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COLUMBUS: Tuesday Mtirnlnjfi Aug 11, lH.’iU. Wm. Cullen, for many years Harbor Master of the Port of Savannah, died near that city Sunday afternoon. Horace Mann, Professor in the Antioch College, died at Yellow Springs on the 1 st inst. A dispatch from St. Louis, on the 2d, states that the Republicans, in that coun ty, were successful by large majorities. Mr. George Melius, late manager of the Louisville Theatre, died in that city, of typhoid fever, on the 27th ult. T. I*. Stubbs, of Macon, Senator from that county, in the Legislature, died in that city on Wednesday last. . A lot of 82 bales of fine cotton, a part of the crop of Hr. J. S. Sims, of Lexing- ; ton, was sold in Augusta, on Wednesday, at thirteen cents per pound. The Democracy of Spalding county, in convention at Griffin, on the 2d instant, nominated 11. P. Hill for the Sepate, and Wiley Patrick for the House. The President has returned to Wash- j ington, from Ledford Springs, in excellent health. It is stated that Lieut. Mowry will meet no opposition as delegate to Congress 1 from Arizona. Mr. Jeremiah Pitman, an old citizen of Montgomery, died at his residence in that ! city on Wednesday evening last. The Winans’ steamer at Baltimore made fifteen miles an hour, witli her new pad- ! dle-wheel, down the harbor, on Thurs- j day, the 28th ultimo. The Democracy of Chattahoochee coun- ! ty have nominated Col. Wm. S. Johnson j for the Senate, and James Whittle for i for Representative. Glynn County. At a convention of citizens of Glynn county, Hon. T. Cutler King was nomina ted as a candidate for tlic State Senate, and Hon. John L. Harris for the House. Arrival of tile Nova Scotian. ]!y a dispatch from Further Foint on the 7th, we learn that the steamship Nova Scotian has arrived at that point, with Liverpool dates to the 27th. She reports sales of cotton in Liverpool for three days at 44,000; market steady, and in some cases advanced Jd. Bread stuffs were advancing. Corn and Pro visions declining. Consols quoted at 03. ! The New York corresnondent of the j Philadelphia Ledger writing on Sunday, says: Capt. Doßevicre, “the gallant Zouave,” j made his appearance on Staten Island | this morning, in a magnificent barouche, i and cutting quite a swell. Several ladies wero in company, but not Miss Rlount. I The Paris Monitcur defends Napoleon’s Peace Treaty, and on the 20th says:— “Yesterday Napoleon received the great bodies of the State, to whose congratula- j tory addresses ho replied, justifying the war and the subsequent peace.” * —-♦ (<ov. “Wise— I Tlic Slave Trade. In his recent letter Gov. Wise says : “It would not only be ‘illegal’ and ‘incx- j pedient,’ but immoral and’disgraccful, for the United States to re-open tlio slave trade, or to tolerate the new importation of African slaves into this country.” —. — ♦ Kxpcdition against Mexico. Dispatches from Northern Mexico say that within ninety days 3,000 American troops will bo organized on the llio I Grande, armed and equipped for march- j ing on the city of Mexico and exterminat ing the wliolo Miramon faction. Texas. Tho ‘Anderson Central Texan, of the 30th ult., says: Cotton-picking commenced in this neighborhood on Monday last, the 25tli inst. The bolls are large, the cotton of good quality and the plant promising an abundant yield. Mr. Samuel Passmore, overseer for j Jas. W. Barnes, Esq,, gives us the pick ing of four hands, as follows: 204, 213, 230 and 231. Not high picking, but very good for the 28th of July. The Galveston News says that the Sea Island cotton crop of Texas will be two or three times as large as that of last year. The crop now promises remarka bly well. .+. Dtalli of a Kotcd Irishman. Henry Grattan, the younger, is dead, lie was once member of Parliament for Meath, in Ireland, and only surviving j son of the great Henry Grattan. This event took place rather suddenly on the 10th ult., at his residence in the county i of Wicklow. Mr. Grattan was among the faithful few who adhered to Mr. O’Cou- 1 nell throughout his stormy career of Irish agitation. Mr. Grattan leaves no ! male issue, his children consisting of two daughters, both recently married, and who, it is to be presumed, will in herit his large estates. * Impudence Taken Down. A bright mulatto, a resident of Savan nah, visited Charleston last week and put up at one of the first class hotels, enjoy ing his new position wonderfully, uutil j the landlord was informed of the imposi tion by a gentleman from Savannah. Cull'ec was found at the breakfast table in alibis glory, and expelled in a manner more vigorous than pleasant. The Mayor ordered thirty-nine, well laid on, and his head shaved, lie returned home a sad- j dcr and wiser nigger, and is now lying up in ordinary, patiently awaiting the re- j appearance of the capillary substance lost “ in his adventure.”— Savh. Rep. lJentli of Virginia Stewart. This young woman died at 3 o,clock on Thursday morning, at the New York Hos pital. She had been rapidly sinking for two days previous, and her death was : hourly expected. Dr. J. L. Hull made a yost-mortem examination, and found a wound on the left side of the head, an j inch and a half above the eyebrow, and, on removing the skull cap, it was ascer tained that the bullet had passed through the brain, and it was found on the side opposite to that on which it entered. The ball was much bruised and battered. The remains of deceased will be taken by her mother to Boston for interment. McDon aid, the murderer, was informed of her death, and the news seemed to depress his spirits very much.— N. 11 Xercs, s th. ♦ Catholicism in England. We learn from the Loudon Times these facts: “Her number of schools in Eng land is now 372, and tho amount of money granted to these by the State, for mainte nance, within the last year, was <£24,001 Is. lOd. The number of paid teachers in these schools is 350. Within the last year alone there was the large increase of 32 new schools aided by the State. The Church of Rome has lately succeeded in obtaining the appointment of paid chap lains in the army, with the rank of offi cers. There are thus now 19 commis sioned Romish chaplains in the State, four of whom have been gazetted for the army in England, and two for the navy at Sheerness and Portsea. Over all this the Church of Rome has now in England a hierarchy of 13 bishops with territorial titles, headed by a cardinal archbishop.” P. 11. Donnelly, formerly a respected banker of St. Louis, and a member of the firm of Bei oist & Donnelly, was recently sent by the Recorder of that city to the Workhouse on a charge of vagrancy. Wheat Crop of 1559. The Cincinnati Enquirer says: The wheat crop of this country, just harvest ed, is set down at 200,000,000 bushels, or about 40,000,000 barrels, or one and three-fifths of a barrel of flour for every one of the 25,000,000 of individ uals in this country. This would not , seem to be a great deal more than our j own wants would require, and it would not be if we bad not the other cereals, and particularly the great crop of Indian corn, to help out the supply. Ohio is given a production of 20,000,000 bu shels; Pennsylvania 25,000,000, New York 20,000,000, Illinois 20,000,000. The New England States have decreased in their production of wheat, but the West have increased four to one. The amount of land under wheat cultivation this year is thirty-three percent, greater than in 1855. We frequently hear of a production of thirty-one bushels to the , acre, but the actual production per acre does not average two-thirds of that amount. Death of Richard Rush. The Washington Constitution announc es the deatli of the Hon. Richard Rush, at Philadelphia, on Saturday last, at an advanced age. Mr. Rush was the son of I Benjamin Rush, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Mr. Rush was appointed Attorney General by Pres ident Madison in 1814, upon the resigna tion of the Hon. William Pinkney, of Maryland. In 1817 he was appointed Minister to England by President Mon i roe, and he afterwards published a volume | of his “Recollections at the Court of St. James.” In 1825 he was appointed Sec- I retary of the Treasury, by John Quincy Adams, and made an elaborate report in favor of a protective tariff. He was after wards nominated as a candidate for the Vice-Presidency on the same ticket with Mr. Adams, who was defeated for the Presidency by General Jackson ; was af terwards identified with Democratic poli tics, but we believe never again entered public life. —_ Savannah. The Republican says :—We iftve nev er enjoyed so pleasant a summer as that with which we are now being blessed. With the exception of some ten days or a fortnight in July, the atmosphere has been cool, with grateful showers, visi ting us frequently enough to keep down the dust and impart a freshness to vege tation, that makes cur streets look more like spring than midsummer. In point | of health the present season has never | been excelled. The doctors are being j starved out, and will have to leave the ‘ city if business don’t improve. We j would regret to lose all of them, but j there are a few that won’t be missed by ! | their patients. Telegraphic Communication xvlth Tallahassee. | The editor of the Tallahassee (Fla.) | Sentinel, says that there is a prospect of that city being put in communication with the rest of the world by telegraph I wires, within a few months. It is in con- | | templation to project a Telegraph line ! from that place through Quincy and Chat tahoochee to Marianna, at which point it j will connect with the lino already in suc ! eessful operation from Columbus, Ga., to | Apalachicola. Mr. Howe, the agent, has | secured subscriptions enough to author ize the ordering of tho wires, and it is ! intended to have tho line completed and in working order by the first of Novem ber. The distance is seventy miles, and tho cost is estimated at SIOO per mile—in ! all, $7,500. llog Cholera. A gentleman writing from Tennessee to our city on business, adds the following recipe for hog cholera, which wo think of j sufficient value to our readers to insert: “ Should the hog cholera make its ap- J pearance with you, I am informed by one I of the largest hog raisers in this county, that by sprinkling spirits of turpentine on the ear of corn and giving it to the hogs, it will prevent and cure the disease. It ought to he generally known. Con tinue to apply it, and it will certainly cure. It is easily done and cheap.” Ladies, Head. This. The Boston Transcript says that the ladies are introducing anew and beauti ful ornament for the parlor, mantel, or j centre table. They take large pine burs, sprinkle grass seed of any kind in them, and place them in pots of water. When the burs are soaked a few days they close j up in the form of solid cones; then the i I little spears of green grass begin to emerge from amongst the laminin, forming an ! ornament of rare and simple beauty. We see in Montgomery papers the an nouncement of our friend P. H. Brittan, ; as a candidate for Secretary of State of j Alabama. Col. Brittan is the man for the place, and possessing, as he does, the personal regard of hosts of prominent men in his State, there is every probabili ty of liis election. A better man, or one more capable, could not be chosen. A terrible accident occurred on the Northern Railroad near Schagticoke, N. j Y., Tuesday night. The down train due |in Albany at 7.25 p. m., while passing over the bridge which spans the Tomhan- j nock, was precipitated into the creek be low, a distance of twenty to twenty-five j feet. The water was about six to eight feet deep. Over thirteen persons are reported to have been killed. Steam Plows in England. At the meeting of the Royal Agricultu ral Society in Warwick, England, July 12th, a prominent feature of the exhibi tion was the collection of steam plows and j steam cultivators. Sixteen steam plows were entered for competition, and ten i steam cultivators, the last named being j intended for cutting and thoroughly pul verizing the soil to the depth of six to nine inches along a track four and a half to five or six feet wide. The Manchester Guardian says that “the most peculiar and novel implement under this head*is F. miaine’s patent steam rotary cultivator, which professes to perform perfect spade husbandry, digging six acres a day at nine shillings ($2.1(3) per acre. The machine is very cumbersome and unwiel dy, weighing ten tons : but it does not require any assistance from horses, as it is self-propelling.” Tlie Old Sea Serpent Again. The schooner Arabella, Capt. Boothby, arrived here last evening from Wells, Me. Capt. B. states that otf Boone Is land Ledge he and his crew distinctly saw, about one hundred rods from the vessel, a school of whales, eight or ten in number. Among them was one answer- j ing the description given of the Sea Serpent. ihe monster several times raised his head ten or twelve feet and sometimes higher from the surface of the water, then plunged it beneath, and while his head was under water he un mercifully thrashed the whales with his tail. All hands and the captain were witnesses of this sport some considera ble time. Capt. B. represents his body to be about the size of a molasses tierce. ; —Boston Atlas. The most elegant suite of rooms in this world is at the Hotel de Yille, ia Paris. They form a circuit of about hnlf a mile, and require for their complete il | luraination 9,714 tapers and 2,387 gas burners. 7,000 visitors can be accom : modated at once, without discomfort, in * these spacious rooms. i The Duel Between Messrs. Mowry ami Cross—Exciting Scene. The Cincinnati Commercial has a letter giving the particulars of theduel between Lieutenant Sylvester Mowry, delegate from Arizona to Congress, and Edward E. Cross, of the “Arizonian.” It was fought at Tubac, in that territory, on the Bth ult. Mr. George I. Mercer acted as Lieut. Mowry’s friend, and Capt. John Donalson, United States Custom House officer at Calabasas, seconded Mr. Cross. The challenged party chose rifles of the Burnside patent, and forty pace3 were agreed upon. The writer says : About thirty spectators were present, comprising nearly two-thirds of the American residents within a circuit of fifty miles. It was a characteristic fron tier spectacle. Every man on the ground was armed with revolvers and bowie knives, and strong partisan feelings were manifested. The principals took their stations, and the word was given by Mr. George D. Mercer, Lieut. Mowry’s sec ond. Three shots were exchanged with out effect. Upon the fourth round, the cap on Mowry’s rifle did not explode, while Cross’ ball whistled harmlessly past his antagonist. Mowry held his rifle still j leveled, as an indication that he had not had his shot, and many, not understand ing the code, supposed that he designed trying it again. Several grasped their pistols as if to shoot him down, and there were cries of “Hold your fire!” ; “Don’t shoot, Mowry!” Meanwhile Cross stood perfectly calm, awaiting the result. Mr. Mercer advanced, when Mowry im mediately lowered his rifle and handed it to his second. They still claimed their j shot as a right under the code. Mr. Cross unhesitatingly expressed his wil lingness to grant it, but his second de murred. After conferring with several gen tlemen familiar with the code, who agreed with Mr. Mowry that he was entitled to the shot, Captain Donaldson acquiesced, and Mr. Cross handing him his rifle, fold ed his arms, apparently unconcerned, and faced his antagonist. At this stage of the proceedings the spectators became terribly excited.— Many, perhaps a majority, thought it un fair, and some spoke of putting a sum mary stop to the whole affair ; but, upon learning that those present, supposed to be best acquainted with the duello, had declared him entitled to it, they reluc j tantly fell back. At the word of com mand, Mr. Mowry fired in the air and declared himself satisfied. Cross had ; stood, with heroic valor, directly facing him, not knowing that he could rely upon his generosity to decline firing upon an unarmed foe, fully expecting death, and j yet not a nerve trembled—not a single evidence of fear was displayed. His an tagonist was completely unmanned. Tears sprung into his eyes, and all enmity van j ished before such an exhibition. A brave i man could not look upon even a deadly foe, thus circumstanced, without feeling ! deep emotion. Mr. Mercer, Mowry’s second, crossed | the field, and taking Cross by the hand, | informed him that Mr. Mowry was satis ; fied. They started forward to meet Mow | ry, who w T as advancing, and, after shaking j hands, they stood some minutes to re- | ceive the congratulations of their friends, j Both gentlemen are excellent shots, but ! there w r as a very strong wind blowing at the time, making good shooting impossi- j ble, especially with the weapons chosen j for this rencounter. The Burnside rifle j weighs but 7.1 pounds, is short and not well balanced. The bail is a large slug. ! over one ounce in weight. They will project a ball 1,000 yards, and, like all i guns ranged for long distances, are not j well adapted for close shooting. Mowry’s first shot grazed his antagonist’s ear, causing an involuntary dodge, just per- i ceptible, and Mr. Cross’ second shot ] caused a similar movement on the part of | Mr. Mowry. Tlie Future of Clilna. A correspondent of a New York jour nal, writing from the U. S. ship Pow- | hatan, in Hong Kong harbor, says that, although tlie Chinese have been com- ! pelled to yield to European science and arms, the Chinese pride is not humbled, I nor the national spirits modified any more than the Chinese features. Unchangea- I bleness is the glory of a Chinaman ; when j he yields, it is from necessity ; when, he j changes, it is a sham, for the sake of j gain. According to the writer, it is uni versally admitted that the late war has produced no perceptible change in the j government, or in the temper of the peo ple, which was confirmed by the state- j ment of a highly intelligent French Mis- j sionary from the Western part of China, j where he has lived and ‘abored for a j dozen years, but to which he is unable j to return from the obstructions of the rebels. lie told the correspondent that a great part of the Chinese are even now ignorant that a war has existed, and treaties been made, while others, who know these facts, assert that the Empe ror concluded the treaties and made the changes and innovations in the old usa ges in intercourse and commerce with j foreign nations only from necessity, and not from his conviction and free will, and, therefore, that neither he nor they are bound to respect and observe them. Time only can disclose the future of China. Some even maintain that another war cannot be far distant. Obviously, it is I said, the central government has little power, and the eighteen provinces, hav ing each tho population of the United ; States, and even more, with a language j so provincial as to be almost a distinct one, patriotism and a national spirit are simply impossible, and a consolidated, energetic national movement equally so. . FlucU and Pam. The Manchester (N, H.) American says: Seven years ago an English boy of seventeen, stranger, engaged to work for us at type-setting, with which be had an indifferent knowledge. He was John Bull all over, persistent, stubborn and industrious—setting type by day and reading law in Riddle’s building at even ing. Some eight months passed, when he told us confidentially that a fortune was due his family in England from the recent decease of an uncle. His father was poor and aged, and he, himself, was the only claimant who was able to look after it. The next week he took passage for Liverpool. It was two years before we beard of him. Then he returned jolly and radiant with a fortune of over $60,- 000. We were anxious for an explana tion of the strange success of the almost penniless adventurer. “Pluck and Pam” had done the work. lie applied to the then Forign Secretary, and showed that persistence and courage which won him the influence and advice without his efforts would have been utterly use less. He is now a thrifty young lawyer in Wall street, and would knock down an Englishman who should dare disparage the old British Premier. ♦ The Successor of Count Cavour. The London Times says that, to com plete the public humiliation of Victor Emanuel, King of Sardinia, Napoleon has given him one of his own followers to be his minister, in the place of Cavour.— Count Arese, says the Times, is a man against whom Austria could have naught to urge, end whom she might herself have appointed to TuscaDy or Modena, if either of the Grand Dukes had failed her. He has been the intimate friend of Louis Napoleon during a long life, and was with him in America in his young days of adventure. The Times adds that Arese is a Lombard and not a Piedmont ese, and has no embarrassing antecedents of a constitutional character. Census of Augusta. The population of Augusta, according to the census of 1852, was 11,753 ; of the city and suburbs 14,072. The census re turns for the present year are nearly complete, and we shall know the result in a few days. We do not anticipate any material increase in the population of the city proper, for, since >852 the suburban retreats of Woodlawn, the Sand Hills, and other neighborhoods must have increased several thousands, and their population is made up chiefly of those who do busi- j ness in the city, attend church here, and whose dead swell the tables of our city ■ mortality.— Augusta Dispatch. Origin of Slavery. Mr. Bancroft in bis first volume of his History of the United States, gives an account of the early traffic of the Euro peans in slaves. In the middle ages the Venetians purchased white men, Chris tians and others, and sold them to the Saracens in Sicily and Spain. In England the Anglo-Saxon nobility sold their ser vants as slaves to foreigners. The Por tuguese first imported negro slaves, from Western Africa into Europe, in 1442. Spain soon engaged in the traffic, and negro slaves abounded in some of the places in that kingdom. After America was discovered, the Indians of Hispaniola were imported into Spain and made slaves. The Spaniards visited the coast of North America and kiduapped thousands of the Indians, whom they transported into sla very in Europe and the West Indies. Columbus himself kidnapped 500 native Americans and sent them into Spain, that they might be publicly sold at Seville. The practice of selling North American Indians into foreign bondage, continued for two centuries. Negro slavery was first introduced into America by Spanish slaveholders, who emigrated with their negroes. A royal edict of Spain authori zed negro slavery in America in 1518. s King Ferdinand himself seat from Seville fifty slaves to labor in the mines. In 1531 the direct traffic in slaves between Africa and Hispaniola was enjoined by royal ordinance. Las Casas, who saw the Indians vanishing away before the cruelties of the Spaniards, suggested that ! the negroes, who alone could endure se vere toils, might be further employed. This was in 1518. Sir John Hawkins was the first English man that engaged in the slave trade. In 1G52 he transported a large cargo of Afri cans to Hispaniola. In 1657 another ex pedition was prepared, and Queen Eliza beth protected and shared in the traffic. Hawkins, in one of his expeditions, set fire to an African city, and out of three thousand inhabitants, succeeded in seizing two hundred and sixty. James Smith, of Boston, and Thomas Keyser, first brought the colonies to participate in slavery. In 1654 they imported a cargo of negroes. Throughout Massachusetts the cry of justice was raised against them as male factors and murderers; the guilty men were committed for the offence, and the representatives of the people ordered the negroes to be restored to their native country at the public expense. At a later period, there wero both Indian aud negro slaves in Massachusetts. In 1620 a Dutch ship entered James river, and landed twenty negroes for sale. This was the epoch of the introduction of slavery in Virginia. For many years the Dutch were principally concerned in the slave trade in the market of Virginia. Good and Bad Luck. Good and bad luck are more intimately connected with character than is general ly acknowledged. 11. W. Beecher, in a recent lecture, says : “There are men who, supposing Provi dence to have an implacable spite against them, bemoan in poverty of a wretched old age the misfortunes of their lives. Luck, however, run against them and for others. One, with a good profession, lost his luck in the river, where he idled away his time in fishing, when he should have been in the office. Another, with a good trade, perpetually burnt up bis luck with bis hot temper, which provoked all his employers to leave him. Another, with a lucrative business, lost his luck by amazing diligence in everything but his business. Another, who was hon est and constant at his work, erred by perpetual misjudgment; he lacked discre tion. Hundreds lose their luck by en dorsing; by sanguine speculations; by trusting fraudulent men ; and by dishon est gains. A man never has good luck who has a bad wife. I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly’ hon est, who complained of bad luck. A good character, good habits, andiron industry, are impregnable to the assaults of ail the ill luck that fools ever dreamed of. But when I see a tatterdemalion creeping out of a grocery late in the forenoon, with his hands stuck in his pockets, the rim of his hat turned up, and the crown knocked in, I know he has had bad luck, for the worst of all luck is to be a sluggard, a knave, or a tippler. Terrible Explosion. The steamer Barnett, being engaged in towing a raft on yesterday morning, at about 11 o’clock, when within about four miles of this place her boiler exploded, instantly killing a negro named Dave, the property of Capt. Gomez; Michael Kirk land, deck hand, survived only about two hours, having been burned inwardly. Capt. Shaw is badly burnt, and received a severe wound on the left jaw, extending from the lower part of the temple to the chin; Capt. James Jarmon is severely scalded and received injuries on the head ; Andrew Stephens, mate, is severely scald ed, and also received injuries on the head; John Towell, Ist engineer, very badly scalded, supposed to be injured inwardly, and no hopes entertained of his recovery ; John Irvin, 2d engineer, severely scald ed ; Joe, the property of Mrs. Wm. P. De- Wees, scalded badly on the right side; Isham, cook, belonging to Capt. Shaw, slightly scalded. Captains Shaw and Jarmon were sitting by the pilot house at the time of the ex plosion. Capt. Jarmon landed on the forward deck, but Capt. Shaw was blown overboard, and had it not been for the timely assistance of Isham, his negro, would have drowned. Joe was also blown overboard, but swam to the wheel. P. S.—Since the above was put in type Mr. John Towell, Ist engineer, died of in juries received. Jacksonville Standard, 4 th inst. The Emperor of Austria. The young Emperor of Austria, now about twenty-nine years old, is said to be, in private life, an irreproachable man, and by no means a despot in the exercise of the despotic power which he possesses. But, if all accounts are true, the losses and defeats of Austria, in the late war, are as much attributable to the self-suffi ciency of Francis Joseph, and a vain-glo rious idea of his military abilities, which seems to have taken entire possession of his brain, as to the superior science and soldiership of his French adversaries. If this be so, his reflections upon the sacri fices of valiant hearts, which his inordi nate self-conceit has caused, would in duce any monarch of ordinary sensibili ties to abdicate his throne, and spend the rest of his days in a monastery. A finer body of troops, according to all accounts, j than the late Austrian army, never enter ed the field, and they have no reason for the humiliation which it is said they feel at the interposition of peace. There are no braver men in the world than Ger mans, who composed a considerable part of the rank and file, and most of the offi cers of the Austrian array. They are no ble specimens of well developed manhood, and, if led by French genius, would be invincible. It is lamentable enough to think of such an army being sacrificed by the blundering incompetency of their King. Destructive Fire. Between two and three o’clock this (Thursday) morning, a fire broke out in the building owned and occupied by Charles Spaeth as a saloon and boarding house, on the corner of Jackson and Tel fair streets; and, owing to the dry and combustible natuae of the material, the fire had made such headway before the engines arrived, that it could not be checked, and the house was entirely con sumed. Mr. Spaeth saved a good part of his filrniture and stock, although of course much of it is in a damaged state. Some of the boarders, of whom there were about half a dozen in the house, were obliged to leap from the windows in the upper rooms to effect their escape, losing a portion of their clothing and ef fects. The building was insured for $2,000. The amount of the loss could not be defi nitely ascertained. The dwelling house of Wm. Hardman, immediately adjoining on Telfair street, was for a while in great danger, but by , timely exertiens it was saved, with only a slight scorching. The origin of the fire is unknown. — Augusta Chronicle. Interesting Statistics. The conclusiou of peace in Europe ven ders the subjoined thoughts and statis tics particularly interesting. The domin ions of the new Kingdom formed by this peace are 37,640 square miles, with a population of seven million eight hundred thousand souls. Georgia has an area of 59,268 square miles, and her population is not a million and a half. Lombardy having been ceded to Pied mont, it follows that the two fortresses of Mantua and Peschiera, which have al ways formed tart of Lombardy, must be given up to King Victor Emanuel. Lom bardy has a superfices of 8,538 square miles, and a population of 2,800,000 souls. Lombardy has hitherto been di vided administratively iuto nine provinces or delegations, viz: Milan, Pavia, Lodi, Crema, Cremona, Como, Mantua, Sondrio, Brescia and Bergamo. The fortified towns of Mantua and Peschiera form part of the province of Mantua. The fortress of Pezzighettone is comprised in the pro vince of Cremona. After the annexation of Lombardy to Piedmont, this kingdom, the island of Sardinia included, will con tain a superfices of 37,640 square miles, , with a population of 7,800,000. As re gards territorial extent it will occupy a tenth rank in Europe, and will come im mediately after the kingdom of the two 1 Sicilies, and stands before Portugal and j Bavaria. With respect to population Sar dinia will stand in the ninth rank, on a level with Naples, and will be above Swe den and Norway, Belgium and Bavaria, j The following table will complete the I comparison as regards Italy : Area. Population. New Kingdom 37,640 square miles. 7,500,000 Venetia 9,525 “ 2.200,000 Papal States 17.21S 2,000,000 Tuscany 8,741 “ 1,750.000 Parma 2,268 “ 500j000 Modena 2,000 “ 410,000 Two Sicilies 42,000 “ 5,400,000 Horrible Accident. About three o’clock on yesterday after i noon the engine F. 11. Elmore exploded its boiler on the South Carolina Hail Road, 5 at the 76 mile post, 14 miles this side of Branehville, instantly killing five persons who were on the engine. The names of the persons killed ate King, the engineer, and two Germans, firemen, one of whose names was Donne gan, the name of the other we could not learn; and Mr. L. M. Chitty and a Mr. Mitchell. The two last named belonged to the regular freight train, and the El more was running on their schedule to take up a dirt train at Aiken. They went back to converse with the men on the El more, and were riding with them, a short distance behind the freight train, when the boiler of the Elmore exploded, killing them all. Their bodies were horribly mutilated, and Chitty was blown 100 yards. One was dashed against a tree, and fragments ! of their limbs and bodies were fouud ad- ; j hering to trees, and lying about in every I I direction. Their remains were gathered up and sent on to Charleston, where all, j j or nearly all, of them have families. We learn that Mr. King had been in | the employ of the road for many years. ! As no one was left to tell the sad story of : this truly horrible affair, our account of ! it to-day is derived from the report of it j brought by the train last night. If other j particulars are obtained we will give j them to-morrow. —Augusta Dispatch, 15th. \ The Jews in America. From a lecture delivered by Dr. Morris J. Franklin, in Providence, on Sunday evening, and reported in the Providence Evening Press, we gather some facts in relation to the Jews in the United States. The Jews in this country, the speaker said, now number about two hundred thousand. The attention of the Jews in Europe is turned towards America, on account of the persecution to which they are subjected in some countries on the continent, and a rapid increase in their numbers here may be expected by immi gration. Many Jews in the country are occupying prominent and influential posi tions in politics and business. Messrs. Yulee and Ben jamin, of the U. S. Senate, and Messrs. Zollicoffer, Oliver, Phillips, and Hart, of the National House of Rep resentatives, are numbered among the children of Abraham. Instead of reading the Scriptures in the Hebrew tongue, un derstood only as the Rabbi interprets it, many now use the English version. This class have introduced many reforms in their mode of worship—they now have their choirs, their organs, and their Sab bath Schools. The Hebrew Christians, the converted Jews in this country, num ber three or four hundred, and of this number nearly one hundred are engaged in preaching the Gospel of Christianity, or in a course of study preparatory to do ing so. ♦ Dreadful Accident to a Lion. The Cleveland l’laindealer fells of a fearful accident in Van Amburgh’s mena gerie. Some of the new keepers com menced to torment the lion. Wishing to hear him roar, the brutes spit tobacco juice in his eyes. This thoroughly maddened him, and his frenzy was terrific. The lion made a tremendous dash against the cage bars—they gave way—he cleared the cage with a bound, and sprang for the affrighted wretch on the pole. In the blindness of his rage the lion missed the man, striking his own head against the pole, and splitting himself from head to tail. It was done as evenly as though he had been sawed by an experienced me chanic. The uproar brought Mr. Van Amburgh to the spot. The emergency required promptness. This was no time for reflection or argument. Seizing the cleaved parts of the lion, the great “tam er” clapped them instantly together.— They stuck, and the lion was soon restor ed to consciousness. But imagine Van’s agony when he saw that he had put the lion together in the wrong way; that two of the animal’s legs were up and two down ! But the lion got well, and seems to enjoy himself better than ever. When he gets tired of walking on two legs he flops over on the other two. He is said to be a curious looking lion. Extraordinary Drought in Scotland. Accounts from Scotland state that the i drought during May and part of June was more severe than during any past year since 182 G. The rivers Earn and Tay were nearly dry— the famous Boon, immortalized by Burns, would slide through a gallon measure, and other well known streams and rivers were thoroughly dried up. In some places wa ter was so scarce that in villages it was sold at five shillings per bbl, and many had to go miles for water for their cat tle. The crops, notwithstanding, are re ported as looking excellent; and recent rains will no doubt advance them con siderably. Gaining at the Springs. The editor of the Warrenton Whig, writing from the Red Sweet (Va.) Springs, says : “A few days ago a couple of Southern gentlemen here, rich planters from Red River, played seven games of old sledge for §5,000 a game, and the winner took every game. §35,000 were lost, and the money paid, I learn, in a check on the Bank of Louisiana. I could give the names, but forbear.” Alleged Church lleform. Be see by the London correspondence of the Churchman, that a pretty effective war is making upon what is called the “Pew System,” in all the Churches of the Establishment in England. The ob ject of the war is to demolish the pews altogether, so that rich and poor may meet together, all on the same level, without distinction. The revenue lost in pew rent, it is proposed to make good by voluntary contributions. Important if True. Dr. Bissell, one of the quarantine phy sicians at Staten Island, is of the opinion that “if a person’s hair be washed he is not liable to disease.” The Norfolk Her ald supports the opinion: “So important a result,” says that paper, “from so sim ple a cause may see?n incredible to many, but not to us. There is not a more effectual preventative of disease than the imrner- . sion of the head jn cold water the year round.” i Business Endurance. Men of genius without endurance can not succeed. Men who stait in one kind of business may find it impossible to con tinue therein all their days. HI health may demand a change. New and wider fields of enterprise and success may be opened to them : new elements of charac- ! ter may be developed. Men may have a positive distaste for some pursuits, and success may demand a change. None of these cases fall within the general rule. Men may have rare talents, but if they “are everything by turn, and nothing long,’’ they must not expect to prosper. No form of business is free from vexa tion ; each man knows the spot on which his own harness chafes; but he cannot know how much his own ucighbor suffers. It is said that a Yankee can splice a rope in many different ways; an English sailor knows but one inode, but in that, method he does his work well. Life is not long enough to allow any one to be really mas ter of but one pursuit. The history of eminent men in all pro fessions and callings proves this. The great statesman, Daniel Webster, was a lawyer. His boyhood was marked only by uncommon industry ; as a speaker he did not excel in early life. With great deliberation lie selected the law as his profession, nor could he be deterred from his chosen pursuit. While a poor student, not the tempting prize of fifteen hundred dollars a year as clerk of the courts, then a large sum, gained with great difficulty for him, by the zeal and influence of his father, nor could all the persuasion of the father turn him from the mark he had set before him; and his great eulogist, the Attorney-General of Massachusetts, is another marked illustration of resolute endurance and indomitable industry — life-long—centering in one profession, making him one of the chief ornaments of that profession, if not its head in the United States. The Hon. Abbott Lawrence, whose wealth is poured out for all benevolent purposes in donations as large as the sen, can recall the time when he had his pro fession to select, and the first dollar of his splendid fortune to earn. lie chose deliberately a calling; he pursued that occupation with integrity and endurance, through dark and trying seasons, and the result is before the world. This case af fords an apt illustration of the proverb of the wise men, that a man “diligent in his business shall stand before kings, and not before mean men.” The late John Jacob Astor, as ho left his native Germany, paused beneath a linden tree, not far from the line that separated his native land from another, and made the resolutions, which he in | tended should guide him through life: 1. He would be honest; 2. He would be industrious; 3. He would never gamble, i He was on foot; his wealth was in a small bundle that swung from the stick that laid on his shoulder. The world was be fore him. He was able to carry them ! out. His success is the best comment on his endurance. Stephen Girard at the age of forty years was in quite moderate circumstances, hew ing the captain of a small coasting vessel on the Delaware, and part owner of the i same. No trait in his character was more marked than his endurance, and this ele- I meat gave him a fortune. All men who have succeeded well in life, have been men of high resolve and endurance. The famed William Pitt, in ; early life was fond of gambling ; the pas i sion increased with years ; he knew that | he must at once master the passion, or the passion would master him. lie made a firm resolve that he would never again play at a hazard game. He could make i such a resolution ; he could keep it. His | subsequent eminence was the fruit of that i power. William Wilberforce, in his ear j lier days, like most of young men of his j rank and age, loved the excitement of ! places of hazard. He was one night per | shaded to keep the faro bank, —he never j saw it before; he was appalled with what |he beheld. Sitting amid gaming, ruin ! and despair, he took the resolution that he would never again enter a gaming house. He changed his company with the change of his conduct, and subse quently became one of the most distin guished Englishmen of his age. ; Dr. Samuel Johnson was once request | ed to drink wine with a friend ; the Doc j tor proposed tea. “But drink a little j wine,” said his host. “I cannot,” was j the reply ;“1 know abstinence—l know I excess, but I know no medium. Long ; since, I resolved, as I could not drink a little wine, I would drink none at all.” A ; man who could thus support his resolu tion by action was a man of endurance, and that element is as well displayed in this incident as in the compilation of his great work. When Richard Brinsley | Sheridan made his first speech in Parlia | ment, it was regarded on all hands as a | most mortifying failure. Ilis friends urged him to abandon a parliamentary career, and enter some field better suited to his ability. “No,” said Sheridan, “No, it is in me, and it shall come out!” And it did, and he became one of the most splendid debaters in England.— Loyola, the founder of the order of Je suits, the courtier, the man of gallantry j and dissipation, obtained such mastery | over himself by labor and endurance, that, to illustrate the fact, he stood scvc ral hours, apparently unmoved, in a pond of ice and muddy water, up to his chin, j Perhaps, no other nation in Europe, at j that time, could have won the battle of | Waterloo, except the British, —because no other could have brought to that con flict that amount of endurance needed to win. For many hours that army stood manfully before the murderous fire of i the French; column after column fell, | while not a gun was discharged on their | part. One sullen word of command ran along (lie line as thousands fell-*—“File up! file up!” “Not yet—not yet!” was I the Iron Duke’s reply to earnest requests made to charge and fight the foe. At ! length the time of action came. The | charge was given, and victory perched upon the standard of England.— Hunt's \ Merchant's Magazine. A Short Bridal Trip. The Milwaukie News is responsible for the following story: On the 4th of July a business man of Boston—one of the well off merchants of that city—was married to a handsome young lady of Boston, “e was rich, do ing a good business, and forty years of bis life bad passed before he saw Miss M , the daughter of his lawyer and married her. On the morning of the sth they started on a western collectiog tour, arid last week arrived at tbis city and put up at the Newhall. On this short trip the rose had greatly faded in her cheek, and sadder had grown her eye. No one knows the cause, but last Monday they visited a lawyer ol this city, and signed papers agreeiug forever to separate—each to go where lancy or inclination might lead, t and henceforth be as strangers to each other. Ilg settled upon her Boston prop erty to the amount of §20,000, and gave her. besides, §I,OOO in cash, and yester day she left for Boston. Both parties were well educated, handsome, and ap parently well fitted for each other's soci ety, but some cause, unknown to out | siders, led to the above results. War with the United States wished for by Mexico. A correspondent of the New York Her ald inwritiug from Mexico, says: The tendency of affairs is growing more positively and directly towards a war with the United States. That is, a certain party in Mexico are bound by all their strength to bring about the occupa tion of this Republic by American troops. The immense contracts which were filled ; and paid for during Scott's invasion, the j oceans of money then expended; the prevalence of law and order, and the bet ter times generally, have not been forgot ton, and speculators here are just as anx ious that such times should return as the same class of speculators in the United States. The large sales of flour, grain, grass and animals, beef, and in fact everything, for cash, at greatly enhanced prices, are just as desirable now as they were then, and the beneficiaries then are working for a war now. They are the men who are constantly irritating these j . people against us, in hopes to produce acts which we cannot overlook and which we must avenge. j I Figuring; ilse Tiger i:i Chicago— s3B,ooo Won at Faro. A few nhrlit - since, while the honest ! and peaceful citizens ot this great mc ! tropolis were dozing upon their pillows, I and those only waked whom vice or crime kept from slumber, a curious scene was I transpiring in the i:m r apartment ot one of the most fashionable and well known j faro banks in this city The parties pres ’ ent were not numerous At one sde ot the table, and at the right of the dealer, I cat a well known Kentucky gentleman, now a resi lent of this city, and very popular as an auctioneer. Opposite to ! him were two clerks from dry goods stores on Lake street At the foot of the table were three voting gentlemen connected with certain of our city banks, and lour professional fancy men. The game com menced at 4 o’clock in the afternoon. It was now past 3 o’clock in the mopning, and the contest was kept up with umii minished vigor. Fortune early in the evening bad declared for the gentleman on the right of the dealer ; and although luck occasionally deserted him, it again and again returned, until his winnings were enormous. lie had up to this time won SIB,OOO. The perspiration stood in beaded drops upon the brows of the young men, and as they nervously laid down their coun ters on the squares, their hands shook with an emotion they could not conceal. Even the practical coolness of the profes sional gamblers deserted them, and they gnawed their lips in undisguised anxi ety. The Kentucky gentleman suddenly laid down checks to the amount- of SO,OOO, and as the dealer began to draw out the cards from the silver box in which they lie, left the table, and walked to the side board. The cards are dealt, and the i $6,000 are lost! This reduces the win nings of the Colonel to $12,000. A tem | porary cessation of the game takes place. A hasty supper is taken: the Colonel ! proposes to play no more. The others object; they arc firm in the belief that luck lias changed, and that they will win i their losses, which have been fearfully - heavy, back again. The Colonel con | sents, and the game is resumed. It is now 5 o’clock. Day has begun to break, | but the thick curtains of the apartment i keep out the strengthening light. | The young men consult among them selves. The Colonel has won $2,000 ! again. He is now winner to the tune of $14,000. They have SIO,OOO between them. They put their funds together, 1 place it in the hands of one of their number, and direct him to play until he j loses it all, or until he wins back what they have already lost. The game goes on. The Colonel wins ! SI,OO0 —then loses $3,000. Hope again j springs into the breasts of the young men. Their representative makes a bet |of $5,000. The company gather around with desperate interest. The cards fall | from the box —tliey lose ! Their funds j are reduced to $6,000 —for they have lost j some to the bank, beside that paid to the ! Colonel. And now their agent bets more I cautiously—first SI,OO0 —then SSOO. lie j loses steadily. Ilis last SSOO is reached. | He is pale as death—his pallor is reflect |ed in the faces of his comrades, lie pla ! ces their last stake on the cloth. The Colonel doubles it upon the opposite color. | The dealer hesitates —but only for a mo j merit. The cards are dealt—the Colonel : wins—the SSOO is shoved over to him : and SSOO more to the bank —and the j play is over. The Colonel rises with j $28,000 winnings in his pocket. The j others leave the tablej having lost nearly i that sum—the bank itself coming out j nearly even. The next day the fortunate Colonel set tled $28,000 upon his wife, and swore off from the gambling hells. Whether he will keep his word remains to be seen. What the young gentlemen did, who in one night lost $28,000 remains to be seen. But can $28,000 bo lost at a single sit ting, at such work as this, by such men as these, without serious consequences ? The scene we have related actually did occur. There are plenty of men who will read these lines, who know how true it is. Is a community in a healthy eon j dition when such things occur? There are nearly a dozen gambling | rooms in this city, kept in first-rate style, and doing a business like this every night. Their location is well known— they are to be easily found. The police have orders not to disturb them, and they flourish like a green bay tree. Chicago Democrat, Jubj'2Gth. Religious Freedom la Lombardy Whatever political disappointmentmay ■ have attended the recent pacification, j Lombardy has obtained rdigious freedom by its annexation to Sardinia, j The London Daily News remarks as follows upon the recent decree of the Sar dinian Government: “ The Governor of Milan recently ap pointed by Victor Emanuel, lias issued a decree declaring that the same liberty of conscience and of religious teaching which lias for many years prevailed in Piedmont is henceforth assured to the people of Lombardy. Under the free in stitutions that exist in the hereditary States of the Sardinian King, men have grown accustomed to think, speak and print whatever opinions they believe to be true in speculative and political science; wbat is far more precious in the sight of good men, far more perma nently valuable even as a means of na tional advancement of civilization in the sight of deep thinking men, freedom of worship and of education has been established in all the territories of the House of Savoy west of the Ticino. And now that the dividing stream has been crossed by the army of tho libera tion, and that Lombardy of its own spon i taneous will, as in 1848, has pronounced i for union with Piedmont, it is wise and just that the newly-organized govern ment of the Provinces thus united should afford the earliest proofs in its power of the equal spirit which it- undertakes its new obligations. A nobler evidence of I steadfastness and soundness of purpose, it could not give than this. There is no sectarian object to be gained in Lombardy by the enactments of guarantees of ‘ soul liberty.’ There are no disaffected Hu guenots to be won over by concessions to the recently established order of things. No powerful section or class is to be pro pitiated as in other countries, by the proclamation of the principle of religious freedom. Curing Green Corn. The following is the Indian method by which they treat green corn for m iking succotash, &c., during winter. When the green corn is fit for use, a pit is dug from two to three feet it diameter at the top, and gradually enlarging it at the bottom, say five feet down, from six to eight feet in diameter. A large fire is then built near by, on which stones are heated, and when redhot the stones and live coals are shoveled into the bottom cf the pit, and sprinkled over with fine loose dirt. The corn is then thrown in with the husks on, just as it is pulled from the stalk, until the pit is nearly full. Then comes a thin layer of loose dirt, then hot stones, (enough to cover the pit,) and the whole covered with earth to retain the heat. When the whole cools off, (which takes several days,) the pit is opened, avid the corn is found to be most delight fully cooked. When cool (he husks are stripped off, and the corn dried in the sun ; when thoroughly dried the corn is shelled otf easily, and is then packed away in bags for use. ♦> The Roman Catholic Bishop of Mon treal has addressed a letter to his clergy calling upon them, as soon as possible, to pronounce from their pulpits “a strong warning against the opera, the theatre, circus and other amusements of a similar nature which at the present moment are a real scandal to our city and country districts.” Honor to Genet al Q,uitma* We have been shown two designs for the monument proposed to be erected in Natchez, to the memory of Gen. John A Quitman. One of will cost, when completed, §50,000, and the other §20,- 000.— Vicksburg Whig. i English View of American Imlt . pendente. the Hamilton (Canada) Times, of the hh.lulv. give.; forcible exjua ...-lon to tin just ari ! liberal views in regard t<> Amor ica, and the war of American Independ ence, which now prevail in the English mind. The Revolutionary war, says the Times, was not a war between the British Empire and the American Colonists. “It was a contest between human rights and kingly insolence; it was a contest between constitutionalism nu ! arbitrary power; between common sense and hon esty, nml/cudul pride and robbery. Eng lishmen will needs mourn over the good blood which was poured out on the field of Ticonderoga, and lavished on the slopes of Bunker Hill. The plain, honest men, who fought for King George and died in his service, did their duty as far a they knew it; but better it was than that they should have triumphed and lived—tri umphed over the very genius of their country, the spirit of its greatne-v, the boast of its history, the hope of its fu ture. “There never was u moment, in the course of that lamentable* strir*. when the heart of England did not beat tumultuous ly at the news of the Colonists’ tiimiipii. It was no traitorous of felon sympathy. Painful as were the circumstances tta-h.-v which it was elicited, every patriot saw that in the far off fields of America the fate of England herself was in the bal ance. The cause of that iratncidal e n test, which the pride of a monarch pro voked, was identical with that of freedom itself, and though some of the Americans of the present generation may have for gotton it, their fathers knew that they drew much of the inspiration by which they achieved a final triumph trom the knowledge of the fact that their course was sympathized in by ail the tii and friends of popular rights, and was in strict accordance with the principle which had even then given to Englishmen the claim to be called free. There is nothing of degradation to an Englishman in reflecting upon the victories which Washington won over the fories of his day, any more than there is in the recol lection of Naseby of Edgehill ; but it i a source of infinite pride to him to reflect that those bold ideas which have grown with the growth of the English people, and strengthened with their strength, were still as dear to the American colo nists as to tlieir British ancestors, and that they could nerve arms on the Atlan tic mainland in their defense, even as they had nerved the sturdy islanders for so many centuries. “Nor have the results of the triumph disappointed the hopes of those who re cognized in the contest the war of princi ple. The England of to-day is better, freer, greater, from the results of the Re volutionary War. The United States have, by tlieir stupendous progress, ag grandized the wealth and commerce of Britain, and consequently her power and influence. It is hard to say what advan tage England lost by the treaty of Paris, but it is certain that she gained much, lessened her responsibilities, and consol | idated her power. The broad lands of the West have been as freely shared by the British settler as by the American citizen. The spectacle of the rapid ad vancement of America in arts and com i mercc, her power and prosperity under popular government, have invigorated the spirit of freedom in Europe, and given to the human race a decided and glorious j elevation. England is proud of her lusty young scion ; and Canadians may, with perfect propriety, join in the acclamations with which Americans greet the “glori ous Fourth of July.’ ” These are noble and manly sentiments. | Moreover, they reflect the pub lic opinion of Englishmen of all parties at this time. It becomes both countries, belonging to the same parent stock, to forget and forgive the past, and being the only free nations on the face of the earth, to cherish and consolidate their ! present mutual good relations. ♦ A Monster Prayer Meeting. The Edinburg Witness gives a very interesting account of a great Union Prayer Meeting, held in the open air at Belfast, at which thousands attended. Some statements put down the number present as high as 30,000; while the lowest estimate that we have seen places it at 20,000. The meeting was held in the spacious grounds of the Royal Bo tanic Gardens. The Witness says: “Some idea of tho interest felt, may he imagined when we state that it is com puted that no fewer than 15,000 indi viduals arrived in Belfast, and that from 35,000 to 40,000 persons, in all, were present at the services. The leading streets of the town presented, during midday, a most remarkable aspect, par ticularly after the arrival of trains. The footways were literally thronged with well-dressed and respectable-looking people from the country—not passing along with the negligent and easy-going air of pleasure seeking excursionists, but staid and solemn in demeanor—the younger as well as the elder; and the majority with Bibles or liymn-books in their hands, as if proceeding to Sabbath services. Thus the living stream—such a stream as was never before witnessed in Belfast—poured onward for at least two hours, along both sides of the streets. The Rev. John Johnson, Moderator of the General Assembly to the Irish Pres byterian Church, presided, and he was supported by the ministers of the differ ent Protestant denominations in and around Belfast. Many were also present from Scotland. At cue time there were no les3 than twenty subordinate meetings, numbering from 500 to 1,000 each. At the close of the general meeting, one of the ministers of the town, who has moved a great deal among the juvenile popula tion, was surrounded by a large assem blage of boys, who ultimately formed themselves into a procession, and march ed into town, singing ‘Oh ! that will fie joyful,’ &c.” • ♦ Not His Mother. There was a pine coffin borne drifting snows. At the grave’s verge the lid was tin-own back, and the lace of the sleeper was revealed. It was a face marked with time and care—there was not a line of beauty in it; it was the countenance of a poor plain old woman. And yet I heard bitter sobs aud cheking sighs not far from iny elbow, and looking up I saw the children of the decease 1 ap- proaching to take the last look at a face which was dear and beautiful to them. ■ The affections never yet clung to an ob ject, without investing it with a degree of loveliness, and was there ever a kind, gentle mother, who was not beautiful in her children’s estimation? The hair which is tucked away under the muslin cap, may be thickly threaded with silver, the forehead may be furrowed, and tbo eye lusterless, still it is associated in the mind of the child, with the love which never slumbered, and a gentleness which nothing could ruffle. Ilow carelessly the sexton tramped around that grave, treading the fresh earth in among the new fallen snow 1 It was not his mother he was burying—you could see that at a glance—it was only a poor, plain old woman; almost a pauper. The cords rattled, and the clods after wards rumbled. Heaven comfort the motherless, in such an hour as that! ♦ Spontaneous Combustion Irnin I4u - ty Iron. Mr. Marsh, an able chemist, found that iron long under water, when reduced to powder, invariably becomes red hot, an i ignites anything it touches. A general knowledge of this is important, and it accounts for many spontaneous fires. A piece of rusty old iron, brought into con tact with a cotton bale in a warehouse or on shipboard, may occasion much loss ct life and property. It is said on authority that the “re markable Alexander” Dumas, in writing a book called Le Cauease, stole from the narratives of the captivity which two Russian ladies, the lhincesses Tchawt chawzde and Orbeliani, and a French wo man, Madam Drancey, underwent in the hands of Schamyl some years back, and a tribunal has fined him, his printer and publisher together, 725 francs.