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. VOL. I; NO 39. U mrMlSS THEE AT HOME. ' BY FANKIK. ., f , ' . erilss theeaf noiric; Wmiiwi thee, ' ; ' & jAIhL oa va wiah thou were heir,' ' r ; (jT gerJwi(li-u3,'roUnd the fireside; -.;:' ,And share in tlie crening'B clioer; , y ; . " t o lipt to the voices of loved ones, .', . " Atid th'eVish that thou never would 'st roam; ' OhJres, 'twould be joy beyond measure ' ' . i Mearest brother, if thou would'Bt come home t e miss me at nomc, we miss trice, ' '"''WTie'h.the' plcasnrc's of evening ato nigh, n Wteathe snnhath retired in splendor, : To his home in the western sky. : . And .the moon is shining so brightly, ' On the family circle at home; -rOn?tnen W( rates thee, wc misg thee, Attd-ftighthat thou still doce roam. ' ' " miss tiice at homc wo miss tiiec, Allien we all kneel down to pray,-' '., t And thefears start forth from our eye-lids,' : j, , A We wonder how long thou wilt stay: Iffcbe(orp the winter is over, ; . j ;.,... ; An the cold snow leaveth the earth, ,, Tliou Xill not meet in our.circle, , f ,. Atid cheer our desolate heartW 1 " ' ' O ' y-:t - ' -ri - 'v : Butph,when the spring time comcth,-,.. , , 1 An3 the bird's from a distant shore j , -Then fifiy We' not hope to fold" thee, ' fi".;AthWeiri oTir arms once niore ; " 7ft kJ "with in the'grave yftrd, t ;. Qeriha dear,, little sacred tomb, AnA tningle thy tears, dearest Brother, , .. With Hioa& thou hast left at home.' acf nnv t -' 'm ' ' V--U-' i ' MSfO .':''' - From Chambers' Journal -qTOKT OF A POLICEMAN. - THE PARTNER.' I nxp visually, though ,riot formally, left tlTe' force when a young man, of gent lemanly, butsomewhat dissipated aspect, and booking very pale arid agitated called upon; 'me with a note from one of the com inlssioners enjoining me. to assist, the bearlr, MrEdmund "Webster, "to the ut most 6f my ability, if, upon examination, I SaV'- reason to place reliance vpon his j'tateent' relatire to the painful and ex- tiraof dmary circumstances in which he. wai involved.; ." ' ' . ... . ..t Mf.'Elmund Webster," I " exclaimed, after glancing at the note. ."You are the 2erson;then accused of robbing Mr ."Hut ton theconi merchant, "the jeaders will, jf course, "urider'starid that mate use of .fictitious name, and ' whom that gentle inafl'refuses to 'prosecute?" " ' : ' ' ", . A cIaThe satne,' Mr. Waters. But although the disgraceful charge, so far as regards le'gal' pursuit; appears .to be withdrawn,, o'r rather is not pressed, I and my family shall not be the less shamed and ruined thereof, unless my perfect innocence can Be Xaade' manifest before the world; ". It is with that view we have been advised to seekyokr assistance1; and my father de sires me to say, that he will hesitate at no expense necessary for the thorough pros ecution of the enquiry." : ;' ' " "Very well,' Mr. Webster. r' The5 inti matiorJ of commissioner is however, of it self afl potent with me, although I hoped t6 tbricerned1 in no more such- investi gations. ' Have the goodness, therefore to sit down and favor me minutely and disn'ctly with' your version of the affair, orhrttingif you please, no : circumstance, however trivial, in connection with it. ; I may tell you," I added; opening the note bbok.'from which I am now transcribing;, and 'niacins' it in readiness' to bejriri "I may leu you py way oi some sngni , en courageraenti that defense you volunteer- ed at the police office, was in my opinion, voo lmprooaoie 10 De an invenuon;. ana i as you tnbw, have hall ( large' experience in such matters."'- That also, I suspect, is Mr.liutton's opinion; and hence not only his refusal "to prosecute, but t the expense ana irouDJe ne nas oeen at, to my Knowl- edge, m preyentmg nis own or your name from appearing in the papers. " Now, sir ir vou Dlease." - ' " ' 1 ' ' "I"8hall relate every circumstance, Mr. "Waters, as clearly and truthful as possi ble, for my ' own sake ; in order that you may not be working in the dark; and first I'm'ust beg 1 your attention to one or two faimify matters,' essential to thorough ap preciation of the position in which I am placed.' ; '' ' ; '. ! ' :' 'l "-' ''Go " oni sir; it is my" duty to hear all jou have to say." : : ; ' ; :' ; ' ! -My father" proceeded Mr. Edmund Webster, "who as you are aware, resides in theRegent'8 Park; retired about five jears ago, : from the business, in Mare Lane, which has since been carried on by ,the former junior partner, Mr. Till within ithe last six months, I believed myself des tined for' the1 army, the purchase-money ef a coronetcy having been lodged at the Horse Guards a few days after I came of age. ' ' Suddenly, however, my ' father changed his mind, insisted that I 'should become a partner of Hutton's in the corn irade; and forthwith withdrew the money iii. , ioageu ior the commission. I am not yet ven cognizant oi all his motives for his seeming caprice; but those he!allcdged were, first, my spendthrift, idle habits an imputation for which, I confess, there was too much .foundation; though as to wuetner tne discipline oi the counting- house would, as he believed, effect a ben eficial change, there well might be two opinions. Another, and, I have no doubt much ,more powerfully inducing mo tive with him was, that I had formed an attachment for Miss Ellen Bramston, the aecond daughter of Captain Bramston, of the East India Company's service; resi ding at Hampstead upon his half-pay. My 4 father strongly disapproved ; of ; the proposed alliance; like most most of the successful men I have knovm or heard of, Jie more heartily dispises poverty with a laced coat on its back than in !rags;: and he knew no more effectual plan - could be hitlupon for frustrating ' my wishes, than by' transferring my coronetcy into- a partnership in the com trade, toy imagi nary ' sword for a 'goose-quill; Captain Bramson) who is distantly related to an Earl, being even prouder than he is poor, and -a man that would rather see' his daughter in her coffin than married to a trader.'. Vlt was condecensionj enough, he angrily remarked, '.'that he had - per mitted Ellen Bramston to encourage the addresses of the son of a.CJJity parvenue, but it was utterly preposterous to sup pose she could wed an actual corn-chandler??. .. J-;..., - j,.......,. ' "Corn-chandler!" v -i "That was Captain Bramston's pleasant phrase, when I informed him of my fath er's sudden ; change' of purpose.- - The proposed partnership was as distasteful to myself as to Captain Bramston; but my father proved inexorable fiercely so,T may say to my entreaties, and those of my sister; and I was placed in the dilem ma,' either of: immediate banishment from home . and probable forfeiture of my in heritance, or the loss" of Ellen Bramston, to whom with all my follies, I was and am devotedly attached.- After much' anxious cogitation, I hit upon a scheme; requiring for .a time,! the exercise of a" considerable amount :of deceit and dissimulation, which would; I 'flatter myself,' ultimately re concile interest 1 with inclination? give" me Ellen, and not lose my fathei."- ! ; - "To which deceit and dissimulation you are doubtless indebted for your present unfortunate position." ': '; : ; ; a- - "You have rightly anticipated. " But to proceed. '' Mr; Hutton himself, I must tell you, was strongly averse to receiving me as a partner; though, for some reason or other, he durst not openly oppose the project his son, John Hutton, also bitter-1 ly objected to it"- -1 z 1 ' ' " ' " f'His.on, John1 Hutton!' I know the character of Hutton senior pretty well ; pra'y wtat is that of his son?" ' ' Well; like myself, he is 'rather fast, perhaps, but'non.e the less a good sort of young fellow enough.' He sailed the week before last for Riga, on business." "Before you were apprehended?" ' , "On the morning ' of the same -day, Let me see where was I? ! Oh Mr. Hut ton's aversion to the partnership, the knowledge of which suggested my plan of operation. I induced him to represent to my father that I should pass at least two or three months' 'in the couritintf-house, , before the matter was irreversibly conclu ded, for his Mr. .Hutton's sake, in order that it might be ascertained if there rwas any possibility of, taming; me into habits of method; and application; and I hypo critically, enforced his argumentyou see Iamjjerfectly. candid by promising ul timate dutiful submission to my fath,ers wishes, provided the final . lecision; were thus respited. . The mam, object I thought to j obtain by this . apparent ; compliance was the effectual i loosening, before many, weeks had passed, of the old gentleman's purse strings, which had of late been over tightly : drawn. I had several , .pressing debts of honor, as they are called debts of dishonor would according to my expe rience,.,be the apter phrase which it was absolutely necessary to discharge; and the success, moreover, of my matrimonial project.entir'ely depended upon my ability to secure , a very considerable sum... of money." , : . ...;::.' ,' "Yes ; it was ;at. last ,, arranged, , not without much relilctaffce on the part of Ellen, but I have good reason for believ ing with the covert i approbation of Cap tain Bramston, , that we should , effect a stolen marriagei immediately set off-for the Continent, and remain there till the pa rental storm which, on my; father's part would, I knew, be tremendous; had blown over. I was on; only Ison;;; tar sisters would be indefatigable intercessors; and Wfe all, : consequently, were pretty confi dent, that a general reconciliation, such as usually accompany the ringing down of the green curtain at ; the wind up. of. a stage comedy, would,1 after, no ' great in terval of . time, take place. : Money, how ever, , was : indispensable money for the wedding expenses; the flight to . France, and living there for a considerable time, perhaps, and no likelier, mode of obtain ing it occured to me than of cajoling my father into good humor, by affecting to acquiesce in his wishes. , And here I may remark, in passing, that had I been capa ble of the infamous deed I am accused of, abundant opportunities of plundering Mr. Hutton presented themselves from the first hour I entered his . counting house. Over and over again has he left me alone in his private room, with the keys in the lock of his iron safe, where large sums were frequently deposited, not in bank notes only, but untraceable gold." "Nothing of the sort,'' rejoined Mr. Edmund Webster, with some heat, and his pallid face brightly flashing. "It on ly shows that, with all my faults and fol lies, it was impossible for any one that knew me to imagine I "could be capable" of perpetuating a felony." '- ' ' 4 "I beg your pardon Mr. Webster; I I'meant nothing offensive to you; the re mark was merely the partly involuntary expression of a thought which ' suddenly glanced across my mind." . ; . .. , "I have little more of preliminary de tail,",he went on to say. "Contrary to our hopes and expectations, my father be came not a whit more liberal. with his iXJPPER SANDUSKY, OHIO, THURSDAY, FEB. 2, 1854. purse than before the reverse rather; -and I soon found that he intended ' to keep the screw on' till ; the accomplishment of the hated partnership placed an insupera ble bar between me and Ellen Barmston. I used to converse frequently lipcm these matters with' Mr. Hutton, as calmly and unreservedly as I do how with you; and I must say that, although extremely anxious to avoid any ' appearance of opposition" to my father, ho always expressed the warm est sympathy with my aims and wishes; so much so, in fact that I at last ventured to ask him for the loan of about five hun- dred pounds, 1 that being the least sum which would enable me to pay off the most pressing of the claim by which I was harrassed, and carry on my wedding' project.' ' That favor, however, he flatly refused, under the plea that his having ', done so would sooner or later eome to my father's knowledge' u- ,V!'--:-- J "And did Mr.llutton, after that refu- i sal,' continue to p.ffwd you opportunities of helping yourself had you been -so 'in in-; ded?" . ::. i V, . ';.; . .".Yes; unquestionably he 'did but what of that?" sharply replied the young man, his pale face again suffused t?"ith an :an-; gry flush. r "JNothing, sir; nothing. Goon; lam all attention." ' f"' ' ' . --j ' "Well; I ; made application' to several money lenders with the like ill-success, till last Monday fortnight; when I was oc costod at Mr.- Hutton's1 pJace of business in the Corn-market, where I happened to be fdr a few mihUtes alone, by a respectable-looking middle-aged man, who asked me if I was the Mr. Edmund Webster who hadUeftanote 'at Mr. Curtis's" of Bishopsgaterstreet, on the previous" Sat urday, requesting the loan! of five hun1 dred pounds, upon my own acceptance,1 at six month's date. - ' I eagerly replied in the affirmative; upon -which -Mr. Brown, as the man called himself, asked if I had the promissory note for five hundred and fifty pounds, as ' I had proposed, ready drawn1; and, if so, he would give me the cash at once. --I answered in a flurry of joyous excitement, that I had not the note drawn nor a stamp with me, but if he would wait a few minutes, till Mr. Hutton, or a clerk came in, SI would get one, and write the acceptance immediately. -: He hesitated for a moment, and then said: I am in a hurry this morning, but I will wait for you in the coffee-room of the "Bay Tiee Tavern; have the kindness to be as qxiick as you can, and draw the note in favor of Mr. Brown." He had not been gone above three or fouir minutes, when the fcleik came in. I instantly hur ried to a Stationer's wrote the note in his shop, and speeded on ' with it to the' Bay Tree Tavern. The coffee room was full, except the box where sat Mr. Brown, who after glancing at the acceptance, and put ting it quickly up, placed a roll of notes in my hand. "Do hot display your mon ey," he said, "before all these people. You can count the notes under the table. I j I did so; they were, quite correct ten fifties; and. I forthwith ordered a bottle of wine. Mr. Brown, however, allegingbus iness as an excuse, did not wait till it was brought bade me good day, and disap peared,' taking in his hurry, my hat . in stead of his own." - ,. . ."I was, you will readily believe, ex ceedingly jubilant at this lucky turn of af fairs; and, ' strange as it must appear to you, "and .does now to'myself, it did not strike me at the time as at all extraordi nary or unbusiness-like, that I should haye five hundred pounds suddenly placed in my hands by a man to whom I was personally unknown, and who could not, therefore, be certain that I was the Ed mund Webster he professed to be in search of." What with the effect 'of the wine I drank; and natural exultation I was, I well remember, in a state of great excitement when I left the tavern, and had hardly seemed "to feel my feet as. I hurried away to' Mark Lane to in foim Mr. Hutton of my good luck, and bid his counting-house and the corn-trade a final farewell. . He was not at home, and. I went in and seated myself in his private room to await bis return. I have no 'doubt that, as the clerk has since de posed, I did look flustered, agitated; and it is quite true, also, that after vainly waiting for upwards of an hour, I sud denly left the place, and as it happened, unnoticed by anybody. Immediately af ter leaving Mark ' Lane, I hastened to Hamspstead, saw Miss Bramston; and as everything; with the exception of the money, had been for some time in readi ness, it was soon decided that we should take the wing at dawn, on the. following morning, for Scotland, and then pass over to France'. I next betook myself to Re gent's Park, where I dined, and confided everything to my sisters except as to how I had obtained the necessary funds. At about eight in the evening, I took a cab as far as the Haymarket, for the purpose of hiring a post-chaise-and-four,- and of pay ing a few debts of honor in that neighbor hood. .-' . I was personally unknown to the post master it was therefore necessary to pre pay the chaise as far as St. Alban's, and I presented him with one of the fifty pound notes for. that purpose. : He did not appear surprised at the. largeness of the sum, but requested me place my name and address ,at the back of the note be fore he changed it. In my absurd anxie ty to prevent our flight being traced, I en-; dorsed the note as Charles Hart, Great , Wimpole st., and the man left the yard. concluded next week. J . More than was Expected. On Tuesday afternoon, say about 5 o'clock, a woman clad intolerably good apparel applied to Capt. Hiram Hawley, of the steamer Europa, for passage to New Orleans. ' Capt, H., with that politeness that has always characterised the man and the officer, escorted the woman on board of his boat; but as he was about to ascend the stairs in order to show her to the la dies' cabin,she stopped him. ' "What is your wish?" said the gallant Captain. ,. ,. 1 "I do not wish to go up there, sir: I must take a deck passsage." "Oh no, Madam, a lady of your ap pearance certainly would not choose the deck to the cabin." . ;"It is not from choice, my dear sir, but from necessity." ' "Don't mention that, Madam; you will find the comforts of the cabin so much su-: v . . v. it penor to the" ; - ; 1 The woman fainted before the Captain had time to finish the . sentence, and she . would have fallen but for the Captain's timely assistance. Here was a predica ment for Hiram! What could he do? The woman, was evidently taken suddenly ill, she was on his boat and of course it was his duty to see that she was taken care of. He called one of his men, who assisted him in putting her into the ladies' cabin, where she received and was given in care of the chambermaid, with the charge to - -. , t . . ..... see to her wants. .. - In about half an hour afterwards, as Captain Hawley was bargaining with a gentleman to take his family to New Or leans, the chambermaid came running to him, with wonder and tribulation depicted upon her cast-iron features, and as soon as within speaking distance, - half out of breath, she commenced: "Oh Captain, that woman!" ; ; . "Well, what is the matter, Mary?" "That woman, sir oh, my gracious!" "What is the matter, I say? She is not dead, is she?" : ; ' ; . ' ; . ... "Oh, no, sir, worse than that, who could have believed it?" ;; "Mary, you area fool; where is she? I'll go and see what has happened my self!" - . "You can't sir! you can't, for she-has just been delivered of three babies, sir a boy and twoo girls!" That was not exactly a "ten strike," but it acted as such upon the Captain's nerves. A bachelor with a woman and three children on his hands, on his boat, and the boat about to start for New : Or leans. Here was a pickle. II consulted with some of his friends, who advised him to send the whole party to the hospital, but before he took measures to do it, the husband of the woman came, claimed her and took them all away., The Captain says that he shall be careful how he wastes liis politeness upon women hereafter; but he suggested to the father of the little n ew comers that one of the girls be named Eu ropa Hawley, the other Hawley Europa, and the boy James Isham Fisher, which wis agreed to at once. Cincinnati En quirer, . . "; ; ..' . Sxow Storm in Illinois. There was a terrible snow storm last week upon the Chicago and Mississippi railroad. The St. Louis Intelligencer of the 1 7th ultimo says: ... - . ; Passengers who left Chicago Wednes day by the morning train arrived in this city, Sunday, after innumerable hard ships, and narrow escape from freezing or starving. The train was stopped near the center of Grand Prairie at 2 o'clock a.m. inursaay, bv a formidable snow drift, and for thirty-six hours not the least progress could be. made. During that time intense suffering was' indured by about one hundred and fifty persons, and with little or ; nothinsr to eat. Cloerered and surrounded in the midst of snow, their situation can be imagined better than described. . However, by shovelling and digging . through the embankments, the train finally arrived at Bloomington, Fri day noon, and from that point to this city the journey was comparatively an easy one. Miscellaneous Reading. -Professor Dugald Steward remarked more than for ty years ago, in his Philosophy of the Human Mind, that "nothing tended so greatly to weaken all the general faculties of the human intellect as a habit of mis cellaneous readme: without reflection." The celebrated English metaphysician, Hobbes, who lived fifty years before Stewart, used to say that "if he had read as many books as his contemporaries had read, he should have been as ignorant and as stupid as they were," This re mark, how much soever it may savor of vanity, hints at a great truth, which is, that the sharpness and strength of the mental faculties depend more on a certain sort of discipline than on books. Those men who have, in all ages, been most dis tinguished for talent, have generally had the so-called misfortune, in their early days, of being confined to a very few vol-VLTz&i--Beverly Citizen. : l ; Gold and Silver' in New Mexico. Gold and silver have been discovered in New, Mexico in considerable quantities. Major Stein, of the United States dra goons, reports the country as abounding in mines of copper, iron and lead, and only requiring the aid of capital and en terprise to make it the most productive region of the continent. ..... Subscribe for your. own County Paper. How few among the great mass of the people consider how much' is lost in not taking their own ; county paper.' A man located in the midst of a community that community united by law and convention al rules of a local nature he has become a component part of that community, and hence he is or should be if a worthy citi zen, interested in whatever effects br con cerns any portion of that community. He cannothis duty to those around him unlel JQh.dc rstands the affairs that concern toem or what befalls each and every portion thereof. And how can he understand those things, or how so cheap ly get the requisite information as to take his own'county paper? There he gets the local affairs though imperfectly we admit in many instances because of the great in convenience and expense under which the printer labors to procure the current events cT localities, remote frcm iiis ofScc. Yet it is the most certain and extensive source of information with which he can be pro vided. Then let every citizen subscribe for his own county paper, where he will get all the important foreign, eastern, western, northern and southern news by telegraph as soon as they have in any part of our country, and our foreign countries, as soon as it reaches our shores. ' .,' " ' Some say, I am taking a paper from a distant town or city, and I cannot afford to take another. If that be the fact, and his neighbor takes his own county paper, the latter will be several days in advance of the former with news, markets, and foreign arrivals. For. instance, we have given from day to day the markets at New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charles ton; New Orleans at the identical time of sale, while 'he who takes a paper from either of those cities, must wait -the arri val of his paper by mail, from three to twelve days. Even in a business point of view and a feeling of reciprocacy, the per sons who buys and sells, should feel bound to patronize a paper where he disposes of his marketable commodity. Say for in stance, a farmer is on his way to market with a load of wheat, and while he is on the road a despatch reaches the printer that wheathas advanced this day ten cents per bushel, at New York, The paper so announces the fact, and the farmer re ceives ten cents a bushel more than he otherwise would have done for his load, or whatever quantity he may have. Here the farmer has been benefitted in the one instance, several times the amount of a paper for the entire year; and perhaps, he does r$t take the paper through whose la: bor and expense he has been thus bene fitted. If so, he is not doing towards oth ers as he has others to do unto him. So it is in all the business transactions of life. And he does not: patronize has but little claim on the community in which he is lo cated to buy of him his produce, wares or merchandize. The feeling of encourage ment, the spirit of the'motto, "live and let live," should pervade every breast. Let the farmers, mechanics, merchants and laborers of whom the printer is one pat ronize their own county paper. When this is done, if there are among us those who desire a paper from a distance, as a matter of course he should take it; but this thing of putting in a plea that "I am taking a distant paper or I would patron ize you," is sure subterfuge, unworthily expressed it should never be mouthed. Sandusky Mirror. ' Human Life.--A1i ! this beautiful world. Indeed, I know not what to make of it. Sometimes it is aE gladness and sunshine, and Heaven is not far off.- And then it changes suddenly, and it is dark and sor rowful, and the clouds shut out the sky. In the lives of the saddest of us. there are bright days like this, when we feel as if we could take this great world in our arms. Then comes the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn in our hearts, or on our hearts, and all without and within is dismal, cold and dark. Be lieve, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold, when he is only sad. Longfellow's Prose. How Does He Cut Up. I shall never forsret how this struck me, when, some years ago, I heard it applied to the settle ment of a rich man's estate. It was not, how much was he worth, how many thousand, has he left to his heirs, but, how does he cut up? As if he had been no more than a stalled fat ox, about whose weight there had been different estimates before he was slaughtered and brought to the block, and his tallow taken out. And what comparison would be more appro priate, where men have devoted all their lives and power to making money, from a supreme love of it, to the neglect of every higher interest? The Poser Posed. In a jolly com pany, each one was to ask a question; if it was answered, he paid a forfeit; or if he could not answer it himself, he paid a for feit Pat's question was, "How the little ground sqxiirrel digs his hole without show ing any dirt about the entrance?" When they all gave up, Pat said, "Sure, do you see, he begins at the other end of the hole." One of the rest exclaimed, "But how does he get there?" "Ah!" said Pat," "that's your question can you answer it your self?" : ' Johnston's Opinion He that would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife -Johnston. CLIPPINGS AND CUTTINGS. . j5Tlndustrial art is the true alchemy' which turns the basor metals into gold. , '5TThe Bill dividing Ohio into two J u- dicial Districts has passed the U. S. SenCjog the youth to be out, when the light of ate. jC5"The lady Avho was in the 'habit' of standing on her divinity, came very near losing her balance. , jEST Always precede a lady in going up stairs. The maxim is a legacy from a maiden aunt. Lynn News. , . jJ3?Gen. Almonte, Mexican Minister at Washington Iras become commander of the Mexican army. ; - jtSTThe Farmers of Southern Iowahave been obliged to use poison to destroy the vast flocks of wild geese that were destroy ingtheir wheat fields. ' .jJSTThe shelving of the Astor Library it is said is over two miles long, that of the British Museum over. fourteen miles loner, r ,.'.,, JZST"Any of the petaters left" anxious ly inquired a quite cleared out individual of his wife. "Yes," was the reply, "they have all left." . ; . : JJSPThe last case of jealousy is that of a lady who discarded herdover, a sea cap tain, because, in speaking of one of his voyages, he said he hugged the shore a$3T The correspondent of the New York Herald states that nearly all the Ho tels in Havanna, Cuba are kept by Amer icans. . ,j2TFifty thousand head of cattle have reached the Valley of San Joaquin, the present season, from New Mexico, Sonora and Chihuahua. a&STA. Kentucky paper apologizes for scarcity of editorial matter, on the Jplea that the editor had got married, and was so ashamed that he crawled in the Mam moth Cave. , iCSTGeorge Peabody," the American Banker in London, has promised to his native town, Danvers, 200 a year, during his life, to distribute in prizes of merit among the pupils of the High Schools. . JJ3?The same old lady, who, on a moon-shiny evening, remarked that "it was as light as a cork," in describing some hard swearing the other day, said "the man swore as hard as a rock." ifSTHenry S. Sargent, of New Bos ton, N. H. 23 years of age; fired a revol ver four times ata Miss S. Jones, killing her instantly,, and then shot himself,; d'y- ing in six hours A a love affair. 5 We understand that the business on the Central Ohio railroad has increas ed $1,000 per week for the past month. Instead of averaging $3,300, it now aver ages 84,300. Coal does it. ' ' JF One salt company, in Meigs coun ty, during the last year and the first of its existence, has made , 205,000 bushels of salt. Only two wells are used. . Meigs is rich in her mineral resources. fcrT It is said that facts have lately been brought to light that show that the British colony of Sierra Leone,' in Africa, has been largely engaged in the slave trade for many years back. . jJSrEx-Persident Van Buren is now in Rome, with his son, living in a small house with a large garden,' on the Via Georgia. It is said he finds a winter residence in Rome to agree with his health and spirits. . ; ir JW The Wire Suspension Bridge be tween Covington and Newport gave way Monday evening.-. Eightetn cattle and two men were crosssing at the time. The men escaped but some of the cattle were kill ed. '. ; : "' , "-" . " Mr. G. V. Brooke, the eminent tragedian, lately distributed among the poor of all persuasions in Belfast, Ireland, upward of one hundred and thirty pairs of blankets, through the clergy of the town bf all the churches. J3T Geo. N. Saunders, the American Consul at Liverpool, writes to the New York Herald that "Louis Napoleon is pre paring for war on the grandest scale. It is known that he will have, by eariy spring, an invading army of seven hundred thou sand men, fully equipped." r. Jjg?Females were introduced into com posing rooms in Albany, on Monday even ing, for the first time. ' They were set to work cwi the Country Gentleman. JJtica ObserverA , . ! WTe fear that "Country - Gentleman," will find those rooms anything but com- - ( ; ' posing; ,&3PThe geart law of Nature is, "eat and be eaten," The spawn eater swal lows the worm, the shark swallows the spawn eater; the hawk pounces on the Chicken, the eagle on the hawk, and the sportsmen oh the feagle; rogues feed on honest men, pettifoggers on rogues, and the devil on pettifoggers- Queer arrange ment this, but who will say that it is not all for the best? Capt. Vahderbiit has made our Government a proposition to build a first class steam frigate. He asks no contract and no money. ' He proposes himself to build the ship in' accordance with his own ideas, and' keeniner ah exact account of her cost." If the ship suits when done, well. His main object is to gain the credit of furnishing our navy with a thor ough ship. WHOLE NO. 421,. At Home in the Evening. ,t One of the grossest neglects of a youth; producing incalculable mischief and ruin;, is the spending of his etchings. Dark- ness is temptation to misconduct: suffer- o j - , r , o the day does not restrain them from mis conduct; is training them to it. We have' already an abundant harvest of this seed ing. Riots, mobf, crimes, giving fearful, forebodings, are thereults of youth be-: coming fit agents of outrage, by running '; uncared for, in the eveningsX What we see in these rt spects is deplorablenougb: but what is this compared with wliatF do not see multitudes making themv selves miserable and , noxious, to the " world, arid what is that to come to? Pa- rents should look at the truth, that picas- ; ure and recreations are often dearly pur chased the price of their own impared comfort, and the blighted prospects-of their offspring: It must be obvious that in this matter there can be no prescribed rule. There can be no interior of all tne', evening': recreation and employment, yet there is an, evil not. only , destructive td youth; but planting thorns in many pathsi and covering many lives r with desolation; The information demanded must proceed from judgment and conscience mast h enlightened. Heads of families must, learn that the place on earth best adapted! to be a blessing is home, and by example" and wholesome, restraint they must teach this truth to all under them; . ;. - Keep Cool. Never do anything thai can denote an angry mind; for althougU' everybody is born with a degree of pas sion, and, from ! untoward circumstances, will sometimes feel its operation, and be what they call "out bf humor," yet a sen sible man or woman will never allow it to" be discovered. Check arid restrain it; nevei make any determination until . you find it has entirely subsided; and. always avoid saying anything you may wish ttnsaid. 2 Lord Collingwoodi ' '.. Value of Dimity.---Withbtit a chap had a chance once in a while to squeeze' the waist of a pretty bunch of calico, the' world wouldn't ' be 6'f the value of a squeezed lemon to himi He would have5 no buttons on his shirt, and no partner m the quadrille. Suicide and broken breech es would come in fashion, and mankind would turn hermits and go a fishing fof : eels. Ex. ' .. ' -- " ' The fellow that wrote that mtist hate been a very old bach: A Capital Idea. It is proposed, OA some of te Western railroads, to furnish, "baby cars," for the convenience of those, traveling with thet.e appendages,, as well as for the comfort of travelers generally.. The cars will be commodious and well supplied with cradles, bady -jumpers, ratJ ties, sugarcandy, milk, paregoric, and other sedatives and conveniences; ah ex perienced matron, with both wet and dry nurses, will be always in attendance; Fires in 1853. Taylor's Insurance Reporter states that the total number of disastrous fires in the United States dtirs, ing the year, at 60, attended with a.lo'ss of 1 1 4 lives. Same paper states that dur--ing the month bf December last, $3,140 000 worth of property was destroyed bjr fire, in ten cities and towns of the United States, and no fire was enumerated w here the loss was less than 820,000.- ; Broken BANff.---Thompson's Bank Note Register says: ? . ; ' "The failure of the Merchants' arid Mei chanics' Bank of Oswego "was announced last week, January 6th. We think the se curities will, when, sold, 'realize enoughT to pay 80 cents on the dollar. - We shall pay 75 cents bh the dollar to - those whee wish to sell in advance bf a dividend;'' i '-. ,' ' 1 f 7 . Wishing. A good old Dutchman and his wife sat till gaping time, when the lat ter, aftfcr a stretch, said:- ; , ' "I vish I vash in heffen; Hans yawned and replied . , "I vish I vash in de still-house.,, ' The eyes of Sally flew wide Operi as sh exclaimed "I be bount, Hans, , you ak ways vish yourself in the best place!" About a Dress. If the reports by the Europa be well founded, four duels have been fought about one lady's dress--a robe of blue velvet, low in the neck, with' flounces of lace made of gold thread,; arid on her head a torsade a glandid'on . One. minister's knee has been damaged, and another is reported to have lost his life , Slight Mistake. A premium was lately offered by an Agricultural Society, for the best mode of irrigation; and the" latter word, by a mistake of the printer, " having been changed into irritation," a far mer sent his wife to take the prize! ' Icebergs. Captain Haskill, of bark; Magnolia, at Boston, from Glasgow, re ports on the 2 1st December, inlat. 44 26 N., Ion. 48 30 W., passed within two miles of an immense island of ice, which.' he judged to be iOO feet above the water.', Spiritual. The pimples on a toper's face are an old fashioned sort of "spirifu al manifestation." They cannot be said to cbme exactly from beyond the grave;4 bnt they show clearly that the "medium" is hurrying himself towards the grave; ; .... Noble Replt.-'-Aristotle, ' being cen " sured for bestowing alms on ' a bad 1 man, made the following noble reply: "I did not give it to the man; I gave it to htt- 1 manity." ' .