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Saturday, April 30, 1859.

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For President in 1860,

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follows:

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Thrnrjrh Kxpress 7:22 A. M. Freight 9:55 A. Accommodation -1:05 I'. M. f3f~Tlic Accommodation Train L'oirsr North, connect* with train* fur liuliHini"li*. Cincinnati and Chicago. ii. lilJ^ AN F, AGENT.

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COKI'OUA'l IO.\ KI.ECTIOIV. A meeting of tlio citizen*, irrespective «.f party, will hi- held at the Court House, this Friday evening, for the purpose of se

lecting suitable men for Corporation officers. There is no question but a large majority of the citizens are strongly in favnr of keeping tip Ihe Corporation. The ItcpuMicaus have a majority in the town, and fould if tliey pleased elect an entire Republican Board, but we presume there is no disposition to bring partisan strife into matters in which overy citizen is deeply interested. We wish to keep up the Corporation and have our town improved and beautified, and shall vote for good men regardless of party feeling.

The wheat crop is looking fine in

this county at the present time. The farmers are unusually busy, and it we have a good season Old Montgomery will raise an amount of produce greater that at any former period. The fruit is uninjur cd.

isS" By refercucG to our advertising columns it will be seen that Cox Co., have removed their large grocery establishment to the room formerly occupied by irnhatu it Co. They have on a very fine stock of groceries.

tfST The Indianapolis railroad is rather an unsafe institution to ride on. Scarcely a month passes but thoy manage to kill more or less of their passengers. As a general thing, they are always a little to lite to make connections. Our citizcns who wish to go cast should always take the Grccncastle rout. It is quicker, ohcapcr and safer.

IIOWAKI) ASSOCIATION, PHILADELPHIA.—

We invite the attention of our readers toj the advertisement of this humane Association, in another column. No Institution in this country, wc believe, possesses more fully or more generally the public eonfidcncc and rcspcct, or better deserves it. Its affairs are conducted in the most honorable and systematic manner.

Go A NO

SKF.—It'

you have not seen

those elegant, neat, tasty and fashionable Spring

HATS

at Graham Brothers, call

iaiinediatcly. You will find them both ornamental and durable and in price reasonable. They have all the latest spring styles.

.16T" The jury in the Sickles tragedy after beiug out forty minutes, returned a vcrdict of not guilty- ',

tSf Bv the last foreign news there is no hopes of pcaco. War is considered iiicvitiblc.

lor the Review.

LADOGA,

Apr. 26,1859.

DITOR

To-day Hie Indepen

dent Order of Odd Fellows held a celcbration in our town which was truly splendid affair. The morning was showery and the roads disagreeable and slippery, which prevented great numbers from attending—still the occasion wa«, one of interest and pleasure to the Brotherhood. and entertainment to the numerous eitir.cns in attendance.

The delegation from the different lodges were met at the depot by the members here, and conducted to their lodge room, where they formed a procession according to t?ic regulation of the order, and marched to the church. It was a beautiful sight, the members all clothed in rich regalia, bearing appropriate banners and emblems of the order, with fine martial music. At the church we had choice music from George Milani's string band, and and an ode sung by the audience, when Brother Nutt, of Grccncastle, delivered an address worthy of the occasion and highly creditable to the author it will be published, and should be widely distributed. The procession then formed and marched to the dinner tables, where the crowd paid a well deserved compliment to our fellow townsman, Ellis, by pitching into his well supplied store of provisions, in a manner highly satisfactory to all parties.

Nothing occurred to mar the festivities of the day, and everything was conducted with that propriety and decorum which characterizes that benevolent order. It certainly is the interest of society, to foster and encourage such institutions, founded upon noble and generous principles, and defended by stout and willing hearts.

Yours, JI.

.UIM.KIt A- C'O.'S CAItUIAGK FACTORY. We call attention, in another column, to the advertisement of this firm. Their stock of carriages and buggies at present is very complete and are, without exception, the finest s] ocimens of mechanism that we have ever seen. Our farmers who wish

to purchase an elegant family carriage should visit this establishment bv all

•THE IIOME CHICLE

TIIE

SAKE PLACE

YOUNO WOMEN.—Commenting

KOH

uppon Dr-

Langcr's proposition to licensc houses of harlotry, the Philadelphia Lclger says: Half the victims of those houses have been domestics—that is, most of them have probably been servants in hotels or boarding-houses, but they have all lived out of the home circle. This home circle is the only adequate and most natural protection for an unsophisticated woman—the true place whence a man may select a virtuous wife. In proportion as that circle is kept up, and the females of a family are kept in it, their dangers are infinitely lessened.

If this one fact could be borne in mind by honest parrcnts and enterprising children, there would not be so many anxious to leave homos in the country to seek a precarious living in factories or in the city, thronging themselves among strangers for the sake of earning a little more ready money, and getting an insight into city fashions and city life. If the girls must come, let the old folks come too. But boarding-house life and new scenes, and all the deceptions and snares of a city, are just what unprotected fcmles should not

be thrown in the way of for the sake of learning a trade, or any other seeming advantage.

Every sincc it was said, by the

sweat of thy brow shalt thou cat bread all the days of thy life, has it puzzled the imponderable mind of man to lessen the toils of life. Think of the pyramids of Egypt, the temple of Jerusalem, the am-pin-theaters of Rome, the Selophrates needle, towering to the very heavens, and of other stupendous works of art, with what toil they were accomplished. In ancient times a certain man by the name of Bocz, went out into the ficid to reap grain with a small hook callcda sickle, and Buth followed after him to dean up the barlcj-— this manner of saving grain has been practiced until very recently. Messrs. Miller, Wingatc & Co., of Louisville, Kentucky, invented a harvesting machinc composed principally of iron and steel. With one of those machines one man and two horses can cut from twelve to fifteen acres of any kind of grain per day, and from ten to twelve acres of any kiud of grass per day. Those machines arc for sale at the Hardware Store of

SAMUEL

GREGG.

THjR PARAGUAY TMBJLTX*.. A private letter from a gentlemanconnect&l with the^ragoay ^peditip, received by the |0jurriet anf dated Montevii*, Maiwi: 8th» 1850i contains the following'plragrapbs. It appears in the New York Post of Friday

After getting all our vessels in- fighting order, we left for.Cdrrienteis, which Was' to be our rendeiyous but before reaching the place we mpt the "CommissiotTer and the rest of liir party coirftng down, the fuss having ended in negotiation, Loper was rnoch frightened,: and therefore grateful that ho was approached civilly and treated with consideration. ,- The affair terminated not only in such expressions as the Spanish language alone iB capable of, but in a hugging match between Lopez and Judge Bowling. The last was a scene worth seeing Lopez, who is about the same beam as keel, attempting to reach the shoulder of the Commissioner with his short fat arms, while the Commissioner strove to embrace what must have seemed to him a huge round hogshead! Our people nevertheless were highly delighted with the result, especially the Commissioner, who congratulates himself on having amicably terminated, by his diplomacy and address, what might have been bloodv war. Without our nine and eleven inch guns, however, we might as well have whistled jigs to a millstone, as attempt to bring Lopez t-o terms. It is understood that, by the terms of the treaty, Capt, Page's expedition will not be interfered with, but that it-will be allowed to proceed. For the man's family who was killed on bjard the Water Witch, the full demand of ten thousand dollars was allowed, and the money is paid. Lopez offered to indemnify the company to the amount of $240,000, and pay the money on the spot but as the sum falls short of what was asked, the matter is referred to an arbitration, which is to be held in Washington, he appointing one arbitrator, our government another, and the two choosing a third.

There was a jollification in the sfjuadron at Corricntcs on the news of peace. We were invited to a grand ball, which was returned by a ball on board the IlareritLane. Then the Commissioner was invited by Urtjuiza to visit hiin at his residence, and Capt. Page was also invited, but was unable to attend.

A CLERICAL WIFE I'OISONER. We learn from a private source, that Smith McDonald, City Sergeant of Wheeling, effected a very important arrest near that place, on Suuday last. About a month since, as our readers will doubtless recollect, wc published the details of a poisoning case near Bclindcu, New Jersey, in which a Methodist minister named Harding. was charged with taking the life ot his wife An inquest was held on the woman's remains, but pending the vcrdict of the jury the, husband fled, and, though the most diligent search was made for him, no traces of his whereabouts could be discovered. The jury in the meantime, continued their investigation, and the evidence of the man's guilt being strong almost to conviction, they fuuud that Mrs. Harding came to her death by poison administered by her husband.

A reward of S500 was offered for the apprehension of the fugitive but nothing whatever could be learned of bis movements, uutil Sunday, when Officer McDonald succeeded iu capturing him. It appears that McDonald was informed that a man bearing a strong resemblance to Hardiug. had taken up his residence in Fairmont, and thiuking possibly he might

satisfy himself whether or not his suspicions were correct. With this view he visited Fairmont, and was gratified to learn that the stranger an 1 fugitive were one and the same person, lie was carricd to Wheeling by the first conveyance, and is now in jail in that city awaiting a requisition for his removal to New Jcr.-.cv. lie was carricd to Wheeling by the first conveyance, and is now in jail in that city awaiting a requisition for his removal to New Jersey. He is a young man of twenty-two years of age. and highly educated. His wife, with whose murder he is charged, was an accomplished and beautiful woman, and her death produced the most intense excitcincnt amonghcr friends. The evidence of the prisoner's gu.lt is, as we have stated, of a very conclusive character, and lie will doubtless meet with the reward which a crime so atrocious merits.

tttT Wheu Nelly B. repeated her evening prayers, she would insist upon reversing "Now I lay me down to sleep," beginning invariably, "If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take."— Upon her mother's asking her why she did not say it as she had been taught, and as the other children did, she replied with evident coufidencc in the correctness of her own logic, "IIow can He keep it before He takes it, I should like to know ,,

"MISSOURI—Cursed

Per

sons wishing it can have any information desired, respecting those machines, by calling on Mr. Gregg.

Wc read again, that Bocz went into the threshing floor to thresh his barley, his implement for threshing was two small sticks tied together. This mode of threshing grain has been adhered to until of late.— Bocz with his flail could thresh eight to twelve bushels of grain per day with one of Moffit's patent threshers or Wood burcy's Portable Horse Power and Separator, a few men can thresh and clean six hundred bushels of wheat per day. Those machines can be seen or purchased at the Hard-Ware Store of Samuel II. Gregg, who has one of the largest and best selected stocks of Hardware ever brought to Crawfordsville. Sign of the padlock, No. 2, Empire block.

in anShe

Bead die advertisement,

other column, of Miss K. Newton. comes highly rccommcnded.

A maaby the name of Bobius, in

dicted for bigamy, was tried at Baleigh, N. C., on Friday last and convicted On Saturday he was branded with the letter on the right check, in open court—the brand leaving a mark that he"will carry to lie grave.

with slavery by

the compromise of 1820, let the emancipation of her slaves be the first fruits of its repeal."

This was the 8th Regular Toast at the Jeffersonian Birth-day Celebration, by the Republicans of New England, at which the leaders of the party figured.

So, the repeal of the Missouri Compromise line is-now boasted of as a measure of Liberty And yet these men reviled the act with iuflnitc bitterness, and Sumner made it the chief of the Kansas outrages that figured in hismemorable speech.

We have no doubt that these very men, who cover their treasonable and unconstitutional doctrines with the name of Jefferson, will, one of these days, boast that it was they who repealed the Missouri Compromise! It requires but another strctch of their constitutional impudence to claim also that they voted to admit free Minuesota and free Oregon into t}ic Union

9&~ The Indianapolis correspondent of the Tcrrc Haute Journal has the following articlc, which wc heartily endorse, and which wc arc confident will be unanimously responded to iu South East Indiana and other parte of the State where Mr. O'Brien is well known: "Cornelius O'Brien, the Senator from Dearborn county, favorable spoken of by bis friends as a candidate before the next Democratic Convention for the position of Clerk of the Supreme Court. "He is a genteman of much experience, having been Clerk of Dearborn county for a number of year?, and pre-eminently qualified, for the ofiwe."

THE WHITK WAIIMiWmHIW

*T RtllKtOOi^

Sagfc&tcd 1 trajpuy rce§ttUj_«HfcT tea *t WjtehingMta.

^rinfroni of Fluttering bird-like in the air, Gently "whirls" Tterchief,

S&nAl td *k lidr, Fatal token!«Vil «iienl l',regn%utJs iUi,a4cibU'ul gloom,., 'Jti There it flutter*, and tho signal

Xuret' a victim to tbe tom!. ^,

:. .i FOOD (-be sce» it—1while lii« bosom Glowt, with an unholy fire .-• In hi» blindnew and presumption, •"Thinking of hie soul's desire,

On he rushes to his ruin, Soon to cool bia heated Drcatli •«, In the grave-yard's narrow chamber^

In the arms of horrid death! •.

And the wife! so frail and pliant,, Yielding to her own dishonor, ., SJndly, Tcckless—ne'er snspccting

That her linsband's eye is on her— Charged with guilt, this wretched ladv, '-t-: (Woman cursed by Adams'fall!)

On her knees entreats forgiveness, Owns lier sin—confesMK ull!

Then the demt of wild fury Rises in the husband's soul— Houses him to frantic madness

Far beyond his own control Then, all armed with deadly weapons, He, with stern unyielding heart, Flays the bold nrnl gay seducer •••.

Who has played the "villain's part.

Wretched wife! imprisoned hnsband Thon, too, cold and bleeding clay! Teach a dark and meaning lesson

To tho thoughtless and the gay— Oh, beware! the rose of pleasure, 1'lcases with its perfumed breath— vT 'Neath its soft and brilliant fo!i:igo

Lie concealed the thorns ol death.

VOICE

OF THE

NIGHT.—An

Eastern edit

or has been favored with a grand Frog Concert. He transcribes the rccitatiou as follows:

Kung do nung—kung tung, Koo dc kung, to koo Titteri, tittcri nong, Tittcri, titteri koo."

FULL CIIOUU8.

." Pung do kung—kick a hu .*• To do wee noun koo. SOLO SOPUAXO.

Tidderv pu do wee dc kt'un IV do weet, pe du wee! -. cnonrs or HASH voices,

Kung, kung, trata-kung, Diggory knni, de knm dc brto.

TKJ:* TOAt Sol.O.

Tr-a-tO weet «, Weetcrry do:

The effect was truly astonishing the stars blinked, and the balmy zephyrs stooped to catch the enchanting melody.

SdltGICAL OPERATION. Vrif A surgical operation was recently performed at the Jefferson University which was extraordinary in its character. A child seven months old was brought to the college hospital from the western part of the State, having appended to its left cheek a large mass of flesh, somewhat rescmbling^a tumor. This mass grew more rapidly than the child itself. At birth it was no larger than an apple, but when brought here last month it was nearly a foot long. Its surfacc was neither smooth nor regular, but was divided into several globular masses, whose pulsation was distinctly perceptible, regular and uninterrupted, from forty to one hundred beasts per minute. 11 was traversed by a large artery,

showing it was largely supplied with blood.

ho tho nersoti ho resolved to see hini und *u» oe tue person, rou The tumor was connccted to the child's

cheek by a peculiar caul-like membrane, pierced with holes, and its presence was a source of constant irritation to tho child, though supported by tbe mother's hand.

How to lemove this lingo tumor without destroying the life of the child was the great surgical problem. The parents, warned of the danger, were yet extremely anxious to have the frightful parasite ta ken off. Dr. Pancoast, under whose charge the patient had been placed, decided that the use of the knife would result in a fatal hemorrhage, and determined to divide the cat-like membrane by using a French surgical instrument, the secrascur, which, by forcing down the skin, and bruising the vessels thorough!}' before the chain of the instrument cuts through the mass, effectually prevents all serious bleeding. The operation was performed in the presence of an immense assemblage of medical men, students and others.

The child was placed under the influence of ether, when all pulsation in the parasite was observed to cease. The instrument being applied, the chain was rapidly worked until the parts were well compressed, and afterward very slowly. In fifteen minutes the tumor came away with the instrument, the chain having worked through the connecting membrane, while scarcely a drop of blood followed the^ romoval, and but one small vessel required a ligature. The surface left on the cheek was about two inches square, and the tumor weighed two and a half pounds. The whole operation was entirely succcssful, and the child lives and has fully recovered. But the extraordinary part remains to be told. The tumor thus taken off was found to contain a living child. Fingers were seen, and a portion of a rudimentary arm. Tbe intestines were well developed, and no doubts were entertained of its being a male child. A body, presumed to be the heart, contained, imperfectly formed auricles and ventricles. The mesenteric arteries and veins were of large size. The dissecting knife often cauic in contact with the osseous mattcr^of a rudimentary skeleton. It was in fact a repetition of the Siamese twins, only less perfectly developed. These results were received with profound astonishment by the crowded andience who witnessed the operation. The case is said to be unique in the annals of human malformatiou.— "DhihuhU phia Journal.

Baron

HUMBOLDT,

who is the confiden

tial adviser of the Prince Regent of Prussia, writes to a diplomatic correspondent at Washington, that war cannot be postponed beyond July.

t&- We had the curiosity to compare the pretended fac-siinile of-'Mrs. Sickles' confession, published in Harper's Weekly (a "Journal of Civilisation") and found the lines to be about half an inch longer than could be got on ordinary letter or paper. Of course the pretended fac simile" isall humbug—a cheat and a fraud upon the readers of the Journal of Civ ihzation.—Nrw Albany L"?£er. '.r

From the Milwaukie (Wisconsin) News. A RICH LETTER FROM PIKE'S PEAK. We give below a letter written from Pike's Peak by a well-known citizenof Horicon, now at Pike's Peak. Every word can be relied on as true, as the writer who well known in Wisconsin as a man who has the greatest, regard for truth.— There is evidently gold there:

PIKE'S PEAK, March 1, 1859.

<My Dear Brother>.—I promised to

I is to

write you a good, long letter as soon as I arrived here and I take my pen in hand to let you know that we are all well, and to hope that these few lines will find you enjoying the same blessing. You know we left Horicon for the land of gold about the 1st of February, and we arrived here yesterday. My wife stood the journey first rate, but my five oldest boys were nearly tired out when they reached here. Jane, the little sis, is happy as a lark, and says, 'Tiss Uncle George for me.' God bless her sweet heart.

We had all the hardships in the world before we got here. We lost our horses at Dubuque—they were stolen from us.— We got some oxen, and lost them one hundred miles from Omaha. We then tried wheel-barrows, my wife and I wheeling by turns, till the Indians stole our barrows. Then we walked, till the Indians stole our provisions, and my family got sick, so I had to carry them all on my back. Our money gave out long before, and for two weeks we traveled through a wilderness where the foot of a human being had never trod in this condition, seeing no living being, and without money to purchase even a cracker at any of the groceries along the line, we lived on roots till my children all looked like pigs, from rooting so long, and I have carried my family on my back till I am so roundshouldered that I can only see the blue sky and the bright sun by looking between my legs and up to heaven's canopy that way. I lost two hundred pounds of flesh—horse meat—when I started from Dubuque, or wc should have got long better.

I read in the Milwaukie <News> that Pike's Peak was a humbug. But it ain't, and the <News> knows it as well as I do.— We got here in the morning, after walking all night, and though we are now twentyfour hours in the country, we are not well off, but have a good prospect.

"There is gold here—lots of it.. The gophers dig it out of the ground by the bushel, and in the moonlight the whole earth for miles around looks like heaven with its myriad stars, or like a pretty girl with yellow freckles. The woodchucks dig out bushels and bushels of it, and the snakes in this country look like solid gold ones, from crawling among gold chunks. It is found in sized pieces, from the size of a hen's egg up to the bigness of a large stone, and of the finest quality. We have raked together what lay loose on an acre of ground, and have twenty-two piles about as big as a large-sized hay stack.— Last night two hundred Indians came to rob us of a set of silver spoons and a fine comb that my wife had to use on the children, and we barricaded our house with rocks of gold until they could not gain admittance, and were forced to beg to make friends with us. The chief laid down his weapons and came into our camp, when my wife used the fine comb on his head till his gratitude was as lively as his head was, and he was so tickled that he offered to marry my wife, and show me where gold was in plenty. I loved my wife—you know that, George but thinking that I might die before I got rich, and feeling that I must make some property to leave my children, I consented to the match, and she has gone off with the Indian, who is a great chief, and taken the fine comb with her. Come out with your wife, and bring a fine comb, brother George. I am going to leave these diggings for a better one. It is too much trouble to tug and pry up the great big chunks of gold that weigh half a tun or so, and are so thick you can not get them out without

danger of breaking your legs, and am going up to a ravine, where all I have to do is to go to the top of a high mountain and roll it down to the river.

grass to play. Everything grows here.— I can raise twenty bushels of wheat to the acre. Oranges, lemons and all such colored fruits grow wild here; while melons, pears, apples, peaches and appledumplings are so plenty that they find no market.

Sell off what stuff you have in Wisconsin, and come out here. You can get rich in a little while, and go back in such style that it will astonish the natives.

Give my love to all the folks around corners, and put a noticc on the schoolhouse that they can get an out-fit in Chicago for $200. Come out here, dear brother, bp [sic] all means.

Yours, affectionately. JOHN SMITH." ---<>---

the dearest on earth—in that vision bright of immortal life and everlasting reunion.

I&* It is said that on a recent occasion Prinpe Jerome called upon his imperial nephew at die Tuileries, and commenced a tirade of violent reproach, leveled mainly against die reluctance of the latter to set the army on the march for Italy.— Amongst other Ihihga, tfie old Prince is Mid to have exclaimed, You have not a drop of the Great Napoleon's blood in your veins." Well," replied the immovable Emperor, "at all evonts, I have his [whole family on my shoulders."

DEAnrtn* Tnr ngfTifiK iTMiftrr. Janus D. Pocterj^jrell knomn as the KeMeky Gmt," Ujjough born A Ports mowfc Ohio, wu found dead in bkjibed at hisjpudence Iwoisvillc, onplfonday years- of. dgo, seven feet nine inches in height, and when in good health weighed three hundred pounds. The Democrat sayi, tha^/of they first fourteen years of hre life' h£ WM ^aouJi-iar hiH age. At seventeeir-he was apprenticed, at coopering, and his remarkwfd grow& conimenccd. It is stated that the most he ever grew in one week was

tine xhch.'

It was his habit, while growing

to measure every Saturday night, and his own testimony and that of his family and friends are evidence of this remarkable fact.

Mr. Porter soon got so tall that it was impossible to cooper barrels, and he was employed on hogsheads. This however became equally impossible, owing to his remarkable height, and he was compelled to abandon, the business. Ho then engaged in keeping and driving hacks. In the years 1836-37, he went East and appeared on the stage in one or two pieces written especially for, him. ,He returned to Louisville, and a few years later bought the .cofice-hpuse which he was keeping at the time of his death. lie was very highly esteemed by all who knew him, for his integrity. In his domestic relations—he was never married —he was all a parent could desire.

At tbe time that Charles Dickens came to this country, there was a perfect furor ta see Boz." As he passed through the canal at Louisville, he sent a messenger to Mr. Porter, of whose remarkable proportions he had heard, intimating a wish to see him. Mr. Porter replied to the messenger that if Dickens wishes to see me more than I to see him, he will come to me," Mr. Dickcns took the hint, and during the conversation Porter told the novelist that while he was growing his mother had to sew a foot on his pantaloons every night.

Mr. Porter's coffin is nine feet one inch in length, and two feet, across the breast.

FAT AND .MIS-

i:\TUAV AG ANT Tit ESS.

Dr. McKcnzic, of the Philadelphia Press, in the course of one of his lively personal sketches, tells the following

It is notorious that the late Marchioness Conyngham was the favorite," (to put the matter in the gentlest term,) of George the Fourth. Long after she had passed the heyday of youth—long after she had lost even the traces of beauty—this right honorable" lady reveled in tho faor of the man whom Cobbct called "The Big Sovereign." His majesty was said to have had a pcnvhcint for rather ancient beauties and perhaps his liking for the marchioness was caused by the admiration of her bulk. George the Fourth was one of the stoutest and most unwieldy men of his day, particularly in his latter years, and his overgrown Hebe surpassed most of her sex in .-t itue an I rotundity.

The marchioness was very fond of jewels, and shortly after the accession of George IV, longed for a set of Diamonds which Rundcli and Bridges valued at £80,000. She asked her royal friend to purchase this set, aud make her a present of it. He would have done so it' he had had the money to spare, but like all his familv, lie was very fond of money, and t,hough he did not mind running largely in debt, had strong objection to parting with even a sixpenso of hard cash. The jewelers, too, to whom lie W LS largely indebted, declined letting him liaye diamonds on credit. At this crisis the marchioness suggested to the. jewelers that they should give her the diamonds, aud charge the price in their bill for the expenses of the coronation. They consented to do this. The jewels were accordingly supplied, and sparkled in due course, on the extensive person of the Marchioness Couytighani. The people wer^ saddled with tin payment of £'80,00'). et, it any news paper, had dared to question the propric-

»ut without ty of this nefarious swindling, the attor-

nev general of the time would certainly have prosecuted it for i.n:i:r, and SKDITION.

MODESTY VS. CONFIDENCE. The clement, uf sue -ess is selfdence. That man who distrusts his capacity to accouij lish a ,'ioat work, will never achieve a victory over it. He must

"The country here is fine, but the winds are awful. My boys got so light with eating roots, that I can only keep them bv me, or together, by piling lumps of gold about as big as mallets, on their shirt-tails, as the little innocent sit down on the

cominunica'cs the success, by cxaltiu

mysterious power of the mentality to a

level with its task, however that ma}- be. This once accomplished, and the feat becomes comparatively an easy one. All that remains is something very like leather and prunella''—it is patience and perseverance, unfaltering courage, indomitable pertinacity and unswerving constancy.

Fortune itself ma}-, in this manner, be won. Every day presents the world of common life, could wc but see them, with surprising instances of good fortune—and who shall say that.his turn in the golden revolution may not come next A distinguished example is at this moment brought strikingly t) our noticc in the case of Louis Napoleon, who at one time was personally insolvent! As it is true that a constant prognostication of evil frequently •seems to superinduce the very mischief it specially apprehended, so it is undeniable that a bold, irresistible confidence will occasion a brilliant success. Your modesty is a good thing iu its place it benefits a valiant trencher-man," and is seemly in a woman—but for a soldier of fortune—

THE DYING NEVF.lt WEEP. It is a striking fact—the (lying never weep. The circle of sobbing, agonized hearts around, produces not one tear. Is it that he is insensible and stiff already in the chill of dissolution That cannot be for he asks for his father's hand, as if to gain strength in the moral struggle, and leans on the breast of mother, brother or sister, with still'conscious affection and senible not of the "Harry Lorriqucr'' just before expiring at eve, after a long stamp—who will not be content to day's converse with the Angel of Sum-j feed upon "adversity's sweet inilk," mons, he says to his oldest brother—the just give us that gentle audacity, that perlast audible good night of earth—" Kiss suasive go-a-hcaditiveness which knows no me, kiss me!" It must be because the fear, indulges in no doubt, gives way bedying have reached a point to deep for our fore no rebuff, and can be crushcd out by earthly crying and weeping. They are no calamity Like the new expansion face to facc with higher and holier beings, iskirt, it's a very sweet thing! with the Father.in Heaven, and his angel throng, led on by the Son himself and Wc have a new phase of Be'publicanwhat are griefs of a morning, tears of a ism. In 1820 Thomas Jefferson advocated dying farewell—be it that they are shed by the extension of slavery into the Western the dearest on earth—in that vision bri-zht Territories. In 1859 promiuent republicans, such as Cbnse, Seward and Lincoln join in ovations to the memory of that distinguished man in the celebration of his birth day. The next dodge we expect will be to express their high consideration for the memory of John C. Calhoun and the principles he advocated.

THE LATEST FASHIONS."—The latest style of hoop-skirt is the grand, self-ad-justing, double back-action bustle, entruscan lace expansion, spiral Piccolomini attachment, gossamer indcstructiblc,! It is a love of a thin:."'

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If parents would do their duty fnithful--ly.and would train up their children aright, there would be fewer idlers aud rowdies. Education is free to all in this country, and yet many parents prefer to let their children grow up in ignorance and vice.

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HOWARD ASSOCIATION, PHILADELPHIA.

A J3cuccol',nt Institution established by special Endowment, fur the Jlclief of the Sick and Distressed, af-

Jlicted with Virulent and Epidemic Diseases. ,,

IIOWAKD ASSOCIATION, in view of the awful destruction of human lifecnuscit by Sexual diseases, and the deception pralieed upon the iinfortnnate victims of BIICII disonftes hy (iuacks,several yoaranzodirected their Consulting Kuiireon, as a CllAlMTABJ.K ACT worthy of their name, to open a Dispensary for the treatment of thi« clns* of diseases, in all their form-", and pive MKDICAJ, ADVICK (iliATIS to all who apply by letter, with a description of their condition. a?c occupation, habits of life. fee., and in •ase of extreme poverty, to FURNISH SIElJlCI NFS FliEK OF Cll A ROE. It, is needles* to, add that the Association commands the highest Meriicnl skill of tho ugc, and will furnish the most approved modem treatment.

The Directors of the Association, in their Annual Report up the treatment of Sexual Discuses,' expresH the highest satisfaction with tho Aticceaa which has attended tho labors of their Surgeons iu the cure of S[H3riuatorrhe», Seminal Waakniis-x, Gonorrhfea, Gleet, Srphils, the vice of Onanism or Self-Abnsc, Diseases of the Kidneys and Binddcr, fcc., and order a continuance "of tho sama plan for the ensuing yer.r.

The directors on a renew of the past feel asuorod

that their labors in this sphere of bonovolcisteffort have been of graat beneAt to the aftlicted, eapecially to ttic young, ar.d thoy have resolved to devote rhoinselves, with renewed zeal, to this very imporuijtnnd.much despised cau'O.

An admirablo Report on Spermatorrhoea, or Seminal Weakness, the vice of Onanism, Masturbation, or Self-Abnsc, and other diseases of the Sexual organs, by the Consulting Surgeon, will be scntby mail (in a sealed envelope,} FlifclE OK CHAKGE,on recciptof TWO STAMrS for post--'' age. Other He ports and Tracts on the nature and ctreatment of Sexual discwius diet, fcc., are con •tantly being published for gratuoui distribution, and will be »ent to tho afflicted. Somo of tho new remedies and methods of treatment discovered during the I ant year, aro of great valuo.

Adarcss, for Report or treatment, DR. J. SKILLIN IIOUGHTOW, Actiug Snrt^on, Howard Ahvociation, Xo. 2 South Nith Street, Philadelphia, jj i*a. Uy order of. tho diroctors.

EZRA D: llAKTWELt, PnsldcntV

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