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COLUMBUS:
Friday Morning* July IN, 1H56.
LARGEST CITY CIHCt'L.A TION.
Mail Failure
No papers ■were received by us yesterday
from points North of Augusta, the .South Bar
ulina car having failed to make the usual con
nection.
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Unpaid Letters.
The Postmaster General has made anew
arrangement by which to forward letters not
prepaid, to their address. Should au unpaid
letter be dropped in the office, it is made the
duty of the Postmaster at that office to write
to the person for whom the letter is intended,
informing him that such letter is in waiting
for him, andean be procured by forwarding a
stamp for its postage, and by prepaying the
note enclosing said stamp.
If it were possible for any folly or stupiuity
of the Post Office Department to surprise us, wo
should be astonished at this latest specimen of
its sapiency ; but this is impossible. The new
arrangement is a virtual repeal of the best
law the Department ever established —that re
quiring letters to bo invuriably prepaid. Any
relaxation of the utmost stringency of this
regulation, tends to defeat its ends ; for the
only reason why letters are prepaid has been
the positive certainty that otherwise they
would not bo sent. Everybody—the veriest
booby and clown even, bad -become aware of
the law, and tho country generally was satis
fied with its workings. But this new arrange
ment opens the door again to bucket-letters,
insulting letters, silly letters, and puts the
whole Post Office department at the mercy of
all the wags and wicked scamps in tho land,
who know full well how Lard it is fur human
curiosity to deny itself, and will not fail to
play upon it. For instance: Snptli wishes to
put a prank upon Jones, fie writes him such
a lotter as ho desires, and deposites it in the
office, unpaid. Jones is notified that for the ex
ceeding small consideration of six cents he can
get his letter. At first ho thinks, “nobody
but a booby or a scamp would have failed to
prepay, and as they are not worth hearing
from, I will not send for the letter.” But
presently a change comes over his mind. “Af
ter all,” he thinks, “six cents is but a trifle,
nnd I really should like to have the letter,
just for fear that it may be important. There’s
no telling what might liavo happened. Per
haps in great hurry of business the stamp was
forgotten ; or it might havo been put on and
didn’t stick, or something of that sort.” Jones
worries all day about the letter, nnd finding
that ho can get no peaco of his life until it is
obtained, he at last remits the change, is taken
in and done for. Miss Arabella Fitz Williams
will of course send for all letters to her. —
“ Who knows what that letter might contain !
In all probability nothing. But it will never
do to run the risk of losing something—a great
deal perhaps—just for a pitiful six cents.”
When the Postmasters are up to their eye
brows in correspondence, as they soou will be,
with Tom, Dick, Harry and Miss Arabella,
about unpaid letters from wags, scamps, and
men too mean and stingy to prepay, the De
partment will re-establish the system of pre
payment, and wonder that it had no better
sense than to tamper with so wise a regulation
and shear it of its efficiency.
Mechanics’ Union.
This association meets this evening to re
ceive tho Committee’s Report on a Constitu
tion and By-Laws, which they were appointed
to draft. Other business of interest will also
be under consideration, and as much depends
upon gotting a proper start, there should be a
full attendance of all concerned. “In a mul
titude of councils there is wisdom.”
The London Times has sent over a special
correspondent to this country whose business
will be to keep that journal duly posted in re
gard to American affairs, iguorancc of which
has recently led the Times into several blun
ders. The person selected is Mr. Lewis Fill
more of London, a gentleman of considerable
literary reputation and one of tho recent trans
lators of Goethe and Faust.
lu a late complimentary card to a Steamboat
Captain, not a thousbnd miles from Columbus,
which is signen by the passengers, the latter
thank the Captain for his faithful attention in
supplying nil their wants at table, “a Hercule
an task ’ in the language of the card. This
speaks well for their appetites in this hot
weather.
Fillmore in Ohio.
We find the following paragraph in the Sa
vannah Republican.
A Cincinnati correspondentof the New York
Express, writing under date of July 8, says:
lillmokk s Albany Speech has Redeemed
Ohio ! There has been tho greatest change
here in public sentiment siuce Mr. Fillmore’s
arrival in New York that was ever known,
even by that distinguished individual, tho
“ olJest Inhabitant.” The whole State is on
fire, and shouting for Fillmore and Donelson !
Judge Headley, of tk.s State, in the Black
Republican Convention at Philadelphia, pledg
ed Ohio to give ono hundred thousand majori
ty for Fremont. He yesterday said in the
Court House that Fillmoro’s Albany speech
had already reduced th majoritv to fifty thou
sand! Hurrah, then for the model President!
Ohio will give Fillmore and Donelson twenty
thousand majority !
Later from Utah.
The Cleveland Herald has received new from
Utah to May 28. The Mormons seem to be
getting along satisfactorily to themselves, and
are full of praying, preaching, feasting, danc
ing, aud polygamy as ever. Two substantial
terry boats have been built for tho ferry on
Bear river north of Salt Lake City, designed,
superintended, and launched with the bless
ings of President Young.
nT , Mav 7th Were very Promising in
lmrn b t . Lak ! Valley ’ 0n the 6th a snow
f ° P “ h J te T n * and mountains nearly to their
inch*. v t . Los Q ' e sc as ’ A P ril 8 - C( n was six
aud 130b h irrnn lXty be * n PlaUteJ
uli AKL 8f a P°, cuttings had been Bct out
May 14th abundant supply of asparagus, pie
£ a , ’ Mi a 2 Bth a nd , radißbeß atSalt Salt Lak
/’ ‘ y “ 1 n n P e 3lraw herries, green peas
Prospects still flattering for an
abundant harvest. Health of the people good.
The Earl of Clarendon to Mr. Dallas.
Foukign Quick, June 26, 1860.
Sir: The dispatch of Mr. Marcy, which you
read to me on tho 11th iust., and of which he
placed a copy of in my hands, has received
tho attentive consideration of her Majesty’s
government.
Her Majesty’s government are gratified at
learning that the assurances contained in my
note to you of the 80th of April, that no in
tention existed on the part her Majesty’s gov
ernment to violate the laws, compromi.-.e the
neutrality, or disregard the sovereignty of the
United States, have been unreservedly ac
cepted by the President; and that all cause of
difference with respect to the question of en
listment has ceased to exist between the gov
ernment of Great Brituin and of the United
States.
It is with much regret, however, that her
Majesty’s government have learned that the
President has been unable to alter the view
which he had taken of the conduct of her
Majesty’s Minister at Washington, and of her
Majesty’s Consul at N. York, Philadelphia and
Cincinnati, in regard to the transactions which
havo been under discussion between the two
governments.
Mr Marcy had, in his dispatch of Decem
ber 28, 1855, stated that the President was of
opinion that those officers of her Majesty had
violated the laws of the United States, by be
ing parties to enlistment within the Union;
that he on thut ground considered that they
had become unacceptable organs of her Ma
jesty’s Government in the United States, and
that ho consequently requested that they
might be removed from their respective posts.
Her Majesty’s Government did not share
this opinion of the President in regard to the
conduct of those officers of Her Majesty ; and
having communicated to those officers the
charges made against them, and the evidence
on which those charges rested, and having re
ceived trom them full denials of the truth of
the charges, and as much corroborating evi
dence as they were able to procure tending to
invalidate the testimony brought ugainst them,
her Majesty’s Government laid all these mat
ters fully and frankly before the government
of the United States, with the persuasion that
they would remove the unfavorable impression
which had been created in the mind of the
President with regard to the conduct and pro
ceedings of Her Majesty’s Minister at Wash
ington and of tho three above montioned Con
suls.
It appears, however, that this communica
has not produced the effect which Her Majes
ty’s government had expected; and Mr. Mar
cy in stating that tho President’s views of
these matters remained unaltered, accompa
nied that statement by a number of additional
documents, tending to confirm the view which
the President had originally taken of these
matters.
Her Majesty’s government have carefully
examined these additional documents, bnt do
not find in them any evidence worthy of belief,
which should shako the confidence which they
have reposed in the assurance of Mr. Cramp
ton and of the Consuls.
Her Majesty’s government retain the high
opinion which they have ever held of the zeal,
ability, aud integrity of Mr. Crumpton; and
of the earnest desire by which he has been
animated to avoid all just cause of offence to
the government to which be was accredited.
Her Majesty’s government cannot but believe
that ou many material points in respect to his
conduct, the President has been misled by er
roneous information, by the testimony of wit
nesses undeserving of belief.
Her Majesty’s government entertain similar
convictions as to the conduct of her Majesty’s
Consuls at New York, Philadelphia and Cin
cinnati.
Such a conflict of opinions on such a matter,
between the governments of two great powers
must necessarily be the subject of serious con
sideration by both; and Her Majesty’s gov
ernment have not failed to give to this matter
all tho consideration it justly deserved.
If Her Majesty’s government had been con
vinced, like the gavernment of the United
States, that Her Majesty’s officers, in defiance
of their instructions, violated the laws of the
United States, Her Majesty’s government
would, both out of defence to the United
States, and from a duo regard to the authori
ty of the British crown, have removed those
officers from the posts which they held.
If the government of a foreign [country
were capriciously, and without apparent be
lief that it had geod grounds for doing so, to
break off its diplomatic relations with the
Minister accredited to it by Her Majesty, Her
Majesty’s confidential servants, answerable for
maintaining the honor and dignity of the
crown, could not hesitato as to advising Her
Majesty equally to break off all diplomatic in
tercourse with the Minister of such govern
ments accredited to her Court.
But in the present case Her Majesty’s gov
ernment are bound to accept the formal and
repeated declarations of the President of his
belief that these officers of Her Majesty have
violated tho laws of the Union, and are, on
that account, unacceptable organs of commu
nication with the government and authorities
of the United States ; aud Her Majesty’s gov
ernment cannot deny to the government of the
United States a right similar to that which,
in a parallel case, they would claim for them
selves, the right, namely, of forming their own
judgment as to the bearing of the laws of the
Uunion upon the transactions which have
taken place within the Union.
I have, therefore, the honor to inform you
that, however deeply Her Majesty’s govern
ment regret a proceeding on the part of the
President ot the United States which cannot
but be considered as of an unfriendly charac
ter, they have not deemed it their duty on that
account to advise lkr Majesty to command
me to suspend my diplomatic intercourse with
you : und I have to assure you the high per
sonal esteem which is felt for you by all the
members of Her Majesty’s government, will
render it most agreeabtc to myself to have the
honor of entering into communication with
you upon all matters connected with the mu
tual relations of our two countries.
7ou will be certain of meeting on the part
of Her Majesty’s government, the most friend
ly feelings toward the United States, aud the
most anxious desires so to arrange all ques
tions of difference, as to reconcile the just
rights and real interests of the two countries
with tho maintenance of those amicable rela
tions, the preservation of which is of such
great importance to both. I am. &c.
(Signed) Clarendon.
In regard to Central American affairs. Lord
Clarendon closes his dispatch to Mr. Dallas as
follows:
“ller Majesty’s government have learned
with satisfaction that you aro instructed to |
enter into communication with mo in respect
in Central America, in order to ascertain, in
the first place, whether existing differences
cannot be promptly terminated by direct ne- j
gotiation, aud if they cannot be settled, then
to discuss the conditions of arbitration on
those points of difference as to which this
method of settlement may be requisite or ap
plicable. 1
“This is the course which Her Majesty’s go- !
vernment has throughout been willing to i
adopt; and I have accordingly the honor to
inform you that I am prepared to enter into
the proposed communication, and I trust that
your conferences will be conducted in that
spirit of cordiality and frankness which, as
Mr. Marcy justly observes, is dictated by the
true interests of Great Britain and the United
States. 1 am, &c.
(Signed) Clarendon.”
Mr. Buchanan’s Letter to the Tammany
Society.
Wheatland, Near Lancaster, Pa.
July 2, 1850.
Gentlemen —l have been honored by the
receipt of your invitation, on behalf of the
Tammany Society, to attend the celebration
of the approaching anpiverary of our national
independence at Tammany Hall. Would that
it were in my power to be present on this
great occasion ! 1 should, indeed, esteem it
a high privilege. At a period when the na
tional democratic party of the country are
everywhere rallying to defeud the constitu
tion and the Union against the sectional party
who would outlaw fifteen of our sister States
from the confederacy it must cheer the heart
of every patriot to know that the democracy
of the Empire State, in solid and united col
umn, are rushing to the rescue. Acting upon
your motto, that “past grievances are to be
buried in exertions for the future,” they must
prove invincible. Most gladly would I be
with you on this auspicious day, and sincerely
do I regret that this is impossible.
With sentiments of high respect, I remain
yours truly. JAMES BUCHANAN.
Mr. Dallas in the Queen’s Parlor.
A correspondent of the Manchester (Eng.)
Guardian thus describes Mr. Dallas, the Ame
rican minister, as he appeared at the Queen’s
Drawing Room, June 30:
Mr. Dallas moved in the gay crowd lien
distingue, as was said of Lord Castleragh, at
the Congress of Vienna, by the simplicity of
his attire. Mr. Dallas is the most venerable
of ail the American ministers that I re
member. If you saw him sitting upon the
platform of a Wesleyan Conference, you would
instinctively turn to him and declare that he
was the fittest man to preside over the delib
erations. Indeed, his long hair of silvery
white, his sage yet amiable expression, his
white neckcloth and black clerical looking
dress, completely realize one’s idea of the
president of a religious conclave. Mr. Dallas
paid his respects to her Majesty in a black
coat of Quaker-like cut, white waiscoat but
toned almost up to his throat, white neckcloth
and black knee-breeches, and black silk stock
ings ; and as his tall, yet venerable figure,
was seen in the diplomatic circle, closely fol
lowed by two young attaches similarly attired,
the Americans might have been proud of their
minister, for a more gentlemanly man, or one
whose bearing was indicative of more simple
dignity and self-respect, was not present at
the drawing room.”
From the Macon Telegraph.
Extension of the Southwestern Railroad.
We publish below the official proceedings of
the Railroad meeting at Cuthbert, held on the
4th iust., regretting that they did not come to
hand before the Telegraph of the Bth was out.
It will be seen that the meeting accepted hearti
ly the proposition of the Southwestern Com
pany, and are going to work with a will to
complete their twenty miles of the extension:
Cuthbert, July 4,185 G.
In pursuance of a previous notice, a large
number of citizens of Randolph and adjacent
counties met, for the purpose of taking into
consideration the construction of a Railroad
through this section of the country.
Hon. W. C. Perkins was called to the Chair,
and George S. Robinson requested to act as
Secretary.
Col. Furlow, one of the Directors of the
Southwestern Railroad, in a happy and forci
ble manner, demonstrated the importance of a
road to this place, and the benefits of a con
nexion with the Southwestern Railroad. He
read the resolutions of the President and Di
rectors of that Road, passed at a meeting held
in Macon ou the Ist iust., pledging themselves
to extend said Road twenty miles from Ameri
cus or Sumter City, towards Cuthbert.
Col. W’elles, President of the Brunswick
ltoad, being introduced, represented its inter
ests in a very able manner, and tho importance
to the people of this vicinity, of an ultimate
connexion with that road, but recommended
them to unite firsPwith the Southwestern Rail
Road, as it could be much earlier accomplish
ed.
lie was succeeded by Col. Cochran, ofEu
faula, Ala., who clearly satisfied all present,
that it is to the interest of Randolph and ad
jacent counties to unite in extending the South
western Railroad to this place and pledged
Barbour county to extend it from Cuthbert to
Eufaula.
lion. David Kiddo urged the importance of
united, prompt and energetic action in the
matter; and on motion, Hon. David Kiddo,
lion. S. A. Smith and M. Douglass, Esq., were
appointed by the Chair, a Committee to raiso
subscriptions for the extension of the South
western Railroad, with power to appoint sub
committees.
A meeting was also called to be held at Cuth
bert on the 19th inst., to raise one or more
companies, to grade twenty miles of said road
next to Cuthbert.
Dr. Mercer of Terrell, last but not least,
came forward and inado a very effective speech,
just suited to the occasion, assuring those
present Terrell would raise one hundred thon
saiul dollars lor the enterprise. Great enthu
siasm prevailed—the project is now a practi
cable one—the people have confidence in it—
and one and all are enlisting heart and hand
in the good work—satisfied that the road will
bo extended. The meeting then adjourned,
to partake of a sumptuous Barbecue, prepared
by the Committee for tho occasion.
. W. C. I’ERKINS, Chairman.
G. S. Rodinson, Secretary.
Oceanic Telegraph.
Submarine cables aro getting to be quite
comniou. The first ono was laid from Dover
to Calais three years ago. It is 22 miles iu
length and connects France and Englaed.
Another cresses 50 miles from Ipswich to
the Hague. Three cables across the Irish
bea; one from Holyhead to Dublin, which is
, es> , There is one crosses from Bpe*zia
Italy, to Corsica, about 100 miles iu length.
Another from Corsica, crosses tho Straits of
Bonifacio to Sardinia. Another from Varna,
(Austria,) crosses the Black Sea to Balaklava
which was of great service in fetching the
j . B^ eri ? the quickest news from the seat
.ot the late war. This cable is no larger than
a pipe stein, and consists of a simple conduc
tor insulated with gutta pereha. These are
he only complete submarine telegraphic ca
bles. One, however, is now being laid from
Sardinia to lums; another is contemplated
from Sard ilia to Malta; another from Malta
to Corfu, and one from Malta to Alexandria in
)tu T s ess importance are talked ,
ot. The one between America and Europe if
completed will be the triton among the min- |
nows, the giant of telegraphs among the pig- i
mies that are now in existence.
TELEGRAPHIC items.
Later from Europe.
The steamship Canadian has arrived at Que
bec, with Liverpool dates to the 2d inst.
Commercial-
Cotton in Liverpool had advanced l-10d. to i
£d. Sales of the three days 32,000 bales, ot
which speculators and exporters took 13,000.
The state of trade in the manufacturing dis
tricts was satisfactory.
Flour declined Is., Wheat declined 2d. a 3d.
Indian Corn declined Od. a Is. Money easy ,
at previous rates. Consols closed at 95§ —an j
advance of .\.
Political.
It is rumored that England, France and i
Austria have had a conference and settled af
fairs in Greece.
A warm debate had occurred in Parliament
in reference to the American dispute. A vote
censuring the ministry was defeated by 194.
From Washington.
July 15.—The Herbert jury has been dis
charged because of their inability to agree. It
is understood five were in favor of a verdict of
manslaughter and seven for acquital. A sec
ond trial is expected to commence to-morrow.
A resolution censuring Keitt for his con
nexion with the Sumner assault, was adopted
by 100 to 96. It is understood he will resign.
Edmondson of Virginia was exculpated.
Nicaraguan Affairs.
New Y'ork, July 15.—General Walker’s ar
my consists of eighteen hundred men and two
artillery companies.
Seven notorious vagabonds were shipped at
San Francisco per Sierra Nevada for Nicara
gua on the 20th ult.
General Lane in Kansas.
Gen. Lane, with several hundred men, has
arrived in Kansas.
Still Later from Europe.
The Niagara has arrived with three days
later news from Europe. Her advices have
not yet been sent through.
Markets.
Charleston, July I.—There was a brisk
demand in the cotton market to-day at full
prices. Sales 600 bales at 10J a I2j-c.
New Y’ork, July 15. — Cotton is active and
prices in favor of the seller. Sales to-day 3,000
bales.
Balloon Ascension.
Mous. Godard gave a grand balloon exhibi
tion at Manchester, N. H., on the 4th, which
was witnessed by 30,000 people. They cover
ed over acres and acres of land, curious to see
the largest balloou in the world ascend, with
a live horse attached. The wind blew fresh,
and Mon. Godard did not dare commence filling
the balloon till the wind went down, about
half-past six, as the rocking of the balloon ou
the ground might wear a hole in it. He went
up like a kite, standing on the back of the
horse, amid immense cheering, Madame Go
dard being in the car of the balloon alone.
They went up at twenty minutes past 8 o’clock,
the horse hanging with his head low down,
with eyes intently fixed upon the earth, with
out struggling a particle. They were soon
high in the heavens, about 9500 feet, accord
ing to Mons. Gadard’s estimate, sailing in a
southernly direction. They nyide a circuit of
about twelve miles, and at five minutes before
nine o’clock landed in a field belonging to Wm.
Plumer, in Londonderry.
They threw out an anchor and caught the
balloon on the tops of trees, where they re
mained some ten minutes before they could
get free, in the ruaentime the horse eating the
leaves of the trees, as if nothing strange had
happened. The folks where he landed thought
the end of the world was coming, and the dev
il was riding through the air. The woman
ran into the house and shut the door, and for
some minutes the man was afraid to come and
unfasten the horse. The horse went to feed
ing the moment he landed. Mons. Godard
says the people were very kind to him in Lon
donderry, and rendered him every assistance.
When he was at the highest point he says
the earth all looked level, the mountains seem
ing no higher than the valleys. The only ob
jection we have heard to the ascension is, that
the horse did not carry as good head and tail
as was shown on the bills.
Thrilling Scene.
Ou Monday night last, says the Lexington
(Mo.) Express, of the 21st of June, while lit
tle Miss Carroll was dexterously proceeding
with her exercises in tha cage of the leopard
at Baily’s circus, that ferocious beast, becom
ing wearied of her presence, pounced upon
and bit her once or twice causing the child to
turn her back upon the animal for a moment
and after a slight scream. The father and
mother of the child were both close at hand,
and at once reduced the beast to docility. All
were highly excited, and a general dis
position manifested to leave the seats, the
very worst thing that could be done under
such circumstances. The child was apparent
ly in imminent danger, and the coolness of
those having charge of her is all that saved
her from being torn to pieces.
The Limerick Uhrouicle mentions the fol
lowing teat :—ln putting the officers’ horses
of the Clare militia on board the Calypso, at
Newport, Monmouthshire, au incident occur
red which excited universal admiration. One
of them became exceedingly restive, and ob
stinately refused to pass the gangway, when
its owner observing the occurrence, promptly
ordered it to be removed, and before the crowd
could guess the object he vaulted in the saddle,
and leaped the noble animal from tho quay
into the ship. The officer who performed this
feat is Walton; and, wonderful to relate,
though the fall was from eight to ten feet, the
tide being low at the time, the horse and its
rider escaped unhurt.
Steam Melodies.
I “ orcester has succeeded in turning the un
earthly screech of the steam whistle into har
monious music. The new invention was at
tached to one of the locomotives on the Wor
cester and Nashua railroad, on Thursday, and
the editor of tho Worcester Transcript who
was one of the party that “faced tho music,”
thus speaks of the sensation created ns the en
gine left Worcester, to the tune of “Old Dan
Tucker.”
‘I The effect was magical, nay wonderful, j
exciting and amusing. Men left their fields I
and workshops, and rushed for the railway;
with them came women with babies ami with
out, children innumerable, and swarming like
ants when their ant hill is trodden on, all
agape and ngrin with wonder nnd delight;
everything animate was on the quivive.
Mormons Driven from Beaver Island.
The propeller Prarie State arivedat Detroit,
Monday, with fifteen families form Beaver
Island. Strang's friends have lost power,
and a terrible state of affairs exists among the
inhabitants. Strang has been removed to
Berlin, Wisconsin, where he was followed by a
lew of the deluded. He was greatly threat
ened and his life was not all sacred while at
St. Janies. Ihe original settlers there have
the power to, and are driving out tho Mor
mons with a grand rush, not even allowing
them to carry away anything from the Island.
GENERAL
John Burke, a haokman was sir Hi' l
ning at New Orleans on the 4th j, ack ligßilke
instant became a charred corpse*’ ‘ ’
The widow of Keating, the w • I
Willard’s Hotel, Washington, by’ jT’ , ’
is dead, leaving several oi-u1,’.,,, 11 -^‘jl
The first daily newspaper mihli >, ,1
ginia, was in 1780, and the auK?
was soo per copy, per annum. pticn 1
A man in Troy made a skirt f w , , , H’
ly, which used up one hundred nn
eight feet of rope. So says the \
Mirror. iXfcVf 1
The water of Jordan used for tl ■ i I
the Imperial Prince of France (
from Palestine by the Baron de
M’lle Rachel, since her return fr<
ca, has been in very bad health ] t "'”
be irretrievably iuined. She has
to place herself under medical treatm,,, *
There is something amusinir in h, • I
ty of the little girl, who asked a
to spell “ eat,” and upon being told q *‘’
not do it, desired her to try “kitten ” * l ’ ou^B
The Boston Board of Trade have , 1
to Commodore M. C. Perry a goldfuTH.
commemorative of the Japan ev np , tit ;
1853-54. Lieut Silas Bent was p™*
copy m silver 01 tlio same. V
La Bruyere says: “When a person of t H
mg and discernment reads a book, ana i, V
cites in him elevated thoughts, be may|. *
the work is good, and lie needs no miJ.UB
of proving it. 11 ‘■
‘Class in middle-aged geocranbv o , I
What is a pyramid?’
ens, one on top of ’tother.’ ‘ Wh PPP ;. ~
‘Where it aliens was.’ ‘Good, £ ■
head, and stop shooting wads at the giri'f: ic
It is difficult to conceive anything moreb
tiful than the reply given by one in nfflicttM
when lie was asked how he bore it so well
lightens the stroke,” said he, “to draw nearH
him who handles the rod.”
Emerson, in a lecture on the Anglo- \nierß
can, says: “ Americans would ride in“teamS
made of lucifer matches, if they could thViwH
save one hour in crossing the Atlantic. ’
When a lady takes a glass of mineral ■
with sarsaparilla syrup, at a soda fount ‘■
her cavalier asks for a glass of “the
is always given to him out of a different h.ttlH
and is of a pale amber color with strong tocH
qualities. Just watch him next time, Julia H
A little boy, while writhing under the toil
tures of an ague, was told by his mother |
rise up and take a powder she had prepare™
for him. “ Powder! powder!” said he, raisiß
himself on one elbow, and putting on ;i
“mother I ain’t a gun.” 1
At a recent trial in Wisconsin, the subjectoH
controversy was a demijohn of whisky, whiß
was ordered to be brought into the court. tB
defendant was tried, and so was the wlmkev-B
in other words, the whiskey was drunk and B
was the Jury.
It is stated that the dispatches from
Ministers at the principal European capilaß
contain assurances that nearly all the foreiß
legations unite in approving the principle B
policy embodied in Mr. Marcy’slast paper, M
missing Mr. Crumpton. B
At Thomson Columbia county, on the nigil
of the 14th inst., Joan A. Fleming,
known as John Andrew Watson, stabbed B
killed IV m. A. McDonald. Cause, rum
cards. The coroner’s jury returned a verdiß
of “wilful murder.” Watson is at large. I
A great movement of troops is said to B
going on in the Lombardo-Venitian States.-B
Old Marshal Radetzky, the military incubm
that unfortunate country is already at his \ B
of oppression, and has just certified comiuß
danger to his master Francis Joseph by askinß
for an army of 120,000 men. I
The other day a return was made to tlifl
English Parliament by which it appears tkafl
the Treasury had compounded with the Dultel
of Grafton by the payment of £197,000 cad, l
for an annual pension granted by Charles 111
to his illegitimate son, the ancestor of thepires-H
ent Duke of Grafton. . J
F. P. Blair, .Jr., a candidate for Congressß
of the Benton Democracy, from the St. Louis B
district, says in a published card: “If the.Nc-l
braska law is intended to be eulogized, then II
must say that I do not unite in the eulogy.—B
Neither am I, in any sense, in favor of the ex-B
tension of slavery. I have always denounced!
both, and think that neither can be too severe-1
ly denounced.”
A suit has just been tried at Cleveland, ini
which the Michigan and Erie Telegraph Com-I
pany was sued by R. Cook & Cos., for the incufl
rect transmission of a dispatch. They direct-1
ed their agent to pay 40 cents for wool, but the I
dispatch on delivery read forty-five cents.— I
Verdict for the plaintiffs, $750.
The religious journals of France continue to I
defend the doctrine of an avenging God to ac-1
count for the inundations. The Univers even I
goes so far as to invoke the example of the an-1
cients who sought in similar great calamitie
to appease the divine wrath by sacrifices. The
Univers, in its turn, would willingly offer as a
holocaust the vulgar democracy which dares t”
raise its voice against its intolerant doctrines.
Every man can be really great, if he will on
ly trust to his own instincts, think his own
thoughts, nnd say his own say. Tho stupidest
fellow, if he would but revenl with child-like
honesty what he feels and think when the stars
wink at him, when he sees the ocean for the
first time: when music comes over the waters,
or when he and his beloved look into each oth
er’s eyes—would he but reveal this, the world
would hail him as a genius in his way, anti
would prefer his story to all tho epics that
were ever written, from Homer to Scott.
One day a man was out hunting his hors
es, which had strayed for several days; he
rode up to the house of old Jake Turnet, a
Dutchman; the horse hunter exclaimed, good
morning. Jake replied, Tsh been avare of it
from ever since before sunup.’ ‘You bnvnl
seen any stray horses about the last day or two’
‘ V ou’re a liar! ripped out the Dutchman, ‘dev
have been playing der hell mit me lor some
length of time.’
A Delegate Sold.
“ Have you heard that Buchanan is dan
gerously ill—not expected to recover ?” said
a wagish Know Nothing on our streets the oth
er day, to a returned delegate to the Cincinnati
Convention
“ No,” replied tho latter in astonishment
“ Is it a fact ?”
“ Fact? Certainly,” rejoined the other. —
“ His physicians bled him very copiously and
his prostration is so great, that but little hope
is entertained of his recovery.”
“ Why, I hadn’t heard a word of that. What
in the world’s the matter with him? What did
they bleed him for ?”
“ To let the democratic blood out.”
“ Y'ou bed and,” answered delegate hu sk i‘
ly, and, it is reported, offered his “assailant
ten cents to say nothing about it.