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T h e P H I L A D E L P H I A
S A T U R D A Y C O U R I E R.
VOL. VIII Saturday, January 19, 1839. Number 408.
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POSTAL SUPERSCRIPTION.
A package of papers passed through the Post Office, in Bir-
mingham, N.Y., last week bearing the following inscription:
"To the Forks of Chenango I am bound, Uncle Sam,
Let me ride in your mail bag : I'll go as I am :
When I get to Broome county, you shall have, I engage,
Three cents, if you claim it, of Elvira Page."
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H Y M E N E A L.
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"The silken tie that binds two willing hearts."
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M A R R I E D.
On the 10th inst., by the Rev. J. Coleman, Mr. WM. A. STORY to
Miss ELIZABETH MORGAN, both of Southwark.
On the 9th inst., by Rev. J. Lesser, Mr. J. ROWLAND, merchant
of this city, to Miss ISABELLA MATHANS, only daughter of I. Math-
ans, Esq., late merchant of the N. Liberties.
On the 10th inst., by the Rev. Dr. Dorr, CHAUNCY O. HOLCOMB to
REBECCA, daughter of the late R. Taylor.
On the 8th inst., by the Rev. D. Demme, Mr. AUGUST PRUTZMAN of
Philadelphia, to Miss MARY KEELY, daughter of Mr. Geo. Keely, of
Roxborough.
On the 9th inst., by I. Roach, Mayor, Mr. WILLIAM W. ALLEN,
formerly of Shrewsbury, to KETURAH M., daughter of I. Forman, of
Burlington co., N.J.
On the 10th inst., by the Rev. Geo Boyd, Mr. EDMUND CLAXTON to
Miss JULIETT S., daughter of Wm. Harrison, Esq.
On the 16th inst., in New York, by the Rev. Mr. Chase, Mr.
EDWARD S. BODETT, formerly of Philad., to Miss MARY A. MANN, young-
est daughter of Edwd. B. Mann, Esq., of N. York.
In St. Josephs, on the 10th ult. by the Hon. Judge Beveridge,
Mr. FREDERICK AUBERY to Miss THERESA, third eldest daughter of P.D.
Plunkett, Esq. of Patterson, N.J.
On the 31st ult. in Reading, by the Rev. R.U. Morgan, Mr.
EDWARD D. SMITH, merchant, to Miss HENRIETTA HAHS, both of that
borough.
On the 5th inst., by the Rev. Dr. Abercrombie, CHAS. CLARK to
SARAH, daughter of Mr. E. Yates.
On the 8th inst., by the Rev. Dr. Ludlow, JOHN T. PATTERSON to
FRANCES A., daughter of the late J. Jenks.
On the 15th inst., by the Rev. C. Pitman, Mr. JOHN B. BEAU-
MONT, formerly of Middletown, Ct. to Miss KEZIAH E. ROBERTS, of
this city.
On the 10th inst., by the Rev. Mr. Nicholson, HENRY PAINTER to
Miss MARY ANN, only daughter of Wm. Einweshler, all of West Kens-
ington.
On the 14th inst., at N. York, by the Rev. Mr. Schroeder,
CHAS. THEO. RUETE, of Philadelphia to SARAH ELIZABETH, daughter of
the late John Davis, Esq., of Boston.
On the 7th inst., at Norwich, Ct., by the Rev. A. Bond, Mr. J.
AUGUSTUS BREVOURT, of this city, to Miss J. BAILEY PEABODY, of the
former place.
In New York, on the 13th inst., by the Rev. Mr. Shimeall,
Capt. J. DAYTON WILSON to Miss JOSEPHINE THERESA LEWIS, all of that
city.
On the 13th inst., in New York, by the Rev. Peter Williams,
JAMES FORTEN, Jr. of Philadelphia, to JANE M. VOGELSANG, of that
city.
On the evening of the 8th inst., by the Rev. Mr. Morton,
CHARLES McEUEN to MARY, daughter of Richard Ashhurst.
On the 31st ult., by the Rev. Mr. Prettyman, Mr. JOHN B. MOSES
to Miss ELLEN S. TURNBULL, both of this city.
On the 4th ult., by the Rev. Thos. G. Allen, SAMUEL WONDERLY,
Jr. to CATHARINE S., daughter of E. Shotwell.
On the 6th inst., by the Rev. Mr. Crouch, Mr. JAS. L. HAND to
Miss PHOEBE S., daughter of Jos. Goff, Esq. of Cape May co.
On the 31st inst., in Harrisburg, by Rev. Mr. Sprecsher, Mr.
JAS. R. COULTER, Printer, to Miss LUCINDA A. BALSEY, both of that
borough.
In Princeton, on the 31st ult., by the Rev. Mr. Hare, Mr. JOHN
F. KLEIM to Miss CATHARINE HESTER, both of this city.
By John H. Rulon, Esq. on the 3d inst., at the house of John
Moore, Esq., Groveville, Mr. JOSEPH GREGORY to Miss MARY ANN HART-
MAN, all of Mercer co.
On the 31st inst., by the Rev. Mr. Banghart, M.F. STILLWELL,
publisher of the Belvidere Apollo, to ELIZABETH, only daughter of
the late Rev. Mr. Bennett.
At Rahway, on the 29th ult., Mr. F.S. LABAW, formerly of
Trenton, to HESTER J. FREEMAN, daughter of J. Freeman of Rahway.
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O B I T U A R Y.
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"In the midst of live we are in death."
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On the 6th inst., JAMES BOYLE, in the 69th year of his age.
On the 31st ult., MICHAEL B. DYOTT, in the 55th year of his
age.
On the 5th inst., at the residence of her son, Bucks co., Pa.,
Mrs MARY WILSON, in the 72nd year of her age, relict of the late
Rev. Jas. P. Wilson, D.D., of this city.
In Washington, JOHN N. MOULDER, Grand Master of the Grand
Lodge of the District of Columbia.
In Essex co., N.J., Mrs. ANNA RIGGS, widow of the late Mr. A.
Riggs in the 80th year of her age - a kind parent - an exemplary
Christian.
On the 19th ult., at Mobile, Mrs SUSAN JOHNSON, wife of Mr.
Henry D. Johnson, late of New York, aged 28 years.
On Monday week, in Freehold township, N.J., Mrs. DU BOIS, wife
of the late Rev. B. DuBois, aged nearly 95 years.
On Friday week, at Patterson, N.J., at the house of her
son-in-law, the Hon. Philemon Dickerson, at the advanced age of 90
years, Mrs. SARAH STOTESBURY, relict of Colonel Stotesbury, of the
Army of the Revolution.
On the 13th inst., Mr. BENJAMIN THOMSON, in the 50 year of his
age.
On the 20th ult, at Jefferson city, Mo., on his way from Fort
Leavenworth to St. Louis, in the 22d year of his age, THOMAS F.
WILSON, youngest son of the late James Wilson (formerly Horner &
Wilson,) of this city.
On the 12th inst., EDWARD A. PHILLIPS, aged 2 years and 8
months, son of Edwd. and Gertrude Phillips, of Baton Rouge, La.
On the 12th inst., ADELINE, wife of R.H. Johnson, in the 28th
year of her age.
On the 1st inst., at Madison, Ind., JOSEPH S. TRYON, late of
this city.
On the 14th inst., aged 47, Mrs. CHRISTIANA, wife of Mr. M.
Conrad.
On the 12th inst., ELIZABETH, eldest child of P.J. Patton, in
the 5th year of her age.
On the 12th inst., JAMES ALCOCK, in the 29th year of his age.
On the 2d inst., Mrs. MARY CRESS, in the 91st year of her age,
an old and respected inhabitant of the N. Liberties.
On the 11th inst., MARY ANN NEVINS, in the 19th year of her
age.
On the 5th inst., in Mount Pleasant township, Mrs. CATHARINE
SPEALMAN, relict of the late J. Spealman, aged 82 years, 10 months
and 18 days. The deceased had 13 children, 90 grand children, and
149 great grand children, 32 great great grand children and 5 great
great great grand children - together 289.
On the 8th inst., of consumption, JAMES HALLIDAY, aged 43
years.
On the 9th inst., Mrs ELIZABETH FREDERICK, in the 27th year of
her age.
On the 8th inst., GRACE, wife of Thomas Mann, in the 69th year
of her age.
On the 8th inst., MARTHA HOSKINS, daughter of the late Jos.
Hoskins, of Burlington, N.J., in the 18 year of her age.
On the 9th inst., in the 20th year of his age, CHAS. B. MOR-
RIS, son of J.W. Morris, formerly of this city, deceased.
On the 8th inst., Mrs. MARIA JOHNSON, wife of the Rev. Stephen
Johnson, who has bee for the last six years engaged in the Mission
to Siam, established by the A.B.C. F M, and has recently returned
to this country on account of the declining health of Mrs. Johnson.
On the 10th inst., CATHARINE S. RINKER, aged 24 year.
On the 5th day, 10th inst., SALLY ANN, wife of G.V. Bacon, in
the 35th year of her age.
On th 9th inst., WM. HENRY, son of J.M. Thomas, aged 1 years.
On the 5th day, 10th last., REBECCA B. SMITH, aged 18 years.
On the 3rd inst., Mrs. ZERUIAH WILSON, in the 62d year of her
age.
On the 12th, Nov., GEO. G. BARRELL, Esq., Consul of the U.S.
for Malaga.
On the 1st day night, 23rd inst., ABRAHAM HILYARD, in the 68th
year of his age.
At Havana, on the 8th ult., the Hon. D. JUAN DE ABREDONDO,
Auditor of War and Councillor to Her Catholic Majesty. He was one
of the Commissioners of the Spanish GOvernment, in delivering the
Floridas to the United States, and father -in-law to C.P. Butler,
Esq. His two eldest grand children reside in Westerfield, Conn.
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T H I N G S I N N E W Y O R K
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Richard Huffman has been drowned in the East River.
Coleman, who murdered his wife, by cutting her throat with a
razor last summer in Broadway, has been hung in the yard of the
Hall of Justice. He begged that his sentence might be commuted to
imprisonment for life, and when he found that was impossible, he
became dogged, and so continued to the hour of execution. He
walked upon the scaffold with a firm step, surveyed the arrange-
ments with apparent indifference, and was thus launched into eter-
nity. His body was delivered over to the surgeons for dissection.
We learn from the New Era that four small boys, of the ages of
12 to 14, were brought in by Sparks and Feck on a charge of steal-
ing from 25 William street, cambric muslin of the value of $17. A
piece of stolen goods was found upon the premises of one Mary
Gilmartin, No. 41 City Hall Place, where, as it appeared in the
examination of the prisoners, boys were in the habit of disposing
of stolen goods, which this woman encouraged them in pilfering in
different parts of the city. The old hag was immediately appre-
hended as a receiver, and the boys will be sent to the House of
Refuge.
Mr. Hamblin has issued proposals for rebuilding the Bowery
Theatre. He asks the subscription of $25,000, and then proposes to
raise ten thousand dollars by issuing box tickets at fifty cents
each. The theatre is to be opened on the first day of May next.
Fanny Wright is rapidly losing ground. For the last fortnight
she has bee endeavoring to get a room in which to deliver her
lectures, but is not likely to meet with any great success.
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F O R E I G N M A T T E R S.
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HONORABLE TO IRELAND.
It is stated in foreign papers that, in the four counties of
Cork, Clare, Limerick and Kerry, the last Munster circuit court
closed without a capital conviction. These counties contain a
population of about two millions of souls, and present a page of
honor to the human name, to which perhaps no district in the world
of equal population furnishes a parallel. It is proud monument of
Irish character, and puts to shame the oppressors who forge her
letters.
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N E W S O F T H E W E E K.
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A MURDER AND ROBBER. -- Charles H. Hardon, a one-eyed man, while
traveling near Pond Town, Georgia, was murdered without provoca-
tion, and robbed by a wretch named Jacob Carter, who has since been
arrested. (*** Could this be a Jimmy Carter connection?)
A RAIL ROAD ACCIDENT. -- The Germantown Telegraph says: - "Mr.
Isaac Bewley, and agent on the Germantown Rail Road, while in the
act of collecting the tickets from the passengers in a horse car,
on Wednesday morning week, his head came in contact with the bridge
over the turnpike near this place, by which he was so severely
injured as to despair of his life."
Three gentlemen, while crossing the covered bridge into Tioga,
Pa., were precipitated, by the horses taking fright, down an abut-
ment 17 feet high, where the carriage was completely crushed on the
stones and ice, and one horse killed outright, yet not one of the
gentlemen in the slightest degree hurt.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT. -- A Mrs. Trumbull, at Alton, Illinois, during
the short absence of her husband, caught fire by her clothes, it is
thought and together with a son, a boy of six years, were burnt to
death.
William Little, Esq., was on Tuesday last elected Mayor of
Pittsburgh, by a majority of upwards of 200 votes.
On Saturday last, Mr. John Kline, of Evesham, was thrown from
his cart and killed by the engine, on the rail road, near Camden,
coming suddenly in contact with his vehicle.
Churchill Newnem was killed in Clarke county, Ky., on the 25th
ult., by the infliction of a blow on the head with an axe, by
Arthur Stanhope.
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FROZEN TO DEATH.
Constantine Swift, a pedlar, belonging to Philadelphia, was
found on Thursday last near Moorestown, N.J., dead, and from the
position of the body it is probable he perished in the recent cold
weather, and was covered by the snow that fell subsequently.
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BRUTAL.
Mr. Harvey Carey, of Boston, found his axe covered with blood,
lying near his door, on Sunday morning last, and on searching about
for the cause of so unexpected and occurrence, found a mare in a
field close by, which had been killed by it. Probably the animal
was stolen, and the thief having fears of detection had perpetrated
this act of inhuman cruelty.
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James Bird was found dead in Wayne township. Cause, intemper-
ance!
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Jacob Davis, a French pedlar, was knocked down on Brighton
road by highway robbers, but fortunately the villains were alarmed
by the approach of some travelers, and thus Davis doubtless waved
his life -- certainly his money.
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A little daughter of John Nichols, Caroline county, (Md.) has
bee burned to death!
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Fifty years ago there were but 64 inhabitants in Ohio. There
are now 1,000,000.
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I N T E M P E R A N C E -- M U R D E R :
A murder was perpetrated on Christmas night by some twenty or
thirty Irishmen, at the house of the widow Greenman, who keeps a
tavern at Schoharie Creek. It appears that the Irish had for some
reason or other unknown to us, got an antipathy to the Americans.
A fight had taken place early in the evening between an Irishman
and an American, but whether this had anything to do with the
violence committed afterwards is not certain.
At about 8 o'clock in the evening, a man by the name of Elijah
Snow, in the employ of Mrs. Greenman, went out of the house for the
purpose of getting firewood, when he was assailed by the whole gang
with clubs, and most horribly beat and mangled. The doors and
windows of the house were broken, and another man who was in the
house was also badly hurt, but luckily escaped and hid in some of
the outhouses. Mr. Snow lingered most of the time in convulsions
until Thursday morning. Six of the offenders have been committed
to the jail in this village. Their names are Cornelius Mulhall,
George Russell, RIchard Wool, -----Farrell, Michael Gannon and John
Haley."
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CHILD KILLED WITH A KNIFE.
On the 14th ult. a daughter of Deacon Jonathan Beckwith, of
East Haddam, Connecticut, two or three years old, while carrying
along a basket with a knife in it, fell upon the basket, the knife
penetrating her leftside, near the heart, causing death almost
instantly.
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CORONER'S INQUEST.
The Coroner was called on Tuesday week, to hold an inquest on
th body of a little boy, aged 4 years, named Charles Cany, who
about 4 o'clock that day, had been run over by a market wagon in
Market street near Schuykill 7th, and was instantly killed. The
jury, after a patient investigation, returned a verdict of acciden-
tal death.
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On Tuesday, an inquest was held on the body of an unknown
white man, who was found drowned in a ditch near the Point House
hotel. -- From the evidence elicited on the inquest, the jury
returned a verdict of -- "cause of death unknown" -- having bee
found dead in the said ditch. The deceased was about five feet
eight inches, had dark hair and light eyes, and two of the upper
front teeth were broken. He wore a cloth round jacket and pants,
black figured vest, muslin shirt, and appeared to be a shoemaker by
trade.
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