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THE LITTLE BOY THAT DIED.

Dr. Chalmers is said to be the author of t.ie fol lowing beautiful poem, written on the occasioa ot the death of a young son whom he grea

1 am all alone in my chamber now, And the midnight hour is near And the faggot's crack and the clock's dull tici

Are the only sounds I hear. And over my soul, in its solitude, Sweet feeling3 of sadness glide, For my heart and my eyes are full when I think

Of the little boy that died.

I went one night to my father's house— "Went home to the dear ones all— And softly I opened the garden gate,

And softly the door of the hall. My mother came out to meet her son— She kissed me, and then she sighed, And her head fell on my neck, and she wept

For the little boy that died.'

I shall miss him when the flowers come, In the garden where he played I shall miss him more by the fireside,

When the flowers have all decayed. I shall see his toys and his empty chair. And the horse he used to ride And they will speak, with a silent speceh, ...

Of the little boy that died.

We shall go home to out Father's house— To our Father's house in the skies, Where the hope of our souls shall have no blight,

Our love no broken tics We shall roam the banks of the river of Peace. And bathe in its blissful tide And one of the joys of our heaven shall be

The little boy that died.

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Sectionalism in our Army. Jt is a remarkable circumstance that of the thirty-four cadets composing the graduating class of the Military Academy at West Point, this year, there are but five from the Slave States—a seventh of the 'whole number—while Massachusetts alone has four, and New York seven. This class started, it seems, four years ago, with fifty members but the rigors of West Point discipline, and the "demerit" marks have reduced the number down to thirty-four.-— The Slave States must have had their fall share of representatives in the class, and •we arc led to infer that the greater part of

missing members were from the other Bide of Mason & Dixon's line. If the "graduating class of 1855 be a fair criterion to judge by, we should say that the Army in a short time, would be officered wholly by Northern men but the South could have no excuse for corfiplaint if such should be the case. In the civil service where there are no rigors of discipline, nor any lists o.( "demerits" to interfere with appointments, tqey will be sure to have at least their full share of offices.

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^jggrThe reason why 'many ladies-dodge an offer of marriage, is because the question is popped at them.

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Girls Who Want Husbands. There is a great deal of truth in what 'Nellie Gray' says to "girls who are anxious to marry." Some may object to the manner of telling it, but tlic facts are facts notwithstanding, and to those marriageble maidens "who make fools of themselves, and go into a fit of the hips every time they see a hat," we commend them.—ED.

Girls, you want to get married, don't you? Ah, what a natural thing it is for young ladies to have such a hankering for the sterner sex. It is weakness that woman has, and for this reason she is- called the weaker sex. Well, if you want to get married, don't for conscience sake act like fools about it. Don't go into a fit of the hipt every time you see a hat and a pair of whiskers. Don't get the idea into your heads that you must put yourself in the way of ever}' young man in the neighborhood in order to attract notice, for if you don't run after the men they will run after you. Mind that.

A liubband-huiiter is ihe most detestable of all young ladies. Sh i'is full of starch ar puckers she pvis ro many false airs, and she is so nice(?} that r:he appears ridiculous in the eyes of every decent nenon.— She may generally be fonnd it meeting, coming in of course ~bout the 1JSI ye always at social parties, und in variably takes a front seat at concerts. She tries to be the belle of the place, and thinks she is.— Poor girl! you are fitting yourself for an old maid, just as sure as Sabbath comes on Sunday. Men will flirt with you, and flatter you, simply because they love to do it, but they have no more idea of making you a wife than they have of committing suicide. If I was a young man, I would have no more to do withsucli a fancy than I would with a rattlesnake.

Xow, girls, let Nelly give you a piece of her advice, and she knows from experience if you practice it, you will gain a reputation of being woithir girls & stand a fair chance of getting respectable husbands.— It is all well enough to learn to finger the piano, work embroidery, study grammar, fec., but don't neglect letting grandma, or your mother teach you how to make bread and get a meal of victuals good enough for a king. No part of a house-keeper's duty should be neglected if you do not marry a wealthy husband you will need to know how to do such work, and if you do, it will bo no disadvantage to you to know how to oversee a servant girl, and instruct her to ao these things as von would have them done. In the next place, don't pretend to be what you are not. Affectation is the most despicable of accomplisments, and ause people to laugh at you. No one but a fool .will be caught by alteration—it has a transparent bki'n easily to be seen through.

Dress plain but neatly. Ilemember that nothing gives a girl so modest, becoming and lovely appearance as a neat and plain dress. All the flummery and tinsel work of the dressmaker and milliner are unnecessary.

If you are really handsome, they do not add to your beauty one particle if you are homely they only make you look worse.— Gentlemen don't court your faces and jewelry, but your own.dear selves.

Finger-rings and toklerols majr do to look at, but they add nothing to the value of a wife—all young men know that. If you know how to talk, do it naturally, and do not be so distressingly polite as to spoil all you saj'. If your hair is straight, don't put on the curling tongs to make people believe you have negro blood in your veins. I your neck is very black, wear a lace colar, but don't be so selfish as to daub on paint, thinking that people are so blind as not to see it and if your cheeks are not rosy, don't apply pink saucers, for the deception will be detected and become the gossip of the neighborhood.

Finally, girls, listen to the counsel of yonr mothers, and ask their advice in every thing. Think less of fashion than you do of kitchen duties^—less of romance than you do of realities of life—and instead of trying to catch husbands, strive to niake yourselves worthy of being caught by them.

VOLUME VII. CRAWFORDSVILLE INDIANA, JULY S, 1855.

don't go into tliat.closet!' and then left the lady to herself. No sooner had she heard the sound of his feet on the last step of the stairs than she exclaimed:'Don't go in that closet? I'll warrant there is a pig, gridiron, or some nonesense just like the Anti-Masons, for all the world, I'll be "bound. I will just take one peep, and nobody will be any the wiser as I can keep it to myself.' Suiting the action to the word, she stepped lightly to the forbidding closet, turned the button, which was no sooner done than b-a-h! wciit the billy-goat, with a spring to regain his liberty, which came nigh upsetting her ladyship. Both started for the door but it was filled with implements of house-cleaning all were swept clear from their position down to the ,bottom. of the stairs.

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The noise and confusion occasioned by such unceremoniously coming down stairs, drew half the town to witness Mrs. 's effort to get from under the goat and pile of pails, tubs, brooms and brushes into the street.

Who should be first on the spot but the rascally door-keeper, who, after releasing the goat, which was a cripple for life, and uplifting the other rubbish that bound the good woman to the earth, anxiously iuquired if she had been taken the degrees? 'Taking the degrees?' exclaimed the lady, 'if you call tumbling from the top to the bottom of the stairs with the devil after ye,.taking the degrees, I have them and if ye frighten folks as bad as ye have me, and hurt them to boot, I'll warrant they'll make as much noise as I did.' 'I hope you did not open the closet, madame,' said the door-keeper. 'Open the closet? Eve ate the apple she was forbidden. If you want a woman to do anything, tell her not to do it, and she'll do it sartin. I could not stand the temptation. The secret was there—J wanted to know it—I opened the door and out popped the tarnal critter right into my face. I thought the devil had me and I broke for the stairs with the devil butting me at every jump—I fell over the tub, and got down stairs as you found us—all in a heap.'

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Woman's Curiosity.

A lodge of I. O. O. F., at Woodstown determined to have their lodge room done up clean and nice it was resolved unanimously that Mrs. IC should be employed to do this job.-

After the meeting adjourned, the guardian, who knew the inquisitive character of Mrs. procured a billy-goat, and placed him in a closed that was kept as a reservoir for the secret things. He then informed the lady of the wishes of the lodge and requested her to come early the next morning, as he would then be at leasure to show her what was and what was not to be done.

Morning came, and with it Madame with her broom, brushes, pails, tubs, &c., prepared and armed for the job, and found the guardian waiting for her. 'Now, Madame,' said he, 'I will tell you what we want done, and how we came to employ yon. The brothers said it was difficult to get anybody to do the job and not meddling with the secrets in that little closet we have lost the key, and cannot find it to lock the door. 1 assured them that you could be depended on." 'Depended on!' said she, "I guess I can. My poor dead and gone husband, who belonged to the Free Masons or Anti-Masons I don't know which, used to tell me all the secrets of the concern, and when he showed me the marks the gridiron made when he was initiated, and told me how they fixed poor Morgan never told a living soul to this day if nobody troubles your closet to find out the secrets till I do, they'll lay there till they rot—they will." 'I thought so', said the gimrdian, 'and now I want you to commence in that corner, and give the whole room a good cleaning, and I have pledged,my word and honor for your fidelity to your promise now

madamc,' said the door-keeper,

yon are in possession of the great secret of the order and must go up and be initiated, sworn, and ride the goat in the regular way.' 'Kegular way.!' exclaimod thejilady#j3®Bd do you suppose I am going near the tarnal place again, and ride that critter without a bridle or ladies saddle? No, never I don't want nothing to do with the man that rides it. I'd look nice perched on a billy-goat, wouldn't 1? No, no, never! I'll never go nigh again, or your hall nuther—if I can ever prevent it, 110 lady (shall join the Odd Fellows. Why, I'd sooner be a Free Mason, and be broiled on a gridiron as long as fire could be kept under it, and pulled from garret to cellar, with a halter, in a pair of old breeches and slippers, just as my poor, dear husband was And he lived over it too, but I could never live over such another ride as I took to-day.'

The West and its People.

Two distinguished writers have lately given their impressions of the West and western people—Mrs. E. Oaks Smith and Bayard Taylor. The lady rather likes us.. She says:

The western man has none of the vices of thrift. He carrios on operations upon so vast a scale that he casts out pettiness and moanness wherever he goes. He does not higgle and banter in a bargain. He measures distance by miles, not in feet.— He counts money by dollars, not by pennies. He seems ashamed to come down to pence. He buys a new dress for his %vife and gets a few yards extra his own coat and shoes are too large for him his hat slouches for the same reason it is as if the imagination of the man was akin to that of the rivers and prairies of the region the soul quite gets outside the body. He must have elbow room, he must breathetherefore his house is large and sometimes uncomfortable. The bed high and wide, the tea cup ample, heavy and like their lakes, filled to the brim. Your piece of game or pie is no scanty piece, and altogether you feci as if somehow you had a freer and larger lifo presented to you.

Bayaed Taylor confines his observations more to the character of the people than the country. He says:

The local pride of all the western towns is a very good thing in its way, but manifestations are sometimes quite amusing to a stranger. Whereveryougo the question is: "How do you like our place?" Last year I simply replied, 'very well,' in all cases, and consequently disappointed the questioners. They expected something more intense and enthusiastic This winter I reply, 'I consider it the center of creation,' which generally gives tolerable satisfaction—for if "a Western town is not already the center of the universe, it is soon going to be. There is to be a railroad from some other place, which will draw all eastern and western trade to a focus in that porticular spot. They even look further into futurity, sometimes, and determine in their minds the site of the station on the Great Pacific Road, where Asiatic and European travelers will be allowed fifteen minutes for refreshments.

The editor of the Buffalo republic has made himself immortal by the publication of infallible means of keeping babies perfectly quiet, the modus operandi of* which is as follows that as soon as the child awakes and begins to squall, prop it up with pillows and smear its fingers with thick molasses, sticking feathers into* the hands, and thus afford the youngster the employment of picking tlw feathers from one hand to the other, which will keep him still until lie drops asleep again.

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"THE UNION, THE UNION IN ANY EVENT."

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The Foot-Prints and the Flowers.

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There are foot-prints on the .sand, .* And a wreath of flowers is lying

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On the path that ends in water— ," Where the glowing waves are sighing A Is a

Of some vessel just departed—Who that vessel bears I know, ^.

For it leaves me broken-heacted I

K"ot a single signal cheered me— Not a hand was raised, to tell How she loved me as she left me—

How she hated our farewell And she cast no'glances backward, Threw no kisses, as of yore, To her thrice distracted lover, ..

Who was waiting on the shore..

There are foot-prints on the sand— Like a row of graves they rcem, Where my joys and hopes are lying,

Where my peace and comfort dream And the flowers begin to wither On the path she trod but now, And the sunshine leaves my bosom,

And the bloom deserts my brow.

When the gallant ship returneth, 1 Will it bring my love again Will she close the gates of sorrow

And the prison-doors of pain She will hear no fervent welcome? In those distant, dismal hours, i.From the lips that rest in silence 'Neath the foot-prints and the flowers.

BUFFALO, June 14,1856.

From the Buffalo Democracy.

An Elephant's Fraternal Feeling and Affection. While a wagon drawn by several elephants was passing our office yesterday, the following story was told, which lye vouch for as true: •(Last season, a menagerie visited the village of Johnstown, Herkimer county.— When the cavalcade left town it passed over a bridge where the road crossed, leaving two elephants to bring up the rear.— They were driven to the bridge, but \vith known sagacity of the race, they refused to cross.

The water of the creek, which flows thro' a gorge in the slMc formation, presenting thatjpojpt bap]||TEek4trec^ ter and thirty feet in'h&lfht, was low, and by taking a course through a coin field a ford could be reached. But the proprietor of the corn field, refused to allow his property to be so used, except on the payment of an exorbitant sum, and this the agent of the menagerie refused to submit to. Accordingly, the elephants were again driven to the bridge, and again they sefused to at­|in tempt the crossing. They would try the structure with their great feet, feel cautiously along the plank with their prohoScal fingers, but each time would recoil $rom making the dangerous experiment.

At last, however, goaded by the sharp iron instrument of the keeper, and accustomed to obedience, they rushed on, with a scream half of agony, half of anger.— The result showed the prudent prescience of the poor animals to have been correct the bridge broke, and went crashing to the bottom of the gorge, carrying with it both the monstrous beasts:' One of them struck upon its tusk and shd'uldcr, breaking the former and very badly injuring the latter the other was strangely enough unhurt. Now was shown the most singular and remarkable conduct on the part of the brute which has escaped. Its comrade lay there, an ex tempore bed being provided for its comfort while 110 temptation, no stratagem was sufficient to induce the other to leave, & proceed with the main portion of the caravan, wlii :h finally went on, leaving the wounded beast and its companion under the chargc of their keeper.

Day after day the suffering creature lay there, rapidly failing and unable to move. At the end of three weeks, the water in the creek commenced rising, and there was danger it would overflow and drown the disabled elephant. The keeper desired, therefore, to get it np and make it walk as far as a barn, near by, where it would be out of danger, and could be better cared for. But it would not stir. He coaxcd, wheedled and scolded, but all to 110 purpose.

At last, enraged, he seized a pitchfork, and was about plunging in into the poor thing's flesh, when the companion wrenched the fork from his hand, broke it in fragments, and flung,the pieces from it then with eyes glaring and every evidence of rage in its manner, it stood over its wounded and defenceless friend, as if daring the keeper to approach, -which the man was not so green to do again, with cruel purpes3.

Thus the injured animal lay there until it died. When satisfied that it could no longer he of service, the other quietly followed the keeper away from the spot, and showed no defcire to return. If this is not reasoning mingled with an affection isome men might pattern after, we should like to know what to call it.

A TASTE FOR READING.—Sir John Hershal declared, that if ^hie would ask for a taste which should stand him in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness arid cheerfulness to him through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon him, it would be a tastc for gOod and useful reading. Give a man he affirms, this taste, and' the "means of gratifying it, and you cannot'fail of making him good and happy for you bring him in contact with the best society in all ages, with the tenderest, the bravest* and the purest men who- have adorned humanity, making him a denizen of ^1 nations, a co^ temporary of all times, and giving him practical- proof that the" world has been created for Mm, for his -solace, and for his enjoyment.

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General Washington's Last Vote. Every incident in the life of Washington is full of interest. That plain heroic magnitude of mind which distinguished him above all other men was evident in all his actions. Patriotism, chastened, by sound judgment and careful thought, prompted all his public acts, and made- them- ex1 amples for the study and guidance of mankind. It ha& been said that no one can have the shortest interview with a truly great man, without being made sensible of his superiority. Of too many, who have some way earned the title of great, this is by no means true. Its applicability to the character of Washington is verified in the following interesting circumstance related by a correspondent of the Charleston Courier "I was present," says this correspondent, "When General Washington gave his last vote. It was in the spring of 1798, in the town of Alexander. He died the 11th of December following. The court house of Fairfay county was then over the market house, and immediately fronting Gadsby's tavern. The entrance into it was by a slight flight of crazy steps on the outside. The election was progressing— several thousands of persons in the court house yard and immediate neighboring streets and I was standing on Gadsby's step when the father of his country drove up, and immediate!}' approached the court house steps and when within a yard or two of them, I saw eight or ten good looking men, from different directions, certainly without the least concert, spring simultaneously, and place themselves in positions to uphold and support the steps should they fall in the General's ascent of thetn. I was immediately at his back, and in that position entered the court house with him —followed in his wake through a dense crowd to the polls—heard him vote—returned with him to the outward crowd— heard him cheered by more than two thousand persons as he entered his carriage— and saw his departure. "There were five or six candidates on the bench sitting and as the General approached them, they arose in a body and bowed smilingly and the salutation having been returned very gracefully, the General immediately cast his eyes towards the registry "of the polls, whenCol. Deneale (I think it was) said-—"Well, General, how do you vote Xue General lo.oked at the candidates, and said,—"Gentlemen, I vote for measures, not for men and turning to the recording table, audibly pronounced his vote—saw it entered—made a graceful bow, and retired."

Jesuitism in High Places. We find the following communication the Now York Express To the Editor of the Xew York Express

NEW YORK, June 20, 1855.

By the examination of Mr. Postmaster Kendall, of Now Orleans, the fact has become known that our government employs spies and secret agents, whose business it is to break and violate the sacredness of the private seal. Of such proceedings in that Department I do not recollect to have heard, until a wily jesuit coadjutor was appointed head and general of it and yet after the fact becomes universally known arnong us, I am astonished to see the lethargy of our citizens in the matter. Not a single voice of indignation is raised, except by a few editors through their columns.— Why do not our merchants, mechanics and leading professional men, who are all alike interested in this matter, hold indignation meetings in all parts of the Union, and publicly denounce this mode of Jesuit espionage, arousing the people to a full knowledge of the outrage committed upon their most sacred rights, by a set of Papal minions, in direct league with the despots of Europe. Appoint Committees to wait on President Pierce, and make him understand that it is the wish and desire of the American People that this espionage must be discontinued. The originators and abetors of this nefarious system must be removed from office. It is come to' a pretty pass, indeed, in these United States, that Jesuit Priests, through their coadjutors, can fearlessly break the sacred seal,, possess themselves of the secrets of political parties, and private families, thus the more effectually to thwart all plans opposed to their ssjeret schemes and machinations. Are the people, after becoming acquainted with the fact, to submit tamely? I hope that effectual steps will soon be taken, by influential partica, throughout the Union, to have a stop put to this scheme and to remove from offices of trust and profit all who were vile enough to be parties to-such a transaction*

THE LATE A? ros LAWRENCE OF BOSTON.—The Boston Transcript gives a brief sketch of the Diary and Correspondence of the late Amos Lawrence, which has been printed for private distribution among the friends of the deceased: The Diary says ." "1 have never in my life smoked a cigar never chewed but one quid, and that before I was fifteen, and never took an ounce of snuff."" In 1807 he came to Boston with §20 in his pocket, feeling as he says, "richer than I had ever felt before or have felt since," and he gave the neighbor who drove him to the city $2 of his $20. During the first seven years of his mercantile life, he never allowed a bill to stand unsettled over the Sabbath. He kept an accurate account of the merchandize bought and sold each day, avoiding excessive credit- and practiced the most rigid economy, he never, as he says, "allowing himself to spend a fourpence for unnecessary Objects till he had acquired it." During the first year he made £1,500, and the second 84,000. In Jan,, 1808, his whole profits were §175 but at successive,intervals of six years from that time lie became worth (1814) $60,000, (1820} 8111,000, (1821) $280,000, and (1832) 427,000. In 1829, Mr. Lawrenco

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commenced a memorandum book, (continued to his death, Dec. 30,1852, containing a statement of all his donations, in money, or other articles charged at the cost. They, within this period, amounted to §639,000, £tnd added to his prior unrecorded charities probably make a total of seven hundred thousand dollars

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If wo were called upon to describe Mrs. Dobbs, \*e should, without hesitation, call her a sympathising woman. Nobody was troubled with any malady she hadn't suffered. She knew all about it by experience, and could sympathize with them from the bottom of her heart.

Bob Turner was a wag, and when one day he saw Mrs. Dobbs coming along the road towards his house, he knew that, in the absence of his wife,"he should be called upon to entertain her, and he resolved to play a little on the good woman's abundant store of sympathy.

Hastily procuring a large blanket, he wrapped himself up in it, and threw himself on a sofa near by. "Why, good gracious Mr. Turner, are you sick?" asked Mrs. Dobbs as she saw, his position. "Oh, dreadfully groaned the imaginary invalid. "What's the matter "Oh a great many things. First and foremost, I've got a congestion of the brain. "That's dreadful," sighed Mrs. Dobbs. "1 came pretty near dying of it ten years come next spring. What else?" .w "Dropsey," again groaned Bob. "There I can sympathize with you. I was troubled with it, but finally got over it." "Neuralgia," continued Bobi "Nobody can tell, Mr. Turner, what I've suffered from Neuralgia. Its an awful complaint." "Then, again, I am very much troubled by inflamation of the bowels." "If you've got that, I pity you," commented Mrs. Dobbs "for three years steady I was affected with it, and I don't think I've fully recovered yet." "Rheumatism," added Bobb. "Yes, that's pretty likely to go along with neuralgia. It did with me." "Toothache," suggested Bob. "There have been times, Mr. Turner, said ^e. empathizing woman, "when I thdiigfit I Should have gone distracted witb the toothache."

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"Then," said Bob, who, having temporarily run out of his stock of medical terms, resorted to a scintific name, "I'm very much afraid that I've got the tethyasaurus.' "I shouldn't be at all surprised," said tlvc ever-ready Mrs. Dobbs "I had it when I was young."

Though it was with groat difficulty that he could resist laughing, Bob continued. "I am suffering a great deal from a sprained ankle." "Then you can sympathize with mo, Mr. Turner. I sprained mine when I was coming along." "But that isn't the worst of it." "What 1 it ubl ei Mrs. Dobbs, with curiosity. "I wouldn't tell any one but you, Mrs. Dobbs, but the fact is," here Bob groaned, "I'm afraid and the doctor agrees with me, that my reason is affected that, in short, I'm a little crazy."

Bob took breath, tfnd wondered what Mrs. Dobbs would say to that. "Oh, Mr. Turner, is it possible exclaimed the lady. ."It's horrible I know it is. I frequently have spells of being out of my head myself!"

Bob could stand it no longer he burst into a roar of laughter, which Mrs. Dobbs taking for a precursor of a violent paroxysm of insanity, she was lead to take a hurried leave.

Why there is no Rain in Peru. In Peru, South America, rain is un known. The coast of Peru is within the region of perpetual south-east trade winds Though the Peruvian shores are on the verge of the great South Sea boiler, yet it never rains there. The reason is plain. The south-east trade winds in the Atlantic Ocean first strikes the water on the coast of Africa. Travelling to the north-west, they blow obliquely across the ocean until they strike the coast of Brazil. By this time they are heavily laden with vapor, which they continue to bear along across the continent, depositing it as they go, and supplying with it the scOurces of the Rio de la Plata, and the southern tributaries of the Amazon. Finally they reach the snow capped Andes, and here is wrung from them the last particle of moisture that veiy low temperature can extract. Reaching the summit of that range, they now tumble down as cool and dry winds on the Pacific slopes beyond. Meeting with no evaporating surface, and with no temperature colder than that to which they are subjected on the mountain tops, they reach the ocean before they become charged with fresh vapor, and before therefore, they have any which the Peruvian climate can extract. Thus we see how the tops of the Andes become the reservoir froni which arc supplied the rivers of Chill and Peru.—Lieut. MaK-

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Durimg the early part'of the growth of tomatoes, the surface of the soil should be frequently disturbed. When they have set their fruit they may be shortened, and it may be deferred until the fruit is of half size, when it may be readily observe'Vl that 90 per cent, of the fruit is within 18 inches of the ground, while 90 per cent, of the vine or bush is beyond that distance.— The vine, therefore, should be trimmed to within a half an inch of the tomatoe nearest the end of each branch.--— The remaining portionwill be greater in weight and measure than if the vine had not been shortened in. Tomatoes are also

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TWO ARRIVALS FROM CALIFORNIA.

LARGS YIELD of GOLD!

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IJNTSAN FRAXCISCO."

Serious Accident on the Panama Railway*

NEW YORK, June 25.—The steamer Geo. Law, with advices from San Francisco to* the 2d inst., arrived at this port this morning. She brings 81,052,000 in gold on freight, and 714 passengers,

The last train, when carrying the passengers across the Isthmus Railway, and as it was descending the summit level, tho coupling of one of the forward cars broke, causing a space between the forward and hinder cars, and, upon the signal being given to stop, the forward cars were stopped, but the hindmost ones continued to run with unabated velocity, and ran into the foremost one, causing a general smash. Three of the cars were badly injured, and a man named Samuel Anderson, of Jefferson Countv. N. Y., who was sitting on tho piatform of one of the cars, was instantly killed.

The steamship Star of the West, from San Juan, has also arrived. She brings $625,000 in gold and five hundred passengers. This steamer connected with the steamer Pacific, which left San Francisco on the afternoon of the 1st inst.

The British steam frigate Buzzard, and the French steamer Acheson, were at San Juan, waiting, it is said, the arrival of the Kinney expedition, jr:

Four hundred ounces of gold were deposited at the San Francisco Mint during eight days.

The reported defalcation of Angus Trierson, of the banking house of Wells, Fargo & Co., proves to be correct. The amount of his thieving is set down at 177,000.

The affairs of Adams & Co. are beforo the courts, and it will be dccided, it is tho't, that the firm is entitled to the benefit of the insolvent law.

Sanders, the forger, has gone to China. At a meeting of the creditors of Page, Bacon & Co., held on the 29th ult., C. K. Garrison pledged himself in the sum of four hundred' thousand dollars to support the house, by way of securing the creditors, and staying further legal proceedings The proposition gave general satisfaction, and the creditors were looking forward with renewed hope of being finally indemnified.

On the 18th ult.:, the entire block of buildings bounded by Davis, Front, Commercial, and Secramento streets, was nearly destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at 3750,000.

The papers record an unusual number of large "strikes" among the Miners. Bnsinees at San Francisco continued,dull, without any important change in prices of the leading articles.

The municiple election in San Francisco took place on the 28th ul(. James Van Ness (dem.) was elected Mayor by 654 majority. Four K. N. Aldermen were elected, and five K. N. Assistsnt Aldermen. Five on the general ticket are democrats, and four K. N.'s. The election passed off quietly.

The mining news from the various parts of the State is most encouraging, and the amount of gold being taken out is larger, it is thought, than at any previous time.

The Mammoth Ocean Steamer. The new steamer Leviathan, which is now being constructed in London, promises, when finished, to be the wonder of tho age. To grasp the idea of a vessel measuring more than an eighth of a mile in length with a capacity of twenty thousand tons and room enough besides, for four thousand passengers with all their luggage, certainly requires some mental efforts but to conceive of such a monster grappling with wind and tide, and triumphantly forcing its way through the mighty billows of the Atlantic, becomes' a task quite sufficient to stagger any ordinory intellect, and more than sufficient to exhaust the faith of tho most credulous. If the Leviathan shall bo able to show a full list of passengers for her first visit to our shores it will certainly appear that the people of this day have more confidence in art and science, (lian their ancestors whom Fulton attempted to "humbug" with his "foolish invention." But science has acliicved so ranch since the timo of Fulton, that any want of faith in the success of this groat enterprise, would smatter of "old fogyism." nevertheless, in view of the fact that the sea has away of knocking to pieces sometimes, vessels of all sizes and leaving no possible way of escape for humanity, a little hesitation in a matter of this kind, is pardonable.

The engines of the Leviathan, although said to be of 2000 horse power, will in reality be capable of being worked up to 10,000 horse power. The united strength of 10,000 horses would seem to be power enough to move a small size globe and if not such an one as ours, at least an asteroid. It is confidently predicted that, notr withstanding tho great length of this steamer, she will be enabled to pass through tho water ui an average speed, in all weathers,, of nfteen knots an hour, and with a smaller power in proportion to tonnago than ordinary vessels require to make ten knots. The contract speed of most mailcarrying steamers is eight knots. A ship of this huge capacity can carry 12,000 tons of coal quite sufficient, it is stated, for her outward ond homeward voyages. She will be launched, unlike any other ship, broad-? side on the water, by means of hydraulic power, and early-in next spring is expected to make a trip to-the'United States andrba^ck iii.a fortnight.—Baltimore American

BACHELORS will please take notice to thiir sentiment:—If our Maker thought

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