Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 5 February 1859 — Page 1
LATEST KSWS!
F. H. FRY & CO.,
Are now In receipt of a
FRESH ARRIVAL.
435,000 yattfa Prints of thntx». ]iinlity. 40.000 yards Mnslins, blue and brown. 20,009 yarilsCambric,
Joconct, lawn? »ud linens
13,000 ynrds Pntinctt, of the bovt. 20,000 yds. Cottonnxle, Intent ty W.
Summer Linens, for i'ants & Coats. .Summer Yes tings', all the latest
15,000 1,000
htyles. 100 yard* Satin Venting*. 20,000 Ginghams of the best quality.
Jaconet, Swiss, Linen and Thread Edgings. A nice stock of linen Fringes. Nice dimity Lawns. 1 25,0o0 yards Bonnet and Cap Ilibbona. l,0»to lluchas,'.both plain and fnncjr.
1,000 Summer Bonnets*
A large stock of Hats, for both men, boys and children. A nice stock of Flats, for mi.«sea.
The bejt stock of Shoes in town. A good stock of Boots.
KID AND SILK GLOVES.
Cotton and Lisle thread (Jlovcs. The cheapest Btock of Hosiery in to-.vn. Silk and Satin Cravat s, vory cheap. A nice stock of IJonn et Flowers. 2,000 yards white dotted and plain Swiss. 2,000 Black and
FANCY SILKS
"thenper than ever. .... 20,000 yards Bed Ticking. 20,000 yards Hickory, striped and ch cl .., 15,000 Chambra Shirtings. 10,000 Fancy Shirting. 5,000 Plain and Fancv Shirt Front". 5,000 Collars. 50 Jaconet, Swiss and Cambric Collars for ladies.
Our stock of Umbrellas is complete. Our stock of Parasols is unsurpassed by any house in the market.
We keep constantly on hand a good stock of
GROCERIES,
Suoli a« Stijjar, Codec, Molasses. Flour and Meal. We invite the community to give its a call: we cliurgc nothing for showing goods.
W A N E
At F. H. Fry & Co's., 2.'»,0O)
lbs. Fresh liutt'T. :•... 2"i,ooo iloz Kggs. T.",0"i.' lbs. Paper 1'ags. fiU.000 lbs. Feiithors All of which \vi will take in cxchnnixe for Pry (ioods, at the best inarki prices.
COMUONti! C0MR ALL!!
F. II. FKY A CO.
April 10. 1S5S.—tf
185S.
1859.
WINTER TRADE.
GREAT5NDU MEENTSOFFERED TO
B.UYERS!! DRY GOODS!!
1
O I N
Boots, Shoes, Hats, Gaps
J, ,VU,JPWJ
GROCERIES','
Hardware & Queens ware,
OFFFRED 4- DAILY SOLD AT
IMMtl.lt LOW I'llllS!
fJMlK uiiilcrslL'iH'.l would once more claim th JL privilege of informing their numerous friend, and customers, that they arc now prepared to meet them with
A lull
Stock of Goods,
OF EVERY VARIETY
Csually kept in the kind of a Stock above mentioned. Having purchased our Hoods at the
cHead of the Market,
AVc feel able mul and willing to eomix tc with any houso ill the trado. It ltcing too tedious to mention all
The different kinds of
is
KEPT IN OUR STOCK,
"We would only say that we have nearly
ANY ARTICLE FOR WHICH YOU MAY CALL. ..
With these remarks we would solicit your attention to the stock, as
It will undoubtedly be to your
ADVANTAGE
\TJ TO
CALL AND EXAMINE IT!
ISrinsr vour
With you. We have a regular
PRODUCE DEPOT,
and will receive nny thinp yon bring of a Merchantable character, for whieV'
WE WILL PAY
The Highest Market Price
la Dry Gfftods." Your Friends,' ALLEN. GALEY & KEE11AN. Icc. 4.J1S58.. .... rrSQtf..
WAR IN EUROPE.
The late foreign news is exciting and important. The Emperor Napoleon, professedly on account of the refusal of the Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria, to join him in inducing the Pope to make reforms and improve the condition of his people, has publicly expressed his dissatisfaction with his course, and has thus removed the heavy hand which, since the revolution of 1848, aud the occupation of Rome by the French in the following year, has kept in subjection the restless spirit of the Italian people, long willing to throw off the control of Austria. In direct consequence of this deliberate affront to Austria by the only Power that has countc-
nanced her Italian tyranny, all Italy is in a ferment Turin, Genoa, Milan, Pa via, and other important cities and towns, are in open rebellion against Austrian rule and the Sardinian Government, that has in full discipline an army of excellent soldiers, equal in number to the Austrian army now occupying Italy, has conferred with General Garibaldi, the famous defender of Koine in 1849, as to the best means of active resistance to Austria. Everything seems to portend a war which must result in the humiliation of Austria, and her expulsion from Italy, but which gives little promise of deliverance for the people of Italy, who can profit by the conflict only so far as the French may be better masters than those who now control them for of course the design of Napoleon is to benefit himself at the expense of his Ilapsbttrg all}', by gratifying that, longing which the Napoleon family have cherished for half a century, and which the Bourbons cherished for centuries before, to obtain exclusive control of the old state of the Roman Empire, from which the first Napoleon was proud to take for his only child the vain title of King of Home.
Vet, if the Italians deserve liberty, and really know how to govern themselves, now is presented an excellent opportunity of achieving independence. Twenty-four million Americans could maintain their independence against the world aud, if the twenty four million weak and spiritless .slaves that now inhabit Italy cannot do as much, it is simply because the}' have not the energy and the courage to make such an attempt successful. The London Times intimates that if the Italians really desire to struggle with Austria for freedein, England and France will see that there is fair play, by preventing such interference of any other power, as in the Hungarian revolution of 184S, crushed the newly-liber-ated people by a new contest at the very moment of their triumph over their old oppressor. ]ut such an alliance in defense of the liberties of Italy- seems impossible. Napoleon prizes the sunny land too highly to let it pass .so readily from his rule and perhaps the war in which lie is now about to engage, in jealousy of Austrian division of Italian spoils, may be in obedience to that blind destiny which he courts and trusts, and in fulfillment of the old prophecy that "Italy shall be the grave the French." However, on many ae-
counts he could not engage in a more popular war, which is neeesary now to him, in order to divert (he attention of his people from oppression at home. lie will receive the countenance not only of the monarchies of 1'jitrope, by all of which Austria is cor dial!}- detested, but even of the republicans, who, however they may distrust his final purposes, will welcome with pleasure anything that may light up the lires of genera! revolution.
Would lo Heaven that beautiful Ttaly could be free! Would that the naturally quick intelligence of her people could receive from a liberal government that development. which by degrees might, rescue them from the deep degradation in which jail their best faculties of heart aud mind are now overwhelmed and obscured! Seplaratedbya huge ocean from the troubles 1 of the wretched people of the Old World, aud debarred as we are by a prudence, sometimes irksome and oppressive, from giving them the aid that would not enrich them but make us poor indeed, by stripping us of our own independence, we still sympathize most, deeply with them, and pray that the God of Battles may aid them in their struggles for liberty.
SCENE l.N A SCHOOL ROOM The Springfield Republican is responsible for the following: 'Conic here, George, I wish to examine you in punctuation. What's that?'
George—'That? that's a comma.' Mistress—Right now what's that?' 1 George—'Ah! now you've got me where the hair's short I dun kno.'
Mistress—'George, I 110 not wish you to use any slang phrases here. When you arc unable to give correct replies, say so, but do not use such phrases as that which you "have used, Now, what's that?'
George—'I dun kno.' Mistress—'Don't know what that is?— Why that's a period.'
George—(Looking critically at the point iu question.) 'Ha! ha! ha! Now I've got you where your hair's short that ain't nuthin' but a fly dirt."
Mistress (Re-examining critically,) George, you are dismissed.'
•ST" The following gloomy picture is drawn by the editor at Pana, 111.: j}. "No money in town, traius irregular, no prospect of getting any money this week, eatables scarce, nothing to buy with, starvation ten rods ahead, no wood to cook with and nothing to cook, general muss in the camp and all about nothing in particular whisky plenty, water scarce, aud loafers in abundance Now what's to be did.'
SLIGHTLY PKI o\ \L —At the close of the sittiug of the House of Representatives at Springfield, Illinois, last week, the Clerk read the following: "I am requested to announce that Rev. Dr. McFarlaud will deliver a lecture this evening in this Hall, on the 'Education of Idiots." Rcjntblican members of the Legislature arc invited to attend.'"
•ST"The Louisville Courier announces the story of a planter near that city selling bis own daughter, "a canard of the first water."
NEW SERIES--VOL. X, NO. 29. CRAWEORDSYILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA,- FEBRUARY
GENERAL JACKSON AND THE METHODIST MINISTER. In the editorial correspondence of the Nashville Advocate, appears the following interesting reminiscence of Thomas Stringfield: ••••.
I inrist tell of an interview with Gen. Jackson, which brother Stringfield with myself had, about twenty days before the General's death. We were riding along, and halted at the Hermitage. Gen. Jack son was sick and not seeing company but the name of Thomas Stringfield was a password. Stringfield had been a soldier under him—a christian soldier for he was converted at eight years of age and through the war was steadfast, as well as brave. We were shown into the room where the old warrior and statesman whose fame was world-wide, sat feebly in his arm chair. The greeting between him and brother Stringfield was hearty. It was like the meeting of brothers long parted. The sight of Thomas Stringfield, and the thoughts recalled, put the old General in tears. They coursed down his furrowed cheeks. Gen. Jackson was a man of tears, notwithstanding his iron nature. "Ah, Mr. Stringfield, what times have been since we first met! You were a boy, in camp at Emucfaw, and your head was bleeding from Indian bullets." So it was, and brother Stringfield's forehead bore the scar to his grave. He was a modest man, and quickly turned the conversation from himself. "Well, General, you arc weak and failing now, how is it with your sold? what is your prospect bcyoud the grave?" To which Jackson replied: "My friend, I am not afraid to die." A pause—"My hope is in the lledcciner of the world if saved, I shall be a sinner saved by grace." "Had it been at a camp ground, or even in this church," said brother Stevens, "I would have shouted loud I never wanted to shout so bad in my life. The place was turned into a sanctuary. We all wept. The farwell was touching. "Good by, General God bless you." "Farwcll, Mr. Stringfield I hope we will meet where wars arena more!" And doubtless they have met —the General and his soldier—not as first, but where "Xo rude alarm of raging foea,
No care disturb the long repose."
ATTEMPT at FOKCJHLE ABDUCTION. A Desperate Young Mail. A singular ease was up before Justice Francis 011 yesterday. The facts appear to be these A young man named Thos. Steel. of desperate character, living about two miles south of town, made a forcible attempt to abduct a young girl named Mary Ann Keyes, a daughter of Gershatn Keyes, Esq., from her home, on last Saturday night, and being foiled in his nur- i:t Pa
pose," attempted to shoot Mr. Keyes. Ilis you took me to your berth, and kept, me first demonstration was on Friday night there until I had slept the sleep ot intoxiwhen he approached the house with a bug- cation you then asked me it I had a 1:10thgy and insisted 011 carrying Mary Ann oil', jc."'
then being away from home: but finally ho ',10
was induced to leave the premises. On
default of bail he was re-committed to
crazy, but others, who have known him )v!,lt,c
froin a child, he having been born on the ^V1'
farm adjoing that of Mr. Keyes, say he
is always a devil. Much excitement cs-1 "cath'
allowed to stay there. Ilis father is dead. Ilis mother has married again and is living in Texas. Youn having considerable property. Sjtrin Jicld (III.) Journal, 18th,
.,u
E-rS"" A Milford (N. II.) Correspondent of thc Journal, writing of the funeral services of the late Judson .T. Hutchinson, whose melancholy suicide at Lynn we chronicled not many days ago alludes very feelingly to his life aud death, and remarks,— "As we stood in thc house he had built, overlooking the country for miles around, and saw what he loved so well, and beheld upon thc walls the pictures he loved to gaze upon, among them that of Wendell Phillips, Parker, and other men of mark, we could read out of the very walls and landscape some pages of his deepest and truest life.
Pitying hearts and strong hands have done the offices of charity, friendship and love aud one voice of true melody is hush
All the day before he died he was singing apiece which commences thus— "Hark, 1 hear an angel sing $:ii Angels now aro on thc wing rr And their voiccs singing clcar,
Tell us that tlie spring is near."
A DANGEROUS FELLOW. In Liverpool, (Eng.) on the 20th ult., a perfect Mormon in his marrying propensities, named Egham, was brought before the police court for polygamy. This fellow was shown to be a most desperate character among the women—amusing himself by marrying all that were fools enough to listen to his proposals. He commenced his career by marrying tinder a fictitious name, a Miss Gee of Turnhamgreen. He next married Miss Celia M. Wye, of Ken nington, a girl with considerable property. Either the lady or the property fixed his affections for some time. At last he strayed off, and on the 3d of January, 1858, he married Miss Lydia Murch. On the 3d of May last he married Miss Sarah Drcwite. On the 13th of July, Miss Martha Grover, and on the 17th of August, Miss Fanny Farrell—making four in about one year. All these deception [sic] were proved upon him. How many more credulous girls were imposed upon, does not appear. He managed to excuse his absence from some of them, by pretending to be the mate of a ship. Miss Wye always thought him to be a collector for a large mercantile house, and was not, therefore, surprised at his frequent absences. ———<>———
A MOTHER'S MAGIC.—The following felicitous and touching illustration of the power of ideas was given by Wendell Pliil-
drink. Promise me, before you quit your ito
green hillside of Vermont, did not rise before me and to-day, at sixty, my lips arc innocent of the taste of liquor.' Was not that sweet evidence of the power of a single word Yet that was not half." 'For,' said he, 'yesterday there Wmo into my counting-room a young man of forty, and asked, 'Do you know me 'No.' 'Well,' said he, 'I was once brought drunk into your presence on shipboard you wore enirer the captain kicked 111 aside
sa'^
not only against her will, but iu spite of! you told me ot yours at the garden her mother's remonstrances, her father
returned again while supper, and dashed into
•Saturday night the family were at the liou.se with his sieves rolled up and a cocked revolver in his hand, threatening instant death to the inmates if the daughter was not immediately given into his possession. Mr. Keyes seeing the peril and knowing the violent character of the fel-1 low, forthwith leaped upon him. throwing! liini upon the floor, and after a desperate! struggle succeeded in wrenching tin.* pistol from his grasp. lie then held him there until some of the neighbors came in and assisted him in pinioning the fellow. IIe|
I never knew a word from her
ail(1
to-day I am the master of one of
fi»cst
packets in New York, and came
:,!i^
Jou
10
b)^vc''mn'
Younjr Steel is represented to be a most I:it.f":
'"dl and see me.' How far
that little candle throws its beams! That
mother's word on the green hillside of Vermont! O God, be thanked for the almighty power of a single word!"
A GAI.K
AT
SKA.—The followin
seo.'!1«
fine
Lord DufFerin's Yacht Voyage, is picture of the sea in a gale:. "Anything grander and more exciting than the sight of the sea under these cir-1 cumstanccs, you cannot imagine. The'ves-: sel herself remains very steady when you are below you scarcely know you are not
await his trial at the March term of the I1.! and thc last of wood, in order not to influCircuit Court walking 011 its hind legs, it comes straight.
roan"S
despera^- fellow, dreaded and feared by !Wllh p'~ the vessel the all the neighborhood. Some think him
tu
,iinS
b.,lt
C1C
ually strong!
record.
"I say, Sambo, does you know the
key to dc prosperity of de Souf "Key to de prosperity of de Souf 1 big words, Juno guess you must hab been eating massa's dickshunary. Golly, I an't learned nuff to answer dat." "Well, chile, 'tis dc dar-key!"
A MOTHER'S DEVOTION.—Among thc recent cases of pardon as given by Gov. Bingham, of Michigan, in his message on the subject, was one granted, ia part, in the language of thc worthy Governor— —"iqton the unyielding importunities of his mother."
topples over, the nimble
sll,P',:IS
lou liear
the disappointed jaws of
1 ts in the neighborhood, and even should 'SCn to^ethcr the course, arc of iron, as wooden spars of such lie succeed in giving bail, lie will not be
raging and bubbling on cither side the
flU:!rtor-
thc
been well searched and by their ass.s-
tancc, several of thc early appearances of
BAKBAROTTS11REATMENT•OFnA DESEUTERFI*
JUVENILE PRECOCITY.—A little child of this city was holding a very animated conversation with one of about its own years, a few days since. A portion of it was overheard, and it appeared to be a dispute as to what their "mothers could do."—
TIIE REPUBLICAN TARTY. The Cincinnati Commercial, which has consistently supported the Republican party, in a late i$suc says: "It will be unfortunate for the Republican party to be obliged to go into the next Presidential canvass upon its platform alone, for the reason that it is doctrinhlly erroneous. It sets up that which is not true, and which, we are convinced, 110 majority, of the people, even of the Northern States will indorse'. If the Republican party clects its candidate, it must be done by forces that are now looked upon as belonging to the Democracy. It has not the necessary strength of its own and things remaining as they are, the result of the coming battle seems to us to be more than a matter of doubt. In order to gain the necessary force from the other side, it must remove the obstacles that stand on its platform—obstacles, that sent thousands into the Democratic ranks at the last election. Having felt it right all things considered, to give our support to the Republican candidate at the last Presidential election, and having faithfully sought to discover the agencies which wrought most strongly to prevent his success, we feel some competency to speak upon this point. We do not discover that the Republican party is any stronger now than it was in 185G. The charge of sectionalism made
against the party upon the testimony of its
lips, the other day, in a public speech at platform, was true then and is true still. New York: "I was told to-day a story so touching in reference to this, that you must let me tell it. It is a teinpcrance case, but it will illustrate this just as well. It is the story of a mother ou the hills of Vermont, holding by the right hand a son, sixteen years old, mad with love of the sea. And as she stood by the garden gate, one sunny morning she said: 'Edward, they tell me that the great temptation of a seaman's life is
The sectionalism was then a cause of weakness it has been and will continue to be so. It was not necessary in any aspect of the. case. The people did not demand it and they are less willing to tolerate it now than when the issue made by the platform, was obscurcd by one more imminent, because more immediately practical."
SATURDAY NIGHT.
"Beautiful, exceedingly beautiful," used
1,0 tlic
1'1C
approach to Sunday in old times,
will never drink.' with threshold made of a Saturday uight. The tide of passion and glow of ambition went down with Saturday's sun,
mother's hand, that you 'And,' said lie—for lie told me the story— 'I gave her the promise, and I went the broad globe over—Calcutta, the Meditcr-1 and the life's fever was followed by a sleep, rancan, San Francisco, the Cape of Good it,ic blacksmith's bellows grew breathless, Hope, the north pole and the south—I saw jnnd his hammer lay silent upon the anvil tlioni all in forty years, and I never saw a ''1C fitful tinkling ot a bell denoted the glass filled with sparkling liquor that my last wanderer of the flock safe in the told mother's form, by the garden gate, on the
mill's "big wheel" stood still, and the
'upper and lower sections of its battened door were closed the "ironing" of the old fashioned mother was aired and folded, and laid away the last loaf was drawn from the glowing cavern of the old brick oven the boys had conic back from the creek, their brown feet twinkling lighter in the grass, and their damp hair a shade darker than it was alight glimmers dimly through the great windows of the church young men and maidens go in by pairs, and pretty soon through the shadowy air, there float the blended voices that wo used to love, in Windham, Mear and Silver street, '•Dundee's wild and warbling measures rise," and sweet old Corinth falls upon the ear the moon surmounts the woods, and rides a moment like a ship upon the leafy waves, then boars away for the blue waters food's /Kyean, and over all that scene of night it rules. The dews grow raillant and restless in the grass beneath it, as if earth were our mother, and she really I breathed the mist of grey that with the from fringe the stream, are silver, and the memory of that hour is gold.—Chicago
JoitniuJ.
01"'
in port. But 011 raising your head above masts:
was brought to town and confinod in iai. .. ,, that night. His examination came off be-!thc compan.onway, the firs sight that meets "The six mnsts are already nearly made, fore Justice Francis 011 yesterday, when in },)UI
c-v0
Ih
i".ulu'lf1t
:,,,d its
wc
Tin: in:AT EASTERN'S MASTS.—l-'ron an arlicie in the London Times, describing! blazing of suns
tak
,Ul !T,1C:ro
wllitu,,li:i!ie
shlny 1:lCCt e"rvcs
""vards-tl
the following account of the I
:,rc to })C 0,10 two
hard.y know how many ujet, three niizzen-niasts, the first, five of iron,
ftnc0
over your very however, of U.e same size as -the last n.a.n-
lnasti an lt
slK,ll
schooner disdainfully kicks up her heels jsiZC)
""pausing wave sweeps on,j0f boilerplate, with wrought iron discs,
Steel is represented as ^ejts round back far ahead, grad-: strengthened with angle inu. and bolted
swelling upwards as it gathers inside thc tube, to give additional rigidity. jth and volume for a new effort." Constructed in this manner, each" mast costs less than half the price of wooden COMETS.—In the "Companion to thc Al-
intended that when the
«lr?"'-1y slipped from under weather may make it necessary, this also
be square-rigged. All the spars, of
am
scarcc
required to dj such work, could
ly be depended upon. Each is built
ones whUC( 0
manac, which has recently appeared. Ldvantage of being nearly double the 11°1 W1?'I T™ list of comets, fr0»'•strength. Hy this plan also, what would I
course, the metal has thc
11 li. C. to A. 1. oOO, which is to be con-. otherwise have been an almost insuperable the English I'ost-offices which h: tinned. The Chinese records have now
difficllIt nclv
a a to a el an a re a identified. As in tnc following cases 11
SCVC
B. C., recorded by I i°n Cassius and by The main-m ist is three feet six inches in I
the Chinese 60 A- D., by the Chinese diairieter, and two hundred and sixteen I persons in England
IT J? 1 1 1
arrested, brought back, tried by court mar-
tial, and sentenced to be whipped, brand ed, cropped, and drummed out of the service, which sentence was carried into effect on Sunday morning last.—Pittsburg Chronicle, 28th.
dimensions round as the iron, and one hundred aud sixty-four feet high. Thc 'lower yards of the square-rigged lirists ar
likewise of iron
—rrancis llall, a private 111 the service of twentv-six feet long, and two feet six 111- 1 1 .1 1 ii tt 1 1 1 1 mm uer, six inches from the ground: and it 1.thc united ofcitcs, deserted from thc car- chcs 111 diameter 111 the center. lie ut-' 1 r, ., 11 1 r- quite an amusement to iiim to crack un a nson at Oarhslc, some days ago, taking, per top-sail and top-gal!ant-vards are of Hi 1 1 .1 -i .., 1 1 f- *. :t
with him some arms belonging to the gov-j wood, and ot proportionately large dnuen-:^- Jj, eminent. He was overtaken at Bloomficld,
SST The last legislature of Vermont in-1 turns' celebration in Cleveland and in augurated an important historical movc-ibricf
imcut, which, 11 generally imitated, would I rescue many historical memorials from neg-!
———<>———
\fter namingover various meritorious acts is thc weight of a million of dollars in
of which their uiaternals were capable, the one in question put an end to the dispute by exclaiming: "Well, there's one thing my mother can do that your!s can't—my mother can take every one of her teeth out at once!"—Nev: Haven News.
PKOKESSOK MITCHKI/s LECTURE IN NEW YORK.
HIS AFritOAClirXG BENEFIT.
The Academy of Music was again crowded on Wednesday evening to its utmost
Professor Mitchel was then introduced, aud delivered his lecture 011 the telescope, explaining graphically the wonderful per-
CI
1
iU"!
the compasses. The fore-mast and
three mizzons will be rigged with foro-and-
att sails, the main-mast only being pernia- choral shout, 'End there is none!' 'En nentl} square-rigged. J. lie first mizzen is, j.j there none?' demanded the angel auaii
twilight then again on the
right hand and the left appeared more eon-
spoliations. ,\t last the man sank down, eiying, 'Angel 1 can go 110 further let me lie down in the grave, and hide myself, from the infinitude of the universe, for end there is none.' 'End there is none?' demanded the angel. And from the glitter-, ing stars that shone around there caiio »d
'and is it this that awes thy soul? I an-, swer, end there is none to the universe of'
(iod! Lo —J'u.St.
ca»
.stepping wooded masts
int0 a hi of su
*h heiVht—is entirely got
rid of The
f^-niast is two feet nine in-
nty-two feet high from keel to truck.! "'"7 f"1' newspapers.
also, there is no beginning
SI:NDIM XI:\VSPAPI:I:S A.M PAMHII.KTS
TO
Krnon:.—Persons who send newspapers and pamphlets to Europe, should be careful not to enclose them in wrappers, as it subjects them to letter postage, generally so high that the papers arc refused by thc persons to whom they are directed. A gentleman, just returned from Kugland, informs us that lie saw baskets of Auierionc of 1 been thrown aside on this account. If the newspapers are tied around with a piece of cord or twine, they will go as well as if in a wrapper, and the postage is then the ordifact that :ts fail to
newspapers and pamphlets in
I,lilll.v
newpapcrs aud pamj'
ad
In answer to the question, "What!1them
gold?:' an officer of the Philadelphia Mint replies as follows: The weight of one million of dollars of thc United States currency in gold is 73,750 troy ounccs. This is 4,479 pounds aud two ounces, or ncarlv two tuus aud a quarter.
France, to ccount-
blc teeth. Kach tooth is a double one. and lie thinks nothing of biting in two a
smiare-riggei! nrists are ,• 1 1 .• 1 ,1 piccc of iron hail an inch thick. 1 th his Each is one hundred and 1
teeth alone lie lias lifte'i a hogshead of ci-
1 1 -1 pebble between his teeth, as easily as som
0
us can crack a nut.
S&" Lava 'd Taylor was present at tin
dress, related ihc follow!,," an,o„f
oti"-r
licet and forgetfulness, and place th^m in a satisfactory condition before thc public.— The several towns in that State, are an-1 in thc course of which, the toast of Rober
ot tho I! ir,1
At a time when Hums was exciseman, a festival was given by his fellow excisemen,!
thorized to procure thc writing and publi-. Pitt was given. All drank it save Hum?.! S.-iracenic in .-plcndor. a toeador, imit.ication of town histories, at thc expense of
H'b°
WHOLE NUMBER 869.
DEATH OF W. II. PRESCOTT. The telegraph briefly announces that V\ illiam Ilickling Proscott, the historiau, died suddenly at Boston, ou Friday last, the 28th ult., of paralysis.
Resolved, That the eloquent lecturer be ibrated Samuel Parr. A weakness of the invited to deliver an additional and inde- eyes which soon ensued, prevented Mr.
pendent lecture, at an early day, iu the Academy of Music, and acecpt the entire proceeds of the same.
Resolved, That this audience will take pleasure in publishing the Professor's acceptance of this invitation and in attending the. proposed lecture.
Prof. Davis seconded the resolutions in a brief and appropriate speech, and they were unanimously adopted.
It was stated that Professor Mitchel will give his answer to the invitation at the lec-
fection to which this marvellous instru- Mr. Prescott's style was flowing, easy anil mcnt has been brought, the great diflicul- attractive, though perhaps somewhat defities to be surmounted in its use, the sur-jcient in strength. prising discoveries made by its aid, and His industry was remarkable, aud his its amazing spacc penetrating power.— statements were ever reliable. Prejudice Light traverses spacc at the rate of a mil-
lion miles a minute, yet the light from the nearest star requires ten years to reach the earth, and IlerschePs telescope revealed stars two thousand three hundred times further distant. The great telescope of Lord Ross pursued these creations of God still deeper into space, and having resolved the nebula} of the Milky Way into stars, discovered other systems of stars—beautiful diamond points glittering through the black darkness beyond. When he beheld this amazing abyss—when lie saw these systems scattered profusely throughout spacc—when lie reflected upon their immense distance, their enormous magnitude and the countless millions of worlds that belong to them, it seemed to him as though the wild dream of the German poet was more than realized: "God called man in dreams into the vestibule of Heaven, saying, 'come up hither and I will show thee the glory of my house.' Aud to his angels who stood about his throne, he said, 'take him, strip him of his robes of flesh cleanse his affections put a new breath into his nostrils but touch not, his human heart'—the heart that fears ami hopes and trembles. A moment, and it was done, and the man stood ready for his unknown voyage. Under the guidance of a mighty angel, with sound of Hying pinions, they sped away from the battlements of Heaven. Some time ou the mighty angel's wings they (led through .Sulmrns of darkness, wildernesses of death. At length, from a distance not counted save in the arithmetic of Heaven, light beamed upon them—a sleepy flame as seen through a hazy cloud. "They sped on in their terrible speed to meet the light the light with lesser speed came to meet then. In a moment the! iround tliem—a moment
Mr. Prescott was born at Salem, Mass.,
capacity, on the occasion of Prof. MitchelVon the 4th of May, 17% and was consetourth lecture on Astronomy. qncntSy iu his sixty-third year at the time .before the lecture commenced, Profcs-, of his decease. His father, a distinguishsor Loomis came upon, the platform and cd jurist, was the son of Col'. Prescott" who submitted the following resolutions: I wi Gen. Putnam, commanded the Ameri-
Resolvcd, That the thanks of this audi- icau forces at the battle of Bunker Hill. encc are cmineiitly due and are hereby Voting Proscott entered Harvard College tendered to Prof. Mitchel for his splendid in IS 11, after a preparatory training under course of five lectures, to be concluded 011 the llev. J. S. J. Gardner," rector of TriniThursday evening next. tv Church, Boston, and a pupil of the ccle-
I'rescort from entering as he had intended the legal profession, and a visit to Kugland and the continent, where he consulted lie best oculists, afforded liini but little relief.
In spite, however, of his affliction, and the possession of a competent fortune, he was desirous of rendering his life in somo way useful, and he accordingly devoted himself to literary pursuits, with what success his works best answer. His "Ferdinand and Isabella"—appeared in 1838, ind at once placed him in the first rank of
ture on Thursday evening. We arc in-j authors. This was followed in 1843 by
formed that it is altogether probable that it will be accepted, and the proposed Mitchel benefit will take placc ou Saturday evening.
thc "Conquest of Mexico," and that after an interval of four years by the "Conquest of Peru." All of these have been translated into the principal foreign languages. At the period of his death he was engaged on the Life of Philip II of Spain, throe volumes of which have already appeared.
and partisanship seemed to have no placc in his composition. When we consider the disadvantage under which he wrote, the cumbersome machinery his almost total blindness forccd him to cmploy7 and which he has himself so well described, we cannot sufficiently admire the patience, a.nd wonder at the achievements of the brilliant historian, whom death has taken away while yet his labors were unfinished.—(lin. (ra:.
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tAMiA
FUo.M t•Iii-rvcnr. m.rrrs
until you feel a littl eryour head, next igs. straighten ou\ riglii -ide and go to chidiiess comes over bed, it, will always
ma
duster, uuarka-
GOLD
MINES.
The following table of disfanccs we clip from the St. Joseph Gazett,
INSTANCES 1'ITOM ST. JOSKL'II TO THE MINES. To Wathena, 5 Wolf River If) 20
Claytonville 11 81 Richmond, (011 Nemaha) #0 61 Vermillion Hiver -4 85 Hisr Wue, 20 105 Rock Creek 30 125 Ri^ Sandy 30 155 Liitle Hhte 22 177 Hp Little Rlue «S 215 Kim Creek, 7 222 Fort Kearney, o2 251 Plum Creek 37 20! Cottonwood Springs 4S H30 Emigrant Crossing of i'latte,. 75 414 Mouth of I'ole Creole 40 454 Mouth of Cherry (.'reek, Ot! 550
TO
How
TO
Till". .MINES.
Fori. Kearnev ISO Plum Creek," 37 217 Colton Wood Springs 48 205 Emigrant Crossingof I'latte,. 75 310 .Mouth of Pole Creek 40 380 Mouth of f'herrv Creek 90 17(V
SH.I'.NCI:
A
Foot,.—A Calway
g^ntleman once entered a euflee-house in London, ami called for tea. His brogue attracted the attention of a scented civilian iu the opposite box, who. relying upon hiv superior accent, resolved to have a jest at.v the expense of the si ranger.
The civilian calh-d for tea also. ,'J'lie, Irish gentleman called for mullius, so did the civilian,—toa.-t. milk, sugar. Ae.. were severally called for bv the fop, who enjoyed in his corner the sunnosed embarrass-:...
uient to which he was tleuKin from (ialway. At lat, with the greatest
cling thc gen-
posiir. rue, th
and. if possible, with a ilch'T I Irishman demand -u the waiter to— llring up pistols for two!" i.".' This was a stretch ii the p"i forniance by no means in the fop's programme, and rather hcvond v.hat, he had bargained for. so, lil a well-bred dog, walked down the stairs for fear of being kicked.
HOW T.) T.» .b. nrixi' oj II ill1'/ lis how i'
(loin 111 freezing winte rv, if then: i- 110 fi there ouirht not. to be an invalid. Hut if a pers health. it. is best to undrcs warm and drv the feet
Inu
it :n room, and are quite
tile
ss
is not in L'ood ly a good fire, dl, draw on the
stockings again, run into the room without, a fire, jump into bed. bundle up, with head and ears under ci,\ er for a minute or more.
warmth then uncovIraw off your stockturn over 011 your sleep. If a f'-iise of you on getting in t• voii an injury, rind •flo
its repetition increases tin- ill effects without any tendency to "harden" you. Nature ev^r abhors violence. We are never shocked into guud health. Hard linage makes no garni'lit last longer."
Anio
pr-^cu:. Kmpress ivery to! ed in'
Napoleon t"
ioui.I
made by tin New Veer's •r Majesty that an apartment—a deep and uiiiui-
Pav, was th h-'r chambe boudoir—undream gincd in previous waking. the ni"ht previous was 110 door, stood wide open. The new apartment, thc wondcriiiif Kmpress at length observed, was real,
ncd of in
sat with inverted glass. When all t« 1 from tue famous toilet chamber of A rah
to ad an to of it S an as in A ha a it
*', .'arose and
1.,.
A door, which
-wAMMlM .ive everv ejnceivalde ami inconceivable t»v.-
that lie "ive every conceivable ami inconceivable
a greater name than the one they land trinket of ni "!r: toilet device,
t£B~ The mosque of Imar. in Constanti- ing been duly protested, the Auditor ad noplc, is highly perfumed with musk, which vertiscs that he will dispose of the sffuri was mixed with the mortar in its wails du-' tie^ deposited with him. and be prepire ring the time 01 their erection several bun jto redeem all its i*Mtes in coin on and a*"' dred venrs ago '.-.r the
a 1 I a a a
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of Fehrunrv