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' THE sulsscriber. would call tb attention of Country MerchanU and Millinera to their ex ' tensive a.rtinet of faahionaWa 8rno m Bots A Hit of the iiewet tyles Also, Urge and fne1 of French end American AiliUml Flowera, Ribbon Crown Linings Oil Silk, Wire, Quilling., Buckram, eke, .:.i. .k. nflfj,. nrin.a that dely comueUtton. Ii, B.-Felin WHUby the caaa or dosen. W. M., OC J. J! ,nAs. ' Bonnet and Hat Manufacturer, , 30 North 3d street , i, PbiWalpVia June S, 1819.-- ., i , Wm G. Cochran t Co., VTkalrsaa. mad Retail, ' ' yfcsV AND LIQUOR MERCHANTS, 'M ifo.U Walnut Street, Philadelphia Tf H A.V1 slwiy on Und very large stock of II Wipfe, LltUW4 SA4 Hegars, ot tneir own Store Kseuera, Utl Keepera, and private gentlemen, will be supj.lie4 en the meet jjbeial terms. ' Jbiledelpbie, Npv, IT, 1819,-w II Ma . .Ita Kn WtH Hope, Italian Hope, Bale Hop Bona Folders, Papeteries, Gold and Silver Poncl Case., Dristol Boards; Whatman'. Drawing 1 a , per, Envelope., Bond's and Arnold a celebrated i l.lnn. Portfolios. DisMKted .Maps SELECT POETRY From the Tribune. , ' , . COWARDICE. BY U. C. IIARLKV. The verieat coward upon earth, Ii ha who fears the world's opinion, Who acts with reference to its will, His conscience swayed by its dominion. .Mind it not worth a feather's weight Thatmu5t with other minds be measured Self must direct, and self control, ' " I And the account in heaven be treasured. Fenr never sways a manly soul, For honent hearts, 'twas ne'er intended, They, only they, have cause to fear, . Whose motives have their God offended. What will my neighbor say if I Should this attempt, or thut, or t'other! A neighbor it most mire a foe, . If he prove not a helping brother. That man is brave who braves the world, When oer Life's sea his bark he steereth, Who keeps that puiilijsr star in view, A conscience clear, which never veereth. From the N. Y. National Police Gaxctle. "Kino What do you call tho pluyt MUmmt The Mouse-trap, you shall onon: 'tie a knavish mceeof work." THE INFERNAL MACHINE. Its Secrf.t History and Development. It was said by one of the ancients, whose career, however, does not run very far back into history; in short, by Sam Patch, of Niagara Falls, Esquire, that "some things could be done as well os others;" and though not quite equal to Sam Patch; at any rate not equal to him in jumping into futurity, we think we may be allowed to adopt his saying to our gratulation, in the matter of the famous Warner torpedo box. In this we show to the public again, as we did in the recovery of the Government Jewels, that we can sometimes do what the police cannot do, and even alter they have exhausted all their efforts and exerted all their power to produce a disclosure, can take it up where they left it, and bring it to a successful issue. With this explanation as a reason for once more bringing out the Bis Gun ; a thing which M'e do only on State occasions, we will now proceed to de tail, what the public will find to be a most extraordinary story, and we will da it in that full, open and minute fashion which all just transactions, whether of police or morals, will bear. Top.rr.no. On the afternoon of the 3d of May last, Thomas Warner, Esq., counsellor at law, residing; at No. IS, City Hall Place, left the city for Philadelphia, to return the next day. His resolution was sudden, and he communicated his intentions to no one but his family. In the evening, alter he had gone, between half-past nine and ten o' clock, a violent ringing was heard at the door, and the servant girl went to answer it. As she opened the door, she perceived by the gas light immediately over it, a short man with a black face, who was dressed in a cloak, and had a handkerchief tied or swathed around his chin and mouth. His hat was slouched down so as to hide the upper part of his face as much as possible, and the collar ot the cloak he wore, which was of a dark color, was so adjusted by means of a clasp and chain, as to assist in the purpose of concealment. The singular appearance of the man and the intense blackness ot his face, at first startled the girl, and she shrank back with a feeling of terror; whereupon the black man protru ding his hand from beneath his cloak, hand ed her a small but heavy box, about the ize of a segar box, which was wrapped in a newspaper, saying with the motion "Give that to massa Warner." Glad to get rid of such an apparition, th girl hastily closed the door upon him and handed the box at once to Mr. Warners's son who had been standing in the rear of the hall, and who, though he did not see the man, heard the expression which he used. On taking oil the newspaper, wnicn was a copy ot the Evening Herald of March 2u'th, 1849, the box was discovered to be of mahogany, with a groved or sliding cover, and on the cover a piece ot writing oaper was fastened down with gum, which bore the direction in a bold business hand, "Thomas Warner, Esq., No. 18 City Hall Place," and on the lower corner of the pa per was added the word "Confidential," in a back-hand, somewhat different from the other. Mrs. Warner sought to draw this cover, but finding it firm, she at once de sisted, and directed the box to be put care fully away until Mr. Warner should return The family then went to bed much con cerned at the girl's description of the per son who brought it, while the apparition ot nucrn nnrf ri!n ml.M15 b!'.knC8S. 80 dwelt upon the imaginalioti Pf tbe g,rl that she obtained scarcely any sieep. On the following day at 'i o'clock, Air. Warner arrived from Philadelphia, and be- .1 . . . 1 . 1 .1 lIl.A. in" in Baste to atieuu a reirtcuto av iukti he sat down to dinner, which was prepared in the front baswnentj arid told his son, when informed dr the arrival of toe box, that he had ho time to examine it then, but directed that after the dinner wa through, and he was gone to the reference, the son should open it and examine its contents.- . I ...I It iL . I. The circumstances unaer wnicn tne do. was left were theo repeated with particu larity, whereupon the eon waa allowed to brin" it down, lie sat it on the corner ,of the table between himself and hit fathtr, Mrs. Warner sat nearest the window look tog oo.. .. i i ' - . , THIC EXPLOSION, , . -e j " The string was cut by Mr. Warner with th rarvinir knife, the newsrmPer wraPDef ...v v n i i . . was taken off, and the box hefted and ex amined with some fuspicion, Mr. Warner then &at it on the table, and steadying it witU one hand, commenced to pull cau tiously in the finger jlacs oo ths sliding ' lid. But the slide seemed to bind, and his son put his hand on the box to hold it so that Mr. Warner might lay out a stronger effort. The cover of the box then started, but exhibiting the greatest care, Mr. 'W. drew it so slowly that it scarcely could be seen to move, looking all the while to as certain the character of its contents; out when the lid was half drawn o(T, he discov. ercd that its contents were dark, and at the same time perceived a number of small glo bules of a bluish-yellow flame ; like that which poises upon the end of a match when first lit, dotting the inner surface. Conceiving the horrable nature of the ma chine which he was holding, Mr. Warner quickly withdrew his hands, asjd with an exclamation of "For God's sake come out directly !" ran from the room. He was instantly followed by his son, and the son by Mrs. Warner, who being last out, but just cleared the jamp, when a tremendous explosion took place, that by its concussion knocked her to the floor, and shook the house to its foundation. The noise was like that of a discharge of ordinance, aud. immediately upon the report, the basement was filled with a smoke to dense that it was thought the house was on fire. Oflicers were at once sent for, and soon the Chief and his force were on the spot. Upon examining the premises it was dis covered that the door of the room had been blown completely ofT its hinges, and its panels were split. The north side of the room, which was a plastered partition, was driven half down and shattered in several places, a portion of the ceiling was blown away, and the lower sashes of the windows were torn completely out. 1 he dinner ta ble on which the box had stood was split in two, and another door was also ripped from its hinges. About the room, after llie smoke had raised, were found the various fragments of the mahogany box, among which were the bottom and the sliding top, and most fortu nate of all, the top still contained, unin jured, the paper direction, before described, Un examining the underside ol this cover, it was found that the rear part of it, in deed all but one third, was plastered with a strong sand fastened on with gum, similar to the ordinary preparations for the ignition of loco-foco matches. It appeared then from this, likewise from clumps of matches waxed together that w-e scattered about the room, and likewise Irom a tin powder canister that was found crumpled and black ened in the area that the box had been filled with powder, and that ignition had been caused by the action ol drawing the sanded lid of the box over a lot of upright and stationary matches. THE POMcn, When this affair came to be known lo the public through the papers of the fol lowing day, it caused a great excitement ; every one shuddered at the diabolical atro city of the attempt to murder a whole family, and all looked to the police tor the solution of the problem. The police on their part looked very profound, as is their custom, and that portion of it which is sta tioned in the Park, and known as the Chief's "bureau," looked most profound of all, and we may add most profound to least purpose. TERSONS SL'SrECTED. Two persons, however, fell under suspi cion. Une ol these was a one armed man, named Samuel Drury, who resided at Asto ria, L. I., and the other was rather a cele brated character, known to fame under the engaging sobriquet of "One Eyed Thomp son." ' Drury was a man of some wealth. He was the owner of the Merchant's Bank of Canandaigua, had been a client of War ner's but had. fallen out with him in rela tion to some professional charges, the sedi ment ot which quarrel, had, from the ten dencies of the client's ferocious nature, sunk into au implacable hatred. This Drury hud long been under the observation ol the po lice, from a trial which he had uudergone in King's county, on a charge of arson, which hud been brought against him, lor setting fire to his house to obtain a large amount of insurance. His hatred to War ner was known, and his frequent savage threats to have his life, were the immediate causes of his being suspected. Against Thompson there were no natu ral reasons for suspicion. Warner had been his benefactor; he had introduced him some three years before, on his acquittal from a charge of burglary, to the generous encouragement of Mr. Havemeyr, the Mayor, and had joined that gentleman in furnishing him with means to enable him to go west to establish himself in bushier where he was not known. Thompson had gone, fell sick, Was exposed by malicious anonymous letters to popular prejudice in the pew place ot his abode, failed, and re turned. ' But he still retained the confi dence of Mr- Havemeyer, and received em ployment through Warner, to ferret out counterfeiter oi a certain patent meui- cine. Thouoh all this went to relieve him of suspicion from an attempt on Warner's life, the fact that he was intimate with Drury, and that he had once upon a time, prepared a torpedo box for the destruction ot any po lice force which should attempt to search his house, rendered him liable to doubt. And this doubt, when taken in connection with the additional fact, that tue direction on the cover of the box, and particularly the word "Confidential," was a fac simile nf his handwriting, ripened surmise Into a guspicion. Drury was hrst arrested, but after a brief and unsatisfactory ' investiga tion, was discharged. Thompson, in th meantime, had examined the fragments of the box, and coming to the conclusion that Drnrv. bv the hand-writing, nan endeavor ed to Induce suspicion towardi him as the author of the machine, went to Mr. Wr tier and the Chief of Police, and promised if thev would eiv him twelve days, he would Drove the box against Drury. On tba tenth day, however, it was thought that he slacked in his endeavors, and the autho rities, having do patience, arrested him. The result was, the affair, broke down, and Thompson also was discharged, with, haired rankling in his soul against Warner for al lowing himself to be persuaded info the be lief against him. BEG1NN1NO OF THE DUVELOTEMENT. . From this time, the torpedo or infernal machine was almost forgotten, and when thought of at all, was regarded as one of those mysteries that were never to be solved. We had not lost sight of it, however. It was ho discouragement to us, that the Chief and his force had failed, and having fixed our suspicions against Drury, we went pa tiently along in collecting everything that evinced itself to his involvement. By-and-by.we picked up a circumstance; then came along another , and' alter a little while, we had together a show of proof which, if not exactly fit to be used in court, was confirmatory of a sound opinion. We found Drury, after a brief supervision of his movements, to be engaged in various specu lations of a felonous character; we found that he was educating his eldest son to crime; We ascertained that the fortune which he possessed, and out of which he had purchased the "Merchant's Bank of Canandaigua," had been chiefly made by coining Spanish dollars and doubloons, and by engagements in extensive local counter feiting operations. ' When we got as far as this in our inves tigations, a ten and five dollar counterfeit bill on the Eugle bank of Brislols, It. I., ap peared. A woman named Margaret O' Connor was arrested for passing them in Boston; another - individual was arrested for passing them here. With both of these we ascertained that Drury had intimate communication, and Ly the fortunate obser vation of one of our correspondents in Bristol, we ascertained, that Young Sam Drury had, in the month of JuneTast, been at the Eagle Bank in Bristol, and obtained five hundred of the original "ones" of that institution, from which the altered fives and fens were made. To clench this point, we at once wrote to the bank, and secured an identification for the boy, which would af ford a facility for his ultimate arrest, on the torpedo business: for we already had strong reason to believe that he was the pervjn, who, in the blacked face and slouch ed hat, had carried the infernal machine, at thu direction of the elder Drury, to Mr. Warner's house. ONE EYED THOMPSON. About tho time we had completed this measure of precaution, wn received an un expected viit from the famous One Eyed Thompson. Evincing great agitation, he lold lis lie came to us for protection, w hich he feared he could gel no where rise. He understood that there were warrants out against him for passing counterfeit money; that a certain ofticer had the warrants in his possession, and the favor which he wished to obtain was, to be allowed to go with the officer, before being locked in prison, to the stores where the bills had been passed, iu an ordinary guise, in order to test fairly and without prejudice, wheth er he would be recognized as the man who passed them. lie represented in the most earnest manner, that the accusation was false ; that there were enemies conspiring against him, and that his great concern, in relation to an arrest, was the condition of his wife, and the difficulty he would have in getting bail. All he wanted was a fair chance. We agreed he should have it, sent for the oflicer, explained our views, and the two went together to tho stores where the notes had been passed. Thomp son akcd of the tradesmen to see bills, as if he were an oflicer himself, and at the same time requested a description of the passer. In each place he came oir unidentified, and the oflicer saw that he had no cause to in- terlere with nim. For this favor on our part, he expressed reat gratitude ; and as wo were enabled lo show him, pretty conclusively, that Dru ry was conspiring anew to hx the torpedo business upon him,, we proposed that he ahould prove his gratitude, by aiding us in the dovelopement; we had so long been about. His iutiniacy with Drury would facilitate the task ; besides, he had talents that were equal to the business. We stim ulated bun with Ins duty to Warner; his duty to himselt by removing Warner's sus- icions, and bully, with the danger which le sintered irom tne gradual combinations ! of such a subtle and powerful enemy as Drury. Upon this last motive he acted, and went to work to save his own life. We make explanation to show, that he was not a stool-pigeon,' and to explain that we were not using one. A stool-pigeon is an accomplice in crime; in this case, Thomp son being tree from implication in the par ticular offence in question, was to act rather as an amateur policeman, than in any Ipwer character. He feared, however, that it was now be yond the power of man to make out the facts; There was a time wnen h migni have been done, but that time was gone. He himself had aided in the obliteration of the testimony, in chagrin at his premature arrest, and had sent the man, (a recently discharged convict,) who had secretly made the box at Drury's order, to Caliiornia, to get him out of the way. lie leaped, that even should this man be now persuaded buck, the corroborating circumstances, as to where he had purchased , the wood, where he. had got the cover grooved, and Where he made the frame, had so faded out, that it would be of but little use to look them up. 1 It was then that we opened the budget of ' circumstances already against Drury, and told him that the remainder of the proof could be collected with equal ease. He shook Lis head he could not see bow. We then showed him, that if the secret which he conceived to be buried forever, because it was sunk in the bosoms of the two hefarious rrrtrators,4 could be dragged to the light through their own lips, it would be in the world again for our use. He siezed the tiew of a sudden, and as he revolved it in his mind, his instincts were aroused, and he saw its possibility with the clearness of a strong reliance. Drury had never pretended to deny to him, that he was the person who got up tho torpedo box, and it was not imposssble, that he might, with all his cunning, be induced to do so again, in a place where it could be heard by those whose testimony would be good against him. The first movement was, therefore, to renew the intimacy between himself and Drury, which latterly had been slightly jarred, and to draw him under his influence by inflaming his avarice. That was the weak point of assault. TROcnESS OF THE SCHEME. He visited him at his farm at Austria, conferred with him upon various specula tions in crime, and ascertained, from ex pression? which Drury now and then let drop in his angry conversation about War ner, that be was preparing another torpedo for him. This apprehension required the business to be' hurried up, and Thompson informed Drury that he had at his com mand a splendid lot of engraver's dies, which had been some months before in Boston, the value of which in the counter feiting of bills, might be known by the mere fact that a reward of five hundred dollars had been oflered for their recovery. Drury eagerly asked where they were, whereupon Thompson told him that they were hid in a stone fence, in a lonely part of the Filth Avenue, near the upper Reser voir, in this city, and that if he or Sam would come over to this side on an indica ted night, he would put them in possession of the things. As Thompson had no such things, and would be obliged to fail in get ting them, he, in order to gain time to go Boston, and endeavor to borrow them from Smith Davis, the King of the Counterfeiters, who had them in reality, told Drury that he must come, or send Sam, on the indica ted night without fail, as on the next day he must go East and be gone for three weeks. This being arranged we drove out of town on Saturday, the 15th of Septem ber, and met Thompson near the upper Re servoir. He thjn selected a spot in a line of fence, much used in former days by Smith Davis and his gangs, which was to be represented as the place of deposit. We marked it with our eye, and it was our plan to place upon that ground, on the night in question, (Monday, 17th September,) one or two persons in order to deter and baffle the Drurys when they came, and to excuse Thompson from approaching the fence. The persons whom we were to place there were to remain on the ground till one o' clock, and the Drurys were to be kept re turning to the spot by the desire to accom plish the matter that night. During the course of this marching to and fro, it was supposed that the Drurys would get hungry, and, to kill an hour, would consent to ad journ to the nearest tavern on the road, to get something to eat. i hat was the great point to which all the arrangements tended. Continued next week. OMNIPRESENCE. Kneel, my child, for God is here I Bend in love, but not in fear; Kneel before him now in prayer; Thank hiin for his constant care ; Praise him for his bounties shed Every moment on thy head; Ask lor lilit lo know his will; At-k for love thy heart to till, Ask for faith to bear thee on i Through tho miaht of Christ, his Son J Ask his Spiiil still to ejuido I hoe Through the ills t hut may betide thee; Ask for pence to lull to rest Every tumult of thy breast ; Ask in awe, but noi in fear Kneel, my child, for God is here ! "Mrs Brown, they say that your hus band follows very crooked ways." "Well, Mrs. Smith, that is not strange, for when he was a boy he got so much in the habit ol chasing snakes, that he never could get over it." The Cholera in Sandi'kv. A list of victims of cholera in Sandusky, Ohio, from July 2d to September 7th, lias been pub lished. 1 he number of names is JJl, and it is supposed the entire number of deaths was about 400. ' Feminine War. Mrs. Lydia Jane Pier- son, ot Lancaster Literary Lrazeitc, ana Mrs. Swisshtlm, of the Pittsburg Visiter, are about engaging in a desperate conflict in regard to "the rights of women." To think that the gentle poetess should chal lenge the impulsive Mrs. Swisshelm, who, (it is whispered,) can leap a hve rail fence The California Emigration. Since iho breaking out of lUo California fever, less than a venr. seven bundled and thirty vessels havu left tho Atlantic ports for that country, by way of Cope Horn, containing ubout fifty thousand persons as passengers, They have arriveJ.'nt tin late intelligence has been recel ved two hundred and sixty-five of Ihe above number. Major Buowx, the distinguished Engi neer seut for by Cut Nicholas tq overlook the great railroad from St. IMorsburg lo Mos cow, left fur Kussia iu the Canada on the itlth inst. ; - ' Thb MisAcULOts Rivkr. A California letter in the Nev York Tribune says that ru mora from the South state that the river which miraculously opened in the Great De sert is again disappearing. It was this which fortunately revived and perhaps saved many of the overland emigrants. Tub domestic ant is said to have increas ed in Loudon to so great aa extent as to have engaged the atteniion of the scientific in schemes for its destruction. LETTER FROM SAN FRANCISCO. The following is a letter from a California", to his friends in this city, giving his experi- ence in gold seeking: Imong tlus Mountains in the Gold Diggings, 260 miles from San Francisco, at Towalw. marcs, Oct. 2th. Wo have arrived here from Stockton, hav ing in all about 50 pack mules and SO or 60 person on foot. We went down to a place where no one thought of looking for gold. It was among the rocks, and bad all been worked over. I said to Mr. P., '1 am going to raise that rock,' pointing to it. Said he to me, 'I don't think you can do it.' Well,' I said, 'I'll do nothing else, for I think I smell gold there.' I left him, walked up the hill and borrowed an nxe up tho mountain. I went in search of a tree, to mako a lever. I cut down a white oak, about five inches in diameter, cut it some eight or ten feet long, went to tho rock and fixed my pry, as we used to call it at the saw-mill, under the edge of rock. 1 put my weight on it a littlo. 'There,' says P., 'you shake it.' I said, 'I'll shake it worse than that wlfen I gel the air nnder it.' Sure enoutrh, I did turn it over ; it weighed about a half ton. We went to work, and took day four ounces of gold, which paid for onr rocker twice over tho first day, 'Well,' says P., 'you aro ono of tho b'hoys.' The next day we took ont three ounces more; that made seven ounces under that one, and if it had not been for the water, we could have got more; however, 1 tried some other rocks near by, and took out in six days 23 ounces of gold, of the very best quality, and have more than 25 ounces of gold, of tho very best quality, and have more than 25 ounces of gold, which in Philadelphia will bo worth moro than 820 tho ounce Tho gold on this river is said to bo worth t2 the ounce more than any that is found in California. It is very fine ; the largest lump 1 found was fifty cents worth. I tried to keep persons from seeing mo get it ; they would come sneak ing around,' saying, 'I guess you'va got p pretty rich spot.' 'Not very hard work,' I said ; 'I think I shall get two or three dollars to-day.' P. would say to me, 'I expected you would certainly see gold to-day.' Not very much. That day we got out over five ounces. Thus far I beat any of the new be ginners, and P. said to me, 'You understand it.' 'Yes,' I said, '1 have quarried stone, but never quarried gold before.' No ono ever thought of raising the rocks till they saw me. If I keep my health and strength, there is gold in California for me. It is hard work, llow it mado my back-ache when I only got an ounce a day ; but when ono gets three or four ounces a day ho don't feel any back-ache Gold is here beyond a doubt ; but to look at it you rvonld think there was none. There was one poor fellow who came out in the same steamer that we did, camo also to this place. When he saw what gold digging was he sit down ami cried, llo has left; with many others that never take held of the sho vel and pick, they expect they can pick it up like gathering walnuts, but they ore very much mistaken. It is hard work, hard fare, hard sloeping and a hard road to travel to get at the gold. There is a company of one hun dred engaged in digging a canal, six hundred feet long, in order to turn the channel of tho river. We have been at if a little over a week. It will be completed to-morrow, I suppose we have near a pound out. e shall drain the river about aquarter of a mile Tbera will bo digging for us all for at least six weeks, it is thought. In every instance whero this has been done, it has always paid well. Thero were a party of thirteen that made a dam nnd turned tho river only about thirty feet, which took about twelve days, and tho first day's digging they got ten pounds The rich deposit of gold is in the bed of the river. There was ono yesterday who had dammed a small hole alongside of tho river where we nre now draining. Ho hired four or five men to bail out the water for him, and he took out a little over 16 ounces, in about a space so ono of the men told me, of not more than 20 inches square. The men that helped him he paid $10 a day, aud out of that very hole there has at least been taken out some three or four thousand dollars. There have been many instances, under my own eye of over a pound taken in less than half a day. There are some very rich spots in the bed of the river. A miner told me to day that he thought we would take at least fifty pounds out of one hole that ho pointed out to me. I hope so. There is one thing if I had all the gold that will be taken out of where we are draining, I would have enough; I would soon Btart for the Slates It will have to be divided amongst one hun dred men. It could not be done unless many joined together. Theie are many that wish to join us but we will not consent; and some want to buy others (jut. Very few have any desire to sell. One man told me he would not take ten thousand dollars for his chance. 1 would. I have no idea of making any thing like that ; if I get one tbouaand, I would be well paid. There are not less than ten or fifteen thousand dollars taken out daily on this river alone. ' I don't believe there is a mountain stream but what gold cau be found on it, and it is the hardest kind of labor to obtain it, although some have made a fortune in a very short time. If every grain of gold could, in the space of one mile up and down this river be got out, 1 believe there would be from one two millions of dol lars; the very rocks have it in them. A ;,. net told mej in drilling a note m m rock, that he found gold in the usl he drilled out. I am afr'. py' giving you such a golden de scription, that others will be tempted to come out to California lo gold digging, fox my part I will never persuade any of my friends to come, for the very reason so many are se greatly disappointed when they do come. They have no idea what they have to go through. So far, I have never regretted coming to California. If 1 have my health and strength, I can make more than I could at home. I could send home 35 ounces of gold dust, if 1 were at San Francisco; but in the first place, it would not do to leave the diggings at this time ; it is the best season to dig: Iho river is getting lower every day and in iho second place, it would take me two weeks to go and come, and cost me about sixty dollars. Thirdly, it is very sickly down there, I am told, and I would not like to go to tho place. In a month from this time, if I have any luck, and I could find any person 1 could trust, I would send down, bat not without. You must not be discouraged if nono comes this winter. It will come, I hope if I have my health, in amount that will do som? good. D. T. J. AUISE OF WEALTH AND HEALTH. The Boston Journal reports an admirable lecture before the Mercantile Library Asso ciation by tho Hon. Horace Mann successor of Mr. Adams in Congress. The following extracts are worthy of all attention : "The young man walks in the midst of temptation to appetite, the improper indul gence of which is in danger of proving his ruin. Health, longevity, and virtue depend on his resisting these temptations. The Pro, vidence of God is no more responsible, be cause a man by improper indulgence becomes subject to disease, than for the picking of his pockets. For a yonng man to injure his health, is to waste his patrimony and destroy his capacity for virtuous deeds. Shonld a man love God, he will have ten times the strength for the exercise of it, with a sound body. Not only tho amount, but the quali ty of a man's labor depends on his health. Tho productions of the poet, the man of sci ence, or the orator, must be affected by his health, Not only lying lips, but a dyspeptic stomach, is an abomination to the Lord. Tho man who neglects to control his appe tites, is to himself what a state of barbarism is to society the brutish part predominates. Ho is to himself what Nicholas is to Hungary. "Men buy pains, and the purveyor and market man bring home disease. Our pious ancestors used to bury the suicide where four roails meet, yet every gentleman or lady who lays tho foundation of disease with turtle soup or lobster-salad, as really commits sui cide ns if they used the rope or the pistol; and wcro the old law received, how many, who are now honored with a resting place at Mount Auburn, would be found at the cross roads ! It is not amazing that man invited to a repast worthy of the gods, should stop to feed on garbage; or when called lo partake of the Circean cup, should slop to guzzle with swine ! ''If young men image that the gratification of appetito is thegreat source of enjoyment, they will find this in the highest degree with industry nnd temperance. The epicure who seeks it in a dinner which costs five dollars, will find less enjoyment of appetite than the laborer who dines on a shilling. If Iho devotee of appetite desires its highest gratification, ho must not send for Buffalo tongues, but climb a mountain or swing an axe. Without health, there is no delicacy that can provoke an appetite. Whoever de stroys his health, turns the most delicions viands into ipeac and aloes. The man that is physically wicked does not live out half his days, and he is not half alive while he does live. However gracious God may be with the heart, ho never pardons the sto mach. ''Let a young man pursue a course of tem perance, sobriety, and industry, and he May retain his vigor till three score years and ten with his cup of enjoyment full, and depart painlessly : as the candle bums out in its socket, ho will expire. ' But look at the opposite. When a man suffers his appetites to control him, he turns his dwelling into a lazar house, whether he lives in a hovel, clothed with rags, or in the splendid mansions and gorgeous clothing of the uppor ten. "Let every yonng man look on this picture and on that, and tell which he will choose. Society despises the wretch who debases him self, aud treats him as the wild horses do their intractable members get him inside of a ring, and with heels kick him out, te death." The pursuit of wealth for the mere me I of wealth, and not for the opportunities it af fords of elevating ourselves and those around ns, was another topio upon which the speaker "wreaked" the energy of his diction. The gods of this world, said he, are fast dying out and ouo deity alone is worshipped wealth. Were it currently reported that the river Jordan was bedded with gold, the church and the world would vie with the Jews in their strife for the Holy Land all faees would be directed to Jerusalem instead ef San Francisco in the hope of something mere, sterling than salvation. - 1 ! .' Mr. Mann disclaimed all intontion ef wa ging war against the accumulation of wealth. It is the duty of a young man to lsor for a competence. But while all be'ow a compe tence is a misfortune, all eyed j, miobief. Inherited wealth ' ofteu far 0,ner .t blessiu Wheiilhe devil clut the fritter i f' . I anI Ik. t L- .r iiuaiuii.0, ,uw avr, iu, apoimwiE, vr proves the best speculator of the three, be cause he doubles his capital, oa the same la vestmeut. , Slaves is the Woslo The whole bet is estimated at TjSOOjOOfl, '
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