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I'M GROWING OLD.
I'm jjrowins old—'tis surely so ;
.Aml host' f hort it seerns,
I was but a *portive child,
childish dreams.
i rl niiot see the chance that comes
With such an even pace :
j murk not when the wrinkles fall
I'pon my fading face.
1 know I'm old : and yet my heart
[. just as yottns and jay
\s Vr it was before my looks
Ofbriuht brown turned to gray.
J know these eyes to other eyes,
Look" not so hright and glad
\s once they )<-.okd : and yet 'tis not
Recau-e my heart's more *ad.
1 never watched with purer joy
The floating clouds and. flowing skies,
While alisteninst tears of rapture fill
These old and fading eyes.
And when I matk the cheek where once
The bright rose used to glow.
It jrieves me not to see instead
The almond crown mv brow.
I've seen the flower grow old and pale,
And withered more than I ;
I've -een it lose its every charm,
Then droop away and die.
And then I've seen it rise again,
Bright as the beaming sky.
And voang and pure and beautiful
And felt that so shall I.
Then what if I am growing old—
Mv heart is changeless -till.
And God has given irie enough
This loving heart to fill.
1 love to see the sun go down.
And lengthening shadows throw
Along the ground, while o'er rny head
The clouds in crimson glow.
I see, beyond thosp gorgeous ciouiie,
A country bright ami fair.
Which needs no sun —Go I an i the Lamb
Its light ami beauty are.
1 seem to hpar the wondrous -ong
Redeemed sinners sing;
A nil my heart leaps to join the throng
'To praise the Heavenly King.
1 ,cpm Tn>ep three rheruh hoys,
As hand ill hand they go,
Willi g.dden curls and -nowv wings,
Who.e eyes with rapture glow.
When I was young. I called them mine—
Now Heaven's sweet ones are they ;
but 1 shall claim ny own again,
U nen 1 am called away.
Perhaps, when Heaven's bright gate I've past,
They'll know iroin every other,
The one who gave them hack to God,
And haste to call me mother.
I
fihl I am glad I'm growing old!
For every day l-speu<l.
Shall bring me one day nearer that
Bright day that has no end.
GOLD WD ( UW.
Tap following beautiful contrast between the
2 ..! oi California and the gold of Agriculture,
rn the speech of the Hon. Edward Ever-'
••ft, at the National Agricultuial Fair. Boston,
Oct. 26th :
Ihe grains ol the California gold are dead,
,r rganic masses. How they got into the grav- •
• between what mountain millstones, whirl- ,
•• :y elemental slorrn winds on the Iw.som of
1 -anic torrents, the auriferous ledges were .
2 und to powder : by what Titanic hands the
vered grains were sown broadcast in the j>l a -
,v rs, human science can but faintly conjecture.
A. only know that those grains have within
"-m no principle of growth or re-production, '
Mt! when that crop was to be put in, Chaos
!t.ut have broken up the soil.
H w different tiie graii sof our Atlantic gold, .
■own by the prudent hand of man, in the kmtl
>v alternation of seed-time and harvest; each
curiously, mvsteriotislv organized : hard, hor
":.v. seemingly lifeless or. tiie outside, hilt wrap
' "2 up in the interior i seminal germ, a living
acinic. Drop a grain of California gold in- :
- ground, and there it will lie unchanged
" end of tunc, tiie clods on which it falls
! triore eo-d and lifeless. Drop a grain of our
I. of our blessed gold, in the ground, and b !
1 mystery . in a few days it softens, it swells, it
its upwards, it is a living thing. Jt is yel
'' ilsi'ir, hut it sends up a delicate spire,
v r 'ch rimes peeping, emerald green, through I
*'il: it expands to a vigorous stalk, revels
; 1 he air an( | sunshine, it arrays itself more
no' is I v than Solomon in its broad, fluttering,
'v robes, whose sound, as the west wind
ls ße rs through them, tails as pleasantly on
•'* husband man's car as the rustle of ins sweet
"fs garments: still towers aloft, spins its
dant skeins of vegetable floss, displays its
fifing t ass*ls, surcharged with fertilizing dust,
• at 'ast ripens into two or three magnificent
like this, (an ear of Indian corn,) each of'
j"-h is studded with hundreds of grains of'
- I. every one possessing the same wonderful
yerties as the parent grain, every one in- ,
■ct with the same marvellous reproductive
: ' lf rs- I here are seven hundred and twenty
- "us on the ear which I hold in my hand.—
'1 " ovv f v, sir, of this transcendent gold of
. v ' p this year will be at least ten or ,
'• j'-n times that of California.
" " it will h" urged, perhaps, sir, in behalf
' inks there is no music in the world equal ;
Ito the chink of his guineas, that though one
crop onlv of gold can be gathered from thesarne
spot, vet once gathered it lasts to the end of
time; while (he will maintain) our vegetable
j gold is produced only to be consumed, and
| when consumed is gone forever. But tins, Mr. ,
President, would be a most egregious error both
'ways. It is true, the California gold will last
lorever unchanged, if its owner chooses: hut
while it so la.*ts it is of n > use, no, not so much
as its value in pig iron, which makes the best of
, ballast ; whereas gold, while it is gold, is good
fir little or nothing. You can neither eat it,
: or drink it. You can neither wear it, nor burn
1 it a fuel, nor build a house with it : it is reailv
useless till you exchange it for consumable, per
ishable goods: and the more plentiful it is the
less its exchangeable value.
Far different thecas- with our Atlantic gold.
! It does not perish when consumed, but by a no
j bier alchemy than that of Paracelsus, is transmit
ted in consumption to a higher life. "Perish
in consumption," did the old miser say ? •'Thou
i t>ol, that which thou en west is riot quickened,
except it <lie ." The burning pen of inspiration,
ranging heaven and earth lira similitude to
convey to our poor minds some not inadequate
idea of the mighty doctrine of the Resurrection,
can find no svmbol so expressive as bare "grain.
It may chance of wheat, or some other grain."
To-dav a *ense|ess plant, to-morrow it is hu
j man—bone and music, vein and artery, sinew
land nerve; beating pulse, heaving longs, toil-
I ing, alt ! sometimes ever-toiling brain. Last
dune it sucked from the cold breast of the earth
; the waterv nourishment of its distended sap
j vessels, and now it clothes tiie manlv form with
j warm cordial flesh, quivers and tin ills with the
live-fold mystery of sense, purveys and tr.inis
i ters to tiie higher mystery of thought. Heap
!ed up in your granaries tins week, the next it
will strike in the stalwart arm, and glow in the
blushing cheek, and flash in the beaming eye—
! till we learn at last to realize that the slender
stalk which we have seen bending in tiie corn
| field, under the yellow burden of harvest, is in
deed the "staffof life," which, since the world
hecran, has supported the toiling and struggling
myriads of humanity on the mighty pilg image
: of being.
Yes, str. to drop the allegory, and to speak
without a figure, it is this noble agriculture, lor
the promotion of which this great company is
assembled from so many parts of the Union,
which feeds the human race, and all the hum
i bier orders of animated nature dependent on
man. With the exception of what is yielded
by the fisheries and the chase (a limited though
certainly not an insufficient source of supply,)
Agriculture is the steward which spreads the
dailv table of mankind. Twenty-seven millions
of human by aicurate computation,,
iwoke this very morning in 'in* T nited States.
, a!! requiring their "daily bread, 1 whether they
1 had the grace to pray for it or not, and under
Providence all looking to the agriculture of the
j count c" for that daily bread, and the foo ! of the
dom-stic animals depending on them : a demand
asgre.it perhaps a* their .own. Mr. President,
jit is the daily duty of your farmers to satisfy
I gigantic appetite ; to til! tiie months of these
hungry millions, I might say, for if by any ca
tastrophe, Ihe supply were cut off lor a few
, days, the life of the country human and brute
i —would be extinct.
Pri'tridfiu Firres nut! fhe Cabinet.
True greatnes. of son I consists in just such
acts as President PIKUCI; has determined npon,
in relation to the future treatmant of the Indi
ins within the territories of our I niuo. "Lo,
! the poor Indian" has touched many a sensitive
heart: but until recently, no rational etiorts
have been adopted lo meliorate Ins future con
! dition. He has been robbed and abused by ras
cally Indian Agents ever since the formation of
lour Government, arid the "Winnebago' only
followed in the footsteps of some of his illus
trious predecessors. The "moccasin tracks
; have generally been the same, and •• Loc'iu-l .v
, bargains with "halfand quaiter breeds' are not
j isolated c.ises. We say all honor to President
Pieces: for ids noble desire to protect ami civil
ize the Red Man of the wilderness. The fol
lowing interesting paragraphs we find in the
Washington correspondence of the St. Louis
. Republicm :
'•I learn that the President has determined
on a new Indian policy for the Government. —
Heretofore the policy his been removal. So
j soon as any question should arise between the
■vhite man and his red brother, involving any
j serious difficulty and settling them, the pre
vious policy of the Government has been to re
move the Indians further into the wilderness,
and stave off the responsibilities oi the issues.—
The very necessity of the case now forces the
Government to change it< policy, for there is no
longer any West to which to remove the poor
Indian. The white population of California,
Oregon and Washington, will soon demand that
this incumbrance be started on the opposite
Hack, and that the red man's path shall be East
: ward. In thi crisis, President Pierce has de
termined to adopt the opposite policy, and con
tinue the Indians on their reservation—curtail
ing tlicir boundaries instead of enlarging them.
This will force them to torn their attention to
: agricultural and mechanical pursuits, and tend
to their rapid civilization.
"They will be surrounded on all sides by tbe
mu*ic of the ploughman,s merry whistle and the
busy clink of the mechanic's hammer : and
jth ese influences must atlect, in a greater or less
degree, 1 heir u ild and savage nature. On Lake
j Superior Several tribes, who had been thus sur
rounded, have become excellent citizens. One
i of the Saganaw tribe is now largely engaged in
ship-building, and has a laige capital invested
■in the business. Others of the tribe ere enga
ged in the various mechanical trades, and aie
doing well under precisely the same policy
which the government lias ri< terminer! to adopt
, towards all."
From tiie St. Louis Republican.
The Future of Fne Keystone State—Kcw
York ant! Pennsylvania.
New York is and long has been the Empire
State of our confederacy ; hut there are causes
•at work which are likely to reduce Icr fiom 1
tier pres. at proud eminence, and elevate a Sis
ter State to the imperial position, and character ;
she has heretofore enjoyed. Pennsylvania is;
the towering rival, whose portentious crest is j
looming up out of the shadow cast by her neigh- !
bor, and reaching forth to snatch the sceptre
which that neighbor thought would always be:
her own.
New Yorkers are a demonstrative people, j
Pennsvl vanians are the reverse. The former j
are always in commotion—holding meetings, ;
passing resolves, writing, speaking, talking, tra— ;
iting and working noisily, and thereby impres
sing on their neighbor* and the world a bewil- j
dering sense of their superior activity, energy j
anil enterprise. The peorisv Ivanians seem
slow and steady-going : vet they are generally j
earnestly and (ierseveringlv at work for the at - ,
compJ.islmient,of some great work, none the Uss j
talked of. New York lias greater population, j
and more votes in Congress than Pennsylvania: !
hut this order of things will be reversed in aj
f-w years. Pennsylvania will lie the first, and j
New York the second star in the political fir- j
mament: Pennsylvania will rise, and New York j
descend one step, thereby reversing their present :
relative positions. Do..* any one ask how this
will he, and is b< ing brought about I The an
swer i* easy.
New York has been building railroads from
one centre—h--r chief cilv—towards the West.
Instead of having to cut through, or go over
mountains, as Pennsylvania did, she could go
round them. Her huge canal and gigantic lines
of rail, converging at Manhattan Island, radia
ted towards the lakes on the North, and the
opening between the lakes and the mountiaris
on the West. The enormous trade of nearly
the whole west rolled along tim Erie and Cen
tral Railroads, or floated along the Erie canal,
to be deposited for distribution in the warehou- '
*"s and on the quays ol her cbi- f city.
But while these railr ads and this canal car
ried this foreign wealth through the State, they
also bore home wealth out of it. The high pri- :
ces paid within the last tew years lor the very
w-stern produce which sought a market at
New York citv, together with the facility
which the railroad of the State offered to emi
grants going west, has induced a heavy emigra
tion from the Empire Slate to (he cheap farm
ing lands of tire Northwest. The consequence
is, that while the stream oi trade Irom the wos!
has swollen the dimensions of New "iork city,
tiie stream of trade to trie west is depleting
New \ orlc State. Tfie lornri 11s been fiiiift
up to its present imposing proportjons. at such
a fabulous rapidity, at the expense of the latter.
In short, the internal improvements of New
York State were built with an eye to com
merce alone, and net with a view to the devel
opment of her hidden eh-ments of wealth. The
business they do is enormous; but it is a through
busim *.-, whose benefits are n ' scattered >v the
wayside, but deposited m a lump in the coder*
of the merchant princes and ship owners oi
glorious Gotham.
Pennsylvania, with ail the old-fogy ism charg
ed on bet, I,as pursued a wiser and more m*-
creet policy. The Alieghenies long lay as
an almost insurmountable barrier between her
..ml tl"• west. The buildings of tunnels through,
and roads ov< r them, was the work of year*. —
She c wild not run over the Alieghenies, to the
\Ye*t, nimbiv and quickly as her msl could
around them. She had, therefore, to give up
the West, measurably, to New York, and look
to ah ss remote source for wealth. Site turned
her eve.* homeward, and saw coal veins and j
iron beds inviting labor, ami promising riches j
to fiios" who would turn them up. She built |
mills, factories and furnaces, and filled them
with dm workers whom new York sent abroad.
She buiit farming towns io her valleys, and,
manufacturing towns among her coal and iron ;
hills, and connected the two by railroads, that
the firms might supplv the mills with food,
whife the mills supplied the farmers with man
ufacturers. In short Pennsylvania buiit roads to
servo as channels for the reciprocal trade of her
own citizens, as well as for the transportation ;
of foreign through trade. Her industry was j
therefore diversified, enlarged and enhanced.— - j
She kept her citizens at home by giving (hern j
work. No one can tail to remark the paucity of j
Pennsvl vanians to be found living out of their ;
native State, as compared with the numbers of
New Yorkers to he found scattered throughout 1
(he West. Ihe p-sults of these causes aie;
what we might naturally suppose they would ,
he.
At the last census, New York lost two Rep
resentatives in Congress, while Pennsylvania!
gained two. The causes which led to I his (lis- i
parity are still at work, and will produce more :
palpable relative changes in th" future. Penn
sylvania i* not now equal in population or im
portance to h'r Sister State : but she is march
ing in physical power and political importance
with Min-r and steadier strides than her neigh- :
bor. She is increasing more rapidly in propor- j
tion, and even the imxt census may show that
she has achieved the same level with New
\ork, Irom whence her elevation to superiority
is inevitable.
In 1S(iO, the Keystone State w ill he also the
Empire State of the l. nion, first in the develop- i
ed elements of physical wealth, first in commer
cial and political importance, and first in ca
pacity to influence tin* destiny ol fhe nation.— j
We have no regrets to express at the prospect. !
Pennsylvania is eminent for the conservatism of j
her political tendencies, the soundness of her :
economy, and the sagacity of her Statesmen. —
IL-r elevation to the post of Empire State
Mould insure stability and consistency to the j
nation.
A Kiss IV FEE.—A young German girl was
acquitted on a charge of larceny, yesterday, in
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
BEDFORD, PA. FRIDAY MORNING, Dec. 14, 1855.
the Court of Quarter Sessions. Upon the a
ward ofacquUtal being rendered by the jury,
she manifested her joy and her gratitude in a
manner which very much astonished her coun
sel, the Court and the bar. Willi tears of joy
ful .happiness bursting from her sparkling eyes,
I she embraced b-r counsel, and imprinted upon
his glowing cheek a kiss which resounded
i throughout the Court room, like the melody of
sweet music. Her counsel, a young gentleman
of fine personel appearance, though taken by
. surprise, received this tender acknowledgement
o! Uis valuable services from his lair client as a
legal tender. The gul lelt the scene of her tii-
I al and her triumph, unconscious of the gaze and
' the smiles of a crowded Court room, and only
j grateful to tier counsel for her deliverance from
a charge which had threatened, but a moment
J before, like a dark cloud, lo burst upon her head
and darken her future life with the perpetual
blackness of despair and degradation.— P/tila.
Ledger.
From the BosTon Mail, '2'2.t.
SPICY CHAPTER OX BOSTON MORALS.
The great interest which the recent cow-hi
ding affair has occasioned, has induced us to in
vestigate the preliminary facts connected thcre
! with.
The first lime that Josiah F. Porter ever saw
I Mrs. Cohnrn was at a ball of the City Guards at
| Union Hall, in February last. It was simply a
ball-room acquaintance. Mrs. Cohnrn at that
time requested an introduction to the Lieuten
ant, and through an acquaintance of her own
she received it. If a flirtation was commenced
that night, it ended that, night fih* > —hut that
was by no means the end of Mr. C'oburu's jeal
ousy.
From that time forward Mr. Porter never.
me( bis ball-room acquaintance for about six
J weeks, when fie was quietly sitting in Vinton's,
getting his supper with an intimate friend. Mr.
Summer. While these gentlemen were tints
profitably employed, two ladies, most richiv
dressed, entered the saloon, and taking a seat
I near them, with much coolness, called for a
glass of soda. Like >.: me servants that can he
seen in any ice cream or o\ st. r saloon in the
countrv, there was much delay in answering
the ladie.*' call, whereat they made those ordi
nary remarks which ladies will make u hen they
are if>\i il. and at the same time are observed bv
vouWg gentlemen. Perhaps their hell had k>*t
: its tongue, it thev bad not : at any rate they
! needed another one, and Mr. Porter and Siim
i mer passed the hell from their own table to
thero. Mrs. Coburn at this time remembered
(lie February introduction, (it was not on the
14-th,) ami reminded ti;e gentlemen thereof.—
which recailed a circumstance which, had it not
been for tlie !adi<-s, importunity and eloquence
Woufft never have been remembered 'bv them.
Bv this time the ladies announced that thev vi*-
ited Vinton's nearly every afternoon, and it
■ would a fiord them grent pleasure to meet tin*
young gentlemen there. Mr. Porter had pre
viously, t >r .a long time, taken his supper a* the
saloon, and, of course, continued to do s> : and
subsequently lie met these ladi-s at the same
plac.-, for several afternoons. Sometimes it so
happened that thev walked from the saloon, on
Washington street, and there are some persons
who have seao Mr. Porter m an omnibus with
the c'iilectionarv-lo\ ing wives, and occasional
ly the gentleman attended the ladies n part of
the way on their walk homewards. W hat was
said during the sweet and happy hours we know
not. That the husbands will, oi course, find
out.
During one of these chance confectionary
meetings, Mrs. Unburn and Mrs. Daiton told
"heir accidental friends that thev were going to
visit a sister of theirs at Cambi idgeport. on a
particular afternoon and with exquisite modestv
i requested the voung gentlemen to meet them
' there. Their carefuliy wedded husbands were
1 not going to Cambridge at the sam- interesting
• urtie. The gentlemen did a* they were reques
ted, and (Livingout to the Port, they funnel out
the iaiii' S. and returned with them, in tin ir
own hired hack, to Boston, leaving them at
• their house on Sliawmut avenue. On their re
torn passage, whatever Mrs. Cohnrn did, is her
i own lookout, and site remembers i; very well.
!l she ki*sed a young gentleman, it i* no rea
son that fie should, on that account, be killed.
Kissing always goes by favors. Vlrs. Dai
ton'* little pleasantry with Mr. Summer,at the
! sail. • time, is .something for her to settle with
I her husband, and no one else.
From tills time the fever o! the flirtation com
menced, so far as the ladies were concerned.— |
| Now note writing became a profession. The
' fervor and the fondness which wjs breathed in-;
to ttie tender missives sent by the ladies, the
world ought not to know. All is, the notes on
the part of Mr. Porter, were unnoticed, and
with one exception, were never answered.—
The place where Mrs. Cohnrn desired to meet
hiin lie did not visit. Accidetttly they met a
few times, and the lady used her utmost ability
: on these occasions lo disclose her passion for
himself, and she was accustomed to speak of the
; constant abuse of her husband towards her. Her ;
passion reached tiiat point that she declared that ,
the inmost wish of her heart was to get divorced
Irom her husband on account uf hi* abuse to her
and her jealousy of him.
The very la.*t time that Mr. Porter and the
ladv met previous to last Saturday, (which, by i
the way, was a fortnight) she undertook to speak
of her grievances in a most energetic strain : so ;
much so that when the Lieutenant tec.eived her 1
note on that day, lie presumed that she desired
to take steps relating to a divorce and nothing
more. In consequence of that note he called
at her house for the first time in his life, and
the reception he there met with is already well
known. From tin* nature of the cases and
sticks used on that occasion, it would look as if
Mr. Coburn wished to get a divorce from bed
and board.
The teal cause of the immediate trouble that
has oocurred hetween the descendants of the
house of Gove and their accidental friends, is
i quick'v told. .Mrs. Dolton had a large number
| of Utters which she and her sister, Mrs. Co
burn, had received from various gentlemen,and
these were seen by their husbands on Friday
evening la*t. The Utters were laid a*uie with
commendable rapidity, and the name of Lieut.
Porter was given by the faithful wives, in order
to screen the real authors. This, at the time,
was meant as a subterfuge, hot Mrs. Coburn was
thereupon compelled, bv brute force, to write
the letter which drew Mr. Porter intothe lion's
j den. Report has if, and report does not always
! lie, —that Mr. Coburn has not been excessively
kind to his wife. Ori the contrary, domestic
1 difference* have been of almost daily occurrence
: between him and her, and the same i said oi
! Mr. and Mrs. Daiton.
From tbe Bath Commercial Advertiser, Nov. 30.
A IBIIBLE ELOI'EIIEXT.
That portion of tbe city known as Dumfries,
w as thrown into a state ol excitement yesterday
| in consequence of tiie elopement of two wives
from their husbands. The first case was that
of a young woman who hari he-n married only
a tew months, ft appears that before tier iriai
nage she was addressed by a young man to
whom *ii M engaged herself, hut from some cause
| the contract was nut consummated, and the
. husband whom she has left making b*-r acquain
tance, and being a respectable voung man, who
: had a good prospect for independence, she mar
ried him. Shortly after her marriage she com
menced visiting a place where lottery policies
are sold, where she met the party whom she
first loved, and who was married to an- tiier.—
At these meeting.* an intimacy sprung up which
! soon ripened into an agreement to 'dope, and
they accordingly went oti a dav or two ogo, the
, wile taking all the money her husband had iri
the house with her. Her injured husband had
determined to take tiie matter philosophically,
satisfied that he i* much better off without an
unfaithful wife. The wife oi tiie u retch wiiq.
j has thus assisted in destroying the happiness of
a worthy fellow man will have the,sympathy
of all rieht minded persons, and she too will
doubtless be quite as happy alone, as with a
inan who po.*s-.*>es so litife of tiie principle
which makes the character oi'his sex noble.
The other ca*e is tfiat of a female in the same
locality further advanced in lit!-, and who has
been married for several rears. V\ e could not
learn whether the gnv Lothario who went off
with this deserting wife, left one erf his own to
mourn over his ingratitude. This is a singular
coincidence, that our neighborhood siiouid give
birth to two ••'. t-'its of like reprehensible char
acter at the same period.
From the Chicago Tuue.*, Nov. IG.
THE EU.ERSOLL TRAGEDY.
Yesterday morning, Doctor Variatr, a voung
and accomplished surgeon of this citv, succeed
ed in extricating the bullet from tiie body of
Mrs. ingersoil, the lady \i iio was shot, a few
days ago, by her husband, uho also shot and
kiiled himsejj. Doctor \ ariau performed the
operation unassisted, and accomplished his ob
ject in aiiout two minutes of time. The L-ail
enured ihe body about fur inches from the
sternum, between the second and third ribs.—
Passing upward ami outward, its course was
around the ifiy, through the n.uihi, and strik
ing the outer p"itio of the neck of the scapula,
lodged lijioii the dorsum ot this bone— being
much flattened it its transit. The lady sutier
ing very little pain during the operation, and is
nov. past danger and doing well.
Frequent, inquiries have been made as to ihe
conversation which passed between Airs, luger
- Al and tier husdmid, during their walk togeth
er on the evening of the fatal occurrence, and
u i.ioil V' as not made known by her at that time.
It seems that lie was with her several minutes
before he prevailed upon her logo with him at
all. As th-y left the tioor of her hoarding house,
he referred to the subject of her application for
divorce, and endeavored to obtain from her a
promise to withdraw her petition. He made
many a: den I protestations of love and affection
f . her, and promised to conduct himself differ
ently i a tiie future, if she would Consent to five
with him agam. To all, she j-pplied in the neg
ative, and expressed a determination to proceed
until a <iivoice should be granted. This is the
substance of all that was said on either side In
fore Ingersoil drew the pistol and fired. it
would ti>us serin that he went with the inten
tion of first '.tying to regain possession of his
wiie, and, failing in that, to murder her.
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FEMALE HEALTH AMI EDUCATION.—Tiie fol
lowing paragraphs are extracted from Miss
Beeciier's new work ;
Th e work that Provider.ee has appointed for
woman in the various details of domestic life, is
just that which, if properly apportioned, is fit
ted to her peculiar organization, ff all the
| female members of a family divided all the !a
--' bors of the cook, the nurse, tiie laundress, and
tiie seamstn ss, so that each should have four or
five hours a day of alternating light and heavy
work, it would exercise every muscle in the
: body, and at the same time interest and e.xei
cise the mind. Then the remaining time could
be safely given to intellectual, social and bene
volent pursuits and enjoyments.
But no such division is undo. One portion
- of the women have all the exercwe of the imr
i ves of motion, and another have all the brain
work, while thev thus grow up deficient and
I deformed, intellectually or physically, or both,
i And so American women every year become
; more and more nervous, sickly and miserable,
while the)- ate bringing into existence a fi eble,
delicate or deformed offspring.
\V e are convinced that this statement, teiri
fle as it is, is no exaggei ation, and may be con
firmed by thousands of cases very near us, and
atnong those w ho are called ignorant,orthought-
I- ss or unkind. It seems to me that tiie educa
tion of daughters is more badly managed than
anything in American society, and in some r<-
j spects the position that is regarded as most fa
vored is actually the opposite. If any enemy
TERMS, 82 PEEK YEAR.
of the human race who wished to destroy the
hope of the nation, could devise any more ef
fectual method of breaking down the ht-allh of
gils than the method pursued by our current fash
ions, he must befitted with superhuman ingen
uity.
leafing Oysters.
it was only a few evenings ago* that J hap
pened to he silting at a side table at it's, eating
saloon, in this place, indulging in "j few fried,"
before going to bed. The oysters were particu
larly fine, and.should have engrossed ail ir<V at
tention : but visions of doctors and dyspepsia
would intrude themselves upon me.
Flie opening ul the door disturbed mv not
very pleasant reveries, and when i raised my
head, my eyes fell upon a rather strange look
ing specimen of humanity. He evidently he
longed to lhat class ot persons called Yankees—
riot a genuine Yankee, such as come horn V i
mont State, and are notorious for their wooden
nutmeg propensities: not that kind. Here hv
apply the term "Yankee" to thoee individuals
who come down the river semi-annually with
lumber.
Weil, as soon as he entered, he walked or
rather lounged, up to the counter, behind which
R. was standing, and after watching his motions
lor a moment or two, broke out with—
"l say, Captain, they look plump, s'pose rou
open a few raw."
A place was put before him, and R. com
menced serving them out pretty rapidly ; as I
thought, but not last enough lor the impatient
river man. The oyster hardly touched the
plate before the Yankee would hook up with
his fork, and gulp it do wn at one sw allow, and
then he would flourish his lork ordure R's, lace
and cry—
"Hurry up the cakes! Wake up, old man !
ike., until R., who had always prided himself on
his dexterity in uncasing the "sea toads," be
came quite excited* At last, in reply to some
cutting joke of the Yankee, R. said in no very
gentle tone —
"Look here. Llend, you seem to pride your
self on being a fast cater. Now J'li bet vou
$-0 ] ca:i open oysters faster than you can pick
up and swallow them, and not half try."
'•1 don't like to be bluffed oil in that way,
stranger, " says the Yankee, "but you are a
h eile ahead of my pile. S'pose you make it
vUO, and f swan if 1 don't take you, and give
you live lor a starter."
This was agreed to, and both parties pullet!
out their money, and deposited it in rr.v hands.
Alter all was fixed, It. deliberately opened
the five he was to start with : and then rolling
his sleeves up to his elbows, culled out to the
Yankee, who was standing, fork in hand, and
atixiously awaiting the commencement—
"Now for i!."'
The words hail hardly left his- month before
l.e had added another to the plate, and then a
M-eond ant! a third, f Rowing in quick succes
sion.
The Yankee was not idle ail (his time, but
had be.m stowing them away at a rate that
threatened soon to empty the plate before him.
R. was beginning to ioak h.'atik, and I was just
thinking thai he was going to give up and "ac
kr -wong- the com," when suddenly, by a tjex
terous twitch, he threw one < ut u:i the tar
counter.
Yanke- slopped a moment to cry "foul," hut
seeing that one had been gained on him by his
hesitation, swallowed it, dust and ail. The next
weni clear over the counter on the floor, and
the next, arui the next.
The Y mkee evnlentl}' began to see the game,
for instead of losing time expostulating lie went
scrambling over the fiooi after the oysters, which
now flew to <.!! corners cf the room, only wait
ing to give them a wipe on the sleeve of
coat before enguiphing them.
i o lis we were kept in doubt which would
beat, until U. capped the climax by making on
alight— acciilently, ol course—light in the spit
box ' The astonished man gazed lor a moment
at the oyster as it lav, half embedded n the dir
ty saw dust, and then dropping his fork, made a
straight coat tail out of a side door.
As Lie door ct'vsui upon htm, all hands joined
in a heatty laugh at the expense of the van
quished hero, in which R's voice was most con
spicuous : but a wofui change ia me over his
countenance as he examined the stakes which
I just handed hint. You nav judge how the
laugh turned, when he exclaimed, in a voice
not unlike the tumbling of distant thunder
"Counterfeit, by the eternal!"
A Car irixiox ix CuiXA.—An American,
writing from China to the New York Times,
alter giving an account of the numerous execu
tions of the rebels, says :
"Two weeks since, to vary the scene, they
had a crucifixion. A woman was sentenced
to l;e crucified for the crime of heving given
birth tonne ofthe rebel chiefs. Ifa father is
a rebel, his family is considered the same, and
the whole family, from the old man ol fourscore
to the child of loui years, share the same fate.—
The poor woman was nailed to the cross while
living, a gash made across the forehead to the
hone, and the skin peeled down so as to hang
over the eyes; after which the breasts were cut
of!: they then proceeded to break every bom
iri ber body ; a large knife was next thrust in
his hand, and grasping the heart, tore it from
its socket, and laid it beating and reeking before
the Judge. At Shanghai thay drown them by
dozens."
y At Wakeford, Mich., on the Ist instant,
four sons of Jesse Chapman, Esq., living in dif
ferent parts of the State, all made their appear
ance at the paternal mansion with a ladv ac
companiment, followed by a clergyman, who
joined the whole quafern in the bonds of mat
rimony. After a chat with the "old folks," the
girls and boys started eti'on then wedding four.
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