Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 27 February 1858 — Page 1

AH APPLICATION Of COLO WATER .The, Indianapolis Sienttne/is fertile in honilo items. We have one, from the WtdMfdij paper, about the cruelty practiced upon a poof Irish girl, who was brought out West by the "Emigrant Aid Society." She is now declared craxy.— Yesterday, however, the Sentinel had an item'as is an item. It is this: 'Brookville, Franklin County, on Saturday night last, was thrown into a state of intense excitement. A man named John Wesley Pullen, a married man, having per suaded a young and beautiful girl, a resi dent of Brookville, and the daughter of a most respectable citizen, to accompany him to Cincinnati, there at a hotel put up with her, intimating that she was his wife. In 3 days he returned to Brookville, when the whole town rose against him for his nefarious conduct. He was brought before a magistrate, but the young lady, probably from blushing modesty, refused to testify against him. His acquittal was, therefore a consequence. But the affair did not end here. The indignant and excited citizens immediately took him in charge, escorted him, probably on a rail, to the canal, and cutting a hole through the ice, ducked him

From the London Times of February 1. FLOATING THE LEVIATHAN. Yesterday afternoon the long-protracted process of launching this vessel was happily brought to a successful termination, and the Leviathan was floated off her ways and towed to her moorings in the river.— As was stated in our last impression it was resolved on Friday night that the attempt to haul her to her moorings should be made on the following day, and to this end all the necessaiy preparations and precautions were duly arranged. But within a couple of hours after this decision had been made every arrangement was frustrated and all the plans overturned by the sudden change of wind.

Toward Saturday morning, the breeze steadily increased, sweeping across the river full on to the broadside of the Leviathan with such force, as would have driven her high and dry back again to her old position in the yard had she floated for even five minutes. With the break of day, therefore Capt. Harrison, with whom alone rested the responsibility of taking her to her berth, decided against floating her on Saturday, and immediately all the pumps and auxiliary engines were set to work to pump back again the water ballast of which to the extent of some 3,000 tuns, she had been lightened during the night.

Saturday's weather justified all these precautions to the fullest extent. The wind kept back the tide, so that, even empty of ballast, the Leviathan would scarcely have floated while at the same time it blew with a pressure of nearly 150 tons upon the monster's broadside. Even under the most favorable view of the case she must have gone ashore at once, or, failing this, have swept broadside up the stream, tugs and all, when she would have entirely settled the question as to the supremacy of the river, and put the Great Eastern Steam Navigation Company into the Gazette in a half an hour.

Nothing of the kind, however, was to be apprehended yesterday. The weather was fine, clear and calm, with scarcely any breeze, and what little there was all in favor of the vessel and a high tide.

The tide ran up with unusual swiftness, and as the flood relieved the weight upon the launching ways, some of the hydraulic machines were set to work for the last time, to push the monster as far as possible into the center of the river. She moved easily, and with such a low rate of pressure that a short time gave an advance of 80 inches, which showed that more than half the cradles were quite pushed off the ways and rested on the river bottom. At 1 the men in the row-boats stationed alongside observed that she no longer rested on the cradles, that she was in fact afloat, but, of course, the transition was so gradual that few were aware of it until the tugs began steaming ahead, and showed that at last she was fairly under way. Then the cheers which arose from the yard and from the decks, from the boats in the river, and the crews of the ships at anchor up and down the river, spread the great news far and wide, and thus under the most favorable circumstances the Leviathan commenced her first voyage on the Thames.

Two powerful tug boats were at her bows and two were fastened astern. Other steamers also were in attendance, and rendered their aid, but the efforts of the four were mainly instrumental in managing her. At first the efforts of those ahead seemed to have little effect, and when at length some way was made on her, it was abruptly checked by one of the paddle-wheels fouling the cradles. It took some time to clear her of this obstacle, but at last it was accomplished; her head was let swing partly round with the tide, and the steamers began moving her slowly, but very slowly, forward, clear of the cradles.— These, as our readers are aware, were composed of immense bulks of timber, on which the vessel's bottom rested, and which her weight alone kept down. The police therefore had to take unusual precaution yesterday to keep all boats clear of her while the wrecks of the cradles plunged up in tremendous masses as each was released by the onward movements of the Leviathan.

It was curious to see these huge groups of beams emerge from the river, rising rapidly from the surface of the water 20 or 30 feet, with a slow heavy movement, and then falling over with a great crash that churned the water into foam around them. Some, broken and splintered by the violence with which they were thrown against each other, formed a loose tangle of timber work, and went slowly drifting up the river in little islands, which rose some four or five feet from the water. Others, long after the great mass bad floated up, came plunging to the surface, falling about in a way that showed the necessity of the precautions taken by the police, and the certain destruction that would have overwhelmed any boat within their reach.

Soon after the cradles were cleared and the surface of the river covered with their fragments, the Leviathan fouled the barges which, moored with tremendous chains,

were formerly used to pull her downward toward the river. On this occasion, to judge from the liberal proffers of advice from all sides, everybody on deck deemed eminently skilled in dealing with impractible barges, and it was quite refreshing to hear how the men in the barge were desired to undo the mooring chains, and cast off hawsers, which it had been the business of the last three months to fasten and rivet firmly; but at last Capt. Harrison got a hearing, and under his directions, every remonstrance which sledge-hammers and axes could urge on the refractory tackle having been used in vain, it was decided to scuttle the barge. The expedient was, of course, decisive, and the Leviathan was again got under way, and brought slowly down to her moorings opposite Deptford.— Here she was instantly made fast, stem and stern, to to [sic] the Government moorings, in the center of the river, at a part where, even at low water, she will have almost double the depth to float her. By the time she was fairly moored, the news of her being afloat had spread up and down the river, and the Thames was almost covered with small boats, which rowed around her, and some of which were laden to the waters edge with men, women and children. Fortunately, no accident took place, and the tiny fleet that followed in the wake of the Leviathan, and which made the banks reecho their prolonged cheering, quietly dispersed before nightfall. ———<>———

A CHARITABLE MAN—How HE FEEDS THE HUNGRY.—An exchange paper furnishes the following account of the benevolent doings of a gentleman in New York. It says:

No more substantial or certain way of dispensing charity, arid assisting the suffering, can well be conceived of, than has been done in the city of New York, by Mr. J. W. Farmer. This gentleman, some time last November, after the banks had smashed and manufactories had suspended started at No. 47 Ludlow street, a free dining saloon, inviting all, of every class or age or color, to come and cat free of expense. This general invitation, of course, rew crowds to his door. Mr. Farmer has now been keeping open doors to the public, for more'than three months, during which time he has given away in food at Ins table 32 barrels of flour, 7 quarters of beef, 300 bushels of potatoes, 120 hams, 10 bushels of onions, 2 barrels of Dutch herrings and a barrel of mackerel, besides small stores in abundance.

Mr. armor's generosity has already cost him more than four thousand dollars, still he will not receive aid from any quarter, stating that he is able to carry on the work at his own expense. There arc eight persons employed :a the establishment besides himself, cooking, washing and waiting on the hungry swarm that pours into the saloon "from noon till dewy eve."

No questions arc asked the applicant for relief. "I am hungry" is the pass word that opens to the door to all, except those who arc drunk. A drunken man is excluded on the ground that if he can get money to get drunk, he is in no danger of starvation. The number who present themselves regularly is ahout 000. Besides these there are from 200 to 300 who only come for an occasional meal. No food is allowed to be taken from the premises, but they arc allowed to cat their till at the table. Last Saturday 7,093 persons were fed. Verily this is doing good "for sweet charitv's sake."

A IDEA.

Amis Napoleon, we observe, still continues to cherish the delusive idea that he ma}' be enabled, at his death, to leave his throne to his dcsccndcnt, and to wield and found a dynasty. The whole history of France for a hundred years must teach him that such a hope is baseless. But one sovereign in that long period was succeeded personally, and he, Louis XVIII, was put aud maintained on the throne by a million of foreign bayonets, and the system which was inherited from him did not last but six years. Look at the gloomy r.'r.m]

Louis XVI executed in 1793. Louis XYir, his son, apprenticed to a shoemaker, and died from ill usage in 1795.

Napoleon T, twice sent into exile, finally died on the Island of St. Helena. llis son, Napoleon II, died at A'icnua, in Austria, in 1831.

Louis XVIII, after being many years in exile, died on the throne in 1824, and was succeeded by his brother, Charles X, who was driven into exile in 1830. He was succccded by his cousin, Louis Philippe, who was driven into exile in 1848. The legitimativc representatives of both these families arc in exile.

Louis Napolcou, the present Emperor, was long in exile, and for many years was a close prisoner at Hani. Louis Napoleon will be fortunate, indeed, if, unlike most of tliemonarchs named above, he is enabled to retain his crown until his death but as to bequeathing it to his son, he may as well dismiss it as a vain chimera. His government is accepted, not as a permonent arrangement, but as a temporary affair, chosen for an exigency, to be dispensed with as soon as the exigency ceases. That is the way the thing is looked at in France. They have no elements of stability for an hereditary monarchy in France. The hereditary landed aristocracy was long since broken up, and, without it, an hereditary monarchy is an impossibility.

Master Louis had better make hay when the sun shines—make the most of his present power—for he has no guarantee that it will endure even as long as his lifetime. His son has but little more chance of succeeding to his father's throne than has the Count of Paris to that of Louis Philippe, his grandfather.

r,r: MONEY BECOMING A DRUG. Money is becoming so plenty in the Eastern cities that capitalists hardly know what to do with it. The following item from the New" York Evetdng Post, of Monday evening, is very significant: "The glut of money is becoming even greater brokers are refusing it at five percent, for a specified time. The rates tf discount are a shade easier."

THE RICHEST MAN IN ENGLAND. He is the Marquis of Westminster.— His wealth is estimated at £21,000,000 or $105,000,000 and his annual income at .£700,000. How he became so immensely rich is explained by Shelton Mackenzie, the well informed literary editor of the Philadelphia Press:'

Some people may desire to know how the Marquis of Westminster came to possess this immense property, equal to the fabulous wealth of the Count de Monte Christo. More than half of it has accrued within the last fifty years. The Marquis of Westminster is a modern creation, dating no further back than the time of the reform bill, when Earl Grey rewarded many of his politican supporters with new peerages, and with advancements in their degrees.

Thus the Earl of Grosvenor was changed into "the most noble the Marquis of Westminster," and originally inherited, with his father's Earldom, the estates—at that time chiefly consisting of land in Cheshire and Dorsetshire. But he was owner of a large tract of land in Westminster, stretching frohi the House of Parliament to Chelsea—land which originally belonged to the Crown, and was sold to the GrosveEor family for a trifle. By degrees, as Dondon increased, particularly spreading to the west, as most great cities do, this land, swampy and barren as it was. came into request for building purposes. George the Fourth, ashamed of such a residence as St. Jamos' Palace, (which was original ly a hospital, and looks like one to this day,) and tired of the Carlton House, ob tained authorization from Parliament to build another palace on the site of Buckingham House, in Pimlico, formerly the property of his mother, Queen Charlotte In the centre of a swamp, and only a few feet above the level of the Thames, from which it is not far distant, this was, perhaps, the very worst site in London for a dwelling.,

But upon it arose the present Buckingham Palace, the town residence of Queen Victoria, around which, with due rapidity, soon accumulated new squares and streets, the habitations of the rich and fashionable people of the West End. Many of these squares and streets, consisting of palatial houses, were built on the Grosvenor nion cy. The London practice is to lease out the building lots at so much annual ground rent, for the tenant to build the houses according to certain architectural plans supplied by the ground landlord, so as to secure uniformity of appearance and construction. The ground is generally leased ninety-nine years at the expiration of which period it reverts to the landlord, together icith whatever edifice has been constructed upon it.

Of course, as each of these houses comes back to the landlord, the grandson of the present Marquis of Westminster, who may be living when these reversions come into operation, will find his Loudon income marvellously augmented—for if tho rent for the mere ground of a fashionable dwelling in "Bclgravia," (so called bccausc the Marquis is also Baron Cclgravc) be estimated at JC300 a year, the dwelling itself, when it falls back, literally for nothing, as part of the Grosvenor estate, will be worth ten times as much. Whoever shall be Marquis of Westminster in the year 1900 may estimate his London property at not less than £'1,000,000 to £1,500,000 per annum —a comfortable income for one man, (unless, indeed, by that time the artificial distinctions of rank shall have become things of the past,) to be philosophically contemplated by Mr. Macaulay's Australian citizen, as lie sits on the ruins of St. Paul's, calmly smoking his pipe, and musing on the decay of great empires.

With all his wealth, the prcscut Marquis of Westminster was not above accepting service in the household of Queen Victoria, and wearing her livery as lord high steward, a sort of upper flunkey, whose duty it is to play the part of first class footman to his mistress, carry a white wand in his hand before her, and invariably walk backwards out of her preseuee, at the risk of sometimes falling, which has happened more than oncc. A Marquis with £'700,000 per annum, who would thus act as upper lackey for £'2,000 a year, is precisely the man to give no more than £100 to a national charitable purpose while Mr. Thackaray (whom, no doubt, he looks down upon) gives ten times as much.

FROM THE UTAH ARMY.—A letter has been published, written by Colonel A. S. Johnston, the commander of the Utah army, to a member of his family in Louisville, Ky., dated at Camp Scott, near Fort Bridges [sic], December 12, 1857, the following extract from wich embraces all that is of any general interest:

Some think the Mormons, when it is necessary to make issue with them, will submit to the Government. <I do not agree with them. I think their fanaticism and villainy will lead them to try one encounter at least and I think our Government ought to desire it, as affording a simple solution of a difficult political question>.— If they resist, a final settlement would be on the basis of a conquest. We would then dictate to them the terms of adjustment. ———<>———

MONEY.—Men work for it, fight for it, beg for it, starve for it, lie for it, and die for it. And all the while, from the cradle to the grave, Nature and God arc thundering in our cars, the solemn question, "what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?"—This madness for money is the strongest and lowest of the passions it is the insasiate Moloch of the human heart, before whose remorseless altar all the finer attributes of humanity are sacrificed. It makes merchandise of all that is sacred in human affection aud even traffics in the awful solemnities of the eternal world.

••"Nature delights in surprises. She duly places us, so many Selkirks, each on an horizon-bound island in the sea of time, and walls us in with crystal, so that we eannot see whither another night's sail will waft us.

NEW SERIES--VOL. IX, NO. 32. CRAWFORDSVILLE, MONTCxOMERf COUNTY, INDIANA, FEBRUARY 27, .1858. WHOLE NUMBER 812.

T0REEDAYSL1TER FROM EUROPE. Arrival of the Africa.

NEW YORK, Sunday, Feb. 21.

The steamer Africa, with.'.dates from Liverpool to the 6th instant, three days later than those furnished by the Niagara, arrived here this morning.

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. ENGLAND. re-assembled on the 4th

Parliament

inst. Lord Palmcrston gave notice that he would introduce a bill in regard to conspiracies to murder, which meets the refugees question.

Indian affairs claimed considerable attention in parliament.

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Lord Palmcrston gave noticc that lie would introduce a bill regarding an amendment of the Government in India.

Addresses were voted by both Houses, congratulating the Queen on the marriage of the Princess Boyal.

Mr. Roebuck asked Lord Palmcrston whether any communications had passed between France and England, in regard to the Alien Act, or alteration of the Criminal Code. He spoke bitterly against Napoleon and the French officials.

Lord Palmcrston acknowledged the receipt of a dispatch, calling attention to the refugee question, and hoping that the British Government would do what they saw fit.

No answer had been returned. He rebuked lloebuck's onslaught. Leave was given to bring in a bill authorizing the India Company to borrow not more than £10,000,000 on debenture in the next two years.

The French Consuls in England hereafter will not grant passports to British subjects.

FRANCE. IT

The new French penal law was undergoing modifications. A decree invests Prince Jerome Napoleon with the right of attending Councils of State, and presiding in the Emperor's absence.

ITALY.'

The trial of the Neapolitan revolutionists of June last had commenced at Salerno.

There is nothing later from India or China.

DREADFUL OATASTROPIL E-BURN-1NGOF A HOTEL—EIGHT OR TEN PERSONS KILLED.

ST. LOTIS, Feb. 20.

The Pacific Hotel was burnt at 3 o'clock this morning. Eight or ten persons arc reported to be killed and many more seriously injured by jumping from the windows.

It is impossible to ascertain particulars and the names of the killed and -wounded now.

SECOND DISPATCH.

The burning of the Pacific Hotel proves to be a much more terrible calamity than was reported this morning. Of the 100 persons in the house between 40 and 50 are missing.

The following arc the names of the persons so far known to be killed Bruce, MeXitt, Burkheart, Wast, Paull, Stcrrill, and Mrs. Jenny Jones and child, ill of St. Louis Johnson, of Chicago Henry llochcstcr and T. Hart Strong, of Rochester, N. Y. Win. Saunders, Taylor, Geo. Crane and Miss Jones, residence unknown Clias. Davis and Wm. Cunning ham, of the Tcrrc Haute fc Alton Railroad Miss Hunter, and Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard md nine persons iu one room, names uunown.

Seriously injured—James F. Geary, reporter for the St. Louis Leader E. Hays, X. Y. Jonathan Jones, 31. Towns, Wm. Turner, and Sharpe, watchman of the house.

The fire caught in the drug store under the hotel, and the flames spread so rapidly that before the inmates could be aroused the stairways were enveloped in fire, and all egress was cut off except by the windows.

Many leaped from the third story, and were horribly mangled or instantly killed, and many more who Avere unable to reach the windows were burnt to death in their rooms.

Several more bodies arc supposed to be in the ruins, and hundreds of excited men are energetically engaged in removing the rubbish.

The wounded have been promptly taken charge of by their friends, or sent to the hospital, where their injuries are immediately attended to. Several of the wounded cannot possibly recover.

The loss in property is upwards of $50,000.

LATER FROM THE UTAH ARMY. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 20. The Independence correspondent of the Republican, under date of the 16th inst., says that the Salt Lake mail arrived there last night.

Conductor Deaver reports the snow from one to six feet deep in the mountains and the weather intensely cold.

Col. Deaver left Camp Scott Jan. 1st.— The troops were in good spirits, and were earnestly wishing for good weather and reinforcements to make a descent upon Salt Lake City.

From Mormon prisoners and straggling Utah Indians, Col. Johnson is well advised as to the movements of the saints.— Activc preparations continue for resistance to the troops in the Spring. The municipal regulations are very stringent.

Suspicion fastens upon everybody in the least inclined to favor the action of the U. S. Government.

Gov. Cumming was performing the duties of his office as far as he was able. The outward bound mails were making good progress. Many Indians had been met with, but they were all friendly.

The Republican learns from private sources that the Penca [sic] Indians have committed depredations on property, wounding the cattle and threatening the lives of the citizens of Neobrarah [sic] City, near Fort Bridges. [sic]

Major Day had sent Capt. Davidson with three companies to quell the disturbance.

BURNING OF THE AMERICAN SHIP NEW ENGLAND AT SEA-GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.

On Sunday morning the bark Cora Linn arrived at Liverpool from St. Johns, New Brunswick, having on board the comman-. der, officers and crew of the ship New England, destroyed by the fire on the 9th inst.

The New England wag- commanded by Captain Peinberioii, ana was

Dound

from

New York to Glasgow, with a crew of 18 men, including officers. The" chief officer states that the ship left New York on Christmas Day, and encountered a succession of gales, which causcd the vessel to leak. On the 8th of Jamiary she eneoun tercd a tremendous hurricane,- and had seven feet of water in her hold. On the 9th, the officers of the doomed ship commenced throwing the cargo overboard.

The chief officer thus reports the calamity The cargo stowed in the passengers galley, in the forward house on deck, consisted of twenty-three barrels of coal oil, or 'naptha.' Succeeded in getting it nearly all out, when, about 10 o'clock, A. M., and in an instant, a loud report like that of a cannon was heard, and an explosion took place. In an instant the ship was enveloped in flames, from the main hatch forward. The naptha exploded, ran in liquid fire fore aud aft the vessel, floating on the surface of tho water on deck, washing over the spars and bulwarks with the motion of the ship. The most fearful cries were heard all over the ship, live of the crew being on fire and burnt. In a few minutes got the force pumps working, and tried to put the fire out and save the ship, but the house was burnt and the men driven from the pump by flames, (the wind being aft) and forced to seek refuge in the foretop. The spare spars on deck, the water-casks, the forward house and forecastle, and the bulwarks on both sides burnt with great rapidity. "The inaintopmast staysail now took fire and burnt off the main and inaintopmast stays. In about twenty minutes the foremast fell and went over the starboard side and in its fall brought down the maintopgallantmast, the sails havingbeenpreviously burnt away.

The bark Cora Linn bore down as fast as possible to the ship, and despatched a boat to our relief, in charge of the second officer. Finding it impossible to save the ship, and half the crew being burnt, cut away the boats. Launched one, and the second officer and three or four others got into her, and nearly swamped it but they succeeded in bailing it out. Those remaining on the burning wreck now launched the life-boat, with good success. The ship had now come up to the wind and began to pitch to the sea, which was heavy, and the main and inaintopmast stays being destroyed the mainmast threatened to fall over the stern every miuutc. No time was to be lost all hands remaining on board sprang for the boats, and jumped from the ship. Some missing their mark fell overboard, and were dragged into the boats, pulled away for the bark and deposited the crew on board of her in safety, where they received a hearty welcome from her noble captain, her officers and crew, md every attention was paid.to the wants of the suilerei-5. "During the time the ship was burning. Jno. Taylor, seaman, was on the house where the naptha was stowed lie rushed on deck, all in flames, the skin of his face all burnt off. lie either fell or threw himself in the water on deck, aud "the liquid fire washed over him. lie was dragged aft, and bucket after bucket of water was thrown over him still he continued to burn. His arms were burnt to a crisp, and his body from head to foot one black mass.— He was taken on board the bark, (after falling overboard,) where he lingered until the next night, unconscious of pain, when he died."

Five other men, who were seriously injured, had been placed under medical treatment at Liverpool.

8@fThc attempt to remove from Keitt tho just disgrace of being fairly knocked over, reminds the Post of a passage iu the testimony in the case of the Commonwealth ainst Borrowcastle, for an affray tried at Boston some years ago

Counsel—Did you see William Borrowcastle knock the man down Witness—William Borrowcastle might do such a thing.

Counsel—Answer m? directly. Did you see William Borrowcastle knock the man down 1

Witness—I can't exactly say that I did. The Court'TrrState, Mr. Witness, what you did see.

Witness—Well, I saw Mr. William Borrowcastle take his hawl aicayfrom the man's head quick, and then the man fell dncn right aicay!

THE BITER BIT.—A poor fellow who had spent hundreds of dollars at a certain groggery, being one day faint and weak, aud out of change, asked the landlord to trust him with a glass of liquor. "No, I never make a practice of doing such business," was the reply. The poor fellow turned to a gentleman who was sitting by, and whom he had known in better days, saying will you lend me a sixpence?"— "Certainly," was the reply. The landlord with alacrity placed the glass and decanter before-hini. He took a pretty good horn and turned with evident satisfaction to the man who had lent liiui the sixpence and said. "Here sir, is the sixpence I owe you —I make it a point, degraded a? I am, always to pay borrowed money before my gross bill."

|©"Wc remember being at a Conference meeting once, when one of the deacons came around asking the people if they wanted salvation. Near us sat a butchers boy, nineteen years old. "Do you want salvation?" asked the deacon, looking into his brutal face. "No, d—n yer I want Sal Skinner, and the sexton won't let me take her out till mcetin's over."

now THE FAIR EUGENIE WAS UNEXPECTEDLY KISSED. The Paris correspondent of the ifew' York Courier relates the following as a positive fact:

At the momcn when excitement, alarm and confusion were at their acme, a circumstance occurred of the most comic kind, to the intended victims of the infernal machine. The Emperor had just stepped out of his carriage on the pressing invitation of Lanet, of the bleeding countenance, and had turned shocked and horrified to cotcmplate the hundred and fifty wounded people who were writhing around him, when he felt his hand grasped by an unknown man of apparently l6w rank in life, who warmly congratulated hinri on his escape. Thanking the man hurriedly, the Emperor resumed, as I have said above, his regard of the sufferers, and gave orders for attention to them. His intru sivefclicitor turned from him inexual haste took the Empress in his arms, lavished on her his compliments on her escape, and kissed her a dozen times. When the Empress entered her box, and recounted the incidents of the explosion and its consequences, as far as she was concerned, she added, "And I was kissed with warmth by some person, but by whom I cannot conceive." "It was, no doubt, the same friend who shook my hand," said the Euipfcror.

Now, I have no doubt, I repeat, that you will receive this story with incredulity, but if you do, you will be wrong. -v \s usual, a number of young men were whilcing away their leisure hours in the Cafe dedicated to them, with billiards, dominos and piquet, and coffee, when the horrible attempt was made. Among them was one named Lippmaun, a very fast ma'n, and enthusiastic Bonapartist. A-tounded by the explosions of the shells, and aroused still further by the entrance into the Cafe of several splinters of the shells through the -windows which the shattered en passant, Lippmaun and his comrades rushed from the Cafe and seeing how matters stood, lie flew to the rcscue^md losing his head frolfi joy at seeing them safe, was the daring individual who had tho insigne honor of a warm shake of the hand by an Emperor and of heartily saluting, ad libitum, an Empress, in a situation never be fore chose for such a demonstration of affectionate loyalty.

DAMNING -THE INFANTS.—An exciting scene occurred among the Congregationalisms at North Woburn, Massachusetts, a few days since. Alpheus S. Nickerson, a recent graduate at Anuovcr Theological Seminary, made application to be admitted as an Evangelist, in connection with the Congregational Church and Society of that lag-. TI13 examination of the candidate was generally satisfactory to the council, except upon a single subject. Being questioned #s to the salvation of infants, he expressed his unqualified belief in the old, but now generally exploded doctrine, offorcordination, predestination, election, ami "infant damnation." He did no know precisely how the thing could be accomplished consistently with other parts of his creed, and with divine justice and goodness, but yet his conjidenrc in Divine justice and goodness, satisfied liiui that it was possible that those innocents, who have no agency in their creation, and who had committed no sin, could be eternally damned. Rev. Messrs. Cady, of "West Cambridge, Marvin, of Medford, Seward, of Burlington and Emerson objected to this generally "obsolete" doctrine, as a heresy not to be tolerate !, and refused to proceed to the ordination of the candidate. The council discussed the matter warmly until 7 o'clock in the afternoon, and til adjourned for eight weeks to reflect upon it, the audience having waited in the church from 10 o'clock, in expectation of the services. A secular eotcmporary says this is a remarkable scene for this age of enlightment. and is understood to be the movement for the purification of the churches, of which the Puritan Recorder is the ad voca tc.—Troy 1

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GENEJIAL JACKSON'S HONKSTV.—The benefit of an established character for honesty, is exemplified in the annexed incident:

Sometime in 1838 or 1830, a gentleman in Tennessee became involved and wanted money he had property and owed debts. His property was not available just tlier, and he posted to Boston, backcd by the names of several of the best men in Tennessee. Money was tight, and Boston hankers looked closely at the nat: "A'cry good," said they, but—do you know General Jackson "Certainly." .. "Could you get his endorsement "Yes, but he is not worth one-tenth as much as either of these men whose names I offer to you." "No matter General Jackson has always protected himself and his paper, and we'll let you have the money on the strength of his name."

In a few days the papers arrived with his signature. The moment those Boston bankers saw the tall A., and long J., of Andrew Jackson, our Tennesscan says lie could have raised a hundred thousand dollars upon the signatures without the slightest difficulty.

An Irishman used to conic home often drunk, and once when lie was waterin? his horse, his wife said to him: "Now, Paddy, is not that baste an example to ye.'

don't you see he laves off wheu he has had pcIl3SC

enough, the creature he isMhc o,tsensi-1

ble baste of the two. it a crj we

to discoorsc like that, Biddy, cried 1 addy,

"but if there was another horse at the ottier trough to sav—"Here's your health, my ould boy!" would he stop till he drank the whole trough, think ye?

t6T"01d Maid.—'"What! nine months old and not walk yet? When I was a baby I went alone at six months.'

Young Mother, aside,— 'And she's been alone ever since.

We all sec farther in a rainy day than we do in one clear and bright—that is, farther into thc day beforo yesterday

f®" A merchant lately advertised for a. clerk "whocould bear confinement." Hc(._, received an answer from one who 1 a 1 been 'just as we sec more of Heaven in thc night

seven years in jail. than we do in thc daytime.

A MISER'S PRAYER.

The following .singular prayer was made by John Ward, of Hackney, England.—' The document, which was fonud in Ward's own handwriting, might be called the miser's prayer. It is 5nc of the example^ on record of men combining in themselves the utmost fanaticism, with {lie total abstinancc of anything like moral feeling

O, Lord, thou knowest that I have nino estates in the city of London, and likewise that I have lately purchased an estate in fee simple in the county of Essex I beseech tlicc to preserve the two counties of Middlesex and Essex from fire and earthquakes and as I have a mortgage in Hertfordshire, I beg of thee to have an eye of compassion on that county and for the* rest of the counties, thou raayest deal with them as thou art pleased. O Lord, cnablo the Ranks to answer all their bills, and make my debts on good men. Give a prosperous voyage and return to the Mermaid sloop, because I have insured it and as thou hast said the days of the wicked arc but short, I trust in thee that thou will not" forget thy promise, as I have purchased:^ an estate iu reversion, which will be mino upon the death of that profligate young man, Sir I. L. Keep my friends from sinking, and preserve me from house-breakers and make all my servant's sy honest and faithful, that they may attend to uiy interests, and never cheat me out of my prop-"',, erty, night or da v."

GREELEY ON KI PETTICOATS. The New York Tribune, which has at various times given its readers evidence of IV full knowledge of all the iniquity going on in New York—taking in gambling hells,, houses of prostitution, dog-meat sausage factories, crinoline, carrion-fattcncd swine, .tc.,—'is also fully posted on the red petticoat. It says "They arc not made of flannel, but of woolen matcr'al of much heavier fabric.— Some are of plain scarlet, crimson, or green richly oYilbfofdcred to the depth or bight of a qua/tcr of a yard. Others arc bordered with embossed flowers or leaves, with black bayadere stripe# on the upper part. A cheapcr kind arc finished with stripei# only. Prices range from about three dollars to a small fortune. They arc or should be worn over a small hx»p and next to tho dress, reaching within half an inch of tho 'op of the ordinary gaiter boot. The dress which may be longer, is to be looped up on One side sJ as to show the border of tho mystic garment. Aside from the effect of the new petticoat as an article of dress, there is another feature which ought to t'ouimcud it to favor. It renders a burden of skirts unnecessary, and thus relieves woman of a load that materially injures her health."

A FICIITINC Cf.I:KGVMAN—MET Titr.nt MATCH. —The Wisconsin Pinery mentions a little affair that came off in Plover.— There having been a revival there, and some young bloods having fancied themselves insulted by the preacher, they procured a black snake whip, proceeded to the reverend gentleman's premises, called him out, ami undertook to square accounts by the application of the snake to the reverence's back. AVith quick perception, and a good share of bodily as well as mental vigor, the gentleman parried off tho blows, retreated to the house armed himself with a good shillelah, and being reinforced by a couple of reverend friends, ouo with a gun, and the other with a pitchfork, compelled the assailants to retreat, without effecting the settlement in the manner they had proposed. «1

"TIIE JKJIKS. "—The Illinois Baptist,-' of January 1-1, says that this strange infatuation is again revived. It made its appearance at a protracted meeting among the Methodists at Indian drove. Tho sccncs :TJ described as very exciting.—• From fifty to a hundred were jerking at the same time. Their hands, shoulders, feet ami head would be violently thrown into most grotesque and apparent painful shapes. The women's bonnets would fly off, their hair become dishevelled, and in some instances snap like a whip. In some instances it attacked unbelievers in it, and unconverted men who tried to resist it by folding their nrm« and wrapping them tightly around their bodies, but in spite of themselves, their shoulders, first one and he other, would be jerked back till they, lost all control of themselves.

6=aT"A first rate joke took placc quito telv, in our Court Room. A woman was testifving in behalf of her son, and sworo that he had worked on a farm ever sinco he was born."

The lawyer, who cross examined her, said, "Vim assert that your sou has worked on a farm ever since he was born.'" "I do." "What did he do tlse first year?" lie

milked."

The Lawyer evaporated. Hartford C'nurant.

Sor.n.—The was done:

Ohio Patriot tells how it

The ncirro-loving citizens of Salem were sold last week by a "gemmen ob color," who sported "whiskers and moustaches." He beat the shriekcrs at their own game. He "told a doh-ful story of a daughter in ,, .s|averv. and of his anxiety to raise money

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time to camnw, "word came" that he was I a humbug. He was taken at the depot, as the was about to leave, made to disgorgo die "several dollars," and sent on his way branded as au imposter. "caleni is A brick 1"

8e?*For some time past it has been currently reported that a man is about thn streets of Concord, N. II., during tho evening, in a state of nudity. A laryo' mr.a.bc? of ladies and a very few iuea state that they have seen him. Soiuo say that lie is not naked, but wears white clothes, aud others declarc that he a cohst.