i kew tsrbrls v\(tch.m*n mty hereafipr be hat advance and two dollars anc ihe year be received for a less lime ss paid for n advance rmiiniied hm at the option c v " dl arrearages are paid ,. bms of ai.vkrti.si.vg square lur ibe firsl insertion and s ior each cnntinnance , . n ill '■- charged 2j per cl high ve rjtes s3 ppr cent will be made to ise by he year ;.• semen is will he continued until ir accordingly unless order •-- of timer j i ;> dressed io ihe editor must • s'lenlien lowaii hofel ii in sun sen ber f-t.'n based that well known and e.l public house known '• ' . ... slaughter's tavern in ihe , . iry n c informs his friends igeneralfy ihat the 6a me is now . , i ion of travellers v boarders ab_.e and bab wiil be supplied wiih ket ana surrounding country af j stables spacious and bountifully sup i lin and f.roverider of all kinds al \ hfnl nod attentive osllers n(jersianed pledges himself that no ex j i shall be wanting to givegen i i&all who may favor him with james l cowan ... <-..,,/ ii is 10 tf7 uii will go rau -, s bnlm of columbia for ihe hair -. n;(jm coffls'ick & co — its positive quali j i m are s follows : — 1st for infants keep t ibe head free from . orf and causing a lux ' tanigrow'b ofhair — 2d for ladies after chil j j 2 ihe skin tc iis natural strength ' ps and ptft'eniing the falling out of i . _ nl h'.-.r iny person recovering from \. ihe iip eflvct is produced 4th | infancy till a good growth is started i preserved by attention to the latest pe j v vh 1 1 frees the head from dand -, pnotliens ihe roots imparls health and he circulation and prevents the hair j _.!-)_ color or gr-umg gray — gifi 111 e hair to curl beautifully whon dune up rer nig.it j es toilet should ever be made without it • - , children who have by any means con .. ii ti ibe head are immediately and j cuied of them by its use it is intalli n bald about five years no more hair lie top of my head than on the back of mv ■ my head covered wiih a thick scurf j dissipation aboul the 10th of august last 7.n using ihe balm of columbia lrom com i nee which i have a^fd two and ' le of ihe balm which has fully re ; mv h'iit,and freed my head entirely ftoin ; mv head is now covered with fine how \ -, |, iii — which any one may see by calling tim ford connecticut to 12 1340 i s scofield rfeits are abroad — look always lor the ' comsioi k & co ni he watchman ofli'*e,and by c fl wheeler sali_ory dr stiih raleigh dl hil'sboro1 , j & ll loan greeosbcro ; j j lexington l birch \, 1843 lys mpr it ramie ih's regetable universal pills i fur sale at ihis office salisbury , n c oct is42 tfl4 look at dr sherman's ad ' ' ' ment ai.u if you wish reliel for your ma j trtnladies call ami obtain a temtdy of c b ' herler agcnr salisbury dec io luo to the vfflicted tllc • has just re ved a large and fresh i m..it l e life medicine call s i ief c b u hkelek agent - sbory dec 10 u20 prices current at sm.isei tv april 1 cents cents j j a r : cotton yarn 90 . ap 30 a 35 molasses 33 a 40 1 peach 40 a 55 nails 0 a t i iter 10 i 1-2 oats 15 a 20 beeswax 27 < 28 pork 3 itnn clean 51 - 6 sugar hr f a 10 9 a 11 loaf liia 18 25 sail sack 3 ■ rs co . 25 tallow 7 ! s3 , i »', tobacco *^ a 20 i 50 i f.."t tow-linen i'-a it r lb i a 1 wheat bush 7 linseed oil pr whiskey '_•"' a ho ! gal 90 1 wool clean 25 fayi.ttkvu it march 29 • . ich 40 a 45 i molasses 23 a 25 ; i ile 5 a 40 nails cut 53 a o [ ai a 5 sugar brown gj a 10 ! i i 11 i nnp 14 1 iii a 1-2 i if 15 a is : .;: salt 50 a 60 va ! i . is sack i 15 0 tobac ole c a __*_. j ' ■ 1 i 1 1 a lo colton bag i_0 so a jo bale rope sa 10 £. a st wheat new 7."i a so .<■ , 5 whiskey 25 a ho 5 a 51 wool " 1 a 13 cheraw march l22 is-12 ... 4 i nails cut a or 7a 8 l 5 1 wrought 10 a l 10 12 i oats bushel 0 a 37 jewwm 2'2 a 25 oil gal 75 a l nl*v.i 20 a 42 lamp 1 25 telb 10a 1 linseed 1 10 a 1 25 iu 11 . a 14 pork loolhs 5 a 6 on 4 i 61 | rico 100lb3 4a 5 . ,:^ bush 40 . 50 , stiftar lb 8 a 2 j/ourbh fe5 a b \ salt sack 2 ll!pp 25 a 30 ( hn.h i00 .' n looibs 5 a 0 steel amer 10 a 00 o x 6 english 14 ses 30 a 35 german 12 a 14 12v 1 tpaiinpe.$i$l37 : ar bli mst l^acltftwacd . printed and publimied bv ") . c xt o wr » / " si e that the gov eminent does not acquire loo much power keep a check j in ll 6i — vollme i mace c pendleton ( " upon all your rulers do ihis a:<d liberty is safe gen'l harrison 1 j ' i whole jvo 557 ! salisbury april 8 1843 wormsjjiormsij startling facts i hondreds of children and adults are lost year : iv with worms when seme other cause has beer ' supposed lo be the true one it is admitted by all doctors that scarce a man 1 woman or child exists but what are sooner or ! later troubled witb worms and in hundreds of ' cases sad to rela _, a supposed fever scarlatina j cold or some other ailing carries off the flowers i nf the human family — while in truth they die of ! worms and these could have been eradicated ; in a day by ihe use of a buttle of kolmslock''s vermifuge at lhe cos nf a quarter ol 3 dollar ! how sickening the thought tiiat these thinf should be — and who can ever forgive themselves for nol trying this worm exterminator when i they know lhat even if the case was not worms i this remedy could noi by any possibility du hurt i — but always good as a purgative — let ibe dis ease be what it may how important then to i use it and who will dare take the responsibility oi do without it ? let every parent that is noi a brute ask ihemselves ihis question iu irulh anu soberness i mr j c ringohl had a child very sick for near two weeks and attended by a physician wiihout relief when kolmsiock's vermifuge was i given and nexl day more ihan forty worms were passed when the child recovered rapidly a child of a widow woman living near the manhattan vvater works had dwindled for a j mnnth till near a skeleton with great dryness of the mouth and itching of the no9e a bu j mane lady who called to provide for the family j sent immediately for kolmstock's vermifoge > which brought way great quantities of worms j for two or three days and the child grew belter j at once and regained its full strength in less ; than a month f several children in a highly respectable fam j ily in broadway had worms lo a frightful extent | an j were ail cured rapidiy wkh this vermifuge j in some of the best families in ihe neighbor . hood of "•_. john's ark il has heen extensively | used from the circumstance of having eradica | ted a large quantity of worms alter all other remedies had failed which was very extensive ly known in that part of the city '■ a family in new jersey s_ved several children by ihe use of it one a girl of eight years of,1 agp had become exeeedingly emaciated before j lhe vermifuge was given tho next day iiree j large worms were dislodged and she left off lhe vermifuge when she became again worse and ; had resort to ihe vermifuge that finally brought away an incredible quantity of worms and lhe cure was complete aod she gained her health j rapidlv a physician of standing had doctored a fami i ly of children some weeks wiihout being able to restore bu one oat of the seven to health he j had the liberality io send for kolmstock's yer j mifnge.and cured the rest with it in less than a week numerous cases ol oilier complaints were sup posed lo exist and the persons treated for fever c but tinally a trial of ihis vermifoge discov ered tho true cause of the sickness bv bringing away almo9t an innumerable quantity of worm larore and small and tho persons recovered with great despatch instances of this kind might be cited to an immense extent but it is useless one trial for 25 cents will show any one with aston ishment the certain effects of this vermifuge caution never buy ihis article unless it have ! " dr koltnslock's verroif-ige handsomely en graved on the outside label and llio fac simile of comstock &. co agents c b wheeler salisbury ; j & r ] sloan greensboro ; d heartt hillsboro1 ; j p j mabry lexington ; dr siith raleigh march 4 1848 ly32 new tailoring establishment ! a p al sob rook tailor late ol the city of raleigh i have located myself in the town of salisbury f permanently ,; and intend car rying on my business iu a style not to be surpassed in this state or oui of ii my estab i lishment is in the room cn the corner of ibe mansion hotel formerly occupied as lhe posi '■ oflice i have employed the best of northern workmen no expense or pains will oe spared to render this a fashionable establishment ! in ail respects gentlemen therefore may rely on having their clothes made np in the nios fashionable and dorahlo manner i have been engaged regularly in ceiling for the last live years and part of ihe lime in some oi ihe most celebrated establishment in the southern coun try i shall not hesitate lo guarantee every thing io fit i cut and make london paris ami new-york fasrmojys i received monthy in conclusion sbou'd i be en : coaraged no ci_o need send away to procure good a p alsobrook reference — thes m oliver raleigh n c salisbury january 21 1s4 — iy26 llemoval ! ! rjlhe subscribers would respectfully announce i to the public lhat ihey have removed their i copper tin-plate and sheet f v ! one denr above george w brown & co , and opposite thos i cowan's brick row where they are better prepared to accommodate and ex ecttie al orders in their line cn short notice and in the very best style also constantly en hand a choice supply of plain and japan tin ware britannia ware bathing tubs stills sec john d brown & co salisbury jan 21 1843 tf26 casa bonds neailj piin.ed d foi stle « xixx office clock and watch it epa hi ing ff.hr subscriber respectfully informs his old x friends and ihe public generally that he has opened a shop in salisbury in the above busi ness in a room directly opposite west's brick building in the house of dr burns formerly owned by juu 1 shaver and jusi below j &- w murphy in addition lo the above the subscriber will carry on the silver smith business in all the varieties common in country towns such as m.l.ing spouits c and repairing silve ware he begs to assure the public that if punctual attention to business and skillful work will en lille him lo patronage and support he willmer ii it aaron woolworth nov 13 tf!6 rr sherman's 2**etacateti hoiewflts are lhe l>cst medicines in the world being the cheapest and mosl pleasant — the medical facoliy warmly approve ihem dr sherman is a skilful and experienced phy sician and a member of the medical society o new yotk sherman's cough m.ozcngcs are the safest surest and rnosi effectual remedy for coughs colds consumption whooping cough asihma tightness ol ibe lungs or chest e shermans worm lozenges vre the only infallible worm destroying medi ine ever discovered tbey have been used in iver 1 400,000 cases and never known to fail i sherman's camphor lozenges j jive immediate relief in nervous or sick head j iche palpitation of the hi-art lnwnessof spir j ts despondency fain ing opnression or a enseof sinking o the chesi diarrhea las itude or a sense of faiigne shermaifs fever and ague lozenges vre lhe most certain remedy for this distressing i iomplaint everofft-red to the american puohc — j n the immense numlier of cases in which they i lave been used ihey have never been known to ail sherman's restorative lozenges diarrhoea or looseness f ihe bowels so cr.m non and troublesome during the summer mom lis nay now be entirely prevented by a proper use if these luzenges they are prepared express y i ir thai purpose and can he relied on wiir lerfect c-.nfidence persons subject to a derange nent of ihe bowels should never be without ihem i'iiev afford immediate relief from all the attend tnl gripinas faint ness depression vs-c sherman's cathartic lozenges vre as pleasant and easily taken as the eomm.ir leppermints and are an aciive and rffieien nedicine thev cleanse the stomach and bowels ind are the best cathartic ever u*ed f..r bilioos ier»or.s where an active medicine is reqo'red hey are not only the besi,bul ihe safest that can ie administered sherman's strengthening plaster phe hest nf all plasters for rheumaii-m luu lago pain or weakness in the back loins side or breast . tlie above medi.-it.p is for sale wholesale • ■ etail at ihe ilishory medical drug store hv c b wheeler a_ent salisbury n c sept s.1342 ly6 rr jtmostavs wgetable eife medicines possess qualities of ihe mosl mild and be neficial nature they are composed of ar ticles the most anti-put rescent combined with ingredients known as ihe only certain antidote fof fevers of every description when ibe dis ease is produced either from cold obstruct ion had air swampy and damp situations or putrid miasmi whether malignant nr epidemic or by other causes these medieines are certain in iben operations or effects thev are possessed ot pe culiar qualities which not only expel all di a^e but at ihe same time restore and invigotaie ihc system when first taken inn he stomach they immediately diffuse themselves like vapor ihrnimh every pore producing effects at or.ee de.li-rhiful salutary and permanent w hen the siark of life ben-ins lo grow dim t»,e circolanor languid and the faculties paralized ihese medi cines are found to give a tone lo ihe nerves ex hiierate lhe animal spirits inviooraie lhe body and re-animate ihe w hole man thc life medicines have also been used with the most happy success in nerv..us and dys peptic diseases consnmpiion asthma live complaint rheumatism chronic and inflama toryl d ropsies sec icpcall at cress & boger's agents salisbury oct 22 ls42-lyl3 jj--p a sopply of the above invaloable me dicines are for sale at james1 ctoss roads iredell ounty bv „ wnon » a c mcimqsh agent ecclesiastical notice rf he presbytery of concord will meet a j providence mecklenburg coonty on tht second wednesday in april at 11 o'clock a m stephen frunt1s slated uerk kc7*the charlotte papers '* the watch man of the sooth and « the presbyterian will please copy the abovo march 4 1943 4w32 gjmreea seersl a general assortment may be ten d a the sail ury medical and drug more salisbury n c jan 81 1343 26 lob printing neatly clone here should man be profd should man be proud go ask tbe gteat the great in wealth or power of name you will nol find with all their state the true in heart the/)t.rfi in fame the world with its infeciioos breath hath scattered wide the taint of sin — like marble o'er the place of death though fair without all's vile within ! r i should man be proud — ask poverty degraded ofi below lhe brute will n.t iis burning lears reply in language elcquen though mcic — its ceaseless tale of bilier wrong lis deep abasement — e'n in dust will answer loud and answer long and answer true — as irue it must should man be proud — go ask the grave the cold the lone down trodden tomb where sleeps the monarch and the slave in kint/red dust and kindred gloom — go to the place were thousands sleep in still ablivion's midnight shroud and o'er the wreck of being weep and ask a*k iheie — should man bt proud ? highly concentrated sermon by old hundred my dear dandies and belles fops and flirts and other stragglers down the hill of life my texi to da is that much used and abus ed sajing does your mother know you are out fn poor silly inflated grub-worms 1 would say from your sh.nes and capers tbat he don't know you're out y.-u young lady with a parasol like h wet cabb-ige leaf on a rum-rod and chains of hair d«»»n each cheek like a bottle tailed spider < pped in\*tlack uig had been making hi9 everlasting elcpe meni over your rouge-covered face leaving a iroad trace behind him and on your back i a perk of bran — and your mincing gait like you were picking ynur way among roi i len eggs or was bar footed in a briar patch ! nnd vour arm linked to a brainless dandy ' hui i'll come at him as soon as i am done i v'<u wriggling along the street and for i whal ? t ii u nl up indigent virtue or sntlv ing innocence to pour bctim on the wound | ed spirit of poverty or onlr io smear ynnr own gid.ly heait with lhe corroding gren'-e ; i vanity lo hear f«*"!s whisper c vou pass : \ " what a fair girl !" remember va:n one j entity is but skin deep and the storms of 1 mainm ny and the bleak winds of aiiliction ' rnhg ii all oui and leaves the counien i anee hare and unbecoming as a wea ! ther-heaten barn door unless yoo put ma com ofthe lasting paint of meekness,1 worth and love under the varnish of beauty if you can laugh ike him who wins and know thai you are still loved and lovely and lhat vou are still beautiful now that , the yl s which hid your worth and good iic-s beneath ns dazzling glare is gone yen shed a happy influence on all near you m ke o poor ernn mortals feel just like a nn almost iroz n feels when he sets down bv a cheerful fire at his own home ii he rs the storm b*_,1 heeds it not ; he 13 lisp i>v one more but have you done this ? i am fraid thai you are but a butterfly hern a worm to die an insed ah i doci't half like that laugh — it v 8 forced you pretended to he pleased with that fool's wit when you knew h was sto len i oh wh such dereil giddy fluttering worm of the cabhsge patch ; ycu are sold soul and body for a lilile empty windy useless adulation ; ves sold lo the old nake whhthe fi-h hook on his tai1 — the sam snake th-it fooled your mammy in ad am's truck patch snd oh scissors how he will strip that finery and ratse a dust for a n.ile aro»nd will th peck ol brad siy ' fl.twer-sufkmg huilerflv does yoor mother know rou _ out ? if she does she is un faithlui o her iru _ ; and ought not to be irus-ted aa-on anv more than the man who stole a hanciful r.f acorns from the blind sow go home go9»amer and trv to pre phre voiitj-elf 10 he a woman and then wh n you are abroad any body will know i that our mciher knows ) ou re out now yot thai was cui out for a man.b i was so vill not.sly spoiled in making up i'll niiend t your case for what end did i y ti hur . npon the world's door and rush lin uncalled like a man chased hy a mad j hull what good do you expect 10 bestow on yonr fellow man — some useful invention s..me heroic act some great discovery or even one solitary remark ': no those lhat look for anv ihing useful or good from vou will be just as badly foiled as the man who caught the skunk and thought 11 was a kit ten ; or the woman when she made greens of gunpowder iea you know where the neatest tightest pants with the stiongest s:raps can be got on -' tick but you don't know'where the next useful lecture is lobe delivered you know the fashionable collar of a vesi but f ou never studied the gorge ous hues of a rainbow onless it was to wish for a piece to make a cravat of ; you know how a fool feels in dress but yon don't know how a man feels when be eais the bread earned honestlt by the sweat of his own brow ; but vou know how a monkey looks for vou see one every day twenty times m vour landlady's i ioking glass but ynu don't know bow a ro3n feels after doing a good action you don't 30 where tba sight is to he seen oh i you wasp-waisted car fisb mouthed baboon-shoulderud camerpil ler-iegged goose eyed sheep-faced bewhis kered drone in the world's bee hive ' what are you good for ? nothing but to cheat your tailor nearly lisp by note a l.nc for some milk and cider poet sentimentally eat oysters gravely smoke cigar lazily m'3ke silly girls act the fool shameful i sav docs your mother know you're out poor useless toad ? i am afraid yo have no mo ther nor never had you are no more uso in th a world ihan i a time piece in a beaver jam or s hair ma j tress in a hog pen yon fill no longer space . j in the world's eye than the loe nail of a i musquito would m a market house or a j siump tailed dog m all out doors ; vou are as utile thought of as ihe fellow who knock | ed hia grandmother's last tooth down ber i throat snd as for brain3 ten thousand such could be preserved in a drop of brandy and hase as much sea room as a tad-pole in lake superioi ! and as for ideas you have bui one and that is stamped on your leaden skull ; an inch deep that tailors and females were i to be suhed by you and that all may envv you your appearance poor useless tobac co worm vou are a case does your mo iher know you're out it is lunch time so start buy a brandy toddy on tick from some good nalured landlord and eat lunch until you are as tight as a drum sneak o bed end think of nothing until you fall asleep to dream of apes pant straps and tailor's bills not to awukc until tha dinner bells call you to eat again haw many harmless shallow mortals of another order go scudding about on the sur face of the world's greet waters without a motive ; guided only by chance whim or impulse like a mellow bug in a big eddy under a shad willow until they are swal lowed up by the greedy bas of death and the first thing that they know thev know nothing when i see one of these i always think poor bug yoor mother don't know i ? oo'^e out flow many gillv ones neglect their busi ness and get b.ter some foolish pleasure and chase it and keep chasing it — like a boy after a butterfly unti they wear out the hat of constitution beating the ground with the vain hope of catching the ewift phantom and finally fill into some hidden pit cover ed with flowers to rise no more . i then think poor fool your mother don't know von're out nor you won't be out soon a.>sin when i see a young man slcp in the skiff of dissipation and start down the stream of pleasure using the oars of imprudence while folly holds lhe helm passing the shores of propriety fa er th:n a s'reak of lightning can pass a sick crew ar.d at last is drawn over the falls cf total destruction j and dashed into as many atoms as a drap of < water from a four story roof i then ask of myself for i cant ask of bim did his roo i ther know be was out when i see a boy ! leaving the prison door after a long and drearv confinement with a pale face and withered hands his step weak and tottering skulk'ng along dodging all he meets like a guilty thing shading his eyes from the usual glare of daylight cut from the society of i his fellow beings for some tiivial offence committed in the thoughtless of erring boy hood when if mild treatment had been resorted to and the crime bunod in silence 2nd inducements held out to him to think i well of himself perhaps lhat boy might have been saved from treading the slimv road of villianv i sbj whan i seo tins 1 think of the grey haired mother al home if a hove can he 8 home the scalding tears of miser chasing each other off her high cheek bones and her bony hand shaking with age and sorrow for her only hope — her sod while her bold looking eye resin on nothing ; 1 siy to myself poor sufi ring ; woman vou don't know he is oui — yes he is out ! out of jail ; oot of friends out of credit ; and oui upon the world a scour drel for the rest of his days oil for the com mission end punishment of a boyish crime . so the world goe and so it will ge it i is run down and j begin to think lhat but i few of our moth rs know we are out '. veto extraordinary ! important decision ! the ex-member of the i s senate the ; brightness of whose genius sheds tue1 a . halo of light around lhe great •• democratic , ' family and the splendor of whose elo . quence so charmed tho awe-slrirken and 1 admiring democratic sojourners in fiaieig.i \ during the last session of the legislature ; sometimes condescends to withdraw for a ! short time his thoughts from bsnks and other corporations ihe usual topics of in ; eloquent out-pourir>g snd to act as cbair i man of the county courl of caswell du j ring the trial of a suit lately in lhal c | tbe counsel for the plant ff read ibe drci j ion of the supreme court delivered by chief justice roffin as applicable to the i case then pending when the presiding jos ' lice and illustrious ex-senclor delivered his i opinion as follows : ■' that sir mav be law in raleigh bnt sir it shall not be law in caswell while i ' have tbe honor of holding a seat on this bench — and as for that man rufiin he may j have considerable reputation as a lawyer i but he an'i ntrengthy "-■ washington ffhig the bnti-h have received 1,500,000 ' port of the fir?t instalment frcm the ' bi rece j _______--——————. from the albany evening journal washington's old servant w_.shi_.gtek feb 5 the spirit of patriotism within me has been ! refreshed this morning bv communion with a rr ; whose existence con itutes a lick probably ibe ; only ir.k-wh.cb conuecia the dptsenl with u.e : mg long past ' 1v'n2 noticed that a bill pa ib ro.se nl r-piesenlatifes granting a pen„„n 0 j oka carey who was he van 0f col wasb.n ton at braddock's defeat an who waa also his j armv servant during a par of the revolo.inral j ry »«., | rnqotml hrm out and to dav ihefln air li 72_af massarhu tis and the hon mr morgan f our own state accompanied me lo the d veteran's cabin which is upon a branch me i j , mac about a mile from the navy yard w e found him in good health and wnh a stror.-r feeling of giamude lo god and hia country al lhe pr.,sp et of a pension he says that ihe people of virginia i bin years ago told him that if he came to washington he world be sure io gel a pension and though he haa aufft r ed many years i disappointment inatead i :" complaining he h s i.een thankful for the mer cies aod ohs-ings he his er.j.yed when we commenced c-onversiticn wiih him his voicp was tremulous and his utterance diffi cult bui this as his feelings rose wm over come and he talked lor an hot.r and a half with much animation evincing remarkable intelli gence sirict regard for truth and a just sense of propriety he did nol know how old he was out from information derived from persons who knew him best fixes his birth in 1722 hesavs lhat he was several years older than the " colo nel at braddoek's deleat—washingion lock him asa servant when he entered the*army in 1743 telling him ha must g>ve awfy his fiddle slop playing with dice an he would take care of him and that he found him a kind good mas ; ter hegaveusabriefb.it intelligent account j of the disastrous battle in whirh the ermlish | general fell this living chronicle of a battle which occurred almost one hundred yea _ ago , from the lips of one nf the actora tn'ihe same wes deeply interes'ing mr briggs showed the old neg*o a sword be longing lo general washington which by many was supposed lo be the one worn ai braddoek's defeat after examining it the old man said that it was not so ; thai the *' colonel had iwo swords wiih him in that campaign both of which he said be had the care of and which he de scribed mr b informed him that the sword came from washington's grand oephew , bul he persisted in saying that it was nol us?d in lhat j campaign as is the fact for upon tho bed buc kle " g w 1757 is engraved show rig lhat it was made two years after thai battle he then gave some account of scenes on the brandywine in the revolutionary war and of lhe surrender of cornwallis when he waa again washington's servant but with less distinct ness showing that ihe earliest scenes wvere beat re 1 membered — when he heard uf washington's illness he came from bis residence to mount vernon arriving the day afiet lhe general died at first nobody ihere knew him or would allow him to see the remains buibis importunities finally brought some of tha family out by whom he was recognized at lhe close of lhe war general washington gave him one of his miliiarv co*it which hehas carefully preserved and values n as a relic a bove any price the world can offer thi was shown to us it is blue wiih yellow lacings and large metal buttons six of which have been feloniously cut off by visitors in looking aland talking of this precious garment lhe old man i ghened op and became enthusiastic mr briggs asked him for lhe coat he saw the question was nol in earnest and barely re plied •' don't ask such a question massa mr moigan with apparent earnestness repealed '■* how much monev shall i give you for il john at this he drew up and replied witb spirit thai if he had nothing but rags lo wear and nothing to eat all the money in the world could no bjy thai coat but he added " y..u may put it on as a heap of ladies and gentlemen have done before having been with him more than an hour i spoke of going bot he ur^ed us so earnestly to stop thai we remained much longer listen ing wiih constat tly increasing interest o one who bas lived lo mure than five score and len years his mental facolties are yet unimpaired his vision and speech are affected but his hearing is good his wife is more than seventy years his junior and his onlv companion and nurse they live in a cabin which be bail i before lhe lata war the bill which has passed the house under lhe auspices ot col taliaferro and mr b'iggs gives him a pension ol $.*■_ per annum cuoioutn cing in 1842 from st domingo later accounts from st domingo receiv ed t new york report thai a batile had been fought between a portion ofthe gov ernment troops and the insurgents ir which the insurgents were the mnsi successful another portion of the troops are reported to havo gone over lo the insurgents a great many ci zens are under arrest and bu ness i al a stop but little energy ap pears to be manifested on the part of the government forces — post the ruling passion h lady in one of ooi v liases was lately lir'>wn from a wagon ar.d carried borne senseless with an ugly cut in one of her prct.y cheeks no sooti er had lhe surgeon commenced his opera tion than animation returned and opening her ryes she limped beseeching do doctor sew it neatly ' — of course lhe gallant op erator ran the stict.es as close as a milliner working a wrist-band m fonlenel lived to be nearly one hun dred years old a lady of nearly equ>i age said lo him one day in a large company monsieur you and i stay heie so long lhat i ha*e a notion death has forgotten us — ,..-;, j -, ; iv ss you can madam rc i 7 foutene leal joe should rem nd b d on sooday !?*-•• a jew re ding ib new york darned mo«f torre who had been terrified by lhe millet doctri e and con vinced that ibe nppearanee of the comet in <■ aided ihe tmmerfi3 destruction of lhe world attempted suicide by awallowi 2 molten lead he was unsuccessful and will t.robably recover to curse the author 1 i bis madness the horrible modes adopted p al1 recent a tempt at suicide ouil have cock all our readers very isteiy a mao ne.rly rut b.s head off witb a chisel and week before last a roan plunged bis le d 1 into a bat»n ol boilinj water