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hi Foreign aid Domestic. Dry Goode, Grin
seethieoaneesserare, Hardware and Notions, opposite
How, Hain street.
limitoir Aiwa saw: DZIALIIRS.
J. D. COSURAY,
ll•et iodine* maker, Maio street, nearly opposite
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o 4 t:nlyonlnior puletoer.
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Neatet t eilsetviee and Confeetioneries, Notions,
ea .Agragnassiaa„ Liverpool Ware, lie., Man ot
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paid far good eating App!es.
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S. BAILY,
Main prreet„ opposite the Wright House keep,
pad
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el large and elegant aseonesent of
ewry.
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SAMUEL M'ALLISTER,
raikoser sad West old SIM
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711 iortilantoug.
It was night. Jerusalem slept as
quietly amid her hills as a child upon
the breast of its mother. The noiseless
sentinel stood late a statue at hit, post,
and the philosopher's lamp burned dim
ly in the recesses of his chamber. But
a moral darkness involved the nations in
its enlightened shadows. Reason shed
a faint glimmering over the minds of
men, like the cold and insufficient
shining of a distant star. The immor
tality of man's spiritual nature was un
known, his relations unto heaven un
discovered, and his future destiny ob
scured in a cloud of mystery.
It was at this period that two forms
of etherial mould hovered about the land
of God's cho sen pehiPle. They seemed
like sister angels sent to earth on some
embassy of love. The one of majestic
statue and well formed limb, with her
snowy drapery hardly concealed, in her
erect bearing and steady eye, exhibited
the highest degree of strength and con
fidence. Her right arm was extended
in an impressive gesture upward where
night appeared to have placed her dark
est pavillion, while on her left reclined
her delicate companion, in form and
countenance the contrast of the other,
was drooping like a flower moistened
by refreshing dews, and her bright but
troubled eyes scanned them with ardent
but varying glances. Suddenly a light
like the sun flashed out from the heav
ens, and Faith and Hope hailed with
exuiting songs the ascending star of
Bethlehem.
Years rolled away, and the stranger
was seen in Jerusalem. He was a meek
unassuming man, whose happiness
seemed to consist in acts of benevolence
to the human raee. There were deep
traces of sorrow on his countenance,
though no one knew why be grieved,
for he lived in the practice of every vir
tue, and was loved by all the good and
wise. By and by it was rumored that
the stranger worked miracles, that the
blind saw, that the dumb spake, the
dead leaped, the ocean moderated its
chafing tide ; the very thunders articu
lated, he is the Son of God. Envy as
sailed him to death: Slowly and thickly
guarded he sascended the hill of Cavalry.
A heavy cross bent him Uo* the earth.—
But faith leaned on his arm, and Hope
dipping her pinions in his blood moun
ted the skies.
rota rusuis
It is better to live in hearts than
houses. A change 'of circumstances or a
disobliging landlord may turn one out
de house to which he has formed many
attachments. Removing from place to
place is with many an unavoidable
incident of life. But one cannot be ex
pelled from a true and loving heart save
by his own fault, nor yet always by that,
for affection clings tenaciously to its
objection in spite of ill-desert ; but go
where he will his home remains in
hearts learned to love him ; the roots of
affection are not torn out and destroyed
by such removals, but they remain fix
ed deep in the heart, clinging still to
the image, the object which they are
more eager again to clasp. When one
revisits the home of his childhood, or
the place of his happy abode in his life's
spring time, pleasant as it is to survey
each familiar spot, the home, the gar
den, the trees planted by himself or by
kindred now sleeping in the dust, there
is in the warm grasp of the hand, in the
melting of the eye,in the kind salutation,
in the tender solicitude for the comfort
and pleasure of his visit, a delight that
no mere local object of nature or art, no
beautiful cottage, or shady rill, or quiet
grove can bestow. To be remembered,
to be loved, to live in hearts, that is
one's solace amid earthly changes—this
is a joy above ail the pleasure of scene
and place. We love this spiritual home
feeling, the union of hearts which
death cannot destroy ; for it augurs; if
there be heart affection, an unchang
ing and imperrishable bode in hearts
now dear.
It would seem that the lately re
ported schism among the Mormons is
making headway. We find the fol
lowing in the Cincinnati Gazette of
Friday :
The copyright of a book was taken
out the other day, in the United States
District Court, having the following ti
tle : "A Book of Doctrine and Cov
enants of the Church of Christ of Lat
ter Day Saints, carefully selected from
the Revelations of God, as given in the
older of the dates." It is, pertivs
known to most readers, that there is a
formidable schism among the "Saints,"
the secessionists declaring against polyg
amy, and contenting themselves with
one wife, at least one at a time. An
organization based on this idea has been
in process of completion in this city for
some time past, under the leadership of
Joseph Smith, Jr. and liFael L. Rogers,
whir,: n el:notion with Others, have
=I
A Beautiful Extract.
Living in Hearts.
Mormonism.
" I '‘‘ &:$ 11 , *4D) T 9
A., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1864.
- Rules for Home Education.
The following are worthy of being
printed in letters of gold, and being
placed in a conspicuous position in every
household.
1. From your children's earliest in
fancy inculcate the necessity of instant
obedience.
2. Unite firmness with gentleness.—
Let your children always understand
that you mean exactly what you say.
3. Never promise them anything un
less you are sure you can give them
what you promise.
4. If you tell a child to do anything,
show him how to do it, and see that it
is done.
5. Always punish your child for wil
fully disobeying you, but never punish
in anger.
6. Never let them perceive that they
can vex you or makie you lose your
self-command.
7. It they give way to petulance and
temper, wait till they are calk, and then
gently reason with them on the impio
priety of their conduct.
8. Remember that a little present
punishment, when the occasion arises,
is much more effectual than the threat
ening of a greater punishment should
the fault be renewed.
9. Never give your children anything
because they cry for it.
10. On no account allow them to do
at one time what you have forbidden,
under the same circumstances, at an
other.
11. Teach them that the only sure and
easy way to appear good is to be good.
12. Accustom them to make their
little recitals the perfect truth.
13. Never allow them of tale bearing.
14. Teach ' them the self-denial, not
self-indulgence, is the appointed and
sure method of securing happiness.
The Dead in Florence.
But dark as midnight on mid-winter
black in profoundest contrast with
the moonlight, lying in such a depth of
shadow as only that neighboring bright
ness could expose, lies far below us the
pavement of this narrow lofty street.—
What is that measured cadence sound
ing upward through this gulph of air
and darkness—the gleam of moving
lights, wild and variable, blazing
through the gloom—that tramp of
footsteps t Look down where they
pass below, the few passengers scarce
ly pausing to look after them, they
themselves pausing for nothing, march
ing, to measure of their eh ant, not slow
but solemn—no voice of individual grief,
but a calm impersonal lamentation, a
lofty melancholy utterance upon the
common fate of humanity• White
figures, in a dress of a fraternity, with
two or three wild torches throwing light
upon their way,. and upon the dark
weight they carry shoulder high and
motionless—answering to each other
with chant and response of deep voices,
carrying their dead. Nay, not their
dead, it has ceased to belong to any
one, that silent burden. Love has not
a tone in that dirge=-grief is not there
—it is the voice of the church, solemnly
commenting upon the universal fate—
calling the world to witness that all
must die-.--and cold, solitary, loveless,
the forlorn dead in the midst of them
goes to be buried out of sight. Do
you say it is nothing to him, and he
does not feel it . ; Heaven toms: but
that picturesque group, with their chant
and their.torches, carry a chill to one's
heart.—Blackwood's Magazine.
A Young Hero.
A gentleman, while passing through
a street , inhabited by poor people in
New Vork, heard an infantile voice
from a basement crying, "Help! help !"
He rushed in and found a little five-year
old boy holding a bed-blanket around
his little sister, two years younger,
who had caught her clothes on fire,
and the little hero had succeeded in ex
tinguishing the flames. The boy, in
answer to the inquiry why he so wrap
ped the red-blanket around his sister's
burning clothes, said his ma told him it
was the best way to put out the fire ;
and as to why be hallooed " help !
help !" that he was afraid he could not
succeed, and wanted some one to help
him. He was then asked why he did
not leave his sister and go into the
street and cry for help He answered,
with tears in his eyes, and a fixed deter
mination of countenance "No, I never
. would have left. She was my sister.—
Had she burned up, I would have
burned up too."
Sending our Treasures before us.
The Rev. John Newton one day said
to a gentleman who was mourning over
the death of a lovely daughter. "Sir, if
you would send a remittance before you,
this little girl is just like a remittance
sent t ,to heaven before you go yourself.
I suppose a merchant on change is never
heard expressing himself thus : '0 my
dear ship, I am sorry she has got into
port so soon ! lam sorry she has escaped
the storms that are coming ! Neither
should we sorrow for children dying."
OLDEST CPIIIRCH —The oldest church
now existing in the 'United States is one
near Smithfield, Isle of Wight eourtty,
Virginia. It was built in the reign of
Charles L, between the yeari .163 sad ,
168$. The brick, lime, and titater,,
were inverted from Enema-The
iR isignglish oak, &militia
bgleso. The strnenseria
iireeied *le most an •
illnenalltions lemmas
‘4ll dike fire in walks).
[From "The Phenomena of the Missing" in
Chambers' Journal.)
A Strange Story.
The saddest disappearance of which
I remember ever to have read was that
of a Captain Routh of the Indian army,
who came home on leave from Calcut
ta, to be married to a Miss Ling in
Hertfordshire. Captain Routh arrived
at Southampton, and was identified as
having been a passenger by the coach
-from that place to London. But _after
having accomplished so many hundred
miles, he never reached-that place, such
a little way off, where his bride awaited
him. He neither came nor wrote.—
She read his name in the list of passen
gers by the Europa, and looked for
him hour by hour in vain. What ex
cuses must not her love have made for
him! How she must have dun° . to
one frail chance after another, until her
last hope left her! How infinitely
more terrible must such vague wretch
edness have been to bear than if she
had . known him to have been struck
down by the fatal sun-ray of Bengal, or
drowned in Indian seas ? Where was
he! What could have become of him?
This young lady had a cousin by the
name of Penthyn, about her own age,
who had been brought up in the same
family, and, although much attached to
her, had not been hitherto considered to
entertain toward her warmer feelings
than those of kinship. But as month
after month and year after year went
by without tidings of the missing bride
groom, he began to court her as a lover.
She for her part refused to listen to his
addresses, but her mother favored them;
and, plunged in melancholy, the girl
did not take pains to repulse him which
probably she would otherwise have
done. She accepted, or at least she did
not reject, a ring of his, which she even
wore on her finger ; but whenever he
spoke to her, or tendered her any ser
vice, she turned from him with some
thing like loathing. Whether this was
remarked upon so much before the fol
lowing circumstances occurred it would
be interesting to learn ; but all who
knew them how testify that whereas in '
earlier days she had taken pleasure in
her cousin's society, it seemifi to become
absolutely hateful to her ' subsequently
to her calamity.
About three years after Capt. R,outh's
disappearance a brother officer and
friend of his, one Maj. Brooks, having
business in England, was invited into
Hertfordshire by Mrs. Ling, at the ur
gent request of her daughter. So far,
however, from being overcome . by the
association of the Major's presence with
her lost lover, Miss Ling seemed to
take pleasure in nothing's° much as in '
hearing him talk of his missing friend.
Mr. Penrhyn appears to have taken
this in some dudgeori ; perhaps he
grew apprehensive that a present rival
might even be more fatal to his hopes
than the memory of an absent one ; but,
at all events, the two gentlemen quar
reled. Mr. Penrhyn, who lived in the
neighborhood, protested that he would
not enter the house during the Major's
stay, and remained at his residence.—
During this estrangement the conversa
tion between Maj. Brooks and Miss Ling
had Capt. Routh for its topic more
than ever.
In speaking of the absence of all clue
to what had become of him, the Major
observed : " There is one thing that
puzzles me almost as much as the loss
of my poor friend himself. You say
that his luggage was found at the inn
where the coach stopped in London ?"
"It was," said the lady. " I am
thankful to say that I have numberless
tokens of his dear self."
"There is one thing, though, which
I wonder he parted with," pursued the
Major, "and did not always carry about
with him, as he promised to do. I
was with him iii the bazaar at Calcutta 1
when he bought for you that twisted i
ritig' 9 —
"That ring," cried the poor girl, "that !
ring I" and with a frightful shriek she in- 1
stantly swooned away.
Her mother came running to know
what was the matter ; Brooks made
some evasive explanation, but, while
she was applying restoratives, inquired,
as carelessly as he could, who had given
to her daughter that beautiful ring?
"Oh, Willy Penrhyn," she said.—
"That is the only present, poor fellow, he
could ever get Rachel to accept."
Upon this Maj. Brooks went straight
to Penrhyn's house, but was denied ad
mittance ; whereupon he wrote to him
the following letter.
"Sot : I have just seen a ring upon
the hand of the betrothed wife of my
murdered friend, Herbert Routh ; he
bought it for that purpose himself, tag
you have presented it. I know he al
ways wore it on his little finger, and
never parted with it by chance. I de
mand, therefore, to know by what
means you became possessed of it. I
shall reqtdre to see you in person at 6
o'clock this afternoon,_ and shall take no
denial. it MOSS BROOICS."
The Major arrived at Mr. Penthytes
house at the time specified, bat found
him a sllitid - Sain. Bs'hidUlluisiti poison
open the receipt of the skive lette4 and
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Coffee and the Prolongation of Life.
In the days of the old alchemists, a
notion prevailed that some substance
could be obtained in nature that would
prolong human We and render man al
most immortal. For many years sa
ges and dupes searched for the "elixir
of life," and when whisky was discov
ered it was hailed as the grand desider
atum and called aqua vike ; but alas, it
has turned out to be the water of death
to far too many erring mortals. The
elixir of life, however, is still an enamo
ring topic; and Louis Figuier, a French
author, has lately published an article
in L' Anna Scientifique in which he ad
vises the claims of coffee as a means of
prolonging human life. With respect
to his beneficial influences he cites facts
in proof of his position.
Quoting Dr. Petit, of Chateau Thi
erry, on the subject, he says :
"Let us transport ourselves to the
frontiers of the Department du Nord,
to the coal mines of Charleroi, there
where thousands of men are buried
every day for twelve hours in the bowels
of the earth for the purpose of extract
ing the enormous° masses of coal re
quired for feeding the furnaces of our
factories. We there see vigorous work
men, whose exterior indicates robust
health and the greatest muscular devel
opment, and yet their food is neither
substantial nor abundant : three or 4 cups
of coffee a day, and potatoes, and one
pound of meat in the week, is all the
nourishment supplied to the workmen
in the coal-pits of Charleroi. These
men can live on. one quarter of the food
that is necessary to keep up the force
of other individuals.
-"in the neighborhood of Reisen
berg, Bohemia, in the midst of the
Krapack mountains,
there exists a race
of poor people who almost all follow the
trade of weavers. For years their food
had been altogether insufficient,. being
composed solely of potatoes ; they were
reduced to such a state of wretchedness
as to become to some extent degenerate.
Fortunately the medical men of the ,
country conceived the idea of placing
them tinder a course of coffee. The
trial succeeded beyond all expectation,
and the weavers of Riesen-Berg have no
longer cause to envy the health and
strength of the workmen of 'other coun
tries. For the purpose of facilitating
the acquisition of that salutary sub
stance to the poor mountaineers, the
Austrian Government has recently abol
ished the duties that Used to be levied
on the importation of coffee. Coffee,
says M. de Gasparin, renders the ele
ments of our organism more stable. It
is observed that, under the influence of
coffee, the produce of the secretions is
more fluid, the respiration less active,
and, consequently the loss undergone
by the absorbed substances less rapid.--
A diminution of anima' heat has even
been observed under similar circumstan
ces.
"This last consequence helps us to
understand the utility of coffee in hot
countries where the temperature is so
difficult to bear that it seems to wear
out the springs of life. Our military
and naval authorities have made coffee
from a part of the rations of our sol
diers and sailors on active service, and
have reason to be satisfied with the re
sult. The use of coftee has been of im
mense benefit to our troops, as well as
in the African deserts as in the Crimea,
id Italy, and in China ; the crews of
our fleets have also derived the same
hygienic advantages. It is of infinite
value to our soldiers in Mexico, and
principally in the Sierra Caliente, at Vera
Cruz, that hot-bed of yellow fever. As
man advances iu life, the bony tissue
diminishes in quanity. We know, for
instance, how easily the bones of old
people are fractured. The accident is
consequent on the slight resistance of
fered by the bones, which become weak
ened by the diminution of the organs.
Now, to point out the consequences of
this disappearance of the bony substance
in persons of advanced age. The phos
phoric particles of the bones are absorb
ed, curled away in the circulating tor
rent, and the molecules, thus moved
along by the blood, end by obliterating
the small blood-vessels or capillary
tubes.
One of our learned professors of the
faculty of medicine, M. C. Robin, pro
mulgated the idea of dissolving the
phosphal deposits by means of a chemi
cal agent; with lactic acid, for instance,
it might be possible perhaps to prevent
this obstruction of the vessels, which is
the frequent cause of fatal congestions
in the case of old people, and thus to
extend the limits of human life. N.
Petit is of opinion that it is better to
prevent the obstruction of the vessels
than to have to combat it, when once in
existence. From the well-established
fact that coffee retards the movement
of the decomposition of the organs M.
Petit concludes that by its habitual use
the life of man might be prolonged be
yond its common duration."
He therefore recommends the use of
*ALIO, espeeiady to old parsons, asser
ting that thoste who have reached the
age of fifty years may take from one to
four cups per day 'of-moderately strong
infusion, aowrcling.p .i the habit of the
,lady of, 4.440, .
Dr- Petit, a
grezmiiipkyseilm, recommends it as an
4„ v o rtage s far, rendering the produce
orthe weretioni More ageettus end'fir
. eir ett be,ting go4t,VIM
„ e4 t4it osairdeiis
In COWIti:
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Romantic History of a Brooklyn Girl.
The Brooklyn, New York, Times publish
es the following strange story :—lt is now
about a year since a young lady, nineteen
years of age, residing in Willoughby street,
Brooklyn, beautiful, educated and refined,
became possessed of a singular monomania.
She had taken a great interest in the pro
gress of the war, read with the greatest avid
ity all the accounts in the newspapers of
battles, sieges, "'erne i' the imminent dead
ly breach," and could think and talk of noth
ing but glorious war. Soon her actions
showed that, in this particular at least, her
brain had been turned with military enthus
iasm, and she announced to her astonished
and grief-stricken family that she was a
second and modern Joan of Arc, called by
Providence to lead our armies to certain vic
tory in this great civil contest. Her friends,
who are wealthy and highly respectable, in
vain tried to combat her delusion. Medical
advice was called in, and a change of scene
was recommended by the family physician.
In conformity with his counsel, the young
lady was removed to Ann Harbor, in the
State of Michigan. Why she was taken t o
so great a distance is not known, but it is
surmised that her family had near relatives
in that vicinity. Her mania, however, con
tinued to increase until it was found neces
sary to confine her to her apartment. She,
however, succeeded in making her escape,
repaired to Detroit in male clothes, and join
ed the drum corps of a Michigan regiment,
her sex being known only to herself Her
regiment was sent to the Army of the Cum
berland, and the girl continued to do her
duty as a drummer-boy,- though how she
survived the hardships of the Kentucky
campaign, where strong menlpll in numbers,
must forever remain an inse utable mystery.
The regiment to which she was attached
had a place in the division of the gallant
Van Cleve, and during the bloody battle of
Lookout Mountain, the fair girl fell, pierced
in the left side by a Minnie ball, and when
borne to the surgeon's tent her sex was dis
covered. She was told by the surgeon that
her wound was mortal, and he advised her
to give her name that her family might be
informed of her fate. This she finally, though
reluctantly, consented to do, and the Col
onel of the regiment, although suffering him
self from a painful wound, became interest
ed in her behalf, and prevailed upon her to
to let him send a dispatch to her father.—
This she dictated in the following manner :
"Mr. —, No. —, Willoughby street, Brodk
lyn, forgive your dying daughter. I have
bat a few moments to live. My native soil
drinks my blood. I expected to deliver my
country, but the fates would not have it so.
lam content to die, Pray, Pa, forgive me.
Tell Ma to kiss my daguerreotype. EMILY."
"P. S.—Give my gold watch to little Eph."
(The youngest brother of the dying girl.)—
The poor girl was buried on the field on
which she fell in the service of her country,
which she fondly hoped to save.
The Cure of Teeth.
The Peoples Dental Journal, of
Chicago, is near akin to Hall's Journal
of Health, in the plainness and directions
with which it discuss matters in its
special department. The following
from the pen of the editor on the Care
of Teeth, favors the people rather more
than the dentist, and.is certainly worth
the attention of the former :
"The decay of the teeth is the remit
of external agents, corroding and dis
solving out the limy portion of their
structure. In other words the detay of
teeth is from chemical causes, acting from
withiout, and not from any disease from
within, as many suppose. With this
view, what would be the most efficient
means of preserving the teeth from de
cay Clearly positive and unqualified
cleanliness of the parts, is the rational
means to be adopted. To accomplish
this, a thorough and careful use of the
tooth-brush and tooth-pick after each
meal, or at least once a day, is indis
pensable. No other agentt can be made
as efficient. The friction of the brush
removes all deleterious matter from un
der the free edges of the gums, and from
the exposed surfaces of the teeth, whilst
toothpick (one made from a common
goose quill is always the best) can be
readily insinuated between the teeth,
to remove any particle of food remain
ing, which, if left, will decompose and
generate an acid which unites with the
line of the tooth and breaks down its
structure.
But, says one, I know a person, six
ty years old, who seldom, if ever, brush
es his teeth, and yet they are perfectly
sound. Very likely what you say may
be true. We have seen similar auks,
but whenever they occur they are
found in persons who have remarkably
firm and well organized teeth, and the
secretions of whose mouths are normal,
not only free from destructive agents,
but calculated to neutralize whatever
acids may be generated by the decom
position of food lodged between and
around the teeth.
It is often asked at, hOW early an age
ought the teeth to be cleansed. Yoe
might, with as mach propeiety,esk the
_physichinskow soon the child ought to
be eared for in ceder, to insure good
health: We answer, as EVA 25 Ilei
are exposed_ to the notion of exttal m
er
tlueuoes, wichinas_anon as - theye
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thorough cleansing of their children's
leak and would accustom dram to the
habit of cleansing them for thalleckils.
as soon as they are old enough, as atm
fully as they do the habit of keeping
their faces and hands clean, n.: un
necessary suffering would be prevented,
and their bills• with the dentist wouldJx±
much smaller."
German Economy.
A late tourist in Germany Asamisaallib
economy practiced by the peasesaLso fair
lows :
Each German has his house, his orchard,
his roadside trees so ladened with fruit that,
did he not carefully prop them up and ee to
gether, and in many places hold tha knobs
together by wooden clamps, they would be
torn asunder by their own weight. He has
his corn plot, his plot for maul* wurral or
hay, for potatoes, for hemp, Soc. Se is his
own vaster, and therefore he and his family
have the strongest motive for exertion.—
You see the effects of this in his industry and
economy. In Germany nothing is lost r —
The produce of the trees and the cows is
carried to market. Much - fruit is 'dried for
winter use. You see wooden trays of pl4uns,
cherries and sliced apples lying in the sun to
dry. You see strings of them hanging from
the windows in the sun.
The cows are kept up the greater part of
the year, and . every green thing is collected
for them. Every little noek where ire-Oriel
grows, by the roadside, river and lweek,, is
carefully cut by the sickle and carried hanap,
on the beads of women and children, in bat
kets or tied-in large cloths 14T odd* Of tete
kind is lost that can possibly be WAD 044W0r
use. Weeds, nettles, nay, the very Awe
grass which covers the waste places, It cut
up and taken for the cows. Tim see tholit.
tle children standing in the stnaetsof theme.
'ages and in the streams which generality=
down them, busy stashing these weeds be
fore they are given to the cattle. limy elen
fully collect the leaves of the marsh Ora"
carefully cut their potato tops tor them, sot
even, should other things fail, ipaikon gni=
leaves from the woodlands.
The New York mem anaosrice the des*
of Mr. Austin C. 'Williams, a - widely-knoum
and highly respected printer, and for twelve
years past employed in the Times establifik
meta. Mr: Williams' perseial'appeattna
—being, perhaps, the largest slitrharrt
man in the . city, weighing stuns flAw
dred and twenty pounds, and regairkegte
less than seventeen yards of hroseekkk lis
complete his exterior outfit—wade hi* gas
object of especial and peculiar interest t 0
associated with him. His humor and *lady
wit were of a superior order, and this% with
his extraordinay proportions, matieltifin a
"host" among his associates. Mr. P. 11". %i
-n= repeatedly sought him for his popfikates
sort as a natural curiosity, but his steeled*
sensitiveness and peculiar. character mold
never permit him to become an objects(
popular curiosity. He was extremely timid
and bashful when in the presence of ladies,
and would resort to any snbtestage to eicspe
their company. Still more note/44)411one
teristics of Mr. Williams may be Sound ip
the simple fact that he never knew ttss i tastst
of ardent spirits nor tobacco, Imes wpb; sa
overcoat, and eschewed the canupfult rings of
mankind to a degree seldom etptalied
was a native of Exeter, New nagigabim,
and in the- thirty-first year of his age.—
About a week since, while on his way 'Witte,
he was seized with an attack of kopie v ,
and lingered until Sunday naprninz when he
passed away.
Ten Thousand Persons Bweeed Alive
In Japan.
In August last, in Japan, not a build
ing with two thousand beings , in it,
but a.whole city of a hundred and sev
enty thousand souls, was Widdenly
burned to ashes ins few hours; a city
of paper and bamboo, covering *My
square miles, filled with its wwwwritnd
children, the sick and the infirm% lie
blind, the halt and the It
burned like straw on many sidwalonee,
reddening the ocean for town* with
its flames. It was fired, with no
warning, by bomb-shells arid wakhot
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shot rained moesaantly dating two ow
into its midst. In t raw eatillawa
tion it is morally ee..rMn that u tWo
thousand only, but at least - tri *ow,
perhaps ten or twenty tittlWls ilia thou . ,
sand belts* creatures . =pat NC
o brilliant go" for
us the hideous inn' 7tata. = of their paiated
last
agonies, and the horrors of an infants/.
fire, before which that of ChM - burns
but pale and feebly. That death 11)16
dealt out to these innocent *Alai
pan b3r English vilors, p,, , A nn _
sparingly and boastfully, not inlrlW, not
in n ao e s s ity, hot in'self-ptwirratia, Met
in order to strike• terror into , ttwvogen
people whom w e are bent uppe : feseir e g
into trade.—Leuer ra 1.404% .444 News.
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