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{Correspondence of the Louisville Courier.] Arrival at Liverpool—First Impressions— An English Twilight—Things in London—

The English an Unsociable People—RaUroads The Country-—The New Crystal Palace—Trip to Pari*—Things in Paris, v„ HOTS- WIHDSOK RUK RAVOLI, PARIS,)

July 24th, 1853.

DEAR PjftfEWDi In accordance with my promise to write you a letter from Paris, I will give you an account of my trip from my arrival in Liverpool to the present time —of course condensing' it as much as possible.

We landed in Liverpool after an unusually fair passage of less than ten days.— There is nothing to impress you in the ap* pearance of this city, but you have to call upon your imagination. Remember that it is the most important shipping point in the world, that it contains over a half million inhabitants, and its docks for shipping are the largest in the world, (extending eight miles,) and you will experience something like an impression. We landed about sundown, and I had an opportunity of noticing the singular effect of an English twilight. It was nearly ten o'clock before there was any appearance of what wo-call dusk, being sufficiently light to read the finest print all the time. It then became dark, and continued so until 2 o'clock, from which time the same light continued until sunrise, having only four hours of night. The appearance varies according to the season, being longer In summer than winter.

After some slight detention at the Custom House, wo took the cars to London, and passed somewhat South or East entirely through the heart of England for a distance of near two hundred miles. I have been in other parts of England since then, and have never before seen anything like the extreme cultivation to which every nook and corner is reduced. None of their trees are tall—something like the growth in our barrens—but every tree, hod«e-row and bush are closely trimmed as if they a?grudged the soant place they occupied. They have no fences. Every field is enclosed with a Ivaw-thorne hedge, (other hedges, such as laurel, sweet-brier, die., be infused for ornamental enclosures,) very few of them containing more than four or five acres. You conld not find a weed with microscope in any of them. The country generally is what we would call rolling, and prevents you from obtaining a view from any quarter of the city ol. Loudou that would give you any idea of its extent. But here, in a kind of parenthesis, I will tell you what that extent la. It extends in one direction 23 roUes of solidly built houses, and 12 miies across, with 17,000 miles of streets, and over 3,000,000 of inhabitants.

There are but few things in London to interest an American beyond historical associations. White Hall, where King Charles the 1st was beheaded, Westminster Abbey, the burlat place of the Kings and great men of England, St. Paul's Cathedral, the largest edifice of the kind in the world, (ex cent St. Peter's at Romo.) being over 400 feet in height, and several hundred years old, and the Tower of London, so intimate* ly connected with many of the bloody scenes in English history. In this place you can see figures of the Kings and great warriors of England,dressed in full suits of armor of the age in which they lived, weapons of all dates festooned upon the eel lings and walls, particular weapons celebrated as having killed somebody, or having belonged to somebody, blocks upon which somebody vras beheaded, cells in which somebody was confined, stools, beaches, and chairs that they tat upon, also instruments of torture, racks, collars, and thumb-screws, etc., etc.— It ia an immense old building, built of undressed stone with numerous terrets. The greater part of Westminster Abbey is over eight

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There is not that bustling activity about the KngVth people that yoa tee ia Americana. They are stow and methodical in nvery thing they do. You may go to one of the large railway atetioas ia U*e city of London where two hundred trains will leave and arrive daily, and yoa would hear no bustle or confissfoa, nothing that would indicate the immense amount of businent they were transacting. Ther are an unsociable cold kind ef people* tad the Suit poKteoeee you do receive from them, aeems to be rendered more as a «h»ty than a pleasure. They seem general!/ to be thoroughly attainted with Uieir owa history and greetnem, tod

(a place that most of them haveaever heard of) is lsrger than England, and that New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia tnd Texas, (any one of them) isas large as their United Kingdoms. They think thstif such is the case they can be inhabited by nothing else but Indians and wild animals.

To revert to the railways no road or turnpike ever crosses thein they either pass over or under. In leaving London tbey pass over the streets by bridges and through and over tops of the jiouses. If I am not mistaken, the trains never run in opposite directions upon the same track, all following one another at intervals of ten or fifteen minutes, rendering a collision almost impossible. The gi BJrality of the bouses in London for miles upon miles are four stories, hardly ever more or less, built ot peculiar colored brick, never painted. I cannot describe them better thsn by saying they look as if they bad been originally painted blue or lead color, and afterwards yellow, which had been for the most part washed off by the rain. To their houses they never have, cor* nices or hardly ever have anything like ail ornamental window frame, perfectly plain set. Many of them are the town bouses of the nobles, and would/ from their dingy, plain appearand be last selected by a stranger to contain the wealth and fashion of England.

I spent seversl days at Chelmsford in Essex county, and passed my time very pleasantly in riding about the .country. Thetown i.4 a very pretty place, containing about 10,000 iriha ants, and like all the English towns I havd seen, so extraordinarily clean", that a tobacco' chewer is almost afraid to spit in the streets. Even London is not the dirty place^you would Imagine.' You can stand upon the high land fin the neighborhood of Chelmsford (and it is not an unusual sight in England) and see six or seven towns in a circuit of eipht or ten miles. I have also been to Sydenham a small town gome few miles from London, in Surry county, arid saw the Crystal Palace where the World's Fair is to be^held next year. It is now nearly completed, and is the largest building of the kind ever erected. The building itself covers over 20 acres, and the improvements, such as terraces, baths, arbors &c., will cover 200 acres.^ 'All of these last named improvements seetn to be intended as permanent. They are bui|t of handsome stone.— The water for the baths is to be brought from Brighton on the sea, a distance of fiftytwo miles.

In coming'to Paris we took the cars from London to Folkstone, which is now the great crossing point to the Continent. We went from there to Boulogne in one ofthe packetboats, that run twice daily between the places. It was a bright day when we started, but the wind soon freshened to a gale, and the sea broke ovdr us in every direction.— With four men at the wheel they managed to keep her straight, but a sicker and *vetter set of ih ldren you never saw. I escsped sickness in crossing the Atlantic, but I was compelled to give up then. Therejs nothing remarkable in the appearance of Boulogne Sur Mcr.and I was not inside the ramparts qf the old town, but I was at the foot of them. They are' remarkable for their extreme age, height and durability, being over fourteen hundred years old and forty feet in height. From, this place to Paris is about 170 miles, and eveiy spot that you pass is 'nteresting from its historical associations.

The country (except the vineyards) is cultivated similarly to England but in a more loose and careless manner. The hedges are not as well trimmed and the fields are not as clean.

We are now in Pans, the Roe Rivoli, fronting upon the garden of the Tuil leries. The Palace of the Tuilleries is about 2(j0 yards to our left, and the Palace of the Louvre is a short distance beyond it. They are both immense buildings, and are now being connected by tho present Emperor Napoleoti the Third. Back of us is the Place Vondome, in which there is a monument erectcd to Napoleon the Great, composed of the cannon taken in his various battles.— Hie life is recorded upon the aurface of the monument by various figures representing scenes in his life from*the Corsicau to the Emperor, and from a throne to a prison, running spirally to the top. The Church of Notre Dame, tho Church of St. Denis, where the French Kings for centuries back are buried, (since the year 250 the Church of St Magdalene, the most beautiful building I have ever seen, the Place de la Bourse, the stock exchange of France, the Champs Elysee. the Boulevards, which is a beautiful street tunning entirely around Paris, the Place de la Concorde, La Morgue, where auicides and the bodies of unknown persons are placed for the recognition of their friends, the Arches of Triumph, the monuments, the Palaces of Luxembourg, Versailles,St. Cloud and St. Germain, I have yet to see, and I hone to describe them to

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additions made during ififferent reigns, the last, I believe, a Chapel built by Henry the VII and called for him. The last is extremely beautiful. The rest excites aa interest on account of its great age «nd associations. There is another addition saw being made by Victoria, in the form ef a parsonage. The Home of Lords awt Comwons, oSe ef the meet beautiful buildings of modern timet, is situated on the Thames aexlto Westminster Abbey.— (t has bee* fifteen years sincei it was ooaacntaced, and is not yet finished. It is huih of a kind of light yellow stone, with an in* ^^•cribtWe quantity of fancy and ornamental work from top to bottom. The tunnel tinder the Thames, the bridge* over it, the custom house vaults, nearly 200 tores in extent renaing in mam instances entirely under the bed of the rirer. are ak efejeetsof oLsrtsl oa accouut of the immense coat tad: labor at which they were built.

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A NEW READING or SRAKSTKAIE.— In a country town 'dowta East' Democratic newspaper was started dopending mainly for support on the contributions of the 'faithful in that region. Its motto was— •Be just and fear mot Skmkspemre.

An old farmer who bad been quite active in promoting tho interests of this newspaper enterprise took up the first number and commenced reading it, with laudatory comments. As be read the motto, his lace flushed with enthusiasm, and he exclaimed 'Fear not Shakspeare no, that wo won't, ner any other darned old Pedextlistfl

BROOM COB* A*T WMARTS® Wrttow.— In the Mohawk Valley, says the Scientific American, vast quantities of this crop are annually gronm. Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Connecticut are the next largest producers of it, Jtaurigin a cultivated plant in tins coon try, is attributed to Dr. FrankKn. It is a native of India. Franklin saw an imported whisk of corn in the posaesRoa of a Udy in Philadelphia, and while examiningit as a curiosity, found seed, which he planted, and from that small begining troee this valuable product of industry ia the United 8 tats*. In the same manner England and America are indebted for the weeping willow to the poet Tope, who, finding a green stick in basket of fgt aent to kin as present, it ia the garden nt

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THB POETRY OF AGBICULTUBB.-—The principles of agriculture are exceedingly simple. Thtt they might beso God himself wtt the first grett planter. He wrote bis laws visibly, in the 'brightest, loveliest, and most intelligible characters, everywhere, upon the broad bosom of the liberal earth in greecest leaves in delicious fruits, in beguiling and delicate flowers! But he doesjaot content himself with this alone#},..He bestows ihe heritage along with the example. He fills them with all those objects of sense and sentiment which are to supply his moral and physical necessities. Birds sing in the boughs above him, odors blossom in the air, and fruits and flowers cover the earth with a glory tb which Solomon, in all his magnificence, was vain and valueless. To his hind we, owe these fair groves, these tall ranks of majestic trees, these deep forests, these broad plains covered with verdure, and these mighty arteries of flood and river, which wind along, beautifying the'm with the loveliest inequalities, and irrigating them with a seasonable fertilization. Thus did the Almighty planter dedicate the great plantation to the Uses of that various and wondrous family which was .to' follow. Hir home prepared—supplied with all resources, adorned with every variety offruit and flower, and checkered wiit) abundance, man is conducted within its present limits, and ordained its cultivator under the very eye and sanction of [leaven. The angels of Heaven descend upon its hills. God himself appears within lis valleys at noonday— its groves arc instinct with life and pur rity, and the blessed stars rise at night above the celestial mountains to keep, watch over its consecrated interests. Its gorgeous forests, its broad savannahs, its levels of flood and prairie, are surrendered into the hands of the wondrously favored, the nev^ created heir of Heaven! Tho fowl summons him at morning to. his labors, and the evening chant of the night birds warns him to repose. The ox submits his neck to the yoke the horse moves at his bidding in the, plow and the toils of all are rendered sacred and successful by the gentle showers and the geniel sunshine which descend from heaven, to ripen the grain in its sea son, and to make earth pleasant with its fruhs.—Montgomery Ledger.

GOOD MANNERS.—The good sound sense of the subjoined extract should

recommend it to the attention of all those who are in any way entrusted with the care of youth: "It is a matter of sound policy to cul tivate the manners of our children for gentle manners and a kind and obliging address will do more to gather around us firm and enduring friends than strength of mind and superiority of attainments. .The manners to which we refer are the fruit of the cultivation of the mind and heart the outpourings of benevolence, sincerity, and inward puri ty. In all the departments and profes slons of life, we prefer other things being equal, to avail ourselves of the services of persons of agreeable and obliging manners. They are coin of great Intrin sic value, and everywhere current. We may be allowed to glance at some of the features of good manners, such as we desire to have taught and practised in our schools, and such as all persons in well-ordered society are bound to observe. The conventional rules of soci ety are not arbitrary enactments, which any who choose have a right to set at defiance. They are essential to the maintenance and enjoyment of social in tercourse, and the furtherance of its highest ends. Every person who enjoys the privileges and benefits of socie ty is morally bound to observe its wholesome rules. Ill-breeding is a sin against good morals, as well as a breach of social laws.. No person has any right to act the clown in well-ordered society or to be unkind and offensive, setting at defiance the laws made for its convenience and comfort by common consent. The leading feature of good manners is a scrupulous observance of all the rules that regulate social intercourse. Let the pupils of our schools be required to observe them in their intercourse with each other and their teachera and upon all other occasions. Many of these rules, abstractly considered, are little things and yet, in their influences upon the convenience and pleasure of social intercourse, they are great things. A particle of dust is a small thing yet in the eye, which it irritates, it becomes grett in its influence. So an infringement of the rules of good breeding *nay be of itself of small moment but it often becomes important in the friction and irritation which it produces in social intercourse."

Political nicknames of the coarsest and vilest descriptions appear to abound among the factions into which ibe Detnoctatic party is divided in various States of the Union. Thus, iu Missouri they call each other Rot tens,' 'Cleans,' •Scamps,' Hards,' 'Softs,' •Nuliifiers,' &c.' in Maine they are somewhat worse than elsewhere, their factional names being «Gats,* Wild Colt,' 'Hell Cats,' 'Bears,' 'Ramrods, **Catfish,' 'and slang.' New York (actions are so widely known as 'Hunkers' and Barnburners,' that those designations have become acknowledged titles.—Louisville Jemm&L

An Arabian having brought blushes on a maiden's cheek by the earnestness of his gaxe, said to her: *My looks have planted roses oa your cheeks why forbid to gather them! The law milt him who sowa to reap the

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TERM HAUTE, IND, SEPTEMBER 3,185a

The Scolding Wife.

Our pen trembles in our hand as wewrite 'scolding wife,' for of all curses and torments on theface ofthe earth, this demon, is surely the greatest. Her horrible, temper has driven her husbsnd long since to the tavefii, where, notwithstanding the terrible penslty be will have to pay for the association, he meets, at least, with smiles and joval.companions.

A man could lie down in the swamps of Louisiana, with a mosquito sucking at every pore of hiB skin, and bear it with more equanimity, than the everlasting clack of a scolding woman's tongue.

What ahould be Her pleasure—the care of the household—she makes a misery to herself and all around her, and particularly to the poor husband, who to listen—if he ex* pects peace and quietness—when he comes home to a mesl, to recital of all the details of toubles she has wjth the servants how Billy dropped a little oil on the landing which she knows will never' come out, and how little Eliza, left to the care of herself, whilst she was looking after the servant, threw her spools of cotton into the fire, sndTost every needle she had in the world.

The husband, anxious to molify the irritation says 'Never mind, my dear, let us have dinner, I will bring you plenty of spools of cotton and needles when I come home this evening.'

There, that is just like you I declare, Mr. B. it is no use my slaving, and tyorking, and saving, to make both ends meet, with your extravagant ways. Heaven knows, 'your' income is not so large, that, you can purchase spools and needles, when mischievious children choose to destroy them, but it's just like you! What do you care about your poor wife, working her finger-ends off to make you comfortable?— not a bit, as long as your, shirt-buttons are attended to and your-stockings mended—that's all us poor women are worth.' 'But my dear—' 'Don't dear me, sir I am not to be smoothed down by any of your fine words, for while I am about, I wflt have my say.— Do you see th^t, Mr. B.? Oh! you do— it's a bit of a cigar, it is. Well, I'm sure— and so, in spite of 'all I have said, you got to smoking in the bed-room this morning, after I went down to see about breakfast. Upon my word, what will you do next? As though I didn't worry and vexation enough with the servants, with their nasty, habits, but you must add to them. /-J "D—1—n it',' Madam, am I to have any dinner?" "There, thal'a right begin to, swear it is so manly to.an unprotected female." "Soup, Madam!" "if "That's right: go on, go on.V.,.4 "No, madam, I will go off." "J*

A very straight coat-tail is seen dashing down the street, and in a few minutes afterwards, an anxious, but quiet looking gentle man is ordering a mutton-chop at Victor's, and drinking an uncommonly strong glass of brandy and water. Meantime., the devoted wife is amusing herself with the hyster ics, the only bad feature of which is, that she recovers.—iV. O. Delta. .v*

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FAST MEN.—The vicious die early. They fall like shadows, or tumble like wrecks and ruins into the grave—often while quite young, almost alwaya before forty. The wicked 'liveth not half his days.' The world at once stifles the truth, and assigns the reason by descri bing the dissolute as'fast men that is, thoy live fast they spend their twelve hours in six, getting through them while others are in the glory of life. 'Their sun goes down while it is yet day.'— And they might have helped it. Many a one dies long before he need. Your men of genius like Burns and Byron, to whom, when dissipated tnd profli gate, thirty-seven is so fatal and your obscure and nameless 'wandering stars,' who waste their youth in libertine indulgence, they cannot live long. They must die early. They put on steam till they blow up their boilers. They run atsuch a rate, that the fire goes, out for want of fuel. The machinery is destroyed by reckless speed and rapid wear. Nothing can save them. Their physical system cannot stand the strain they put to it while the state of their minds is often such that the soul tvould eat the subsutnee of the most robust body, and make for itself a way of escape from the incessant hell of its own thoughts.

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INGENIOUS ESCAPE FROM PRISON.— James Dunn, a convict from Sing Sing Prison, New York, on Friday last effected his escape from that institution in a very ingenious manner. Procuring some strips of India rubber, he made an airtight tube some six feet long, to the end of which he attached a bag of the same material, shaped like a duck. Managing to elude his keepers, he came to the river, where he threw off and secreted his clothing, and with life preserver plunged in, and when at the bottom kept one end of the tube in his mouth, the bag meanwhile floating on the surface and supplying him with air. In this way he passed the prison docks, and had proceeded about half a mile down the stream to Colyer's dock, when his pipe giving way he was forced to swim ashore, where he met a crowd of people and informed them that some one had stolen his clothes and left them in pursuit of the thief, which was the last that has been heard of him. He was twenty years of age, had served one term of confinement, and was at the time of his escape under sentence for life. ~~~~~~~

How TO PASS THROUGH SMOKE.—In the course of an inquest In London lately, Mr. Wakely, the coroner, observed that It woold be well to acquaint the fact that !f persons in a house on fire bad the presence of mind to apply a damp doth or handkerchief to their mouth and nostrils, they could effect a passage through the densest smoke hat the surest way would be to envelope the head and face completely ia the d#ap cloth.

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SCARCITY OF SILVER.—Mr. D'lsraeti, of the English Parliament has been investigating the causes .of the scarcity of silver, and gives .the following as the principal causes.of this scarcity:

First, while the annual* production of gofd has''quadrupled, the yield t»f? the Silver mines has remained stationary and ae the influx of gold has given an immensie exptnsion to business of all kinds, and increased the demand for every commodity, silver being no more plentiful n'ow'than formerly, has become proportionately scarce. Secondly» in Holland,, and some other European States, silver is the'standard of value and hence the excess of exportation to those countries over the importation frbm them, has to be paid,for in silver coin. Thirdly, and chiefly in India gold coin' is not known among, the natives from whom the commodities of commerce are purchased, nor is gold in lhat country a legal tender and as the excess of Indisn exportation over importation is exceedingly great,-there is an enormous drain of silverfrom Europe and America, to pay'for the excess. In the yetr 18&2, England tlone sent fifteen millions of dollars in silver to India".-

Mr. D'lsraeli proposes, as a remedy to the growing scarcity of silver, that, gold be made the standard of value and a legal .tender, throughout the British possessions in the Oriental world.— That done, perhaps it will not be necessary fur store keepers to ladle out three cent pieces, when a small sum is to be substracte'd from a five dollar bill. "*#•?. .*

MISTAKE OF AMERICAN YOUTH.—It is a grand mistake into which many Ameri can youth fall, that manual labor is not honorable. To be a merchant, a law yer, a doctor, an engineer a military or naval officer, or atshipmaster, is, in their esteem, much more honorable than it is to be a mechanic, or farmer. It cannot be denied that all these other occupations requireexertlon The doc* tor is oftimes quite as weary when his day's work is done as the farmer and blacksmith can be but he is not so sure of quiet sleep as they are," and we all know to what, hardships engineers are exposed, as well as persons who follow the set.

We often see vigorous* y.oung men seeking places as clerks in stores.— They all hope (and generaly expect) some favorable tide in the affair of life, which 'will lead them to fortune.'

Other meh have accumulated vast sums of money in buying and selling goods, why not 11 is the language they use. They rarely consider that but a very small number of those embark ever complete the voyage. Where one succeeds, ten, fifty, perhaps a hundred fail.

But an industrious, thrifty "farmer seldom fails to secure for himself and family the common comforts of life.— The skillful and practical mechanic, too. is generally sure of a remuneration for his lubor, and, with common prudence he can provide a competence for the future.

A SOMNAMBULIC YOWG LADY.—In Cincinnati, a young lady. Miss Julia Knight, while in a state of somnambu lism, one night last week, left her sleep ing apartment, and donned the coat,vest, and pants of her brother. Thia done, she proceeded to a closet in an adjoinin room, and took from there a razor an strop. Returning to her own room, immediately opposite her brother's, she seated herself and commenced sharpening the razor in a woman like manner. The noise produced by this operation awakened her brother, who, on rising and inquiring the cause, was told by her that she wished he would retire and not alarm the family by making such ado about nothing. Suspecting her condition, says the Nonpariel, he "cautiously told her that if she would hsnd it to him he would assist in sharpening it. At this, she readily relinquished the dangerous weapon her brother placed it out of reach, and then proceeded, by gentle means, to awtken her.— This be tt last accomplished, but such was the surprise of the lady, on discovering her situation, that she' immediately fainted, but was restored by the usual appliances.

LEGISLATIVE WISDOM.—A member of the last Connecticut legislature, from one of the rual districts not a hundred miles from New London, who was less remsrkable for the profundity of his knowledge tbsn^ the overweening confidence with which 1)6 advanced his opinions upon any tnd til subjects wss once tsked by a fellow-member of a somewhat quizzical turn of mind, what be deemed the proper punishment for arson. 'Well,* said he with an air of pro* found deliberation, *f have thought on that subject a good deal and have come 10 the conclusion tbst he should pay a fine of Jive hundred dollars and marry the girl.*

A giant, nearly nine feet In height, Is shortly expected to arrive to Madrid.— He is a native of Lscbar, in the province of Grenada, and is only 23 years of sge. He eats as muoh as five men, walks with extreme rapidity, and has been, twice msrried, but both his wives are dead. His object in visiting Msdrid is to demand the hand of a female, of great beauty, who keeps a coffee house. He is described as so great a coward that he will allow a child to ill treat him.— Up to the age of six he was of the ordinary stature, but then be began to grow rspidiy.—EngliihTaper*

Fentnle Barbers.

'Sliss Caroline'E._PuOiam, of Salem. Mafe» has announced to the public, that shejhas adopted the profession of a barber. and will take .the beard off of gentlemen's chins^ at the rate of six Cents the iriog.VVMias Julia Beverly, advertir ses in the Providence Journal that she wilt practice as a mddicine tnan and surgeon and, cilre ihe|cholera, or chop off a leg, at rates the/most accommodating." a* I

We never could pepeive, why it was, that women should not practice, the arts incident to the leaders of the pill box fraternity. Cobbett, many years ago, wrote a very alile, chapter on the expedience of introducing the female world to the practice ofobsteirics, and contended that parr of the profession should be confined exclusively to the fair sex. We sgree with him, and therefore liops that Miss Beverly will obtain a large practice. If woman is capable of the duties, of a nurse-^and who js so able and interesting as she is in that capacity! why should she not launch. out, and become a full-blooded doctor!

Miss Caroline E. Putnam, of Salem, is not the.first female in the world who has taken up the trade of a barber.— Some ten years ago, Madame Josephine a Courcey, the pretty, aye, beautiful wife of a French barber, who had a shop in Chambers street, then called the Granite Buildings and now known as the Irving House, found herself a widow, with three, or four children to support. The husband had omitted to leave her any money, or rather moans, when he died. The children were to be talen car9 of, and Madame 'Courcey was not disposed to neglect then). She at oAcr resolved to keep up the shop, and cnact the part of barber. Her detorminuiioh was made knqwn and applauded. Every man of gallantry said she was right and every man who was disposed to indulge in the luxury of a shove, called to her establishment. In less than a month, she* had four times as many customers as she could attend to. She thorelore called in thb aid of Josef du Boys, an aged knight of the razor. Josef was a good shaver but nobody wanted him about their chins, whilst there was the least possible chance of calling the skill of Madame d'Courcey into action. And often would they wait for hourst for on opportunity to place their faces under the gentle pressure of her fair hands.'.

One bright and beautiful day in the month of June, an aged citizen of the WestEndj a man of some five or BIX hundred thousand dollars, and a widower at that, was seen toddling down Broadway. On reaching the corner of Broadway and Chambers street, a placard arrested his attention. Though the letters were large, they were badly printed, and the old gentleman found it difficult to read thetn, 'Hey day! what does all this mean!' he said, as he vainly attempted to decipher the placard—'what docs all this amount tolV And then he took out his specs, carefully wiped them, and wes enabled to ascertain, that Madame Josephine.d'Courcey would sh^ve gentlemen. '7 'Upon my word!' ejaculated the- old fellow. 'I believe I did not shave today. I ought to be shaved—lalwojg shave daily.' And he passed his hand across his chin, and was satisfied that ho did require shaving. Into the shop he popped, and found it empty, -r 7^7

Young woman,' said he, as he entered,'do you shave gentlemen!' 'We, monsieur/ was the modest reply, and the old chap was welcomed to the chair. He took it threw his head back—was lathered in a twinklingshaved in no time! v.

After the operation was concluded, the venerable Citizen was ehampooned, and powdered, and looked for all the world like a regenerated sinner.

My dear child,' said he to Madame Josephine, 'it appears to me this business is not the one ought to follow. It exposes you, my child, to danger and temptation. Would you (ike to marry! Madame Josephine blushed as none but a French woman can, and nodded an affirmative. The next day the ahop was closed—two weeks afterwards, the pipers announced the marriage of the Honorable James H—d to Madame Josephine d'Courcey. The happy ptir made a tour to Niagtrt tndSatatoga—the next winter went to Italy and South France returned happy and contented and are now living in splendor in one of the fashionable avenues up town. We hope Miss Caroline E. Putnam may be equaUy fortunate.—JYfio York paper*

Dr. HOOP, of Whiteviile, Ga., describes a white negro woman, living near him, thirty-four years of age, the mother of ten ebony children, whose skin, since she was eleven years of sge, has changed from a pure black to a white as fair as auy of Caucasian blood. Her eyes and hair retain the African peculiarities.' No diseased condition of the skin or system has been discovered to show cause for this chango of color, which began upon her forehead in a small spot, and gradually affected ber whole bodyv the black disappearing from ber neck downwards in a single week after her face had become entirely whitened.

The most beautiful flowers are those which are double, such as double piuks. double roaes, and double dahlias. What an argument Is this against the shilling deformity of single bedsteadsl "Go, marry," Is written on every thing beautiful that the eyes rest upon—beginning with birds of paradise, and leaving on withjipple bloMoms.

WHOLE NO. 1103.

A Beaatiftal Piotnre*

The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels that by the laws of the land in whkh he lives—by the laws of Civilised nations—he is the rightful and exclusive owner of the land which he tills, is by the constitution of our nature under a wholesome influence not easily embibed fiom any other source. H« (eels—other things being equals-more strongly than another the character of a man asthelord of an inanimate world. Of thia great and wonderful sphere which fashioned by the hand of God and up* held by his power, is rolling through the heavens, a part is his, his from the cen. tre to the sky. It is a space on which the generation before him moved in its round of duties, and he feels himself connected by a visible link with those who are to follow him, and to whom he is to transmit a home Perhaps his farm has come down to him from his fathers.— They hsvorgone to their last home, but he can trace :K*ir hotstops over the scenes of their t&ily tabors. The roof that shelters him, was reared by those to whom he owes his being. Some interesting domestic tradition is connected with every inclosure. The favorite fruit was planted by his father's hsnd. lie sported in jioyhood by the brook which stilL winds through the meadow.—» Through the field lies the path to the village school of earlier days. He still hears from the window the sound of tho Sabbath bell which called his father to the house of God and near at hand is the spot where his parents laid down to rest,- where, when his time has come he shall bo laid by his children. These are the feelings of the owners of the soil.* Words ennnot paint theni—gold cannot buy them—they flow out of the deepest fountains of tho heart—they are the'life springs of a fresh, healthy, and generous national character.—Hon.

Edward Everett. y\

ANALYZING A SHOE.—Mr. Ftannigan, of Second street, has gono into a complete analysis of the boot and shoe, which he describes even to the number of stitches. He stys: *To manufacture a complete gentlman's boot roquires seventy-six separate and distinct pieces —nails and pegs are only included In this number as one piece.. Each boot is obliged to pass through the hands, of the workmen more than one huhdred and sixty different times, and the skill of forty-five different mechanics and men of professions it required to complete It. To manufacture gentlemen's fine calf boots and havo in them combined durability, economy, and neatness, is the masterpiece of the gentlemen's part of'our business.' (n speaking of ladies' shoes, he says: 'Expert* ence has taught us the French lasting gaiter is considered the most perfect dress shoe a lady wears, and been the leading dress shoe amongst the most fashionable circles for many years.— The gaiter boot, the mAtterpiece in the ladies' branch of business, to make them properly, requires forty~six separate and distinct peices. In putting them together the stitching required will astonish any one unacquainted with tho busi~ ness the number of stitches upon a pair of uppers before the soles are put on', as counted by our lady artisans, Is 4,840. And this is byt llttlo more than our regular manufactured work contains in gen* feral.'

The work ia beautifully done by a lady of this city, Mrs. William Magce, wJio is certainly master of her business. Putting the sole to the uppers 602 more stiches are added, which being complete contains 5,242 stitche*.-~Dela-ware Republican,

HEARING WITH TUB TEETH.—Many years sgoan old subscriber who was entirely deaf, called at our office, and with the help of a slave which he always carried wtth-him, we were enabled to converse with each other. In the course of our.interview, ho remarked that for many years he bad not been able to hear the loudest thunder, but added to his great surprise, a few evenings before he.wss at the house of friend and was seated by the side of a piano, his elbow resting upon it, and his teeth upon his thumb, when he heard distinctly the tune which the daughter of his friend happened to be playing. Again and again ho tried the experiment, and ho could always hear when the connection thus formed was kept up, but could henr nothing whstever when it was broken either by the removal of his elbow from the piano or by placing his thumb upon sny other portion of his face. From the character of our informant we have never had a doubt of the truth of his narrative—And we givo it now chiefly as a suggestion whether some simple instrument cannot be framed by mean* of which deaf persons may be enabled to hear with their teeth.—Richmond (Pa.) Watchman, l*

EXPOSURE TO THE SUN.—There are few points which seem less generally understood or more clearly proved than the fact that, exposure to the sun, without exercise sufficient to create free perspiration, will produce illness and thai the same exposure to the sun with sufficient cxercita if"*' not produce illness. Let any man sleep in the sun lie will awake perspiring and very ill perhsps he will die. Let the same man dig in ihe sun for an equal length of lime, and be will perspire ten times as much, and be quite well. The fact is, that not only $ the direct rays of the son, but the heat of the atmosphere produces abundance of bile. and. powerful exercise, much more efficiently thsn medicine* jrill ry off that superfluity.