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mon. the Mammoth Steam Printing Establishment, S. E. corner of Fifth and Marke t Streets. Published Semi-Weekly and Weekly by Henry Eckel, Editor and Proprietor, at NO. 57. WILMINGTON. TUESDAY. JULY 16, 1867. VOL. XXXV. WARNER'S PHILADELPHIA AND WILMINGTON steam propeller line. STEAMER LEAVES ,U3T WHAM BELOW CHESTNUT ST., THILAD'A, DAILY AT 5 P. M.. ASH MARKET STREET WHARF, WILMINGTON, DAILY, AT « P. M. oo: reoeived from T A. M., to the Hour of Soiling. frtight will be PXPRESS ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH , T .Sr form THE MOST DESIRABLE: MODE FOR TRAN8 ïffînW F RIHOgr BETWEEN THE TWO CITIES._. PHILADELPHIA AND WILMINGTON STEAM BOA T LINE. TWO TRIPS PER DAY. I -00 MONDAY, JULY 8th, 1887, THE FINE ON AND AFTER STEAMER ARIEL, Will Le»ve Wilmington at 8.45 A. M., and 12.45 P. .M. Returning, Leave Philadelphia at 9.45 A.M., and 3.45 P.M. .25 CENTS. .15 CENTS. excursion tickets. SINGLE TICKETS. Has tion new TO JAMES F. WOOD. JAMBS WILSON. front street stove store South-East Corner of Front and Orange. W I LSON & W OO I), DEALERS IN 5T0VHB, HEATERS AND RANGES. TIN AND SHEET IRON WARE. ROOFING, and guttering and spouting PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. MBTALIC Ilf. Ha*lng upwards ot , Work ga >r Faotorlea, an« aat they »niton paid to Tin Work I ha buslneaa, they mch23-ly SOT Fartlsular i I«* *»l"rt«nee 1 igl* L. P. SAW DON WM. W. HOOPES & CO., No. 808 Market Street, 3 doora above Sixth Street, e»l! »ad examine out large «ud veil »elected «took ot WH W. nOOPRB. FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC GOODS. PLAID PLANNERS, STRIPED PLANNKLS, TABLE LINEN AND TOWLINO, OLOVES AND U08IBRV, MOURNING GOODS, CLOAKS AND CLOTIIS, BLANKETS. WOOLEN GOODS, MOHAIRS, ALAPACAS, 00B0URGB, CASHMERES. ALR WOOL D j FANCY rl.All) GOODS. dbsoription constantly on hand, also, opera flannels w. W. HOOPES & 00., No. 603 Market Stroot. Llîf BLACK 8ILR. ORDRD " " MURID •• " OU US SOI H " LAIN KS, ElRlIOB utmsii cloth, LU MANGES, OP EVERY fiept26 uqRST 1 PENS AND PENCILS. 4 THB PER IB IIIOUriBR THAN TnB SWORD." THE GOLD PEN, 1 OHBAPH»T*OK pen». UEIT AND EDWARD MORTON'S GOLD PENS, THB BB8T PBNB IN THB WORLD. VOR SALE AT No. 25 Malden Lane, New York, TUB hoi prtoe* 1 by «vary duly appointed Agent at I Mortoa makes no Pena atampoä mth the Nam or Trade mark ot aay olker ; «Nerofore, where an Agency ie oetablielied, the P"^ lld ... b» beet salted, and at the earns price», by ooUlog en the Agent. In all otbnr places those «letting the Morton Poo, most «end to Headquarters, Where their ordere «illreoeiwo prompt attention, N eooompanied with tbo oaeh. * catalogue of all niaon and prie»» »ont oelpt of letter postage. feblO-tf __ BLMBOLD'8 CONCENTRATED EXTRACT 8AR8A p*rtlU 1» the great bloo d »«rifler;----- NEH1UAR T A. MORTON. Dl A 1801, LEAD PENCIL COMPANY, NEW YORK. No FACTORY, HUDSON CITY, N. WHOLESALE BALBB BOOM, No. 84 JOHN STREET, N*W YORK. WILL! Gbo tha AMERICAN behad*at all tha principal Stationer« itylaa and grade» of Lead Pe Quality ere manufactured Tr»de The public an Invltad UAD PENCIL ^^bePyiD^an to Aü for ttu ••AMERICAN LEAD PENCIL'' give Will TESTIMONIAL. SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL, "-""S'otÄ'i.?!«. ; recommended the Faber -olygrade Lead .nwui'ÏÂ' w.. »< polygrada Leail Pen Load Penell Oomp' _ ha*« always Fen«U« u tha t.y New U« American *h*w inpertof to any penell In a»^, lnglteb Cumberland Laad P i .being a superb) nechauloal draw th* Id t.lH, die hold' ■I-' U. „A that eta be desired re to heebie y 3 d upo LOUIS BAIL, Profeaeor of Drawing, A BTAMPID U no loaner be eompeUeiL*« d«P«n y other foreign market tof pencil«. MS-'*À MsatoAN I,® Pknoii. Co., N. Y None genuine without I LOOK e enact name of the ffebt * i Sold BANKING INSTITUTIONS. uqRST NATIONAL RANK, 1 OF WILMINGTON. Depositary op the Public Monbyb, fe DR. United Statm. Financial AaaNt of EDWARD BETTS, Pbbsidkht, G. D. ARM8TR0N0, Cabhibb a the $400,000 CAPITAL, TUB COLLECTING AND EXCHANGING OF GOVERN MENT SECURITIES ATTENDED TO FOR A SMALL COMMISSION.! h AND NE» YORK EXCHANGE PHILADELPHIA _ FURNISHED TO ftSQULAR DEPOSITORS WITHOUT CHARGE. the d ile DIRECTORS MEET ON MONDAYS AND TIIUR8DAYS AT 8.30 A. M. FOR DISCOUNT. _ ARTISANS' SAVINGS BANK, No. GOT MARKET BTREKT, WILMINGTON, DELAWARE. of th ■ T ta We Dl P ÎÎX »mir tb, Ä! ■I at o uallyjn April : iifformiy bean at l idande ha 1801, th K Dgnrdod a« DepoaUe, and clpate In fnti any of It into I» No Ma ii - MANAG Darm '. DAT WILL! i h W. HOWLARD, .Ja Job C l<B M.L. LlCBTMBTlIH. Wm. 8. HILLES, 8. CAFaUB. Gbo «U* W. Bp*h, Vice Traainrer ootlU-1* J0U " p ' MoL.ar. Traaenrer BOOK BINDING. Stationer« Ue Book Bindery Mmlngton, Dal., U a OMA8 P & e 0O. 8< ehe ■ oMBOUGHMAN, - Will oontlnue the bn.lnesa book binding P ; Lead w.. »< AND tbe BLANK BOOK MANUFACTURING No- 420 Shipley Street. t.y superb) draw BLANK BOOKS MADE TO ORDER. , HIM.-HUAI).. ».-.„nOLBn TO ASY VAT TERN, OLD HOOKS CARRFULLY UH-:DODND, MAGAZINES, MUSIC. PAMPHLBTH AND NKWBPAPBBB BOUND AT REASONABLE RATES. Order« by mall addrewed as follow» prompt & BOGIA, WILMINGTOM, ML. y paper A N. Y aovW-tf ffebt MEDICAL. SMITH & DIXON. A CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS, li. W. Cor. Market, ana Hin »»«. DEALBR3 INJ THE THE THE THE DRUGS, DRUGS, DRUGS, CHEMICALS, CHEMICALS, CHEMICALS, It PERFUMERY. PERFUMERY PERFUMERY. NEW TOILET ARTICLES, TOILET ARTICLES, TOILET ARTICLES, FANCY ARTICLES, FANCY ARTICLES, FANCY ARTICLES, AND AND RELIABLE MEDICINES, RELIABLE MEDICINES, RELIABLE MEDICINES. -ly-ijanS OUN0 LADTKB BEWARB OP THE INJURIOUS affecte of Pace Powders and Washes, All euch re mo cIoha HD the nores of the Skin, and In a short time Y bold's Kx ltby aud you t Sarsaparilla PP - « rfi trarfMI HALL'S liiyy^y ^renewer. egetable Sicilian Hair Renewer Has stood the test of seven years before the public ; and no « repara tion for the hair has yet been dis covered that will produce the same beneficial results. It is an entirely new scientific discover, combining many of the most pm»erfitl und re storative agents in the VEGETABLE KINGDOM. It restores 'CRAY HAIR TO ITS ORIGINAL YOUTHFUL COL OR. It makes the seal/* white and clean ; cures dandruff and SrTaÄ»! 8 «™« haul heads, except in veçy aged persons, as it furnishes the nutri- I the^alr 1 nwist^^so/t^and and is unsurpassed as a HAIM HUES S I NO. It is the cheapest preparation ever offered to the pub lic, as one bottle will accomplish more and last longer than three boUles of any other preparationn. It, is recommended and used by "ÄSS ÛÏÏAtuced bu our Sicilian Hair ttenmver have | induced many to manufacture pre parations for the Hair, under va rious names ; and, in order to in duce the trade and Me to purchase their compounds, they have resorted to falsehood, by claiming they mere former part >r had some connection with r. Hall , and their prepara tion was similar to ours. Ho not be deceived by them. Purchase, the original: it /in* never yet been equalled. Our Treatise on the Hair, trith certificates, sent free by mail. See that each bottle has our private Revenue Stamp over lltetopofthe bottle. All others are imitations. R. P. Hall & Co.. Prop's. Nashua, N. H, Sold by all Druggist» and Dealer» i DON I • Alt Medicine. >> fe MJ6DICAL ELECTRICITY. DR. C. H. LAWTON, Philadelphia, wo a friande and the publio that he »till be found At 913 Market Street, Where he le treaUng NERVOUS AND CHRONIC DI3EA8E8 «ei New \ork Je28-4tw F a thorough knowledge of which the applleatl d a, et I •• I as Ball'» n.a,Ec said ly necessary1 without whlc give h I tern Is especially adapted f the optic b f which ta h Interrupt! 'Itos'dance, constipation, ca irlv stages, ceugh, ohlorosi», deafness, w dyspepsia, dial) la, hip dl : d hHDda, er»mp^ ^ K!go^'ll*er iB, pllee, p« I ile ley, rheumatls G : be e»tl- ^ ^ «lu b) disease iIpplBcnme 1 ta I ««ee, promptly Incredibly mb dl UY1 RBN< II log those who m»y wUh ,t to the following well We ha . . ratent lutty, who haw« of tha wtmentlnothare: Wlnd f WUmlngt reated by ■I Shovel«, MOR0 : Naff, 4 Baat F l ■ Washington ats. 8ev CBM - M It H J Rudolph, 21V Market «treat, ehlngton Uubsell, ChrUtlana, Del. ■ F. Bontbgate, _"__ HrrrssÄi-ii into the eyatem, and purgea out the hurnora that maae xii wm I» fehl 5 Aud A h . prompt ROSTER'S DRUG STORK, front and west streets, WILMINGTON, DEL. Pa TJ CORNER OF DR. FOSTER d the publio generally that RS. at (be corne 11 lupply of Bto the Dr , and lalt Dal., ; ehe hae taken Weet Street«. PURE AND FRESH DRUGS, ' oat reliable hoi; red from the beat and and Philadelphia. P I of Druggist, a grad elphia, hav tbe College ot Pharmacy, of^ Phlla POUNDINO°OF PRESCRIPTIONS, of all day or night. All kinds of Hodl ey Article«, Ch air and ally be kept 43 41 es, Perfu I oV I II regulated Dr SB id ^ VAT ML. ego Mr*. Dr. F . Medical Unlwai-nlty, wtU^ coi not*professionally engaged. RRMBDIB8 FOR THF HORSE. practice « id ehe cure of all f reliable medic A fall etantly on ■ ipt London Hair Restorer, Eureka, Bennatt'aOoeoalna, and all other prépara Ik, the Lair for aale at tbe Drug and Prescription I rflS. J JT. Wilson,008 Market It. fitore 101*18 FERTILIZERS & NEEDLES' A 11 " IMPROVED SUPER-PHOSPHATE OF LIME. THE BEST, THE CHEAPEST, THE MOST UNIFORM, THE MOST FINELY PREPARED, PHOSPHATE, IN THE MARKET. It is taokkd NEW BAGS, »00 LBS. BACH. 950 PBlt »,< A LARGE DISCOUNT TO DEALERS. LBS. PERUVIAN GUANO. el* We ee only No. 1 FARMERS, UUY AND U8E ALLEN Gt NEEDLES' AMMONIATED FERTILIZER. THE BEST, THE CHEAPEST, THE MOST RELIABLE MANURE POlt WHEAT AND RYE, permanently enrich Aud lbs. EACH. 935 PER »,000 POUND.- 1 . A HEAVY DISCOUNT TO DEALERS PACKED IN GOOD AlSSi™«" »„„„„m,. it mmo.»» bt»co .pub, pimpi*. I .nd at .mptl AGRICULTURAL WORKS, BEACH AND PLUM STREETS. OFFICES AND 8T0RKB, 41 S.WATER STREET, & 42 8. DEL. AVENUE PHILADELPHIA. .nd at .mptl Ibückwheaï. IFERTILIZer, | X Xd XL X IDiLU 11 » this raents—I'd tumbled put them —that blue cffulgency thee.' ALLEN & NEEDLES AMMONIATED I'd dark.' iu a beat wifo at fault, ward wisest mouth BETTER BUCKWHEAT WILL RAISE MORE TUAN ANY OTHER MANURE KNOWN. $35.00 PER 2,000 POUNDS, ($2.62 PER BAG OF 160 LBS.) IT IS LOW IN PRICE. IT IS READY IT IS ALWAYS KBL1ABLK. IT HAS BEEN THOROUGHLY TRIED FOR OVER YEARS She IMMEDIATE APPLICATION. Mrs. tells himself, Bpector •They Dealata ih^ughuut the of And can b» had of fi ~ keep it Bd and foi ALLEN St NEEDLES, sole: manupacturerSi BEACH AND PLUM STREETS, 41 8. WATER STREET, I AND 1 4» g. DELAWARE AVK. If they do — the money by properly marke the Jdn spre ed Walter " " the AGRICULTURAL WORKS, OFFICES, Je28-4tw YOUR IN i*armkkh look F TKUKSTg. scribed of ■ubeerlber* would eay to tho publlJ 4ey FARMER'S DEPOT AND COAL YARD, SOUTH „.MARKET STREET BRIDGE, d (P.aao.V.Wh.,1,) a, WILMINGTON, DEL. et I Dm^MP^MBNTS.^KRTILIZKUS AND COAL, e •• I as Ball'» Ohio Combined REAPING & MOWING MACHINE, .wab8.uu.ue« K,»l.ior , pr.f.J said to be the bent Combined Machine no t 8 house marries : the But iu oannot ,) whi G e»tl- ^ ^ death KEYSTONE it- UNION MOWERS, wit The the dar Both wUh well Rakes Va Toothe . ratent Steel haw« of tha m0 et 1 Wlnd Mill«, « , Cultivait of all kli , hy I Rakei, Ac. Shovel«, Spade«, MOR0 PHILLIPS', BAUGH'S and WIIANN'S out, from ats. SUPER-PHOSPHATES, maae xii 5 Aud a superior article of RAW BONE. Ac . Au A SUPERIOR QUALITY OF COAL, (all »I S ) dell* jr 1 prompt Pa lo-TllK DEBT SCHUYLKILL COAL by the CARGO. _LYSI.BA WILSON._ TJ YDRAUL1C CEMENT. 300 LBS. that A :ä.i, apply the «» TUB COPLAY CEMENT COMPANY ' l L0W a RATES W U I I of pr , or direct llred. W« filled eltho ka. accord! the of ALLEN At NEEDLES, Hodl 43 South Del. Avenue » PHILADELPHIA. 41 " Water Street^ f Dr VfltANCIS VINCENT, ^ CITY ALDERMAN, Market Street over the Fourth Street Market House, WILMINGTON DELAWARE, n be done by a J U8TICE of tha city of Wilmington. Collecte Claim», id othei 11« real D'tBKu draw* Deed«,R Ing, Ac., Ac. Renta of all ■ ' w all prl*a Money raised on___ TÜtAfiR BOOKS, POCKET, PULPIT, AND OtvsiKcr ä* I fitore 101*18 INVOCATION TO SLEEP. . gentle Sleep, AnJ close these weary eyes lumber d Wrappe night, only, My painful rlgllheep; end hither, then, thy flight, •othlng Sie 0 eweet i Come < calm thin aching head, Through which impel Wild llionghte that reeiat control. ought« of doubt and dread. nit keep; unquiet soul g reit, O gentle Sleep! ; , gentle Sleep, I to forget Its regrete, ilfilled, herd to keep; stilled. Ooi help . burde Its dut 0 , ln tby ell Lope, eweet Sleep gontle Sleep, ■ Tuned by «flection i or these belored < Who called from eai sep, In dreams they «till m*y eUy— Obrlug them magio Bltepl e, gentle Sleep, Iona bring of Haaren, Of that eweet r pint« given. To rthly sounds Let aoft, me where joy abound* I dreams bring ~ rest Bleep ! the Dublin University Magarlne. MY VIOLET. by unfrequented paths, ? untrodden 1 ü ■ aye In the go' ill hi tr day a. Of balmy « r time, It bloBBomed In bed; lay on Beeide the rl I ground the The violet wan dead. She lived In a sequestered place, She trod untrodden ways ; 81. e grew the sunlight of my life In those old summer days, ly the etream, w lay on the ground My I My darling was In heav 1 . WIT AMD HUMOR. Scab* Mb Again.—A young gentleman disremember whioh, after having ime 'pop elderly paid bis addresses to a lady for ped the quostion the lady in a frightened man exclaimed : 'You scare me, Bir.* The gen frighten tho lady, aud time, tlemau did not wish consequently remained quiet for when she exclaimed: 'Scare uot learn how affairs turned out, but should his turn to again.' We did think that it w&s protty nurse, signs of preserved "John just after where "Of recorded. "John mer, the to sit in occupy him; sat subalterns in the peculiarly He 'Amelia, for thee—yes, at thy command I'd this eternal firmanent into a thousand frag they ; raents—I'd gather the stare tumbled from the regions of etherlal spaoe and put them in my trowserB pookets—I'd pluck the —that orieutal god of day, that traverses the blue arch of heuten in such majestic splendor— him from the 6ky and quenoh its bright cffulgency in the fountain of my eternal love for thee.' Amelia—'Don't, Henry, it would be I'd very dark.' 'Madame,' said a husband to his joung wife, iu a little altercation whioh will spring up in the beat regulated families, 'when a wifo have quarreled and each considers the other at fault, which of the ward a reconciliation.' 'The beBt natured and wisest of the two,' said tho wife, putting up her mouth for a kisB, whioh the conqueror in the confliot. and hiB on< ought to advanoe to* given with unction. wa I She Naples and Sioily, Mrs. Forry, in her book tells the amusing story of the verdiot of a set of Waverly novels; consigned admirer of English literature ; and when of the book, and the author, for the Information of the inspeotor, who sat high desk, and did not look at the volumes himself, he immediately declared that the work prohibited. Tbo clerk, who read the any Italian would iu Bpector - •They a gentleman, who ad the Duke "The tory As a arrived friends when Walter Scott, pronounced it do—Voltaire Soott. " 'This, sir, is Voltaire Scott.' " 'Well, sir, and what then ? Voltaire's workB prohibited ; and 1 do the Soott makeB.' " what difference tho custom de There is something ominus i scribed in the following extraot: The manner of advertising for a husband in Java is by plaoing on the portioo roof, whioh to say.'A young lody is in the 'That,* says a morose to say that when a came the habit as empty flower pot t 8 much as house ; husband wanted.' bachelor, 'i marries ho goes to pot.' : up the have Ilalab, the Arabian, being asked what was the most excellent thing in man, replied, 'Sense. , what ie the best then ? But if he has not that? 'The And On In In But if he have •Honesty.' counsel of hiB Triend,' replied the dootor. iu want of that ? oannot bavo any of these things? 'A sudden possible. 'Taciturnity.' And if he death A young couple had laid a plan lately to out wit the vigilance of a cruel parent and elope. The sequel is thuB told : The youth stood before the window ; the young lady attempted to climb detained her , gentle agitated voice : • t my tilters 1' [Ex out, when oh ! horror, ! 'Why dost thou not from the Amelia ?' She replied in 's got hold were and 1't Bill ; ears An elderly maiden, who bad suffered disappointments, thus defines the human race ; of hair, tobacco dell* Man—a conglomerate smoke, confusion, oonosit, and boots. Woman the aforesaid animal CARGO. _the waiter, per force, has left a boarding A bachelor friend of which there were a number of old account of the miserable fair eet before of maids, o him at the table. •Bob, you say you believe most diseases coutngeoun. How long have yon enterlnmed sunk nolions !' 'Ever »inoo I »nt alongside of a girl and enugbt tho palpitation of the hoart.' this morning;' said 'How is it that you don't sing then?' 'What do you mean, stupid?' liable :ä.i, «» lo • 1"' •I've got Clara, asked cousin John. A very modest young lady who was a paeaen- j on board a paoktt ship, it ie aaid, sprang of hor borth and jumped overboard on hear ing the captain, during a storm, order the mate to 'haul down the sheets !' direct hoops, the staves 'Why if there out, you know. to House, of tha Claim», ger about to longer than his A spirited young lady who whose pnrse marry a head, said she preferred his dollars hl» AND ä* None but tbe brave deserve the fair, and none of them. live with but tbe brave a the said of not KMI HENARKABLK ESCAPES OP NEXT MEN. An English journal enumerates some ex amples under this head, which illustrates the truth of an overruling Providence "Some years ago, a young man, holdiug a subordinate position in the East India Com pany's service, twice attempted to deprive himself of life by snapping a loaded pistol at hiB head. Each time the pistol missed fire. A friend entering the room shortly afterward, he requested him to fire out of the window; it went ofT without any diffi culty. Satisfied thus that the weapon had been duly primed and loaded, the young sprang up exclaiming, 'I must be re served for something great;' und from that moment gave up the idea of suicide, which for some time previous his thoughts. That young man afterward became Lord Clive. "Two brothers were walking together, when a violent storm of thunder and lightning overtook them. One struck dead on the spot, the other spared; else would the name of the great reformer, Martin Luther, have been known to mankind. "The holy St. Augustine having to preach at a distant town, took with him a guide, who by some unaccountable means, mistook the usual road and fell into a by-path. He afterwards discovered that his enemies, having beard of bis movements, bad placed themselves in the proper road with the de sign of murdering him. "Bacon, the sculptor, when a tender boy of five years old, fell into the pit of boiler, and must have perished bad not a workman, just entering the yard, observed the top of his bead, and immediately doliv. ered him. at of of uppermost i oue occasion "When Oliver Cromwell was an infant, a monkey snatched him from bis cradle, leaped with him through a garret-window, and along the leads of the house. The utmost alarm various were the devices used to rescue the child from the guardiauship of his newly found protector. All were unavailing; his would-be rescuers had lost courage, and were in despair of again, when the monkey quietly retraced his steps and deposited his burden safely the bed. On a subsequent occasion, the waters had well nigh quenched his life He fell into a deep pond, from drowning in which a clergyman named Johnson sole instrument of his rescue. "By the scige ot Leicester, a young sol dier, about seventeen years of age, drawn out for sentry duty. One of his corn very anxious to take his place went. excited among the inmates, and seeing the baby alive having 'pop thc man gen aud time, should be rades No objection was made, and this shot dead while on guard. The young man first drawn afterward became the author ot the Pilgrim's Progress. did so weakly belioved to bo dead. A "Doddridge, when born infant, he nurse, standing by, fancied she signs of vitality. Thus the feeble spark of saved from being extinguished, aud eminent author and consistent Christian preserved to the world. I'd frag they some and the the preserved "John Wesley, when a child, just preserved from fire. Almost the moment after he where he had been fell in. "Of Philip Heury a similar instance is recorded. "John Knox, the renowned Scotch Refor mer, was always wont to sit at the head of the table, with his back to the window. On particular evening, without being able of all to account for it, ha would neither himself sit in the chair nor permit any one else to tageous occupy his place. That yery mght a bullet 1« shot lu at .be window purposely to kill früh him; It grazed the chair iu ^ich he usually sat and made a hole in the foot of a candle -'M°aûÿ yeàrs have now elapsed since three subalterns might have been seen struggling a in the waters of St Helena; one of them, peculiarly helpless, was last succumbing, He was saved lo live as Arthur Wellesley, the must ing taste Victoria, those become place ized only rescued, the roof of the house i on< wa I Duke of Wellington. "The life of John Newton is but the his series of marvellous delivcranccs > to it tory of As a youth, he bad agreed to accompany friends arrived too late to go; the boat iu which bis friends bad gone occupants drowned. On another occasion, when tide surveyor in the port of Liverpool, that be -of-war. He hoard a capsized, and all i year, and We or business had detained him, to his boat much later than usual, to iu the de the came the great surprise of those who habit of observing his theu uudeviatiug punctuality. He then went out in the boat as heretofore to inspect a ship, which blew Had he left up just before he reached her. the shore a few minutes sooner, he must have perished with the rest board" to was ? 'The And The Number Seven.— This number is frequently used in the writings oi the Bible. On the 7th day God ended bis work. In the 7th mouth Noali's ark touched the ground. In 7 days a dove Abraham pleaded 7 times for Sodom. Jacob served 7 years for Rachel. And yet other 7 more. Jacob mourned 7 days for Joseph. Jacob was pursued a 7 days' journey by he sent out. out elope. before climb her gentle : • [Ex Laban. A pleujy of 7 years and a famine of 7 years foretold iu Pharaoh's dream by 7 fat were and 7 lean beasts, and 7 years of full and ears of blasted corn. On the 7th day of the 7th month the chil dren of Israel fasted 7 days, and remained 7 race ; tobacco days in tents. Every 7 years the land rested. Every 7th year all the bondmen were set free. Woman animal boarding old before Every 7th year the law was read to the people. In the destruction of Jericho, 7 priests bore 7 trumpets 7 days; surrounded the walls 7 times; and at the end of the 7th round, the walls fell. Solomon was 7 years building the temple, and feasted 7 days at its dedication. 7 lamps. the 7th day they of a said then?' stupid?' liable Our Saviour spoke 7 times from tlie cross, wWeù be kung 7 boors, aud after bis reBUrrccUon appeared 7 t.mes. Iu the Lord's prayer are 7 petitions, con at, * Bribe Revelations we read of 7 churches, 7 candlestick», 7 stare, 7 trumpets, 7 plagues, 7 taïnder», 7 Jàals, 7 angels, and a 7 headed monster. In tbe tabernacle Tbe golden candlesticks bad 7 branches. Naaman washed 7 times in Jordan. Job's friends sat with him 7 days and 7 nights, and offered 7 bullocks and 7 rams as paeaen- j a i 0Qeme nt. sprang hear mate about to than his none Dogs and women are the concomitants of a Cologne team, writes a correspondent of the Springfield Republican. Belgium is said to afford the most shocking spectacles of woman labor, but I cannot imagine any thing worse than at Cologne. If God had not given constitutions of iron to these hurley Prussian girls, their lot would have been iusufierable; but as it Is they seom to be reasonably happy in the task of dragging a heavy cart all day, with assistants i shape of a huge dog attached to each shaft. ludicrous spectacle, which I shall I was awaiting the steamer lately the and the and been and of a been of fatal mate never forget, at the bridge of boats over the Rhine at Cologne. The guardians of the bridge bad swung open the draw to allow a vessel to pass through, and the result was a blockade of the Cologne "teams" river next to me. There was a long train of milk carts, tach one drawn by a diminutive "dorg" arrested before the bridge, and the rather warm, and the fleas jackets of the canines doubtless becoming very lively, each dog seemed suddenly seized with a desire to investigate not only his own flees but those of his neighbor; and a series of spasmodic bitings, howls, and récrimina tions with teeth and claws took place, to which the side of the coming out the shaggy the fair the thc pencil of Dore could not have done justice. The milkmaids could not arrest the proceedings—the train got gradu ally entangled, the howls grew more and more vehement, milk cans flew about, and the pavement grew white, but the contes 1 irrepressible, and when I left J three black dogs bad succeeded m freeing them selves from the vile trammels of tbeir shafts administering salutary punish ment to two yellow curs, with pointed who had beeu the cause of the principal to :iUil in disturbance. Pitcairn's Island.— The story of Pit cairn's Island and the mutineers of the Bounty is familiar; how that little colony, the latter part of the last century, founded i in treachery and blood, upon a fertile but uninhabited island in the South Pacific, populated by nine British Beamcn and their native wives, existed unknown for nearly ten years, and but for accidental discovery would have remained one time numbered two thousand and fifty souls, but in 1856 the majority were trans ferred to another island. There fifty-three inhabitants. This little island, with its strange and tragic history, is again coming into notice. It lies in the direct route of the English line of steamers recently established between Panama and New Zea land, and is most conveniently situated for a coaling station and provision depot, for which purpose it will doubtless be used. The Island is only two and a quarter miles long by one mile in width; is very productive of tropical fruits and contains all the domes tic animals except the horse. The inhabi a kind-hearted race, of a com to this day. It at A of is tants plexion such as would be expected from the amalgamation of Saxons with the tawny South Sea Islanders, and in their way, possessing a school where read ing and writing are taught, and having a taste for books. They are loyal to Queen Victoria, simple in their lives and devoid of those vices with which they are likely to become more familiar now that their hiding place has become of quite civilized value lo the civil that over of all sizes. Full tweu y years ago convinced of its good results. It is ndvan tageous 1 . 1« the rapidly growmg breaches it produces früh spurs for the following year end brt.,. "ÄÄeS * ]caving a barc , protruding aud decaying stamp.beautifully ^» »p. making a sound amputation. The period when the pruning should be done i portance. SV eseeJune°£ whi > e Sag the condition of the trees, in this month, assent. We do not believe that it is advisable to prune before the first growth of the season is completed, because of the immaturity of the wood .which must produce in the second growth loss vigorous shoots, besides losing, to a large extent, the yield of fruit the succeeding to follow judicious short later period. Iu our judgment ized world.— Boston Advertiser. Summer Pruning.—W e have long been i favor of the summer pruning of truit trees line negro Mr. time her two ways. First, by shortening edge ly she and that of prime im to it does not meet a your ing bark is the by year, which i cuing in a "summer pruning" should take place bc tbe fifteenth of July and tenth of August—a period when the sap is quiescent and nature is resting awhile from her labors. We speak from our own knowledge of the value ot midsummer pruning of trees, large or small.— Farm and Fireside. tween TnE Coming Trouble among the Mor mons.— Tlie Salt Lako correspondent of the New York Tribune , in a recent letter says: There are palpable signs of dissolution the Mormon Church. The Josephites, (the followers of Smith) pronounce polygamy a sin, aud they claim to be the true Mormon church and entitled to the church property. When Brigham was South this spring, he had to cut off several hundred members for here sy, because they adhered to Smith, and 100 wagousof emigrants are their way east to escape his fearful The Morrlsitcs are another class is the by in iu the moun fat vengeance. of dissenters, aud have no fellowship with the Salt Lake church. They denounce polygamy and arc constantly receiving acquisitions to their numbers. They have a strong scttlc Utab, at Soda Springs, under the shadow of the Prophet. Evciy sermon chil 7 ment i set very 1 board from the Mormons betrayed nervous appealed, some divisions; fears as unfolded tho duty of submission, and Brigham thundered bis fierce anathemas against the the priests end temple, faithless. M l ._ The Latest Swindle.— A New York states that the keenest of recent frauds of genteel they paper is described thu3: A young address cnterB a faebionable bar room, struts to the bar and familiarly calls for a glass of turning lo look about the strangers, bourbon, and room, seeing a half dozen or he invites them to join him in drinking fusion to the Excise law. After all have drunk, the stranger calls for a paper of to bacco, and on opening it, to the surprise of cross, ail, be takes from it a *100 note Of course. bis cham pagneisordered,alteriuro,»b.og w bteb, tbe strauger, lookiog at tb. clock recollects con- an appointment, and throwing down the ,„> w w-found Treasury note, tells tbe bar churches, keeper to keep *10 for blmMlf. paya for the plagues, wine, gets his change and takes his depar headed j lure. It i. almost needless to aay the nol. and 7 as iB spurious. Almost a Victim to Vanity.— The Mil waukic Wisconsin says : An interesting young Miss of the fashionable circles has lately been moved by an ambition to taka the lead in the matter of personal charms, and adopted an expedient for transcending the attractions of other emulative damsels and winning to herself the undivided ad§ miration of all the rustic swains of her locality. Having beard that arsenic bad been successfully employed by fashionable belles for beautifying the complexion and rendering the cuticle of the countenance soft and transparent, she resolved upon a course of treatment, and on Tuesday last procured a supply of the deadly drug. As might have been expected, the foolish girl bad little idea of what quantities of the poison might be taken without incurring the danger of a fatal result, mate vanity did not preclude common sense, that its introduction into the system in the most minute portions must be attended with ruinous effects. The conse tbat the usual quiet section of appalled to though aware, if consum atom of quences the city iu which she lives Tuesday evening by the report of tempted suicide fair daughters, and rumor lit the part of one of the very busy in divining the cause of the painful affair, until the victim, in ings and the energetic operation of a stomach enabled to give an explanation interval from violent retch 1 pump, herself. A fatal result was averted by the skillful attention of the physicians, and the patient i to be hoped that the brave damsel will be contented with nature's bestowments in the fair way of recovery. It is future, and not again resort to such violent means to overdo the "pretty.* What Good Crops and Moderate Prices Will do. —The Boston Traneller describes what good crops and moderate prices will do, thus: "It will set the wheels of industry in motion; people will not be afraid to buy; merchants will be able to export cargoes ot produce; ship builders will be able to build vessels, and carpenters, dwelling house ships can again cover every sea, in doing the carrying trade of the world; factories, foundries and machine shops can be again in operation; our copper and coal mines again be worked with profit; distant voyages and great enterprises can be entered upon with safety; men, poor widows and orphans live sb comfortably war, and all the producers of the country will be much better off; the day laborer will willingly take again the dollar and per day, if he visions and coal lall in the Pit the but fifty again Zea a for miles inhabi com at of small incomes and salary again they did before the -half have his rent, flour, pro proportion." Tomato?—I n Wno Introduced answer to duction of the "tomato" for table United States, a correspondent of the New York Observer assigns the crodit to a captain, a relative of his by marriage. This seafaring individual paid a visit to the father of the relator, residing in the interior oi Penn sylvania, during the autumn of 1818, and found in the garden a lot of tomatoes, then denominated "love apples," and not used as food because they were supposed to be poison The captain, however, averred the trary, and soon produced a dish which he de nominated a Catalonian Salad. It wa* found to be all the concoctor claimed for it, and thereafter the tomato became a favorite in that section—its reputation spread rapidly over the country. inquiry in relation to the intro in the the tawny read a Queen of to hiding civil been trees > e not loss a Broken Heart.— About two noticed the loss of a large Died months ago number of bonds, the property of Mr. Jacku line P. Taylor. The theft negro boy, whose mother Mr. Taylor. Her violent grief time observed, but shortly after she changed her employer. At her new borne the mother evidently still oppressed by the knowl .i's guilt, and seemed gradual a health. On Thursday night traced to a living with at the edge of her f ly to decline she diel without any outward sign of disease, and those attending her declare their belief that she died literally of a broken heart, caused by the wrong doing of her Richmond Dispatch. How to Kill the Peach Borer.— Pour a small quantity of sperm oil your tree, close to the roots, without dlstuib ing the earth. If the scaly bug infests the oiled the bark of bark of your trees, rub them With swab and it wiil soon be destroyed also. Oil is the most effectual poison for all insects. It closes tbeir spiracles, or breathing holes, the side of the body. Essential oils, such camphor and turpentine, kill and drive away Insects for the same reason, and not because their odor is pungent. This advice is given by an old etomologist, and has been long practiced successfully by him. bc of the large Handiwork of the Conspiracy Prison, erb.— We were shown last evening by a gen tleman of this city, to whom the articles had been sent to be delivered, a number of articles showing the handiwork of the con spiracy prisoners now in confinement at the Dry Tortugas, comprising work-boxes, crib boards and numerous other bijouterie made "crab wood," Mor the (the a had here fearful class in of a beautiful wood known which arc most beautiful in design and bibit much skill. In addition to these are samples of coral, pearl to Mrs. O'Laughlin, Mrs. Dr. Mudd, C. A. Arnold and others, relatives of the prisoners. shells, &c., sent moun the to scttlc the sermon Baltimore Commercial. Prolonged Life. —Careful statistics kept in Switzerland show that, while in the period between 1530 und 1500 the mean duration of months, years and and during the following century twenty five years and mng of the present century it has increased to forty-five years and five months. This doubling of the period of human life within three centuries is greatly due to the more settled state of society and the advance in sanitary knowledge. life twenty nervous some mouths, Bince the begin Brigham the York frauds genteel struts glass of the strangers, r.—There is a curious ordeal Singular T in India, which shows the action of fear up the salivary glands. If a wrong is milted, the suspected persons gether, and tity of rice in his mouth for a certain time, aud then put it out again; and, with the greatest certainty, the the deed put it out almost dry, in consequence of the fear of his mind keeping back the have of to of course. bteb, recollects the bar for the depar nol. got to ch is required to keep a quan who bad done saliva. A young man named McManus, of St. estate of $200,000, Louis, heir to drowned at Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, the Fourth, whilst rescuing a boy from drowning,