THE STAR OF THE NORTH. R. W. Reaver, Proprietor.] VOLUME 9. TUB STAR OF THE NORTH 'l* PUBLISH ED RVKBT WKDN EBDAY MORNINURT It. VV. tI'RAVER, OFFlCE— Upstairs, in Ihe new brick build ing, on the couth side cj Main Sheet, third square below Market. 'l' KR ill S :—Two Dollars per annum, if paid within six months from the lime of sub scribing ; two dollar* and fifty cent* if not paid within the year. No subscription re ceived for a lea* period than six months; no discontinuance permitted until all arrearages are paid, unless' at the option of the editor. ADVERTISKMENTS not exceeding one square will be inserted three limes for One Dollar, and tweu:,' five cents for each additional in sertion. A liberal discount will be made to • 'those who advertise by the year. EXECUTION OF LOUIS XVI. At ten minutes past tea the) reached the toot of the scaffold. It had been erected in fiont of the palace of the Tnileries, in the square called after Louis XV., and near the spot where stood the statute of the most im pure of kings—a king who died trariquilly in his bed. The condemned man was three minute' descending from the carriage. Upon quilling tho Temple lie had refused Ihe red ingole which Ciery had offered to Itim and r.ow appeared in a brown coat, while waist coat, gray breeches and white stockings.— His hair was not disordered, nor was any cbuuge perceptible in his countenance. The Abbe Firmonl was dressed in black. A large open space had been kepi round the scaffold with cannon ranged on all sides; while be yond, as far as the eye could reaoh, stood an unarmed multitude. The executioner bad opened the door of the coach, and, descend ing, Louis fixed his eyes upon ihe soldiers whjt Surrounded him, ami, with a terrible voice, oried "silence!" The drums ceased to beat, but at a signal from the officer the drummers again went on. ''What treason i this !"' be shouted, 'lam lost! I.am lost!' For it was evident that, up to this moment, he bad been clinging to hope. The execu tioners now approached to take off a part off bis clothes; he repulsed them fiercely, and f.imself removed 'he collar from his neck.— But all the blood in bis body seemed to be turned into firdQjdben they sought to tie his hands. "Tie my hands I" he shrieked. A struggle was inevitable—it came. Il is in disputable, say* Mercier, that Louis fought with his The Abbe Edge worth stood by,-perplexed, horrified, speech less. At lai his master seemed to look in qpiripgly at him, be said, "Sir, in this addi tional outrage I only see a last trait of the re semblance _bet ijANRi your majesty and t£e vijJ wrbo will give you your reward." ;heso words~iudignatioß of the man way UK the of jjje Christian, astWtOU is * aid to his' AUHj'jghers, "I will uup to llpr tfed his Isy out offdiis hair, auslmhen, leati- K3Bn> n of his colessor, Je began, Jjtjow tread and to mouWthe tfym Wf steep, of the guil lotine. UpOTl the fust step, he seemed suddenly to rouse, end walked rapid ly across to the other of llifl. scaffold ; when, by a sign sflsnce, be exclaimed, "I die innocent of the Crimes im puted to me." His face was now very red, and, eccorJing to the narrative of bis confes sor, bis voice was so loud (hat it could bo heard through the streets as far as the Pont Some other expressions were -•^WKIn ctly heard :"I pardon the authors of HRKp y death ; and I pray heaven that the blood - fan are about to shod may never be visited upon France." was about to oontiuue, whpri his voice was drowned by the renewed '-fh"g of lbe drums, at a signal which il is - sujKtirmeJ, was given by lite comedian Duga mftyoa, in anticipation of lite of Saterre. W all self-central, and stamping violently wills I his fool. ll\chnrd, one of the executioners, I then seized a pistol, and look aim at the ! King. It was necessary to drag him aloog | -by force. With difficulty fastened the fatal plank, lie cominued to utter horrible cries on ly interrupted by the fall of the knife, which ,'instantly struck off his bead. Samson raised it aloft, and showed it to the*people. Aud the people shouted, " Long live the Repub iie!"—Lotiw Blanc's History of the French Rev olution. A Place for Ihe ('Strong-Minded.'* / ' A modem traveler telle us that the Jew eases in Theeaaloniea, (European Turkey) 1 reverse oar acoepted laws of Hymen, by purchasing their husband*. The ,modus op erandi is thus described: "Brokers are employed to negotiate mar riages. The father of a marriageable girl, goes to a brother, and inquires what bride grooms there are in market. He chooses one higher or lower in the social scale, ac cording to the dower he can afford his daugh ter, the price he can pay, and makes an offer of so much dower. The bridegroom, thro' the broker, demands mote; they chaffer and bargain for weeks, perhaps, and a bargain is ■truck. The parties uarer see each other till rMßried. The dower ia the wife's only se curity against divorce. The husband can di vorce her when he ohooees, but he must pay beck the dower, that aha may ba able to buy another husband. Mrs. D. waa tailing a Jewish girl that wri do not require any dower m'America. "How then," said she, in utter astonishment, "(lo you do when ba wants to divorce you I" An exehango paper gives the follow ing case of abieuce of mind: A girl who was o!) of our first loves, was one night lighting us out, after having passed a delightful evening, and In bashful trepida tion, she blew us oot and drew the candle behind the door and kissad il. BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNES DAY, MARChIB7IBS7. A DROLL ACCOUNT. The Turkish papers are dabbling in Amer- i ican politics. Listen to oue'Vif them on the j Kansas question. The language is translated by the Constantinople correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune: "In the northern part of America there Is a province called Kansas, which having a very warm climate the inhabitants are much given to agriculture. They Wave, therefore, 'impoited a large number of slaves from Af rica, and employed ihem on their lands.— The people who live in the ndhh of this prov ince regard slavery as inconsistent with hu manity, and having so apprised the inhabi tants of Kitltas, urged them'lo desist from this improper practice. Having repeatedly tfone this, and not haling beta listened to, the two parties assembled, and after ascer taining tbe number ol each, deputised rep 'resdntatives to the seal of the American gov ernment, called Washington, lo have the matter tried. Now, as there has been for some time past a great coolness between the Amniican Council of Nobles and the people of America, they could not fall upou any agreemeut on the subject of the people's quarrel in Kansas. The difficulty increasing daily in strength, it was foreseen that trouble would arise out of it. The enmity existing between the two councils resulted in each endeavoring to prevent the labors of Ihe oth ers, and consequently nothing was done by either. Moreover, as the army of the Amer ican republic is wholly disorganized, and con sists of Bashi Bazouk soldiers, tbe council of the people desired to have them properly trained and placed under some kind of order, with regulations and pay assigned them. The chief of the republic likewise mas in favor ol this arrangement, but the Council of Nobles continued to oppose that of tbe people, and a great quarrel arose between rtiem on the subject. This state of tilings, therefore, be ipg productive of Ihe ruin of tbe foundations of the republic, ind the destruction of its government, the chief of it decided upon set tling this affair of the army in tome manner or other, and for this purpose last August; called up both the Councils anil gave them two weeks, in which time to come lo a set ftment of their differences. Now it happens that by said republic, if the people's Council do not also consent fo it, the chioi of the gov ernment, even together with the Council ol Nobles, cannot take one akicha out of the Treasury : as the former would not consent lo give him any money for their support, he bad l(L dismiss all the soldiers and sell tbe vesse"lf>f WrTC enter governments. Of a truth i ia clearly been that this dißord be tween the two Councils will very soon came the ruin of that republic, and proves tbe value of lire peace and happiness which we will enjoy under the benevolent protection of the shadow of our blessed Sultan." CHINA. The eyes of the civilized world are fit this moment turned upon the Celestial Empire, , in consequence of the internal discord, the bombardment of feveral of their forts by Ihe I American and Englieh fleetr, and the reported destruction of Canton by 'the latter. What il will amount to ia an enigma that time alone will aoive; but we are, inclined to believe that the star of the Tartar dynasty is on the wane. China is the moat populous and aneient empire in the known world; it is 1390 miles long, and 1330 wide; its population is over 360,000,000. The capital of this vail empire is Fekin, which contains at least one million inhabitants. The chief product of the country is tee, of which over 50,000,000 pounds are annually exported from Canton, the principal port of shipping, and Ihe only place foreign era ere allowed to visit- Alt the necessariea | of life, are found in abundance throughout the country. The arts and manufactures are in a high state of perfection, but stationary—as anything like improvement is totally prohib ited. The foreign commeroe of China amounts , ' to about (40,000,000 annually, tbe whole of! 1 which is transacted with appointed agents,! ' called Hong merchants. Tbe revenue of tbe whole empire is estimated at (200,000,000, and the revenue derived 'rom foreign eom merce by the Emperor, varies from (4,000,- 000 to (6,000,000. Smuggling is carried on to a considerable extent snd for several years past, the English have smuggled annually, at least (50,000, 000 worth of opium, much of which was paid for in specie. Philanthropists of the whole civilized world, have long, without avail, tried to put an end to this trade on ac count of the great injury it does to the physi cal condition of alt who use it. The dying scene or a confirmed opium chewer is a hor rible picture. The religion of the Chinese is something similar to Bhudisra, their chief God being FOB. This nation endeavors to inculcate the i morality of CONFUCIUS, their great phitoeo- I pher, who was born 850 B. C. Ths great wall and canat of China, are . among tbe mightiest workt ever achieved by t man. The Chinese language has nearly 40,- i 000 letters, or ebaraclera. The ohief trade of i this country is with England. About thirty r United States vessels annually visit Canton. r The first American tassel that ever visited i that port, was in 1714. The Chinese, like their neighbors, the Ja panese, are an eXolutive set. Tbey wish to • have very little to do with any nations out side thair own. Foreigners are allowed to i live at certain factorial or stations, below I Canton, aud if tl.ey dare tresspass beyond ■ tbe prescribed limits, insult, death, and de i ' slrsouno will almost assuredly follow the bold I adventurer.— Pennsylvanian. !A Fancy Uaronet in a Lecture 'ltoon*. Sir Rob'ert Peel bus been delivering'a' lec ture at 'Birmingham, relative to'his Rottian visit, and the sights \4hich'he witnessed'in Moscow at thecorOnart'On if Ihe 1 Emperor snd 'Empress. The present head ol tbe honse of 'Peel was k knb\*n lo be "fast" in the days of his father, the great Minister, and his career sines he dame to the tide has not disabused (batimpression. The lecture in question, to use the wordß Of a metropolitan journal, was a tissue of indiscretion, bad taste, and buf foonery—the coarseness of the Coal-hole and slang of the Casino. Sir Robeit told his audience that be was 'horribly fleeced'by the innkeepers,and "hor ribly done" in his dinners, for which ha bad to psy JCGO a day. At Moscow he was "dane to an enormous extent" by a person who charged him £IOO for each of tbo four greys which drew his carriage from Ihe railway station to the hotel. At Nishni he bought some turquoises, which he intended lo sell to make good his losses, "as I am always ana ious to recover, and never like to be done." He drove from Moscow to Nishni, a distance of four buudred miles, in twenty-eight hours. The horses got knocked up, and when tbey fell exhausted were left by the roadside.— The postillions met the same late. "I never enjoyed anything so much." At Nishni be was delighted- with the fair, "and the brick o'l a Governor. During the whole time I was in Russia I never saw such a brick Governor was. I never saw a man with such capacity for driukiug as this -brick of a Governor; no matter how much champagne he took, 1 did not notice that he ever appeared the worse of it.'" He then described the coionation. "Aalhe Em press entered, she fell flat on the floor—T supposed by accident. I was, however, lo kiss some sacred stone or other, and then she came in with hair disheveled, looking like Notma.in the opera." His description of ihe French representa tive at the coronation is striking, whatever may be said of its taste. "We were present ed at tbe coronation by Count Morny, the French Ambassador, a spick aDd span man, of considerable applomb, and who, by the way, is one oi the greatest speculators in the world. He speculates in everything, and bought a lot of pictures to sell again and made a profit of it." Tbe Belgian smbassador, the Prince de f.igne, is said lo be "the very-pic ture of swelling insignificance ; so swelling, indeed, that he could not for the life of bim , look down ftom ihe contemplation of his own "importance.** •*- ——- J Criticism like this, expressions like these, and s levity about the great affairs of Slate, such as we meet with in this speech, are enougu lo make the great Sir Robert Peel turn uneasy in bis house of clay. If Ihe wealthy snd flippant young baronet had gone to Russia as ti private gentleman lo see what ha describes, he would have been open to no severer impeachment than bad taste in the ' manner of his narrative; but he represented ! in an official capacity Ihe British crown and i people on this and hence the an noyance which the exhibition he h as made,-— Liverpool Tunes. Moral loflucuce ol a Literary Toatc. To a young man away from home, friend less and forlorn, in a great city, the hours of peril are those, between sunset and bed-lime; for the moon and stars see more of evil in a aingle hour than the sun in his whole day's , circuit. Thepoet'e visions of evening are! all compacted of tender and southing Ima ges. It brings the wanderer to his home, the child to bia mother's arms, the ox to his stall, and the weary laborer to his reßt. But, lo lbe gentle-hearted youth who is thrown upon the rocks ol a pitiless city, and "stands home less amid a thousand homes," the spproach of eveniug brings with il an aching sonse of loneliness and desolation, which comes down upon the sprirl like darkness upon the eurlb. I In this mood, his best impulses become a J snare lo him,and he is led astray because he | is social, affectionate, sympathetic, and warm hearted. H there be a young man thus cir cumstanced within the reach of my words, let me say to him, that hooka are the friends ol the friendless, and that a library ia the borne of the homeless. A taste for reading will carry you to converse with men who will instruct you by their wisdom,aod charm you by their wit, who will tooth you when fretted, refresh you whan weary, counsel you when perplexed, and sympathize with you at alt tiroes. Evil tpirita, in ihe middle agea, were exoroised and driven away by bell, book, and candle; yon want but two of these agents, tbe book and the candle.— Hillard. DOGBERRY THE CORONER. —The following reminiscence of Coroner Connery acquires an interest from recent occurrences. He held an inquest upon the body of an Irishman, who was killed by an Italian some months ago. During the investigation he examined lbe Italian, who did not understand a word of English, when Ihe following colloquy oc curred : CORONER— Do you speak English 7 ITALlAN—[Demonstrations either that be did not understand English, or the question, or both.j COR. —Do you speak German ? ITAL.—Same demonstrations as before. COR.— Do you speak French J ITAL— Same demonstration as before. COR. —Do you speak Spanish ? ITAL Demonstration as befare. Coa.—[Expanding eiuihngly.] There, gen tlemen of tbe jury, you see I have addressed him in five diffeieot languages, and ha doea not understand one.— K. if. Poet Truth and Right—od and our Country. Yous* America. A oertain Judge, while attending Court in a sbire town, wat passing along the road where a boy was just letting down the bars to drive some cattle in. His father stood in the doer of his home, on the opposite side of the road, aod seeing what bis hopeful bey wa9 doing, shouted out — "John don't you drive Ihem otitic in (here; I told yon lo put them in the pasture behind tbe house." The boy took no notice whatever of tha remonstrance, and his father repeated the Or der in a louder tone, without the least effect —and the third time gave positive drdera not to drive tbe cattle in there. The son did'nt even deign to look op, anil (Unobeyed the parental injunction with ouße would go 100, for it's very inconvenient, but the wind was the wrong way, so it did'nt re ceive much injury. Some boys broke into the orchard the other day, end etripped all the fruit treee. I am glad of it, for if they bad'nt, I presume the children would of made themselvee eick by eating too much. Hoping that you enjoy yourself in Califor nia aa well as we do at home, I remain your affectionate wife." A SHARP YSUNOSTEB.—A Uuie boy on his retern from Sunday School, recently ad dressed hie mother aa follows: "Mamma !" "Well my dear." "Mimoußiia teacher aays people are all made of duel." "Yea ray dear, so the Bible eaya." "Well, mam ma, ere white people made of duett" "Yes." "Well, then, I s'pose colored ytcyU are made of coal duet, ain't they HARD TO PLEASE.—A countryman in one of the western count tee, with a load of meal drove np to a lady's door, when the follow ing conversation took place: "Do yon wen'tany meal ma'am V "What do you ask tor a bushel!" "Teupence, ma*im—prime." "Oh, I can get it for five." (In in a despairing voice) —"Deer lady will you take a bushel for nothing!" "Ie it siftsff.'l The Dnlly Rankle* Business of Phila delphia. People have but a Very imperfect idea of the extent of the business carried on in Philadelphia end especially of the financial business. They are accustomed to think of New York ae' the one great tnooey centre, and to treat "Philadelphia transactions as scarcely worthy bf consideration. We have so few'barfln and the amount of their, capi tal ia so small as compared with thute of New Yo'ik,'that'it is not regarded as at all important or Interesting that the extent of our financial operations should be Inquired into. It is very well, they say, that the busi ness of 'New York Clearing House shall be reported; but il is of very little consequence that there should be any similar establish- A "ihdnwbere. It will be news to nearly every one, not actually engaged in the Banks, that there is and has been fur some time in daily operation, an arrangement corresponding in some measure to Ihe New York Clearing House. Il is not established by law ; but the Banks have made the arrangement fur their own Convenience and to enable them better to serve the interests of the public. Every morning, at about half-past eight o'clock, a deputation of clerks from each of the seventeen banks in the city arrives at the Giraid Bonk. They repair to a large room *in the upper story, where there is a long ta ble, on which all have their particular posi tions assigned them. Here they onpark cer tain carpet hags, valises and wallets, and in a little while the labia is covered with pack- { ages of bank notes, checks, and other repre sentatives of the circulating medium. These are all the receipts of each bank on tbe pre vious dty, including notes of Ihe various city banks, checks on other banks, with a bill on the back staling tbe aggregate amount re ceived by il. These packaget are interchan ged, the money re-counted ; and tbe balance is (truck. The sum received by eaoh bank, in note* and checks of every other bank, is llins accurately ascertained. This compre hends an immense amount of work, bnt as it is in skillfnl and experienced hands and ie conducted in a systematic manner, it goee on very rapidly, and rarely occupies more than half an hour, the several deputations of the Banks then dispersing to their own proper institutions. At half past eleven o'clock, on each day a clerk from each bank arrives at the Girard Bank, lo adjust the bal ances, ascertained in the morning with spe cie checks. It is thus ascertained which are creditor banks, and checks are given and re | - : -r ' r— l: -n'|- ' 4 During tha half hour or more in the morn ing, while the clerks of all tha banks are busy at their work, the scene presented ie a most animated one. Some forty or fifty gentlemen are overhaaling greet bulky pack ages of nolee and checks counting them off with the rapidity that ia only to be acquired by long praclioe, calling out to one another the sums of their countings and calculations, and passing to one another bundles of notes, amounting sometimes to hundreds of thou sands of dollars. It ie safe lo say that the amount of money passed in this way ranget, in the course of a week, from forty to fifty millions of dollars. This, we apprehend, is qnite beyond the conceptions of most of onr readers. The system adopted for getting thiongb with so much work iu so short a lime is an admirable one. It is in view of it, moreover, that the recent change in the hour of opening (rom 9 lo 10 o'clock, has been adopted.— Pkila. Bulletin. The "Man or Pleasure." The following graphic portrait of tbe "Man of Pleasure" is taken from a sermon on "Christian Manhood," delivered last Sunday week, in New York, by Rev. Mr. Cuyler:— "I trust that no young man here will need to be warned against that wretchedly false idea of "manhood" which is so rife in cer tain circles of this million-peopled city. The ! counterfeit "manhood" of an oeth aud—a J bottle of brandy and a pack of carde—a box in the theatre, and a bet on the race course. Hundreds of young men are constantly aspi ring to such badges of eocial nobility as these! You may see these ambitious youths ordering, with * consequential swagger, their wine suppers at the fashionable "hells."— You ipay deteol tbem at the midnight hour pulling tbe door bells of haunts of infamy, and whispering false names through tbe iron lattice ; you may discover an infidel book In then trunk, locked up with an obscene print, a revolver, a sporting calender, a directory to brothels, a few French novels, and—no Bi ble. Yonng women ! beware of such eo cial serpents as these. The? will enter your houses as their "fathers" entered Eden, only to seduce and destroy. New York has her foil share of these character!; they pass for "men of gallantry," "men of spirit," "men i of pleasure." Every now and then there is a tremendous • explosion in our community, wliioh blows . off Ihe covering and lets us all look ia upon , the rotten heart of a certain style of eity life. During the last week we have til been look , ing with consternation. We have stood in , the chamber whose walla were bespattered with bleod, and have seen the bitter end of a career wbiob cast off the sweet restraints of domestic parity for the pollating carcass I of a "strange woman." We have seen a - remarkable clniter gathering around that eorpse, emid hysterioal leer aod ill-litned merriment. Wo have seen the unblushing conrteean testifying against the "man of plea sure" who had flung her aside for other spoil, the officer of jnstioe swearing lo scenes ■ of brol) and bitterness in a house where God's lew of marriage bad been trampled under foot; and amid each surroundings we on descry some yet freeh from the family altar of a rural home. "Who did that deed of dafknees" is yet a painful mystery; il is 'tjhtte too Certain that there has been foul murder done to conscience and to character within those walls long before the garroter'e noose was dipped and the assassin's poign ard driven to tbe heart. Heaven save you, my dear young frirnd from the "manhood" of lawless libertinism ! And Heaven save our greet molropolts, when its Brussels car pet is stained wiih blood sod the quiet of its stateliest attests is broken, by the midnight •hriek of murdgr!" Civilization In Turkey- * The introduction of the French and Fcglish among the Turks during the Russian war, it would seem, was lo be' productive of some good in Ihe way of civilization in Turkey.— Like Ihe "Celestial" Empire, that country has been less influenced by Ihe civilizing tendencies of the rest of the world, with the exception of Japan, than any other race of people who exist under any other organized . form of government. Agencies of questionable character often produce beneficial results to mankind.— Christianity was introduced into China by means of the "opium war," at tbe poiot of the bayonet, and the march toward improve ment ha* since been perceptible both in the eocial and moral condition of the nadVee.— The European revolntions of 1848, though for the most part productive of no real bene fit to those engaged, accomplished as they I were by bloodshed and carnage, have been the direct means of giving the people of France greater religious toleration than be fore enjoyed ; while in Italy there is Certainly more freedom of opinion than before. We are glad to perceive that in Turkey good ie growing out of evil. Religious toler ation is granted lo all, if we are rightly inform ed, and it is said that the Sultan ia about to abolish polygamy, that relic of barbarism, by first setting the. example lo hi* subjects. It is stated on good authority that he has "pen sioned off" all his wives save One, and hits discontinued the Oriental practice of compell ing the Women to appear in public only When Veiled. Leniency is to be exercised towards the Christians, or infidels, Xa tbey have been eelled. The yonng ladies oi Turkey will doubtless be pleased with Ihe privilege of being seen, like the fair sex of other lands. Tbe Turks are also skid to be eager to re ceive the custom* of the civilized world. The war has introduced changes in the iTurkißh 4 Eisrltx wh-cfc -.Til! enn'.imr* until its hat v,-3- lige of superstition, ideas and manners by which the people have been enthralled shall have been obliterated. The Area ol the Great Lake*. The fire gieat lakes of North America have recently been surveyed, and it is found that they cover an area of 90,000 square miles. The total length of the five lake* is 1534 mile*. Lake Superior, at its greatest length, is 355 miles; its greatest breadth is 160 miles; meau depth, 988 feet; elevation abeve the sea, 627 feel; area, $2,000 square miles. Lake Michigan i5~360 miles long; its greatest breadth is 108 miles; its mean dept is 900 (eel; elevation, 687 feot ; area, 20,000 square miles. Like Huron, in its greatest length, i* 200 miles; its greatest breadth ie 160 miles; mean depth, 300 feet; elevation, 574 feel; area, 20,000 square miles. Lake Erie is 250 mile* lung ; great i eat breadth, 80 miles ; mean depth, 200 leel; elevation, 565 feet; area, 6000 square miles. Lake Ontario hoi a length ol 180 miles, and its mean bteadth ia 65 miles; mean depth, 500 feet; elevation above the ocean, 262 feet; area, 6006 square milee. --- ■ ■ Influence of 1 übacco on ihe drain- Mr. Solly, the eminent writer on the brain, says, in a late clinical lecture on that Iright i ful and formidable malady, softening of the • brain: "I would caution you, aa etudents, . against excess in the use of tobacco, and I I would advise you to disabuse -your patients' minds of the idea that it in harmless. I have had a large experience of braiu disease, and I am taliefiad now that smoking is R most noxious habit. I know of no other cause or ager.t that lehde eo much to bring on func tional disease, and through thie, in the end, to lead to organio diseases of the brain, as exceaeive une of tobacco." BF* John l'hcsnix, Jr., thus graphically da- employment of our reverend Pu ritan ancestors soon after the settlement of New England." .He says, "they planted corn and hpilt hoosei, they killed the Indians and and Baptists, burnt the witches alive, ikd-we;e very happy and comfortable indeed.- Tbey were fine, tolerant, jolly old fellawX? 1 John ia an inuoceut youth, but occasionally does hit the target in tha ceube. , r. 4 $0991 THE PaEit&NT'E HOUSEHOLD. —Mr. Buch anan was accompanied to Washington by his nephew and private Secretary, James Buch anan Henry, and hi* niece, Misa Harriet S. Lane, and Mies Hetty Parker- Miaa Lane - will temain at Washington lo do the honors of the While House, but Miss Parker will re turn lo take oharge of Wheatland alter the in auguration. 13F* "Cato, whet do yon e'pose em do rea son dat de son goes down towards de aonf in de whuerl" "Well, I (J on no, Sambo, unless be no at an' . de 'element' of de norf, and eo be am 'bliged to go lo de soof where he 'sperieocs | warmer longitude." .. ■%3T Peace of mind ia as essential to health . aa it ia to bajipineM. [Two Dollars per A DRUB. NUMBER 9. MOTHER* WOULD THE MAR—lndependent ly of the phrenological teaching, that melt of marked oliaracter derive their goodness, greatness or genius exclusively from lire maternal source, and not from the paternal, a common opinion that a marked man had a superior mother, is .quilb 'general in cir cles whore'no pretensions to scieiice eliat. Where both father and son bocome dis tinguished, ,ae in the instance 6f John Ad nms and QuinVy A'daiffS, It should bo recollected ihey both hRd mothers of 'extra ordinary, mental energy. . .. Two-thirds of hfi young men who oorab to tho cities to seek their fortunes, from their poor homes in the country, and who firfAlh own tho snipping, rcsido id palaces, control foreign commerce, hold the highoit officek •n the gift of the people, had mothers worth having. , A thousand incidental circumstances may hare beCn in the Way t6 prevent a develop ment of the true latent powers which many a mother possesses. An imperfect educa tioni straightened condition. Of her family; early marriage and subsequent demands of agronp of young children, in connection with the state of. society in which her lot was cast, all may have boon unfavorable for an exhibition of tho real elements of hor mind and character. Still, tho concealed pO'tvdr is there, which she transmits to her sons, who, under the strong impulse of no ceseity in one case, or polished educational discipline in another, make tho world con scious they are in it. The mother of the celebrated Goethe wnp but eighteen when he was born. She was a lively girl, full of German sentiment, with warhi impulses, by no means much troubled with ft conscience, exceedingly afraid of her husband, who was near twon ty-two years her senior, and seemingly both willing find *