Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 14 February 1857 — Page 2

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CRAWFORD SVILL E, Saturday Morning, Feb. pL4,1857.

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"TobllJR"jwllSCRIBERN. Gentlemen, if you think that we are chameleons and feed upon air, and that we are put to no expense in furnishing you weekly with the news—why you need be in no "hurry of paying up for the present or any arrearages on the back volume. Of course, like all our former duns, this will amount to nothing. Some of you will say—"I will tend to this matter the first time I go to town," but like many a noble resolution, it will be lost in the ocean of forgctfulness.

No, no, gentlemen, don't hurry yourselves, or you might accidentally throw agleam of suushinc into our office, and enable us to .. pay our hands their wages on a Saturday night, with something left to purchase ink, paper, pay office rent, &c. Dear friends, don't hurry, but go slow if you can't give us any money, send us some promises and we will try and subsist upon them. y? 5,

NEGROES IN WABASH COLLEGE.

It is perhaps not generally known that the Faculty of (his Institution have taken the first initiative steps in the revolting and ••i damnable schcmcs of Black Republicanism —practical amalgamation. With the commencement of the present term, they broke the ice and put forth as a feelor, a single negro, whom they are now familiarizing with their students. If this novel scheme is found to work we understand that it is the intention of the Faculty to introduce at the commencement of the next term a considerable number of these ebony specimens of Africa. Notwithstanding the students arc compelled to occupy the same room and net at recitation on the same bench with the negro, but one young man as yet has had the pride and manliness to protest against this dcgrcdation, for which ho has «been summarily expelled. Wo make mention of these fncts so that citizens abroad may know what their sons may expect in case they send them to this Institution.—

Ohio has her Abolition-amalgamation factory in the shape of Obcrlin College, and wc nre now in a fair way of having a similar concern in our midst.

STIR UP THE MONKEYS.

Wc understand thatMr. Cantrill, former an associate of the great bard, is about starting an opposition black republican paper, with the avowed and fiendish intention of crushing out the Journal, which he swears is a disgrace to any civilized country. He is at present working insidiously among the woolly-heads, telling them all manner of naughty things about his hardship, and blowing with great gusto about his own capabilities as a blackguard. Although we consider friend Gilkey a great ass, for which nature is alone responsible, yet wc prefer him as a cotemporary in place of the vain silly coxcomb who is at present secretly working to supplant him. Mr. G. is unquestionably fitted for the position he oc--cupics. Black Republicanism needs just such men to advocate its principles. As a matter of course we shall enjoy hugely the fight among the woollies that looms up in the distance. We suggest that the old lincrs divide off and act as seconds.- We'll pic on the bard and get him to pitch in with his best lieks, while some of our friends kick the other dog into the ring. Then won't the wool fly But seriously brother G., we would advise you to look sharp. Your enemies are secretly at work, and the only •coursc left you is to crush the conspiracy iin the bud. Every attempt will be made to frighten you. If they don't succeed in that, they'll try wheedling and coaxing.— .'The Black Republican town clique have resolved to put you down. Shall they do =it Wc fancy we hear you exclaiming in voice of thuuder, no! Then up and at *em. Let the next issue of the Journal como down like an avalanche upon the traitor*. To arms! great bard, to arms!

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Go to Hea ton's if you want Valen­

tine*, He has got them from five cents up :to four dollars.

•STPursel & Bro. requests ua to say that Uiey lure a fine selection of Valentines on hand.

tSn The boys hare had fine skating on fjj* ifC at New Orleans.-

THE FANCY DRESS BALL. Our good cify has been unusually gay, this winter, the young ladies and gentle|mcn exhibiting a determination to enjoy themselves in spite of cold weather and all other unimportant matters. The columns of the Review have heretofore made known tle facts just mentioned, and we take pleasure in giving an account of the Fancy

Dress Party, and Ball, which "came off" at Mrs. Binford's and Temperance Hall on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, and regret that want of time will necessarily cause us to be brief and imperfect in our report.

The party at Mrs. Binford's was a glorious affair, as parties at her house always are and must be, just on account of the inimitable manner in which Mrs. B. acts mine hostess. But wc shall only particularize as to the Ball.

The following are the "destinguished characters" who appeared on the floor of the Hall:

Queen of the Fairies, Miss Mate Elston Lalla Rookh, Miss Mattie Binford Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, escorted by the celebrated philosopher and politician, Longinus—Miss Winn and Dr. Vanderbilt Omar Pacha and Lady, Mr. Garvin and Lady Perdita, in Shakspcar's Winter's Tale, Miss Hutchinson Duke and Duchess of York, Mr. Bruce and Miss Mary Earl Huntress, Miss Anna Earl Alladin's Bride, Miss Fanny Fry Selim and Zuleika, in Byron's "Bride of Abydos," Mr. Davis and Miss Loring Autumn, Miss Sperry Earl of Leicester, Mr. W. Wilson Earl of Rochester, Mr. Braden William Tell, Watson Count of Monte Christo, as Italian Bandit, Elston Fairy, Miss Holton Duchess of Argyle, Miss Ellen Elston Murcutio, in Romeo and Juliet, Blair Iago, in Othello, G. Brown Earl of Glencoe, W. Morgan American Tar, H. Morgan American Indian, Crawford Man about Town, Hartman.

Here we have folks of ancient and modern times—characters of history, of poesy, and of romance—all thrown together, and living, moving and having their being again, just as were the men, women, and fairies in actual life, or aa they had their life, in the "imagination all compact" of bards and novelists.

It would serve no purpose to notico in particular, the characters represented, for each "lived to the life" the one he or she had chosen to personate. The costumes were well chosen, many of them were brilliant and gorgeous almost as sunsets in Italy, and none were in tho least degree faulty or in bad taste. The scenes presented in the glorious "mazes of the dance" were beautiful at all times, and frequently thrillingly so. Nothing occurred to mar the universal harmony, but all went merry as a marringe bell—or a dozen of them.

Such evenings as Thursday occur but seldom, and we doubt whether any other town—big or little—in Indiana, can produce the talents, the acquaintance with history and with the great imaginative writers of the past, which are necessary to plan, and successfully to get up an entertainment at once so pleasant and so instructive, as the one of last night. Here no delicate feelings were wounded, no unpleasant thing occurred, no moral princi pie was compromised. It was an affaire in which the preachcr, without staining his cravat, might participate in, and yet, so completely was the plan carried out, and so vaHed were the characters represented, and the scenes presented both to the eye and to the imagination that there must have been something laughable to the "Man about Town."

8ST" Rev. Mr. Eaton will preach in the Court House the 4th Sunday in Feb. (22,) at 10-V o'clock A. M., and at 7 P. M. will deliver a Temperance lecture.

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VOLCANO IN VIRGINIA.—The

FRENCH PERFUMERY.—T.

Rock­

ingham Register states on "most reliable" authority that the shock of an earthquake was felt in Pendleton county, Va., some days ago, and that an aperture has been formed in the mountain, within two or three miles of Circleville, in that county, from which volumes of black smoke are issuing. and large stones have been thrown to a great height.

8ST" Several more instances of garotte robbery in Philadelphia, within a few days have come to light. In one case the robber was foiled in his aim at the throat of his victim, who being a powerful man, turned about and flogged the rascal. In another case, the person attacked by two men roared lustily, brought a watchman to his aid, and, it is said, one of the villains was arrested, the other seeking safety in flight.

D. Brown has

just received a large assortment of choice French Perfumery and toilet articles. The ladies are respectfully invited to ealL and examine one of the finest stocks over bro't to Crawfordsville.

A statistician who has compiled a

list of the killed and wounded during the Revolutionary war, makes it as follows:— British, 27,336 American, §,'2^1.

tSf Every liquor shop in Monroe, Georgia, has been closed. The citiiens raised one thousand dollars, bought them out, and shut up their doors.

Scarlet fever still prevails to a great

extent in the Eastern cities.

19* The bard of the Journal publishes an address of Dr. Fry's, delivered, he says, in 182*V Quit? an old document.

A SEVENTY-THOUSAND DOLLAR EXCITEMENT. There has been quite an excitement among the "upper ten" in New York citj for a few days past, in consequence of the flight of Miss Pauline Coster, (a granddaughter of the celebrated Madame de Pan) from the convent of the Sisters of Mercy in Mulberry-street. %It

appears Miss Cos­

ter had, in a fit of disappointed love, turned nun about two years since and it was expected she would soon take the white vail, inVbich case some $70,000, which she possessed in her own right, would go into the treasury of the Catholic Church. Some of the friends of the young lady, however, persuaded her to abandon her intention of taking the vail, and on Saturday last a carriage was driven up to the door of the convent and the lady in question hurried in, and was taken to the house of her grandmother in Blecker-street, where she received the congratulations of her friends. The gentleman who was the cause of her seeking the retirement of a convent is Walter Livingston. As the parties move in the first circles, the matter has been the topic of conversation very generally throughout the city since it transpired.

16?*We noticed at the fancy dress ball on last Thursday night, our coteraporary of the Journal. He looked as grave and as solemn as a methodist exhorter. He had no character,

!6?*Governor Willard has accepted an invitation to deliver the annual oration be fore the literary societies of Hamilton College, New York, at its next commencement. Hamilton College is the Governor's Alma Mater.

fi@*An exchange paper says that the girls in some parts of Pennsylvania arc so hard up for husbands that they sometimes take up with gamblers and lawyers.

86T"An exchange thinks that Tupper coined a fine smile when he spoke of Niagara as the "ocean bride of time." "Ocean?" what a notion! nonsense. Shakspeare's remarks, when speaking doubtless of the same subject, was muoh more to tho purpose "O what a FAI.I. was there, my countrymcn

£©"There were 241 persons killed by railroad accidents in the United States last year.

fi@"The "garotte" fever is proving to be as contagious as any otherjoeial pestilence. In Baltimore, an estimable gentleman, and partner in one of the oldest banking houses in the city, was a few evenings since "garroted" at the corner of two of the most public street, and robbed of a large amount of money. The outrage was accomplished so swiftly that alarm and pursuit were useless.

6T"The race horse Mamaluke was recently sold in England for 4,000 guineas.

J6?"Wood is selling in St. Paul at $0 per cord. Pretty well for a new country.

iSTLee county, Iowa has a population of 27,950.

ttiT'It is said that "the invention of crinoline" has done more to enlarge the sphere of woman than anything eise.

HARD TIMES.

We hear much complaining in these days of hard times, scarcity of money and inability to meet liabilities but let us reflect for a moment and sec if times arc really so hard as some would have us believe, and who is to blame for it 1 Shall we lay the charge to Providcncc and accuse the Divine Dispenser of all good, of an unjust distribution of his bounties, or shall we lay the origin to our own mismanagement The times are, no doubt, rather more pressing than usual, and persons who have demands to meet, find some difficulty in raising the necessary amount but at the same time we are inclined to think that there is more complaining than is at all justifiable. Always pay cash for what you buy and that will prevent your buying that which you do not need. And always buy your clothing at Hannah & Cassell's Cheap Clothing Store, opposite Empire Block, Main St., Crawfordsville, Ind., where you will save 20 per cent., and get the latest styles and a well made article.

THE INAUGURATION.—The

procession

will commence forming at nine o'clock en the morning of the 4th of March, and at eleven o'clock march to the National Hotel, where Mr. Buchanan will have rooms, and thence to the Capitol. After the inaugural ceremonies are over, the President will be escorted to the White House only by the military and the marshals.— Should the day prove auspicious, Washington will present a scene never before witnessed on a similar or any other occasion. Pennsylvania Avenue, when the procession is in full march, will present a sight worth going hundreds of miles to witness.

t@* For a splendid article of perfumery go to Manson & Powers. They have just received anew stock imported direct from Paris.

•^The population of Lyons, Iowa, is put down at 3,000.

|0*Land

Warrants are advancing in

New York.

^gfTwo hundred guns were fired in Madison, upon receipt of the news of the election of Hon. J. 1). Bright and Hon. Graham N. Fitch to the U. S. Senate.

19" The number of deaths in Chicago during the year 1856 was 1,950, against 1.930 during 1855, while the population of the citv has incrcs.vd 25.0H».

THE MURDER OPiR. BURDELL Ilf :V1TEW TOpK. We take the following from the New York Express of Tuesday last. It is a good review of the rireumstancea connected with the mysterious murder of Dr. Burdell, which has created such an excitement in New York The Express says:

At the close of the third day of the inquest the murder of Dr. Burdell in his own office in Bond street remains as fearful a mystery as ever. Early in the day the Coroner made a new search of the premises, and brought to light several more articles of dress—principally of female wearing apparel—-smeared with hlood.— The testimony of young Snodgrass, who was the first witness put upon the stand, shows that he believed the Doctor and Mrs. Cunningham to be man and wife but he never troubled himself to inquire particularly. He confirmed the statement previously made that they were on bad terms, and added that while Eckel and he frequently spent the evening in Mrs. Cunningham's bed room, Dr. Burdell was never known to do so. A servant girl of Mrs. C.'s, one whom she discharged the day before the murder, testified that there seemed to be two parties in the house, one of which was the Doctor, the other comprising everybody else, from the lady to Mr. Snodgrass.

The servant also testified that Mr. Eckel, not long since, at the breakfast table, remarked that "it would be a good thing to give the Doctor a !c?iock, if it amid be done handy," and at the same time, she avers, he looked wickedly at Mrs. Cunningham, who jestingly rebuked him for his language. The officers found in Eckel's secretary a package of papers much more important than those in the Doctor's safe. Among them were the agreement between the Doctor'and the lady in regard to the house, a strange, unsigned agreement, in the Doctor's handwriting, that in consideration of the settlement of certain suits, he would always befriend the lady and her family a statement, dated October 16, 1856, that up to that date he had never made a will, and that if any will should be produced with an anterior date purporting to be his, it would be a forgery. A variety of other papers were found in this package, but as they have not yet been put in evidence tho Coroner declines to have them published.

Several hours were spent by the Coroner, the jury, and officers on Monday in ransacking every portion of the premises. The physicians in attendance on the inquest also, at the Coroner's request, examined every part of the bodies of Mrs. Cunningham, Eckel, and Snodgrass, in order to see if they had any cut,, scratch, or other wound, supposing them to be concerned in the fatal affray. The report was that no wound or blemish was found on either of their bodies. The corpse was then re-ex-amined to see if the wounds could have been made with the dagger that was found in Mrs. C.'s drawer. The weapon is a small two-edged, ivory-handled dirk, about six inches long, in a worn metal sheath.— The most careful scrutiny rendered it apparent that none of the stabs could have been made with this instrument, but that the death knife must have been a sharppointed, two-edged dagger, at least eight inches by three-quarters in the blade.

The testimony thus far, though it fails to implicate any person in the house in the commission of the murder, yet demonstrates the existence of a family drama of no 4ittle romance and complication. The strange relations sustained towards Mrs. Cunningham by Eckel and Snodgrass, and the apparent ill-feeling of the trio to the deceased, the fact that the man she claimed to be her husband was never seen in her room and had little intercourse with her, while her private apartment communicated with the bed rooms of two other men the merry making and punch drinking in her bed room, while the Doctor was keeping bachelor's hall in bis own parlor the conduct of Eckel in acting as if he was master of the house his being seen by her own daughter through the keyhole in the lady's bed room, and his having private papers of the Doctor in his room, attracted the attention of every one present at the inquest on Monday, and caused no little remark.

The mystery of Ketchum's shirt has been cleared up by young Snodgrass, who says he borrowed it from a friend while in the country, but the blood on it is yet unexplained. The finding of a bloody dress of Miss Cunningham and a bloody newspaper in the stove in that young lady's room are also strange facts yet to be accounted for. Mr. Eckel's absence early Friday morning is explained by a witness, Mr. Ely, who swears he had a business appointment with him at 8 o'clock precisely. The witnesses, Mrs. C. and her family, Messrs. Eckel and Snodgrass, exhibit perfect composure arid coolness. None of them objected to being examined by the officers, but Mrs. C. appeared extremely anxious to preserve the papers taken from Eckel's ^secretary.

The house where this dread deed was committed has since been an object of the

Captain Dilks, of the Fifteenth Ward Police, informs u* that the knife found in

the drawer Sunday evening, was covered with blood, and thai upon informing Mm: Cunningham of the fact that it had been found In her drawer, she became greatly agitated, fell back in her chair, and swooned.

It is alleged that the house was not properly searched on the morning of the murder, which has created no little excitement in the neighborhood, as it is alleged that ample opportunity was permitted for those interested to conceal any article which may have been found about the premises, tending to fix the guilt on any person.

The New York Tribune has he following about Mr. Eckel: \"1" It has been ascertained that on the morning when the murder was discovered, Mr. Eckel left the house at an early and unusual hour, and proceeded to his place of business in Stanton st. Mrs. Cunningham^ followed in a carriage, and he stood talking with her half an hour or more at the carriage door, opposite his factory.— He was seen to give her a roll of bills.— This transpired before breakfast.

Mr. Eckel is a man of powerful frame, about five feet eight inchcs high. He was born in October, 1822. His complexion is tawny or bilious, hair light brown, soft and curly. The top of his head is bald, but he has lately covered it with a scratch wig. He is pitted with the small-pox, and wears a heavy beard and moustache, which have recently been dyed black. His eyes arc light blue and his nose has the Hebrew curve. He seems frank and ready to answer every question put to him, and when addressing any one does not fear to look them full in the face. He is a dealer in hides anil fat at No. 171 Stanton street. It was yesterday shown in evidence that he left his residence so early on Saturday morning to meet a business engagement of considerable importance, involving the payment of some $2,500.

A person, supposed to be Eckel, has called frequently upon a gentleman residing in Mercer street, and insinuated to him that he had good reason to be jealous of Dr. Burdell, and advised him to visit the residence of the latter and keep a strict watch over it, as it is now supposed for the purpose of throwing suspicion upon him in the present case. Yesterday morning the gentleman of Mercer street went to the Station house, for the purpose of ascertaining whether Mr. Eckel was the same individual. He recognized Eckel, but found him so altered as almost to prevent recognition. It was shortly afterward explained by the discovery that his whiskers had been recently dyed.

W A GOOD ANECDOTE.

During the inauguration of Gen. Taylor, at Washington, D. C., March 4th 1849, the police regulations, as usual required that after the speech of the new President had commenced, the gates of the Capitol Grounds should be closed, and no carriage of any kind allowed to pass, until the speech was finished, to prevent confusion.

The Minister of all the Russias, M. Bodisco, was very late, and after the speech had begun, drove up to the gate in great haste, the horses covered with foam, when tho coachman shouted to the guard "open ze gates iv you please." The guard shook his head and stood still. The footman next called out. "Will you open ze gate for ze Russian Minister?" The guard again shook his head, without answering a word. Next, the grand Minister put his head out of the carriage window and called to the guard: "Open ze gates to ze gran Minister of all ze Russias, Minister Plenipotentiary, M. Bodisco I am ze Minister."

There was a great crowd around the gates within and without, and all this fuss created quite a stir. The guard drew himself up, and in a firm and pleasant manner replied, "If you were a free-born American citizen of these United States of America, you could not pass these gates in a carriage."

were over.

QUEER.—No

intensest interest. Excited crowds stand depth. A boy stood by the cut that had constantly about the doors, and at the other side of the street, steadily gazing to the second-story windows and discussing all the details of the inquest as soon as they got them. The house is a four story and basement dwelling, and entered by a lofty flight of marble steps, like most houses in Bond street. The hall inside is wide and commodious. The parlors are on the right hand of the entrance, and are elegantly furnished—if anything, a trifle too gaudily for good taste. There are three large mirrors in the two rooms—the frames very heavy with gilt moulding. The second floor consists of two large rooms, with a pantry and dark room between them, and a small hall bed room front. The front room was the Doctor's bedroom the back room was his sitting room and operating office. Both apartments were well and conveniently furnished, and show a cultivated taste on the part of the deceased.— It is evident that he was sitting in his chair at the back end of the room when he received the first stab, for there is blood on the chair and the carpet. The final struggle took place near the door into the hall which, as well as the door of a closet adjoining, are terribly besmeared with blood. Here he received his death wounds.— Here he fell, here he died, and here he was found next morning in a pool of his own gore. Everything yet remains here just as when he was discovered—the blood on the doors, carpet, and staircase, the disorder of the room, &c.

FOOTSTEPS©? AR6EU.

The crowd came very near giving three cheers for the guard, but better manners prevailed "and M. Bodisco, stepped out of his equipage, and entered the side gate with the sovereign people, his carriage re-: Prentice, of the Louisville Jotrrnnl, maining outside until all the ceremonies thus speaks of a gentleman with whom he is not on very good teruiB: 'He is a noto-

man who can read is con­

tent to have a newspaper read to him by another. The moment you lay down the sheet, he picks it up and reads the paragraph again—as if he could "believe his eyes," but coulbn't trust his ears. Queer, isn't it?

W3T The funeral of Father Mathew, in Cork, was attended by fifty thousand people, and the bishop and seventy priests officiated in church. A large number of Protestants as well as Catholics were present, anxious to show their respect for the great apostle of temperance.

The New Bedford Standard says

five women, candidates for admission to the Baptist Church in Bristol, were baptized in that place on Sunday, at half past 12 o'clock in the afternoon. The thermometer stood at the time at seven degrees below zero, and snow was twelve inches in

been made in the ice for a baptismrl front, clearing it of the floating masses of snow and ice.

INTERESTING TO HOUSEWIVES.—The

Scientific American describes a carpet sweeping machine, exhibited at the Amerioan Institute in New York. It consists of a small box in which there is a revolving fan that sucks up all the dust and dirt, and carries it into a small compartment containing water. The woolen fibres and larger particles are deposited in a drawer. The sweeping is done by pushing the box along over the surface of the carpet by handles. The whole apparatus is light and simple, and will outlast a thousand brooms. No dust is created, and the sweeping is most thoroughly done.

The death of the Hon. P. S. Brooks

created a great sensation in South Carolina. On the arrival of the news at Columbia the Mayor ordered the town bell to be tolled, and the exercises at the South Carolina College were immediately suspended. At Charleston a large palmetto tree standing on one of the streets, was draped in mourning, and the flags of the shipping in port and on the public buildings were placed at half mast.

MARRYING FAMILY.—A

mother and four

daughters, all of whom reside in Northampton, Mass. have, oollectively, approached the altar of Hymen 17 times! The mother has had four husbands, one of her daughters four, and the others three each.

IT I. V. TOMIUOV.

Whe the hours of d%j «n nnmbered, $ And the voice* of night Wak« the better aoftl that «hirabered

To holy, calm delight

Ere the ercDing tainps afe lighted. And, like phantoms, grim and tali, Shadows from the fitfnl firo-light

Danee opon the parlor-wall.

Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door The beloved, the trne-hearted,

Come to visit me once more.

He, the young and strong, who cherished Noble-longings for the strife, By the road-side fell and porished, I Weary with the march of life

They, the holy onoa and weakly,

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Who the eross of suffering bore,. Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more!

And with them the Being Beauteous, Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me.

And is now a saint in heaven.

With a alow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair besido me,

Lays her gentle hand in mine.

As she sits and gazes at mo With thoso deep and tender eyes,

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Like the stars, so still and saint-like, -V' Looking downward from the skier.

Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Sot rebukes in blessings ended,

Breathing from her lips of air.

Oh, though oft 'depressed and lonely, All my fears are laid asido, If I but remember only

Such as these havo lived and died

MATRIMONIAL.

One day last week, a loving pair residing in the South Addition took it into their heads to be "joined in the silken knot which binds two willing hearts," and, without asking the consent of the father of the fair one, walked up to "the captain's office," and were made one. The father of the bride, learning of the marriage, on their return, seized the new-born husband by the throat, and held him "still as chiseled marble."— The bride, true to woman's devotion, clung to the side of him she loved better than all the wealth and honors of the world and endeavored, with fair and gentle means and soothing entreaties, to allay the fury of her father, but when these failed, anger usurped the place of her meekness, and "The eyes shot forth with all tho livid fire

That haunts the tigress in her wnU-ljJess ire."

Giving vent to wailing shrieks and woeful, piercing lamentations, she "pitched in" to the old man and gave him Jits, when he vamouscd, making tracks so rapid that it was difficult for his coat-tail to keep up with his giant strides.—RicMand Shield and Banner, January 29.

The President has abandoned the

intention of visiting Cuba after the 4th of March, under the advice of Mrs. Picrce's physicians, who apprehend the effects of a sea voyage.

8^* Counterfeit twenty dollar hills on the Bank of Kentucky are in circulation in Louisville.

rious coward—he talks ns if his diet were lion steaks, seasoned with gunpowder and boiled on burning lava, whereas his actual diet is probably rabbits' livers, sheeps' plucks, and pigeons' gizzards.

J©* The new British Quarterly Review, in a sketch of Mr. Buchanan's •personnel, says:

He has the habit (that historians attribute to Alexander the Great) of holding his head somewhat inclined to one side, and sometimes partially closing one eye, as if to prove, what was undoubtedly the case during his mission to this country, that he could see a vast deal more with half an eye than all our Ministers when they opened both theirs to the fullest extent, as they had to do moro than once, if all tales be true, during the coursc of their "transaction of business" with Mr. Buchanan.

AMBITION TO BE "TIIE EDITOR."—Mon­

sieur Millaud, the wealthy intellectual aspirant, who has just paid one hundred and sixty thousand dollars to M. Girardin, to take his place as Editor-in-Chief of the first daily paper in Paris, is said to have first soared so high as to make an offer for the London Times. To his enquiries as to the price, he received, by telegraph, the following reply:—"Sir, when you have come to anchor in the Thames, with three ships laden heavily with gold, we shall be ready to talk with you."

LEGAL TENDER. supposed decenacd,

ed their notes for redemption by tendering dimes and quarters. A writer in the New York Times furnishes the following statement derived from the law regulating tbe payment of debts with coin: 1—All gold ooins at their respective values for debts of any amount. 2—The half dollar, quarter dollar, dime and half dime, at their respective values, for debts of amounts under five dollars. 3 Three cent piecesfor debts of amounts under thirty cents and, 4 By the law just passed, we may add one cent pieces for debts of amounts under ten cents.

If this game is further attempted let the person presenting the bills at once have the same protested. This will bring them up standing.

It is estimated that four thousand Americans have perished in Nicaragua since Walker invaded the eouyry?'?

IffSClMTB or IAlCt The Washington eone^Mdeat of tiie Boston Pbst Is responsible fat the MDow-l ing:

I do not think I shall viehtte anyeonfidence in giving ah anecdote of Mr. Marty, current in society, though I believe it baa never been in print.- It is known that during the enlistment controvert^, abd boa* sequent difficulty with the English Minis-. ter, Mr. Crampton, the French Minister,: M. de Saitiges, exerted all his influence with Mr. Marcy for the retention of Crampton. On one fcttsion M. de Sartiges was arguing before the Secretary againlt the dismissal of Crampton, presenting th6 disadvantages of such an aet in the strongest colors, representing the desire of his-gov' ernment to prevent a rupture, Ac., in quite a lengthy oration during die delivery of which Mr. Marcy sat perfectly silent, dangling his watch-s-oals, as if in profound re* flection upon the French Minister's eloquence. At length, when Sartiges bad quite exhausted his discourse and paused for a reply, the Secretary merely raised his shaggy eyebrows little and qttietly inquiredV*'M. Sartiges, how is Madame this morning The story goes no further in that direction, except, as deponent be' lieves, that M. iflk Sartiges took his hat and never approached the subject again, while, as the world knows, Mr Crampton waa dismissed, Lord Palmeraton fumed and fretted, and finally has appointed Lord Napier to come over here in Crampton's place.

19* Recently, in Cincinnati, where a fuel famine has been raging, one of the city officials saw a man come out of an alley with a load of wood on his shoulders. He went up to him and charged him with stealing it. The reply was—"I have stolen it. I have no wood and no money.— The man from whom 1 am taking this has plenty of wood. When better times come, I will go and tell him what I have done, and pay him. If you wish to put me in jail, I will go to the station-house with you without a word, but, sir, for God's sake, irt me take this wood home Jirst.

Among the treasures which Mr.

Troye, the artist, brought from his recent explorations in Oriental countries, says the Journal of Commerce, is a veritable Arab marc. The animal, which was purchased for a stock importing company in Kentucky, is now in New 1 ork. She is a long, well knit, shapely creature,

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The Missouri Democrat states there

are twenty-three wildcat banks in the State of Illinois, located in the swamps of Egypt and the forests elsewhere, with a circulation amounting in the aggregate to three and a half millions.

SAM AND SAMIXV.—In

the Legislature of

Ohio it is proposed to disfranchise white men born in foreign countries, and enfranchise negroes. This proposition, if it passes, will be the bond of union between the factions.

rof

a grayish

color, about the average size, with very large and muscular thighs, and a marvelous elasticity in every movement. Her aluc is estimated at $10,000. This is tbc second marc of the Desert which has been brought to this country. The first, also imported by the Kentucky company, camo in by way of New Orleans.

FRENCH MARRIAGE OP PRUDENCE!—

The Paris Siecle contains tbc following:— On the 29th of December last a town in the north of France was quite cn fete on account of the marriage of Mdlle. Eugenic the only daughter of a manufacturer of the neighborhood, with M. Charles the son of a wealthy merchant of Paris. The marriage was of prudence and arrangement rather than love. All the questions of interest had been carefully attended to, but the point of mutual inclination was totally neglcctcd. Every one seemed gay and happy, except the bride. However, the ceremony took place, and a wedding banquet followed, the whole being terminated by a splendid ball. The festivities were drawing to a close, when a servant informed the bridegroom that gentlerasi desired to speak with him on very urgent affair. The bridegroom went out, but did not return for the rest of the evening. Tbc gaests, one by one, retired, bat the husband still remained absent, and at last, long after midaight, the bride with drew to her chamber. There she at once discovered the cause of her husband's absence, for on tbe table by the bedside she found a small parcel and the following note from her husband:.

Madame: If I bad n® right in marrying you to expect a wncore affection, since wc were but little aeqnaintcd with each other, I, however, looked for a heart which had never throbbed for another, and which might by assiduity and tenderness in tlw end make my own. But along series of letters from you to another man have just been placed in my hand—letters which prove, that if yon gave me y»ur hand, your affections have been given to another. I cannot, Madame, accept such an arrangement, and, as I am unable to rend asunder the bonds which have joined us a few hours Bince, I am determined to protest at least by my abscncc against the union which I have contracted and the first day of your marriage Bhall be the first also of widowhood which shall only terminate by tbc death of one of us. Adieu, Madame, forever!

The next morning the house of the rich manufacturer was plunged into consternation, for the bride was found dead in her room from the fumes of lighted charcoal.— On the table lay the parcel of letters transmitted by her husband, and near them the following note:

Monsieur: It is I who am in the wrong, and it is I therefore, who ought to offer a reparation. I give you the only one that is In my power: I restore to you your liberty, and I expire imploring your pardon.

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NARROW ESCAPE.—

against hasty funerals

An admonition

occurred

last week

at Fremont, Ohio. Daniel Stearns, who

had been sick with a fever, apparently died: All arrangements were made, and tho friends and the

clergyman

to pay the

We understand that the State Bank hasied warm to the touch Restoratives were attempted to bluff off persons who

present-1administered,

who

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were assembled

last

tribute of respect to the

when the body appear-

and a few minutes the man

came so near being buried alive was sitting up. He is now in a fair way of recovery.

FACT FOR SPIRITUALISTS.—Dr.

Lard-

ncr, the divine, mentions an account by Damascius of a battle fought near Rome with the Scythians, commanded by Attila, in the time of Valentian the Third, who succeeded Honorius, (in the year 425,) where the slaughter on both sides was so great that none on either side caeaned, except the generals and a few of their. attendants and, which is very strange, when the bodies were fallen, the souls still stood upright, and continued fighting three whole days and nights, nothing inferior to living men, either for the activity of their hands or the fierceness of their minds. The images of the souls, therefore, were both seen and heard, fighting together and clashing with their armor. Damaacius, moreover, endeavors to confirm the truth of this by othrr relations of a like kind,