The Wabash Courier, Volume 21, Number 46, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 July 1853 — Page 1

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SOMETHING TO THINK OF,» The New York Courier, in referring to the execution of Thomas Fitzgerald, on Friday lost, for shooting his wife, it in

Nenry. sentenced to the same fate, for a similar offence, is respited one week, in order that the Sheriffs Jury mny determine whether he has lost his reason. If the loiter execution takes place, it will make seven in

Howlett, was sent to the State prison for life. There are now, at the Tombs ten men availing trial for murder.'one of whom, Carnoll, the fiendish Dey street murderer, has already been convicted on Oft, and I* now awaiting a second trial. The whole number of arrests in this city for homicide within tho last year has been, a* near as we can ascertain, about thirty five.

The whole number of arrests tn this city during the year 185« was about 35.000 the whole number of commit ntents in England and VV a es was 27.510. The whole number of arrests for offences committed upon the person in New York in 185? was 5,468, in England and Wales the whole number of for the same class of offences during the same period houi two thousand. In Englanc last then* wcrn 13 conrictions for burgiary, in New York 146 arrests for the saw* offence England during the last seven year* there wore 66 convictions for this offence, in New York during the same period over 1000 arrests. But this d«es not furnish the worst aspect of tho case. The disparity between Eng land and this city is yearly becoming greater. While crime fat increasing there slightly, ft is here increasing with Tearful rapidity, The whole number oT convictions (V»r murder in England in 1846 was 13: the whole number of arrest* in Nitjar York for murder for the 4ine months preceding May 1, 1846,

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city within the last year! in all Eng land and Wales, the whole number of executions during the year 1862. as appears bv a Parliamentary Report, was only nine The population of this city six hundred thousand the population of England and Wales is eighteen millions. In other words, New York, with a population only one-thirtieth as large as England and Wales, hangs aevenninths as mony in the same .space of timo I

The little we fail in point of number. however, is more than made up in the atrscitjf of the offmces. Of the. nine hung in England one murdered his wife, one her husband, one her mother inlaw, one hi* employet who had dismissed hiity one his uncle, one a stranger on the highway, one his own illegitimate child, one the illegitimate child of his wife, one tho illegitimate child of his paramour} but of our seven, three murdered their wives—namely, Grunzig by poison, Fi'zgernld by shooting, Neary by beating the brains out with a mallet and chisel—Stookey murdered a itegrft, Clark murdered a policeman, and Saul and Howlett a watchm.aibrr' Three of the English murders were of infants, but all of the Now York murders were of full grown persons, three of whom sustained the most sacred of a'l relations to those who deprived them of life. But in truth New York of right has the precedence y\ all England and Wales* on th&score^cven in regard to numbtr. D.iyle, who murdered the woman with whom ho boarded in earl. street, was sentenced to be hung and nufjjfet to have been hung, and would have been hung in England, but was •s«W to Suite prison for life, Sullivan, who killed the man in Cliff street who endeavored to prevent his benting his wife, was found guilty murder, ana ought to have been hung, and would have been hung in England, tut wasj isent to State prison fo« life- Johnson., one of the condemned with Saul and

In England the conrtctions of

7 were 19 in Now York during the yoar ending May 1* 1847* the «rrests were 18. In 1840 the convictions In finglatwl were 19 tn New York the arrest* for the year ending November J, were 13. ,.

1 In 1850 the" convictions Til* ISngland Nrere 11 in New York during the 15 months ending with the last of Decernb«M8£0, thty were 16. tn 1851 the

English *onv»ctions were 161 tMfN. Yerfc-arrests 36. In 185*. the English convictions werfc 16 the New York «rre»tt were 30. The total number o? for ell kind* of offences In l-i gland end Walee during the lest aevtti years. wee me kun&ntd emi nine my four iksmmnd- femt hundred and *wtntp/0*r the tmal number of arrests

New York during the same period oser tv* km mired fhomsand We ate nut able to make en exact t-vnpart-

son between the absolute number of crimes perpetrated in England and in New York citv, sir.ee the Parliamentary tables before us relate only to commitments in the case of offences generally, and to convictions in cases of murder, and a faw other, of the gravest offences, whereas our police table* only give the number of arrests^.'Of course many are arrested who are not committed or bound over for trial, but their number is by no means so great as to destroy the remarkable significance of the figures we have put in connection.

Now what are the causes of the remarkable difference between this city and England in extent of crime? England has its immense cities, abounding with ignorant and vicioua classes of population—it has its London, its Liverpoor. its Birmingham, its Manchester and its Leeds, and yet this single city of New York, if we may trust official tables. exceeds not only each of them in crime'but all put together! It cannot be ascribcd to any peculiar character of our people, distinct from theirs, for it is notorious that the greater part of our criminality springs from the foreign element of our population. Of the seven murderers above specified, for instance, six of them were foreigners—one beine a German, three Irish, one English and one a Nova Scotian and the seventh, though born in this city, was of parentage. The same people that chiefly commit the crime here, are found in vast numbers in every English city.— Why then the difference in the extent of that crime? This question does not admit of either a ready or a brief answer. The causes which produce this result are various and complex, some of which we mny consider hereafter. The most important of ihpm are doubtless the comparative inefficiency of our police in preventing crime, the comparative uncertainly of our Courts in punishing crime, the neglect of our young vagrant population, and the vast number of disorderly groggeries. licensed and unlicensed, that huve all the while without restraint been stimulating the passionsand bad propensities of all the lower classes of our population. It is time that these matters should be seriously and earnestly looked at and cared for. Our streams of crime are increasing into torrents, and they threaten to overwhelm us.— The facts we huve given, startling as they are, cannot be denied. Official documents prove them. Read and pon- & .l-

PLAIN FOOD.

An undue fondness for luxurious viands should be guarded against. This ia a taste not very reputable to adults, but in the young it is hnieful. Rich highly soosoned food.pastry, sweetmeats &c., are a fruitful soutce of disease.— Most kinds of confectionary contain.poisonous coloring matter, and many deaths have resulted from this cause.

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recently died in this neighborhood from eating raisins, the skins of which are very indigestible. Richly seasoned food not only deranges the stomach but excites the passions to unnatural action.— Plain, simple food, on the other hand, will be seldom eaten to excess, and will be followed by no si ch after-pain as the glutton and high-liver experience. The clearest thinkers and the hardest workers, in all ages, have been men who care little about duinty dishes. It is related of Cyrus, one of the wisest and best kings of antiquity, that on being invited to dine with a friend,and requested to name the place, and the viands with which he woul have the table spread, he replipd. "Prepare the banquet at tho aide of the river, and let one loaf of bread be the only dish/' In the first chapter of Daniel, you will find an interesting account of certain children who lived in the same age with Cyrus, and who chose pulse and water for their diet, instead of the meBt of the king's table. The result was, at the end of ten days, their countenances appeared fairer in flesh thnn all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat. Benjamin Franklin was through his life remarkable for his temperance in eating and drinking and he thus explains how, he formed this habit:—"He (his father) never talked of the meats which appeared on the table never discussed whether they were well or ill dressed, or of gt6d or bad flavor, high-seaeoned or otherwise, preferable or inferior to this or that dish of a similar kind. Thus accustomed from my infancy to the utmost inattention to tho^e objects, I have since been regardless of what kind of food was before me. and I pay so little attention to it even now, that it would be a hard matter for me to recollect, a few hours after I had dined, of what my dinner had consisted. When traveling I have particularly experienced the benefit of this habit, for it often happened me to be in company with person*, who, having* more delicate beceuse a more exereised taste, have suffered in many cases considerable inconvenience, while a* to mvself. I have had nothing to desire."—Own Guide.

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upper story •*ldres*~ ing another girl who was tryiog to enter the front door, "we've a'l Jeen to camp toeetfng» and been converted: so, when you want milk on Sundays you have io«otae in the bacfc way

GIRI*•ISWASS!-—Jean Paul thos can* tiona young girls. The young men fall on their knees befoie you bu:. retnem hermit is hut infantry* that they may conquer and kill or as the hunter, who only on IxnM Inets takes aim at his vtetlm.

England and the United States. fk The "North British Review,'' one of the leading English Magazines, in its May number has a long article under the head of "Our International Relations." The tone of the article is de* cidedly in favor of "intervention," wherever the English can safely or profitable exert their influence. But the writer sees a grand obstacle to the am* bition, policy of the British Government in the United States. He says:— "Great Britain has a difficulty in her foreign relations from which all her rivals are exempt. Her International connections are more extensive and varied than those of any other European power. France and Russia have no outlying colonies, or none worth mentioning Austria has scarcely any commerce, and no connection with the East, and none of them, except ourselves, have any clo^e link to the New World. But we are mixed up with the affairs of both hemispheres, and of every quarter of the world. Our Indian possessions render all the movements of Asiatic politics matters of vital concern to us, while our Canadian and West Indian colonies bring us into the closest relation with America. We alone of all nations are in contact with all the world we alone of the great European powers are near neighbors, and political as well as commercial rivals, of the U. States. In addition to all the great Continental States, we have another power to watch, stronger, more encroaching, and more formidable thnn they all—of more boundless resources, of more insatiable ambition. Our relation with the United States is peculiar and interesting, but full of perplexity and uneasiness. The two nations mutually value and respect each other they are hound together by the thousand ties of a commerce the most vigorous and important in the world they speak the same language, and enjoy, to a great extent, the same institutions, and they find an additional bond of union in the circumstance that they are the only two States in the world at once free and powerful. But many circumstances come in to menace the cordial alliance which these considerations should maintain. Our frontiers are conterminous our commercial interests, real or apparent, constantly come into collision our pretentions clash the Americans are jealous of our power, and covetous of our possessions they have long cast an eye of greed on Canada and the West Indian Islands they are touchy, boastful, vain, self confident fond of putting forth tho most unlimited and inadmissible claims, and as prone to take offense at our haughtiness as we are to be disgusted with their insolence. Moreover, owing greatly, we believe, to the Irish immigration, the feeling of the masses towards this country is anything hut friendlv.and the wisdom, moderation, and sense of justice of the gov^ ernmcnt. may not always be powerful enough, in such a democratic State, to restrain the people from conduct which England would be obliged to resect and oppose. Cuba is a certain bone of contention for the (probably not distant) future and the constant talk, in which a particular class of Americans think fit to indulge, of "absorbing" Canada and tne West Indies, and monopolizing the whole Western hemisphere—tasteless, vulgar, and discreditable as it is—cannot fail to keep up a sort of chronic irritation, which may at any momept assume a sharper form. All thoughtful and prophetic statesmen must look to this quarter with great anxiety. We have not space here to dwell upon the subject in detail but in conclusion, we will just intimate, and no more, one circumstance which renders America especially formidable. She alone unites all the resources of civilization with many of tho tastes, the habits, and their passions of barbarism. She combines in an un exampled manner, the commercial and the warlike spirit. Her wealth and trade are already enormous, and are rapidly increasing her resources of every kind arc absolutely boundless her merchants are tho most enterprising, her sailors the most active, her pioneers the most restless and indefatigable in the world, and her people unite an increasing and almost morbid energy with the moat shrewd, selfish, long-headed sagacity. While the Yankees of the Eastern States are augmenting the riches of their country by the zeal with which they urge forward their manufacturing and commercial undertakings, the half civilized settlers of the western and south-western portion of the Union—inured to hardships, trained to arms, practiced in danger, ka fatniMar with rifles and revolvers, and bowie-knives, as with the plow and the axe, in sensible to fatigue, violent in their temper, unscrupulous in their conduct, reckless and unprincipled in their aggressive tendencies—are the very men to be always prompt for any enterprise which pronises either plunder or excitement.

A people at once so indefatigable In the arts of peace, and so ready for the pleasures of war, may well be looked upon with uneasiness and distrust. So formidable a combination of qualities the world has not before seen.*

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TKltRE J1AIJTE. IND ,*JDLY: 9,1853.

STERLIlfG SENTWEimi

FTTOM TH^ ''STATTNTON (VA.) MESSENGER. OUR DESTINY—WHAT IS IT?—A

strange infatuation seems to have seized upon the minds of the people of this country in regard to its "manifest destiny." The opinion has obtained among the mass, and spread itself through the various ramifications of society, that it is the "destiny" of this country to free all the nations of the earth. The voice of reason, of experience, and of history is unheeded, and passion and fanaticism go brawling over the land.

Well, we are a great peopte.no doubt about h. With thegerm of a population in 1776 of three millions of souls, spread over a comparatively small territory, we have grown to be a great nation of twen-ty-six millions of people, occupying a territory almost boundless in extent.— And this, too, in the short space of sev-enty-seven years! Was there ever before, in the history of the world, growth so rapid? History tells us of none, and tradition stands confounded. It has sprung up as if by magic. The fabled Aladdin's lamp never produced such wonders. Like a huge colossus, it rises

of all nations and kindreds and tongues, and by thousands bids them come and °Wree^m'?n, fcr"!Es».b',n" uPt.

But great as it unquestionably is, Tree as we all acknowledge it to be, is there no danger? Is there no fear that by r-cklesness we may plunge ourcountry and its free institutions into utter and irretrievable ruin? We think there is. Does not the voice of history speak upon this subjact? And what does it say? In deep mournful accents it speaks from the tomb of the past, "Bewire, beware thus far canst thou go, but no farther." Like causes produce like effects and all history abounds with the fact that no natien has been able to maintain its freedom and intpgrity that has extended its dominion over so many diverse interests as some of our reckless politicians desire to see embraced in tho» limits of this Union. Extending now from the St. Croix upon the north to the Rio Grande upon the south, from the pine-clad shores of the great Atlantic upon the east to the golden-skirted banks of the majestic Pacific upon the west, it embraces every variety of soil and climate, every production that Can administer to the taste or happiness of man, and every element that can go to make up a powerful and independent nation yet before this "wide domain" has become half peopled, before one-tenth of its vast territory has been subdued and rendered subservient to use, we have among as those who, never.satisfied with what they have, fly to that they know not if—restless spirits that would rather "rile in hell than serve in heaven"—prating all the while about our "manifest destiny," as jf they t— Vain men!—wielded the destinies of tliis great country. Flibustiers, or fr illibusters. seem now, to have the reins in the councils of our country, and. unless curbed in their mad career by the uprising of the great conservative element of the land, our ship of state must be stranded upon the shoals or cast into the whirlpool of recklessness.

It is not enough that we are free and happy it is not enough that we yet have room for expansion for a thousand years of peace it is not enough that we have a home for the oppressed and downtrodden of all nations who may desire to come and live among us these things are all as nothing our "manifest destiny" leads us to desire more, and more we must have, despite of reason, judgment, every thing. Cuba must be an* nexed, Mexico must swing into the rear, and Canada and the lands of old King Kameharneha must surrender to the strides of "King Progress." Our trade! Oh, what a time we will have when all the world and the "rest of mankind" shall become democratic, and sufely housed under Uncle Sam's aegis, and

Have we half developed the vast resources of this favored land? Have we educated our children, provided for our poor, and removed the stumbling-blocks from! the paths of our fellow-beings, over which thousands of our kindred have stumbled into an untimely grave and a ptobable bell? Have we, bound our country together in the strong embrace* ol iron? Have we fostered commerce and manufactures, and made our country in fact what it is claimed to be, the greatest country in the world? We opine not. But Cuba is in our way Mex ico is in our way the Hawaii are in our way Canada and Japan soon will be in our way. Oh,what a great fellow this Jonathan ia. to be autre! Stand out of the way, all ye nations, and give him elbow-room! You all stand in his way! The interests of his trade demand that you should nand aside: "manifest destiny" says. "Get out of the way."

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Dascias.—-Horace Greeley thus speaks of dancing. No doubt he is right: demnaiion of the exactions of the tax WE believe dancing mainly by w^11!„fl.herers.

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aU aoeesaof atiorateiiBg beverages, might be a OKMt admirable recreation, securing the approbation and countenance of the religi­

aad sedate bat conducted as it is, it probably exhausts more than it renovates, aad corrupt* more than it improves.^

A Paper ha* just been established out West with the following title -The Bellows of Freedom, or, The Salt River J£dian." Where's the "Bunkum Flag

From the Louisville Courier. CHINA.

The data for the following s^etch^we

gather

from various sources.

The area of China proper, containing 1.300.000 square miles, with the dependencies. which, cover an area of about 4 000.000 square miles, is about

square miles. The popula­

tion amounts to 300.000.000 and oyer. There Is considerable industry, intelligence and gohd conservatism among those heathens. Even the Chinese army, amounting only to 700.000 men all told, have a horror of brute force, an unconquerable aversion to bloodshed, hat aff»rds a certain proof of a most ancient.and veritable civilization, which, in many respects might make European nations envious of the Celestial Empire.

During four thousand and sixty years, twenty-one dynasties have swayed the destinies of the Chinese Empire, embracing besides the present sovereign, two hundred and twenty Emperors, whose average reigns have been nearly nineteen years each. Two of the present dynasty, Kung-he ahd Keen Lung, reigned sixty years the latter from 1736 to 1796, when he abdicated the

died four years afterwards. Three of the Chinese sovereigns were cotemporaries of Abraham. Isaac, and Jarob. The civilization of China was coeval with that of Egypt, the cultivation of literature then? with the cultivation of literature in Greece, and the extension of the empire with the extension of that of Persia. The late Emperor Tnou-'twang died in February, 1850, in the sixtyninth year of his age and the twentyninth of his reign. He was born in 1782. the same year which gave birth to Webster, Van

Buren,

Cass, Benton, Calhonn.

and Col. Johnson. His son, Hein Fung, the present Emperor, ascended the throne, in his nineteenth year, course, is now about twenty two. He mav be the last of the Tartar dynasty which turies.

person he wishes to succeed him upon a slip of paper, depositing the same in some safe and secret depository known only to himself and to whomsoever he pleases to make it known. On the death of an Emperor, the paper is opened by his confidents, and his successor thus becomes known, ascends the throne, and is acknowledged by the people.— He is the supreme head of the naiion— his will i& the supreme Taw of the land —his fiat cannot I opposed without endangering life and property ^'The Em peror believes in concubines. About every third year he selects from among the daughters of his nobles and officers such of them as may please hun, who are over twelve years of age»^ The parents consider it an advantage if not an honor to have their children thus disposed of. The harem is composed of seven legal, and an unlimited number of illegal concubines. The latter are restored to liberty at the age of twentyfive, unless they "have borne children to his majesty. The table of his majesty is daily supplied with thirty pounds of meat, seven pounds served up in soup, lard and butter one and one-third pounds each, two sheep, two fowls, two ducks, the milk of eighty rows, seventy parcels of tea. The table of her majesty is supplied with thirty-four pounds of meat, thirteen of them boiled with vegetables, one fowl. on« duck, twelve pitchers of water, the milk of twenty-five cows, and ten parcels oftea.lt Her majesty's maids and his concubines have tjjeir daily fare likewise minutely specified.

The Chinese have a written code of laws, the germ whereof may be found in the writings of Le Kwei, who wrote some twenty centuries since, wherewith have been incorporated, from time to time, the ethics of their ancient sages, and the rescripts Of many Emperors.— A new edition of their present code, revised some time during the present cen

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heads, viz: general. civjlK fiscal.

der six heads, viz: general. civil, fiscal, ritual, military and criminal. The cu pidity and self 'aggrandizement of the executive officers are oppressive to the people. If the authorities tell the hitherto submissive subjects that their Emperor says black is white, they prostrate themselves in token of implicit assent through fear of being strangled or bej*. juw headed.

word about the revolution. It appears to be mainly based upon what is assumed to be the national duty of restoring a native dynasty by the expulsion of the Tartar intruders, who are

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of the peopfe. They are not

dollars and thirty-seven and a half cents a month and no ration^ Notwithstanding the Empemr's expressions of con cern in his edict of thel 4th of January last for the poorer classes, and'the con-

M.herers.

We believe dancing tnminlj by the rebels proclaim Hein neighborhood parties, without parade or drees, pu a stupid, sottish creature, or other extensive adjuncts, restricted to^ung to ue three hours at one assemblage, closed fohg before midnight, and rigidly guarded #gaiiwt

it is. the Provincial Judge tnd Intendent on the northeastern coast has addressed a petition to the Consuls of Shanghai, seeking their intervention, which says: "If the rebels be not speedily intercepted trade will be stopped, and the commercial intercourse between Chin* and foreign nations will be at an end.V Now. Great Britan's commercial intercourse with China is a thing of no smJl moment to her. She has 9S00. 000,000 engaged in the traffic with China. The tea duties in Great,! Britan amount to •30,000,000 an»ti||l5*v and the British derive a yearly reV^lTue^sf 000.000 from the opium raised in British India and exported to China. Some say the duty on opium, hitherto a permanent source of income to the East India Company, at present produces more than £3.000.000 sterling. Though the Chinese ministry advocate the growth of opium at home to the saving of several million a year paid to foreign producers, the British Government may go so far as to interfere in the internal affairs of the Chinese empire rather than see the present power overthrown.— However, the strongest testimony and opinion of an English writer, familiar with China, is adduced, to the effect that the true commercial interest of Europeans as well as Americans lies in the expulsion of the Tartars, and, consequently, in the success of the Chinese insurgents.

We all regard the revolution with interest, and wait impatiently for more and better information on tho whole matter. «rst3i»f

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-There's many a Slip, Act But of all the slips that we have heard of or read of for many a day. no one was more Worthy of note than a spruce widow of Blair county, last week, played upon a chap who had engaged to

and, of marry her. At the appointed hour she was bedecked with bridal robes, and ready to repair to the 'Squire's' to have

has existed more than two cen- 'he «ied but the ungallant swain

lEach Emperor writes the name of the other conveyance, excepting to 'foot it.

made his appearance without buggy or

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To this however, she demurred, and the would be bride groom, full of high hopes, and reveling in blissful fancies, repaired to a neighboring farmer's residence. at some distnncc, to procure the needed vehicle. But In his absence, strange to tell, and conclusive proof that the course of true loVe never did run smooth, a gallant widower, of her acquaintance came along in a comfortable looking buggy, and enquired wherefore she was thus aprucely and beautifully attired. With a winning smile she plead guilty to the soft impeachment of an intent to commit matrimony whereupon the gallant widower declared he had but come to proffer her a faithful heart and hand, and bid her take li seat in the buggy and she took it declaring that ahe loved him much better than the other any how and so she gave the absent •lover' such a slip as is cruel for any man to get. Suffice it to say. that with all possible disp'ttch, the beau that had the buggy *nd the gay widow were made "one flesh."

Philosophers are eternaly harping about contentment and true happiness, and all that sort of things. Nothing however, could be more uncalled for.— Contentment is the parent of old fogyism, and the very essence of mildness is activity. A contented man is one who ia inclined to take things as they are. and let them remain so. It is not content that benefits the world, but dissatisfaction. It was the man who waa dissatisfied with stage coaches that introduced railroads and locomotives. It waa a gentleman "ill at ease" with the operations of mall wagons who Invented the magnetic telegraph. Discontent led Columbus to discover America. Washington to resist George the III. It taught Jefferson democracy, Fulton how to build steamboats and Whitney to invent the cotton gin. Show us a contented man# and we will show you a man who would never have got above sheep skin breeches in a lifetime. Show us a discontented mortal on the contrary, and we will show you a six feet go aheaditiveness that will not rest satisfied until he has invented a cast Iron horse that will outrun the telegraph, content is a virtue of the last century, and should be tolerated in no country out of Spa in.— N an

Harriet Pomroy, writing to Plymouth paper in defence of the Bloomer style of dress says, among other things.

iar.»r «... to Mr. Editor! "you think that 'the

never conciliated the aff^c- fashion might he changed by degrees. without causing any gratuitous remark.' Permit me to say, sir, we think you are at leist twenty years behind the times, it has been demonstrated, long ago

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partial. The pay of the Tartar soldier is about three dollars a month. Independent of daily ration of rice, while tho

hurts once

the rebels proclaim Heii

Fung whose dynasty they swear to overthrow before thev "proceed to breakfast "Not wishing to kill without warning god to sit still without saving the people," the Insurgents urge upon thefr countrymen "early to repent, and vigorously to awake." ^UTo what extent England acting with her vessels against the revolters, and whether Humphry Marshall more than passively upholds the existing gc?crnm#nt whereto he was sent sa U. 8. er. we know not. Certain

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WHOLE NO. 1086:5

A BUSY FAY DAY.

A profligate young fellow a son of a lawyer of aome eminence in Rhode Island on a certain muster Inspection dayi purchased a horse of an ignorant farmer, aad engaged to pay for it on the next inspection day. He gava a note hut instead of inspection he Inserted the word resurrection, making it payable on the resurrection day!

When the inspection day hiid' e^rhe. and the farmer unsuspicious of the tricN supposed the note to be due he called on the young man for payment* The latter expressed great astonishment thai he should call on him before the aota was out. "But it is out," said the farmer, "you promised to pay me the next inspection day the time has come and 1 want my money." 7**"^

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It is stated tha& the life Insurance opon persons who were killed at the Norwalk rsilroad disaster amounts to 30,000, and the life insurance companies have determined to prosecute the railroad company to collect their losses This will raise a novel question of law.

Proposals for the loan of W 000,000 to the Illinois Central Railroad Company, were opetid In New York on the 16th instant, and it was found thst bids from par to five per cent, premium had been offered to the amount of $5,000000.

Tho public debt of the Uaited States *m the «d of March, 1653, amounted to #63,131,698.

"If you loolt at the note again," aaftf the young man, coolly, *«you will find it has a very long while to run yet!"

The farmer was sure the no& was due or ought to be but on spelling it over carefully, he found to his astonish^ ment, that it waa not due till the resurrection day. He remonstrated with the young scape grace but all to no pur? pose, and he finally laid the case before his father, the lawyer. ?{The latter took his aon aside and told him he had better settle the thing at once. "For," said he, though the day Is far distaat, you are ,in a fair way to have business enough on your hands that day without having, your notea to set,*, tie." The advice was taken,

mines.

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One of the largest and finest masses of copper ever seen in the worlds has been shipped from Minesota [sic] mine to the great exhibition. It is a square block weighing 5,072 lbs. It was cut from a piece weighing about 80 tons! Several hundred tons of a similar character, some of them nearly as heavy, are to be sent on by the Cliff and Minesota [sic]

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JUST LIKE

MY

HUSBAND.—A

NFEWL^

married lady, who was very fond of her1 husband, notwithstanding his extreme ugliness of person, once said to a witty friend: "What d'ye think, my husbfcnd' has gone and laid out fifty guineas for monkey, on purpose to please met"— "The dear little man!" cried the other 'well, it Is just like him."

Northern darkey says

Mdey

Isnt

gwlne to cotoh him away down South? for dey makes poor nigga work twenty^ five hours ebry day!" "How 1 when there are only twentyfour in a day."—"Why dey makes him get up in de rooming' an hour before day, and dat makes twenty-live!" mjt

A girl being sent ton drug store to purchase some dye-stuff, anti forgetting the name of the article, said to the clerk* 'John what do folks dye with!" "Dye with? why cholera sometimes." "Well, I believe that's the name. 1 want three cents worth."

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are getting up a new

atyle of

hogs out west. The inventor thinks that by feeding them pewter with their corn, he can raise pig lead from them. —Time must determine.

"$fiich, my dear lady, do you think the merriest place in the world?" That immediately above the atmostphere that surrounds the earth, I should think*." —"And why so?" "Because 1 am told there all bodies loose tbeir grav-

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A yottng widow was asked why ah^ was. going to take another husband ao soon after the death of her first. "O, la!" said she.-—"I do it to prevent fretting myself to death, on account oi poo* Tom!"

A late German writer says that the people of the United States can burst more steamboats and ehew more tobacr co than any other five nations in the

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A sentimental chap in Rhode Island intends to petition Congress at the next session, for an appropriation to improve the channel of affection, so that hencef forth the "course of true love may run smooth." ,, 4, -.li•.«.! 1

It was not Snook's wife who Moved to make bread 'cause it cleaned her hands so beautifully,'nor who wanted a dark colored tea set that wouldn't show the dirt.' It was a bsse slander upon Mr*. Snook*—and we are happy to record the fact. .. a

An Irishman was once brought before a magistrate, charged with marrying six wives the msgistrate asked him how he could be so hardened a villain. 'Please your worship/ says Paddy, 1 was trying to get a good un.'

Common honesty ia the indespensable basis of charity and common sense, tho sure snd needful resting piece of so«t» ing intelligence.

A lady advertising for a husband saye •None need apply under si* feet.'-r* She goes in ferociously for Hy-men,

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The first weeping willow in England was planted by Pope' the poet. He received a preaent of figs from Turkey^ and observing it twig in the basket ready to bud he planted tf in his garden, and it soon became a fine tree. From tbia stock all the weeping willows iu England tod America originated,