Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 21 August 1858 — Page 1

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NEW SERIES--VOL.1,

sBSAM^pnnnNe.

All yesterday 1 WM spinning,"1 'i 8itting alone la tbewn And the dream that I spun was so lengtli}",

ItlMtMi till d»y W«« dontwlc^ 'H

"V I hr*A'«{ not cloud or shadow ,, That flitted over the hill, Or tho humming hoes, or the swal lows,

Or the tricking of the rill.

The evening wind passod by, r! And the purple splendor of sunset Wat flooding tho western sky. j,. i,

I".

A silly shepherd to wander away.|Tt.

How holy the bliss Of one rapturous kiss

F'roin tho ripo charming mcuth of a sly blushing maiden '. Enchanted yrrn sip

V? The soft bnlin from her lip And inhale her pure breath, sweet as breezes from Kdcn.

Tho pleasure you feel Yon Can never reveal '«.*

tt beggars description all fiction surpasses. You only can sigh •••,:• .O:: ,• T-.J While marveling why Ilacliclors will persist in remaining such as?cs.M

.Iff* !V?

1 took the thread* for my spinning, All ofblnannmmcrftir, -f And a flickering ray ofsnnlight ^-.Waswoven in here and there. .r -i-Vl Tho shadows grow longer and longer,^

JB(ut 1 could not leave my spinning, ,j Tor so fair my dream had grown,

it!

heeded not, hour by hour, How the silent day hnd flown.''1 i, tort 1MSU.:H At lest tho gray shadows fell round me,

tit?

And the night came dark anil chill,. And I roso and ran down the valley, And left it all on the hill. ,„ v.

went up tho hill this morning To the plaoe wlicrc my spinning lay, There was nothing but glistening dew-drops

Remained of my dream to-day.

TWO.

High on the hills Lord Hcrron lie dwells Kosalind sings on the moors below, "Watching the bcc« in the lioathcr bells, .• ». s: Merrily swinging to and fro.

Young Lord Heiron hath left liis ptutc, Donned a doublet of hodden -graj ,. Stolen out of the postern gate,

Rosalind ltceps the heart of a child: S Gentle and tender and pure is she Colin,tho shepherd is comfily and mild,

Tending his llock by valley or lea,

Kevor a swain hits whispered before What she hears at the closc of day i, "Roso of roses I love tito move— "More than tho sweetest words can wiy'.

"Though seem but a Shepherd lad, .,• "Down from a stately race 1 came

"In silks and jewels I'll have the clad, "And Lady of llerron shall bo thy nnmc.^

Rosalind blushed a rosy red, 'M Turnod as white as the hawthorn blow, Folded her Uirtle over lier bead,

Aiul sped away like a startled doe. •,

"Rose of roses come back to mc! "Leave mo never'.'' Lord llerron cried, Never'.'' echoed from the hill and lea "iScvcr!" the lonoly cllfl's replied.

liinij iic uiuuriit'U ytiiir in HI i" Hut T.adv Alice was fair to sec The bright sun blesses their bridal day, ,,

And the castle bells ring merrily.

Over tho moors like a rolling knell Rosalind hears them slowly poal, Loiv she mourns—"I loved him well, "Hotter 1 loved liis mortal weal.

"Rest, Lord llerron, in Alice's arm.~! «J "She is a ladv of high degree, "Rosalind bad but her pleasanteharins "Ye lind mod the day ye weded me:*'

J.ord llerron ho dwells in the eastle liigli, Rosalind sleeps on the moor below: Jlc loved live, and she loved to die

Which loved truest the angels know.

INSPIRIA.

'No joy call compare Nor similitude bear-

-To the pleasing emotions our senses that scnttcr: ........... There's nothing. know, Can comfort one so—

JvxoicrT A sTirr OT.Ass or nor BNANDT A^D WATER .'

BE THUS THY LIFE.

The placid Lake. O brother mine, I3o emblem of thy life, As full of pcace ami purity,

As free from care and strife.

No Hppioon its tranquil breast, That dies not with tho day, No pebble in its darkest depths,

But quivers in its ray.

And sec, how every glorious form And pneeant of tho skies, Refloated from its glassy face,

A mirrored image lies.

So bothy spirit cvor pure, j-,n To God and virtuo given And thought, and word, aud action bear,

ni t?

The imagery of heaven.

Tin: TELEGRAPN TERMINI.—Bull's Bay, or Baboul Bay, is a bay on the east side of Newfoundland, in lat. 47 deg. 25 min. N.,« Ion: 62 deg. 20 min. 7 Y-

Yalcntia, or Kinmore, a picturesque island off the west coast of Ireland, seven miles long and two broad, is separated from the mainland by a strait a mile and a half in btaadth, and contains the most westerly harbor in the British Isles lat. 51 deg. 55 min. N., Ion. 10 deg. 19 min. W. The harbor is deep, capacious and land-loeked, and has lately attracted considerable attention as the proposed westerly terminus of railway communication and principal station for Atlantic steamers.

000

of the counties in North

Carolina they still have a Whig ticket for the Legislature.

Largo numbers of ingeniously exe

cuted counterfeit Aftid dollars are in circulation in Pitttibn^p, Pa.

*AV.

IIOW THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH WILL BE WORKED. The New York Times, in a history of the Telegraph, gives the following information how the Telegraph, across the Atlantic will be worked ,v THE BATTERY TO BE CSED IN TET.EGRAPIII"G.

The primary source of the influence which will be charged with the serried of Atlantic Telegraphy, will be a great voltaic battery, of ten capacious cells, which may bo appropriately termed the '-Whitehouse pr Perpetual,:Maintenanco Battery," on account of the ohc mirked peculiarity which especiallylits ifc!fdr the employment it is designed for. This battery is made upon the Since principle, so far as the adoption of platinized silver and zinc for its plates isConCeTncd: but it differs from every form of combination ihsit has hitherto been iu use, it having the pldtes of each ccll so subdivided into subordinate portions, that any one of these may' be taken away from the rest for the purpose of renewal or repair, without the action of the rest of the excited surface of flic ccll being suspended for a single moment.— The battery, in fact, may be entirely renewed a hundred times without its operation having been troubled with even a passing intermission. So long as a fair amount of attention is given to the renewal of its zinc clement, piece-meal, it is, indeed literally cxhaustless and permanent.

This very desirable quality is secured by a singularly simple and ingenious contrivance. The ccll itself is formed of a quadrangular trough of gutta pcrcha, wood strengthened outside, in which dilute .acid is contained, the proportion of acid to water being one part in 15 or 10. There arc grooves in the gutta perclia into which several metal plates slide in a vcrtica-posi-tion. These plates arc silver and zinc alltcrnatcly, but they are not pairs of plates in an electrical sense. Each zinc plate rests firmly at the bottom on a long bar of zinc, which runs from end to end of the trough, and thus virtually unites the whole into one continuous extent of zinc, presenting not less thon 2,000 square inches of excitable surface to the cxcitablc liquid. Each silver plate hangs in a similar way from a metallic bar, which runs from end to end of the trough above, the whole of the silver being thus virtually united into one continuous surfacc of equal .pxtcnfc to the face of the zinc. The zinc does not reach so high as the upper longitudinal bar, ami the silver docs not- hang down as low as the inferior longitudinal bar. The battery is tlius composed of a single pair of laminated plates, although to the eye it seems to be made up of several pairs of plates. Nature has set- the example of arranging extended surface into reduplicating folds, when it is required that

i» ou.itau snail bc packed way in a t1.

The antenn indeed, arc the types of the Whitehousc battery. If any onc of these reduplicated segments of cither kind of metal is removed, the remaining portion continues its action steadily, the effect merely being the same that would be pro-

state consequently, they are almost, ex-

cmpt from wear. Each zinc lamina is

withdrawn as soOn as its amalgamation is injuriously affected, or so soon as its own substance is mainly eaten away by the action of the chemical menstruum in which it is immersed, and a freshly amalgamated, new zinc lamina, is inserted into its

By this arrangement, four-fifths of the sparks were destroyed, simply on account of the large surface of the metal, through which the electrical current bad to pass when contact was completed. Still there remained enough to constitute a very undesirable residue. This was disposed of finally, after sundry tentative attempts, by coiling apiece of fine plantinum wire ana placing it in a porcelain vessel of water, and then leaving this fine plantinum coil in

constant communication with the opposite poles. The battery is unquestionably one of the most economical that has ever been set to work, considering the amount of service it is able to perform. It is calculated that the cost of maintaining the tencelled battery in operation at the terminal stations on either side of the Atlantic, including all wear and tear, and consumptionof material, will not exceed one shilling per hour.

TRANSMISSION OF TIIE CURRENT.!

The primary voltaic current procured from this battery,"will be used to '''stimulate and call up" the energies those fleeter messengers, electrical in nature, by the aid of which alone can the message be expedited. The voltaic current, therefore, passes to.a §ilk-c9vei ed ,wii e, ininnumerable coils, enveloping. a

inr

place. The capability of the pibcmcal re- graph will be performed by the

NEW PEVirE TO AVOID A TU'STRT'CTION {JAI. bcc0

THE METAL.

The flashes of light and crackling sparks produced on making and breaking contact with the poles of this grand battery, are very undesirable phenomena in onc particular. They are accompauicd by a considerable waste of the metal of the pole.— Each spark is really a considerable fragment of the metal absorbed into itself by the electrical agent, BO to speak, and flown away with by it. To avoid this danger, an ingenious contrivance of the Electrician of the Company will bc used. First, he araranged a set of twenty brass springs something of tho form aud appeaftnee of tho keys of a musical instrument, in opposite pairs, so that a round horizontal bar, turning pivot ways on its own center, and flattened at the top, could lift ,by an edge either of the sets of ten springs, right or, left, as it was turned. This enabled the contact to be distributed through the cntire length of the edge and breadth of the" brass springs, and the course of tho current to bc reversed, accordingly as the right or left edge (the bar being worked" by a crank-handle) was raised to the-right or left set of springs—the right set, it .will bc understood, being the representatives of onc pole of the battery, and the left set of the other pole.

tbar

of soft .iron

immediately sheathed in gutta-percha.— Several miles bf this 'fine wire (No. 20) are twined about this iron centre then comes another coat of gutta-percha then another coil of wire, thicker this tunc #(No 14) and 1^ miles in length. ,. .,„T "ar(^

The voltaic currcnt, passing through the wires, reaching .the iron core, converts 'it into a powcrfuLjuagnet, exciting a current of. electricity, which is delivered to the No. 20 coil, and tlicncc to the cable, whence it departs on its transatlantic voyage. Electricity having thus produced iu the first instance magnetism, and magnetism having reproduced electricity, a. transmissive power is obtained, which the original current did not possess.

THE RECEIVING INSTRUMENT. The transmission current generated in these double induction coils, on reaching the further side of the Atlantic, will of course-have bccomc somewhat faint and weak from the extent of the journey it has

pcrfornied. It will not therefore be set *~i a ha he ha be this .state to print, or to hard work but it .. wilHic thrown into a sort of nursery, ,• J!^of iast

known as the receiving instrument, where

its flagging energies wnl be restored.— The conducting strand of the cable will, be here made continuous'with a coil of wire, surrounding a bar of soft iron, which will become a temporary magnet, strong in proportion to the number of turns in the enil, whenever the current passes.

This tamporary mngnot will have its precise polarity determined by the direction in which the clectric.il current passes along the wire. The pole, will bo north when tho current passes in one direction, will be south when the current runs the opposite way. The apparatus relied upon by the Company to effect this object is an improvement upon the relay magnet, which figured in Messrs. Cooke fe Wheatstonc's patent. The advantage of it is, that the temporary magnet has no other work to do than to jnuKc fne small permanent magnet

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narrow spacc at the same time that a large On account of this peculiarity of construcacting area is preserved, in the laminated nntcmu of the cook of chafer.

.rsG v.j'.oii its almost frictionless pTvot.

tion, it possesses the utmost sensibility.— It may bc put into vigorous action by. a sixpence, and a fragment of zinc placed on the moist tongue. When two or three of these instruments arc scattered about in the room where the large double induction coils are at work, they arc commonly heard clickine backwards and forwards

luced, if a fragment of an ordinary pair of automatically, and doing a little business on their own account, although no current of any kind is thrown upon their coils.—

plates were temporarily cut away. The silver lamina are of considerable thick-

ncss, and securely "plantinatcd" all over Thev' are then merely" travcrsin"- upon been exhumed ot men that were perhaps —that is, plantinum is thrown down upon their pivots, obediently to the magnetic at-

their surfaces in a compact, metallic form, I traction of the great bars, having their jter statement lie says may call at lus olhce and not merely in the black pulverulent niagnetism successively reversed some two .aiK^

or three yards

:irc

sympathetically recording, at such times, precisely the same signals and messages that the

THE RECORDING MACHINE!!

Tlu

ncwal of the consumptive element of the instrument of Prof. Morse. In this re- we can safely calculate upon the transnnsbattery in this intcrpolatory and fragmentary way, is then the cause of its "jvrpefu(U power. The intensity of a voltaic arrangement depends upon the number of its pairs of plates or cells. If in the experiment, the intensity of the electricity had been increased, without any alteration of quantity, merely by multiplvthe number of the cells engaged,

...n o-fc—r kept down for a little more than an instant, All the expense ot sending out men on or by sonic analgousmodification of instru-• a lengthened line or dash is left on the on-\ horseback to repair the line will be dio_I mental agency, the body which resisted ward moving paper as a track. But how penscd witli, probably. tho current of the battery with such coin-j is the style thus magnetically controlled? plete effect, would have been flashed I It is held up by a strong spring. Henoath Lv.ls °f Gkeat dTins.-In the through and burnt up, like the fragment of! it there is a soft iron bar, which becomes a ^.on

metal that had inferior powers, of. resist- magnet whenever a voltaic current is turn-! *»»*. be sent

make its dot or dash, as the case may

electrical rnprort, although

ten to the strange clicking that is going on closc to their ear, while the printing is in progress, and at once say what it all means.

{From the Troy Times.]

A CLASS LEADER RUNS AWAY WITH A SISTfeR OF THE CHURCH. The residents of that portion of the Fifth Ward' in which the Albia suburbs are located,, have been thrown into a state of no little excitement by an event transpiring there yesterday that will afford food for gossips for some time, and which throws no little scandal upon the character of two persons. hitherto presumed to have been pattern:? of morality and.'phik.4 of respectability. This'event'is nothing less thari the clopenicnt of a wcll.-knbwii dlals's'leader in the I6cjil Methodist church, with a sister whose piis'ty ancl sincerity have, imtil within, a few days, b!ecn iin^tiestioned, Arid whosb' suppositious virtnb's taVe gained for her a desirable familiarity with the best claSs of persons in,the neighborhood. ?£h6

ladv

thf

off through ^transmission coils^' "that

was young,''intclligcnt'aiid good

lookinf—well calculated, of Cdursc, to attract mid ploase! during' the revivalrof last wintcr, she declared herself under conviction of sin, was received on probation by the Methodist Church, and after the usual limit of trial had expired, so strict was her conduct and so irreproachable her demeanor, so far as others were able to judge, that she was taken into full membership. 1-, j, jr.

Latterly, however,' a familiarity, which at first was perfectly consistent with the mutual relations of herself and her classleader as members of the church, has ripened into an intimacy affording the watchful ones good ground for suspicion, and leading to a belief on the part of other members of the church that all was not as it should be with the parties, llumor— but rumor has a thousand tongues—de-

wce

tcn

*cet

Powcr

k,' the class-lcad-

icr,- anxious as he assumed to be to msuie

the good health of his wife, sent her to visit her mother in Schodack. Thus relieved of her presence, ho was free to consummate the plans which seem to have been agreed upon between himself aud the woman. During several days past he has been selling, his wagons, horses and other loose property, and having got all things ready, lie came down to the city yesterday, it is said, met the woman, took the cars for the West with her, aud will not probably soon be seen in this vicinity again. lie loaves behind him a devoted wife and three children. The leaders of the church of which the runaways arc members, of course, feel highly scandalized by their conduct, but justly think that they must not be held responsible for it.

0K.B1.14TOXS OF MEN TE?I FEET IIlGII. Mr. AVilliam ]). Frazer writes to the Cincinnati Gazette from Winchester, Indiana, that a half mile northwest of that place is an old fori., including about thirty-six acrcs of ground within the fortification.— The mound in the centre is about twentyfive feet high, while the fort or breastwork is only about fifteen feet. Directly east and west of the mound arc openings or gateways, around which arc other forts.— A quarter of a mile northwest of the fort is the burying ground, where bones have

ta^- An.V

onc

w^10

scc

away, and, curiously enough

rcat magnets are send-1

ot,

d^bts the lat-

^1C evidence.

TIIE CAPABILITY OF THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.— Professor Morse's estimate of

actual recording work of the tele-! Take it at ten words in the minute, and al

ordinary

instant, or more than an instant, according- thoughts, ani pra\crs

the Atlantic's breadth. Itho

There will bc only onc conducting strand

laid down in the Atlantic, but yet enough ]oisters

distmct signals can be transmitted by this

one wire to accommodate all thc letters of

the alphabet and the several numerals.— When a message is sent across the Atlantic, thc crank-handle of the mighty battery will be worked backward and forward, making its contacts instantaneous or prolonged. When they arc instantaneous, dots will be formed on the paper ribbon by the recording style at the other side of the Atlantic when they are protracted, dashes will be traced there. Words will be spelt according to the way in which instantaneous and protracted contacts, and therefore dots and dashes arc caused to succced each other. Thc trace on the paper in America will correspond to the movement of the hand in Great Britain, or vicc verse. The clerks who attend the recording instrument become so expert in their curious hieroglyphics, that they do not need to look at the printed record to know what the message under reception is the recording instrument has for them an intelligible, articulate language. They understand its speech. They -can closc their eyes and lis-

AtliUlt'c cSraP

,fc w0,lld bc

0 Ina

ca-^

tcleSr'allh frora.

Ireland to Newfoundland at the speed of at least eight or ten words per minute.—

lowing ten words for name arid address,

cording instrument, a ribbon of paper is! sion ot a twenty-words' message in three enrolled from a hollow cylinder or drum minutes, or..fourtccn thousand four huiulby a train of clock-work, and as it is un- red words per day.It this estimate is rolled, a sharp style, magnetically directed realized, the cable will offer ample facihindents a series of dots or lines upon the ties for all present demands upon it. paper. When the style is thrust down on- The charges being one dollar per word, Jy for an instant, as the paper is dragged it would seem to promise a fair rcmunerabeneath, a dot is impressed. When it is tion, $14,400 per day. i' .»

«I0^sr

led on from the local battery along a coil "^rch, into green fields a wondious surrounding it. Whenever the soft iron wretch and wccdless to cat green herbs,

ines a magnet, it is stronger than and.be weakened and chastised 'by the ram the spring, and drags down the style to

showcr

bevcr'

When it ceases to be a magnet, the spring becoming wed to pleasure and forgetful of comes into play and lifts the style up, so 'tsb'S'1 vocation. lerc ia\c )ccn sou that the pajer travcascs on beneath, tJacc- Jed.^ted^to heaven from childhood and less and free. The style is held down an S"™

)r 0lK

nroloncecl S00^ PUL'P°scs wherein pious wishes dwelt vision roil 'likc

nuns autl

ly as an instantaneous or as current is sent from the transmission coil, and therefore from the local recording bat-ja jet in life lcia&itudcs, ie cac itery through the short circuit, for as it has

been seen, the two will bc in magnetic and °.

„ered by The} assojnWe those co„ve„ts on

r]vcr llch

thc

rth like tie As.^nan

and winer bitter weather More-

cities there is danger of the souls

hlS00^anScIs

as eet

fcccliu:101^

and all

every image was a saint

occasion by tie ironging pa. sions

Jr.ea*~^ies

^,av® ccoiuc soi ci .mc

l,"vc

been changcj

to taverns, from whose chambers the pious

in]nates have

i0D„ departed, and in whose

footetcps of travelers have cf-

faced tlic

iniagCS

w[10sc waHs"are

buried saints, and

written over with ribaldry

and the names of strangers, and resound no more with holy hymns, but with revelry and loud voices.—Longfellow.

86r" The '-American'1 party is doirig^ a flourishing business in Johnson county, Ky. They have nearly doubled their vote since last voar: then they gave 6 votes-^-now 11. Last year the Democratic vote was 591, this year 819.

The washerwomen of Holland and

Belgium, so proverbially clcan and wliOj get up their linen so proverbially white, use refined borax as a washing powder instead of soda, in proportion of a large hand-j ful of borax powder to about tcn gallons of water in, boiling they save in soap nearly half. '=r

ScB* A Yankee, according to the latest authority, sees aqueducts in bubbling springs, buildings in stones, and cash in everything.

CRAWFOEDStlLLE, MONTGOMERY^ COUNTY^" INDIANA,J. AUGUST,#, 21, 1858. WHOLE NUMBER 845.

[From the N. Journal of Commerce.] BRITISH VIEWS OX THE EXTEXSIOJT OF AMERICAN DOMINION.

Not only does the London Times openly advocate thc annexation of Cuba by thc United States, and demonstrate thc advantages that would: result to Great Britain from such a change but thc London horning Herald, the reputed ofgari of the Derby Cabinet, and the mouthpiece of conservatism in England, as openly advocates the acquisition'by the United States of a portion of Mexico, and the establishment of the protectorate proposed by General Houston, over thc Mexican Republic, in such form and to such an extent as should be -neeeissary to secure to the 'Union good neighborhood, and to the people of Mexico thc benefit of orderly and .wellrregulatcd Republican government.

A gfeat change must have' 'taken 'place in the public sentiment of England, when we find the following in thc columns of the exponent of ultra conservatism:— .i,fT

"And suppose Mexico to fall under the protectorate of the, Washington.-Govern-ment:—when? A. mere abstraction of International morality might be said to be violated, but the substantial interests of humanity would certainly be promoted.— A magnificent and fruitful region of thc earth would be, rescued from perennial auarchy and comparative barrenness. Peacc would once again shed its blessings on the inhabitants, and industry and wealth would increase. A brood of vultures, whose ruthless contests for power and plunder have perpetuated discord and bloodshed in Mexico, would be extinguished. Thc foreign, and especially the English, holders of Mexican bonds, might truly rejoice at such a change, or at any change which would rescue the revenues of Mexico, which are in truth the property of the English bondholders, inasmuch as their claims constitute a first charge upon them, from the needy and reckless employes oxer whom the state, in its distracted condition, has no sufficient control."

It is not difficult, however, to account for this change of opinion. Within a few years thc British have become convinced that the spread of American-power and influence, so far from being prejudicial to their interests, is directly conducivc to their advantage, and that wherever American law and institutions prevail, there trade, commerce,-and industry thrive the moral and material wants of the people are better supplied and

These are among the reasons why Brit-1 ish it re a to he of it S at an pa a in he re on a an xi ha gone so great a change. With reference to a he re is an he an a crful reason which impels thc British people to wish to scc Cuba annexed to the United States, and that is, the knowledge that the moment that island becomes American territory, the slave trade ceases and that so long as it belongs, to Spain, so long will the slaves be imported in spite of treaty obligations, and blockading squadrons.

We believe that our British cousins are far more anxious to see Cnba and Mexico annexed to the United "States than our own people are. They have, everything to gajn by the change, whereas the immediate advantages to us, of such annexation, are very questionable. Circumstances may arise, when it will become necessary for Mexico to cede another large slice of her territory to thc United States, aud when we may be bound to take it _and in the same way, circumstances may arise under which wc may be compelled to acquire Cuba in the interest of the island, and of the pcace of the world. But we need be in no burr}'.— Filibuster expeditions and violent conquests are as unnecessary as they arc immoral. We have no need to acquire territory by dishonest means but we may bc perfectly justified in acquiring it in order to secure the peace, happiness and prosperity of those by whom that territory is inhabited, and of those who are immediate-

tfirf ff

•ItSS.'T''-

lv connected

tconsequently,

'Vfith

the

cause of 1 iberty, progress, and civilization, is promoted. The more our relatives on the other side of the Atlantic learn to know us,—thc more experience they have of the working of our system of government .and the practical results achieved by the euforpri/.e and industry of our people,—thc more are they persuaded that they have no reason to be jealous of us that thc more we expand, the'better for them that it is idle for any transmarine power to endeavor to check or control our influence on this continent and that, as the Morning Herald expresses it, "no one will venture to say that the interests of humanity would not be benefitted were Mexico to take its place alongside Texas, under the starspangled banner of the great North American Union.""

The British arc large creditors both of thc Spanish and Mexican Governments, and they have found that their debtors are more than ordinarily faithless, notwithstanding the liberal sacrifices they have ade. At a meeting of thc English holdof xi an on he in on do on the 28th of last May, it was officially staha in ha a iv id 1 S re in a re a an ha to re a so be a a re to on in 1 8 O S pa in a similar, if not more lamentable, story! to he E is re it or of that country. It is not unnatural, there-! fore, that thc English should grow tired of being defrauded, and of seeing the money which is justly theirs, squandered and pilfcrcd by "thc reckless employees," and "hungry and unscrupulous officials," to whom tiie Morning Herald alludes with so much bitterness, but with so much truth. Tlicy know that, were their claims to become alien on Cuba and Mcxico, and were those countries to bc "annexed'' by the United States, they would be ccrtain to re iv in pa an in re an that thc impetus to thc productiveness in Cuba and Mcxico, which would bc given by American enterprise, would be of very important benefit to them in opening a more cxtcusive market for their manufactures.! They are also aware that a very large portion of the Cubans and Northern Mexicans re to an to he re at as the only means of escape from flic cor-i ruption and missrule to which they arc now

it. If wc acquire a por

tion of Mexico, it will be at thc request of the Mexicans, and for:a valuable consideration and the acquisition will bc more ben eficial to the Mexicans thau to us. If the threatened Spanish expedition of "10,000 men and a large fleet for thc invasion of Mexico," ever leaves thc shores of Spain and-'reach.those of Mexico, the attempt of O'Donncll,-Santa Anna, Znloaga,, and the priests, to re-establish Spanish supremacy in Mcxico, may trat improbably result in the speedy gratification of the wish expressed by thc London Times. ...

E. II. CUAI'JX ON TIIE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. jiil t. ['tf.i-.i-. 'fiXi

In a, sermon preached in Boston on last Sunday week, thc Rcy. E. H. Chapin made the following allusion to. the.success of the Occan Telegraph: "Let us not fail to rccognizc the greatness, thc grandeur, of this achievement.— Let no supposed honoring of Veligion—no intention of exalting the moral or spiritual above "the merely physical, hide from us the full glory of that oftort by which, for the last three hundred years, man has obtained this mastery .over nature. For in simple truth, it is'not mail's glory, but God's glory that is unfolded in'the gradual development of human knowledge and human power. Thus thc magnificent consummation of the past week, which has simultaneously startled two hemispheres, has awakened within us those feelings that arc deepest and highest—making words inadequate, and sending our thoughts upward not only in astonishment, but iu rev crcncc and thanksgiving. In such a work we feel the thrill of God's hand sweeping through events, and translating into a prophetic symbol the processes of ages, and the significance of history. "Men wait upon it—breathless conscious that it inaugurates an era, wondering to what new music the earth's round wheel will turn, and pondering thc incalculable consequences. Yes-, the first sentiment awakened by such a triumgh is a religious sentiment. It demonstrates thc fact, that spirit is tho beginning and thc cncl of all mechanism and all matter.— Through every physical barrier mind rushes to the embrace of mind, and heart to heart—sending, swift as lightning, through the arches of the tumultuous sea, thc viewless coursers of thought, •-and tempering the thunder of the sky into the silent pulsations of a world-felt love and joy. In this view, scientific achievement, expanding bc3"ond all mercenary uses, becomes thc Shekinah of thc living God—at once His awful veil of mystery, and the signal of His presence."

Till-: ATMO.srill'.KB A IiRSS. Two feronauts, who ascended in a balloon from Patcrson, N. J., a few days ago, have published an account of their observations, among which wo quote the following as most remarkable "As wc nearcd thc city wc selected thc Central I'ark for our landing place, and bejran to descend. As we descended wc crossed the Hudson river, and here thc usual phenomenon was noticed, the bed of the river with its deep and shallow places being distinctly seen."

Thc editor of the Patcrson Guardian, who seems to have had a conversation with thc aironaut, says "What they say of seeing the bottom of the North River is of interest. All the bottom was observable to them as they passed over, and its channels and flats could bc distinctly seen. Tho channel appeared like a deep gulch. They say, however, that they can see no fishes, which is a fact they cannot account for, while the bottom of the river is so clearly visible to them."

Will not some of our men of science explain the phenomena hero alluded to

TIIE FATAL. IIKAT IX TNDIA.—The heat of thc summer in India is said to bc thc most severe known for a quarter of a century. The correspondent of thc London Times says: tv I

All over thc North-West" the troops are being housed, and operations cease unril the tierce heat has a little abated. The sun has heen more deadly than thc enemy. As if to try the endurance of Englishmen to thc utmost, the season has been such as has not been known since 1^5:5. Those who know Bengal, will understand it when I say, that on the 1 nth inst., one clergyman in Calcutta buried forty-eight Englishmen, chiefly sailors. In one ship, the captain, chief mate, and twenty-six men had all apoplexy at once. Nine men from Fort William were buried one morning from the same cause. Her Majesty's liith, at Barrackpore, who were nearly all under cover, and who are most carefully looked after, have two hundred men unfit for duty, from immense boils."

All over the country.' paragraph after paragraph announces the deaths of so many men at such a place from apoplexy. Fortunately the rains are setting in, and in :i month it will be comparatively cool.

8©*The Green River Barrens, llia^ fifij years ago in Kentucky were covered with irrass and strawherries, morning-glories and other flowers, and were the resort of immense flocks of quails and a multitude of rabbits, arc now a. great forrestot oaks, hickory and chestnut-trees. This great chantre from a field to a forest has been made" in less than half a century. The serins of the oak, thc chestnut and hickorv. were in nature—unless wc give thc f'reat colony of squirrels the credit of planting the chestnut, thc walnut and thc acorn, from their winter store to the nuts collected iu other localities.

The county jail at Bloomfiohl, Ind.,

was destroyed b}- fire on Sunday night.— It was thc work of an incendiary. The three prisoners confined came near being suffocated to.death. When the jailor reached the building, the prisoners could not speak: They finally recovered, aud were taken to Soencor.

THE ATTACK on the CHINESE FORTES —THRILLING ACCOUNT by an AMERICAN'.

A correspondent of the Philadelphia Tjcdgcr, writing from China, gives a thril--ling account of the capture of the Pecho Forts by tho French and English. After stating that tiie English steamer Cormorant, Captain Saumarez, was ordered toopen the battle, the writer proc.ocds

As soon as the Cormorant-, stoamcd up against the hawser, it partod like a length of pack-thread, and gavo thc signal of battle to the fort. Their earthen sides at once bclchcd forth iron and flame', tearing thc water iu scores of places and hulling the advancing steamer iVpori her port side. "Flat down at Voilr gumi," cried thc intrepid Saumarez. And at the command every man cast himself flat upon the sfcamcr'jj deck, and allowed the iron shower to pass on its way. He himself, how-'---ever,

Pstrodo

impatiently the.elevated poop

like the brave man he is, directed the men at the guns, examined the forts through* his glass, and listened for any hail from his" sailing master, who also walked along the forecastle. Thc iron shower was succeeded by a second anil a third—finally thc discharge was almost continuous. Still tho" steamer moved steadily ahead, dark, si-' lent, mutilated—but threatening asa sleeping volcano. At length we see'her arrived abreast of thc fifth fort, and at thc saiuo/? instant wc notice a signal fluttering from thc mast-head of thc gun-boat of the two admirals. It is the "parting of thc hawscr" of the allies thc emblem of war tho longed-for signal for the bursting ot tho volcano. Successive and dense volumes of smoke now burst from the sides of tho arrested steamer, envelope her in a surging cloud, and hide from view thc furious workings of thc guns which succced.— 5 Thc rapid and heavy discharges, preceded by lurid flashes of flame and followed by clouds of duet and signs of disorder in the fort, tell plainly enough, however, of tho work ot death that is under way.

Tiie bombardment is now general, and has lasted for an hour or more. Still, the Chinese hang bravely by their guns, urged to courage by their mandarins, who, strange to say, are not, in this case, thc first to run.sg Some bold maneuver must therefore bo® resorted to, for many of thc steamers have been badly hulled, and many valuable lives alresdy lost. There it goes! Another fluttering signal from the gun-boat of the admiral. That signal means "Away there, stormcrs, and scale the forts!" ()no would think that it was written in large letters, instead of beiug indicated by flags so quickly is it obeyed. A hundred boats are suddenly urged towards the river's sides, the eighteen hundred men leap in thc-mud and clamber up thc broken banks. Then, with leveled bayonets and heavy tranqi thev press forward their solid masses upon, into, through thc yawning embrasures. Thc foe can stand no longer.—• Even the Mantchoo Tartar shrinks before such a threatening front of advancing steel, and deserts his guns for a tumultuous flight. So long as. the allies were in thc middle of thc river he could brave th(!|« danger of the exploding shells, but as «oon«g as they nearcd him so steadily with their bristling front, (being naturally a ticklish man,) he takes up a hurried flight. Thc whole 10,000 who had garrisoned thc forts were now in full retreat, in vain tho brave old mandarins (something that tlicy have never done before) threw themselves in their way blows, curses, entreaties arc no longcrof any avail. Fear has overcome authority discipline is at an end, and vietory declares for the allies after a strugglo ..[ two hours and fifty minutes.

The writer adds, that on the very day of the battle, Mr. Reed, the American Minister, was to have gone on shore to have signed a treaty which granted us everything wc have asked for, and which had all been arranged previously. Thus wis say that "the battle of the Pi-Ho" has re-4 suited in anything but benefit to us. -M

$£iyllon. J. II. Darly, formerly l.nifed States Senator from Missouri, was, many years airo, a candidate for Congress in his district. He was "stumping" the swamp region in southeast Missouri and onc day just after getting out of the swamps, lie came to a town, where he was called on I for a speech. He complied with thc request and during the course of his harangue got off the following decided hit:

"Fm.r.ow-cixizivxs:—While I. was riding through the swamps below here, }'csterdav, toward this town, my tedious way was beguiled by thc musical greetings of the tenants of the watery element and, £,| rapt in ecstasy at thc dulcet harmony, to .= lnv great surprise I heard, all of a sudden, a lot of the biggest kind of bull-frogs start up thc cry of "Bowlin! Bowl in!"— "Ah!M said I, quite startled, "it seems inv opponent has a strong constituency here Hard I y, however, had recovered from this first shook to my nerves, when I I was yet more startled, for another set of "croakers," a little further on, FCt up a cry if Itozier! Ro/.ier "So it seems," exclaimed T, "my other opponent has his friends here too. I wonder how I stand in this community So I stood still fur a good while expecting my constituents to raise their voices in my behalf but I. had not a single one there. And can tell you why.' Thc "cute rascals knew that if

I get elected to Congress I will have their swamps drained, and then their occupation, like Othello's, would be gone, and they would have to. shift aud "make tracks" for new quartern."

KMICKAT.'ON-.—Thc number of emigrants at New York for the week ending duly was 1,000, making a total of 44,534 since thc first of thc year. The arrivals for thc corresponding period in 1857, numbered 110,333. ...

JST An old settler, bragging to a new coincr of thc grazing land in his neighborhood, says it "yields two pounds of tallow to evcrv square foot, and the cows coims up with butter in onc side, and cheese, iu tho other.'"