Decatur Eagle, Volume 12, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 11 December 1868 — Page 1

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\ ATTORNEYS. DANIEL D. HELEER, .A.'t’tOXTXOy’ A/t DECATUR, IN DI AC. A. WlLlrpractire his Profession anywhere in In; diana <»r Ohio. OFFlCE—Opposite the Recorder’s Office. vlon. r »2 JAM EB~ R 808 O, As Tsnw, t *• INDIANA. DRAWS Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Land an<l pays Taxes. OFFlCE—Opposite the Auditor’s Office. vlonC. -A-ttorxi-CTsr JJaw, Real Ikslale Agent*. DECATUR, INDIANA. WILL practice Law in Adams and adjoining Counties: secure Pensions and other claims against the Gcvermnent; buy and sell Real Estate; examine titles,and pay. taxes, anOother business pertaining tu Rml »thje Agency. Jle isata> a \otaryrubiic, and Is prepared to draw Deeds. Mortgages and other instruments in writing. vlOnll. "PHYSICrANS. ~~ F. A. JELLEFF. . ,W, J». ■ K. JELEEFF £ SCHROCK, Physicians and Surgeons, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On Second pppOsitc the Public Square. '? > • -.,f e •* vbni.'ltf. 1 CHAR LES L. CVRTISS’, Physician<and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. HAVING permanently located in this pla*e,offers his professional services to the people of Decatur and vicinity. OFFICE—In Houston’s Block. Rcsidencent the Hurt House. , vlJuT6tf, AIV D REW SO R <T, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On SocqdQ Street, over W, G. Spencer’s Hardware Store. 7 v3p42tf. a7 J. E R ivI IV, Surgeon. Dispensary, Aveline Block, vllii2s FORT WAYNE, IND. REAL ESTATE ACE NT. J A HIES R. 8080, LICENCED REAL ESTATE AGENT. DECATUR, INDIANA; 3fk4~kfk ACRES of gi.xl f:u uiing lanj.wv•vF'LF" " eralTown Lotsand n large qaantity of wild land for Rale. If you want-to hpy a good farm or wild kind he will sell it to you. Ifyou want your land sold he will sell it for jou. No sale, no charge. vlOntftf. - IB- 1 -—g— r -JLJL S. DENESTRY. JI. JI. JIcCOAA ELL, Surgeon Dentist, DECATUR, INDIANA. All work neatly executed and wnr, I Inn^Tj r an * P< l give satisfaction. Cal nri’i »- . andi xumine sn’Tlmens. OFF I« h—ln Rover s building, over Holler’s Law office. vlliuvtf. ■- 11 - JTTJ . T" ..J XAUCTIONEER. CHARLES JI. FRA ACE, Tkiictionecr, wilshire, onio. im tb.public that tio i« • reg- ▼-» ■ uL’iily LlceiiMx] Auctii-ia.x i, uiuTWill iit.ml ,i.ll I’ubUc Sab x. »h"n<»v<-rr».|ni'Me)l. by lulilrS'i'u. hint »» rlh>v». i.r .- Jline at liix rc-q*i.nA<- iu r>lu< - Creck Towii.hip, A.uunaCu., InJ. ts. HOTELS. JI IES S E HOUSE, I. J. MIESSE, Proprietor. Third St., Oppotitc the Court House, DECATUR, INDIANA. In connection with this jlousp there is a Stage run to and from Det'atur aii«l Monroeville, duily, which connects with trains running both ways, MAIN STREET EXCHANGE. A. FREEMAN, Proprietor, ITrH .Vain Street, near the Public Square. FORT WANYE, INDIANA, vllnlltf. HAYEK HOUSE. J. W. BULL, Proprietor, Corner of Calhoun anil IVayne Streets, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. _yHnH , f._ IHE DEK I A IIOL SE. A. J. H. MILLS, Proprietor, On Barr, between Columbia and Main Sts., FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. OFFICE of Auburn and Peeatur Stage line.. Also K'xaitabling in connection uith the House. vllnlltf. JEWELERS. MAYER A ORAFFE, -DEALEHSIXWatches, Clocks, Jewelry, SXLVF.R AND sAfEK-PIA TED WARE. Gold, Silver and Steel Spectacles, Columbia Street, ▼llnftlyl. FORT WAYNE, IND. NEW JEWELRY STORE! IN DECATUE. EZRA LISTER Announces to the citizens of Adams County and vicinity, that he has opened a JEWELRY STORE in D-catur, one door north of Martin & Bro s. Bakery where he will keep constantly on hand a large and complete assortment of Watches, Clocks, .! Jewelry, Cottons, Spectacles. &e., which he offers at prices to suit the times. Having secured the services of an experienced Jeweler, he is prepared to do all kinds of repairing on ahort notiee. AU work warranted as represented. vlSali BZRAUBTKR.

DIX’ATUB, nnx FRIDAY, DEC. 11, 1868.

The Latest From the Soug , Writers.- ,eBY THE “FAT CONTRIBUTOR.” — ■ ..The piaja„whoj^r(yQj)t. < X. Jli MarbleJlalls,” has opened a marble quary there and is doing a thriving business in getting out grave stones. .Tbe-muthr>j-to o|d has rojieiKfl 'a Tirefj- sfeabie-antPis carried bath in his own conveyance whenever he wants to be. . The man who since my mother JJ'iwl,”- isn't quite so lonely now. The old man married again, and his step mother makes lively enough for him. The author Life on the O cean Wave” is gratifying his taste for the sea by;tending saw spill.— He will boon the water now. tl’hg one who gave “Old folks at Tfolne” to the world has recently taken them to the poor house, as they were getting troublesome. The author of “Shells of the 0Gean” is in the daw bnsiiJfcS9» l H The man that wanted to “Kiss him for his Motlier,” gttewgtcd to kiss his mother Tor him'the' other day, and she ga,ve hirn a walloping “for his motlier.” ’ The one who wailed so plaintively, “Do . they miss me at home” was missed the other day witlr -a neighbor's wife. He is missed by a wife and seven children. . • The author of “Three blind mice,” has started a menagerie with them. The man who wrote “Five o’clock in the morning,*’ fount! that no saloons were open at that early hour where he <?ould gd his bitters, so he lies abed rather late ' now. “Give me a cot in' the valley I Love” has got a cot iud.be infirmary. Mein cot. The man that sighed, “Take mo home to die,” took Dr. Kerr's System Renovator, and is now a “fine ould Irish giutlepan.” “Meet me by moonlight alone,” has left off the meat and taken to drinking. The author of “Roll on. Silver moon” has opened a Hall alley.— Silver moon cantroll on his alley without paying for it. The disconsolate one who sings —“Have you seen my Maggie?” has heard of her. Another feller informs him fhrougli the music that “Maggie's by my side.” “I’d offer thee this hand of mine,” has been sued for breech of promise. “Oh ? Susana,” has settled with at length, anil don't owe Susana any more. The author of “Old arm Chair” is still in the furniture business. The one who pleaded “Rock me to sleep mother, rock me to sleep.” has at last been gratified. His mother yielding to bis repeated solicitation, picked up a rock and rocked him to sleep. He hasn’t woke up yet. The one who asked, “Who will care for mother now?” Has finally concluded to take care of the old woman himself, as uo one else seems inclined to.

Why Woman are Precious. It has long been known that “Distance lends enchantment to the view,” and on this ground alone some writers have sensibly advised women who wish to be valued highly to “make themselves scarce.” But the effect of literal scarcityon this article has been first elaborated in the Westminster Review for October, which shows that women have more influence and a higher standing in proportion as men exceed them iu number. It gives the following singular illustration, if it may be called such :— “At one time a woman could hardly walk throught tlie streets of San Francisco without having every one pause to gaze on her; and a child was so rare that once at a theatre in the same city, where a woman had taken her infant, when it began to cry, just ns the orchestra began to play, a man in the pit cried but, ‘Stop those fiddles and let the baby cry. I haven’t heard such a sound for ten years!’ The audience applauded this sentiment; the orchestra stopped. and the baby continued its performance amid unbounded enthusiasm.” J&“Gen • Sheridan tells some tall buffalo stories. He says that be saw, weeks ago, a herd of buffalo ninety five miles long, twentyfive miles wide, which 4imst have contained three hundred thousand buffalo. -Bismarck has an estate covering 160,000 acres

A Re-constructed "■A negro f,i fodk place near Alabama, at which the sable parson thus spoke: . (i . . n “Here’s a cpnple ‘who have W.filked out to-night, jiisliing to bejinbd in' and through To ve, and wishing all dem’dat have.iiny ting twixt' them to come forward and speak nqw ; if not, let dem hold dar peace now and-forever tnore. I wants every seas. to - hear," and I every heart to enjoj-. “Mr. Jjin .Tfyqmpsoiq,.. whomsoever stands lastly by your left side, do you take her for,your beloved wife, to wait on hor through sickness and through UeClth, safe i and be safe, hoi* and be : holy, loving and be lb>£g; jo you love her mother; do you love her* fa ther; do you love her brother; do •you love her sisters; do you love her master; do you love her mistress ; but do you love God de best?” Answer—“l do.” Miss Mary Thompson, whomsover.stunds fastly by your right side, do you take to be your dear beloved husband, to wait on him through healtli aud through confliction, safe and be safe, holy and be holy; do you love his mother; do you love his father; do you love his brethren; do you love his sisters; do you love God de best? Answer—“l will.” I shall pronounce Mr. Jim tq hold Miss Mary fastly by the right hand, and I shall pronounce you both to be man and wife, by the commandments of God. We shall hope, and trusting through God, that you may Hve right—that you may die right, now and forevermore. Now, Mr. Jim, slew your bride. Let us sing a hime : “Plunged in a gulf of dark despair.’’ etc, [From the Ilaynesvile, Ala., Examiner.] Wholesale Buirhery hy a IVegro. We are informed that about a week ago a ferry on Conecuh riv £ er, nea? the line of Crenshaw and Pike, was the scene of a terrible I tragedy. We did not hear the names of the parties, but the facts are to the following effect; A white man and his wife, whom the negro ferryman suspected of having money about them, were at the river for the purpose of crossing. He killed both, and then threw tlie bodies into the river.— The negro then went to a house a short distance from the ferry, where there was a little white girl He thought she suspected him of the crime, and was pursuing her when he was interrupted,. by a white man who rode up: This man he killed and threw into a well. He then killed the little girl and threw her remains into the river. A brother-in-law of the last man killed was attracted by ! the howling of the faithful dog of ■ his relative, and gathering several neighbors, went in pursuit of the ferryman. The latter had seized a horse and fled. He was overtaken that night and hanged at once.

Safe Enough. The Boston correspondent of the Portland Star has the following anecdote: The late Mr. N. of your place, was somewhat noted for his dry sayings, to. enjoy which, one should be fully conversant with the manner which accompanied their utterance. A number of years ago be was president of the old Cumberland Bank, of which Mr. Swift was the cashier. A note had been left at the bank for discount, which was signed by Mr. and endorsed by. Mr. . of the Presbyterian Church. The note was handed to Mr. N., who, after scanning the names awhile, passed it to the cashier, remarking, in his .peculiar tone: “Signed Univsrsal Salvation, and endorsed by Universal Damnation, I guess that is safe enough—we will take it” An Austrian to Sall Around the World* Vienna, November 29.-*-The Austrian Government has fitted out and dispatched from Trieste an expedition which will sail a round the world. It is under command of Kact Scherzer. The opjects of the enterprise are to in- 1 troduce the products of Austrian industry to distant markets and to extend the commerce of the Em pire. The expedition is under •lieeial instructions to visit all the principal points in China and Japan, and proceed thence to Cal ' ifornia and cruise along the South American coast A cave of impenetrable depth has been found near Elizabeth, N. J.

Without (Hiidren. i A week before the 'commence-' merit of lbe in Park, a gi'ntleTirtin' C'arri’&tO the proprietor pf u tilise- and, commenced the following conversation :-— , “One of myfriends, who Is una- 1 hie to eorne himself on accoYuit of Rhiess, has gent me tb rent for him the second floor of your h.ouse.” .. I “Your friend is not married ?— 1 He has no, children ?” “No, sir.” “I will aepept him only on those conditions. My house is very quiet; and to make sure, you will be gbod enough to mention that; the tenant is a bachelor, in the contract.” , ' • . The sick man’s agent agreed to these terms, and,, by virtug.of hjs.i power of attorney, signed a lease ofthe-rooms sot three years. I When the day for taking pos- l session of-the premises came, four 1 chidrcn, the oldest of whom was not more than ten, arrived with the furniture. On learning this, the proprietor rushed out in a rage, and, addressing the officious friend, .who was superintending the transportation of the furniture reminded him of the speial agree- 1 ment in the lease. “My dear sir,” he answered,' “you have rented your apartments i to my oldest son, that young lad who is sucking barlev sugar at the foot of tho stairway. I assure you that he is not married nor the father of a family. You have nothing to fear from his children for \ a long time to come ; only he extends to his father and brothers [ that hospitality which your signature authorizes him to exercise for the next three years. i — 1 —*— The Public Debt Increasing-. The Washington special states ! that the monthly statement of the public debt, ending the Ist day of December, will show a considerable increase. The receipts from.' the internal revenue for this month have, thus far, been light, yet the i expenditures of the Government go on without any material di- * minution, just as though the re-' venues were well night illimitable. If the Government expends more each month than it receives, it is . not °only an evidence that the' country is not prosperous, but: that it is on the road to bankrupt- ■ cy. When the outgoes of an in-! dividual are more than his income , it is an inevitable conclusioh that he is bound to go under and a rule that will apply tp the individual j under such circumstances will meet the case of the Government. Since the close of the war. the public debt, instead of having been diminished, as it could have i been if the "public finances had been managed with an eye single. to the public interests, has been increased, ami there is every res- ■ sonable prospect that it will continue to increase as Radical rule j is perpetuated. About the only i hope for relief is in a change in the administration of the Government. [ When this revolution in public sentiment takes place, and the day can not be far distant, we maylook for a diminution of the public burdens, and the restoration of the prosperity that has always attended Democratic administrations. An oppressed people should devoutly pray, and work to, for i emancipation from the party - rule that is an incubus upon the prosperity and progress of the nation. , —State Sentinel. Ventilation. Solomon recommended; the sluggard to look at the ants, and learn wisdom. ®So we may recommend certain other people to look at the wasps.' we see it stated that “an English gentleman lately took a small wasp’s nest, about the size of an apple, and, after stupefying its inmates, placed it in a large case ' inside of his house, leaving an ( opening for egress through the wall. Here the nest was enlarged to a foot in diameter, holding thousands of wasps. Here he was able to watch their movements, and noted one new fact—namely, their systematic attention to ven tilation. In hot weather from four to six wasps were continually stationed at the hole of egress; and, while leaving space for ent race or exit, created a steady current of fresh air by the exceedingly rapid motion of their wings. After a long course of this vigorous exercise, the ventilatiors were reliev- 1 ed by other wasps. During cool i weather only two wasps at a time were usually thus engaged,” • Should not men have as much sense as the wasps ? But have they ? The schools and colleges of the South have been more numerously attended this season than ever be- , fore.

j T Slavs on Women.. I Ata recent dinner.-.in this city ' at Which no ladies were a -man, in responding to the toast, “Woman,” dwelt almost solely on ; the frailly of theses, claiming that the best among tliem were little, better the worst, the chief difference being their surroundings. ! At the conclusion of the speech a gentleman present rose to his ■ feet, and said : I “I trust the gentleman, in the ! application of his remarks, refers to liis own mother and sisters, and not ours.” • The effect of this most just and i timely rebuke was overwhelming; ; the malinger of women was covered with confugjon and shame. Th is in cident serves an exool- , lent purpose in prefacing a few | words on this, subject. ■ Os all the evil prevalent among : men we know of none more ; blighting in its effects than athe tendency to speak sfightmglv of , the virtue of women. Nor is there anything in which young men are so thoroughly mistaken as in the low estimate they form of the in- , tegrity of women—not of their own mothers, who, they forget, are somebody else’s mothers and sisters. i Plain words should be spoken on this point, for the evil is ageneral one, and deep. rooted.— If young men are sometimes ; thrown into the society ofthought- ; less or even lewd women, they I have no more right to measure all other women by what they see ■of these than they would have to estimate the charcter of honest and respectable citizens by the de- I velopments of crime ih our police ! i courts. ; Let young men remember that j their chief happiness in life depends uvon their faith in women. No "worldly wisdom, no misan- . thropic philosophy, no generalization can cover or weaken this fundamental truth. It stands like the record of God himself—for it jis nothing less than this—and i should put an everlasting seal up- : on lips that are wont to speak slightingly of women.—Packard's Monthly. ; ? To-Day and To-Morrow. To day we gather bright and beautiful flowers—to-morrow they are faded and dead. j To-day a wreath of leaves shade : us—to-morrow, sere, and fallen,' , they crumble beneath our tread. I To-day the earth is covered with ; a carpet of green —to-morrow it is brown with the withered grass. To-day the vigorous stalk onlybends before the gale—to-morrow leafless and sapless, a child maybreak the brittle stem. To-day the ripening fruit and waving grain—to-morrow “the land is taking its Sabbath after the toil.” To-day we hear sweet songsters j of meadow and forest, the buzz and hum of myriad insects; tomorrow—breathe softly—all nature is hushed and silent. To-day a stately- edifice, complete i» finish and surroundings, attract the passerby—to morrow a heap of ruins mark the site. To day there are cattle on a thousand hills—to-morrow they ; fall in slaughter. The fashion of the world pass-' eth away. But let Christ dwell; within us, and though we may i ' pass away like the faded leaf and 1 the sapless stalk, we shall “arise to newness of life.” Where everlasting spring abides. And never withering flowers. Marriage Maxims. A good wife is the greatest earthly blessing. Make marriage a matter of moral judgment . v I Marry in your own religion. 1 Marry into different blood and I temperament from your own. i 1 Never both manifest anger at t once. 1 Never speak loud to one another. unless the house is on fire. ! ' Let each one strive to yield of- ; . tenest to the wishes of the other. . Let self-abnegation be the daily ■ aim and effort of each. The very nearest approach to | domestic felicity on earth is in the \ mutual cultivation of an absolute unselfishness. Never fiud fault, unless it be perfectly certain that a fault has been committed: and even then ■ prelude it with a kiss, and lov- i ingly. Neglect the whole world besides one another. Never make a remark at the ex- ’ pense of the other; it is mean I ' ness. Never part for a day without i loving words to think of during i absence; besides be that j you will not meet agaiu in hfe. I

" Mlscelloneotis ICmRC fll Oglethorpe college Cic* olina, has defuncted, ' • Harvard has. 1.050 studepsj. aB together—3oo ahead of Yztle-.' v *® It the goverHlbeatH®3,7(TB last year tef cttrty'Tff&fifiSS love-lettetß in Utah;* 'and only OfiO * was recmxed -A Buffalo lady recently leat her pocket containing $100,.. A ppof little boy found' it and restored 'it to its owner. ‘Reward, "a look Os gratinde-aud’ an apple. The old colored men, the ’Hjodi y servants” and carriage drivers of Thomas Jefferson, ■ passed through Alexandria recently in ths cars, en route to Ohio, their pros-. ' ent “home. The southern girls dip snuff and the northern girls phew gum. A Staten Island firm refines paraffne, and sells a ton a duy, which, under the name of chewing gum, wallows about in feminine mouths. The last swindle is for pretended surveyors, with chain and compass, to lay out a railroad within TO foot of a form hniISFS: hilt, sot SSG they will go back.a few- mHei take a new start, and CfißW Wft hy another man’s house. Wisconsin, it is asserted by tha journals of that state, has a larger population of foreign-born inhabitants than any other state. Os the naturalized citizens, the Germans are most numerous, the Irish next, and the Norwegians thud in point of numbers. There are also a great many English, Dutch, ■Welsh, Belgians, Scotch, and Bohemians. A 860,000 mansion for the lieutenant governor of Ontario ia being erected in Toronto.

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Foreign Items. Mr. Bright is now whitened with age. Prussia is to fortify- hcr« chief railway stations. Victor Hugo’s oldest son is almost as grey-haired as his illustrious father. Jamaica has exprted only 20,000 pucheons of rum this year. The Austrian expedition to explore Oriental Asia has sailed from Trieste. . » The Russian military chest thrown into the lake of Kloenthau, Switzerland, in 1798, is to be recovered. A 1 A few months ago a housepainter of Worcester, England, purchased for £6 an old picture of Christ bearing the cross, which belonged to a deceased oanon of Worcester cathedral. It proved when cleaned, to be a work of great merit, and was sold by its fortunate possessor for j£7oo. The sultan of Turkey has 900 wives, but only three are his favorites, each of them of remarksble beauty. Their names are; “Donrnel,” the New Pearl; “Hair* aini Dil,” the Excellent Heart; and “EdaDil.”the Elegance of the Heart. His eunuohs, chamberlains. pages, pipe-bearers, grooms cooks, dec., number over 2,000 persons, for whom some 6,000 dishes are daily prepared, which are served at 600 tables. Says a Paris journal: “Madame Lincoln, widow of the late president of the United Slates, is trav» eliug through France, in order to take up her abode in Nice. We do not know if the honors to which she is entitled, as the widow of a great citizen, have been paid to hep in our country. If Madame Lincolon only were a Japanese; but, unfortunately, everybody is not a Japanese.” Personal Items. Bonner pays 810 apiece for poems—if accepted. . Prince Alfred has been writing up his travels. Tad Lincoton has gone to War saw. Henry Ward Beecher wants Boqfier to try and engage the pope for the Ledger. Anna Diokenson is going up and down the Hudson, stopping at all the towns, “struggling for life.” General McClellan is to be appointed engineer-in-chief of the new Central underground Railroad. The two daughters of Chief Justice Taney are copyists in the department of the interior at Washington, and are very poor. Mark Twain (Samuel M. Cle mens) is a man of about 32 year« of age. sparsely built, of medium height, and wears on his face dark brown moustache. His featurca are as fair as a boy'e and in his two eyes there twinkles boundless humor. He dresses in scrupulous black pants, vest and swal-low-tailed coat, and a email diamond glistens in his shirt bosom. In lecturing, he seldom oa.*U • glance on the manuscript or tha tripod, but walks listlessly to and fro before his audience