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THE PERRYSBURG JOURNAL.
their office during life, and they have the
power to fill any vacancies which occur in
their body.
The House of Bergers is compose d of all
the citizens of Hamburg worth one thousand
dollars and over. All laws are proposed by
the Senate, and sanctioned or rejected by a
vote of the Bergers.
The pleasure-grounds, flower-gardens and
promenades of Hamburg, which are princ i
pally upon and outside of the walls, holil
no inferior rank among similar places in the
most noted cities of Europe.
Binin Alsder is a large basin of pure wa
ter, entirely within the walls, covering near
ly SO acres of ground, upon which there may
be seen in pleasant weather, sailing bouts
beating about in all directions, and row-boats
almost without number.
The streets, excepting in the new part, are
narrow and crooked, and not remarkable for
cleanliness; and the city, although it boasts
un age of centuries, has pioduced nothing
remarkable, either in literature or art. The
inhabitants have for ages been a commercial
people, and the present generation, like then
ancestors, are intent on putting money into
their pockets, and they wield the art with a
master hand.
There are a number of suburban cities inj
the immediate vicinity of Hamburg, so in
timately connected with it us from general
appearance to form a part of the city itself.
Of these, the suburbs of St. Paul, St." George!
and Altona, are the largest, and when num
bered with Hamburg, they give a population
of about 300,000 inhabitants.
Ahona dees not, however, belong to Ham
burg, but is within the Danish dominions,
although so intimately connected with Ham
burg that it is ilifficult to distinguish the line
of separation between them, and is what its
name signifies (all-too-nigh.)
The most striking difference which I have
AVnA.iamtarl iatunun a pnt-iilunnri in T-T t. mKii I'll
T A JJCI lT liVt Ijl Ul. I t CC 11 a ItOHIUbV; ill ilUlllUUIg
and an American city, is-in the manner in
which their hotels are. conducted, and in the
difference between the length of the days'
and nights. The sun rises here about three
o'clock in the morning, and does not set un
til nine in the. evening, to which if we add
half an hour for dusk after sunset, and the
same time for twilight before sunrise in the
morning, we. have five hours of night and
nineteen hours of daylight : quite time enough
to exhaust the strongest fraina with labor.
Toads. A correspondent of the Cam
bridge Chronicle, puts in a plea for toads,
and justifies his partiality by the following,
which we extract from his communication :
" We have in our garden a small nursery
of plum trees, which have been nearly de
stroyed by the canker worms. Last season
we commenced shaking them off. One day
we observed many toads about these trees,
that on our approach became frightened, ami
retreated in great haste to their retreats in
the neighboring bushes. Soon finding they
were not pursued, they commenced hopping
back, and eagerly caught with avidity eaol;
canker worm as it descended on its tiny
thread. We. counted atone time thirty im
mediately round our feet. Day after day we
f?d them with their favorite food, and they
became so tame, as to follow us, watch our
hand, and take the worm from our fingers."
This is new to us, though it may not be
to many of our readers: but whatever taste
the toad may have for canker worms, we are
quite sure that it does a world of good in a
garden, by destroying earth-worms, of which
it eats laTge numbers. We once tried to
surfeit a toad with earth worms, but our pa
tience was exhausted before its appetite was
appeased, and we have always held that to
destroy one of these disgusting looking rep
tiles was doing one's grounds a deal of in
jury. There is no charge brought against
the toad but its disagreeable appearance, and
it might well quote the old saw to those who
despise it without seeking to learn its real
value looks are nothing, behavior is all.
Newport Mercury.
The Boomerang. This curious weapon,
pecuhir to jhe natives of Australia, bus of
ten proved a puzzler to men of science. It
is a, pit re. of carved wood, nearly in the
form of li crescent, from thirty to forty inclv
ts long, pointed at. both ends, and the cor
ner edge quite sharp. The mode of n s i n ii
it is quite us singular as the. weapon. Ask
a black to throw it so s to fall at his feet,
and away it j;oes, full forty yards before him.
skimming along ths surface at time or four
feet from the ground, when it will sudden
ly rise in tin; air forty or sixty feet, describ
ii g a curve, and finally drops at the feet of
the thrower. During its course it revolves
with great rapidity, as on a pivot , with a
whizzing noise. It is wonderful so barba
rous a people should have invented so singu
lar a weapon, w hich set3 laws of progress
ion at defiance. It is very dangerous for ti
European to try to project it at any object,
as it may return and strike himself. In a
native's hand it is a formidable weapon, stri
king without the projector being seen ; like
the Irishman's gun, shooting round a eorirr
equally as straightforward. It was invented
to strike, the kangaroo, which animal is kil
led by it with certainty, and though a cops,
intervene between the hunter and the ani
mal, the Boomerang comes round the cor
ner and breaks his leirs.
Ban its of II kr ri no?. An English paper
says: " In April and June all of a sudden, in
numerable masses of herrings appear in the
northern seas, forming vast banks, often thirty
miles long and ten miles wide. The depth
has never been satisfactorily ascertained, and
their denseivss may bo judged by the fact
that lances and harpoons thrust in between
them sink not anil move not but remain stan
ding upright! Divided into bands, herrings
also move in a certain order. Long before
their arrival, already their coming is noticed
by the flocks of sea birds thai watch them
from on high, while sharks are seen to sport
around them, and a thick oily or slimy sub
stance is spread over their columns, coloring
the sea in daytime, and shining with a mild
mysterious light in a dark still night. The
sea-ape, the ' monstrous chinvru' of the lear
ned, precedes them, and is hence by fisher
man called the king of herrings. Then are
seen single males often three or four days in
advance of the great army; next follow the
strongest and largest, and after them enor
mous shoals, countless as the sand on the
sea shore."
I
Physic. The New York dispensary has
been in operation some sixty-five years, and
now has under its yearly charge nearly 50,
000 patients, at the verv small expenditure
of &3.000 per annum, and keeps a corps of
twenty physicians in daily attendance on
the poor. There, is no country in the
world, says a cotemporary, where the peo
ple aie so addicted to the medicine, eating
propensity, as in th Uni'ed States. It has
grown to be a perfect mania a dis -nse of
itself. The fact is, nature never designed
the human body to be such a receptacle of
medicine. If men would but study the laws
of nature, diet properly instead of drugging
excessively, bergdar in their habits in
stead of regular in their dos-s, use common
S"iise and col I water fre-ly and the doctor
as little as possible, th-v would live longer,
suffer less, and pay little for the privilege.
Consolidation. The Chicago Evangelist,
the Syracuse Religious Recorder, and the
Hudson (Ohio) Observer, have been consol
idated with the New York Evangelist. These
papers were all oigans of the New School
Presbyterian Church. An effort is also to
be made to unite with the Evangelist other
papers of the same denomination, so as to
have but one organ for that branch of the
Church in the Northern and Northwestern
States. In order to secure for the paper a
local interest, it is proposed to employ cor
responding editors at Cincinnati, Chicago,
St. Louis, and other prominent places'.
Mr. tHip.M-'s Ilcmnrhs mi Accej tins the An
tiXtbisl;ii ?nu nnt ion for Uoveinor.
Mr. Chase, on being introduct d to the Con
vention by the President, said:
Mr. President,
and Gentlemen of the Convention:
I know full well that it is because of no
special merit or worth of mine that you have
honored me with the nomination which has
been announced to me by your committee,
and it is this knowledge which exceedingly
enhances my sense, of the honor conferred,
and of the responsibilities which it imports,
Ohio has many citizens better fitted lor tho
position in. Which you would phre me, and
better qualified to bear aloft the standard of
freedom during the npproaching political
contest. Conceding, however, us I do most
beer fully, to others sujx'rior abilities and
better judgments, I yield to no one in sin
cere devotion to the great principles which
you have this day promulgated.
On many public questions not now direct
ly in issue I have had occasion heretofore to
- - - i r irt
express my opinions in various lorms. i irosc
oninions remiin of record and unchanged.
On the great issues now before the people ,
in y opinions ere expressed in the platform
yon nave thi3 day adopted.
The independence and sovereignty of th
State, in her legislation and judiciary, must
be asserted and maintained.
The spread of slavery, under nil circum
stances, and at all tini-'S, must be inflexibly
resisted.
Shivery in the. Territories must be prohib
ited by ht?.
On this point there is the most pressing
need of union and resolution. Kansas must
be saved from Slavery by the voters of the
Free States.
It was my fortune to b.ar sonv. humble
part in the memorable struggle which issued
in the repeal of the Missouri prohibition.
Upon that occasion, though nmong the rrmst
determined opponents of the Compromises of
S50, I declared in my place that I was rea
dy to stand shoulder to shoulder with the
supporters of those Compromises, now just
ly incensed by that violation of plighted
faith, for the redrew of that last and greatest
wrong.
In this spirit I am prepared to act to-day.
Side by side with all men who Bre willing to
unite with me for the defence of Freedom,
am ready to contend to the lust for the res
cue, of the Territories from Slavery.
I would do no injustice to the Slave States.
All rights guaranteed to them by the consti
tution should be fully and cheerfully conce
ded. Whatever can be constitutionally
done, by the National Legislature to promote
their progress and improvement, should be
unhesitatingly and ungrudgingly done.
We should insist only that, outside of
Slave States, we shall not be responsible for
the maintenance of Slavery ; and that tho
just and constitutional influence of the Gen
eral Government shall be exerted on the side
of liberty.
The question of Slavery in the States may
then h" safely left to the States themselves.
Tie Il'immity, the Justice, the Wisdom of
i he. po. will, I trust, so dispose of it, that
in the not far distant future a day will come,
when the Sun. in all his course over ouv
broad laud, from ihe Atlantic to the Pacif
ic, shall not b hold a slave.
Exactly. It would have ben sufficient
ly easy to frame resolutions and make a plat
form which would have been perfectly sat
isfactory to the most ultra anli-Npbr.iska
man. But that was not pnough. They
wanted a man who is an anti-Nebraska plat
form in himself, and that man they found
in Salmon P. Chase. If he is elected, there
will be no quarreling about what the election
means. The whole nation will know that
it is an anti-Nebraska triumph a triumph
non-3 the less great because Mr. Chase's
name has, for so many years, been tho mark
at which vituperation has hurled its most
offensive epithets. Cin. Gazette,