She gaiunter wittiligturtr, rUBI,ISIIED EVERY THIMSDAY BY COOPER, SAN DERSO7i & CO. J. M. COOPER, H. Q Sirrra, WM. A. MORTON, • ALFRED SANDERSON TERMS—Two Dollars per annum, payable in all cases in advance. OFFICE-SOUTHWEST CORNER OF CENTIiE SCOTABE. ? Al letters on business should be ad dressed 'to COOPER, SANDERSO' & Co. . Votttli. THE...ORIGIN OF IRELAND. \V id nll eondeseinshin, I'n turn your attinsehin To what I would niinsehln iv Erin so green, And widout Itositaysehin, I'd show l'av that nayshin Iteeame iv ereayshin the giro and the queen It happened one inornin', Widhout Inc Svarnth', That Vail us did bathe in the beautiful say, An' he that SUM,. tokin, • (And Buretwits provokin',) I ler pinions war sOakin', an wudn't give pllll So Nipt une, who knew her, a Began to purshue her In °railer, to woo her, the wicked owld Jew ! An' he vary nigh caught her Atop iv the wather— (t,reat 3 a pitec'g daughter, who cried Poo in to, Hut Jove, Ito great jayn lout% :111 saw Vaynus =S==t=a=l Sc, he routed out in thunditer, Ile'd tare lifin asundher, .In'ttlittre - twasnowondher tt n • hither hi , ehtld • • So a star that was living Around hint espyin saztil without sight!). 14=1 \\There it tumbled Ulu , whilthr. tut N ptune while sinkin'. And gave thinkin% ‘, broth rd. An' that slitar wit, illiry html. 'loth lowlanil and An' funned it swate isLwd, t hi. 1411111 it 1 , 1/111! ' Thus slitiiry, "I:itsri snit do‘rn•friiiii alory i That Erin so hoard 011,11'1h! jt11111)1 , 1 lin Erin tint raYn/tl'll..kii.• ;111 111114•11 did iillll . l , it had kill .1 11.1, Tler !tel . :t tthr,,i• “i the ili,111! An' that gins, It mad, h.•r 17•rl A little nI,1,•111 . 1,,IIS I i.•ur it might prm • Pl illre how Call y , Oll h Lime Is That Erin's I:11111/IIS Lear, tly, , tord /11 , (1 . 110,. 11.1, x 1,71. and Is alti9rcllancous. 'rite Causes of Itailo a) Disasters 'l•he N,.‘v "1",)1.1( / .. 0. , / Hay, Ihr 1111111 her Faii :Li•rhilits ich have happened lately ha, lint the et.ilinittity upon iniittiring to \dial, eaustts they are tiwing. Peril:Li., it 'nay throw some light upon the• 'natter to' repeal here ivhat a veteran rail et - ay engineer, of kn0w1, ,, 1g(.(1 skill, ':lid, 5 , ,11/1• to n ponp_ , :er lu•utheri the pro fession. " Within ten years, - said the engi neer, "you will hear of frequent and fatal accidents on our. therican rail way,. 'rimy will inerease to all extent which will he alisohltely appahing. The wood and iron on 'il'vhich the \Vheeh: of the trains run alt:nWcrtain lime. At present thi•y are lin,stly new, and the danger of whit•li I ,:lt,.:11; does not exist: b u t thcy will sound hi, the cue nutil their texture has wen changed by the constant hammer ing of the heavy loaded wheels, and then they will suddenly give way, The first warning which the comiqtnies have of their unsoundness, with the exception -of the length of time that they have lremt in he some accident to the tr a in s dim pa s s ~;ver them. But the lime whieh has elapsed since they were Mid will nut he regarded, The desire of profit m ill inthwe t he railway rompanies to leave them im the track as long as the superintendent finds no defect in them apparent. to the eye, and thus, the (lisuster and the discovery of their de fective condition will occur at the same inoment." What was predicted six years since is beginning : to take place, aini it' there was all ground for his warning, as we are confident there was, will take place more frequent lyitereafter. The passage wheels over the iron mils is a con stant succession of heavy blovi . s. wheels not glide smoothly over the track ; if they did they would run with out noise; on the contrary, they beat the rail with a violence that keel's the train in a constant jar. The wheel soon loses its perfect circular Form, etimbined with rapidity of movement, converts it into a hammer. Ivleler this succession of -4rokes the wrought-iron rail splits into flakes, and the rail of cast-iron loses the close cohesion of its crystallized struc ture, becomes brittle, and is retuly to fly' in pieces on the application of the very force which it had resisted for years. The superintendent looks at the rails, he SCI'S that they retaill their original -outward form, and reports: the trail: in United Mute,, with a millictu as lvt, , have t-een; then Ategria, 501001, pouielt-, and finally Peru, with 210,1100 poutoit t .' The tin (•,..1, is larger t gothi condition and the rail. sound. I in tireat Britain titaxi anywhere else on BeNe 11101 : Ill Ilg a train passes ovt‘r them, a mil is lirol;en, the ears thrown from the Ir:wk., corpses aver:tilled aNVay from the broken and crushed vehicles., linneirtal person are sniarting with are inainital for tiro. To show how 50i,j,!,1 iron i to ,ri ce suddenly under 1.1. m .;.• fre. i tiently repeated, we were tout thy nth..r day of what happened to a piece of cold iron lilaueet under a trip-htihnner. Tho h;l.- 31101'tieseetleel again ant) again vVithnut Anaking any apparent impression, blow iufter blow lbllowed and still the meta - resisted: another hlow was given, ant v ,the iron Ileac at our, into four pieek,s. The only way to avoid these accident. is ti take up the mil:, berore their tex ture is so altered as to render them un safe, supply their blare with new, and send the old to the founderies to he Juelted and recast. 'Thorn is no other way to avoid the murder of passengers by scores, who intrust their lives to the .keeping of those who manage our rail ways. They do this in ;crmany. :is we 3nentiohed a few das since. a rail w, the traek has its regular tcrin of service. After a due time it is relieved —after a certain amount of hammering hy the wheels that thunder over it, it is pulled from thegrottud without remorse, I owever earnestly ibt apparent sound ness nuty pleat', for it. and is sent to the f unlace. it is said that this metleid would be '.xeeeding - ly difficult, if not impossible, On our railways on aceount of the differ cut times at which the rails are laid down. Hails discovered to be weak are taken up before the time of superannu ation arrives, and rails made at one foundery or in one manner are better fitted to last and endure the blows front the wheels than others, so that our rail ways are in fact a patchwork of old and new, strong and weak rails. It is no excuse to say that the method we suggest is difficult. Difficult it may be, but the difficulty must be met for the sake of the lives of our fellow-crea tures. We must not allow a car full of passengers to he thrown off the track and the passengers dashed to a jelly be cause of an unwillingness to encounter and obviate what we choose to call a difficulty. But impossible.it is not. Mr. W. J. McAlpine found it as easy as it is for a counting-house clerk to keep his papers in such order that he can lay his hands at once on the one•for which he has oc casion. Mr. McAlpine knew every rail on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad— patchwork as the track was—as perfectly as a shepherd knows every one of his sheep. He knew to a day how long each individual rail ought to remain in its place. What he did others may do. A curious illustration has been given us of the effect of the constant beating of a railway track by the, wheels of the trains, A subterranean'Conduit brings the water. of the Hempstead ponds to Ilrooklp; In crossing the railway VOLUME 65 track between Jamaica and Brooklyn, it passes fifteen feet below the track.— It is made of the best brick, laid in the best cement of water-lime, and is two feet in thickness from the outside to the inner, channel,. in which the water flows. It is examined from time to time, and lately every part of it was found perfectly sound, except directly under the railway track, where, not withstanding the distance from the surface., it was found cracked through and through. The Metal Crop of the World [From the Sei,ntilie Artizan.l An examination of the crop ortnetals produced iu the great harvest field of our glohe, leads to sonic striking and interesting facts. rntil the discovery of the gold fields of Australia and Cali lontia, the crop or precious metals throughout the Ivorld maintained as uniform a production as the ver.eal or other crops, and even since these dis coveries the rate or production, so sud denly and enormously expanded, has subsided into regularity. he amount of glittering dust shipped yearly from San Franeisco, Alelbourne, and Sidney is now as accurately estimated as cotton, wh e at, lohacco. or any of our great staples. Thv value of precious metals produced per annum in the fruited States as coin pared with Euroile, is estimated in round 111.11111 , 121's in the L'iwyr-lopwrlia thus.: United States, sixteen millions pounds sterling; llrentßritain, wenty millions ditto: the Russian Empire, five millions; France, only three millions: the Austrian Empire, less than half l'rus9ia,a little upward of four mil lions; };elgiuni, nearly w“ ulilliot Spain, a 11611 . 11 M and a half: Sweden and Norway, Sax‘my, three hundred thole. and,: the liartz rather near Italy', eete.iderahly lc than utilliun ; and (sight annual astir:l2 . e nf' I ro inn tai talc in i, al :\lexii•i) and f(ail tip itia)Llt nine 1111.1 (ll , ' n ., 1 iir id' lesi; !Ilan dire, to the p.Tititil t(ital ()I' oral) of )11'1.Ci,,LI, 1110:11,, annually in liitirnia• and _11111.11,a, in ,xact Mr. \Vhitney's table (.f the inetallie )reiltiet (t the w.rbl fm- the year Iresents intere,ting facts. 1;11,no1l -t 'V "I , ilN or. ,(1f copper, she p rm l tiv ,. / 1 t;Aio • 4,!1011 ((m:-: or zino, soil ton, and .21111,1H111 tons of iron. The dispr,p,rtii,n tier , ' between the reeiott , and ti,ertil i, very ink, a-, will he -con hy a cwitpari3On with Great Britain. The gold nt Great ilritain in I‘, - , t i,t—lintated at Inn !Annuls troy ; silver at ;o nun imunds : tin at 7,- non 4 q,per, 14,:on; zinc, I,non twis; lead, 61,hnn ton-;irnu, :,,ono,non hql , . In the ' , awe year the I . nited includ ing .. , upp() , ed to have I.r(- dii,•,•d vtn,nun pwinds tr,,y of gni(' ; „r potinds tvoiriltipiii- of mercury, it ;Peat Britain, and Itussia prod:trim' none .it - .010 ions of copper. Line, 13,111111 )I . le:id and a niillinli of lons of iron Mexico take , : the paint in silver, the product of Is• - el aneffinting to 1,750,n00 pounds troy. Chili ranks next, to 2.50,- noo pounds; Ecuador ainl New (lranada :iie put down it liau.oou pounds; Bolivia the sane; a n ti so on—Brazil closing the li-t with only To) poutitk. Prits-itt twit the Hartz. District yield the ,;11111', :511,0111) 1/0111111S 011111.- 4ax,11- g it e= tii),lll/1) 1101111,1 S ; p ranee .5,000 poittuk fluty, Africa, the Fast ;--otit hern Asia and Cul,a do not appear in the -ilver h-t. In the gold eolunin WO Thrill the States tal;ill,2; the 10:1,1 at the load of 2110,000; in.xt _Australia, 1:0,o0o: I,efore stated, Indies and :-Aoutliern 2.5,nna pounds and NeN4" (,1%71111da 1:),(M)11 (10 10,0011 pound, G,Huo pounds; Austria .570 u pound, , , and Africa 4,oun pounds. Spain bring, only 12 pounds ; the Hartz _District gives but ii pc, ands, and poor Sweden a miserable 2 pounds. Norway, Pelgium, Prussia, Saxony, Switzerland, France, Italy' nl tailat make nu return in the gold column. Thereat vor,..:yitry for mercury hi Spain, which pro Weed two and a half millions of pound,. comes the the globe. To her 7,000 Lou-, the East Indies and Southern Asia kring :you tons; ton,: Saxony li, t.tlis; alai Spain In tn,. (treat ;ill (itlieriiitintrit , in the proitui tion of virloper, hull will cifiltintio t() (I() facile pro ()I' Hi(' vast inas , o , of 11111ivi• copp e r which uh!.ytn~l ill the Lake Superior rep,iinit is vet ed. Next after ;real _Britain eitnies Chili. with I Itian ton, of ,opper ; itien then Aii•-traii, and thieanica, proilueit,g ton-; the suuu in the [tilted toils; the I .\-ia with 3,111111 ton,, , 4) oli, viosinit the ii,t with! hare tilt itrerLuul, Alexieo, unit it :seems, protittee nu eopper at all—at lea,t 11.411. is ,01(1()Nvii in \lr. - \\"liittiey's tat ;Limo bets , Africa only firm ton,. From I\ll'. \Vhitney's4:tter, it appears that (:real Britain takes the 1...40 nf the 1 - nited States, not only in silver, tin, copper Qtni iron, but lead also. The produet of metal in 1554, in (hreat (iritain, is set doe; t. 41 tll,Ollll tons against 1.5,11 m tons in the rnite.d 1 -gates. We had supposed that the lead mountains of NI isswiri would have risen if return. produces tWie, is WIWI! lead :IS the rnited Mates, the yield in kl'-15-1 being put down at :10,Hin tons. Prussia produces 5,11011 tons, Aus tria 7,n00 tons, the Harts district 5,01 in tons •••' , :t.xony :yon inns, France - 1,•,0)1 tons, , Iscn.! . .itna 1,(0n t a us, Itiuly 500 tuns and list m all Sweden 21/11 ton, As regards the irun crop we have seen I ;real Britain and the United Mates heading the list, the f,,ritter with three and the latter with one million of loll:. France collo , 'next witit (1410, 1 11 1 0 tons; then :too,ono tons ; Iturssia t;oo,- 11110 tolls ; 1:io,00n tons and so on, !)ringilo.2; up thy rear with .i,OOO tons. The .„rs:o.l totals (Ito motallio produoo of tlo. fort stuunted up by Al r. Whi:ney, urr ; Odd 47u,9:0 pounds troy; :!,s1 2,20 u pound, troy ; .Nleretiry -1,2n0,000 potins avoirdu pois; Tin tt,o,io tolls; Popper 58,8.50 tolls; Zino 00,35 u toils; Leto! 1:13,000 tons; and Iron -1,7:12,ti0n tons. Solitude More and greater sins are committed when men are alone than when they keep themselves in fellowship. When Eve in Paradj,se walked alone, then came the evil one and deceived her.— Whoever is amongst Men and in honest company, is ashamed to site, or, at least, lie has no place or opportunity to do so. When David was alone, and idle, and went to wars, he fell into adultery- and murder; and I have myself found that I have never sinned more thou when I was alone. solitariness inviteth to melancholy, and a person alone has often some heavy and evil thoughts, so hath he strange thoughts, and con strued everything in the worst sense. Melancholy is an instrument of the devil, by which lie accomplOed his wicked purposes. The deeper a person is plunged into that state, the more Power the devil hail) over him. To live in an open, public state is the safest. Openly, and amongst other per sons, a man must live civilly and hon estly, must appear to fear God, and do his duty towards men.—Luther. Important Letter from the Portland "Advertiser. WASHINGTO, Nov_ 7.—There have been a few changes in the situation in the Shenandoah Valley since my last letter, and the indications are that a terrible storm is about to burst in that region. Sheridan's fate army, greatly reduced since the disaster of the 19th ult., has been broken up into detach ments,lnd these are scattered about in places widely separated. One detach ment is at Hagerstown, in Maryland, just south, f the Pennsylvania line,and this detachment is considered large enough to, have three of Sheridan's best generals- Another detachment is at a certain point in Maryland Still further west ; a third is near Martinsburg ; a fourth is much nearer to Harper's Ferry than to Winchester ; and a fifth de tachment (probably acting as a corps of observation, and no doubt composed entirely Of cavalry) is said to be still near Cedar ('reek. A few weeks ago the Administration caused the Manassas (lap Railroad, from Manassas Junction to Front Royal, to be reconstructed at great expense. Until Sheridan's defeat, on the 19th ult., it was intended to use that toad for the transportation of supplies to (1w army ; hut his army was so weakened by that disaster that it has been deemed pru dent not to keep it at any point south of Winchester, and therefore the Ma nassas Gap Railroad became entirely useless. It has been 41Wilantled accord ingly ; the rails taken up and brought to this city, in order to prevent the re bels from taken Ahem up, awl the cross ties burned. This is so to an abandonment for the winter, awl until late neCt spring, of all the territory elit of the Blue Itidgeand south of the Poto num, except the little strip covered by the immediate defenses of \Vashington. The supplies tin' Sheridan's army are again sem, at great expense, from Balti more to the general depot at Harper's Ferry; and Slieridall's army is now doing nothing more, and will do no thin(' Inure all winter titan mono:;' to guard the line of the Potomac. 'flue the lame and iilipotent conclusion of the campaigns of 1,501 in the valley; campaigns which, under Sigel, Iltinter and Sheridan, have been condueted With 78,00 n men, of whom only .1.1,01511,". survive. 1 lenc is the whole inuttor iu brief: (In the 4th of may Sigel had 16,00)) troops. He lost in that month ti,nou, (;eft. Hunter added 1 2,11011 fresh troops in dune, and took command abio of the s,nuo that were left under Siegel. But he left Sigel there with s,o))o troops at Winchester, while 1w inade his cam paign against Lynchburg with his ONViI 12,1101 uteri , who were all well trained soldiers. He lost O,IH to (int is own troops, and Sigel lost -10iou when he was driven from 'Winchester hr Early. About the I:1th of .1 uly Gen. Wright took into the Valley the Oth and 19tH Corps, 15,0n0 strong, and added to them the o,ouo left under Hunter and the 4,itou left under Sigel. Among these was ('rook's Divis ion. Gen. Wright only lost 3,000 men in his brief campaign, when he Was su perseded, on the stli of August, by (;en. Sheridan. ( (en. Sheridan brought with him from the James Jtiver 12,))uo cavalry, and front Washingbm a division of infantry 4,ooostrong . . Another division of infan try, of -OM men, was assigned b) him from the tith Corps, and he also took command of the 22 001) men.lust named under Gen. Wright. 'lbis gave him 42,11110 111)11 to start with. He was rein forced between the 741011 of August and the Irdh of Oetober, by 15,000 new re cruits, of whom 5,000 were sulistitules 11d personal representatives, 1)11)1 7,000 were drafted 111(.11. Your readers will no doubt have 110- [iced the official statement, made a few days ago, by Mr. Whiting, Solicitor of the War Department, to the effect that sluice the 20th of last August, there havo been 20,000 voluntary enlistments into the army. Tl!is statement, 1 have as certained, is true. Tibt the " voluntary enlistments " include, and indeed are composed, of substitutes and personal representatives, put in by individuals and towns in order to avoid a draft.— And I have ascertained, also, that the last draft itself has actually produced between 1 20,11 ti and 130,000 Meth Here then are 24)0,00n men, who have been raised sluice the 20th of August. What Leconte of them? 80,000, I know, !tare been scut to (;en. Grant's army; till of tbeun having reached him before the 59th lilt; .7,111/11 of them, I knew, 11111'e bee/11-42111 dall's army, the last iletaelmtera. , big been sent up last week. 11uf this only makes 9.5,000 men. What has be come of the other 140,000 men. ((en. Sherman needs 50,n0, but ,T have not heard of 4.;1:: having been sent to him. Sheridmi, then, has had, in all, 57,000 men, whereWitiu to conduct his campaigns. He 1()t, in his par.ituif of Early to `liras( rg, Augu-t 11 to 15, 1,6 0 0 men ; partly in hi,Lflle, ,p artlV tlirough ssfte the exee heat and want or water. He lost on his retreat from Strashurg to Winchester, August 10 to 10, "inn men. 1-le lost in his defeat at Winehester, August 1 ti, and in his immediate retreat to !harlestown, 1,200 men. He lost in the se“2rr.: battle ;it Bunker Dill, Aug. :Nth, I,ono men; 410 ill his subsequent retreat tO (liariestown, lost in the battle of Berryville, September :141, 1,000 men; h, do' battle :it Bunker's Hill, September 19th, 0,000 1111 , 11; and in the battle at Fisher's Hill, Septem ber 21st, three thousand men. After the battle he had swan)) men left, in cludiug 0,000 new recruits, who had joined hint •Siftrg ,Sept. ISt ; and he sup posed that Early's ono' entirely used tip, • A few days, however, undeceived him. From the 22d to the :loth of Sep tember, lie lost in sundry skirmishes, 2,000 men. From the Ist to the sth of October, he lost 4,110)) men in various attempt to tbreu' a passage through the Blue Ridge, in order to get to Lynch eurg. tierce was then re,luced to 24,110cinen, and with these he retreated to t-amslair n ,, , 11)1111 the tith to the 11011 clOutolher, losiwg 15,000 men rl, rmde . From that tiroo . • how ev he began to receive the last reinforcemeuti, men tioned above. From the 11th to the 10th tilt., he lost in the skirmishes and reconnoissaneesmentioned in my recent letters) 2 , 0 " 9 men, He lost in the great battles of the 19th ultimo, 7,241 men, namely, in the Gth Corp, 22G); in the 19th Corps, ; and in Crook's lii vi on, 1,827. And lie has lost in skirm ishes and - reconnoissanees since then, nearly 1,000 more. His entire losses during the campaign have thus been :15,5i.) men, and his present forces re duced to 21 ,13li men, 1; uador Mexico Vl5 -- lu Madame ( '—'s school pails of water stood about in convenient situ ations with cocoanut dippers, for the convenience of thirsty.pupils ; but dip pers will not be'ar too rough handling, and the mortality thereof had been ir ritatingly great. Madame was upon her knees on the platform, one morning, devoutly :conducting the devotions of her hundred pupils, when in the distance was heard the crash - of the devoted ves sel. There was a pause in the prayer, and these words audibly interlude(' by the oblivious speaker, " Good gracious ! if there isn't another of my cocoanut dippers gone !" and the prayer went on. Danger in Trifles The road to home-happiness lies over small stepping-stones. Slight circum stances are the stumbling-blocks of families. The prick of a.pin, says apro -verb, is enough to make an empire insipid. The more tender the feelings, the more painful the wound. A cold, unkind word checks and withers the blossom of the dearest love, as the most delicate rings of the vine are troubled by, the faintest breeze. The misery of a life is born of a chance observation. If the true history of quarrels, public and private, were honestly written, it would be silenced with an uproar of derision. LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 23, 1864. THE CATHEDRAL OF SAINT PETER AND Full Description of the Bnildhsg. Prom the Philadelphia Age The wayfarer who enters Philadelphia, no matter fromwhat quarter, will see, long before he reaches the city; towering in solemn majesty far above every surround ing object, a huge dome. Its brown sides stand out in bold relief against the sky, and the gilded cross surmounting it twinkles and sparkles in the sanlight; Should the day he lowering, the massive dome looms up in the mist, and the flying scud which sweeps across the heavens almost touches the top, it rears itself so high. No matter whence the traveler approaches, the dome is there, the marked attraction amid the great mass of buildings spread out so wide ly. Whilst all else is confused and undis tinguished, the dome of the Cathedral is plain and distinct. For miles it is visible. It is the prineipal object seen on every avenue of approach to this great city. In the year 1545, when the United. States were engaged in a foreign war, and soldiers of every Stale fought side by side, and North and mouth alike gave their children to toil together, m vindicate the honor of the whole country ; *slten Taylor, a SOthern man, had won the ( c attle of Monterey, and was marching to the tiel4 of Buena Vista; and Scott, a Virginian, gathering an. army to capture Mexico; wilcNi JcClellan and Bragg, and Sherman and 1...,04zWeet, and Meade and Fitz John Porter, weft. 411. sub alterns in the Union armies, and all i,n2- vottod fir gallantry ; when Jefferson DlLViti ;;,d A brahltlll Lincoln sat in the Federal Cong,yess, a peaceful religious oluty was per fbrineel in Philadelphia. I Sunday, Sep tember ntit,; , 4li, Bishop I<cm!ick, surround ed by his ciertt - fr, and his hock, laid the cor ner-stone of the ttotowt Catholic Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint t' 1. The build- Ina thereon to he erected was for the worship of C. The corner-stone wit. in whet was then the outskirts of Philadel phia. J,E.gcn• Square had been enclosed, :oid the I •;itlicdral wits to overhoK itsstout 11- ern silly lint very few buildings marred the Imnal ,a„,;.;? , which then spread in an al , float unbroken t,..:;..ge of green thilds, west and northwest to the Ejghtecti years ago, Broad street ltai western limit of Philadelphia, Fairmount wus out if lowa—Fradi 1111 Squaic Wi ts fashionable place of residence, Plirisi !'hunch and Saint Peters were 1111111*61,1110 111iV,•111.11,11es with spires, in town, turd the old Stat... Must , Ilea the highest steeple. People were tiva) modest in their protett shins, :Ind lived in ilirea-utory bricks. Brown stifle was . just eanil4.MThi coil white marble fronts lied s , :ettriely bred heard Inshop Ecurich and his elergy performed I heir religious duties, and the eorner-stone was laid ; anti Al/ 17:011 ember sth, 15-16, the vast audience that MM eoi t e 4ti fgr oat of town to stand reverentially ill !,og4p Square. invoking toils Messing on then• lal,ors, dispersed, few dreaming of what a Treat work_ they had begun. Many have cone theli' 14 1 4 re , 411a4 place. Bishop kenrick was afterwards 4.44410441 to Pal tiutdre, and has slime gone to his grave, the Brimalp of the 'atholic Church in the ruiterl States,. Another Bishop took charge of the work, Init. Bishop Newman, full of y e ars anal o f honor:, was gathered to his father., and a 116 rd Bishop assumed the mitre. 'Bishop Wood is n u t' the head of the Catholic Church here, and under his superintendence we find the great Cathedral completed, and on Sunday next, Nov. 1804, it is to be dedicated to the worship or Intl, B has heel, eighteen years, two months end four teen days in building• The i'athettral or Saint Peter and Saint Pant is the largest elitirelt in North Ameri ca, north . of the !tity of Mexit'o. With the exception of one tir two churches there, it iv till' largest on tie Western Hemisphere. It exceeds in size th: - :lontreal Cathedral. and tl 111.11tIMI'lli .0111.-.IVI , kill 1:1` , 1 /L. : 1.'41 , 11nd tAI. ychirlt ij 1111;1 , L(.l, vol lintary conU iLnt ions of the nienil.ers of the poorest religions lietiondhation 'among us. Day after (lay the pennies..lwee been gath ered, and this is what they - have paid for. For eightt.on. Fears, the po,q , }iooph nt t.lir city ha.e 4i., co the:, unitit this is their ortering to i T od. The, has Let•n paid tor ns it WitS stone ittiii, owl' nail driven, has bean thu offering of a faithrul ittattht , t<rf thu )%er one million of dollars, nioi—tenths of it io gold and silv_•r I,lesi:od memory, have been eontrtlatled for the ounstruatiCal of the great cathedral, and new it hits no debt, and can be dedicated to Uod, a free, untrammeled offering. The work has gone on slowly,. and with out 4,,telthili.ll. But few men have been empioy'...al, and nearly all began their labors wheil Mulding, hogtip, eighteen years ago. A l l l uartii* M . -.4 lif i ti/iie Mu. lspeni in lalm)ring on one spot, and i l ioWiliat r,/,•iipat ion is gone, they must feel very sail. The , 4oCic has scarcely been beard Uf. Out , side of the ilatimiii.ebilretais it liL beop Mil dont mentioned, tlihough the is the greatest edince ill Philadelphia rao one, outside of the Church, has been asjisd to coatribole. Almost impereeptibly it has grown up in our midst, and we have scarce- Iv noticed it. So slowly has one stone been laid on another, that until a few days ago, when the fia-theoming dedication was an tttt of Philadelphia knew such a cisl:!are, or in contempla tion, but that was ( M 01:: pit.. gritnages to Logan Sottare are num4ons. The cars are totaled, 'Phoustimis stand there in the streew, Hui ring up at the edi tice, whose sacred inysteries ire to he unvepell on SIM- Ilay nest. ( 'athedral was designed and its run str;ietion superintended b • v Napoleon Le Itrun, Vs, ! . 'rho facade was drawn by Join Notimin, Al.s t or (lark brown stone. Ever s y thin„ about it id Jingo cohnuns adorn ih,e mid dire sur mounted by enormous capitals which . in turn ~,.i)i;ort the stdid brown front of root: The cornice is the largest of any building in the I 'lined States, and projects 4rther ward. Though inassive, everything is Oa horately ornamented. Richness and gran- deur are the objects sought and attained by tit' arenitiiet in the construction of the front on imgan Ihn people who linger about gazing for hours al, the volunius and their delicate nuting,•intest The building is ono 'hundred and thirty-six feet in fcotit rill i,ogint Stumm:, rand from the ground to the apex of the pediment of the front is one hundred and one feet fuel si.,; inches. The ground plan of the Cathedral is tilt oblo n g, one hundred and thirty-six broad I•v t WO hundred and sixteen feet long. The building js ilia red like a cross, The nave or long pinto of the 00=12 is one h on deed and ninety-two feet in length. The transept Or slant piece Is one hundred and twenty-eight feet in length; each is fifty feet wide. West of the transept, the nave is horder•ql on each side by heavy pillars ten feet square, supporting a Vaulted ceiling, NVill,ql spreads over the ground lloor, at a night oft•ighty feet. ( tit the •fmside of each row of pilla r ,: are 'aides, t wenty-tm Ii•••• wide end finty-two lite( high, covered in with small kIOIIIC,. ecich litt•itig a circular window ip Oa, top, With itsmidl Stained glass cefttre,- 'f ,o nt•rtb aisle windows have lane centres , those on the south aisle have red centres, The lave is lighted from the top by a row of large windows op each side of the vaulted ceiling. Fast of the transept on rash side of the sanctuary or chancel is a chapel I wenty4wo fed wide thirty.nine feet long, Keil of these is lighted by a sin ght stained glass window at the top. Un like most buildings in the century there are no side windows, and all the light is intro duced front above. This, taken in conj tine t ion with the prevailing color, of the whole interior, which is made to, resemble Parts stone, heightens the architectural effect, and imparts the solemn and religions tone at> : proprlatc to such en edillee, Nor 15 the ef fect mai•feti 'uy the staitical Tho few stained glass windowsill the building throw no light in any part but the chapels. The clear white, natural daylight, in all its purity lights up the nave and. tranFept, and pleases I far more than any stained glass could. The sanctuary, or chancel, is fifty feet wide and linty-six feet deep. It is paved with fine nthrtile, the stones being laid so as to form a pleasing figure. It is railed in by the most magnificent Marble railing ever seen in Philadelphia. It • is low, broad, plain and rich • polished to the highest sus ceptibility of the stone ; without any orna ment but its own loveliness. The altar, when completed, will be a grand affair. The steps only are now 14. Four steps go up to the base of the altae They•are all made of Pennsylvania mitiktle, excepting that the elevations of two of them are en cased with jet black marble from Killarney, Ireland. This marble shines like a mirror, the polish is so exquisite. A temporary altar of wood is now erected on these steps. At souse time it will replaced by the grand altar. The sanctuary lump will hang about fifteen feet above the base of thealtar. For nearly one hundred feet a slender wire comes down from the highest part of the roof, and on it the lainp will be suspended. But the great triumph of the Cathedral is the dome. At the base it is seventy-one feet in diameter. The walls are ten feet thick, and inside it is fifty-one feet across. From the ground to the top of the dome is two hundred and ten 'feet, and' above the dome stands a huge gilded cross. Being on elevated ground, the Cathedralls by , far the highest building in the 'city. It almost makes one giddy to stand on the marble • pavement and p.m up into the dome. One hundred and H..tatz feet above where you stand, it closes over you. The eye is lost almost in the endless circles of Stone upon SAINT PAUL stone Which gradually close together far aboVe. , Al the top, on the inside, is apaint ing of.the Assumption of the Ble:u.ed Vir gin into Heaven. It is a circular painti, and is so far awaythatit looks almostsmstl enough tor the hands to 'span it: Yet it is twenty-seven feet broad, and almost eighty six feet around the outer edge. Come nearer and look at the four medallions which represent the four Evangelists, and are satin the foul corners of the base of the dome: They seem small and delicate, and scarcely life size. They are eighty feet above you, and each one is nine feet in di ameter, and almost thirty feet around.— Look at the pen in St. Luke's hand. It seems a few inches long. Were you dose to it and could measure it, it would stretch more than-three feet. Gaze up at the cor nice above the medalliomi. It runs around the base of the dome. It looks as if with care a man could stand upon its top, but four men in a row taut run around it. See that little square door above the cornice, through which it seems a child mightereep. A tall man can stand erect within it. Yet, far above the cornice, and the door, and the medallions the dome rears itself. They are scarcely half way up. Set the Continental Hotel upon another building as high as it is, and they will nestle cosily under that dome. Place them in Logan Square and they will be almost eighty feet short of reaching to a level with the top of the gilded cross. So well proportioned are all things in the Cathedral, that until one begins measuring, he has scarcely an idea of its size. Every thing, large and small, is so elaborately ornanstaih..ti ; 14u appropriate, and—if dull marble can bo giaid ut hn so--everything is modest, that Iheeye is soot h.!, lint few prominent points catch it, begin measuring, and at once the grandriur of the edifice is forced upon the Mind. Standing at the gpand altar and looking west along the nave, the solid pillars on each side stretch out in long rows, and at the end is organ . gallery. It seems a small affair. 11414 b ill 114 as if it were thirty feet wide, To h 0.10.0 II is Nffa IndldrOCl Rnd ninety feet off, .but that would ~,,rcely de •elve the eye IC, ptnolt . ' l ' wy very little fellows—almost children hi size--are ar ranging the gas fixtures. You know they must Ito men, but scarcely can believe it.— See, one or them strikes with his hummer. 44.0 H fall and it is raised again, before Cite SOnJal 'l'h„t is flh, gt . 1,1•1 teal Al , 4o . 4lhift fiavo It tak , sound Niane peTeeptilOo lin t e to basal. But we mast hurry on with the'deseri],- non. The broad pavement is of marble. was laid Iry John Itaird , Es.l. It extends a n 0 - er M e !.,..Tound floor and is laid on byltd; ttrelif•s. The pavement cost till elitmep4 around the 01.4, h cal) k 'wen. .4. dort , tl llllfercul plans of hrnamental liliug adorn the dom.. All are different, yet harmonions, :Ind all are beautiful. Yet much of this beauty is 1(4.4 !wrath(' Olt' "11:4(1(t Po” marble flooring. : . mericans, must Cii hen we go ati..• where, and pews must he put in the grCat charchek. In Europe not a poy mars the effect of the great cathedrals, (111 (atoll iddif of (lift nave hei , u afP Phlt;e', 44. Tlluse have the steps erupted, but nothing more, the grand altar in Me sac( nary, mid the two chapels hostile 11, when completed there will he thirteen chapels in the building. 'rho artist who has adorned the Cathedral is Constantino lirtnitidi, Esq. For more than three years past he has been engaged on the decorations or 11, walls, Tho - tug or 'owsslimPti.o!!.llllho 0004 , alkll the lll6dltlllottisol'tta: Pair Fvangelists wereeNe voted in \Vashingtom or canvass, tout brought to the Cathedral and fltstenvd in thole plaees. Itralailll'a great trittalph has been the fresco painting of the Crucifixion In the eastern end of the nave, bphinil the altar. It is large and magnitiCettt. Each figure is eoniplete, and it strik Illy ~ ,„',1k4i11.,1' chit the ae . o ;•;1,1 0101 1 144 m11 0 01(11 . 1eTirl'; ' Was painted tai the'wet plaster, antl . li a genuine rresco. .Xs rife drilsiprovres,l,ed, arter sketching out ltis work, he would pick out a line square inches of the dry plaster and rephiee it with soft wet plaster. So lie did until gradually the whole surfitce hadp.olll, d upon. tke “ litt the ,p p.,4 'gave the le ho zt rale sofluess which can l he attained in that mac. each end or the transept is :mother large pailltittg, 111 l eel in OW Nvit N , Itirtu .'}ll s ;l,urlst, Ihi the south en O d is the A,doratiop of the \Vise lien of ilia 111 ill,' :4 , 4 the Mares the little out of the Manger, alai it nestles in her arms, Far off in the ills taitee eau be seen the shepherds guarding their Ilocks, and the Star of liethlehein in the heavens. In the latter painting the wise men or the cost how low before the Babe, and phiew :it his feet their gold and .gifts of precious shines and sacred ointment. These gyre also grand works tmihrt, 1 1 `. ', 1 01 2 nave can lieseen replts tnie4 the }Minna (I,oot,fi t . ttteed. (lutist, the Son, is latiug crucified ; is suffer ing, that sinful man may be saved, Far alaovo the Cruclfikion is another fresco ,epreseming the Eternal Father, in the midst ii ilizt angels, looking down upon the Non, Inn above the Father is the Holy tihost, represented loy the usual sym bol of a dove. Here, we have the Father, the Son, and the I tole ghost; the Trinity, believed in by all Christian Churches, Protestant or Catholic. At theThase of the Cross kneel the weeping Virgin, and Mary .)[agdalen, and the Apostles, and in the thp spim o ,ttp villegatt whiolt tile soldiers motkinglyt presented to soften he asked fora drink, Wit have still to record, however, one or the finest 1 , xiiibitions of Bruinitli's skill. I in each side of each of the three great paint ings there seem to bet no niches Therein thus twelve in all. They ,ce,t like niches, but are not: and in ea c h seems to stand ;1 statue, but it does not. 'rile observer is :1.1- most sure that before him stands a niche, enQloosing 4 si4littn, Tip perspective is wopdefl'pl, ontteri'pl. Pit Itt itstrit surtace midi has Wrought in e,c‘ute a Ik.on derful exhibition of what an artist can do, The twelve Apostles stain there ,gazing tit you—ntore•life-like than statues could he— lmet(' rounded and solid than one would think a painting could lt. , Four guard each great toaintina. They are merely paintings in the walls. The robes, the up lifted hands, the eyes, mid features are al most fill, ljke. Hrumidl has Just finished his work , he is a modest, 11110birliSiVe In old dlothes, bedaubed with print, on a huge scaffold of rough boards, dirty and smeared, hit slowly did his patient task.-- 11 asks no praise (if the world. Hellas not had his name in the newspapers. He has courted no fame, lie asks no pay for his labors, I fumbly did he trace out the glo rious figures on the wall, unknown to all but a very few of our people, watched for a moment by perhaps one or two who hap pened to be wandering about the unfinish ed Cathedral; lint nearly all the time alone and solitary, Enthusiasm for his art and the enjovnurnt of practicing it were his re ward. He has gone now, The last touches IIIIVI• I/1`..11 ISiN tli 'rho hodnd will I. ton tw r the po tient labevor of ithi‘thit three 0." 1 though few ii. - now ;mil few will ever see him again, he has left sotto thing winch will live long after he is under the sod. And all this in the dark days of our countrv.—in the midst, of war and misery— is for the praise of that Blessed trod who taught peace and good will among men. In IShi, in the midst of war, the Cathedral was begun. Now, in the midst of war, it is completed. It is a temple erected to Peace, and those win e.-411 worship in it will have the proud sat isfaiq ion of 'knowing that daily their prayers go up to Heaven for Peace • Alay the great I Uthedral always be a renliw for those who, sickened with thc: ,onstant ofcry , har t 1041 to worship their (10 d Ivithont having war anthems stunA lit Ms tettiples, or war rhapsodies preaelted by his servants. Our labor is ended. Philadelphia is proud that now she has the greatest church in Ameriok, A IY:4 1 1 1 ke Yarioi The cipittian Natbanale, of a recent date, gives this dismal picture of the present belligerent condition of the world: if there be a dead calm in polities, as well as business, among us, it is not the same in all parts of the little planet we inhabit. Three-quarters of humanity, in fnct, aMliving'in the barbarous state of war. There is war in Poland. War in Algeria. War in Tunis. War in Mexico. War in the United States, War in Peru, War in New Zealand. War in China and Kachgar. War in Japan. • War in Afghanistan. War in twenty countries in Africa. This is, unfortunately, enough to dis courage the friends of universal peace, and who can say they will not meet with still greater disappointment next year? Italy, Hungary, Poland, Den mark, and the Slavonian population of Turkey, are not, it must be confessed, in the most pacific humor, and, to those who study the general situation of our • continent, 'it Is quite evident that the -general situation; instead of getting bet ter, goes on from day to day getting more and more complicated. 1 arietles. Why is an Irishman's joke like an Irishman ? Because it is pat. " My Lord," said the foreman of a Welsh jury, when giving in their ver dict, "we find the man that stole the mare not guilty." A country individual who was caught in the water-wheel of a saw mill says he intends to apply for a pen sion, as he is a survivor of the revolu tion. ‘` What o'clock is it?" "I don't khow, but 'tis only a question of time." Mr. and Mrs. Brewer, of Wayne county, have twenty-two children. This is, perhaps, the most extensive brewery in the West. "Soldiers must he fearfully dis honest;" says Mrs. Partington, "as it seems to he a nightly occurrence for a soldier to he relieved of his watch." —When does an eagle resemble ardog When he's a terrier in the sky—or, if you like it better when lie's a Skip: for- --The e•unu that wears a silken coat The iawouti. —in Alabama rebel, when asked whether they "conAerinted close" there, said feelingly : " I should think they (lid ! 'they take every man that hasn't been (lead more than two days!" --1 f you and your sweel l h.e,art vote upon the marriage question, you for it and slits against it, noti`t flatter youNelf m It being a tic EgtOvoyal --I hope, my flien(l, if ever cone conte \ %Intlll five miles of my house aLrain, pm will =nn thvve all night. 6'olo (Ira tilt' girt na ture: (hitt yin!: curl: if - Oil Mrs. I,awsonwa,.. t attled as a . as sharp anil wide awake. At last the eNSsi-eXaining law- Ycl . , S.* PAtieuvl.', 00'1:timed, l..awsou, you id,.,;\ . e. Kass enough ill vow' io wake a twelve quart Fall." ". yes," reOnal, " 41.0 ytill'Ve iiita-11 in your tread to 4‘Al DEEM .11(1 a girt to her sin tiw, ktiVN hotne, I. ant a widow't: fatly darling, no husband ran equal my parent in kindness." "She ioay be kind," replied the wooer, but la , lily wife—we will all live t "" ( • / '\ er ' and see it' I don't befit kno.thor." e"a"' , if,k nom v,aiktug along; New ilk progress stopped barivade of lumber, and asked what it -want il.. "0, that's io .top the yellow fi'VCIT Was the reply. " I have often heard of tile hoardof lid! I licycr saw mu, witikilig with Iwo he'll- 'stepped on a hogshead hoop Iliat Ilrw up and aruok lii i in the Mellen," Sllid VI/Il ,11•1,ppell 111:11 . .l" V'lll 1;010 111Wl11 11/I'lll2l,lllll'lS Iliac:linely-dressed gctitletnito to a beggar boy who had a,...ked 1 1 l alms, f.,r what I thonLthi Yon loot wort of," Was the h o y , s, -- If an elephant van travel eight miles at hour, and carry his trunk, how far could lie go if Ile hail a little page to carry it for him ? - A certain judge having been called on at n public meeting, for a song, re gretted that it was not in Wa power to gratify the coMptt,tly. ,\ tl,g who Was pre:e?t? \re%l, " was inneli stir vrdnsal, as it was notorious that numbers halt been transported by Ids voice," " Mr. ;Smith," said the counsel, " you say you once officiated in a pulpit -do Vol mean that you preached ?"—who did"—" Ah, the court understood you ditferevtly. They supposed that the di , eourse came from you." '' ;No, sir; I only throwed a light qt . \ 1141'‘' long tive, the first woman lived, we know not. ft is a curious fact that in sacred history, the age, death, and burial, of only one woman —Sarah, the wife of Abraham—is dis tinctly noted. Woman's age ever since ;mpears not to have been a subject for history or discussion. The wags says thilt, ;--dgers NI real from Mar . tiuslairg, he turned his artillery on his ammunitiou train, and sent word to the pursuing rebels that he would blow the whole thing up it' they didn't let him alone, All4it'MENT6l. FEMINAM.—A Scotch paper tells the story of a dairy farmer, who, after the burial of his wife, drove a hard bargain with the grave digger, who, bringing his hand down on the shovel, said : " Down NO' :wither shilling or up she collies''' Lt has come to he known that many rebel prisoners take the oath of alle giance, enlist for bounty, and the first opportunity that oilers away they go to their friends. They have had a niee furlough, and return totlAkdr (mainlands enriched and reerk . die.d. - - to au Eng iron \V!:, hu Ailt.4oll;:kOky to b:kvi sentrd hicasell one day front his work, was lately sentenced to a month's hn prlsonment, with hard labor, a 4,41 pen alty for his otrenre. —At ingenious Parisian has invent ed a boat in Which persons can bathe— , and ,move about at the saute Owe, A sort of floating cradle, \\*it a tent roof and sides, and a of hand propeller. There aro said to be in the United Stato tiny thousand heathens. Idol gods are worshipped: in two heathen temples in San Francisco. The Vtli nese have large ceicutie* soMtered gil over California, awl 441 c, work of their olhAltffeki 3 O.lienl is an inviting one for (11ristians of every seet. According ti) a California paper they have a queer currencey in Owens ville—aeorns. Business men gok along very well until the Indiana began to lay up their stws, vii4e4 the currency became (kerange4, and a panic. ensued ! gslyvAmvpt. is robbed on all sides, but let us be thankful that the currency is sal depreciated that only half is stolen which is minus. Dar" He is only a prig tor," was the sneering reAnarb of w leader in the circle aP aristocracy—of the codfish quality. Well, who was the Earl of Stanhope? He was only a printer. What is Prince Frederick William, married to the Princess Royal of England? He, too, was only a printer. Who was William Caxton, one of the fathers of literature? He was only a printer. Who are Horace Greely, George D. Prentice, Charles Dickens, M. Thiers, Douglass Jerrold, Bayard Taylor, George P. Morris, J. Gales, C. Richardson, N. P. Willis, and Senators Dix, Cameron and Niles?— They, too, were all printerS. What was Benjamin Franklin? A printer. Every one cannot be a printu—braine are necessary. NUMBER 46, A Speech from Gen. Butler. General Butler having been treated to a most sumptuold repast, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York city, pre vious to his departure from his labors in the late election there, took occasion to make an afternoon dinner speech, in which the rough spirit of this wolfish individual appears to be almost tem pered to the mildness of the nature .of the lamb. He talks in a strain of gen erous forbearance toward the South that might remind one of Lessing's wolf on its death bed. In reviewing the speech of this man, who has made for himself such an unenviable reputation, the World says: He is for allowing the South till the eighth of January to repent ; but after that, they are to be told they have sin ned away their day of grace, and the door of mercy will be shut against them forever. He says, again and again, that this offer of grace is to be made "for the last time," thbugh made in the cer tainty of disdainful rejection. It is to be made as a justification of subsequent vengeance; and, considering that it will be spurned, it is to he regarded merely as a tricky device to disarm cen sure. " I think we are now strong enough," said Butler, " to make that offer, and then I take it that the most squeamish of our frienTls will agree ! with us, when they find that we have exhausted every resource of statesman ship in the attempt to carry out :peace— that it is tine then to make war, yea, war from the hilt." After its rejection, he would have no more money boun ties given to our soldiers • he would be stow on them generous bounties in the southern land. "We will open new land offices wherever our armies march, distributing lauds among the soldiers, to be theirs and their heirs forever." That is to say, the key-note of the war must thereafter be universal massacre and extermination! his sleds The following passage of General Butler's speech Is tbe key-note of the whole: hat'sh uleasure, hotly Will say; but is it not quite as ;'oat ets that we should 'tax ourselves,:;ltd raise. LIR' neeessttries of lilt, for the pktrposo of giving boutithN, and support to, the soldiers 144hting these Iron W 11,01,11 WV have thv , e 111/10s over sol eninly (Idled to i.olnu and be Ow friends; in Mit!, to eomke. in June; in .163, to come in Stl,l4Ani . ye.r and in toriel , to rotor by the silt 01 January, VA .% .Iml wlow the dock strikes the lost knell of that pro•ting day, and h iett alt hope of return for those who horoalot )wide progress towoM that return skill be lost forever, so longer (yin Ai* ides the' lona of AMerielf. lh , ,'WeAt Indies islands, ox some 1§ care Aut to name, beer/ its , htmlll 11(4,1 .-nongh to be cursed present's, slot 1 I be their ilwelti:4),pbsee, The; 'weer here _ 'i'he southern people are to he driven to some place w:n•nter out WOrSt• titan Mexico and the \Vest India, Wands, "some place that I care 1,1,t l,i name," as Cowper's pr tit n;;;d' - •: pro:teller cared not to the same place "to ears The sum of (-leneral Butler's speech is that, there should he made to the South a mock-magnanimous offer which they are sure to reject: and this is to he done as ait excuse for driving them not. to Mexico hut to----! and parceling out thud WAtt , t t1M00,14 our Soldiers, Taking Ele.ite.ral Butler's speech :: a Ivhole, it is quite in keeping with his well-establisheit (11 meter, A Cultlou , c.\.:l: on Tut: okoNs.--A. little boy in Brasted, while at school, some two vials since, pill' a piece of ginger up his nostrils. His schoolmistress got it out, as she thought, but the poor little fellow suffered for some time afterwards with pains in his nose. His mother, therefore, took him to several surgeons, but they thought polypus was forming in his nostrils, and that was the rtq.i.:,on lie eould not breathe out of one 4de. ,\t last a letter was got from a kind lady admitting him into a hospital in London, and lie was there nearly two months, but then he was turned out incurable.. The little fellow has suffered very much ever since, and seemed very poorly. At last he said to his mother. " I have got something coming down my nose," and, on look ing, she found it was the piece of ginger which hadig . or two years caused so much pain and trouble. It was quite rotten. The little fellow is how getting better, rind can, of course, breathe freely through both nostrils. A Mind Musician of Rarelit3 A friend has informed us of a blind man, a graduate of the Ohio Institute for the Blind, who is a novelty in the musieal world. His vocal powers are such as to astonish every one who has had an opportunity to listen to him. He runs down on the bass notes lower than any other man, and yet sings the highest tenor with perfect tskse. He plays the cornet with the finest skill with one hand, Ld accompanies him self with the other on a cabinet organ or piano. He is a marvel, and will, we hope, make his appearance in public. RELIGION IN DAILY LlFE.—Religion is not a perpetual moping over good books. Religion is not e'en prayer; praise, holy ordinances—these are ne cessary to religion—no man can lie re ligious without them. But religion is mainly and chiefly the glorifying of God among the duties and trials of the world.; the guiding of course amid the adverse winds and currentsof temptation, by the starlight of duty, and the eompas.s of divine truth ; the bearing us manfully, wisely, courageously - , for the honor of Christ, our great leader in the conflict of life. A CAUTIOUS Mit.N.—As a -pedestrian tourist was lately proceeding toward Trenton, he asked a man who was break - ing stones by the roadside how long it would take him to reach that place ? The man looked at him without speak ing, and then resumed his work. The question was repeated with the same result, and at last the traveller walked on. He had hot proceeded more than a hundred yards when the man called after him, and made a sign for him tolreturn. When the pedest dims reached the stone broker, the latter said to hint "It will take you an hour to reach Trenton." "Then why did you not tell me So at first?" said the traveller. " Why," replied the man, " it was necessary for firkt to m.‘4. , at what rate you walked, and, from the way you step out, I am now able to say that you can (10 the dis tance in an hour." Ast•ut•Xt+El( DEAcox.—ln the city ad-I there resides a worthy deacon, blessed or cursed with a tall, gaunt figure, also with hands of enor mous dimensions. He was strictly pious, never failing to ask a blessing not only when his own family dined hut also at the servants' meals. (in one oc casionlie employed a male servant who was entirely ignorant of the Deacon's religious proptnsities. He made hislp pearanak shortly before the dining hour, and as soon as the bell sounded the ser vant started for the table, and without ceremony commenced devouring the good things. The deacon was horrified, and extended his hands, saying, ' Pause, young man—pause!' The young man addressed raised his eyes signifiCantly to the Deacon's upraised hands, and re plied, " Yes, and pretty good-sized paws, I should say !" Vir A. boy, 13 years old,-died in Chi chester, N. H., recently, who weighed 385 pounds. It took 115!, feet of boards to make his'coffin. It was so large that it could not be taken into the house. The corpse - Waa bound upon timbers and' carried to the coffin outside of, the house. M!!!!!!! E 'IItATEKOKADIMITCM: MCNESS - ADVIISO.bAsmo *S9 sultan of ten lines ;Asa per cent, inoreas6V;4: fractions of a rear.. - • IDETAMM, EIVLD ADVXECTISING, 7 cents- a-line-lbr.. the first, and 4 cents for each SII1:00 - 14441t - Zger* P ATE:" 31 EDIae 1 ni3 and ether - tidTer's brlthe One column, 1 year,____—::--42: 1 0" Half column, I year.-- ... . Third column, ••• 40. at t =ir column -- CIABMS, of ten lines or less, aa • - Business,. . 10 C'ards, five Maalox' leas, one - year,a LEGAL AND °TILER NOTICES— Executors' n0tice5.,.....: 40" Administrators' notices, .... 2.00 Assignees' 'notices,. Auditors' notices 1.50 Other "Notices," ten lines, or less, three times The School House. Teachers and parentsthould make It a duty' to see that the circumstances under which children study are such as shall leave a happy impression upon their 'minds. - Young scholars will gradually and unconsciously become like what they most look upon. Little children are wonderfully susceptible for good or evil. Shabby school houses induce slovenly habits. Unswept floors indicate cob webby brains. 111-made benches not only warp and dwarf the body but, by reflux influence, the mind as well. Why are children so often discouraged and even disgusted at school ? Because the school house seems a prison, and the furniture as instruments of torture. No matter how old or unfashionable your school house—keep it clean. Hide its sombre walls with pictures, embower its went her-beaten exterior with flowers vines, and decorate its yard with shrub bery. Then the birds will come singing welcomes to your chirdren. Then the young immortals that entor itsAoor will Le won 113- love 11(1 beauty. They will enehnined zei if by sweet magic, and their - Alin& will be awakened to learn ing and virtuous instruction, with links of gold brightening and strength eningfor ever and ever. Talented Youth. A good ancedQte. is told of a house painter's son, who used the brush dex tenni:4y, but had aequired the habit of " putting it on too thick." One day his father, after having frequently scolded him for his lavish daubing, and all to no purpose, gave him a severe flagella tion. "'Chore, you young rascal," said het, after performingthe painfulduty, "how do you like kat ?" " Well, I don't know, dad," whined the !my, in reply, " but it seems to me dun you out it on a thunderin' sight thicker than 1 did!" A SnAu'r RETouT.—The La Crosse Dcmovent is responsible for the follow ing good thing : At one of the hotels in our eity, the landlord said to a boarder: " See here, Mr. , the chamber maid found a hair-pin in your bed this morning, and it will not answer." " Well," replied the hoarder, " I found a !lair in the butter this morning, but it (lid not prove you had a woman in it.'' The two men looked at each other for Tout ten seconds, when each smiled and went his way, no doubt pondering on the peculiarities of circumstantial evidence. I . .4',,..Oliserving a few days since, a rough-loi.,king customer in the custody of a ladiceman, and followed by a large eo nwoo rse of the martille, I inquired of one ,a rho ,•rawd, a verdant-looking son of Erin, what offence the culprit had, been guilty or. "Sure, an' he attimpt ed to conimit suieide, he did," was the. reply. " ieide! " 1 ejaculated in sur !wise. ' By what means pray?" "By Latin' his poor old father over the head wid a club till he lay for dead, the born divil!" rejoined my informant. It was some minutes ere I ceased to contem plate the depravity of mankind in gen eral and suicides in particular.. ft.t— Here is a specimen of breaking the news gently : During the summer of 1849, a Mr. James 'Wilson, of \Vest Jersey, died of the elmlera while some fifty miles from home. .1 011 n Rodgers was employed to con vey the dead body in a wagon to his friends at home. By inquiry he learned the precise house of the deceased: On driving to the door he called to a respect able looking) lady, who was in fact the newly made widow, and asked: " Does Mr. Wilson live here?" " Yes," was the reply, "but he's not at home to-day." " I know he's not tit home now, but he soon will be, for I've got him here dead in the wagon." TREES MOST AFFECTED BY LIGHT- N NO.—Fig trees and cedars are rarely struck by lightning ; the beech, larch, fir and Chesnut are obnoxious to it; but the trees which attract it most are•the oak, yew, and Lombardy poplar.— Whence it follows that the last are the trees must proper to be placed near a building, since they will act like so many lightning conductors to it. Again, the electric fluid attacks in preference such trees as are verging to decay by reason of age or disease. Compliment to Archbishop McCloskey. A very elegant entertainment was given to Archbishop MeCloskey,of New York, on 'Monday evening last, at Del monieds, by Charles O'Conner, Esq. The company numbered about a hun dred persons, all Catholics, and embrac ing some of the most distinguished citizens. Judge Daly represented the Bench, James T. Brady the Bar, James Gordon Bennett the Press, and Dr. Bedford the medical profession, while there were also present several of the clergy and a large, number of the representatives of foreign countries. The Archbishop responded to a compli mentary toast in brief and appropriate terms—recognizing the great responsi bility of the office he had,been called to till, and the influence exerted upon the w I mole country by the moral and religious tone of the City of New York. The occasion was one of marked interest. ]care New York was wild with peace rvinors yesterday, and gold got a very " blaek eye" in consequence. All kinds of improbable • stories were in curcula don ; but all that is really known Is, that the - Washington cabinet are willing to grant some such amnesty as General Butler sketched in his Fifth Avenue Hotel speech. Tlle,Washington CIWO2e• i ( . 1C of yesterday gives unmistakable in dications of the willingness of the ad ministration to make terms with the South on the basis of the Union and the extermination of slavery. It takes two, however, to make a bargain, and while we hope, if a tender of peace.is honestly made, that it will be frankly accepted, we very much fear that the rebels are in no mood to listen to overtures from a Lincoln administration.—World. vc-y-f- The following vaticination now awaits fulfilment. Mr. Seward in his Auburn speech said to his hearers: " You have already abundant evi dences of the exhaustion of the Rebels, but not yet evidence of their conscious ness of that exhaustion. , Those evi dences will appear immediately on the announcement of the re-election of Ab raham Lincoln." , • .Wri - A• fellow contemplated in utter wonderment the magnitudinous dimen sions of a bystander's feet, and in atone of astonishment, as he surveyed the man's proportions, said, "You'd . have been a tall man if they hadn't tent you, so far up." IlEirA mason in Limerick Ireland, lately hammering a stone, chipped out what he supposed to be a lump of glass. It proved to be a diamond worth five thousand dollars. Spend not the morning, - the quint essence of the day, in recreations • sleep. itself Is a recreation, - add not, th‘efore , Bailee to sauce. -" - --
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