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BY QrteW1 1etters frm Europ e. " ST. PETER'S. ' Rom, Saturday, Jane 29, 1S51 . T Pr' ne '"K8 f edifices, having (V no rt!l,ian ,0 olner master -pieces of hair.... that the treat cataract bears to. nth. . ;t..tr!I effects of Divine power. In either .k first vie disappoints, because, the perries of symmetry dims the consciousnes of .:.... and the total absence of eumn KITS a o o it th details forbids the conception of vCe Is th aggregate. In viewing Lon..ci Punl's. von have a realization of hnla QC-1 - ' wV.ehSlFeter'sdoes not give, yet St. Paul's k bat rt St Petr'- I do not laow that the resemblance has been noticed by etV.MS.Mwtfroi-circie oi gigantic yet admiivi. vrt'.oili pillars which encloses th. mirBi " v . wn.m fa front of St Peter's reminds me. "-" iy f Ae general conformation of our great . .1 k . Ka itnlnmii . .W1:1. s . 1 w;ter oi me sjuic v iiitii tuiumn is a mistake, ry kamble judgment, and should be recjw; M' a parallel in the "msighUy tower ttr!ookiDf the main cataract from the extreme . T.I ) T-. . ( pcijtet vjmi ibiouu. eternal endurance and mav oe cuy typihed bv the oceans and itvw-triwniouniaios, do i power and eaergy . i . i tzi their bett expression in the cataract and th dome. Time and Genius may produce i-Vwatrnclares as admirable in their own wav ...... j til rjviiiia connection with their uses: but . I. . r . . ... r.mw.asa mpie ci reter s wm ever stand anmatched and inapproachable. I those the early morning for my first visit. The Ay ae c'eudless, as it mainly is here save ia winter, bst the day was not yet warm, for the tummer n!ghta are cooler here than in New Y -k, and the current English talk of the excesi;t heat which prevails tn Rome at this season h calcalated to deceive Americana. No one fails tc realiie from the first the great beauty and acninWe accessories of this edifice, with the far Kretching but quite other than lofty pile of the Vatican on its right and Its own magnificent ttioonace in front, but yon do not feel that it is lofty, nor spacious, cor anything but perfect. Yoa ascend the steps, and thus gain some Idea f lbs immensa proportions prevailing throughut;fotti church seems scarcely at all elevated above the square, and yet many are the steps lesdiof sp to the cocrs. Crossing a Brand norrh with so a.-chec- roof of glorious mosaic, yon find yourself intfieboy of the edifice, which now seemi large and lofty indeed, tut by no means SDptraHe'ed. Bot yon walk on and on, between opppoeing pillars th- grandest the world ever "w.the space at either side between any two pillars coaetituiinj a separate chapel with its r-Seoosa!tar, its grand pictures in mosaic, iu eulptared saints and angeN.each of these chap!i having a larger area than any church I ever tatered in America; and by the time yon have walked slowly and oberving!y to the front of the main altar you realiie profoundly that Earth has nothing else to match with St Peter's. No "titer though another church were twice as h-re, and erected at a cost of twice Thirty Million of dollars and fiftv vt.,-j-j .i... St Pfter s weald still stand unrivaled. For every cetatl h so marvelously symmetrical that no one iwart-d, no one challentrM P! Pr" hacred distinct parts, any one by itself -.a command your pro foondest admiration, ""'ryining around and beyond It is no less and you soon cease to wonder and re main to appreciate and enjoy. ,m .i.v.1 ui me oay 10 ftl reter's, seI 't sader many different aspects, but no other of the Interior is equal to that presented in stillness and comoarativa ilin. r ,. "fly morning. The presence of multitudes does uta 1 a your consciousness of its immensity, tea thousand persons occupy no consideratru0B 01 and might very easily be pre" J w holly Invisible to one who stood ? icaide the entrance and looked -earchingiy ttwga th, body of the edifice to fin. them; bat thsre sre usually very few Mt9f thog) for the privileged, so that hundreds are constanty wovlng fr6m pItc, ,0 pI-ce, whch ihttwta i ZZ0 '"'r ,h fe,iDe of "P delighted ,we which the naked strnctnre is c.lcnwi to intpire. Go very early some bright rnmer morning If y0, would see St Peter's in "ca m and ttatel y grandeur. I ascended to the roof, and thence to the snmof the dome, but, apart from profounder eonsaousn, of the vastnMS ,n1 minhhpn, petuon. of the edifice, thi. is of little worth.V,Tr !, ",ire ci,y s,d iU 'httrh a f.Hy beneath and around you; but so they o from the tower of the Capitol. View, from manano.pj ,ihtl , n V. The ascent, however, a. far a. the roof, Wd,7 "y ther 1 tTer fonnd wilfaia a Instead of at.irs, hero is , complete TcLT 'of .mountain, than ev l ' . Ti'W to obtined, howJ. hich richly compensates for the fatigue 11 b 0,81 tnm the iteriorof the into the body of the Church below. xL, ;Vny PrWent but I never "W to have another like this. Ihad peonal evidence of the mean, .rJ?!, Wherewill Pob'fc edifices Wed by too many, and the absolute noef constant, omnipresent watchfulness Tiva em fr0m w"t0B dil'pMetion to.scendVTCh",dier" h Permitted .-.cod metimew,,h me- a i Poi-t into the a.i of these soldiers camo in on WV Coir,, i.j ... ... f see th 1 """".'ooking around kJ:" was present but a stranger,' fcrceTri. y0't ha wore 091 of ita neh, ! ll(c, J Pried out one of the eqoare' tin ok".81"01, oomesnch stone of which aadeV i P0.?'' 't n " pocket and ! tfc, E 1 Ud no that he wonid deface ! iuti'v 8Btl1 A "aoraent h o'J then ! W . r " on h or,.-' WuV0" thl tw" lrehad preceded : ?!o t? J'" f C00n' bot of hi. fti- , comrsde of hlndred spirit, and T" ''"P14 to imitet sntil the mis'oat becomes sufficienUy serious to attract "Hob, ead th,B Nobody havs , wrioiij -em8 to encounter. A few acta of uaob-

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. inn a ram a j- . -.Bu. Q,ras,er. m an edifice like "us. there should be no point accessible to visitor, nnwatched by a faithful guardian even for In the afternoon. I attended the Celebration of High Mass. this beinu nW4 .u. ..r. . lie world a. St Peter's Day. .d the Popehiin. j - o ..u.ui. iui ID' , ; vuKiaung in the rrt r.i.-i , ..or uie service, I could not profit by it ... pcV:iacie impressed me unfavorably , Such a multiplicity of eDeara anri K,.nn... - a J mav ia vTTTVJIII ....ugc.y ui oi ceepmg in a place of nmlllPi lny oeiong here, why not bring in regiment of horse and park of artillery as 1 "ere is ample room for them in St Pe ter's, and the cavalry mieht charm nA iK noniers fire a few volley, with little harm to the building, and with great increase both to the uuraoers and me interest of the audience. I am not pretending to judge this for others, but simply to state how it naturally strikes one educated i n the simple, sober observance, of Puritan New England. I hays heard of Protestants being converted in Rome, but it seem tn th. very last place where the great body of those educated in really Protestant ways would be lit .eiy xo uncergo conversion. I have seen very mi ucu nrre 10 acmire, and there is donbtU ma any times more such that I hftr-aa tint mum .1 1 - . . . mo rnaicai antagonism of Catholic and Protestant ideas, observances and tendencies never before Stood out in liiht SO clear and that ahed upon it by a few days in Rome. I obtained admission yesterday to the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican, and saw there, among the paintings In fresco, a representation of the death of Admiral Collgny at the Massacre of St Bartholomew; and ifthia were not intended to express approval of that horrible massacre, 1 would like to know what was meant by havine . " 11 pmniea and placed there. ut to return to St Peter's. Tha antnM r the grand procession from the Vatican was a very slow process. In its rank, were the Noble UMra' "o Swiss tioard, the Cardinals, and many other divisions, each in it. own imposing and picturesque costume. At length came the Pope, borne in a magnificent chair on a r; platform or palanquin, the whole borne on the shoulders of some ten or twelve servitors. This was a capital arrangement for us strangers, who wished a good view at Hi. Holiness; but I am sure It waa very disagreeable to him, and that ne would much rather have walked like the rest. He passed into the church out nf m .tnhi dismounted, and I (having also entered) next saw him approach one of the altars on the right, where he knelt and silently prayed for some minutes. He waa then borne onward t l,throne at the further end, and the aervice com menced. . i ne singing of the Mass was vrv ruwl Tkrope s reading I did not htar, nor was I near enough even to see him except fitfully. 1 think - j purrr . ere more man hve thousand persons present.lncluding a thousand priesta and a thousand soldiers. There would doubtless have h.n many more, but for ihe fact that a smart shower occurred just before and at the hour (5 o'clock,; while no public notice had been given that the Pope would officiate. In the evening St Peter', and its accessories were mum.nated-by far the most brilliant spec tacle I ever saw. All was dark mnA t:u at the first stroke of the bell, light flashed from nunorea thousand bnrners.and the entire front of the Church and Dome, no to its verw m.;i of its spire, was one magnificent galaxy, while UQUO, ot glgantie pillars or columns surrounding thesqnare was in like manner radiant with jets of flame. I thought the architecture of St Peter's Rome', greatest glory when I had only seen it by daylight, yet it now seemed more wondrous still. The Bell rang sweetly and stirringly throughout the evening.and there was alike illumination on the summit of the Pinclsn Hill, while most of the shops and dwellings displayed at least one row of bornins- candW .n bonfires blaxed brightly in the street", which were alive with moving animated groups, while the square of St Peter's and the nearest bridges over the Tiber were black with excited thou sands. To-aicht we hav tirli r ,i.. Pincian in honor of St Peter, which nnli k. thought in New-England an odd way of honoring an Apostle, especially on Sunday evening; but whether Rome or Boston is right on this point, is a question to bo pondered. r a P S Moxdav. I did not see the Fir.1VrV. last evening, but almost every one else in Rome did, and the unanimous verdict nrnnnnn. t admirable extraordinary. Great preparations naa oeea made, and the success mnt perfect to win so general and hearty a commendation. The display was ushered in by a rousing salute of artillery; but this waa not needed to assemble in and around the Piazza del Popolo all the population of Rome that could be spared from their homes. The Piaxxa ia the m.i square of Rome, iu front of the Pincian Hill, whence the rockets, wheels, stars, serpents, &c, were let off. The display was not concluded till after 10 o'clock. Thia day I have devoted to famona nrivat galleries of Paintings and Sculpture.having been again disappointed in attempting to obtain a sight of the Apollo Be I v id ere and picture Galiery oi ma aucan. 1 he time for opening these treasures to the public ha. lately been changed from 10 a at to noon, and they are only open regularly on Mondays; so that I was there a little before noon to be ready; but after waiting (with many others) a full hour, in front or an Inexorable gate, without being able to learn why wo were snut out or when the embargo would cease, I grew weary f the uncertainty and waste of time, and left. A little past one, (I now understand,) the gate was opened, but too late for me, aa I did not return, and leave Rome for Florence to-morrow. Had the simplest notice beeen given that such a delsy would take place or had the officers at the gate been able to give any information, I ahould have had different luck. 'They manage these thing better in France.' s TBI! ROTIAKH OF TO-DAY. Roxm, Monday Jane 30 1851. The common people of Rome generally seem to me an intelligent, vivacious, convivial race, and I can readily credit the assurance of wellinformed frienda.lhat tVy are mentally superior to meat other Italians- It may be deemed

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BltOOKVILLE, strange that any other result should be thought -..co ,ne very earth arouad them, with all it bears, ia so vivified with the spirit of Heroism, of Genius, and of whatever is most memorable in History. But the legitimate influences of Nature, of Art, and of Ancestry, are often overborne by those of institutions aud Laws, aa is now witnessed on all the eastern and aouthern coasts of the Mediterranean, and I was rather disappointed in finding the poorest Roman, a race of fully average capacities, intellecu.l and physical. A face indicating mental imbecl.ty, or even low mediocrity, is very rarely met in those street,, where the greater portion or the Romans seem to work and live The women are brown. P:ain,bare headed and rather careless of personal appearance, but ready at repartee, self-possessed, energetic, with flashing eye. and countenances often indicating a depth of emotion and characte r. I do not think ..-I. pictures as abound in Rome could have been painted where the women were common-place and unideal. But al! with whom I can converse, and who are qualified to speak, by residence in the country give unfavorable account, of the moral qualities of the Romans especially ;and in these qualities I include Patriotism and all th. civic virtue..That Italian, and those of Rome especially, are quite generally eensual, selfish, indolent, fickle, dishonest, vicious, is the general report of the foreigners residing among them. Zealoua Protestants will readily account for it by their Catholicism. My own prepossessions naturally lead me to the conclusion that much of the religion, machinery in operation here is unfavorable to the development of high moral character. Whatever the enlightened and good may mean by these obeervences, it doe. not seem to me that the ignorant and vulgar understand that the evil consequences of pleasant sins maybe cheaply avoided by a liberal use of holy water, by bowings before the alter and reverent conformity to ritual, and ceremoniea. This is certainly the great danger (in my sight) of the Catholic syetem-that it may lead its votaries to esteem conformity to outward and ceremonial requirements as essential meritorinn. some sense an offset for violation, of the moral law. Not that this error is by any mean, confined to Catholics, for Christendom i. full of Protestants who, though ready enough to proclaim that kissing the toe of St Peter', statue is a poor atonement for violating the Commandments, and Adoration ef the Virgin a very bad ur .usuiy, do yet themselves prefer bad Christians to good Infidels, end would hail wtinjoy the conversion of India or China to meir creed, though it should involve no im nrovrmanl nf nk..i -. . - av.ir or n ie. i Know every n n.. V . 1 1 . 1 . ' iicym wimisucii conversion would Inevitrbly result in amendment of heart and morals, bnt how many desire it mainly for that .nni How large a proportion of Protestants esteem it the great end of Religion to make its votaries better husbands, brothers, children, neighbors, kindred, citixene? To my Protestant eyes, it seems that the general error on thi. point is more prevalent and more vital at Rome than elsewhere; and 1 have been trying to recollect, among all the multitude of Paintings, Mosaic and Statuary I have seen here, representing St Peter in Prison, St Peter on the Sea of Galilee, St Peter healing the Cripple, St Peter raising the Dead, Peter receiving the Keys, St Peter suffering Martyrdom, &c. &c. (some of them many times over,) I have any where met with a representation of that most remarkable beneficlent vision whereby the Apostle was instructed from Heaven that "Of a truth, God ia no respector of persons, but in every nation he that tearet.1 llimand worketh righteousness is accepted with Him." I persume such a representation must exist in a city where there are so many hundreds If not thousands of pictures of St Peter doing, receiving or suffering; but this certainly is not a favorable subject here, or I should have seen it many times depicted. Who knows a Protestant city in which the aforesaid lesson given to Peter has been adequately dwelt on and heeded? That the prevalence of Catholicism Is not inconsistent with general uprightness and purity of morals is demonstrated in Ireland, In Switxerland.in Belgium, in the Tyrol and elsewhere. The testimony of the great body of travelers and other observers with regard to thecountries just named, affirms the general prevalence therein ot tnose virtues which are the basis of the family and the church. And yet, the acknowledged state of things here is a grave fact which challenges inquiry and demands explanation. In the very metropolis of Catholic Christendom where nearly alt beleive, and a great majority are at least ceremonially devout where many of the best intellects in the Catholic communion have flourished and borne away for more than fifteen centuries, and with scarcely a divided empire for the last thousand years where Churches and Priest, have long been more abundant than on any other spot of earth, and where Divine worship and Christian ordinances are scarcely intermitted for an hour, bot are free and welcome to all, aud are very generally attended what is the reason that corruption and degeneracy should be so fearfully prevalent? If only the enemies of Rome's faith affirmed this degeneracy, we might fairly suppose it invented r exaggerated; but even the immediate Priest- i hood of this people, who may be presumed most unwilling and unlikely to deny their virtues or magnify their vices, declare them unfit to bet trusted with power over their own political destines, and indeed incapable of self-government. Such is the fundamental basis and essential justification of the rule now maintained in Rome, under the protection of foreign bayonets. This is a conquered city, virtually if not nominally in a state of siege, without assignable period. The Pope's guards are partly Swiss and partly native, that is, chosen from the families of the Nobility; but the 'power behind the throne' is maintained by the thousands of French soldiers who garrison the city, and the tens of thousands of Austrian, Spanish and Neapolitan soldier, who would be pushed here upon the first serious attempt of the Romans to assert their right of self-government- Thus, 'Order reigns in Waraw, while democracy bitea its lip and bide. it. time. Has Human Nature degenerated under Christian rain nitrations? There surely waa a Roman people, some twenty odd centuries ago, who

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were capable of self-government, and who main-1 lained it long and creditably. Why should it be otherwise with the Rnm.n. r i j. ' not believe it is. Thev I... .t ; r vl iv-uaj i i ,3 j v itcp a. ou II! II forall testimony affirms it; that thev miirlit somewhat abuse Freedom 1 fear, for the blessed sunshina U nainf.,1 .-J . M u it ii npri nn, in At-na inn to eyes long used to the gloom of the dungeon. R,t ih. -Ji""K perience or Freedom must tend to dispel the ' ignorance and correct the errors of its votaries, while Slavery only leads from bad to worse. If! xen centune. ofsi.ch rule as now prevails here have nowise qualified ihla people for selfe is there that ten government what rational hon, more such would do it? If rr.m oe enecled, it cannot be commenced too soon, As to the actual government of Rome and ', her dependencies, it could not well be worse.' The rulers Tully understand that they are under ! no obligation In ih. ..!- r .l- .. i " iui mo power mey exercise, nor for the submission which it com - mands. The despotism whirh prevails i. unmodified even by the hereditary despot's natural uosire 10 secure the throne to his descendants by cultivating the good will of his people. The Pope is nominally sovereign, and all regard him aa personally a pure aud good ma an; but he uo Power in the Stale, his time and thoughts being wholly devoted to the various and complicated cares of his vast Spiritual empire. Meantime, the Reactionist influences o omnipotent with hi. predecessor, but which were repressed for a time after the present Pontiffs accession, have unchecked sway in the political administration. The way the present rulers of Rome read History is this "Pius IX. came into power a Liberal and a Reformer, and did all he could for the promotion of Republican and Progressive ideas: for all which his recompense was the assassination of his Prime Minist ...J U: . . I uu ... owu personal expulsion from his mrone and territories which is quite enough of Liberalism for one generation; we, at least, will have no more of it." And they certainly live up to their resolution. It I. enrrently reported that there are now Seventeen Thousand political prisoner, confined here, but nobody who would tell can know how many there are, and I persume this statement is a gross exaggeration, significant only as an Index of the popular leeling. The essential fact is that there mlgh, be Seventeen or Seventy Thousand thus imprisoned without publicity, known accusation or trial.'save at the convsnienceofthose ordering their arrest; and with no recognized right of the arrested to Habeas Corpus or any kindred process. Many of the best Roman, of the age are in exile for Liberty's sake. 1 waa reliably informed at Turin that there are at this time Three Hunered Thousand Political Refugee. In the Kingdom of Sardinia, nearly all, of course, from the despotisms of Lower Italy. Europe is kept tranquil by a system of terror, which is efficient while the spell holds; but let it break at any point, and all will go together. The cardinals are the actual directors of State affairs here, and are popularly held responsible for all that is disliked in the Government.They would be likely to fare roughly In case of another revolution. They are privately accused of immoralities, which men so powerful and so unpopular would naturally be, whether with or without cause. I know no facts that sustain the accusation. A single nwe-eper is now published in Rome, but I have heard it inquired for or men tioned but once since I came here, and then bv a ocoicnman studying Italian' It is ultra-de spotic in it. spirit, end would not be tolerated If it were not. It is a small, coarsely printed sheet, in good part devoted to Church news, and to the progress or conversion. There are tp, fa rA:M :.....(. . . i . . i"iciKu juuruais isaen or reaa in me Roman States. L ynn or Poughkeepsle probably, Newark.or New-Haven certainly, buys and reads more newspapers than the entire Three Millions of People who inhabit the Papal States. l could not 'earn to relish such a state of thines I have just paid 3,70, (more than half of it to our American Consul) for the privilege of leaving the dominions of His Holiness, and shall speedily profit by the gracious permissions. H. O. "1 took all the mileage and penknives which the law allowed me, and any man who would have taken less, would steal." J. L. Robinson at the Ratification. "I was entitled by the law to mileage at the last Executive session of the Senate, but knowing that there were men in Indiana who would descend to the bowels of hell to rake up accusations against me and to whose rotten carcasses it would afford aliment if I took it, I concluded not to io so, and left it in the treasury.' Jesse Brighton the same occasion. Put that and that together and reconcile it if you can. If Robinson believed what he said, he must be clearly of the opinion that Bright lied, or that he would steal, and judging from the character of his speech we do not kuow that such an opinion would be far erroneous. Republican. "I hope to live a long lime yet to fight niggers and niggsrism." Robinson in his speech at the Ratification. We know of no one more admirably qualified by nature, education, capacity and taste, for snch a busiuess! Republican. n'tmni'i CoBwntfon. At this assemblage in Akron, some singular things were said and quite sensible ones. A young lady spoke as follows: For her own part, she loved man, individually and collectively, better than woman, and so, she was sure, did every one of her sex, if they, lik her, would utter their real sentiments. She wi more anxions for man e elevation and improveme nt than for woman's, and so was every true woman." tTTo keep preserves, apply the white of an egg with a suitable brush to a single thickness of white tissue paper, with which cover over the jars, overlapping lhe edges an inch or two. No lying is requirea. ins wnoie will oecome when dry, as tight as drum Albany Culti vator. CT Hon. Charles Dewy, E. M. Huntington R.W . Thompson, and Caleb B Smith, have been appointed commissioners to select the site of the Unit cd State. Hospital for sick and dissbled boatmen, at Evausvi'.le.

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851, AGRICULTURAL A hrt-i ,hrnriK FrMirnl. ' ' ' "r. A. L. Bingham, of Com wn l'., I "i'wui . well as his brother, Mr. Merrill Bin2liam. P" large flock of th French and other Me- j r"08hwP- The last of May is the lime of their I , . I P sneering; and m order to make it more Bociable Bnd "greeable, and show the country hat lheir flKk' wou,d produce, they invited lhe'r Uwlida anJ neiehbor. to be present on the ,on- r- Barber, of Middlebury, l"B ,U,,K report of the clipping of the rench Merino, from the importation of Mr. ! i lainlor- Thefl laintor. I he fleeces were in the dirt. Ifoa, 1 c,ean we"-wa!.lied wool they would have ' ProduCed w unable to say : "Mt- A" L- Biglm's flock of French Meri- I " Bheep con8i(it of 93 breeding ewes, 23 year- i line bucks, and 105 ..J i l , . . . -v .iU uUC( iainus; oe- ! g fr0m two ,0 five months old, and weighing I I 75 10 140 Ponnd. according to their age i 'A ,hrfe-yr-old buck, recently Importrd ! 1 ! wr,S"ea pounds, and sheared, with only ten ! moulh8' growth of wool, 31 pounris. A two ' ?T'oi ouck.not shoni.weighed 217 pounds. ; f r ,"'8la8t '"etined buck, Mr Bingham has been offered $1,000 by different The following is a statement of the weight of the sheep and of their fleeces.es beared the 20th of iay: Live Weight. Weight of Fleeces. twe Io. 7, 40, 11, 112, 31, 110, 139,

122 lbs. 19 iba. 2oz. 157 17 0 149 is 6 US 17 ia 169 14 14 128 24 6 92 19 12 123 18 12

c, Making the averaira weiirlit f n.. i, i ni pounds, and the average weight of the fleeces, about 18 pounds. ounces. On the 21t nf May, he sheared six more sheep, the average weight of whose fleeces were about 17 pounds, 4 ounces. Mr. Merrill Bingham sheared five breeding abouUfi "Tds he sheared eight half-blood ewes, one vear old. w . a.a. iiu cauirj 1 1 llir-. k being a cross or the French with the Spanish Merinos, the average weight being about eight pound.., two ounces. Mr M. Bingham imported, in March last, 13 French Merino bucks. He has sold seven of them aud received prices varying from $200 to $300. One of them he has been offered $400 for aud refused the ofler. Although I did not see the whole of these sheep sheared, and the fleece, weighed, I have the above facts on authority upon which I place implicit reliance. I certainly would uot give them to the public in this shape unless I had the fullest confidence or their truth. Fur a part of them 1 can vouch from my own pereoual observation. Can these sheep be beaten in the United States? I believe not, though I do not profess to be "booked up" so perfectly as some others in these matters. At all eveuts, if they can be beaten, th is statement may serve to call forth the proof." Nothing gives us more pleasure than to see a growing disposition among our farmers lo got up similar festivals of one kiud and another among themselves. By aeejng what eaeh other are doing, they enlarge their minds, promote ag. ricnltural improvemeuts much more rapidly among themselves than can be done among the Isolated, and we add, somewhat nigardly and selfish spirit that has been too long prevailing in our country. English farmers have ever been noted for these kinds of festivals, and this is one reason why they are so enlightened and prosperous men. They not only have their sheep shearings, but sheep shows and sales; they also have festivals for examining each other's grain, grass, and vegetable crops, aud various other things. After the shearing was over, all present sat down to a capital dinner, where most of the delicacies and substautial. of the season were served up evidently to the gratification of the company. Our only wish is, that we could have been present to enjoy the festival. American Agriculturist. Vnrhr and Health. A New Orleans paper, in announcing the fact that the market was supplied Mr F Hustou ma kes the following statement: "That eminent physician, Dr, Stone, in who?e blunt ssyings there are always deep thought and sound philosophy yesterday de clared that Houston's movement was worth a thousand quarantines for the health of New Orleans. "No more scurvy," said the doctor. "Eat stewed peaches if you would keep off in digestion. Plenty of fruit for the peop!e,and no more yellow fever." The statistics of Gen Houston's plantation veiily this remark. Before he bought it, great mortality prevailed there. One of ita former owners lost fifty negroes. He whipped his negroes whenever they were caught stealing a peach, a melon or au apple. Gen Houston has one hundred slaves on his place. He plants 30 acre, in melon. . His negroes live in the peach orchard. He whips them unless they eat the beet and the choicest and this they take care to do. There have been but three deaths on the place and those were old, obstinate negroes, who wouldn't eat peaches." w Wny Crooking Poin (-. The Gardners' Chronicle says that after the first of April potatoes ought to be peeled at night for the 1 or 2 o'clock dinner; and for late dinners any time before 9 o'clock in the roorj ning. 1 have repealed the experiment many time, and the improvement in the quality of the potatoe is very great. It is well known that, j owing to the inherent nature of the potatoe, t . will push in spite of every precaution to stop growth, leaving the tuber very spongy, tnd with much of the water extracted, out of it. By vhng and slwpine in coM .pH watef fof ; ten or tne,ve hoort thepore9 of ,h, w,h come fiUedi however ,impv ie ,ub w nd , the process of boiling, this fresh water ic discharged, taking with it all bed flavor, as well as partly removing the dark spots which are often found in potatoes. I tried them steeped in sa 1 nd water thinking that in boiling the salt woo!d rem,iB ln lhcelIs. which it did, and gve the potatoe a belter flavor, but the salt tttrned lh outside very brown and did net look wel'-

Ilrtty. BT JAS. w. WASH. Io a modest mansion, plain and neat, Arouud the corner of the street From some forgotten cause called Gettv, Lives Harriet H . a maiden sweet, Whose shorter name i. simply Hetty. Thau her's few faces are les fair: Ik-r copious and ungarnUhed hair Is neither golden, brown, or jetty; Vet few their ringlets could compare, With those that shade the cheeks of Hetty Her little parlor boasts, I wis, No mors ambitious ihiug than this, A neat and patch-work covered settee; But h, what schemes of love and bliss Are formed, to share the seat with Hetty, She has no prima donna's voice To warble cavalanis choice. And placed airs from Deunixelti! But it would make your heart rejoice To hear "Dear Willie" sung by Hetty. The slanderer ne'er her ear deceives, Her heart no whispered hint receives. And tales of gossip, false and petty, To weak and empty heads she leaves. So pure aud true is faithful! Hetty. This artless, unassuming maid Is loved by all of every grade, From bounding belle to bouncing Betty; Howe'er conditioned or arrayed. None e'er refused a sm ile to Hetty. And now the secret I'll display, How one such power of love can sway, Who is not learned, lirh or pretty.

l is this: her heart, in cheerful play, Isseen inWrv of rr.. i 'L.., : i'.::: :i. "D,u " irlr OTnrriHgra. The last number of Hunt's Merchant's Maea-j line gives a sketch of the career of Mr. John Gregg, an eminent bookseller ef Philadelphia,

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opinions of life and business, and rules of con- !will your swamp lands in the rear of ihe city!' duct necessary to success in life. The following Wllal followed, the legend omits; but the re -are his notions of marrriage: (lt was that Mr. McDonogh was seen to leave Early marriage is a favorite theme of Mr. lhe widow's houie with a countenance denoting Gregg's advice to young men. All men, he indignation and surprise. He vowed revenge, would say, should be married as soon as possi- lived to execute it. ble after twenty-two or twenty-three years of Years afterwards, thi same widow, having age. A woman of mind will conform to the r"n offered a large price for a piece of cily pronecrssities of the day of small beginnings; and perty, found that two lots at the corner of the in choosing a wi'e a man should look at 1st. "8lu,re which was chiefly owned by her, were the heart; 2d, the mind; 3d, the person. A th" ProIerty of Mr. John McDonogh. It was choice made thus soberly and discreetly can necessary that she should have these lots to hardly be wrong. But, alas! who will look for conlPltfte her sale. They had cost Mr McDondiscretion in a man crazy with love? In that Bh but few hundred dollars. What was her sad plight nobody iscapable of judging anything surprise on sending a broker to him, to be inright. ' formed that he might take $50,000. but uothing So strong, however, were Mr. Gregg's cou- 'eS8- The widow determined lo try the virtun victiouson this point, despite the intriusic dim- ot ''tile personal persuasion; perhaps she could cullies of the case, that it became a by-word k'Jle the old flame, ai.d thus induce him to reamong his clerks, that if any one wished a per- Ux' Accordingly, she paid him a visit. She maneut place in his house, all he had to do was fouud him " hia dreary old house at McDonoghto get married! Several of his partners and sue-'. v'11" ws buried in musty papers, surrou licensors in business were clerks whom he had ded bv his u'gro clerks, copying records. A befriended in their boyhood and their poverty single empty chair n,t in the room. The widHe made it a rule, iu fact, to give preference as ow took 1,1 is, aud immediately commencAd the clerks to the eons of poor widows, whom he ofy0 of her mission. Great was her surpri paid from the start, and promoted according to to le '"formed by Mr McDonogh, that it was their capacity and proficiency. Or that warm 'mPoss'ble for him to sell the lots iu question, and wise charity which aids the needy, uot only Ie owned no property himself, h was all by helping them to help themselves, bnt by di- God Almighty's, whose agent he was, without rect bounty, and which has followed the deser- lhe Power to sell. ving who had been iu his service, after they- Al 'st having exhausted all other arts, the had left him, and lost all direct claim unon hi. ,ac"r thought she would Irv the effect of old re-

liberality, instance, might be recorded for which this is not the place. This is lhe case where "left hand knoweth not what the right hand d011'-' . .ve, JrnloMsy, .Tlairdrr itad Probable u An.ir.V...,l M " : An extra Aewark Mercury says: Ourc tv ' ... . ... l ,i Ide. has excited the most general interest on all j hands, and which is an other fearful chapter in the history of love and crime. Edwin Drum. I

an irishman, aged abcul 25 years, in the employ pomient of the New York Express, have sucof John Burnett, at his foundry in the upper oeeded by artificial crossings in obtaining a catpart of the city, has it appear been paying at- url rose of a blue color, which is the fourlli tention for some period back to a oung girl, ,color obtained by artificial means the yellow, named Margaret Garraty, engaged as a servant or ,eu ro8e lho black, or purple rose, being all by Cha.. W. Tucker, at the North Ward Ho- ,oenlions, aud the result of skillful scieutifia tel. gardeuiiig. According to reports the affair had proceeded ' . so far as to lead loan arrangement for their A Madrid PaPer K'ves an account of a woman marriage. During the same period, however, it W'' ha" inv,nled machinery by which she i, seems that Drum had also been engaged to an- able ' fly ,hrough the air like a bird. Sh other girl, and on Sunday last was married to E"Ve Public nle, and performed the feat in the her, and came to reside in Plane St., near Blee- Pnseact o multitude. Al! the city wastalkker. Last evening Margaret informed some of ing cf 1,16 wonJ-rfu exploit. Won't the her fellow servauts lhat she intended to kill womcn sngel. when it comes this? him, and showed a carviug knife which she had i ., 7 TT. . f . , . Slllnoia w heat Crop. J Tout 11 ; !:Tn , ! e Chicago Advertiser says: "The wheat watkin Ptane s7 ' 7 Wifrrre CrP iB 8" rthe nrth"E It . Z I COr"rfNeWV-"?eneral,y prove a r.i.ure. The rust his 'tXl7Z" hT d-'redtl'o-'.dtheflvscab.rrotthe Ao or t, Edwin, plunged the carving knife T,B,1,.j.f Cut!. ., ,....,, sp.ing, i nousands of acres which but a very into him to the depth or nine nches. The un- . . y r , ' """-. lno nn .short lime since looked prom:sine, and the farfortunate man cave a shudder, walked on fora ... K i , . b , BUU, urr v.aiec on lora tner8 anticipated a good yield, will not be worth short distanceand suddenly fell dead. harvest;.,,, TK. , ,, ? Tit. f .k . , . narvectiug. The farmers are genera y much Ih Hon " Trdend m n W" Uke" 'V-oarrassed. this orwbLk-the the W,chHou. when Drs. Dougherty and failure of thecrops, will affect them materially."

O - I - nwaauu T OH daitMU ' ed, and found to be in the neighboihood of the I heart. After committing the deed, Margaret, acrnr,!; n . ..j . ,. . R .n, .Murrccu nome sua inlormea me servants what she had done. EcrF'iilea In tirenl Brilala. In the year I &4 1, there were 493,303 more emale, than male, in Giea, Britain. In IgSl. the excess f. 550,157. In IS41, the excess of famal,.i ,l,.m., ... ,o. ,c, T "-.-.. it is 1D4.4JH an increase greater than the whole increase of population would lead oue to expect This growing disproportion of th. sexes has lately attracted the attention of philanthropists, and has suggested the scheme for conveying such womeu as are qualified for it to colocies where the disproportion is the other wsy. ETThe editor of the Burlington Seutinel.thns notices a grumbling subscriber: A Free Soil Patron of lhe Sen tiuel Politely bids us "send Die thing lo hell!" A timely hint. Tis proper, we confess, W ilh change of residence to change th' address! It shall be sect, if Charon's mail will let il, Where the subscriber will be sure to get it!

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OtM'aArnrUrr. I'nd-r this head the New Orleans Delta narrates the following amusing pnsaage in ihe life of the millionaire Juhn MrDonrgh iu which love and buMneee were vainly sought to be mixed up in the same trausacliou. The legend runs thus: Mr. MtDonogh had reached a mature age. He was grave and eeaale for hi years. His Undid possessions were large even then. He had commenced it ia grand design of surrounding this city, as lie said, with his lines of circumvallation. But unfortunately, some lands intervened, which belonged to a wealthy and gay widow laiiy. Mr. McDunogh eudeavoreJ to purchase these Iota. He sent a great many per sons, who offered the widow a ver large price lor her property, but she would not sell. he in j the meantime remaining aecret.not allowing it to j be known that he was the person iu pumiit of ..... iMup-ri). .iu nts enorts proved abortive. At last, one day. what was the surprise of the widow, to be waited upon by the wealthy Johu McDonogh himself drefed iu a l.rau Lew suit, with a spotless white vest and cravat, and bearing under his arm that identical preen umbrella. which twenty years afterwards constituted one jOf the peculiarities of his appearance in our sireeis. Miowii lulo the lady's parlor, Ml. McDonogh, opon the appearanre of the widow, im mediately commenced to unfold the object of his visit. He stated that he owued large possessions, and hoped.ere he died, to possess the greater part of the landed estate in Louisiana, that .this was the darling object of his ambition, but, j unfortunately.li U own means were not adequate j to the attainment of his high aim. He only ,lacked one thing at the same tim. infusing all .the humanity of his soul into the big basilisk I eyes which glared upon the handsome face. ' . 7. . uf"u u" nanasome .ace or in "o- '"hot ws that? 'What c0Um j Mr. McDonogh want?' inquired the lady. Wilh hi uual business line promptitude, Mr. McDouogh replied, "your hand. Madam.' M, band?' excla.mej the la.ly. bursiinc out into mini9Cences and associations, so she blushingly and sofl,y ino.a ired of the stern old millionaire how il W8S ll'al he should have ouce offered her hi" ha"d and heart, and was now unwilling to grant lier this small privilege. 'That,' responded the hard-hearted votary of Mammon, 'was many years ago; then I was thoughtless and :jj j 6 r,.1.::;: ;:::Trf h-J-b w o uvt; KM K KOSE9. The horticulturists of Paris, savs a corre.Cold bathing, pore water, plain diet, a clear I conscience, and a clean shirt, are indispensable 'io neaun and happiness. . . ... .. ttTThe Hartford Times regards, as among the follies of the day. the lisninir nrninii;u r soniA v n n n cr !-) A k-. r . . Ws in iheir conversion. The editor -v. he ha knn-n m.m . .. u . ca,lOT . known lhera "tier such sentence... tho yoliowmg: - "!! wath in Milhithippi thorns time thiuce, bul ith in Miihouri now.' Keep Cool The Julian men swear that the Sentinel shall go down; that Bright shall go down, and Garber go up, and that John L Rob inson shall go dowc. aud that Julian shall et triumph. Belter keep cool friends, von luiure yourselves wor.-e than you hurt any oue els. Seu;inel. Si.o. A wag ic Detroit has been taking liberties with the reputatiouof the Poutiac Railroad. He was asked "whether he ever knew of an accident on that road," and replied: "Never but once a middle aged cortplo l.ift Pontiac for Detroit, and Dtio of old tut. at B.rniingham ha!f way!"