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XiIST OF PREMIUMS, Awarded at the Sixth of the MontgotBerr County Agricultural Society, held Bear Cratrfordwille, on the 15th, 10th and 17th of September, 1858. 'DIVISION A»—J)OME4TIC ANIMALS. jj

Class Nd. 1—Horses for all purposes. Desk 4 yr. old stallion, W. W. Yates, silver cup $10.00 2d best, Jon. Hutchinson 5 00 Best 3 yr. old stallion, M. F. Myers,

sett tea/spoons 6 00

2d best, EL ToralinBon. butter knife 3 00 Best 2 yr. old stallion, James Marks, butter knife 8 00 2d best, W. J. W. Nelson, sug. tongs 2 00 Best 1 yn old stallion, S. Gilliland, butter knife 3 00 2d best, Wilson Hunt, cream spoon 2 00 Best sucking horse colt, M. Vanhook sugar tongs 2 00 2d best, Danl. Cox,' Ind- Farmer. 1 00 Best 4 yr. old brood mare, Wilson

Hunt, sett tea spoons 6 00 2d best, Levi Wilcox, gold pen 3 00 Best 8.yr old brood mare, C. F. Bolscr, teaspoons 5 00 2d best, David Enoch, sugar tongs 2 00 Best 4 yr. old gelding, M. Moudy, teaspoons 5 00 2d best, W. G. Hutton, sugar tongs 2 00 Best 3 yr. old gelding, J. It. Beck, teaspoons 5 00 '2d best, Thomas Graves, cr. spoon 2 00 Best 2 yr. old geldiug, Isaac Davis, butter knife 3 00 2d best, A» Whitenach, cr. spoon 2 00 Best 4 yr. old mare, D. T. Carter, W tea spoons 5 00 2d beat, W. J. W. Nelson, cr. spoon 2 00

Best 3 yr. old mare, John S. MeJim-

gey, tea spoons 5 00 2d best, O. P. Jennison, cr. sppon 2 00 Best 2 yr. old filly, Wilson Hunt, butter knife 3 00 2d best, Toliver Larsh, cream spoon 2 00 Best 1 yr. old lilly, Levi Wilcox, sugar tongs 2 00 2d best, Levi Wilcox, Ind. Fanner 1 00 Best sucking marc colt, J. C. Wray, fsugar tongs 2 00 2d best, John Drennon, Iud. Farmer 1 00

Heavy Draft Horses.

vBest

4 yr. old stallion, 1L II. Craig, silver cup 5 00 "2 E. Deets, cream spoon 2 00 Class No. 2—Horses for Light Harness. Best pr. marcs, W. P. Brit.ton, s. cup 00 single horse, W. Davis, b. knife 3 00 2d best, Geo. Bayles, er. spoon 2 00 Best single mare, W. Davis, b. knife 3 00 '2d best, Jac. Stonebrakcr, cr. spoon 2 00

Class No. 3—Horses for the Saddle. Best trotting mare, J. P. Ilymer, silver cup $5 00

pacing guiding, It. II. Lafallet, 5 00 Class No. 1—Horses on Time ichJt'ui four minutes. Best, truest and fastest trotting, Jas.

W.-Walton, (3:45) sil. cup $10 00 truest and fastest pacing, J. P. Watson, (3:17) sil. cup 10 00

Class No. 5—Matched Horses. JJcst pair matched geldings, Jos. La'v fullet, silver cup 10 00 •id host, Geo. La folic t, 10 00

Class No. (—Sweepstakes.

-Best 5 colts sired by 1 stallion, It. II. Craig, silver cup $10 00 mare and her progeny, Wilson limit, silver cup 5 00 of all stallions, (sweepstake)

J. Hutchinson, silver cup 10 00 driving horso, (r. Baylcs 5 00 "riding B. II. Lafollet 5 00 Class No. 7—.Tacks, Jen nets and Mules. Best 4 yr. old jack, W. \Vr. Yates, N silver cup $12 00 2d best, J. Hutchinson, 5 00 •Best 3 y. old jack, J. I?. Durham 8 00 2 J. Y. Durham, •S butter knife 3 00 1 J. B. Durham, cream spoon 2 00 *'2d best, David Enoch, Ind. Farmer 1 00 ^Best jack showing 5 colts, J. Hutchinson, silver cup 5 00 jennet over 3 yr. old, J. Y. Durhairt, silver spoons 6 00

Jennet under J. B. Ashcnbust, butter knife 3 00 2d best, Isaac Perkins, Diploma Best pair working mules, J. B. Durham, silver cup 5 00 mule 3 yr. old and over, Andrew

Insley, silver cup 5 00 2d best, Swan Brookshirc, Diploma •fiBcst mule under 3 yr. old, J. S.

Hatch, butter knife 3 00 Class No. 8—Devonshire Cattle. -'Best 3 yr. old bull, Ira Middleton, silver cup 5 00 milch cow, b. knife 3 00

Class No. 9—Cattle of other Grades. Best 3 yr old bull and over, AV. MeGray, silver cup $10 00 2d best, Jas. B. Sidner, 5 00 Best 2 old bull, G. Heckalhorn 5 00 2d best, Stephen Allen, but. knife 3 00 Best 1 old bull, W. Allen c. spoon 2 00 bull calf, J. B. Allen 2 00 2d best, B. T. Itistiue, Ind. Farmer 100 Best 3 yr old cow, James B. Sidner, tea spoons 6 00 2d best, Swan Brookshirc, b. knife 3 00 Best 2 old heifer, (no award on aceount of difficulty in regard to age) Best 1 old heifer, J. Smith, spoon 2 00 2d best, John Smith,

Thomson's Food for Animals 1 00

Best pair work cattle, J. P. Hyiner, silver cup 5 00 2d best, Stephen Graves, cr. spoon 2 00 Best milcli cow, J. B. Sidner, s. cup 5 00 2d best. Swan Brookshire, cr. spoon 2 00 Best buffalo bull, Chas. Lewis 2 00

Class No. 10—-S}icej).

Best fine wool buck, S. Graves, cup 5 00 2d best, J. H. Goohran, Shep. Book 2 50 Best fine wool ewe, E. Quick, spoon 3 00 2d boat, S. Graves, Youott on Sheep 1 50 Best pen f. w. sheep, It. Hill, spoon 3 00 2d best, Stephen Graves, Diploma

Class No. 11—Sicine. 'f

Best 1 yr old boar, A. Gregg, s. cup 5 00 2d bost, John Oliver, Youatt on the Hog and Progressive Farmer 2 00 brood sow, G. W. Hutton, cup 5 00 24 best, W. J. W. Nelson, cr spoon 3 00 Best sow 15 pigs, D. G. W*rd, cup 00

pen hogs T. H. Fitzgerald, knife ,3 00 2d best, Jere. Jewett, Diploma Best pair pigs, G. W. Hutton, 2d best, D. G. Ward,

Class No. .12—Poultry.

Best pair shanghais, Jas. Heaton, Jr. Allen's Domestic Animals 100 pr cochin chinas, I. Perkins, salt spoon 1 00 brahma pdotras.J. Heaton, Jr. salt spoon 1 00 -geese, S. W. Austin, rvS' 1 00 ducks, Jas. Heaton, Jr. 100 cross of any breed, »f 1 00 collection poultry,b. knife 3 00 DIVISION B.—AG'CULTURAL PRODUCTIONS.

Class No. 1—Field Crops!

Best 5 acres of wheat, A. J. Clark, cream spoon S3 00 corn, Saml. Hutton, 3 00

Class No. 2—Grain and Seeds, Best half bushel wheat, J. Wasson salt spoon 1 00 2d best, Swan Brookshire, Diploma Best do Corn salt spoon 1 00 2d best, J. F. Graves, Diploma Best do Oats, 3alt spoon 1 00 do ltyc, Swan Brookshire, 1 00 collcction grass seed, do

Flint on Grasses 150

Class No. 3—Vegetable?

Best half bush. Irish potatoes, C. Smock. Allen's Farm Book §1 00 2d best, J. W. Cumberland, Diploma Best do sweet do Ambrose Itcmlcy,

Blake's Farmer at Home 1 00

2d best, Swan Brookshire, Diploma Best do onions, A. Itcmlcy, s. spoon 1 00 2d best, J. D. McCain, Diploma Best 1 doz beets, It. Canine, s. spoon 1 00 2d best, T. II. Fitzgerald, Diploma Best half doz. pumpkins, C- Smock, salt spoon 1 00 2d best, Saml. Gilliland, Diplima Best 1 doz. watermelons, S. Graves, salt spoon 1 00 collection vegetables, Mrs. Jos.

Karl, crcam spoon S 00 2d best, Mrs. It. Canine, Diploma DIVISION C.—FAU.M IMPLEMENTS.

Class No. 1.

Best reaper and mower, J. W. Cumberland, Moore\s Itural I fand Book $6 00 thresher and clcaner, W. 1'.

Griest, Farmers' Library No. 2 00 2d best, Cornell & Cason, b. knife 8 00 Best 2 horse plow for gen. purposes, 1 E. Itlvoads, Downing's Essays 3 00

farm wagon, II. E. lthoads, Stephen's Book of the Farm 4 00 ""cultivator, J. Simpson, cr. spoon 2 00 straw cutter, J. Woodgate, 2 00 corn planter, J. Corey, salt 1 00

DIVISION 1).—FRUITS AND FLOWERS. Class No. 1—Fruits. Best'half bu. fall apples, O. P. Jennison, salt spoon Si 00 do winter do O. P. Jennison,

Fruit Grower's Guide 100

peck pears, Swan Brookshire, Field's Pear Culture 1 00 do grapes, J. W. Cumberland,

Vine Dresser's Manual 100

col. fruit, S. Brookshirc, b. knife 3 00 Class No. 2—Flowers. Best col. pot plants, Mrs. M. A. Cumberland, American Florist Guide $100 do verbenas, O. P. Jennison, salt spoon 1 00 do roses, Mrs. J. W. Cumberland

Jto.sc Culturist 75

do dahlias, O. P. Jennison, Florist Guide 1 00 variety flowers, Sallie Frame, "... 1.0.0 boquet, .Mrs. Margaret A. Cumbcrland, salt spoon 1 00 2d best, Miss Fannie Fry, .thimble 50 Best iiural ornament, Miss Lizzie

Krug, thimble 50 col. artificial flowers, Mrs. S. W. Austin, thimble 50 DIVISION LV—MECHANICAL PRODUCTIONS. Class No. 1—Carriages and Buggies. Best 2 horse carriage, J. S. Miller & Co., desert spoons SS 00 rockaway, J. S. Miller & Co., silver cup 5 00 falling top buggy, G. Deighrou, silver cup 5 00

Class No. 2—Car))etiter's and Cabinet Work. (No Entries.)

Class No. o—Clothing, tf-c.

Best fur hat, W. It. l'arrish Co., salt spoon 1 00 silk do do 100 straw do do thimble 50 Class No. 4—Leather and Manufactures of Leather. (No Entries.)

Class No. 5—Wooden and Tin Ware. Best collection tin ware. Chilion Johnson, crcam spoon $2 00

DIVISION F.—FABRICS MADE BY HAND. Class No. 1—Domestic Manufactures. Best pair blankets, Sallie Frame, •-, crcam spoon $3 00 double coverlets, It. Canine,

Blake's Farmer at Home 2 00

5 yds. jeans, Peninah Chadwick, salt spoon 100 pair table cloths, Chas. Bailey, thimble 50 10 yds. rag carpet, S. B. Harney, ltural Economy 2 00 do woolen do Rebecca Herron 2 00 pr knit stockings, Peninah Chadwick, thimble 50 do socks, Charlotte McCloud 50 do mittens, Peninah Chadwick A 50 pound woolen yarn, 50 Class No. 2—Plain and Fancy Needle

Work.

Best made ladies dress, Miss Bell Canine, salt spoon $1 00 gent's shirt, Mrs. C. McCloud, 1 00 case of millner work, T, J. Johnson, cream spoon 2 00 design of quilt, Mrs. John Car-r ter, Breck on ^loivers 2 00 worked Mrs. Wiley.Beil, 2 00 specimen silk embroidery, Mrs.

David T. Powers, salt spoon 100 embroidered scarf, (child's) Mrs. David T. Powers,, gold pen 100

muslin collar, Mrs. John S. Brown, gold pen 100 crotchet cake doylo, Miss

B. Johnson, thimble transferred collar, Mrs. Jos, Earl, thimble embroidered handkerchief, Mrs.

.50

S. W. Austin, salt-spoon 1 00 ottoman cover, Mrs. S. M. Hall, .w: fMi gold pen 100 table D. T. Powers,

Flower Garden Directory 200

chair tidy, Miss. A. Hutchinson, thimble 'r50 'lamp mat, Mrs. M.Donalds, i" 50 sample.ornamental needle work, a Miss Martha Smock, pen hair

100

Mrs. M. Donalds, thimble work basket, Mrs. Buhamah ltemley, thimble

DmsioN G.—FINE ARTS. I

Class No. 1.—Painting and Drawing. Best specimen of painting, Miss M. J. Guthrie, silver pencil $2 00 2d best, Mrs. H. It. Canine, Dip. drawing, Mrs. A. M.

Hadley, gold pen 100 Class No.—Sun Pictures, fyc. Best specimen of daguerreotype^ A.

S. Hughes, cr. spoon $2 00 ambrotype, 2 00 photgoraphing 2 00 DIVISION II.—TABLE COMFORTS. Class No. 1.—Dairy Products, Honey,

Sugar, dj~c.

Best 10 lbs. butter, Jno. Frame, cream spoon $2 00 cheese, Chas. Bailey, 2 00 15 honey, S. Graves, 2 00 maple sugar, O. C. Mc

Cloud, 2 00 gallon maple molasses, Stephen Allen, salt spoon 100

Class No. 2. —Preserved Fruits Best and neatest variety of canned fruits, Mrs. Jos. Earl, sil. pencil 2 00 glass jar of apple butter, Mrs.

MarthaBarr, House Wife's Book do peach do, Mrs. David M. White, House Wife's Book do preserves, Miss Cinderella

Guthrie, thimble do raspberries, Mrs. Ann Watson, thimble 50 do gooseberries, 50 specimen of small fruits in alcohol

Mrs. Joseph Earl, salt spoon 100 Class No. 3.—Pickles. Bost jar of cucumbers, .Mrs. Ann

Watson, thimble 50 do tomatoes, Mrs. It. Canine, 50 do beets, Mrs. It. Canine, 50 do fancy pickles, Mrs. Joseph

Earl, thimble 50 collection of pickles, Mrs. It. Canine, Barrys Fruit Garden 2 00

Class No. 4.—Bread and Cake......... Best loaf of wheat broad made by a lady under 10, Martha A. Mc-

Cloud, gold pen $1 00 do with yeast, Mary J. Bell, 100 do corn, Mrs. It. Canine, 1 00 specimen of cake, Mrs. Ann

Watson, thimble 50 DIVISION J.—FARMS AND GARDENS. Class No. 1. Best cultivated farm, Samuel Gilliland, silver cup $15 00 2d best do Cornclious Britton, 10 00 3d best do Tolivar Larsh, Diploma Best do garden, Jos. Earl, s. cup 5 00 2d do Jure. Jewett,

Garducrs Assistant 2 00

3d do John Maxwell, Diploma DIVISION J.—BIRDS, &c. Class No. 1—Canary Birds. Best cage of canary birds, Mrs. Al. ltamcy, Brown's Bird Fancier $1 00 variety do s- do do gold pen 100

Class No. 2.^-BLiscr/Zan.cous Articles. Best piano, It. Dobbins, Grecncastlc, silver cup $5 00 clock, Thb's. Newman, Dip. case silver ware, do do do jewelry, do do specimen engraving, do sewing machine, (.1 rover & Baker,) do do 100 lbs. flour, Oliver McCloud, salt spoon, 1 00 bu. meal, do do 100 cooking stove, (Buck's patent,)

John Hoover, crcam spoon 2 00 hand loom, Isaac N. Unger, 2 00 shingle machine, Jos. C. 1L Swan, cream spoon 2 00 lima beans, J. W. Cumberland, thimble 50 squash, J. F. Graves, do 50 peck of peppers, Mrs. Jos. Earl, 50 lot of tomatoes, T. II. Fitzgerl, do 50 -J bu. turnips, do do do 50 flaxseed, J. I). McCain, do 50 set split bottom chairs, S. L.

Campbell, (N. Albany,) s. spoon 1 00 gravestones, Frank Collins, do 1 00 clovcr hullcr, J. C. H. Swan, ^"C cream spoon 2 00

Foot Race—G entries.

Best running, Jas. Stone, Carpentersville, cream spoon S2 00

NUMBER OF ENTRIES.

Domestic Animals 262 Agricultural Productions 45 Farm Implements 9 Fruits and Flowers 33 Mechanical Productions 8 Needle Work and Domestic Manufactures 74 Fine Arts 9 Table Comforts 47 Farms aud Gardens 7 Canary Birds 3 Miscellaneous Articles............- 08

Whole No. of Entries RucEirTS. During the Fair Due from County Treasury...

.565

.$894 00 105 00

-f -$999 00

Those persons-' whose premium is the "Indiana Farmer," will receive said paper through the post-officc, for one year, commencing in a few weeks.

The books in the above list will be "ready for delivery, by the subscriber, in two or thl'ee weeks.

The balance of the several silver ware premiums Awarded, can be bad by calling on F. M. HEATON, Sec'y.

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NEW SERIES-VOL. NO. 10. CftAWFORDSYILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY,: INDIANA, 'WHOLE NUMBER 850.

THE RECORD OF JOHN W. BLAKE llf THE HOUSEOF,rREPRESEjrTATIVES, AS CONTRASTED WITH THE HON.

JAMES WILSON IN THE LAST CONGRESS. 'JV Having' noticcd an article in the papers of the district containing an abstract of the labors of Mr. Wilson, while in Congress, we deom it but justice .to place in contrast the amount of labor performed "by Mr. Blake, his competitor, during his service in"the last Legislature.

It will be remembered that the session of Congress extended somewhat Over six months, and the compensation? amounted to the snug sum of near four. thousand dollars. M* ''\T

The session of the Legislature continued Sixty days, the compensation of which, to Mr. Blake, was one hundred and ninetyfour dollars.

Mr. Blake appeared and was sworn in on the 8th of -January, 1857, being the first day of the session. From that time until the close of the session he was constantly present, except when leave of absence was granted him to pay a flying visit to his family. In the afternoon of the first day he introduced his first resolution, and during the session introduced 14 resolutions. On the 9th he introduced his first Bill., and durinc the session he introduced 14 Bills. On the 11th he made his first motion, and during the session made fifty-three motions. On the 15th lie made his first report, as a member of the Judiciary Committee, and during the session he made fifty-five reports, many of them very lengthy and involving great labor, and requiring the highest exercise of judicial talent.

The "ayes and nays" were called four hundred and ffteen times during the session, out of which number Mr. Blake failed to vote twenty-three times. Five of these votes were -taken while he had leave of absence to visit his family, and the others were on bills to which there was little or no opposition. No important bill was passed upon which he did not record his vote.

How stands this record as contrasted with that of Mr. Wilson? Blake introduced 14 bills Wilson none.

Blake introduced 14 resolutions—Wilson one. Blaltc made 58 motions—Wilson none.

Blake made 55 reports—Wilson ?ione. Blake, out of 415 votes by "ayes and nays" failed to respond 23 times. ./

Wilson, "out of 350 votes by ayes and nays, failed to respond 160 times. Blake received $194—Wilson received $4,000.

Voters of the 8th Congressional District the record taken from the journals is before you. Choose ye whom ye will have to serve you. If the laborer is worthy of his lure, so should the hirer be requited by labor in return. In olden timc«, he who buried his talent aud used it not was counted as an unprofitable servant, to be discharged, and his talent given to him who had five talents, and such, if we are not much mistaken, will be the judgment of the voters of the 8th Congressional District on the second Tuesday in October next.— Frankfort Crescent.

WEALTH OF TIIE LINITHU STATES. The last number of De Bow's Review gives the following estimate of the national wealth of the United States. It will be seen that the value of farms, stock aud implements of agriculture, amounts to nearly one-third of the whole valuation, equaling the combined estimated value of the public lands, navy-yards and vessels, fortifications, public buildings, commercial marine, railroads, canals, factories, mills, old and silver coin, and bullion, and foreign andjdomcstic goods ou hand: Vsilmi of" fiinnsai'.J cultivated soil £",000,000,000 Vttluc of hor.si.-s, cattle, slicup, Are. 1

'Total*

.rijs.,,0'-'0,0iju

Viilnc of jijriictiltural inii'lcmciiU 500,000,000 Vithic of mi Dos ^,500,000.000 V'HIIIC of ilwolling-lionses Y.o00,0UI.',00U Vuluc of viiilwavs ami canals 1,100,000,000 Value of factories, mills and machine sllOJiri 400.000,000 Value of commercial marine 2')0,000,0u0 Value of agricultural jiroduce, domestic manufactures and foreign poods on hand 1,000,000,000 Value of gold and silver coin and bullion 000,000,000 Value of public lands,ships of war, fortifications, navy-yitrds.public buildings, &,c

4,000.000,000

•2:2,000,000,000

A CANAL THROUGH THE KOCKY MOUNTAINS.—During the recent debate in the British House of Commons on the subject of the renewal of the Hudson Bay Company's privileges, Lord Bury affirmed that a communication might easily be established between Lake Superior and the Pacific Ocean, by the means of a ship canal connecting the Saskatchewan and Columbia rivers. Both rivers take their rise in the Rocky Mountains, the Columbia flowing west to the Pacific and the Sackatchcwau ruimiug east to Lake Winnipeg, a little to the north west of Lake Superior. With the exception of a single rapid (which might be avoided by a canal,) his lordship stated that the navigation of the Saskatchewan offers no difficulty. With that one exception, a vessel of considerable size can be taken up to the foot of the Bocky Mountains, and at this point there is a gap in the mountain which iuterposes no great obstacle to the junction of the Columbia and Saskatchewan, whose sources are but a short distance apart. Thus a direct communication would be established with the Pacific.

B3TA CHOICE SruRGEoxisM.—The following passage, from a late sermou by Rev. C. H. Spurgcon, gives that clergyman's view of a "mother in heaven "But now your mother says "Now, my son, it is changed. I can weep no more now, for I am glorified. I can pray no more for you now, for prayers arc useless here. You arc justly lost. You are damned, and I must say amen to your condemnation."^^

WORSE THAN A BRUTE.—Among the convictions at the recent term of the Pike County (Indiana) Circuit Court was that of Madison Taylor, for the seduction of hia own daughter—she herself being the result of an illegitimate connection! Hanging would be niild pumsriment for such a vilo creature, -whom it would be base flattery to call a brute.

THE USE OF LOOKING-GlASSES IN HOLLAND. A correspondent of the St. Xouis Democrat writing from Holland, gives the following account of the use made of looking-^ glasses by Dutch ladies. A liko end is accomplished by the idle inquisitives in some of our Eastern cities, by a lens in the window pr a small mirror placed so as to reflect all that passes in the street though the -tell-tale instruments cannot be seen from .the outside "I had, not gone far in my rambles about the city before I was brought to a .stand by a discovery." On both sides of the' street, prijc'6tihg from the center of almost every window of the dwelling-houses, each at an angle of 45 deg. with the window, were placed two mirrors of about afoot square, each in a vertical position, one facing up street and the other down. I immediately set my Yankee ingenuity to work to "guess" their object, and was not long in discovering in these mirrors plain indications that here, in this great swamp of Europe, woman's curiosity is the same as among the verdant hills and more genial climes. The mistress of the house seating herself in her parlor in a particular spot before a window with book, needle or knitting work in hand, has but to lift her eyes into the twin looking-glasses outside licr window in order to catch at a glauce the whole panorama of the street in both directions. There was also another queer looking-glass arrangement which for along time puzzled mc. The puzzle grew out of the peculiar positious and various angles at which these mirrors were placed. I was about giving it up'when observing that their inclination was always decidedly toward the front door, I saw the whole secret as clcar as light. The good lady of the house hearing the door-bell ring, darts a look into the curious mirror, and thereby knows in a moment who stands at the door. Of course when the door servant comes in her ladyship can at once say whether she is at home or not. In all the cities of Holland, nearly every dwelling-house has projecting from its windows from one to ten of these ugly looking mirrors."

ADVANTAGES OF A [SH'KliE. Illustrative of Chicago life, says the Cleaveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer, we can vouch for the following as true in every particular:

A produce operator from Watertown, New York, watching the signs of the times, aud arguing that when wheat was down to 60 cents, and corn 35 to 40, in Chicago, they could not get much lower, went to the Grain City and invested his pile, somfc §30,000, all in "stub-tail" corn. This corn is last year's growth, and is called stub-tail because about one-third of it is rotten, lit for nothing but to make rotgut whisk}-, lie bought it at a very low figure, and had it all put into one pile in a big warehouse, where it was to wait for a "rise." Several days elapsed, and there was no inquiry for "stab-tail." lie played billiards, rode around the city, and occasionally took a "nipper," by way of keeping his courage up. At length he was informed that his corn was heating. lie examined the pile, and found it "hot as Hades." Supposing it was all up with him, he went off on a "bender," and for thirty days he did not know "stub-tail" from A No. 1 corn. At length he Mowed out, cooled off, aud, upon examining his corn again, found that it had cooled off also, and without damaging it a whit, lie opened his eyes to the market reports, and found his corn had so risen in price tbat he found no difficulty in selling it at a good round profit of eleven thousand eight hundred dollars, llad he remained sober, lie probably would have sold it at a sacrifice.

So much for a.Chicago spree. No wonder, with such luck, that the operators in that fast town should occasionally imbibe.

RAILWAY TRAINS.— Dr. Lardner" has made some curious calculations in regard to the velocity of railway trains. According to these a speed of seventy miles an hour is about equivalent to thirty-five yards between two beats of a common clock all objects near the eye of a passenger traveling at this rate will pass by him'in the thirtyfifth part of a second and if thirty-five stakes were crcctcd at the side of the road, a yard assundcr, they would not be distinguished one from one from another if painted red, they would appear collectively as a continuous flash of red color. If two trains with this speed passed each other, the relative velocity would be seventy yards per second aud if one of the trains were 70 yards long, it would flash by in a single second.

Suppose the locomotive which draws such a train to have driving wheels seven feet in diameter, these wheels will revolve five times iu a second the piston moves along the cylinder ten times in a second the valve moves, and the steam escapes teu times in a second. But as there arc two cylinders, which act alternately, there arc really twenty puffs, or cscapcs of steam in a second. The locomotive can be heard to "cough," when moving slowly, the cough being occasioned by the abrupt emission of steam up the chimney but twenty coughs per second cannot be sepcratcd by the ear, their individuality becomlost. Such a locomotive speed is equal to one fourth that of a cannon ball and the momentum of a equivalent to the aggregate force of a number of cannon balls equal to one-fourth the weight of the train.

CSTAn Irish fellow in Albany is going to have his life insured, so that when he dies lie can have something to live on, and not be dependent on the cold charities of the world as he once was,

ESP On Sunday last, during Divine ser, vice in St. John's church, at Richmond JSa., Mr. Solyman, the organist, fell down insensible, and almost instantly expired. He had previously been ill of asthma.^

"Oh! my fricud," said a doctor to an Irish patient-, "be composed, we must all die once." "And it's that what vexes me," replied Pat "if half a penny about this time."

KS" The expenditures of Hamilton co., Ohio, for the month of" August, were $144,088,-the receipts $160,186.

HtlSieitlASTER IN THE HAitEM. We extract the following from Mrs. Borndey's In and Around Stamboid, a piquant and captivating work on Constantinople:

Talking 'still quietly of their fallen for-tunes,-as we listened with interest, poor Dhudu went on to relate a new trouble.— It seems that her younger brother, who was remarkably good-looking, and showed a great talent for music, was stint to Vienna, iu their prosperous da\'s, for his education.. His piano-forte playing is thought much of here and being so poor, and the Sultan having set tlio fashion of Turkish ladies learning music, he now gives lessons to the wives and daughters of several Pachas on the Bosphorus. He'is married, greatly attached to his wife, and has two pretty children added to this he is a grave, shy young man. Well, Dhudu's trouble for her brother is this. He goes quietly in the morning to give his lessons. Perhaps there arc two or three vailed ladies in the room into which he is ushered by the attendants. Sometimes the Pacha himself is there, but very seldom there arc always two or three black attendants. "The lesson begins," says Dhudu, in a melancholy voice, "and they arc generally rather stupid. The men who guard them soon grow tired of looking on, aud stroll away to their pipes. They are hardly outside the door, when down goes the yashmak of one of the ladies. She is very pretty, but very tiresome: so my brother is afraid to look at her. What should lie do if the Pacha were suddenly to return, or one of the slaves to enter and report this to him so he turns his head away, aud tries to induce her to go on with her lessou. "Would you bcliove," said Dhudu, still more indignantly, "the other day sdic took hold of his chin, and turned his face to hers and said laughing, 'Why don't you look at me, you pig What can my brother do? The Pacha would never bcliove that it is not his fault. Sometimes one of them will creep under the piano-forte, and putting her finger into his shoe, tickle his foot. "Yesterday they slipped two peaches into his pocket, tied up in muslin, with blue ribbons, clapping their hands and laughing when lie found it out. You know what these peaches mean? They mean kisses," said Dhudu, coloring, "and it made my brother so nervous, for the men were in the outer room, and might have heard all about it. He would be sorry to have them punished, yet they- make his life miserable. That pretty one is the worst of all, she is so daring. I visit at the harem and went with my brother one morning. Knowing them so well, I took him in at the garden entrance, the way I always go myself.— Wo heard somebody laugh, a loud, merry laugh, and—oh, what a fright I ivas in there she was up in a peach-tree. My brother turned his head away, and walked on very fast she pelted peaches at him, then got off the tree, and would have run after him if I had not stopped her." And here Dhudu fairly cried, "What can my brother do?"

THE POWElt H' MUSIC'. Some years ago a tal1, guant, knockkneed, red-headed, cross-eyed lumix of a Hoosicr, who was a hunter of the classical Wabash, conceived the idea of making a visit to the home of his progeniture, to old Kaiatuck. lie did so—ranted round among the girls sonic, and was, of course, from his native impudence, and unearthly ugliness, the observed of all observers.— One morning the whole neighborhood was astonished with the news that the ugly Hoosicr had eloped with Mrs. 15., an amiable, good-looking woman, wife of Mr. ]., and mother of half a dozen little B's.. For two long years the discoi'.solatu bus-, band mourned over bis untoward bereavement, at the end of that period, however, to his utter astonishment one day, in popped Mrs. B., looking as bright and rosy as ever. After the first joyful greeting was over, the injured B. thus addressed his truant spouse "Nancy, how could you take up with that thar onairthly ugly Hoosicr, and leave me and the children all forlorn as you did?" "Well, Josh," said Nancy, "that thair ugly critter from Indiana was a little the best whistler I used to think you could whistle some, but I never hcer-.l whistlin' as is whistlin' my sense clean away, and I follercd him off on that account. A short time aL'o, however, he caught the measles, and they spilt his whistlin' forever—the charm was broken, and so I concluded to come back to you, but oli Jo.- ii that Hoosicr was the awfulest whistler that re a In

WHY IS IT?—Why is it that no organization can stand in the country against Democracy? Whv is it every adverse organization prove false to every principle, and sooner or later sinks into infamy? It is simply because their leaders are false to truth aud because the principles of the Democratic party are the only principles consistent with the genius of our institutions, and in harmony with the constitution. It is because the Democratic partyarc the only principles consistent with the genius of our institutions, and in harmony with the constitution. It is bccau.-e the Democratic party never yet sacrificed a principle for the sake of present f-uecess, but always relied upon tlic intelligence and patriotism of the people, ami when defeated, waited calmly fur that sober "second thought" of the masses, which iio\ cr yet failed to'endorse the principles and measures of the party. It is because the Democracy have stood by the Union as our fathers mauu it, ever resisting ail of-j forts, from whatever quarter made, to weaken its bands or endanger its prospcri-1 ty. It is because the principles of our!

TOO.tins OF THE ENGLISH KINGS. The correspondent of the New York Chronicle writing from London, describes his visit to Westminister Abbey, and reflects with a great deal of truth, as well as republican severity, upon the vices and follies of royalty.

Tho walls of the cloister, the aisles, and chapels of the cathedral, arc everywhere crowded with inscriptions and monuments of the illustrious dead. For nearly a thousand years this has been the final resting place of England's statesman, warriors, authors, divines, nobles, and kings. Here the nation,s monarchs have been crowned, and here they hav*bccn buried. The very chair in which Edward the confessor received his sceptre, and the rude block of unhewn granite on which the kings of Scotland were invested with power, stand here as they have stood for centuries.— More than 20 are known to have been crowned in this rough old oaken chair, from the founder of the Abbey to the little dclicatc woman who now sits quietly ou the British throne.

It is among the toombs of the kitlgs that the ostentatious pomp of this world aro brought into most striking contrast with the solemnities of the next. Here is per-, pctual Winter here the cold band of death keeps down rebellious spirits, who, while living, brooked no supremacy here the heartless Elizabeth sleeps side by sido with Mary her victim.

What, now, to those royal skeletons, and mouldering ministers of state, are ail these solemn mockeries?—the cold stone, tho gilded effigy, the statute of cloquenco with dumb lips, lame blowing a noiseless trumpet, a pair of broken winged, blubboring marble cherubs, and the truth concealing epitaph.

After all, was it for this that the dust below kept us in such a pother. Tell us, Buckingham and Cccil, and Richmond and Villicrs—and you dukes, princes, bishops, generals, courtiers, was it merely for six square feet in this well-proportioned bono house, that you toiled aud intrigued, and flattered and fought. And you, Tudors, Stnarts, and plautagencts, were the 'wars of the Roses,' and the long and bloody feuds between you all for the honor of rotting in a royal tomb. And you, heartless old woman, down below—whom lying custom has styled "good Queen Bess," was it only to moulder in the next cellar, and bo eaten by neighboring worms, that you imprisoned and persecuted, and finally' murdered. that poor sister Mary of yours?— Xo answer? Ah, well! sleep on quietly, old bones. Nobody cares to 'torment'you before the time. What is left of you is no better than common plebian earth. Tho dead beggar at St. Giles can answer questions quite as well as you, ye marble coffin carbonate of dukes, aud phosphates of queens and kings.

THE HANDSOME JIU. S.1HTIISON. A hundred and eighteen years ago, all Yorkshire was gossipjiing about the refusal of a scornful young lady to marry the handsome son of Mr. Langdale Smithson. This handsome son succeeded his grand-: father in a baronetcy, then about eighty years old, and the romance of the peeragelias handed down to us the well known name of Sir Hugh Smithson. When the story of tho refusal above alluded to was told to Elizabeth Percy, a young lady who was sole heiress of the wealth of tho Earls of Northumberland through her mother, and of much of that of the Duke of Somerset, of whom she was the only child— when she heard, we say, of the above incident, she cxclaimed, "that the lady in question was the only woman iu England who would refuse Sir Hugh Smithson."— This speech came to the cars of the youug baronet, and his consequent immediate action thereupon, gained for him the hand of the heiress, and ultimately enabled him to exchange his modest, but at this day in which we write, the most pleasant residence at Stanwick, for the castle in Northumberland, to which he was taken by his bride. Eor no other merit than this, was Sir Hugh created Duke of Northumberland! and lie was the only individual raised to such a dignity by George the Third.— The Yorkshire baronet was as profuse, pompous and dull as he was handsome his wife wrs a buxom woman, who grew fat as she grow old, and used really to tumble asleep, as a person might accidentally tumble down, in the very middle of a court drawincr-rocm.

C-S7" The Paris Univers says: "A great nation .should always boldly avow its acts,' and never permit them to be misrepresented. Let us proclaim aloud that Cherbourg has been ereated by hostile feelings towards England, and that otherwise its creation would have been unnecessary. ,,

ALONI-: ON THE DEI.T.—The Hrcincn ship Ma-jdalena, at Liverpool, Kngland, recently, reports having picked up a seaman named George Baker, in an open boat and nearly

exhausted,

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about sixty miles north

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Key West, Florida. He

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glorious party are founded in eternal truth, jji j, §200 if the match comes off here, which recognizes the rights of man as do-f0r

fined and protected by the constitution.— i\ew Hampshire Starulard.

A steam canal-boat is building in

Buffalo, which is to carry eight tiers of flour. She is to have two decks, and will bo, when complete, fifteen feet from the bottom of the boat to the top of tho deck, and will have capacity for two thousand larrels of flour.

the crew of the brig West, of

Massachusetts, which was driven

on shore on the Florida coast, on Iter passage from Galveston, Texas, toward Liverpool. Baker had been two days in the boat, and knew nothing of the fate of the rest of the crew.

PISTOL SHOOTING.—('apt. Travis, of this city, through Porter's Spi.it/ o/ the Times, challenges any man iu the I'nion to shoot with him with pistols at the distance ot fifteen paces for a wager ot trom $1,000 :o 55,000. His competitor to shoot the ordinary way of firing at a mark, and tho Captain to shoot backwards, holding the pistol upside down between his legs each to fire twenty shots, string measure, from ccut'-r to center at will. The Captain

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$200 if shot in any other place

in the United States except California.— Louisville Journal.

fSS- Woman has found her true 'sphere' at last. It is about twenty-seven feet round, made of hoops.

fiST Carlyle says Experience is ait excellent sohoohuast-er, but he docs cuargo 'such dreadful hLli waje&."