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NEW SERIES, VOL. 9, NO. 11.
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A NURSERY SONG.
Ail walked over the bills one day, -I
listened, and heard a mother cheep any,
"In all the green world there ii nothing so
sweet
As my little Inmmio with Ti is nimble feet,
With his eyes so bright
And his wool so white,
0, he is my darling, my heart's delight.
The robin, hu
That sings in the tree,
Dearly may dout on his darlings four,
But 1 lovu iny one little lambkin more."
And the mother-sheep and ber little one,
Side by side lay dowu in the sun,
And they went to sleep on hill-gido warm,
While my little Innunio lies hcie on my arm.
I went to tho kitchen, and what did I see,
Hut the old gray cat with her kittens three.
I heard her whisperings soft said she,
"My kittens, with tails ull so cunningly curled,
Are the prettiest things tbut can bo in the
world.
The bird on the tree,
And the old ewe, she
May lore their babies exceedingly ;
I! ut I love my kittens there,
Under the rocking choir,
I love my kittens with all my might,
I lore them ut morning, end noon and night,
Which is the preltieKt I cannot lull
Which of the three
For the life of me
I love them all so well.
Now I'll take up my kittles, the kitties I
love,
And we'll lie down together beneath the
warm stove."
Let the kitties sleep under the stove so warm,
While iny little dulling liej hero on my urni.
I went to the yard and I saw tho old hen
Go clucking about with liei chickens ten. -She
clucked and she scratched and she
bristled away.
And what do you think I heard the hen say?
I heard her say, "The sun never did shine
On anything like these chickens of mine.
You may hunt the full moon, aud tho stars il
you please.
But you never will Cud ten such chickens as
these. ,
Tho cat loves her kittens, the ewe loves her
iamb,
But they do not know what a proud mother
1 am ;
For lambs, nor fur kittens, I won't part with
these,
Though the sheep nnd the cat should go down
on their knees.
No 1 No ! not. though
The kittens could crow,
Or tho lammie on two yellow legs could go.
My dear downy darlings ! my sweet little
things!
Come nestle now, cosily, under my wings."
So the hen said.
And the chickens all sped
As fust as they could to their nice feather
bed.
And there let them sleep iu their feathers so
warm
While in; little chick nestles here on my arm.
REPORT
Of tie Committee on Inland Transportation, to
the Hoard of Trade of Philadtlphia, on the
Commerce of the Lake) and the importance
of a connec'tijn u'itVt Lake Ontario at Sodus
Bay.
It is now more than two years since the at
tention of the JSoard'uf Trade of Philadelphia
was first tailed to the importance of a direct
connection with Lake Ontario at Sodus Buy.
A.Committue or gentlemen from that place
visited our City, and urged with much ear
nestuess nnd force the immediate co-operation
of Philadelphia, in completing the short
link of Railway communication between us.
It seemed impossible ut the time to afford
much aid to the enterprise The flnauciul
difficulties over the country, as well as the
novelty of the whole subject, prevented any
immediate results from the mission of theco
gentlemen ; and they returned home ilisheur
tened nnd discouraged.
We believe we shall best subserve the in
terests of our friends at Sodus Buy, nnd more
strictly conform to our legitimate' duties by
laying before the Bourd uf Tiudo nnd tlitt
public, a few figures with reference to the
present chipping of the Lakes ; leaving these
gentlemen to speak for themselves on the
more technical details of their appplicutiun.
Passing now to our own Westeru shipping
ports, we have before us the last annual re
port of the Board of Trude of Milwuukie.
The following comparison of figures selected
from the statistics of its exports for the past
four years, and may be takeu as a sample of
tue wuuie.
1S54. I 1855.
lSS.OSl 215,1)00
4,Ur.,31i 4,U4,j)
Flour, bbl..
wheat, truth.
Hani, and shoulders,
lua.
Laid, It.
l sio sno
S'il.lJOl tlJl,7WJ
In considering the vast increase in the
principal article of export wheat which
has annually progressed in geomutrical rulio
about 100 per ceut. each year it must be
borne iu mind that the interior resources of
the State are only very partially developed
The Milwaukie ami Missixsiuui Railroad
has only been open a year for a portion of
tne route, ana suowt revenue or nearly
00.000.
What results mav not be antirioated when
it sliull liuve reached the Mississippi liver
and its tributaries, and wbeu railroad commu
nications, now in progress, shall bear to Mil
waukie, the productions of Minnesota and
.Northern Jowa, as developed by the vast
population they are capable of maintaining,
aim wnieu at tue present rate ol immigration
win soon ire esiuuusueu tiere.
If we turn now to Chicaeo and examine
the statistics of its commerce, as published in
January, 1856, in the "Daily Press" of that
city, we find ourselves almost bewildered by
their variety and extent. The Illinois Cen.
trul Railroad, passing through a rich prairie
land with virgin soil, nearly three feet in
depth, and over which towus and hamlets are
springing up, as by masic. is Dourine iuto
Chicago, not ouly the vast productions along
its route, but a large trade from bt. Louis
and the South. The Galena and Chicago and
Rock Island KtitrOads tap the Mississippi
commerce, and lay its rich treasures, as well
as the productions along their own route, on
the wharves of Chicago i and the completion
of the St. Mary's Canal bat thrown open to
the merchants' the exhaustlest mineral
wealth of Lake, Superior and the commerce
oi me Norta.
18VJ. 18A3.
SSal-1 159.2IS
liJ.SU 1,181.000
151,711 ISS.IS')
Within the last year five hundred miles of
linear extension nave been ntmea to ner ran
roud connections, and more than one hundred
thousand square miles of additional territory
been thus made tributary to her.
It is useless to speculate on tho future of
this wonderful entrepot of the commerce of
tho Great West. V hen Missouri. Iowa,
Wisconsin and Kansas hare been more tho
roughly settled, and their agricultural pro
ductions passing op the .Mississippi and
across the short railroad communications to
the Lake Navigation at Chicago, shall con
tribute still further to swell its exports, it
wonld seem as if new channels must be open
ed for their disposal ; and almost that the
Lakes themselves could hardly suffice for the
commerce of this port.
It is already by far the greatest primary
shipping port of Grain in the world, as may
bo seeu by the following table, viz .
Odeiaa, buihels, ,H0.f0 )
Onlati and lbraila, . 8 3,0"0 Wheat and all
Dantiic, 4.408 000 V limit.
Archangel, S 828,'nm I Exported.
Kiga, 4 ,000,000 J
Chicago, 1854, . - W.MM.OOO I Do.
" 18M, . . 16,W3,13
We propose to lay before tho Board a Tew
Ggures from the volumnious and deeply inter
esting report before us, which will show the
progress or tho trade ol Chicago :
IHj'l. 18Sr 1A54.
Lead, IN , . . 3,ii53.761 4,7,IM M.l.nso
t'lnur, Ull.., m.130 444.57J 930,31
Wheat, bu, 37,4l 1,097,40.) 3,0.I?,BSS 7.S:i5,C7
ru, Uu S,'JJI,01l y.cHU.WJ 7,490,753 8,534,377
And without giving further details, the
totul
ISM. IMS.
15,0,4 50,4H7,;3
t,iflta 10,6ti,B13
R.eint. nt Orain were. fhu.
Shipments, do. do.
There were also received at this port in
1S55:
S.473.9S2 oounda uf butter.
Between 5,000,000 and 6 000 000 bird.
v. ,u3.),oii7 ao. urra.ea nors.
IO,lrrJ,l.'H d'.. parked beef.
S.158,4.!0 d. wo'd.
lo.S.Kl.-i'.D tie. coal, and
ll,liiu,UOa do. iron.
And a creat varietv of miscellaneous pro-
tluctions. Tho two latter trades are yet in
their infancy.
remaps, after the Grain trade, .the most
important article of commerce to Chicago is
l.umner. It is doubtful if a lureer market
for this article exists in the United States.
I he teceipts at this port in 1854 were 22S.
336,783 feet.
In 18:5, 30G,r5?,467 feet, besides
158.770,800 shingles and 46,487,550 lath.
Of theso vast amounts. 93 Der cont. in 18.14.
and 97 per cent, in 1855, reached Chicago by
tne lane?, the remainder by tho Michigan
Southern and Central routes. The sunnlies
are drawn from almost every direction Wis
consin and Michigan, Canada und the St.
Lawrence, and a coneidarukla portion fiom
Pennsylvania, and the valley of the Susque
hanna. The demand comes mainly from the
vast prairie settlements south and west of
Chicago, and even from Iowa and the valley
of the Mississippi. The Galena and Chicago
and Rock Island Railroads afford abundant
facilities fur its transport on their return
trains, which have borne eastward the lead,
grain and produce of the west.
1 his vast commerce employs of necessity a
large amount of shipping. The total steam
and sail tonnage arriving at Chicago in lH.ii
was 1.608, 845 tons, Airiiinst. O'Vl Uii in 1H44,
an increase of fiO per cent, in a single year.
The number of vessels employed, as nearly as
could be ascertained, was 6,610, of which
5,410 aie reported.
Hitherto the course of this trade has been
mainly towards the city of Uuflalo, the great
terminus of the public improvements of New
York, both Railroads and Canals. The im
ports of UufTulo in 1854 amounted to S149.
180,218, and its exports to 8I24,207,CG5, ma
king it by fur the first iuland commercial city
of the iM.
Hut within a year or two a great changrt in
the course of the Lake trade has beeu appa
rent. Tho completion of the Oswego and
vracuse Railroad, and the action of the Re.
iprocity treaty with Canada, have tended to
uru a I a r ire share of the Lake commerce t
Oswego. Even the grain and produce of
Milwaukie mid Chicago, passing up Lake
Miclii'an. down Luke Huron, through the
St. Clair flats and along the whole length of
ake l'.' ir, has avoided its old stopping place
at liull'ulo and sought, by the Welhtnd Canal
und Luke Outurio, a butler market at Os
wego.
The reason fir this is obvious. It '8 well
known that it is the loading and unloading of
a vessel, and nut so much a lew miles ol dis
tance, that constitute the great cost of heavy
freighting. It frequently happens that the
course ol trade will turn the scale of freights
in foreign shipments very much in favor ot
more distant ports. When the schooner is
loaded at Cbicuco with grain or produce it
costs little more to land it at Oswego than at
Buffalo by the presant route. Uut once
landed at Oiweizo the produce is only thirty
five miies from Syracuse, while at Outfulo it is
one hundred aud lilty the distances Iron)
there to Albany or New York beiug of course
the same in either case.
Such is the- natural theory. Let us now
look at the facts of the case. We have be.
fore ns a table of the receipts of grain at
tSunalu aud Oswego during 1854 and lbbb.
owgou.
1851.
3,310,703
10,108,073
4,441,73s
177,06
1655.
P,02.liS
S, 711,430
S,6D3:N
809,591
1654.
S.49S333
S,632,U74
3-il.VOU
43,2 IS
84
101,468)
1855.
Wheat
i 605,783
S,M0,9ta
83,007
Coru
Oat..
Bye,
Ml, Oil
I'eaa,
Barley,
Total,
61,160
3I38S3 (3,304
174,413
13,553,455 19:lioS,47J ,5U3,4'1 V,45,tT0
By this it will be seen that the receipts
of train, at Buffalo, increased only about 6
uer cent. Iroin lbJ-1 to lttoo while tue re
ceipts at Oswego increased 70 per cent. In
fact, the receipts of all erain at buffalo, ex
cept wheat and ryo, fell off largely, and these
latter were supplied lu great measure iroui
Canada.
If such be the increase, with the odds of
water uavigation against Oswego, what re
sults may uot be anticipated from the coniple
tiou of the Georgian Bay and Lake Ontario
Ship Canal, now under survey, and which it
:s believed win be steadily pursued to com
pletion. This ntngmncent enterprise, pro
jected mainly by British capitalists, is design
ed to open the inner Lakes to the Atlantic
Ocean, lor the largest clas or vessels, ana to
avoid the tedious navigation of Lake Huron
and Luke Lne, aud the dangerous tints ol at,
Clair.
The Secretary of the Toronto Board of
trade, in an able report on tins subject, tuus
sets lortu tne saviug or expense wnicn win
result to tne commerce or tne west. mok.
ing at the western shore of Lake Michigan
commencing in the south with Chicago, and
finishing in the north with Greet) -Bay I we
have a series of shipping; ports, wsioo most
be looked to at the starting nolata for the
lake-borne produce of the vast country lying
south-west, and north of that coast, and te
tne transport of which all channels oreoov
muuisjaUoB, f whatsoever Had, tsadlcta-
ward the Atlantis Ocean, loot forward for
their chief source of rovenne.
"Starting1 then, for instance, 1 at Chicago,
the distance from that point via St. Clair
river, Lake Erie, and the Welland Canal to
Oswego, is 1310 miles; the distance from the
same points by the proposed Toronto and
Lake Iluron Canal would be 750, with very
little, if any, more lockage, and tho tedious
and dangerous navigation of the St, Clair
river nnd Lake Krie would be entirely avoid
ed. Thcro would thus be a saving In the dis
tance between the two highly important ports
of Chicago and Oswego of 570 miles by our
route.''
When the completion of the Georgian Bay
Canal shall bring Chicago by water naviga
tion 570 miles nearer to Oswego than by the
present circuitous route, and 267 miles nearer
than by the present ronte to Buffalo, giving
thus to the commerce of the west shipped to
Oswego for Albany er New York, an advan
tage of 382 miles of transport, 115 of which
are by railroad, besides avoiding the danger
and delays before alluded to, it is not too
much to anticipate that a great revolution
will take place in the whole trade of the
Lakes. The Western Ports of New York
must yield to the ports on the Southern shore
of Lake Ontario the commerce of the far west,
which wilt theu pass over the width of the
State in its narrowest part, instead of its
length finding, nt a great saving of time and
expense, its destined market.
If these facts be true as fegsrds Oswego,
we need only call attention to the fact that
Philadelphia is nearer to SoduS Bay than
New York is to Oswceo. and that but 85
miles of railroad remain to be constructed to
complete tho connection between our city and
the beBt harbor or. the Lakes.
We do not propose to enter at present into
the details of this enterprise, having merely
intended to lay before the Board of Trade a
lew facts with regard to the present commerce
of the lakes, which has the past year out
stripped in its prodigious increase all precee
dents of trade iu our own or any other country-
Our purpose will bo answered if these hasty
researches shall serve in any degree to two
keu Philadclphians to the vast importance of
a commerce unparalleled in tne history of the
world, and which is passing by her very gates,
unheeded and almost unknown.
, Sami,. C. Morton,
Ai.sx. J. Dkrbysuiri.
Benj. Marshal'.,
Th os. Kimhkr, Jr.
For Committee on Inland Transportation
May 19. 1856.
The total value of Canadian expert, and Impoits at
Oswego fur two aeaauna, have been a. foUewa :
1B54
1855.
ata in T43
5.670,W0
14,010,003
S,69,2I7
. ,U 1,446
Value nt imnmta.
ai.80U.TOl .
l,i;s,W5
t'i,boo,ai7
Value of export.,
Total tiade, '
lunraae iu 1655
TIIE Ill'Clir.S PRIM1IMO TELEGARFII IN
fcTlllMEKIT F1NISUED.
Nrw York. May 18. We are gratified to
learn that this wonderful invention has at last
received its finishing touch, and will bo imme
diately placed upon the new line between this
city aud Philadelphia. We are assured, up
on undoubted authority, that the machines,
so tar as it lias been possible to lest them
through a coil of wire 100 miles iu length,
have realized the most sanguine expectations
of Mr. Hughes and his friends, and there ap
pears to be no reason to doubt that tho in
vention will speedily work an eutire revolu
tion in telegraphing throughout the vorld.
I his invention maybe calleu a 1 Tinting
Press and Telegraph Instrument combined,
for it prints all messages iu pluiu Roman cap-
tuls. with unerring correctness, anil at an al
most incredible rate of speed, averaging, iu
the ordinary despatch of business, from twen
ty ll.ousaud to twenty-nve thousand letters
per hours. J he Hughes instrument clearly
demonstrates the practicability of sending
and receiving messages in opposite directions
over the same wire, at the same instant of
time, and with the utmost ease, regularity
aud certainty. It will, consequently, require
but one wire and one operator, at any given
point, to send aud receive as much business
a9 can be transmitted by the aid of four or
live operators and an enuul number of wires
under the Morso svstem. Another equally
mportant peculiarity connected with the
Hughes inventiuu is the undoubted fact that
it wiil work perfectly in ull states of the at
mosphere neither mist, ruin nor snow hav
ing any perceptible effect upon it. There
fore, ut the seasons when tho Morso and
House instrument are utterly powerless, even
in circuits of fifty miles, there is every reason
to believe that the Hughes instruments will
work reliably iu circuits of one or two thou
sand miles.
The simplicity and durability of the new
machine, will compare favorably with the
Morse, and is vastly superior iu these respects
to the House iuvenlion. The govering prin
ciple, of this invention is wholly dissimilar to
that ot the -Morse, House, and all other tele
graph instruments, and, consequently, there
can be no difficulty on tho score of the Pat
ent, which, we understand, has been sold to
tho American Telegraph Company, ,'a new
association having its head quarters in this
city, but composed of gentlemen of the high
est respectability in different sections of the
United States and the British North Ameri
can Provinces, aud of which it is sufficient to
say that Peter Cooper, hsq.,is the President
ar.d Wilson G. Hunt. Ksq., Treasurer) for
aioui$iZ3,uuu or gliiU.uuu.
Dicken's PiCTt'BS or Womak. A true
woman, for whose ambition a husband's love
and ber children's adoration are sufficient,
who applies her military instincts to the dis
cipline of her household, and whose legisla
live powers exercise themselves iu making
laws fur her nurse ; whose intellect hus field
enough for her in communion with her hus
baud, and whose heart asks uo other honors
than his love and admiration a woman who
does not think it a weakness to attend to her
toilet, uud who does not disdain to be beauti
ful ; who believes iu the virtue of glossy hair
and well fitting gowus. and who eschews rents
and raveled edges, slip-shod shoes and au
dacious muke-nps ; a woman who speaks low
aud does not speak much ; who is patient and
gentle, aud intellectual aud industrious j who
loves more than she reasons, and yet does uot
love blindly ; who never scolds and uever
argues, but adjusts with a smile. Such a wo
man is the wife we have all dreumed of ouce
in our lives, and is the mother we still wor
ship in the backward distauct) of the past.
"Sic a a oittih vr stairs." The Scientific
American says that a man in Orange County,
N. Y., was found one night climbing au over
shot wheel in a fulling will, lie was asked
what he was doing. Be said be was "trying
to go up to bed, but tome bow or ether these
italr won't bdd stilt "
MURMUIIS. .
Why wilt thou make bright musio
Give forth a sound of pain t
Why wilt thou weave fair flowers
Iuto a weary choiu ?
Why turn each cool grey shadow
Iuto a world of feurst'''''?
Why think the wind are, wriling t
Why call the dewdrops tears T .
Voices of happy Nature,.
Aud Heaven's sunny gleam,
Reprove thy sick heart's fancies,
upbraid thy foolish dream.
Listen 1 I will tell thee
The song Creation sing.
From huinifting bees in heather,
To fluttering angels' wings :
Not alone did angels sing it
To the poor shepherds' ear,
But the shered Heavens chaut il,
And listening Ages hear.
Above thy poor complaining
Rises that holy lay ;
When the starry night grows silent,
Then speaks the sunny day.
0, leave thy sick heart's fancies,
And lend thy little voice
To silver song of Glory,
That bids the W orld rejoice I
IcfctrcJr 2iriicles.
Tin? Kmpirr or Commerce titat is to Bk.
Mr. Soule has been entertaining the citizens
of Ncw Orleans with a speech, urging them
to send money and arms to the aid of Wul
ker ; men bo had plenty at his command.
According to Mr. Soule, Wulker's chief
obstacle is the "evil spirit iu the North ;"
but in spite of opposition, in a few weeks
Walker would "sweep the Costa Kicans like
dust from the face of the earth ;" that with
suitable material aid he would certainly suc
ceed. All ho needed was 250,000 ; that so
soon as the present struggles should end in
Walker's favor, Honduras uod San Salvador
would join with Nicaragua and Costa Rica,
and the four States would form a confedera
tionbut not as a component part of the
American Union which wonld in time,
under American energy and industry, become
ik. 4 .( rapho ur'iuu commerce 01 tne
world. M r. Soule is a very effective, bnt
not a very prophetic orator. There nie
some predictions of his respecting a recent
attempt to seize upon Cuba which remain
unfulfilled to tho present day. Central
America geographically possesses great ad
vantages in tho way of trade, and when a
ship canal shall cross its territory, the com
merce ot the world will pass throuirh it. but
the empire of that commerce will be in the
orth, where industry teeds it, nnd enter
prise and intelligence stimulate its growth.
These dreams of a Southern confederacy,
'not a cumponont part of the American
Union," may disturb tho fevered bruins of
such erratic political philosophers os Mr.
Soule, but cooler nnd more stuble minds see
in the United States of North America the
fixed foundations which will make them the
scat of empire on this contiueut, whether of
pcl.tics, commerce ot trado.
Salt axd Guano. Recent, experiments,
as stated in tho Mark Lain (Eng.) Express,
go to show that common salt is a vuluable ad
dition to nil applications ol guano to the soil.
ltimtonly has a tendency to give strength
and hardness to the straw (which guano wea
kens.) but prevents the loss of ammonia,
which is constantly going on. even in a dry
atmosphere. We have hefore referred to
this suggestion and have no doubt of the val
ue of it.
A Maiiryinci Man. A few davs ago Judge
Perriu, of this city, married a man for the fifth
time. A singular feature in the caso is that
the fifth wife wus also the third wife. The
third uiurriago not proving a happy one' the
third parties were separated and divorced.
1 he man married aguiu, and when death
cluiined the fourth wile, the disconsolate wid
ower returnd to No. 3, nnd wooed nnd won
her. Juilgo Pen-in thinks he 1ms tied them
up effectually this time. The lucky man had
the iuipudeuco to claim a reduction of the mar
riage fee. in consequence of the large business
be was doing iu that line. Covington Jour
nal. Nkwspapbr Stock Three thousand five
hundred dollars wugolleied veslerdav, for one
sharo of the New York Tribune. This would
make the one hundred shares, into which
that establishment was divided a few years
oeo. worth &350.000. The par value of
each share is 81,000.
Tl, fount 1j M nntpniinvo. the SoH of
Count Neipberg and Maria Louise, the wid
ow of Napoleon, is now a lieutenant field
. ..I. . . .... .:n
marshal in the service Austria, ne nus sun
in hia nn.jc,tiAn Ku f il mi. II d ITll IllT fjf TOSO COl-
.M I ,VH,.DI.'II 111. ,-..-
ored pearls which the first Kmperor gave
Maria Louise when tney were marrieu ; uuu
his wife, the Hungarian dutches Bathinny,
now wears it in tue crawiog rooms oi iuu
na. Cincinnati, May 26. Tho city is rapidly
filling up with stranger in anticipation of
the Democratic National Convention totis
semble ou Monday next. There have bceu
numerous arrivals from Virginia, Louisiana,
Texas and Tennessee, aud a full delegation,
from Mississippi.
CoMMiiu. S. C, May 20. Contributions
ure being made here und in Charleston, to
get up a testimonial to Hun. Pieptou S.
Brooks, His course is Very generally ap
proved. Boston, May 26. The Senate of Massa
chusetts to-duy unanimously adopted resolu
tions denunciatory oftlm attack on Mr. Sum
ner, as brutal aud cowardly in itself, a gross
breech of pailiamentary privilege, a ruthless
attack on the liberty of speech, an outrage on
the decencies of civilized life, and an indignity
to Massachusetts : and demanding a strict
investigation, and the expulsion of Mr.
Brooks aud other members implicated. The
resolution was sent to the House for concur
rence.
SECOND DESrATCBV
Boston, May 28 The House, after debate,
slightly amended the resolutions and they
were then adopted yeai, 187 nays, 23.
IKiUfia-oTON. May 15. Four of Dupont'i
powder ir.ills exploded this .evening,, lulliog
ihree of the workmen.
A Bnsineu itendezvous.
Thb French have a strange way of trans
acting business, nnd then again the very
goieties themselves may conceal matters of
deep moment. Wituuss tho following anec
dote :
A beautiful lady received a note froih ber
lawyer, soliciting an hour's interview on mat
ters of the utmost importance. ..
"An hour!" excluimed she. "Why the
man speaks as if one's hours were at one's
own disposal. I cannot give up my siesta,
or I shall look pale and faded this evening,
neither can I give up the ball, of course not.
I have it 1"
In a short timo the solicitor received an
invitation to the Countess dc 's ball.
Never having scon the lady, the gentleman
was perplexed but a note from his fair client
set all right by explaining that she had
caused it to be sent to him, that he might
there consult with her on htr affair. The
lawyer went and contrived to transact the
business by fragments between the waltzes,
and frequently interrupted by the lady's ad
mirers. While he noted legal facts in his memo
randa book, she dotted dowu the names of
her partners for the next daoce, aud thus
betwen business and pleasure she passed a
delightful eveuing.
"But I must see you again," said be, con
cluding. "How soon t" asked the lady.
"Say next Thursday? Mad. de 'a
loiree. Very well, you shall havo a card T"
"Another ball !" exclaimed he.
"Whutl murmuring that in addition to
giving you nn interview, 1 give you the op
portunity of enjoying delightful music, and
an excellent supper 1 Oh you unreasonable
man 1" laughed the merry beauty. "If you
have business with me, you will have to sub
mit, and never fear, I have balls to lat till
the middle of April !" und she glided off, but
kept her word, and thoso grave affairs were
settled in midst of the merry whirl of Paris
ian society.
Bernadotte.
General Sir Alured Clarke was making a
tour of pleasure on the Continent, and
arrived at Stockholm, when he wished to be
presented to the King. A private audience
was granted, as a matter of course, to the
English general officer. When presented to
Carl Johnnu, Sir Alured was very much as
tonished to find that tho King of Sweden,
instead of a forma) receptieu, folded him iu
his arms, and kissed him on the check. He
was confounded at this distinction, and more
so when tho King asked him if he could not
recollect him. In this, as his memory was
quite defective, he could only express bis re
ittiRti the King replied, "I am
not surprised that you do not recognise in
me the Corporal liernadotte, who became
your prisoner at Pondicherry, when you com
manded the iMiglisIi army in India ; to whom
you showed tho greatest kindness while in
your power ; and who now is most anxious
to return the obligation in every way that
may be most agreeable to yol duriutr your
stay iu bis dominions."
Gettino Over a Bifficci.tt. The body of
Moliere, the dramatist, being refused aploee
in consecrated ground, the King (Louis
XIV.) sent for the orchbishop, and demanded
to know the depth of the consecrated earth.
The archbishop, not liking to acknowledge
doubt or ignorunce, answered after a little
hesitation, "twelve feet." "Well." replied
the monarch, "let the grave of Moliere be
dug fourteen feet deep, and thus all difficul
ties will be got over." "Hair splitting" can
bn got over pretty generally in the same way,
Provided it U man's interest not to offend,
t is wonderful what obstinacy will do, when
prejudice backs it, and a show of coQ3cier.ce
n at hand to help sustaiti it.
. A Destructive Tornado has been raging lu
Dallas county, Texas; On the farm of M.
M. Miller every house was prostrated and
five persons killed, besides four others in the
neighborhood. Much damage was also done
in Tarrant county. The extent of the gust
was about sixteen miles, north, and south,
varying in width from 200 to 300 yards, and
in this track everything was torn away or
postruted, and horses, cattle, bogs and other
animals killed.
American Oaks in Paris. Out of the one
hundred and twenty American oaks thirty
five years old; which were planted last year
on the Quai det 'J'uileries in Paris, eighty
seven are now green and flourishing ; the
rest (thirty three) are deud.
High Prick for Bark. Commodore Per
ry obtained, while in Japan, a pair of dogs,
from which the breed of "King George Span
iel" is derived. They cost him SI 30, aud
were kept in Japan its Imperial pets.
Jarmcr's bailment.
Corn for Fodder.
Wo find in the Ohio Cultivator the follow
ing communication from Mr. V, Plenss, on
the raising of com for fodder aud for feeding
green. It is worth attention. In this re
gion, it hus been a common practice of late
years for our farmers and dairy people to sow
corn so that it shall come into feuding green
in August and September. It is a good pre
caution against short pastures in those
months. But to the article iu question.
Farmers differ as to which is the best me
thod of raising corn for fodder. I have raised
it for four years. I plant it in drills four feet
apart one way, and two :eet the other, from
four to seven to seven kernels in the hill.
Last year I planted hull" an acre at first plant
ing, that was ready to cut on the 1st of Au
gust, to give to my milch cpws in the evening
I ylauted anolher'fieli'l uf three acres on the
23d of Juno on an iM meadow where the
grass had run out. When the first field was
gone this was ready to begin with. The cows
will give more and better milk by UMng this
feed. Last year I had a field that was in logs
briers, elders, and a little grass. We cleared
it off, plowed it, aud planted the coru on the
1st of July. It was so wet that it was not
cultivated, and was in roasting ears tho lust
of September. The s .ulks were from eight
to ten feet high. , ,
Two years ago I hud (wo acres, one half
was old, well run. the other was new ground.
I planted ou the 15' It of June, cultivated it,
and hoed it, and hr.d no more than four or
five stalks in the Mil. When it came in tas
sel, I began to fe d from it. 1 cut out the
smallest sUlks first, until I cut it all op. I
husked ou hundred bushels of ears from it.
Some people think that the shocks should
be made small t it fat not oecesiiry. TU
bands must be pot np high around th ts
stils, to that the band willuot interfere with
the r. When tho shocks are large, the fod
der keeps bright. Il will not do to pot it in
mow or stack, as it wiil beat and mould.
EcdBugsi
The following recipes to destroy these snf
nnying and disagreeable pests, aro taken from
the Maine Farmer,
1. Alcohol, half pint; spirits of turpentine,
half pint ; sal ammoniac, 1 ounce corrosive
sublimate, 1 ounce ; camphor 1 ounce. .Pitt
the camphor into the aichohol and dissolve it,
then pulverizo tho sol ainmo4iiac anil the cor
rosive sublimate, and .add to it, after which
put it in the spirits of turpentine, and shako
all well on together; This will end the flays
and nights too, of any bed bog it touches, aud
on washing the bedstead, as well as the clinks'
and crevices of the room with it, they become"
so. unpleasant to this species of night walker
that tney win eituer uio or uecomp tor parts
unknown.
. 2. The best method we ever found to clear
a toom or house o. bed bugs, where they got
into the clinks and crevices of the wall, is to
take out the furniture aud burn sulphur there.
Tho fumes will kill them wherever they pene
irate -rt nave Known oeu uugs vo live iu a
house that had not been occupied by anybody
for more than a year.
Whitewash.
Poor whitewash is a serious Injury to tt"
wall or ceiling, and when . once on it is diffii
ult Ia nal it rvff an ft nrntiarlv COVBr, It and
produce a clear white appearance, ibis is
tne season lor Cleaning up, anu w n. i.o
i.a r- m . Pni. vrebft Ouirlr lime:
slacked bv boiline water, stirring it ont 1 so
slacked. Then dissolve in water, white viU
rol, (sulphate of zinc,) winch you get at tins
drucgists. nt the rate of two pounds of xino
. ... - , I i.r a .. A-....,.
to a ball barret or wniiewani, miu5
tho consistency or rich milk. , The sulphate
of zinc will cause the wash to harden ; and to
prevent the lime from rubbing off, a pound of
fine salt should bo thrown into it.
The Soap Barrels.
aVinnM linvo nme nlacet
an old salt barrel will do, where all ihe bones
t- - , . v. - 1 1 ...
and piece oi reiuse meat, can ue miunn,
... ..ii.iv axrnna. sediments that accumu
late in lurd wherein cakes are fried, and all
kinds of refuse grease. This shold all be
carefully save for sonp. If dirty K can be
cleansed by boiling it in weak ley boap
, , " , . . Aa ...noittant. in tnr.
should DO uiaae as eiu; .
apriug.
TJow to Cook Shao. The Gerrhanf.own
Telegraph says : "Shad are excellent when
baked, either on a board, which is the best,
gr by the following mode : Stuff them with a
seasoning made of bread crumbs, butter, salt,
pepper and (if ogreeable) parsley and epices,
But the fish in a baking dish, with a cupful
of water and a lump of butter. Bake from
three qnarters of an honr to an fco'ir. Shad
broiled is ulso excellent, but it is spoiled by
frying, and it loses nearly all its fine flavor.
This being a moist fish, ft should never ba
boiled. -Those who fievef ate a baked 0
broiled shad Know tl,ii f that vrellec4
which we Claim for this fish over all others."
A Rich Serinon.
Where is the man with his harp of a thou
sand strings? . Tho following rich extract
from n sermon loses' rnttch of its humor be
cause we cannot put in print the sing-song
stylo nnd opproptiate gestures that accom
pony it :
My friends, sin mokes the purtiest man or
woman in tho world uglv-ah. And I'll tell
you how I know-ah; as I was coming up to
church to-day-ah, 1 saw some yonrtg men in
the road-ah ; and I thonjjhl one of them was
tho purtiest young man I ever saw in my lifo
ah. And as I drew high unto them I discov
ered that they were playing uv marvels ; and
they all drew nigh unto a place they called
taw-ah, and they marvelled ah. And this
put ty young man was the last one to uiarvel
ah ! and when he marvelled, he jumnoa up
and flopped his hand like a rooster does his
wines, and says he, "I wish I may he i d ef
Ihaintfatl" And oh, iny fnends. then I
thonht he was one or the ueliest young men
I eve"r saw in my lifc-ah. And I opened my
mouth and spake unto him thus ah : "onny
man, this is not tna way to ' -
And says be. "Uit noss. ei
it,i n had as I have you wouldn t want to
hear talk of salvation-ah."
An now, my mends, wnen innt juuu
f.i r.. ii ih' n tio.nb. fur he was
as lean as that hungry lot-king s.S er oer
thar that's always prayin "' ""
. .: i .M,n.i.nii. And m V
liat is uein uuasvu , , -
friends. if that or young man hln t been
blinded by sin, ue never cuum u
tor an old borso au;
"Dying for a Cocktail."
Davis has onlv one fault ho sets too high
, ' . fn i i;,.,,r" This habit bos
a value on oisiuieu im" . .
reduced Davis to seedy trousers and tn'raJ.
ship. Davis "was dying for a VtaiI. but
in i.i. i it be had not the ne
cessary funds to realize li desires. Davia
e 7 . 1 ikan mails) L
thought over IM WV ,Z - W
rush for a restaurant. -
room with his hair streaming out behind like
Vr1!.' -. !.. l.on.l me a class of li.
quor-couhlrymon just Ml down in State
street and cut his bead open that his life is
despaired of." . . . .,, n..
The barkeeper new arouna in "a"".
vis about three gills of first quality rDa3"ir"
Davis seized the mug and rushed out IU
returned in about ten minutes and said the
man was better, and had been earned to he
hospital. Barkeeper said : "O ad to hear t.
andrfolt like a Samaritan for the remainder
of the day. I" -bout two hours
Davis was arrested for singing the -Star
Snangled Banner" from a dry goods box.
Sirarfge fellow, that Davis Dou't mean any
barm, but will bare bis cocktals.
"My Brudders," said wacgish eolorei
man to a crowd, "in all yer affliction, iu all
ob yer trebles, dar is one place you can aU
ways And sympathy 1" "Whar t whar t" shout
ed several. "In the dictionary," bo replied,
rolling his1 eyes skyward.
Tying a mackerel to yonr coat tail, and
imagining youraeif a whale, is oca of the first
lessons in codfish aristocracy.
The nan who "held aa office" got ii 1. and
let go forth purpoea of resting tunslf a
short time, when the office got tway, and baa
cot tote U: J f-oia eiuce.