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PCBLISIIED EVERY FRIDAY BT ' C. n. D INGHAM, Proprietor.

Office in the National Bank Building, Third Story) TERMS Or SUBSCHIPTION: $2.50 PEU YEAR, in advance. $3.00 " " IF KOT PAID IN ADVANCE. J,To postage on papers delivered within this County. From the Indianapolis Journal. LET US LOOK AT IT. The Democracy claim that they are the only party that ever has administered the State or national government faithfully and successfully. They claim, indeed, that no other party can do it. In virtue of this monopoly of brains and honesty they demand the possession of the State and National administrations as their right. The best proof of ability is success. We can best tell what they can do by seeing what they have done. What have they done? They had entire control of the State Government, with the exception of a single term of the minor State offices, but still retaining the Governor, from 1843 to 1S60, half the life time of a generation. Let us see what they did in that golden age of Democratic supremacy. Ia 1850 Congress gave the State all the jwamp lands within its limits, imposing no condition but that the proceeds of their sales should be applied, so far as was nectssary to reclaiming them. The Legislature accepted the donation, and ordered that the net proceeds should go to the School Fund. The final surveys gave us one million two hundred and fifty-two thousand six hundred and thirty eight acres of these lands, worth at least three millions of dollars. Governor Wright in his message of 1S53 estimated that at least one million of dollars could be added to the School Fund from this source. With anything like honest management it would have been done. Bat the Democracy had the whole affair in their hands, and what is the result? The lands have all been sold, oitil not a dollar lifts ever come to the I'und, or ever rcill. Democratic speculators and swindlers got it all. By collusion with the State officers, the lands were paid for by "ditching certificates," which were issued for work "to be dune." aod which never was done. The Democracy lost, by the estimate of their own Governor, one million of dollars in this affair. Dcuiociatic ability and honesty! In settlins with on debtors after the crash of 1S27, the State got possession oF cf three hundred thousand acres of land in tieor:i;. It was unfit for cultivation, but heavily timbered, and worth at least, with ?ome half dozen saw mills upon it, a dollir an acre. Repeated offers of large amounts were msae tor it out in order to give a combination of Democratic speculators a "pood thing,"' a Democratic Legislature, under the lead of Ashbel 1'. Willard, centime! the sate of the whole vast tract for ? tlfiut'inJ ddf,trs. This amount was fail in May, isr3. Another illustration of Democratic ability and honesty! In 18(2 a Democratic State Agent, one IX C. Stover, wjs detected by his Repub lican successor, Col. 11. N. Hudson, in a. j'pf-y of Jvate stocks to the amount of tun millions three hundnd thousand dollars. l!y the exertions of Governor Morton and Colonel Hudson the State was saved from loss by this stupendous display of Democratic honesty, aud the forirer was indicted in the city of New York. But a Democratic JuJge, Barnard, held that he had committed no offense under the laws of .New York, atd quashed the indictment. In 1S.17. Jacob Meikle. the Democratic Treasurer of Jasper county, and. under the statute, Swamp land Commissioner for that county, had pocketed the sum of one Jrd and ftrenfn-xeren thonxtml nin' liunJrrd nnd ten tlollars aud ninety cent of the ; jrocceds of swamp land sales. He save lecurity for twenty-three thousand dollars before the whole amount of the fraud was discovered, but when suit was begun to collect the nionev Governor Willard. a Democrat, dismissed it, Mcrkle's term as Treasurer expired in 1S57. and with nineI V-five thousand dollar of n mrw.i 1 . defalcations liati"in. nvir liim U'ill-ir,) n. jointed him Swamp Land Commissioner. under a later act of the Legislature. Ac"nsupon thisappontment, he claimed from ! lu o.ate. tor Ins services, tlirpp llinixm,! our hundred dollars, which amount was to "edited on his defalcation. But it was M done. He took his warrant of a Democratic Auditor, who entered it as raid. N last December, three months ago, this I'onest Democrat's assignee sued the State 1 npon that warrant. It was not onlv not jHllieJ on his fraud, but he had the imI P'Wem-c thoroughly Democratic, to demand i;S riVllipnf in ..o f il,,.....l.. dollars of money in his hands which he "1 swindled theS'tate out of. Democratic eoesty and ability! lwa,h of 1837, the State issued Treasury notes, secured by the public faith Tor security i Democratic hands, as we seen and for some years they couHutci 1 ..,. ..- . V'l r-,c I'u'iiuu 01 our circulation. 111 ten thev Democratic State officers had taken ot throe sepsra'te issues, eighteen thous. ." S1 hundred and twenty dollars more ha,l b,rn issued. Democratic honesty I K.lor ,he State's interests! I s fund to have lost twelve thousand J:,!0 , "JreJ dollars by illegal deposits I1ieGoport Bank. 11 August. 1S57 a rtpmnprntifl Stat r-sasurer lost twenty thousatid two hund- .. . . uuuais 01 ciaie money in -! r.itil- ..r t 1 .... v of ooun 1 nompson, ot iNew V;?J,,,a roulcvatic State Treasurer lost r e money in the bank of the capitol. In KS!.'C ho"ty and ability! the Democrats, having carried t-omiHisMoners, and they deposmocratic bank in New York l-'Ur r"d and thirtJ-threa thousand L"' ' of State money, to camble in cold tkhi beneBt of Democrats. The I,, Dfoke and the Stat th mnni. fart' 11 not ")cea recovered, except S.i!le inter of 18j". the Democratic tit " laued to make appropriations tt.J ?.a tbe State Government. The Hum l,ovnor, Willard, closed the inh . r t'cni in5 "Una, 1,'eai ana ,Q,i the Insane, back, to their coun-

VOL. 9, NO. 15. ties. Ilavingkept them closed long enough to create a vast expense to the counties, and thoroughly disorganize the institutions, he ordered them reopened. He closed them for want of money, he alleged. He opened them without having a dollar more for them than he had when he shut them up. Democratic ability and honesty! Democratic leaders are now intriguing to force the Wabash and Erie Canal back upon the State, and make the people pay three or four hundred thousand dollars a year in taxes for interest. Their candidate for Attorney-General declared that it would be "repudiation" to bind ourselves not to take back the canal. Democratic) counties, as shown by the statements of County Treasurers, are taxed about forty cents on the hundred dollars more than Republican counties, taking the average of the whole State. During seventeen years the Democracy wasted the swamp lands and the Georgia lands; forged over two millions of State Stocks; defaulted in one county over one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; lost thousands by illegal deposits in banks; closed the asylums once, and have taxed their counties nearly one half more than Republican counties do, and yet never paid any part of the State debt of any im. portance. Look at the other side. The Republicans have had the State Government ten years. They have not lost a dollar by defalcations. They have taxed one half less in their counties than the Democrats have done. They have paid off nearly the whole of the State debt. When the Democrats, in 1S03, defeated the appropriation, the Republicans did not close the Asylums, but kept them in beneficent operation. They have raised the school fund, which the Democrats swindled out of more than a million of dollars, to over nine millions, the largest in the Uuited States. They have paid the greater part of the cost of the Northern Penitentiary. They have built a House of Refuge. They have doubled the capacity of the Insane Asylum. They have built the Soldiers' and Orphans' Home. They have erected a Normal School building, and a handsome structure for the State olliecs. They have given a large sum to the State University, begun a Reformatory l'rison for women, and prepated for the enlargement of the Deaf aud Dumb Asylum. Tfey have expended on these necessary institutions the vast sum of uearlp eight hundred thousand dollars. And they have done all this in the hardest stress and accumulated horrors of a war begun conducted and supported by Democrats, with currency often worth no more than one-half, and for a time worth scarcely more than one-third of its face. Let facts dseide which party is best able to administer the State Government faithfully aud well. Never tell your secrets in a corn-field, for it has a thousand ears. Why are the girls iu Missouri always sweet? Because they are Mo. lasses. If you cannot do as well as you wish, do as well as you can. Bad Economy Haying things because they are cheap, whether you waut them or not. Promises made in the time of affliction require a better memory than people commonly possess. When you hear a man say, "Life is but a dream,'' tread on his corns and wake him up. Life is teal. Be deaf to the quarrelsome, blind to the scorner. and dumb to those who are uiischieviously inquisitive. To mingle the useful with the beautiful is the highest style of art. The oue adds grace; the other value. Why was Noah never hungry in the ark? Because he always bad Ham with him . A dandy inquired at a fruit stall, 'Are these apples fit for a hog to eat?' 'Try one and see said the woman. An old bachelor is a traveler on life's railroad, who has entirely failed to make the proper connections. Wear your learning like a watch, in a private pocket, aad don't endeavor to 6how it unless you are asked what o'clock it is. Be always sure of doing good This will make your life comfortable' your death happy, and your account gloiious. Horace Greeley says that the darkest day in any man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar, than by squarely earning it. Never read a book that you would not read in the presence of your mother.' No matter how late at night or alone you are wheu sinning, God is looking at you. Iron pokers are the latest improvements in school discipline in Indiana. The re. suit of their first introduction is not quite satisfactory, however, being a boy killed, and a teacher in prison, with a good chance of hanging. A Boston paper tells an anecdote with a moral: "A young lady friend of ours met in company a young gentleman who evidently had an excellent opinion of himself. During conversation he introduced the subject of matrimony, and expaciated at length upon the kind of wife he expected to marry, that is, if ever he should take the decisive step. The honored lady must be wealthy, beautiful, accomplished, amiable, &c, &c. His listener quietly waited until he ended, and then completely confounded him by asking, in the coolest possible manner, "And pray, sir, what have you to offer in return for all this?" The young man stammered, reddened a little, and walked away." Dost.

THE UNION. THE CONSTITUTION, AN D THE ENFOHCEMENT OF THE LAWS

The Girl with the Calico Dress. A fig for jour upper-tea girts, With their velvets and satins and laces, Their diamonds and rubies and pearls. And their milliner figures and faces; They may shine at a party or ball. Emblazoned with half they possess; But give me, in place of them all, My girl with the calico dress. She is plump as a patridge, and fair As the rose in its earliest bloom; Her teeth will with ivory compare, And her breath with the clover perfume; Her step is as free and as light As the fawns whom the hunterB hard press, And her eye is as soft and as bright My girl with the calico dress. She is cheerful, warm-hearted and true, And is kind to her fatber and mother; She studies how much she can do For her sweet little sister and brother; If you want a companion for life, To comfort, enliven and bless, She is just the right sort of a wife My girl with the calico dress. THE IMPROMPTU MARRIAGE. "For heavan's sake, Susy, do be serious, if you can, for five minutes. Pray, pray, cease this trifling which is but cruel playing with my feelings, and let us treat this subject as it deserves, soberly and seriously." "Well, there, then!" cried the laughing, black-eyed girl to whom Charles Westerly spoke. "There, then, is that grave enough. See, the corners of my mouth are duly turned down, and my eyes rolled up, and I am as sober as a patient who has caught sight of the dentist's instruments. Do I suit you so?'' "You suit me anyhow, and you know it well, you witch!" cried Charles, gazing with a smile at the pretty face puckered up in i's affectation of demureness. But he was not to be driven from his point, as he resumed gravely, after a pause "The time has come, Susy, when 1 feel I have a right to demand an explicit answer to my suit. You have trifled with my earnest feelings long enough. I have grown restless under my fetters." "Shake them off, then Charley!" interrupted the saucy girl, with a defiant toss of her head, which plainly said, "I defy you to do it." "1 cannot, Susy, and you know it," replied the hapless lover, impatiently. "That being the case," said Susy, "take my advice wear them gracefully, and don't pull and jerk so; it ouly makes them hurt you.'The young man turned away, and walked silently up and down the room, evidently fretting and fuming internally. Susy, meantime, looked out of the window and vawned. Charles continued his moody walk. "Oh! what a beautiful lilac tree!" cried Susy, you come and see it." bird is on suddenly. ' the 'Do Charles mechanically approached the window and looked out. "Don't you think, Charley," said Susy, laying her hand on his arm, and looking up eagerly in his face; "don't you think you could manage to " "What, Susy? ' asked Charles, all his tenderness awakened by her manner. "What?" Drop a pinch of salt on bis back?" returned the provoking girl, with an affectation of simplicity; "for then, you know, you could easily catch it!" His answer wag to turn angrily away. His walk this time was longer than before, and his cogitations were more earnest; for he did not heed any of Susy's artfully artless devices to allure his notice. At last he stopped abruptly before her, and said: "Susy, for three long years I have been your suitor, without either confession of love or promise of marriage on your part. Often as I have demanded to know your sentiments toward me, you have always coquettishly refused me an answer. This state of things must cease. I love you batter than my life; but I will no longer be your plaything. To-morrow you are going away, to be absent for months, and if you cannot, this day, throw aside yoor coquetry, and give me an honest 'yes' for my answer, 1 shall consider that I have received a 'no,' aud aet accordingly. "And how would that be? What would you do?', asked Miss Susy, curiously. "Begin by tearing your false and worthless image lrotn mv heart!" cried Charles, furiously. "It would be a curious piece of business Charley, and you would not succeed either," said Susy. "I should and would succeed," Faid Charles, "as you shall see, if you wih, cruel, heartless giri!" "But I don't wish, Charley desr I love dearly to have you love me," said Susy. " hy, then," cried the foolish youth, quite won over agaiu, "why, then, dearest Susy, will you uot consent?" ' Bemcmber, I said 1 liked to be loved," replied Susy; 'I did not say anything about loving. But pray, how long did you say you had been courting me, iu that pretty little speech of yours?" ,v'lhree long years," replied Charles. "Neatly and accurately quoted, Charley. But you know my rousiu liachel was onlywon after five years' courtship.' ou don't suppose I am going to rate myself any cheaper than she did, do you? Supp se we drop this tiresome subject for two years; perhaps by that time 1 may be able to work myself up to the falliug-in-love point there is no knowing what wonders time may effect." "If you are not in lovo now. you never will be," returned Charles, sturdily; 'and I will have my answer now or never. 1 1 " o V r tKan laugned Cusv. But she had gone a step too far. Her verely tried lover was now too often semuch in earnest to bear her trifling any longer. "Never be it, then!" he cried; and seizing his hat strode from the room. Susy listened to his receding footsteps with dismay. Had she, indeed by her incorrigible love of coquetry, lost him? It smote her to the soul to think so. As

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she heard him open the front door, impelled by a feeling of despair, she raised the window sash, and, leaning forward, whispered: "Charley, Charleyl you will be, at the boat to-morrow to bid me good-bye, won't you? Surely we are still friends?" As she spoke she tore a rose from her bosom and threw it to him. It lodged on his arm, but he brushed it away as though it had been poison, and passed on without looking up. Susy spent the remainder of the day in tears. Early the next day the bustle of departure began. Susy was going to accompany her widowed and invalid mother on a trip for her health. As they reached the wharf and descended from the carriage, Susy's eyes made themselves busy searching for a wisbed-for face; but it was nowhere to be seen. The steamboat lay panting and puffing, seemingly impatient to be let loose. Susy's mother, aided by the servant man who accompanied them, had already crossed the gangway which lay between the wharf and the boat, and Susy was reluctantly follow.. ing, when the sound of a voice behind her the very voice she had longed to hear startled her. She turned to look round, and missing her footing, fell into the water. Another instant and Charles had thrown off bis coat, and calling out loudly, "Tell the captain not to allow the wheel to stir, and to lower me a rope!" he sprang into the water. But of her whom he was risking his life to save, he was uoable to perceive any trace. Judging that the current of the river might have carried her a little forward, he swam around the wheel, but still he saw her not, and despair seized his heart as he conjectured that she might be under the boat. He strained his eyes to see through the water, and at length discerned, far below the surface, what seemed the end of a floating garment lodged between the wheel and the rounded bottom of the boat. If this were indeed the unfortunate girl, the least movement of the wheel must inevitably crush her, and Charles, in his terror, fancied it was already beginning to turn. He dived and clutched at the garment, but missed it. He rose panting and almost exhausted; but scarcely waiting to get breath, he again plunged below. This time his efforts were rewarded with success, at least so far that he was able to bring Susy's form to the surface of the water, but she seemed totally lifeless.Charles was now so nearly exhausted that he had only sufficient presence of mind left to clasp Susy convulsively to him while he kept himself afloat by holding on to the wheel. But this, his last hope of support, seemed also to fail him soon, as he perceived that it was now really beginning to turn slowly round. By a desperate effort he struck his foot against one of the paddles so as to push himself as far from the danger as possible. As he did so something touched bis head, and his hand grasped a rope. New life seemed now infused into him. He gathered all his euergies, and fastened the lope round Susy's waist consciousness then entirely forsook him. In the meantime the witnesses of the scene, after giving Charles' instructions to tbe captain, bad watched his struggles with breathless interest. The friendly rope had been flung to him again and again, but in the excitement of his feelings, and his semi sensibility, he had been incapable of availing himself of the prof, fered aid. At lasr, perceiving that he was quite exhausted, and must inevitably soon let go his hold on the wheel, and then probably sink to tise no more, the captain judged it best to run the risk of moving off, so that a small boat could be 6ent to the rescue. The result of this hazardous experiment was successful. Susy was raised by means of the rope, and a boat reached Charles iu time to save him also. Both sufferers were taken on board the steamboat, which now moved off to make up for lost time. And thus, when our hero regained his consciousness he found himself many miles from home. Of course his first anxious inquiry was for Susy, and when iuformed that she was rapidly recovering, hishappiness seemed complete. He showed his contentment by falling into a deep, quiet sleep. About sunset a message came to him that Miss B desired to see him. He found her lying on a sofa in tlte captain's state-room, which had been given up to her. Her mother was sitting beside her. She looked very pale, and somewhat suffering, but she held out her band to him very gratefully, while the tears stood in her eyes. "Charles," said she, without offering a word of thanks, "I want to see a clergyman. Is thsre one on board?" "I will go and see," said Charles, moving to the door; but a dreadful thought striking him, he turned, exclaiming, 'Susy, you do not think that ' "That I am going to die?" said she, anticipating him. 'No, Charles; but I want to see a clergyman.' Charles went, and soon returned, accompanied by a miuister. "I thank you, sir, for coming to me, said she to the latter. 'I have a strange request to make of you. Would you object, sir, in the presence, and with the consent of my mother, to unite me to that gentleman? ' If the minister was astonished at this request, Charles was infinitely more so. "What did you say, Susy?" said he. "Did I hear aright?" "I believe so," said Susy, smiling at his eager amazement. 'Does the scheme meet your approval?' "It "was heaven-irspired," cried the poor fellow, frantic with joy but a shade coming over his radiant face, he added, gravely, 'But Susy, have you considered? Bemcmber, I want your love not your gratitude. I will be satisfied with ncth ing less.' I "Do not be concerned about tnat, dear

Charley," replied Susy, gazing at him very tenderly through her tears; 'be assured you have them both, and had the first long, long before you had the last." "But, Susy, you said only yesterday " "Never mind what I said yesterday," interrupted Susy, with some of her old spirit breaking out. "Just mind what I say to-day. If I was a fool once, is that any reason I must be one always? But, indeed, Charles," she added, more softly, 'I have always meant to be your wife the only scruple I have is that I am not half good enough for you." It is needless to say how the discussion ended. The reader has already divined that Charles continued his journey; and thus in the course of one eventful day he risked a life, saved a life, made an impromptu marriage, and set out on a aiost unexpected wedding trip. What He Would do With it. well known lawyer called a little bootblack into bis office on Main street, Buffalo, a day or two ago, and while the process of "shining" was going on, struck up the following conversation with the lad. Says he: "Bub, what is the largest amount of money that you have ever had at one time?" Bootblack, spitting vigorously: "I had 'most four dollars onc't. 1 took it in one Fourth a' July." Lawyer 'Well, now, if I should give you one hundred dollars what would you you do with it?" Here the lad dropped his brush, looked up into the face of his interlocutor for a few seconds, and scratching his head, replied: By jinks, that 'ud be a heap of money to spend, wouldn't it? I think I'd buy an interest in a bank with some of it, git a bushel of peanuts and go to the theatre every night and set down stairs, give Jimmy Larkins a dollar for his sick brother, pay Mother Moulder what I owe her, hire a hack sometimes, and go and board for a week at the Titl't House and wear good clothes and carry a cane." All Sorts. There seems to be four styles of minds: 1st, them who know it's so! 2d, them who know it a'nt so! lid, them who split the difference and guess at it! 4th, them who don't care which way it ii-! There is but few men who hez character enuff to lead a life of idleness. True love is spelt just tl.o same in Choctaw as it is in English. Those who retire from the world on account of its sins and peskiness must not forget that they have yet to keep company with a person who wants just as much watching as anybody else. Necessity begot invention, invention begot convenience, covenience begot pleasure, pleasure begot luxury, luxury begot riot and disease, riot and disease between them, begot poverty, and poverty begot necessity again and this is a revolution of man, and is about all he can brag on. Most people declined to learn only by their own experience. And 1 guess they are more than half right, for I do not spose a man can get a perfect idea of molasses by lettiug another fellow taste it lor him. An individual to be a fine gentlemen, has either got to be born so, or to be brought up so froai infancy, he can't learn it sudden, any more than he can learn to talk injin correctly by practiseu on a tomahawk. I wonder if there was ever an old maid who ever heerd of a match that she thought was suitable. If a man wants to get his dimensions him visit a graveyard. let The Way to Spoil Girls. First. Be always telling, from her earliest childhood, what a beautiful creature she is. It is a capital way of inflating the vanity of a little girl, to be constantly exclaiming: "How pretty!" Childreti understand such a flattery even when in the nurse's arms, and tbe evil is done to the character in its earliest formation. 2. Begin, as soon as she can toddle, to dress her out in fashionable clothes and rich dresses. But a hoop upon her at once, with all the artificial adornments of flounces and feathers and flowers and curl. Fondness for dress will thus bocome a prominent characteristic, and will usurp the whole atteution of the young mortal, aud be a long step toward spoiliug her. 3. Let her visit so much that she finds no happiness at home, aud therefore will not be apt to stay there and learn home duties. It is a capital thing for a spoiled daughter to seek all her happiness in visiting and change of place and associates. She will thus grow as useless as modern fashionable parents delight that their daughters should bo. 4. Be careful that her education gives her a smattering of all the accomplishments, without the slightest knowledge of the things really useful in life. If her mind and time are occupied in modern accomplishments, there will be no thought of the necessity and virtue of being of some real use to somebody pervading her heart, aud she will soon be ready us a spoiled daughter. 5. As a consequence, keep her iu profound ignorance of all the useful arts of housekeeping, impressing upon her mind that it is vulgar to do anything for yourself, or to learn how anything is done in the house. A spoiled daughter should never be taught the mysteries of ibe kitchen; such things a lady always leaves to the servants. It would be "vulgar" for her to know how to dress a salad or make a pudding. 6. To complete the happiness of your spoiled daughter, marry her to a bearded youth with soft hands, who knows as little how to earn money as she does to save it. 11 er happines Kill then be finished for her life time.

WHOLE NO. 423.

SINGING BIRDS. Where They are Imported from Risks and Profits of the Business, etc., etcThere are few among us, says George Henry Bassett, in the New York Evening Mail, who have never been comforted by the warblings of birds. When we leave the bustle and excitement of city life to take a short respite from labor, the joyous notes of the feathered songsters of the groves are refreshing to the soul. They are looked for with eagerness, and without them a seat by the placid waters of the lake would be robbed of its greatest charm. A great many of those who delight to hear birds sing in their wild state have notste for them in cages. As a rule ladies love them in their parlors and bed rooms as well as in thewoods, and the result is that the importation of song birds from all parts of Europe has grown into quite a respectable business and gives substantial profits to those engaged in it. There are j nine iuiportera of bids in the'eity of New ! lork, all but two of whom are natives of Germany. CANARY BREEDING. Of all the birds imported, none meets with such a general sale as the canary. Those that are sold in this market are broubt from llartz Mountain, in Hanover. where they are raised by poor people, as a means of adding to their store of comfort during the winter months. Some families devote an entire room to canary breeding, and nurture the young with the greatest possible care until they aro old enough to sell. Others only keep a lew laige cages full of them. The male birds are picked out and sold to the agents of the importing houses at from seventy-five cents to oue dollar aud fifty cents each, and the females from three to ten cenU each. They are brou-iht across the Atlantic in linen covered frames, having two hundred cages each, and each cage contaius but one bird. The steamship compauies charge from 35 to 40 per frame Si freight, added to which our Government imposes a tax of twenty per cent. The mau who buys the birds in Hanover never loses sight of them until he arrives iu New York. He has to feed them every day, and as a recompense receives from 840 to 50 and expenses for the trip. The mortality is very great among im potted birds of all kind., and by the time the dealer receives them into his .-tote the European price of tbe male birds increases very much. Male canaries ure sold iu New York at from 3 to 5 each, aud females from $1 to $1 50. The best food for canaries is half rape and half canary seed. The mixture has an enlivening (.'fleet, and makes them sing sooner. I have it oa the authority of an old bird fancier that it costs, on au average, about $150 to feed a canary for a year. During late years several Germans have gone into the business of breeding canaries in this city and lloboken, and so far have been successful. The birds brought from the Canary Islands differ very considerably from those ruied in Europe. They are twice as lare, and have a light gray color. TIlRfSlIES, STARLINGS AND BLACKBIRDS. Thrushes are common in neary all parts j of Europe, but those found in England and Ireland are the most valuable, being the finest singers. Iu the latter country, particularly, few farm houses are without one of them banging in a lare wiiker cage, made in the form of an American block-hour-e, although not quite so narrow in proportion at the base. They seem to sitig popular airs wilh great aptitude. While passing through Newport, u handsome market town, built ou the Uiver Mulcaire, in the County of Tipperary, some five years ago, I was attracted by a beautiful thrush, hanging in front of hh inn. It was whistling "Dixie's Lmd" in the most exquisite manner, and I stopped to hear the end. Then it went ou through a programme which included nearly all the popular tje:ro melodies, and wound up with "St. I'atiick's Own Day in the Morning." The keeper of the hostelry was an old woman, who loved the bird so dcaily that nothing could induce her to part tiom it. One of the residents iuformed me that such was its aptitude that after hearing a song sung by the small boys of the town a few times iu the Mreets, it would join in the chorus, and sing it all over alone on the following morning. On one occasion it caught tho tuue of a song which had been composed to hring a townsman into ridicuie, aud happening to sing it while he was passing, llie old fellow was so enrjged that he smashed the cage, and was only prevented from killing the innocent bird by the prompt movements of a constable . S'ui li uga and black birds aie ai.-o very commou in u!l parts of Europe. Iu Scotland it is u-ual lo split the tongues of young starliugj so that being taught carefully they learu to sjeak a good many sentences in a few years. Blackbirds, like thrushes, sing dtlighifully aud learn tutus with equal readinc.-s They are bought at prices ranging from S2to$10, and ar3 sold here from Sii to 15, according to the uuuiber of tunes they can whittle. The mortality atooug this class of birds on ship-board is verj great. They have to be fed on nult food every day. Egg and potatoes ate principally used foi the purpose. SKYLARKS, ROBINS, NIGHTINGALES, ETC. Skylarks are also imported from Europe. They build their nestj in moaJows and rise out of them at tho first dawn of day. singiug sweetly as they scar uloft and are uo longer vi;-ible to the naked eya. Thereis a species of this bird found in Cjnad i, but when confined in cau;cs they do imt sing so sweetly as thoso brought from Europe. They are brought by tho importers in England, Ireland, Scotland nnd various parts of Germany, at from 9 50 to $2 each, and are sold here at from .'.!i to $G. The robins imported from Kuropo are less than half the size of those found iu the United States. Thay have a blood I red spot On ihi brcaut ainj vury

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sweetly. In Ireland there is a superstition that the first robin had its breast feather dyed with the blood of the Svior4 and so firmly are they believed to be God's birds that they are pencilled to breed without duturbauce, a.n J tre never either caged or kiilcd. The result is, that they have become qui'e tone, aud in cold weather fly into the f'aiui Lou-e for food wiihout fear. Small boys nre taught to believe that God would bo so angry with them for robbing ibe nest of a robiu as tu afflict them wilh innumerable warts upon their hands. Uobins are bought in Eag-i land at from 81 50 to 2 50, and sold hero from S3 U0 to 5 10 each. Nightingale are also beautiful birds. They are so called from the fact that they sing at all hours of the night. In Europe the? cost from 5 DO to $15 00: and here from $6' 00 to. 18 00. Black cans, another species of European singing bird, cost from SI 00 to 1 50, and are sold iu the Uuited States at from 2 50 to ?J 00. Like the skylark? and nightingales, they are also fed, on soft food. - BULLFINCHES, GOLDFINCHES AND LINN ITS, The prettiest of all the wild birds iq Europe is the bullfinch. It is almost as ; smuU as a canary, and can be taucbt ta J sing as many tunes as a blackbird or thrush, (n Europe they are sold, after ! btintr caught, at from 75 cents to SI 00. but nhen piping command from 315 00 to. $75 00. In this cuuntiy they bring prices iu accordance to the number of tunes they cau whistle. 'J he European goldfinch ii alio a pretty bird, and sings beautifully. The test in Englai d is from 25c. to 50o., and htie from fl 50 to S2 50. They aro fed piiut'ipally ia hemp and poppy seed. Linnet ai, iu some instances, as beaut i-r ful singers as canaries. They are of a gray color, and are about the same siae ag ordinary domestic canaries. In Europe they sell at frcra 50c. to 51 00, and here at from $1 50 to $2 50. They are fed principally on canary seed. TI1B SPARROWS IN TUB PARK8. The first sparrows allowed to to fly at large in this country were imported by Ilerr Zoiler, of William street, several years ago, and thirty-eight of tbem purchased from him at from SI 25 to ?2 00 per pair, by Messrs. Shcfiin Brothers, Beekman street. The little chatterer were allowed to fly in Third street, Jersey City, and have since multiplied so much that they can be found throughout the State. The 'Bark Commissioners bought their stock in 18tJ7, a ftsw comparatively, and now they ara found in flocks all over the city. The sparrows here do not grow to such a large size s they do iu Englaud, In Germany iliey breed so fast some seasons that the government has to interfere and compel each farmer, on pain of being fined, to send the heads of so many sparrows to tho office of the several district tax collectors. Sparrow pies arc common in Ireland, England and Scotland. The Java sparrows differ very considerably from the English. They have gray bodies and black heads, and sell in the United States at from 2 50 to f30 eaub. PARROTS, COCKATOOS, PARAQUETS, AND 31 CK1NG BIRDS. Green parrots are brought by sailors I from South America to this city, aud sold l)Cie at from la to fin. Thev cannot speak when first introduced into this market. The gray parrots are brought from Africa. The sailors sell them at from $10 to $12 each, and the dealer at from $15 to i IS each. Cockatoos come under the head of fancy birds. They ate brought from Australia, and sold to the dealers at from $10tov55. The latter keep them for a while and then obtain prices for them va rying from $55 to Sb each, according to beauty and plumage, l'araquets are found iu South America, Afiica aud Australia. Sailors procure hundreds of them in exchange for rum and tobacco. They sell them to the dealers here at from 50c. to $5, and tLe dealers sell them at prices ranging from $1 50 to f 10. Mocking birds aie brought from the Southern States in the months of June and July at a cost of from 4-3 50 to five dollars each, and by gnat atteution to feeding; when one year old, they are sold here at Iron: eight dollars o ten. At two years old they aro wiitb frem ten to fifteen dollars, and at three from twenty to fifty dollars. Up to five or six ytats, age improves them and increases their value iu proportion. Go'Evi.n Smith on Emigration to VirSiria. 'ibe London Duly News publishes a ittter from l'rofdsor Goldwin Smith, addressed to a liic nd in England, on the suijfct of emigration to Virginia. 1'ref. Snath says: "Virginia is a magnificent State, in point of resources and capabilities as well as in point of extent and situation. The soii is rich, including excellent wheat land particularly in the west; iu the e-itt it bait been (.orrewhat eximuaied, though 1 pre sntiie not irrnoaiably, by blave culture. On ihe Chesapeake itay find along the James river th-dre are some unhealthy tract, which of course should be avoided; but the climate of tl.cState generally is healthy i.n well u temjera'e L is a great thing uu ii:e emigrant, in every rep'-ci, to escape ile long i.ml Mvere wiuteis iu tbe jNorth and e.-t. 'Ihe old planters who t liift ciung to their estates, though they had io.t their slaves, seem now to have made up their minds tu se!i, and land is o!iirud eheip, iu souie case i:h buildi;., though, 1 suppose, dilapidated by tu war. a nd slavery is really d;;d and burit he aiiti-i(i'ju?trial sentiment j e.J. wt.ieii pie-vailcd under the old regime, and barred ihe Southern States aaiust indu--trial emigration. Won d no longer bufuuml in the way. The peoplo are the mot English ot all A'neiican.-; they are v ry li :eiid to the o. to a l ltu tier con ot ry, and v. r t a :'. SHI'. e ..iiici! I te fi-lei ud !y Eii;li.lt e.ftiratu , not ivy if.c earp.t-b-Verd aud tht)ir iral..." 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