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VOLUME 11. L,. E. SHERMAN—Editor. IST TWO DOLLARS per annr.m, if paid in advance, and TlIfi.EE DOLLARS when payment is delayed. No paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, ex tent at the option of the Proprietors. R ATES OP ADVERTISINGS One IV ll:tr per square for the first insertion, and Fifty ‘tents for each subsequent insertion. A square is twelve ‘lines, er less. Advertisements handed in without having Ahe nttrtihe* of insertions specified, will be published until forbidden. Liberal contract* ,v ade with those who advertise by the quarter or v--f. iegai affvertisements inserted at the usual rates. Salfcs land ami negroes by Executors, Administrators And Guardians are required by law to be advertised forty fsjrs previous to the day of sale; and the sales must be held fct the door of the Court-House in the county in which the property is situated between 10 o'clock a. m. and 3 p. in. <on the first Tuesday in the o*o nth Sates of personal property and notice to debtors and cred It or of an estate must he advertised forty days: notice that application will be made to the Court ofOrdinary for leave tP sell land and neiHMt. wins? he pnMl'btd sic iiwirtfti SherlH's sales.binder executions must be advertised thirty days; under mortgage executions, sixty days. Citations for Letters of Administrator’s sale must be pub lished thirty da is; for Dismission from Administration monthly six. months; for Dismission from Gaardlanship/oWy days. Applications for foreclosure of Mortgages must be pub lished monthly six, months; for establishing lost papers ucek j ty three months. 03rLetter* on business to ensure attention, must be post i frAID. Professional cards. Law Wotico, THE undersigned will give prompt attention to all business entrusted to Iti.s care in the counties of Sumter, Clay. Randolph, Early, De tcatur, Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty and Lee, in this Circuit. JOHN L\ ON, Solicitor General, S. W. C. Newton, March 18, 1851 —ly H. \V. PE VRM VS* I). Kl'lßßtUteil. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. STARKVILLE GEORGIA. February 4,1854. —1 y HENRV . AEEXANOER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Albany Dougherty Count x , Georgia. VfIEE give prompt attention to all business entrusted to his care. Office upstairs, over J. G. Davis’ Store. Albany, January 28. 1854 —ly _ s rito/ll lt & Sli lUGHTLR Attorneys at Law, ALU AN Y, GEORGIA. YmriLL practice in the South-Western Cir- cnit. Ilavinr opened offices both at Alba ny and Newton-, they may he consulted at the latter place during the tirst and third weeks ol each month of the present year. Albany, Jan. t, 1,854. s—ly. DOrGLASS A DOVGLAkX, Attorneys at Law. CuUibcrt. Ga. WILL practice in the South -Western Cir cuit, andYn Stewart erttmty. tUGENIUS L. POUGLASS. | MARGKLfiUS DOUGLASS Dec. 17. 1853—!y ■ WARREN & WARREN. ATTORNEY'S AT Is AW, At.BAXY, PEORGIA. WILD practice in the following Counties ’ Sumter, Biker, Early, Thomas, Lee, Ran dolph, Decatur-and Lowndes. Lot* VVARRF.V, ‘ * * ‘ ’ L. P. D. IVARRF.N. June 17. 1853 —ly .■ _ K. J. WARREN, A T TO 11 NE ,Y A T L A W, Starkvu.le, Georgia. July 1,1853—1 y _• ■_ “ ‘ C “ T_ ” HENISYOT ©R A N.j,, ‘ ATTORNEY AT I.A IV, , A 1.6 ANY, GEORGIA.. WILL practice in the Courts of the South- Western and Southern Circuits. ; Officii up slairs tu-Soe old Franklin Hall, next door to the‘Georgia Courier. June 17, 1853—ts THOMAS C. lipiCEK, todPtiey -A.t Law, ALBANY, GEORGIA. ■ • July 23,-1853 —lly ‘■” : ■ it. k. Tunes ATTORNEY AT LAW-, ALBANY, GA. . July 16,1853.—if ’ WILLIAM E. SMITH, v Attorney at iLaw, ALBANY, GEORGIA. WILL attend to professional business in the! Superior Courts’ of Sumter, ’Lee,- Randolph, fiaker, Early, Decatur and Lmvndesij.gnd in the Inferior Courts of Baker tind Lee counties., ALSO, in the several’ Courts *>|pOrdirtafy of Baker ceonty. ‘.'iJK,**’ . Office, up Stairs, one JjoijWt ..f .1 0. Davis’ Store, “,’verts, 1853.—ts ’ THOMiS J, DUN A Attorney at Lawfy Jasper, Calhoun eounty, Ga. WIEE attandto professional business in lh£ Superior Courts of Sumter, Randolph, Ear ly, Clay, Decatur, Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty and Lee counties.—May 6,1864 —1 y. ‘ A. A. HAN FORTH, DRUGGIST & APOTHECARY; ALBANY, GEORGIA. May 6, 1864. 22—ly ’ TtrTC-nTn at- DRS. JENNINGS &.LUNDAY having formed a co-partnership, tender their professional services to the citizens of Albany and vicinity. February 10, 1864. 10—ly. i ___ DRS. GILBERT & NEESON, tJAVIUG formed a copartnership in the *-*■ practice of Medicine, respectfully ten der thedr services to the citizens of Albany and vicinity. John b. GiLffEßf. John p. nelson. January 14, 1854. ts L. E. WELCH. dealer in HOOKS, STATIONERY, Musical Instruments, Jewelry, Ac. ALBANY, GEORGIA. no2o—tf. (Jkorgia Courier. POETRY Hood on Duelling. Tom Ilood describes an intended duel which was prevented by an amicablearrangement made upon the ground. The parlies—Mr. Brady and Mr. Clay—rivals for the affeefions of Miss Lucy Bell, tind it necessary to appeal to arms : But first they found a friend a piece, Their pleasant thought to give— That when they both were dead, they’d have Two seconds yet to live. To measure the ground, not long The seconds next forebore; And having taken one rash step, They took a dozen more. They next prepared each pistol pan, Against the deadly strife ; By putting in the prime of death, ‘Again ■ prime of lilb. Now all was ready for the foes; But when they took their stands, Fear made them tremble so, they found They botli were shaking hands. Said Mr. C. to Mr. 8., Here one of us mav fall, And, like St. Paul’s Cathedral now, Be doomed to have a ball. I do confess I did attach Misconduct to your name ; If I withdraw the charge, will then Your ramrod do the same ? Said Mr. B. “ Idoagree— But think of Honor’s courts— If we be off without 4 shot There will be strange reports. But look the morning now is bright, Though cloudy it begun Why can’t we aim above, as if We had called out the still. So up in the harmless air Their bullets they did send And may all other duels have That upshot in the end. From the Alabama journal, To * I .know a little fairy, With soft black shining hair ; That lunketh so bewitchingly As it shades Iter brow so fair; Her laugh is so delicious— So knowing, sweet and clear— You’d never dream of thinking There was danger lurking near. Her dress is plain and simple, Giving roundness to her form-- A touch of something gentle— A w itching, winning charm ; And when she sits down by you With a quiet easy grace, You’d never dream ol thinking There was danger in her (ace. Her voice is soft, melodious— And lute-like in its lone; And it often lingers in ottr ear. As we sit and nurse alone, And her a.breaks our so gladiy— So sunny, bright and e’ear You’d never dream of thinking There wasdanger luiking near, Oil! listen, yet be careful, “i’tsa very dangerous part J Ilelips distjUhe nectar That doth enclave the heart ; That soft, mild glance, ti.at sparkling eye, Sweet sunny siuilt?’*—take Care! , You may never dream ol thinning, But there’s danger lurking there ! Forget not the dead, who have loved, who have lull us, Who betid o’er us now from their bright homes above, But believe, neverjdoubt that the God who bereft us. Permits them to mingle wi.h friends they still • |ove ; Repeal their fond words, and their noble deeds cherish, ‘ Speak p easant ly of them whqleft us in tears ; From out lips their names other joys should not perish, , ■ While time bears our feet through the. valley of years. , From t|ie-Detroit Daily Advertiser, November, ftk Doeaticks Invents a Patent JTecli eine. New York, Nov. 6,1854 ) 701 Narrow street. \ ‘Congratulate me—my fortune is made—l am immortalized, and I’ve done K myself. I have gone Hilo the patent medicine business. My name vylll be handed down to posterity as that of a universal benefactor, The hand which h’re aft r Writes upon t Ire record ol Fame the names ol Ayer, Sands,Townsend, Moffat,Motrissott and Brandretb, must also inscribe, side by side with those distinguished appellations, the no less brill iant cognoihjjn of the tjqdying Doesticks. Emu lous ol L ndftatjoiy which has been aeftuirecWpy medicimh"K'ol || ipS just mention ed, 1 als resolved to achie!® a name and a.fnr tune in tfc same reputable tod honest manner. ‘Bought a \al'on ot tar, a cale of beeswax, and a firkin of laVl, and in twenty-ene hours I present ed to -the wcr*<||A first batch of Dnestick’s Pat ent Self Acting rour-Horse-Poicer Balsam, de signed to cure-all diseases of mind, body or estate, to give slrength'lo the weak, money to the poor, bread and butler to the hungry, boots to the bear foqt, decency to blackguards, and Common sense to the Know Nothings. It acts physically, mor ally, mentally, psycnologicaily, physiologically and geologically, and it is intended to make our sublunary sphere a blissful) paradise, to which Heaven itself shall be b. 1 a side Show. •I have not yet brought it to absolute perfection, bat even now it acts with immense fotce, as you will perceive by the accompanying testimonials and records of my own individual experience.— You will observe that I have not resorted to the usual manner of preparing certificates, which is, to be certain that all those intended for eastern circulation shall seem to come from seme former ly unheard-of place in the west, while those sent to the west shall be dated at some place forty miles east of sunrise. But I send to you, as rep resenting the western country, a certificate from an Oregon farmer: “ Dear Sir. The land composing my farm has hitherto been so poor that a Scotchman couldn’t get his living off it, and so stotly that we had to slice our potatoes and plant them edgeways; but hearing of your balsam, I put some on the corner of a ten-acre lot, surrounded by a rail fence, and in the morning I found the rocks bad entirely dis appeared, a neat 6tone wall encircled the field, and the rails were split into oven-wood and piled up symmetrically in my back yard. Put half an ounce into the middle of a huckleberry swamp ; in two days it was cleared off, planted with corn and pumpkins, and had a row of peach trees in full bloom through the middle. As an evidence m ALBANY, DOUGHERTY COUNTY, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 3, 1871. of its tremendous strength I would state that it drew a striking likeness of my eldest daughter— drew my youngest boy out of the mill pond— drew a blister all over his stomach—drew a load of potatoes four miles to market, and eventually drew a prize of ninety-seven dollars in the state lottery. And the effect npon the inhabitants here about has been so wonderful, that they have op., ened their eyes to the good of tire country, and are determined to vote fora governor who is op posed to frosts in the middle of June, and who will make a positive law against freshets, hail storms, and the seventeen year locusts.” There isn’t that some? But I give one more from a member of the senior class in the western college, who, although misguided, neglected and ignorant, is undoubtedly as honest and sincere as his Prussianized education will admit of. I have corrected the orthogre nit.-a. .eds r egnm mut'-. 1 >'A. ■■■; fcv w-stues attending to t these nit.es, fnkerttng marks of punctuation, and putting the capitals in tli'e right places, 1 assure you I have made no alteration : Sall Harbor, June 31, 1854. Mv Dear Doctor: (You know I attended med ical lectures half a winter, and once assisted in getting a crooked needle out of a baby’s leg ; so l understand perfectly well the theory and prac tice of medicine, and the doctor is perfectly le gitimate under the Prussian system.) By the inressent study required in this establishment, 1 had become worn down so thin that I was oblig ed to put an overcoat on to cast a shadow—but accidentally hearing of your balsam, I obtained a quantity, and, in obedience to the homceopathical principal of this institution, took an ‘infintesima.l’ dose only ; in four days I measured one hundred and eighty two inches round the waist—could chop eleven cords of hickory wood in two hours and a half; and, on a bet, carried a yoke of oxen two miles and a quarter in my left hand, my right being tied behind me; and if any one doubts the fact, tlie oxen are still to be seen. “About two weeks after this, had the pleasure of participating in & gunpowder explosion, oh which occasion my afms and legs were scattered over the village, and my mangled remains pretty equally distributed throughout the entire country. Under these circumstances my life was despair ed of, and my classmates had bought a pine cof fin, and borrowed whole shirts to attend the fu neral in ; when the invincible power of your foiir horse-povver balsam (which I happened to have in my vest pocket) suddenly brought together the scattered p'eces of my body—collected my limbs from the rural districts—put new life into my shattered frame, and I was restored, uninjured to my friends, with anew set of double teeth. I have preserved the label which enveloped the bottle, and have sewed it into the seat of tny pan taloons, and I now bid grim death defiance, for 1 feel that I am henceforth unkillable, and in (act 1 am even now generally designated the ‘Great Western Arcltilles.’ ” Yours, entirely, Fki IIy.” I feel that after this, Mr. Editor, 1 need give you no more reports of third persons, but will nevertheless detail some of tny own personal ex perience of the article. I caused some to be ap plied to the Washtenaw Bank after its failure, and while the balsam lasted the Banks redeemed its notes with specie. The cork of one ol the bottles dropped Upon the head of a childless wid ow and in six Weeks she bad a young and bloom ing husband Administered some 1 1 a hack dri ver in a glass of gin and sugar, and that day he swindled but seven people, and only gave twool tbem-bad tnutiey in change. Gave a lew drop gratis to a poor woman who Was earning a pre carious subsistence bv making calico shirts with a one-eyed needle, and the next day she was dis covered to be heir to a large fortune. The Know Nothing candidate for Mayor of the city lias sent for a bottle, add it has entirely cured him of a violent verbal ‘diarrhoea. Gave sonic to an up town actorj and that night lie said “ damned” on ly twehty-one times. One of the daily papers got the next dose, and in the next edition but one there were but four editorial felsehoods seven in decent advertisements, and two columns and a half ol home made “Foreign Correspondence.” Caused fifteen drops to be given to the low com edian of a Broadway theatre 1 , aßd that night he was positively dressed more like a ntan than a monkey -r-ac fits lly spoke some lines of the author --.wade on’ythree insane, attempts at puerile witicisms—only twice went oTU of his way to . introduce ‘some grossly indelicate line into his part*and for a wonder lost so much of his self conceit that for a full half hour he did not believe fiimscii the greatest comedian ih the World. Gave some to a newsboy, and he manufactured but three fires, a couple of murders, and one horrible railroad accident, in the next thirty minutes.— Put some on the outeide of the Crystal Palace, and the same day the stock went from 22 up to 44. Our whole Empire City is entirely changed by the miraculous power of “Dnestick’s Patent Acting-Four-Horse Power Balsam.” The gas is lighted olj the dark nights instead of on the moonlight evenings—there are no more high way robberies in the streets or if there are, the ofiettders, when arrested, are instantly discharged by the police magistrate. No more building ma terials on the sidewalks; no more midnight mur ders; no more Sunday rows; no mors dirty streets; no more duels in Hoboken, aud no more lies in the newspapers. Broadway is swept and garnished; the M. P’s are civil, and the boys don’t steal any more dogs. In fact, so well con tent are we now with our city, that we feel, as the Hibernian poet so beautilully says : “O. if there be an Elysium on Earth, “It rt this—it Is this,” Orders for my balsam, ‘accompanied by the money’ will be immediately attended to; other wise, not—for my partner and 1 stave resolved to sell for cash only, feeling as did Dr. Young, who appropriately and feelingly.remarks— W e take no notes on Time.” Triumphantly yours, Dr. Q.. K PuiLANDEßiloEsttcks, P. 8., M. D P. bi.—Bull Dogge says I have piled it up too strong, and that tio one will believe what he calls “that humbug about the newspapers, and the preposterous nonsense concerning. the Broadway actor.” lam aware that in these instances my medicine has performed a modern miracle, but the facts remain “ no less true, than strange.” Dr. Q, K. P. D , P. 8., M. D. A Survey of Cronstadt. The British surveying steamer Lightning has returntLto England from the Baluev A London pttyer says i The Lightning accomplished her duties as a surveying vessel in a highly satisfactory manner, and, having run in close to Cronstadt* had a gooff opportunity of reconnoitering the strength of that fortress. The mouth ot the harbor is nar row, and one ship only could enter at a time, which she would hate to do under the concen trated firing ot 104 guns, and if she passed the outer entrance she would receive, before enter ing tbe inner harbor, the cencentrated firing from 280 guns on a double tier battery erected at its entrance, and in which 14 ships of the line are now lying. The walls are of.solid granite 18 feet tbiek, and it would require a considerable land force to aid a powerful fleet when attempt ing to destroy the fortifications. JFOREIGN NEWS. Transmitted for the Savannah Morning News Three Hays Eater frou Europe. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP CANADA. Decline In Cottoit. New York, Nov. The British mail steamship Canada, with Liv erpool dates to the 11th inst., has arrived at Hal ifax. Her dates are three days later than the Canadian’s at Portland, Me. Liverpool Cotton Market. The stock of Cotton in Liverpool is 670,000 bales, including nearly 400,000 American. The Ltve r pool cotton market opened active, but fell off at the close. The sales of the week qp-mprise 50,000 bales. Messrs. Ship ley’s circular quote Fair Orleans at dlins at 5Jd ; Fair Uplands at 6d, and Middling Uplands at s£d; Speculators took 3,000, and exporters 4.000 hales. Dennistoun’s circulars say that prices closed at 1 16d. lower oil middling grades. Provisions. —The flour market was active du ring the early part of the week, hut closed at a slight reduction, with no speculative demand. The trade in the manufacturing districts had largely declined. London Money Market —Consols have de clined to 93f. American securities ate quoted Unchanged’. The Seige ttf Sebastopol. Latest advices from the Crimea represent the eeige of Sebastopol as progressing slowly. The English pCopIS are beginning to manifest much atixiety for the rfesult,andare complaining offhe ill successof the Allies. In the affair of the 25th October, at Bulaklava, it is now stated that the English forces sustained a loss of one thousand killed. Soule gone to Madrid. Mr. Soule has goneto Madrid, passing through Paris on his way. RrWct mission in refvi-fence in Cuba? Lord Palmerston has gone to Paris on a secret mission respecting the American dangers in Cu ba. Arrival of Hit* Herman. Additional Particulars from the Scntof War. Columbia. Nov. 24. The Herman has arrived and brings a little additional intelligence from the seat of war.— Russian reinforcements under Daoneberg are approaching Sebastopol. A Russian despatcli says there was a terriffic gale on the 28th and 29th of October on the Black Sea, and the allied fleets were obliged to run out to sea to escape its fury. The besiegers were drenched with rain and were unable to keep up their site on the forts. Mr. So ttie has arrived at Paris, on route for Lot faavtx. The French ghrefnhiciit, in ‘the withdrawal of the prohibition as to his travelling I through France, disclaimed all disrespect to the ! American government, and places the exclusion I on merely private grounds. Ship Glenkerg, 54 days out from New Orleans for Havre, was spoken on the 4;lt inst., Several of Jltecrew haddied.tif ye'iow lever. f, l-’roni the Savannah Republican. Messrs Ediiors :—lt is rumored in the streets that the directors o.C the Gulf Railroad Company are about to push forward this enterprise to the utmost extent of their subscription. Now wltat does this subscription involve? I believe about Iwffhundred thousand dollars of individual sub scriptions, and one million bn the part of the city. Now, I think it is lime for public opiidon to be expressed plainly on the subject, and in strong condemnation ‘no, of this proceeding, at such a time as this. I am satisfied that if the people will look into i. e matter, they will unatiimoiislv agree that it i- in ‘he utmost degree injudicious ii) go on at thr ®,'uie beyond the Ogeechee. Let them go to that point and rest there ; but il a million of dollars of City Bonds is going io be issqed at a time like the present, it will reduce thefr value immensely and involve an additional taxjof seventy thousand dollars. And il is not thaj Savannah is particularly weighed down, but tliuj there is a financial storm passing over the while country, which all must Teel. Let us look calWy ttt the state of things in ottier parts of the Stale, of the country and of the world. Look at the value of City and even of State bonds in all {lie great money markets.” Listen to the com plains of scarcity of money in evefy direction andslet Us pause before it is too late. It is time thaj the public look our position calmly in the sac. It is no time to penetrate the wilderness with railroads. VVe are not at this moment in a situation to increase either our public or private debts. And we should at least wait for rebel to the general pressure, and then be prepared toavail of the low prices which must follow that pressure. Who does not reinei j-er the sacrifices of 1837 to 1842, when Central Railroad Slock was sold at §2O a share, and the 8 per Cent Bonds at forty cents On the dollar? Who does not remember the heavy burthen of taxesat that time, when the A‘4?<-tm'ii had to put their hands into their own to pay the city watch J Ido not mean to croak, but I want to awaken reflection and even action before it is 100 late, and 1 may recur to the subject again. L't us not forget the past, bfit learn by its experiences. A Tax Payer. Important to Shippers of Goods. —A case was tried before the United Slates Circuit Court at Richmond, Virginia, a few days ago, in which the Union Steamship Company was sued for damages done to goods landed by them on the wharf at Rockets, for certain consignees. The goods weie placed under the company’s shed in charge ol a watchman, but were injured by a sud den freshet. The Despatch says: “The court held that the company were not liable for that damage as common carriers ; that the affreightment was complete when the goods were deposited on the wharf; and thenceforth, if tne company undertook to exercise any control overthem, it was but as warehousemen, bound only to ordinary care; and goods only thus situai ted, beitig destfoyed of damaged by a freshet, which was the act of God, the company is not responsible, and the loss must be borne by the consignees.” Deepest Well in the World. —For six years past, Messrs. Belches and Brother, of St. Louis, have been boring an artesian well on their premises. It is now twenty-two hundred feet in depth, being deeper by one hundred feet than one in France. At the distance of 100 feet, a vein of salt water was struck, and at 1600 feet an immense vein of sulphur water, in all respects like that of the Blue Lick Springs burst forth. ITEiMS. Spiritualists. —A census of the spiritualists in New York city, shows the number to be 35,000. A famine unparalleled in the histmy of the country, is said to be prevailng in the land of J udea. Three men were lately fined for practising medicine without license, by Judge Lumpkin ot Walker Court. The Washington monument has now attained a height of 166 feet. The recei’p's for feohtffiu ing the work are coming in slowly. The Maine Law has passed the Legislative Assembly of Canada by a vote of 85 to 5, and it will probably pass the Council, and immediately become a law. There ate upwards of fifty converffM Jews j now exercising ministerial functions in the -I Church of England. Monument at Buena Vista. —The Mexi cans propose to erect a monument upon the bat tle field of Buena Vista, to commemorate the vie- i tore they won there over the North American Barbarians!—What next! The whipping post is still in use in Coving ton, Kentucky. Lawrence Hunt was jhiußcly whipped in that place it: last week for stealing caps. J. T. Ileadly, the author, is chosen to the New York Assembly from the Newburgh District, Orange coun'y, by 19 majority.—lie was tiie independent Maiue Law candidate. By a recent investigation it appears that 60 per cent., of the letters sent through the tnails in this country are pre.paili. Denmark exceeds the United States in the I proportion of youths enjoying educational privil- i eges. The United States exceeds all other i conutlies even including the slaves. Maine has ; a larger proportion of her children at School than any other State or country in the World. Five hundred shares of the Georgia Gold Company sold in New York on the sth inst., for $63, the par valuation being SIOO. E;UiiS{g lTlc*itt. The Americans are the greatest eaters nf an imtU food. The pork consumed in the U States is ihree times the quantity consumed by the same number in Europe, if statistical accounts are to be believed. Animal fond is very generally set on the table three times a day, in the Western country. An Irishman writing Home, and extol ling the luxuries of his condition in the nevV world, added by way of a clinches’, that lie com monly todk meat twice a day; upon which his employer asked him why lie did not state the whole truth. He replied, that if he had said three times, all his friends would have believed that he lied. This was going a little too far for common credulity. But after all, the Americans are a spare, hungry looking people, not appear ing as if well nourished. The inhabitants of Northern Europe and A.-ia are physically weak, though living mostly on fish and flesh. The Scotch and Irish, who eat but little meat, are strong, capable of great labor and fatigue, and I more able-bodied men Ilian the English, who are more addicted to animal food. The strongest men in the world, of whom we havi any account, are the porters of Smyrna, who never taste flesh. The South Sea islanders are veiy powerful men, upon a diet mostly of vegetable and fruit. It is said that the soldiers of Greece and Koine seldom taHed meat, though qualified by physical courage and endurance for the conque-t’ol’ the world The suspicion is quite strong that Jonathan wi uld gam flesh, and improve his general appearance, by tiie substitution o! bread and vegetables for a ; part of his diet for animal fttb’d. Vicissitudes of Fortune. —A writer in the j London Kc’onoinist, sums up a very able article on Napoleon 111, as follows: “ The man who landed at Boulogne in 1840, with a single steam- ; er and a few liiends, on a desperate and abortive I expedition, revi -its it in 1851, to review a vast ar- ; my and receive the homage of countless specta- i tors. The same man who six years ago lived in ! obscurity in London, scarcely able to pay his tai- j lor’s and quite unable to pay his horse dealer's! bill—-whom many looked upon as stupid, and j whom none looked upon as wise, of whom few j augured well, and whom few would trust much, I we have just seen receiving the visits and com- | piiinents outlie consort of our Queen, entertaining three royal guests at liis table, one of them the son-in-law of the very monarch he had succeed ed, and admitted beyond all denial into the social circle of royal personages. Nor is this change in his singular fortunes the only one, nor perhaps the greatest. We can imagine him smiling with even a more grim satisfaction as life con- | traststhe language oftlie Engiish press regard- ; ing him in 1852, aud now, sitting w ith the Times or the Examiner, of December, !851, or of August, 1854, before him, and marvelling at the metamorphosis, tiie unm-asured abuse winch was showered upon him at the former date, and tiie decorous respect and cordial praise with which he is spoken of now. The “ swell” and “the sanguiiiaiy and audacious ruffian” is now the polite and sagacious Emperor, and tete-a-tete with Prince Albert and King Leopold. Military Asylum, Washington .-The Wash ington Sentinel says that the buildings for this \ institution, located three miles from the city, are ! progressing. Tiie main structure will soon be 1 ready for roofing, and the inside work be prose- j cuted during the winter. There are already at ; the asylum upwards of fifty wounded and other- ; wise disabled soldiers, who are well cared for by the government. Six of them are between sixty and seventy vSars of age, and one, a German by birth, named Jacob Zimmerman, has seen eighty five winters. He was in Napoleon Bonapart’s campaigns and in the Florida and Mexican wars; I and it may, therefore) be reasonably concluded that he ha3 seen “service” and done a good share of fighting. The old fellow is remarkably active, and enjoys himself finely among his companions at tiie asylum, lie relates long and interesting stories about the wars to those who are inclined to listen to them ; in other words, “ he fights his battles o’er again.” Arrest of a Post Office Clerk—Wil liam U. Martin, the principal distributing Clerk in the Baltimore Post Office, lias been arrested, charged with stealing money from the letters. The amount of money missing is said to be sev eral thousand dollars. The Growth of St. PAUL.-The rapid growth of tiie city of St. Paul, in the territory of Minneso ta, furnishes fresh evidences of the go ahead char acter of our ceuntry. In 18-10 there was” but a single house standing on the site where a busy and prosperous community is now found. St. Paul is now supplied with lour daily papers,eight commodious snd well kept hotels, several church es and all kindred appliances of a thrillyr people. It is estimated that during the present season the steamboats arriving there liavo landed up wards of 46,000 pas6engefs. The wind blew so, night before last, says the Albany Knickerbocker, that the boats on Jordan Level had to “lay to.” As some of our reader? may not know hnw this nautical feat is performed on the canal, wo would state, that a horse is fas tened to each end the boat, and walloped tilt the -torrn abates or the vessel breaks in two at the middlc- Prubably some of our readers iiiay not know how another feat, —viz : taking on sail in the Ca nal, is performed. It is very simple however.— Somebody jumps ashore and Knocks down the leader with a handspike. A Go >d Reason. —There f was once a clergy man in New Hampshire noted for his inng ser mons and indolent habits. “ How 7” said a man tolils neighbor, “Unit Parson 1’ the !a ----j ziest man living, writes these interminable set- I inons ?” “Why,” said the other “he probably get3 to writing and is to lazy too stop.” I “You look like death on a pale horse,” said Jim : to a toper, who was growing pale and emaciated. “I don’t know any thing about that said the toper “but Pin death on pale brandy.’ The washerwoman who attempted to hang tier elo'hes on Mason and Dixon’s line, has been prosecuted lor a violation of the last great com promise. The Yankee who was lying at the point of 1 death, whittled it off’ with his jack-knife, and is j now recovering. ! A young man stepped into a bookstore and said i he Wanted to get a Young Man’s companion.— j ‘Well sir,’ said the bookseller, ‘here is my danglH j ter.’ “Woiild’t you cdll this the calf of a leg ?” asked I Bob, pointing to one of nether limbs, rather com i partly encased in representations of barber poles anti running vines. “No,” replied Jim, “I should say it was the leg of a calf.” An editor in lowa has been fined two hundred dollars for hugging a young girl ih church.— Daily Argus. Cfieap enough I We once hugged a girl iii church some ten years ago, and llie scrape has cost us a thousand dollars a year ever since.—l Saratoga Republican. Among the many ingenius and labor saving machines on exhibition at the New YorK State Fair, is one invented by a gentleman from Con-; nectieut, who says that when it is wound up and set in motion, it will chase a hog over a ten here lot, catch, yoke and ring him, or by a slight change of gearing, it will chop him into sausages,’ work his bristles into shoe brushes, and manu facture his tail into corkscrews,*a!l ih the twink ling of a bed po.-t. A gentleman playing whist with a part tier who seemed to hold the Mahommedan doctrine of abhitiun in supreme contempt, said to him, “Mji good fellow, il dirt were trumps what a hand you would have.” Why is a philosopher like a person who has ! encountered a doctor 7 lie’s met-a-physiciaff. A pretty girl si v feet high gives one a good j idea of ‘linked sweetness long drawm out. A weak minded lady says if any thing will 1 make a woman swear, it is striking her foot i against tiie rocker of a rocking-chair, while hunt ! ing for her night-cap after the candle has beeri blown out. I A facetious boy asked one of iiis playmates— j “Why a fiardwar^dealerwas like? bootmaker ?” j “Why,” said tbeother, “because tiie one sold the | nails and the other nailed the soles.” A person said in our hearing the other day. that ’ editors for the most part, were a thin, pale faced ! set. A lad standing near, made this witty obser : vatioa to his churn—“ There, Bub, I had often ! read about editorial corpses.” A western paper speaks of a man who died without tlie aid of a physician Such instances are very rare. “Sam, whv is your head like the moon ?” “I : don’t know, Jim. Give it up.” “Bekase it is’ I s upposeu to he inhabited ! Yah, yah. What is an Obtuse Angle? An Oi l Englander. What is a ’Cute Angle ? A New Englander. The’ oldest berry is, of course, the elder berry. The best defence of lying is Charles Lamb’s remark, as rela'el by Leigh Hunt, that “Truth is precious, and not to be wasted on every body.” What are you to do ?— A diminutive speci men ol humanity appealed to our compassion l a day or two ago, to relieve him by purchasing ■ a copv of a weekly paper with which he had been, to use the term of the trade, “stuck.” Il is blue eyes and rosy cheeks attracted attention; and in reply to inquiries he stated that he and his only brother supported his mother, and Lis mother supported his father. In reply to a question whether he did not sometimes swear, tlis little chap, with an embarrassed air, said “not often', but when a big boy steals your papers, and you can’t lick him, what are you to do.—[Courier & Enquirer. Show us a lady’s bonnet, and vve will tell yeti i what sort of a woman she is. If it is full ofrib bons, cupids, bows, etc., she is as full of love and j p etry, as a country is of politicians and loafers, i Is it decked with simple, plain colors, and a eou | pie of modest knots, she is a perfect jewel, sweet) | sunny, mild, but as affectionate as a frgslily nurd jed kitten. If stuck all over with a paradise of clover; threb stofy ostrich feathers, wax holly hocks, and juniper berries, put it square down that she will always remain single, and will nev er see her fortieth birth day. Bonnets are a true j index ttf wemeti. Another Bank Fraud.— New York, Nov. 21.—Tne Paying Teller of the American Ex change Bank, at New York, has embezzled $137,700 of the funds of he bank, by means of certified checks to irresponsible parties. Easier Times. —The New York Railroad Ad vocate thinks that our financial troubles will soon have an end. it says : The heaviest foreign payments of the country are now about made, $35,000,000 of gold h iving been sent abroad since January first. The Banks have already contracted their loans some $12,-* 000,000 within a few weeks in this ci'y. The cotton season is just opening in. promising a good crop and heavy returns. Roads, costing sixty millions of dollars, will have been brought into full use, between January Ist, 1854, and Januay ry 15th, 1855. Over trading lias been pretty ef fectually heid up. The breadstuff and provision products of tiie last season are steadily coming in, and the effeclof cutting oft’ the Russian sup-* ply of grain from other European nations, will make the latter dependent on the United States. The shipments of coal from Schuylkill county are now going lorward with great activity. Is there not, in all these circumstances, a promise f easier times l I\D. 33.