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VVus-nsnN'S ARITHEMETIC Noa. l.S
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'SELECT l'OETRY.
, From the Dublin Uiiiverai y Mugoiine. y:
SPRING. , . ;
. Spring is coming Spring is coming !
VVilh her tunshina and her showers;
Heaven is ringing wiib Ihe singing '
Ot Ihe birds in brake nnd bower) '
Buds are filling, leaves are a swelling,
Flower on field and bloom on tree ;
O'er the earih, and ear. and ocean,
Nature holds her jubilee.
- Soft lhen stealing comes a feeling
O'er my bosom tenderly ;
Sweetly ponder, as I wander,
For my musings are of thee.
Spring is coming Spring is coming 1
With her mornings freh and light j
Willi her noons of chequered glory,
Sky of blue' ud clouds of while.
Calm grey nighllalls, when ihe lij'jt falls
From the siar bespangled sky,
While the splendor, pate and tender,
Of Ihe young moon gleams on high,
Slill at morn, at noon, at even;
Spring is full nf joy for me,
Fur ponder as I wander,
And my musings are of thee.
Slill on lliee my Ihoughls are dwelling,
Whalsoe'er thy name may be;
Beaut iful, beyond words telling,
Is thy presence tililo me.
Morning's breaking finds thee waking
Wandering in ti e breeze's flighl ;
Noontide's glory mantles o,er iheo
In a shower of sunny light ; ,
D.iylight dying leaves iheo lying
In the silvery twilight ray ;
Stars look brightly on ihee nightly
Till Ihe coming of the day.
Everywhere and every minute
Feel I near thee, lovely one;
In the lark and in the linnet,
I can hee.r thy joyous tone.
Bud nnd blooming mark the coming
Of :hy feet o'er vale and hill ;
And Ihy presei.ee, with life's essence,
Makes the forest's heait to fill.
Low before thee, I adore Ihee'
Love crealive, thee I sing ;
Now I meet ihe, and I creel ihee
By ihe holy name of Spring !
Select alc.
THE GOLDEN CLASP.
A modest looking and exceedingly pret
ty young girl, plainly attired, entered one
oflhe goldsmith's stores on street, and
seeing that a gentleman was engaged with
the proprietor, she timidly shrank aside
near the door until lie should be at leisure.
The assistants were occupied with custo
mers whose appearance showed them to be
long to the class of the rich, and so she
was suffered for some time to remain stand
ing therej belore she could be attended to.
The gentleman, who was a fine noble
looking person, with a remarkably polished
address, seeing her waiting, courteously
stood aside, and said to the goldsmith
'Do not occupy yourself with me, Mr.
Hrochard. I can examine these watches
by myself, while you see what this young
person wants, who has been waiting so
long and patiently to get an oppolunity of
addressing you.'
. And thus speaking, the gentleman stood
aside from the show case, on which he had
been leaning, to give the young girl, an
opportunity of advancing.
- 'What do you wish Miss?' asked the
goldsmith with a look which conveyed a
reproof to her for interrupting him while
engaged with a customer ol more value to
him.
The girl hesitantly approached the coun
ter, and taking from her bosom a small gold
clasp, bent over to him, and said, in a low,
trembling voice
'I wish, sir, you would be so kind as to
keep this for a lew days, and let me have
seven dollars for it.'
Low as she spoke, her soft, tremulous
tones reached the ear ot Col. ftlcllenry, the
gentleman who was present, and he turned
to observe her face, and hear the reply of
the goldsmith to '.his timid and paiufully
uttered request. The goldsmith took the
clasp scornfully between his lingers, and
then threw it down, said sharply to her
This is no pawnbroker's shop, girl ; and
itwas, that thing is not worth more than
two dollars.'
It is of inestimable value to me sir in
deed it is the only thing valuable I have,'
answered the girl, and her cheeks slightly
flushed at the rude manner ol his reply.
I don't know at what you value it,' he
answered with a cold laugh glancing at
Colonel MjHenry, whom he thought he
saw severely observing him ; 'I would not
like to give you six shillings lor it.'
But, sir,' pleaded the pin unconscious
of being overheard, '1 must have seven dol
lars to-day, and I have no other way of
getting it, and I was in hopes that you
might let me have that sum on it; fori
will cereainly come back and take it up
again.'
I tell you, answered Brochard angrily,
I keep no pawnbroker's shop. Go to the
Jews.'
They won't give me but two dollars, sir,
and I want seven.'..
And so you think to get it out of me V
The young girl was about to speak again,
but as it not knowing what further arsu
ment to urge, heaitatad, and was turning
slowly away, when she checked herself,
and again spoke to him.
Sir,' she said in a low tbriljing voice of
earnest entreaty, 'my moiner is lying very
ill, and our rent is due at twelve o'clock
to-day, and the person we sew for having
disappoimea us in our pay, i nave uu if
source but this. Oh, sir, will you take the
clasp only for a few days, and then I will
repay you.'
Mr. Brochard felt that Col. McIUnry's
eyes were upon bim, waiting an answer, and
be wished bim to think him a man of busi
ness (which means in his notion a man
without a heart,) he answered promptly
and sternly, 'No ! da you think we are
simpletons here, lo throw away; money, in
this place t. If you have nothing mora; to
say, please to aland aside for other custo
mers. ' Well, Colonel, what do yoU think
of those watches! latest importation; full
jewelled, nnd warranted in all points.' I.
will sell you the one you just laid down for
one hundred and ninety-five dollars.'
. The gentleman, however, was not heed
ing him, but watching ihe young girl
whom he saw leaving Ihe counter, and
wilh a heavy, drooping step approach the
door. Her face had struck him for its
sweet, intelligent loveliness, and her mod
esty had for him an irresislable charm ;
but her plea of poverty, and her eloquent
appeal to the tradesman, deeply interested
his feelings, and enlisted his sympnthies iti
her behalf. He had silently observed Ihe
progress of her interview wilh him, with
emotions of contempt for one and pity for
Ihe other.
Her hand was upon the knob of Ihe
door, when advancing towards her
You ask for seven dollars, I believe ."he
said, wilh a gentle inteiest in his tone that
at once awakened hope in her heart, and
brought the light to her eyes and hue to
her cheek, as she dilGdenlly answered
Yes, sir, I would not have been so bold
and urgr-nt.hut
None (no much so. There" is a ten
dollar note I have no smaller bills,' and
he placed it in her hand.
'Sir yon are tort kind'
Not a word. I am happy to do you a
service.' '
" 'Take litis clasp, sir ; though I am asha
med to offer it to you, since the gentleman
fays it is so worthless. Gut to me it i as
valuable as life, and I foolishly thought it
might be so to others.'
I do not want it child,' answered Col.
McHenry feelingly, pulting'the hand aside
which urged it upon him.
Indeed, sir, you must take it, for I shall
feel in some degree less under obligations to
a stranger. Besides, I wish to call and re
deem it. Will you give me your address
sir V and as she" spoke he still declining the
jewel, she laid it on the show case.
'Oh, no matter-'-biit if vou insist the
United States Hotel.'
Thank you , sir, you never can know
the blessings lo olhersthat will follow your
kindness lo me to-day.' Thus speaking,
and looking upon him with an expression
of gratitude in her tearful eyes, she left the
shop, forgetting the golden clasp, which
she had left upon the show case.
Will you look at one of those watches
now, Col. McHenry ?' superciliously asked
the goldsmith, without lilting his condemn
ed eyes.
No, sir,' answered the gentlemen sternly,
and taking up his gloves and cane from the
counter, he left the shopol the avaricious
and unfeeling goldsmith, who too close to
risk a trille to relieve the wants of a poor
family, probably lost a large amount by the
purchase his wealthy customer might have
made, as well as his own self respect, such
as it was ! for avarice always sinks into its
shell before the bioadsun of benevolence.
Now there goes a man who throws away
his money upon vagrants, and thinks me
beneath him, because I keep mine to sup
port my family,' said the goldsmith looking
after him. 'He thinks me a miser, and I
think bim a fool. Oh here is that clasp af
ter all ! She left it for him on the show
case, and he was too proud lo lake it away
if he saw it. Seven dollars ! It is not worth
more tha five.'
He opened it as he spoke, and taking up
a sharp instilment, tried ihe fineness of the
gold.
It is good Mexican gold. It might have
cost twenty dollars. Ah, what a star of
diamonds within it!' As in working about
it with the point of the steal, he discovered
a cavity. 'Twelve large diamonds of the
purest water. This is indeed valuable.
They are worth at least five hundred dollars.
What a fortunate dicovrry ! I he girl knew
the value to ask so much ' no, no, she could
nut either, for she would not have let it
gone for so small a sum, or else asked for
near its value, I suspuct she was ignorant
of the cavity, which I detected by acci-
nl. She probably has stolen it, and will
never come for it.- Ah, ah, Abraham
Brochard, thou hast made a good morning's
work of it,' he said exultirrgly to himself.
Then looking around among his boys, to
see if he was unobserved, he carefully, yet
with u careless air, locked the clasp in his
private drawer, and taking out the key,
placed it in his pocket. He had hardly
done so, when Col. McHenry re-entered,
and without speaking or even looking at
him, cast his eyes upon the show case for
the clasp, which he recollected after going
out, the young girl had laid down, but had
not taken up again, and so he turned back
for it. Abraham Brochard was very busily
engaged in replacing Ihe watches in their
doe-skin coverings and preserved silence
and Ignorance. At length Col. McHenry
spoke .
That young person laid her clasp on the
case, sir, which I neglected lotake up. It
were a pity she valued it so highly, it
should be lost.'
The clasp, oh, I have not seen it, sir.
She took it up again.'
Did you see her?' , ....
Yes. oh, yes! I had my ' eyes on her,
and said at the same time that you'd never
see your ten dollars or the clisp again.'
The gentleman eyed him steadily an in
stant, and then glanced around the show
again, as if in search of it, he left tho shop.
Several days had elapsed, and Col. Mc
Henry bad quite forgotten the circumstance
just narrated, when as he was passing down
Arch St. he felt his sleeve slightly pulled
by some one- he heaid running behind him,
and looking round, he beheld, with a
cheek glowing from the pursuit, the young
gir) he had seen in the goldsmith's.
Oh, sir, I am so happy to have found
you !' she said, at once addressing him, as
he stopped and with pleasure listened to
her"; ' 'I was at length enabled to get my
pay and by olhef Work have earned enough
to repay the ten dollars you so kindly gave
me. You don't know Ihe good yon did,
sir the suffering you relieved Ihe evil
yourlintely aid averted. Here is the mo
ey, ir.'
,Nay, my good girl, I do not want it. I
made you a present of it at the time, and
did not expect you lo return i'. J am glad
however, to find thai you have the disposi
tion to do so, and that I was not deceived
in my estimation of yon.'
'You must take it, sir,' she said with in
genuous earnestness. 1 should be distres
sed to be longer under pecuniary obliga
tions to an entire stranger. Besides, sir, I
would like my clasp, if you please.'
'Did you not take it from the case where
you laid it down?' he asked wilh surprise
and justly directed suspicion.
'No, sir indeed, sir, I hope it is not
lost. It is of countless value to me. It
was given to me by by '
By a sweet. heartT he added smiling.
He is now dead, sir,' she answered
with overflowing eyes.
'You dp well to value it. 1 did not take
it up. Are you sure you left it there?'
Yes, sir : hoping you would take it and
keep it till I paid you.'
Well my child 1 have not got it ; but I
believe the goldsmith has. Let us go to
him.
On their arrival, Mr. Brochard denied
having seen it since she went out, and that
he saw her take jt wilh her and place it in
her bosom as she left the shop.
Come wilh me: I will find the clasp
for you,' said Col. McHenry, offering her
his arm, nnd leaving the goldsmith's with
her. I do hope I shall find it sir,' she
said as she walked ; 'it was Rupert's last
dying gift. It was given him in Cuba by
a rich lady whose life he had saved by res
cueing her from the water. He was a sai
lor, sir, and had but little to leave me but
his memory and his poor clasp. Oh, sir, if
it is lost I shall never forgive myself for
ofTeringlo pledge it. But, sir our extrem
ity was very great.'
Colonel McHenry stopped with her at a
Justice's oflice, and briefly and clearly
made his complaint, and in a very few min
utes Mr. Abraham Brochard was brought by
an officer into the presence of the magis
trate, lie appeared to be in great trepida
tion, and was pale as ashes; for he had
been suddenly taken without warning from
behinj his counter leaving his shop in
charge of his astonished assistants. Col.
McHenry and the lady being sworn, depo
sed that they both had last seen the clasp
on the show case, when each went out and
left it ; the former further deposed that he
had not gone three steps from the door be
fore he returnad nnd found it missing, and
no one in Ihp vicinity but the defehdant.
The goldsmith was then called up to be
sworn as lo his knowledge ol the facts.
He approached the stand where the magis
trate held the Bible, ami laid his hands up
on it with a perceptible tremor of his
whole frame ; but the love of money was
stronger than the fearof law, and he took
the oath. It appeared as if he would have
sunk through the floor, when he did it, but
the moment it was done he recovered his
audacity. At this -moment nn officer who,
at the suggestion of Col. McHenry, had
been privately despatched with a search
warrant to the shop of the goldsmith, now
entered and placed sometning in the mag'
istrate's hand after whispering to him.
'Ditl you ever see this gold ornament be
fore ?' asked the magistrate, holding up the
clasp before the young girl
'Oh, it is my clasp it is my clasp !' she
cried springing forward
'Yes it is the same,' answered Colonel
Ale Henry.
And did vou ever see it before, sir?' de
manded the "justice sternly holding it in the
direction of the goldsmith, who had seen it
at first, and was appalled wilh fear and
consternation. Instead of replying, ne ut
tered a wild, hysterical laugh and fell his
length upon the floor in convulsions
He was, a few weeks afterwards, taken
from prison, tried and condemned for per-
jury ; but instead of the gallows he is now
raving in the mad house. Thus was avar
ice and parsimony, and indifference to the
sufferings of others punished in this life
the acts of this selfish man showing to all
how that acquisitiveness wrongly directed
is fatal lo its possessor.
Whether Col. McHenry was a bachelor
and married his young friend of the clasp,
or whether he did better and adopted her,
is not known to the writer, otherwise it
would afford him gratification to communi
cate either ol the pleasing facts to the
reader.
Savannah. The Savannah Republican
thus discourses of what Ihe people of Savan
nah have been doing in the way of internal
improvements :
"They contributed three millions of dollars
lo Ihe Central Road ; $60,000 dollar to the
Smith Western Road j 4500 000 lo the Macon
and Western Road ; SCO 000 lo the Milledg-
Ville Ealonton Roads ; $100,000 lo the Lid
Opelika Road ; endorsed Muscogee Railroad
bonds for 375,000; and paid towards Ihe
Stale Road, in the way of taxes, as much as
Iho would of the South Western Georgia
and the Cheiokee county together. Iu uddi
lion to all this, they ha contiibuted at
leaaU $450,000 for steamships and steam
boat ; 9100,000 for a canal connecting the
Savanuah and Ogechxe rivets, and other
considerable sums fur their shipping in ter
es t Tbey have built gas works at a cost
of civet 9100,000, and are now electing tra
ter vvoiks, to cost at least 1 250,000.
Thic Schuylkill county burning mountain
story, now going the rounds, is very pretty
and very graphio J but lacks ono essential
viitnc truth.
GENnitAL MARSHALL.
Thomas F. Marshall, ex congressman. c.-
I captain and ex-temperance lecturer, has had I
thu dotibtful p'easure of leading his own obi
inary in advance, wo hope, many years of
its appropriate ncension. We Ituet he may
ptofit by the opinions so frankly expressed
by his contemporaries over his su posed
gtavc. borne of them have been far fiom
flattering. It is unfortunately Itue that the
rrtgo of criticism and the exasperation of
feeling no longer respect even the newly
mado gtave. The old maxim, speak kindly
of the dead, ia fasl grow h.g into disrepute. A
man who has made any fignro in is now
scarcely interred before ho is vilified in the
newspaper press, in lampooning panphlets
and fiercely critical sermons His friends
nnd relatives are inlerrttpled in thoir lamen
tations over the dead by ihe acrimonious
voico of men who claim to speak the deci-
siyn of impartial posterity, and who chal.
engo every sob and every tear. ilh
i hose pretended reformers, funeral sermons
should be harsh critical essays, and tomb
stones should be pillories of Ihe memory of
the departed instead of tributes of affection.
Such men seem lo us to huve forgotten, in
the acerbity of parly feeling, the great reli
gion ot humanity.- iney nave eninroneu
brutality and not justice. Had they stood
over iho grave of Lazarus, they would have
recounted his foitdus instead of weeping for
his untimely death.
The Marshall of Kentuchy foim quite an
extensive connexion, of which every man is
lialinr;niihed for lalcut.. There are several
generations of ihem. Thomas F. Marshall
nnd Edwtrd C. Marshall, the present M. C.
from California, are brotheis ; ihe younger
being every way equal to the elder. Hum
phrey Marshall, the present Commissioner
lo China, is their second cousin. Ilia father
John J. Mnrslmll, was Jtidi;e at Louisville,
and for a long time before his death enjoyed
ihe reputation of being the most eminent
juri-t nf Kentucky and withal a most ac
complished gentleman. Thns. A. Marshall,
who has recently met a vio'ent death, be
longed to still annthur branch of the family.
He uas a generous, hospitable man, impul
sive of soul, somewhat hasty in temper, and
with n hiyh sense of family pride. The in
cident which led to his appointment as Brig
adier General of the troops from Kentucky,
id loo good an illustration of manners and
customs iti that state to be lost. An tnglisn
traveller who witnessed it as a specimen of
what the Kenluckiiins call "a free fight."
"Tom Marshall of Mason county," as he was
cille.I in coutradistiiiciion to his namesake
of Wood lord, was one ilay sitting very qui
etly in the bar-room of the Mansion (louse,
the best hotel nt Frankfort. He had just put
to bed his friend Captain X , in n state of in
toxical ion, and warming himselt at the tire
prepatatoiy to retiring foi the night. The
door opened and fivo young men, all high-
spiiiled young bucks, entered. One of Ihem
asked the barkeeper for Captain X. On be
ing lolil that trio capiani was in ueu, iney
decided to go up to his room and drag him
out ; he had insulted, they said, a lady
Maishull now rose, and bowing lo them, said :
,:Gentlemen, Captain X. is dead drunk, and
can make no resistance ; But 1 have every
reason to think he will give you satisfaction
in ihe morning."
Bui waiting did not suit their impatience
they would have him out and cowhide him
'Gentlemen," said Marshall, "Captain X. is
my fiieud; I vouch for him ; he will answer
any or allot you in the morning.' Ihls
peecb, uttered by a well-set, square-built,
broad-shouldered man, in the vigor of mid
dle age, drew upon its author an explosion
of the already excited passions of the young
men. One of ihem menaced the speaker
with a stick. Marshall wrested it from bis
hands, and calling out, Kentucky fashion, "a
free fiaht !'' rushed in on his assailant. To
seize him Tii his biawny arms, and dash him
thoiugh the window sash, was the work of a
moment. The melee now become general
Marshall fought like a tiger al bay, biting
off the tip of the nose of one of his aulago
lists, and disabling the others
The rombat was al its fiercest, when the
Englishman, who was anxious lo see "a free
finht," got into the room The next instant,
he was seized by the neck, mid Ihe seat of
his trowsers' and thrown head foremost
through tbe baize door of ihe bar-room,
asainst the bannisters of the stairs. The
Keutuckians wet satisfied wilh the whip
plug they had received, and saul no more
about it j one of Ihem, the one who had lost
his nose, shot himself next morning J but Ihe
Englishman, not couteut w ith putting Ihe
battle down in his note book, entered bis
complaint before a magistrate. Tom Mar
was lined five dollars for his part in the fray.
The affair gave him, however, such a repu
laliou for courage and decision of chnincter,
that, when the Mexican war came on, he
was by common content culled on to lead the
Kentuckians into battle,
The plate In the Queen Victoria's cabin
ha been saved by a diver t but. the man
protests that nothing in the world would ill'
duce hi in lo go down a second lime, as the
scene in the cabin was the moat horrible he
had ever witnessed. He thought be had
entered a waxwork exhibition, the corpse
never having moved from their positions
since the vessel went down. There were
ome 18 or 80 persons in the cabin, one and
all of whom seemed to be holding conver
sation with each other : and the general ap
pearanca of the w hole scene was so life-like
that he was almost Inclined lo believe some
wcie yet living.
TIIRILLIXG INCIDENT.
A correspondent of the St. Louis Republi
can, writing fiom Jefferson Barracks, selates
the following wonderful foat of a soldier on
the 81st ultimo :
"The old flagstaff at Ihe barracks had been
shaking tin J toppling all winter, and tho day
being calm the general had n party detailed
to take it down. A soldier, Michael MeAn
ally, of Ctd. Bragg' battery, accordingly
mounted to the crosslrees and unshipped the
topmast ; from some cause il bocamo unman
ageable and glided through iho platform to
the ground. The man at the masthead kept
his post composedly, and gave timely warn
ing to tho paity below lo stand from under."
Nine out of ten men, wilh a spar fifty feel
long shooting and rasping like an arrow
through their hands, with an insecure footing
at a dizzy height, would have 'left the yard1
and tumbled from the plutform. While the
party below were removing Ihe topmast, to
the dismay and consternation of Ihe bystan'
ders, the mainmast, with the soldier still poi
sed at the masthead, now swayed over, broke
short off at its base, and plunged with a tre
mendous crash to the ground.
' Tho soldier ir. the meantime was seen
to change his position as the mast went over,
and circling high through the air wilh fright
ful velocity, he wilh perfect self-possession,
adjusted himself to clear the framework of
the crosstiees, and as the mast nrnrcd the
ground, he, evidently wilh a well-measured
leap, alighted wilh safety amidst his com
ades. All were startled into amazement, os
much by Ihe intrepidity displayed us by the
imminent peril it averted. The mainmast
was forty-eight feet high ; the soldier lauded
at fifty fiom its basa.
A Cautio. Wo learn from a late trea
tise on Cancer, that the application of soot
pouliices, salves, &c., has fearfully increasd
the number of cases of cancer in onr hospi
tals. From a careful inquiry into ihe origin
and causses of cancer cases in one of the
eastern hospitals, it was ascertained thai in
three cases out of five, the patients had cuts
burns, or bruises,, and had resorted to the
much approved application of soot for relief.
This author also cited a species of cancer
peculiar to sweeps, and which he atliibulca
to their constant proximity with snot.
Colonization. Tlie Philadelphia Confer
ence of ihe Methodist Episcopal Chuich, at
their late session at Harrisbnrg, past sundry
resolutions in reference to the colonization
cause; first, thai they regard with increased
favor the cause of African colonization, second
and third, that they approve the course of the
Pennsylvania society ; fourth, that they com
mend ihe missionary aspect of colonization in
Liberia ; fifth, that they recommend the agent
of the Colonization Society to the bounds of
lite Conference ; and sfxih, that they recom
mend a public meeting in behalf of the col
onization cause.
Snails. A French paper snjs that snails
have become quite a fashionablo article of
diet iu Paris, as they were iu the days of the
old Romans. There are now fifty restaurants,
and more than twelve hundred private tables
of Paiis, where snails are accepted a a deli
cacy by from eight lo ten thousand customers.
The monthly consumption of this molluscan
is estimated at half a million. The maiket
price of the great vineyard snails is from 3f.
50o. to 3f. 30o per hundred, while Ihoso of
ihe hedges, woods and forests, being only
from 2f. to 2f. 25o. The proprietor of the
sna'lery in the vicinity of Dijin is said to net.
over 70001'. annually.
The N. Y. Evening Post says that the
Jewells of Boston have published over 300,.
000 copies of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The
have also received orders already far over
40,000 copies of the Key to Uncle Tom's Ca
bin, of which they have about that number
printed ami ready for delivery, but dare not
put them In markpt until 75,000 are ready,
lest they should fail of being able to meet
the consentient demand. The book will
therefore not be published until the 10;h
instant.
It taxm Tile Yankees. One of the ever
active sou of iev Eu'daud u now in
Europe travelling with a natural curiosity.
It is a negro woman with a largo ring iu her
nose, represented as a fugitive from slavery.
This exhibition is intended lo represent
southern slavery, and the idea of making
money in this singular way is taken from '
Uncle Tain's Cabin. Thousands flocked to
see the curiosity. A portion of iho proceeds
are divided wi'.h the tinged degress.
When a Chixk.k F-mpl-ror dies the in-
elligenco is announced by dispatches to the
several provinces, written with bluo ink, the
mourning color. All persons of tank aro in
quired lo take the red silk ornaments from
their cops, with the ball nr button of rank;
all subject of China, without excepinn, are
called upon lo foibear from shaving their
heads for one hundred days, within which
period none may marry, play on musical in.
struments, or perforin any sacrifice.
Tut Di'ciitssor Sutherland's Petition
to Ihe ladies of the United Slates, it is said
i on the way here,' to be entrsuted to Mrs.
Slowe, w hose absence was not calculated up
on. One of thets papers is said to be signed
by half a million of ladies, and another by
166,000.
Discovery or Coal A large vein of an
thracite coal, it is aid, has been discovered
on Ihe farm of Jame Parsons, hq . Bl'ou,
nine miles from Honiney, Vs.
Matrimony in Rcssia On Wh'isuntl
afternoon, there are to be seen ir the srfm
mer gardens of Petersburg, the daughter
of ihe middling classes ranged in long rows
and dresseil in their best, and often bedewk
ed with cosily jewels. Matrimony is tber
object of display. Young bachelors walk
up and down the line of damsels, critically
inspecting Ihem as they pass. Should their
eye indicate that they have made a choice,
a matchmaking fiiend of Ihe young lady's
teps out of the rear rank, joins the wouli
be wooer, informing him of tho girl's cir
cumstances, of her family, dowry, of her
housewifely qualities, etc., and obtains from,
him similar information concerning himself.
Should they come lo an understanding that
malchmaker conducts her candidate to tber
mother, who introduces him lo her daughter,
Invites him to ber bouse, and a wedding is
the most usual result of the acquaintance)
thus commenced. Some may smile at this
fact, tot the cynical will declare that tb
custom is in reality by no means peculiar to
Kussia.
SiNoctsa GeoioorcAL Fact. At Modena
in Italy, witbin a circle of four miles around
the city, whenever the earth is dug and the
workmen arrive at the distance of 63 feet,
they come to a bed of rhalk, which they
bore with an anger, 5 feet deep. They
then withdraw from the pit before tbe auger
is removed, and upon its lefraction the wa
ter bursls up wilh great violence, and qnick
ly fills the well thus made, the supply of
water being neither affected by rains or
droughts. A; Ihe depth of fourteen feet are
founil ihe ruins of an ancient city, honses,
paved streets, und masonic work. Below
l his again is a layer of earth, and at 86 feet
walnut trees are found entiie, with leave
-und walnuts upon them. At 28 feet soft
chalk is found, and below this vegetable
nnd trees.
QciTC an excitement has been caused in
our borough duiing the past week in conse
quence of an occurrence that took place be
tween tho Melhodiet minister residing here)
and one of our young attorneys. It seems
that the minister some three or four weeks
ago united in matrimony Ihe sister of the
lawyer, a lady of fine personal appearance,
though rather too young lo assume the care
of wedded life, contrary to the wishes uf ber
parents, lo a New York news-boy who has
been delivering papers here since Ihe open
ing of the Railroad. The parents of the lady
did not believe fur some time that they were)
married, but finally sent for the minister to
enquiie. Ihe marriage certificate having
been shown to him he ackuowleged it to be
his and admitted having performed the cer
emony. On Saturday evening her brother
culled on the minister and invited him in a
courteous manner to take u walk with him,
saying that he wished lo have some private
conversation w ith him. The minister con
senled, and after they had walked three or
four squares, report says,-the attorney pulled
a cow-hide from under bis coat and began
applying il to ihe back of his clerical fiiend,
w ho ran nnd retreated into a store. There
the matter ended. Il is lo be legret'ed that
such things should occur in an intelligent
community. Au attempt lo raw-hide a man
is contrary to law and therefore wrong. Il
cannot be justified. Bui it is also a matter
of tegret that some ministers do not exercise
more judgment and discretion iu performing
Ihe inauiayu ceremony In this instance
both the parlies were under eighteeen years
of age, and the minister lo whom ihey ap-.(
plied should not only have declined their ro- -quest
bill be should at once have made it .
known to thu girl' parent. A the' matter
may not end here, we decline saying more '
about it at this time. -Easlon Argitt.
The average number ot bee in a bive, or
swaim, is from fifteen to twenty ihous.nd
Niueteen thousand four hundred and ninety,
nine are neauler or working bees, five bun
dred are drones, and the remaining ckk is
the queen or mother !
Pkoplc should travel if for no other rea
son than te receive every now and then a
letter from home. The place of onr birth
never appears so beautiful as w hen it is out
of sight.
Fact. The people of ihe United States
pay as much for imported cigar a Ihey
receive for exported wheal ; and diiuk in
ihe form of French brandy, the whole pro
ceeds of Ihe Indian corn exportation.
Freigut at Wheeling. The Wheeling
Time state thai the Baltimore anil Ohio
Railiond Company now ship daily 800 tons
of freight eastward from that city, and receivs
daily (he same fiom the east.
The Methodist Church in Liberia compri
ses 1 130 n embers, 127 probationers, 20 lo
cal preachers, 20 Sunday Schools, wilh 731
scholar, 100 leacher and 20 nperinten-
dents, besides
scholars.
18 day c
huols. with 51T
Liei'T.Col Mlir-s, w ho is stationed at Foil
Filmore, New Mexico, give, an account of a
new Pass across the Rocky Mountains, ra
cenlly discovered on the route from Albu
querque to San Francisco. The journey be
tween thee poini. he say, may be made in
the space of twenty-five days.
Sta.bed ,R7rZl.ry VY.tr,
girl 16 year, old, was .tabbed by br ...ter,
Mr..O'Conner,o Monday las., m Allegheny
County, and cannot poMibly recover. The,
barrelled about i""' I"00