The Wabash Courier, Volume 17, Number 48, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 July 1849 — Page 1

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THE OLD MAff'S FUNERAL. BY W. CT7LLE.H BRYAXT. I saw an aged man upon his bier,

His hair was thin and white, and on his brow A record of the cares of many a year— Cares that were ended and forgotten now.

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there was sadness round, and faces bowed,

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woman's tears fell fast, and children wailed aloud.

Then rose another hoary mnn and said. In faltering accents, to that weeping train, Wh7 mourn ye that our aged friend is dead

Y• are not sad to see the gathered grain, Nor when their mellow fruit the orchards cast, Nor when the yellow woods shake down tlie ripened mast.

Ye sigh not when the sun, his course fulfilled, His glorious course, rejoicing earth and sky, In the soft evening, when the winds are stilled,

Sinks where his islands of refreshment lie. And leaves the smile of his departure, Bpread O'er the warm-colored heaven and ruddy mountain head.

Why weep

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then for him, who, having won

A'lic hound of mnnV appointed years, at last. Life's blessings all enjoyed, life's labors done, Serenely to his finnl rest has past While the soft memory of his virtues, yet, [set. Lingers like twilight hues, when the bright sun is

|Iis youth was innocent his riper age, Marked with some act of goodness, eyery dny And watched by eyes that loved him, calm and sage,

Faded his late declining years away. Cheerful he gave his being up, and went To share the holy rest that waitB a life well spent.

That life was happy every day he gave Thanks for the fair existence that was his For a sick fancy made him not her slave.

To mock him with her phantom miseries. No chronic toriures racked his aged limb, For luxury pnd sloth had nourished none for him.

And I am glad, that he has lived thus long, And glad that he hns gone to his reward Nor deemed that kindly nature did him wrong,

Softly to disengage the vital cord. When his weak hand grew palsied, and his eye Dark with the mists of age, it was his time todje.

From the Home Journal, A DAY OF IDLENESS. BY FRANCES A. FULLER.

At early morn I laid this page before me, Meaning to mar its whiteness with some tho't, But an invisible web of dreams fell o'er me, 1n which my grave reflections were all caught. And so I dreamed instead ol wisely thinking,

And watched the shifting shadows glide and "All the while "fancy unto fancy linking," [play In pleasant idleness the live-long day.

The softened light within my silent chsmher, Comes through the branches of tall graceful trees: Now brightly golden and now paly amber,

As the unrestful boughs obey the breete. And shadows of the leaves are always glancing On carpet or ot caaementof my room, Changeful in place and motion as the dancing

Capricious waving of a warrior's plume.

If every shadow was a fairy being, I could not watch their graedul motions more •So mirthfully intent they seem on seeing

Which shall out dance the other on the floor. The waters of my soul take of the motion, And ripple, ripple, ripple like a stream, As if they were not deeper than the ocean,

And only sleeping in this quiet dream.

Thank God! the tempest does not last forever, Be it the strife of elements or soul As calm succeeds to storm in Nature ever,

So sorrow has its "thus far" and its goal. Peace from her cup of holiness amiliealing Hath sprinkled Lethe once more on my breast And the torn pinions of my spirit healing,

Fold themselves sofUy in this happy rest.

The little shadows on the floor keep dancing. And the loaves whisper faintly on the trees The yellow sunlight ia between them glancing

And in and out coquets tbe playful breeie. And 1 with a full heart and idle fingers, Have watched tbe airy creatures all the day, In pensive, happy dreamt, whose sweetness lingers

For many a measure of life's weary way.

Electioneer!**.

The following good hit at the practice of candidates for office playing the a agreeable to the families of those they visit when on electioneering tours, is from the Vicksburg Whig "A few of the candidates for district attorney met at the house of a planter in Hinds county not lone since. Crabb nursod three of the children and did the agreeable to one of the grown girls and the old lady at tho same time, while Hooker talked in an agonizingly affectionate manner to the sovereign. Buck in the meantime, was making himself useful by helping one of the small boys to get his dog over the fence. Duffield, it is said, twisted the cat's tail with a perseverance which would have credit to the bad boy in the primer, and pleased the baby so prodigiously that came very near going off* in a spasm of laugHter, when all the candidates rushed to its rescue and made such a hullabaloo with their kind exertions, that a sitting hen under the house was scared off her nest, and has never returned from that dw to this. At latest accounts ten of the ens were spoiled, the old lady was as 'huffy as a wet hen,' and the 'sovercign' had concluded not to cast his vow for district attorney."

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HEW SCHOOL LAW.

An Act to increase and extend the beneJits of Common Schools.

[APPROVED JANUARY 17, 1849.]

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana. That there shall be annually assessed, collec* ted and paid, (as the State and county revenue is assessed, collected and paid,) for the purpose of increasing the common school fund, to be appropriated exclusively for the support of common schools: First, on the list of property taxable for State purposes, there shall be levied and paid the sum of ten cents on each and every one hundred dollars. Second, there shall be paid by every person liable to pay a poll tax for State purposes, twenty-five cents annually Provided, That al! the taxes required or authorised by this act in any provision thereof, shall be assessed only upon free white persons, and upon the property of such persons only.

Third, a tax of three dollars on each one hundred dollars shall be assessed on the amount of all premiums received in this State or insurance on property or lives, within the same by the agents of insurance companies not chartered therein. And in order that said assessment may be made, it shall be the duty of every agent of said company to render to the assessor of his county or township a true list, verified by oath or affirmation, of all such premiums received by him within the year preceding the time fixed for assessing personal propeny and such agent shall be personally liable for the payment of the aforesaid tax, which shall be collected as other taxes. But if any such agent shall, when required, refuse to rendera schedule of the premiums received by him as such agent, he shall be liable to pay the sum of one hundred dollars, to be recovered by action of debt in the name of the county auditor, for the use of common schools.

SEC. 2. The several taxes herein before mentioned, (with the exception of the tax upon premiums of insurance) shall, together with the surplus revenue fund, the saline and bank tax fund, be hereby set apart for the support of schools, within the respective counties of the State, and shall be denominated the county common school fund.

SEC. 3. The tax upon premiums of insurance as specified in the first section of this act, shall be paid over by the several county treasurers to the State treasurer, distinguishing the same from other taxes, and the said State treasurer shall apportion the same among the several counties of the State, according to the number of polls therein, and pay over to the several county treasurers, their respective proportions of the said fund, which shall be added to, and become a part of the common school fund.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of each and every school commissioner, at the term of the board doing county business next after the passage of this act, to make final settlement of his accounts with the county auditor, (which said settlement shall be entered upon the record of said board,) and to pay over to the treasurer of the county all moneys remaining in his hands as such commissioner, and to deliver to the county auditor all the books, papers, and security for money loaned, appertaining to his said office and the office of the said commissioner shall thereupon be abolished, and thereafter all moneys whether principal or interest, which by any existing laws are required to be paid to the school commissioner, shall be paid to the county treasurer, and all payments required by any existing law to be made by the county treasurer and all other duties and services which are required to be performed by the school commissioner by any existing law, shall be performed by the county auditor and the said treasurer shall issue his receipt for all moneys so paid to him by the school com missioner, which receipt shall be filed with the county auditor, who shall charge the said treasurer therewith.

Ssc. 5. For their compensation for the discharge of the said several duties prescribed by the foregoing section, or which may be imposed by this act, the said county auditor shall be allowed upon tho amount of the congressional township and school district funds and other school funds on loan in his county, at the time he makes his annual set dement with the board doing county business, and on which interest shall have been paid for the current year, and upon the amount raised by taxation in aid thereof, one-half of one per cent., which said compensation shall be in full for such services to be performed by said auditor and the said county treasurer shall be allowed upon the said sums

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half of one per cent., which allowance shall be in full of all services in collecting and disbursing the said common school fund.

SEC. 6. Whenever the words county auditor are used in this act, they shall be understood and construed to mean, tho county auditor or the clerk of the circuit court doing tho business of the county auditor.

SEC. 7. The treasurer of die several counties, shall annually on the 2d Monday in March, make distribution of the several funds applicable to school purposes, (upon the proper warrant of the county auditor,) to the several townships of the county, which payment shall be made to the treasurer of each township and in making the said distribution, the auditor shall ascertain the amount of the congressional township fund belonging to each township in the county, and sjiall so apportion the amount raisetj by

taxation, the surplus revenue, saline and bank tax funds, as to equalize the amount of available funds in each township as near as may be, according to the number of scholars therein Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed, as to divert the fund commonly called the congressional township ftind, or any part thereof, from the objects and purposes for which it wasgranted by Congress.

SEC. 8 There shall be taught in each township of this State, by legally qualified teachers, for at least three months in each year, as many free schools as may be required for all attending scholars in such township, and it shall be made the duty of the township trustees so to arrange the schools of their respective townships, that the schools in each district may be taught an equal length of time, without regard to the diversity in the number of scholars attending the respective schools.

SEC. 9. ThS business of each district shall be transacted by one district trustee, who shall be elected annually by the legally qualified voters of the district, on the first Saturday of September, at which time also the general meetings of the voters of each district shall hereafter be held, and the said trustee shall continue in office until his successor is elected and qualified.

SEC. 10. It shall be the duty of the district trustee to preside overall meetings of the voters of the district, to keep a record of their proceedings, and report the same to the clerk of the board or township trustees, where such reports may be necessary, to do and perform all such acts, matters and things, as maybe required of him, by the board of township trustees he shall make all contracts. purchases and sales necessary to carry out any vote of the district, for the procuring of any site for a school house, building, hireing repairing or furnishing the same, or disposing thereof, or for the keeping of any school therein, and all payments shall be made by the treasurer of the township trustees, upon the certificate of district trustees as to the performance of the service or labor, or the conveyance of the property contracted, and whenever from any cause the said district trustee shall not be present at any meeting of the voters of the district, the meeting shall appoint a chairman, who shall for the time being discharge the duties of such trustee.

SEC. 11. The'district trustee shall act as the organ of communication between his district and the board of township trustees, and shall make to them from time to time such suggestions as may advance the educational interests of the district, and shall, on or before the 15ih day of September annually, certify to the board of township trustees, the number of scholars in his district, male and female, between the ages of five and twenty-one years distinguishing between five and ten, and ten and fifteen, and fifteen and twenty-one years of age, the whole number of scholars admitted to the school, the average attendance, the length of time a school has been taught, whether by male or female teacher, the branches taught, the books used, whether the district has a school library, and if so, the number and value of the volumes, the condition of the school house, and furniture thereof, and of what the furniture consists and the clerk of the board of township trustees shall certify the same to the county auditor, on or before the first day of October annually, together with a statement of the amount expended in the several districts of their township for tuition and ail other expenses.

Ssc. 12. In cases where any school district may be formed out of portions of adjacent townships, the report re quired of the district trustee shall be made to the clerk of each township, in which such district may lie.

SEC. 13. It shall be lawful for the qualified voters of any school district in tho State, at any general or special meeting thereof, to vote a tax for the purpose of building a school-house, or repairing the same, or providing fuel, or such furniture, maps, books, and apparatus, as a majority shall deem proper they may, also, for the purpose of con tinuing their schools after the public money shall have been expended, vote to raise by tax such an amount as the majority may deem advisable Provided, however, That'the aggregate amount of all taxes, so levied by a vote of the dis trict, shall in no case, in any one year, exceed the amount of fifteen cents on etch one hundred dollars worth of property.

SEC. 14. When any tax is voted to be paid in labor, it shall be worked out under the supervision of the district trustee, and when any person charged with a tax payable in labor, shall fail to discharge the same after two weeks' notice to comply with the proper requisition, the district trustee shall repor the same to the clerk of the board of the township trustees for the use of the proper district, and a recovery shall he bad, at the rate, if any established, for commutation, if not, at the rate of sev­

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tion shall be issued thereon, which shall not be subject to any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement laws.

SEC. 15. When any tax is voted by any district to be paid in money, the district trustee shall make a list of all the taxable property within the district, together with the names of the owners, and shall file the same together with the votes of the meeting, "directing the same to be levied, with the County Auditor.

SEC. 16. The Auditor shall make the proper assessment thereof, upon the

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property chargeable, in the same manner as for State and county revenue, according to the regular appraisement thereof in his office, and shall add the amount of said taxes to his duplicate in appropriate column, and the said taxes shall be collected by the County Treasurer, as other revenues are collected, and the said Treasurer shall when collected hold the same subject to the order of the trustees of the proper township, for the use of the said district.

SEC. 17. The district shall be laid off in such manner as to be most convenient for the population and neighborhoods thereof, paying due regard to any school-house already erected, districts already laid off, and other cireumstances proper to be considered, and shall be formed to contain, if convenient, not less than twenty-five scholars. And the board of township trustees shall have power to change any school district under their charge, so as to increase or diminish their size, and may consolidate two or more into one, or may add parts of one or more to others and the trustees of adjacent townships may form a district out of parts of such townships but no subdivisions shall be made to reduce the number of scholars below twenty-five in any district. Provided, however, That before any subdivision or change shall be made, the township trustees shall give thirty days notice of the proposed change or subdivision, by posting the same in three public places, within district or districts to be effected thereby, and they shall also give personal notice thereof, to the trustees of the districts to be effected.

SEC. 18. In order to enable the trustee of the district to make the reports which are required of him by this act, the teacher of each and every school district shall, at the expiration of the term of the school for which he has been employed, furnish to the district trustee full and complete statements of the whole number of scholars admitted to the said school, the average attendance, the length of time the school has been taught, the branches taught and the books used and until the said report shall have been furnished by the teacher, as aforesaid, it shall not be lawful for the districts to issue to said teacher the certificate entitling him to his compensation as such teacher.

SEC. 19. Until the clerk of the board of township trustees shall have made to the County Auditor the reports required by the 11th section of this act, the township of which he is clerk, shall not be entitled to its distributive share of the school fund.

SEC, 20. On or before the first day of November, annually, the several County Auditors shall report to the Treasurer of State, as superintendent of common schools, the substance of all the reports made to them by the several township clerks of their respective counties, if any, the amount of territory not laid off into school districts, the number of acres of school land remaining unsold, if any, and whether the same is improved or unimproved, productive or unproductive.

SEC. 21. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer of State, as superintendent of common schools, to condense the reports of said Auditors, and submit the same to the General Assembly during the first week of the session thereof.

SEC. 22. The township, and district trustees shall each be allowed the sum of seventy-five cents per day, for each and every day employed in the discharge of their respective duties, and they shall keep an account of the number of days, the parts of days so employed, which account must be verified by the oath or affirmation of the said trustees, and tho compensation of the district trustees shall thereupon be paid by the treasurer of the proper township, out of the funds of the proper district, and for the compensation of the town ship trustee, the county Auditor shall draw his warrant to be paid out of the funds of the proper township.

SEC. 23. If any county, township, or district officer shall fail or refuse to dischai^ any of the duties of his office, which are nojv or may here after b^ required of him by law, such officer so offending, for every such offence shall be liable in an action of debt to any person suing therefor, in the name of theStat£ of Indiana for the use of the common school fund, in such sum. not exceeding ten dollars as anv justice of the peace of the proper townships trying the same may deem reasonable, which sum when collected shall be if from a district officer, for tbe use of the school fund of his district, if-from a township officer, far the use of the school fund of the proper township, and if from a county officer for the use of the county common school fund, and any person elected to the office of township or district trustee, who shall neglect or refuse to qualify and serve as such, shall be liable to pay the sum of five dollars, to be recovered as heron before specified.

Ssc. 24. The Treasurer of State, as Superintendent of common schools, shall be allowed annually the sum of ——, for the performance of the several services required of him.

Ssc, 25. In all cases where there shall be any fractional congressional township or townships in any coanty containing a less quantity of land than six square ships shall be

staining a miles, the aaid township or tewnie by the Auditor of the proper coanty,

attached to, and made to form apart of the adjacent township or townships, for the purpoee of having the same distributed, and for school purposes, and it is hereby made tbe duty of the several audi lore, to to attach the Mid township trustees of the township to which tbe same may be attached to take jurisdiction thereof, and district' the same, and to do and perform all such other acts, matters and things whach nay be neceasary, as though the same were originally a part of their proper school territory.

See. 36. Tbe several school commissioners, and all persons who have heretofore held tbe said office, ana their securities are hereby declared liaMe tor any and all the mooeya, and other property, belonging to the school fund, remaining in the hands of the said coromisrioners, or persons who hare held the said office, unaoeovnted for, and it is hereby made tbe duty of the county Auditor to commence and prosecute to final judgment suit or suits in the name of tbe State of Indiana, for tbe use of the common ecboo! fond, wain who havi

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such comtniasiooers and persona who nave the office of school commissioner, and their securities for amy and all inch moneys or other property rauuntog in their or any of their hands an accounted for, and in all caaes where any such school commissioner, or person who baa held the office of adhool eommiastoner, or their or any of their securities, shall ha*e abaconded otherwise toft

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property belonging to the school fond unaccounted for, or being aecurity for any defaulting school commissioner, it shall and may be lawful, and it ahall be the duty of the county Auditor to commence and prosecute to final judgment, in the name of the State of Indiana for tne use of the common school fund, writ or writs of foreign or domestic attachment against the goods or chattels, lahds and tenements of such absconding or removed commissioner or security, which said writ or writs may be levied upon any property, Bubject by the laws of the State to execution, and the proceedings in such case will be governed in all respects by the statutes regulating proceedings in foreign and domestic attachment, with the exception, that the bond or bonds required of individuals by the said statutes, ahall be in such cases dispensed with.

27. In prosecuting any of the suits reby the foregoing section, the county Aud•II be, and he herebv is authorized to employ

SEC. 27.

quired itor shall be, and he hereby is authorized to employ counsel to conduct the said suits at such reasonable rate of compensation as may be agreed on.

SEC. 28. Any State, county or township officer, having the charge of any of said school funds, who shall embezzle or appropriate to his own use any of the school funds, snail upon conviction, or presentment, or indictment, be fined in any sum not exceeding four, nor less than two fold the amount so embezzled or appropriated to his own use, and be imprisoned in the county jail for not more than six months at the discretion of the court or jury trying the same.

SEC. 29. Whenever school houses have been erected by private liberality, and schools established therein, it shall and may be lawful for the trustees of the township in which the same may be situated, to recognise the same as a public school, and to make such allowances thereto at may in their judgment be just and equitable.

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All acts or parts of acta conflicting

with any of the foregoing provisions, be and the same are hereby repealed. SEC. 31, This act to be in force from and after its publication in the Indiana Journal and State Sentinel, with this exception, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the distribution of the school fund in March, 1849, under the laws now in force

Provided, however.

It shall be the duty of the sheriffs of said counties, annually, during the pending of the question as to the adoption of this act, to give notice thereof by posting up written notices at each precinct or place of voting in their several counties, and by publishing the snme in a newspaper where any one is published in the county at least thirty days before such elections. All laws on the subject of common schools now in force, in said counties, to continue in forcc therein until this act shall have been adopted by them severally as herein provided, any thing in this act to the contrary notwithstanding.

A VOLUNTEER WIFE AND A BORROWED BABY.—A man was arrested in this village on Wednesday for a violent assault upon another, and while undergoing examination before Justice Arnold, a young woman made her appearance in court, with a small child in her arms, who represented herself to be the wife of the prisoner. She cried pitifully, and her sad appearance with the babe at her breast, much affected the by-standers.— Her tears, however, could not turn the scales of Justice, and the prisoner was sent to jail to await his trial in September next.

Now for the denouement. It has since been ascertained that this woman was not the culprit's wife, nor the child his. She is another man's wife, and to affect the heart of the magistrate to leniency, she volunteered in the character we have described and to heighten the "effect," she actually borrowed another woman's baby Woonsocket Palladium.

THE OFFICE OF TRE BAT.—The Philadelphia Ledger says:—A gentleman of observation and reflection informs us that the common bat. which many people consider an annoyance when it flies into and about their house during summer and fall evenings, will destroy and effectually clear a room full of mosquitoes in a few minutes. He savs they are perfectly harmless, and from repeated observations of their visits and business, he believes their object in visiting a room is to make a meal of the mosquitoes, and other small insects which collect there. He has watched them so closely as to both see them catch the insect and hear the fine snap of their teeth upon them. He, therefore, never drives a bat out of his room, as many people do, who do not know their usefulness.

A "STAND" IN THE LEGISLATURE.— \Vre heard a capital story, a day or two since, of a man who, having been a candidate, in a border county of this State, for the Legislature, he went to Milledgeville, without any credentials, and ignorant that any would be required of him. When told by some of the members acquainted with the circumstances, that he would not be able to get a seat in the Legislature, he very innocently replied —*4That don't make no difference I'd just as lief stand !"—Richards Gazette.

GETTING TIT A^OBTH OF HIS MONEY.— 'You pull out teeth here, I suppose inquired a vegetable-looking customer, who dropped into a dental office for information. "Yes. sir, take a chair," replied the proprietor, "our charge is fifty cents and can do it instantly."—

Well, 1 guess 1 will wait till I get home, for I can't pay that price, because our doctor charges only a quarter, and it takes him two hours, besides he pulls you all around the room, and you get the worth of your money. So good day."

A bill has been introduced into tlie Legislature of Connecticut prohibiting divorced people from marrying again, until after the expiration of seven years. A good idea. If it becomes a law, it will put a quietus on many a refractory con pie, and bring them to draw kindly

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the Beveral counties of this State be and they are hereby exempted from the provisions of this act, until the said counties respectively assent thereto, and for the purpose of securing such assent, at the annual August elections held in the several townships in said counties, the inspectors shr 11 propound to each person when he presents his ballot, the following question, to-wit: "Are you in favor of the act of 1848-9 to increase and extend the benefits of common schools"? the answer to each of which interrogators shall be noted doT^n by the clerks of such elections, and the number voting in the affirmative and negative, certified by the inspectors of elections to the County Auditor of their respective counties, at the same time required by law to make returns of such elections and whenever a majority of those voting at such township in August in any of said counties are infavorof this act, then the same shall take effect and be in force in such county, and until such assent is given in each of said counties, the vote for and against this act at each succeeding August election, shall be taken as above in this section provided, in each of said counties so refusing to assent thereto.

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The Nature and Relations of Water. No living thing can exist'unless it contains water as one of the leading constituents of the various parts of its system. To so great an extent does this go, that, in a thousand parts of human blood, nearly eight hundred are pure water. The distribution of organized beings all over the world is to a great extent regulated by its abundance or scarcity, it seems as if the properties of this substance mark out the plan of animated nature. From man, at the head of all, to the meanest vegetable that can grow on a bear rock, through all the various orders and tribes, this ingredient is absolutely required. Insipid and inodorous in itself, it takes on the peculiarities of all other bodies assumes with readiness the sweetness of sugar and the acidity of vinegar.— Distilled with flowers or the aromatic parts of plants, it contracts from them their fragrance, and with equal facility become the vehicle of odors the most offensive to our sense.

We talk about the use of water, and imagine that nature furnishes us with a perennial supply. The common philosophy of the people is doubtless advanced so far as to admit that, in an unknown manner, this substance is created in the clouds, descends as rain for the use of animals and plants but whence it came or where it goes, never enters into their consideration.

Men constantly forget that in this world nothing is ever annihilated an atom once created, can by no process be destroyed! The liquid that we drink to-day has been drunk a thousand times before the clouds that obscure the sky have obscured it again and a£ain and if the sorrows of mankind are as many as the philanthropist may well fear, he might suspect a great part of the ocean is, perhaps, mode up of tears that have fallen from the human family. In the air their sighs die away, and in the ocean their tears are all lost. This using over and over again is a striking characteristic of the ways of nature the beautiful and the vile—the great and the small—are all mingled together the tears that you shed in the depths of grief to-day, may be squirted to-mor-row through a hose-pipe to clean the dirt of the streets, or whistled away through the squeak of a locomotive, to scare some dilatory cow off the track. So much for the sorrows of mat).

What then beebmes of the immense quantities of water, which, thus entering as a constituent of the bodies of aaimals, gives to their various parts that flexibility which enables them to execute movements, or, combining with vegetable structure, fits them for carrying on their jital processes? After the course of a few years, all existing animals and vegetables pass awav their solid constituents disintegrate and take on other conditions, and the water, lost perhaps for a lime in the ground, at last escapes in the form of vapor into the air. In that great and invisible receptacle, all traces of its ancient relations disappear it mingles with other vapors that are raised from the sea by the sun. From the bodies of living animals and plants, immense quantities are hourly finding their way into tbe reservoir.

In a crowded city, from the skin and by the breath of its numerous inhabitants, clouds of vapor are continually escaping—we see this vistbly going on in the cold weather of winter, and, though invisible, the process is equally active in summer—the escape arising from the drink we take, orfrom all those various portions of the system that are dying each moment, for the life of individual being is made up of the successive death of all its constituent particles. In the same manner from the forest and meadows, and wherever vegetables are found, water is continually evaporating, and that to an exfe/it far surpassing what we might at first be led to suppose. In a single day, a sunflowei of moderate size throws from its leaves and other parts nearly 20 ounces weight.

How enormous, then, must be the quantity which escapes from the surface of a great continent! Yet all this is thrown into the air, and there it mingles with other portions, some of which are coming from living r«ces, and some derived from the surface of the gruund, and some from the remote regions of the sea. It seems as if nature had tak en sure means that here all traces of identity should be lost. The winds, proverbially inconstant, blow at one time from the coast of tturopc, at another from Africa, at another from Asia.

In the republic of the universe there is a stern equality. The breath of the king intermingles with the breath of the beggar and the same quiet atmosphere receives the exhalations of the American, the European, the Asiatic, the African. The particles that have risen from the dead intermingle with those from the living and if this were not enough, the winds and the tempests obliterate every distinction, and dash in one common confusion these relics of every part of the globe.

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A man of average size requires a half ton weight of water a year when he has reached the meridian of life he has consumed nearly three hundred tiroes his own weight of this liquid.— These are statements Vhich may seem to those who hear them for the first time very wonderful, and as they are easily verified, might lead you to doubt whether the existing order of nature, as dependent on the waters of the sea, could for any length of time be kept under such a heavy consumption.

The human family cvn8'*18 probably of a thousand millions of individuals-, it.

would be ver^ moderate estimate td suppose, that tho various anirrfals, great and small, takeri together, consume five times as much lis we do. and the vegetable world two hundred tiines as much as all the animal races. Utfder such an immense drtiin it becomes a curious question what provision nature has made to meet the demand,and how long the waters of the Sea, supposing none returned to them, could furbish a sure supply1 he question involves the stability of existence of animated nature and the world of organization and no man, save one whose mind is thoroughly imbued with an appreciation of the resources upon which the afcts of the Creator are founded, would, am sure, justly guess at the result. There exist* in the sea a supply which ivauld meet this enormous deirfand for tfiore than quarter of a million of years.

Such is the plan of nature, and such are the resources on whicii slio depends to carry out her measures. For the well being of her organised creations, she can fall back on a gigantic supply.— Professor Draper. •,?La. "..

A Correspondent of the Philadelphia News expresses desire for the Locofoco papers to assail den. Taylor personally, that lie mdv have the pleasure of defending him. We once heard of a Dutch doctor, great at curing hydropho* bia, who, after calling upon the Governor of New York, and being very handsomely entertained, slapp'ed his Excellency on the shoulder and exclaimed—• "Gofernor, you ish a tarn defer fbller and 1 hopes you will pe pit mit a mat tog, and I will cure you for iiotting !'*—1 —Louisville Journal,.

Did Washington ever turn an old and wounded soldier out of office to makei room for a brawling partisan]—Hopkins* ville Press. „r

If any "old and woutided soldier,'' holding an office under the admihistrrttion of Jefferson, had been guilty of interference in the elections, would not Mr. Jefferson, in compliance with the rule laid down in his well known circular, have turned him out of office —Louisville Journal.

The poor cripple, known by mast of our citizens as the driver of a pair of goats attached to a Hnle wagon, died yesterday of consumption, brought on, it is thought, by exposure to damps and bad living. He was buried by the Free Melsons, and left a mother who deeply mourns the loss. She is said to be atl intelligent woman, and has been kindly cared for by the citizens of the Sixth Ward.—Cin. Times.

DoitfG if ftEfottEiiAND.—"Denrtls,dalr1i.it, och, Dennis, what is it youVt do-

ing?"

"Whist, Biddy, I's trying an experiment." "Murther? what is it?" "Why, it's giving hot water to the chickens I am, so they'll be afther laying boiled eggs !v

CONSOLATION.—A passenger on board tho ship Regulus, of Boston, in a letter home, states that they had on board their Vessel, a'thin and feeble member of their company, who had been sea-sick all the way out to the line. One day this man went to the doctor, and in a sad, supplicating tone, accosted him with—"Doctor, can you tell what I shall be good for when I get to San Francisco, if keep on this way "To be sure I can. You're just the man I want to begin if grave-yard with no

PUN.—Two bucks trho wore sitting over a pint of wine made up for the deficiencies of port bv the liveliness of their" wit. After many jokes had passed, on# of them took up a nut, and holding it to his friend, said, "If this nut could speak, what would it say "Why," rejoined the other,"it woul(| say—give me none of your jaw

WH^AT CRO¥% MICHIOAK.—Wo observed in riding through the Northern part of the State that the Wlioat crop is unusually promising. In this conclusion, we are strengthened by conversing with farmers from other portions of tho State, who unite in saying that the Wheat crop never promised better.— The present week has been most favorable. Cool and dry weather from the present time until harvest, which must take place in ten days, will insure such a crop as has seldom been harvested in the State of Michigan.—Detroit AdverUser, July 1th.

The other day one of widow B.'s admirers was complaining of the tooth ache. Mrs. B.'s smart boy immediately spoke up— "Well, sir, wiry doto't you do as ma doest She takes her teeth out and puts 'em back wkenever she wonts to."

A few minutes after the boy was whipped on some pretence or other.

Tbe question before the Stumptown Literary Association, for I nesday evening is: "Do musquitoes sting or bite?

Every

member is expected to confine

bis remarks to thc point.

An Irishman swearing the peace against his three sons, thus concluded "The only one of my children who shows me any real filial aflect'on is my youngest son Larry, for he never strikes me when Pm down/

"Whose pigs are those, my lad 1 "Whoy—they belong to that there big sow." "No! 1 mean who is their masteri" "Whoy," agnin answered the lad, "that little 'un, there he's a rax*) 'un to fi§ht." 'x