Locomotive, Volume 34, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 September 1855 — Page 1

JOHN R. ELDER, Editor.

"The Chariots shall rage In the streets, they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings." A"i,uw,,ii, 4. ELDER & HARKNE6 8, Publisher e.

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As tlioy keop in thoir lunploy, workmen of suporior to and skill, and uso nono ttho best of material, lliey cim make it to tho interest of all who wish to iierpetuate tho iiiwrnory of lost fi-iendu, to privo tlicmacnll. , . , jeS-)y IjAFA Vl'ITTK Ac 11 lI AN iAFIH.IS KAIMOAI 1855. is mmmmwmmi ibss. ' 11 TIME-OHAKOED! ' ON and utter April 'J3d, 1855, trains on this road will run as follows : , , , .. 1 . , . . ! MAIL TRAIN. . ' : ' ; ' ' Jienve linlinnpolis nt ltt M. ; .' .. A rrive in IiKlianafiolis at H A . M. - . :rt - " " Lafuyette at a P. M: , ' ' . ' KXPRESS TRAIN. ' ( ' , ' ' lii'.ave Indianapolis at fi A . M.: ' ' :r 1 j- . , . A rrive in Lafayette at 9 A . M . i " ' " Indianapolis at 3:30 P. M. V- ' ' !- ' FR KIOIIT TRAIN. ' ' ! Leave Indianapolis at 6:20 A. M, . ;': I For through tickets, apply atthe Union Passenger Station, In Indianapolis. . npi-28 . . .. , W. DURBIN, ffup't.' SUMMER ARRANGEMENT. 1 QKK i ! FOR THE EAST! ; i Indianaifolis9 IiMbiirIi, and Cleveland , ,t , , f Kail road .. SHORTEST, Cheajicst, and quickest route to Hellefontaino,' tloUimbus, Pittsburgh, Plniadelphi, Haitimore, t loveJand, Dunkirk, iltillalo, A Ibany, New York, and Huston. Also, Dayton and Eastern Ohio, No change of cars between ' India napolis and Cre stline I Three trains leave Indianapolis daily, (Sundays excepted.) 1.(10 A, M. Express After arrival of 10 A . M. Train from -St; Louis, connecting al Crestline at 12 M. willi Lightnlnjr Express on Pittsburgh and Cleveland Kailroads. Also, with Lake Shore Road for Dunkirk, Buffalo, N in para Falls, New York, and Boston. Passengers by this Train may take Boats on the Lakes at Cleveland. : ; 7. HO A. M. Day Exprkss- Connectingrat Crestline at 4.58 P. M. with trains for Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, anlBaltitnore, and at Cleveland at 8. 00 P." M., with Lake Shore Railroad, and Steamer for Buffalo, Dunkirk, Niajrara Falls, New York, and Boston. Tills isthe only morning Train from Indianapolis by daylight that makes direct connectiont with Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Lake Steamers. - . 3.30 P.M. Mai i A r rives at Crestline at 2.28, making same connections as above, except Boat connection at Cleveland. Travelers, be sure and get tickets by. Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland route. . . Passengers procure Tickets at the Union Depot, Tndianaprtf Jis. at Lafayette, and at principal Railroad Ticket Offices. P. S. Tti is Company have made arrangements with the1 'several Railroad Companies for connecting through Freights from Cleveland, New York, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia. JFPFor general information in regard to Freight, iipply to -JAMES HOOKER, General Freight Agent. TCr'United States Mail and United States Express on this route, A lso, our Company's Telegraph Line. . : . S, A. FLETCHEK, Jr.j Sup't. t Indianapolis, 185-1. oct'JDtf -' CHANGE OF TIME; ; ' ' INDIANA CENTRAL AND DAYTON AND WESTERN R. R. Three trains daily, (Sundays ex- jpaa V VPMW?$3$X2 cepted. - MSM First Train Lightning Express.' leavos Indianapolis at 2.:i() A. M.; arrives at Ricliniond at 5.30, and at Cincinnati at 9.3H A.M.; arrives at Dayton at 7.00 A. M., connecting di..rectly with trains for Columbus, Zanesville, Wheeling, Baltimore, Washington City, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Aic; arriving in Now York 15 hours in advance of any other :routo from Indianapolis. At Dayton, also connects with .truins directly for Springfield, Urbana, Bellefontaine, Forest, Clyde, Cteveland, Buffalo-, Sandusky Detroit, Fort Wayne, Troy, Piqua, &c., &c. Second Train leaves at 7.30 A . M.; arrives at Richmond at lt 20 A.M.; at Cincinnati at 1.30 P.M.; connects at Dayton at lii M. with alltrains for Columbus, Zanesville, Wheeling and all pointseast and north-east. - ' Third train leaves at 3.30 P. M., connects at Richmond at G.30 with trains for Cincinnati, arriving at 9 P.M.; arrivesat Columbus at 10.30 P. M., connecting directly with trains for Zanesville, Wheeling, Bnltimore, Washington City, New York and Boston, and also with trainsfor Cleveland, Buffalo, : Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. -m , - Passengers, take notice ! This is the only route by which you can leave Indianapolis in the afternoon, and reach Columbus, Newark , Zanesville and Wheeling the same evening. ' The. only route having any' tonnoctions at Dayton, either morning or evening. Passengersby this route go through to Cincinnati as quick as by any other. , Columbus and Pittsburg Baggage checked through. Philadelphia Baggage re-checked at Pittsburgh. . '' , The only morning Train from Indianapolis to Dayton, or Columbus via Davton. s JAMES M. SMITH, Superhitendant, 1 ; jan7 -. ", : Ind. Cent. & Dayton fe Western K. R.

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THE FATAL CONCEALMENT. A lllHII.I.lMi, KXCII'IM; riTOKV. , .T UV AN KNOLlml HAHIUbTEK. l tionio years nfter I commenced practice but Hie jjiccmu u.ue i snuii, lor oovious reasons, avoiu mentioning I Imd a friend nl whose liouso I was a pretty constant visitor. He had a wife who was the magnet that drew me there. She was beautiful but I shall not attempt to de scribe her she was more than beautiful she was fascinating, she was captivating. Her pres ence was to me line the intoxication of opium. 1 was only happy under its influence; and yet, after indulgence in the fatal pleasure, I sank "into me deepest despondency. In my own juslihca tion, I must say that I never in word or look be trayed my feelings, though I had some reason to suspect they were reciprocated; for, while in my company, she was always gay, brilliant and witty.' yet, as I learned from others, at times she was often sad and melancholy, l'owerful, most powerful was the temptation to make an unreserved disclosure of my heart, but I resisted it, That I had the firmness so to do, has been for years my only consolation. One morning 1 sat nlono in my chamber. My clerk was absent. A gentle knock was just audible at the outer door. I shouted "come in !" in no very amiable humor, for I was indulging in a delicious reverie upon tho subject of the lady of my heart, nnd the presence of an ordinary mortal was hateful. The door opened and Mrs. entered; I do not know exactly what I did, but it seemed to be a long time before I had power to rise and welcome her while she stood there with a timid blush upon her lips, which made mo teel that it would be too great a happiness to die for. ' , :. , 'I don't wonder that you are surprised to see me here,', she began, with a provoking little laugh; but is your astonishment too great to allow you to say 'how do you do?' The spell was broken. I started and took her hand; 1 fear I pressed it more warmly and held it longer than was absolutely necessary. .-Perhaps your surprise will be increased,' she continued, 'when I inform you that I have come on business.' ' 1 ; , I muttered somctliing about not being so ambitious as 'to hope that she would visit mo from any other motive. She took no notice of what I said, but I perceived that her face turned deadly pale, and that her hand trembled as she placed before me a bundle of papers. .: , : i 'You will see by these,' she said in a low hurmy uncle and by my grandfather, but so strictly settled that even I can touch nothing but the interest.' .Now, my husband is in want of a large sum of money at this moment, and I wish you to examine the affair well, and -see whether, -by any twisting of, the law, I can place any part of my capital at bis disposal. , Unintentionally I have done him a great wrong,' in a tone so low, that no ears less jealously alive than mine could have understood their meaning, 'and, poor as this reparation is, it is all that I can make, and I must do it if possible.' ; ; - I pretended to study the papers before me, but the lights danced and mingled; and if, by great effort, I forced my eyes to distinguish a word, it conveyed not the slightest meaning to my whirling brain. Every drop of blood in my body seemed imbued with a separate consciousness, and to be tingling and rushing to the side next to her, whose presence, within a short distance of me, was the only thing of which Iliad a distinct perception. I hung my head, to hido from her the emotion of which I was thoroughly ashamed. ; .' ; ,. f i It may well be believed that I was in no condition to give a professional opinion; but I got over the difficulty by telling her I must have time to study the oase, and promising to let her know the result. " 'You are a tiresome creature,' she said, with a little coquettish air. 'I really expected that for once in your life, and for a friend, too, you might have gotten rid of the law's delays, and give me your opinion in half an hour; so far, at least, as to tell me whether there is any probability of my being able to do as I desire, i But I see you arc like the rest of the lawyers time! time I lime ! I suppose you will keep thinking about it (ill I am dead, and then it will all go to my husband in due course of law.' , .. 'It may not require more than half an hour to ascertain so much, when I can direct my thoughts to do it for that space of time,' I replied, and I know that the words rattled like shot out of my mouth. , 'But, would you be so unreasonable as to require an artist to draw a straight line when he was under a fit of delirium tremens?' , 'You are an incomprehensible person,' she replied; rather coldly: 'so I shall leave you to your legal studies. ' But, if you are going to have an attack of the delirium tremens, I had better send in a doctor shall I?' - - 'Well, I don't anticipate an attack this morning,' I answered, with a forced laugh; 'so I will not give you the trouble. The fact is, I have been violently agitated a short time since,-and my mind has not quite recovered its equilibrium.' We talked a few minutes longer, she quizzing me in her light, playful manner, and I delighted to be so teased, standing stupid and dumb, scarcely able to say a word, though very anxious to prolong the delightful interview by keeping up the war of badinage. At length she went to the door, and I was about to escort her down stairs, when we heard some one speaking below. 'Good God!' she exclaimed, clinging to my arnl, 'that is my husband's voice, if he finds me here 1 am ruined.' , . ! . j .,. -i ' 'Don't be alarmed,' I replied, endeavoring to re-assure her; 'youcame here on business, too ! He could only love you the more for it.' . 'You do not understand so well about this as I do,' she said, shuddering convulsively. 'He is jealous exceedingly "of you; and, 'oh ! I fear not without some cause. Hide me somewhere, for mercy's sake.' . " ",' ,', ' . I don't know how it happened, but my aim was around her, and I half carried her across the room to a closet. 'No, shut it;' lock it; take away the key, or I shall not feel safe. There is a plenty of air;' and sprang into the recess. ' ' '

INI)., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 1855.

For one moment her eyes met mine, nnd I thought they beamed with impassioned love. The next, I had locked the door upon my treasure, thrown the papers she had brought into a drawer, and was apparently busy with my pen, when my friend entered, lie commenced in a roundabout way to question me upon curtain points of tho law respecting marriage settlements, fcc; and, after a tedious amount of circumlocution, he gave me to understand that all this regards a desired transfer of :somo property of his wife's into his own hands. ; He had come upon the same errand as that generous creature. He had also a copy of the relatives' wills, and these I was compelled to examine closely, for he was desperately pertinacious, nnd would not be put olf. 1 was angry at tho thought of what his poor wife must be suffering, pent up in that narrow prison. I felt that I could have kicked her husband out of doors for keeping her there, last he made a niovo as if to go. I started and stood ready to bow him out. At up. 'So,' said he, tying up his papers with provoking deliberation, 'nothing but my wife's death, you fay, can put mo in possession of this money. I want it very much, but nobody will suspect me of desiring her death for the sake of having it a little sooner.' lie laughed nt his own poor jest, nnd mnde a sort of hyena chorus to it, that sounded strange and hysterical, even in my own ears.. He went at last, but stopped again on tho stairs, and detained mo there, talking for full five minutes longer. I felt by sympathy all the pangs of suffocation.' My throat seemed swollen my forehead bursting.' Great God! will he never be gone? Will he stand hero gossiping about the weather and the generalities of the law, while his lovely wife, who came to sacrifice her individual interests for his sake, dies a terrible and lingering death. I rushed to my back room. A step behind me makes mo turn round. ' It is my clerk curses on him. Lground my teeth in un- . availing rage, I could have stabbed him shot him beaten out his brains hurled him headlong down stairs. . But my violence would have compromised her. In a few minutes my brain was clenr again. , , ... , ,(- ..; . i, 'Watson,' cried I. i'Mr-. lias just left me. He is gone up Fleet street, I think, run after him, and request him to leave those papers with me. Say to him I would like to examine them more at my leisure. Pun, run quickly, and you'll overtake him.' , , i Watson disappeared. I turned the key of the outer door, and sprang toward the closet. As I .11', T 1 . . . . ",-, as I shut it; I wondered, with a beating heart, .whether the same expression would meet my en- : raptured gaze when I, opeucd it. There sbo stood with her eyes calmly fixed on mine. 'You are safe, dearest,' I mu.'iaured. . ... ! . She did not rebuke mo for culling her so: and emboldened by her silenco, I took her hand to lead her from, her narrow prison. She moved forward and fell into my arms a corpse ; I cannot well recall what followed. I only know that every means was tried for her restoration to life; but; alas! without success. Of one thing I was firmly convinced she had not died from suffocation. .1 recollected bis purple and swollen face, and his warm limbs.; She was pale, rigid, cold. . The tumult of her own emotions must have killed her the moment the door was closed upon her. . By some means I kept my secret from the knowledge of Watson nnd every one else. . All that night I was trying to recover her. Then I formed the project of shutting her up in the closet, locking up the chambers and going abroad for twenty years.. But the idea was rejected as soon as formed; . for it would be har.dlv possible that the presence of a dead body in the house should not be discovered before that time. Next I thought of setting fire to the place, burning all my books and papers, making a funeral pile of them', and thus ruining myself to preserve the secret. .But that thought, too, was .dismissed. It might cause loss of life and property to many innocent people, and would bo a bungling proceeding after all, and if this firo was discovered . early, policemen, firemen, mob, all would break in, and finding the body there; all would bo lost--for it was more to save her reputation than my life, that I was striving and plotting. : ' '! . . ' , i ' In the meantime I was a prey to the most fearful anxiety. I was sure she must have been missed and sought for.- Perhaps she had been seen to enter mv chambers. Every, step that I heard, T feared might be that of a policeman. In the morning a stranger called on business. This, of course, was nothing unusual; but, when ho was gone, I felt that he was a detective officer, and had come as a spy. I thrust a few clothes into a carpet bag, intending to escape to France. I caught up a box of matches to set the place on fire. I grasped a razor, and looked eagerly at its edge as the surest and swiftest way of ending ;my misery.,: But then all these would leave her to the jests of the world, and my own sufferings were nothing in comparison. , At this distance of time I can look back impartially and coolly upon that dreadful day; and I can solemnly declare, that I would rather be hanged for murdering her than to have allowed a breath to sully her failname. , ": A '. . .. I had just lain down the razor, when a hurried step crossed the ante-room. It was her husband's. Now, I thought, all is lost, she was seen to enter here, and he has come to claim her. . ; -i 'My dear -,' he began, in a nervous unsettled way, 'you remember the. business that I came about yesterday?' ; . '.Perfectly.'; . . v 'And'do you remember the words I used as I was going? I mean in answer to what you said about my not being able to touch this money until after the death of my wife?' j "Yes, I remember them distinctly.' ' r. ...' ?My wife has disappeared since yesterday morning,' lie continued, turning more pale than before; -'and if anything serious should have happened, you know, and you should repeat those expressions, they might be laid hold of, and I don't know what might be the consequence. I might be suspected of having murdered her.' v Poor fellow ! If I had not known the truth, I should have suspected it myself, from his excessive terror and anxiety. He wiped the perspira

tion from his face, and sank into a chair. The sight of a person frightened more than myself, reassured me. I was calmer than 1 was xince the preceding mornint;. "NV'heredid she go? How was she dressed'." enquired, I anxious to know all I could on tho subject. 'I don't know. Siie told me she was going out shopping and visiting; but no one saw her fuav the house, and none of the servants know exactly how she was dressed. When I went home to

dinner tho first thing I heard was that she had not returned.' 'What have yon done? Have jou sent to the police and to tho hospitals?' 'Yes, and to every friend and tradesman where she woul bo likely to call.' - "You may depend upon it,' I replied, very impressively, 'that I will not repeat what you said yesterday. You aro right in supposing that it might tell against you very much, if she would bo found dead under suspicious circumstances.' Ho talked a little longer and" then went to renew the search for his wife. How I preserved my self-possession during this interview, I do not know; so far from being really calm, I could have gnawed my flesh off my bones in my agony. That night when the doors were fastened, and I was alone, I shut myself up in ,the closet for two hours, to ascertain whether she died from want of air; fori distrusted my own knowledge of the appearance of suffocated persons. The place was well supplied with air from a couple of crevices. My first idea was correct; she had died from some other cause. When I emerged from the closet, I found that the night was intensely dark. It was raining in torrents and the thunder and wind roared a terrific chorus, passed by tho sullen booming of tho river, then at high tide and already swelled by tho rain. I sat there in the dark upon the floor, holding the cold, stiff hand of death within my own. I thought dreamingly how often it had welcomed mo with its soft pressure, while tho sweet eyes beamed brightly into mine, and tho full pouting lips had wreathed it into dimples of delight. Now, that hand, that used to be so plump, so full of warmth and life, was cold ! Those lips were clammy and hard ! Tears camo to my relief. , I wept as grown men seldom weep, and with that heart-easing gush came a new idea for her and me. I was to believe at that moment, that her spirit rested upon mine, nnd inspired the thought, for it burst upon me suddenly with a conviction that, if executed at the instant, would be crowned with success, snatch her up in my arms, carry her down stairs, at the risk of being encountered by some of the other inhabitants of the house; bear her through the courts, and, by a way I knew, into the gurden? ' The river was running strong and deep against tho wall. I pressed one kiss upon her cold forehead, and threw her into the stream. Gladly would I have gone with her, and held her in my heart till death; but the impulse was still on me, and the beating rain effaced my footprints. A few days after, I saw by the papers that her body had been found far down the river. The. medical evidence, ofter a post mortem examination, was that she had died from rupture of the heart, and that her death took place before her immersion in the water. So they conjectured that she had been standing by the river, when the fatal attack seized her, and she had fallen in uriperceived; and they returned a verdict of accidental death, and buried her in a pretty church yard near where they found her. Two year later her husband married again. He is stout and ruddy, and laughs as heartily as ever. I shall die a bachelor. J am lean and pale, and bowed down and gray-hairod, and the sound of my laugh is strange to me. The Radiant Castor an after Dinner Colloquy. 'There are other things to study geography from besides maps and globes.' 'Observe, my learned friend,' 'how the reflected sun-shine from those cut bottles in the caster-stand, throws long plumes of light in every direction across the white damask.' We leaned forward, and saw the phenomenon pointed out by the indexfinger of the Dr., and as we knew something was cotninty from his pericranics, kept , us alert of course.. 'WpII,' said he, inflating his lips until his face looked like that of cast-irou caryatid, 'well, my dear friend, 'well my dear friend, every tencil of light there is a point of compass, nnd the contents of that caster come from places as various as those diverging rays indicate. The mustard is from England, the vinegar from France, China furnishes the soy, ltafy the oil; we have to ask the West-Indies to contribute the red-pepper.' and the East-Indies to supply the black-pepper.' We ventured to rgrhark that those facts we were not ignroant of, -by any means., 'True, my dear friend,' said the Doctor, with a sort of snort; 'but bless me! if one-half of the people in the city know it. Mustard,', continued Dr.-Bushwhacker, not at all discomfited, 'comes from Durham, in the north of England that is, the best quality; the other produtions of this country do not amount to much, nor is it celebrated for any thing, except that here the Queen Philippa, wife of King Edward the Third, captured David Bruce, King of Scots, for which reason no Scotchman can eat Durham mustard except tears in his eyes. .; We get our grindstones from this English country, my learned friend; and when you sharpen your knife or your apelite hereafter, it will remind you of Durham. That long pencil of light from the next bottle points to France, where they make the best winevinegar we get. Just observe the difference between that sturdy, pot-bellied mustard-bottle, which represents John Bull, and this slender, sharp vinegar cruet which represents Johnny Crapeau; there is a national distinction, sir, in cruets as well as men. The quantity of vinegar made in France is very great; the best comes from Bordeaux; sometimes it is so strong that the Frenchman call it 'vinaigre des trois dents' or vinegar with three teeth; but the finest flavored vinegar I ever met with came from Portugal, and for a salid, nothing could equal its 'delicate aroma. ' Well sir, then there is the red-pepper,

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tho Cayenne; thai I presume is from Jamaica?' We assented. "The best and strongest kind is made partly of the bird-pepper, and partly of the long-pod pepper of the West Indies. This is a very healthy condiment, sir; in the tropics it is indispensible; there is a maxim there, bir, that people who eat Cayenne pepper will live for ever. Like variety, it is tho spica of life, sir, at the equator. Our own gardens, sir, furnish capsicum, and in fact it grows in all parts of tho world; but that from West Indies is estcenod to be the best, and I think with justice. Now, sir, tho next pencil of light is leflected from tho Yellow Sea!' "The soy Doctor?' 'The soy, my learned friend; the best fishsauce on the face of the Klobe. The soy, sir, or 'soya,' ns tho Japanese call it, is a species "of bean, which would grow in this country as well as nny otheir Chinese plant. Few Chinamen eat any thing without a mixture of this bean-jelly in some shape or other. They scald and peel (he beans, then add an equal quantity of wheat or barley, then the mess is allowed to ferment; then they add a little salt, sometimes tumeric for color; water is added also, in proportion of three to one of the mass, and after a few months' repose, (he soy is pressed strained, and ready for market. That, sir, is tho history of that cruet and now we will pass on to tho black pepper.' "Black pepper, -piper nigrum, is tho berry of a vine that grows in Sumatra and Ceylon, but our principal supply of this commonest of condiments come from the Island of Java; and we have to pay our web-footed Knickerbockers, across the . water, a little toll upon that, ns wo do upon many other things of daily consumption. The peppervine is a very beautiful plant, with large, oval polished leaves and showy white flowers, that would look beautiful if wound around tho head of a bride.' "No doubt, Doctor, but I think the less pep- . per about a bride the better.' - "Good, my learned friend; you are right; if 1 were to get married again, sir,' continued the Doctor in a very hearty manner; 'I should be a little afraid of the contact of flipper nigrum.' 'What's white pepper, Doctor?' White pepper .is the same, siras black peppor, only it is decorated, that is, the black husk has been rubbed off. ' Now, sir, there is not much else interesting nbout pepper, except that tho best probably comes from the kingdom of Bantam; and the quantity formerly exported from the sea-port of. that name in tho Island of Java amounted, sir, to ten thousand tons annually; a world, sir. Well, sir,' we 'are niso'inuefaBu'Vo Bnntum for a very small breed of fowls, the peculiar use of which no philosopher has as yet been able to determine. Now, sir, we havo finished the caster, I think?' " There is one point of light, Doctor, that indicates Italy; what of tho oil?' "Ah! Lucca and Parma! Indeed, sir, I may say France, Spain, and Italy! "Three kingdoms claim its birth ; Both hemispheres proclaim its worth." Mrs. Swisshelm on Sentimentalism. All that stuff about women's love has been said over and over again fifty thousand times, to tho great detriment of the best interests of humanity. There is no kind of necessity for using the press to pursuade silly girls that it is very romantic and womanly to love a scoundrel, to leave the affections unguarded by reason or experience, and drift helplessly into sin, shame and dispair, as an evidence of her unsuspecting womanhood. It is not that woman's affections are stronger and more durable than man's. We tkink the very opposite is the case; and two thirds of the women who pine or die for love do so for want of something better to do. Everything calculated to make love sickness a becoming feminine accomplishment, is k great injury; but to strew the path of the suicide with the flowers of poesy and romance is in a very great degree reprehensible. The best motto to guard a young girl through the mazes of love, is, "Do right and trust in God." A girl who has done nothing wrong has little cause to mourn over the fickleness of a pretended lover. Better he should change his mind before marriage than after. Curious Matrimonial Statistics. From the Annual Reports of the Registrar General of Europe for 1853 it appears that the total number of marriages registered in England during that year was 164,520; births, 612,391; deaths, 421,104. Of the 164,520 persons whoso marriages wero registered, the precise ages of both parties were specified in 92,326 instances. It appeai-3 that 30 women were married at the age of 15; 1.76 at the age of 16, and 922 at the age of 17. Twenty is the favorite age, as many as 45,937 having found partners at that period of life. It is rather remarkable that at the age immediately, preceeding, namely, 19, there were only 6,515 marriages. . Fifty of the fair sex were married at tho mature ago of 65, 16 at 70, 3 at 75, and 2 who had reached the patriarchal term of 80 contrived to enter a second time for they were widows the matrimonial state. Of the men, 6 entered upon the responsibilities of wedlock at the age of 16, and 33 at the age of 17. Twenty is also the popular period with men, the marriages at that age being 43,151. The eldest bridegrooms were 80, there being 14 at that age, and 37 at the age of 75. The latter appear to have been widowers.. Twenty-one husbands oi the ae of 20 and under 25 married wives aged 15; 107 wives aged 16; 4,603 . wives at 19; and one husband at that youthful age did not shrink from marriage with a lady of 55. 133 at that age married wives 35 years old.. There is a case of a boy of 17 marrying a girl of 15; and of the 14 old men who married at the age of 80 ono obtained a wife aged 30. Two old men, upwards of 75, were married to wives of 25; and 4 at 70 found wives no older than 20. Four wives of the age of 20 and under 25 years married hus- ' bands aged 16. One who owns to the age of 30 married a husband of 18; one of 50, a husband of 19; and two of sixty, husbands aged 20. 3,900 bachelors were married to widows; 7,816 widower3 to spinsters; 4,260 widowers to widows; 76,350 bachelors to spinsters. . ,