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TIIE EVENING HEA R I US TONE. ™ Gladly now we gather round it, For the toiling day is done, And the gray and solemn twilight Follows down the golden sun ; Shadows lengthen on the pavement, Stalk like giants through the gloom, _ Wander past the dusty ensement, Creep around the fire-lit room; IP Draw ilie curtain, close the shutters, Place the slippers by the fire— Though the rude winds loudly mutter, What care we tor wind-spite's ire t What care we for outward seeming, Fickle Fortune's frowning stuilo, If around ns love is beaming ? Love can human ills beguile. 'Neath the cottage rool and palace, Froin the peasant to the king, All are quaffing from Lt'e's chalice, Bubbles that enchantment bring. Grates are glowing, music flowing From those lips we love the best— -0! the joy, the bliss of knowing Therd are hearts on which to rest. Hearts that throb with eager gladness— Hearts that echo to our own— With what care and haunting sadness Mingle ne'er in look or tone. Care may tread the halls of daylight, Sadness haunt the midnight hour, But the weird and witching twilight Brings the glowing hearthstone's dower. Altar of our holiest feelings, Childhood's well-remembered shrine, Spirit yearnings, soul revealing*, Wreaths immortal round thee twine. 11l isc cll anco uc. liuiictl Treasures. The Tiber is not only rich in historic asso ciations, it is rich in treasure. An English company has actually offered to turn the cur rent of the stream far above the city ami around it, provided the government would give them what they might discover in iis present bed. This would be attended with a vast expeur®, but it would pay. Treasures of art Irom age to age have found their way into the stream, which would bring into the market a perfect remuneration. In the mu seum of St. John Laleran, a magnificent col umn of stone is lying, whinh was taken not long since from the Tiber, a portion of which has been polished to show its beauty, and 110 one can see it without wishing to have more of the secrets of this river revealed. Statu ary more perfect and perhaps more beautiful than any of the aucient works of art now seen in Rome lies embedded in groups beneath the stream. Agostino Chigi, the famous banker at the time of Leo X, once gave a splendid entertainment to the Pope and his which the dishes were all precious metals. The price paid for three fish was 250 crowns. It is said that the dishes were all thrown into the Tiber by tirderof the rich banker, in order that no less illustrious guest might ever use them. The sacred vessels brought from Jerusalem by Titus, among them the golden candlestick, are reported to have been lost from the Mil vian bridge, and if so are still lying there.— The present government of Rome will suf fer nothing belonging to ancient art to pass from her territory, nor is it able to carry on such an investigation on its own account. A Victimized Youth. One of our country friends the other day related to us the particulars of an incident that occurred in the vicinity of his residence, which may serve as a warning to young Jer seymen who venture over the "old Key stone" on courting expeditions. As the story goes, a young gentleman residing in New Jersey made several call otTa young lady liv ing in a neighboring township, the daughter of AAWdoW- ldy of considerable property.— During one of his visits he was pursuaded by the manceuverings of the mother and daughter to promise to marry the latter—an engagement he afterwards fell anxious to be released from. He so told the widow, who raved and stormed a means of enforcing her purposes, retained the splendid horse and buggy of the unfortunate youth, at the same time declaring that she would not consent to restore him his properly nor release him from the engagement until he paid down the sum of SIOOO, which he actually did!— Threats of 0 lawsuit for breach of promise ol Marriage so frightened the verdant Jersey man that he "socked down the cash" rather than encounter the perils of a suit in Court. Look out for the widows, boys I They are troublesome creatures to deal with, especial ly when a poor Jerseyman fall into their hands.— Easlon Argus. PAPER TOWNS IN NEBRASKA.— The Nebraska Planter ofMarch 24ih says: "We would ad vise all our friends to beware of paper towns. There is at this time a perfect town making mania; everybody seems desirous of being the owner of a town. All persons desiring to securejan interest in Nebraska would do well to examine for themselves or get a responsi ble agent to act for lhem._ Never buy from floating, speculators, unless you thoroughly examine the title und ptoperty.or you may be fleeced." BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY. MAY 13, 1857. Tire Norcross lUurrler-~'l rial of McKtm. THIRD DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. At 8 o'clock on Saturday morning the Court met, Judge Taylor and Associates Jones and Caldwell on the bench. The excitement was as intense as ever. ; Joshua Cresson was recalled, aad being questioned by Mr. William A. Siokes, iden- I lifted the checks of the trunks of McKim and ; Norcross as duplicates of those he had given out on the 16th of January. Joseph Trout, swotn—l recognize the pris oner, and knew him before this, when at Mr. Thutlow's job, about a mile and a half above Altoona, on the new Pennsylvania Railroad, crossing the Mountain; that was, 1 think, du ring 1853 and 1854. He was engaged in carpenter work, as bos carpenter, erecting shauties, &c. I Andrew Pureed, sworn—The witness was engineer on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and detailed the circumstances of his having seen Norcross beside the Railroad, wounded, and his having conveyed him on the engine to Altoona. He identified articles of Norcross, violin bag, carpet sack, &c. j George Kramer, (in the employ of the I Pennsylvania Railroad,) sworn.—After the , Coroner's investigation at Altoona, the body was given into my charge, and I had it prop erly washed and dressed, tho coffin made and placed in a box of ice; it was then taken to the storehouse, to await the arrival of his friends. A severe storm was raging, the road was blocked, and the corpse remained .there until the next Sunday, when Benjamin Poland arrived at Altoona, and on Monday morning, at 2.30 o'clock, I delivered to him the body. (He alto identified articles of properly.) Aaron Dougherty, sworn—l was called to make a pott mortem examination of the body of a man at Altoona, on the morning ol the I7ih ol Jan.; I lound the body lying ut the Exchange Hotel, Altoona; it was of me dium size, probably not exceeding five feet seven inches in height, rather delicate; upon examination, I found wounds about the head and face, and the head very much swollen; the first was a wound across tho throat, about four and threc-quarler inches in length; this wound divided the skin and cellular tis sue, exposing freely the upper portion o! the windpipe, but the caroled artery and jugular vein were untouched; the wound appeared to have been produced by a sharp cutting instrument (razor shown witness;) it was a wound such as could have been produced by that instrument; another wound was ob served on the inferior maxillary bone about two inches on the right of the Chin; this was about one inch in length—a contused, lacer ated wound; ou further examination of this wound, I discovered that the inferior maxil lary bone was fractured—a complete fracture, another wound was on the left side of the face, commencing at the angle of the jaw, and extending along the base of the jaw for an inch and a half or an inch and three quarters, li av'xlnntly produced by some sharp cutting instrument, -mother wound ex tesdeil above tfef* "inguS i7*lh? right eye, passing rather obliquely over the cheek, in length two and three fourths inches; this was a contused, lacerated wound, producing ex-I tensive fracture of the molar, or cheek bone, and extending to the interior orbit or plate of the eye, and the Iracture continuing in this wound to the base of the skull; there was another wour.d on the nose, accompanied with facture of the internal and external j bones; another wound was on the back part of the head, dividing the scalp without frac ture, about an inch long; the wound upon the face, extending into the base of the skull, was a fatal one, and the wound in the throat of itsglf was not necessarily fatal, although mortal, had the person been exposed to the cold at night; the cause of this man's death was injury to the brain and shock to the ner vous system; the wounds produced death, taken altogether, upon the inferior extremi ties there were slight bruises and abrasions of the skin. C'ub shown witness, and in answer to question of District 'Attorney Hammond— The wounds might also have been produced by an instrument like 'hat. Dr. David Hays, sworn—l was present at the post-mortem examination. Cross-examined—l saw the wounds on the I face and head, the cut on the neck would ! not, I think, have affected the bain; he might I fall from the loss of blood from that wound; but Ido not think the wounds on the head could have been produced by a fall on the stones or iron rails. Had the man fallen from a railroad car, upon that club lying on the gound, it would not likely to have pro duced a wound like that of Norcross'. Samuel McMurtus testified that at Pitts burgh McKim had dark whiskers. (His face now is clean.) C. Eton, sworn—l kept boarders at Dun leitb, last winter, and of them, two were Norcross and McKim. They slept together; the circnmstances of McKim as to money I cannot say; several times he said he could not pay his board just then; the day before he and Norcross left, he came to me and paid up, except nine dollars, which he made up by a due bill for that sum of Mr. Curry's; at the same time, he said he was short of means, or would be short if he was detain ed on the road, but when he got to Pitts burgh be had friends there, and could get any amount that he wished; as to having friends in Philadelphia, or funds, he repre sented himsell as being well off, he said that during the present winter, he did not expect to make more than expenses, his object was to do no more than look for a good location for business, and that he had a brother with whom he was concerned were intending to invest some 830,000 in a 4 mechanical busi ness; he spoke of slatting a plaining mill in some town, and connecting with it the occu pation ol master builders; Norcross' health was delicate; he had a bad cough, but I nev er knew of his ever having fits, or of his being crazy, or of his attempting to destroy himself; I never knew of two men being required to hold him. (Witness identified carpet bag, shawl, &c., as having belonged to Norcross.) Norcross could not undress and dress himself alone. (He identified several articles of clothing contained within McKim's trunk and the trunk itself.) The two men left my house together on the morning of the 12th January; I did not sea them on the cars. On leaving my house Mr. McKim said he was going to I'tiladelphia, where he said he owned a house, No. 10 Poplar street. He said that he had a wife and one child there, and that the house was pleasantly furnished and situated. He ir.vited Norcross to slop with him there and rest, and said he could stay there any length of lime, and that he had a family physician, and that ho, (Nor cross) should receive every care without ex pense. Then, if his health did not improve, he (McKim) would see him home, &e.— This last conversation was perhaps two weeks before their departure. Norcross, I think, called him McKinney. McKim .came to my place, 1 think, the 24th of November last to board, and remained there until they left Durileiih. Audiew Kaufman, sworn—l anr, subpoena ed in this case by David Stringer McKim, and I live in Dubuque, Iowa; I knew McKim at that place; he wore whiskers at that time; he came and boarded with me; he left mo and went out west, about twenty-two milos from Dubuque, and was gone about a week: he came back and then went to Dunlieth; he owned no property, but had money to pay the bill to mo always. (Witness identified the coat of McKim.) During the examination of this witness, the course of questioning was such as to induce Mr. Stokes to slate that so much interest had the Pennsylvania Railroad taken in the mat ter, that they had furnished free passes to I the witnesses, a very commendable act. Dr. Thomas F. Rumbold, sworn—l knew | the prisoner from J856, until the Thursday | preceding the time of their leaving Dunleith, [ Illinois. Samuel Townsend Norcross was j my student; Norcross left in consequence of ! his ill health; the prisoner told me one day j that they both were going to the East togeth er; tie stated that he lived in Philadelphia, ! and had a wife, and that ho was going ihere, | and that Norcross could accompany him i there and rest if too tired to go on, and said j that he had a family physician to get assis- J tance from; Norcross had neither fits nor ctn | zittess of any kind; there was nothing in his I disease calculated to produce insanity or vio i lence; Norcross bought a pocket-book, a large | one; the peculiarity about it was two long straps; on the two "lucks'' or "flaps" which I were arranged in a certain manner; it was ! not bright red, but dullish. (Witness posi | lively identified all the principal articles of clothing of Norcross, together with jewel ry, &c.) Cross-examined—Norcross spent a great deal of his time in bed, resting; I think prob ably that the shaking ol the cars would have -been sufficient to have produced pain to him. At this point the Court adjourned until af ternoon. AFTERNOON SESSION—SATURDAY. Wm. C. Addick, sworn—l resided last win ter at Dubuque, and know Norcross; the •prisoner I know by sighi; the first interview that I had with the prisoner was on the 7th of January last, at our office in Dubuque; my business was to buy and sell real estate, the firm being that of Addicks, Norse & Co.; Mr. Norcross came into the office in compa ny with the prisoner, and wanted to sell his interest in two lots in Dubuque ; i told him it was at least three months to sbon, and that ho would by his haste lose from thirty to forty per cent.; he said it did not matter, that he had been sick the most of the year, and won ted to go home to his friends; f asked him what price he wanted; in reply, he said that E. &S. Hoar held his note for $l5O, with ten per cent, interest accruing lor eleven months, he said that if I would take up his note and pay him S7OO for his interest in the lots, I could have them ; I said that I would let him know the next day; he said he could not come in himself, being to unwell, but point ing to McKim, he said that his friend would call for and answer; on tha 8111 inst., the pris oner came (here alone, and I told him that we would take the lots; he went away, and on the 9th both parties came to my office; there were some street assessments, &c., un paid, which we wished to deduct from the ! amount, and he agreed to it. The papers were drawn and executed; I said to Norcross that I would give hint New York exchange for the amount; he asked if it would be as ] convenient for him as anything else would; 1 told him it would be just as convenient and more safe, and if lost could be recovered; he seemed to be inclined to take a draft, until the prisoner at the bar said thai he wouldn't take it, nor advise him to take it; that he had seen repeated cases of that kind where there was a great deal of trouble, and he might lose the money entirely; I asked McKim whether lie was agent for Norcross or whether Nor cross doue his own business; he said he was not agent,only a friend, and calculated to see justice done; I remarked to him that he was just the kind of friend that I wouldn't want; t next counted out the money to Noroross, first telling him that 1 bad two SSO notes on the OrtVell Bank, Vermont, and that I would give him them,-and gold fur the balance; I then gave him the two notes, $550 in Amer- Truth and Right Cod and onr Country. | tean gold, in twenty dollar gold pieces, ex cept one 810 piece,and fifteen dollars in small j bills. Some conversation ensued, and Norcross said that he was going home, to stop by the way lor two or three weeks with his friend in Philadelphia,at the same time pointing to the prisoner as his friend. I told him again that he had belter take a draft on Now York ; I told him the draft could be cashed as easily in Philadelphia as in New York. The pris oner spoke again and said that he wouldn't do it il be was in his place. I then remarked to Norcross that "he'd certainly lose his mon ey, if he didn't his life." Norcross remarked that "he'd risk it," to which I responded, "that shrewder men than him had fared as bail as that." McKim had heavy whiskers at that lime. I shonld have known him now if I had not seen him for ten years. THE FRIEND OF THE DEAD! Benjamin Poland, sworn—My residence is in West Cambridge, Mass., and my place of business in Boston. I knew Norcross, Jr.; 1 have known him for eight or ten years at East Lexington and West Cambridge, Mass.; I saw him last alive in West Cambridge,l think in May, 1855. From there he went to Dun leith, Illinois; I am aware of money having been remitted to him one time, one of his sisters (school teachers) remitted 8500; an other 8300, and he received 8600 from an other suurce. The next time I saw him was at Altoona, a corpse, on the 251h January last; I came to that place for the purpose of taking the corpse to his friends; 1 received the body from George Kramer. (The wit ness swore that the clothing in the trunk of Norcross was the same as thai given to him by Kramer, as having been upon the body of the deceased.) The trunk itself I received in Philadelphia. Cross-examined —I know that the money was sent, because I saw it prepaied; I think it was in 1855. THE FATHER. John Norcross, Esq., (the fathar of the de ceased,) sworn.—l had a son that went to the West, his name being Samuel Townsend Norcross, and I last saw him alive on the 12th of May, 1855; I next behold him oulhe 28th of January, 1857; he was dead; the corpse was in the hearse house at East Lexington, Mass., having been brought from the West by Mr. Poland; when he left home for the West he had money, biti he did (lot tell me how much, and I do not know; 1 never knew of my son having fits, or being insane, or violent; [pants and trunk shown witness;] the pants were made in my house l>y his mother, and tho trunk I bought for him in Boston, and had a brass plate put upon it ; his health when he left us was not very good. [During the examination of this witness the utmost silence prevailed, and the crowded audience manifested a universal leeliug of sympathy.] James Trees, sworn.—My business is that ol inspector of the passenger cars at Altoona; the express train from Pittsburg to Philadel phia reached Altoona on the 16th of January between three and four o'clock; I was on hand and saw two passengers get ofT the train; f noticed that one was a small man and tho other was a large man. The first siarted towards the water tank, having got ofT on the side of the cars opposite to the Lo gan House, not the usual side for passengers to get off at; the last I seen of them was about one hundred yards from the hind end ol the passenger cars going up the railroad; they went west, past the sugar house and Ex change. The tuller of the two men 1 should think was a little over six feel, and the smal ler a little over five feet. The witness was subjected to severe cross examination but wiihout shaking his testi mony. John E. Warple, sworn-—I reside in Blair couniy, about 12 o'clock, on the Kith of Jan uary, was on the old Clearfield road, about a mile north of Bell's mills, about half a mile from the railroad, driving along the road with a team and sled; there was a man standing beside the road, and that man was the pris oner at the bar, although he had whiskers on (ben; when I drove up beside him, he asked me if he might tide on the sled, and I told him he should; ho then asked mo if 1 was going far up that road, and I told him about half a mile; I then asked him if he wus traveling and he said he was, he said bo tvas going to Harrisburg, and from there to Mary land and to some place else; I asked him if his people lived there, and he said some of them did; he asked me if thct was the way to Harrisburg, and said he had come to Al loona on the cars, and was almost out of money, or "strapped," and had inquired of an ltiahman at Altoona, how much it would take to go to Harrisburg by railroad, aud he bad told him S2O; before tltat he said that he had lain sick at Minnesota, in the western country, and thought he would rather walk, and see the country, to Harrisburg,than goby railroad; lie iheri wanted to hire me to take him to Harrisburg, saying that as I had a pair of good horses, I should hitch them up and take him in a sleigh, and he would pay me whatever he agreed on in advance; I ob jected to that, and he tnen inquired the best and nearest road to Harrisburg; I told him the direction past Festoria and Tifion, and he wanted to know whether either of these were public places; he asked me it I knew where he could get a good riding horse in the coun try, as he would like to have one; the road that I drove him on was not leading towards Harrisburg, but to Clearfield, oalhe Alleghe ny mountains; when he felt me, he started in the direction rather towards Tifion; I was about 74 miles Irom Altpona, when the tnan first.came to me. Qross-examiued. —I identify the prisoner as tiro man who ;odc on my sled by his coun- tenance; ws were together probably fifteen or twenty minutes; I told this story before I heard of the killing of Norcross. The Court adjourned. FOURTH DAY —MAV 4. The Court mot oil Monday afternoon, at two o'clock, the room being as crowds J as usual. THE BANK DEPOSIT. Mr. Charlos J. Faber, being sworn, testifi ed that at Reading, Pa., while acting in his capacity of hotel keeper, he was called upon by the prisoner, on the afternoon of tho 22d of January. McKim requested to stay all night; he wrote his name in the register as Thomas Bragg, [book produced]; he said he was from St. Paul, Minnesota; after supper he left the bouse and did not return uuld next morning, about nine o'clock, when ho look; breukfast; he ther. paid his hill, and asked which was the best bank in Reading, to which the response was given that both were good. He said that he had money to deposit, and was so much pleased with the place that tie thought he would buy a house, or board there for a month; witness told him he could not board him; on the 24th of January, in the afternoon, lie eatne again, took dinner, ami asked whether tho witness would take charge of his bank book, as lie was among strangers; the witness consented to lake charge of it, and in taking it up stairs, saw that Bragg or McKim had made a deposile in bank of 8550, on the Monday morning fol lowing he came for his book, which was giv en to him and he left. On the cross-examination, the witness de scribed the whiskers and dress of McKitn, when tit Heading. Mr. Lewis J. Henald, sworn—l was receiv ing teller of ilio Farmers' Bank of Heading in Junuury last. (Witness shown signature book of Bank.) On the morning of the 24th January lust the prisoner stepped to the bar of the bank to make a deposit; he placed on the counter large gold pieces [s2o each] with tho exception of one piece, which made up the whole sum of $550; at the same time he offered mc a filty dollar bill on some eastern bank, either New Hampshire or Ver mont; I handed the note back, saying that wo didn't like it; f then furnished the prison er with a pass book [passbook shown,] and that is the one, in which I also made the en- j try; he went out; in the signature book of the bank he wrote the namo "tomas Bragg," Lancaster; he said that he had bought a house m Heading, and on the Friday following t drew big money by a check, which \ wrote I and he signed. The cashier paid him SIOO ! in gold, and ihe rest in bills of die Farmers' Bank of Heading. Charlotte E. McKensie, sworn—ln January last, I was staying at the house of Miss Su san Kamore, No. 1. Walnut street, anil 1 saw Ihe prisoner there on either the 21st or 22d; became there oti Thursday noon; I heard Miss Eamore call him Bragg; he left there on Monday morning next, and I saw him at different limes between; I asked him if he 1 wouldn't go to Potlsville; he said he'd put us to housekeeping, ami I expected of course a private house; we went first to the Poilsville Mouse and put up; we bought furniture from Mr. Kline, household furniture; the furniture was taken to Mr. Womelsdorf's house in Callowhill street; Bragg was Ihe manager; he remained with us a week, and then said he was going to Philadelphia to return in a day or two; I next saw him here recently; he had given Miss Nagle money on the morning that he left, and we never saw liirn afterward; we had everything in the house that we wanted to eat; there was no peculiarity abonl 1 his habits; he never made any lascivious ap- ! proaches to me. I recollec! reading a piece from the news- j paper, but I cannot say positively that he was present, but I think he was; I recollect j reading a paper to him, and his saying''Go on, and read the rest," but the subject of ihe article 1 do not recollect; I never read but one ! newspaper to him. A very close and minute examination by i Mr. William Stokes failed to bring to the J mind of the witness a recollection of the particular article in the newspaper. He directed me to say if any body called for Bragg, that Mr. Boyer was Mr. Bragg; he ' bought a number of newspapers; he came in I in the afternoon, and said that he had seen his cousin and his cousin's wife, and that he j didn't think they would have known him, but j that they did rbcogntze him, and if anybody i called I should tell them that Beyer was Bragg; on Monday morning, he left the bouse 1 about 6} o'clock, asking me what time the 1 cars left for Philadelphia, to which 1 replied } 7 o'clock. Samuel Mann, sworn.—l keep the Potts vilte House, and saw the prisoner there on the 26th January, and 1 hoard the young man who was with him call him Bragg, and he had whiskers; the young man named Casse Boyer was with him; he came there in a two horse sleigh, between 1 and 2 o'clock in the afternoon; he asked me if 1 was the land lord, to which 1 replied that 1 was, when he asked me if be could have accommotation for the party; I asked him if the women were their wives; he said, "No, sir;" ho said one of them was his brother's wife, and the other one the young man's sister; they were shown in and took dinner; after that he asked me if there were any houses to rent ; I told him yes, and asked what kind he wanted ; he said a good one, for his brother would be up next day or tbe day after, when both would start the carperteriug business; I told him th" was some up Market street, and he slatted and went up—came back and staid over night; next morning they went away between S> and 10 o'clock, but during the week fol lowing was visiting at my house. IN THE BLOOMSBURU JAII-. I next saw him at liloomsburg, Columbia county, a day or two after he was taken there; I recognized him,and alter three or lour ques tions, he said that he did not recollect having stopped with the patty at my house. " I am," said he. "an innouent man," he told me that when he got his friends to know where ho was, it was all right; I asked him what made htm leavo Pottsvilleso mysteri ously ; he said he did not feed disposed to answer ; 1 told him I did not come to ask \ any questions to convict him, only to recog- j nize him; he said he thought that if he had the money for the furniture il would do him ' good; he said he had walked away from j Pottsville, he told mo that he had not been in i a railroad cur from the lime he arrived at Pottsville; he said he had iraveled with Nor cross; I do not know whether it was before or after saying that I did not come to convict j him, that I asked him the previous questions: I have held out no inducements to him fur ther than I have staleo; he told me he had left Norcrtißs in company with a mail named Robinson; I asked him why he hud kept the checks about him, and he said "Whet checks;" he asked mc who told me that he had kept the checks; I told him them who had seen them; he colored up in the luce at that time. I started to go away, and lie call ed tne back, saying that he wanted to ask me something in private, and asked me if I knew what had become of the women who were at Pottsville; 1 told him they had gone to Phil- j adelphiu. The l'lniftsonh? of Hall stones. The New Yotk Almanac remarks that hail 1 is chit fly restricted to the temperate latitudes, and in these most Irequeut during the ppring and summer. Within the tropics it seldom falls at a lower altitude than from 1,500 to 2,000 Icet above the level of the sea. The ! explanation usually given of this fact is, that the temperature, which increases downward to the surface of the earth, is constantly so high in those regions that hail never descends to a lower altitude than that above mentioned wiihout being melted. The squall of wind, which accompanies and u.-hers in the hail storm, is, no doubt, produced by the depres sion of temperature which the hail commui caies to the lotver atmosphere in iis decent , to tho grouud. Hail presents every appear ance ol having frozen during its fall, and not like snow freezing in the form of clouds. It has much puzzled meterologists to show why rain should ever get frozen in descending to 1 a lower altitude, instead of meltir.gaitd com ing in the shape of rain. A cold cttrrenl of air blowing sudderdy[ir> the direction of a rain cloud, is understood to be the immediate cause of most hail showers. Tl.c large size of hail stones is attributed to an accumulation during the progress of their descent. It is probable that lha largest commences with a small nucleus, which receives continued ac cessions from vapory particles in the neigh borhood. Accordingly, hail stuues are found to be smaller on the lops of mountains than in the neighboring plains and valleys, be cause, not by fulling so far, they do not aug ment their size by the addition of successive layers el watery vapor. The Water* of the Nile. The Nile water is particularly soft. It fills the mouth with a rich creamy taste: and in drinking it, in order to enjoy it, it is well to spread it over every part of the palate. It should be drank, nut to quench thirst, but to create high pleasure. Il.fhould not, therefore, be swallowed in largo draughts at a lime, but taken at short intervals, every other hour or so. In the house the water-jar—the ad mirable Egyptian water-jar, which is so much more porous that: the Indian jar— should be at band by spell [Two Dollars per Annan* NUMBER 17. Caleb Cuttlilng upon Manifest Destiny and Filibustering, Hon. Caleb Castling has been making a speech to his friends and fellow citizens, at Newbliryport, Ma6B , upon national politics, ami the p-obable extension of the U. S. oyer the Continent. He !considers it the mission of the American republic to conquer this Continent, and establish republican empires over its whole extent. This is the inevi'yblo decree of destiny, the necessary march of ficedom. But this work is not to be accom plished through fraud and injustice, and such weak and miserable agents as Walker and other filibusters, who retard rather than ad vance the movement. Mr. Cushing says: ''l reprobate, not war itself, but all irregu lar enterprises of war. I hold that the great issues of peace belong to the sovereign pow er of tho Union, ami should not be wantonly usurped by individual rashness. I glory ill the acta which it has fallen to me to perform towards the repression of all such undertak ings in the United Stales, whether on the part of a presumptuous British Minister, re cruiting troops within our jurisdiction, for the purpose of warfare in the Ci imea, or of a reck less American adventurer, recruiting them for the purpose of plunder and murder in Nicara gua. No, lot not the small man, Walker, be honored for this, on account of which the groat man Burr was damned. Non tali axilio, nee defensoribus islis, Tempos egei. Tlie United States require no such instru ments to help them forward to the consum mation of their destinies in America. Oa the contrary, they impede us, just as Walk er, without capacity or power of possible good in himself, has only served to obstruct national purposes in Mexico, in Nicaragua, in all Spanish America. All such things tend to discredit us also. Thus tar, if there be, in all the annals of time, a case of a mighty nation steadily advancing to its ze nith in tile shining light of untarnished hon or, it is these United States. So mote it be nobleness oblige. Independence of England, with our limits of original dominion intact, we achieved bravely in the field of battle, in righteous war, with Hunker Hill at tho beginning of the contest, and at the close of it Saiatoga and Yorktown. Our succeeding great step was Louisiana, and that came to us by the spontaneous act of our oldest— and may she never cease to be our constant —ally and friend, generous and glorious France; Flowed by the Florida?, not ex torted by us from Spain, but ceded to us by her, as John Uuiucy Adams once, with his lorciblo eloquence, explained in my bear ing—ceded us in fair exchange lor our own province of Texas. That again returned to ns of its own free will, after having been raised, through the gallantry of her sons, with Hunter and Husk at their head, to in dependence of Mexico, by the same identi cal right that Mexico was independent of Spain. And now California is ours, which wo acquired by just, war, and might have kept by the just right of war, but disdained to do so, choosing rather to hold it by tho tenure of cession and of contract, with con tribution of ample indemnity therefore to Mexico. 1 say, all this is a record of which any nation might, with good cause,be proud; and so may it be continued on hereafter in the same bright line of glory and of justice to the eud! The true mission of this Republic is, not as Mr. Cusliing believes, to become the masters of litis continent like the ancient Romans, conquering by force, but to show such an example of justice and of good gov ernment that the various peoples of this con tinent will he ready to follow our example and desire to share our prosperity. Horseback Killing. N. I*. Willis, in one ot Ins "Invalid Letters," thus speaks of the therapeutic virtues of horseback riding: It was a secret which T did not discover by books ; that exercise, with the legs of a horse to do tho work, distributes the blood's fulness and freshness to the extremities ; but that ex ercise with your Own legs the work, draws the fullness and freshness of the ex tremities to the centre. Life and strength, that is to say, are centrifugal, if you exercise on horseback—centripetal if you exercise on foot. To test this, you have only to do the two things. Bui to"k in a glass when you retutn horn a tide in the saddle, and you will 6ee that the hollows under your eyes are filled out and freshened in color, and that the in cipient lines in your face, (for I presume I am addressing a middle-aged, charming wo man,) have disappeared wholly, or become indistinct. Then, look in the glass on your return from a walx, of equal exercise, and you will see just the contrary —your eyes sunken and the likes of your face deepened with the fatigue. Or, still more demonstra tively—compare the fresh colored fullness of your hands and fingers' ends, after the one exorcise, with their dragged and depleted spareness a r ter the other. A recognition of die same fact may be seen in the advice giver. Vv m;-!val bo-'Xi to literary men—ot men whose brains are ovrrtvoiked. by prolonged attention ot any kind. "Avoid walking as au exercise."— And the reason given is "that the concentra ted exertion at the hips and loins of the ped eststian, pull directly upon the forces of the spine which sustain the brain." And it is nature's rallying law—or catting in of re cruiting power from the extremities to supply the demand upon the venter of the system, which equally robs the brain, the face ami the hands (SI their proportionate supply of full r.ess Your beauty, tnidam. merely pays iii recruiting tax with the rest