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CRAWFOBDSVIILE,

Saturday Morning, Jane 6,1857.

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We are gratified to learn that Jos.

WRIGHT

has been appointed Minister

to Berlin. We regard this as one of the very best of appointments, and one which Mr. Wright is eminently deserving of.

POTATOES.—Isaac

Ilolton House, presented us a few days nince with a choice lot of cigars. Bob. has just laid in a new stock and those who wish a choice Havana or Regalia should give him a call.*

THE WHEAT CROP.—The

heavy wheat crop in Montgomery county rras never better than at present. There is certainly a good time coming.

IOr We like to award praise to those whose industry and energy have built up for them a lucrative and prosperous business and we writing tliie we are lorcibly reminded of the comfort we arc now enjoying compared with our situation a few weeks ago, when the humbug patent roof, with which our office was covered, let in upon us the floods every time the windows of the Ifcavcn's were open. Now we have a substantial tin roof to protect us and can bid defiance to the tempest. We recommend every one who wish their dwellings properly roofed, to engage the services of CHILION JOHNSON, who is prepared at all times to cxccutc any orders he may rcccive. ^Ilis establishment is No. 5, Commercial

Bow. He can do it and do it well.

FATAL CAUSALITY.—On

'Messrs.

last Wednes

day, Mr. James Wood, of this place, was 'accidentally shot by a revolver in the hands

Tof

Thomas Bastable. Mr. Wood died at 3 o'clock the nest morning. We understand •that he exhoncratod Mr. Bastable from all blauie.

THE CRAWFORDSVILLE CIGAR STORE.—

This establishment has been removed to the stand formerly occupied by I. Marks, on Main street. Mr. Nolte will please accept our thanks for a presentation of a fine ^lot of cigars. He has the best cigars in .town.

CHKISTMAN

BLAIR, BROWN

GREGG

will

accept our thanks for the presentation of a box of anti-corrosive amalgam pens. They 'arc superior to cither the gold or steel pens,-each one being as durable as eight "steel ones. Wc rccommcnd everyone to try them.

Co.—Those gentlemen

saw now purchasing wool, for which they are paying the highest priccs.

JtSTThere is a curious factsaid to exista few miles south of Grecncastle, in Putnam county, where there is a family of six, all having the same birthday. The father and mother arc each thirty-five years old,

eight, and five years old. Their birthdays eoiue on the 17th of May.

AGUICULTL'RAL MEETING. .Notice is hereby given that a ^otin^

ral Society" will be held at the House, on Saturday. June.,20th., at 1£ ^o'clock, A.

The busi d¥®C8fbxeJbe Society will be

?tlie

adoption of ^"List of Premiums," |w^ich will be laid before the Society, by ^%^rudntial Committee," and also to .bke steps towards repairing the .Ground, &c., &c.

A fail Attendance-of the members is urgently requested. By order of the President,

F. M.

HEATOV,

Sec'y.

SPABKLIKG SODA.—.'faddy

Brown has

-got his Soda Fountain in full blast. For. a delightful beverage .Teddy's soda is hard a

KLtcTfon mm WAIHIIIOTOR. WinmeTM, Jnne 1—10 p. There was serious disturbances at seyeral of the voting places to-day.

The Mayor obtained from the President an order to call out two companies of marines, having stated to him upon representation of creditable citizens, that a band of lawless persons, most of them non-residents, had attacked one of the polls at which the annual election was in progress, and dispersed the commissioners of election, and threatened further violence upon any attempt to carry on the election. [Here the line gave out between Philadelphia and Washington.]

It is said that intense excitement exists. Troops from Fort McHenry have been called out.

LATER.

11 P. M.—The Mayor directed the marines to the northern libities, whither the rioters had conveyed a swivel. He demanded them to disperse, informing them that the troops were there solely to preserve peace. This order was tauntingly disregarded, when the swivel was wrested from its possessors and one marine was shot.

The most fearful alarm prevailed, frequent shots being fired by the rioters, The marines returned the fire. It was discovered that five or six persons were killed and twice as many wounded. The larger portion of them innocent so far as ascertained by verbal accounts. The particulars are extremely contradictory. The city is thrown into a fever of excitement and the occurrenccs everywhere discussed. The marines are still in reserve at the City Hall.

LATER FROM KANSAS.

ST. LOUIS,

Marks informs us that

be has planted one hundred^bushels of potatoes, front which he cxpccts a yield of one thousand bushels.

PLACE FOR BARGAINS.—Dr

Prather's

establishment is unquestionably the place for bargains. lie has one of the finest Btocks of goods in town, and sells at the ^lowest figures.

FINE PRESENT.—Bob.

Holton, of the

June 1.—Kansas letters to

the Republican say that the Convention at Lccompton, on the 25th nit., resulted in the nomination of Calhoun Jones and Boiling, to represent Douglas county in the Constitutional Convention.

Resolutions prepared by Coi. Brewerton, and presented by a Southern pro-slavery man, taking strong Democratic grounds, were adopted. Gov. Walker, Senator Wilson. Robinson, and others, spoke at Lawrence on Tuesday.

Walker's remarks were applauded. He reached Lccompton on Wednesday, and read his inaugural, which reviews the actions of the Free State men, declares that the territorial laws will be enforced, and the position to be taken will be maintained by the whole force of the government.— The Governor pledges to use every endeavor to have the Constitution submitted to the people for ratification.

LECOMPTON, K. T.,

prospect of a

May

IWr. CAIWUI

28.—Governor

Walker arrived here yesterday was received very quietly, and read his Inaugural. It is a lengthy document. It declares that the territorial laws shall be enforced. It criticises the action of the Free State men, and declares that the action already taken shall be maintained by the whole force of the government. Governor Walker passsd through Lawrence on his way here and assured the people there that everything would be fair at the Nominating Convention held here for the election of candidates for a delegation to the Constitutional Convention and a Surveyor General,

Junes,

of the Union, and a

man named Boiling,, alleged pro-slavery, were nominated.

WASHINGTON II EMS.

WASIIINGTON, Junc 1.—The Government has received no official account of the Ohio fugitive slave case. The Secretary of the Interior has replied to the telegraphic dispatch from the U. S. Marshal, as follows: "Consult the District Attorney. Exccute the law. The President cxpccts you to do your duty, and he will do his."

Major McCullough, who is now here, has acain been tendered the Governship of Utah.

There is considerable fighting here today at the polls. The executive authorities, by request of the Mayor, have ordered out the marines to preserve order throughout the city and prevent improper interference with the voters at the polls. There is much excitement.

The Court Martial convened in Texas, has found Major Giles Porter, commander of Fort Brown, guilty of conduct to the prejudice of military discipline by drunkenness, and sentenced him to a dismissal from the service but taking into consideration his infirmity of old age and forty years honorable service, the President has, upon recommendation of the Court, mitigated his sentence to a suspension of one year from his rank and pay.

SUICIDE OF A CLERGYMAN IN A CANADIAN PRISON. A clergyman of twenty-seven years standing, named McClatchy, was arrested and imprisoned at London, C. W., a short time since, on a charge of forgery. The London Free Press of Tuesday, announces his suicide

On the 12th inst., he was lodged in the jail of this city, and placed among the other prisoners. It soon became evident to them, and to Mr. Park, the jailor, that the mind of the unhappy gentleman was wandering. He frequently stated that "Prince Albert would soon be there to let him but," and that "the.Prince had written him a letter about

arvrj afrain.

he "waa*t?corge, Priaeg.oiT^^K^' &c.— Thesejpxidetft lndicatioflS^j^in^anity induced th&jmjhorilies to a ccll by himself He Wasjherc frot!^jj^l4th to the 19th inst., N^jid during tMs^pcriod

.... ^ho-'somcF aberration oiiutellect wasobservthe children, respectively, fourteen, eleven, "r,.

able. He ate" his meals with apparent relish and though bitterly complaining of his incarceration, he did not indicate by his manner in any way that he contemplated self-de^^ction. On the evening of the

Wth,

'of the "Montgomery County Agricultu- for the nighTat^about 7 o'clock and beCoitffc lyecn 6 an eras discovered

left the unfortunate an

the following morning, he iging by his ncck from

the window of the cell. It ap

pears that the deceased went very deliberately to work to accomplish his purpose.— A pocket handkerchief was tied around the bar of the window,'in the form of a ring, and tosthis suspended himself with an0tM1^MHercheif. To hare strangled him4~cftfthe deceased must have jumped from the table, as from the short distance from the bars to the floor of the cell, but 5J feet, sufficient fall could not have been obtained to produce strangulation.

J&"Tbo Iron Horse now pursues his his. way without stop or important deviation from a direct line from Bangorr Maine, to JeffersonCity.Miasouri, distance a little .over seventeen kindred miles half as far as to London, in three d&vp!"

FU6ITITE SLAV* CASE. There has been jgrcat excitement daring the last two days, in Green county, in this State, in consequence of the arrest of four individuals charged with aiding a slave to escape. On Tuesday, United States Deputy Marshal Churchill, accompanied by eleven assistants, left this city for Mechanicsburg, Champaign county, Ohio, eleven miles from Urbana, having" with him a warrant issued by Commissioner Newhail, for the arrest of. Charles and Edward Taylor, brothers, Russell Hyde, and Hiram Guttridge, who, ssys the warrant, did, about the 21st day of August, 1856, harbor and conceal one Add White, a person owing service and labor to Dan'l. G. White, of Fleming county, Kentucky, who had, previous to said date, escaped into the State of Ohio, and was then a fugitive from such service and labor, so as to prevent the discovery and arrest of the said Add White. The penalty for the offense is a fine of a thousand dollars and imprisonment.

On Wednesday morning, the Deputy Marshal left Urbana with his posse, in hired carriages, and in Mechanicsburg, and the neighborhood, succeeded in arresting the four accused individuals. While the arrests were in progress, the most intense excitement was created in the vicinity

A writ of habeas corpus was procured from a Judge in Champaign county, and the Sheriff attempted to serve it but before he could do so, the officers had conducted the prisoners beyond the bounds of the county. A second warrant was then procured in Clarke county. The Sheriff, in this instance, pursued and came up with the party, but they refused to obey the writ. The Sheriff not having force to compel obedience, they proceeded on their journey to this city. A third writ was then obtained in Greene county, and the Sherifl of that county, with his posse, served it upon the U. S. officers at six o'clock yesterday morning, in Jamestown. The U. S. officers resented the act of the county officers in seizing their horses' reins before making known their business. A warm altercation ensued.

The Sheriff and his men were assisted by an excitcd crowd of two or three hund red persons. Rifles and pistols were displayed. The Marshal and his men drew their weapons, and several shots were fired Mr. Churchill discharged his revolver at the crowd, but no one was injured. The conflict was sharp and stubborn, but superior numbers prevailed and the Deputy Marshal, with all his posse were made pris oners, and a dispatch received yesterday afternoon stated that they were to be sent last night to Springfield for trial.

At Springfield, at one o'clock yesterday, Deputy Marshal Kiefer arrested Isaac Sar gent on a similar charge to that made against the others, and brought him to this city, where he was held by Commissioner Newhail in $1,500 bail for examination next week.—Cincinnati Gazette.

LATER BY TELEGRAPH.

CvacmsxTi, May 29.

The United States Marshal telegraphed the Secretary of the Interior to-day for in structions regarding the arrest and imprisonment of the United States officers at Springfield, in this State, but the nature of the instructions received have not transpired. Judge Leavitt, United States District Judge, issued a writ of habeas corpus today. and the Marshal has gone to

Spring

field to serve it. In case resistance is offered, it is reported that the United States troops will be called out.

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE. Mr. George Allen, clerk in a store New Philadelphia, Ohio, recently committed suicide. He was a young man of good habits, moral, honest, much respected, and bid fair to become a useful member of society. The subjoined account of his conduct exhibits a sad instance of the mental and moral perversion now but too common "The day before he committed this rash act he appeared to bo in good spirits—called on some of his friends and told them he intended to go home—paid all the debts he owed—returned the books he borrowed, and all the time talked and laughed with his accustomed gaiety. In the evening previous to his death, he wrote several letters, and composed the epitaph he wanted on his tombstone. He atteuded to the customers in the store, and no one could judge from his conduct the silent determination within. In the course of conversation with some young gentlemen, one of them asked "what i& life?" Deceased good humoredly replied "he intended shortly to solve that problem." "It was evidently his intention to put an end to his existance by taking chloroform. He purchased a bottle of it—made his bed on the counter—laid down—took an over dose—but it had not the fatal effect. He then got a ladder and rope, and hung himself in the loft of the new building adjoining the store. His toes touched the floor—his hands were untied—he IWung aside of the ladder, so that he probably could have save himsely even after he had taken the fatal leap."

AN AMOROUS PREACHFR.—The

that

from

Evans

ville Journal relates an incident which occurred on the steamer Northerner, on her last trip but one from Louisville to Memphis. A Baptist minister whose name and residence are omitted for obvious reasons, got on board the boat at Louisville, and up on being introduced to Mr. Archer by a distinguished clergyman, was ticketed thro' to his destination, free of charge. During the evening the Reverend gentleman was discovered to be under the influence of the "ardent." He however retired at the usual hour and the passengers supposed that the morning would find him sober and penitent. About midnight the clerk and captain were awakened by the chamber-maid, who informed them that a man was attempting to enter a lady's stateroom. Hurrying to the spot, they found their ministerial passenger had alarmed the boat in his endeavors to force a stateroom occupied by two ladies

a neighboring town. The

clergyman was lodged in his room and locked up for safe keeping. The next morning the boat landed at Owcnsboro, and the minister was put ashore. He plead with tears for mcrcy, but Mr. Archer told him that a change of boats would be beneficial to liim, and he was accordingly left on the wharfboat, to get home as best he might. The clergyman had been attending the Baptist Conference in Louisville, and is said to be a man of influence and high standing in the State where he resides. The mortifying lesson he has just received will probably have a salutary effect upon his future fin, and deter him from using "strong drink," p.«p*cislly when away from homo.

KOT GOINC TO START*.

Notwithstanding the reeeat upward ten* dency in the grain mark'et, and the apprehended scarcity in many quarters, it is apparent that the eonung crops will be far from the starvation pout. In fact, there will be an average yield, take the country together. The Cincinnati Gaiette speculates upon the prospects of the coming crops in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, and estimates, on the supposition that the crops are as good in those States as there is reason to believe they are, that the year 1857 will produce in all three of the States 205,000,000 bushels of corn, worth, at 45 cents a bushel, $92,250,000 29,000,000 bushels of wheat worth, at $1 a bushel, $29,000,000 and 2,000,000 tons of hay, worth, at $12 a ton, $24,000,000—making, in all, an aggregate -of $145,250,000. Adding the crop of oats, which will amount in those States to 30,000 bushels, the value of the staple crops of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, for the year 1857, may be estimated at $150,000,000. Favorable weather and good prices would make the amount still larger. uch are some of the magnificent resources of our country. Looking at.these results, can any one doubt that there is a substantial basis of prosperity in the West, and can any one be so foolish as to give car to the lying prophecies of various Eastern journals, that a "crash" is about to desolate the West? A severe drouth, it is true, may reduce the above figures to a much lower calculation but against contingencies we always have to take our chances. It is so in every species of business we have to proceed upon a risk, and trust for the best. The present prospects are favorable for almost the entire West. In Michigan, the crops are generally, as stated by various newspapers of that State, in a fair condition, and promise an average crop. In ail of Illinois but the central and a portion of the northern part of it, the crops are very fine. In Kentucky every thing presents a blooming appearance.— In Wisconsin the most encouraging reports are sent in from all parts of the State.— Both the fall and spring grain promises well everywhere, and the late rains and warm weather will make that promise, as it were, a glorious certainty. From the speculations in regard to those three States, it may be inferred, in a measure, what will be the yield of Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and other Western States. We feel greatly encouraged at the prospect, and have no fear of a coming bankruptcy. So long as wc can have good crops in the West, there need be no fear but we will get along all right.

THE HAMMER.

The hammer is-the universal emblem of mechanics. With it are alike forged the sword of contention and the plowshare of peaceful agriculture—the press of the free and the shackles of the slave. The eloquence of the forum has moved the armies of Greece and Rome to a thousand battle fields, but the eloquence of the hammer has covered those fields with victory or defeat. The inspiration of song has kindled high and noble aspirations in the bosoms of noble knights and gentle dames but the inspiration of the hammer has strewn the field with tattered hemlct and shield, decided not only the fate of chivalric combat, but the fate of thrones, crowns and kingdoms. The forging of the thunderbolt was ascribed by the Greeks as the highest act of Jove's omnipotence, and their mythology beautifully ascribes to one of their gods the tisk of presiding at the labors of the forge. In ancient warfare, the hammer was a .powerful weapon, independent of the blade which it formed.— Many a stout skull was broken through the cap and hemlet by the blow of Vulcan's weapon. The armies of the Crescent would have subdued Europe in the sway ef Mahomet, but on the plains of France their progress was arrested, and the brave and simple warrior who saved Christendom from the sway of the Musselman, was Martal—"the hammer." The hammer, the savior of the bulwark of Christendom!— The hammer is the wealth of nations. By it are forged the ponderous engine and the tiny needle. It is an instrument of the savage and the civilized. Its merry clink points out the abode of industry. It is a domestic deity, presiding over the grandure of the most wealthy and ambitious, as the most humble and impoverished. Not a stick is shaped, not a house is raised, not a ship floats, not a carriage rolls, not a wheel spins, not an engine moves, not a press squeaks, not a viol sings, not a spade delves, or a flag waves without the hammer, and civilization would be unknown, and the human species would be only as dcfencless brutes.

Correspondent of Newport (Mo.) Courier.

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE--.SUI-C1DK INDUCED BY SLANDEIt. Miss Mary Martin, a very pretty and intelligent young lady of about twenty years of age, committed suicide by drowning herself in the stream at Detroit, the town adjoining this. She invited a young lady friend to walk with her, and seating herself upon a log near the stream, she told her friend that she was about to drown herself and the reason for so doing. She took off all her jewelry, and gave it to the young lady, saying, "I want you to have these." In a few moments after her friend ersuaded her to return to the house, telling her that they would come down in the afternoon. They had proceeded only about five or six rods, when Miss Martin caught hold of her friend and dragged her towards the stream a rod or two, but suddenly releasing her hold she ran and jumped in.— Her friend gave the alarm, and a brother of Miss Martin came to her relief, but to late—life was extinct when her body was taken out. The cause of this melancholy suicide was slander. During the past winter, stories have been circulated to injure her character. She protested her innocence, and but a few weeks before, while walking near the place where she was drowned, with the young man to whom she was engaged, she said, (refering to her troubles,) "If I thought there were no happier days in store for mc, I would jump in and drown myself." Miss Martin was a very pretty, modest and highly respectable young lady, and her untimely death is deeply regretted. I hope it will serve as a warning to those who are ever ready to circulate evil reports.

IV A

certain gallant editor thinks when

a single gentleman cfcn't pass a clothes-line without counting all the long stockings, it is a sign he ought to get married, and the sooner the better.

W Bead Dr. J.

S. AIXSK'S

card in an

other column of to-day'" paper,

THE CBKAT *Off*R* lAltLOlT.

[From Mr. Xithk's Boo*, "TbaXifbt Bidaof London." Think of what London is! At the last census there were 2^62,286 persona of both sexes in it 1,106,258 males, of whom 146,449 were under 5 years of age. The unmaried males were 670,880: ditto females, 735,871 the married men were 399,098 the wives, 409,731 the widowers were 370,089, the widows, 110,076.

On the night of the census there were 28,598 husbands whose wives were not with them, and 39,231 wives mourning their absent lords.

Last year the number of children born in London was 86,833. In the same period 56,786 persons died.

The Registrar-General assumes that with the additional births, and by the fact of soldiers and sailors returning from the seat of war, and persons engaged in peaceful pursuits settling in the capital, sustenance, clothing, and house accomodations must now be found in London for above 60,000 inhabitants more than it contained at the end of 1855.

Think of that—the population of a large city absorded in London, and no perceptible inconvenience occasioned by it! Houses are still to let there are still the usual tickets hung up in the windows in quiet neighborhoods, intimating that apartments furnished for the use of single gentlemen can be had within the country still supplies the town with meat and bread, and we hear of no starvation in consequence of deficient supply.

London is the healthiest city in the world. During the last ten years the annual deaths have been on an average 25 to 1000 of the population in 1856 the proportion was 22 to 1,000 yet, in spite of this half of the deaths that happen on an average in London, between the ages of 20 and 40, arc from consumption and diseases of the respiratiory organs.

The Registrar traces this to the state of the streets. He says: "There can be no doubt that the dirty dust suspended in the air that the people of London breathe, often excites diseases of the respiratory organs. The dirt of the streets is produced and ground now by innumerable horses, omnibuses and carriages, and then beat up in fine dust, which fills the mouth and inevitably enters the air passages in large quantities. The dust is not removed every day, but saturated with water in the great thoroughfares, sometimes ferments in damp weather and at other times ascends again under the heat of the sun as atmospheric dust. "London" says Henry Mayhcw, may be safely asserted to be the most densely populated city in all the world containing one-fourth more people than Pekin, and two-thirds more than Paris, more than twice as many as Constantinople four times as many as St. Petersburg, five times as many as Vienna, or New York, or Madrid, nearly seven times as many as Berlin, eight times as many as Amsterdam, nine times as many as Rome, fifteen times as many as Copenhagen, and seventeen times as many as Stockholm." "London" says Horace Jay, "e'est unc provvince converte de maisens."

It covers an area of 122 square miles in extent, or 78,029 statute acres, and contains 327,391 houses.

Annually, 4,000 new houses are in course of erection for upward of 40,000 new comers.

The continuous line of buildings stretching from Holloway to Chambcrwell is said to bo 12 miles long.

It is compared that if the buildings were set iu a row they would reach across the whole of England and France, from York to the Pyrenees.

London has 10,500 distinct streets, squares, circuses,crescents, terraces, villas, rows, buildings, places, lanes, courts, alleys, mews and yards.

The paved streets of London, according to a return published in 1856, number over 5,090, and exceed 2,000 miles in length the cost of this paved reading was $14,000,000, and the repairs cost j£l,800,000 per annum.

London contains 1,900 miles of gas pipes with a capital of nearly $4,000,000 spent in the preparation of the gas.

The cost of gas lighting is half a million. It has 300,000 lights and 13,000,000 cubit feet of gas are burned every night,

Last year along these streets the enormous quantity of upward of 80,000,000 gallons of water rushed for the supply of the inhabitants, being nearly double what it was in 1845.

Mr. Mayhcw says: If the entire people of the capital were to be drawn up in marching order, two and two, the length of the great army of Londoners would be no less than 670 miles, and supposing them to move at the rate of three miles an hour, it would require more than nine days and nights for the average population to pass by.

To accommodate this crowd, 125,000 vehicles, pass through the thoroughfares in the course of 12 hours 3,000 cabs, 1,000 omnibusses, 10,000 private job carriages and carts, ply daily in the streets 3,000 conveyances enter the metropolis daily from the surrounding country. Speaking generally, Tennyson tells us:— "Every minnto dies a man,

Every mitntc or.e is born."

In London, Mr. Mayhcw calculates, 169 people die daily, and a babe is born every five minutes. The number of persons, says the Registrar-General, who died in 1856, in a 116 public institutions, such as workhouses and hospitals, was 10,381.

It is really shocking to think, and a deep stigma on the people or on the artificial arrangements of society, by which

Mad with life's history, Glad to death's mystery, 6wift be harried, Any where, •nywbere, Out of the world!"

much poverty is perpetuated, that nearly one person out of five, who died last year, closed his days under a roof provided by law of public charity. It is calculated five hundred people are drowned in the Thames every year. How much wretchedness lies in these two facts—for the deaths from actual intemperance bear but a small propor. tion to the deaths induced by the immoderate use of intoxicating liquors and of the 500 drownded, by far the larger class, we have reason to believe are, of the number of whom Hood wrote:

According to the last reports, there Vere in London 143,000 vagrants admitted in one year into the usual wards of the work-houses.

Here we have always in our midst 107 burglars, 110 house-breakers, 38 highway robbers, T73 pickpockets, 8,657 meaksmen or common, thieves, 11 horw-stealeTs, 141

dog-stealers, 8 forgers, 28 coiners, 817 utterers of base coin, 141 swindlers, 182 cheats, 843 receivers of stolen goods, 2,768 habitual rioters, 1,205 vagnnta, 60 beggingdetter writers, 86 bearers

(of

Let us extend our survey, and we shall not woundcr that the public houses, and the gin palaces, and the casinos, and the theatres and the penny gaffs, and the lowest and vilest places of resort in London are full. In Spitalfields there are 70,000 weavers, with but 10s per week there are 22,479 tailors 30,805 shoemakers 43,928 milliners 21,210 seamstersses 1,769 bonnetmakers and 1,277 gas-makers.

What hard, wretched work is theirs! There arc two worlds in London, with a gulf between—the rich and the poor.— We have glanced at the latter for the sake of contrast, let us look at the former. Emerson says the wealth of London determines prices all over the globe. In 1847 the money coined in the Mint was £5,158,• 344 in gold, £1,257,300 in silver, and £8,960 in copper.

The business of the Bank of England is conducted by about 800 clerks, whose salaries amount to about £190,000. The Bank in 1850 had about twenty millions of Bank-notes in circulation. In the same year there were about five millions deposited in the savings bank of the metropolis.

The gross customs revenue of the port of London in 1849 was £11,070,176 sixtyfive millions is the estimate formed by Mr. McCulloeli of the total value of the produce conveyed into and from London. The gross rental, as assessed by the property and income tax, is twelve and a half millions.

The gross property insured at £166,000,000, and only two fifth of the houses arc insured. The amount of capital at the command of the entire London bankers may be estimated at 64 millions the insurance companies have always 10 millions of deposit ready for investment 78 millions arc employe! in discounts. In 1811, the transactions of one London house alone amounted to 40 millions. In 1839 the payments made in the clearing-house were 954 millions—an enormous sum, which will appear still greater when we remember that all sums under £100 arc omitcd from this statement. All this business cannot be carried on without a considerable amount of eating and drinking.

The population consumes annually 277, 000 bullocks, 30,000, calves, 1,480,000 sheep, 84,000 pigs, 1,600,000 quarters of wheat, 310,464,000 pounds of potatoes, 89,672,000 cabbages. Of fish the returns are almost incredible. Besides, it eats 2,742,000 fowls, 1,281,000 game, exclusive of those brought from the different parts off the United Kingdom from 70 to 75 millions of eggs are annually imported into London from France and other coun trios. About 13,000 cows arc kept in the city and its euvirons for the supply of milk and cream and if wc add to their value that of the cheese, the butter and milk brought from the country into the city, the expenditure on producc daily must be enormous. Then London consumes 65,000 pipes of wine, 2,000,000 gallons of spirits, 43,200,000 gallons of porter and ale, burns 3,000,000 tuns of coal and 1 have seen it estimated that one fourth of the commerce of the nation is carried on in its port.

On boxing night it was estimated that 60,000 persons visited the various theatres and places of amusement in London.

In London, in 1853, according to Sir. R. Maync, there were 3,313 beer-shops, 5,279 public houses and 13 wine-rooms.

And now, to guard all this wealth, to presrve all this mass of industry, honesty and to keep down all this orime, what have we? 6,367 police, costiug £373,968 13 police courts, costing £45,000 and about a dozen criminal prisons, 69 union relieving officers, 316 officers of local boards, and 1,256 other local officers.

We have 35 weekly magazines, 9 daily newspapers, 5 evening, and 72 weekly ones. Independantly of the mechanics' institutions, colleges, and endowed schools, wc have 14,000 children of both sexes clothed and educated gratis, in the National, and British and Foreign schools in all parts of London, and Sunday schools.

The more direct religious agency may be estimated as follows: In the "Hand book to Places of Worshop," published by Law in 1851, there is a list of 371 churches and chaples in connection with the Establishment the number of church sittings, according to Mr. Mann, is 409,184 the Independants have about 140 places of worship, and 100,436 sittings the Baptists, 130 chapels, and accommodation for 54,234 the Methodists, 153 chapels, 60,696 sittings the Presbyterians 23 chapels and 18,211 sittings the Unitarians, 9 chapels and about 3,300 sittings the Roman Catholics, 35 chapels and 35,994 sittings 4 Quakers chaples, with sittings, for 3,151 the Moravians have 2 chapels, with 1,100 sittings and the Jews have 11 synagogues and 3,692 sittins. Ihere are 94 chapels belonging to the New Church, the Plymouth Brethern, the Irvingites, the Latter-day Saints, Sandemanians, Lutherans, French Protestants, Greeks, Italians, which chapels have sittings for 18,833.

We thus get 601,723 attendants of Divine exercise.

M^Probably the greatest leap on record was made one day last week at the Helena (Wis.) shot tower. The Mineral Point Tribune says that ahorse jumped from the bank over a perpendicular precipice of one hundred and eighty feet, into the river below, and came out safe and sound, after •dimming nearly half a mile to a landing

lace, The water at the point where the was made was from twenty to twentyfive feet deep.

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1ST Come let us anew Our journey pursue, up to the Revimo Oftce and pay for our papsr.

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ging'Ietters, 6,371 prostitutes, besides 470 not otherwise described, making altogether a total of 19,000 criminals known to the police.

These persons are known to make away with £42,000 per annum the prison popu la tion at any particular time is 6,000 costing for the year £170,000. Our juvenile thieves cost us £300,

Mr. Timbs calculates the inimbef of professional beggars in London at 35,000, two*thirds of whom are Irish. Thirty thousand men, women and children employed in the costermonger trade besides wc have, according to Mr. Mayhcw. 2,000 street sellers of green staff, 1,000 street sellers of eatables and drinkables, 1,000 street sellers of stationery, 4,000 street sellers of ather articles, whose receipts are three million sterling, and whose incomes may be put down at one million.

AMUM-

siHiTion —-The Mi*ouri Detiscmt oil* 26th inst. relates this tragedy: The people of Washington, Mo.f •. thrown into considerable excitement ut Sunday evening, the 17th instant, by heifr* ing that Mr. Wm. L. Hall hid inflicted itfearful wound #ifh A knife oil the period of a young Mr. Bullock, or Union. The circumstances attending the unfortunate affair are reported as follows: Mr. ^Hall and Mr. Bullock had been paying their sd«, dresses to Mitt 8. Bell, a very worthy young lady, lififlg with her widowed mother in the vfefnety of Washington. Hall had no doubt become jealdus of young Buttock, judging from the many insults that he took occasion to oiler. Bullock, however, passed them off lightly. On the fatal day Miss B. was at Washington, and Mr. Bullock went with her to her mother's home. Hall having learned the fact, hired ahorse, armed himself with a revolver, and proceeded as fast as possible to Mrs. B.'s. On arriving. Bullock spoke to him in a friendly manner. Hall paying no at-' tention to his address. Mrs. B. was not at home. Mr. Bullock proposed to Miss B. that they would ride to her uncle's, at--which place her mother was. Hall said to' Miss B. that she had gone far enough with that fellow for her own good. Mr. Bullock asked him to explain his meaning.—' Hall drew a knife from his bosom and struck Bullock, the weapon passed through his arm into his breast near the heart.— Bullock raised from his scat and struek at Hall, who stepped back and drew his pis-., tol, Bullock endeavored to raise his chair to defend himself, but found he could not use his arm.

Miss B. behaved in a manner that did honor to her sex, and iu place of fainting, as many would have done, used every exertion she could to save the unfortunate young man. She seized Hall's arm and held it, ordering Bullock to make his escape to a neighbor's house close by, which be did, bleeding profusely, when physicans were called to examine and dress his wound. Hall went back to Washington when he was next day arrested, examined before a justice of the pcacc, and required to give bail—which he did. At that time Bullock's wound was not considered motal, but on examination afterwards it was ascertained that the knife had penetrated to the heart. On Saturday morning the 23d, he died. Hall was re-arrested and placed in safe keeping. Hall is the son of respectable parents who reside in Washington, and to whom his late conduct will bo a heavy blow. Bullock's parents reside in Union. He was a young man of honorable character and amiable disposition.

The Missouri Republican of the 26th furnishes an account of a probable assassination by a woman:

The quiet town of New Madrid was thrown into a state of great cxcitemcnt on Saturday evening last, by a tragic circumstance which occurred as follows: It seems that a Mr. Vcrlasqucs keeps a grocery store in New Madrid, and in the same building a barber exercises his vocation.— Some time ago Mr. V. surprised tho barber while in a somewhat delicate position with Mrs. Verlasques, and crcatcd such a disturbance about the matter that the barber gathered up his tools and fled. A reconciliation however, having taken place soon afterwards between Mr. and Mrs. V. the happy couple went in search of the fugitivo barber, whom they found. Mrs. Verlasques provided herself with a pistol, and on discovering the barber fired at him, the ball entering the region of the stomach, and producing a wound which will probably prove fatal.

SPAYED COWS.

It is now nearly thirty years since a gentleman in New Hampshire called the attention of the public to the subjoct of spayed cows for the purpose of having them produce an uninterrupted flow of milk during their lives.

This gentleman's communications wcr« based upon facts—communications made to him by a Mr. Wynn of Nachcz, and his own observations while staying with Mr. Wynn, who had two cows then in milk, which had been operated upon three years before, and he stated to the gentleman they had never varied iu the quantity of milk during that time, cxccpt when such variation was caused by a change of food, and gave it as his opinion that they would continue that flow of milk as long as they lived.

I have sincc that time seen it stated in some agricultural paper, the flow of milk not only continued but that the quality was much improved.

If the foregoing statements are corrcct, how desirable it would be for families which are so situated that thej can keep but one cow, to have her in this situation.

Mr. Wynn recommended that the proper time for performing this operation was about three weeks after producing their third calf, as they then, as a general rule, producc their greatest quantity of milk, which quantity might be continued with proper food, as long as the cow continues in good health.

Sir. Wynn stated that he was induced to make this experiment upon his cows by tho perusal of English magazines which contained accounts of the plow-matches in the Southern counties of England, where most of the prizes were awarded to plowmen who worked spayed heifers.

Many of our readers may recollect' the high encomiums that were published in agricultural and other papers a few years since respecting a drove of young beef cat-' tie taken to Brighton market by George Shaffer, of Scottsville, Monroe county, N. Y. They were pronounced the finest drove of young beef cattle ever driven to this market,

and

they were spayed heifers.—-

Day Book.

WRECKING CAR.—This

is a novelty in

railroad mechanics, just constructed for the Central Road at Utica. The Utica Herald says the car was full of tools of every description, for use in case of aoci-( dent on the road. There were screwjacks from the manufactory of Allen ft Co., said to be the -best in the country, complete trucks for locomotive or ear, ropes, chains, hand-car, braces, edge-tools, pullies, levers, capstan and everything of the most modern and scientific manufae ture, for reparing any damage that may 00? cur and these tools are never to be taken1:: from the car or disturbed unless in such ev eontingency. It is the purpose of the Company to place such ears at oonvenient' distances along the line of the road, to be ready at all times when called for.

MTDon't fail to reed the Horrible Death in another column..