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if THE NORTII-OAR i 5 " ; - J;, ;.v AxPKKWJoirysi atTIoms. " To use a trite ex pre&sion, we have no doubt that Andrew , Johnson feels 44 perfectly At home." " We hare .just receive i 'the official vote for governor in his own county th county of Greene. To showthe estimation in wli.ca lie is held by those who have known him longer and. bcst.it affords us more than ordinary pleasure, to spread this vote before our readers. - - ; . Eighteen years ago the voters of Greene elevated him from the tailor's bench to a seat in the legisla. ture of Tennessee." "At every' subsequent election they have sustained hiu with an enthusiasm. which marked their confidence in the man. Aided by their suffrages, ho was enabled to serve for a period of eight years in the Congress of the United States. Aided by their suffrages, he is probably exalted to the chief magistracy of his State, , . "Were we to follow the. impulse of our feelings, we should say much" more about Andrew Johnson. He deserves all that could be said in his commendation. But we must not lose sight of the fact with which we set out. , Bear in mind that Greene is his homo, and read the annexed figures : GUBERNATORIAL RAft? IS '51 COUNTY. Wm. Trousdale (dem.) . , . . V. M W. B. Campbell (whig.) 1,144 Trousdale's majority 540 -f-PRESIDENTIAL RACK IS '32 CKKKXK OOCSTY. Franklin Pierce: 1.S07 Winficld Scott. . . . . . T?0 Pierce's majority'.. ; v WBKRSATOIUAt, IUIC1K.IX 32 UUSiSS iC55T Andrew Johnson , i v. . . , C n . 1913 Gustavus A, Henry..,. Jniinsan's nisiortv. '. ...... t .......... . . - To tho who are Eutuliar with th stabtaro svwr a eter of Tenns whig5ry, tlx triumph e4" Arw Johnson will appear to be no wtuvwry- xi.-t.vry-. A31 -ftonor to h Teunssee dwiwmoy 4 " domiUblft awl ta!entd tatKUrWxtrvv CCol. Raffiis ti ' weMee f 0 lif4 v? cal ConvenUoa tlwt w vmSv!1 w4Viv must foel flattered lr tb exrrritiwSs(t wwtiy wliich he has wmncvt" Kkvnweit??' wd ?x- Oil bx? defend our cause, aw.1 fsllanY h W ws lh trt umph&nt vktwv. TV ckMierktc wearily a tW district wxs rcinwhr l t b-?t K swviis that number to 3,159 w w than th w?ort ty of his pATty.- Who can, who hs who wfd Vet --.thU? It can't be dkl that's all! May ww not, then, take much pleasure in preouncin OA Rallia en . phatkally the most popular nn in the Second dis- trict? But this is not 1L Tins high-otwd hearing - and magnanimous course pursued by CoL Itutca in ' the late canvass, give to his constituents - an unmis- takable guarantee that he will do them honor in the . renowned Halls of our national legislature. A man ..of pure principle and unsullied integrity, their inter " csts will be secure in his hands. An uncompromi sing friend of the present administration, and one of the delegates to the Baltimore Convention, that nom inated Franklin Pierce, he will give to that adminis tration an uncompromising and individual support so " long as it adheres to the principles laid down by that convention. When it abandons that Platform, Thos. ."Ruffin abandons it No schemes of logrolling or wire pulling will meet with any favor from our Rcprcsen lative,. while we know he will liberally support every 'measure that can benefit his constituents or add to the prosperity or security of the nation. Hurrah for Ruffin! Nine times hurrah! ': - : Gold. Kcp. & Pat. . v AaisTOCRAcr. It is related of Anteus, who aspir ed to wrestle with the gods, that, if they could by any means'induce him to leave his Mater terra, and grabblewith them, they found little difficulty in worsting him ; but so long as he could keep his feet firmly , planted upon his native soil, he was more than a match for them. -- When men outgrow their true position, and aim ' to lire removed from the cares and duties of life, like Antaeus, they lose their footing and fall. In order to .battle successfully we should never forsake our sphere. Thousands are kept poor, by aping the customs and notions of the rich, and thousands who are rich be come poor, because they are too proud to use the same efforts to keep that it requires to accumulate. '1 )ie following is an excellent hit at this species of aristocracy: It is always a petulous thing for haughty people to look back upon the line of their ancestry. Twenty years ago, says the Merchant's Magazine, this one butchered, that one made candles, another sold cheese and butter, a fourth carried on a distillery ; another was contractor on canals; others were merchants and mechanics. : They are acquainted with both ends of society, as their children will be after them, though it wfll not do to say so loud. For often you will find that those toiling worms hatch butterflies, and they live about a year. Death brings divisions of proper tyi and it brings new financiers; the young gentle man takes his revenues and begins to travel towards poverty, which he reaches before death or his chil dren do, if he does not So that, in fact, though there is a moneyed rank, it is not hereditary it is accessible . to all ; three good seasons of cotton will send a gen eration of men up, a score of years will bring them ' all down, and send their children again to labor. . The father" grubs and grows rich ; his children strut 'and use' the money; their children inherit the pride and go to shiftless poverty; their children, reinvigc rated by fresh plebian blood, and by the smell of the clod," come up again. Thus society, like a tree, draws its sap from the earth; changes into leaves and blossoms", spreads them abroad in great glory, sheds them off to fall back to the earth, again to min gle with the soil, and at length to rc-appcar in new trees and fresh garniture. J Ixdcstbt is Talent. , We often hear persons ex plaining how one fean succeeds, while another fails in the' same pursuit, by attributing to one a talent for his business, but refusing it to the other. Yet, with out denying that "some individuals have a greater ap titude for particular avocations than others have, we think . that: the problem in question could be easier solved, , by saying that the successsful man was indus ;. trious, while-the other was not Bulwer, for example, is considered a man of the ' highest abilities as a novelist Yet when Bulwer'be gan his career he composed with the utmost difficul ty, often writing his fictions twice over. He perse vered, however, and now stands almost at the head of his class, his latest productions, moreover, being re garded as the best from his pen. Every school-boy is familiar with the fact that Demosthenes became an orator only by pursuing a similar plan. Nor are il lustrations of the great truth, that industry is talent, confined to the higher intellectual pursuits. When - Girard trusted the customer without an endorser, who carried his goods homo on his shoulders, the shrewd .old Frenchman was acting on this truth, deduced from? his own experience of mankind." All emi- nfent persons, whether mechanics, . merchants, law yers, or statesmen,: were industrious, from Watt and Norris, down to Turlow- and .William Pitt Wash k mgtx)u, -jFrankliu, Slarshall, Madison, and every oth 4 cr distinguished American, were busy men. Indus- try, in short, is talent nine times .out of. ten. V ' V-K' r' LZ7:.hil Ledger, ' f - . ; . : -- . , - - ' .THEi Mekcy Op God rs .. Ice. .-A writer in the Philadelphia Register, is eloquent in the praise of ice: . . physicians, we , believe,' will attest that the article will "bring relief to the diseased stomach when noth ing else can- The writer referred to, says: , " In the langour'and exhaustion of a recent illness rny mi id 'dwelt much on the mercy of God in ice. As : it fiuenched my-panting thirst, or as it cooled my burni'V brow, ! came to the conclusion that; to the E;Mr 'ltwits the queen, of comforts.. I rejoiced that I bad outlived the ancient prejudice against its use in sickness -1 wisn mmi-.i wm ? wuw a peaim uite David's In its praise.", "And I thanked :the holy chU dren that in their 'Benedicite, omnia Opera Domini? they had remembered ice f 4 O ye ice and snow, bless Kye the Lord; praise bim, and magnify him forever!' . - i L ' t the poor sick, this great comfort was a luxury-rather an impossibdity And - rr---- a t, nt if I were ricn, 1 would J fouu in one of our great cities.an.ice-hous f the poor sick. ; As I am not, and never expectto , be the . - - a:. ,iint if. in those wuu aic, "i thev have ielt as I have, the mercy of God in ice, HLu ofi oLkmorate their gratitude m if they have Jelt they will haster tirovidinsr for th ' .Fnve L drink. unto one of theselittiepnes a cup nt f.n(i water omj, iu - -r , I S unto you, hehaU in nowise -lose his reward. . ' Napoleon at St. Helena. . A ; work has just ap peared in London which is destined to- excite a great sensation, v It is entitled a M History, of the Captivity of Napoleon aTSt. Helena ;' from the Journal of Sir Hudson Lowe," and official documents never before made public.'' -We have not yet seen the book, but find an analysis of it, with numerous extracts, in the last number of the London Athenaeum. ' " ' The work", intended as a defence of Lowe for his brutality to Napoleon, is full of curious revelations. It seems that the systematic annoyances to which the exile was subjected, were well known to the British Ministry, and that, so far, forth, Lowe was less guilty than has been popularly supposed. But this is not the darkest shade of the transaction. These vol umes leave no shadow of a doubt that Dr. O'Meara, whose 44 Revalations from St Helena " become after wards so famous, was originally designed to act as a spy on the secret thoughts of Napoleon, for the ben fit of the Prince Regent, and certain members of the Cabinet ; that ho actually filled this disgraceful post for a while ; and that the revelations he made of the tor tures, which the excited emperor suffered, 44 amused " his Koval Highness, to quoto from the correspon dence, ami afforded a 44 real feast" to various others ; th.tritv. Yhtran h mw iwvnUinw than this v.,r tV hiVh.xKt twrsttii. in th llrmsh realm. oomprisiiur own the acting executive, conniving at a breach of private eouudciuHS and wnaenting to the . - - v - a c w in tty nwdiv of a WutaU CAMiswiuential Kovernor, in ivlorthat thy niiht he uiuushI" at the agtMuea vvf thoiv victim I lv ia to th cmlit of IVel and Wvl UiiUMK who suvvwdvM.Uh whilst iY which thus StHwd itsl: lhat they apKr to liavo duliXvl the t wtvNi hftivvr vtvva hm pjHr m tnv uwvii w vmi hjtht. t'h tht ho sUl c4f hhix U I bv tfoMy rvlXvAl tvx as. h thi vUvtv wwik, ' tK vwis?i!!.'v N"ivAMv partly Ihuw !; Jive tVlish iwfc.Y v!v!l vvv tvv ! W siifiv4 Oahtart "h HMy in lt i Kv tW sswrwsxl nM Jks xSiUv in xvUltM I W 51 i fc sm tWy .mKI k 1 "ffcN-wU- ts iwte hiw xmKI W t iWish ivw ht i ct(hthvif,y iv.l th!VHiW damaft ! hM cxp wvv than hJn. AU th vwmmt did xi t a?ae a x iinj-xrav oie to pxr m the iiatcfy Kcxiow hm" which th uUiwship w jsn r;v anriivufoJ to Orx4ccr. It now ccma that this pentcwivan wa the cr$.n in the nnnistry, that man- sue!. tW wvxMdc4K. wsimt as his tool a friend of U MoaraVi, clerk in tne AdniTnuity, wnoni no oaie to instruct the doctor to write in the fullest possible ' OeJaul, all the anecdotes he could pick up. Crokcr is ; still alive, ami may endeavor to white-wash thtf af- . fair over. But the Atheiueum says there is net the i slightest doubt of the authenticity of the documents ; ! and if so, tlie task of the vetern'Tory will be as dif-' ; ficuit as changing a leopard s spots. In short, there seems no doubt, from the revela tions in this book, undertaken though it was for a defence of Lowe that the tales told of the treat ment of Napoleon at St Helena by O'Meara, Las Casas, Montholon, and others, were not a whit be yond the truth. The only result of these volumes is to confirm the general suspicion which, of late years had begun to prevail, that the Ministry of Lord Liverpool sanctioned, at least indirectly, all the mean ness and brutalities of Lowe. Salcratns is said to be injurious to the human sys tem, and that it destroys thousands of children and some adults every year. In New Brunswick, conti guous to Maine, the physicians are wont to say that half the children are killed by the use of salcratus. The evil is fast spreading throughout the Union. Fam ilies of moderate size already use from ten to twen ty-five pounds yearly. Remarks of the 3Tew England Farmer. Store keepers who have been engaged in the business for many years, have told us that formerly they used to purchase three or four small kegs of saleratus for a year's supply in a country village, but that now they purchase more than as many large cases, weighing six or eight hundred pounds each. Large quantities are used in making bread, the most common food, and of which all partake. Milk should take its place there. Many persons are in the habit" of adding a little saleratus to most kinds of pastry. We are in clined to believe the remarks quoted above have much truth in them. We do not know how far the power of saleratus may be neutralized by a mixture of other substances used as food, but it may be known by the chemist, and should be explained to the peo ple. What is saleratus? Wood is burnt to ashes. Ash es are lixiviated lye is the result Lye is evaporat ed by boiling black salts are the residum. The salts undergo a purification by fire, and the potash of commerce is obtained. By another process, we change the potash into pcarlash. Now put this into sacks, and place them over a distillery wash-tub, where the fermentation evolves carbonic acid gas, and the pcarlash absorbs and renders it solid, the product being heavier, dryer and whiter, than the pcarlash. It is now saleratus. How much salts of lye and carbonic acid can a human stomach bear and remain healthy, is a question for the saleratus eaters. Hoo Statistics or Kextcckt. We find the follow ing in the Louisville Courier of the 28th ult: We have received some further returns of the hog statistics in Kentucky, giving the sum total of the number of hogs six months old in January, in alHho counties but six, as follows: Ninety-five counties, 1,282,119 Six counties not in, gave last year, 710,36 Probable gain this year, 150,00 1,368,557 1,130,001 Grand total last year, Probable gain this year, 238,556 By this statement it appears that the increase this year will, in Kentucky, be upwards of 200,000 hogs and we learn by correspondence and otherwise, that in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, there will be an increase over the product of last year. In some sections the gains are large, and if the corn crop turns out favorable, and from the indications in this State it will, it must exert an influence on the provision market We endeavor to lay the facts before our read ers, and they can draw conclusions. We will endeav or to obtain the returns of the assessment in Ohio, and liave received three counties, which show a large excess, which is in part owing to the fact that this year all the hogs are assessed, and last year only those over six months old. The returns are from Pickaway, Holmes and Morgan counties, which show an excess this season of 45,000 hogs.' Very Shrewd. There lives, not a thousand miles from Gotham, a dealer in small wares, whose great est fear is of being overreached. He goes without milk in his coffee, in dread of buying a spoonful of Uroton, and never pays for a newspaper, lest it should not be published to the end of the year. His littie shop is without gas, for he has no faith in the metre, and he even dips his own candles, to insure that they are all tallow. In one thing he is liberal ; he makes large purchases of counterfeit detectors, and buys an extra if "there are any whisperings of a broken bank. A neighbor of his was imposed upon the oth er day, with a bank note, which had been ingeniously altered from "one" to "five;" and our dealer has been on the watch ever since for fear of a similar imposition. . -' The other day, a young girl from the country stepped into his little store, and purchased a pair of stockings; offering a-one dollar note.in payment The old man eyed the girl so sharply that her face became suffused with blushes,' and this was, to him, an acknowledgment of guilt " How dayyou offer me this 1" he asked in an angry tone. ""1 .thought it was good," she replied, timidly.. 44 What is the matter with it ?" asked a bystander, who had been Attracted by the dispute'; 44 it looks like a genuine hote.". ' ';r-V;.-:-'vy ' ' "'J o " Genuine enough," "said the shopkeeper, his face crimson with passion, 44 but don't you see? -It's a one altered from a twenty", v - - ; . ; '; .. '.' V' : " New YorTf Journal of Commerce.: Premiums to Female Equestrians. The Agricu3f turaV Society: of. Columbiana county, Ohio, at its ex-' hibition commencing on" the 12th of October, in order to afford the ladies of Columbia a distance vho may beln attendance, an opportunity .; to display their agiUty on horse-back, have raised 1 purse of $250rto be distributed in premiums, worth from $5 to $80, to the best female rider, or to' those most skilled in remir - a single horse or a span of horses m harness, . ,;- . . ,v, - - . .. ' . ... . . , . - f. 1 1 . . ..v - - '' ' - ,7 - ' . ; .- . Railroad Accidents.: . The following truthful re-. marks we cut from the Buffalo Commercial Advert!-; ser ; their force " will be felt now;that an accident has occurred upon a railroad almost in our own vicinity, and at a time when the lives of some of our .'own cit izens w.ero placed In fearful jeopardy : - '. ; J M One of the peculiarities of this fast, age. of ours s the sudden forgetfulness of the most alarming ac cidents. . Hundreds of human beings perish on our -f land and water whoso destruction has been caused bv aarcnts under the control of man, and where the 'same has been traced to negligence and carelessness, and sometimes to conduct windfall knew must re sult in disaster and death. Yet what ia done about it ? Does not the memory of the occurrence die away in a few days at most, and the men who are the occasion of it all walk boldly about the streets? In the whirl of business, and amid the numerous plans of active lifo for the accumulation of money, all these terrible things pass away from men's minds, and are not remembered, until a few dozen hu man beings are smashed to pieces on a railroad or a hundred or two boiled to death on a steamboat. What lessons are thus taught railroad directors and steamboat ownors but those of impunity, and which i create, ot course, a toeiing ot tne utmost security r ! What, nray. has been done with the reckless and i . - hiirhlY criminal oftlcers of the Henry Clay ? What with the Reindeer people ? Is the Norwalk murder to be forgotten, or the inhuman slaughter at Chicago to pass into oblivion r Are these awful murders to bo rvooUovtoU only by that poor widow who saw her hustmml lifted from the splintered car a mangled bloody corpse bv the family of children orphaned by this or tnat collisionby maimed, disfigured men, out of whom the tUlr semblance of manhood has hwu cUWd by an xilodlng boiler, or by the ragged fyautttvuta vf car hurled down some declivity by a slci enlnr ? Jf It could bo no ordered that all tho wWry and wm that follow tlieso calamities fell upon th milio of railiMad dirtctors and steamboat otnovr, prhapa we ahould hear less fiuqucntly of tho hv of litV on knd and water. Then the trav vlicr; aiv not without blame rushing along at the into of thirty miles an hour, to get mad and fret and tmte because the last thirty miles has taken thirty nine minutes and fifty-nine seconds, when ' up to time should bo the motto of the engineer. But we arc a fast people, and can't stop to look at the dead IhhIios of those who have been crushed blown to pieces burned and drowned as they, like us, were hurrying along the great thoroughfare of life, calling ; for greater speed and dashing impetuously onward. But it matters little whero the blame lies, for no one is anxious to find it out All these aro forgotten ; jus tice tightens the bandage about her eyes, and her voice is not heard. A coroner's jury fumbles over the bodies and publishes wise conclusions upon the occasion of the deaths, and that is all the public lies torpid until another blow calls for emotion, which 1 A ll 1 i nas its vent Dy way oi anotner coroner s jury ana I'thc usual publication." Solar Eclipse is 1854. On Friday, the 26th of May next, there will be an eclipse of the sun, which will be more or less visible in all parts of the United States and Canada, and in a portion of both will be annular. Its commencement in the city of Wash ington will be" at 4h. 20m. in the afternoon, its great est obscuration at 5h. 18m. and its end at 6h. 27m. As the apparent diameter of the moon will be a lit tle less than the snn, the eclipse cannot be total any where. The Christian Almanac says : 44 The ring will be only about one-third of a digit wide, and will be visible only in the vicinity where the line of central eclipse passes. The eclipse is cen tral.in longitude 73deg. 53min. west of Greenwich, latitude 45deg. 14m in. north : and in longitude 640 deg. 35min. west, latitude 41deg. lOmin. north. By finding these positions upon a map, and drawing a line from one to the other, the towns and countries through which the central eclipse passes will be read ily discovered. The path of the annular eclipse will be about one hundred miles wide and extend about fifty miles each side of the line we have described. The annular eclipse will move about one hundred miles per minute. 44 The first time this eclipse ever occurred was 1313, July 2d ; sine e then it has returned thirty-one times, including its return next year. It occurred in April, 1800, in May, 1818, and in May, 1836. It will re turn again in June, 1872. Its last return will be m the year 2593, August 17th. The next solar eclipse that will attract much attention in this country will be 1858, March 15th. " ; The Rifle. Many persons who are very expert in the use of the rifle, know nothing of the principle on which it operates, and would be at a loss if asked why a grooved barrel throws a ball truer than a smoothbore. The reasons are: In the first place, no bullet is or can be cast per fectly spherical. One side is always heavier than the other, and the ball always swerves from right to left of projection. However hard it may be to prove this theoretically, practice demonstrates it The same smooth bore, immovably fixed, twice loaded with the same charge, of the same powder, and of balls cast in the same mould, will not plant them in the same spot, at the same distance. The rifle barrel is a female screw, which gives the tightly driven ball a rotation so that the bullet, or rather slug, swerves with the twist of the screw, an other revolution corrects the error. There are but three motions in a rifle ball the straight forward, the spiral, and the downward, caused by the force of gravity. A rifle of thirty to the pound, drops its ball about a foot in a hundred yards. Rifles are sighted, therefore, to meet the deviation. On leaving the bar rel, the ball moves above the line of sight, continual ly falling in a parabolical curve, till it intersects it The point of intersections is called the point blank. WTho invented the rifle is not known. Its princi ple was known to the North American Indians before the discovery of the continent Their arows are feathered sp;rally, and move precisely in the man ner of a rifle ball. A Good One. The last number of the Southern Era gives the following : 44 We have just read an account of a deer hunt in which, strange to tell, the deer killed the- hunter. It is related of Daniel Boone, the great Kentucky hun ter, that when he was a young man he went out hunting deer at night, accompanied by a young com panion, who bore in his hand a, torch light ' When this light is seen by the . gentle deer, instead of being frightened, it attracts, them and lures them on to their doom. They draw near, and the hunter, beholding their clear, shining eyes, shoots them down. On the evening in question, after passing some distance through the forest, young Boone's companion indica ted to him that a deer was visible. Boone advanced, saw the eyes, and raised his unerring rifle, and was about to fire, when it occurred to him that those were not the eyes of a deer. He lowered his gun and the object fled, and Boone immediately started in pursuit He chased it to the house of her fathers', when it proved to be a handsome young girl. The game was up. Dan's rifle never sent a ball to the heart of a 4 varmint ' with more unerring and fatal certainty than did those bright eyes send a shaft to his. The bold backwoodsman pressed his suit, and the maiden allowed herself to be wooed and won. " How Kentucky got its name. The origin- and meaning of the name of Kentucky has been accoun ted for in different ways, both ingenious and plausi ble. The latest analysis of the word Kentucky that we have heard, we had a few days ago from the lips of an old hunter, now in the ninety-ninth year of Ms, age. - When Boon first came to that country it was inhabited exclusively by no tribe of Indians, but was the common hunting ground for all the tribes of the adjacent country. The rich valleys were cover ed with a chapparel of cane, bearing a small berry, on which the turkey came in countless numbers to feast Thus, it was enough for the whites to call it the land of Cane and Turkey. - The Indians, trying to pronounce the same-words, got it Kane tuckee, from this it was abbreviated into Kentuck, .and finally the name by which it is now known Ken-J tucKy wto miui vj kjwilb uui x uTitcjf.. A writer in the last Edmburg 'Review states that Byron drew the character of -Lambro,' the pirate, in Don Juan, from real life without - even the substitu-: tion of; a; ficticious name.-: Lambro was probably in the zenith of his 'dark celebrity' during Byron's se cond .residence in .OreeceHis stoiy, as recorded by the poet, is mainly true, and the old Patriarch-pirate at i lie age of between eighty and -ninety,-was lately 1: iir.jf .indeed he be not yet. Kymir.'in the island f Zea. . 'Thb Russian Minister A ; Story, with a Moral. We see it reported.;jthatiMr Bodisco; the Russian ' Minister, has -undertaken to, muzzle jb. Washington newspaper, after the fashion of St Petersburg. We hope he will have 4' & gqod time.";; v .vlZ ..: - This reminds us of-an incident we have heard re ; lated of this gentleman in the earlier, days of his mission. Some years ago he was passing over the ; Rochester and Syracuse Railroad, on an excursion to Niagara, with a party of friends, "if we remember rightly it was his . wedding tour. -When the train reached Syracuse,1 an attache, or secretary, or some thing, took a fancy to quarrel with one of the" men employed about the Depot, and, with the insolence of a petty official raised his cane and struck him. The man was about to take iustice into his own hands, but the fellow claimed the protection of his master and his suite, who, of course, all took his part, and supposed their diplomatic character would enable him to get off with impunity. Mr. Smith, the Conductor and Agent, immediately waited on the Minister in the car, stated the case, and civily but friendly remarked that such an unpro voked outrage could not be tolerated here ; and wound up by expressing the hope that the Minister would end the business, as he easily could, by apologizing. The Minister smiled. Apologize ! Did Mbnseur le Conducteur know whom he was addressing ? It was M. Alexandre Bodisco, Ambassador of the Em peror "of Russia! Mr. Smith coolly replied that if he was the Em peror of Russia himself, he was entitled to an apolo gy. And he added that, until he got it, that train would stand where it was in the Syracuse Depot Great was the indignation of the circle, when this audacious speech was translated all around it, and it was found that diplomatic proceedings were so sud denly brought to a stand-still. Terrible oaths were sworn at the Conductor, the Railroad, the Company, the country, the everybody 1 But, as they were all in Russian, they did not hurt anybody. 44 1 order this train to go on!" said the Envoy Ex traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, stepping out on the platform. The passengers stared. By standers winked at each other. The little pop-corn and candy boys opened their eyes wide at the man with the long beard, and thought he must be crazy. But the train did not budge an inch. 44 1 order this train to go on !" repeated Mr. Bod isco, bringing his cane vehemently down on the plat form, by way of emphasis. No result The smoke curled lazily up from the locomotive, and the firemen and engineer leaned back on the wood pile to enjoy the fun. Fortunately at this momenta Washington acquain tance, who happened to be on board, came out, and undertook to explain American customs to the Am bassador. A long colloquy ensued in some foreign tongue, which nobody understood. The upshot of it was, however, that a handsome and courteous apol ogy was tendered and received the Minister adding that his ignorance of the language and customs of the country had led him into a mistake. The whistle sounded, the bell rung, and away went the train carrying two or three wiser people out of Syracuse than it brought in half an hour before. It is barely possible that Mr. Bodisco's labors with the Press may terminate in a similar way. After all, it is the education, not the man, that is to blame. M. Bodisco is a sensil le and accomplished gentleman, as such things go in Russia. There his requirements would be treated as perfectly reasonable and proper. Persons go and stop, at the bidding-of high Diplo matists. 'Here, however, .high Diplomatists oftener come and go at the bidding of the Press. Albany Evening Journal. Australia. The people of Australia are in the midst of a terrible quarrel with their colonial govern ment, reminding us in many of its details of what we read of the early troubles between the royal gover nors and councils, and the (then) British Colonies of North America. In this case, however, the colonists possess advantages vastly superior to those which surrounded our forefathers. The marked difference in the ideas of the respective ages concerning gov ernment, is to them an advantage incalculable great er than any enjoyed on this continent, amid the cir cumstances leading to the times that 44 tried men's souls. " Britain, too, is tired of colonies, however, much her commercial interests may keep her wedded to the policy of holding possessions wherein, as in India, the mass of the people are virtually slaves. The discovery of gold in Australia is causing her ports to swarm with emigrants better fitted than any other class to work out her independence, from their qual ities of mind as well as character ; shrewd, desperate and uncontrolable men, as a large portion of them are. Australia already possesses an immense amount of shipping to be owned in a colony, and the mass of her people resemble those of the United States in their enterprise, far more than the present inhabit ants of Canada, our next door neighbors. The exist ing condition of the Chinese empire, too, is a very tempting bait, alluring them to break with the moth er country ; for they see that it mnst come under the virtual control of some European nation or of the U nited States in the next half century, if not under theirs. Indeed, it strikes us that, in the distance, we j have more to dread in the probable commercial rival ry of the Australians in the East, than in that of the ! mother country. The Paris correspondent of the New York Times gives the following description of a dentists sign in that city : I spoke the other day of Paul Simon, the greatest dentist Just outside of his door stands a glass case, containing & beautifully dressed wax figure, repre senting a fashionable young lady, with the mouth slightly opened, and displaying a splendid set of teeth. She has a full blown rose in her hand, which hangs negligently at her side. As you look at the figure a moment, you notice an extraordinary change. Two of the teeth of the lower jaw, and one of the upper slip from their places and are withdrawn from the sight ; at the same moment, the hand which holds the rose, suddenly rises and strives to conceal the defect in her dental arrangements. In another moment however, the teeth are replaced, the hand and rose sink to their former position, and the lady resumes her complacency. At the same time that the figure is undergoing these various vicissitudes, a large num ber of upper and lower jaws, single and double teeth, gums and palates, which form a sort of zodiac around her, seem to be impressed with the necessity of con tinued action, and are chewing with excessive vigor; as one jaw goes up the other comes down, and they meet in the middle with a vastconcussior. The pro cess of mastication is thus beauitfully exemplified. Of course, the moral of all this is, 44 Walk up stairs to Dr. Cumbile, who flatters himself that his newly improved instruments, and thirteen years of experi ence in his profession, " and so forth, and so forth, and so on. Railroad Accidents During the Present Year. The following is the number of railroad accidents, with the killed and wounded, during each month of the present year : Months. No. of Accidents. Killed. 25 6 24 25 54 6 8 29 176 Wounded. 40 11 62 54 49 19 22 76 333 January, 12 February, 6 March, April, May, June, July, August 14 4 8- 5 11 5 Total to Aug. 12, 65 Sixty-five casualties, a hundred and twenty-six deaths, and three hundred and thirty-three persons injured ! There is a total which should put our civ ilization to a blush, and almost make men forswear the progress of the age. An Army of. Grasshoppers. An army of grass hoppers has made its appearance on the northern confines of Guatemala and extended into Mexico as far as Oajaca. It.is about three leagues long by half a league broad, and travels at the rate of twelve miles a day. It has already traversed 150 leagues of coun try, moving during the day and remaining quiet at night and during the clowdy days, keeping near the coast, jmd nevcbeginning its march.3jntil 8 or 9 o' clock,' when the sun is feltJts preferredfoodisthe indigo and corn,: and it has not touched the, sugar cane-Itis described as being from twb to two-and a-half inches long, of a deep yeII6wscolor, and having four small wings of the same color.' tAsimOar plague took place in 1771, when -they invaded Yucatan and the coast of Vera Cruz and New Mexico in frvrmMi.' blenimibers4- . ' Fayetteville asi Centre Plank Road.' - The annual" meeting of the stockholders was -held, on" .Thursday last, Maj. D. G. McRae presiding, and Mr. - J. M. Rose acting as Sec'y.' . ' - .'?.". ; -- We learn from the Report of . the President and Directors that the road has been completed from Fay etteville to Puppy Creek, 15J miles that of Messrs." Jones & Barbee's contract for 20 .guiles, : from Puppy . Creek to Blue's Bridge, 5 miles have been completed; 5 miles more will be completed by Sept "iBt ; and the. entire distance by, Jan'y. ; 1854. - Twenty miles of road are now undertolL ,. . v , J . Sufficient subscriptions to construct the road through Richmond county not having as yet been received, no work has been done beyond Blue's Bridge, except the survey from that point to Little's Mills. It is to be hoped that our friends in Richmond will take speedy measures to secure the construction through that county of a road promising immense benefits to them and to us. V Liberal subscriptions have been made, in -Montgomery, and no doubt is entertained of procuring the necessary amount for the construction of the road through that county. The Stockholders aceepted the amendment to the charter authorising, a change of terminus, and adop ted the following resolution : Resolved, That the road be now located from or near Little's Mills in Richmond county to or near Swift Island in the county of Montgomery, by such route as the President and Directors may select, and that the location of the final terminus be for. the pres ent postponed. Messrs. Jas G. Cook, Geo. McNeill, Henry Lilly, J. G. Shepherd, T. S. Lutterloh, H. L. Myrover, E. W. Willkings, of Fayetteville, and Messrs. Isham A. Dumas and T. Bostick of Richmond were elected Di rectors for the ensuing year. At a meeting of the Board of Directors, Jas G. Cook was elected Presi dent, and J. M. Rose, Secretary. We learn that a proposition has been submitted to the Directors, to construct a Branch Road from near the Hon. L. Bethune's in this county, via McLean's Bridge (over Drowning Creek) and Laurel Hill, to MeNair's Store in Richmond county, near the S. C. line. The proposal has been accepted provided a sufficient amount for the construction of the Branch be subscribed. Messrs. John McNeill, M. W. Mc Nair, Jno. C. McLaurin, Wm. Buchanan, Daniel Mc Lean, Ferdinand McLeod and Wm. McLean have been appointed to procure subscriptions in Richmond county. Fayetteville Observer. Feanklix Gray. Franklin Gray, who committed suicide a few days ago, by throwing himself before the cars at Rochelle, near New York city, and whose case, from his domestic relations, appears to excite great sympathy in the North, is very well known in the West and South. He lived -at Helena, Arkansas, and kept an indifferent drinking house, with a room for faro and other games. He was a. professional gambler, and having been detected in some tricks at faro, by which he attempted to defraud a respectable gentleman of Phillips county out of a considerable sum of money, the citizens having become enraged, demolished the groggery, tore down the building and obliged him to leave, without his coat, at midnight He went to San Francisco, and by the successful tricks of his trade, amassed a large fortune, and turned up in Washington about a" year ago, as the millionaire Col. Gray, one of the merchant princes of California, He stayed at Brown's Hotel had a fine suite of rooms dressed superbly effulgent with diamonds and brilliants of the first water he was not long in making a sensation in that diplomatic -city. He soon acknowledged the beauty and charms of his present wife, whom he had met at one of the weekly soirees at Brown's Hotel, where the wealth of Col. Gray obtained for him a facile entree, and through the influence of disinterested friends he laid at the feet of the young lady's mother his diamonds, money and rent roll. The bait was too much to be rejected. The engagement became the subject of public conversation. The mother was cautioned a gainst the connection, but the rent roll won the day. The wedding took place in the church, and was a grand affair. The magnificent trousseau of diamonds, with which he presented his bride, was displayed jto the public gaze, and it is feared many a fair maiden sighed because she was not the fair recipient of Col. Gray's vows and money. About 13 years ago, franklin Gray married the widow of a respectable lawyer of North Carolina, much his senior, but a showy and intelligent lady. It was the same Mr. and Mrs. Gray who were mixed up in the rumored attempt to poison with champagne Gen. Santa Anna, when a prison, r at San Jacinto. He came to Arkansas from Texas, and lived in that State from 1837 until this affair at Helena. Often wretchedly poor and ekeing out a living by the pre carious results of his profession, his wife, who hear tily abhorred their means of existence, became dis satisfied, and Gray and herself quarreled and separa ted. Gray became rich, and married the beautiful Miss French, without having a divorce, and the first Mrs. Gray went to New York and threatened a pros ecution for bigamy against her legal husband. His will in favor of his second wife will be legally tested by the party claiming priority as wife. New Orleans Delta. How to make Money Fast and Honestly. Enter into a business of which you have a perfect knowl edge. In your own right, or by the aid of friends, on long time, have a cash capital sufficient at least to do a cash business. Never venture on a credit bus iness on commencement Buy all your goods or ma terials for cash; you can take every advantage of the market, and pick and choose where you will. Be careful not to overstock yourself. Rise and fall with the market on short stocks. Always stick to those whom you prove to be strictly just in their transac tions and shun all others even at a temporary disad vantage. Never take advantage of a customer's ignor ance, nor equivocate, nor misrepresent. " Have but one price and a small profit, and you will find all the most profitable customers (the cash ones) or they will find you. If ever deceived in business transactions, never at tempt to save yourself by putting the deception upon others ; but submit to the loss and be more cautious in future. According to the character and extent of your abilities set aside a liberal percentage for print ing and advertising and do not hesitate. Never let an article, parcel, or package go out from you without a handsomely printed label, card or-circular, and dis pense them continually. Choose the newspaper for the purpose, and keep yourself unceasingly before the public; and it matters not what business of utility, you make choice of ; for, if intelligently and indus triously pursued, a fortune will be the result A friend informs us that, while suffering with a bone-fellon twenty years ago, Dr. Francis Le Baron, late the Apothecary General of the United States, ad vised him to fill a thimble with soft-soap and. quick siver mixed, and bind it tightly over the fellon. This he did, and in the course of twelve hours it was drawn to a head, when the core was removed, and, by appliances of the usual poultice the sore soon healed. Our informant remarks that this is a severe expedient, but one that is to be preferred, to the cus tomary treatment We have heard others who have availed themselves of the remedy prescribed by our friend say that it is effectual and expeditious. As a good many persons are now afflicted with bone-fel-lons, we have been requested to make this publica tion. May it prove 44 a real blessing" to the suffer ing. . Cor. Baltimore Clipper. The Name of Lola Montez. From the following announcement of the marriage of this notorious per sonage, it will be seen that she is not deficient in names. If to these were added all those by which her friends, enemies and admires applied to. her, we think even this long list would be considerably in creased: ' . - :.',.' "Married, this morning, at the Holy Church of the Mission Dolores, by tho Rev. Father, Flavel Fon taine, Curate, Madame Marie Elise Rosanne Dolores, Countess of Lansfeldt de Heald, .Baroness of Rosen thal, and Chainoinesse of the Order of St 1 Therese, to Patrick Purdy Hull, esq.,rconductor of the San Francisco Whig and Cownercial Advertiser of this City."? rvv ,." , . - f , :h .- V-v,; U Sii j Persecution afteb Death. correspondent of the National Intelligencer amusingly complains that Clay,' Calhoun and Webster, , who were tested with all sorts-tof questions from abolitionists in their lives, are not spared even after their death but summon ed to" a hundred table legs every night, and made to answer the- most ridiculous questions and. in the most i - - From the Louisville Journal J THE FALLEX, OSE. I'' - s The fork sings blithely and the wild-flowers bloom . J .V In summer time abov6 his pulseless breast; ' - And low winds moan around the silent tomb - ; -' .i v"here he unconscious hath, his dreamless rest ' '-f-heartis hopeless, and the vermil dye ' "h" dwelt upon his lip hath passed aWar. V Death sleeps serenely on his brilliant eye i - Which flashed with thought and glowed with passion'. ' 6 J ,yi:".V .f,fi;.'tl - Olveften to his brow iiTlife'a sweet "sprinjr " - .Visions of hope and. beaming beauty camel , - And as the hours went by on rapid win,- . His spirit dreamed of triumphs and of fame Soft as the lute when, love's hand sweeps its strin e ch tones were which dwelt upon his toneS . Butlikethe roar which o'er roused ocean rings " When on the windhia eoul itspassion flung.' He loved to climb the summit of the hHl ,- ' a Then1V!-l.bi?lp0,Lre1 eut its heftrt m sone. And walked delighted by the jnurmurinr rill, Which flashed in sunshine as' it leaped along His fancy then, from themes romantic wrought Wild tales of happiness and love's control Or traced the brilliant chain of thrilling thought V Which binds ambition to its glittering goaL ';; V- . ...; ".Vt effyj.?,'. s . One gentle spirit mingled with his dreatng, . And shared the empire of his heart with fame Fairer than she ne'er strayed by fabled streams Or o'er the vision of rapt poet came. . He was the sunlight of her being's world," And she to him the poetryof life: . . The slenderest tress which on her. forehead curl'd" Was talismanic o'er his spirit's strife. - - ' v. . .:'' - . ..." ' :' A change came o'er him years had flown away His hopes a wreck were toss'd on passion's sea His feet from fame's high paths had gone astray ' And from his heart had passed her melody -The star who rose so. brightly on his morn Now shone but dimly to his darken 'd view"' High on excitement's wave his soul was borne Far from the scenes, where first his being grew. His bark was on the waters dark and wild And crazily upon its course was driven,' Though love rose o'er him, and with accents mild Strove to reclaim him back to love and heaven. But love's appeal was vain ; the bowl the game , Had wrapped his spirit in a starless night And on the brow which once had burned for fame Were scorn's deep scowl and dark suspicion's blight. . Drunk with the fury of his madden 'd brain With quivering step he pressed to Ruin's verge Beneath which roars an all-destroying main, ' Where harpies' shrieks break o'er the sounding smw That night-bird, . foul Bemorse, above him wheel d And flapped her wings, and screamed lond o'er the wan. . His vision wandered, and his spirit reeled, ' And down he sank to an unhonored grave The lark sings blithely and the wild flowors bloom In summer-time above bis pulseless breast And low winds moan around the silent tomb Where he unconscious hath his dreamless rest. His heart is hopeless, and the vermil dye Which dwelt upon his lip hath passed away -Death sleeps serenely on the brilliant eye ' Which flashed with thought and glowed wifh passion's " ' - ' ' '- RIGEL. At the recent commencement of Harvard Univer sity, at the supper of the "Pi Vpsilon Fraternity,'' J. G. Saxe, the poet, having been toasted, gave the following good "hit" in reply: ' Dear brethren, who sit round this bountiful board, With excellent viands so lavishly stored,' That, in newspaper phrase, t would undoubtedly groan.' If groaning were but a convivial tone, " Which it isn't and therefore, by sympathy led, The table, no doubt, is rejoicing instead. Dear brethren, I rise and it won't be surprising If you find me, like bread, all the better for rising I rise to express my exceeding delight In our cordial reunion this glorious -flight,- . And invoke every blessing a true-hearted brother, In fullness of feeling, can do for-another." And here let me pause for a moment,- to say, -In a negative, less than a positive way; ' (Like a parson beginning his doctrinal task,) What blessing for each I would specially ask ' May you ne'er get in love or in debt,. with a doubt As to whether or no you will ever get out ;v llay you ne'er have a mistress who plays the coquette . Or a neighbor who blows on a cracked clarionet; May you learn the first use of a lock on your door, And ne'er like Adonis, be killed by a bore; .. , Shun canting and canters with resolute forced A Canter is shocking, except in a horse; At jovial parties mind what you are at, - - ' " Beware of your head and take care of your hat, Lest you find that the favorite son of your mother Has an ache in the one and brick in the other ; . May you never, J pray, to worry your life, .. Have a weak-minded friend, or a strong-minded wife; A tailor distrustful, or partner suspicious; . A dog that is rabid, or a nag that is vicious ; Above all, the chief blessings the gods can impart May you keep a clear head and a generous heart, Remember 'tis blessed to give and forgive; Live chiefly to love, and love while you live, And, dying, when life's little journey is done, May your last, fondest sigh be Psi Upsilon. LET THE HEART BE -BEAUTIFUL. " So the heart, the heart is beautiful, -' . ' I care not for the face: . I ask not what the form may," lack -.i" Of dignity or grace; , t - r If the mind be filled with glowing thoughts, And the soul with sympathy,.' ? What matter though the cheek be pale, ' Or the eye lack brilliancy. v-.' ;, ' Though the cheek, the cheek be beautiful, It soon may lose its bloom, - ,- ' And the lustre of the eye be quenched In the darkness of the tomb; - ' '. X " But the glory of the mind will live,', ' -Though the bloom of life depart; ' ' - And oh! the charm can never die . '. Of a true and noble heart. - The lips that utter kindly thoughts ' i ' - Have a beauty all their own 'j . ' For gentle words are sweeter far- '1 -'': " 'r' Than music's softest tone ; ' " '" And though the voice be harsh or shrill , ' That bids t he oppressed go .free, .: And soothes the woes of the sorrowing one, That voice is sweet to me. v Thb Koszta Aftaib,. Washingto:lXxie.lA:. 1853. The Secretary "of State only received his -despatches relative to the Koszta affair, from Mr. Marsh, our Minister at Constantinople; on Friday, too late to lay them before the Cabinet". They wilL be read to the Cabinet to-morrow. -This will account for the delay in making public the despatches heretofore received at the Navy Department ' ."- ;V. -,. The Koszta question is likely'- to assume a much more important character than was first anticipated. Mr. Marcy is already;pledged to the position that the filing of a declaration of an intention to become a citizen of . the United States entitles the individual to the protection of this government . It will be re membered that Mr. Marcy was a member of the mixed commission, as it was termed, to adjust the claims of American citizens against Mexico." .One of these claims was that of an Italian gentleman who had de clared his intention of becoming a citizen of the Uni ted States previous to the depredations being com mitted on his. property by Mexico," The Mexican commissioners resisted the claim, on the ground that the mere declaration did not entitle the party to the immunities of a citizen of the United States. The case was finally submitted to the arbitration of the King of Prussia, through his minister, and decided adversely to the postton assumed by Mr. Marcy. B is a matter of great importance to" the thousands who reach Our shores', and file their declarations of in- -tention to become citizens, to have this point decided. Mr. Marcy, we believe, took the ground that they are in the same position as children bon! here, who, al though they cannot vote or .hold, property till he7 are twenty-one years bid, are still, - during their mi nority, unquestionably y entitled to the protection of the United States..- Should this position be taken the release ot Koszta will doubtless be. imperatively de manded by our government, " It-will be due, notonly to our national s honor, but to the vast ; population which seek our shores in the pursuit of that civil and religious liberty which is denied them in Europe. ;No better opportunity, for-settimg the' questioncan arise, and publics opinion will 'uphold the executive in the ennunciation of whatever may. be deemed true American doctrinej. no matter how bold it may aP" pear. ; ; ;;.Cor. of the N Y: Herald, -"Colonel J.' "W.r Forney it is. understood, has at length completed his arrangements for " taking and holding the xeins of the" New York National Demo crat and will shortly enter upon the discharge of tne duties of .is new position," iRepublic. of to-day-'; The above statement is jiot strictly the fact Forney does not design taking the. editorial c0?. of the National Democrat, nd never intended doing so. . He is still in the field for re-election as &fCl the United States House of Representatives, and should be called to other duties he will ymae . Immrfi in Hmfl t n frfonrlc- iff -ConreSS." A" L mors connecting his name with the editorial manag8 xaent of-the National Democrat are erroneous. . w ;4 --jr.v.A. :'f r i Washington &?r' a ?" . - A"N.