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THE STAR OF PROMISE. .
BY FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD.
When kneeling sages saw of yore
Their orb of promise rise for them,
How Leu rning's lump grew dim, before
The heaven-born star of Bethlehem,
How filtered Wisdom's haughty lone,
Wiien, led by God's exulting choir,
His radiant herald glided on,
tThe darkling heathen's beacon-fire !
When sweet, from many an angel voice,
While rung the viewless harps of heaven,
He heard the song cf love "Rejoice,
For peace on earth and sins forgiven !"
The Chaldean flung his scroll aside,
The Arab left his desert tent
Their hope, their trust their silver guide
Till low at Mary's feel they bent.
Ay ! Asia's wisest kneit around,
Forgetting Fame's too earthly dream,
While bright upon the hallowed ground,
Their golden gifts a mockery gleam.
There vainly, too, their censers breathed ;
0!i! what were incense gems to Hun,
Around whose brow a glory wreathed,
That made their sun-god's splendor dim !
To Him o'er whose blest spirit came.
The fragrance of celestial flower?,
And light from countless wings of flame
That flabhed thro' heaven's resplendent
bowers !
To "kneeling Faith's" devoted eye,
It shines that "star of promise," now,
Fair, as when far in Asia's sky,
It lit her sage's lifted brow !
2STo sparkling treasure wc may bring,
No "gift of gold," nor jewel-stone;
The censer's isweet we may not fling
For incense round our Savior's throne ;
But when, o'er sorrow's clouded view,
That planet rises to our prayer,
We, where it leads, may follow too,
And lay a contrite spirit there !
Pretty Experiment.
If an acorn be suspeuded by a piece of
thread within half an inch of the surface
of some water contained in a hyacinth
glass, and so permitted to rrmaiu with
out being disturbed, it will in a few
months burst, and throw a root down in
to the water, and ahoot upward? it" taper
ing stem with beautiful little grreD leases.
A youni oak tree growing in this way on
the mantel ehelf of a room is a very pret
ty object.
gr-A worthy but poor minister,"
writes a friend from the country, "re-
quested a loan of fifty dollars from the
cashier of our bank, and in the note re- j
questing tbe favor, he said be wouiu 'pay
in tendays, on the faith of Abraham.'
The cashier returned word that by the
rules of the bank, the indorscr must re
side in the State."
An old lady, on being witnessed before
a magistrate as to her place of legal set-
tlcment, was asked what reason ."he had
for supposing bor husband bad a legal .
settlement in that town. Tbe old lady
said: "He was born and married, and they
buried him thero; and if that ain't settling ;
him there, I don't know what is." j
A Good Xog.A worthy Dutchman
sued his neighbor, a " gentleman from
Erin," for killing his do, tn the course
of his examination, the Dutchman being
asked what was the value of his dog, re
plied : "Ash for ter dog, he was wort
bhust noting ot all; but a&h Pat vas so
raean as to kill him. by tarn, 1 makes him
pay te fall value of bim."
A person who waf recently called
into Court for the purpose of proving the
oorrectness of a Doctors bill, was aked
hy the lawyer whether "the Doctor did
not make several visits after the patient
was out of danger!" "No," replied tbe
witness, "I considered the patient in dan
ger as long as the Doctor continued his
visits."
"The Siamese twins aro still living
in burrey county, North Carolina. At a
late revival, the wife of Chang was bap
tized. Chang and Eog seemed to bo
much concerned for themselves, and re
quested an interest in tho prayers of the
minister.
Whiskey soaoetimes oures the bite of
snakev, but what will care the bite of
whiskey I
SPEECH OF CASSIUS M. CLAY.
Delivered on the Capitol Steps at Frank
- fort, January 10, 1800,
Accusations with Interest.
Now, "what in sauce for the goose is institution, that it U any tource of politi
saucc for the gauder." Laughter. My cai social and moral good, but I believe
distinguished friend, John O.Brcckiuridge , vou bad better try all the chemical pow-ha-
all his allegations answered by the er 0f Heaven and in the winds, the steam
record not Cassius Clay says bo. But p0wer 0f the waters, than to hold the Af
he has indulged in npeculation and infer- rjoan iD bondage, because, after all it is a
ecco, and I intend to turn the tables on blunder in an economical point of view,
him a little in that way. Laughter. aD(j althcugh we are determined to stand
That in so I It is o very late, however, by your institution?, don't ask us to deny
that I cannot post-illy comment upon the life which we live out in living letters,
theso various clauses; I will thereforo 80 at all the nations of the earth oan
omit discussion, read. Wo not only believe liberty is
Iu turn, I accuse Gov. Magoffin, Vice- preferable, but wo beliovo that Slavery is
President Breckinridge, and tho Demo- a ourse to the white and black." That is
cratio party, on the following counts, bcv- the man for you to trust
enteen of them; that is principle with In-j I am hero to-day and gone to-morrow,
terest at about seventy per cent. but I tell yoa if ever the time does come
1st. Of obtaining and using powcrun- wi,en tbe slaveholders need aid to protect
der false pretences. Read their last plat- tb0UJ fr0m the violence of slaves rising for
forms. ! freedom, that aid will come from the men
2d. Of false pretences, as a Democrat-; tbat aro opposed to the Northern Demoo
io party claiming to be upccial guardians raCyt and not from tho Democracy of the
aud conservators of the liberty of the pco- jsjorth themselves, because there is not a
pie and canceling them by the overthrow logical argument on God'n earth that can
of the grcta common law guards of free- briug them to the conclusion which they
men, which eecurc them from tho illegal ! pretend to draw. Therefore it was tbat
search of tbeTr persons, papers, and homes. Stephen A. Douglas was ready to beat
Witness, gentlemen, all the reported ca- vou jn 1857-8, when you were attempting
ses of outrage made through all the Slave ' t0 forotJ slavery upon Kansas. He has
States from the beginning of the Govern- backed down beyond doubt to-day, but if
nient, tho formation of the Constitution, 1 vou bad not elected him Senator, he would
and ending in the year 1860. Look to j b ave been in the Republican ranks.
tbe record of all the Slavo States of tho You are right when you nay you can't
Union where outrages of this kind aro nottrust tbese. (A Voice "We didn t say
only perpdtruted, but are attempted to ne.s0) You did say so. I appeal to tbe
vindicated by tbe press, outrages against
which there is no redress, and none even
affected to be attempted to bo enforced.
3. As false in the nullification of tho
laws of constitutional oomitv. See the!
-
case of Hoar and others. See the article
of the Constitution which authorizes citi
zens of the several States to sue in the
Federal Courts of the United States.
You all know how that was.
4. Of violation of tbe treaty with Mex
ico. There was a war made with Mexioo
while she was at peace with us, where we
are told in the roport, that our Gen. Tay
lor marched amid men, women, aud chil
dren Dying from their hearthstones in
consequence of the invasion of the United
States forces. A VOICE "Who made
tbe war! The Democrats. They did it,
as they said, "to extend the area of Free
doDi," and the way they now extend tbe
area of freedom I will tell you. I find a
Senator of Texas was drien out of the
community, (or on ex-Senator) because
be said he did not believe that it was ex
tending the area of freedom, to strike all
these rights down; where he could notown Senators won't trust him; oan
have bis own portfolio tree trom searcn believe in a man whose masters are con
by Judge Lynch. tinually watching him, pistol and bowie
5. Of the practice of the slave-trade. knife in band. Breckinridge is the boy,
Ics, gentlemen, distinguished persons in t believe. Guthrie is an honest man as
tho South have boasted openly, not only honest a man as tho Democratic party has
tbat they intend to violate the laws pro- built up for auUmbcrof years and that
bibiting the slave-trade, but that they js not Eaj-lng mucb.
have proceeded to carry their purposes Filibustering,
into execution and had landed upon the Democratic party with
Southern coats what have been noton- . ... r ,
. , , j a 4- v i n t, u fil ibustering. You all know what that
ou-dy acknowledged to be slaves, fresh . , , -.
J , . r r- j r means. Going out with armed bands of
from tbe coasts of Africa, and we have J: c
, . c xt c u t uien from the United States, "extending
vet to learn of the first punishment for , . . , -' . - ,
J, . . . . e , r the area of freedom; performing John
this violation of law. ., . i
Brown raids, entering upon general inva-
Advice Gratis. Mons to set humanity right, when the gal
Here I remember to speak of thoseNor- lant old tar, Commodore Paulding, re
thern allies that to-day you are afraid to ceived instructisns, if he oaught Walker
trut. You aro right. I tell you now to bring him home. Tbe old fellow thought
you are right, and I am going to give 'the President of the United States meant
vou a little extra advice. Some of you j what be said, and be went out, ordered
J . . . . . .... I J t. Li I
were wantioc to know how long they will!
J J J J J I
t?nn ' how in Kf-mri he vnn
just so long as you pay them, and no lon
ger, and tbe moment you oease to pay
them, tho moment you coaBe to have po
session of the Government, so soon will
they loave you. That is the kind of ; tend, before 1 became a candidate ot the
men you have for your Northern allies. Southern Democracy, that we wanted Cu
Gentlemen, I take it that you are all men ba and we would buy it if wc oould, and
of seoe, and so I put it to you here to-j if Spain would not sell it we would take
night, if I was to get up here and say it in any way; and do you suppose that
that I believed Slavery was a divine in-j when wo say we don't mean to have
citation, and that all my previous decla- Nicaragua we don't wan't to havo it!
rations were false, tbatl was convinced I You are an old fool." Therefore, I say
had been wrong, and that it was preferable as those men sre not punished, but as
to liberty, and a religious institution fa-1 Walker goes to visit tho Prcnident of tho
vored of God, as Gov. Magoffin has said, United States, that you are guilty of filli
woald not every ono of you put your band j bustering. If ho had been taken at sea
upon your purse, for fear I would Bteal iby any Government of sufficient power a
your money 1 You would at once ,say,, broad that dare execute tho law contra
"tbat man thinks to-day as bo always'did, ry to your sympathy, he would have been
and in addition to all the rascalities we hung until be was dead, dead, dead, and
have charged upon bim, he is an infernal there would have been the last of Billy
hypocrite; we will not trust bim." It is the blue-eyed man of destiny,
because I come out and tell you what I ! 7- You have ebtablished a censorship
believe, that you to-day trust me to go of the pross, by a Post-office usurpation,
among your negroes. Move the icene o- 8. Of a violation of the Constitution,
ver the Hoe, and it is just the same. which provides that tho citizens of each
The man who has ever seen the sanctity State shall be entitled to all privileges
of the hearthstone preserved inviolate, 1 and immunities of citizens in tho several
and who has gone iuto some common States.
ecbool to receive his education, and who; 9, Of ay ropatizing with foreign despots,
has watched the unparalleled development as Russia against Hungary,
of tbe Free States, whoreads hi.J primer! 10. Of violating the compromise mca
or his English Reader and studies the sures of 1850.
Bible, and rises from tbe reading and tells! 11. Of violating the compromises of
you that from his observation the condi- 1820.
tion of Slavery is tbo true condition of hu-1 12. Of the usurpation of tbe Supremo
manity, will some day teach you that at Court of political power in tho Dred Scott
last the unjust thing shall not proper, case, where they undertake to overthrow
and a lie shall not life forever. Ho who the decisions of all the State Courts, and
has seon all these things, and turns round the acts of all tho Presidents who lived
and tells you, in the South, I havo lived in tbe diys of tho Revolution, and in tho
under all these institution., and I belit ve assumption by what tho Courts say ia the
Slavery to bo a good thing, a divine in- obiter dicta, of powers belonging to the
stitution, the beststato of society.don't you legislative department, political powerB
know enough to say that tbat man is not not judicial.
fit to be trusted I Some of your orators ; 13. Of rawing a civil war in Kansas,
said, to-day, State tbe truth, and make and prosecuting John Brown raida as 1
them tell the troth survive or perish, 'have fhown. -
That is the true sentiment. You ought
not to trust them. -
I will tell you whom you ought to trust.
I trust the man who says : "Gentlemen,
I don't believe that Slavery is a divine
r ports of tbo convention to bear me out.
This was aid "if they would not march
up to that line set down, let them go.''
Why let theia go ! Because you don't
trust them of course. If you trust them
you will want them to stand by jou; if
they arc your friends you will want tbeni
all. Mr. SUver tooth Baid that Stephen
A. Douglass was outside of tbe Democrat
ic party already Why ! Because be
stands upon the Democratic platform of
IS56.
A Voice in tho crowd Did the Con
vention coincide with that view!
Mr. Clay Mr. Graves's resolutions
were voted down, which I understood to
coincide with Douglas's view.
A Voioo Was he named !
Mr. Clay If you vote down tho doc
trine and the man that makes a speech,
you don't leave much of the man. Laugh
ter I tell you Douglas tands no chnnco.
You have already degraded him from the
Chairmanship of the Committee on Terri
tories in tbe United States Senate are
vou coins to take him un airain ! Your
you
nis marines oui, auu orougub uuu u
muiviauai. anu wuai am
tbe President
. , ' ,
say ! Why, said he, "I have a great no
tion to dismiss you from the service. You
are a damn'd old fool." Langhter,
"Did I not tell you, Commodore, at Os-
a sham "Popular
15. Of n attempt to legislate Slavery
into the Territory of Kansas, by this lat-
ter day Lecomptoo movement.
16. Of denying naturalized citizens o-
qual protection with the natives.
17. Of alterant inn to throw the Knnub -
14. Of introducing
Sovereitntv."
lie into a condition of colonial vasalage, of this great Union as a protection! Why,
under tho ruse ot European power. i The Cluirleston Mercury and The Rich-
Lat us look .at that. That is tho last moncl Eequirer say ,"W o will send to Lou
count I find. Mr. Breckinridge, tbe pa- is Napoleon, and we will ask him to lend
pers tell us, has said yes, Sir, Jobn has us eome troops to defend us!" Oh, shame!
said that there is trouble brewing. Whatfhame! Are you going to brin us to this?
is the matter, John 7 You and theDem- Is this tho reward that you offer u., tbat
ooratio party have bad possession of the you will call on Louis Napoleon, the des
Government for nearly three-quarters of pot of Franco, and his troops, and he
a century; you have put up and you have! will defend us against these Northern
put down; you have had control of the do- j traitors and fanatics. Are yon ready for
meBtic and foreign policy of the country,; tbat, Democrats! We bae been led so
you have been omnipotent in States and 'long by Democratic leadersi s this the
in the Union, in the Senate and in Con-feai,t to which you havo invited us, that
gross, you havo had tho Exccutivo and after you can no longer be preserved, that
tho Judicial Department of tbe Govern- they will get Louis Napoleon, they can't
mont, and the country is sick, is it! Why trust Victoria; obe has too many notions
what is tho matter! Who bas been doc-1 of freedom about her) to preserve us.
torin it ? Who has caused this breaking What does it mean? It means going ab-
uo of bond of union of which we have
board this day I I am sad, you are sad,
we aro alt ad. It is indeed a porry Bight,
to see a people in time of peace and pros
perity dragged to the verge of dissolution,!'
nnd the curious nart of it and the cru-:
el part is that if one of you had a wife or Philip of Macedon Loui Nopoleon.
daughter that you tenderly love, as you it not!. Tho battles in Kansas, which
ought, you would not net as you now dojwero fought for the common liberty, is
with this Union, that vou boast of so 'the reproach of Escbinesl Not only
much.
God knows,
,
as bad a man as I am
thought to be, and aa Kentuckians are consummate tne suojecung us 10 a iorei,:n
thought to be in general, I love my wife (alien despotism! I would that I could
above all women; she is in health, and j evoke the geniu. of the iilustrous defend
she goes and comes, she smiles and cries, !er of Grecian liberty, that my voice, like
works and plays, and does all those things j his, could touch the hearts of my coun-
that nature doigncd ber to do, and if 1
call in some doctor upon some lmmagma
ry or real affliction of tbo great internal
course of health, and the doctor brings
hr tn hed. tho rose fades from her cheek.
the bright oye becomes dull, and tho full
fnrm hceomea emaciated, and
I say, "Why Dr. the woman is dying, in
the uamo of God what aro you going to
do I "Well," says he, "the woman ia dy
ing, I am sorry, but I nra going to vindi
cate myself iu history." Great God, arc
we American people, the free people of
the nation to die, and if tho Union is dis
solved, he intends' to vindicate the Demo
cratic party iu history.
I tell you good sense calls for a ohange
ofdootors. Tho Democratic party bas
brought you on the road to tbo devil.
Change your pilot your rulers. Turn
them out, and put other men at the helm.
A Voice Who do you propose T
Mr. Clay I am willing to take, for in
stance, this much-calumniated man Sew
ard, Chase or McLean, Lincoln, Bates,
Bell, Bol)ts, or old Kentucky's favorite son
Crittenden. Applause. If we could
have him fairly and squarely upon the
platform. Anybody except the old Doc
tor. I have got a sad distate for bim.
Laughter.
Dissolution.
Let us look a little at that thing of dis
solution. A body would suppose with
Canada far removed, that when it has be
come dangerous for me to t-peak where
there are millions of whito men to a few
hundred thousand slaves, that slave
property had become unsafe. Dissolve
the Union, and move the line to tho north
of the Ohio, aud would you have addi
tional security! Does any man suppose
is auy man mad enough to suppose
that if tbeso people, once bound together
by a common brotherhood of suffering,
by association in ohurohes, by a common
Christianity.by tho ties of education, can
not remain in peace in the Union, that
they would remain in peace out of it!
Docs Mr. Breckinridge or Gov. MagofBn
suppose suab a case as that!
You have your answer when you say
Gov. Wise, who, in tho last Presidential
race, talked of seising upon the arnenal
and marching to Washington to take pos
session of tho archieves, and preventing
tho inauguration of a Republican Presi
dent, saying, now if there m auy fighting
to be done it is to be dooo in tbe Union,
and oot out of it; when you see your
Democratic orators talking round and be
coming tho defenders of tho Uuion.
" " '
Don't vou all bocin to see tbe foil v of
this thing, don't you all sec, what all men
of common ?ennc must seo, that outsido
of tho Union there lies less security for
slave property! Certainly you dol No
body supposes that thero would be any
thing other than tbe way Mr Caldwell
said to-day. Do you suppose you would
have peace! No, bir, it would bo war to
tbo knifo and the knife to the hilt. That! He appeals to these masses and asks them
is what would bo th result. Wbero is to see for themselves and aot upon their
your security , for your slave property I knowledge thus obtained, if this thing is
then! Would you, eight millions of! not according to the doctrine of Jefferso.n,
white men, enter upon a contest with this which I believe was pretty good Do
twonty millions and hold your slaves at, mooraoy once!
home. It is not to be heard of. More Now about this book I am jjoing to
safety! Nol the fact is, you would havo ho frank. I did recommend this book,
to sacrifice your negroes, like France and I say I have read this book earefully,
Hungary did their slave proporty, at onco, and there is not a single incendiary doo
at the beginniug of tho war. Then what trino in it there is not a einglo appeal
would you gain so far aa you aro slave- to the slave. If it be insurrection autong
holders! What are the non-slavahol- a people-professing to bo free to appeal
ders to gain! Why, it reminds me to tho legal whito voters of tho country,
of a history that a friend of mine, an in- for whose, protection the Constitution pro
genious man, used to tell of a white man fesiea to ho made, to rise from a serfdom
and an Indian. They got into a fight, to tbo same power and control of the gov
and after a while tbo Indian, proving too ernment that the free laborers and free
bard, tho white mafi took to bis heels, people of the North have done, it msur
and while outrunning the .Indian, tho rcctionary- .
latter cried out, Stop, white man, stop!" Let me go one step further, and say
Hod the white man faallooed.out, ' Stop S tbajj'.tbere werceotne jdacea.m thai book
I will bo damned if 1 do!" Why, gen
tlemen, you ask all of us nono-slavcbol
der of the whole Union who havo borne
all the oppression, to sacrifice all tbe lib-
erty wc nave, to return to those rules and
regulations of despotism, against which
we rose up in arms in 1776.
! VYhat do you propose to give u m itcu
I fIT 1
'solutely back into irencn decpotism.
Are you ready for tbat!
The Vice-President is unfortunate in
his allusion to the great Athenian orator.
It is we who defend the liberties of the
people, and they who propose to call in
these, but all tho glory of the illustrious
dead is in vain, if tbe Uemocrrtio party
.i i e :
irymen wuu uiu uiviue uruot my uu as
pirations, till they would be again ready
to cry out with one voice, "Let us march
against Philip!"
No", tfentlemen. That is the reason I
came hero to-cight, because I heard this
i thing is talked of because it is threaten-
I . T- ,, T
ed. i come to tell you as, i live, as we
all live, thero is not a single true Repub
lican but will shed his laht drop of blood
before he will submit to this; they will
figbt you for a thousand years ere they
will submit; they will not relapse into
French servitude.
We preach no now doctrine, we invoke
no new God, but standing by the old doo
trine of '76, upon which our fathers
fought and died, we say with Crittenden,
that "that which is good to stand upon is
good ground to fall upon." We invoke
tbe people of the North and South to
stand by the Constitution of the United
States, and vindicate It beyond the pos
sibility of a doubt. Who are the men
that bave avowed tho intention to dis
solve the Union! Look at tho record.
Not a single county meeting, nor district
convention, nor State assembly, nor na
tional convention of tho Republican par
ty has ever deolared that, in any emer
gency, will they dissolve the Union. No,
sirs, we eay all the time that we submit
to Democratic rule while you slavehold
em rule U3, and we submit because we
know of no other policy, no other alter
native, exct-pt it be force, and when tbat
is used all law is silent, and the Govern
ment becomes a despotism; whenever you
resort to violence you havo an anarchy
as has Mexico, which is continually at
war because it does not stand by any
Constitution or law. All our pledges and
antecedents prove that we are bound to
be loyal to the uuion of these States; and,
therefore, I say, we oan safely claim your
suffrages, not taking us by our avowals,
but taking us by our acts. If wo havo
submitted for eighty years, we are will
ing to submit for eighty years more, un
less! wc can persuade you to take hold of
those glorious privileges which wo hold
to be right.
Helper's Crisis.
Thero is a man in Carolina whose fath
er was born, it is said, upon North Caro
lina soil, and wc know not bow many
oenturies before bis ancestors lived there,
and it so happened that he belonged to
that largo class of North Carolina that
may bo called the working class, the non
slaveholders. Ho saw tbe influeuco of
Slavery upon the interests of that class
of men, and ho broke away from the
tramels of that party and published
a book, and be tolls us, that how
ever good a thing slave labor is for tho
slaveholder, free labor is better for the
non-slnvebolder. He takes up the census
of the United States and he compiles at
all unquestioned, and shows how the in
stitution of tho South affects tho mass.
published by bim that wo did n6t regard
as just; and inasmuch as we conceived
that the slaveholders held their property
on the tenure that the Britifh held it, wo
thought that it was a political question
wc thought that tbo slaveholders should
not be taxed. I wrote to him that that
was a foolish thing, tut it wa? understood
that all these objectionable things should
be expunged, as Mr. Blair, of Minsouri
bas said. He says it was understood
that those ports were to bo stricken out,
not that they were inoendiary, but that it
was a blunder not to bo urged.
I tell you, gentloo.cn, I stand on Hel
per's phamphlet, and you may make tho
tuo:t of what I say.
Cries of "Go on," and "Wo will stand
by you ail night.''
I have stood by you all the long daya
of my youth aud niauhood, extinguished
all the aspiration of ambition, suffered
ignominy and coutempt, beeu denounced,
spumed aud avoided by the men whoso
interests I was arguing, by the white man,
and wronged by the black man; but still
holding myself true to one purpose, I
stand there still. What to me now are
tbe rosy tints of life, with my hair silver
ed over, with my s-iuews stiffened with
age; in the course of human events, I havo
but little time to remain here. I say Ken
tuckiau, come war, come peace, I trust
in God I may have the fortune to stay
thero during tho rest of my days, and that
although the million may depart from
me, there will be in Kentucky ono stand
ing true to the last, whose aspirations may
be, however visionary, however theoreti
cal, true to the banner which I would have
float over us. Tbe same old banner of
1789 each stripe with the progress of
the ages paling into a brighter galaxy of
stars I In the language of Webster, its
motto no such miserable interrogatory, as
Wrhat is all this worth I Nor those other
words of delusion and folly, "Slaary and
Union" far less "Slavery first and Union
afterward,' and yet moro "Slavery with
or without Union I" But his own glori
ous sentiments for the which and with
whieh with filial piety I walk backward
and cover his late political nakedness I
"Liberty and Union, now and forev
er, ONE AND INSEPERABLE 1"
Long and Short Days.
At Berlin and London, tho longest day
has sixteen hours and a half; at Stock
holm it has eighteen and a half hours; at
Hamburg, seventeen hours, and the short
est seven; at St. Petersburg, tho longest
day bas nineteen, - and the shortest five
hour-; at Tornca, in Finland, the longest
day has twenty-one hours and a half, and
the shortest two hours and a half; at
Wahderhus, in Norway, the day lasts
from the a 1st of May to the 22d of July;
and at Spithergen, the longest day is
three months and a half.
0?"An Illinois editor challenges the
State to produce n wife equal to hia foj
smartness und muscl. Among tbe many
things which she easily performed one
morning beforo breakftt are whipping
the editor, spanking nine children, kick
ing over the table and breaking all the
dishes, wringing a neighbor's nose for
interfering, cutting off a dog's tail and
throwing the servant girl into the cistern."
Such a wife is a jewel.
Fix the day. At a concert in Wiscon
sin, at the conclusion of the song' "there's
a good time coming," a country farmer
got up and exclaimed :
"Mister, couldn't you fix the date?
That is what wc want just give the date,
Mister."
HpTbe total immigration from all
fori-ign countries into the "United States
for the year ending Dec. 31, 1859, was
166,000 being about 10 per cent, gain bb
1858.
Good. Tbe mistakes of a layman. aro
liko the errors of a pocket watch, which
affect only an individual; but when a cler
gyman crri, it is like the town clock go
ing wrong bo misleads a multitude.
JSrThc Placer (Cal) Herald tells of
strawberries gathered at Placcrvillc, on
the 9th of January, that were grown in
tbe open air, and were as large as. wal
nuts. "
cath.
2S3-A couplo - of Kentuakians lately
! visited Boston, and sat down to dinner-oat
the Revere House. Codfish balls were
served at the table, and oue.pf the Ken
tuckians taking them for corndodgers''
proceeded to brake one in two. Getting
tbo scent of it ho turned to his partner,
aud remarked in tho most solemn man
ner, "something dead in that, said Toml"
.
A rapid and emphatic rcoital of tho
following is said to be an infalliblo euro
for lisping : Hobbs meets Snobbs and
Nobbs; Hobbs bobs to Snobba and Nobbs;
Hobbs nobs with Snobbs aod roba-Nobbn
fobs. That is, aays Nobbs, thp worst for
Hobbs jobs, and Snobbs sob?.
BgyNot less than seven hundred1 per
sona are said to be professionally .engag
ed in counterfeiting money jnbe J5tae
of Ohio alone. "