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THE ANTI-SLAVE It Y liUGLE. Miscellaneous. From "Home Life, or a Peep Across the Threshold." THE HAUNTED HEARTH STONE. "All homes w herein nieu hu ve lived and died Are liftunled hoiifes." " Do I believe in Imnnted houses ?'' Faid the n god woman, sprakiue rather to heru'lf than t tlio lair sweet grand child, who nestled tit her fort mid looked up on rriirlly into the wrinkled luce. " Yob, indeed I do. There is Hot it house in this wholo village, nor fur miles around, hut Ihnt t" uio in haunted irji.e, though, si much in this." " Haunted," continued the, speaking so slowly that a solemn emphasis seemed to rest on each j lottor, "yes, yes, vhorc are such things as haunted I spots." And then she dropped her knitting, took off hor glasses, wiped her eves, end leaning ba '1; ; in hu arm-chair, seemed IrJ in a -su 1 yet holy! eomuiunion with the rnrli VrTs'ngcs of life, ' If was a dark, stormy, inter'a night. The wind ; howled fiercely nroiimi the old farm house, di ill-1 ins? the' snow h'urli on the window pills, fastcninr it to the rough pannela of the doors, siltinglt through tha crovu-es of ih mossy roof, and heaping it up like giants' graves n'. along the pathways through out the garden, ilut in-doors nil was bright, and of a diimiiicr warmth. Too huge back-log had been dragged in ere twilight, mid was now slowly drop ping into coals ; w bile the (1 a mo from the 1 i e I L - wood, which every few minutes was east on with to tree a hand, blazed high nnd rud.lv, and cast a genial light and glare in the darkest comer, anil scintillating on the thno-davKeued ceiling like polar Hashes on the midnight sky. Jt was one of those hitler nights that make the hearth-stone the bonniest spot i n nil the eaith, n niertit when the sheltered lilt, up their hearts in thanksgiving, when the homeless bow in supplica tion j a night when ehil 'ren kneel before the lire and read bright prophecies in the living coals; when the aged draw their eluiir.s yet nearer to the blaze and warm their shivering memories; a night when all turn their Lacks to the darkness, their face t i the light. "ft is a night (i make ghost stories relish well, do, giaiidni.i'.lier, loll uj one." The he ol of the young girl rested on tlu? knees of the old lady, and, as the latter List the thread of her drenn and looked down, she could see an enthusiastic eagerness pictured in the bright blue eye, a longing for some tale of romance, that, drop ping into her heart, tdiuuld vivify its dormant pas sions. tSSio hesitated a moment, and then tenderly caressing the one lone pet of her bosom, she said": "I will tell yon a story about a hauntj.l hearth stone; nnd, Lizzie, it will be no talo of fiction. The plot is drawn Irom living memories ; the scene is laid here, here." Hut her tremulous voice now quivered with tuMo l nolo.i, and after a moment's stern, but useless eiTort at self-control, it burst into robs so loud and vyjld that they rivalled the cries if the winter wind. The voang girl seemed not much frightened, and ; spake no soaking words, but only clasped the baud she had taken as she a-d:e I the story, with a Ugliter grasp, liie pnruxy.-m clit not continue long; but. as it i asscd awav, she rose, and turuin her trembling steps towards the odd, dark bed rjoin, and going in, el sed the door, and was no-! cent a long while. The tears streamed dawn I.i. lioS cheeks when left alone, and it was evident the aged relative ha I s..me secret sorrow over which she mourned intensely. AVhen he returned, nnd again seated herself in her usual chair, only drawing it a little closer to the fire, there was such a enlin, beautiful, spiritual look expressed upon her countenance, that you could not but fan cy td:c had conversed with the anrel:. Without any allusion to the past, w ithm.t any preface, shei began, after a silence i f perhaps half an hour, the! promised story. Handed down to mo, it reads likei this: " ! It was a night much liko this; forty or morei years have passed since its winds blew and its i. pujn live na luiu piiioic.l mm lie uaiKitsa. e..:v,nr.a.i ii,,;a .i i .!..., i. 1 frightened, liesido the same Leartli-stono, the SitUIC, Oil i V lU.lb 11 M .is not VV 111 II SO Sill Mil II, IO, 111 r I . . . . . , house thou uiul tested but tlur v, instead ol as now , i,,i,i :. , . , ii- seventy nud odd winters, afcngcd man nndlusi.. ..r. ..... i r .i-ii .' i-. . . i -i Willi BILL Ul'l Jill LIIO lllll.lll'r llll! Kl ' 1 1 ' L() llllt; tho long OTcnins hours. There 1 away tho long OTening hours, lhero was not then, as now, daily mails coining into our remote little village, freighted w ith news in every shape. The press did not teem, as now, w ith magazines and books; it was rate to see a newspaper in this old kitchen, and rarer any volume, savo the one Tho old man had. studied that some time, and care fully replaced it, the Riblo did not then, as now, grow dusty while other books wero thumbed ti pieces. He had eaten his apples, drunk his cider, ; aud cracked eomo walnuts lor bis wife, whosi teeth were sounder than his own, and now sat ! close as ho could' draw himself to the flames with-! out scorching his homespun gaiinent-i, nodding! good-bye to tlio sky-hound sparks. Tho old lady i had rolled up her knitting, aud, with her broken j fork, in those days they had not heard of nut picks, with her two-tined fork which had lost one ! of its mem hers, sat digging out with a patience i worthy of the gold mines of these times, the rich, sweet kernels. Suddenly she dropped both fork and nut, and in nn.illier insuiiit started to her feet, Lcr pan falling1 from her lap and threatening many a grea.-c spot; on the well scoured Hour. Hastening to Lor bus-! band, she shook his shoulders, saying, " Wake up; quick, and listen." llalf-lVighiencd, ho jumped: and ea.ue near setting Lis stockinged foot upon1 living coals; but his watchful wife, drawing him od' the hearth, whispered, a litlle wildly, '-Listen,! now 1 don't you hear it ?" " Hear what V said he, etill half alc.ri. " Why, the sound liko a child crying. There, there, now it goes again Do go to the door." The old man, now fully mused, I stood with his hand to his ear, the right one, the left had been deal for many a y eur. it's tho wind, I wife; don't you know it? It is a fashion it has when it u culd." " It wasn't, the wind," said she, solemnly, with a litlle nervous agitation yet visible in her face. I know tin) cry of tho wind; it never makes a sound like that. There," and she clung to him, quivering liko a dead leaf, " dout you Lear it ?"i Ho certainly did hoar suiuetliiiig that sounded like the cry of a child : and now it did not die away as; it had when Lis wife Lad noticed it, with a single! Bob, but lengthened into screams. Rut Low it could sound so near, or whence conic, was a mys tery; for the house stood then far away from any other house: but it was a child's cry, that was cer tain. " I'll go and see," said he, summoning courage to his somewhat faint hoart, nud ho turned to the door. His wife followed close and fast on his teps. As ho withdrew the little slip of wood that fastened the latch, there wasn't then a bolt or lock in the town, and opened the door, a bundle, bo it seemed, though of what it was hard to guess, foil inlo tho room with a LeaVy, lifeless sound. Tho wind blew a white sheet over it ere they could again fasten the latch. Half horror, half wonder struck, they dragged the coarse blanket to the liearili, aud, unrolling it, discovered a woman and child; the Litter struggling to free itself from the many wrappers, and screaming with all its might : the former motionless as a corpse, with lips as ashy and cheeks ns sunken. A half hours charity to .the babe, who seemed to have seen a twelvemonth, ' completely revived it; and it lay on its pillow with its little white feet stretched to the the, as happy as bw txiuld Iniva niuda it, cuuing as .sweetly s though nestling on a mother's warm bosom, lint it took longer to bring back a pulse to its pale pro , lector; and many times did the good Samaritan. turn troni Mr, leaving the sheet drawn over Lrn ns we cover a cori se. Hut & ugh, so faint (lint it seemed a dying breath, at length encouraged them, and they nppiied restoratives until satisfied sho would yet live. Rut it was many a weary day ere she could leave -her Led j and when at last slio stolo from it, and sat. up iu the old lady e rocker, and lulled her baby u. llh.il.la.lti.rd ul.a tiium,..! 1.. I,a. .p.. ...I. ... .in n.m niiicneia nioi Iike a spirit than a sick, sad stranger. Hut grad-1 WtyrtliMHigh their tender nursing, she locuveicd titrength, and not only tended her child, but nf- sisted the old l.idy in many of her domestic duties, Hut she said very Jitlle !es than they could have . wished ; for in their hearts they longed to know hitrbry.. They knew she was a sinnfr, knew it ..j .... .v..ii. ,i, a, ,n n iiii.il nm nuiip ucr ; head u huu they read the Hiblo at morn and night ; kno- it by the (.ruined (AU the raised to iliem ufter each prayHr Hut they L.ved her all the iiiuro, ww.ftl the L,,.,l,r tn her. And, though nc revived mtmciie, tha; , wa, a ry 4.) U-ar,, thcv folded her to their nffoetinnB as they would I their own lust lamb, had she not j"iie ere limy could reach lirr. The winter pacd, and still th stranger linucrc't. tillir.2 villi her littlo "tin n I 'l"n i j i I I small place in the house, but a Lip" one in cm-h I nged heart. Due bright, golden spring inor.i, after! assisting in the morning ns bed become her habit, i 111 I she went into the Led room with her babe, anil soon reappeared wrapped in the same. roarc gar- j menis tney nan woin on mat nosiy ingni oi men arrival. " (iive her one kiss, grandma, and you, grnudpa," said she, holding the child lirsl to one nnd then to the other wrinkled face ; "and now, father, mother, do lot me call you so this once! give the un wedd 'd mother one, and v.n will go, and where ever we ro 1 will piny for you, and she shall be I night to;" and sho rushed wildly to thfl door. They stopped her, ennght her child, and pleaded villi her to stiy. " He to us still w hat vou have been so long, our daughter ; and do not lake from us our darling baby j w e should die w ith out her." (iicat drops gathered on the still palo brow, while tears rushed down her cheeks, and her lips cic'l Willi a liartui agony, one wrung ncr hands, she beat hel heart, she lashed her limbs, she seemed like one who is half mad. "(live me the child a moment," she exclaimed, and clasping '.t wildiy to Lor besom, Le bullied its smiling face, I with drops wrung from her keenest woe, then kil led it passionately, and held it out to them. l'.oth : streli'hed their hands, mid the litlle one, w ith an c'iial love, gave to the one its right, and In the ! other its left Land, and, upheld between them, i crnwi d and screamed in babv glee. Hie is the i hild f sin, ""said the mother, w ith ' a s do unity thaf awe 1, f, tr" a moment, the carol ol I her babe;"" the child of sin, but herself pure and holy as the off' iring of a wedded tie. iVillyou, kn"p her so it I leave her here? If she goes! I with me, she will not long be an angel, unless,! i indeed, (io takes l.er ; would he had taken her mother when she was as young! If she stays with you she may ever be one. Will you keep her?" and she screamed ti c words into their ears, as though she would make their inmost nerves aw aken. " We will, we will I" said they; and more: wa will k.vpyou, too, ,S,'ay with ns stay! you shall be to ns a daughter replace the one we have lost: we will be parents. It shall be home to us four." " I cannot," said, she w ildly. " Your daughter was a stainless girl. 1 am dyed in sin !" and she shook with llgenv. And so did those sho spoke to; and tears na hot ns those that bad scalded her Lice now flooded them. Awhile they wept ns though theii hearts would break; then" gathered calmness, nnd, while the old lady clasped the two hands ol the Magdalen, the old man placed Lis hand upon her head, and spake. "Our daughter fled from us w hile in the beauty of her girlhood !!d w ith a stranger, w ho wooed her by false words to a fearful sin. The child of! our old age, it almost broke our hearts; nnd we came here, far away from the haunts of curly years, to sj end the remnant of our days in a strng-1 i,le to forget. We cannot forget, but we long since fei Liivc ; aye, before we heard that she was dead. V, e have learned to be happy, even with, the memory i f ttial ever before us. Hut we miss! the boles tin.t were born with her, nnd we would; Lei i- h von and vuir 1 a! i we should her and hers, had she come back ere she repented, as thevi told ns and died." The el 1 mini's voire was Lushed. There was no! sound but that of sobs, save when the babe cooed its litlle love-rong. A cry ( f agony burst from the: while lips of t! e stranger, as losening tho Lands that held her, she fell at the feet of those who had been so true, a cry. and then words. ' Father! mother? she did not die she lives!! 1 nm she your Lizzie your lost, found child !" Let the curtain drop. It is a scene too holy fori any but the sight of Ood and angels. j les, sum me oiu grin unoiner, iv was ineir I-lost, an 1 as ill sy ta night, del I Lizzie. She j lerseii nan loie'l uie. siorv 01 uer ueaiu, 10 pccuie herself in the sill sho Lad learned to love. But , r , , , , . , wl.nn .lllfo vntivs ol V vetehpil lip ws find primp, slip , ' . ... , r u , , , , became horsed, when sho felt upian her breast , , - 1 . . , ,. .,' , , the touch of pure and hoiy lips then she became . ... . .... herself again, and felt Low much, how deeply shcj Lad sinned : and she longed to have her babe ntir-j lured as she has been. It was long ere sho could i escape from her sinful associates ; but sho at I length succeeded and reached as I havo told you her lather s house. Mio meant to conceal herselt till they were asleep and then leave the babe and go away ; for nhe hud no hopo they would cherish her .Tmin for. O. slip was verv vile, lint the cold .. .i... .1 i i .1. ..i.n.i i ... vwis so niiciisu ftiieuaieo maieaiu win cniej, inn was forced to keep it to her breast; and worn and wearied with her long and tedious struggle w ith tho drifts, at length became benumbed, and could no longer still the cries of the little one : and thus was brought lack to love, to home, to Christ, by the voice of the angel on her heart." The old lady cca.'pd her story, and thcro was no word spoken lor a long v.liilc. Then tlio young maiden broke it, saying, "and what 1 ecaino of thein all?" The two nged parents lived near a score of years, happy in tho Live of tLcir restored child, and in the caresses and tender care of her little one. They lie buried in the church yard. The grandchild lived to be a blessing to her mother for fiv e-and twenty years ; then passed away, leav ing a litlle one to make good her place. Mother less ere it had seen ti e face of her who gave it birth, it was fatherless ere tho year was out." Another long pause. " Yes, it is a haunted hearthstone, this. Those nged Christians, that beautiful young mother, that noble father they haunted it; not as did ghosts of olden times, making it a weird spot for the heart, but with such holy memories that the hour spent in communion w ith them seems liko a visit in tho better laud." "Hearthstones aro ever haunted, but few, liko this, havo angels for their guests. Tho anniversary of that bleak winter's night eaino round- I he tiro burned as brightly ns lie ! fore, tho room was so warm and cosy ; but the l young girl kneeled now before the firo. There I was no lap for her to rent her head upon tho old arm cliair was empty. j. lie hearthstone was haunted by another spirit a spirit that had sin ned, mijjered and been J'uryiceu. Congress only pass-d two internal improvement '1M1 ' , n ' , 1,1 1 is ; one ior reinov ing (instructions irom the Sa- vanruih river, mid the other for deepening the St j Clair Flats. The President approved the former und p( cketcd the latter, probably because ono was j in a free, and tho other iu a slave Stale. Every body knows l ow much iiid nvenience and diimai'e I was suffered on account of tho shallowness i,f ib. water in Lake St. Clair, but did nny body out of oui.i'iuiui, in-pi-maps m 11, near any complaint ! about the obstructions to tbe Savannuh river, which I aro suid to have been placed in it during the' rcvo - orjlutitn? J'riiiilklin lNtfrfe, it evident iian no ro--ulw, card for the North or West, and they have iiist n li'ilc foi him. . . . Dean Swift's Loan- Fi nd. Inverness is rich in Friendly Societies, which tend to encourage pro vident habits among the working classes. Among other schemes for the same object, Dean Swift in stituted in Dublin a fund for granting small loans to such industrious arlizans and tradesmen w ho ' could lind security lor repaying the luan by small weekly instalments; but insisted upon punctuality in thone repayments ; his object being to awaken the needy to the advantages of habits of regular economy. Many families of considerable respect ability in Dublin, it is honorably reported, owed tho rise of their prosperity to assistance derived from this email fund. In tho management of the Dean's loan fund ludicrous anecdotes are related, as arrising from the singularity of Swift's feeliiii's. and the low humor el the inferiur Irish. One old woman posiiivcly refused payment, because, as ! said, the m oney Lad not luck w ith her. since ' sho had dealt w ith tho Church ; and she became so vociferous in her complaints, that the Dean relin quished his claim, fearing, as he said, she would institute an action against him for damages for having lent her tho money that had hrought her so many mishaps. On another occasion a pe-son, it is said, desired to borrow a small sum, and on buing asked by .Swift whom h c proposed as his se curity, he replied he had none to ollbr, excepting his faith in Itis Redeemer. The Dean accepted tho security, and, with all formality, made the entry accordingly, eiwift subsequently declared tlin't none of his debtors were moro punctual than this man. Infer nets Courier. PRIZE POEM. Tlic following beautiful lines ohtnined thn prino which was offered by I lie Editors of the Keeordcr And Telegraph for the Lett portion! production during the year lo-f. The premium was awarded (,c a committee appointed tor that purpose, to Mr. Nathaniel 1'. illis, thou a mem tier of 1 ale Col- o, as the author. MISANTHROPIC HOURS. j j ' I ! I sometimes feel as I could blot All traces of mankind from earth As if 'twere w rong to blast them not, They so degrade, so shanio their birth. To think that earlli should be so fair, So beautiful nnd bright a thing ; That nature should come forth nud wear Such gloriout apparelling) That sky, sea, air, should live and glow With light an 1 Live and holiness. And yet men novcr feel or know How much a God of lovo can Mess How deep their debt of thankfulness. I've seen the sun go down, and light Like floods of gold poured on the sky When every tree and flower was bright, And every pulse was beating high, And the full soul was gushing high, And longing for its home i.bovc And then, when men would soar, if ever, To the high homes of thought and soul When life's degrading ties should sever, And the free spirit spurn control Then have 1 seen, (oh how my check Is burning with the slmuio I feel, That truth is in the words I speak) I'vo seen my fellow creatures steal Away to their unhallow'd mirth, As if the revelries of earth Were all that thoy could feel cr share, And glorious heavens were scarcely worth Their passing notice or their care. I've said I was a worshiper At woman's shrine yet even there 1 found iinworlhiness of thought, And when I deem'd I just had caught The radience of that holy light AVhich makes earth beautiful and bright When eyes of fire their flashes sent, And rosy lips Iook'd eloquent Oh, I have turn'd nnd wept, to find Beneath it all a trilling mind, ! ! j j ) I w as in or.o of those high halls, Where genius breathes in sculptur'd stone, Where shaded light in softness falks On pencil'd beauty. They nro gone Whose hearts of fire and hands of skill Had wrought such power but they spoke To me in every feature stiil, And fresh lips breath'd and dark eyes woke. And crimson cheeks flushed glow ingly To life and motion. I had knelt And wept with Mary at the tree Where Jesus suffered I had felt The warm blood rushing to my brow At the stern buffet of the Jew Had seen the God of glory bow, Aud bleed for sins ho never knew And I had wept. I thought that ull Must feel liko me and when there came A stranger, bright and beautiful With step of grace and eye of flanio, And tono and look most sweetly blent To in iko her proenco oloiuont, Oh, then I Iook'd for tears. Wo stood Refore tho seono of Calvary I saw tho piercing spear, the blood The gall the writhe of agony I saw tho piereig spear, tho blood The gall the writhe of agony I eaw his quivering lips in prayer, "Father forgive them" all was there. I turn'd in bitterness of soul Aud spoke of Jesus. 1 hud thought Her feelings would refuse control ; For woman's heart, I knew, was fraught With gushing sympathies. Sho gaz'd A moment on it carelessly, And coldly curl 'd her lip, and prais'd The high priest's garment! Could it be That look was meant, dear Lord, for thee 1 tDh, what is woman what her smile Her lips of ljv e her eyes of light What is she, if her lips revile The lowly Jesus 1 Lovo may write His name upon hor marble brow, And linger in her curls of jet The liglit spriug flower may scarcely bow Beneath hci step, and yet--nnd yet Without the meeker grace, she'll bo A lighter thing than vanity. DEATH OF A MISER. u"e' "ny fr thirty years. Her only income was On Saturday, Hannah Hall, a spinster, aged sixty-six, distinguished by her miser habits, closed her niisornhlo career at Sheffield, leaving to the Girls' Charity School of that town between C5.000 and .6,0(10. amassed by a lifo of penury. In 1812 about which timo her father died, sho roccivod a legacy of X 100 under her grandfather's will. It was immediately after tho acquisition of this sum of in noy that Misj Hall lirst manifested those penurious habits for w hich her subsequent life was remarkable, ller penury led her thuscnrly in her career to discard soap as an unnecessary unnend- ago of her toilet, and she boasted that she had not the interest on .tlLU, nna tier own earnings, bv milking farm laborer's smock-frocks, but she con trived not only to live out of this, Ijutto save mon ey. In connection with anolher woman, she com menced a system of lending money out at interest though the medium of (juiuea Clubs, nnd this proved so profitable that in five or six years she was able to commence lending on mort'Mee of small lots of cottage property. The eliutte-rs of the lower rooms of her house was burric ido I, and sho lived alone in tho garret, a miserable mot wretched life, but every year increasing her lialj she R" f penury and her hoard of wealth. Coals she never bought, and frequently she sat for two days together iu the depth of winter without firo. .Miss Hull, although she would literally starve herself to death rather than part with her Money, had no objection to a good dinner at nny other person's expense, and during the last teu or fifteen ynain of her lifo sho followed out a system by which sho secured herself a good diuner and tea every day in the week, except Sunday, free of charge. This class of friends the propitiated by promises to remember them in hor will. To none of these persons, however, has she left more than ten pounds. Her attire was a "thing of shreds and patches." On her feet sho usually wore a pair of cast-off men's hoots, which wero tied around her ancles with strings. She had worn a bounct for more than thirty years. Summer or winter, she wore pattens nnd carried an umbrella. Her liabitB wore very filthy. On a soireh being mado at the house of the deceased three wills were discovered, all in her own luind-wriling, and another drawn up by a solicitor in 1810, ia all of which she left hor property to the charity school. There were also found mortgage deeds. Midland Railway shares, debenture bends of the Manchester, .Shef field, and Lincoliibhiro Railway, and bunkers' deposito notes, in all amounting to XG.Oou t0 7,00. Those secuiitics weie found soorcted in bundles of rags, tied up in old shirts, and some of the more p rlablo, ones sncb as the bank deposits notes, were packed away inpicoes of rags, inside cdd shoes, Ac. In one box she hud nccumti lilted between fifty nnd sixty pieces of soap of different kinds, ovidently the coiitrilmtiotis ol friends anxious for her sanitary improvement. I ho interment took place at St. I hillin's church. and drew together eomo thousands of people. Lomton ltmvK, NIAGARA SUSPENSION BRIDGE. Those only, whohavo visited Niagra, and ad mired the ar'.-lefying appearance ot she scenery can appreciate tho feelings w hich tho crossing of a locomotive and train of cars ovor the wire suspen sion bridge must havo inspired. Toot, passengors when standing on the middle of tho old suspension bridge, and viewing tho waving and dashing waters beneath, would almost instinctively trcmhlo ; hut in point of beautiful grandeur, this is eoniparativly trilling, compared with tho view obtained from a locoiuotiyc, on the bridge sixty feet higher tho railroad bridge passing, ns is known, directly over the passenger bridge. A correspondent of the Rochester American notices the first passago of the locomotive, as follows : At threeoYloek, P. M, tholocomotivo "London, ' of tho (treat Western Railway, having on board Mr. Roebling, tho writer, nnd seven or eight others started from tho station in Klgin, Canada, and amid the cheering of tho multitude, proceeded to tho centn of tho bridge, whore it was stopped, and thrco times three cheers wero given for John A. Roebling, w ho stood canopied by tho stars nr.d stripes, nnd the royal cross ol fit. ueorge. Then with a dcafning whistle, ns a wild cry exultation that reverberated through tho ritteu chasms and along tho boiling waters of tho Niagara below, and booming up into nzuic heaven, when tho "London" moved over to the American side, where it was greeted in like mnniier with loud lumzas of the multitude on shore. On retur ning to the Canada side and making anothor trip, every fear seemed to havo left even tho most timid, and both engine nnd tender seemed tp bo a strug glirg mass of human beings, each clinging in the excitement, wherever they could get a foot-hold. The engine and its load, on this occasion, may be safely set down nt thirty (,u) tons, nna yet it o 'casi'oncd in its passage no more peroeptablc mo tion in the bridge than an ordinary wagon nnu team. Puring his second trip, Roebling, with carefully ndjustcd instruments, ascertained that I ho total deflection at the centre, caused by the engine nnd load ut that point, was exactly three inches. The Buffalo Express gives the following statis tics of the bridge : Length of span from center to center of towers, feet ; bight of towers above tho rock on tne American side, 88 feet ; dittoon the Canada side, 78 feet; ditto floor of railway 00 feet ; number "f tildes 4. Diameter of each cabin 10 inches; number of No. 0 wires in each cable II.Oo'J ; aggregate strength of cables 12,400 tons; weight of supersti ucturc 750 tons; do. superstruetu-e and maximum loads 1,2-30 tons ; maxima weight of cable and stay will sup port 7,o00 tons ; height of track above tho water 234 feel; height of railroad abovo wagon track 00 feet. TO YOUNG MEN. Wo extract the following beautiful paragraph from tho 15 ice il mrj ite ALlress lately delivered before the Graduating Class of Rutger's College, by the Hon. Theodore Freliughiiysuii, and commend it to tho perusal of the young : Resolve to do something useful, honorable, duti ful, and do it heartily. Repel the thought that you can, and theroforo may, live nbovo labor, and without work. Among the most pitiful objects in society, is the man who.-c mind has been trained by tho diciplino of education who has learned how to think, and the value of his imortal powers, nnd with all these noble faculties cultivated and prepared for nn honorablo activity, ignobly sits down 1 1 do nothing ; and, of course to be nothing,; with no ir.fluenco of tho public mind with no interest in the concerns of his country or even his neighborhood, to bo regarded as a drone, witluout object or character, with no hand to lift nnd with with no effort to put forth to help the right or defeat the wrong. Who can think with any calmness of such a miserable career f And however it may be with you in active enterprise, never permit your influence to go iff hostility to tho cause of truth and virtue. So live, rlmt with" the Chistian poet, you may truthlully say that "If your country stand not by your skill, Atleast your follies havo not wrought her fall." Ace of Ovsters. A London oyster-man can tell the ages of his flock to a nicoty. Tho ago of an oyster is not to bo found out by looking into its mouth. It bears its years upon its back. Every body who has handled an oyster-shell must have observed that it seemed as if composed of succes sive layers of plates overlapping each other. These are technically termed "shoots," and each of them marks a year's growth ; ro that, by counting theni wo can determine at a glance tho year when the creature came into the world. I'p to the time of its maturity, the shoots are regular aud suc cessive ; but after that time they become irregular, aud nro piled one over the other, so that tho shell becomes more and more thickened and bulky. Judging irom the great thickness to which some oyster-shells have attained, this mollusc is capable if left to its natural changes unmolested, of attain ing a patriarchal longevity. Tiik Rov.vi. Wei.su floAT. 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