Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 3, Number 26, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 December 1872 — Page 4

For Rent.

pOR REST-HOUSE WITH THREE room*, good cellar, cistern and wood house, all in good repair—comer Main and 13£ street. Enqulreof L. FINKBINER.nl Cook's Hardware Store. dU

.•For Sale.

CKJRSALE-A FINEDWELLING HOUSE in iqi Wllllam*,offlcfl over Prairie City Bank, next door to PostoOlce.

1* and lot, cast, on Oblo street. For further particular* enquire of Henaricn A

Wanted.

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family apply to Mrs. J. QUMCK, :il south fith street. $ )A PER DAY! AGENTS qjJ IU ^V/ wanted! All classes of si working people, of either wt, young or old, a make more money at work for us In their SPI spare momenta, or all the time, than at A anything else. Particulars free. Address

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Strayed.

^TRAYKD—ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON O otia bay liorwe, Rome white on hind feet, also one small brown mare, harness marks on aide. Liberal reward if returned, or fur information of their whereabouts. 210 Mnlu street. C. I. RIPLEY. d2S-ti.

ISSOLUTION.

Cloves unci Jllttcn*,

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in all Sixes and Colors.

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For the convenience of Ihe public, our More will remain open every evening next week until iM'UH'k.

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ftprrn Honor Cortier.

1IRISTM AS 1ST 2.

Wc call the special attention of dtalel.s to our cheap

Toys & Fancy Goods,

.Suitable for the Holiday Trade, and to be •old at Wholesale l)nly.

Phiflfl AsLlnibDolls,BathV^iillla Vasw.t'lk"s, Tea Sets, Hlris and Aitlina:s.

Blowing ToysH^%u^,tcr,t',xg!S Rubber Toys,t^VhHUcaRU',

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As Whistles, Itattles, l'ls-

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,,|0i Drawing Slates,

V'aney MarbUw, Wax lHll«, lrw»«l IHtlls, Sml lmnsand stanus. Toy Watehes, Howls and 1'llehers, pistols with real ioy «ps, Tmmi»e!s, Frvneli Harjr*. Jews Harp, Aefordeona, Albutus, etc

All «w*r Toys e«n tx- sold fro»n.V UTA?and Ve«»VP the doal. A handsome prutlu ltelucmber we sell at

H'holfsnlf Only,

And will not Interfere with your trade. Uonds as low as any hou«e iu the west and satisfaction guaranteed.

WITTUJ A DICK, 1W Main street,-

Betwi^en 5th ami 6th, north side, n« xt to Ihe Tin Store. dll-tf.

?»T UKcEl VED At

J. S hanblin's

l'asst'niiMitrrie & Fringes

rim s»d Rrartv,

XtiUlassnd UmhIS,

»w Iraflrj, I v. Work R«xrm T" raxc*,

Isjrtsod Faary Gooti*

VERY CHEAP.

Mrs. A. L. Wilson, M. D.,

Ofltew hwrmlwi to the

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Office and Residence,

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THE MAIL.

P. S, WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

Office, 3 South 5th Street.

TERRE-HAUTE. DEC. 28, 1872.

SECOND KDITION.

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper are published. Tlio FIRST EDITION, on Friday Even log, has a large circulation among farmers and others living outalde of the city. The SECOND EDITION, on 8atnrday Even lng, goes into the hands of nearly every reading person in the city. Every Week's Issue is, in fact,

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

In which all Advertisements appear foj ONE CHARGE.

and a happy new year A Merry Christmas and a Happy New YeaJ So tno greeting goes, by the voice. But by the pen, we have broken .. salutation in two and let the conjur ctionspan a week. A merry Christmas we trust, good reader, you hayc had and a happy New Year wc hope you may have. But this holiday bo ncm to poor purpose if

dissolved by mutual conseut. Win. K. Mt-i }s devoted entirely to merriment rer will continue the businesi and settle all I K« L.1,

debts due dy and to the old Arm. There should be houis ot rcncc.ion WAr MFR??R

HOBDAYS.

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Warren, Hobergffi Co.,

Have unquestionably the largest and best tuuorltil Mock of

JFin* Fur*. Neal NUin IORUS, flinch lonltM, illnric Nllk Velvet* ,, fur ClonkM, Klcli Winter tiooiU, IIIKCK anil Colored jgNilk*, II roc he himI ley L«»»K Nqnsre .HII»MIN, ll»nl«oiiie S'J--,

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TIIBI-HACTE, Dec. 24,liflt.' 028-St bark over the past twelve months without regretting h'.s wrong done in it, or forward ovtr the twelve months before

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Strlpi'd Nliauls lor Misses. •IjidleH Balmoral and Boulevard 8k lit*. ?.• Ladles Knit Jackcts. Children's Knit Barque*. Mufftand Hows. Ladles and Misses Nubias. |Ioot!s and Scarfs. Gentlemen's Hoarfs and Comforts. I jwlles Ml tic Ties and Hcarlk.

A 1 Jirge nnd Complete Stock of i:

HANDKERCHIEFS.

I'or Iiiiillrfi nnil (lciillrinen p!

ladles and Gentlemen's, Misses, Boys aud Children's,

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resolve. Ila who has looked

JK! without resolving to do more right in it, jntiv have had a merry Christmas but ho is not in a promising way to enjoy a happy New Year.

There should be incitement to sol emu thought in the List hours oi the old year. The stupendous revolutions of our world round the sun, which we call years of time, but which are mere motions of matter in eternity, and one of which we arojust completing—how rapidly they reol off the thread of our human life. Thirty or lorty times round to the average of us, and we take our leave of this bewildering movement, and rost from it forever.

It is not a bappifying thought. If man could but live here always! What a happy New Year this would be, if it were not for the reflection that it brings us so much nearer to the last one. There must soon come a New Year that we shall not celebrate. A century hence they will celebrate the day a hundred centuries a million and we shall have no part in the life which will rejoice here in that happy New Year.

Yet, while we live, let us live. Let the years be tilled with all manly and womanly duties. Theso fulfilled are what makes the happiness that outlasts the year. Make the incoming of the New Year an epoch to'date reform from Leave off bad habits. Do you chew? Kschew! Do y°u drink? Shrink! Do you swear? Beware! And so on of other habits that have neither rhyme nor reason, poetry nor purity in them If you can not make better men and women of yourselves in 1873, wha: was the use of your living through 1872?

Let menial improvement be another ambition for the New Year. Old as well as young should aim to learn something in the coming twelve month. He who quits learning commences dying. The highest life of the intellect will give the happiest Now Year.

And be industrious and economical. Earn something and save something in 1S73. Have something, workingtnan, though you have to sJint for it. Get forehanded with tho world—the selfish world—lest the evil days oome, when you shall say that you have no happy New Year.

Closing as wo began, nnd linking together the Salutation heading theso columns last week with that at the head of this, wo wish one and all many returns of a "Merry Christmas and a Happy NewYear."

RKi.inioirs sensations have been somewhat of a rarity of late, but the resurrection of that Assyrian tablet on which is an inscription narrating the history ot the flood, bids lair to execute quite as much interest as the Cardiff Ctiant. From thft very nature of the subject, we look for a Hood of comments from religious and literary savants. Wo shall not deluge our columns with them, but have to keep our readers duly apprised of tho rise and (all of speculation upon this aqueous effusion.

TIIKRK IS talk of amending the Constitution of New Hampshire, which now provides that no person who does not conform to come Protestant denomination can serve as Governor, Senator, or Representative in the Legislature. It is somewhat strange that this ndigious trst should have existed so long yet the Old GraniU) Slate seems to have prospered well ccougb underit.

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It isgratifyiug to hear from the Christian Observer that not one person in millions is buried alive. The editor says: "We, bare asked at cemeteries in Europe, where bodies are always kept and tested, whether only one ever revived, and the answer invariable is, not one.**

TUB New York Mail say* tbe law just pstned in Kansas, giving mothers control of their children, to a capital measure, and ebould be Initiated, In other States. Children have bad control of their mothers eo long it is time for a cbang*. We believe In rotation in the domestic office*.

RARXUM'S tuus um, menagerie and circus.WM turned in New York on Tuesday morning.

ORIGIN OF NEW YEAR. Next Wednesday, the 1st day of Jannary, 1873, is the day which, by common consent, has been fixed upon as tbe beginning of the year. Whether or not tbe first of January, according to the present computation, is the anniversary of the -day on which the world was created, is a point which, in tbe present state ot chronologioal information, cannot be infallibly decided especially as among that omniscient order of superannuated worthies, our oldest citizens, there are none who can be said to retain a very distinct recollection of that event. In tho conjunction of Now Year's day with the first of January, we do not even know which w»s the cause and which the effect whether New Year's was fixed on the first ot January, or the first of January on New Year's. All that we are warranted in positively affirming is, that New Year's comes but once in a twelvemonth and that the first of January has, at least, one chance in throe hundred and sixty-five and a fraction, of being the anniversary ol the day on which the world was created always reserving the questionstarted by Darwin, and others of the sciontifically-undevout-whethcritcver was created.

Judging from our best sources of knowledge, Adam and Eve must have celebrated the lirst New Year. It is doubtful about the custom of "New Year's calls" originating with them, however, for very obvious reasons. In the first place, there none to call and in the second place, Mr. and Mrs. Adam wfrd not dressed to see company if there had been. They were, therofore, relieved from the necessity ot keeping "open house" for their friends and others who might wish to taste their cake and wine.

Now Year's day has from tho earliest periods been a day of festivity. Humanity expresses its joy at the thought that its time is growing shorter in this vale ot tears, and its day of departure is approaching. The dispensation of gifts is supposed to be symbolical of that final distribution whon every man's goods and chattels pass from his own into the hands of his heirs, executors and administrators a transaction which, to the latter, is not without its elements of profound satisfaction. The social conjunctions of New Year's day, according to the modern custom, are, it may be, types and shadows of meetings in the "spirit land when everybody —having on his best cloihes for tho occasion—will be particularly glad to see everybody and when there will be ardent meetings of friends who never heard of each other before, and hearty shakings of hands, and humanity will become a common brotherhood, so to continue until reaction sets in and tho beautiful vision fades away in headaches and indiurestions.

DARWIN, in showing the close resemblance of mental faculties that exist in man and the inferior animals, makes a point in proving that dogs dream as well as reason. In a roccnt issue of Land and Water, a correspondent thus describes tho appearances of a cat during and after a dreum "Siio was very still, and appeared to be fast asleep when suddenly she sprang into the middle ot the room, where she fixed her feet on a limited spot on the floor, to which also her noso was appliod, as if closely gasping something she held with her claws. This continued for ashort time, when the noso was gently raised, and the visible attontion was directed to the foet, which still continued their gasp but after a time one ot them was gradually removed, and then the other, on which puss appeared greatly as a loss to imagine whither the imaginary object could have gone so at to escape her grasp. She looked in various directions along the floor, with a foolish face ol confusion and then again her attention was directed to tne spot on which the feet were first closely pressed, as it to examine closely whether tho presumed escape had been by sinking through the floor and when this seemed unsatisfactory, the disappointed animal, now widely awake, retired slowly from tho spot but she returned more than once to re-examiuethe place, as it she found it impossible to comprehend how'' an object she had so plainly seen and grasped should have sunk into nothing. Many minutes elapsed before this cat appeared to be reconciled to tbe conviction that what had been a dream waa net a truth a reality."

Ox we go. The horse is gradually being superseded. There was a steamwagon for common roads exhibited at the Augusta ((Ja.) fair. The constitutionalist aays: "Two largo wagons and three certs loaded with bricks were first attached to thesteamer. This load she pulled around the grounds with perfect ease, traveling as fast as when unencumbered.' As a still further test two wagons filled with ituln and bojs were added to the already long train, and, as befoie, the steamer moved oft and went around tbe grounds apparently without difficulty. These tests demonstrated beyond a doubt that these steamers can be used with great advantage on ordinary roads to haul lofeds. They are not made for speed, but simply for strength."

THBonly temperance railroad in tbe United States, indeed, in the world, is sakt to be the Marietta and Pittsburgh Railroad, running from Marietta to Cambridge, a distance of fifty-nine miles. Every officer and employee of the road is a practical temperance man, and not a single fetal accident has ever occurred upon it since it was first opened. This is suggestive ss far as it goes and it goes fifty-nine ml'.es.

GET MARRIED.

Some graudfatberly writer, under "tbe bridegroom, tbe bride and the bridal," thus speaks of a subject always agreeable to our lair readers. It is especially nppl[cable at this holiduy season. Indeod, blue eyes and black never tire of a theme so fascinating, and young manhood, should heed the advice thus tenderly given

Young men! If you have arrived at the right point ot life for it. lei every consideration give way to that of sating married. Don't think of anything else. A good wifo is the best, most faithful companion you can possibly bavo by your side while performing the journey or life. She can sooth your linen and your cares for you mend your trowsers and chango your manners sweeten sour moments as well as your tea and coffee rutile, perhaps, your shirt-bosom, but not your temper and, instoxd of sowing seeds of sorrow in your path, she will sew buttons on your shirt, and plant happiness, instead of harrow teeth, in your bosom. Yes and, if j*ou are too confoundedly lazy or too proud to do such work your* self, she will carry swill to the hogs, chop wood, nnd dig potatoes for dinner. Her love for her husband is such that she will do anything to please him— except to receive company in her every day clothes. Get married, wo repeat, you must. Concentrate your affections on one object, and don't distribute them, crumb by cumb among a host of Susans, Marias, Elizas, Betseys, Peggies, Doroties, allowing each scaroelv enough to nibble at. Got married, and have someone to chocr you up as you journey through this vale of tears —somebody to scour up your dull, melancholy moments, and keep your whole life, and whatever linen you possess, in some sort of Sunday-go-to-meeting order.

ORIGIN OF PUMPKIN PIE. Tho pumpkin pie, now in season, is considered a purely American dainty. Our pride has just been humbled at learning that this specialty ot tho Yan keo in which ho, or more properly speaking, she—for th* wife is coucocter—takes pride, is no American speciality alter all, but existed in England two hundred years ago, and is to bo found in "Tho Compleat Cook," published in 1055. ,"

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The English pie is a much more elab orate affair than that of the Yankee, and contains more ingredients. As tho season of good things is now at hand, when novelties of this kind generally pvovo acceptablc, wo givo the rccipe, which is so old it can,, like the "dresses worn at the same period, be introduced to this generation and called new "To Make a Pumpion Pyc.—Take about hulfo a pound of Pumpion and stew it a handful of Time, a little Rosomurv, Parsley, and Sweet Marjoram slipped otl the stalk, and chop them stual then take C'innimon, Nutmeg, Pepper, aud Six) Cloves, and beat hem then mix them and beat them altogether, and put in as much soger as vou think at then fry them like a Troize alter it is Iried let it stand till it be cold, then fill your Pyo take sliced apples thinne, round-ways, and lay a row of the iroize and layer of apples, with Currants betwixt them while yourpyeii filled, and put in a good deal of sweet butter before you close it when the Pye is baked, take six yelks of Eggs and some white wine or Veruris (verjuice), and make a caudle of this, but not too thick cut up the lid and put ic in stir them well together until tho Eggs and Pumpions be not perceivtd, and serve it up."

SOCIAL UNCLEANNESS. .. A New York letter to tho Buffalo Commercial, speaking of tho extermination of obscene publications in Now York says:

Providence raises up the young dry goods clerk, Anthony Comstook like a Hercules to do battle single-handed, with the many-headed monster of 1nsciviousness, whose slimy folds enveloped society in every direction, unresisted, and stretched forth to tho remotest corners of the land. In his hands a statute, long inert, bec.une a club of crushing weight on tho heads of antouished evil-doers. In the short spaco of eight months, forty-three men and two women engaged in the publication aud dissemination of vicious literature and apparatus have been arrested, thirteen ot them have been convicted, twelve sent to State Prison, five of the number died, twenty-three are under indictment, ono of their police accomplices has been broken, more than seven tons of obscene books have been seized, with over two hundred thousand pictures aud printed shoots of liko infamous character, six thousand playing cards ditto, over live tons of stereotype plates, and til teen hundred wood, copper, steel or lithographic engravings aud negatives, and finally not less than seven thousand five hundred orders frotn all parts of the country rovealintt to the future pursuit of justice an army of the miscreants engtired in the diabolical work. The printed matter is all conveyed hy Mr. Comstock, personally, to the paper-mill,arid every sheet of it goes into tho pulping machine under his vigilant eye. in the same mnnuer the plates are melted down and other articles destroyed. Half of tho fines collected are due to Mr. Comstock, but ho has not allowed himscli to reimburse bis own expenses by a dollar from this source. And yet tbe character of the titan nnd tho result of tbe late election (Judiciary) in the city unite to assure us that this is but a beginning of what wo shall soon KSO.

A 8 UPEBB rifRTlSTMA,S NU.UB ER.

Tb£December number of the "People's Monthly" of Pittsburg, I'd., is Just to hand, and we must confess to a furpftse. No such fine, or elegant illustrated newspaper has ever appeared oat of New York, while it challenges competition with anything published that city. Tliis Christmas number is absolutely crowded with fine illustrations, and interesting letters, stories, poems Ac., appropriate to tbe season. The Household and "Boy's snd GirlV'departments, are of special interest. In fact, the whole paper is gotten up for tbe home and tamily and Is pure, bright and wholesome. This Monthly, we must say, is a credit to tbe West. Agents wanted everywhere and Urge commissions paid. Send lor sample and circular. Three months trial7 only 25 cents, includin did Christmas number. sway with each paper than its cost Yearly subscription only 91,50.

ins tbe splenMore given

SroscRirmoxs received at this office for sll the leading magazines and periodicals, and money forwarded at our risk.

THR daily papers this week have been freighted with horrors, the most terrible being that of tbe railroad acci dent at Prospect Station, New York, where thirty-five persons were killed. broken rail caused tbe baggage and two passenger cars to be thrown from a trestle work thirty feet high. The cars took fire, and tbe imprisoned passen gers wore roasted to death.

WITH this Issue, being the last week of the year, the subscriptions of more ttrons of The Mail expire than at any other time. Every Mail brings us many renewals and we hopo that not a aingle reader of last year will be dropped from the lists of the coming year. We have many new features and improvements in contemplation,and hope to make Tbe Mail still more acceptable as a first-class family paper. Notice the date at the end of your name on the wrapper. If it reads "1 Jan 73" this will be the last Mail you will receive without a renewal. See club rates on second pago.

The City and Vicinity.

THE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL is on sale each Saturduy afternoon by A. H. Doolcy, „Opera House. S. R. Baker & Co., P. O. Lebby M. P. Crafts, _Opp. Post Office, Will li. Sheritr, Paris, Ills. Walter Cole, Marshall, Ills. Harry Hill, .(Sullivan, ind James Allen, Clinton, Ind J. B. I)owd, liockvllle, ind Frank Dowling Brazil, lud C. V. Decker Mnttoon, Ills H. J. Feltus Ureencastle, Ind

N E W A E IS E E N S

Chambers Eneyclopcedia—Dtnlo. Dissolution—Oren & Mercer. Notice— L. Goodman. Clothes Wringers, etc.—Cory & Crowder. A Card—C. McKenzle Dinsinoor, M. D. Strayed—Horse—C. I. Itipley. Oysters—Alexander & Johnson. Agents Wanted—Queen city Pub. Co. The Weekly Sun. New York Observer. Agents Wanteo—G. Stinson. Tricks aud Traps of Ameiiea. Northwestern Cancer Infirmary. Rice Flour—Edward Fowler. CB Cincinnati Weekly Enquirer. Ball -Iron Moulders Union. Pence's Hall—Miss M. H. l'arry. Burdett Organs—KISMIT'S. Wanted—uirl—Mis. J. F. Gullck. Terre-Haute Commercial Collexe. Dry Goods—Wilson Bro's A Hunley. Payment Deslied—Tuell, Ripley Deming.

IIAPI'V New Yearl

WILL von "swear off?"

TITK day of good resolutions comes next woek.

'THK Presbytorian netted $201.

A "WHITE healthy j'oar.

Apron Bazaar

THE Alleghanians come the middle ofJanuary.

Christmas" denotes a

TUB ice harvesters arc highly favor ed this season. I

FBOZEN ears, noses, fingers and toes are quite common.

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Ax etfort is to be made to revive the Independent Club, A

THIS Bevere cold weather prevents tho laying of water pipes.

PAY all your* little bills and lake a good square start with 1873.

ONLY tbreo more days of 1873. MAKE the best use you can of them.

TUHN over a new leaf, and open fresh account with conscience.

SHANKS MARK" so generally used of late, is not affected by tho epizooty.

ONE moro holiday and then a six months stretch until tho Fourth of July.

MATHIMONY IS raging in the ranks of the city school tc uheisof the feminine species.

UFI'KNTANCK, morse will all Year's day.

reformation and rebo in order on Now

THK Sunday schools of Asbury, Centenary, and tho United Brethren churches enjoyed happy Christmas festivities. S3

THOSK who dance must pay the Qd* dler, but the Franck company slipped out of town without paying Breinig's orchestra.

Garvin A Ilolnly's Commercial College, after enjoying a vacation of one week resumes work again on next Monday morning.

Ox New Year's day make all the good resolutions that suggest themselves and keep them as long and religiously ns you can.

Seen extraordinary cold weather snd of such duration as that of tbo past woek hss seldom oeen experienced in this "neck o' woods."

IT is somewhat inconvenient to carry gold-beaded canes about tho strdets these cold days, but tbe numerous Christmas caned victims bear tbo affliction nobly.

THB meetings at the United Brethren Church, are attendod with much interest. Services to-morrow st tbe usual hours, morning and evening. Class meeting at 9% A. x.

THK company supporting C. Harry Franck—or rather, tbe company with which C. Harry is playing—is one of the best that has visited this city. It would be better without Harry.

THB intensely cold weather of Christmas dsy, and tbe days preceding, materially interfered with the sales of holiday goods, and consequently decreased the number of Christmas presents.

AFTER you read The Mail send it to an absent friend. It is better than a letter.

THK year 1872 goes out with the city of Terre-Haute a mile and a half in width I

AMUSEMENTS have not panned out satisfactorily to managers in this city recently. *,

THE Black Crook, in all the glory of re-nude splendor, comes on the 8th of January. «,

THEengagement of Fanny B. Prico, commencing the first of January, has been cancelled.

WEshudder to think what might be tho fato of Terre Haute iu caae a fire should start in tbe heart of tbe city iust new.

ALWAYS study to make your holiday gltts appropriate. We hear of a poor barefooted boy being made happy with a twenty-fivercent buzzum p.in,

WE hear with much regret that the gold dollar is to be withdrawn from circulation. They were so handy to lay on the church collection plate.

THERE IS much more travel on the railroads during the first three days of tbe week than on the last three. The absurd prejudice against Friday cuts off much transient travel on that day.

Tne Ring will have to take another twist at that Court House because an act whicli passed the Legislature on the last workiug day of the special session, provides that no Court House can bo built until plan and specifications havebeen agreed upon ai:d deposited at the Auditor's filce. AIo. that the work must be let to the lowest responsible^ bidder, aflcr being properly advertised,

THE BALL of the Mechanics Union at Dowling Hall on Christmas Eve, was the largost, and one of the most enjoyable that has been given this season. The management was in good hands,, the best of order prevailed, and all seemed happy as the hours fleeted by. It was also a fine success financially, the gross receipts being 9368.3T, of which about ono-half is left alter paying expenses. With this sum the Union will rent and decorato its hall,''

Tan attempt on Christmas morning of a leading citizen to dlstroy his life, in a temporary aberation of mind, has^ been a subject of much comment. While wo doubt tho propriety ofBilence in such acase, because itgives MadameRumor a chance to magnify, distort! and put upon it tho worst phase, wo join with the city press in abstaining from mention of the affair. The unfortunate man may be assured that he has the sympathy of this entire community in his reul or fancied Lroubles.

YE who revel in tho hot buckwheat enkes for breakfast, road this: In a I book pulished'in the Twelfth Century, entitled, "Ye Delightes of ye Broaktast^ Table," the following occurs: S

Ye corne naymed Buckwheat, ypon wbych ye Deere dothe much IOVO to feeiie, and yn meu to form cakes of uiyghte gudeness. Ye boyled sape of ye L.vnden (maple) Tree dothe much ymprove them. Bad stomake ones say that to eate of these dothe cause them much scratchynge, but this fayles to stop the eatynge of them.

C'nmsTMAs, in this city, passed ploasautlyt and orderly as a general thing. A lew enthusiastic follows, who suddenly recollected that "Christmas comcs but once a year," got hllarous before night in celobrating tho occasion in what they consldorod tho proper manner, yet there was llttlo disorderly couduct upon the streets that we heard of. Notwithstanding the intense cold, tho Btreets were thronged all day—the morning hours with anxious laces completing the soleotionof holiday gifts, and the remainder of tbo day with happy countenances, the result frequently of good dinners anticipated or enjoyed according as the dinner hour varied.

WHO WILL RECEIVE.—A delicately perfumed note Is on our table from an esteemed lady friend asking whether tbo calling on New Year's day will be general or not, and that we givo In this issue, tho last beforo New Years, a list of proposed "open housos." To the latler request we ciunot comply. It is impossible to gel at alia complete list of open houses ho many days in advance. We presume that as usual many hospitable mansions in this city will be thrown open, and tho fair hostesses roady and happy to receivo the visits and compliments of the season from their hosts of friends and acquaintances. In many instances young ladies of certain cliques, will receive at or.e house thus placing it within the power of tho weary men, with long lists of visits to kill a greater number Of pfump young birds with one ston This plan of a number of young ladio receiving togett^pr, is apt to havo too bewildering an effect upon tho senses of tho sentimental youths who will be rushing frantically about town, bolting in and out of houses to |Ay their compliments, rendered incoherent by much panting, to the radient creatures, coolly waiting to see them, and who tumble and stumble in, heated with wine, perhaps, thick of tongue, and as susceptiblo as a boy at a dancing school for the first time. It is to b^ hoped that few people will tern their pleasant homes into temporary drinking saloons. Young man, if you want to keep your boad level abstain from Intoxicating liquors, on your rounds. Sensible people will think none the less of you, and you will preserve that steadiness in legs necessary to dignified locomotion.