_POETICAL.__
THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER.
AMERICAN NATIONAL SONG.
O say, can you sec by the dawn’s early light.
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight a last
(totaling,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the
perilous light.
O’er the ramparts we watched so gallantly stream
ing?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in
air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was
there.
0 say, does that star-spangled banner yet ware
O'er the land of the free aud the home of the
brave ?
On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the
deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence
reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering
steep,
As it tit fully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first
beam.
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream ;
Tis the star-spangled banner; 0, long may it
wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the
brave.
And where is that band whoso vauntingly swore,
’.Mid the havoc of war and the battle s confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more,
Their blood hath washed out their foul footsteps’
pollution;
No refuge could save the hireling and slave,
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave;
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth
wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the
brave.
O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand,
Between their loved homes and the war's deso
lation ;
Blessed with victory and peace, may’ the Heaven
rescued land.
Praise the power that hath made and preserved
us a nation ;
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
Aud this be our motto, **In God is our trust;”
Aud the star-spangled banner in triumph shall
wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the
brave.
A Former Royal Visit.—The Visit of
Prince Edward to Boston in 1794.—The Bos
ton Transcript, in the course of sonic com
ments upon the recent letter of the venerable
Josiali Quincy, reproduces the following:—A
letter from Judge, afterwards Gov. Increase
Summer, to Judge Wm. Cushing, dated Feb.
14. 1794, published some years ago in the
New England Historical and Genealogical
Register, makes the following mention of the
visit of the grandfather of the Prince of
W ales to Boston sixty-six years ago. described
by Mr. Quincy. His account is of special in
terest at the present time, It will he seen
that the Prince, as well as his grandson, was
noted fur his dancing. Mr. Summer writes:
—Prince Edward, fourth sou of George the
British King, is now in Boston from Quebec,
waiting a ship from halifax to convoy him to
the V est Indies to take the command of the
Britisli forces there. I expect to dine in
company with him to-morrow. Cousin Mary
Cushing is now with us on a visit, and savs
she saw him last evening at a very crowded
assembly, where he behaved with great ease
and politeness, and that he danced irracefullv,
to the entire approbation ol'all the ladies. An
incident the Prince met with on the journey
from Canada he thus relates:—At a tavern an
honest New England man thus accosted him,
•Well, how do you do, sir; and are you really
the sonol King George?” He answered that
he was. “Amaziu! said the man; “and how
duel your daddy do?” “He was well,” said the
Prince, “when 1 heard last from him.”
“4V ell. now,” said the honest man. “don’t you
think he was wrong in quarreling with Amer
ica as he did?” “I don’t know but he was.” said
the other, “but there’s no forseeing at all times
how matters will turn out.” “True.” said the
man; but if it hadn’t been for that plagney
quarrel. I suppose he might have been King
here yet.” Although our honest citizen
came to the point rather abruptly, he seemed
to understand it and I suppose was willing to
let the Prince philosophize upon and dilate
the principle he advanced at leisure.
The Origin" of Whittling.—Probably
few persons are aware that the democratic,
down-east recreation is of kingly origin. If
.'Elian, the Latin historian and biographer,
is to he believed, whittling was a royal prero
gative in Persia more than fifteen hundred
years ago. A kingof Persia was a personage
with a soul above books. He was a semi-di
vine creature who was supposed to attain a
knowledge of every thing proper to be known
by monarchs by intuition, or revalation, or
some other "royal road to learning.” To read
would have been to belittle his wisdom and
compromise his dignity. So he whittled, like
our own Orientals of Connecticut and Cape
Cod. and all along share. Old .Elian de
serines witn much particularity the manner
in which he performed the fascinating opera
tion. It differed in no material point from
the existing style in Yankeedom. “That he
might agreeably while away his leisure hours.”
says /Elian, referring to one of the Persian
kings, “he carried in liis hand branches of
birch, and therewithal, a knife, wherewith he
did cut off sprigs from the stalk, and hacked
and hewed the rest into little slices.” If his
majesty had confined his backing and hewing
to sticks, it would have been well, but, unfor
tunatly.he caused his subjects to be manipula
ted in the same way. It appears to be a fixed
tact, however, that the Persian kings were the
original whiftlers. Verily there is nothing
new under the sun and the republican down
casters of a America as far as whittling is con
cerned. are merely imitators of certain royal
down-casters of Asia.
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Ji'DQE Not.—" I wouldn’t have done this
or that.” How many times a day do we hear
this, and how absurd is such a declaration.
Who knows what he will do until he is tried
and tempted ? Not we, nor you. It is one
thing to sit calmly down and theorize about
life and its mischances, and another to meet
them face to face, when we have time to cry,
I»rd save us! Therefore, when the avenger
strikes, in a moment of frenzied bitterness, at
his foe—at the traitor who, while taking his
hand in the grasp of friendship, has blighted
his hearthstone, do not say. •• I would not
have done so.” Wait till your turn comes,
or rather do not wait till then ; but. avoiding
vain boasting, lean only on Him who giveth
help in time of need. This only is our safety
in the difficult lesson of self-government.
The following is a story of Rev. Dr. Morse:
At an Association dinner, a debate arose as to
the benefit of whipping in bringing up chil
dren. The doctor took the affirmative, and
his chief opponent was ,a young minister,
whose reputation for veracity was not very
high. lie affirmed that parents often did
harmto their children by unjust punishment,
from Dot knowing the facts of the case.
“Why,” said, he, the only time my father ev
er whipped me was for telling the troth."
“Well,” retorted the doctor, “it cured you
of it, didn’t it?"
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The following is a specimen of sharp shoot
ing between a coquette and her lover:
“You wen are angels when you woo the maid,
But devils when the marriage vow is paid.”
’I he lover, not to be outdone, replied as fol
^ lows:
“The change, dear girl, is easily forgiven.
We find wc are in liell instesd’of heaven.” ,
AGRICULTURAL.
Farmer’ Omnibus.—There are 5 pounds
of pure sulphur in every 10U pounds of wool.
Carrots consume 199 pounds of lime to
the aero, turnips hut 90 pounds.
It takes 5 pounds of corn to form, one of
beef. Three a&d a half pounds of cooked
meal will form'one of pork.
To add one per cent, of lime to soil that is
destitute of it, requires ten pounds of slacked
lime or six of caustic to the acre.
Clay will permanently improve any soil
that is sandy or leachy. Liine and leached
ashes will always benefit leachy land.
A ton of dry forest leaves produces only
500 pounds of mold; hence 500 of mold will
produce a ton of plants.
Clay applied to sandy land is far better
than sand to clay land. One hundred and
sixty tons to the acre will give au inch in
depth.
Pure phosphorus is worth from $1.000 to
$5,000 a ton; and as it comes the earth it
shows how scarce it is.
A rich mold formed by rotting clover is
worth more than the same number of pounds
of clover; 400 pounds of dry plants will yield
100 pounds of mold.
Swamp muck, or peat, when dry, will take
up, without dripping, four times its own
weight of water. Hence the necessity of
thorough drainage.
Limestone land retains the heat the long
est; black, peaty soil radiates the heat most*
rapidly, consequently, cold soonest, and are
first to experience frost.
A Cheap and Cood Smoke-House.—A
WesternNew York firmer publishes his
plan of a small, cheap, and good smoke-house,
which, as it may contain some practical hints
for our own readers, we append it:
“No farmer should be without a good
smoke-house, and such as will be fire-proof
and tolerably secure from thieves.- Fifty
hams can be smoked at one time in a smoke
house seven by eight feet square. Mine is
six by seven, and is large enough for most
farmers. I first dug all the ground out below
where the frost would reach, and filled it tip
to the surface with small stones. On this I
laid my brick floor, in lime mortar. The
walls are brick, eight inches thick and seven
feet high, with a door on one side two feet
wide. The door should be made of wood and
lined with sheet iron. For the top I put on
joists, two by four, set up edgewise, and
eight and a half inches from center to center,
covered with brick, and put on a heavy coat of
mortar. 1 build admail chimney on the top'
in the center, arching it over and covering it
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with a single roof in the usual way. An arch
should be built on the outside, with a small
iron door to shut it up, similar to a stove door,
with a hole from the arch through the wall of
the smoke-house, and un iron grate over it.
This arch is much more convenient and bet
ter to put the lire inside the smoke-house, and
the chimney causes a draft through into the
smoke-house. Good com cobs or hickory
wood are the best matertals to make a smoke
for hams. The cost of such a smoke-house
as I have described, is about -S2U.”
To Keep Hi tter F^esii.—The Farm
Journal, a German paper, published at Al
lentown. Pennsylvania, says that butter will i
remain fresh and sweet for six months, and
even longer, if prepared in the following'
manner: Take butter as it comes from the
churn, and wash the buttermilk thoroughly
out of it. then dry the surface of the butter
with a clean cloth, break into small pieces \
and pack it solid into a crock, h'et the crock
in a Little half filled with water, then place
the kettle over the lire until the water boils.
While boiling remove from the fire, and let
the crock remain in the water until cold.
Then place the crock in a cool place. The
object in boiling is to purify the butter and
precipitate the milk, which remains in it pre
vious to boiling, to the bottom of the crock.
Poisoning Hats.—The best food with
which to mix poison for killing rats is pump
kin seeds. Wet them andsprinkle on a little
arsenic, which will adhere to the seeds.—
They will be eaten by- rats and mice, while
cats, fowls, etc., not being fond of such food,
will not meddle with them. Whenever poi
son is put up for these troublesome pests of
the farm, water should be near by, so that
they may eat. drink and die, outside of their j
holes and hiding places. Muskrats, which
are often troublesome pests upon some farms,
bordering upon creeks or ponds,.may be poi
soned with arsenic upon pieces of parsnip or
sweet apple.
Kui.es for Pruning Grapes.—The last
number of Ilovcy’s Magazine gives substanti
ally the following general rules for grape
puning, after recommending grape growers
to be free in the use of the knife, following
by the remark that where one vine, is pruned
too severely, nine are not pruned enough: No i
shoots to be nearer than one foot from either, j
Prune back to within one eye of the old
wood, every fall and spring about one half of
the annual shoots—the remaining producing
canes to be retained fur bearing next vear—
when the old hearing wood is in turn to be
cut out. to make room for new shoots. Dis
bud or rub oft', as soon as they appear, all
shoots not wanted as bearing wood.
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A Touching Appea l.—'“Policeman,spare
that dog, touch not a single hair; he worries j
many a hog, from out his muddy lair. Oh.
when he was a pup. so frisky and so plump,
he lapped his milk from a cup. when hungry
—at a jump. And then his funny tricks, so
funny in their place, so full of canine licks,
upon your hands and face. You will surely
let him live! Oh. do not kill him—dead; he
wages his narrative, and prays for life—not
lead. ( rO. get the muzzle now, and put upon
his month, and stop that bow, bow, bow! and
tendency to drought. He is your children’s
pet, companion of their joy; destroy! No,
Policeman, spare that pup, touch not a single
hair; Oh. put your pistol up. and goawav from
there!”
The total amount of the auction for which
the objects of art left by the late Alexander
Von Humboldt were sold is 10.000 thalers.
Humboldt’s scientific instruments and the large
gold and silver coins of considerable value
were not included in the sale.
The question of the sobriety of a witness
being under discussion. Judge Strong pro
pounded the following question : Does Blank
drink liquor habitually? The answer was:
()nly at camp-meetings and similar festive oc
casions.
Accepting Office under Lidcodn.— *
Senator Iverson, of Georgia, has published a I
letter declaring that he will vote against the
confirmation of any Southern man who will
accept office from a Black Republican Presi
dent.
Mrs. Margaret Allen died in Cooperstown,
N. last week, after a few days’ sickness, at
the age of ninety-five. She had never had a
physician until this, her first and last sickness.
James ltedpath, the odious English aboli
tionist and friend of John Brown, was the re
cipient of a popular ovation ; .t Port-au-Prince
on his return to the United c -s
On the first of Novembe. ...llroad be
tween Charleston and SaT nn-ih will be for
mally opened.
Senator Seward is a cam. ,»• rc-election
to the l nited States Senate from New York.
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VALUE OF A CONSTITUTION.
From The Philadelphia Ledger,
By this we do not mean that a political con
stitution. written, that of the I'nited States,
or unwritten, like that of Great Britain, is of
value to the people possessing it. All of that
is true, no doubt. But we wish just now to
speak rather of the value of a good physical
constitution to the man who possesses it, and
to the nation or State where it is most gener
ally possessed. Yet it is one of those blessings
seldom appreciated until it is gone, and one
lost it is seldom recovered. Of course health
is valuable for its own sake, or tor the sake of
avoiding the perpetual misery of sickness.
But by constitution we mean something more
than health. Weruean a healthfulness of the
whole physical system, so strong that it cannot
be easily interrupted. There are many per
sons who are never sick, and yet never robust,
never well. They never lose a dayr’s work,
and yet never do more than the work of half
a day. Their lives are made up of a sort of
compromise between sickness and health,
which keeps their friends always supposing
they are about to break down, while yet they
really never do give way, but outlast half a
dozen florid, healthy-looking men. Castyand
sallow-faced, they have a perpetual liver com
plaint. a chronic cough, or an inveterate stoop
of the shoulders that makes them bend round
like a tortoise. They seem to live upon tobac
co, pies and ground nuts. They never smile,
never get angry, never are hungry, never are
tired, and never need exercise. This nice is
on the increase amongst us. Our cities swarm
with such. A breath of fresh air more than
common would kill the whole race. A visit
to Cape May of two days uses them up for the
season.
We protest against such men. They may
be. and often are, very keen in particular de
partments and walks of life, but they are not
andcanuot be men who take broad, common
sense views of things. Thev will tiddle-faddle
over details and minutia?. while a large, heavy,
broad-faced man of much greater obtuseness
of mind will seize the great outline* of busi
ness, and work them through successfully.
Men without constitution are soon worn out.
They cannot give continuous attention to one
point. After so many hours their minds fag,
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utivi uii y iiiiiii ii »iv vuia »iv»« v«v ,7
they are a little worn down, can get his way
through with them. There is a vital stamina
of purpose which is lucking in them. Ner
vous. impatient and fidgety, they cannot wait
for the right time and place, to carry their
point and effect their designs.
(In the other hand, the man with a good con
stitution inspires a sort of respect by bis ro
bust, firm, large and healthy look. Everybody
sees there is power behind all that is put forth
in everything that he does. 11 is cool. easy,
placid way. his cheerful and ^pit-satisfied air
has its weight as well as its softening and pleas
ing influence. He does not get easily out of
temper, and when he docs, it is the rage of a
strong man. out of the way of which all weak
er men had better stand aside. lie will often
lack quickness of perception, and be still
slower in motion, but there will be no waste
of power about him. If he makes a gesture
in speaking, it will be just sufficient to enforce
his idea, and no more.
A good constitution lies at the basis of
much sound mortality. It makes a man in
stinctively noble—the hater of all littleness
and deceit. Correct feelingand a comely per
son go naturally together. Education may
make a man moral, but the body is the organ
through which the mind acts, and where the
body is in any easy and natural condition.i ts
instincts will at least be apt to bo true to all
the dictate* of what is refined and worthy
and becoming. If all this is true, it may
show us the importance of keeping up a good
constitution at any price. The student who
wears this out, generally does it not by over
tasking his mind, but by neglecting to do
something else besides—pertaining to proper
food, exercise or bathing, llut in so doing,
lie cuts himself off, not only from success, hut
from the good-will, the respect, and the pro
prieties. if not many of the higher moralities
of life. The parent or teacher who over
tasks a child’s brain, or does not take care to
see that the means are taken in them to build
up a good physical constitution, are training
up miserable existences whose misconceptions,
fruits and depravities will make those ne
glected ones a disgrace to their families, if
not a curse to the State and mankind.
During an evening prayer meeting, one
member was praying with much earnestness
and an abundance of zeal, rubingand spatting
his hands, shouting at the top of his voice,
whilst a number of other members were chim
ing in, endorsing what the praying member
said, and joining in the entreaty and supplica
tion by such exclamations as "yes, do Lord,”
"yes. Lord.” etc.; the praying member went
on with his prayer, growing more and more
excited, more animated, more enraptured, be
seechingly supplicating and imploring—say
ing. "Come down here. Lord—come right
down among ns—come right here to-night—
come, come right through the roof.” Anoth
er member, equally excited and enthusiastic,
and who, it seems, was carried away by the
shouting brother and had the tantrums about
as bad. here joined in and said— "Vos, come,
Lord, down through the roof, and i'll pay for
the shingles !"
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Remarkable Incident. The Charles
ton Courier, of the -d, publishes the following
extract from a letter dated at Liverpool, Sq>
tember 14th, and written by a lady to her
brother now in the former, “A dreadful cir
cumstance happened near Aldershot. A far
mer was walking in his lield with some friends;
there had been a heavy rain, and it had beat
011 down the corn, lie felt so bad at seeing
it, that he prayed to Cod lie might sleep un
til fairer weather. And as soon as lie hnisli
ed he fell to the earth in a deep sleep, and re
mained ever since last to the earth, and
breathing as though he was in bod. There
is a shed built over him, and thousands go
daily to behold him.”
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Arrival of Blood Stock.—We learn
from the Lexington Observer and Reporter,
that eight splendid fillies, recently purchased
in England by Messrs. Dudley and liruce, the
agents of the Company formed there some
time since, arrived in that city on Friday in
line health and condition. A me were shipped
from England, but one of them was lett at
l’hiladelphia, having been* slightly injured
during the passage. These animals areol the
most approved blood in England, and their
appearance fully justifies their lineage.—
Messrs. Dudley and Bruce are still in Eng
land. not having completed their purchase.
[Louisville Journal.
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The Fidelity of French Wives.—
There is an erroneous impression abroad, says
a 1‘aris correspondent, on the subject of
French wives' fidelity. Considering them as
a class, subjected oft-times to the yoke of men
for whom they can entertain neither love nor
respect, I venture to assert that no country
can show a better record of feminine purity
than France.
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A monument, on a magnificent scale, to
Martin Luther, is to be erected at Worms. It
is from a design by the sculptor llietschel.
The whole sum required for the work is
£17.000, of which £12,000 lias been already
collected during the last three or four years,
from almost every part of the globe.
TIIE FIRST PRINTED BOOK.
It is a remarkable aiul most interesting
fact, that the very first use to which the dis- *
covery of printing was applied, was the pro- i
duction of the holy Bible. This was accom- ;
plished at Mentz, between the years 1450 and
1455. Guttenburg was the inventor of the
art, and Faust, a goldsmith, furnished the
necessary funds. Had it t»een a single page, |
or even an entire sheet, which was then pro- 1
duced, there might have been less occasion to |
have noticed it; but there was something in ■
the whole character of the affair which, it not
unprecedented, rendered it singular in the j
usual current of human events. This Bible ‘
was in two folio volumes, which have been ;
justly praised for the strength and beauty ot j
the paper, exactness of the register, and the '
luster of the ink. The work contained twelve
hundred and eighty-two pages, and being the
first ever printed, of course involved a long
period of time, and an immense amount ot
mentel, manual, and mechanical labor, and j
yet for a long time after it had been finished ■,
and offered for sale, not a single human be- j
ing save the artists themselves, knew how it
had been accomplished.
Of the first printed Bible, eighteen copies
are now known to be in existence; four ot
which are printed on vellum. Two ot these
are in English; one being in the Greenville
collection. < )ne is in the royal library of Ber
lin, and one in the royal library of Paris. Of
the fourteen remaining copies, ten are in
England; there being a copy in the libraries
of ()xford, Edinburgh, and London, and seven
in the collections of different noblemen. The |
vellum copy has been sold as high as eighteen
hundred dollars.
This, as if to mark the noblest purpose to
which the art would ever be applied, the first
book printed with movable metal types, was
the Bible. [N. Y. Sun.
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How to Treat the Bite of a Dog.
l)r. Stephen Ware, of Boston, in his testimo
ny in a recent case which grew out of the in
juries from the bite of a dug. furnished the
following advice:
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Iii tlie case or tne lute r*y a clog wnere me
tectli of the animal penetrated the flesh,
whether the (log was known to he mad or
not. he should use tiie same precautions. He
would wash the wound with warm water, ex
tract all the virus possible by sucking the
wound with his lips, and then cauterize it
deeply with the caustic most readily obtained,
but should use potash ii' it could be procured
at once.
The time in which the effects of the bite of
a rabid dog would be seen, varied from two
to three davs to as many years, but it' no ef- ;
l'ects were folk alter two or three months, as j
a general thing the patient might consider
himself safe. Bites made through clothing
are seldom productive of much harm, as even
if the dog is mad the clothing absorbs the
virus before the tectli reach the flesh, 'dost
of the fatal cases are where the person was
bitten on some naked part.
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Tf.t.l Your Wife.—If you are in any
trouble or quandary, tell your wife—that is. |
if you have one—all about it at once. Ten
to one her invention will solve your difficulty
sooner than all yonr logic. The wit of woman
has. been praised, but her instincts are quick
er and keener than her reason. Counsel
with your wife, or your mother or sister, and
be assured light will flash upon your darkness.
Women are too commonly adjudged as ver
dant in all but purely womanish affairs. No
philosophical student of the sex thus judges
them. Their intuitions, or insights, are the
most subtle, and if they cannot see a cat in the
meal, there is no cat there. In counselling a
man to tell his trouble to h is wife, ice * ml o'
go farther, and advise him to keep none of his
affairs secret from her. Many a home has
been happily saved, and many a fortune
retrieved, by a man’s full confidence in hi
“better half-” Woman is far more a seer j
and prophet than man, if she he given a lair
chance. As a general rule, wives confide the !
minutest of their thoughts and plans to their
husbands, having no involvements to screen
from them. Why not reciprocate, if but for
the pleasure of meeting confidence with con
fidence '! We are certain that no man suc
ceeds so well iu the world as he who, taking
a partner for life, make- her the partner of all
bis purposes and hopes. What is wrong of his j
impulse or judgment, she will check and set:
right with her almost universally right in
stincts. “ Helpmeet” was no insignificant ti- |
tic, as applied to man’s companion. She is a
meet help to him iu every darkness, difficulty, ,
and sorrow of life. And what she most craves j
and most deserves, is confidence—without 1
which love is never free from a shadow.
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A JMamond Story.—The California cor
respondent of The llerald. says that a story is
current at a mining camp called Knight's
Ferryq about thirty miles from Stockton. !
which partakes somewhat of the marvelous. 1
Hftrenllv u:irfv rif worn UnvL t „,r no I
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ordinary claim, in that vicinity, with a sluice j
and hydraulic pipe. About dark the pipe- j
man saw an object which he had washed out
of the bank, lie glittering in a pile of stones
and dirt which were to be washed through the j
shtice. The gleams from the “ object ” lit up ,
all the space in the vicinity, much to the as- I
tonishment of the workmen. The pipemun 5
picked it up and started to show it to one of!
his comrades; hut. alas! he stumbled and j
dropped the glittering gem into the sluice. !
and it was borne down the torrent of water into
the hr is of the trail race, and lost It is rep- j
resented to be larger than the Koh-i-noor. A
very good story; but as diamonds don’t hap-j
pen to “gleam and glitter,” until they have I
been cut, perhaps this “ object” wasn’t a dia- ;
mond.
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Committing tile Bible to Memory.—
A religious gentleman in Massachusetts offer- ;
ed several prizes of Bibles to those, old or
young, who should commit to memory and re- j
peat t he largest portion of the Bible. The I
following reports of passages have been re
ceived. certified by the superintendent or pas
tor : Mrs. Betsy Conant, who has been re
siding in Melrose, a lady sixty-eight rears of!
age, has committed to memory the entire Bi- 1
ble, OH and A ew Testament, reciting each.day ,
in the week. This is certified by her daught
er, and also by the superintendent of the Sab
bath-school ; and the lady is entitled to the
first Bible. An Irish servant girl repeated !
nearly 1 <1.000 verses, three other females re- j
peated above that number, and a list is append- ]
cd of some twenty more who were able to re- I
peat from 8,000 to9.000 verses. It is notice
able that more than two-thirds of the success- i
ful competitors are females, showing how ;
strong the faculty of memory is among the sex
as a general rule.
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To Dye Plate Color.—Boil green chest
nut bark one hour; take out the bark, and
add four ounces green vitriol for one pound |
woolen yarn or cloth ; stir frequently one
hour ; dry before washing.
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W E sec it stated that Forrest has received
an offer to go to England, from Buckstone, of
the Haymarket Theater, lor one hundred
nights—Forrest to dictate his own terms.
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Lecturing Again.—Hon. Thomas F.
Marshall, of Kentucky, is lecturing at Pough*
keepise, N. Y., on the history of Christianity,
from the Advent of the Pavior to the Protest
ant Reformation. i
Sad Affair at Norfolk—A Lather
Accidentally Shoots his Daughter
Dead—V most heart-rending accident occur
red at Norfolk, Va„ on Wednesday evening,
afforded another awful warning to those hand
ling fire-arms. It appears that Mi. Je.>ae 1.
Newell, a worthy citizuu and indulgent pa
rent, went home from business about sunset,
and finding his little son playing in the house
and yard with a pistol not supposed tu be
loaded, took it from him, and while examin
ing it, it was accidentally discharged. The
Day Book thus tells the rest of the truly sad
story : " Laura, (Mr. Newell’s daughter.) a
beautiful and interesting little girl of nine j
summers, was seated on the steps getting her
lesson, when the pistol went off, and instantly
jumping up, she exclaimed, “Oh, pa. you
have killed me !” As she said this the blood
burst from her nose and mouth. She fell tor- (
ward and instantly expired. The pistol had j
been charged with two large buckshot, both
of which had entered her right breast, and
perforated her right lung. The great shock,
together with the internal hemorrhage, pro
duced almost instant death. Drs. (jalt and
Bright were almost instantly called, and reach
ed the scene of the casualty in a very short |
time, but too late; the little girl had breathed
her last, and a worthy family were overwhelm
ed with grief. The unhappy father, almost
bereft of reason by the distressing and heart
rending accident, sought, in his frenzy, to
take his own life. Ue seized a knife, and
made a desperate effort to cut his throat, but j
was prevented from steeping his family in j
still deeper grief by some of his friends, who |
happened to rush up in time. Soothing
draughts were given to him, and he finally be
came quieted, and retired with an almost bro
ken heart. The unhappy mother of the little i
one was heard through the livelong night sob- !
hiner and mourning the untimely death of her 1
child, while the agonizing wail that occasion
ally rose upon the night, told how deep was
the distress of the stricken parents.
An Eventual Career.—.Mr. William!
S. Lindsay, 31. I’., who recently addressed the
merchants of Boston and New York on" the
corsting trads,” was born at Ara. Scotland and
was left an orphan at six years of age, left
home at the age of fifteen and worked his pas
sage to Liverpool on a steamer; slept for seven
lung weeks in the streets and sheds of that city,
and at length started on a three years’ sailor’s I
life as the cabin boy of a W est Indiaman.—
His trials were not over. He was shipwreck
ed, and had both legs and one arm broken. !
At the age of 19 he was in command of the |
Olive Branch, when, in 1839. in the Persian I
gulf, he was assailed and cut down by a saber, '
and to save litrnself killed his assailant with a
pistol shot, lie left the sea the next year,
and in 1 > 11 became agent for a coal company.
Mr. Lindsay, in 1845. moval to London, and f
commenced the business which made him one :
of the merchant princes of that great city,
in 1> 52 he owned twenty first-class ships, in
sured risks to the amount of fourteen millions |
of dollars, while the house of which he was
the head chartered seven hundred ships,
chiefly to India and the 3Iediterranean.
Thus had the emigrant from Avr.become one of
the largest shipowners and ship brokers of
the kingdom. Mr. Lindsay tried to get into
parliament in 1v52. but corruption and aristo
cratic influence delected him. In 1854 he
was elected for Tymnourli by the meager ma
jority of seventeen, and in 1951) was elected
without opposition, lie is now forty-four
years ol’ age.
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Flora Temple Deflated.—The Em
press of the trotting turf and her noble com
petitor, George 31. Patchen, have met again. 1
and tliis time Flora has met with a defeat.—
At Geneva. N. Y.. on the 27th nit, in a trot 1
a purse. miJo heats, 4>o*t three in .five. '
Flora won the first heat in 2:32. Patchen t
leading to three-quarter pole four lengths in I
advance, and throwing a shoe in the first quar-f
ter. Patchen won the second heat in 2:27;
Flora the third heat in 2:29, and Patchede
distanced FI >ra in the fourth heat. Wi*11
have not yet received our special report. bfH
if will appear in our next. The news of tb be
defeat will be heard with general]regret, a
the public will eagerly look lbr a lull and <x j>e
pletc account of the particulars of the r pf
test. Wilke’s Spi#
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TnE French Crown Diamond?.-**11' , 1"
ing the recent journey of the FremJM11* j 1<
peror. some of the finest diamonds
crown were more than once worn, the ve
the whole collection being 20, 908|J*^ V(
The first inventory was made in I* If”01'
dor of Napoleon 11. and another1'’ ia' (■
ken under Louis XVIIL, on his r§4* Horn
Ghent, to which place his .Majesty }caused
them to be conveyed. On the latt»"'(‘asion a
all the precious stones being reafcd from gr
the settings, were found t > be 10,? in nmu~ yc
her. to weigh 18,752 carats, ani the value
above mentioned. An invent recently ^
made shows the number, weiulrt1 ‘ va^ue to Vll
be unchanged. Kj,
A Hood Wai.ker.—Tliei0'tun Daily ^
Advertiser of February 14. L§- states that
a young gentleman, of Do11 walked to ar
Charleston, S. C., eleven hiiireel and fifty j di
miles, in thirty-six days; for Niagara lulls j th
to Rochester in two da*s. a>nil,h-shing the j
first dav forty-nine ml e^P though he was J re
detained for three hows Lock port; from ^
Saratoga Springs to R>st#n four successive 1
days; from Provident, i jlake’s Hotel,) to ! ^
Cambridge-street, B*siq in loss than ten j
hours, including sto», • rsi*le other excur- | .
sions, to Ticonderagf. fthush, N. V . Bur
lington N. 11.. aaoiing in all to over' ar
C ' grj
twenty-seven hundnd )‘es
A letter from Perlites tint the color now ;ifl
adopted hv the boles*'- franco is red. ihe I
writer says : • \V saejlack ntosquetaire hats j
bordered" with rednuddecorutdf with a red \ .
feather; the redflakel undf-skirt is dis-; ,n
played by the dree b'ng tuckel up a la Pom
padour in festoon/; be red sttkings setoff
to advantage the pfttily turntl ankle and th
the Parisian black otiue. Thi costume has if
become the vogue Tom havingleen adopted at
by the Empress ir»er rovings <>t the sea side er
at Brarritz. Th^rilliant colons peculiarly
adopted for displing toadvant^- the beauti- n,
fully fair complex and hair oilier Majesty. d]
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A Garrulc/s and Witty foMAN.—A ^
verv loquacion Ddy offered toother bus- e
hand §50 th* ''be would not ®:ak a word
for a week. “Done,” cried A delighted is
husband, insflttly tabling the Aiey, which in
the ladv a‘^00n grabbed amfiut in her H
pocket, obstfing very naively tin she would
secure it u^il the bet was decide^ “W hy,
said the h<band, “I have won ^ already,”
and requH'l her to fork over. 'f>w at ail,” w
said the l4y, “you are, mistake^ the time
—1 mea the week after I am bull.” The ^
lady wek a “shopping” that aftioon, amd ^
the hustand—well, nuf sed. 1 ^
Arjs from England.—The 4mission
ers appointed under a law of the \ iliia legis- ol
laturc, to procure arms for the betS defence oi
of tR state, have been in correspoi»tce with w
the manufacturers of the EngfiekifR, in
England, and been offered 5000 of It arm at U]
a j rice near sixty-live shillings wish, or jj
ab>ut §15 for each piece. They h«written j0
t< say that they will take 2500 at 4 price.
A saloon singer, named Thos. ^fckficld, re
attempted to stab his wife, at DrA n. on (>
Wednesday. 1 bl
ALL SORTSOF PARAGRAPHS.
Agreeable belle-itters—the epistles a pretty
woman writes to y#i
Wliat is known easy virtue is most un
easy fur some one t steal it.
Acceptable fire-fnis—those a lovely wo
man puts about uurneck.
The further a mai is from public opinion,
the more apt he is t) be right.
A popular prima >onna can never be poor
—she always has h«r chest full of valuable
notes.
It is supposed tint persons’ eyes become
crooked by an attein t to cross the bridge oi
their nose.
Life is a beautifujjnight, in which as some
stars go down, othersrise.
Gen. Shields late! delivered a lecture in
San Francisco, in id of a new Episcopal
church.
In all the aspirations of this life, aim high.
He who constantly li&es for sprats will never
catch a whale.
Deborah, from the Hebrew, means a ht)
Ilachel, a sheep; Sarai. a princess, and lf-u~
nah. the gracious.
Shingled roofs, whitewashed with lira* *;lsC
nearly twice as long asroofs which rec<r"e 110
treatment to render then durable.
As physicians have Ittle skill in s^lpture,
instead of putting patirace on a opnument,
they put patients undo- it.
Place for Poor Folks.—Or penny a
day will buy food in Ohinasuthcr11 10 enable
a man to like comfortably.
The 29th of November hasten set apart
as a day of Thanksgiving in tL1U0 ant* -^ew
Jersey.
It is worthy of notice. sF ■ v\ hile second
thoughts are best in map °* judgment,
first thoughts are always/*30 preferred in
matters that relate to mo/11}"
The greatest pleasure^/*10 world is. to do 1
have if found
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out by accident.
When docs the far;Bact. whh great rude
ness towards lii.s corn' ^ hen he pulls its
CarS'
The difference bc#''n public and private
opinion is, that tlitf mer may be that of a
wise man, while thwL*er necessarily that
of a vast number <jf"
A New One (l1' Klvelope —A letter
from Washinarto<jPtes fhat the Postmaster
General has ad.#; :u‘d ordered a one-cent
self-sealing env/j“- " hich will soon l»e sup
plied to the pofhees throughout the coun
try.
Asylum f Inebriates.—V, e learn
from The Rk‘r,rul Dispatch that the Medi
cal Society h-ginia have constituted Drs.
Brooks. : Bolton, a committee t.. ap
ply to the b legislature lor a house oi re
fuge for ii*iat»:s.
Pom J N nPTnt: Earth.—The Ameri
can EcclipBcal \ ear Book sets down the
populati#1’ Bic world at 2,290,000,900.
It is §*'»red that the wife of Dan Rice,
the shian- has recently sued for and ob
tainedrvoree iro,li her husband.
a dull comedy. that ends, as all
coin#: in the tilth act. with marriage and
rept/“-‘e
f said that the Prince of Wales had his
po# picked twice while in New York ; a
t';LfUat will favorably impress lam with the
fp"Ui of our institutions.
avid Gibb, medical student, of Glasgow. ‘
rAnd, has been sentenced to twelve months’
risonment for forging a diploma from the
asgow Faculty of Physicians.
The Connecticut Supreme Court has a no
l question to decide; whether a man oi"|
e-quarter African blood is vviiite or colored. |
wnite. he can vote; if coloied, he cannot 1
taxed.
The hotel keepersof Nashville. Tenn.. have
letitioned the City (Council fora reduction of1
i cense.
In Philadelphia, recently, a tilver dollar of
794 sold for $22 ;>U; a Wa-hjngton cent of
792 sold fur $59;. a half dinqjof 1794 for
:2 62; and a half dollar of lift) for $25 7>U. j
If squatter sovereignty, says The Louis- ;
die. Ky., Journal, is the shot cut to the
nds oi abolitionism, the dissolution of the
nion is a far shorter one.
Farmers have learned a lesson which mor
li.sts have not—that when the toed i.~ s*wn. :
train must be looked for at the end of liar- 1
est, and not at the beginning.
An exchange sap: 4* no man i*an vote in
South Carolina unless he owns tel negroes, or
eal estate to the value of $10j)00.’'. We j
Link this qualification necessary!only for of
Ice holders.
Don’t get excited about polities* unless ’-ou
ire quite sure that the election r vour can
lidate will be better tor your busiijjss and for
he country than the other man.
An unnecessary attempt was unde at the
eccnt meeting of the Synod of O.JS. Presbv
erian Church of Virginia, toabolih the cus
om of ministers accepting the titljof Doctor
if’ Divinity.
Sometimes in musing upon gel i us in its
limplcr manifestations, it seems as ij the great 1
irt of human culture consisted chilly in pre
lerving the glow and freshness of te heart, i 1
The Chinese coolies arc not so gbmissive
us the Africans; they will not entire cruel .
reatment without seeking revenge.'
It is said that in New York Mr. jstor was |
ntroduccd to the Prince of Wals as the 1
• wealthiest man in America. i :
i
Some men think only of religion *s some- j «
Ling which gives them a title to Haven—as ]
f the devil were some sneaking thi!-, goinsr
ibout to snatch from man his title q a prop
erty. ’
Samuel TTansaker. of Adams coejtv. Illi- i
rois, is ninety-three years old. has eitit chil
Ircn alive out of eleven. 106 grand-fiilJrcn
ind sixty-six great grand-children|of his i
^rand-children, thirty-seven are vote*.
The dahlia, which comes from Meico, and
s named from Dahl, a Sweed, was rousrht
nto fashion by Lady Holland, at tolland ■
House. Kensington, in 1804.
Ristori is the daughter of a poor Uveiin? ,
Italian artist, and when an infant, slilay be^ ;
bind the scenes iu a basket while hemother 1
vas playing.
In a case trying to prove a man dr%k. an
Irish witness was asked by the Judd if he 1
bought the man worse for liquor. ‘To, in j
faitu—he thought him the better for if
According to the census of I860, 2,917.657 j
>f the slaves of the United States were jacks, (
ir of unmixed African descent, and 26,656
vere mulattoes. •
Lady Franklin is spending her tirni very '
jnostentatiously in New York, at the htse of •
Henry Grinned, Esq., prior to her dejfture ‘
for California. • t
The valuation of the personal propcW of *
•esidents in the city of New York is $162126,
‘>74. The valuation of the personal prqcrtv i
>f non-residents is $15,121,162. 1 |
A Jury Rebuked.—The jory in the case
of Patrick Hennessey, tried at New Vork on
; Wednesday for arson, came into court at night
with a verdict of guilty of arson in the third
degree,” through the indictment was for ar
son in the first degree, and the district attor
ney consented that the crime should Le
brought in arson in the second degree. The
next morning, the jury being aJl present ia
1 court, the judge ^poke to them and oi their
i verdict as foHOws:
| “B<K-ause a jury have merely the physical
1 rf*er of firid‘ng a person guilty of an offense
they have no right, in any shape or manner
l to convict this prisoner of arson in the third
degree. They were told expressly and ex
plicit!/, as matter of law. that if they found
; the prisoner set the building on fire, their du
ty was to find him guilty of arson in the sec-’
on/degree. By tlieir finding the jury found
t>'t the prisoner kindled a tire, and they pre
1 frnied to overrule the court on a question of
|*aw, and T say here emphatically, that it is as
| absolutely moral perjury in the witness-box.
1 Now, 1 will observe that the court does not
sit here as a mere matter of farce, merely to
tell the jury what the law is. and it is just as
much matter of accident, without knowin
anything of arson in the third or fortieth do~
gree. whether they give a conviction that
would entitle the prisoner to a new trial, as
whether it rains or shines to-day. The duty
of the jury is to take the law from the court;
and merely because they hare the physical
power to say "yes’ or "no,” gives them no
right to trdhscend the directionsgiven. They
were informed distinctly that the fact of the
firing was all they had to do with, and so fa»
as they traveled beyond the instruction of the
court, and presumed themselves to construe
the law, they, to extent, violated th«ir
to give a verdict only on the facts.
‘•.Minute Men’’ in South Carolina.—
Aa an ofr-et to the “Wide Awakes” of the
North. •'Minute Men ’ are organizing in all
the principal districts of South Carolina.
1 he I harleston Mercury says:
“Their object is to term an armed body of
men. and to join in with our fellow-citizens,
new forming in this ear sister States as ‘Min
ute -Mon. whose duty re to arm. equip and
drill, and be ready for any emergency that
may arise in the present perilous position of
Southern States, In Kershaw Abbeville,
and Richland districts the organization is al
ready complete and powerful, embracing the
flower of the youth, and led on by the most
influential citizens. The badge adopted ia a
blue rosette—two and a half inches in diame
ter. with a military button in the centre, to be
worn upon the side of the hat.”
Splendid Cilanve.—Riding out the other
Jay, a little fellow stepped up and a.-ked to
ride. \\ c consented of course, and he was
soon seated, and began a busy talk. We in
quired a»s to the ehesnut crop, and if be was
going to gather any. His eyes brightened up
a moment replying with great earnestness:
“I know w here there are six trees loaded
down, the trees are very low. and the man is
dead:”
Any one who has gathered chesnnts with
tiie tear of the “man coming.” can at once
see the advantage of the location of the six
second-growths above mentioned.
[AsliraImla Sentinel.
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.5 Fact for Consideration.—The Chi
nese are a proud nation, and naturally
enough. Their language has existed four
thousand five hundred years, und everybody
reads it. Our language is a Ian gun ye of
yesterday. A person who lived in t he Island
't (neat Uritain eight hundred years ago
could not understand one of us. and we could
not make ourselves understood by him. Hut
I'onfucius wrote six or seven years before
lesus ( hrist, and Iits language is read, not
by fifty or sixty million's '■vKrTnnHe'rstan'.T
the English language, but W live hundred
millions of the human race. What a wonder
ful power. [Sir .John Cowering.
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Increase of Slaves.— 1 he increase of
tin: negroes has been greater than in any for
mer decade, and will amount to nearly tbit per
rent. The slaves in 1850 numbered 2.2U4-,
old. and will not now fall much short of
4,272.000. The whites i f the slavr-hoMin v
St ales will number about D.doo <mm>. the slaves
I'ciug a little more than one-third the popula
tion of the Southern States. If the slave
population continues to increase at the present
rate, there will be 5,700.000 slaves iu 1870;
in 1^80 there will be 7.500,000 slaves; and
in 1500 there will be 14,dOt>.0U0. This cal
culation does not include accessions by the
African slave trade.
V aluable Remedy for a Felon.—We
Slid the following in The Auburn Daily
I n ion:
A lady who had been troubled for some
dine by a felon on her finger, gives a simple
remedy, from which she experienced a treat
relief, and which enabled her to obtain sleep
■'°r the first time in many nights. It was to
rut a hole in a lemon, and wear it on the fin
rer like a thimble—the felon being encased
n the fruit. Persons afflicted with these pain
mi and occasionally dangerous visitors, would
fo well to give this remedial agent a trial,
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Discoxtinaxce of Land District in
Mississippi.—The lands undisposed of in the
Grenada district. Mississippi, having been re
lnced below 100,000 acres, the Secretary of
lie interior has ordered the discontinuance
-f the district, and also that the land in ques
ion be made subject to sale and entry at the
and office at Jackson, in said 8tate. by the
irst of December next, if practicable.
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Mrs. Jerome Bonaparte, of Baltimore, went
0 Paris in the last trip of the Vanderbilt, on
1 visit to her grandson, ('apt. Bonaparte. Iler
on is also there, havingprcceded her a month.
Lliis re-union of the family at Paris may have
>een brought about by the late death of the
Vince Jerome, as it is well known that Mr.
lerome Bonaparte, of Baltimore, is still anx
ous to test the legal questions involved in his
nother's marriage.
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The velvet rose moss grows on a sterile
ock, the mistletoe flourishes on the naked
tranches, the ivy clings to the mouldering
- ines, the pine and cedar remain fresh and
adeless amid the mutations of the receding
rear; and Heaven he praised, soraeting beau
ilul to see and grateful to the soul, will, in
he darkest hour of fate, still twine its ten
irils around the crumbling altars and broken
irches of the desolate temples of the human
leave.
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A Rotten Concern.—The Vicksburg
Miss.) Whig states that a portion of the
treat Atlantic telegraph cable, which was
irought there to be laid across the Mississippi,
ras found to be utterly worthless, and there
ore could not be used. A new cable was or
lered from New York.
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A Revolutionary Soldier.—Cornelius
Moments died recently at Rutherfordton,
L C. He was in his 104th year, and served
n the battle of King’s Mountain, and always
ook delight in telling of the skirmishes of his
arly days.
A decree of perpetual banishment has been
ssued against Solomon, ex-minister of Sou
ouqu*. the dethroned EmpSror of Hayti.