Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 8 September 1859 — Page 1

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Ilornce fireeley in Sacramento. Mr. Gicelcy an iveil in Sacramento on Men day evening by vail from Folsora, at x\hieh place he was met by an cscort of Sacran entnnR. Tho Standard thus des-

•ciiVos Mr. Oreele) 'a appearance: "Mr. Greeley is about fifty years of nge. Mantis nearly or quite six feet. high, and is ••-tolerably broad in the shoulders. His hair is flaxen, and is considerably scattered belmw the crown and around the back sides :uf bis head. Tire top o! his head is entirely bald. Ilis forehead is broad ami masfive. lie wears a wliihlcrr under his chin, and has eyebrows so white and delicately •'defined, that il is difficult at first sight to "'discover the existence of that ornamental portion of the face. His gait is peculiar.

He !irts 110I only his feet, but his hips, when he walks, and keeps his head bent some distance in advance of his body.— "These remarks are made, not in derision, but because so mnch has been heretofore said on his head by the Atlantic press that many of our people felt enrions to know whether tho facts, or a incro fiction, had been stated."

His BAGGAGE.—Mr. Greeley's baggage was taken in charge by the committee and luing upon a hook. It consisted of a leather caipet-sack, containing bis clothing that world-wide "old white coat," which "he says, he has had for thirty years—earned with him through Enropo, wore while menibur of Congress, and has brought with him to California a cotton umbrella considerably worn, and a pair of blankets done up in an oil cloth cover.

Mr. Greeley delivered a speech in the parlor of the "St. George" before dinner, and in tho evening bo addressed a large isudrnice in Mr. Benton's Church. It re--lalcd mainly to the Pacific Railroad.

The Solar Spots.

It is not unusual to meet with a newspaper paragraph in relation to spots on the sun but through repeated copying the facts are rather stale, and generally indefinite. Now we propose to give onr readers some fresh intelligence from the great luminary. Wednesday morning, August 17th, 1859, it was not difficult for a practical observer to count thirty distinct spots upon the sun's surface. They were all perfectly black and apparently quite small, although it may be estimated that one of the larger ones was 30 seconds in diameeter, which would give it some one hundred and fifty millions of square miles of surface. These spots have been quite steadily on the increase during the past 5 years.

If they are subject to an eleven years period, as is now maintained, they should begin to decrease about the close of the present year. While their connection with the disturbance of the magnetic needle seems to be highly probable, we are not aware that their relation to the mean temperature of the seasons has been traced. This is an interesting enquiry in view of the popular impression that extensive spots on the sun are connected with cool weather. Perhaps a careful study of the meteorological tables may settle this point. If not, the extension of observations is likely to furnish the requisite data.—<Springfield Republican>. ~~~~~~~

j£^~Tho man who was bent on matrimony, straightened up afterwards,

Douglas aud Harper's Magazine. The last number of Hatper's Magazine has a Presidential electioneering article from Judge Douglas. We notice that some of the Democratic papers complain because it has been copy-righted by the Harpers, thereby preventing its re-pablication—and now go KO far as to intimate that Judge Douglas is a party to it. Wo do not believe that he had anything to do with it, or, that he was pecuniarily benofitted by its publication. Tho Harpers published if, just as they did the obscena confession of Mrs. Sickles, because it will make the Magazine sell.

As to the article itself, we have not yet had time to read it—but, we notice that the Louisville Courier the leading Democratic paper in Kentucky, does not like its doctrine. Of them, it says:—Daily Atlas.

We, of course, have neither the space nor the inclination to follow Judge Douglas through his elaborate argument on the confessedly intricate subject of the extent of Territorial power over slavery. If, however, squatter sovereignty is all that tho South has gained by the Nebraska-Kansas net, then we have been greatly deceived, and our people have been most shamefully cheated. Is it possible that for the establishment of this silly dogma the statesmen of the South hove labored month after month and year after year? And, if squatter sovereigntyim be the doctrine which is now to obtain, what have we gained? We have actually determined no principle, but we have merely transferred the decision of the question of slavery from the halls of Congress to the Territories— and if we concede squatter sovereignty in a Territory, we have enacted, beyond all cavil or dispute, a most effectual Abolition measure.

Leave the question of slavery to the squatters, with the first settleis in a Territory, and the South and its institutions will be practically debarred from an equal participancy in tii-j common Territories of the Unicn. Slave property moves slow, does not go along with the pioneer inhabitants, requires stringent laws for its protection. So, though to a less extent, in regard to almost every species of property. It cannot compete with the adventurers from the Noith, who can be precipitated into the Territories by the assistance of Emigrant Aid Societies, aud control their political destiny, if the South yields to the principle of squatter sovereignty, it will be a clear abandonment of every Territory now organized, or which may hereafter bo or* gunized, to Abolitionism.

But the South will not submit. No man who holds the doctrines of Judge Douglas can obtain a single Southern electoral vote. The people of the South are not willing to concede to Territories sovereignty over property. Congress does not possess such a sovereignty, and a Territory is merely the creature of Congress, dependent on it for its continued existence.

ANOTHER DISTINGUISHED F. F. V.—The Virginians have a habit of claiming everything, so it is not unnatural they should seize on General Garibaldi (whom Scotland claims, too), as the following from

the Petersburg Express indicates Garibaldi is a descendant of Mr. John Johnston Jones, who died at his residence in Blandford, Virginia about the year 1767. It is a fact that a beautiful young daughter of this Mr. Jones eloped from Petersburg about the year 1753, with an Italian ropedancer, named Garibaldi, who, having amassed an immense fortune in this country, returned to his own dear Italy, where a large family and unalloyed felicity blessed the union between himself and his beautiful, young Blandford bride. Mrs. Garibaldi corresponded with her father until the day of the latter's death, and letters subsequently sent over by the children of Mrs. G. leave but little doubt of the fact that tho warrior Garibaldi, now in Italy, is a direct descendant of the Jones family, so well and favorably known in Blandford during the first half of the past century.

Work for September.

You should finish seeding your' wheat grounds in this month. If sown too early it is liable to suffer from fly if too late from rus\ Those who 6ow acres by the hundred, must sow early aud late both.— But moderate fields should be seeded by tho middle of this month. In preparing the land, if the surface does not naturally drain itself, it should le plowed as to turn the water into furrows between each land —standing water, and, yet more, ic« upon it, being fatal to it. See that your cattle are brought into good condition for wintering. Fall transplanting may be performed from the middle of this month take off every leaf—are set, stake.

By the latter part of tho month or early in October, according to the season, it will be necessary to raise and put such plants as you intend to keep in the house to raise and place in a frostproof room, your dahlias, tube loses, amaryllis, trigridio gladioli and such other tender holds as you may have^--. Let your seed be gathered, carefully put away where it will contract no moisture. Go over the grounds and examine all yonr labels, lest the storms which are approaching should destroy them. Sow in some warm and sheltered part of your garden early in this month, for spring use spinage, corn, salad, lettuce, ect., As soon as the leaves fall, take cuttings from the currant bu&hes and grapes and plant them out in rows. They will start off and grow earlier by some six weeks tho next season. Fill in your celery trenches every day.

JKyThere are two factions of the Democracy, and we hope they will .neutralize each other like acids and alkalies, 01- rai* ilesnake apd whisky.—Lou. Jour

A Singular Dream.

We take tha following account of a singular dream from the Western Christian Advocate:

Mr. B.had been twice married, bnt was left a Eecond time a widowor, with six daughters and one son. After these beleavementa, Mr. B. inferred the Lord did not design him to onjoy the blessing of a wife, ana he resolved to sacrifice all personal conveniences and enjoyments of the conjugal relation, and never attempt to BOlect another partner in life. This resolution he sacredly kept for nearly three years when the arguments and counsel of the minister of the circuit, in the State of Delaware, prevailed on him to alter his mind. The consideration of his numerous family of daughters requiring so much a mother's care and instruction, was one of the strong reasons that bad induced him to admit that his resolution might be founded on error. The minister, encouraged by tho impression he had made, and the influence ha had gained over Mr. B., took the liberty to name to him a lady residing in a certain neighbor hood of his circuit who he thought would make him an excellent wife and a good mother for his children, and appointed the time and place for Mr. B. to meet him and be introduced to her. Some, occurrence look place which prevented Mr. B. from meeting the minister according to appointment.

The minister, intent upon his plan, procured Mr. B.'s consent to meet him a second time, and the appointment was made bnt an unexpected Providence again prevented Mr. B. from being there at the time. They then made a third arrangement, and Mr. B. determined, if life and health permitted, he would certainly meet his friend and be made acquainted with the lady recommended. Before the time arrived, however, Mr. B. admonished in a dream that the woman so favorably spoken of by the minister was not the one he ought to mnrry, and he was conducted in a vision to the residence of the young lady that would be a suitable helpmate, and that Providence designed for him. The distance was sixty miles, and he had only travelled twenty miles in that direction. Yet tho map of the whole road was laid out before bis miud, and the way lie should go, so distinctly marked in his dream, that he seemed perfectly familiar with the road.— He dreamed the distance, the name of the young woman, and the name of her stepfather, Col. Vickers, the appearance of the house in which he lived, how it was painted, that it was situated near a river, with A ware house near at hand. He dreamed also that there were five young ladies belonging to the same family, and had the one selected for hini so accurately described in his dream that he could easily distinguish her from the other four.

In the morning he awoke and thonght nothing of his vision, except as an ordinary but rather remarkable dream. The next night I10 had the same vision repeated, and the same things presented to his mind, in a still more vivid manner. Mr. B. then oegan to think that there might be an indication of Providence in his dream, and all that day he made it the subject of sincore and ardent prayer, that God would direct him in the way that he should go in a matter so grave, and involving so much interest to himself and his motherless children. 1 hat night he had the vision r^p^ated the third time, and he deterniencd then to follow the directions furnishod him, and fully test the circumfttancas of the dream by a practical examination, and see if the results would bs developed as he dreamed them. He immediately sent a noto to the preacher, iuforming him that he had chauged his mind, and must decline meeting him at tho appointed time. Mr. B. started in tho direction indicated by his vision, and after passing the twenty miles he was acquainted with, his dream was his only guide. He had no difficulty, however, for the map of the road was so vividly impressed upon his mind that he was able to distinguish it from all others. The gentleman whose name was given him in his dream he had never seen or heard of. He knew the farm as soon as ho saw it. The

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and everything about it appeared precisely as they had been presented in his vision.

Ho alighted from his horse, and entered tho beautiful house. The personal appearance of the yonnd lady was so vividly impressed on his mind by the vision thrice repeated, that he readily recognized her in company of the four others, whom he found in the same family. He .soon ascertained the name of the young woman, and found it to be Sarah T., according to his dream. This young lady had determined, and had often said she would never marry a widower. Miss T. said the very first moment she saw Mr. B. she felt a strange tremor pass over her whole system. She had a vivid, impression that he was a widower, and that he had come to see her. She afterwards confessed that a sudden emotion of affection for him arose in ber heart as soon as she came into his presence.

Mr. B. obtained the pleasure of an interview with her that evening, and was successful in securing her consent to visit her again and address her on the subject of marriage. He, however, did not tell her his dream until she had engaged to become his wife. After a few months' courtship, they were happily married, and lived together for more than fifty years. Mr. B. died the 25th of March, 1S42, and Mrs. B. lived till the Gth of April, 1847. For 60 years, perhaps, they were both distinguished members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

83T An exchango says that an old sheep gave birth to a lamb, in Cambridge last week, belonging to a widow lady with six logs and fine wool over her head.

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YOL. XL-NO. 511 CRAWEORDSVILLE, INDIANA, SEPTEMBER 8, 18501 I WHOLE-NO. 572 (CraiDforhuillf jDurnal

GOOD SENSE.

The Boston Atlas, several weeks ago, in commenting on a letter written by the Washington correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune, advising a conciliatory course toward all who desire the overthrow of the present Administration, well remarks:

We heartily commend the above to the careful contemplation of all friends of freedom who desire a success of their party in 1860. The suicidal policy of adopting, in advance, any theories or rales of political organizations, that will necessarily exclude any section or party that desires to co-op-erate in the effort against the pro-slavery Democracy mnst be obvious to every thinking man. To cast off contemptuously, or reject iany aid honestly proffered, is not merely foolish—it is a violation of duty— for success is one of the duties now imposed on the opposition party of this country. If there be in the Southern States any considerable body of men opposed to the prosent Administration, no matter whether they can carry the electoral vote of their States, or not, it is both duty and policy to invito and except their aid.

They cannot, of course, expect to come into, or co-operate with the party, except npon the doctrine of the anti-extension of slavery and the dissolving of the intimate relation and responsibility, established by the Democratic party, between the Federal Government and that "peculiar institution"—if they are willing to go so far as this in their present anti-slavery policy, it is enough under the circumstances, to render a union in the campaign between them and the groat body of the Northern Reppulicans not ouly possible, but cordial and efficient. We do not noad to absolutly command the votes of such States as Kentucky, Maryland, Tennessee, Delaware, North Carolina, Virginia and Missouri, but we do want an organization and a party in them, and this we can, according to present appearances, easely secure this will completely meet and answer the damaging cry of sectionalism, and will place these Southern opponents of sham Democracy in an honorable attitude, and one in which they can render very efficient aid in the canvass and great assistance after we shall have elected our President.

The Capitol Extension.

Two years after Mr. Fillmore retired from tho Presidency, the Democratic party, being in full power, determined that the plan adopted by Mr. Fillmore, in regard to the completion of the extension of the Capitol at Washington did not come up to its notion of Democratic economy and simplicity, therefore, made a change. Let the people who have been so long humbugged by the professions of this party look at the following facts, taken from official documents, published by Democratic office-holders themselves, and determine how far such promises are redeemed by practice:

The two front doors, and their outside trimmings, cost $47,072. The items for each are as follows two figures, over the door, 86,260 bronze door, 813,000 and marble work, 84,076 —making, for both doors, the sura of #47,072.

Tho designs and models for the66 dobrs cost 812,000 more. By the original contract made by Mr. Walter, the architect appointed by Mr. Filmore, the front doors were to cost about 8600!

The door which will separate the old Representative chamber from the entrance into the south wing of the new Representative chamber will cost by estimate, 814,416. This is simply for that part which swings on the hinges. The design and model cost 88,000. This latter sum was paid to Mr. Randolph Rogers, aud the work was done in Rome.

The cost of sculpture for the east pediment is 860,000. This is only for one wing. The other costing the same, both will amount to $120,000. Much of this is estimated cost. The actual cost will, no doubt, be considerably more. The models alone for the pediment of the north wing cost, in Rome, 818,000.

The cost of marble, workmanship, fec., for each window, as contracted for by Mr. Walter, with Prevost, Winter & Co., was 8822,64. By the change made by Capt. Meigs, who, it will bo borne in mind, has acted under the direction of a Democratic Secretary of War, each window actually co6t about 82000 or more than double.— By this change more than 8100,000 were added to the cost. This is only for the marble work.

The hand-rails for the private stairways for both wings, cost 812,000. The painting for the agricultural committee room, coht 85,000 that in one other room, 812,000.

It is computed that there is about threo miles of polished Italian wash-boards around the rooms and passages, which cost 82 per foot, or 832,000.

The floors of the committee rooms and of the Representative Hall, were first laid with "encaustic tile," at 81 per square foot and in the winter covered with costly car-

One of the changes made by Capt. Meigs, who acted under the direction of the Democratic Secretary of War, is the addition of a very large number of marble columns, very few of which were contemplated in the original design of Mr. Walter. One hundred of these columns are to be placed on the exterior of the building, and are contracted for in the rough, provided the contractors will furnish them at 81400 each. Here is an addition of 8140,000 for outside columns in the rough. How much the workmanship upon them is to cost, no one knows. riv

The four grand stairways, two in each wing, leading to the chambers and galleries, with all their polished marble and embellishments, will cost 81,000,000.

These few items will serve to give the

reader a faint idea of the splendid, magnificent, and coBtly Democratic way of doing things, AS distinguished from the old fogy Whig way in which Mr. Fillmore proposed to do them.

It is a proverbial saying that one extravagance leads to another. An extravagant outlay in a building must be followed by an extravagant outlay for furniture. And so, the splendor of the finish of the rooms in the extension part' of the Capitol must be matched by the splendor of the furniture which is to he put in them. A few furniture items and the cost thereof, gathered from the report of the Democratic House of Representatives, made on the 13th of December last, and marked Miscellaneous Document, No. 4, will serve to illustrate the Democratic taste for "fine things" which prevails at Washington, and is indulged in at tho public expense:

FCBNlTUItE, Ac., TOR THE SPEAKER'S ROOM. Large French plate mirror, with elaborately carved and gilded frame $1,350 Large pier table 275 Mantei mirror 215 Fine writing table 95 Two fine lounges, at $90 each 180 Six large antique chairs, at $95each... 570 Six arm chairs, at $48 each 288 Desk chair 48 Three setts French brocatelle curtains. 900 Fine book case. 668 Eighty yards Axminster carpeting, at $4,59 per yard 349 Making and laying same 22,50 Fire fender $12,50 pair of andirons $7 ,19,50 Shovel, tongs and stand 9,09 French wash-stand 85,09 Clothes rack and umbrella stand 47,90 Fine mosaic hearth rug 38,00 French china chamber set 28,00 Silver-plated ice pitcher.. 18,00 Ten Brittania spittoons 16,50 Fine marble clock 145,00 Two bronze statuettes 60,00Fine marble and bronze inkstand dish. 50.00 Brushes and combs 7,87 Picture frames, &c., 25,00

Making $5,500,37 The furnished rooms in the same wing of the Capitol, occupied by committee.-., clerks, and as retiring rooms, &c.,numberabout thirty as a specimen of the cost of furnishing them, take that of the Committee of Ways and Means, as follows:

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Eighty-five yards of velvet carpeting, at $"2,50 $412,50 Making and laying same 24,75 Two office tables, at $33 each 66,00 Committee table 85,00 Four suits tapestry curtains, at $145 each 580,00 Large French plate mirror 425,00 Fine marble clock 145 JO Nine fine chairs, at $33 each 927,00 Two $50 100,00 Fine book desk and case 600,00 Fine sofa 85,00 Fine hearth rug v3]5,00 Fine clothes rack and umbrella stand... 32,00 Wash-stand, marble top 68,00 Pitchers, tumblers, spittoons and brushes 15,00

Mak ng $2,749,75 The desks and ch#irs in the Representative Hall cost 8260 each—making for the whole 847,000. Eighteen lounges outside the desks cost 81,980 the eight lounges in the south lobby of the Hall cost 8760 curtains for 43 windows in that wing 0C.-t 86,470 ten mirrors cost 85.470, besides many others cost'ng from §100 to 8300 each tho Carpet for the Hall and the 1 ay of the same cost 82,630,25 carpot for the galleries, and fitting and laying the same, cost 82,240 cushions for gallery seats, cost 82,359,50.

EXTRAORDINARY ELOPEMENT.

ANew Jersey Editor Running off with bis Wife's Sister—Antecedents of the Parties.

From the Newark Mercury of Friday Considerable excitement has been occasioned recently in a quiet town on the line of the New Jersey Central Railroad, by the elopement of the editor of one of the village papets with the sister of his wife.— The circumstances of case, though not mysterious, are remarkably singular, and afford a striking illustration of the frailty of our human nature. Mr. V., the editor in question, is a gentleman some thirtyfive years of age, enjoying a good position in society, and for the last ten or twelve years has been a member in high standing of a Christain Church. In his family relations he has been, it is believed, more than usually happy. In his children, two in number, he has always manifested the greatest pride and delight, and we who have seen him in his home, would never have supposed that any infatuation whatever could induce him to abandon tbe comsorts and enjoyments of his household circle. In his buiseness Mr. V. has been successful, and it is not known that any embarrasment menaced him therein.

The lady who accompanies him in his guilty flight is probably twenty-one or twenty-two years of age, and is, as stated, a sister of his wife. She posesses the charm of beauty and lias moved in highly respectable circles—her family being one of the best in the county where they reside. Until recently it was never suspected that any improper intimacy existed between the two, and, indeed, it is believed that the whole affair was of sudden growth. Some days before the elopement Mr. V. made sundry purchases of jewelry, &c., which it is believed he presented to tho object of his criminal affection—the articlos being obtained on credit.

Tho first postive information which the friends received of the elopement came in tbe shape of a letter from the fugitives, announcing their flight and that it would be useless to pursue them, as, when the letter reaced its destination, they wonld have left for California. The husband left a letter for his wife, stating that sufficient money had been left behind to maintain her for a time, and adding that, if successful in the Golden State, would remit to her, from time to time, tuch means as she might need.

wag wrote over the door of a

school house, 'The New England whaling institution."

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A WITHERING APPEAL TO DEALERS IN STRONG DRINK.

The following eloquent appeal is froni the pen of the Rev. Alexander Dunc»nson: Dealers in Drink!—Yours is a melancholy. position—a more pitiful, more unworthy, more degraded and more sinful position, cannot be conceived! To prey upon the shame, the crime, the body, the soul, the time, the eternity of a fellow creature, is awful! To prepare the way of bankruptcy, pauperism, disease, prison, death, is not to be coveted! To assist to ruin character, murder reputation, sink position and circumstances, filch a man's crumbs of bread, is odious! To beggar families, break the hearts of wives, scatter domestic firebrands and death, break up happy homes, divide united hearts, dissolve family links of the closest ties, is a baseness indescribable. To rise into riches by such a course is not to be rich to be honored is to be dishonored to gain place in tha world is to have no dignity to stand forth in the cause of religion is to daub Zion's walls with untempered mortar. To swell out into portly dimensions by the sale of strong drink is the price of poverty to rise into luxury is a gain from wretchedness to walk ubroad in ease is a purchase from perspiration and toil to assume high airs, and gad about all bespangled and bejeweled, is an elevation wrung from shame, degredation, misery, and death. How infatuated must the dealer be to bo rolling in every comfort and luxury possessing wealth and property, and all purchased at poor inebriate's expense. The publican well clothed, while he is in rags the publican's wife, handsome, buxom, jeweled, but the poor drunkard's not where to lay he head the publican's children clothed, fed educated, and preserved from the inclemencies of the season but mark his customers, cold, starved, ragged, wet, diseased. What a difference between tha state of those that are supported by strong drink. Surely if reflection was left in the drunkard's mind, the sketch we have just given would banish forever tbe drinker from the drnnkery floor.

And what state can that mind be in that can keep such a house? How destitute of all the fiuer feelings of humanity—to speak of religion would be nonsense.— Where is his love for his country and his kind? Can patriotism inhabit such a bosom? Impossible. Can such a man be a reformer—a regenerator of society—and keep a house and sell an article to degrade, dehumanize, and enslave his fellow men soul and body, hand and foot? Incredible. How much of Christ's love can be in tbe bussom of a man who continues to sell spirits, and sees and hears and reads the awful deeds it is doing againet God and man? Not a spark.

And is it possible that the spirit dealer can commend his traffic to God in prayer? Could he lay his hand on his heart, and enter the divine presence, lid crave God to bless his efforts? Ii cannot be. His blood

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run cool, his soul would freeze in the endeavor, his smitten conscience could not bear the piercing glance of God he can only carry on his trade by forgetting eternity, trampling on the sacred dictates of conscience, and escaping from thoughts of future death and judgement. Infinitely better for a man to beg his bread from door to door than occupy such a position. In this case he migli be an heir of heaven but who can recognize in the selling of whiskey an eternal glory?

lmportaut to Gardeners.

A gardener having occasion to newly paint the wood work in the interior of his green-house determined to make a trial of tbe theory of the absorption of heat by a black color, with the view of promoting the maturity of his plants and shrubs by means of a greater quantity of caloric.— In the preparation of the paint he used coal tar that is to say, tar produced by the distillation of coal in the manufacture of gas. This coal tar, besides the advantage of its color, offers considerable economy in painting, being about one-eighth of the price of the material generally used in mixing black paint. Tbe painting here in question was executed before the setting in of winter. On the return of spring the gardener observed, with no less surprise than satisfaction, that the spiders and other insects, which had infested his greenhouse, had totally disappeared. He moreover remarked that a vine, trained on an espalier, which, for the space of two years had been sensibly decaying, and which he had purposed to uproot, lor the purpose ol planting another in its place, had acquired such renewed health and vigor as to be capable of producing excellent grapes. Having applied his new paint to the props, treillages and espaliers of all his sickly trees and shrubs, as well as those which, though in full bloom, were being devoured b}' insects, snccess again crowned his experiments. Caterpillars and snails disappeared, as the insects had vanished from the greenhouse. The fruits produced by the trees thus treated have elicited the approval and eulogy of purchasers. Similar experiments tried on the Gironde have, it is said, been attended by similar excellent results.—Bulletin.

Horrible Cruelty to a Boy. The New Orleans Cresent [sic] states that a negro woman name Maria was arrested in that city a few dsys scince, charged with torturing a white boy in the most horrible manner. The boys father, a respectable French mechanic, died about a year ago, and bis mother taking to drinking was imprisoned as a vagrant. Ihe son becoming homeles, was at last taken charge of by Maria, a black woman belonging to Mrs. Lorio, and employed as cook for the negroes of the Pelican Dry Dock. A few days since, it was dicovered that the wench had hsen tor tiring the boy in the most brutal manner. The neighbors freqently beard screams issuing from tho cabin, 8nd could hear those screams being

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smothered down. As if by gagging. Tha matter was finally commanicated to Capt. Esnard, add he investigated it.

He found the boy chained up, with an iron chain .around the neck, secured by a padlock. Hi# neck was all raw from its contact with the chain he looked as if ha had been starVed. dtnl his body was literally black and blue froni the beating he had received. He stated that Maria had had him chained up that away for threo days, and had punished him constantly, frequently craming cotton into hu month to. stop his screams.— Cin. Ooz.

From the Indianapolis Atlas. The Doxoiogjr.

There are some things which tiever grow old, and the following Doxology, Aung by all Christians, in all lands, on all Qab^ baths, is one of them. The crumb of bread and drop of wine, chosen by the Redeemer to perpetuate a remembrance of his sufferings and death, will be the symbols of tho broken body and spilt blood of the Savior of man, while the earth yields its increase and the vine its frnit. So will this inim* itable production perpetuate the memory of its author 'till the praises of the redeemed below shall be hushed in the bongs of the heavenly host: "Praise God, from whom a'l blefs'nga flow:

Praise him, all creatures here below: Praise him alone, ye heavenly host: Praise Father, Son and Holy Qhost." The author wrote the third line thna— '•Praiae him alone y" angelic host."

This doxology was written by Bishop Kenn, and first appeared in 1697, and now, though nearly two hundred years have passed, when sung, it seems as tha direct inspiration of the Christians thanksgiving to his God for all his blessings.

Mr. Montgomery says, this incomparable doxology "is a masterpiece at once of amplification and compression: Amplification on the burden, "Praise God," repeated in each line compression by exhibiting him as the object of praise in every view in which we can imagine praise due to him praise for all his blessings, yea, for all blessing, none coming from any other source, praise by every creature, specifically invoked, "here below," and in heaved "above praise to him in each of the characters wherein he has revealed himself in his word—'Father, Son and Holy Ghost/ Yet. this comprehensive v9rse is sufficiently simple, that by it "out of the mouth* of babes and sucklings praise might ba perfected and it appears so easy, that one is tempted to think that hundreds of the sort might be made without trouble.— Tbe reader has only to try, and he will be quickly undeceived, though tha longer he tries, the more difficult he will find the task to be. Alas how often it is sung npon a "thoughtless tongue."

The Education most Needed-»Learn to Labor. The question is often asked, irbjr la it that so few people are successful in business, and why property finds such unequal distribution? Thia man, they say, received the advantage of a good english education, and that man was educated at one of our best colleges. Both have been industrious, honest, and economical and yet neither of them has been successful in business.— Why is it? asks the New York Express and tha* journal proceeds to point out the cause, and, in the course of its remarks, observes:

The idea too commonly prevaila that a mere knowledge of books is the beginning and end of education. The sons and daughters, especially of the rich, grow up with this notion in their heads, in idleness, as it were, with little idea of the responsibilities which await them. Their natures revolt at the mention of 'labor,' not dreiming that their parents before them obtained the wealth they are so proud of by industry and economy. How many young men, college-bred though they may be, are prepared to manage the estates their fathers possess, and which it may have required a lifetime to acquire? How many young women, though having acquired all the knowledge and graces of the best schools, know how to do what their mothers hare done before them, and which the daughters may yet be compelled to do at some period of their lives? The children of the poor have to labor or starve, and as far as that goes they are educated to be practical. "The education that scoffd at labor and encourages idleness is the worst enemy for a

girt,

man, or woman. Instead ennobling, it degrades it opens upon the road to ruin. The education which directs us to do, what we are fitted to do, that respccts labor, that inculcates industry, honesty, and fair dealing, and that strips us of selfishness, is the education we do need, and that which must become _the prevailing sentiment of the country before we can be as a people cither happy or prosperous

The Liquor Law.

The Richmond Broad Axe in speaking* of the Liquor Law says: 'Some of our druggists have fallen victims to tbe quart law. Two of them were fined 820 and costs, each, on Thursday last for selling spirituous liquors in a less quantity than a quart. It is known that one of the persons sold the liquor a four ounce vial of brandy—in good faith, on the assurance that it was for medical purpose, and the standing of the person to whom the liqnor was sold forbade the idea' that it was designed to be used as a bever age. Yet the law makes no provision for such cases, and unless a prescription1 from a physician accompanies each1 otder.' the druggist lays himself liable to ths •pains and penalties' prescribed foroffend-

'llow dreadful, that cigar smelly,' exclaimed Cushing tb a companion. 'Why it's an a&fnl smelling thing.' 'Oh, no, it's not the cigar that smells.' was the reply. •What, is. it then?', inquired ,Mr,.Cusl) 7

Why, its your cose that smells, of courso—that's what noses were made for.'