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From the Temperance Crusader
TOADYISM.
BY A. B. SEALS.
Oh muse! from realms of ether bright,
From heights above, where golden light
Is shed around Parnassus’ throne.
Where oft at morn I kneel alone,
Descend and this my song inspire.
’Tis not to sing of fond desire,
Nor e’en the lover's heart to fire.
With words of love; but tune iny lyre,
And let its chords resound again
In Epic, not to Teian strain.
On yonder hill in mansion high.
Whose towers pierce the clear blue sky.
Dwells Johnny Bowls with wealth untold
In piles of bank notes, heaps of gold.
His parks are full of silver streams
Where lovers oft indulge their dreams;
The grassy lawns beneath their feet,
round with hedges sweet,
While flowers, pleasant to the eye,
Bloom sweetly ’Death the vernal sky.
His lambkins o’er the meadows stray,
His kids around the brooklets play,
The deer to crop the browsing grain,
Stray o’er the wide extended plain.
All tilings, to crown his festive board,
Are safely in his garner stored.
There’s nothing now to mar the peace
Os Johnny Bowls; but let me cease
On themes like these so long to dwell,
On themes like these I love so well.
Now Johnny Bowls’ extended halls
Are filled with massive plate, the walls
. Are hung with pictures decked in gold,
From Vandyke, West and Reynolds bold,
And music swells from harp and lute,
Nor is the voice of lovers mute.
Oh, Johnny Bowls! oh, Johnny Bowls’
(May Heaven foEgive their erring souls,)
Those lovers woo thy daughters sweet,
And fawn and fondle at thy feet.
How sleek their flowing locks descend
Their whiskers, curly, upward tend, w
And dark moustache, all twisted ’round
In sweet ambrosial essence drowned.
Their Byron collars, white as snow,
Peep out from satin folds below,
Where purple, blue and crimson vie
To beautify the rich neck tie:
Satin, broadcloth and prunella
Enrobe this fashionable fellow.
‘•My dear Miss Bowls, oh! charming love,
Oh! fair as forms from Heaven above.
If ever fonder lover sighed,
If ever swain for loved one died.
If Cupid e’er with cruel dart
Hath pierced a fond and loving heart,
I sigh for. thee with sad’ning tone—
<>li! do not turn away those eyes,
Blue as the soft cerulean skies,
But let me, on my bended knee,
Pour forth my loving soul to thee.
< >h ! let me bring iny gay guitar,
And let its chords resound afar,
And let iny song on zephyr wing,
Ascend up to thy lattice dear,
The magic song you love to hear.”
“Ah ! no, kind sir, those tender strains
Axe suited for the inaid whose chains
Os gold, like mine, can bind thy heart,
That ne’dr was pierced with true love’s dart—
The man who, lost to noble deeds,
And ne’er the voice of valor heeds;
And sighs to see a maiden’s eyes,
And pours his love to midnight skies,
Who longs to die beneath the willow
That overhangs the raging billow,
Fan never gain a heart like mine,
I'd scorn the maid who would be thine.
I cannot pluck a flower, but you
Must claim it as a token true ;
1 can not drop my glove or fan,
But you, unlike a noble man,
Mlist press them with a thousand kisses :
I’m not one of those silly misses
Whose ears are charmed with fawning Vows:
You sigli too much at dark eyebrows.
Hast night I read a silly strain
Os verse I called mine own; your.brain,
You said, was all on fire, ’twould melt
In strains of burning love. I felt
As if an ape were near me then,
A toady in the shape of men—
(Jo, then, kind sir, nor e’er again
Come in my sight; thy silly brain
I would not melt for heaps of gold,
But I must love a heart more bold ;
My father’s wealth and acres broad
Must claim some other, nobler lord.
♦
Auaclirouisms, and Other Incon
gruities of Shakspcare.
In the dramatis persona} of many of
Shakspeave’s plays, we find a medley of
ancient and modern names that is often
extremely ridiculous. At Ephesus we
meet Pinch, a schoolmaster; at Mitilene
with Boult, a clown : and at Athens with
Snug, Bottom, Snout, Quince, &c. In his
later stories, English names are given to
foreigners. Thus, at Vienna, we have
Froth and Elbow; in Navarre, Dull, Cos
tard, and Moth ; and in Illyria, Sir Toby
Belch, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek. But
these, strictly speaking, are not anachro
nisms, but, on the whole, justifiable
licenses ; for it would have been impos
sible to transmit the humor of such char
acters, as the above, to an English au
dience under the disguise of foreign
names, though it must be admitted that
mere English characters, as well as
names, are sometimes introduced. Nor
is Shakspeare always responsible for such
whimsicalities, for they are occasionally
to be traced in the materials whereof his
plays were constructed ; and others be
longing to those authors whom ho had
only assisted in dramas, tlio whole com
position of which has been improperly
ascribed to him.
“ Merchant of Venice.’’ —English Ju
ries aro introduced into the Venetian Re
public.
“Winter’s Tale.” —The transactions
of this play arise in Sicily and Bohemia,
and, though the characters arc imagi
nary, they arc supposed to havo existed
in pagan times. Notwithstanding this,
we havo Whitsun pastorals, Christian
burial, a hobby horse, an Emperor of
Russia, and an Italian painter of the
fifteenth century.
“Comedy of Errors.” —ln the ancient
city of Ephesus we have ducats, marks
and guilders,and the abbess of a nunnery ;
mention is also made of several modern
European kingdoms, and of America; of
llenry the Fourth of France; of Turkish
tapestry, a rapier and a striking clock;
of Lapland sorcerers, Satan, and even of
Adam and Noah. In one place Antipho
los calls himself a Cliristiau. As we are
not acquainted v?ith the immediate source
whence this play was derived, it is im
possible to ascertain whether Shakspeare
is answerable for these anachronisms. ‘
“ Macbeth.” —The errors here are con
fined to the introduction of cannon and
of dollars.
“Kino John.” —ln this play wo also
find cannon, with angels, half-faced
groats, and three farthing pieces; cards,
too, are introduced, and Basilisco, a
character of the time of Shakspeare.
“King Henry the Fourth.” —The ana
chronism are very numerous in the plays
„of this reign. We have pistols and silk
stockings: gilt two pences and ten-shil
ling pieces; a ballad with a picture on it,
evidently alluding to the wood-cuts on ,
those compositions ; the game of shove
great and slide-shift, which was not in
vented before the reign of Henry the
Eighth. Mention is also made of John
Ohogau, jester to Edward the Fourth, and ‘
of Author’s show, though not introduced
until a long time afterwards.
“King Henry the Fifth.” —The Turks
are put into possession of Constantinople, !
which did not fall into their hands till up
wards of thirty years after Henry’s
death.
“King Henry the Sixth.” —Machia- i
vel, who was not born till 1449, is twice
introduced in these plays. Printing is
also prematurely mentioned.
“King Henry the Eighth.” —An old
woman is made to talk of carved three- j
pences: but these pieces were not known
in England till the reign of Edward the
Fourth.
“Troilus and Cressida.” —Hector
quotes Aristotle; Ulysses speaks of the !
bull bearing Milo : and Paudaras of a man j
born in April. Friday and Sunday, and \
even minced-pies with dates in them are ;
introduced.
.“Timon of Athens.” —Paper is men- 1
Honed in this play. In a Roman drama ■
it might have passed, but we have no evi
dence that the Greeks used the papyrus
plant at this early period.
“Coriolanus.” —Alexander, Cato and !
Gaten, are improperly alluded to, all be
ing posterior to the time of Coriolanus. ;
Other anachronisms are, the mention of I
graves in a holy church-yard; groats,
mummers, lackram, an3 a kitchen mal- j
nin. Coriolanus describes the names of j
Hob and Dick.
“Julius C.esar.” —Cassius speaks of I
a marker and reveller, and of the clock
striking three.
“Antony and Cleopatra. ” —Antony j
talks of packing cards, and deals out his ■
knaves, queens, hearts and trumps, as if
he were a whist player. His bestowing
the epithet of gipsey on Cleopatra is
whimsical, but may perhaps admit of de
fense.
The Selma Reporter, of the 31st, says 1
the steamer Eclipse put off two hundred
thousand dollars worth of goods there,
the day preceding.
* —-
The steamer Charmer, from Vicksburg, I
says the Delta of the 30th, arrived last !
night from Vicksburg with 2,987 bales of
cotton, the largest load of the season. All
of these ere of the new crop except 7
bales. r
Social Fruits of Ultra Prudence.
It is hardly possible to over calculate
the evils accruing to individuals and to
society in general from this custom, grad
ually “increasing, of late and ultra pru
dent marriages. Parents bring up their
daughters in luxurious homes, expecting
and exacting that the homes to which
they transfer them should be of almost
equal ease; forgetting how next to im
possible it is for such a home to be offered
by any young man, of the present gene
ration, who has to work his way like his
father before him. Daughters accustom
ed to a life of ease and laziness are early
taught to check every tendency toward a
“romantic attachment,” the insane folly
of loving a man for what he is, rather
than for what he has got; of being con
tent to fight the worldly battle hand in
hand—with a hand that is worth clasp
ing, rather than settle down in the com*
sortable sloth, protected and provided
for in all external things. Young men
enforced bachelorhood, hardest when its
hardship ceases to be consciously felt.
An unmarried woman, if a good woman,
can always make berselt happy; find
innumerable duties, interests and amuse
ments ; live a pure, cheerful and useful
life. So can some men, but very, very
few.
Scarcely any sight is more pitiable than
a young man who has drifted on to past
thirty without home or near kindred;
with just income enough to keep him re
spectably in the position which he sup
poses himself bound to maintain, and to
supply him with the various small lux
uries which have become habitual to him.
Like his fellow mortals, he is liable
enough to the unlucky weakness of fall
ing in love now and then, but he some
how manages to extinguish the passion
before it gets fairly alight; knowing he
can no more venture to ask a girl in his
own sphere to marry him, or to be en
gaged to him, than he can coax the planet
Venus out of her golden west into the
dirty, gloomy, two-pair back, where his
laundress cheats him and his landlady
abuses him ; whence, perhaps, he occa
sionally emerges gloriously, all studs and
white neck tie, to assist at some young
beauty's wedding, where he feels in his
heart he might once have been the happy
bridegroom if from bis enforced silence
she had not been driven to go desperately
and sell herself to the old fool opposite,
; and is fast becoming, nay, is already be
j come, a fool’s clever mate—a mere wo
man of the world. And lie—what a no
ble ideal lie has gained of our sex from
this and other similar experiences ! w.th
what truth of emotion will he repeat as
he gives the toast of “The bridesmaids,”
the hackneyed quotation about pain and
sorrow wringing the brow, and smile half
adoringly, half pathetically, at the “min
i istering angels” who titter around bitn.
They, charming innocents ! will doubt
less go home, avouching “What a delight
ful person is Mr. So-and So. I wonder
jhe never gets married.” While Mr. So
and-So also goes home, sardonically
minded, to his dull lodgings, his book
and his cigar, or—he best knows where.
And, in the slow process of inevitable
deterioration, by forty be learns to think
matrimony a decided humbug, and hugs
himself in the conclusion that a virtuous,
high-inindcd and disinterested woman, if
existing at all, exists as a mere lusus na
tvrcc —not to be met with by mortal man
now a days. Relieving his feelings with
a grunt, half sigh, half sneer, he dresses
and goes to the opera—or the ballet at
all events—or settles himself on the sofa
to a French novel, and ends by firmly be
lieving us women to be—what we are
painted there!
Good God !—the exclamation is too sol
emn to be profane—if this state of things
be true, and it is true, and I have barely
touched the outer surface of its unfath
omably horrible truth—wbat will the
next generation come to? What will they
be—those unborn millions who are to
grow up into our men and our women ?
The possible result, even in a practical, to
say nothing of a moral light, is awful to
think upon.
Can it not be averted ? Can we not—
since, while the power of the world is
with man, the influence lies with women
—can we not bring up our girls more
usefully and less showily, less dependent
on luxury and wealth ? Can we not teach
them from babyhood that to labor is a
higher thing than merely to enjoy ; that
even enjoyment itself is never so sweet
as when it lias been earned? Can we not
put into their minds, whatever be their
station, principles of truth, simplicity of
taste, helpfulness, hatred of waste; and,
these things being firmly rooted, trust to
their blossoming up in whatever destiny
the young maidens may be called to?—
| We should not then have to witness the
terrors that beset dyingbeds when a fam
ily -of girls will be left unprovided for,
nor the angry shame when some thought
less young pair commit matrimony and
rush ignorantly into debt, poverty and
disgrace, from which— facilis descensus
Averni —all the efforts of too late compas
sionate relatives can never altogether
! raise them.
A comparative statement of the cost of
! maintaining each person, per week, in
some of the principal Insane Asylums
i of the United States :
Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane,
i including officers’ salaries, $5.
Illinois State Hospital for the Insane,
j including officers’ salaries, $2 77.
Kentucky Western Lunatic Asylum,
; including officers’ salaries, $2 70.
i New York State Lunatic Asylum, ex
clusive of officers’ salaries, $3 83.
New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum, ex
clusive of officers’ salaries, $3 24.
Bloomingdale Asylum, N. Y., exclusive
of officers’ salaries, $5 21.
Retreat for the Insane, Hartford,
Conn., exclusive of officers’ salaries,
§3 89.
Massachusetts State Insane Hospital,
1 exclusive of officers’ salaries, $3.
Northern Ohio Lunatic Asylum, ex
clusive of officers’ salaries, $3 20.
Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum, exclu
! sive of officers’ salaries, $3 20.
Southern Ohio Lunatic Asylum, exclu
sive of officers’ salaries, $3 10.
Hamilton County Lunatic Asylum, ex
| elusive of officers’ salaries, $1 71.
Somnambulism.
It was stated yesterday iu the streets
that about two o’clock iu the morning a
woman was seen walking in her chemise
i along dangerous edges of the roofs of
houses on the north side of Dauphin
l street, between Royal and Water streets.
! It was considered a case of somnambulism
I —a rather extraordinary one. too. The
I story grew more wonderful by repitition.
i First it was a beautiful young lady. That
was astonishing enough. Then it was
j that this beautiful creature had gone
along the gutters where a fly could hard
ly maintain its place. All this and a i
good deal more was related of this won
derful affair. It turns out, however, that
a drunken servant woman—under spir
itual influences—rolled out of a window
—or by some other process not exactly j
known, into the gutter of the roof, where j
she was discovered iu time to be saved
from breaking her neck by falling to the
pavement. There was not a bit of ro- j
mance in the whole affair, as we are as
sured by those who know.— Mobile Tribune. |
♦
A New York paper says: The promi
nent names now before the committee at j
‘lammany Hall for the nomination for
mayor of this city at the approaching
election, are Andrew H. Mickle. Daniel
I. riemann, Isaac Bell, Jr., Jonathan
Irotter, Arthur Leary, DanielE. Delavan,
Algernon S. Jarvis, Gustavus W. Smith,
Charles A. Clinton, Charles Yates, Elias
S. Higgins and Royal Phelps ; the Hon.
Isaac V. Fowler refusing to be consider
ed a candidate. The names before the
Mozart Hall committee, are Fernando
Wood and Stephen P. Russel. Either
Vtm. Curtis Noyes, or Judge Cowles will
receive tho nomination from theßepubli- ■
can party.
The entire police force of New York is
1,435 men. The whole number of ar
rests during the last quarter was 19,202.
ot which 2,GG3 were for offences against !
property, 1G,508 for offences against per
sons or the public, 14,019 of which lat
ter are traceable to the use of intoxica- ■
ting liquors. The total loss by offences !
against property was $29,027 25, of]
which there wae recovered ,$17,101 78. 1
The Mystery of the Villafranca
Treaty.
A correspondent of the London Times,
writing from Frauktort on-the-Main, Aug.
slh, says the mystery of Villafranca still
engages public attention, and the parties
to it seem determined to balk the hopes
of an explanation. It may therefore not
be amiss to place with some detail the
progress of events before your readers.
On my accuracy they may rely. On the
4th of July the proposal of a basis of me
diation, now known as the seven points,
was communicated to Lord John Russell
by Count De Persigny. Lord John re
fused to recommend the project, but
agreed to communicate it to Austria sim
ply, and without comment. On the sth
he laid it before the Court of Saxony, by
whom it was made known in Vienna.
On the Gth the French Minister in Ber
lin, applied to Baron Von Schleinitz to
propose an armistice, at the same time
proposing terms on which mediation
might be entered upon. These terms
contained four points (not seven) and
were identical with those afterwards
agreed to by the Emperor of Austria,
with the exception that Venetia was to
i be erected into an independent Duchy for
the Archduke Maximilian. Baron Von
Schleinitz at once refused to entertain a
project of mediation on this bakis, and
took time to consider the propriety of an
armistice. Between the 7th and Bth the
armistice was agreed to by the princi
pals, without intervention, and on the
Bth the news was communicated te
Baron Von Schleinitz by the French
Minister in Berlin. It took him, of
course, by surprise, and he instructed
the Prussian Charge d’Affairs in Paris to
express to Count Walewski his astonish
ment at the answer of Prussia on the
subject of the armistice not having been
waited for. At the same time, he instruc
ted him to state that, after holding a
council, it had been decided net to pro
pose the armistice, as it did not then
seem opportune. Both propositions were
originally French at Villafranca. The
Emperor Napoleon showed Francis Joseph
the project of seven points, giving him to
understand that the neutrals were not
averse to adopting it. Then he at once
brought forward the four points pro
posed, and rejected on the 7th at. Berlin.
They were: first, the cession of Lombar
dy ; second, erection of Venetia into a
Duchy; third, the confederation of Ital
ian States; fourth, restoration of the
banished Dukes, and an amnesty. On
the second point the Emperor Napoleon
yielded to the reasoning of the Emperor
of Austria, that he could not be expected
to resign what he still held possession of.
This is a somewhat lengthy statement,
but you may depend upon its being in
every point correct
Artesian Wells.
However favorable the dwellers in large
| cities may regard the sinking of Artesian
Wells, it appears that the farmers consid
er them, for uses af irrigation, decidedly
injurious. An exchange says :
The California Farmer strongly con
demns the use of Artesian wells for the
process of irrigation. It states that it
has made critical examination of the re
sults, and not a solitary instance in which
it not see a blight in some degree, and it
asserts that within two years many fine
! and flourishing garden spots will have be
come so diseased as to literally die out.
It states, as a fact, that trees which pro
duce fruit under this process become sub
ject to be destroyed by cold and frost, and
that trees and plants subjected to the sys
tem make long, naked “tap roots,” and
consequently bear fruit upon the extrem
eties of their limbs. The Farmer does
not believe there is a single gardener,
nurseryman, or orchardist that will not
soon deplore the error he has committed
in thus being led into this unnatural sys
tem. The systems of irrigation should
only be in accordance with nature’s plan ;
the earth must not be deluged ; gentle
showering over the foliage at the even
ing hour,to cleanse and refresh is always
good, and that is about all that is needed.
It adds that a great evil is now being felt
at Santa Clara ; that the earth is parched
up, and bitter and grevous complaints
come from all quarters, for it is felt the
evil (from the process of irrigation by
Artesian wells) is increasing.
■
Practical Odd-Fellovvsliip.
On Friday last a stranger, who was
; journeying, suddenly fell dead in the Cen
i tral Rail-Road cars, near Gordousville.
He was alone Examination proved him
to be a Mr. John F. Dunn, from Louisi
ana, on his way to visit friends in Provi
dence, 11. I. In his pocket book was
| found a card, bearing credible testimony
I that he was a member of the Independent
Order of OdJ-Fellows. WitE” that mys
terious link of recognition, bis person was
taken in charge and brought back to Rich
mond, where preparations were made to
pay the deceased stranger all the court
; eous duties that one brother or friend
owes to another. A hearse was at the
depot to receive the body, and it was es
corted to Odd-Fellows’ Hall.
“The Christian-like effect, and the
moral, as well as pecuniary utility of in
stitutions and orders similar to that of
the Independent Order of Odd-Fellows, is
strikingly exemplified in this case. Here
is a stranger from Louisiana; he is trav
eling northward, and worn down with
S that fell disease consumption ; death
I seizes him amid strangers, in the midst
.of his journey; yet the fact of his being
i of the Order of Odd-Fellows, makes him
among friends, true* trustworthy and
j sympathetic.”— Fred. Herald.
The Indianapolis Sentinel relates it:
On Sunday evening rather a rich scene
occurred iu one of our city churches. A
! man and his wife have been living apart
for some time, and it is said she has cho
j sen anew protector, or, at all events, is
the recipient of many kind attentions
from another party. On Sunday night,
the husband, the wife, and the benevo
lent gentleman who waits on the wife,
were all at church, when there was quite
i a revival going on. Mourners were called
up, and several signified their intention
of joining. The minister seemed to hesi
; tate at one—a lady—and asked if there
was any objection of her becoming a
member. The deserted husband rose in
his place and forbid the bans. “ The
woman,” he continued, “ caused my wife
\ to leave me—my wife, who is now living
j in open and shameless adultery with
another man; there she sits—there they
both are.” He pointed directly at them,
i and continued in the same strain until
the meeting broke.
A Faithful Wife.
The Maresebal de Mouchy, having
been conducted a prisoner to the Luxem
buig, had scarcely arrived, when his wife
entered the prison. The jailor observed
to her that the order for the Mareschal’s
arrest made no mention of her. She an
swered, with mingled gayety and sweet
ness, “ Since my husband is a prisoner,
I am one also.”
When he was carried before the revo
, lutionary tribunal, he was still attended
by his wife. The public accuser “having
informed Madame de Mouchy, that she
was not called upon to appear, she re
plied, “ When my husband is called for,
I am also called.”
In a word, when the fatal sentence of
death was pronounced upon the Mare
schal, his faithful wife ascended the cart
with him; and when the executioner ob
jected, because she was not condemned
to die, she answered, “Since sentence is
passed upon my husband, it is passed
upon me also.”
♦ i
Henry Ward Beecher says of the “items
column in the newspapers, that it “is
worth more than all the small fry of cor
respondents, with an editor thrown in to
boot! Like a caravan, it stretches along ,
in columns, with packages and parcels,
spices and gems, bits of fragrance or cun
ningly wrought metals, gathered from the
Orient and from the whole world besides.
The items of the paper, like the stuffing i
of a Thanksgiving tui'key, represent eve
rything in the house, crusts of bread,
crackers and allspices.”
A Zouave lost one of his fingers at the
the battle of Solferino. “Bon!” lie ex
claimed, “just my luck to lose the finger
ger upon which I wore my wedding ring.
Now my wife will insist upon it that I
gavejt to another woman.” J
The Air of Cities—Health a Duty.
BY JOHN STAIN BACK WILSON. 51. I).
The whole atmosphere of cities and
! other places where numbers are congre
. gated is more or less impure, as a neces
sary consequence of the various foreiga
elements commingled with it. But ove
i feel confident, if the laws of hygiene
were known aud dilligently enforced by
city authorities, that the oiH-door atmos
phere at least might be rendered com
paratively healthful, sufficiently so, at
any rate, to banish those wide-wasting
epidemics, cholera, yellow-fever, etc.
Still the best directed efforts of city au
thorities can do but little more, iu the
present state of things, than to abate ex
ternal and public nuisances, and cheek
the spread of epidemics ; for, after all,
health-preserving measures, to be effect
ual, must begin at home. The people,
with whom every radical and permanent
reform must commence, must be taught
the laws of health; aud they must be
taught, moreover, the, great truth that
obedience to those laws is second in im
portance to the obligations of the moral
law. And indeed those laws may be
properly regarded as part,and a most ma
terial part, of our moral obligations: for
no one can be held guiltless iu the sight
of God who remains in wilful ignorance
of them, or who disregards them when
known, and thu-* becomes guilty of the
crime of self-destruction. Oh, that all
could receive this great truth ! Oil, that
all would consider the preservation of
health as a duty, as a part of their reli
gion, as a sacred obligation due to them
selves, to their Creator, and to their race.
One of the greatest evils of city life is
the crowding of multitudes iu garrets,
cellars, and other dark, damp, narrow,
filthy, and confined habitations. Ah, it
is enough to make the heart sick to think
of the moral and physical deterioration
of our fellow-creatures, where the sexes
are huddled together like cattle, without
distinction, in these pestilential dens.
From these centres of infection issue
streams of corruption, which poison the
atmosphere and spread contagion, and
death, moral and physical, through our
cities. And these hotbeds of disease are
to be found in every street, lane, and
alley, while the death-producing emana
tions from them are comlhingled with a
whole atmosphere loaded with the effluvia
from distilleries, cow-stables, hog-pens,
soap-factories, slaughter-houses, grave
yards, and ten thousand other air-con
taminating agencies peculiar to cities.
No wonder, then, that “death rides on
every passing breeze,” nor wants for
victims to feed upon in our populous and
dirty cities.
Dry Rivers.
Many readers remember John Ran
dolph’s characteristic but somewhat ex
aggerated description of the Ohio River,
“dry for one-half of the year and fro
zen up for the other.”
Bishop Fierce, in his “Notes Across
the Continent,” written for the Southern
Christian Advocate, of this city, comes
upon a river answering in part to this
description. He writes:
At midnight the regular stage took us,
and we traveled together to the break
fast house, at Turkey Creek. In the
meantime we crossed the Nueces, a large
river on the maps, famous in the disputes
of Texas and the United States as to the
Western boundary of Texas, but, to my
astonishment, not a drop of water in its
rock-bed. During tho long, dry seasons
common to this region the water sinks,
and it is only here and there that man or
beast can find “a hole” that still contains
the precious element. The channel
where we crossed is wide, the banks high,
and there is room for a noble stream.
The timber is thick, and forms the hid
ing place of what people call “vaymints,”
such as a bear, a species of leopard, and
wild cats.
Turkey Creek is a beautiful little stream,
abounding in fish, with a clear, gushing
spring on its bank for the use of the only
family which as yet has retreated from
the haunts of men to find a home in the
lonely solitude. With society here is a
pleasant place to live : the range of moun
tain and prairie for stock, plenty of live
oak timber, never failing water, game in
abundance, deer, turkey, bear, fish of
various kinds, pure air and good health.
I never saw so many wild turkies in all
my life as I saw in this place. The corral
(a cow-pen) was full of cattle, an improved
stock, and near the house—if erect poles,
without a roof, may be so called—and
the flies, attracted by a plate of honey on
the breakfast table, swarmed-like bees,
and took possession of everything. I did
not dispute title with them, but paid my
fare, and retreated fasting.
Bishop Pierce, we may remark, is an
excellent traveler and travel-writer, pos
sessing a coup d’ocil and facilities of
ready and comprehensive observation
and insight such as have beeif enjoyed
only by the greatest travelers. He sees
everything before him and around him,
and judges for himself, and sees more
than would impress a common eye within
the time allotted. Charleston Courier.
♦—
Salt Mines near Mew Orleans.
We saw yesterday a dozen demi nude
laborers hard at work, with picks and
wedges, on a solid mountain of salt,
nearly as hard as marble, and requiring
to be worked with tho same appliance
and labor as the mines of Cracow or Liv
erpool. The mass was about twenty feet
high, how wide we could not discover,
but we were told that it contained several
steamboat loads of the purest salt. De
tached lumps presented beautiful speci
mens of crystalization.
The working upon this mass of salt
had the nearest semblance to mining we
have ever witnessed in the delta region.
That the distant reader may not be de
ceived into the idea that salt mining is a
profitable business near New Orleans, we
should state that in this case the mine
was an imported one, having been
brought here from the Mediterranean,
and stowed away several years ago, in a
damp condition, in the Brooklyn ware
houses, where it has congealed and crys
talized into its present solid state.— N.
O. Delta.
Tight Rope Rivalry.
The war between Blondin and Do Lave
will end, says an exchange, iu tumbling
them both into the water. Neither cares
to be outdone by the other. Blondin is
next to take a stove and cooking utensils
half way across his rope and there get up
omelets ala Francaise for the passengers
of the Maid of the Mist. The Rochester
Union thinks De Lave the best man; per !
contra the Buffalo Republic, which sa>s I
that just before De Lave crossed the rope
at Rochester, he confessed himself doubt- !
ful as to his ability to cross safely.
Blondin stood by him at the time and said
to him—“ Ter well , Dc Lave; you no cross
Igo cross myself—with my boots on, just as
/ am.” This roused De Lave, and he de
termined to go, whatever might be the
hazard. Blondin would haved crossed
just as he said, and when we consider
that he was dressed in a tight bodied
coat, strapped pants and patent leather ;
boots, it might readily be imagined that
the feat would have been no bagatelle,
even to so incomparable a performer as
Blondin.
Mon-Political Character of the Sons
of Malta.
A correspondent” of the Tribune, writ
ing from Lafayette, Indiana, seems to be
greatly concerned lest the widely-spread
order of the Sons of Malta should be a
Democratic electioneering movement.—
That paper corrects the impression, and
states with a confidence indicating knowl
edge of the facts in the case, that the
Sons, in this part of the country at least,
are utterly indifferent to political opin
ions; the only qualification for member
ship required is to be a whole man in
good standing in society. This establish
ed, he will readily find access to the Veil
of Mysteries, where he will find that he
has very probably been a practical Son
of Malta ever since boyhood, and will in
stantly recognize the peculiar applicabil
ity to his own case of the inside pass
word and the sign of salutation to the
Grand Commander. The only member of
any lodge whom he will be likely to envy
will be the G. R. J. A., or perhaps his j
first assistant.
lowa, which had but 100,000 popula- j
,lfttiao4P lgiO, hah how 600,000.
Personal Appearance of Literary
People.
A correspondent of the Springfield Re
publican, gives (he following pen-and-ink
sketches of prominent literary people :
Emerson looks like a refined farmer,
meditative and quiet. Longfellow like a
good-natured beef-eater. Holmes like a
ready-10-laugh little body, wishing only
to be “as funny as he can.” Everett
seems only the graceful gentleman, who
has been handsome, Beecher, a ruddy,
rollicking boy. Whittier, the most re
tired of Quakers. And thus I might
name others. Not one of these gentlemen
can be called handsome, unless we except
Beecher, who might be a deal handsom
er. Mrs. Sigourney, the grandmother of
American “ female” literature, in her
prime, (if we may believe her portrait,)
was quite handsome. Katherine Beecher
is homely Mrs. Beecher Stowe so ordi
nary in looks that she has been taken for
Mrs. Stowe’s “Biddy.” Mrs. E. F. El
let looks like a washerwoman. Marga
ret Fuller was plain. Charlotte Cush
man has a face as marked as Daniel
Webster’s, and quite as strong. So has
Elizabeth Blackwell. Ilariet Ilosmer
looks like a man. Mrs. Oakes Smith is
considered handsome. Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe has been a New York belle. Fran
ces O. Osgood has a lovely womanly face.
Amelia F. Welby was almost beautiful.
Sarah J. Hale, in her young days, quite
lovely, unless her picture fibs. The Da
vidson sisters, as well as their gifted
mother, possess beauty. If we cross
the ocean, we find Madame de Stael was
a fright, but Hannah More was hand
some ; Elizabeth Fry glorious; Letitia
Langdoa pretty; Mrs. Ilemans won
drously lovely; Mary Howitt. fair and
matronly; Mrs. Norton regally beauti
ful ; Elizabeth Barrett Browning in
physique is angular, aud though she has
magnificent eyes, her face is suggestive of
a tombstone. Charlotte Bronte had a look
in her eyes better than all the beauty of
features. But if we look at British-men
cf first class craniums—Shakspeare and
Milton were handsome ; Dr. Johnson was
a monster of ugliness ; so were Gold
smith aud Pope; Addison was tolerably
handsome, and, Coleridge, Shelly. Byron,
Moore, C impbell, Burns, all were unan
imously so. Sir Walter Scott looked very
ordinary, in spite of his fine head. Ma
caulay is homely. Bulwt-r nearly hid
eous, although a dandy. Charles Dick
ens is called handsome, but, covered with
jewelry, lie can but look like a simpleton.
Branding Flour.
The editor of the New York Examiner
has been sojourning in Rochester, where
lie visited one of the large flour mills,
and was initiated into the mysteries of
branding flour. He says :
Branding to us poor outsiders has been
a source of a good deal of mystery. In
our simplicity, we have supposed that a
brand was a true indication of the place
where the flour was ground, and the
wheat it was made from. But this is an
egregious error. “There arc tricks in all
trades but ours.” Only the very best
flour is labeled by the name of the mill
where it is ground. Inferior flour is
branded Corinthian Mill, New Mill, or
some other mill that is owned by the man
of the moon. All these practices are
known in the corn exchange as well as at
the mills, but to us poor consumers, who
buy a barrel of flour once a quarter, it
may not be uninteresting to know'that
all the best family flour is branded double
extra superfine, with the real name of
the mill and manufacturer. Genessee
flour is as übiquitous as Orange county
milk, Goshen butter, or relics of the ship
Constitution among the curious. Gen
nessee flour is for the most part made
from Western or Canada wheat.
Itecallcd to Memphis.
Avery geuteel and
named Charles F. Johnson, was arrested
in this city some ten days ago, by Mar
shal McGibbony, at the request of the
police of Memphis. Tenn. He had been
doing various parties in that city, by false
bills of credit, aud by other means, and
escaped to this city, where he was about
entering into business when the ban fell
upon him. He remained in our calaboose
until Monday night last, when a requisi
tion and a Memphis police officer came
for and took him off. He was so genteel
and gentlemanly in his bearing, and
seemingly so anxious to confront his ac
cusers in Memphis, that he excited the
sympathy of our officers, and they con
cluded not to have him “put in the pa
pers.” But when they went to release
him from his manacles, they found upon
his person a very neat and effective saw,
made from his pocket knife, by which he
had very nearly effected his escape, and
whicli he would have completed in a short
time. This led his friends to believe
him guilty of that worst of sins, ingrati
tude, and also to the conclusiou that he
was not anew hand in attempts to escape
from tight places — and hence this expose.
Montgomery Confederation, 81s/.
Public Meeting in Baltimore.
The extent to which rowdyism has gone
in Baltimore, and Us latest bloody and
brutal manifestations, has caused a gene
ral reaction in the feelings of the citizens
there, and a public meeting is called for
Monday, the 4th proximo, to devise meas
ures for putting a stop to it.
Unless the citizens of that city do some
thing, and that speedily, to suppress
rowdyism and install order and law, the
evil will soon be without remedy.
Lieut, S. 11. Lockett.
The Montgomery Confederation makes
the following mention of our old acquaint
ance and school mate:
Brevet 2d Lieut. Samuel 11. Lockett,
Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., passed
through this city on Sunday, en route for
West Point, New York. Lieut. L. has
been assigned to the pest of Acting As
sistant Professor in Department of Span
ish at the U. S. Military Academy, West
Point, N. Y. He graduated with distinc
tion at that institution in June last; and
has been spending his furlough with his
friends in Marion, in this State.
Confidence Man.
The pastor of the Second Presbyterian
Church, at Knoxville, Tenn., has issued a
circular, cautioning the public to be on
their guard against a man calling himself
J. M. Barnes, who, according to the Cen
tral Presbyterian, of Richmond, is travel
ing about the country in a clerical dis
guise, swindling the unsuspecting of
whatever he can lay his hands on. He is
described as a man about thirty years of
age, of medium height, short* hair, in
flamed eyes, and a decided weakness for
flashy fob chains. His last field of ope
retion was Knoxville, where he success
fully played the “confidence game” on
several persons.
M. & O. Rail Road.
The W’est Point (Miss ) CitizeD, says:
“The track is laid ten miles above West
Point, to the Aberdeen and Palo Alto
road, and Messrs. Leonard & Bell, with
unparalleled energy and a strong force,
are driving ahead with the business at the
rate of one mile per day. They will reach
Prairie Mount, the third station above us
and 247} miles from Mobile, by Saturday
next. They confidently expect, to reach
Okolona by or before the first of October.
The Fauquir W'hite Sulphur Springs
were sold last Wednesday, to Mr. Hug
gins, of Caroline county, Va., for $32,-
000. The watering place known as the
Rockbridge Baths, in Rockbridge county,
was sold last Saturday to Wm. A. Mann,
for $21,000. The Cold Sulphur Springs,
in the same county, were also exposed
for sale, but bid in by the proprietor at
$20,000.
Mad Cows. 0
The Mobile Tribune of the 27 th inst.
says:
We learn that several cows have recent
ly been killed in the outskirts of the city,
near Government street, which showed
unmistakable signs of hydrophobia. A
cow was killed yesterday morning which
attacked everything in a very furious
manner that came near her, even chil
dren. She appeared to be blind until an
object, man or beast, came within ten or
fifteen feet of her. We make the state-
all on their guard.
ARRIVAL
OF TIIE STEAMER
J A SO N .
St. Johns, N. F., August 30. The
steamship Jason has arrived from Gal
way. She brings Liverpool dates to Au
. gust 20th.
Liverpool Cotton Market. — ihe sa.es
of the week amount to 34.000 bales. All
qualities had slightly declined—lower
and middling qualities the most. Inferi
or grades declined Jd. The market was
quiet.
London Money Market. —Consols were
quoted at 951 to 951.
SECOND DISPATCH.
Liverpool Cotton Market.— Sales of the
week 34,000 bales, of which speculators
took 3,500, and exporters 4,000 bales.
Inferior grades and sandy descriptions
declined still more than other qualities.
The market dull.
On Friday, the sales were 7,000 bales,
of which speculators and exporteis took
I, bales. The market was quiet.
The quotations were as follows :
Fair Orleans 8 and. Mid. Orleans 7 and
*• Mobiles T%A. “ Mobile <%l.
“ Upiands 7%d. “ Up1and5....613-tad.
Latest — Liverpool, Saturday noon.—Cot
ton dull; sales of 4,000 bales. Stock,
057,000 bales, of which 588,600 bales
were American. Quotations were barely
maintained.
Liverpool General Markets. —Flour quiet.
Wheat firm ; all qualities of French had
slightly advanced. Corn declining ;
holders offered freely, but showed no dis
position to press sales. Beef heavy ;
holders were pressing on the market.
Pork heavy ; holders were pressing on
the market. Bacon heavy ; declined Id.
to 2d. Lard quiet. Coffee quiet. Rice
dull. Spirits of Turpentine steady,* at
j 35s od. On Saturday, breadstuff’s were
quiet.
Stale of Trade. — Manchester advices
were unfavorable.
London General Markets.- On Fri day, su
gar was very dull. Rice steady. Amer
ican securities unchanged. On Saturday,
sugar was dull, and declined 6d. Con
sols 95}.
Havre Markets.— Orleans Tres Ordinaire
was quoted at 113f., and Las at lOOf.,
and declining. Sales of the week, at
Havre, 5,000 bales. Stock 82,000 bales.
i Money Market easier. Wheat firm.—
Provisions very dull.
General News. —Nothing was known
in regard to the Zurich Conference.
The Empress Eugenie is enceinte.
j The National Assembly of Tuscany de
clares that the dynasty must not be re
called.
The National Assembly of Modena was
taking strong grounds in favor of nation
al liberty.
Mons. Fould had accepted the Dicta
torship of Parma.
The work on the fortifications of Koen
i igsberg was vigorously resumed.
Cardinal Autonelli had resigned the
Presidency of the Council of Rome.
The King of Oude had been released.
The harvest prospects in Great Britain
were favorable.
The ship Tranquebar. from Savannah,
arrived at Liverpool on the 13th. The
ships Mackinaw and Chicago, sailed from
Liverpool on the 13th, for Charleston.
The U. S. Agricultural Fair.
Chicago, Aug. 26.—The preparations
making for the fair of U. S. Agricultural
Society, to be held in this city, on Sep
tember 12th, are rapidly approaching
completion. The rail roads centreing
here have made arrangements to carry
stock articles to the exhibition free, and
visitors for half price. The superinten
dent is in daily receipt of letters from all’
parts of the country, containing applica
tions for room. The prospects for a
successful Fair are very flattering.
Death of Eminent Merchants.
Baltimore, Aug. 27.—George Brown,
Sr., of the Baltimore Banking House of
George Brown & Cos., and immensely
wealthy, died at his residence this morn
ing, at an advanced age. James Swan,
another wealthy citizen, also died this
morning. Both of the deceased were ex-
Presidents of the Merchant’s Bank of this
city.
Democratic Congressional Conven
tion.
Bangor, Me., Aug. 26.—At the Demo
cratic Convention held in the Third Con
gressional District a few days since, Wm.
11. Burrill and James Y. McClintock were
elected Delegates to the National Conven
tion at Charleston. Both gentlemen are
friends of Judge Douglas. Strong popu
lar sovereignty resolutions were passed.
Failure of Wholesale Grocers.
Cincinnati, Aug. 26. — Messrs. Holmes
& Conwell, grocers and commission mer
chants, have assigned their property.
Conwell has absconded.
Another Triumph for Flora Temple.
New York, Aug. 27.—Flora Temple
beat Princess and Saratoga three straight
heats to-day; average time two thirty
four two-thirds.
Shooting Affair.
New Orleans, Aug. 28.—There was a
street shooting affray to-day, between Dr.
Foster and Dr. Choppin, both Charity
Hospital Physicians. Dr. Choppin re
ceived two pistol shots, and is considered
dangerously wounded. The cause was
professional jealousy.
Late from Havana.
New Orleans, Aug. 28.—The steam
ship Philadelphia arrived to-day. She
brings Havana dates to the 24th, and Key
West dates to the 25th inst. News unim
portant. Sugar dull. Sterling 141 to
! 15}. Exchange on New York 5} to 61.
Gold 5 to 61 premium.
Rifie Arms in Warfare.
A correspondent of the London Times,
writing of the Austrian army in Italy,
says :
It is not alone the rifled cannon that
has changed the conditions upon which
modern armies must now fight—the use
of rifled arms of every description must
alter the old system of manoeuvring in the
field. Austria, with its fondness for old
established rules, has not realized this as
the French have done. An Austrian sol
dier retiring from the field of Solferino,
remarked that the French fired much
quicker thau their opponents. Numbers
of them, he said, fire from the hip with
out taking aim. This is true The
French, instead of a simple line of skir
mishers in advance of tlieir columns, had
a double line, the rearmost of which fired
over those in advance of them. Thus it
was that the ground in rear of the Aus
trian front was alive with projectiles,
which, although propelled without aim,
did not fail to annoy severely the regi
mental reserves. It was this system of
firing at high elevation which rendered
the Rocca hill at Cavriana untenable by
the Emperor of Austria and his staff,
long before the French were in close
proximity to the spot.
Canaries.
Canaries should be kept in secure ca
ges, suspended in an isolated position,
I intact by any wall or other obstacle, by
which access to them can be gained by
rats or cats. A pair of beautiful canaries,
belonging to a lady on High street, were
attacked by rats on Friday night last, in
a manner showing how ingenious these
mischievous vermin are, when on a thiev
ing expedition. The cage was in six
, inches of the mantlepieee. The light had
been extinguished in the room aud the
lady took a seat near the window, when
the light of the rising moon presently re
vealed to her two rats climbing nimbly
up the corrugated pillars of the mantle.
She watched them until they gained the
top safely; then they proceeded towards
the cage, when one raised himself on his
hind legs, the other placed himself in his
paws, and in this way was handed over to
the rim of the cage. This produced a
swinging motion in the little prison, and
as it swayed over, rat number two jumped
aboard. They were then about to paw
through their intended victims, when the
lady put an end to their calculations by
putting an end to them.
The store of Benjamin Barton, at Al
exandria, was robbed on Friday night,
the 26th, of watches and jewelry to the
value of $7,500. The entrance into the
store was effected through a building un
; occupied.
CALIFORNIA POLITICS.
Broderick oil l)r. (twin —The Liuic l ointer,
and ich” Took Han Out of the Dirt.
From a report oi Mr. Broderick s speech
at Quincyt that appears in theSaci auietito
Uni. m. e make the following extracts:
THE SENATOR! W. ELECTION —TIIE UNGRATE
EEL LUCE. POINTER.
Fellow citizens, I have too much re
speet f.--r mv audience and myself to in
dulge in the low scun i ity in which Dr,
Gwin evidently luxuriates In whatever
1 may have to say o’ him a:ul !>is perfor
mances. 1 shall endeavor to be guided
within the limits of the record, and within
the common rules of decorum and de
cency. I have but one epithet to apply
to him, and to that one he can raise no
possible objection ; for it is of his own
creation, born of his own love, and nour
ished to day by the regretful memories
into which lie falls while engaged in de
livering each and all o! his well consid
ered stump manuscripts. It us a name
that h - might well flatter himself was
connected with posthumous glory ; for no
well informed American citizen shall en
ter the Golden Gate for many a year to
come without thinking of the wisdom
and honesty which characterized the first
attempt to secure Government possession
of Lime Point. I found the Lime Pointer
in the dirt , deserted by his own friends —
by the men to whom he had given position
and influence. In such a condition he
sought me for the purpose of obtaining a
re election to the seat which he now occu
pies, and which he had held for six years
previous. lie told me that he had been de
sorted by the friends upon whom he had con
fidently relied, and he beyged of me, in the
most humiliating manner, to take him with me
■in the United States Senate. [Laughter.]
Well, I despised him at the time, but 1
had to make a choice between two evils.
Latham had deceived and endeavored to
betray me, and I had no one to select
other than Latham or Dr. Gwin. McCor
kle was my first choice, the man whom I
preferred over any other in the Mate, but
it was discovered that his election was
impossible. Therefore it was that 1 de
termined to use my legitimate influence
in favor of the election of Dr. Gwin, and
by that influence, unquestionably, he was
elected.
ABOUT CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
In his Forest Hill speech, he perpe
trates an undoubted witticism by stating
that he would not violate the law’ against
cruelty to animals, by meeting me on the
stump. His conscientious regard for my
feelings, expressed in such an elegant
and gentlemanly comparison, finds no re
sponse in my bosom. I neither appreci
ate his forbearance, nor do I believe that
if I had the advantage which he claims
for himself, and was in the position which
I know him to be, that I would exhibit
his gracious consideration Possibly, if
I considered an opponent of mine to be
of no higher grade and of no more intel
lectual worth than a beast, I might take
into consideration, before I attempted to
inflict a direct and severer punishment
upon him, whether liq. was an obstinate
animal, and was likely to prove dange
rous under the merciless administration
of the rod. [Laughter and cheers.] Os
course, I cannot say whether Dr. Gwin’s
reflections extended this far or not. I
give him credit for not having been cruel
or even severe in his attacks upon me,
thus far, and I repeat once more, that I
would welcome the scourge which he
boasts of having in bis band,; assuring
him that neither I nor my friends will
take advantage of any constitutional pro
visions, or any statutory enactments, to
punish him for “cruelty to an animal,”
in the event that he falls savagely upon
me and spares not. [Cheers.]
GWIN ALLEGED TO BE “AGENT” FOR THE
PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
I here accuse Dr. Gwin of having been
the paid agent of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company. [Tumultuous cheering,
and cries of “That’s true!” and “By
G —d, we all know it.”]
THE LIME POINT BUSINESS.’
My colleague, (Gwin,) and Messrs.
Denver and Weller were anxious to se
cure an appropriation of $200,000 for the
purchase of the Lime Point property.
You will recollect that my predecessor,
now the Governor of this State, wrote
tw 7 o remarkable letters upon this subject.
Doubtless you have all seen them. They
will be found in the report of my Placer
ville speech. Mr. Gwin made a state
ment to the effect that this property
would not sell for less than $200,000.
Mr. Fessenden, a Senator from Maine,
replied to Dr. Gwin, stating that he was
a member of the Military Committee at
the time, and that no such understanding
was had wheu the appropriation was
madp. My confident belief is, fellow citi
zens, that Dr. Gwin and Governor Weller
were both interested parties, or else they
would never have taken the trouble that
they did to urge the payment of $200,000
to the owner of this property, when they
knew that a sufficient amount of land
whereon to erect the contemplated forti
fication, was not worth over live or six
thousand dollars. Gen. Denver and Dr.
Gwin are both telling the people that if
the appropriation had been made and the
purchase consummated that the process
of erecting the fortifications would have
commenced immediately, and hundreds
of your men would have been given profi
table employment in working upon them.
Why, fellow citizens, they intended to
leave only SIOO,OOO for the purpose of
beginning the work. That would scarce
ly have commenced the foundation. The
fort which now stands at the entrance of
San Francisco harbor has already cost
$500,000, and is not completed yet.
GWIN READS HIS SPEECHES, AND IS PROSY.
I made a speech during the last Con
gress on the Pacific Rail Road bill, while
it was before the House. I did not read it,
as Dr. Gwin read his, although I tried to
urge its passage in as emphatic a man-*
ner as possible. He at that time made a
very long speech. He read every one out
of the .Senate save myself and Mr. Doo
little, of Wisconsin. I took notice of his
speech in the one which I made,- which
served to bring liis remarks into some
prominence. I did not speak of it for the
purpose of ridiculing him. But it seems
•very singular to me, knowing him as well
as I do, to hear him talk with importance
and consequential airs, of arraigning his
colleague. If he is the great man which
he represents himself to be in his written
speeches, and if I am as insignificant as
lie, in bis nice phrases, declares me to be,
would it not be better for him to come
before the people and address them with
me, instead of taking printed or written
speeches and reading them from a public
stand? He would then be able to give
convincing proof of his super : ority by
the immediate contrast which would-fee
made.
New York Dry Hoods Trade.
The market is now active. A large
business is doing in staple goods; still
the importers are not satisfied, as they
are putting out circulars to keep up prices
—which, if they were certain of their
ground, they would not do. Desirable
goods are maintained in prices, hut unde
sirable styles, with which the market is
inundated, are offered at low figures. The
purchasers, who are increasing in num
ber, continue their bills to small amounts,
in expectation of buying more bv-and-by,
at lower rates. The auction rooms are
being crowded with French and German
goods, which will be offered later in the
season. Prices in England, of rnanufac
tnred goods, are firmer, but this will not
affect our market, already over supplied
from France and Germany. Some im
porters are more ready to extend credit a
Lttle, to facilitate the sale of their goods,
but this last resource of overtrading is a
dangerous game to play. The domestic
market is more active than the foreign.
Ldt a woolen and cotton staple goods are
in better demand than supply. Delaines,
however, ♦ave given way in price. Fancy
styles of cassimere are the most active
article of sale in woolen %oods. The im
portations of foreign dry goods continue
heavy. The following is a comparative
statement bf the Imports of Foreign Dry
Goods at the port of New York, for the
week, and since January Ist r
For the Week. 1857. 1858. 1859.
Entered at p0rt....52.519,736 $1,230,432 $3,345,128
Thrown on market 2,(343,545 1,573,847 3,521,703
Since Jan. lat
Entered at p0rt....72,555,010 37,633,522 82,107,678
Thr’n on murket...09,673,872 44,138,938 82,035,660
r . — lndependent.
! A Fearful : ragedy at St Louis—A Bur
glar Cut to Pieces.
A public house on (lie k'er, at St.
Louis, having been lately Irequently en
tered by burglars. J lie barkeeper, named
John Davis, armed himself with a revol
ver and bowie- knife on Monday night,
with the view of keeping watch. The
Morning Herald says :
Between 12 and 1 o’clock lie was a wak
ened by hearing someone enter through
a small window in the rear. There was
no light in the bar-room, and after de
manding of his visitant who he was and
what he wanted, lie fired at him one
charge of his revolver, which, strangely
enough was loaded with powder only.
The load took effect in the right shoulder,
setting the fellow’s clothes on fire, but of
course inflicting no injury upon the bur
glar’s person. At this moment the bur
glar, whose name subsequently proved to
be Nicholas Watkins, made an attack
upon Davis with a pocket Unite, which
Davis succeeded in wrenching from him,
not, however, until he w,-.s severely in
jured by having the open knife drawn
through his hand. Davis, terribly light
ened,°anl with a full comprehension of
his own great danger, made an attack
upon his violcut and unseen assailant,
which is without a parallel in the most
bloody rencounter of which we have ever
heard. With one blow of his bowie knife
a nQ *', sharp, and most murderous wea
pon, with a blade seven inches in length
he stabbed Batkins to the heart, the
knife severing one or two ribs and pas
sing through the heart and iiings. ahe
blow was quickly followed by eighteen or
twenty others, some sixteen or more of
which, it was found on the post mortem
examination, were necessarily mortal.
In the meantime Davis was lustily call
ing for the watch. Officers John Ryan,
Hugh Logue and Daniel Bollard, of the
| night police, happened to he in the imme
diate neighborhood, rapped at the door,
I and were admitted by Davis, who was in
1 the act of lighting the gas. Watkins was
| found in the other room dying. He lived
I but a few seconds after the entrance of
the officers. In the rear of the premises
were found his hat and shoes, which had
evidently beezi removed for the purpose
of enabling him to operate more noise
lessly and safely.
It was shown at the inquest that the
! deceased was a uative of Maryland, and
! about forty years of age. He was for
merly a steward on a boat on the Chesa
peake aud Ohio canal; afterwards entered
1 the army aud was sent to Florida. Last
March he was sent to Fort Leavenworth,
and was there tried for a homicide. He
I was, however, acquitted, on the ground
that the act was done in self-defence.—
| Davis has given himself up, But will no
doubt be discharged.
<V
Mobile Sea Island Cotton.
Mr. S. S. Taylor, formerly of Marengo
County, Ala , where he had been en
gaged for many years in the successful
growing of cotton, for the three suc
cessive years, was credited with having
produced th*e finest samples of petit Gulf
. cotton sold in Mobile, has latterly devo
’ ted himself to the culture of the long
staple Sea • Island cotton, near Sanders’
Mills, Ala. The result has been the
realization of his most hopeful expecta
tions. Having procured a bushel of
seed of the celebrated “ Lawton Cotton,”
of Charleston, S. C., one month later
j than it ought to have been planted, he
j sent to Mobile one stalk of the crop, at
I the request of a gentleman who walked
! over his patch with him. We annex the
following extract from liis letter, to the
Mobile Tribune, of the 28th:
The stalk has four hundred and ten
bolls and forms on it, and this with care
less culture, and -without any fertilizer
whatever being applied to it. Nor was
there any manure whatever put on this
land last year, but a heavy crop of Chi
nese sugar can; was grown on it, which
1 yielded two heavy cuttings of cane and
! which is known to be very exhaustive of
land. Two years ago 1 manured my
patch with stable manure and planted it
in potatoes.
Why this may not be turned into a Sea
Island and rice country I am unable to
see. I acknowledge, sir, that we are in
the piny woods. Corn cannot be grown
to profit here: but why not raise cotton
worth from thirty to seventy-live cents
| per pound, grow rich from its culture and
fat on fish and oysters, rather than start
to Texas and die on the road, or soon
after reaching your destination, or muck
away in the canebrake mud and stagnant
water, each gallon of which contains a
thousand wiggletails, and one chill to the
i square foot ?
I send you facts, hoping your nume
rous readers may be as much profited by
them as by the many stories that find
their way into the papers, of less real
value than discussions on agriculture.
At a more advanced stage of this cotton,
1 promise you another stalk or sample,
with something more about the soil, cli
i mate, &c. S. S. TAYLOR.
Make Haste, Slowly.
It is the general conviction, and a com
mon saying among people, that literary
and professional men are lazy. There is
no greater mistake. He who can succeed
so far as to acquire reputation in litera
ture or in a profession, must have been
and must be an immensely industrious
man. His labor may be unseen and un
appreciated by the world at large, and it
is commonly so. A general and casual
observation of the class spoken of would
justify that opinion, but watch such an
one, when be has withdrawn to his study
or his office, know his wearisome hours
of night labor, and unseen, solitary toil,
and the opinion will vanish. The truth
: is, there is a little piece of philosophy
j underlying this opinion of tlqj world not
| perceived generally.
■ i There is a repugnance between great
and continued intellectual exertion and
rapid corporal movement. Hard study,
severe thought, strong emotion, any great
intellectual or moral exercise, arrests
and retards physical action. For exam
ple, let a train of thought suddenly
strike a man, and he instantly becomes
self-absorbed, his physical powers become
quiet, his motions slow; and the deeper
i the thought, the slower the motion, and
the more habitual reflection becomes, the
slower and more deliberate will be his
. actions. Lord Kames, in his elements of
criticism, somewhere says, in substance,
that tlie rapidity of a man’s motions are
a pretty fair gauge of his mental exer
cises. A fidgety, fussy, rapid-moving
man has fidgety, fussy, and rapid (and,
of course, evanescent) ideas and conclu
sions, while profounder and more valua
ble reflections accompany slower motion
ed men.
It is not alone among professional or
literary men, that this philosophy holds.
Look at your merchants aud mechanics,
who have been successful in labor, fame
and fortune, and see if it is not also
true of them. Look at them—they move
slowly, even in their walk—they are de
liberate—they ponder well—they would
not be taken for industrious men by per
, sons to whom they were unknown. On
! the other hand, yonder is a man always
rushing, pushing, driving—he is called
industrious. He has been moving at
that rate for a lifetime. Enquire into his
history, and ten to one that you will find
that it is made up of thriftiessness, in
stability, and perpetual failure. Os course
there are exceptions to all rules—but it
is a safe maxim, make haste slowly.
Everything valuable and permanent is
the product of time and slow continuous
labor. Lay your foundation well, and
build slowly.— Richmond Morning Xews.
*
An entirely new idea has made its ap
pearance on Broadway, New York. It is
a snug little saloon called “The Spa,” at
which very correct imitations of the cele
brated German waters at Baden-Baden
and elsewhere, may be obtained. They
are manufactured by Dr. Smith, formerly
of Cincinnati, who has made the analyz
ing and re combination of waters a life
long study. His imitations are said to be
perfect by German Spring drinkers, who
have tried them, and among his regular
patrons are many old continental travel
ers, valetudinarians, who visit his estab
lishment every morning, and take one or
two glasses from the “Spa.” The waters
are served out at precisely the same tem
perature as the original, so the illusion is
almost complete.