BY D. A. BUEHLER. VOLUME XXVII.. The Great Family Weekly Paper.. TILE NEW YORK LEDGER has now attained the extraordinarycireulation of One Hundred and Ninety 'rhou Baud copies.-- , The LEDGER is devoted to polite literature, original tales, sketches, poetry, essays, gossip aunt current news, and maintains a high moral tone. It is everyvihere acknowledged to be the hest family paper in the world ! Hence its extraordinary and unheard of popularity. Mr: Bonner, thin Proprietor of the Ledger, employs the best talent in the country, and by so doing makes it the best paper. Such writers as Fanny Fern, Sylvania Cobb, jr., and Emerson Bennett, are permanently engaged on it, and will write br no other paper hereafter.— Airs. Sigourney, also, constantly writes for it; ao do a hosts of other popular authors, includ ing Mrs. Einem D. E. N. Southworth, Alice Cary, Mrs. %Vaughan, Mary W. Stanley . Gibson, Clara Sydney, &c., &c. The Ledger is beauti fully illustrated every week. The New York Ledger is printed on henna fill white paper. and is composed of eight pa. ges, making the handsomest weekly paper in the country. It is published every batarday, and sold at the news otlices in every city and town throughout the country; and is mailed far subscribers at two dollars per annum ; two copies lire sent for three dollars. Any person obtaining eight subscribers at $1 ro each, is our lowest chili rates, and sending u. :312 will be entitled to one copy Pree.,-L -'Ferias invariably in advance. Address all letters to 11.01111EILI BONNER, Publisher of New York Ledger. 4 t AIM Street, Niue Yurk. N. ll.—Now in a good time to subscribe ' M 1.; E ICS N IiENNEI rS Great Original io •ir,!l of Frontier Life, will be commenced in the .etlger on the first of J ILIVE YOU SUBSCRIBED IN TII E Cosmopolitan Art Association I•'Uli TILV TIIIRD YEAR IN the rare inducements I The mileage. 4J.tie it have the pleasure of announcing that the collection or ‘Vorks of Art designed for klistriltution among the subscribers, whose names are received previous to :he nth of Jaumiry, '57, is much larger and more costly lltan nit any previous year. Among the loud ing work; iii Sculpture—executed in the finest 11lorlde—is the new nod beautifill Statue if the -"WO( f N YAI I'll," The Busts of the Three (;rent American Statesmen, Cla.-, Webster and Calhoun, Also the exquisite Ideal Bust, "SPRING," A POLL° - A ND DIANA, in marble, life size. Together with the followinw Groups and Stat ues iii Carrara Marble—of the Struggles fur the Remo, Venus and Apple Putyche ; Meg thleit : Child of thn Seu ; 1„„ 0 „„ c o ; c a ptiv e Bit-demi Little Truant?, ‘Vith numerous works iii Bronze, and a collection of SEVERAL aux. mica P/ Y 14; OIL P 1I VTINGS. by leading A nista. The whole of which are t.; be diArilatted or allotted among the nub. serilmr4 kV 1103 e names are received previous to the Ti—nly-eighth 51.himeary, '57, when the dintrihatiim will take place. mots OF SUBSCRIPTION Every sulioiriher of three itollure k entitled to it ropy of the splendid Steel Engraving, ••:iatarilay Night," or a copy of mny of the fol. g !..1 Magazines one year ; also a copy of the Art Journal one year. and a Ticket in the Amnuul Distribution of Works of Art. 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For 'fur ther partignlarei address the subscriber, (pos t paid.)ltOßßßT SEARS, iBI liilliuta street, New Turk. 1857—A Magazine for the Homes of the Peopkl Graham's Magazine. PROSPECTUS of VolunreFi ft yof Grah ant's American Illustrated Yational Magazine, the Pioneer Magazine of the Country, estab lished in 1827. Watson & Co., the new pub lishers of "Graham's allustrated Magazine," announce to the Ladiesjind Gentlemen of the United States in general, and to the fiiiiner pa trowaof the work in particular, that :it is their inteiftlon to make use of all the immense re sources at our command to produce a First Class Magazine. To this end no exertion .or expense will bestwed. The best Literary and Artistic Talent will be empßryed, and nothing that capital, taste or enterprise can accomplish will be wanting to make this Magazine more than ever deserving the liberal support gegen erously extended to it during the past thirty years. 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THE RUSSIA& NUR , : 1 WE have just published a new edition o this popular and saleable work; and can now supply our Agents and Canvassers with out delay. -• Besides a complete History of the War, it inclndes the LIFE AND REIGN OF Wilt OLAS 1., with sketches of SCHAMYL, the the Circassian Chief, and other distinguished characters ;. also deseriptions of RUSSIAN SOCIETY and GOVERNMENT, &c., c. , making ono of the moat interesting works ever published. It is beautifully illustrated with fine tinted plates, and bound in the.best Man. oar. We ;mild a specimen copy with particu- Mrs of agency to any part of the United States, free of postage ' on receipt of the price $1.25. J. W. BRADLEY, Publisher, No. 48 North. Fourth Stied, Philadelphia, Pa. , 'Nov. 28, 1856.-4 t ' Tax appeal!. r IIE Commissioners of Adama County here. 1 by give notice that they have fixed upon the following,times, for the holding of Appeals for the seders! Bonin& and Townships of Adams Cennty at the 'office' of the County Commissioners, in Gettysburg, w ea and where .they will attend to hear appeals, tween the hours of 9 o'clock, A. M., and O'- clock of each slaY4 ll2 " 1 " 8: • The appeals for Germany, Oxford, Union, 'Berwick Borough, Berwick Township, Coma. wago, Hamilton. and R.Jading,wo Widneedcsy the 21st day of Jarsuary t next. For Huntington, Latimore, Tyrone, Liberty, Mountjoy, Mountpleasart, and Freedom, on, .7hiersday, the 22d day o f yanua r y. • For Gettysburg Borough, Cumberland. Hamiltonhan, Menallen ' Butler, Frank li n, And Straban, on Friday, the 23d day nf January: l By order of the Commissioners, M. WALTER, Clerk, Dec. 26, 1836.—td POCKET DIARIES. FOR 1857, OF all eines—from miniature form to large quarto—fir sae by the undersigned.— Every business man should have a copy. A. D. BUEHLER.. Dec. 26, 1856.—rtf , ' GETTYSBURG, RA., FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, 1857 CARRIER'S ADDRESS TO THI PATRONS Or raw STAR AND RAINER January Ist 1857. Good morning friends—the Carrier conies Upon this happy morn To greet you in your pleasant . liontes And spin his annual yarn. . While gazinton' arch smiling face All lighted up with joy, feels that ere he lesiva the place You'll bless the Carrier• Boy. Ah I bless him f—Yes, he knows you And with the "rootof evil" , Cheer up the drooping heart of Hitt, 4 * And gratify the "Deed." All through the year that's passel away He went from door to door, And always had a word to say, Alike for rich and poor. With budget hooked his neck around He sent your doors ajar, And every Friday noon you fourid He popped you in a "STAR." And as that Star so gently fell, It shot its rays athwart, And with ri thrill of ecatacy It gladdened every heart. Ah I truly Inine's a noble work, But then 'tis certain sure, That like all good philanthropists In worldly goods I'm poor. But still the Carrier don't despair— Nor ever gets the "blues," . But faithfully through foul and fair Ho carries you the news. Now since you've heard•my humble plea My tune shall take a turn, And o'er the thingi we both have seen We'll pause awhile to mourn. MI through the year that's pest and gone Kind Heaven in love looked dcrrn— While for the wicked 'acts of men We well deserved its frown. But. in their turn the seasons came The late and early rain, And covered o'er was hill and vale With rich and waving grain. And by the sterliertarmes's His verdant fields were tilled While for his labor nobly spent His grnneries were filled. In other years the pestilence Which swept away its scores, fins by a ruling Providence Been guarded from our 'shores And while the scourge has not been sent In fearful judgment down, Disaster and sad accident Rave not so oft been found. Men who have caused by recklessness Destruction, death and pain, Seem to repent their carelessness, And now are growing sane. But some resort to baser means— To pistol, club, and dirk— To rioting and dueling, Toalikeath's bloody work. Oh I gip a burning shame— A most disgraceful thing— To see our Legislative halls Used for a fighting ring ! Twits there the noble Sumner fell, Who dared to speak the truth, Beneath the coward.blow of Brooks— Would-be chivalrous youth Let everlasting shame,attend Upon the heartless. wretch, Who with.a gutta-percha cane Would crush free thought and speech. And—tell it not in Askelon— In Oath conceal the fact— That Locofoeo Congressmen All justified the act But now within my simple rhyme ' A word I want to chuck, About a thing that's lived some time— A double-headed Buck. One head was turned toward the North , .— The other to the South, 'And that this Buck might please them both • He used a double mouth. I lind from this apt and Well trained mouth , He breathed sweet accents forth, By which he gained a niggared South And lost a noble North. The Papists, and the Foreigners, • And Mormons,with delight, • Game to his aid for President ; But still It squeeied him tight. - And yet they say %was Prouidenoe ! That'gave them` dll the luck In having scared up votes enough • • To elect this two-faced Buck: But no it was from treachery Upon the part of many, That now we have for President ' Our noted "ten-cent Jimmy." ;. Had all the opposition force iolid mass combined; ' They would have left this *tat •out horse Quite thr enough behind. ' • Now that the mighty , contest'sn'er,. May he in wisdom nap, And Got like Pieree, who reigned before, • 'BeMadl3 1;114 Since he has, reached ambition's height , , - No motive new has he , ? fl o. sway him from,the path of right--. 'lFroMacting manfully. ' • • Then may he turn a pitying eye To_ 14rusas' ontraged And` break theernettyrant's power And loose the prisonees chains.. May hs, in justice, right the wrongs Which Pierce and Dangles brought On Freedoin'it rights end Freedom's soil By mean and selfish Plot: IiFitARL.EBB AND FREE." We now ttattstairn to Gettysburg And look awhile about, Where.people Intie been blowing in As well webtouting out. Our ladies, tiipinvoke the fops, ', .And keep Akira from their side, Have all gonstoff , to cooper shops • And beenonell.foitified. They nevi inaksUtnd 'bout ten feet off 'And look witft wistful eyes , Unto that brigilt.and-happy spot Where theYtlsiernion (I) Oh, witching'elifsl-.-0, cruel girls! You lead on4to suppose . You do these _dmgs for nothing else Than to, foul, the beaus. But go it, girliirrin have us now— Your victoryle coinplete— Not only do,youtkeitp men off But take ttp , s4l the street. For would yen.pilinneeade awhile Upon that,w4r you built, You'll hereto gp,jt single file, Or o'er the cush-stolie And run the riskier pulling down The fence on'either side I While in thejr Afghts," gents glide along, And wonder ilystryotir silly pride. Soon will we bevel a. Rail•rOad track . Completed up*.ttrorn, And then old onitiriburg will be A place of soitii,:t 3 eriown. • This enterprise yrlt'then shall find A great piogr*iye pill, To loosen, up the vtiblio mind, Which long hantgood stone still. • There is many Whether thing I yet should 11,4noueht But I must choir okohl "machine" Or elese 11l flAitd? too touch. , Just one word fitt*r.wish to say, My friends, befbeks we part; 0, listen to me I pray= 'Tis coming fipAllie heart— I wish there await:tweeds— , Some great p tug pills To Mahe all put delay - Now, farewell, friends ;I can't remain, And pray don't think it strange ; In just one year I'll collie again— Be ready with 'the change l , THE LEGEND OF SANTA CLAUS. This popular name of the saint who presides over, Oltristmes ,and t iti?t toy 'gifts of that welcome Season, is derived from Saint Nicholas. ,The legend of Cs first appearance is.aw Italian one.. Aesurding to this : a shoemaker named biraldi. wsto lived in Ferrare..was so miserably poor, that his labor frOM day to de) barely kept hie family from, star4stioc. and he was un able-t 4 give even a small dowry to his three pretty daughters. It was not thonght_proper to merry without a flow.. ry ; and thus the 'young girls, thstigh each had an admirer: were compelled to re main single Their father, ' however, wentevery morning ,te the Shrine to pray to his patron !saint; St; Nicholas. that be would work a miracle - to relieve him from Isis distress.• - One of his nearest neighors, a rich mer chant, who chanced one day to overhear his simple petition, ridiculed the idea of. his expecting the Saint to take care of his daughters and reconimended him to-choose a patron saint Arlin would be able to do something for him: '!Mine,' he said, "is the Joseßuonsjuto.; he lends money. at two puleent. 'a month ; .and if y o u know how •to manage. you may make four with it. He is not so deif as Saint Nicholaa." • t' • • • - • The poor Matt *as shocked at this im pious speech, and assured the' merchant that his religious faith'could never be sha ken. He went eiery day to church, not withstanding the other's mockery. It was now Christmas day. when 'the merchant and the Jew, settled up their yearly accounts ; Iltionajunto found he owed his friend tlitee hundred ducats, and wishing to give him an agreeable Surprise, he ordered.one.ef•the ducks he' bad care fully fattened to be killedand ritisteili and then with' his .own •hands introduced the three hundred gold pieces into the inside. Mid sowed them up. He then sent the deck to the 'merchant as a Christmas present - The merchant's wife. who s abered the common prejudices against 'Jews, declar ed she would not, touch , the duck, and the rich man resoles:dm sell it. When' aldi passed , on his way from • church, his neighbor, as UMW, bantered him on his devotion, showed hint the ,Christmas gift hie patron 'Elsint !lad sent 'him, And whit ed him wittc.the stolidity 'of Saint Nich olas;who could 'not even send shim a piece of bread.: Finally, lie offered Itt sell the duck for a dollar, and to wait for par meet. As he knew i3iraldi to be strictly honest Tice: shoemaker' carded the duck home. and when he carved it for his finille's Christmas dinner, end the hun . dred.ducats fell out, his fitnt exclamation was—" Praise to thitnt Nicholas !" When he recovered from his surprise. he would have taken the mousy back, but his wife peisuadeil him that, as he had bought the duck. it was rightfully his own. He therefore divided the sum betttreen the two suitors for hie t wo eldest. daughters. The merchant, after some days, discov ered his loss of the three hundred ducats, and went to the shoemakei . to demand his moneyCillich was refused. The cause came before the magistrate, who was a pi on' man, and heard with indignation, how cruelty the poor man had been ridiculed a. bout his religion. Hie sentence was that Gireldi should keep the money and that the merchant and the Jew should besides pay a fine for their usurious dealings. of one hun dred and fifty ducats, to be given u s dow- ry for the shoemaker's youngest daughter. The meaning of this legend le o that a be neficent Providence watches veer.. and takes care of the poor who are honest. re• ileum and truthful. The tradifirin rune that since that time St.' Nicholas pays a visit, every Christmas night. to sli whOrti he thinks worthy of ' his fainty.' Re is known snootier by the name-- . -Satits Olaus.-ritteto York Express • ' THE TWENTY-THIRD RUDE ON ,AllB-, TRIAN RAILROADS. ' Within all the Austrian Railway cars are displayed, little red, dsgs,, vrhieh have been invented by the truly' paternal pru denoe of the directors of the roads., A no. Lice put up M the oars explainp Cho -use of them; they are toile displayed h i s tray:Alas in ease of any accident; the train will stop in consequence, and, help will , be randefed. But the notice in question tidies care 'to give warning against any abuses, of these pretty red flags.,Whoever, it, adds, dis plays them unnecessarily, shallhe punished Recording to the prescription of the 28d article of the regulations. , What is this punishment ? What are the provisions of this 28d article? Tile notice does not toll, and , this question pus sled two Englishmen who had just been reading it. ii,Parbleu." said ono of them, "there is a very simple way of finding out. " What is that I" "Let us display the Hag at a venture, and atop the train;" No sooner said than done. Our Eng• Boatmen put out, and laughed al they did it, the signal of distress. The train was stopped; the people came running and wilted "what accident bad happened 7" "Oh nothing is the matter," said the Englishmen, •ewe wanted to know what the 23d article is." 'Oh, very well, you shall be satisfied. In the first place,' be so, good as each of you pay ten thalern "Here It is," said the Englishmen. with the Most perfect stoicism. "Well now get out of the car:" "Here we' ins on the ground." "All right] Now stay, there till we have - the pleasure of meeting again." And the train went Oat full steam in the face of the sheepish Englishmen. This was the 234 article. —Co:drier' 4es Lieu ed from the following narrative, forwarded fret° Rangoon to s' Calcutta contemporary tect -.411T-Llnt**—.ll.oneu-esitt.LAectuantittrrtr e istahrle e r ti l vt 'Miner, in her "Second Journey, round two ale n titheb, tone entertainment by one the world, ' glen the folio wing demerit). ' q f r iebem. .subjecto, on a very grand don of certain unexplainable leant Of jot' Wale. •The king at once accepted, though glery witnceand by her while sojourning it isnt' not in accordance with national ens. through the East Indies; tom for his 'Majesty of Bankok to accept "Ai the close of the entertainment, the ItcptsPitality ht the hands of any subject; performance of Herottles watt' really cur-.yet the grand scale of the preparations in• ions in , its •way. He appeared with nosh ' - dticed hint to commit, on this occasion, 'a ing on but a pair of drawers, and a card 'breech of royal etiquette. The king's broth - was passed around hie neck, end with er, t howevet, hid his stispictona about this this hie hands and arms were 8 ° firmly gra4d entertaiement, and advised the king tied behind him that he could dot make' not to go, feeling dertain that it was in tend the emalleat movement. He came to lis e d to du some grit:wow bedily harm to him. to haws the knots exatnineil, and then he • The king, having accepted, did not like to erect under a high covered basket, beneath betray the symptoms of di.ttrust, perhaps which vario u s garments;were Placed t acd without'enuse; so he molded on an expe after the lapse of a few minutes, the hag' (ilea, which was to send, dresaed iu his ket was lifted up, and the Hereuted made usual court'attire, which might be presumed, his appearance completely clothed lA' 118 017110Tibed for sunh an oceasion, would be them• Then lie crept again tinder the en b u lk y and extensive as to grea tly tenet ai basket and came out walnut thelt, but hoi. l t h e Ferson,.,t courier who' very molt resent. ding the cord with all ita knots fast in hos bl e d t h e m eg i n h e i g h t , fi gure an d f ace. _ hand~, &C. All this would, of Bourse,'! Th e h oor fi xed f or t h e 'd og to go to the as. have been nothing in A Ikea " , Wherd ae - sembly was about midnight ; the pseudo /limonite might have been giveit him. but' king accordingly, followed by the regal re this was in a meadow , where no miners and men of thdeourt, arrived at that Lance watt , possible. One •of the 'gentle- r hoar, and du at once conducted to u throne men present offered him twentY.five ru- prepared for Ids majesty. No sooner had peer for his mystery, but he , declined he boated himself than the whole affair blew offer."destroying the man who hid beeu en up, CARRIER. A DsPLORABLZ PlOtCralt OF NICARAGUA... It is stated that immediately after the sur prise of Granada...the city was plundered; its inhabitants were insulted, and many of - , them were arrested and imprieinied, _Doe of these, Don Chamorro, was' convened' to see the sack of hispoine, his , fair young wife in the power of Inereileia freebooters, who cut, her lihge ra to take off her rings, and subjected her to other outrages. 'rho unhappy husband was thrown into'prition, and threatened to be shot at every moment,' and his wife at last died of her suffering.,." This is, indeed, a larrientable pinnsre of the conduct of the lillibusteros, and if 'rot test, the miscreants who were engaged lit such inhuman crueltiei, • deserve the exe crations of eivilized•inankindt the stale. merit Is made on the , authority °ln corres pondent of the New:York Tribune- If eu , theistic in alt the details we cannot Won der at the determination on the part of the natives ofVentral America, to resist and pursue even unto death, the authors' 'of such atrooities: , A How' art Remo. 'The Petersburg Ex. press. says 4•Our a ttention eas called t yesterday..to an old negro man; in that section of the city Called ..Liberia." 'od'heronnt of its free'colored'popnlation, who' hes now .et tabled the age of 180 years. He le known to the whole neigliorhood ea ...Uncle Sam Pryor," andianow aupported by the Run. field Cltbrch congregation. Although weighed ,down under the' heavy pressure of years!, he retains some of the viva• city of former years, and throes out a jar treserft now and o then, With a force that tells of ati experienced life and some ob. emotion of human nature. Uncle Sam has'passed through the hands of seventeen masters, and remembers well some of the incidents of the revolution and many of the circuinmances that preceded it." GEN. rax.rsusai-7A Cumuli FACT. —lN,e copy the following from the New Orleans Picayune of the filth met. t .6We were yesterday credibly informed, by a gentleman whirresides near the spot, that in September last. the well•known pecan tree, under which the remains of Pakenbam were buried, a few miles below this city, was broken off, thirty feet above ground, by a gale of wind, and a cannon ball, fired Irom the British lines during the battle. was loupd imbedded just where the trunk broke off. "Thus it was that the brave Briton slept undet oue of his own missiles as his moaumeat I". Duel in ProSpo.t.—Tbe - tumor that'Hon. I H. Stephens. of Georgia, had , thallting-; ed 13. H. Hill, gag. one, of the.; rilinsure I Electors of that State. has been current some j days. A, card from Mr. Stephens appears ' in the Augusta (fh.) Constitatirmalist of d Wednesday' dated Waahingten, 12th inst., which con firms the report In 'finch direct ; language as to leave no doubt of his own ; intentions,' Prom this card it seems the difficulty arose upon a question of veracity in , regard to an 'engagement to discuss the' issues of the recent election contest. Inj addition to the , ill.feeling thus generated, Mr. Stephens alleges that Mr. Hill made; certain false statements of the purport of speeches delivered during the campaign, wherein hlm;iclf and Mr. Toombs are repro. aeisted as having "cowered" under a charge of imam to the Whig party. These mat ters Mr. Stephens notices, and says : 1 im now compelled by a sense' of duty tktuyelf and the,public, to make known that by' the correspondence referred to and just 'terminated,•in relation to it, Mr. Hill has proved himself to n 4.19 be not only en impudent brig;gart and an 'unacrtipulous liar, but ll:despicable poltroon besides. All 016°,1 proclaim hitil to be, holding myself, notwithstanding what has paisedi und . this 'denunciation ? still responsible even to for whati '.3y; whet be net utterly sable to shame and dcgradatide, however Lin may be as to "fear: ' ; • ' The card of Mr. Stophentr - conoludes in I this unequivocal manner t ' • - I I will'alsO; I 'trust, be excised even .by. the the most fioidions ' for the - language now I used toner towards hint, Which my own- self re. spelt on ordinary oesiasions - wOuld forbid.— But when a mentlaofouS gasconader •setir up wantonly to asperse pnvam"oharaeter and malign individual reputation, and then 're: fusee that redress which irgontlettsan'kirwe how' to 'ask; as 4rell',lni •bow to giant, ne cellist, is left for the Moist cottitemis'and•dno. 'in:ous, the Most 'upright and honorable, but to put the brand Ofitifunty upon' him..: Attempt= of 'al King's kife.-+-The news that an attetnpt has been 'made to •destroy 1" ' b the prec_po __ -Kmg _ B.tam8 .tam as-roao eU4 , by way orthaceects...The fats will be leer- fortunate enough to be' like the king and seven other • persons who stood near the thrOne, Thus was tbe king of Siem's ifo saved by tbe-sagueity of bit. brother i and a valusble life is his, for bp is a very enlighi ened , man for an Asiatic, aud ean write a 'otter bitaielf in English." , • A. Just amtptinierd.—Ttre Liverpool Times, with leaf prettnosioas than its Lou don naafi:stake,. utideratauda American poii. tics and the Antericaa character much better. Commenting on our late Presidential elec. two, it, thus pays us a complimbut which no other 'people yet merit ; • , , "it:is amusing itow aeon party spirit, carried to a.verge of excess. anbsides in the United States when the will of the sever; eign , people becomes known.. Thawinority bow withinstinctive respect to that numer ical preponderance which it is the genius of the American'-Constitution to represent.— However Sense the struggle, however super buena'•the efforts which hitve beau made to secure victory, the belligerenta, when the battle ts'over, lay down their anus without , forfeiting each other's ,respect. It re quires a long course of edueational irain mg in prat:tient freedom to obtain this control, but it is possessed by the tnericaus to an extent unknown iu any other country, where free institutions exist; *DC tlie solution of the enigma must be looked' for iu the fact that every wan (mks himself an atom iu the great total--the equal of the foremost in the land i and tato sett-respect so 4,•enerated pays to the State the. homage -of an ungrudging submission. Men deserve to ho free who can make such sacrifices for individual opinion, and yet yield, with patriotic philosophy,to the coureo of events which they cannot control. The UttiOn stands in • little danger of disruption while this' noble sentiment animates the • breasts of American citizens. Sinyaktr Coincidesee.—At 'a flees/ma. keel in New York, three ladies happened to meetoaoh of wheat came with the intention of procuring bridal attire. As they were personally acquainted it was natural to iv veal the solemn fact that they were all en gaged to be maniod. After ecrqsaltation further, they ascertained that they were en gaged to out man whose acquaintance they had made through his adverciseateoug for a wife. It is unneoessary to add that the en gagements were broken off—the scamp hay ing loft for Europe alter obtaining all their available fuacle..-priae to the deumeweat. TWO DOLIARS:PER,ANtiIIni. NUMBER' ~ B orribk Stor,y;— . The New :Yid *jaw pendent of the Philadelphia Inquire '' It Will. be iremembered•thet the fettOor• potation • Attorney, , ; Goren:so. id. Shepard, Esq l was mime three ,incriittni found i dead n his room, e fter higtie previous in goad heath. The pilgrims re. potted , the cause of his death to brytengas• Lion of the heart, and the peroner'l jury re• turned a verdict in atomism:le therewith. The body of Mr. Shepard was pla t eed in a receiving vault, prepsratety' to its final in• torment in the family tourist ironed. A few day@ age Mrs. Shepard ordered tle re. mains of her deceased hushand to be.taken from the vault, but tim,O employed for the purpose wore horrOr-struck on finding the body removed several feet' from the 'coine r the shroud torn into shreds, Aoll imvered with blood, giving the impreasion Abet Mr. Shepard had , only been lying in a trance, end,tiad recovered after befog platted in the vault, This seems' elnibist too' horrible, for belief, and I understand • that a. relation of Mr. Shepard denies the tied' of, the report, and wens that such opuld nothave begirt the ease, from the feet that 'the' body was peeked in ice far over two days previous to its being placed in the vault. , On the other hand, there are those who contend that Mr. Shepard was not dead at the time, or placing his body into, the, vault,and that certain foots are in possession of the &inky which, go to show the truth of their assertions. A Deplorable Picture of Niearagste.-.- It is stated that imanediautly after th'e sot prise of Granada, "the city was plundered, its inhsbitauts were insulted, and ,many of them wore arrested and imprisoned. One of these, Don Chauiorro, was compelled to see the sack of his home, his fair .young wife in the power of meroiless freebooters, who ent,her fingers to take off her' rings, and imbjeited her to other outrages. The unhappy hneband was thrown .into prison, and threatened to be shot at every moment, nod his wife et last died of her • sufferings." This is, indeed, rt lamentable picture of the comluet of the fillibusters, attd; correct, I the misetennts who were engaged in snob inbumtin cruelties deserve the execrations of civilized mankind.,' The statement is made on the authority of a corresiondent of the New York Tribune. Let 'us hope, for tke lake of iustioe had huniaoity, , _iliat. it itrexaggeramff, - --= "Iv hrtinlreici. . Thrilling lacidenpr.A. ' few ,days ago Mn,s Suydorn, of ()rattily, N ew I'ork, hear ing a shriek from the well,'clietiovitted her little bny sinking in the irater,'eightben feet below the ground. She immediately sent) for assistance, but before it eame.deseended into the well, wheree.he caught the,drown• ing child by the arm, and held him out of the water. Another child, fear and a half years old, went into the house, emptied the water out of the pail, hooked it on the pole and lowered it into the well. Thiaproving of no use the mother thought she must either drop the child or drown herself; bUt mak ing a desperate effort she climbed up the slippery stones and raised him over head, when b ranky, lyiug down on the platfurtu, caught his' little brother by the arm, and cried out, 'rye got bite, nut; I've gut him!' The child and mother Were-saved. • Missouri Up.- 7 The prestt of. AlM toed mato that newt, front every direction betokens its rapid settlement. The Liber ty Tribune says : • ' "The public lands in this district are nearly all gone. We are informed that there are not exceedinglso,ooo acres vacant. During the month of November 280,000 acres wore entered. It is true'much of this quantity was entered , by speculators, but notwithstanding the country is settling up with unprecedented rapidity, and , in five years the country that was nearly half va cant in, 1850 will he the richest and most densely poptilated in this Stine." • • , Camels' Slo Indiana of Texas certainly must be the most daring:and the moat accomplished rogues •in the, world.— They mcal horses, cattle, grain And provi oleos from the whites. Scarcely a mail ar rives from that State that , doei not bring agoountir of some' bold thieving operatinns by the red rascals., But their lent exploit in this Hue of business, throws, everything glee into the shade. On theday of clectiott at San Antonio they 'stole two camels from the United States headquarters' 'near that plate Tho linpudent scamps,' no doubt, want to anticipate. theta Sane in experi• mention on the adsptation ,of ttbesets to the Texas wilderness. A. Righteous one of the ward court,' in. New, York, last . week, a suit was brought for a yeses rent of a house, which the ta'naut abdicated' at' tfie end of otm quarter, tendering the 'proportion of rent for dust period,. which the , landlord ros fused to accept; and appealeAdn dne time to the law. The 4eloodant proved , that it was an infe4ted with rats, mice, and eieky iy of smaller verniins, that it ants tiniehab itable;if habitation implies:cesoffitt. The jury awarded to the landlord only the rent of the quarter during witiolt,the tenant hal endured the nuisance. , Nisrroto Esaspe.—On Thursday last some arsenic, which had been purchased for poi.. Boning rata ' , was Miked, :through mistake, ith flour in preparing biionit for the faor. Hy of Mr. Joseph . floggot. bookseller, is Buffalo, K. Y. Mr. IL wed several !mem bora of the family were takedifiolestly bui bjf piocopt treatthertt drily wliiiioovered. Premonition e/ EsiL*the sisplew fed is stated . that at Stillwater Nimmosse Res.. A. G. Nelson,: Mettsiek.sekeketstb. broke down inbis Sunday Ssi,Niesswrou, and was 90 0019r0UPtilii bvtie erameoosate- Me and awtwirrd dilesires; %bit' sloug*' My dismissed his amiretilliOP, ras bow, and Arrived, there juet4w war* $ Mn his house from ditanoilie . by Ares, ithieh was well under way. • oirA. 'rota Ohl*, loofa riao bt • voteuvrery,. Pip; • " ff. 0 64 rifignil
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