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L'l:r2 ;ir li ?: ?J 5 ;" I' :i ?4 isaiiil. pigpffl r'iw 'rnEM; JOHN R. ELDER, Editor. , "The Chariots shall rage la th streets, they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings."' fiTahum,u, 4. I';,,,'.", . , ' 1 ' . 1 ' 1 V v. . . S -- . . ELDER & HARKNESS, Publishers .

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TJIE LOCOJIOTIVE It PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERT SATURDAY .BY - ELDER & HARKNESS,; : At their Book and Job Printing Office, on Meridian Street Indianapolis, Ind., opposite the Post Office .... TERMS: Ono Dollara year. Twenty-five Conts forthree months. Sixeopiestoonoaddress foroneyear,Five Dollars; thirteen copicsone year forTen Dollars, JCpm advam-k in all cases. JX No piiper willbesent until paid for, and no paper willbecontlnued aftertliotime paid for expires, unless tin subscription is renewed. Look out tor the Cross. All mail and county subscribers can know their time Is out when they see a large cross marked on their paper, a nd that is always the last paperson t untiltho subscription is renewed. . ' i "; 'r ' TERMS OF ADVrRTISlHSV:. ' ' One Square ,(8lincs,brless, 250ms,) for t week. ... .... 0.30 ' ' r forcactisuhsco,ucntinserlion, 0.25 Tor throe months, ' !" , forsix mouths, , 5-00 , 4. u forone year, without alteration,, 8.00 ' tv : i for one year, with frequent changes, J2.00 . A small reduction made on larger advertisements. Cuts ....I r.fi,. I IVnt iprr double the above rateB. IfjJldnttrtiiiimentsmustoe handedin by Tkursiay of each 106 CA, Or l HCq W 11 f eeuej err cu tin HAIL, ItOAD IIOl'SSE, Corner of East and Washington slrcot, Tinya the hlKhest market price for Wheat I w . i;i. and all kinds of Produce. . 1 have put up i pa"ir of Futrbank's Patent Hay or Cattle Scales, which are as truo as any scales in the County, whero I can weigh Hay or Corn. AISO, 1 Keep on nauu Jill kiiiub ui lamiiy uiuii-iius, which I will sell as low as any New York or Boston store In the Citv, or any Yankoe houso. . ... " aula-tf JOHN WALLACE. ' K. M. LAWRttNCK. " W. WI1.KIHON. Livery and. Sale Stables.IAWItEIVCU WILKISUN, having formed a coj partnership in the Livery business, will continue to wait on their old friends and tho public in general, with everything generally found in a livery stable, and will always bo found on hand and ready for business, between Illinois and Meridian streets, south of Washington. - i . Trj Horses kept by the day, week, or month. . ;. LAWHKNCE Sf WI1.KIS0N. ! N. B Persons knowing themselves indebted to cilher of us will please call and settle. eep23-ly rme PIl'E. Just received and for sale, a large nssortJBA ment of Zinc Piping of ullsies, suitable for Chain Pump, Well and Cistern Pumps, &c., atNo. BO West Washington st. ; Sep 16 ' .. ... . HENHY S. KELLOGG. Savings Hank South Meridian Street) opposite the Post Office. Open Daily from 7 A. M. to 12 M; from 1 to 6 P. M., and on Monday and Saturday evenings to 8 o'clock. Interest allowed on all sums of fill and over, from 4 to 0 per cent. Any amount received on deposite of one dime and.ove r. 1 Allare invited to tho Benefits of a Savings Institution.' J ....... WM. KOBSON. ' Indianapolis, Jnno23, 1854. ' Junc24-tf . DR. V. G. C. HUNT, DENTIST, OFFICE onlllinoisstreet.directlj north from the Palmer House, throe door frornTousey'sCorner. iy2'53-y . To Cabinet Makers. . ' ' JUST received and for sale at Cincinnati prices, for cash, n large lot of Mahogany and Walnut Vaneers; also, Drawer Locks, Bod and Tubio Castors, Tablo Butts and Screws at the sign of the big padlock, No. 2G West Washington street. ' iiov,4 ' , HENRY'S. KELLOGG. BANK. OF THE CAPITOL,. Interest paid on money deposited for a specified timo. Bills of Exchange, Coin and Uncurrent Money dealt in generally. janl-tf , . , JOHN WOOLLEY, Cashier. VENETIAN BLINDS, '. .' j MADE AND REPAIRED, ..,' Second door North of Plaining mill, on Alabama st. J. BAKK. nov25-3m rfO SPOKTSHIEN AND OTHERS,-The sub- ' JL scriber has just received a splendid assortment of Shot Guns, of all grades, consisting of single Rnd double barrels; also, Game Baggs, Shot Belts, Powder Flasks and Horns, Gun Wadding, Caps, Shot, &e. All of which I will sell cheap at wholesale and retail, at the sign1 of the Big Padlock, No. 26 West Washington street, Indianapolis, Ind. . janl3 HENKY S. KELLOGG. Stoves, Plows, Vc, &c. .... JUSTreceived a large and general assortment of Cooking and Parlor Stoves, w liicli are unsurpassed by any In the market. Among our Cook Stoves may be found Pacific, Triumph, Buckeye Stale. Kay State, Empire State, Hoosier State, Queen Citv, Prize Priutiiim, Ohio Prominni, Oregon, California, Plieoiiix, and Cleveland Air Tight; also, a great variety of Parlor Stoves and Coal Grates; also, a general assortment of Steel Plows, kept constantly for sale, waranted of the best quality. Tin-Ware constantly kept on hand, wholesale and retail. All kinds of Tin, Copper, and Sliee ironwork done to order. Those wanting anything in our line, will do well to give us a call before purchasing elsewhere, at: the sign of the Gilt Ball, south side of Washington Street, near tho Masonic Hall. i octl-y . H L. & A. W. McOUATj 6UE.IT CEHTIULJ1VD EASTERN ROUTE. INDIANA CENTRAL RAILWAY. 1855. .-MSm -1855. NEW ARRANGEMENT. jVTcwKonte to Cincinnati and Dayton? Co 111 lumbiiSf Cleveland) Pittsburgh 9 JMiiludclpliia, and lcw York. On mid after Thursday, August 17, 1854, Passenger Trains will run as follows, Sundays excepted: Two Trains daily, each way. , ' ' ' Morning Express leave Indianapolis at 5.45, A. M. Passengers leaving in 5.45 A.M. train arrive in Cincinnati nt 11.45 A. M., in Day toil at, 10.40 A. M ., in Columbus at 2.30 P. M., in Cleveland at 6.45 P. M. ' Mail train leaves Indianapolis at 12 M. Pafsengersloaving in 12 M. train arrive in Cincinnati at 6.30 P.M., in Dayton in 5.00 P. M. i Passengers for Columbus. Newark, and Zanesville,by taking the VI M. train arrive in Dayton at 5.00; in Columbus at 9.45 P. M., being six hours in anvimce of all other Routes. Passengers taking 12 M. train arrive in Cincinnati at G.30 P.M. Passengers leaving Indianapolis at 12 M. for Dayton, Columbus, Crestline, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, and New York, arrive in Dayton at 5.00 P. M., in Coin tubus at 9.45 P. M., at Crestline 12 at night, in time to connect with the night train on Ohio and Pennsylvania Road, for Pittsburg, Philadelphia, and N. York. No change of guage or cars to Dayton. Passengers save by this route 28 miles to Dayton, and 50 miles to Columbus, Pittsburg, or Wheeling, over any other Railroad route. Through tickets con be procured atthe office, in the Depot. . it7Kastcrn Baggage Checked to Buffalo; Pittsburg, Philadelphia and New York liaggage to Pittsburg. -" JAM IfiS M. SMITH, Supt. A s regards Freight. inquire of jan" W. A. BRADSHaW, Freight Agent. THE GREAT EASTEKN KOUT12. 1855 INDIANAPOLIS, BFLLE FONTAINE AND CLEVELAND KAlLKOAU.: . , COlViXIVECTINWat this place with trains from Lafayette, Terre H.iute, Jelfersonville, and Madison. Passengers will find this the cheapest, shortest, quickest and moit comfortable route to Dayton, Springfield, Urbanna, Billufoiitaine, Columbus, Cleveland, Pillsburg, Dunkirk Buffalo, Albany, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington. , ' Two Trains leave Indianapolis daily (Sundays excepted). 1st day Telegraph Express leaves the Union Depot at 7.30 A. Al .; connect at Union with Train for Dayton and Cincinnati; at Bellcfontaine with Train for Sandusky, Toledo, and Detroit; at Callion with Train for Columbus; and arrive in Cleveland at 8 same evening, in time to connect at Cleveland with the Luke Shore Kailroad ExpressTrain, connecting at Dunkirk and Buffalo with the day Express Train, and arrive in Now York early same evening. Passengers by this train breakfast before leaving Indianapolis. - 2d. Express Mail Train leaves the Union Depot at 3.30 P. M. muking the way-connections arriving in Cleveland next morning in time for the ExpressTrains for Dunkirk, Buffalo and Now York also for Pittsburg, Philadelphia and Baltimore ... . . ' Through Tickets can be procured ottheoflicein tho Depot. TT-pPassengers for Columbus, by taking6 A. M. train via. Bollofontnine. arrive at Columbus at 5 same afternoon. FareThrough ,....84.00 " . : 8. A FLETCHER, SuperintendanW J'jiceneartheUnion Depot, Indianapolis 1853. ' I octao-tf l8oo. NEW SPBIXG CiOODS. 1855. CHEAPER THAN EVER. T 1H1 SUBSCRIBERS HAVING MADE THEIR PUR CHASES of Earlv Snriny and Rummer Goods, are now prepared to exhibit the handsomest, most couinlete, and cheapest stock of r i STAPLE AND FANCY GOODS, they have ever had the pleasure of offering for the inspection of the public. The assortment now otening comprises1' House Furnishing Goods of every description; . . . Black and Fancy Silks; "' " ' M DeLaines, Challia, DcUeges; ' : !' ' . .. i : tonrues, Brilliants. Berege DeLaines; .,.',.! Ilssnes, Plain and Fancr Bereses ; Poplins, Plain and Figured Swiss Muslins; , i . ' . Nainsook and Bars : Fremh and English Ginghams and Chintzes; " Bombazines, Alpaccas. ccc., &c. Also, Embroideries of every deserimion. Laces. Gloves, "bonsi l c. Handkerchiefs, and an endless variety of H"y. , . MOOKE, CARTER & OCRSLKK, . amrl3 - N0. Washington and Meridian streets. I

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. ( , . From Putnam'$ Monthly for August, f ' ABOUT BABIES. . ' ' ''They have got up considerable, of a' baby ; next door, said my friend, who was a bachelor, as he came in one evening to talk with me, in uiose siow aays, wnen men nad time to tain. ' : "Bless me !". .., . . , . I said, and that was All I said, for it seemed to me it had been done in an incredibly short space of time. As I subsided into mv thoughts, Paul subsided into his . cigar, and we did ' very well. . ; I counted back the months since my neighbor, a determined fellow, a carpenter, and his new wife, equally brave, bad moved into the next door, and I found that I was a year older now than then, and that there was a new creation which I had known nothing about till my friend had said "they have got up considerable of a baby next door!" He spoke of it very lightly, as a young man might, and smoked on, while I thought of it as a man who "hud had losses" should, and who pondered such things. " I was old. Indeed, mysjvife hnd charged that my baldness increased out of proportion to my wisdom, which might well lead to a difference of opinion between us, as it did, But those words, "they have got up a baby," came back to me, and they seemed to -me to express much, and I wondered whether my neighbors bad ever re1fleeted upon what they had done; for I was sure, as I now remembered, that when I was young, I had not; for I looked upon my Hob as a matter of course when he came, but not when he left may God keep his soul ! and now a new child opened to mo the gates of the past and of the future. ; The little nebulous, pulpy, 'unshapen thing, led me by the hand back back into the dim region whcie memory had noplace; when I lay, as now the new baby in the next house lay, palpitating with new life and light; striking out blindly with my small fists, and grasping vaguely at misty shadows, which hovered around me then, (as they seem to now,) and always escaped. I reflect at such times, how I might have been crippled or diseased, or a fool, had my parents disobeyod God's good laws, and sacrificed me to the demon of drink, or any ill-regulated ambitions and passions, in which crowds indulge; It is true I am a little knock-kneed and have a stoop, but I consider these are aristocratic, and pertain to old, spent, feeble families; and go I console myself for the want of that sturdy strength which hovers about the plow-handles and shocks the sentiment of very young ladies. "By jingo," one of our tallest and spooniest boys used to say, who had a leg as large as a decent man's arm and as long as a stork's, "by jingo, there's no mistaking that leg; it belongs to Coggeshall !" and so it did; and I am -glad I was not his father's son; for the head matched the legs, and was like the bird's, much bill and little brains. I have not studied anatomy, and so I may be wrong; but as his feet never grew, and were very narrow and small, even when he got to be old enough to vote, and was what is called a man, my conclusion is that the blood never got all the way down those long legs, but was spent about the knees, which were very large, of course. But these two legs went to Congress, and gave one. vote in favor of the Nebraska bill, and then disappeared forever.- ; : 1 Who ever will go down to feeventh-st., or Sixth-st., or into the Fourth Ward, anywhere among the tenement houses, and toward evening watch the children who swarm there, and notice how many are wan, and how here and there is a crutch, or a club foot, or a twisted nose, or a bleared eye, his heart will tremble with regret; but it will also expand with thanksgiving that his birth and boyhood were not there; and he will go home, as I do, and go out in his yard and hold up his head and straighten his back, and swing about his arms, and jump his legs and en joy himself; and his neighbors will say, "has this singular old world, which has lunar , influences and laws of gravity, and rotates on its axis, and is deflected at the poles, ever seen so queer a Siirllt?";, ; '.'l ' .V f 1 . ..' :i' Let them, oh! man; but do you enjoy your fine body and work well for its salvation.' i . ' , But Walker s new baby was born in March, and that I did not like; there was an impropriety in it, the season was not fit it was rude and blusterinrr. True, the blue-birds come on the 14th of February, for that is .Valentine's day, and the aroma of the love-letters softens the air, - so that these blue-birds can sing it; but the 10th day of March is nobody's day, and I know of nothing which should make it a desirable dav, to be born in, and I would not advise it; but as it was my little neighbor's first baby, she might well overlook these things, which a . person of experience would consider, I would be born in June June, nature's great month, so full of promise; when the blossoms are showing forth their beauty, and every bird and every insect, wakened into new life, is rioting in sweets and singing out its soul; when the breezy landscape, spread out before you, fills your heart with longing and your eye with tears; when the bills, lying in their haze of" ether, bathed as it were with : softened sunshine,' carry peace to the overworked mind; when the . summer sea, through . the long solstice, returns the glories of the sun and sky, and gently kisses the rough' rocks, and murmurs of the Infinite; then then is the time to be born; and those who read Putnam and have faith in me, will hereafter remember this, and be guided by it, and so do the world some service. , .; ', ' . ... . Think of the pictures which will be da'guerreotyped on that subtle brain when the blue eye first opens wide with wonder upon a June creation; and, as if stunned with the beauty of trees, and grass,' and sky, and river, of bird and blossom, the eyes shut again in a long slumber, and alj that' vision is assimilated and goes coursing through the veins, . as any one may, see who watches as mothers do. ;Vho supposes that such a first sight is ever forgotten or lost? not Putnam not I. ' ' - V rThink how full of sunshine a little life might be which first felt the influences of the 'genial June sun, and breathed into its imperfect lungs,first breaths from air scented with apple blossoms, sweet briars and lilacs think how those lunrrs would expand and grow in such life-giving air,and become full, round, resonant and vocal with- music; think for a moment what a lung is!

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how they receive and perfect every particle of jthe blood which courses through the blue veins and blushes on the cheek of your child how, I without them. Lind and Sontag, and Caradori would have been common, feeble women how with them they entranced tho world! think of these thinors. E. S., and remember Low lew per sons are born in June, nnd how many in Decem ber, and cease to wonder longer at the piping voices, pale faces, small feet and early deaths of this generation. , The world does move, as one (jalileo once saidand notions are now and then exploded; one such is that a man can.do only one thing well; now a full, round man can do anything well, t'ive him time cnouirli: and the' one thinjr that I intend to do is to make an Almanac, and for this same reason: I want to move Lady-Day from the 25th of , March to the 25th of June; I take it I can put my Saints' days where I please in my own Almanac.' JSow, . some iviarunct,minded man may say, "Oh, but then Christmas won't come right!" I should expect he would. But Christmas is right- the i 25th December is the proper time and Lady-Day will be right when I make my Almanac. ' The baby is an animal, and should mainly be treated as such; but it. is an animal in which lies hidden a nascent soul. . During the first period it sleeps; yet the germ begins to unfold, sending through that living yet quiet organism those multiplied and subtle nerves which are in a sort the roots of the soul. ' Motions, dim and vague, tell of the spirit, and as the mother sits watchful she sees a suspicion of suffering pass away, and a lambent light, almost a smile,- play over the unconscious face, like the sunshine which chases the shadows across the rolling plain. ' ' The baby is an animal, and so the child should be and its devotion, on .the Twhole, should be io its body. Whenever you see smart children, or studious children, or pious children, be sure that something is wrong, and do not weep if they die early; they would grow up spindling and weedy. Look out for, and hold fast by a good rollicking baby like George Ard that don't care a snap for its mind or its soul, or its clothes, but has a keen sense of the necessity of frequent dinners, and long naps, and is a true Sybarite, and is not ashamed of it. ' ' ' It is' well to remember that the most perfect creature, the lord of all creatures, in infancy is the most helpless, and this . helplessness makes him so engrossing and so dear; for what we help we love, and, in life, whoever seeks happiness finds it only in helping others. It has been the fashion to despise the body it is all wrong, and every creed should begin with duties to it. Again, beauty has been thought to be exceptional, a sort of special gift of God it is all wrong; for beauty is the normal condition, and beauty and health are synonymous, and just so far as we restore mankind to, a godlike condition of health', we bring back to earth the beauty of the angels, and save handsome women from falling into utter folly, and handsome men from Fetishism or self-worship, which is devil-worship. , But the new baby next door impressed me; and the Swedenborgians would say that that was an influx, I suppose, for they always do, and seem to have great satisfaction in calling old things by a new name; so I went up stairs and put my ear to the wall and listened for its sound; but I could not bear, only feel it; then I wondered what it was a boy? a girl? or what? and then I laughed softly; for I remembered how Barney McLeary came back from harvesting in' England, and a neighbor met him and said, in an excited way: " .. . "Sure, now, Misthress Maclary lias a baby!" "Ah, now, John has she?" said Barney, surprised, and. a little elated. ' : (! ; "Yes; but what do, you think it is?" : . This was an unexpected question, and caused perplexity. , -' "Gess, now," said John. ! ' : "Well a bye!" ' "i ' ' 1 "Guess agin," said John, enjoying his ignorance, J'guess agin." , , .,. .. , "Maybe, a girl, then." ' "Och," said John,- much disconcerted, "Och, ye nager, somebody tould ye." ' ' He had guessed so important a fact in two guesses; I would not venture upon Walker's new ; baby in that way, and returned to the evening door-step, where I could get a breath of Paul's cigar. If I ever should succeed in' getting a great deal more money than my share, I mean ' to hire a stout German boy, who does not care to live long, to burn a little tobacco for me, for its fragrance, in the absence of jessamines and violets, is a relief to the monotony of the street air; but, at present, I must trust to chance and Paul. I suppose it is not chance; but it seems to be altogether so, whether a child is a boy or a girl.. We have no knowledge of the law, and, therefore, have no control over the results. This I have reason to regret, for one of my uncles had nine daughters ranging from five to fifty; and it was my misfortune to have to kiss them all in one day; that I should do so was a surprise to him, for he said: "What a devil of a fellow you are for kissing!" . And I thought "What a devil of a fellow you are for daughters!',' I have no doubt he regretted the one as much as I did the other; and would not have begun had he- known' the end, as I would not. I venture, therefore, to call the attention of eminent physiologists to this point, for, in these days, - when science ransacks the worlds and tho waters, a' new field for exploration will be received with thankfulness, and pieces of plate may be presented to me and Putnam, for which, in advance, I tender our thanks. ""'''' Mrs. Walker's baby not only led me into the dim-lighted past, where the memory of good and pleasant things yet shone out like white milestones here and there along the way, and excited in me alovd for. the past, and a sympathy with these young creatures, one of which I have faith to be lieve I once was though few might be persuaded of it, seeing how granulated and edgy I have come to be in the jar and motion of this city hungering for wealth; it not only did this (if I knew whether it was a boy or a girl I should not speak of it, as it ) but it made me ponder upon the present, and a shade of regret, I think, passed over my soul, that I too, who had been so full of possibilities, had yet come to

so small a performance. Then I remembered how the baby Shakspeare, a little nebulous mass, with here and there a spot of light, bad once hovered about Warwickshire, and had drawn for the breath of nature such richness and radiance, and had rounded into a boy under that vailed sky, and had assimilated everything good and great and pleasant and subtile, so that he himself came to be a sort of microcosm. Yet, when he was launched into his orbit he was a poor player enough, and a small star; but he went on, as the eternal stars do, silently, making no whine, but ferever working, and shining on the world through all time; and we yet see his light,' while the tar and tinder rockets, kings, popes, and generals, have flashed out and are vanished. So, tool I

thought of the ' poor peasant baby Robin,' who rolled about on the hard but clean floor of that Scotch bothie, and' learned of man and God as he could; but the windows of his soul were open, so that' the" light streamed in 'and swept the 8trings, and forth came melodies which neither I nor the -world could do without; yet he, too, seemed to himself to have passed away and left no sign. And Cromwell, too, ' born in Lincolnshirewhat a baby he was; strong, yet soft and pulpy as any, and loved by a mother and chris tened Oliver, with long, white clothes just like another child how fibrous ; he grew, and how enduring, and how doing and daring ! Yet he closed his eyes knowing that England, for which he had once hoped so much, would return to its kings and its idols, and wallow in degradation as it had before. I thought of many more, a long list of working-men and of the crowds ot worthy iellows whose names 1 had never heard, and 1 said, but not aloud, to Paul: "Philip Philip Wallys, you were a baby once, but you are a blacksmith how, and it s your business to think good thoughts and speak good words, and do good deeds, ,and to shoe horses; now you may believe that you ought to speak in a forum, but you have none to speak in; you may think you ought to shape nations, but it is iron you are tq shape not Constitutions. Let such things go and do well the work at hand, 'and speak a good word to walker when you can, and enjoy your good thoughts,' and remember there is a God, and a long hereafter, and plenty of time. Now, Philip, you don't get drunk, and a good many great men at Washington do. You don't cheat, (did you not, though,'' slight that shoe to-day when you were in a hurry?) but rich men in Wall-st. do; you don't swagger with vanity, Philp, except on rare occasions, yet some of the big gest clergy do, all the while, nights, too, as H is reported; and, above all things, Philip, I hope you don't lie, as politicians do for, if you do, you will certainly go to the dogs or the devil. But this kind of self communion, though very pleasant, could not be continued -further with profit; yet, after it, I believe I liked Paul better though he did smoke and differ in opinion 'with me upon every important matter, and I thought that, possibly, he was a really clever fellow, in spite or his spitting on my floor, which, just then, he did. ,; 1 ' - ' ' ! ' jl It must have been a nice thing to do, to cast the horoscope for a child; to consult the stars and to practice subtile and mystic hocus-pocus, and so endeavor to shape or indicate the future course of that now shapeless thing; .there Was something weird and wonderful about those alchemists with their charts and their abracadabras, and their towers and their vigils. I should certainly have had mine cast, and I should go to a fortune-teller now if the breed were not sunk beneath contempt. ' There was about astrologers the same easy way of geting along as there is about the spiritual asses of to-day," it made no kind of difference whether the thing came out so or not, it was spirits and that was enough. ' So as I sat there on my step I thought I would cast the horoscope of the new baby, and I drew a pentegon, and I got Saturn into the ascendant, and I got in the red dog and the white lady, and it seemed Mars was in opposition and foreboded something; thus I was getting along very well when I remembered I did not know the hour and the minute when the baby. was born, neither did I know whether it was a boy or a girl, and so all was confusion again. Yet it was pleasant to me to think that the new little creature might; well become a pride and a glory to the mother that had born it, and a prop and a stay to the tottering steps of that fair, out-spoken Walker. I do not like to forecast the future with clouds of sorrow, and as I had great confidence in the father and mother of that child, and as I, knew full well that, in nine cases out of ten, when children are bad it is the consequence of diseased, or bad, or injudicious parents. I concluded that: the new baby was a blessing now, and would be a satisfaction forever, v ... . I have a curious idiosyncrasy, which is that though I like children I don't need them, and I think I like other peoples better than my own. I am not fond of their care and responsibility, and when I was a young man I had another person's experience. A very jolly French gentleman was in the stage, who overflowed with kind liness and French sympathy, and in his politeness and good nature he borrowed a very fine and jolly baby from its mother; they did very well for a while, but the roughness ot the road 1 sup pose, or the Frenchman's surprising methods, disturbed the dinner of the baby, and it poured down the baby's chin and along the gentleman's trowsersi ' The bland face elongated, and he extended the baby toward its mother, saying: "Madame, take your leetle child; 1 am disgust. I have never taken a baby from that day to this; but I like to touch them, for their flesh is cool and tender. -. The most delicious texture is the skin of a black or mulatto baby; it is satiny and fine, and the true pet and picaninny is the black child, as any one who has lived at the South knows, and they awaken a great deal of love from the whites till they beeome old enough to sell, and in their mothers somewhat longert han that. . ' ' ... I cannot leave this subject without a passing allusion to one of the phenomena of the day. Some two. years ago there was a spontaneous outburst of babies in Ohio", The world was started with the report that forty babies were collected at Columbus, and that there was a "Baby Show" a new thing in social science, the report of which went flying abroad from one end of the

NO 11. world to the other. Perhaps that was well it wasatleast tolerable it. was Western; and so was my experiece on my way to the Mammoth Cave in Louisville. I was advised to see Col. Groghan, the owner of the Cave, before I went down, and so I did; but I had not, before that, thought of the Cave being owned any more than I would of a cloud being owned. He spoke of the price he paid for it, and then mentioned other Caves, when I asked. "Why, Sir, do you own others?", "Bless you, yes, I own fifteen Caves!" Bless me, sure enough! . We shall yet be shown private cabinets of mountains, I suppose, and herbariums of coal mines. Barnum, the showman, indefatigable, unscrupulous, determined to have success an excellent representative of the audacity, enterprise and cunning of this people, seized the Baby Show card and spread it abroad far and near; the maternal instinct was roused, and from far and near came together (5th June, 1855.) fat children and lean children, twins, triplets, quadruplets and what not, and they were crowded in where the hencoops were last year, with the fat lady and the bearded lady, and the giant lady from Maine', (men, every mother's son of them,) and the dwarf lady from Michigan, and the happy family and the Ourang Outang, and men and women were crowded in among them, (I too,) and Barnum made $20,000 by it, and I saw George Ard, hurrah for him! the fine fellow, to whom, not having seen the Scot child, I gave my - prize. 'Twas a disagreeable, if not; a disgusting show, and I trust will never be repeated. The philosophic, physical generalization to be drawn from this show, according to the clever Reporter of The Tribune, is, "that a handsome baby must have a handsome mother, that she must have two children before, that she must live freely, take general domestic exercise on level land, and that her husband must be & coachman." . ' .' '" , One more thing I may mention, because I think it. may strike the minds of those about to marry,' as worthy of very serious consideration, (for nobody is safe.) It appears that there is a baby born with a beard! ., ( Think of it, my young friends. My last words are, and I am a mild man, that a baby is a complex and wonderful work of art. Whoever succeeds in perfecting this work deserves all praise whoever produces a pale and diseased child should at once be put to death without talk; the evidence is complete. ' . , , .' Women Should Shun Men of Bad Character. Did women see the responsibility of the station she holds in society did she feel how much she is the arbitress of man's destinies on earth, nay, even beyond it, how different would she act! Instead :of: dispensing her smiles equally among all men, she would show by her discountenance of vice, how hateful it was to her; no matter how talented a man was, how graceful in his manners, or pleasing in his person, unless virtue was the guiding star of his conduct, she would banish him from her presence, as a being unworthy of breathing the same air with her; she would shrink from his society as she would shun a noxious reptile. Is such the case? No! No matter what a man's vices, if he is handsome, brilliant in conversation, and versed in the arts of flattery," all the smiles and attentions are lavv ished on him that ought to be bestowed only on the virtuous; while the man who is endowed with every good quallity that can render him estiro-. able, if . wanting in the showy acquirements of society, is treated with the utmost indifferance;this gives rise to the too generally received opinion, that the worse a man is, the more agreeable he is to the. women. Can it then be wondered at, that to meet her society, win her affections b' a thousand nameless attentions, and slight them when won, is the pastime of an hour to those honeyed flatterers, those destroyers ofwomen s happiness, who like a gilded serpent, captivate but to annihilate. Were they regarded as the pests of society instead of being . treated as its ornaments, the race would disappear. 1 To Young1 Men. some odd genius gives the Tollowing elegant advice to those young men who "depend on father" for their support, and ' take no interest whatever in business, but are regular1 drones in the hive, subsisting on that which is earned by others: 1 ' ' ; ' Come, off with your coat, clinch the saw, the ' plow-handle, the ax, the pick ax, the spade : any thing that will enable you to stir your blood! Fly round and tear your jacket, rather than be a ' passive recipient of the old man's bounty! ' 1 Sooner than play the dandy at dad's expense, - hire yourself out to some potatoe patch, let yourself to stop hog holes, or watch the bars, and when you think yourself entitled to a resting spell, do it on your own hook. Get up in the morning turn round at least twice before i breakfast help the old gentleman give him now and then a generous lift in business learn how to take the lead, and not depend forever on being led; and you have no idea how the discipline.will benefit you. Do this, and our word for it, you will seem to breathe a new atmosphere, possess a new frame, tread a new earth, wake to a new destiny and you may then begin to aspire in manhood. Take off then, that ring from your finger, break your cane shave your '. upper lip, wipe your nose,, hold up your head, '- and, by all means, never again eat the bread of idleness, nor depend on father! . : iC3Tlt has often occurred to us that the water , power at the Lock and Dam at the Grand Rap-., ids on the Wabash, twenty-five miles below Vin- . cennes, could not bo put to a more profitable use . than that of manufacturing paper. There is a . local demand for that article within a circle of one hundred miles of the spot, that would re-1 quire all that could be made by a very large establishment. We believe any amount of power can be obtained there at very cheap rates; and we do know that an excellent article of paper if made on the Upper Wabash. .The site is convenient to Vincennes, whence paper could be readily conveyed to all parts of the country, and stock and materials could be received very ex-; peditiously. We hope some enterprising man, who understands the business, will be induced to examine the advantages and facilities offered by this site. Will our exchanges please mention this subject? Vincennes Gazette , ;,. . '.:

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