AgriculLural Schools
II
e pit/twelve that the question of establish•
g Agricultural schools is agitating the public
mind in ninny localities, as well as in Pennsyl.
verde. Ia Notv York, a company of gentle
men have purchased the farm of the late John
D.rlafield, near Geneva, for the purpose of es.
tabli:hing an Agricultural college upon it, on.
der the auspices of the State and the New York
Aviculture! society. The Maryland Agricul
tural society is also raising funds for the pur
pose of establishing an Agricultural school in
thilttillth a large model farm attached to
it. A proposition has also been introduced in
Congress for the purchase of Mount Vernon,
for an experimental farm,
The importance of this matter is becoming
manifest, and a lively interest is every where
being exhibited. The deficiency Of our mode
of culture is apparent to all intelligent farmers
and a mode of introducing reform is highly de
sirable. What better one can there be, than
by giving a large number of young men a thor
ough scientific and practical agricultural edu
cation, and send them broad castover the
State to enlighten their neighbors, by practising
what they have learned?
The United .states Govern"'Tient has estab
lished a military school to teach the youth of
the aristocracy to cut up their enemies on the
most scientific principles. The same govern
ment has established a naval school to prepare
young men to cammand our future fleets. It
has also established an 'observatory, to look in•
to the mysteries of the planets and the fixed
stars; but we see by a !ate discussion in Con•
press that notwithstanding this, it is still regard•
ed rt.i unconstitutional to establish any institu,
lion to improve the science of agriculture.
The State of Pennsylvania has also expend.
ed hundred of thousands of dollars, for the bene-
fit of commerce and for the classical education
of many of our citizens, but until within the
last three or four years, not a dollar has been
expended for the improvement of agriculture.
IVe trust, therefore, that the State will not he I
backward in doing something, even at this late I
day, for the benefit of the agricultural interest•
Graham's fir 1851.—The January number
of Graham's Magazine is superb— the number
contains 132 pages, embellished by a medalli•
on engraving of Mills Equestrian Statute of
Jackson; a superb frontispiece; six illustrations
of IVateli Fire, a poem ; the same number
of Scences in Wales; numerous Sips of Punch.
Wallacc,of the Philadelphia Sun says, that Gra
ham has secured all the available talent of the
country fur contributions, arid the letter press
for January gives assurance that he will main
tain his front rank in the magazine world.—
The enterprise of Graham knows no limits; lie
never thinks of expense when he can gratify his
readers, arid he has paid more money to Amer
ican authors than any other publisher in the
country. In the coure of the present volume
an illustrated life of ‘Vashington will be com
menced, by Headley, and other novelties are
promised, which must swell the subscription,
list by thousands. We wish Graham all sue
cess; he is a hard worker for the public, and
there should be corresponding liberality on the
part of our reading masses. We ask attention
to this January number, as something for Phil•
adelphia to he proud of, arid showing that our
city will still carry ofi the palm in magazine
literature
7he People's Journal —TheDecember num
of the People's Journal is already upon our ta
ble. It is one o[ the best and cheapest agri•
cultural winks now published. It is illustrated
with seventy-two elegantly executed wood
cuts. It in published by Alfred E. Beach, 86
Nansau street, N. V., at the low price of 50 cts.
per volume, or w I per year.
The Form Journal —The January number of
this valuable publication is ready tor delivery
to subscribers. It is the commencethent of the
the fourth volume. The work has been stead
ily improVing ever since its commencement,
cud the number before us gives evidence that
the fourth volume will far surpass any of its pre
decessors. It is printed on fine white paper
with beautiful new type of a smaller size, thus
adding largely to the :meant of reading mat.
ter. To the Lehigh county farmer, we would
say—this a. a Pennsylvania production deserves
to be sustained: It coats but a dollar a year
and the purchaser has decidely the best of the
bargain
Illysteriotts.—Some lime ago, the workmen on
the North Pennsylvania Railroad, while exca
vating in Rockhill township, exhumed a human
skeleton, in a good state of preservation. The
flesh.was entirely gone, but the hair was per
- (El)e L'el)igl) Register.
A Hen town, Pa.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4,15 5 1.
The New Year's Night.
An old man stood at the window at twelve
o'clock of the night which ushered in the New
Years and gated with a look of long despair
up into the axed, starlit heavens, and down
upon the still, clean, white earth, whereon now
there was no one so joyless and sleepless as he.
For his grave stood close by him, only conceal
ed by the snow of age, not by the green
of youth, and he brought with him out of a
whole rich life nothing but errors, sins, and
wes,kness, a body in ruins, a desolate soul , a
breast full of prison, and an old ago full of re-
morse.
His beautiful youthful days returned to him
now as spectres, and brought him hack again
to that fair morning on which his father placed
him at the diverging point in life's road, which
to the right leads upon the sun path of virtue
into a wide and quiet land full of light, full of
harvests, full of angels; and which to the left
leads down into the mole tracks of vice, into a
dark cavern full of dripping poison, full of ser
pents ready to dart on their prey, and lull of
dismal, close exhalations.
Alas! the serpents hung around his breast,
and drops of poison were upon his tongue, and
he knew now where he was!
Madly and with unspeakable grief he called
out to /leaven, "Give me my youth again !
Place me again at the diverging point, that 1
may make a different choice!"
But his lather and his youth were past long
ago. He was will 'o the wisps dance upon the
marshes and become extinct over the burying
ground, and he said, "They are my foolish
days." He saw a star shooting from heaven,
glimmering in its fall, and vanishing as it reach
ed the earth. "That am I!" said his bleeding
heart, and remorse sunk its serpent fangs deep
er into his bosom.
His disordered imagination pointed out to
him sceptres walking upon the roofs, and the
wind-mill raised its threatened arms to crush
him, and a mask which had been left in the
empty charnel•house gradually assumed his
owrti • features.
In the midst of the conflict, the music for the
New Year suddenly flowed down from the tow
er as a church hymn heard in the distance.
His mind became calmer, he looked around
the horizon, and over the wide earth, and he
thought of the friends of his youth, who now,
happier and better than he, were the teachers
of the earth, fathers of happy children, men,
whom the world called blessed, and lie said,
O ! I could also have slept this first night of
the year with dry eyes, as you do, it I had on
ly willed it. Alas, I could have been happy,
dear parents, had I fulfilled your New Year's,
wish and teachings."
Amid these feverish reminiscences of his
youth, it appeared to him as if the mask which
had assumed his features in thecharriel-house,
stood up, and through that supersition which
onNew Year's eve sees ghosts and future events
it was at last changed into a living youth.
He could see no more ; covered his eyes, a
msatid hot tears streamed forth, dissappear
in the snow, all comfortless and despair
he sighed gently, "Come again. omy
h come again !"
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1 your
And it came again ! For that fearful expe•
rience was only a dream of the New Year's
; night. lie was still a youth, his errors had
been only a dream. But lie thanked God that
• he, still young could turn aside from the filthy
course of vice, and enter upon the sunny path
which leads in the bright laud of harvest.
Turn with him, young reader, if thou stand
est upon the error road. This frightful dream
will one day become thy judge, but it thou
shouldst once, full of anguish, call out, "Come
again, beautiful youth r , remember, ii will not
come again.
Alarm of Fire
On Sunday afternoon,at about 3 o'clock, the
citizens of our Borough were alarmed' by !lie
cry of fire. It was discovered to originifte
I iit a two story brick house, in Sixth Street, oc.
cup,ied by Daniel opreors Illus. Miller
had during the day put some wood to kindle
fire, in the Stove to dry, and with the orders
Ito one of the domestics, to take it out when
sufficiently day, she left on a visit. The do
mestic took out the wood as he alleges and
threw it in the fire place and left the house.—
It appears the wood had taken fire and burned
the fireboard and mantle. The smoke being
noticed by the neighbors, who examined the
house and found the fire had already destroyed
the mantle. It was however soon put out, and
the damages were but trifling.
Stage Accident
On Monday the 26th of December, as the
driver of the Easton Stage was turtling before
Bechtel's Hotel, in this Borough, the coupling
pin, in tho running Beers broke, and upset the
coach on the pavement on the opposite side of
the street. The stage was loaded lull of passen
gers inside, and one or two on the top, but we
are happy to say, that, .with the exception of a
light bruise to one of the male passengers, no
one was hurt. The enterprising proprietor, Mr.
Charles Scagreaves soon procured aeother coach
and in the course of half an hour the passen
geis were on their way to Easton.
Balls and Partie:!.—The Patty at Rolh's on
the 26th of December, was we wear told a very
nice affair. The same was the Ball at the Odd
Fellows' Hull, on Friday evening lust. Sonie
seventy couple were present. Major Ettinger's
Cotillion Band performed, some of their best
music, which Of itself is sufficient to create fife
and'animation to 9'"trip on the light fantastic
toe." At one o'clock the party, sat down to a
splended repast, prepared by Mr. 7iighinan
Good. The arrangentente throughout we were
told waa excellent.
Allentown and Norristown.
We learn that the prospects of a Railroad
communication bet seen Allentown via Norris
town to Philadelphia are brightening daily. The
President of the Norristown and Allentown Rail.
roadcitiMpaity, with a number of the Directors
are passing over the route and making final ar•
rangements, preparatory to putting the same
tinder contract in the spring. They will be
happy to meet the friends of the road this Even.
ing, January 4th, in Allentown. We trust that
all who feel an interest in having a direct corn•
munication with Philadelphia, will be prescm.
We are pleased to hear that the citizens along
the line are subscribing liberally to the stock of
the company.
Drowned.—As we were going to press, We
were informed by a gentleman, that 117 r. Josrph
Billiard, a resident of Lower Saucon,township,
Northampton county, nn Friday evening last,
on his way home from the Borough of Bethle-
hem, in crossing the canal, broke through the
ice and drowned. Ile was found the next morn
ing under the ice near the place he broke
He leaves a wife and several children to mourn,
his loss. His age is about 40 years.
Exportation of Breadstuff.
Since September last, there have been expor
ted to Europe alone, horn this country, 1,100,•
000 barrels of flour, 4,750,000 bushels wheat;
and 650,000 bushels corn. Of this immense
business, New York has probably more than
one-hall. About one million barrels of flour
will be received in Boston during this year, and
2,500,000 bushels of corn. Only seventy thou-
sand barrels flour have been
,exported to all
foreign countries from Boston since Septem
ber Ist. Of the great quantity of breadstufla
landed there, but a small part is shipped away.
Nearly all is•sold for home consumption.
Sleighing.—On New Years night a snow sofne
five inches deep fell, and as the roads were
nice and even it made excellent sleighing
Our friends from the country are enjgying, it to
their hearts content. The poor printer, howev
er, is a "looker on in Venice." IVe trust our
patrons will not forget to give us a call.
Revenue Commissioner.— The Judges of the
Courts of Northampton and Lehigh Counties,
we learn have appointed General Cour/raki,/ter,.
to represent this district in the Board of Reve-
Mle Commissioners to meat at llarri.burg in
February next. This is art appointment of much
importance, and the Judges have selected the
right sort a man to attend to their interests.
California, Oregon and IWe:rico. •
California is only ninteen days distant from
us. By virtue of the Ramsey route, we have
news as late as to the 7th inst., out from Sa.n
Francisco, it being seven days later than the last
preceeding advice. The transit from San Frans
cisco to New Orleans occupied but eighteen days
—thence we have it telegraphically. It is little
news we get, but that is had enough. The , Win•
held Scott," mail steamship, which left for Pan
ama on the Ist was wrecked, and totally lost on
the 2d, on the coast of Santa Barbara. The
treasure and her passengers were all saved, ta.
ken back to San Francisco, and re.embarked in
the steamer California, for Panama, on the 7th,
Another loss is announced; that of the ship
Eclipse, of this port, totally lost on the 20th of
Whig State Convention.
The October, 60 miles south of San Bias.
W hig State Committee, at their meeting The dates from Oregon are brought doWn . to
on Tuesday last, resolved to hold the next State the 26th of November. Business was active,
Convention at Harrisburg, on the 15;h day oil though the rivers were high, owing to heavy
March. We entirely approve of this early call rains. Governor Stevens had arrived out.
for the assembling of the Convention. It will The same steamer brings important items from
afford an opportunity for a full representation Mexico. Santa Anna has issued a decree accept.
from every county in the State, and for this and ing the declaration of Guadalajara. In other
other reasons, we think the Committee have ac. -1 words, the project on which his heart has been
ted judiciously in making the appointment.
set• is, at last consummated. Mexico is made.
So says the Delaware County Republican.— an Empire, and Santa Anna is Emperor. His
We may add that at the meeting, Northampton title is “Most serape Hi.4liness;" his salary ;60,-
Lancaster, A Ilegheny, Somerset, Delaware, Mont. 000, and he is to appoint one to be a successor
P
Philadelphia, Chester, dec., were re re- '
seated, and that the decision was unanimous, get but a very important one, is this
in case of his death or moral disqualification. A
brief bud
that the steamer Texas brings to New Orleans.
A Life Insurance Case.—Thc Rochester Union
describes a peculiar case, arising on a life poli•
cy, which has recently been decided in that dis
trict. It appears that a Mr. H. B. Williains left
for California. Subsequent to his departure. N.
Osborne, Esq., made an application to a New
York agency of the British Life Insurance Co.,
for an insurauce upon Mr. Williams' life to the
amount of ;2300. The application was based
upon a certificate of the state of Mr. Williams'
health, dated Sept. 5. The company accepted
the risk, and the policy was dated October 6. It
so happened that on the evening of Oct. 6 Mr.
Williams died of cholera, on the Isthmus, after
sit iNilf"ss of several days. The company refused
to pay, on the ground bill Mr. Williams was not
well at the time the risk was taken. Suit was
brought, and the Court held that the policy was
granted on the state of facts existing at the date
of the application, and that the company assum•
ed the risk involved in the subsequent lapse of
time. Mr. Osborne recovered the amount of
7lie flarrisburg Union.—ln last week's Tem
. ocratic Union,' Isaac G. McKinley, E.g., an•
nounces his retirement. Ills successors are
not named, but there has been a report current
for some time that the establishment had been
purchased by the friends of Gen. Cameron, who
will hereafter make it an anti-Bigler, organ.— I
The Governor's friends must be up arid doing
for a very decided opposition is making head
way against him.
The British Quarterlies.—ln another column
will be found the advertisement of the British
Quarterly Reviews and the West Minister Re
view, to which we respectfully invite attention.
Messrs. Leonard Scott & Co., in their prospect
us, remark :
...Sustained, then, as these distinguished works
are and ever have been, by the highest order of
scholastic ability and political sagacity, we need
not be surprised to find them occupying such a
proud preeminence among the literary produc•
[ions of the world , and the neglect of their high.,
claims upon the consideraiion of all classes of
the inteiiigent cominunity, would necessarily ar•
gue a corresponding ind;fference to the great in
terests of the commonwealth. But a spirit of
philosophical inquiry is abroad among the peo
ple ; and to the honor of the age may it be sta
ted,
that ignorance is no longer deemed a mis-
fortune, but a fault: and assuredly the fault is
not lessened when we find such rare advantages
thus placed within our grasp; and however trite,
also, may be the remark, it is not the less true.
that if the cultivation of literature brings its own
reward, the neglect of it brings its punishinent
With these views, therefore, the American pub
ushers respectfully beg to invite the especial at
tention of their fellow-citizens to the Reprints o
the several Periodicals here referred to, feelint
confident that in doing so they will not only sub•
serve the best interests of popular intelligence
but will, at the same time, add to the general
happiness of ;he nation, by imparting to the pub.
lie mind a healthful stimulus for a high order of
Intellectual pleasure."
Conversion: in Ireland.—During the last six
years and a half 32,000 persons hSve left the
Romish Church in Ireland, and become members
in Protestant churches, while more than 80,000
have been unsettled in their old opinions.
Tunnel at Edge Thll.-1( is contemplated to
make a tunnel of about eighty yards in length,
for the North Pennsylvania Railroad, through
Edge Hill, instead of one deep cut of forty seven
feet. Mr. Paxson, who is the contractor here
for two and a half miles, has now uptiards of n
hundred men at work. A portion of this distance
in the valley on the north side of the hill, will be
required to be filled up to an elevation of twrn
ty seven feet, to bring it to the proper, grade.—
While digging here a quarry of beautiful white
marble was discovered about six fti.et below the
the surface,
The Railroad Troubles at Erie.
Buffalo, Dec. 28.—The riot at Harbor Creek
yesterday, was more serious than reported, and
caused great excitement here. It appears that
several officers of the Railroad Company went
up the line to Harbor Creek, to superintend the
repairs of the track injured by the mob on, the
previous evening. When they arrived,, they
were met by an armed mob of 600 or 700 men.
Mr. Collin, n conductor on the Buffalo and State
Line Road, was attacked as soon as recognized,
by a party armed with clubs, pieces of rails and
picks; he drew a revolver and snapped two
caps without diem, but a third shot wounded one '
of the ringleaders of the mob in the head.
The railrclad men were then ordered by C. C
Dennis, the Superintendent of the line, to retreat
to the cars. Some of them, however, Were in•
tercepted by the rioters and shamefully mat.
treated. One named Jones vas nearly killed .
and another was knocked down and badly beat
en. A man was in the act of striking a spade
into the skull of Mr. Jones .as he lay on the
ground, whet Conductor Hopper rushed forward,
and struck the assailant down with a pick.'
wounding him severely in the neck. The mob
then made an attack upon the care with the in
tent of obtain ing possession of Mr. Dennis, whom
they swore they would hang on the first telegraph
pole.
Mr. Dennis wished to go onl of the cars, but
his friends restrained him, feeling certain that
the brutal threats of the excited mob would be
carried into effect,
The rioters then entered the cars and some of
them seized Mr. Dennis ; when Mr.'Kasson who
was on board rushed forward to the locomotive
and started,—the mob jumped off,—and the train
was not stopped until it reached the State of New
York.
A passenger who expressed his indignation at
the infamous conduct of the rioters was knocked
down in Erie yesterday and half of his hair lit
erally torn from his head. The mob at Harbor
Creel; was swelled by a ruffianly mob from Erie,
The Railroad Company now refuses to run be
yond the State line, believing the lives of their
employees in danger.
The excitement here is intense, and unless im•
mediate steps are taken for the protection of the
public by the general government, there is seri-
ons danger of a movement of the,people of this
part of the State, which may entail terrible dis-
asters on the whole country
his claim
Remedies for a weak Chest —The letter of Mr,
Willis, which is given below, contains the best
advice for failing lungs we have yet seen in print.
The hand that now invites - attention to it would
have been in the grave forty years ago had not
similar instructions, given by a celebrated phy
sician of the West,been implicitly obeyed. His
injunction was—" Live on horseteA, in the open
air—groom yourself as your horse is groomed .
and cold bath after eurrying-eat fur digestion,
not for indulgence—give physic to the dogs, or
leave it to the doctors."
Illerico.—Santa Anna has been made, in fact,
though not in name, by the authorized prepetua.
tion of his power, Supreme Dictator, and it is sta.
ted to be the general belief in the city of Mexico ,
that he will soon be elected Emperor, under the
title of Antonio Primero. Those Californian and
other menaced fillibustering expeditions, furnish
the steps by which Santa Anna mounts to the
supreme power. The great on -_legged is the
luckiest of men.—the Mexicans can no more do
without him than without garlic. With one pat
of him under ground, and the other part above it
he isa fitting representative of the Mexican State .
Still, he is, apparently, the ablest man in Mexico
and not unreasonably do the'pecple cling to his
wooden leg as to the only stair of their mtional
salvation.—Aainrday evening Past.
GLEANINGS.
re'The aggregate funded debt of Russia,
home and foreign, is estimated at about i210,-
000,000.
rein the last twenty years thirteen thousand
miles of railroad have been finished in the UM
ted States, at a cost of $500.000,000.
- •.
CV - The State of Texas has 1 02,747,000 acres
of vacant domain.
EV - Judge j,righ, of Virginia, has decided that
stage and railroad companies are responsible for
the baggage of the passengers, notwithstanding
notice is given ..all baggage at the risk of the
owners."
rrTeAdvenise, if you would make'money—and
purchase of advertiser's, if you would save it.
L'",loseph Dei,er, aged 70 years, died in Hol
lidaysburg, on Saturday last. He was fur twenty
years,.a soldiers in the Austrian army.
iV"Coal is selling in Boston at $9 per ton,
and wood at $9 per cord. Heaven help •pour
folks" to keep warm.
LirThere are 238,000 barrels of ale manu
factured in Albany, yearly. This requires the
consumption of 600,000 pounds of hops, worth
35 cents per pound. The number of persons
employed is about 700.
Pr On Christmas night Mr. Hayes, keeper of
the Poorhouse, in Groton, Mass., murdered his
wife and three children, and afterwatds cut his
own thruat.
re - Ge . n. Foote has given up all hope of "sa
ving the Union." He is about to leave Missis
sippi forever and settle in New York. We shall
next hear of this little fussy individual as a rank
free soiler.
fa' M. Guizot was the twenty•second child of
his parents; all the progeny died young, except
him and a sister.
Ant:rprm ian Discbterim—A letter from Naples
of the 1 4th ultimo, announces the discovery of
an antique vine between Acerno and Scafati, on
the banks of the. Sarno, qt a depth 'of only three
or four feet under the level of the earth. The
architecture, with the c::ception of the arcades,
hears no resemblance to the buildings cf Ifereti-,
!alien in and Pompeii. The house, of which the
front wall is partly rotted by the onzfng, of the i
waters of the Sarno, contains ten large rooms.— '
There were bound in it a male and female kele•
ton, that of a bird, and an agricultural imple
ment
of bronze. During the last excavations
made at Pompeii, several human skeletons, and
one of a dog, were discovered, pressed one on the
other. Two gold rings, ornamented with cameos,
were found on the fingers of the left hand of one t
of the skeletons. They have been deposited in
the Bourbon Museum at Naples.
Curio.sdies rf Trade.—Among the importations
into this country, is a certain class of articles
embracing-an almost endless variety, which are
called the t mon•enumerated." Some of them
Icost a mere trifle, and are little used ; others
equally cheap, are Of such general use that their
aggregate value is considerable, Few persons
know that these articles enter into commercial
transactions. During the year ending June 30th,
1853, the value of slate pencils, entered at the
New York custom house, was $3,733; of saus
age skins, $924; little night tapers, $.207; tooth
picks, $341 ; bladders, $1,257; orange•peel, 584 ;
peachkernels, $8; goosetsk ins, $700; rose.. lea ves,
$773; skeletons,s3sl; mushrooms, $1,003; sand,
$3; goose•liver oil, $l3l ; spunk,sl4.. This list
of incongruous articles could be enlarged to a
great extent.
Public Dinner 10 Mr. Jam Milcbell—A public
dinner was given. in the Broadway Theatre on
Monday evening, to congratulate one (lithe Irish
exiles, Mr—John Mitchell, on his escape from Van
Dienian's Land. The number of persons present
was estimated at about twelve hundred, including
Indies and other spectators who occupied seats
in the boxes. Among the spectators were Mr.
Mitchell's family, to whom the honors bestowed
upon•him must have been peculiarly gratifying.
The United States District Attorney, Charles
O'Conor, Esq , presided., In reply to a toast re
ferring to hiM, Mr. Mitchell responded in an elo•
quent speech. Speeches were also made by Mr.
'l' Meagher, Mr. Horiice Greeley, Mr. P. J.
Smyth, Judge Emmet, Mr. Richard O'Gorman
aid others.
Cast Iran Canal Locks.--A Sunbury paper
says, the cast iron outlet lock in the Philadelphia
and Sunbury Railroad Company's basin, at this
place, is nearly completed. It is the only lock of
this kind that has ever been built, and is quite a
novelty. If this experiment is successful, it will
be a new mode of consumption for the great sta.
ple of Pennsylvahia.
The Shoe 7rade illabsuchusete.—Quite a null].
ber of the largest purchasers of shoes from the
South and SOL1111W('Sl are now in Boston. All
articles in the boot and shoe line are held at prices
about twenty per cent, higher than last year at
this time. The deMand is quite good, and the
advanced prices are well sustained. Ali branch.
es
- of this extensive trade are now enjoying a sea
son of great prosperity.
rir We cordially commend the following "thy,
med lesson" to the class for which it is intended.
The author's name does not appear:
Breathes there a man with soul so dead—who
never to himself hathsaid—l will my village pa,
per take—both for my own and family's sake!
If such there be, let him repent—and have. the
paper to him sent—and if he'd pass a happy win,
ter—he in advance will pay the printer! •
New York Musical Review.--We have before
us the first number, sth volume, of that highly
popular work the ...New York Musical. Review
and Choral Advocate," published every other
Thursday, by . Mason Brothers, 23 Park Row,
New York. Each number contains sixteen
quarto pages, including four pages of new Music,
and is furnished atone dollar : per annum, or six
copies for'five dollars, •
The Shortest Day.-I'hose of our readers who
have recently found the period of daylight ton
short, will no doubt begratified that the sun from
this time forward must continue to.protiitict the,
length of his diurnal visits. Wednesday•lait
wns the shortest day, and the tun went down the
western horizon after showing his face for nine
hours and eight minutes.
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Another Martyr.
The Madison (hot.) Daily Argus of the Ist
instant, relates the following •affecting story,
which exhibits a case of martyrdom surpassing
That of Knud Iverson, the Norwegian boy of Chi
cago :
A beautiful, fair haired, blue. eyed boy, 11!10
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nine years of age, was taken from the Orphan
Avluin in Milwaukie, and adopted by a respect
able farmer of Marquette, a professor of religion
and a member of the Baptist persuasion. A girl
a little older than the boy, was also adopted into
the same family. Soon after these children were
installed in their new home, the boy discovered
criminal conduct on the part of his new mother,
which he mentioned to the little girl, and thereby
it came to the ears of the woman ; she indig
nantly denied the story to the satisfaction of her
husband, and insisted that the boy should be
whipped until he confessed the falsehood. The
man—poor, weak bigot—impelled to a sense of
religious duty, Proceeded to the task assigned
him, by procuring a bundle of rods, stripping the
child naked, and suspending him by a cord to the
rafters of the house, and whipping hint at. inter
vals for over two hours, till the blood ran through.
the floor, making a pool upon the floor below;
stopping only to interroga re the boy, and getting
no other reply than "Pa, I told the truth—l can
not tell a lie ;" the woman all the while urging
him to "do his duty.".
The poor little hero, at length released from
his torture, threw his arms around the neck of
his tormentor, kissed him, and said, "Pa, I am
so cold," and died. It appeared in evidence, up
on the trial of This man and woman for murder
that the child did tell the truth; and suffered death.
by slow torture rather than tell a lie. The age
of heroism and of martyrdom will not have pas
sed till mothers cease to instil holy precepts in
the minds of their infant offspring. The man
and woman who munkred this angel child, am
now in the penitentiary at \'ampun, to which,
they were sentenced for ten years.
Return of it Traveller.—Bayard Taylor arrived.
at New York on Tuesday, in the clipper ship Sea
Serpent, from China. Mr. Taylor left New York.
on the 28th of August 1861, and has been gone
two years and four months. In this time, he has.
visited most of the countries of Europe, has as
,cended the Nile further than any other Ameri
can or English traveller, journeyed in Palestine.
Asia, Minor and India, visited China ik twice, and,
taken part in the American Expeditlon to Japan.
He has travelled altogether some fifty thousand.
miles, and in all his adventures and intercourse
with men of every clime and race, has been re
ceived with kindness, and attended by uniform
good fortune, says the Tribune. From the time
of leaving till his return, he has wet with no ow'
cident, but bas found everything to favor his pur
pose and help him on. He returns to America.
in excellent health and spirits, ready to apply to.
use the varied experience and information gath
ered in this long tour. He will at once devote
himself to preparing his travels for publication.
and a book on Africa may be expected from his
pen. :
Felipe llurbidc, a son of the Emperor of Mexi
co, died of yellouP lever, at Mat:wens, on the 0:11
ult.. in the 30th Ville of his age. lie was enga
ged as the interpreted of the Mexican .Boundary
Commission, and Is well known in this city.
wh!re his mother and family reside.l—Pbil• "VIM.
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