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A WEEKLY FAMILY Nf2\ SPAPER?Independent of Party Politics or Religious Sects.?Devoted to News, Literature, Morality, Agriculture, the Arts,&c IOMMTOWN, (Ya.) SATURDAY, APRIL 14,1855. {Volume YI.-WMeNo.% S. SIEGFRIED, Editor and Proprietor. S. SIEGFRIED, Jun., Assistant Editor, THE MONONGALIA MIRROR Ta published evoty Saturday morning, atthe office on Front street, next door to N. Madera's old Post office stand) at tho following terms: 51 50 a Year Cash in Advance; 52 00 AFTER SIX MONTHS HAVEEXPIItED. ID- No paper will be discorttinued until all arrearages are paid up, except at the option of the Publisher. No subscription taken for a Shorter period than six months. TERMS OF ADVERTISING : For 1 liqMre, 3 w'eeks> - - $1.00 eadh additional insertion, - 0.2o For one square, 3 months, - - 3.00 do. 6 months, - - 0.00 do. 1 yeir, - - 12.00 For one columrtj. minion t^pe, 1 yfcar, 40.00 For Announcing Candidates, each name, 2.00 Xtents of Betas, ??c. Indian Treaties.?Governor Ste vens of Oregon, has lately made treat ies with several tribes of Indiana, in that territory upon terms satisfactory, as well to tho Indians as to the whites. Rev. W. Summers, an old and useful minister of the M. E. Church, died in Martinsville, Ohio, on Wednesday last. He was buried by the Masonic frater nity. We have a paper before us urging the claims of W. H. Seward of N. York for tho next Presidency, calculating largely on his popularity with tho free soil or Republican party of the North. A western editor, in answer to a com plaint of a patron that he did nut give news enough, told him when news was -scarce to read the Bible, which h6 had no doubt would bo news to him. Biigham Young, the Prophet thinks that St. Paul, in saying that a bishop should be the husband of one wife, meant, not to interdict him from having any more, butlie should have one wife to login with. He that has the happy talent of par lor preaching, has sometimes done more for Christ and souls in the space of a few minutes, than by the labor of many hours and days in the usual course of preaching in the pulpit. By the late act of Congress, the salary of the Chief Justice of the Su preme Court of the United States has been raised to S6,500 per annum, and the salaries of the associate justices to f6,000 per annum. Attend church regularly, listen atten tively to the sermons and never fail .to practice their teaching, and you secure what wealth and pomp cannot give, the respect of men and the approbation ofi God. A child is born. Now take the germ end make a bud of beauty. Let the dews of knowledge and the light of vir tue wake in it the richest frajjranco and the purest kues, and, above all, see that you keep its face and frock clean. Three men wore smothered to death in a flouring mill, in Seymour, West Canada, a few days ago. They were At work on a lower floor, when the floor above gave way, letting down about 3,000 bushels of grain. A horrid death indeed. PrnhiliteA.?Austria, it is said, has forbidden the publication of the bull re specting the immaculate conception ih Lombardy, and has even prohibited llie priests from proachingujDoi it. While boring an Artesian well at New Orleans, a bed of sheila was struck at the depth of two hilr.dred and forty feet, having the appearance of those Which always line the seashore, were brought up by the augeh RoMANdE?Married on a cako of floating ice, in ihe Ohio river, opposite Rising Sun, on Thursday, January 30, by the Rev. Mr.Collard, Rev. James H. Brooking to Miss Sallie Craig, all of Boone county, Ky. The floor of the ToWn Hall, iu Mer edith, N. H., broke through during the election last week. Three hundred men were thrown into a heap, fciijhteen feet below, flvo or six killed, and a great number severely injured. The Mormonites are very active in Walos in spreading their doctrines.? Among the colliers and miners of the bill districts of South Wales, the pecu liar tenets of this sect find favor, and a large number of these have recontly joined the ranks. Yankee All Over.?The owners of the little steamer Surprise, built to run on the Androacogin, in Maine during the Summer, liavo determined that she shall havo no idle time. They drew her on upon tho shore in a cove, Slid built a sawmill over tho steamer, using the en gines as a motivo power for tho mill, while the mill answers tho purpefse of a boat house. FUttering Testimony.?TIios. lend ing, once a well known pr eacher in Geor gia and Florida, has joined the Mor mons. Whereupon, the Atlanta Intell igencer sayi; "those of us to whom the yjx Reverend is a familiar name, will look for stirring times when he gets to Salt Lake, and if the Latter Day Saints don't find under his teaching that even poliiramy may be run into th esoil, we ure badly fooled.'1 Comtotm/cafei* SIC, eionco of liarmonical ?Bunds. It claims its ie, and for a history of the Bible, in which that, when tho Lord ions of the earth the jing together, and all [tiouted for joy." Job it tho nativity of our icro appeared to tho .tiudo of tho heavenly ' i( and saying, ,Glory ihost,. and on earth wards men." From liy infer that its ori [Tenco we infer that science, in tho true .exists only in hca capable of being re "etion, even by us the urth, when properly ?, as to redound to md tho best interests and the hearers, in mgthening their de nrnen holding com 'ither of mercies. _as the days of Da le in Israel, tho sci id a high rank.? o" Davla, not only i;h extent, but, by Holy Spirit, fur foitry) for devotion highly valued by Inl have been added lime. How great lave been in pro Music is thi and melodioui origin in tho it, I refer yoi you will loan " laid tho foui morning stars] the sons of G : 4, 7. & Saviour, who; shephords a mi host, praising I to God in tho peace, good wil this wo may ri gin is of God! perfection in tl senso of tho tei ven; but that il duced to such pi inhabitants of tl used in our ch tho glory of Goi of tho performi | awakening and votional affectioi munion with thoj Even as far bi vid, tho sweet sii enco of music obi Solomon, the so'i cultivated it to the inspiration ol nished materials al exorcises, whiel tho people of God, to tho inspired must their influent. _ , noting this heavenlyscience, whon, at the dedication of tho emple thoro were about four thousai crs on instruments) gether with so mud sounds wort as om Lord. This, wo perfection as wo nearer, I fear, thl to approach From this wo lei tions that have livei David and Solomo: time, have rotrograi music. Yes, they into tho shades of difference. Oh! hi that we so freque: discord and confusioi churchos, when then feet harmony and unitjn to celebrate tho praisos of God aii;ht. And that which makes it tho moie lamentable is, "ingers and play io performed to ?curacy that their icund, praising tho i]pose, is as near come, and much >e shall be likely that the genera icothe days of i) to tho present in the science of re gone far back ;orancc and in lnmontablo it is it hear so much f voices in our ight to be a per tlxia is the nineteenth ;entury, a time in which wo ouglit to bi perfect in that science which is calcutted to calm tho troubled breast, and,|vhen properly used, to strew our patfeay with plea sure and holy delight.: Hut do not un derstand mo to beliov'ejtiat music is the samo thing as piety. Fir from it!? But it is a means of Cultivating and strengthening piety, anr of elevating and giving lifo to devotimal oxercises. We close by suinmug up what we have said in favor of tie cultivation of Vocal Music. 1. We should cultivate this science because it originated in heaven. 2. Because of its gljrious effects in roliglous worship, j 3. Because it iscoeul with crdation: 4. Because it is a :ligh privilege.? Tho highest archangel in the Now Je rusalem deems a glorious privilege thus to colebrato tho praiacj of the King of King. And if we should'be so fortunate at tho dissolution of soul and body as to have Bur spirits boriit to tho realms of bliss, ito slmll join tie heavenly Bong stcrs ih swelling the anthems of the Redeemer's praise J and our hymn of praiso shall be, 'f Glory, honor and power to Him that sitteth t'n tho throno and to the Lamb forever 1" J. T. C Fairv'iew, tayldi*co., Va. Plenty of Marl. Ih llic interior of Norfolk, Engiand, is a bed of oyster shells, nine miles long, arid above 18 feet thick. Other shells and bones ,(somc, of elephants, &c.,) also abound, 100 feet aboVe the | sea levol. Aldtfr imd haz<;l bilShqs arc found 20 foot billow the surfiide-lovdl. llomaihs of oxtonsivo forests rtt'b traced beyond the niouth of tho wasli and Un der tho laud, trith bones of elopharits, oxon and dedr. Tho same Wrests are found on tho' opposite coast of Flande'rs, audit is believed that they oilce joined. The Washington Star fays that'll, COO apf/licntidns for bcWnty lands un der the law of tho last, sossictn have al ready been filed in tho Pension offico. A man named Harris, 70 years of ace, has been committed in Philadel phia for making bogus silver com. | SCIENCE AND ART. I ggf The following articles wo copy from lato numbers of tho N. Y. Scien tific American: The Sphymograpli, or Pulse Writer. In a recent number of the Scientific ' American, Prof. Vierordt'o machino to record the beating of the pulso is no ticed. Allow me to state that there has been a machine for the same pur pose, invented, made, and experimented with, in this country, which is much more accuratc and ingenious than the Ferman one. The invention of this instrument called Syplimograch, i. o; Pulae Writer, was occasioned by tho wish of Dr. C. Hering, of Philadelphia, to havo a machine for such a purpose. It was invented by Mr. E. F. Hilgard, U. S. Coast Survey, and made in Washington about a year ago. It is an electro-magnetic machine; recording on tho samo strip of paper the time and tho number of beats of tho pulso; it is, in fact, a Morse's record ing telegraphic instrument, with two levors, two raagnots, two batteries, and a clock. The current of one battery is broken by tho stroko of the pendu lum of a clock, each stroko making 4 dot. The currcnt of tho other battery is broken by the pulse. To a splint fastened to the arm of the person whoso pulso is to bo recorded, a lever is attached, one end of which rests on the pulse, so that4each beat of the pulso raises with tho lever a projecting piece of platinum from another insulated pieco of platinum; to each of these pieces of platinum one end of tho wire from the battery is attached, and each beat of the pulse breaks the circuit and inakos a dot. The operators of this double telegraph being, in one instance a clock, in the other the pulse, record ing on the samo paper, thus: time. pulse. In an experiment the pendulum made 72 strokes a minute, therefore 12 strokes are equal to 10 seconds, during the samo tirno the pulse beats 10 times, making 60 beats per minute. Tho number of dots per 14,1-2 or 1 min tlte, are transcribed to a paper, hori zontally and vertically ruiiid, the tiiaa on tho vertical and the pulso on the horizontal lines, showing at a glance the state of tho pulse. During last fall tho subscriber made with this instru ment a series of experiments to ascer tain the action of different articles of food and drugs cn tho systenl, aiid how they affected the pulso. Alcohol (1 oz. to 5 oz. of water) raised the pulse at first considerably above the normal number, then it lowered it for a much longer period, tho lino showing the rk* ing was never a straight one, but al ways up and down, wave-like, and so was the falling pulse. Dr. C. Hcring had this instrument made for merely scientific investiga tions, and as soon as a sufficient num ber of experiments shall have been made, tho results will bo published.? The instrument may bo seen at the of fice of its proprietors in Philadelphia. A. Zumdbook, M. D. Baltimore, March 10th, 1855. MedicaJ Effects of Saleratus. A writer in the Medical Examiner, criticises the paper of Dr. Alcott, orig inally published in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, on tho injurious cfl'ects of salcratus" as used in domes tic cookery, and especially in attribut ing the great mortality among children under five years of a^e ill our country, to such use of it; No leSs than three fifths of the deaths of children were at tributed to its use, without any attempt to substantiate such a bold assertion by facts, excepting tlio placing of it among irritant poisons, because .Orfila had done so. Common salt is also set down by Orfila as an irritant poison when excessively used. Tho critic in the! Examiner tolls Dr. Alcott that ho for got to mention that one-half of tho children that die under five years of ago' never tasted bread nor saleratus. lie assorts that "if the ill consequences re sulting from careless cookihg wero properly estimated, it would be found that much discaso might bo traced to sour dud badly formonted broad."? Salcratus, ho adsorb, will prdduce no injurious cfl'ects from constant uso in such small quantities as aro required for making bretid. How tru" these views fflako the old saying, "doctors do differ." To Cnro Felons. S. Oslio'r, of Higgnnum, Cdhh., in forms us that by keeping tho felon fin der in hot water for a long tirrio, it will rcmovo tho pain. Tho water must bo kept a? hot as it is possible for the per son to boar. lie cured one on himsolf by this plan, and has known of it bo I ing oqually eificacious iVith others. POETICAL. For the ikirror* MY BROTHERS. Do yo novor turn asido, dear friends, From tho noisy way yo tread, ? And in >omo calm and quiet spot Think sadly of your dead? For there are not many thresholds hore Which death has never crossed,? Not many hearts that ne'er hare mourned Some precious treaf?reJost. So, on this holy Sabbath day, My thoughts aro backward bent, And cluster round tho graves of those Whoso early lifo is spent. Thero were four sweet little brothers Who but touched theBe shores of ours, And lingered for a little time Among the vernal flowers. till one by one thoy wearied grow,? They would not, could not stay. Tho life-tide ebbed, and each frail bark Was gontJy borne away. And often, when the storms of life Beat heaviest on my head, It has seemed a blessed thing that they, The fair and pure were dead. So, baby brothers, sweetly rest In your untroubled sleep I 'Twero sin to wish ye back again* ?Twcro vain for ye to woop.. ^ But oh I there is ono other grave* In tho mountains far away, O'er which my heart, in bitterness, Could weep itself away. Freo as the very mountain wind, Mora peerless still than free; And glorious in manhood's strength, A peorlcss one was he. And yet he fell! the arrow flew, The deathly deed was done! His warm heart sheathed the murdorous shaft, Ho died,?he sleeps alone. But, brother, in thy mountain gravo, A tearful, sad farewell 1 'Twere bettor not to think of thee, Than at thy fate rebel. A. THE EDITOR'S SONG. The Editor sits at his table, Wrilkiff, si?el)u3 ho'?nb',ri Paragraph, leader and puff; Ills scissors beside him aro lying, Whilst he is in agony trying Of copy to furnish enough. Toil?toil?toil! Whit a weary life is mine! Wasting the prccious midnight oil In leader, and column and line; Working from morn till night, Working from night till morn, Oh! why was the steam press ever made, Or why was the editor born ? Toil, toil, toil! And whose is the gain when wdii! "Whoso are the trophies wo achieve, And for whom are tho laurels won? To stand in tho foremost rank Of each hard fought parly fray? To share tho toil, and only to get Abuse and neglect for pay! Toil, toil, toil! What a thankless task is ours; To bako the bread and devour tho checsc That Senator Jones devours! To sit on a three-legged stool, Whilst others have hair stuped scats, To prepare tho hash and ceok up tho stow, Cut never to tasto the meats! Toil, toil toil, As the constant drop on a stone, So the ceaseless, endless work, Weary away body and bone; Though the poet splutter atid write, Though the orator bully and brawl; If it wero not for the editor's pen, What were the use of it all? Toil, toil, toil, Christians, Mormons and Jows; Is there a maw on this weary eartli But grows richer by roiding the news? Richer, richer, richer, As they read it by sunlight and taper? And yet there isn't a soul of them all But grudges to pay for his paper I Toil, toil, toil! There's a row in tho very noxt street! Somebody's going to murder his wife, And I must be tout-inite, Yesterday, just at this time, Two policemen got choked in a riot; And so it goes on from morning till night, And an editor never knows quiet Boston Pilot. dmcMment of the Patent Laws. Ail amondment was made by our Into Congrtidsj ttt tlio request Of tlio tiom missidiier of Patents, providing for four new principal examlnorsj four assistant oxairtiners, and the powfir to employ 2 other principal, and two Assistant ox aminers, if requirod. This amendment to the patont law confirms regulations heretofore adoptod by the Commis sioner. BARNDM'S SPEECH ON HUMBUGS. DET.IVERF.D AT STAMFORD OX TIIE OCCA SION" OF TIIE AGRICULTURAL FAIR. It seems to bo a most unfortunate circumstanco that I should be selected to speak on Humbug, as looking on tho ladios, whose profession it peculiarly is, I find it lmrd to oxpress myself irk, their presence. Everything is humbug; tho whole stato is humbug, except our Agricultural Society?that alono ia not. Humbug is usually defined "deceit, or imposition." A burglar who breaks into your house, a forger who cheats you of your property, or a rascal, is not a humbug; a humbug is not ail impostor; but in my opinion tho true meaning of , humbug is management, tact, to take an old truth and put it in an attractive form. But no humbugis great without truth at the bottom. The woolly horse was a reality. He was really born with a woolly coat. I bought him in Cincin nati for ?500, and sent him on to Con necticut, but for a lone time I doubted what I should do with him) and feared that he would die on my hands. Just at this time, in 1849, Col. Fremont and his party were icported to have been lost in the Rocky Mountains; the pub lic were, greatly excitod, but shortly nows came that he was safe. Now came the chance for the woolly horse. I It was duly announced that after three days chaso upon the borders of: the river Gila, an animal had boen cap tured by tho quartermaster of Col. Fro-1 mont's party, which partook in a sin-! gular degree of tho nature of tho buf falo, antelope and oamol; The story was so far true, that I was myself the quartermaster who captured him, and I charged a quarter for the sight.? The picture outside the exhibition de-1 pictcd tho animal as jumping over a ledge of rocks; now if the animal had really leaped, as shown in the picture, he must have passed over a space of five miles. To have believed that he could have survived such a leap, would have boen tho grossest humbug. ? | But Col. Benton, who understands no hum'pug 'iut'his Bwnl^trMtfld' my scheme,"and prosecuted me for obtain ing money under falso pretences, as the horse was not what it professed to be; but I think wrongly, as the people who saw it were satisfied, and they got the worth of their money. Now the scientific humbug should know tho precise moment to act as I j did, or the world would never have, been blessed with a sight of the woolly i horse. When the wodlly horse arrived from I Connecticut, he was put into a stable: near Lovcjoy's Hotel. One of the boarders who came to see him recogniz ed him as an animal he had seen at Bridgeport. "Good heavens!" ho ex claimed, "I have seen that animal be fore ; it is u most extraordinary hum bug." He took up a friond from tho same hotel, and after Ho had seen tho animal, lot him into the secret, and in succession thirty-seven porsons wore carried up, all of whom took tho hum bugging in perfect good hunior except the last ltisn. I have not the vanity to call myself a real scientific humbug, I am only iin humble member of tho profession. My ambition to bo tho Princo of Humbugs I will resign, but I liopo tho public will take tho will for the deed; I can assure them that if I had boon ablo to give them all the humbugs I havo thought of, they would have been amplj' satisfied. Before I went to England witli Tom Thumb, I had a skelotpn prepared from various bones. It was to havo boon made 18 feet high; it was to havo been buried a year or so in Ohio, and then dug up by accident, so that tho public might lcarri that there were giants of old. Tho price I was to pay tho person who proposed to put the skeleton to gether wits to have been 9225. But finding Tom Thumb moro Suc cessful than 1 thought, I sont word not to procoed with tho skeleton. My man ager, who novor thought as highly of the sohemo as it deserved, sold the skeleton for ?u0 or ?75. Sovcn years afterward I rocoived from the South an account of a gigan tic skoloton that hail been found. Ac companying it were tho cortifieates of scientific and tricdical men as to tlid fonuincuess of it. Tho dttno'r askfcd 20,000 or ?1000 a month; I wrdtc to him if lie brought it on I would take it if I foiiitd it as rdprcsoiitod, or wdjlld priy his expenses if ndt; 1 found it was my own old original humbug, camo back to mo again. Of cdurso I refused it; and I never heard of it aftorward. B??Sovast6pol is not yet taken. GUTZLAFF'S CHINESE BIBLE. We learn from the Chinese Mission ary Gleaner that the "leader of the re bellion is printing GutzlafFs version of the Old Testament Scriptures. Ilo has four hundred men employed upon the work. Each volume is bound in impe rial yellow, and the title-page is adorn ed with tho imperial arms. He makes his soldiers colporteurs, and his officers expounders. Should the insurgent cliiof ascend the throne, this will probably be come the national version, awl tho I words of it will be as familiar as housc i hold words to the people. A3 to the 1 value of this version, an educated Chi nese into whose hands it was put char acterized it as."both the very best I version, and the very Hftrst." It con I veys tho very idea ofjjlSc original, but I it is not a cliJIsieal version. It is the ' most faithful one; but in adhering to fidelity, it has departed from style. I think I would put Dr. Gutzlaff'a ver sion into the hand of' an educated Chi naman, in order to give Mm the clear est view of the original Scriptures.? Prof. Newman, of Munich, a celebrated ! Chinese scholar, expressed in 1849 the opinion that Gutzlaff's version had " made a great step in advance towards perfection."' The bishop of Victorii, in April, 1854, comparing the Old Tes tament version Of the London Mission ary Socilty with Gutziaff's't; says that tho former is adapted to educated schol ars, the latter to the moro plain and less educated reader. Gjftzlaff's Vor sion, it is said, adheres Strictly to tlie original text. It avoids 'all' words and expressions conveying ideas not consis tent with,the originals. It also retains the parallelisms which so often occur, and which the Chinese admire as an elegant characteristic of a lofty style; With the aid of the various old versions, the Delegates' version, and the version of Gutzlaff, a3 important contributions, wo may hope our own version, wrought out with faithful diligence by Mr. God dard, will have merits entitling it to a place above all others; and that among the dignitaries of the country it will secure a fame equal to that of Dr. Jones' New Testament-, aak^ig,thftiobjep--oft jnVlrtiiij;*-! tmww' If .a* ?w?j| Let BIc Pray First. A very intelligent little girl was pis sing quietly through the streets of a cer tain town, a short time since, when she came to a spot where several idle boys were amusing themselves in a very dan gerous practice of throwing stones.? Not observing the boys, one of them, by accident, threw a stone inward heri and struck hot a cruel blow in the eye. She Was carried home in gtpl agony. The surgeon was sent fur, and a very painful operation was declared necessa ry. When the time came, and the sur geon had taken out his instruments, she lay in her father's arms, and he asked her if she was ready 1 "No, father; not yet," sho replied, "What do you wish to wait for my child!" "1 want to kneel in your lap, and pray to Jesus first," she answered. And then kneeling, she prayed a few minutes and afterwards submitted to the opera tion with a patience worthy of a wo man. How beautiful this little girl appears under those trying circumstances I? Surely Jesus heard the prayer mado in that hour; and ho will love every child that calls upon his his name. Let every boy and girl learn to pi ay; and let idle boys be careful how they throw stones. The oditreis of tlio Lancaster Litera ry Gazelle having said she would as soon nestle her nose in a rat's nest of swingle tow, as allow a man with whiskers on to kiss her, some outrageous old bache lor editoi', who ought to be condemned to live single forever, if not a little Idri ger, retorts thus: "Wo don't believe a word of it! The objection which soma ladies pretend to have to whiskers all arises from envy. They don't have any. They would if they could, but the fact is, the continual motion of ilia lower jaw is fatal to their growth." "The ladies, God bless thorn, adopt our fashion as far as they can. Look at the depredations the dear .creatures have committed nil oiir' wardrobe du ring lato years. They have appropria ted our shirt bosoms, gold stud* ami all. They have encircled thbir soft bewitch ing nocks in our standing collars and cravats, driving us meri to flatties ami turridownls. Their innocent little hearts liavd beetl palpitating it) ihe inside of our Wuisicoiits, instead rif thumping a gaiust the outside ds naturally intended. "They have thrust their pretty feel and ankles through our unmentionables, uiiwhisperahles, unthinkables?in short as Micawber would say, breeches. And they ar? skipping along the streets in our fligh-heolod boots. Do you heai gentlemen! We6ay boots.'' flgT'Keop' your oyo on tW coin. Singing Conductive to Health. It was the opinion of Dr. Rush that singing by young ladies, whom the cos toms of society debar from many kinds of healthy exercise, should be cultivated not only us an accomplishment, but as i - moans of preserving health. He par ticularly insists that vocal music abould never be neglected in the edutation of a young lady; and states, that besides its salutary operation fn soothing the cares of a domestic life, it has a S^ill more di rect and important effect. "1 here in troduce a fact," says t)r. Rush, "which; has been subject to moby my profession; that is, the ercercise of the organs ofth'b breast by singing contributes, to defend them very much from ilioaajiseases to which the climate and otheJIuuies ex pose them. The Germans aWseldorh afflicted with consumption, nor have-1^ ever knew more than one case of spit ting blood amongst them. This, I be lieve, is, an part, occasioned by the strength which their lungs acquire by exercising them frequently in vocal mu sic, which constitutes an essential branch of thrj- education." " The music mas ter of an academy," oays Mr. Qardner, " has furnished ma'with an observation still more in favor of this opinion. He informs me that he has known, jieveral instances of persons strongly disposed to consumption, restored to health by exercising their lungs in singing, . ? Effectual Method fir Destroying fiats. A cnrr&pnndent of the Gennessee Farmer give? the following method for destroying rats. Ho says. ."One "day",a/stranger. camWrotJieW house to buy some barley, tttid hearing nty father mention the difficulty he had in freeing the house of these disagreea ble tenants, he said he could put him in the way' of Betting, rid of them with vi'ry little trouble. His directions were simply these: mix a quantity of arsenic with any sort of grease, and. plaster it pretty thick around their holes. The rats he >aM, if they do not eat the poison would soil their coats in passing through' ., the holes in passing and as liko, all furi^ red animals, they are very cleanly, and " cannot endure any dirt upon their coats, - to remove the offensive tijatter they/ would lick their fur?;and, thus destroy . themselves. This plan was immediate. , ly put in practice, ond in a month a flfffcirerf rSt watf to brteeii about thfc' ? house or bare. Management of Manure Heaps.?Ond of our foreign exchanges has a commu nication from Mr. Robert Austin, M an- - Chester who says that upwards of a'toii J of horse duug is produced in his stabled I daily and the usual offensive odor and e- > vacation from it entirely prevented by , sprinkling over the dung heap by nieans of an ordinary watering can, dsoltition' of a pound of common green copperas in a gallon of water. The value of this ' chemical in fixing ammonia and strength ening manure, has long been knowti'butf? Mr. Austin's practical application-may be considered simple effective and easily adopted in similar eases. ? . c ^ ? A case came up for trial a few daya since in New York, wherein .one party, sued another for the value of,40 bags of peas. THe plaintiff was a coffee 'roaster, and had contracted with the defendant for 250 bags of peas, which, it appeared, were to be ground up with the coffee!? Some ciirious d'eveloperiibnts came out in the course of the trial; showing the extent to which peas, chicory and other . substances are used for thb article whicti ili sold as pure ground coffee. The Zoiuves.?Who and what are the Zouaves? The Zouaves are natives af tho French provinces of Algiers, dis ciplined and exercised by French offi cers, and now forming part of the French contingent emplosed in the Crimea aud tho siege ofSebastopol. They hold ex actly the same relation to the French arrny that the Sepoys in Itidia have to. the regular British troops,?Notti and . Quirie,. j An important case Buit under thb pre btit liquor law was decided in Terra Haute on Tuesday. It seems that a li quor seller had sold a man brandy, from] the effect of which he fell into tho canai causing congestion, froiii which he died. The jury awarded the plaintiff, (wi&fW of tho deceased) damages to the amotfnt of rive hundred Dollars. A righ'tebu" verdict. Rich and Poor.?The rich have the most meutj the poor the best appetites.? The rich lie the softest; the poor sleep the soundest. Tho rich have dolicaciesjS tho poor have health. The rich are a fraid of losing! the poof1 have nothing to / los'e, aud so in this fespect they have' nothing to fear. The rich1 dread the midnight robbers) the poor have mt ap prehensions of being robbed. , Tiie Po'jis has sent to all the gnver'h ments of Europe a volume containing an accbilnt of all thai? has taken plats hetweeti himself and1 tKe Sardinian gov -rumeut on thw religious affairs of Pied mom' 91