered
and exhumed last week, about six‘ miles
west of Newburgh, New York. It is the
fourth skeleton of the mammoth discovered
in this country, and, moreover, the largest,
as well as the only complete one." The
skull alone weighs 700 lbs. The tugks an
over nine feet long.

IE?‘ Last Tuesday night week, the Perl
Home, just completed on the cemetery
ground in Cleveland, Ohio, was ddmolished
by a band of citizens, who claim that the
city has no right to erect such a nuisance
near them, while they admit the necessity
of such a house somewhere.

i9- At Jerome’s clock factory, NoigI'Ha-
ven, 75 hands are constaritly'erriploydrf,' and
100 clocks are made per day. Wagon, $30,-

000 per year.