BV E. \V. NEW SERIES. jaraoßti'/aBowBaBBBBss Select Poetrii. from Ine Washington Union. Tlie PttirioFs Kotij. Air.—/; PI fir I but TJnum. Tho' many and fearful the factions that ra"e In Ihe North, in the East, in the West." .Ami tho' tierce is the battle which yet we must wage Ere onr country again can find rest ; " * Yet still will we onward, nor cease till we place, On the ramparts onr valor has won, The hero of statesmen—the pride of a race Whose equals dwell not 'neath the sun. Our banner unsullied ; our cause, [r is just; Oui country's protection our aim ; Our pledge, constitution ; in Heaven our trust ; Our motto, one people—the same North. South, Last, and VI est; weadjnitof no line To be drawn on American soif .. That can ever endanger a boon so Jjvfne As the fruits of our forefather^Foii. Each Statp in the I nion we hail as a star Our tiag bears aloft every one; And we never will fight under one that can bear Only half of that number upon. Our army compose no such traitorous crew As we cru-hed round the hearth-stone of Penn ; And the deed that our legions are still sworn to do Is to crush when we meet them again. trorn Maine, with her towering forest of pines, I To the West, with her prairies of gold. From Mexico'- waves to Superior's mines, Eire long Will The tidings he rolled That victory rest, on the helm of that pure, Incorruptible patriot band; And biicbaiian anil Breckinridge's triumph insure Repose to our dear native laud. I ten, huzza for the platform that carries us forth lo conquest, to glory, renown I Huzza lor the Keystone I the pride of the North; Huzza for tbe "dark bloody ground !" Our leaders are statesmen and patriots brave; Our motto we herald abroad, J hat the "star-'pangleil banner" is destined to wave Over every American sod. H BlTi; OFTEN. It ut out the followinu and place it in the next let tei yon write to a dear friend. A more appropriate jmem for such service was never written :] Write to rne very often, VV rite to rne very so on Letters to rre* are dealer Than lovehe.r (lowers iri Mu,c ! 1 hey are affect ion's t Lighting or lrienykf^^^smri>£s7~ Hitting around thy ,i, e damp. Lllie fire-fiie V, .< ,ne very often, twite. to rne in the joyous morn, Or a! the close of evening, W hen ait the day is gone. Ti>"n while the stars are beaming Unght on the azure :-kv, When through the fading forest Cold the wild winds sigh, Draw up thy little table to t/ir jfirf i and write—- Write to me soon in the morning, Or write to me late at night. Write to nie very often: Letters are links that bind Truthful hearts to each other, Fettering mind to mi ml, (■iviug to kindly spirits Lasting and line delight; If ye would streugthen friendship, Never forget to write. WILT THOI" LOVE EE! Wilt thou love me, gentle maiden, When the hour- of youth l ath fled, When the tioary lock' of winter ■ Thinly cluster round my head? When the form now firm and stately, Sliall be tiowed by age and rale, Ar.;i my voir** has lost its softness. Wilt thou love me, maiden lair? Wilt thou greet me With a welcome, When lhe busy day iso'er, When Ttie parting rays of sunlight Cast Iheir shadows on the moor ! Wher our youthful years are over, When no power can us divide, M lit thou still look fondly ori me, And walk softly by my side ? Yes. thon'lt love me when the present With its halcyon Jays are parsed, When our bark is gently gliding, A-ori time's dark waves we're ra-t; When each jovons dream has vanished, When my t.e.nt is sad and chill, And the shades of death hang o er me, Thou wilt love ine, maiden, still. ' ' SMALL TALK. —Nobody abuses small talk tin- | le>s he he a stranger to its convenience. Small talk is the small change of life : there is 110 get- : bag on without it. There are times when " lis foiiv to he wise, when a little nonsense is very ! profitable, and when gravity and sedateness ought to be kicked down stairs. A philosopher j cuts a poor figure in a ball room, uniess lie 1 have his philosophy at home. Metaphysics areas intrusive in the midst of agreeable prattle as death's head on a festal hoard. We have met w iih men who were too lofty for stnad talk —who would never indulge in complaints as to servants, nor discuss the state of the weather. They would never, oh I never, condescend to p'ay with a ribbon or flirt with a lan—they Were above such trifling ; in other words, in totn, they were above making themselves agree able, above pleasing, and above being pleased. They were all wisdom, all gravity, dignity, and till tediousness and seriousness, which they be stowed upon company with more than Dogber ry's noble generosity. A man who cannot talk has no more business in society than a statue. The world is made up of trifles, and lie who can trille elegantly and gracefully, is a valuable acquisition to mankind. He is a Corinthian column in the fabric of society. V - The Poor Tyrolcse Boy. A soldier's widow lived in a little hut near a : .(fountain village. Her only child was a poor | cripple. Hans was a kind hearted boy. lie : loved his.mother, arid would gladl v have helped her bear the burdens of poverty, but that fee b! en ess forbade it. He could not even join in toe rude sports of the young mountaineers. At the age of fifteen years, he lelt keenly the fact that he was useless to his mother and to the world. Jt was at this period that Napoleon Bona | parte was making his power felt throughout ■ Europe. He had decreed that Tyrol should be j long to Bavaiia, and not to Austria, and sent a fiench and bavarian army to accomplish his j purpose. The Austrians retreated The Tv ? j rolese resisted valiantly. Men, women and children of the mountain land were filled with zeal in defence ol their homes. On one occa sion 10,000 French and Bavarian troops were destroyed in a single mountain pass, by an av alanche of rocks and trees prepared and hureld upon them by an unseen foe. j A secret arrangement existed among the Ty j rolese, by which the approach of the enemy | was to be communicated from village to village Iby signet Jirns. from one mountain height to another, and materials were laid ready to Mve an instant alarm. ! he village where Hans and his mother lived i w as in the direct iineot the root the French ar imy would take, and the people were lull of i anxiety and fear. All were preparing for tbe I expected struggle. he widow and her cnp ( pled son alone seemed to have no part but to j sit still and wait. "Ah, Hans," she said one evening, "it j s well for us now that you tan be I ol little use ; they would else make a soldier ol : you.' I his struck a tender chord. The tears rolled froin his cheek. "Mother, lam useless," cried Hans, m hitter grief. "Look round out village—all are busy, all ready to stuve for i borne and father land : 1 am useless." "My boy, my kind, dear son, you ate not useless to me." "V-s, to you : I cannot work for vou, can not support you in old age. Why was I made, i mother ?" "Hush, Hans," said his mother, "those re pining thoughts are wrong. You will live to ! see the truth of our obi proverb : 'God has a plan For every man.'" Little did Hans think that er" a few weeks had passed, this truth was to be verified in a most remarkable manner. Easter holidays, the festive season of Switz erland came. The people lost their fear of in vasion in the sports of the season. All were busy in the merrymaking— all hut Harts. He ovulooking t„ h„ i,;„ i,, lt In the evening of Easter, alter his usual eve ning prayer in which he breathed the wish that theVather of Merries would, in his good time, afford him some opportunity "1 being us> lul to others, he fe|! i rat <. a deep sleep. He awoke in the night, as if from a dream, under the strong impression that the I remit and Bavarian army was approaching. He con hi not shake olfthis impression ; but with tin* hope ot being rid of it, he rose, hastily dressed himself, and strolled ifp the mountain path.— The cool air did him good, and he continued his walk till lie rlimed to the signal pile; hut where were the watchers ? They were no where to he seen, and perhaps were I usi •<! with •he festivities of the village. Near the pile was in oM pine tree, and in its hoi I iw stem ttie tin der was laid teadv. Hans passed by the hol low tree, and as he listened a singular sntind caught his attention. He heard a slow and stealthy trea l, then a click of muskets; and two soldiers crept along ti.e cliff. Seeing no one, for Hans was hidden by the old tree, they gave the signal to some comrades in the dis tance. Hans saw instantly the plot revealed to t.ie enemy ; a partv had been sent forward to d>-s --trov it: the army was marching to attack the village. With no thought of his own peril, and perhaps recalling the proverb his mother ! had quoted, he seized the tinder, struck the | light,and flung the blazing turpentine brand : into the pile. The two soldiers, whose hacks I WF re then turned to the pile waiting the arrival ■of their comrades, were seized with f>ai . hiit they soon saw there were no foes in ambush ■ none but a single youth running down the mountain path. They fired, and lodged a bul let in the boy's shoulder. Vl the signal fiie was blazing high and the whole country would he amused. It was already aroused from rnoun i tain top to mountain top. Ihe plan of the ad vancing armv was defeated, and a hasty escape ' followed. I Hans, faint and bleeding, made hi-* way to I the village. The people with their arms were 1 mustering; thick and fast. All was consterna tion. The inquiry was everywhere heard, ! "who lighted the pile?" "It was J." said a faint, almost expiring voice. Poor crippled Hans tottered among them saving, "The i ne !my the French were there." He faltered and 'sunk upan the ground. "Take me to mo-mo jther," said he; "at last I have not been use . less." They stooped to lift him. "What is this"'' : they cried ; "he has been shot, flans the crtp -1 I pie'has saved us." They carried Hans to his mother, and laid him before her. As she how -1 jed in anguish over his pale face, Ifans opened ' I his eyes and said, "It is not now, dear mother, 1 vou should weep for trie ; I am happy now.— " | Yes, mother, it is true, 'God has a plan For every .man.' . 1 You see he had it fir me, though we did not c ' know what it was." . j Hans did not recover from his wound, hut > he lived long enough to know that he had been e| of use to his vilage and the country ; he lived a i to see grateful mothers embrace his mother, and :to hear that she should be considered a sacred and honored bequest to the community which i j 1 " 1 " 80n ha d preserved at the cost of" iiis own r J'*-; Great emergencies like those which met Hans I cannot exist in the history ol all. To all. how . OH, the I vrolese motto may speak, and all , will experience its truth. None need stand . useless members of God's family. There is , work for every one to do, if he" will hut look out tut it. So long as there is ignorance to in stiucf, want to relieve, sorrow to soothe, let there be no drones i n (lie hive, no Idlers in the great vineyard of the world. Save and Ise Everything thai v. ill Fertilize, We commend the following article from the Country Gentleman, to the careful attention of our readers. There are thousands of dollars wasted annually by the neglect of farmers to take care of the different manures which might he accumulated upon every (arm in the coun try. Many seem slow in learning this lesson, and therefore it may be repealed a great many times w itliout any fear of its inutility or inapplica bility. 1 his may probably come under the eye of many—of some few- at T;,.[ who never attempt to make the best possible use of the several sources of futility around them. Are there not a good many who, for example, never save or use their hen Are there not a great many who leave their _\ard and stable manure to be injured more than one-half, by be ing exposed to the incessant thefts committed bv the suns, rains and winds? Hby does this negligence so extremely pre- vail ? In some, probably, from a fear of trou ble, from a lazy disinclination lo do anything that can be let alone. In most, perhaps, from some vague idea that it will not pav, or from the want of a firm and clear impression of the ac tual value ol w hat they are allowing to go to waste. Every cultivator ol tlie soil knows that the markets ol the world, and ihe wants of the inhabitants ol the world, are scarcely ever sup plied to ihe full, and that he may arid to tfose supplies and to the comfort of many, as well as to his own pecuniary income, by almost every addition to Ins crops which he can procure bv means of manuring and extia cultivation nf ail kinds. W illi such inducements before him adding to the great heap frop. which all draw their supplies, helping to save some from suffer ing and want, and increasing tlm comforts of 01 hers, and at the same tune augmenting his own pecuniary resources—it seems 11.at cultiva tors ot the soil can he negligent onlv from not hat irig given their attention to these matters. Let us take at present the case of hen ma nure. Bushels and barrels of it are allowed to go to Waste every year. Now we may take for granted that this manure is not far behind gu make ♦"•ir-h jKjuruf of ). nr <>i iinrx|t • cost about three C *-It S in cash, why SIM OIJ iu>\ every pound ol hen manure he estimated at least" two Cents .' And then again, if guano wo re juriiciouslv "sed, produces an ample re turn, often from ](It) to 70!) per cent.—and il there is gooit reason as there is, to expect as good returns from lien manure at the price a! which we have put it, how blind to all consid erations which usually stir men to action, must that man be, who ahows dollars and ihoiais worth of domestic guano to go to waste, when if iis-d it would! ring him in jjmre by tens hundreds of times, than the value in motley if put at interest. The same train of reasoning would had to similar results in regard to other neglected > mr- j C.t-H of fertility. IV e leave those interested to make their own application. ! Meanwhile, we would draw to a conclusion i tfiis appeal to those who have loth* ito been < thoughtless or neglectful, hy reminding them •; that tltev mav even yet iki something 1° make ( lip for p".,t negligence. I - or example, the hen manure, which their more careful and thrifty , neighbors have swept up every week and put into boxes arid barrels, with a sprinkling or lay er of charcoal on the top of eveiy fresh sweep ing, they mav v.! save, though in a less valua ble condition, arid use tor garden or the more remote fields with gieat advantage to the crops of the season now at hand. A barrel woum manure hail an acre ot corn. It should >e mixed with muck, or some other divisoi, as, undiluted, it would f urn the seed as guano does. SiNun.AH WifAt.e FtutiT.—A whale sixty two feet lo#ig, savs the Northern (Scotland) En sign, was picked up at s< a about three weeks a <o, and taken ashore at Nvhster, some twelve mi'les from Wick. It seems that the w hale was not drifted dead from the (ireenland Seas, but that he had fallen in single combat with another monster of the deep. The cot,diet, which took place about a mile and a half from the shore, and which was witnessed from the land bv a number of fishermen and others, is descrihed as having been protracted and bloody. The two monsters kept battling with each other, at times with their heads and at times with their tails, raising a tremundous spray for a distance ot m-i --,, v yards. After a fierce and close encounter thev would each retreat for a considerable dis tance, and after a brief rest would again me. t in collision, approaching each other with loco motive speed at the rate of twenty or thirty rr.ihs an hour. Ori recovering from the stun ning efleet of such an attack tln-v would again resume the fight, rising up into the water, springing up from ten to twenty feet, and < r. ing down on each other with fearful violence. Meanwhile the sea for some distance round a hoiit assumed a red color, indicating that an im mense quantity of blood had been sited. l-ot two hours the battle was prolonged, at the close of which one of the whales became motionless, and the other retired from the field ot battle. Next mr.rnino- the whale referred to was found not far from the spot where the engagement took place, and from various marks in his body, including a broken jaw hone, there is no reason to doubt that he was one of the two belligerents of the previous afternoon. Freedom of Thought and Opinion. FRIDAY MORNING, BEDFORD, PA. NOV. 7, 1856. f 11 A Good Slorv. i One of the French papers tells a good story -of a saddler. He belonged the militia coin ■ pay ol this village, and this company one day '•in a moment ol enthusiasm," resolved to get up a band of music. The hat was passed round and a sufficient number of francs w as contribut ed for the purchase of the needful instruments, jne instruments were ordered from Paris, and HI due time arrived : when lo! it was discover ed thai, by some strange oversight, nobotlv had I.l ought of the big drum ! Another subscription was raised, ami tbe saddler was deputed to or (U r the drum, he professing to know a first-rate maker of that instrument. But it occurred to j him that he could make a drum himself and ! pocket the money ; so with great secrecy he : gathered materials in a garret room of his house, j and addressed himself to the work, carefully j keeping the door locked, and suffering no one j to know what he was about. The band was to j be produced in public for the first time on the 1 King's birth-day, which was near at hand, and yet the big drum had not arrived from Paris— j that IS, the saddler had not got it finished. He I worked night and day, and at last,on the moTTtV 1 mg ol the eventful day, the task was completed. 1 Not a moment too soon, for at early daylight j the captain and his lieutenants were thundei- ; ing at the saddler's door, demanding tidings of the drum. "Jt has arrived—last night—by j Lie diligence, ' stammered the saddler : "I have it safe up stairs—a grand Paris drum—bv the! most celebrated maker." Up stairs rushed the j military dignitaries, the saddler leading the i ' wav. The dmm was immensely admired* and j tbe order was given to convey it at once to the ' captain's quarters : when the unlucky discov- • ' ery was made that the drum was altogether too ( big to pass through the door. "Wretch," shout- ! ( ke captain, "how did you get it info this room, it it came from Paris?" "I hoisted it through the window," gasped the miserable sad d!er: but oh! the prompt detection of his Iraud. 'lhe window was much narrower than fhe door ! \ s \ Steamship Sprung Ueak at Sea. The steamship Borussia arrived at New York 011 1 afternoon from Hamburg, altera passage of fifteen days and seventeen hours.— ! I!'-, ia i go. which consisted ol general merchan dise, was not large, hut she had onboard no i wss than 439 steerage and TS cabin passen- j gers. On th" morning t f the loth inst., when i site was a little over 200 mihs from this! poit, it was discovered that she had spin rig a - j leak at the stern,and tfiat the water was (low ing in with great rapidity. It is supposed that ti>e leakage was caused bv the giving awav ?fd e i'/Ti''.". 1 '"d.Ore sicket in which the shaft oj Shortly after tlie leak was discovered, it was' found that there were seven feet of water in the j hold, and that it was rising still faster, and three ; steam pumps were immediately put in opera- \ tion, atld gangs were organized among the pas sen<ers and <i w to work on the hand pumps, i j'hes" were relieved everv ten minutes, and the; pumps were kept in operation from the moment they were started till the arrival of the Burns- . sia, which was about twenty-eight hours. At ; first the greatest alarm prevailed among the! passenger*, hut their confidence returned when 1 thev were u ade aware tl at there was no actual . danger of the vess. | sinking, ;.nd that hei hull was divided into lour water-tight compart- | merits. With all their exertions, however, it was (hum! impofoible to keep the water below seven 1 fei t in the hold, and to prevent some of the goods in the ex ureas room from being damaged. Hut the damage was, after all. comparatively j trifling, tin* cargo having been all placed in the tore part of the ship. A portion of the passen- ; gers' baggage was saturated, and the mail bags were also wet: hut the loss will not exceed a j few hundred dollars. [he value of water-tight i compartments was never more realized than in this instance, (or, had the Horussia not been pro vided with them, there is every ivason to iear that she would (uve f undered at sea, like the ill-fated Arctic. A HORRIBLE IHSILOSUIE. Most of those who notice such occurrences* will remember tin* recent puhlicati 11 of a tiiiir- ! der in Highland county, Vu., in which a Air. , Sheridan was the victim, and a young negro j r-an the culprit. The negro was tried, con-j victed ami hung. The following narrative of facts presents an appalling sequel to the sto ry. Sheirdan was a highly educated Irishman, a- Itout vll years of age, who arrived in Highland j countv from New York about a y<ar previous. , In a short time he married a widow \\ ily who j *as living with her children, five c.r six in j number, on a farm near VV'ilsonv ille. After his i r.arriage, Sheridan became intemperate in his: kahits, and lived unhappily with his wife. At \ this time, it is stated, the murder was commit-j ted hv a negro,-who made confession previous j to his execution. His confession implicated j Mrs. Sheridan and her daughter as instigators! of the deed, and contain some things 100 shock ing for publication. The mother and daughter, however, were j Arrested on Monday week, and committed for j rial. Mis. IS. is about 32 years of age, and the , daughter lU. They aie quite independent in j their circumstances, very respectably connect-j t*d, and have heretofore sustained irreproacba le characters. According t<> the negro's state ment, Mrs. Sheridan sent him to look for her husband and bring him home, he being absent 1 nn a spree. He went to several places and at t last found him, and easily persuaded him to re turn home. Mrs. Sheridan and family immedi i atelv left the house, as she alleges, to avoid see s ing her husband. The negro furnished Sheri ,da7i with more liquor, and, when he was coirt j pfotely drunk, proceeded to murder him. This he accomplished by twisting a rope around bis ' J neck with a sfick until his neck was broken.— - The murderer then left the house, and after at r j tending to various jobs in the neighborhood, re - turned three or four hours later, and carried the I body to the place where it was found. "THICK LUNGE IN A BED.'' —Emmigration I to the State of Michigan was so great during the | years 1835-G, that every house was filled each j night with travellers wanting lodging. Every : traveler there at that time will remember the I I difficulty ot obtaining a bed inany ofthe hotels,' | ev, " n 'f he was willing to put up with two or ; j three strange bed-fellows. j Fbe Rev. Hosea Brown, an eccentric Metho i dist minister, stopped at one of tbe hotels in An | Arbor, and inquired if he could have a room i and a bed to himself. J fi,. bar-keeper told him : he Could, unless they should he so full as to ren j der it necessary to put in another with him. ' At an eai iy hour the reverend gentleman went to his room, locked his door and snort retired to : | his bed, and sunk into a comfortable sleep.— j j Along towards midnight he was aroused from ; his slumbers by found knocking at his room ' door. "Hallo, vou, there!" he exclaimed, "what I do you want now .'"—particular stress on the last word. "Vou must take another lodger with vou sir," said the landlord. "What! another vet ?" "Why, yes—there is only one in there, is ; there ?" One ! why here is Mr. Brown, and a Melho- 1 dist preacher, and mvself, already, and I should think that was enough for one bed, even in Mi- , chigari !" The landlord seemed to think so too, and left : them to their repe from the Troy Times Oct. 20th. A SHAMEFUL AFFAIR—A BOY AL MOST EA TEA' L P BY A DOG. Yesterday afternoon, while a boy named •James O'Conneil, aged about ] 2 years, son of Mr. barney O'Conneil, who Jives on Third St.. South 1 roy, was passing along the side walk near his father's residence, a man, name un known, set upon him a large and savage bull dog. Jhe boy, on turning and seeing the do<* coming lull speed upon him naturally became very much frightened, and endeavored to es cape by running—the man meanwhile encour aging the nobler brute onward. Of course, the dug speedily overtook the boy. He caught the lad in the middle ol the back, his teeth sinking tithe bone, when, by clasping his jaws, and jerking with them, he tore out a strip clean to the bone, as large as a maids hand ! His rage tiie bone bare here. %II iVie!'' Bse 'l\ aU iikiAW, upon the leg, but it was not so serious as the other. Over two pounds of llesh must have bean extracted by the dog. i lie boy was liter ailv being eaten up by the monster. The btute who set the dog upon the hov deseives, as we hope he w ill receive, severe punishment. Dr. Burton who was called to attend the case, did everything that lay in his power, but it is hard ly possible that ire can recover. * . - 1 Shocking Occurrence —Two Women Eaten by Wolves. [From the Dumfries (C. W-) Rctoroner, Oct, le.) Our pen has seldom had to record a more heait-tending circumstance than we are about to relate. Some ten davs ago, i:i the northern extremity of the township of Mnrnington, two females went out in the evening in search of their cows, and not returning that night, search was made in the morning, when, horrible to re late, their skeletons were only to be found, their flesh having been completely devoured by the wolves. We are yet unable to record the particulars, the sad outlines only having a? yet reached us. Our information also states that a man in that locality has been missing for the last ten days. No trace of him can be found whatever, and fears are entertained that he met the same lam entable fate as the unfortunate women. The wolves w ere iwv-r known to be so nu merous or so ravenous as they are this season in this section nl the country. It is legarded as unsafe to he alone on the public highways alter dark. Reports are reaching us almost every week of some of their ravages through the coun try. Almost everv-oodv lias been visited b\ them and mischief done to a greater or less ex tent. ! A farmer in North East hope had thirty sheep ! killed in a single night by them. They drove them to the barn-yard and killed fh< m there.— i A few nights previously they killed twelve ! belonging to the same man. j Bears are also numerous and remarkably sau ' cv. A Mr. Benoet, of Mornington, was attack ■ ed a short time ago in his own field, a little af i ter dark, hv an old bear with three cubs. He | fought her off till some of the neighbors came ito his relief. An immense one was killed in Mornington a few days ago. CIM.P CARRIED OFF RY A BEAR.—OPP of those ft a i ful incidents occnred near the village, ' of Neshota, on Saturday week, which go so far : to create the thrilling interest in written ro-; mance of pioneer life. Just before sunset, a ; child, five years old, was seized in presence of its mother, by a full grown bear, and in spite of its screams, and the frantic efforts of its mother, ; was borne into the thicket. Ihe alarm was given, and the men, with clubs and firearms, commenced searching the woods, but up to Tuesday nothing had been found of it, upon which to base a conjecture with reference to its fate. Hears are quite plenty in this neighbor hood, but this is the first instance where human life has been sacrificed by them, though they have frequently carried off stock from the lar mers, coming up, as in this case, to the doot ot TSRMS, 82 PEU VEAII, VOL XXV. M 10. I the home— Manitowoc (H is.) Tiibune. Host jit, Oct. ill). NARROW ES(,M; FROM A FRICHTFLX CATAS TROPHE—There vvas a huge Democratic mat*, meetme at Huntington Mali, Lowell, last e,m- U'g, to h'-ar the Hon. RufnsChoate. his esti mated that 5,000 persons were After Mr. Choate had commenced bis speech, the floor began to settle under the weight of'the crowd, creating a frightful panic and stam pede. Fortnna'ely no one was hurt : and Mr. Cho ate finished his speech from the balcony of the wernmac House. This morning it was ascer j tamed that the floor had settled four inches and I would, doubtless have fallen through, bringing the roof with it, had the audience remained five minutes longer. Action of Sujrar on ike Teeth.— The Charles ton (S. C .) Medical Journal states that M. Larez, in the course of his investigations on the teeth, anned at the following conclusions : "Ist. Refmed sugar, from either cane or •'P-ts, is injurious to healthy teeth, either by im mediate contact with these organs or by the gas developed, owing to its stoppage in the stomach. "V - a tlo Di H macerated in a saturated i soluti m of sugar it is so much altered in the , chemical com posit ion that it becomes gelatinous, aud its enamel opaque, spongy and easily bro-' ken. '■3.l. f!iis modification is due, not to free acid, but to a tendency of sugar to combine ith tbe calcareous basis of the tootb." Ihe foregoing conclusions are correct, and candies and condiments should be avoided. I hey should be kept from children especially. It i> well known that maple sugar renders the teeth tender and sensitive. J.NOiw DuencDA'no.Ns.—A leront letter from, Kansas to the Si. Louis Republican, says: " I he Cheyenne Indians have become exceed ln-'.v troublesome to travellers, and every arri val from the mountain brings wme new account o; theii n.assacres. Just now, Win. Schreken utcic, wvi! known in California as Win. Dixon, passed through to the Slates in a most distress ing plight. "He, his wife and little bov, four years old, Henry Jackson ot .Marshal, Saiirie county, Mo., well known in Weston, and John Campbell of Missouri, left California together in the latter pait of July. 1 hev met with no accident until they came within eighty miles of Fort Kearney on the oi)tn day of August, when they were at tached by a band of Chevennes. At the first tire Mrs. Dixon was killed ; at the next, Dixon was shot in the thigh : at the next, Henry Jack son was shot in the thigh. Campbell was n-\, \ yrrtrC, .A- *.i,- i„,r: i-.e worth .\ •ii 1 f>oo. Dixon, Jackson and Campbell suc ceeded in getting into Fort Kearney, where they were well cared for, ami on the 17th inst., Captain H. W. Wharton, of the oth infantry, supplied them with everything they needed for their journey in, and wrote a letter to Colonel Gumming, begging him to endeavor to rescue Dixon's little son. Ciiood Cows. A large amount of capital is sunk in poor cows. A good animal will give at least ten per cent more milk than a poor one on the same lVed. It is the opinion of our best stock farmers that twentv-five per cent can be added to the amount of rmlk obtained from any giv en number of cow ? simply by selection. 1 In average yield of cows in .New England is esti mated" at four quarts a day through the entire vear. A good selection, without change of kee ping or increase of care, will add three hundred and sixty-five quarts to the annual yield, and ten dollars and mm ty-Sve cents to the income of each cow, every penny of which is profit.— Some farmers keep filty or sixty cows, and they would make a clear gain of five or six hundred dollars per annuo, if all their herd were oi the : best selection.— Homestead. FKICHTFUL RAILROAD Accinr.xT.— The pas sengers bv the 7 o'clock mail train for New York, yesterdav morning, made a most fortu nate escape from a terrible calamity, that seem ed for a tew moments to be inevitable. As tin train mured fJniontown, on the New Jersey- Railroad, between New Brunswick and Rah wav, it was perceived that some men were en gaged with a team in hauling a huge log across the tiack. Seeing the train coming they un harnessed the team, leaving the log directly a cross the track. The engineer stopped off the steam and re versed the engine. The fireman leaped from the train, and was followed by the two engi neers and the conductor, Mr. Win. Coulter. Col. Leidy, the mail agent, was the only one attached to the train that remained upon it. 1 he engine continued its speed with but little a batement, and, striking the log, knocked it oil' I the track, and before the passengers were a ware of the imminence of their danger, it was ■ passed. Tun BIKDOF THE TOLLING BELL.— Among the highest woods and deepest glensof Brazil, a sound is sometimes heard, so singular, that the NOISE seems (juite unnatural R it IS like the LlS— tant tolling of a church bell struck at long in tervals. This extraordinary noise proceeds from the Arapongo. The bird sits upon the top of the highest trees in the deepest forests, and though constantiv heard in" the most desert pla ces, it is very rarely seen. It is impossible to conceive anything of a more solitary character 11 j an the profound silence ol the woods broken only by the metallic and almost supernatural sound of this invisible bird, coming from the air and seeming to f>How wherever you go. The Arapongo is white, with a circle of red a rouod its eyes—its size is about that ot a small pigeon.— .\ationut Inttiiigencer.
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