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BY DAYII) OYER. t "jjjf!; turn s tisullWlr A\h ('aieisdar of Uork for tft© Mouth. P A 11 M . February has been called a ttir.titii <>f leisure. There G nothing especially driving but for the provident farmer, mxious to relievo a more busy sea>ou from every possible care, there is plenty of work that may appropriately be done now. The chief employment will he the-daily care of stock of all kinds, to see that they are regularly and properly fed, and that nothing is suffered to waste about the buildings. Too many farmers look upon the winter season as a time when lithe can he canted, without suffici ently hearing in mind thai to husband is to earn. J'he barn, tin; workshop, the woodshed, the cellar, the forest or woodpile will admit of a variety of labor in clear or stormy weather. The Southern planter will now be actively at work manuring, plowing, an-, putting in early crops. CATTLB require a i-irge amount of care during this mouth, both on their own, an 1 their owners* account. They sltnul-1 not full away m flesh as Spring approaches, nor should a lavish, waste ful method of feeding bo pursued, laus ex hausting the fodder before grazing tim- . Use the straw outter daily, and if there i> mailt coarse feed, a Gteaming apparatus will he found very valuable. Give cxrta feed t > cow about calving, and allow them plenty of room at night. Ct.LI.AUB Watch njait, frost, keep sweet end clean, sort over fruit, ami expel or t'U't!. ruts true mice. CORN. Note tins spotting bins uti'i shock- at I lie. AV est, and as far as may be, apply a remedy in •future. Procure seed early, auti lest its vege tating powers by cproutiug samples in the house. The planting season will commence at the for South during the latter part of the mouth. TUNC tig. Oonriaoe to get ou: materia?*, as directed last month Repair and build new ones where the frosi will admit. FLAX AND 11 LAI I'. Complete dressing any yet nutiuiahed. FODIJEIt. Cut and .-team as much nl ihe coar.-e as pos sible, feeding with Indian ineai, bran, and cur loots. L.-e racks in th- yard. •- figured on page 4i>, lather than -eati. r the fodder where it will be trampled bv stock,. We trust the ■practice of feeing at. distant stack yards has been discarded. FOWLS. See directions of last mm lit, and give cook ed p'otatoes or other vtgeiaolea in addition to their grain feed. Select urn, set eggs during ttie latter part of the in itith lor early chickens, lle.i'.d articles on "Poultry raGiug," page 47. GRAIN. If any remains nntliresbed, leave it no long er a prey to rats and uiioe. See that venuiu are kept from tlic grauaries, and cattle and sheep from the growing lb lds. Eating off at this season will be vdry injurious. Look out early lor Spring seed. HOGS. W it-U a full supply of warm cooked food, give charcoal and salt occasionally, cspeciallv to biecJmg sows. Keep their pens weli sup plied with tuariurial agents, and a good bed of straw or leaves. DORSES AND MIT.M. Give grain or carrots with cut feed. See that working horses are well shod, during icy weather. Keep hlaoketed when not in use, and well bedded at night. JCK HOUSES. Watch for the first opportunity to fill with thi 'k clear ice, it not already done. Pack close, filling crevices with broken pieces. All this, if you get any :ce this Winter. MANURE?. Continue to manufacture ahd cart to the fields as directed last month. Reive it in large heaps until wanted for use, covering them with muck, loam or soil. Save ail the liquids of the yards and stalls, by absorbing them with the muck or leaves stored for tbo purpose, it is to be hoped that the manure is all kept un der cover, if it i- only a roof of poles thatched with straw or corn huts. Plowing for the Spring crops of cotton, to bacco, corn and grain will now be going on at the South. Guage the furrows u little deeper thau last year, or follow with a subsoil plow. POTATOES. Sort over for seed. Planting may be done at the South during the Utter part of tbo month. ftUEEP. Keep ihem sheltered from storms and sepa rate from cattle and horses. Feed grain and cut roots with coarse fodder. Let them have free access to a trough of salt, with pure wa ter in the yard. SUGAR MAPLES Will require tapping during the middle or lat ter part of the month in mild latitudes. The particular period must be governed by the sea son. Provide the necessary troughs or buck ets aud spouts. Have the boilers arranged and everything io readiness for operation. TOOLS. Employ the stormy days in putting them in order and makiug any new oues wanted in the ■Spring or Summer. Wagons, carts, harnesses and farm gear of all kinds should be looked to. TURNIPS AND OTHER ROOTB. Feed daily, giving after, rather than before milking.* Use the root cutter to reduce them fine enough for sbeep even. WOOD If the supply of last year is now exhausted, get up a larger pile this Winter. Improve tbo BfDtoxi) fiidiiim. A Weekly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Polities, the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, &c„ &c—Terms: One Dollar and Fifty Cents in Advance. sledding at the north, and good wheeling else where to the bist advantage while thov last.— (hit, split and store under cover enouuh to last till April, at least of next year. There will be eeoenmv in if, in more wave than one. ORCHARD AND NURSERY. Where grounds are frozen or covered with snow, little can now be dour amoug the trees, save sc.aping off moss and rough bark, prun ing and clearing rue snow from the branches of small tr-es. In some localities the ground is open and transplanting may be done, luuds manured and plowed, Lursery trees taken up, packed and sent away. The comparative e'sure of this month will afford a good opportunity to go through both Orchard and Nursery, and cleanso old and young trees from moss, rough bark - and in ■ccts, using soap sutll freely, as reeommend ■•d in the IX ccmbor number of last volume, for the bark louse. The moss can readily be washed from the branches of large trees iunuc diately after a ruin, by a brush broom tied to a pole. If a little potash or soap be added tu : the water, touch the better. EVERGREENS. Watch closely'after damp snows, and shako off what might otherwisu break down the branches. FRUIT. Look over that upou shelves, removing the decayed. Grafting the roots of seedlings put i;. the cellar last Fall may now be done, if you .still pursue this questionable method. Imported Trees frequently arrive during the present month, and are often badly frozen in ■moving then, from toe vessel to I heir destina i tot. INSECTS. Examine for and desrnv scale, borers, moth cocoons, and the cam pillars' eggs which are now found near th cuds of the branches of apple trees. MANURES. Manufacture and collect as recommended under the "Farm." Muck, ashes and liuie are I valuable for both orchaid and nursery. PRUNING. f We advise not to prune during this month, notwitb.-tanding it is the time formerly chosen by old farmers. The wounds d no" become sufficiently scared over before the sup ascends in the Spring. The tree suffers from the loss of sap, which, from a vital element within, is changed to a poisonous fluid as it runs down J the outside of the trite. Juue ua.l .July are preferable mouths. SCIONS. 11 a full supply is not already secured, out I them during the early part of this month. He | sure of the kinds, aud having labeled them, ; bury in dry earth or sand in the cellar. : Snowbanks often do much damage as they | settle iti the nursery. Shovel out the trees | which would otherwise be stripped of their i branches by the settling drifts. STAKES AND LABELS. Make a good stock for more busy season, i A large uumber of labels will be wanted during | the Spring piauting, or sales of nursery trees, j and they should be made, painted aud strung 1 now. ; 1e mmsmm. •TO THB PEOPLE OF THE MITEI) STATES. I Having been recently removed from the ! office of Secretary of K*usus Territory, under ■ circutnstauces which imply severe censure on the part of the President, aud having had uo official information of my removal, nor any op -1 portnnity fur explanation or defence, 1 have deemed it necessary to present to the People of , ihe United States a brief statement of tacts in vindication of my motives and in explanation • 'f the results of the act for which I have been | condemned. • The office in question was not given at my solicitation. My acceptance of it, under all the 1 circumstances, was a proof of strong friead j -hip for the Presideqt, and of uohouuded con fidence in ihe firmness and faithfulness with • which he would adhere to the line of policy de , liberately agreed upon between ius whole j Cabinet, and Gov. Walker. On my arrival in the Territory in April last, in advance of Gov. Walker, I confess that 1 had an imperfect knowledge of the real con -1 dition of affairs. I supposed the question of ! Slavery to be the ouly cause of dissension and ' difficulty among the people; and, in my brief inaugural address of the J 7th April, I treated this as the chief subject of difference upou wbicb a submission to tbe people woubi be ' likely to he demanded. I soon found, however, I that this view was altogether too limited, aud did not reach the true ground of controversy. 1 The great mass of the inhabitants of the Terri ; tory were dissatisfied with tbe local Government I aud earnestly denied the validity of the existing laws. Asserting that the previous Legislatures had been forced upon them by the traud aud violence of a neighboring people,they proclaim ed their determination never to submit to the ! enactments of legislative bodies thus believed jto be illegitimate, and not entitled to obedi ! encc. : This was tbe couditiou of things when Gov. j Walker came to the Territory in tbe latter part ■of May. It was evident that the just policy j of permitting the people to regulate their own j affairs could not be successfully carried out, i unless tbey could be inspired with confidence ;in the agents of Government through whom this result was to be effected. If a mere minority of the people bad been thus dissatis fied and contumacious, they might possibly have been pronounced factious, and treated as disturbers of the peace; but wheu the dissatis faction was general, comprising almost ihe wbcle people, a more respectful consideration was indispensable to a peaceful adjustment.— It was evident tiiat the policy of repression—a • rigid attempt to enforce submission, without an BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1858. f i.ffurt at conciliation—would inevitably result iu a renewal of the civil war. With commend able anxiety to avoid this contingency, Gov. Walker resolved to go among the people, to listen to their complaints, to give rhem as surance of a fair and just administration of the Territorial Government, and to induce them, if possible, to abandon their hostility, and to eu ter upou the peaceful but decisive struggle of the ballot-box. 1 was ofteu with the Governor when he addressed the people, and gave my best efforts iu aid of tbe great purpose cf con ciliation. It was too late to induce the people to go into the June electiou for delegates to the Con vention. The registration required by law had been imperfect iu all the counties, and had bqeu wholly ouiiticd in one-half of them; nor could the people of these disfranchised counties vote in any adjacent county, as had been false ly suggested. In sueh of them a subsequently took a census or registry of their own, the dele gates chosen were not admitted to seats in the Convention. Nevertheless, it is not to be de nied that tlie great central fact, which con trolled the whole case, was tbe utter want of confidence by the people in tbe whole machinery of the Territorial Government. They alleged that the local officers, ia all iustanccs, were unscrupulous partisans, who had previously defrauded them iu the electious, and who were • sady to repeat tire same outrages again; mat even if intruders from abroad should not bo permitted to overpower them, they wonld be cheated by false returns, winch it would not be possible for the Governor and Secretary to defeat. Although at that time these appre hensions seemed to ue to be preposterous and unfounded, it was impossible to deny the earnestness and sincerity with which they were urged, or to doubt that they wore the resu.t ot deep convictions, having their origin iu some previous experience of tiiat nature. ihe worst portion of the small minority in Kansas, who had possession of Die Territoiial organization, loudly and bitterly complained of Gov. \\ aiker's policy of coueiliatiou, ami demanded the opposite policy of repression And when, under the solemn assurances given, that ttie elections should bs fairiy conducted, and no frauds which wo could reach be eouuic uanced or tolerated, it bad becomo appaieut that the mass of tbe people were prepaied aud determined to participate iu the October elec tions, the minority endeavored to defeat the result by reviving the tax qualification for elec tors, which h-vd bevn Fepe.uroJ Ly tb yratwns" Legi-laturc. Opinions were obtained from high legal sources, the effect of which, had they prevailed, would have been to exclude the mass of the people from vo*ng, to retaiu the ecntrtd iu the hands of the minority, and, as a c n sequence, to keep up agitation, aud to render civil war inevitable. Hut the intrepid resolution of Uov. Walker, iu spite of fi roo opposition and denunciation, far and near, carried him through this dangerous crisis, and he had the proud Satisfaction of Laviug achieved a peaceful triumph, by inducing the people to submit to tbe arbitrament of the ballot box. Hut the iniuority were determined not to sub mit to defeat. The populous county of Doug las had been attached to the border county of Johnson, with a large and controlling repre sentation in tbe Legislature. The celebrated Oxford fraud was perpetrated with a view to obtain majorities iu both Houses ot the Assem bly. When these returns were received at my office, in Gov. Walker's absence, I bad fully determined not to give certificates based upon them. If they hal been so formal and correct as to have made it my duty to certify them 1 would have resigned my office in order to tes tify my fense cf the enormity of the wrung Gov. Walker, at Leavenworth, had formed the same regulation, as be stated tome and to sev eral others, and we were both gratified that we found the papers so imperfect as to make it our duty to reject theui. Great excitement followed in the Territory. The minority, thus righteous ly defeated in the effort to prolong their power, became fierce in opposition, and resorted to every means of intimidation. But lam led to believe they found their most effectual means of operation By undermining us with tho Ad miaistra'ijti at Washington. Tbe Constitutional Convention, which bad adjourne 1 over untii after the October election met again in Leeompton, to resume its labors- Many of the members of that body wero bit- S terly hostil-3 to the Governor and Secretary, on j aecouDtof their rejection of tbo Oxford a::d \ McGec frauds, in which sou*? of the members and officers cf tho Convention bad a direct par ticipation. In fact this, body, with some hon orable exceptions, weil represented the minor ity party in the Territory, and were fully imbued with the same spirit and designs. It was obviously Dot their desire to secure to the real people of Kansas the control of their own affairs. In the Constitution soon aftet wards adopted they endeavored to supersede the Leg islature which had been elected by tho people cv providing, in tbe second section of the schedule, that "all laws now of force in the Territory shall coutinuo to he of force until altered, amended, or repealed, by a Legislature under the provisions of this Constitotion." Thej provided still more effectually, as they supposed, for the perpetuation of their minority Government, by adopting the Oxford fraud as tho basis of their appointment, giving a great j preponderance of representation to the coun ties on the Missouri border, and affording, at the same tiuie, every possible facility for the introduction of spurious votes. The President ' of the Convention was clothed with unlimited power to conducting tbe elections and receiv- j mg tbe retmns, while tho officers are not re- i quired to take the usual oath to secure fair and honest dealing. The elections were hurried on ia midwinter—tho 21st of December and the 4th of January—wheu emigrants could eotuc only from the immediate borders, under the qualifieation which invited to tbe ballot-box every while male inhabitant "in the Territory on ihni day." The same men who did this had : previously denounced Governor Walker for the -nggestiou in his inaugural address, and in his Tbpeka speech, that the Constitulioo should be submit tee to all the bona jlle inhabitant*, al though he invariably stated, when asked for explanation, that some reasonable length of residence ooglit to be required, as evidence of the horn fide character of inhabitancy. It was apparent that all the machinery had been artfully prepared for a repetition of gross frauds, similar to those which hau been attempt ed iu October; and it was in view of all tbeso facts, after the adjournment of the Convention, that the people of the Territory, by an almost unauimou- demand, called Upon mo, as the act ing Governor, to onvena an extra session of the Legislature, in order to'enable them peace ably to protect themselves against tbe wrongs evidently contemplated by-'he adoption of fuis Constitution. There was uo law to punish frauds iu election returns. The people wcro intensely excited; and if was the opinion of the coolest men in the Territory, that, without a eali of the Legislature, the elections under the Con stitution could not have taken place without collision and bloodshed. The meeting of the j Legislature diverted the attention of the people j from the schemes of violence upon which they j were brooding, substituted the excitement of! debate and investigation for that of fierce and warlike hatred, and enabled their representa tives to devise means for counteracting the wrongs which they justly apprehend. Recent even tit have shown that their appre hetisiou were well fouuded. Enormous frauds have been peipetrated at the precincts of Ox ford, Shawnee, and Kickapoo; aud it may well bo believed that thus result was actually design ed by the artfui loaders who devised the plan and framework of the Leeompton Constitution. I have lateiy been at Shawnee, and 1 have seen and couverseo with persons who were at Oxford ou she day of election. The frauds committed araii'itarion,-; and though dishonest persons; may deny them, and uiay fill the channels of public information with shameless representa tions to the coatrary, they can be easily estab lished beyoDd all controversy. It vas to enable the people to shield them selves from the a frauds, and to give legal ex pression to their hatred aud rejection of the in •orament which peiinitted them, and was to be carried by them, that I called the Legislature together. In my judgment, the people had a fair claim heard on this subject through their Legis- TWwe. TL j oigtau i ■VMitUIoC to M.C tKa discretion of convening that body in extra ses sion. The President oi the United States had no rightful authority to exercise that discretion forme. He had the power of removal, and such control as that power gives him. But I would cheerfully have submitted to removal .and consequent loss of favor with the President, rather thau occupy the position of Governor, and refuse to the people an opportunity to as sert their most esseutial rigl.it, and to protect themselves agaiust the basest frauds aud wrongs ever attempted UJKJU an outraged community. Not having been informed of the grounds of my removal,! know them only through the news paper reports, to the effect that, iu calling be Legislature, I disobeyed the instructions of the President. 1 had uo instructions bearing on the subject,and there was no time to obtain them, even if I had felt bound to substitute the Pres ident's will for that discretion which the organ ic act confided to me. The convening of the Legislature undoubtedly prevented difficulty and secured peace. Were it important, lam confident 1 could establish this position by the most indubitable fact-: but it is sufficient uow to say that the peace of the Territory was not iu fact disturbed, aud whatever approaches were made towards such a result were wholly attri butable tj the policy of the Administration iu censuring my acts and removing me from of fice. The measures foi which I have been unjustly condemned has enabled tho people of Kansas to make known their real will iu regard to the Le eompton Constitution. This affords the Dem-! oeratic party au opportunity to defend the true j principles of constitutional liberty, and to save j itself from disastrous division and utter over throw. If Congress will heed the voice of tbe people, ana uot force upon them a Government which they !: ive rejected by a vote of four to one, tho whole country will be Satisfied, art! j Kansas will quietly settle her own affairs, with- j oat the least difficulty and without any danger to the Confederacy. The Southern States,which j are supposed to have a deep interest in the mat ter, will bo saved from tho supreme folly or j standing up in defeuoe of so wicked aud dishon- i est a contrivance as the L ooinr ton Constitution. I Tbe moral power of their position will not bo j weakened by a vain and useless defence of wroog j when it is perfectly certain rhey will gaiu noth- j inp even by success tu the present attempt. The extra sezsion cf the Kansas Legislature ] has done good, also, by giving means to expose j aud punish the monstrous frauds which have beeu perpetrated, and doubtless, also, by prey venting others which would have been attempt ed. it has driven the guilty miscreants enga ged in them to become fugitives from justice, j and baa rendered it impossible for the peace of the Territory hereafter to be endangered by sim ilar occurrences. In view of these facts and results, I willing ly aocept tbe rebuke conveyed iu my peremp tory dismissal from office, but 1 appeal to the deliberate judgment of tbe people to determine whether I hive not chosen the only honorable course which the circumstances allowed me to pursue. FRED. P. STANTON. Washington, Jan. 29, 1858. Some brilliant genius has conceived tbe idea to press all the lawyers into military service in case of war—because their charges are So great that no one could staud them. Every min has something to do which he neglects, every mau has faults to conquer which he delays to combat. ARITHMETICAL PROGRESSION- While engaged in the tobacco and cigar bus iness, I used to have for a customer iu cheap cigars, one of those knowing fellows whose knowledge serves better to bore his victims than advance science. You could uot make him be lieve that—oh. no! Tell him there were no re galia cigars that cost forty dollars per thousand! it might do to stuff down the throat of one cf them that knew no Letter; he was none of them. And so it was with everything; he always knew best. It always appeared to be his delight to draw me into some controversy, no matter what the subject was, in order to hear himself draw forth. I tried every way I could think of to circumvent Liar, and at length I did succeed iu : laying him out as flat as a flounder. it was Suturdad afternoon, he came in, made bis purchase, and seated himself, to deal out iii.i usual portion; but I was awake for him. "Captain," said I, "1 have made up my miuu [ to go to California, and if you wish to go into j a speculation, now is your time." "As how," said he. "\\ hy, you see these fifteen boxes of cigars, j well, there are two bun ired and fifty iu each box, and I will let you have the whole fifteen at a low rate, providing you take thetn all." i ery v/cli," said my friend,"lctus bear tbe eondit.ous." "You give me on-j cent for tbe first box, two cents for the secoud, four cents for the u.ini, and so on, doubling on every box." "Done,' said he, "fetch ou your cigars.— bupposo you think 1 have nofYuouey enough— eh? "Not r,t all, so let u\proceed. Here is vour first box." He drew from his pocket a leathern parse, j and out of it a handful of coin. "And here is your cent," siid he, depositing a green discolored copper ou tbe counter. "Here is your second box." "Here is your two cents. ' "Very well, here is your third box." "Aud hero is your four cents," said be chuckling. "Here is your fourth box." "Exactly. And here is y<>eight cents! ha! ha! ha! old fellow oa. "Here is your Cfth lex, ' ?nid I handing down another. "And here is your sixteen cents." "Here is your sixth box." "And—ha! La! ha! here is your thirty two "Here is yonr seventh box." "And here—ha! ha! the joke is getting too rich—here is your sixty fourceuts and half your cigars are gone." "Here is your eight box," suid I assuming -a cold indiffeience that perfectly surprised tho fellow. "And here is your dollar and twenty-eight cents." "Here is your ninth box." "Here is your—let me see—ha! two dollar's and fifty-six cents." "Here is your tenth box. Co drew his wallet tnoughtfuily and on the slate made a small calculation. "And here is your five dollars aud twelve cents." "Here is your eleventh box." "And here is your—twico five is ten. twice twelve twenty-lbur—ten dollars and twenty four cents." At this stage of the game he had got quite docile, and I continued— "Here is your twelfth box; band over twenty j dollars and forty-eight cents." Here the globules ot perspiration, large as marrow-fat peas, stood out in bold relief ou Lis face, but at length he doled out the sum. "Ilete is your thirteenth box: pile out forty dollars aud ninety-six cents." "If 1 do, I shall, but 1 will Dot." With that he left, and I have never beeu able to get near him since. CANDY AND POISON. —A paper on ''Colored Confectionary,' was recently read before the British Association at Montreal, from which we condense some valuable and novel information. We learn tiiat for economy's sake, confection ers, in coloring their candies, &c., have recourse for thoir grcocs to Brunswick green, carbonate of copper, or arsenite of copper: for the yellows,, to chromatc of lead or gamboge, for their reds, to red lead, vi rmillion or cinnabar, and for I their whites to white lead. These are only a ; few of the pernicious coloring agents used, and ! tbey are among the deadliest of poisons. The 1 way in which the poisons are laid on, also de serves a word of passing remark, In some in- j stances a very thin coating of the coloring mat ter is used, so us to spread over a very large surface a small portion of the material used;but j in other eases the very reverse is the fact, aud 1 in one instanco was procuered from a piece of ornamental table confectionery not the size of a sugar almond, a quantity of arseuite of cop per sufficient to destroy the life of a healthy adult. Uoufeeturners have to reason to use these poisons, for their are harmless vegetable colors enough to answer their purpose. Government paper-money is at a discount in New York, the banks positively refusing to re ceive it at pir. The Secretary will be com pelled to increase the rate of interest, in order to derive from his treasury notes the advan tage of u currency. The Winnebago Indians in Minnesota rained last year, over 5,000 bushels of wheat in the Reservation, beiug more thau half tbe entire amount produced in Blue Earth county. They j have nine townships of laud, and of this 1,000 acres are under cultivation. We are never astonished at any happiness that drops into our laps, for we always fancy we aro deserviug of it; but if any piece of ill luck fall down upon us, we cannot imagine what : we have done to deserve it. VOL Si, AO. 7. [TAS KING OF DELHI'S MODE OF EX- I KOUTION. The following has been communicated to the l'oona Observer: It appears from a journal of a European traveler, that a new and fearful mode of execution bad been adopted by the King of Delhi. The instrument and process are thus described: A box, each side of which is fifteeu feet square, is constructed of timber eighteen inches thick, dovetailed to gether, aud braced with iron rods. The out side of the bottom of the box is covered is cov ered with a plate of beaten iron, one inch in thickness. The interior is filled with perfect cubes of granite, weighing in the aggregate several thousand tons. A machine is erected alter the manner of an ordinary } iledriver, but of course on an enormous scale, and of tremendous strength. The nievs is raised by powerful machinery cast in Birmingham, for the express purpose, though it is to be presu med I uat ho machinist by whom it was fur nished had no idea of the horri-l purpose for which it was intended. The human victim is placed upon a block of granite, of a corres ponding surface, buried in the earth immedi ately beneath the enormous mass, and covered with a plate of iron. At u signal given bv the vieramadack, the cxecutiouer touches a spring, the mass falls, and the victim, crushed at once, is suddenly annihilated, and spread out like a sheet of pasteboard. The huge weight being again raised, the flattened body is with irawn, and dried in the sun. When com pletely prepared, it is hung over the wall of w public building, there to serve as a warning to the multitude. THE LATEST FASHION.—THE lady promena ders in the Avenue were somewhat horrified at the appearance of a distinguished foreigner, wiiO held up ber dress so as to display an un doubted scarlet flannel uuaer skirt. What eu idea Vet these sata; peasant petticoat,, are now ali the rage across the waer. Queen Victoria brought litem i<> London from her Bal moral palace IU the Highlands of Scotiaud, about two years ago, '..ud this year they have been adopted by the Empress Eugenie. Of course, they are ala mode . those ot alternate narrow strips uf red and black flannel being more distingue than the pkiu scarlet. iiiiks aud sattus arc to be no linger traiied in ths mud, aud the ladies who wish to be In mod? should not onlv provide themselves at ouce, but practice gathering up their dresses in grace ful folds, so € to display about a foot of the bright coloreu uuder skirt.—wVeto York Ex press. SUGGESTIVE.— A New Orleans paper pre sents a very suggestive paragraph in the fol lowing, which it entitles, "JTe March to tho Grave of 1857:" "What a mighty procession has been mo ving toward the grave during the pest year.'— At the usual estimate, since the Ist of Jer., 1857, there have beeu more than 31,500,01 d < f the world's population gone down to the grave. Place them in long array, and they wive a moving column of more than thirteen hundred to every mile of the circumference of the globe. What a spectacle 1 as they move on, tTamp, tramp, tramp, the 'Dead March' giving lis funeral notes as they go to the silent shade." FIEBY. — The Richmond Erqnirer says:— "Should Douglas and those who thick with him desert os, we may be assured that there is a political earthquake coming, which in 1860 may leave a fissure of fire as the dividing iinc between the North and South." The Democratic organs here regard the de fection cf Governor Wise, as the most serious blow their party has yet received, and one of them, In so m?ny words, admits that tfcev had overcome the effects of the movements of Gov. Walker and Senator Donglr.s, but that this new and unexpected revolt, coming from such a man aud such a quarter, has thr'.wr. their catnp into the utmost consternation. The end is not yet. THE SOUND DUES CONVENTION.—TH President publishes in the Union his prc!a. uiatiou, declaring that tho agreement tDtered into with Denmaik to discontinue the Sound dues, has gene into effect. By this Oonven ticn, the free and unincumbered navigation of American vessels through the Sound an-J the Belts is forever seeored. The United States agree to pay to the Government of Denmark, once and for all, the sum cf $03,000 11 in United States currency, at London, on the day when the said Convention sbali g into full ef fect. - A FAT SALARY. —Paroui, the prima donna-, now iu Havana, receives no less than $30,000 per annum—& larger salary than that paid to the President of the Nnited States. The above is another proof of the well known paragraph: "We pay best, first, those who destroy us—generals; soeond, those who treat us—politicians and quacks, third, those who amuse us—singers aud musicians; aud least of all, those who instruct us—authors, school masters aud eJitors." Man may err at d be forgiven , but poor wo man, with all his temptation, and but half his strength, is placed beyond the hope Of earthly salvation, if she but ouce be tempted into crime. A soldier writes from Delhi that probably every member of the Guards will be worth .£I,OOO when he reaches England. An equal division of the spoils is to bo made, and they exceed in richness anj thing heretofore dreamed ! #C , V It is an old saying that an open winter makes a poor hay crop, in accordance with which some of the shrewd ones of New Bedford are buy up and storing the article.