Decatur Eagle, Volume 1, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 25 December 1857 — Page 4

Bettor Go Slow. In all the varied scenes of life— Its noise, confusion; terrnoil, strifr— Those little words, if borne in mind, Would suit right well all human kind—‘Go Slow!’ The fast young man who cuts a dash. Uj on his -Gov’nor’s’hard earned cash. Will think, when all his money’s fled, Thia motto should have filled his bead—‘Go Slow!’ Ths flirt, with lovers at her feet, Her charma so far—her heart deceit, When years shall steal her charms away. Will weep she did not in youth’s May—‘Go Slowl’ The man of money—he who spinds, His thousands on his horses—friends — May sit him down in after years, To con this lesson through his tcars‘Go Slow!’ The husband, who. to see more life, Deserts his children, home and wife. When sunk beneath the hand of fate, Will mourn he did not—ere too late—•Go Slow!’ The wife who always shopping goes. Leaving her children out at toes. Should keep this matter in her heart— And learn to act a mother's part—•Go Slow!’ The banker counting cent per cent— The landlord eager for his rent— The clerk behind his master’s till— Twill suit you all—this lesson will—‘Go Slow!’ The widow, wife, the maden, miss, The husband, father—think of this— In whatever part you go, •Tis always best to travel slow — ‘Go Slow!’

The Quaker’s Corn Crib. A man had been in the habit of stealing corn from his neighbor who was a Quaker. Every night he would go softly to the crib and fill bis bag with the ears which the good old Quaker’s toil bad placed there. Every morning the old gentleman observed a diminution in his corn pile. This was very annoying and must be stopped—but how? Many a one would have said, ‘Take a gun, con-1 ceal yourseK, wait till he comes, and fire.’ | Others would have said, ‘catch the villais, and have him sent to jail.* But the Quaker was not prepared to enter into any such severe measures.— He wanted to punish the offender, and at the same time bring about his reformation if possible. So he fixed a sort of a trap close to the bole through which the the man would thrust his arm in getting the corn. The wicked neighbor proceeded on his unholy errand at the hour of midnight with the bag in hand. Unsuspectingly he thrust his hand into the crib to seize an ear, when 10l be found himself unable to withdraw it. In vain he tugged and pulled, and sweated, and alternately cried and cursed. His hand was fast, and every effort to release it only made it the more secure. zVfter a time the tumult in his breast measurable subsided He gave over his useless struggles, and began to look around him. All was silence and repose. Good men were sleeping soundly in their comfortable beds, while he wup compelled to keep a dreary, disgraceful watch through the remainder of that long and tedious night, bis hand in constant pain from the pressure of the elamp which held it. His tired limbs, compelled to sustain his weary body, would fain have sunk beneath him, and his heavy eyes would have close in slumber, but no, there was no rest, no sleep for him. There he must stand and watch the progress of the night, and at once desire and dread the return of morning.— Morning came at last, and the Quaker looked out of his window and found he had ‘caught the man.’ What was to be done? Some would say "Go out and give him a good cowhiding, just as he stands, then release him.’ But not so, said the Quaker. Such a course would have sent the man away embitteied and muttering curses of revenge. The good old man hurried on his clothes and started at once to the relief and punishment of his prisoner. ‘Good morning friend!’ said he, as he came in speaking distance. 'How does thee do?’ The poor culprit made no answer, but burst into tears. ‘Ob, fiel’ said the Quaker, as he proceeded to release him; ‘l’m sorry thee hast got thy hand fast. The put it in the wrong place ot it would not have been so.’ The men looked crest-fallen, and begging forgiveness, hastily turned to make his retreat. ■Stay,’ said hi* persecutor, for he was now becoming such to the offender, who could have received a blow with much barter gi than ths kind words that

were falling from the Quakers lips. — ‘Slay, friend, thy bag is not filled. Theo needs corn or thee would not have taken so much pains to get it. Come, let us fill it,* and the poor fellow was obliged to stand and hold the bar while the old man filled it, interspersing the excercise with the pleasantest conversation imaginable; all of which were like doggers in the heart of his chagrined and mortified victim. The bag was filled, the string tied and the sufferer hoped soon to ba out of the presence of his tormentor, but again his purpose was thwarted. ■Stay,’ said the Quaker, as the man was about to hurry off, having uttered his apologies and thanks. ‘Stay, Ruth has breakfast ere this; thee must not think of going without breakfast; come, Ruth is calling.’ This was most unendurable! This was ‘heaping coals’ with a vengeance!— In vain the mortified neighbor begged to be excused. In vain he plead to be released from what would be to him a punishment more severe than stripes an imprisonment. The Quaker was inexorable and he was obliged to yield. Breakfast over, ‘Now,’ said the old farmer as he helped the victim shoulder the bag, ‘if the need any more corn, come in the day time and thee shall have it. With what shame and remorse did that' guilty man turn from the dwelling of the! the pious Quaker! Everybody is ready . to say that be never again troubled the Quaker’s corn crib. I have something still better to tell you. He at once re-> pented and reformed, and my informant tells me that he afterwards heard him relate in an experience-meeting the sub- ; stance of the story I have related, and he I attributed his conversion, under God’s blessing to thd course the old Quaker had pursued, to arrest him in his downward course.

A Rich Puff. A manufacturer and vender of quack medicines, recently wrote to a friend living out west, for a good strong recommendation of his, the inanufactur’s ‘Balsam.’ In a few days he received the following which we call pretty strong! ‘Dear Sir: The land composing my farm has hitherto been so poor, that a Scotchman could not get a living off it, and so stony that we had to slice our potatoes and plant them edgeways, but of vour balsam, I put some on the corner of ten acre lot surrounded by a rail fence and in the morning I found that the rock had entirely disappeared, a neat stone wall encircled the field, and the rails were split into oven wood and piled up symmetrically, in my back yard. ‘I put half an ounce into the middle of a huckle berry swamp ; — in two days it was cleared off, planted with corn and pumpkins and a row of peach trees in full blossom through the middle. ‘As an evidence of it tremendous strength, I would say that it drew a striking likeness of my eldest son out of a mill pond, drew a blister all over his stomach, drew a load of potatoes four miles to market, and eventually drew a prize of ninty seven dollars in a lottery.’

The Ready Man. A ready man is made by conversation. He that buries himself among his manuscripts 'besprent'’ as Pope expressed it ‘with leajned dust,’ and wears out his days and nights in perpetual reseach and solitary meditation, is too apt to lose, in his elocution, what be adds to his wisdom; and when he comes into the world, to appear overloaded with his own notions, like a man armed with weapons which he cannot wield. He has no facility of inculcating his speculations; of adopting himself to the various degrees of intellect which the accidents of conversation will present; but will talk to most unintelligibly and to all unpleasantly.

Our Common Indebtedness.—Ofthose whom Providence has qualified to make any additions to human knowledge, the number is extremely email; and whaf can be added by each single mind, even of this superior class, is very little. The greater part of mankind must owe all their knowledge, and al] must owe far the larger part of it, to the information of others. A Common The evils inseparable annexed to the present condition of man are so numerous and afflictive, that it has been, from age to age, the task of some to bewail, and of others to solace them; and he, therefore, will be in danger of seeing a common enemy, who shall attempt to depreciate the few pleasures aad felicities which natnre has allowed us.

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THE GLOBE: THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF CONGRESS. I PUBLISH now my annual Prospectus of The Daily Globe, and The Congressional Globe and Appendix, to remind subscribers, and inform those who may desire to subscribe, that Congress will meet on the first Monday of next December, when I shall recommence pub lishing the above named papers. They have i been published so long that most public num know thgjr character, and therefore I deem it I needless a minute account of the kind of matter ! they will contain. The Daily Globe will contain a report ofihe I debates in both branches of Congress as taken [ down by reporters equal, at least, to any corps , of short-hand writers in this or any other coun- ; try. A majority of them will, each, be able to ; to report, verbatim, ten thousand words an hour while the average number of words speken by ! fluent speakers rarely exceed seven thousand five hundred words an hour. When the debates of a day do not make more than forty columns they shall appearin the Daily Globe of ’ the next morning, winch will contain, also, the I news of the day. together with such editorial [ articles as may be suggested by passing events . It is also my intention, from time, as occasion may require, to publish my reminiscences of the ■ public men with whom I have been associated ; I during the last twenty eight years. Anecdotes l of General Jackson,and the leaders of the party ' I which he conducted, and the leading men of other parties, will, I believe, be interestingnow when partisan bitterness has abated. In becoming the reporter of the debates of Congress 1 deemed it proper to say that the Globo would never be a partisan paper. This pledge will not. be forfeited by introducing as a i I contribution to history the political traits of J character which distinguished the public men of my time. Although I am, and intend to remain , a thourough democrat, I will never ob I trude my principles in a wav to make them ob-I j noxious to any party. Ent in regard to persons ■. [ and events which go to make up history. I hope ! | to make the Globe an honest memoir; and with [ that view I am resolved to speak independently | of all parties. The Congressional Globe and Appendix will I contain a report of all the debates in Congress, j .-cvised by the speakers, the messages of the President of the United States, the annual re- ' ports of the headsof the executive departments, ! the laws passed during the session, ami copious indexes to all. They will be printed onadou- | ble royal sheet, in book form, royal quarto size, , each number containing sixteen pages. The whole will make, it is believed, 3,8 0 and 3,9.11) pages, as the longsessions for many years have I ranged between those numbers, and the next session will be what is termed a “long one.”— 1 his 1 believe is the cheapest work ever sold in any country, whether a reprint or printed j from manuscript Copy, taking for data the ave- > rage ■ umber of words of the long session since I the year 1818. The average number of pages is ! 3.876, and the average number of words on a I page i» 2.397, consequently, the average number of words of a long session is 9,29 ,772. As I have sold to subscribers that number of words I for six dollars, it follows that they have paid less i I than six and one-half cents for every 10','ioi'j word I have furnished them, while I have paid 1 my reporters $ i 29 for every 2,397 words, of i [this work, in manuscript? Has any otlfllr bookseller, anywhere, ever sold a book in the first instance, while it was new, at so low a rate? 1 believe not; and so strong is my belief that 1 hereby agree to give to any person who shall prove the contrary a complete set of the debates running back to 1833. making forty-three quarto volumes, which sell for $5 a volume. An act of Congress authorizes those papers to goby mail free of postage. The next session will be, without doubt, an unusual interesting one; as it will be the first, under a new administration, and several complex questions must be discus- ’ sed in it—for example, the currency. Kansas, revenue, and other questions. The Globe will be asheretofore, the only source from whichfulldeI bates can be obtained. TERMS: [ For acopy of the Daily Globe, one year, $lO 00 “ “ “ six months. 50> " “during the session 5 00 For a copy of Congressional Globe an Appendix, and the laws passed durin<r j the session, (> 00 I Bank notes, current in the section of the conn- [ try where a subscriber resides, will be received at par. The whole or any potof a subscription i may be remitted in postage stamps, which is ! preferable to any currency, except gold or sliver. A paper will not be gent unless the money ac- , companies the order for it. JOHN C. RIVES. Nov. 20, 1857. Washington,

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BIIIUAST PMHCra FOURTH YEAR OF THE COSMOPOLITAN ART ASSOCIATION. THE FAMOUS DUSSELDORF GALLERY OF PAINTINGS! Purchased at a Cost of $180,000! And Powers’ World Renowned Statue of the GREEK SLAVE!I Re-purchased for six thousand dollars, with several hundred other works of Art, in Paint iugs, Sculpture and Bronzes.comprise the Premiums to be awarded to the subscribers of the COSMOPOLITAN ART ASSOCIATION, who subscribe before the 28th of January, 1858 at which time the awards will take place. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Every subscriber of three dollars is entitled to A copy of the large and splendid Steel Engraving, entitled “Manifest Destiny,” also to, A copy of the Cosmopolitan Art Journal one year, also to a Certiflicute in the award of Premiums, also a free admission tothe Dusseldorf and Cosmopolitan Galleries. Thus it is seen that for every three dollars paid, the subscriber notonly receives a SPLENDID THREE DOLLAR ENGRAVING! but, also, the beautifully illustrated TWO DOLLAR ART JOURNAL, ONE YEAR Each subscriber is also presented with a Certificate in the Awards of Premiums by which a valuable work of art, in painting or sculpture may be received in addition, thus giving to every subscriber an equivalent to the value of five dollars, and a Certificate gratis. , Any one of the leading $3 Magazines is furnished, instead of Engraving and Art Journal, if desired. No person is restricted to a single share. — Those taking five memberships,remitting sls, are entitled to an extra Engraving, and six tickets. Full particulars of the association are given in the Art Journal, which contains over sixty splendid Engravings, pricefifty cents per number. Specimen copies will be sent to all persons who desire to subset ibe, on receipt of five postage stamps, (15 cents.) Address, C. L. DERBY, Actuary C. A. A. 548 Broadway, New York. WM. G. SPENCER, Honorary Secretary, yl-1142, Decatur, Ind.

CONSOLIDATION OF EMERSON'S MAGAZINE AND PUTNAM S MONTHLY. 40 000 Subscribers to start with. The publishers are happy to announce that in the union of these favorite Magazines, the best literary ami artistic tali jit of both publications has been secured, and the most attractive features of each w ill be retained in the Consolidated work. It will aim to present in its pages the choicest productions of American thinkers and writers, ami the best efforts of American artists. We shall endeavor, by a sagacious use of the extensive resourcesnow at our command, to make a Magazine that, in the richness of its literary contents, and in the beauty and profuseness of its pictorial illustrations' shall outrival any publication ever before produced in this country. The new issue conwneaced with the October numbeT, which now ready. It is filled with th' choicest productions of some of the most brilliant writers of the day, and is embellished with forty-four splendid original engravings. It appears in a new- dress, embracing an elegant classical design on the cover and the entire work presents the most attractive appearance. It is pronounced by all who have seen it to be the most beautiful specimen of a Magazine ever issued in this country. Pates, 25 Cvmts—s3 a Year—Cll-b Rates— Two Copies.s‘>; Five Copies, $lO. It may be obtained of any News Dealer or Bookseller,or by enclosing 25 cents tothe Pub-li-hers. A SPLENDID LIBRARY OF FORTY LARGE BOUND VOLUMES is presented to every person who gets up a club of twenty-four subscribers. Get the October Number as a Specimen. J.M. EMERSON <fc Co., No. 371 Broadway,New York. Publishers. SJS ND FOR IT. The most superbly illustrated Magazine ever published iu America, is the December numj ber of the Cosmopolitan Art. Journal, containi ing oyer sixty splendid Engravings, and giving full particulars of the benefits of the Cos- ! mopolitau Art Association, two dollars a yeari single copies fifty cents. Specimen copies will . he sent to all persons who wish to subscribe on I receipt of five postage stamps, (15 cents.) See advertisement headed “Brilliant Pros- • pectus” this paper. I Address CL. DERBY, Act uarv, CA. A Il M - G. SPENCER, Honorary Secretary, < vl-n42. Decatur, Ind. DRIED apple* and peaches for sale at the Brich Cobneb

n'PM.I SME SESTIWL 1857. ■ The proprietors of this establishment deem it almost unnecessary to urge upon she Democ ! racy of the State, the importance of largely in : n „ the circulation of the Sentinel. A | faithful°and candid exposition of principles and policy is all that is necessaryto secure their continued ascendency in the minds be thoroughly informed and receive correc in pressions 8 pon all the ’in the questions of the day. As it has bee. n the past, this will be the continued object of the Sentinel and to the 'aithful accomplishment of this duty, its proprietors willgive all their abil /‘KISZ'.Sh-ior Lh. is-w---the State a liberal and hearty support In doing us a service personally, they will have the satisfaction of knowing that they will sow broadcast, sound principles and justsentimeijta. We hope that every democrat will feel it his duty to be a soliciting agent in his own neighborhood. for in no way can he accomplish greater good than in the circulation of a paper true to its faith. The Sentinel should have a circulation in the State of Fifty Thousand, and it can be accomplished if the Democracy of the State will it. With a little effort on the part of our friends, this numberof subscribers can be obtained in the next thirty days. As the central Organ of the party we shall know no men, interests or cliques! and it shall be our aim to do equal and exact justice to all. Our duty is to be the advocate and exponent ol the principles and measures of the party, and whoever they shall select as its Representative Men, to give them an energetic and cordial sup port. „ . 1t The administration of Mr. Bcchanan will soon be inaugurated. Every democrat should be interested to know the sentiments and pol icy of the man of his choice. Congress is in session and the people should keep informed of the do ingsoftli ir servai ts. Th ■ Legislature of this State will assemble on the 7th January, and every citizen of the commonwealth should watch, with an anxious eye, all that concerns our Mate interests. The Sentinel will contain full reports upon all these topics, motives enough we think to induce every man to take our paper. In addition we shall keep our readers informed upon all the current news of the day, domestic and foreign. We will give full report* of the markets, and all interesting commercial and monetary matters. — We will give each week a full report of the N. Y, cattle market . In a word we shall endeavor to give our paper nn interest to the tradesman, the mechanic, the laborer, to all classes and prof ssions. Advertisers are especially invit- dto the great advantages the Sentinel offers as an advertising medium. Its extended circulation reaches all portions o'the State ind all c esses of the community, giving the advantage of not only a large local, but general circulation. We again ask our friends to aid in extending the circulation > f b th our Daily and Weekly paper. Havingno soliciting agents, we shall have to depend entnely upon their good will and efforts, which we trust they will generously manifest in good works, and which we promise to r< pay in every effort to give the Sentinel value and influence. We are prepared to print all kinds of blanks for county officer’s use, or furnish any official books of record they may need. We hope to receive orders for this kind of work. The Book and Job office of the Sentinel is equal to any in the west, and we are prepared to do any work in that line on the most favorable terms. r BE"1BH3 BI« HP E • Daily Sentinel, with full legislative, telegraphic and market reports, will be sent by mail al .s<> per annum or 50 cents per month. Weekly Sentinel — One copy, one year, $1 50 Ten copies, one year, and one to thegetterof club, 15 00 Twenty copies, one year,to one address 20 00 Thirty-five copies one year, to one address, and one to getter up of club. 35 00 Fifty copi s one year, to one address, and two to the getterup of club, 50 00 —ln cl lbs of ten lhe name of each subscriber will be written on hi--paper, but in clubs above that number, or where the papers are sent so one dollar each no name will be written on the papers, but the entire club sent to one person for him to distribute. This is the invariable practice of all papers sending outelubs at cheap rates and cannot be departed from in any particular. Address, Proprietors Sentinel, Indianapolis, Ind.

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"VTEW DEMOCRATIC PAPER AT 11 WASHINGTON, D.C. Daily, Tbi-Wexv ly, and, Weekly —The undersigned has com. menced the publication of an Independent N a tional Democratic paper, in the City of Washington, on the st of April, called “THE STATES.” It will represent the sound and constitutional principles which have ever been upheld by ths National Democracy, but it will not be so entirely political that its columns will interest tk® politician exclusively, nor so subservient as t 0 betray principles at the Command of yower.or disguise it convictions at the suggestion of *». pediency. In addition to tee discussion of important political questions, itcolumns will be devotedly the proceedings of Congress, the currenttrane. actions ofthe Government, to General News, and matters of interest appertaining to literature, agriculture and commerce. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily will be mailed to subscribersat $-1 peryejj Two copies forwarded for 7•• The Tri-Weekly embracing all the reading matter which appears in the Daily will be furnished at 8 '• Two copies for 4 « The W’ekkly—The Cheapest Paper in the South The Weekly will be issued in a large Double Sheet form, and printed on superior paper,with handsome bold type, the following prices: Single copies, fS per rear Two copies, 3 " Five copies, 7 <i Ten copies, to one address, and any larger number at $ per i ear, 1U « Ten copies, to the address of each sub scriber,and any larger number, at l,2l>,each, 12 « Any postmaster, clerk or o'her person, who may send five subscribers, with seven dollars enclosed, will receive an extra copy. LZPayment in all cases is required invariably In advance;and no paper shall be forwarded until the the receipt ofthe money. The Weekly will contain all the important matter published during the weekin the Daily. The the unde-signed was one of the original proprietors of the Washington Union, and his long newspaper experience before an j sinre the establishment of that paper, justifies hitn in promising tothe public a paper well worthy oftheir patronage. The States will not be the orgn of any clique or faction, and with no partial pur pose to serve, the paper will ad dress itself tothe honest judgment of the people, and for support willrely upon their appreciation. Address. J. P. HEISS. Exchanges—The Tri-Weckly States will be forwarded to all country papers which will give the above a few insertions. vl nIV.

THE MECHANICS, INVENTORS AND MA N UFACTURES. Tn announcing the THIRTEENTH Annual Volume of the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, the Publishers respectfully inform the publie that in order to increase and stimulate the formation of clubs, they propose to offer. ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS INCASH PREMIUMS for the sis een largest lists of subscribers sent in by the Ist of January, 1858; said premiums to be distributed as follows:— Fertile largest list, $300; 2d, $250; 3d, $ .00 4th, $ 50; stn, $100; 6th, S9O; 7th, 80;»th, S7O; 9th, 60 dollars; i Oth. 50 dollars; 11 th, 40 dollars 12th, 35 dooliars 13th, 30 dollars 14th, 25 dollars; 15th 1° dollars. Names of subscribers can be sent in at differI ent times and from different Post Offices. The cash will be paid to orders of the successful competitors immediately after the Ist of January, ibsß. Southern, Western, and Canada money will betaken for subscriptions. Canadian subteri- ' bers will please to remit Twenty six cents cents j extra on each year’s subscription to pre-pay I postage. ! TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION—Two Dollars a Year nr One Dollar for Six Months. CLUB RATES—Five Copies, for sixteenths, 4 dollars; Five Copies, for twelve Mouths, 8 dollars; Ten Copies, for Six Months, 8 dollars Ten Copies, for Twelve Months 15 dollars; Twenty Copies, for Twelve Months 28 dollars. For all Clubs of T wenty and over, the yearly subscription is only $1 40 The new volume will be printed upon fine paver with new type. I’ha general character of the Scientific American is well Known, and, as heretofore, it well bo chiefly devoted tothe promulgation of information relating tothe various Mechanical and Chemical Arts. Manufactures, Agriculture, Pat euts, Inventions, Engineerii g, Mill Wors, and all interests which the light of Practical Science is calculated to advance. Itisweexly, inform for binding; >t contain annually from 51)0 to 600 finely executing Egraviugs, and Notices American and European Improvements,together with an Official List of American Patent Claim*published weexlv in advance of all others papers. It is the aim of the Editors of the Scientific American topresent all subjects discussed in its column in a practical and popular form. They will also endeavor to maintain acandid fearlessness in combating an exposing false thecrit* and practice in Scientific and Mechanical matters, and thus preserve the character f the Scientific American as a reliable Encyclopaedia of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge. (□"Specimen copies will be sent gratis to any part of the country. MUNN it CO., Publishers and Patent Agent*. No. 128 Fulton stecet, New Yorx. vl-n3O.

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