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THE EAGLE. Published every Friday morning, by PHILLIPS & SPENCER, Office, on Main Street, in the old School Hottse, one Square North of J. & P Crabs' Store. Terms of Subscription : For one year, $1 50, in advance; $1 75, within the year, and $2 00 after the year has expired. EFNo paper will be discontinued until all arrerages are paid, except at the option of the Publishers. Terms of Advertising: One square, (ten lines) three insertions, sl, 00 lleeh siibsequetit insertion. 25 iO“No advertisement will be considered less than one square; over one square will be counted and charged as two; over two, as three,etc. JOB PRINTING: We are prepared to <F all kinds of job-wokk. n a neat and workmanlike manner, on the most reasonable terms. Our material for rhe completion of Job-Work, being new and of the latest styles, and we feel confident that satisfaction I can be given. THERE IS NO GOD! BY JOE. “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God!’’—[ Bible. Within his heart the fool hath said, ■Hehold, there is no God!' And bi! aghast creation stands Shock’d at the impious word! Go,cringing wretch! blaspheme no more, Or else may o’er thee roll A crushing weight of God like wrath, To blast thy very soul. Think ye high Heaven will thus brook. Thy insults and thy sneers? Ah, mi! thy soul will one day be * O’crwhelmed with guilty fears. And then unto the rocks that tower, High o’er the raging sea, Affrighted at His mighty power, In horror thou shalt flee! • Is THERE NO GoD? The forest, with its leafy boughs, Points upward to lua throne; And with a silent tongue, declares The work is all His own! The brooklet as it murmurs by, Repeals His wondrous name; The stars that twinkle in the sky, His glorious works proclaim.. The birds that sing in sweetest lays. Or carol ’inong the trees, Send up to Heaven a hymn of praise, On every passing breeze. The sun that from his “blazing throne," Flings down his golden ray, Moves, (glad the Almighty’s powertoown) Obedient to His sway. The moon’s serene and gentle light, Speaks of the Father’s love; And whispers to the weary soul, Os yon bright Heaven above. Old ocean, too, whose billowy waves Like tallest mountains tower, But speakc the awful majesty Os Great Jehovah's power! And yet will man—vain man, provoke Th’ Almighty’s vengeance dire, To sink his soul down to the depths Os hell’s accursed fire? O, simple fool! a cup of woe Is filling up for thee, Which thou shall drain unto the dregs In long eternity. And when to hell thy soul is cast, To feel the burning rod, With horrid, groaning anguish, thou Wilt shriek—“ There is a God.” ■ — -— , Tom Marshall's First Composition. —A speaker at a school pic nice at Detroit the other day, related the following byway of illustration to the scholars, of what energy and effort will accomplish. It was Tom Marshall’s first composition at school. Tom was then an awkward, unlettered Kentucky boy. The theme of, this was ‘Habit,’ and was in the words following: ’Habit is a very bad habit. If a man gets into the habit going to the tavern j and getting drunk, he will go home and get as drunk asever he was.’ T. Marshal. Great examples to virtue or to vice, are not so productive of imitation as might be supposed. The fact is, there are hundreds that want energy for one that wants ambition; and sloth has prevented as many vices in some minds as virtues in others. Idleness is' the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce on good, the most noxious of evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often ; is engender in idleness, the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.

THE FORTUNATE LOSS; OR, The Reward of Honesty. BY HARRY HARTLAND. ‘That will do, I think,’ soliloquized Frank Stanly, ‘it will not do to be too explicit;'and then, if it belongs to a poor person, a short advertisement will not cost them as much as a longer one;’ and he read: ‘Found—A small suin of money, which the owner can have by proving property, on application to Frank Stanley, 4'53 Palace avenue.’ Then he rang a bell an! handed it to i the servant, who appeared to answer his j summons with instructions to carry it to office of the Herald, and have it inserted three times. Mr Frank Stanley had only recently I came into possession of a large property, I | by the death of a bachelor uncle, the last words of his uncle were, ‘take the proi perty.my boy; I’ve willed it all to you; live comfortably, don’t spend it too free- j lv; and above all things, never get mar-! J ’ o’o ried.’ Now, committing matrimony was some-j . thing that had hardly entered Frank’s head; but his uncle was not in his tomb I one month before he wondering why his ‘ uncle should have made such a desire as ' 1 that, had wondered if it was not better for man to be married! then lie began to; think he would rather like matrimony; and finally, lie decided that he would ' make Mrs. Frank Stanley of the first lady j i whom he should like well enough—that j is if he could get her consent. Frank’s means, until the decease of his uncle, had been very limited; and, although he was of a good family, and lie was possessed of a good education, and accomplishments and pleasing manners, yet he was not considered a ‘good catch’ I by managing mammas with marriageable daughters; therefore he had received but i few invitations to their soirees, and at the few he had attended, he was by no means ! a great favorite with the ladies; so lie bej came disgusted with female society, more I especially that which is called fashionable I and if his wealthy uncle had advised him j then to remain a bachelor he would read- ■ ily have promised to, and would have deI voted his life to his books. Frank was in no way inclined to dissipation, he detested the company of fast young men more than he did of fashionable young ladies, and all the efforts to inveigle him into their modes of life, proved fruitless. But since he had become a man of property, he found that there was something wanting to complete his happiness; what it was he was at a loss to conceive, unless it was a wife. He had been thinking of his lonely situation in life, and of course he looked on the dark side of the matter; then he lookied upon the table, at some dozen gilt-edg-I ed, perfumed, pohte-worded requests that he would favor the senders with his comIpany; and he thought of the inditer of ; each and every one, and wondered it there j was one among the fair dozen who could contribute to make his life any happier. He thought and wondered until he was tired of thinking and wondering; then he I took his hat and cane and walked out in order to change the channel of his thoughts As he walked down the broad avenue, musing on the easiest way to relieve his 1 j mind of this troublesome subject, his eyes I fell upon a purse, through the meshes of i which gold coin was shining; his medita- ! (ions were brought to an abrupt terminaI tion, as he picked the purse up; he turned upon bis heel and retraced his steps; arriving at his house, he laid the purse upon his table and bethought of the best I plan to find the owner; as a matter of j course he decided to advertise, which he did as my readers have seen. The re- < mainder of the forenoon Frank spent with , his books; but, after dinner, he began to 1 be beseiged with visitors; it was strange I how many money losers there were; the advertisement had only been in the eve-! ning edition, and he had over fifty callers; some had lost a portemonnaie containing about five dollars; some wallets ■ with from ten to thirty; others had drop- ■ ped purses with three or four dollars in them; one gentleman had lost a roll of bank bills; quite a number had dropped j bills, some ten, some five and some three ■ some two dollars, and one; one woman ; : came who hoped Mr. Stanley had found the quarter she had lost down one of the on Washington street about two weeks before; and an old man dropped in to see if it was the half dime, he had dropped in the omnibus that morning. All of these callers the servant had to show to j the door, disappointed. The next morning Frank had dismissed some dozen applicants for the found treasure, when an Irishman was, ; shown into the room; without removing | his apology for a hat, he exclaimed, ‘well ; man, dear, let me have my dollar and a half, and I’ll trate ye to whiskey for yer honesty.’ When told that it was more ' than a dollar and a half that was found, <

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pie desired to know the amouat; this | Frank very properly refused to tell, whereupon the vistor became saucy, cal- ; ling Frank an old cheat, and threatened to pound him if he did not give the money up, and finally avowed that he would sue him for an imposter. Frank had just rang his bell to have his servant remove ; the man, when the door bell rang, and j the porter showed in a young lady. She was a very pretty young lady, and somehow, Frank received the impressionthat ehe must.be as gaud °° " 1 -» — ; ii*.™ »vy; and he Almost blusned as be rose to ; receive her, and say ‘good morning.’ ‘I called,’ she said, ‘to see if the money ! i which you have advertised is mine. ‘Could you describe your property?’! I asked Stanley.’ ‘Yes, sir. There were fifty dollars all jin gold, one eagle, three half eagles, six quarter eagles, one three dollar piece, [ : and seven gold dollars, it was all Id a faded, green silk, net purse, and my name, i Mary Edmunds, was on the inside, near the mouth; I dropped it yesterday morni ing, abu'-V. ten o’clock, somewhere between the residence of Mr. R.ilton and No. T I fib’eet.’ ‘This, then, must be your money; I, found it not a dozen rods from Mr. Rdion’s house,’ aiil he handed her the purse. ‘Oh, I am so glad,’ she cried; ‘and so 1 will mother be, for we never expected to find it. Mother thought it useless to call upon you, as you advertised it as a smali I sum; but as I was on ray way to Mr. Rali ton’s, I thought that theie was no harm in calling. It probably seems a larger ’ amount to us than it does to you, as it is all we have, and I have been all winter in earning it.’ ‘All winter earning it!’ and Frank was astonished. ‘Are you employed at Mr. Ralton’s?, he inquired. ‘Yessir. I have been making shirts for Mr. Halton, and doing other .sewing.’ ‘Making shirts for Mr. Halton,’ thought Stanley; and he was again surprised, for Hose Ralton had boasted to him, only a few days before, that she made all her father’s shirts, and that she had made him two dozen duiiuy the winter, besides doj ing other needle work.’ ‘And how many shirts have you made ! for the Halton’s?’ inquired Frank, inclined to unravel the mysterv. ‘A dozen pair, sir.’ ‘Has Miss Ralton assisted you?’ ‘No, sir.’ ‘I presume she makes the anti maccasj sars and the lamp-rests.’ ‘No, sir; I did them all, and have engaged to make another lamp-rest for her which she wishes topresent to a friend.’ ‘Ah, I understand it now,’ said Frank, ; in an under tone; Miss Ralton had prom- ! ised to work him a lamp-rest similar to the one that he had admired in her parlor; I she was trying to catch him by a pretence industry, by claiming other’s handiwork | as her own. ‘Have you a permanent engagement?’ j he inquiredly abruptly. ‘No, sir.’ Then I wish you to make some shirts for me.’ ‘I should be happy to do it after I have fulfilled my engagement with Miss Ralton.’ ‘But I cannot wait; what does Mr. Rai- ! ton pay you for making shirts?’ ! ‘Two dollars a pair.’ ‘Well, I will pay you four dollars a pair I and for other work in proportion. 1 will give you work for a year, and you shall 1 make this house'your home, i will introiduceyouto my housekeeper;’ end he j pulled the bell cord. ‘But I should prefer returning to my j ! mother every evening, as she is an iuva ■ ! lid.’ ‘Where does she live?’ , ‘At L street.’ ‘Tell John to bring the carriage round j to the door as soon as possible,’ said Frank to the servant, who had answered j i the bell. Then turning to the astonished | Mary Edmunds, he said; ‘I will go to your mother’s with you, if you have no objection.’ Mary had scarcely got over her surprise when the carriage drove up to the door. As she and Frank descended the broad marble steps, Miss Ralton was just I passing the door. ‘Ah, good morning, Frank,’ she said, her face all smiles. ‘You must not steal awav my seamstress before she has finish- j ’ ed her engagement with us; and she laugh- i ! ed. ‘She is a very plain sewer, though,’ j |she added. ‘Are you her silent partner or merely a confidential adviser?’ asked Ralton sarcastically. ‘I hope to have the honor of being both j some future day,’ remarked Frank quiet-1 ly. He handed Mary into the carriage with as much ease as though she was a i titled lady; and springing in beside her, they drove off leaving Rose upon the side | walk surprised and chagrined. Upon their way to L street, ncith- ; erotic spoke, so 1 will take the opportu- ;

nity to inform my reader that Mary, an only child, had lost her father five years , before; he left her nothing but a good education, and an invalid mother. She had attempted teaching several times but she | was unsuccessful; for, although, she was j a fine scholar, she was too, quiet too clever, too good natured for an instructor; so, tp support herself and mother, she had to resort to her needle. It was before one of the many “Model so called—which are one the ’Re*k>n.nfltioD3 —and they are very good ted—where Frank’s carnage “stoppl'd. — • Up two pair of stairs were the rooms of Mrs Edmund and daughter; into these he' ; was shown, or, rather into one of them, a j very neatly furnished parlor, In one ' corner stood a piano, and over it ’ rf as suspended agui'ar; n» another stood a what not, upon which Were a few of the stahd- | .ltd poets, t',vo volumes of a late novel, a I work basket, a portfolio of sheet music, and a few other articles; upon the walls hung works of Mary’s pencil; and every- ; thing in, and about the apartment bore signs of ease and comfort, which might have been looked for in vain, in houses of greater pretension. ‘You play then,’ remarked Frank to Mary after he had been introduced to her mother, and his eyes for the third time rested upon the piano. ‘Yes, sir, lam very fond of music, j when I can devote my time to it; but I find little practice now.’ ‘Do you sing?’ ‘ln my way.’ ‘Will you favor me with this?’ and Frank took up ‘Gentle Annie,’ which lay upon the piano. ‘With pleasure;’ and Mary took her seat at the instrument and sang in fine taste, first the piece asked for, then anothi er piece Frank wished to hear; then they j sang a duet, then Frank sang a comic song with good effect; and there is no telling how much longer they would have sang, had not the bell of a neighboring church rang the hour of noon so loud as to call Stanley to a sense of duty. He apol- ! ogised for detaining them so long, but he ' had really forgotten himself in such exi cellentcompany. He theniufoimed them jof Lie uncle’s deatii, the advice and proI perty he left him, his possession of the : j property, and his doubts in regard to the ■ advice; of Miss Ralton’s deception in claiming Mary’s needlewoik as her own, ;of his thoughts of marrying, and of his j thoughts of her and of two fashionable young ladies the morning that he found ! the purse. He then invited Mary and her mother to make bis house their home • for a year at least; there Mary could find •' time to devote to her music, her drawing, i and her books; and if, a riper acquaintance ; they were mutually pleased, he should be happy to make her Mrs. Stanley.’ ' Need I tell my readers that Mrs. Edj mnnds was surprised! all of my other j characters have been, in their turn, why should not she? Frank was surprised i when be found Rose Ralton did not net . those anti-maccassars, Mary, when Frank ! expressed bis determination to visit her ' mother, and Miss Ralton, when she saw him hand her seamstress into his carriage with so much grace; now, as it is nothing j more than right that Mrs. Edmunds should take her turn, dear reader, please consider ; her surprise. Notwithstanding her surprise, the more i Mrs. Edmunds thought of Frank’s offer, j the more she was inclined to accept, and lit was but a few weeks ere they were both domiciled beneath the roof of Stanley Hall. A large room, with windows facing to the south, was assigned to Mis. ! Edmunds; the walls hung with Mary’s drawings, and her palor furniture was ■ here;in a recess bv a window Frank had j placed an arm chair, and to this room Mary and he came every afternoon and j read, played and sung to her mother; was ! she not a happy mother? Her health I has improved very much and she often rides out with Mary and Frank. ****** L ist night there was a wedding at Stanley Hall. Mary Edmunds is no more; —as they stood before the man of God, | and she vowed, to love, honor and obey, j Frank alike forgot Rose Ralton and her fibs, and the advice of his uncle. Mrs. Edmunds thinks it was a most fortunate loss when Mary dropped her purse; but Frank always interrupts, by reminding j her of the loss to him if he had failed to j advertise it! j „, „ [Lady reads legislative proceedings].— i ‘On motion of Mr. Smith, the ladies were j j admitted to a seat on the floor of the house.’ [lndignant lady hearer.] ‘A I seat on the floor, indeed. The brutes! I ! should think the State had better buy j chairs, instead of treating the Legislature to wine parties on Blackwell’s Island. I wouldn’t sit on the floor to oblige the Legslature, nor the Governor himself, I know. A hoary Spartan was asked what made him live so long, and answered: Ignorance of physic.

Population of K tv. Some of our eastern exchanges are representing that there are not to exceed j three inhabitants to each votor in Kansas and that, consequently , the whole popuj lation of this time does not exceed 45,(J00. ! Now we assert most positively, and we j believe we have quite as good means to ' ( arrive at a correct conclusion as any easI tern journalist who never stepped a foot ion Kansas soil, that we believe there are i more than five inhabitants to each voter; . ; that there are no new counties which have , STCster pr ;?■ <•;. r. eS4KU<>4<-_. ih-i-i J-j.oi- . I sas. Noung men known ns 'Hie carpet i bagemigrati m,’ have come here and gone ! ! agaiq. The heaviest proportion ot our | population have come the overland route, teams, biingoig their families with them. , 1 Berid ■ this, the actual vote cast on the 21 of August last, considerably ex- . I ceeded 14,000. Some precincts did not j send forward their returns in time to be i counted, while some few were rejected for informality. Then not less than 6,- > 000 voters were prevented from reaching . the polls by the sickness prevailing at ! that time, and the floods which had swollen the numerous streams the night i before the election, had rendered them ' impassable in nearly all the districts : south oi ;lie Kansas river, and the returns show less than half a vote, and so any . number of correspondents have written . to us from all parts of the southern counties. The conclusion of our best informed men in the territory is, that there is an actual voting population of 20,000 in KanI sas at this time. It this is so, which we ' firmly believe, then we have an actual population to-day in Kansas of 100,000, a ' difference in our favor of over one halt ! from the calculation of eastern journalists. —Herald of Freedom. Proposed Division of Kansas. The Kansas correspondent of the Bos- ; ton Journal, writing from Summer, under r date of Sept. 20lh, makes the following > statement: There is a political movement, of some ■ importance going on in connection with these gold discoveries. It is the forma i tion of a new Territory, from the vVestern - portion ot Kansas. t'lie parties lu the • vicinity of Pike’s Peak, it is said will at an ■ early day elect a Delegate to Congress, i and send him on to the next session with , a petition for a new territorial organizai tion. It is said that a gentleman from Kansas citv, who is to start with one ot I the trains leaving this week, will return i as the embryotic Congressman. ■ The grounds upon which they ask this . action of Congress, will be, that sitiuated , as they are, five hundred miles from the i well settled portions of Kansas, and the : seat of government, it will be impossible for them to find any protection Irom our Territorial ai.i/.oiities; and that unless ■ furnished with an organization of their own, mob law must prevail, and they must suffer from great anarchy. Seven . hundred miles, they will claim, are quite to much for the length of a State, where railroads are unknown and steamboats impracticable. Well Done Gallant Little Delaware. Delaware, the State which Major Noah used to boast, when it was all Whig, of carrying in his breeches pocket, is now all Democratic, and cannot be confined so narow a compass. At the State elec- i ! tion on Wednesday, the Democracy were successful by 800 majority, a very heavy one for the number of voters there are in the State. This is probably the result ot the People’s movement. Here it was first inaugurated. Here the attempt was made to combine all the opposition element in hostile array against the democracy, and we see the result— overwhelming defeat, and one of the nob! -st 'rimphs ot the Democratic parly it has achieved in years. Let us thank the People's Party. —W. 12 Xeies. -■■ ■ ■ 40 — —• Paul Morphy Triumphant. Hail, the gifted and wonderful Ameri- ‘ can — Paul Morphy, the recognized Chess | Champion of the world! We hastily pen j these lines to record, from the latest news the victory of the greatest living player over Harrwitz, himself considered, in Europe, as having, perhaps, no equal.— Harrwitz had. for years back, worked his way up, step by step, to the highest pinnacle of Chess fame—when, cncounteri ing our young Chess giant, he succumed ito his unrivelled powers. Morphy’s next antagonist will be Mr. Andersen, the well I known Prussian player. — Spirit of the ! Times. Down on Texas Catte.—The citizens 'of Vernon county, Missouri, have resolved in a public meeting that they will not permit cattle from Texas to be driven through their country. They declare iu their resolutions that Southern cattle communicate to those of Missouri a disease as Spanish or Texas fever, which is very : malignant, and has caused the death of • great numbers of native cattle in Wrnon county.

Arr<> ws iu it h Oat done. A travelled London lady gives the fol- . lowing incident, among others: to a circle of admiring friends, on her return from America: I was dinin’ aboard a first class steamboat on the Hoeigbo river. The gentlej man next me on my right, was a Southerner, ari l the genileman on my left was a j Northerner. Well, they gets into a kind ! of discussion on the Habbolition question, when some high words hariz. [ ‘ Pie.;st to retract, air, ’ said vh« Southi 61 ner. ‘Won’t do it,’ said tire I'TorTKerliST.* ‘Pray ma'am,’ sai l the Southerner to me, ‘will you have the goodness to lean back in your chair?’ ‘With the greatest, pleasure, said 1 not knowin’ what was comin.’ When what i docs my gentleman do but whips out a ’oss-pistol as long as my harm and shoots my left ’and neighbor dead! But that, wasn’t hall! for the bullet, cornin' out of the left temple, wounded a lady in the side, and she buttered an ’orrilic scream. ‘Pon my word, ma’am, said the Southi erner, you need not make so much noise about it, for I did it by mistake. ‘And was justice done the murderer? asked a horrified listener. ‘Hinstantly, dear madam, answered Miss L . ‘The cabin passengers set i right to work and linched ’irn. They hung him in the lamp chains, right hover the dining table and then finished desert. ; But for my pan, it quite spoiled my hapj petite. ’HoNESt Indian. —In the U. S. Cir- . cut, Court yesterday during the examination of Alexander Robison the veneri able Pottawatt chieftain and old time in- ! terpreter to the garrison here, he stated I what was to original, as well as Aboriginal : to be confined iu its proper place in the ; reported evidence to day. Il was a view ’ of Pottawattomic’s thirst '.hat, broujht ! j down the house, Court, bar, and bystait- ! tiers Quoth Alexander,’ I was much in those •days about the garrison; kept within a I few miles: always went to the Seller’s when I was thirsty?’ , 'Were you often ihusty?’ . ‘Hadn’t much money in those times?’ ‘Were you thirsty Whenever you ht tl money?’ ‘Was Very much thirsty always wlieu jl had money.’— Chicago lilb. What ( s in a Name?.— An Englishman had hired a smart traveling servant land arrivin'? ataninn oneevening, knowj ing well the stringency of police rcgniaI lions in Austria, where he was, he called ; for the usual register of travlers. that, he might duly describe himself therein. His . servant replied that he had anticipated ' his wishes, and had registered him in full form as an ‘English gentleman of independent property.’ ‘But how have vouput down my name? I have not told it you.’ ‘I can’t pronounce it, sure, but I copied j it faithfully from your portmanteau!’ ‘But it is not there. Bring me the j book.’ What was his amazement at finding, j instead of a very plain English name of j two syllables, the following portentious I entry of himself; •Monsieur Warrenledsolidleather.* A Curiosity.—We have been shown a piece of timber which we should judge I to be cedar, taken from 37 feet below the surface of the ground. I was found on the premises of Wrn. P. Utley, Esq., in Alpine township, while digging in a well, jAt the above named depth the workmen came upon the top of a tree, lying nearly in a horizontal position, and imbeded in solid blue clay. It was broken at that point so that it slightly protuded in the well. It was about six inches in diamei ter. and very little decayed. — Grandßafnds Sagle. Genuine Eloquence —There is no people in the world with whom eloquence is so Universal a gift as the Irish. W hen Leitch Ritchie was travelling in Ireland, ! he passed a man who was a painful speci taele of pallor, squalor, and raggedness. | His heart smote him and he turned back. ‘lf you are in want,’ said Ritchie, with some degree of peevishness, ‘why don’t I you beg?—‘Sure its begging I am, yer honor.—‘You did’t say a word. ‘Ov course not, yer honor: but see how the ! skin is speakin through the holes in me trousers! and the bones ervin out through jme skin! Look at me sunken cheeks, and the famine thats staring in me eyes! Man alive! isn‘t it begging lam with a hundred tongues'? NVe know of a beautiful girl who would prove a capital iq sea';.tion for a fortunehunter of the right sort. Her voice is of silver, her heart of gold, her teeth of pearl ; her cheecks of rubic’. anil her eyes of diamond* Ohl sirawberris! - «»» | Never put. off till to-morrow wli tt can be done to-day.

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