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THE TRIEWEEKLY WHIG, ISSUED ON FOURDAYS, THESDAYS AND SATURDAYS » Term, $3.00 Per Annum, MORTON SULLIVAN. ‘Proprietors, THE DAILY WHIG. JOHN T. MORTON, Editor. THURSDAY. NOV. 24,1853. Those Runaway Negroes. Waar tar Cuiiaco Tarpevsk 84 ¥ 8 ABOUT THEM Five Dollars ‘REWARD’ —AND WHO GET# THE MONEY! . . _ ‘We publish by request the following ex tract. . . ‘Cheap THe Track !—tHe Tram Is Couine! Mosers, Mathers Johnson, of Palmyra, Ma rion county, Missouri, have telegraphed to us from Quincy, Hingis, announcing that on Saturday night, the 20th alt., “Thirteen ne groes, men, women and children,” left Mari on county on the underground railroad, for parts unknown—supposed to be Canada.— ‘The dispatch contains a full description of each passenger, and offers a reward that will enable us, when we learn it by catching the runaways, to “live like a gentleman,” for at least one year. But as we have “other fish to fry,” we want to let the job to someone who is competent for such a business.No one need apply however, who has served less than five years in the penitentiary, and is not ready to sacrifice the chastity of his sister or mother, or call his soul for ‘thirty pieces,” as we are confident that any person less dev ilish in nature and reckless as to consequen ces would not do. If there are any such hereabouts,we beg of them to apply for the job at once.—[Chicago ]Tribune , We have said that it is done by request.— We intended to do is “free gratis for noth ing?’—the more readily as we were informed that we could make any comments upon it that we pleased—a fact we were well aware of before. But we could not find the paper containing the article, and we suppose that the delay led to the belief that we wished to get rid of the “job.” .Accordingly we have received the extract, and on five dollar billas a fee in the case. We don’t often refuse to receive money—and we find that other peo ple have the same failing—and so we have got that Vin our possession. We hope that our friend who owned it and parted with it last, feels that he has got “‘value received” for it, and as we have “accumulated” it ea sily we will just manage it in such a way that it will pay for a few Thanksgiving dinners today—where such dinners will be properly relished and appreciated—and if any portion thereof is surplus, it shall go towards a Christmas dinner or two of the same sort.— If that isn’t fair, we are at a loss to know What is. The extract is published and the money isn’t wasted. Of course all hands are satisfied with the arrangement, Strange Developments. _A writer who signe himself Sydney C. Barton, is just now making some remarkable revelations through the Cleveland Herald, in regard to the Martha Washington conspira cy, and other matters of like import. It seems that he was engaged a long while in efforts to ferret out the facts in regard to the Martha Washington tragedy, and during his investigations he encountered a great many kind of people and became cognizant of a great many things. In the course of his revelations we find the following paragraph which we publish on account of ths local in terest: My investigations in Missouri, referred to in my last, led me to the information that there was a man in the Ohio Penitentiary who could make important revelations touch ing the objects of my inquiry. I at once found him. He was a man of superior in tellect. He told me that fifteen years be fore the time of our interview, a party of nine formed themselves into a company to burn steamboats and get false insurances, and he gave me their names. He also gave me the names of other persons, two of whom I visited, and they corroborated his statement in important particulars. ‘The company continued its operations up to 1849, when they dissolved. ‘Two of them are now dead, and the rest reside in New York, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago. All of them are quite wealthy save one, and” he has a hand some property. The number of lives which have ascertained to have been lost by the operations of this company, are four hund red and sixty-three. TRue axp Toucaine IxcipExt.—The New Orleans Delta is responsible for the follow ing: An oficial, on All Saints’ Day, arrayed himself in his best apparel, and, at the re quest of his wife, called the carriage to visit the cemeteries. The husband, be it promis ed, knew that his beloved, ere he married her, was a widow. As soon as they entered the gate of the said City of Silence, a shade of melancholy assed over the lad,’a face, and clinging to her husband’s arm, she went to tomb, at which she knelt and prayed for the repose of her dear husband’s soul.” Tears flowed, and plentifully; but the living husband, though he felt a little mortified at the strong affection which his wife showed for her first love, now sleeping his eternal sleep, still forgave the outburst, and hurried her from the spot. Soon, however, she knelt before another tomb, and again uttered a touching prison for the repose of “her dear dead husband,” whose holy dust there found a resting place. The husband thought that this was a little more than he bargained for, but said nothing, though grave were his re flections, as he again led his wife from a spot which awakened such remembrances. He had not gone far, when his wife again turned a side, knelt and prayed as before, for the re pose of her “dear dead husband’s soul”?— The husband could stand it no longer, and uttering an inexcusable and unhusbandly Oath, said, Madam, how many husbands, in the Lord’s name, have you buried??? Fre the accusing spirit had flown to heaven’s chancery with the oath, the thoughts of the wife Were turned to the things of‘the earth, earthy,” god she answered, as only an expe rienced and provoked woman could answer: ‘Three, sir, only; and that, it would seem by your outrageous conduct, is one too few.? Tor Latest.—A friend met Mike Walsh in the streets of New York a few days since, and in the course of the conversation re marked that ‘Frank Pierce’ would be re- elected in 1856. The reply of Mike Was fit-cannot be 80, for lightning,was never known to strike twice in the same plage.?*
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Quincy, Illinois, US
Thu, Nov 24, 1853
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