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'THAT SAME 0 1.11 COON."
A Very Mournful F.lrRy. Dedicated lo the
Melancholy Wlilgs.
Tt.NK "Old Grimes."
The coon is (load that same old coon,
Ve ne'er shall see him more;
A long ftir coat of mottled grey,
I.pon his back he wore.
He used to roam about the States,
To barbecues and shows;
He had two ears upon his head,
And smellers on his nose.
At routs and meetings, day and night,
His aid was e"er iistore ;
lie sat sometimes upon a tree,
Sometimes beside the door.
Fnt death, which comes to all, at last
Came to this same old coon;
A mong Jersey blues he caught a cold,
And fell down in a swoon.
A penile bree.i from Maryland's shore,
Revived his hope awhile,
And they who watched him, say that o'er
His face there passed a smile.
The last that e'er lit up his eye
For from the Keyone, then,
A warning voice broke on his car,
And he smiled not again.
I'mt raising up his long thin face,
He whispered faint and low.
" Oh, bear me to my native land,
My native O-hi-o.''
lie spoke no more, but straightway fell
Into another swoon ;
So fearful were the boding thoughts,
That came to this old coon.
At length the broad Ohio passed,
'Neath an "October sky ;"
Under a spreading buckeye tree
They hid him down to die.
They conveyed him to the Empire State,
And round him raised their host,
But found that here we'd sealed his fate ;
He then "gave up his ghost."
Sadly around him closed his friends,
Nor gold nor art might save
And he who was so mighty once,
Now tills a raccoon's grave !
Mourn for the coon the same old coon !
His U iumjihs all are o'er
Mourn for the coon 'that same old coou,'
We ne'er shall see him more !
A tfr-ll inner Hoaxed.
Nome time since an advertisement appeared
in the Manchester (Kng.) (jtiardiun, setting
forth that the advertiser wad in want of a wife.
A gentlemen of Wukefield, conceiving that the
announcement emanated from some fortune-
hunter, took upon himself to write tothespcci
lied address, priter.ding lo be o lady of fortune,
who had ntvsr been iible to meet with a being
rf the male sex whom she could "promise to
love, honor and obey .;" averring that the man
v ho would be ublo to tunc her heart to love,
must be able to discourse eloquently 011 litera
ture, science, &c. The bait took, and a few
posts brought a letter bearing the Uverpool
post-mark, and aihlres.-ed "Miss Suphiu B , Post
Office, Wakefield." The writer, alter avowing
sympathy in the matter of literary taste, indulg
ing in 6om romantic tiourisi.es, and mention
ing beauty as inseerable in the lady, gives a
glowing description of hid own personal appear
ance. A correspondence ensued, carried on by
the assumed lady, in an apparently bona fide
spirit, and by the wife-hunter in a bombastic
and braggadncia style. The result was that an
interview was ap,ointed to take placoon Friday
afternoon, at Wakefield, and the gentleman pro
mised to appear in his usual dress, a suit of sa-
bles-or.thathcm.ghtbearamoreu.sling.nsl,- ' ,-o.her and mother, his brutUl! aui, si.,teT) to
ingsigu, he would wear a light vest, have ei- eomCBIul wUl,eMr avert his detection. But
ther a rose in his breast or a book ... his hand, mQ of hi-c lk,lw ull,jt.jp.ltL,8 hii ilv,ltC.
6,,d be accompanied by anoldlr.eud in the shape Swift wim ja
f Trio to his appointment the gentleman pre- a,,d tl,u ,,al!" "'' ll,e fuleJ " uU lu"
sei 1 ted hinise tat the idace ot meetinc. and oa- 1
. , r 1
raded the church yard for about twenty minutes, !
to the great amusement of a number of parties !
in the street, who hud posted themselves in the
windows of the neighboring shops aud hotels.
As the lady did not appear, he then, in ac
cordance with an arrangement previously made
went to tho i'ost-office, found a letter account
ing for her absence, and declaring that on the
follow ing morning she would meet him at all
risks. Although tho whole, correspondence
appeared that morning in tho Wakefield Jour
nal, the wife-hunting dupe again kept the ap
pointment, and after having been followed by a
crowd, who enjoyed the joke that had been play,
ed upon him, he found eul the trick, much to bis
discumfilurc. The gentleman ia a resident of
Liverpool. English paper.
Absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the
Ily Maascr & Klsoly.
NATl'ltAtj. BRIDGE.
The following graphic and thrilling sketch of
an incident which occurred some years since
at the Natural Bridge in Virginia, comprises a
passage in a lecture on Genius, delivered by the
celebrated Emiiu Birritt, the learned Black
smith, of Rhode Island :
"The scene opens with a view of the great
Natural Bridge in Virginia. There are three
or four lads standing in the channel below, look
ing up with awe to thai vast arch of unhewn
rocks, which the Almighty bridged over these
everlasting abutments 'when the morning stnrs
sang together.' Tho little piece of sky span
ning those measureless pier, is full of stars, al
though it is midday. It is almost five hundred
feet from where they stand,, up those perpen
dicular bulwarks of limestone, to the key rock
ol that vast arch, which appears to them only of
the sizo of a man's hand. The silence of death
is rendered more impulsive by the little stream
that falls from rock to rock down the channel,
The sun is darkened, and the boys have uncon
sciously uncovered their heads as if standing
in tho presence chamber of the Majesty of the
whole earth. At last, this feeling begins to
wear away; t hoy begin to look around them
They sec the name of hundreds cut in the lime
stone hutments. A new feeling comes over
their young hearts, anil their knives are in
h inds in an instant. 'What man has done, man
can do,' is their watchword, while they draw
themselves up and carve their names a foot a
bove those of a hundred full grown men who
had been there before them.
They are satisfied with this feat of physical
exertion, except one, whose example illustrates
perfectly the forgotten truth, that there is no
royal road to intellectual eminence. Tho am
bitious youth sees a name just ubove his reach,
a name that will be green in the memory of the
world, when those of Alexander, Caesar and
Bonaparte shall rot in oblivion. It was the
name of Washington. Before he marched with
Braddock to that fatal field, he had been there,
and left his name a toot above all his predeces
sors. It was a glorious thought of the boy, to
write his name side, by side with that of the
great father of his country. Ho grasps his
knife with a firmer hand ; and, clinging to a
littlo jutting crag, he cuts again into the lime
stone, about a foot above where he stands; ho
then reoches tip and cuts another for his hands.
It is a dangerous adventure ; but as he puts his
feet and hands into those gains, and draws him
self up carefully to his full length, he finds him
self a foot above every name chronicled in that
mighty wall. While his companions are re
garding him with concern and admiration, he
cuts his name in rude capitals, large and deep,
into the flinty album. His knife is still in his
hand, and strength in his sinews, and a new
created aspiration in his heart.
Again he cuts another nichf, and again he
carves Lis name in Urge capitals. This is not
enough. Heedless of the entreaties ol his com
panions, he cuts and climbs again. The gra-
(Illations of his ascending scale grow wider a
part He measures hie length at every gaiu ho
cuts. The voices -of his friends was wen'ker
and weaker, till their words are finally lost 011
his ear. lie now for the first time casts a look
beneath him. Had that glance lasted a mo
ment, that moment would have been his !W.
Heelings with a convulsive shudder to Jiis lit
tle niche in tiierock. An awful abyss awaits
Ins almost cerium tall. Ho is taint with severe
exertion, and trembling from the sudden view
of the dreadful destruction to which he is expo
sed. His kuiic is worn hallway to the haft.
lie can hear the voices, but not the words of
his terror-stricken companions below. What a
moment ! What a nietgre -chance o escape
destruction ! There is no retracing his steps
It is inqiossible Co put his hands into tUo same
niche with his Joel and retain it is slender UJt
moment. His cumpanijns instantly perceive
this new and feurful dilemma, aud await his
fill with emotions that 'freeze their young
blood.' He is too hied, too faint, to us.k tir Inn
111s miner s iiciiriu-Mune.
Minutes of almost eternal length roll on, and
there are hundreds standing in the rocky chan
nel, hundreds 011 the bridge above, all holding
their breath, and awaiting tho fearful catastro
phe. Tho poor boy hears the hum ot new and
numerous voices both above and below. Ho
can just distinguish the tones of hii father, who
is shouting with all tho energies of despair,
'William ! William! Don't look down .' Your
mother and Henry and Harriet, are all here
praying for you ! Don't look down ! Keep
your eye toward Ute top !' The boy didu't
look down. His eye is fixed like a flint to
wards Heaven, and his young heart on him who
reigni there. He grasps his knife. Ho cuts
another niche, and another toot is added to the
hundreds that remove him from the reach of
UNBTOY AMERICAN.
AND SIIAMOKIN JOURNAL;
majority, the vital principle of Republics, fiom which
Stinbury, NortliuiiibcrlaiMl Co.
human help from below. How carefully he u-
ses his wasting blade I How anxiously he se
lects the softest places in that vast pier! How
he avoids every flinty grain ! How ho econo
mises his physical powers resting a moment
at each, again he cuts. How every motion is
watched from below. There stand his father,
mother, brother and sister, on tho very spot
where, it he fulls, he will not fall alone.
Tho eun is now halt-way down the west. The
lad has made filly additional niches in that
mighty wall, and now find himself directly un
der the middle of that vast arch of rocks, earth
and trees, lie must cut his way in a new di
rection to get from under this overhanging
mountain. The inspiration of hope is dying in
his bosom ; its vital heat is fed by the increased
shouts of hundreds perched upon clifJs and trees,
and others who stand with ropes in their hands
on the bridge above, or with ladders below.
Fifty gains more mutt be cut before the longest
rope can reach him. His wasting blade strikes
again into the limestone. The boy is emerg
ing painfully, foot by foot, from under that lof
ty arch, teheed ropes are already 111 the hands
of those who are leat.ing over the edgo of the
bridge. Two minutes more and all will be e
ver TI13 blade is worn to the hist half inch.
The boy's head reels ; his eyes ore starting
from their sockets. His last hope is dying in
his heart ; his life must hang upon the next
train ho cut. That niche is hie lust. At the
last faint gash he makes, his knife, his luilJit'ul
knite, fills from his nerveless hand, and ring
ins along the precipice, fulls at his mothers feet.
An involuntary groan of despair runs like a
death-knell through the chnnnel below, and all
is still as the grave. At the height ol nearly
three hundred feet, the devoted boy litis his
hopeless heart, und closing ryes to commend
his soul to God. 'Tis but a moment there !
one foot swings oil ! he is reeling trembling
topping over into eternity ! Hark! a shout
falls on his car from above ! The man who
is lying with hall his length over the bridge, has
caught a glimpse of the boy's head and shoul-
ders. Quick as thought the noosed rope is
within reach of the siukiriL' vouth. No one
breathes. With a faint, convulsive efJiirt tho
swooning boy drops his arms into the noose,
Darkness comes over him, and with the words,
God ! molltef ! whispered on his lips just loud
enough to be heard in heaven, the lightning
rope lifts him out of his last shallow niche.
Not a lip moves while he is dangling over that
fearful abyss ; but when a sturdy Virginian
reaches dow n nnd draws up the lad, und holds
him up in his arms before the fen 1 fill, breathless
nuilMiide, such shouting, such leaping and
weeping for joy, never greeted the ear of hu -
man beiiiir so recovered from thy yawning 'Milt'
of eternity.'
K. 15.
lireen Crop for TiiinliK In.
Perhaps there are no means of improving
land, within the control of the farmer ot limited
resources, more effective and economical than
the turning in of green crops and the publish-
-d nccounlsof the results cf this practice are j ical itulitlerence to the scene, was attentively
such us to justify the recommendation of it to all j examining some stately ii.aplei tint grew bJ
farmors who are oouipellcd to udopt the cheap- ' iou. ii,,, aS-
est and most available methiKls of improving or .!,, ilu.e Jt.tr.y ! see what a beautiful
kipping up the fertility of their soils. Vur 011s mwt t)f p,,, t.rtf i(j , the dill',
crops have been recoumii-nded for the purple f(,w j wjh, j t,t., r
of turning in green peas, oats, corn, rye, clover, j .l,mip'i ! what a way you hive ol weiring
buckwheat, &c Clover, so far us its enriching j V(1ir ., UIld wrth pr.jA . .k 1 1. - coolness he
prs-KrtK-. are concerned, ru.sks among the ve- 1 ij it tt itll nis c;)(. ....,,, branches of
ry best crops for this purpose. The heaviest
crop ot rye we ever saw, (upwards of tiirty
bushels to the acre) w as raised on land where a
growth of clover hud been turned in. ISut, ull
things considered, no crop, we think, has supe
rior, if equal claims to buckwheat, tor turning in
green. It is not a great exhauster having a
small ribrous root, with a large branching lop, it would'hl always Lc tormenting me uIm.uI th
probably derives nearly as much nonritttimeul , Uwiux .! You know there is'ut a passable one
from the atmosphere as (ro.11 the soil ; it will j 10 yillago. I do wish there was, though,
also thriv e oil a soil where other plants would jHt to have some way of leasing you !'
starve ; and it comes into blossom sooner than VwAt- JetlVy, for such the reader w ill doubt
most other gra'm-leui ing plants. Sown in June, j ow low uie t.n lllUi Ur(lt.j uway Blll
it may bo turned in early in September, unj ' pouting with hisanu to the suspended bH-
theliiud seeded down with grass or winter rye
an excellent p.uu. liy this process, .Mr. John
Keely, (f Haverhill, obtained, in lS'O, forty
eight huahels of excellent rye, from two and
three quarter acres ot luud so poor lit ut u prt
of it would not siisia in a growth of sorrel, wrh
which the other part was tilled. .V. J". 1'ur.
mer.
Ntw York Tiiy. The folUwim; niiednle
nifrciul emporium from K'J7to t 1 0 :
Year. I'opululioil.
loin .... 4,:;oa
17:tl .... R.tiJS
1751 - - - lO.riM
4 1771 .... 21,4.1.3
17' - - - V.'J.0 1 1
1790 .... 3.3,131
1M)0 . . . r0,4VJ
lblO .... 90, .373
1M0 . - - ,m,7nr.
1S30 .... 203.007
1S35 - - 270.0SJ
IS It) - - 31g.710
We dcubt if another instance is te be found
on record, of so constant and rapid an increase,
for so long a period. In 17W0 New York was
not so large ah liiooklyn is now. Juur. of Com.
there is no appeal but to force, tho vital principle
Pa. Saturday, August 31, 1s t I.
From the Lady's Wreath.
vxcll: jekpuy anu coisi.n ioa.
11V CIIAIM-IA HAMILTON.
"Mad you ever a cousin, Tom?
Did your cousin happen to sing'
Sisters we've ull by the dozen, Tom,
But a; cousin's a different tiling ;
And you'd find if ever you'd kissed her, Tom,
(Hut let this be a secret bet ween us.)
That youi lips would have been in a blister, Tom,
For they ure not of the sister genus."
I had been pondering in my mind, for some
time, as to what I should do with myselfduring
the coming vacation. To stay at three
whole May weeks, with nothing tint cuts, ser
vants and tutors, was not to be thought of, and
going homo was out the question, as it would
take our allotted three weeks to go there.
'F.gad, I have it now,' cried I, 'I'll make Un
cle Jeli'ry n visit. He lives ubout twenty
miles from here, and had, when I visited him
some eight years ago, a pretty little niece, who
liar., no doubt, grown to be a pretty cousin by
this time
Acting from the impulse of the moment, I
looked myself lor an 'inside' in the mail,
and was the next morning on my way to Bel
mont. Feeling in tho mood for a joke, and
trusting to the change whidi years had mode
ui my appearance, on my omvul at li -I left
my vulisc at the Hotel, and walked leisurely
towurds the residence of my uncle, intending
to make my debut tncng.
It was one of those mild, balmy evenings in
the Fpring, when the light breeze which scarce
ly faua the cheek, seems to come up from every
vancy onu gicn, iiioen Willi tne sweetest per
fume of each blo.-stxuii.g shrub aud wild (low
1 1 1 1 11 . 1 . .
it. .vuraoiej oy me sounu ot inning water 11.
the valley to my right, I left the road and
crossed the fields in the direction from whence
the sound proceeded. I had not gone far he
lure I reached a small stream that wound its
way through a narrow glen, shaded on both
sides by forest trees. As I fylkiwed the
1 course ot the stream, the noise of the falling
i water became more distinct, and omerging
If"" te prove that hail Vfore concealed the
i landscape, a scene of exquisite beauty burst up
j " niy view. A small and verdant valley lay
; before me, while at the farther extremity, the
whole body ot tlie rivuiet at the height ot thirty
livl ptuiej oer a projecting cliff. For ubimt
halt its descent, it fell in one unbroken sheet
then dashing into a thousand little cascades,
soucht tlie (juiet stream below. Gazing, as if
; "bsorbeu by the beauty ol the scene, stood 0
Iv-!y girl of Mine sixteeu summers. Her
i Hlll,:l cotlago bonnet had been removed from
, '"'r 1"'d and lay nt her feet, while tho 2ark
I'bcsnut ringlet., released from their confine-
incut, tell in rich clusters on her neck und
I shoulders. One foot was thrown I'm ward, and
j her lips wttrc slightly parted, as it about to speak
j but were checked in their utterance as though
I fearful of disturbing the repose ot that beaut.
j I'ul spot. At 11 short distance from her, stood a
I man of about forty years of age, who, with sto-
the neurest tree.
'Now Uncle but never uiiiw-!-, you will have
to climb the troe In p-l it for me,' and a mis
duevous smile played 'Ihjii her beautiful fc't
as bbcKitv the bonnet wifely lodged in the tree.
'.Send some uf your U-aux lor it.'
'Beaux again ! I do wish, Uncle, you
m., walked leuurely toward the pi ace where
1 stood. The presence of my coiisiu hud ban-i.-hed
nil deswo In appeur ln'r. , und stepping
forward 1 mude myselt know n. A lieu rly shake
U'the hand, inula 'ho are ye, my !, made
me vv lcoine. While answering tin: many Hi
ijiii.ies p.il nr..' by my undo.. Cousin Ida si. hi!
very busily employed in making a hole in I Lie
green swurd ut her feet with her paras..
'But come, jou have forgot,' suid I, after re
plying to Ins questions 'if I mistake not hero is
coiisiu Ida, waning for an introduction
'Oh, yes! humph ! ulwuysthe tvuy with the
young folks wanting to gel together! Here
Ma, isyourkcapo graeu cousin, Charles Ham
ilton. See it you can muke anything out id'
him. He'll do to get your bonnet fur you ;' and
w ithout further words he plied his cune vigor
ously for the house.
This abrupt, though characteristic introduc
tion, eunie what embarrassed us, but a few .no
il cuts sufficed lo remove it, and the privileges
of relationship were soon established. Wt cou-
and immediate parent of despotism. JErriiRso.
Vol. l--.o. .19 Whole Xo, iO".
tinned r.ome time rumbling about the place, ad
miring the beauties of the scene, till the shades
of evening and tho fulling dew warned us to fol
low uncle JetTry.
lint you wouldn't gallant tne homo bare
headed Cousin Charles !' said Ida, laughing ; 'I
have a bonnet up in a tree yonder.'
'And I must be the beau you were wishing
for to get it, I suppose,' replied I, with much
gravity.
'Von are worse than Uncle JetTry, I do de
clare; what a provoking memory you all have.
However, I'll find some way of paying you off
ycl ; and her parasol was again actively em
ployed in uprooting a flower at her feet.
'You will be likely to kill that (lower if you
persevere.
'And you wilt not be likely to get my bon
net, if you stand there.'
Finding ( should not gain much in a contest
of this kind, I soon dislodged the bonnet, and
placing it on tho head of its fair owner, wo pro
ceeded towards the Iijuso.
My reoder, if I have been so fortunate as to
secure one, is doubtless ready to know who tho
persons I have introduced to her acquaintance
(for thin sketch is written expressly lor ths la
dies) may be. Uncle J.:flry was an inveterate
old bachelor. I bis younger days, ho had been
an anient admirer ot female beauty, but having
been jilted in his first love adventure, ho c-vcr
after kept his affections under close subjection
Ida was tho only daughter of his widowed
sister, who on lier death-bed bequeathed her,
then a mere child, to his protection. The af
fections which had long been confined in his
own bosom, were now placed upon licr, ami the
treutle Ida was reared with all the care and
attention that the most favored ones enjoy.
Three weeks I how quick they pass away in
the glad spring-time of our existence, when
joyous hearts are arot.nd us, and familiar voices
are ever ready to give us welcome. How often
do I look back upon some of those bright scenes
of lite, ond taste again in memory their many
pleasures, and lo none do I oltenor recur than
to my three weeks' visit to uncle JetTry and
cousin Ida. How swiftly and how pleasantly
b hi, l! k) they pass away, between the ecccntri
cities of the one and the playful caprices ot
the ol her. They seein but a dny, as the een
iiig previous to my return to 1 stood lean
irig pgairisl the portico, musing upon the rapid
and joyous flight. A light touch upon my tirm
and a mi rry laugh, roused tne front my pleas
ing reverie.
'Dreaming. I suppose of some fair damsel oi
your'ow n sunny south,' that you consider so
very superior "
'Or of some el' the colder north, perchance
of y on fair cos."
'Come, a trnco to compliments, you know 1
don't li!e Lhem ; 1 never could get at their
meaning, they nre s buried up in nonsense ;
so lav usi.ie that sentimental look ot yours, or
I shall have to go on 1 1 1 v Dorcas mission alone.
See, what H ukc cap I have made for good old
Mrs. Cunningham. Don't you think they ought
to make mo president of ihe tic wing society 7
There, you begin to look like something with
that demure countenance. Now lake your hat
and stick, and I'll puss you olf as a young minis
ter.' As the Ik'.-i way to av Ida's raillery was
to join with her .11 it, I was soon on equal terms
with In r. After making her proposed call, we
walked slowly along towurds the rasendo where
we first met. As tv entered ihn valley, ibe,
s..''l twilight 0 ( spring, which in the more north
ern regions lingers long ere it deepens into
night. was j.e-t guthi-rmg mer the scene. The nuw rianery store 111 lligti street, was
calm qui. t winch rested nam. the spot, seemed i a,i0,, "wh. ther Ih m acquainted with a Cll
.0 shed its n.rb.c.i.- over us. We walked on j "" U:"m ,:"ll, s "
... silence till we si k1 at the t of the cas-I h w'nw. w.th evident annoyance and
end... Tlie sanvc Im.ucI, ot wild flowers that ! j P'eal relm-laM. admitted that he was ; und,
hail noticed w hen I first 1 sited the spot, I "P 'iig al!,,Upou to e da,n it, did so by
.U growing un the cliff. "'S lhut ,'t'" 8 1:"'y ,"Xo '
'Come, cousin I 'h tries, you must get me those
flow ers before y..u go ; jou know you iromistid
ine a Ix.quet.'
'Yes, but I did n't promise to break my neck
in getting it.'
'lint that ss juM smu Ii a bunch as I want 1
know y.m can gel it I'll do any thing for yon
iI'c.mi will.
'Fray, what will bat cny thing be, coz !'
'Oh, I'll inc. id your gloves, or sing yon a
oiig or or auj thing.'
4 dl, I'll get the flower?, but you must p iy
my price.'
Do, do.4
Tho (lowers were soon procured and placed
in her hand.
'Now for my reward, coi.sin Ida.
'Well, shall 1 mend your gloves, or ting you
a song !'
'Neither 1
What shall I do, then V
'(jive me a cousinly kiss V
A kiss '. 1 can't d.i any f uch thi I'
'But you promised.
'No such thing ; I said I would mend your
gloves or sing you a song '
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C'Kutccn lines mnke aquaro.
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'Or do anything.'
'But anything don't mean a kiss, does it V
'Certainly, if I ask it.'
And you won't let me off !'
'Why should I! It is only yourcotuin !'
A slight blush uprend over her features and
a tear stole down tier chpek, as she gently
rested her hand on toy shoulders, ami preyed
her lips to mine.
'Ha! ha! ha', that's what I call climbing for
a kiss.'
We sprung from our too cousinly position,
and turning round saw uncle JefTry enjoying a
hearty laugh nt our expense. The resJ, geotl'J
reader, we will bravo tovour imagination. .
Colli nml Silver.
Thompson's Bmk Note Reporter has an ar
ticle on this subject which contains the follow.
ing interesting facts respecting tho incrwwej
supplies of gold from Russia. Speaking of tho
recent exportation of silver from this country
to Europe, the Keportet sayi
The present very small demand for silver is
not in consequence ol tlij adverse exchanges',
but of a demand for silver as n commoditv.
The currency of Russia is mostly puper, am!
Ilw! government fiave made great efforts to re
form it; about four years since a ukase wn
issued, having fiir its oljject the increase of thr
silver currency of the empire, that metal being
among a poor population, preferable to gold.
The ukase had at the time very little dH'ct ;
but of late years tin imuioiise serf population
have been employed in wishing the gold of the
Ural iiiountn ins, nnd the production is excessive.
Tho highest authority places the annual pro
duction at JL'l.tllHUKK). Recently an applica
tion was made to the Bank of F.nglaml, by tha
Russian government to know what use they
could make of '(',()( 10,000, and no favorable an
swer couM be oblained. Arrangements; were,
however, in fiwgrens to exchange it for silver,
in order to redeem the j)jer rubies. This
process has been going on by the accuniu'atiuu;
in the hauds of the ho jse ot Rothschilds of$t,.
000,000 of silver, which has coiised a grud'jjt
advance in the price ol that metal.
South American dollars have advanced it 13.
per oz. since February, which is per ctnt,
and will find their way to Russia, causing si
continued rise in silver. In fact, the enormous
supply ot gold will immediately tend to advance
the price of all other articles throughout the
world, silver among others, and to require a
re-adjustment of the standards ofall nations. In
l Kngland gold is to silver as Vt to 1. The in
creased ubundance ol the former metal may re
duce it to I'J to i. The operation in this coun
try, w ill be, as already began to be felt, to in
duce an export of silver and an import of gold.
Much fciiperlativo nou sense i uttered in tin
streets und printed in papers about the buluncoi
of trade against the country, caused by larga
imports.
The imports tir the six months of this year
were one million dollars less than in the same
ptrwd of lrl'2, when the import ot fc'-W.OOO.OUl
of specie commenced. The imports have thu
far been all paid tor, aud prices are now looking
down. The imports lor July were little ovtr
sf?,000,lRHi, which wril give jftil.OOO.OOO tor
the quarter, or .yJ.lKIO.tVHJ U.sthan the tatnu
quarter of 111.
Siiavjxu tiim I. vims. An insight iut
some of the mysteries of trade was lately afford
ed in the course ofau exaiinieitiou at one ol'tht
Ivl..n p.iliet olriees Among the questions
askp.l of .me of 'ho witnesses, a derk iu an ex-
purchase mi article, such as 11 scarfor a shaw I,
it was llw shopman's tuisiiu-ss to use all l. s
arts of permission uioii tlie lady to induce hor I .
j give a higher price than the uilicle was woriii
j II he succeeded lie was entitled to one-fourth .1'
I whatever he could obtain ubove the value of t'n
'article. If lie dJ tuA he g.K nothing. Thus,
j it a evnil'l.ud on it a private luurk of :10s., an I
! he could talk tho i.i.ly loto gi ing 31s. tor it,
I ho was entitled to Is. ir hiin.vlt', und vvascuij
sulci ed to have "sii:Kel the ladv.''
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I 1 11 it no Oj.-ri ii Take young groeu
I corn und grkte it in a dish. To uni pint ot tips,
add one egg, well beat. 11, a siia)l tea cup e;
(lower, half a cup of butter, s,.ino salt and pep
per, aud mix them well together. A tabV
syooi.ful of tins will make '.ho sue of au ovsler.
Fiy them a little blown, ;ij when dune UiU.-r
them ; but cream, ifiVcno hu procured, is uinck
better than butter.
There is littlo r no dew in Paris, and 11
a fine night the sides of the Boulevards in front
of the cafes are fillo I with well drrse. people,
silling ban headed and lipping coffee or soino
iced drink.
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