Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 9 May 1857 — Page 2

THiE ERVIEW

CBAWFORDBVIILE,

Saturday Morning, May 9, 1857.

RKTSTEN ANDURLIWET) EVERT"B ATURDAT MORNING BY CHARLES II. DOWE5.

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lSr*The Show is coining. Van Amburgh's celebrated Menagcrio and Circus will exhibit here on next Saturday. Being the first show of the season wc presume it will be crowded.

"IfirTkc corporation election on last 'Monday resulted in the triumph of the Union Ticket.

I®* Brown, Druggist, No. 3 Commercial Block, will put bis Soda Fount in operation next week. His is the only true »mineral water in the place, and is a delicious hcvornge in tho warm-weather coming.

ttdr We notice that N. W. Grimes has sjust received a fine stock of Spring and Summer Goods. Mr. G., is selling at very low rates, and from the superior^guality of his stock, wo take pleasure in calling the public to this establishment.

DR. PRATIIEIL.

This gentleman contiuucs to draw large crowds of purchasers to his establishment. The manner in which he is conducting bus iness makes his establishment one of the cheapest places in town. His goods arc *11 now, and of the best, quality, and are clusiveiy for cash or produce, and "ry Jowcst profits. If our friends make chcap purchases they must rathcr's, for he has the goods and 11 them at figures lower than over before offered in Crawfordsville.

SLEEP!

Sleop is one of the most beautiful things in the world, and Sancho Panza made worthy use of the old Castillian, when he invoked blessings on his head who invented it. Wc cannot wonder that they gave to Laudanum the name they did, and called it praiso to God, as they sowed anew with the (dumber bearing poppy the fields of the Levant

If sleep be death's brother, it is as gentle as a girl solemn indeed, but then not sad nor grim. The child, through whose downy slumber breaks the little smile, like -the small dawn of a star behind a breath of cloud tho birds that hide their heads beneath their wings, each OH his own pillow the flowers, those children of the rainbow, that wrap their mantles round them, and seek repose tho sen, that seems to ifitermit its murmur, and lie asleep along the summer shore embalmed in beauty are they all by sleep.

But when sleep comes to Age Age with (he pale lip and the tress of snow Age, pausing tremulously on the outer cape of Time, and listening for the muffled ore of the boat from over Jordan, how like death it seems, then.

And when it steals over the breast and brow of Fun, the lips apart as the breath of life oomes and goes over the threshold, the calm hands folded, and the sigh subsided, how like an angel is sleep, then.

And through its ivory gates come dreams faees we have seen for an instant, in the clefts of summer clouds, radient hands wc never more shall clasp words that made tho music of tho world snatches of no mortal song gleams of a double morning: doors ajar in Heaven.

Night is the death of day, the sleep of planet Earth how very near those bright •worlds do come through forest leaves we see the clingiug stars, as if Hesperian fruits were ripening Tenus at anchor, is just beyond our hail, and Mars makes signals from his decks of red.

It is a solemn thing to sleep, whether beneath the watching stars or at high noon. Whither shall wo pass, in that noiseless going, and when shall wc return? From world to world is but a breath of sleep they way: then give us pleasant dreams.

Strangest of all journeys is that "going deep The fitful pulse grows softer the forgets its cunning the daughters, of jsuuio are brought low "they that look of the windows are darkened," Care's ""ravoll'd sleep" is knitted up it is almost like a dying.

down- with dew whose slumber, deep as that which fell on Eden's Gardner, and whose dreams, as fair as Eve, that firstborn daughter of a mortal sleep.

Ah! that "how&wj shall wc sleep" has been the question on all times and tongues since the morning start were Singing. "If a man die, shall he lire again and once a year have the Daisies answered it, and "Spring's little infant" gives its fragrant testimony and every day, has the morning testified, and yet the world is murmuring still, "if a man die, shall he live again?" "How long shall w« sleep?" asks he who has cradled a living thought upon his breast, the child of his brain and his heart, as he sends it forth orphaned into the halls of Time, turns his face to the wall and die3.r "IIow long shall we sleep?" sighs the poet, as he lays down the harp of life, "feels the Daisies growing over him," and goes away whore th^y sing the "new song" forever.

Not long, true Thinker not long sweet Singer for the thought shall rise like a giant and break the bands of sleep, and thou in it for the song shall fly like a bird, from spring to spring again, and the music and the welcome shall be thine

And when life's rain is over and gone, and the brow of cloud is bound with a ribbon that Hope did weave in the loom of God, and the tears on the world are turned to pearls in the sunset, what words more beautiful than these can we write upon the new grave, Beautiful Sleep.

THE BLACK REPUBLICAN AND AFRICAN. For some time past it has been evident that Black Republicanism was upon its last legs. The signal rebuke administered to its treasonable assumptions and arrogant pretensions by the honest masses of our country in the late Presidential campaign, has not only destroyed what little prestige it might have possessed, but stripped the mask from its wolfish visage, exposing in all its naked deformity a wretched cabal of abominations, whose corruptions are without parallel in the history of human depravity and to-day none but the base in heart are so poor to do it reverence. irtuc scorns it with the blush of shame—honesty shuns it as a highwayman—dignity despises it for its rottenness and self-abase-ment—and stern justice holds it like an abject criminal at the bar of public opinion, whose verdict of guilty with Jio reprieve condemns it to infamy and di3graeo.— What few of its deluded'followers still remain are those whom civilization could well afford to spar e. They arc to our country what tha Lazaroni is to Italy the Leper to Egypt the Greaser to Mexico pests upon humanity, inore intolerable, annoying and offensive than the vagrant Ethiopian at the north. Could any possible schcme be devised whereby they might be colonized to Liberia alongside with the African, it would unquestionably be an amelioration of their political condition and future prospects of power, for in that tropical clime they could live in a paradise of niggerdom undisturbed by fugitive slave laws, Dred Scott decisions and Democratic rule. In view of such a delightful state of things, for them as well as ourselves, we feel impressed to urge this matter upon the public mind. Here in our country are something over three millions of blacks, and about one million of sore-headed, crazy and deluded fanatics, yclept Black Republicans. Both are discontented, both find fault with the decrees of the Almighty, and both hate the Union. Let the exodus commence.— Let the black man and his brother Black Republican flee a country where there is no earthly chancc or .prospect of their advancement for the former can never hope to be placed on an equality with the white man or the latter to obtain the governing power of the federal government. As long as reason holds its sway in the minds of men—as long as virtue and lofty patriotism arc the guiding stars of our people, will Democracy hold the reins of government in this beautiful and magnificent empire of freedom—the home and the asylum of the oppressed whites of all uations.

DINKELSPIEL & WILE.—These gentlemen have decidedly one of the finest stocks of goods in town, and what is more, are selling them at astouishingly low figures.— Give them a call.

9&~J. W. O'BRIEN & Co., have opened a splendid daguerrean gallery in the west end of Empire Block. It is the very place to get a good picture.

#®"Tho total number of suicides in Philadelphia for the last two years, is nine-tv-fivc—sixty-nine men and twenty-six

i©" That old veteran fishermanand skilful angler, Major Elston, will accept our thanks for the fine Pike he presented us a few days since. The Major intends startfor the Kankakee again in a few days.—

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Happy is he for whom no "Glamia hath murdered sleep whose eyelids noiseless o!o??. i* the droop of leaflets laden May.

COMETS.—Lieut. Maury informs the National Intelligencer that another telescopic comet, discovered by Dr. Bruhns at Berlin, March 18th, is now visible in the northwestern part of the heavens. It is supposed to be identical with the third comet 1846, discovered, by Brorson—an elliptic orbit for which has been computed by Dr. Von Galen, by which it returns to its perihelian June 25th of the present year.— The first comet is increasing its distance from the earth the second is approaching, and will be visible during the whole of

GLORIOUS INTELLIGENCE!

loica Redeemed!—Triumph qf the Democracy of the North- West!—The whale Democratic State Ticket and a Majority of the Judiciary Elected!

After waiting a month, the news from the Iowa State election has come. The whole Democratic State ticket is elected, and a majority of the Judges:

S? IOWA STATE ELECTION.

Editors Times:—The entire Democratic ticket is elected by about twenty-five hundred majority. We have also elected a large majority of the District Judges.

You can put Iowa down good for the Democratic nominee for President in '60. Douglas can carry this State by five thousand majority, if he should be the nominee for Pi'esident.

Grimes and bis friends have started for Salt Biver, insteadjof the Missouri river— where, in all probability, they will find some of the "former citizens of Iowa," who will nood their friendly protection.

The result of this election will do for the first after the Dred Scott case and you may rest assured that the people of Iowa will sustain the Supreme Court and the Constitution.

I am, very respectfully,

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Your obedient servant, JAMES D. EADS.•••?.

Arrival of the Steamer Africa.

NEW YORK, May 1.

The steamer Africa has arrived off Sandy Hook from Liverpool. Liverpool, April 18.—The sales of Cotton for the week have been 42,000 bales, including 2,000 to speculators and 4,500 to exporters. The stock in port was 360,000 bales, including 40,300 of American. The quotations arc upland fair 7£, upland middling 7 9-16.

Flonr quiet, with but little speculative inquiry. Western 27a28s, Southern 28s 6d to 29s, Ohio 29a30s. Wheat active at an advance of 3d sales of white at 9s 6d, red 7s 6d a 8s 6d. Corn quite active.

The market is generally unchanged. Rosin steady at 4s 9d a 5s for common. Turpentine dull at 40s.

London Market.—Sugar closed buoyant and firm.

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Rice dull. Money market active and slightly more stringent. Consols 93. Very little doing in American stocks.

Liverpool Saturday afternoon, April 18.—Tho Cotton market closed steady with sales of 6,000 bales.^

Breadstuffs firm."" Wheat active and firm. Flour steady. Corn closed with an advancing tendency, prices being Is a Is 6d better mixed corn 30s 6d a 33s. Prices steady.

Lard quiet at G8s a 70s. Tobacco steady, Kentucky leaf 7s 6d alls.

Bacon firm at an advance of 6d, principallv in the finer qualities. Pork quiet at UUs'lid a 98s shoulders 42 a 4-ls.

The steaiiiC.r Arago's news reached Liverpool on Saturday, the day of saii ."5* It has been resolved to double tho capital of the bank of France.

Queen Victoria has given.birthMo another daughter. 'i ,,

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Politics are quiet. It is reported that the Emperor'Napoleon is going to Algiers. There axjfe continued rumors of French conspiracies.

The French Republicans propose run ning General Cavignac and others for the Legislature.

It is also rumOred that the four powers arc wearied with the trifling on the Neufchatcl question, and are about imposing terms on Prussia and Switzerland.

France and ^ngland intends mediating in the Spanish and Mexican quarrel. Prussia meditates between the Western Powers.

Naples and Sardinia propose resuming negotiation with Rome. Wirtcmburg has signed a concordat with Rome.

The demands of Turkey on Persia for the restitution of some territory has been referred to France and England

The Persian treaty has not been conclu dcd. The- Spanish ambassador at Paris had an interview with Count Walewski and Lord Cowley on Mexican affairs. In the event of the failure of pacific negotiations the Spanish government will address a note to these powers setting forth their moderation, and declaring in the event of hostilities that the cabinet of Madrid is, not responsible for the consequences.

Trieste, April 16.—The Carcassians attacked the Russians in the last days of March, and repulsed strong columns which had penetrated into the mountains of Tuab. The Russians lost 700 men and the Carcassians 400.

Mahemct Bey is giving the Circassians military organizations. The tribes of Daghertan have captured Saliah and massacred the garrison, which, with the neighboring villages, surrendered.

PARIS, April 16.

The co-operation of the French Government in further operations in China will be of the heartiest kind.

The Catholic Churchy for the protection of its numerous missionaries, has made urgent representations to the Emperor to induce him to take an active part in the war.

It is said that Lord Elgin will demand of the Pekin Cabinet the renewal of former treaties with the following applications of one of their provisions as regards commerce. The number of ports open to Europeans is to be nine instead of five, and diplomatic missions are to be established at Pekin on the same footing as those of Russia as regards offencc and defence.

The English government demands the right of establishing military posts wherever they have consuls, and that vessels of war may enter any port whatever.

good luck .,,cd Hs oxpedi. Jfckj-E May. The conservative papers of Lombardy assert that at the suggestion of the Emperor of Russia (semi-official), a French envoy has been dispatched to Naples with a proposition which may be accepted by all parties.

Letters of the 9th have been received from Naples. The most interesting intelligence they contain is the spirit of disgust and discontent that is spreading among the Neapolitan troops, and that they are ripening into a state which may be precursory of some important movements.

There have been some disturbances at Bologna and Viterbo, in the Roman State?,

the pretext being on account of the payment of taxes, but they were put down, and energetic measures were taken.to prevent a recurrence of them

A private letter from Turin, dated the 4th, states that the departure of the Austrian Minister and'the rupture of diplomatic relations with Vienna, produced but slight sensation in the former city.

The Sardinian Government will remain firm, though quiet and moderate, unless •wantonly prevented.

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IOWA CITT, IOWA. April 25th, 1857."

Portugal is sending all expedition against Macae. Austria is negotiating a treaty with Persia, similar to that of the United States.

The correspondent of the London Times says that Marshal Tenano had an interview yesterday with Count Walowski on the subject of the quarrel between Mexico and Spain. Walowski is extremely anxious that the unfortunate affair should be amicably arranged, and is leaving nothing undone for that purpose.

The English ambassador is also lending his co-operation, and both governments will leave nothing undone towards a pacific gplution of these differences, which would be attended with

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tions. A great d«5al depends upon the instructions which he has received. LATEST.—Despatches from Madrid corroborate the news respecting the moderate views of the Spanish government and their anxiety to settle the affair, if it can be settled without dishonor.

According to St. Petersburg letter, the administration of Poland is likely to be entirely separated from Russia. It is also stated that directly after the marriage, the Grand Duke Michael will be appointed stadtholder of the Kingdom of Poland.

The French Republicans have determined to ascertain their strength at the approaching elections, by putting up M. M. Carnot, Cavagnac, &c., as candidates for the Legislative chamber.

MUSIC!

Thank God for a soul which can drink in its harmonies. The pulse leaps wildly to the stirring numbers, which, like the foot falls of armed men, awaken the fiery impulses of the slumbering heart. Or its low wail is answered by sobs, and the eloquence of its plaintive sadness, with tears.

The bugle and the drumbeat stir the blood like red lightning in the veins.

If

there is any influence which would make the timid heart like iron, and drive it madly to battle, it is that of martial music.— Often in childhood have we watohed the columns of soldiery, and found a tear upon the cheek at the emotion stirred by the tossing plume, the flaunting banners, and the drumbeat pulsing regularly through the whole mass like one common footfall upon the beaten sward, sending the thoughts surging through the soul. And yet, alas! that music should be made the mighty stimulus which drives host against host in the battle.shock.

Wc once stood by the side of a friend in the great procession which followed one hundred thousand petitions up to the State Capitol at Albany, demanding the Maine Law. As the dense mass of people, like a

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monster moved by one heart, wound

through ^.,1C city and lapped around the very Capitol itse^i emotions swelled to the1 throat. The music r\f the bands rose and fell on the wind,Vand the gT°und seemed to shake under th'e tread of the p^ople^ "Glory!" ejaculallcd a

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us, "I could march'to the Mississippi to that music, and back again without eating or sleeping." He was not the only one who was that hour chafing under the wild ccstacy of music.

A few moments since, a shadow—one of those which will drift without warning into every sky—lay gloomily upon our heart.— But it vanished as quickly as it came! A friend touches the guitar, and the first waves of a touching melody, filled world and heart with sunshine. The chafing spirit is soothed and lulled, and the gentleness of childhood steals in where the unworn will was sullenly fretting in the worn frame. The soul rises on the tide of a new emotion like a freed bird, and the melodies there garnered, gush up and chime out. with the airs of the shell. A summer sky is now above

TALKING of chimes. How much of holy music there is in the chiming of church bells! Tremulous with silvery sweetness, they rise and fall upon the still Sabbath air, stealing along until, like the faint sounds of a waterfall, they drop down into the heart where it is ever moist with tears.

Napoleon wept as he listened to the chiming of the distant cathcdral bells of Bruges. There were places in his heart which had not been burned over by the meteor blaze of ambition. The echoes of chimes heard in childhood were stirred by the distant peal, and for the moment, he forgot his dream of glory and gazed tearfully back. —Cayuga Chief

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL.—Dr. William Fields, of Wilmington, Del., has publicly stated that forty-five out of fifty cases of scarlet fever and small pox can be cured with yeast. His dose for an adult is a tablespoonful three times a day, diluted and sweetened. In scarlatina, he gargles the throat with yeast and in small pox follows a milk diet throughout the disease.

Mr. Max Langenschwarz, of New York, says, "if a patient swallows, at 7 o'clock, a spoonful of Iodine water, and then takes ten minutes after one spoonful of good coffee, he will at half past seven have no more iodine force in his system than he has whalebone force in his hairs."

It is with peculiar pleasure that wc again call attention to "The Medical World, a journal of universal medical sciencc," published in Boston by Damrell & Moore and George Colridgc, and conducted by Dr. J.

Smith, the editor of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. The editor, though educated to have entire confidence in the old system of medicine," bolieves also in the virtue of progress, and therefore opens his pages "to medical writers of every denomination throughout the United States."

Dr. Bigelow of Boston recently performed the operation of tracheotomy upon a child in that city, and removed from the passage a smooth pebble "about the size of a large hazel nut." The lad has recovered. "Madame," said a doctor one day to the mother of a sweet, healthy .babe, "the ladies have deputed me to enquire what you do to have such a happy, uniformly good child." The mother mused for a moment over the strangeness of the question, and then replied, simply and beautifully: "Why, God has given me a healthy child, and I let it alone?'

!0rThc weather on last Thursdty was delightful.

[Translated from the Montreal Psys. A MAN COURTING HIS OWN WIFE. Ten years ago M. V. married in Montreal. He was one of the principal merchants of the city hut by a reverse of fortune he was compelled to suspend payment soon after his marriage. He loved his wife to distraction to use a common phrase, and the idea of his involving her in his disasters greatly afflicted him. After a thousand internal conflicts, M. V. resolyed to leave our city without saying anything about it. He wished his departure, or, rather, his disapperance, to remain a mystery. But he had a purpose. "I will go," he resolved, "to Australia, and there mend my fortunes, or die without giving any account of myself."

This resolution taken, our tradesman embarked clandestinely, and eight days after his flight he was not thought of. Madame V. wept, we are fain to suppose more than this, we will believe she shed torrents of tears, sought him upon rivers, and in woods, lakes and caverns, but in vain.— M. V. had left to his beautiful but weeping and forlorn wife an incomc of a hundred louis, and sailed for Australia. What befel him upon those favored shores we do not well know, but little by little he amassed wealth.

At Montreal they supposed him dead. His wife wept bitterly and she saw, undoubtedly, that'sorrow jaundiced her complexion and dimmed her eyes thefore she ceased all sweetly, her role of Niobe. Our Penelope could smile like a young widow of eighteen the art of needlework is too perfect now arc not men entangled with it? She was faithful to her wandering husband eighteen long months but she then did what others might have done in her place. Thinking herself young, she lent her ear to tender proposals she reviewed her geography of love confessed to never having studied the map of the tender country and one fine morning contracted a new marriage. But the first husband He? ah, he was dead. What liv ing husband would stay eighteen long months without writing? If he was not dead he ought to be (feminine logic.) She married. Was she happy, was she not? (Shakespearean question.)

Meantime, the first husband labored in the mines. He acquired, acquired—always acquired. Falling upon an auriferous vein he suddenly obtained a largo sum, and had his only motive been the love of gain, would have immediately returned to Motreal. But his dear Louisa must eat only from silver and drink only from gold.

The unfaithful Louisa, as we have already said, was again married. Faith does not save us M. V. always labored, but an cpidcmic prevailed our hero caught the small-pox and was completely disfigured. Disgusted with Australia he sold his property and embarked on an American ship.

During this voyage the second husband of his wife died with the consumption. M. V. landed at Portland, flew to' Montreal, went to the Montreal House, without arousing any suspision as to who he was. There arc"people" who alwiays love to create suprise, and he was one of them, lie inquired for Madame Y., no one knew such a person but M. V., insisted. Finally he was told by some one that she was now the widow S. M. V. scrachcd his head.— They pointed out to him Madame widow V., afterwards Madame widow, S., and he recognized his wife"," charming" S3" "when he left. M. V. immediately fell into a brown s*dy. Ilis countenance was grave, sad, very sai?, very gloomy and thus he turned away. M- raore spirit than money and lie found itvei strange to pay his addresses to his owa wife. But he did it he courted his own wife tof three months.— He recognized her did she recognize .,un• It is more than wo know we leave the dames who read this to solve the problem. He was introduced with all his pounds, shillings and pence. People will admire pounds, shillings and dollars federal, and woman above all. Though scarred and pitted from head to foot with the small-pox M. V.won the heart of his wife. They were to exchange the second marriage rings, when M. V. presented to her the same one lie had given her at their first espousal. The woman, they say, fainted.

WHAT SORT OF PEOPLE GO TO UTAH. The Boston Courier of Monday contains some interesting facts touching the heavy cargo of Mormons that recently arrived at that port in a Liverpool packet: "There were on board 803 passengers, divided in nationality as follows: English, 720 Scotch, 43 Welch, 22 German, 13 Irish, 6 French, 4. The English were from all parts of England, more, however, coming from Nottinghamshire than from any other part. Among the passengers were 40 elders, who had been preaching the doctrines of the sect throughout the old world. One of these ciders, named Mercer, of Philadelphia, was on his return from a mission to the East Indies. The rest of the passengers were collected by the elder's representations of duty and the promised land of Utah, and were of all ages and both sexes. Four of the women were over 70 years of age, and there were twentyfour infants under one year old. "The proportion of married men and women and families was somewhat larger than is usual among emigrants. The married men had only one wife each. "Many of the families were possessed of considerable property. The captain estimated the amount of British gold upon the passengers at J£20,000, and said that he knew of more than one person who had .£1000 for his own use and that of his family."

RED COTS VS. RED SHIRTS.—At a convivial party at which Mr. "NY ebster and several distinguished lawyers were present the conversation happening to turn on the legal profession, Mr YY'ebster related the following story.

When I was a young practitioner, said Mr. Webster, thore was but oneman at the New Hampshire bar of whom I was afraid, and that was old Barnaby. There were few men who dared enter the lists with him. On one occasion Barnaby was employed to defend a suit for a piece of land brought by a little crabbed, cunning lawyer named Bruce. Bruce's case was looked upon as good as lost, when it was ascertained that Barnaby was retained against him. The suit came on for trial, and Barnaby found that Bruce had worked hard and left no stone unturned to gain the victory. The testimony for the plaintiff was very strong, and unless it could be impeached the case of the -defendant w*a lost.

The prineipal witness introduced by the plaintiff wore a red coat. In summing up

the eyidenee, old Barnaby commenced a furious attack upon his witness, pulling his testimony all to pieces, and appealing to the jury if a man who wore a reo coat was under any circittastanees, to be believed. "And who is this red-coated witness," exclaimed Barnaby, "but a deseendent of our common enemy, who ha* striven to tale from us oar liberty, and would not hesitate now to deprive my poor clinet of his iaftd, by making any sort of red coat statement?"

During this speech Bruce was walking up and down the bar, greatly excited, ana half convinced his case was gone, knowing as he did, tire prejudice of the grand jury against anything British. While, however Barnaby was gesticulating, and leaning forward to the jury in his eloquent appeal his shirt bosom slightly opened, and Bruce accidentally discovered that Barnaby wore a red under-shirt.

Bruce's countenance brightened up.— Putting both hands in his coat pockets, he walked the bar with great confidence to the astonishment of his client and lookerson. Just -as Barnaby concluded, Bruce whispered to his client's ear, "I've got him —your case is safe and approaching the jury he commmenced his reply to the slaughtering argument of his adversary.—

Bruce gave a regular history of the ancestry of his red coated witness, proving his patriotism and devotion to his country and his character for truth and veracity.— "But what, gentlemen of the jury," broke fourth Bruce in a loud strain of eloquence, while his eyes flashed fire, "what are to you expect of a man who stands here to defend a cause based on no foundation of right or justice whatever, of the man undertkes to destroy our tcstimoney on the ground that my witness wears a red coat, when gentlemen of the jury—when gentlemen of the jury!"—here Bruce made a spring, and catching Barnaby by the bosom of the shirt, tore it open, displaying his red flannel—"when Mr. Barnaby himself wears a red coat concealed under a blue one!"— The effect was electrical Barnaby was was beat at his own game, and Brucc gained the cause.—2V. 1*. Picayune.

AN AFFECTING SCENE.

During his remarks at a meeting recently held in Autagua county, Ala., in honor of the late S. W. Harris, Hon. Win. L. Yancey, as reported by the Prattsville Statesman, described with much feeling, an interesting and affecting scene which occurred in the sick chamber of the lamented deceased a feiy days before he breathed his last. It will be remembered that Mr. Harris died in Washingtan. lie was fully sensible of his situation at the time referred to, and his bedside was surrounded by his wife and family, when we are told—

Mr. Harris observed upon a (able near him air accordcon, which lie requested should be given ,'him. He reached forth his scrafcny jiands, and felt for the keys of the instrument, and lifting his eyes to heaven, his fornf emancipated and his countcnance^pale, began to play that solemn and eloqubnt hyiun, "Old Hundred." Having finisHed, his countenance having grown radiant as he proceeded, with a smile upon his face and with a look of love, he gently, yet confidently exclaimed, "Ah! it will not b~Tmany days ere I shall sing that song in heaven."

Thus it is, says the Statesman, the dying testimouy of another great man .is added to strengthen our faith in the efficacy of the Christian Religion.

THE AURORA BOREAI.IS IN SWEDEN.— Ji'vard Taylor's last published letter is from To»'.iea, the head of the Bothinian gulf on the 1st of Jail. The magnificent Aurora Borcalif, BO superbly conspicuous in an Arctic clime, it thus graphically painted: "It was dark when WO readied Ersnas, whence we had twelve miles to Old Luleaa with tired horses, heavy roads aiyl a lazJ driver. I lay dowu again, dozed as ii\?nali and tried to forget n.y torments So pass-

ed three hours the night had lung se in

with a clear sky, 1j dg. below zero, and a:

YVe lay silent, with upturned faces, watching this woundcrful spectacle. Suddently, the scattered lights ran together, as by common impulse, joined their ends, twisted them through each other, and fell in a broad luminous curtain straight downward through the air, until its fringed hem swung apparently but a few yards over our heads. This phenomenon was so unexpected and startling, that for a moment I thought our faces would be touched by the skirts of the glorious auroral drapery. It did not follow the sphrcic curve of .the firmanent, but hung plump from the zenith, falling, apparently, million of leagues through the air, its folds gathered together among the stars and its embroidery of flame sweeping the earth and shedding a pale, unearthly radiance over the wastes of snow. A moment afterward it was again drawn up, waived its flambeaux and shot its lances hither and thither, and retreating as before. Anything so strange, so capricious, so wonderful, so gloriously beautiful, I scarcely hope to ees again."

10-A young lady in Brooklyn, N. Y., has recently had her leg amputated midway between the hip and knee in consequence of a wound caused by a broken hoop. The hoop was made of steel, and in some unaccountable manner a broken point penetrated to the bone The wound becoming in* flamed, amputation was thus made nseessa-

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"SPIRITUAL" STATISTICS or BOSTON AND Y^ICINITY.—It is calculated that there arc 25,000 believers in spiritual manifestations in this city alone. About ton thousand are "professors," who publicly avow their faith. They have two places of meeting, which arc open every Sunday—at Chapman Hall and the Mclodcon. Chapman Hall is generally filled there tho question is discussed by both parties tho Mclodeon averages audiences of from 400 to 12,00. Trance speakers usully occupy all the time there. Discussion however, is invited, but is seldom indulged in. Tho Spiritualists support two weekly papers.— The New England Spiritualist has stood its ground for five or six years, and iB exclusively devoted to the new belief—chiefly to its philosopical and more abtruse deelopements. It is edited by Messrs. Newton & Munroe, and circulates about 3600 copies. The Banner of Light, published by Luther Colby & Co., has reached its third number. It is more popular in tone and character than its rival, and is exclusively a "Spiritual" paper. It aspires to be a family journal as well as an oragan of the sect. It devotes two pages to personal "communications from departed spirits," of which wc gave a specimen— "from Bill Poole"—a few days ago. Thcj support a church in Chelsea, of which Rev. Mr. Goddanl is pastor. They have als« uci-asiuuul svroico in Cainhrutgttport and: Chelsea. Their literature has as good sale as any other theological works have—• the number of volumes and the number of believers, of course, considered. Of Mediums for speaking, rapping, playing, healing, painting and preaching, there is no end, nor the beginning of the end, so far aa we can Bee.—Boston

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THE NIAGARA.—The trial trip of the new steam frigate Niagara was a complete success. She made a speed of eleven knots an hour against four mile breeze, and' with a favorable wind is expected to accomplish seventeen. After landing thoguests who witnessed the trial, she boro away on her voyage to London.

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upward, and saw a narrow belt or scarf of silver fire stretching directly across the zenith, with its loosefrayed ends slowly swaying to and fro down the slopes of the sky. Presently it began to waver, bouding back and forth, sometimes slowly, sometimes with a quick, springing motion, as if testing its elasticity. Now it took the shape of a bow, now undulating into Hogarth's lino of beauty, brightning and fading in its sinuous motion, and finally formed a shepherd's crook, the end of which suddenly began to seperate and fall off, as as if driven by a strong wind, until the whole belt shot away in long, drifting lines of fiery snow. It then gathered again into a dozen dancing fragments, which alternately advanced and retreated, shot hither and thither, against and across cach other, blazed out in yellow and rosy gleams or paled again, playing a thousand fantastic pranks, as if guided by some wild whim.

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A TREMENDOUS BI.AST OF POWDER IN THE nOI.TON MOUNTAINS. [From the Hartford Ccmrant ol the 13th jnkt.]

Yestarday afternoon Messrs. Fitch Cook, & Co. let off the heaviest blast at Qnariyvillo that ever was let off on the Bolton Mountains. In this case 1,500 pounds of powder were let off. The nias3 of rock upheaved was 25 feet in depth, and 25 feet by 50 feet long. At least 3,000 tons of rock was removed. 1,000 tons being thrown from 15 to 100 rods distant. One solid mass of rock, weighing at least 1& tons, was thrown a distance of 30 rods fences in the vicinity wero completely destroyed, and tho tops of trees taken off as cloan as if dono with an axe. The tops of apple trees in an orchard near by were taken complotly off, presenting a desolate appearance. Tho public road which runs at the foot of the hill was completely filled many of tho larger rooks requiring to be blasted before they could bo removed.— One mass which lay in tho road, after being divded into four parts, could with dificulty be removed by a six ox team.

It generally requires in opening a new quarry, an outlay of some $4,000 to remove the waste rock which lies over and above the paviug stones.

fl6F"The Louisville Journal describes rara avis in the shape of a bird of the pelican species that was recently killed near that city, on the Ohio river: "It is snowy

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white, measures over 11 feet from tip to tip of the wings, and about 8 feet from the tip of the beak to the tip of the tail. Upon the beak there is a singular exereBenee suggestive of an iceberg. It is evidently a stray visitor from the Arctic regions. Its presence in this region is supposed to nave 3ome mysterious connection with the long* protracted cold weather."

J0*Says a writer in the Medioal Wvld, ia treating of the eyes: "8oaro«W way practice has a more deleterious elm moo the eyes, than reading in the cars, wnen riding in them. The jar of the vehicle by the whetls. the noise of thetnoring my bine. xnor* especially, the sudden transitions of lfrht and darkness seriously effect fti organs of vision."