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VOL. I, NO 40 J UPER SANDUSKY, OHIO, THURSDAY, FEB. 9, 1854. WHOLE NO; 422. ' ; ' 7! ' l'Frora Household Work. ,. v Listening' Angels: 1 'Blue against the bluer heavens ' Stood the mountains calm and still, : Two white angel9 bending earthward, . ' Leant upoa the hill. . 1".1 ; .:.: .Listening leant those ail ent angles, s ,. .t And I also long to hear. , , tThat sweet strain of earthly taiusic "'' '"' Thus could charm their ear. ' ;' " : ' 111 ' 1 ' ' 1 neuru Hie sounu ui uiuujr uumjja) And a warlike march draw nigh; inn. Solemnly a mighty army ' ' ' Fasscd in order by . 1 5 But the clang had ceased; the echoes ' Soon had faded from the hill: " ' While the angels, calm and earnest, I Leant and listened still. . 'Then I heard a fainter clamor; - ' . Forge and wheel were clashing near, And the reapers in the meadow Singing loud and clear. Plicn , the sunset came in glory, k And the toil of day is o'er, " Still the angels lent in silence, . Listening as before. i :!,, Then as dayligdt slowly vanished, 1" And the evening mists grew dim, Solemnly from distant voices i Rose a vesper hymn. , Bnt the chaunt was done and lingering Died upon the evening air: Y,et from the hill the radiant angels ri Stll were listening there. ' ' Silent came the gathering darkness, ' i: li: Bringing with it sleep and rest, ' ' ' " "gave a little bird Was singing v , ; -. In her leafy nest, " . -a S Througib the sound of war and and labor She had warbled all day long, ' i . While the angels leant and listened . r Only to her song. ' ' :J.::Mpvj 'But tlid starry night was coniming,' ,;.,; - jVnd die ceased kr little jay; , ,... ; . from the mountain-top the angels ' " Slowly passed away. ' ,""f V J Feom the Chamber J onrnal. eSIORY OF A POLICEMAN. THE PARTNER." r CONCLUDED.! lie was gone a considerable time, ana I was getting exceedingly impatient," when to my . surprise and consternation, he re entered the yard accompanied by a police officer. ''You are , the, gentleman from whom Mr. Evans received this fifty-pound note a few minutes ago are you not?" "Yes, to be sure," I answered stammer ing, and coloring, why, ,1 scarcely knew. "Then step this wayi if you please, said the man.- "That note, with nine others of the same value, is advertised in the evening ' papers, as having : been stolen from agentleman'scounting'houseinMark Lane." ' I thought I' should have fainted; and"' when a paragraph in the Globe was pointed out to me, offering a reward on the part of Mr. Hutton, ' for the appre hension of the person or persons who had that day stolen ten fifty -pound Bank of England notes the dates and numbers of which were given from his ofhee, I was so completely stunned, that but . for the police officer I should have dropped upon ;the floor. ' "This, perhaps, may be cleared "up," said.the officer, "so far as you, Mr. Hart, are concerned; and I will, if you like, go with you, address at Great Wimpole .street."; It., was of course necessary to acknowledge that iny name was not Hart, Afld that I had given a false address- Thw "was1 enough' I was at once secured, (and taken off to ihe station-house, search ted, 'and the other,, nine notes being found .upon me, no doubt was entertained of : my guilt. T obstinately declined giving: my real--name--very foolishly so, as I now perceive, since MrT Hutton' s clerk, the 'moment, he' say me the next day at the "court disclosed it as a matter of course. The result you know. Mr. Hutton when he heard who it was that had been taken into custody, kept resolutely out of the way; and,' after several remaksI was s$t "a liberty, the ! migistrate rem arkiog, th at .le'jknew of , po case , which showed, : in a ,uore . striking light, the; need of a public -prosecutor, In this country.-i My account of the way in which I became possessed of Ihe notes was, as you know, scouted and quite naturafty ; Mr; Gurtis, :i of Bishops- "igate street, having denied all knowledge' of Mfc. 'Brown,' !ot that he had commissioned .anjjOn&to present me with five, hundred pounds in exchange for my acceptance. . Thus sU'gmatized and disgraced, I feturn ' d Eome to find my father struck down, in wha,t was at first thought would prove mortal illness by the blow Captain Bxam ston a aoor shut against me and the set-. , ileji marriage of my eldest sister' 'r Jane, ' with an amiableyoung man, peremptorilly broken off by ' his relatives oh account of ' ( th(e assumed criminality of her brother." '.' 'This. is, '.indeed a . sad, mysterious r (business, Mr, . Webster,'', I remarked,! .'whea the young man ihad. ceased ; speak V iaS4 .''MV pray, ' tell me; did ' either Mr. Hutton or his' son know of your '. applica ' tion to Mr.' Curtis?" 'yA',' ;J f'l cannot say that either pf them' did q though it is more than probable thatlmen ? tiohed it to both 6f them." !" ''Weil, Mr. Webster, I have confidence in your veracity; ', but it is essential that I .-should see 'your father before, engaging in .this business.": I "He is anxious you should do so,' 'and a cany us possioie. . i, . ! , It was then arranged that I should call oa AYebster, senior, ,at threes o'clock ;the i;i same afternoon, and .announce myself' to ,thc ' servants as ' Mr. 'Thompson.1 ! I was ' punctual to the time appointed, ' and was ; forthwith ushered by one, of ins daughters iato her father's prcscuce, . He was hot yet sufficiently recovered to' leave his bed and I had hardly exchanged half a dozen sentences with him, when the same young lady by whom I had been introduced hast ily returned to say Mr. 'Hutton was be low and requested an immediate interiew.1 Mr. Webster bade his daughter ' tell Mr. Hutton he was engaged and could not be interrupted; and she was turning away to do so when I said hastily: ; : ; "Excuse me, Mr. Webster, but I should exceedingly like to hear with my own ears what Mr. Iluttoh has to say, unobserved by him." - :' ' : ' ' ' - "You may do so, with all my heart," I replied: "but how shall we manage to conceal you?" '"" ; ' '' : ; "Easily enough under the bed," and suiting the action to the word, I was in a moment out of sight. Miss Webster was then told to ask Mr. Hutting to walk up and in a few minutes that worthy " gentle man entered the room. A fter a few hyp-' ocritical ; condolences upon the invalid's state of health, Mr. Hutton came to the point at once and with a vengeance. t "I am come, Mr. Webster," he began in a determined tone, to say that I , will en dure tkis shilly-shalling no longer. -' Either you give up the bonds you hold of mine, for borrowed moneys" ; ? . : "Eleven thousand pounds and upwards groaned the sick man. ' .'tU'i u-l y "About that sum, I am aware, including interest; in ' discharge of which' load of debt I was, you know, to have given a third share of my business to your admi rable son. Well, agree at -once to cancel those bonds, or I forthwith prosecute your son, who will as certainly be convicted, and transported forife." .. ,f .si ."I tell you again,'' retorted the excited invaled "that I i. wilL not purchase mere forbeance to ; prosecute at the. cost of a single shilling., The . accusation would always be hanging over his head, and we should, remain forever, disgraced, as ;we are now,, in the. eyes of the worldjVfo a"I have tunred that bverhi my mind' replied Hutton "and I think, I can meet your wishes. , . Undertake, to-.cancel the debt I owe you; and . Irwi,ll'wait publicly to morrow upon the. magistrate with a letter . in my hand .purporting , to be from my son, and stating that it was he who took the notes from my desk, and employed a man by the name of Brown,, to exchange them for your son's acceptance, ; he being anxious that Mr. Edmond Webster should not become his father's partner; a purpose that would necessarilly be flustratedif he Edmund ;Websterv was enabled to marry and leave this country." ; . .. There was no answer to this audacious proposal for a minute or two, and then Mr. Webster, said, slowly: ; , "That my' son is innocent, I , am thoroughly , convinced" "Innocent!" exclaimed Mr. Hutton, with savage derision.f . '.'Have you taken leave of , your senses?" ... r . ... "Still,", continued the invalid, unmind- - ......... , . ful of the interruption, "it might beimpos- sible to prove, him so; and your proposi tion has a certain plausibility about it. I must however;4 have : time td consider on it." ' ' ' 11 t"-:- ' ted 4 '"Certaialy ; let us say;tftl this'da'y Veek. You cannot Choose but comply; forifydii do not, as certaisly as I stand here a liviiig man, your'sori shall,' immediately after thfe expiration of that " time, be on the' high road to the hulksi" l5Havingssaid this, Mr. Hutton went away, and I emerged from my very undignified lurking-place ' "I began to see a little clearer through this black affair," T said in reply to the old gentleman's questioning look; "and I trust we may yet be able to turn the ta bles upon" the ve.iy confident gentleman who has just left us." Now, if you please,?' I added, addressing "Miss i Webster, who had again returned. ' "I shall be glad of a few moments' Conversation nvitliy our brother" "She led thdJ Wajr fdowri: stairs, and I" found Mr. Edmund Webster in the dining-room.' "Have the1 kindness." I said, "to let me see thehat thatMr: Brc-wn left behind at the ' tavern in exchange for yours The young , man seemed sur prised at the apparent oddness of the re quest,, but immediately, complied with, it. :" And pray; .what maker or seller's name was pasted inside the crown . of jour jiiit, M;Webster?f -t, nj j.nt.r ,J;!r : ; ,;?.' Lewis, , ef bond street,,", he jreplied, VX always purchase .my hats there.,", r, Very good. AndnowastoMr. Brown's personal appearance. What is he at all like?'f '...,- . .i,:,t ,Z , "A stoutish middle-aged man, with very light hair, prominent nose and a pale face, considerably pock-marked." - "That will do for the present, Mr. Web ster; and let me beg that, till you see me again, not a soul reoeives a hint that we are moving in the business.' 1 1 h :ii I then left the - house.- That hat had furnished an important piece of informa tion; the printed label inside being. "Per; kins' Guilford. Surrey:" and at the Rose and Grown Inn, Guilford, Surrey, I alight ed the very next day at about two o'clock; in the strong hope of meeting in its steep streets or adjacent lanes with a stoutish gentleman, distinguished bv very ' light hair, a long nose? jmd a white, "pock-ihal k- ed face. The chance was,, at all events, worth a trial,, and, I very dilligently set to work to realize it, by, walking about from dawn till dark peering at every head I pas sed, and spending j-he evenings in the" most frequented parlors of the town. Many a bootless clui.-e I, "was led bv a distant glimpse oi ligLi, or red hair; and a pair of the longest legs I ever saw, kept me almost at a run for. two mortal hours one , sultry hot morning, on the road to Chertsy, be fore I headed him, and confronted a pair of fat cheeks, as round and red as an ap ple, between which lay,, scarcely visible, a short snub-nose. Patifcnce and perseve rance at length however, met with their reward.; I recognized my man as he was choping a joint of mutton in the market place. He lanswered precisely to the de scription given me, and wore, moreover, a fashionable hat,' strongly suggestive of Bond street.i- After a while he parted from hia wife', and made towards a public-house, into the parlor, of which I - entered .. close after him. ; - . h , 1: ! ., I had: now leisure to observe him, more closely. He appeared to be a respectable sort of man, but a care worn expression flitted at times over his face, which, to me, an adept in such signs, indicated with suffi cient plainness much anxiety of mind, ari sing, probably from pecuniary embarrass ment, not,-1 , judged, j from . a .burdened conscience. I presently. obtained further and ) decisive -. proof, : though that was scarcely needed, that Mr. Skinner, as the waiter called him, was my Mr. Brown, in rising to leave the room, I took his hat, which he had hung up, in apparent mis take for my own, and in the half-minute, that elapsed before : I replaced ; it, saw plainly enough, 'jfce wis, Bond street, Lon don," on the inside label. The only ques tion now was, how to best avail myself of the lucky turning up of Mr. Brown; and whilst I was meditating several modes of action, the sight of a board, upon which was painted, ,"This ground to be let in Building Leases; apply to Mr. Skinner, Builder,?; at once decided me. ! I called upon Mr Skinner, who lived half a mile out of Guilford the - next morning, inqui red as tO:the:conditionS:Of the said leases, walked with him over the ground, in quest tion, . calculated together how much' a handsome country-house would cost, and finally adjourned to the Rose and Crown to discuss the matter further over, a bottle of wine. .; ' Skinner was as free a soul. I r. found, as ever liquor betrayed into indis cretion: I soon heard" that he had lately been to London, and had a rich brother-in-law there by the name of Hutton, with other less interesting particulars. This charming confidence, he seemed to think, required "a return in kind, and after he had essayed; half-a-dozen indirect ques tions, I came frankly.out with : "There's no occasion to beat about the bush, Mr. Skinner; you wish to know who I.am, and especially if I am able to pay for the fine house we have been talking of. Well, then, I am, a money-dealer. . I lend cash, some times, on security.", ..... ."A pawnbroker?" enquired Mr. Skinr ner doubtfully. . . . , t "Not exactly that: I oftener take perr sons in pledge, than goods. What I mean by money-dealer, is a man who discounts the signatures of men with good expecta tions, who don't mind paying handsomely in the end for present accommodation." understand; a bill discounter?" "Precisely. .... But come, drink and pass .the decanter. A glear. that shot out of .the poor man's grey eyes strengthened a hope I had hardly, dared to entertain, that I was on the eye of a great success; but the trout it was clear, required to. be cau tiously;, played. Mr. Skinner , presently fell into a brown studdy which I did not in terrupt, contenting myself with refilling his glass as fact as he mechanically emp tied it. "A, bill discounter." said he at astj putting down his pipe, and turning towards me with a settled -purpose in his pok. "Is amount and length of time to run of any consequence?!'-i . " "None whatever, if the parties are safe," " Cash down on the nail?" t ."Cash down oh the nail mimisof course he interest." .. .: , ..;!,- Q course. Well, then, JMr. Tpmp- son,T have a promissorynote signed by a Mr. Edmund Webster, of . London, for five hundred and . fifty pounds, : at six months,. date, which I should like, to dis- 'Webster of the minorities?" . .. , ' 'No; his : father . is a retired .corn-mer chant, residing in the Regent's Park. The bill is, as .safe as a Bank-of-England note." " , "r . ... ' ;. ' . . ." ... " : "I know the party . But why doesn't the rich' broth er-inlaw your poke of cash it,for you?" Well replied Skinner, ' "no doubt he would; but the fact is, there is a dispute between hs about this very note. I owe him a iroodish bit of money ; and if he got it ihtd his hands", he'd of course be . '. . - " . - for deducting the amount, and1 I've been obliged to put him off by pretending it were accidentia burned soort after I 6b tainedit:"''; "'u " ;'.;;;' Vi ' ' ' 1 "Here it is then,'" saidSkinner, unclasp ing a stout leather pocket book. "I don't mind throwing back the odd fifty pounds." ,! I eagerly grasped the precious docu ment, glanced at it saw it, was all right, placed it in my J pocket arid suddenly changing my tone, and' rising from the table, said "Now then ' Skinner, alias Brown; I have to inform you that I am a detective police-officer,' and that you are my prisoner?' i, T - --; ! "Police! prisoner!'' shouted the aston ished man, as he leaped to his feet: "what are you talking of?" ' : ;: "I will tell. " Youf. brpther-in-law em ployed you to discount the note in my possession. You did so, pretehding tpt be possession... iyu uiu ao, pruuuig a Mr. Brown, the agent of a Mr.', Cuiiis but the villainoussequal of 'the transac ' iHilu A-4.. J i.J k'-'-I' ije t tion -the charging young Mr. Webster with having stolen the very fifty -pound notes you gave him in the coffee-room of the Bay Tree i Tavern I do not believe, thanks to Master Mutton's success in sup pressing the names in the police reports, you can be aware of." The bewildered man shook as with the ague in very ; limb, and, when I ceased speaking protested earnestly that he had no evil design in complying with his brother-in law's wishes. . , .'I am, willing to think so," I replied; "but, at all events, you must go with me to London quietly were best." To this he at last, though very reluc tantly, consented; and half an hour after- wards we were in the train, anu on our road to London. ,.- xne next morning, Mr. Webster s so licitors applied to Mr. Hutton for the im mediate liquidation of the bonds held by their client. This, as we had calculated, rendered him furious; andEdmund Web ster was. agahiatrested on the former charge, and- taken to the Malborough- street police-office where his father, Cap tain Bramstone, and other friends, impa tiently awaited his appearance, -. Mr. Hut ton this time appeared, as prosecutor, and deposited to the safe custody of the notes on the morning of the robbery. : "And you swear,'' said Mr. Webster's solicitor, "that you did not with your own hands give , the pretendly stolen notes to Brown, and request him to take them in Mr. Curtis's name to young Webster?" ; Hutton, greatly startled, glanced keen ly in the questioner's face, and did not im mediately answer. "No, I did not," he at last replied, in a low, shaking voice. i '.'Let me refresh your memory. Did you not say to Brown, .or rather Skinner your brother-in law" j ; . A slight scream escaped the quivering lips of the detected conspirator; and a blaze of frenzied anguish and alarm swept over his countenance, . leaving; it:as white as marble. No futher answer could be ob tained from him; as soon as . possible he left the office, followed by the groans and hisses' of the excited auditory.. Skinner was then brought forward: he made a full and ample confession, and Edmund Web ster , was at once discharged, amid the warm felicitations of the magistrate and the upi oarous gratulations of; his friends. It was intended to indict Mr.' Hutton for perjury, but the unhappy man chose to appear before a higher tribunal than that of the Old Bailey. - He was found dead in his bedroom early the next morning. -His affairs were found to be in a state of insolvency, though the deficit was . not large -fifteen shillings in the pound ' hav ing been, I understood,' ultimately paid to the creditors.' Miss1 Ellen Bramston, I must not in conclusion omit to state be came Mrs. Edmund Webster shortly after the triumphant vindication of her lover's character; and, I believe, Miss Webster was made a wife on the same day. Earthquake. . An earthquake at Humbolt Bay, up the coast some distance from San Francis co, occurred some weeks since, which was so great as to throw many of the inhabit ants frpm, their beds upon the floor; the houses rolled and undulated like ships up on .the .water. : Messrs. Ryan & Duff's wharf sunk about four feet, and a. saw mill belonging to the same gentlemen was thrown so much out of line as to damage the machinery, causing an entire suspen sion of their .work. The commotion on the water was equally perceptible. ' The Sacramento, as she lay at anchor, rolled and pitched for a few moments as'heavily as if she had been struck by a'squall. " , The old Spanish natives of California, who so long have" regarded' that country as the local home of earthquakes, often shrug their' shoulders when' they , look at the piles of hxick and mortar in Sah Fran cisco, which the new race'r have lately built. . They are confident of a big earth quake tumble, Eaq. ; A Swindle. About. , , ;. The .Cleveland "Herald, of . Saturday, cautions,, our. .Western and Southern peo ple against fan accomplished swindler," .thus:. . ". ffr ..; ,jfl . .. Joseph David Haits, but whose real name is believed to be Haus, has been carrying on in Baltimore and in this city a successful scheme5 of imposture. He professed to- be a Bohemian clergyman, flying from Austrian persecution and ex iled solely on accountof his having preach ed the gospel to some Roman Catholics. In Baltimore he obtained many subscrip tions to a proposed publication on Proph- ecy, and; as we are informed,! swindled an eminent f Presbyterian clergyman of of that city out of 200. ' Here he pro fessed to be an Episcopalian, desirous of engaging in missionary w6rk. He 'exhib ited what purported to be letters of orders signed by a bishop1 and three presbyters of the city of Prague. He is well in formed on ! all subjects,1 speaks English quite fluently, and exhibits the most stir- surprising ingenuity in. telling a well de vised tale to excite sympathy. A profess ed to have a wife and four children de pendent upon him, of whose escape from Bohemia' he gave most marvellous acT counts. : : . 1 f-p . mm i 1 Ei'ixArii. A number of old epitaphs are going the rounds of the" press; ' The following upon a tombstone in the cemetry near Cincinnati, is worthy of being placed am0ng the number: "Here lies whok, came. to this city and died for the benejiiieu - j' his health!" ' ' r . r in -..'-V fJi, ii . ; ; How to Spoil a Spirted Wife. 'What did you speak in that way to your wife for, young man?" asked old Uncle Rogers of his nephew. "Because it's fun to see her spark up, replied the hopeful Benedict -"I like to make her eyes shine, and her round cheeks grow red as any damask rose.' And it's quite tragic thq way she puts her little foot down and says "S-i-r!" By the muses! if you had staid long enough, Uncle, I'd have shown you a queen. You've no idea how grandly she tosses back her fierce little head, or with what a Dido-like air she wrings those , delicae hands of hers. It quite breaks the monotony of life to get up such tempest and blue sky. And go, as know she owns this spunkly temper, I just touch it up with the spur-matrimonial and let it "gallop till I see fit to rein in." : "I've as good a mind to root out that apling, Hal' and used it over your should sers, as I had this morning to eat my break fast before you spoiled my appetite. You are taking the surest way to ruin a merry- rung organization. Saving your pre sence, I despise tha man who thus tampers with a passionate but living spirit. Look at your wife how deilcate her beauty ! Look at your household the very temple of taste and neatness., The little fixings on the mantle, the fringing and tasseling here and there' give a touch beyond the common to your humble furniture.- That lounge that lends so grand an air to your parlor, I had set down for no less than a fifty when lo! it turns out that five dol lars and woman's ingenuty, deceived ah old, ' experienced upholsterer like myself, nen iook at tlie vines she has trained, the flowers she has planted, that lean tow- ard her when she approache he approaches them as if she. was their guardian angel. Why; Hal, is it possible that possession of such a being" as this tempts you to . an absurdity that will surely end in destruction of your domestic happiness?" . "You are mighty serious about this lit tle thing, Uncle." "Serious? Unfortunately, I am some thing more a victim to my own" indul: gence in a, similar infatuation. , You have heard" here Uncle Rorgers gave a great sigh "that I am not at home. My own fault every bit of ill!", and the old man gave Mother Eearfhva savage blow with hiscane. "If a man marries an angel, and torments her into a fiend, who's to blame but himself? My wife was very handsome and as. you say, spunky. There never needed to have been a warm word between us; but I liked to see her angry. I liked to see the delicate nostrils expand the large bright eyes scintilate sparks of fire but I did it just once too often. I know the very time that anger raised the final barrier of opposition, and that nice sense of right became an exact ing and imperious tormenter. And now your uncle is driven from the home of his nephew, where he hoped for peace, and tortured with "the fresh operiTng of old wounds. I tell you, Hal, you will spoil your wife you will ruin her, it's not manly it's a burning shame;" and the old man's thin lips quivered with excite ment. ' ' ' ' ': ' He said nothing then, -but when he re turned he ground his 1 pride between his teeth and begged his wife's pardon. . '" - . "I'll never taunt you for' fun again, Carry," he said in a low tone. And she replied, as she hid her tearful face in his bosom 1' ' ' "I am so quck, so passionate but nev er began it; andyOu have been so noble that I will try and conquer this hasty temper. "But, Hal," she added, rough ly shaking her cUrls in his face, ."what will you do for your queen? what .will become of Dido, tragedy, &c, eh?" The husband blushed. (I contend that a man looks handsome when he blushes) and a kiss sealed the reconciliation. To-day, after forty years of wedded life, Hal boasted . that he remembers but once making up after a storm, and that was away back in the honey moon. ' Ever since'he has had still waters and a steady voyage; ana itogers, who aied years ago peace be with his ashes--used to call Hal's home a paradise on earth. Corpulence a Crime. Mr. Cruce, 'm his Classic and Historical Portraits, speaks of , the dangers of becoming' too fat in Sparta: . , ; "The ancient Spartans paid as much attention to the rearing of men, as the cattle breeders in modern England to the breeding of cattle. They took charge of the firmness and looseness of men's flesh, and regulated the degree of fatness to which it was lawful, in a free State, for any citizen to extend his body. Those who dared to grow too fat or too soft for military exercise and the service of Spar ta, were soundly whipped. . In one in stance, that of Nauclis, the son of Poly bus, the offender was brought before, the Ephorii, and .a meeting of the whole peo ple of Sparta, at which is unlawful fatness was publicly exposed, and he was threat ened with perpetual banishment, if he did not bring his body within the regular Spartan compass, and give up his culpa ble mode of living, which was declared to be more worthy of an Ionia,' than ason of Lacedemon. ' " '' : ' JZ3T Pork and bacon to the amount of above $100,000 were shipped from Madi son, Ind., on Thursday last. , ;: -,: . iJ"Light cometh out of darkness," as the Printer's Deyilsaid when he looked into an ink keg ; t ..ut.r.j Advancing the Price of Newspaper. We observe that many of the newspa pers that heretofore reduced their terms below 2,00 per annum, have returned to the tld subscription price, in conse quence of the advance in every thing that is bought with money. During the last six months printing paper has ad vanced in price 25 per cent. . Flour du ring the last year has ; nearly doubled in price, and every article" of produce has witnessed a similar rise. It is impossible to publish ' a good weekly paper, -at the present prices of produce and labor, for less than $2,00 per annum. The man who attempts it will either be out of pock et or run himself in debt, befoie he knows what he is about. We have had some eighteen years experience as a newspaper editor- and publisher, and we unhesita tingly say that with the present high pri ces of every ihing, we would rather pub lish a. paper with 1000 subscribers, at 2, 00 per i annum, than" one with a circula tion' 5000 copies, at 1,25 or 1,50 per annum. Cheap paper may obtain a large circulation; but somebody must suf fer a loss in the end it is inevitable. No man who is fond of reading, and -values a good newspaper, will consider $2 ,per annum as too high a price to pay for lit. There are some papers which are high f at any price, and there are others which are "above price" invaluable. Cheap literature is too often the dearest literature that a man can buy.' ' The shil- ling novels, with'yaHer, kivers," have been sold by the cart load, because they j were cheap, while very often it ' takes an I eight shilling book to extract the poison-; ous seeds implanted in the mind bv the I cheap novel. Ml. Vernon Banner. The First: American Newspapers. The first attempt to set up a newspaper in this country was made in Boston, in 1 690. " Of the paper then issued, only one copy is known to be in existence; and that copy is deposited in the State Paper Office in London. Number one of this paper, and probably the only number ever published, is dated Septembes 25, 1690. It is a small sheet of. four quarto pages, one of which is blank, and contains a re cord of passing occurrences,' foreign and domestic; Immediately on its publica tion it was noticed by the legislative au thorities. Four days after, they spoke of j it as a pamphlet; stated that it came out contrary to law, and contained "reflections of a very high nature;" they strictly for bade "anything in print, without license first obtained from those appointed by the Government to grant the same." It was printed by Richard Pierce, for Benjamin Harris. The latter had a! printing house in Boston, and printed chiefly for book sellers ' : ' i ; ; Crazy People. What absurd ideas sometimes get into the heads of crazy people! There is a patient in the asylum at Utica, who has been employed for the j last two years in getting up a steamboat whose engine shall be worked with Ep som salts. .v Another gentleman in an ad joining room proposes to put. elliptic springs under Niagara, "to ease the wa ter when it jumps;" while another is bus ily engaged in getting out timber for a "sixbladed horse" and a leather frying panl '' The Philosopher who said that the only reason why lunatics differ from oth er people is because they were more large ly imaginative than other folks, was not as far out of his reasoning as some people imagine. Musical. Learn to play on some, mu sical instrument. It will prove a great source of pleasure arid add vastly to the social institutions; We know am an who can get up a week's stock of happiness with "Old Hundred" on . a penny jew's harp, and another who is never in so great raptures as when sawing something like "Yankee Doodle" on a two-string four' and-sixpenny , fiddle. Music is a great discovery. For hatching happiness, it is not surpassed, except by a very pretty wife, stewed oysters, or a sirloin smother ed in Weathersfield onions. ;iJ5?Miss Maywood, an American dan seuse, has now created -quite a furor in in Florence, by her "performance of Mar garet, in the ballet of Faust. It has"ex cited no little surprise that America should have' produced such exquisite voluptu ousness and grace as have been manifes ted by this lady. She is said to have sur passed even Taglioniand Carlotti Grisi. . A Striking Idea. A little girl, who accompanied her mother to a place of worship, where the officiating "divine" was in the habit of ''talking '.forcibly" to to the sinners, to an extent which uncon verted "outsiders" consider as sometimes almost bordering upon profanity, exclaim ed, on her return: . ; "Mamma, I don't like Mr.F- .." ; "Why, my dear?" replied her mother, anxious to know the cause of such an expression of childish opinion.' , " "Lecause he talks saucy to God!" It struck me that there was a great deal of truthful meaning in the remark. A Dark Day Coming. There will be an extraordinary 5 eclipse of the sun on the 2Gthof May next,such a one as none but the oldest inhabitants have witnessed in this vicinity. It will be similar to the great eclipse of 1 806, since which" there none resemblinerit ? nearer than that of 1830, when eleven twelvetha of the eun was obscured. , r? . ' '-Yery Goodt'"- 'i0'" A Rev. Mr. Lunderlin, of Vermont; is 't accountable for the following.--s -It ia an i extempore effusion on a festival occasion 1 an extract:i! ' fS: '..j ti'o n-Ai "And now we might rest, but there.' i one bit of scandal against Uncle-; Sam, which his enemies handle; they say be'a diseased with a black headed cancer, and v to cover it up, they insist will not answer; - that some of his girls that raise sugar and cotton, from the self same disorders are. fast growing rotten. Mrs. Stowe in her e book says the black spot is slavery, upheld , and prolonged by political knavery; and '; for this Madame England has invited her over, to feast on good things, like a pigi t the clover. Now, of course, we all know, without any teacher, Hattie Stowe's a I smart woman because she's a Beechery and it is right for the Stafford House folks : to fly at her, and fondle, and toast her, and. pet her and pat her; but we must not for- s get in the midst of the bubble how .Uncle -Sam came at the first by this trouble; s 'tis true, the mark's on him, and pesters him badly, and when the right time comes he'll" dart with it gladly; but let them remember4 these Stafford House weasels, this sarne mother England has caught the r black, measels, she's spotted the child while in- that situation, and now she -turns rouhd: and vents her. indignation. But it's hop-' ed he'll be patient, and firm enduring, and that soon he will meet with an actual curb ing. The prescription we make is to pureg out the nation, by a thorough emetic of colonization. Far better than , all your Congressional nursing, than the spit-fire and spite of fanatical cursing; than your. snobs of reform, your humbug and tauack- ery, if you don't believe this you way ask ery, it you Mr. Thackeray." Impressions at First Sight. This subject being brought up at the supper table, was getting 'talked over '5 when the lady who presided ''o'er the cups and; tea," said "she always formed : an idea of a person at first sight; and that ' idea she found was generally a correct one.'' t ... "Mamma," said her youngest'son, in shrill voice that attracted the attention,q all present. ?'; ' " "-""' 'l- "Well, iay dear, what do you want?" J "I want to know,'.' said young America, "what you though when you first; saw me?" ; :-'-f- - V'-- i-i3-f-.j-.ifi-; There was no answer, to ."this; query but we learn that a general twiter prevail? ed, and that "Charlie" was taken, into the ...... kitchen immediately by the servant, For est City. Bern: - -i 'Vil'l K. Jl A Heroine. A letter from 'Wasliing ton says there is now before Congress a petition from Mrs. Elizabeth C. Smith,' of ''Ben Newman," volunteered in the Mex ican war, w'here she served .faithfully for ten months, when her sex was discovered, and she was discharged from the service. "Ben" lias since married, and now ap plies for her pay and bounty land. As the law applies to soldiers, and not to men, this female soldier may be successful, and she ought to be ! Cm. Enq. ' ' """ ' . "', JW A member of the South Carolina Legislature, an old bachelor, by the name of Evans, got off the followingcw d'esprit recently: die was introduced toja.beauti ful widow, also named Evans. .. The introw duction was in this wise; 'Mrs. . Evans, permit me to present to you Mr.4 Evans, ' "Mrs Evans,'! exclaimed Uhe;.spirited bachelor, "the? very. lady I have been in search of for the last eight years." . ; Through the Mountain. The bW tun nel through the Allegheny Mountains, tin the line of the Penneylvania railrdadfroni Philadelphia to Pittsburg, saving the dan gerous climbing lover theack-boneliy the cars, is now fully' completed. ' The trains will begin to run through; regularly on the 6th of next month?' " ' 1 '; ' 5: ' .. ' .- I'A .... T Crime on the increase. The popular idea that crime is, increasing in this eoun try faster than the population, is unfound ed. Statistic on the subject. show, that in New York the increase for the jast. ten years in the number of . State Prison con victs, is on 13 per cent., while the increase in the population during the same time is 23 percent,,; . .J.Ti ' j3T The Prussianshave: put glass fco" novel use. - A column, consisUng entire lyof glass, placed oh a pedestal of ; Car rara marble, and surmounted by a statue of Peace, six feet high, by the celebrated sculptor Rauch, has been erected - in the garden of the palace at Potsdam.:-; e The shaft is ornamented with -spiral lines of blue and white.- i -A ruwI a iff Steam Fire. Engine. A jpint commit tee of the city councils of Philadelphia have "accepted a proposal made by Mr. Harrison an engineer and machinist, to construct, upon a plan of - his "t own,1' a steam fire engine which shall answer the purpose designed at. least as 'well,1 if not better, "than the engine now irf uie In Cin cmnati, Slander. No one loves to tell a tale of slander to another who does not love to hear it. The arrow never -sticks in the rock, but sometimes rebounds and wounds, him who hurled it. - Learn, then; .to re buke ahd chebk the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen ;to it. with any pleasure. Jer&me. 1 The Ericcson. The Ericcsoti (hot air) ship, which has been recently built in New York, is soon to make a trial trip,"; the re sult of which is looked for with jjreatinter- t - '-. .:-'.';;.',. v-,sia JT.-ijf J?;i