Wabash Express, Volume 12, Number 42, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 September 1853 — Page 1

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»..... Oh, potent engine,lo*t thon wield,. *4 The Briarean arms ''The home of Parity to ahield

Of that historic hour, When freedom struggled with the might ui avarice and power Then was thy scorn the lightning's vivid flaah, Its thunder-voice—the battle's clanging craah.

And such thou art wherever Mind Thy life of life supplies Tby hands the fUviah serf unbind,

Wrong flee* thy Argus eyes

Thrones, privileges, castes befoie thee fall, •A,!id Poverty throws off Oppression'* thrall,

.4. Llko a caught eagle dost thou p)AO On many a darken'd shore God loose those two broad wing* of thine

That Truth and Right may soar

Aftir above the hoary dust of years, Long sadly watered with despairing tears!

TIIE GRAVE OF LILLY DALE* Sir StDNKV DYSR. We smoothed down the locks of her soft golden hair,

And folded her arms on her,breast, And laid her, at eve, in the valley so fair,: •Mid the blossoms of Stammer to rest.

Oh. rest, Lilly, r«*t, no care can assail, For green grows the turf o'er the tear moistened grave Of the fairest flower of the vale!

She sleeps 'neath tbo spot she had marked for repose Where flowers soonest blossom In Spring, And tephyr* first breathe the perfumes of the rose,

And the birds come at evening to sing. Ob, rest, Lilly, rest, dec.

The wide spreading boughs of the old chestnut troe, Bend low O'er the place 'Where sho lie* There eve'* pnrple beamk longest glow on tholfca,

And the morn's drink the dew, aa they rise. Oh, rest, Lilly', rest, &ri.

Alone, where the brook murmurs soft on the air, She sleeps with the lurf on her breast, As we laid her, at eve, in the valley so fair, 'Mid the blossoms of Summer to rest.

Oh, rest, Lilly, rest, fcc.

Japan,

In the Island of Ha-jajr-jo-she-ma. all the Emperor's clothing is made. He sends a vessel there five times a year, to bring his rich cargo to Jeddo, Some of his junks are ornamented with gold plates oh the side, and all round the bulwarks.

The most remarkable mountain is Fob-g-san. in the province of Soo roong-au it is ten miles nigh, and the top is capped with snow nine or ten months in the year, Jn June and July it is visited by great numbers of people from Jeddo, and different parts of the country the people have a great many songs in praise of it and its traditions. It is regarded sacred, and no females are allowed to ascend it.

TUB EMPEROR OF JAPAN.—The present Emperor is about twenty-one years of age his title is Thin-Kaw, which means Heaven beneath. His palace is in the city of Jeddo it is surrounded by a strong wall, and outside the wall is a deep canal, full of water bis arsenal is close to his palace, built on a mound, where he retreats in case of war, which he is always afraid of. He keeps a strong life guard around him, and when he rides out, which is very seldom. he has ten or twelve of his ministers dressed in the same uniform with himself, so no person may know him, he is so much afraid of his own subjects. *y

When he passes through the efty the people must Kneel down and keep their faces to the ground until he is out of sight they cannot even turn their heads to look at him. They have to do the same with all his Ministers of State and public officers. The principal weapon of war in Ja pan is the sword, which is lar^e and very •harp. A good swordsman ts supposed to be able to fend off ten arrows, shot at the same time, and he is thought to be able to cut a musket ball in two it he sees the man who is firing at him. Their use of the musket is as follows—it has no flint, but goes with a match which is attached to the stock they hold the musket up to the left shoulder and support it with the left hand, while they touch uoif with the right. The people are not allowed to keep Ere arms in their houses.

:lTo KJECP A STOVK BBIOHT.—If vou wish to keep a siote as bright as a coach body with only two applications a year, make weak alum water, and mix your British lu«tre *ith let the stove be cold, brush with the mixture, then taka a dry brash and dry lu«tre and rub on the More until perfectly dry. Should any part, before polishing, become so dry as to look grey moisten it with a wet brush and ptwoed as above.

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.j And to the waking morning »bqjf^¥j It* old rejoicing aong: Shall boasting error bluah to bear the *ound, And «Kulkiiig Crime shrink back with awe profound.

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Art thon the friendless orphan'# friend and stay,5 The valiant Great heart of the widow's way 1 ,, Where is thy mighty fijlcrum

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Beneath tbe suffering poor Or on the back* of Work and CBJV Who patiently endure The twining pang* of want—" the law'* delay," The dew* of night and colder sneers of day 1

Dost thou uplift the trodden down, And plead the cause of Right 7 And where the mists of error frown

Plingest thou dispersing light 1

Or art thou but an empty aounding name, A thing to acorn—a brazen trump of ahame 1

Let Folly doubt thee—Wisdom's hopes Are fondly on thee bung Without thee Justice lamely gropes, ..

And thou art Labor'a tongue

Yea, from the market-place laggards trod, Thou bast been called—a laborer for God I

'Itt other years, ere England's soil 'f Had drunk the Stuart's gqre, And ere the iron son of toil.

Trod Windsor's kingly floor—

The epic bard proclaimed his hope in thee As honor's guard and bulwark of the free. Such wert tbou here amid the night

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A/|T8IT TO THE MAMMOTH CAVE# ®T A* OLD LO-irr* WITH TWO SICK BELLE*.

Our first exploration was on Saturday morning. We loafed very pleasantly about the hotel and the grounds for the remainder of the day. After tea.'while we were chatting in the parlor, a gentleman entered and announced that a man was lost in

Cave. This announcement created a great

crossing the river. They immediately went back in search of him and they hunted for three hours and a half without success, when the visitors abandoned the search in despair, and returned to the hotel, leaving their guide behind to continue the search. We found the general opinion to be, that the lost man had fallen into the dead sea, or into some pit, for he was very near-sighted, and had got along badly. Stephen was immediately sent in to aid in the search.

About three hours afterwards, we went to the bar of the hotel to inquire for tidings of the lost man and while we were talking to the barkeeper Stephen suddenly entered the porch with the missing man in low. A crowd gathered round the pair. A dozen questions were asked ai once, and long and loud were the congratulations. The lost man was a professor from Indianapolis. He was a lover of the picturesque, and he had lingered behind in one of the wihding avenues to admire the eflect of the receding lights, He lost sight of his companions, mistook the turn, and wended his way back by a different road to the bank of the river which he had just left. Long he wandered, up one avenue and down another and twice the near-sighted professor walked over the bottomless-pit, with its narrow isthmus.— And it continually happened, that, while his companions were running along oai avenue, shouting to the lost man. the lost man was steaming it along a different avenue at full speed. At last, abandoning the hope of extricating himself, the professor lighted a fire of sticks and broken poles and he continued to walk up and down in sight of his watch-fire, until he was found by Stephen.

The Cave is so labyrinthic. and visitors straggle about so carelessly, that it is strange a great number of persons are not regularly lost in it. Yet the near-sighted professor is only the third one who has mfct with this disaster since the discovery of the Cave. The first man was lost during the time, the Cave was used for the manufacture of saltpetre the second one about fifteen years ago, and he remained in the Cave forty-eight hours, thirty-six of which he passed alone and in total darkness.

He had left his hat in the wooden-bowl he turned back by himself to get it mistook the turning, and got into a wrong avenue, walked on some distance in it. stumbled, and extinguished his lamp. He then crept behind a large slab of stone, and lay there until he was discovered by Stephen, who had once before passed and repassed his hiding-place, but the lost man was either asleep or insensible from the benumbing influence of cold, darkness, hunger, and fear.

A man lost in the Mammoth Cave must be filled with awful and terrible sensations but there is no real danger in any of the frequented avenues. You have only to keep quiet where you are. and if a party does not happen to come across you. a guide will be sent in to seek you the instant you are missed. The guides slop at regular periods to count their party.

One would expect Sunday to be a dull day at the Mammoth Cave no dressing for church, no music, no bustling preparations for descending into the Cave (the guides are worked hard and need rest, ami tney try to avoid sending in parties on Sunday). Yet we found our Sunday pass otf most pleasantly, and we have marked the day with a white stone in our memory. We loafed the whole day about the porch, listening to the talk of waiters, visitors, and guides, and propounding interminable queries about the Cave to our friend Mr. Miller. We are afraid we must have bored him sadly, but he was too polite Mid good natured to let us know it. The guides too were off dut?, and we had an opportunity of examining them at our leisure.

There are four guides to the Mammoth Gave, Stephen, Alfred, Mat,and Nicholas, all mulattoes. Stephen, as we have already staled. Will be free in two leafs the other three are slaves. Stephen has been a guide for seventeen years the other three for about fifteen years. As guides, there is no difference in the value of the four but the whole stock of fun, and vivacity, and amusing talent seems to have ben monopolized by Stephen. Ail four men are in the prime of manhood, strong as elephants, with the elastic energy and endurance of Arab steedsr in repose, theie is an appearance about them of subdued power which is very striking they look like grim lions at rest. True aa steel and brave as they are faithful, they are ready at any moment to encounter fatigue and danger, or to peril life in the service of any visitor who may place him»elfin their hands. It speaks much for their cawrand fidelity, that, notwithstanding the many thousands who hare explored the Cave, only one accident has ever occurred a] lady once dipped off a step-ladder and sprained hera&kkbadly,and had lobe carried several miles back oat of ihe Csve.

By kmg ^iiktereoarse with attdekgi*ft& ttonttttfrom world, these

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guides have all acquired high

refinement of manners,- but not the slightest arrogance or presumption is visible in them. Them is a mora! dignity in their humility and cheerful obedience. They are fine specimens of the negro race and ai they stood lounging about in easy and graceful attitudes, or tay rechoed motionless upon benches, locking

bronze statues, we contemplated them with respect and admiration. It had been arranged that on Monday we would travel through the entire Cave to the end of it. This occupies from ten to twelve hours fast walking, including attentions

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sensation. The lost man had gone in with |jeep together nntil we crossed the river 'Tilda! turn and face the ladder "hold a small party of gentlemen, and they mis- Jan(j found the united parties so cheer- fast to the rounds. Lucie mind the sed him on their way-out. shortly nfter

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the inclined planes are steep and the angles of the rocks sharp, and we heard some queer stories of disastrous consequences from rotten cloth. One young gentleman came near losing the entire garment on a steep ladder, and had to walk home swathed in borrowed handkerchiefs and holding on with both hands to what was left. In sliding down a rugged plane, the pants of another one sustained a severe solution of continuity (as the surgeons say the youth was ignorant of what had befallen him, and was amazed at the continual merriment of the ladies in the rear until he discovered, on emerging into the upper world, that he had been unconsciously perambulating for miles in the costume of the famous Giddy-giddy-gout of school-boy memory.

We started after breakfast with our two sick belles for the mouth of the Cave. On this occasion, both of them appeared in the yellow Cave costume, for Faustine's pretty bine-beard dress had lost its splendor. The old loafer-awkward 'Squire of dames" as he is—in helping her over a slippery slab on the former visit, had stumbled and pitched the little belle over on her nose into a mud-hole. Our two parties consisted of nineteen persons, exclusive of the guides of this number five were ladies. A circle of burning lamps lay on the ground. Each visitor seized one of them." Vamos! shouted Stephen, and downward moved the procession Nicholas leading and Stephen bringing up the rear. We passed onwards, through the main avenue, making the usual stops, to the Giant's Coffin turned off to the right, and descended into the deserted chambers. At Richardson's Spring we stopped to drink. Here one of the ladies sank down upon the rock, declaring that she was sick and could go no further. We prescribed a little brandy, and all the gentlemen gathered around her, exhorting her to take courage and make a further effort but her husband expressed his will so firmly that his wife should abandon the attempt, that we all desisted and Stephen laid down his basket and ran to conduct the pair back to the mouth, promising that he would overtake us at the river. They were Georgians, on their way to the North,and the lady had brought her husband a long distance out of their way in order to visit the wonderful Cave. We all sympathized with her disappointment.

We passed (fver the Bottomless Pit into Pensive Avenue, and turned off into a cfifferent one leading into the Valley of Humility, where you must stoop very low. From the Valley of Humility you enter Fat Man's Misery this is a winding passage, about one hundred feet long, generally very low. and a foot and a half wide at the bottoms Now the gaunt old loafer, with a bottle of brandy in his jacket pocket, found it a troublesome job to work through yet we were told that a lady we saw at the hotel, who weighed about, 300 pounds, had passed through this strait two days before. We looked about on the rocks for stains of blood and fragments of her flesh, but we saw none. From Fat Man's Misery you emerge into a spacious hall called Great Relief. From hence you enter the River Hall. Here you descend a steep inclined plane, and walk along a slippery ledge of rock, which slopes away down on the left to the edge of a precipice 80 feet deep, at the foot of which lies a wide, dark pool of water called the Dead Sea. It is an avfful looking place,i)ut it is safe, for the slippery ledge is protected by nn iron hand-rail. At the termination of this ledge you descend by a ladder twenty-two feet long into a rugged cavern of enormous dimensions, leading down to the banks of the river Styx. Thus far our little sick belles had gox along marvellously but the sight of the ladder terrified them, and they shrank back.— There was no remedy however the mysterious river and the wonderful grottoes lay in front, and the road to them was down this ladder. So down they went, their eyes looking bigger than ever they did before, trembling, half crying, and clinging to the ladder with the energy of infuriated kittens. This ladder is not a step-ladder, bat a common one, such as bricklayers use to mount to their scaffolds with. And Mr. Miller tells as that for steep hazardous places they had found these safer than step ladders, with a handrail the latter sort get slippery, and ladies are liable to fall from them, whereas they hang on to the rounds of a common ladder like gam Death to a dead nigger you could not tear them off with the cap-1 stan of a steamer.

The rules of etiquette are liberally interpreted in the Cave. You immediately get intimate!? acquainted with every member of your party. The whole stock of ladies are held by the gentlemen tn coparcenary. is the lawyers sa awrers say. You constantly help the lady who happens to be nearest you. You pull her up to the top of the big boulder* you stand tip-toe, reach up your haad, and lead her along the ifitperr rook ledges: and when she down:

like anugse' kaps ddwn you receire her in your arms.

stoppages. Again Mr. Miller made us up ladies on to the ladders, and direct their a pleasant and safe party, under the charge downward descent: others stand below to of Stephen. But as another party of la- receive them: and phrases of encouragedies and gentlemen was going in, under ment or warning are eagerly shouted by a

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And the gentlemen learn to call all the ladies by their Christian names, as if they had been born and raised in the same household. It is especially at the long ladders that the gentlemen intensify their

that we kept altogether broken round there. Lizzie!" fec.

during the whole day. As the journey is -At the foot of this ladder, some of our a long one. each guide carries, strapped party hurled large fragments of rock into to his back, a can of lard oil to replenish Dead Sea: the sounds, as the stones the lamps, and a basket of refreshments, (struck the sides of the precipice, and The gentlemen prepare their costume with plunged with a sullen roar into the black more care* You can hire a flannel round- waters below, were awful. about and cap from.the servants but any

Some stand above to lift the

Kicholas. be advised us to dozen voices at once—•• no danger, Miss

hen we paPSed the rjver

mind soiling will answer. N. B. -e 1a I scended a slope, and found ourselves on ., scenaea a slope, the pants are not rotten as well as old, for

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ake Lethe. At this point

we were rejoined by Stephen. Here we all stood, peering out into the darkness ahead, while the guides were engaged in bailing out the boat, an operation which took some time. There are now five boats in all. kept on the Cave rivers. The smallest are capable of holding five or six persons each the largest one will carry twentv. The smaller boats are constructed of poplar logs dug out they are made in two pieces, which are put together on the river bank. The largest boat is built of plank. These boats all leak badly, and we were told they had never succeeded in making them light. They are shaped like a ferry-boat, with bottoms perfectly flat. Our party crossed Lethe in sections of four or five at a time, each one standing upright, the ladies holding on to the gentlemen. Then we landed on a sandy beach, and traveled on over piles of stones and sand hi|ls to Echo river. Here the large boat awaited us under a low-browed arcn. The boat was bailed out, and. under the orders of Stephen, all cautiously embarked, and seated themselves—the ladies in a heap on a plank across the middle of the boat, the gentlemen along the gunwales. Nicholas stationed himself in the bow, and Stephen, with the paddle, in the stern. We were nineteen in all and the boat rode down to within an inch and a half of the water. Off we glided under the low arch, which scraped the tops of our heads the ceiling rapidly rose, and we turned into a lofty hall. We had a ?dim view of the distant sides of the cavern. „but above and before us was a black void.

We felt rather queer upon first launching out upon the shadowy pool, and all sat motionless in solemn silence. Presently Stephen told us we were in deep water. And now, resting on his paddle, he awoke the echoes of the cavern by striking up a stanza of a beautiful song. Stephen has a capital tenor voice, and sings with taste. The effect was very fine. There is an echo in this cave which gave name to the river. Echo river is about half a mile iu length and it took us some time to cross it. As we floated along. Stephen sang us several airs. (Parties often bring in the hotel band with them to play on the water.) Sometimes the pool spread out under overhanging cliffs into dark, deep recesses sometimes we floated past islauds formed by piles of huge rocks which arose above the surface once we rounded a huge promontory. At length we^touched the strand on the further, shore and all gladly hurried out upon terra firma no one but a guide feels quite at his ease in a heavily-laden boat on that dark, dismal P°°5, iW

The"so 'called rivers of the Mammoth Cave are pools filling the bottoms of caverns. They are perfectly still water, and have no visible outlet or inlet though of course they must have some communication with (Jreen river, as the pools rise and fall with this stream, and it has been ascertained by the barometer that the Cave rivers are exactly on the same level with Green River. The first two pools, the Styx and Lethe, are really but one pool separated by a mass of rocks which has fallen from above. Each of them is about 150 yards long. Echo river is a distinct piece of water and much longer. The three pools together, with the intervening land, are said to be three quarters of a mile in length. Lethe is a very deep pool, over twenty feet at its lowest stage. Echo river is shallow at each end, but during the greater patt of its course it is ten to twenty feet deep, and it has some deep holes in its bed. The sides of thecavern are precipitous.so thapa landing could only be got at each end. or on one of the islands of rocks which arise out of it« bed* It is in ibis river that the eyeless fish are caught.

About eighteen months ago. a boat was sunk on Echo river containing a wedding party from Bowlinggreen They were on their return from the nd of the Cave.— They bad got out some distance from the shore, when one of the party exclaimed that the boat was sinking the ladies sprung up in terror, and one of them made an effort to leap out the gentlemen all rushed to prevent her, and down went the boat ftke a stone, with its living freight, plunging the lights into the water, and leaving the party in total darkness Luckily this happened where the river was only three feet deep. Nicholas was the guide in charge. He got the whole party on to a platform of rocks which arose out of the water close by. Then be felt about for the boat, raised it to the surface, bailed it out with his hat, got the whole party reembarked in it, pushed it straight across to the opposite wall of the cavern along his war hack to the landtag'

tehieh he icg place ihey had just left Here he got h& whole party out upon the be^ch. and! drew then together in a group to await the arrival of relief. It came speedily for Mr. MiBer. finding that green mer was rising fast, bad sent in Stephen to arrange the b«ta and hurrv tb« partv out And the joyful light of Stephen's lamp bore in

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The room was filled with melody the most sublime a choir of angel voiceB seemed discoursing heaven's choicest harmony, while the well-known raps responded in tones of sweetest unison to these enchanting strains. Slowly and sweetly did the music of the spheres recede, until the listening ear could only catch its lingering cadence in the distance. Oh, it was a happy glimpse of immortality, and dull, indeed, must be the soul that would not have responded to the joyful call. But as yet, the most startling part of the phenomenon is to be told. After the medium had again been permitted to resume her place in the circle, we were directed to open the window, and take our places by the table again as usual.

After \ve had sat there for a few seconds, the table began to vibrate violently—so much so. indeed, that we Were compelled to break the circl«, and mark in silence the new development. Long had we not waited before it became suddenly quiet, and, rising gently from the floor, it passed out of the window without a human hand being on on it^.It was thus, and while the table yet remaiued outside, rapped out:— "Take it in,"—an order wfe immediately proceeded to obey but judge our astonishraent? when we found that the table could not be again, brought back, its narrowest width being more than eighteen inches wider than the window through which I aver it passed.

SHOCKING SIGHT.—Yesterday mornidg officer Kose was called into Lodge alley, between Gano and Sixth, by the residents of that vicinity, to examine the circumstances of a poor family. He went, and found a widow woman, dead drunk, lying on a bed. a child two or three years old lying dead beeide her, all shriveled and cramped, and another child, four or five years old. crawling over the mother, and crying at ibe top of its voice for something to eat. There was not an article of food or drink in the house, except a bottle of whiskey on tbe table. The dead child had apparently been starved to death! The living child was fed and clothed by tbe neighbors, the dead child buried stnd tbe mother left alone in the full enjoyment of the glorious liberty guaranteed to her by our laws and constitution. Would it be anv infringement of that liberty to have the living child taken from ber by the authorities, and properly cared for ?—On. Gazette.

•'Watchman, spare thai jug. Touch not a. single drop. It aerred me many a tug, and I will be it# prop, 'Twaa my forefather's hand that placed it in bis cot. There, watchman, let it stand—tliy club shall harm it not. That old familiar jog, whose credit and renown* are known to many a mug, and wouldst thou smash it down Watchman, forbear thy blow— break not its earth-brown elay no* make the liquor flow, but let the old jug.stay.'*

The watchman could not stand so powerful aa appeal, and aflfer leaving a pamphlet of tbe Maine liquor Saw, used next day for shaving papers, he took his departure.

sight within fifteen minutes of the time .qf their return to shore. During the winter and spring months, the Cave rivers are generally too high to the following. According to this statement— navitrale. and the caves bevond are then fixing the length of the road at two thousand inaccessible. From May to November

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A correspondent of the New York Tribune relates the following tough story: On the evening of Sunday,

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The Pacific Railroad»Hlflilf Interesting- Calculations. We are indebted to the New York Herald for

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the rivers can generally be crossed, and 2^ will cost $S16 15 to run a train through, carparties run no risk of being shut up by a rying two hundred passengers, at twenty miles sudden rise. A small rise, by filling the an hour, equivalent to the cost of the fifth part low arch at this end. will prevent their jof a cent per mile per passenger Assuming. .. ion the other hand, an average of four hundred embarking or landing at the usual place ]vweagnt

the greatest length of any cal-

11 1 iculation vet made from the Mississippi river—

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but then they can pass in and out of the the through ticket, a clear profit over the excavern of Echo river, by a side gallery, penses of the year—including the interest upcalled jPurgatorv, running parallel to the on one hundred millions foMhe construction .. j—.

river. This is a muddy and unpleasant uiion9of dollars. The revenues from mails, avenue to travel, but perfectly safe. A rise of twelve feet.'however, close up Purgatory. and seals up the caves beyond the river until the water falls. Green river sometimes rises near fifty feet perpendicular above low-water paark, and all these lower caves must then be full to the roofs. The guides know the river so well that they will not permit parties to pass over when there is the smallest risk of a high rise. Should Visitors be caught in the caves beyond the river at the beginning of a great flood in Green river of long continuance, they must perish, as no other mode of access to these caves, except by the river, has as yet been discovered.w ids#" /. Spiritual Manifestations,4,

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circle assembled as usual, for the purpose of holding intercourse with those departed from our earthly sphere. Seating ourselves in the usual order, we had not been joined in the chain of harmonial brotherhood longer than fifteen minutes when our medium (Miss Austin) gave indications of approaching friends. Calmly awaiting their first manifestations, we sat attentively watching her movements, when all at once, and to the no small astonishment of those present, she gradually commenced rising from her seat, and rose until she had assumed a position over the table, at an altitude of five feet from the floor. In this position she remained for some time, until she was gradually lowered to within one-sixteenth of the table, when the following directions were spelled out by raps: "Take your hands off the table, move back from it three feet then join hands and form a complete circle." In accordance with this, we moved to the positions assigned us, when the medium was again raised to her former position, the table following at the aforesaid distance. In this position they remained suspended, until the medium was, by the same invisible power, brought to a position directly under "the table." And now commenced one of the grandest and most awe-inspir-ing scenes it has ever been the lot of human eye to witness.

at sixty dollars each for

of the road—is made out, of upwards of two

freights, gold, army,.and navy transportation, including men, horsey, provisions, and munitions q{ war, would, perhaps, more than double the passenger receipts, including the way traffic to and from the intermediate seuleruents, which would instantly spriug up along the whole route, gladdening the waste places and making the desert literally to blossom like.lho tose:

THE PACIFIC RAILROAD/

Estimate* of Mr. Norris of the cost of construction, locomotives, cars, and ptrsontUe of the road, and the net profits thereof. A

Estimate of cost for running* a pas^lnifer train from St. Louis to San Francisco—say 200 passengers, distance 2,000 miles—the train consisting of— 4 first-cUss passenger cars, $8,000 1 baggage car 1.500 1 mailcar •, 1,500 1 22-ton engine and tender,....... 8,500

The train to run the average rate of 20 miles per hour including stoppages performing the whole distance of 2,000 miles in 100 hours 13 locomotives will bo required for this duty, each locomotive Yunning 153 84 100 miles, which will be considered a day's duty, with new sets of hands for each locomotive) the cars to run through. Wages of 13 engineers, 153 84-100 miles,. $3 00 $39 00 Wages of 13 firemen 1 50 19 50

Dos £,,•»*., 1 conductors 2 00 2f 00 Dos{ bnggage-masters,... 1 25 16 25 Do brakesmen, 1 00 13 00 Wood for fuel and firing up, 63 7-10 cords 2 00 127 40 Water used, 60,000 gallons, 10c. sff per 6 00 Oil for engine and tender, 19 6 10 gallons 1 25 24 50 Oil and greese for cars, Repairs and renewal of engine awl tender, 9c. per mile Repairs and refitting cars, 9c per mile, Hands at depot and extra engines. Interest on first cost of 13 engines and tenders and fl cars, allow, iiig 6 days for a trip,

7 10

160 00

180 00 75 00

'145 80

Total, $860 15 Now $860 15 is the full cost of running a passenger train of 200 passengors 2,000 miles, which includes every expense of motive power, with interest on cost of engines and cars.— The surp of nine cents is nearly tWo cents per mile more than the average cost per mile for repairs,of locpiuotivei on the roads of the United State?. The wages are high, and the wood $2 00 per Cord.

Cost per passenger of 2,000 miles Is $4 30 or a small fraction oucr 2 mills per mile for each passenger.

The revenue from the road would be as fol lows, allowing only four hundred passengers per day. This would give in a year 146,000 passengers at $60, $8,760,000, Allow $50,000 per m\le, of road, equipped and ready for use —2,000U)iles, nt$50,000 per mile, $100,000,000 Interest on cost of road, «fec., at 6 per cent-, $6,000,000 00 Cost of runuing 700 trains per year, 627,909 50

Total,....:./! $6,627,909 50 Add superintendence, office expenseB, 30,000 00

Total, $6,657,909 50 Revenue for 400 passengers daily 8,760,000 00

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Revenue over and above 6 per cent $2,107,909 50 From this estimate, the road would pay 8 1-10 per cent, on a Capital of $100,000,000, for passengers alone. In all cases, large allowance of only four hundred passengers daily between the two points—St. Louis and San Francisco—is alow estimate of travel. The revenue froni freights, mails, and gold would swell the receipts to a fnuch larger amount. And I have no hesitation in saying that the road, if built, will pav as well, if not better, than any of the New York roads. ,• y,

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THE ITOCND OF LIFE.—Life' Is,Ma ef'rete without beginning or end. If in explaining the process by which blood is formed from food, I begin with chewing the food, and its being mixed with saliva, I have stumbled at the very outset upon a progress of secretion. The blood makes saliva, and the saliva helps to make blood. So it is every where. The blood makes gastric juice, and the gastric helps to convert food into blood. This is the fact, also, even with regard to the active force which presides over these processes. The vital force, ganglionic nervous power, stimulates nutritive matter, and vitalizes it into the living fluid blood—but it is the blood that nourishes tbese nerves, and gives vital force. The blood makes the nerves, and the nerves make the blood. So the blood builds up and nourishes the heart, arteries, and veins that carry it over the system. And we shall find to a greater or less degree this reciprocity of influences extend to all the processes of life.—JitoUrie Anthropology.

A MOST SISGDLAR AFFAIR.—TheSpring field, (0.) Exposilor has tbe following

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Ti*e Pacific Rallroad»-A Novel Idea. A writer in the Scientific American pro* poses to build the great Paci6c Railroad, not on the ground, but about eight feet above it. He would have the whole distance piled, and on these piles he would place the roadway. The idea is a novel one, and if a railroad could be built equally strong on this plan as on any other, we do not see what is to prevent the pile-dri-ver from triumphing over the barrow and pick-axe. grant that there be no objection to the strength and longevity of such road, and it possesses advantages that place it far in advance of any other mode of construction.' In the first place, it would be free from dust secondly, it Would never become obstructed by snow-drifts' thirdly, it would be somewhat springy in its nature, and thus allow locomotives to make better time with less wear and tear than the experience on roads made perfectly solid. That a road buiit on piles can be rendered practicable, is shown by our Hudson river Railroad people. Between Albany and New York there are some twenty miles over which the rails are laid on piles. Just below Hudson there is one single stretch of uwards of four miles. This portion of the road wears as well as any other while its entire freedom from dust nr.akes it one of the most pleasant pieces of the whole route.

The projector of the pile road proposes also another improvement. Instead of placing cars above the rails, he intends to let them hang between them. By means of a properly-shaped axle this is vt-ry easily done, and when it is done one hundred miles an hour can be made without any fear whatever that the cars will fly from the track or bring up in a gravel pit. A road built upon piles, the Scientific American says, can be constructed for §10,000 per mile. If this be so, it would make the whole cost of the New York and San Francisco railroad less than thirty millions of dollars, which is some seventy millions of dollars less than a road can bo built for on any other known plan. A road resting on piles would have very little grading to do. "Where the land declined, the level could be preserved by driving the piles a smaller distance into the earth where the land ascended, the same level could be preserved by driving the piles into the soil an increased distance -vr —itfiim-mm

WHY MR. BUCHANAN NEVER MARRIED.— A correspondent of the New Haven Palladium, writing from Lancaster, Pa.,briefly records the reason "A short distance from the city is the country residence of Hon. James Buchanan, American ambassador to the court of St. James. Its general appearance at once indicates that no fair hand is there to train the creeping vines or budding roses to their befitting place—as you are awnre that the honorable gentleman still remnins in single blessedness 1 The story is briefly told. Paying his addresses to a young and beautiful lady of this city, each became deeply enamored, and they were en* gnged. On a given evening, she requested his company to a party at a friend's, which he declined on the plea of business engagements. Circumstances rendering it necessary, he. late in the evening, gallanted a young lady to her home, and on the way—they met. Mortified and, chagrined at what she deemed unfaithfulness and desertion, and imagining the worst, she left the city caily in the morning, and returned, a corpse. Such is the sad story of bis early love, nor can the high places of distinction and trust make him forget, nor the wreaths of honor that encircle bis brows bury the memory of the early

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few days since, occurred under the follow- Qt'tea MABRIAOE Jud^ ingdrcamatances: |L. V. Pith*, in giving a history of Greeny TTbe Squire for some causp, was whip- township, Summit county, relates tbe lo ping bis dog, when the dog tamed upon lowing traditional marriage ceremony used |lt?. and caught him bv the throat.—] in ®oleinnt2ing the marriage of the firstf

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ed and lost ivl. sj -t I How IT FEELS TO HAVE THE YELLOW FK& VBR.—A correspondent from New Orleans, who appears to understand the nature of the terrible epidemiu, thus graphically pictures it forth

The strong sinued man sleeps at night revelling in beautiful dreams, but as be awakes in the morn, nil the fires of a"vol® cano seem concentrated in his burning brain, His face grows haggard with its intense suffering. His eyes revolve in their orbits with glaring vivacity. YeK low streaks over-spread his features in A moment, as if dashed there by a coarse brush dipped in gall. Sharp pangs tremble in his marrow. His blood throbs like lightning, as hot and quick in every bursting vein, and then a whirlwind of the wildest delirium wraps bis soul in dreams oi tire- Ob! this is the Yellow fever! ———•Mi I

A lad from the "Green Isle," whose ocf enpation was that of blacking stoves, fir«i' places and stove pipes, bearing upon hi* arm a pot of blacking, with brushes and other implements of his trade, addressed a denizen of tbe city who was standing at his door:

Has your honor any stoves to polish this morning I'm the boy for that busi-^ ness."

The person addressed not being of a courteous manner, gruffly answered "Go about your business."

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