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Thursday Morning, August )tS, 1850.
LIROGUT CITY CIRCULATION.
The Post Office ami Bank adjoining, are
sadly in need of anew sett of steps. The
present ones will hardly survive the tramp of
next winter’s business, and are already dan
gerous to a man who has’nt “ his eyeß about
him”—which very many have not as they coine
out reading their letters, or counting over their
bills.
Patriotism vs. Pelf.
At the adjournment of the last session of the
City Criminal Court, the Solicitor General
found himself surrounded by numerous “gen
tlemen of the jury,” who, after due hemming
and hawing, delicately hinted thut they were
ready to receipt for their pay. Imagine their
consternation when told, that the Court made
no pocket appeals to procure its jurors, but
threw itself entirely upon the patriotism of
citizens, willing and anxious to servo their
country, and hold up the hands of justice, lu
other words there was nothing coming to them!
However ludicrous this may be, wo insist thut
it is not right. Jurors in nil cases should be
paid for their services. Our laws in regard
to Jurors need overhauling; and the first
amendment should be, a clause of exemption
in favor of editors and doctors, who belong
moro to the public than themselves, and can
not suspend their operations without great de
triment to the “common safety and the gene
ral welfare,” of the country.
Not a newspaper can be found south of Ma
son and Dixon’s line, that does not exchange
with the most rank abolition papers, whether
published north, east or west.— Mobile Tribune.
Os course if the above means any thing, it
means that the Tribune exchanges with the
kind of papers it describes. So far so good.
But tho Tribune cannot speak for U3 as well
as itself. A paper can bo found that does not
exchange with an abolition, or free soil, or
even doubtful paper. That paper is the Col
umbus Sun, and there are many more like it
in this respect, in tho South.
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Many fears being entertained for the safety
of the Arabia which was leaking badly when
she sailed, Mr. Canard publishes a note re
ceived from Captain Judkins, before leaving
Halifax. Mr. Cunard entertains no fears nnd
states that the “pumping capacity” of the Ara
bia is one thousand tons per hour.
What’s Out P
Much speculation prevailed yesterday, as to
the meaning of the marks “C. F. C. 27,”
which wero to be seeu in white chalk, on al
most every cellar-door in town. Some talked
solemnly of Dark Lanterns and Midnight Con
claves; some, of ineendi-aries and-ism ; some
of the late escape at the County Jail; and
some, of the “Levellers,” anew Society in our
city, as report goes, numbering six hundred
members, and whose cardinal tenet is. “make
thenabobs divide with the plebeians.” VVe are
unskilled in riddles, but we venture the follow
ing translation, the words in parenthesis being
understood : Columbus Fillmore Club (meet to
night) 27 (tli inst.) This may cr may not
be a correct translation : it is certainly a plau
siblo one. One door that we saw had an inde
scribable something between a rose and a flow
er pot, and not a Utile like the ancient laby
rinth where the young and gay became entan
gled without hope of extrication.
From Kansas.
In addition to the Kansas news in our tele
graphic column, we have the following from a
dispatch to a New York paper:
Couriers are riding through tho River amd
Border counties, enlisting forces and raisin';
supplies. Every where preparations are mak
ing for war, and a most bloody conflict is anti
cipated. Gen. Richardson has gone to Fort
Leavenworth to ascertain if General Smith
acts by authority, and if not he (Richardson)
intends calling his militia into the field. The
steamer Polar Star came down last night with
six companies of volunteers ready for the field.
Three companies of cavalry and one of artille
ry intended leaviug Leavenworth City on the
19th.
Kansas news for tho next sow weeks will be
looked for with intense anxiety, and can scarce
ly fail to be of the most sanguinary character.
God defend the right!
Jonoe Hooper fires a blank cartridge at us
in the last Mail. At least such is the opinion
of the Committee ot Conference, whom we
callod to sit upon the matter. It would not be
gallant to return him a bullet, and we therefore
call on him to load up, and try it again, if he
wants an answer to his fire.
M. T. L. Conway who was receutly drowned
while bathing, at Long Island, was a member
of the firm of T. L. McKenna & Cos., Savan
nah, and as a man much esteemed.
Tho Columbia South Carolinian says that an
epidemic has appeared among the chickens
there, which can only be characterised as liver
complaint; that it has known chickens to die
of consumption and dropsy; but did not know
their livers were ever enlarged except artifi
cially by the manufacturers of pates Je foie gras
—a celebrated delicacy in great request among
epicures.
Professor Nicoll affirms that no relation ex
ists between the changes of the moon and the
weather. The question, the Professor ob
serves, has been tested and decided over and
over again by the discussion of long aud relia
ble meteorological tables, and adds pithily, ‘nor
do l know any othor way of testing any such
point.’
Thn New Orleans Delta of the 21st instant
says : “Ip to this date only 84 bales of new
cotton have been received here against 3811 to
same time last year. On the 20th of last Au
gust the steamer Princess arrived at tho Levea
with 1950 bales of the new crop! ”
It is stated that the Senor Escalante, Spanish
Minister at Washington, has sent his resigna
tion home, being unwilling to serve under
U Donnell’s government, unless he shall be
aided by the Progessisto party, of which he is
a leading member.
The Infinite I
Sir James Hamilton, the celebrated Scotch
metaphysician, recently deceased, had a fa
vorite dogma for which he contended to tho
day of his death, it was, that the finite mind
of man could not conceive of the infinite, which
word, to be brief, was synonymous in his opin
ion, with inconceivable. He held that man
could not conceive of space without limit—ab
solutely boundless ; nor of time as never be
ginning, nor ending. A writer in the last
Southern Quarterly Review, combats the Ham
iltonian theory, and with much ingenuity con
tends that we can conceive of time as never
having begun, and as never having an end.—
We have not the facilities for giving all his ar
guments, a portion of them requiring algebraic
signs for their expression. Neither is it im
portant that we should do so, as it is not so ;
much our purpose to debato the question with ;
him, as to advance another theory—acompro- \
raise between his theory and that of Harnil
tons’, believing as wo do that each is partly
right and partly wrong. One argumentof the j
Reviewer upon which he lays much stress, we
will notice, as it is germain to our own theory.
Among other proofs cited by him in proof of
our ability to conceive of the infinite, is the
large number of words in daily use among
men, by which they give expression to the idea
of infinity ; such for instance, as eternal, for
ever, immortal, everlusting, endless, &c., &c.
—the list is long. Now we submit, that con
sciously or not, these words are never used in
a retrospective sense ; they look to the future,
not the past. By immortal we mean never
dying or decaying ; by eternal never-ending;
by forever, always from this time forth ; end
less, and everlasting it is plain only apply to
the future. But we have no such word as
beginning lest; neither any synonyme for it;
neither any idea of it. All our synonymes of
the infinite in time, have a future significance.
In this sense we believe the idea of eternity to
be readily conceivable ; but in this sense only.
Our habitudes of thought all lead us to look upon
everything as having had a beginning and as
having had a maker, or, to coin a word, a caus
er. Wo may attempt to throw off these habi
tudes and take flight into the infinite past;
but in vain. We attribute every effect to a
cause known or unknown. Hence it is impos
sible for us to conceive of a self-existant, un
created being, however much we may believe
that such a being does really exist. We may
traverse the past for billions and billions and
billions of centuries, till at last with drooping
wing we alight at the feet, aud stand in the
awful presenco of the great First Cause. But
still the question recurs, who caused that
cause?—which then—wo speak it reverently
—ceases to be a cause, and becomes to the
feeble mind of man, an effect.
Nothing, we grant, is plainer to the pure
Reason than that there must have been a great
first cause, for all we see and know. But how
that cause came into beii g, without a still
precedent cause, is something that the human
mind cannot conceive of. All men, but stark
tools, believe it. But they believe without
understanding, as a child believes the world
to be rouud on the word of his father, and be
fore it is explained to him how such a thing
can be.
Very differently do we look upon the infinite
tuturo. This we hold to bo conceivable. Af
ter a start has once been made, a beginning
once had, man may grasp the idea of a forever.
Certainly not the man whoso thoughts never
rise above ephemera and moths ; but the man
to whom the everlasting hills afford medita
tion ; who can lift his gaze to the lofty moun
tains covered with eternal snows. Man is sur
rounded with a variety of objects each having
its allotted term of existence. Taking the
longest, he has but to multiply, when his mind
begins to expand, and leaping forward with
mighty bounds he comes at length to conceive
the weight and meaning of the word eternity.
Let us take for instance, tho most imperisha
blo substance in nature —the diamond. Let
it be excluded from all abrading influences,
even from the air itself; we can conceive that
under such conditions a diamond would exist
for billions of ages. But granted for argu
ment’s sake that it must perish at last—its light
must be dimmed, its symmetry bo broken, its
value bo destroyed by the law of decay. We
have only to take the ages of its existence,
and double them ; again double that product;
again double the last product, and so on, aud
on, until at last, a glimpse of the eternal
breaks upon us. Wo soon reach a point where
the horizon lifts itself, and no longer bars the
view; where all points for comparisons vanish,
aud the mind reels aud is lost in the sublimity
of its conception. So to lose one’s self while
looking into futurity, is to conceive of eterni
ty. We are therefore of opinion that man’s
ability to conceive of infinity in time, depends
upon whether ho thinks of an infinite past or
an infinite future. If past, we soon reach a
stopping place ; if future, we nover reach it;
and uovor to reach it, and to realize that we
caunot reach it, is to conceive of time without
end—eternity—the Infinite.
Whether or not the distinction we have
drawn, has ever been made in books, we are
not deeply read enough to know. But we are
sure that such distinction may be found in the
minds of the great mass of mankind.
The New Orleans Picayune has ordered one of
Hoe’s four Cylinder fast presses, which, when
completed nnd in operation, will be the first
South of Baltimore.
On the 12th inst., the Grand Jury of Sbinn
ston, Virginia, found a true bill against tho
Postmaster of that city for circulating, by de
livery to subscribers, copies of the New York
Tribune. A Mr. George Slocuin preferred the
charge nnd made affidavit that the Tribune was
an abolition document.
The American State Council of Kentucky,
have abolished the secresy feature, aud all rit
uals of the order, endorsed Fillmore, and ex
pressed the opinion that he will carry Ken
tucky.
H. L. Higley, Esq., for many years paying
teller in the Bank of Mobile, and recently its
Cashier, died in that city on Wednesday night
last.
It is said that there are two brothers in
Pike county, Ala., who married sisters, and
each have twelve boy children; the whole
twenty eight go it strong for Old Buck. If
this be true, and Old Buck is elected, he ought
to know where to find two timber inspectors
and two post mistresses in “the Alabam.”
The New Zealanders, loug before any white
man went among them had the tradition of the
“ Man in the Moon,” which nurses nowadays
tell for the amusement of children. Their
story is as follows ; A man named Celano ouce
happened to be thirsty; and coming near a
well by moonlight, he intended to drink ; but
a cloud coming over the moon prevented him.
He then cursed the moon, because it refused
to give him its light; but upon this the moon
came down aud took him forcibly, together
with a tree on which he had laid hold, and
there he is now seen, continued the Zealander,
with the tree, just as he was taken up.
Spurious coin, resembling in size and ap
pearance S2J gold pieces, are in circulation at
Washington, says the Star. They have on one
side the American Eagle, resembling that on
the quarter eagle, and ou the other the head
of Washington.
Information has beei received at the De
partment of State at Washington, from the
United Ssates Council at Gorkeuburg, of the
death of Levi Ramsay, in the hospital at that
place.
Yellow Fever in Charleston.
The Board of Health report one death for
the twenty-four hours ending Monday night,
10 o’clock.
Major Spullock, for the past three years
Auditor of the State Road, has been appointed
Superintendant vice Major Cooper, resigned.
Mr. Gaulding, editor of one of the Griffin pa
pers, has been appointed Auditor under Major
Spullock.
The “fall ” fights seem to have set in rathaj
earlier than usual this season. There were
two other lights, on Tuesday, which occurred
too late to be chronicled in our paper of yester
day. They were not very serious however,
we therefore give them the go-by.
Florence Nightingale.
This angel woman, whose noble nature and
self sacrificing humanities have shed such lus
tre on her sex and country, lias returned from
the scene of her labors, and, with the unob
trusive modesty which is the beautiful accom
paniment of genuine virtue, is at her father’s
country seat in Hampshire, discharging all
those duties which belong to the daughter of
an English squire. At evening she and her
only sister, in every way worthy to be so, may
be seen, in simple straw hats, wending their
way through those pleasant lanes which make
Hampshire beautiful, carrying to the cottage
of some poor or sick peasant both bodily and
mental comfort. As they pass, the laborers
always lean upon their spades to send a bless
ing after the “ dear, sweet ladies;” and if
the prayers of the poor can make smooth the
path to Heaven, their passage there will be
swift indeed. Mr. Nightingale, who is one of
the leading Unitarians of England, is univer
sally respected for his noble character as an
English gentleman, of which lie is the highest
and purest type.—English Paper.
Kansas Emigrants.
A friend tells us that he met at Cliattanoo
ga, Tenn., a few days since (the 22d inst.)
Messrs. Browder, Clayton and Johnson, with
a party of about 100 emigrants for Kansas.—
In the party were an old gentleman with liis
wife and three daughters. There were other
women and children in the crowd.
It is worthy of note that the West Point and
Georgia Railroad passed these emigrants free;
the Nashville road charged them only half
price ; the LaGrango and Atlanta road made
no reduction. — Mont. Mail.
Still Dispensing.
Our liberal souled fellow citizen, who pre
sides over Dame Fortune’s Lucky Lottery of
fice, up town, has again been “ caught in the
very act” of putting a pocket full of gold into
the hands of one of his customers ! The capi
tal prize of $15,000 of Class P., Aug. 15th,
was drawn by a gentleman of Charleston, on
Whole Ticket No. 6801. This is the way Win
ter attracts attention to his Southern Lottery
on the Havana plan, which draws in this city
on the 15th of every month. Some poor man
is sure, monthly, to be supplied by him, with
the tin, in sufficient quantity to make him com
fortable for life. — Georgia Citizen.
Sumner in Pennsylvania.
There lias been some excitement produced
in Blair, Cambria, aud other central counties
of this State, by a remark of Charles Sumner,
that Pennsylvanians were white slaves. Mr.
Sumner alleges that his remark was that John
Randolph said so. But it seems that ho quot
ed the remark approvingly. The gentlemen
to whom he said it hadculled on him with very
friendly feelings. But some of them at least
left very much exasperated. Their patriotism
and self respect, as children of the Keystone
State, were outraged at such an uncalled for
and insulting reproach. —PhiL Argus, 22d.
♦
From the Charleston Mercury.
Messrs. Editors : A few days ago, there ap
peared in the columns of a Southern paper, an
extract from a letter, to the effect that out
of the three hundred emigrants taken by me
to Kansas, all had returned except about fifty.
If, as we are bound to suppose, the writer
was a friend to the common cause aud desir
ous of promoting it. he was certainly indis
creet in communicating facts so well calcula
ted to dishearten our friends and prejudice
that cause. And, in tL_t event, his informa
tion possibly may be as much at fault as his
judgment.
When we reached the Territory, iu the lat
ter part of last April, my company was dis
banded, and dispersed ail over the Territory,
wherever they chose to go. Some two weeks
afterwards, when the Lawrence troubles broke
out, a part of my emigrants reassembled in the
Marshal’s posse. After these difficulties were
over, I again disbanded and dispersed them as
before.
With the exception of some half dozen, that
I was told had returned, my information iu re
spect to them is, that they still remain in the
Territory. It is true, that some on account of
business being interrupted in the Territory,
aud the season being too far advanced to se
lect and plant claims, took temporary employ
ment in the border couuties of Missouri, and
perhaps some in the Santa Fe trade; all, how
ever, still regarding the Territory as theirplace
of residence.
I do not believe that auy one possesses any
truer or more definite information of their
whereabouts than I have stated.
Respectfully, &c., J. BUFORD.
White Sulphur Springs, Aug. 18, 1856.
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
.Later from Europe.
Queiiec, Aug. 25.— The North American has
arrived with Liverpool dates to the 13th inst.
Commercial.
Cotton. —The market presents no change
from the rates reported for the Africa on the
9th. The sales for the two days, 11th and
12th, were 14,000; of which 5,000 were for
exporters and speculators, leaving 9,000 bales
for the trade.
London Money Market. —Consols closed for
Money 95a95f.
No political news of interest.
Still Later from Europe.
Halifax, Aug. 25.—The Niagara has ar
rived with Liverpool dates to the 16th inst.
Liverpool, August 16.—The market closed
dull ou Friday evening, the loth instant, but
without quotaple changes, and with sales for
the week of 37,000 bales, of which speculators
took 3000, and closing as follows :—Middling
Uplands 6 8-16; Fair Uplands 6g; Fair Or
leans 7d.
Tiie State of Trade at and around Man
chester continued as iu the last reports.
London Money Market. —The Money mar
ket has assumed more tightness, and Consols
95Ja95j.
The Havre Markets. —The Havre quota
tions of tho 12th inst. were: Orleans tres or
dinaire, 98.
The news is unimportant and uninteresting.
The difficulties about the Isle of Serpents have
been greatly overstated. Spain continues qui
et.
The prospects of crops in England give a
full average.
The Extra Session.
Washington, August 25.—Senator Weller
gave notice, in due form, of his intention to
offer a bill annulling all the laws of the Kan
sas Legislature, as in the eighteenth section of
the “Pacification bill.”
Both Houses adjourned without business, af
ter the customary resolutions of respect to the
memory of Mr. Meacham, Representative from
Vermont, whose decease was announced.
The Kansas Conflicts.
Columbia, August 25.—Our advices from
St. Louis, Mo., are to the 23d instant, and re
port that the late dispatches from Kansas have
produced great excitement in all the towns of
Missouri. At Boonville measures were in
stantly taken, and the sum of $5,000 prompt
ly realized to forward volunteers in aid of Gov
ernor Shannon, and in support of the laws.—
The same spirit prevails through the border
counties so far as heard from, and many citi
zens of discretion and substance have offered
their services to proceed to Kansas and remain
until law and order are restored. Tidings of
new conflicts are hourly expected.
Additional from Kansas.
Columbia, S. C., August 25.—Letters of
the 17th inst. from Lawrence, K. TANARUS., state that
the fight of the 16th took place near Lecomp
ton, and not in or against that town. Col. Ti
tus and his command were taken prisoners and
he badly wounded. The Free Soilers had ten
wounded and one mortally. The proposed at
tack on Lecompton was prevented by the U.
S. Dragcons.
Gov. Shannon had gone to Lawrence and de
manded release of prisoners taken by the Free
Soilers. After a conference it was agreed to
exchange prisoners and to disperse all armed
settlements.
Still Later.
St. Louis, Aug. 24.— Columbia, Aug. 25.
Reliable accounts from Kansas to the 20th in
stant, assure us that Lecompton has not been
yet attacked, although there was expectation
of an attack by a force of one thousand men.
under Lane. The Free State men had fortified
Lawrence iu case a retreat shall become neces
sary.
A call appears in this city, numerously sign
by our most influential citizens, for a meeting
to consider Kansas affairs, on Monday.
Four hundred volunteers have already gone
from Jackson county, and large companies are
forming in other counties-
Robinson and Browiu are still in custody of
the Territorial authorities, and Gen. Persifer
F. Smith has ordered all the available strength
of his command to be ready for instant service.
New York, August 25 —The Cotton mardet
has closed dull, and with no features or trans
actions otherwise notable.
New Orleans Markets.
New Orleans, August 25.—The stock of
Cotton here has been reduced to 800 bales, and
holders claim ruling rates more confidently.—
In this state we have therefore no transactions
of amount to be noted. Sugar 9 cts. Freights.
For Colton to Liverpool the rate is 13-32d.
An Uncommon Occurrence.
The Albany Knickerbocker says: “Avery
singular affair occurred in the court of general
sessions at the last term. A woman was
brought up and arraigned before her own
brother, who was ou the bench, on the charge
of keeping a house of prostitution. The broth
er sat motionless and pale as marble, but stern
aud inflexible as the Roman father who passed
the sentence of death on his own son. The
woman, although old in crime and lost to shame,
was so overcome by the scene that on reaching
her seat, she wept burning tears. It was a
scene that is rarely witnessed, and we hope
never to see the like again.”
Narrow Escape.
At a late meeting of the Natural History
Society, a rattlesnake found in Milton, Mass.,
and supposed at the time to have been killed,
was presented to the Society. This rattlesnake
having been immersed in alcohol for half an
hour or more, and generally supposed to be
dead, was taken from the bottle, and an exam
ination of the fangs and other organs about the
mouth was made by the Curator of Herpetolo
gy and others. Upon being replaced in the
jar of alcohol, the reptile came to life and
struggled violently, convincing the operators
that they had exposed themselves to no small
amount of danger in tiieir manipulations.—
Boston Trav., Aug. 19.
A Manufacturer’s Opinion.
Mr. W. A. Crocker, ftp intelligent manufac
turer of Massachusetts, iu a recent letter, pre
sents to the sectionalists of the North a prac
tical view of what would he the effect of dis
union, commercially aud pecuniarily, upon
that section of country. He tells them that “a
dissolution of the Union would depreciate the
value of the properly of the New England
States fifty cents on the dollar. The wheels
of the manufactories would be stopped, the
implements of the mechanic would be put
by, the ships decay at the decaying wharves,
and the grass spring up in the streets of tho
towns and cities. These would be the material
consequences. The moral consequences may
be summed up in a single line. The destruc
tion of the world’s last hope.”
It is said Lafayette sent for a hogshead o
earth from Bunker Hill, to be placed over his
body at his interment. The selectmen of Bos
ton received the application from his agent.
It was taken from the spot where Warren fell,
accompanied by a certificate that it was “gen
uine,” signed by three of the oldest veterans
of the town, who knew the locality.
Extensive Forgeries in Franne.
A lelter dated Paris, August 4th, say*.
“The alarming discovery has just been in,
that an immense number of forged notes of ,i -
Bauk of France, amounting, it is supposed
the value of many millions francs in eircu:
tion. The forgeries are so ingeniously ex tv
ted that several of the most experienced cler
in the bank were unable to detect them,
was only after a bundle of forged notes t
been minutely scrutinized by several p erßc ,
that the minute difference between the f a ;.
and genuine paper was detected. It was tt
found that out of a parcel of 88 notes 87
forged. The affair is so serious that oi%
have been given at the government offices n
to receive notes in payment at all, unless the
are first marked as good by the bank. ], I
stances have been mentioned to me to day
notes offered in payment of stamp duties beb
refused. As far as at present known, all
forged notes are of tho denomination ofh. :
fraucs. _
Corscian Brothers.
In the Church of Lamertou, nenr Tavist*,
are the effigies of Nicholas and Andrew Tr*
maine, twin brothers, born in that parish
whom it is related that not only were thn
alike in person that their familar
could not distinguish them apart, but an
traordinary sympathy existed between thtt
for even wheu at a distance from each otk,
they performed the same functions, hud ft*
same appetites and desires, and suffered ft.
same pains and anxieties at the same tiii*
They were killed together at Newhaven
1,663. _
An Indian Catacomb.
Mr. Warren Clark, of Gosport, writes toft.
Lockport Journal, that the laborers on the t
nal enlargement, near his residence, a few da: i
since, same upon a large deposite of bumi
skeletons, numbering, probably six hundn
They were all piled together, and though p?
feet when first exposed to the air, they son
crumbled after coming to light. It is suppose i
that this unusual assemblage of human i>
mains is due to the occurrence—perhaps mar:
years since—of a terrific Indian combat.
Can do their own Kissing.
Not a thousand miles from this village live j
a very exacting landholder. He makes li
tensnts “come to time” on the very day ft;
rent comes due, and will only relax his steal
deorees when a handsome woman is in que, I
tion. Not long since, he called for his rente:]
a very worthy mechanic who, by the way n,|
joices in the possession of a very pretty lit:, ]
wife. The husband was not at home wliet|
Shylock called, and he was enchanted withftj
pretty little wife of the tenent. She could ns |
liquidate the amount due; but the landloHl
becoming really enamored, told her he wont i
give her a receipt in full for just one kitil
“Sir,” said she, boiling with indignation 1
“myself and husband are very poor; pet-hip*
we cannot pay our rent; but 1 teil you, si:
we’re not so poor but that we can do ouro*:
kissing! ” Ain’t that a glorious consolatim \
for poor folks? The hardened creditor mi;
take all their property, but he can’t depriu
them of the privilege of kissing. —Elmira C
zette.
One of the Dentists!
The Albany Knickerbocker says: A felloi j
not long since called on Dr. Brockway, thedis
tinguished dentist, and wanted to havesoml
cavities in his teeth filled up. The Doctor ei- |
atnined his teeth, and told him he did not so-ij
any cavities ; but lie must needs look again f:;
the fello was confident there were several j
Doctor again told him hecou.d find none, an: j
he went away. A week or so after they tut: j
each other, and he was asked about those teeth i
“Oh! ” said the fellow, “what-his-name over )
here filled them for me—he found four hol
pretty large ones, too. I knew they vert
there.” “Ah,” replied the Doctor, “I look j
very carefully and did not see any ;” “well,’ j
said he, “he didn’t find ’em till after he’ll <W j
led a spell.”
“I once had the honor,” said Horatio Greet!!
ougb, “of hearing a President of the Unite
States talk of sculpture. He spoke of sever'J
works which he had seen, but declared tt: * I
the statue of a royal governor, still preserve; j
somewhere in Virginia, was the only worktks; |
gave him a full idea of the power of an j
‘The wrinkles in the boots, sir, are perfection. j
Lest any man should suppose that he or I wen j
inclined to amuse ourselves at the expense
sincerity and truth, I do declare that ties
were his words, and uttered with niii(- |
warmth.
Professor Stahl is about to establish a Pn j
testant Convent in Prussia. The project a; j
fords matter for a very animated conversatit:
in many of the Berlin circles, this being aniij
stitution which belonged, until now, exclusive
ly to the Catholic church. The conventitH
question is to be at once a refuge and an asv 1
luin for souls wearied with the affairs of ft j
world, and a kind of seminary for youth,
is to be called the Deaconage.
According to the Washington corresponds |
of the New York Tribune, some of his abo:!
tion friends wero put in great trepidation
Thursday night last, by Hon. P. S. Brook
who, with a friend visited Willard’s Hotel, i j
search of Mr. Sage aud Morgan, of the St*
York delegation, whom ho desired to chasta j
for insulting language which these gentleniS
had used in connection with his name. D®
says the writer : “The latter gentlemen wo j
instantly notified of the movements of Brook
so that they would not have been taken bys : l j
prise.”
Shoes.
Among tho new things of the ageist 11
manufacture of shoes by cementing togetk’ j
the pieces of leather of which they are
posed. A shoe is thus made without a peg l
a stictb, which it is said will never’rip awlf'i
not be torn apart in the seams, beoausc : |J
leather will tear first. A largo companyhfl
been started for this manufacture at Ballot I
Vale, the process being to cement the iWj
on the common wooden lasts and then A
them in ovens. But wo understand aiii*
proved process has been invented, by wliick
pair of shoes can be completed in five minute
The pieces are cemented on a hollow uieta
last, into which steam is introduced by tttr
ing a cock, and its heat sets the cement nlft’ - J
instantaneously.
Mothers of Great Men.
Among the mothers of great men,
of Sweberg deserves a foremost place; “l
few mothers have been able to boast of such |
lustrious sons as William of Orange. I
Lewis Adolphus. Henry, and John of
“Nothing,” says Mr. Motley, “can be ft; I
tender or more touching than the letters “ L
still exist from her hand, written to l> er
lustrious sons in hours of anxiety, or ang l1 ’ 1
and to the last recommending to them. ffi;j I
much earnest simplicity as if they were
little children at her knee, to rely always
the midst of the trials nnd dangers •
were to beset their paths through lift-
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