Decatur Eagle, Volume 2, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 30 April 1858 — Page 2

THE E AG LE L. PHILLIPS,} v Editors a Pbopbietobs. f. G. SPENCER,) DECATUR, INDIANA HORNING. APRIL 30, IMS. HEMOCBATir STATE TICKET, SEC&FTARY OF STATUDANIEL McCLURE, of Morgan. AI'IiTOR OF STATE, JOHN W. DODD, of Grant. TREASURES OF STATE, KATHANIEL F. CUNNINGHAM, of Vigo. FtTERINTENnENT OF PUBLIC IXSTRUCTIOM, SAMUEL L. RUGG, of Alien. ATTOBXLT GENERAL. Joseph e. McDonald, of Alont;omery, FOB SCTBEMX JUDGES, SAMUEL E. PERKINS. of Marion. ANDREW DAVISON. of Decatur. JAMES M. HANNA, of Vigo. JAMES L. WORDEN, of Whitley. COUNTY TICKET. BEPBESEXTATIVE, JONATHAN KELLEY, Sex. tbeasvreb. DAVID SHOWERS. RECORDER, • W. J. ADELSPERGER, in brief. GEORGE FRANK. COMMISSIONER. J. R. MILLER. BVBTETOB, E. W REED. COBOXEB, LEVI EWING.

Conference Committee—Majority Agree. A majority of the joint committee of conference upon the Kansas question have finally agreed, and have submitted their report to both branches of Congress, which is the proposition introduced before the committee by Mr. English, of this State. This proposition differs but very little from the House amendment, except that it provides that in case the citizens of Kansas s’, all reject, by a popular vote, the constitution framed at Lecompton. Then, whenever her population will be sufficient to entitle her to one representative in Congress, she *ha| p recent fnfr<me a lew con tuition and submit it to er peopie before presenting it to Cong re*. W- are ETJ:a pleased to learn that this zn-- ’.-n, » its some instances hare <; starbed the harmony of the Democratic par J, is l.kely to be settled upon just and table principles by refering the connttuston back to the people to be by them • a -.'.-toned or rejected through the ballot box. It is certain that if the Lecompton constitution does not represent the will of the majority of the Anna fide inhabitants of the territory it will be rejected, and Kansas will remain out ot the Union for some time. After ail the excitementover Kassas, she has not at this time one half the population that would entitle her to a representative. But as the Democracy are i.kuy to unite, upon this great pnn-lple of popular sovereignty, the Kep j < cans are loud in their denunciations ‘ f it—this is truly consistant after their vote upon the Montgomery amendment. New Drug Store. Mr. Tolan, formerly of Defiance, Ohio, is about opening a new Drug Store, in the new building directly opposite the Public Square; where he intends keeping every variety of drugs. He is, we learn, well qualified for the business, and we hope he may succeed in bis enterprise, for we very much need such an establisment in our town—let our citizens give him their patronage. Advertisement next week. jTiyYou, who have been using bread made from bad flour, change your course, make amends for your evil deeds and take your grain to Mr. C. D. Hart’s new Grist Mill, where you can be accommodated with superfine flour. We were presented a few davs ago with * sack of flour, the first ground upon this mill, and after using the same, have no hesitency in saying that better flour cannot be had in the State of Indians. IPS’* We learn that Alvin Lhamon, late of this county, was on Tuesdav last, tried and sentenced for grand larceny bv the Allen Circuit Court, to four years iu the State Prison. Xl7 We would refer our readers to our r-w advertisements, which, it will be to tfieir interest to read. Those wishing anything done in the way of blacksmith-i-g should try them that iJrcr*i«e

India Lost to Lngland. When the first intelligence of the revolt of India reached our shores, we announced under it. true name of revolution; for through all the suppressions and perversions of the British press, we saw it was the uprising of a vast family of nations against the intolerable cruelties of a handful of foreign oppressors. England had the making up of her own report, and she could varnish over the atrocities of her officers, and invent as many crimes as it pleased her policy to impute to the rebels. She could call it a mutiny, and talk of the news of its speedy suppression coming by the next steamer; but we measured her reports by the historic records of her fearful crimes against the natives, and had no more rvspect for the one than the other. Well, a year has passed, and our proEnglish press passed from its maudlin sympathies for the disturbance of British rule and “civilization” in India to a reluctant confession that the mutiny is what we qualified it at first, a wide and terrible revolutionary war. And it is also forced to confess that it was provoked by the abominable aud unlicensed despotism of the British officials. Its only parallel is in the Spanish colonial system. In both cases the unhappy natives were disposed of their lands, which they were compel- ■ led to cultivate in the capacity of slaves, for the benefit of their conquerors. These nations of land pirates filled the world with their indignant clamor over the bold filibusters who, at the invitation of an oppressed people, went to the rescue of Texas, and would like to go in the same fashion to the rescue of Cuba. Il is all right for Governments to filibuster and enslave, but it is horrible for the people to filibuster to set another people free. :or even to filibuster their own land and lives out of the thrall of an unrighteous : invader. When shall we learn to see the truth, aad speak it? England dares not confess it—and half j our prees is but the echo of hers —but the j - fact is clear to every unbiased mind that India is lost to England. The war will be prolonged until the national credit is wrecked with her colonies, and then, when she is driven to the hard choice of ; bankruptcy or peace with India, she will recognize its independence as she did ours i in 1783, at the end of a seven years’ war. The more liberal and enlightened journals I ■of Great Britian are rapidly coming to the conclusion, if they have not fully I reached it, in their secret hearts. They have at least come so near it that they adi init that there is no end in sight. The London Star candidly deplores that no results have as yet been attained. It “We relieve Agra and Lucknow, we take Delhi and Sauger, we fight dozens 1 iof battles, and in only one or two are we nor . Si»ll fko ar»a ino inturrcc tion extends. Brigades and columns cut ; their way hither and thither, but it rolls ' round closes behind them and hardly withdraws before before. \ “ ‘Beating them,’ says the Times' correspondent, ‘is very little use; two thousand beaten men seem to them just as two thousand victorious soldiers.’ While i ' all our attention is concentrated upon i Oude. we can scarcely atiord to notice I the ‘cheering news’ that we are at length ■ able to march an.inadequate force against eight thousand rebels iu Rajpootana, where the advantage is not so decidedly with us as might ba desired iu the Mahratta country. And we have fresh mutinies at Rajpore and Benares, in the middle of February. “How fatally uncertain is the whole ' condition of affairs is suggested uv a fact ' mentioned incidentally in the correspouj dence already referred to. At the Governor General's tent is heard, one day, a salute of cannon at a short distance.— : News is soon brought that it is a chief in j the neighborhood who has proclaimed his I independence, and fired a salute in ho"or of his Raj, and ‘the Governor General has i not a man to send to chastise this inso- ; lence.’ ” Fresh mutinies; the area of insurrection extending; the army inadequate; loans to 1 be again and again repeated; her resour- ' j ces drying up as the enorm >us demands j for the war expand; France lowering; the I United States exasperated bv a long series of insults; Turkey and Russia mysterious; China on her hands, and nowhere a reliable ally. This is the vista through which England must study her chances in India. When that is settled, she may : turn to Australia.— States. How the Bor Knew- ms Father—At a justice court in the ‘Green Mountain State.’some years ago, the following amu'sing incident occurred. A very ill-natu-red, quarrelsome person was concerned , in a street brawl one night, and got a blow , from somebody, which resulted in a ‘black eye’ and a suit for assault and battery — lathe course of the trial, a son of the plaintiff was called to the witness stand, . a regular ‘chip of the old block.’ about sis- , teen years of age. The bov testified to some knowledge of the affray, but couldn’t , give many particulars, as the night was , an exceedingly dark one. ‘Now. sir,’ said the cross examining at- ] torney. ‘will you venture to swear that ■ your farther was there al all?’ ‘Yes, sir; I know he was there.’ ‘But you say you did not see him, nor hear him speak; how. then, did you know he was present?’ j 1 •Why—l'll tell you. Just as I came 1 out of the gate, I heard Joe smith (the 1 defendant holler out ‘There goes the old 1 devil !’—and I knew he meant dad.’ I 111 V‘?« cheat* her rotaries.

—« iwin*eiiiiU^. | ii -num—ar j— .. Outrage upon the American Flag. The editors of the New Orleans Bulletin has been favored by their friends of the commercial house of Messrs J. A. Barelli i Co. with two letters addressed to them from Tampico, of the date of Ist April, one from the United States consul at that port, Franklin Cnase, esq., and the other from Captain Joseph Spi*a, master of the schooner Virginia Antoinette, a regular trader between New Orleans and Tampico. From those letters, corresponding as they do in substance we gather the following particulars: The schooner, after having been legally cleared from the custom-house at Tampico, got under wav on the 1 Bth ult. for New Orleans; but when sailing past one of Garza’s forts, about a milt below the citv, she was brought to by a couple of shot fired from the guns of the fort, although she had her national colors flying from both her fore and main-top mast heads. The schooner then retraced her steps and rea-hed her former anchorage off the city, and, on receiving the captain's report, the consul despatched a courier to Garza, with a copy of the captain’s protest against the insult of the American flag, accompanied with an official letter addressed to that revolutionary chief. The events that followed can be best understood from the following extract which we make from Consul Chase's letter: ‘His answer was vague and unsatisfactory, but he distinctly stated that the American vessels in port might proceed to sea without molestation. Accordingly, Capt. Spisa proceeded to the bar, which is now in the hands of Garza, where a demand was made of him for double duties, both import and export, and also for double port charges, which was properly refused on the part of Capt. Spisa; and hence the vessel is detained by an armed force under orders from Garza. By this conveyance I have written for a vessel-of-war. I trust vou will use your influence with our Government to send us one here with the least possible delay. ‘Our city is cannonaded three times a day by Garza, and every shot is directed on our private dwellings. Yesterday morning one shot passed through the dwelling of the French consul, and he and iiis ladv narrowly escaped being killed.’ Welaarn (says the Bulletin) from the letter of Capt Spisa, that when boarded by Garza’s officer, an attempt was made to search the.vessel, so as to ascertain her cargo, with the view of extorting the export duty. This attempt to search was frustrated by the strenuous opposition of the captain, who, in consequence, was sent back to the port. Capt. Spisa also states that the brig Stalesen had arrived at Tampico on the 30th ult., but was detained on riie bar because t'e captain had refused to accede to the extortionary demand by this same Garza An American maa of-war is imperatively required al Tampico at this time to protect the interests of American citizens, and mantain the honor and dignity of our flag. -i ■ - Loosing AH a Family Scene. There is something exceedingly tender in the following, which we take from the Child's Popper:' A few years ago a merchant failed in business. He went borne in great aritation. ‘What is the matter?’ asked his wife. ‘I am ruined; I am beggared; I have lost my all’’ he exclaimed, pressing his hand upon his forehead as if his brains were in a whirl. ‘Alli’said his wife, ‘I am left. All! papa!’ said the eldest boy, ‘here am I.’ 'And I, too papa.’ said his girl, running up and putting her arms around his neck. Ts not lost papa,’ repeated Eddie. ‘And have your health left,’ said Ins wife. And your two hands to work with, papa,’said his eldest, ‘and lean help vou.’ ‘And our two feet papa, to carry you about. ‘And your two eyes to see what, papa.’ said little Eddie. 'And you have God's promises,’ said grandmother. ‘And a good God,’ said his wife. 'And a heaven to go to,’ said his little girl. ‘And Jesus to come and fetch us there,’ said the eldest. ‘God forgive me,’ said the poor merchant, bursting into tears. ‘I have not lost my all. 'What are the few thousands which I call my all to these more precious things which God has left me? and he clasped his family to his bosom, and kissed his wife aud children with a thankful heart. Ah, no, there are many things more precious than gold and bank stocks, valuable as these may be in their place. When the Central America was foundered at sea, bagsand puises of gold were strewn about the deck, as worthless as the merest rubish. ‘Life, life!' was the prayer. To some of the wretched suivivers, ‘Water, water!’ was the praver ‘Bread, bread!’ it was worth its weight in gold, if gold could have bought it. ° Iho loss of property must not cloud the mind with a wicked forgetfulness of’ the great blessings which are left behind. No man should dispair, for no mau has lost his all until he has lost his integrity, lost the mercy of God, and lost his “hope of Heaven at last. St. Louis, April 17.—The Republican says that an express messenger passed through this city with instructions to General Johnston two weeks since not to' commence offensive operations againsti the Mormons before the arrival of the peace commissioners, who have retched 1 here. I I

Present Condition of Mexico. i To ever again speak of this country as • at peace in all its parts is not likely to i fall to the lot of any journalist so long as i .the proportion of Indians, mixed population, and whites remain the same.— J For the time, it is enough for us to look ■ to the main (ravelled roads of the courtry. ' When a government can keep the main . high roads in its possession, it must for I the present, and some time to come, be considered a strong government in Mex- . ico. This will be all that reasonable people, who know the depleted condition of the national physique, can expect, and for those who are careful observers of changes in Mexican governments this must ■ be the proof that any party has triumphed ■ as completely as it can when it has put I itself in possession of the route to the inte- . rior as far as Guadalajara, and on the coast side to Vera Cruz. The government has just accomplished its work in the interior. The surrender of ths troops of Parrodt at Guadalajar mar be considered as the final blow in that direction. Juarez and his cabinet will most probably take a steamer at Manzanillo and go to Acapulco, where they will join force with Alvarez, or perhaps they may take passage for San Francisco, there to «njoy a quiet night’s rest away from the fear of pursuit by the troops of the government. The war of races seems to be making frightful headway in I ucatan. The In diansof that region appear to be a determined set of savages, and their war cry is terrible to the civilized inhabitants. We have now news of their sacking three more towns. The account says that nearlv all of the inhabitants were slaughtered, but does not give the exact number. A few months since four hundred people were murdered in one village. The number of victims to Indian vrngence must soon be very great in that distracted State. The civil war in Yucatan among the whites still continues. The threatning danger to them from the Indans appears to have but little power to restore harmony. The number of aspiring men is altogether too great in that region for the number of public officers; therefore, they constantly are a: war. Mysterious Attempt at Assassination —We copy from the Washington Star the following account of what that journal very properly calls a ‘mysterious attempt at assassination. The whole storv of the birth, parentage and educa- 1 tion of the reverend gentleman to whom it refers|is o' an equally romantic araet- ' er—plausible enough to be true; yet improbable enough to be doubted: •As the Rev. Mr. Eleazer Williams, ' who is claimed to be the son of Louis 1 XVI. and now rightful heir to the throne 1 |of 1 I onno w->« £lftingr at tie lodging*:, No. 474 Pennsylvania avenue, arranging ' some papers between the hours of 12 and , I o'clock last night, he was startled by a 1 man suddenly entering his room and ad- ' vanning towards him with an uplifted dag- 1 ger, who txclaimed through his teeth. : , ‘l’ve got you at last, have I’’ Mr. Williams cried ou’, assassin! assassin! save 1 me from the assassin!’ and although a man seventy-eight years of age, but nev- • ertheless vtgorou.- and strong, he gra<p- 1 ed the uplifted arm of the villiau with the 1 energy of a man determined to defend I his life to the last extremity, and contin- ’ ued to alarm the house by cries of assas- 1 sin! assassin!’ The contest was despe- 1 rate but short, the villian finding that he ' could not accomplish his hellish purpose, and the house was becoming alarmed, I with a vigorous effort extracted himself i from thejgrasp of his intended victim, sud- I ■ denly left the room and fled the house I The cries of Mr. Williams and the noi-e 1 of the contest thoroughly alarmed the house, but not in time to capture the vill- ' ain \\ hen the inmates entered the room i of Mr. \\ illiams they found him lying 1 upon the floor totally exhausted, and the i dagger es the assassin near him upon the ' floor.’ ; Ihe Revivals.—A Unitarian's view of I revivals of religion was very full y and can- 1 didly expressed a few days ago, in a sermon by Dr. Bellows, of New York. He ; thinks most favorable of the ordinary and regular means of grace, but by no means treats the «traoidinary means with disrespect: •This revival must be welcomed as we welcome violent thunder storms after long draughts; not so good for the coming harvest as the gentle spring and summer rains, but still better than no rain at all. and sometimes proving the salvation of crop.’ Os the virtue and reality of ‘revivals’ ' he says: ‘We have political revivals, why not religious ones? The machinery of the one is increased every four years; we have political exhorlers, and public meetings are multiplied. Why should not the i same means (only not concealed, dishonest or overworked.) be used to increase public attention to duty, to lov», to God ' jand man, to religious—the most imoor- ' tant element iu our nature.’ * ' - There is a Cockney youth who, everv | time h* wishes to get a glimpse of his j sweetheart, cries ‘fire!’ directly under her window In the alarm of the moment she plunges her hea l out of the window > and inquires ‘Where?’ when he poetical- ' ly slaps himself on the bosom, and ex- ' claims—‘Ere, my Hangelina.’ One hundred and twelve locomotives ' | are in use on the Illinois Central Ros I ’ ion which twenty one burn coal.

Kansas in LouisianaThe ‘crush’ policy does not find. we have often shown before by extracts from Southern journals, that universal favor in the South that Lecomptonites imagine. Intriguing leaders, for personal ends, are producing all the difficulty, in which they have not the sanction of the conservative masses- In an able article on the subject, the New Orleans Belta has the following language: ‘Louisiana is not prepared to unite in chorus with the John Van Burens, the newspaper Bennetts, the Cochranes. Dixes, and the offal generally of Abolitionism, in demanding the admission of Kansas into the Union, countrary to every Democratic sentiment, and in opposition ’to the well-understood wishes of ninetentlie of its inhabitants. If there was any reason for supposing that any respectable portion of the people of that Territory were in favor of making it a -lave State, or if there was the smallest possible chance of slavery ever being established permanently there, Louisiana would be among the last to yield an inch on the question; but when told bv the President himself, when assured by all liis Northern Abolition allies that the constitution, which, for admission into the Union, is al! sufficient, is not binding upon the people lor whom it is formed, and mav be discarded at pleasure — after that announcement, Louisiana, whatever her Congressional delegation may do, or however they may act, will not be found approving any such doctrine. If the Kansas Constitution be such as to justify its framers in their application to have the Territory admitted as a State, it is extraordinary if those who so contend should adopt the views of President Bnchanan, and declare that after that event its provisions as they affect the people themselves are a nullity: In other terms, we suppose that the Bee and Crsscerd newspapers of this city, the only, Lecomptonites fully here, are prepared to admit, on the same principle, that constitution of the State may be superceded by legislative act, at the determination of a mere majority of the General Assembly sanctioned by the Gubernatorial approval. X icaragua, Ev way of San Jose, Costa Rica, intelligence has been received from Costa Rica to the 20th of March. The New York Herald says: A fresh insurrectionary movement had occurred in that republic, which is said to be headed by Jerez. It seems to be only another outbreak of the old feud between the arisiocrats and democrats—or. more truly, the ‘ins’ and ‘outs;’ for principles in Nicaragua are all sham, patriotism being grandiloquently expresed while the hand is clutching the public treasury. This news was quite unexpected at San Jose, as the Nicaraguans seemed disposed to unite rather against Costa Rica than to tall out among themselves. A weak i or two previous. v the steamer San Carlos, on which the remained a Costa Rican I guard, wis seized by the Nicaraguans, | who drove oft the Costa Ricans, took pos ■ session of the steamer and afterwards ran her ashore, and, according to the latest accounts, sunk her in the lake. Whether i the Leonese will succeed in their attempts to overturn the government of ’ Mangua is doubtful; but this sudden insurrection only shows of what combustible materials the people are composed ■ and how incapable they are of self-gov-ernment. The V anderbilt squabble, apparently for the possession of the Nicaraguan transit, remains no nearer its termination than it did six months ago. Webster has procured a kind of contract from the 1 Costa Rican government, in which it is j stipulated that when V anderb'lt pavs 590,000 the government will consent to the steamers. Since then the onlv steamer over which Ccsta Rica had any con trol the San Carlos—has, as we have stated, been seizad by the Nicar ■ ;c>s. . and subsequently sunk. Mr. Allen had gone back, while Webster was in Nicarague trying the efiects of his diplomacv on Martinez. — I ... Passports to Men of Color.—Senator Wilson recently applied at the State Department tor a passport for D. J. S. Rock, a colored citizen of Boston, and received the following reply from the Secretary; Department of State, } Washington. April 2. 1858. f To the Hun. Henry Wilson, Senate Chamber: Sir. I Lave had the honor to receive your note of yesterday with its accompaniments. r In reply, I have to inform you that it is not the practice of the Department to issue any other paper than passports to persons going abroad from this country. A passport being a certificate of ci'izenship. has never, since the foundation of the Government, been granted to persons of color. No change, j n this respect has taken place in consequence of the decision of the Dred Scott case. Returning the inclosure in your letter. I have the nonor to be, Sir, your obedient servant. Lewis Cass. TRE „ S J rasbvro Cl ock — Gollgnani says: ‘1 he famous astronomical clock of tne cathedral of Strasburg reproduced, by mesns of its machinery, with perfect accuracy, the various pliaresof’ho re-' ceet echpse of the sun. This clock, as is known, m addition to declaring the time presents th-heavenly bodies and their movements

The American Flag. aa ; On the 30th of April, 1818, th e W i ent flag of the United was hfi'he -for the first time over the Hail oft . House of Represen’atives. This d av G< ! consequently, the fortieth anniversary' en ' the flag, as adopted and established h PP :an act of Congress approval April 1, atii ■ It was designed by captain Bam. C.’p MC ? > e, i • who, in 1814. when in command of 0 P privateer General Armstrong, sought Wr ’ 1 a British fleet the most brilliant naval er rD ’ : gagement to be found on record. ' »bi . mg thus sustained the honor of his c uu .. try’s escutcheon, no one could have - e found more worthy of being the author o f ZT ’ the flag which now floats over theUnici Previous to the adoption of the rr-s • ent flag by Congress, the number o j.tJ > stripes in the old flag had been • to eighteen, according to the number j ”’ !■ States admitted into the Union, thusd s . P 6 ' i stroying the beauty and perspicuity ,[ the flag, and, while order was ; some, others contained but nine stripei, as fancy dictated. ' On the admission of Indiana into the Id Union in 1816, Mr. Peter H. Wendortrg . of New York, offered a revolution ‘il^ ent a committee be appointed to inquire i t!o the expediency of altering the flagofth United States.’ A committee wasap.rro. pointed who reported a bill on the jj January, 1817. but was not acted upon ,eal While the committee had the matterm.* cer consideration, Mr. Wendover called ' on Captain Reid, who was in Washington ß >’ ’ all the time, and requested him to form • a design of our flag so as to represent the ns ' increase of the States without destroyin’ ter its distientive character, as thecommintt-e’' 1 were about to increase the stars if.| I< stripes in the whole number of States-* - • Captain Reed recommended that the stripes be reduced to the original number - ' of thirteen States, and to form the num. of stars representing the whole numher of States into one great star in the ' Union, adding one star for every new Slate n, thus giving s he significant meaning to the K "' flag, symbolically expressed, of “EPh-;’ ribus Unum.” This design of Captain,,? Reid’s was adopted in committee, buttlie ns bill did not pass until! the next Congreu, lto in 1313.— Washington Union. ~ " * 1 ese Iloniantic Slorv. .. . . ’ R ’ A curious circumstance has comet) . light lately, which has caused the lau;., to turn against the Academic. A suruij wn I member ol that respected body hashmil’l in his employment fur a long time pas'.« — ■ young secretary, whose services of lhe L Oriental languages and the collatingui Oriental works that onlv six month*ago, i he doubled hissalary, on the threat old.secretary to leave for anothei savant -av Last Monday the secretary came, allpeo >ed iu-nt and ashamed, to the savant, tod»- s!r ! clare that his approaching marriage would j n ., I prevent a continuance of his engagetm: • p The savant was incensed. ‘And wbtn he ■ the accomplice of your brainless follv" , exclaimed the jovanJ in a rage—being . i himself a confirmed old bachelor, st. pr most averse to marriage. 'Monsitt "* II returned the secretary, with i**i tiller, ‘to whom I am to be married on‘f-> the 7th of thismontl !’ The savant looki ed up) in alarm, and beheld the blushing , e countenance and trembling eyes ot hit a ; secretary. The (ru'h flashed upon bi' mind at once—the secretary was a man! And*o it prove* to be. One, who with the knowledge of Greek and Latin, in with seven Eastern languages, could find c ' f no employment as a ‘learned female.’ an! ca who had been compelled to assume tbe lr i dress of the other sex in order to obtain — a livelihood. What makes the joke td!) 1 with even more severity against these _ : vant is the fact that Monsieur H t’'* j i expectant bride-groom, being the ven rival whose lurals have prevented hsost hisslumbers for these fifteen- years— k” Court Journal. m th Wonders of Astronomy The Revelation of Astronomical Set- I •-nee show that the sun is 3,800 times*! A tar again from the earth as the earthu round. The distance is so great, thsiHy i it would take a railway carriage, moving ri! at the rate of 100 miles every three hours, 330 vears to get through it: but the earth itself, traveling with a speed us better than e v 68.000 miles per hour, gets through «jer journey of a like extent—that is, ninety five millions of miles —in something lik® , )h j two months. The nearest star isatleMtrp two hundred thousand miles further a»»f sa than the sun. The light beam comes from the sun to the earth in eight minutes — and a quarter, but it must consume three T years and a quarter upon its journey belore it can arrive from the nearest star.— ,‘c ( But the nearest star is only upon the m- )t) ner confines of the vast star-galaxy; the on space that it takes the flash of light three up years and a quarter to traverse, is nevertheless but little space, almost swallowed up in the immensity by which it is sur ' »on rounded, for it is computed that the tnos< >n remote stars of the milkyway are seya hundred and fifty limes as far away a g ,i3 — as tbe nearest one. The gang of Hungarian robbers tak* ll at Stutb!Weissenburg consisted of23 |D 'na, dividuals, who were in possession of ar®’ of all kinds, and several horses, and carriages. Nine of the gang have bee"- <a ] hanged, in pursuance of a sentencepa* sl ’sc by a drum-head court, and chances were nd that several more of them would s!a i3 j the same fate. on i i y° Paictul Occurrence —Mr. Boon, of Leake county, Miss., was k a few days since by an accidental ':■ J: from bis ton. while turkey hunting