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NEW SERIES--VOlr IX, NO. 33,

..-60 "HOTT£T. Oo'.not yot. the pight i« young,

The moon is 5carc.il* on her way, -Ahid the nightingale haa «nng v,wBnt tbe prelndo to Iter lny.x"""

Go not yet!

trjwlv] and caae my beating heart, 0-. 1 Paiitiiig all ito truth to prove Sir ^Vkyae'early wilt thon part? i-i u«:

We the """crat honr of lovo.r

*VLL. ''J M' OO not yet!

.Banting lipa act their ncal On rny passion'* bond to-night, :. While they eagerly reveal llow thoa art my soul's tlcligbt.

Go not yet!

!BtoTen*moments,

let them be'

WitncMee of ilper bH»» All tlint'n pa-1 ahull worn to thee

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But a dream compared to thia. Go not yet-

TOO LITTLE^TO COME.

There were three of us—Ktstc, Annette and myself—and we were going into the old wood to hunt strawberries. Oh it was such a delicious day in June. The birds sang till the air was fairly vocal with their melody, and all the green trees nodded their heads with approbation. The very brooks seemed to have the general inspiration, and danced along through the meadows as if keeping to a quickstep of the fairies.

Annette Summers' and I had been invited to spend the half-holiday with our schoolmate, Kate Harrington. Deacon Harrington's old-fashioned, brown house, fronted toward the South. Behind it stretched a broad green meadow, and still further back was a densely wooded acclivity famous for flowers and berries in the geography of every child in Rcyficld. I used to love to look at Deacon Llarringlon's old brown house, even in those early days, when 1 had not a single well-defined notion of artistic skill in my head. I knew that it combined to an eminent degree the elements of the picturesque. The low roof, which sloped backward nearly to the ground was gray with moss. Ivy crept about the windows, and over the mstic forch lmJ climbcd twining roses, along with heavy clusters of trumpet creepers.

There was a rude scat at the doorway, made of the little boughs of the white Lirch, twisted together in fantastic fashion, and here grandmother Harrington was wont to sit, with her gray woolen knitting work. Oh what a treat we used to think it to spend a half-holiday with Kate Harrington. "I wish I were you, Kate," cxclaimcd Annette, after we had spent hair the long mimmcr afternoon chasing butterflies, and arranging a vegetable baby-house, with hollyhocks for our ladies' parasols, and teapots manufactured of veritable poppy pod?.

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wish I were you, and then I could be all day long, with nothing to trouble

happy me."

could, could you and K.-ilea's

cheeks flushed as she put away from them her heavy bands of black hair "you think so, and tint's all yiu know about it. I have a thousand things to vex me. There is llose, for instance. Molher expects me to be constantly taking care of her, and ahe's the greatest little torment 3*0a ever saw. 1-y the way, girls, let's start after those strawberries in the wood, now she is out of sight for a minute, so she won't tease to go with us."

We were half-way across the meadow, •when we heard a sweet voice crying— "Please, sister Kate, I\osc wants to tot)."

I turned round, I remember, and thought Low beautiful was the little creature c-mu-ing toward us. She was very unlike her sister Kate. Kate was a brunette, but the little white-robed figure tripping ucro^s the meadow had a pale, spiritual fate, and long curls of golden hair fnliing to her tiv.y waist. There was a flush 011 her check, ami a look of eager, beseeching interest in har largc blue eyes and she stretched her dimpled arms towards us, and kept crying in her earnestness: ""Please, girls, wait for Rose."

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look of vexation crossed Kate's face, and she called out in a toucof extreme irritability: "Go back, Pose, you're too little to come! Go back go back!" ®Kate always had a way of being minded, and the little 011C put her fingers to her nose, and silently turned towards the house. We hurried on in the direction of the wood without giving a single glance backward.— I tliiuk Kate's conscience rcproached hei for selfishness, and I know my own pleasure was spoiled for the afternoon. We found plenty of strawberries, red and ripe among their beds of leaves. There were little blue-eyed blossoms, too, that kept reminding me of Itosc, and I was not sorry when the sunset shadows lengthened, to go home.

We had gone down tl.e hill out of the wood, and crossed several rods of the xueadow land, when Kate said—in a hoarse whisper"Sec there, girls, what is that white thing by tho brook? Do you see it •tfWe saw it and hurried towards it. It «ras Rose. At first we thought she was dead. Scarcely seemed the'faintest breath to steal from her parted lips, and the pulsations of her heart were so weak you could •uarcely feel them. She was in a trancelike sleep. It was some time beforo we sncccedcd in waking her, and then her limbs seemed chilled and stiffened by the snbtle dampness of tho meadow-land atmosphere. She could not stand. How Many times that afternoon the little darliug bad begged of us to "make a chair" for her with our hands, and we bad answered that wo cOttldn't stop. We made one now.— She-twined her dimpled arms about our neeks, and held on very tight bat she didn'-t speak, except once, and then she onjj^aaiA, "Ain't I most big enough, sister

^JtiwcHarringtoB met ns at the door with •*fok'ef alarnH «™6ood Heavens,' Kate!" she exclaimed, "What's the matter with Rose And tatakio£ her from our arms, she discovered that&ir etothes were almost saturated with mpisture. ~K*t«, child "irhy don't YOU

There were tears, sighs, a funeral and a little coffin. The rose-bud opened its petals on the bosom of Jesus. The little earth-flower was "biy enough for Heaves."

HOW nTlt ANT li USB »ND was FOUND. The Blooniington (111.) Paragraph tells a good story of one of its citizens, who nought after a servant girl and found one in the person of his deserted wife

On Saturday, 22d inst., Mrs. Mary S. Rich, agent of the "Woman's Protective immigration Society." arrived at the Western depot from New York, in charge of .seventy-five or eighty young women, twen-ty-live or thirty of whom were intended for this place. Early in the morning a married man of this city went to the depot and inquired for Mrs. liich. The married man found Mrs. liich. The married man told Mrs. Kicli lie wanted a girl to do house work. Mrs. liich asked the married man who lie was. The married man satisfied Mrs. Ilieh that he was all right, and that the servant girl would be treated as one of the family. Mrs. Rich then asked the married man into the room where the young women were. The married man walked into the room. Mrs. Rich told the young iadies that the married man wanted a girl (0 dt jusework. One of the young lad.es then walked up to the married man and said: "I'll go with this gentleman I've lived with him before lie's my husband!"— Somebody was very much astonished when ihe young lady found her husband, and another somebody looked very pale when the married man found his first wife.

The sequel is, the married man broke from the depot and sloped raj,idly.

Curious LAW SUIT.—The Cleveland Plain Dealer thinks that there must be strange people in this world, and founds that opinion on the following statement of the facts of a law suit now pending in a court iu that city

The case is Snider vs. Blattncr. Some time ago Snider caught Blattncr having illicit intercourse with Mrs. Snider. Snider remonstrated. Blattncr apologized. Snider rcfu.-ed to accept the apology. Blattncr said he would pay Snider $100 in cash for the wrong he had done him, and give his note for 5400 if he would keep mum. Snider agreed to the proposition and pocketed the Si00. The note fell due. Snideinaiubd the money. Blattncr de-

H1 paying, alleging in excuse that Snider had not kept mum as per agreement. 0 Snidjr sues Blattncr for the S400.— Blattner p!ea.ls in defence that Snider did not fulfill his part of the agreement. The testimony is voluminous.

A MELANCHOLY SCENE.—Coroner Kennedy last night informed us that never in his experience did lie sec a poor crcature so utterly heart-broken and distracted in tuind, as was the wife of Mr. Hayes, one of the victims in the late terrible catastrophe. From the time she received the news in Wisconsin she lias traveled "night and lay, as she so pathetically and heart-rend

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"No, qaa'am, but she went into the meadow and got to sleep, and we /oundhcr there sleeping."

Oh there were anxious heart#- in Deacon Harrington's brown house that night. Very tenderly was the suffering little Rose cradled on her mother's breast, but not once did she speak coherently. Her checks burned, and her eyes sparkled with fever: her dimpled arms were tossed above her head, and every little while, between her moans, she would stretch out her hands to some imaginary object, and say :—Please sister Kate, isu't Itose most big enough?'"'

Three days passed—days of incessant watching and weariness, and towards evening the little Hose opened her blue eyes, after a restless slumber. She seemed to be much better, and the mother glanced hopefully up to the kind physician bending over her. "I cannot say she's better madam. God knows I wish I could: but Ross must die before midnight!" And the tears stood in glittering drops on the good man's checks.

The mother's great grief was not noisy. She quietly lifted her darling from the bed and sat down with her in her arms. Kate stood by, sobbing as if already the brand of Cain were upon her brow. "Please, mamma," said the little one at length, "am I big enough to go to Heaven?" "Ves darling." was the tearful answer '•Jesus loves little children." "And, mamma, do you s'pose he'll forgive me for sitting down in the meadow to watch Katie, when you told me I musn't overstay there?" "1'cs, my pet, the good Savior will forgive you for anything, it' you are only sorry but UosiC doesn't want to go to Heaven, and leave mother, docs she "I heard somebody say I must go, when I was asleep, mother—a beautiful lady— with oh such white, shining wings, and she stretched out her arms to take me, but I didn't go. I woke up to kiss you and sister once more. Please kiss me, Katie.— Little Ilose won't never be naughty anymore up in Heaven, and I'll grow big before you come, Katie, so I can play with you up there

A poor woman went to an eminent

but eccentric surgeon, to inquire what was thc proper treatment for-some bodily wound. "Put on a cataplasm," was the answer. "But, doctor, it is for a little child." "Then put on a kitten-plasm." *r

•W'Pive Steamboats were burned opsite New OHeans on last Sunday. Loaa •VB.-gf-T.-ft

SHORT CAREER—AFf UNFORTUNATE ELOPEMENT. The Davenport (Iowa) Democrat, thus relates the arrest and adventures of a young

thief:

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iSf-Scnator Jeff. Davis, of Mississippi,' it appears, does not think that peace is going to be restored to Kansas, or the diificulty localized, by taking her in under ihe Lecompton constitution. The following is an extract from his speech on the army bill:

I hope the anticipations of the President as in a contingency which he expects soon to occur, troops will 110 longer be required in Kansas, may be realized. I may say. from my knowledge of the personnel of tho army, that there is no duty which could be more disagreeable—I may say more odious —to them, than interference with citizen--of the United States in the Territories 01elsewhere. The mafntcnaucc of civil order is the last duty which any soldier would like to perform but at the same time .1 dt'cm it due.to candor to su/ that I do not.

On the morning of the 16th inst., aybnng man named W. T. Merrick left the employ of George W. King, of Lasalle, Illinois, taking aJong with him from $400 to $700 in Illinois funds a draft on George Smith & Co., Chicago, for $.52 30 Cook & Sargent's draft on the Bank of North America, payable to the order of J. W. Wiley, for S190 also, a young lady of respectable family, whom he afterward married.—He came with his stolen and acquired property to this city, where he has been, alacrity to vindicate the national honor and for a few days past, indulging in all the rights upon its battle-fields. But to the

luxuries which money would provide— purchasing rich presents for his young wife, driving about expensive equippages, drinking, gaming, putting on all the airs of a millionaire, and engaging in all the popular vices of the day with a looseness which was perfectly astonishing to the unsophisticated. He was, indeed, what is often termed a "blood" of the first water.

But his career, though brilliant for a

ing. The robbed grocer in Lascllc sent ^rc ]iavc

out handbills, giving a complete dcscrip tion, and offering a reward of S150 for his apprehension and safe delivery in Lasalle. It so happened that one of these billets fell into the hands of one of our policcnicn who was soon upon his scqnt and lie was found and secured. Uupon being arrested he exhibited 110 surprise whatever confessed that he was the identical fellow who took the money, and was ready and willing to return to Lasalle and give an account, of himself. The only feeling lie exhibited in the nialter was for his young wife, who had eloped with him from her parents, and whom lie had married since his arrival in this city. On being told that he must go back to Lasalle, he said "For God's sake, do not tell my wife of this. Tell her I am dead, that I have run away—anything but do not, I beg of you, tell Emily of this." His young wife is a woman of good appearance and of guod family her parents opposed her marriage with Merrick, so they ran away together. May this not be a severe lesson to parents who oppose the marriages of their children? 31 ay it not ilso, be a warning to young ladies to beware with whom they associate, or for whom thev contract feelings of love?

entertain the hopes u-kicn the Presidint cz-\ ,, ..

presses. I hare seen no evidence that the reign of terror in Kansas is to terminate in any contingency which I note foresee.— I believe those, lawless men who have been b.-ought into conflict there arc to continue their collision that men arc to be intimidated for political ends, their houses to be burned, and assassinations to occur all over the territory, the moment the strong arm of the Federal Government is taken away. I cannot go to, the extent of the Senator from Georgia, and say thot I will not give a mau to preserve peace. I cannot go to the extent to declare that I prefer that civil war should rage in the land, rather than to

contingency, such as is contemplated by the law, arises.

II1VU tl UlUUli) MUO UJiVCiVU) |U« IUVWI I

thev bad left the Madison train, charged

was searched, and S400 in counterfeit bi'Fs

on the Bank of Louisiana, were found iu his possession: also, $77^ in bogus gold. He was immediately lodged in jail, and an affidavit was filed against hiui before U. S. Commissioner Rea. The woman accompanying Woods is said to be of loose chrraetcr, though young and beautiful. An "unfortunate," she is implicated with him almost beyond contradiction.

The counterfeit paper taken from Woods was chiefly tens and twenties, 011 the Bank of Louisiana. The counterfeit coin was imitations of quarter and half eagles exceedingly well done, to appearance, but so

ingly stated, to get even one look—one last light when handled as not to deceive anylong look at the husband of her heart and jone sufficiently intelligent and attcutive. the partner of her fortunes. Yesterday morning when she arrived, the body had been removed and was on its way to its final resting plade. and anything to equal her terribly forlorn language "when she discovered she could not again see him in his world, eould not be described. She is now the only protector of four children, and sincerely do we sympathize with her in her present melancholy position.—St. Louis Leadery-

THE ZODIATA-. LIGHT.—The first clear evening, the National Intelligencer says, tho zodiacal light may be seen in great beauty in the shape of a sharp pyramid, passing upward from near the western horizon by Jupitcr. and thence by the Pleiades, beyond which it is lost in the Milky Way.— On the eastern side of the Milky Way it can again be traced, especially between Praesepe and llegulus but in this latter case it is very faint, being like a thin white gauze along the'sky. 'aml can be detected only by a careful comparison of that portion of the heavens with the portions on either side. In the west it is a beautiful yellow light, looking as if the sun were just about to rise there.

•©""Madam, you said your son was "a lawyer—bas hc* JiaT*much practice Why, ves, sir, he has a practice—of smo.*f' *3." r. rvs-rr,

CfiiWFOttDS YILLE, MONTGOMERY- COUJVTlr INDIANA MARCH C, -1858.

A JUST. AN!) MERITED TRIBUTE TO CJENERAT,SHIKF,1», AND TO IRISHMEN GENERALLY. V.f

The following extractfroto'a ledtiye recently delivered in Boston, by Hon. Caleb Cushing, contains a just, merited, and eloquent tribute to General Shields, and to the patriotism of Irishmen generally.— We have often expressed the opinion that

tton tot ..mora pUant^nd patnotie

and laws, and nane step forth with greater ^ere

extract from Mr. Cushing's lecture We could not but remember that in other scenes, at Ccrro Gordo and at Padierna. not merely a man of Irish blood, but an Irishman, an adopted Irishman, our 1

ram, because, when lie joined the forces of

On a similar occasion, when Valencia held his formidable position iu Padierna, and when, 011 the assemblage of the detachments of the United States army, which had crossed to the rear of Valencia, for the purpose of an assault, which was successful then, when the generals of the American army came together. Shields ranked them, and below him was Persifer

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with having in their possession, and at-'" tempting to pas counterfeit coin and conn-i,Jt'K!no ,Louis did lie not forfeit bank bills. The person of Woods I

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F. Smith, who had led the first bri2adc of another sight of this leviathan troops to a position which was to secure us a victory and although Shields ranked him he honorably and nobly refused to take away from him a half-finished victory, and gave him the command for the glorious day of Contreras. We could look abroad thro'out Europe for a hundred years, and see that there had.never been a stricken field, in the struggle between nations' and nations—there never had been a great battle in which the destinies of men had been decided—there never had been afield of carnage, from the British Channel to the Ural Mountains—in which an Irishman had not been found in the hottest of the fight.— And if v/e could have anticipated the quarrels which, in ten j-ears, Are re to ensanguine Europe—that struggle between France and England on the one hand, and Russia

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the other—.ind could have carried forward our j.roplictic minds to that great, that bloody day of the assault 011 the city of Sobastopol, we sh mid have found not only that the operations ot the artillery had been directed by a Xeill, but we should have found a MeMahon leading the eagles

of France, in one ot tnc most desperate

•, :assaults or modern times against the fiery bastions of Sebastopol.

CST'The contente cordial between England and France has latch- sustained sonic severe shocks in both counties. Words of intense bitterness and anger have been expressed against the English Government in the French Chamber and from the French Army, and th03- have been thundered back from the British Parliament.— Mr.

RoEBrcic,

one

the great oralors in

increase the army and maintain order by "The French Emperor is the person to the presence of the troops in the Tcrrito-1 direct against England accusations of buries ofthe United States. In the first ing the den of conspirators: and who could place, should bo willing to use troops any- speak with greater knowledge of the fact where to put down civil war and insurrec- than himself [Cheers.] Has he not cntion asainst the United States, when a joyed the protection and hospitality

CcUXTEllFEITEUS AUKESTED AT IxDIANATOLIS.—The State Sentinel savs that 011 ,, 1 1 N- ihisercat predecessor—the name ot rr:dav morninst Joseph oods, accompa-

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England? [Hear, hear.] Has lux not, too. while so enjoying that protection and hospitality, acted the part of a conspirator himself? [Loud cheers.] Did he not leav. these shores armed with the great name of the name of the

1 1 A 1 at N a on id no a nied by a woman, was arrested, just alter! 7, 1 ...

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tame ca3 [:, laug:1,]

to I-ranee and there attack the throne

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ANOTHER PEEP AT T1IE SL'A SERPENT. The following copy:of an extract from the B.iard of Trade Meteorological Journal kept by Captain Harrington, of the ship Castilian, from Bombay for Liverpool, has been published in the Times:

Ship Castilinn. Snt., Dee. 12.1S.VT.

North-cast cud of St. Helena, bearing N-west Distance ten miles,

At half-past six o'clock P. M. strong

brQ an lW sailiog oboil

people on the face of the globe than the twelve miles per hour. While mvself and

Irish. In this country, noclassofcitizensj officers were standing on, the lee-side of dv

are more loyal and true to its institutions |™e P°°P.

Iookl"S

s.ar

by ic sight of a huge roa-|c0mc

nne ammal which reared its head out of

the water within twenty yards ofthe ship,,

when it suddenly disappeared for about

own Irishman James Shields, had led the suppose the diameter to have been seven charge upon Ccrro Gordo and if he did j°T feet in., the largest part, with a not lead the charge upon Padierna it was of scroll or tuft ot loose skin cne:rbccausc he also set a precedent for that'

which is alluded to as the gallantry of'Sir

few days, was cut short on Saturday morn- JaniesOutram inoneofthe battles of (judo". M'ect

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... been told to honor Sir James Out-JFIRST

half a minute, and then made its appear-. j,etwcen jance in the same manner again, showing' I us distinctly its neck and head about ten or twelve feet out of tho water. Its head

w'as s'iaPec'^ikc

a long nun buoy, and I

about two feet from the top. The

v,'as

discolored for several hundred

fr0:n

its head so much so, that 011 its

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honor the gallantry and abnegation of Sir those fears, and assured us that it was James Outram, bccausc, instead ofassum- !a

Gen. Ilavelock had led through nine victo-, •ies, from Cawnpore to Luck now—because I

he nobly refused, and said, "iTou have be-1 fyrm Z1

gun the series of victories to you be the honor of their conclusion. Give me a troop of horse, and I will fight as a volunteer under your command." That was Sir James Outram.

ul0I1'ter

ing the command of those columns which !aPP?arc^!. Jjc

impression was that

was

Sir Henry Ilavelock with a larger force ofia.s supposed, by some volcanic agcncy his own, and being superior in rank—we

have been told, I say, and justly told—to

s'nee

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^r°ken water, produced,

the last time I passed the island but

scc°nd

appearance completely dispeli-

or extraordinary length, which

n)oving

slowly toward too

land. The ship was going too fast to cnathe masthead in time to estimate of its extreme length but, from what we saw from the deck, we conclude that it must have been er two hundred feet long. The boatswain and several of the crcw, who observed it from the top-gallant forecastle, state that it was more than double the length of jthe ship, in which case it must have been five hundred feet. Be that as it may, I am convinced that it belonged to.the serpent tribe. It was of a dark color about the head, and was covered with several white spots. Having a press of canvass 011 the hip at the time, I was unable to round to without risk, and therefore was precluded

t° reach

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of the deep. G. II. HARRINGTON. Commander. W. DA VIES, Chief Officer.

E. WHEELER, Second Officer-

A \r:w PHASE of till! SLAV!-: TilADR. The rice swamps and cotton plantations of the Gulf States have lately been illuminated by a new and brilliant idea It is proposed to reopen the African slave trade 011 a plan that cannot be reached by the laws of Congress against piracy. A company has been formed in Mississippi for this purpose, and application has been made to the Legislature for an act of incorporation, under title ov the "African Labor Importation Company." A bill for a similar purpose was also brought before the Legislature of Louisiana, but was laid over until the next session. And it is expected t! 1 at Texas, Alabama. Georgia and South Carolina will foiiow. The plan is to import from Africa negro laborers, under contract for a term of twenty-one years, at the end of which period it is proposed that they shall be 'elevated into slavery.' The chief projector of the scheme states that he is in correspondence "with highly intelligent and practical gentlemen now in the slave trade," and that "the services of a gentleman eminently qualified have already been procured to go to Africa and inspect the enlistment and documentation of the negroes, so that there shall be a complete conformity to the United States laws."— He holds that no law of Congress, at least 110 constitutional law, would be violated by this plan, and relics upon the Dred Scott decision, or if that be not sufficient, upon a new one, to sustain it. lie says: "It is completely and absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of Congress, and completely and absolutely-within the jurisdiction of the State alone. It is an undelegated sovereign State right, rendered by the course of events inexpressibly dear and incalculably useful."

The New Orleans Delta is in ccstacies at the prospect. "The problem at last is solved," it exclaims. "Wo at last can congratulate the South that the momentous question of the Labor Supply has taken a practical shape, that the high probabilities are that next year cotV'jJ ton picked by Congocs, Eboes, 1'opocs iiand Bungoes, will be sold 0:1 Caroudalet

street.

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Jfy opposed him? [Renewed cheering]. And tins is thc man who chooses to publish in the pages of thc Monitcur accusations against England for being the haunt and the den of homicides, where conspiracies are hatched, and which ought, therefore, to suffer invasion. [Hear.]—

L. D. CAMPBELL.—The Washington' correspondent of thc New Orleans Delta, has thc following sly hit at L. D. Campbell:—

Out of all the herd of woolly heads with whom your correspondent has been brought in collision, Lewis D. Campbell is the best. Indeed, the assertion might be hazarded that Lew. is even a very fine fellow.—

But it is not confined to that—the brother Transplant him to Mississippi, and he would of the Emperor of France, the Count dc be a fire-eater. It is a pity that such a

Moray, has chosen iu the Legislative Chamber of the French nation to accuse England of being •participant in this attempted crinic. And not only he, but the Count de Persigny, the Embassador of France— in England, in thc presence of Englishmen —has dared to make thc same accusation aye, sir, in the presence of Englishmen he has not been answered [hear hear] the only reason that I can conceive being, that the persons who heard him did not understand him."

Au apology has since been made by the French Emperor, but rankling thorns have been planted by these commentaries and reccollections that will be likely to destroy the entente cordiale, and cause the old feeling of jealousy and enmity to exist betwen thc rival nations.

A French engineer was traveling

upon an old Ohio steamboat. He obsir.eJ to the captain: "But this engine is in a very poor conit on "That's so," was thc reply "And. how long do you expect to run it?" "'Till it bursts," was the cool reply.

After the next landing place there was one Frenchmanless aboard that boat.

pity

boon companion and such an admirable judge—though not a habitual taster, let it be declared—of thc extract of corn, shoull not live in a congenial latitude.— Were he a Southerner, his manners would improve vastly.

I®"The Albany Knickerbocker is great on metaphors. Speaking of the weather, it says:

Yesterday was as lovely as a woman, and as full of sunshine as a girl who expects to be married to-morrow. *.

God has given us another grea?

victory," said a parson to a sailor after a naval fight. "You may think so," replied the tar "but if Jack hadn't worked the big gun so well. I think God would have had but a small share in the business."

•©"Harry A- of Providence, tells a story of a young man who had alight and incipient mustache. One day, while fingering the"few hairs, he said to Harry: "Hadn't I better dye this mustache?" "Oh, no," replied Harry,^ "let it alone, an it it el

STRANGE STORY A .MINISTER \ND HIS WIFE ARRESTED FOR I1IGHW A O E

The Rev. Samuel Smith, master of the Collegiate School at Clifton, and formerly second master of Bishops' College, England, and his wife, have been arrested for highway robbery and attempted murder. The wife of Mr. Smith was a Misg Mills

Leaoh, contractor. The match was brok- of

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who die somo

toward the island, we hiving ascertained that Mr. Leach had be-.

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widower, addressed a letter to

in which she statcd that

had rocent]y

aied,

new the intiniacy

invited him to rc-

which formerly existed

After several letters had passed, Mr. Leach agreed to meet the lady at Bristol on Sunday, 81st of January. They met at the Bristol station, and took tickets for Yatc, where the}- alighted, and Mrs. Smith proposed to cross the common to her residence, instead of taking the high road.— The station-master advised against this, on account of the darkness of the night 1 finding her strenuous, took a lantern and accompanied them to the point, from which the}- would have to cross the common. I11 a short time, the lady professed to have lost (he way, and in a few minutes aftcr Mr. Leach was assaulted by a man. Being a strong man, however, he got ihe bet1 tor of his assailant, and his cries for aid were heard by two of the railroad men, who came up.

The assailant was found to be the Rev. 1 Mr. Smith, the husband of the lady but he managed to make his cscapc. The dctcctivc force proceeded to the house of Mr. Smith, and arrested the parties. On the:r track were found a widow's cap, and a six barrel revolver pistol, loaded and capped, 011 the spot where the struggle took placc.

In searching the house, a parcel containing a shirt, collar, satin scarf and pocket handkerchief all marked with Mr. Leach's name were found.—Boston Traveller.

To SALI RATUS EATI-IIS.—At a late convention of dentists it was asserted that the main, if not the sole cause of the great increase of defective teeth, was the use of sal era lus and cream of tartar in the manufacture of bread and l)r. Baker fully agreed with the facts offered in proof, adding the results of some experiments made by himself. He soaked sound teeth in a solution of salaratus, and they were destroyed in fourteen days! We here have the opinion of men whose talents, time and zeal, arc given to dentistry, that salaratus and cream of tartar in bread are a chief cause of ruin to teeth. Now will those who know this fact go eating all that comc3 in their way, without inquiring what it is made of?—IV. Y. Presbyterian.

A NOVEL PAUTV DJIKSS.—At a -fancydress party" in Hartford, Connecticut, a short time since, one lady appeared in a dress ornamented with hundreds of little bells, not much larger than rain-drops, affording music of the fairy kind in the

THE REAL GAME or CALHOUN.—The Kickupoo correspondent of the Philadelphia Press, in his letter of February 9th, says:

The programme of the Lecomptonitcs has unwittingly leaked out. It is this Calhoun has loft a man here to issue certificates to the officers elect, who are proslavery according to his account, whenever thc Constitution passes through Congress, which fact he is to telegraph to his agent at thc earliest opportunity. As soon as members of thc Legislature receive their certificates thev are to meet at Fort Leavenworth, elect Calhoun and Isaacs United States Senators, and adjourn sine die.— What the State officers are to do wc are not informed. The game is a very desperate one, and it is very certain that Calhoun iias staked his "bottom dollar" on thc result. ff the Constitution passes Congress 1 know of no two men who would bo better entitled to its advantages, or better representatives of thc Lecompton party, than thc two above named. It is not expected that cither of them will ever enter thc Territory again, as citizens, and they would very fitly carry out- in fraud, the game thus fraudulently begun.

G3" A 'gentleman presented a lacc collar to thc object of his adoration, and, in a jocular way, said: "Do not let any one else rumple it." "No, my d-'ar," Si.'d the lady, "I wiL take it oft."

8®P"Sevcral valuable horses have been lost in Ohio, by eating unsound corn, within a few weeks.

The private letters from Europe

speak of thc almost ccrtain possibility ofr. c. rrcspord ng excitement in American securities, the moment- they rcceive adviceof thc full force of the rise here. The abundance of money was seen in every quarter

HORSES.—The age of a horse i3 now more easily told by his eyes than teeth, in this After the horse is nine years old a wrinkle comes over lijs eyelid, at the upper corner of the lower lid, and every year thereafter lie has a wrinkle for cacli year over nine. If, for instance, a horse has three wrinkles, he is twelve if four, lie i-. thirteen. Add the number of wrinkles to nine, and you will always get it. So says a writer, and he is confident it will nevci fail. As a great many people have horses over nine, it is easily tried.

WHOLE NUMBER 813.

WORTH THINKING ABOUT. Prof. Henry, of tho Smithsonian Insti* tute, under the head of "31eterology in its connection with Agricnlture," has stated a number of facts, in the form of a report, tvhich will make a deep impression at Washington when they come to be known" atid understood.

and about niue years ago, before her mar- of sub divisions, such as the "Physical ge- & riage numbered among her suitors a Mr. jographyof the United States," "The Windaf

This department of his*

is very elaborate, and cmbiKccs a number"

North America," "Currents of the^ Ocean," "The results of the Astronomical Conditions," &e., &c., a highly interesting,, but which perhaps would not interest yourreaders in this form. The inference fromhis facts, however, may be stated in a sim- j' pic manner. The result is, that the entire, region of the United States west of tho 98th degree west longitude, (say the westcrn boundary of Minnesota,) with the exception of a small portion of Western Texas and the narrow border along the Pacific (including California,) is a sterile xoaste, of comparatively little voluc, and which can nei cr be valuable to the agriculturists.— 'ihj statement will astonish the reader when we direct his attention to the fact that the line of Prof. Henry, which extends scii.hward from Lake Winnipeg to tho Mexican Gulf, will divide the service of the United States into two nearly equal parts. If this be true, what bjcomes of the great national drama to be played on the North Western Empire of the American Continent, of which politicians have harangued and poets sung? The intonso heat and extreme dryness of this region, which will make the Great American plains a barren waste forever, arc caused to a large extent, according to Prof. Henry's theory, b}- the fact that the returning Trade Winds, sweeping over the elevated masses of the Rocky Mountains, are deprivod of their moisture iu other words', ihe heated air which descends at the equator, saturated with moisture it has abstracted in its passage over the ocean, after depositing a portion of its vapor in the tropics at the "rainy seasons," is farther dcssicatcd by the ridges and mountains which it meets, the vapor being condensed on the windward side by the cold, due to the increased vertical hciglith, and it finally passes over and strikes the plains as dry as a sponge which litis been thoroughly squeezed. Without moisture there can be 110 fertility, and without fertility 110 agriculture and a great portion of this wilderness, according to Prof. Henry, is as sure, as tho deserts of Africa. True or false, the the* ory is worth attention.

Cunious TYPOGRAPHICAL EKIIOR —Pro-... fester Trench, in his latest work on tho Knglish language, points a curious typo-' graphical error in the 20th verse of tho 23d chapter of Matthew. Thc words "which strain at a gnat and swallow a camel," the professor thinks contain a misprint which having been passed over in the cdi-.'J tion of 1811, has held its ground ever since.* The translators intended to say, "which strain out. a gnat and swallow a camel,' that. being thc correct rendering of thc originalas appears in Tyrisdale's and Cramer's translations, both of which "have strained" out." It was the custom of the stricter"'. Jews to strain their wine, vinegar, and^j other portables through linen or gauze, lest unawares they should drink down some little unclean insect, as a gnat, and thus transgross the Levitical law. It was to this custom thc Saviour alluded, intended to say that thc Scribes and Pharisees, whilo they strain out a gnat from their drink, would swallow a camel atone gulp.

tSfThc conclusion of a six day's sulk. Outside a cat is heard to mew Husband to the dear one of his bosom: "Did you speak, dear?"

The tca-tible is suddenly overturned, ami broomsticks are prevalent in the domestic atmosphere.

ANECDOTE OF A DOG.—As tho play of Jesse Vcre was being performed at Woolwich Theater, England, and when a sceno in the third act had been rcachcd, in which a "terrific struggle"'for the possession of a child takes place between the fond mother and two 'hired ruffians,'a large Newfoundland dog, which had by so in means giined admittance, with its owner, into the pit, leaped over the heads of the musicians in the orchestra, and flew to thc rescue, seizing one of the assassins and almost, dragtcing him to the ground, lie was with difficulty removed and dragged oft' the stage. Thc-dog, which is the property of the chief engineer of iler Majesty's ship Buffalo, has been accustomed to the society of childrcn, for whom he iias. on many occasions, evinced strong proofs of affect:on

8@f*An Irishman driven to desperation by the string ncy of the money market, and the lrg'i pricc of provisions, procured a pistol and took the road.

Meeting a travlcr, he «'opped him with •'your money or your li'e!" Seeing that Pat was grem he said: "I tell you what I'll do. I'll give you all my money for that pistol. "Agreed."

Pat received the money and handed over the pistol. "Now," said the travlcr, "hand back that money or I'll blow your brains out! "Blaze away my hearty," said Pat, "devil thc drop of powder ther's in it."

MONFY IN NE*.V YORK.—The New York Eccning Post of Wednesday last says: The tables have turned thc lender is now subjected to almost as great inconveuicnccs as the borrower was a few months* since. The greatest plentitude is on call,, and it is very difficult to put out any considerable amount at I@5 per cent. Firstclass commercial paper was never scarcer ban now, and rates during the week havo leaned very strongly in favor of the negotiator. We know of a house that is buyng its own paper at 4 per cent., the same

A LADY MVRDERED BY A SLAVE IN KENTUCKY.—The wife of Uriah l'ortcr, near Scottsvillc, Ky., was murdered a few days since by a slave. Thc husband went that day to Scottsvilie leaving no white person about the premises but Mrs. Porter, and party who bought during the panic at tho during his absence a negro man murdered her by cutting her throat. "The negro was a preacher, baring the pastoral charge of a colored congregation in the neighborhood. He ha3 always been a fai:hful and obedient servant, which renders hi»conduet the more strange. He has been arrested, and is now in jail at Seottsrille.-^r il

legal rate.

®®*Somebody describes the absurd appearance of a man dancing the polka iq this ise: "He looks as though ho had a hole in his pocket and was trying to shaJ(« a shilling down the leg of bis trow^ej,"