Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 28 February 1857 — Page 1

YOLUME YIH.

SONG OF TEE PERI.

.* MOORS. •.

Fartvell—farewell to thee, Araby's daughter (Thus warbled I'ori boncath the dark sea,) No pearl e*er lay, under Oman's gr«cn water,

More pore in its shell than thy Spirit in thee.

Ob 1 fair as the sea-flower close thee growing, How light was thy heart till Lore's witchery came, ^J Like tho wind of the sonth o'er a summer lnte blowing,

And hnah'd all It* miunc, and wither'd its frame'

Bnt long, upon Araby's green sanny highlands, Shall maids and their lovers remember tho doom Ofhcrwb*lics sleeping among the Pearl Islands,

With naught but the sea-star to light up her tomb.

And still, when the merry date-season is burn ing. J" And calls to tho palm-groves tho young and the old, The happiest tlioro, from their pastirno returning

At sunset, will weop when thy story is told

Tho young village-maid, when with flow'rs she dresses llor dark flowing hnir for some festival day Will think of tby.fnte till, neglecting lior trosscs,

She mournfully turns from tho mirror away.

Norshftll Iron, beloved of her Hero! forget thee— Though tyrants watch over her tears as they start, Closo, close by the side of that Ilero she'll set thee-

Embalm'd in the innermost shrine of her heart.

Farewell—bo it ours to embellish thy pillow .=• 'Witli(^ry thing beauteous that grows in the deep Each flow'r of the rock and each gem of the "billow

Shall swoeten thy bod ami illumino thy sleep.

Around thee shall glisten the loveliest nniher That ever tho sorrowing sea-bird has -\vept With many a shell, in whosc-hollow-wreathed chamber,

Wo, Peris of Ocean, hv moonlight have slept.

We'll duo where tlie gardens of coral lie darkling, And plant nil tho rosiest stems at thy head We'll seek where the suiuls of the Caspian ore sparkling

And gather their gold to slruw over thy bed.

Farewell—farewell—until Pity's sweet fountain Is lost iii tho hearts of the fair and the bravo. They'll weep for the Chieftain who died on that mountain,

They'll weep for the Maiden who sloops in this wave.

8ST" Did you ever hear of the wife that wrote to her husband in California, and commenced her letter thus: "O tell mo not that absence cures love! the longer you stay away the better I like vou."

SiNori.Ait PKAVV.U.—Passing through the quiet little village of Saline, in Indiana, a few days ago, a fellow passenger pointed out a weather-bealen house of worship, as the place where he once heard, on a rainy occasion, the following prayer from the stated preacher: "We thank thee, Lord, for the number here to-night, and that 1 here, notwithstanding the inclemency weather."

Weekly Museum, .Tunc 0, 1792. Adjectives were plenty in those days: Married—On Monday evening last, by

the amiable, adorable, incomparable, inflexible, and nonpareil of her sex, Nancy Lucy Furder, both of this metropolitan city.

A Miss Susan F. R. Jackson, a

teacher of one of the Ward schools in New York, has been arrested for burning the tongues of her pupils, as a punishment for talking in school. The evidence showed that she had forced pupils to touch their tongues to a hot stove.

tSP* A ruuaway couple—the fair one's father rich and the lover poor, as usual in such cases—from the vicinity of Indianapolis, were married at Chicago last week.— The lady's father followed the couple, but arrived too late. He consulted a lawyer, who advised him, being as ho couldn't do anything else, to forgive the young couplc. He took the advicc and the trio departed for Hoosierdom.

LITTLE Gim.s.—There is somcthiug inexpressibly sweet about littlo girls. Lovely, pure, innocent, ingenious, unsuspecting, full of kindness to brothers, babies, and everything. They arc sweet little human flowers, diamond dew-drops in the breath of morn. What pity that they should ever become women, flirts and heartless coquettes?

Music.—Musio not only improves a man's tastes, but his morals. It gives him a taste for home that improves his habits wonderfully. The man who spends his evenings with a piano, is seldom seen in dram shops, and never with night brawlers. We believe in music, and candidly think that one flute will do as much toward driving rowdyism out of a neighborhood as four policemen and a bull-dog.

I®" Poetry is ever turning her lyre, and singing of that beautiful state to which the human race is capable of rising. Hope is ever pointing her telescope to the better time coming. Religion is ever fostering the latent capabilities of sympathy and love, which are finnly laid in the foundation of human nature, and opening up before them scenes of brightness and beauty which stretch beyond the tomb.

1ST The lady-killers of Paris are in ecstecies at the discovery of a flirtation ink, ft scientifically invented writing fluid war* ranted to fade to utter invisibility in six months. As yet the period is rather long —love letters hardly "keeping sweet" for so tedious adurationas the whoje-half year! But in the ordinary march of science a gradual perfection of the discovery is of eoorse expected bringing the new ink down to the natural Indelibility of "eternal con•fasey"—say ninety days.

•If

THE ALARM.

BT PAULINE FORSYTH.

There was distress in Woodlands, a beautiful placc on the west bank of the Hudson. Mrs. Charles Romaine and her daughter Emily, hardly yet recovered from the first shock of the death of the one who was their sole earthly protector, had just received intelligence through their lawyer that Mr. "Ward Bomaine, half-brother of Charles, had brought forward his claim, as the legal heir, to all the property they had so long looked upon as their own.

The estate on Hudson River, together with three houses in the city of New York, had been given by Mr. Ward, a wealthy bachelor of New York, to Charles Romaine on his marriage for, although there was no rcai relationship between them, yet he always regarded Charles, the son of his brother-in-law by a former marriage, as his nephew, and was often heard to assert that he was dearer to him than his own nephew and namesake, Ward Romaine.

A short time after this event, Mr. Ward died, leaving his sister's son sole heir to his immense estate. Since that" period, more than twenty years had passed away. Mr. Charles Romainc's property in New York had increased in value beyond all expectation, so that, with no exertion on his own part, lie found himself a rich man: while Mr. Ward Romaine, whose strongest feeling was a desire for wealth, had wasted his life and a great part of his fortune in unprofitable speculations. He had been obliged to retrench his extravagant style of living, and was already foreseeing the day when ruin could no longer be averted.

At this juncture occurred the death of his half-brother, lie immediately put forward his claim to his estate, asserting that his uncle had given his brother only a lifeinterest in it at his death it was to revert to him as the legal heir. Mr. Ward's v\ill was produced, in which it was clearly stated that all his property without reserve was left to his nephew, Ward Romaine and Mr. Romaine argued, besides, that it was ibsurd to suppose that so valuable a part of the estate should be left to one in whose eins flowed no drop of kindred blood.

If the deed by which Mr. Ward made Mr. Charles Romaine the possessor of this disputed property could have been ioiusd, the widowed Mrs. Romaine need have feared nothing but she searched for it in vain through all her husband's papers.

She had seen it not many days before his death she remembered having opened

of the i,.|j always been most fraternal and

inarria^c notice '1,1

fiST" Here is a veritable

dential, and this conversation lasted sever-

l,ours

1,lUScr

llian tho

of the olden time, taken from the New York Mr. Charles Romanic rendered prudent.

When Mrs. Romaine entered the room at last, she found her husband about to lock the desk: he handed her the key, remark-

Rev. Mr. Beach, John Buchanan. Esq., to ing that he had done now forever with all

worldly matters. Tie died before three days had passed and, before Mrs. Bomaine had had time to recover from her first overwhelming grief, she received the intimation that she was about to be forced to leave her pleasant, home, and give up her condition of affluence and ease for one of penury and toil.

A widowed sister of Mrs. Romaine, Mrs. Mildred Compton, lived with her. She was a keen, shrewd woman, endowed with great natural penetration into character, and a degree of sagacit3- and practical knowledge that made her the very person to act in such an emergency. She had also that most comfortable of all qualities—a perfect sclf-rcliauce. According to her own opinion, if everybody would but follow her advicc, they might be sure of success. "I told you. Grace," said she to Mrs. Romaine, "not to trust Ward Romaine. I never had the least opiuion of him he is a regular mammon-worshipper, and would sell his soul for a few dollars. He knows where the deed is, you may depend on it." "But, Aunt Mildred," said Emily, "Uncle Ward says there never has been such a deed at least, that he never saw or heard of it.". "You simple child! He has seen it a hundred times. I'll warrant he knows every word of it by heart." "But where do you suppose it is asked Emily. "He took it, my dear, the day he had that long talk with your father. It lay in the desk just under his eyes, and the dfcvil tempted him, as he has done many abetter man. It must be so, for your mother and I both saw it there half an hour before, and now it is gone," "He says," continued Emily, "that he does not wish mother and I to leave Woodlands, at any rate while she lives he only wants to prevent the estate from going out of the family." I

"Yes, he pretends to be very generous and kind, but just let him get possession of tins house and grounds, and if he did not send you out to make room for his graceless children, some other owner would come forward to do it for there is a blight on everything that Wani 'Rofluune attempts. See how Mil own property 1MS slipped away

from him." "I cannot believe that brother Ward would do so base an act," said Mrs. Romaine.,' •.«" "My husband had the greatest confidlifc'e in him." "Yes, your husband was very unsuspicious, and. trusted everybody," said Mrs. Compton, who, in her heart, although she loved Mr. Romaine, had a poor opinion of his worldly wisdom.' "I tell you, my dear sister, it stands to reason that Ward Romaine knows all about that deed. No one but a simpleton could doubt it. Any one that has got a particle of penetration can see, with half an eye, that he would do any thing for money. And if you are going to let him have his own way in this, and give up the estate to him without going to law about it, trusting to his promise never to see you or Emily want anything that you have been accustomed to, you will deserve, by your folly, all you will certainly have to suffer." "I always had the greatest dread of a law-suit, especially with a relation, and Ward Romaine has seemed to be a kind brother to me." "Words cost nothing, and those are the only things he gives freely," returned Mrs. Compton "and, as for the law-suit, there is no avoiding it, as I see. If it only turns out as it ought, and as I have a conviction it will, you will not repent having engaged in it. I feel sure that Mr. Ward Romaine will find that his wickedness will fall on his own head."

Mrs. Romaine at last consented to defend her own and her daughter's claims against her husband's half-brother. On both sides able lawyers were employed, and there was at Woodlands a time of great suspense and fear, and, now and then, a gleam of hope. But, as the suit went on, tho hope faded, and the fear increased dai. ly. If it had not been for Mrs. Compton, Mrs. Romaine .would have compromised the suit, or given it up entirely several times. But she was too resolute and confident to allow any half measures. "It cannot be," she said, "that the only time that Ward Romaine prospers should be when he is attempting the robbery of the widow .and orphan. 1 on have right and justice on your side, and I believe it will come out right at last."

But matters grew darker daily. The last week of the trial came on, and it was thought expedient that Mrs. Romaine should be in the city to aid her own cause with all the means in her power. Mrs.

Compton and Emily accompanied hef^ with a confidential servant, whom tho state of

thc desk which contained it with all his jjoniajnc»i. health obliged her to bring turbed, although a general movement, and other valuable documents, and placed it on

went to ono 0

a table by the side of his bed, juht before \Torlc where, after havingj loose robes, some of them wearing caps the and and

goodly leaving him to talk over come business »f-jscttlcd themselves comfortably in their lodged with Incc, and others articles of th hou art fair.-, with his brother. Their intercourse

roomf!j

c^Ul^" rjva])

was

weakened state of

"Depend upon it, it means something.— iconic with terror, sank down at every step. Such a remarkable event as our being As Emily opened the door of her motli-brou-rht together here, when we would cr's room to go out, an old gentleman, who

have desired above all things to avoid it, must have some special object."

business

affairs as much in the dark as possible. I suppose lie thinks with Napoleon that 'Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.'— I find that very few of his acquaintances here know anything about his circumstances further than they can learn by vague rumor."

The meeting of the relatives under such difficult circumstances was polite, but for1 and constrained. There appeared to a tacit understanding that to avoid each other as much as possible would be the most agreeable thing to all parties. This, Emily found, could easily bo effected in a large hotel and they saw almost as little of each other as they did when they were living a hundred miles distant.^

Meanwhile, the days went on. Everything seemed to promise Mr. Ward Romaine a prosperous issue to his suit. The evening before the question was to be finally decided, Mrs. Romaine bade her daughter and sister good-night with a heavy heart. She felt that in all probability, when the sun again set upon the earth, they would be homeless and destitute wanderers for their undertaking this suit had so irritated Mr. Romaine that he had withdrawn his former promise of protection and support. Emily's cheek was pale with sympathy, and her eyes heavy with weeping but Aunt Mildred was Strong and hopeful as ever at least she bore herself so outwardly* and, however her heart may have failed her, she allowed no symptoms of it to appear. Charging Sirs. Romaine's attendant to prepare some soothing draught for her m&tress, she left the room with. a cheerful smile. "The Ides of March liave oome, but not gone/' said she to Emily, as they ascended the flight of stun, and walked through the

CRAWFORDSVILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA, FEBRUARY- 28,. 1857,

long passage to their room. It was not long before they were all tranquilly slum bering. Gradually the various sounds in the house died away the lights in the passages were extinguished a profound silence and darkness settled over all.

It was two hours after midnight—a time when the senses are wrapped in the deepest forgetfulness—when a strange and frightful sound broke the stillness. Every moment it rose louder, deeper, and more penetrating.1 "Emily sprang up, in a moment wide awake, but alarmed beyond all power of reason or calm observation. She did not stop to think, but came at once to the conclusion that the hotel was on fire.— As she heard no sound of voices or hurrying feet, she concluded that all had escaped but her aunt and herself, and that some daring fireman, aware of their danger, had ventured thus far to arouse them. She thought of her mother who, under the influence of an opiate, might be still sleeping soundly and, rousing her aunt with frantic haste, she threw a shawl around her and rushed from the room. As she passed her uncle's door, he opened it and asked the cause of the alarm. "Fire, uncle! The house is on fire We shall never be able to get out! It is all in

a blaze!" exclaimed she, in an agony of ihow it all happened." terror, deceived by the broad glare of gaslight that streamed through her uncle's open door and she flew rather than ran down the stairs.

But Mr. Ward Romaine readied the foot before her. lie had oncc narrowly escaped with his life from a burning house, and the recollection of that had left on his mind a constant dread and even horror of fire. He found himself in the street before he could collect his thoughts enough to look calmly around liini then finding on a cool survey that everything seemed as usual, he re-entered the hotel. "It was a gong, sir," said the man who acted as the watchman of the house, but showed unmistakable symptoms of having just been roused from a stolen nap. "A gong! at this time of the night!" exclaimed Mr. Romaine, angry at having been so causelessly alarmed. "Yes, sir. I was in another part of the house, sir, and some of the young gentlemen c-anie in. I don't suppose they knew very well what they Are re about, and they happened to see the gong, and have been sounding it all the way up to tho very top of the house." .J:

In great indignation Mr. Romaine made

his way back to his room, which lie found open, as he left it, and apparently undis-

|jC largCr|a flitting to and fro of figures clad in long

]10y the day after their ar-1 same kind, terminating in a long point an

that on the same floor where Emily I a tassel, showed that Mr. Romaine an

lodged with her aunt was a suite of Emily were not the only persons disturbed rooms occupied by Mr. Romaine. by the untimely noise. They heard that lie had been obliged to Meantime, Emily had succeeded in I base purpose without strong compunction, sell his house in town, and, leaving his I rousing her mother, and, throwing a few! Tie had faltercc and wavered several times family in their country house, he had taken wrappings around her, was hurrying her in his course, and had been more than apartments for himself in the hotel. from the room. She supported her with once on the point of restoring, in some "Tt is an ordering, my dear," said Aunt ione hand, while with the other she half led, mysterious manner, the paper he had talcMildred to Emily when she learned it.— half dragged the maid, who, nearly over. en.

occupied the opposite apartment, opened his. To his look of inquiry Emily instant-

It is a concatenation, certainly, and not: ly responded by the terrible word "Fire

a pleasant one to either party," said Emily, "I think, madam, you are mistaken," said jie

"But it is very strange that we did not he. with all the politeness and formality of hear of his havingsold his house. I can- the old school, bowing as he spoke, while not understand it" the tassel that adorned his head nodded in "Your uncle always keeps his

harmony. "I should rather suppose that

the alarm is the work of some intoxicated persons. Allow me to go and sec before you venture out. 1 will return immcdiate-

The coolness and deliberation with which he spoke, even his measured and formal tones, calmed Emily and her mother more than any assurances of 'no danger' could have done. They waited patiently until lie returned, bringing the intelligence of the true causc of their fright.

What a wicked thing it was for those young men to alarm us so, mamma! They might have caused your death if you had gone, dressed as you are, in the cold night air. I shall never forgive them," said

Emily.' "My dear," said her mother, looking pale and anxious, "I am troubled about your aunt. It is very strange that she has not been down here. I am afraid she has

fainted." Aunt Mildred fainted! That would be an impossible event but I will go and see. Good-night again. I hope this fright will not make you ill," and Emily turned to go up stairs. "Allow me to attend you to your room, ma'am: all the people iu the house seem to have been roused and it might not be very agreeable for a lady to go alone through passages where she is liable to meet so many persons and the gallant old gentleman, wrapping his dressing-gown tightly around him, escorted Miss Bomaine through the long hall, and up the staircase to her apartment, fortunately too much occupied in keeping his refractory robe in order to. pay any attention to the shortcomings in his companion's toilet He bowed with profound respeet as he-bade her goodnight, and returned to his own quarters.

""''Well, Aunt Mildred," asked Emily, "were you frightened by my cry of fire?" "Frightened, child? not a bit!" replied Mrs. Compton, standing tall and ercct in the middle of the room, and gazing at hor niece with a countenance full of a mysterious triumph and wonder. "I knew from the very first that there was no fire. Some drunken people, was it not?" Emily assented. "I knew it in a minute, and tried to call you back: but you were off like a crazy thing." 'But, aunt, if you were not frightened, what are you lookiug at me in that way for "The Ides of March, dearie, the Ides of March and Mrs. Compton waved a paper around her head. "Why, Aunt Mildred, what do }*ou mean?" asked Emily in surprise. "The deed, child, the deed. I told you it was an ordering, our coining here and now you sec it.'1 "Have you found the deed, aunt?" asked Emily. "Of course, child I knew I should. I didn't sec the way clear exactly, but' 1 knew we should be led in it, and so we were." "But," Aunt Mildred, I don't understand

"Well, dear, I will tell you: only be calm and composedand Aunt Mildred, more excited by ibis joy than she had been by all the sorrow through which she had passed, could hardly repress her own emotions. "After you ran so quickly from the room, 1 threw my wrapper around me, and looked into the passage to discover the cause of your terror. I could see or hear nothing. I walked on a few steps, intending to follow you to your mother's room, and prevent you from hurrying her out into the street, before we had discovered the necessity of such a proceeding, when I saw your uncle's door open. I looked in to ask him what the matter was, when I found his room was vacant. My dear, 1 went directly to his table, led there by some unaccountable impulse. There, among a bundle of papers that seemed just to have been untied, I saw the missing deed: it was the first and only object my eyes rested on.— I took it, and forgot all about, the alarm or the fire, bnt went immediately to my room, where I have been waiting for you."' "Let us take it directly to mother." "No, no. Good news will keep. Let her sleep to-night, if she can, without any more excitement. You may carry it to her in the morning."

When Mr. Ward Romaine found that document, so all-important to him, missing, he was, for the first time in his life, overcome with despair. He could conjecture without difficulty into whose possession it had fallen, for no one but an interested person would think of singling that cut from all the other papers. He was not hardened enough in wickedness to carry out his

But

selfish motive at last, prevailed.

TIC saw that he had gone too far to maKC retreat with honor practicable, a no he had just unfolded the packet that contained tne deed, in order to destroy it, when sudden terror interrupted him in hi» design.

Now. dreading disgrace more than death,

wns

meditating self-destruction as

only refuge from ruin and di.-dionor, when there came a knock at his door. He open-)

used to call him many years ago, but had

long since changed for a more distant ap-'

pellation, "I have the deed. whore I found

it.

I came

one else except us four need know

an3"-11{['C

tliing about it, except that it has been dis-

cr ccased to regard you as her husband

brother. For his sake, as well as yours. ,in^

repressing with scorn am cariosity she

might show about, his pecuniary position,

any moment consign him to infamy, was in the possession of three women, and he had

They remained true to their word. Ma-

ny years passed away happily to them.— Emily married, but Woodlands was still her home. At last, Mrs. Compton, after a slow decline, was laid upon the bed, from which it was evident she could never rise again. Ward Komainc heard of it, and came from the city to sec her. "Mildred," said he, "I thought I would like to see you once more, to thank you, which I have never yet done, and to tell you that I am a prosperous man now. Af-

tor that affair which you know all about, I was long unable to do anything. At lafrt, I resolved to work hard that I might forget about it, or at least keep from thinking of it constantly. I undertook some business that required my undivided care, though it promised uic but small returns.— My old friends wondered at my new mode of life, but I persevered, and, to my great surprise, my business throve, until 1 am now richer than I had ever hoped to bo, even in those days when my whole soul was devoted to gain. But this wealth has come only when I cared no longer for it. I hold it very lightly now, and would give it all for the unstained conscience I had, Mildred, when you and 1 were children together." 'Your wife and children can enjoy it," said Mrs. Compton. "My wife is dead my children arc married and settled away from me but it will be a source of enjoyment to them—I hope

benefactors.

true value of money tU er Mrs. Compton endeavored to cheer the

republic, which is ruled by an Irish President, and the Austrian States, in which the

which an Irishman has r.ot pushed himself into a higher place than the subtle Jew, or the eager Pole, or the crafty C'orsican.—

EST1 A lady residing in Wayne county,

cxpcnse'of

nnfl L*nfiw nnr.

if tho pntr-i-

onc

To votir noble State the whole country is under great obligations, for its trium-j pliant suprort of the Constitution and the "This afternoon have been engaged in Union, at the late Presidential election. examining a machine made for producing

In compliance with your request, 1 trans-! intense cold by Artificial means. Tho ma| mit you a likeness of myself, and hope you chine, after having been worked an hour,' will accept as an additional present, the'en- brought down the nieicury in the thcrniomclosed sum of $25. I trust that undcr.tho ctcr to the line of twenty-four degrees be| bk-Sfin" of Providence. mnv continue to! low zero, which was the lowest degrco your *ood opinion. I marked on tho scale. I cut an apple «ind

cd it, and Mrs. Compton stood before him. ".JAMES UrCHANAN to' pa.-.s .through a vacuum, and in a. few They had been children together, born and Mrs. PIIEHK Vw:r. :n. I minutes it was. frozen. 1 machine ha.s "n 1 1 T. -n ,, 1 wi.p been two vears in being brought to its presbrought up in the same neighborhood ant. 11 wul thus be seen tluu Lie oui bn. nc-, *f fnrWardness. 11 is worktlic intimacy and kindly feeling which such lor whom the people have just ciectcd rros-^j ]^. jt freezes water, forming, an intercourse produces had worked in ident-has received the "mitten. —yes, two ]jlnt.]is of ice twelve inches by six—that Aunt Mildred's hra,-t a strong compassion of them—from an Indiana lady. he good being the size of the mciul cells in which for the errinf man natnred old gentleman not only thanks her, the refrigeration takes place. Kach cell is tor the crnng man. twenty-five dollars to boot!! separated from the others by what may be '•Ward, saiu siic, a name sue nad

bcc" Th il [lle wuy

ielvc=J in

no everv 3,000 persons

covcrcd at last. You need not fear us.— Jjtons, besides those assisted by regular inside of a ship in a few hours, and thus Emilv wished me to tell vou this, and we charities, arise every morning without purify the hold and its other apartment* .. I 'knowinc how they will get a dinner: and and it is capable of reducing the temperacan promise for l.or mother. She has «cy| ,lrm?k„dSi

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she will keep this matter secret. Good- people as this is always restless, dissatis-: low f,-ver. :y,t Sod. and given to revolution—one day rev-1

rny

cons

or any desire-to sympathize with him in his jj00(j

From vour friend, placed it on the outside of one of the metal verv respecf lull v. I pipes, in which a current of ether was made

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ENGLAND AND RUSSIA. English writers regard it as an inevitable result of "the course of events," that England and Russia shall, sooner or later, come into collision in the East and they evince no little alarm at the evident preparations which Russia is making for this great conflict for dominion in Central and Southern Asia. The difficulty with Persia is ascribed to Russian influence. "The wires of the automaton Court of Teheran," remarks a recent English writer, "arc worked from St. Petcrsburgh, and lie adds:

The Russians -dream of one day dictating the terms of peace to us at Calcutta. But the British and Muscovite powers will have come into collision in another quarter of Asia, before their battalions can meet in mortal strife on tjic banks of the Indus.— The peninsula of Syria is tho key to tho British possessions in the East. Moreover, in the future, it will be the most important commercial position in the whole world.— Tt is towards this region that Russia will in the first instance seek to make her wny. The hosts now assembling on the shores of

o, at least, and of profit, too—for I have j10 (jas!pi are not. so much designed to tried to train them more carefully than I measure swords with I he British in Affghanwas trained, and

more carciuny man measure swoms wun ir.c jsriusn in ^viignauthink they know the istan as to consolidate Russian influence and better than I did."

IP°™rfiv

addened man, who listened to her hopeful ,vo,.](|. It rarely misses its game by springwords with a pleased smile, as though they ling at it too soon. Having consolidated its recalled lonir-forgotfen memories. '1 hey power in Persia, and influenced tho Kur,t- i\ dish tribes of Anafolia, it will then press parted soon, and met no more on this side ,, ,,

»_ down into the valley of the Euphrates, and of the grave. measure its strength with us in right good As to the gong-sounders, it is needless. earnest. to say that Emily not only forgave them-1 In this contest Russia will possess cxtrabut regarded them somewhat in the light of ordinary advantages,.and these advantages arc sketched with true prescience by the writer to whom we have referred:—

8ST" The Nation, an, Irish paper, replies! to an article in the London Times as follows:

on]Z!°%CUre-

r?S'"

,, tor future operations. 1 he Russian Oov-

lirnmont

(]ie

1!1()S

patient and wary in tho

We cannot doubt that a Russian population will yot spread over the central zone of Asia, and desccnd as masters to tho shores of the Pacific. The. Slavonian, in

No, thank Clod! the Irish nation is not, dead—neither has it been inocculated Brit-: truth, is semi-Oriental. He is a conncctish. A. generation is but a year in the age ing link between Europe, and Asia. He of the people and a nation has its growth, i,stands halfway between the, energy and nlcducation and colonization, as well as of most infidel self-reliance of the French and agitation, conquest and organization. The British peoples, who care but little for reverie of independence runs in our blood kings, and seldom rely much on Providence, as well as in the Pole's or the Magyr's.— jaud the fatalism and instinctive rcvercncc Some day or other, some way or other, we |of the Oriental nations, which make theni shall have our own again. Meantime with our blood and brain, we are mainly building up the two greatest commonwealths that ever were in the world—the American

dorers of sovereignty on earth, and only too acquiescent in what sccrn to them tho decrees of Divine Fate. Such a race is well fitted to be the rulers and civilizers of a large portion of Asia. The law of climate will regulate their settlement in that

Irish are likely to be even more powerful, continent, as it has done that of the AngloThere is hardly a country on the earth in Saxons in all parts of the world. In tho

temperate regions of Asia the Slavonians will gradually colonize in the more southern regions they will spread as a dominant

We arc everywhere great and glorious caste. In thi.s hitter manner they will cxcvervv.herc—but, at homo. Oh, lor a man tend their power into the Turkish and Pcrwitli the soul of Davis, with the energy ol'^sian territory, exerting great influence over i'i'onc. the popular power and the faith of

]10 populations of these empires, and com-

O'l'onncll in the days of liisglory to breathe ing into contact with British power. In one soul into this world-wide power! Io !process of time the Russian colonies and eight yea IT: more the Times might, have to JOTTLEMENTS in Central Asia will surround chronicle a change that would startle liij with a net work of civilized power the -oYan Winkle indeed. vine tribes of the deserts and the ste.ppes, who will be won or impressed into service

in this State, reccntlv sent the President, ail probability, the world will be startled a series of nomadic invasions, such as it

elect a pair of mittens of her own knitting. -'V The following irs his "letter of acccptance:" WINIATLANI), Penn., Dec. i'2, Ln3G. ?]_// Madam:—1 have received your favor of i!ie .rih inst., wiih the nuttens, which you wore kind enough to send me. accept them with much pleasure. as a token of regnrd from one otic matrons of Indiana.

p,.Taiin with them. And then, in

hns not seen since the days of Attila and (icnghs Khan,

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-c|- Merinni, of weather notoriety, i.s travelling, and has written a letter to the Nov/ York Commercial Adartiscr, from the banks of tho Cuyahoga. Ohio, dated tho olst ultimo. We give the following ex-,-

bachdors who iir.d th^ni called a flue. A large number of these

j.at prodicsinient generally act. cells are placed what may be cnllcd

«d You know! 2ST It is said of Paris that one out* of' produce a ton of ice at one operation.— to that

commits suicide that Clothing of persons coming to quarantine

''•'v two-thirds of the population cannot afford'', in vessels can be frozen by this machine,

lm'rial that in every three and thus divested of tho germs of pesti-i!

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illegitimate that :50,0U0 per- lerice. It can be made to l'rost the entire

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^oor Ward Eemainc! customed to sneer at womens powers ot terrible despotism solves the problem of the application of the sccrecy he had jealously kept from hist discharging needle to revoKcis. A cylinwife's knowledge all his business affairs,] AN ELOPKMENT.—A New York letter:drieal magazine, containing forty cartrid-

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«1ip says: An elopement in high life has just ges, 1., attached longitudinally underneath

jcr }-Jjc .xcitement in the

losses. And now a sccret, that might- at merchant of New Brunswick, N. J.. came to ."eeure a most perfect loading. There in to the city last week and stopped over also a revolving ncedlc-gun, without tho I night with an intimate friend (a widow la- magazine, having the advautagc over all dy) in Washington Place. Next morning,' other revohcrs that it can Lt-used with no choice but to trust to their promise. jn

com

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victim

square-cistern, and of sufficient number to

„re 4mm !,»« to free

isgrace the city. Ts it the goods stored in the refrigerated aj,art-

that a city composed of such incuts from everything infccted with yel-

'no,vlcck,e has created the barrel of the gun. /These cartridges

neighbor-

are incessantly fired as fast as the guu can

"Washington Square. It appears a be cocked, and the mechanism is such as

pany with the daughter of his host- cartridges. In addition to this novel plan.

a young and beautiful girl, lie went is another, for the convc* on of the old out, ostensibly to pay a visit to wmc friends,' United States muskets into brecch-load-since when nothinj has been heard of the ling gun. In all the attempts at producing missing parties. Tt has been ascertained breech-loadinggnns that have hitherto been that previous to leaving New Brunswick made, the great difficulty was to keep tne he defrauded his partner and other friends sliding surfaces of tin* breech and barrel so oTtt nf lnrrrp snms of tnonev. Ilia wife fol-' eomnletclv uninjured by the combustion of

out of large sums of money, Ilia wife fol- completely uninjured by lowed him to New York, and is staying at jthe powder as to insure uniform nicety ot a friend's house in a state bordering on dis-, operation. This new gun has a contrivance traction The poor widowed mother of his which, effecting the opeuiiig of tlie breech

is bowed to the earth with grief and by the discharge of the bullet, prevents shame. This, however, is but onc of a any deleterious action froiu gases on tho thousand episodes in every day life in this brcccb, by prOduciug an instantaneous draft great metropolis. ikf |of fresh air through thc barrel aud breech.