Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 31 March 1859 — Page 1

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•B11WPOH.IUM!

-Corner of Green & Slain Sts

i*]*ho only exclusive Boot und Slioe Store in

CEA WFORDS VILLE!

WhiFc^castomerf ean purchase not only every kind of article in the Boot and Shoe trade but at prices

LOWER THAN ANYWHRE ELSE

The great inducement we offer in our prices and. the beautiful quality and durability of our «ttck of Boots aud Shoe8 are such thatr eyery maa/Woman and child will save

TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT., Si'-, By trading at our establishmentva quarter of a dollar saved these times is an item that no,one ahould overlook. Being exclusive in the business and. with the best of facilities for doing business we are enabled to

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Aby or the Dry Goods Stores in town that sell Boots and Shoes. The following comprisesa list of our splendid stock of

BOOTS & SHOES

%T**dies' Kid,Congress Gaiters Xiace Gaiters _• Kid Slippsrs

®',eet ?nntCr' 'I' hV Wii' for 'be road and paid off a lar_e portion o: Bail Tickets, 100 copies, $4,00—to be ba.d toi

Horse mid Jack Bills. /.

For single Horse Bill $2—for cach additional Borsc on bill $1.

PARTICULAR NOTICE.

We wish it distinctly uuderstood, that we do no fret printing. All noticcs inserted in the ed itorial column will bo eharged at the rate of 15 cents per line. All Marriage, Obituary, Literary And Religious Notices, half the regular price.

BOOT AND SHOE

Kip Heeled Sh&cs .t .• .... ^. Calf Sewed Shoes .Sheep Skin Over-Shoes

Lasting jCongress Gaiters v^, Kid Buskins Calf Heeled Shoes

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..»« Goat Boois Bobber Over-Shoes t,. it Moccasins Fur and Cotton Lined Gfinte'. Calf Cork soled Boots

Single Dotibla Grained Boots

4i2ISii'-'Gloth Congress Gaiters #J«1P -Shoes s# Doubled soled Calf Boots -/«.. ..." ,.. #.» .Kip £i i'ur

Calf "Congress Gaiters ,,

f' Plaiji Calf Shoes V" iD^Connected wiUi the establishment is a Maniilat^tinng Department. /, All orders for Wor^execnte^with^oinptn^^d^smteh.',...:

DATOD KESTER.

#0LliEGE7^EXTJBOOKS, Avlttfieffeit Hook's used tn W^ash ColJege^A A"l.l^.Ichoqliin otherpat^ of th^e coaptry, on hanaand for aale^by^^ -F~ii- HEATOTs. sep 8,1858.] ^lMMlcOEtfiMain & Vernon. s!#saS'«

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.fe£fcind?Of Blttlik Booki from-a 5 ct memoran'4llto bo6k_to a l0 qiliite -Ledger ori Deed

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Fiom the Atlantic Monthly for April.

Ilirthday Tribute.^

BY THE "rilOFESSOR."

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-*Ve wilV*not speak-of yfeatsitd-night For what have years to bring, But larger floods of love and light

And sweeter songs to sing

^^laJi^rdy

The tin3!y thoughts that rise If friendship owns one tender phrase, He j-ciyij jt in our sycsC'^-jL

We need not waste our schoolboy art ?f| T^gild fchistn^tch^f time ^'i.f ^'Poi^ive ifWy w|yward^he(yt|-

Has thr^)bed*in artless mvnfe.V. ,? ,...

2 i^nbugh for.hiin•••tho silent grasp /, That knits us hand in hand, And he the bracelet's radiant clasp

Thafe-jocjks our circling band.

Strength to his hours of manly toil! Peace.to his-starlitdreams! "Who loves alike the furrowed soil,

The music-haunted streams!

Sweet smiles to keep 'orevcr bright The sunshine on his lips, And faith, tliat sees the ring of light

Rouibd iffature'i. la^t eclipse

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N. A. & S. RAILROAD. .j ,\j

The New-ia!bnnyj Ledger, of, Monday, 14ill inst./gTves tlie following statement of the condilion of the New Albany & Salem Railroad, sijloe it passed from original hands into the hands of a Trustee for the benefit of bondholders, "which shows tliat" tlie road is fast recovering from her embarrassments:

In October last the New Albany and Saiem Railroad passed out of the hands of the^oi%inal projectors and fctoekh6lders into the hands of the Trustee for theliondholders, pursuant to a decree of compromise betlveeo the parties itfsned by. Judge McLean of the U. S. Circuit Court. This by many arose durprogiess oi this great work, and which iexulted in tho financial embarrass-ment/of-^the road. This was .owing in part to the faHuro of the crops" alio the iinancial pressure of 1857—S.

When the present managers took chargo

the floating debt, they found the work to be one of greater magnitude than they had anticipated. In order to place the road on a par with well equipped roads, they found that time and money would be required.— Under the vigor and eneigy of the Superintendent, Col. Ricker, the work has been commenced, and we are happy to

Say

is progressing finely. Those who deemed it the woik of aday to rebuild the machine tdiops at New x\lbany and Lafayette to repair the decaying biidges to remove and icpiace thousands of cross ties and miles of temporary track to rebuild hall a dozen binnt locomotives and twice as rr.any passenger cars to provide for the necessary wear of the operating cars on the road, and to keep its departments in successful operation—those, we say, who expected to, see all this accomplished in a day, ought to have known better. Yet with all these draw-backs to contend agaiDst, no road east or west has better accommodated its freight and travel, or made better time or surer connections curing the past six months, than the New Albany and Salem. And in future the management contemplate still.greater improvements. During the srinuiier a rium ber of miles of the track will be rebuilt, new bridge erected, and the road in many placet) ballasted

There are now upon the road thirty three locomotives in operating order, besides several new ones in the course of construction at their machine shops here and in Cincinnati. We noticcd two engines which have just been tnrned out under the superintendence of Mr. Benjamin, master machinist of the New Albany shop, which, lor beauty of model and finish, will compare favorably with, eastern engines.— They have all the latest improvements, and are splendid specimens of mechanism.— Under the superintendence of Mr. Lanaham several new passenger cars have been constructed, and will be put upon the track in a few days. These, too, have all ,the latest improvements in springs, trucks, breaks,.wheels* and floors, that are found on the best eastern and English roads,"besides others by which add it ion al-security of life is' obtained, and the roughness aiid jar of the old cars are avoided. These cars are better ventilated than any we have seen.

The rebuilding of the machine shop burned last stimmer, which was comjmencv ed in the fall, was resumed to-day, and will be prosecuted to completion. The car and engine houses will also be finished forthwith.

These are some of the improvements completed and in progress, and if no unusual accident occurs, another year wrll see his- road second to none in the West in equipment and management.

Besidesrrbeseimprovements in the road, 'the manner of doing business in, the-offices has undergone a radical change. The many:abufies which have crept into the system of railroad management, by which the entire earnings in many- cases have been obsorbed by favorite's or squandered upon unwoithy objects, have been painful at least tQ thefe.itock^.M^.Jond^o^rs —. An admirable~sf*Btem oiTchecks up6n"em-

^ccfepirinhBTSlftid for sale aiWhcmnat^riccft, ^|Qvceg jiag been adopted-bv the officers of( ered to have about $40,600"at interest

this roj^jp^Eicli".will Have 'the effecrbf' retardii^ ifttd'thb treasury, all the earnings of the ro^J. We commend, this system to the attdtttfon of railroad officers generally.

Fiom CaNfrrnin by the Overland Mail. The Clverland Mail which leit San Fraa cisco on the 25th nit., arrived in St. Louis last evening. We .subjoin the. most interesting items of its news:

FATAL SNOW AVALANCHE.—Several avalanchaa of snowroccuned 'rih^ the sides of the Downieviiie Buttes, in Sierra coutity, on Thursday night last, and crushed or carried awtff Reis' quartz mill and

dwelling hggse jjear lieynolds.' mill...

:the

Henry Ebe»h.«^lt was killed,- and W. and W. were wounded.'all hayibg' beeti, in tlie dwetling at the time the av-i alauChe came.

George Reynolds is hiidly hurt By this deplorable 6ccurrcnce manV are SHJnvinded that, in the winter of 1852 two men were killed by an avalanche near the spot where Reynolds' quariz:Riill was af-i terwards erected.

The house waa torn entirely to piece?, but the mill was not injured.. AV. 0. Reynolds was thrown into the mill pit, and G. W. Reynolds was found, lying in his bed, which had been thrown sixty feet from where the house, stood, severely injured. James Phillips was in thelCompany's.bffic(?,'and: ho declares' that he was carried unhurt through a window.

It is hot known that Eberhardt was killed bat as he could not -be found, it itfems evident that he was deprived of life by the falling timbers. Sixty or seventy men are hunting for Eberhardt.—Alta, 23d.-

Tntt COLORADO New MIHES.—We havo bepn permitted to condense the following from a letter received here yesterday from a young man of our .'acquaintances—The information is perfectly reliable.— The. writer left this city about the 1st of January, in company with one or two others, for the Gila mines. This party has come back to the new diggings on the Colorado, whore in seven or eight days they had taken out §115 'They expected to* work out their claim in ten days, and thought they should be back here next month. Some few companies near them were at work for $1,50 a day. Very few intended to stay during the summer.— There was a great deal of rowdyism at the mines. -There was also talk of the Indians breaking out in the mines, and the miners had received a caution from the Port to be on their guard.—Loi Angelas Vineyard, 23d.

Tns: PACIFIC R.R.BILL—The news of the defeat in Congress, of the Pacific Railroad Bill, occasioned much dissatisfaction in San Francisco. The Bulletin of the 24th threatens in the following manner: "Continental neglect and'injustice must deaden the affection and allegiance which this State has ever, so far, keenly felt for the Confederacy. A new generation is rapidly growing up in this distant country, who will be bound by no habit of love for the old States, but who will examine the question of their political relations, with respect to their advantages, on their own merits solely."

The Alta says: Hang another chaplet of mourning upon the altar of our hopes ring down the curtains upon the last sad act of the times^ in which our own California plays so disgraced a part. Every man whose vote is recorded against this measure, "is a thousand fold worse than Benedict1 Arnold in treachery td!^i£native or adopted land," be his political predilections what they may.

SACRAMENTO ELECTION.—The' returns of the election in Sacramento county areibot all in,. h/H so far as .known,, Buncombe has 238'majority out of 3,000 votes polled.— The Republican candidate received only 350 votes.^--Alia, 23d^.

The Voice of the Whang-Doodle. A "whang doodle," hard shell preachwith this

er, wound tip a flaming sermon magnificent peroration: "My brethering and sister.nl ef a man's full of religion you can't hurt him! There was three Arabian children: they put'e in a fiery furnace, hetted seven times hotter than it could be bet, and it didn't singe a bar on their heads! And there was John the Evangelor: they put him—and where do you think brethering and sistern, they put himl Why, they put him into caladronic of billin' ile, and biled him all night,-and it didn't faze his shell! And there was Dan'el they put him into a lien's den—and what my fellow travelers, and respected auditories, do you think he was put into a liens den for? Why, for praythree times a day. Don't be alarmed brethering and sistern I don't think any of you will ever get into a lien's den!— Harper^ Magazine. j,-.

O N E E O O S

The lower floors of all the cellars of houses should be composed of a bed of concrete about three inches thick. This would tend to render them dry, and more healthy, and at the same time prevent rats from burrowing undelr the walls from the outside, and coming up undeF'tlie'floors— the metod pursued by these vermin where houses are erected on a sandy soil. This concrete should be made of washed gravel and hydralic cement. Common mortar mixed with pounded brick and washed gravel, makes a concrete for floors nearly as good as that formed with hydralic ce" ment. .-Such floors become very hard,. and are mnch cheaper than those of biick or flag stones, r""

JKSTln Wheeling, Va., an old man named McElroy, who has long been supported at the public expense, has beerii'tiiScov-

Later C^lifbriiia.

ARRlYAL OF THE QUAKER ClTY.

KEW/(3KLEAKS, M^qh. 22.—'The:.Steamship .Quaker City wi|hjj.late from Galiiotnia to the 5th inst., Kas arrived below.

The -0tfamship .^oriora arid Orizaba whichrniled an the ptb inst., took $1,500,000.|o t^eiiisprer to Panama. ..

Ba.dneM at San Francisco was good. Provi^iqiis active. Sugars had improycd. .. ...

A, grand.' volcanic eruption of Alannaloa on the SandwiuUjslands occured- on on the $3d of jannary, a whole village was by thg.lava. No lives swere lost.- ^wr.isruption was still active on the loth* nit.

Tlie Quaker City, famishes later intelligence froinrMexico-, but without date Miramoh was at. Orizaba

The defeat of a portion-

rof

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his army by

Siava is crtnfirmed. Degalladn was preparing to" [attack the Capitol. is nothing reliably now. «,

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A TERIFIC CAT FIGHT. The following poem, from the Saw Fran ciscb Golden' EraV is not only Hdmcric in style, 'bnt-^cpmprlete \n

r-itself,7for

it ends

with the total, annihilation of the combatants:

"On a pittis wood shed, in an f.dTey dark, where scatteredihoianbeams, sifting thro' a row of tottering chimneys and an awning tofn and drooping, fell,' strode back aiid forth, with still ahd tense drawn muscle and peculiar tread, a cat

His name iVas Nerval on yonder neighboring shed' his father canght the cats that came in squads from streets beyond Dhporit, in serch of food •Siird strange adventure.

Grim ^vir "he cbufted and his twisted tail, and spine upheaving in fantastic curve, aad claws distended, and ears flatly pressed against a. -h^ad thrown bacjv defiantly, to Id of-irapending strife.

With eyes agleamt:and screeching blasts of war,, and steps as, silent as the falling dew, young Norval o4pt along, the splintered edge, and gazed a raoment through the darkness down,: \vith a tail awag triumphantly: ,fThen with an imprecation and a growl— perhaps an oath in direst vengeance hissed —lie started backhand crooked in body like a letter S, or ra.ther like a inverted, stood in great expectancy. 'Twas well. With eye-balls glaring and ears all aslant, and ope^ ruo.uih in which two rows of fangs stiood forth in sharp and dread conformity, slow up a post from out the dark below a head appeared.

A dreadful tocsin of determined strife young Norval uttered then with face unblanched, and moustache standing straight before his nose, and tail flung wildly to the passing breeze, stepped back in cautious invitation:* to the foe.

Approaching the other, and, with preparation, dire, each cat surveyed the vantage of the field. Around they walked, with tails uplifted and backs high in air, while from their mouths, in accents hissing with consuming rage, dropped brief but awfiil sentences of hate.

Thrice round'the roof they wont in'circle ,, each with eye upon the foe intently bent the sidewise moving, as is wont with cats, gave one long-drawn, terrific, savage yaw, and buckled in.

The fur flew. A mist of hair hung o'er the battle field High 'bove the din of passing wagons rose the dreadful tumult of the struggling cats. So gleamed their eyes in frenzy, that to .me, who saw the conflict from the window near, natight else was plain but firey stars that moved iu orbits most eccentric.

An hour they struggle in tempeBtuous might, then faint and fainter grew the squall of war, until all sound was hnshed. Then weut I forth with lantern, and the field surveyed. What saw I?

Six. claws-—one ear—of teeth, perhaps, a handful: and, save fur, naught else except a solitary tail. That tail was Nor-vaF's-r-by a ring Tknew't. The ear was— but we'll let the,matter pass. That tail will do, without the ear.

^llfSSTA band of Gipsies are hovering about Shelbyville, as we leard from the Banner, playing some rather sharp tricks, one of which is thus related by that paper:

A farmer residing some miles north of this place was passing by their encampment, riding a large fine horse, which unfortunately wore a very unsaleable color.— The farmer was bantered foi' a trade, in which a small but very attractive animal was offered in exchange. A bargain wag closed by the farmer giving ten dollars "boot." The Gipsy learning the residence of hi« customer, in a few days went to see him, takiDg a fine dark brown horse which he proposed to trade,, as. he_ .was desirous of geUing his favorite animal back again. The exchange was made by the Gipsy getting twenty: dollars "'boot" this time."— In a fewrdays, the farmer discovered that he was in possession of his. old horse, under the guise of an artificial coat of color- %/.-

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"Gov. MEDARY A JAYHAWKEK.—Sara. jMedary is getting in bad order with the Border Hoffians, as the following-from the Westport^ Border Star al the 4th, wonld indicate:—• "It seems that Medary is in secret correspondense with .Yanghan and the leading kidnappers of the.Territory. and that they are,all working. together. This surprises some of our friends, but we are sorry to say .that we are not. at "all astonibhed We have heard enough of Mr. Medary's operations to be convinced tha the has gone over body, fioul and brewhes, ta tbe-jayhawk-ei'6."

Distructi^e Land Slide at Troy A.Jarid' slide topkTplftcein Tory on the 17th inst., involyng tlie almost entire,destruction of the building in the course of erection at the bejad of Washington street, near the base of Mt. Ida, known as St. Peter's college. The earth slid down with very little noise till it reached the re^r wall of the college.-^Here it was stopped for a moment, till,' gathering'.new strength, it burst the Barrier, and, with a sound like distant thunder, filled the building in a moment, demolishing beams, .link walls, partioflV and rcovering the entire cehtral part of the edifice. The front wall was also crushed in, but it sufficed to. stay the progress of the avalanche.

The Troy Whig mys. J.w The hill is how in a very dangerous state, and another avalanche' may now be apprehended to any moment?. The mountain is undermined and an immense mass of earth has little or no support. The occupants of many houses in the! vicinity have moved all their household goods to a place of safety.

Two iprcvious avalanches have occurred in this sam^ locality—i-one in 1837, and an other inl845. On thedast occasion a strip of the hill side rrinnihg from Liberty to Adams street, and abont nine hundred feet deep,, gave away with ft., terrific,crash.—1 Houses were demolished and covered, men overtaken and smothered while flying for life, and devastation aiid misery' visited upon tbo entire city. Men were engaged for a week in unearthing the reinaihs of the dead and rescuing the living from their h6rrid entombment. Women were found dead in their houses, with their babes by tiiftir sides, and old and young alike suffered a common fate."" Two cases we well rertiember. They were those of a woman who was standing over a stove. When lier body was found, it was evident that she had died from suffocation, and after death her body had been horribly burned and mangled by the stove and the coals it contained. A man was engaged in sawing wood in a yaid near the pressnt college site. When struck the taw was twisted under him iu such a manner that he fell upon it, ami his bpdy was found nearly cut in two by the instrument. '":No fears of another slide have been entertained for years, and the entire locality adjacent to the scene of the old avalanche is now densely populated. Naturally enough, tho occurrence of last night has created a great trepidation among the residents in the vici^ty.

Miraculous Escape of Three Children

The Pittsburg Dispatch records the unroofing of a building in that city during a late storm, and says:

At the time of the occurrence three of Mr. .Goodd-el's children, aged two, three and five years, were in a room at the extreme end of the second story of the ajoining building. The crash was alarming, and as soon as it was ascertained what had happened, and the extent of danger seen, it was feared that the children were killed. One of them was heard, crying, and the father, procuring a candle, went to the second story of the tavern, which communicates with the adjoining apartment. The door of the room in which the children slept was closed, and was with difficulty forced opened sufficiently to permit an entrance, owing to the timber pressing against it. Mr. G. entered the room, but his candle blowing out, he was unable in the dark to find the children. He returned to the main building, and enquired of the servant girl where they were. She stated that they were in the bed in the rear room. He returned to the apartment, and climbing over boards, scantling, jfeci, to the bed, he found it completely covered. He succeeded in taking the children from the bed, by jassisting them in crawling from beneath the wreck. They were blackened with spot, but strange to say were uninjured, except a slight scratch above the eye of the eldest. We visited the house on Saturday, and after the position of things in the room, felt that their escape was miraculous. The poNts of the bedstead in which they were sleeping wero forced through the floor, and the room was completely filled with bricks, scantling, boards, fec., twp heavy joists resting upon the bed. .. .. '-•»f vi:. -I ~t :s- ,* .Jt

EFFECT OF CLIMATE ON NATIONS• It is certain that excessively hot climates are unfavorable to the population, wealth, civ3izafion,,t refinement & general prosperity of nations for although the tropical zone abounds with delicious fruits and other aliments, it is deluged with rains for six months, attended with dreadful huricanes, and also parched with drouth during the remainder of the year, while the frequency of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions cause the overthrow of many cities and the destruction.of many thousand lives, not to mention the pestilential character of the atmosphere. Such is the deleterious influence of the torrid zone on the growth of population, that in the vast continent of Africa it does not exceed 57,000,000, or if we take the estimate of Balbi, 60,000,000, on a territory of 11,000,000, square mil|es, a large population of which is fouud above north latitude 30'degrees, where the mean temperature of the year varies from 78 to 98 degrees, and where considerable advances have been made in wealth, civilization, airts, sciences and social improvements, as in ancient Egypt, Carthage, and other Phoenician states.

Jeff"A clergyman was lately depicting before a deeply interested audience, the Alarming increase of intemperance,.,when he -astonished his hearers by 6aying: A young- woman.in my neighbprbopd ,?died very suti^enly last week, while I was preaching the .Gospel in a state of beastly

intoxication^

Sbrno are very busy,' and ye'i do nothing was in 1780, at 850 per annum.

FINDING FAULT WITH CHILDREN.

It is'at times necessay to censure and to punish. But very tnuch more may be done by encouraging them when they do well. Be, therefore, more carefull to express your approbation of good conduct, thah your disapprobation of bad. Nothing fart more disbnrage a child than a spirit of incessant faultfinding, on the part of its parent. And hardly'anything can exert a more injurious influence upon the disposition both of the parent and the child.—• There are two great motives influencing hnmati actions, hope and fear. Both of these .are at times necessary. But who would not prefer to have her child influenced to.good conduct by the desire of pleasing, rather thajkby the fear of offending. If a mother nev™ expresses her gratification when her children do well, and is always censuring them when she sees anything amiss, they are discouraged and unhappy. They feel that it is useless to try to please. Their dispositions become hardened and soured by this ceaseless fretting and: at last, whether they do well or ill,, they are equally found ..fault with, they relinquish all efforts to please, and become heedless of reproaches. i,s But let a 'mother approve of her child's conduct whenever she can. Let her show that his good behavior makes her sincerely happy. Let her reward him for his efforts to please, by sjniles and affection. In this way she will cherish in her child's heart some of the noblest and most desirable feelingsof ournature. She will cultivate .in him an amiable disposition and a cheer-ful-spirit. Your ehild has been, during the day, very pleasant and obedient. Just before putting him to sleep for the night, you take his hand and say, "My son, you have been a very good boy to-day. It makes me very happy to see you so kind and obedient. God loves children who are dutiful to their parents, and He promises to make them happy." This approbation from his mother is, to him, a great reward. And when, with a more than ordinarily affectionate tone, you say, "Good night mv dear son," ho leaves the room with his little heart full of feeling. And when he closes his eyes for sleep, he is happy, and resolres that he will always try to do his duty.—Flume Magazine:. -.

Correspondence of the N. Y. Tribune. The Sale of the Wanderer. -SAVANNAH, Ga., March 12, 1859.

An incident occurred at the sale of the condemned slaver Wanderer to day, which shows .-the true sentiment of tuis slav,e stricken city At the hour nppnintfid. the United States Marshal took his stand on Oapt. Gorri's truuk^ in front of the Custom House, read the decree of the Court,, and offered the vessel at auction, whereupon Mr. Chas. L. Larmar stated that the vessel was his property in the hands of the United States officers, and hoped that no one would bid against him. The first bid was $500-^$806—$1,000—and from there np to $4,000, the bids were 825 at the time by Mr. Van Horn, the Jailor here, a quiet, respectable person, who was doubtless authorized to bid by the Collector. Soon it reached 84,000, and was nocked off quickly to Larmar, wbq instantly rushed on Van Horn, and struck him several blows which laid him senseless. Larmar is well known here as a desperate slave dealer,although holding an influential position in this community. There was A general shout of approbation at his conduct, with the cry "kill him, Charley, kill him," and for the moment it looked as if pistols arid knives would be used.

The whole matter was preconcerted so that no bidder should be allowed against Larmar. The vessel was richly worth a much greater sum and would have brought it but for the bullying of the slave dealers present, who openly avowed their intention to bring another cargo of the chatties by the same vessel. This Larmar is the person who took the wild Africans from the prison here last week, also the owner of«the fifty captured in Telfair county

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No doubt

he will get possession of these in the same

manner. The United States law are all a farce in suppressing the slave trade. It is boasted that the next cargo will pay better than those by the Wanderer, and they will know better bow to manage in landing.

Orchard and other Grass Seeds.

Timothy seed should have been sown in the fall, but may be sown now. This is the proper time for sowing'orchard grass seed,—we cannot to emphatically commend this very valuable grass. It yields crops of good hay—hardly inferior to timothy, if cut the proper time—starts very early in the spring ..grows late in fall, making a large aftermath endures drouth well bears close grazing, and, indeed, makes the better pasturage by close and constant croping. It is fit to cut for hay at the same time with clover, and they should be 60wn together. It is not worth the expence of purchasing the seed of this grass to sow in a rotation, when it will stand but one season after the crop of small graip 1)ut longer rotation, which we think very desirable, or for hay or standing pasture, we would not fail to have it. Two bushels of seed is not too much to ensure a good turf. If not sown thick enough it has the fault of growing in unsightly bunches still, if clover seed be sown with it, and the condition of the ground and season is favorale, a j*ood "set" may be expected from a bushel of good seed. ,,

JS^The Indianapolis Journal says garter shakes have made their appearance in that, vicinity. Gartersr them skives, made their appearance here during the high of the last*fev days.-^JV1eM Albany Ltdg-

The first daily paper issued itx Virginia

Educational Department

TUESDAY, MARCH 31, I8&9.

UNDER CON.TBOL OF S. L. KIEBOBK.

MEN AND WOMEN..

About two years ago wo heard Lugr STOXE say, in the conrse of a very sensible and entertaining lecture, tbat she consid#ed women in an intellectual point ot Vigttr, equal to man. Of course her position was a very natural one and when she proved its correctness, many of ber masculine hearers admitted that they had Ie'arned something new. There isr no doubt-tb'at much of the talk which we hear in regard to woman's intellectual inferiority is groundless and we here propose to show that if women had the same chancft-for intellectual improvement that men have, their alleged inferiority would not be so zealously harped upon by some of the stronger sex as it has been'for the last fire or 6ix thousand years.

We will snppose that John and Mary are brother and sister. John's .age is somewhere in the neighborhood of a dozen years, and Mary is about two years younger. They attended a public school, fn which reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, grammar, fcc., are taught. At the close of the first term, both having entered school on the same day, Mary is even with her brother and she remains even with him, too, during their attendance at school. She recites her lessons correctly, and occasionally assists her brother in learning his. By and by John goes to college—-his parents having determined to make a learned man of him—and Mary ought to go to a female Seminary but she don't. She is old enough to work in the kitchen, and mend her father's and brothers clothes, and knit stockings, and make preserves and take care of the yonnger members of the family. Her edncation is •finished," while John's is just begun.— John stays at college for three or four years—during which he becomes almost wild as a Mexican mule—and then he gradnates with what is commonly called "air the honors of the institution." He goes home and his family, as a matter of course, think he is a wonderful John. His sister Mary is particularly proud of him, and when be condescends to act as her escort she is better pleased than some young ladies are when they marry. John remains at home for a few weeks, and finally concludes that he would like to travel tor a year or two. ,His father gives him a sufficient quantity of cash. »Td h?a inothor and his sister Mary pack up "lots Of nice things" for his use and off be goes to see what the world is made of. During his travels be sees a number of very intelligent young ladies who have had superior educational advantages, and when he returns home he cannot help comparing those ladies with his sister Mary. He says, to himself, "I used to think Mary was a real smart girl, and many's the time I've felt proud of her but she don't begin to come up to my ideas of womanhood now. However, I can't expect much of her for women are not supposed to have as much intellect as men have!" And the heathen, after delivering himself of this wise saying, probably calls his sister from her household duties to sow a button on one of bis wristbands. While he has been spending five or 6ix years in studying and traveling, his sister has been washing dishes, knitting stockings, and making mince pies,—and yet, although she was fully equal to him in the primary school, he has the impudence to say that her intellectual abilities are greatly inferior to his! If she was as quick to learn her lessons in the common school as he was, what reason have we to suppose that she could not have kept even with him in the higher branches of learning, if she had been allowed the same opportunities that wer& given to him? But John though unable to |f excel Mary in common branches, manages in the course of a few years to gain knowledge which she has not the least opportunity of gaining and when he compares her stock of information with his own, and with that of a few of his lady acquaintances who have been allowed to improve their minds, he says in an exceedingly complaisant sort of way, that, although talented women are occasionally seen, women in general are as inferior to men in intellectual a6 in physical force.

While we have no sympathy with soma of the doctrines taught by the advocates of "Woman's Rights)," we think young women are entitled to nearly as many educational advantages as are given to young men. ...

The above ideas were suggeated tons yesterday afternoon, by the remarks of a gentleman who said he considered that all money spent in educating women was thrown away, and we presume they will bs heartily endorsed by many of our readers. [Bloomington (111.) Pantograph.

A PILLAR OF FIRE.—A

BERNARD MCGIFS-KBY,

Pike's Peak

Pilgrim passed through Davenport tho other day, encased in a buckskin suit, with the seat of his breeches painted red.

had also a gun on his shoulder, a dog st his heels, and was following the railroad track. Imagine a dark night—express train in tho rear, with a big reflector in front of the engine, throwing light oa this subject.

a pedler* tin ft*

vorably known to the police, was arrested on Saturday, on charge of being concerned in the death of Mike Walsh. He seen in the vicinity where- the body wan found early on Thursday morning,, and Mr. Knapp, a witness at the coroner's inquest, says he resembles one of- the mov whom he saw runningfrom thespet impae-t diately after he heard tha.orj^f —N. Y. Timei.