Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 14 February 1856 — Page 1

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•e,„. (By Request.) The Celestial Hailroad. The way to heaven by Christ was made.

With heavenly strand the vails were laid, From earth to heaven the line extend*, To life eternal where it ends.

CHORUS.

We're going home, we're going home. We're going home to die no more, To die no more, to die no more, We're going home to die no more.

Repentence is the station then, Where passengers are taken in. No fare is there for them to pay, For Jesus is himself the way.

We're going home, &o.

The Bible is the engineer, That points the way to heaven EO clear, Through tunnels rough and dreary here, That does the way to glory Btear.

We're going home, &c.

God's word the fire, truth is the steam, That drives the engine and the train, All those who would to glory ride, Must come to Christ, in him abide.

We're going home, fec.-

Dome then poor sinner now's the time, At any station on the line, If you'll repent and turn from Bin, The train will stop and take you in.

We're going home, &c.

Eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard,? For so deelares God's holy word, The joys which are prepared for you, Who in this ca.i to glory go.

We're going home, fcc.

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EIGHTY YEARS A PRISONER.—A tough and hard old fellow recently passed through Lyons, France, oil his way to Savoy, his native country. No less than eighty years 'ago, when he /was forty-one, he was sentenced to the French gallies for life, for •fl6me erime., At the commencement of our Revolution, being then a middle-aged man, he was shut out from the world. The othVr day 'he was released at the age of one hundred and twenty-one. No cause is assigned, but the

probability is that the Gov-

ermkent thought that he had worked out more than a natural life in the gallies, and t^l6"w^"p8sr4pitfg any harm. It is 6aid that he has si! little property in Savoy, the interest oft which has been accumulating exactly on* hundred years, or since he arrived at this age Of twenty-one. The old felioW, enjoys perfect health, although he stoops so much that his face nearly toiich?«B hisfcoeesr

Sox$e chap "dow» ^aat" has discovered 'the li&eijffhe jfolppgedafcpld snap. He,

he forgot to shut the back door after mm.

The Condition of the Allies—Siege of Sebastopol. Mr. R. S. Roberts, a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army, publishes a very able communication upon the siege of Sebastopol, in the New York Herald, from which we make tho following extracts. He says

The climactnres of the siege wc will sura up in a few words as the conclusion of this critique. It has cost the allies, in the personnelI of war, a larger army, than the invading hosts of Napoleon 1., in his disastrous campaign against Moscow. That fa(tal march, memorable for the magnitude I of its cost and the proportions of its woe, did not exceed in horror the miseries of the past year's campaign in the Crimea. Did I that more irrevocably seal the fate of Napoleon 1. than this latter lias the. doom of

Napoleon III. The draw upon the energies of England, France and Turkey has exceeded all former wars. They have not now a surplus population to fill up their ranks without the ruin of the interest of commerce and agriculture at home. War that destroys industry and trade at home cannot be energized abroad. Colonization and emigration have purged Gfeat Britain and France of the class of men who had borne their standards in former wars, while God has smitten Turkey with every national plague that wastes a nation's resources and dilutes its strength for war. Not one of these nations, straining to the utmost tension its last war sijiew, can fill up the thinned ranks which the missils of.war have plowed through on the gory fields before Sebastopol.

Turkey is already the spoil of the allies the cross is on every mosque in Constantinople. The 'sick patient' is dead The coroner's verdict will soon be returned,— 'Died of the diseese of war and the help of England and France.' The verdict is sound, but its brevity and truth would have been mended in these words: 'Died of the act of God.' His probate of will for partition is already in court Napoleon III. and Victoria Regiua the royal auditors and executors. These kind allies already publicly deliberate on the expulsion of the Turks from Europe, not even securing by any guarantee Mussulman sovereignty in Asia. This is tho restoration of the equilibrium of Europe To prosecute this holy consummation, France and England unsheathed their Christian swords, and have filled all Europe with voices of woe. Alexander II. excepts to the hearing of the probate of will of the 'sick patient' out of his own bailwick' and gives notice that at the next year's term he will be in Constantinople in person for the further prosecution of his right to take, as 'sole heir by conquest.'

LORD BROUGHAM.—It is said this distinguished individual, lately* in a playful mood, wrote the following epitaph on himself:— "Here, reader, turn your weeping eyes,

My fate a useful moral teaches. The "hole in which my body lies Would not contain my speeches." Talking of epitaphs, we once heard of an odd genius who left directions to bestow his mortal remains in a cozy little corner of a country churchyard, and to inscribe upon the tombstone "Here I lie

Snug as a bug In a rug."

A neighbor of his djnng soon after, requested to be buried near the remains of his former acquaintance, and desired to have upon the marble slab which marked his resting place, this sentence "Here I lie,

Much snugger Than that other bugger."

There is in the Green Mountain State a plain marble slab that marks the restingplace of one Samuel Armsbury. He was aged at his death, arid had it not been for rum he would have been called worthy, and no doubt been distinguished. For years he was known far arid wide as "Uncle Sam." Once while intoxicated he wrote the following epitaph which was subsequently inscribed on his tombstone: "Between these two stones

Lies Uncle Sam's bonos, W"ho never did no good but evil, He lived like a hog And died like a dog And he now rides post for the devil.'

LATER FROM HAYTI.—From Capt. Darnaby of the schooner Ellen, which leftPort au Prince on the 1st of January, the Philadelphia Exchange has received advices fully confirmatory of the previous accounts of the defeat of the Haytiens, with the loss, of between 200 and 300 soldiers with many of his best officers, besides all his munitions of war, provisions, and the Emperor's military chest, containing all the funds intended for the prosecution of the war.

Faustin I. had marched 30,000 men against the eastern side of the island, and his, defeat is represented as most complete.

Captain D. states that Faustin had escaped from the battle-field, but his place of refuge was unknown, and General Santander had offered a reward of 10,000 doubloons for his head. So great was the feelings against him, :that it was the general opinion of the inhabitants of Port au Prince that, if his sable majesty, escaped falling into the hands of the Spaniard, he would be shot by his own people.—Phil. ledger.

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SHAWLS.—Brister, of. the Newark (O.) Times discourses On the sights of Christmas eve, as seen in that city, and thus describes one of them: 'We saw one fellow* who was as corpulent as a pair of tongs, hide his body in a sh*wj,. whij[e his Iqng attenuated legs creaky ed mournfully as he walkajfe fgr a £gttf$oat to protect them from the freezing blast.'

VOL- VIII.-NO. 26} CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA, FEBRUARY 14, 1856.

An Ingenious Marriage Letter. We find the following admirable letter in Holdcn's Dollar Magazine, by a lady of great literary distinction, to her cousin— who now graces one of the most honorable official stations in the Empire State—on the eve of his marriage, and accompanied by a pair of blue mixed stockings, knit by herself, as a present.

DEAR COUSIN :—Herewith you will receive a present of a pair of woolen stockingR knit by ray own hands, and be assured dear coz. that my friendship for you is as warm as the material, active as the fin-ger-work, and generous aa the donation.

But I consider this present as peculiarly appropriate on the occasion of your marriage. And I will remark in the first place, that there are two individuals united in one pair, who are to walk side by side, guarding against coldness, and giving comfort as long as they last. The thread of their texture is mixed, and so, also, is the thread of life. In these, however, the white predominates, expressing my desire and confidence that thus it will be with the color of your existence. No black is used, for I believe your lives will be wholly free from the black passions of wrath and jealousy. The darkest color is blue, which is excellent, where we do not make it too blue.

You will perceive that the tops of these stockings (by which I suppose courtship to be represented,) "are SEAMED, and by means of seaming are drawn into a snarl, but afterwards comes a time when the whole is made plain, and continues to the end and final toeing off. By this, I wish to take occasion to congratulate yourself, that you are thro' with seaming, and have cometo plain reality. Again as- tho whole of these comely stockings was not made at ,once, but by the addition of one little stitch after another, put in with skill and discretion until tho whole presents the equal piece of work which you see, so life does not consist of one great action, but millions of little ones combined, and so may it.be with you. No stitch dropped when duties are to be performed—no widening made where bad principles arc to be reproved, or economy to be preserved, neither seaming nor narrowing where the truth and generosity are in question. Thus every stitch of life made right and set in the right place—none either too tight or too loose thus may you keep on the smooth and even course, making existence one fair and consistent piece —until, together, having passed the heel, you come to the toe of life, and here in the final narrowing off, and dropping the coil of this emblematical pair of companions and comforting associates, nothing appears but white, the token of innocence and peace, of purity and light—may you, like these stockings, the final stitch being dropped, and the work being completed, go together from the place where you were formed to a happier state of existence a present from earth to heaven.

Hoping that these stockings and admonitions may meet a cordial reception, I remain in the true blue friendship, seemly, yet without seeming, yours from top to too.

VIRGINIA EXCITED. Resolutions have been introduced into the House of Burgesses of Virginia, prohibiting a man named Parsons from answering in the Pennsylvania Courts, where he is charged with kidnapping. The resolutions provide that Virginia shall pay the costs and fines, and that in the event of future arrests on this charge, any Pennsylvania citizen, or his property in Virginia, may be seized and held till the Virginian shall be released. This is not the first time that Virginia has legislated against the interests and liberties of Pennsylvanians. She has an oyster law, the pains and penalties of which she inflicts upon every adventurous maratitue son of Penn who wanders to the Chesapeake in the pursuit of the honest calling of dredging for the bivalves. As this is within her own territory, perhaps it is all right enough to interpose obstacles to industry and enterprise, but when she wanders out of Virginia, and attempts to overawe the Pennsylvania Courts and Legislature, she is clearly out of her province, and should be taught a lesson that such interference in our domestic concerns is not allowed to foreigners. If she passes the law she contemplates, she should hot be surprised to see a fleet of Pennsylvania oyster boats and duckers in her waters terrifically bombarding her canvass-backs and laying dreadful waste to her oyster beds. Let her remember how tho chivalric Briton, in the war of 1812, plundered her hen-roosts and sacked her barns. This is nothing to the devastation that would be committed by a Quaker in his wrath, and fighting for the honor of his State, as well as his own personal liberty and property.—Phil. Ledger.

A lawyer's Appeal.

May it please the C«urt and Jury, from the snow clad summits of Ararat, where, for thousands of years, Noak's ark has reposed in lonely grandeur, to the soft cerulean isles of the Grecian Archipelago, has the name of my client extended his forefathers fought at the Nile, and danced juda on the top of Bunker Hill yet these witnesses have the infernal audacity to say he stole them eggs. Why, my client has soared aloft on the wings of his own stupendous and glorious intellect higher, had cot this tribe of perjured men tried to make him fall like a hickory saw log in a mill pond but the Court knows, I know, and all nature knows, that a man of his gorgeous magnificence could not be guilty of stealing eggs, and even if he did steal them, they were as rotten as Denmark, and had enough smell to stock a dozen pole-cats with perfumery for a year. Gentlemen the evidence is not worth reviewing,, consequently Ishallclose my appesiJtby informing you that if yoji jlo. not acquit: my client

"THE UNION. THE UNION IN ANY EVENT.'

Great Stampede of Slaves {—Dreadful Tragady! About ten o'clock on Sunday, a party of eight slaves, two men, two women, and children, belonging to Archibald K. Gaines and John Marshall, of Richwood Station, Boone co., Ky., about sixteen miles from Covivgton, escaped from their owners.— Three of the party are father, mother and son, whose names are Simon, Mary and Robert, the others aro Margaret, wife of Robert, and her four children. The three first are the property of Marshall, and the others of Gaines.

They took a sleigh and two horses belonging to Mr. Marshall, and drove to the river bank, opposite the foot of Western Row, where they left them standing in the road, and crossed over to this city on the ice. They were missed a few hours after their flight, and Mr. Gaines, springing on a horse, followed in pursuit. On reaching the river shore, he learned that a resident had found tho horses standing in the road as above stated, nearly dead from the hard dri ve that they had experienced, and half frozen with cold. He then crossed over to to this city, and after a few hours dilligent inquiry, he learned that his slaves were in a house about a quarter of a mile below the Mill Creek Bridge, on tho River road, occupied by negro named Kite, a son of Joe Kite of infamous notoriety. He proceeded to the office of U. S. Commissioner John L. Pendry, and, procuring the necessary warrants, with U. S. Deputy Marshal Ellis, and a large body of assistants, went at once to the place where his fugitives were concealed. It is as well here to state that Kite had been formerly owned in the neighborhood of Richwood Station, and was purchased from bondage by his father. On reaching the house, Major Murphy, a neighbor of Gaines, .and who was acquainted with Kite, called on him to open the door, and said that resistance would be useless. This Kite agreed he would do, but delayed so long that the officers attempted to force it open, when a window was suddenly thrown up, and one of the negro men, Robert, presented a pistol and fired. The ball wounded Mr. Patterson, a resident of the 4th ward, who had been deputised to assist in the arrest. He was standing in front of the window, and observing the intention of the negro, threw up his hand at tho precise moment the pistol was fired. The bullet cut off one of his fingers, and then struck him in the mouth, inflicting a severe flesh wound.— A second party of officers came tip, and the doors' were forced open, and after a short but desperate resistance tho slaves were secured but not until Robert had fired three times, but without effect. After the conflict was over, a bloody and melancholy spectacle presented itself. One of the slave children was discovered lying on the floor with its head nearly severed from its body two others, boys, aged about four and five yeais, were bleeding from wounds in the neck and head, and an infant in the arms of Margaret had its head much swolen and was bleeding quite freely at the nose. The officers state that Simon and Mary, the eldest of the party made no resistance, but that Robert, and .Margaret fought with the ferocity of tigers, and that during the affray, she struck her infant on the head with a fire shovel, in the opinion of many with the intention of taking its life.

The captives as soon as arrested, were placed in express wagons, and driven rapidly to the office of the U. S. Marshal, on 4th st., between Main and Walnut, followed by a large crowd of excited people.

Application was made to Judge Burgoyne for a writ of habeas corpus, to bring the slaves before him, which was granted. A hearing of the case will be had on ..Wednesday, (to-day.)—Gin. Com.

The Sheriff Triumphant—The Negroe's in Jail. At 8 o'clock last evening the negroes were peaceably removed from the U. S. court room to the county jail, where they remain. Jailor McLean informs us that the Sheriff has entire custody of their persons—that the Marshal can obtain them only by consent of the Sheriff. The prospect for an exciting time this morning is immense. The people are becoming inter* ested.

A conflict between the State and United States Government seems inevitable. It may be averted. We hope it will. Rumor says that Judge Burgoyne has gone to Columbus to consult Governor Chase in reference to the matter. This story, however needs confirmation. We await with anxiety, the developments of the morning. f[Cm. Col.

Democratic Platform.

The Columbus Independent, after reviewing the platform of the Democratic party in this State, and their candidates, sums up the whole matter as follows: 1. The pro-slavery party pledges itself to the extension of slavery. ,..... 2. It pledges its protection to the unlimited traffic of whiskey 3. It proclaims that mortality and religion are secondary to politics. 4. It puts forth as standard bearers, at least four revilers of religion. 5. It makes war upon church organizations which it cannot use as a screen for its abominations, through its accredited a a 6. It in tend^ to reward. John u. Robinson, who glories in'his infamy .and hatred of Christianity, wish the United States feenatorship^t i' •7.. It refuses to establish or to support a oommon^schoot system, so,that the doming generation will become a vicious and ignorant as the presentf 6. Its members, as school jtrusteeSiJhave fpshiddeji in Edinburgh^! and lother places the reading of the Bible iri sebtxofc without note or co'irimerit.

Distinguished Men will Differ—Perkins vs. the President. "The Court knows, and is capable of judicially asserting the fact, that the use of beer and liquors as a beverage is not necessarily hurtful, any more than the use of lemonade or ice-cream."—Judge Perkin's Decision.

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"Being satisfied from observation and experience as well as from medical testimony, that ardent spirits as a drink is not only needless \m$hurtful, and that the entire disuse of it would tend to promote the health and virtue and the happiness of the community, we hereby express our conviction that should the citizens of the United States, and especially the young men, discontinue entirely the use of it, t.hay would not only promote their own personal benefit, but the benefit of our country, and the world.

JAMES MADISON, "ANDREW JACKSON, JOHN Q. ADAMS,

M. VAN BUREN,JOHN TYLER, JAMES K. TOLK, Z. TAYLOR, M. FILLMORE, FRANKLIN PIERCE."

The foregoing documents, framed, may be seen hanging up in the public Reading Rooms Washington City.

An Easy Death.

Messrs. Goodwin and Loyburne, who made so narrow an escape from death in the Gasometer, last week, have entirely recovered from the effects of the poisonous air. They have not exactly arisen from the dead to tell us the sensations of the dying, but they give us an experience which leaves no doubt that those who desire "to shuffle off this mortal coil," cannot find a pleasanter method than by getting into a Gasometer, from which the poisonous air has been imperfectly exhausted. Goodwin and Leyburne remained unconscious for hours after they were rescued, and made no other signs of life than a spasmodic gasping for breath, at long intervals. Both were ghastly spectacles, and few who saw them supposed they could be resuscitated. Violent friction was resorted to, among other restoratives, but both of them say that they have no recollection whatever of anything that transpired after they entered the Gasometer, until their restoration to consciousness nearly -three hours afterwards. Of the sense of suffocation they know nothing. Existence during that period of painful suspense to surrounding friends, was then a total blank. Had life not been restored, they would have known nothing more of what may be supposed to be the fearful agonies of death.—Ackron Beacon.

Extraordinary Needle Case. The West Chester [Pa.] Examiner says "We published a few weeks ago an article relative to a young woman about 19 years of age, in Warwick township, Chester Co., who had fifteen needles extracted from her foot. Marvellous as the circumstance was regarded at the time, the truth has not all been told./ .Since the first needles were removed, twenty-five more have been extracted from the same foot, and one surgeon who operated informs us that he thinks there are some ten or fifteen more yet imbedded in the foot. Dr. Heckel informs us that the needles lie in and around the instep, and that the points having worked to the surface, they are easily extracted by forceps. In some instances an incision was made, and the needles removed. Tho limb does not appear very sensible to pain. The young woman alleges that some ten years ago she jumped or stepped on a needle cushion, and that the needles entered her foot and have since remained there—causing no pain until recently.

Selections for a Newspaper.

Most people think the selection of suitable matter for the newspaper the easiest part of the business. How great an evror! It is by all means the most difficult. To look over and over hundreds of exchange papers every week, from which to select enough for one, especially when the question is not what shall be selected, is no easy task. If every person who reads a paper, could have edited it, we should hear less complaint. Not unfrequently it is the case that an editor looks over all his exchange papers for something interesting and can absolutely find nothing. Every paper is drier than a contribution.bo.x, ami yet something must bo had his paper must come out with something in it, and he dees the best he can. Tp an editor who has the least care about what b£ selects, the writing that he has to do is the easiest part of his labor. Every subscriber thinks the paper is printed for his own benefit and if there is nothing in it that suits him, it must be stopped it is good for nothing.—: Just as many subscribers as an editor may have, so many tastes he has to cousult.— One wants something sound. One likes anecdotes, fun and frolic and the next door neighbor wonders that a man of good sense will put such stuff in his paper-— Something spicy comes out, and the editor is a blackguard. Next comes something argumentative and the editor is a fool. And so, between them all, you see the poor fellows get roughly handled.— They never think what does not please them may please the next man but they insistj if the paper does not please them it is good for nothing.— Washington City Globe.,

Ex-Sheriff Yates, of Kane county, lias been about 200 miles west of Dubuque, in Iowa, and got blockaded there by tlie late c:old Weather. ,He improved the time by taking a five day'shuritbn horseback, with a iingle rifle, arid returned With fifteen-elk .-Awl.njqq.diagjfr weighing, oyer 6,000 pouijds^

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Another Confidence Man.

On Tuesday last an honest, unsuspecting Gorman formed the acquaintance at the Chicago and Alton depot in this city, of a fellow countryman, who represented himself as the proprietor of a large manufactory at Blootnington, and engaged the services of tho first*at handsome wages.— As soon as the cars started the pseudomanfacturer borrowed of the other sixty dollars in paper money, for which gold was to be given immediately upon their arrival at Bloomington. -When the cars stopped at the Sangamon Bridge, both men stepped off the platform, and when the whistle sounded the employee only succeeded in regainining the cars, the Bloomington, man running after the train and waving his hat, almost frautic at the idea of losing his passage. Upon his arrival at Bloomington, tho German sought the manufactory of his employer, but of course no such person was ever known there, and yesterday the dupe returned to this city, vainly attempting to obtain a trace of his countryman who had swindled him.—Springfield Jour.

A BKMTTIFCL .THOUGHT.—Carlisle says,' "when I gaze into the stars they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Thousands of generations, all as noisy as our own, have been by time, and there remain no record of them any more j'et Arctures and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades are still .shining in thencourses, clear and young as when the shepherd first noted them from the plains.of Shina 'What shadows we are and what shadows we pursue."

PRETTY GOOD.^»An extensive and wealthy lumberman, in a neighboring county, is the father of a hard nut of a boy. Being desirous of reforming him, he offered as an inducement to give the avails of tho lumber, from two thousand hemlock logs, provided he would go to school and behave himself for one year. Young hopeful remmained silent for some time, after listening to the proposition. Finally, in reply to his father's interrogation, "What do you say, my son "Call it pine logs, father, and I'll go it."

Speaking against long prayers Elder Knapp says When Peter was endeavoring to walk upon the water to meet his Master, and was about sinking, had his supplication been so long as the introduction to some of our modern prayers, before he got half through, he would have hem fifty feet under water."

Benefits of Snow.

Snow is of great importance to vegetable life. Its peculiarly porous structure renders-it an exceedingly bad conductor of caloric and hence, when covering everything warm or cold, and differing in temperature from the snow itself or from the surrounding object, it requires a long period of time for the equilibrium to be restored.

If the earth becomes early covered with snow, and before the ground is frozen it will remain above the freezing point during the entire winter, even though the atmospheric temperature should go down many degrees below zero. So decided in its protection, that if the sod be penetrated with frost to the depth of several inches before the fall of snow comes on, the caloric of the subsoil will remove the frost, notwithstanding tho atmosphere has not at any time risen much above freezing point. We were, .when a boy, much puzzled at this phenomenon. The ground had been frozen like a stone, before the snow fell upon it, the weather continued niy wceks below freezing point and yet afterwards on removing the snow, the ground was found thawed out and easiiy removed with a shovel. Of course a boy's reason was given for this circumstance, viz: that tho snow was warm, and had thawed out the ground, instead of the true one, that its non conducting properties had intercepted the radiation of the heat from the lower strata of tho soil, and this acting on the upper stratum had .removed the frost.

Alpine plants, that outlive the severest winters of mountain districts because protected by snow, have perished in the comparatively warm climate of Englaiid fori want, of tuch protection. Wo had a good illustration of the geniui influences of snow in our own country last winter. The thermometer went down tp a point unprecedented in our history, being no loss than tsvsnly-twp .degrees below zero, a point not reached for sixty-seven years, and for how long a period previously, it is impossible to tell. Of course the^ peach crop was utterly ruined, and orchards which wore wont to yield hundreds of bushels ot splendid fruit produced this year nothing but leaves. At our Horticultural show, however, there were exhibited several magnificent specimen of peaches, which upon inquiry were found in every instance to have been produced upon limbs that had by a fortunate accident been bent down and covered with a snow drift. The temperature in their position did not probably fall to zero, and if they, could have laid upon the ground would barely have reached freezing point-. The earth at this severe period was mantled with a heavy fall, and we trembled at the possible consequences which might havo ensued in case tho ground had been exposed and denuded.— As it was, the frost did not penetrate to an unsual depth, and-the wheat fields and the meadows came out in the spring fresh and green from their long winter slumbers.

A locality that experiences, abundant falls of snow* which cover the ground uniforjnly through the winter, will adtnit of the cultivation of many things that caff-, not be grown in other places with no lower temperature, but destitute of snow and, many countries would'be, without its, protecting influences mere regions of^waste and desolation.

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iVVIIOLE NO. 396

A MISSISSIPPI SCENE.

Love on a Steamboat—Seduction—Mar* riage—Boatmen's Justice. Th6 St. Loui3 Herald tells this story:

A week or so ago, tho good steamer Helen Mar no\V ice-bound at Rattlesnake landing, twenty miles below this city—' was the scene of one of those little romances which will sometimes oqcur in spite of life's dull realities. We state thfif facts as related to 11s by a passenger.

The Helen Mar was bound down thd Ohio for this city. At Paducah, a young man from Tennessee came aboard, and took passage in tho cabin. He was from the country, and, being away from home, With a "pocket full of rocks," he was not long in making tho acquaintance of all on board, from the firemen to the captain.—. Among tho passengers was a young girl of» seventeen, to whom tho Tennesseeari paid.1 marked attentions, and it was evident, that she was not indifferent to his blandishments.

The ice Was running thick in the river,' as th® Helen Mar turned her bow up tho Mississippi, and her progress was slow.—•' The young Tennesseean Would frequently join the circle gathered around the stove, but presently paid all his attentions to tho young lady. Presently, she seldom appeared in the ladies' cabin, and Iter step, recently as light as an antelope's, was heavy and slow her cheek was pale, and her eyes dim and swollen. Tears wero seen to steal from under her fringed eyelids, and it was whispered that sobs—deep,' heart-broken sobs of anguish and despair —-were heard from her state-room iu tho silence of the night when others slept.

The boatmen began to suspect that something was wrong they eanvassed the matter among themselves, and resolved upon an investigation. The frailer vessel being leakey, they determined to overhaul her and discover the cause. With that delicacy characteristic of Western boatmen, they said nothing to the girl herself, but called upon some of the lady passengers" to interrogate her.

The girl was young and artless. With tears and sobs she confessed she had yielded to the young man's importunities, and had fallen from virtue. She blamed him not, however, but took all.the blame upon' herself.

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It was about 10 o'clock at night when this fact was communicated to the crew and passengers composing the 'court of inquiry." They were not long in making up their verdict. Their decision was, that the" two crafts should be lashed together.

The Tennessean was arraigned before tho imperative tribunal, and made acquainted with the sentence. lie had to take tho girl or be left high and dry on a sand-bar, where he would freeze to death in less than an hour. He "caved in" at once—said ho was willing to do what was right, and would make the wronged lady mistress of his plantation in Tennessee. The girl's consent was also obtained and the next step was to find a "black-smith" to do the welding. There was no one on board author1 ized to officiate on such interesting occajsions, and about midnight the boat was landed at Chester, on the Illinois shore, and' a messenger dispatched to procure a parsoff or a Justice of the Peace. A Justice was found, jerked out of bed, and marched' down to the boat, rather against his will, and the other marriage ceremony in tho

Sucker State being exceedingly brief, tho deed was done in less than two minutes. Having piloted the two crafts safely into' port, and tied them up snugly together, tho jovial boatmen resolved to "have a night of it." Afcer drinking the'health of tho' bewildered justice they bent him ashore,, and reorganized the court as a board of commissioners to assess damages. The proceeding on this occasion wero of tho most mirth-provoking character. Our informant says they were indescribably amusing. Many proposals were made to inflict some ludicrous sort of penalty upon the bridegroom, and the speeches delivered were highly honorable to the bar of tho steamboat. It was finally agreed that the young man should pay a fine a ceriuus-ta* ker was appointed td count nctees, and a clerk to figure up the costs. The sentence was, that the happy fellow should pay foil? dollars and a half, in legal Illinois currency, (coon skins excluded,) to be expended in spiritual comforts for the benefit of tho honorable court. The finding of the court was announced with a preliminary "O, yes through the key-hole of his stateroom door, and he was ordered, under thr*«i*s of divers pains and penalties, to "sveii out.''

Tho last we heard of the newly married couple, they were snugly domiciled in elegant apartments at Barnum's St. Ijouis Hotel—having made the trip by land from the point where the Helen Mar was frozen in.

GIVE YOUE CHILD A PAPER.—A child beginning to read is delighted with a newspaper, bucau.se he reads names of things which are familiar, and will make progress accordingly. A newspaper in ono year is worth a quarter's schooling to a child, and every father must consider sub? stantial information connected with, advancement. The mother of a family being one of the heads, and having a more imi. mediate charge of children, shonld-herailf be instructed. A mind occupied becom9g fortified against the ills, of life, and is braced for any emergency. Children amused bjf reading an$ study are, more considerate, and easily governed. V'

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nouncement of the marriage^f R. W. Wolf to Mary L. Lamb.-wolf and the lamb shall lie down Together,' and a little child shall lead them'-'—~after awhile, .i

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