Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 25 July 1857 — Page 1

EQUIEM.

7. tlydown:/ ber» .% chilly jrronnd. hnnh theel •a.

»igh ,»....i gone -I0',*-: tho «kyl

•i bar beauty, vu her worth angels come dowti To take her from earth. Strew blossoms, frenh blossoms,

O'er the place of her rest Fit emblems they aro Of the souls of the blest.

I knew her, and loved her, lb tho bloom of herjoutli And I thought her a model

Of purity and truth. .t" But she'? gone—she is gono To her home in the sk^ And nngels are chanting

Der welcome on high.

We've let down the curtain, We've put out the light Oh! calmly, and sweetly,

May she dreiim through the night! Let tho snow and the storm Beat over her head, For nothing enn troublo

The sleep of the dead!

Oh! bleak is th« earth When winter comes round, And dark in tho night

Wh«n tho moon hus eono down: And life's di arcst trcasurcH, Ah! what nro they worth. When the voice of a lovud one

Has died outon earth?

Bnt again the moon rises, Tho sprinc-time will bloom: 8o the loved one we've buried

Shall asccnd from the tomb!

For the fire immortal Thou hast breuthod in this clod For the brijrlit hope of Heaven—

We bles Thee, oh God!

I O A O E

One fine winter evening, early in the -cscnt century, Colonel and Lis maiden sister, Patty, were sitting on each flidc of a delightful hickory fire, enjoying their "otium cum dignitate," without any interruption, lor at least an hour and that, considering the sex of Miss Patty, was certainly very remarkable. The Colonel was sitting cross-legged in a great arm-chair, with his spectacles on, and his pipe in one hand, and a newspaper in the other, fast fcslccp. Miss patty was moving herself gently ferwnrd and backward in a low rock-ing-chaiV: Close by her fefct was the cat, •ivhilc Carlo was stretched out at full length on the rug in front of the firc( and, like his master, fastaslccp. At length the Colonel roused from hi3 nap, took off his spectacles, and rubbed his eyes. Then glancing at a very large pile ol papers that lay on the table near him, said: "I wish Henry was here to help me about my rents." "Well, I really wish he was," answered his sister. "I can't expect him this month yet," yawned the Colonel. "Hadn't you better send for him'?" said bis sist :r." •Upon this, the dog got up and walked toward the door. "Whore arc you going, Carlo?" said the old gentleman. /The dog looked in his master's face, wag god his tail, but never said a word, and pcrsued his way toward the door and, as he could not well open it himself, Miss Patty got up and opened it for him. The Colonel scorned perfectly satisfied, and was composing himself for another hap, when the loud and cheerful barking of the dog announced the approach of some one, and roused him from his lethargy. Presently the door was opened, and a young man gaily entered the room. "Why, William Henry, is that you?" said Aunt Patty. "Ilcnry, my boy, I am heartily glad to see you," said the Colonel, getting entirely out of the chair, and giving his nephew a hearty shako of the hand. "Pray, what has brought you home so suddenly?" "Oh, I do not know," said Henry. "It is rather dull in town, so I thought I would just step up and see how you all come on." "Well, I am glad to see you. Sit down," said the Colonel. •"So do," said his sister. "There, aunt, is a bottle of first-rate snuff for you and here, uncle, is one of capital Maraschino." "Thank you, my boy," said the Colonel. "Positively it does my heart good to see jou in such fine spirits." "And mine too," said his sister.

Henry, either anxious to help his uncle or himself, broke the seal from the top of the bottle of cordial, and drew the cork, while aunt Patty got some glasses. "W ell, my boy," said the Colonel, whose good humor increased every moment, "what's the news in Anything happened?" "No—yes," said Henry -I have got one of the best stories to tell you that you have ever heard in your life." "Come, let's have it," said he filling his glass.

"Well, you must know," said Henry, "that while I was in town, I met with an old and particular friend of mine, about own age. About two months ago he

fell desperately in love with a young girl, and wants to marry her, but dares not without the consent of his nnele, a very fine old gentleman, as rich as Croesus——do take a little more cordial." '-Why, don't his uncle wish him to mar* ry?" inquired the Colonel. "0, yes," resumed Henry. "But there's the rub: He is very anxious that Bill should get a wife, but he is terribly afraid that he'd be taken in for it is generally understood that he is to be the gentleman's heir. And, as for his uncle, though very liberal in everything else, he suspects every lady who pays his nephew the least attention of being a fortune-hunter." "The old scamp," said the Colonel "why can't he let the boy have his own way?" "I think as much," said Patty. "Well, how did he manage?" said the Colonel.,, "Why," said Henry, "he was in a confounded pickle. He was afraid to ask his uncle's consent right out he could not manage to let him sec the girl, for she lives at some distance. But he knew that his uncle enjoyed a good joke, and was an em thusiastic admirer of beauty. So, what docs he do but go get her miniature takeni for she was extremely beautiful, besides being intelligent and accomplished."

"Beautiful! intelligent! accomplished!" exclaimed tho Colonel "pray, what objection could the fool have to her?" "Why, she is not worth a cent," said Henry. "Fudge!" said the Colonel "I wish I had been in the old chap's placc how did he get along?" "Why, as I said, he had a picture taken, and as it was about the time of collecting rents, he thought it would make the old man good-natured if he went home and offered to assist him and so, answering all inquiries, he took the miniature out of his pocket, handed it to his uncle, and asked him how he liked it—telling him that a particular friend lent it to him. The old gentleman was in an ecstacy of delight, and he declared lie would give the world to see a woman as handsome as that, and that Bill might have her." "Ila!" shouted the Colonel, "the old chap was well conic up with. The best joke I ever heard but was she really beautiful?" "The most angelic creature I ever saw," said Henry—"but you can judge for yourself. He lent nic the picture, and, knowing your taste that way, I brought it for you to look at." Here Henry took it out of his pockct and handed it to his uncle, at the same time refilling his glass. Aunt Patty got out of her chair to look at the picture. "Well now," said she, "that is a beauty." "You may well say that, sister," said the Colonel, "shoot me if I do not wish I had been in Bill's placc. Deuce take it! why did you not get the girl yourself, licnry? The most beautiful crcaturc I ever laid my eyes on! I would give a thousand dollars for such a nicce." "Would you?" inquired Ilcnry, patting the dog. "Yes, that I would," replied the Colonel, "and nine thousand more upon the top of it, and that makes ten thousand shoot me if I would not." "Then I'll introduce you to her to-mor-row," said Ilcnry.

As there was a wedding at the house of the worthy Colonel the ensuing week, and as the old gentleman was highly pleased with the beautiful and accomplished bride, it is reasonable to suppose that Henry did not forget his promise.

From the London Tunes. June 20.

THE ANTI-EMJL.SH MUTINY IN INDIA-

Thc'mutinous spirit which had to a certain extent been chcckcd, if not extinguished, in the more southern portion of Bengal, had spread to Mcerut. At this point two regiments of native infantry—the lltth and 20th—had united with the 3d light cavalry, and had broken out into open revolt. This revolt, so far as it had showed itself at Meerut, had been put down.— There had been a collision between the revolted and European troops, the result of which was that the mutineers were dispersed and fled. To the southward and at no great distance lies the important city of Delihi, the capital of tho old Mogul Empire, and this town appears to have been the centre of the revolt. When the fugitives from Mecurt arrived here they were joiucd by three other regiments of native infantry—the 28th, the 54th and the 74th, and the united forces instantly took possession of the town. Any one who has had experience of the tiger like ferocity of the Indian in a moment of what appears to him success will be prepared for the result. An iudiscriminate massacre of the Europeans was the first action which the mutineers decided, and this they are said to have carried out in a manner the most remorseless and the most complete.— No tenderness was shown to sex, no reverence to age Delihi was turned into shambles, and so the first act of the tragedy was played out. The next step, however, may be considered as of a more omnious kind, if it is evidence of any preconceived design. The son of the late Mogul Emperor was proclaimed King, and thus the shadow sovereign whom we have so long maintained in empty state, has been raised into momentary importance—briefly wet rust, to disappear forever from human account. Nor is this all there has been disquiet on our old Sikh battle ground.— We are informed, under date from Calcutta, the 18th

of

May, that at

Feroeepore

also, there had been disturbances but that these disturbances had been suppressed' So far for the blacker side of the picture and next for what has been done to mitigate or meet the evil. "The government was taking active measures to suppress the revolt, and was concentrating troups around Delhi."

The italics are our own, and may, we trust, be justified by the event. It is of the last importance that the rebellion should be extinguished where it has arisen, and that armed fugitives should not be allowed to escape in numbers from the principal seat of the disturbances. When to this intelligence we add that the Bajah of Gwalior—the Nahartta State abutting on the south-western limits of Delhi—had placed the troops of which he could dispose at the service of the British Government, we have exhausted the brief but momentous advices which the electric telegraph brought to us at a late hour last night. The open rebellion of the Bengal Presidency, of the five regiments of Native Infantry and of one regiment of Light Cavalry, independently of what may have taken place at Perozepore, is undoubtedly intelligence as important as any which we have published since the fall of Sebastapol. It must also be remembered that these are not the only regiments affected with the taint of mutiny indeed, the very telegraph which brings this news adds that the 34th Regiment of native infantry, which had been before suspended, had been disbanded at Barracpore:

So far from feeling any serious apprehension for the stability of British power in India, iir consequence of these occurrences, we should be inclined to foretell that they may tend to confirm it, and to give lis a fresh lease of empire. We have for along time been pursuing half measures in India. There Can be 110 doubt that the reign of the mock King at Delhi will be but a brief one, and that a terrible retribution will be inflicted on the mutineers, not merely in that character, but as the blood}' and pitiless murderers of the Europeans in Delhi. If it was to come, this revolt could not have occurred at a better time. When the Russian war was raging it might have proved a more considerable inconvcnicnce indeed, a less matter, such as hostilities with Persia, now happily terminated, might have been a serious obstacle in the way of a satisfactory settlement. What we require is, the presence in Brittish India of the most competent officer who can be found, and an entire revision of our Indian Military system. It is not here the time or place to enter upon wider questions of policjr, such as the system of double government which has gone for so much in producing the present state of affairs. We cannot, however, conclude without urging again upon our rulers, as soon as this revolt is surpressed, the absolute necessity of carrying on the Indian railway system with great vigor.

IMPERISHABILITY OF (illEAT EX* A.III'LFS. The following eloquent passage occurs in Mr. Everett's great oration: "To be cold and breathless—to feel and speak not—this is not the end of existence to the men who have breathed their spirit into the institutions of their country, who have stamped their characters on the pillars of the age, who have poured their hearts' blood into the channels of the public prosperity. Tell me, ye, who tread the sods of yon sacred height, is Warren dead? Can you not still see him, not pale and prostrate, the blood of his gallant heart pour ing out of his ghastly wound, but moving resplendent over the field of honor, with the rose of heaven upon his cheek and the fire of liberty in Ins eye? Tell me, ye who make your pious pilgrimage to the shades of Vernon, is Washington, indeed, shut up that cold and narrow house? That which made these men, and men like these cannot die. The hand that traced the character is, indeed, motionless the eloquent lips that sustained it are hushed but the lofty spirits that conccivcd, resolved, and maintained it, and which, alone, to such men, 'make it life to live,' these cannot expire: '•Those shall resist the empire of decay, "When time is o'er, and worlds have passed away}

Cold in the dust the perished heart may lie. But that which warmed it once can never die.'

A REVOLUTIONARY NON BALL UNEXPECTEDLY Flit EI). In Norfolk, Virginia, on the afternoon of July 2nd, certain persons who Were mindful of what was due to Independence Day, came to the conclusion to clean out an old cannon which had been laying around ever since the Revolutionary War, with a view of preparing it for the firing of a salute. The touch-hole was finally opened, and by dint of perseverance the dirt within the chamber was hauled out, till room enough was made to pour in an ounce or two of gun powder. The piece was then primed, and the match applied, when very much to their surprise, an unexpectedly smart explosion took place from the mouth of the peice, something whizzed across the street, and there was a crashing of the wood in the door of the United Fire Engine House opposite. An investigation showed a respectable sized hole in the pannel of the door, and inside an old six pound cannon ball was found on the floor. The old cannon had not been used since the time when it was last loaded for the especial benefit of the Brittish troops, 77 years ago, and the artillery-men who then rammed home the ball little expected how many times the grass would grow and wither again above their graves before the missile should be discharged. It was verv appropriate that a cannon loaded by the patriots of 1776 should be fired in commemoration of their time-honored and glorious deeds.—N. Y. Times.

THE GREAT OCEAN RACE.—By the An-glo-Saxon at Quebec, it appears that in the great race between the steamers Vanderbilt and Atlantic, the former won, having made Southampton in less than 10 days while the Atlantic was 11 to Liverpool.— Southampton is some hours further from New York than Liverpool. Heavy bets were made on this contest, and in the start the Atlantic seemed to have the best of it, as the Vanderbilt required deep water for her greatest speed.

RIES--VOL. n, NO. 1. CRAWFORDSVILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA, JULY 25, 1857. WHOLE NUMBER 78L

MOST LOATHSOME an* STARTLING DEI ELOP.rtENT. We find the annexed shocking statement of a most infamous system of juvenile prostitution and robbery, in New York, in the Tribune, of the 13th: S

ARREST or JUVENILB PROSTITUTES—A MOVE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.—Yesterday afternoon, officers Hamblin and Falwell arrested six of a gang of juvenile prostitutes, who have, for a long time past, frequented Broadway and other streets in the vicinity, conducting themselves in a disgusting and disorderly manner during all hours of the day and evening. The names of those under arrest are Sarah Jane Henry, Hannah Janncey, Mary Ann Riley, Eliza Fitzgerald, Mary Ann McFadden and Ann Hunt. Words'can scarcely be found to depict the true character of this class of—we hardly know what to call them.— At all hours of the day, but more particularly from noon until seven or eight o'clock in the evening, may have been noticed, and indeed must have been noticed, for they cannot escape observation—numbers of little girls, varying in age from six to sixteen years, strolling along Broadway, sometimes two or three together, and not unfrequently five in a party. These young delinquents infest the outer doors of almost every place of amusement in the city, as well as saloons, daguerreotype rooms and hotels, with a view to pick up customers. Some of these children, for such they are are neatly dressed, but not extravagantly the majority, however, being attired in short frocks, and with calico hoods:

They are sent out, by their imprudent aud criminal mothers, for the purpose of attracting the attention of men and boys whom they decoy into their haunts, and rob, unawares, of such money or other valuables as they may have in their possession. To the unknowing ones these girls appear as venders of wax matches and songs, and thus gain opportunities of introducing themselves to their victims. Iloa-ry-headed men, and men of wealth and position, to their shame be it said, have been seen tottering after these thieving little prostitutes to houses of assignation in bystreets. The details of their mode of procedure would be too revolting for the public eye. Having entrapped their victim into a room, the girl will lock the door, but ere the lapse of two minutes a sturdy knock will come, and an angry voice demand admittance. The victim opens the door, when in stalks a powerful man, backed generally by two or three rough-looking fellows, and asks angrily: "What arc you doing here with my daughter?" The victim knows not what to reply, and indeed he is at first given but little time, for the fellows pretending to be officers, talk about taking him to the Station House. The pretended father withdraws, when the men assuming to be officers, propose to release the victim upon payment of a specified sum. According to the appearance of the appcarancc of the individual so they fix the sum, but will generally take what ever they can get.

In other cases, the girl will perpetrate the robbery herself, by taking her victim's pocket-book, making an excuse for a moment to leave the room, and then hurry from the house. A good haul of money having been obtained, the little thieving prostitute hastens home to her monster mother, and delivers the proceeds of her villainy, when she is sent out on another expedition.

In most cases the victims prefer to pockct the loss than to prefer complaints and subjcct themselves to exposure in the public prints, and thus these villainies go on from day to day the year round.

This class of girls evince a remarkable knowledge of human nature, and seem to understand as well as those of mature years the method of gaining the confidence and entrapping the male sex. Strange as this life of debauchery may appear, it is often commenced by girls not more than six years of age, led on by girls older in years as well as crime, and encouraged by their mothers, who reap a rich harvest from the course pursued by their daughters.— Most of these children are bright and intelligent looking, and, but for the path they arc caused to pursue, might become honest and respectable women. No feeling is evinced for these little ones until their arrest and arraignment in court, when the mothers appear, and beg and implore the magistrates to discharge their children, setting forth what good girls (liey are, how they go to school every day, and arc scarcely ever, unless at school, out of their sight. Against the course of life which it is charged their children pursue the mothers make solemn protest. Upon these supplications, which bear a semblance to truth, the magistrate usually discharges the juveniles but they have scarcely reached home before their mothers drive them forth again upon the streets. The children arrested yesterday were sent to the Juvenile Asylum, where it is to be hoped they may be so trained as to become respectable members of society when they grow up to a proper estate. There are hundreds yet at large who should be forthwith arrested and sent to the Asylum.

BANK OF ENGLAND.

The Bank of England is the greatest bank of circulation in Europe. It was established in 1690, by charter, and fras projected by Mr. Patterson, a keen and ardent Scotsman, who also conceived the grand design of uniting the great oceans of the Atlantic and the Pacific by an establishment at the Isthmus of Darien. The original capital was £1,200,000, which was lent to King William and Queen Mary at the high rate of £100,000 a year. It soon required an additional subscription of £300,000.

Great Britain has had an advantage over all the other states of Europe, from her private and provincial banks, which, with proper regulation and prudence, might be sufficient for all the real wants of foreign commerce. The Bank of England has combined the proper business of commercial bauking with the national finance, and is now less a bank of circulation than an engine of the government. All its capital is placed in the public funds the greater part of its advances is made to the government moderate proportion only of its

paper money is employed for discounts for merchants. The Bank of England, like all other public banks, has been exposed to the shocks of public convulsion. During the invasion of 1745, time was gained by counting out sixpences. The embarrassment which its connection with the government brought on in 1797, and the suspension of metallic payments at this period, reduced the bank notes from a paper of commercial credit to a state paper money. At tins time only £8,500,000 of its notes we're in circulation, and not £1,300,000 of specie in its coffers. It was then discovered that nine-tenths' of its papef served the purposes of government and that its uses' iu the commerce of the country had been greatly exaggerated in the public opinion that it was the private banks that fed and supported the great circulation of the country, and not the trifling sum of JE3,000,000 of Bank of England paper employed in the discount of commercial bills.

So much have the affairs of the bank since improved, that it is now supposed that it can, with its bullions and bills discounted, withdraw in one hour (if it were physically possible), all its notes, not exceeding, perhaps, at this time, .£25,000,000. The capital of its proprietors, and the amount of its accumulation then remain, all vested in the public funds, or advanced on the exchequer bills of the state. In this case there is no cause for public alarm, as to credit or solvency but the mechanism of the bank is essential to the motion of all our payments, of which it is the center and the pivot of regulation, as of impetus and progression.

It is a remarkable circumstance, that although the Bank of England was originally projected by a Scotsman, yet it has been a constant practice, almost from the period of its first establishment, to exclude all Scotsmen from a share in its direction.— They probably think with the Irishman, who, some years ago, feeling indignant at the superior influence of the Scotch over his own countrymcn, remarked, "That if ever a Scotch plebian succeeded in acquiring a fortune in China, he would end by becoming prime minister there and if the Chinese emperor would let him go on there would not be a single ecclesiastical, civil, military situation in the whole empire that, in the course of ten years, would not be filled by Scotsmen."

MUSIC.

Hon. R. C. Winthrop, in a late address before a Musical Society in Boston, related the following incident:

I have heard the late John Quincy Adams—an intense lover of Music himself, and whose comprehensive acquirements embraced a knowledge of this particular subjcct which would have been extraordinary in anybody else—tell a story which may serve as an illustration of the state of American music at that prceisc period.— During the negotiation at Ghent of that treaty of peace to which I have just alluded a festival or banquet, or it may have been a ball, what was about to take place, at which it was proposed to pay the customary musical compliment to all the sovereigns who were present or represented on the occasion. The sovereign people of the United States—represented there, as you jy011 telHnto my trap, remember, by Mr. Adams himself, Mr. Baj-ard, Mr. Clay, Mr. Jonathan Russell, and Mr. Gallatin—were of course not to be overlooked, and the musical conductor or band master of the place called upon these commissioners to furnish him with our national air. Our national air, said they, is Yankee Doodle. "Yankee Doodle," said the conductor, "what is that? Where shall I find it By whom was it composed Can you supply me with the score?" The perplexity of the commissioners may be better conceived than described. They were fairly at their wit's ends. They had never imagined that they should have any scores of this sort to settle, and each turn-1 ^yest~relatcs that

ed to the other in despair. At last they

bethought them, a happy moment that

there was a colored servant of Mr. Clay,

who, like so many of his race, was a first-

rate whistler, and was certain to know

lankee Doodle by heart. He was forth-

with sent for accordingly, and the problem j,

was solved without further delay. The

band master jotted own the air as the col-

ored boy whistled it, and before night (said Mr. Adams,) Yankee Doodle was set to so many parts that you would hardly have known it and it came out the next day in all the pride, pomp, and circumstance of and

viol and hautboy, of drum, trumpet,

W-Ji SCENE OF RETRIBUTION A picturc representing the eale of a quantity of old furniture seized for rent, was exhibited some years back, in the window of a dealer in the Place dc la Madeleine, Paris, and attracted considerable attention. In the foreground was placed a poor woman holding in her arms a child, and watching with a sorrowing eye the progress of the sale. The sweet face of the child stood out in strong coutrast to the distressed countenance of the poor mother. Further back, we see the personages connected with the sale, represented with great vigor. The following is stated by a Lyons journal to be the history of the scene depicted: "A few years since, the painter of the picture in question, an eminent artist of Lyons, while passing through the llue des Furraux, approached a number of persons who were gathered together witnessing the sale of the furniture of a poor woman.— A woman was seated on the pavement with a child in her arms. The painter spoke to her, and was told that the furniture which was being sold belonged to her that

her husband had lately died, leaving her

The purchaser then addressing the painter, said: "In seeing an artist of your merit bid so eagerly for the picture, I suppose it must be valuable. Now tell me, sir, at what do you estimate its value?"— "About three franks and a half," replied the painter "but 1 would not give that for it," "You arc surely jesting," said the landlord, "for you bid as high as 2,100 francs for it." "That is true," replied the artist, "and I will tell you why I did so.— You arc in possession of an income of 20,000 francs a year, and have seized on the

furniture of a poor woman for a debt of 200 «hc

the inornin„ from tlic plilcc v}iere

thc countlT) ai)(l finding

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cymbal, to the edification of thc allied -j

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would agree that he earned his liberty and citizenship too on that occasion.

THE TYRANNY OF THE BRltfSH IN INDIA. The London Times calls upon the East Indian Government to use the most extreme and severe measures to put down the insurrection which thc natives of that country seem to have set on foot against the filibusters who have so long lorded it over them.- In alluding to this suggestion, the New York Herald appropriately says: "It is impossible to take leave of the subject without a singular mixture of horror and admiration at thc sublimely impudent and atrocious doctrines put forth in a moral and sanctified tone by thc leading

tanec

Qutge

organ of the British pre'ss. For a centu-j^^ States and every thing has been leit, ry and more the poor Hindoos have been just as you now see it, ever since mercilessly trampled by the English their

land has been seized, their daughters have been ravished, tL_ir sons have been made servants, their money has been appropriated, their political independence taken away nothing whatever has been left them no, neither family, nor national, nor religious, nor caste, nor personal rights. Yet, at this hour of day, when all this frightful oppression has been practiced for a century, the Londom Times coolly tells us that the reason of the failure of thc East Indian experiment has been its too great leniency and its too imprudent favor to the Hindoo. Nothing, therefore, remains but to cut the poor creatures' thro*ts bodily."

aud towns on paper. It says: impression of thc Illinois witness was corA gentleman recently returned from thcjrect. setting out early in

he "had

the ni htj he conHUited

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ELOPEMENT l» HIGH LIFE—A OU9«f BAND AVI NSiEff HIS WRONGS. The N. Y. papers of tho 13th give an account of an elopement in high life in that city, which well nigh resulted in the death of the male delinquent, and may yet prove fatal. It appears that on Sunday morning the 25th ult., the arrangements having all been previously made, a young man, who. is designated as B., carried off the wife of Mr. A.—all the parties being wealthy and highly respectably connected. The husband having had some iutimation of what was about to take place, followed the carriage in which his wife and paramour had taken flight, and, wrcnching open the door, immediately commenced an onslaught upon the young man with a bowie knife, and did not desist until ho had inflicted a dangerous wound in the neck, several upon' the arm one of which will render the arm useless, and also a severe gash across his stomach. During the melee the young man discharged a pistol, the ball grazing his adversatj'5 forehead and causing a slight wound. Tho carriage was turned back to the house, tho young man removed to a room, and tho

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with the child she had in her arms that she had struggled hard to maintain herself by working day and night, and submitting to every privation but that her landlord had at length seized her furniture for some month's rent which was due him. The artist was much affected by this simple recital, and inquired who was her land

woman, pointing to a man who was watching the progress of the sale and lie was recognizcd by the painter as a person who was suspected of having amassed a considerable fortune by usury, so to make any appeal to his feelings on behalf of the poor woman would be useless. The artist was considering with himself what other plan he could adopt to benefit her, when the crier announced a picturc for sale. It was a miserable daub, which in the summer, the poor woman had used to hide the hole in the wall through which the stove-pipe passed during the winter. It was put up at one franc. The artist at once conceived a plan for taking revenge on the landlord.— lie went over, examined the picture with great attention, and then called out, with loud voice, "One hundred francs!" The landlord was astounded at the bid but conceiving that a picturc for which so eminent an artist could offer that sum was worth more than double, boldly offered 200 francs. "Five hundred!" said the painter, and the contest between the two bidders became so animated, that the prize was at length knocked down to the landlord at 2,200 francs.

family physician was called in to dress the

wounds. At this stage of the affair tho two gentlemen rccognisccl each other as intimate business friends in New York. As the lady remained incog. Mr. B. declared that he was not, aware of the relations existing between Mr. A. and the lady, or ho' would not for the world have taken this step. Mr. A. was sorry for his rashness,

lord. "There he is," replied the poor I »»d regretted that he had not allowed^ his

wife to leave without molestation. Tho physician was of the opinion that the wounds would prove fatal. A consultation was deemed advisable, and it. was decided there was a chance for recovery. The wife was discarded, and proceeded at once to her friends. During the day the father and brothers of the lady visited A., and after having heard his version of the affair, did not blame him for the course he had taken. The wife consigned the custody of the three children to her husband, after which he generously gave her the oldest boy.

TEl-.Til IN TI.KTIMONY.

Here is one of Hon. O. II. Smith's "Rcniiniscenccs of Early Indiana Trials In an interesting trial at llushvillc, in which I was engaged as counsel, my principal witness to sustain tho case was a woman by the name of Elizabeth Blackstone. She had sworn positively to the facts of the case. Messrs. Test and Rardicn, the counsel on the opposite side, saw that tho ease was with me unless they could impeach her testimony. She was a stranger, and none knew her character, good or bad. She had testified, however, that she was iu the Stato of Ohio at a particular time. This was taken down b}r the counsel, and upon that point they expected to contradict and discredit her. After she left the stand, they called a witness who resided in Illinois to prove that at the time she stated she was in Ohio she was at a dance in Illinois, where the witness was. Elizabeth wore a beautiful set of artificial teeth—a mouth full.— She sat some distance back from the witness stand. The witness from Illinois swore positive!}' to her person, and that

at ,hc

francs. I wished to give vou a lesson, and directly conlrad.pli.ig her. 1 he counsel vou fell into my trap Inkcad of the poor fa™0

woman being your debtor, she is now your! whispered in my car: '|Let me ask h.m a creditor, and flatter n.vsolf that you will I»e.stio.i. Certainly fcho turned her not compel her to seize on your furniture

for her debt." The artist then politely ^V11

saluted the astonished landlord, and, having

announced "her good fortune to thc poor woman, walked away.

TOWN HIAKlNt IN THE WEST—IIl MOUOUS SATIItE. The Boston Traveler thus humorously notices the speculating mania which pre-

vails in the North-west to lay out counties

I"'ois

thc

a,,tI

110

stcPPc

road Jjiit .some twelve RN- fifteen MORJII itst-lf ]J:IS no npjrof-i tbIe effect upon

j2cs off, concluded to jnurncv as far as this planet—that the moon is a frag

before breakfast. Another equal-

town, bearing as high-sound-

a namCi was

laid down at a convenient

distance for his afternoon Stage, and there he proposed halting for the night. He continued to travel at a good round pace until the sun had risen high in the heavens, and until he computed that he had accom-

plished mf)re twice or flirico the dis-,' the outward order flourine, electricity and

of the United sovereigns of America. even of the humblest kind, much less such (atmospheric strata above and the solid beWhethcr that boy was bond or free I know a magnificent one as his map repared him low us, it is not difficult to perceive that not, but I think that both North and i.outh }or length, meeting a solitary men, animal and vegetable forms are exist-wood-choppcr emerging from the forest, he inr in I he centre of the earth's stratifica-

which he proposed to himself in the [magnetism, that subtle element pervading

Still he saw no town before him,' all space and that, observing the various

ing in I he cent re

accostcd him. and inquired how far it was tion. Thc electric lines of no variations to Vienna. ienna." exclamed thc man, are those extending from the north to the "why you passed it fivc-and-twenty miles south pole the dia-magnetic or the diaback. Did you notice a stick of timber electric currents lines are those extending and a blazed tree beside the road?—that (around the earth from west to east, and are was Vienna!" Thc dismayed traveler!ever variable. It is the variableness of then inquired how far it was to the other these dia-electric currents, says the writer, place at which he designed

passing

at the time,

ove the Wlt ess

,no-

*l»ppcd out her false

then,

tier handkerto the witness,

rpiickly

looked him full in the lace, opened her mouth wide, exhibiting a few rotten snags: "Did you ever see me before "JSFo, I can .wear I never did. You looked some like the lady I saw, but I see you are not tlic same woman. She had beautiful natural teeth." The triumph of "art" in Eli- .. zabeth was complete. 1 afterwards lcnrn-

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aml the first

A NEW TIIEORV.—A writer in the National Intelligencer is advocating the theory that the moon is simply the indicator of the earth's electric changes—and that tho upon gmcnt the earth, is negative to it, and revolves upon its own axis, within the earth's atmosphere that the earth is enveloped in an ocean of electric vapor, dense and compound upon its solid surface, whose gases separate, however, as they deepened outward, the rare always emanating from the ... resting on the more dense, until we reach

the that produces all the phenomena attributed

night. "Why you are right on the place to the influence of the moon, upon thc now," returned the man "it begins just on earth. thc other side of the ravine, and runs down to a clump of girdle trees which you will see about a mile further on the road. "Are there no houses built.'" faltered ont the traveler. "Oh! no houses whatsomever," returned the woodsman "they hewed and hauled the logs for a blacksmith's shop, but h'fnre they raised it thr

MODERN ELOQUENCE.—A correspondent of the Boston Courier gives tho following extract of a sermon recently delivered by a Harvard University, and asks if students are safe when exposed to such language: "Viewing the subject from the esoteric standpoint of Christian exegetical analysis, and agglutinating thc polsynthetical ectoblasts of homogenious asceticism, we perceive at once the absolute individuality of this entity while from the other standpoint of incredulous Bynthesie, which characterize the Xenocratic hierarchy of the Jews,

0&" A lady went into a store in New \'ork city, recently to purchase a shawl. Just as she was handing the clerk two fifty dollar bills, she received a blow ou thc face from a well dressed person, who exclaimcd, 'I forbade you buying a shawl' and snatched the moncv from her hand, he evaporated.

town lots icerc all disposed "of in thc Eas- The lady fainted, and on recovering, the merchant expressed surprise that her husband should have acted so ungentlemauly

lut his surprise was greatly increased when the lady informed him that it was not her husband, and that she had never seen him before. The bold thiei, however, had made good his escape.

I©* Hoe's new patent tea cylinder printj ing machine is made up ot 14,30 pieces, and 20,063 yards of tape and blankets are used. The press weighs twenty tons, three quarters and fourteen pounds, and the cost is $30,000. Thc first one finished is used in the New York Herald establishment.—

lie ins Acuui i»uv u«.i«vu It will throw off twenty-four thousand sheets

we we constantly^impressed with the pre- in an hour. Three of these machines have cisely •ntiperietatic quality thereof" been ordered by the London Time*.