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If paid in adrancc 1 00 t the end of six months, 1 50 If ielaved until the end of the year 2 00 ADVE11TISIXG: One square (ten lines or less,) three weeks ,. 1 00 Each additional insertion, Column three months,. i Column six months,. . - Column one year, 3 Column three months, 23 Column six months, Column one year, 1 Column three months......... 1 Column six months, 1 Column one year, Yearly advertisers hare the privilege . 5 00 . 8 00 ..12 00 .. 8 00 .15 00 .25 00 ..14 00 ..24 00 .45 00 of one bange free of charge. Democrat Job Office! EiiSLira Ä BORDERS, CUTS. &c.,&c. Our Job Department is now supplied with an expensive and well selected assortment of new styles plain and fancy JOB T"2"XDES, Which enables us to execute, on short notice and reasonable terms, all kinds of Plain and OrnamenJOB PRINTING! NEAT. FAST AND CHEAP; SUCH 15 C1RCULAE3, UAXDBILXS, ' LABELS, CATALOGUES, 7AMFHLET3, BUSINESS CAKDS, BLANK DEEDS A MORTGAGES; And in short, Blanks of every variety and description. Call and see specimens. fl.ttt fir Uflftnj. Written at my Mother's Grave. BT CEO. D. MtEXTICE. The trembling dew drops fall, lTpon the shutting flowers; lifce souls at rest, The stars shine gloriously: and all Save me are blest. Mother, I love thy grave ! The violet, with its blossoms blue and mild, Wave o'er the head: when will it wave Above thy clüld? "Tis sweet flower, yet must lt. bright leaves to the morning tempest bow; Dear mother, 'tUtliinc emblem: dust Is on thy brow. And I could love to die; To leave untasted lift;' dark bitter stream?, By thee, as erst in childhood, lie, And share thy ireams. And I must linger here, To stain the plumage of my sinless years, And mourn the hopes to childhood dear, With bitter toars. Aye, I must linger here, A lonely branch upon a withered tree, Whose last frail leaf, un'imely sere, Went down with thee. . . ' r Oft from life's withered bower, In still commotion with the past I turn, And muse on thee, the only flower In memory's urn. And when the evening pale, Bows, like a mourner, on the dim blue wave, I stay n hear the night winds wail Around thy grave. Ihere is thy spirit flown ? I gaze above thy look is imaged there! , I listen, and thy gentle tons Is m the air. Oh, come, while here I press Iy brow upon thy grave; and, in those mild. And thrilling tones cf tenderness, liless, bless thy child . Yes, bless your weeping child, And o'er thine cm, religion's holiest shrine, -. Oh, give his spirit, undefiled, To blend with thine. 7JLLY DEAR. Oh, Lilly dear, it grieves me The talc I have to tell; Old Mfissa Bent me roaming, t So Lilly fare you well! Oh, fare you well, my love, Farewell old Tennessee; Then let me weep for you, love, l?ut do not weep for me. I'g going to roam the wild world over, ' In landä I've never hoed, .With nothing but my banjo ' To cheer me on the road. And when I'm sad and weary, I'll make the banjo play, To 'mind me of my true love, -When I am far away. Oh, Lilly dear, 'tis mournful . - To leave you here alone, You'll Eiiile before I leave you; And weep when I am gone. ' "n j sau can never shine, love, . 1 ght for you and me, As when I worked beside you In good old Tennessee. Mr Smith, you said you once officiated in a pulpit; do you mean to say, then, you preached? - iT? sir; I held the light for the man who did preach.' 'Ah, the court understood you differently. They supposed that the discourse came directly from you.' Xo, sir, I only tLrowed a little light on it.'

The Triumph of Movable Types. Triraary among the Instincta of humanity is the passion for enunciation. Every fancy of the head, every fcelir.g of the heart, from .the moment of its birth in the min J, tends to outward expression. All bouU arc sympathetic. All thought burns for the cmhraco of other intellects. Mental action is communicative fire, or like l'ght infinitely radiant. But here nature might seem to impose a bar against all possible Manifestation. The interior individuality of the personal unit is altogether impenetrable to the series. There can be no direct intercourse of minds. The soul is the true Egyptian Iis, whose veil no mortal hand shall ever raise. The most profound ideas of abstraction, the most gorgeous pictures of creative fancy, the purest impulses "of duty and devotion, the dearest dreams of unfading fondness all come and go in the cryptic recesses of the brain or losom, invisible to the most vigilant eve. How, then, shall intercommunication be effected between these sonls, thus solitary, thus isolated by impassable gulfs of time and space, yet yearning to be united? How shall tho divine Eros and his beautiful Fhyche ever gaze upon cne another, while separated by this depth of utter darkness? Thus, and not otherwise: Omniscient nature span3 the sunless cham with a rainbowed bridge of signs, over which the winged thought from brain to brain, the angel loves from heait, may flash like the lightning. And that bridge in epace 1 language. But man desires not only outward representation for all that deeply moves the heart within; he seeks also to attain an utturance which shall endure throughout the ages. He is not content with merely leaving foot-prints on the sands of tim, to be swept off by the rising tides, or washed all away by the rains of heaven. He would stamp the traces of his own intellectual progression on eternal crystals torn from the bosom of the mountain?, to last, like them, until the final fire. Tha heir of immortal being is not satisfied with piercing the realms of peopled space. He must make his voice heard far across the sea of distant centuries, with self-repeating echoes, like rcverbations of thunder in the Andes. What hand, then, shall have the magic might to bridge over this immeasurable abvss of years? Space may bt ppanned because it is stable, though void; but who shall project arches across that shoreless ocean of ages, where the storms at change and the wild wavc3 of chance beat and break forever? Such was the great problem the master problem of the human mind, from the morn"ng of the young world during unknown and unimaginable cycles of duration. And as countless were the futile schemes invented for it3 solution. The device of ideographic signs was a grand step in the right direction. To that succeeded phonetic characters traced on papyrus or parchment, and indicating the sounds of the living voice in words. And thus the philosophers and poets of the ancient day were enabled to embody in luminous external shapes the inspired air they breathed in speech; while the rain lords of empire chiseled the story of their purple pomps on soaring column and massive pyramid of time resisting stone. Thus the scattered rays of intellect and imagination were condensed, and, as it might be said, crystalized in in splendid jewels to keep the earth in light after the orbs had set from which that effulgence proceeded. But theso rare and radiant gems of finest thought wore costly as the richest diamonds, and therefore only for the few ; while the multitudinous children of common toil labored on, as ever, in the darkness unrelieved. All the scientific and literary products of the antique world, as well as of the middle ages, might well be compared to remote stars dispersed in the vault of Leaven; shining brightly enough on the serene mountain summits, and gilding the tops of the tallest trees, yet without power to penetrate the low-lying valleys, or send one pale b am through tho thick foliage which overshadowed tho great wilderness of humanity. . Hence, there resulted an incessant war betwixt the seminal principles of intellectual day and darkness betwixt the brute forces of barbarian instinct and the fine activities of civilization. But as all civilization tends more or less to debilitate the mere physical energies, and as the social science of antiquity knew no method of compensation to correct or mitigate the effects of that inevitable tendency, the issue of the conflict could not be long doubtful. The iron masses of savage muscle predominated over the subtle powers of cultivated mind, and dashed all its wealth of glittering gems back again into the pit of darkness. Then fell palace, and tower, and sculptured stone, with the most superb empire the wo.ld ever saw. Then perished parchment, and paphyruj, and pictorial symbol, with their inestimable fancies and grand thoughts. Lo! the very languages of the classic world are, for a season, lost. The highway of phonetic signs betwixt the past and future, is broken up; and all the beautiful urns of memory enshrining gold-dust of the immortal dead are precipitated into the Icthean ocean. We know that this terrible fatality happened to the species once; but how often it been repeated before in the nameless cycles of unrecorded years, we can not aven so much as faintly imagine However, the truth is certaii that no sagacity could discover the art of throw! 'jr

a bridge for the passage of ieas over the dark and stormy gulf of ages, until the plodding perseverance of some blue-eyed German-Goth detected the arch-wizard's wonder of a magic for transmission that belongs only to movable types. That was the proudest day in the history of human kind. Stretching away into the depths of an endless duration, a royal road was opened, brilliant and beautiful as the Iris, yet solid Mid lasting as the granite of the primitive hills. And now, by that one glorious invention, the race has realized the aublime conception of Pascal. .Humanity his become one grand man always living and incessantly learning. Tho thought that leaps like live electricity lrom the battery of a powerful brain, lightens around the globe, and changes into a polar star to be the guide, In science, morals, or government, of all posterity. ; It is true that civilization has its evils, and dangers of no ordinary character attend the various uses of the enchanter's art, by which the golden germs of mental culturo are thus infinitely reproduced and disseminated. Nor can wo conjecture what tremendous trials of a description altogether novel and unknown, the species uny yet be doomed to endure. But of one thin' we may.be absolutely asssure J that a return to brutal barbarism is not among tho perils of the future. The paper-makers and the printers have already rendered that chance impossible. Not again shall the hairy demons of the desert crimson the green fields of empire with blood, cr ccij -me ths ay cities of luxurious ait in th fiamec cf savage war. The old and everlasting conflict b:wen the rcw- '".:. -. . " -.

cas of light and darkness Diiit henceforth and always, bo waged with the etherial weapons, the transcendent majesty, and subtile might of intellect alone or aided merely by loving heartr, and lun.inoii3 hopes, that coire and go like angels. Chicago Union.

A Leaf From Fany Fern. Dear me, I must go shopping. Shopping is a a nuisance, clerks are impertinent; femininity vie timized. Miserable day, too; mud plastered an inch thick ". 1 Eide walk. Well, if we drop our skirt , gentlemen cry 'Ugh;' if we lift them from tlic mad they level their eye glass at our ankles. The true definition of a gentleman (not found in complete Webster) is biped, who of a muddy day, is perfectly oblivious of anything but the shop signs. Viva la France! Ingeniu3 Parisans, send us over your clever invention a chain suspended from the girdle, at the endof which is a gold hand to clasp up the superfluous length "of our prominading robes, thus releasing our human digits and leaving them at liberty to wrestle with rude Boreas for the possession of th' detestable little sham bunnets, which the milliners persist in hanging on the backs of ourneck3. Well, here we afe at Call and Kctchum's drv goods store. Now comes the tug of war; let Job's mantle fall on my feminine shoulders. Have you any blue silk?' Yardstick entirely ignorant ,T any colors, after fifteen minutes snail-Uke research, (during which time I stand impatiently on one 1 imb) hands me down a silk that is as green a3 hicself. Oh! away with these stupid masculine clerks, and give us women, we know by intuition what we want, lo the immense saving our lu.53 and leather, patience and prunella! Here's Mr. Timothy Tape's establishment.' 'Have you any lace collars (points) Mr. Tape?' Mr. Tape looks beneficent, and shows me some rounded collars, I repeat my request in the most pointed manner for pointed collars. Mr. Tape replies with a patronizing grin Points is out, ma'am.' So am I. Dear me, how tired my feet arc! Nevertheless, I must have some merino. So 1 opened the door of Mr Humbug's dry goods sVre, which i about a half a mile in length, and enquired for the desired article. Young Yardstick directs me to the counter at the extreme end of the store. I commence my travels thitherward through a file of gaping clerks, and arrive there jiist ten minutes before two, by my repeater, when I am told that they 'are quite out of merinocs but wont Lyoncs cloth do as well?' I rush out in a high state of frenzs, and taking refuge in the next door neighbor, inquire fi r some stockings, Whereupon the clerks inquire (of the wrong customer) 'wht price I wish to p.y V Of course I am so verdant aa to be caught in that srap, and, tetotally disgusted with the entire institution of shopping, I drag my weary limbs into new saloon to rest. Bless me, what a display of priding and girls, and gingerbread! What a heap of mirrors! There's more than one Fanny Fern in the world. I found that out since I came in. What will you be pleased to have?' J-u-1 i-u-s C-tc-s-a-r! look at that white-aproned waiter pulling out his snulT-box and taking a pinch of snuff right over that bowl of white sugar that will be handed in five minutes to sweeten my tea! And there's another coming his hair with a pocket comb over that dish of oysters. What will I have ?' Starve ; but I'll have nothing till I can find a cleaner place than this to cat in. Shades of old Tau! Pry Boston! what do I hear! Two (well, I declare I am not sure whether they arc ladies or women.) I don't understand ihese New York femininetics. At any rate, they've got on bunnets, ar.d are telling the waiters to bring them 'a bottle of Marasct ine do Zira . some sponge cake, and some brandy. See them sip the cordial in their glasses with the gusto of an old toper. See their eyes sparkle and their checks flush, a id just hear their emancipated little tongues go! wonder if their husbands know that they but of course they don't. However, it is six of one and half dozen of the other. They arc probably turning down sherry-cobblers and eating ousters at Florence's and their poor hungry children while their parents are dainty izing are coming home hungry from school to eat a fragment of dinner picked up at home by a lazy set of servants. Ileigho! ladies sipping wine in a public saloon? Pilgrim rock! hide yourself under ground! Well it is very shocking the number of married women who pass their time ruining their health in these saloons, devouring Parisian confectionery and tainting their children's blood with an appetite for strong drink. Oh! what a mokery of home must theirs be! Heaven pity the children reared there, left to the chance training of vicious hirelings! . Fanner's Daughters. Girls, don't look toward the city with loncing eyes; if you would preserve the rosy freshness of our checks, stay in the country air and sun. ' Don't persuade your fathers to sell their farms, and go into town to deal in 'dry goods;' if you do, they will probably lose farm, goods and all. Don't ape village customs by wearing cloth gaiters when you walk; they are not suited to rough country roads; or by inviting an evening party 01 your neighborhood friends to meet at nine o'clock; for that is their usual bed-time. When you would adopt a custom, ask if it is suited to country life, not if it L fashionable in the city.. Don't stand in awe of a young lady 'just from the cih. Wo would rather look for a wife whero there is less starch and carmine among farmer's daughters who have tho glow of health In tho cheek and the sparkle of intelligence in the eye. Rest satisfied to be farmers' daughters; rou know not what you would sacrifice were you to change places with the envied city gu Is. Go to work, and make yourselves and your homes as attractive and lovely as you can. Read and study and use all the means within your reach to cultivate your minds. Select from your associates of both sexes thoo who aro equally aspiring with yourselves, and meet In social gatherings to improve your con versatiomd talents, and perfect easy, unembarrassed manners. HJThe West Alabamian understands that there is a man in that country who has moved so often that, w henever a covered wagon comes near his house, his chickens all march up, lall on their back &;id cress thtir leg?, ready to be tied and carried to to the next sttppbg place!

Pcish en He not AflVaid. Yes, push on. If you expect to sue ceed in life )ou must not be idle. On the brow of tbo successful merchant is stamped the 5mpres3 of labor of unceasing toil and vigilance in the pursuit of his calling. He rests not, but with a martyr's zeal pushes on. Push on. The verv clouds that sail along so fleetly over our heads, would seem lo dictate such a course to us. Tho winds of heaven, as they sweep past us, either in gentleness or with their wild, shrieking blast, illustrates the value of such a spirit. To tho weary mind and the heart that's faint, such words should come with a healing influence. Though your future prospects may be dimmed and seem all lost to you, push. There is bayond that dark, overhanging cloud, a ray, of light that will cheer you with its presence, and make your heart glad. Whatever path you choose to follow, pursue it to the end of its course. Whatever you undertake to do, mkke up your mind to do it; work at it with a will and determination that you will accomplish it. It is afetonishirtg how the huge obstructions will vanish, and how much more pleasantly you can work when governed by this determined spirit. Push on, if you expect to combat successfully in life's great battle. Let these words ba uppermost in your thoughts, and when you feel like desponding, just push on a littlo further bs not afraid. We cannot do better than give the following clipping from an exchange, as an illustration of the result that invariably attends an undertaking when pursued with the right spirit. It is the testimony of a distinguished and very wealthy merchant of ono of our principal cities, and how he mado his fortune by just pushing on: "I entered a store and asked if a clerk was not wanted. No,' i;i a rough tone was the reply all being too busy to bother with me when I reflected if they did not want a clerk thev miht a laborer, but as I was dressed too fine for that, I went to my lodgings, put on a rough garb, and tho next day went into tho same store, and demanded if they did not want a porter, and again 'no,' was tho response, when I exclaimed in despair almost,, 'not a laborer? Sir, I will work at any wages wages is not my object I- must have employment, and I want to bo useful in business.' These last remarks attracted their attention, and, in the end I was employed as a laborer in the basement and sub-cellar, at a vory low pay, scarcely enough to keep soul and body together. In the basement aud sub-cellar I soon attracted tho attention of the counting room; and of the high clerk. I saved enough for my employer in littüe things wasted, to pay my wages ten times over, and they soon found it out. I did not let any body commit petty larcenies without remonstrances and threats of exposuro, and real exposures if remonstrances would not do. I did not ask for any ten hour law. If I was wanted at S A. M., I was there, and cheeriuily there; or if I was kept till 3 A. M., I never growled but told everybody go home and I will see everything right.' I loaded off at daybreak, packages for tho morning boats, or carried them myself. In short I poon became indispensable to my employers, and 1 rose and rose, till I became head of the house, with money enough, as you ssft, to give me any luxury, or any position a mercantile man may desire for himself or children in this great city." Philadelphia Commomcealth.

Spiritual Pa ir.it i:3 There aro threo pictures now ia the house of Mr. B. Newkirk, of this city; por-. traits, which are told, represent Mrs. New kirk's mother, and two children; all of whom hav6 been for many yearsMwellers of of awother sphere. The production ot these pictures has produced a good deal ofseusatian, and we have bcjen requested to state tho facts for the benefit of the cuiius. Mr. Kodgers, of Cardington, Ohio, who has been known for some months i:v spiritual society as tho Arlis Medium, a tailor by trade, uneducated, and without any of the accomplishments of an artist, after urgent solicitation, visited this city a few weeks since, and stopped at Xewkirk's house. He came on Thursday,. On Fri day lie felt "influenced" took a sheet of I osteite painting paper.requestcd Mr. .Newkirk to place his signature on lh-ar back of it, which was done. In a few minutes the medium was entranced, and a protrait produced upon the same sheet of papr. On Saturday ho again repaired to his room, in a simular condilion, at.d in twenty-five minutes sitting produced another portrait uf a young girl. On Monday following, at the house of Mr. Cathcart, after a simular precaution respecting the paper, in twentynine minutes a picture of a young lady was brought out; all of which are paintings of more than ordinary merit; and one of them an exquisite picture, of rare beauty and excellence. The picture of the lady bears a strong resemblance to the family. We recognized thi3 on first observation. The pictures of tho children we know nothing about. Whether they aro representative or not, tho parents are pleased with them. We havo but this to say in tho matter. There is no doubt that these pictures were produced by a man under influences, the laws and nature we know nothing of -in tho incredible short timo allotted to each that they are more than ordinarily good, as portrait paintings, so far as tlio art is concerned that they could not have been ex. cuted by tho most experienced artist short of many hours labor on each. . It is needless for us to add that it is claimed by tie medium and others that theso aro the works of Spirit-artist, operating, throuh'the organization of Mr. Ilodgers, who is unconcious of the design, execution, or appearance of the picture while in hi3 tranced state. Colored cryons aro used, the colors aro blended with the fingers of the melium nootl.3rjnstruments being employed. Lajwrlt Times

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One of the most remakable features connected with this interesting institution, is the successive chango it undergoes in the course of its history. For the first six months it is all Ducky" and "sugar." As wo enter our second olympiad, hewever, a change comes over not only our affections, but over our apparel! we no longer talk preserves, while our ruflled shirts have much broader plaits than they could boast of. When the young husband and wife first enter upon their new relation, how little do they see what is before them in tho shape of troubles, gridiions, cradles, rockingchairs, cholera, infantum, bakers' bills, small shoes, paregoric and hobby horses. As they for the first lime take possession of their new house, and enjoy its cheering aspect, its regularity and quiet, and its expression of domestic peace and joy, how little do they anticipate the trials and viccissitudes, the deep yet junseen fountains of joy and sorrow which lia in their way. In a few years how changed 1 Or.c after another has been added, in various ways to the company which began only with two, until at length they find themselves presiding over k numerous circle of children, and rilatives, and domestic thejfather and mother both involved in responsibilities from which they wold have shrunk had they anticipated them at the outset. In a few years this happy circle must be broken in upon and Bettered. Death comes and takes away Abram; a young lady, with pink boddice and black eyes; comes in and carries off Alexander; a third determined to die a sailors death, ships before the mast on a canal, a fourth, growing covetous, start3 for California; while a fifth in all probability, gets his intestines kicked out by a sorrel ball. At last the father and mother are left alone; and after fifty years of trouble, love and vexation, the find themselves worso off than when thy started. They are not only alono aain, but they are alone without tho hopa of any more company. A Br-GOXE hit at tue Times. An old an respected citizen of Philadelphia has handed u a littlo volume called the Talisman, published in New York more than thirty years ago. Among its contents we find a quaint and pithy paper, entitled 'The Devil's PuIdu,' near the closoof wLich the following passage occurs, which our frisud conceived to bo wiitten in rather a predictive spirit, and by no means inapplicablo to many of tho faults and characteristics of tho present times: The Doctor now sat leisurely down, with his legs hanging over the precipice, supporting himself as ho leaned backward, with his left hand, while he swung his cane to and fro, and remained some minutes in profound meditation. IVs,' said hft, 'I see how it is. These poor people too must go the way of all flesh. Half a century hence the will be 23 wicked as the Londoners. Wi'.h the same vices they will have moru n it. But what ol that? So much the, worse for them. They will have their South Sea bubbles, their land bubbl33, their bank bubbles, and all other manner of bubbles. 'They'll havo thir Stock Market, their .New market; and there will bo bulls and bears, lame ducks, rooks and pigftons ia both of them. They will have lotteries, and operas, and elopements, and cracked poets, and ballets, and burlettas, and Italian singers, and French dancers. 'And every second man in a good coat, will bo a lawyer, or a broker, or an insolvent. And there will be no more cash payments; but the women will wear cashmeres and the men will drink champaigne. And the girls, instead of learning to cook and mend clothes, will bo taught lo chatter French and worse Spanish, and to get their husbands into jail; but thero will bo no jaih in those days, for they will have bankrupt laws and three-quarter laws, and twothird laws, and the limits will be as big as the country. Tlvre will be no more comfortable teadrinkings, and innocent dances, but they will have their balls, and their routes, and conversations, and fetc3, and fiedle3tuks. People will dine by candle light of weeks; and nobody will go to church on afternoons on Sundays! Folks will be knowing in wine3and cookery, and players, and paintings, and music, and know nothing of their own afl'airs. Thoy will go- to fashionable churches as an amusement, and to fash tonable gaming houses a3 a business. The girls will leain to waltz of the Germans, and their mammas to flirt from tho French. The boys will v be men, and the old men will try to be boys. Thev they will have all manner of quackery, from a patent pair of loops to a patent way of paying off the national debt. And they will run after every quack who comes ainonjf them. And the doctors will quarrel about moonshine, and rum the' profession by telling the truth about one another! But I shall be gone ere then: sufficient for the day, is the evil thereof!'

IIcmor in ax Agricultural Societt. If we are to credit the Springfield Republican, the managers of tho Amherst, Mass. Agricultural Society enjoyed a bit of fun in making up the committee on stock for their cattle show. It says: The committee on Cattle, upon the principle that, 'ho who drives fat oxen should himself be fat,' was composed of elghl gentlemen whose aggregate weight i3 over two thourand pounds! Then the committee on cal.'es (most impudent selection!) was wholly composed of members of .the last Legislature. The committee on fowls wero gentlemen from several towns about here, all of them blessed with tho name of Fowle. But tho happiest thing and' one thai really had a good grain of F.atiro in it, was the committee on maple sugar. This was composed of 'sweet hearts,' threo ladies and three gentlemen, who wero known to bo enaijed to be married, beinsr 6a it. . . . . Doctrine is nothing but tho tkin of truth r.ct up and stuffed.

T!ic A (Zantic Tclcraiili. From the Loncon Times, Muv 11. All the wire cf the Atlantic telegraph is out of the bank at Keyham. After the Niagara has received 142 miles from the steam-vessel Adonis, which arrived f:om the Thames on Saturday, and 4 J mile now in course cf completion nt the manufactory, her portion 5 ill be on board. The paying-out machinery is expected at Plymouth in a few days. It is intended to move the Niagara from the floating to the outer basin to-day, and itito Hamoaze on Thursday. Fro a the position of her engines just abaft the mainmast, and of her boilers, which extend forward, he. accommodation for the wire is not so capacious in any one place a3 that on board the Agamemnon, whero the great bulk is the mainhold. The Agamemnon has been removed to the southern part c f the tidal basin, to receive from the Andor.is her payingout apparatus, and 1G7 miles of "wire, which, with 50 at the manufactory, completes her portion, 1.5J1 miles, the frigate's being 1,511 total, 3,012, for a calculated distance, from Lelm I to Newfoundland, of 1 ,03-1 nacticle, or 1.C95 statute miles, showing a aurplrs of more than 5'J per cent. The shoic cud at Valentia 13 already down; the thore end at Newfoundland will be Lid by a small steamer. The Niagara takos tho western portion of the line, s.nd as she will probably have head winds, a::d may encounter fogs near Newfoundland, the place of junction will be 50 miles to the westward of a point on the route equidistant from both continen s. From Newfoundland there is telegraphic communication with New Orleans, distant, 1,710 miles, following the course of tho wire, and, when U13 Atlantic cable is laid, direct communication cau be had with Constantinople, thus uniting the four continents. It is calculated that a message leaving the Turkish capitol at 2 o'clock, say on Monday afternoon, will reach New Orleans at G o'clock of the same morning. The first message from Constantinople, direct, left on Saturday evening, May 2, at 1 1,45, and arrived in London at G,57 in the evening of the same day , London . timo, beating the sun nearly threo hours. The departure of the ships on tho experimental cruise will probably take place on the 25 inst. Mr. Whitehouso, the companies electrician, proposes to use on bonrd each ships battery which shall be so arranged as to throw a current constantly into ihc wire, and thus keep it what is termed 'permanently charged" by "current equilibrium." By this mtans either vessel will, it is expected, bo able to ascertain at any time if tho wire is receiving a current from the other without wailing for a definite fcL'nal. When the wire 13 completely established the current to bo employed will bo thus produced by induction coils, (Whitehouse's pa:ent,) which is said to have moro than double that by voltaio power.

1 ms An informal meeting of the Democratic General Commute, of New York city, was held at Tammany Hall on Thursday evening, for the purpose cf taking into consideration the best means of expressing the popular opinion with referenco to the recent repeated insults of British oGcers to the American flag, upon the high seas. The subject of the outrages was discussed at some length, and tho unanimous opinion of those present was, that tho President should take immediate and effectual measures to gain reparation for the wrongs which have been committed, and that the naval forces should be increased. However, definite action in the matter was referred to the regular meeting of tho committee, which takes place on Thursday evening next. Tho Central Democratic C'ub, of Xcw York city, held a meeting 011 the same evening, and adopted a series of resolutions denouncing the recent outrages of the British in tho Gulf, and commending the prompt action of tho President in despatching vessels of war to protect our merchantmen from insult aud annoyance. It was also resolved that a special committee be appointed to confer with other democratic organizations vith a view to a suitable public demonstration on the subject cf the BriiisW outrages. The Washington Sdrfes understands that some of tho bnivu spirits in the navy, who are not afraid of hard service, "afloat or on shore," have, within a few day3, tendered their services to tho government, and expressed a willingness to accept orders for duty, even in a gun boat, if necessary, lo protect our flag in the Gulf, or elsewhere. The steamer Arctic, under command of Com. Hautstexk, left New York on Fiiday for the Gulf. Her officers and crew are fifty-two in number. She carries two 32 pounders as side guns, and one 12 inch gun on a pivot, with tho usual quantity of small anus. The Baltimore Clipper publishes a card from Wm. Harcourt, late gunner in the United States navy, in which he states that the offer made b.y W. D. Pouter, late of tho United Slates navy, to tako command of a pilot-boat with a ten-inch shell gun, and to return the fire of the British, war steamer Styx, ore, &c, suits his views exactly, and he offers himself and sixteen young American seamen to carry out theso views. . The men he says aro all seameu gunners, and w-ould !o good service.. I V-Jf Sheep 'Wash in Tho following, taking from ths Ohio Farmer "explains, in a practical manner, why sheep should bo washed, and why shelter should be offorded them from long continued rain storms: . - - The 'philosophy' of the thing is tho reason why it is so. One who understands why a thing is so, will ba likely to do th work conected with it better . than if he wero ignorant of its theory. - Now, in re gard lo washing sheep, many person sup-

pose that the water acts simply to disolvo was reported a prisoner ia Utah,0 has a rtho dirt in the fleece, and by its mechanic-rived in California.

al action to separate it from the fiber. This it docs, lo be cure, and this would be a sufficient' reason for washing the ßheep, if the water did iio;hing else. But this is really the smallest part of what good sheepwashing docs. You have perhaps noticed, 0:1 tho liner woclcd sLeep t specially, exudation near the slini 'You will sec i: nearly all over good slieep, but most on the breast an 1 shoulders. Now this is a s.cre'ioa from the glands of tho skin, aci serves, i: 13 supposed.an important purpose ir. refining tho fiber, and in proiectingthe animal. But the fact about it wlii-h has most to do with tho sheep-wathing, is the following. This yellow gum, called Yolk, from i's resemblance to the volk of an eg:r, is larg'dv composed of potash and oil. It is, in short, a sort of natural formed soap, which when the sheep is plunged into the water, is dissolved, and acts cs a pore if ul cleanser of the whole fleece. It is as if fine eoap h.vl been intimately mixed with it down lo the skin, just before washing tho sheep. Thi cwner of aheep who keeps this fact in rum J, will see the importance of several thi:, which we will mention. I. lie will do well to wet the sheep, lot them stand a little while btf v.sfh'ng them thoroughly. This will allow the i i.j. of the yolk to act freely. 2. If he cm: wash his sheep in cliar soft water, this will be better than hard water 3. lie will find it goxl for this, as well as for o'.hr reasons, to wait till the weather and water is mil.', for the soap acts Lett r thai if tl.o water i3 very cold. 4. H2 will sea the irnportanca of sheltering the flock from h-ng and continued ra:n. These dissolve tho yolk, and lower the quality of the wool, bjbides chiling and weakening themselves. Difficulties of Editors. Wro clip from the 'Opeloum Gazette of 13ih January, 1S3J. the following, which shows that iwenty-eiht years a;o the dtSculties of an editoi cf a i.cwspaptr were the same rs the are djw, the euuic an" will always exist: The truth is, an editor cannot s'.ep without treading on scra.bouy's tecs. If ho expresses his opinions fearlessly and frankly, he is arrogant and presumptuous. If he states facts with comments, he dared not express hii sentiments. If he conscientiously refuses to advocate the claims f

an individual to ofüce, he is accused of hostility. A jackanapes, who measures oti' words into verse as a clerk does tapes, Ly the yard, hands him a parcel of feiuff that jingles like a handful of rusty nails a id gi:nb!cts,anJ if the eiilor is not fool er.ough 10 print the nonsense 'Su,p my p-ajr--I won't patronize a man that's r.o b tier judge cf poelry;'as if it was a pairorag to buy a paper at obout one -half more than so much waste paper would cost. Cne grumbles because the advertisements e-ngrsJt much room, another com pi tins that the pnper is too large,' a 't Cn 1 time to read it a!!. Ono wants t) pe so small that a microscope would be indespcnsble in every family another threatens to discontine the paper unless the letters arc half nn inch hng one old lady actually offered an anddisional price for a paper that fchould be prhled with such types a3 are used for handbills. Every subscriber has a plan of his own for conducting a journal, and the labor of Sisphus was recreation when compared with that of an editor who undertakes to please all. SAGACiTr of ax Elepiiaxt. We passed an cdephant working on a road, and it was most interesting to watch the half-reasoning brute; he was tearing out large roo:s from the ground by means of a hook and chain, fastened round his neck with a species of collar. lie pulled like a man, ot rather like a number of men, v. uh a succession of steady hauls, throwing his wnolo weight into it, and almost going down ort' his knees, turning, round every now and then to sec what progress he was making. Really the instinct displayed by the elephant in it3 domestic s'.ate 13 a lilt! j short cf reason in its fullest seuse. There is no doubt they do think, and also act upon experience and memory, and their capacity seems to increase in an extraordinary degree from their intercourse wkh man. The remarkablo nicety aud trouble they take i;;arranging the blocks of ,'iewn stone when buildin iz a 1 Driusre is in credible, n!es3 seen, they place them with as much fckili' as any mason, and will return two or three times to give the finishing touches when they think tho work 13 not perfect. They retire a few yards and consider what they have affected, aud you almost fancy youcan detect them turning their sagaciousold noddles on one side, and shutting ono eye in a knowing manner, to detect any irregularities'in the arrangement. The JJun fjaloxo and 'the Ten, Lv K. Sullivan' Court. Claim. Tho appointment of Judge Loring, who was lately removedfrom the office of Probate Judge by. Governor Banks, of Massachusetts, for Exevti--ting ihe Fugitive slavo Law, uccirding tiv to his oath of office as a Commissioner of " the U. S., to fill the vacancy iu the Court of Claims, made vacant by tho latodecease of Judge Gilchrist, is in every respect worthy of commendation. It is not only a just ' tribute to an officer who was made- a victim for the mere purpose of giatifying a vi ndictive partizau prejudice, but to a man : eminently worthy of thn jlace by his talents, his learning and his sterling interity. No belter or worthier man could be named for this responsibility and labori ' ous position. . V - - Mr. Gillett, who was associated with.Mr.:.. Cushing and Mr. Black, as Assistant Ü. S. Attorney, eminent for private virtues and professional ability and integrity, has been appointed Solicitor to the Court of Claims in pla-js of Mr. Blair, removed. This, also, -: is a capital appointment, one for which the- ; recipieutis peculiarly adapted.r-&iffla. ".' Co!. Jack Haves. ei Texan If

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