Carolina Watchman

              elected for the carols watchman capital punishment there are views of important question which are ,„!_ effective than argument we think that the foi ' zl merry mockery of public executions might make ; mpress.on where argumeyit against them would not !" ' ba god soon send an abolition of capital punish - e*s-bot meantime see how lord tomnoddy and i friend were benefitted by ■ the example of an exe cbti°dthe execution a sporting anecdote my lord tomnoddy got up one day it was half after two he hid nothing to do go his lordship rang for his cabriolet tiger tim was clean of limb his boots were polished his jacket wns trim ; with a ver smart tie in his mart cravat and a smart cockade on the top of his hat ; tallest of boys or shortest cf nun he stood in his stockings u..t four feet ten ; and he ask'd as he heid the door on the swing pray did your lordship please to ring !" my lord tomnoddy lie raised his head and thus to tiger tim he said : " malibr_n's dead duvernny led tagli"'1 hns not aniv'd in her stead ; 7 tiger tim come tell me true what may a nobleman find to do tim look'd up and tim look'd clown he paus'd and put on a thoughtful frown and he held up his hat and peep'd in the crown he bit his lip and he scran 1 his head he let go the handle and thus he said as the door releas'd behind him bang'd a m | ilease you my lord there'sa man to be hang'd my lord tomnoddy jump'd up at the news " run to m'foze and lieutenant tregooze and run to sir carnaby jenks of the blues rope dancers a score i've sr,en before — madame succlii antonio and master blackmore ; but to see a man swing at lhe end of a string wiih hi3 neck in a noose will be quite a new thing my lord tomnoddy stept into his cab — dark rifle green with a lining of drab ; through street and through square ilia high-trotting mare like one of due-row's roes priwing the air adown piccadilly nnd waterloo place went the high-trottin mare at a deuce of a pace ; she produe'd some alarm but did no great harm save fiigbt'ning a nurse with a child on her arm spattering with clay two urclii'is at plt.y knocking down very much to the sweeper's dismay ; an old woman who wouldn't get out of the way and upsetting a stall near exeter hall which made all the pious church mission folks squall put eastward afar throimh temp bar my lord tomnoddy directs his car never heeding iheir squalls or their calls or their bawls i h passes by waithman's emporium for shawls and merely just catching a glimpse of st paul's tunis down the old bailey whew in front of the jail he pulls up nt the door of the gin-shop nnd gaily cries " what must i fork out to-night my trump for the whole first floor of the magpie and stump ; _**.»*« • thf clock strikes t we've — it is daik midnight — yet tl.e magpie m d stump is one blaze of light the parties are met ; the tables are set ; there i.s punch " co'd without hot within " heavy wet a!e-c;lasscs anrl ju_s and rummers and mugs and sand o:i the cam without carpets or rugs cold fowl and cigars pickled onions and jars welsh rabbits and kidneys — rare woik tor the jaws and very large lohsters with very large claws and there is mt'uze and lieutenant tregooze and there is sir carnaby jenks of the blues all come to see a man die in his shoes !" the clock strikes one ! supper is done ami sir carnaby jenks is full of his fun singing " jolly companions every one !" my lord tomnoddy is drinking gin-toddy and laughing at cv'iy thing and ev'ry body the clock strikes two ! — and the clock strikes three ! ; — " who so merry so merry as we j save captain m'fuze who is taking n snooze while carnaby jenks who is busy at work blacking his no_e with a piece of burnt coik the clock strikes f mr .' round the debtor's door are gather d a couple of thousand or more ; as many await at the press yard gate till slowly its folding doors open nnd straight the mob divides and between their ranks a wajon comes loaded with posts and with planks the clo k strikes five .' the hcrii.s arrive and the crowd is so great that the street seems alive ; bul sir carnaby jenks blinks and winks a candle bums down in the socket and stinks lieutenant tregooze is dreaming of jews and acceptances all the bill-brokers refuse ; my lord tomnoddy has drunk all his toddy and just as the lawn is beginning to peep the whule of the party are fast asleep oweetly oh ' sweetly the morning breaks with m seate streaks like the first faint blush on a maiden's cheeks ; sf.m'd as lhe mild and clear blue sky bmil'd upon all things far and nigh a . — save the wretch condemned to die | vack ! that ever so fuir a sun a that winch its course has now begun should rise on such scenes of misery .' ... 1 with ra\s so light and fiee twit dismal dark-frowning gallows tree and hark — a sound comes big with fate . frcm st sepulchre's tower strikes — eight ! l'i to that low funeral bell ; " 8 tolling alas ! a living man's knell ! aad see ! — from forth thai opening door ey come — he treads that threshold o'er ho never shali tread upon threshold more o iis b fearsome thing to see i,tai pale man's mute agony are of that wild despairing eye • 0w bent on the crowd now turn'd to the sky > though twere scanning in doubt and in fear i path ot the spirit's unknown career ; i arms those hands that ne'er be lifted again — not ev'n in prayer ; iving chest enough tis done ! £ bolt has fallen !— the spirit is gone nt t .**' or l;'r woc is known to but one ! ii v"8 a rearaome sight ■' ah me ! tced o shudder at — not to see int clock !— tis time tis time ! n is past ;— with its earliest chime j ;" m is sever d the lifeless clay kin i e°n vi"ains s borne away ; ym was the last concluding stroke ! an *" mv lord tomnoddy awoke ! i.j .,'"'' e and sir carnaby jenks arose and i ptam with the black on his nose ! fy stared at each other as much as to say hollo hollo whv cn:'s a run s ! iwfrn ' — my k°r ! — here's the devil to pay ! s been cut down and taken away ! fiat's to be done ? why ve've mi8se all the fun ! n laugh at and quiz u8 a over the town ! e au of ns d__e 80 uncommonly brown !" the carolina watchman bmjner & james ) > " keep _ check rros all yoch editors df proprietors i is safe ., 7_77777777777 i ( new series rvua | muber 7 0f volume ii - ■ = i salisbury n c june 14 1845 what teas to be done ! — twas perfectly plain that they could not well hang the man over again what was to be done . — the man was dead nought could be done — nought could be said so — my lord tomnoddy went home to bed christmas in germany frankfort a m jan 2 1845 since i last wrote we have witnessed the most beautiful and interesting of all german festivals — christmas this is here peculiarly celebrated and the pre paration for it commences nearly a month beforehand about the commencement of december the christmas market or fair was opened in the r<_emerber and has continued till the present time the booths were filled with toys of all kinds decora fed with green bough among which du ring the lirst days the figure of st nich olas was conspicuous there were bunch es of wax candies to decorate the christ ! mas tree gingerbread with printed mot toes in poetry beautiful little earthenware basket-work and a wilderness of toys — the 5th of december being st nicholas evening the booths were lighted up and the square was filled with boys running from one stand to another all shouting and talking together in the most joyous confusion nurses were going around carrying the smallerchildrenintheir arms j and parents bought presents decorated with sprigs of pine and carried them a way some of the shops had very beau tiful toys as for instance a whole groce ry store in miniature with barrels boxes and drawers filled with sweetmeats a kitchen with a stove and all suitable uten ; sils which could really be used and sets of dishes of the most beautiful patterns all was a scene of activity and joyous feeling many ofthe tables had bundles of rods wiih gilded bands which were lobe used that evening by the persons who repre sented st nicholas in the family we re | side with one of our german friends dress \ ed himself up very comically with a mask fur robe and long tapering cap he came in with a bunch of rods and a sack and a ' broom for a sceptre after we al had re ceived our shares of the beating he threw the contents of his bag outon the fable.and while we were scrambling for the nuts and apples gave us man smart raps over the | lingers in families the children are made to say " i thank you ii rr nichol.ius and j the rods are hung up in the room till christ mas to keep them m good behavior this was only a forerunner of the christ-kind ' chen's coming the nicholausis the pun \ ishing spirit ; the christ-kindchen there warding one when this time was over v_e all began preparing secretly our presents for christ mas every day there were one or more consultations about the things which ! should be got it was so arranged that all should interchange presents but no j body must know beforehand what he would receive what pleasure here was in all | these secret purchases and preparations ' scarcely any thing was thought or spoken of but christmas and every day the con : sulfations became more numerous and se cret the trees were bought some time beforehand ; but as wc were to see the festival for lhe first time we were not al \ lowed to see ihem prepared in order that the elli'ct might be as great as possible the market in rcemerberg square grew constantly larger and more brilliant ev ery night it was lit up with lamps and thronged with people quite a forest i sprang up in the street before our door — the old stone house opposite with the tra ces of so many centuries on iis dark face seemed to stand in the midst of a garden it was a pleasure to me to go out every . evening and see the children rushing to and fro shouting and seeking out toys from the booths and talking all the time of the christmas that was so near these poor people would go by with their little presents hid under tlieir cloaks lest their children might see them ; but every heart was glad and every countenance wore a smile of secret pleasure finally the day before arrived the streets were so full i could hardly make my way through and the sale of trees went ou more rapidly than ever these were commonly branches of pine set up right in a little miniature garden of moss '■■ the street in which we live was full of them and when the little lamps were lighted at night it had the appearance of an illuminated garden we were prohi bited from entering the rooms up stairs in which the grand ceremony was to take place so we were obliged to take our seats in those arranged for the guests and wait with impatience the hour when christ kindchen should call several relations of the family came and what was more agreeable they brought with them five or six children i was anxious to see how thev would view the ceremony finally in the middle of an interesting conversa tion we heard the bell ringing upstairs and all started up and made for the door i ran up the steps with ail the children at my heels and at the top met a blaze of light coming from the open doors that daz zled me much as our anticipations had been raised 1 had not awaited such a bril liant scene in each room stood a great table on which tho presents were arrang ed amid flowers and wreaths from the centre rose the beautifult-hristmas tree covered with wax-tapers to the very top which made it nearly as light as day while every bough was hung with sweet i meats and gilded nuts the children ran shooting around the table hunting their presents but the older persons had theirs pointed out to them i got quite a little library of german authors as my share and many of the others received really valuable gifts but how beautiful was the heartfelt joy that shone on every countenance ! as each ! one discovered he embraced the givers and all was a scene of the purest feelings | it i.s a glorious feast this christmas time what a glad chorus from happy hearts went up on that evening to heaven full of poetry and feeling and glad associa , tions it is here looked forward to with joy and leases a pleasant memory behind \ it vve may laugh at such simple festi ! vals at home and prefer to shake our selves loose from every shackle that bears j lhe rust of lhe past but we would certain ly be happier if some of these beauiiful old customs were better honored they renew the bonds of feeling between fam ■ ilies and friends and strengthen their kind ly sympathy and even life-long friends require occasions of this kind to freshen the wreath that binds them together — u i s gazette temperance items a physician at the north says hat he j can detect drunkards and even the most moderate drinkers by some peculiar curl or position of their hair a savings bank has been incorporated , at jersey city having now in deposite , more ihan fourteen thousand dollars made principally by reformed drunkards they have a temperance society in i poughkeepsie called the polk and dal las society we object fo the name — j temperance should avoid all even the remotest association with politics and par ty names eight hundred sailors have signed the temperance pledge at the home for sea men society new york during the last i year about three thousand dollars have i been deposited in the seamen's savings j bank and more than six thousand dollars ! have been given to friends and relatives , gen riley a distinguished temper ance lecturer at lhe north offered to pay j the " rumites for listening to him provi | ded they would not do so without it two ! able-bodied men one of whom was a dis tiller recently demanded and received i their pay for attending one of his lectures ; we learn from the new york organ ! that at a recent election held in brazoria texas there was no visiting of grog-shops ■ and the voters all exercised the right of suffrage without the aid of alcohol the candidates were all temperance men and treating was entirely out of the ques ! tion the lone star is evidently in the ascendant gov silas wright of new york and once so distinguished as a united states j senator from ihe same state has signed ; the teetotal pledge it has been ascertained that all the in i mates of the new bedford house of cor i rection were led to the commission of crime in consequence ofthe use of intoxi cating drinks the friends of " liberty to lie in the gutter j are trying to get up an anti-teetotal soci j efy in lancaster pa it has been asserted so far without con ! tradiction that the pilot of the steamer swallow was intoxicated at the time she | struck the " cascade roarer is the title of an excellent temperance paper published in ohio the king and all the chiefs of the sandwich islands have signed the teeto tal pledge ihey have a five gallon law there which no doubt messrs webster and choate would pronounce unconstitu tional a man was tried in kentucky for mur der and acquitted whereupon he took the jury io a rum-hole and made them all gloriously drunk a drunken woman in canada recently murdeied her own child a sprightly girl about 7 years old under the most cruel , circumstances the unnatural mother built a large fire in the kitchen and after stripping olf the child's clothes held it in the flames literally roasting the poor child to death a man was lately run over and horri bly mangled bv a train of cars on the georgia niilroa'd while lying in a state of intoxication across the road a law of virginia allows the retailing of liquor in proper places in the different counties in some of the counties we are glad lo learn the magistrates have deci ded that there is no proper place within their jurisdiction for that purpose as a specimen of the economy of licens ing grog-shops the crystal fount says that a man who had spent all his weeks wages at a grog-shop licensed by the coun ty endeavored to borrow a bone of meat to carry home to his starving family the price of which was 12 cents being re fused he stole it and was prosecuted on behalf of the state and the costs amoun ted to ninety dollars ! in the city of new york there is ofieli ' censed grog-shop for each sixty persons of the population no wonder then that pauperism and crime so abound in the great'eity of gotham a railroad is now in progress from king ston jauaica to the interior ofthe coun try ab.ut fifty laborers were brought from england and have been toiling un der a vertical sun in an insalubrious cli mate in the vicinity of swamps and yet not a single perscn has died nnd only one was slig.tly indisposed and the cause of this was owing to the fact that not a sin gle one uas a rum-drinker anecdote of chief justice marshall a friend residing in this country has sent us for publication the following anecdote of the late chief justice marshall in a note accom panying il he says that we may rely with confi dence upon its authenticity — western citizen many years ago colonel ii , a highly respectable citizen of this county went into vir ginia on a traditi expedition it was in the days of the bank cf the united states and at a period when a pretested bill of exchange was more frightful than ah apparition things have changed somewhat since and the epistolary visitations of the notary public then so alarm ing have in later times become as familiar as household words i but to our story the colonel had taken in a drove of horses and meeting an unusual dull market he found himself in richmond with stock on hand and no means to meet an accep tance ot 81000 on which the following day was ! the last day of grace he plead for time but the officers were inexorable ; payment must be ; made or in default a protest and the ghost of ■ a ruined reputation loomed heavily in the back j ground of the colonel's imagination in the midst of his perplexities a thought suddenly struck him and with a philosophical coolness \ peculiarly his own he determined to put it into execution he inquired of the clerk for the ', residence of judge marshall ; it was pointed , out to him and thither he wended his way — ■ on arriving at the mansion he was admitted i at once to an audience with the judge whom he briefly describes as a remarkably great man [ with a remarkably small head he told the judge his name was colonel h , that he lived in bourbon county in the state of kentucky that he had come to vir j ginia with stock and on the faith of a good mar j ket had negotiated a bill of exchange for 81000 which was due at one of the banks on lhe mor \ row and most unfortunately for him he had no \ money to pay it off at this point the colonel faltered ; it was but for a moment however ; his heroic resolution overcame all scruples and with a gravity which in most men would have seemed a mockery he added — " and sir i want you to pay it the judge modestly replied " my good friend i don't know you <; that matters not said the imperturbable colonel " i am good so is the bill my credit is at stake you can save it ; i will re-pay you principal and interest ; i have a large family dependent upon me for support and while you will save my commercial reputation from disgrace you will incur the lasting gratitude of one who though you may never need his assistance will never forget your kindness the judge with his usual perspicacity dis covered at once the character of his man and promised to meet him at the bank the next mor ning punctual to his appointment they met ; judge marshall took up the bill and proffered additional money to defray the colonel's expen ses home in the autumn of the same year the colonel was again in richmond with hogs having sold and received the money he called on the jud_,e and paid the debt who refused all inte rest being satisfied with having saved the cred it of a man who had proved himself worthy cf his own confidence the colonel is still living and in good health and recounts with great satisfaction the history of his first acquaintance with chief justice marshall elopement in high life — a painful fact has occurred in ireland within the past few days which has brought indelible disgrace on a lady of rank the mother of a large family and her paramour an ofucer in a cavalry regiment — lady georgiana h — is connected with seve ral noble families in england her unhappy husband is a stipendary magistrate of a mid land country and was formerly a captain in the arm his elder brother is a companion of the bath ; an honor conferred upon him for his services during the peninsular war cnptain and lady georgiana h — had thirteen children ten of whom are living and they wer hereto fore a most interesting and happy family lady h has in an evil hour left her home and fam ly and formed a criminal connection with lieut m , who is in his 25th year he possesses property of the value of about 15,000 a year in a county adjoining tbat in which the family resides whose peace and happiness he has de stroyed legal proceedings have been com mented against him and the damages are laid at 20,000 the case it is paid will be brought before a jury in may next dublin | journal the camden race frighful accident oa wednesday the second trial for suprema cy between the celebrated racers eashion and peytona took place over the camjen course op posite philadelphia fashion this time came off victorious having woo the race in two heats — the day warm and the track somewhat heavy — a friend who was p:csent,gives us th following brief account of the race : " after the dreadful ac ident to-dav the race between pey'o'ia and fashion came off and victory restored tothe brows of lhe latterat cam dem the laurels which her ni">re southern com petitor had snatched from them at t!ie union course thus may victory perch alternately on the banner ofthe s<uith and tbe north but — meiy ihs union beperpettud the story i short ly told thus : first heat : fashion took the lead and kept it ; time 7 45 second hei : even as if they had been a pair of siamese twins until they entered the tirst quarter of the fourth mi!e here peytooa ihe favorite at the start s200 to 120 fell bade into the wake of her unfailing competitor she an swering to the motions of her rider looked back with her tig eyes at her rival aod seeing she had it all her own way led her in several lengths ahead and pas.incr the judges stand under a pull back in 7 57 r of the accident above alluded to we copy the tallowing account from the philadelphia inquirer yesterday was a day of much excitement at the camden race-ground and its vicinity thou sands passed over the river from the city and collected together from the surrounding country to sec the great race between fashion and pey tona the race was to take place at one o'clock and as that hour approached the stand became crowded and the excitement deepened in inten sity on the principal stand there could not have been less than fifteen hundred persons far too many for its strength when peytona and fashion were brought out and the race was aboot lo begin there was a sudden movement — a sort of general bending forward to catch a view of the celebrated hor ses this movement produced an extra strain upon the stand which wavered t ttered and cracked at first it parted and fell gradually — at least sufficiently so to give a momentary and only a momentary warning of danger then the whole centre of the ponderous mass con taining two stories and more than one hundred feet in length fell with a tremendous crash the scenethatensuej beggars all description the cry of panic and alarm was truly appalling and it was impossible for a lime to discover the extent of the injury and the belief at first was general that a great number of lives had been lost poles were promptly obtained lo keep the crowd back and to remove the ruins and lumber the ground fl nr was occupied with eating drinking and gambling tav.e . and con tained a great number of people some of whom were among the wounded it occupied about half an hour to clear awaj the mass of rubbish meanwhile the reports were of the most exaggerated character an j bv the time they reached the city the number of killed was placed by several of them at over one hundred as far as we hare been able to ascertain no life was immediately lost although a boy was carried away apparently dead and it was feared that five others were dangerously if not fatally wounded ' the jesuits the pari papers contain a report of the trial of a person who officiated for some time as cashier to the society of je suits established in paris and in ihat ca pacity filched from those poor sons of the church abont 10.000 pounds sterling — wilh that sum the rogue led a dashing life keeping three or four mistresses giv ing splendid fetes and eclipsing by his ex travagance all he grand signeurs of pa ris what is however most remarkable in the case is that ihe jesuits who make a vow of poverty should have so much money wiihin reach of a clerk ; but even the 10;0_0 pounds that the man stole was but a tithe of what he might have stolen another remarkable thing is that these reverend fathers do not seem to be so occupied with the things of heaven as to have no time for the things of earth : fur they possess shares in batiks and railway and they purchase or establish any mer cantile undertaking which produces mo ney — in short they fake anythingin hand ihat promises to bring grist lo the mill whether it be taking part in a foreign h>an or manufacturing lacifer matches but what puzzles me is bow the worthy j ',.". its should have placed their defalcating clerk in the hands of justice for in a work i happened to read a few days ago i found that one of their body lays it down that robbery is permitted in case ot neces sity '' is robbery permitted asks the jesuit writer " in cases of absolute want it is permitted is the reply either o penly or otherwise provided he has no other means of administering to his ne cessity ; it is in that case neither theft nor rapine because according io a natur al right all things are common judged by this rule the dishonest cashier can certainly have no difficulty in getting himself acquitted especially if he has the good lock to have a jury of jesuits the doctrine is verv convenient to needy men and mast be in high favor in new gate — john bull a strong movement we find a letter from galveston under dato of the 2d ult in the new orleans republican frorft which we make the following extract : the important event of the day is the ar rival of com stockton wiih his fleet two days after he anchored here col love receiv ed information trom a reliable source from the west that the mexican force on lhe rio grand would attempt to occupy and maintain the line of the xeuces at the moment ofthe completion of annexation this news he communicated to the commodore who advised an immediate oc copatioa of the line by lhe te.an troops offer ing his co-operation by sea tiie comna dore accompanied by col love col mckinney samuel williams and c a wicklifite late post m.i ter general of the tailed s;ates will sail to-morrow to obtain intelligence and will re turn in a week in the mean time maj gen sherman is to vi.it the executive and ask his approval and co-operati.n should he refuse sherman contends that he is empowered by tho general terms ot an existing law to acl inde pendently of the president an i h trill do so he will call three thousand men into immediate service to rendezvous at corpus ci.risti an.l he will be promptly obeyed things here are in a great ferment the new orleans republican of the cc.h ultimo says : 44 we have it now in our power on good grounds however appearance may e to the contra'1 tu asseit t at ihe liu -..:..* of texas so far from opposing the popular will in relation to annexation will co-operate with it all the efforts of great britain or any other foreign power to prevent it or to influence the texan government will be ab rtive '• we rre t likewise th t thr troops btmgar risoaedat fort jesup trill be ordered to the rio grande in less than one month the houston telegraph of may 1 l'.l has tho following paragraph : 44 fokt j_<i . — we learn that there are se ven companies of tbe 2d dragoons eight com panies of the 3d infantry and ci^ht companies of the lib infantry now stationed al fort jesop ; and two companies ofthe . 1 infantry have late ly been ordered lo remove immediately from fort leavenworth lo fort jesup it appears from this that president p intends to have a f.rce in readiness on < r eastern frontier to aid us if necessary i:i repelling any sudden incur sion of mexican troops the galveston civilian of the 17;h ultima states that the ressels-of war reported by a ves sel at new orleans some time ago as a 1 1 itish squadron were a part ot the american squadron now at galveston which wore english colors in passing the " hole in the wall a good judge the following is a memorandum of the resolutions which sir matthew hale com posed for the government cf his conduct upon his elevation to the dignity of chief baron about the year 1000 throughout his judicial career he so acted as to merit the applause which has been uniformly bestowed upon him as a just learned honest patient and humane judge we annex his memorandum to wit : things necessary to be continually had in remembrance : 1 that in the administration of jus tice i am entrusted for god the king and country and therefore — 2 that it be done i uprightly 2 deliberately 3 resolutely " 3 that i rest not upon my own un derstanding or strength but implore and rest upon the direction and strength of god 44 1 that in lhe execution of justice i carefully lay aside my own passions and not give way to them however provoked 5 that i be wholly intent upon the business i am about remitting all other cares and thoughts as unseasonable and interruptions •• 0 that i suffer not myself to be pre possessed with any judgment at all till lhe whole business and bolh parties be beard •• 7 that i never engage myself in the beginning of any cause but reserve my self unprejudiced iiii the whole be heard " s that in business capital though my nature prompt me to pity yet to con sider there is a pity al.o due to the coun try *" 9 that i be not too rigid in matters purely conscientious where all the harm is diversity of judgment " 10 that i be not biassed with com passion to the poor or favor to the rich in point of justice 11 that popular or court applause or distaste have n influence in any thing 1 do in point of distribution of justice " 12 not to he so solicitous what men will say or think so long a 1 keep myself exactly according to th rule of justice '■ 13 if ir criminals it be a measuring ca to incline to mercy nnd acquittal 14 in criminals that consist merely in words where no mire harm ensues moderation i no injustice *• 1 ii in criminals of blood if the fact be evident s ■ • rity is justice ■ " 16 toabhor all private solicitations of what kind soever and b whomsoever in matters depending " 17 to charge my a rvants 1 not to interpose in any matters whatever 2 not to take more than their known fees 3 not to give any undue precedence to causes ; 1 not to recommend counsel 4i 19 to be short and sparing at meals that i may he the fitter for business tn jr.w — the rev mr hershell a con verted jew dethrered a lecture at the taberna cle in new york last w.-.k ia which he gav an interesting account of the state ofthe jews in damascus and other part3 ofthe east which he has recently visited he aiso spoke ot the european jews and said lhat the harvest was ripe f_r christian eti'.rt amongst them they began to despair of the coming of any other messiah than jesus of nazareth at the close of the address of dr il a liberal collection was taken up to forward the eff rt of the so cietv for ameliorating the con htion of the jews