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EXKCUTION OT LOUIS XVI.
At ten minutes past ten the) reached the
foot of the m-afluid. It had heen erected In
front of Ihe palace of the Tuileries. in the
equare called afier Louis XV., and near the
spot where stood the statute of the most im
pure of kings—a king who died tranquilly in
his bed. The condemned man was three
minute* descending from the carriage. Upon
quitting Ihe Temple he had refused the red
ingote which Clery had ollered to him and
r.ow appeared in a brown coat, white waist
cokt, gray breeches and white stockings.
His hair was not disordered, nor was any
change perceptible in his countenance. The !
Abbe Firmont was dressed in black. A large
open apace had been kept round the scaffold
with cannon ranged on all sides : while be- I
>ond, as far as the eye could reach, stooit an '
unarmed multitude. The executioner had '
opened the door of the coach, and, descend- I
iug, Louis fixed his eyes upon the soldiers '
who surrounded him, and, with a terrible
voire, cried "silence!" The drums ceased |
to beat, but at a signal from the officer the
drummers again went on. "What treason'
i this ?" lie shotted. '1 am lost! I.am Ipst!' ,
For it was evident that, up to this moment, j
fie had been clinging to hope. The execu
tioners now approached to take off a part ol
his doilies ; he repulsed them fiercely, unit
himself removed 'he collar from his neck.--
But all the blood in his body seemed to be
turned into fire when they sought to tie his
hands. "Tie my hands !" he shrieked. A
struggle was inevitable—it came. It is in
disputable, says Mercier, that Louis fought
with his executioners. The Abba Edge- i
worth stood by, perplexed, horrified, speech- j
loss. At las! his master seemed to look in
quiringly at him, he said, "Sir, in this aJdi-j
tional outrage I only see a last trail of the re- l
semblance between your majesty and the ,
God who will givo you your reward."
At these words, indignation of the man '
gave way to the humility of the Christian,
and Ixiuis said to his executioners, " I will j
drain the cup to tlio dregs." They tied his
hands, they cut off his hair, and then, lean- j
tug on tlio arm of his confessor, be began,
with a slow tread and sinking demeanor, to
mount the steps, then very steep, of the guil
lotine. Upon the last step, however, he
seemed suddenly to rouse, ond walked rapid- |
ly across to the other side o! the scaffold ; |
when, by a sign commanding silence, he
exclaimed, "I die innocent of the crimes im- j
puled to me." His face was now very red, |
and, according to the narrative of his confes
sor, his voice was so loud that it could be
heard through the streets as far as the Pont !
Tournament. Some other expressions were i
distinctly heard: "I pardon the authors of,
mj Ueaih j anil I pray Iwnven that tho blooil
you are about to shed may never be visited
upon France." He was about to continue, '
when his voice was drowned by the renewed
rolling of the drums, at a signal which it is !
affirmed, was given by the comedian Duga
you, in anticipation of the orders ol Saterre. I
"Silence !bo silent!" cried Louis XIV., losing 1
all self-control, and stamping violently with
his foot. Richard, one of the executioners, 1
theu seized a pistol, and took aim at the
King. It was necessary to drag htm along 5
by force. With difficulty fastened the fatal
plank, he continued to utter horrible cries on- '
ly interrupted by the fall of the knife, which |
instantly struck off his head. Samson raised '
it aloft, and showed it to the people. And
the people shouted, " Long live the Repub
lic!"— Louis Blanc's History of the French Rev
olution.
I —•
% A I'luce for (be ('Strong-Minded.''
IM!\ modern traveler tells us that the Jew
of fa in Thcssalonica, (European Turkey)
Byerse our accepted laws of Hymen, by
purchasing their husbands. 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 ic the social scale, ac
cording to the dower he can afford his daugh
ter, the price he can pay, and makes an offer
ol so much dower. The bridegroom, thro'
the broker, demands more; they chaffer and
bargain for weeks, perhaps, and a bargain is
struck. The parlies never 6ee each other till
married. The dower is the wife's only se
curity against divorce. The husband can di
vorce her when he chooses, but he must
pay back the dower, that she may be able to
buy another husband. Mrs. D. was telling a
Jewish girl that we do not require any dower
in America. "How then," said she, in utter
astonishment, "do you do when he wants to
divorce you I"
ty An exchange paper gives the follow
ing case of absence of mind:
A girl who was one of our first loves, was
one night lighting us out, after having passed
a delightful evening, and in bashful trepida
tion, atie blew us out and drew the candle
behiftd the door and kissed it.
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 18. 1857.
A DROLL ACCOUNT.
The Turkish papers are dabbling in Amer
ican politics. Listen to one of them on the
Kansas question. The language is translated
by the Constantinople correspondent of the
N. Y. Tribune:
"Ir. the northern part of America there is
a province called Kansas, which having a
I very warm climate the inhabitants are much
j given to agriculture. They have, therefore,
imported a large number of slaves Irom Af
rica, and employed them oti their lands.—
The people who live in the north of this prov
ince regard slavery as inconsistent with hu
manity, and having so apprised the inhabi
tants of Kansas, urged them to desist from
this improper practice. Having repeatedly
done this, and not having been listened to,
the two parties assembled, and after ascer
taining the number ol each, deputised rep
resentatives to the seat of the American gov- '
eminent, called Washington, to havo the j
matter tried. Now, as there has been for
some time past a great coolness between the
American Council ol Nobles and the people
of America, they could not fall upon any
agreement on the subjec' 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 the olb
, ers, and consequently nothing was done by
j either. Moreover, as the army of the Amer
ican republic is wholly disorganized, and con
sists of Bashi Bazouk soldiers, the council of
the people desired to have them properly
trained and placed under some kind ol order,
with regulations and pay assigned them. The
chief of the republic likewise was in tavnr ot
this arrangement, but the Counoil ol Nobles I
continued to oppose that of the people, and i
a great quarrel arose between them on the |
subject. This state of things, therefore, be
ing productive of the ruin of the foundations j
of the republic, and the destruction of its
government, the chief of it decided upon set- j
lling this affair ol the army in some manner
or other, and for this purpose last August, '
called up both the Councils and gave them
two weeks, in which time to come to a set- [
tlement of their differences. Now it happens
that by said republic, if the people's Council
do not also consent to it, the chief ol the gov
ernment, even together with the Council o(
Nobles, cannot take one ak'cha out of the
Treasury : as the former would not consent
to give him any money for their support, he
had to dismiss all the soldiers and sell the
VCSSe|s.of War to olhe. ..mtfiiir. or
truth t is clearly seen that this discord be
tween the two Councils will very soon cause
the mil) of that republic, and proves the value
of the 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 at this
moment turned upon the Celestial Empire,
in consequence of the internal discord, the
bombardment of several of their forts by the
American and English fleets, and the reported
destruction of Canton by the latter. What it
will amount to is an enigma that time alone
will solve; but we are inclined to believe
that the star of the Tartar dynasty is on the j
wane.
Chins is the most populous and ancient
empire in the known world ; it is 1390 miles
long, and 1330 wide; its population is orer
360,000,000. The capital of this vast empire
is I'ekin, which con ains at least one million
inhabitants. The chief product of the country
is tea, of which over 50,000,000 pounds are
annually exported from Canton, the principal
port of shipping, and the only place foreign
ers are allowed to visit- All the necessaries
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 commerce of China amounts
to about S-40,000,000 annually, the whole of
which is transacted with appointed agents,
called Hong merchants. The revenue of the
whole empire is estimated at 5200,000,000,
and the revenue derived f rom foreign com
merce by the Emperor, varies from 54,000,-
000 to 56,000,000.
Smuggling is carried on to a considerable
extent and for several years past, ihe English
have smuggled annually, at least 550,000,
000 worth of opium, much of which was j
paid for in specie. PhilaDlbropi6ts 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 all who use it. The dying ;
scene of a confirmed opium cbewer is a hor
rible picture.
The religion of the Chinese is something
similar to Bhudism, their chief God being j
FOH. This nation endeavors to inculcate the
morality of CONFUCIUS, their great philoso-1
pher, who was born 550 B. C.
The great wall and canal of China, are
among the mighliesl works ever achieved by
man. The Chinese language has nearly 40,-
000 letters, or characters. The chief trade of
this country is with England. About thirty ;
United Slates vessels annually visit Canton.
The first American vessel that ever visited :
that port, was in 1714.
The Chinese, like their neighbors; the Ja
[ panese, are an exclusive set. They wish to
have very little to do with any nations out
side their own. Foreigners are allowed to
live at certain factories or stations, below
Canton, and if tbey dare tresspass beyond
the prescribed limits, insult, death, and de
' struetion will almost assuredly follow the bold
1 — Ftnnsylvanian.
A Taney Itarnnrt le ■ Lecture ROM.
Sir Robert Peel has been delivering a leo
i tore at Birmingham, relative to his East-.a*
visit, and the sights which he witnessed in
Moscow at the coronation of die Emperor an J
Empress. The present head ot the house of
Peel was known to be '•last 7 ' in the days
his father, the great Minister, and his career
since he ramc to the tide has net disabused
that impression. The lecture in question, to
use the words of a metropolitan journal was
a tissue ol indiscretion, bad taste, and bid
foonery—the coarseness of the Coal-hole and
slang of the Casino,
i Sir Robert told his audience that be was
J 'horribly fleeced'by the innlenpers.and"fccT
--1 ribly done" in his dinners, for which be bad
to pay £6O a day. At Moscow be was''done
I to an enormous extern" by a person who
j charged him £IOO for each of ibe foorgrei*
| which drew his carriage from the railway
j station to the hotel. At Xishoi be bomchi j
some turquoises, which he intended to self :o ,j
make good his losses, "as 1 am always anx- j
ious to recover, and never lite to be done." I
He drove from Moscow to Nrshni.a distance
of four hundred miles, in twenty-eight boors.
The horses got knocked"up, and when they j
fell exhausted were left by the roadside
The postillions met the same late. *1 eevet i
enjoyed anything so much."
At Nishni he was delighted with the fair. !
"and the brick ol a Govemot. Poring tie
whole time 1 was in Russia 1 never saw
such a brick as this (fevernor was. 1 nevei
saw a man wiih such capacily for driakiu®
as this brick of a Governor ; no matter how
much champagne he took, I did nca ocftioe
that he ever appeared the worse ol St." He
i ihen described the coronation. "AsibeEtß-
I press entered, she fell flat on the floor—ll
I supposed by accident. 1 was, however, to ,
! kiss some sacred stone or other, and then she
j came in with hair disheveled, looking Like
I Norma in the opera."
j His description of the French reprenmra
| live at the coronation is sinking, whatever
may be said of its taste. "We we-nflpreser.it
ed at the coronation by Count Momy, the
French Ambassador, a spick and span man,
of considerable applomb, and who, by tie
way. is one ol the greatest speculators in tihe
world. He sprculates in everytli-.c, and
bought a lot ol pictures in sell again and made
a profit of it." The Belgianatjibassai!or, the
Prince de I.igne, is said to be -"the very pic
ture of swelling insignificance ; sa welir.g.
1 indeed, that he conW not IST tie hie Hwsn
look down (torn the contemplation ©i Ins own;
Criticism like this, expression* Lie these,
and a levity about the grett affairs of Slate,
such as we meet with in this speech, are
enough to make the great btr Robert Tool
turn uneasy in his house of clay. If tie
wealthy and flippant young baronet had gone
to Russia as a private gentleman to tee what
i lie describes, he would hve been open to me
severer impeachment than bad taste In lire
manner of his narrative ; but be represented
in an official capacity the British crown and
people on this occasion, and hence the an
noyance which is leltai the exintuiioa ifavhas
made.— Liverpool Tuna.
Moral Influence l a Lite ran Taste
j To a young man away from home, iriemJ
less and forlorn, in a great city, the hours ®>'f
peril are those between sunset and bedtime; ,
for the mo on and stars see more of evil iim a
single hour than the sun in his whhle day's
circuit. The poet's visions ®f evening are
all compacied of tender and soothing ima
ges. It brings the wandersT to his home., the
child to his mothers arms, the ox to bis stall,
and the weary laborer la his tea. Bat, it®
the gentle-hearted youth who is ibrswn apnn
the rocks ol a p:iilesscity,aud ' Stands home
less amid a thousand homes,'" the approach
of evening brings with it an aching sense of
loneliness and desolation, which comes dowm
upon the sprtn like darkness upon tire earth.
In this mood, his best impulses become a
snare to him, and be is led astray because he
is social, affectionate, sympathetic, and warm
hearted. II there be a young man thus cir
cumstanced within the reach of my words,
let me say to liim, thai books are nhe fweawfe
ot the friend less, and that a Ebraty is the
I home of Ibe homeless. A taste for readiimg
will carry yon to converse with men who
1 will instruct you by their wisdom, and charm
1 you by their wit, who wiU sooth yon when
fretted, refresh you when weary, counsel yon
when perplexed, and sympathize with yos
at all times. Evil spirits, bribe middle ages,
, were exorcised and driven away by IbelllL, *
book, and caudle: yon want bm two of these
agents, the book and the candle.— liiile.ru.
| DOGBEIUSV THE COROXER. —The tteißeering
reminiscence of Coroner Cannery acquires
j an interest from recent occurrences. Be Ibelil
an inquest upon the body of an Irishman,
; who was killed by an Lallan some months
I ago. During the investigation he examined
' the Italian, who did not understand a word
i of English, when the following colloquy ®e
! curred: .
CORONER —Do you speak English ?
| ITAUAR— [Demonstrations etdbei tine tor
i did not understand English, OT Ibe -questmin
j or both.]
| Coa.—Do yoc speak German *
ITAL. —Same demonstration* as be'ote.
Coa.—Do you speak French f
ITAL —Same demonstration as before.
COR. —Do yon speak Spanish *
]TXI. —Demonstration as before
COR —.lEajwndMigriadftng'iy] Three.gur
tlemen of (he jnry, yon see I have addressed
him in five different languages, and he dec*
not understand out —X F. Put*
Tratk n< Eirtt Mu4 Mr Uutry.
Yvaac Areritca.
A certain Itig*, arfcata aMeofliteg Court in ,
■I a *Yire sowm, WAS freeing atoog NH® joxd ]
where a boy was pott letting dlonm this bars
so drive sirame cattiHe am. Hi* Se'her stood in
the floev ctf fca* Sneene. C® (he opposite j?Je of
ihe rwai. asodl reewr® what bus hopeful toy
' Acimg. sfeantod was—
"Jota Jtoc't yet drive ilharaa entuEo in there;
I svU yea so -mat Ibe ml a the pasta re beiamJ
the hoe*- 5 *
The boy took mo notice whatever of the,
iwtoonsamne*., asm! bits fasher repeated the or
der iss a DomJler sorae. washouts the ka< effect
—and she ahaaJ aasee gate positive orders not
to drive the reMe am there. The sue did'tit
even dengm to look p, ami disobeyii the
paternal amjjeeietaret wash • ewte.ee* which
poeaisiiveJy shocked she -ledge, who. looking
at the cmVmn. said, am a tone ct official! dig- 1
aty:
"'Bey. aSomh yoc bear yocr father speaking
I so yom
! " Oh, ya-aV replied the yomth., insting a
glance at the Jadtge and then at hie parent,
, '-ihot | doah tan Did what he say* Mother
don't meislWr, aid "l:ween sfce aid 1,, we've
i about goo the ißtrg so be dmn't.— Arthur
j (• Jrnom
RrpeMscaa rial term
TLe reeeet Jkearien of the I'maed State*
1 Saaipresroe Comm. ha* knocked: to piecee the
RepsaNncam party. "The issue now i, sab
jn:rsajiom to the (laws, of the bird, or open re
reheHrion . Greeley, of the •Tribune/" says,
that the decorumm of the Sm?re*e Court "is
entiitlleJ to js re much weight as worn Li be
' the j'EJigmeuit of a majwry ot those cungre
gaaedl m amy Wuhiggm hit room. " This
. style of Unngmagc soaodls as : hough treason
was a settled poimtt wiith the < a.lets of Black
Repmhil neam itsm..
Mr James Dike, known at ooe of the wri
tten of ate " Tribune'/*' witting front Wash
nißjS'Cffli to that piper, rays :
"" Rot ill Mr. Riiwhasiam is not cleai and far
cable am tuple, we must admit that the ifoe
arvno* of the Inaugural are sutEciettlif pointed
and dvOiiMt, Of these, we come at once to
the expressions of a tfira® eouvurtiwei, biun t as it
may seemr, hurt sim- Vu-am strut tinrtk wring,
mm tlMuu. (v.-vtniuntmtf rw:rUL par omig, a pan the
J'.svw iif ties hamgmntlf hadboi tiy the cuntutg Ue
ti.saim nlf tii/ Stjn/cmr G/w/f, to wbich I'tes-
vtiSnmasiroa, dearly point*,"'
Let el l*w I n;" >wie
Away with toag faces! What is the •"
®ff Oookiiss" a nit .or
a ifcimerall? Can't jon ticad a belter name for
thus wotHIJ than ""a vale of tears, " and) "scene
ot tmbulkartoni f® If you can't it will do. you
good to real a lletier which a friend bus just
itmithod ui*~ It a* :.rsm a wile in Mossa
cikstsetts t® her bob and in Cahtonna. she
dorseoi't inteudl cm go through the world with
an air as if
"-JduflHiod tfrsims were beating
Fusterall tmarches to the grave.'"
Here is the Urtter:
""My Dear Husband:—As it is mme time
nu tee yens left us Cor California, 1 suppose
Y an W-MU be gllad to hear how we are
genua® alien® im y our absence. !am happy
to say we arte affl cojoyta® very good health
cm the wlfceJle. Inst: at the pceseni two of ihe
toys lam gait the Maafl pox, Ansa: Ja Jane
hre gea the typhus fever, Betsey is down,
wiiah the measiiat, samwell got hocked with
the c®w the other ofay, wad ISOfU Peter has
jma cut ®lf ievem of his fingers wiill the
hutches. It's a great mercy that he didn't j
chop) them all odC. With these tritiiag ex
cupeiums, we are ailll well, and getting along
r.deiy. You ueedmf be at all anxious about
or*
I ulißiretl fatgoe to ray that Sarah JlatiiJu
ellnped last week with a tin pedlar. Toor
giirl! she's beern waiting fee the fast ten years
for a chance, and I'm glad she's got married
at lass. She -eed'a: have taken the trouble
t® eltope though. She was a great eater.
m®J 1 find the baked beans doof go off near
s® fret uoiw as they did- The way that girl
would dip into the pork and beans was a
ea®it.'t t® the nest of the £tmi lly.
The e®w took ill mto hr Lewi yesterday
to ram away, wkiich was very luctu-ale, I'm
same, feur the bare caught lire and was eon
smtoed. I was in hopes that the house
would j® to®, fee it's very atcouvenient, but
the wind was the wrong way, so it did'nt re
ceive touch lajmy.
Snme boys broke eoto the orchard the
other day, and stripped alii the fetr.t trees. I
1 .BTtvi gilad ef it, foe if they had nt, t presume
the chuiriireni would of made the in .-c I ves rick
by eafin® to® touch..
Ilqp'a® that yeu emjoy yourseii iu Uhifor
uiß re we® re we d® at hoe, L r/tnaia your
afiodtiwusaie wife.'*
, A Saxxe Yotrsesnncs.—A tibie boy an his
i meaiEira feton Sxndiay bc'tooJ . r-cen ffy ad
dmrssed has nEochctr re todows. ' >t.u*ma '
i ""Weill my dear.. "Mamatit ' -is teacher
sayspeepto are all made of Just." Tes
my dear, se> the BUHe rays." "WeEC. tnam
ma, aaa whS* peopAe toaJeat duak'T* ''Tes.
'! "We®, nhe®. 1 s'poee cuiurtb pi-pfe are Ttu-iiL
of entil dtcrf, meat (fcyfl"
HXR® to Ttarec.—A cc i inymin in one
I ®f ihe wwarot couutins. w. h a femf ol meal
drew* ep> a® a Safy's d.vr wltott the tollow
-1 ug ciravesaattiieu took place.
'Hi you waa't any **' am
-Whan A you rek twe a ioahel T*
I Tfapcan, ma'am—pr as*-"
"Wt. I can get it fin five '•
;j il® m a despwimng vjute)—lady
; wiU yaw (take a bushel 1 fat
> ""la at snfiel *
[The Duilv Banking Ita-mc-s of Tblln
klykM.
Teople have bat a very imperfect idea of
the extent of the business carried on in
Philadelphia anJ especially of ;be financial
bosmess. They are accustomed to think of
New York as the one great money centre, j
and to treat Philadelphia transactions as
scarcely worthy of consideration. We have
so few banks and the amount of their capi
tal is so small as compared with those of
New York, that it is not regarJcd as at all
important or interesting that the extent of
our financial operations should bo inquired
into. It is very well, they say, that the busi- j
I new of New York Clearing House shall be :
reported; but it is of very little consequence 1
that there should be any similar establish- '
: mem here It will bo news to nearly every |
I one. not actually engaged in tho Banks, that ;
there is and has been for some time in daily
, operstioa, an arrangement corresponding in
i some measure to the New York Clearing !
i House. It is not established by law ; but
the Banks have made the arrangement for
their own convenience and to enable them
better to servu the interests of the public. |
Every moruing, at about half-past eight i
o'clock, a deputation of clerks from each of
I the seventeen banks in the city arrives at the 4
Girard Bank. They repair to a large room
in the upper story, where there is a long ta- j
ble, on which all have their particular posi
-1 tioos assigned them. Here they unpack cer
tain carpet bags, valises and wallets, and in
I a bttlv while the table is covered w:th pack
ages of batik notes, checks, and other repre
sentatives of the circulating medium. These
are all the receipts of each bank an die pre
vious day, including noles of ihe various city
j batiks, checks on other banks, with a bill on
the back stating the aggregate amount re
| ceived by it. These packager are interchan
ged, the money re-counted ; and the balance
is struck. The sum received by each bank,
in note* and checks of every other bank, is
thus accurately ascertained. This compre
hends an Immense amount of work, but as it
is in skillful and experienced bands and is
conducted in a systematic manner, it goes
on very rapidly, and rarely occupies more
than half au hour, the several deputations
of ibe 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 Guard Bank, to adjust the bal
ances, ascertained in the morning wiih spe- i
•i* ehecks. It is thus ascertained which are
creditor banks, and checks are given and ro
anoAiituuiUr
During tne hall hour or mnro lit lue morn
ing, while the clerks of all tho banks arc
busy at their work, the scene presented is a
most animated one. Some forty or fifty
gentlemen are overhauling great bulky pack
ages of notes ami check* counting tlicm eff
with the rapidity that is only to be acquired
by long practice, 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 is safe lo say that the
amount of money passed in this way ranges,
iu the course of a week, from forty to fifty
millions of dollars. This, we apprehend, is
quite beyond the conceplilb-s of most of our
reader*. The system adopted for getting
thzougb with so much work in so short a
time is an admirable one. It is in view of
it. moreover, that the recent change in the
hour of opening from 9 lo 10 o'clock, has
been adopted.— Pliila. B'dltim.
The "Man of Pleasure."
The following graphic portrait of the "Man
of Pleasure" is taken from a sermon on
'Christian Manhood," delivered last Sunday
week, in New York, by P.ev. Mr. Cuyler:—
"I trust that no young man here will need
to be warned against thai wretchedly false
idea of "manhood" which is so rife in cer
tain circles of this million-peopled city. The
counierfeit "manhood" of an oath and—a
bottle of brandy and a pack of cards —a box
m the theatre, and a bet on the race course
Hundreds of young men are constantly aspi
ring to such badges of social nobility as
these ! You may see these ambitions youths
ordering, with a consequential swagger, their
wine suppers at the fashionable "hells." —
You may detect them at the midnight hour
! pulling the door bells of haunts of infamy,
and wnispering false names through the iron
i lattice ; you may discover an infidel book in
their trunk, locked up with an obscene print,
a revolver, a sporting calender, a directory to
brothels, a few French novels, and—no Bi
ble. Youug women ! beware of such *o
i cial serpents as these. Thev will enter vour
houses as their "fathers " entered Eden, only
to seduce and destroy. New has her
1 full share of these characters they rass for
| "men of gallantry,-meu of spirit," "mm
II of pleasure. '
I Every now and then there is a tremendous
• explosion irt our community, which blows
off the covering and lets us all lock .Q upon
' the rot en heart of a certain style of city life
Purnrg the list week we have all been look
■ ig with consternation We hare stood in
ihe chamber whose walls ware bespattered
with blood, and haTe seen tfce bitter eud ol
a career which cost off the sweet restraih'.s ,
>; of demesne purhy lor the polluting carcass
1 of a "strange woman." We have seen a
- remarkable cluster gathering around that
eorpse. amid hysterical ter and ill-limed
merriment. We have seen the unblushing
f eoaresan testifying agaiust the "man of piea
' sure'" who had dung fcer aside for other
sped . the officer ot justice swearing to scenes
t i of broil and bitiemere m a bouse wbare God's
| laer of marriage bad been trampled under
I feet and amid seen senoeadtugt we can
descry some yet fresh from tho family altar
of a rural homo. "Who did that deed of I
darkness" is yet a painful mystery; it is c
quite 100 certain that there has been foul j
murder done to conscience and lo character [
within those wails long before the garro'er's j
uoose was slipped and tho assassin's poign
ard driven to :he heart. Heaven save yon, |
my dear young friend from tlio "manhood" i
ot lawless libertinism I Ami Heaven save j
our great metropolis, when its Brussels car- {
pel is stained wiih blood and the quiet of its :
stateliest streets is broken by tho midnight [
shriek of murder
Civilization in Turkey. I
The introduction of the French and Fnglish t
among the Turks during the Russian war, it
would seem, wus lo be productive of somo !
good in the way of civilization in Turkey.— I
Like the " Celestial " Empire, that country '
has been less influenced by the civilizing |
tendencies of the rest of the world, with the ;
exception of Japan, than any olhor race of
people who exist under any other organized
form of government. j
Agencies of questionable character often j
produce beneficial results to mankind.— !
Christianity was introduced into China by
means of the "opium war," at the point of I
the bayonet, and the march toward improve
ment lias since been perceptible bolit in the
social and moral condition of the natives.—
Tho European revolutions of 1818, though
for the most part productive of no real bono- I
fit lo those engaged, accomplished as they
wero by bloodshed and carnDge, have been
tho direct means of giving the people of j
France greater religions toleration than be- '
fore enjoyed ; while in Italy there is certainly |
more freedom of opinion than before.
We are glad to perceive that in Turkoy
good is growing out of evil. Religious toler
ation is grained to alt, if we are righily inform
ed, and it is said that the Sultan is about to
abolish polygamy, that relic of barbarism, by
first setting the example to his subjects. It
is stated on good authority that he has "pen
sioned off" all his wives save one, and has
discontinued the Oriental practice of compell
ing the women to appear in public only whon
veiled. Leniency is lo be exercised towards
the Christians, or infidels, as they have been
called. The j'nung ladies ol Turkey will
doubtless be pleased with llie privilege of
being seon, like the fair sex of other lands. ;
Tho Tutks ore also said to be eager to re
ceive the customs of ihe civilized world. The
, war has introduced changes in the Turkish
which the people have been enthralled shall
have been obliterated.
The Areu ot Hie (treat Lakes, j >
The five gteat lakes of North America '
have recently been surveyed, and it is
that they cover an area of 90,000 square miles. '
The total length of ihe five lakes ie 1534
miles. Lake Superior, at its greatest length,
is 355 miles; iis greatest breadth is 160 '
miles; mean depth, 988 feet; elevation
abeve the sea, 627 feet; area, 32,000 square
miles. Lake Michigan is 360 miles long ;
its greatest breadth is 108 miles; its mean f
dept is 900 feet; elevation. 687 feet : area,
!
20,000 square miles. I.vko Huron, in its
greatest length, is 200 miles: its greatest
b*eadth is 160 miles; mean depth, 300 feet: ,
elevation, 574 feet; area, 20,000 square
miles. Lake Erie is 250 miles long ; great
est breadth, 80 miles ; mean depth, 200 lee'; |
elevation, 555 feet; area, 6000 equare miles.
Lake Ontario has a length ot 180 miles, and
!
its mean breadth is 65 miles; mean depth,
500 feet; elevation above the ocean, 262
feci; area, 6006 square mile*.
Influence of tobacco ou the Drain-
Mr. Solly, the eminent writer on the brain. <
says, in a late clinical lectute on that fright
ful and formidable malady, softening of the
brain: "1 would caution you, as students,
against excess in the use of tobacco and I
would advise you to disabuse your pa;ian:i'
minds of the idea that it is harm,ess. I have
had a large experience of brain J.sease, ar.d
I am satisfied now that smoking is a most
noxious habit. I know of no other cause or
ager.t that tends so much to bring oa func
tional disease, and through this, in the end,
to lead to organic diseases of the braia, BJ
excessive use o£ tobacco."
IV John Plnrnix, Jr. thus graph caily de
scribes the employment of our reverend Pu
ritan ancestors soon after the settlement ot
New England. He says, "they planted corn
and built houses, they killed the Indians and
hung Quakers ar.d Baptists, burnt the w,:cbes
alive, and were very happy and ccmtcr.ab'e
indeed. They were fine, tolerant, jolly old
fellows. John is an ir.uoceat yocth, bst
occasionally does hit the tatget ia the ceot.e
THE PacstttENT's HOUSEHOLD.—Mr Buch
anan was accompanied to Washington by his
, nephew and private Secretary. James Buch
anan Henry, ar.d his niece, M,ss Harriet S.
I me, and Miss Hetty Parker Miss Lane
will temain at Wash.agton to Jo the honors
of the White House, but Miss Parker will re
t turn to lake charge of Wheatland after the ia
( auguration
ZT "Cato. what Jo you s'pose am Je rea
son dat do sun goes dowa towards do scut
iu Je winter *"
"Weil, ! dunno. Sambo, unless he no stia'
,I de clemency ot" vie ttorf, and so he am
tUged to go to Je souf where he spetteoce
warmer longitude."
' | IT Peace of moid is as eeseunel to health
I i as It ® to happiness
[Two Dollars per An una*
NUMBER 9.
MOTHERS MOULD THE MAN —lndopsndent
ly of the phrenological teaching, that nton
of marked character derive their goodness,
greatness or genius exclusively from the
maternal source, and not from tho patornal,
a common opinion that a marked man had
a superior mother, is quite genera! in cir
cles where no pretensions to scioneo exist.
Where both father and son become dis
tinguished. as in the instance of John Ad
ams and John Quincy Adams, it should ha
recollected they both had mothers of extra
ordinary mental energy.
Two-thirds of all young men who como
to the cities to seek their fortunes, from their
poor homes in the country, and who finally
own the shipping, reside in palaces, control
loroign commerce, hold the highest otlices
in the gift ol the people, hud mothers worth
having.
A thousand incidentalcircumslancos may
have been in the way to prevent a develop
ment of the truo latent powers which many
a mother possesses. An imperfect educa
tion; straightened condition of her family;
early marriage and suhseqnont demands of
a group of young children, in connection
with tho state cl society in which her lot
was cast, all may have hnen unfavorable
for an exhibition of the real oloments of ber
mind and character. Still, the concealed
power is there, which she transmits to hor
sons, who, under the strong impulso of ne
cessity in one case, or polished educational
discipline in another, inako tho world con
scious they tiro in It.
The mother of the celebrated Goetho was
hut eighteen when he was botn. Bhe w-at
a lively girl, full of German sentiment,
with warm impulses, bjr no means much
troubled with a conscience, exceedingly
afraid of hor husband, who was near twen
ty-two years hor senior, and seemingly
both willing and skilful in the invention of
white lies adapted to screen hor children
from his minute, fidgotty, 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
long as they laughed and were good, and
whipped them if they cried or made wry
mouths, v. ithout ever looking for any reason
why they laughed or cried. Her belief in
Providence was warm with German senti
ment, and not a little tinged with supersti
tion. She rejoiced greatly when her son
published the "Confessions of a Beautiful
lest 1 P icVliVic Vr i " a ™ raorial of *
of emotion rather than of
Mio was generous and extravagant, and
after her hu-hand's death, seems to havo
spent c;, hal r.e well as income. She was
passionately fjn 1 of the thrcatre, a tasto
which she transmitted to her son. Her
hearty simplicity of nature made her every
where love !. Her serva tts loved and stay
ed with her to the last, bhe seems to havo
had at least as much hor.er as her son,
which, for Germans, was not inconsiderable,
and not much more sense of awe. She gave
the most detailed orders for her funeral, and
even specified the kind r.f wine ar.d tho
e.2c of the cracknels with which the mourn
ers were to be regaled., ordering the ser
vants r.ot to pnt too few raisins into tho
eako, as she never could endure that in
her life, and it would certainly chafo her in
her grave. Having been invited to go to a
party on the day she died, she sent for an
swer that "Madame Goethe could not come,
as she was engageJ in dying.'* Vet her
sensitiveness was so great that she always
made it a condition with her servants that
they should never repeat to her painful
news that they had picked up accidentally,
as she wished to hear nothing sad without
absolute uoeessity. Ar.d daring her saa'o
danger us illness aj Weimar, in 1805, no
one ventured to speak to her of it till it
passed, though she atlirmed that she had
been conscious all the time of his danger
without the heart to mention it. This pe
culiarly Goc he inherited Mti. World.
StANrtariG DOCTORS —A great many jokow
arc cracked at the expense of the doctors,
and at the expense -f the reputation for in
to lect of those who crack them : for a mo
ment's consideration, which, by the way,
•n this fast age. is not g.ver. to anything of
I?GO importance, except by the tw—a rro
rr.er.t s consideration would teach any one,
that it is to the doctor's interest to keep tha
pat-lent alive as long as possible, for as long
.is the patient lives he pay si Witness tho
desperate tutors made to protract life for a
few hours, in tire last extremity: hew the
medicine is poured down cve-y fire min
utes as lone .is to .tying cir. car. swallow;
how t.e bi.ster p. astere •eases ankle, wnst.
e '. : • utile up again the powers ef
lite ft-, w. a returning lu'e. returns tho
propeet ot doi.urs. For our part, we coW
:ever appreciav the phi! -sophy o: tortrr
irg the poo- d\ ,:tg body in the wars just
alluded to. to the last moment of existence.
The great Washings- ut prayed to be allowed
to die in peace When our last hour comet,
hoist the window, throw the door w-lde open,
without a trart moisten the lips .-tear thw
nx-m v all b... one f two : let ai, tiiw pure
airpossil e get to the laboring lings. Just
ting "e. reader, what would be your Ssel
i-tgs for relict, if a pillow were pressed
over your face for a nr. :me. awl you ■
have "some i tea of the desire a dvtng mat
has for all the air he caul get as au
evidence that doctor* are net such a mut
der-os oluss as rtrpreeeoted sometunw*. the
iast census -hows that 11 -tywiiw an
lot s :f *v .si wautotumr. there bwitLg F-x; •
th v.-and doctor* .the I'm ted States. whie
these are oalv five hundred prutessed unowr
takerv. the irregulars of bota not tnehwi
-1 wd -a*r Jdwniu. of Half A.