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172 LITERARY. VH.UAK W. MANS, Editor. The Southern Field and Fireside Ig PUBLISHED EVERY SATCRDAT. TEEMS—I2.OO a year, Invariably In advance. All Postmasters are anthorized agents. SATURDAY, OCT. 22, 1859. BACK NUMBERS. Persons subscribing to the Field and Fireside can be supplied with all the back numbers. —— — terms to news-dealers. This paper is mailed to news-dealers at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per one hundred copies. — TERMS OF ADVERTISING. For each insertion of ten lines or less, one dollar; and *or over ten lines, at the rate of ten cents per line. —S I w NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. We do not send receipts by mail for subscriptions re mitted. The receipt of The Souther* Field and Fireside, after the money is remitted, will be evi dence to each subscriber that his money has been re ceived and his name duly entered on the mail book. TO CORRESPONDENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS. We acknowledge the reception, during the past week, of; A Dream, from a Minister’s Wife; Echo and I, from N.; A Night on the Mountain, by Eola; Sappho, by same. “ Solomon Acorn ” must assure us that the name of the person sending us the article is that of its author. The place of its origin, also, ad monishes us to enquire if the author be a South erner. The plan of our paper does not admit original contributions from other than Southern writers. Three Years of Heart History, a tale, by Katy-Did, is accepted and will be published as soon as we can find space for it in our columns. The Fishing Scrape, by J. M. T., and “A Satyre," by Gouvion Dessaix, are respectfully declined. The tale entitled “Love vs. Ambition,” we hold at the disposition of the writer. If not sent for very soon, the manuscript will be sent “ traveling ” to that bourne whence there is no return. We advise the writer to let it go, and think no more about it. The story is a wild vagary, rife with improbabilities and impossi bilities. It has a certain smartness of execution, but is so infelicitous in conception that we are sure the author would hereafter experience only pleasure in the reflection that it had passed from our hands into the “basket,” and thence into the furnace. JUDGE LONGSTREET. We cannot refrain from plucking from two short newspaper items, clipped from a couple of our exchanges, and which we give below, a sprig of laurel for the already well-covered brow of our old friend, and former professional asso ciate, whose name we have just above written. He needs, to be sure, no praise of ours. His name, though borne, at our bidding, on the wings of the Field and Fireside, and uttered by its ten thousand tongues, will not be carried thus, to any locality, where it is not already, and where it has not long been familiar as a household word, almost literally, a household word. For, In the long course of his later sev enteen years’ career as President of various Southern Colleges and Universities, the young men who have pursued, or will pursue their academical studies, in whole or in part under his eye, must count by many hundreds if not by thousands. There is probably not a man living in our country, who has traversed a Profession al life, at once so active and varied, so useful and distinguished, as that of Judge Longstreet has been. He has “ touched” under the public eye, almost every sphere of liberal occupation— the Bar and Bench—the Pulpit and the Press— the fields of Literature and the halls of Learn ing—and what has he “ touched ” that he has not “ adorned ?” It was while he was traversing a small segment of this circle of the Professions, as a member of the Bar of the Middle District of Georgia, that we were so fortunate as to be ourselves, for a few yeaTS, in professional con nection with him. He has no cause to share in the feelings of gratitude with which we revert to the inception of that connection: yet we trust that, like ourselves, te never recalls it, but with pleasure; and he does, we believe, recipro cate the e3teem and friendship which then orig inated, and with which we know we shall con tinue to regard him so long as we retain the ca pacity of appreciating the finest qualities of head and heart, rare genius in rare combination with the highest moral excellence. But we must not forget the “ sprig ot laurel ” we were speaking of above. Here are the items alluded to: Hoxo* to Emory College.—At the class of 1845, at Eti*orv College, Oxford, Ga., appears the names of william H. Chambers, Esq., of Alabama, Hon. C. Lamar, of Mississippi, J. Jenks Jones, Esq., Mr. Thomas Hardeman, Jr., and R. G. Harper, Es^ The first is the member to the Legis lature from the county of Ala., and a promising lawyer. The second i»Vßepresenta tive in Congress from Mississippi, for re-election without opposition. TV* three last are the members elect from the 3d, 1%. and Bth districts from Georgia to the next All honor to Oxford !— [Columbus (Ga.) Times Oct. 7. University Graduates in the Legislature. —At the election which came off on last Thurs day, six graduates of the University of Missis sippi, were elected to seats in the State Legisla ture. They are, John L. Hudson, of Marshall county; A. M. Resons, Calhoun; T. E. Bugg, Chickasaw; J. J. Smiley, Hinds; L. B. Valiant, "Washington; and V. L. Terrell, of Covington. All the graduates who were candidates were elected by large majorities.—[Oxford Mercury. The above items suggest the thought that our friend Judge Longstreet may, in after times, rival Doctor Wad del himself in the number of distinguished public men who will point to him as their early preceptor, counselor, and guide in the paths of usefulness and honor they may pur sue. All of the gentlemen mentioned by The Times , belonged to the second class of Emory College, wLich began and completed its college NOTICE TO BOITSHKS&V HEM 111 OT3&SBX&3B. course under the Presidency of Judge Long street. Those mentioned in the notice of the Missis sippi paper—the Oxford Mercury— began and completed their college course under the Judge, at a much later period, while he was President of the University of Mississippi—a post held by him, with eminent usefulness for several years prior to his transfer to the Presidency he now occupies, of South Carolina College, in Colombia. OUR PARITCORRESPONDENCE. Paris, Sept. 29, 1859. The “ political horizon,” to employ a familiar French metaphor, is clouded with as much un certainty as ever. Looming through the fog is always that Italian Question —an object vast and menacing and undefined enough to be sublime, but represented by ingenious or crazy newsmon gers in such fantastic, changing shapes of ‘camel,’ ‘weazel,’ ‘whale’ as are quite ridiculous. That some one of the numberless conjectures put forth by journalists and oral newsmongers,as to the do ings of the Zurich Conference and the plans of the Emperors may prove to be true, is probable, for among them is included almost every possible case. That most of them must prove false, is certain,for they absolutely contradict themselves. That any of them have a greater authority of origin than the brains of the individual writers and speakers, is not likely. The pretense of be ing well, and peculiarly well informed, so con stantly set forward by Paris correspondents of the Belgian and other foreign papers, is as con stantly refuted by facts. Neither the members of the Conference, nor the two Emperors are in the habit of taking or letting “ own correspond ents ” iuto their confidence. I doubt extremely whether there are ten men in France who have any more accurate knowledge of what the plen ipotentiaries at Zurich have done and left un done, and of what Louis Napoleon purposes to do, than you will have twenty-four hours after receiving your European files by the steamer which brings you this letter. The chief new facts you will find record of therein are, first; The address expressing the desire of annexation to Piedmont, presented by the deputation from the Romagnol assembly to King Victor Emmanuel, and that monarch's reply to the same. Second : The declarations made by the Pope in the secret consistory, held the 26th inst., by which lie annuls all the acts of the above named assembly, reminds the rebels against his very mild paternal authority of the awful curses he so gently thundered at them some while ago, and expresses the hope that the Legations will be brought again under the pon tifical rule, [which, it may be said in passing, would be exchanging spiritual curses for a tem poral curse—acceptmg Cardinal Antonelli here to save themselves from Old Cloots hereafter,] Third : The menace of open battle between the Papal mercenaries and Garibaldi. Fourth: The official denial by the Moniteur of any truth ful foundation to the rumor that a kingdom of Central Italy was to be established for the bene fit of Prince Napoleon. A word or two of comment on each of these will suffice. To take them in reverse order, and begin with the last. It reduces the thou sand and one hypothetical solutions of the Ital ian Question to a thousand. The only remarka ble point in the denial is, that the rumor should have been esteemed worthy of one. That it did gain circulation and quite extensive entertain ment, not to say credence, is a most striking proof of the utterly floating, uncertain state of the public mind, in which memory and judgment seem to have abdicated in favor of mere percep tion and imagination. Yours, exercising the former faculties, may have been entertained by, but could never give credence to the idea that Louis Napoleon would lift a finger to lift the dead weight of Prince Napoleon to the Etrurian or any other throne. Could ho, indeed, put that “ well beloved,” plump “cousin” on a throne in the Fejee Islands, with a chance of his being eaten by his subjects, then you might look for a strenuous effort on the part of his majesty. I cannot myself regard a conflict between the Pon tifical and Romagnol troops as imminent, al though either party is in preparation for such a contingency. It is certain that the Pope’s mer cenaries alone, are unequal to the contest with Garibaldi alone; but Garibaldi is not alone, his forces forming but a part of the army of the Central Italian League. The fighting once be gun in Romagna could hardly fail to extend to— Heaven only can foresee whither, but far enough to terribly complicate the actual imbroglio, as European Powers can readily foresee, and will therefore strive to prevent. The Pope's or ra ther Cardinal Antonelli’s declarations through the Pope’s mouth, in the consistory, could have been anticipated. They are strictly logical se quences, from the worst of premises. So long as the unholy coupling of temporal and spir itual power, of Mammon and God, of Christ’s Vicar and a worldly King, exists in one person, he must rule despotically, because infal libly—rebels must be shot in this world, if, as at Perugia, they can be shot and damned in the next, whether or r.o. The Romagnols, in wish ing to be annexed to Piedmont, the King of that country in accepting their wishes, and all others who directly or indirectly aid and comfort them, are guilty of sacrilege. This is the ground taken by the ultra (as it seems to me, the logical) Romanist party in France as well as Rome.— Victor Emmanuel’s reply to the Romagnol dep utation, while it agreeably surprised the Liberals by its boldness of sympathy with their wishes, has violently irritated the ultra-Montanese here. They are loud and warm in a condemnation of it and him and them, which glances as well at Louis Napoleon himself, conditionally. That is they say, or imply rather, but w’ith suffi cient clearness, that if it could be supposed that the Emperor looked on such performances with complacency, then he would be in like con demnation. Strong as his majesty may be in the bayonets of his army, or in the well under stood present interests or “ affection ”of the French, he is not strong enough to despise or overlook the very grave importance of keeping i. on good terms with this ultra church party, %hieh, though small in numbers, is strong by one fixed idea. You remember, how, before the blood shed in the days of the Coup &Gtat was wiped up from the pavements of Paris, for its support by decreeing the Pantheon iiAg a church again; how the bid was accepted and support acquired, and how im mense was the v*]ue of that support, and how it was secured by co*stant succeeding favors. But not secured unconditionally. The Church par ty is neither Imperial v>r Republican, neither Legitimist or Orleanist— iVeecepts auy and every form of government, witltyi proclivity indeed toward the “strong” governments, because these last naturally tend to s Repress indepen dent thought and action, and consequently to al ly themselves with it, but remains always itself, the party of the church, always ready not to change its principles,which are invariable, but to transfer its support to any new party that will best pay for it. It has, can have, ought logical ly to have, no political affection. Louis Napo- leon is doubtless as well aware of all this as your correspondent. He is also aware of the loud callofpubli: opinion, in and out of Trance, for some improv sment of the condition of the Roman Legation ?, for some sort of partial ful filment of the fa ions programme of Italian per mances, cut sha t so untimely at V illafranca. But to say h< v he is to get out of this dilem ma, would be t enter into that wide field of conjecture and iypothesis, for whose abundant yield of chaff, tangle weed, knot grass, puff balls, straws t at do not show which way the wind blows, mi shrooms, and the like growth, without one lea of sage. I have just expressed a becoming con enipt. Suppose we imitate Lou is Napoleon at [ the wiser ones, and await the solution a littl from events themselves. Meanwhile, “ If you can lo« ; into the seeds of time, And say which min will prow and which will not, Speak then tom who neither" can nor will try. What more filly absorbed the interest of the great mass of 1 arisians last week, than any of these grand for iign affairs and still is an unex hausted theme ontalk,is an entirely domestic sub ject,or rather a siijectand his domestic. The sub ject is a very new and little one, having been in this world, wherelt has already made as much of a sensation as theFamcus Moniteur article of which I last wrote, only two months. A week ago last Saturday afternoon it was taken by its nurse for a promenade in flat charming baby fair, the garden of the Tuilerks. Presently a well dress ed young woman apt reached the nurse, admired the child, asked if to was the child of Madame Hua, was affirmatively, thereupon fell into ecstatic admration of her little nephew, kissed, caressed, amjiddressed the fondest of bad French to it, (baby talus as reckless of grammar and sense in France is in America,) must take it in her arms, will cart; it home, with the nurse, whom she first begs o run on a two minutes errand. Nurse, competely deceived by the per fect acting of the scet?, goes on the errand, and returns to find clifll and young woman no where to be found. The child was stolen. The distress of the pareis can be conceived. The father put a notice ii all the journals of Paris next day, giving an peurate description of the infant and offering V,OOO francs for its restora tion. And now, tho whole town learning the fact, the interest bejjin and grew till the whole town was taken up with it, as the New Yorkers were by tho Bond strict murder or the Boston ians by the Parkmak murder. I doubt wTiether you Augustans can boast any murder worthy of comparison. “Who solo the child?” “for what end?” were question-; asked and conjecturally answered in vain for nany days. Large groups were constantly gathered in front of the house where tho poor mothtr’s life was endangered by the agony of her loss. Mystery helped the sym pathy and sympathy helped the mystery to fill the Parisians topping full of emotions and sen sations—a state of idind and soul most delight ful to Parisians as to the rest of us. Some of the child's clothing Wts brought one day to the parents—the articles tad been picked up in a street in a quarter of the town far remote from the Tuileries. Had the poor thing been made away with ? .Vais, rrun Dieu ! La pauvre mere ! Pauvre petit! And all fell into the inter rogative and exclamatory words. But tho clothing could not he traced beyond the finder, a person perfeoily innocent of the abduc tion, who sold them fa: a trifle to a neighbor who had read the story in the newspapers, and sold them to the parents for 500 francs. To pass over various incidents which seemed to give a clue to the mystery, which was presently lost again to the public eye, but served to keep up the public curiosity, we come, by the help of the police eye, to the discovery of-the child safe and sound in the arms of a nurse in the town of Orleans. The whole story is not yet fully un raveled ; when it shall be, perhaps I may send you the denouement. But this much may be said at present; the recovery of Master Hua, announced by telegraph from Orleans, was very sincerely rejoiced over by the Parisians, especially the women-kind —and gave, I honest ly think, as general a pleasurable emotion to them as the report of Solferino victory. Ido not know that the story, which I have abbrevia ted to the last degree, will retain enough interest to bear a transatlantic voyage. But I could not, as your Paris reporter, quite pass over an event that lias occupied all Paris for nine days. Now comes another and more welcome dis traction from themes of war and diplomacy. To day is published the long looked-for new poems of Victor Hugo, La Legende des Siecles. The two volumes are made up of separate poems. The personages and their acts, taken from all history, ancient and modern, sacred and profane, introduced into the different legends, offer mere ly a frame-work on which the author has arrang ed the abundant flowers and fruits of imagery and thought, whose “infinite variety age cannot wither nor custom stale.” Had I read more of them than I have, I should not venture upon the task, so extremely difficult for a foreigner, of criticising these volumes. It is enough to say in general that, lacking some' of the beauties and free from some of the defects of the author's pre vious works, they show no falling off of poetical power. At his present age of fifty-seven, Victor Hugo shows that he can suffer by comparison with no French poet—except Mrs. Browning and, if you insist—l do jnot —Alfred Tenny son—with no living poet but himself. Os course he too well comprehends Lis art to mingle his political and personal passions with the higher imaginings and reflections of these poems. The epigraph and the dedication to La France with which the first volume opens, gracefully and touchingly suggests the sympathy for the Exile which he is too proud as well as too wise to ask for: Livre, qu’nn vent t’emporte En France, ou je suts nc 1 L’ arbre deracine Donne aa feuille morte. I must not deprive such of your readers as are classical or are in the way of becoming so at “Dr. Waddell's” or other school, of the follow ing. It was addressed to the pupils of the high school at Beaune in Burgundy, on occasion of the annual distribution of prizes. On such oc casions, it is the custom throughout France for the highest local dignitary to preside, except at Paris, where the Minister of Public Instruction fills the place of the Emperor. It is also the in variable custom for the President to make a speech, which is generally strewn with classic allusions. The presidency at Beaune the other day happened to fall upon the adjunct or vice mayor, who spoke as follows; “ Young gcutlemen, one breathes here among you and your excellent professors a certain litera ry perfume whichjrevives my classic souveniers, Et ego in arcadia fui; and I too will address you in a Latin discourse as they do at the allot ment of the grand prizes at Paris. Attention! Juvenes discipuli , si presidio hanc solemnitatem id est quia — quia—quia —l stop at quia. I have overrated my strength, and cannot finish the phrase in Latin in which I desired to tell you that if I preside over this celebration it is because (quia) the Sub-prefect is ill and the Mayor is gone to the departmental council. “ Weill Let this example not be lost on you ; if I stop at quia, it is because, when I went to school I did not study hard enough; I was not inter insignes, I was rather, alas 1 inter insignes pigros. You understand that, my friends, and I exhort you to work with a will, if you do not wish often in the course of your lives to be obliged to stop at quia." The good humor and good sense of this speech met with great applause from pupils and visit ors. —— [For the Southern Field and Fireside.] ORIGINAL ENIGMA-NO. 2, For the Little Folks at Home. I am composed of nineteen letters—as follows: My 1, IS, 4,lo—is a month of the year. “ 6, s,lo—is a beverage. “ 19,17,18, 4—is a substantive. “ 8, 10,11,12 —is “a valley between two hills.” “ 5,17, 12, 2, 4,10,11 —is a military officer. “ 8,10,6,13,17, 4—is a church officer. “ 19,18, 4—lives in a convent “16,14,15,10 —was a martyr of American liberty. “ 10,15,12 —is a measure of length. “ 16,10,15,12 —is set down as “a place of torment” “ 8, 6,11,10 —is the poetic name for valley, “ 16, 2,7,lo—should be avoided on dark nights. “ 15,14, B—is an urchin. My whole is the name of a lamented Southern States man. Answer next week. Solution to Enigma Mo. 1: The Southern Field and Fireside. J. H. S., of Irwinton, Ga., sends us the correct answer to No. 1. E. LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS. Foreign. —The directors of the Great Eastern have finally decided that the ship shall not go to Southampton, but leave Portland on her trial trip Oct 8, arriving at Holyhead about the 11th. If the trial is successful it is still intended to despatch the vessel to America on the 20th.— No passengers are to be taken on the trial trip. It is said that the maximum number of revolu tions shall be obtained from both engines before proceeding to sea with passengers. During the trip from the Thames the paddles never exceeded and tho screw 32 revolutions per minute, and to obtain the maximum speed, the paddles must go 14 revolutions. Marshal Niel on joining tho troops at Tou louse issued an order of the day which was construed into an admission that peace was like ly to be long maintained. A Marseilles telegram says the number of the French forces on the frontiers of Morocco was 20,000. It is reported that their operations are not to be confined to the frontiers of Algeria, but will occupy a portion of the territories of Morocco, of which Ouhda is the centre, and from which incursions by the Moors have taken place. The Savoy cross and Sardinian standard had been hoisted on the old Palace at Florence, and also on all public buildings. Garibaldi has also issued a decree stating that in future every public act shall bo headed thus “ Under tho reign of his Majesty King Vic tor Emanuel.” The Tuscany decrees of a like nature were promulgated. Garibaldi had been received with enthusiasm at Bologna. The garrison at Ancona is said to have been reinforced. Garibaldi has also issued an address, summon ing the Italians of the Legations to arms. A collision is shortly expected, and some think it will be produced by thd Papal troops invading Romagna. Mexico. —We have received Monterey dates to the 28th. Durango, tho capital of Durango, one of the states of Mexico, was taken and sack ed on the 10th by two huudred robbers. The troops arrived shortly after and dispersed them, killing many. - - ■■ CHESS COLUMN. “ Tyro ” suggests that in the Max Lange Pro blem, (F. & F. page 101) the Blacks should have a pawn on g 6, instead of g 7, and then, he shows how the mate may be given in four moves. Has “Tyro” noticed the correction of position made at the head of our chess column, page 109 ? Can he make the mate with that amend ment of position ? If he can, we would like to hear from him, and publish tho solution. Touching the first move of a pawn, two squares, about which “ Tyro ” enquires, we give now the rule as laid down by De la Bourdonnais; and we will endeavor to give further information next week. De la B. says : “Each pawn has the privilege of advancing two squares at its first move ; but, in this case, it may be immediately taken, in passing, by any pawn which might have taken it, if the first pawn had been moved one square instead of two.” And in such case, the taking pawn will occupy the square at which it stopped the passing pawn. No rule given by this author prevents a pawn from moving, with impunity, past the check of any piece, save that of a pawn. PROBLEMS VIII AND IX. (From De la Bourdonnais , page 51.) POSITION. WHITE. BLACK. Pawn h 2 Queen d 2 King g 3 Pawn f 3 Bishop d 4 Pawn g 6 Pawn g 4 King g 7 Rook c 5 Rook h 8 Knight f 6 "Whites to play, and mate in four move 3 ; or Blacks to play, and mate in four moves. Both kings are to be mated on the same square. Solutions to these problems will be given next week. The Appletons have at length received the manuscript of Lowenthal’s critical edition of Morphy’s games. It will be put in press at once. This work is positively announced in Eu rope for November. The publication has been delayed there, in consequence of misunderstand ings with the American publishers. Mr. Paulsen, we see, has resigned his post at the head of the chess-column of the Chicago Leader. We do not know .what truth there may be in the statement that he is about to come East, with the intention of again testing his pow er against Mr. Morphy. We hope it may be true, since a match at the odds of Pawn and Move, or Pawn and Two Moves, between these two dis tinguished gentlemen would be a contest of great interest. ' « The October Atlantic Monthly contains a re view of the account of Mr. Morphy’s Visit to Europe, which was lately published by the Ap pleton’s. It attacks the flippaut style of the au thor, vehemently condemns the course pursued by Mr. Staunton, and praises the gentlemanly spirit manifested under all circumstances, by the hero of the book. A Blind Chess Player. —Perhaps the only instance on record of a blind man acquiring a proficiency in the game of chess is that of a Mr. Lumley, an Englishman, who has lately been astonishing the English clubs by his skill. He has only been playing for about two years and a half, and yet at the Coventry chess club he con ducted three games simultaneously, all of which, after a contest of four hours and a-half, termina ted in his favor. FUH, FACT, AND PHILOSOPHY. (Carefully prepared for the Southern Field and Fireside.) A well-known discounter having observed that there was no knowing one’s friend till they were tried, was asked if most of his friends had not been tried already 1 There are on earth 1,000,000,000 of inhabi tants. Os these 33,333,333 die every year; 7,780 every hour, and 60 every minute—or one every second. But there are more births than deaths, and so population increases. It is folly for men of merit to think of escap ing censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. Fabius Maximus said he was a greater cow ard that was afraid of reproach than he that fled from his enemies. In India a lac of rupees is wealth; here a lack of dollars is poverty. New York city is about nine miles long, and not more than a mile wide. Present population not far from 800,000, including suburbs. Personal respectability is totally independent of a large income. Its greatest secret is self respect. Poverty caff never degrade those who never degrade themselves by pretence or du plicity. We are exceedingly sorry to say that we yes terday saw a man get himself bitten by a big rattlesnake for the sake of having a quart of whiskey administered to him. He wam’t killed by either the bite or the drink.— [Prentice. The artesian well at the State House in Cin cinnati, is now 2,062 feet deep, and the water rises to within 27 feet of the surface. He who dreads giving light to the people, is like a man who builds a house without windows for fear of lightning. A man went to a Judge to be qualified for an office. Said he, “ Hold up your hand; I'll swear you, but all creation couldn’t qualify you.'’ The estimated force of gunpowder, when ex ploded, is at least 14,760 lbs. on every square inch of surface which confines it. Neither men nor women become what they were intended to be by carpet : ng their way with velvet; real strength is tested by difficul ties. One day Jerrold was asking about the talent of a young painter, when his companion de clared that the youth was mediocre. “ The very worst ochre an artist can set to work with,” was the quiet reply. To obtain the tractive power of a locomotive, multiply the square of the diameter of the cy linder in inches by the pressure in lbs. per square inch. Multiply the product by the length of the stroke in inches, and divide by the diameter of the wheel in inches. The quo tient is the tractive power in lbs. % The Governor of Kansas has decided that In dians may vote on the adoption of the new con stitution. Life is shortened by indulgence in anger, ill will, anxiety, envy, grief, sorrow, and excessive care. The vital powers are wasted by excessive bodily exercise in some cases, and want of a duo portion in others. IVo expect that Mr. Blondin, like a good many worse men, will yet come to his death by a tight rope.— [Prentice. The returns from the late Texas election show that Texas has a voting population of above seventy thousand. Graves are but the prints of the footsteps of the Angel of Eternal Life. A book about England has just been publish ed in Germany, in which the author mentions, among other equally interesting facts, that thieves are so scarce in that country, that a re ward is often offered for the discovery of one. In blowing off a steam boiler, under a mode rate pressure, after the water has escaped, the hand may be held without inconvenience in the dry steam which follows; when, however, the steam begins to come so slowly as to have time to condense upon the hand, the latent heat, not until then disengaged, will scald severely. Habit is at first like a spider’s web; if neg lected it becomes a thread or twine ; next, a cord or rope ; finally, a cable —then who can break it? A Frenchman, who promised to establish a school, hearing that a high school would be more respectably patronized, took a room in the garret of a four-story house. There are 992 rivers in the United States; their whole length, added together, is 89,089 miles. Their average length is 89 miles and a fraction. There is thought to be very little use in a man’s meaning well, if ho cannot express his meaning by his acts. What the world calls avarice, is oftentimes no more than compulsory economy. An old Grecian philosopher advises all men to know themselves. That’s advising a good many to form very low and disreputable ac quaintances. In extent of territory, Russia is the first em pire on the globe; Great Britain the second, and Brazil the third. Brazil has 571,835 square miles more than tho United States, and a popu lation of 9,150,000. He was justly accounted a skillful poisoner, who destroyed his victims by bouquets of love ly and fragrant flowers. Tho art has not been lost; nay, it is practised every day by—the world.— [Bishop Latimer. It is complained of Shakspeare, that he un necessarily murdered Hamlet. But he has been paid for it. A great many Hamlets have mur dered Shakspeare. The militia of the United States, as just re ported by the Secretary of War, numbers 2,766,726. Some men are like tea —their real strength and goodness are not properly drawn out until they have been a short time in hot water. A bachelor informs yonng ladies that almost any young man whom they could wish to attract by the display of shoulders, Ac., in low dressing, has seen much prettier; and is very apt to make comparisons to their disadvantage. The Italians were the first of the modems to attempt canals. The Grand Canal at Milan was made navigable in A. D. 1271. There is one thing that the most successful man most rarely succeeds in—and that is in ma king others forgive him liis success. How to repel a worthy young man in search of a modest wife: Show him “ a cold shoulder." An honest blacksmith, when advised to bring a suit for slander, said he could go into his shop and hammer out a better character than all the courts in the State could give him.