Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 28 February 1857 — Page 2

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CRAWFORDSVILLE,

Saturday Morning, Feb. 28,1857.

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I)i'U, TIMES.

It is an undeniable fact that times arc decidedly dull in this locality. For the last wool our streets have worn a .Sunday appearance. Everybody is complaining, and few have allowed themselves to he laken down wills the blue devils. We do not pretend to be a prophet, yet we feel bold to make the assertion that better times are near at hand. Unlike most of our western towns, Crawfordsville has from the first repelled immigration. No inducement has

I®" Mr. Ingersoll informs us that it is his intention to make the Journal a hightoned and dignified paper. In this laudable undertaking he has our warmest wishes. As a eotemporary, we shall ever treat him as a gentleman, though a lance may be broken occasionally between us.

S&" The Montgomery Journal publishes a silly article from a certain star correspondent, who has been taxing his idiotic brains to tlusir fullest tension to prove that negroes have never been admitted in Wabash College. If we arc not mistaken, this star is the same'individual whose amours with a certain black Venus has been the scandal of that institution for the last year.

OaF" If any one is deserving the thanks of* the town it is JOSEPH KARL. Under his direction and supervision our streets have been thoroughly cleaned. Ludies may now promenade Main and Green streets with their flowing skirts and satin slippers without the four of soiling them with mother earth.

S3~Fishcr Doherty has on hand a fine lot of Wagons, which he will sell cheap for cash. Give him a call. .sy

fcaifThe star correspondent of the Journal, is said to be the seducer of several negro wenches in town. We shall give his real name iu our next issue.

RAISING TIIE WIND.

The Publisher of the Journal has been advertising iu his paper, for some time, that for the small sum of one dollar, he would give information, whereby a fortune could be made. We know of no individual who stands in greater need of a fortune than the publisher himself.

Victors.—To persist in kissing a pretty black eyed girl, when she resolutely declares she wishes you not to. It looks just as though you wouldn't'take her word.

•0* There is a man in Cincinnati in possession of a powerful memory. He is cmloyed by iho humane society to "remember tLe jtocr.*'^

THE AN Aft Snow STORM.—Lieut. Maury has published a partial report of the statistics of the great January snow storm. The storm moved, in the teeth of the wind, from North Carolina to Maine in about 26 hours. Lieut. Maury suggests that, if a proper system of weather reports were sustained by the government, New York might have had 18 or 20 hours notice of the approach of this storm, and much damage to out-going shipping might thus have been avoided. At this season of the year, the average number of shipwrecks is about one American vessel for every eight hours, and the total value of the losses at sea for the month of January is set down at something like four millions of dollars

f&-Dr. Kane, the great explorer, whose death is announced by the press, has at four different times, been brought near to death's door, viz: Once in Egypt, from an attack of plague once in Africa, prostrated by the African fever once in the Mediterranean with the lock jaw, and he was dangerously wounded in the Mexican war, while carrying dispatches for General Scott between Vera Cruz and 3Icxico. The last and fatal attack was of a scrofulous nature arising from exposure during his northern explorations. lie was thirtyfour years of age, having been born in the city of Philadelphia in the year 1822.

HORRIBLE!—Garroting seems to be on the increase in New York. A terrible case is related by the Mirror, which says that as a gentleman was about leaving a house in the fashionable quarter of the city, where he had been spending the evening, a pair of white arms were thrown around his neck, and his lips were stifled The suddencss of the attack deprived him of all power of resistance. be seen.

i»miii"i UIIUH. iwuiuuvLiJitnifiuwj i* ai I wav for Governor King, who is opposed to jvor been offered to influence any of the mi. prohibition. Gov. Clark administration isl tide of emigration from the cast to stop with us. On the contrary, exhorbitant prices have been demanded for real estate, the conscqucnce of which has been to drive the tide farther westward. Crawfordsville possesses to a certain extent every advantage for an inland city. Surrounded with the finest lands that the sun ever shone upon, she has but to enter the list with the competitors of States further westward to obtain her share of the capital and the bono and sinew that is pouring with such resistless force from the crowded cities of the cast. Although Crawfordsville has passed her thirly-fifth year, yet she to-day can boast of only four thousand inhabitants, while Illinois and Wisconsin with towns only a third of that age have attained a growth and a population that have given them the dignity of opulent cities, and whoso prosperity and rapid advancement, have bccaiue the wonder and the miracle of the age. Shame upon the imbecility and dog-in-the-inangcr policy of those who have barred the gates of progress against capital and labor that in times past have sought egress to our town. But a better policy we are happy to learn is being inaugurated. Hereafter inducements will bo hold out that cannot fail to draw a share of the wealth that is spreading over the valley of the Mississippi. The cry of hard times is but a phantom that can only appall the faint hearted. All that is required for the present, is economy, coupled with determination and energy.

As usual, no policeman was to

BQfThe Prohibitionists in New York seem to be in ill luck. Senator Seward has gone into the liquor business. Governor Clark has been turned off to make

prohibition has been convicted of gross offenses and one of the Prohibitionist's colleagues, the editor of the Carson League, is proved to have been the recipient of one thousand dollars, corruption money, for the sake of office—the fruit of his hypocritic advocacy of Coercion.

8®~The Louisville Democrat tells a hard story of a young lady of that vicinage.— She has long been a belle, and many a heart has sighed in vain for her. At length she was wooed and won by a young gent more fortunate than the rest. He presented her with costly presents, and the happy day was fixed. As an affianced pair they attended a ball, when, the young lady complaining of feeling unwell, she was taken home by her companion. On that night she gave birth to a bouncing boy! The gent attributes all the blame for his want of discernment to the prevailing fashion.— lie has brought suit fer the recovery of the presents. Shame!

LADIES TAKE NOTICE.—The Empress Eugenie made her appearance on the 22d of January, without hoops. It is predicted by the feminine diplomatists that the reign of hoops is now about over. So mote it be.

JfiyTcn dollar bills on the Southern Bank of Indiana, at Tcrrc-Hautc, altered from ones, arc in circulation.

tOf-Lemon juice is principally relied on by the physicians in London for curing rheumatism. Three table spoonsful per dav is a dose for a man.

J@~Almost every farmer in Western New York, is about trying the seeds of the Chinese Sugar Cane. If it succeeds, there will be a revolution in Northern agriculture. Sugar will be as much raised as wheat.

The recommendation of the State

Treasurer to increase the State tax for the sinking fund to ten cents on the hundred dollars, to pay off the State debt, in ten vears, is generally supported by the press.

l&~ Graham, Godey and Harper's magazines, for March, are upon our table.— Those who want an extra amount of choice reading will call at the book establishment and periodical depot of Frank Ilea ton.

NEAV MEAT MARKET.—Mr. John Blair has opened a meat market in the basement under the store of Blair, Brown & Co., and opposite Commercial Block. He intends keepiug on hand during the coming summer the very best quality of beef, pork and mutton also, salt and smoked meats, lie will also keep his market well supplied with all kinds of vegetables.

CIIKISTMAN St GREKfS.

1 hese gentlemen arc now receiving their new stock of Hardware. It comprises every article kept in this line of business.—• The beautiful finish and durability of the stock shows that Mr. Christman is a judicious and experienced buyer. Our farm crs and mechanics will find it to their interest to open accounts with this House.— They will not only get their bills duplicated at the very lowest figures, but receive goods that for elaborate workmanship and elegant mechanism will vie with any establishment in the United States.

SAD DEFECT.—A reverend professor in a theological seminary, speaking of a notorious newspaper, says: "There is a very fair amount of talent in the 'Independent.' The editors are all able men, and some of the contributions are valuable. The principal defect in the paper w, that it has never experiment religion."

OtVE OF TIIE MORAL POLITICIANS. The Rev. Mr. Kallock was one of the most active clergymen of New England, who with a host of others, made through a petition to the Senate, such abase and unclerical onslaught upon Senator Douglas.

Of course he was a fierce Fremonter and a bleeding Kansas man during the late canvass, and was the author of the following choice and dignified sentiment:

We have laid that antiquated old fogy, Lewis Cass, on the shelf of political retirement. We have buried Erastus Brooks, the most notorious and unmitigated slanderer of Col. Fremont, under the putrid mound of his own calumnies, and left him to rot in the offal of political corruption.— We have compelled Buchanan to go into the Presidency with but a small minority, and under a protest from the Christianity, the Intelligence and the Decency of the North.

The author of the above language is now under indictmcnt by a Massachusetts grand jury for the most licentious and indecent conduct.

A young bride, riding out with her

happy husband, in Montreal, Canada, a few weeks since, was frozen to death by her husband's side. Physicians testified that her death was caused by frost on the brain, from the exposure of the top of the head to the cold. She wore a fashionable bonnet.

And that must have been a searching frost to have found brains in a fashionable belle's head. It accomplished a feat which many others have failed to realize as the result of much searching.

•PORTE CRAYON."—The readers of Harper's Magazine have been delighted with the pleasant sketches by a writer under the above nom deplume. "Porte Crayon" has been spending some time in East Tennessee. The Knoxvillo Register of the 5th says:

The steamer James Williams left our port on Monday evening. On board of her went "Porte Crayon" and suite (consisting of Mr. Strother and lady and daughter, Miss Wolfe and Mr. Henderson) en route for New Orleans. They have speut about two months in Knoxville, and the April number of Harper's Magazine will proba bly furnish us a rare sketch of East Tennessee scenery, men, manners and, "mat ters and things in general."

Ills HAS FALLEN.—The great bard of the nigger party has fallen. In the language of Phillips, lie towered amongst us like a gigantic sun-flower. Those who have read his Valedictory and that splendid poem of the Tornado will grieve when they hear that his hardship has laid off the honors of an editorial life and fled with disgust from the gaities of civilization to the wilds of his native infancy. Wc learn that he has placed himself under the protectorship of Jack Snyder, who has employed him to teach an infant school in Alamo. Farewell, great bard, farewell. We shall never look upon your like again!

t&" At a late public meeting, the following "dry" toast was given.' The author will get "buttered" when he gets home:— "The Press—the Pulpit—the Petticoats the three ruling Powers of the day. The first spreads knowledge, the second morals, and the third spreads—considerably.

A FREEDOM SIIRIEKER.—The Nebraska News states that one Bancroft, who belonged to Jim Lane's expedition, lately ran off, having feloniously purloined a lot of shares in the town of Fairview, forging the signatures of the officers of the company.

WHAT MARRIAGE DOES FOR A MAN.— The Washington correspondent of the Evening Post says:—

Since his marriage to his present accomplished wife, Mr. Douglass has greatly improved in outward appearance. He not only dresses more carefully, but looks better every way. Even in debate he exhibits more courtesy and amenity towards his Republican associates in the Senate, and his friends say that he is an altered man. His style of living is on a scale of liberality not exceeded by any of the nabobs of the city, and I am told, that on reception days, three hundred carriages may sometimes be seen before his dwelling, which was recently verv handsomely furnished.

THE LADY.—It is stated that "the lady in black" who is unfortunately complicated with the Rev. Mr. Kallock in the charge of adultery, is the young and lovely wife of a citizen of Brattleboro, Vt. She is respectably connected.

MORMON SERMON.—Brigham Young, the Mormon prophet., thus denounces one Gideon, who had the audacity to question his prophetic character, and purity of the "spiritual wife" system: "Who is this Gideon who has come amongst you! He used to sell tape in St. Louis, and now he is here to blaspheme the Lord and destroy the House of Israel.— And what should yc, children of the cove nant, do in return for his evil work? Out with the bowie knives ye wore like breast pins at Nauvoo, and, in the name of God and the Prophet, give him Hell!"

The spring of a watch weighs *015

of a grain a pound of iron makes 50,000. The pound of steel costs 4 cents a single spring 4 cents so that 50,000 produces $2,080.

Rev. Mr. Eaton will preach in the

Court House, to-morrow (Sunday) evening, at 7 o'clock. Subject—Origin of Endless Misery.

•®"Dr. J. N. BUTZ, will deliver a series of Six Lectures on the "Philosophy of Life," at the Christian Church, commencing on next Monday evening. Price of admission, 10 cents. A number of French Models will be exhibited

GAME LAW.—This bill passed the

Sen­

ate yesterday by a vote of 27 to 19, and only requires the signature of the Governor, to become a law of the State. Sportsmen generally have felt a deep interest in the success of this measure, and its passage will be regarded by them ttith great satisfaction.—State Sc7itinef, 25tk.e

THE INFLUENCEOF CITTLIFE.—-Rev. Dr. Scott, the eminent Presbyterian Divine, has been lecturing before the Mercantile Library Association of San Francisco.— His views on the influences of city life on yonth widely differ from many whg hare treated of the subject, bat are well worthy of attention:,

The country and the Tillages may be the best place for the birth and early training of youth but it is in the excitement of the city that the highest developments of the mind are made. The powerful minds that have swayed the destinies of mankind, though not commonly born in great cities have generally gone to reside there, to feel the pressure of that activity which would draw out their strength, and to find a the* tre suitable for their talents. Our men of letters have their homes in or near our largest cities. Hume, whose authority is great in all matters of mere literary experience, says the great city is the only fit residence for a man of letters. This is true. In the country there may be leisure, but there will be a want of impulse for the intellectual pursuits. The mind languishes in the midst of the wilderness. '"Tis better," in the development of intellect, "to dwell in the midst of alarms than reign in the horrible solitude." The mind without congenial spirits stagnates. "It gathers the rust of decay," as the immortal Chalmers says, "by its mere distance from sympathy and example." See his polity of cities. It is in the presence of libraries and literary men, and under the prcsure of intense excitement., that the human mind ordinarily comes forth in its greatest power

Gwinn and Broderick, democrats,

have been elected to the United States Senate, from California.

8@"Thc following sensible extract we clip from a communication in the Georgian and Journal:

Why is it that almost every newspaper that has been issued for the lastfew months has announced the death by fire of one of the gentler sex? More melancholy casualties of this kind have been recorded by the press of our country within the last four months than can be found on the records of any previous four years. The answer, sirs, is unanswerable. It is attributable alone to this modern ingredient that fashion has transplanted from the cooper shops into our parlors and drawing rooms. In the first place they'will not allow a lady to get near enough to the fire to become comfortable without endangering her garments and her life. In the next place the ladies do not realize the full extent to which they do spread silks and calico, and arc often in peril when they do not seem to know it.— In the third place, they prevent their victims from seeing their danger, even if they could realize it if they did see it. And, lastly, they render extinction of the flames by smothering them literally impracticable. So then, it would seem, they frightfully multiply the number of such melancholy accidents, and if they occur from other causes they form an insuperable impediment to a rescue. Hence it is wc are daily hearing of and reading about, so many untimely deaths from apparel taking fire.

JEALOUSY AND STABING.—We learn from the Evansville Journal, that at the town of Leopold, Perry county, Indiana, on Friday of last .week a young man by the name of Thomas Webb was spending a cosy evening with a widow and her two daughters, one of whom was a young lady of eighteen, when a young physician by the name of Christian came into the house and, on seeing the apparently plcasent relations existing between the inmates and the visitor, became excited and retired from the house, but in a short time returned, and without any warning rushed furiously upon Webb with a bowie knife in hand, and inflictcd seven severe stabs upon him in the region of the heart. Fortunately, a large plag of tobacco and a folded newspaper in the inside pocket of his coat protected him from the blows. Webb's wounds arc very dangerous, and he is in a very critical situation. The doctor fled immediately, and no trace has yet been discovered of the direction of his flight. Dr. Christian is a man of education and a Creole of Louisiana.

SAD AFFAIR.

We learned yesterday of an exceedingly sad affair which occured near White Pigeon, on the line of the Michigan Southern Road on Tuesday night. Two young men, each with two young ladies, left the village in carriages to attend a singing school at a school house a few miles from White Pigeon, and across the river. During the singing-school a heavy rain fell, the river rose to an unprecedented height, and the bridge was swept completely away. The young people at the close of the school, started on their return home. The night was very dark, and they could not see that the bridge had been swept away. Unconscious of the impending danger, the young men drove their horses at full speed to the bank of the river, and were precipitated into the stream. Two of the young ladies, Miss Cline and Miss Phillips—were drowned the other two young ladies and the young men were saved—the body of one of the young ladies—we did not hear which one—had been found that of the other had not, at the time our informant left. The sad affair produced the most profound grief throughout the village and adjaccnt country. —Toledo Daily Commercial.

WONDERS WILL NEVER CEASE.—A young lady named Mary Davis, who is eighteen years of age. and belongs in this city, has been arrested in Ballston, charged with the seduction of a precocious son of Mr. Henry Clark, of Albany, aged sixteen years. The youn^lady induced the boy to elope with her, and they passed as brother and sister. She treated him with the most loving kindness, and footed all the bills at the hotel where they were stopping. The poor young gentleman is quite disconsolate at the arrest of his sweetheart tears his hair, and swears that he will drawn himself in the cistern if she is punished. Poor little Lothario.—N. Y. Times.

10" "The last sad remains" of our dear friend "Nosely" left town last week. By an arrangement with' Judge Eckfels, Mr. John R. Coons, (the gentleman who held a mortgage on the printing materials and apparatus of the late "National Democrat,") removed die press, &e., to Crawfordsville for interment! Farewell, d*ar "Nosely," your like we'll ne'er see again in these parts!—Putnam Banner.

19" The new Court House in Cincinnati is to cost $750,000.

Froiti th« Tiffin (Ohio) Advertiser. FEMALE SHABP-P*ACTICE.|£ Some years ago a young gentletnsii living in Cfawfbtd county "went west,'* set tied in a western eity, and became rich.—He married I lady rending in the city where he located. Afttt he had been married about six months, he prepared to visit Crawford county in company with his bride. Bnt a few days before he was to start he was accidentally killed by a crate of crockery falling on him from the second story of his warehouse. The event was duly communicated to his family in Ohio That was abont 18 months ago.

About three months since, the father of the deceased was startled to see a carriage driving up to his door. A very interesting lady, dressed in mourning, stepped out and introduced herself as the widow of the dead son. Great was the joy of the household at the visit of their beloved son and brother's relict. She said she was going to Rhode Island, and coold not resist the opportunity of seeing the parents and relatives of her "beloved Harry." This was accompanied by a flood of tears and "furnace sighs." Three weeks passed by, and she has worked her way deep into the affections of the family. She was regarded as a daughter—as a sister. The hour came for her departure they had exchanged miniatures the farewells were said the blubbering was at its very height, when she called the old gentleman to one side, and with great embarrassment told him that she had lost her pocket-book on the cars, containing all but a trifle of her funds.— She felt a diffidence in making the request, but if she could not apply to her "beloved Harry's" father, to whom could she go?

The old man's heartmelted, and in a moment his wallet was produced, and ten X's of the Seneca County Bank were tendered and acccpted. She departed alas, that dear friends must part! Time flew, and a month passed, but nothing was heard from "beloved Harry's" relict. The old gentleman became alarmed, and addressed a letter to the father of his son's wife, detailing the circumstances of her visit. An answer came. It stated that the widow of his late .son was at home had not been away and that from the description given, the woman who personated her was a servant girl who had lived with them, and had gleaned enough of the history of Harry's family in Ohio to enable her to play his wife.

HUNTINGTON.—Huntington, the forger, has been advanced in the State Prison.— He docs no more manual labor. Nailing up bedsteads, which he has been engaged at, has given way to literary business. He is now about preparing himself to keep the books in the office—has earned for himself the respcct of the officers of the Prison by obeying to the very letter every rule of the institution, and performing all the Prison duties regularly and with alacrity. Genius will maintain its character wherever it may be. The gentleman was an A No. 1 maker of paper when in Wall street, and he still holds to the rule that whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

CAN'T STAND THE POLITICS.—A number of members of the Presbyterian Church at Jerseyville, 111., having bccomc heartily disgusted with the political prcaching which has been imposed upon them for a year or two past, met a few days ago, and adopted the following resolutions, to which they subscribed their names:

Resolved, Tiiat while we disclaim all wish or intention of imposing any restriction whatever on subjects properly appeartaining to ministerial duty, we still claim for ourselves the right to judge how far ministerial duty transcends its legitimate prerogative when it introduces into the church, as part of the worship of God, the subject of party politics.'

Resolved, That while we arc at all times ready and willing to contribute our full and reasonable share of material aid for the prcaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ, yet, for the preaching of any other gospel, we hold ourselves in no way committed either for attendance or support.

JUPITER AND VENUS.—These two brilliant planets whose rapid approximation toward one another in the western sky has been a matter of interest to all astronomically inclined for some weeks, have now begun to recede. Jupiter now goes down earlier every day on the 11th of April will come into conjunction or on a line with the sun. The brilliancy of the two is very difcnt—somewhat resembling that of the two two sexes of which they are the celestial exemplars. It will be seen that although the mass of Jupiter is many hundred miles larger than that of Venus, its light compared with that of the latter, is faint and feeble—Venus being now quite near the Earth and nearly at its greatest brilliancy, whilst the distance of Jupiter from us is ten times as great. Indeed, the light of Venus is now so intense that the planet can now be seen without the aid of a telescope, every clear afternoon about 3 o'clock, when on the meridian.—Lou. Jour.

A FREMONTER AFTER THE ELECTION.— Mr. Henry C. Wright, who "stumped iflf over the North, particularly in Indiana anon Michigan, for Colonel Fremont, during the late Presidential canvass,.at a meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society recently held in Boston, declared, "in his opinion, the slave had as good a right to cut the throat of his master as Washington had to plant his cannon on Dorchester Hights and pour his shot into the British. If his mother was a slaveholder, and if she persisted in her course, if her slaves should rise in insurrection, he would be on the side of the slaves." We trust the "Republicans" will turn such members out of their church, if they disapprove his sentiments.

The new cent piece soon to be issu­

ed, is composed of copper and nickel, and is about the size of a quarter eagle, as thick as the present cent, and but little darker than German silver. The obverse has a well executed figure of an eagle in full flight, with the date underneath, and the words "United States of America" above. The reverse has a finely executed wreath, representing all the principal staples of the country—cotton, corn, wheat, grapes, tobacco, &c., with the words "ONE CENT" in the center. It is stated by the officers of the Mint that, at the present price of copper, and for several years past, there has been little or no profit on the issue of copper cents, and, in consequence of their low value, they might be issued at one-half their present weight, with a seigniorage profit, and without tempting the counterfeiter, because the profits on ther issue would be too small" to compensate for the risk of detection.

LEW. WALLACE.

Our attention has been so much engrossed, whilst at Indianapolis, this winter, with business pertaining to the House of Representatives that we have been but little in the Senate Chamber, and have not had the good fortune to hear any of the speeches that our good friend Lew Wallace, Senator from Montgomery, has delivered. We occasionally, however, hear of them, and when he speaks, his praise is in every mouth.— Some time since, an article appeared in the Ilising Sun Visitor, which came under our observation but a few days since. It is a series of sketches of Senators, and we deem no apology necessary for transferring large portions of it to our columns. The writer was evidently carried away by one of those strains of bitter invectives couched in classic purity of style, peculiar to Mr. Wallace, and which no man can imitate.— The praise in the extracts is "spread on pretty thick," but Lew knows how to receive it with entire composure and Belfpossession: "Mr. Wallace is aged 28, slightly above the medium in height, dark complexion, and exhibits to the observer, almost instantly, a physical conformation indicative of strength and activity combined.

As an orator, I have no hesitancy in saying he is among the first in the commonwealth of Indiana. In declamation lies his forte. Blair, in his Rhetoric, has not advanced a single quality essential to an orator, that Mr. Wallace docs not possess.— Using unexceptionable grammar, he measures by correct intonation every sentence. Although possessing a fine command of language, he invariably speaks slow, thus giving himself time to properly emphasize an essential which very few orators seem to regard. In gesture does he truly prove himself one of nature's orators. Ilow many men, otherwise good speakers, utterly destroy the force of their effort by ill-timed and awkward gesticulations! Imagine a speaker reading the sentence of Henry, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" at the same time accompanying it by a swing of the arms in a right, and left circle. What is more disgusting? This evil Mr. W. has long since been absolved of, and when he addresses an audience now, his remarks are accompanied by appropriate gesticulation.

On Thursday last, Mr. Wallace, in reply to Mr. Murray, the Senator from Howard county, delivered one of th^most powerful speeches to which I ever listened. During the remarks of Mr. Murry upon a proposition to go into joint convention, Mr. Wal lace asked him if he had not pledged his constituents to go into joint convention this winter. Murray replied, 'I did say that if I had been a Seuator two years ago, and had refused to go into joiut convention, I should have considered myself a perjured villain Mr. Wallace then enquired how lie could reconcilc his feelings to his present position. Murray plead the revolutionary condition of the Senate. Mr. Wallace obtained the floor in reply to Murray, and for thirty-five minutes he poured upon the devoted head of the Senator a torrent of withering sarcasm. The following sentence, I think, since the days of Randolph, has not been excelled. "The Senator pleads revolution as an excuse for the violation of his pledge to his constituents. My Godis 'rerolutiwi' an excuse for perjury

The Democracy are, am glad to witness, proud of the Senator from Montgomery. lie will maintain his position in the ranks of the party."

TIIE RAILROAD ENGINEER. The engineer, he who guides the train by guiding the iron horse and almost holds the lives of passengers in his hands—his is a life of danger and pleasure. In a little seven-by-nine apartment, with square holes on each side for windows, open behind, and with machinery to look through ahead, you find him, he is the "Pathfinder"—he leads the way in all times of danger, checks the iron horse, or causes it to speed ahead with the velocity of the wind at his will.

Have you ever stood by the track, of a dark night, and watched the coming and passing of a train? Away off in the darkness you discover a light, and you hear a noise, and the earth trembles beneath your feet. The light comes nearer. You can compare it to nothing but the demon himself, with its terrible whistle—the sparks you imagine come from Beelzebub's nostrils, the fire underneath that shines close to the ground, causing you to believe that, the demon walks on living coals. It comes to you—you back and shudder—you look up, and almost on the demon's back rides the engineer—perhaps the "machine" shrieks, and you imagine the engineer is applying spurs to the demon's sides.

A daring fellow that engineer—you can't help saying so, and wonder wherein lies the pleasure of being an engineer. But so he does day after day, night after night.— Moonlight evenings he sweeps over the country—through cities and villages, thro' fairy scenes in forest and clearings, he looks through the square holes at his side, and enjoys the moonlight, but he cannot stop to enjoy the beauty of the scenery.— Cold, rainy, muddy, dark nights, it is the same perhaps the tracks are undermined, or overflown with water perhaps scoundrels have placed obstructions iu the way, or trees have been overturned across the track, and in either case it is almost instant death to him, at least but he stops not. Right on, is the word with him, and on he goes, regardless of danger, weather and everything, save the well doing of his duty in an intrepid and fearless manner.— Schenectady Star.

vsr It is said that a volcano has actually appeared in Pendleton county, Virginia. The Cumberland Telegraph says: It is at a point on the Backbone Mountain directly between the heads of the dry fork of Cheat and the south branch of the Potomac rivers, at a place known by the name of the 'Siaks,' so called from the depressed condition of the mountain at that point. These 'Sinks' are funnel-shaped, and each one embraces as much as an acre of ground.— On the 1st of January the reports caused by the bursting forth of the subterranean fire were heard for a distance of twenty or thirty miles. Vast columns of flame and smoke issued from the orifices, and red-hot stones were thrown up in the air several hundred feet above the mouth of the crater. Our informant adds that the people in the vicinity are becoming alarmed at the pertinacity with which the flames are kept up, and the red-hot masses of rocks thrown out. A heavy, rumbling noise, like distant thunder, is continually reverberating thro' the deep caverns of the mountain, which at times seems to tremble from summit to base."

1flr Mock no man for his snub nose, for you never can tell what may turn up.

LATER FROM EUROPE—AHlu?AL O* THE STEAMSHIP ASIA. The Cunard steamship Asia/ from linrpool, with dates to the 11th inst., arrived this forenoon.

The latest advices from the cast states that the British troop? were advancing into the interior of Persia.

The Queen had delivered a speech, wherein she stated that negotiations were progressing with the United States and Honduras in reference to Central American aflairs, and hopes that the existing difficul' ties may be removed.

A reply to the Queen's speech was agreed to, and presented in tho usual form. The Asia brings nearly $400,000 in specie.

The Queen's speech on the occasion referred to negotiations with the United Stotcs and Honduras in relation to Central American aflairs, and expresses a hope that all difficulties will soon be settled.

The wars with Persia and China have both been discussed in Parliament, and information called for.

The Earl Grey called for a dispatch written by himself when in office, prohibiting the English local authorities at Canton from taking active measures without conferring with the Home Government, which dispatch he had written after conferring with the Duke of Wellington.

An interesting discussion also took place in relation to the Hudson Bay Company, on action to inquire into die state of the possessions of that Company, and the trade controlled by it. It was suggested by several speakers that the monopoly should be broken up, and the lands thrown open to emigration.

Mr. Laing alluded to the idea of emigration now going towards Minnesota, and said the only mode of avoiding a conflict between England and the United States, which might arise from Amgrican emigrants over-stepping the borders and squatting on English territory, would be the annexation of Hudson's Bay to Canada.

Mr. Dallas has given a banquet to Lord Napier, the new English Minister to the United States.-

A telegraphic''dispatch from Constantinople says that Russia demands the occupation ot the Persian province of Megannon.

The English have reconstructed forts at Bushire,,and, leaving it occupied by troops have marched upon Mohainorn, which"commands both the provinces of Lais and the road to Shiras. They are also about to occupy Mahomand and Bender Ali, two towns in the Persian Gulf.

Tho English and French troops have been ordered to evacuate Greece, their demands having been complied with.

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NEW ORLEANS, Monday, Feb. 2o.—The steamship Cahawba, from [lavnnn, with dates to the 20th, brings the remains of Dr. Kane. His body was escorted to the City Hall by the Continentals, where h* lies in state till to-morrow evening, when it will be escorted to the steamboat .1. Woodruff by the citizens, and various military companies and societies of tho city, en route for Louisville and Philadelphia. The highest honors were paid him by the highest officials of Cuba.

ritOiiJ IIANSAS.

ST. .Louts, Feb. 2F.—Tiic Jefferson City correspondence of the Pcmocrat learns from a passenger from Kansas to-night, that the difficulty between Geary and .Slierrod, growing out of the refusal of the former to appoint the latter sheriff as desired by the Legislature, has had a fatal termination. Shcrrod avowed his purpose of killing Geary. Meeting (he Governor on the street, lie spit in his facc. Geary did not resent, but his friends got up an indignation meeting, on Thursday, the 19th.— Sheriff Jones, Shcrrod and others attempted to interrupt the meeting, and in the affray Shcrrod shot Mr. Phippard, one of the friends of Geary, four times, and wounded two others. Mr. Jones, the Governor'* Secretary, shot Shcrrod through the head, killing him instantly. Great excitcmcnt prevailed at LecOmjiton, and a gonexiJ fight was anticipated, lhat night Geary's residence was guarded by fv troops.

GOUGII'N DESCRIPTION OF COM) WATER "SEC that glass of clear, cold water. It was brewed by Our Father for his children. In it there is no orphan's sigh. No widow's tear has ever dropped into that. There is not one drop of blood to stain its crystal clearness. In its dregs there is no delirium, disease, or death. No mortal dying, ever cursed that glass. Ah! give it to tho thirsty traveller, and he will return the goblet laden with gold. Ah! give it to the parched sufferer, and his blessing will bring joys from heaven to your soul for beneath its sparkling surface there lies concealed no fell destroyer to seize upou its fascinated victim. Oh, no! for it was not brewed amid the fetid air of distilleries and breweries, but it has been brewed in beautiful places, upon the mountain top and in the valley God brewed it for his children that they might drink of it freely as heaven has given the blessing. A never-failing source of pleasure, without one moment's pain. It was brewed down in yon mo sy dell, where the red deer lingers, a»*id the brook sings its wild lullaby or, away off upon the mountain top where the sun's bright beams hestud the air with dewy diamonds or, afar off upon the ocean where the storms and hurricanes are born. It glistens in the rainbow! It trickles down the mountain! It whispers in the silent snow flake! It murmurs in the running brook! It rattles in the hail-storm! It howls around the tempest! It roars amid the thander!^ It dashes through the forest! It danccs from the cataract! It foams at the fountain! Oh! take and drink of it! Drink freely, and dash to earth the accursed thing that man has made to take the place of clear, coUl water.

THE WASHINGTON UNION.—The N. Post has a Washington correspondent, who

says: The Union newspaper, which is designated as Mr. Buchanan's

official

organ, wm

undergo a complete change, u^dcr agement of John Appleton. of Maine. It will be published with new type, in quarto form, like the London

Times,

with a'Varie­

ty of departments, for the purpose of adding to its interest as a miscellaneous journal It is also intended to have a correspondent at every American legation, to insure valuable and correct information from abroad. For the foreign department a gentleman has been suggested of distinguished qualifications, but whose political affinities are not considered as in harmony with the incoming administration.