Marshall County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 28, Plymouth, Marshall County, 3 June 1858 — Page 1

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If paid In advance, 1 00 Kt the tnd of six months 1 50 Tf 4UvpA until the end of the vcar 2 00 ADVERTISING: n. i !; m am thne creeks 1 OO VUC l b-U ll vr. E&eh additional insertion V Column three months 5 00 8 00 ij Column one year J Coluirn six months, i? i Column one year, J." 1 Column three months, 1 rMnmn air months " uu J W4 .AJ. w. 1 . , ... 1 Column onifyear uu Yearly advertisers hare the privilege of one hange free of charge Democrat Job Office! PLAIK 1 t RULES AND unLTm CUTS, BQRBERS. &c.,&c nur- loH Department Is now supplied with an extensive and well selected assortment of new styles plain and fancy TOS T"ET jE2, Which enible9 us to execute, on short notice and - reasonable terms, all kinds of Plain and OrnamenJOB PRINTING! NEAT. FAST AND CHEAP; SITU AS CISCCXAWf fUXDBItXS, LABELS, fAMTHLETS, BÜSINESS CARDS, BLAXK DEEDS A MORTGAGES CATALOGUES, And in fhort, Blanks of every rariety and descriptionCall and see specimens. The Burial at Sea. BT MAKK VLMOS. The solemn words are said, "Let the sea receive the dead! In its vast unf ithomed bed, until Time shall be no more . The frothing of a wave! and the good, the kind, the brave, Is in his ocean grave all his storms of life are o'er. His messmates stare with eyes of dull and long surprise, That where their comrade lies not a trace should now be seen; The waves still roll and leap oer the chamber of his sleep, Down, down in the great deep, as though he had not been. Ha messmates walk away, and in hoarse whispers 3ay, "God rest him!" So they pray. Who doubts their prayer is heard? When seated at their mess they. find one face the less; Each shows his kind distress, though he docs not speak a word. Some think thai when again they cross that restless main, They'll look and look iL vain for their messmate's place of rest; And some will sadly sigh, and wish that when they die, In churchyard they may lie with those they have loved the best. Death will not come and go without his fitting woe Methinhs 'tis doubly so wh:n he meets us on the sea; The world is then so small, a Ship contains it all The dead man 'ncath the pall! How large apart was he. Ode en SL Cecilia's Day. Descend, ye nine: descend and sing: The breathing instrumeuts inspire; Wake into voice each silent string, And sweep t,he sounding Ij re! In a sadly -pleasing strain Let the warbling lute complain: Let the trumpet sound. Tin the roofs all around The shrill echoes rebound: While, in more lengthened notes and slow, The deep, majestic, solemn orpins blow. Hark! the numbers soCt and clear Gently iteal upon the ear; Now louder, and yet louder rise, And fill with spreading sounds the skies; pxulting in triumph, now swell the bold notes: fn broken air trembling, the wild music floats, Till, Jty degrees, remote and small, The strains decay, And melt away, In a dying, dying fall. JT music, minds an quäl temper kriOw, Nor well too high, nor sink took low. If in the breast tumultuous joys arise, Music her soft, assuasive voice applies; Or, when the soul i pressed with cares, Eihaltsher in enlivening airs. Warriors she fires with animated sounds; ars balm into the bleeding lover's wounds; Melancholy lifts her head, Morpheus rouses from his bed, Sloth uufolds her arms and wakes, Lis iening envy drCps her snakes; Intestine war no more our passions wage. And giddy factions bear away their rage. Jjut when our country 's cause provokes to arms, 7Iow martial music every bosom warms ! So when the first bold vessel dared the seas, High on the stern the Thracian raised his strain, i. ,x :WmVw Argo saw her kindred trees

Descend from Pelion to the main. Transported demigods stood round. And men grew heiocs at the sound, Inflamed with glory's charms;

Each chief his sevenfold shield displayed, And half unsheathed the shining blade: And sea?, and rocks, and skies rebound To arms, to arms, to arms! Porx. I M M HOME. In the night when all is silent, and ihe little stars twinkle in the far-off heavens, I look lingeringly across the wide ocean and sigh for home. The power and bauty of that word few can realize who have not at some time, lived in other lands, far awny from the association of early childhood, and from the sweet by-lanes all fragrant with the primrose, the daisy and the brier lanes where children gathered in joyful gambol of mirth, sacred now to the heart of ripened manhood. It is some years since I first thought of wandering into distant parts, and gathering up the romance of enchanted localities, to return laden with associations that should make me happy, and lend a halo of glory to my homely fireside. Man sets out in the morning, all-sufH cient in his enthusiasm, and chanting his merry notes thinks so to pass through the turmoil and contention of life, in the midst of his journey he wavers and stagers oft, without knowing which way to go. See him a look backward and a look forwardmammon is struggling with him, while af fection is presenting to his view the child at its play, and the rippling brook where he was wont to watch the bubbles, as they m kissed the lilies in the evening tide accents gently say: 'Home, Home.' Our ejaculations startle many; they view us with astonishment; they are dim, shadowy, and often incoherent; often in talk the heart is wandering and unstable, where it should be fixed and abiding. Oh! this indecision of purpose, this gnawing at the heart, that will not let U9 rest; all the day long we are binding ourselves to the bidding of expediency, and all the night unraveling these very things by the force of affection. Awhile we have a quiet conscience, build up friendships, and think what other years will do, if God spares us, to cement those ties; but suddenly a little trivial incident unmans us, the musio that swells the hearts of our fellow-workers finds us in tears. Yes! that is a song mother used to sing; we remember her gentle voice; that sweet benignant face we must see again. Our resolutions of yester-hour are gone. Once again we start on a new life; we talk to our fiiends of going home, resigning all our prospects, and gladdening the old fireside by our presence; aad yet we do not get away, ihe struggle goes on; We are not consistent; we are as changing as the . wa vering wind: so say those wo know us out wardly. Man do vou understand the struggle that is going on? Do yoü under stand the human heart? Accuse us not harshly. When letters go to tell those at home we are well, they are written with a sad heart; with all our seeming cheerfulness and desire to make absent ones think we are happy, a little word unconsciously glides in; wishes and joys and hopes are not strangers in such connections, and never will be until the heart becomes uncon scious of life. Mather thinks our absence long; broth ers look forward with delight to a happy reunion; sisters feel the separation on a bri dal day. Was it for bread that wa came away? then if we return can we find the means of support for ourselves in a society in which we have no distinct identity? Here we live and have every intellectual gratifica tion. There we rosy sit and revel in the warm affections of kindred and friends, but we lack the bVead; we do not possess the ability to apply ourselves to the old rou line. Does not mistrust dim our vision? Let affection be but our guide, and though humble our cot tage-fare, worda of content are on our lips, children gather around our knees. Tne church-bell sounds through the dell, and before the night's rest songs, of joy are heard to ascend on high. The meandering river that our little bark glided on is ever present to us; wo see its green banks in the twilight. Here we gently floated down the stream as the evening sun went to iest on the top of the distant hills, and we sang a merry rus tic 6 song. The coy young maidens sat on the water's banks, and pleasant looked each one as we shouted a hearty 'Hurrah!' Then we would pull our boat on shore, laugh at the wild stare of the cattle, dance in . the woodstill all the children put on ourgest ures, and bash fa! girls gave glances of ap proval, and once again row away and sing the boatman's song; By the home fireside we lent ourselves to romance and a dreamy Imaginativeness, told tales of giants craving the blood of

Englishmen, of little Tom Whittingtons and great Bow-Bells, built pretty casles in the air, rode on airy nothings, and shut our eyes to behold little firmaments of sunshine and glory revolving at our pleasure; and then tho sea-coal fire was full of images; sometimes it would have trim looking sailor, that was to be sister's sweetheart; there was grandfather tottering onward with his staff, till one full blaze sent him

into nothingness; mother had a stern old bachelor always looking at her, and sometimes fancied it was but a fancy that a little child in innocence wooed me as a lover. Alas! these little thousand images arc gone; we no longer close our eyes to invito a feeling of dreaminess; it would only bring back to our memory the things that are gone forever. A real child of flesh and blood, whom we all loved, made us much mirth. His little blue eyes and roguish laugh, always full of life, and such a plump, round faced little fellow, happy and as joyous as a bird in spring. Yes, but this child is growing out of these habits and looks every day, and if we see him again perhaps we may not be able to recognize him. That image that wo treasured up in our memory will not answer for him. Affection is a corporeal conservative to absent ones. How oft have we indulged the thought if we had the little one by our side we could bury our cares by toss'og him in our arms. Not altogether in idle talk or fairy mythology were our evenings spent Moth er had too deeD a reverence due to an allwise God to counsel this. Each repast found us offering up our thanks for the blessings we enjoyed, not of our own merit, but of the fruits of mercy and compas- . mi tim I m. .... sion. ine uiDie oit was read; and at night (it is a sweet remembrance to us)mother taught our infant lips to repeat the Christian's prayer, and then with a kiss and an invocation to God to bless us and keep us always under His care and by her roof, she half in sadness and half in joy left us for the night. Sometimes when she thought we were all asleep, she came, per haps once, perhaps oftener, to look at us again. Yet we did much to make her sorowful, committed wrong and pained her heart deeply, and now the very thought of these things presses upon us heavily, and we can only say: Blessed be God for a mother's love, pure and undefiled, that hopej and lives and lovss for the wayward and the wicked. Here is no interest mingled with respect, here is no compassion wound up in cold looks and lofty bearings, but a free and extended arm, and a voice that gives utterance only to assure that we have a trüe frindi Not lightly would we portray ths character of a mother endeared to as by all that is noble and good. There are fountains of bliss that exist not for th world; it is sufficient that the flower blooms and flourishes in quietude. We jove not dUr birth-place because it is peculiarly picturesque' Ör .autiful, be cause it is hallowed by the association cf great deeds of valor, or that sanctity here has built itself quiet retreats and found a resting in days gone by; it is for none of these things that we cr.re aught. If the hills were as barren as the desert, and ths valley possessed no lovely retreat, it would still be the same cherished place. We love it simply from early association. It is a place where every man's heaat centers, where he hopes one day to retnrn and build up a name, or to lay one älde to be come the counsellor and frie&d of the poor and needy. We look at home as it was id our early days. There was the cottage half hid in honeysuckles and graceful running roses, with an old apple-tree elose by, known by all school-boys and school-mates; the garden, neatly bordered with box, here a stalk, there a lily; in this corner a sweet perfuming geranium, in that a diffident hearts-ease; the center was full of cluster roses, carnations and fusia, and then there were the garden fences, incloicg bushes, the delight of juvenilty. Some little un known birds, bold at our hospitality, built their nests and reared their young in nooks of the garden. In this quiet, secluded home we passed many happy days. Men called it the grove. Tall elms stretched their majestic heads high in the air and played with the wayvard wind. The parish church, with the adjoining rui"8 of the once-renowned monastery of the White Friars, and the massive stone walls encompassing the town, stood as monuqents of the industry of the men of the twelfth century, and were as a book in which were written strange tales of invasion and wars, valor, heroism and devo tion.- We have often looked upon these noble remnants of by-gone ng, and asked ourselves if the little pigmies of these our days tear any resemblance to the valiant and heroic men of yore. Not to be forgotten is the organ; its bsdy made otSaxon cak, cut and carred

with the most grotesque figures, nowise symbolical of the life ethereal, monstrosities all of them such as youth loves to

study, and as oft deride. We confess, however, our ignorance in these things. St. Nicholas may, for aught we know, be pei&onified in a look of exultation, as if at some sad thing done evincing his supremacy. On the center of the organ stood a sentinel of purity, with tretched wings and a trumpet in his hand, and after the soft,! soothing persuasives bringing calm delight the angel's voice awoke, and out of the trump came an angelic 'Shout, shout!' Ohl the rapture, the overpowering sense of beatitude; we are drinking in the experience of a higher Beixq; we do not breathe. There is no animal life in us, and if these sounds were reverberating through as long, we should have no tangible being; we are ovewhelmed, aghast, astounded: we will put our hands to our mouths and be as dumb men. Not far away the great sea cast its rest less waves on the bosoms of the hills. You stand in a still night and heat its roar, and the single tossing hither and thither. now advancing a stepfand then receding gain: and in dread winter-storms not un frequently did the cries of the perishing sailor come to you in vain. A wild, pier cing shriek of despair went up from the wreck, and all was ov4r. Out in the ocean laid quicksands and shifting banks, that no buoys or lights could speak of monster spies and entrap pers. Bravely sailed the bark homeward from a far-off land; she strikes, is on her beam ends, and ere many hours the cold and fierce dash of the surf over the imbed ding ship have released each human sou from the cares and troubles of lifo. Men would oft peril their lives in ventur ing out to sea in the hope to save whom they could. They, too, hot un frequently were heard of no more, and little children were left to mourn and suffer with hunger. That sea. that roar, that wild, frantic cry of despair, are ever to us a lesson of the omnipotence of the Creator and Rcler of the universe. Many of these associations have passed away for awhile, to give place more vividly to the remembrance of ;he day of separation, when half unconscious of our future, we bid good-bye. What an overpowering sense there is in this word. Everything says farewell. The children kiss you, and then weep; the tender mother presses your hand, and hangs around your neck, while she implores the protection of Heaven. All is a sad echo, farewell! We go away with an undecided purpose and a faltering footstep. And now after many years we retrace our course we come to join our friends; but how many have we not to count as among the dead, and sorrowfnl more than all is the thought that one to whom we felt more than a brother's affection is no more, that cheerful face and bright smile have passed away, and that in a distant land lies all that is mortal of a tender and benignant companion. No more ! no more In autumn's solemn eve He lingers on the lonely shore, Or hears te angry ocean Dashing at the prisoü-doorj Rest! rest! The spirit home ward's gone; Dust to dust hath mingled. As we meditate calmly on our short pilgrimage, Te are conscious that the only true solace and comfort for the yearning and discontented soul, is a reliance on a holier and better life, and a steadfast looking forward to the realization of the same. Leviathan Framing. We see it stated that Some men of capital in New York, Buffalo and Chicago, have it in contemplation to establish in the West, a leviathan farm, of, from 100,000 to 200,000 acre3. Their object is to do for agriculture, by the use of combined wealth and the power of machinery, what has been done in the last century by the railroad and factory for the old stagecoach and spinning wheel. The basis of the project is thus stated. They will organize the vast tract Into two rival establishments, with a military organization of labor, gigantic machinery to pbw,plant,?eap and render harvests, vast herds of horses, sheep and cattle of the most select stock and the cultivation of fruits and grain upon a grand scale. The organization will justly combine the interest of capital and labor, and by its colossal economies and its scientific appliances creative industrial power, and its just system of distribution, it wi'.l attempt to give the world the example of a true Republican, an Industrial Commonwealth, where poverty, duplicity, robbery and crime are unknown. Testing Sied Corn. Take a knife and cut the grain in two at right angles with the kernel, and if the corn bejgood and possessed of vitality, the kernel will present a solid white appearance, but if not, then the kernel will be dark and spongy, looking the color of frostad apples and other vegetables. The ierm is of'en frozen while the body of the kernel is not, but the difference of color will determine this. Very little practice isr necessary to enable one to detect bad corn. Take a few grains known to bo good, and some otherwise, and by cutting them as directed above, you will soon be able to destinguish between the two. - Ohio Uvwvator.

The Wealth of our States

men. Jefferson died comparatively poor. In deed, if Congress had not purchased his ibrary, and given for it five times its val ue, he would with dfficulty have kept the Troll irom Ms door. Madison saved money, and was compar atively ri-jh To add to his fortues, however, or to those of the wid jw, Congress purenassu inn manusciipi papers, ana paia niny inousana uoiiars ior tnem. James Monroe, the fifth president of tho United States, died so poor that his re mains found a resting place through the i ; f cuamy 01 one 01 ine citizens. John Quincy Adams left someone hund red and fifty thousand dollars, the result of industry, prudence and inheritance. He was a man of method and economy. Martin van Euren 13 very rich. Throughout his political life he has studi ously looked out for his own interest It is not believed that he ever spent thirty snuungs in pontics, ins pariy iook in hush, and he caught the bird. True to the instincts of his nature, he believes that charity is a cheat. Daniel Webster squandered some mill ions in hi life time, the product of hs profession and his political speculations. tie died, leaving his property to his children, and his debts to his friends. The former sold for les3 than twenty thousand dollars the latter exceeded two hundred and fifty thousand. Henry Clay left a very handsome estate. It probably exceeded one hundred thou sand dollars. He was a prudent manager and a scrupulously honest man. James Iv. Polk left about one hundred aad fifty thousand dollars fifty thousand of which he saved from his presidency of four years. JoIil Tvlens worth fifty thousand dol lars. Before he reached the presidency he was a bankrupt. In othce he husband ed his means, and then married a rich wife. Zachary Taylor left one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Millard Fillmore i a weally man. and keeps his money in a stronjy box. It will never be wasted in speculation, or squan dered in vice. Ex-President Pierce saved some fifty thousand dollars from his term of service. But he had a way of his own. . 4 The CreTasse at IVcw Orleans. From the New Orleans True Delta, April 15. No effort has yet been made to close the crevasse at Bell's plantation. The opening of the levea has increased fifteen or tweuty feet in width, and a tremendous currrent in lushing through, bull inc. seething and foaming with the violence of lis course. The clayey and tenacious quality of the soil does good battle with the assailing floods, and alone delays a swift destruction of a long extent of the levee. The water has increased a fxt in depth on the plantation near the crevasse since day before yesterday, and is spreading over the country. It is freely passing Harvey's Canal, has invaded Gretna, and is working down towards Algiers. Tuesday there was no water in Gretna, but yesterday it was coming on Lafayette avenue alarmingly, many of the houses on that street being surrounded. There was. yesterday, from one to three feet water about the houses between Bell's plantation and the brick yard lower down the river, and the residents had vacated most of them. The plantation clearing is now a wide lake, being everywhere submerged, the fine home standing forlorn and desolate in tLe waste of waters which are dashing their menacing waves against its walls. The sugar house and various out-buildings are submerged to a height, of about five or six feet from the surface of the ground. The waters have brought 6trange stock to occupy the place of tho cattle upon the plantation, for we saw mn fishing with scoop nets in a lane between two .rows of fence where there was a road. The water was thick and muddy, and no fish could be seen, but they put in their nets blindly and lifted out large numbers of different kinds of fish, principally a sort of herring, called 'sardines,' from six inches to a foot in length. We also saw them take sjveral 'büffald,' Weighing from ten to fifteen lbs. each. There was a crowd of persons, including many ladies, at the scene of the crevasse.Continually coming and going with every fery-bot to and from the city. Insect in the Lungs The Evansville (Ind.) Journal relates that a young man of that city had been for some months afflicted with a serious cough and hemorrhage from the lungs, 6o that it was feared he was entering into a fatal consumption. O a One night he was attacked while in bed, with aviolent fit of coughing, which was followed with a copious hemorrhage, and as the blood flowed from his lips he felt a solid substance of some size pass them. On examining the blood thrown up a bug with six hörny legs and incipient delicate wings was found in it. The head of the insect was out of proportion to its body.The former was of the size of a Email pea, while its body was only the size of a large grain of barley. The thing was alive aad active. Since the occurrence the unpleasant sensation have passed off and thecoujh has ceased and the only trouble has been one 6Üght hemorrhage a day or two after expectorating the bug, The sufferer is of the opinion that he inhaled a larva, or egg, of the insect, and that it entered the substance of his lungs and then hatched, as the process of expelling the creature was like tearing away a portion of the organ. One of our finest writers say that "the nightly dews come down upon us like blessings." How very differently the daily dues , come down upon us in these hard times! ; - ; JJSTThe revenue of the Post-Office Department for the quarter ending Deo.' 31, 1857, was 81,740,276.4 1; expenses, 8853724 83; net rerenue, $866,551 53.

A Great Clock. Henry C. Wright in a letter to the Lib

erator, thus describes tho great clock ii the cathedral ot Strasburg: "The prtests and military have retired, and I am now setting iu a chair facing the gigantic clockfrom the bottom to the top not less than 100 feet, and about thirty feet widä' nd fifteen deep. Around me are many strangers, waiting to see the working of this clock as it strikes the hour uf roon. Every eye is upon the clock. lYnow wants five minutes of twelve. The clock has struck, and the people are gene, except a ww whom the saxon, or hand-man, with a wand and sword, is conducting round the building. The clock has struck in thh way; the dial is some 20 feet from the fit or, on each side of which u a cherub, or little boy with a mallet, and over the dial is a small bell. The cherub on the left strikes the first quarter, that on the right tho second quarier. oome oj ieet over tne ciai, in a large niche, is a huge figure of Time, bei 1 1 r. l i i ... in uis ieii, ana a scyine in ms iininanu In frontttands a figure of a younij man with a mallet, who strikes the third quarter on the bell m the hand of Tim?, an J then turns and glides, with a blow stop, around behind Time, then comes out an old man, with a mallet, and places himself in front of him As the hoar of twelve comes, the old man raises his mallet, and deliberately strikes twelve times on the bell, that echoes through the building, and is heard all arcund the region of the church. The AA man glides behind Father Time, aad the young comes on readily to perform his part as the time comes around again. Soon as the old man has struck twelve and disappeared, another set of machinery is put in motion some twenty feet higher still. It is thus there is a hiijh cross with the image ofClui5t on it. The instant twelve tias struck, one of the apostles walk out from behind, cornea in front, turns, facing the cross, bows and walks an around to his place. As he does so.arothe comes out in front and turns, bows, and passes in. So twelve apostles, figures as large as life, walk around, bow, and pass on. As the last appears, an enormous cock, perched on the pinnacle of the cock, slowly flaps his wings, streches forth its neck, and crows three times, and so natutally as to be mistaken for a real cock. 2s7o wonder thi3 clock is the admiration of Europe. , It was made in 1571, and has performed these mechanical wonders ever since, except about fifty years, when it stood out of repair. The Growth' of our Cities. -Boston was trying to grow nearly a hundred years before it attained the population of 10.000; . . Albany -n-o two Luinlicvl jcaia, New York City was 130 years; Philadelphia, settled sixty or seventy years later, grew much faster than the older cities, and arrived at the dignity of ten thousand in a much le33 time, that is, in about fifty years. New Orleans wr.2 about one hundred years before she had that number; During the fiist hundred years after the settlement of Boston, (1C3J) she was the lurgest city of the colonies; New Tork became as popular as Boston just before the revolutionary war; About 1811 New York became as popular as Philadelphia, each containing one hundred thousand inhabitants. Baltimore overtook Boston about the year 1800; The puncipal cities grew to the number of 10,000 nearly as follows: Pittsburg, G5 years; Louisville oOyears: Cincinnati. 22 years: Cleveland, 40 years: Detroit. 45 years, (counting out its French and Indian period;) New Albany, 35 years; Chicago 12 years; Milwaukid, 17 years. The above named cities attained to 20,000 in the number of years from their birth as follows: Boston, 193; Albany. 229: New York, 150; Philadelphia. 80; New Orleans, H2; Baltimore, 80; Pittsburgh, 75; Louisville, 31; Cincinnati, 30; Cleveland, 42, Detroit, 62, Chicago. 1C; Milwaukie, 27. Ifanyoue will compare the early with the late growth of our cities, he will be struck with the extraordinary disparity in favor of theirrecent growth not in the actual augmentation, merely, but in their proportionately more rapid growth as they attain a larger sizo, the per cent increasing from decade to decade. Got what jie was after. A young gent is discovered surrounded by friends, who are jesting with him regarding his attentions to a certain young lady. Young Gent "Boys, I'll tell you how it is; you know I care nothing for the g'rl it is the old man's pocket book I am after." "Chorus of friends. Ha! ha!" Scene Second. A parlor. Time 11 p. m. Young lady seated. Youn gentleman rises to depart, hesitates, as if bashful, and he slowly remarks "Miss Matilda, excuse me, but you must be aware that my frequent visits, my attentions cannot have been without an object.' Young lady. "Ah, yes, s I've heard, and shall be only to happy to grant what you desire. Takes from the table a paper paicel, and unfolding it displays an o'dfashioned pocket book This I have been informed is your object. Permit me to present it, and congratulate you, that you will in future have no further occasion to renew those visits and attentions." Young gent swoons. wgw .. Salt ix Veserles Salt sprinkled sparingly over the surface of the :CTOund in vineries now, if none "lias been 'applied, strengthens the soil and is a benefit. Men are freauentlv like tea the real strength and goodness are not properly drawn out until they have been a short time in hotwater.

Gold in Iowa.-We have been inclined to believe that the stories of finding gold in Southern Iowa were inventions of speculators inviting settlers, or that they were prei . i .L- j: !

Uicaiea on tne uissuvery in limited quanti ties of metal erroneously said to be gold. But there seems to bo no room for doubt that in the counties Warren. Madison, Polk, Adair. Clark, Guthrie and Dallas in the vicinity of Fort Des Monies, more or less gold is daily found along the margins of the streams, by the hundreds, perhaps thousands of men engaged in the search There is as yet nothing to warrant the be lief that the deposits are large, or that gold washing in that region will ever be a remunerative branch of the State's industry; Men who ought to b"9 following the plow have left that standing in the furrow, while they, bare-footed aad bare-legged, are wading up and down the creeks for wages which average about the cost of the salt for potatoes. Chicago Tnlune. Tfie Lakes of MixxesoTA. A correspocdentof the "Minnesota" supplies thai paper with a table giving the dimensions of 93 Kkes in Minnesola, comprising the largest numbei of those most known. Thousands of others of smaller extent are distributed over the surface of the country, and a great many of a mile or two in length have beri omitted for want of a name. The largest lakes in the State, according to this table. are Bed lake, in Pembina county, BigStone lake, thirty miles by three wide; Mille Lac, twenty miles by fifteen wide; Lac Traverso twenty.five miles long by three wide; 2nd Leech lake twenty miles long by eleven wide. Most of the list, however, are from one and half to six miles long, and from one to three miles wide. The water in all these lakes is perfectly pure and sweet, and they are all great beauty of shore and surroundings. The lakes of Minnesota form a distinguishing feature of the country, and lend an air of romance to the landscape. We know a beautiful girl who would prove a capital speculation for a fortunehunter of the risjht sort. Her voice is of silver, her hair ot gold, her te6th of pearl, her cheeks of rubies, and her eyes of diamonds. 0Four lines more beautiful than thce are rarely written. The Cgure n hich it involves is ex quisite: "A solemn murmur in the soul Tells of the world to be. As travelers hear the billows roll Before they reach the sea." Bußalö Exprtti. Four worse lines than these are rarely written The firure which it t ivolres is arul: "A solemn murmur 'mongst the throng1. Tells how impatiently The boards listen for the gor g, To call them in to tea." ZantrtiUe Recorder. For.r lines more truthful thin these are rarely written. The Cgure which "if involves is absolately raiaful: "A solemn buzzing in your ear; When jou retire to Led, Tells you that swillln lager-beer Is dreadful for the head." Jjoulstille Times. CFIt h stated that the free negroes of Texas are availing themselves of a recent law of that State, enabhng them to choo3? masters and become slave s UZT Teu-grani from Ccba to ttir Uxitid States. A firm in Ilarana have obtained permission to lay down a submarine telegraph from Cuba to Key West, Florida. The work will be speedily proceeded with. ÜTOn Saturday, the 1st of May, Cardinal Wiseman performed the solemn blessing of four etups at Deptford, England. These ships are to be employed against the slave trade. It is the first blessing of a ship in England since the "Reformation. ITTravelto Ecrope. The largest number of passengers that ever left New York for Europe, in any ' wo steamers, rent out on the 1st of May, in the Arago and Saxonia. The Am go took thre hundred and five persons, and the Saxonia four hundred. 0"A leading member of the Presbyterian church at New Brighton, Ta-, who is distinguished for hia self complacency an-t patronage of religion ani the church, commenced a prayer at a reviral meeting the other day in these words: "Oh, Lord, w would not assume to dictate to Thee, but would only offer a few suggestions!" ICTWhcn tired, and your patience Is worn coQpletely threadba-e, then "darn it. (CT"IIave you read my last fpeccb?" said a prosy M.C. to a friend. "I hope so," was the satisfactory reply. iL" A learned yorTng lady one ev ning astonished the company by asking for tbe loan of a "diminutive, argente'ous, truncated cone, convex cn its pummit, and semiperforatcd rlth symmetrical indentations!" She wanted a thimble. IT-TThe Chinese people make out pretty log pedigrees In a history of the Celestial Etipire, we find this passage: "About this time the world was created.' An engraving is introduced to illustrate the fact, representing a mandarin in the clouds, looking on through a rpy-glass. 0A lawyer recently attempted to palm himscH off as Ruf us Choate, in a neighboring town. At the suggestion of a printer, who was present, ths "T-riting test was applied to him. lie wrote a legite sentence, and was promptly kicked out of the company. 0lt is said that thirty ßlavcrs are annually fitted out in the port of New York. OTorty-eight clergymen of the Church of England are converted Hebrews. ITThe Chinese are said to divide the human race into three classes men, women, and Chinese. , . , ITThe Norwegian population of Dane county, Wisconsin, amounts to six thousand six cundred and twenty-eight . ' atrWhat iV that which if. you take the whols awajfthert'wiUbe'soaae left? Wholesooe.' . Why doesafhoemkrwhenhe has 13 yjrar ord?r,ern t?t?? - Feet use be "Major your) boi.