Locomotive, Volume 44, Number 10, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1858 — Page 1

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From the Now York Lcdgcr.J THE UNION. BY MRS. BARAH T. BOLTON. " Tlio Union it must be preserved." Dissolve the Union ! let the blush of shame Hide, with its crimson glow, the brazen cheek Of him who dares avow the traitorous aim. 'Tis not the true, the wise, the good, who speak ; Words of such fearful import ; but the week, Drunk with fanaticism's poisonous wine, And reckless of the future, madly seek To hold their saturnalia at the shrine That noble souls have held, and still must hold, divine. Dissolve the Union ! madmen, would ye rend The glorious motto from our country's crest ? i Would ye despoil the stars and stripes, that lead Home, food, protection to the world's oppressed 1 Have ye no reverence for the high bequest That our immortal sires bestowed erewhile ? . Has sin defaced the image God impressed On your humanity, that ye could smile To see the lurid flames of Freedom's funeral pile ? Dissolve the Union! in the day, the hour, Ye rend the blood cemented tie in twain, The fearful cloud of civil war will lower ' , On every old blue hill and sunny plain, From torrid Mexico to frigid Maine, And men will arm, and strange new banners wave, And palid women look on kindred slain ; Brothers will battle, and the life blood laveThe threshold, noble sires and husbands died to save. Dissolve the Union I no, ye cannot part With idle words the blessed ties that bind In one the interests of the mighty heart That treasures up the hopes of all mankind, A while, perchance, the blind may lead the blind, And men may follow phosphorescent light From beaten paths to quagmires, ere they find The ray that shone so beautiful and bright, Was but a phantom-lure to deeper, darker night. Dissolve the Union ! never ! Ye may sow The seeds of vile dissension o'er the land, . That men may reap in sorrow; ye may show . The world your disregard of all its grand, Eternal interests ; but a noble band , Of patriots, tried and true, will still remain, With heart to heart, and sinewy hand to hand, To guard, from foul dishonors cankering stain, The, jewels God has shrined in Freedom's holy fane, Dissolve the Union ! no, destroy the page That gives to human sight the hideous scrawl ; Let not the freemen of a future age Read these detested words ; they would recall Shame, madness, imbecility, and all That mars the noontide, glory of our time. True to the undivided, stand or fall ; To waver now is little less than crime To battle for the right is glorious, is sublime I Geneva, Switzerland, February, 1858. A SCENE IN ARKANSAS. BY EMERSON BENNETT. Some years ago, when horse thieves, negro stealers) gamblers, id est omna genus, were much more common in the Arkansas country than they are to-day, a party of six or eight borderers were one cool evening in November, around the bar-room fire of the Jefferson House, in a place well known, but which it suits our purpose not to name. They were rather a rough looking set of fellows, take them all in all ; and at the moment we introduce them, were attentively listening to the wonderful exploits of one Kelser, who was known in these parts as the leader of a gang of bullying scoundrels ; though the persons to whom he was talking being comparatively strangers, permitted him the rare en joyment of telling his story, spreading his fame, and making nunselt a nero in a new quarter. Winding up the detail of his sixty bloody duels and rencounters with an oath, he added, by way of a climax : ' ', I'm one of them as is never afeard of anything white, black, or red and all I want is, (displaying the hilt of his bowie knife,) for any body to show me the fellow as says I is." As he spoke, he straightened himself up, beat his round, bullet-head forward, and brought his face, with its pug nose, thin, sneering lips, and small, black, somewhat blood-shot eyes, to bear upon each of those present, and with a defiant expression, which seemed to say, as plainly as words : ' Who dares contradict me ?' No one made an answer; and each eye, if it did not quail, at least feE before the contemptuous glance of the braggadocia. 4 Yes,' he repeated, with another oath, ' I'm one of them as is never afeard of anything, as I said afore ; and to prove it, I'll tell ye of my fight with Dexter1 rash Dexter, as we used to call him.' And then, with the air of one perfectly satisfied, that he was a hero, which no man dared dispute, he was proceeding with his story, when a tall, slender individual, in the dress of a northern traveller, somewhat dusty, and with a pair of saddle-bags thrown across his arm, quietly entered the inn. Approaching the bar, whither the landlord, who was one of the party at the fire, immediately repaired, the stranger mildly inquired if he could be entertained for the night. ' Certainly, sir,' returned Boniface, with a cheerful air. ' A horse, I reckon, sir ?' The traveller nodded ; and while he proceeded to divest himself of his overcoat, and deposit his travelling equipments with the host, the latter called to a black servant, and ordered him to attend to the gentleman's beast. , . " ' Supper, sir,' pursued the landlord, with an eye to business. Again the traveller nodded ; and perceiving the fire Was surrounded by the party already mentioned, and evidently not wishing to intrude himself among strangers, he quietly took his seat by a table near the wall. Meantime he had not escaped notice as no newcomer in such a place does ; but while most of the company scanned him somewhat furtively, Kelser, the egotistical hero of his own bloody exploits, angered by the interruption, stopped his narration, and regarded him with a savage scowl. ' Another Yankee, I'll bet high on't !' he said, in a sneering, grating tone, intending to disconcert, irritate, and insult the traveler. The latter, however, seemed to take no notice of the remark ; but turning to the table, upon which there chanced to be lying an old paper, he picked it up, as it were, mechanically, and soon appeared to be deeply absorbed in its contents. This quiet, inoffensive proceeding served,to irritate the ruffian still more ; but contenting himself for the time by muttering something about all Yankees being cowards, he turned to the others, and proceeded with his story, speaking somewhat louder than usual, especially when he came to the bloody details of his narrative ; as if to arrest the attention of the stranger, and impress him unfavorable. Finding the latter was not in the least disburbed, however, Kelser closed with a tremendous oath ; and then turnW to the landlord, he inauired, in- a loud tone, if he thought there were any ' cursed thieves amongst em trom abroad r ' Hush 1 returned the host, in a low cautious tone : ' don't go for to make a muss here, I beg of you for

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' Do you want to take up on that fellow's side ?' sneered the bully, fixing his black, snaky eyes upon the host, with an expression that made the latter quail. ' O, no, Kelsei1 I don't want to take anything up ; and so I beg you won't say nothing to him. Come, let's take a drink all round, and call it quits.' 'In course we'll take a drink,' returned the other, with a course laugh ; ' and as it's to be all round, why, we'll have it all round.' Saying this, and rising as he spoke, ho walked over to the inoffensive traveler, with a swaggering air, and, slapping him somewhat heavily on the shotuder, said, roughly : How d'ye do, stranger ?' The men looked up with something like a start, and displayed features in striking contrast with those of bis interrogator. He seemed about five and twenty years of age, had a smooth, broad, high forehead, a rather Grecian, slightly effeminate, and almost beardless face, and mild, soft, pleasant blue eyes, the general expression of the whole countenance denoting one of a naturally timid, retiring, and unobtrusive disposition. Fixing his ej-es upon the bully rather with the air of one who did not exactly comprehend the cause of being so rudely disturbed, than with anything like anger or resentment at the harsh, unceremonious interruption he seemed to wait for the latter to volunteer some explanation of his uncivil proceeding. ' I said, how d'ye do, stranger ?' repeated Kelser, ' but you don't seem to understand the civil thing.' At this the crowd, in expectation of a quarrel, at once started up, and silently gathered around the bully and the traveler. This seemed to startle the latter a little, and glancing quickly from one to the other, ho replied : 1 1 am very well, if that is what you wish to know ; but really I do not comprehend why you should be so solicitous about my health." 1 There's a great many things that you Yankees don't comprehend,' rejoined Kelser, with a chuckling laugh. What does this mean gentlemen ?' inquired the traveler, turning a little pale, his mild, blue eye beginning to gleam with a strange, peculiar light ; at the same time rising and glancing from one to the other, till his gaze rested upon the troubled visage of his host. ' What have I done that anv one here should seek to insult me ? Do you permit this, sir ?' he added, addressing the innkeeper. T ' He can't help himself,' interposed the bully. If there s anybody, as wants to insult you its me; and Bill Kelser always does what he likes, anywhere, and with anybody.' ' And why do you want to quarrel with a man that never saw or exchanged a word with you before ?' quietly asked the strancer, his lips slightly quivering, either with fear or suppressed anger a soft glow diffused itself over his whole face and the pupils of his eyes seemed to expand, and grow dark, and gleam even more strangely than .before. ' Because I hate all you cursed Yankees ; and whenever I see one of your tribe, I always feel like cutting his heart out, for I'm one of those as never knowec what it was to fear eyther man or devil.' ' Come' interposed the landlord, taking the bully by the arm, we was going to take a drink, you know I' ' Yes, I'm in for that too !' said Kelser, ' always good at eyther a drink or a firht, I am. You hear stranger ?' -he continued, taking hold of the latter's arm somewhat roughly. ' You hear, don't you ? We're going to take a drink with the landlord ; and if you can prove your a decent white man, we'll honor you by taking anoth er with you afterwards. ' I shall have no objection to treat if the gentlemen here think l ought to do so, returned the traveler, drawing himself up with dignified firmness, and speaking in a most positive manner than he had yet done ; ' but as for drinking myself, that is something I never do.' Nothing at that moment could have pleased the bully better than to hear the stranger refuse to drink ; for he had long since resolved upon a quarrel with him ; first, from natural malice ; secondly, because he believed him one to be easily disposed of ; and thirdly, because he might thus make a grand display of his fighting qualities, with little or no risk to himself a very important consideration, when we bear in mind that all such character are arrant cowards at heart. ' So you don't drink, eh?' he said to the stranger. 1 D'ye hear that, gentlemen ?' appealing to the crowd. ' Now everybody round here has to drink or fight And so (walking up to the traveler) you've got to do one or t'other which shall it be ?' ' I do not wish to do either,' was the reply ; ' but drink I will not' ' Then fight you shall !" cried the other, closing the sentence with a wicked oath, and at the same time laying his hand upon the hilt of his bowie knife, and partly drawing it from its sheath. ' Do you intend to murder me ? or give me a chance for my life ?' inquired the stranger, with a coolness that astonished these who, looking upon his fine, delicate features, and slender figure, expected to see him shrink back in alarm and dismay. ' ' Give you a chance, in course,' returned the bully, in a less confident tone, for he too had expected to see the other succumb at once. ' Do you challenge me to a fair combat ?" inquired the other. ' In course I does,' blustered Kelser ; we don't do nothing else, in this country but the fair thing.' The affair now began to look serious. ' Gentlemen,' said the traveler, with a polite bow to the company in general, ' you know how quietly I came in here, and how inoffensively I conducted myself afterwards ; and you have seen how this man has ventured beyond all rules of good breeding, and stepped out of his way to insult and fix a quarrel upon me. Now, then, as I am a stranger here though one who has always heard much of Southern chivalry I wish to know how many of you will agree to stand by and see fair play ?' ' All ! all of us !' was the almost simultaneous response. ' You shall have fair play, strangers I' The bully turned slightly pale, and seemed more discomposed and uneasy. ' I thank you gentlemen, for convincing me by your offer, that you are governed by justice and honor,' pursued the traveler ; and now I will prove to you that this man is a cowardly braggadocio, or else one of us shall not quit this place alive 1 It is understood that I am challenged to a single ffght, is it not ?' There was a general response. The challenged party, I believe, has the choice of weapons, time, and place.' Another affirmative response, the bully looking still paler and more anxious. 4 Well, then, gentlemen, not being handy with the bowie knife, and wishing an equal chance for life, I propose to leave the result to fate,andsotestthe courage of my opponent Any man can stand up for a fight, if he knows he has the best of it ; but only true courage can coolly face uncertainty, and my insulter boasts of fearing nothing. My proposition is this : Let two pistols be selected, one be loaded, and both be concealed under a cloth upon this table. Then my fighting friend and myself shall draw one by lot, point the drawn one at the heart of his foe, and pull the tri"frer, the unharmed one standing firm, and receiving the charge or not, as xieaven snau win. xa uou tun fair?' 'Perfectly fair P coincided all, except Kelser, who demurred, and swore that nobody but a Yankee would ever have thought of such a heathenish way of doing business. 4Did I not tell you he was a coward this fellow who a few minutes ago feared neither man or devil ?'

sneered the stranger, thus drawing a laugh from the company, who now seemed to be on his side. The landlord now objected to the affair taking place in his house; but on one of the company taking him

aside, and whispering in his car, he made no lurther opposition. Accordingly, Kelser reluctantly consenting, one was chosen to prepare the pistols, which were immediately produced; and in leas than ten minutes, they were placed under a cloth upon the table. . 'I waive all right to the first choice,' said the stranger, as he and Kelser were brought face to face in their proper positions. Iho bully who was really very much alarmed, ana who showed it in his pale lace, trembling limbs, and quivering muscles, at once seemed to brighten at this concession; and thrusting his hand under the cloth, he drew forth one of the weapons, presented it at the breast of the other, and pulled the trigger. It did not fire; but the stranger, who knew not that it was unloaded, neither blanched nor changed expression. The crowd applauded, and the bully grew ghastly pale. 'It is my turn now,' said the traveler, in a quiet determined tone, fixing his blue eye steadily upon the cowering form of Kelser. This was more than the latter could stand. 'No. I'll do-1 if it is P he shouted; and instantly drawing the other pistol, he presented it, and pulled the trigger also. But with a like result, for neither pistol was loaded, the company having secretly resolved to test the cour age of both without bloodshed. Throwing down the pistol with a bitter curse, amid a universal cry of 'Shame-! shame P Kelser, whipped out his knife, and made a rush for his antagonist. But the latter, gliding quickly around the table, suddenly stopped and exclaimed : ' Three times at my life and now once at yours P And with those ominous words he raised his arm quickly, the next instant there was a flash, a crack, and the bully fell heavily forward, shot through the brain. The verdict of the iury who sat upon the case, was justifiable homicide and the blue-eyed stranger re sumed his tourney as if nothing had happened, Would you know who he is 7 If we name him, we should name one who now holds a high official position; and for many reasons we should prefer he should be known only by those who are already cognizant of the incident we have recorded. A LESSON FOR GREEN-HORN'S. The uses and abuses of Credit have been often harped on in these columns, but the topic is so important, and the popular obtuseness with regard to it so gross and pernicious, that we return to it, meaning to give " line upon line, precept on precept," until some amendment shall have been ellected. Take a recent instance of the prevalent infatuation: A swindler in this City sends out circulars to fifteen thousand country merchants, whose names he had surreptitiously obtained, proposing to sell them West India coffee at low rates on eight months' credit, but they must Bend him $15 or $20 for a sample package, to be immediately forwarded, to cover the expenses of advertising, &c. The swindler probably never ventured to advertise except in his lying circular, never owned a bag of coffee in his life, and did not even pretend to refer to any house of known responsibility as guaranteeing his solvency. Who could imagine that so transparent a fraud as this would dupe any one who could possibly obtain credit for the rest of the shabbiest country store, or work himself into any better business than the peddling out of a keg of strychnine whiskey in quarts and pints to the topers of his neighborhood ? And yet hundreds if not thousands of men who are called merchants greedily bit at this naked hook, sending in their money and orders ; and, though never a pound of coffee was ever dispatched to one of these credulouscustomers, the knave was raking down $1,000 to $2,000 per day, when the Mayor stepped in and rudely arrested his career. We presume cash and orders for coffee from remote points have not yet done pouring in ! , Take a more recent case : It seems that certain swindlers, located mainly in Connecticut, have been selling lottery tickets and taking in cash for them for several years past, never drawing a scheme, and of course having no prizes to pay. If they issued any pretended drawn numbers, they were very sure they were such as did not appear on the faces of the tickets they had sold for that lottery. Yet they went swimmingly on, taking in greenhorns and cash at a jolly rate, until they had stolen several hundreds of thousands of dollars, and made several independent fortunes, at the cost ol any number of silly gamblers all over the land, who persisted in fighting a very savage tiger, though he drew blood every spring, and they never had even a chance for a lick at him. We presume they would have gone on buying tickets and paying money to these confederated swindlers for a lifetime, had not Mayor Tiemann smoked out their game, and, thinking it entirely too steep, put a stop to it. But others will doubtless take it up, or some of these rascals will choose some new looation, or new dodge, and start on a fresh career of successful experiment on public gullibility. As to the Gift swindlers, it does no good to expose them ; but we will say, though for the hundredth tame, that he who buys a book, or subscribes to a periodical, or does anything of the sort, in the expectation and for the sake of obtaining a gold watch, or passage ticket for California, or house and lot, or far mas a prize in some lottery connected therewith, deserves to be cheated. To be sure, he is probably a simpleton ; but why should not the fool and his money be parted in some more plausible and less ridiculous way ? Why should fool No. 1,000,000 consent to be cheated precisely as 999,990 other fools have just been ? . Understand that there is nothing dishonest nor discreditable in offering a specific gitt as an inducement to customers or patrons. If a publisher or merchant shall see fit to offer a package of seeds, a beefsteak, a yard of calico, fan, or penny whistle, to every one who buys of him to the value of a dollar with larger rewards for ampler custom he does not thereby leave the domain of Trade for that of Gambling. We may consider his offer in bad taste, or as disparaging to his own proper wares, or condemned by the canons of legitimate trade that is all. But whenever one adver tises that he will give something of uncertain value which may be worth $500, and may not be worth a cent to each customer or subscriber, then be sure that, though he proposes gambling, he really meditates fraud, ilis proffers are delusive ; his guts are not worth half what he pretends they are worth; and those of real value are very rarely doled out Is not all this plain to men of sense ? Why should we be asked to write ietters to A, B and C, saying that this or that Gift enterprise is or is not a swindle, when we have so often pronounced them all swindles, and nothing else I One more variety of the swindling schemes of our day must suffice tor this time. We allude to swind ling by Matrimonial Advertising. The following note, just at hand, may serve as an illustration : To the Editor of the N. Y. Tribune. Sir: An old hag in Philadelphia gets her living by occasionally advertising in your paper as "a prepossessing and confiding young lady in want of a husband.'' From those green enough to reply, she manages, by various artful pretenses, to extract from $5 to $10, and then drops the correspondence and goes in for anotu er haul. You ought to expose her. A Victim. New York, April 14, 1858. We do not mean to take the part of swindlers ; but

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we can't help believing that "A Victim" has been served just right as many victims had been before him, and many more will be after him. For how came he to respond to this prepossessing and confiding young lady?" Was he really in want of a wife? If he were, are the prepossessing young ladies witliin the sphere of his acquaintance so invincibly averse to matrimony that he can make no impression on the obdurate heart of even one among them ? If so, we must believe his experience an uncommon one. But no those who really desire to make or improve the acquaintance of young ladies with a view to marriage, are under no necessity of either advertising or responding to advertisements. This is not the mode in which any young man or young woman who desires and deserves a worthy life-partner is at all likely to seek one, or ought to do so. Probably nineteen of every twenty matrimonial advertisements are decoys, put forth by libertines or "hags" to lure victims into their toils; and those who respond to them are usually quite as bad as their authors. Sometimes they originate in a spirit of mischief or frolic; sometimes they are traps laid to effect a particular purpose; but usually, they are lures to vice or nets for gudgeons and it is pretty apt to be "diamond cut diamond" between the advertisers and the respondents. Moral. Be entreated, O virtuous greenhorn! to keep your money in your own pocket until you know to whom you are moved to intrust or pay it. If a stranger asks you to send him a dollar that he may re turn you a good many dollars' worth for it, have sense enough to know that he is fishing for fools, and that you ought to know better than to bite. And if any "prepossessing young lady" should advertise for a husband, let the naked fact of her advertising prepossess you against having anything to do with her. Ar. Y. Tribune. PERSEVERANCE REWARDED. We clip the following good story from the Bucyrus (Ohio) Journal of the 1 1th. Of course we do not know who tliis modern Jacob may be : We picked up a Pittsburg paper the other day, and saw therein the marriage of a couple that formerly resided in this place. There are many marriages in other towns of people who have once lived in Bucyrus and we do not pretend to record them at all, but in this instance there is an incident of too uncommon a nature to be pasted over. It is as follows : Twelve years ago the bride was a young lady of twenty, the daughter of a wealthy merchant in Washington, Pennsylvania. In her father's employ a man named Robert , who, the young lady being bewitchingly beautiful, as in duty bound, fell desperately in love with her. She reciprocated the attachment and they were betrothed. Unfortunately, the young lady's father entered his protest against this pleasant arrangement, and accordingly the young people put off the happy day indefinitely. About a year afterwards she received a most tempting proposal, which, urged by her father, she accepted, and, to the eternal despair of Eoor Robert, was married. But alas for the happy ridegroom ! Scarcely three montlis had elapsed when a kick from a vicious horse killed him. Robert consoled the widow, and determined at the expiration of a year or so to marry her. He had too much respect for her to press his suit immediately, and did not for fifteen months, when he proposed. To his horror she informed him that she was already engaged, and that in three months more her second marriage was to be consummated. Two years passed. In the meantime the widow and her husband moved to Syracuse, N. Y., and Robert possessed by some strange hallucination followed them. That season the cholera swept that city, and among its victims was the second husband. Robert allowed a year to pass, and was on the point of urging his claims, when he received an invitation to her wedding. She" was to be married to her later hus band's partner. Robert remonstrated. The lady assured him that her present step was not one of love but purely of necessity. The partnership affairs of her late lamented were in such a state that settlement was impossible, and to save immense losses she had determined upon marrying the surviving partner. She assured him also that her sentiments towards him were unchanged, and that should she ever become a widow again she would give him the preference. She was married and in a short time removed with her third husband to Detroit, Michigan. But a fatality seemed to pursue her. Herself and husband were on board a steamer that was wrecked near Buffalo, some years since. The husband perished, and she escaped only through the superhuman exertions of a friend who happened to be on board This friend was young, unmarried and his gallantry in spired such sentiments m the breast of the widow, that she married him before Robert had time to claim her. When he learned the state of affairs, he was somewhat indignant, but she told him the circumstances and managed to satisfy him with the promise that if she ever became widowed again, she would most positively marry him. The lady with her fourth husband settled upon a farm near Bucyrus, while Robert removed to Mansfield that he might be near her. In the course of a year, they removed tn Pittsburgh, where the husband went into the mercantile business on Liberty street residing, however, m Allegheny city. Robert followed them, and finding employment, determined to watch the chances closely. One day he was passing the store of Mr. , when he saw a terrible commotion. Rushing in he saw Mr. , a mangled corpse upon the floor. A cask of rice which was being hoisted had fallen and killed him instantly. He inquired if any one had been sent to acquaint his wife of the accident Yes, the first clerk had just started. Lookiugonce more at poor Mr. to make sure that he was perfectly dead, Robert started for Allegheny as fast as his legs could carry him. The first clerk was only a trifle ahead of him, and Robert knowing the importance of being in time, from past experience, and fearing that the clerk had designs upon the widow, ran like an Indian. Side by side they ran, until they reached the Hand street bridge. The clerk was obliged to stop to make change, while Robert who paid toll by the year, passed without delay. He' reached the house, told the heart-rending news, and obtained a solemn pledge from the widow before the clerk arrived. This time she was true to her promise, and after a year had passed they were married. As all her husbands died wealthy, Robert is very comfortably fixed. His history shows what perseverance will accomplish. How Fast Do Pigeons Fly? The Utica (N. Y.) Herald has the following note among its Jefferson County items. The instances of pigeons killed with rice in their crops at the North, are, says the Milwaukee Sentinel, more frequent than the Herald supposes : A pigeon was shot in Adams one day last week, which, on being opened, was found to contain rice in its crop. This would indicate that the bird had flown from the point where this rice was obtained within a very brief space of time, to leave the rice undigested. Probably, therefore, it has flown from the rice swamps of Georgia or South Carolina within some ten or twelve hours. A Texas gentleman writes: "I am no lawyer, but a few days ago I had a suit before Squire Goodwin, of this place, which I undertook to manage without the' aid of counsel. I the course of the examination I asked a witness an out-of-the-way question, when Mr. Jones, the lawyer on the other side, objected to the question; and, rising, addressed the Court as follows : 'If it please your Honor, that question is altogether out of place. I have heard lawyers ask such questions in court, but this is the first time I ever heard such a question from a gentleman !'"