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SHOLES, SCHOPP, Sc BUTTS, Editors and Proprietors. the tribune* telegraph IS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, KE.VOMIA CITY, WIS., HALT ST. TERMS. To City Subscribers, per year, 9& Mail or Box Subscribers i If not paid in Advance, " 00 All kinds of produce taken in payment for sub scription. Job Printing. f'TPAII kind* of Plain and Fancy Printing oxecu Puted as neatly ns it elm be done elsewhere and at reasonable prices. CITY DIRECTORY. Church Directory. Episcopal, St. Matthew’*; corner of Market and Ann st*.; Rev. 11. X. BISHOP, Rector. Servi ces, 10.3 J a. M.; 7.3.1 p. m. foneregnttonal, corner of Park and Ann st*.; Rev. Mr. CHAPIN, Pastor; services, 10.30 a. m. ?.3rt, p. M. -•-iLoili-l Ivpiscopal,cr>mrrof‘Keiloslin st. and i-rair, Avenue: 5?" Mr FORD. Buildinsr un dergoing repairs, and Congregation worship at present at Baptist House. Baptist, comer of Church and South sts.; Rev. T. BRANL>E; Services 10.30 a. m., 2 p. M. Butch Reformed, corner of Grand and Chicago streets, north ward; Rev. Mr. IICBBARD; ser vices 10 a. m. and 2 P. M. Catholic, St. Murks; corner of Wisconsin and Ann streets; Rev. Mr. COLTON; service 10.30 a. m. 2.30 P. M. Butch Catholic, St. George's; corner of Chica go and Orantre streets, north ward; Rev. Mr. FRAUENHOFER; services 10.30 a. m.; 3 p. m. l.ullirrnu, Rev. Mr. HOWOER. Services iu the Free School House, North Ward. Travellers’ Directory. rail road — Depot, corner TV. Main and Grand sts GOING SdCTH. I GOING NORTH. First Traill a M. 11. 30 ! First Tram, a. m. 11.30 gcc. “ p. M. 5.15 | Sec. “ P.m. 6.30 STEAMERS. Vollinmrood Line —Leave on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at 2p. m. Touch at all the Mis cousin ports." R. Bell, Agent. Clement ’* Lmr— Leave every night,—at 2 o’clock going north— l 2 o’clock, going south. STAGES. For Beloit, via. Geneva—Leave Monday, Wednes day, and Friday, at 3a. m. Returns alternate days, at 8 p. m. I’or Richmond, Ill*., via. Wilmot —Leaves every Sa turd ay morning, ait Ba. m. Arrives Friday eve ning, 5 P. M. For Antioch, Ills.—Tuesdays and Saturdays, 1 p. m. Arrives same days at 12 M. For Burlington, Racine co., via. Paris nnd Brighton —Every Friday, 8 a. m. Arrives Saturday sr. M. Mails. Mails depart nnd arrive nil all the aboyc routes of travel except the steamers arid the afternoon cars, 'i'hc southern and northern mails by ears are clo sed at 11 o’clock, A. M. There is also a horseback mail to Waukegan, arri ving Tuesdays, Thursdays, nnd Saturdays, and leaving on alternate days, at 12 M. BUSINESS CARPS. WiI.UUI MATTOCKS, ATTORNEY «fc COUNSELLOR AT LAW, and Solicitor in Clwncery. n3!)vls HriioHim, AVisronsin. mi. is. Ni.occin, ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW. Will attend t<> collections. Oenornl Insurance Agent. ■Cash will lie advanced on good paper and on Pro duce if desired. Kenosha, February 22, —ly36. VOIA’HY FREM'H, ATTORNEY A COUNSELLOR— La'r of Krno flu', HY*.; will visit most of tlio countries ol Kti •rupe during the'year 18.">5. Any professional or otinor rnusmesa left nt the Sentinel Office, Milwau kee, or with 11. F. SntoKK, Estp, Attorney and rut > Kenosha, will be promptly attended to. ' n33vl. r >lf tv, W. CIO V T. M. I>. lit OKKOPATII 1ST —Would respectfully tender his Professional • - vices in its various Itranrlies to the < 'iti/cns of Kenosha. and.its vicinity, t's/’'Office and residence on Mein st. nearly opposite City Ho- j t,! nlvlo. Kknosiia, Wis. j .8. .8. PETTIT, LAWYER *y Office, Kenosha Citt, Wis. Re-! V> - r.HOOK Fa H't, Seiners, ty Sr ; Viral Improved and Unimproved Farms for sale. : nl n 111. j KDITAHD 11. IS I I>l>, ENORAYER—On Wood and every kind of Metal. Main Sr Kenosha, Wu. OEOBQI W. DAY, SIIAYINO. IIAIR BATHING SALOON Mailer' Ft. 1 doom east of Main, Ke nosha, JIV«. tyilair Dyes, Restoratives, Perfu mery, and Shaving Soaps kept constantly on hand and for sale. iy Old Razors sharpened nnd re paired. lvrllvlo. 1.. 6. HEBBILL, INSURANCE--lie is agent for various companies, of undoubted eri'dit, nnd is prepaml to issue poli , i,.s on l. fe and Property, on favorable terms, jy See advertisements. .10*14 SJ fiON l>, ATTORNEY n‘ Law. ami Pension and Bounty Land A tuii. Is atjent also for several of the host eastern Insurance Companies. iySce advertisements. n3l>vls yl Jl HE A WADRBE, PAT NT HR S—llon«e, Sign, < arriage, and Ornamen tnl Painting and Paper Hanging. U??'\\ e otter our services to the people of Kenosha and vicinity. After a long practical experience in the eastern ci ties, we flatter ourselves that we can do anv job to order, nnd give entire satisfaction. fimnPl jy Shop on Market st. east of Main, Kenosha, Wis. Alß**. POMEBOY, FASHIONABLE DRESS MAKER—WouId re speetfully inform the Ladies of Kenosha nnd vi cinity, that she lias opened her rooms on Main si. Ac. 17, opposite A. Lewi.s' \ Son, where she intend' to carry on Ore** flaking in all its various brandies, in the most Fashionable and approved styles, 'ty*Fashions received monthly from Phi ladelphia, in diagrams and tissue form. Two or three Apprentices taken. Kenosha, May 24,1555. Gtnu49 .1. It. CHI I,PM, STOVES AND HARDWARE —Every variety of Stoves of good material nnd manufacture for sale. Tin. Sheet Iron, and Copper Manufactory. Cutle ry, Wire work, See. Ate. for sale. See advertise •iiieiits. 'Kenosha, No. 70, Main street. It INlill.h, < II 4 nnRHLIW, A («., AUCTION nnd Commission Merchants—Real estate and Produce Brokers, ami lodlers in Coal, QUARLES' BLOCK. Corner Mam and Fearl sts. opposite Darker House, Kenosha, Wisconsin. Insurance* effected on reasonable term*. Collections promptly mmlc, an 1 personal attention given to tlio »alo or purchase ot' property in thi* market, lyul MTAUKWRATIIKK A C'O. DR CCS, Moil chic*, < >il*. Pain:*. Perfumery, Fancy Articles, all kiwis of Patent Meiiicincs, and an ex cellent assortment of every article kept in estab lishment* of this character. Mii> Sr. Kesosha, Wis. i.v.tm a tor, ROOTS, Shot'*, Leather, Findings, &e. Every va rietv of every article pertaining to their bnsiucs* may be had of them at the lowest prices. Custom work to order. Leather for sale, nidi's bought, Ac. dec. Se>e advertisements. Kr.'osn \, \Vis. Main street. .tilts. N. HCItIBAKK, MILLINERY —Wishes to inform the Lnlu>* of Ke nosha ami snrmuudinsr country that she has ou hand anil is constantly receiving the latest styles of Hon m l*. [iibbons, nuil Milliincry (tnoils, Ocnerally, which she’will sell at reasonable prices. All kinds of Ronnets bleacht'd, pressetl, and put in order at short notice by a new, expeditious, and erratic improved method. Store Bonnets lined and trimmed at a fair price. 45 ts IIRI. t!r»FRC|OTT, BONNETS VXD MILLIXERY CsGODS—Ladies, call and see Mr*. McDermott's fresh supply of Mil linerv, just received from New York, comprising a large assortment of the richest Satins. Silks, Law ns. Tuscans. Straws, Neapolitan*. French Lace. Dunstable Fiats and Leghorn* of all shapes, si/.os, arid prices, from Is to $lO. Also an assort ment of Ribbons. Artificial Flowers. Mohair head <lrc*-es, I.ailie*' Cap*, t ientlemen's Neck Ties and Shirt Dollars, besides all other lixins belonging to the trade, too numerous to mention. Our Goods w« r. purchased for Cash, awl we are' determined to s- Uns cheap ns the cheopest. Strnw work blca rhe<l and altered K*.wosha, April 12, 1855 i lyvlSnoC. TRIBUNE AND TELEGRAPH. YOL 16. FREE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT. Necessity for Enlargement of School Room in Kenosha Every one who desires the permanent good of onr population and the general prosperity of the city, should look well to our educational interests. There is now a pressing necessity for an imme diate enlargement of school room accommodation in this city. In order that the friends of educa tion, in." v more fully understand the present con dition of things :.n respect to our schools, a few facts may be stated. The higher department of the school in the first ward, is now full; there is not a vacant seat to be occupied. The lower department in the same building, has more schol ars than can be well-accommodated —the room is uncomfortably crowded. The north ward school house, is full. The primary school under the charge of Mrs. Dodge, kept in the second story of engine house No. 2,has more than seventy chil dren, crowded into a space so small, as to great ly inconvenience the teacher and hazard the health of the scholars. Every available place therefore in the city, connected with the free school, is now fully occupied. It should be borne in mind that during the summer months, our schools here as well as else where, arc much smaller than during the fall and winter months. If now our school rooms arc uncomfortably filled, what may we reasonably expect to be the condition of affairs a few months hence. It is safe to calculate that at the com mencement of the fall term in September next, every seat in the higher department now under the immediate charge of Mr. McKindley, will be occupied. It is moreover equally certain, that as the fall term progresses, there will be from fif ty to seventy-five additional scholars, desiring admittance into that department. What then is to be done? How are these scholars to be provi ded for? These are questions, which it would be well for the friends of the school to consider, and to devise some plan to meet the coining exigency. The policy of having rooms in different parts of the city for the primary schools, should not be countenanced, except as a temporary expedient; its continuance for any length of time, is unwise and altogether wrong. Something permanent and adequate to the educational wants of the city, should without unnecessary delay be had. The friends of education in this city have hitherto evinced an interest and a liberality justly com mendable, and it is certainly to be hoped, that they will not now fall behind other towns and cities in this noble enterprise. Our neighboring city of Racine, is expending largely the present season for the increase of school accommodations; the people of that city seem resolved, that their public school facilities, shall not he excelled by any in the state. Other neighboring towns are ac tive in their educational enterprises; let us see to it, that Kenosha loses none of its well earned rep utation in this respect. [Composition read T>y Miss EAV. Dana, at tin close of the Winter Term of 1855.] What is Gone and what is Left. Another school term lias passed away and we have lived to write its epitaph on the sands of time. Ah! yes it is indeed so, lessons, lectures, sleigh-rides and parties all gone to the shades. Gone! there is no dictionary with the full defini tion of that word. It is written in onr hearts- We repeat it as we wearily leave the school room at night, gone, at the end of the week as we walk home school girl fashion laden with hooks; gone, every hour and half hour as we anxiously lift our eyes to the old school clock and see nothing but time passed and passing written on its face, gone. In our dreams as we see a finger trembling in the air and words of warning fill our ears of misspent time and hours of future regret. When do we not think it. It seems as though it were all gone, and none left. Oh! yes there is a little more left, a few more hours time to work out, a few more terms to plod through, a few more lectures to re ceive and I think it is all left, and none, gone. There is more left. The bright Future with all its hopes and fears is in reserve for us. Then “look not mournfully into the Past. It conies not hack again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.” Hope is ours, the luminary of the heart that sheds such a beautiful and holy light over all. “The boon of memory” is ours. Memory of the Past to shade the heart’s Passion flowers from the garish light of the present. Thoughts of the past and future. “Whence are they like the breath of flowers Thus to come and go, A long, tong journey must be ours Ere this we know.” The hearts that once beat warm are not all be neath the church-yard sod. A tom book or arm less doll sometimes peeps out at us from the half worn clothes of little Mary, and as gone, rises to our lips it is crushed back, for our heart still re tains her here. Our hearth not our heart circle is broken. But she is in the “land of Spirits” and Lizzie is left us, dearer than ever to all. Parents an- here. There is none gone it is all left. “There is a magical Isle up the river time Where the softest of airs an- playing, The name of this Isle is the Long-Ago And we bury our treasures there. “The winters are drifting like flakes of snow And the summers like bmls between, And the year is the sheaf, so they come and go, On the river’s breast with its ebb and flow, As it glides in the shadow and sheen. “There arc hands that wave when the fairy By the mirage is lifted in air, [shore And we sometimes here thro" the turbulent roar .Sweet voices we heard in the days gone before When the wind down the river is fair. Tiik Kit,ins of Schoolmasters ax» Pa rents. —A case of considerable interest was tried Indore Justice Ladd, at Cambridge, on Saturday. A citizen of Newton was complained of for an as sault upon a master of a school at that place. It appears that the master was in the habit as is now the general custom, of keeping the child of de fendant, with other children, after school hours, to loam her lessons, which had been imperfectly recited during school hours. The parent believ ii»g that the detention was illegal, went to the school house and demanded his child. This was after regular school hours. Ihe master said that the child should go as soon as she had recited tier lesson The parent attempted to enter the school room to take his child, but his entrance was resis ted bv the master, and the assault upon the mas ter was the result. The Court mled that the keeping of a child until the h*ssoii« of the day had been perfected, was legal: that the parent in at tempting to enter the school room, in opposition to the will of the mas er, was iu the wrong; that a child placed at school by the parents, is under the control of the master, untli regularly dismiss ed: and that the parent cannot withdraw the child from school during the day. against the mas ter's will, except through the intervention of an otfeer, and the school committee. The defendant was fined S3O and costa. —iJosWn Tritecfer. KENOSHA, WIB, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1855. | “Michigan Journal of Education.’' Ships of war and trained battallions, are not i the greatest conservators of our national safety. ; Fort Pontchartrain has been overwelmed by a mercantile city. Pontiac and Teeumseh arc with the Great Spirit—the Red Man’s trail is over grown with weeds, and the Schoolhousc and printing press are planted on liis deserted hunting grounds; for his most implacable enemy—civili zation—is at his heel, and has driven him across the Great River. Education is the antithesis of savngism, and is acknowledged to be the citadel of defence of our Republic; and we are glad to see so many eloquent advocates in its cause, spring ing up over our land. We welcome to our table the Michigan Journal oj Education, whose pages come to us laden with thoughts as pure and fresh as the wave-kissed winds that sweep the Peninsula. In the June No., we notice particularly, the articles —“Pro- gressive System of Education,” —“Letters to a Young Teacher,” —“Improved Text Books,” — “The Law of Success,” and many others of equal interest and importance. Its corps of editors con sists of half a dozen of the first teachers of the State, headed by Ira MayHEW, the well known writer on Popular Education. We advise all who wish to form a more extended acquaintance ship with “live teachers,” or to increase their own usefulness in the School Room, to procure this valuable journal. Terras, One dollar per an num, in advance. Address F. M. Gregory, Detroit. nr The present Term of the Kenosha Free School will close July 13th (Friday.) CENSOR S REPORT, For l!tr !>th Week of Ihe Term, Monday, June 18th.—Very cloudy and rainy, an unfavorable morning for punctuality at school —however, most of our number convened at the usual hour, happy to greet each other after the short separation, since Friday afternoon; with many good resolutions, that we make greater im provement during the present week, and strive to enter the Temple of Learning. Several tardy scholars—probably owing to the state of the at mosphere, that the hell could not be distinctly heard —some good excuse, of course, as most of them arc among the punctual ones. More vacant seats than we have noticed before this term. Mr. McKindley has not yet returned, we are under the judicious care of Mr. Lynch. The classes re cited with their usual promptness and attention. Too much noise with books and slates; some scholars were requested to take seats in the front part of the room, that they might be favored with more attention by their teacher. About half past eleven, Mr. McKindley made his appearance, ac cording to the expectations of teachers and schol ars. Afternoon. —The writing hour passed as us ual, singing while the hooks were being distrib uted. The Grammar and other classes, recited very well. Mr. Dye called, and gave notice that lie intended to have a singing school at Kenosha. No report taken of communications and tardiness to the pleasure of those who would have come un der that list. The names of the absent ones were read, and it was thought host to look them up. Tuesday .—We would not have had any tar diness this morning, if one of onr scholars had not placed too imieh dependence upon an old dock, which seems almost useless, when we are so well reminded of the approaching hour of school, by the mellow tones of the “Free School Bell." Most of those who were absent yesterday are pres ent this morning. Some of the members of the Arithmetic class in fractions, were troubled to give the Statements, Solutions, A c., in theirprop er order, but after some explanations by then teacher, and several trials by themselves, they were finally successful. The other recitations were very good. Mr. Stone came up and illus trated the fact, that we may find music, as well as '‘■Sermons m stones,” as Shakespeare has it, by closing our morning session with pleasant songs. Afternoon. —Most of the first and part of the second Grammar classes, did not recite as well as usual, and were requested to remain after school to perfect themselves on some of the mistermed Paragraphs. At the close of the school, Mr. Mc- Kindley gave us some items concerning the schools he had visited during his absence. The cities be mentioned may be in advance of Keno sha, in some respects, but we think our School would rank first among the well-regulated and disciplined; we do not speak boastiugly, for we know ours might be improved, as we hope it is from week to week. Very few reports for com-1 munication*. We are sorry to say that, general ly, the number of whom others report, exceeds those who report of themselves. This is an in dex to a sad chapter in the book of a scholar’s life, who would communicate and not report of it, J but we can expect nothing more where human j nature is represented in so many different phases i as we find in the school-room. \Y e almost won- | der there is no more dishonesty among such a ' number. Wednesday.—lt is a lovely June morning, when the scholar thinks the duties of the school room will be dull, and the hours pass wearily, compared with the pleasures of rambling amidst the beauties of nature. But as we assemble in the school-room, all look as bright and cheerful i as the morning. The Algebra class met with some difficulty, which, after repeated trials, was ■ overcome. Perseverance and industry almost al wavs conquer the obstacles which arise in the path of the scholar. Before singing, the correct ed compositions were returned to their writers — those that were read last week requested to lx' brought—Censor for the week appointed. Afternoon. —Some of the members of the first Grammar class annoyed us very much, by speaking too low and indistinct —they received some advice, sufficient to strengthen their mem-, orv against a repetition of this great fault. There must be some local cause for this low tone of j voice, as our teacher thinks he hears as readily as most persons: as oue of the scholars in the Lat in class had to be reminded that she could not be understood, we sincerely hope this may not occur again. Very little communication to-day. j Thursday.—Rainy morning—three or tour tally ones again. Tiie scholar who is always a little too late, will not be punctual when he comes to act upon the stage of life. A good deal of noise when the bell rang to lay aside books, for which we suffered the penalty of being deprived of re- j cess, that time for a chat with our schoolmates. The Algebra class did not recite. Afternoon. —Writing hour was quiet, and attention was paid to this important part of school education. Our frequent visitor, Mr. Lynch, was . in this afternoon a short time. We also had the, rare pleasure of receiving a visit from two ladies, one of whom was from Chicago. Srangers, at least, have some curiosity to call on us, if our friends have not. We notice a call from a gen tleman. Some communication—it seems that cannot lie done away with entirely. We were kindly informed, that to-morrow will be Friday. How the mere name of that morning brings to mind the unpleasant thought that a composition must be forthcoming. After singing‘Good Night,’ we parted—some with sad thoughts of the mor row. Friday. —We are happy to say there was no tardiness this morning, llow much pleasanter it would he, if wc could assemble every day with out the interruption of scholars coming in after the exercises have commenced. The composi | tions collected —a few of the scholars seem to pre fer writing at noon, with a sumptuous dinner of I of crackers and water. The delinquent ones must : expect to derive a great deal of intellectual pow jer from this diet. A great deal of noise; perhaps | this being the last school-day of the week, many are impatient for the hoars to pass, and they have their anticipated pleasures. The recitations were very good. Afternoon. —The first half hour was spent in writing. The first grammar class recited very well; quite a lengthy lesson, as it concluded at the last paragraph. Three or four absent from the second Grammar class. We are generally more favored with visitors, Friday after noon, than any other day in the week. We are happy to sec company at any time. Their pres ence makes us feel that wo still hold a place iu their memory. We are quite favored this after noon. After recess, the class in Proportion re-, cited; then we listened to compositions and dec lamations. At the close, Rev. Mr. Chapin kind ly addressed us a short time. We are glad to have Friday evening come, and feel that another j week has passed in storing the mind with useful! knowledge; and who has not some expected eu- ' joyment for the happy Saturday ? And while we thus enjoy the last day of the week, may we re member that each Friday evening brings us near er the time when days and weeks are numbered no more. M. B. McClellan. MI SOI) IJLAXEOUS. Tho Saut Canal. The Detroit Free Press, contains an account of the successful passage of the steamer Illinois and the Baltimore through the S?aut Ste Marie Canal. From it we take the following. “The steamer Illinois entered the canal at about 11 o'clock, A. M., on Monday, and passed all the locks to the caisson gate without difficulty. Here she was detained until II o’clock, P. M. This gate had never been moved, and it required the united exertions of the Illinois pushing on the lower side, and the Baltimore pulling on the up per side, to move it. After the Illinois had got through, the Baltimore immediately entered, and made the passage in two hours, without the least detention. Considering that she came through in the night, the passage was a remarkably quick one. The next day the propeller Gen. Taylor, and the schooner Fannie and Floy, both loaded, passed through in one and a half hours. The ll passed on up to Ontonagon, whence she will return. On the north bank of the canal, just above the second lock, the water was showing itself thro' pretty freely, and it was deemed advisable to put in the Caisson gate and draw off" the water, so as to give the banks a chance to settle. Superin tendent Burt thought however, that lie should have no difficulty in passing vessels as fast as they arrive. From the little use already had of the canal, Mr. Whiting thinks that a guard gate will have to be put in at its head. Determined to Make it Pleasant. —The Toronto Colonist says the steamer‘Lsdy Elgin,' which arrived at Collingwood, front Chicago, on Friday evening, brought 83 passengers and 333 tons of freight. Being a little too late for the train, and having brought so large a number of passengers, C'apt. Chamberlain s-nt an invitation to Barrie by telegraph fora Ball. There were in consequence met together,from Chicago, Colling wood, Barrie, Toronto, and perhaps Boston and New Yoik, tlms who a few hours before were hun dreds of miles apart. At this place wlu-re, little more than a year ago, nothing but the lake and forest were to be seen, were assembled in a beau tifully arranged and elegant room, handsome and well dressed ladies, accompanied by gentlemen tit partners for the fair, with music and nil theet eeteras required for such an assemblage. This j had more the appearance of an Arabian N’gbt’s ; entertainment than the sober reality. The dance was kept up with spirit until the next morning, all being delighted with the Boat, the Captain and Band, for the evening’s enjoyment. Louisiana, from Collingwood, brought in, Friday last, 87 Belgian emigrants, who are ! making their homes in this vicinity, generally j near Bay .Settlements. A party of about forty emigrants, who, we un derstand, belonged with those who came by the Collingwood route, but separated from them at; Buffalo and came by way of Chicago, reached | here on Sunday morning. At Milwaukee, somo scamp had agreed to bring them to Green Bay, and rigged up a crazy old schooner for the pur pose. and landed them at Menomonee, having first secured their passage money. From Menom onee, they managed to get here with a sail boat. If the report of this shameless mistreatment prove true, the perpetrator should be at once punished for it. —Green Boy Advocate. The Culture of Strawberries. The New York Horticultural Society, at a re cent conversational meeting, arrived at the fol lowing conclusions in regard to the best method of cultivating strawberries; “The best soil for the strawberry was stated to be a gravelly loam. The land should be well drained, arid to every acre applied twenty bush els of unleached ashes, ten bushels of lime, and two or three pounds of salt. The ground should lie well broken up; and animal manures should be carefully spaded in. About the first ot July is the best time to set out the plants. In doing this, pains should be taken to have them firmly rooted. The roots should be eighteen inches apart and the plants a foot apart. Sometimes it will be well to allow greater in terval, in which case the interstices can be filled up from the growth of the runners. Alter set ting out the plants, an inch or an inch and a half in depth, then water them plentifully, and the moisture will lie retained a long time. After cold weather comes on, cover the strawberry beds and the walks with clean straw, throwing over a lit tle brush, or something to keep the straw in its place. In the spring remove the straw and make use of some fertilizing agent to give the plants vigor, as sulphate of soda, sulphate of ammonia, or nitrate of potash. Keep the roots out, see that the plants are bountifully watered, and let noth ing intervene to disturb or retard their growth till a'ou gather the fruit. The beds should be made over as often as every three years.” Michigan Southern and Northern In diana Road has declared a cash dividend of live per cent, ont of the enrainr? of the last six months parable on the 10th of July inst., leaving a sur plus of some two per cent. The books were closed on the 3Jth ult., and will be opened on tho 10th inst. A good idea. —The Mayor of Boston has pro cured a number of red and gray squirrels from Vermont, and let them loose upon the trees on the Common. From the Mississippi Journal. A frightful Snake story. The following incident was related to us the other day by one whose Y’eracity is un questioned, and who was an eye-witness of the tact. It is more appalling than any we recollect to have read in the history of these reptiles: Some time last summer the inhabitants of Manchester, Mississippi, gave a barba- I cue, which was attended by most of the fashion and beauty ot the town and sur roundingcountry. Ithappened thatamong the guests there was a young lady, Miss. M., recently from one of the eastern cities, who was on a visit to her relations in the ; neighborhood of the town. « Miss. M. was a gay and extremely sash . ionable young lady, and withal possessed , an uncommon share of spirit and courage, ; except in the matter of snakes, and of .those j she had so great a dread that she scarcely dared to walk anywhere, except in the most Irequented places, for fear of encountering them. Every effort was used, but without j avail, to rid her of her childish fears. They haunted her continually, until at last it be came the settled conviction of her mind that she was destined to fall a victim to the fangs of a rattlesnake. The sequel will show how soon her terrible presentiment was fulfilled. Towards the cioscof the day, while scores of the fairy feet were keeping time in the dance to the music, and the whole compa ny were in the full tide of enjoyment, a scream was heard f| om Miss M.. followed by the most agonizing cry for help. The crowd gathered around her intensely, and beheld her standing, the perfect image of despair, with her hands grasping a portion of her dress with all the tenacity of a vice. It was sometime before she could be rende red sufficiently calm to tell the cause of her alarm; and then they gathered from her broken exclamation that she Yvas grasping the head of a snake among the folds of her dress, and feared to let go her hold for fear of receiving the fatal blow. This intelli gence caused many to shrink from her, but most of the ladies, for their honor be it told, determined not to leave her in her extrem itv. They besought Iter not to loose her hold, as safety depended on it, until some one could he found with courage to remove the dreadful animal. There were none of the ladies however to perform the act, and the situation of Miss M. was becoming more and more critical every moment. It was evident that her strength was failing fast, and that she could not maintain her hold many minutes longer. A hasty consultation among the calmest of the ladies was held, when it was deter mined that Dr. Tison, who was present, should be called to their assistance. He was quickly on the spot, and being a man of uncommon courage, he was not many minutes within the circle of weeping and half-fainting females, until lie caught the tail of the snake and wound it round liis hand to make sure of his hold. He then told Miss M. that she must let go at the momenthe jerked it away; and to make the act as instantaneous as possible, he would pronounce the words one, two, three, nnd at the moment lie. pronounced the last word, she must let go her hold, and lie doubted not lie could withdraw the snake before it would have time to strike. All stood in breathless horror, awaiting the act of life or death; and at the moment the word three was pronounced, the doctor jerked out Ihe largest and most diabolical looking hustle that was ever seen in Mississippi. — The whole affair was then explained. The fastenings of the machine had become loose during dancing, and it had shifted its posi tion in such a way that it dangled about the ladv’s limbs, and induced the belief that it was a snake with an enormous head. The doctot fell right down in liis tracks, and fainted—he did. A Law Incident. —At the last term of our Circuit Court, three men were indicted for burglary—committed in breaking into the gun shop of R. Holmes, of the town of Del afield in this county. Two of them plead “guilty” at the time, nnd were sent to Wau ptin for a term of years; the other applied for a change of venue to Walworth Co., which was allowed. At the late term of the Circuit Court, our District Attorney with a number of witnesses, repaired to that County for the purpose of prosecuting the prisoner, who had engaged as counsel, the Hon. David Noggleof Janesville. The coun sel for the defendant in examining the in-, dictment. discovered that according to that instrument, the offence with which his cli ent was charged, was committed 800 years ago, and accordingly moved to discharge the prisoner on the ground that the matter was out!.* wed; dc the prisoner was discharg ed. All three of these being held under the same indictment,thequeslion nowis, wheth er it is proper to detain the other two in the State Prison on their own confession that they committed a crime, which the indict ment shows to have been committed about 775 years before they were horn.— IVauic s/ta Democrat. Iu this mammon-worshiping Age.it is rare to find a man place his usefulness to the public,before liis interest. During a late visit to the 'City of Spindles, we were pre sented by a professional friend, to the cel ebrated Chemist, Da. J. C. Ayer, whose name is now perhaps, more familiar than any other’s at the bed side of sickness, in this country. Knowing the unprecedented popularity of his medicines, and the im mense sale of them, we had expected to find him amiilionare.and rolling in wealth. But no, we found him in liis laboratory, busy with his laborers,among liis crucibles. State Agricultural School in Michi gan.—There is now in the treasury 517,- 597 devoted to the establishment of this in stitution, and when the swamp lands, set apart by the Constitutions for this pnrpose are disposed of, the amount will be about #60,000. The Executive Committee of the State Agricultural Society met at Lansing yesterday for the purpose of se lecting a site for the institution. Practical Counsel. —Amos Lawrence, of Boston, in his “Diary and Correspon dence,” gives the following characteristic counsel: “At the commencement of your journey, the difference between going just right or a little wrong, will be the difference be tween finding yourself in good quarters or in a miserable bog or slough at the end of di. Do not cheat yourself by doing what you suspect may be wrong.* You are as much accountable to your Maker for an en lightened exercise of your conscience, as you would be to me to use due diligence in taking care of a bag of money which I might send by you.” “Good principles, good manners will carry a man through the world much better than he can get along with the absence of either. The most important is good principles.” “Tempta tion if successfully resisted strengt hens the character; butitshouhlal ways be avoided.” 1 he moral taste, like the natural, is vitiated by abuse.” “lie whose life ends at thirty may have’done much, while he yvlio has reached the age of one hundred may have done little. ’ “Bring heme no foreign fan cies which arc inapplicable to our state of society.” Newspaper Poetry. —Perhaps it is be traying a secret of the sanctum, “says the Evening Journal,” but we cannot help won dering why most of anonymous effusions that sigh over reminiscences of “boyhood’* come to u* in dedieato female handwriting? And why those which purport to be indited by unhappy maidens are invariably in mas culine chirograph}-? If manuscripts were published as well as sentiments, readers would be astonished to see with what a steady hand, “Thoughts of a Dying Old Man” nre penned; and how little knowl edge, ‘critics of the sublime sometimes evince, of Webster’s spelling book. Ro mances of foreign lands generally come from people who have never seen salt wa ter, and stories of Humble life from those who would be shocked at an iron spoon. Everybody thinks there is poetry in every body’s life but his own. If people only wrote about what they know, and not about what they imagined, what tons of trash this world would have been spared from reading.” Liquor in Barry County Michigan.— The Pioneer says the first trial uuder the Liquor Law came off in that village week before last. It appeared by the evidence that a grocery keeper, since the law went into operation had been in the habit of let ting his customers into a hack apartment, where they occasionally stole a little of the "critter" which he kept there for liis own ; use: A poor honest mechanic, quite early j in the morning, concluded to try his hand j at the game, anti was caught; not by the | grocery man, (for he was able to prove [ that he was not in the house at the time,) hut by liis wife, who very deliberately took the glass from his hand, just as he was putting ii to his lips, and took a bumper with him. She straightway entered acorn plaint before a Justice of the Peace, who issued a process for tho dealer, who was tried by an intelligent Court and Jury, nnd found guilty and lined as the law directs. The Jury had no trouble in regard to differ ence of opinion, and were not to exceed three minutes in agreeing upon their ver dict. Curious Typographical Error.—Pro fesser Trench, in his latest work on the Eng lish language, points out in the 30th verse of the 23d chapter of Matthew, The words, “which strain ot a gnat and swallow a camel,” the professor thinks contain a misprint, which having been passed over in the edition of 1611, has held its ground ever since. The translators intended to say, “which strain out a gnat and swallow a camel,” that being correct rendering of the original, as appears in Tyndale’s and Cranmer’s translations, both of which have “strain out ” It was the custom of the stricter Jews to strain their n ine, vinegar, and other potables through linen or gauze, less, unawares, they should drink "down some little unclean insect, as a gnat, and thus transgress the Levitical law. It was tothis custom thcSaviouralluded,intending to say that the Scribes and Pharisees, while they strain out a gnat from their drink, would yet swallow a camel at a gulp. The allied commanders in the Crimea improve every occasion to compliment each oilier, but the best feeling does not exist among the common soldiers. The French throw the blame of past failures upon Eng lish inertness, while the English with more justice ascribe them to ti e incompetency of Canrobcrt nnd Raglan. The feeling be tween the English and Sardinians is deci dedly bitter. Russel, the correspondent of the London Times, started the joke that Piedmontese were “Sardinescased in Eng lish tin.” Tho whole army took it up, and the proud and fiery Italians were exceed ingly enraged. They felt a great deal more inclined to fight the English than the Russians. And now for the grand result—what does the earth weigh? Well, Mr. Bailly, after allowing for a small probable error, says the density of the earth is five and one half times greater than that of water, being about half “as heavy as lead,” if you want the weight set forth in tons avoirdu pois, you have the following pretty row of figu res— 1,256.195, G 70,000,000,000,000, - 000 tons weight; or, in words one quadril lion, two hundred and fifty six thousand, one hundred and ninety five trillions, six hundred and seventy thousand billion tons avoitdupois ! And now, good reader, are you any wi ser than you were before? We trow not, for the figures are beyond the power of hu man conception. They roust stand in all their nakedness —an arithmetical marvel. In the words of Chamber’s Journal, from which we have condensed these facts, “al ter weighing the earth wo cannot realize the enormity of its weight, and yet the earth itself is" but an atom in the universe.” —Portland Transcript. Bates of Attrertlsiag. One aqsaro, (transient) first insert ion-... $1 ©0 _ , Subsequent inser. 35 One sqnare, three months, ..3 00 Oue square, six months, 5 00 One square, ono year, ".".".*."".8 00 One-fourth of a column, three months.. .’5 00 Oue-fourth of n column, six mouths, 8 09 Oue-fourthof a column,one year...... .. 15 00 One half column, three months, 8 00 One-half column, six months, i. r > 00 One-half coluum one year 25 00 A whole column one your 5o 00 uy The Tribune a- Tr.Lr.Gß*rn, prints ami cir culates over twelve hundred copies per week, four fifths of which nre iu Konoshn county, which makes it a very desirable medium for advertisin';. NO 3. Arrival of the Baltic. New York, June 28. The mail steamer Baltic, from Liverpool !on the 16th inst., has nrrived. She brings ■ dates of European news, one week later than j the Asia. The new steamer Arago arrived out on the 15lh. The news is quite impor | tant, both as confirming the latest account* i received by the Asia, and announcing still further success by the allies. The combat before the Mamelon tower was of a very obstinate and sanguinary character. It is announced that SUOO were put hors du com* bat. An important element of victory to the allies is that the French from their new po sition can reach the fleet in the harbor of Sebastopol. Additional important success es are therefore confidently looked for. In the sea of Azoff the allied fleet attack ed and destroyed the stores at Taganaog, the great elitre-pot of the Don and Volga. A boat expedition is lilting out at Ports mouth to be conveyed to shallow water— destination supposed to be P*. “kop. The Russians have evacuated Anapa, and the French troops have been recalled from Kertsch. The Russians are about to build a R. R» through the Isthmus of Perekop. The Viceroy of Egypt is enrolling 5000 blacks in Soudan. It is stated that the Austrian army vill be reduced to 100,000 men. Accounts from Sebastopol represent the garrison as wasting by disease, and despond* ing, and privnte advijes from Kertsch giro fearful statements of sickness and ruffering among the Russians. The Russians have secured a communi cation with the Crimea by means of n line of boats. It is stated that the Russians have evac uated all their Circassian territory. Stackhan, Paul it Co., and Ilalford it Co., of London have failed; the former for half a million sterling. President Fillmore is quite a lion. ll* was presented to the Queen. Parliament was discussing the decimal* currency question. Many reform meetings had been held. France. —lt is officially announced that the Empress is enceinte. St. Petersburg!!.— The Grand Duke Constantine has been appointed regent of Russia in the event of Alexander’s death. Spain. —The Carlist insurrection was un checked. Liverpool Market, June 10.—Cotton closed at unchanged prices nnd dull. Sales' of the week 30,800 bales. Speculators took 14,000 middling at 6}. Indian corn de clined is. Flour and wheat also declined- Provisions quiet. Consols 91£. OMlrlnl Despatches from I’i tlsslrr. Before Sebastopol, June 7—6.30 P. M. —“Our signals were given and at an hour afterwards our flags floated over the M'tim elon post, and two redoubts of the bay.— The artillery of the enemy fell into our hands. We have taken 400 prisoners. Our legions occupy the confined works on this side.— Our allies with great resolution, carried the works in the quarry, and established them selves there. All the troops showed the most admirable courage and interpidity.” June 10. The combntof June 7th was more advan tageous to us than first announced. It placed l in our hands 502 prisoners, of which num ber 20 are officers, nnd 73 pieces of cannon." « June 11. We have been able to fire on the Russian ships with their own mortars. uortschakoff confirms the intelligence in the main, in a despatch to St. Petersburg h Additional by the Baltic. Accounts from Varna mention the rumor that propositions for tin expedition against Perekop were being made. Prince Gortscliakoff telegraphs to St. Pc tersburghon the afternoon of June Bth thus: The British Admiralty make public the following: Capt. Lyons of the Miranda nnd Capt. Lydoya report that the naval operation against Paganrog, Mauopolis and Gltruk, which took place on the 3d, sth and 6th of June have perfectly successful. The public buildings, among which are govern ment magazines of provisions were burned. Theoperations we conducted with vigor and rapidity, the allies having only one man wounded,although opposed by 350 soldiers at Paganrog. Miss Nightengale is on her way to En gland. She is convalescent from the attack of fever, but was recommended to recruit her strength at home for a season. June B.—The English fleet, consisting of 16 line-of-battle ships, including 3 French, was anchored at Cronstadt, and forming a line from shore to shore. Admiral Dundatf had got in very close with the surveying steamer, and afterwards with a boat,* but was not molested by the Russians. Admiral Bucynesanchoredin a great belt on the 12th inst. The first meeting of the Administrative? Reform Association, a new organization on' t'..e plan of the anti-corn law league was held in Drury Lane Theatre on the 13th. Quite a large number of members of Par liament assisted. Some calls being made for Sir Charles Napier, that officer present ed himself and was heartily received. The King of Sardinia is about to proceed to London, to negotiate tor the hand of tho English Princess Royal. An attempt to assassinate Cardinal A ni sei failed. The assassin was arrested." JtiyTlie National Democratic Stale coiri mittce of New York have appointed Wedites day, the sth of September, as the time, and Syracuse as the place, for holding a Statu Convention for the purpose of nominating a ticket for State Officers. A man advertises fqr “comp'Sten! persons to undertake the saleof a flew modi ieine.” and adds that “it will he profitable for the undertaker.” ‘lt is with narrow-son led people,’ says Swift, as it is with narrow-necked bot tles, the less they have in them th* more noise they make in pouring it oat.’