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Tltri ANGEL WATCHER. A daughter watched at midnight. Her dying mother's bed For five long yeare she hud not stept,

And many tears were shed: A vision like an angel came, Which none but her mighl see ''Sleep, duteous child," the angel said-, "And I will watch for thee

Sweet slumber, like a blessing, fell Upon the daughter's face The angel smiled, and touched her not

But gently took her place Ah, oh, so full of kuman love, Those pitying eyes did shine. The angel guest half mortal seemed—

The slumberer half divine.

Like rays of light the sleeper's locks In warm loose curls were thrown Like rays of light the angel's hair,

Seemed like the sleeper's own, A ros« like shadow on the cheek, Dissolving into pearl A something in the angel's face

Seemed sitter to the girl!

The mortal and immortal each Reflecting each were seen The earthly snd the spiritual

With death's pale face between. O human love, what strength like thine! From thee those prayers arise Which, entering into Faradise,

Draw angel's Irom the skies.

The dawn looked through the casement cold, A wintry dawn of gloOm, And sadder showed the curtained bed—

The still and sickly room *'My daughter!—art thou there, my child O, haste thee, love, conie nigh, That I may see once more thy fade,

And bless thee, ere 1 die!

"If ever I were harsh to thet, Forgive me now," she cried "God knows my heart, I loved thee most

When most 1 seemed to chide Now bend and kiss thy mother's Hps, And lor her spirit pray The angel kitted her and her soul

Passed blissfully away!

A sudden start!—what dream, what sound, The slumbering girl alarma She wakea—she fees her mother dead

Within the angel's arms— She wakes—she springs with wild embrace But nothing there appears Eicept her mother's sweet dead face*

Her own convulsive tears.

THE FARMER'S DAUOIlTER» She may not, in the mazy dance, With jewelled maidenjrie She may not smile on courtly swain

With soft, bewitching eye She cannot boast a form and mien That lavish wealth has brought hcf\ But, ah, she has much fairer charms,

The Farmer's peerless daughter!

The rose and lilly on her cheek Together love to dwell Her laughing blue eyes wreath® around

The heart a witching spell Her smile is bright as morning's glow Upon the dewy plain. And listening to her voice we dream

That Spring has come again.

The timid fawn is not more mild. Nor yet more gay and free The lilly* cup is not mora pure,

In all its purity Of all the wild floww* in the wood. Or by the crystal water. There's none more pure or fair than ahc-

The Farmer* pearlasa daughter

The haughty beftc whom all adore, On downy pillow liesWhile forth upon the dewy lawn

The merry maiden hies And with the lark's upraising song, Her own clear voice is beard— Ye may not tell which sweeteat aitigs.

The maiden or tbe bird.

Theft tell me not of jewelled fair— The brightest jewel vet Is the heart where virtae dwells

And innocence is set! The glow of health upon b«r cheek— The grace no rule hath taught her— The fairpet wreath that beauty twines.

Is for the Farmer's dsughtor*

Servant.

We lometSme# amim ourselves by tooklngom DM advertisements of the London paper# Many of them are curious enough. The following, lor axampta, to fnxn a U»e number of the London Time* Th* writer, I**?*' has a vary good opinion of his own qualifications: '•Do vou want a servantI Neeewity prompts tK* Question. Tbe *J wiiser offers hjs services to anybody, gentleman, company, or where In want JeVtrttly taithful. OMMBIMM »»JT Sadty not mental, where a practical knowledge

6S «!SS^n ihfbSt and worst societiea wUhott being contaminated by

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Mrvant. begs W recommend himself as cm« wt»o kJoTs hi, Uc*. is moral, temperate, mgd*aged, no otyecuoo to any p*rt.of tjvwwWL ^®d -it .* anv caoitalitt wishing to increase r»ts iaIS^IT amf have the control of his own money Sdd tct soeretaryj* **l«l «Mtleman. Can give advjee or hold his tongue, j.nM fl«v. fence, box, preach a Wi

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Bei ddnte to California.

STRAITS OJF KAOETLAN—THE CODNTRY AN© THS INSiMMm. r^pli'94

As t&e Straits are to be a good deal, navigated by our vessels to California, the following account of them by Captain Morrell, in his book of Voyages, published in 18^-, may be interesting. He bad been six times through this passage

The Straits are about 373 miles in length.— Their course forming an elbdto. Or two aides of A right angled triangle. The distance 4crdas the land is aoout 190 miles—Cape ForwArd being the southernmost point of the South Arrterican ontinent—the Island of Cape Hdrn being over 100 miles farther south—the Straits at the eastern entrance ftre between six and seven leagues wide, and have from fifteen to thirty fathoms water. The tide on the Atlantic rises about sixteen feet, and on the Pacific side about eight t'eet. The pas'sage is safe for vessels of any size, and the navigation pleasant and easy. There are many safe and commodious harbors all tbe way through.— and abundance of fish and anti-scorbutic vegetable*, and birds and deer at the eastern entrance. The land is low on both sides like a rolling prairie. Towards the middle and west, it becomes hilly and Mountainous, some parts of it resembling the scenery of theiludson river.

Tbe country is well peopled. Near the eastern end of the Straits, Captain Morrell saw about 200 Indians on horseback and towards the western he was visited On shore by more than a thousand, who were very peaceable and friendly. About 120 miles from the eastern entrance is Port Famine, so named by tbe English navigator. Cavendish, who in 1585 rescued the only survivor of a colony of 400 Spaniards, who had settled there in 15S1 to form a nucleus for protection to Spanish commerce. The place was named Philipville, in hopor of the reigning monarch of Spain. The unfortunate settlers were left without sufficient provisions, and did not pay sufficient attention to their crops. When the plate was visited by Cavendish, he tound only one individual alive, whom he car ried to England. All the test had perished by famine but twenty-four, who set Out for the ftio de la Flata, and were never again heard of.

Had this colony been composed of such men as are emigrating from New England to our wilderness, solar from suffering iaminc, they would have converted Patagonia into a fruitful country, and Philipville would in time have bccome a large city. It has a tine harbor, abundance ot fish, game, of wild celery, and the finest trees I ever saw oak, beech and cedar, five to seven feet in diame-

Soine of :hem would make fine masts fol-line-of-battle bliips. The valleys are clothed in luxuriant verdure. The clover fields of Pennsylvania, if suffered to go for a few seasons unmowed, would alone furnish a parallel.

Capt. Morrell visited the ruins of Philipville, and says the fort crected by tbe Spanish is but slightly deeayed, and with little labttf could be repaired and would command the straits. The Captain made an excursion into the country—xt which lie gives an interesting account. In the night they were disturbed by aloud roaring, which he afterwurdsdiscovered was the South American Lion.

The Inauguration.

Durlag the ceremony of the inauguration of President Taylor, a great many amutsing scenes occurred, some Of which have already been published. In a crowd of thirty thousand, persons-, male and female, young aud old, military and civil, friends and enemies of the old General, there was one class who plied their task with uncommon industry, and, in some cases, with success. We mean the pickpockets The occasion happens only once in four years, and they were compelled to make the most of it. One of these gentry, it is told, tried his hand upon an anxious and deeply interested spectator of the proceedings, and relieved him of what was, seemingly, a very valuable, because well filled, pocket-book. The loss was not discovered until the ceremonies were over, ai\d no tidings Of the thief could then be obtained. The unfortunate man was incorisolablfe. He wis on a visit to Washington on very important business, and his loss at such a time was exceedingly jrovoking. Not that so much money was gone jut because his letters—the recommendations of his friends for some fat office, and without which he could do nothing—had passed into the wrong hands. There was no means of recovering them, :tnd he wunilered about Washington for three or four days, not knowing what to do in this dilemma. lie tried various expedients, none of which were successful, before determining to give up the hunt for an office. A last, going to the post office one morning, he received a large package of letters, witli a handsomely written note from the pickpocket. He expressed a warm sympathy for the gentleman Who had been so untimely relieved of his passports to office—knew, he said, that he must be unable

get along without them—he was

an office hunter himself, and appreciated his feelings fully—and, therefore* he returned the documents, safe, whole, and Uttdefaced, to be be used as he might deem proper. After that the office hunter was a little more careful of papers to which he supposed an unusual value was attached, and kept them beyond the reach of the pickpockets-— Mo. Rtp.

Singular Anecdote.

Twogentlerncn at St. Petersburg!) had contracted a bitter and irreconcilable enmity against each other. A servant of oue happening to die, was buried within twenty-four hours, after the Russian custom, when the other determined to gratify his revenge upon his adversary, by accusing him of the murder of this man. To give a color to this accusation, accompanied by some of his confidential sorVanrs, he proceededprivately to disinter the corpse, with a view of inflicting marks of violence upon it. The body was removed from the coffin and held erect, that it mignt undergo a severe flogging, when to the astonishment stld dismay of the -party, when a few blows had been inflicted, animation returned, and the frightened resurrectionnien ran off with the utmost precipitation. The corpse at length recovering his ani mation, was enabled to move off in his shroud, and regain his master's habitation, which he entered, to the great terror of its respective irthabi* tanrs. At length, however, his reality becoming certain, ihcy were reassured, and the supposed ghost communicatwl all he could remember of the atate he had been in. which was, that his senses bad not left bins, notwithstanding he had felt so cold and toroid as to b6 incapable of speech or tnotioo. until the blows had restored him. This led to the detection «f the diabolical plan against his master's life and character. Tnescfvshtsof the monster confessed their participation in the act, and h« waa consequently arraigned before the senate.

Jtwr ma SA*R.—When the celebfated engineer Brunei, who accomplished the desperate experiment of tunneling the Thames river, was brought before committee of the Br!fish ParHnmrnt, he was asked if a need of eighty mile# per hour «m a certain railroad would be much more dsttgerous to the traveler upon it than the speed of forty "It would be tost the same," said he. "And a speed of ninwy I", "Just the same "And a speed Of ewe hundred f" "Just the same! For," added he, "if the ears should ran off the track at the rate of forty miles per hour, the paaeenger* would all go to ruin, and at one hundred miles per hour they could not conveniently go arry further."

How TO DtsumHf ilFrsit Bomt raux TBK TBKOAT. —]t sometimes happens that a fish bone aecMentally swallowed will remain in the owwphsgu* and occasion serious inconvenience in fact (Instances have been known where so mnch irritation had artsea that death ha* followed. In »uch caaas it is advisable, as soon as possible, to take four grains of tartar emetic dissolved in one half pint of warm water, and immediately afterwards the white of six egga. The coagulated maes will not remain on the atomach more than two or three minutect, and the probability Is that the bone will be (jetted with tfce contents of the atomach. If tartar eanetio is not to be found ooavtRtnntly, a teasvoonful of rauatard diasolved in milk-warm water and swallowed wilt answer the same pur-

Scientific Amtritmm.

MORALS

TMCAS.—A Gafveatdrt pa*

per, deprecating the number of divorces grarred at the recent session of the Legislature of Tex**, stys, in that State the marriage contract is not ax binding as a horse trade. 4tPai, who were your ancestors t" *My aunl's sisUtf Be jabacs, and it's hard telling."

From the Botto* A Hot.

Effect of the Idfldx 3f OoM llrMft California* Whit eiSect will agrdat influx,of .gold from 'CaUfotytta have ypon the money markets of thd Vb'orld 1 will it affect the relative vftlpe of gold itself? are questions which have b'ean on the lips of almost every ofte sihee the first ihielligfeiicd was known of the dbiinclance of the precious ntetals in our newly acquired territory. All who remember t\ie speculations that were made and fears entertained, principally in the old^oHd, but to some extent in this cbuntry also, When the pl-ospect of large and continually increasing supplies from Siberia was firist made known to the public, if they also recollect how groundless were the foolish apprehensions then entertainen and expressed, can readily answer these questions and satisfactorily too. A perfect panic then seized upon many whose commercial and financial experience ought to have taught them bener. It was feared that the unusual import of gold from Russia into other Countries would disarrange the respective vdlue between gold and silver, as standards of commercial value, and reverse or derange all previous financial regulations. These fears, then, proved to be utterly idle, premiturfe ihd groundless. Vet it has not been because their fears exaggerated the increased supply of the previous metal. Far from it. The produce of the gold from the Russian territories has, during the lost ten years, increased from six thousand pounds freight to fifty thousand and in value from less than nine hundred thousand dollars to nearly fourteen millions in some years. Last year there wds a slight falling oft, and the quantity producea represented about ten millions in value. It is, however thought, as it is very difficult to get ut statistical facts in that country, the true quantity was nearer fifteen millions than ten in actual value.

Notwithstanding this vast increase, it has at no time hnd a perceptible effect upon the value of bullion. The price has remained almost steadily the same, the variation of the value of art ounce never having been more than a cent or two, and that variation being always attributable to other causes than the abundance of gold. The same result, we apprehend, may be expected from the produce of gold in California, even should it be as prolific as the most extravagant amiciparions prepare us to expect. The immense extension of commerce which the colonization of California will create, and many other causes which are also tending to similar results, will open ready channels for the free course for all the precious coin that country is likely to produce, even if Russia maintains her average annual produce, and even though the rumors of the discovery of immensely rich gold regions on the banks of the Ramia and Go-icia rivers in Africa may prove to be well founded. We learn from the London Morning Journal a fact that will doubtless surprise many of our readers—thai there has been coined in the Government mint of London, during the last thirty-two years, very nearly £100,000,000 sterling, in sovereigns and half sovereigns, on ah average more than J015,000,000 a year and what by the friction in circulation, and the operations of the coin despoilers called "sweating," a large amount is necessary to fill the gap thus caused, besides providing for the wants of the public In increased circulation.

Now, the lurgest probable estimate of the produce of California is from twenty to thirty millions ayear. Thisamount* it is stated by the most competent authorities upon such subjects, will not add a quarter of a dollar per head per annum a sum which certainly need not be looked upon with any dismay. This is the only fair and disembarrassed light in Which this question can properly be regarded. When, in addition to the considerations we have named above, we also lake into account the various purposes for which gold is employed, and the increasing demand for jewelry, watches, plate, and the various other uses for which it is employed in the arts, we think there can be no doubt whatever that there are abundant channels for the safe and fructifying course of all the gold that California, Russia, and even Africa, combined, can produce.

River Sport.

Tha most popular boats now running on the Ohio are those drawing the least water. It is favorite amusement with the steamboats now to lump sand-bat's.— This is accomplished by those crafts which aro able to run where the sand is a little damp holding in their strain till they almost reach the bar, when it is let oat! and a flying leap is taken that would eclipse anything short of the swoop of an eagle in the air. The men passen-

Ssndkerchiefs,

srs cheer, and the ladies wave their while the travelers on th« several boat* lying in the neighborhood aground, pull their hats desperately over their eyes» sigh deeply, and liquor.

Decidedly tbe be*t joke we have heard for a week, was played off on a relentless—sharp-nosed constable in the western part of the Stite. lie started oat to arrest a person who had often es* caped pursuit, but who, ho was informed, was at that time engsgud in a neighborlag cornfield. The constable wishing to take him by surprise* a roundabout direction, siding the sheds and fences opposite, ttlteff, "aqtiatting," he crawled stealthily along, and at Teffgtft

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ounced upon his victim, clenching him around the waist, cxclairn **You're my mrmmer.'* He tearttrc*?

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aris correspondent of the N. Or

leans Picayune, relates the foiling good story:— Vi

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ttew method of raising the wind Was resorted to a few days sihee,. by a couple of precious scamps, which should have succeeded*if ingenuity of this kind were entitled t'o rtiiy r^wilru. Tlid sharpest Yankee would not be ashamed of inck ftit upon by these Parisian gamihi. About 10 o'clock in the morning, tolerably chilly morning it was, the passers along the Quai du Mat che aux Fleurs noticed a young mptt \Vith a very meU ancholy and suicidical look, standing near one of the bridges dlon6. Suddenly he cast his dyes upward, as if to take a last view of the skies, muttered apparently as in prayer for a moment, and then plunged headlong into the river. While all stood paralyzed at this rash attempt, a yoUrtg irtail came up and inquired with great simplicity what was the matter. The individual who was floundering in the turbid current of the Sdine, and who had just risen to the surface, was pointed out to him, when, stripping off his blouse, and ejaculating that he would save th6 unfortunate or perish in the Attempt h6 plunged in after him. The bystanders watched with breathless anxiety as the heroic youth dove, came up to the surface, arid again went under in his endeavors to save the wretch who had attempted his own destruction and finully when nearly all hope was lost, the crowd were rejoiced on seeing the suicide brought to shore with life still in him. Close bv was a house or station, wherti hdlif drowned persons are restored, and where those who rescue them receive the municipal reward of twenty-five-francs. Thither the rescued and the rescuer were bore by the crowd, the latter overwhelmed with the admiration Srtd praise which his gallantry called forth on all sides but unfortunately just as the demand was about to be given him. and while a subscription for an additional sum was be-* tng raised, a policeman stepped up who knew them bo'h. They were brothers, were two of the best swimmers in Paris, and make it. a bxlsiness to go about, saving each others' lives for a living

The old Lady and the Cobbler over the Way. Some years ago tho husbahd of an old lady, residing in a country village, happened to die rather suddenly without makihg a Will, for the want of which very necessary precaution, his estate would have passed away from his widow, had she not resorted to the following exedidiU to avert the loss of her property. She concealed th6 death of her husband, and prevailed upoh an old cobbler, her neighbor, who was in person somewhdi like the deceased, to go to bed at her house, and personate him, in which character it was agreed that he should dictate a will, leaving the widow the'estate in question. An attorney was accordingly sent for tt) prepare the required document, and the widow, on his arrival, appeared to be realizing the greatest affliction at her good man's danger, but forthwith proceeded to ask questions of liGlr pretended husband, calculated to elicit the answers she expected and desired. Tho old cobbler, groaning aloud and looking as much like a person going to give up the ghost as possible, feebly answered. "1 intend to leave you half my estate and I do think the poor old shoemaker, who lives over the way is deserving of the other half for he has always been a good neighbor.' The WidoW Was thunderstruck at receiving a reply so different to that she expected, but dared Hot negative the cobbler's will, for fear of losing the whole of t!ie property, while the cunning old rogue in bed, who was himself tho shoemaker, living over the way, laughed in his sleeve, and divided with her the fruits of a project which she had intended for her own sole benefit— English paper 1

JUDGE DOUGLAS.—Among the repartees of the outsiders to the speeches delivered in Congress, is the following:

Mr. Douglas, in preparing his California bill, averred that it was absolutely necessary to do something, in order to prevent Colt's pistols from becoming the only law of the land. A few days afterwards Mr. Douglas received a very fine present in the shape of a book* gilt edge, and beautifully bound in morocco, on the back of which was this Inscription in letters of pure gold—'"Colt's Common Law of California," "From the Author." The book was looked, but a key being attached, it was opened, when its contents were—a brace of elegantly wrought revolvers.

The American fid*.

Wh^n our flag was first unfurled from its staff in Tatnpico an aged Spaniard was heard inveighing, with lugubrious earnestness, against thtf pertinacity with which that flag has pursued its fortunes. In broken English he exclaimed: 'I was de Spanish Concil in de Louisine when dat flag was raise, and I goto Pensacola, but soon dat flag was over me dare. I Hvn dea in de Texas, but dat flag follow me dere. Says 1,1 go where dat flag never come. come

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co but here is dat flag agin. I believe if go db Satan Jdt same flag will follow m0 dere.' And the old man wept as he turned away las eyes from that flag, which like his evil genius bad haunted him through life, and jras now mocking his heartful misery.

Aft e*Stfange paper mentions the roar* riage of 4 Mr. John Sweet to Miss Ann Sour. It probable tbey mean to set up the !em«n*#% btotirmi.

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Management of Horses*

life have no domestic animals amo 'tis that cOstfc lis so, mucft—th^t^ill Go a greater variety, oif Vork, ,dir that is so much used as the horse. Like, His ni&ster, the horse is cOrripHcited itt l\i$ structure, and is liable to a j^reit ma'riy diseases, aha hie Is (capable of beinj£ made ifi

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all his powers of body in the efforts of speed Jr severe labor. Ninetenths pf them are cut off in the prime of life. And yet by care and attention, by kind and humane treatment, in working and feeding, he can be made to enr dure a great ntiany years, dctiV6 and strorig. Mr. Peil, of Helham, has giveii some excellent rules for the management of horses, w(lich were published in the transactions of the New York Agricultural Society. Among the good ideas which he there advanced he observes: feed them in winter on a variety of food, such as pats ground and whole, brdrt, ship-stuff, beans, peas, turnips, occasionally stedmed separably or together. In summer, keep them always confined in airy stables, and feed them on clover, bruised grains, green-corn stalks, cider pomace, oil cake, hay, &c. Be particular to give them throe-fourths, of a pound of salt per week occasionally two oz., of sulphur, and frequently two ounces of Wood ashes.

By good keeping and judicious management a pair of horses, perfectly sound when young, will last and labor constantly twenty-five years, and in the end will retain their spirits. I have a pair of horses, he observes, on my farm, that are now twenty years old, during which time they have nevet been at pasture, and have worked daily they have never been incapacitated for work by lameness or disease of any kind, and have always been perfectly healthy. He also adds that he has another pdir of sorrels that are eighteen years old, which ldb5r_daily, ana do as much as any pair of six years old. The above statements of Mr. ^ell are Worth listening to, and his advice should be followed. Much loss would be prevented, and much suffering to a faithful and useful animal be warded off, while the long continued pOWers for labor would amply reward the extra care and kindnesthus bestowed, even if the virtue of mercy to those brutes entrusted to our protection were not taken into account.— Farmer dnA Mechanic.

A iittdy in Marble.

There is iloVv exhibiting at the Egyptian llali a fdll lertgth miniature of a female discovered by Mr. fiddes ih a block of marble which he was, preparfor dn .obelisk discovered perfect in itself. Mr. Eades thus describes it: "This unprecedented phenomena of human nature, is a most mysterious and truly astonishing full length miniature of a lady, three inches iH Height, in the costume of the aristocracy of the present time possessing the most accurate and pleasing features—graceful figure —beautiful ringlets—upon the head an elegant cdttdge bonriet, to Which is attached a superb veil under her arm she carries a fashionable muff, which has the appearance of one of the most recherche of the Hudson Bay Company. The incomparable miniature has been examined by several eminent antiquaries, scientific, gentlemen, first-rate artists. and numerous distinguished ladies and gentlemen, who have unanimously pronounced it to be the finest specimen beheld, and may be challenged against the word!—so perfectly utlifohn in every particular, combining grace and elegance, that it ,-lppears a production of Mr. Martin's or some other celebrated &riist."—English pdpei.

S PEAKING O CT tN HHRCH.—A young lady of this city, who is engaged and will shortly be united to a gallant son of Neptune, visited the Mariner's Church on Sunday last. f)uring the -sermon, the pastor discoursed eloquently and with much earnestness of manner on the trials, dangers, and temptations of the profession of a sailor he concluded by asking the following question. "Is there anv one who thinks anything of him who wears a tarpaulin lint, a b'ue jacket, or a pair of trowsef made of duck—in short, is there anv one who cares aught for the poor sailor?*' A Utile girl, a sister of this young lady, who was sitting by her side, immediately jumped tip» and looking archly at her sister, said in atone Irttld enough for every one to hear: "Yes, sir,** 'Beck* does." The tiudienre were convulsed with laughter, the minister bit his lips, and concluded the services requesting the congregation to unite with him in prayer.—iV* Y. tribune.

Exi»AI*sio?f op WATER IT# A FKEETIHQ STATU.—An experiment on expansion of water in a freezing state, attended with singular results, was tried by a correspondent of the Montreal Gazette, during the last winter. He filled a 84 lbs. snell (about £of an inch in thickness) with water, and plugging up the hole securely, exposed It to the action of the frost, during one of our keenest nights last winter. In the morning he found the mighty power had divided the Iron mass into fout sections, one of which. Weighing if lbs.. thrown 80^ vards, and must have passed upwards, overa wheel behind which it had been placed. The ice remaining in the section left behind looked as if it had been pounded.

muff iKttfy hfotjght before a magistrate, charged with stealing a dead sheep! •he fnagiatrata dismissed (he complaint, observing that thera was no such thing —ts when a thttp died it became muxtern.

The two Sexes.

The following true and elegant para graphs fire extracted from an article by l$i-s. Sigourney. whose mind is the dwel li'rtg of light and beauty. 'ividrt triight be initiated into the va rteties of needle work: taught to have patience? with the feebleness and waywardness of infancy,, and to steal with noiseless step about the chamber of the sick and womart might be instructed to contend folr the palm of science to pour forth eloqudrice iri Senates, or to "wade thfd' fielas of slaughter to a tftrpne.'Vr Yet revol tings of the sdul would attehd this violence to nature this abuse of physical and iAtelldctual energy, while the beauty of social order would be defaced and the fountains of earth's feci if* 11 ty broken up. 4 "We arrive, therefore, dt the conclusion,Q The sexd.s are intended for different spheres, and constructed in conformity with their respective destinations, by Him who bids the odk brave the fury of the tempest and the Alpine flower lean its cheek on the bosom of eternal snows. But disparity docs not necessarily imply inferiority. The high places of the earth With the pomp and glory, are indeed accessible only to the march of ambition or the grasp of power yet those who pass with faithful and unapplauded zeal through their humble round of duty are not unnoticed by the "Great Task Master's eye,'' and their endowments, though accounted poverty, among men, may prove durabltt rifches ih the kingdom of hedveri.'* -f

Manufacture of Gold.

We have read that Boyle once very nearly succeeded in making gold: that he showed the experiment to Sir Tsaac Newton, when both became frightened and threw away the ingredients. A gentleman communicates to the editor of the Mining Journal, that having experimented some ten years ago on the stratification of the earth and the formatiori of mineral deposites. he believes, with truthful results,he turned up one of his old experiments pccidently a few davs ago, when he found) running in a kind of spiral string through one part a quantity of gold. No gold wds used in the experiment, and the conclusion arrived dt is. that it has bedn formed of of the other substances. This, however, is nothing to what is asserted by an iron founder of this toWh. This gentleman must have discovered the true philosopher's stone, which so many sages of the olden time spent their time in trvingto obtain. He declares he has found out a process by which ho can change any quantity o! iron into gold. Before three months are over he says we shall liedr mofe of this new marvel.— Ho promises to produce gnld in tons— ih short, in any quantity.—Liverpool Albion.

Qn^stien by a Sophist.

Over a certain river there is a bridge, and at one end of the bridge a gallows, ahd at the other a house of judicature, with four judges, who passed tho following law:—Whoever passes over the bridge must first take an oath, and swear where he is going, and what is his business. if he swears the truth he shall go free, but if he swears falsely he shall be hanged upon the gallows. Now a certain man taking thfc oath, swore that he was going to be hanged on the gallows, and that was his business and no other. "Now," said the judges, "if we let this man go free he swears lie. and by the law he ought to be hanged, while if we hang him he swears the truth, and bv the same law he ought to go free."— l4ow shnll they proceed with this man according to this law, or what will boa just verdict.

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The Yankee Blade tells an anecdote of a college chum: a menber of one of the classes was distinguished no !ess for dry wit and slv waggerv than for his address in evading the writing of themes, and in palming off the 'brain coined currency' of others as his Idgltimate Mender.*— One Monday morning he read a theme of unusual -merit but Professor A. •smelt a rat,' and. as H. finished and sat down in the pride of conscious merit, asked: ••ts that original, II •«Yes sir." "Are you suite of it?" queried the professor doi^Hingty. •'Why. yes sir)" replied IT with the imperturbable gravity, and that pasteboard countenance ho always wore."it had original over it in the paper I took itfrovit"

ACCOMMODATING.—Several year* ago an eccentric old gentleman, residing in a cottage in England, was greatly annoyed by nocturnal depredators, t&bo broke the fence of his f&rdcn in order to get at the good things contained therein. Since he did not care so much for the loss of the fruit as the damage dorje to the enclosures, and a* he was rather fond of witticism, he had the following notice put uff. All the thieves are in future to enter by the gate, which will be leftopen for the purpoae."

AN ELOQUENT PIGUKI.—The

tifeteff! breafr vain."

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lenburg Jeffcrsonian, sav*:— ••Like one of those wonderous rocking stone* reared by the Druids, which the finger of a child might vibrate to its cefftrt, jrei the might of an army could not move from ita place, our constitution is so nicely poised and balanced, that it seems to sway with every breath of opinion, yet so flrnrfly rooted in the heart and affections of the people, that

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a Terrible Fix.

A German landlctd in Maysville lately gdve a ball to the street ikusiciaks, who were joined by the organ,gjriiider*" of pur city., A young cigar maker'of Maysville. whose name we have jnot. heard, became enamored with the,pretty street musicians, who, on this occasion were dressed in romantic styles The music, pf course, was enchanting, and ihe yodrig cigar maker ooula do ho less than to follow his desires, and apply for admission to the Ball. He was refused but determined on being present ho climbed to the roof oF tWe house and undertook to descend the chimney He chose the flue he supposed led to the ball room where the, girls were. But it so happened he got iuto.tho wrong flue®, and what was worse, when he had de* scended todcertain depth, got "stuck," dnd could neither go backwards nor forwards! Here he commenced a loud cry, sufficient to arouse the house. He was "stuck", at 11 o'clock, P. M., and it was from two to three hours before ho was released, and then in an exhausted and awfully bruised condition. The persons iri nuiiiihg for hirrt were obliged to dig divers holes through the chimney, and sometimes they opened holes above where his head was situated, and the pieces of bricks at^d mortar fyH upon hina. making sad havoc \V11li his head and eyes. In these trying times he cried lustl'y, "dig

lower!''

When re

lieved. he was an object to be pitied.— Strange as this story is. we have it froiyi gentlemen of respectability.—Cin Com• inercial. ."

Coortin* with One Ear.

•A singular circumstance that happened quite recently in ,this vicinity, has been related to us, and as our informant placed us under no injunction of secrecy, we presume we are at liberty to fell it. A young mah had been in tho habifc for some time, of paying his addresses to the daughter of a wealthy though rather illiberal Farmer, contrary to the desire of the latter, but much

the sat

isfaction of the girl. Although repeatedly requested to "keep his distance" he went there last Sunday, and after being in the room a short time, the father entered with a,gun, which he pointed at the lover and told him he could now take his choice, either to lose.his life or ono of his ears. The poor fellow wt^s half frightened to death by such an unexpected salutation, jjhd of course re? plied that he wbuld prefer parting with one of his ears when the old gentlepian deliberately pulled a razor out of His pockbt, npd ih an instant one of his hearing organs was severed from his head. As might have been expected, this only increased the attachment of the faithful girl to her lover, wh,o declared that "she would have him any how, whether he had one ear or two." The unlucky swain will have the matte? adjusted ih Oqr Court of Justice, whefi the old fellow will probably learn that, cutting off ears, besides being unlawful^ is a poor way to put ah end to a courtship.—Easton Argus.

Gunpowder and Greek Fire.

M. Renaud has lately discovered ati Arabian MS. of the thirteenth century, which proves that compositions identical with gunpowder in all but tho granulations were and had been for along time previously in the possession of the Arabs ahd that there is every probability ihat they had obtained, them from the Chinese, in the ninth century. Many of these were called "Greok Fire ".and comparing the account of Joinville, of the Wars of the Nile in the time of St. Louis, with the Arabic retripes, there can be but little doubt that we are in the possession of what was then termed "Greek Fire." IVtr. Grove. F. R. S.^ who has investigated the subject experimentally as well as historically, coneludes that the main element of Greek Fire as contradistinguished from other inflammable substances, was nitre, or a salt containing much o*vgien that Greek Fire and gunpowder were substantia'ly. the same thing and the development of the invention had been very slow and gradual, and that had taken placo long antecedent to the date of Schwartz, the monk of Cologne, A. D. 1S20, to whom ihe invention of gunpowder is generally attributed thas adding to the innumerable, if not unexceptionable cases, iri which discoveries commonly attributed to accident and to a sing'e mind aro found upon investigation to have been progressive, and the result of the continually improving knowledge of suc-cee*-sive gcrteratforis.

DAWDIBS FOR SCARECROWS.—It is said that everything was placed on earth (or some wise purpose, but what .under heaven these bipedal nomenclatures were put here for, has always been a mystery to us, and ono which we could never so!vo. To be

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,ho

things keep a

large quafiut^ of bread from moulding, and patronizfc the tailors extensively oh the endless credit system. And then, ko, they rttake very good dolls for soft pai^d .young wornpn but what else aro they fit fori They have never been known to be of any essential service to mankind, neither will they ever bo, until they are stuck up in some farmer's cornfield for scarecrows,—Ag.

GOOD.—A lad in f^ew- Orleans tho dther day, had for sale a' basket of puppies.

A gentleman proposing to buy, inquired whether they were of Whig or Democratic stock. "Thef 4r6 Democrats," aaidf the lad. "But I don' twant Democrat puppies," said the buyer. "Oh" said the boy,

as they get their eyes open."