Marshall County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 17, Plymouth, Marshall County, 5 March 1857 — Page 1

,0 r THE BLESSINGS OF GOVERNMENT, LIKE THE DEWS OF HEAVEN, SHOULD FALL ALIKE UPON THE RICH AND THE POOR. JACKS O N.

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u sin ess Jiir-tctorijL THE MARSHALL DEMOCRAT, rVBUSIIZD STEST TIICK3D.lT MORXINO, BT A. C. THOMPSONS; P. MeDONALD TEKMS: If paid in adTancc At the ent of six month dt lijed until the end of the jer, - ' ADVERTISIXG: a ,iaiI(t..nlinea or less,) three week,. 1 01 mch additional luseriiuu, 1 Column three months, J"! ij Column six month J ; ! 4' Column one year,... - IX Column three months b M t!' f!nlmrn sit months. 5 ! Column one year, 25 00 Column three months, 14 00 Column six months 4 Jjj Column odo year, 0 Yearly advertisers have the privilege of one hange free of charge. Tbt Brmomit ob '(Dfficrl CUTS, &c, &c. . Our Job Department is now supplied with an extensive and well selected assortment of new styles plain and fancy Which enables us to execute, on short notice nnd reasonable terms, all kin-is of Plain and OrnimcnJOB PRINTING! NEAT. FAST AND CHEAP; seen as CIUCTLaK. HANDBILL. LA3EU, CATALOGUES, rAMrilLETS, BUSINESS C.W.D3, SLAVIC TiEfTDS A M JRTn.lGF.S; AnJ in short, B'unk of every variety :m-l cV.'crj.tion. Call and see specimens. TtfARSHALL COUNTY RF.rL'BLICAN, JX bj Mattinclt riynonrh. In 1. BROWNLEE k SHIRLEY, PEALEUS IN Drr Goods and Groceries, first door east of Michigan street .j. . Plymouth, Ir.d. BROOK 4 EVANS DEALERS IN DRY Goods and Groceries, comer Michigan and La Purtc sti cets Plymouth, InJ. C PALMER, DEALER IN DRY GOODS k Groceries, south corner 1 Porte an ' Foligan rtreets,. Plymouth, In!. NH. OGi'SBEE & Co.. DEALERS IN . Drr GtKHls & Groceries, Brick Stör1 Michigan street, Plymouth. Ind R M. BROWN, DEALER i HARDWARE . Stores, Tinware, A.c., Plymouth, Ind ADAM VI NN EDGE, WHOLESALE and Ret-.il Grocer Plymouth, Ind. w M. L. PIATT, MANUFACTURER Or Cat inet Ware, P'ym null, Ind. ivr

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, e5l s ue .n.c ugan pi., rnmuaui, in ELLIOTT Co MANUFACTURER OF I Wagon;, Carriages k Plows, PlymWh, Tn 1. COLLINS Si NICHOLS, MANUFACTURersofSoshic .Plymjuth. Inl. ' OHN D. ARMSTRONG. BLACKSMITH, south of the Bridge,. ...... .P ymoutii, InJ. ENJ BENTS, BLACKSMITH, Plymouth, Ind. 1 K. BRIGGS, BLACKSMITH, ! A - Plvmouth.Ind. K. BRIGGS, BLACKSMITH, Plymouth, Ind. EDWARDS' HOTEL, BY V. C. EDWARDS, Plymouth, Ind. AC. CAPRON, ATrORNEY & COUN- . ailorat Law Plymouth, Ind. C. CAPRON, ATrORNEY & COUNaIa ar T r w Tl fTrtrtitV TtmI CHA3. II. REEVE, ATTORNEY AT LAW tNoiarr Public Plymouth, In l. H ORACE CORBIN, ATTORNEJf AT LAW rlvmouth, Ind. TOHN G. OSBORNE, ATTORNEY AND coiisellorat Lnw.oJHce overC. Palmer's store, cor. Laporte and Mich, sts., Plymouth, Indiana. RAZER & IIUGUS, ATTORNEYS AND CoucRellorä ailw;. . I . .Plymouth, Ind. SAML, E. CORBALEY, NOTARY PUBLIC Plvraouülf Ind. j riymouui, inu. R. J. E. BROOKE. PHYSICIAN SURpeon Plymouth, Ind. iR. J. E. BROOKE, PHYSICIAN & SURpeon, Plymouth, Ind. THEO. A. LEMON, PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & Drugget Plymouth, ImL RUFUS BROWN, PHYSICIAN ,& SuitGEQX rijrmUth' ImU S"" tUGGINBOTIIAM, PHYSICIAN SUR - GEON, plym iuih, Ind. -F-OHM If. SHOEMAKER. WATCHMAKER and Jeweler.. , ' .Plvhj'Mith, IuJ. K LINGER & BRO. DEAIJERS IN LUMBER etc, PlTinouth, Ind. H A ENUY PIERCE, DEALER IN CLO thing k Furnishing Good, Plymouth, Ind. USTIN FULLER, MANUFACTURER H ENRYM. LOGAN Co., DEALERS IN Lumber, &c Plymouth, Ind. B ARBERING AND IIAIRDRESSING, BY Alfred Billows, .Plymouth, Ind. GLEAVELAND k HEWETT, DEALERS in Dry Goods, etc., .Plymouth, Ind. If. CASE, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Plymouth, Ind. ALOON, BY S. EDWARDS, Plymouth, Ind. f ll VIM AT T 1TÖMPOD TtTfCT j k - tn .ri i ii to A , Uiuccover raimer g store, Plymouth, Ind. HUME, HARNESS MAKERT Plvmouth, Ind. W M. RUDD, MANUEACTURER OF Boots and Show,. . . -: - Plrmomh. Ind.

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C, STA LEY, MANUFACTURER AND .dealer in Boou k Shoes. Plroiouth, Jnl. AIS1ICAN H0U sS, BY J W. I V If : SMith of rircr b.-il;e I nv i. lit IV7TR3. DUNHAM,' MILLINER k MANTUA VJKxier, Plrmouth, lad.

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ANGEL VOICES. MY EMU A ALICE BROWNE. Wc en hear them ia tho clanir, In tlie jar of crime and trade. Songs U e sons of morning s uig, Whet tinu-'. cornerstone was laid; Yes! we hear them evermore, In the pvuses of he strife, Hinting of a de a thlcs shore, ; . And a crowned icrnjrUl liicl Stcnr P. ogrt ssijrj thuuJerous m ircJi, Cmn A Cnsii thf higher striins, Cli intcd 'nyath the awful arch. For our losses and our pains; - Stunned against the stony wall Of death's old-time mvitcrr, Generation rise and fall. Like a windy desolate se.-i. We have gained the higher slopes Of the n3wT, better times But the gr en hills' flowery tops Hint of furthei, purple climes! An j alas! the myrtles sweet, That have won our lrow from pain. Climb, and blossom at our feet, Outoi raller roofed with rain! Bruised by our ancient fall From, the starry height of G jd. We ire poets, fieün all That was lost in liuma blood; I eeling inly, that, to be, Even throu0h a life undone, Is fcr uoblar than to he From nuncntitity imwon! We are propheU of the tmth, AnJ the world's touch cannot strain Tint which glorilic.s our vouth , Frm the old abuse of p tin. Fur bei w us "n t!ie va.e, Lc.iu a d uk .md tlioniy cros. Vinj-üK tltspevj, with the bile Of o'jrlK ivy lum.ui lus Fr ia thcr shadow, wVere we cried With uur ijcjs on ihe s l. We h ive g ain-d 'ne sunny mJc, Fuüiiit. the sm'.ie of GjJ! So tliey h iwnt us erermore. Ia the p iU.-es of the strife, o'ces, from the stirrv shore Oi" ü crwneJ lm:n rt i! life! G'eauH o-f Fr sniit M tys that shine Where the world's dust f illctli not Lizht?, like golden seas of wine, Isling iu toy a ainless spot Revelations are, whereby We are made to understand Li.e and deuth'i grc.it mystery And the mystery beyond! Yes! oor babes with folded hands Sare fioai any change, or time Of the rare and radiait lauds Area pro; hery subhme! Saturday Eocninj 'osf. H-7 Ghali Danhters Edncatedt .i j ties lull, ni It tt til !j'f! I.- v tl.ev sh.ill v iitr.t J;ia '! t-r. JfT-j et-iall y . L..I.P '.ist ? i At n:i v A'iJows, who -.;ivn inr f r uiu', no V p Ia:.y, wl.n-h n-.ml J nable tht iii ;., )M.uv,tl. ir children n);i .-. iely i:iJemm. . . rxvt.let.'. U.-rniiell" I H!,,r f -r ih -i-d;ii-v b:-f.-i-!. .l:i vL : L'ii:srivi t-;:i iiiuallv - m "hww i..tii I sun. u Ii ihe j a h for my chi!J In ll.orii v pri.lt I in rre.i nivsf If?" o ThHr OW'.i tX)JM-':uai ulS UU 'lit them n.V , . f . . , . for their livelihood; how unjustly such women are ostracised: and how uneouriL ion- . ... , , . sequenUy, are their chain 1 fr ob.ainin a itumfortable sa-thimnr. in life by marriage. The case is harder if, as th.e phrase oes, "ihey have s -en beiler times." There cnu be btit ofie, a iswer to this qu siivn. Every gM, no matter how poor, oiiLjht to be eduealeJ, with the couvictioti in her mother miad, that the chances are she will become a wife and mothtr, however poor she may be. - V " : . ' . . . ... tor tbi? destiny, therefore sho should be ,rained U" neressnrj it may be that she should support herself, the duties shv will probably be called on to perform eventually; should iiever be disregarded. Socn v s fjll of wives, who, bavin been I i for teachers and dressmakers. having capably discharged, the tails j of iht ir pt. f ssion have; nf.er marriage, I Pr,'v"1'u:Vll-v" '!'('un'P;('l iheir new i . vocation. Al.my a Iiusb.ind, m conse m m a ' quince if beifig uni ed lo su-h n woman. nas oee ii u r:vn into c?n .courses, ll a . -. ,-. home is tin.; Jr. ' o herwise disagreeable, a ina:i nf Ius pi iutiples. or unusual ; sei Hsh-.ess is very apt ' to eek amusement tiaewi.ere. lucre is a ppuiar notion, mat housekeeping need not be taught a gill, for that every wife, after all, must learn such things by her own experience. Nothing can be more absurd. Does a man put oil learning a business till it is linw.fori him self? Even, therefore, Where a daughter has to learn some trade by which to support herself while single, should bo' taught the duties of a wife, because ihe chances are that she will some day, bo marri ed. ' :.- Nor is housekeeping the Alpha and Omega of these du iea. Deeper than it lie other qu ili u-s. qui e. i.itlispensible, and which ate s ill irior uece? ?a y ' to a husbaa.ls happiuess, or.eveir a wife's. L would consurao to i much space fo; us to enumerate them all, but we may um f'tera up by saying; that daughters Should;. bo

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taught to be womanly. The tendency of that education which disciplines a girl to depend on herself entirely, 'or to battle with the world," according to the popular form, is to render her so far, or the less feminine; and if nature did not do something to counteract this proclivity, if women generally were not, because of their physical, moral and mental organization, womanly and not mannish, the evil world would be worse than it is. In the existing state of society. especially m great cities, there must be women who will have a fit opportunity to marry; but that is no reason why they should not be made as feminine as a mother's influence and example can render them. And farther, as no mother has a right to pre-suppose that her daughter will never marry, she has no right to educate her in a way that will render her mariiage less likely. For a truly womanly woman has much the best chauoe of being loved by a truly worthy man. The ordination of nature has made a tender, affectionate, sympathising, cheerful, patient, unselfish female more likely to attract strong, earnest, heroic men. than one of a different stamp. To argue that this ought not to be, that mannish females are vastly more noble creatures, is simply preposterous. Men love, by a fine instinct, which generally leads them aright. that is, when they love in the pure sense of that term, and they would love oftener in that sense, if woman were truer to that ideal womanhood, which even the lost reverence and acknowledge. The best dower a mother can give her daughter, is the dower of perfect womanliness. It will be at once a protection against the vicious, an 1 an attraction to the pure.--Where there is a necessity for the daughter earning her livelihood, bv the practice of some trade, by waiting in a store, or by other employments of a similar character, the aim should be so educate the child, that while she should be self-reliant, she should not be the less femine, while she should think and act for herself, she should not become mannish, or, as the world calls it, "strong minded." From the Locomotive. SKETCHES OF SCENES ABOUT TOWN. In our last, a promise was given that in this weeks number, we should detail an account of the Exhibition of the Blind, but it has been already so generally spread before the Public, by our contemporaries, that now it has lost its chief interest, and we shall be brief in our statement. The exhibition was at Masonic Hall, on Thursday evening, the 12th inst., and like all similar novel it's of public show without change it drew a large consourse of spectators. The Superintendent at the opening made some explanation, as of the program- me for the Evening Exhibition of the Pupils, and as to the general method of instruction employed at the institution. He then proceeded to i call out the younger class under training. These went through with their examination, in a manner which clearly demonstrated the excellence of the system by which learning and art. are attained among them. , Next was introduced the pupils in music, who sang with such musical taste ease of style, as would put to blush, many who have the advantage of sight, and have been long laboring to acquire as great proficiency without success Next a sightless, but beautiful young lady, read chapters in the Bible, of raised letters, nd with such readiness and rapidity as to greatly astonish the audience:. A young man also read the 90th Psalm, which was called for by a spectator. Ho took the Bible and turned the pages from one Book to another, until he came, to Psalms, and then proceeded until he came to the 98th chapter, which was read in a free and easy style, not often surpassed by any scholars. The greater part of the evening was taken up with exercises in music. Some comic glees were sung w w with such amusing effect, as to bring down the hearty plaudits of the audience and be repeated.' The exercises, taken in all were highly creditable to the skill and patience of the Instructors, and the intelligent proficiency of the pupils. The State has reason to be proud of her Institution for the Blind. Exhibition of the Deaf and Dumb. By far the most interesting exhibition of any other, which have been made before an Indianapolis audience this season, was that of those truly to be pitied unfortunates, the well tutored mutes of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum. Masonic Hall was densely crammed on Friday evening, the 13th inst., with delighted spectators, to witness the rare public spectacle of amusing intellectual powers, as displayed and developed in the Dumb, by the skill and perfec- .. . ... . - - . . tion of scientific instruction. It is a Heavenly science, come down to earth, which imparts to a deadened mind the capacity of comprehension, and the power of Language by gesticulation. ; It is due to the Professors and Instructors in this institution, to say, that the evidences on that night, of their masterly perfection in the art of teaching the Dumb to talk, was remarkably astonishing. An opening address was made to the audience by the talented Superintendent, Mr. McIntyre, in which he elaborately discanted upon the perplexing difficulties which attend the begin of instruction to the uufortunate mute pupil. . The labored patience to be endured, before ideas of language can be successfully impressed upon their incoherent minds, is a task which at times seems hopeless; but when accomplished, what animated joy thrills the soul of the

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mute, Hand creates .a lively desire for the farther acquisition of mental knowledge. -The different classes were successively called out, by the several teachers in charge and went through all the various examinations with surprising accuracy. The readiness and rapidly with which they would write answers to given questions, was truly a most astonishing evidence of the perfect system by which they receive their difficult education. A little Miss of 10 or 11 years old, f'rom Memphis, Tenn, was called out to recite the Lord's Prayer her flowing anglets, angelic face and form, togather with .he graefal ease aid j -s nu. j j., t lu. , Voiin, caused a thiiil . f deli '!.t in the heans of all pivse.it fceveial vun men were calle i upon to give illustrations of humorous sports, vnd Mechanic trades, and well did '. hiv ro thiou-h ihe re i formame of them. B.i. the crowni:ig beauty of the whole exhibition, was the l'aatomime retitaii on o the Crucifixion, by one of the most intelligent and lovely lookijiir vountr ladies, ih it ever eyes res td upon. Who amony; that 'crowded audience f intelligent spectators, did no: feel tlr bean throbs of symp.nhe.ie pity, and almost weep too, at the silont a:id ileeply intrestig sceno before them; that one so charmingly graceful and lovely, should be deprived of hearing and speech. Yet, "There was speech i i her DumluiSi, L?nguai;e i:i her vcrv gesture, and such Grandeur in her lk. as did boppeak 'Th.e wonder f a world ransomed, She di I so play wiih roas n, And discours by sp?echless dialect, Ti'.at nil who did behold, Were moved wiih wonJerinir Love. ft Long will i: bef. re the las inur impresma le by tl U exhibi.i n. can cease to haunt th.e ni"mo: v f ihi;se who were frtunatf enough to wi ness it. Tite Asylum for the Daf 1 Dumb, holds the f.rst r n:k f all the Ins i u i ms, whitdi the noble chaiity of t'ie Sia! has s.ab'ished. Slavs Abolition Agitators." Notwid.s'andhii' the pvre rebuke :iveu to ti e vi 'h'iit "aboli i vi agitatirs' by their signal (h feat at the li e 1'iesi Jen'ia! c-Mite.sr. there nr. s ill smiie few br.-iis crazel agitators lurki ig among the people, over our coinr. ry. who are roatinuall" haipiag upon ih? old song of shivery, wi ii no se'njitiir sptecnl pu; p -se either, except to aggravate tlie i izns of the Southern States by continually hscerati'tg their feelings and priJe to an unmerciful extent, and in a manner altogether unjus i liable, unreasonable and senseless. Now, we are as strongly an i-slavery iii sentiment, a3 any other can be, but "ive are disposed to be governed bv a riirht reason, in the consi 1eia i n of a suhj.M t which is of so much moment to those whoso vi al interests are so immensely involved ia the evil. We live i:i a Free State, and have all theprrper affection and veneration for Libenv. to which its saored inspired ptim ij h's ever must command from a purely p itri i io and Free :Ionidov;g people. We have never possessed ny iu.ercst ia such property as negro si tves, nor would we consent t be ' o .v:i"s. even iluu jfli thev mil be he . l,..,! uv'.t ru.v" ;lWi,,r , , f :lVl. owncsshin, b-e-i ise .hat we ; WVR. pJV(. .,n,, ::no , r :, fr ee p .0tle. b'l (lien we know hat ti:ere are very, many a i a thousan !s among 'he -i iz sis i f the Southem b a es. who are nob!e-mi ide I. n.iirioMr j Anviiciüs. an 1 fully s-v.ild-, too. to hi uiisialuial de: a l-i i..!i f the nervi, in his hapl MS coii.li ifii of slavery. IJ:it thnst same ei lzens. b"i 14 ia i! e nature of f,heir nativi y, sul j'c ed to ci cum ancc-s arid influences which o!i:rol ihei; advance and progress in lif., become reconciled to, and contiimed in opinion, that negro slavery U justitiablu, because that it is osser.tia! to iheprospen.y cf S ates i:i hot Southern elimates, where whi'.e labor could not endure the necessary exposure far the cultivation of the lands in that region. This being wi.h them a settled eon vif. ion, which the past hisory cf the country has not disproved, they naturally claim the right to exercise their piivilege, in common with the citizens of other portions of the Union, to do hi such manner, wi.hin the limits of their sphere of action, as may be best calculated to promote their happiness and advance. their prospeiry. Is there anything wron or uiireasoi-.tbk! in this?" Should they mt have the s 'a me rilu and privilege in the States of wlsich thev are na.ives, ti prosecute" their energies, by means best adap ed to serve the multiplicity of inter cs's in which they are engiged, as tin ci:zens of tlie North, in ,lhe piosecu i-m of their van .u pursers ci Industry, Com merce and Manufacture.?. We peak,, not as the advocates of shivery, but as the advocates of equal Justice to 11 that one portion of tl.e citizens of our States, should enjoy their sovereign rights, as may best accord with tl eir vi-'ws of what is proper and rrquisite for their welfare, equally, and with as much freedom of ac.ioti as the citizens of another, and more favored portion of the Ameiican Union, in their gigantic strides of prosperous enterprise. If we, at the North, are more favored and for tunate than those at the South, let us study to be content with our favored condition, and make ourselves happy in the enjoyment of it. We have been led to the above remarks, fiom a conviction of duty we owe to our readers there are so many subtle publica tions which come under their notice, tainted with fanaticism, upon the subject" of slavery, that we recommend that they should ever cautiously guard against thoe rank ab-li ion statements o fieqi?e:iilv uttered in those rabid aboli ilion sheei scattered 'broa least ove r the countrythey are mischievous in iheir purpose, and cannot fiil to prove greatly detrimental tothe jwaeeful continuance f our beloved Union. Our p iper js -neutral, we are conservative in pt t it;iplet and would to Go l ihat.aH ihe American people were governed more by tuoso considerations ior mu general goou

which would moko them all a conservative people. As a neutral paper, we feel it a right to protest against the abuse of privilege,; a3 so imprudently manifested in the vehement writings of those crazed brained abolition advocates. Wo will ever warmly contend for preseiving, as sacred to freedom, all our western and northern territories, now exempt from the blight of Slavery let ns all resolutely unite to prevent the extension of the bonds of slavery into them and wiih that, our dut is fulfilled as respects that vexed subject. Bu as regard the matter i.i the exis.i'ig slave Stales, leave that to the -i iz -ns thereof, tow.sik u: their own salvati wii. Ii is their province to doamong themselves as best mav sui. th.em. Neither the right nor the privilege belongs to us of the NwUb, tomeidle or interfere in the matter. . There is a p itit beyond which no people will be goaded, without revolution and war; to thai point are the indiscreet and reckless '"agitators" hastening by their insane course. Let every good citizen reflect and consider of this, and fearlessly strive to check the mad f jlly of the dem.v gogueufiV; keep a fithful watch for the preservation of the Union. It is tho stability of ihat which is to render far moid great arid glorious tho American Nation, than any other ration have ever yet attained. " Agitator" cease your pretendod acrimonious rancor, and practicil hostility towards our brothers of the South cease your vituperations and infamous de::u;iciti ris cease your fiendish crusade against Southern Institutions. If you are a lover of the Am-eiiean Union, and of Arneiican Freedom, cease t act the mad man, and act as may become a Patriot. Indiunapnlis Locomotive. T3TVe have a few more consiieratioits to submit to the wives and mothers cf our country with regard to the preparation of Pood; and, in the hope th.it the tempest which was excited by some fr. ir.er strietuies on Htual Cookery has by this time subsided into calm, we proceed to propound them. They rela'e morj imme(iii ely to the hdiuence cf Cookery upon health. I. That Dyspepsia, chronic Indigestion, is exceedingly prevalent in this country, is undeniable. Wc believa that there arc ten cases of L in every thousand inhabitants to oneamoiiga like number in Europe. All must realize that this disparity has a cause or causes; and f;w will deny that this cause or causes must be sought, ,t i kvist in p irt, in our dietetic customs and ha'jits. We appeal to our seniors in sup

port of our assertion that the prevalence of Dysnensia among us is a modern phenomenon. Our Revolutionary ancestors scaicely knew this disease even by name; and it was quite rare among our people in moderate circumstances even forty years ago. Need we say more on this head? II. If we weie required to indicate the c-iuies of Dyspepsia, and o.Iur disorders of iheor-'ans of digestion, we woul.1 say o they are .aleratus.'Sal pette, an 1 other nlkv.line preparations; hot f o.l and beverages, especially hot bteaJ, alcoholic lienors, Lue supp.rs, prk eternally, meat f i 'd to chips, and bad ckery in general. Wit heir no one who is not. hi- Oy ihis enumvra i )ti io inis? on takisg it to herself. We m-a'.i it only f r ih.ose who come naturally in the way of p. We caano help reiterating that too many of our young women are deplorably r.ii-e.Juc.-i.ed. It is well o have accomplishment, btu not at ll.e cost of ueglocitig solid and necessary acquirements. Th.e young; I t.ly who can play the piano fairly, yet cannot cook a jood w holesome family dinner witliout assistance, has begun her education at the wrong end. The family whose ili-own up daughters feit ia the pas lor and leave tho eookinir t the tender mercies of a green emigrant, may not realize thatthose daughters arv missing opportunities which they will one day wish' they hid improved; but we dare whisper it very loudly in iheir ears, at whatever risk to our own. We are all e-ertino; a little above our business, and it is lime we admonished each other to come down. Those who. resent the admonition only demonstrate thereby tl eir urgent need of it. X. V. Tribune. Two Egg Stories. A friend sends us the following story, which, though old, is good, and will bear repetition: One of our coast packets (which we will not say) was hailed on her downward trip to this city by an old I idy, standing near a convenient landing, who gaVb the usual signal to round to ami take on a passenger. The boat -was accordingly headed to shore, the engine plopped, ihe plank run out, and the ancient maiden, wiih maiy signs cf trepidation, tottred aboard. Her first query was; . '.'You haitit none on you seen tho cap'n round here, have ye?7 The "cap'n" was pointed out to her. She hobbled up towards him, gave him a deeply reverential look over the rim o her silver-bowed spectacles, and the foflowing dialogue ensued: . . . . "lie you -cap'n of this boat?" "Yes-, madam.' v "Be you gwino down to Orleans?" "That is our present Intention, madam. "Well, cap'n," (producing a small bundle from under her shawl,) "here's eleving eggs, and I want you to trade .'em off for me in Orleans, and get me one 'spool of tnreaa:one SKein oi sus, anu ine rest in beeswax. r And cap'n would ye be kind enough lo wait a little mir.nit. You see the 'old .hen is orr the nest .low, and I want orfully to get another egg lo make Up the dozen."' This is hardly better than the following, which we declare upon an afHIavit to be s'.tie.ly true: ' , ' - . An "oi I fallow away tip iu."Varmount," had longbeoa importuued by , Iiis wife to

buy a pound of white loaf sugar, just for company. He had uniformly refused, on tho ground that it was sheer extravagancy and he could not tolerate it. At length, however, he so far relented, as to consent to the measure, provided his "better half would scratch round sad find a dozen eggs he having ccrtained tho precise rates of value between the commodities. Out went the good wife, and soon returned wiih "eloving" eg 3, and tho intelligence tht the old hen was on." Tho farmer vrti3 impatient; Dobbin stood harnessed at the door, and he wanted to be oIT. So. going to the barn, ho took a bushel basket, clappe 1 it over the hen, took up tho nest, hen and baske', and started Lr town. It is unnecessary to add that the last egg was laid on tho w;y. Tho Origin of Wheat. It is a fact not generally known, that the origin of wheat and other cereata, is involved obscurity, for the old notion that it is indigenous in Central Asia, that starting point of tho researches of modern botanists. History itifm ras us that when our forefathers began to cultivate tho gooseberry, currant, asparagus, beet root and strawberry; but is silent as to when wheat, rye, barley, beans, maizs, cucumbers and melons wen known only as indigenous plants. Nowhere do the cereals exist as native; nowhere have they a tendency to run wild. II they were not preserved by human labor, tliey would apparautly perish together. In a late number cf ihs Edinburgh Review, an able paper is devoted to discussing the cereals.especially wheat. The writer states that there are two theories upon the subject. One considers races of plants to be immutable, and holds, therefore, that wheat existed, nay, may still exist, indi?inously, somewhere. The other maintains that the cereals, r.3 at present known, has been devel oped by cul iva i on. This is tl p opinion hld by tho writer ia the Review, who even speciiies the particular plant from which wh 'at has originated; a grass growing wild on the Mediterranean, and known to bo anists by ihe name of icgilops. In confirmation of this hypothesis may be adduced the fact, that, whenever the early history of the cultivation of a specL's is known,, it is that man has first applied to his own use a plant growing wild about him. He discovered some berry, for example, whosj taste he likes; and in order to have it more plentifully, begins to cultivate it; the cultivated plan, impioves upon the best specimens; and at last a berry b obtained, so superior to tho one he first found growing wild, that it could not be po:sib!e to trace its otigin, if the process h is not taken place under his own observation. Ana'agus to ihis. it is fair to presume, l as Leen the oritjin of wheat. In ftct, a Fsench bo'attist, reasoning in this way, and observing many striking points of resemblance between the ajgilops and wheat, undertook to develop the latter f.om ih former, and by saving, from year to ye.ir. the seed from such plants as appeared t oapp otch nearer to i.s object, actually sueceedeJ in h's ohj ;ct. The plant thus obt lined, s ill continues to be cultivated, both by him an 1 by others, and to yield real, b-'tna f'-h wheat. The opponents of the development there

of, however, maintain that ihe plant on which this exp yiment.Iist. worked, was an acci lental hybii l. orcros. between the lollops and wheat growing in adjacent fields. In favor of this view, they adduce th.e fact that by such a crossing, artincially condutrted. similar results have bon produced. On the other hand, natural hybrids, between grasse, are as yet unknown to botanists. Moreover when different sorts of wheat arc grown together,, they never cross. A still more conclusive proof is tin fact that hybrids are rarely maintained beyond th.e second generation without an infusion cf new vi:or frcm the parent tock, in which case a gradual assimulation to the latter occurs. Hence, if the ex periment which we have quoted, had originated in a natural cross between the aigilops and wheat, th.e hybrid would either have perished after a year or two, or have returned to its original .ype. It is probable, therefore, that wheat never existed wild, but has been developed by cultivation from a rude plant. The Edinburgh Reviewer, after reviewing the question in every aspect, comes to this opinion at last, and says nothing can shake his conviction, unless wheat should bo found really growing wild in some ravino of Ceutral Asia. ' Never Do It. Never ask the ago of an unmarried lady when she is past twenty-five. Never expose your property to a rich relation, if you would have him treat you as a cousin. Never have it come to the ears of a rich and childless relative, that you secretly pray for hi3 sudden and premature dissolution. Never tell a man he's a fool; in the firftt place he won't beliuve you, in the next you make him' your enemy. ' Never speak of tho gallows to a man whose fither or grandfather has been hung; nor of the corruptfon-of cflice-holdess to government defaulter. Never speak of the 'time that tried men's souls' to one of the Tory ancestry; nor of the battle of New Orleans to one.who thinks the army of England invincible. Never attempt to quiz a man in compa ny who might ietort by kicking" you down stairs. . - Never let your friend know when you drop in to take a friendly dinner with him, that your landlady 'blocked thi game on you, because you had not paid your last week's board. " , ' ; Never impose secrecy on a man to whom vou communicate anything in confidence; he is sure to tell it to some, friend, If-you do. ' . '"Never take a newspaper without paying for it -fl' the unhHppiest net, you can possibly be guilty of. ;

(WHOLE NO. OS.

The Stm f arever in tho Meridian. Prof. Sontag. aatronoasi to th "'.Gria noil Expedi.iou," ia his narrative says: "As the land adjacent to ihe Pole, is All terra incognita, it is impossible to eay what additions to the stores of natural science a visitor to these regions might be abb to mako. Certaiu h 13, however, that a new and witlo field would to opened for inyestigation. Everything there would be novel; and that fact alone would bo well calculated to stimulate his attentive faculties.The difficulties which would present themselves to tho investigator may bo appreciated at home; but they would bi greater or less, according tc circumstances of which, wc know nothing. We kaow net, f,r example, whether tha Pol is over with open water, o? icy sea, or dry land; nor dj wa know which of these three conditiors would be most favorable for investigation. It may be presumed, however, that &n open sea would be, i;i several respects, the most disidventageous. In the first place, it would, in all probability be so deep that thj ship would be unable tj anchor; and tho current might be too strong to permit her to keep stationary loug enough to make accurate observations. In the second place, if she could not ruamtniii her position steadily at on point, the commander would experience a new embarrassment, viz: aa every meridian must extend southwardly, ho would b? npt to lese that on which ho approached the Pole, and consequently, l:o would be at a l:zz lew tt? shapo big ccurso homewarl. "The occurrence of this s'rango difiicul.y will naturally present itself a3 ono among msny novel phtnomena which will arrest the adventurer's attention, and the? following observations would probably occur to him on the spot: The lime of day (.o use that phraseology for waist of any other that wouli be more appropriate) would no longer be matked by any apparent change in ihe attitude of the eun above the horizon; because to a spectator at the Pole no such change would appear, except toths small amount of th.e daily change of declination. Thus, not only to the eye, but als for ihe practical purpose of obtaining the time by astronomical observations, the sun would appear thoughout the twenty-four hours neither to liee nor fail, but to desctibe a circle round the heavens pirallel with the horizon. Thereto:, thi usil mode of ascertaining the time would utterly fail; and, indeed, however startling may be the .assertion, it is nevertheless trui that time, or tho natural distinction of riot, would be no more. Tills will appear freni the consideiation that the idea of apparent tira refr3 only to the pariicuhr meiidinn on which an observer happens tobe placed, and is marked or determined only by thi distance cf the sun, or ether heavenly body, from that meridian. Now as an observer at the Pole is on the meridian, but is stationed at a point where 11 meridian!) meet, it is evident that 'apparent time for him has no existence - 27An exchange speaks of an interesting examination Lately made upon the eye of a muidered man, with a view cf testing the truth lately published by an English phybici iti, which alleged that the lata; scene riewe.l by a murdered man would remain impresso i upon th.e ictina of the eye, at rlna.stl'a tmntfCiinn im.in lli. Tili tt or,-n li . T;fl exm;.ijn waa ade, and tho wiV L,3i; b( ar s:iinony that there is truth nnony in the prittc ple involved. The surgeon perf rrned a skillful dissection of the eye, and succeed n bringing the retina-, one of the most de'n-ate cf human forms, being an t'jpanston of the optic Ecrve, under tho view cf a microscope. Although there was nothing upon thartj tint examined which would lead to the detection cf the murderer, yet there Was the i upression upon it which sufficient)? established 'ha fact that the retina of the eye under a common microscope reveals a most wonderful as well as a beautiful sight; and in this instance, impressions as upon a daguerreotype plate, at once interesting and startling to behold, were plainly marked. It is to be hoped that future experiments may be made, and the cause of science ad vauced. A Sharp Girl. A few years ago, among .'the reigning beUe3 in New Orleans, was a young lady from up the river, who was known by the not very feminine soubriquet ot "Ihn unit Western." . Our fair heroine was as remarkable for her witty and cultivated converskaion as she was for her very ijreat personal attras-, lion.?, ', , Ono evening.Jwhen she was standing iu a ball-room, surrounded by a bevy of admiring beaux, an impertinent scion of chivalrydom, (to speak a la Willis) asked her abruptly: . r "Prav, Miss , why are you callad' The Great Western?" "Ileally, Sir," was the ready and caustic reply, "I cannot tell, unless it is be-. causa 1 hare so many flat in :ovl" 3 Iiis needless to say that the inquiiing youth was not the only victim Lit by thi witty reply. . Upon another occasion, tho sarao lady met at ihe foot of the ß Lairs, as she was re-, turning from a walk, a person who hai . just beer, to call upon her, and whom, as h happened, sho by no means affected: "Oh, Miss - !" heerclaimed, '! regret no much that I did not find you .si, home." "Do you?" "I left mv aard, however." "It will dojustfls well, fcir." wax fSa very unexpected answer which he rrcv.v- , STWhat is called ventriloquism . ii natural gift improved bn art. Few possess it. and even if they did, its practice wotrld be valueless w ithout wit, humor, and pantomimic dexterity.