The star of the north. (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, March 18, 1857, Image 1
TIE STAR OF THE NORTH. R. H' Heaver, ProprieJor.] VOLUME 9. THE STAR OF THE NORTH IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNIKU BY . \V. Tv KAV Llt, OFFICE— Upstairs, in Ihe new brick build ig, on the sonlk side oj Main Street, third square below Market. *T KB M S Two Dollars per annum, if paid within si* months from the time of sub scribing ; two dollars and fifty cents if not paid within the year. No subscription re ceived for a less period than six months; no discontinuance permitted until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the editor. ADVERTISEMENTS not exceeding one square will be inseried three times for One Dollar, and twenty-five cents for each additional in seition. A liberal discount will bo made to those who advertise by the year. 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.