LEWI B U RG CHttONICLE JL C. IlICKOK, Editob. O. N. WORDEN, Pkinter. fatnrw0mM' e LBWISBURG CHRONICLE aw tirsiBT rmif o0bai, htuti on FRIDAY morning at Leviiburg, Union county, Penwybame. TVS Mi $1,M per year, for cash actually In adeanc l ji f paid within three months; $2.00 if paid within a Taar- il.V if act paid before the year expire ; ft cent for 2jTla iiabm Snbecnpuona for six months or law, to la r-Id edeanee. lliacontinnaaoea optional wllb tilt PabUabar, exoept when the year ia pat J up. Xliaanssall ill BKBilaoual; toxrted at 60 oanta par snare, ena week, $1 four waekl, $& a year; two squares, for tlx months, $7 fur a year. Mercantile advertise ments, not exceeding one fourth of a eolumu, 10 a Tear. JOB WORK and casual edeertimmenta to be paid for when banded In or delivered. ConasMcinom eoliciud on all subjects of feneral Inte rest not within tne ranfe or pan? or escianan aunian. AU letters moat aome poet-paid, accompanied by tbe real eddraes of the writer, to receive attention. 4eT"Taaee relating exdusiTsly to tbe Editorial Department, to be di- aertis to BBpBT v. uicaos. aaq., aaiwr bum uiuw on bnatoMf to O. N. woanav, ruouiaer. OFFICE (for the present) ia Beaver's block on Ti. 3d ot, nrst noor, m aoor iron, corner. LEWISBURG, UNION COUNTY, PENN., FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1853. Independent Journals. We Lave received three free-breathing Newspapers each ettabluhed vpon the ruin of Party paper recently issued upon the principle of the old motto Hera hell the PUSS tbe Psoas's Burn maintain, TJoawed by Influence, and nnbribed by Gain ; Here Patriot TRCTB bar glorious precepts draw, Pledged to Kauaioa, Liau.tr, and Law. They are the Independent Pros, by J.W. Barrett, Williamsport ; the Lackawanna Herald, by C. E. Latbbop, Scranton ; the Weekly Ledger, by J. Robbihs, Schuylkill Haven. -Firm hands and honest hearts will ensure their conductors that success which we heartily invoice fur them. Corrasponneaos of tbe Lewiaburg Chronirlo.j Maquoketa, Iowa, May 3, 1853. 8ince February, when I wrote you last, I have been traveling nearly all the time through Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin. I find that tbe emigration this spring, to all of these States, will double that of any previous year. Hundreds of families from Pennsylvania havo already reached reached their destination, in this, (Jackson) coun ty, and thousands more are coming. The emigration from Pennsylvania to this county, is principally from Mercer county. Those coming in are generally well pleased with the change, and will write back flat tering accounts to their friends. This county is one of the best in Iowa, and is now quite thickly settled. Yesterday and the day previous, will be remembered here as being quite an era ia the history of Iowa. A large and very enthusiastic meeting was held for the purpose of devi sing ways and means to build a railroad from Sabula, on the Mississippi, to Cedar Rapids, on Cedar river a distance of about 80 miles. The stock is already nearly all taken and pledged, and there is no doubt but that the road will be "put right through." This county, though offering good in ducements to emigrants, does not favorably compare with that portion of Illinois lying outh of Rock river particularly Fulton, Knox, Warren, and M'Donough counties. The eastern portion of it is quite broken and rough, and timber is very scarce ; add ed to this, there is no coal nearer than Book Island a distance of 100 miles, by land and water. The western part of the county ia better adapted to agricultural pursuits, being more level, and better sup plied with timber. Iowa is filling up fast, and with the right kind of pecple ; but though one ef the best of the Western States it never can compare with Illinois, either in point of agricultural resources and wealth, or for population or mineral stores. I have traveled through all the Western States and Territories, and do one of them can or ever will equal Illinois. I have, after looking over the wbolo western from the Northern counties of the State, would undoubtedly find its way over this route, to say nothing of considerable freight that would find its way to either terminus, The importance of this road can not be questioned, and it is to be hoped that cap italists wiu give it their early attention The wealthy farmers of the fertile Tallies through which the road would pass could alone build it, but when the importance of it is fairly understood, they can enlist the aid of plenty of capitalists from abroad. Eollidaytlurg Standard. I Selected for the Chronicle. ENIGMA. Pew littara are needful to gie yon my name. And yet their flrat half a whole hi may proclaim; Thread, urtha of tium ever will sail to year mind A spontaneous, Implacable foe to mankind So strong the rcssmblancr,! scares can" refrain From Inflicting on one all the brnitea and pain Which, for ealus received, to the other we owe, And which It ia promised that I ahaU beitow. With Adam I left Ideal limit of Came, I apported young Ere thro her exile and ebame; Oft-times the stout steed Into battle I'ts spurred, Oft in the at anuria my measure is heard. And oft, whan the timid from trouble would flea, Xhey betake them &r aid to my partner and me. One fatal event on my name throws a shade : Lo 1 the greatest of cfaiiu, by my weak neat betrayed (Many centuries since) unto Death waa consigned, And my standing is low in the eyes of mankind. Tel boldly I trod Cfrro Gordo's dread hsifht. And, with all my fcllow who marched from the flgbt (Every man of the army can srore this narration) Beceircd from breve Wln-Stid a bright decoration. North Ameiican M. hi. S. country, " pitched my tent" near Spoon river, in Fulton county, being fully satis fied that it is the best country in the West Let me say, confidentially, to your readers, to look through Fulton county, before purchasing elsewhere, and if they are not satisfied, and do not find what I say true to the letter, why publish me in the Chron icle as having falsely represented the facts. Your truly, Oakland. Bxxlettjz, Huron Co. O. May 10. This is a great country so cut up with Railroads that a man can scarcely pick out a farm. I can hear the can on four different roads from my house one runs within twenty rods from my door. We give about 500 Whig majority in this county; the Whigs of Ohio make strong calculations on electing their Gov ernor, next fall I hope they may. Respectfully, &e. M. P. We fear that migrating from Union county hasn't cared Mica.: he remains a most incor rigible Whig? ' New Railroad Project. AcWter is granted for a railroad from Lewisburg through Center eounty to con nect with the Pennsylvania Railroad at the mouth of Spruce Creek. Such a road would be a great public convenience; it would pay well from the time it was fin- iehed, and would be one of the most profi. table ia the State when the numerous roads contemplated along the Susquehanna completed. All the travel to the West THE STORY OF JOHN LEE. BY MRS. H. C. CONANT. " There wea a man, though soms did count bla mad, The more be east away the more he had." Bf air. Thus did the ttulden Dreamer state a problem ia life, of which Tory fan? find the true practical Solution. Increase, gain, in some form or other, is the object of all i. Nor is this in itself a vicious pro pensity, i n from it. It is the very core of human progress, the grand condition of the ultimate perfectibility of the race. And ye, -if those wLo gn e freest play to this tendency, who live but to obey the law of gain, the greater number grow continually noorer: and at the last find themselves miserable, and destitute, and naked, and in lack of all things. Expeiience is said to be a great preacher. If this be true, she must have had very inapt pupils. From the foundation of tbe world, she has been preaching the same lesson about this law of gain, in other words, the true way to become rib. And yet it is only here and there one, who seems ever to get tbe lesson by heart; and these few are by all the others accounted the dunces ia the school. The story of one of these plodding heads shall form the illustration of our principle. John Lee was an orphan. He lost his father at an age too early for remembrance. For him, that father had lived only in the tender and beautiful reflection of Lis moth er's heart, true, to her latest hour, to the memory of first affection. Perhaps the paternal influence thus transmitted entered no less really, if less consciously, into the formation of the boy's character. The beatified father spoke through the saintly mother, and the voice had in it less of earth than of heaven. John's childhood was full of sweet promise to such a mother. To fair, though by no means remarkable, mental gifts, were united moral traits, in which she fondly traced the image of his lost father: a straitforward, single-hearted earnestness in whatever seemed to him a right cause, blended with an honesty to wards himself and a candor towards others not always found in euch connexion. As the Bible was the mother's book of un questioning reference, so was it with the son. As prayer was the element in which the mother lived, so was it from infancy a sweet, familiar practice with the child. Rut alas 1 scarcely Lad he reached the age of twelve, when this guardian angel was taken from him. She died suddenly, al most without warning. John was sum moned from the school play-ground, to receive her last farewell. Stunned and bewildered by the sudden shock, the whole scene passed him like a wild dream. One moment alone engraved itself upon his memory. As he knelt by her bedside, the dying mother, laying her cold, damp hand upon his head, and raising her eyes to wards heaven, uttered these words: "I ask not for him long life, or honor, or earthly riches. Make him rich in faith, heir of the promises! With thee I trust him. Into thy hands I commend my spirit !" She fell back upon the pillow, and John Lee was motherless. Not that he realized, at the time, the full import of this prayer. Like an unexplained oracle, it fastened itself upon his memory, till gradually un folding its hidden sense, it became the key note of his character and life. After his mother's death, John fonnd no path of thornless roses. The little property she had left behind served for his support and schooling a few months longer; and then, without a relative from whom he could claim succor and guidance he was cast upon the world, and was expec ted look out for himself. For a boy thus situated, there waa not much choice. The place of shop-boy with a grocer in a neighboring village being offered him, be at once accepted it This man, like most others in his line of business at the time, depended for his ohief gains upon the sale of ardent spirits. John had never taken any thought about this traffic, and accor dingly dealt out the fire-water to his mas ter's customers without compunotion, tho' not without inward distrust. But after being thus engaged a few weeks, he one day witnessed a scene which stirred all .the latent springs of his nature. A young woman entered tho grocery, carrying in her arms an infant perhaps six months old and leading by the hand another child of some three years. All were poorly and scantily dressed ; and their thin, .wan faces betokened pinching poverty. There was a wild light in the mother's large black eye, which made J ohn recoil, as she swept past him towards the owner of the shop. Yet the tones of her voice when she spoke and something in her manner, betrayed a character and breeding superior to her present position. "I have come," said she, addressing the grocer who stood behind the counter, " to beg you once moro not to furnish my husband with liquor. It is poison to him, and death to us. Surely you would not let him have it, if you realised our misery. I have dragged these children along, though hardly able to come myself in order that you may see something of it for yourself. Look at them I Poor rag. ged, starved little ones I Can you believe they are my childreu. Marietta Grav'a" children 7 But this is not the worst!' She took off tbe hood of the cider child, and showed a large purple lump ou its temple. "There!" she continued more wildly than before, " that's from a blow given by its own father 1 by Robert Stan hope ! And he now lies at home drunk ! Rut how did he get the means 7 I know but too well. Last night, the .only com fortable article of dress I had left, my blanket shawl, was torn from these babes as they lay asleep, and sold to make their father a brute. O, Mr. Stone, you can not, now you know how it is, yon cannot have the heart" here her voice broke down in passionate sobs and tears. " I haven't sold him any liquor this month," replied the grocer ; " if he got aujr last uigtit, no got it somewuera irs- sides here." The woman instantly recovered her self- possession, brushed away her tears, and with a contemptuous smile, pointed toward a corner where her quick eye had detected the missing article. " Well, come now," said the grocer in great confusion, which he tried to cover by a laugh, " it is'nt my fault, if he did get it here. If he has a mind to come here and buy liquor, it's his lookout, not mine. My lookout is to get my honest pay." " You will not promise me, then t" as ked the woman. Upon my word and honor, I can't," was tbe reply. " It's asking too much. I must make a living, you see. Every body must take care of Number One. Let. your husband take care of Number One, and he'll do well enongh." " And will you tell me," said she, " how I am to take care of Number One f" "I'll tell von one thine," cried he angrily, "I wont take no tarte in my own store; so clear out in quick time. You betttr be spry!" added he, advancing to wards her with a threatening gesture. She looked at him steadily for a moment then lifting her hand solemnly towards heaven, she prayed, in accents which froze J ohn Lee's young blood : " O God, hear! avenge!" Without another word,she seised the hand of her little girl and left the shop. John followed Ler. The woman walked a few rods with sur prising energy; then suddenly sinking down on a stone by the road-side, seemed ready to faint. Both children began at the same time to cry piteously. When John came up to the forlorn group he tried to speak; but there was euch a swelling in his throat that he could not utter sound. Quickly, though with trembling fingers, he unbuttoned his shirt-collar, and drew out a black ribbon from which hung suspended a two-shilling piece. Slipping off the coin, ho again fastened the ribbon round his neck. Then holding out the money towards the woman, he asked in a husky voice: " Will this do you sny good? It's all I have!" "God bless you! yes, it will keep my children one week from starvation," she answered, grasping it in her thin hand. She started up as if to go instantly in quest of food : thensuddenly stopping and turn ing around, she asked : "Was it a keepsake f" "Yes!" replied John, his eyes filling with tears, "from my mother." "And where is your mother; ' "She is dead!" "And your father?" ! "He died when I was a baby; they are both gone! said John looking upwards. "Poor orphan! I will not rob you,' exclaimed -the woman, reaching back the money, while her voice grew tremulous and her large, dark eyes became soft with moisture. " O no, no indeed! my mother would tell ma to give it to you," said John Then, unable to keep down his struggling heart a moment longer, he turned from her, and ran with all his might towards his master s house. She looked after him till he was out of sight, then crossed the street and entered a baker's shop. The man was well known to her; and after receiving the change for a shilling's worth of bread, she could not refrain from relating what had just hap pened. " I wish," she added, " you would mark the piece and keep it awhile. If I can possibly save another shilling, I want to take it back, and restore to the poor child his mother's keepsake.1 But the baker, too, had a heart "I will mark it, said he, "and hand it to the boy the next time he goes by; I know him by sight. But you are entirely wel come to the bread." He laid the other shilling before her on the counter. Then opening a door at the back end of the room, he called his wife, a pleasant looking little woman, and repeated the tale to her. " Why, you don't say so!" she replied, wiping her gentle, blue eyes as he finish' d. " But come now, Mrs. Stanhope," she added, " walk right out here and have a cup of tea. The teakettle is boiling this minute. The tea was made, the tea-table quickly spread with the best tbe hoase afforded, and tbe famished mother and children sat down with these kind-hearted people, to the first comfortable meal they had enjoy ed for weeks. After tea, tbe baker's wife coaxed the eldest child into her lap, and gained her entire confidence by the gift of a ginger bread lamb. But even this wonder of art could not long keep open the eyelids of tho weary child. Her hands sunk down and she fell fast asleep, still grasping her new treasure. "It does seem to me," said the kind woman, gating down fondly on the curly head that lay against her bo som, "that she has a look like my Willie! Poor thing ! how can she walk another step to night r Buppva w. l few days with me," she added earnestly, "I am so lonesome! I find I don't get over missing my little boy. It would be a real comfort to put her into his trundle bed close to mine, where I could reach out in the night to see if she was covered up, and feel her little head on the 'pillow and hear her breathing in her Bleep. I j will take the very best care of her," she continued pleadingly, seeing the mother did not reply. " May God in heaven reward you !" she exclaimed at length, with a burst of tears. " Yes, I will leave her thankfully till I can turn over some plan for getting along. Live as 1 have done, I can no longer." She printed a soft kiss on the child's brow, pressed tbe hand of her kind friend and stole noiselessly out of the room. As she passed down tbe outer steps, she waa Etill sad, but it was not the sadness of des pair. Thero was a warmth about her heart, a hope in her soul, suoh as she had not known for many a long day ; a warmth of hope, kindled by the breath of human kindness. "God has not yet forsaken us! said she to herself. "Blessings on that good woman I Blessings on her kind hus baniJI Blessings on that dear orphan boy! Aye, and blessings too on that hard and cruel man ! I recall my curse. He is through loving self-denial and sacrifice, Christains were, like their Lord, to make the world rich. He looked again at the bit of silver in his hand. It seemed to him the symbol of all that was mercenary and selfish. For this, men forgot that they were men. For this, they wrung tears of blood from their fellow-men, and ruined their own souls. " Yet even this vile trash," said he to himself, "can take the mark of the cross! May it not then be turned from a curse into a blessing? Surely it hss been a blessing to me this day. Henceforth, let all my gains bear this transforming mark!" A tear was glistening on the coin, as he dropped it thoughtfully into his leathern purse. I cannot say that the reflections of his affectionate little wife took so high or so wide a range. But her heart was no less full. Tenderly had she laid down the wearied little sleeper on her own pillow. With a mother's skilful hand, she had removed its miserable clothing, and substi tuted a snowy nightgown, often worn by her lost Willie. The trundle-bed was wheel ed out once more. The seft warm blankets, the white quilt, the little pillow-cases, were again taken from " Willie's drawer," aud carefully aired before the fire. All the important peparations being at length completed, the poor infant, who, two hours before, had lacked needful food, was laid like something precious into the downy resting place. During the whole time, the child had never stirred from its deep sleep. She now gave a comfortable stretch, turned her head, in a way to throw her soft flaxen curls ever the pillow, and again ' sunk into a quiet slumber. When the baker came in from his shop at ten o'clock he found Lb wife fast asleep kneeling by the trundle-bed, her bead close to that of the little stranger, and one tiny hand clasped in her own. Orphan boy ! thy two-shillins! niece. warm from thy Heart, has already made many rich. Has it made thee rich also? Not yet, but in part Buvifs safely laieV by" for thee, at interest such as naui-nr never drew : marked both on earth and in heaven, with the mark or the cross ! jtfacmta it- poorer, more wretched than 1 1" Thus musing and praying, with fresh trust in Providence, she bent her steps towards her wretched home. The baker marked the eoin, as he had promised. For so simple a job, it oe eupied him a long time. As he scraped and scraped slowly with his penknife, many thoughts rose unbidden in his mind. Preeminent above all others was that of the BEtfiSHSESa or bin. That hard hearted grocer, that drunken father! But once outroot that ono evil prinoiple from their bosoms, and all this blight and mis ery would be turned to joy. Then a pang struck across his heart, at the remember ance of his own life. The serene content ment with which he had enjoyed his hap py lot, unmindful, to so great a degree, of the wretchedness of his brothers and sis- j ters of humanity, seemed to him hateful in its selfishness. Unconsciously, he bad marked on the eoin the figure of a cross. This now caught his eye, as he was about to lay aside the money. A new scene rose before his mind. His thoughts ran back eighteen hundred years, to a time when He who was rich, for our sales became poor, that we through his poverty might be made rich. The idea fashed upon him u by a light form heaven, that it was A Boll Fight, with a Horal " Ralpbe" tells the following tale, in tho Halifax Nova Scotian. It solves the long mooted question of " who pushed the bull off the bridge' i rememoer, when a lad at school, of ones seeing a fight between two bullocks. I never shall forget it, although I could not have been more than eight years of age at the time. It happened in this wise Close by the school-house a very un pretending edifice it was -ran a deep and narrow river. Across it had been thrown a high wooden bridge, the hand-railings of which, time, and the winds, and the weath er had entirely destroyed. It was one bright summer day I remember it as if it were yesterday the hour of noon had arrived, and a frolicsome, romping, fun loving company of lads were let loose for an hour's recreation. The land on the opposite side of the river was owned by different persons and farmed by them, re spectively. The bellowing and roaring of two bulls, that had broken out of their enclosures on each side of the river, and were approaching each other along the highway, at a rate which wonld cause them to meet about the centre of this high bridge, beneath which," at some thirty feet,, ran a deep and sluggish stream, between high banks, attracted onr attention. The more daring of us gathered near the bridge, lining the fence, to see the fight, and we were not disappointed. Nearer and nearer approached the proud, pawing combatants to each other, and Ba- shan never produced two fiercer looking brutes than those I now describe. They tore the ground with their feet they kneeled down occasionally, trying to gore the earth with their horns; they lashed their sides fiercely with their tails, but unobservedly by each other, for the high bridge obstructed their view. Pres ently, as they simultaneously ascended the respective abutments, they came in full sight of one another. The roar was mu tual and actually tremendous. Every ur chin sprang into the field and ran ; but gathering courage in finding we were not pursued, we hastily retraced eur steps, and there they were, both of them front, their horns locked together, fighting as bvllt only m , . . T 3 1 - 1 . t can JijfM I xi seemeq to oe an even maicn. Now one would press back his opponent a few paces, and his adversary would be pressed back in turn. The struggle was hard, was long, was lavage. The began to wheel in another mo ment they were faced at right angles with tho old bridge, which shook, and creaked, and rooked again with their tramping and the effects of their terrible strife. It wss the work of a single moment one of the beasts I never could toll whieh of them did it one of them, however, as if conscious of this position, made a des-. perate, a terrible lunge forward. He pressed his antagonist back back there was but another step of plank behind him behind him and nothing back still fur ther he was pressed, and over he went Such a sight I never saw never again shall see a bull off a bridge, fulling at least thirty feet, over and over. He turned once or twice, probably I thought he turned over fifty times, there seemed so many horns, and feet, and tails flying through the air but down he went, the water was deep, and he disappeared. The other bull didn't laugh, merely be cause bulls. I suppose, can not But we laughed. There he stood, looking directly down into the abyss below, into whieh he had hurled his unlucky foe. He stood, however, but a moment, as if frightened at the prospect before him. He commenced to step backward back back with his head in the same pugnacious attitude as when in com oat back another step, and over he too went on the opposite side of the bridge, performing just as many and exactly as ludicrous somersets as his ad versary had done a minute before. It beat all I ever saw. In about five minutes both bulls were seen, their tails trailing ia the sand, drip ping wet, and scratching up the steep, gravelly banks, each on his own side of the nver. "Them are Indie wont never fight no more V said a boy behind me. I turned aronnd : it was "red-haired Bob," as we used to call him, and every hair on Bob's naked head looked as if it was ia spasms. But Bobby was right There are two political parties in Nova Scotia ; I wish they had seen that fight as 1 saw it that is all I have to say for the present Hereditary Feature. The author of the work entitled "Re cords of Creation," mentions some ourious facts under this branch of his subject A peculiar thickness of the under lip has been hereditary to toe Imperial House of Hapsburg ever since the marriage, some centuries ago, with the Polish family of Jagelon, whenoe it came. In our own royal family, a certain fulness f the lower and lateral parts of the face is conspicuous : in the portraits of the whole series of sov ereigns, from George I. to Victoria, and has been equally marked in other VOLUME X. NO. 6. Wholk Number, 474. any other." "I have seat to the andrtev ker," was tbe Duchess of Buckingham's rejoinder, "and he has engaged to snake a Utter one for 20." The old Court House, ia Lancaster, ia now in the course of demolition. The town clock, which has been running for three quarters of a century has been taken down. It was put ap in 1788, at a cost of 550. Since that time the olock has) been clesned but twice, and, with the ex ception of new weight ropes, has never cost tbe eounty one eent for repairs. Wha taken down everybody was astonished to find that there had been scarcely any per ceptible wear in any part of it The seat clock, with some slight improvements, is to be placed in the Court House when erected, and is expected to ran and keep good time for another century. Lancaster county was erected f lay 10 1729, and the first Court held in a house built of logs, ia Conestoga township, about 7 miles south-west of tho city. The bail ding cost the county 7 ia the curreaew of those days, the pound beingfthea equal to 92-68 2-3 of the present currency. Court continued to be held there until the) August Term, 1730, when it wss removed to tbe "borobgh of Lancaster," and a Court House was erected in tbe Publio . Square. This building was not entirely completed until 1738, and was destroyed by fire one evening in the summer (aar vest time) ot 1783. Preparations were) immediately made by the Commissioners) for the erection of a new building, which was commenced shortly after. A difficulty arose relative to tho she, one) party being in favor of Centre Square, an other preferring the purchase of a full lot at the corner of North Queen aad Orange streets, on which there were then but a few small buildings. The Centre Square par ty prevailed, and the new building was) erected occupied by the old one. It waa first used in 1786, and has been occupied for Court purposes ever since. The pres ent sessions of the Court are held ia Fal. tea Hall. Berk oc ScAmyilcUl Journal. Fatal Fracas. Two brothers named Gideon Creasjy and Gotlieb Creaaley, residing in Greenwich, township, Berks eounty, got into a quarrel about soma domestic grievances, on the) AA.t a? a r 1 i a -t - a loutn or Apm last, in me course or wnioa meIa- Gotlieb is said to have struck his brother bers of the fem.ijr iwu .f tb. (jidaon oa tte head with a rake, inflictiar v saH Amwwawv V WWW a-tsst w a VUJ awVJAa I remarkable for a peculiarly elegant confor mation of the neck. The Claekmannan shire Braces, who are descended from a common stock with the famous Robert Bruce of Scotland, are said to have that strongly-marked form of the cheek-bones and jaws which appears on the coins of that heroie monarch, as it did in his actual face when his bones were disinterred at Dunfermline, about thirty years ago. The prevalent tallness of the people of Potsdam, many of whom are descended frnni tr.a mMntia -...-rlo f WnJ..:V T . -- aj'x--." g . w s wiuiwa a- , the Spanish features observable in the people of the county of Galway, in which, some centuries ago, some Spanish settle ments were made; and the hereditary beauty of the women of Prague, are well known facts, which have frequently attract ed the attention of chronologists. The burgesses of Rome (the moat invariable portion of every population) exhibit, at the present day, precisely the same type of face and form as their anoestors, whose busts may be seen carved ia relief on the ancient sarcophagi; and the Jewish physiognomies, portrayed upon the sepul chral monuments of Egypt, are identical with those which may bo observed among modern Jews in the streets of any of our great cities. Zladneu of Pride. When the Duchess of Buckingham found herself dying, she sent for Austis, the herald, and settled all the pomp of her funeral ceremony. She was afraid of dy ing before the preparations were ready. " Why, she asked, won't they send the canopy for me to see ? Let them send it, even though tho tassels are not finished." And then she exacted, as Horace Walpole affirms, a vow from her ladies, that, if she should become insensible, they would not sit down in her room till she waa dead. Funeral honors appear, indeed, !o have been her fanoy ; for when her only son died, she sent messengers to her friends, telling them, that, if they wished to see him lie in state, she would admit them by the baek stairs. Such was the delicacy of her maternal sorrow. But there was one match in pride aad insolence, for Katharine, Duchess of Buckingham ; this wss Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough. Upon the death of the young Duke of Buckingham, his mother endeavored to borrow the triumphal ear that had carried the remains of Marlbo rough to the grave. "No," replied the widowed Duchess of Marlborough, "the ear tint has carried tho Duke of Marlbo rough's body shall never be profaned by a serious wound on the right ear from thej effects of which he died oa tho 6th iast Aa inquest was summoned on tho body bj one of the local magistrates. Tho report states, (we quote from the document) that " Gitian Craaly git a wound ia hia head about 3 inches over the right ear, 8 inoheft . tib (deep) and qustor ronnt, aad die est the 6 May, 1853, at 10 o'clock ia the fore noon, and ia 31 yar oL" We learn further that thq deceased was ia the habit of abusing aad ill-treating hia wife, aod that oa the morning of the oa- . currence one of these domestio squabbles occurred, when the wife of the deceased fled to the residence of her brother-in-law livings near by, and appealed to him for protection. This led to the quarrel be tween the brothers, the unfortunate result of which is stated above. Jkrke 4b SchuyU kill Journal. A Slave Cass. An effort was made) some days since, by two men from, Yirgia ia, to secure the person of Robert Thomas. a fugitive slave, who has resided in Trenton N. J., for the last twenty five years. Tha agent for the alleged owner of Thomas, called upon James Ewing, Esq.. who had been appointed Commissioner under the) law, aad required his aid ia the premises. Mr. Ewing declined to act, on the ground that he had never accepted tho appoint ment Robert Thomas took the midnight line for New York, and got aafo into Canada. He had accumulated about twe thousand dollars' worth of property. Charles Lee has recovered a verdict la the Circuit Court at Morrisville, Maduoa county, N. Y., of f 1000 against the Rock. ester end Syracuse Railroad Company foe personal injuries caused by an accident oa the railroad in October last It is said that the company offered to settle tbeclaitm before trial by tbe payment of 16000. but tho plaintiff refused to accept tht amount. The question, who owns Lake ICeai- gaa ? has sprung up in the Illinois coorts. The persons owning land along the saera of tha Lake, claim to own to the middle of the Lake, while a Railroad Company' that wishes to ran a road along tho shore, claim that all outside high water mark belongs) to the Stat, Persons who have got foreign silver eoia stowed away ia shot bags aad old stooldnsa. t-.j .-.. r ...... . . .. erW una natter d putting it m circulation, for, as soon as the new silver eoia gets efts U will not be worth what it now is. efnnt mm old silver. By letting U oat now. it-win soo. fad it. way to tha JfW) wLjr of it are berag aIted ap.
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