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LETTER NO. 4.

This woman in the heat of their cn routsls, proposed to Alexander the burn ingduwn the city and palace of Persep olts. The whole compnny being drunk, the proposal was received with a general applause, and Alexander himself in 'the heat of his wine, took up torch, and others of the company doing tiie same, set fire to the city and palace, and burned both to the ground. Thus ui the motion of a drunken woman, was destroyed by this drunken king, one of the finest palaces in the world, B. C. 330.— This year Darius was slain by two of his own Generals, which put an end to the Persian empire which had subsisted 206 years, (Dan. 8 7.) After this Alexander subdued several nations over which he flew with victory, often pursuing his enemies upon the spur whole days and nights together, and once he did in pursuit of Darius of near forty miles a day, for eleven days together.— So that by the speed of his inarches he came on the enemy unawares, nnd conquered them before they could put them selves in a posture to resist him. Whit exactly agreeth wtth the description given of him by Daniel, being set forth by him, under the similitude of a Panther! or Leopard with four wings, for he was Impetuous in his expeditions. In another place he is compared to a he goat cuming from the West with swiftness upon the king of Media and Persia, which fully verified this prophecy, Dun. 7*6 & 8 5. lie dies at Babylon in a drunken fit, B. C.323. And his dominions were divided among his four Generals, viz. Ptolemy. Cassander, Lysimachus, Seleucus. Dan. 8 8.

Verse 5. "And the king of the South shall be strong, and one of his princes, and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion, his dominion shall be a great dominion."

I will here observe, that the king of the South is meant the king of Egypt And by the king of the North is meant the king of Syria, which names, North and South, and South and North will oc cur often through the remainder of this chapter. Doth of these kingdoms are so called in respect of Judea, which lying between these two countries, hath Egypt on tho south, and Syria on the north. This verse begins with Ptolemy Soter, He had under him Egypt, Lybla, Cyrano, Arabia, Palestine, and most of the provinces of Lesser Asia. And another successor of Alexander, or prince#, (as Daniel rails them) wasSelcueus Nicator, king of tho North. lie had un tier him all tho countries of the east from Mount Taurus to the river Indus, and from Mount Taurus to the Rgean tea. Thcae two kings were two of the four horns of the he goat, D»n. 8 8 Arid the other two were Cassander, and Lysimachus. The*« were the four horns which grew up after the breaking off of the first hmn. The first horn was Alexander king of Grecia. who overthrew the kingdom of the Medea and Persians, Dan. 8 31 & 11-3. These were also the four heads of the leopard, Dan. 7-6— Ptolemy Soter entered Jerusalem on the Sabbath day* and carried away 100,000 Jews captiv^nto Egypt, B. C, 3*0.

Verse 6. "And in ihe end of years the the kingY daughter come to the king of the North to make •n agreement, but she shall not retain the power of the arm, neither shall he stand, nor his arm, but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and be that begat her, and he thai strength* en#d her in these days."

sv shall join themselves together, for king's daughter of the South shall

Antiochus, Theus, on first*coming to the crown of Syria, B. C. 2C0, had for his first wife Laodtce his sister by the same father, he snd Ptolemy Philadelphia had continual wars, but Antiochus grown weary of these wars, peace was concluded between them oofthese w»rro«.

Antiochus divorcing Leodice. should grandson, in the re*gn of Charles the marry

Berenice the daughter of Ptolemy, teeoni. D. B.

and make her his queen instead of the other, and ent it! his crown upon the male issue of that marriage. This agreement being ratified on both sides, for the full performance of it Antiofchus put a way Leodice, although she were his sister by the snme father, and had two sons born to him by her. Ptolemy carried his ^««*hter to Pelusium, there put her on board his fleet, and siHect WHO Se'eucia, a seaport town on the coast of Syria, where having m*t Antiochus. he delivered his daughter to him. and the marriage was celebrated with great so lernnity, C. 249. Two years afterwards Ptolemy Philadelphu* died, which, when Antiochus heard, he removed Berenice aid recalled Leodice and her children. But fearing that he might again recall Berenice, she (Leodice) had him poisoned, and afterword Berenice and her son were slain, together ih her attendants that came with her from Egypt. This prophecy being completel fulfilled, that is, "that neither he. (that is king Antiochus,) nor she. (that is Berenice daughter of Ptolemy king of the South.) shall continue in their power, but that he, (that is king Antiochus) should fall, and that she, (that is Berenice) being deprived of him that strengthened her. (that is her father who died a little before) should be given up with those that brought her. (that is those attendants that come with her out of Egypt) and her son whom she brought forth, to be cut off and destroyed.'' And so it happened to them all in this manner, B. C. 248.

Verse 7. "But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, hich shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king the North, and shall deal against him, and shall prevail."

Ptolemy Euergetes who springing from the same root with her. (Berenice) as being her brother, did stand up in the state of Ptolemy Philadelphia his father whom ho succeeded in his kingdom.— Pioletnv Euergetes yn hearing what Antiochus hnd done to his sister Berenice and her son in Syria, assembled grcot army in Egypt, who were joined by large force collected from the cities of Cesser Asia. These Asian forces joined the Egptinn. nr.d Ptolemy at the head of hth. marched toward Antioch the fortress of Seleucus Callinicus, who was mad* king of Assyria after Antiochus his. fa. ther wns poisoned, who carried all before him, for ho not only slew Leodice, but also made himself master of all Syria and Ctliciu, and then passing the Euphrates, brought all under him as far MR Babylon and the river Tygris, B. C. 246.

Verse 8- "And shall corry captives into Egypt their gods with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold, and he shall continue mors years than the king of the north."

Ptolemy after his victory in Syria, marched back to Egypt, carrying with hint vast treasures to the amount of forty thousand talents of silver, and images, also to the number of two thousand five hundred, among which were many of the Egyptian Idols, which Cambyses on his conquering Egypt C. 596. carried

thence into Persia. These Ptolemy restored to their former temples on his return from this expedition. B. C. 346.— Ptolemy Energetea lived four years longer than Seleucus Calliiticus, as will be shown hereafter.

Verso 9. "So the king of the South shall com© into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land.

Verse 10. But hi*"sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces, and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through. then shall he return, and be stirred up etrcn to his fortress."

As soon as Ptolemy was returned to Egypt, Seleucus prepared a great fleet on the cosst of Syria, for reducing the revmted cities of Cesser Asia, and invited his brother Antiochus to join with him, and promised him all the proving ces in the Cesser Asia, with Smymi and Magnesia, on this condition. In the mean time these cities entered into a league with Ptolemy, which they cau£ ed to be engravett on a t|r|e column of marble* B, C, 244. This very mari le column i* now standing In the theatre yard at Oxford in England, with the said league engraven un it in Greek Capital letters still very legible, It was brought out of Asia by Thomas Earl of Arundel in tfee beginning of the reign of king Charles first, and was given with other marbles to the university of Oxford by Henry Duke of Norfoik, hts

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AN ENGLISH CONTORTIONIST^[ The Parisians are greatly excited at the appearance among them of John Devani and the papers exhaust themselves in extravagant criticism upon his performances. Here is a specimen. '•The curtain rose upon a scepe rep resenting sombre and rugged diffs— swarms of girls, half gazelles, hair butterflies. came slipping itu while among iho» »oUtr«| yei umiescrtoetf being, half ape. half serpent now contracting, now diluting, now flying, now creeping.—and this lasted no one remem-bers-how long, except that everybody went home out of his wits, with this giddy, dizzy, extrHVagam, impossible monster still in his head and before his

afar off. He J'lggleH himself out of Mglit, transforming himself in a twinkling, you never fully understand him. Once when I thought my eyes were firmly fixed upon hiui, he melted away into thin air, perhaps he had swallowed himself. Mon Dieu! Afon dieu! Mon Difi'ul

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"Look at him ot noon, and he is a dandy, charming to behold. You would tuke him for baronet from Devonshire, just arrived at London to marry a bunker's daughter. Look at htm nt midnight, across the foot lights, and tie is a hybrid monstrosity, that you cannot contemplate without terror! And the scriptures say that God made man after his own image! To what furious maniac has he entrusted tho duty of making clowns in general, and Mr. Juhn Dcvuui in particular.

Another v\riter, speaking of the classic proportions and sculptural beauty of this tierson. says that he is nothing el»o thai: the Python swallowed hot. by the Apollo lielviedere. In short, never ot rnrolv has there heen such a rago created bv any apparition in Paris, as by thai of thi man, with calves' foot jelly ior a back bone.

THE UNFINISHED PICTURE, An ancient artist, hping required paint a perfect femn'« face had the collected beauty of Greece brought before him, as there was some particular feature in which each of their fair models excelled and combined them in one.— from one he took tress, from another an eye. from another a lip, from another it*i eye^brow, &c. (lis picture at last needed but one

more much and that was the simple and unaffected blush of modesty. He came to the last of his models, and requested her to remove the veil from her face, but bar modesty revolted she shrank from the ariisi's scrutiny, and made her escape Irom his apartment. The picture was finished without her and exhibited to the public and while all w»*r« loud in their admiration of it, the artis alone seemed discontented. His friends inquired ihe cause of his dissatisfaction and he replied. "1 know the picture has merit, and that it would be easier to criticize than to excel it but it has otie capital defect ••What is that!" said his friends. ••The blush of the maiden whoso modesty would not suffer her to be un-

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AN ELYSUN BARBER.—The following card appears in a paper: •UiXRtVALSD SUAVING AF»E HAJR CUTTING ESTABLISHMENT.—Daniel A. Cook takes this opportunity to inform the public that he has commenced the-above business in the shop next door to Bradford's Hotel. Lower Town, where a gentleman can bo shaved in a new. and hitherto unnttempied manner, founded on principles of animal magnetism, perfectly Elyslan. In the hntr tutting department it ui painful to witness what havoc is perpetrated on a head of human hair by the empirics of the day. and how *the human face "divine' is often disguised by a bad cut. I hope, however, that the »ign, 'Comfort in shaving/t»ill be sufficient without the aid of directors and runner#, but leave the public to tmke their choice be tween a stump extractor and the Eiys tan touch.'

75 keep a big dog. which will consume tn

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year at least 815 worth of provision. and a cat $5 more. Altogether litis amounts to the *nug little sum of 9110.25—sufficient to buy six barrels ul fluur. one hundred b«*he!s of r**al, one barrel of sugar, one «n*-k of coffee, a g««sd coat, a respectable dress, besides a frock for tha baby, and half a d»X4»n pairs of shoes —more or lesars^nst tliiali uf it! »»-.

THE FOKCS or HABIT.—A business man of our acquaintance is so scrupulously exact in all hts doings that whenever ha pays a *tsit he will alw»y« insist opon taking r*ctipr.

eyes. "What a man! My God! What a man! atomy india-rubber, and of bones, none, lie maxim of M. de Roehefoucault, 'in our sits down upon his ear, combs bis hair friends' misfortunes there's something wiih his feet, walks on his elbows, and secretly pleasant to as so. on the otheats and drinks with his legs in ihe I er hand, their good fortune is disagreeskies. I say nothing about bis agility.! able. If 'tis hard for a mm to bear his for you would not believe mo upon oath own good luck, 'tis harder still for his when h« is here he is there if he sits friends to bear it for him and but feW of down in oneplace.be sttie that he is »hem ordinarily can stand that trial, sitting dgwn somewhere else, at the whereas one of the 'precious uses' of odsame timof If he jumps up into the air, I vereity is that it is great reconciler ho stays there and when he gets ready that it brings buck averted kindness, to conto down and you look for him on disarms animosity, and causes yesterthe ground, he is no Ion er there, but dav's enemy to fling his luttrrd aside. and hold out a hand to the fallen friend of old days. Tnere's pity and love, as well as envy, ihe same heart and towards the same person. The rivalry stops when ihe competitor tumbles nnd as I view it. we should look nt ihese agreeable and disagreeable qualities of our humanity humbly alike. They are consequent and natural, and our kindness and means both manly.—Esmond

How TO K«KP 1'wiK.— Buy two glasses nf ale eve«-y day, at five cents each, amoonting in one year to #36 SO smoke three cigen. «»f»e after each meal, count* i"tr up in the coarse of the year to 164.- keep soch a family of stars beside*,—*

WEE KLT.

If it is man! Imagine an on- a sneak, a parasite, and beggaron horseout of the question ifluscles of [back. As. according to the famous

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TERRE "HAUTE-JND„ APRIL !, 1853. h-c

ITS FAMILY QUARRELS, Most of the family quarrels that Ravo seen in life spring out of jealousy and envy. .Jack ami Tom, borrt of the same family, and to the same fo*nune, live very cordially together not unttt Jack is ruined, when Tom deserts him, but until Tom makes a sudden rise in prosperity, which iack can't forgive. Ten times to one, 'tis the unpri»sperous man that is angry, not ihe other wlro is in fault.— *TiS Mrs. Jut K. wtbo' can on' chair, that sickens at Mrs. Tom's new coach and six, cries out against her sis ters* airs, and sets her husband against his brother. 'Tis Jack who s^es 1MS brother shaking hands with lord (with whom Jack would like to ex change snuffboxes himself.) that goes home and tells his wifo how poor Tom is spoiled, he feors, ahd no better than

A new anecdote of John Randolph of

Roanoke is always welcome this is given by the Norfolk News: He was traveling through a part of Virginia with which he was unacquainted during the meantime, he stopped during the night at an inn near ihe forks of the road. The inn-keeper was a fine gentlemau. and. no doubt, one of the first families of ihe Old Dominion. Knowing who his distinguished guest was, he endeavored during the evening o» Hi«r» into Conversation. but failed in all his rfforis. But In the morning when Mr. Randolph was''ready to start h« cnllod for his bill, which on being presented, was paid. The landlord. still anxious to have some conversation with him, he began ns follows: 'Which way are you traveling, Mr. Randolph 'Sir!* said Mr. Randolph wiih a look is as re •1 aked.' said the landlord, 'which way are you traveling?* 'Have I pnid you my bill?'" 'Yes/

'Do 1 owe you anything more?' N Well, I'm going just where I please do you understand?' •Yes.'

The landlord by this time got somewhat excited, and Mr. Randolph drove off. But, to the landlord's surprise, in a few minutes sent one of the servants to inquire which ofihe forks of the road to take. Mr. Randolph not being out of hoaring distance the landlord spoke at the top of bis breath. *Mr. Randolph you don't owe me one cent, just take which road y«u please.' •It is said the air turned blue wiih the curses of Randolph."

THE HOOSAC BORING MACHINE—A committee of the Massachusetts Legislature made visit to the Hoosac mounlaid [sic] last week for the purpose of witnessing the operation of the great boring machine with which it is intended to perforate the tunnel through the mountain.

The weather was cold, and the machine was quite frosty, but notwithstanding the mammoth instrument was put in motion, and in the space of fifteen minutes bored four and one eighth inchs. The circle is twenty four feet in diameter, and will admit a double track. The machine was several times tested, and with like success, it has bored at the rate of twenty-four inches per hour.

There is said to be room for great improvements in the knives. The machine is also very unsteady at present, and will continue to be so until it enters far enough into the tunnel to be better secured.

It is stated that there is a small machine in New York, similar to that referred to, which works perfectly well. ~~~~~~~

Punch very slanderously makes use of the following: "The sun is called masculine, front his supporting and •tiMSining the moon, and finding her the withal to shine amy as she doe« of a night, and from his being obliged to

The moon feminine because she it

constantly changing, ju«t as a ship fs blown about by every wind." The church is feminine because she is married to the state. And time Is masculine because he is trifled with by tha ladies.**

A northern paper *»ys that professor Anderson, the juggler, has iwcetvod a letter fr«»m L*nm Napoleon, emperor of the French, estdastng a check for £30, which ha borrowetl some years stttce fmtn tna Professor Lemdao. accompanied with a pretwi of a diamond ring and an invitation

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BRIGHTENING THE GIRW. Away up in the northern part of Vermont, says Knickerbocker, is a primitive sort of a little town called the Centers filers not long since the fustic vouth xf the vicinity 'congregated to dance, and they did, said our informant., with an unction unknown to your city belles and gallant beaux.

One interesting young man having imbibed rather too freely, became ftijiquvd iu the course of the evening, and wisely concluded torettre fof a slrort rest.

A door ajar near the dancing hall revealed invitingly a Comfortable bed, of which he took possession with the prospect of an undisturbed snooze.

It so happened how belt, this was the ladies withdrawing room, nnd no soon er had he closed his eyes, than a pair of blooming damsels came in from ihe hall, and began adjusting their disordered ringlets, the dim light of the tallow can die not disclosing the tenant of the bed.

The girls bad tongues,, like most of the sex, which ran in this wise:

"What a nice dance we're "having! Have you heard anybody say anything about me Jane?' ••La, yes, Sally! Jim Brown says he never see you loyk so pretty as you do to-night. Have you heard anybody say anything about me?"••About you! why ssiriin, I heard Joe Flint tell Sam Jones that oj was the preitiest dressed girl in the room."

Whereupon th*» dear things chuckled, lixed up a little more, and made «»ff for the ball-room. They had hardly reached the jor when our half conscious friend raised himself upon his elbow, and quite intelligibly though slowly inquired: "Ha" you heard any hody say any ikingahnul me girls!" "Pltansy their pheeiings," at that juncture, they fled with an explosive .seream.

ON SMOKING.—Of the three modes nf using tobacco, smoking is that which seems to have insinuated itself most ex tensively among the youth of our countitunity. Tobacco, employed in this way, being drawn in with vital breaih, conveys its poisonous influence into every part of ihe lungs. There the noxious fluid is entangled in the minute spongy air-cells, and lias time to exert its pernicious influence in the blood, not in vivifying it, but in vitiating it^The blond imbibes the stimulant narcotic principle and circulates through the whole system. It produces, in consequence, a febrile action in those of delicate habits. Where thers is any tendency to phthisis and the tubercular deposit in the lungs, debility of these organs, consequent on the use of tobacco in this way, must favor the deposit of tuberculous matier. and thus Sow ihe

seeds of consumption. This practice impairs the natural taste and relish for food, lessens the appetite and weakens the powers of the stomach. As to pleasure produced, by it. it is 1 believe, a well-known fact, that a person smoking in the dark is very often unable to determine whether his cigar is lighted or not.—Dr. J. C. Warren.

HARD AND SOFT HANDS The Lilly has the following: '"Lucy Stotio related an incident when hore last fall, which it will not be amiss to relate in this connection: She entered a cabinet shop somewhere in Massachusetts, not long previous, and was surprised to see women at work there. One was working at a turning lathe, getting out table legs—the other making drowers for tables. She watched them

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a time, "and" said she,"l did not see but the woman at tho lathe turned the legs as neatly and amoothly as a man could do it. And the Woman who made the drawers struck the nail on the head as true and finished her work as well as a man could dt» it. 1 asked her

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she liked the business. She said

she did. "To be sure,'" said she, "it makes our hands larger and harder, but I had rather have a bard hand with ten shillings a day it* it. than a soft delicate hand with two shillings a day.— This sentiment is being adopted by many women in our country. A hard hand and ten shillings a day, is a thing to he proud of. Let it prevail and womatt will not be the dependent creatures of former dsys. or be forced to marry for a home and support.*' rf1

CALIFORNIA AMWEJIEm The following is a part of an advertisement in a California paper, giving an idea of the popular amusements in the Mountain region:

Three differ em fight* with three different bears! The performance will1' s' Ompt reply comuience with a man and bear fight!— Mr. Daniel Fremont an old California bear hunter, will tight one of tb* fiercest kind of grizzle bears. With the same knife which killed*the bear at Columbia on August 15 h, 1852. The chain Is to be attached to the hind foot of the be«r who is to have the full sweep of the ring so that man cannot escape, except by killing the bear.

The ab»ve is to be followed by a boll and bear fight! After which ten of the largest dog* in the country will be turned loose, to fight anmher bear, fresh for tbe occasion. This will be a new sport, as a dog and bear fight has never befurebeen exhibited in this country.

A cask of California wine is now on tut way as a present to President Pierce. It oocncx from the hacienda of Don Loots Vignes of Lot Anfeloa*

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IIOW TO TREAT A WIFJS. First, get a wife secondly, be jpn thsnt. You may have great trials nhT perplifSities io your business With*' th» *oBd but do tarn, therefore, caHy to your home a cloudy or contracted brow. Your wife may have many trials, frfcieh, though of less magnitude, may: have many trials, which, though of les^ mag nitude, may have been as hard to bear. A kind, conciliating word,a "tender look, will do wonders in chasing IVom her bn»w all «lmrtl#"«f gloom, rou emfmn te* your difficulties it» the open air, fanned by heaven's co6l breezes but your wife is often shut in from these healthful influences* and her h«ai fails, and htjr spirits lose their elasticity. But uhl-bear with her$ she has trials and sorrows to which you ire a strati ger, but which your tenderness can deprive of all iheir anguish/ Notice kindly her eff»rts to promote your comfort Do Rot take them all as a matter of course, and pass them by at the same time being very sure to observe any omission of what yott may consider duty to you. Do not treat her with in* difference, if you would not scar and palsy her heart, which, watered by kindness, would, to the latest day of your existence, throb with sincere and constant affliction. Sometimes yield your wishes to hers. She has prefereuces as strong as you, and it may be just as trying to yield her choice, as to you. J)o you find it hard to yield sometimes? Think you it is not difficult for Iter to give up always? if you never yield to her wishes, there is dun gerihat she will think you are selfish, and care only for yourself, and with such feelings she can't love you as«he might. Again, show yourself manly, so that your wife mny look up to. and feel that you will act nobly, Rnd that she can confide in your judgment.

While in this predicament, Mr. Reed's son happened to overtake them on their journey and settled all uncertainties by immediately knocking the bear in the head with an nxe.' IWr. Reed gnt some scratches in tho scuffle, and Bruin's fat carcase to boot—which by the bye be immediately salted down for family use.—-Lowell Courier.

"A HOT JOKB. ,•

Very soon after the close of the American Revolution a deputation of Indian chiefs, having some business tn transact with the Governor, were invited tn dine with some of tho officials in Philadelphia^ During ihe repast the eyes of a young chief were attracted to a castor of mustard, having In it a spoon ready for use. Tempted by its bright colour, he gently drew it towards him. and soon hnd a brimming spoonful in his mouth. Instantly detecting his mistake, he nevertheless had the fortitude to awallow it, although it forced tears from his eyes. A chief oppositu at the table, who bad observed the consequence, but not the cause, asked him '*what he was crying for?" He replied that ha was "thinking of his father, who was killed in battle/' Soon after the questioner himself, prompted by curiosity, made the same experiment wiih the same result, and in turn was asked by the young sachem **what he was crying fort" "Because you were not killsd when your father was,*' was the

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BEAll STORY.

"""A day or two since, as Mr. Solomon Reed, of Dorset, Vermont, was cutting wood at some distunce from his house, a very large bear stole up behind and ordered him to stop. He let fly his nxe ai Bruin, but it missed, and Bruin in turn let fly at him. Solomon then seiz ed club, and laid the blows upon his shaggy adversary so heavily ihat it broke,and he began to think that he would have to knock under. Not having the wherewithal to knock him with, he mado use of his fifim. expecting every moment that he should b'e compel! ed to cuve in. A dreadful hug followed, and the two rolled over on the ground, like a couple of wrestlers in a ring. Not liking to bear it in ibis fashion,

Solomon, by a desperate effort, got Bru in under him, holding his head down, and sitting plump astride of the breast. The latter, however, soon began to bear up, and all at once took to his heels like att infuriated bull—-Solomon all the while astride nud compelling the bear to follow iiis own nose, with slight deviation of his jaws from as sttaitfht line as possible. On they drove ui a furious raie—the rider and ridden—the former endeavoring to moke a bridle out of the bear's ears, and the bear striving as hard to make a bit out of the man's arm.— Solomon began to fear, at the rate he was going, that his steed WAS fast taking him into whole nest ul bears. Pw

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DREADFOL SITUATION.—In short time since, several military gen ilemen were sitting, after dinner, over their wine, when one of tha party turn ed very pale, and said, a snake has come in and twisted itself around my leg and that of the table." His companions hastily rose in order to kill tt, but ha said. **if jrou awake ft, it will stick it# fangs into me. and then am lost man. Ytni had better all go out of the room, and will sftquietly with my hookah til! it awakes Itself, and then it will probably glide away without doing any injury/' There he sat with the moat perfect stillness for an hour, and st» boar of much greater anxiety could scarcely have been passed ha was. however rewarded by the snake quietly uncoiling itself and taking tts departara.

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Premonttorf Symptoms of aft OhLJIaeh* eioK Fahfti FVrtv ster.tis tis ttos following characteristic production as an offset to an article which we published a Week bf \wo si tree, entitled, "Symptom* of Old Maidism:** "When he cuts a cftrtnin nf square bits of paper every ttifchu and layaihem o£ his nHlfci table ready to -wipe his ra^or when he efttvos In'thd morning—that's a symptom. Whan he o»*riea hia ftngera povfeetly atraight in his gloves. f»*r fear of friction on thd knuckles-Mbai's a symptom'. When he leaves a frioridS house in the middle of the evening to avoid a walk home with lady-—that's a symptom. When he keeps his hat on in a leciUro foorhf till ihe latest permiited minute, on occoum of a draft—that's a symptom.-!—

When he wears a large mustache and beard to tionceal certain defects—-that's a symptom. When ho'.tutus a huge coat collar up over his ears* every lima ihere is a cloud in the sky—-that's symptom. When he refuses a hymn book in chur' h, because he don't like to be seen using glasses—that's a symptom. When he can't go to sleep till btf has ascertained whether the seauiof tho sheet is precisely in tho middle of thd bed—that's a symptom. When an anthracite fire and a wadded wrappor have greater charms for him than a pair of bright eyes, jingling sleigh-bells, and a Ittt^a'tcbc under a buffalo robe—that's symptom. When a whisky punch and a flannel night cap are tho

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DIVISION OK CAUROFTMJL—-ThoCalifc fornia Legislature are now pressing th* subject of dividing the State into thred States—Sierra, the mountain division* containing about ftS.000 inhabitants] Califoriiia containing 4u?,009 and Tulares, ihe Southern State, including Los Anjielos and San Diego, and containing 35.000 inhabitants, Ji is the desire ot some to make Tu lares, a slave State*— We trust Congress will pause, before It sanctions so many now States.

POPULATION OF CALIFORNIA.—A recent census has been taken ih Califor nla by order of the State authoritie which gives 254 435 as the number inhabitants, A letter from San Francisco thinkv, however, from the migratory character of the inhabitants, thai the true number is over 300.000 Ao* cording to this census, San Franciscdi citv contained 34.870, of which nniy 6.154 were females. Sacramento City has between nnd 0000 Marysvillet 4,500 Stockton 3,000. to «/li

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A Vermont sheriff recen.ly undeftnnlt 10 sourch a dwelling In Bradfordf tthett ihe womnn of the house mounted hlrrf with a poker and an axe, which bein^ wrested ,rom her, she pulled the htost of his hair out of his head, threw a boiler of hot water upon him, and concluded ihe programme of exercises by cutting a three or four inch gash in his head with a stove griddle,after which she wad secured and a large amount or stolen property found in her possession——a partial illustration of woman's Rights.'^

IMMENSE POSSESSIONS.—In the course of his speech on the Idth inst., Mr. Clay' ton, of Delaware, stated that we hard now one hundred millions of acres ol' land upon which the white man has never trod. He thonght that if, in the lapse of time, our present area shall be covered, and men shall desire to extend the area of liberty, then We should not stay ^he advance of pfogress but thd day should never Come When American statesmen could make the declaration., that wo intend to disregard treaties* !»t'#

According to late census, (hefe id one church in the tfuited States fol every free inhabitants. The aver-ru dge of the edifices Is 92,400. The toff tol aggregate value of church property^ is eighty seven mllilonsof dol I sfs. FoiL eveiy Roman Catholic Churdft In ihd United States, there are thirty-two de-^ voted to Protestantism. The Presbyterian have four, the Bsptists haV#0 eight, and the Methodists hate eleven times as many churches at the Gath olics.

REXI-IKO PiANos—Few are awiire tt%» what extent the renting of pianos Is csr*^ ried in some cities* In aud aroujidgj B»ton several thousand are aunually hired out. The Mail says that Ditson alone rents some five hundred pisnos,.^ and pianoforte makers Would as Helv rent as sell* for the profits are elegantA piano can be bought for 91

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A letter from Florence memfaftc that ff' there is gian» In that city Who has soid IT his body to ihe Acnfattty of Science for f«| «citf ntijic purposes and is to receive, ad compensation iO cents par

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The amount of banking irfpllal itt gg Pennsylvania Is 9l0.Sfl3,l54.? ^The iiscotfon are 949.855,700 amount of spetfe 9f .840,000 cfrculaifofi 9(4 ^24x 903 deposits 9H.049,f4i. Such wa* the official rvpoH in December last. !?•.. i'.ii ii sibfcMM inr ,r, *-rt ivy*:*-

PASSING STJUNGE.—A lady passing 4 bonnet shop without stopping,