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VOLUME IV.
COLUMBUS, TEXAS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1861.
NUMBER 20.
Tkorta oat a Falded Yoka.
la looking over my trusks one da
1 lit onto a old boka
Immegitly thorta come into my bed
It thue to the boka I ed—
Poar dried op thing what maid a faid
And rinkle op like a ole made
What maid o lose your sweet perfume
What n bad aibecttbe^dddle^of gone.
A lan what a lerein in u Hze
Two awl ho sea « wíthHláre i te
But moist of awt tkeald the fateT «éclts
Learn wisdom of a wrjtWIk.
Thare pborms so farawrrd-focttrip to' see
Like ded roaz leaves<iitl]3tried op bee
Thare shoaldera whitch theytfio to awl
Will then be InTered-With a short.
Thare round bare arms so very whyte
Will then be hid clean out of site
And varios other of these man killers
Will be concealed by phyarma ¿tillers.
Stikulasts.—The Louisville Jourrtál
beautifully says:
There are times when the5 pulse lies low
is the bosom and beatr-elow in the veins;
when the spirit sleeps the Sleep, apparently,
that knows no waking Hi its hdoae of clay,
and the window shatters are closed, and
the door bung with the invisible* crape of
melancholy; when we wish theigolden
sunshine pitchy dalkness and vefy'«willing
to fancy 44 clouds where no clouds *be."
This is a state of sickness when pbysic
may be thrown to the dogs, for ire "will
have none of it. What shelf raise the
sleeping Lazarus f What shall make the
heart beat music again, and the palee
dance to it through all the myriad throng-
ed balls in our house of life! VVbat shall
make the sunkiss tbe iSas tern hills again
for as, with all hi' own awaking gladness
and the night overflow «nth " moon light,
music, love and flowers!" Tjove itself is
the great stimeleut—the most intoxica-
ting of all—and performs all these uira
«les; but it is a'miracle itself, Snd it is
sot at the drugstore, whatever ¿bey «ay.
The counterfeit'is in themarkét, but the
winged god if not a money changer, we
assure yos. Ken'have tried many things
—bat still they sskeü'for stimulants. The
stimalaata we Use bat require* the me of-
more. Hen try to draws the floating deed
of their own sot!I* n the wine cvp, but
the eorpeee will rise. We see their Aces
in the bubbles. The intoxication of drink
sets the world whirling again, «nd the
países playing the wildest mu4ic, and the
thoughts galloping — bat the fart clock
runs down sooner.; and the unnatural
stimulation only leaves the bouse it -fills
with wildest revelry, more silent, more sad,
more deserted, more <de*d. There is only
one stimulant that never fails and «ever
intoxicates—-Dirnr. Doty pats a -new sky
over every man—up in his heart may -be
—into wbidh the skylark, Happiness, al-
ways goes singing.
Thb bmailor'a DamrcE.—Bachelor
are styled by married men who have put
their foot iato it, as Wty * half perfected
beings," *4 cheerless Vagabond /' u tr&t half
a pair of shears," and many cither cutting
titles are given them, while oa the other
hand, they extol their own state as one of
such perfect bliss that a change from earth
to heaven would he sdtnewhat of a doubt-
ful good. If they are so happy, why in-
time don*t they ewjoy their happiness, and
hold their tongues about it! What do
half of the men that get married, get mar-
ried fori Simply that they may have
somebody to darn their stockings, sew bnt-
tons on their shirts, and trot the babies'-;
that they may have somebody, as a mar-
ried man onco said, to " pull off their boots
when tbey are a little balmy." These fel-
lows «re always talking <of the InuelioesB of
bachelors. Loneliness, indeed 1 Who is
petted to death by the ladies with marriage
able daughters^ i n vi ted to tea and to
evening parties, and told to M drop in when
it is convenient f"—the bachelor. Who
lives in clover all his days, and wfceu he
dies has flowers strewn on his grave by
all the girls who couldn't entrap bim ?—
the bachelor of course. Who strews flowera
<on the married man's grave I—his widow!
—not a bit of it; she palls down the tomb-
stove that a six week's grief has set sp in
tier heart, and goes and gets married again,
«fte does. Who goes to bed early because
tima hangs heavy on his hands f—the mar-
tied mas. Who gets a scolding for picking
eit (he softest side of the bed, and for wa-
king up the baby when tarn* out in the
Morning t—the married Man. Who has
wood to split, house hunting and market-
ing to do, the young ones to wash, and
lacy servant girls to look after f—-tbn mer-
ged man. Who is taken up for beating
his wife ?—the married man. Who gets
divorcedI—the married stao. Finally,
who haa got the Scripture on his side I—
the bachelor. St. Paul says, and St. Paul
kaeW what bo was talking about—u He
thtft marries, does well; but ha that does
not marry, doea better."
Where bard work kills ten, idleness Mils
tacking of an Oriental Palace.
We have, by late foreign mails, a'very
interesting account offfee sacking of the
Imperial Palace at Pekta, China, by the
victorious troops of the allied British and
French armies. The sacking took place
on the evening of the 6th of October last.
Three hundred eunichs had charge óf the
building. Tbey made a slight resistance,
but the Europeans were soon within the
doors of the Imperial resideace, giving
free play to their revengeful feelings, and
their greed for the rich booty which the
building contained. An account says:
"Nopen «can describe, correctly, the
scene that ha6 taken place here within the
two last days. Indiscriminate loot has
been allowed. "The public reception hall,
the state end private bed rooma^ ante-
rooms, boudoirs, and every other apart-
ment has; been ransacked-.; articles of vertu,
of native "and foreign workmanship, taken
Or broken,-if too large <o be carried away,
ornamental lattice-Work, screens.-jade-stone
ornaments,^ars, clocks, watches, and other
pieoes of mechanism, óurtain and furni-
ture—none -escaped destruction. There
were extensive Wardrobes of dres ; coats
richly embroidered in siik and gold thread,
in the impefiAl -dragon 'fashion*; boots,
head-dresses, fans,%c.; in fact, rooms all
but filled with them. Siore-M-cOms of
manufactured silk, suchas maybe bought
in Canton at twenty to thirty dollars per
piece. By a ce'culatión -made* in the
rooms, thére roust have been bóven or eight
thousand pieces. -Hundreds were thrown
down or trampled en, and the flooMovered
tbickly with tbetto—men were throwing
themwt each other, and all taking as
inany as tbey could carry. Tbey were
used instead of rope to secure the loading
of'barts filled with "them. Throughout
"tLe 'French camp were hundreds óf pieces,
-some helped up, others ;ttsed to make
tents, or bé&s and coverlids.
- In'(he afternoon yesterday, a party of
French went through tbe apartments with
sticks, breaking everything that remained
—mirrors, screens, *pX0fcla, die. It is said
tbey done so in revenge for the barbarous
treatment the 'released -prisoners, their
'countrymen, bad received. A treasury
containing a large quantity of gold ingots1
and sycee sihrer is under charge of a guard,
and is to be divided between the -English
sod French.
""in one of the arite-rooftTB "tif ¿be state
bedroom at tbe summer pali*ce, the treaty
of'Tien-tsin in English and Chinese,
"signed by Lord Elgin, was found, it bad
been thrown on the ground by some one,
and lay in the beep Of broken articles, till
the íinglisb 'paper Evidently attracted tbe
eye of the person Who discovered it.
44 A general order from tbe British !0óm-
mander-in-Chief desired that all articles
taken by officers and men were "be sent
in for sale by public auction for fhé benefit
*ef tbe army, which was done. All were
pertfiitted to hnVe tbe efrticlels tbey had
biou^ht away for themeslves valued, and
have the option of taking or rejecting
theft. Many beautiful and curioUs souv-
enirs were thus 'obtained at a nOffrnal
price. The sale realized $¿2,06$, which
with the value of the treasure, estimated
at $61,000, is tobe divided as prize money
on the spot."
Another accoftftt lays:
"" No description can give a'ñ iáe* of ttie
splendor of this residence. The entrance,
or teceptron hall, is paved with marble and
painted with gold, azure and scarlet in the
most gorgeous style. Tbe throne of the
Emperor is of beautifal Carved wood, and
tbe cushions embroidered with gold drag-
ons, attracted general admiration; every
inner chatnber and saloon was handsomely
fitted up, and the rolls of silk, satin and
■Crapes, all of splendid workmanship, splen-
didly furnished Cummerbunds and pug
garees for the French soldiers, who appear
to have adopted our custom in this respect.
The jade-stone aad China Were of great
value, and some SeVres 'China of Louis
Quatorte would have delighted the eyes'of
many a etirious fancier; and the presen
tations word, with the English Coat of
arms, studded with gems, and evidently of
antiquity, gave rise to BOine speculation
Some idea of tbe quantity of >ilk may be
given by the fact that fowls, old pots, Ac.,
Were Wrapped in the most costly silks and
satins. All tbe ladies bad disappeared
bnt their little Japanese dogs, something
resembling a King Cbaries spaniel, Were
running about in a distracted state. Mr.
Wade sectored some valuable books and
papurs—some, we believe, for the British
Musenm. The Emperor had left the day
before, bnt his destination is, we believe
unknown.
Tke Hand Upen ike Latch.
"a rduíró wife's «on®.
My cottage home ia filled with light
The long, long summer day";
But, ah ! I dearer love the night,
And hail the eiokirfg' ray:
For eve restcres me one whose smilo
'Dtfthrfaora than;morning's match—
And life-afresh seems dawning While
- His hand -is on -the latch t
in tie circus.
cárfete it, and, after removing't%e bander-
When autumn leaves are thick with heaveju<i Áf^S^oue after another, will lie down be-
Arid shadows earlier fall,
And grapei'grow purple 'neath the ééivee,
Along our trellis'd wall—
I dreaming sit—the sleepy birds
Faint twittering in the thatch-
To wake to joy when soft is heard
His hand upon the latch !
iu the short winter afternoon
I throw my work aside
And through the lattice, while the moon
Shines mistily and wide,
On the dim upland paths I peer
In vain his form to catch—
I startle with delight, and hear
His hand upon the latch I
Yes ; -I am his storm and shine—
For me he toils all day;
And his true heart I know is mine.
Both near me and|fdft*#y.
And when he leaves our garden gate
At morn, his steps I watch-
Then patiently till eve await
H is hand^upon the latch!
Family Govkrnmkkt.—President Fel-
ton in his recent inaugural address at H*r-
vsxd'University, relates an excellent auec*
dote illustrating the kind consideration of
the rising generation towards their fathers;:
44 Family government—I suppose the
thing somewhere exists. I know tbe art
iu formas times was unde6tood ; but tfcére
is a figure of speech which tbe gramma-
rians call catachresis, and which young
at college sometimes wittily employ 1 ___
they, call their fathers 4< the Governor
tit lucos a non lucendo. There ia a/st%y
told of a discussion among ~s knot of stu-
dents at Cambridge, not here, but in En-
gland, about tho Unpleaattht qualities of
their governors—when one,:raore filial than
tbe rest, tried to check the petulance of
his comrades, by saying: 44 After all, let
us remember tbey are our fellow creatures.
Windows"Opxiíso Moas, WoüldKkx?
Doctors fbom the Door.—A very large
quantity of fresh air is spoiled and render
ed foul by the act of breathing. A man
spoils notion than a gallon every minute.
In eigbt hours' breathing, a full grown
man spoils a's much fresh air as seventeen
bree bushel sacks could hold. If be were
«but up in a room seven feet broad, teVen
feet long, at3 seven -feet high, the door
and windows ifcting so tightly that no air
could pass through, he would die, poision-
ed by bis own breath, in a very few hours ;
in twenty four bourn be would have spoil-
ed all tbe air contained in tbe room, sind
have converted it into poision. Reader,
when you rise to-moiYOW morning, just go
out of doors for five minutes, and observe
carefully tbe freshness of the air. That
afr is in tbe state in which God keeps it
for breathing. Then có&e back suddenly
into your close room, and your own senses
will at once make you feel how very far
the air in your chamber is from being in
the same wholesome and servicable con-
dition for use.
Ts* Eye of thk Ne*d!k.—X. Tecent
traveler to tbe fioly Land informs Us that
there it At the side of tbe principal gat6 of
Jerusalem a small one, which, upon occfc'
sions of great urgency, was opened for the
admission of persons after tbe great gates
of the tiity were All closed for tbe night.
This gate, from its small'size, was called
tbe Éye of the Needle ; and to get a cam-
el throgh it at all was no small task—for
a loaded came! to pass was an utter impos-
sibility. With the above fact before tbe
mind, one can see that the words of our
Savior, when speaking of the44 strait gate"
and the " rich man," were more literal than
many suppose. And We see how as the
rich man passes ipto the narrow way, the
sides and tbe low top of the strait gate
scrape everything from him in which he
bad before trusted. No otte can take any-
thing but himself through. Far easier is
it to strip a camel of its burthen than to
divest a rich man of bis trust in riches.
fta yoting qneen of ü?orttrg*l lafóly
asked her husband at dinner what wine he
preferred. 44 Port you gal/' Was the reply.
Happiness must arise from our own
tempers and actions, and not immediately
from anv external conditions.
Tbe transition from sorrow to joy
easiest in pure minds; as the trfce diamond
when moistened by the breatii recovers its
«buster «Doner than the false
Scene at a Bull Fight.
A few years- ago, the inhabitants of
Seville read with Surprise, in the adver-
tiiement of an approaching bull fight,
this unusual notice :
44 When the third' bullffshall have at-
tacked the picadors and receives three
pain of banderillas, a young peasant, by
whom he has been brought up, will appear
He will approach the bull
tween his horns."
The announcement of so "singular a
feat attracted an immense crowd to the
ampitbeater. The third bull appeared—an
animal with spletidid horns and very
brave. He slew four horses, received tbe
banderillas and became furious. Then,
contrary to ctistom,"all the torreros'retired
from the Hng, leaving the bull stamping
about, and'eháking the bloody darts that
hung froüi his neck. All at once a long
whistle "was heard. Tbe bull paused and;-
lislened. It was repeated, lie approach ;
ed tbe barrier, and a 'young man leaped;
into the ring, calling the bull by "name,
44 Mosquito !" The animal knew his
master, came to'caress him and was 'ap-
peased. Tbe peasant gave him his hand
to lick, %nd with the 'other began ^ to
scratch it behind tho eár—^ 'operation;
which seemed to afford the poor brute
much satisfaction. He then gently re-
moved tbe banderillas which annoyed the
neck óf Mosquito, made it go down on its
knees, and placed bis head between his
horns. The grateful bull seemed to listen
with pleas lire to a pastoral melody sung
by the muster. . , ,
TheTadroifation of'the mtiítitu<ie, hn,h-
erto sbppressed by surprise, burst in vio-
lence, and «book the building. Hearing
this pbrensied applause, the bnll, till then
under a charm, appeared to awake and
return tb'feality. He suddenly rose, bel-
lowing, find tbe peasant tried to escape.
Bat-it wae too late. The animal, as tho'
furious st beiog betrayed, tossed the young
ma^into the air, received bim again on
éjngored him, u^mpted on bim,
andferasbed him to pieces, is spite of the
tor&ros. Tbe function was suspended, and
—s phenomenon in Spain—t&e horrified
public quitted the circus in silence.—
Walk into North Spain.
-Gen. Twiggs Superseded.
In the course of an interview yesterday
4rith the veteran Cotemander of the Mili-
tary Department of Texas, we learned that
be hadbeén releí ved of his command by
the Wár^ department, and that Col. Car-
los A. White, now at Camp Verde, would
be his successor. It was not Without
emotion that we heard that distinguished
General, grown gray in tbe service of his
country, announce that his milit fy career
was closed, it being bis dett-rmiitation to
retire to private life, making New ó leans
his residence. We shall violate no courte-
sy in times like these if we state that the
cause of this petty piece of spleen Óh the
part of the magnanimous Administration,
lies in the feet-that our noble General had
expressed his sentiments to the War De-
partment about a certain chivalrous Gen-
eral of the North, who a short time since
threatened to put himself at the head of
200,^0 men and come down and " clean
out'' the entire South,!sot leaving so much
as a respectable 44 grease spot." General
Twiggs <alao, as we know, gave the Depart-
ment distinctly to understand that he would
not wage a war upon A merican citizens.
For thése things we honor and love the
war-worn veteran, as We feel fore all right-;
minded persons must likewise honor him ;
yet for these causes he ia removed, and
that too just on the eve of the breaking
up and removal of the Army -from our
"State. ;
We afe'coi&detit %e express ffce*eénti-
ments of a very large majority of the good
citizens df San Antonio, when we say that
we shall part with our late Department!
Commander with very sincere regret. We:
acknowledge to have received many tharks
of the General's confidence and kindness]
both to ourselves and to our^eurnal ; and
now upon the eye of his departure from
among us, we embrace the occasion to say
that he will| carry with him our most ar-
dent wishes for his health* and happiness.
San Antonio Herald, 16 th.
AVóid tetrij>taiiob, through *te£r iyfcu may
not%itbetasd it.
Women
800,009.
v
exceed
men in England by
_ The man who " challenged contradic-
tion ' got as awful fight and was moat
severely beaten.
It is a bad 6ign to tee a Than with bnt
off at midnight, explaining the the theory
and principles of true democracy to
lamp post.
There are fnatiy doubting in the hurtan
heart; do not think that yon can find out
the whole of a man's real character et
eseet
Thb Blk3sikgs of Poverty.—The fol
lowing remarks of a very distinguished
writer on this subject, are worthy of seri-
ous consideration:
44 Poverty is the nurse of manly energy
and heavenly-climbing thoughts attended
by love, and faith, and hope, around whose
steps the mountain breezes 'blow, "find from
whose counteuance all the virtues gather
strength. Loofk around you upon the dis-
tinguished men . that in every department
of life guide and control the tiinea, and in-
quire what was their origin, and what were
tbeir early fortunes I Were they as a gener-
al rule, rocked and dandled in tbe lap of
wealth 1 No 1 such men emergeírom the
homes of decent competedce or struggling
poveity. Necessity sharpens their facul
ties, and privation and sacrifice brace their
moral nattire. They learn the great art of
renunciation, and enjoy the happiness of
having few wants. They know nothing of
indifference or satiety. There is not an
idle fibre in their frames. They put the
vigor of a resolute purpose in every act,
Tfcte'edge of their mind is alwas kept sharp,
in tbe school of life, men like these, meet
the softly nurtured darlings of prosperity
as tbe vessel of iron meets the vessel of
porcelain.
-When Deacon Y. got into a bad fix he
Wás very expert in crawling out of it.
Though quick tempered, he Was one of the
he*t deacons in tbe world. He would not
m sober moments utter an oath, or any-
thing like one, for his weight in cider. At
tbe close of a rainy day he Was milking up-
on a knoll in the barnyard, at which was
a dirty slough, and near by an old tarn,
that, ih consideration of his usual 'quiet
disposition, was ^allowed to run with the
cows. Tbe deacon was piously humming
Old Hundred, and had just finished the
line, 44exaltered high," when the ram,
obeying a sudden impulse to be aggressive,
gave bim a blow from behind, that pot him
up a short distance, only to fall diYectly m
the slough, where tbe dirty water was just
deep enough to give him a good ducking.
As he crawled out, and before he rose from
bis All fours, he looked over his shoulder
St the ram, and quietly Vociferated—44 You
d—d old cuss, you 1 '' but looking around,
and seeing one of his neighbor* at the
bars, looking at him, he added, in the same
breath,44 if I may be allowed tbe exprea-
fcotfc"
The friend who pardons a great wrong,
acquires a superiority that wounds the
seifloveof the pardoned niab ; and how
ere* much the latter may admire the gen-
erosity of the giror, he can lore as he had
i|)reviously done—no moret
• " Still so gently o'er me ttealing," as
the man said when he heard a theif in bis
garret.
14 Be jabera/' says Pat, 44 the divil
show a man has who waits till be is kilt
before he acts on the defensive."
The 'confidential friendship of two bad
and cunning men is generally «s fit jury to
otkeis and no benefit to themselves.
" That's my impression," as the printer
said to 'a pretty girl when ho kissed her
44 And that's a token of my regard," j
*plied tbe Ifedy, boxing his ears.
The life insurance companies are about
inserting a clause in their policies, pro-
hibiting their risking their necks by bal-
looning or tight rope performances.
Tbfc population of Pekin, China, is
5,0©£,000. In 1845, the proportion t>f
deaths was one iu forty-two, not including
children.
A cat fn New York recently eanght a
mouse and carried it to an upper chamber,
where she nursed it aa tender aa a woman
would ber babe.
By Railway accidents in I860, there
were killed, in tbe United States, seventy
four persons, and three hundred and fifty
three wounded—the smallest number in
any tWefre nhofsths in the past eight years.
A wife was robbed of one hundred a$d
fifty dollars by her husband, at Philadel-
phia, on Wednesday. He was airested,
told where the money was buried, When
the wife refused to prosecute.
A Yankee doctor has got up á remedy
for hard times. It consists of ten hours'
bard labor well Worked in. Smart doctor 1
But what are the péopie to do who carit
get the ten hours hard labor 1
Are Women Naturally Polfttel
Mrs. Wyllys asks that question, and
then elaborated, answers it herself, thus:
Are women naturally polite, did y ota,
'ask, dear,%ood natured publio t
Did you ever know a woman to make
room in an omnibus, five on a side, when
number sk was entering, flounced andvet-
veted, until ordered Ey the driver f
J3id you ever know a little pair of gaf-
ter boots to turn one inch either to the
right or left when they could have esvett
you frojfn 'a streaming gutter by the operé*
tion ? Patent leathers don't beha^i so—
not they.
Did you éver know a woman to say,
I am sorry to have given so much trouble
Whén the dry good clerks have turned
things topsy turvy, without finding the
shade or color ihat never existed t
Did 'you ever know a woman Who dftl
not know it waa outrageous for another
woman to travel with a baby, or who
didn't regaté it as crael and barbarous, if
any ose objected to1 the squallisg of h£r
baby f
Did ydtt ever know a woman to taAc
over a third without ridiculing ber, evek
if she Was her "dear'particular friend f "
Did you ever praise one young lady'fti
the. presence of another, without beitfg
confidentially told of some esormotfs
fault Or deformity you bad not dreamed
. v ?
Did yob ever knów a pretly Womán '&
make as expression without half a dozen,
other pretty women runsisg the effect dif
it the l&stant she left the room t
Did you ever know s woman to apolo-
gize for having- knocked another woman's
bonnet into 44 pi" (that's printerism, but
expressive notwithstanding,') with the corn-
er of her parásoll r . •
Bid you ever hear of a woman who bad
an idea that she was nisking trouble by
her Kttte airs end graces'!
We don't believe you ever did, reader.
They are a race of unaceountablea, tbeas
women, just as sweei ssd piquast as Juna
rosea, sometimes, and then again, like ib
many venomous thors bushes.
There's one thing We never '¿erte'te bo
inwardly thankful for—that we're not s
man, and .consequently not obliged tomaf
ry one of 'em. Why she would drfcMtrit
crazy in a week, with her whims aa& fan-
cies, her exactiona and her petfy 'WMy*.
We would make the moat hen-pecked hus-
band in the world, unless, indeed, %e.bail
tbe nerve to run away from ber or shut
her up in a' closet for a week, until sha
promised to behave better. When a wo-
man chooses she can be the Nearest thing
to an angel of anything in the world, and
what a pity it is she does hot áfWfcya choose.
NunreXfc or Deaths iw a Year.—tt n
generally supposed that this earth ia in*
habited by one Chotisknd millions of hu-
man beings, ür thereabouts, and that
thirty-three years make a generation; ant
that, therefore, in thirty-three years dio
one thousand millions. Thus the numbdr
on earth amounts to
h year thirty millions;
ich day eighty-six thousand ;
Each hour thirty-aix hundred;
Each minute aixty;
Each second oke.
This calculation must necessarily str&fc
us. If tbe mortality be so great eveif
year and every hour, is it not probable
that he who reflects on it may himself bs
one of those soon to swell the list of thb
dead ! It ia at lent certain , that it onght
to lead be to think aerio&síy aad often os
this subject. Now, at this moment, one
of our fellow-creatures is going out of the
world, and before another hour haa passed
more than three thousand souls will have
entered tbe enter nal state I
. As gold is found but here and there up.
on earth, so it is with love in human life.
We meet it a little in the hearts of our
children and in our households ; but it is
here and there a scale of gold sad a whole
contiutoH dirt.
One of the Southern Representatives in
Congress, who had become irritated at his
inability to get the Hoot, of which the
Speaker possibly thought be could not
make a g<>o<l use, was heard to exclaim
the other day Iti a fit of passion, 141 have
been in town all winter and caught every
d—d thiDg in town, except the Speaker's
Vel"
Hem ark able Cass or SusrarnsD Aw-
hatioh.—A most remarkable case of ths
suspension of vitality ia a human being
has just occurred io Wheeling. It seems
that a lady residing in that city, has for á
long titile been suffering from a severs in-
disposition, and on last Saturday week
died, and to all appearaneea life wat ex-
tinct. Her medi'eal attendant waa .óf tbiá
opinion, and every arrangement was madé
for ber interment, by her afflicted relativee:
It was discovered, however, when the body
was aboút to be placed in the ooffia, that
it still retained its natural warmth.
This, aa msy be «uppoaed, occasioned
considerable surprise, and the doctor wai
agaia called m, who made every effort t¿
restore animation, bdt without success.
Tbe unfortunate woman still remains is
the aame condition, and aa yet so aigna
Of decomposition have appealed, although
some sit days have ofapeed since death wai
supposed to báve taken place. t*he ease
has excited no little interest ulftoag ths
leading physicianr of tbe city, asest of
whom have viewed the body, and we bet
lieve different opinions are entertained bf
them its whether tbe woman ia really aliVs
or not.
f i* ..
A gentleman having a musifcraJ sist.r%
being asked what branch she excelled k
declared that the piano was bet Carta
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J.D. Baker & Bros. The Colorado Citizen (Columbus, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 23, 1861, newspaper, February 23, 1861; Columbus, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth177617/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.