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DAILY APPEAL.
MEMPHIS .
SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 11, 1S57,
THE CASH SYSTEM
WM fee slrktlj observed by Ihe proprietors
f Ma paper in future. Every name will be
erased at the expiration of the time subscribed
' far, naless renewed in advance. In doing this,
we kww we shall hare to erase many a good
name, bet we can make no exception to the
rule we have adopted. Long experience has
taught es that this is the only safe and legitl-
ratlle way of conducting our business.
E0OTHESN PACIFIC KAX1X0AD.
The rerganizatiofl of this Company and the
araetxiew act of the State of Texas, passed at
the last session of its Legislature, granting
10.246 acres of land per mile to the Company
a Mi loaaiBg $6,000 per mile to it, for ten years
at 6 per cent, per annum, is attracting very
general attention to its feasibility and eliciting
the mst glowing aad well-founded anticipa
tfeas of Ks saccess from the public press. The
length of the surrey from Marshall to El Paso
"J83 miles, and the aggregate grant of lands
yv4M ameatvt to 8,000,000 acres in round nun
feers. The Illinois Central Railroad Company
have sold their landsfrcely during the first three
Months of the past year at $12, $15, and $16
per acre. These lands were is no better re
fastest before the completion of thf.t great work
than are the lands along the line of the Pacific
Railroad in Texas. Indeed the tide of emigra
tie had not so firmly set in that direction, and
tfee country was mere sparsely settled.
The climate of Texas, along the line of this
road, is the finest oa the continent, mild, salu
brious and pleasant. The soil is generous and
weW adapted to cotton, wheat, corn and the
trasses. It is about the centre of the cotton
belt. Wheat grows at the rate of thirty bushel
per acre and of the heaviest quality. Sheep
and cattle are raised, on one portion of the
Ifee, to as great advantage as any region in the
States. The supply of cotton, it must be re
aeaoeted, is not keeping up with the consump
tion. The consumption is annually increasin;
with the increase of the population of the
world, ivhile the older portion of the cotton
region is fast wearing out. IVho then can
legitimately doubt that these lands will sell, as
the read progresses, at least as high as those
of the Illinois Central Company? Sutsuppos
they only bring $5 per acre; that will yield an
aggregate sum of $40,000,000. Hon. J. Sutler
Kixo in his late report estimates the cost of
the road from Marshall to El Paso, 7S3 miles
at $14,631,133, say $15,000,00") in round num
bers.
This estimate will leave a profit of $35,000
000 to the stockholders. But if we estimate
these lands at the prices received by the Illinois
Ceetral for their lands, sav $15 per acre, it
wiM give a wodnct of $120,000,000 and leave
profit to the Company of $105,000,000 After
constructing and eqaiping the road. Buttu
profits of the road itself must far exceed any
estitMte that has ever been made for any other
road in the world. It is now considered certain
that the passengers and light traffic, not only of
California, and the Atlantic States, but that
between Western Europe and Australia, China
and tfee East must trod a transit across this
road. It will be quicker by twenty days than
&ny stacr route, and competition lorces mer
chants to take the quickest transportation for
packages of aerrhandise. The mails, muni
tions and troops of the United States must also
take this route. The completion of this road
wHt open up a vast, now dormant, wealth in
Northwestern Texas, Sonora, New Mexico and
CMBuafeua, and the local traffic alone will in a
yew or two, after its opening, support the road.
There is no doubt that the government of the
United States will be equally as liberal iu grant
ing lands to the Company beyond El Paso as
Texas has been. And after its completion to
El Paso, toe work will be cheered on by so
unanimous and enthusiastic a public sentiment
that the residue of the enterprise will be com
paratively an easy task. The route itself is
decidedly the most practicable for a railroad ef
any other as established by Government Sur
veys, and the climate is freer from the extremes
of weather than any ob the continent.
The Directors, who now have charge of the
Company, we are assured, are men of probity,
enterprise, intelligence and wealth, cool-head-si,
calculating and clear-sighted. The Presi
dent, Hobatio Allen, Esq., is one of the
Brest CMfteui CBgiaeers xu jxmvut. ut wan
chief engineer of the first railroad constructed
in the United States the Charleston and Ham
burg railroad, and was the advising engineer of
the great Erie railroad. He is at present one
of the firm who own the celebrated " Novelty
Works," New York from which establishment
- mus gone out the most approved steam engines
in &e world, and, among others, the engines ot
the Collins line of Steamers, which hare op.-
Btripped any yet constructed in speed. There
seosts therefore to be a prestige connected with
the successes of the President of the road highly
encouraging to is friends. He constructed the
first raikead ever built in the United States and
the first ever built in the Southern States. He
was ceunected with the construction of the first
railroad that united the Atlantic Ocean with
the waters of the great lakes. He has c
structed at his " Novelty Works," the engine
which has propelled the fleetest s earner that
ever crossed the Atlantic A fit sequel to so
successful a career would be the construction
of the great highway from the Atlantic to the
Pacific We shall resume this subject hereafer.
Hex. Howell Cobs. The statement which
' has appeared in many of the newspapers, as
signing the authorship of a book entitled "Scrip
tural Examination of the Institution of Slave
ry," to' the Hob. Howell Cobb, of Georgia,
is entirely unfounded. Mr. Cobb declares that
he is not the author, and that he has never
seen the book.
ConKTXEFLiTS Two new counterfeits upon
the Kentucky Bank are new in circulation.
One upon the Northern Bank of Kentucky,
dated January 12, 1854, at Lexington, payable
at Richmond, denomination of $1. The other
is a dollar bill on the Bank of Kentucky, paya
ble at Danville. The appearance is dark, but
it is calculated to deceive.
3?" Gzorce Fbxauor, brother to the cele
brated" Mustang" correspondent of the New
Orleans Delta, is the messenger selected by the
Buchanan electoral college of California to
carry the vote of that body to Washington.
His mileage and pay will amount to a large sum,
Bay at letst $5,000.
Univeesalists as Witnesses. The state
ment that the Supreme Court of North Caro
lina has confirmed the decision ef Judge Man
lt that members of the Unirersalist Church
are incompetant to testify in courts of justice
according to the laws of that State, is a mis
take. A Present tor Mr. Buchanan. It is
stated that Dr. James McElheney, of Ohio,
has forwarded to Wheatland, as a new year's
present to Mr. Buchavak, a large arm-chair,
a walking cane and broom, all carved from
hickory in the most elaborate and ingenious
Byle, by his own hand, and two wild turkeys.
Perjury. Dr. W. T. Leonard, formerly
one of the publishers of the Southern Literary
Magazint, was held to bail in $1,200 to answer
a charge of perjury, in New Orleans, on the
SOthuU.
J. C. Fite, Esq., has been electef
Blaor of Hickman, Ky.
E0UTBEBH PACITIC BA2LE0AD.
Th fimt annual renort of the Southern Pa
cific Railroad Company, has just been publish
ed, at the American riaiiroao. omce in new
YorK, ana we nave It on our isuic, cuusisuug
of 7 1 pages. Among me various great ruuiu
of the dav. attracting public atten-
- r- . tY. .i
tion, tnere is none in wnicn tue aouuiern peu-
ple, the people or me aowawm, ana in tact,
the neonle of the whole Union, are half bo
deepiv interested, as that of the Southern Pa-
etftc liauroaa. ur us uuiume success wt ie
entirely confident, and we are gratified to see
tnar we are not. aione in iuc cajjicbsiuu ul uui
confidence. Many of the most prominent and
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influential of the Southern papers, and the
Southwestern journals, are taking strong ana
open ground iu favor of the enterprise. And
if its importance were fully appreciated, and
its history and advantaces understood, every
P&U10UC JUUlliai III tUC luuilfcj nuiuu vuv
at once, in its defense, and continue to fight its
battles, until its "last armed foe expires."
Some of the best men. and tne weaiiniest men
in the Nation have taken hold of it, and "sink
or swim, survive or perish," they are resolved
to put it through. Such an enterprise, in the
hands of such men, cannot fail and will not fail
of success.
The Report before us is an able document,
faithfully presenting the condition of the Com
pany. It shows their condition to be prosper
ous ana run or promise oi success, .ucbiu"
men, Shylocks, and speculators, with their
hrihes in hand, hireling wire-pullers, and pen
sioned lobby members, are now at Washington
to procure the passage of a Pacific Railroad
bill. The Southern Pacific Railroad Company
will press forward with their great enterprise,
and without any schemes to deplete the Nation
al Treasury. They will look only to the con
atruetion of a irreat national thoroughfare : and
by the time the different factions in Congress
es,and discussing the eoiufiJuiionaJity of the
mewure, this Road will be completed to El j
Paso, somemmg more man uau hoj t"
shores of the Pacific
It is falsely charged that the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company, is a party to the applica
tions for aid now before Congress. This is cot
the fact. This Company is already on its way
to the Pacific, and is successfully carrying a
Railroad eight hundred miles through Texas, to
its western boundary, which is El Psbo, with
out any grant of land or money from Congress.
The first section of the Road is ready for the
Rail ; and thousands of tons of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Iron have been already shipped, and
is now being laid upon the track, whilst all the
money necessary to complete the next section is
provided. All other schemes must eventually
merge into this, because it is the best and short
est route between th great cities of the Atlan
tic and Pacific, with lower grades, without in-,
clined planes, unobstructed by snows, passing
through the best watered country to be found,
going in that direction passing through the
most fertile grain-growing and stock raising
country the richest and most inexhaustible
coal mines, gold, silver, cop-.er and lead, to say
nothing or iron and it is the route that must
be adopted and it is the first that will be com
pleted. There are enough of sensible men in Con
gress, and in the country, to know, and to sat
isfy the people, that the sums now paid by the
Government for postal and military purposes,
fixed on the same proportional basis, compared
with the service to be performed, would enable
this Southern Pacific Railroad company, to fin
ish the Road to San Francisco. This aid will
be furnished. The charter granted by the
State of Texas, and the resources of a great
and growing Company, will finish it to El Paso,
on the Rio Grande, more than half the dis
tance. This is only our tsrraduciory jiotice cf this
magnificent undertaking. We shall follow up
the subject in our next, and show, as we are
able to do, that it has within it all the clemnets
of success. Knexcille TFXfg--
(g?" It is in contemplation to start a bank at
Cairo, IIL, with a capital of $200,000.
g" We are under obligations to Hon. Geo.
W- Jokes, for public documents.
Mr. J. W. Yodxsblood has retired from
the editorial department of the Trenton Staiul
ard. He is succeeded by E. G. Hill, Esq.
gThe population of Wisconsin is now
reckoned to be 700,000. Iowa has nearly
600,000.
IK-Rev. Mr. Evi.ss, in attendance on the
Alabama Methodist Conference, at Tuskegee,
Ala., fell dead on the 20th.
g William Darling, M. D., a young
American surgeon, has been admitted as a
member of thetLondon Royal College of Sur
geoas. President jierce's proclamation of the
Convention between Austria and the United
States for the extradition of criminals has been
issued.
Girard College. Girard College at Phila
delphia, now supports and educates regularly
three hundred and fifteen boys, all indigent or
phans. Emajicipated. Mr. Joseph Glasgow, who
died recently iu Rockbride, Va.. by his will,
emancipated all his servants, about forty,
to take effec. at the death of his wife and
daughter.
New Line or Steamers. It is stated that
Commodore "Vandkrbilt has contracted to
have two steamers launched wi'hln sixty days,
to run between New Orleans ana Galveston,
Texas, againBt Commodore Morgan's line there
to offset the Salter's successful attack upon the
Nicaraguan Company's line.
Tobacco is France and Encland. Ac
cording to a statistical work lately published
on the consumption of Paris the quantity of
tobacco consumed in smoking in 1S54 was near
ly double that of 1S39, and that of cigars five
times as much; whilst that of snuff, on the
contrary, presented a marked diminution. It
is calculated that the number of smokers in Pa
ris, including the garrison, is about 420,000, and
the total consumption gives one kilogramme
973 centigrammes of tobacco, 143 cigars, and 4
cigarettes for each person ; or calculating the
cigars at 240 and the cigarettes at 1,000 to the
kilogramme, tiro kilogrammes 749 centigram
mes for each. In England th; consumption is
calculated to be sixteen ounces a head.
Increased Speed or Locomotives. The
Philadelphia Z Jgcr cites the exhibition in
France of a locomotive weighing sixty tons,
with ten feet driving wheels, and stated to be
capable of attaining a speed of 150 miles per
hour. Its centre cf gravity is placed so low as
to render it safer than ordinary engines at 0
usual speed, so far as getting off the track is
concerned. It is doubted whether this speed
named can be reached will) out much larger
driving-wheels ; but there is no doubt of the
practicability of achieving it with larger ones,
or that, by elevating the track so as to allow
of a very low centre of gravity, together with
widening the space between the railsjand avoid
ing common roads by bridges and tunnels, rail
road trains can move with ease and safety 150
miles per hour.
The Cincinnati Gazette says :
" A duel was foueht on New Year's day by
two officers at the Newport Barracks. It is un
derstood that after the first fire the seconds in
terfered and an amicable adjustment was ac
complished."
(g?" We copy the following from the Padu
cah Democrat, of the 3d inst. :
" A street fight, with pistols, took place in
this city, last Monday, between Capt. Samuel
Milliken and Col. Richard A. Bacon, in which
the latter was shot, the ball entering tbe left
thigh near the groins, and passing nearly
through the thigh. The ball has teen extracated
and Col. Bacon is doing well, there being
doubt of his recovery."
united states supreme uourt washing
ion, December 29. The Supreme -Court to-day,
tarouga justice uunis, rave a decision respect
ing the responsibility of vessels for repairs and
supplies, ine case before mat tribunal on
which decision was given was one growing out
of the business transactions of the captain of
the bark Laura, while employed in trading on
the Pacific, coast Chief Justice Tiuey and
Justice Wayne dissenting from a majority of
their associates, held that the captain, under
the contract to sail the vessel, was merely the
agent and not the owner for the time being of
the vessel, the owners of which were respon
sible for said repairs and supplies. Judee Ta
ney occupied an hour in thV delivery of his
views, regarding the subject as highly impor
tant and containine peiuta for tbe first tima
brought before that tribunal.
LETTER VEOK CALIA0.
Another RtvaltitienSctzvre ef Gcvernmtnt Shtpt
Departure of Seamen tojtght tit Rebelt Great .Er
citement. OoriMpocdince of tba Sally Delta
Callao, November 27, IB56.
Memrs. Editors: We are here on the eve
of another revolution, and it is the general
onlnion of tbe neonle I II at uastlllia win uc
overthrown. The favorite party at present is
flen. Vivanro? he has been President once be
fore The present disturbances commenced at
the port of Arica, where the screw steam fri
gate Jlputimac was lying at the time. Com
mander Salsedo went ashore with some of his
officers, and during his absence from the ship,
the second Lieutenant, with some others of his
nd of the shin and immedi
ately proclaimed against Castillia, called out,
" Fin Vivanco, &.c, &c, and compelled the
rou- in i!n the same, which was an easy
m'lHr
Aftfr niakimr the affair public ashore, she
set sail for Islay, and there she found the Gov
ernment steamer Loa. She enticed the com
mander of her on board by signals, made him
a prisoner, and toolc nr under tne same nag,
so that the Revolutionist party are in posses
sion of nearly all the southern ports, say south
of Pisco and Callao. The mail steamer Bogota
hrmi?ht unthe two comma mlem and other of-
fir nasseiifrers to Callao. On their arrival
here Castillia gave crders to enlist two hundred
men, mostly ail foreigners, Jfcc, at ati advance
or bounty of fifty-one dollars, and two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars to be divided equally
amonjst them if the) re-captured the. Jipurimac
and brought her back to uiiao. or course
she Rot the full complement of ien. They sailed
in two of the Government steamers, called the
Eacyali and Tumftai, yesterday evening, under
the command of the ex-Commander Salcedo.
The odds are greatly in favor of the Revolu
tionist parly, as mey nave got me rrigaie ana
best steamer in their possession. So Salcedo
will have to use some stratagem, such as sur-
nrisius them in the night or immediately board
ing. U is the opinion here that he will lose
these iwo steamers also, and tben the Revolu
tionist party can take possession or all me
ports on the coast; but Castillia will no doubt
die before he gives up, as he is a brave soldier
and an able general, and will fight to the last,
By next mail we will let you know how
things have turned out. Should the war extend
to Callao, there are two English men-of-war
and also two French, who will give protection
fo the foreicn population. The people here
seem to be so much used to fighting, that they
cannot keep from a revolutiou more man two
years at a time. uul,vil.l.e. a uu.
Acothsr Elcody Tragedy ia the State Prison.
From the Boston Journal, SOtli
Thus soon are we called upon to record the
almost incredible fact of another mvrHcr at the
Slate Pi iton, which occurred about halt-past
three oxlocK vesteraay aiiernoon, just one
fortnight to a day since the murder of Depu-
ty warden uaien i. naiKxrin iuc esuuo in
stitntion.
Thevictim of the last atrocious act was the
Warden himself, Solon H. Teni.y, who, as In
the first instance, was stabbed in the neck by a
convict
The following are the circumstances of this
astounding tragedy, which has fallen upon the
ears of the people of this community with
startling and almost paralyzing force.
Since the tragic death of the Deputy Warden
of the prison, an increased responsibility has
naturally devolved upon the Warden, Mr.
Tenney, who has been in the habit of visiting
tne shops or me prisoners ottener man beiore,
His ordinary practice was to pass througl
twice each da', oace in the forepoon and once
in the afternoon. In accordance with this
practice, he was performing his ciiBtoinary cir
cuit Testerday afternoon, and at 3J o'clock
was passing through the upholstery shop,
where were einploye'd 45 workmen (convicts,)
and among th'im CnzrlesLi. Decatur a prisoner
committed Arm 24, by order of tne Municipal
Court of Suffolk County, for an aggravated
and dangerous assault with a bar of iron on
olficer Sawyer of the House of Correction.
where he (Decatur) was serving a term for
the commission of a larceny.
While passing through me upholstery shop
the Warden paused a moment to converse with
tbe officer in charge (Mr. T. T. Deering,) and
afterward,, in proceeding mrougu tne room
passed tbe bench where Decatur was at work
who was seen to immediately suspend his em
ployment and follow the Warden. This action
of Decatur's was observed by Olficer Deering,
who instinctively sprang forward, but before
he could arrest the progress of Decatur he had
sprung from benind at me necic or me warden,
and plunged a knife under the right ear with
sucti lorce as to cause u to proiruae ou me
other side, Mr. Tenney fell almost instantly,
without utterinz a word, but had lime and
presence of mind enough bsfore going down to
draw a pistol from bis pocket, which vas af
terward taken from nts dying grasp.
Mr. Deering seized hold of Decatur and
brought him to the floor, when two of the other
prisoners in tbe shop came t the assistance of
tne omeer and neid iiecaiur :aat until ne was
loaded with irons, after which be was convey
ed to a dungeon in lue "eartn."
Ah noon as noaaible. Mr. Daerin? ean?ht the
wounded Warden in his arms, at which time
the blood was flowing in a copious stream from
the fearful wound in nis neck, and with tue as
sistauce of one of the instructors and a prison
er named tdward Lrowtner, bore Jiim immedi
alely to the hospital, in the upper part of the
old wing, where he ceased to breathe within a
very few minutes, alter some apparent cut in
effectual attempts to articulate. Acting Dep
uty Warden Charles W. Walker, brother of
tbe murdered Deputy, met the wounded man
on the stairs, and received from him a look of
intelligence, bnt it was immediately succeeded
by a closing of the eyes and sinking of the
head, as though life had quite departed
The conduct of the prisoners in the uphol
stery shop duringthe dreadful scene was most
commendable. They displayed little excite
ment, and at the order of the officer in charge,
nnnn miinfti ratime1 thetr emnlnvmenK
Mr. Tenney was a native of Lebanon, N. H
and would have been 33 years of age next Feb'
ruary. He was appointed to tbe office of War
den of the State Prison last April. For the
ten or twelve years preceding he had been an
officer ot different grades til trie jsoBtou House
of Correction and Suffolk County Jail ; being
Cleric of the latter at the time of his appoint
ment to tbe Wardensbin of the prison, in all
these capacities he had proved himself a most
trustworthy and enicient omcer, and his swift
and untimely death cannot hut prove a severe
loss to the institution, which has so suddenly
been deprived of its chief officer by the hellish
act of an inmate who had received nothing but
Kinnnes3 ac me nanas or nis victim.
Mr. Tenney had been married less than 20
days, and had returned from his wedding tour
but a few days previous to bis death. The
circumstances of his return are fresh in the
inindB of most of our readers, who will recol
lect that he hastened home to attend the funer
alof his deputy in office, who came to his end
under similar and hardly less painful ci -cum
stances than those above described.
Decatur, the author of tbia flagitious deed, is
a native of Kittery, Mc, and is only 22 years
of age. He is described as being about five
feet six inches high, and good-looking. He has
been twice an inmate of the House of Correc
tion, and was sent there the first time at the
age of eighteen, for larceny of money from the
tin or a store in which he was cranio; ed. tie
remained there at tbe time one year, during
which time his conduct was so exemplary that
the officers were not called upon to punish or
even reprimand him, but on the contrary treat
cd him with unuBual favor.
The second time Decatur was sent to the House
of Correctien for 'breaking into a furniture
store in Dock square; and it was while serv
ing out this sentence that he committed the ss
ult on Officer Anson D. Sawyer, fot which he
was sentenced to the State Prison for three
years and two days' solitary confinement. While
in the House of Correction, Decatur threatened
to take the life of the Waster, Mr. Robbln
a circumstance mentioned by Mr. Robbins last
Friday evening, while conversing in relation to
me recent previous tragedy in the State Prison
The Ambrottpe Art. A writer in the
Journal of Commerce gives some interesting
lacis concerning me an or pnotograpny, from
wutcu it appears mat out a snort time ago there
were one hundred and fifty dagurreotype rooms
in New York city, employing on .n average
five persons ; but now, by the introduction of
ne m processes not easily attainable, many of
the old operators are irretrievably ruined. The
finer texture and unsubdued coloring of the
plate-glass ambrotype led to tbe relinquishment
or me metallic piaie, so mat tne unnatural
glare of the latter was avoided, the effect pro
duced'belng more like that of a fine engraving;
nor is the Image reversed aB In the daguer-
1 a 1 1 1 i , -
reioype. AJiouier anvanrage is mat tue im
pression is taken instantaneously, so that the
features are not disturbed by fatigue or impa
tience. The photograph is another process
much in use, which approaches more to the old
style of miniature paintjng, the pencil being em
ployed te a considerable extent though, the lines
ment and general expression arc conveyed bv
optical apparatus, aj in the ambrotype, except
1 t lili..t.J 1 1 I .
uiat paper is suosuiutea lor piate-giass.
RSF' Childhood is like a mirror, catchlngand
reflecting images from all around it. Remem
ber that an impious and profane thought utter
ed by a parent's Hps, may operate on the voiintr
ueart nice a careless spray or water thrown up-'
on polished. steel," staining it with rust, vwhicb
no artcr-scourtugi-can euace.
THE CBAZY EKGHSEER.
FKOJI THE REPORT OF A PRUSSIAN COKUCTOB.
Mv train left Danzig in the morning gener
ally about 8 o'clock, but once a week we were
compelled to watt lor the arrival or me steam
er Stockholm. It was the morning of the
steamer's arrival that I came down from my
hotel and found my engineer had been so seri
ously injured that be could not run. A railway
carriage had run over him and broken one of
his legs. I went immediately to the engine
house to procure another engineer, for I knew
mat there were tnree or rour in reserve there ;
but I was disappointed. I enquired for West-
ptiai, but was informed mat ne had gone to
Steegen to see his mother. Gondolpho bad
been sent to Koinsburg on the road. But where
was Wayne ? lie Dad leave of absence for
two days, and had gone no one knew whither.
Here was a iix. l heard the pulling of the
steamer on the Neufahwasser, and the passen
gers would be on hand in fifteen minutes. I
ran to the guard and asked them if they knew
wuere mere was an engineer, our mey did not.
I then went to the firemen and asked them if
any of them felt competent to run the engine to
Bromberg. Not one of them dared attempt it
Tbe distance was nearly a hundred mil ts.
What was to be done t
The steamer stopped at the wharf, and those
who were going on by railroad came flocking to
the station. They had eaten their breakfast
on board the boat, and were all ready for the
fresh start The baggage was checked and
registered, the tickets bought the different car
riages pointed out to the various classes of past
sengers, themselves seated, the train was in
readiness in the long station house, and tbe en
gine was steaming and puffing away impatient
ly in the distant fire-house.
it was past nine o'clock.
" Come, why don't we start?" growled an
old fat Sivede, who had been watching me nar-1
owiy tor me last uiteen minutes.
And upon this there was a general chorus of
anxious inquiry, which soon settled to down
right murmuring. At this juncturt some one
touched me on the elbow. I turned and saw a
stranger by my side. I expected that he was
going to remonstrate with me for my back
warunes. In fact, I began to have strong temp
tations to pull off my uniform, forevery anxious
eye was uxea upon me glaring Dauges which
marked me as the chief officer of the train.
However, this stranger was a middle-aged
man. tall ami ntniit. triili a fare .vnr...iir. nf
irr, nm- .mH int.iiicreiiee Hi. ....
black and brilliant bo brilliant that I could !
not, for the sole of me, gaze steadily into it;
j hi. iin wMrh -v.i-a ih?n ...m..i -i-.
like polished marble than human flesh. His
dress was oiacic throughout, and not only set
tled with" exact nicety, but was scrupulously
clean ana near.
" You want an engineer, I understand." he
said in a low, cautious tone, at the same time
gazing quietly about him, as though he wanted
no one else to hear what he said.
" I do," I replied. "My train ia already, and
we have no engineer within twenty miles of
mis place."
"Well, sir, I am going to Bromberg I must
go; I will run the engine for you."
"I am, sir one of the oldest in the country-; '
id am now on my way to Berlin to make ar-1
"Hal" I ntterert "are vnn n nlnrVJ
and am now on my war
rangements for a great improvement I have In
vented for the application of steam to locomo
tion. My name is Martin Kroller. If you wish
I will run as far as Bromberg, and I will show
you running that is running."
Was 1 nor fortunate? 1 determined to ac
cept the man's offer at one, aud so I told him.
ne received my answer witu a nod and a smile.
I went with him to the house, where he found
the iron horse in tbe charge of the firemen, and
all ready for the start. Kroller got upon the
platform and I followed him. I had re ver seen
assure
a man betray such peculiar aptnesss amid the "J e ,u ?h,
machinery that he did. He let on the steam ?f womaiAood-for within this year i hare
in an instant, but yet with care and judgment been joined to 'the great and noble .army of
and he backed up to tbe baggage carnagf with f 0"-' .i1 f m now one 0?. fh' 'f
the most exact nicety. I had seen enough to I l.8art,,mfe tb?t.wom,an mafeel that 8he: fkte
.... J O i Marv nr nlil id nloeil nmnnir wnman 7 if la
i me that he wis thoroughly acquainted;.1 77i V k m 31
be business, and I felt "composed once wh'n.f f'old h,h her.a.r,ms
I gave my engine up to thSntwvJtoJ
n Iiir n a ttrt a I.. . .... I A ' J ct wsvavu uuawita. uvuiwil fc o
with the
more.
and then hastened away to the office. The
word was passed for all passengers to take
their seats, and soon afterwards I waved my
3
it
hand to the encineer. There wa a niifT
1 h.,,... ,i ii.ii....
i -!.?
of the building and tbe train was
I leaned upon the platform of the ward car-
iwv.w...
nage, and in few moments more the station
house' was behind us.
in less than an hour we reached Dirshua,
where we took up the passengers that had come
4K. ir.t.,C b it r :r.
ward and asked Kroller how he liked the en-
iu tw h. in .1 if k
" ut," he added with a strange sparkling of
..... . . . ... ...
the eye, " wait until you get my improvement,
ana then you snail see traveling. Sy the soul
r it,. vri ivfnttt ... t ..u '
Ul IUC Wlflli. lUUUlll. ou, A tuu U 1UI1 nil CU-
;... (i .B..f,.ni . ,'f, s , " i
. J
I smiled at what I thought his quaint enthu
siasm, and then went back to my station. As !
soon as the Kcenigsberg passengers were all on j
board and their baggage crate attached, we
started on again.
As soon as all matters had been attended to,
connected with the new accession of passen
gers, I went into the guard carriage and sat
down An early train frem Kanigsberg had
been thiough two hours before reaching Brom
berg, and that was.at Little Oscue, where we
took the western mail 1
" How we go 1" uttered one of the guards I
some fifteen minutes after we bad left Dir-!
sbua.
" The new engineer is trying the speed," I
returned not holding any fear.
But en- long I began to be fesrful that he
was running a little too fast. The carriages
began to sway to and fro, and I could hear ex
clamations of fear from (he passengers.
" Good heavens 1" cried one of the guard
coming in at that moment, " what is that fel
low doing? Look, sir, see how we arc go
ing'" I looked at the window and found that we
were dashing along at a speed never before
traveled on that road. Posts, fences, rocks
and trees flew by in one undistinguished mass
and the carriages now swayed fearfully. I
started to my feet and met a passenger on the
platform. He waa one of the chief owners of
the road, and was just on his way to Berlin.
He was pale and excited.
" Sir," he gasped, " is Martin Kroller on ths
engine?"
"Yes "I told hira.
'' Holly Virgin 1 didn't you know him ?"
" Know him?"' I repeated, somewhat puzzled.
" What do you mean ? He told me his name
was Kroller, and that he was an engineer.
We hat' no one to run the engine, and '
"Yeu took him!" interrupted the man.
" Good heavens, sir, he is as crazy as a man
can be 1 He turned his brain over a new plan
for applying steam power. I saw hisi at the
station, but 1 did not then recognize him, as 1 1
was in a nurry. Just now one of the passen
gers told me that all your engineers were gone
this morning, and that you found one that was
a stranger to you. Then I knew that the man
whom I had seen was Martin Kroller! He
escaped from the hospital at Slettin. You
must get him off some now."
The whole fearful truth was now open to
me. The speed of Hie train was increasing
every moment, and I knew that a few miles
more per hour would launch us all into destruc
tion. I called to the guard, and then made my
way forward as quick as possible. I reached
the after tender, and there stood tCroIler upon
tbe engine board ; his hat and coat off; his long
black hair floating wildly in the wind; his shirt
unbuttoned at the throat ; his sleeves rolled'up;
with a. pistol in bis teeth, and thus glaring
upon tbe fireman, who lay motionless upon the
fuel. The furnace was stuffed up till the very
latch of the door was red hot, and the whole
engine was quivering and swaying as though
it would shiver in pieces.
"Kroller! Kroller!" I cried at the top of
my voice.
The crazy engineer started! and caught the
pistol iu his hand. Oh I how those great black
eyes glared, and how ghastly and frightful the
face looked !
"Ha! ha! ha!" he yelled demoniacally,
glaring upon me like a routed lion.
" They swore I could not make It ! But see !
see 1 See my new power 1 See my new engine 1
I made it! I made it! and they were jealous
of me. I made it, and when 'twati doue they
stole it from me ! But I have found it. For
years I have been wandering in search of my
great engine and mey swore It was not made !
But I've found it! I knew it when I saw it
this morning at Danzig and I was determinod
to have it And I've cot it 1 Ho ! ho 1 ho !
we're off to the moon, I say! By the Virgin
Mother I we'll be in the moon in four and
twenty hours! Down, down, villain 1 If you
move I'll snoot you I "
This last was spok :n to the poor fireman
who at that moment attempted to rise : ant
ths frightened man sank back again.
"Here's Little Oscue right at hand!" cried
one of the guard.
" But even as be spoke the buildinrs were at
hand. A sickening sensation settled upon my
lie an. ior l sunnosea we were rnnt nnw. rn
houses flew by like lightning. I knew if the
o hi c ers here naa turned the switch as usual, we
should be hurled into eternity in tha fearful
crash. I s&w a ilasb it was another eneine
I closed rttv eyes but still we thundered on.
The officers had seen our speed, and knowing
that we could not haul up in that distance, they
bad changed the switcb.so that wo went on.
iJut there was sure death anew lz wa did not
stay. Only fifteen miles ahead was. the town
of Schwertz, on the Vistula, and at the rats
we were gokg we should be there In z few
minutes, for each minute carried us over a
mile I Th shrieks of the passengers now
rose above the crash of the rails, and more
terrific than all else aroso the demoniac yells
of the mad engineer.
K Merclful heavens 1" gasped the guardsman,
"there's not a moment of time to loose;
Schwertz is close by I But hold," he added,
" let's shoot him I
At that moment a tall, stout German student
came over to ih? platform where we stojd, and
we saw that the mcdman had bis heavy pistol
aimed at us.- He grasped a heavy stick of
wood from tbe tender, and with the steadiness
of nerve which I couid not have commanded,
he hurled it with such force and precision that
be knocked me pistol from the maniac's grasp,
i saw me movement, and on the lnJiamrinai
the pistol fell I sprang forward, and tbe Ger
man followed me. I grasped tbe man- by the
arm, but I should have been a mere infant in
his mad power had I been alone. He would
have hurled me from tbe platform, bad not the
student at that moment struck him upon the
head with a stick of wood which he caught as
he came over the tender.
Kroller settled down like a dead man, and
on the next instant I shut off the steam and
opened the valve. As the freed steam shrieked
and howled in its escape, tire speed began to
decrease, and in a few minutes more the danger
was passed. As 1 settled back entirely over
come at the wild emotions that bat raged with
in me, we began to turn the river;, and before
I was fairly recovered, the fireman had stopped
the train in the station bouse at bchwertz.
Martin Kroller, still insensible, was taken
from the platform, and as we carried him to
the guard-room, one of the guard recognized
him, and told us that he had been there about
two weeks beiore.
"He came," said the guard, "and swore
that an engine which stood near here was his.
He said it was one he had made to go to the
moon in, and that it had been stolen from him.
We sent for more help to arrest him, and h
fied."
Well," I replied with a shudder, " I wish
he had approached me the same way. But he
was more cautious at Danzig."
At Schwertz we found an engineer to run the
engine to Bromberg, and having taken out the
western mail for the next northern train to take
along, we saw that Kroller would be properly
attended to, and then started on
The rest of the trip was run in safety, though
1 COuld 8ee that the passengers were not wholly
"ease, ana wouia not oe until mey were en
tueiy clear or the railway. A heavy pursi
was made up by them for the German student
and he accepted it with much gratitude, and
was glad of it : for the current of their grati
tude to him may have prevented a far different
current wnicu might have poured upon my
Read tor having engaged a madman to run
railway train.
But this is not the end. Martin Kroller re.
mained insensible from the effects of that blow
upon the head nearly two weeks, and when h
recovered from that he was sound again His
insanity was all coce. I saw him about thre
weeks afterwards, but he had no recollection
of me. He remembered nothing of the past
'e5Lr "f even is a.d fat n mv lngine- ..
?ut 1 remembered it, and I remember it still
ana people neea never iear mat i snail ne lm
posed upon again by a crazy engineer.
The Jots or Maternity. Grace Green
wood (Mrs.'LIppincott,) in an address to moth
ers in the last number of The Little 'Pilgrim.
thus writes: "Since I last addressed you
j another year has passed over us, a peaceful and
fortunate year to most ot you, l trust, yet
uoaol,e "g'"K ' " "aPP
J""" cns' !j
I mJ J"S" Jh. mosl
doubtless bringing to the happiest hearts and
nd sorrow, lo
most profound and
her first-born child
tender little hands
thrill her heartstrings feels upon her cheek
the first soft breath of a lifo immortal sees
faintly twinkling in the misty depths of sleepy
I little eyes, a love that shall yet brighten the
I world for her. This ioy unspeakable, thisholv
! . . '
I world for her,
' triumph ot maternity, is Heaven's abundant
i ... . F ,i ,
! compensation ior an m s suuered oy woman
With existence
renewed and freshened by the inflowing of this
pure rill from tbe Divine Fountain of Life
, lim m fuearl ma.ae m.or,e "naer ana loving by
' the sweet, mysterious influences by which ba-
bJhod' ml&hty ln heple"ness, and, without
speech, most eloquent, comes to us 1 feel nice
rnnnrr5tln'r mvnlr nnw In Inn amrria r W
r V
and of you, whom maternity makes kin to her
I l- . . .t a - . ,
i once eieciea to tue uienesc ioy ana deepest an
ill.. L ll li IT 1 . .
guish of mortality her whom he moat loved
i 9nil mnaHnilrliTrfnBmhoriiiMnniBlicthftiif'M
A SPOONFUL OF PUHGH.
Punch goes into the clerks after the follow
ing fashion:
We Lire in Suspicious Timet.' Clerks have
lately been playing fast and loose to such an
enormous extent with their employers' money,
that it is extremely difficulty to know whom
to trust We shall hear of the clerk of th
weather having embezzled something next,
He will be taken up probably for having been
appropriating for years the cream to his own
use; or else he will be convicted of transfer
ing some of the brightest stars from the firtna
ment, and stitching them all over his person,
in order to he a "blaze or a swell," as ta
tcrhazy was at Moscow. If we wercSa
turn, we certainly should count our rings
every night, to see that none of them were
missing!
"Trantfer Office." The office that clerks
now-a-days take upon themselves of transfer
ing the share holders' money into their own
pockets.
Punch being in some degree connected with
the coopers' interest, puts forth the subjoined
-uorriQ attempts : "
IFif on "the Dovns." Lady Crinoline fell
from her horse, the other day, at Brighton,
but fortunately received no injury. However,
some wicked wag wrote a long account of the
acciJent, and sent it the next day to all tbe
local papers with the malicious heading, "Per
ilous descent of a Balloon."
Scene in the Street. (Police Constabje to
boy.) "Now, then, off with that hoop ! or I'll
precious soon neipyou i"
Lady (who imagines the observation is ad
dressed to her) "What a monster 1"
Tableau. The lady lifts up her crinoline and
uurnes on.
Ths husband of the lamented but immortal
Judy delivers some sage advice upon the
JSfiottef of Burglary. Call when the fami
ly is out of town.
Choose a dark night for your visit
Make as little noise as possible.
walk on tiptoe, as you keep moving from
room to room, for fear of disturbing any one
who might be asleep.
Remove all articles of value that corns in
your way.
Don't slam the doors.
Before leaving drink your host's health in
his best sherry.
Shut the street door carefully as you go out
As you are not expected to show your faces
on such occasions, you miy as well protect
them from the cold by wearing pieces cf black
crape over them.
You needn't leave your card, much less your
ticket-of-leave, behind you, because, If your
host troubled himself in tbe least by attempting
to return the call, you would only be putting
him to a great deal of inconvenience, and be
sides, you would not be able to treat him with
the same hospitality. Moreover, such visits,
paid, as they are, with such little ceremony,
are tiever expected to be returned.
Should you, by any accident, meet with a
policeman, do not behave meanly or discour
teously to him, but invite him by all means to
join your little festive party, unless he should
prefer to keep watch for you by remaining
outside.
There Is also an emanation from the Punch
ian noddle, intended for old gentlemen who
have gone into the "forties."
Hair-Brained Folly. A barber's advertise
ment is kind enough to Inform us of the fact
that " .Lost mtr can oe uestored. " Now, we
never met with a head so largely endowed with
the bump of acquisltlvenes that, having lost
its hair was anxious to bavt it brought back
again; nor we cannot very well understand
what tbe puzzled owner would do with all the
hair, when it was restored to him. Fancy an
officious hosekeeper, or zealous valet, bringing
to a uaiu-neaaea gentleman a large sacs, and
saying to mm. " piease, sir, you have been los
ing your hair riow for the last ten years.
have taken the liberty, sir, of restoring it to
you. You will find every hair you have lost,
sir, in this here sack." Don't you think it
highly probable that such a domestic would,
ior his egregious stupidity, De pouteiy present'
ed by the master with the sack in return?
In regard to insuring tHe ladles' dresses, tbe
following is a leading article ;
jin Insurance that's Terribly Wanted. A
great deal of labor has beeu usefully spent in
making the dresses of ladies uninflammable,
but no measures have as yet been taken (mur
murs Jenkins) to protect the young gentlemen.
This neglect is all the more extraordinary,
when we consider that scarcely a day passes
in society without some spark or other taking
fire at the sight of some beautiful young lady !
W extract a few " specimen bricks " from a i
capital burlesque on "Gray's Elegy," sup
posed to have been written by a "Ticket-of-
leave man, " or a person who has escaped from
prison by the " Repentance dodge :
TntBnaB-btll prtxlauca tta partial darl
TaacUrcItrkiirlBd. ir in tfitirta.:
Thy Cre.aer aoukirard plod HU iteady war.
And leave th ttnu to B1U Sjkes aad u at.
XVJ" iBi WW ttera'a not a Bin la light ;
Lit harmlen Unniera, taf t oar watch w ha d.
3are ifcij we trMp the nte.pMMrTer tliht.
And the sarratu amn;a la artful fold.
S"awiu" frcm yonitr atatlou haste tha inora
Of ltplat Craihada make 11 verr plain.
Thai Binea wha anoaia when they tha itrtala ahotdd
Wl I ne'er aoleit our aolltarr relsa.
TVUhln thee wdl-varmad reoma IsipacUrt raid
(rat of the pal lsh rataa the peace to keep.
Each ln hla watch-aoat warm and aautir laid
The mild protedara ef tha paalie alcp.
THE WORD OF PBOHIbK.
BV JAMES W. WABO.
A thy dar is, aa inall thy ilrtnath t. Deut . sxriil, 13.
i.
when o'er my heart teniea aorrow'a bllsht,
Aa o'er the day ateal ahadea of nljht ;
When hope has fled
And Joy iadead.
And thy head benda down ln wretchedness ,
UaLotomed In thy loneliness ;
When ssmmer friend ran by
And tears bedim thin eye ;
It'eelre tbe promiae tnuttndy,
" As Is thy day thy strength shall be."
II.
When earth has proved a mockery,
And faith and love, it 111 asuiht by thee.
Approach no mora
Thy humble door;
And hearts thy ianocence reject,
That once would shrink from such cesl'ct ;
And falsehood mocks, and pride
And feUy thee deride ;
Be arm, th'. promise speaka to thee,
"As ia thy day thy strength shall be."
ill.
When sldcntss wastes thy feeb'a blood.
And, as the worm the opening bud.
Destroys thy Hie,
Aud a feverish suite
Is ralglnc In thy aching breast.
That robs thy pillow of its rei t ;
When every nerve Is palaed.
And every fiber strained
To agony; 'Us promised thee
"As la thy day thy strength shall be."
IV.
When helpless age shall overtake
Thy weary years, and thou sbalt wake
From hope's dear dream.
O'er life supreme.
Whose promised pleasures never came.
In youth or manhood. tUll the same
Shall wake to wither then,
A blank ln sight of men.
Tottering and wesk ; God speaks to thee,
"As is thy day thy strength shall be."
And when in that uncertain hour
Comes Death, with neaven-commlsiloaed power,
To bear thy soul
Beyond life's goal ;
And life is lingering, loth to go.
And the palie ia beating faint and alow.
And the aoul its weakness feels
As eternity reveala
Its mysteries ; Faith waiipars thee,
"At is thy day thy strength shall tie."
MY E ABLY LOVE.
BT WAOSWORTH.
It was an ardtat boyish love.
That faded out. as lite grew older;
My heart fied to her like a dove.
And lighted on her beauteous ahouhler;
Or sipped the honey from her lips.
Or ln her eyes fonnd heavenly graces
I loved her to her finger tips
I loved her very foot-print traces.
Her restores wore a rapUrona cbinn,
net smile made all within me flutter;
In rounded beauty was her am.
Her little band was fat as butter.
No wonder that I loved her so.
Bat ahe was false as she was pretty.
And soon she sacked her little beau.
And took a biz one from the city.
I caught him out one gloomy night
'Twas one of love's extrtmest phases
I aggravated him to fight,
But oh I he larruped me like Maxes t
CoHPtiMzitr to an Editob. The Democ
racy of Wheeling, Va., have presented the
editor of the Argus, the Democratic organ
there, $1,000 in cash, as a recognition of his
services in the late canvass, and to increase the
future efficiency of his paper.
. Killzp. A rencounter occurred ln Love
laceville, Ballard county, Ky., on Wednesday
last, between a man named Fxocss, and Mr.
David Stephens, in which the former was
killed by a stab.
Eruption or Vesuvius. A correspondent
of the Independence Eagle, writing from Na
ples on the 22nd. ult, says :
" Vesuvius was blazing away last night, and
was evidently in great force. For the most
part one sees only the reflection of the light,
which is thrown up from the interior of the
crater, but at times it rises up iu all its majes
ty, illuminating the entire city."
(JST- We copy the following from the Spar
ta Democrat of the 3d icst :
Fire. The new Court House at Cookville,
Tenn., was burned down on the night of tbe
19th ult. We regret this, because it was one
of the neatest and most commodious Court
Houses in th?4th Circuit, and highly credita
ble to the liberality and taste of the citizens of
Putnam county. The Records were saved.
There had been preaching in the house, and
the fire started from the stcve.
Ministerial Wit. We are indebted to an
exchange for the following good one :
A renowned gentleman, not a thousand miles
from this city, lately preached rather a long
sermon from the text, " Thou art weighed and
found wanting." After the congregation had
listened about an hour, some began to get weary
and went out: others soon followed, greatly to
the annoyance of the minister. Another per
son started, whereupon the rurson stooped in
his sermon, and said: "That is right, gentle
men, as last as you are weighed pass out 1" Mo
continued his sermon at some length after that,
but no one disturbed him by leaving.
Distressing Casuaitt at Sheevxport.
TArte Lives Loit.lu the Caddo Gazette, of the
27th ult, we read : Ou last Saturday morning,
the bailer attached to the steam saw and grist
mill of Robert L. Gilmer, Esq., situated near
uoggy .bayou, in mis pariah, exploded, causing
the death of three persons and injuring others.
A piece of the boiler struck William Sanders,
breaking his back, neck and skull, mangling
him shockingly. It is supposed that he never
breathed after he received the blow. Mr.
Sanders had taken his corn to the mill, and had
gone to the boiler to warm himself but a
minute, with the intention of returning home
and coming for his meal in the evening. Mr.
Wm. Dewi'.t, the brother-in-law of Sanders,
who bad also gone to the grist mill, was badly
though not dangerously hurt. A negro man,
the property of E. D. Williams, wbo had gone
for meal, and a negro man belonging to Jamfs
B. Willis, were killed by the explosion. One
of them died on Saturday night, the other on
Sunday morning.
Ma. Buchanan ok Sqb-atteb. Sovereignty.
The editor of the Southside Democrat, who
recently visited Wheatland, thus gives his im
pression of the views of Mr. Bvchanax upon
the Squatter Sovereignty qnesticn :
"He has planted himself immovably 6a the
elementary principles oi sell government embod
ied in the Kansas-Nebraska acts, and is prepar -
ed to follow whithersoever these principles
. I . . a -loo no- fo- a .tf
iwau nubsUbt a t ub ofre.s Ul illC btlilaVIJ
" The opinion he entertains is thitrthe Ter
ritories of the Union are the common property
of the States, equally open to the citizens of
all ; that when these Territories are ready for
admission as States, then, and not until thm,
their people have the right to meet in contention
.ind to define and to determine, ta their organic
taut the character of their domestic institutions.
This is the doctrine held by Mr. Buchanan
how, and is not newly conceived inasmuch as
it is identical with that contained in this letter
to Mr. Sanford as far back as 1S4S. It is the
same opinion repeatedly announced by his con
fidential friend, Mr. J. Glancy Jones, on tbe
floor of the House of Representativer a eta-
tleman who, by the way, voted in commutes
at Cincinnati to incorporate a distinct expres
sion of this view in tbe national platform of
the Democratic party."
Indian Summer or Lirr. In the life of the
good man there is an Indian summer more
beautiful than that of the seasons; richer, sun
nier and mora sublime than tbe mosl glorious
Indian summer which the world knew it is the
Indian summer of the soul. When the clow of
youth has departed, when the warmth of mid
dle age is zone, and the buds and blossoms of
spring are changing to the sere and yellow leaf,
then tha mind of the good man, still ripe and
vigorous, relaxes its labors, and the memories
of a well-SDent life tmsh forth from their secret
fountains, enriching, rejoicing, and fertilizing;
men tne trustful resignation or tne iunsuan
sheds around a sweet and holy warmth, and
the soul, assuming a heavenly lustre, is no
longer restricted to the narrow confines of bus
iness, but soars far be vond the winter of heavv
nge, and deals peacefully and happily upon that
biieht spring and summer which await him
. Vi t n 4Kb nt.a ..S D. J ! n. w r,v nr T.f
us strive for and look trustfully forward to an
I ; . ti, !.,
?uiau summer iiko wis. -In
a discussion as to what constituted a ren-
tleman, a lady said a gentleman is a human be
ing wbo possesses a man's courage and a wo
man's tenderness.
Brevities.
Some men are like cats. You may stroke
them in the right way for years, and hear
nothing but purring ; but aecldently tread on
their tails, and all memory of former kindness
is obliterated.
The costume of the Spanish ladies haa not
changed In two hundred tears. They actually
wear ths bame style of dress that their great-great-grand-mothers
did! Shocking, Isn't it?
He who labors with the mind governs others:
he who labors with the body is governed by
omen.
Give Instruction to a wise man, and he will
be yet wiser ; teach a just man, and he will in
crease in learning.
What grows less tired the more it works.
A carriage wheel.
Edmund Burke was telling Garrick one day
at Hampton that all iiffer things were hot.
"Indeed." says Garrick, "what do you think,
Air. uurte, or outer cow toeaiun "
Why are sheep the most dissipated and un
fortunnte of animals? Because they gambol
about in their youth, frequent the turf, are very
ganerally (black legs, and are universally
neeceu.
The TiitEi it taezs to make a Ship. It
requires 2,200 full-grown trees, or tbe matured
crop of forty.f our acres or wood-land, to f ur-
nith timber for a seventy-four gun-ship.
Case or Somnambulism. A Pittsburg jour
nal gives the following thrilling account of a
case of somnambulism which occurred at the
residence of a gentleman near that city :
"Hearing footsteps upon the stairs about
midnight and suspecting burglars might be
about the premises, the gentleman rose from
his bed and tools down a double barreled gun,
with wnici in his hand he proceeded to me
door ODenln? into the hall. Reaehinethe door.
be applied his ear to tbe keyhole and beard
what he thought a rustling of garments upon the
stairs. Hastly drawing a chair to the door,
he stepped upon it and inserted the gun through
the transon. Just then the thought occurred
to him that it might be his daughter, who
sometime previously was addicted to walking
in Ler sleep. Passing out into the ball, with
the gun still in his hand, to be used in case
circumstances warranted it, he found the
apartment entirely vacant, and, lighting
lamp, he then ascended the stairs. Imagine his
surprise and terror on looking out of the cbam
ber window to see among the branches of i
tall tree which grew there, his daughter,
dressed in her night habiliments and seemingly
utterly unconscious or her perilous position.
Without uttering a word or making a sound
calculated to frighten her, he stepped out of the
window himself and winding one arm tightly
about the waist of the sleeping girl, be with
great exertion managed to regain me hail
with the precious burden. The surprise of the
young lady when she awoke and was informed
of her perilous adventure can De better imagin
ed man described."
Handsomest Done. A young married pah
arrived in this city yesterday, from Buffalo,
whose departure from that place was attended
with a scene whoss unpleasantness was aeera
r vate J by its publicity. The bride is the daugh
ter of a wealthy ar,d aristocratic merchant in
Jjunalo, and one oi. the most lovely and accom
plished women in that city, where loveliness
and accomplishment seem natural to their sex.
ine husband is a very respectable young gen
tleman, every way save in wealth and equal to
the lady . ine marnageJbelng opposed by the
lady's father, was privately solemnized by a
clergyman yesterday morning, and the bridal
party bad just arrived at the railroad depot to
take passage for New York, when they were
overtaken by the brother of the bride, and was
led to believe that his sister had sacrificed her
self. A rencontre ensued between him andjhe
husband, during which he (the brother) drew
a pistol. It was immediately taken from him
and fired In the air by tbe groomsman, who was
in attendance, and the parties separated by him
and another gentleman. The husband then
claimed an explanation with the brother, ex
hibited the marriage certificate, and at once re
lieved his fears. The brother then ran to the
father, who hastened immediately to the
ears, read the certificate, fretted a little, as
did men generally do when called up loo early
in the morning, granted his blessing to the
happy pair, and got ashore just as the last bell
rang. Albany Knickerbocker.
A Meritxd Compliment. The nomination
by the President of Brevet Major General Per
sifer F. Smith to a brigadier generalship in the
United States army (created at the last session
of Congress) was sent to the Senate yesterday;
a ad in the place of referring the nomination, as
is tbe custom in such cases, to the Committee
on Military Affairs, it was immediately and
unanimously confirmed by that body. Never
was a compliment more richly merited ; and
we feel quite sure that the selection of the Presi
dent, and the prompt and generous action of
the Senate in thus honoring one of the most
gifted and gallant of our military heroes, will
be heartily endorsed by a grateful and an ad
miring people. Washington Union.
SOT1CE.
jj jyv THE meaters of Washington Fire
jPASiS- Company So t, are requested ta at
tend the Funeral of thslr brother
S-Jt i432 member, Johx KcMucrs, irasa their
Hall, at S o'clock p. M.
The various Tire Companies ot the dty are respectful
ly tavited to attend. D. T GOLDSMITH,
acNDAT, January 11. '5T President.
GREATEST WONDER YET!
SIAMESE
TWOS OUTDOXE!!
OK exhlbltlea for one werk looter at Levy's Old Auc
tion House, So. 23 Front Eow, the
DouMo Calf.
A full fTOwn and well ttyeloprd Calf, uarin j beta
aisle and female dsrelopments, and also bavins
SIX Xi33G-3.
two before and fear behind. This is one of the frestest
natural curiosities of the ace. Jantl-dl w
State of the Citizens' Bank, Memphis.
Xosdxx, January 5, 1S57.
ASS KT3.
ToXotes Discounted...
..7U.STI 10
" Domestic Bills
"State Bonds ,
"Heal Estate
" Dup from other Banks..
" Csih, vis
KoUsot other Banks..
Gold anl Silver
..J07,S3t iJJ.TOO OS
8.717 70
12,731 57
131,434 SO
1J.S07
97,393 SS 1JO.402 SS
03,047 73
LIABILITIES.
By Capital Stock 300.000 00
Circulation 413,113 00
"Individual Depositors 60,417 40
" Due other Banks 2,033 72
" Proat and Loss 23,418 67
S33 047 79
WILKIK, President.
lanll-dawlt
SAUL. P.
Cashier.
J. A. Sannoxer,
CHR3 JflUXiZtJSMs
Optician, Watch Maker and Jeweler,
Madison street, between ilain and Front Rov,
0PPO31TH THE CITIZENS' BAKE, UEXPIU3, TENN.,
T) ESPECTFULLT announces to his friends and the
1 Jtl puMie in general that he haa permanently loeatcd
!.boT',,t' w?,rThh9 TIl
j fond, rtatly to flT attention to tboi woo rx fuTor
hla with their patronage. I will always have cn hand
a splendid assortment ef various Improved Spectacles,
also a varisty of Watches, Clocks, Jewelry. &c. Re
pairing done ln every branch of the business at short
notice, and warranted. Janll-oiwawiy
DENBIAKK FEMALE COLLEGE
rjiniS institution will commence the exercises ot its
JL ninth session on tae 1st reoruary, 1S07.
Terms ot Tuition aa formerly. Board $S per month
lif.ats excepted. A. L. LEWIS.
Janll-w2t
SOW IS THE TIME TO GET BARGAINS
jlT Till
Bazaar of Fashion!
IK order to re luce our Winter Stock, and make room for
a large Spring Stock, 'we have determined to dote out
the balance of our Winter Goods at Cash prices.
We have on hand now a giod assortnunt of fine Dress
Stlks and Worsted Dress Goods. A large stock ot Cloaks
and Talmas, Embroideries, Laces, Itibbons, Trimmings,
Bonnets, Floivers and Feathers,
all to be doted out within the next four weeks at Cost
Pxices.
This is an opportunity seldom offered to the Ladies to
buy choice goods at cost. We Invite all ln want of the
above goods to call soon at
Z. BaBINDS fc CO.'S.
Janll-lw 233 Vain street.
Just Received. Tills Day,
OOME new Styles of DeLa'nes. Prints, Plannels, ha.
O Also, Skeleton aad other Hooped Skirts, Elastic
Bells, long Shawls, &c E. BABINDS . CO..
janit.iw in xaiu street.
CUDDY, BROWff & 00.,
COTTON FACTORS
axd orsrxAL
CommigsioH Merchaatg,
3S OAKP ST3.EKT, NEW OSLEAN3.
CASH advances made on all Cotton or other Produce
consigned at above, by MILES OWEN.
Jeall-tr
H'otice.
I IIi.TE received lately a very good ecjnd-hasd BOIL
ED., also, BBICHEN and STAND-PIPE, which I am
authorised ta sell very low for cash. The Seller is twenty
six feet Ling, thirty-six inches dlsmater, two twelve Inch
Cuss. , Q. Jt'LEiN, Boilsr-Xaker,
Jsn3-a:w.wJt Opposite Navy Tard, Memphis.
Trustee's Sale of Real Estate.
In pursuance of a Deed of Trust executed tome
by Wm. Walter for the beaeat ef Wm. Btcfeird
son Hunt, dated on the sixth day of February,
eighteen hundred and flity-dve, aad deay reearded
in the Beaister'a cfSce ot the coasty ot SaeAy. and State
of Tenses tee, la Book Ho. 19, pacea 1SS, 167 aad 168, aa
March zist, iesa. I wm proceeti to sen fereasa, atpuktsc
sale, in front of G. B. Ixcke's AvcUen Howe, east aid
ot Main street, Memphis, Tennessee, at 11 o'eseek,
SATTJBDAT, tbe 1 1th ot February, A. B. 1837, the fol
lowing described
Xiot of C3-roiiT)ci,
with the Improvements tberren, to wit: fligsanllt at a
stake on the east side of Bayburn street, at W. T. Avery'
(now K. A. Parker's) southwest corner; theaec nMk
wnn saia street rour nunurea reet ana six mesas stews
feet) to a stake; t hence east seven haadred aad slzsy-esM
feet and six inches (7S1 K feet) to a stake est Park's ae
nae; thence north with said smise four hooired feet aad
alx inches (400 H feet) to a stake at the asM W. T. Aw -y'a
(now T.. A. Parker's) southeast corner; taeaee wMh mkI
w. T. Avery's (now K. A. rarkevs) soaaa uae, vest
seven hundred aad stxty-ene feet and six tnrhes ftl
feet) to the begiaalag, cantalausg Jterea acre ft er.-);
being the north half of lot Xe. 189, laid a by WitsMia
by Williams, south ot and near the etty of M'sspUa, ant
the same that waa aeeded to wm Joynerky H. I. Oertm.
aatttesddiyst April, 18SS, and regwtereal ia thvBeats-
tera eace or Shelby ooanty. Tens., In Beak 18, ps Nv
301 and 303, oa the 7th day of May, Me, aad also deeded
by Wm. Joyner to Was. Rtchirdsec Hastt, est tacttn tf
Jsauary, 1S54, aad by said Hunt deeded to Wm. Walker
The title to the above property is nadtsimlod. ken I
convey only such title aa is Tested ta use aa Trattee.
Equity of tedemption la waived by tbe terau ef the Itetd
Treat. jr. D WILLIAMS. Traatee.
Memphis. January 10!h, l)67-!anl!tds
EHPROVE SPECTACLES.
JUST received, a splendid assortment ot varies ktada
of improved SPECTACLES.
CHEN. XULLEK,
Optician, Watch Jf akec aad Jeweler,
Uadisea Street, between iiaia and Tnrnt Bew,
Oppoeite OUistBs' Beat, Miaapais, Ten.
These celebrated Glasses are zroaad est tat: exaat aein-
cipieof Spaerleal Aceurae, ef a ceetave eagres satrrur
term, admirably adapted te tste orsaa ot eesfel, ca be
ued te parsse the asest auaate easalsfmssit, ettaer bv
day or cradle Meat, with perfect ease w tbe eye, an.'
sever castes ttat (Mdneas ef Use need, ar iHiiisrt sen
sal Ion la the eyes, that many exierkaiee ta aeaar the
con men Spectacles, bet slreagthes aad leapieu tha
sizht, aa wm be seen f resa the falaawsBc li illaesalili :
Trees lien. A. Johnson, Gov. of Team.
Ifa C. H vlix a Sir : Bavtac tally tested the aeerila
ot your improved Spectaelee, 1 4o at bnWilr te sy
that they excel aay 1 aaTe ever tritd, aad Sad the pecu
liar nun&er la wasch they are ticoed. sailiaM th pca
1 cave inqoeauy ezperteacea ta Betas otar ipertirtw
AXDSEW JOBX3(Kr.
Frosx Dr. Barten, of Xm Orlotns.
Ksoxtilxe, TEix., JaawMta, 18i.
If a. C JftriXEB. Opttcta Boar Sin Tae sSaseea jv
havepreparni tor me exceed to ilHHmlawsa aad kesOaaiH
ot vision IDT I have eeer used. Tae jwllliei ef a feca's
accommodated te every notioa of the eye, t ateataebl-,
as it prevents tali.. te the er;aa, aad daea Bet sbbsm r
vistoB. TbebnatUel triniparmcrof tkegtax, wttk t l
great hardeess, gives a darabtlity which as savissenMe
those having a eeasUnt demand ler taeat.
These improvements are recosaaessesAasae Jar sasir &
highly merltiBS pablic patronage.
Very respectfully, yoar obedient seieaaa,
G. H. BARTON", M. oi S. O
From lien. A. XtCleUand, Jgr-Jfcaatei1 of rbnoa in.
Tennessee.
It a. C. Menus, Sir: I aad year gtaasee lo be Jar su
perior to those ta ce&moa ase. A. McttUCUJtXD
.From Hon. W. 11 Humphreys. 3vft of te Fi-ertl
Court, Tennessee.
I hare tried Mr. nailer's spectacles. I iiitcIiTii th-iu
altogether superior to the spectacles nsasnnay aeei.
W. H. HBKPKRSXS
From Seal. R. Rtioert. Senator reet Xnosani Mornrt
counties. Tennessee.
Un. C. MrrI.r.Jl Sir; I take area rteesaa satttatinx
the public that I am aaias yeerlmprevea Sjftlaetai with
perfect satisfaction, both by daytigM aad caeeatlaral I
consider them a valuable SsproTi net.
SAM. K. :
RBFEKBXCBS.
G. n. Kyle, Jackson, Teea.
Thomas tiamewell, Jasksea, leas.
Hoa. Jobs Bead, "
V. B. Woodfeik, 11. D., Cot tea 6er, '.
if . w . liawauzs, .DrewniTSHe, jeasa.
Wm. C. Brace. JI.D-, " "
Mayer A. if. Shaw, SesaervBle, Vans.
Wm. H. Potaiexter, ' -
Tbe Spectacle Leas iBcsmsaea ace, t it said frail i Con
vex, have bat eae fees, aad I hat beta ta aba eeatre, )
mlts ot a perfect Tiaten only threega tae scam. Xr,i
the eyes, in nUtat from sMe te seat. eait beta 'ia
point, it Is affected by the distartteas sacMhat, aad occ
skras ia weak eyes fatigue aad pata, aad la sseac n
a more freaeeat caa-ge of glass for taeee eCaMeer pew
thaa is caasd bt the sia aattenaac ef the eye by u ,
or, tease the language ot maay, they make the eye grow
older. CeaM tbe glass be attached a the eye, se aa
raeve with it, or tbe head be made te tarn aad acceaaui. -data
tbe sight, while the eye retaaoi ftaed, the deub -convex
lens weald Bet be so ebJecMeaebiB. BataasieUb--ot
these plans coaM be very weC accompli (feed, ast eai-r
method to remedy this inpertaat defect la allallbvrt .
cons trrnr ed help to the defective haasaa vastest ie desira
ble. This end la obtained la these glasses, watch, ha v. .
not only central focos, bat. tor all practical peraeses. ou
throughout, the otvectiea above aaased isoaeieted,aaiL-y
will enable Ibe wearer to perceive uttectt at every asw -ot
vision, with all the correctness ef the aatsnal aeaiir.v
sight. JsU-4wbi
Greennigh. for Sale.
OX THE yiRST BAT OF APRIL. MBS, I wi I
Oder the above well knewa aad ti resets propr r tr
for sale, at public auction, ea the paemtee
net before disposed ef at peltate sale. GstXKV
HIGH Is situated ia the aoarisbjBS aad pasasanl valu
er LaGrange, and Is accessible freea all parts ef ' oo
country, bel&g immediate y os the Mesapaas aad Ckartet
toa Railroad.
It was desigBed aad prepared by the late Br. J. N
Cocke, expressly aa a Water-Cure aad XeatdtSHC estab
lishment, and tae very liberal patroaaw sal b.ai
during the summer of 1863. aad te Ms semester. XT A
15. G telle c. last sammer, shews ia wteat attja. i nil II i.
as x healthy aad pteasaat resort, it is held by Use ci
muaity.
The bsMtsgs cowrst ef a two-stery Fram Souv
with eight toosbi dining leesa S by reet; tweets
Sve cottage Teeas, kstcaea, eataeaees, stabfe. it., a.'
of which are in Use repair, wrth aew farattare bast year
There are a number of acrer-fatiiatg ipilaai witaiu
thirty steps ef tbe heaee, aabrdiag aa abendaatHppiy
of the parest water. There Is alee a isae Chalybeate
Spring witaia a qaarter ef a asile, wMctt wtt be u:
with the place. Tbe lets contain eigateea er twenir
acres, with fine gardes, orchards, sareseery, &c. Tbe
arracgesteata far Water Carr, aach. as Betas, iuc., aie
ample and comeiete.
Traxs or Sale. Oae-taird caea; bate ace in .na
and two years, bond and approved secarity, aad a II- u
retained oa the property.
Persons wishing te purchase caa eblaia aay laforo.i
Uoa they may desire by addfesstnc ate at LaCranc-,
Teaa E. WIXSTOX
LaGrasge. Teaa., Jan. 9th, 1S47 jaall-w-M
53" Bagle aad Baaairer. LearsetOe Joarael aad Clere
laatl Plata Dealer, ceay twice ia Saity aad Weekly, axil
send bill to Appeal " .t and Baser a Cel. at. Wia"i
Suction jlalrs.
$15,000 WORTJI OF
WATCHES, JEWELRY, &C,
.T -.TJOriTXOlNr.
ON VOSDAT EVENING, I will sell, at say Auction
Oooms, a very large aad choice silectasa ef Wat earn,
Clock, Jewelry, Catlery. Fancy Goods. Xsuetal laetra
raents, Plated Ware, Diamoads, &c. This embraces the
greate: t variety aad the largest stock erer sir ad by u
in this dty. Tbe sale will be ceattaaed erery atgltt du
ring the week. Private sales dariag the day.
Tbe public are invited to call aad examine the articles,
and attend the sales. G. X. LOCKS,
janll Auctioneer aad Beet Betate Broker.
Chancery Sale of Valuable Real
Estate.
PURSUANT te a Decree of the Chaawtj (hart at Xesn
phis, rendered November Terns, HS6 talk caseot
1 etley Blakemere vs. Sarah Carataera aatt Ma Carata-e-a,
widow and heir of James H. Carataers, deceased, I
wilt, on
SATURDAY, JANUARY: 31st, 1ST,
in front sf my oCee. la the city ef Metapede, proceed ta
sell te the bitaest bidder, the fotlewiag valuhie Heal Es
tate, lyla: near the shy of Memphis, to wtt : txtK-H&ir
ot a certain Tract or parcel of Land, situated ba Shelby
county, Tennessee, near tbe dty of Mess phis, kaewa aad
designated oa the map ot Lots taU esT by E. 3. Tedd for
Wlliougbby WUltams, as Ms Nes. 75 sM 71, ea tae Her
nando Road, oe ginning at a stake ua tbe Nerta stde of
Walker street, and tbe West s We ef th Heraaado Reed.
running thence North with the Mm ef saM Hernando
Road sixteen chains aad thirty-sevta links te a stake at a
rolnt opposite V, where tbe North side ef WMtome' Av
enue lntersecta the Hernando Road, theace West with the
line of W. and J. Herberts' lot eae caata aad sereary.
seren links to tbe East side of Ofleaas street, thence
South with the East line of Orieaas street feaeteea
chalas and seventy links to a stake, at the censer of
Walker street, thence ast wttu tae uae ef weraer
street eight chains and etghty-eae Hales te the
beginning, containing urea and eae-aaU acres. The
said ene-half thereof beiC the iBterwt ewsei taereia by
James II. Caruthers.
Said Tract or parcel of Land will be snMivteM tat-)
two equal parcels, aad the portion attested te Betate ef
James II. Caruthers wilt be seat ia Lets ef eaaveateat
sue to suit purchasers, a ptaa of watch wtl be exaibsted
on the day of sale.
Terns of Sale The above meatleaed Real Bstite win
be sold oa a credit ot seven bmbIbs. parcbaser te exeeata
bond with approved security, aad a ttea retaiaed ea the
premises.
Sale at 1 1 o'clock A.M.
Janl-dawtd JOHN C. LANIER, O. & at.
CHANCERY SALE OF A
Corner of Linden and St. Martin Sts.
PURSUANT to a decree of the Chancery Ceert abJfeat- '
phis, rendered November Term. 1SS6, ia the ease ef
Thomas II. PhUlips and wife, BUea PhtBips, Xargaret
McGlnnis and ethers, heirs of A. B. McGinnis. deera. ex-
parts petition to sell Real Estate and Slaves, I wUt ea
Saturday, January 31st, 1857,
In front of my offlce in the dty ef Memphis, pcaeted to
sell to the highest bidder.
A Valuable Lot ia SotJtk Meaffcis,
Situated on the Southwest corner sf Ltedea aad St, Mar
tin streets, aaiu uai rronts oa soata stee er iinetn
street iSH feet, and runs back with St. Martta street est
Wett side 115 feet to an alley.
Terms of Sale. One-third ot pareaaseimoaiT aa each!
balance la equal instalments at oae aad twa years, rath.
Interest front date. Purchaser to execute Cotes wtth. ap
proved stenrity for the deferred payments.
Also,
At the same time and place, in parsaaaee ef said decree.
I will sell to the highest bidder fer Cash, a vaeaaHe Necre
Wosiaa named Jane, belonging u said estat.
Sale to commence at n o'docx, A. it.
JOHN C. LAN1BR,
declO-dawtd. Clerk am! Master.
Masonic Funeral Notice.
THE m-mbers of Angerona Lodge. Ne. 168. will
,f meet at the Hall en &GNDAT MORNING NEXT.
' o'clock, far the purpose ot aKeadtag the be-
rial of Brother A. H. HEBRON, at Ms late reet-
dence, near tbe Pigeon Roost PlankreaJrabeat Wst mCea
from the city, tiacss wm be provided ta confer tba
members out. By order
A. D. MORRISOt., Secretary
Memphis, Saturday, January 10th, 1S17
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