A I.nllahy. Roekaby, lullaby, bom in th* elover ' Oooolng o dv>w*ilj\ erring so low-- Rockal y, lullaby, dear little revei ' Down into wonderland - Down to the nnder-land - 00. oh go! Down into wonderland go' Roekaby, lullaby, mm on the clover ' Tear* on the eyelid* that waver and weep' Rockaliy. lullaby bending it over' Down on the mother-world. Down on the other wot M 1 bleep, oh simp ! Down ou the mother-world aleep ' Roekaby, lnilaby. dew on ihe clover' IVw on the eye* that will sparkle at dawn ! Roekaby. lullaby, dear lmle roves ' Into the *(. ly w.xrld Into the hlv world. Oon*! oh gone '. Into the lily-world gone' Dr. B.&ind 1 Mused Last Night In IVnalre Mood. Oh, there', nothing half eo eweet in life A* lore's yonng dream !" 1 mused laet night in pensive m.vvi Albeit not often arnumeiital - My beart was. heavy and my ftamn Woe miked with ache* both head and dental 1 ay. a once I've eaid l>efore. My mood w ..* some* bat e*d and pensive, 1 oast up n the Pat a glance Foud. Urgertng and comprehensive 1 saw once mere thai roowv I auk. By which the nior ripple* floaty, O'ershad.-wrJ 1 y lb* silvery veil Of willow b;ancle* drew puijc lowly. Reelivwii with wild spring floweret* dyed Io every color of the pn*m ; Where oft we sat. May Brown and I. Nor ever duvatu.-.l of rheumatism. Ws lows!. Ah. vsc ' S. rue might have KIT*.! Refer* a*, i. their liumCrnm fsnhicn Rat ii*n r v t-i the world hat known So Wild so it**: i no pure * passion' We nvkivl not of U.e hearties* crowd. Nor tit e-lcd oraei parent*'frowning , Rut lived in iv <* 1. g t.!i**fu! dream. And spouted lvimysob and UrownHig A'ltt v. hen th* cruel fat** decreed That for a season 1 must leave her. It wrung mv very heart to **• Ho* much our [wrung seemed to gneve her. One happy moment, too. her head Reposed, eo lightly, mi my ahoulder! In dream* 1 live thai scene again. And in my arm* again enfold her. She gave me cm* long auburn curl, She wore my picture in a locket. Iter letter*, with bin* ribbon ueil. I carried in ruy left ooat-poeket. (Thoe* note*. row-HWiilad and puik-hued. Displayed more sentiment than knowl edge ) 1 wrote four umes a week That year I away at t'ollegw But oh. at length " a change came o'er The *p rit of mt dream' One morning I got a chilly hue from May In which, without the slightest warning, She raid she shortly meant to wed Torn Barnes (a sailor, fat and jolly!; She sent my notes and ruby ring. And hoped I would " forget my folly." I **i.; her all her letters back. I called her false and tickle-hcarted. Aud swore I bailed with joy the hour That saw me free. And o we parted, quoted Byron by the page, i smoked Havana* bv the dozens, And then I went OQt West and fell In love with all my pretty cousin*. —Auct WtLI.IAXS. THE MORAL OK IT. Mr. Baker was going from the house to the hay field with a pitcher of mo lasses and water in his hand, when a boy, or rather a half-grown young man, came rushing into the yard in breathless haste, and making wild gesticulations to attract his attention. "O, Mr. Baker," shouted he, while yet a great way ctT, " I've come to bor row your taekle-and-falls I Old B.ack's fell through the trap door, and they can't get bim np." "He has ! When—how did it hap pen f ' replied Mr. Baker, setting down his pitcher, and hastening to bring forth the machine. "They found Lim just now—don't know how it happtiiij," said the other. "Is Le much hart ? Do theT want mj help ?" "Tutre's lota o* folks there now. Don't know whether he is mach hurt or cot—guess so—they've sent for the doctor and with this fragmentary re ply, Joe Toxer darted away as rapidly as be had come. "Very aft Jimmy," and after a night's confine mcut proceeded to worm the secret out of him. But not a syllable would he give uutit there were brought to him the provost and magistrates. Those dignitaries, realizing the importance of the intelligence, lost no time in coming to Jimmy. " N'ow,"sai I the provost, with breutb : less interest. " There will no harm come to me ?" asked the traitor. They solemnly assured liim that not ' a hair of his bead ahould be harmed. Still he hesitated. Probably because he was bald, and did not consider the figure of speech axactly applicable to the occasion. Again they assured him that hcsbonld not snfler. He looked anxiously over their faces I for a moment, and apparently assured ' of their sincerity, said : "Ye ken the well anent Knox's I house ?" " Yes, Jimmy," they responded. "The squsre wan ?" " Yes, Jimmy.** " I>o ye ken the handle ?" "Yes, Jimmy," (with marked eager ness. ) " Could ye lift it ?" " Yes, Jimmy," in quivering voices. " Well, go pump it then, for ye'll not pump me." The andience dispersed, A Lesson Taught. Traveling from Harrisbnrg to Al fcoona, in Pennsylvania, says a well known physician, last summer, we hap pened to occupy the next seat to a lady aid gentleman who carried with them on their journey what was evidently their first baby. It is bnt fair to the gentleman to say that be took upon him reasonable share of the trouble of minding the little one. After a short sleep in the father's arms, it awoke up hungry and noißy. The baby cried and screeched, it knew well for what. The mother dandled it, chirped to it, showed it the window and how to look out of it, but failed to pacify baby, of course. At length the father, pained and mortified enongh, turned to me and said, " I'm snre, sir, baby mnst annoy you greatly." I re plied, " No ; the child does not annoy mo in the least ; the crying and screeching, and useless efforts to pacify the infant, do annoy me very mnch. They are all due not to the child, bnt to the mock-modesty of the infant's mother and, I suppose, of yourself. The child I Bincercly pity. It ishungry. Its mother knows that. And she is so modest, forsooth, that she cannot nurae her own babe in a railroid carriage 1 Take my advice, as u family man, and it is this: Tell yonr wife to nurse her hungry infant, and get rid of this silly humbug of mothers who are so modest as to starve their own children rather than let it bd known that they could nurse their babes." This was said load enough to bo heard all around. Of course, the mother listened to every word. After a few further fruitless efforts to quiet baby by drumming on the window and a few significant winks from the hnsband, the roaring young fellow was supplied by his mother with what he had made all tho noise about. Wo tangbt that father and mother a lesson that day which we expect they will never forget. TRY IT. —A Sootcli minister was once ordered " beef tea " by his physician. The next day the patient complained that it had made nim sick. " Why, minister," said the doctor, " I'll try the tea mysel." So, patting some in a skillet, he warmed it, tasted it, and told the minister it was excellent. " Man," says the minister, "is that the way ye sup it ? " What ither way shonld it be snppit ? It's excellent, I suy, minister." " It may be gude that wav, doctor ; bat try it wi' the cream and sugar, man I try ft wi' that, aud then see boo ye like It I" CENTRE MALE. CENTRE CO.. PA.. Til I'RSI) A A". DEC EM RER 3, IK7I. INCREASE OE IHHTLATION. I Itn I 111 rir al lug Slallxlr* lltlalll* In III* Pull*.l Stale*. The resource* of this country, savs an exchange, for sustaining the |n>pit latiou are so vast, thai it is almost im possible to ear to what extent the in crease need be limited. The I'm ted States contains, it is estimated, some three millions of square miles ; and the Territorial extent of the Mississippi and valleys alone, is nearly five times as large aa Great Britain and France combined ; one and a half times as Urge as the whole of France, Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, Hpaiu, Por tugal Belgium, Holland, and Denmark together. The Russian Ktupire in Eu rope ia only one-fourth larger, and the ancient Uomau Empire only exceeded it by one-half. These valleys embrace nearly owe half of the national domain. They have peculiar advantage* for produc tion, and a century hence they will, it is supjvjsed, contain one-half of the population. In all the States are more or less mres of uncultivated lands, so that there ure almost unlimited resources for sustaining the densest population, however rapidly it may in crease. Tlie increase iu population from IT'.K) to Hi's), the period before the com mencement Of the war between tlie North and the South, was uniformly within a fraction of three jKr cent, lu 17lH), the aggregate population was nearly 4,000,0(KI ; iu 1800, therefore, it would be over 5,300,000; ,u IS2O, i),i>oo,- 000; iu 1840, over lT.OOO.OlW; and, iu 1800, over 01,Oik),Oik). During the next ten years, however, the increase was not in the same ratio, for in 1870 the census returns was 38,- 5fi8,00l), so that the usual decennial gam was reduced from 3d to "10per cent., the lesiilt of the destruction 'f hfo by the war ; the takiug away of husbands from their families ; dimin ished marriages, and tit* checking of immigration iu cotUMqnraoe of the war. The increase of population from 1860 to IS7O by States was : New Kugland, 332.633 ; Middle States, 1,374,6*); Western, east of the Mississippi, 2,11)7,633; west of the Mississippi, 1 838,1*9; K->nthern Atlantic, 354.463 ; Gulf aud Interior, 738,8<>4 ; and Pa cific, 218,531. Supposing that the ratio of 3 j>er cent, increase which hsld good from 1790 to 1860 should still do so after 1870, the population of the United States in 1880 will be, ia round num bers, nearly 52,000,000 ; iu I*9o, 69,- 5u0,000; and m 1900, 5)3,000,000. A# regards the means of sustaining the iu j creasing population, we may state that, iu 1870, there a ere in the twenty-one States, 148,326,699 acres of improve*! laud, and 156,016,042 acres of uiiim proved land; a total of 306/278,741 acre*. The U. 8. population at that time was orer 30,000,001), and it was es timated that these {states could sustHiu about 135,000,000. This was of course based ou ar* a, but some of the States have more wnate lands than others, therefore no accurate estimate could be made. With improved methods of oultivatiou, the improved land in these Stales could be made, it is believed, to produce double, tuid in niauy instances treble, the present product. The un cultivated l-inds oould bo cultivate*!, leaving sufficient waste lands and for ests for fleet upon the rnln fall and other purposes. By this moans, with s density of popnlstion to the stinsie mile equal to the d< nsely-|opalatcd portions of Europe, these State.* could, it is auppoaed, tie made to sustain a population of one hundred aud forty to one hundred and fiftv millions. Capital PuuUhmeut. About 1807 a poor womou with twi children, one at the breast, stole from inside a shop door a piece of linen worth some seven or eight shillings. She, however, had not proceeded far when she repented of her crime, and wu.- retuming to the shop with it when she was arrested. She was tried at the Old Hailey, convicted, and condemned to death. The jury and the prosecutor unanimously recommended the woman to in rev, on account of her husband having been pressed as a sailor, het starving condition at the time, and her previous unblemished character. But all in vain. The judge refused to iu dsrse the application, and the womau wss executed at Tyburn, the child be ing taken from her breast at the foot of the gallows. In the minds of a large majority of the public this execution created great indignation, and a hill was brought iuto Parliament to atxilish the punishnieut of death for stealing in a shop, to the value of five shillings. This bill was at first thrown out iu the House of Peers, the Judges beiug agaiust it. Tho bill subsequently passed into law. On the introduction into tho llonso of Lords of a bill for the nlxilitiou of the punishment of death for stealing in n dwelling house to the value of forty shillings, the majority of the Judges were against it. Lord El lenborongh was particularly energetic in his op(M>sitioii, arguing, ns the law stood it worked well, and why then should it be altered ? One of the Peers was so struck with the validity of the learned Lord's arguments that he said, "We shall not bo able to place our heads with safety on onr own pillows if that bill passes into law I" In the thirty jears from IT'.O to 1829, for offenses against the Hank Act alone, 629 men were capitally convicted, ami 1,161 were transported ; yet, till public opinion liecamo too strong to be disre garded, the Judges offered little oppo sition to such atrocious cruelty.— The Saturday Journal. Hlood of the Human System. The axiom that " we die daily," is aptly illnntrated in a paragraph of Prof. Bedferu's paper on Biology, recently rend before the British Association. Inferring to the blood, it in naid that the dnration of life in any of its par ticles in lint nhort; they die and their places are occupied by othem, and no continue a substitution which only endn in death. After every meal an amazing number of white oorpoaolea are added to the blood ; breakfast doubles their proportion three times, and dinner makes It four timcu an great. They come from nuch nolid glands as the spleen. In the blood going to this organ, their proportion is one to 2,2(10; in that returning from the nploen, it is as ono to sixty. Perhaps the most stu pendous fact of organization in the steady maintenance of but slight vari able characters in the liviug aud mov ing blood, which is every moment un dergoing changes of different kinds, as it circulates through each tissue and organ of the body. A Denver lady was going to a millin er's one evening lately by moonlight, and on passing a place where her figure c ist n good shadow, she was astonished t > behold that it wore no hat. Clap ping her hands to her head, 10, and be hold there was no hat there. 81ie was confident that she started from home wearing a new ten-dollar hat, but al though she immediately retraced her steps, the lost article was not found, and has not bean seen by her einoe, A true story, THE I'NITKD MATES ARM! VVbal Ucueral Ibtrsias liai I* •> In A Helton Talon ham h*r I kIMNs and III* Annual Hfpnrl. Wurdcrcd —l)au|liltl Trallßr* lieu. Sherman, m his annual report j dated Headquarters Army of the Put ted !SUt<-, Bt. Lotto) i"The latent returns received up to Oct. 15, 1864, show the strength of the army to lc at that ilate 'Jtt.tfl eulisted ' men," and adds, "I hare no doubt that by Jan. 1, IK7B, the number of en -1 listed men will tie reduced by the or dinary casualties, discharges and deaths, to the number limited by law, vil: '25,000 men, and will venture the expretsiou of opinion that thia limit forces the puinpaiiies to no small a i standard that the efficiency of the ser j vice is grestly impuired thereby." It ; is utterly impossible to maintain the companies in remote stations up to the very small legal standard, lieeauac mouths must necessarily elajme, after the discharges ami deaths, before re cruits can be seut from the general rendervous. General F.hermau then refers to the report* of the officers com manding the diiTereut divisions and departments, which accompany his report. Hefcrring to the Military Di vision of the Missouri, commanded by ' Lieut, (tea. Hheridau, he says: "This important division embraces substan tially all the territory east of the Mis , sissippi river, and east and including the States of Illinois and Minnesota. Within this immense area are grouped most of the Indian tribes who are in a transitive state from savage barbarism to a condition of comparative civilisa tion. it la withiu this area that there has been, and must coutiuue for years to come, that coutact of the frontier settlers with the aboriginal savages resulting in a chrome state of war. Durin | the past year, by the extraor dinary activity of the troop* and the good sense of our military officers, the frontier has beeu comparatively safe. On the northern hue of Texas and the southern line of Kansas the untamed savages, Kiowas, tVmaucbee, Cbey ••nnt-s, and Arrapahoes, began this season their usual raids, and as the lu ll.an agents confessed their utter ina bility to manage their respective tribe* by the usual humane and Christian troatuirnt, the whole subject was turned • vi r to the War Department and committed to the management of the Lieutenant General, who ha* laid hold of it with accustomed energy, and for full details 1 refer to his admirable re port, together with th<*se of the De partment commanders. Generals I k op snd Auger. Geu. Ord has maintained admirably the safety of the great Paci fic railway, now one of the grand av uaes of travel for the whole world, and Geu. A. 11. Terry at the north ha* in like manner given security to an cxtcn siv* and valuable frontier, and has pushed exploration into the lllack Hill region, and into the beautiful valleys that lie along the stream* which con stitute the sources of the Yellowstone and Miaaouri rivers. " I inclose the annual reports of all these general*, and refer to them for valuable information touching tLcae re mote States and Territories. They are luckily ao remote from headquarters that to the officers on the spot are left HpNM control <>f ail the detail*, and the consequence i* the utmost hartn< nj of actiou and economy of administra tion. I have not the least doubt that to Gen. Hehofield's judicious njr vi*i<>n aud the prompt action of Gen. Jeff. C. Davis in Oregon last spring, we arc indebted for a peaceful solution of what for a time thicatene*! to tx* a war with the Shoshone* and Hnake Indians. Also, Gen. Crook, lieing armed with full authority aud but little complica ted with civil agents and their adminis tration, has maintained an almost unin terrupted peace iu that moat difficult country, Arizona. " 1 inclose the reports of sll these i ffi cora, aud refer them with pride as sam ples of military literature, clear and concise in the statement of fact*, and demonstrating that the small army of Uie United Htates called s peace estab lishment is the hardest worked Ikmlv of men in this or any other oonntry. The discipline and behavior of the officers and men have been worthy of sll praise ; anil whether employed on the extreme and distant frontier, or in aiding the civil officers in the execution of civil process have been a model for the imi tation of all good men." In conclusion Gen. Hherman refer* t* the assent of the President and Secretary of War to the removal of Army Headquarters to St. Louis, and says : " Where lam at present established, prepared to exe cute any dntiea that may l>e devolved ; on me by proper authority, I am cen trally located, and, should occasion arise, T can personally proceed to any |>oint of this continent where my ser vices sro needed. The report of Lieut. 1 Gen. Hheriilsii gives n full account of ! military operations conducted in his division during the year, all of which j have leen published. Gen. Hheridan j expresses the opinion that the definite settlement of the Indian troubles iu the Southeast will be accomplished be fore or about mid-winter by the troops now operating in that locality. He does not agree with Gen. Pope as to the causes of these Indian troubles, but attributes them to the immunity with which these tribes have been treated in all their raids for tho past three years. Their reservations have fnrnisheti them supplies with which to make tho raids, and sheltered them from pursuit when they returned with their scalps and plunder." Tho report shows conclu sively that tho only way to doal with the Indians is to punish them severely when they commit depredations on the whites, and that the protection hereto fore afforded them by the order pro hibiting the military from going on the reservations to punish raiders has encouraged the Indians in making raids into the adjoining settlements. A Quaker Printer's Proverbs. Never send an article for publication without giving the editor thy name, for thy name oftentimes securos publica tion to worthless articles. Thou shonldst not rap at the door of a printing office ; for he that answereth the rap snceretli iu his sloovo and loseth time. Never do thou loaf about, nor knock down the type, or the boys will love thee as they do the shade trees—when thou bravest. Thou shonldst never read the copy on the printer's case or tlio sharp and hooked oontainer thereof, or ho may knock thee down. Never inquire of the editor for news, for behold it is his business to give it to thee at the appointed time without asking for it. It is not right that thou shonldst ask him who is the author of an article, for it is his dnty to keep such things nnto himself. When thon dost enter his office, take heed nnto thyself that thon dost not look at what may concern thee not, for that is not meet in the sight of good breeding. Neither examine thon the proof sheet, for it is not ready to meet thine eye, thou mnyest understand. Prefer thine own town paper to any other, and subscribe for it immedi ately. Pay for it in advanoe, and it shall be well with the* nd thine. HEM Altti A III.E MIItHEK Tit IA 1.. Oue of the most remarkable rase* in the annuls of crime in the Htate has lust closed in Newaygo, Mich. Mnuroo Lin don and wife had been living on their farm in the towuship of Hheridan, Mich., t ened. Soon all was commotion about the house, aud Mr. Lindou looked where he usuallv kept his raxoi, finding it gone. lie luirne diatelv Ix-guti searching the premises for his wife, bnt soon gave up the search, going to call his neighbors to unite in the search, saying that h s wife was missing, and be feared that she bail made sway with herself. The neigh bors fl eked to his place, and a dilli gent search WAS made. Finally he went to a pile of logs, and there, lying i in a depression of the ground, he found her lying dead, with her throat cut. He did not go near the body, but gave the alarm, saying that she was dead, and that she looked as though her throat had been cut. A subsequent < lamination allowed that firm when* he stood when he made the discovery he oould not |oa*i bly tell whether her throat had been cut or not, a* Dr. Flora testified that her hair lay over the wounds, which were nine in number, ao that he oould not eee them until he had removed it. A jury wraa impanelled bv the ooroner, aud after examining, aa tliey ooufoaaed, very hastily into the matter, a verdict of suicide waa rendered. It waa sworn to bv lather and daughter that ahe had tried to choke herself previous to tliia. Thus matters rested until the Thursday following wbei. Mr. Liudon'was arrested i on the charge of having murdered his wife. A close eaamination of the sur roundings had revealed a large pool of blood about eighty six feet from where the laxly was f et when lie came into the house, beseech ing him not to burn her, but if he meant to kill her, to rut her throat. The defense attempted to show that Mrs. louden was insane, and that iu a fit of insauity she had taken her own life. A desperate effort wa* made to break down the girl a testimony, she being cross-examined for six hours, but all in vaiu. She is one of the most in telligent girl's for her age that your oorrea|Kiudont ever saw. Not once, in all the examination, did ahe hesitate, or cross herself. The trial commenced before an in- j telligent jury. Judge G hidings com pleting his charge, the jury retired to their room, aud returned with a verdict of murder in the first degree. A Brave t.lrl. A Liverpool paper mentions that on the Sunday morning previous s desper ate encounter took place between a housebreaker snd a girl fourteen years of age, named Alice Slack, at a village near that city. John Wallwork and family went to church iu the forenoon, leaving the girl and a baby in the house. The girl was going into the yard for a rug, when the man, who was Iving under the window, sprang into the house, seized her by the throat, snd swore ho would murder her if she did not tell where the money was. She refused, and he pushed her down the cellar steps and threw a chair after her. She got up aud found he was going up stairs. Hhe screamed and went up after him, aud pulled him down by his jacket, lie turned and knocked her dowu, and pulled her across the kitchen floor by the hair of her head. He then got a heavy walking stick from the lobby, with which he struck her twice en the head, and several times over the back, lie then got her against the lobby wall and kicked her severely. She screamed and struggled hard, and at last ho pitched her into the parlor, abut the door, and left the house, having ob tained nothing. On the previous Friday the same man came to the house with n big bulldog, and said that Mrs. Wall work, who hod just gone out, had sent him to get his tea at the house. The girl then shut the door iu his face. A New Waj to lo 11. M. Paraf is the first discoverer of a method of doing without rain he has salved (ho problem of artificial irriga tion. He is known as a successful chemist and inventor. Those who wish to know more of him may be informed that he is a pupil of tlie College of Franoe.and a fellow-associate with Pro fessor Schntzenberger. M. Paraf kuew that the air is full of moisture, and lie knew that chloride of calcium would attract and condense it. fie lias ap plied this chloride on sand hills, on grass, on all sorts of soil, successfully, and has ascertained that itwill produce the irrigation of land more cheaply and efficiently than any other artificial ran hod. One of M. Paraf's applica tions will produce and retain abundant moisture for throe days, when the same amount of water introduced by ordi nary methods will evaporate in one hour. M. l'araf states that his prepara tion is less expensive than canal irri gation, and believes that it will not only produoe two blades of grass where but one now grows, but will render possible fields, meadows and prosperity where now there is nothing but ssno and desert waste, r lVrm: n Ytr, in Advance. A KIND IN TltOl'lll,E. ll* I* I *|>iutd by III* Kaiulii on lb* High baas. It is the King of l'at*r<>nia who ia in trouble now, and an officer of the Argentine Confederation la his captor. The original name of his PaUgonian Majesty is Monsieur Orelie Da Ton niens. lis la a native of souny France, and bv education a lawyer. Joining himself to a company of Gaols of his own kidney, Do Tonuiens weut to Pata gonia, where he established a colony near the straits of Magellan. Now, Patagonia, aa the well-versed reader need not be informed, is en undesirable country for a permanent place of abode. Even a royal establishment, one would suppose, would hardly tempt a gay Frenchman to long live there. But near the Magellan straits are some islands reported (o be rioh in guano. It is guano that has enriched Chili, aud the sharp Frenchmen thought they saw a chance to make a fortune from the fertilizing deposit* of the Patagonian coast. The people of that laud are guileless and simple as their own at tire. Though the climate is not tropi cal, they usually find a light garb of dried gross and guanaoo skins sufficient for all purposes of comfort aud fashion. When Bougainville and Carteret were the only voyagers who pretended to aur knowledge of Patagonia, we were deluded with the fancy that the Pata gonian s were a race of giant*. Thia was a safe aud credible statement. No body could contradict it '' tin geographers, in Afric map*. With eat age picture* tLU their gap*. And u or uninhabitable duwne Place *l*|'Lain* for want of towue.' Hut, although the Patagonians are not giants, tht-v are a trustful raoe ; and when lie Tonniens, with his eye on the guano beds, asked them to choose him k tig, they were doubtless tickled with the idea. Heretofore they had had no government of any sort, unleaa that feudal tie that oompelled the weakest to give the strongest s few ex tra trusses of pamps grass or guanaoo skins ooold be called a government. M. Lie Tonniens was made King of Pata gonia, and, with his credentials in bis pocket, he hied him back to the Repub lic of France, to negotiate a loan on Ids guano deposits. His suooeas was not specially brilliant ; but some of his old compatriots subscribed to the great Patagonian loan. The French broken and agriculturists know little about fer tilisers. and they exchanged their criap twenty franc notes for roval Patagonian bonds secured by collateral guano. Returning to his realm, King Orelie Lie Tonniens was overhauled by an Ar gentine man-of-war. The Argentine Government claims a part of Patagonia ; Chili claims an other part. The two nations have never thought it worth while to go to war about the miserable country ; hut King Orelie was a prise not to be de spised. He was a usurper, or, as we should more accurately put it, a claim ant. Heing a mischievous person, with money about him, he was, so to speak, nabbed. Therefore the Department of Dordogne rises up and demands of the Duke Deoazeo, French Minister of Foreign A (Furs, that this violation of international comity shall be investi gated. The ducal Secretary of Foreign Affairs must be puzzled by this appli cation. What's the King of Patagonia to him that he should make a row? The thrifty Dortlogneac, who have put their savings into Patagonian bonds think that the Secretary has a good deal to do about this breach of international law ! It happens, however, that their old friend has formally renounced bis | French citixenahip. In order to secure j the suffrages of the artless Patagonians he liecame one of them. It is not j likely that the archives of that far-off land contain evidence of this fact ; bat > Chilian newspapers have said that M. De Tonniena abjured the country of. his birth, and by some pagan rite was admitted into the fellowship of the i Patagonian freeholders. Whether this j lie so or not, it stands to reason that a > Frenchman, however French he may : be, cannot become the reigning mon arch of even a Patagonian and inde pendent nation without at least tern poraniy waiving his original rights of citizenship. At any rate the Argen tines have got him, and what they will do with him, and bow the matter will terminate, is the great question in South America. bowl lHnnen. The (Ymnfry ffmflrman talks thus : The present writer is one who thinks that the entire Yankee people (ami a* to that matter, prooaoly the whole American nation), farmer* included, are sufferer* from over-oating ; that, a a rule, instead of seeing how little we * may eat and enjoy perfect health, or as uear that point as it ia expected of us, we make it a rule to see how much we may consume with impunity ; or, to put it within a narrower compass, we fire to eat. Especially are we apt to over load the stomach when, after a hard day's work in the harvest field or oilier place, we sit down to a well-filled table, moat temptingly prepared by the good mistress, with the resolve in our own minds— 41 Now I bsve earned a good meal, and mean to have and enjoy it " - perhaps a truth in itself, but yet aus ceptible of grosa abuse. Indeed, rich or highly seasoned food ia not neces sary to make this an evil—one can most effectually overload with good, plain bread and butter as with richer food. May it not lie s fsnlt of the parent* or head of the house in nndnlv urging members of the family to 44 take some thing more " —another piece of this cake, or another cup of this charming coffee—to their children as well as guests, when true kindness might be just the reverse—as 44 My sou, I leave for yon to say if you have not taken all the food your system requires, so that more would l>e injurious ?" I know this has a sort of stingy look, but it is a question in my ewn mind if it may not often be the correct policy, towards the young at least. Well can 1 recollect at my own mother's table never we.-e we children urged to excess. And should not chil dren lie taught to revere the memory of a mother from a rather more exalted motive than that sLe got them good dinners ? I think lam borne out by our medi cal men in the assertion that the foun dations of many of the prevalent ohronie diseases of after life are fairly to be traced to exoess in eating. Pontics lu Massachusetts. The last Democratic Govern Massachusetts was Marcus Morton. He was elected, in the fall of 1839, over Edward Everett by one vote, and was Governor during 1840. In the fall of 1812 there was a triangular oonteat for Oovernor in that Btate, which resulted in no election by the people, and the election of Governor fell accordingly ui>on the Legislature. John Davis was the Whig candidate ; and by a combi nation of all the anti-Whig elements in the Legislature against the Whig can didate Marcus Morton was again made Governor. Bnt 1839 was the last year in which a Democrat was elected Gov ernor of Massachusetts by the direot vote of the people until ♦)> of Mr. (Hater, NO. 44. IIOW IfK WAS C'hEARKD. A Wrong A I man., S.rcd a Hardrm'l Mark trow lit. Unltewa. The career of Abraham Lincoln aa a criminal lawyer, furnishes more than one instance which might with great propriety Ire introduced into thia col lection of the curiosities of criminal jurisprudence. Pur many yean be waa leading counsel in almost every noted criminal case in the Bute of Ulinois, and hia eloquence in pleading, his keenest in retort, and searching ex amination of the witnesses, were famoua throughout the Wast long be fore either he or hia friends began to dream of the presidency aa among the poeaibilitiee of hia future. One of hia most decided triumphs wsa won in the osae of William D. Armstrong, who was tried at Boards tuarn, Cass county, Illinois, in 1868, charged with the crime of murder. InLincoln'a early days, when he was a poor, homeless, almost friendless boy, be formed the acquaintance of a family named Armstrong, consisting of John, hia wife Hannah, and a babe a few months old, to whom Lincoln, by permiasiun, gave the name of William !>., in honor of one of hia beat-loved friends, who had died a few months before. The Armstrong* were hospitable and kind, almost filling the plaoeof parents to their guest, and he in tarn grew 7 fond of the child, which he rock ed, carried, petted and fondled, day after day, for weeka and months, while he was waiting for employment. At length a new life opened to young Lincoln, and he gradually drifted away from this port of generous weloome into the wide, busy world, and for a time bia old friends were loot sight of, but never forgotten. He studied law, became famous as an advocate and a politician, and these humble but warm and tried friends wstchcd with pleesnre and pride every step of kir progress up the ladder of fsme. The babe he had so fondly oared for grew to manhood, and although a brave, generous youth, the crude pioneer civilisation under which he I[rew up unfortunately developed a ove for the excitements of the cup, and a taste for the rougher sports pe culiar to the somewhat primitive society in which be was trained. In the summer of 1*57 there was a Methodist camp-meeting in Madison ooauty, attended by not a few of -the riotous dement, and every night some outrage was oommitted, which filled the decent portion of the community with indignation. A patrol was organ ized for the preservation of order, which was one night attacked by the riotera, and a leading eitiaen named Mitzgar brutally murdered. John D. Norm and William D. Arm strong were indicted for the crime. Separate trials were demanded, aud Norm was first on the docket He was speedily convicted and sentenced to a long term in the State penitentiary. The feeling against Armstrong was very bitter, and his counsel was per suaded to take a change of venae to Csss county, and the trial came on at Reardstown in 1858. Hannah Armstrong, the mother of the accused, was in great distress. Her husband, Jack Armstrong, had been dead for aome yean. She was op pressed by poverty, deserted by friends, and now a shameful death or a linger ing imprisonment threatened her son. In this emergency she bethought her self of the poor yonth to whom she had onoe given a home, and who had so olten played with the boy who now stood in such imminent peril. For many years Mr. Lincoln had been known as a most successful lawyer, and Mrs. Armstrong became possessed of the idea that if he would but under take ber son's case, he would be saved. She therefore wrote to him at Spring field, begging his assistance. Though E tossed by clients on eve7 side, Mr. inooln immediately responded that the memories of past kindnesses were yet green, and their obligations sacred, and Providence permitting he would undertake the de/ense of her son, if be didn't try another caae that season. Upon examination he found the ease a moat desperate one. A jury had al ready passed upon an alleged aooom- K'oe, and rendered a verdict of guilty, e same evidence would have to be confronted in the coming trial, and only by a miracle oould a similar result be avoided. The only hope was to blot out the record of the previous trial, re fute the scutes of witnesses, and cause the jury to forget both their duty and their oatlia. At length the day of trial arrived, and the prosecution brought forward their array of witnesses. Aa one after another came upon the stand and gave their evidence, they were subjected to s rigid cross examination, but without any very satisfactory results. The tes timony M-emed conclusive, and every word fell like the dreaded knell of death. When the proeecution had finished their case, it appeared that only one witness had directly connected the ac cused with the crime. He swore that he saw the affray, that Norris pounded the deceased with a dab from behind, while Armstrong assailed him in front with s slung-shot, and the doctors tes tified that the wounds inflicted by either would have produced death. He ex- Slaiucd that he was enabled to see so istinctly, owing to the light of the moon, wiiich was nearly at its fulh and at the time of the occurrence, eleven o'dock, standing in the heavens sbout where the snn would be at ten o'dock in the moruing. It occurred to Mr. Lincoln to test the truth of this statement by the almanac. Turning to the clerk, he requested that one be handed him, bnt it was not readily found. Old almanacs are not generally considered of sufficient value in s court of justice to call for their preservation, so one was not obtained until a messenger had visited a neigh boring stationery and book establish ment, when the volume was procured and handed to the clerk of the court, with instructions to deliver it to Mr. Linooln when wanted. In dne time Mr. Linooln rose to make the closing argument for the de fense. It is said by those who listened to Che address, that the like of it was never before heard by the bar of Beardstown. He began by describing his early struggles with poverty, how he had been a friendless, homeless wanderer, until the parents of the accused opened to him their door, and henceforth had been to him all that father and mother oould ever expect to be. Their gener osity had never been forgotten, and now that befriended bey stood before them to plead for the life of his benefactor's son—the babe that he had fondled so often in the dayß of his unquestioned innocence. He drew a touching pic ture of the widowed mother following with a trembling, bleeding heart every step in the terrible inquisition, bending her ear to every word, and watohing with inexpressible anxiety and dread the faces of the jury—now seeing a ray of hope in the softened expression, or despair and death in the oold, hard lines which might sometimes cross the features of the perplexed and patient men who held the issues of life and death, and oould send her from that room aimless, hopeless, sad childless, !or fill to the brim the measure of b joy. ~ .. Having warmed up with hie exordi um, he tool up the theory of the prose cution, end with some lock), much sophistry, eml una tinted ridicule, ho mede it appear preposterous, if not im |rfrrf iblfl. The testimony wee then attacked. ♦ I.KJI individual statement analysed, discrepancies pointed out, and ineoe aiatendea exposed, end the fed clearly brought out that bat oae witaeee baa ■worn to bavin* eeea the prisoner com mit the assault—at eleven o'clock at night ef a certain day, the moon being very bright, nearly at the fall, and about aa high in the heavens aa the ana ia at ten o'etoek in the morning, Mr. Lincoln then called npon tb clerk for the almanac, opened it and proceeded to chow that on the day and at the boar mentioned there waa n< moon at all, it baring aet at nine o'clock—two honra before the affray took place. The reaolt of thia exposure waa lika tbo bn rating of a bombunelL The mas tarly eloquence of the plea had already collated their sympathies, and the jury had already been aeeking aeme pretext for an acquittal, when thia exposure of the boldest perjury filled the court, judge and jury with indijpatioii, de moralized the prosecution, incensed the ■pectetors, and in the tumult and ex citement the ease wan abruptly closed, a rerdict of " not gnilty almost in stantly rendered, and the prisoner walked out of the dock a free man. Bat the moat oariona part of thia ■lory ia yet to be told. Home days after tba acqnittal it waa diaoorered that the almanac which had been giren to Mr. Lincoln to read from waa not for the year of the murder at all. lt waa further shown that at the time mentioned by the witness, the moon waa in substantially the position he described ; bat the mischief had been done, and the verdict could not be re called. How that almanac eame to be handed to Mr. Lincoln, has never been satis factorily explained. That it waa acci dental, there ia no doubt, and in the excitement and ounsternation caused by the speech and the exposure, no one thought to call the accuracy of the volume in question until too late. heead la a Fag. Professor Reynolds, cf Manchester, endeavors to explain the feet that sound does not readily penetrate fog. He shows that the particles of water do not, ee it bee sometimes been supposed, break up the waves of sound by small reflections, in the same way aa they scatter the waves of light, bat that the destruction of sound is doe to the fact that when foggy air ta accelerated or retarded, the drops of water move through the air and expend energy in fluid friction. He examines further the relation between the sixe of the drops and their effects. He finds, in the first place, that if the air is subjected to a uniform acceleration, then the energy dissipated by the drape in a given time is proportional to the square root of the disaster of the drops. Starting with drops the tone of rain, their effect will increase as their aise diminishes, at flrst in the direct proportion, then more and mote alowly until a certain minuteness is reached, after which, aa the drops besoms still smaller, their effect will begin to diminish, at flrst slowly, bat in an increasing ratio, tending toward that of the a ,uare root of the diameter of the drops. It thus appears that for any note of waves of aonnd there is a certain sixe of drop with which a fog wil' produce the greatest effects. Narcotizing Horses. We learn from the Gazette Medicaid de Bordeaux that an eminent veteri nary surgeon has informed the Medical and Surgical Society of that city that ' the coachmen of oertain families had been for some time in the habit of ad ministering chloral to the horses in their charge, so as to make them easier to ride or drive. It appears that the drug acted like a charm, for hemes which bad previously been so spirited as to give much trouble to their invert became as quiet aa lambs after a few days of this faypostbenic treatment This great change naturally attracted the attention of the owners of the ani mals, and they aeni for the veterinary surgeon to ascertain the cause of this sudden gentleness, That functionary noticed a certain tendency io aleep in the animals ; bat scarcely knew to what to refer this unusual ooaditktn. when on one of his visits he chanced to find a bottle half full of ehloraL Here, then, was the corpus delicti, and when the surgeon questioned the delin quent coachman as to the use he made of the drug, the latter, after much hesitation, owned that, following the advice of a brother whip, he gave his hones s dose of chloral every morning to make them go quietly, and further, that many of the fraternity in Bordeaux followed the tame plan. —London Medi cal Record. la a Tight Place. A man in Baltimore, while under the influeuoe of liquor, a few days sinoe. climbed out upon his roof, ana amused himself by jumping thence to the roof \ of the adjoining house, and thence to the next, till his antics had attracted quite a crowd of persons in the street below. Seised with a sudden idea that the spectators were going to shoot him, he songtit refuge in a chimney, and slid down to within a few feet of the first floor, where he became wedged in beyond the power of extrication. At about the same moment, the inhabi tants of that story, unaware that the draught was choked by a human body, lighted a fire. The unearthly noises which proceeded from the chimney were attributed to aome ageucy similar to that which recently caused the mys terious bell-ringing in the same city ; and it was not till two police officers entered the room and maue an attack upon the fire-place, that the scorched inebriate was rescued from his perilous position. Hoed Eyesight. Although the eyes of some animals are incapable of motion, as the fly, the beetle, and several other inseeta, yet the Creator haa shown hia wisdom and goodness in furnishing their eyes with thousands of little globules, and by placing their eyes more in front of their heads, so that these little insets oau see almost all around them without turning their heads. A gentleman who has examined the eyes of a fly says that the two eyes of a oommon one are composed of 8,000 little globes,through every one of which it is capable of forming an image of an object. Having prepared the eye of a fly for the pur pose, he p'aoed it before his microaoope and then looked through both, in the manner of a telescope, at a steeple which was 299 feet high and 750 feet distant, and he said he oould plainly see through every little hemisphere the whole steeple inverted or turned npside down. A Serious Jest. The Paris correspondent of the Lon don Daily Telegraph writes: "A strange incident is reported from Ly ons, of whioh I first heard some days ago, without crediting it. On the 6th of October two young people were married in that town. Within a few hours of the ceremony they became in sensible,' and have remained so ever since. The Lyonese doctors have ex hausted their science in this case, and the lack less pair, though alive yet, are evidently sinking from mere starvation. There can be no qnestion bnt tnat some narootio of the most violent class has been given them, probably as a joke. We are told that a young man, appren ticed to a chemist, has been arrested on suspicion. Bnt it is believed that sev eral of the marriage guests bore part in the affair, which was neant as a jest only." Pennsylvania now has twenty-five colleges,' divided among the different denominations as follows; Five Catho lic, four Reformed, three Presbyterian, two Episcopal, two Luthern, two Methodist, two Friends', one Baptist, one United Brethren, one Cumberland Presbyteries end two wedieal ■