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Coffee t a Rhapsody
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Steepings brown of Mocha's grain,
Mingled with delicious cream
And the sweets of Cuban cane
Rise in aromatic steam,—
Floating up
From my - china coffee cup,
Like a fairy cloud ascending.
Curling graceful here and there,
Curling, wavering, floating, blending
Into viewless space, and sending
Dainty odors through the air.
And I sip, and dream, and sing,
Thinking many .a happy thing,
And I dream, and sing and sip,
Making many a fancied trip
• Far away and far away,
Over ocean, and gulf and bay,
To islands whence the spicy wind
Breathes fragrant o'er the tropic sea,
To pearl strewn shores or distant Ind,
To coasts of burning Araby,
To lands untouched by winter's ill,
Like fair Brazil ;
Or Jaya's many cloudy hill.
Let me dream, and sip, and sing,
Thinking many a happy thing ;
Let me sing, and dream, and sip,
While the pleasant moments slip,
Let me sip, and thug. and dream,
While Immortal Misses seem
Flowing through me In a stream,
Sweet the feeling, o'er me stealing,
Lightly thrilling
Brain and heart;
•
Gently filling
Every part.
Let Me drink, and let me dream,
Breathing aromatic steam
Ever Minting slowly np,
From my china coilee cup,
Like a fairy cloud, and sending
llainty odors everywhere,
Curling, wavering, Malting, blending
Soltly with the viewless air.
CINCINNATI, U., .1,111.1, 1545.
i#erarj.
Who is Responsible?
Were you ever poor? I thought not,
or you would be more considerate and
just to the poor. I wish you hail been
poor for a single day—only for one day ;
hungry, and without fottd, or money to
buy it ; without a place to lay your
head, or in debt, for tine last place you
lay in; without work and unable to get
It, hunting for it from shop to shop, up
and down the endless stairs, till your
feet were swollen, and burning and blis
tered; afraid to tell your trouble and
need, lest you should lose favor and
friends. One day of such poverty would
be enough for you—but you need one.
" I overdraw." No. The coloits tire
none too deep for woman's poverty, as
I have seen it. But the worst poverty
is not to be compared or named to the
sin which it tempts:
De you see that block of old, dark,
dingy buildings? I never pas:; it with
out
. faiutness and sickness of spirit, for
I know too well what is behind those
dirty, cobwebbed windows. And those
attics—my eye lingers there for the pale,
sad faces. The city is full of such old
shell-like skeleton blocks, and up in
their dismal attics you will always find
the saddest specimens of womanhood
that live.
Up in that second attic, right in the
window seat, to get the most light upon
her work, and a little view of life in the
street below, there sgt four months to
gether a young and pretty girl, stitching
at heavy tailor work all day.
Early in the morning before the sun
rose, when nothing else was seen astir
but the city pigeons and the market
men, she was at her toil, and no one
ever Saw her pause from it, but for hasty
meals and short sleep, and hurried
visits to the shops where she obtained
work and food. When she glanced into
the streets she was drawing through
her thread, and the quick glance could
not hinder. Her head throbbed at
times, as if it would btu•st ; sharp pains
smote through her breast, and then
came a sinking sense of feebleness,
worse than pain, but she sewed on just
the same. She was too poor to yield to
sickness. She had to work while her
hand could move, to pay for her food
and shelter.
She was a lone thing,„; went out and
came in aloue; sat always alone in her
sky-window, and if she ever saw any
friends it was when she went out; no
one came to see her. The, pain in her
head grew worse, until it was almost
maddening, and she laid down her
needle and clasped her hands to her
temples, and eyes rested with interest
on the cheerful windows across the
street. The sun shone into those win
dows through beautiful draperies of em
broidered lace, and lay soft and mellow
on the rich satin and velvet of furni
ture and carpet. Then a sweet voice
rose and swelled till it met her ear.
Once she could sing like that—not now.
She could only raise the saddest note
now, and that brought tears to spoil her
work. It was a gay song she heard, and
she saw gay young girls come to the
windows, and they were not pale like
her, held no hand to the thiobbing head
but moved lightly and buoyantly, as if
borne up by pleasure. Yet the poor
sewing girl shrinks and shivers, and
covers her eyes, for" their house inclines
unto death, and their paths Unto the
dead. None that go unto them return
again, neither take they hold on the
paths of life." She takes up her needle
and plies it briskly again.
But her look has not been nu no;
The Jezebel who rules in that hob, of
sin has long been watching her. ,:-.7:11e.
smiles ; she gloats ; the woman-demon !
That such monsters live! and in woman
shape, too !—in shape like our blessed
mothers—like her whom the Christ
called "mother," in his tender love!
But they do so live, and in our very
midst, and their victims—they are
many. Shall I tell you of all the snares
that Jezebel, that woman-demon, laid
for the poor, overtasked, half-starved,
sickening sewing girl ? You can guess
them. She did with hellish purpose
what you or some other woman would
would have done with holiest. "The
children of this world are wiser in their
generation than the children of light."
She showed her kindness with a studied
delicacy that could not fail to please,
and won her gratitude. She gave her
work and full and honest pay, and so
lured her within her influence.
That attic window is empty now.
l'he young girl is gone. She sews no
longer, nor is she hungry and lonely
more. The roses bloom on her cheek
and hex laugh is gay, and her step is
light a2ld sylph-like as she floats in syren
dances to syren music. But, alas! poor
thing! alas! Oh, that she were the
honest, half-starved sewing girl still !
" Roses on her cheeks !" Why, they
:are false roses. Never more living bloom
for her. A " gay laugh" and a hollow
.one, that would move a loving heart to
tears. They who are like her, laugh
:such gay, hollow laughs to keep them
selves from tears, but tears are less sad
:than their laughter.
Her atop IS not always " sylph-like;"
it grows alewer and feebler each day
and anew mai terrible pain is gnawing
.at her breast; and her temples throb
ywildly•with wrete. •, If it were
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:than -;before, in her • white,• jeweled
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VOLUME 66.
pleasure by this. "Never hungry nor
lonely now ;übut what a price she has
paid for food'l One that tempta starva
tion even- And company—what Com
pany !—that of lost women like helaelf ;
wretches, all ; and some of them grown
fiend, maddened and maddeningspirits.
Lovers smile on her; they court and
flatter, and fill her ear with delightful
praises. " Lovers!" Oh, that one, only
one true, honest heart could lovelier-!
They who smile on her despise and in
sult her; they debase her even lower
than before; they turn from her in scorn
and loathing. Who can respect or love
her'?
Ah! she knows too well that no one
cares for her. She no longer cares for
herself. Her day is short, and still she
would shorten it. Only five years for
such as she is? "Only?" Why, how
can she live a year? The agony of the
present deadens her to all fear of the
unending agony Of another life. Hell!
Is there a worse hell? Five years is the
allotted life of the abandoned. And
men call it short. Short! Then what
is long•.' And who is responsible forthe
terrible losses of life and happiness?
Are riot you, who refuse such as her
their pay?—full, righteous, living pay,
their due, their right—not the least
they will take, nor half norquarterpay,
but what they earn—what - God would
give them if He settled between you,
and what He will yet require at your
hands at the final reckoning, on' the
great day of accounts.
Had you sown from dawn until mid
nig; it, clay after day, for the paltry hire
you give, you would know it was not
half enough; you would feel that you
were wicked in keeping the poor sewers
CO poor as you keep them. Had it been
your daughter that grew faint and sick,
and despairing in that wretched attic,
would you sit at your ease while hard
men, and hard women, too, compel
other daughters to the same dark, sad
life--a life which seems to the young
liken t „a breathing death, only for the
weai?giess and pain, death giving us
thoughts of rest And, oh, if you had
seen her hinipted through her poverty—
over-tempted and lost—could you rest
while other daughters followed her hap
less fate, driven on, as she was driven,
tempted as she was tempted? Could
von ?
And must you suffer before you can
feel for those who suffer ? Must you he
brought to want to make you mindful
of others' wants ? Will you not learn
to be just until you have been crushed
by injustice': Will you not learn to-do
right till you have felt the iron Heel of
wrong ? Must it be your own cry of
anguish that wakes you to the piercing
cry for food, and warmth, and sleep, the
fearful demand fur justice, going up to
the ear of the Lord hod of justice and
uuj~a~iini :'
Whimbamper and Lion Fight
The menagerie was in town. A rare
occurrence was the exhibition of wild
beasts, hone, monkeys, hyenas, tigers,
polar bears and ichneumon, in Balti
more, in the early days of which we are
writing, yet they came occasion ally, and
this time was visited by old Nat Wheat
ley, a jolly, weather-beaten boatman,
well known in Baltimore as an inveter
ate joker, who never let any one get the
windward of him.' He was furthermore
a stutterer or the first class.
Nat visited the menagerie. As he en
tered the sliovcnnnl was stirring Up the
monkeys, and tormenting the lion, giv
ing elaborate descriptions of the various
propensities and natural peculiarities of
each and all.
"Tide, ladies and gentlemen, this, I
say is the African lion. A noble beast
lie is, ladies and gentlemen; is called the
k"ing of the Forest. I have often heard
that lie 111211“'S nothing of devouring
young creatures of every description
when at home in the woods. Certain it
is that no other beast can whip him."
"\t-lid-mister!" interrupted Wheat
ley, - 4-do you say he c-a-an'tbe w-whi
whipped
" I duz," said the man of lions and
tigers.
" What w-will you b-het I c-can't
fetch a critter what'll whip him?"
" I ain't, a betting man at all. But I
don't object to malting a small bet to
that effect."
"1 II het I ca-can fetch Something
that will whip him. What say you to
a 11-h-hundred d-d-dollarsr
Now there were several merchants in
the crowd that knew Wheatley well,
and were fully convinced that, if the
het was made, he was sure of winning,
so that he had no difficulty in finding,
backers, one of whom told him he would
give him ten gallons of rum if he won.
'l'lie menagerie man glanced at his lion.
There crouched in his cage, his shaggy
mane bristling, and his tail sweeping,
the picture of grandeur and majesty.
The bribe was tempting, and he felt as
sured.
" 'etiing, sir, certing ; I have no ob
jections to old Hercules taking a bout
with any cretur you can fetch."
" V,•ry well," said Nat, " it's a bet."
The nioney was planked up, and the
night was designated for the terrible
contliet. 'Phe news was spread over
Baltimore, and at an early hour the
boxes of the spacious theatre were
filled—the pit being cleared for the
fray.
Expectation was on tiptoe, and it was
with great impatience that the crowd
awaited the arrival of - Wheatley. He
at length entered, bearing a bag or sack
on his shoulders, which, as he let on the
floor, was observed to contain some re
markable hard and heavy substam*.
The keeper looked with indignation. ,
" Where's your animal ?" he inquired.
" Th-th-there," said Nat, pointing at
the bag with his finger.
what is asked the an
with increased astonishment.
"fh-th-that, la•la-ladies and gentle
men," said, Nat gesticulating like the
showman, is a wh-wh-whimbaruperl"
" A whimbamper," ejaculated the
showman. That is certainly a new
feature in zoology and anatomy. A
wliimbamper ! - Well, let him out; and
clear the ring, or old Hercules may
make a mouthful of both of you."
The keeper was excited. Accordingly
Nat raised the bag, holding the aper
ture downwards, and out rolled a huge
snapping turtle, while the cheers and
laughter of the audience made the
arches ring.
"There he is!" as he tilted the
" whimbamper" over with both haw*
and set him on his legs. The snappr
seemed unconscious of his peril.
Wheatley was about leaving the ring,
when the keeper swore his lion should
never disgrace himself by fighting with
such a pitiable foe.
"Very well," said Nat, "if y-y-yciu
eh-eh-choose to., give me the hundred
dollars."
"But itis unfair ; "• cried theshowmaii.
The audienee - lhterpose'd• taut- ini3iehid
upon. the fight. There:was no escape,
and the showman reluctantly released
the lion, making himself secure on the
top of the cage. _
The majestic beast moved slowly round
the ring, snuffing and lashing, while
every person held their breath in sus
pense. Lions are beasts, and this one
was not long in discovering the turtle,
which lay on the floor, a large and in
animate mass. The lion soon brought
his nose in close proximity to it, which
the turtle not liking, popped out his
head and rolled his eyes, while a sort of
a. wheeze issued from his savage mouth.
The lion jumped back, turned, and
made a spring at .the turtle, which
was now fully prepared for his re
ception. As the lion landed on him
the turtle fastened his terrific jaws on
his nostrils, rendering him powerless to
do harm, yet with activity of limb he
bounded around the circle, growled,
roared, and lashed himself, but the
snapperhung on, seeming to enjoy the
ride vastly.
" 0-go it, whimbamper!" cried
Wheatley from the boxes.
The scene was rich. The showman
was no less enraged than the lion. And
drawing a pistol, he threatened Nat
that if he did not call the turtle off he
would shoot him.
" Ta-ta-take him off yourself!" shout
ed Nat in reply.
At this critical moment, by dint of
losing a portion of his nose, the lion had
the luck to shake hisdangerous foe from
him, and clearing the space between
himself and the cage with a bound, he
slunk quietly in, to chew the cud of his
defeat in pain.
It was a fair fight, all declaring that
the " whimbamper" was the victor.
The next morning he carried his turtle
to market and sold him. So this valiant
champion, after conquering the king of
beasts, served to make a dinner for Bal
timore epicures.
The Successful Mechanic
Many years ago, ayoung man, a house
painter by trade, went to Savannah to
start in business for himself. He took
a shop, hung out his sign, and looked
for customers; hut none came. There
appeared to be painters enough in the
place already, and his prospects looked
dark. What should he do ? Give it up,
return to the •'orth, and work as a jour
neyman again He was not that kind
of a man. If customers would not came
fo him he would go to them. Early one
morning, with overalls on and paint-pot
and brush in hand, all ready for work,
he started out and walked briskly
through the principal streets as though
in haste to commence a day's work,
which, indeed, he was. Presently a
gentleman stopped him with—
"l see you are a painter."
" Yes, sir."
"Do you do,business on your own ac
count?"
" Yes, sir."
" When eau you do some work for
me ?"
Mostmen would have answered "right
away," but our friend wie,:more,- , lirewil,
and replied—
"Probably in a week - orsoi"
"But I want it done iinweiliatelv."
"I would like I o aceoMmoclate you,
and will try to; I will send a man by
day after to-morrow, or I will come
myself."
Of course he went himself, and found
a long and profitable job on the gentle
man's plan which lie completed
so well that others noticed it, and were
glad to employ him; and in ashort time
he was at the head of the largest busi
ness of the kind in Savannah. lie has
since changed his business, and, were
we permitted to name !din, lie would
be once recognized as the principal of
one of the most innportant manufactur
ing establishments in this country.
Remember, boys, that he owed his
success to perz:CrEictticc, (not
cunning, but careful thought), and
faithfulness.
A Temperance Familj
Joe Harris was a whole-souled, merry
fellow, and fond of a glass. After living
in New Orleans for many years he came
to the conclusion of visiting an old
uncle, away up in Massachusetts, whom
he had not seen for many years. Now
there is a difference bet ween New Or
leans and Massachusetts iu regard to
the use of ardent spirits,„and when Joe
arrived there he found 'all the people
ardent about temperance; he felt bad,
thinking with the old song, that "keep
ing the spirits up by pouring the spirits
down," was one of the best ways to
make time pass, and began to fear, in
deed, that he was in a pickle. But on
the morning of his arrival, the old man
and his sons being out at work, his aunt
came to him and said:
"You have been li vi lig in the south and
no doubt have been in the habit of taking
a little something to drink about eleven
o'clock. J. keep a little here for medical
purposes, but let no one kiiow it, as my
husband wants to set the chilihstin a
good example."
Joe promised, and thinking lie
get no more that day, he took, what he
expressed it, a " bluster." After he had
walked out to the stable who should he
meet but his old Uncle.
" Well, Joe," said he, " I expect you
are accustomed to drink something in
New Orleans, but you will find us all
temperance here, and for the sake of
my sons I don't let them know that I.
have brandy about ; but I just keep a
little out here for rheumatism. Will
you accept a little?"
Joe signified his readiness, and took
another big horn. He then continued
his walk to where the boys where maul
ing rails. After conversing for a while
one of the cousins said to him
" Joe, I expect you would like to have
a drink ; as the old folks are down on
liquor, we keep some out here to help
us work."
• Out came the bottle, and down they
sat, and by the time he went home to
dinner he was as tight as he well could
be, and all came from.visiting a "tem
perance family."
Row French Ladles Bathe
At the trades exhibition in Paris, the
pretty things are plentiful, and the col
lection includes one or two amusing in
ventions. Foremost among these is a
superb car, drawn by silver swans of
gigantic proportions. The car is intend
ed for fair bathers. In its fairy network
they may recline at their ease, and float
upon the waters, and in the waters,
buoyed up by the four gallant silver
swans, who will bear them safely upon
the gentle swell of summer seas. At
the fair bather's elbow is a handle that
works a screw, and by this screw she
may drive her car and her swans at her
own sweet will. This Ls luxury enotigh,
one would imagine, for, even a Parisian
countess, at Biarritz or Trouville. But
the inventor is not satisfied. He knows
the' ladieS for whom he caters • and in
the' liae 'of the noble birds hatason
trived a liquor-case, too. "
LANCASTR, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, nARCH L 1865.
Death of Ticino ra PoNer•-•:"Crazi,No rah."
Honiara Power popllTarly knoWn as
" Crazy , Norak,7 l is-no-mere. She died
on Wednesday , last, at' the lidaSe of a
friendlin the southeastern part "Of the
city, and her-strangely wild pilgrimage
is at an end-. The folloWing interesting
account of her life we cut from the Phil:
culdphia Bulldin:
Norah's history is as touching as her
course through: ife Was turbulent and
fantastic. Her name Via-9 Honora Power.
She was the (laughter of a well-to-do
farmer in Ireland. While yet but a
young girl both her parents died, and
she made her home-at-the house of an
elder sister, who was married. - Yohng
:Condi had been left au annuity of fifty
pounds a year by her parents. Her
brother-in-law, with whom she had
made her home, WaS areckleEs, wasteful
fellow, and lie not only squandered the
portion of his wife, but also that of her
young sister. Things filially becameo
desperate with them that their goods
were sold and the family was turned out
of doors. Norah was a proud spirited
lass, and, while unwilling to become a
dependent upon her friends, , and asham
ed to fill a menial place among those
who had known her in her prosperity,
she determined to emigrate to this coun
try. She came to. Philadelphia, and
engaged herself as a servant girl at a
boarding school foryoung ladies, which
was located at the south-west corner of
Third and Walnut streets. .
The young Irish girl soon distinguish
ed herself by her sober industry, her
strict integrity, her morbid antipathy
for the male sex tot which she had had
such sul experience th rough her worth
less brother-in-law), and by her devout
ness as a rigid Catholic. The older of
our readers will remember the disgrace
ful scenes which took place in 1821, in
consequence of the differences between
Priest I Logan, of St. Mary's Church, and
the Bishop of the Diocese. These dif
ferences culminated in a riot at the
church between the partisans of the
two clergymen, and the aid of the police
and of the marines from the Navy
Yard had to be invoked to quell the dis
turbance. Nerah had been the warm
advocate of Father Hogan,
and she was
a witness to the disgraceful scene at the
church. She saw armed soldiers take
possession ~ r the temple where she was
aci•ustomed to worship ; she saw men in
furiated by their passons contending for
the mast-ry on the spot where her ideal
of purity and love was enthronged, and
her reason gave way beneath,the shock.
The first open indication of insanity
given by 'Norah was on'i the morning
succeed i ng the Saturday upon which the
riot occurred. Early on the morning of
Sunday the neighbors were aroused
from their slumber by a furious rattling
of stones upon the roofs oftheout-huild
ing,s of the hounding school where Norah
lived. Ipon inquiring, into the cause
of the racket it was discovered that the
poor girl had gone raving mad, that she
was exorcising some imaginary devil
through the medium of pebbles, and in
voking- to her aid the whole slender of
saints, mingling up with them, in the
most incongruous manner, her own
grandmother.
For forty-four years poor Norah has
dealt in this same staple conversation.
The sonic wild mixture of saints and
fiends, of things temporal and spiritual,
of !natters practical and uncouth, always
blended up strangely with her grand
mother, has distinguished the jargon of
2. - •; . orall during all her long, mournful
ph.grimage through the flintastic realm
into which she entePed upon that sad
Saturday evening, in .15.21.
Norait's dress was almost as wild and
fittastic as her temper ; a man's hat,
men's loitg boots, a curiously cut plaid
cloak, fastened about the waist by a
broad leather girdle, was her usual cos
tume. She frequently carried about
with 'her a boot-jack, a grid-iron, or
soine other uncouth implement, which
she would use in her invocations to her
grandmother and the saints; and her
denunciations of the devil. A naper
I ox or a gingham bag, in which she
carried suud I matters of rubbish, which
were given to her, or which she would
pick up in the streets, was her invaria
ble companion The writer of this ar
ticle, when a boy, has received many a
marble, or bit of ribbon, or a fragment
of (.n ',wed glass front the receptacles
named, as a reward for carefully follow
ing Norah in the recital of the Lord's
Prayer and the Catholic Creed.
Norah, though crazed, was by no
means a fool or lacking sagacity. lier
wits, although " jangled out of tune,
tin harsh,'.' were not destroyed. She
knew how to drive a sharp bargain, and
while fulfilling her own part of the
contrai•t to the very letter, she exacted
an equally strict compliance with the
terms upon - the part of those whom she
dealt with. On one occasion, many
years ago, Norah was employed to do
sinne work at the Friends' Old Altus
house, on Walitut street, above 'Third.
The bargain was, that Norah was to
have a I'oolll in the building while the
work was in progress. She secured the
hey of the apartment, and held on to it
lier the job was completed. The man-
tigers of the institution becoming weary
of their wild tenant, remonstrated with
her, litAl.liey were met with such a vol
ley of saints, grandmothers, and devils,
with apustles and martyrs thrown in,
that the staid followers of Geo. Fox were
glad to beat a retreat. Norali held on to
the room for a long time; but she had
strict, though wild notions of justice,
and she always made it a point to ren
der an equivalent fof her room-rent in
the shaps of labor. Oddly as it may
sound to many, Noah Was a successful
collector obilebts. It will, of course, be
understood that it was only claims of
the most desperate character that were
entrusted to her care. But woe betide
the debtor who refused to pay a bill that
Norah believed to be just: A cousign
uw tto purgatory was am °lig them ildest
I utt klinient,s which she denounced
•tgainst the tielheitynt. Sheltid a way
too, of standing upon the sidewalk in
front of the place of business of the of-
fender, and of setting forth to an admir
ing crowd the circumstances of the case,
mingling.the whole with saints, devils,.
and the ihevitable grandmother. The
motley was generally forthcoming after
a Mw such visits, and it was promptly
paid over by Norah to her principal less
he r unassionB.
Of late years Norah has shown decid
ed traces at the approach of age ; her
old firm and springing step grew
feeble ; her cheeks became hollow and
her brow wrinkled, and her black hair
became whitened. Even her eye lost
much ,of its old wild fire, and her
strange flights of language were less fre
quent and more subdued. To the last
she wore :her fantastic garb, and until
within a short time she might be seen
taking her place among the worshippers
at St. John's Church, on Thirteenth
street. Poor Norah is dead, and she
will long he remembered with pity by
those who knew her, and talked of in
the future as among the most conspicu
ous and best-known characters in Phil
adelphia during nearly half a century.
California Silks
The soil and climate of California are
admirably adapted to the growth of the
mulberry tree in all its desirable vari
eties to the breeding and feeding of the
silk worm and to the production of silk,
more so than almost any European
country, owing to the fertility of the
soil and dryness of the climate, giving
a peculiarly rich and nutritive character,
to the leaves of the mulberry tree,whicli
imparts a higher, finer and more delicate
quality to the silk produced from them.
Certificates from the highest authorities
in Europe show that the Californiasilk,.
after being fully tested, carefully Anal
yzed and compared with European
silk, proves : to be of the very. best
The Senate bill providing for the free
dom Of the wives and families of siti,Ves,
serving in the military or naval forties
of the "United States, was passed ;on.
Wednesday., :',ltrinet with strong P -
'44'56/ attd #h vote on it was;ejs~
ptcrq• oia6.
INTO=MVE!
lon thirsty Impnselaie.
(From the Richmond. Whig.l
Hit were possible - :for=:the. enemy ,to
overcome these States, - and to establish
a coerced and noialinal 'Union,' they
Would havesucceeded in doing - precisely;
the thing most,
pernicious to the peace,.
prosperity - , and happiness Of both coun
tries. It is not inapossilile to consider
that, with our independence conceded,
there would wake a day, perhaps not
remotely, when, with the contiguity Of
territory, and general harmony ofinsti
tutions and interests, there would arise,
even from the fierce contests of the pre
sent time, a feeling of mutual respect
for the power and spirit of the two
peoples, a consequent regard for inter
national rights, and, an observance of
the proprieties and courtesies that
preserve good ueighborship—to. be fol
lowed soon by relations of intercourse,
commerce and amity—the fruits of
which would be security from without,
tranquility within, and the rapid ad
vanceof each powerin wealth, iniduence,
and grandeur. But, from a fOrced and
repulsive union, nothing can behuagin
ed but perpetual discord and strife, the
wearing away
-by attrition of all the re
sources of the people and the fretting
out of all their - manhood. No principle
is more deeply rooted in the Southern
mind than that the consent of
the governed is necessary to the
legitimacy of government. The exis
tence of a union not assented to, and
the exercise of authority by rulers not
of their choice would be to our people
the constant evidence of their own. deg
radation and bondage. They could
never become reconciled to them, nor
cease 'to struggle against them.—
They would transmit M their ehrhiren
au undying sense of the wrong and ig
nominy entailed by this condition of
things, and each new generation would
come upon the stage burning with the
consciousness that patriotism and honor
demanded continued resistance.
There would never again be peace,
nor the opportunity. for the development
of those great elements of prosperity and
power with which both countries are so
liberally endowed by nature. Society
could know no repose—wealth could
find no security on this continent, and
would gradually and surely lind its way
across the Atlantic—industry would lie
perverted from the arts of peace to the
employments of war—education would
cease, from the drain made upon the
lecture rooms by the camp—law' would
yield to force—public mora Is degen crate,
religion sink, and civilization recede.
We do not overdraW the picture. There
could never he a quiet submission by
these people; free by birth, and proud
and haughty by instinct and tradition,
to the Yankee as a master; and if, by
the employment of superior physical
force, it were possible to overcome them,
it would he necessary to keep that supe
rior force always bearing upon theni to
hold them down.
The North could never disarm; it
could never disband its armies ; it Would
never be relieved from the neeesidty of
keeping-up their numbers and equip
ments ; it could never be exempt froth
drafts or \vit.'. taxes ; it would find no
breathing space in which it might re
cover from the exhaustion of the tre
mendous struggle in which it has been
engaged,and re-adjust its policy and in
dustries to the conditions of peace. War
would be the normal state—actual con
flict, or continual readiness for it. We
do not pretend that it would he better
with the South. The fact is that the suc
cess of the North—seeming success it
could only be—would be us to both rf•-
CiprUCal destruction ; for, we repeat,
our conquerors would never establish
quiet here hot by coritilining to apply
the force found necessary to overionte
us. Subdued, submissive, finally -sub
jugated we would never be. The situa
tion of the man who had the wolf hy
the ears would be the situation of the
North. They would not dare to let go
their hold, of us and they could not al
one to hold On.
Looking at it dispassionately, this
war was, ou the part of the North, a
great mistake, the greatest ever made
by a people. They might easily have
wade of us friends, the most profitable
friends any nation ever had. \Viten
they determined to make war on us, it
was war with their own pockets, their
own bread and butter. llad they been
cool enough to reflect, they would have
seen that success would still be , ruin.—
Even now, they ought to be able to per
ceive that persistence in war but
involves them more deeply in the
vortex of destruction. Much yet
remains that might be saved, and
time, the great healer, might restore
many things that.sectu hopelessly lost—
but it is as certain as that night follows
day, that, if they go on in their present
course, perdition is ahead of them,
whether they seem to succeed or not;
and we have no idea that they will so
much as seem to succeed.
Court Etiquette
A very curious regulation of the Cham
berlain's office, bearing date 1624, touch
ing conduct to he observed by cutlets
who were invited to dine With all Aus
trian Archduke, runs as follows : ".11 is
Imperial anti Royal flightless having
deigned to invite several olili•ers to dine
at ins table, and having had frequent
opportunities of observing that the
greater part of these officers behavh with
the strictest courtesy and good breeding
toward each other, and generally cdlYdu et
themselves like true and worthy caval
iers, nevertheless deems it advisable
that the less experienced cadets should
have their attention directed to the fol
lowing code of regulations: 1. To pre
sent their respects to his Imperial and
Royal Highness on their arrival, to conie
neatly dressed, coat and boots, and
nut to enter the room in a half-drunken
condition. 2. At tulle they arc not to
tilt up their chairs or rock themselves
therein, nor stretch their legs at full
length. 3. Nor drink after each mouth
ful, for if they do they will get tipsy too
soon ; nor empty the goblet to the ex
tent of more than one-half after each
di .11, idol, before drinking therefrom,
they should wipe the mouth and mous
tache in a cleanly manner. 4. Neither
are they to thrust their hands into the
dishes, nor to throw the bones under
the table. 5. Nor to lick their fingers,
nor to expectorate in their plates, nor to
wipe their noses on the table-cloth. 6.
Nor drink so bestially as to fall from
their chairs, and make themselves in
capable of walk ing straight." We may
well wonder what kind of manners pre
vailed at that period among the lower
grathis of society when we find a code
like the above considered necessary to
regulate the behavior of young officers
who must have belonged to the noblest
families.—Once a Week.
Patriotism Practically Tested
The Springfield i?(public,in, in an
editorial on the various kinds of pa
triotism, and the difference between
gratitude to our soldiers in the abstract
and concrete as developed by the times
in which we live, eloquently relates the
following incident which occurred with
in that paper's own cognizance, and
which might perhaps be paralleled by
similar occurrences in other partS of the
State :
" A few days since a train of well fill
ed cars was about to leave the Bpring
field depot. A wounded soldier, leaning
on one crutch and a cane, hobbled into
a car in the rear, and looked wistfully
up and down its crowded length. Wo
men who had worked for the fair lean
ed back complacently, in their cushion
ed seats. Stout civilians whose liberal
ity was known and read of all' men
planted themselves more firmly on the
plush,looked coolly over the head of the
bowed figure in faded army blue. The
worn warrior had no, claim. He was
used to suffering; what mattered a little
more just then? He had risked hislife
for these people.; had shed his young
. blood that they might sleep quietlyand
ride i safety. Could he not stand a
little while that they might sit? After
an interval of Patient pain, he ,modestly
nsksd that a plethoric carpetbag might,
lie displaced ;• it - was . triaVed relttetantly
land the -soldier , sun k • Wearily into the
vacated seat. Who.would: not beproud,
to fight and die for a coxruxtunity
ours 2"
il •; 7i:':i:Y:i 7
Sentence of Friery, the Aurderelr
On last Tuesday morn - Mg - Mr: HUH - ,
DiStrier Attorney, of New - York city;
moved for sentence upon Bernard,Fri
ery,-' the murderer of Harry Lazarus.
He addressed the court as follows :
It becomes my painful ddty to Move
your Honor for the judgment of the law
upon the conviction in the case of the-
People vs. Bernard }'riery,convleted on
the 17th of February of murder in the
first degree.
The Recorder—Put the prisonerat the
bar.
The prisoner, who was seated beside
his counsel, 'Messrs. 6edgwiek and
Stuart, then rose and stood at the bar.
Mr. Henry Vandervoort, the clerk of
the court, said: Bernard Friery,
may remember that you have hereto
fore been indicted for a certain murder
and felony by you done and COMIlli tat'd:
pO/1 that indictment you were ar
raigned, and upon your arraignment
pleaded not guilty, and put yourself
upon the country for trial, which (701411-
ry has found you guilty. What have.
you now to say why judgment of death
should not he pronounced against you
according to law?
Friery spoke as follows: I went Into
Lazarus' place. I had no intention of
harming him. I drank for three or four
days,. and did not know what I was .
doing. i was always the best or friends
with iihn, and never had any falling
out with Lim.
When the unfortunate man had
finished his remarks, Recorder Hoff
man addressed him in the following
words :
Bernard Friery, on the morningof the
:id day of January, 15115, in the presence
of several witnesses, you stepped up to
Henry Lazarus, said he was a Ood
little -man," and plunged your dagger
in his neck. The blade of it was about
seven inches '
; you drew it from
the wound, wiped the blood from it
with your ti ngers, remarked that "Harry
was a good little noun, but you guessed
you had fixed him," and left the room.
As you went out in the open air, Henry
Lazarus iqissed into the immediate pre
sence of his (jod. He had done yoll no
harm. It was a reckless, wanton mur
der. It showed an utter disregard of
human life, and was withoutthe slight
est justification. The only plea that
could be interposed in your behalf was
that you were mad drunk when you
struck the blow. Yourcounseldidall for
you thateauld be done, but it was in vain
for them to struggle against the terrible
fauts,which were proven beyond the pos
sibility of contradiction. The jury
promptly rendered a verdict of guilty of _e(
murder in the first degree, and that b
verdict consigns you to death upon the
gallows. There is a class of men in this
city, of whom you may be considered a
representative, who have no respect for
the laws of God or man. They violate
bolll, ill the belief that they can do so
with impunity, and it is only when the
heavy hand of punishment falls upon
them that, they realize their accounta
bility to either. It is well for society
that there are occasions when such men
eau be made to feel that the pemdities
of violated law are certain and severe.
The thousands who have watched your
trial, in the belief that you would escape
punishment through some Lech n lean ties
of the law, will be taught a lesson when
you stand upon the scaffold which they
will not soon forget. Your conviction
and death will teach them that in law
drunkenness is no excuse for crime, and
that courts awl jurors have made
up their minds that those who
carry and use pistols and daggers, and
other instruments of death, will be held
to the strictest accountability. A few
years ago men would shudder when
they heard it said, " that man carries a
pistol," or ‘' that man carries a dirk,"
and the wearer of concealed weapons
was avoided as a felon, or as an outlaw
would be. 'Po-day thousands of men
walk the streets of this city armed with
revolvers or with knives, perhaps with
both. Such men are doubtless sitting
in this court room to-day. If they are
notheremy words will reach them when
I say that henceforth jurors will assn nth e,
in the absence of proof to the contrary,
that the Mall who carries a deadly -wea
pon concealed about his person, does
IL for and on purpose of Whence, and
not for defence—fur mischief and
not for good. I have no de
sire, Friery, on this occasion, to say
an unnecessary word. But through you
and through this opportunity I must
speak a word of warning to the thous
ands of young men in this metropolis
who are travelling the same road
through which you have travelled. It
is that, road which leads to death in the
prison or on the gallows. Let them re
menilier your fate and shun it. You
have violated the law, and in your con
viction the law is vindicated. You had
a fair trial before a carefully selected
jury. Their verdict was and the
punishment is death. In the progress
of your case through the appellate
courLs that punishment may lie
fur a time averted; but rest assured, it
must come at let t. You cannot escape
it, and it is your duty to prepare fur it.
Listen, now, to the judgment of the
court, which is:—That you, Bernard
Friery, for the murder and felony
whereof you stand convicted, lie taken
hence to the place from you came, the re
to he safely kept and Jetained, and that
on Friday, the 31st day of March,
between the hours of twelve o' clock,
noon, and two o'clock iu the afternoon,
you be hanged by the neck until you are
dead, and may Chid have mercy on your
soul.
lEl=l
Friery, to the casual observer, did not
appear to exhibit any emotion while
the Recorder was passing the terrible
sentence upon hits. Some would even
interpret the expression of his comae
nancelas that of stolid indifferenee; Intt
a (losers:lndy of hic I,lll)er:intent would
show that he has more strength and
nerve than mere emotion and a person
possessing such an organization, really
tee I, more deeply than the external ap
pearance would indicate.
The Clerk then read the order to the
sheriff, Mr. John Kelly, who was in at
tendance, directing him to take charge
of the prisoner, and to carry out the
sentence of the court.
it is a remarkable fact that seven
weeks ago Henry Lazarus, who came to
an untimely death, was alive and in the
enjoyment of perfect health, and seven
weeks thereafter Bernard Friery, his
murderer, is, to all intents and purposes,
dead. There has not been a similar in
stance in the history of the administra
tion of criminal justice in New York,-of
where a party charged with murder
has been arrested, indicted, tried, con
victed and sentenced with such expedi
tion, and yet with such a strict regard
for the rights of the accused. Such an
example must, necessarily, have a
wholesome effect upon the community,
and convince the lawless portion of New
York that the machinery of the courts
of justice, operated by upright judges
and efficient prosecuting officers, will be
-put in motion to punish crime.
tirlt has been a habit with all strong
governments, after a war is over, and
after it has vindicated its poWer,-to ren
der the future as little gloomy and its
yoke as easy to its subjects as possible;
but nothing of this sort comes from the
United States. Nothing comes from it
to soothe our feelings, nothing to allevi
ate the terms of a settlement, if it were
possible for such asettlement to be made.
It would seem possible that Lincoln
might have offered something to a 'peo
ple with two hundred thousand soldiers,
and such soldiers [applause,] under
arms. Could it be probable to him that
we could go into the United States gov
ernment as rebels, assuming the
responsibility of all the blood that has
been shed, confessing that we have kept
up a wicked and needless war, submitt
ing to laws confiscating our property'
and taking the lives of our people?—R.
M. T. Hunter's speech-at Richmond,
The implication is that a. settlement
might have been made on the basis-of a
restOrAtiem Of. the Union,. if Mr. Lincoln.
'had, beerk magnsminaouttzis Mr. Hurl
' terltheught hq e t hogid be.-7Forney'?3:
. , ;
A very significant " implication,"
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NUMBER. Si
- Vartletiliire of 'PO-Occultation of char-
Heston.:
ispeekal CorFesPondtlugeof N. Y.
S,SWEd...)I T.11,17.1.51 . 0RT 1
Feb.
The 'first of the glorlotia event of to
day was - witnessed before'daybreaki this
morning. As:we:lay at our anchorage,
surrountiOdiJythe .blockadera, our at
tention was„ attracted by, a lurid and
vivid flaSli, for an instant illuminating
the - Whole Ni"estern horizon, diseldsing,
iii-the'darkness innumerable fragments
ying.in all directions, followed by a
denap column of smoke and flame, and
soon the report of a 'terrible explosion.
The glYcick was - discernable in the eet..
Tharnediately after other fires were 4o be
seen in several -parts of the , city, and it
was supposed that. 6herturn had made
his appearance in the rear_ of the City,
or that the ,efienly
. way evacuating: it
waS anxiously we atted• the issue of
our speculations.
Shortly after:daylight the evacuation
of Charlesp34 was discovered by the vi
dates on James.lslaud, The agreeable
tidings were immediately communi
cated to Brigadier General Alexander
Schemmelfiunig, and preparations were
at once-made for occupation.
,At ten o'clock this morning the city
and fortifications were possessed by a
portion of General Schemmelfinnig's
command -from James and Morris
Islands. Lieutenant colonel A. G. 4en
nett; Twenty-first United i7itates eolbred
troops,
and Uolonel Ames, Third Rhode
Island artillery, are said to have been
the first in the city.
The time of theevaeriation is not pre
cisely known, though the picket boats
in the harbor report unusual stir at
Forts Sumter and Moultrie during the
entire night, and the last troops are re
ported to have left at sic-A. M. In the
occupation DO opposition was made by
the enemy, and his pickets withdrew
upon the appearance of the Union
troops.
Atter the evacuation a large number
of stragglers remained in the city to
gratify their propensity for pillage, and
only withdrew, bearing their booty with
them, when closely pressed by the Union
troops.
A large number of men took advan
tage of the hasty departure of their de
camping comrades by secreting them
selves in vacated residences, and when
fairly certain or their safety, made their
appearance in the streets and surrender
ed to the first sq uad of Union troops they
met; The stories were, as usual, disgust
ing and thoroughly satisfied bellicose
propensities.
The conflagrations which we witness
is morning prove to have been the
ling of immense quantities of cot
and the explosions were caused by
rd e destruction of magazines, ware
ouses and depots. In one of the latter
a large quantity of powder was stored.
A train was set and ignited by a rebel
soldier, who remained behind for that
work. The buildings were tilled with
half-famished inhabitants of the city,
picking up rice and corn, and it is re
ported they were all killed by the force
of the explosion or crushed beneath the
debris of the tumbling building,
There was but one known practical
exhibition of the " Moscow '' devotion,
and that was in the case of a deluded
owner who set his house on tire and
took his departure with the rearguard
of the enemy. This act of harmless
rage, we presume, did not materially
embarrass or endanger the occupation
by our forces.
At daylight the rams in front of the
city were blown up ; also ten thirteen
inch _Blakely guns of the Wharf battery
were burst. The remaining six guns
Were spiked and the carriages destroyed.
That portion of the city exposed to
our shells is almoSt in ruins, and had
long been abandoned by its occupants.
The buildings were either entirely de
molished or so much destroyed as to
necessitate entire reconstruction. The
streets are filled with rubbish, and here
and there a shell or solid shot exhibits
the agent of such destruction.
The population remaining, in the city
consists eutireLy of negroes and the
poorer , class of whites. Many of them
are said to rejoice greatly in the change
of administration.
Major General Gillmore left Hilton
Head, S. C., in his tlagboat W. W. Coit,
for Bull's Bay, at one o'clock this A. M.
Upon perceiving indications of the
evacuation he pushed immediately up to
the city and landed. Capt. H. M. Bragg,
of his staff, in a small boat, visited Fort
Sumter and placed the national colors
on the parapet. There are four colum
brads and live howitzers in the fort. A
rebel flag, discovered hid under a pile
of rubbish, was brought off by Captain
Bragg. There are a huge number of
guns in the works around the city and
in the forts in the harbor. It is also said
the approach to the city is lined with
torpedoes. -As yet no explosions have
been reported.
Sherman, with his itinerant army,
has already visited Branch vile, Orange
burg, Columbia, and Lexington, and
continues to prosecute vigorously his
journey. It is said he is determined to
visit all the coast cities in his tour to
Richmond.
As we are about taking our departure
the fleet presents a magnificent variety
of hunting iu the shape of the national
colors, insignia of command and signal
flags. 'The gallant tars crowd the rig
ging, and are freely ventilating their
lungs with deep inhalations, and loud
huzzas.
Trade With Mexico
The exports from this port to the ports
of Mexico have been for some time on a
vastly Increased scale—greater than to
any other country except Great Britain
—and embracing an Li 11 usually large pro
portion of merchandise which gives
employment to the mechanical industry
and ingenuity of our people. Our export
clearances to Mexico, for the past week
were valued at au aggregateof about one
million, seven hundred thousand dollars
(51,700,000), and this is not the first time
since the opening of the new that the
weekly exports have exceeded a
million dollars. The exports of the past
week enll.irace "dry goods" to the value
of $430,600 ; clothing to the value of
5110,000 ; shoes, $107,300 ; flour,
000 ; hats, $70,000 ; cotton cards, $20,000;
corn, $40,000 ; drugs, $30,-100 ; entlee,
$100,300; " carriages," $011,000; " hard
ware," and "cutlery," $60,000; machin
ery, $25,01i0; harness, $7,-100. This suil
den demand for these articles from Mex
ico has one or two causes—perhaps both.
They are designed to be sent across the
border to the rebels in the 'Frans-Mis
sissippi Department, or they are to fill
the Mexican warehouses, preparatory to
the disruption ofpeaceful relations with
the United States. Which is the lead
ing motive in the matter, a very short
time will probably determine.— World.
St. Louis in Danger
A wager of five hundred dollars aside
has been made at Alton, Illinois, that
if the rise in the river is as great this
spring as it was in 1859, the Mississippi
would break through into Long Lake,
opposite the mouth of the Missouri, and
thus leave St. Louis eleven miles train
the river. The gentleman who offered
to bet is the owner of the land which is
being cut through by the current of the
Missouri, and he states that less than a
quarter of a mile breadth of land only
is left as a barrier. It must be remem
bered that this spring will see a repe
tition of the seven years' flood, and,
should; the river break through at the
above point, it would render useless the
scheme for a railroad bridge, as the pre
sent bed of the river could be crossed
dry Shdd.
The 'Massachusetts - plan of filling her
quotas from outside - sources is not a new
one. ' 'So • longago as :Nrarch 17,1778, Gen.
Washington'wrote to Jame S. Bowdoin,
President of the Council of Massachu
setts, as follows r•
liSrh : 'lt gives me inexpressible con
cern to have repeated-information-from
the best authority; that the committees
of" the. different towns , and• districts in
your -State have deserters. from General
.Buirgoyn*s army; andieroploy them as
substitutes to excuse the persohal set
vice of the inhabitants."
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threew t.trn es, 1.50
111,•44 6151.-0
Items of jfllvs,
President. Jnamz,.geecirding,•,to the
semi-official reports receiyed from Mex
ico, wits still lit bei4Hbusily
engaged . irt the re-organ iziitiotr • 'of the
army and nicking preparations fir the
next campaign. I.l.ednid _never left the
State for 6onora as AV.14.6_ *time time ago
reported. . -
ti# , Vinen claimed
a calf.- Both prOvethtlieir:Ownel - ship in
the iiVjllg ve . al,hy ; erowda
. wiinesses,
and the b(qhered J udge decided to place
the calf oil the - street . at an equal dis
tance From the resixienip of- eriehr
ant and let him go Immo.
The Sahatigriy li i r(l/./. says' that the
Oil Coinpahy ' hotihg - at 1-Tosinier's
brewery, for , SOnle (JAYS :11a8t, -haii just
struek oil, and:have - aim:oy commenced
tubing. Oil seel . o he in a eK42Vice,
and at a depth of sixty feuf buf itt what
quantity "the Peur.,fr,` is Unable th say.
Au exellang 6:41-; : A .tew greedy
adventures have . t , oniblued to obtain
from 'the. Pennsylania - T..egislathre an
act to give thern.the fee simple of the
hell of the Alleghany river in the oil
region. Its value is ustimaieti at $20,-
Oi Sl,OOO.
prir It is said that nearly forty thou
sand men, whose names are upon the
enrolment lists in New York city, are
not to he found, which, of course, is a
very 'pleasant matter for those other
thousands who can be found, to think
about.
Oil has 'been discovered in large quan
tities on Vl6. cieek West Virginia, one
of the tributaries Ot t the Ohio river, and
savans auclare that it will prove the
most valuable territory yel discovered.
THV•A MY OF TTI POT014,“"ro HE
PA W.—Several pay masters left Wash
ington yesterday for the Army of the
Potomac, prov;itleil with funds.
The nanreofa netvhnd beautiful color,
which is derfted - from petroleum, Iscall
ed
garonla.
The year Thti-1 was remarkable for the
number and destructiveness of Its tires,
both iu the Old and the New Worlds.
Front statistic, Collected front the a lost
reliable records, the total loss by burn
ing in the Cniteti States is estimated at
nut less than t...:: - .:0,0n0t NO. I n the North
ern States alona, during the month of
July, which was memorable for ravages
by tire everywhere, property i.vas con
sumed Wile amountof upward of 5,000,-
000, much of which comprise, the most
huportantClovernment works andstore
houses, together with valuable private
manufacturing and business establish
ments.
Princeton, New Jersey, has voted to
give every drafted man who shall enter
the service, a township bond for tilt ;
,oleo to levy 1.1 tax 01$10 upon every per
son liable to draft, and a poll tax of $5
upon each person not liable.
A dispatch from Annapolis says:
One hundred and fifty paroled officers
and nine hundred and seventy-five men
have arrived here front Richmond, all
in tot-retched condition. Three hundred
of them have been carried to theimspital.
A letter frotn Mulford, received
in Washington, states that preparations
are now ion pleted by which he will ex
rhange from five to seven thousand
prisoners per week.
Official instructions from the RuSsian
government for the re-organization of
Poland had rpsched WiII'SILW. The of
fice of tiovernor of Poland is suppressed.
Thu provincial governments are sus
pended,' and the public administration
will henceforth he only through the de
partments of the respective ministers at
St. Petersburg.
President Lincoln hasordered that the
Penitentiary at , New York ;
thehtale's Prison at, Clinton, New York;
the Penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio ;
the Penitentiary at Jelltirson City, Mis
souri, and such other prisons as the
ecretary of War may designate for the
eon neme 11 tof prisoners, undersen ten ee
of eourt martial, - shall be deemed and
taken to lie military prisons.
The Russian Oovernment is about to
make a very eonsiderahle reduction in
its war expenditure. The budget for
18155 shows adeerease of twe nty-fou r and
a half millions of amides I t4,11110,U00h in
the army estimates, and lour and a half
millions ofroutdest -000,u(u) in the navy
estimates, us eumpared with those of
1614.
A woman in Germany lately gave
birth to four daughters at once. Her
hosdiand. fled the country in despair.
The San Jose ..ifri.oary says the wife
of Jose Castro, of Monterey, has given
birth to thirty-six ohil fro n, all of whom
are living together in that cowl try. The
first twenty are twins, each pair repre
sentatives of either sex.
flovernOr Low, of California, has by
far the hugest salary of any of our State
Governors. He has $7,000 a year in
gold. The next highest salary for Gov
ernors is in New York and Pennsyl
vania -4,00 in currency.
The winter in Europe has been very
severe. The Seine and the Loire have
been frozen over, and the railways
clogged with three feet of snow. It re
quired a garrison of soldiers to relieve
the passengers.
The subject of securing a return to the
lakes and rivers of New Hampshire and
Vermont of the supplies of salmon, shad
and other migratory tish which for
merly abounded in great, numbers in
those waters, but which have now en
tirely disappeared, is, exciting attention
among the people of those States.
S. Wilde Harding, tliehusband of the
noted Bell Boyd, who was arrested on
his way from Martinsburg to Baltimore
on the oth of December last on several
chargeS, and confined at Forrest- Ilall,
Old Carroll, and Fort Delaware, was
unconditionally released by order of the
War Department ou the 3d inst. Ho
sailed fur Europe in the Cuba en Wed
nesday.
The Abbe Tilladet once wrote to a
friend : As soon as anything is
printed, though you have not read it,
lay a wager it is not true; 1 will go you
halves, and it will make my fortune."
in the same way we have learned to
treat all " the govern men t " telegraphic
dispatees. To economize time we pro
nounce them all lies, and give ourself
no further trouble about them. If any
body will wager they are truths, take
them as they run, we should lik - e
enter into the busines of betting against
him as a speenlati (~r/turd.
At Chattammga, Tenn., the other
day, General titeedman punished a mer
chant who disregarded the challenge of
a negro soldier, by confiscating his store
and its contents, and placing a negro
guard. over it, remarking that "if Mr.
Crutchfield will not reSpeet the negro
soldief;— he shall respect the authority
that Made the negro a soldier, and puts
him oh guardas such."
The: exports from this country to to
reign :ports, front June 30 to December.
31, isle, as reported to the Treasury De
partment, amount to the very large Sum
of 5234-,8.11‘1,22,0.
Stanton.ow the Draft
Secretary Stanton has officially noti
fied the members of Congress from
lIHMOs that the call for the pending
draft is for three hundred thousand new
men, and not yearS of service, and that
no present credit will be allowed for
three years' recruits over one year's .re
units: Claims for credits fur the longer
term would, he said, be allowed next
year, ,which implies that another draft
is still in reserve! And which also
implies that nothing is to be gained; at
Washington, hyTaying large bounties
to three years'
.men. How much bad
faith towards. the people is implied in
this' deeildbri' (WhiCh farsifies 'the aSSUr
ances:of a year ago;) - we teed nordWell
upon.--Alban,y .fitims: • •'• •
.„ .
1105'A little girl who waswalking with
her . rnother was tempted by the sight of
a basket of orattges, exposed for sale in
a store, and quietly toek-One; hilt-after
wards, stricken by cznscience,"rettirried
it; After her return hhme,She V 132.
ths
covered in tearsLalieltirrbehol!g- - -a4ked'the
'ease bf her- sertpvtru epliecl - 'sphbing,
~y if
commandments; - :rbi . Flu'thiiiii- 1 4 ve
cracked one a little." She was forgive/11,