THE STAR OF THE NORTH.
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VOLUME 9.
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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 <t coolness which,
'positively dhoclted tbe Judge,' who, looting
at the culprit, said, in a lone of official dig
nify; t
"Boy, flon't you hear your father speaking
lo you 7"
"Oh, ya-a s" replied the youth, casting a
glance kt the Judge and then at his parent,
"but I don't.mind what ha aays. Mother
don't neithsr, and 'tween sbe and I, we've
abopt got the dog so he don't.— Arthur
Gilmon.
Republican Platform.
Tbe recent decision of tbe United Slates
Supreme Court, has knocked to pieoes the
Republican parly. The issue now is, sub
mission to the laws of the land, or open re
rebeliion. Greeley, of the "Tribune," says,
that Ihe decision of the Supreme Court "is
entitled lo just as much weight as would be
the judgment of a majority eft thuse congre
gated in ony Washington bar room." Tbia
style o'f language sounds as though treason
was a settled point with the leaders of Black
Republicanism.
Mr. Jamas Pike, known as one of the wri
ters of the "Tribune," writing from Wash
ington to that .paper, says :
" But if Mr. Buchanan is not clear and for
cible in style, we roust admit that the doc
trines of the Inaugural are sufficiently pointed
and distinct. Of these, we oome at once to
the expression of a firm conviction, blunt as it
may seem, that this Union is not worth saving,
nor this Government Worth preserving; upon the
fixtia of the Inaugural, backed by the coming de
cision <f the Supreme Court, lo which the Pres
ident, by intimation, clearly points."
Look at lbe It right Me.
. a tjy p ejUKjtgf'' llua-wel
of looking as if you naa"ir wrJfmi ticket for
a funeral 7 Can't you find (better name for
this world than "a vale ol tei.s," and "scene
of tribulation t" If you il will do you
good to read a letter which aftiend has just
furnished us. It is from a in Massa- I
chuselts to her husband in California. She
doesen't intend to go tbronglb(be world with
au air as if
"Muffled drums were busting
Funeral marches to the grave."
Here is tbe letter:
"My Dear HusbandAsjt ia some time
since you left ua for California, I suppose
you woefd be glad to hear bow we are
getting along in your abseuoe. lam happy
to say we are all enjoying very good helth
on the whole. Just at (be pre pent two of the
boys have got the small pox, Atnanda Jane'
lias got the typhus fiver, Betsey it down
with Ute measles, Sain"llstaal jltf"!""' with
, tbe cow the other day, and HUle Peter has
! just cut off seven of bis fingers with the
hatchet. It's a great mercy that he didn't
chop ihtm all off. With these trifling ex
ceptions, we are all well, and getting aloog
nicely. Yon needn't be at all anxious about
me.
I almost forgot to say that Sarah Matilda
eloped last week with a tin pedlar. Poor
girl 1 she's beeo waiting for the last ten years
for a chance, and I'm glad she's got married
at last. She ueed'nt have taken the double
to elope though. She was a great eater;
and I find the baked beana don't go off near
so fast now as they did. The that girl
would dip into theMpflji and beans was a
eaution to the rest of the family.
The cow took it into her heed yesterday
to run away, which was very fortunate, I'm
• ure, for tbe barn cangfal a °d was con
•umed. "I was in bdpesi'J®WW?T>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.
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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 *<cilful in tho invention of
white lias adapted to screen hor children
from hisminute, fidgetty, and rather austere
superintendence. She "spoiled" her chil
dren on principle, and made no pretension
to conduct a systematic training, which she
abhorred. She said of herself, in after years,
that she. Could "educate" no child, was
quite unfit for it, gave them every wish so
lon* as they laughed and were good, and
whipped them if they cried or made wry
mouths, without ever looking for any reason
why they laiighod or cried. ller belief in
Providence waa warm with German senti
ment, and not a little tinged with supersti
tion. She rejoiced greatly when her soil
published the "Confessions of a Beautiful
Saalji' which FIIO loved memorial pf s
lost pielislic friend. Her reliuioa was one
of emotion rather than of moral flßfouce.
She waa generous and PxtravagairWSfitif;
after her husband's death, asems to Irato .
spent.capital as well as income. She win
passionately fond of tho threalre, a tastqt
which she transmitted to her sou. Her
hoarty simplicity of nature made her every
where loved. Her servants loved and stay
ed with her to the last. She seems to havo
had at least as much honor as her eon,
which, for Germans, was not inconsiderable,
and not much more sense of awe. She gavo
the most detailed orders for ber funeral, and
oven specified the kind of wine and the
size of the cracknels with which the mourn
ers were to be regaled, ordering tho ser
vants not to put too few raisias into tho
cakee, as sho novCr could endure that in
her life, and it would certainly cMafe her in
her grave. Having been ihvited to go to a
part/ on the day she died, she sent for an
swer, that "Madame Goethe could not come,
as she was engaged in dying." Yet her
sensitiveness was so great that she always
made il a condition With her servants that
they should never repeat to her painful
news that they had picked up accidentally,
aa she wished to bear nothing sad without
absolute necessity. And during her son's
dangerous illness at Weimar, in 1805, no
one ventured to speak to her of it till it
passed, though she affirmed that she bad
been conscious all the time of bis danger
without the heart to mention it. This pe
culiarity Goo.he inherited.—WW World.
SLANDERING DOCTORS.—A great many jokes
are cracked at tho expense of the doctors,
and at the expense of thu reputation for'in
tellect of those who crack them; for a mo
ment's consideration, which, by the way,
in this fust age, is not given to anything of
true importance, except by the few—a mo
ment's consideration would teach any ono,
that it is to the doctor's interest to keep tho
patient alivti as ltfngns possible, for as long
as tho patient lives he pays! Witness the
desperate efforts made to protract life for a
few hours, in the last extremity; how thn
medicine is poured down every fivo min
ntes, as long as tho dying man can swallow;
how tho blister plaster encases ankle, wrist,
and waist, to kindle up agtkin the powers of
Hftr, for, with returning life, returns tho
prospect of dollars. For our part, we oould
never appreciate the philosophy of tortur
ing the poor dying body in the wAydjuet
alluded to, to tha last moment of exiateaco.
The great Washington prayed lo he allowed
to dia m peace. When our last hour comet,
hoist the window, throw the door wide open,
without a draft; moisten the lips; clear the
room of nil bnt ono or two; let all the puro
air possible, get to the laboring lungs. Jnst
imagine, reader, what would Ire your feel
ings for relief, if a pillow trete pressed
over yotrr face for a minute, and you may
have some idea of the desire a dying man
has for all the air ho can get. nut as art
evidence that doctors are net sdsCTi a mur
derous class as represented sometimes, ths
fast census shows that il requires eighty doc
tors to heap one undertaker, there being Forty
thousand doctors in thoUnilod States, while
there are only ftvC hhndred professed under
takers,' the irregulars of birth not includ
ed.-Hall s Journal of Health.