VOL. 5.-W. 32. BY S. B. EOW. CLEAEFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1859. WOMAN. The imila that plays on woman') cheek, The sigh which breaks no rest. Though bright or sad, but ill bespeak The feelings of her breast. They in ay some anxious thought impart, But those who've most relied, Know not the love of woman's heart Until that heart be tried. There may in her uncertain smile, Some token be of grief Some impulse-which may, for awhile, In sorrow seek relief. But those who most hare watched the past. Portrayed by hope or pride. Know least the love of woman's heart, Until that heart be tried ! THE BBOKEIT-HEAKTED: OS, CBIMK ITS OWN AVENGER. Recently a letter was published in tome of the newspapers, in which Harlow Case, the de faulting collector of Sandusky, Ohio, announc ed the decease of the unhappy woman who had accompanied his flight, and implored the forgiveness of her husband. Under the title given above, a missionary correspondent of the Boston Watchman $ Rtfiector, describes an interview with the puilty pair, which took place shortly before death hurried away the mother and the child whom she had made the companion of her wanderings. The subject is a paiuful one, but the writer describes so feelingly and truthfully the self-inflicted mis ery of Case and his partner in guilt, that we reproduce bis narrative : 'What though the spicy breeies, Iilow soft o'er Ceylon's Isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile." Curiously enough, I was just repeating this stanza, when my new acquaintance called far mo. I had met him while on a business visit to Ceylon, as a countryman of mine, and was pleased with the opportunity that afforded me a more intimate personal knowledge. I thought myself fortunate i i failing in with ao agreeable a gentleman, and considered his iaco and manners peculiarly refined. On our second meeting I noticed a singular restless ness of the handsome dark eyes, an irritable bitterness of the lips, and a disposition to be constantly on the move, shown in the tapping of a light, bamboo cane, or the motion of foot or hand. These things, however, did not strike me as singular at the time, but coupled with what I afterwards learned, were certain evidence, that the man felt already the gnawings of the worm that never dies. One forenoon we left the little seaport town where I was sojourning, and rode a short dis tance into the interior of the gorgeous Island. Most glorious were the surroundings on every hand. - With a prodigality quite undreamed of tr the inhabitants of a colder clime, nature had showered her most exquisite floral gifts very where. Trees loaded with sweet-smell-ing flowers, their intense colors vieing with the foliage of richer green, fioni out which they smiled ; tall cactus plants, with crimson, goblet-shaped blossoms; Tillies, gorgeous in the queenly unfolding of form and color ev erything rich, lavish, wonderful, met our yes, feasted to fullness with this tropical lux uriance. "That is my house," said my new friend, pointing to a low-roofed cottage, surrounded ly a wide verandah, from whose clinging vines tweet odors were flung upon the soft atmo sphere but from the moment the words were uttered his geniality departed. Within the cottage enclosure were walks, bowers and fountains. Chaste statuary was dispersed over the grounds with most charm ing effect. The house seemed almost a fairy structure, rising in the midst of flowers and foliage. And the man who sat beside me, whose smile mounted no higher than his lips the dreamy, far-looking discontent in his eye growing every moment more perceptible was the owner of this Eden-like home. We were met on the threshold by a lovely child of some eleven summers. Her hair hung in curls. Her eyes were particularly lustrous, yet mournful In beauty, and on the yonng brow I seemed to see a something a shadow of sadness an anchildlike quiet, as she greet ed my new friend. Dressed in pure white, she glided in before lis, and to her was left the duty of entertain ing me; while Mr. C, excusing himself in the remark that sickness necessarily called him away for a half hour or so, left the room. "Is yonr mother very unwell ?" I asked of the little girl,- who, with those shadow-filled eyes of her, was regarding me gently but at tentively. "Yet, sir, mamma has been sick a long time," replied she, dropping her eyes, while her lips trembled. 'Did you come from America ?" she asked, timidly, after a long silence. "Yes, my dear. Do you know anything of that country ?" I returned, growing more and more pleased with her expressive face. "Only that mamma came from there, and I think," she added, hesitatingly, "that I did. But Mr. C. will never let me talk about it. "Are you not then the little daughter of Mr. C. V I asked somewhat astonished. "I am my mother's daughter, answered the child, with a grave dignity in one so young and a minute after she arose aDd quietly left the room. . , I sat watching her white robes flitting thro the long shady walk opposite my window, and knew that the child brooded over some dark sorrow, for her eyes were filled with tears. Why was it, 1 thought, that painful thoughts took possession of me as I sat there ? It seemed as if I were sojourning in an enchanted spot, and that some horror was suddenly to break upon me. , ' At my side, nearly covering a beautiful ta ble of letter-wood, were several costly gift books. I took tbem up carefully, for I have a reverence lor books and turning to the fly leaf of a splendidly bound copy of Shakspeare, "To Mary Frances F , from ber devoted husband, Honry E. F ." . A thrill of snrpriso and anguish ran from vein to vein. My thoughts seemed paralyzed. The truth had burst upon me with such sud denness that the blood rushed with a shock to toy heart. I knew Henry E. F ; bad known him inti mately for years. lie was a friend, toward whom all my sympathies had been drawn, for be had seen such sorrow as makes the heart grow old before its time. Hi wife, whom be loved, had deserted him. She had taken with ber his only child. She had desolated a household ; and forgetting uuuor, suame, everymmg mat pertains to vir tue and to God, bad fled from the country with the man whose arts had won her wanton love How could I remain under the roof that now seemed accursed J How sneet the destroyer of virtue the fiend who had reveled in such a conquest ? I could only think of the evil they had done ; not what they might suffer through the tor tures of remorse. It was some time before the seducer came into the room where I still sat with the child, determined to meet him once more before I left the house. Oh ! how guilty ! how heart-stricken his ap pearance! Kemcrse sat upon his forehead looked out from bis eyes spoke when be was silent. "Will you come to dinner?" he asked. I hesitated. Should I partake of At hospi tality; the hospitality of one of those fiends in human shape whose steps take hold on hell ? I knew his guilt why delay to declare it? Why not at once, in burning words, upbraid him for his villainy, and flee as from a pesti lence bis sincursed house ? The man noticed my hesitation. He could not, of course, in terpret its cause. As he repeated bis request, the look of distress upon his face excited a feeling of pity, which, for the moment, slight ly disarmed my resentment, and, under the influence of this feeling, almost unconscious ly I passed into the dining room. "I am sorry little Nelly's mamma' (I was glad he did not dare to use the sacred name of wife) "is not able to sit down with us," he said. "It is many months since we have had ber presence at our meals. She is suffering from the effects of slow fever, induced by the climate," he added, gravely, as be motioned mo a seat before him. The table glittered with silver-plate. Obe dient servant broughts on the most costly ser vers, delicacies such as I had never seen be fore. But, the skeleton sat at the feast ! 1 could not talk, save in raonosylables. My host ate hastily almost carelessly waiting upon me with many abrupt starts and apolo gies. Wine came. He drank freely. Soon he sent the little girl and the servant from the room, and he seemed to nerve himself to con versation. "You are from- city, I believe," ho said nervously. I answered an affirmative. "Did you ever know a gentleman there by the name of H. E. F ?" "I knew him, sir," I said f ternly, looking the man sternly in the face, "and I know him also as a ruined, heart-broken man." With an ejaculation of anguish, he put his handkerchief to bis eyes. It would have seemed hypocritical, but the suffering on his face was unmistakable. "Perhaps you have suspected, then" he began, in a quivering voice. Not calm I v, but with the words or an accu ser, 1 told him what I had seen, and thought, and felt. "Sir," said he, in tones which I shall never forget, "if I have sinned, God in Heaven knows that I have suffered ; and if in F.'s bereavement ho has eursed me, that curse is fearfully fulfilled ! Poor Mary is dying has been dying for months, and I have known it. It has been for me, now, to see the failing step, the dimming eye ; it is for me to see the terrible struggles of her nearly worn-out frame ; it is for mc to listen to her language of remorse, that sometimos almost drives me mad. Yes, mad mud mad," h said in a frenzy, rising and crossing the floor with long hasty strides. Then, burying his face in his hands, he exclaimed : "Too late too late I have repented." There was a long puse, and he continued more calmly, "No human being can now restoie my poor companion. Her moral sensibilities become more and more a cute as she fails in strength, so that she re proaches herself constantly." A weary, mournful sigh broke from his lips, as if his heart would break. 'Oh ! if he knew," he excl.iimed again, "if he knew how bitter a penalty she is paying for the outrage she has committed upon him he would pity her and if it could be,forgive." 'Will you see her, sir " I shrank from the very thought. "She asked for you, sir; do not deny l.er request. Hearing that you came from Ameri ca, she entreated me to bring you to her. I promised that I would." "I will go, then." Up the cool, wide, matted stairs, he led me into a chamber oriental in its beautiful furnish ing, its chaste magnificence. There, half reclining, in a wide, easy chair a costly shawl of lace thrown over her at tenuated shoulders ; the rich dressing gown, clinging and hollowed to the ravages sickness had made sat one whose great beauty, and once gentlo gifts, had made the light and loveliness of a sacred home. But now ! O pity ! pity ! The eyes only retained their lustre ; they were wofully sunken. The blazing fire kin dled at the vitals, burned upon her sharpened cheeks, burned more fiercely, more hotly as she looked upon my face. I could think no more of anger I could only say to myself: "Oh ! how sorry I am for you .'" She knew, probably, by her husband's man ner, that I was aware of their circumstances. Her first question was : "Are you going back to America, sir ?" The hollow voice startled me. I seemed to aee an open sepulchre. I told her it was not my intention to return at present. "Oh! then, who will take my little child back to her father?" she cried, the tears fal ling. "I am dying, and she must go back to him It is the only reparation I can make and little enough, for the bitter wrong I have done them." ' , . I hoped, sir, you might see him," she ad ded a moment after, checking ber sobs ; "I hoped you might tell him that his image is before me from morning till night.as I knew he must have looked when the first shock came. Oh, sir tell him my story warn, oh, warn everybody. Tell bim I have suffered through the long, long hours, these many weary years; ah, God only knows how deeply." "Mary, you must control your feelings," said my host, gently. "Let me talk while I may," was the answer. "Let me say that since the day I left my home, I have not seen a single hour of happi ness: It was always to. come-always just "bTaI-Dd here is what ha , come-the grave ?, opening, and I must go to judgment. Ob, how bitterly have I paid for my sin. Forgive me O my God forgive." it was a solemn hour, that which I spent by that dying penitent. Prayer she listened to she did not seem to join or, if she did, she gave no outward sign. Remorse had worn away all her beauty, even more than illness. She looked to the future with a despairing kind of hope, and with but feeble faith. Reader, the misguided woman of Ceylon lies beneath the stately branches of the palm tree. Her sweet child never met ber father in her native land. She sleeps under the troubled waters of the great wide sea. Wbero the betrayer wanders I cannot tell, but where ever it is, there is no peace for him. How often rings that hollow voice in my ear "Tell bim my story ! Warn, oh, warn everybody." SOMETHING USEFUL ABOUT CLAY. Of the various substances on the face of the earth few, if any, are so generally useful to man as clay. It is more than probable that the first substance which man began to fashion, to shape, or mold, was clay. The inspired wri ters repeatedly use the word clay in a figura tive sense in reference to the shaping of the body. "Thou hast made me as the clay ; your bodies are as bodies of clay," (Job x, 9 ; xn, 12). Whether the clay was burned as bricks, or not, cannot bo positively decided ; but ref erence is directly made to "them that dwell in bouses of clay" at that time. More than 1500 years b. c. "the potter's power over clay" was perfectly familiar; so that by analogy we may fairly reason that the clay for houses may have been hardened by fire. As far as we can ascertain, pottery is one of the most ancient of arts. Man having obtained "power over the clay," he began to get power over the metals. This early adaptation of clay to do mestic wants arose from the intrinsic merits of the clay itself. Its property to harden from mere exposure to the air and sun, was quite enough to render it serviceable ; but when it was ascertained that fire turned it into a more durable material than stone, it gave of course great impetus to its workers. The potter's wheel or tool for fashioning clay is the same now that was used three thousand years ago. Clay is not only useful in pottery, but is ap plied in many of the arts, such as dyeing, where alum (a compound of clay) is exten sively used for fixing colors, in preparing lea ther, and many other arts and manufactures. "But what is clay ?" many will ask ; and the Iaboratorian chemist replies "It is the rust ol a beautiful metal." Not many years ago all the fashionable world of London flocked to Al bermarlc Street to see young Humphrey Davy produce metals from earth. Prior to this all earths, clays in particular, were considered primitive and unchangeable bodies; bis ge nius, however, penetrated these mysteries, and the result was that we now know that all ear thy bodies are but mctalic rusts of ono kind and another. Sir Humphrey Davy merely showed the world that the earthy bodies were of mctalic origin. M. Derille. of Paris, un der the patronage of the present Emperor, has scperated the uietalic base of clay to such an extent that it is now an article of commerce. Aluminium is now used for jewelry, especially bracelets, pins, and combs ; in cabinet-making it is excellent for inlaid work ; its lightness renders it extremely convenient for pencil holders, thimbles, seals, small statues, medal lions, vases and the like ; for spectacles also, as it does not blacken the skin like silver. But one of its most useful applications con sists in usinz it for reflectors of gas lamps. since it resists the effects of sulphurous ema nations, which silver and brass do not. The chemical name of clay is alumina, and the metal obtained from it aluminium. Most met als are characteristic of being very heavy ; but aluminium is remarkably light ; and tho' it has a silvery white mctalic lustre, yet snch is its lightness, that one can scarcely believe it to be metal; but it nssuredly is so. Beau, t if n I spoons and forks are made with it, and at no distant period it will become as common as zinc, though of more value. If chemistry deserves well of us, it is in this case. It has now taught us that the very walls of our hou ses and the tiles of their roofs teem with bril liant metal which we can turn to useful purpo ses. Some metals, such as iron, rust or be come earthy very rapidly ; but aluminium does not do so; yet it can be rusted, and the result is, that the earth clay is produced. All these facts prove that what was thought to tes tify figuratively tho value of clay by the wri ters of the Scriptures is now known to be truth in its real and intrinsic sense. Thus every ex periment in the laboratory tends to illustrate the sublime truth of every assertion in the Ho ly Volume. Within the outward earthy body of clay there is an effulgent metallic spirit. The Cause or Crime. The Grand Jury of Baltimore a couple weeks since made a report on crime and its causes in that city. They say that they have examined one hundred ca ses of what is called offences against the per son, consisting of murder, assault with intent to kill, and assault and battery, and find, wi th ou t-a solitary exception, that these cases have occurred while the parties were under the in fluence of liquor. They also say that three fourths of all other cases that have come be fore them may be traced to the same cause, and add, as their opinion, that as much of this evil may be attributed to the quality as to the quantity of the liquor used. They say the poisonous articles used in the adulteration maddens, while the spirit intoxicates, and its effects are as disastrous to the health as to the morals of those who use it. This system of adulteration has been carried so far that it would be difficult from the reports of chem ists who have investigated the subject, to find any description of pure alcoholic liquor. That portion which comes from abroad is a dulterated to the fullest extent of the con summate skill of the French chemist, only to bo re-adulterated here by fully as unscrupu lous but less skillful hands. . T - d 'r.m.i Thn Jewish Chronicle states that the remnants of a Jew ish coloDy have been found at Kai-fung-foo, China. A communication Is about to be o pened with these sons of Israel by their Brit- ih co-religionists, ana mey win uo K4 i send two vouths to England to receive a European education. They have been sepa rated from all intercourse with the remainder of their race for a penoa oi six ceumnts. - ii,. nmnr.ratic candidates for the UUV MW ' - . United States Senatorship in New Jersey, ltu said, remarked, "that the present was the high est pricedLegislature he ever had dealing with. CAUSES OF DIVOECE. More than thirty causes of divorce are re cognized by the statutes of the different States. In South Carolina not one has ever been ob tained. In Virginia there are three causes, namely : natural and Incurable impotency at the time of the marriage, idiocy and bigamy. In Alabama, adultery, or two years abandon ment. In Rhode Island impotency, adultery, extreme cruelty, willful desertion for the space of five years, continued drunkenness, neglect of the husband to provide necessaries for the subsistence of the wife, gross misbe havior and wickedness repugnant to the mar riage contract. In New Jersey divorce is granted for prior existing marriage, adultery, and willful absence lor live years. In Ver mont for non-age, mental incapability, impo tency, force or fraud, adultery, confinement in the State Prison for three years or more, intolerable severity, willful desertion for three years, absence for seven years unheard of, and where the husband, being of ability, grossly and wantonly neglects to provide for his wife. In Maine, for adultery, impotency, desertion for five years, joining the Shakers for five years, confinement in the State Prison of any one of the United States for five years, fraud in obtaining the consent of the other party, habitual drunkenness for three years ; a mar riage with an Indian or mulatto is void ; and imprisonment for felony in tho State, works a divorce without any judicial proceeding. In Kentucky for habitual drunkenness, condem nation for felony, cruelty of the husband, and for several other causes which we forbear to mention. In Illinois, for impotence, adultery willful desertion for two years, extreme cruel ty, habitual drunkenness for two years. In Missouri, for adultery, willful desertion for two years, conviction of an infamous crime, habitual drunkenness tor two years, cruel treatment endangering life, intolerable indig nities, vagrancy of the husband. In Iowa the same Cannes exist as in Missouri, to which is super added, "when the parties cannot live in peace and happiness, and' their welfare re quires a separation.' The law of Arkansas is the same as in Mis souri, except that one year's absence is suffi cient to free the abandoned party from the bonds of marriage. In Tennessee and Missis sippi the law is nearly similar ; while in Flori da, to like enactments are added habitual indulgence of violent and ungovernable tem per for one year, or drunkenness or desertion for ono year. In North Carolina, Impotency, adultery, abandonment, turning the wife out of doors, cruelty or indignity on the part of the hus band, or any other just cause. In Texas impo tency, excess, or cruel treatment, or outrages, or desertion for three years ; the husband may have a divorce for the adultery of his wife, and the wife when the husband abandons her and lives in adultery. In Maryland the law is the same as in New York, except that aban donment and three years absence from the State is a cause for divorce. In Georgia the old English ecclesiastical law governs. In New Hampshire and Ohio similar laws to those those of Vermont prevail. Extreme cruelty and absence for three rears are causes of di vorce in Deli. ware, to which Pennsylvania has added intolerable indignities. Congress has never conferred the power to grant divorce upon the courts in the District of Columbia. PIKE'S PEAK GOLD MANIA. The steamer Nat. Holmes, bound from Pitts burgh to St. Louis, with 150 passengers, mostly emigrants to Pike's Peak, came into collision, with the David Gibson, on the Ohio river, opposite Aurora, Indiana, on the2th day of March, when both boats sunk, and the cabins floated off. Fifteen or twenty persons are supposed to have been lost on the Nat, Holmes. This ends the golden dream of one party of enthusiasts. Tho number of emigrants to Pike's Peak is immense this spring: Every railroad train that goes in the direction of the new gold neids takes hundreds of persons lor that destination. The fever has swept over the Western States like a torrent, and the excitement is rising rapidly in the East and it is believed by many, that before the summer is over the Pike's Peak region will contain from fifty to a bun dred thousand of a population. This may be the case if the mania does not die away by re ports adverse to the success of those who are already in the mines. That there is gold there, we do not doubt; but that it is sufficiently plenty to make mining remunerative, is anoth er matter. One thing is certain there are two sides to the picture. The bright side all have heard of. The following from the St. Joseph, Missouri, Gazette, of the 23d March, cives the other : 'Unfavorable fbox the Gold Mines. As we have frequently given assurances that the Gazette would give the latest, most reliable, and, iu fact, all the news from the Gold Mines, or elsewhere, it is proper that we should give some recent reports which have reached us We are informed that Mr. Talbot Fairleigh, brother of Win. G. Fairleigh, of the firm of Tootle & Fairleigh, of this city, bas just ar rived from Cherry Creek, whither he emi grated last fall, in October, or November, as noticed by us at the time, and where be spent the winter. We have not seen Mr. F. but are reliably informed that he says the mines won't pay, don't pay and have not paid. He is sur prised at the rush in that direction, and pre dicts the greatest amount of suffering among those who are going out so illy prepared, and especially among those going with hand carts. Mr. Jas. R. Campbell, of Holt county, has also written back to the Forest City Monitor; that the mines are not paying so far as bis observa tion goes, but thinks there may be discoveries made in the mountains which will prove rich. Mr. Win. Zook, of the same county, has also returned making a similar report. These are all young gentlemen of intelligence and res pectability. We have recently given some very encouraging news from the mines, and have always given the authority for these re ports. We now give this adverse news that those who read our paper may be in possession of all the information which bas been elicited. The reports are thus conflicting, as to the rich ness of the mines, but all concur that there is gold. there; the color is found everywhere. A few months will determine the matter." Otis Bollard, of Lowell, formerly an officer in the Boston Custom House, has testified, be fore the Liquor Investigating Committee, that he can make as good whisky as that which cornea from the State agency for three cents a gallop, and aa good port wine for twenty -five cents ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' " BOM AW CATHOLICS IN THE U. 8TATES. To many of our readers the condition of the Church of Rome in the United States may be an object of interest to others, of curiosity. Glancing over the Metropolitan Catholic Alma nack, of which the twenty-sixth annual volume was lately published by John Murphy & Co., of Baltimore, we were surprised at finding a great deal of information carefully compressed into a limited space information too, which may be accepted as authentic, for the Alma' nock is published with the direct sanction of the Catholic hierarchy in the United States. Commencing with these details we perceive bow this hierarchy is itself constituted. There are seven provinces Baltimore, Cincinnati, New Orleans, New York, Oregon, San Fran cisco, and St. Louis. These Provinces are subdivided in dioceses and Vicariates Apos tolic. Of the latter there are only two (East Florida and tho Indian Territory East of the Rocky-Mountains,) now occupied by Bishops in portions. Over each Province an Arch Bishop presides, who is also head of a diocese for example, Arch-Bishop Kenrick presides over the diocese of Baltimore. There are nine Bishops or coadjutors in the Province of Baltimore; eight in Cincinnati; six in New Orleans; nine in New York ; three In Oregon; two in San Francisco, and nine In St. Louis. The whole number of Catholic Arch-Bishops and Bishops in the United States is fifty. There are three dioceses in Pennsylvania: Erie, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Dr. Young is Bishop of Erie, a see established in 1853, comprising Mercer, Venango, Clarion, Jeffer son, Clearfield, Elk, M'Kean and Potter coun ties, and all that part of Pennsylvania north and west of them. Dr. Neumann is Bishop, and Dr. Wood Coadjutor Bishop, of the see of Philadelphia, established in 1809, compris ing all that part of Pennsylvania lying east of the western limit of Tioga, Centre, Mifllin, Juniata, Franklin and Fulton counties, and also the State of Delaware. Dr. O'Conner is Bishop of Pittsburgh, a see established in 1843, comprising Allegheny, Greene, Washington, Fayette, Beaver, Butler, Lawrence, Arm strong, Indiana,Westmoreland, Cambria, Blair, Somerset, Huntingdon and Bedford counties, in the State of Pennsylvania. The Catholic population of the diocese of Erie is set down at 19,000, with 1,000 baptisms in 1858. There is no note of the Catholic population of the diocese of Philadelphia, (which must be very great, but there were 13,452 baptisms in 1857; and the Catholic population of tho see of Pittsburgh is about 50,000. In the diocese of Philadelphia there are 285 priests and 153 churches and chapels. In 1774, there were nineteen priests in the United States, then British Colonies. In 1790 there was one Bishop and twenty priests in the United States. In 1800, there were two bishops and about fifty priests. In 180S, when Baltimore was made an Archbishopric, there were only 2 bishops, 98 priests, and 80 churches. There now are 43 dioceses, 45 bish ops, 2,108 priests, and 2,334 churches. The Catholic Almanack does not give any in formation as to the Catholic population of the United States. The Census Return of 1850, in its list of Church Accommodation in the United States, sets down the Catholic number at only 667,823, which certainly is much less than the reality. It is very difficult to arrive even at an approximation to the truth in this matter. The number of emigrants, (largely from Ireland,) who annually swell the Catho lic population of the United States, is very considerable. But It is impossible to say what, or about what, may be the whole number of Roman Catholics in this country. The Almanack, speaking of the American College at Rome, about which there was some discussion a few months ago, says that Pope Pius IX "has purchased a large and con venient house and church, lately occupied by the Nuns of Iho Visitation, and presented it to the Bishops of the United States for the education of ecclesiastical students from A- merica. To defray the expenses of fitting np this institution, and supplying it with the men and means of success, contributions are now solicited from the Catholics of the United States." To the Institution for the Propogation of the Faith, (located in Rome,) the dioceses of the United States contributed lb4,U42 irancs in the year 1S57. Of this New York gave 17,462 francs, Boston 7,490f., Louisville and New Orleans 4,500f. each, Charleston 4,064f., Baltimore 3,888f., Pittsburgh 3,850f., Phila delphia 3,036f., and other dioceses smaller a mounts. But, against 164,042f. thus contrib uted by the United States, is an amount of 541 423 francs allocated as Alms among the dif ferent Missions of the United States. Of this amount 18,000 francs were confided to Dr. O'Connor, Bishop of Pittsburgh. Not Exactly Level. A noble star, the other night, got qnite full of brandy and mu sic, in fact juicily so, and he had not got over it the next morning, when he was reported to the Mayor. "How is this ?" said the Mayor, 'not sober yet ?" "Sober," was the reply, as he straightened himself up with drunken dignity, "who aays I am not sober ?" "Why you can not walk a straight line, now," said the Mavor ; "there try and walk along that seam in the floor." Buttoning up his coat, with determination, he started to try it, but doubled over the line several times. At last he exclaimed "You know it ain't a fair shake the floor isn't level." Discussion with a.x Illustration. "Is the sense of smelling more pleasing than that of tasting " was the subject up before a western debating club in a bar room. Uncle Joe was the last to speak upon the negative, and all were anxious to hear him deliver himself. Walking op to the barkeeper fee called for hot whiskey punch, and drank it off with great gusto then turning to his oironent, he ban ded the empty glass to the leading disputant, and thundered out "row smell it, you var mint !" It is needless to add thaj Uncle Joe "brought down tha house," and also the de cision for the negative. a ii,..h ik. wnrrf "ovation" seems deriv- ed from" the Latin ovum, an egg. we hardly, suppose that a mob which pelts ft poor fellow with eggs can properly be said to give him an ovation. Mr. PuIIud coming home late. "Drettv full." flnrU the walking sliDDerv. . and exclaims : "V-ver-very sing'lar ; wh-wheneTer water feezes it alius fr-freezes with the sl-suppery Ida up ; dem'd singular." THE CULTIVATION OP C0KH. ., The question of applying, the usual domes tic or barn manures to corn in the hill at plant ing, or over the whole surface before that time, is one which we have not seen particu larly discussed in our agricultural journal, though often mentioned aa practiced, ox.tic versa, in accounts of the culture of thia grain. From observation on this point, we conclude it is more common in New Hampshire than elsewhere, where indeed it was learned from the aboriginal corn-growers. We have here tofore, from results in our own experience, recommended manuring in the hill, in addi tion to a good dressing over the whole field, as productive of an essential improvement in the crop giving an earlier and stronger start, which advance it keeps through the whole period of growth. Some experience in corn growing, compar ing hill manuring with its application over the) whole surface, are given by Mr. Baker of Oak. Hill, in a recent A. E. Farmer and thinking it will interest, we condense the same for our readers. Five plots of an acre each, were planted the last of May. On the first, twenty loads of long manure were spread and plowed under, eight inches deep. On the second, ten loads of fine barn-yard manure were spread on the surface after plowing, and thoroughly, harrowed before marking. The third acre was manured in the hills two quarts of very fine stable manure to each. The fourth re ceived in the hill, one quart ot compost two parts mock, two parts hog mannre, and one part each of lime and ashes. The fifth acre, ror the purpose of comparison, received no manure. The kind of corn planted was the yellow smut or red blaze, the kernel of which is large aud flat, and the ear good size. Ma king no account of the soft corn, it produced as follows : No. 1, 84 bushels of corn ; No. 2, 90 bushels ; No. 3, 93 bushels ; No. 4. 96 bushels ; No. 5, G8 bushels. Frcra these re sults, he concludes that for present profit, manuring in the hill is the best, and decom posed barn manure harrowed in, produces more effect than green dung plowed under at least on the first crop. Most commercial manures, as guano, super phosphates, poudrette, etc., have been appli ed in the hill exclusively ,so we have no means of comparison of the effect of the same broad cast. Of fertilizers of domestic productiorv hen manure has more generally been applied in the hill for corn than any other material.' It is plentiful, of a concentrated character," and readily prepared and applied, while there . can be no question as to the profit arising from its judicious use. As hinted before,, this manure and others of like character, give the young shoots an early and vigorous start, ' and enable it the sooner to strengthen itself," by extending its roots to more distant stores of food. The effect of manuring in the hill exclusive- , ly, would seem to be less calculated to benefit the Dext crop than, if applied over 'the whole ground, though the active or thoroughly de composed character of the fertilizers thus us ed would leave little benefit to be expected the second year. But we leave the question with our readers, simply remarking that while we would commend plentiful broadcast manur ing in all cases, we would also advise the ftp plication of some concentrated fertilizer in the hill, believing it will in all cases prove profitable by forwarding and increasing the crop. Indian corn cannot well be surfeited by high breeding and above most grains, nes and repays a plentiful supply. Country Gen tleman . The Last Roxakce. Quite a romance In real life, says the Detroit Advertiser, was brought to a happy termination in that city pa the 9th inst. Seventeen years ago, a New York lass, lovely and sweet sixteen, became enamored of a medical student,, and the-pair exchanged vows of love and eternal fidelity. Two years later the unfledged Esculapiua left for Europe to complete his. education, the a foresaid rows having been previously tenderly renewed. After a brief and gay sojourn at Paris, the loving student domiciled himself in one of the most renowned colleges of Madrid, and applied himself to sober study, n is jet-, ters to the fair damsel be loved were freqAest but no fond remeroberances came in reply, nis epistles were intercepted and never reach ed the fair one, while ber words of love, in tended for his delectation, met with the same misfortune. The poor student, thwarted in his love, threw up his studies, and for two long years coursed through Europe, seeking to whelm his disappointment in,' the gaieties and pleasures of the different 'capitals. In the meantime, the young lady, who was equal ly unhappy, removed to Detroit with her mother. At the end of bis two years' pilgrim age, the student returned to America, but the idol of his heart bad left the scene of her be trothal, and almost broken hearted he turned his steps to Cuba; but the spirit of unrest pur sued him, and, Texas and Mexico beheld bim still a rover, seeking to drown memory by ex citement. A few months since, "by one of those singular occurrences - which ' sometimes flash across the pathway of life, he heard that the lady was in Michigan, and quickly wended his way thither. After a few weeks oT diligent search, the anxious lover found his Dulcioea at Ypsilanti, and the meeting which ensued tbe twain having been separated fifteen years is described as "affecting in the extreme. lbe tribulations of the now mature lovers were over, and on the 9th inst. they proceeded" to Detroit, and were united in tbe holy bonds of wedlock. Who says this is a prosiaie age 1 XI r -1 TT vrlAn lnrt hrr fnnr rhiMn Ala. iicwbv. - -j ?. were drowned on the 17th March, in attempt ing to cross Salt River, Rolls county, Miasou- J .. T i m Kut. 4 AW vc L' a tt nA 4Iia Atifv the woman's busband was mentioned. He died from congestion of the brain. cansad h an excessive fit of anger. We see ft reported that a Yankee soap ped lar was recently caught at sea during a violent storm, and saTed his life by taking a cake of his own soap and washing1, himself ashore. This soap was doubtless made of strong lie. "That's part of the sinking fund," as ft chap said when a box of money went to b bottom of the river. ' -- Shoemakers and milkmen make good sai lors they are both csed to working- at tho pumps." r . Two printing presses are about to bejitartfr! in tho gold rtgions;at Pik' Peak . J. - "V
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