Locomotive, Volume 45, Number 7, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 July 1858 — Page 2

ST., '- -. - committed a crime a base deception; but God has . saved me." ' ' " '. i "And He has saved mo also from being the cause, for at my threshold would have been laid your1 sin, as is now your sorrow and blight."- - ? , t Ten years have passed since thV events related above. Jenny Ellis has never married. She. is the staff and consolation of her father's declining years. ' There is a seat at the foot of the garden where she loves to sit of a quiet evening, alone. She seems then to be watching the stars ; some say she communes with departed spirits. Harry never recovered his natural health and vigor. He went many years ago to join Zara and the child.

THE LOCOMOTIVE, SATURDAY; JULY 3, 1858. ' JJjSaturdaytsth day of publication of tho Locomotive) ' when It wfllalwayabereadjrfor subscribers. In nocasewill weletacopjrofthepaper go from theofflce before publics - londny. - : . ; LOCOMOTIVE STEAM ' PRESS ; ' book and job printing office. ' TC-rrE would call the attention of Railroad Men, Presidentsof VV Colleges and Academies, the Medical Profession, and 4ll others, to our assortment of . NEW AND BEAUTIFUL TYPE ! nst received from tho beat Foundries in the Vnitud States, J mbracinjr ull the Medical Signs, Accents Fractions French ; Letters, rflpebraiemi AVf and nil the modern facilities fordoing work in tho host sty la. -All our Type rind Muchlnery is uavr, aud in good order,. ..eluding two of Adami' Improved . STEAM PRINTING PRESSES which enables us to do our work in a superior style, on asshor tiuie.aud as (rood teruisus r.ny other oflic. ,i -( We liavc on hand a superior article of Hook and Col"oreii Papers j and the best of Inks; and as we are pructical work men, we guaranty all worlr .entrusted to us to be donein the neatest manner, with promptness and accuracy ; Our Job Department is well supplied with uli kinds of New and Fashionable Tj pei and we are prepared to do , .cVll ISLincia of Job UVoyXk. ! 'i 1 ou the shortest notice, and at the lowest living rates; and n I. AN KS OF EVEHY, DESCltlPTlON! on Cap, tetter, Folio Post, Flat Cap, French, or Colored Papers, ari Cards or Card Boards. " For the character of our work we confidently refer to any Book or Job bearing our imprint. - Our prices are regulated at the lowostcash standard, so as to be rejruiar and nnifonn.and equal to all; and contracts for work will be adhered to, without resortto extra chargea. ' ' r TT'Ordors from a iislance promptly attended to, and accu-, ,raev iriinraittiod. ' '-' TfjOfflce on Meridian stret,immediately opposite the Pos Office., i i ' i t , . .. . ' " ' !" . ! feLDKR & HARKNESR. , IsW We believe there will be no general public cele-; bration of the 4th of July in this city. The Sabbath ' 'Schools have determined not to join in a union cele. ' bration,'and our citizens Lave so long given up the celebration of the day to the children, that they have . made no efforts for a general celebration. ' The two Military companies, with their Barids,'the Marion, In. vincible, and Hook and Ladder Fire companies, with 1 the Blooinington Band, and a number of citizens go to Richmond, starting.at 5 o'clock this rnorning,and returning this evening. :: : 1 There will be Sabbath School celebrations at Vert, land and at Millersville,.in this county, to, which we , have no doubt any of our citizens that choose to go "would be welcome. !.' . " '' 3 ' To those that stay at home, either from sickness) fear of the heat, or from any other cause, we would recommend that they collect all their household together and read the. Declaration of Independence, and furnish the juveniles plenty of fireworks in the evening to keep alive their spirit of patriotism. In order to add our mite to this end, we copy, in another column, the Declaration of Independence, made and signed by the members of the Continental Congress, of the thirteen United States, on July'4, 1776. , ;'. . i'1' " ' M W I ' " l i' Markets. The changes : asked for in the city markets have been granted in part The time has "been extended from 4 o'clock to 11 A. M, in Summer1, and from 5 o'clock to 11 A. M in Winter, and a Saturday evening market established from 5 o'clock to 8 P. M.' ' This is all asked for on this score, but the great point, that the sale of meats and vegetables be confined exclusively to. the Market spaces, thereby making it necessary for all to seek their supplies at that pointf no change : whatever has taken place. ' Whether ex; tending ot the markets will be of any benefit remains to be seen we think it will not, as the Butchers, from necessity, will be compelled to1 vacate their stalls by seven o'clock, on account of the heat of the sun, and danger to their meats, and the vegatable men will not care about spending two or three hours in market in the morning, that could be more, profitably employed in. their gardens. The great object aimed at is to get the consumers to depend on the market for ther supplies, so that there will be an inducement for producers to attend. We doubt whether the ordinance- passed will accomplish this still, let it have a fair trial. ' , Heat. For over a week the heat in this city has been almost unbearable ranging from 90 to 96 degrees in the shade, and 120 to 125 in the sun. On last Saturday some five persons were killed by the heat of the sun, and several have been severely af. fected since, although persons generally use great caution. 1 A rain on Wednesday afternoon cooled the ah mosphere, but on Thursday the Thermometer ranged about as high. . In India, where the sun is so hot, a white towel, dampened, is worn over the head, as' a pre" venative to sun stroke it would be well for those working in the sun to try this. ; The best remedy for a sun stroke, is cold applications, of ice, or water, to the headr and brandy, if the person can swallow it, and keeping the body wet with water. We see, in some of our exchanges, that cattle were killed by the excessive heat of last week. .. , ;' . ; ' r.. ' ..; ' . ' . ; ' Harvest Hands. Our country friends are just about commencing Harvest.. The late season has thrown them behind with their, work, and a great many will want extra hands, and in some cases these' may be hard to get. We would suggest to all in thir . city that have nothing to do,' or that can spare the, time, to go out in the country next week and help with' the harvest. You can hardly go amiss, as hands will be wanted in every direction. Mr. Jos. Sulgrove, who livesnearthe Bluff road, SJ miles from the city, wants ix or eight hands during harvest, - " CiT The harvest of wheat has now fairly commend ed a great deal has already been cut, but next week will be the great harvest week. So far as we have been ' able to learn, there will be a fair average crop in this county, of good wheat. , The damage by the rains was less thaa was anticipated, or rather the fine weather of the past two weeks has made the crop. In some parts of the County we hear of rust some fields wil1 be injured but it is not general, and the damage will no doubt be small. '. .. . . , , '., $W On Thursday night a fire occurred in the two story frame adjoining the State Bank, owned by I. H. Roll, and occupied by Mr. John Burk. The Firemen were at the Cistern at the time, trying their new Engine, and soon flooded the house with water. - The danage by water was greater than by fire. -

Important Decision. A decision has just been

made by the Supreme Court, in the case ot tne Brownsburg Plank Road Company, that is important to all public roads in the State. It appears that last year the citizens along the line of this road combined to prevent paying toll, on the alleged ground, that the Company had no bridge over White river; ana they broke down the gates, and passed over the road without permission or pay. A case was taken, to try the rights of the parties, to the Supreme Court, and al though the Circuit Court decided against the road, the Supreme Court have reversed all decisions, and decided that the Company have a right to erect and maintain a "gate East of White river or that the bridging of the stream was not a prerequisite to their right to charge toll East of the river. This decision settles this question, not only with this, but other roads, and they will now proceed to collect tolls, build a bridge, and put the roads in good order, as soon as it can be done. If the people could fully appreciate the value and importance of good roads, there would be no objection to paying a fair tolL i There is not an acre of land along the line of the Brownsburg, or any other good road, that has not been advanced . $5.00 per acre by its construction, and if the land owners on any road would take stock to that amount, for the con struction of a good road, it would give them free right to the use of the road, while the transient travel would pay all the expenses of the road, and keep it in good repair. This should be done more generally let each landholder subscribe stock enough to his road to get his own travel free, and he will always have a good road, his property will advance, and he will be free from the yearly tax for road repairs. , j. . i . ."""" : CiJ" Our neighbor of the Journal, and their corres pondent W. R. SM are very much troubled about a story-we' published a few weeks since, headed Loo Loo, from the Atlantic Monthly. Both the Journal, and their correspondent, are granted the largest lib erty to think just what they please of our paper, and its contents-and we will exercise just as much liberty in publishing what suits us. The article referred to was well written was all received and read by us before its publication was commenced, and was all published, in three numbers of our paper. If the Journal will attend to its Enigma department a little more, and less to our paper, it may furnish a "family paper" that virtuous ladies need not blush to read.:. i When our Postal System was reformed, several years since, a very low rate of compensation was pre scribed lor advertising lists of Uncalled-tor .Letters, With the proviso that these lists should in every in stance be published in that journal which has the larg est circulation within the district winch receives its let ters through that office. Congress, it seems, has just voted to abolish this wholesome provision, and enact instead that letters shall be advertised in thi paper that icill do the job cheapest. That is to say: instead of the journal of largest circulation, the letters are henceforth to be advertised in that which has least, as this can usually afford to advertise them cheapest. Having taken this foolish step, Congress should take another, and abolish the advertising altogether. JV1 Y. Tri bune, i ' ' I I t The above is a very unjust change in the law regu lating the publication of the list of uncalled-for letters, and will give the papers with little or no circulation the same advantage as (hose of large circulation. For nine consecutive years, since July 1, 189, the list of letters have been published in the Locomotive, without interruption commencing when A. W. Russell took the Post office because it has had, during all that time, a larger circulation in this city and vicinity than any other paper. Nearly every year this has been contested, and although papers have bragged, and blowed about their circulation, trying to convince the advertising public that they have the largest circula tion, when it came to the test, verified by a solemn oath, it has always been awarded to us. ., By this law, the, publication of the list will not be made a test of circulation, but the biggest rat in the trade will pub lish the list ' As the Journal could never get the list on the score of circulation, although it has tried so often for it, perhaps ii can now underbid its neighbors and publish the list cheapest. The last award was made to us for the year 1858 after.this year, if the list is not published in the Locomotive, it will be because others will do it for less than the present low price, thus getting by underbidding what they never eould have got by circulation. .' ' . . .- - Improving Streets. The question of improving Maryland street has met with decided opposition from some of the property holders, who publish a remon. strance, with the number of feet they own, declaring they will not pay for the improvement unless compelled to.1 ;This has brought to light certain opinions in regard to street improvements, and keeping streets in repair, that are worthy of consideration. We would like to see a case fairly tested in the Courts, whether the owner of property is compelled to keep up the repairs' on the streets in front of his property, or whether this should be done at the general expense of the city one case would settle this matter, so that the rights of all parties would be definitely understood. The following are the opinions referred to, which are furnished by a citizen to the Journal : . , . ,The citizens of that street (Maryland,) can readily imagine a case in which it would be desirable that a citv should have power to exercise the authority which has been assumed and ostensibly carried out by our Citv Council in. reference to the grading ot streets. But they cannot believe that the charter confers that power. They believe that the city, fofr certain purposes, is the owner in her corporate capacity of the streets and alleys of the city; and that the persons owning property, fronting on them do not own the streets, nor have they any greater claim to their use than the citizens of any other city or country except in SDecial cases, where the Council may have granted some specific privilege in reference to that part of the street which is considered the sidewaiK. r Nor do they believe that the city can tax the own ers of property on any. street with the expense of grading the same, unless the resident Owners of two-thirds of the Dronertv thereon desire it; or unless such street, by its natural conformation, tends to the formation of what is deemed a nuisance, and then only those who are owners of property in front of such nuisance. Much less can it dictate the kind of improvement they shall have. . - - : ... v They further believe that after a street has been im proved, according to some general plan, the owners of property fronting it cannot be legally taxed for its repairs, but that expense must be paid out of the general revenues of. the city. Nor can the city reconstruct that street upon some other plan at the expense ot the property holders, unless with the concurrence of twothirds of the resident owners on any one or more blocks of the same. . Nor can the city tax the owner with the expense of abating a nuisance in front of his property, if that has been caused by the usual wear and tear of travel upon the street. And so of the opening of ditches on improved and unimproved streets, the ex pense must be met by the general revenue luna. I he owners having only an interest as general corporators cannot be required to pay more than their pro rata of tax for the same. J. he repairs oi tne siaewaiKs in tront of their property are all that the owners are liable for. and these they are bound to keep in repair to the satis faction of the Council. i The Marshall has given public notice that the ordinance prohibiting the feeding of teams on the cross streets, between Maryland and Market streets, will be rigidly enforced. Our friends from the country should notice this, and avoid violation of the ordinance.

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. In Congress, July 4, 1776.

THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN ' ) UNITED STATES OE AMERICA. When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station, to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be selt-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unaheable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness: that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of, these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed will dictate that governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to Erovide new guards for their future security. Such as been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present king of Great Britain, is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment ot' an absolute tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. , He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. 1 He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended he has utterly neglected to attend to them. lie has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature a right inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants only. ,..' He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the repository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing, with manly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people. . ' ; He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the .State remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. ; He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. ' He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.-. ,.,',:..', ,5 . . - : He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and pay ment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers, to harass our people and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the military independent of , and superior to, the civil power. . He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation: ' .,.::,,. For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: ' , - For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these States : . For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world : For imposing taxes on us without our consent : For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury : i or transporting us beyond seas to be tried lor pre tended offences. . For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies: 1 or taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering, fundamentally, the forms of our governments: . For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. . He has abdicated government here by declaring us out of his protection, and waging war against us. 1 He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large armies ot for eign mercenaries to complete the works of death, deso lation, and tyranny, already begun, with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken cap tive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to tall themselves by their hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavered to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions..' i In every stage of these oppressions we have petition ed for redress, in the most humble terms: our repeat ed petitions have been answered only by repeated in jury. A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may dehne a tyrant, is unht to be tne ruler of a free people. Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them, from time to time, of attempts by their legislature, to extend an unwarrantable lunsdiction over us. We have re minded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their na tive iustice and magnanimity ; and we have coniured them, by the ties of our common kindred, to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connexions and correspondence, lhey, too, have been deaf to the voice of iustice and of consanguinity, We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our separation, and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace, friends. We, therefore, the representatives ot the United States of America, in general Congress assembled, ap pealing to the Supreme Judge ot the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by au thority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are and of risrht oueht to be. free and independent States : that they are absolved from all allegiance to the Brit ish crown, and that all political connexion between the n and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independant States may of right do, and for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our jives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. 6" Mr. Jacob Loucks, the Strawberry man, has left us a sample of his white strawberries, or more properly a straw, color. They are fully as rich as the red berry, with a flavor something like the may apple, and with cream are a great luxury. The Republicans of the Eighth Congressional District, nominated Hon. James R. Wilson as their candidate for re-election. ' '

From the Indiana Fanner for July. SWAMP LANDS UNPRODUCTIVE AFTER DRAINING. WHAT IS THE REMEDY ? ' A correspondent of the Indianapolis Locomotive, writing from Perry township with the design to elicit information, says : , "I see throughout our country a large amount of blind ditching being done by the farmers, which is doubtless one of the best and most necessary improvements, considering the amount of means invested there

in, that can be made tor the tuture wellare ana prosperity of the farming community of the country. But there is one thing concerning that mode of improvements which the writer, as one of the many farmers interested in the subject, would like to know more about. In many places, where blind ditches are made through deep ponds, there seemes to be a very deep rich soil, which proves, even after being thoroughly drained, to be unproductive and worthless so far as producing is concerned; therefore the question arises, what would be the most likely course to produce tne desired effect on such lands ? whether they require more natural earth, or whether lime, plaster, ashes, or any other manures are wanting, to neuturalize such places and cause them to be equally productive with the land around them.'' The editor of the Locomotive having marked this correspondence, to call our attention to it, we will proceed to answer the inquiry. ' . All the swamp lands ot Indiana are naturally richer, in their chemical elements, than the lands which are well drained. It often happens, however, that in basins surrounded by rich lands the vegetable matter, in an organic but pulpy state, is washed into the basin but partially oxidized or decomposed, just as wood is but partially, oxidized or burned in a coal pit, and thiss carbon is accumulated in excess, and the ground rendered less productive, lust as our broken knobs are less productive from the fact that the vegetable matter is washed ott and mineral substances only lett. ' ; This non-productiveness is not to be attributed so much to the want of that which is contained in the smallest quantity within the soil, as it is to the fact that a want of the proper admixture of the mineral and vegetable elements together, in the same soil, pre vents a perfect ot fine pulverization ot the sou, m breaking, in which state it dries out very quick, and does not afford to the roots of the crop that plastic touch, or union intact, with earth and air and water, the essential physical condition requisite to vegetable life. Clay sou is not poor because ot any dehciency ot vegetable producing elements, out because h aoesnoi sulvenze well. bo, too, the black peaty sons ot tne evel plains of Indiana, which for ages have laid half or two-thirds the year under water, are not deficient, for a few crops, in mineral elements, but they break only in small lumps, the worst possible condition for growing cereals, grasses and succulent vegetables. These remarks narrow down the question to the mere means of pulverizing the soil. ' ' 1st. Alter a long time ot exposure, alter draining, to the burning suns of summer, and the disintegrating agency of winter frosts, with atmospheric air circulating through it, these peaty soils become fryable, and pulverize well. ' . 2d. From. twenty to forty bushels of quick lime sown on each acre, in the fall of the year, alter breaking, will reclaim it immediately. 3d. The addition of clay produces the same euect, as soon as they can be mixed together. As black and white, or vegetable and mineral soib, constantly alter nate in Indiana, often to the serious inconvenience to the farmer, we will suggest this as the most practical remedy. . Instead of buying five dollars worth of lime, or as much stable or other vegetable manure, to apply to the different soils, let teams be employed to the amount of the same expense in hauling clay to the basins, and black loam to the clay hills. Ibis will be killing two birds with one stone. That which either lacks the other contains in excess. Their mixture is seen in their natural state in the strip of land intervening be tween the hill and the basin. A Model Store. We dropped in at the "New York Store" of Messrs W. & H. Glenn, a couple of days ago, and observed for a short time their stupendious piles ot goods, their extensive buisness, and their manner of transacting it. The order, activity, and system of the establishment and its employees can not be surpased. There are, connected with the concern, fourteen persons. The proprietors do an exclusive cash business. Everything is sold for cash only. No personal accounts are kept, and no bother is experienced in making collections. Their "cash" each even ing shows the amount of sales ; this is then deposited, subject to draft for renewal of stock and defraying of expenses. Ihis is the way to do business, ana no mistake. It is the only correct way to do it. The firm know just what they are doing every week. That the Messrs. Glenn enioy a deserved popularity. is evidenced by the constant throng that frequent their store from morning till night. Their entrance into Indianapolis marks a new and improved era in the manner of doinig business here. The good consequen ces may be seen in every other dry goods store in the city. Citizen. Fire Apparatus Within the past week the new Engine of the Marion Fire Company has been received, It is a first class machine, and from the manner in which it 13 made and finished, we have no doubt it will do effective service. The new Machine for the Relief Company was re ceived on Wednesday last. It is neatly but plainly finished, and loks like a No 1 Engine. Both these ma chines have side breaks, and requeire 60 men to work them effectively. The Hook and Ladder boys paraded through the streets last Saturday, with their new wagon. It is a very stylish wagon, all iron, and beautifully ornamen ted. . The ladders are so made that they can be con nected, and raised to the highest house. This makes five new engines, and a Hook and Lad der apparatus now in the city enough to do effective service in time of need. iJaT They have commenced grouting stone in the quicksand in the south-west corner of the Government building, for a foundation. For over two weeks heavy force pump has been at work pumping out wa ter, that run in as fast as it was pumped out. Buckwheat. We have heard our Farmer friends inquiring for buckwheat, for seed, during the past week, without success. We have no doubt 100 bushels could be sold here next week, if it could be obtained. : 3g" We can't agree to supply our distant subscribers with back numbers it is seldom we have them. The only way to keep a regular file of our paper, is to re new your subscription before it expires unless this is done vou are liable to miss one or more numbers be tween the expiration of your last payment and the re ceipt of the new. Please remember this, and if you fail to receive the regular numbers, blame only your selves. '.'' . IJ" Mr. A. J. Pope requests us to say that if any person wishes to see one of Dietz & Dunham's Patent Cam Power Mowers work, he has one on his farn, east of Gen. Hannah's, and will exhibit it to all that call. Mr. John Dickinson brought us a specimen of English Gooseberries, raised in his garden, in this city, that are as large as Damson Plums, and lucious eating. Mr. D. says these berries grow very full on the bushes, are easily cultivated, and are good for a great variety of cookery and preserves. Great Accumulation of Capital. The great accumulation of capital, says the Boston Ledger, m the name of one person, on deposit in several banks of that citv, now amounts to upwaru tn u umuou uuilars. This is the man who refused to give $5 for a charitable purpose, declaring that he was notable, because so much of his money was lying idle m the banks. ' C3T Ample provision has been made by the State officers to pay the July interest on the State debt

The Effect of Gold. The present state of tho

money and commercial world is fraught with interest in respect to the future influence of the continued in. flux of the precious metals. When the discoveries were first confirmed in 1849, the world was filled with discussions upon the probable effect of the new supplie, upon the prices of. produce. If gold was to become very cheap, all other articles would be relatively high JLhus, ail aeoiors wouiu niiu uieir Duruens iigntened; and all creditors and annuitants would find the pur. chasing power of their incomes annually declining. Sil. ver would, it was thought, rise relatively to gold, and reassume something of the proportion it held before the discoveries of Peru. These ideas generally pre. vailed, and induced Holland to demonitise gold adhenng to silver, len years have now passed, and $800,000,000 of gold has been added to the world's gold's gold, yet prices generally are no higher than be. fore. Silver holds the same relation to gold that it did, and money within six months has been higher in the open market than it ever was before. Thus, all the prognostics upon the gold influence seem to have failed. - The stream of gold has not lowered its value, although fed from the three new sources of Russia, Australia and California. The question then recurs, will it so continue ? will gold continue to flow in and swell to overflowing the vaults of the banks without ultimately producing the effect anticipated ? If we look back upon the events of the last ten years, we shall find that they have been such as to counteract powerfully the influence of gold. The discovery of gold followed a disastrous famine, when much capital had been destroy, ed. It was accompanied by the revolutions of Eurone when still larger amounts of capital were destroyed and gold hoarded. The advent of the French Empire was followed by a large absorption of capital in the shape of goods by the gold countries. The Russian war followed, swallowing up immense other sums, and still greater ones were put into railroads in America, in Western Europe, and in India. At the same time the harvests again failed. All these circumstances were productive of high prices, and these prices drew produce from Asia, for which silver was sent back in large masses. The effect of sending away silver was to reduce the mass of money relatively to commodities. All these circumstances have caused gold to fail of its effect The large losses by war, bad harvests and railways, could not have been met but from the results of the extraordinary productive industry stimulated by the anticipated effect of gold. The reaction has now come. All commodities are abundant, and gold while accumulating in swelling masses is still pouring in, the harvests are good, peace undisturbed, and prices moderate. What will now be the effect of 800,000,00(1 more gold added to the world s stock in the next ten years i There would seem to be little doubt but that the effects formerly anticipated are now to be realized to some extent ; and when confidence in this fact once more revives, the activity of business will compensate for the present stagnation. U. S. Economist. Wlne Baths in Paris. "It is a penitentiary of-, fense in Ohio to use strychnine in the manufacture of whisky. A large manufacturing house in the state sent two hundred barrels to Cincinnati, and sufficient poison was found in one barrel to kill thirty men. The liquor was returned, but the manufacturers suffered to run at large." We find this paragraph going the rounds of the pa pers, and have no doubt of its correctness. The fact stated is one of a thousand which have been brought before the public, and serves to show the morality of a business which is sweeping off our citizens in greater numbers than pestilence or war. General Cary, in the address which he recently delivered before the Sons of Temperance, stated that a mend ot his, while visiting rans, thought he would take what is called in that city a wine-bath. He found it to be very refreshing. He was waited upon by a colored servant who had fled from the United States to avoid the Fugitive-Slave Law. He asked the waiter how it was that such large quantities of wine could be used for such a purpose. "It must," said he, "be very expensive." "Oh" said the waiter, "the same wine which you have used is run through all the baths in the establishment." "And what do you do with it then ?" said the verdant American. Oh, we bottle it up and send it to the United States to be drank." It is strange, that with all the facts which have been brought to light, and which have been proved beyond all question, showing that the compounds called wine are composed ot the most poisonous drugs and the mthiest substances, still they are drank in polite circles, and by delicate and fashionable ladies, as though they were sipping the very waters of the gods. It is doubtful whether a bottle of wine can be bought in Bostoi which ever saw a grape. The substances which are sold should not be called wine. If rightly named they would be called "Elixir Strychnine," "Extract of Sugar of Lead and Nux Vomica," &c, &c. Is the House of Correction too severe a punishment for the men who deal in these deadly poisons ? Boston Bee. Where Musquitoes Come From These peste of summer proceed from the animalcules commonly termed the "wiggle-tail." If a bowl of water is placed in the summer's sun for a few days, a number of "wig gle-tails will be visible, and they will continue to increase in size till they reach three-sixteenths of an inch ' in length, remaining longer at the surface as they approach maturity, as if seeming to live on influences derived trom the two elements ot air and water : nnaiiy, they will assume a chrysalis form, and by an increased specific gravity sink to the bottom of the bowl. A few hours only will elapse when a short black lurze or nair will grow out on every side of each, till it assumes the form of a minute catterpillar. Its specific gravity being thus counteracted, it will readily float to the surface, and be wafted to the side of the bowl by the slightest breath of air. In a short time a fly will be hatched and escape, leaving its tinny house upon the surface of the water. Any one who has had a cistern m the yard has doubtless observed the same effect, every summer, although he may be ignorant of the beautiful and simple process of development If a pitcher of cistern or other water containing these animalcules, is placed in a close room over night, from which all musquitoes have been previously excluded, enough musquitoes will breed from it during the night to give any amount of trouble. In fact, standing by a shallow, half stagnant pool on a midsummer's day, the full development of any number of "wiggle-tails" to the musquito state can be witnessed, and the origin of these disturbers of night's slumbers thus fully ascertained. Scientific American. . A New" Yorker's Visit to Vesuvius. A Net York merchant, now traveling in Italy, makes, in a letter to a friend, the following mention of the late eruption of Vesuvius I have been here at a good time to see Vesuvius. For some days last week there had been more or less of an eruption. - The ascent of the mountain is partly made on horseback, but the cone to the crater is very steep and difficult I found it extremely fatiguing, but persevered, and finally stood on the very top, looking directly into the crater; and, of all awful, horrible places, this caps the climax. I walked over the top, the fumes of the sulphur nearly suffocating me, and the blazing fire everywhere to be seen through the crevices, while the roar of the boiling lava fell npon the ear like the waves ot the ocean. In fact, I stood upon a mere crust over the fare, and, thrusiing my stick through the occasional fissures, brouguii it out in a blaze. There was more danger than I was aware of at the time so much so that nothing would tempt me to undertake it again. The descent on the opposite side of the mountain is made with comparative ease. When we had reached the bottom ot tb cone, we found that near where we had made the ascent, and while we were on the mountain, several new small craters had broken out, and were spouting forth red-hot stones and lava at a fearful rate. We approached as near as safety would permit, and beheld a sight most awfully grand and sublime. It is a satisfaction that I have been on Vesuvius under such circumstances, but I should never desire to repeat the operation. . i i "The rate of taxation in Sacramento, California is $2 30 on the hundred dollars, and the total amouni of tax levied is $799,000. Of this$737,000 have been collected. No news has yet been received of the fleet laying the Telegraphic cable across the Atlantic. It W expected that they would arrive about the first of Jul'-