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. -
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