Indiana American, Volume 21, Number 30, Brookville, Franklin County, 15 July 1853 — Page 1

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iHtorl of the Committee npon tlie 91 nianasrement of Hec. gees, from the remotest antiquity, apar to have engaged the attention of jankind, both as a source of amusement jadnrofit. From the days of Aristomar,1," of Cilicia and Philiscns the Thasian, the former of whom spent nearly jtv years in the contemplation of these insects, to the times of Aristotle and his illustrious puple, Alexander the great, iirough all succeeding generations down to our own time, men of science have been engaged in the study of the habits of bees, and though much, in this long series of years has been learned, much ret remains to engage the attention of the Apiarian, and much yet remains to be learned before the subject is thoroughly understood. 'Tie common honey Bee, (Apis Melliga'j tjelongs to what naturalists call perfect soCiet'es i"sccts and in entomological arrangements, is placed in the order of Hyiu'enoptera, genus Ans. Of this genus ther e are many species, how Biny is not know.n. Mr. Kirby has enumerated 220 as natives of England, but the number in Ame.'ica must be much lirger. Each swarm or association of the Kinmon bee comprises .three descriptions of individuals, and eac h description is distinguished by a cast of character pecnliar to itself. These consist first of it queen or mother, of which but one an exist in the same swarm. Next in fder come the workers, which are" imjtrfect females, and vary in numbers fan 12,000 to 60,000. Lastly thO , , ... i . ni'iira or maies, wtnen nuODer irotn 1300 to 2000 individuals, according to at strength of the family. All the eggs from which spring so nunerous a family are laid by a single fell or queen bee and vary from 70 -iN to 100,000, a year, and olthoug'h ieresre three descriptions of bees In :k community, these eggs consist onMtwo kinds, males and females, or tones and workers. The eggs desirnrffor workers are laid in thT common sized hexagonal cells, and the male in precisely similarly shaped cells, ttt somewhat larger. Each Iema!e egg is capable of being naJea queen if taken at an early ao-e and mined in a certain way. The common rorker, from the time it is capable of Hting, is fed upon common bee-bread -kt when from any accident it bemes necessary to make a new queen, jne bees immediately select three of the f 1 1 jmuion ceus ana convert tiiem into Me, destroying two of the eg?s and living one, which instead of being fed t bee bread, is fed plentifully on a punfat green jelly, which completely derei'pes its sexual organs, and makes it perfect female, which under ordinary wcumstances in a small and confined ceil, would have been a neuter. It is an extraordinary fact that the peon is endued with the power of lavinw Mie and female eggs at her pleasure, ia.Ub.at in doing this, she never makes W mrfake of laying male eggs in the common cells or female eggs in the teteconib nor does she ever lay any ktfemale eggs in the royal cells, which m alw ays prepared in the spring a short ffi'belore swarming, so that those who fmiin in the hive can rear themselves iswereign, for the old queen always p out with the first swarm, as has "en verified by thousands of observers. Tiie royal scions, after the departure i the queen mother, are the object of m attention by the workers which "Wain, being aware, it would seem, that to future existence of the family de?ds upon their being able to fill the icancy. The very first demonstration oh a newly hatched queen makes is to tthe other royal children which she mediately destroys if she should prove stronger this however she is gen'T prevented from doing by the other who make her prisoner and compel ierto be quiet until one or more of the gaining queens come forth, who likere collect their partisans, and in the cn.usion which ensues one or other resthe hive and is followed by a suffi!t number to constitute a second 'ffarm. And thia ia nfton mna.J jji uuunii mice ur lour arms, by which means they become much weakened that they suffer the ; e.n' ,t0 destroy each other until but sV8 u' or drive them forth to starve, " nas been witnessed by one of your ommittee. The drones which remain in the old after the fecundation of the new !en,,are universal!y destroyed to the t individual. eamP nirP nrnKnno ,1 C ' " " uibVCT 1 - ' UVUU Ulll.1 anection ot the worker bees for -queen, is one of the mostremarka "'tis in natural history, and we miirht ""Str&te this hv nnmh nf J m.iuuiui.1 vivuiiuua All otes. but nnr l;n,'tt v.h:.i ; j annuo IUIUIU 1L. i IIC "'"rman of Vnur rnmmittoo anma. 1 " " " . " 11 CHOI III VI 'i DOth Small, whirh rama fT r,'lk: 1 Mia seconil nH Y,tA cn-..m tl?lJot each other- These swarms Doth put into the same hive, when ' Jt Commntinn 1 M, which lasted until one queen had the other, when neace and nmot w restored th ei.;n t -k u .i:u granted to two or three hundred. Afv F"'- e was was restored I raised uo the " anaiound about the centre of the of v. le " an ivh;u hive rested a buuch es eurronnHin g her trom whom I ay s..ii ""'Il-"'iy in tearing ner away. "!'IIy 8llprl .J P.J u 'st'rk j "-,JCU a"u tnrrifu ner upon )im f laid her dovn il front of the c'rotn whpnre tho t. o, t,- I c5IEl Tu . "nin nau he bees to the amount r .

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UkU. . I- means "y licking, rubbing, . '"etching her lugs to resusitate her. mey were thus engaged I placed Pon the stick with her attendants f tajteH tnm.. U 1 , . . w.,aiua uie nouse, oui Dej reached it she and all the bees fell W ? ,the S83- After marching ff h u 1 found her ,nd carried h "Ww bees which ccompanied her ' C . " leave the P,ace and continued XH.i, her until they becme so enthat when ever I approached them tie- " "Kn ever l appro ft110 Hll them all. and I was comThese bees, no ki.u mist0k ner lor their own queen, U1CD accounts fr.- ,1.-:- j; ndnrt cAiraorumary &i k 'oroear saving more upon , . tfei.. of the E',hject, however f.Masant u mav K- .n,l a ine best mode of manairinirhepo ent lfry 1 ears a' &nd prior to the ad.i ' the hen nmtV. rt.. 11 n WnS V,ery little difficulty inhe man- . . . bees- All that was necessadiff lve thetn nd it made but litW?.rence whether the hives were to eau11' rou8h or smooth. t lTSuCt them a2'nst fie ravages 0111 we consider the great object

abd aim of the Apiarian, and when he shall have affected this, he has overcome the greatest difficulty in their management. The great variety of means which have been employed to effest this object, show the difficulties with which the sub

ject is lraught. Mr. James Quick, a member of the committee' and a very successful apiarmn, in a note to the Chairman says, "I have tried different plans for the management of bees and that which I have found to succeed best is the following: I make my hives 12 inches wide and 20 inches long, plaining them perfectly smooth inside, and jointing them so tha't they are perfectly tight at the angles. I bore an inch auger hole in theton of the hive and plug it up at the time of "iung me swarms, with a view of subsequently placing caps upqjTthem. Every hive is placed upon a separate stand about 2 feet long on two cross timbers; I then raise the hives from the bench by (.Uviii. uiucks nait an men square under each corner. I then procure aud split pieces of elder, clean the pith out of them, and place them, with the concave side down, under the hives, the moth or worms collect under these, which are removed about twice a week, and the vorms destroyed. By pursuing this course I am troubled but little with the moth. I place a box or cap upon every hive that will hold from 12 to 20 pounds of honey. I generally destroy my bees in the fall at the age of 4 or 5 years, old swarms beingr more liable t.n tho at tar it ot" the moth than young ones. Before hiving my bees I wash the hive inside with salt anl sugar dissolved in water, applying the solution with a bunch of balm. I seldom los e a swarm." Your committee are satisfied that the greatest reliance for the prevention of the ravages M the .moth must be placed upon the bees themselves; but at the same time we consider i absolutely necessary that you .should deal fail ly by them and give them every facility for self defence, by placing them h: suitable hives. A small swarm of bees put into a large rough hive, wil almost in variably be destroyed. Every swarm should be put into a hive proportioned to its size, and it an error be made either way it is better to put them into one too small than too larsre. We regard a hive 12 inches in the clear and 14 inches high as the size best adapted for swarms generally, though in some cases less ones will be necessary. Hiving bees, as usually practised, by inverting the hive and shaking them into :.! i . ii, is aoungnng ana an abominable practice, for in placing the hive down again some of the bees are always killed and very often the queen herself, when as a matter of course, the swarm is lost. The riurht way to do it is to nl.irn a table near the place where the bees have J alighted, upon which set your hive, then wim two small stones or stick?, prop up i

i jit i o iroiu corners about two inches, their babies in their arms; workmen apthen cut off the limb upon which the ! peared in their blouses or dusty coats bees are, carry them to the hive and just as they came from the workshopshake them suddenly off before it, and farmers stepped in high boots. Once they will invariably enter as soon as pos-' more, we saw that the house of the SlDle. j llrwcrnnr in ,Un n.-tn r.k I.

Bees occasionally alight where this cannot bo done, as on fences and the t- 7 t ' ln 1 e cases of this kind that we have seen, the hive can be placed over them, and by either agitating them with a stick or by sprinkling ! in " Kiir ,.an uc iiiuiicea io enter the hive without much trouble. j After the bees are hived they should be placed in a situation where the sun ' cannot shine on them except for an hour or two after it first rises, for this is the only time they need its warmth. The ; chairman is of opinion that the hive should be placed flat upon the bench, with notches barely large enough to ad- j mil ireeiy tne working Dees tins gives them a fair chance to cuard asrainst the entrance of the moth. The hive should be champered off on the outer and lower part, s. that it shall rest upon the bench on an edge so thin that the worms cannot

make it a hiding place, as they do under rushed to the table and pushing aside the the ordinary thick edged hive. Hives j chairs, stormed the places which were should be made of inch and a quarter or j left unoccupied by the ladies. When inch and a half boards, to protect the bee the soup was handed around f think it from cold in the winter. j was an infusion of hav solemn silence To obtain pure and good honey, we re- ensued; I almost fancied we were under commend the placing of a box which will the rule of the auburn system; net a sincontain from 12 to 15 pounds of honey, gle word was spoken.but forks'and knives either on the top of the hive, or in a cavi- worked steadily. Eatinr, as it seems, ty left for that purpose, at the top, which is here likewise a business, whick must should be entirely enclosed except a hole be dispatched as quick as possible for the bees to pass through. This ena-; 'Governor Wright is a type of the bles us to remove the box or drawer Hoosiers, and justly proud to be one o' without breaking the comb or spilling them. I asked him where from his peothe honey. This is a matter of no slight pie had got this name. He told me that importance, for where ever honey is spilt 'Hoosa' is the Indian name for maize.the it seems to set all the bees in the neigh- I principal produce of the State. The borhood crazy, and when they have once Governor is a plain, cordial and practical tasted it, they almost certainly com- like farmer, with a deep religious tine. mence robbing each other, and we be- Yesterday we went with him to the lieve in most instances eat up their own Methodist Church, and I saw that Methhoney. Therefore what is usually call- odism is the form of Protestantism that ed robbing hives, cutting honey out of best suits the people of the West. No bee houses, or cutting off sections ot cer- glittering formalities, no workinron the tain patent hives, or throwing waste j imagination, not much of reasoning; but comb about where the bees can have nc- powerful accents and appeals to the cess to it, are all bad practices, each of conscience.with continuous reference to which endangers, to say the least, not the Scripturesjinterwoven with frequent only the profit we should expect from . warnings, pointings to heaven and hell, our bees, but even the existence of the The audience seemed deeply moved; comunitT-. ! they sung unmusical.but prayed earnestIhe duration of a worker bees life at ', lv. I could not lloilht the fleen rnliirtnna

farthest is not over 8 months. The practice of putting beea into what are called bee houses , five or six feet square, therefore cannot be profitable, for these, though contain? in summer probably 60,000 individuals, have in the spring no

arger number ot bees than the ordinary ington, the propietor of Mount Vernon, hive. In these houses they never swarm, has disposed of that venerated mansion, so that the increase is lost, and the pro- . with two hundred acres of the landed esductoi honey averages but little over j tate, to a company comprising Northern the ordinary ; hive. and Southern men, for the large sum of Y ith artiScial swarm ing or the divi- ; $200,000. To what purpose the purchading of swarm, the committee have no sers mean to apply the property we have experience, Re?. T. A. Goodwin, a not heard; but we are very gla.1 the terms member of the coiumittee, has now in of sale reserve to Congress the privilege use some hives constructed with a view of taking it. Another and an irrevocato division, and will probably be able to , ble condition of the sale is, that the reform an opinion upon the subject somej mains of General Washington are never, time next year. under any circumstances, to be removed The pasturage of bees is a matter of j from their present resting place. We great importance, and every attempt to , are informed that the purchasers offered rear bees in neighborhoods destitute of a largely increased price to have the sale

now era is iaoor tnrown away or wnere , made absolute; but Mr. Washington rethe stocks are very numerous, unless in plied that he would not for any sum that some extraordinary locality, we shall could be named, place it out of the powmeet with disappointment. Neighbor-! er or Congress to make Mount Vernon hoods well supplied with white clover . the property of the nation. (trifolium repens) are preferable to all - others, in this section of our State, as pas-1 Lodgings are so scarce in Austurage for bees. The amount of honey ; tralia that even lamp posts begin to bear made from its flowers is greater and the j a premium. A friend writes us that the quality much better than from all other j night he arrived at Port Philip, he paid flowers. Next to this, is the apple and j a dollar and a half for an out door lodge pare blossonib and the worst of all, in j a dollar for lying in the gutter and tifquality, though probably not in quantity, I ty cents extra for resting his head on is the far-famed Buck Wheat. The most! tho curb stone, Steep prices these.

celebrated honey in the world, is that collected from the wild thyme of Mount Hymettus in Greere, but that produced from white clover in Ind. is good enough for os. RUFUS HAYMOND. T. A. GOODWIN. JAMES QUICK. madam Pulsky on Indianapolis. We find in the Polar star the following extract from a Journal Dnhlishpd hu !ra

aim msKy, -rrivate secretary to Kos suth's Private Secretary in relation t, r..ii . ' J secretary m TPiatinn tn Indianapolis. It is unnecessary to say that it is a tissue of misrepresentations, but we can say that it is the return Americans always get for their hospitality to 'distinguished foreigners.' Madison, March 1st. To day we left this small citv on the railway. It is carried over a deeD as cent from the banks of tbe Ohio to the hiku uiam oi inaiana. f ormer v th a inclined plain was worked by stationary engines, but a workman. Mr. Cathart. overcame tne dimculty by placing between the two rails a third rail,with cogs corresponding to a wheel in the centre of a watjon One day rollinsr a hearv barrel tn tlie railway, he missed the train and'had to roll the cask up the hill. He repeatedly stopped to rest, putting a stone under the barrel that it might not slip down and was suddenly struck by the idea i ii a i cogs would alleviate the ascent and uiminisn me dsnger of descent. He submitted his plan to the Railroad Company, they advanced hi ni flip mnnov f,-w l,-7 . . "V iccApciiiueiii,ana as it succneded.they built the present line, and gave him six inousand tor his patent. With this capital he established himself as an engine uuiiuer in muianapous, and is eettinr w crm.uy Ulan. In the afternoon we reached the capital of Indiana a very small place, whose resources are not yet sufficient, to provide for drainage and pavement. The aboriginal mud of the rich soil reminded me here of the streets of Debreczin. 'We proceeded to the hotel.whilst the gentlemen were paraded through the streets and were introduced to the Legislature. The hotel is far from being nice, and the attendants spem tn h n,.,o. !ihat everybody is to do his business. t or example, when I was in a hurry to dress for the levee of Governor Wrio-ht, and asked for alight, the waiter brought two tallow candles.put them in my hands and pointing to the mantle piece.he saidThere are the candlesticks,' and left the room. We went to the house of the Governor; it is small, and I soon perceived why it is not comfortable as it could be. In thronged the society and people of Inuianapous, lauics ana gentlemen of every description. Muddy boot3 and torn clothes, and again, desperate attempts at finery; elass jewels and French silk dresses, which alter having found no Durchas ;r in iNew l ork have hno sent to the West. Some of the mothers had nu yet tins incongruous mass did not behave unbecomingly to a drawing !room - There was no rude elbowincr, no j unpleasant noise or disturbing laughter Had they but shaken hands less violently ! I feel Western cordiality in my stiff arm. March 2d. Now we are- really in the West. It rained for one dav, and we are confined to our room; even dogs are of no avail in the street, they stick fast in the mud. The wind enters our room through a crevice in the wail, larce enough to pass through my hand and the fare. The bell was runr, we went down to the dark dinner room. The table was covered with pies, celery, mashed potatoes, sour wheat bread.'tough cow meat and cold pork. In the bottles muddy water. The bell ran? arain and the gentlemen burst boisterlv into the mom conviction of tbe people.' Motjnt VEK!to!t. The National Intelligencer has the following in reference to the sale of Mount Vernon: We understand that Mr John A.Wash-

BROOKVILLE, FRANKLIN COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1S53.

Letters from the Editor. From the Editor No. is. Plum Island, June 18,1853. This Island is situated near the mouth of the Merrimac river, and when looking ... ;vi waters, towaras Queen ictoria, Cape Cod is in sight on our riffht. and the Isle of Simula n n, HVPr (ho -iHa urocfn rf & l leu. it is a pleasant retreat during the " vi not summer davs.to be fanned hv tho 'breezes. Beinff rather low. in !,.,. east winds sometimes is overflown, but one dwelling is upon the Island, and that a hotel, set up on purpose to annoy the seeker after repose, by heavy charges. But we enjoyed the luxury of bathing in the ocean to-day. Sea water is always r1A 1 .1 ,. , . . J mm as me very coiaest BnnrKT ra, Bliu aiulUUSIl It Chills at first it soon becomes comfortable and consoling iDis is and is not a fash rnnKU ni... of resort, nor a very great fishinr ground ' ! yet it is nine miles lonr. n,l "it. ",ulUB very oeautuui, and the scenery the finest imaginable. There is nothing here with which to interest our readers, yet as we design to neglect them no day in our travels, and as they 1 u . j Buiueiuing OI Our whereabouts, we date our letter from nere. Just before starting here, we visited this morning some of the burvcrrnunrl ,'n the neighborhood of Newburyport, to learn a lesson not only of the transitory nature of all flesh, but to see that all beneath the sun decays, corrodes, corrupts. At these ancient depositories of the dead we lound tomb stones 200 years old, constructed of marble, granite and slate! most of which are now crumbling to dust the lettering gone, and no longer speaking to the sojourner of whose dust they are standing sentinel. A few however, are yet legible, and we traced them with interest. It was far more interesting to us than to be crowding along the streets of some noisy city. Here is evidence, that tomb stones, no matter of what kind of stone or metal they are made, it is but a few years in comparison with the long lapse of time, that they will remain as a momento of the dead. There is no immortality injcolumna ofstone or brass time will level all and our names, on earth. are to be forrnt. ten, in the dreamless slumber of "the the tomb. Who can bear the tlmnrht that this world is all that with dpath our souls perish with our bodies, and that they are never to be reunited again in another world! Apart of the crave yards we have visited have been used three or four times over in 200 years. After a lapse of 50 years, the little hillocks of the poor, the obscure and tho stranger, disappear, and the ground is used again for burial as tho' no former graves were there. What strange sights when the grave shall give up its dead! . j We have found in New England more ' intelligent and respectable infidelity more open denunciation of the holy Bible more polite and fashionable desecration of the Sabbath-more Theodore Par kensm more of tho fruits of unitariani8m run-to-seed or in plain words more hell deserving infidelity, than we have ever encountered before in all our travels. In the West we have those disregard God's law, blaspheme his holy I

name, and profess and practice infidch- bury, Mass. It is a small village, with ty. But they are those whom we expect ' prohably a population of 1,500 or 2,000. such things from. They are drunken j They have a neat little church, finished vagabonds men and women who have 'n fine style pewed, cushioned, organ, fallen low in their own estimation ' painted in fresco, &c, Notwithstandlow in the estimation of those , in? we have been a member of the Metharound them, and still lower in the esti- j otllst Church for 22 years, we did not feel mation of Him who sees not as man at home here. Not that we are opposees. We expect abandoned characters 8e(l to pews, but on the contrary are in to be infidels, and are not astonished at j j favor of themif the life and vitality of it. But here respectable, and a apna- religion can be retained in the church as

rently moral men in other respects l well with, as without them. But we are men who pay their debts, are infidels. beginning to doubt it. Or rather we begin We have,seen pretty women and learn-'. to think that those who do so much, and ed men speak in derision of the Bible, spend so much, for personal comfortreligion and all its blessings. God for- ( w'o are so anxious about a vain show in give them! the church, are apt to neglect their soul's And may not the church, and pro- best interests, fessed christians be responsible for The sermon was by the Rev. Mr. much of this Have christians lived Hills of the New Hampshire Conference, right? Have not the dissentions among He is a man of very fair abilities, and he orthodox churches caused many to doubt! preached a sermon from the text, -My Has not the ungodly conversation of yoke is easy and my burden light," with some caused the final wreck of the faith power.taking a sensible view of the subof others! Or more likely has not the Iject, and showing that it is literally and God-dishonoring and man-debasinr practically true. His language was mire.

creeds of some of the churches induced many to doubt the truth of the whole scheme of christian salvation! In company with a professor this morning, he accounted for the difference between this and the west, on the ground that it was "more difficult to convert one intelligent gospel hardened sinner than 40 of the unlearned and unsophisticated sons and daughters of the West." We pity a man that has so little knowledge of his own country as thus to speak and thus to think of the West the glorious West, where are concentrated all those who have money energy and nerve enough to leave granite covered and gospel hardened New England. 'Unsophicated' indeed. We suppose this means unlearned in the

writings of Theodore Parker, Wendel j mility enough left to do so. And while Philips, Tom Paine, and Kneeland. the minister was invoking a Throne of But before our indignation boils over, 1 Grace, they were engaged in the very and runs too far, let us do justice to the laudable business of looking around to many devoted friends of Religion in this ee who had bought new coats, bonnets part of the U. S. While the infidel is in- ! since last Sunday-scanning the latelligent, the true christian is still more 1 test fashions, and looking at the pretty

intelligent. While the seeds of infidelity , are being sown broadcast by pretended orthodox churches, the true christians are found plenty, ready with their talents and liberal means to check the tide with which Parker and others are endeavoring to bear away the last landmarks of chritisanity. Christians are liberal to give almost any amount lor the pro motion ot the kingdom of Christ earth. on ! Off this Island are fine fishing grounds, and although we cannot do much at it ! ourselves we can look and enjoy the fun : with those who can. Here they catch i fine large Cod-fish, and every variety of fish, for which we have no name. And j do not let our readers, who know no : Detter, suppose that tresli Codfish have any of the rank smell or taste they do when dry. When fresh they are fine and delicate, equal to any other. And alter the usual appetite-sharpening exer-! ciseof fishing, when well cooked, are not ! bad to take. We speak not Irom theo- i ry. isalmon is the lashionable hsh, and is always served up boiled at the fashion able hotels. But a fresh Cod, macker el, or Rock, will do us very well, when cooked by a woman who knows how to do up such things. Lobsters and clams are rather poor eating for us. Ship building is carried on extensively atNewburyport, near this Island, and they have furnished from here some of

the best that ever sailed on the ocean. One was launched there yesterday of 1400 tons measurement, but will probably carry a third more than that. As our readers may not be aware

oi tne cost ot ships, we would remark 1 a. 1 . j . ; mai iney costtrom $40 to $45 per ton , or a 1400 ton ship ready for sailing is wm-th fVnm en; , v.... vuu ,vvu ll' UJ,UUU, X 111S IS tor a hrst class merchant shin. But a packet ship, for fast sailing, fitted for passengers, will cost much more. C. F. C. up Fromtn Edi tor.OTo. 19. Boar's Head, June 20th 1853. This a fashionable resort during summer, and is well fitted up for the accommodation Of those Who Wish to snenrt their t me nnH thair mnnov Tt;- k:u ! point of land proiectinff out into the se irom Hampton Beach, about 55 miles north of Boston. There is nothing done on this point, except keeping Hotels for those Wlin resnrt Uara Tliora e ... t . - . . .. I, . . ... - u,c noteis, either larger than the Valley House in Brookville, and not a house or : tenement of any other description.except the stables attached to the hotels, and i the necessary ffamblinff establishments. , nine-Din aileVS. tfce. We rnme tiero tr.. day to see how it looked, so that we could know where to send our invalid friends. So we tried the hotels and the bathing establishment. The former are done up as men always do things, built and kept for the sole view of making money. While the bathing establishment is on a magnificent scale, where all the world can come and bathe, without a dime, and still will "The tea roll on, it rolled before." And in turning our eyes and our steps Westward, as we will to-morrow morning, we leave nothing in New England with regret, but the pleasure of bathing in the cooling and refreshing waters of the Ocean. We crave neither the rocks nor the hills of the East its baked beans nor fish-hash its intelligence nor its morality they are no better than ours of the West. But its ocean coast has charms for us, that we never intend to wean ourselves from.but when far beyond the blue ridge of the Alleghanies, on hot sultry days, we ehall sigh for the cool and in vigoiating waves to cool our parched system. The tide of human beings just begins to swell here, which will continue until the last of August, and then in a few weeks, visitors will entirely disappear, when all the hotels will be locked up, and the occupants leave them alone during winter's dreary months, without even one to see to their safety. This is decidedly a better place for hot days, than to visit the sea shore at Cape May, or old Point Comfort. The air ib purer, the sea colder, and the bills at least onehalf lower. We think then that our people who look to the amount of expenses, and wish the advantages of sea-hathinir. should come here; and especially if the R0!1 breezes have any of the virtues attributed to them, there are a few of our 'fiends whom we ardently hope will come here to avail themselves of such influen ces. A Sabbath in Sew Knfrland. By this we mean not a Sabbath in the fashionable cities of New England, but in the rural districts. Yesterdav we nttended the Methodist Church at Salis and he evidently enjoys pure religion. We cannot say as much for the congregation. During the perform ance onhc organ, and the singing by the choir, the entire congregation, considering that they bad no part or lot in the service, deliberately turned their backs to the pulpit, and intently gazed at the choir, to see the various shapes and contortions of mouths requisite to produce the music. At the close of the sinking, supposing we were in a Methodist Chuich.we kneefed in prayer, but found ourselves alom, and the balance of the congregation looking at us in wonder, apparently inquiring "from what backwoods did that green one come!" They all sat down, instead ot kneeling as they do in all Methodist churches where they have huwomen, or whispering nonsense. During prayer we neard no responses no apparent union of petition of minister and people. They in fact said by their looks and acts, "we have hired a minister to pray for us, let hint go ahead and do it." By their acts to-day, they reminded us forcibly of a friend of ours who savs he believes in that religion that will come along and bless and save him without any act or trouble on his part. Then they appear to think that all they have to do is to build a nice church, go there on the Sabbath in a worldly spirit; sit down and expect God to bless them. They have heard that "God blesses whom he will," and they are not disposed to trouble themselves about his business. To us, how ever, it was a soulless worship a raagnincent farce. Their excuse for leaving the ancient usages, and present practices of the real Methodist Church, is that other churches have so long taught the people there, ' Vi f cithnir in ur. it ia .'.!., . K . . . 1 . . mi, bivviu ii p j -1 toiigub, mm. tutry cannot introduce Kneeling into Metho dist Congregations. This flimsy excuse, would also introduce into that church all the doctrines and creeds of those churches which have so long taught that people. It is not an honest excuse. It is an unholv and unsanctified pride that thus keep Methodists from kneeling in prayer. iliesc remarks are not applicable to

those churches who believe it is not right to kneel in prayer. Such however is not the belief of ancient or modern Methodism, and where it is not practiced, it is a departure, and we fear a fatal departure from one of its most wholesome usages. We kneeled in prayer before the sermon, and would have kneeled after the sermon, if they hid had prayer. The services to us was of very little benefit, except to learn a lesson in hu man nature to see how easily and rapidly one departure from wholesome usaarea fi-illma - 1 t ... .vnuno auuua-r. r irsi a cnoir IS introduced, then an organ pews follows with damask and velvet cushions n. the inconvenient and humiliating act of prayer is dispensed with and those who aanere to ancient principles will soon be termed, " old fogies," "pod-augers," "old humbugs." May God give us more humble simplicity in the church, and less show and unsanctified pride! But we are grumbling about religious matters from a fashionable watering place, where little is said or thought upon that subject. A dissertation about the game of nine-pins, or the virtues of brandy, would be more acceptable to the sub jects about us. These things appear to engage the attention more of men and women than the health of body or soul. What sad lessons are to be learned of me depravity oi human nature at fashionable summer retreats and watering places . Many are away from the restraints of home and family, and freely indulge in those things they would not at home. This is evidence of a bad heart one that is only restrained at home for popularity and profit evidence of a real hypocrite. c. F.C. Wawh i no-1 ni. .- It is a very general impression here mai uir. uucnanan has thrown up the Mission to England. This is not dona yet, though the probability strengthens that it will be. Marcy is firm in refusing Buchanan's demand, to write his own instructions. We think there must be some mistake in that. It is hardly likely that so discreet and intelligent a gentleman as Mr. Buchanan is acknowleged to be, would make such a demand, unless he believes the Administration to be a very weak affair. That, we have every assurance, he does not believe it to be. Mr. Soule will probably be permitted to give shape to his instructions. We do not believe any such thing. We believe Mr. Marcy, under the direction of the President, will, as he ought to give the requisite instructions to Mr. Soule.as well as all other foreign Representatives. I am satisfied that the Administration is disposed not to permit England to car ry on her scheme for liberating Cuban blacks. The indication that England m-ono-ses to vindicate its treaty with Spain for the suppression of the slave trade hythis radical means, has brought the subject directly under the notice of the Cabinet, and the Union s article on the subject, a few days since, very probably was indicative of the sentiments of the Administion thereon. In accordance with a law of last ses sion, directing that the Chief of the Na val construction shall be a practical man, Constructor Hart was appointed to th

head or that Bureau vice Commodore j lrooP8 lhe "'d" o fire. Shubrick. CT An exchange paper has this adrertiseHon. It. J. W alker.Minister to China, ' meat: "Two sieiera want washing." We and Gen. Jas. Keenan , Consul to Hong j noP8 they may get it. Kong, expect to leave New York about! O-How .ir ii ,u.

the 20th of September for route for China "uu"i i-u His Minister Medary will go to Chili commission and instructions are in his pocket. Gov. Wright, of Indiana, has left for New York. Gen. Almonte, the new Mexican minister; has just arrived. From the Btnn HeraM. Jan. 27, The last Ifailrond Accident. As the Northern Ezpress train, from Concord, N. H. was passinrr through Stoneham to this city. Saturday eveninoa little before 7 o'clock, Capt. Winthrop j Richardson, very generally known in ; this community ,was instantly killed, and j in the most terrible manner. It appears ' that he was In waiting at the depot, for j his daughter, who was to arrive from the j city in a train of cars then approaching I on the opposite track. He stepped from : the platform,and was crossing over.when the express train, goin? at the rate of 40 miles an hour shot past. Either Mr. Richardson did not see the train, or hear such signs of warning, as were given, or stumbled upon the track,for the locomotive struck him with fearful force, by which his entire body was shattered in the most shocking manner, unrt ihpnnn in every direction. The eight was inde-l, scribbly awful. The warm blood of the unfortutfate man reddened the track and lucuuioiive ana car. in one place was a part of an arm, in another, of the head in another, of the leg. His heart, horrible to relate, was found thrown upon a break beam of one of the cars; in another place lay a portion of his brain, and in a third, his liver, and still again, here and 1... J 9 i there, other nort innnr hi- ;fo,.i gans. oo complete and dreadful an afioir;su icrnuie an anninaiation was probably scarcely ever witnessed. Strange Accident. The 4th at Cleveland was considerably celebrated. a rl-l . .. Several accidents occurred, one of them

singular: A boy had a quarter of a pound Lrr ovr at niEnt nd taken in in the mornof powder in his right pocket, and very I iag'

foolishly and recklessly put matches in the same pocket. Thrusting his hand down to get some powder, the matches were ignited, and the powder exploded. He was very seriously injured. His abdomen was horribly mangled and burned, and his hand lacerated. His intestines were torn and broken. He was not expected to live. In Cincinnati. About noon Monday, as a small boy named McDonough was loading a pistol, near the corner of Wes- . Tl t T 1 tern gw ana AiiDerty streets, it went i oil, and the ramrod passed through his right hand, shattering it so badly that it is thought that it will be necessary, to amputate it. On Third near Smith, a man named Harris, while firing some fire works on Monday, about 7 o'clock, had his face and shoulders badly burned. It is thought by his physicians that the accident will cause Mr. H. the loss of his sight. Monday evening, about 4 o'clock, Mrs Greiner, who resides on Longworth st., while passing along Fifth, near Race St., was struck by a serpent, which set fire to hercbthing, and she was soon enveloped in flames. With extraordinary ex ertions the fire was extinguished, but not until the lady was seriously burned

OUR CHIP BASKET. O-Tbe steamboat Wayne exploded on the 10th in.t., forty mile, below Newbern North Carollua.killing five laves. aud wouuding two others. The boat sauk in tea feet water. HP 'Guilty or not irnllfuT" ..tt - TV..u

J j - 6-"-J " i-" M 11-1 1 ostice. 'iSot CUiitV.' -Don hl A here? Go about your bisness.', . O The Editor of the Newburvport Uajon tus been preseoted with an arm-chair 110 years old. and for a lour ti oaen in tne possession or th .ni.,. t i ... V IIU I c i iiiioiny uexier. O" Lola Montez, tSe celebrated danoeiu and actress, has commenced her Californi career, and has appeared four timet at the American. The houses ap to the last night had been crowded. v:.i . li-r "Have you much fish in asked a person of a fisherman your bag?" "Yea. there's a good eel," was the rather uppery reply. O "What brutes your southern men are always smoking cigars," said a Northern young lady to a Creole miss. "Yes but your northern men, in Maine, you know, smoke herrin . . ta 9 " w M u t v. rininrlaa ITT Dr. Wheeler, whose drug store was destroyed joy mob in New, York, last " t " eni in a bill cr f 3.0U0 to the Council. O Samuel White was sent to the House or Correction, in Lowell, on the 53d. for three months, for pnttinz his arm around a lady in the streets and attempting to kiss O" 'What was the text in church Charles, my dear?" 'I believe, father, the parson took from the lion that Sampson killed." to-day, a claw IP" Hon. Robert J. Walker, it is stated has drawn his outfit farthe China mission, and hopes to start by the middle of June. His health la ecellent. D- Pereeant O'Nei!. who accompanied Oeneral Fierce to Mexico, has received an appo.ntment in the Boston Custom-House. O" Wm. B. Benedict professor of mathematics m the U S Nary, died at Leeaburg, Va., on the 20th insl. h I? It is stated that since November last the mines of the New Jersey Zinc Componv have yielded $49,2S9. 1 ' ID- The Connecticut Legislature has refused to appropriate il.OOfl'to aid in the removal or colored persons to Africa. J3" ThB Washington Monument i now 132 feet high; the workmen have been delayed on account of raising additional derricks. Hires blocks have been received this month one Irom California. The best core for melancholy is angerWe once knew a fellow who was saved from suicide by just pulling his nose. ET The revenue of Peru Is eight millions ofdollars, of which five millions are derived from the sale of guano. O Fleas are said to abound to an extraordinary extent in the Western corner or Cbartiers township, Alleghany county, over a space of three miles, filling the houses ana almost orlvfng the inhabitants oistracti ed. j The N Y Times suggests that the only i u.at euauie oua io gel on comfor tably now-a-days are "ice and nothing to do, I In unlimited quantities." ! O Mavor Wilson nf Mnnin.nl i. ha8 'eft the city-public opinion tuning strong i "Rainst him as the one who rava to th nos ever oeen uiscoveiea to draw out a covers man s virtues so fully as the sod that ! hie grave. BIT A contemporary Imagines that gold j wi!l go on increasing until it become less ! valuable than olJ iron. In leiw than ten i years he expects to see ten-penny nails take the place of brewtpins. Gold, iu his opinion , is bound to be a drug, and in a ceutury from j now, will only be used for coal scuttlrs. I ID It is stated that Emma Snodgrass has 1 repented, gone home, taken oft" her breerhe and sworn eternal attachment to peticoats and Prol,r,e'y- This is to her credit. O" It is a fact that some girls don't know that kisses are sweet. Kissing a pretty one pother day, she very innocently asked "Wnt the use of it and what good does 'V?0!" ,',Ah' BBid we wh"i' uw rllck'n les.' fcxehang- psrer. Uj" People often make strange mistakes as ,0 lhe nJ"'urenf angels. Thev are apt to talk ofwo,nen -angels,' vet there's not . 1 . ino - " nb3Ut fml "ngel TI.-, . . , ' -"s' j

. ..I , ui u.e omer se exchange ; nuert, joys wither ere they are tasted, ;P"p'r' i friendships which bethought enduring,' i IO If a dog's tale is knt awf intirely.would i changing hue like chameleons, and rainlit tnterlear with his low cow motion? An- bow promises fading and meltino- into , swei Not egsackly it mite not eflVct his colorless air "f lof .l... r" - t

carriarre. bfi..IH l...;i ..- i.: i a - - m 1 1 , w ovou ii an waggia. CP The New 0rlean Picayune says, tbe ' ,w.0M.sp.'ci!,n .lo,k'ns going out of Jl" ID" A contemporary, specking of the re port on gentlemen's fashions, says, 1 there is ! not mucn change in geutlemeu'a pants this . .h:. monin. very likely. ID The Lake Superior ship canal has been at last commenced at Sault Ste Maria. . I irk i . . . v " "on do bard at work on O" Cheap Traveling Opposition rans high on the down mt steamboats. The fare from Boston to Belfast, Me , is only rive cent, supper and breikfast thrown iu. Bj Why is a watch dog larger at night than he U in the morning? because he is CT Another Jackson Statue. The Jackson Monument Association of New Orleans has resolved to erect a colossal equestrian statue in bronze, the work to be executed by Clark Mills. ' ID What part of the science of navigation should a railroad conductor of the pressut day understand? W hy he should know how to keep the 'dead reckoning of course. O Damages of Slander. A Vermooter named Robinson has been mulcted of the sum of $1,065, which, with the costs, will amount to some $2,000,for slandering a femal-j whom he had once engaged to marry. ID 'Josh, I say, I was going down street t'other day and I seed a tree bark.' "Golly, Sam, I seed it hollow." .Aud I seed the same one leave." 'Did it take its tkunk with it?' 'O, it left that for board." D" India Rubber. Tbe total value of India Rubber goods manufactured iu the United States is estimated at t-n millions annually, and nearly the whole trade has sprung up since 1841. ID We know of a man in this city who is bo republican in his notions that he refuses to go to church because the ministers preach of the kingdom of Heaven. ILj Prof Morse, it is said, has disposed of uis enure wiegrapa interest to tho Hon , Amos Kendall.

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The Short-line Railwar Company. The Directors of this company (orrninized under the General Railroad Law of Indiana,) met on Monday last at the Palmer House, in this city, and organized, by the election of John II. Bradley, for President; John Woollcy, for Treasurer; and Dr. John M. Kitchen, for Secretary, and adopted resolutions, to aVe their line so to connect with other roads, as k II make it of much importance to our city, and at the same time a veiy advantageous aoxilary to the roada with which it will connect. This Road will commence at the track of the Lawrenceburgh and upper Mississippi Railroad, at or near the town of Huntersville in Franklin Coanty and run directly toward Cincinnati, to- the State line at or near Harrison, Ohio, so as to meet and there join with the proposed straight line road from Cincinnati to Indianapolis thus making an almost direct line from Greensburgh to Cincinnati, and carrying Cincinnati travel from this point over sixty-five miles on the Lawrenceburgh Railway. The Directors of the Company are all Stockholders in the Lawrenceburgh Railroad, and desirous of course to make that road as advantageous as possible, and by this connection, when completed, will no doubt succeed in doing so. The Board of Directors is, Abraham L. Voorhes, Thomas A. Morris, William Sheets, Charles W. Parry, Lawrence M. Vance, John Woolley, John M. Kitchen, and John H. Brabley. Col. Thomas A. Morris, is the Chief Engineer of the CoinpaEj. Ind. Journal. Love and Romance. We published a few days ago.saystheNew OrleansCrescent, a short sketch with the above title. It gave the details of a romantic elopement and marriage, the parties being a lady and gentleman from Texas. A day or two after the happy pair had tied the knot hymenial, the brother of the young lady arrived in this city from Texas, and for the first time heard of the event. He immediately went to the St. Charles Hotel, where theyounglady was stopping in company with Mrs. H. and her daughter, both from the same State, in whose charge the bride had been placed on her departure from borne. Meeting Mrs. H in the parlor of the Hotel, he upbraided her with having lent her countenance to the secret marriage of his sister, applying to her some very harsh epithets not set down in the code of etiquette. This aroused the ire of Miss II , a blooming girl of seventeen summers, who immediately approached the irritated brother, and shaking against his face her white and tiny fist, "wished she was a man or even had a weapon, that she might kill him for his impertinence." Nothing dannted by her threatening atitude, the irritated brother of thu brick drew from his bosom a Bowie knife, and handing it to the juvenile Xantippe said, "Take this, Miss, and let me see if von ! are a hdy of your word." With all the ; fire of a demon, the voun ladv imsnnl the shining blade, and drawing it back with a movement as if to plunge it into his breast was about to deal the fatal blow, when she was prevented by a gentleman visitor who grasped her arm. We mention this merely as an instance of "true grit" on both sides, and as a tale of reality, setting off a very pretty specimen of the romantic. "Let me Sleep. Let me sleep said my companion, half pettily, turning from my cousin. "Let me s'ep." The words haunted my memory for hours afterwards. How often has the wish been breathed in this weary, world, 'O, let me sleep." The man whose conscience lashes him for misdeeds evils committed and unrepented of cries, as he drops his head into his thorny pillow "Let me sleep! with sleep comes oblivion " The mourner, who has seen some bright and beautiful one torn from Us embrace, like a summer flower nipped by a too early front, bows his head above the pallid face of the prostrate form below him, and sighs, in the agony of his soul 'Let me sleep sleep with the loved one whose smile shall never welcome my footsteps more.' "Let me sleep," says the traveler, who footsore and weary, has toiled long in tho wnrl1 nnA coon Una. i- r 1 i wi nwfica uci IBM UU1U1if am weary. The rosy-checked child.the bright-eyed maiden, the thoughtful matron, those for whom life puts on its finest aspects, its most endearing smiles, all have periods in which they long for sleep, for the oblivion of all care, hours in which thr. ters of Lethe may flow darklv nrl .u ' ' 1"J UVCI IUCIU. There cometh a sleep unto all! a sleep deep, hushed and breathless. The roar of cannon, the deep toned thunderbolt, the shock of an earthquake, or the rush of 10000 armies cannot break up its still repose. With mute lips and folded arms, one after another the ephemera of earth sink down into a darkness and nothingness. No intruding footsteps shall jar upon their rest, no disturbing tounh shall ring fiom them there the exclamation 'Let me sleep." Boston fa (be Veil. The St. Louis Republican of the 30th, tells the following story about soma Boston people: One day last week, a well-dressed, gentlemanly looking man, abont thirty five or forty years of ge, accompanied by a very handsome young lady, arrived in this city and took lodgings at the Virginia Hotel, as man and wife. They had scarcely been there twenty four hours when another lady appeared and startled the boarders nd proprietors with the announcement that the gentleman was her truant hnsband, who had forsaken her charms for those of another. Ar-range.-nente were made to bring about an interview between them, which was soon accomplished. The wife was all tears and the husband all penitence. Negotiations were entered into, and the lady proposed to her faithless sp mse to give her three thousand dollars and she would return to her borne and never trouble him again. However, affection eoon got the mastery of both; they renewed the vowe they had mad, at the hymenial nltar, kissed and smiled again. The young lady who bad so fascinated the gentleman and made him falsa to bis conjugal relations, was furnished with ample means to return to her friends, and left the next day. All tbe parties are from that modal eity of propriety, Boston, and are .aid to be well known. The gentleman had several thousand dollars in cash with film. And daatrtal I going into the banking business in this city.

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