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SONS OF TEMPER A
V KETS every Monday evening at their
,1V
1 Hall on Main street, at 6J o'clock,
I'. M. liretliren of oilier Divisions, who
are in Rood standing are invited to alleud,
JOHN MYERS, Jr., W. P.
A Mi dge, R. S.
II. B. 81SSON,
E N I S
IT
AV1NG permanently located in this
place offers his services to tin* citi
ws of town and icinity. All work war
#^i.jntt'il. Ladies waited ou at their resi
dences if desired. 'IVeth inserted from one
lo an ntire set, either by means of springs
jur atmospheric pressure. Ileuaay be found
«t the -'Union
jtii each mouth.
live, i 0th, t)J
lotel,"on the 1st Monday
MEDICAL NOTICE.
A. U. WOOD. A. HAWKINS.
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E would respectfully inform the
Y Y inhabitants of Oitumwa and vi~
l-iniiy that Wood and Hawkins have
formed a copartnership in the practice of
Medicine and Surgery, and are prepared says:
in the line of theif
to attend a'l calls
profession.
Punctual attendance
charges.
reasonab
One or both may b* found at their
ortice. oi at their residences when n#i
absent on business. I)j. Iluwkin's reSi
iler.ee—three doors west of the Counh
Treasurer's office on Main Street. ll*
WOOD& HAWKINS.
November 24ih 1853
Henry B. Ilciidrrishott,
i O 11 S E A V A ft
ORRUMWA, IOWA.
TT7 ILL attend to business in the Court
VT of all the counties iu
Appanoose,
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if
Souther^
1 'owa, and in the Supreme Court at lowa^
Persons wishing to purchase or root
land or town property are informed tliat
March, 16th, 1854—ly.
ifiio. D. DEVIOT. Mi. B.
ha has the agency and management of [miserable eierually, as welLAfc&t Ui&
nuch good property both in Town a*d present.
Couutry.
J. Sl J. Devin, f*
A O N E Y S A A v
OTTUMWA, IOWA.
WILL
practice in the Courts of
ello, Jefferson. Van Buren,
Monroe, Lucas, Marionj
Matxaska.
Having the advantage of a long resid
in the valley they will give particul*
tention to Securing and collecting C||
J'Fale of Warrants, Entries of lor
time, buying and SellingReal Estatt
tltment of Titles, payment of Taxt
February 16th 185-1.
Botanic Phyticiai
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ri^ENDERS his services to cit
_L Oitumwa and viciuitv. Of
door north of the Reco^t|.pfii|
street, Oitumwa, Iowa. s
March 3d, 1853—tf. •,
J. L. *AYLOH. WlflLVMNON.
Taylor fc Williami
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tO-tARTNERS in the practi
icinc. Oftice and Residea^
•tstrget.
F^ottumwra, Jan. 5th, '54.
si Med
ou 2nd
MC'CLINTICK. J. AM E BON.
HE undersigned having fc
partnership for the pmel
cine and Surgery, tender their]
M:rvices to tnc citizens of
vicinity. Office adjoining tl
Dr. McClintick, where they
J/||at all times unless absent oi
Pfehlouega, Dec. 15th, 'bt
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Tessional
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be found
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U I O N
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to tnakini
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lit any timer for a re
of personal
at auction
pensation.
less absent
reasonably
He may be found inQttumwi?
on business May I/'
Lb51.
^OHN BUEHS w, C. BUiTCKH.
BURIVfl 3c RE!VT(iEJ\'
COMMISSION IL FORWARDING
Merchants,
J)cal4r* irt Groceries, Boat Store*, and
4»6th,1851,yy
Product,
Uwa.
Vamishoi.
Ol*AL, Coach, Japan, and Letther
Varaishes, for tale by W ORR.
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ETICAL.
following lines addressed to
Lady Bjfun, were considered by Sir Wal
ter Scoft^s the best production of Loxd
Byron'l cn:
There Ii i mystic thread of life,
So dearly wreathed with mine alone,
That fe?tiuy's relentless knife
At |rce must sever both or none. &A
There 1? a form on which these eyes
Hate often gazed with iond delight,
By day that form their joy supplies,
Anfi dreatat restore it through the night.
There is a voice whose tones inspire
SuC1 thrills of rapture thro' my breast,
I wii not hear a seraph choir,
Ualess that voice could join the rest.
Thefc is a face whose blushis teli
AH •ction's tale upon the cheats
But iillid at one fond farewell,"•
laims mote lore than words can
epeak.
is a lip which mine hath pressed,
id none hath ever pressed before—
wed to make me sweetly blest,
nd mine—mine only pressed it more.
re is a bosom—all my own—
i ilath pillowed oft this aching head
nouth, which smiles on me alone.
An eye, whose tears with mine are shed.
I ere ore two hearts, whoa* movements
thrill
In unison so closely sweet,
lat pulse to pulse, responsive still.
That both must heave—or cease to beat.
'here are two souls, whose equal flow!
In gentle streams so calmly run,
That when they part—they part?—ah! no!
tVy cannot part—the souls are one!
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A Forcible Argument.
tMfi Lathrop in one of his sermons,
if it were true that there fe w God,
what evidence can the atheist have tliat,
he shall not live and be miserable after
death? How came he to live at all?—
Whatever was the cause of his exis
tence here, may be the cause of his ex
istence hereafter. Or if there be no
auee he may exist in another stale as
well as this? And if his corrupt heart
I'd alromiuable works make him so un
I ppy here, that he would rather be an
i htlaled than rur the hazard of a fu
i re existence—what hinders but he
nay be unhappy forever? The man
ten is a fofel who wishes there was no
•od, hoping thus to be secure from fu
ure misery for admitting there is no
j!od, still he may exist, hereafter as
^ell as here, and if he does exist, his
corruptions and vices may render him
THE LADIES AT WORK.—Young la
dies miss a figure, when they blush and
make a dozen apologies to their nnle
acqaintancee, who happen to find them
at the tub, with a check apron on, ar.d
their sleeves rolled up. Real men—
men ot ster'ing principle—are always
pleased to see their female acquaintance
at work. Then, young ladies, never
blush—never apologize, if found in
your homely attire, stirring cotfee, wash
ing ihe hearth, or rinsing the clothes.—
It should be your pride and glory to la
bor for industrious habits are certainly
ihe best recommendation you can bring
to worthy young men who are seeking
wives. Those wlio would sneer at
these habits, you msy depend upon it,
will make poor companions, for they
are miserable fools and consumate block
heads.
CALIFORNIA OR CLKAR LAKE.—Lake
Bigler, described by the Placerville Her
ald, is certainly one of the curiosities of
California, it lies at a great elevation,
between two distinct ridges of the Sier
ra Nevada. It is at least fitly mile*
long, with an average width of from ten
to twenty miles, and is of great depth.
It never freezes, though surrounded a
great part ot ihe year by snow. It a
bounds with fish of several varieties, a
mong which the speckled trout, many
ot large size, and the salmon—real sal
mon—predominate. So clear are its
waters, that a stone or oiher object can
be distinguished at ihe bottom, thirty or
forty feel. About midway between the
two extremes ot the lake on the eastern
side, is a singular overarched chasm in
the wall of rocks, that leads lo unknown
caverns and 'dark recesses, said by the
Indiana lo be 'he abode of spirits.
E7* Fenelon, who had often teased
Richelieu (and ineffectually it seems,)
for charitable undertakings, was one day
telling him that he had just seen his
picture. "And did you ask ilfor a sub
crip lion?" said Richelieu, sneeringly.—
"No I taw there waa no chance," re
plied the other, "it was to like you."
tW Boys are like vinegar—the more
"mother" there it i% then, the sharper
they become.
A BLOODY PROSPECT.—The London
Time predicts that the present Eastern
war will eontioue for twenty-five years.
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ltoinaiice of u otil Field.
The following singular circumstance
happened a few years ngo in Parr, about
13 miles from Liverpool, where there
are several extensive colleries. It will
tend to show ihe immense value of coal
mines which lie under a small superficial
extent of land:
An elderly widow lady sold to a gen
tleman some property in Parr, consisting
of a house anil about thirty acres of land,
for £3,UOO. The old lady thought there
must be coals under the land, as there
was co much in ihe neighborhood but
tl was the decided opinion among coal
proprietors, and others conversant with
coal mines, thai there were no coals on
ihe properly. The seller of ihe prop
erty, however, insisted that the coals
should be reserved unless the purchaser
would give her JCIOO for them. This he
reluseii doing, and ihe coals were accord
ingly excepted from his purchase and
reserved to her. The old lady died soon
after, bequeathing the coal mines among
the children of a deceased sister, seven
in uumber, who were all labnreis, and
the residue of her property, worth about
.£3,00(1, to the children of another sis
ter. The bequesi ot the coal mines was
considered a nominal thing, and led to
dissensions in the two families on ac
count ot it. The coal legatees brooded
lora length of time over their disappoint
ment, in not sharing their aunt's property
with their cousins,- but at length they
contrived to induce some persons, who
were supposed to have more money than
wit, to undertake the expense of boring
on the land to ascertain whether there
were coals or not. The boring contin
ued tor considerable time, to the great
amusement of persons connected with
colleries but at last, to their great aston
ishment, the chngrin of the purchaser,
and the unbounded delight of the legates,
two delfs of the best coal in Lancashire
were discovered extending nearly the
whole breadth of the land, and which
could be easily worked. These coals
were immediately purchased by the pro
prietors of a neighboring colliery for the
sum of j£20,000. On subsequent bor
ings, three lower delfs were found, which
the same parlies purchased for j£15,000.
—JSJining Journal.
^She Extent of the Country.
Something of the extent of the coun
try may be conceived from the fact that
while in one bection of it the weather is
extremely dry, and crops and vegetation
of all kinds sutler for want of rain, in
another portion it is extremely wet and
farmers are considerably delayed in sow
ing and plowing their crops, and in an
other it is just seasonable enough, nei
ther loo dry nor too net, but a happy
admixture of ain and sunshine pre
vails.
In one latitude, while the snows of
winter still mantle the earth, in another
iheground is carpeted with living green
while in one the trees are leatless as in
midwinter, in another they are clothed
with vei'dant foiiage. In one portion of
the land while the inhabitants are luxu
riating in all the delicacies of the field
and garden, in another they have such
things only in the distant prospect. In
one region ihe towering mountain, reach
ing for hundreds of miles, rears to heav
en its lofty summit, iu another ihe bound
less prairie spreads far away in the dis
tance. Truly thai must be a vast ex
tent of country in which can exist ai the
same period of lime'such a diversity of
climate, soil, productions, and, indeed,
everything that meets the eye or attrscls
ihe attention of the traveler.
A single one of the thirty-one States
of our confederacy is an empire within
itself. What, then, must be ihe extent
and character when we organize a por
tion of the land under a territorial gov
ernment as large as a dozen of ihese
Slates. When we casta forward glance
a century hence what a spectacle looms
up in the future. Perhaps double the
number of States, or il may be treble the
number of States that uow compose the
Union will then be waved over by the
flag bearing the star* and stripes.—But.
TeL
*The Schoonmaker Case.
The trial of Corsline, accused of at
tempting to kill Maria Schoonmaker, a
mulatto, by throwing her from the rocks
at Paltz Point, near the Traps, hat re
sulted in a disagreement of the jury—
eleven for ihe one against conviction.—
The woman was the paramour of the
accused, and she was ihe chief witness
against him.
She testified lhat on a Sunday in A
pril, 1853, Goisline requested her to take
a walk with him and his wife on the top
of itie mountain to look off the rock
lhat after reaching the top, he approach
ed the eiige of the rocks and requested
her to come and see a ground-hog, play
ing below in the bushes. She assented
to do so, and while in the act of lookiug
over, he, wilh both hands, pushed her off
headlong. Th? following Tuesday a
Mr. Vanderlyn found her about half a
mile from the rocks, to where she had
crawled by the aid of slicks—so serious
ly injured her life was despaired of.—
She stated lhat Uorsline hud pushed her
off the rocks the Sunday previous, and
Mr. V. going to the place she described,
found she had fallen a distance of 230
feel in the top of a small birch tree,
which had grown from a crevice in the
rocks, and which, by the force of the
fall, had been bent to the ground, and
found blood cleaving to the leaves and
limbs of the trees.—[Albany Atlas.
KP*See news from the Turkish war.
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DEVOTED TO POLITICS, GENERAL NEWS, LITERATURE, AGRICULTDRE, MECHANICS, EDUCATION, MARKETS, &C.
OTTUMWA, IOWA, THURSDAY, JUNE I, 1854.
Tli« Nittgiirii Falls Hydraulic
Canal.
Since the commencement of this
work, about a year ago, it has progress
ed steadily,* and as rapidly as an econ
omical pUn of operations would 6eem
to justify. It being one of the stipula
tions in the contract, that all the excava*
lions shall be removed from the banks,
within a limited nme, the contractors
have wisely determined not to deposit
any considerable portion of them there,
but to dispose of them as the work pro
gresses. This ih done at the principal
pit, at the West end of the job, by ihe
use of dumping cars placed on a rail
track leading to Ihe edge of the great
gorge of the river.
There are now about 100 men cm
ployed on the work, who are distributed
to three different pits. This U exclusive
of "the steam Irishman" (as somebody
has christened Gardner's rock drill) aid
we learn that the force will be increased
to 150 so soon as preparations, now in
progress, shall he completed for deposit
ing the debris at the east end of the ca
nal line. Should the season be a favor
able one for work, we are assured that
the whole excavations will be finished by
the first day of January next.
The whole length of the canal line,
including the whole length of ihe basin,
as contracted for, is about 4,500 fcet.^
Ot this, 1,200 feel in length is already
cxcavated down to grade, at the West
end iu addition lo which, the work done
at other points, is estimated to be equa1
to 500 feet more. These facts show that
the excavation is more than one-third
done, and the expenditure, wc are told,
has now reached to about f00,000.— A i
agora Fulls Gazette.
One tf the Questions.
At the close of a lecture on physiolo
gy—before the evening school, a few
nights since, the lecturer remarked that
any one was at liberty to ask questions
upon the subject, and thai he would an
swer them as he was able.
A young lady, with much apparent
sincerity, remarked that she had a ques
tion to ask, though she was not certain
that it was a proper question she would,
however, venture to ask iu It was as
follows:
"If one hen lays an egg and another
sets on it and hatches out a chicken,
which hen is the mother of the chick
en?"
The lecturer said,
,(I
will answer you
in Yankee style, by asking you a ques
tion. If a little, pretty, while, genteel,
native pullet sets on an egg of Oriental
extraction, and hatches a great, homely,
long legged, splinter shanked, slabstded,
awkward gaited Shanghai, would you,
were you that little white pullet, own
that great, homely monster?"
"No," said the lady, "I wouliTnt/"
"Very well," said the lecturer, "that
settles the question, for il is an axiom in
physiology, that all hens think alike and
act alike, in all essential particulars.—
Manchester Mirror.
WHAT IS A FOP?—The fop is a com
plete specimen ot an outward philoso
pher. He is one-third collar, one sixth
patent leather, one fourth walking stick,
and the rest kid gloves and hair. As to
his remote ancestry, there is some doubt,
but it is now preiiy well settled that he
is the son of a lailoi's goose. He be
comes ecstatic at ihe smell of new cloih.
He is somewhat nervous, and to dream
of tailor's bills gives iiim the nightmare.
By his hair, one would judge he had
been dipped like Achilles, but il is evi
dent that the goddess must have held
him by the head instead of the heels.—
Nevertheless, such men are useful. Il
there were no tadpoles there would be
no frogs. Thev are not so entirely to
blame for their attention to externals.—
Paste diamonds must have an extra set
ting lo make them sell. Only it seems
lo be a waste of material lo put five dol
lars' worth of beaver on five cents' worth
of brains.
A REMARKABLE MAN.—A New York
letter to the Mobile Tribune, says
There is a remarkable man connected
wilh the Custom House "•here—a Span
iard. His business is lo receive and test
mooey. He will pour the contents ot
an immense bag of gold or slver coin
into the scales—for it is weighed not
counted—and in a trice announce the
amount in dollars and cents. Then run
ning his fingers through ihe shining pie
ces, immediately takes out every coun
terfeit coin. He has never been known
to make a mistake in pronouncing coin
good or bad, and his infallible instinct
for detecting the spurious metal is loca
ted in his olfactory organs.
ANOTHER ARCTIC NAVIGATOR MISS
ING.—The Toronto Globe says:
Serious apprehensions are entertained
respecting the safety of Capt Collinson,
who went out to Behring's Straits in
Company wilh Capi. McClure to search
for Sir John Franklin. Search is now
beiug made for him aa well as for the
long lost Sir John, both on the Eastern
and Western coast of North America.
If Captain Colliuson be found toon, all
the vessels are lo return, if not, discre
tionary orders are given to Capt. Ma
guire and McClure lo cooliftue search
for one year longer.
1»
iy Never joke with ladies on matri
mony or bread making. It is very, very
wrong. They are both sacred. One
refers to 'he highest interests of the
heart, and the other to those ol the stom
ach. Young men will ptom chalk il
down in their hats.
A Striking Illustration.
A conpany of individuals united then
selves together in a mutual benefit socio*
ly. The Blacksmith comes and says-~»
"Gentlemen, I wish to bccome a mem
ber of your association."
Well, what can you do?"
"Oh, I can shoe your horses*
jroni
your carriages, and make all kinds of
impfements."
"Very well, come in Mr.JBlscksmiih.**
The Mason applies for admission into
the society.
"And what can you do, sir?"
"Oh, I qan build your barne aitd
houses, stables and bridges.".
"Very well come in we ean't do with*
out you."
Along comes the Shoemaker aa fol
lows:
"I wish to become a mecaber
society."
Well, what can you dof**v
"I can make boots ami tiloes for
you."
"Come in, Mr. Shoemaker—we most
have you."
So, in turn, apply all the different
trades and professions, (ill laslly an in
dividual comes, and wants to become
member.
"An»l what are yoof*
"I am a Rumseller.**
**A Rumseller! and what can you do."
M1
can build jails, and prisons and
poor houses."
"And is lhat alU"
"No, I can fill them I can fill yottr
jails with criminals, your prisons with
convicts, and your poor houses with pau
pert."
"And what else ean you do!"
"I can bring the gray hairs of the aged
lo the grave with sorrow: I can break
ihe heart of the wife, and blast the pros
pects of the friends of talent, and fill
your land wilh more than the plagues of
Egypt."
"Is lhat all you can do?"
"Good heavens!" cried the RujjaMftfr,
"it lhat not enough?"
Negro Preaching.
The Knickerbocker Magizine gives
the following as a specimen of Nqgro
Preaching at Baltimore:
On one occasion, when striving his
utmost to bririgabout a revival,he elevat
ed his tlock several pegs in importance.
He said:
"Now, if any oh you niggers t'ink
dst 'cause you'se black, and poor and
miserable, you'se of no great consikence
in de Lord's eyes, you'se vastly "a taken,
1 'spect, as I could prove by many pinls
ob de divine word but one will be
'ficient for your dull komprehenshuns.
De Lord says, in one place, 'God will
not let even a sparrer fall to de ground
widout Ilia notice and in a 'nudder
p'ace lie says, 'Are not two, s^arrers
sold for a farden?' A farden, I would
inform you it t'posed to be 'bout as
much as a cent. Well, den now, if
de JiOrd takes no much care of a sparrer,
worth only hatl a cent, ob how much
'portance try dear brethren, in his eyes,
are you five and six hundred dollar nig
ge"1-"
AN IMMENSE FORTUNE—The late
Duchess of St. Albans left Miss Burdett
Coutts the sum of 1,800,000. The
weight of this enormous sum, in gold,
reckoning GO sovereigns to ihe pound, is
13 ions 7 cwt. 4 qrs. 12 lbs and would
require 107 men to c?rry it, supposing
that each of them carried 280 lbs, (e
quivalent to Jhe weight of a sack of
Hour.) This may be partially guessed
by knowing also thai, counting at the
rate 60 sovereigns a minute, for eight
hours a day, and six days (of course) in
the week, it would lake 10 weeks 2
days and 4 hours lo accomplish the task!
In sovereigns, by the most exact compu
tation (each measuring in diameter
17 20ihs of an inch, and placed to touch
each other,) it would extend to the
length of 24 miles and 260 yards, and
in crown pieces to 113-1 miles and 340
yards!
GETTINOOUT or A DILEMMA.—A cred
itor, whom he was anxious to avoid,
tret Sheridan com:ng out of Pall Mall.
There was no possibility of avoiding
him but he did not loose hie presence
of mind.
"Thai's a beautiful man you're on,"
said Sheridan.
"l)o you ihink so?"
"Yes, indeed, How does sho tvot!"
continued Sheridan.
The creditor, highly flattered, put her
into a trot. Sheridan bolted arouud the
corner, and was out of sight in a Mo
ment.
tT We heard a story of a fellow who
related his experience when the ftashau
Bank failed. "As soon as 1 heard of it,"
says he, "my heart jumped right into my
mouth. Now, thinks I, s'spose I've
got any bills on that ere bank, I'm a gon
er, that's a fact. So you see I put on
my coat and put for home as fast as my
legs would csrry me—run all the wpy
So when 1 got there I looked, and found
I had not got any bills on that bank—
nor any other. 1 felt some easier."
MORMON PENALTIES.—The Desert^
JSews has the following characteristic
exhibit of Mormon notions of retribu
tive justice:—
Mlt
is too well known lo need repeating,
that if a son of Belial should defame
one of our fair wives or daughters, he
must pay the forfeit without judge or
jury, in the most publio place and he
mbst get his recompense for the loss of
his heart's blood where he can find it»
which will be in Tophet."
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-3KSSI
ARRIVAL OF THE
E U O A
Very Lute and Important!
Odessa in Rains!
TURKS VICTORIOUS!
Thirteen Jiussian Vessds Captured
Further Decline in Breadstuff*.
NEW YORK, May 19.
Europa arrived at noon.
The bombardment of Odessa is fully
confirmed. The battery is all destroy
ed. Thirteen Russian veeseto laden
with amuniiion raptured.
The combined fleets had left Cor Se
bastopol.
SECOND DISPATCH.
The combined fleets are reported lo
have bombarded the ports at the mouth
of the Danube.
A Polish Legion, to operate against
the Czar, has been established ia Tur
key.
The Russma Heel is said to bate left
Sebaslapol.
The Austrian troops will eater Little
Wallachia.
France has called into active service
on land und sea 80,000 men.
The loss of the allies in the bombard
ment of Odessa is only six.
The Turks had captured Peta, the
principal point of the Greek insurrec
tion. The insurgents had 150 killed.
The Russians were defeated in an en
counter between Silistriaand Rasova.
The Turks had also made a gallant at
tack upon Silistria but wete compelled
to retreat, owing to the oveipowering
strength of the Russian force.
It is reported that the American clip
per ship Grape Shot had tumed priva
teer and captured a Fiench merchant
ship off Lands End.
Ii is stated lhat Omar Pacha„ OS the
18th or 19:h of April, advanced with
179,000 men towards Dobrusdchs, and
lhat a battle took place between Silist
ria and Kasova.
The fleets are closely blockading all
the Russian ports.
The following are the particulate of
the capture by the Grape Shot.
Some excitement was occasioned on
Monday by the statement of a sailor
presenting himself as the second mate
of the French brig Bille De Marseilles,
and who called on Lloyd's agent at St
Ives, Cornwall, with a report that he had
swam ashore from a Russian frigate
which had captured his vessel. He sla
ted that the capture took plsce 20 leagues
from Cardiff that the frigate first hoist
ed English and ihen French colors that
the captain and crew of the brig first
tried lo escape in a boat that they was
fired into, and the captain and three of
the crew kiiled. The frigate he report
ed to have gone up the channel.
The Admirality immediately seat two
steamers in seach of the frigate.
On the 5th the excitement was mate
rially increased by the publication in the
London Herald of tfco following para
graph:
"News has reached the Admiralty
that the American clipper ship Grape
Shot had captured a French merchant
man off Lands Eud."
The Grape Shot cleared from New
York on March 22d with 1500 packa
ges on board, professedly hard ware,
sup
posed lo be bound for Finland, and fail
ing debarkation, then to the Mediterra
nean. This will explaiu the story of
the Russian frigate in the Channel.
With the exception of ihe Pirous, all
the ports of Greece are rigidly watched
by the French and English ships of war.
Pirates are swarming the Archipeligo.
An English brig had drifted ashore on
the Isle of Androt— there waa no one
on board—the cabina were drenched
with blood.
On the 19th a fight eneued between
the Turk* awl Montenegrins ot Mich
ch*hick»
LATEST.
PARIS, Saturday.
ffftpier is anchored four oadet from
Stockholm.
The ice it breaking np, and it wat ex
pected Cronstadt will be opened by 22d
AfttiL
BREADSTUFPS.
The consumptive demand for wheat
and flour good, with a very large import.
Indian corn arrives in excett and tells
slowly. The decline in flour is called
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$1,50 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.
u ai.
'by ihe brokers' board 6d, and by Den-
il*on
dt Co. Is per bbl. ,*
Wheat unchanged. '.'Hit
Corn 2s lower—market fof all artielM
closing steady.
TB RESUSCITATE PERSOKS
STRICK BY LIGHTNINA.-This it the sea
son when deaths from this source occur
and few, who do not look to the sum
mary, know how many there are. In
all cases where persons are struck down
by lightning, u*e cold water upon the
body for hours don't be discoursged if
immediate sucres* is not attained, but
persevere, and if, after .1 or 4 hours, ani
mation is not restored, add sail to (he
water and continue the showering, which
it rendered colder by the salino admix
ture. If possible, administer the douche
on the head and along the spinal column.
Persons who ha*e fallen senselett under
a stroke of lightning, whe.i alone, have
recovered in the rain and Mr. Memem,
the weather sophist, relates a case where
a victim was recalled to life by dashing
cold water on him several hours
apparent death.—[Albany Ail at,
GOOD CHANCE OF GETTING MARRIKO.
—Fanny Fern says she +is ready to
jump at the first offe» of marriage, and
presents her qualifications as follows:
"I have very pretty black eyes and
am very petite. I am sensitive at the
"Mimota," spirited as an eagle, as un
tamable as chain-lightning. 1 can tnako
a pudding, or write a newspaper tquiiv
or cut a capei and crowd more happi
ness or misery into ten minute* than
any Fanny that ever was christened."
The N. Y. Mirror tayt that Fannjr
has btren twice married, and only quite
recently u.vmarried. So, any enterpri*
sing bachelor who has a taste (or "Fere
leaves," hert's u fine opening for hiou
W* A deputution fram a neighboring
State waiting upon Agesilaus, King of
Sparta, expressed their astonishment
lhat the city had no wails. "No walls,**
said the King, "that ia your opinion
now, but come and breakfast wilh ma
to morrow, and I'll show yon the walls
of Sparta." The next day, at the ap
pointed lime, the deputation called on
Agesilaus, who, taking them out, show
ed them'" the Spartan militia drawn up
in formidable array. "There," said he,
"are the walls of Sparta each man ia a
brick!'* -Hence ihe saying a "perfeet
brick,"—now so current.
SEEKING A NEW ROUTM.—The pro
peller Dunkirk, says the Buffalo Ex
press, which came in Mondsy evening'
from Chicago, had a full cargo of beef,
pork and lard from Burlington, Iowa,
being the first shipment from lhat point
by way ot the lakes. The producta of
that region have heretofore sought a mar*
ket by ihe Mississippi river to New Or
leans. The Rock Island Railroad has
opened a new channel for their produeta,
aud we may expect largsshipAMHUillMk
that section hereafter.
PURGATORY v* MATRIMONY.—By the*
way the "ghost of the departed" re
minds me of Joe Kelly's ghost coming
to his wife.
"Molly," says he, in Puigalory
at this present lime.*'
"And what sort of a plaee ia it!**
says she.
"Faith, it is tort of a half-way house
between you and hearem" eaya Joe,
but I stand it mighty easy after leaving
you."
17* Evenings at home are the nest
delightful and ihe most valuable privile
ges the business and working man can
enjoy, if they are judiciously provided
for. A frolic with the babies—a quiet
chat with the wife—an agreeable look
—nuts and apples, may ba all around a
bright fire ia a cozy nam. On that
"bill of fare" let the Whwur consider
and rqpolve to "mend hie waya."
RENTS IK Cmcaoo.—The editor of
the Chicago TcthttM* now on a tour
East, writes hone that rents are much
higher in Chicago than in New York,
Brooklyn or Philadelphia. According
to his statement, a good house in those
cities that will feoffor IIOO, would read
ily coq^uodfromfflW toWQ&iii Chi-
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D*MAND FOR CATTUI —ftSfiwtTftom
Now York are seowrog ffljteatr aad In
diaaa to bey up stoek l*Mj* lto» high
pneee current at the aabapitt* High
prices are being patf fcrfM beef cat
tie $8 50 per hundred paajds net and*
•4 25 live weight are amat rates at
Chicago, and but few to be had at that.
HTA man fell from the staging of the
Prairie City, at Dubuque, on the I2ih
inst., and was drowned. The mate hav
ing had hold of the plank at the time,
was charged of causing the man's death,
but on examination before a magisUale
waa acquitted.
THE CZAR*S L6*A^I AN^FEOEL.—
Nicholas has called his brother-in-law,
Ihe K.ng of Prussia, "an Angel of'
Peace." An angel— after the Russian1
view—has, of course, two wings, one
of infantry and one of atliileiy.-^^on
don Punch.
OT Fresh salmon are to be obtained
In the New York markets at themioot
one dollar per pouod.
«3TCapt. Thoe. L. Ringgold, of
U. S. ordinance corps, died in Washing^ 1
ton, on Thursday.
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