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m*v no* only rob the parent tree, but dectrox that fall, and render it useless to everybody forever. This is the beat illusIration of our position and true policy in regard to Mexico at the present time.— here is no question that there is just now a violent antipathy and prejudice against

the "North Americans," i. e., the people of the United States, and although we may laugh at all this fury, and know very well ?e how to silence it at the cannons mouth, yet these national antipathies arc the most formidable of all barriers in the way of useful, 1* profitable and just annexation of populous

provinces. They render it impossible, on our principles of government. Beyond a doubt if we only fulfill our duties patiently and kindly to them, and wait, the whole of Mexico will „bc in our arms in less than

twenty years, dropping there naturally, eaeily, and in all ripcncBS. It will only be for us to say whether, and on what terms, ^e will receive her. The internal divisions of the country, the complete demoralization of all governments rendering it impossible for any leader to stand for six months, is naturally causing all thoughtful men to look abroad for some nation posscasing recourccs to giro Mexico internal peace and security. While some few, aristocrats arc looking to imbicille Spain, the most philosophical, dispassionate andprogressive look to the United States, to be incorporated with which alone could give •relief from the horrible anarchy into which affairs have been thrown. The whole nation would be knocking at our doors at this moment but for two things—the influence of the priests and the recollections of the late war.T V!, /. ...

Neither of these are msurpcrablc. Inc force of the Church has nearly exhausted itself in the intrigues and struggles in which the country has been engaged, and tho more mild and truly religious Catliolios, both priests and people, would ask no more than all would be willing to concede, the most perfect liberty of conscience, and protection to the Church of its propertj, together with freedom from molestation.— Thatthcroisa deep-seated enmity to the United States at the present moment, among the unreflecting masses of the peopic, is beyond doubt. It is the natural •offe'et of the late war and present contiguity. And yet there can be no doubt that, less than twenty years ago, there was far moro formidable predjudice existing on both sides of the Canada frontier. But peaceful commcrcc, moderate counsels, railroads, and friendly intercourse, have so softened down all asperities, that now our institutions are looked up to and imitated nor is there, except a little mock royalty !at the scats of government, more diffcrs! ence between Canada and the neighboring

States than between some of our own States themselves. Our decimal coinage, our system of education, our freedom of rclig1 i0n and separation of church from state, 'A have all been adopted by the Canadas, /adopted from us. Our manners and customs prevail and what is most singular, three-fourths of all the provincial newspapers arc filled with the details of what in going on in our own city, in New York, and in Boston, rather than in London, Liverpool, and Birmingham* or even in Quebec and Montreal.

Tho Legislature of Sonora and Chihahua have protested against the sale of any part .• of the national domain of Mexico. But the paper thnt announces that fact admits that it is doubtful whether this protest docs or does not contain the actual sentiment of the people of those domains that would be thus transferred. It admits that the owners of large estates arc eager for the change but tries to make out that the majority of the common people arc averse to it. Time will show. What then is the best course for us to pcrsuc? Simply to •, wait. The desire of the few will extend itself like leaven throughout the whole country rapidly enough, if not disturbed.—

If ten years of peace have brought round the most interested, ten years more will bring round the masses. A war, a quarrel, any intcrmcdling with the internal squabbles of the country, makes enemies for the United States, and retards the desire of the people for annexation incalculably. If, iu business, one man wants to buy the other out, the best way is not to quarrel or appear inimical, or foment his enemies, but to do him liberal acts of sincere kindness and friendship. Then it will be easy to trade on fair terms. The course that regulate honorable individuals is that which ought 'to guide all national arrangements. The '.sooner nations act on this the better.— Phil. Ledger.

LAND SPECULATION IN CHICAGO.—A

WHY ILLINOIS FARMERS ARE POOR. To the Editorecf the N. Y. Tribune. Six: In your Weekly of Jan. 16, you. say, in speaking of Illinois, "the farmers are poor." This is a sadening assertion, but it is too true. One only has to visit them at their homes, and see how they have to economize and go destitute, not only of the luxuries and comforts, but im" portant conveniences, to be satisfied of its truth.

The cause of their poverty is not in the soil, for we have the richest, most easy cultivated, and most productive of any in tho world. It is not because of the insalubrity of our climate. If billious diseases are prevalent along our water-courses, the great body of our agricultural, district is probably as free from, disease as any other portion of our country situated between the Atlantic .and the Rocky Mountains.— Noj, are farmers here poor because they are either indolent or unskillfull. It is not necessary to occupy time in showing that they arc not wanting in skill, energy and perseverance in the management of their farms. Nor is it because they arc accustomed to live beyond their means. No other class of the community are as economical in their living and equipage as those who gather our golden harvests.—

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respondent of the New YorkTribuuc, writing from Chicago, tolls some truths about land speculation in that city, which it is well for tho public to know. lie says that a few years ago Chicago took a start, and for a period of about three years its population increased at tho rate of 15,000 to 20,000 a year. This is owing to its having been a great railroad centre, and to a judicious and gigantic system of puffing.— Everybody, men, women, mechanics, law--yers, doctors, merchants and preachers, "pitched in," and bought and sold land on speculation. Large fortunos were made, and quickly made. The mania raged until the speculators had blocked out a town Urge enough to accommodate London.

But this is all over now. The population no longer increases at the rate of 15,000 to 20.000 a year. It is oven doubtful whether the population is as great as it was two years ago. It is said that during the (last year tho city has lost many thousand inhabitants, who were driven away by high .rents, high price of fuel and living, want of employment, disappointment ana failure.

A census was taken last summer and suppressed as inaccurate. It did not come up .to the statistics of speculators. The writer for the Tribune thinkn real estate in

Chicago has not yet reached the limit of depression. He has no doubt that Chica-

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go_.will in time be a great city "but Is of opinion t)iat it will take along time for it to recover from the blow it, recejved^laat

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The empty jrarM lfean not the thief.

From their earliest years they are trained to it of necessity. Nor arc they poor because there is no demand for their produce. There is not the quantity now in our cities that there commonly is at the present time in the year, and there is about the same dcficcncy in foreign countries that there usually is.

Why, then arc they poor? Is it the worthlcssncss of that which is called money? Or is it in consequence of the great expenditures in building railroads? Or is it because of the. low tariff ou foreign imports? Oris it because the grain merchants have been building princely edifices etc., till they have become so embarrassed that it has been necessary, for them mutually to agree that only a trifle should be given for grain, that they might realize a sufficient profit to pay the aggregate of their enormous expenditures?

The failure of a few individuals of great capital might have caused distress, alarm, and the failure of others, till these causcs combined, more or less of them, and hastened the pecuniary crisis. But the reason why farmers are poor, is because they do not receive enough for their produce to pay for raising it, at the present cost of hired labor.

IIow can they save themselves from great pecuniary loss for other men's sins? It is possible that our country merchants and grain buyers—a class we cannot do without—like to have farmers poor and obliged to keep in debt to them. They are then necessitated to continue their trade with them, aifd also to sell their produce for what the merchants are pleased to,give.

When it is known that the producers arc not in debt, grain merchants offer what they think will be an inducement to them to sell but if it is known to be generally otherwise, for some pretense or other they may agree to give so little as to be ruinous to the producer. Now there is a very easy and pretty way of avoiding this calamity. Would any like to be informed how? Who is there that will listen while I reveal the mode of doing it? It can be done simply by following this direction: Never go in debt to our country merchants. Some may think that they may be living on the growing crop. But remember, that in doing it you arc detracting from that crop perhaps one half the value of it. Be assured that when a community is known to be generally in that condition, sharpers will not be likely to offer much for. your produce. Bcsltfbs, you can live without going in debt to stores. No tea or coffcc should be used if you have to go in debt for it. Better

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make coffcc of the seeds. You will find it as delicious as chocolate. Patch your old clothes till every part of them is covered with patches mend your old shoes and boots, or go barefoot cut a hickory and season it well for a fork borrjw of your neighbors, taking good care of what you borrow, and returning it in season do anything but steal, rather than go in debt to a store. When your crop is sccursd, and you arc offered enough to pay for growing it, sell, and buy a year's supply if .you are able but know the value of what you purchase before you buy, and if possible always deal with a wholesale merchant and, cases of sickness excepted, NEVER, NEVER GO IN DEBT AT A STORE.

Do this, and you may always keep your produce till the price will pay for producing you may then live in ease and comfort, and no more will the truthful declaration go forth concerning the inhabitants of Illinois, "The farmers are poor." 1

PETTICOAT SWINDLE.—At Battle Creek, New York, the other evening, two gentlemen and a lady—one of the real skirt expanders—got aboard the cars for Chicago. One gentleman and his wife had througl

tickcts, while the other paid his fare only to the first station. From certain manifestations^ Geo. W andles, the conductor, who is keen on a scent, concluded it was the intention of the trio to dead-head one of the party through. On arriving at Augusta the gentleman did not g^out, and, on search being made, he was found secreted

£muna sccrctcu

in the ladies saloon. He was brought

forth and directed to leave thc train at die next station, but on arriving there he was not to be found. After along and diligent' search, in which everybody had become interested, it was concluded that he had leaped from the train while in motion. Speculation was then rife as to his fate, when a gentleman, sitting near the lady of big dimensions, hinted that those hoops might there "a tale unfold." On producing a light, four feet were seen protruding from her petticoats, which it was unreasonable to suppose belonged to one person, and the lady was requested to rise, which she did after some hesitation, revealing tho lost passenger.

f0~ The surest w^y to lose your own health is to be continually drinking that of other people.

DREADFUL CONDITION of the WHITES IN SAN DOJUNGO. Dispatches have been received from our commercial agent at San Domingo, which will undoubtedly confirm all that we have stated heretofore of the critical condition of Americans, and of the whites as a race, in that doomed island.

The negro leader, Bacz, is shut up in the walled city of San Domingo, where he vents his ferocity on til? white citizens, whom he retains amid the scenes of horror and famine, in some sort, as hostages for his own final escape.

Mr. Elliott, the American Consul, and his lady, Doni Merced de la Roche (the daughter of one of the noblest old white families on the island), arc daily subjected to base and studied insults.

The United States flag has been repeatedly dragged through the streets, and trampled upon by negro mobs the Consul's lady hissed at in the streets, and followed home from church witli language too vile to repeat. American seamen and vessels have been illegally sacrificed, and every form of outrage that negro spite could invent has been heaped upon our citizens and not a ship of sljo^s^itse.lf. 1 7

The deplorable confession of weakness made by our government iu 1845, when it suffered the French and British to cancel a made treaty, and prohibit diplomatic relations by the white party iu Dominica, is now bearing its fruits

The inaction of this government has sealed to a bloody end the only white spot in the West Indies which is covered'by a free and American flag. This government has been notified that the negroes ot Ilayti arc leaving cn masse for the invasion of the Dominican republic, and that they proclaim in every village, "death to the whites," and '-down with Americans."

If this government would', send down one of our ornamental frigates to demand satisfaction of Soulouquc for the American merchantmen the Ilayticn cruisers have robbed on the Mona passage, it woulu give him something better to think of than exterminating the whites. These negro savaages have plundered our ships and citizens to the tune of three hundred thousand dollars, for which they have not been brought to account in any shape and now they threaten to invade the Dominican republic, and murder or drive out all the whites except those who are the Subjects of the European powers friendly to Hay ti.

THF. LONDON DOCKS.—TheLondon docks arc basins excavated from the margin of the river Thames, with warehouses contiguous, fitted with every appliance for the reception or delivery of goods, and the whole enclosed with substantial'walls.— The area of these docks vary from 80 to 170 acres, the largest being *2,600 feet long by 500 feet broad, and of a capacity sufficient for 200 vessels. The whole, with such as are contemplated, will comprise 1,071 and tho cost of their construction is estimated at $65,000,000. The rapid commercial advancement of Liverpool is attributed to the superior excellence of its docks.more than to any other single cause. Their abrogate area is computed at 160 acrcs, exclusive of those completed at Birkenhead, of which 174 acres are wet basins. The enormous sum of $200,000,000 is said to have bean expended by Great Britain for wharves and docks within the last fifty years. Ai Havre the docks constitute the

chief

object of attraction and are justly the pride of her citizens. Other ports in France are equally deserving of notice.— At St. Fetcrsburgh, in Russia, there is a granite pier four miles in length. .,

Elder Knapp, the Baptist revival

ist, has just closed a four weeks' protracted'effort in Middlotown, Butler county, O. Ho secured a good manv Methodist and

scorch your wheat, and make coffee of I Presbyterian brethren as unioii \\or 'or^ that. If you wish for something more de- during the meeting. On lus as ».a ja liciotis, raise tho Chinese sugar-cane, and effort the Elder let down terribly on IC

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Methodist Church, "as being the grand daughter of the harlot of Rome.'' At another place in his discourse, lie uttered words to the following effect.: "If we Baptists commune with you Methodists, then we must- commune with the Presbyterians, and then with the Uuiversalists, which last I would do no sooner than I would commune with the devil." This was a hail shower to some of our friends who worked in "union" with the cider.—Trenton Christian Adcocatc. am

A NEGRO SLAVE SIIOT BY HIS CLKRGY-

MAN

The New Orleans Vicayunc of the

13th, contains the following paragraph: "Rev. Dr. Taylor, who recently married the wi'dtfw of the late S. W. Downs, shot a few days sincc, says the Onacluta (La.) Rcrrislrr, one of his wife's negroes, lhc negro killed was one noted for his insubordination, having previously been shot two or three times. Mr. Taylor attempted to correct him, when lie drew a knife, attacked the overseer and defied his master, who shot him on the spot.''

Gov. WISE AND THE PRESIDENT.—The Washington correspondent of the Commercial Advertiser says:

It was confidently stated that the President had written to'Gov. Wise, with a view to express his disapprobation of the attacks made upon him in the Union. "W hether that be so or not, it is well known tha some days ago a friend of the President

called

~thc Governor, and told him

that thc ?resiaenfc be

id him in the highest

esteem, and hoped that he might rely upon his support and friendship hereafter. The answer was—"Why docs he not call off his dogs then The President has often spoken of Gov. Wise's defection with regret.

•9*An Irish gentleman had occasion to visit thc South some months sincc. When he returned he remarked to a friend that the Southern people were very extravagant. Upon being asked why so, he remarked that where he staid they had a candlestick worth eleven hundred dollars! "Why, how in the world could it have cost that much?" inquired the friend. "Och, be jabbers!— It was nuthin' more'n a big nigger fellow holdih' a torch for us to ate by."

tST Faith 8 a short word and easily spoken.

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CEAWFORDSYILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY,E INDIANA, MAY ..'8, '1858.

PLAYING ROBINSON CRUSOE. The Detroit Free Press relates a Robinson.Crusoe story of three young lads of that city, who ran away from their anxious mammas in that city, took to the lake in an old skiff, and were hunted after by the police for some time. It says:

It being known that they were sometimes in the habit of going to Belle Isle, two miles above the city, to fish, search was instituted in that direction. An old Frenchman on the island reported that a colony of some mysterious description was settled on the upper end of the island, but he was unable to say who its members were composed of. Further investigations, however, revealed the fact that the new colony was made up of the romantic young runaways whose anxious mammas were in search of them. They were very snugly domiciled in an old fishing hut, of small dimensions, the cracks of which they had stopped with grass and weeds. An old fireplace in one corner, with a mud chimney, was well supplied with driftwood from the beach, and a skillet and tin kettle constituted their cooking utensils. Three blankets and a bench completed.the outfit. On the walls were hung the fishin'g tackel. When first surprised, the runways were engaged in the agreeable occupation of demolishing a large pike, which had been cooked in the skillet, with no seasoning but salt. They said that they had had lots of fun, and plenty of fish to cat, and were intending to remain all summer if they had not been discovered. The oldest, only about twelve years of age, said- that the idea had been put into his head by reading Robinson Crusoe, and that he had persuaded the others off. Their felicity was complete, with the exception that they wanted a man Friday, to secure which the}' had contemplated crossing over to Canada and kidnapping a small Kanuck boy. This was abandoned as too dangerous, considering the small available force, and it was then planned that one of them should return to tho city and coax his sweet-heart, a little girl, to come and live with them and cook their fish. The plan would have been carried out had they not been found. They were returned to their mammas with bad colds from sleeping on the floor.

WIIY "EGYPT" WAS NAMED.—A correspondent of a Bellvillc'paper, says. In the early settlement of the "Sangamy" country, long before the counties of Sangamon and Green were organized, there were several families who moved to these counties from St. Clair county, and amongst the number was a man by the name of Levi Day, who collected a company of men and came down to St. Clair county for seed corn in the spring for several years in succession. On his way down he would tell the people that lie was "going down to Egypt for corn." The early frost in that country injured the corn so it would not sprout, anil they were obliged toll aye seed corn from sonic place. This was thirty-six or thirty-seven years ago. I well recollect the circumstances, for I used to help to shell the corn myself, which my father used to sell them tor seed. This was before Chicago was thought of as a city.

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has been a great jubilee in

Leavenworth city, on the defeat of Lccompton in the House of Representatives. A correspondent of the Missouri Democrat, writing from Leavenworth on the 18th of

April, says: Saturday night was a glorious occasion. The freemen of Leavenworth met together in their might and gave vent to their joy over the defeat of Lecompton. Two thousand freemen congregated cn masse. With banners, transparencies and flags tlicy marched through the streets to the Parry house, where able and eloquent speeches were made.

TIIE OCEAN GEM.—There arc sixty seaports in Cuba, and last year there were three thousand six hundred and eighty coastwise arrivals, and three thousand six hundred and fifty-nine clear.enccs. This will give an idea of the trade of this beautiful Island, which is not more than half cultivated mnbr the present regime.

8ST Some weeks since, in this city, a girl aged I years or less, gave birth to a child which, it is alleged, is thc result of a criminal intimacy with a boy 17 years old .the son of a manufacturer. Subsequently, the little unfortunate, by the girl herself. or with the connivance of others, was left on the corner of Fourth and Broadway streets, where it was found and taken care of. Events which have since transpired revealed the maternity of the baby stranger. Thc mother acknowledged up, and informed her father who had been the prime cause of making her a mother. It is reported that thc girl's father had insti tutcd a suit against thc father of the seducer for thc maintenance of the offspring. —Louisville Courier. r-y

THE SEPOY REBELLION CRUSHED OCT.—The news received by the last steamer, if correct, virtually closes thc story of the Scpov campaign, and assures us that tho fiual head of the hydra of rebellion is crusli-

Lucknow, thc last entrenchment of the rebel forces had been successfully stormed, and was almost completely in the possession of the British. The Sepoys had fled from thc city iu confusion, and were dispersed over the country as the skillful combination of Sir Colin Campbell would permit them to fly. They were driven from their only strong hold, broken and scattered and yet so completely hemmed by

an'ingenious

cape seemed

utterly

A STEAM ENGINE EXPERIMENT SCARED CLERGYMAN. "The first English model of a steam carriage was made in .1784, by William Murdoch, the friend and assistant of Watt." It was on the high-pressure principle, and ran on three wheels. The boiler was heated by a spirit lamp and the whole machine was of very diminutive dimensions, standing a little more than afoot high. Yet, on one occasiou, the little engine went so fast: that it outran the speed of its inventor.— Mr.. Buckle says, that one night, after returning from his duties in the mine at Redruth, in Cornwall, Murdoch determined to try the working of his model locomotive. For this purpose, he had recourse to the walk leading to thc church, about a mile from the town. The walk was rather narrow, and was bounded on either side by high edges. "It was a dark night, and Murdoch set out alone to try his experiment. Having lit his lamp thc water shortly began to boil, and off started the engine with the inventor after it. He soon heard distant shouts of despair. It was too dark to perceive objects but lie shortly found, on following up thc machine, that the cries for assistance proceeded from the worthy pastor of the parish, who, going towards the town on business, was met on this lonely road by the hissing and fiery little monster, which he subsequently declared he had taken to be the Evil One projiria persona. No further steps, however, were taken by Murdoch to embody his idea of a locomotive carriage in a more practical form."

Fancy a clergyman on a dark night in a deserted road, seventy years ago, meeting a little locomotive engine without a driver or attendant, whizzing directly at him!— This was fifty years before George Stephenson, by combining the experience ot the world with his own ideas, made a practical working machine of thc locomotive. [,.

A GOOD WHITEWASH.—As this is the season of the year when people begin to clean up and make things look fresh for the approaching summer, we copy from thc last Scientific American tho following in rcspcct to the best and clicapcst whitewash both for thc inside and outside of houses:

Take half a bushel of fresh burnt white lime, and slake it cither with hot or cold water, in a tub or barrel. When thoroughly slaked, dissolve in thc water required'to thin thc lime two quarts of common salt, stir it thoroughly, add one quart of sweet milk, and it is ready lnr use, to be put on with a brush. 'I his wash is for the outside of buildings, fenccs, &c., and is very durable. Some- put glue iu whitewash, and others flour and rice paste but these render it liable to scale off in very dry weather. Thc above wash may be made a cream color by the addition of ochre. The above whitewash is all that can.bc desired for thc interior of houses, except thc salt it must be omitted, as it tends to imbibe moisture. French white is superior to lime washes for the ccilings of rooms, as it is not so liable to turn yellowish but it rubs off so easily that it cannot be used for side walls.

ENGLISH JOCKEYS.—Porters Spirit of thc Times says the weight- of Fordhani, the English jockey who is engaged by Mr. Ten Broeck'to ride his animals when they carry light weights, has increased this year by fourteen pounds. Tho weight, which he was able to ride at last year was 100 pounds, but a year's more age has brought thc little fellow up to 114 pounds. Bray the

other

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impossible and doubt-

i^i= this, the merciless wall of bajo-

less, ere this, the nets within which they were imprisoned has closcd up, crushing the last relics of the mutiny between.

One road was left unguarded, but that, led into a region of

deadly

swamps and mo

rasses at the base of the Himalayas, where destruction would be no less inevitable than before the bayonets of the Britis tSf If a person is continually complaining of the town in which he lives, it only proves that he is not fit to live in it.

next subscriber, or master, tney ot course, ride much less for, and so on, down to thc ninth or tenth. Besides these regular engagements and income, it is the custom to give them fifty guineas when they win a larpe stake, and often a hundred. 11 is not a bad thing, in the way of profit, to be an English jockey.

©STThe editor of thc

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light-weight., will ride at 80

pounds. The yearly profits of thc engagements of first-class Lngl'sh Jockey» wi.l average from six to ten thousand dollars.—

frequently charge their first master, or the fiuitlcman whose horse they must ride in preference to all others.at thc same meeting, as high as £400 or S2,()00 a year.

So far as old Orauge is concerned, she her united support

will give the ticket lier unitui ...nj,

and, in fact, so will ever} eountv rn O

sen cs nj ui: viin»v-v. and harmonv is our motto in this region

|©-"Mary, my love, do you remember the text this morning?" "*o, Papa, I never can remember the text, I've such bad memory." "Man* did you notice Susan Brow What a fright! She had oi bonnet, done up, a pea green silk^abkck

lace mantilla, brown gaiters, an

drops,

disposition ot forces, that es

and such a fan. Oh, my.

Well, my dear, your memory is improving.

VST The people of Minnesota arc in a fair way to set up an independent government. Thc Chicago Press says that, at the same time that they voted on the proposition for a So,000,000 loan to the railroads, they also voted on putting a State Government into operation on the 1st of May, whether Congress does or docs not admit Minnesota into the Union before that time. The returns, so far as received indicate that this proposition was adopted by a large majority. Minnesota, then, may soon be a State out of the Union.

Paoli

in favor of a split in thc Democratic ranks upon Lecompton. He takes the following sensible view of it:

So far as the Kansas question is "concerned, it certainly has nothing to do with our State ticket. It is a matter that should be settled by Congress alone ami the attempt to mix* that question up with our politics was both foolish and unwise, fraught with danger to our success. It is a local question, that our people can have no particular interest in, and should not be suffered to disturb thc harmony and union in our ranks.

10 JSKUI

terisivel}* kiiown for his many successful and thrilling aeronautic vovages and discoveries, left Lancaster yesterday for Washington city, to make preparations for a series of thc most extensive and iiitcr-

cnormonmutter within the abdomen, fill examination, made very

Eagle is not confirmed me in Hie view his case, and of its hopelo communicated that opinion

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A more carcajou after this, then lonk of nature, and 1 ti hini-'"if and it with i'cr-

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to his friends. feet calmness and resignation, exprcssin only the wish that he might be allotted live long enough to finisl work.

hc commencc

libcrtics with Jicr

cm Indiana. TT»y ™.ll ..over suffer .,!ar„otcr, „.c f„rl)0:ir I

selves to be divided and dc ea flje cries of the littic gir! so terrified the commonly left ou tb -outsido and tele-

scoundrel

_rcvo]vcr,:

1 handed out an

... iianucu out an assortment of these play-. j)Cr busl^nd and children that she might Honiton collar, a lava bracelet, h-r ol .1 car .m(1

tl)C ln(ly

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selected an

requested the man to load it, and cautioncd him to do it well, first making him show her thc modus operandi of discharging.— Thc obedient store-keeper did all this, and

the lady left the store with a determined and desperate air, saying, "Now, I am goino- to shoot a man!" expect to have anan excellent shooting item very soon.— X. O. True Delta.

WHOLE NUMBER 822.

GREAT BALOON EXPERIMENT DY SENTIMENT OP THE PRESS. PROFESSOR WISE. I Wc commenced the following sentiments ^Professor John Wise, of this city, cx-

esting balloon experiments ever witnessed j0f conference as a fair adjustment of thc in our country. Mr. Wise has been

cn"

gaged to make these experiments for thc

Smithsonian Institute, with instruments Pcacc measure, and one which will secure provided by it for the purpose, lie has the harmony and permanency of the Demomade arrangements with the City Gas cratic party. The Plai)i Dealer says: Company for a liberal supply of gas for his

use. One of the experiments wiU consist of a!

squadsouot balloons in the shape ofaba loon

panion,) and descend with a canvass air conductor. Mr. Wise expects to-'establish thc practicability of guiding balloons along the lines of telegraph, and by other means, so as to be able to steer for and arrive at a

given point, with as much certainty as s.nps delation from the State of Ohio a unit are made to navigate the ocean and

carry

on commerce with thc world.—Lancaster jspccts }m-t

WAR PREPARATIONS IN FRANCE.—Thc correspondent of the London Times, in a dispatch dated Friday night, April 10th, 1858, says: ''crv"A commission has been appointed to examine and report on the best system for placing thc French commercial ports in a state of defense. A levy of French seamen from twenty to forty years of age is going on in the most complete and strict manner. The instructions issued for carrying oift this measure state that it is adopted with the object of getting fleet seamen, completely formed and experienced, and who are in full force of age and activity."

A leading article in the Times on tho Pcriin and Suez Canal very nearly produced a panic yesterday.

The National Intelligencer, of the

27th April, contains a statement from Dr. MAY, the late Col. BENTON'S medical adviser, of the disease of the Colonel, made in compliancc with a request of his illustrious patient. He says:

Thc disease of which Colonel Benton died was Canccr of the Rectum. In thc affection itself there was nothing peculiar, as it is a complaint nut uncommon to an period of lile. It was not until

the Cleveland Plain Dealer to the con-

sidcration of Democrats. That paper has been decided in opposition to tho Senate bill for thc admission of Kansas,. but it accepts thc compromise of the ''committee

question. It regards tho proposition as a

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the circumstances

'r0unding this vexed question, the dan-

it Js to the and tbe

detriment it

jfare

from the balloon, when two miles ugh, jcinbarrassnient it has been to the present, (leaving the balloon in charge ot a com-

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the country, thc great

formcr Administration, and

more than all, its threatened destruction to tho pcacc and permanency of the Democratic party, we hope this measure may now receive thc cordial support of thc entire Democratic party in Cimgrcss, and cspecially do we hope to see the Democratic,

upon the subject. Although not in all rc-

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Times. u- "i united aid of the party in favor of its passairo as a pcacc measure, and as one doing BS?" A gentleman of Lccdsvillc, Ducii- the least injustice of .any proposition now ess county, N. Y., lias a flock of tanie pig- before Cougress, or likely to be this seseons. lie sends two little children to the sion, to the grcatprinciple of popular sovdistrict school, who arc accompanied on thc I crcignty. the pigeons. The little pig- It seenway by one of the piij seems to be thc destiny of thc Deniocon watches the group of oliildren a3 the)-1 cratic party to settle all great questions of chool, and flies national policy. It is never done without take their departure for.s after them along the street, alighting upon the fence, upon a tr.ee, and then in the road before them. If it flies too far ahead, you may sec it turn round, and looking at thc children, wait patiently for their arrival, and then fly a stretch farther on and so it keeps doing until they reach school.—

uld wish, wc invoke tho

policy.

great sacrifices to its popularity and strength. Our wars and conquests have been affected through the energies of the party but never without some disscnttents.

Thc tariff and bank policy of thc country were established through groat trials and tribulations. Thc principles of the

Then it perches itself upon thc window Nebraska bill have become a fixed policy sill, where it remains quietly until school ^jie country at thc expense of whole lcis out, when it, observes the same manner in going home.

gions of the rank and file of tho party.— We have now fought to a practical issue our first great battle of popular sovereignty. With what losses to our party time has yet to determine, but we hope that this patriotism and forbearance of our friends who have honestly differed on this subject, will find in thc compromise now offered an opportunity not only to vindicate their principles, but to demonstrate their attachment to the Union and perpetuity of that party which has ever been the hope of thu Republic. Pass the measure and leave to thc people of Kansas to say whether they will have Lecompton or some other constitution. There can bo no danger in referring this question back, inasmuch as it i® conceded on all hands that the people there are nearly in favor of pence, and in favor of making Kansas a free State in n. quiet and legal way. Get rid of thi.s subject, and for once,"and for thc first time in twenty years, let silence on this slavery question" reign throughout thc Halls ot Congress. Let other and much moro needed subjects of legislation be brought^ forward thc Pacific Railroad, Cuba and^Ccntral America let the new States now knocking at thc door of the Union be admitted and the Democratic Ark move forward in its march towards manifest destinj.

AWI'l'L OATHS.

It appears (hat on the arrival of the detachments of thc Eighteenth Ilighlnn-

thc month of^'September, 1857, that my at- ders at that "place of skulls," Cawnpore, tention was especially called to his case.11c then sent for me to see him for what he supposed was a severe attack of cholie.— His bowels were obstinately constipated, and all medicine failed to remove the obstruction. On examining the intestine

after thc massacre of our countrymen, women and children, they by some means or other found the remains of one of General Wheeler's daughters. Thc sight was horrible, and aroused ilicm to that pitch that, gathering around, they took thc hair from

discovered it to be closed by a hard tumor, the poor girl's head, a portion of which was about three or four inches above it* termi- carefully selected an sen ionic nation. The abdominal distension was at surviving friends, lhc remainder Ihcy this time very great, and his suffering must equally divided.nnwii" themselves, and on have been extreme, but his nature was so each man receiving his care ?tr uncomplaining, in fact, there was so much out portion, lliev^ all qtuct an. "-rjr' of tho Roman in his mould, that he gave tiently applied tacmselvcs to the tedious but little evidence of the pangs lie endu-: task i-.mnting out the mini M-r

contained in cadi individuals lot.nn't

MY friend, Dr. Hall, saw him in consul- when this task was accomplished they ono tation with me at that time, ami, af'cr re- and all swore solemnly, that for ns many pouted and tedious efforts, we finally sue-j hairs as they held in their linger.., soman vcecded iu passing a slender tube through of the eruel ami (rcac leious "'"l1" the obstruction, and thus gave exit to the should die by tne.r h.im -.»n oa umulation of gas and other' they will no doubt most

8®* A disreputable affair came off in the tcrly oblivious and regardless of starch, southern part of this county a few days curls, hair or new bonnets. ago, the facts of which, as we learn, arc "Go in lemons."* You will often see a. about as follows: An individual, who is a ,-liap go in with a rush, and como out wit.i church member and an c.rhortcr, who has the fragments of side-combs in his been teaching school for some time in that kcrs—while the woman haa an lndistinc,. nart of the county, at the close of school, a idea of having been severely hugged, ru ifew evenings since, locked up, with him-. Iessly kissed, and generally "mussed, self, a lit,tlf girl of some fourteen summers, As beards are very general in these be-

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Jlon." Ko/iu j'nper.

ser.VK O.N Till-: A ItKIVA I. OF A ST K.VM IZIt AT SAN MtANflSrO. Tt is the fa.diion. you see, here, fur evervbodv to g-i down to the steamer wh^n she lands, to twig the fashions and newlyarrived cloths, and see the kissing. There some awful "bouts' at it and the first r.is.i of husbands and proprietors of thc crinoline aboard is very avalanehy they are ut-

tojjiss and take longings and some of them "monstrous

which, from their it is impossible in the senmage for any bu-

that he was glad to let her leave. graphed to the Hps. There's great Pranl'lin (/«//.) Jrjfersotrian. sometimes.—letter from

A niiSPKUATK .'.ADYSIIII'.

t„ get a Vu,in cdgcwU-u

Ei.orr.i).— the

The store-keeper «aid, administered laudanum

excellent

'Um size Colt, for which she paid the

price that was asked, $22,50. She then

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The following toast was recently

HUM

SfDt Franriwo-

Joitrnul

Inasauu

well

an individual left his wife and 1 with a Mrs. Mor-:y

]v make her escape with her

mour

She is represented as a very

and intelligent woman.

FEMALE DEPRAVITY.—Two girls about 14 years of age were taken before thc Ma% or of New York, on Saturday, charged with

selling

daguerreotypes of themselves taken in a nude state. They were detained tor examination, and an officer dispatched t., arrest the dagucrreotypist who took the pictures.

Negro equality! Black and white

alike! Amalgamation! Theso arc the mot-

and the