Indiana American, Volume 9, Number 6, Brookville, Franklin County, 11 February 1870 — Page 1

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The Decline of the Influence of Rome Upon the Catholic Church. Rome Correspondence of the New York World. I know, of my own knowledge, that gomeof the most conspicuous of the French clergy here are loud and unreserved in their expressions of disappointment and dissatisfaction with the actual management of affairs, and a Hungarian ecclesiasitic of rank has spoken to me, with no little bitterness, of the disregard shown, as he thinks, for the position, the claims, and the prospects of the Church in various parts of the world by the absolutely Koman and Italian prelates who liavej thus far, manipulated, and are still manipulating, the main business of the Council. An intelligent foreign Catholic layman put the feeling shown by this clerical Hungarian in a very keen, clear light this evening, when, after a brief discussion with me as to the probability of the proclamation of the dogma of Papal infallibility by the Council, he exclaimed: "Perhaps I nightbe able to stomach the dogma per sc.; tat I really can not see why, if somebody is to be infallible, that somebody should ilwiys be an Italiaa." It seems to me hardly possible that this feeling should not sooner or later, make itself felt in the proceedings of the Council. The Italian, or, to speak more correctly, the Roman advisers of the Pontiff may have a little over estimated the power of Rome, her local organization, and her local influences upon the minds even of Catholic visitors. Fifty, rr even twenty years ago, a convocation ol tislops from ail parts of the world had hrouuht to Home a concourse of men, the vast majority of whom would have missed Jiere nothing of the signs of civilization itith which they were familiar at home, and would have found here many things more solemn and imposing than those with nhieh they were familiar at home. During the last twenty years the rest of the world has made so much progress and Home so littte, that this is no longer tine. I have been greatly struck, in conversing with prelates of different nationalities and from different quarters of the globe, by the very general lack among them of an intense and profound admiration fur Rome as a city, and for its ecclesiastical monuments as uiotiuments. Nor is the pomp of the 1'oiitiiical Court by any means as effective now as it used to Is. Its adminiUaters havi: failed to keep pace with the pioress either of opulence or ;f taste smong mankind. Ail ibis, intelligent men, even though they Lc Catholic Dishup, eauiiot fail, aud do not fail, to sec. rl tie ceremonies which might have struck an average Catholic Bishop with awe a tentury ng, fail to produce the same imressiou upon an average Catholic l?i.hep to-day. The primacy of Rome, in short, from being a matter of ocular aiid sensuous demonstration, has become a matter il political and ecclesiastical doctrine. Xor is it possible, 1 should say, humanly speaking, that fuieigii Catholics, seeing with their own eyes, and with their own miuds understanding, ;!.e real ii.feiiority iu many things of the Roman metropolis to wider great center of Catholic belief, and the real dependence i:i the one thing needful (rccuiaiiy r: ee U I I mean) of the llon.a:i metropolis upon other great centers of Catholic belief, should patiently submit to bo dealt with as simply the dumb fieutiie sheep of Ilon.ian shepherd. a divinely appointed I speak now, oi course, of th hose who ;:;hv. not uncivilly or un kindly, he called iha "managers" of foreVn Catholicism, the ecclesiastics of rank and intelligence who really direct and govern the practical life of the Catholic tody iu its relations wish society and with the state tbroughut the world. I have already in a previous letter expressed my conviction that the Romau Curia, so far as its influence lias extended, has ioi years past been endeavoring to eliminate and to exclude men of a lively and dangerous nature houi the hiuh rlaces of the hier archy. Rut its success, though consider able, has not been complete, as the pending experiment, if i am not sadly mis-tiike-n, wi;l show. A Lively Question ia Indiana About twenty-Live years ayro the State of Indiana undertook the construction oi the Wabash & i.;rje Canal, and incurred ; debt of over fourteen million for that pur pose. A rant of land had also been made by Congress to aid the work. Sub eueutiy thujjb was transferred to a pri te company with SUO,U0O acres of land, on couditiou that this company pay hall 'he outstauuing debt and accrued iuterest, Dd the State the other half. An act was Hsed by the Legislature in accordance un His revision, requiring holders of Ike first isUe of bonds to surrender the uie at.; receive new bonds; ana it was further enat-;?d that bonds not surrender e within a giveii time should be repudited. Cuder this law all the bouds, with the exception ii f tii. at. three hundred (Si i,.i 1 . . who each), were surreu: iered. The ct:te his long since raid aud retired it portiou of the new bauds; but ueiihci the 1 ",ulal cor interest ot the Donas assumu by the Canal Company have been paid. Al the time these bonds were issued the legislature enacted that the State would Kspoiitible only for the one-half of the dtot tur which it issued its bonds. With ,s understanding the old bonds were surulered and nevvoncs i:?sued. Now Mr. lieliuont, Mr. Lanier, of the house of "inslow, Lanier & Co , and other New ork gentlemen, have concluded that the ute ought to pay the portiou of the debt seumed by the Canal Company, and con Mtnttnl circulars have been issued to poljjtciaus of intlueuce in various' parts of e State, on the subject; the aim being to le:t a Legislature favorable to the inters,s of Messrs. Belmont & Co. There is large amount of money in the job. The Dds and accrued interest amount to over "teen uiillion. They cost the present -'"s probably o (7i IU cents on the dot " . Vie 8eheuie is a rich one, therefore, - is time the people of Indian be6 to think about it.

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VOL. 9, NO. 6.3 We have referred to three " hundred bonds of the original issue that were not surrendered. These, about two years ago, came to light in the Interior Department at Washington, where they had been deposited, in trust, for some Indian tribe; and as the Government was indebted to the State of Indiana, the latter was required to pay these bonds with accrued interest. .Now, it will be interesting to inquire how and when these bonds got into the Interior Department. Interest on them was suspended in 1847, and since that date no honest man would buy them with money held in trust for Indians. Governor Baker has been censured for paying the bonds, and the last Legislature tabled a resolution indorsing the acts but we do not see how the State could evade the payment without openly repudiating the debt; and as the United State, held the money, this could cot be done. The only question of interest, therefore, in regard to these bonds, is whether they were bought in trust for Indians in good faith, when they were believed to be good; or whether they were bought at a discount of 50 to 75 per cent., and charged to the Indians at par. If they have been in the Interior Department twenty-five years, it is strange that their whereabouts was not known until lately. We have thus briefly referred to a matter which is fully stated by our correspondent in another place, because it is likely to appear in the next political campaign in Indiana, and the people, therefore, have a lively interest in it. It looks now as if it would be impossible for Belmont & Co. to succeed; but as there is money in the job, they will try. hard. Gazette. Another Expedition to the North Pole. The New York Herald publishes the following from Captain C. F. Hall: "7b the Editor rj the Herald: l'l have been engaged for most of the time during the last ten years in the Arctic regions searching for survivors of Sir John Fraukliu's expedition.- During that time I lived with the Esquimaux and became fully accustomed to the dress, food arid general life of that people. 't lotu information gained of the Esquimaux and from v. hat 1 discovered myself, at last (so late as the spring of lbti'J) 1 became tuliy satisfied that not a man of Sir John Franklin's expedition survived, and thus the the great motive of my mission was canceled. However, I ascertained beyond all doubt on my iniud that there were survivors among whom was the heroic Crozier down to 183G and 1G7. "1 now have returned to my country fetermincd to devote my hard earned ex perience iu the Arctic regions to making one more voyage, and tins lor the special object of geographical discovery from lati tude eighty degrees north up to the orth ole bv way of Jones Sound, or Smith s Sound, purposing, however, to make trial t up the former. jNI y plan, iu brief, is to have two small vessels of about. 10 tuns each one a reamer, the same to be sailing rigged the oiher a sailing vessel, and each officer ed and uianuedhy twelve men. "My purpose is on getting into the Arc tic regions to lose no opportunity of acquiring the fresh provision of the country, which course will insure my command against all possible danger from that curse to Arctic expeditions, the scurvy. As a general thing my staple eliet and so of my company will bo as formerly raw meat and train oil. 'T cotiddcutly believe I will be able to reach the .North I'oic and return iu three ears; but should t li;id that it would requilt; one or two additional jears to complete the ot'jcet of the veyage and travel I will continue that time. "The wlule civilized world is deeply interested iu the subject of geographical diseoveiy to the North Cole, aud expeditions have leally, from time to time, been trying to reach that point for over three centuries. "I truly believe that if Congress and Government will aid me in the small expecditiou required (aud I am about to go to Washington to try for this aid) the stars aud stripes of my country will soon have the good fortune and -houor of discovering aud possessing a new world, embracing all the meridians of this great and glorious globe, the whole of which was, iu truth, the gift of God to man over six thousand years ago, aud for man to subdue. C. F. Hall." "The coming man" A waiter. The lowest class of society Dwarfs. The piece festival A quittiug party. A table of interest T he dinner-table. Exposed lumber The open board of brokers. A Romance of the middle aties An old O uiaid s love letter. Why is drawing from nature iufectious? ll'e Sketching. Good nature gathers honey from every herb. Children are our idols, through whom the heart ascends to heaveu. A good way to find a woman out Call wheu she isu't home. The Esquimaux say, "A man who has three wives in this world is sure of heaven iu the next." A scapegrace remarked that the principal branch of education ia his school was a willow branch. "Boys," asked the teacher of an infant Sunday-school class, "did you ever see an elephant's skin?" "Yes, sir, I did," piped a little fellow away down at the foot. "Did vou, llobert? WUerg was it?" i'Ou an elephant, &ir."

THE UNION, THE CONSTITUTION, AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS BROOKVILLE, IND., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1870.

The Reformer. The man is thought a knave or fool. Or bigot plotting crime, Who, for the advancement of his kind, Is wiser than his time. For him the hemlock shall distil, For him the axe be bared, " For him the gibbet shall be built, For him the stake prepared; Him shall the scorn and wrath of men Pursue with deadly aim; And malice, envy, spite and lies, Shall desecrate his name. But truth shall conquer at the last, For round and round we run, And ever the right comes uppermost, And ever is justice done. To Let Inquire Within. The lady flounced out in a rage. Two young damsels and a spinster aunt followed, and after a lengthy inspection of the premises, came to a state council in the parlor. "I like the house very much," said the spinster aunt solemnly, "and with a few alterations, I will engage it for my brother's family." "Very good, ma'am," said Nahum, rubbing bis hands, and scenting a speedy termination to his trials. "Name 'em." "The door handles .must all be gilded, and 1 should like the house-newly papered in velvet and gold, and repainted, aud the partition between the parlors taken down and replaced by an arch, and an extension dining-room built on behind, and a new style of range in the kitchen, and a dumb waiter put in, and new bronze chandeliers throughout, and another furnace in the sub-cellar, and "Hold on, ma'am just hold on one minute," said Nahum, feebly gasping for breath. "Wouldn't you like the old house carted away, and a new one put in its place? I think it would be rather less trouble than to make the trilling alterations you suggest." "Sir!" said the spinster loftily. "I don't think we cau agree, ma'am." "Very well very well come, girls." With prim diguity the lady marshalled her two charges out, muttering something about the "extortionate ideas of landlords now-a-days.'' While Nahum, wildly rumpling Ins iron-grey hair with both hands, soliloquized: "Well, if Job had been alive, and had a bouse to let, there uever would have beeu any book of J ob written. There goes that everlasting bell again! I'll haul it out by the roots, if this thiug goes on much longer. I'll tear down the bill, and put up the place at auction." Another lady, but quite dilTerent from the other a slender little east-down lady, with a head that drooped like a lily of the valley, and a dress of brown silk, that had been mended, aud turned, and retrimmed, and even Nahum Briggs, man and bachelor though he was, could see how shabby it was. Yet she was pretty, with big blue eyes, and shining brow hair, and checks tinged with a fair, fleeting color, where the velvety roses of youth had once bloomed iu vivid carmine. And a gold-eu-haired little lassie clung to her dress, as like the tiny iily buds to a blooming chime of flower bells. v As Nahum Briggs stood looking at her, there came back to him the sunshiny days of youth; a field of blooming clover crimsoued the June light like waves of blood, and a blue-eyed girl leaning over the fence with her bright hair haired with level sunset gold, and he knew that he was standing face to face with Barbara Wylie, the girl he had quarrelled with years and years ago, and whose blue eyes had kept him an old bachelor all his lite long. "This house is to be let, 1 believe?" she asked timidly, with a little quiver in her mouth. "L believe it is, Barbara Wylie." She looked up, starting with a sudden flush of recognition. Aud then Barbara turned very pale, and bcan to weep, with the little golden haired girl clinging to her skirts, and wailing "Mamma, mamma what's the matter, mamma?'' "Nothing now," said Barbara, resolutely brushiug away the tears. "If you please, Mr. Briggs, I will look at the house, 1 am a widow now, and very poor, I think of keeping a boarding-house to earn my daily bread. I hope the rent ia not very high?" "We 11 talk about the rent afterwards," said Nahum, fiercely swallowing down a big lu'.; p iu his throat that threatened to choke him. "Come here, little girl, and kiss me; I used to know your mamma wheu she wasn't much bigger ihau you are." Barbara with her blue eyes still drooping, went all over the house, without finding a word of fault, and Nahum Briggs walked at her side, wondering if it was really liltcoti years since the Juuesuu shine lay so brightly on the clover held. "I think the house is beautiful," said meek Barbara. "Will you rent it to me, Nahum?" "Well, yes," said Nahum thoughtfully. ' I'll let you have my house, if you want it, Barbara." "With the privilege of keeping a few boarders?" "No, ma'am!" Barbara stopped and looked wistfully at him. "But Idon't think you understand how very poor I am, Mr. Briggs." "Tes, I do." "And that I cannot afford to take the house, without the privilege of boarders." "I tell you what, Barbara," said Mr. Briggs dictatorily, "I'll give you the privilege of keeping just one boarder, aud him you have got to keep all your lite long, if you once take him." "I don't think I quite understand you, Nahum Briggs," said Barbara, but she blushed very becomingly, and we are rather inclined to thiuk that she told a naughty little tih. "What do you say to pie for bjjarrjor,

Barbara?" said the old bachelor, taking both the widow's hands in his "Barbara, we were young fools once, but that is no reason why we should be old fools now. I like you just as well as ever 1 did, and I'll do my best to be a good husband to you, and a good father to your little girl, if you'll be my wife." Barbara blushed again, and hesitated, but Nahum was not to be eluded thus. "Shall I take down the sign 'To Let,' Barbara? "Y'es," she murmured, almost under her breath. So Nahum went deliberately out. and coolly tore down the bill, to the great astonishment and disappointment of a party

of rabid house-hunters, who were just as i cenaing tne steps. ?'And when shall we be married, Barbara?" he next demanded. "In the summer, perhaps," Eaid Mrs. Barbara shyly. "To-morrow," said Nahum decisively, and "to-morrow" it was. "Upon my word, Barbara," said Nahum, on the first day of May, as he watched his wife's blooming face behind the coffee urn, "you can't think how much jollier it is with you for a house-keeper thau that hag Mrs. Carley." Barbara only laughed, and said ' he was a dear, good old stupid." So the probabilities are that Mr. Nahum Briggs nor his brown stone bouse will be in market again as "To Let Inquire Within." Inducements for Insuring in the "BreakNeck" Insurance Co. Everybody should get insured against accidents. No matter if you belong to one of the "best of families," accidents will happen. Get out of policy. The old proverb says, "Honesty is the policy," but that was before accident insurance companies started. Now the best policy is a policy in the "Break-neck." The other day a man in Chicago fell out of a fourth story window. Ho had no insurance, and consequently was killed. Another man on the same day Jell out with his wife. He was insured in the "Breakneck," and is ready to fall out again. A woman driving a spirited horse in St. Louis was ruu away with. Being insured against accidents, she wasn't alarmed a bit, stopped the horse and came back safe. Her policy runuing out, she neglected to renew it. Shortly after she was run away wi h again, lldr husband's partner ran away with her this time, and she hasn't come back yet. Don't fail to renew your policy, particularly if it is iu the "Break ucck." At Dubuque, Iowa, a man was kicked by a horse. The horse wasu't insured, aud he got kicked back. Near I'aris, Ky., a man, while engaged in running a circular saw, had his arms taken off. They consisted of a cavalry sabre and a doable barrelled shot gun. The man who carried them off had an accident iusurance aud he hasu't been caught yet. Iu Utica, N. Y., a man accidentally got married. Being insured in the "Breakneck," he will receive $13 a week uutil he recovers. Andy Johnson writes from Tennessee, "My policy" has ruu out. Send me another by express." Near Portland, Maine, a poor man fell from a loft aud broke his neck. He received his insurance. 5?3,00), from the "Break-neck," with which he was able to set himself up in business, and is now doing well. Our agent at Cleveland, Ohio, writes: "A lumber horse ran away with a bobtailed wagon, and tipped in the street over a small woman and six elderly children. The horse began to cry and the wagon bled freely at the nose, but otherwise the street is doing well, rto insurance. A boiler exploded at Memphis, blowing the engineer iuto the air tiuite out of'sight. He will receive i5 a day until he comes down again. A hog-driver in Mt. Sterling, Ivy., wa very much hurt by a fall fall iu pork. No insurance. A man run away from Litchfield, 111, to avoid paying his debts. He left a family (not being able to take them with him.) No insurance. A man accidentally fell from a steamer at New Orleans into the river. As he was sinking the third time, he suddeuly recollected that his policy in the Break-neck" had expired. lie then swam ashore, sought out the agent, renewed his policy, and immediately returned to the river and sank the third time in a 6erene and tranquil manner. Sympathy. It is a mistaken idea that manliness and stoicism are inseparable that a tender regard for the feelings and interests of others, is weak and uumaly. A heart iusensible to sympathy claims greater affinity with the brute than the man. Grace Greenwood is iu favor of giving the ballot to every woman who owns a sewing-machine or wash-tub. A single' hour in the day given to the study of some interesting subject brings unexpected accumulation of kuowledge. A Hoc ail Comparison. Bishop Watson compares a geologist to a gnat, mounted on an elephant, and laying down '.- ories as to the whole internal struct uii' of the animal from the phenomena of the hide. i... General Butler says the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln at once supplemented and complimented the Declaration of Independence; that it "may fitly be termed the Executive act of freedom to all mankind, of which the Declaration of 1876 was only the legislative announcement. It required both to make all men free; the first did so ia theory, the latter q fact,"

The Geniua of Little Things. BT T. H. ALLEN. Few men do great deeds. Many strive to emulate the few. No one finds all there is in life few appreciate what they find. The pride and ambition of man mock at and despise the little common courtesies of life, which make beautiful and lovely the path we journey. Great deeds are often clothed in modest attire, and men overlook them in their vain search for something by which they may give their names to the world, illuminated by a blaze of glory. A trifling deed is often, in reality, the most truly great and noble. The cup of cold water given to the poor wayfarer, the kind word of sympathy to the bereaved and desolate; the friendly remonstrace breathed in the ear of the erring, the little self-denials for the happiness of others, are more great and noble than the costly banquet, the polished address, the eloquent moral lecture, or the fleeting pleasure of self-gratification. The high places of this world are its low ones, its great things are its little things. Life is made up of them, and only those whose names are coupled with little things, are truly great. The favored few who march in the ranks of genius, forget this, and as we all do slight the smaller demonstrations of love and goodness which beautify the human soul, and which, like the flowers and green grass by the wayside, make life less wearisome. To eive a cup of cold water to the thirsty one is a blessed deed, and may be done with a grace which makes it great and beautiful He who, with eye fixed upon the mountain top, as he shouts, "Excelsior," has no right to trample with his feet the life from the modest flowers, and as he presses forward, he may find a higher work to do, in carefully putting aside the thorns which lay in wait for some heedless child's unprotected feet. The idea is false, that because one has mistaken himself to be on a more glorious mission, he cannot stoop to the thousand little amenities of every-day life needed to soften its roughness. Let men try to make life beautiful, homes happy, and to emulate that principle which made Christ God, then the world shall knowthem great, and be holier from their example. Advice to Girls. BY JOSH BILLINGS. My dear girls, keep cool. A blessed future awaits yu, enny how. Take Lessons on the pianna at onst, piannas are gettin skasc. Bi awl means Iarn to pla the nu song that has just cum out. "When John Brown is over we have Father Abraham cumming with this kruel war several strong." Thia stanza tuck the first premium at the stait fair. Don't be afraid to get married; yure ma want afraid. Be vartoous and putty. Eat slate pencil--, they will make yu spri at figures. Eat Kalone water, that will give you a good smell. Let yure peltykoats drag on tho sidewalks, and if enny man steps od them and tares opb the rim, slap his chops at onst. If you have got small feet keep them hid small feet has gone out uv fashion. Study travels, Tom Moors and Byronos and Guliivers, is all fust rate. If you can spare the time be luvly and sweet. Bemember one thing, thar ain't nothing in this life worth living fur but a rich husband. Ifyu don't b'ieve me, ask yure ma. Ifyu hav got red hair yu had better exchange it for black; black tha tell is going to be worn muchly next year. Don't hav eny thing tew du with boys unless tha mean busiuess. If you don't no bow tew skate, yu mite as well jine some traveling nuuery at oust, for yure played out. Secrets cf Health. First, keep warm. Second, eat regularly and slowly. Third, maintain regular bodily habits. Fourth, take early and light suppers. Fifth, keep a clean skin. Sixth, get plenty of sleep at night. Seventh, keep cheerful and respectable company. Eighth, keep out of debt. Ninth, don't set your mind on things you don't need. Tenth, mind your own business. Eleventh, don't set up to be a sharp of any kind. Twelfth, subdue curiosity. Thirtcenth, avoid drugs. I 1 I The Brave Girl of the Period. Miss Sherman, daughter of General Sherman, was requested last night, at the Prince's ball, to dance with His lloyal Highness. This was au honor he did not vouchsafe any other lady during the entire evening, and instead of promptly and joyously accepting the attention, as count etiquette permitted to the royal guest, she smilingly referred to her card, and informed the Prince that she was engaged for the set for which he asked her company. This she did in the most frank and courteous manner, aud she is to-night complimented for her republican courage, and is declared to be the bravest girl oi the period. Washington Letter. The True Gentleman. The true genllemau is God's servant, the world's master, and his tti mau; virtue is his business, study his recreation, contentmcut his rest, and happiness his reward; God is his father, the Church is his mother, the saints his brethren, ail that need him his friends; devotion his chaplain, chastity his chamberlain, sobriety Lis butler, temperance his cook, hospitality his housekeeper, Providence his steward, charity his treasurer, piety his mistress of the house, and discretion his porter, to let in cr out, aa most fit. This is his whole family, made up of virtues, aud he is the true master of the house. He is necessitated to take the world on his way to heaven, but he walks through it as fast as he can, and all his business by the wayis to make himself and others happy. Take him ia two words a Man and a Christian,

WHOLE NO. 414.

" The Great Strasburg Clock. -Incomprehensible and solitary, like all that is great and true, rises the Minister of Strasburg. 1 walked round and round it, and sought the entrance, at which stands Erwin 's statue, the figure of justice. On the opposite side of the church is the portal, on which is the martyrdom of St. Lauren tins, within an arbor, as it were, of stone, open all around, and full of barging grapevines. In the principalcnirance on the left are wise virgins with their lamps, innocent and simple; on the right are saints, with demons or evil spirits under their heels. On the one gate are angels; on the other, martyrs. As I looked up and down, and contemplated the countless images of stone, in their nicbes, their stiffened lips loosened, I hear their voices, hyuius; the whole pile becomes melody; the swell of separate tones melts into one gigantic symphony. As the twelfth hoar approached, multitudes earae running from every side. They were all eager to see this curiosity of medieval times; although the clock, adapted by the aged mathematician, Schwilgue, to the prescut state of science, has now been going for four years. My friend at last appeared, and we bad barely time to push cur way through the crowd, and to ascend the small winding staircase which leads into the four stories of the clock, and the small balcony iu which we were suspended like swallows, against the mathematical monument, looking down perpendicularly upon a dense mass of heads, whose eyes and lips were all Gxed upon one point. On one of the lower galleries, an angel, guarded by lions which formerly roared, and holding a sceptre and bells in its hands, strikes the ejuarters, and another turns round the hour-glass. In an upper space, the four ages of life theu step forward; the child strikes the first quarter, with its thyrsus, upon a bell, the youth strikes the half hour with his arrow, the armed warrior the third quarter with his sword, and the old man the fourth with his crutch; then Death appears, and strikes the hour with his bone: and, as the sound of the last stroke dies away, the figure of Christ comes forward in a yet higher story, and raises its right arm as for a bles&ing; the twelve apostles, one after the other, pass before him, and in passing incline themselves before the Saviour, who in conclusion, gives his blessing to the spectators. Their eyes, in the meanwhile, turn to the clock, who proudly sits high up on a small tower, he flaps bis wings, stretches out his head and his tail, rufiies his neck,, and thrice his shrill crowing sounds loud aud clear. Among the old paintings which udorn the case of the clock, one of the most conspicuous is the portrait of Copernicus, according to whose system the planetarium, which is over the gallery of the lions, is erected. At the moment when Galieo was condemned, the scientific men of Strasburg protested against the judgment, and erected a monument to the Polish astron. omcr in this astral clock, which, like a trophy of truth, is placed in the sanctuary. Alter the exhibition was concluded, we stepped into the interior of the astrouomical works, which are wound up once in eight days, and in which end!e;-s combinations of wheels were revolving in perfect silence. A solemn aud mysterious sensation seizes upon one here, as il one wero in the worship of the spirits of the hou:s. The conception is certainly a lofty one, that of showing forth the whole structure of the heavens. Behold that small wheel, the only purpose of which is to make a 2 take the place of a 1 when the second thousand years of the Christian era shall have elapsed. On last New Year's night the whole was illuminated the interior, also; all the aisles of the church were crowded with spectators. The interest which was excited was intense, when, with the twelfth stroke of the clock, a 7U sprang into the place of the CO after the 18 The man who explained it all to us, a mere laborer, exclaimed, with much warmth, "One would almost suppose that the machine can think. It makes one think of the Mood which circulates through the veins of the human body. Beautiful Extract. Do trees talk? Have they not leafy lungs do they not at sunrise, when the wiud is low, and the birds are caroling their song?, play a 6weet music? Who has ever heard the soft whispers of the green leaves in spring time on a sunny morning, who did not feel as though rainbow gleams ef gladness were rumiing through his bean? And then, when the peach-blossoms hang like rubies from the stem of the parent tree when the morn-iug-glory, like a nun before the :-l:riiie ol God, uufi!ds her beautiful face, and the moss-roses open their crimson lips, sparkling with the noctar thatfalln from heaveu, who does not bless hi Maker? Wher. autumn comes the seasou of the "sere and yellow leaf" wheu the wheat is iu its golden prime, and the corn waves its silken tassels in the air, how those who think, bow and remember the reaper Death! And then again in winter, when the bosom of Old JVIother ISarth is cold, and the white sncw like a shroud, is on her breast, and the naked trees with leaves ali fallen, btand quivering iu the wiuu'f The celebrated island of Juan Fernandez which DeFoc has immortalized as the home of llobinson Crusoe, ha beeu utilized by a colony of German emigrants, and will henceforth take its place amemg the prosaic facts of history. Kubert Web rd an, a Saxon engineer, who served in the Federal army as a Major during tho late rebellion, bought the island i:i ioGS, and has induced a company of Germans, sixty or seventy iti number, to migrate . thither. They are delighted wilh their new home. They Gad it a lovely aud fertile spot, ste-cked already with herds of wild goats, and with a few wild horses and doukevs. They have brought with them cattleswine and fowl, agricultural and ttshiug iuipleiueuis, and all uceiiu! tMjp-

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Mohammed was a little above the medium stature, strongly but sparely built. with broad shoulders and a light stoop, his hair was black, and fn his prime clustered over his ears; bis beard and mustache of the same color, the latter luxuriant, reaching half way down his chest; hi forehead large, with a prominent veio, which swelled wheu angry; his complexion &ir, eyes large, black, piercing, bloodshot, stud restless; his teeth, white and well formed, stood apart; his walk eo rapid that others needed to run to keep pace with him; and his gate like that of a man stiiding down hill. lie was simple in all his apparel; never wore silk but once, and then ttirew it aside iu disgust, saying it was so fit dress for a man. His common attire was cotton, striped with white and red. Like all Arabs, lie had uit last fur comfort. A low hut f burnt tiling, with a palm-tree roof, would have been preferred te a palace. &tiil, tie was iu some thiugs of extremely delicate aud sensitive taste, as in the use of perfumes, and distaate for unpleasant odors. At Medina he once sent back a dish of mutton flavored with onions, sayiug it was not agreeable to his angel. He never travelled without tooth-picks, and antimony for his eyes, lie listened well in conversation, and in shaking bauds was never the first to withdraw his own. He was not, like Arabs in general, pass sionately fond of sports and games, aud and iu all things UMt unlike the heroic ideal of Arabic character. lie was boru at the city of Mecca, A.T). 571, from which place he fled to Medina, July 1G, 022. This flight gave rise !o the epoch iu chronology called the Hegira, which in Arabic denotes to tftx: or quit OHc't cvutfri or ft it mis. The creed of Mohammed was planned in a cave near Mecca. A Persian Jew, well versed iu history and the laws, and two Christians, were tits assistants. One of the latter was the Jacobite, and the other cf the Nestorian sect. With this help he framed the Korau, which he pretended to receive from the angel Gabriel, written iu the kvoreir.n Arabic, which he declared was the language of Paradise. In this language there me 1,01)1) teims lor sword, 5U0 for lion, 200 for serpent, and 80 for honey. It is supposed to be written about the year Git), aud its object was to unite Jews acd Christians, wiih the different professions of idolatry, in the worship of one God, under certain laws and ceremonies, exacting obedience to Mahomet as Crop bet. Ttie style of the volume is fluent, concise, aud beautiful, and where the attiibr.tes of God are described, it is. sublime aud mugui&ceut. It admits the divine mission of both Moses and Christ. The leading article of faith is compounded of a eternal truth and a necessary fiction, namely: that there is only one God, and Malum. ct is his apostle, lie died in G31, of the effects of a slow poison, given tohim by a Jew, three "jears before, in a piece of mutton, iu order to discover whether he was a true prophet, and immortal, as be declrced himself to he. Millions have visited his shrine since that day, from every rjuatterof the globe. The Coming Young Lady. She will vote, will be some use in the world, will cook l.er own food, will eats ber own living, aud will not die an old maid. The coming giil will riot wear the Grecian bend, dance the German, ignore all possibilities of knowing how to work; will not endeavor to break the heart of unsophisticated young men, will spell correctly, understand Knglish before she uiYects French, will preside with equal grace at the piano or wash-tub, will fpia more yarn for the liooe than for the street, will not despise her plaiuly-clad mother, her poor relations, t-r the haud of an honest woiker; will wear a boNnei; speak good, pliiin, unlisptng Knglifeh; will darn tier own stcre-kiogs; will know how to make donghauts, and will not read the lietlyer ofteucr tbau she does her Bible. The coming girl will walk five miles a da', if need be, to keep her cheeks in a lovv; will mind her health, her physical developemeul and her mother; will adopt a coftume both .-ensib'e aud conducive to comfort and health; will not confound bypocracy with politeness, will not place ly lug to please above frankness; will have courage to e-ur an miwelci'me acquaintance, wilt not think refinement is French duplicity, that the asumcd hospitality where bate dwells in the beuit, is better than condemnation; will not confound grace of government with Uy affection; will not regard the end of Ler being to bave a beau. The coming girl will not look to Paris but to reason, fjr her fashious; will not aim to follow a fnohh farhioii beeaui-e -milliners and dicss-makeis decreed it; nil! uot torture her boiij, shrivel her soul with weiulities, tr i uiii it with wine and pleasure. ius-hort, lie turning girl will i-etk to glorify her Maker, and to enjoy mentally iiis v.orks. Duty will be iicT aim, aud life a living reali'y. Our good minister onto esd that if we VPie i-o fooHfh as to let people laugh us out of c-ur religion, till at la.-i we dropped into heil, thtj Could l;ol JaOgh U out again. The most agrvctoie or ail com pa u ions is a bit:; pie, trunk man, without any high perteiiMoii-; me Ii.v lilt, and un derstands the ue of it obliging alike at ait hours; above aii of a goldeu temper, aud steadfast as au anc-hur. Fe-r such a one, we gladly exchange the LiCHtthl genii)-, the mor-t biilluui wit, oi the piulouitdjot thicker, ,

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