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Saturday Morning, July 11, 1857.

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8®~Wc understand that Gov. Willard .will call an extra session of the Legislature sometime next month. 11 should have l»cen done long ago.

flSyOur harvest wiil commence next week, and wc will venture the assertion that a finer crop of wheat will not be gathered in any other county in the west.

PEHSOXAL.—During the last few days wc have had the pleasure of enjoying the company of Mr. DRAPIKU, editor of the Pt. Joseph County Forum. Mr. D., is fine conversationalist, an aLlc writer, and withal the very princc of good fellows.

ACCIDENT ON THE Pi. A. St S. R. It. The mail train on last Tuesday from ^Michigan City, ran off the track near the *\\'ea bridge, demolishing the baggage and post office car, and seriously injuring Mr. .lulin Backus. The bridge was considerably damaged, and trains were not able to pass until Thursday evening. Since writing the above wc learn that Mr. Backus is in a fair way of recovering. It will be recollected by our readers that he is the tame person who was so unfortunate as to loose his arm by the premature discharge of a cannon some two years ago.

Our exchanges from every pection

of the country come to us week after week, filled with the recital of crimes of every grade and dye—murder, rape, seduction, adultery, suicide, riots and larceny—horrible, jlisgusting and sickening. In some localities, the very devil seems to be let loose, the laws arc powerless and life is insecure—the terrible penalties attached to the criminal law arc seldom inflicted, there nrc so many law quibbles by which culprits manage to cscapc their just deserts, that the whole criminal code, has lost its force, and might as well be repealed as to remain longer upon the statute books. There •••hardly a city in the whole union that is not suffering from the acknowledged inefficiency of its police to protect the lives and liberties of its eitizens, and the whole nation, horrified and stupified, seems unable to brine about any change for the better.

This condition of tilings is rapidly spreading into the rural districts and every neighborhood is becoming contaminated. To^day some quiet neighborhood is startled by the crime of infanticide, to-morrow an elopement, then murder, then rape—and so on through the whole catalogue. There is said to be rivalry in Hell, there certainly seems to be among fiends upon earth let the sickrning details of a murder be published, and it will be but a few days till another more horrid has to be told. The Pal ton divorce case lias made hundreds of converts to the loose habits of the frail Mrs. D., and the lion. Bufus Cheat*! will weave more chapleu of cliiqueiicc with which to deck the dilapidated virtues of the Boston upper tendum before the close of the year, lie v.

Mr. Kalloek is weighed down with sympathy, roses and cash for his mode of exhibiting his clerical integrity Mrs. Cunningham is to have a service of silver plate for her womanly virtues and Walker is toast,cd, feted and honored for his great services in the causc of humanity and pr^grtss. "Plug uglies" march to the polls of our national capital with cannon loaded with pa"lying stones, to shoot down unoffending citizens, and then retire to their homes unmolested. Daily journals speak of such conduct as very reprehensible, and here the matter ends. Seriously, matters are in a most deplorable condition and it requires no prophet to see whither we are tending.

A LAFAYETTE LADY KILLED.

LAFAYETTE LADY KILLED. Mrs. Brigham, one of the victims of the late accident on the Cincinnati & Marietta Railroad, a brief account of which we published yesterday, was a resident of this city. She was the wife of Mr. William Brigham, a clerk in the Boot and Shoe store of P. W. Howard. They were married on last Sabbath, and were on their way to visit the relatives of Mr. Brigham in Marietta. The mangled remains of the young wife arrived in this city this afternoon, in the charge of a brother of Mr. Brigham, who was unable, from severe injuries to accompany them.—<Lafayette

Courier>.

COUNTERFEIT LIQUORS ISTEEESTJNG STATEMENT.—The London Times notices in a list of joint stock companies of Paris, formally sanctioned by the prefect of police, the name of the "General company of fictitious or counterfeit wines." The company boldly state that no grape juice or alcohol is used, but do not specify the ingredients. The article is sold at from four to cicht sous per qnart, and the company has a capital of six million francs. These liquors arc, of course, sold as genuine.—

Our markets are flooded with spurious liquors, and no one can toll when he buys a genuine article. The Springfield Republican says, that an informant of that paper was on a visit to a friend, a liquor dealer in a western city, and in the space of an hour he 6aw him. transform a barrel of high wines, into "pure French brandy." The barrel was stamped with the Custom House brand, and had all the appearance of a sea voyage. The manufacturer poured in the basis of the ingredients (the high wines) aud then, having scented it with about two ounces of the oil of cognac, added a pailful of a compound which he had mixed from one bucket to another, and which was to give to it its taste and color. The component parts of this last mixture were absolute poisons, directly destined to sap the energy and finally destroy the life of the poor victims to a habit that leads them to the use of such stimulants. Upon this barrel, the manufacturer would make over two hundred dollars, and the retailer probably as much more. When such facts are ta ken into consideration, there is no wonder that astringent law is demanded for the regulation of the traffic.

nURNING OF the MONTREAL—THREE HUNDRED LIVES LOST—NEARLY 200 LIVES SAVED—PARTICULARS of the

DISASTER. The Montreal Herald, of June 29, gives the particulars of the late terrible disaster on the St. Lawrence river, an account of which reached us by telegraph:

On Friday night the Montreal left Quebec at four o'clock, with about thirty cabin passengers on board, and some four hundred and fifty or five hundred emigrants.— Among the former was Andrew Hayes, Esq., of St. Joseph street. Mr. Hayes has furnished us with the following information:

When the steamer reached about twelve miles from Quebec, above Mr. Atkinson's place, at Courage Bay, Mr. Hayes came outside the saloon at the after part.of the steamer, when he observed a smoke rising up from the midships of the boat over the saloon. In a very short time a number of persons were rushing with jugs of water to extinguish the fire. There was one boat on board the steamboat on the hurricane deck, and a hand belonging to the steamer went to try to get her into the water. Mr. Hayes did the same thing, and between them, they got the boat over the side and let go the" tackles. He then got. into her .and in a minute or two numbers of persons crowded in and the boat. sunk. Mr. Hayes then held on to the boat's tackle, and maintained himself in that position for along time, till the heat from the burning ship became too great. In the meantime crowds of persons were constantly jumping into the water and climbing down the guards to get as near the water as possible. At this time the boat's head was turned towards the north shore, and she ran until she approached the shore to about one hundred and fifty yards from it, where she appfars to have sunk in deep water, or to have struck a rock, as some persons believe.— At any rate, the water was so deep thai there was no possibility of reaching the shore, otherwise than by swimming or in boats. The flames, after the smoke was at first, perceived, did not take more than ten minutes to envelop the whole vessel, and in two hours she was utterly destroyed, so that hardly a vestige of the vessel could be seen.

The Napoleon had started at the same time with tho Montreal, and was at the time of the accident at a distance ef about half a mile from the Montreal, and above that vessel. Probably from fear of taking lire, the Captain of the Napoleon did not judge it prudent to approach the burning vessel. A large boat, or battcau, was in tow of this vessel, and, after some contention, as it is reported, with the proprietor, she went off to attempt to save the passengers from the burning vessel. She also had two other boats of her own, which were dispatched to the sccnc of the disaster.— There were also some boats which came from the shore, but none of them could approach very close to the steamer, so that every one who was saved was obliged to make some attempt to swim for their lives. Mr. Hays himself, after remaining, as he believes, nearly half an hour hanging on to the VCFSCI'S side, found it too hot to remain there any longer, and struck out boldly for a boat which was approaching. He swam to this boat but as the men on board saw a much larger number of persons in jeopardy of their lives hanging round the wreck, they neglected Mr. Hayes's calls to be taken in, and it was not till he succeeded in clutching the boat and raising himself up bv his own muscular force that he felt himself safe. The boats with the persons who were saved all went on board the Napoleon, in which was received one hundred and twenty-five passengers and sixteen dead bodies. Of the passengers saved a great number were sadly burnt, and many of them greatly bruised. Once on board, they were treated by the Captain with every attention.

Besides those who were taken on board the Napoleon, a few persons—Mr. Hayes thinks not lfiore than twenty—succeeded in swimming on shore, or to some rocks in the immediate neighborhood of the beach.

Mr. Hayes was acquainted with none of the passengers on board the Montreal, except Mr. Leslie, of Carter, Kerry & Co., and Mr. Phillips, of Norcross, Phillips & Co., neither of whom were seen on board the Napoleon afterward, and, as Mr. Hays believes, were both of them drowned or burnt. Only three cabin passengers are reported to be saved out of the whole number.

Mr. Hays was ao long in the jrater as to have brought on ezoessire cramps, .which caused swelling in his joints, and afflicted him with the most excruciating pain!|g

While in the water, either hanging on to the steamboat or to the small boatoy which

ly grappled by unfortunate persons in the act of drowning, and at the moment when he laid hold of the boat's gunnel, he believes that six persons, chiefly women, had hold of his skirts. These the boatmen took in before they extended any aid and comfort to him, and during this final struggle for life his sufferings of mind and body were excessive. These were increased by the dreadful cries and shrieks of drowning pcreons going on in every direction around bim. These he described as being awful in the extreme. Men, women and children were suffering the tortures of fire and drowning. On one hand a poor creature would be seen perched on an outBide part of the steamer, where a resting place could be obtained only by the closest hold with both hands and feet, and there hanging in torture till driven by the smoke and flames he or she had to take the fatal plunge into the cold river below. In another direction stalwart men might be seen seeking to sc cure themselves about the irons of the guards or the paddles. Some of them lost their hold, and sunk at once. Others managed to hang on for a space, but at last they had to give up from sheer fatigue, or by the pressure of other sufferers seeking to secure the same refuge. Here families were preparing and determining to die together there the husband or the wife saw his or her partner forever separated. Women, with children in their arms, leaped into the water others held on to the burning wreck, until losing their foothold they fell, and were lost forever.

It seems from rumors which were afloat on board the Napoleon, that the Montreal had been on fire previously while getting up her steam, and that precautions had been taken with a view to any such casualty as that which finally occurred but this is at present uncertain. After the fire had been burning for a certain length of time there was a kind of explosion, which destroyed nearly all the upper part of the vessel that remained after the catastrophe.

It appears that there was no boat on board the Montreal which could be put to the slightest use in saving the passengers. Captain Rudolph and Mr. Wilson, jr., son of the owner of the Montreal, arc said to have saved themselves by swimming to the shore.

THE CENTRAL PORTION OF THE ATLANTIC. The "Mar de Sargasso," as the Spanish navigators term the central portion of the Atlantic, stretching westward from the Canaries and Cape Verde Islands—a surface fifteen times greater than that of Great Britain—may be described as a vast stagnant pool, receiving the drift seaweed, which the surrounding currents fling into it, and generating on its calm surface what has been well called "an occanic meadow" of seaweed, the fucus natatie of botanists. It is in this tract of sea that wc find such wonderful specimens offuci as the Macrocystic pultfara—having stems from 1,000 to 1,500 feet in length, and but a finger's size in thickness, branching upwards into filaments like pack thread. The vast domain of marine vegetable life in this receptacle, as indeed are the waters of the ocean generally, of an equal profusion of animal existence—from the minute luminiferous organisms, which to borrow Humboldt's phrase, "convert every wave into a crest of light," to those larger forms of life, many of which derive nutriment from the waters alone, thus richly impregnated wi^ living animal matter, Reason and imafc. ination are equally confounded by thff Su forts to conceive those hosts of# inj^i vil^Jl existences—cc^c richcssc as Cuvie%terms it-—generated or arifihilatcd at every passing instantof tiiqp. .Noscficme of numbers can rcach^ht^n, even by approximation an# science^s forced to submit its deductions^) the g$hcral law that all the materials of organic life arc in a state of unceasing change, displacement and replacement, under new forms and aljjeredtfunctions, for purposes which we must believe to be wisely designed, but which transcend all human intelligence.—Eelinburg Review.

I THE KANSAS GAME. The game which the more reckless of the Black Republicans arc now playing in relation to affairs in Kansas is at once a desperate, a dishonest, and an unpatriotic one. The great complaintof the Free State men of Kansas was that the first election there was carried by the interposition of "Border Ruffians" from Missouri that had it not been for this invasion they would have been enabled to carry the election.— These complaints were to some extent just, and were so acknowledged by the Democratic party, who pledged themselves to apply a remedy when the proper time should come. Recder, Shannon and Geary had each been tried in the position of Governor of the Territory, but all had failed to inspire sufficient respect or confidence in either of the contending factions to still the troubled waters or restore peace to that unhappy appendage of the Union.— Under these circumstances Mr. Buchanan, knowing what was expected of him by the country, and especially by that great national party to which he was indebted for his election, selected for Chief Executive of the Territory Mr. Robert J. Walker, a man of the highest order of talents, of not only national but world-wide reputation, and who was himself considered by many as eminently worthy of the Presidency itself. Mr. Walker's high character, judgment, and firmness were a sufficient guarantee that the scenes which had previously disgraced Kansas could not be re-enact' ed under his administration, if he was properly supported from Washington. This support was promised him, and under these circumstances he accepted the position tendered him by the President.

So well satisfied were the prominent members of the Free State party in Kansas that under Gov. Walker they would have fair play and be guaranteed in all their rights, that the first impulse was to act as honest men and as true patriots, anxious for the welfare of the Territory.— "Gov. Walker," said they, "promises all we have ever asked, and all that we have aright to ask. He says that we shall have a fair election for delegates to the Constitutional Convention, and that the constitu. tion, when formed, shall, so far as he can exercise any control over the matter, be submitted to a vote of the people before its presentation to Congress. We are a vast majority of the people of Kansas, and if. we are defeated in securing a majority of the convention we can reject the constitution, when formed, at the polls."

Acting from the impalse which these considerations produced, Robinson resign* ed the Governorship to which he had been elected wider the Topehaeonsiit«too Lane

deavored to make his peaee with the "Border Raffians Brown, of the "Herald of Freedom," advised the Free State men to vote for members of the Constitutional Convention, as also did the National Era, the N. T. Times, and other prominent "Republican" papers.

It now became evident to the more reckless and unscrupulous portion of the Black Republican leaders that Kansas, as an element for producing political agitation, was about to pass away. The question at issue was about to be settled, and settled, too, in precisely the way they had pretended to wish it settled. This did not suit their views. Let "Bleeding Kansas" pass away and they were without capital for the next Congressional or Presidential elections.— Something must be done to prevent this. The question must be kept open at all hazards. The leaders of the Republican party in the States and in the Territory consulted together, and it was finally decreed that the free soilers of Kansas must be exhorted to stay away from the polls, that Robinson must recall his resignation and eat his own words, and that Lane must preside at a convention of Topekaites. The behest was obeyed. The free State men, as a.body, did not go to the polls, and the pro-slavery party have probably chosen a majority of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention.

The Republicans have determined to stand by the Topeka constitution and insist upon its acceptance by Congress and the admission of Kausas into the Union under it. They know the next Congress will never do this, and hcnce they intend to make this question an element in the ensu ing Congressional elections, and if possible keep it open to operate on the Presidential election three years hcncc.

The game, however, is so apparent, and the motive so evident, that it does not seem to us possible that any considerable number of persons can be duped by these demagogues. The peace of the country is noth ing to them when it comes between them and their passions. The true interests of Kansas, which every one knows is in the speedy settlement of this question, are nothing. All must be made subservient to the ambition of Seward, Greeley, Weed & Co.—New Albany Ledger.

NEW YORK CITY.

The Tribune draws the following master sketch of the metropolis of the new world It is gloomy as a Rembrandt.

Ten thousand hardened and hopeless femalc.outcasts swarm the streets at night two thousand children, under the guise of peddlers, from the ages of ten to sixteen, penetrate every public building, store and office in the city, to beg, steal, spy for burglars, and on their own account practice those vices which connot be named in respectable language, five thousand great and small gamblers prey upon the credulous and the infatuated, standing all day at the doors of their dens in Broadway, as well known in person and profession as the mayor himself^ ten thousand lazy, drunken, thieving short-boys, killers, rogues, and rowdies of other names, lounge on the rum cursed corners of the streets making day disgusting, night hideous, and travel dangerous to all wj*a caaJbc suspected of having respectability or money thousands of emigrant, swindlers, mock auctioneers, lottery-dealers, policy backers, pickpockets, ball thieves, burglars, wharf-rats, area-snakes, pimps rTyinipires, practice their knaveries as eniyftnd with as little fear of punishment as though they were engaged in the most virtuous and legitimate of human pursuits. The swell mob of London flying from the argus eyes of a real police, and the unendurable felons of San Francisco, expatriated by the bullet and the hemp of the vigilance committee, arc received here with open arms, parade our streets not only under the toleration, but the protection and personal friendship of the police, carry our primary elections, and fill high places on our nominating committees. On every hand we have vice and crime, and splendor crime vice rum and beggary. Here in the the most fashionable favboury, is the crockford's of New York there, between the palatial residences of a millionaire and a divine, is the maison de joie of a woman whose dress is the most brilliant, whose equippagc is the most costly, whose appearance is the most stunning of any of the gay butterflies, virtuous or vicious, whose beauty and wealth add glitter to the opera or sunshine to the promenade. Within a bow-shot of these palaces is the other side of the world for brocadc, rags for diamonds, dirt for Johannisberger, whiskey for millionaires, beggars for divines, devils for Aspacias, drabs, with here and there some poor starving wretch, painfully enacting the "Song of the Shirt," her beseiged virttte glimmering in the misery of this tangible hell, like the fabled jewel in a dunghill.

THE CAUSE OF THE IRISH EXODUS. We frequently find in the Irish newspapers glowing accounts of the improved condition of Ireland, the abundance of employments for the laboring classes, and the advanced wages paid. Under such circumstances it is customary to wonder why the poor Irish emigrate. An explanation of this mystery may be derived from the following, which we extract from the London Morning Herald:

A meeting at held Clonmel to devise means for relieving the distresses of the laboring masses has elicited some interesting information on the general question of the state of the country. It was stated by "some of the speakers that there was no actual want of employment, but the wages were low, and provisions so dear that men in full work were not able to procure anything like a sufficiency of food for either themselves or families. It is a fact that at no period within the memory of that ancient personage, "the oldest inhabitant," have rents been so well paid, have prices for all kinds of agricultural produce been so uniformly high, or have the farmers grumbled louder or deeper about the scarcity and deamess of labor. The laborers themselves admit there is no lack of employment in favorable weather but owing to the high price of provisions, they cannot keep body and jsool together on the wages paid them. There is no evidence of distress, or even tightness amongst the farmers. They are investing in land purchases, doing a little in die funds ana shares, and, according to general report, the thatch of many a oomfortable farmstead is the depository of bags of sovereigns. The failure of the Tipperary Bank has shaken tho confidence of the farming class in all the country banks hence the howling and.

THE COMING HA1T.

A young Kentnckian, who has for some years resided and been employed in St. Louis as a clerk, started recently from that city for New York, with 9175 in his pocket ana a trunk full of good clothes. He got safely to Buffalo, but there when he was ^about to buy his ticket for New York, and had given his trunk to the freight conductor, he placed the check for it in his wallet, which was soon afterwards stolen from his pantaloons pocket. Having no money he manfully started out of Buffalo to walk to the metropolis, but had only gone thirtyeight miles when his patent leather shoes gave out, and, unable to keep on barefooted, he sought a chance to work his passage on a freight train of the Erie Railroad.— This did very well, but while tending a brake his hat blew off and was lost, before reaching Hornellsvillc, at which place his coat was stolen. When last seen he had again taken to pedestrian exercise, heading for New York, and unless his luck changes, may be expected to arrive here soon in very good condition for taking a bath, as he stands.—N. Y. Times.

That man will get through the world.— He is made up of a material that has an honest ring about it, and his perseverence will carry him through even greater difficulties than those encountered in his journey to New York.

THE FORTHCOMING PATENT OFFICE REPORT.—We venture the prediction that the forthcoming Agricultural Report will be the best that has yet been published. Already a large part of the work has been stereotyped, and the remaining portions will be ready for the printer in ample sea* Son for the completion of the work before the opening of the coming session of Congress.

We have seen three colored plates intended to illustrate this repoat—one of the pair of beautiful Arden horses a Southdown sheep and Pcabody's new hautbois strawberry, the fruit of which exceeds a hen's egg in size, and has been pronounced to be of most excellent flavor. The horses are harnessed and attended by a groom, and appsar to be quite superior to the common breed of farm horses. The sheep is not drawn as if in the act of cropping the rich grass which lies at its feet, but in a position of rest and ease, as if ruminating upon the beauty of the landscape spread before it.

There will also be about fifty plates of beasts and birds—a new feature—injurious and beneficial to agriculture. These latter are wood-cuts, and are among the best we have ever seen. The designs were drawn from nature, under the direction of Professor Baird, of the Smithsonian Institution. All the descriptions, explanations, &c., of these beasts and birds are made from actual experience and observation .—Washington Union.

DTIJSG CONFESSIONS.—The Toledo Blade, remarking upon the recent execution of Return J. M. Ward, in that city quotes the remark of Dr. Bond, an eminent physician of Baltimore, who said that fifty years experience at the bedsides of the sick and dying had taught him that the most deceptive moments of a man's whole life are those in which he lingers on the very boundary between life and death, and the words then spoken reflect the prevailing motives of their lives and moralizes thrcon as follows:

People are very apt to think, when a criminal denies his guilt on the gallows, in view of such awful circumstances, that he must be inoccnt. But the history of criminal law shows that nothing is more erroneous than such an opinion and the dying speech of Ward, in .contrast with his written confession, goes still further to show how little dependence can be placed on a man whose life is one everlasting duplicity. If Ward told the truth on the scaffold, he lied repeatedly before. If he told the truth in his confession, lie lied on the scaffold.— Whichever dilemma we tike, the result will go to show that the view of certain death does not make men honest.

WHICH IS THE HAPPIEST SEASON?—At a festal party of old and young, the question was asked—"Which season of life is the most happy?" After being freely discussed by the guests, it was referred for answer to the host, upon whom was the burden of forescorc years. He asked if they had noticed a grove of trees before the dwelling, and said—"When the spring comes, and in the soft air the buds arc breaking on the trees, and they arc covered with blossoms, I think how beautiful is Spring? And when the summer comes and covers the trees with its heavy foliage, and singing birds among the branches, I think how beautiful is summer! When the autumn loads them with golden fruits, and their-leaves bear the gorgeous tint of frost, I think how beautiful is Autumn! And when it is sear winter, and there is neither foliage nor fruit, then I look up through the leafless branches, as I never could until now, and see the stars shine."—Sharp's Magazine.

POETS' HEADS.—Sir Walter Scott's hat was always the smallest in any company he happened to be in—the head was pyramidal. Byron's was the same. Sir Chas. Napier in his diary thus mentions his meeting with Byron:—"Lord Byron is still here very good fellow, very pleasant, always laughing and joking. An American gave a very good account of him in the newspapers, but said his head was too large in proportion, which is not true. He dined ith me the day before the paper arrived, and four or five of us tried to put on his hat, but none could he had the smallest head of all, and one of the smallest we ever saw. He is very compassionate and kind to every one in distress." At the opening of Burn's mausoleum in 1834, for the interment of his widow, the poet's skull was taken up and examined. Nine gentlemen were present, and every one tried his hat on the skull. Only one of the nine could cover it and that was the hat of Mr. Thomas Carlvle.

NATIONAL EMANCIPATION CONVENTION.— ELIHC BURKIT is endeavoring to perfect a project by which the emnacipation of Southern slaves shall be effected by making compensation to their owners. To this end he proposes a National Emancipation Corvention to be held in Cleveland, on the 25th, 26th and 27th days of August next.

I^CAXTOELL Co., have just received iS

10*Throughout the whole country the conservative element seems to be uniting on the Democratio party. We are grow ing in strength every day,—East and West,—-thousands are rushing into the ranks, and if a general election could take place to-morrow, a wild falling off among the black republicans would be observed. In Massachusetts there is a general feeling with the old line whigs, in favor of uniting with the only anti-abolition, anti-disunion party in the field. The influences of such men as Choate and Everett is having good effect. The manly course taken by the present executive of that State will tend to re-animate the. conservatives of Massachusetts, As we may as well remark that the fanatical howl set up by the blaek republicans over the late vetoes of Governor Gardner, will only serve to strengthen the respect and confidence of the people in that gentleman. The star of black republicanism is set.—Providence Post.

THE SECRET OF A HAPPY HOME.—Yes, if you wish to make your neighbors and your family happy—if you would see calmness and evenness of temper developed in your children—if you would lighten the cares and smooth the path of the companion of your bosom—do not irritate, or scold, or be in a passion when your humor is crossed, but remember that others have hearts as soft as yours, and let the sunshine of Christian meekness and gentleness always beam from your eye. How happy will be the circle in such a case! Ay, this Christian temper is about the only rcqusite to make firesides happy—places which husbands and children will regret to leave and be glad to return to. Let the husband be indulgent, then, to the annoyances of his ever-working and often over-worked wife and let the wife always meet him with a smile when he comes home perplexed with the cores of business and let both be forbearing under their mutual imperfections, and homes will be more as God intended them.

COOL.—The Marquette Journal of June 20th, issued in the height of the summer solstice, complains that the steamer North Star did not touch at that port. The harbor, it scemB, was blockaded with ice, but the Journal thinks that if the steamer had possessed the perseverance of other boats, it might have made a landing It says: "The steamer North Star, passed us on her way up, after approaching within a short distance of the town, and we have no hesitation in saying that if she had had the perseverance of other boats, she could have come in. A sail vessel came in the same day without any trouble, and all other boats came through tho ice without serious difficulty. As to the ice now, there is none left to hinder the passage of a small boat, and any steamboats that pass us now, do so at their option."

We commend Marquette as a watering place, to those denizens who arc looking for a cool place to spend tho dog days.

THE USES OF MONEY—The New York Mirror says it is estimated that one of our rich men (William B. Astor) has now an income of $3,000 a day, or 81,100,000 a year. If wealth led to happiness, Astor would be the most contented man in the world. But he is not. To keep away the gout he feeds himself on Graham bread and indulges in a less generous diet, than we do. Astor, instead of being the happiest man in New York, is, perhaps, one of the most discontented. lie is in law with his tenants half of the time and instead of taking the world kindly, he spends eight! hours of ten in reading upon the statutes of fraud. Astor's income is $3,000 a day, yet we could furnish all lie consumes fort $15 a week. Such being the ease, it strikes us that the man who makes fifteen dollars a week is just as well off as Astor. I'copie who worship ducats, place a false esti-1 mate on them. Three of the best things in the world are obtained gratis—viz: pure water, pure air, and unadulterated health,

-Mrs. Elizabeth J. Kicc, wife of

Isaac A. Hice, Esq., editor of the Attica Ledger, died on the 28th ult. I

SUFFERERS with Diseases'of tho Bladder, Kidneys, Gravel. Dropsy, Weakness, Ac., rend the nd- I vertiscmcnt in another column, headed "Helmbold'B GenuineL'rcpnration." [July 4ml.

CRAWFORDSVILLE PRICE CURRENT.

[Corrected weekly by Laymon & Co.]

Flour Wheat. Oats Rye Barley Corn—in the ear--Hay Apples—Green

Lard Pork Beef—on Hocf Clover Seed Timothy Seed Coffee Sugar Molasses, N.O. White Fish Mackerel, half bbl. Salt Onions

LIST

It 34 AUKS

|7,006i 1,000 60(4

50®

10,00®

None

S®

60® 75

MEDICAL^ NOTICE. Mary M. Ilolloway, M. D. WISHES

to inform her Lady friends that she has removed her office to a more central locality. Offering her thanks for past encouragement, she still tenders her professional services to the Ladies and children of Crawfordsrille,

OFFICE*

OP LETTERS

REMAINING

in th« post &Ac«it

vilta, Indian*, on the 80th day of Jane 1817,1 which it notUlcen out within throe motatfw, will! «ent to tb« G«nml Po,t Office «a dead letter*!

Persons calling for the same will pleeae nr' "Advertised."

B. Barnes. L.S. Braodenhars, Kelson J. Barnhart Peter, Blair James, Beck Anthony, Beck Eliza Ann, Blackford Sidney, Beck Mary £., Bannon Lewis, Beaumont Thomas, Brown David P., BowenO. A.

C. Clark Perry, Chamberlain Eliza, Condit John O. Cruse Nancy, Coffry Willista, Cope Christian, Cornell Waltor.

D. Davids Mary Jane, Dillingham If. IL E.

Ermantront John.

Frost George, Fnllenwidcr P. H. G. Glazcbrook J., Gaines C., Oilman LUCT II. H. Harvey James F., Hare David, Hinkle Di vld M.. Hall Joseph S., Hiss F. R., Harris M. A Hoke W. B., Hun Margaret E., Hnminger Maria Hnghes Patrick, Hongb Thomas.

I. Jngersoll John. ,i J.

Jones A. J.,_Johnaon Jesse R, Johnston

KFASA

A. E.

Lewis,2,

LareyJanc, Low Jane D., Lodghtorj

B.,

Lockwood Walter, Lions John. Jf. Minds M. M., Miller George, Martin Mary M., Martin Sarilda, Moore Willis E., Murphy Ma- I ry, Morris Eleanor R., Morgan John, Moors J«SM,

Newell

Mclntirc Mnry, Mclntiro John, 2, McLaughlin| Stephen.

O'Bryant John, Oliver Jonathan.' Piles'Josepb, 2, Potts Elisha, 2,|Potta Cha'sJ Phillips William, Potter Dora, Plomroer Mrs.

It. Rhodes Henry E., Reese Mary, Rnssql Job Riley Edmond. 8. Schoemakcr Andrew, 2, Sneatlian John Blf, Sliaughnessy Thomas or John, Showey James, 2, Snyder Francis, Shaw Nancy, Smith Mary A., Seaman A. H., Spcneor John, Stevenson Solomon Gcorgo. Stcphons Thomas It. 2.

Thomas George, Tomason Preston, Taylor Hannah E., Tharp Thos. D.| V. White Lucinda, Warner RojalineT., Wilhito Amanda M., Wilson Lafayette, 2, Wray Carnian,.Woita Mary E., Wolf German.

Y.' Youlsmin'Henrv, Young Kate W. July 11, IS57.-111. G.W. SNYDER,P.M.

CAMPBELL, 6ALEY AND HARTER

Tlie immense Stock of Goods purchased by

CAMPBELL & CO.,

In the spring having been

E A S E

They nre now receiving their '9$

Second Stock of Slimmer Goods,

To-wit:

4000 yds. 4-4 Brown Sheetings, IOOO 4-1 Blenched

2000 K.00 .100 700

Ticking,

2.100 200 .100 l.'i'i

SOU

4.100

275

17.1

100 ,100 150 1.10 17.1 1.10 .ISO

1000 20 .10

Hickory Sliiitiug, Cottonade, LnwiiM, .' lioro(fen, Clitillit), l'lnid and Striped Diicallcs, 1'litin niul Fancy Dross Silka, Now Styles 1'rinU, Dotted "Swiss,

COO

1'In in ». Indies niul Victoria Muslin,

1'rinted Brilliants, Fine Orgitntlics, 1'laiji Jaconets, Emb. Curtum-, Irish I.incn, Cnrncts, Wall I'll per, •,*•. Silk H'dks, Linen

150 Prs. Suspenders, (100 Cotton Hose, 7.1 Lace «fc Silk Mantillas,

SO Wl.ite & (Jreen 10 doz. p'r Silk Mitts, 10 loves,

S J.i.l« Trend do.

Also, a Splendid Stock of

Boots and Shoes*

t',0 ]'r Women's I'egged Morocen Hoots, fio Kli:iim.-ltod Jin

11 11

ONE

(In demand

1,10®

None Common

11® 13 11® 12 10 12® 15 5,00® 3,50® 3 75 10,00® 4,00® 14® 15 15® 16 90® 1,00 5,00® 8,00® 12 00 2,60® 5®

Shoulders

on Pike Street, four doors eaat of

Bark's 6tore, and ope door west of

TIHE

P, Camp

bell's residence. (Jnnaa0T8p4S-lm.

LOST COLT.

SUBSCRIBER, on Tnes4»r last, lost on tha pttceta qf Crawfordsrille a YOUNG BAY SUCKING COLT. Any informal en as to ita whereaboata will be thankfully rertived and suitably rewarded if furnishad at Laymon's Crawfardsrilla wJs^sjtgriWHglj

'nit'

•24 Morocco Hiiskins, Ladies SeweJ (Jlovu Top Hoots, 04 Koriso Kill

Cloth (Jaiteri.

•21 Ki::mii'!ed

you ufi

Htiskins,

•_'l Jenny Lind Ties, HO MJsnc* Pesrge'l Morocco Root", Sewed

Kill

Cloth Suiters,

1-2

f.'hildrens every vaiie'y. Mens Call' in-.d Kip J!uotr, -Shots,

Kiiiiiiieh.'d (.iiiiters, Cunffress Kossuth Oxford Ties,

l'.ovs. Kossuth Hoots,

Congress y. Kip Shoes, *':-.v Calf

Ready Made Clothing.

.10

Linen l-'ioi-k Coats, Marsaillis Ku.-sift Duck, Tweed Cahitnere Frock and Pack Cuats, Bl'k. Brown Blue Cloth frock p'r. Black Casiniere I'unts,

•20

100

.10

Fancy

.10 24

Satinet*

.. Mursailles

?,.S

I.incn

1.10

.None offered •.

None

Dried---

3,00® 4.00® 2,00@ 10® 12

Peaches Beans Butter—Fresh Eggs Corn Meal Chickens—YoungPotatoes Bacon—Hams .•••:•• Sides

Vests-Marsailles.Silk,bnlin, Queens Cloth, &c., «fcc.

I All made in Good style

AND OF GOOD MATERIAL.

July Ilv3n51-tf. CAMI'BKI.L A CO.

AA BBT.S. Nalt iust received ami for for .UU Cash by [J tily 11 CampWlI &.

(.V

IMPROVED I'nt. Hay Rakes for sale by & July 11 1807. Campbell & Co.

/tAAA LATII of Good quality for sale ly I OUUU July 11,1 $57 Campbell & Co.

py gf MORE of Ford's Superior Pat. Straw CutO ters, just received by Campbell fc Co.

Two Horse Wagon, Smith «fe Doherty'scelebrated Mako, 1 new for salo by July 11 lS.17v6n.il. CAMPBELL & CO.

6DOZ.

Mowing Scvtlure and

July 11.

4DOZ.

New This Years-

Bunch

POUND,

Friday morning, June 2fitfc, a Pocket Book, containing valuable notcn and accounts, which the owner can have by calling at tbo Bake shop of J. Dobertr, and describing its consents and paying for this ad vertisement. It is supposed to belong to Mr. Noarthcutt, of Lafayette. [July 4, w2.

Snaths, for sale by Campbell & Co.

Reap Hooks, for sale by July 11, 1857vSu51-tf. Campbell

Co.

STEAM BAKERY! J. DOHERTY, Wedding Cake Bakerlj

CrawfordsviUe, Ind.

July 4, '57v3n50-tf.

Harvest Implements.

A superb quality of

SYTHES, SNATHS, S I E S HAND BAKES.

IIORSE RAKES.

Grain Cradles, &/C. &>c.

ALSO .. '..1

THE CELEBRATED

ketchum mowers,

can he furnisned on usual terms.

ALSO ON BAND

A few ipore of those ohoiee

STRAW CUTTERS

twaya warranted to give satisfaction.