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ff'n "" ; " TT 'r":4;y,-"--;-;--j" "' fr -ry - - j. j . ! . . .-; . . '.H-.. i '".: '-, -i ' : " : ''-i ; '.! "'"-'"""" f ' T ' ' f-' i I " - j , ZW " ' ' !l "' !-: " - - X'--. . -: -. ' ' ' j ' ' i ' ' ! ! ' ' I I ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' " i ' ' " ;', 4 : 1 0 B S E S IIS S B ; ! ' i j Al.rt6Ei h. BEItUY, ; , -Let all the ends thou nlm'st 'at 'be J thy Country's, thy Cod's, mid; Truths.- j . PUBLISHER & PROPKIETOK. S -; jl- , l0. i : i't Ah l! 1 SCT'l'tvo DoJhus Jor one rear if paid a i.itc iitue oi suuscnpuonj '1 wo Dollai : Uifly Ctt, without UEViAriox, tcyAll Bills fur I Advertisements, Job : Work -or iSu'iscriptibn, considered due when coniracied, except against those with . M'iioni we have. Running Accounts. i ItPA'tt IMpcrj will be sent . out ot lie G'inty, uiiless;paij for in advance. I irCPA'lTeitiseinenti inserted at One Dol- "lritr, S'luaiol Twelve jLine, Oi' &v ,iot "ihc. First 'iusertiuu; l?ltty t'i'iit ilor eat'ii continuance. I A lilklal ifluctjOii for Yearly! Adve'itising.' !CP i'lipriJiIee ut" Yfarlv Advertisers if ct!y limited to thf ir oxen immcdinte und ilt-trulai liuunesf; and the Uusiriess of lin . j Advertising Fum is not considered as tn- ! ciu din-g :ili;it of 315 individual membeis. jJ.nnn!i:uini ;i aiiuuiao's, Bunt: I'.irs; t ) be paid i 1 hnuce in Every Case I-fcAdvc-rik-oin-iilits mit marked witlii llie numlerf Insrtionn when handed j'n.lw jil he rohlian-d until ordered out, and payment exacted! : ' ; " l jy.Vo .Uccrtistuicnt can be m iscrlck r llliivvsnj. . i . : ! ; pAdvcrtN-eiueftts nf ; Peroral Nature ini'-ariiiiihj ch'irL'ryl Double Price. j LpAd wruseaioil'i of I'dient Medicines HiierieJ !:it Tliiriy E)o!l:ia- tu-r Colt !$,; Pvr V;:ir. ' ff Job V.'o:-!, f il l. . Kinds, A'ealty ti-nie.oii 3V!W 'fl'yiMS and on as reasonable Terms us any (jilice in Tennessee. JCjVo Paper vili he discontinued untfl " t'li arrcara' s are j:iiJ 'u; except at vpl'wii i f the I'ALtisher. A Lot of Breaks. I'rcak up the haunts of j vice dik! rrime, JJnink Ti:ki wiUi fli.poiii's juiwdor, j ' , il Vou don t : Know iiiW to ii:;i!;e a chciwtlcr; j i nk ori" hai liahiis. and Lioak out ; j Into a iii of laughter,! , : 15-J u if you! break Uiti temperance pIc.Tgc, '' ou'll ruo it (.Vcr afiLr. . t Urjuk n'U your 'pivniiiso nor yciiir palOv Uircciiou's tics ino'iT'Scvcr, J.ii k not t!io .iiL'iaihair your lack, ii aiiy Case wh'aiHjvirr; a'; not.iss ianips ur w hok tonie laws, No riotlu ry orichiiia, - JJtit hrcaU- ail which contain il'Iu MulF that g..-ts men shiny. ; Po ak jopenj letter? hnlclains, A:)(!: uvfU:rs fat tuid greasy. ll ak off rij stpiafclics ami, your sins, , ; .ud nfako your icoiifcionco easy; ' 1 r.i ak luht.t(.rs claws ami nuts, to find '. 'he meal iharsjin iliein liiJJcn, j!m never hr.-ak thu tcmipeinncvi pledge! l'or thai" a thin" iyrhitlden. r.rdak nofjajlir.k iii niendship's chain,' . 1 reak nSt, your tioso by falling, ltregik not ih .' hrooju-siick o'er tho heads - -(if iraid' to stop Ihcni bawling; f Irojik it a 'induWlpanA or sash, or shoc-sirijigs or st. slenders, IL'tjhivak awfiy froi tippling shojis, And shriit all ibddy voiKli-rs. IJrc-ik uj) a jueceofj grotiiul to plant, ;V, hen all tho icoj and snow's off, ThfJn p't a" ru!-ul '1 Your field jo keop the; trows off; Drvlik flaxj break yearling steers und colts, ''to make1 them kind and handyj Hut never bre-ak th. tempcranco J: J'.y drinking gin br hnuidy. , , , , r-! I ! A NEwsi'ArE. It was Bishop IiorncrVopiniojit thai I there is nij better moralist lian'a'ucvspiper.-j-. He says: lThc (ollicf, -ices anjjl sequent miseiies bf multitudes (lisplavcd in a newspaper, are s'6 imnaiy admonitions and varnings,so many beacons continually, burning lo turn others ifrom: the" rock on u h'ich thcy-liav leen shipwrecked. What more; ppwerjul dissuasive frofn suspicion, jjealojisy'-and anger, t-.Un ihl- stoi y of onc lTieud mur dcired by anollnjr in a dud'. What cai'itfoacantieiTibrc ciTectua! against gamblirig anil pjclliacy, than : the mournful relation of tbiy execution orithliatc of a1 idespaiiihg! suicide. What fpier lecture on the Necessity tif econ;o:ny th'ah ihe auctions of .rs'tatcs,; houses j;nd turnitme! Only take, a lien spnp' r and consider it jlp'ay for it read it and it Will instruct! jHife;); I Jyifiiral'- J S:;nitv-six: r'.aft; Tcvncssre.- ennesseans were i'lkvn'on brd ! the Louisville and Lm'ils nitekei bolt last week at tiei!iHithif;Tennc'ksL-e river. They l.'nveeinv'rated Ivith jLheview of set- The Fale of the 'Forcitrn Legion. Br ii. cnirMAi. The morning f thelth of Sep tember broke cle ir and ct IftmVer the dark a'hd.frownii g battlements of the Castle of Chepul tepee.1 ; The flag of the Mexicans stuamed proudly out from the rampartk and wived in all its jjonxeousu'ess in the srdntle breeze which swept . along the plain. Shi ning bavonets aildlisjteiling sabres reflected back thf sun's fcright rars, and deep-mouthcil canncjn . boomed out upon the supoundin j country, threatening death and destruction' to the advancing fok : On ihcT came, fding out, column after icqlumn, from the suburbs !of tic little village of Tacubaya, and sweeing ! '. ike a de structive tornado upon jth 3 devoted ramparts. Suddenly,' from the bat teries of ithe castle, a stream of flame and smoke shot forth, and all along that lengthened line, the: missiles of terror and death went hand in liand cutting down the noble add brave, the good and generous, an 1 strewing all in one mingled heap of gore, and blood. War,' with all ; ltk .blasting and desolating effects, wa:i earring grief ami misery into mauM a hereto fore happv famih, and striking down the father and husbandi tht ison and brother, in terrible and bloody havoc, and conshrninjr them to oh common and . sorrowinjj .grave. I While the faces of the'wife and sister at home were, 'perhaps, wreathed n smiles. that of the husband and Mother was writhing in the agony of death upon a foreisrn'soikandbreathini'out life's last'sigh amjd the roar uf cannon and tho! rattle of musk its. " The scenes of j that fearful and Mai morn will neveij be forgotten. " But wlylc this was thus transact ing around Chermltepcc, anf thcr, and a still more terrible scene, vas 'pass ing iri the littlo town of Misc5ux, some half amili distant from Tacu baya. At the kittle of Ch jrubusco. the deserters under lliley pad been captured, and, after an impartial trial, sentenced' to bo hung. T iey were known by the title of the! ''Foreign Legion," and were made ,ur of .men who had cjescrted from the ranks of the Americans! and joined;! he force, of the enemy; The day set for' their execution was the lit! of Sep tember and it ; also . happened that the attack i upon Chtpultq ec took place the same day. - j The sun had just risen, and tinged the East with his purple ray, as they were led jforth j to die. Jf lirty in number, and" surrounded by! a strong body of men, they advant ed 'with slow steps ! towards the galk ws, :the mutlled drum sending forth its sol emn death-note,1 and .1 giving to the whole the appearance of a military funeral, rather than a public execu tion. ! They , were arranged u ider the gallows, which was one erected for the purpose- being no thin ; more than two large posts set firnil y in the ground, across the "top of wh ch was placed a pole Sof sufficient length to admit the! bodies, of thirt f men. Beneath it tho iprisoners w:re ar l mged? with ; a noose around their i ecks the othcr end of the rope being thrown oyer rtho pclc, was grasped by! thrcejor four stou t men, icady at !a moment's warning, to hiunchthcminto eternity. A gloomy t ilenbe pervaded the spot, and as they gazed 6n the group, collcetepl there, they found1 no sympathising glance in the; scbwling faces and; glaring eyes which were fixed upoll them Thov bad dos ( roved the kisfc feeling of respbet felt for them, wMu.they took, up arms against the countrymen. .''..The usually brow of Col. Ilarnev, who own dark uperim tended the execution, was eoijtraetdd by a deep frown,' and hisj deib gray eves twinkled savagely in me ets, as he galloped up too thb ?pot, and reined m his smoking; beside them. '!'';' ! luirger Isall rcadv, Lieutenant. 1 pas iked of an officer' who commanded the truard." I ' ' i '. !. " ' 'Even- thing,' replied the officer, 'Then i let them swing,' vfas the The Lieutenant turned and ad vanced to"ward the prisoners, when suddenly the eyei of the Colonel fell apon the castle, and the deadly roar i f the artillery reached his ear. 'Lieutenant,' he suddenly , exclaim ed, with startling energy in his voice. .'Aye, sir, replied the officer, re turning. :. . - ' 'Have every thing ready, but qon't draw them up until the Amer ican flag waves out from the flacr-staff cf ChenulteDoc castle.' ! 'Aye, sir, it shall be done,' and ihe Lieutenant returned to the gallows." 'If we aint hung until the castle is -taken by the Americans, we shall live a good long life yet,' sud denly exclaimed one of the prisoners, under the' beam. 1 i ! 'Then live you j shall, for till the Star-Spangled Banner " waves in vic tory over your castle, you shall not die, replied Col. Harney, sternly.. 'Hurrah! we'll live a loner lile'3'et' Old Bravo s the man .to stick to the castle as long as there's a sh )t in the locker, or a man to' stand by him,' replied the! Mow with a shout - !; ' ' All yes wero nowi fixed with a deep intensity upon the height and galling was the agony of suspense which they endured between the mo ments which elapsed during the terrible com est which was going on around th( 1 1 castled hill. Suddenly tho; flag of the Mexicans went down amid the strife-, and the Cylonel shouted, There j goes the enemy's banner; tin. castle is won.' j 1 And there goes the flag back tiia. ftOjii, oiu jjiuyo, Miouicu au other of the Legion, as the Mexican, flag rose to the top of the stiff, and waved to the breeze, j A muttered ejaculation escaped thej lips1 of the Colonelp and each one again fixed his eye upon the scene. Tlie contest raged on with unabated vigpr, and in' a few imoments thc brow of 'nhr bill tv.ns! biililni from sight by the dark cloud of Ssmokc wbi h liimo- ihlok nrnnnd it A b;,tf hor r passed, and as a ! strong7 wind au.d thoat brush, ladle, or jother ap sweit down the plain and lifted the Pance, the workman ; waxes each Smoke from off. the height, the enc my s Hag had again disappeared lrom thc'jStaff. A moment of deep anxi ety followed, and then the American banper ran up the staff and floated proudly. over the battlement , 'Up with them, thundered the deep voico of ,the Colonel; and the next moment thirty human be- ing$ wcre swinging in thc last ago nies! of death from the gallows; and ley. ."quivered in! the rising sun beams which glanced along tho plain, no look of sympathy fell upon their detested features for all considered that they richly deserved their fate. Such, reader, was the fate of thc "Foreign Region." .;, ! Ladies r5As. Mrs. Swisshelm, in a savage article against the maga zine fashion plates, siiys: by their own hands, and piously saying their praytrs eyerv dav; their death? tho Magazine T ublisrs are accountable at! the! bar- of the Eternal They are murdering them as truly as , ever David slew Uriah by . the sword of the Amclckites. ! i No human; agency can teach those ! victims ot lasnion pJate; mongers, th: t the long whalebones' sticking dof n in their sides, the tight strings tied around jthe small of their back, ana weight of the skirts, arc dragging them to their graves -They will not believe they are entailing misery and disease and death upon their children. wit yet many ottnem ; ao Know ) tneir onspnng, would ratner see tneir lilttle ones suffer ten thousand doaths than thatjthcy thcmselvbs should fail to look 'like Promethus in my pic ture hcrbj -a long sided funnel set onajugl . . v.j . Five young ladies left New York few iliiy smce for teacher, under 'the patronage of j the society lor promoting popular education in the West It is quite probable they wHl be engaged in teaching ihcir own children before j many years. Manual Dexterity of Manufactures. ; The 'body' if a hat (beaver) is generally made, of. one part - of 'red' Wool, three parts Saxony, and ! eight arts rabbit's fur. . The mixing or working up of these jnaterials is an operation which depend very much on the dexterity . of the : workmen, anil years of long ' practice arc re quired to render a mah proficient. The wool and fur are laid, on !a bench, first separately and then togctfher. The workman takes a machine some what like a: large violin bowj this is suspended from the ceilind by thc middle, a few incbis above the bench. The workman, by! means of a small piece of' wood, causes the end of, his 'bow' to vibrate quickly against the particles of wool and fur. this op eration continued for somb tinie'effec tually opens the clotted inas$es, and lays open all the fibres jthee'e flying upwards by. the action of the string, are by the manual and wonder d dex terity of the workman, j caught in their descent in a peculiar manner, and laid in a soft layer j of equable thickness. -This operation, appar ently so simple land easy; to be ef-" fected, jis in reality very difficult, and only to be learned by-constant prac ticed :" . - r ' : ,In type-founding when Ibc melted metal has been poured intothe mould the workman by a peculiar turn of his hand, or rather jerk, causes ; the me&d to be shaken into all tlie min ute interstices of the mould, j In manufacturing imitative pearls, the glass bead forming thJ pearl has two holes in its exterior; the liquid, ! made from a pearl-like powder; is in serted into the hollow of the bead by a. tube, and' by a peculiar twist of the handi tho single drop introduced is caused to spread itself over the whole surface of the interior, without su- pemuity or deliciency Uelug occa sioned. ! :' j :' i In waxing thc corks of blacking bottlc's much cleverness is disp ayed. i Thc wax 1S mc'ltcd m open dish, cork neatly and expeditiously, simply by turning the bottle upside down, and dippiiTg the cork iht6 tlie" melted wax. ATaediec nas enabled Inej men to -do this so neatly, that j scarcely any wax is allowed to touch the bottle. Again, to turn the bottle to its proper position, without spilling any of tho wax, is aiparentl" aiji ex ceedingly simple matter; but it is on ly by a peculiar i movement; of the wrist and hand, impossible1 to (le scribe, rind difficult to imitate, that it is properly effected. One man can seal one hundred in an hour. .; In pasting and affixing the labels on the blacking bottles, much dex terity ; is also . displayed. As one man can paste a!s many labels as two can' affix, groups of three are ; em ployed in this 'department. I n pastc ing, the dexterity is shown- by the final touch of the brush, which jerks Yy5 thejabel off the heap, and which is and fork. u- iL. i . .ri.Li. tVLUIlllU II1U XiaUU; -Ul. LUU ttOlK- man,1 'and throSvn aside. This ; is done so rapidly, that the three-fold opera tion of pasting, jerking, and layin aside, is repeated no less than thousand times m an nour. ifllxing of the labels is a Yery and dexterous operation;! to the 0 teat r Watchful spectator, the bottle ! is scarcelyi taken up in the hand; ercj it is'setfdown labelled. In packing the bottles into casks, much neatness is displayed. : i ; . . J The heads of certain kinds ot tans are formed by a coil or two . pf me. wir kccd ut ond ena. -Tbisis but the workman cuts' off one or -two turns of the coilj guided entirely)-by his eye; and such is the manual dex terity displayed in the operation, that a workman will cut on zu,uuu, 10 . 30,000: h&ads .without making a jin-i gtemistake as to tne numueroi n uua ; Oregon, asjto eaclu j . An expert workman can fasten on1 from 10,000 to 15,000- of these heads i i a day. 1 A The pointiiig of pins and needles 'is done solelyibv hand. Ihe work- man holds thirty or fosty pin lengths in his hand, spread open like- a, fan; i . ... i . . . . sugar,jinti spirits ot iwine, arc so much alike in their (themieal com- position, that an old shirt can be weight of su- converted into its own gaiyaud thd sugar into spirits of wine. Wine is made1 of two sub- 1 stances, qne-j of whicli is the cause of almost al combustion or burn other yill, run with mg, nd thd inorerarfulitythananythinzinnature. The famous 1'eruviin bark, so much used tfo strengthen the stom ach, and the poisonous principle of opium arc found of tpe same mate rials Think. Thought engenders thought. I ace; one luca upon pa- 4 . per- anothc will follow it, and still another, until you have written a page. ou cannot jlatnotn your mind. There is a wll of thought that has no bottom. The more you draw from u tho more clear and fruitful it will be. If you negleot to ' think yourself, ' and use other people's thoughts- giving them ut terance only you wilLjficver know what you are capabler.of. At fust your ideas may come put in lumps homely aijd shapeless but' no matter; time anJ perseverance wii arrange and pplis l them. Learn td thini 'and you will soon learn to write; line more you imnK inc uci ter you will express yiur ideps. A Plain-spoken Judge. Judgq McClurc of Pittsbu rg, lis decidedly the plainest spoken jurist we thint we ever heard of.. In .a recent tria for murder, iii that city, the jury brought the defendant,! James Ken ly, in guilty of nurder in the second dcLiree. The judge did not like tiiis and when ic came to sentence him, he addressed the ! prisoner as follows: "You,. James, Kelly, well merit the gallqws, and that you have not got it is no fault of mine charged the jury pointedly that you were guilty of murder in the first degree. The mood that will here after be shed, on account of the ver dict of the jury by whom you were tried, will not be upon i my shirts. Had I charged otherwise," I would have considered that I inight as well have let the w iild tiger loose on the streets, or placed a rattlesnake un ner I is no ic pillow qf an infant! There doubt as to: youf: attrocious nriiill in im fionilicli nrnl ili.-ilwulPfil LUUl 111 KAV I1V.IM4IOII UilU A II.I U JM . mure' bcfoi with medi er of John Cox. You sta,nd h this court spotted all over the crime! of wilful and pre aled murdier- unparalleled in the annals of crime, and instead of passing a sentence consigning you to a pell in the' penitentiary, we should at this time be 'passing the sentence of death : upon you vou richiM deserve l .'Pilrsevere, pers'everesaid.an old lady i lend of ours tocher jholj), ic only way you can , accom- 'it s t plish grcat things. One dav, eight apple; dumplings wpre sent down stairs, and they all disappeared. 'Sally, where are those dumplings'' 'I managed to get through them, ma am, replied a any. i W hy, liow on cartn did you contrive, to calsb many dumplings?' ' 'By persevering,' ma'am,' was thc meek answerr A divine in Kent, seldom in church, but .a 'rigid Justice of the Pphri bavin a Vagrant brought be- ,.c jljn saij surl,y tj-jj teacj, you t,-e- aWj y0ll Vnga kj jj arrant you.7 fcl t would be much more becom in" ' answered the poor fellow, 'if you would teach' me thft gospel.5 In Oregon, they raise turnips which weigh from ten! pounds to thirtynine pounds two ounces. and wonderful dexterity is shown ! in bringing each part to the stone, and presenting cjvery point of its circum ference to "its' grinding action. . In finally 'papering' needles for sale,',tho femides employed can ; count and pa per 3000 injan hour. 1- "Wo.d!ers of CiiEMisTiiVr Aqua fortis and the air1 we breathe j are made of like1 materials. Linen,; and Orkta of Various Plants. J i Every firmer ought to be soi far acquainted with the history pf .all or7 dinary plants 'and trees, as to kjuow their nature, country and condition. Suen .knowledge, besides beingl on every account proper and desirable, will sometimes explain phenomena in their habits that would otherwise ap- pear anomalous and inexplicable. ; Wheat" was brought from, the cen tral table land of Thibet, where its original yet exists as a grass, v ith small mealy seeds. : ltye exists wild in Siberia. Barley exists wildlh the mount;: in3 of llimmaleh. - - - ! j - Oats, y.ild in Northern Africa. Maize, Indian Corn, was brought from America. , . j Ilice, from South Africa, whence it was taken to India, and from thetce to Europe and America, j ; The Garden Bean-from th East Indies. I The Horse Bean, from the Casj Sea. : : . i A ! ; ian 'Buckwheat camo originally frbm c m -i m i ' oioena auu xarrary.; Rape Seed and Cabbage grow wild in Sicily and ISaples. The Poppy, from Jthe East The Sunflower, frpm Peru. (Flax or Linseed, is in South Eu rope, a weed ih tho ordinary grain crops. , ! . The. Raddish, from China, The Garden Cress, out of Egypt and the East Hemp is a native of Persia and the East Indies. The Nettle, which sometimes fir nishes fibres for spinning, is a natijve of Europe Of Dye Plants the Madder conies lrom thc Last ; Dyers Weed; grows in Southern Germany. I j. . Safllower, from! Egypt. ; Dyers Knotgrass, from China. Hops come t0 perfection as a wild plant in Germany.; Mustard and Carraway Seed the same Anise, from Egypt and the Grl cam Archipelago. , I Koriauder grows Mediterranean. I i wild i near the Saffron, from the Levant Tho Onion, out of Egyj)t Horseradish. fromSouth Europe. Tobacco is a jnative of Virginia, Tobago, and California. Another species has also been found wild in Asia. j J- Fuller's Teazel grows wild 14 Southern Europe: The Grasses ! aro mostly ; nativtt plants, and so are the Clovers, excet Lucerne, which is; a native of Sicily The Gourd is probably; an Eastern plaut. ! The Potato is a well known na tive of Peru and 'Mexico;:- Turuip and MangoldVurzel come from the shores of the Mediterrane- an. Moalrabi and white Turnip arc. na tives of Germany!, , ' The Carrot is supposed by some to have been brought from Asia, but others maintain it to be anativo of the same place as tho White Turnip. Arnonr!;t. other kitehen -frnnlon Amongst other kitchen 'garden' plants, the Spinach is attributed toj Arabia. - i The Cucumber,1 from the East In dies. The Melon, from Kalmuck. Parsley grows iif Sardinia. . Celery, in Germany. Of Fruit Trees and Shrubs, the Currant and Gooseberry came from Southern Europe. ! Medlar Pear and Apple arc like wise Euroiean plants; but the Sickle, the best of Pearsjis traced to near Philadelphia, as itjs original locality so far as known The Cherry,o Plum, and Almond came from Asia Minor. ! The Walnut and Peach, from the same country. The Citron, from Media. : . The Quinco from tho Island of Crete. . j The Chesnut, from Italv. ' ' Of Forest Trce, the majority are native plants of England, except the Fine and Horse Chesnut, the former of which waSj bn ught from America, and the latttjr fa om Thibet.- But the greatest variety of Oaks! and other fine timber tree-, are natives of North and South Amc rica. The Hurtlebrry is a native of Asia, Europe ai d 'America. The Cranberry, of Europe and ,; America. " i j , An incorrigible old maid living upon slender means cut the acquain tance of a friehct because he advised ' her to 'husband her resources.7 -'Ah, Eliza,'! cried a puritan' preacher to a young lady who had just been making her hair in?t beautirul nnglefs; lAh, Eliza,: had God had intended your locks to be curled, he would have curled ; them for you.' 'Whifn I was -an infant,' replied the damsel,.'hc did; but now I am grown up, he thinks I aih alile to do it myself?,1 ; 1 ; Enalish Opii(bi'tliiix.-A corrcs-- pondent of tlie London Morning vnronwie maKesi tne lonuwing de velopments of the cxlent'6f opium eating in England: "To such an extent is opium useiL that one druggist in Ely informed me that the average anijual quantity sold by him for the last few years had not been less than three hundred weight perj aniluni. From two other druggists t learned that tho quantity by them was not less than eighty or ninety founds in the year. In the town of Sjt, Ives, one - drug, gist informed mej that he sold about: two and a half hundred weight in the year. In Wisbcach and Chat teris, the quantity is considerably more than in cither, of these towns. In Whitllesea, also,- the consump tion of the drug is very large. You may set it down (said the druggist to whom I was speaking on the sub ject) as a ton weight per year, -for the ten parts of Huntington and Isle of Ely."! A New Scheme. A -Washing ton Correspondent of the Evening t ost says that therumor is that tho five or six hundred laborers for tho Panama and Atlantic Railway rais ed by Col. jE. E. Baker, and now em ployed onj the route of Railroad, are in reality Ian organized ( band of propagandists of lAnglo-Saxon re publicanism. Thedesigns attributed to these men embrace the. project of appropriating the country, alter the conclusion of their engagements with tho Railroad Company, and he erection of a hew Gdvcriimcrt on the latest j and most j'jrovcd principles, j , .Horse Flesii vs. Steam. A sin gular ivager lias been' laid in Spain between the Puke of Osunai and the celebrated banker, Salamanca. It is horse against llailroad, 'The Duke bets thai his horses shall beat the locomotive on tlie Madrid and Aranjues railroad which is twenty seven miles long. Several horses arc to be stationed thus. A jockev and a horse at the Toledo gate at Madrid to ride1 the' first league and Idpfivrr n nrmpf in lbr cfr.ntnk ulm1 ig to be h, rea 'ifllc anothcr il horse to ride anothcr league and so !on. - It is said that tlie Duke calcu- Jatcs that each leagucj may be done' jin seven minutes, malving forty-nino jminutes for tho whole distance his horses will have to' run. The high jioad on which the horses run is seven leagues in length. The wa ger is for a million of reals $125,000. Reported Outdueak in Cuba. f We heard several rumors yester day of au outbreak ui Cuba.- One report had it that; the negroes on some of the plantations in the inte ior had risen upon their masters mother story was to the effect that a revolution against the authorities had been started aud was making headway. We shall await further news before we spvak further of these rumors. Sew - Orleans l'icc, yunc, 428. ! : i The value of taxable 'property in Philadelphia city and county has just been estimated "at J:H;00,727. .1 4-rr- to .W iiiti iaor f Missouri. savage reply. , ! ' I V- ' M ' : I J j ! I 'I' ! f . 1LL A - . '--.'"Vl-N)