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BATHS 0FADVBRTI31N0. 1 ? r ! 1 'I 1"' Xalf aclasa T' , OitrM alaaa om y- 1 1 1 1 ' 5 pUl Kotlc, ptr Hi , , ),.. -. 1mm Card f aot mot tkaa ill .Him :1tamt 1 -L :l ''.'' Marriag and dth sotlaa fra. IM M it to I 00 -J.- Ax -PENROSE,' .-ft DAtE If r R Y GO O D8 V ROTlblffl, IIOOTB., aiioi;;, ; . - , ...... ..... - -' . tlUBENEWAP.B AND GttOCEIilES, (TRGET. Pixr wit.L Alaiandar'a -Drug. Blor, POETRY. POETRY. AN OLD HAND. Blii-TintiJ Rid urtokWy, -tnutltly and brown, mil tod ajd nana i cmjnng nun I bnd abova If, and looking down, T '.. I atudy itt atpect, lint by Hnav - " " - ' i ' i J l I Tbit build hit tlaipcd a, thru Mid hd t That bng bar kiown no anawering th'rill J oni bav uiouldared In foreign, land , , , . i Bom in thi graf ayard u k hjll. ' Cln-ped MotiKir1) hand, yfT iffbtutf J', Vr heu it waa little and cjft and whit Motbar, who iii.d It. nd went kwy. . , ;To r till lh wikiug in Ood'M good light. ' Clped lovr' bftnd ynr gon,- ' '. r V Lo tailyil wy and left bar in lart yndor Bnbaraa torrid iuu,. , . Ht.bouca hic r bitni yrora ndytr. '- CUtpod (ha band'of a good man trno, ... w Wbo held it aoftly, anH full mlotp, " And wok no more, Mid Dover knw How long' that imjrM tbi would kp. ' . Clufied many", tVniacyl a !fw f ' Tbat otill rtpod to the liviiit will. I Or can antwor (bit i.rotur, o Kiud'sod true- Bo many thut lie unmoved and at til 1 1 ' . 'ir t'I Ctofped, at lt, tbi lmnil my own Aad ruine will ntvui'W, too, u toni,.')' Will auy clasp it wbeu I am gone? . in am I tudy thi hand to learn.. , Brick" Pomeroy's Humerous and Scientific Account of the Great Meteoric Hail-storm. weeu. I read in tho almanacs that on the 13th day. of Novomber J A. '1806 there was to be A grand shower of meat or meteors Iroin way up there way down here, commencing at 3 o'clock i tbe,oitrlv part of,,lic morning.'Tlid pa pcrs nu bbiu no iuu. xue wives, wiu owa, children, cooks, chambermaids, pretty girld and unpretlji gh-ls, all said o. Vhat a meteor was 1 knew not. Aa the fchowor J wlia coining tfrom tho Little Bear, I thdught it was a sausage storm, which I tould b"daf.J '( Thought it waa it' sausage. Atorih for the sages foresaw, or - the lour sages saw; jt. Thought! toifXiV meet l$wit Jllatbnic emotionl Thon'I found i was not meat but a shower of stones in a liquid form. Of conrHO they were previous stones. So said tho cook, tjio chambermaid and eVcry body." I wanted.. some, eofres'oU ved to be on hand. ' ' Midnight earners TJie subscriber slecped pot. Xiko Joseph, he, slept not because he was hot sleepy .' I dos ed till two o'clock intho A. M.rand in bed, or words to that effect. I wreBt led wjth'tliC 'ghosts of Are dor.ei raw Ovftor. four nlrs 'feet , a head of cab bage, bot'tlea of catsup, arid 'tin miigsof bio. Mt was sovera , wreeuo, ana ills breathed tho free air of my native hit as it went, inarching on. T arose . two. 'It waa tho firstot autumn at that hour. - I lookod at my watch. It was there. . I thttnkod the Giverof all good that I was not in Nety Yprk,when the brave tiouotiiul j UutkrJ .Hh his ec ond-hand eye was there, or my watch would have run down do Lioweii I Tho meteor ahowwasafree show Reserved aeaU for ladies.- 'I wanted front aoat and arose to onct I 1 manu factured my toilet a la General Wash burn, as he tore it ou( pf . Memphis like a phantom flag of truce. " I would have 'made, a good-ballet girl for- th: Black Crook, but my waterfall was not con structed right intho wear and tear the atace. Vide Smyth. I I went up ward like Daniel in the lkn. iuutjtute, or lil;4 I'jn))) With ' itis iBliVtitig ' pnrk bead. 1 arose through the skylight the dignity of the root V'fbe morningj wan in iu uiiu uiBiauce verjr iiiuuu that way, The twijight. vas polder than the skylight,' and ' I tried .them both. My epora glass was at my un cle's had been to three balls tmd notret,urnl , ' . . ,tn8t hvd aUsief . .TooVi cnc.atong. h sections. "The right-hand barrej came to a focus on rye! The left-hand barrel acted on cogniacl To look thro' this style' pf npper-a-glass shut both yes and open thi moutb. Through dark laBB hiii art foea tuttjittcs. With this stylo of glass we had a sky light View. ! sat on the roof.i Jt was "roof t place to rest on ' Not like come rest in this bosom to which we a-spi-rol of us., The air was foreign: It chill ! But'we were not a north or south a merry cuss for all that I Who would be a merry cuss sitting on a cold roof, dressed as I- was, waiting' for" some thing to turn up ? I dangled ' foot the ledge. I saw' stars overhead, i Mooked up for once in my life, you My neck ached-' .Then I tried the glas-, ees nrst one barrel, then two. Above us were stars. I saw stars on the street. They had blue coats on. The stars winked' at me- when I raisod "the rye I'" The stars below me didn't wink. THy snored. The sUrs t i YATIVE :i r. I V.QL..1. MCONNELSVILLE, NOVEMBER 23, 1866. NO: 17. ? I I . i , i I ad Mere in the ftaHkt vrny Tlte stars bolow me were not in that way, but in BroaJway. They were not tbe milky way Btylo ol Btari I 1 eaw dimly, i Aly. opera-giase ,waa too atrcDir. Jt made me nervous. 1 looked about and saw much ghosts on the ro6f. Felt quite gravo. Felt like coucmn I Many glioma. jJian i see the raoteori. fttw raahr heads out of ndowi beloVlrt)e. ;FlcaKfit ruern- te. No rain! f No, waterfalls nt that hWr on Broadway How I winked ! V as looking lor mo- teorsl ' The aUrs ov;rhcad wore look ing for meteors. . At last they winked. It was very cold, used me opera ginns often. One barrol at a time,- Vanned me inwardly, but lhp heat kdfled .in my thorax- Liko poUticnl iernrops, it didn t .ara the bauc yarl ot u auai enco. Aly arena was like that ol ben eral WashburncSrhen'' he led all gar mcnts but on and fled .through Mem phis. Ho was a' modest mun, bo he ran. I'ernaus lie wanted exorcise aim ran fur that. I wanted exercipo. The meteors didn't meet. So I thought to run over the roof. Ran against a ghost. tt spoko tome' it acream6d,.','Pii my darling child L" , Says, I, are you my mother have you n strawberry' or blackberry ntarA r . Suya th ghost; 'Yon.'r- knocked me down yon ve kilted my babe I held In my arras I" "Oh, dear, 1 oflorea to get nor anout er." She, aald"t 'jYdii Plundering Wutel" ' My name is not Uutler, quotli 1 to her. The ghost was a married one. At least there was circumstantial evi dencVpoihUng that way," gho'wits ta king tho morning air : and whilo tak ing it sho lost her morning heir." Says I to the ghost "Jiond mo a garincntr "And go withoul?" said she. "Shia- " r at a of to did Icrs female." aaid I. You're anotherl" said sho. "1 tried the opera glass atrain." Said she. "Oh VoU am t ft naughty, naiiKhry man, then .after all?' 'W by so T ' Hand me your nursing bottle 7" - -Mistaken -'thost.' then 1 knew she was from the spirit land I " The moon began to strengthen, but it camo' not to a focus. The gentle tophyrs zepbyred like Mthe -devil-Mir words to- that meaning. '.. I felt a' cold ness creeping pver me. No meteors vet. The chosts chatte'rod all about mo. i 1 telt . rheumatism. -. i-uo opera o-lass erew " lichler both barrels. lound a clnmnev-top. .it leu generous. It gave out a subdued warmth. It was a. brick chimney, therefore .1 sat on.it. ISO meteors yet. The stars oegan fallinc. -back like Sicel. ,'i thought it was strategy to induce the nicreors to advance. The chimney felt a little warm. I emptied the bottles and threw the corks at a rofl-heaaea gnor wnii out a waterfall. 1 Biung the bottle oy cr the battlements, that a city editor below mi Tlit see stars.- . , - ; I romembered that the Firo Com missioners were w wring otu ten times to ' wake . roe. up when meteor died j and like a ahip on a billow, child in a bath tub. a hen on her nest, or Butler taking his spoons, I slept liko a babe . across its grandmother knee, getting, warmth where I needed it. . . , "No meteors yet. 1 shunt. But not long. I emelt some thing. K awoke mo. I thought i( waa a meteor, bays 1 "Ji uuy lor science i The smell jncreused, '1 grew nervous but could not toll where. 1 was, in, bog.. A" nioteor had struck, I knew Things wcro burning.. "And I had no accident policy ! The world was on fire. The smoke was all about me itshosts sat there iu-smoke and white , cotton with frills. 1 r, ' ; . v Ah, ha I Fiends" of the lower regions! But 1 have- thee! . I arose, quiokly. Curses on the man who invented sleep! Confound the cook who built the hrc at the othor end of that chimney. When I arose, a cotton cinder tourtoen Inches long by. four inchoswide floated; off like aft aruiV ba'liobn. ' Sleep is not good f Opera ghtb-ses are not good, unloaded, toe rapidly k didn ti seethe raoteor. but the doctors saw if.; It was inflamed rod hot. I think I shall not sit on a chimney or on any thing olso for many days. No more meteors for me. , J.t "wiw .fUsoraatiQa-r-denioed mean ono At;that.'' The1 papers knew1 better. It-was a Copperhead lie I Tenderlv thine.'. "BRICK" POMEROY a a was over I bet. Ov erhead everi'! t& The cost of living in New York At the present time is almost incrediblo, and jt is astonishing where the money eomee from to" support euch extrava gance. Furnished nouseS in fashiona ble avenues rent for $1,000 per montfl. A,lauuly Jiving at one.ot. the large hotels pays 8700. per week tor . rooms and board.' The average price for large rooms And board In tho principal hotels cannot be bad for loss than 8150. weok tor man and . PPPHNdVfr. PoppJ of Poppyille, fancying himself to be very popular fwith bis lady love, poppod the question to her unaer tne poplar tree on l'oniar lane, whoUi ahe roierrvd him to, floppy, who, when akd for bis content, abored Under the' influence of finger pop,. popped him out, of the door to tuna of T6p goce the weasel."'' J i .- .-- . . ; 'j i f . . .'. '-'v! " teCora Hatch 'is a colored candi date for the Illinois legislature. One Gambler Forces Another to Marry His Wife. . few days since a singular mar riage occurred in tlfe private house of a IZresbytcrian , clergyman in. Now Ybrk, the circuinstancos of which are asfollows; .,. ' . ..' The bridegroom waa what Is styled a sporting mau and was on . hi way to Chicago with a; brother blaokleg, who posHesed A very desirable piece of property, in the shape of , an- extra ordinary pretty, wife, .i-The. warrifld gambler. Jiad vot beqn long on.!board before he observed something in the conduct of his sppuaa to induce him to suspect that she was , more fond of his Friend than waa tdeasant to con torn. plate, or prudent, to permit., lie i kepi his own counsel, ..however, and. made an excuse for -loaving the pair alone. They profited by.Jiis Abeancej.and.uiJt Dciorp the steamer reacneu tue capital, he went suddenly to bis state room and forced opon tho door, lie found tho twain within, and, at the piut of a revolver, bu calmly, made tho Ipytjr swear that ho would .marry the tain w)io iraiuoi.UBieij.oij returning tv iork. .... .. ..i : - "You any you love lior," .be added, '"Prove it in the way I prescribe, and 1 shall never trouble you or her. Fail to make her your wife, and, 111 pur sue you to the ends, of the , earth, and tako your life so sure as there is a God in, navfu. .jLiivo uu utniwuuji. nuuun the legal difUculy, X shall never maks my aiipoaranco on your domestic scene; and few will know, and no one will dis turb you in your connubial relation nave loved that woman better thun my life 1 lovo her still. But after what has occurred, I cannot, take hor to my arms again. . Sho has transferred her affections to you, I behove. Do not abusothem, Cherish and protect her; and, if evcryqu need a friend, apply to mo. iou have sworn to marry her. If you have aiiy. regard for. your, life, kecpyour oath, for'1 have sworn, you have, to kilt vOu if you do not re-, deem your sacred word." At -Aiottoy the betrayed liencdict parted with the wife' and her lover, who camo directly over to New York and were straightway joined in wed lot k. , i.ne iirst meniioneu porauu said to "be a man pf education, at one time a merchant in Baltimore, and re markablo amonir bis '"profossiqii" the Btrictncss with whtcu be keeps word, and the perfect coolness of play. ' It is said that Jie killed a .man in a duel at Richmond, Virginia, be fore the rar, on account of the woman he has Quitted, and that he is about sail for California, to passtheremainder of his days. II o is well known in XNew York . and Chicago among the larger and better class of faro dealers and fre quenters of the turf. ' ' ''..'' [From the Belfast (Ireland) Whig.] A Sensation Novel in Real Life. s a it, if per her the ' It is not often that a man who begi ns his career by an . embezzlement turns out right in the long run, and refunds with interest the amount abstracted; but an instance of the . kind, very re markable in its charactor, has come to light in Liverpool. About six or right years' ago a young man, who had boen educated at Trinity uoiiege, xuuiin, arrived in Liverpool to push his for tune. .! His conduct while at the col lege had boen o -loose and wild that his parents declined to havo anything further to do with him.' Bat he twas clever, a good linguist and apt to mako himsels useful, and soon he' was en gaged as a correspondence clerk by an influential firm, in whose service he worked himself up to such a point euioiency that, they incroased both, his pay and responhibilities. . At length, nowevor. ;the I "old' Adam'! assertoa itself, and, in order to cover up his per sonal. extravagance, tho; younrman hoi nod himsolf to , his eintloyer'i cash to tue extent of 3,000. lie, of courso, himself eloped, And all .the ingenuity pf the dctoctive oillcials could not di closo his whorcabouts. In the mean time the fugitive went to Ahierlea, and engaged' himself to a wt-Il known dry goods merchant in New York, 'With whom he remained: until tho outbroak of the American war.. His man tor, be Ing An ardent patriot, offered to ad y tin co handsome sums ,of , money any of his clerks who won Id volunteir . .-.-111' i ' . . i . i ! l. ior tne war, una w tiero. ui tins unci narrative w&s one who accepted the offer. "lie went through some, of acvercst brushes of the campaign with out receiving a wound, fought at Fred ericksburg, Seven Tines, and -other places, and held a subordinate coruman during Sherman's great- march.' the close of the struggle he fell in love with and married the wealthy yot'ng widow of one of the Federal Generals who was killed at Gettysburg. : After their marriage the lady wished to visit England, but there was one little diu- culty in the way the 3,000. UIti mately, however, it was decided that - T i , :.u a- A. tne wmesii course wouiu uo ia ruiuiiu the Amount ; and, to the delight of Liverpool firm, hey., received by last steamer an order for the amount, with five per uent.. Interest from data pf the cashier's elopement. ftT Since 1832 tne cholera hat car ried away 13,259 persons in New York i citr.. Fearful Tragedy in Iowa—A Citizen of Manchester Attempts to Shoot His Wife, Kills His Infant Ceild, Seriously Wounds His Motherin- and Cuts His Own Throat. as ; is for his his to , On Thursday evening, November 8, at about seven o'clock, ). W. Myers, a resident of Manchester, deliberately phot and kilted his own child, and at tempted to finish his bloody work by murdering his wife. ' It appears that on the evening in question he obtained a pint of brandy at a drug etoro . and proceeded home, lie appeared to be in his usual ' health. ' and spirits, . and partook of a hearty supper. Alter dinner ,ne. rcmaritea to bis wife that be would address a note . to hie mother .'and.' having" written , and folded the same, he put it in tiispockot 1JT then kissed Ins wile In an atloction ate m'anner; Bteppod into the kitoben, took down a shotgun' which had been previously loaded with buckshot, and deliberately fired upon his wife through the; open' d6or. The . charge ' passed- over her head and through the Iront door casing. ' He then passed out and around the house to the east window, and pointing tho muzzle of bis gun through one of the panes, discharged the 61 her barrel at his mothor-in-law, who was standing in the front room. with' bis babe, a child eight months of ago, In her arms. He probably' in tended to kill her, but missed his Aim, the shot hitting the little innocent in thd back, and passing ; through came out in' the region of the abdomen, kill ing it almost instantly, and badly ehat tering the hand of his mother-in-law. He intended to kill them alt, and sup posing that it was done, he turned and fled to the bam: which stood near by. and completed the bloody chapter by cutting, with his own hand, hi throat from ear to ear. '. The wholo or this tranapired In a very few, moments and aroused by the discharge or a gun and the screams of tho women, tho cit izens rushed to the spot. On bursting into the house, a scene met" tho gaze that beggars dcsclption, and caused the stoutest boarts to tremble with an indefinable horror. Up and down th room, frantio with terror", rushed the, roothcr-m-law, her dress clotted with the blood whith the blood which but few moments before had coursed in the veina of the child that reclined in her lap, while the young wfe, Btupefied by what had taicen pitioe. was1 more ueau than' alivo!r In the uproar;and cdiifus ion ho One thought oi 'making search for the author of all the misery, and' jt was supposed that he had nod, but, about an hour and a half afterward, his body was found, life being extinct, his being fearful Ir gashed from ear throat being fearful ly gashed from ear to oar. while arouhd beneath him tho floor was covered with a criiason tor rent. ' ." ' ." , Tho escape of the wlfo wal almost of to . i At J the the miraculous. In the side of the wall, opposite tho place where she stood, can be counted the. holes of twelve buck shot. ' He fired at her head, but hisex' citoment prevented a deliberate aim, and the shot passed over her harm loss .'' Mr. Myers was a young man thirty years of uge, a tinner by trade, quiet, T j i u ..Vli. . -I l. iQUUBtriuud, vi suuor uaun-o, uu luutu respoCted as a citizen. - His domestic relations, however, ' he ' acknowledged to some of his friends, were very un pleasant. He labored under the belief that his mother-in-law was a bitter per sonal enemy, who was forever seeking to stir up angry feelings between him self and wifo. He had boen married but about cighteon months, and it ap Iiears that his mother-in-law,1 Airs, loughton, livod with them and took aro of the first andonly child. Sev eral letters wore lounn on nis person, some addressed to hia wifo and anothor to the public; wherein ho 1 aocusod her of infidelity. Jealusly was undoubted ly the inciting cause which led to the erpotration oitbeieanui deea, aitno k is not kLowa whether he ever had any grounds for suspicion or ' riot, his wifo being a woman of possessing Pcaranco and highly respected. had been a soldier in the Army -of tho Potomac, and was attached .to to the: Signal Corps. On hia return hoirfe he married in Manchester, i July 4, 1865, and was employed by J. M. Butler, of that village, in the capacity oi a jour noyman tinner.. . Ho it respectfully connected in this city, his Bister being the wife of J. V. Bush, the alderman, of the Fourth Ward. His mother lives in this city, and is a devout inomberof the Methodist Church, ilia who is young woman, not yet twenty yoara of age. , .1 A fashionable friend, on takingleave of a voting ensign, who waa living in small apartment, said : "Well, Charlos, and how much longer do you intend to etav in thiB nutshell? To which he wit tilv replied : "Until I become a ker- nel." ' Nearly eight thousand buildings have beon erected in Chicago, Illinois, duribg tho present season, at a cost about seven mill idm of dollars. Qr Mrs. Deborah Bedford, aged 93, living in Waverly, ra., is the sole eur vivor of the Wyoming piabsacre. t&" A Missourian has realized 16, 000 tbia year from tea acre of peach The Tea Plant. A on the cultivation of this nlant recontlv .! . . .. " . ... . appeared in the southern., uuiuvator, published at Athena, Georgia, from which we make the following extract! In March, I860, 1 received fifty -plants from tho Fa teht' Office. ,1 kept them pots uutil Febuary, 18(51. ,,Thoy were then planted out five feet each way, ltl a loose sandy soil. They grew off vcrv finelv. ' In Anril. 18G2. 1 made small quantity ot loa, and lrom ,tuat mo to the Drcscnt. 18G6. 1 have (ap plied my family with five or six pounds of tea yearly from City plants. I lie argest Amount of tea produced in Chi l-' ' hoJ. teard of a failureof the tea erop of Chma or Japan ? Of tbe quality of the tea have made is rained in the lands lying between twenty-eight " And thirty-five. , Ttnilct north lulitudo. . . , , .- That tho Plant will grow and flourish as well; or evctl better, (although exot ic,) through tWe whole, of the. States bordering the Atlantic and Gulf, from North Carolina to Texas, I have not the least doubt. All the Innds of Mid die Georgia and the Carolinas, which are now considered Of littio value ol corn or cotton, can be made available, and grow tea to great advantage. In Middle Georgia aud other regions the culture of cotton will decrease from this timepnward. The truth of this fact is patent to All observers. 1 It is in an evergroen ' shrub ; leaves from three to four Inches long : one in width; flowers white ; one inch or more in diameter; center cued witn a large number of stamens, with yellow anthems ; capsule usually three seodod: seeds the size pf a chinquapin ; itsocds the text September; grows from cut tings or layers. As before stated, I planted out tea plants in 1861. At the present time (18G6,Y the' aro from six to seven tect hign, cam piani covering A spneo of seven or eight feet in diame ter so interlocking that it W with oit- ficulty you can got in between thctrt, : To estimate the quantity wnien one acre of land plantea in tea would make t i- -r l 1 j. 1-1 1 BClOCtCU a nicuiuni niaeu iiiaiii unu collected the leaves from it. "fbeyield was One fourth-ot a pound ot tea. 'lhe number of plants to acre, standing live i l - . m rrnt . Ill iecv eacu way, is i.tu, ttiiicu wm, make four . hundred ' and ' forty-ono pounds to the acre. Can we cultivate any plant that will compare with this? At fifty cents per pouud it will majte two hundred and twenty dollars per acre. Another very 'great advantage it has over all other crops ti, that iiCith er oold nor heat, dry nor wet, hail winds, or insects injure it. It is as cer tain to be made as the earth turns can only say that connoisseurs have assured me that they prefer it to 'the mported. Ago gives flavor to cottoo 60 with tea. Some that is two years old I find higher flavored than that re cently ruade. ' - 1 The Prussian Military System. No nation with anything' like' its population can raise bo large , an army aa Prussia.., Here is the military sys tem by which it it accomplished i "Every Prussian at the age of nine- toen (or, as the Gorman always Bays, witb, his twentieth ye&rj enters. ne army. .Totoia ruie tnero are no ex ceptions, except in case of absoluto dis ability. ; T.breo years lie corves in xne regular army, devoting to military duty his wholo time, and living in barracks or in tents. Four years more ha serves in the reserve, then seven in the militia of the first levy and five in the second, so that he is not free from military duty till be is thirty-eight years old, though alter tue nrst three yean lie only. PorlorrjQB a. certain amount Grilling per year, except in caseoi war In France, i Austria and the smaller German Stat, the citizen is Allowed to furnish a substitute,. but in Prussia this is not permitted. High and: low, rich and poor, must all onter tba army at the agaol nineteen. . t-. "Still, there is a provision made py which a certain few mar perform in one year the service of the whole three, and that it that any young mau turn ciently well educated to become teacher of a certain grade in the - high schoola. and . can support and ; clothe themselves during that year, may, by so doing, be. exempted iroia - the. re maining two years ot army aervice. This is the only exception." This may not be called slavery ; but in fact it possesses many of the worst features of a terrible involuntary ser vitude. . , ; . Curious Occupation in Paris. A list was latelv niihhshed. complied from statistics of Paris trade, ora num ber ovcurtouB occupations and manu factures, supposed to be peculiar i'at ia, although probably many of them are to he found in Jjondon. lhere are however, a certain nu mber of what are emphatically called "Paris articles," . ' , ... .. T t i : j a wnicn mat mgeuious auu luuunvrious city hat the monopoly. Among these are the following: '.twelve manufac toriea of artificial eyos and eight paatry -cooks' jackets, two -makers skates and forty corn-cutters, eighteen wholesale mustard merchants, seven constructors of lightning ' conductors, even of ipaking-tramph4 and three jonserbatiiit.' w 1 " pale. .thTt !- t f BbU T R ft MM - - F-w ofiCya,'payabi la adToo for all noatk. MTm la tininl J it for tbre month, naralil in adranca - - - u 1M at boeiitv'e' riiakert, eignt" manufacturer of wooden heads for barbers and bon net makers and three of corksorews. sixteen dealers In Manilla and thirteen In letches, forty -nine cutters of baree' hair for the hatters and thlrtoen lnan ufucturers of helmets and baUbeta fof sappers, nineteen bono dealers and fif teen makers of reeds for Clarionets, bassoons and hautboys, thirteen Muzzle-makers and ' four- cratch makers, eighteen gut-workers and nine raaauJ racturers of Fiot-warmers, and ona breaker-up of carriages. Noneof these occupations, however; can compete for singularity, witb that ora young fellow who was lately taken ibfore -a I'arit magittrate at a vagabond. "ion frare no. occupation-T' .said thabeacb, -tiB-quiringly. , "I deal in, bits of halter (or the use of gentlemen as plrtyp." There is a suporttition that a bit of rope witb which A man has been' hanged, carried in tne nocaet, secures iuca avcarus.'' . , , , , i 'i ' -v :en Deplorable Ignorance. A recent of terly Ueviowi icontaiut the following---? nay, almost' incredable revelation .cf ' the ignorance which exists among some sections of the British commu nity ; , -- "-;) '' .'in iJirmri)gham,tbirty-iwo persons, averaging mere lhau twelve, rears of age, inciuqing a young man oi twenty and two young women, com a not ten the Queen's name. Tho - commonest and simplest objects of nature, euch at flowers, birds, flehos, mountains and the sea,, were unknown. Some. thought London was "a country r one that it was in the exhibition; a violet was aid to be a pretty bird ; a primrose,' a red rose; lilac, also, a bird; but whether a robiu or. an eagle i were birtlt, none could say ; bo mo knew not what a river mearjt, or whero snow comes lrora; ann a cow in apirturo was pronounced, ta boa lion, piuiiuaaes oi uiese,poor children can- never have Been ft. prim-. rose by lhe river'a brim, or heard the' song; of tho lark." '' : ' ' " 1 Moral Reform in New York City. -throat on The "Disbanded Volunteer," Writing; from Now York, says: . "The groat cause of. Morril Reform,, in which I take a deep and solium in trest, peers to be progrCBsin ' in this city with the Telocity of tellygratnc" lightening. This is prencipally owlngr to the stand that ffie Herald has taketf agen the legs at Niblo'e.. Theetrictort of that spotleBs jernal on the. liallet gals at that establishment lies aro'usoi a tremendous feeling everywbar. Tba" respectable community kennot realize that tho pcttycaVs'is as actaally asshort as tho Herald represents Ihein to beK and hons they q in crowds every j night to soe er the horrid talo hat not. betm exagerated. This it the , rosin why Niblo't is eecb a regular' Jam." 'In coarse, it will only last untel all the. Christian mon andwimmin in the'eity has eeen for tharseives wot the thing s, arter which they will visit the place. of sin no more. Aa to the reprobate whom Satin is bound to hev by' hook or crook, they will continue to go at uihal ; and relying on that patronage,' the managoment have .renuda thar en-' gagomeatt with all the bnty and torn-' raetry at present perlorming in tnt; peace, in the moantimo-tbe tree model' artist exhibitions on the Broadway, sidewuy walks, cumi off. as horotofor every day atwix tho howrs of i and 5,t in tne aitcrnoon, ooortn wnicn inaor val places on all the hotels stoops; along the Una of procession are at a nraniram."; - - - v ' -1 A Queer Joke. of to of of of K ; the Quaker President of a , Philadelphia railroad.'daring tho' con fusion and panic last fall, called upon ' the W Bank, with which tha road kept a large regular account, and ask-1 ed for an extension Of part of its papor falling due in a toWj days. .Tha iiaiiici President refused rather abruptly. I . "Mr. IC , your paper mutt, be paid,. at maturity we can not renew it.", "Very well, our Qaaker friend replied . ana leu tne unnn. ixo um not let vus matter' drop here." On leaving tho' bank ho went to the depot - and tele-' graphed to all tha agents and conduct ors on the road to reject the bills on tha) v -f lianlc. in a low hourt tha; trains began to arrive, full of the panlc, bringing the news of the W - Bank all alon the line. Stockholders and depositors flocked to the bank, quaking' with panic, inquiring thus: What's' the. matter? la the bank broke,"- ic.,' Ac. . A litt'e inquiry on the part of tha oflicors showed that thit trouble origi-'j natod in the rejo'ctiou of the bills by,, the railroad agents. Tho President, seized his hat and rushed dowb to tha t Qnnker's office and camo bursting in q with this inquiry: "Mr. K hava you directed therefusal of our curren-' cy by your agents V "Yes," wis the quiot reply. "Why is this? It will ru- 1 in ns." "Well, friend L-t , I suppoa- od the bank was going to - fail, as it t could not renew a. littio paper for ua j this morning." It isneedltMit to ear that M. It-. renewed tha Quaker s . paper and enlarged his lino cf discount , while the magto wires carried ad , around to every acjtnt tha aedativa" message: "Tha W r-.Bafik is " alt right. The tnay'ka 'all itt purre-"