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)ES .\UC CITY
{U( STORE.
I To Physicians, Dnggists, Merchants,
1* I > v A- Tt iS ,
LXD THE ITBL'C GENERALLY.
our attention is respect ft ly invited to one of
the best selected steks of fresh
HUGS. MEDICINES,
FRENCH, GERMAN & ME1UC AN
HEMICALS, l’AT NT MEDICINES,
TOILET AliTlCi'S,
PERFUMERY, BRUSHES,
DENTAL & SURGICAL INS’RUMEXTS,
LASS. GLASSWARE, AlN'TS, OILS,
DYE STUFFS. F,te„ 1-.
W .
id all other articles pertaining tove Drugbusi
nes-1, lately received, and now off<eJ at the
DES ARC CITY DRUG S'j)RE.
t WHOLESALE OR ItiTAIL!
ON ACCOMODATING TERM.
|l!
a cnoicfi lot or
■gars, Chewing A Smoking To&cco.
ALSO, ALL KINDS OK SCKEUIOR
LI((I OHS FOR MLim iL LIES,
KEPT CONSTANTLY ON HAND.
dors from a Distance will Uerelvc Prompt Alley on!
AND THE GOODS EORW ADDED WITIIOCT DEL,-.
*/ , • . ♦ *, J
IIYSICIANS PRESCRIPTIONS
■■
I Compounded o<‘ the purest and best materia,
with accuracy and despatch, at
l/ill ISotif* oi tile Day or Yisli !
Inov3-ly. JOHN B. PERKINS
3V E S T O R E :
fcxTIRELY NEW STOCK!
We have just opened our new stock of
■ FALL AND WINTER GOOIS,
I which consists, in part, of
lERSEYS, WOO LSI YS.
HOME-MADE JEANS,
| KENTUCKY JEANS, SATINET*,
LI NSE YS,
A>'I> GKORGLY PLAIDS.
■si
SlY LSO, A PINE ASSORTMENT OF POPLNS,
■7m Y De Berages, Merinoes, Scotch Plaid Alphas,
Hi:-, etc., etc.
■ .41 f
ALSO, A COMPLETE STOCK OF
m: i. o t ii i \ Cm ::
|9 better assortment cannot be found. Also, Jie
largest stock of
I BOOTS AND SHOES!
9 "10 mf,rkct* We k5ad’y solicit at who wisbto
purchase to give us a call, and -xamine
our goods and prices.
* TAYLOR & to.,
__D«* Arc, Arkansas, j
I Tw CLOSED 0«T.
II 400 'S AB^HTBD CAST ING. SUfK
HVVU r « quality, Ut 42c perl,; au kcc
ttl. Trnr ^ a' $3^ u 4 '-Opcr
« Saddles *’ ](X) \itQ '*cV5-: *wo|i,c a,id fcur
liccn-'u/re lJp H°°P Sk,rte: worth of
Br v l T ’ rTU* PntU*’ 111 ~i to 11 els.
V 'd- 1 eP*8’ «*■ ‘« ^edit until I, .|:uilury
. •<- H. QClSENBERlY,
■lev'' oi Auc''on’ Commission Mer-banf,
I Real Lstut Wut
_nrsiXEse cardh.
1 . >t. I101I1NS0N, -.. i. URANCH.
ROBINSON & BRANCH,
(Successors to G. V. Vaden,)
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IS
Groceries antlPi’otluee,
RFC El VIM., IOKWAKDIM, A COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
nov3. DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
DES ARC HOTEL,
III J. C. TARK1NT0V,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
H aving leased this well-arranged
Hotel, the proprietor respectfully informs
travelers and the public generally, that he has com
pletely renovated the premises, and is prepared
to accommodate all who may favor him with their
patronage. If unremitted care and attention will
secure tlie favor of all, heisdetermined to please.
CH A RG ES K E A .SOX ABLE.
£>■$“ The Bar attached to this House is supplied
with the best of Liquors and Cigars. nov 3.
a. m'i.aren. ------- S. N. JACKSON.
M LAREN & JACKSON,
Successors to G. .X J. McLaren 6i Co.,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
DEALERS IN STAPLE AND FANCY DRY
Goods, Ready-Made Clothing, Hals and
I Caps, Bonnets, Boots and Shoes, Hardware and
j Ciutlcry, Books, Stationery, etc. Also, Receiving,
Forwarding and Commission Merchants, nov 3.
A. STEWART, WM. STEWART, H. STEWART.
STEWART Sc BROS,
I { eceiving, F,oi*\v»i*cling'
AND C OMMISSION MERCHANTS,
nov 3. DUS ARC, ARKANSAS.
R C MCCARLEY & C0.7
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
Dealers in staple and fancy dry
Goods. Ready-Made Clothing, Hats, Caps,
Boots, Shoes, Hardware, Queeuswaro. Etc., Etc.,
Forwarding and Commission Merchants, nov 3.
fTleptien,
Clock and Watch-Maker,
A \ I > .1 EW ELLE P ,
BUENA VISTA STREET, DES ARC,
Three doors east of G. 6; J. McLaren & Co.'s
ESPECTFUI.LY INFORMS TIIE CITIZENS
A Des Arc and the adjacent country, that lie
has a new and select stock of Clocks and Jewelry.
He is, as usual, prepared to execute all kinds of
Clock and Watch Work, in a workmanlike man
lier. and to Repair and CLun Jewelry, etc." nov 3
yitOF^WIOa VI. CAH 1 >s.
T. J. JOBE.
TV ttorney i* t I j a vv ,
DES ARC, VRKANSAS,
V\TIU, PRACTICE IX PRAIRIE AND THE
t V adjoining counties. I’aitioiuar attention
given to Collections.
Hkfkue.ni its.—T. J. & C. Powell, Knoxville,
Tciin.; Thos. II. Callaway, President of Otoee
Dank, Cleveland. Term.; Moore & Marsh, Chatta
nooga. Tenn.; lion. John II. Lumpkin, Rome, Ga.;
lion. William Daugherty, Columbus, Ga.; Hon.
Joseph T. .McConnell, Ringgold, Ga.: William H.
Inman. President Northwestern Dank, Ringgold,
Georgia. nov 3.
T. SAN tints, ------ - - J. I,. XF.KL.
DRS. SANDERS & NESL,
Heslde nt IMiyNl<-la ns.
PEi ARC, ARKANSAS.
H aving formed a partnership in
. the practice of their profession, tender a
' 'ontinuatioit- of Gi«ir rerrieas to tho citizens of
lies Arc and adjacent country. Office, up stairs,
| corner Buena Vtsta an 1 Woodruff streets, nov 3
T. J. WOODSON, .
At t o nmy it t J-iSivv,
DES ARC ARKANSAS,
T\7II.I. PR ACTK EIN THE FIFTH JPDICIAL
1 \ Circuit, and tic counties of White. Jack
son and Monroe. Al business intrusted to his
j care will be promptly attended to. nov 3.
J. T. PARHAM,
| Architoot tind Uuililei',
DES Alt..', Alt KANSAS.
! QOLiriTS CONTRACTS FOR BPfLDINGS OF
i) every style. Jh i< also prepared to furnish
Designs. Estimates aid Drawings of all the mod
ern orders of architecture; build, superintend
and furnish wnrkingplans for building at mode
rate prices. Orders left at the “Citizen Office.’’
will receive prompt mention. nov 3-y
C. A. JUDSON,
Car]x>nl < i* ;s nd .Joiner,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS,
Dealer in sj.su, doors, mantles,
Window and Ikor Frames, etc. Shop corner
! Erwin and Park Streets. N 15.— Collins ma<le to
order, on short notite. nov 3-y
J. j. lasiY - - • - - - w. II. ('ll.OiHEW.
DRS. LANE & CHAMBERS,
H aving forneij a partnership in
. the practice of their profession, tender
their services to t he citizens of Dcs Arc and adja
cent country, iron their experience, they hope
to share at'least a portion oft lie patronage of the
public. Office on Buena Vista street, at Bal.-ly's
| Drug Store. nov 0
A. W. MCNEILL,
A11 <> 1* n e y a t La w ,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS,
1 )!'. \CTICES IN TJIE COURTS OF PRAIRIE
I and adjacent own ties. Office, corner Erwin
and Lyon streets. liwv 3
, RUSS EVANS,
’.EAL ESTATE & GENERAL LANS AGENT,
DES ARC4, ARKANSAS.
PROMPT ATTENTION WILL BE GIVEN TO
all business entrusted to him in his
hie. nov 3.
| J. H. QUISENBERRY,
| A CTION, COMMISSION MERCHANT,
A N I)
Real Estate Agent,
I nor 3. DES ARC. ARKANSAS.
DR. H. ARMISTEAD,
Having permanently located at
DES ARC, offers his professional services
to th* citizens of the town and adjacent country.
Office on Lyon street. nov 3.
AT COST AND CARRIAGE.
I' AM OFFERING MY ENTIRE STOCK OF
Dry Goods at Cost and ten per cent. Every
body is invited to call and see for themselves.
My goods are inferior to none in this market, and
my object m selling off at. cost and carriage is to
enable me to replenish with a stock which will be
bought exclusively with cash,
nov 3-tf. LEVIN HARRISON.
GOOD STORE HOUSE FOR SALE!
1710R SALE, A STORE HOUSE, TWENTY-TWO
- by ninety feet, two stories high, well finish
ed, and warehouse in the rear, in the heart of the
business part of town. Terms, a little money
dawn, and timt ou the balance.
J. II. QUISENBERRY,
Auction, Commission Merchant,
nov 3. and Ileal Estate Agent.
Nil I NG LES! Nil I If G EES !!
IA AAA shingles for sale cheap.
JLVjUUV Apply to C. A. JtJPSOS.
POETICAL.
SABBATH IX THE COUXTRY.
The croaking wagon’s in the shed;
The busy flail is heard no more:
The horse is littered down and fed,
The harness hangs above his head,
The whip behind the door.
His leathern gloves and hooked bill
To-day the woodman throws aside;
The blacksmith’s fiery forge is still;
The wooden wheel of the old mill
Sleeps in the mill-dam wide.
The miller's boat is anchored whore,
Far out, the water lilies sleep ;
You see their shadows mirrored there,
The broad white flowers reflected clear,
Within the tuill-p ad deep.
The harrow's in the garden shed,
Hoe, rake and spade are put away;
Unweeded stands the onion bed;
The gardener from his work hath fled;
’Tis holy Sabbath-day.
Upon the wall the white eat sleeps,
llv which the churn and milk-pans lie;
A drowsy watch the house dog keeps,
And scarcely from his dull eye peeps
Upon the passer-by.
And sweetlyrover hill and dale
The silvery sounding church bells ring;
Across tint moor and down the dale
They come and go, and on tRe gale
Their Sabbath tidings fling.
From where the white-washed S’unday school
Peeps out between the poplars dim,
Which ever throw their shadows cool
Far out upon the rushy pool,
You hear the Sabbath hymn.
From farm and fielJ, and grange grown gray,
From woodland walks and winding ways,
The old and young, the grave and guy,
I nto the old church come to pray,
And sing God's holy praise.
-♦ p i
THE SECRET.
I have something sweet to tell you,
But. the secret you must keep ;
And remember if it isn't right,
I’m talking in my sleep.
For I know I am but dreaming
When 1 think your love js mine;
And I know they are but seeming,
All the hopes that round me shine.
So remember, when 1 tell you
n ii;ii 1 c.iuuui longer Keep.
We're none of us responsible
For vvliat we say in sleep.
My pretty secret's coming,
O, listen with your heart,
Ann you shall hear it humming
iso close ’twill make you start.
Oh. shut your eyes so earnest.
Or mine will wildly weep—
I love you ! I adore you !—but
l m talking in my sleep.
A FEARFUL TRAGEDY—A MAN
EATING LION.
—
From Cumming’s Hunting Adventures.
; On the 29th we arrived at a small villageof
' Bakalahari. These natives told me that ele
phants were abundant on the opposite side of
the river. 1 accordingly resolved to stop here
and hunt, and drew my wagons upon the river
hank, within thirty yards of the water, and
about one hundred yards from the native vil
lage. Having outspanned, we at once set
about making tor the cattle a kraal of the worst
i description of thorn trees. Of this i had
now become very particular, since my severe
iu.'S by lyons on the lirst of this month; and
my cattle were, at night, secured by a strong
kraal, which enclosed my two wagons, the
I horses being made fast to a trek-tow stretched
between the lurid wheels of the wagons. i
hmi yet, however, a fearful lesson to leant as
i t<> the nature and character of the lion, of
; which 1 had at one time eulertaiiied so little
fear; and on this night a fearful tragedy was
to be acted in my little lonely camp of so very
awful and appalling a nature as to make the
! blood curdle in our veins. I worked till near
.'Uiidovvn atone side of the kraal with lleu
dric. my first wagon-driver—I cutting down
the :rces with my axe, and be dragging them
to the kraal. When the kraal for the cattle
was finished, I turned my attention to making
! a pot of barley broth, and lighted a fire be
tween the wagons and the water, close on the
river bank, under a dense grove of shady
i tree-, making no sort of a kraal around our
sitting place for the evening.
The Hottentots, without any reason, made
their lire about fifty yards from mine ; they,
according to their usual custom, being satisfied
with the shelter of a large dense bush. The
| evening passed away cheerfully. Soon alter
! it was dark wo hoard elephants breaking the
j trees in the lbre.it across the river, arid once
! or twice 1. strode away into the darkness some
i distance from the fireside to stand and listen
to them. I little, at that moment, dreamed of
! the imminent peril to which 1 was exposing
: my life, nor thought that a bloodthirsty man
i eater lion was crouching near, and only watch
| ing his opportunity to spring into the kraal,
j and consign one of us to a most horrible
death. About three hours after the sun went
down T called to my men to come and take
their coffee and supper, which was ready for
them at my lire; and after sapper three of
them returned before their comrades to their
| own fireside, and lay down; tlie.-e were John
i (Stofblus, Hendric and Buy ter. in a few min
i utes an ox came out by the gate of the kraal,
j and walked round the back of it. Hendric
got up and drove bint back in again, and then
| went back to his fireside and lay dowu. Ilen
I dric and lluytcr lay on one side of the fircun
i der one blanket, and John Stofblus lay «n the
other. At this moment 1 was taking mine
barley broth ; our fire was very small, and the |
night was pitch-dark and windy. Owing to
our proximity to the native village, the wood
was very scarce, the Bakalahari having burned
it all in their fires.
(Suddenly the appalling and murderous
voice of an angry, bloodthirsty lion burst
upon my ear, within a few yards of us, follow
ed by the shrieking of the Hottentots. Again
and again the murderous roar of attack was
repeated. We heard John and Buyter shriek,
0 The lion 1 the lion 1” Still, for a few mo
ments, we thought lie was hut chasing one of
the dogs round the kraal; but, next instant,
John Stofolus rushed into the midst of us al
most speechless with fear and terror, his eyes
bursting from their sockets, and shrieked out,
“ The lion 1 the lion !’’ He has got Hendric;
he draped him away from the fire beside me.
1 struck him with the burning brands upon
his head, but he would not let go his hold.
Hendric is dead 1 Oh God 1 Hendric is dead!
Let us take fire and seek him. ’ The rest of
my people rushed about, shrieking and yell
ing as if they were mad. 1 was at once angry
with them for their folly, and told them that
if they did not stand still and keep quiet the
lion would have another of ns; and that very
likely there was a troop of them. I ordered
the dogs, which were nearly all fast, to be
made loose, and the fire to he increased as far
as could he. I then shouted Hendries name,
but all was still. I told my men that Hendric
was dead, and that a regiment of soldiers
could not now help him, and, hunting my
dogs forward, I had everything brought within
the cattle kraal, when we lighted our fire and
closed the entrance as well as we could.
My terrified people sat around the fire with
guns in their hands till the day broke, still
fancying that every moment the lion would
return and spring again into the midst of us.
When tho dogs were first let go, the stupid
brutes, instead of going at the lion, rushed
fiercely on one another, and fought desperate
ly for some minutes. After this they got his
wind, and, going at him, disclosed to us his
position; they kept up a continued barking
until the day dawned, the lion occasionally
springing after them and driving them in
upon the kraal. The horrible monster lay all
night within forty yards of us, consuming the
wretched man whom he had chosen for his
prey, lie had dragged him into a little hol
low at the hack of the thick bush beside
which the fire was kindled, and there he re
mained till the day dawned, careless of our
proximity.
It appeared that when the unfortunate Ilen
dric rose to drive in the ,ox, the lion had
watched him to his fireside, and he had scarce
ly laid down when the brute sprang upon him
and lluyter (for both lay under one blanket)
with his appalling, murderous roar, and, roar
ing as he lay, grappled him with his fearful
claws, and kept biting him on the breast and
shoulder, all the while feeling for his neck;
having got hold of which, he at once dragged
him away backward round the bush into the
dense shade.
As the lion lay upon the unfortunate man.
he fairly cried, “ Help me, help me ! Oh (.rod!
men, help me!” After which the fearful
beast got a hold of his neck, and then all was.
still, except that his comrades heard the bones
of his neck cracking between the teeth of the
lion. John Stofolus had lain with his neck
to the fire on the opposite side, and, on hear
ing the lion, he sprang up, and, siezing a
large flaming brand, had belabored him on the
head with the burning wood; but the brute
did not take any notice of him. The Bush
man had a narrow escape1; be was not alto
1 gether scatliless. the lion having inflicted two
cashes ill his seat with his claws.
J lie next morning, just as the day began
to dawn, we heard the lion dragging some
thing up the river side, under cover of the
bank. We drove the cattle out of the kraal,
and then proceeded to inspect the scene of
the night's awful tragedy. In the hollow,
where the lion had lain consuming his prey,
we found one leg of the unfortunate ilendrie,
bitten off below the knee, the shoe still on his
loot; the grass and bushes were all stained
with his blood, and fragments of his pea
coat lay around. Poor IJendrlc ! I knew the
fragments of that old coat, and had often
marked them hanging in the dense covers
where the elephant had charged after my un
fortunate after-driver. JIcndric was by far the
best man 1 bad about my wagons, of a most cheer
ful disposition, a first-rate wagon driver, fearless
in the field, ever, active, willing and obliging;
his loss to us alh/Was very serious. I felt con
founded and utterly sick in my heart; ] could
not remain at the wagons, so i resolved to go
after elephants to divert my mind. I had that
morning heard them breaking the trees on the
opposite side of the river. 1 accordingly told
the natives of the village of my intentions,
and having ordered my people to devote the
day to fortifying the kraal, started vvitli Piet
and Ruytcras my after-riders. It was a very
cool day. We crossed the river, and at once
took up the fresh spoor of a troop of bull ele
phants. '1 hesc bulls unfortunately joined a
troop of cows, and the bulls were off in amo
. ment, before we could even see them. One re
| markably line old cow charged the dogs. I
hunted this cow, and finished her with two
shots from the saddle. Being anxious to re
turn to my people before night. 1 did not at
tempt to follow the troop. My followers were
not a little gratified to see me returning, for
terror hud taken hold of their minds, and they
expected that the lion would return, and, em
boldened by the success of the proceeding
night, would prove.still more daring in his at
tack. The lion would certainly have returned,
but fate bad otherwise ordained. My health
had been better in the last three days; my fe
ver was leaving me. but 1 was, of course, still
very weak, it would still be two hours before
the sun would set, and, feeling refreshed by a
little rest, and able lor further woi k, L ordered
the steeds to be saddled, and went in search of
the lion.
T took .Tnlmnnd (fiircv :is :ift<>r-ridors Mrinctl
V / *
ami a party of natives followed up the spoor,
and led the dogs. The lion had dragged the
remains of [ioor Ileudric along a native foot
path that led up the river bank. We found
fragments of hia coat all along the spoor, and
at last the mangled coat itself. About six hun
dred yards from our camp a dry river’s course
joined the Limpopo. At this spot was much
shade, cover, and heaps of dry reeds and trees
deposited by the Limpope in some great flood.
The lion had left the footpath and entered this
secluded spot 1 at once lelt that we were
up*m hint, and ordered the natives to make
loose the dogs. These walked suspiciously
forward on the spoor, and next minute began
to spring about, barking angrily, with their
hair bristling on their backs ; a crash upon
the dry reeds immediately followed—it was
the lion bounding away.
Several of the dogs were extremely afraid
of him, and kept rushing continually back
ward ami springing aloft to obtain a view. I
now pressed forward and urged them on ; old
Argyll and Lies took up his spoor in gallant
style, and led on the other dogs. Then com
menced a short but lively and glorious chase,
whose conclusion was the only small satisfac
tion L could obtain to answer for the horrors
of the preceding evening. The lion held
up the river’s hank for a short distance, and
took away through some wait-a-bit thorn cover,
tie best he could find, but nevertheless open,
lhre, in two minutes, the dogs were upou him,
ana he turned and stood at bay. As I ap
proached, he stood, his horrid head right to
me, with open jaws, growling fiercely, his tail
waving from side to side.
On iieholdiug him my blood boiled with
rage. 1 wished that I could take him alive and
torture him, and, setting my teeth, I dashed
my steed forward within thirty yards of him
and shouted, “ Your time is up, old fellow.”
1 halted my horse, and, placing my rifle to my
shoulder, waited for a broadside. This the
next moment he exposed, when I sent a bullet
through Ills shoalder and dropped him on the
spot. He rose, however, again, when 1 finished
him with a second in the breast. The Baka
halari now come u(* in wonder and delight. I
ordered John to cut off his head and fore
pawrs and bring them to the wagons, and,
mounting my horse, galloped home, having
been absent about fifteen minutes. When the
Bakalahari women heard that the man-eater
was dead, they all commenced dancing about
with joy, calling me their father.
OPENING OF A SESSION OF CONGRESS
BY WASHINGTON.
It was, I think, in 1794 or ’95 that as ahoy
I was among the spectators congregated at that
corner and parts close by, to witness a great
public spectacle. Washington was to open the
session of Congress by going in person, as was
his custom, to deliver a speech to both houses
assembled in the chamber of the House of
Representatives. The crowd was immense
considering the size of our city, for although
then the largest in the country, its population
was hardly more than forty-live thousand. It
filled the whole area, in Chestnut street, before
the State House, extended along the line of
Chestnut street, and spread north and south
some distance along Sixth street. A way kept
open for carriages in the middle of the street,
was the only place not closely packed with
people. I had a stand on the steps of one
of the houses in Chestnut street, which rais
ing me above the mass of human heads, ena
bled me to see to advantage. Alter waiting
long hours, as it seemed io a boy’s impatience,
the carriage of the President at length slowly
drove up, drawn by four beautiful bay horses.
It was while, with medallion ornaments on the
panels, and the livery ; the entire display in
equipages at that era. in our country gener
ally, and in Philadelphia in particular, while
the seat of governineut, being more rich and
varied than now, though fewer in number.
Washington got out of his carriage, and slow
ly crossing the pavement, ascended the steps
of the edifice, upon the upper one of which
ho paused, and turning half round, looked
in the direction of a carriage which had fol
lowed in the lead of his own. Thus he stood
fora minute, distinctly seen by everybody.
He stood in all his civic dignity. His costume
was a full suit of black velvet; his hair, itself
blanched by time, powdered to a snowy white
ness, a dresssword at his side, and his hat held
in his hand. Thus he stood in silence; and
what thoughts these were ! Throughout the
dense crowd profound stillness reigned. Not
a word was heard. It was a feeling beyond
that which vents itself in shouts. Every
heart was full. In vain would any tongue
have spoken. All were at gaze in mute ad
miration. Everv eye was riveted on his ma
jestic form, ft might have seemed as if he
stood in that position to gratify the assembled
thousands with a full view of the Father of
his Country. Not so. lie paused for his secre
tary. then, I believe, Mr. Dandridge or Colo
nel Lour, who got out of the other carriage—
a chariot—decorated like his own. IJis secre
tary, ascending the steps, handed him a pa
per—probably a copy of the speech he was to
deliver—when both entered the building.
Then it was. and not till then, that the crowd
set up huzzas, long, loud, and enthusiastic.
[Rush’s Occasional Products.
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Tin: CITY OF LONDON.
London now covers one hundred and twen
ty-one square miles,, having increased three
fold since the year 1800 ; and bricks and mor
tar still invade and capture the green fields.
The population, according to the report of the
registrar-general, augments at the rate of
about one thousand per week—half by birth
and half by immigration. Notwithstanding
the enormous wealth of the metropolis, it is
recorded in the report of the registrar-gener
al, as a remarkable fact, that “one in six of
those who leave the world die in one of the
public institutions—a work house, hospital,
asylum, or prison. Nearly one in eleven of
the deaths is in a work house.” This shows
that poverty follows close at the heels of
wealth, and fastens on the multitude with re
lentless grasp. Every sixth person dies a
pauper or a criminal. Can this be said of any
other city on the globe '( And how great a
number there must be who barely manage to
escape this fate. The severe competition for
subsistence and wealth which characterizes
London life is a terrible ordeal for any human
being to pass through, and thousands perish
in the attempt, crushed beneath the golden
Juggernaut. It is now notorious, says a Lon
don paper, that in tha large establishments,
where some hundreds of assistants are em
ployed, the great majority of them are broken
down tradesmen, crushed by the competition
of capital. Even these occupations are ob
tained with difficulty, and the less fortunate
gradually sink lower and lower in the scale, till
(hey are driven into the public institutions,
where they meet an untimely death. The
list is further swelled by that numerous class
who, born in a respectable sphere, and well
educated, sink into a degradation from the
sheer love of display and the vanity of living
beyond their means, it is on record, that
out of eight thousand convicts who have pass
ed their probation in Pentonvillc, one thou
sand fell through this wretched vice, and it is
stated that the most of the number were “ori
ginally respectable in more than an ordinary
degree.’' These statesman teach ns that the
greatness of London has been purchased at a
fearful cost in human poverty, misery and
crime, the result of his eager pursuit of wealth.
[Bostou Journal.
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Washington’s Regard for his Mother.
Washington, when quite young, was about to
go to sea as a midshipman ; every thing was
arranged, the ship lay opposite his father’s
house, the little boat had come on shore to
take him off, and his whole heart was bent on
going. Alter bis trunk had been carried
down tc the boat, lie went to bid his mother
farewell, and saw the tears bursting from her
eyes. However, be said nothing to her ; but
he saw that his mother would be distressed if
he went, and perhaps never be happy again.
He just turned around to the servant, and
said, “Go and tell them to letch my trunk
back. I will not go away to break my mo
ther’s heart.’’ His mother was struck with
surprise at his decision, and she said to him,
“ George, God has promised to bless the chil
dren that honor their parents, and I believe
he will bless you.”
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This Live World of Ours.—Agassiz
and Gould estimate that there are at least two
hundred and fifty thousand different species
of living animals I When we think for a mo
ment of the number of individuals belonging
to each species, we can begin to have a faint
idea of the innumerable throng of animated
creatures that people this earth of ours, which
is of itself only a minor satellite of one of a
vast number of solar systems. We said a
“ faint idea,” for who can grasp the multitude
of the figures required to enumerate the indi
viduals of a single species—say of cattle
among quadrupeds, or of pigeons among birds,
or of herrings among fishes, or of house-flies
or musketoes among insects, each one of which
is a living, breathing, pleasure-seeking animal!
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Preparations for the Opening of Con
gress.—Letters from Washington say that
preparations are already in active progress for
the opening of the present session of Congress.
The influx of vistors is expected to be large,
and rents arc unusually high.
FIFTY YEARS AGO.
Stand where we will on the dusty road of
life, thick darkness rests on the way before
us, while with the reflex glass of memory we
can look far back into the dim distance, al
most. to the -cradle where a mother’s voice
hushed us into quiet slumber. It matters little
whether the time be five or fifty years, the
scene is equally oiear, and scarcely appears
more distant.
Let us try our glass on half a century view,
and see what scenes appear in the retrospec
tive vision.
It is the last of August, 1810. Nature
has not changed at all. The rains and the
sunshine have ripened the golden harvest, the
apples and the corn are before us, fresh, lus
cious and bountiful. The shrill whistle of the
locomotive has never yet been heard, nor
have canal boats been seen coursing their way
through the interior of the country.
The two-wheel heavy coach called a
“chaise” was in common use, though the
light four-wheel single wagon was getting into
fashion.
Ladies spun and wove their own dresses
fifty years ago; and the same wooi that warm
ed the sheep in March, arrayed the mother
and daughters in goodly garments for Decem
ber.
The people of that day read less, but
thought more. They got the news but one
day in the week, but it furnished a theme
for remark and study, in the field or by the
wayside, in the other days.
The schools of that day did not differ so
much from the schools of the present day as
some people imagine. It is a favorite theme
with our young lecturers on school and edu
cation, to draw on their imagination for ludi
crous contrasts between the “district school”
as it was, and the improved system which
they, of course, assisted in inaugurating.
More branches are taught now and many
facilities have been added in the way of books
and apparatus; but’wc think there was more
thoroughness and discipline then than now.
Correspondence fifty years ago wTas very
expensive. Letters sent over 8UU miles had
to pay 25 cents, and those over 150, eighteen
pence. Nor had any dreamed of sending in
telligence on the wing of the tamed light
nmg.
Political parties have passed through many
transformations in the last half century. Two
great national parties extended through the
whole country—the democrats having the
general Government, and the federalists with
: a majority in the several States, and formed a
large and respectable minority in both Houses
of Congress.
British Orders in Council and French De
crees had embarrassed our commerce, and an
embargo bad been tried by way of retaliation;
but it proved more disastrous to ourselves
than them, and in 1809 was repealed. The
eight years of Mr. Madison's administration
was a stormy and exciting period, party spirit
sometimes raging so fiercely that females
around the tea-table engaged in warm politi
cal discussions.
We shall only glance further at the change
fifty years has brought about in farm work.
The plow has been greatly improved, the
sickle and the scythe are almost superceded,
the flail has given place to the thresher, and
the cultivation of the farm is a kind of scien
tific sport in which gentlemen of leisure en
gage, with the prospect of new experiments
and new inventions that sh 1 yet essentially
lighten labor.
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Thf. Foreion Commerce of the United
States.—The foreign commerce of the Uni
ted States is now so extensive that it required
in 1858—the last year for which we have the
complete returns—not less than 11.759 ships,
with an aggregate tonnage of 6.605,045 tons,
native and foreign, which carried to the var
ious ports cargoes from foreign countries.
And there sailed from those ports, with car
goes of American of foreign produce or man
ufactures, which were exchanged for those re
ceived from our countries, 21,279 ships with
an aggregate burden of 6,802.892 tons. The
crews employed in the American vessels thus
engaged numbered 142,234, and in the for
eign ships 103,556, making a total of nearly a
quarter of a million men deriving their sub
sistence from the conveyence to and from the
United States and other countries of the arti
cles which enter its foreign trade. With one
exception there is no country in the world
which affords so much occupation to mercan
tile shipping as this Young America. That
exoeption is, ot course, “ Old England. —
During the same year, 1858, there were 97,
543 British and foreign ships which entered
aud cleared the ports of the British Empire,
and these had an aggregate tonnage of 22,
309,981 tons, America employs very nearly
an equal proportion of native and foreign
ships, the native being 11,859, and the for
eign, 11,179; and in the trade of the United
Kingdom, the British number 51.970, and
the foreign but 45.573. In the possession of
ships there is but a slight difference between
the two countries. The aggregate tonnage of
the United States in 1858 amounted to
5,049,,807 tons, while that of Great Britiain
was 5,609,623. Of the American vessels,
not lets than 2,361,595 tons are engaged in
the coasting trade. Of steam vessels, the
United States is ahead of Great Britain, and
possesses 729,390 tons, against 488,415 Ions.
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Grf.atnf.s.—All greatness consists in this
—in being alive to what is going on around
one ; in living actually; in giving voice to the
thought of humanity; in saying to one’s fel
lows what they want to hear or need to hear at
that moment; in being the concretion, the re
result of the influences of the present world.
In no other way canzone effect the world than
in responding thus to its needs, in embodying
thus its ideas. You will see in looking to
history, that all great men have been a piece
of their time; take them out and set them
elsewhere, and they will not fit so well; they
were made for their day and generation.
The literature which has left any mark, which
has been worthy of the name, has always
mirrored what was doing around it; not ne
cessarily daguerreotyping the mere outside,
but at least reflecting the inside—‘the thoughts,
if not the actions of men—their feelings and
sentiments, even it treated of apparently far
off themes.
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Our Children.—Our children are to fill
our places in society—in church and State,
and the manner in which they will fill them
depends upon the manner in which we edu
cate them. If we train them up in the Sab
bath-Schools, for God and his church, they
will amply repay us for our care; but if they
are trained up for the world—in the streets
—it the gambling and tilling saloon—in
Sabbath-breaking, profanity, licentiousness
and intemperance—in idleness—in sin, they
will dishonor our names and repay us hy-and
by with a vengeance.
TAKING COLD.
In Hall’s Journal of Health we find the fol
lowing suggestive and timely hints and facts
under this heading.
A larger number of fatal winter diseases
result from taking cold, and often from such
slight causes, apparently, as to appear incredi
ble to many. But, although the causes aro
various, the result is the same, and arises from
the violation of a single principle, to wit :
cooling oft" too soon after exercise. Perhaps
this may be more practically instructive if in
dividual instances are named, which, in the
opinion of those subsequently seeking advice
in the varions stages of consumption where
the cause of the great misfortune premising
that when a cold is once taken, marvelously
slight causes serve to increase it for the first
few days, causes which, under ordinary cir
cumstances, even a moderately healthful sys
tem would have easily warded off.
Rachel, the tragedienne, increased the cold
which ended her life, by insufficient clothing
in the cars, in traveling from New York to
Boston; such was her own statement.
The late immediate cause of the late illness
of Abbot Lawrence, the financier, and the
philanthropist, was an injudicions change of
clothing.
An eminent clergyman got into a cold bed
in mid-winter within fifteen minutes after
preaching an earnest discourse; he was in
stantly chilled and died within forty-eight
hours.
A promising young teacher walked two
miles for exercise, and on returning to his
room, it being considerably too late to light a
fire, sat for half an hour reading a book,
and before he knew it, a chill passed over
him. The next day he had spitting of blood,
which was the beginning of the end.
A mother sat sewing for her children to a
late hour in the night, and noticing that the
fire had gone out, she concluded to retire to
bed at once; but thinking she could finish in
a lew minutes, she forgot the passing time,
until an hour or more had passed, and she
found herself “thoroughly chilled,” and a
morirh’s illness followed to pay for that hour.
Many a cold, cough and consumption is
excited into action by pulling ot the hat or
overcoat as to men, and the bonnet and shawl
as to women, immediately on entering the
house in winter, after a walk. An interval
of at least five or ten minutes should be al
lowed. for however warm and close the a
partment may appear on first entering, it will
seem much less so at the end of five minutes,
if the outer garments remain as they were be
fore entering. Any one who judiciously
uses this observation, will find a multifold re
ward in the course of a lifetime.
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Romantic Story of a Printer’s Lovy.
A young printer, of Springfield, Mass., fell
in love with a beautiful girl, who had the
misfortune to be rich. He essayed to attract
her attention, but in vain. Despairing, he
started for California—that land of refuge for
broken fortunes and wounded hearts. This
was in the year 1850, when San Francisco
was a village, and w'anted printers more than
at present. The boy quickly became a man
there ; and, embarking in the printing busi
ness, soon found himself the proprietor of an
establishment from which sprang, in due time,
a weekly paper, ere long to be followed by a
daily. His journal and his fortunes flourished
amazingly, and he returned to New York iu
1854, with the avowed purpose of buying a
six-cylinder press, but with the unavowed
purpose of locking up a lovely form in his
now golden chases.
Alas for human hopes! The maiden was
wedded and the mother of two children. The
printer bought his presses and returned to
California—a sadder, if not a wiser man.
Years progressed, and he prospered. One day
a lady visited his editorial room, to lay her
modest contribution on his table, in hopes of
getting some remuneration for it. Her story
was brefiy told; her husband came to mend
his fortunes in the land of gold, and had died,
and she was left very poor, with her two chil
dren to support. The editor looked at the
lady a moment—and handed her a doubloon.
The astonished woman essayed to utter
thanks, but was waived away. To shorten
the story, the lady was his early love, and—he
married her, sold out his establishment, re
turned to New York, and is now enjoying as
much felicity on the banks of the Hudson as
it falls to the lot of few printers to even con
ceive.
Napoleon and the Atheists.—One eve
ning, a groupe of officers were conversing to
gether upon the quarter-deck respecting the
existence of God. Many of them believed not
in his being. It was a calm, cloudless, bril
liant night. The heavens, the work of God’s
fingers, canopied them gloriously. The moon
and the stars, which God had ordained, beamed
down upon them with serene lustre. As they
were flippantly giving utterance to the argu
ments of Atheism, Napoleon paced to and fro
on the deck, taking no part in the conversation,
and apparently absorbed in his own though
Suddenly he stopped before them, and said,
those tones of dignity which ever overawe
Gentlemen your arguments are very final; b
who made all those worlds, beamingso glorioi
ly above us? Can you tell me that? Nop
answered. Napoleon resumed his silent wal
and the officers resumed another topic fore v
versation. [Abbott’s Life of Napoleon
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England and France.—France and E
land are not at actual war with each other ;
but if we may judge from some late demon
strations, never did there exist between two
States more hostile feelings than those which
characterize the connection at this moment
between these two important empires. The
domestic armed attitude of England speaks
for itself, and a project alleged to be that of
the Emperor Napoleon requires no comment.
His Majesty is said to have expressed his re
solve to build fifty floating, iron-cased, impreg
nable batteries. He is reported to have said,
“ Let England go on building ships-of-war ad
libitum. That 1 regard not, for my floating
batteries will pass into the center of them un
hurt, while dealing annihilation to them.”
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Last of the Choir.—Three of the choir
of young girls who, dressed in white, greeted
Washington as he entered Trenton in 1789,
on his way to assume the Presidency, and
strewed his pathway with flowers, still sur
vive. One yet lives in Trenton, one is the
mother of Senator Chesnut, of South Caroli
na, and one Mrs. Sarah Hand, resides in
Cape May county, New Jersey.
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Antiquity of Torchlight Processions.
Torchlight processions were designed more
than two thousand years ago. See I. Macca
bees iv. 22, wherein an account is given of the
High Priest Jason, who escorted King Anti
ochus into Jerusalem “with torchlight and
great shoutings.” Jason lived ii 'ho fourth
century B. C.
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