Locomotive, Volume 45, Number 10, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 July 1858 — Page 1

1

ELDER & HARKNESS, "The Chariots shall rage In the streets, they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightning3."-Aa,um,ti, 4. Printeis and Publisher. .

VOL. XLV.

the LOCOMOTIVE IS PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY ELDER & HARKNESS, XI their Book and Job Printing Office, on Meridian Street, . Indianapolis, Ind.. opposite the Post Office. TKRMS One Dollar a your. Twonty-flvo Cents for three months. Six copies to one address for one year, Five Dollars; thirteen copies one year for Ton Dollars, Hj'in idvanci in ALiCAans-cQI No paper will be seut until paid for, and no paper wil 1 be con tiuuod after the tiino puid for expires, unless renewed. Look out tor th Oioss All mail and county subscribers can know their time is out when they see a large cross marked on their paper, and that is always the last paper sent until the subscription is renewed. TKRMS OP ADVERTISING Onesquare, (8 lines. or loss, 250 ms,) for I week 0.50 - .i " for each subsequent insertion 0 25 .. it for throe months ; 3.00 (t , for six months . 5.00 n " for one year, without alteration 8.00 u for one year, with frequent changes 12.00 A small reduction made on larger advertisements. Cuts and Special Notices double the above rates. ,.. ,. Terms --Cash. VTPAdvcrtiaemtnta must be handed in by Thursday of each weelc, or they will be deferred until the next issue. ' OPTICAL. You've read of Mosos! lie who trod ' On fiinai's Mount, nnd talked with God; J ' That stem old Patriarch who, alone, Stood up before the Kjryptian throne And called on Heaven, with vengeful hand To drive oppression fron the land ! You've heard how faithfully he led . ' When Israel's host from bondnpe fled How, clothed with power divine to save, He staved the Ked Sea's aiifcry wave; , Drew water from the fi'lity roi-k, On manna fed his wayward flock, ' r : Relieved each want, and each distress, And only sought to guide and bless. , I sinir of Moses, one as bold As that stern Patriarch of old; . I ; ' Of one as faithful, and as true As fainting Israel ever know; ; Of one who conies to give us light r Who comes to cheer and bless our sight . With Spectacles, whose Lenses shine Like Diamonds from Golconda's mine; With Glasses which possess the power To light and bless the darkest hour Crvstals, which make the dimestpage Ali plain alike to youth or age, Which clip the wings of time and pain, r . ' And make the dim Kye bright again. ' His is no task of "Grasping Jew," Devoid of all that's "good and true," ; Whoso Brass supplies the want of brains, Whose only aim is petty gains; - Hut with experience, zeal and skill, With buisy hands and earnest will, , He scatters blessings far and wide, And gathers friends on every side-r-Proclalining loud to all mankind. You need no longer "Go it Blind!" MOSES, Optician. No. 8 West Washington Street. FUKXITIIHE WAKEIIOOM. JOItNVETXEU, KIcridian St., in Keely's Invincible Block, 5 DOORS SOUTH OF POST OFFICE. T"EEPS on hand all kindsof good and solid Furniture, which he sells at the lowest prices. As Cabinet-maker and Turner, he is prepared at any time to promptly execute all orders in his line of business. His factory is opposite the Madison Depot. Everything done is warranted to bo in the neatest and most durable style. , pri7 JOHN YETTER. KEMOVED. FH. VA JEN has removed his'New Store, No. 21, West , Washington street, opposite Browning's Drug Store, where he keeps constantly on hand, the largest and Best Assorted Stock of Hardware in the City, at Heduced Prices. He has just received a large lot of Gum Belting, Rope and Blocks; Axes, Nails. Locks, Hinges, Polished Fire Setts, Ames Shovels, Fine Cutlery, Stc. dec5 apspa J BABR, lllll ' Vemitian Blind Manufacturer, IS -'..."I 3 Squares North of Court House, on Alabama street. li J Keeps constantly on hand Blinds for Dwelling HouI33 scs, and also makes to order Blinds for public or private Buildings. M. LONG, Agent tr Venitian Blinds, on Meridian St., near he Posl Office, at his Furniture Wareroora. jan31 F. M. MOTHEKSHEAD. W. C. COX. ItlOTIIEKSIIEAD COX, DEALERS IX DIH GS, HI EDICI NE8, PA I NTS, Oils, Dyestufis, blast, Perfumery - ic Fancy Goods, Fine Tobacco, Choice Cigars, Jcc, ice. Prescriptions compounded with care and accuracy from Pure Medicines. NO. 18 EAST W ASlilftli I Uil n i ., aug29 ly lamAsrui-is FOIt SA L.E. : i BRANCH BANKING HOUSE AND LOTS. 7J7TLLbe offered at public sale on the 31st day of July next V in front of the property. Lot No. I in square No. 64, on which is situated the Branch Bank building, also. Lot No. 2 adjoining south, being two entire lots. Persons desiring to purchase will confer with Calvin Fletcher. Alfred Harrison. James Sulgrove, and E. J. Peck, who are authorized In the meantime to dispose of the property at private sale. By order of the Board. Cjunel2-8w.j . T. H. SHARPE. TAKES pleasure In returning his thanks to the Ladies and Gentlemen of this plac and vicinity lor their very liberal patronage, and still hopes to meet the same confidence he has engaged since he commenced the practice of his profession in Indianapolis. i Artificial Teeth, from one to a full set, inserted on Platlna, Gold, or Silver. Particular attention given to regulating, cloaning, and extracting Teeth. Ether given when required. . All work warranted, and charges reasonable. O nice 2d storyFletcher & Woolley's block, No. 8 East Washington street. Oct. 24-tf ' 3 r. HILL. v' O. GOLDSMITH. J. mil Fruit :siil Ornamental Nursery. fllHE undersigned have established themselves in the Nursa erv Dusiness on xne wcu Known num-ij (truuiiua occupied by Aaron Aldredgo, a few rods east of the corporation ""a, Indianapolis. We Imvo on band a general assortment of fr'"t trees, of such varieties as are best adapted to our soil and elimate. The trees are of the verv best quality. Also a very "lie stock of Ornamental Shr"hbery. JO3 Wo are now ready. to HI all orders promptly. Address, HILL, GOLDSMITH V CO., nov7-'57-tf ' Indianapolis, Ind. " (Important to Young Men!! TF YOU WISH TO ACQUIRE A COMPLETE KNOWLVJ. EDGE of Dook Keeping in all its branches, attend HAYDEN'S ITIEICCANTILE COLLEGE, t Indianapolis, where onch student Is drilled at the desk, step y stei. until hehas mastered the entire routineof an account ant's duties, and is fully qualified for taking charge of any set "l ""OKS. - TT"PThe Evening Session has commenced. If you wish to' u wish tON on. IhaPrln- I s. Ind. compl jte a course this winter, yon should enter soon F"i a circular containing full particulars, address tlv eipal, - octl7-ly ; J. C, HAYDEN, Indianapolis, Ind.'

OFFICE, Harrison's New Bank Building, 19 East Washington Street, second floor, front room. ICP Office hours from 8 A M. to 5 P. M. . -' r aovl-y i Eaiidrctirs Garden Seeds. , JUST RECEIVER from Philadelphia, P,300 packages of Oavid Landrcth cV Son's Telehrated Garden Seeds. ALSO A nice selection of FLOWER SEEDS. i The reputation which Land roth's Garden Seeds have acquired ln the l:i.t flftv years, makes it unnecessary for mc to recom""id them. Those who vnlue them will do well to call early, 1 will not have enough to supply the demand. . CHARLES MAYER, J'i30 6m r . No. ) Washington street.

I

INDIAN APOLTS,

THE INDEPENDENCE BELL. July 4, 1776. When it was certain that the Declaration would bo adopted and confirmed by the signature of the delegates in Congress, it was determined to announce the event by ringing the old State-house bell which bore the inscription, " Proclaim Liberty to all the land : to all the land thereof!" and the old bellman posted his little boy at the door of the hall to await the instructions of the doorkeeper when to ring. At the word, the little patriot scion rushed out, and flinging up his hands, shouted, " Ring I King I KING I" There was a tumult in the city. " In the quiet old Quaker town, ' 1 And the streets were rife with people Pacing restless tip and down ; People gathering at corners, Where they whispered each to each, And the sweat stood on their temples, ' With the earnestness of speech. ' .' : - As the bleak Atlantic currents i Lash the wild Newfoundland shore, ' So they beat against the State-house, '. So they surged against the door ; 1 . ' '' And the mingling of their voices Made a harmony profound, ; Till the quiet street of chestnuts . Was all turbulent with sound. ' " Will they' do" it ?" Dare they do it ? "Who is speaking?" " What's the news ?" ' " What of Adams T " What of Sherman ?" ' -.: " Oh ! God grant they won't refuse !" ; " Make some way there P' " Let me nearer 1" i " I am stifling !" " Stifle then 1 When a nation's life's at hazard, We've no time to think of men 1" : So they beat against the portal, i Man and woman, maid and child, And the July sun in heaven, On the scene looked down and smiled ; t The same sun that saw the Spartan ' Shed his patriot blood in vain, Now behold the soul of freedom, ' . All unconquered, rise again. : ; So they surged against the State-house, '' While, all solemnly inside, Sate the " Continental Congress," Truth and reason for their guide. O'er a simple scroll debating AVhich, though simple it might be Yet should shake the cliffs of England With the thunders of the free, At the portal of the State-house, ' Like some beacon in a storm, Round which waves are wildly beating, " ' Stood a slender boyish form : ' With his eyes fixed on the steeple, ' And his ears agape with greed . To catch the first announcement Of the " signing" of the deed. Alott, in that high steeple, Sat the bellman, old and gray; He was weary oi the tyrant - And his iron-sceptered sway, So he sat, with one hand ready -. ' ' On the clapper of the bell, --. When his eye should catch the signal, " : The happy news to tell. ' See 1 See t The dense crowd quivers Through all its lenghty line, As the boy beside the portal Looks forth to give the sign ! AVith his small hands upward lifted, Breezes dallying with his hair, Hark 1 with deep, dear intonation, Breaks his young voice on the air : , Hushed the people's swelling murmur, ; List the boy's strong joyous cry ! " Ring V he shouts, " king, Grandpa ! ' , " Ring 1" Oh I king for Liberty 1" And straightway at the signal, r The old bellman lifts his hand, And sends the good news, making Iron music thro' the land. . How they shouted ! What rejoicing I How the old bell shook the air, Till the clang of treedom ruffled . The calm gliding Delaware ! ' How the bonfires and the torches Illumined the night's repose, ; : , And from the flames, like phoenix, , : , Fair liberty arose 1 . ' That old bell now is silent, And hushed its iron tongue, ' : But the spirit it awakened Still lives-vforever young. , t ; , And while we greet the sunlight . : ' ( . On the Fourth of each July, '. . .; We'll ne'er forget the bellman, - Who, 'twixt the ear.th and sky, , . , Rung our Our Independence; Which, please God, shall never die.. , SPEECH OF HON. JEFFERSON DAVIS, IN ' PORTLAND, MAINE. , ; . "" The Hon.' Jefferson Davis having been serenaded by the citizens of Portland, Me., Tuesday evening J uly, 6, acknowledged the compliment in the following terms: Fello'w Countrymen. Accept my sincere thanks for this manifestation of your kindness. Vanity does not lead me so far to misconceive your purpose as to appropriate the demonstration to myself; but it is not less gratifying to me to be made the medium through wluoh Mainetenders an expression of regard to her sister, Mississippi. It is, moreover, with feelings of profound gratification that I witness this indication of that national sentiment and fraternity which made us, and whi ch alone can keep us one people. At a peria v.nt vesterdav when compared with the life of nations, these States were separate, and m some re- ' spects opposing colonies; their only relation to each other was that of a common allegiance to the government of Great Britain. So separate, indeed almost 1 hostile, was their attitude, that when General Stark, of Bennino-ion memory, was captured by savages on the head waters of the Kennebec, he was subsequently taken by them to Albany, where they went to sell furs, ; and amin led away a captive, without interference on . . . i.l.:nnfo rtf tlmr. TlPlO'hhnrlno en nnv the part ot tne innau" j to demand or obtain his retee. Lnited as we now are, were a citizen of the United Sates, as an act of hostility to our country, imprisoned or slam ,n any quarter of the world, whether on and or sea, the people of each and every State of the Union with one Lart and with one voice, would demand redress ; and wo be to him against whom a brother's blood cried to us from the ground. Such is frmt rf the inrfom and the justice with which our fathers bound contending colonies into confederation, and blended different halite and rival interests into a t"10,0;.80 that,shou!der to shoulder, they entered I on thetnal 0f the Revolution, and step with step trod itstho j"J they reached the height of national .ndependence and founded the constitutional representative liberty, jhtch is our birthright. When the mother conntry entered

IND. SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1858.

upon her career of oppression, in disregard of chartered and constitutional rights, our forefathers did not stop to measure the exact weight of the burden, or to ask whether the pressure bore most upon this colony or upon that, but saw in it the infraction of a great principle the deniaj of a common right, in defence which they made common cause Massachusetts, Virginia and South Carolina vicing with each other as to who should be foremost in the struggle, where the penalty of failure would be a dishonorable grave. -Tempered by the trials and sacrifices of the Revolution, dignified by its noble, purposes, elevated by its brilliant triumphs, endeared to each other by its glorious memories, they abandoned the confederacy, not to fly apart when the outward pressure of hostile fleets and armies were removed, but to draw closer their embrace in the formation of a more perfect union. By such men, thus trained and ennobled, our constitution was formed. It stands a monument of principle, of forecast, and above all, ot that liberality which made each willing to sacrifice local interest, individual prejudice or temporary good to the general welfare, and the perpetuity of the republican institutions which they had passed through fire and blood to secure. The grants were as broad as were necessary for the functions of the general agent, and the mutual concessions were twice blessed blessing both him who gave and him who received. Whatever was necessary for domestic government, requisite in the social organization of each community, was retained by the States and the people thereof; and these it was made the duty of all to defend and maintain. Such, in very' general term, is the rich political legacy our fathers bequeathed to us. Shall we preserve and transmit it to posterity ? Yes, yes, the heart responds ; and the judgment answers, the task is easily performed. It but requires that each should attend to that which most concerns him, and on which alone he has rightful power to decide and to act ; that each should adhere to the terms of a written compact, and that all should cooperate for that which interest, duty and honor doinand. For the general affairs of our country, both foreign and domestic, we have a national executive and a national legislature. . Representatives and Senators are chosen by districts and by States, but their acts affect the whole country, and their obligations are to the whole people. He who, holding either seat, would confine his investigations to the mere interests of his immediate constituents would be derelict to his plain duty ; and he who would legislate in hostility to any section would be morally unfit for the station, and surely an unsafe depositary, if not a treacherous guardian, of the inheritr ance with which we are blessed. No one, more than myself, recognizes the binding force of the allegiance which the citizen owes to the State of his citizenship ; but that State being a party to our compact, a member of our Union, fealty to the federal constitution is not in opposition to, but flows from the allegiance due to one of the United .States. ' Washington was not less a Virginian when he commanded at Boston ; nor did Gates, or Greene weaken the bonds which bound them to their several States by their campaigns in the South. In proportion as a citizen loves his own State will he strive to honor by preserving her name and her fame free from the tarnish of having failed to observe her obligations, and to fulfill her duties to her sister States Each page of our history is illustrated by the names and the deeds of those who have Well understood and discharged the obligation. Have we so degenerated that we can no longer emulate their virtues ? Have the purposes for which our Union was formed lost their value ? Has patriotism ceased to be a virtue, and is narrow sectionalism no longer to be counted a crime ? Shall the North not rejoice that the progress of agriculture in the South has given to her great staple the controlling influence of the commerce of the world, and put manufacturing nations under bond to keep the peace with the United States V Shall the South not exuLt in the lact that the industry and persevering intelligence of the North has placed her mechanical skill in the front rank of the civilized world that our mother country, whose haughty Minister some eighty odd years ago declared that not a hob-nail should be made in the colonies, which are now the United States, was brought some four years ago to recognize our preeminence by sending a commission to examine our workshops and our machinery, to perfect their own manufacture of the arms requisite for their defence ? Do not our whole people, interior and seaboard, North, South, East and West, alike feel proud of the hardihood, the enterprise, the skill, and the courage the Yankee sailor, who has borne our flag far as the ocean bears its foam, and caused the name and the character of the United States to be known and respected wherever there is wealth enough to woo commerce, and intelligence enough to honor merit ? So long as we preserve and appreciate the achievements of Jefferson and Adams, of Franklin and Madison, of Hamilton, of Hancock, and of Rutledge, men who labored for the whole country, and lived for mankind, we cannot sink to the petty strife which would sap the foundations and destroy- the political fabric our fathers erected and bequeathed as an inheritance to our posterity forever. Since the formation of the constitution, a vast extention of territory, and the varied relations arising therefrom, have presented problems which could not have been foreseen. It is just cause for admiration, even wonder, that the provisions of the fundamental law should have been found so fully adequate to all the wants of government, new in its organization, and new in many of the principles on which it was founded. Whatever fears may have once existed as to the consequence of territorial expansion must give way before the evidence which the past affords. The general government, strictly confined to its delegated functions, and the States left in the undisturbed exercise of all else, we have a theory and practice which fits our government for immeasurable domain, and might, under a millennium of nations, embrace mankind. From the slope of the Atlantic, our population with ceaseless tide, has poured into the wide and fertile vally of the Mississippi. Its eddying whirl has passed to the coast of the Pacific. From the West and the East, the tides are rushing towards each other and the mind is carried to the day when all the cultivable land will be inhabited, and the American people will sigh for more wilderness to conquer. But there is here a pbysico-political problem presented for our solution. Were it purely physical, your past triumphs would leave but little doubt of your capacity to solve it A community, which, when less than twenty thousand, conceived the grand project of cross ing the WThite Mountains, and, unaided, save by the stimulus which jeers and prophesies of failure gave, successfully executed the herculean work, might well be impatient, if it were suggested that a physical problem was before us too difficult for their mastery. The history of man teaches that high, mountains and wide deserts have resisted the permanent extension of em pire, and have formed the immutable boundaries of States. From time to time, under some able leader, have the hordes of the upper plains of Asia swept over the adjacent country and rolled their conquering columns over southern Europe. let, after the lapse of a few generations, the physical law to which I have referred, has asserted its supremacy, and the boundarics of those States differ little now from those which obtained three thousand years ago. Rome flew her conquering eagles over the then known world, and has now subsided into the little territory on which her great city was originally built. The Alps and the Pyrenees have been unable to restrain imperial France; but her expansion was a feverish action; her advance and her retreat were tracked with blood, and those mountain ridges are the reestablished limits of her empire. Shall the Rocky Mountains prove a dividing barrier to us ? Were ours a central consolidated gov-

ernmcnt, instead of a Union of sovereign States, our fate might be learned from the history of other nations. Thanks to the wisdom and independent spirit of our forefathers, this is not our case. Each State having sole charge of its local interests and domestic affairs, the problem which to others has been insoluble to us is made easy. Rapid, safe and easy communication between tho Atlantic and the Pacific, will give co-intelligence, unity of interest, and cooperation among all parts of our continent-wide republic The network of railroads which binds the North and the South, the slope of the Atlantic and the valley of the Mississippi, together that our people have tho power to perforin, in that regard, whatever it is their will to do. We require a railroad to the States of the Pacific for present uses; the time no doubt will come when we shall have need of two or three, it may be more. Because of the desert character of tho interior country the work will be difficult and expensive. It will require

the efforts of an united people. The bickerings of little politicians, the jealousies ot sections, must give way to dignity of purpose and zeal for the common good. If the object be obstructed by contention and division as to whether the route to be selected shall be northern, southern or central, the handwriting is op tho wall, and it requires little skill to see tho failure is the interpretation of the inscription. You are a practical people and niav ask. how is the contest to be avoided ? By taking the question out of the hands of politicians altogether. Let the government give such aid as it is proper for it to render to the company which shall propose the most feasible and advantageous plan; then leave to capitalists with judgment sharpened by interest, the selection of the route, and the difficulties will diminish as did those which you overcame when you connected your harbor with the Cannadian Provinces. It would be to trespass on your kindness and to violate the proprieties of the occasion, were I to detain the vast concourse which stands before me, by entering on the discussion of controverted topics, or by further indulgence in the expression of such reflections as circumstances may suggest. I came to your city in quest of health and repose. From the moment I entered it you have showered upon me kindness and hospitality. Though my experience has taught me to anticipate good rather than evil from my fellow man, it had not prepared me to expect such unremitting attention as has here been bestowed. I have been jocularly asked in relation to my coming here, whether I had secured a guaranty for lny safety, and lo, 1 have found it. 1 stand in the midst oi thousands of my fello iv citizens. But, my friends, I came neither distrusting, nor appiehensive, of which you have proof in the fact that 1 brought with me ttie objects oi tenderest affection and solicitude my wife and my chil dren; they have shared with me your hospitality, and will alike remain your debtors. If at some future time, when I am mingled with the dust, and the arm of my infant son has been nerved for deeds of manhood, the storm of war should burst upon your city, I feel that relying upon his inheriting the instincts of ms ancestors aim mine, i may pieuge mm in mat perilous hour to stand by your side in the defence of your hearth-stones, and in maintaining the honor of a flag whose constellation, though torn and smoked in many a battle by sea and land, has never been Btained with dishonor, and will, I trust, forever fly as free as the breeze which unfolds it. A stranger to you, the salu brity of location and the beauty ot its scenery were not wholly unknown to me, nor were there wanting associations which busy memory connected with your people. You will pardon me tor alluding to one whose eenius sbed a lustre upon all" it touched, and whose qualities gathered about him hosts of friends wherever he was known. Prentiss, a native ot l ortland, lived from youth to middle age in the county of my resi dence, and the inquiries winch have been made snow me that the youth excited the interest which the greatness of the man justified, and that his memory thus remains a link to connect your home with mine. A cursory view; when passing through your town on former occasions, had impressed me with the great ad vantages of your harbor, its easy entrance, its depth and its extensive accommodations for shipping. But its advantages and its facilities, as they have been developed by closer inspection, have grown upon me un til I realise that it is no boast, but the language of sober truth, which in the present state of commerce pronounces them unequalled in anv harbor of our country, ahq sureiy no piace couiu oe more inviting to an invalid who sought a refuge from the heat of a A 1 1 1 1J, 1. 'Lt Southern summer. Here waving elms offer him shad ed walks, and magnificent residences surrounded by flowers fill the mind with ideas of comfort and ot rest. K weary of constant contact with his fellow men, he seeks a deeper seclusion, there in the background of this grand amphitheatre he the eternal mountains, frowning with brow of rock and cap of snow upon the smiling nelcis beneath, ana mere in its recesses may be found as much of wildness, and as much of solitude as the pilorim weary of the cares of life can desire. If he turn to the front, your capacious harbor, studded with trreen islands of ever-varying light and shade, and enlivened by all the stirring evidences of commercial activity, offer him the mingled charms ot busy life and nature's calm repose. A few miles further, and he may sit upon the quiet shore to listen to the murmuring wave until the troubled spirit sinks to rest, and in the little sail that vanishes on the illimitable sea we may find the type of the voyage which he is so soon, to take, when, his ephemeral existence closed, he embarks for that better state which lies beyond the grave. Richly endowed as you are by nature in all which contributes to pleasure and to usefulness, the stranger cannot pass without paying a tribute to the much which your energy has achieved for yourselves. Where else will one find a more happy union of magnificence and comfort where better arrangements to facilitate commerce ? ' Where so much industry, with so little noise and bustle ? Where, in a phrase, so much affected in proportion to the means employed ? We hear the puff of the engine, the roll of the wheel, the ring of the axe and the saw, out the stormy, passionate exclamations so often mingled with the sounds are nowhere heard-. . Yet neither these nor other things which I have mentioned, attractive though they be, have been to me the chief charm which I have found among you. For above all these I place the gentle kindness, the cordial welcome, the hearty grasp, which made me feel truly and at once, though wandering far, that I was still at home. My friends, I thank you for this addi tional manifestation ot your good will. r The Printing Office has indeed proved a better collene to many a boy, has graduated more useful and conspicuous members of society, has brought more intellect out and turned it into practical useful channels, awakened more minds, eenerated more active and el evated thought than many of the literary colleges of the country. 1 he present tiovernorot i'ennsyivania, Wm. F. Packer, graduated in what has justly been styled the "Poor Boy's College," a printing office, as did also our distinguished United . States Senator, Simon Cameron, and the eminent Pennsylvania Jurist, Ellis Lewis, besides a host of other brilliant minds i whose talents have adorned high positions m the fab i met, on the Bench and at the Bar. A boy who conV mences in such a school as the printing office will have : his talent and ideas brought out; and, it he is a carei ful observer, experience in his profession will contrib ute more toward an education than can be obtained in almost any other manner. . So says the Harrisburg (Pa.) lelegraph. i . . : ; ' . To prevent a kitchen door from creaking, get a servant girl whose beau comes to the house to sec her. " .

NO. 10.

HOOPS AND HEALTH. TESTIMONY OF A I-HY8ICIA.V. O.NE of our correspondents, a physician, writes us that he has lately come into possession of several facts somewhat like the following, and that he feels it to be a duty which he owes to the many similar sufferers scattered throughout tho United States, to make known to them the relief which several of the sisterhood have , experienced from adopting, at his recommendation, and in spite of considerable prejudices the strength of which was usually in proportion to the age of the patient tho practice of wearing hoops. He states, in reference to these prejudices, that although the use of hoops is almost universal among the young ladies, they have failed to find favor with quite a number of those who are married, and somewhat advanced in years, on the plea of unbecomingncss, being only one of the many short-lived fashions, &c. Such testimony as the following is sufficient, we should think, to overcome all such objections to the use of. hoops. We give it in the words of our correspondent : "A lady who hail, for several years, suffered very much from pain in the back, and several other linconvfbrtablc feelings in the regions adjacent, was induced to adopt hooped and light skills instead of the heavy ones which she had formerly worn. Alter the use of the former for a few weeks, she said that she was near ly entirely free from back-ache and the other uncomfortable feelings, and that she could bo about the house on her feet all day, and suffer less from tiredness, than she had previously done by the middle ot the forenoon. bue says that she had the cunosity, upon one occasion, to weigh the set of skirts formerly worn, and those recently adopted, and that the former weighed somewhat over four times as much as the Latter. This difference in the weight, with the greater freedom of motion, and exemption from an oppressive heat about the loins, might be suliicient ot themselves to convince any one, that those suffering in the way referred to must experience relief from the adoption of hooped or light skirts of any other pattern. This presumption in their favor, has been greatly confirmed by my own mind, by the results of several cases similar to the above. I hope many of those who now find it tiresome and painful work to be long around house upon their feet, and who suffer from weakness of the back, &c., may be induced to lay aside heavy skirts, and adopt some of lighter kinds. If you think the brief statement above given at all likely to promote this desirable change, neither patient nor physician will object to its being submitted to your readers." "Land Warrants. The demand for Warrants is steadily increasing, and will undoubtedly run up the market value to a high figure before the 1st of Sep tember, when several Land-Offices will be opened in the most desireable parts of the West- An act passed the last session of Congress, authorizes Land Warrants issued under the act of 1855 to be received in half payment for the land on the railroad lines held at $2 50 per acre, heretofore payable only in gold. This is an important law, and has advanced the new warrants to the same value as those under the acts previous to 1855. "The Land-Office at Council Bluffs, Iowa, reopened on the 16th of June, and there were a large number of applicants present. Advices from there say, '80s and -160s sell readily here for $1 per acre, and 120s for 95 cents. The Government receives but little money for its lands ; they are all swept off by land warrants. ....... - "In Kansas there is more active demand 160 acres commanding $160 cash or $288 payable in one year, and secured by deed of land. 1'he settlers there evince tho greatest anxiety to secure their lands and homes before the sale in September, when they would otherwise be at the mercy of moneyed speculators from the East. The proclamation of sales to come off in June (but which were postponed to November at the request of the Kansas people), very effectually awakened them to a realizing secse of the danger they were exposed to. Now they have more money and are anxious to be prepared on the opening of the sales. In Michigan, two land offices open on the 16th ot August. At traverse City, on the western side of the State, there will be off ered some of the choicest grain lands of the State, and at Ionia also. Both these tracts are traversed by three railroads, the Grand Rapida and Indiana, the Flint and Perre Marquette, and the Detroit and Milwaukee. And probably these railroad lands will be on the market at the same time. - All these sales tend to make the market in warrants exceedingly active." Bank Note Reporter. . , , ;,.;) The Banker and the Secretary.Mr. Muruaga, Spanish Secretary of Legation who, it will be remembered, had a difficulty about two months ago with Mr. Corcoran, the banker, about a love affair with Corcoran's daughter, yesterday took satisfaction for the insult he believed he had received by throwing liis glove in Corcoran's face. The facts are, Mr. Corcoran objected to the attentions of Muruaga to his daughter. Meeting on the street about two months ago, such language was used that Mr. Muruaga felt bound to challenge Mr. Corcoran. During several days pending the challenge, Miss Corcoran, it is said, in her anxiety to prevent a collision, and boping to prevent it by influencing Muruaga, requested an interview.!" During the interview in Corcoran's bouse, servants, who it appears were 'watching, informed their master of Muruaga's presence. Corcoran, accompanied by Senator Bright and the servants, ejected Muruaga from the house, he and the servants handling very roughly and wounding the Secretary. Upon this Corcoran refused Muruaga's challenge, upon the ground of his unwarrantable presence on his (Corcoran's) premises. Muruaga, feeling the sting of wounded honor, applied to his government for conge, for the purpose of obtaining satisfaction without compromising the legation. Upon obtaining it he announced to Mr. Corcoran, by letter, the termination of the truce, stating that he had been prevented by his official position from seeking reparation before. When Muruaga threw his glove in Corcoran's face, Corcoran drew his pistol but did not, fire. Muruaga stood in an attitude to receive the fire, having big hand on a pistol in his pocket to return the compli-. ment if not mortally wounded. This has caused great excitement in fashionable circles, though every effort has been made to prevent and suppress it. N. Y. Herald, July 7. . , -What Cattle Suffer on Railroads. The Rochester Iniertcfin says : "Much more than the usual amount of stock is passing eastward over the New York Central Railroad at present "All this makes lively buisness in that particular line, and few think of the amount of suffering which has to be endured by the poor brutes while on the route. Packed closely together, without a particle of extra room between them, they are obliged to ride the distance to their destination without tasting food or water; and in this hot weather it can easily be imagined that the deprivation of the latter, under such circumstances, must drive the tortured animals to the very, verge of madness. AVhile the trains ot stock which arrived here on Saturday from Suspension Bridge and Buffalo were being made up together for the route eastward, no less than four head of cattle were taken from the cars in a dying condition, and they expired shortly after bein; removed. Many others were nearly in the same condition ; and there can be little doubt that of the cattle confined in the hundred and fortynine cars, as many as twenty perished, or will perish, -through the sufferings they endured in the transit to market. This is horrible to think of; and yet the same ' scenes are repeated day alter day, and nobody seems to think of suggesting a remedy." ," , ...

S !

f