Locomotive, Volume 46, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 November 1858 — Page 1

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OF THE ' Great Wcserii Cast Steel Flows, ' AT THE ' AG 15IC I ' LTUKA L WABEUOISE, r Under Masonic Hall, Indianapolis, Indiana, BEAItD A; J5IM3X, Proprietors. HAVING rocently lilted up a large Shop and Warehouse in Masonic Hall, we are now prepared to offer to our friends and customers, and to the public generally, such in ducemonlx as lias never before been offered in the West, iu regard to prices and quality of materials and workmanship. We have en band a large quantity or our celebrated Great Western Cast Steel Plows of all sizes, from a one-horse Corn Plow to the largest size Koad Plow. Wo would respectfully invito the attention of Farmers and all who are in waul of farming implements, to our stock before purchasing elsewhere, as we are confident that we can sell them the best improvement that can be ohtained in the country, and as we buy our material in large quantities from ttrst hands, we aro alio prepared to offer great inducements in prices. ' ' Trp A liberal discount made to the trade. '".' ' Jan23-3m . HEARD & S1NEX. GLASS fc jjTO.XEWAKEBEPOT. :AT WHOLES ALE. ; 1U0 West Washington Street, opposite the State House. . C. JIIBtEJIAS) declO-lyl Commission Merchant. E. J. BALDWIN & CO., , : '-"J -E.-W E L E R S'. i ' "i No. 1 Batess House. mHANKFULFOR PAST FAVORS, would respectfully beg I leave to inform the public that they are still on hand with their usual full assortment of every thing in the way of Watches, Jewelry, Silver Ware, &c. We wish it distinctly understood that we do not keep the low priced, bogus Watches and Jewelry, gotten op for auction sales; but will guarantee to soil good, honest articles as low as can possibly be had elsewhere in tho West. OurSilocr IVareM warranted equal to Coin; our Watches bound to go and keep time, and all our goods just what wo represent them to bo. For further proof call and examine for yourselves. We have the liest Wat hmakek iu tho country iu our employ; so bring on your Watches. fob9-tf rriSKJTlIiJE , WAISEUOOiTI. , ' .-':' J O UN V E T T E It, Meridian St., in Kecly's Invincible Block, ' 5 DOORS SOUTH OP POST OFFICE. T7-EEPS oil hand all klndsof good and solid Furniture, which l he sells al the lowest prices. As Cnbinet-inakor and Turner, he is prepared at tin time to promptly execute all orders ill his line of business. His factory is opposite the Madison Depot. Everything done is warranted to be in the neatest and niost durable iu le. JOHN VETTEK. IlEJIOVED. FII. VAJK!V 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 Ileduccd Prices. ' - He has Just received large lot of Gum Belling, Rope and BI.fcs-. Axes, Nails. Locks, Hinges, Polished Fire Setts, Ames Shovels. Fine Cutlery, &c. . . ,lec5 J. HA It II, Venitian Blind Manufacturer, 3 3 Panares North nf Court floine, on Alubuma street. - 1 1... .l LM f.-.- IWallino Hnll. ses. and also makes to order Blinds for public or priTate liiiil'linps. M . LONfi-, Agent f.r Venitian Blinds, on Moridinn St., near he Posl Office, tit his Furniture Wureroom. jaii31 , - ri A KES pleasure in returning his thanks to the Ladies and 1. Gentlemen of this plac3 and vicinity for their very liberal patronage, and still hopes to meet the same confidence he has engaged since be commenced the practice of his profession in Indianapolis. . Artificial Teeth, from one to a full set, inserted on Platma, Gold, or Silver. -' , ' , '. , ' Particular attention given to regulating, cleaning, and extracting Teeth. Kther given when required. All work warranted, and charges reasonable. OfHce Sd story Fletcher Woolloy's block, No. 8 East Washington street. Oct.-24-tf - ;.. ' . ; J. r. BILL." ' ! OOI.DSMITII. . ' 1 J. . Kill ' Frnit and Ornamental Nursery. riHE undersigned have established Ihemselves In the NursI erv business on Ihe well known Nursery grounds formerly occupied bv Aaron Alilredge, a few rods east of the corporation line. Indianapolis.. We have on hand a general assortment of fruit trees nf such varieties as are best adapted to our soil and climate. Vhetrees are of the very best quality. Also a veryflue suick of Ornamental Shr-bbery. Jy We are now ready to All all orders promptly. Address, , HILL, GOLDSMITH S( CO., Indianapolis, Ind. o FFICK, Harrison's New Bank Hull. ling, 19 Bust Washing .n Street, second noor. in..,. ,-.m. Office hours from 8 A 5I.to5PML novl-y -E7 WiLKIXG CANES. ve lust received a large assortment of Gol.f. Silver d ivory-hcaded canes, """AlOlVr. TEhsve at

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THE RICH AXD THEIR OPPORTUiaTIES. " Though rich myself. I am the poor man's friond." In the course of a conversation a day or two ago, with an active and enterprising merchant of this city, we expressed satisfaction that he was still to find a leisure hour to devote to works of benevolence and philanthropy, to measures calculated to promote the greatest good of the greatest number. We were struck with his reply. lie said that "he rejoiced that his position was such as to enable him to mingle somewhat in causes which he believed had a tendency to promote the welfare of the oppressed, the needy, and suffering among the family of man; for," he continued, " I am not one of those who believe it right, politic, or conductive to happiness, to live for self exclusively, or for this world alone." Would that this noble sentiment were more generally cherished and acted upon. Would that the great body of the prosperous and the affluent in pecuniary matters, would turn aside occasionally from tho pursuit of Mammon, to mingle with the benevolent and the kind-hearted in their efforts to assist the suffering, to soothe the sorrowful, and to promote the comforts, mental, moral, and physical, of the unfortunate, the misguided, and tho erring class of society. How high and holy are the consolations to bo derived from such conduct, and how superior, when compared with the more inercenay enjoyments of money-making 1 It is right and proper that our citizens should pay due attention to their particular pursuits and avocations should avail themselves of all honest means of accumulating wealth should provide abundantly lor themselves and their families. But this is not the whole object of being. Other responsibilities are imposed upon us, and wo have other duties to perform. Exaclly in the degree that we prosper in worldly matters, should our denevolent disposition expand, and should wo increase the amount of our alms-giving. Life, at best, is but a brief span. And yet to contemplate the hundreds and thousands who in all human probability are nearer the grave in point of years, than, looking back, they are to their advent upon this buisy scene, one would suppose that they anticipated immortality on earth that they were accumulating, with the expectation of surviving for ages, and that the chief end of man was gold gold ! There are, in society, hundreds who have incomes of thousa nds per annum, and yet who are so careless and indifferent to the responsibilities which such wealth entails, that they seldom give more than a mere trifle to relieve the wants of the poor, or to aid in any work of humanity, however meritorious and praiseworthy. Nay, not a week goes by, that the public journals do not chronicle the decease of some individual who, after a long life of economy, industry and accumulation, was compelled to leave this world and an immense fortune behind him, and who, nevertheless, at the hour of death, was unable to turn to any abode of wretchedness and want that he had brightened by his bounty, or to call up any act of generous charity which had characterised his career. His heart had been hardened against the appeals of the poor, self had been his god, and clutching his gold, witn tlie grasp of tenacity, he had seen want and woe in many a sad form, misery and suffering in many a varied shape, but had been deal and cold to the pleadings ot the gentle monitors within, Oh 1 could he go back again I ' (Jould he live over again a lile that had Deen so misspent could he embrace the opporiunities that he had permitted to pass by neglected and unimproved how eagerly -would he act under the nobler and more generous impulses that he had disregarded! How many a widows heart would he make to leap for joy; how many an orphans tear would he ciry; now many an aged pair would he comtort I And then the recollection of such conduct at his dying hour the calm with which he would soar into the mysterious depths of an other world who, who that has the means that has enough and to spare that has been blessed by Providence with an abudance of this world's gifts unless mad, blind, and sold, body and soul,to gold would neglect the opportunity of acting with generous benevolence while here, and of thus brightening, not only the present, but gjlding with the rosy light of hope and of heaven, the rising morning of the future. The merchant was right.' It is neither wise nor virtuous to live for self exclusively, and this world is, after all, but a preparation for another. Wealth is well enough in its way, and may be made the means, not only of contributing to the happiness of its possessor, but of relieving the woes and wants of the unfortunate and the suffering. When so used when the prosperity of this world makes us grateful to the Almighty, but induces us to act out that gratitude in our intercourse with mankind, success in trade, in traffic, and in pecuniary matters, is indeed a blessing, but when the richer we become, we also become more heartless, reckless, and careless when, forgetful of Providence, proud, hard-hearted, grinding, and grasping, we make a god of money prosperity becomes a curse, and we prove ourselves unworthy recipients of the favors that have been so lavishly bestowed. , SCRAPS FROM HAKPERS'. MAGAZINE. - The sudden transition from the sublime to the ridi culous was never more amusingly illustrated than it is by an actual occurrence in the family of a friend ot the writer 01 tins in ueorgia. 11, necessarily irencnes on serious thinsrs : and the desire of the. Drawer to avoid every thing that may justly give offence to serious minds, is respected by all its sensible correspond ents. But in the simple story we are about to tell there is so much trulh to nature that we shall not hesi tate to reneat it as it comes : " In one of the genteelest families of the State, Miss Mollie and Miss Pecuie. are two sisters. Miss Molhe is the. eldest a very upright and amiable young lady, whose good sense always prompts her to conduct herself with the utmost propriety under all circumstances, She is not a member of any church ; but, like all wellbred vounf ladies, says her prayers before retiring. n,1. r.;rlit she carried with her to her room a pickle. and laid it upon her bureau, thinking she would eat it after her devotions, fehe knelt at tho toot ot her bed for the purpose. Peggie entered the room, and seeing her deeply absorbed, thought to improve the opportumty by appropriating me iij iu uci unu use. . i.uu Wl hittnn ntt'a niece, and in chewing it made a noise, which her sister heard, who, wishing to know the cause, looked up, and beholding Peggie devouring the pickle, hurriedly arose, exclaiming, ' O Lord ! excuse me a moment ; Peggie is eating up my pickle Peggie told it the next dav. We laugh at Miss Mollie about it; W shr t.ik-es it all in sood part, and upholds her ton duct admirably by averring that it is when in just such company that we are commanded to ' watch as well as pray. " - , . " Lawvcrs and Judges have to stand the 'brunt' of a .rood many lokes, anu uuu "ul .u-c L ..iscua- . C- -1 , 1. A r.t' nrrtn L..11. siuj seem to have as ngui "P"' """ An,- nmr 1T1 tllA TTmOn. u Ti. Jo rppntlv perpetrated in the hearing: of your correspondent by a Judge of the Supreme Bench, '".f " ' ' ' .. ', r' In a Dutch garden,' at the capital, a few ever.;,r .lr.ro a f.-w voiintr men, who had been partici pating rather freely of 'lager, sang two verses of f01d Doo- Tray ' and, amidst the clapping of hands, was heard the voice of one of the by-standers imitating the musical roice of a mule 1 The Jud?e,who sat close at hand, coolly rose, took off his chip hat, and said, - ' .' . , "' That is too natural to be artificial r " f Our man of mulish prepenses gave the Judge credit for making the best ' hit,' and silently walked

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away, while the singers ordered a ' drink' for the Judge. It is needless to say that a deafening roar of laughter followed." j . " Coote was a civil engineer encraged upon one of the ' new railroads concentrating at Jackson, and when not 'in the field, camped in his friend Holt's la w-oflice. . Holt once went off to an adjoining county on business, j leaving Coote in full possession ; but while Holt was - jjuui;, v,io.e received orders irom his telnet to go to , .New Orleans after certain instruments. But what to do with the office key, so that others could not, yet Holt might find it, puzzled him. At last he spied a certain place to hide it where no one could ever find it without directions. " So he writes a letter to Holt all about it, hides the key, and vamoses. Holt came home, but rather than break a fine lock, kgpt out of his office three days until Coote returned. Meeting him at the depot, Holt, quite irate, asked him what he kept him shut out of his own office so long for why he didn't leave the key, etc. .... " ' Why,' said Coote, ' I did leave it hid for you, and left you a letter telling you where to find it." " ' Left a letter 1' said Holt, ' where, pray ?' - " ' Why, where else should I leave it, but sticking in the looking-glass on the mantle-piece, where you couldn't help seeing it.' . . . ' - " ' What lookinjj-clftss ? "' What mantle-piece ? Where?' "h . : , " I In your office, as a matter of course !' answered he, innocently; and he angrily wondered what Holt and all the by-standers ' guffawed' so about. " Need I add that Coote was an Irishman ?" ' The conceit was well taken out of a dandy preachin Tennessee on this wise : - i " Some years ago, a drunken loafer staggered into a country tavern on the mountains near Sparta, in this State, and asked to stay all night. The landlord refused to admit him, stating that thero were four or five Methodist preachers in the house, and he would not have thehi annoyed by him. The weather was very cold, and the fellow begged so hard that the landlord yielded on condition that he would keep perfectly quiet. After supper he took his seat by the fire, with his elbows on his knees and his head to his hands. In this position he sat for an hour, adhering to his promise to ' keep quiet.' A mong the preachers was the Presiding Elder of the Sparta district a sedate, dignified old gentleman listening attentively to the spouting ot a conceited, self-important, young preacher, whom the elder had never met before. The dandy preacher paced the floor, twirling his goldheaded cane, boasting ot what he could do, when the elder asked him, ' Brother, are you married ?' . . " ' Yes, I married one of the Lord's children.'. , " The loafer,' who had not spoken, slowly raised his head and drawled out, ' See here, stranger, I'll bet you my horse you'll -never see your daddy-iu-Iaw. ! The Tennessee'contributor who sends the following to the Drawer vouches for its literal verity, and we hold him responsible : ' . .' ; . " An earnest and eloquent divine in this part of the State was holding forth to a very respectable congre gation on Sunday night. After the sermon was over he called oh his hearers to contribute to the cause of Missions.' In the course of his remarks on this subject, be broke forth with; ' You should all have-for your moti.6, " Live or die; swim or sink, perish or survive, I give my heart' to this cause 1". as Daniel Webster, said, when he signed the Declaration of Independence ' Who is hot carried back f o good old times as he reads this sketch of Connecticut goin' to mcetin' fifty years ago ? It is genuine story contributed to the Drawer : "In the early part of the ministry of Rev. Jehu C k, who preached many years in one of the pleasant towns in the western part of Connecticut, it was custom of many of the good ladies from the distant parts of his parish to bring with them food, which they ate at noon ; or, as they used to say, ' between the inter mission.' Some brought a hard-boiled egg, some 4a nut-cake, some a sausage ; but one good woman, who had tried, them all, and found them too dry, brought some pudding and milk.. In order to bring it in a dish from which it would not spill over on the road, and yet be convenient to eat from, she took a pitcher with a narrow neck at the top, but spreading at the bottom. Arrived at the meeting-house, she placed it under the seat. The exercises of the day soon commenced, and the old lady became wholly rapt in her devotional feelings. Though no philosopher, she knew by practice as many church-goers seem to have learned that she could receive and ' inwardly digest' the sermon by shutting her eyes, opening her mouth, and allowing all her senses to go sleep. ' While thus prepared, and lost to all external impressions; she was suddenly startled by a rustling and splashing under the seat. She had no time to consider the cause before she discovered her dog, Put, backing out with the neck of the pitcher over his head, and the pudding and milk drizzling out. Poor Put had been fixing his thoughts on material objects alone ; and, taking advantage of the quietness of the occasion, had crept under the seat of his mistress, where he was helping himself to a dinner. His head had glided easily through the narrow portion of the pitcher ; but, when quite in, it was as securely fixed as an eel in a pot.; Unable to extricate himself, he had no alternative but to be smothered or back out, '. The old lady bore thecatastrophe in no wise quietly. A thousand terrible thoughts rushed into her mind ; the ludicrous appearance of the dog and pitcher, the place, tlie occasion, the spat tering of her garments, the rascally insult of the pup py but, above all, tlie lossot tier ' fcabber-day dinner. At the top of her voice she cried, '" " ' Get out, Put I get out 1 Oh, Jehu ! . I'm speakin' riffht out in meetin' ! Oh ! I'm talkin' all the time !' the scene that followed is not to be described The frightened old lady seized her dog and pitcher, and rushed out of meeting ; the astonished preacher paused in the midst ot his discourse, while the whote congregation were startled out of their propriety by the explosion :; and it was some time before order and the sermon were again resumed. , , , i .w -. - . ) A Tennessee youngster showed good grit, according to the note of a correspondent in that State, who writes: ,. . ; : , x ,: ..;....-'-. i 1-. " The worthy gentleman who rules the rising gen eration of boys in this town had occasion to correct a little fellow, named Johnnv . , and Master Johnny got into a fit of sulks about having been whipped. The pedagogue,, wishing to convince him that he had been justly punished, began to argue thus : " ' Johnny, suppose you were riding a big horse to water, and had a keen switch in your hand, and all at once the horse were to stop and refuse to go any furth er, wtiat would you do r . ."Johnny stifled his sobs for a moment, and looking up through his tears, replied, ' I d cluck to him, bir. : ." ' But, Johnny, suppose lie wouldn't go for your clucking, what would you do then ! , , - i , . - " ' I'd get down and lead him. Sir.' .. I " ' And what if he were obstinate and wouldn't let vou lead him?" - " ' Why, I'd take off his bridle and turn him loose, and u 'lit home, Sir., n-,.-.. :' -i-, " ' You may go and take your seat, Johnnv.' "Johnny could not be made to see the necessity for using the switch. . Let the Judge who delivers the following good things sentence the Drawer to receive more of the same '.

" The learned and venerable Judge , who in his time was an ornament to the Ncw York judiciary, heartily enjoyed a joke, even at his own expense and in open court. Once upon a time ho was holdings circuit in one of the northern counties, and after he had delivered the usual charge to the Grand Jury, and the clerk had commenced calling the list of Petit Jurors, a juror desired to be excused on account of partial deafness. For the purpose of testing the capacity of

his organs, the Judge, in an ordinary tone, propounded to mm a tew questions ; ana at last inquired ot hnn it he- heard his charge to the Grand Jury ? The juror honestly, and with the most unaffected simplicity, answered, ' I stood here while you was speaking, and 1 couldn't make any sense of it ' An explosion of laughter followed, in which the Judge heartily joined, remarking that it was probably more his own fault than the juror's. " While the late Judge C , some twenty-five years ago, was holding the Circuit Court and Oyer and Terminer in the neighboring county of W , a backwoodsman was arraigned and convicted of an aggravated assault and battery upon his wife. The Judge ordered the prisoner to stand up, and concluded a solemn and appropriate admonition by sentencing him to ninety days' imprisonment, the last thirty of which he was to be kept in solitary eonhncment, and upon bread and water only. The prisoner, who lived in a region where luxuries were never known, and even the -accessaries of life were scarce, reflected a moment, and replied, ' Judge, say wheat bread, and m go itl"'. The Drawer has often amused itself with men who could not see the point of a ioke till all the rest are done laughing at it, and could not hold on to the point ot a ioke long enough to tell ot it when they did come to see it And the Drawer has another capital illus tration Irom tlie old JNorth fetate : "Mr. Reporter Jones, of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, whoso fame is coextensive with that of ' Cousin Sally Dillard,' tells the following with inimita ble humor, showing clearly that some ot the compeers of Gaston, Ruffin, and Pearson are rather slow at taking. Judge Billings, of tho Supreme Court Bench, was once holding court at layetteville. A case was called up for trial in which ex-Judge Strange was counsel. A witness iu the case, named Sarah Mooney, was absent. Mr. Strange arose and stated to the Court that he could not go into the trial of the case without ceremony (Sarah Moony). At this sally the whole bar hurst into a giggle ot merriment. 1 he J udge was some what irritated, and sternly rebuked the members ot the bar for their want of respect to the Court... After adjournment of court some member of the bar explained to his Honor that the merriment was called forth by Mr. Strange's pun. The Judge appeared to be satisfied, but still did not see the point of tho pun. At the close of the circuit the Judge returned home still pondering on the remark of Mr. Strange, and won dering where the pun could be ; just before he reach ed home, however, the point occurred to him, and he commenced laugliing immoderately. AVhen he enter ed his yard he was met by his wife, who was amazed at his caclunatory ht, winch had not yet subsided. " ' My dear husband !' she. exclaimed, ' what can be the matter i are you beside yourself i -,- n YeH my dear, he answered, after he Lad beeomo somewhat calm, ' at the Cumberland Court there was an absent wilness in one of Mr. Strange's cases whose name was Mary Moony, and Strange remarked that he could not go into the trial without Mary Moo ny,' and here he relapsed into a hurricane of laughter. , " f Why, Judge,' replied the good lady, ' I don't see any thing laughable in that remark.' ,-s' . : '' , " ' Well,' replied the Judge, after a long pause, ' I don't see the point just now myself, but I did a few minutes ago, and you may . depend upon its being a rich one if you will only discover it.'" ' Just so ; if you could only see itl Well, the joke was not very smart, and the Judge was very excusable for not taking i the fun of the thing was the after-clap. Shooting Stars. Meteors. -Various brilliant bodies have, been frequently observed shooting through the heavens with a ternble velocity, creating alarm iu the minds of the ignorant, and exciting the wonder of the learned as to their mysterious origin. The mid night traveler, far from the abodes of men, is some times startled with one of these bright lights fleeting for an instant athwart their horizon, then as suddenly disappearing, leaving the darkness yet more profound. ihese meteors, as they are caned, are iar irom Deing uncommon, or conhned to any locaht)- they are seen in every part of our globe. Under the name of "shoot ing stars." they are witnessed in clear evenings during every month of the year, but in this latitude they are more numerous during the month of August. They have the appearance of celestial rockets rushing along (as has been measured) at the awful velocity of 59,400 miles per hour. They are strange messengers of the skies, and no satisfactory .theory has yet been pro pounded respecting their nature and source. . There are other meteors of a very different charac ter from the shooting stars, which have the appearance of being incandescent solid bodies of various colors rushing with a less, but still a great velocity, through our atmosphere. Some of these are of considerable magnitude, and in their passage leave a long trail of light behind ; a few have been observed to burst into pieces, with a loud report, and then disappear. Men of scientific attainment do not agree regarding their origin, but quite a number entertain the opinion that they have been projected from tlie volcanoes ot the moon, in various parts of the globe what are called " meteoric stones" have been found. These are so dif ferent in the composition from any other stones found on the surface ot the. earth, that it is not dilhcult to conclude they may have been shot from some celestial cannon, like the craters of the moon. This was the opinion of La Place, and is now entertained by our countryman, Prof. J. Lawrence Smith, of Louisville Ky. lie has analyzed several of these meteoric stones, obtained from different localities, and they appear to be of the same composition, thus pointing to a common origin. In nature, form, and appearance they are for eigners to the stones and rocks among which thev have been found ; they are most composed of nickeliferous iron, with a very thin oxyd on the surface. Their component parts are, iron, 82-39 ; nickel, 15-02 ; cohalt, -43 , copper, '09; phosphorous, -16 ; silica, 46 ; sulphur, 08 ; magnesia, "24 ; chlorine, "02. ' Some of tlie nickel and iron were combined with the phospho rous, fornung .schrubersite. One of these meteor stones, found at Knoxvllle, Tenn., was so hard that it was difficult to cut it with a fine saw, and it was verv white in appearance, owing to the presence of so much niCKCl. It 13 supposeu mar- uiese were pnyeuu-u uuring some great eruption in the moon, and being driven far beyond the sphere of our satellites' attraction may have been revolving in paths of their own for thousands of years, until drawn within the influence of the earth, there at last to find a resting place." this is mere theory to be sure ; but to Dr. Smith, who be lieves in it, ho can enjoy a quiet chuckle at having pounded a part of old Luna in his mortar, and dissolv ed a fragment of her body in his alembic. 1 This theory is the most plausible of any yet presented, but the sub ject ueserves runner investigation. ' In oldon times, the ignorant peasantry regarded meteors as a siun of death to conspicuous persons, such as chiefs and kings; but now they are beheld without such feelings, but not without wonder. I heir mvstcnous origin imparts to their appearance a deep and imj pressive interest. Scientific American.

NO. 12

From tlie Near York Express. THE TIRTIETH STREET HORROR. We have "supped full of horror," of one kind and another, of late; but tho apalling tragedy of which the dwelling of a respectable citizen, in the upper part of the city, was on Tuesday night tho scene, spreads a banquet before us at which the most constitutionally insensible may well stand aghast.- We have no heart to recapitulate particulars here, but leaving all that to the reporters, let as see if we cannot explain how it is that a human being jnst upon the verge of manhood nay, a very boy, for this Frank Gouldv, it seems, was but little more than nineteen years of1 age could thus be transformed into a fiend, and, as a fiend, even perpetrating a deed ot so awful a character that hell itself might hold its breath while looking on. ' The task, it so happens, need not be a tedious one, for, un- : happily, cause and effect stand out in bold relief upon every sentence of the melancholy story. First, then : It is clear, from the evidence, that Frank (the suicide and parricide) was in the habit op staying out at night! Second. His father was in the haiut of hupPLYINU HIM LinKltAIXY WITH MONEY ! Third. His companions considered him a "jolly good fellow," and rather "fast." Fourth. Ho had a revengful and malicious disposition. . ... Fit tli. He had been on a "spree" on the day of the tragedy. There, now, is the philosophy of the whole case in a nut-shell. Read it, ye "indulgent" fathers and mothers 1 . Read it, ye who are supplying your sons "liberally with money." The money so supplied is the price which the Devil gets for making your sons rakes, murderers, parricides, suicides and subjects for tlie hangman ! The parricide, in this case, is in his grave, and has answered for his misdeeds, by this time, to his Maker. It is not our province to judge or condemn him but it is our duty, as journalists, to say to tlie many other, "indulgent fathers," who, like the illfated Mr. Gouldy, are supplying their sons liberally with money, all the while that those sons are keeping late hours, in the company ot the vicious, the dissolule, and the depraved, with which this great city nay, evei-y great city swarms that you, too, are sewing a rich harvest for the Devil to reap in due time 1 There is nothing like late hours, plenty of money, and idleness, for finishing up, with lightning speed, the career of the fast young men, of which Mr. Frank Gouldy was, after all, no worse, probably, than a fair to middling specimen. '; . It is no offset to these conclusions to say that, as the evidence shows, Mr. Gouldy was in the habit of remonstrating with his son against his irregularities, and that he insisted upon it that Frank should be home by ten o'clock because the remonstrance came too late 1 too late 1 too late 1 The bad habits bad been formed i the roots of dissipation and vicious indulgence the slow and hardly-perceptible growth of years, it may be had struck down deep into the whole character, and, at the age of nineteen, it was idle for the indulgent parept to try to kill them. It was the indulgenceof earlier years, and the liberal supply of money subsequently, that made a demon of this young man, and which now not only bring down the gray hairs of a father in sorrow so the same bloody grave into which he has himself just headlong plunged, but bid fair to: send an entire household by red-handed violence to their final account. --' ' ' ' ' But, after all, is it not a very old truth which is thus' fearfully embellished in characters of blood ? As therohave been murderers, and fratricides, and parricides,. from about the beginning of tlie world, so, we dare say, there will be murderers, and fraticides, and parricides, until the world cometh to an end, as long as such recipes as these for the manufacture and encouragement of them are in vogue, especially in all of our large cities LATB Hours. ... - Plenty of Money. : - ' , . i Idle Habits, p , . i Take an angel of light from the regions above, place' him in New York, subject him to a regimen like tin's, and it would not be long before his transformation would be so thorough, from good to bad, that nothing of his former self would remain. If any thing, theiij , could thus be corrupted by the moral pestilences of that metropolis, what wonder that "last young men. the sons ot indulgent parents, with late hours and plenty of money, should so soon go to wreck and ' ruin ? What wonder that murders and suicides should ( abound, or that mankind should so often be startled with the commission of just such unnatural crimes as that which is the burden of these observations ! In- ' stead of wondering at them, indeed, the only surprise -should be that they occasion any wonder at all, logical ; consequences as thev are of undeniable, well-defined and well understood causes ! But young Gouldy, it may be further urged, was ' awakened by the revival of last winter, and joined the Methodist Church on probation. What does this show ? Nothing at all except that the youthful sinner was too old in sins, and too hardened by his "late hours,";and "plentiful supplies of money," for revival influ- , ences such as they are to make any enduring im- '. pression upon him for good. Those revivals may have ' ' done, and may now be doing a great deal of good, but i we fear, for every real convert they arc making, the devil, in this city, with his "late hours and plenty of nianey," is getting at least a dozen. No 1 The sort of religion to save society from such horrible episodes, ! and to drive away hell from earth if hell is ever to be driven from 'earth is, not that which operates spasmodically, or by fits and starts. It must be regularly ingrained into the nature, habits and education r of the man when he is young, in order that it may.; grow with his growth, and strengthen with his strength. The spasmodic religion of our day can never be successfully substituted for the "old paths." If the' ill- " fated father of young Gouldy had but learned to "train t up a child in the way he should go," in all human , probability he would have been blessed with knowing that "when he is old, he will not depart from it," or if he had taught his wretched son to "Remember his ,, Creator in the days of his youth," probably he would have been spared the futile experiment, of trying to .. awaken him to some sense of religious duty, by invok- ' ing from him the "revival influences" of last winter, 1 when It was too late, -

Trusting to a Single Crop. There is no crop that does not fail sometimes, though there are a few ; which are never wholly cut off in any one season. Grass, for example, always yields a partial crop, and a ' person may, if need be, depend wholly upon this pro- n duct as a means of subsistence. The same thing, however, can hardly be said of any other staple crop. Innumerable illustrations might be given of the danger of depending upon a single crop. The result in Ire--., land of reiving upon the potato crop is patent. The failure of tlie wheat crop in many parts of this coun- . try has involved thousands of farmers in debt, which it will take years of toil and economy to liquidate. A friend at the West has been so successful in raising peaches that he turned his whole attention to raising that crop. , Last year he realized a large net profit, and, looking for still greater results this year, he laid , out his plans accordingly, and incurred considerable debts to be paid from the proceeds of the peaches. The result is, that from five or six thousand trees he gathered scarcely two bushels of marketable fruit. A .mixed cultivation is the safest in the long run. If the potato crop fails let there be corn, wheat, barley, ' or other grain to fall back upon. The chances of ut- , ter failure is diminished a thousand fold, where there are three or four different crops nnder culture. A season destructive to one is likely to be just the thing for another. ' ' ' -,,; .;; ; -.--;