Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 18 August 1853 — Page 2

THE JOURNAL.

CRAWFORDSY1LLE, INDIANA.

Thursday morning, Ang. 18,1853.

Correetion.

We understand that some of our farmers have concluded, from a remark in the report of the Prudential Committee, that all stock on which premiums are offered must be raised in the county. Such is not the meaning or intention of the Society.

The remark applied to agricultural and mechanical productions, and as to stock, it matters not where it is raised if the owner-ship is in this county. One great object of the Society is to encourage the importation of good stock into the county.

South-Western Agricultural and Me­

chanical Association.

We have received a letter from Mr. George Hancock, President of the South-western Agricultural and Mechanical association, inviting the presence and co-operation of the farmers and mechanics of this region, at the annual Fair of the association, to be held at the falls of the Ohio, beginning on the 11th day of October next, and continuing one week.

The grounds are near the city of Louisville and are fitted up with the view of having a splendid exhibition.

There will be connccted with the Fair, auction sales of stock, and other articles as have been exhibited.

Many of our farmers are now anxious to improve their Btock a more favorable opportunity could not be presented. There will doubtless be a great variety of stock, of the finest quality exhibited, and those wishing to purchase will be enabled to get such ns they now desire. The superiority of the Kentucky stock of cattle for beef, is known and acknowledge by all who have any knowledge of the cattle business. If our farmers will take the pains to improve their stock, as they now have ability, it will not only add to their own, fndividual interests, but it will promote the general prosperity of the country.

For those of our county and State ivho would like to attend at Louisville, the iime of holding the Fair is unfortunate. Our own State Agricultural

Fair

commences on the 13th of

October, which will bring both exhibitions at the same time, and thus prevent great numbers from this region from going to Louisville, who would otherwise attend. We deem it an unfortunate occurrence, that both Fairs should have been appointed at the same time, and trust the managers may in future make different arrangements.

There are many Kentuckians, who attend the State Fairs of Indiana, and hereafter there will be large numbers of our Indiana citizens who will attend the association at Louisville. Those who expect to exhibit will of course attend at Layfayette.

Both fairs will be deeply interesting' and profitable, and opportunities will be afforded for getting stock and seeing superior machinery which occur only once in a year, and should not be misimproved by either farmers or mechanics.

Let the farmers and Mechanics of this fertile and rapidly improving county, send up a strong delegation, and let those who have ability, import some of the best stock that may be found at either fair.

A catalogue of the articles on which premiums are offered, may be seen by calling at the Journal office.

T. W. FRY.

OCr The Court House is now undergoing a thorough repair. It is to be regretted, however, that our commissioners did not authorize the improvement in a style corresponding with tiiP wealth and taste of our town and county. These frequent small improvements co&t more in the end than .a good substantial improvement made at one time. The

court

house

is common property, belonging »8 much to the county as to the town— and Montgomery county has wealth enough, and taste enough, to have a handsome and imposing courthouse, one that would be an ornament to the town, and an honor to the county.— This old house has been fixed and refixed and never yet has been half fixed, and we fear, but a short time will elapse before,a it will have to be fixed again. An enlarged and liberal policy in such matters is far the best. A well built, well arranged, tasteful court house, is an honor to the people who build,^lie town and county in which it is located, and is ahvnvs a pleasant place for ike pco-

pie of the county to meet and transact their business. & Other counties less wealthy" have erected court houses of superior architectural beauty, which will stand for years as monuments to the wisdom and liberality of the commissioners who authorised their erection.

DGP The grain crops in this region of country will be better and more abundant the present, than any previous season, for many years past.— The corn especially will be very superior. Yet many fears and much murmuring were expressed in consequence of the occasional dry spells of weathor, with which we were visited. During the month of June, scarcely a drop of rain fell, and a general panic pervaded the community in consequence of predicted failure. This in our opinion was just as it should be, the dry weather had enabled the fanners to clear well their corn, kill every weed, pulverise the earth and prepare it for the reception of rain this done the clouds gathered, the rain fell in copious showers, after which there appeared a rain beau, as bright and beautiful, we doubt not, as that which [spanned the heavens, when the great flood of water assuaged and Jehovah said to man, look on the Beau of Promise and remember there shall be seed time and harvest as long as the world shall endure. As we looked upon its brilliant colors and remembered the promise of which it was typical, we thought how ill-timed and unwise are the murmurings of man.

St. Joseph "Register.''

THE ST. SOSEPFI VALLEY REGISTER, comes to us this week greatly enlarged and printed on type entirely new. The "Register" is now the largest paper in the State, and has been conducted in a manner which places it among the leading journals of the State. This enlargement and improvement, reflect great credit both on the Editor and his patrons. 'Tis the best evidence that he has capacity to please, and they to appreciate. We trust the additional expense in the publication of the Register will be met in that liberal spirit for which the citizens of South Bend and St. Joseph county,stand deservedly high.

L, Falley,

Is now receiving a large and general lot of Boots, Shoes, and Shoe Findings of every variety, and excellent quality, which he offers on favorable terms. His long experience in the business enables him to supply his establishment with the best articles in his line of business. His boots and shoes not only look well but wear well. Give him a call.

OCT3 See the advertisement of the letting of Crawfordsville, Frankfort, Kokomo, and Fort Wayne Rail Road, in to-day's^ paper. This work is to be let on the 20th October next.

Pacific Railroad.

The Washington Republic, alluding to the policy of the Locofocos on the Paciirc railroad question, says:

The Democracy is not likely to have a smooth time of it on the Pacific railroad question. The construction of that great work by Government is the broadest possible vindication of the

principle

upon which

the Whig party has ever maintained, doctrine of "internal improvements." It was natural to expect the Whigs, therefore,'to take up this subjcct, and press it on the attention of the country, and stand or fall upon it, as ihe sentiment of the country might prove. The Administration saw this distinctly and Jefferson Davis, especially, knew that the issue would be a popular one, and that his political adversaries would triumph in sustaining it unless their thunder should be stolen. The Secretary of War accordingly conceived the bold idea of committing that grand larceny upon Whig property. He raised the issue, taking the affirmative, at the Philadelphia banquet. The President assented, and Mr. Guthrie boasted a condination of the treasury which would afford ample means to carry the project through. The Union takes the key from these indications, und gives us a Beries of articles that promise ample Whig texts for the next campaign. '"All's well that ends well but they don't *eem

likeIy

to

therefore may -iipt

vvor^,'

and

en

well.-—Sena­

tors Mason and Hun*er repudiate the doctrine in tolo, declaring *"ey will have none of it, but vvilldevo.te every energy to defeat its practical exemplification. This opens a serious division in "the party" on that great question, and the speeches of Mason, Hunter, and others who think with them, against the doctrine, will show the country how little claim the "Democracy" have to1 credit for its advocacy. Whigs will unite on the question as naturally as water runs down hill, and present an unbrokenfront in favor of the great work.".

Horrible Murder. "i VEDNON, Ind., Aug. 16. Frederick Alms an honest hard working German was murdered on the highway, in the snburds of town about dark, last evening. Patrick McGinnd and three others were arrested and lodged in jail. Their examination takes place at one o'clock to-day. A mob is organizing in the Court House Square to attack and demolish the Groceries.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—The Pottowattomies now here have laid very serious charges before the commissioners of Indian affairs against their attorneys, W. G. and G. W. Ewing &. Walker, which the prompt and efficient commissioner,Col. Many.penny is now investigating. They gave power of attorney to the above agents to receive back pay stated by them to be due to the tribe under certain treaties, and thirty thousand dollars was named as compensation. The bond, however, expressly stipulated that this amount was in no case to come out of the regular annuity. Last spring these attorneys took thirty thousand dollars out of the annuity contrary to contract and for services never rendered. A deputation of the tribe has visited the President, who cautioned them against credulity in future and promised a most thorough investigation of the matter.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 11.

A despatch was received at London just before the sailing of the Africa that the rebels had taken Amoy, after a severe fight, and were even threatening Canton.

BALTIMORE, Aug. 11.

A train from Cumberland for Baltimore ran off the track seven miles above Berkley depot. The engine, tender, baggage car, and smoking car were smashed. Wm. Santpieum, the fireman was killed, and Charles Santpieum, engineer, who was on the engine, badly hurt. The passengers escaped without injury.

FROM BOSTON. BOSTON, July 12.

A collision occured this morning on the Worcester road, near Boston, between the regular train and an excursion train. When the reporter left, fourteen bodies were taken from the ruins both engines smashed.— Mr. Southwick, the engineer was considerable injured Mr. Taft, president of the road, escaped with slight injury. The disaster ia said to have been caused by two minutes difference in the engineers' watches. The Boston train has just come in..

From Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 13.—Two more deaths have resulted from the Providence railroad disaster one of them a boy named Goldthwait, and the othera man named Stewart Winslow, of Whitneyville.

The heat is intense in Boston, New York, and this city, and many deaths occurring from sun-stroke. The thermometer, at 3*o'clock this afternoon, in this city, stood at 95 degrees in the shade.

The Gardner commission, sent to Mexico by the Government, arrived I at New Orleans on the 10th inst.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 15.—Despatches from New Orleans to the 12th, report the deaths in 24 hours 217, including 200 from yellow fever. On the 13th the deaths from yellow fever in 24 hours ending to-day were 200.— No abatement in the disease.

Major Thomas T. Bryant, editor of the Western Chronicle, anri-Benton, has been appointed marshal of the State of Missouri.

Eleven thousand four hundred dollars have been collected in Philadelphia for the Howard Association in New Orleans.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 15th.—The heat in New York, yesterday, was frightful. The thermometer reached 102 in the shade. Ninety deaths from heat were reported by the coroner.

From Boston.

BOSTON, Aug. 15.—The most violent storm that ever visited this city was experienced last night. At Germantovvn the Baptist parsonage house was struck by lightning, and the wife of Rev. Mr. Russell was instantlykilled. A child in hsr arms escaped uninjured.

At Groveland, the house of Wm. Fowler was struck and himself and wife knocked senseless.

At Lowell, Lawrence, and Haverhill houses were also injured, and several persons injured.

From Louisville.

LOUISVILLE, Aug. 15.—Johnson, Dem., for Governor of Tennesse, was elected by about 2,000 majority.— The Congressional delegation stands five to five. Stanton was elected in Memphis district by six majority over Yerger, Whig.

INDEPENDENCE, Aug. 13.—Returned Californians give the following account of a battle between the Sioux, aided by the Cheyennes, 5,000 strong, and the Pawnees, aided by Iowas, Sacks [sic], and Pottawottomies, numbering about 3,000. Fight lasted all day. The killed on both sides five or six hundred.

The battle took place within fifty miles of Fort Kearney. Had not the Pottawottomies interfered the Pawnees would have been whipped. A person in from Fort Laramie says the

Laramie

says the

above account is exaggerated, but that a great demonstration had been made.

UTAH. -----

We have received advices from Utah to June 18, six weeks later than our previous dates. The Deseret News gives a few items of interest.

It is the will of the people that Hon. John M. Bernhisel shall be re-elected as our delegate to Congress, at the election to be held in August next, having given universal satisfaction during his last campaign.

The Independence letter mail arrived on the 29th ult.; the newspaper mail had not arrived at Laramie when the carrier left. Such has been the state of traveling, for the past eight months, between this and Independence from snow, rain and high water, it has been impossible to get the heavy mails through and from the best information we can obtain, we suppose there are twenty-four heavy bags of mail matter <now> cached <en route> for this place, independent of the June mail. The letters generally we presume, have been brought, which has been accomplished by the carriers swimming rivers with mail bags on their head; forming floats of Indian-rubber bed sack, and such like life-risks; and we understand that teams are now in motion, gathering up all the mails, and that some are not far distant from this place; but no matter how near or far off, if only 40 miles distant, they must wait till the waters abate.

The Oregon mail arrived June 1, most of the papers as wet as water could make them, consequently most of the matter for the States had to lie over and dry until the next mail. [<New York Tribune>. =====

STATE FAIRS FOR 1853.—Alabamy —Montgomery, October—. Canada, Upper,———, October 5, 6, 7.

Canada, Lower, ,September 27, 28, 20,30. Georgia, (So Cen'l,)Augusta. October 17, 18, 19, 20.

Illinois—Springfield, October 11, 12, 13, 14. Indiana—Lafayette, Octocer.... 12, 13 14.

Kentucky—Lexington, September 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. Maryland October 25,26, 27,28.

Michigan—Detroit, September 28, 29, 30. New Hampshire October 5,6,7.

New York, Saratoga, September 20,21, 22, 23. Ohio—Dayton, September 20,21, 22, 23.

Pennsylvania—Pittsburgh, September 27, 28, 29, 30. Vermont—Montpelier, September 13,14,15.

Virginia—Richmond, November, 1,2,3,4. Wisconsin—Watertown, October 4,5,6,7.

Manufacture of Lime.

The "Wisconsin" gives a description of some lime kilns, recently erected at Milwaukee by Mr. P. C. Hale:

He has in operation one kiin, 16 by 20 feet high, with an arched roof of brick, containing seven chimneys, and another kiln, nearly completed, much larger than the first, in which he can manufacture 600 barrels of lime per week, and is prepared to increase the number of kilns as fast as business demands. These kilns are so constructed that nearly an equal amount of heat is thrown upon each stone at the same time: In consequence of the arch no cold air reaches the top stones, and the whole contents of the kiln are equally burned, leaving in small stones half burned, as is inevitable in the old fashioned kilns. A3 it is neither burned too much nor too little, it is purer and stronger than other lime. The kilns are so constructed as to save about one-third of the wood and one half of the labor of other kilns, and tire burned in fifty-four hours, no matter how large the kiln. It is only necessary to keep the fires properly tended with suitable fuel, to insure a burn with as much certainty and accuracy, as the baking of bread in ovens.

THE LAST PROPOSITION.—A gentleman in Iowa proposes to keep cities free from thunder storms "for so much per year." By most people this offer will be looked upon as preposterous, and yet it is not. We have no doubt whatever, that an outlay of ten thousand dollars would keep New York as insulated as a glass table with sealing wax legs.— What a gentleman in Iowa proposes to do for us has already been done for the vine-growers of the south of France. By means of a well arranged system of lightning-rods, a whole district has been rendered inaccessible to those destructive hail storms which so frequently follow in the train of thunder showers. What has been done in France can be done elsewhere. If we can teach lightning to write, we can teach it to behave itself.—Lowell ourier.

THREE REGRETS—"I regret that John Huss was_ not burned sooner than he was. "I regret also that Luther was not punished in the same way. "And I regret that there was not found at that time a King wise enough, pious enough and politic enough to organize a crusade against Protestantism."

So writes the editor of the leading CathoJio Journal in Europe, the Uni-

uers and just now l|je special portege of Pius the Nintlj. These amiable gentlemen certainly need the sympathy of all the faithful. They would do something worthy of Hildebrand, but they can't: One cannot but think of Bunyan's poor Giant.— Pope in the cave, growling at the Pilgrims as they pass on their way to the City of God, but unable to do more. The old nature remains, the real genuine love of blood and bones but alas, the teeth and claws, how time has played the mischief with them!

The Liquor Traffic Wrong. Because it increases the power of temptation to commit Crime.

A young man in Ireland committed a murder in March, 1833. He was afterwards tried at Kilkeny, and pronounced by the jury, guilty. 'Yes, my lord,' said the prisoner, 'I am guilty,' and pointing to his mother, a woman of more than eighty years of age, who stood by, he said: She was the cause of it.' She had agreed beforehand for the price of the blood of Mr. Leonard—the man who, according to that agreement, was to be murdered by her son. She watched for the coming of the unfortunate and unsuspeciing man, and when she saw him approaching, she handed her son the pistol with which to take his life. He instinctively shrunk back saying—'IIovv can I murder the poor gentleman?' His mother handed him the whisky bottle, which she had got for the occasion, saying—'Take that.' He took it, shot the man, and was hanged.

Another young man, who had committed a crime so horrid that it was thought to be incredible, was asked by the magistrate, in his examination, how it was possible he could commit such a crime? He answered, 'with the help of whiskey. I could commit twenty such crimes.'

Mr. Poinder, in his testimony before the British Parliament, stated, that many criminals assured him that it was necessary, before they could commit crimes of peculiar atrocity, to have recourse to this stimulant and knowing this to be the fact they resorted to it beforehand, for no other purpose than to fit themselveB. 'I could not,' said one of them, 'enter your house, in the dead of night, and take the chance of your shooting me in it or being hung when 1 got out of it, unless I was to get well primed first.'

These are specimens of facts in proof of the position above taken, of which facts a volume might easily be collected. The liquor traffic increases the power of temptation to commit crime of every variety and of every degree of turpitude, but especially the crime of drunkenness.

Who needs any proof on this point? Who needs any proof that men are more likely to drink to excess where the traffic is carried on than where it is not? Who are the men who are forever telling us they never let a man have liquor who gives evidence of having had enough?— Whose business most endangers men on this point? Whose traffic most increases the power of temptation to drink too much? Who are most frequently under the necessity of offending drunkards, by refusing to let them have any more? Who are oftenest boasting of their virtue in this matter of refusing to take a man's money for fear of making him drunk?

Who will say, after reading these questions, that tho liquor traffic doe3 not increase the power of temptation to commit the crime of drunkenness?

The. Freeman's Journal of New York, Bishop Hughes' organ, says: "Letters from Rome received here three days ago, announce that a distinguished Senator of the United Stales made his^ormal renunciation of Protestanism, and was received in the Catholic Church on the Feast of the Visitation (July 2d), by His Eminence Cardinal Fransoni, Perfect of the Propaganda. I have not been able to ascertain the name of the convert, but itwill not long remain unknown."

The person alluded to above is reported to be Senator Douglas, of Illinois, who is now, or was recently, in Rome.—Ball. Patriot.

Much greater men than Stephen A. Douglas have unquestionably joined the Roman Catholic Church from the purest and best motives but, knowing Douglas as we do, we have no doubt, that if he has turned Catholic, he has done so with no other motive than to secure the foreign vote at the Presidential election of 1856.— He has jnineu iha Cr.thelic Church not to get to heaven but to get to what he thinks a great deal more of —the White House.-—Louisville Journal. SM

MILLIONARES IN CALIFORNIA.—Some of the largest incomes in the United States are now enjoyed by gentlemen of San Francisco, who, four years ago, were far from being rich. It is said that the annual income of Samnel Brannon, Esq., is over two hundred and fifty thousand dollars whilst that of J. L. Folsom, W. D. M. Howard and several others, is but little, if any less. These large estates have been made within the last three or lour years, by the rapid raise of real estate in and about San Francisco. In 1847,48, lots were purchased for $15 or $20, which are now worth over $100,000. On the cheif business streets, in favorable locations, ground is worth from $1,000 per front foot, exclusive of the improvements.

Col. Bliss, Gen. Taylor's son-in-law died of yellow fever at Pascagouli, Au£. 5th.-'

lO

3

It appears from the newspa­

pers that Horace Greely is about to engage extensively in the business of manufacturing. From this it would seem that even he thinks tlrnt money can be more profitably invested in manufacturing than in any other business, even without a protective tariff. The money he has made in' trying to prove the indispensable necessity of his favorite tariff policy, he is now going to use in such a manner as to show that he has been wrong all his life.—Indiana Sentinel.

It is our rule never to contradict an unimportant falsehood, affecting us personally, until it is made to subserve some public mischief. We have let this one run until the proper occasion for nailing it should be presented. Be it known that "Horace Greely" is not "about to engage extensively in the business of manufacturing," and has not been purchasing property at Beaver or elsewhere.— N. y. Tribune.

EXTRAORDINARY WEALTH OF A SOUTHERN PLANTER.—The New York Tribune translates the following from a German paper:

A rich planter, a Mr Delabitzcher, descended from an ancient French family, recently died in New Orleans. He was a young man at the time of the first French Revolution, and fled from the guillotine to become a merchant's clerk in the Crescent City.— After a time, he married the daughter of a rich planter, and carried on the plantation so skillfully, as in a comparatively short time to acquirc the reputation of being one of the richest men in Louisiana. Since his death, the division of his property has shown its aggregate to be an amount, which from European point of view, is almost fabulous. It consisted of 31 plantations, upon branch es of the Mississippi, affording an anual profit from the cultivation of coffee and sugar of $50,000 ^steamboats upon the Mississippi, 3 upon the ocean, end 34 trading vessels, the

noSrega,e

income of which, at the

lowest calculation, is $150,000 shares to the amount of $5,000,000 in railroad stocks, producing annually $250,000 limited partnerships in Europe, one in each of the cities of London, Paris, Bordeaux, Lisbon, Cadiz, Naples and Constantinople, each producing an annual profit of $80,000, in all $560,000 cash to the amount of $7,000,000 in the Bank of England, drawing 2 per cent., producing $140,000. His property in houses, furniture, collections of works of art, books, &c was in proportion. The property falls to three heir3.

Western Music.

A notice headed "Western Musical Association," has just met our eye in a western paper, and the title, by association, recalls an anecdote of the high pressure days of 1836. At that time, trade competition in New York ran high and one of the methods of securing country customers, was to make guests of them at parties.— They were frequently unused to such circles, and hapily quite ignorant of the senseless frivolties which constitute excellence, and command preference, in such places.

It chanced that a western original —clearly so—who was buying goods in New York,was swept up by one of these trade drag-nets, and thrown into a fashionable parlor, filled with mahogany furniture, new clothes and gas light. The scene was strange to him, and his strong native good sense found little to admire, either in the manners or the conversation of the city exquisites of both sexes, with which the room was chiefly thronged. He was therefore left mostly alone, but amid the flirting, the ogling, and the music, he could see that his primitive plainess of manner was not overlooked, and as the evening wore on it became apparent that it was not to close without an attempt to "corner the countryman."

At length a bevy of laughing girls, by the merest accident in the world, found themselves grouped about our western green one, in a most animated discourse upon music, and city playing. When all this had progressed just far enough, one of the damsels, with head more adorned without than within, and in that peculiar parlor drawl which fortunately no type can represent, accosted the observed of all, with "do the ladies play much at the west, sir?' Original saw the game and resolved to win. "O, very universally, Miss," was the cool rerily.

"I'uucCd

'7hV

I

fore—do

was not aware

of that: prayjdo they use the piano, mostly?" Never, Miss the only instrument out our way, is the Swinelle, and the girls play at that." "O, dear, I am sure I never heard of that be­

tell us what it is, and how

they play it." "Well the instrument is a small pig, and each girl takes one of these under her arm, chews the end of Us long tail, and that brings the music." The preconcerted'come' made no farther progress, and for the balance of the evening our western 'green was the only lion of the show. —Buffalo Express.

-The Govenor of Arkansas has

appointed Robert W. Johnson, as U. S. Senator, in place of Mr. Borland, appointed Minister to Central America.

The Albany Knickerbocker lately received a letter inquiring, among other things, whether pig' iron was pertrified pork, and if it was,. which was the best way to cook it to make it juicy.

ITEMS.

•About 1,300 Danes

are soon

to stai from their native country for the Morman country. The Mormons are making prodigious efforts to direct the emigration from Northern Europfeto their State, in order to raise the requisite population lor admission into the Union.

The everlasting controversy,

—whether Webster's Dictionary is the correct standard of orthograph, is again commenced in the Boston papers.

in*

The colony established by the

Maryland State Colonization Society, had established an independent Government, aepara/e from the Liberia Republic, and from the Home Society.

Several specimens of rich

gold ore have been found in Eastern Tennessee, indicating abundance of the raw material there.

—Patrick Dawson, who has lain jail several weeks in Newark, Ohio, on a charge of murdering James Brannon in June last, has been examined and held for trial for murder in the first degree.

The Democrats of Licking

county have nominated Charles Follett, for Senator, and A. Warthan, A. E. Rogers, for Representative)?. Follett and Rogers are Maine-law men.

Mr. S. Medbury has resigned

the post ofEngineer on the Central Ohio Road, and occupied that of the Cincinnati and Fort Wayne Road.— Mr. George Fulton succeeds him on the Central Road. -A great Festival in honor of the birth-day of Thomas F. Meagher, was held atFaneuil Hall, Boston, on Wednesday of last week.

The number of medical grad­

uates in the United States thus far, this year, have numbered nine hundred and fifty.

A man name not known, hi­

red a boy on Friday last, to row him over the Ohio river at New Albany, and when half way across, he jumped overboard and drowned himself.

A proposition has been started at Plymouth Mass.. to raise $50,000 to defray the expenses of erecting a monument in honor of the Pilgrims.

Prof. St. Johns, of Cleveland, and Prof. Williams, of Michigan, have been chosen to the vacant Professorships in Kenyon College, at Gambier. The property of this institution is now valued at $25,000.—Cincinnati Gazcttee.

ACTUAL FACTS.—That Whisky is a key by which many gain an entrance into our prisons and alms-houses.

That Brandy brands the noses of all those who cannot govern their appetites.

That Wine causes many to take a winding way home. That Punch is the cause of many unfriendly punches.

That Ale causes many ailings, while Beer brings many to the bier. That Champain is the source of many pains.

That Gin Slings have "slewed" more than the sling of old. That the ^reputation of being fond of Cocktails, is not a feather in any man's cap.

That the money spent for Port that is supped by portly gentlemen would support many a poor family.

That Porter is a weak support to those who are weak in body.

NEW INVENTION OF WEIGHING SCALXS. —Mr. Caleb Burnap, of this city, an ingenious Mechanic, has invented a new kind of Scales for weighing light or heavy weights. The principle employed differs from that of tho ordinary scaled in this respect—the weight is indicated by fluid, which is forced upwards through a transparent glass tube on which the different figures for pound, ounces, &c., are marked, like those of thermometer. The fluid is introduced through a small aperture (which regulates the force of the pressure) to a flat, shallow cavity beneath the platform on which the weight descends, and a remarkable degree of precision is obtained by the employment of vulcanized India rubber as a covering to the fluid—Hartford Times.

A NEW READING OF SHAKESPEARE.— In a country town "down East" a Democratic newspaper was started, depending mainly for support on the contributions of the "faithful" thai region.. Its motto was—• "Bejust and fear not." Shakespeare.

An old farmer who had been quite active in promoting tho interests of this newspaper enterprise took up the first number and commenced reading it, with laudatory comments. As he read the motto, his face flushed with honest enthusiasm, and he exclaimed: "Fear not Shakespeare no, that we won't, nor any other darned old Federalist!"

The Democratic papers have ceased from their interrogatory—"Is the Whig party dead?" and are rapidly turning their attention to the enquiry, still more important to them, "Can the Democratic party, as at present constituted, be kept alive."—Alexanj dina Gazette.

SIR ISAAC NEWTON, on being asked bow, he discovered the laws which govern the universe, replied, "By always thinking'of lhera^.,-,