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rilL 1'KOII) MISS MAC 1SSUD1L,
A LEGEND OF GOTHAM.
terribly proud was Miss Mac Bride,
T:e very personification of pride,
is ac mimie'd along in Fashion's tile,
ilown Urcadway on the proper tide
When the golden sua was setting:
Tercwas pride in the head she carried so high,
P;:Je in her lip, and pride in her eye,
il a world of pride in the very sigh
TLr.t her stately bosom was fretting;
A ;':gb that a pair of elegant feet,
Sindal'd in satin, should kiss the street
lie very same that the vulgar greet
ii common leather not over neat
Fcr such is the common bootintr :
lid Christian tears may well be shed,
TLa even aniung the gentlemen bred,
lie glorious Day of Morocco is dead,
AaJ hay & Martin are reigning instead,
a much inferior footing !j
0, terribly proud was Miss Mac Bride,
Pr.ai uf her beauty, aud proud of her pride,
A'-i jroud of fifty matters beside
That wouldn't have borne description ;
r.-oui of her wit, proud of her walk,
Priud of her teeth and prou i of her talk,
i'rcui tf -knowing cheese from chalk,''
vz a very slight inspection!
Pr'X'i abroad, ar.d proud at home,
Pre-ad wherever she chanced to come,
K-in she was glad and when sho was glum,
Prond as tiie head of a Saracen
f,Ter :he door of a tippling shop,
bond as a duchess, proud as a fop,
'Proud as a boy with a bran-new top,"
Proud Leyond comparison.
It seems a singular tldng to say,
But her very senses led her astray
lUspecting all huurility;
I-south, her dull auricular drum, -uald
find in Ilumlle enly a "hum"'
L.1 heard no sound of "gentle" coma
Ii talking about gentility.
'au Lowly meant, she did not know,
f r she always avoided "everything low"
With care the most punctilious ;
Aai still queerer, the audible
"tuper-silly" slit never had found -la
the adjective supercilious I
Tie meaning of Meek she never knew,
wt imagined the phrase had something to do
-i "Moses" a peddling German Jew,
"lo. hke all hawkers the country,
Was "a person of no position ;"
:4 it seemed to her exceedingly plain, -
the word was really known to pertain,
c vulgar German it wasn't germaiue,
lo a lady of high condition 1
j'tt ter graces, not her grace
that was in the "vocative case"
!--'J i with the touch of her icy face,
Sat very stifiiy npon her 1
n never confessed a favor aloud
rne of the simple, .common crowd
coldly smiled and faintly bowed,
Asvho would say "you do me proud, .
Aid do yourself an honor I"
Jrjyet the pride'of Miss Mac Erido,
though it has fifty hobbies to ride,
Had really no foundation ;
tDe fabrics that gossips devise
a se single stories that often arise
-w prow 'till they reach a four story fiize,
as merely a fancy creation !
Js ewiona fact as ever was known
human nature but often shown
IW? 1 rfastle &ml "tte,
q ke P'fis of a certain breed,
a manage to hve and thrive on feed '
As f 00r " a paviper's pottage. -
mJtWlt,5houlti neTer have made her vain,
An l fa,CC' sufficiently plain ;
Ad "ns until Bh hoarse, --n0te3
a banker's force,
"Fc . Such Eotes as we never endorse,
n7 acquaintance of ours.
f L t td was uncommonly high;
W a Sk r ?riJe first PtrMHl Ler eye - '
But iJlu 1 oa tLe neLt of thc 6ky ;
Ail in taVin u ewious passion ;
g her wealth worth, .
People of rank and foshion. -
u2Table'tMnConwrth,'
Sf Pride of . birth
UridSour fice Democracy! "
Wrcd years, . .
at eTr . F t0 save 11 r2 uneers
Is aT -Ughter' flcer9 an,i Jee"'
v.iaa Aristocracv.
nN11. v"611' Fnch and Spanish,'
(rin; ,h litn Dutch an1 Daaiiih, -
. ew veins until they vanish .
o .Srte COEglomeration. . .
VrjWt?TngIo1of "ood Indeed. ' '
D th circulation
Depend upon it. mv snnKKlcK ;-.i
J our family thread you can't ascend,
Without good reason to apprehend
ou may find it waxed at the farther end
Hy some plebinn vocation. '
Or, worse than that, your boasted lino
May end m thc loup of stronger twine.
That plagued some worthy relation.
But Miss Mac Bride had something besido
iter lofty birth to nourish her pride
i'cr rich was the old paternal Mac Bride,
According to public rumor;
And he lived up town, in a splendid square,
And kept his daughter on daintiea rare,
And gave her gems that were rich and rare.
.. j.iicov rings ana tuings to wear,
And feathers enough to plume her.
An honest mechanic was John Mac &ide 1
As ever an honest calling plied, '
Or graced an honest ditty;
For John had worked in his early day
In Pots and rearls," the legends say
And kept a shop with a rich array
With things in the soap and candle way,
In the lower part of the city.
No rare-avis was honest .T.-.J,n
i (That's the latin for sable-swan)
I Though in one of his faucy flashes,
I A wicked wag, who meant to deride,
i Called honest John "Mr. I'hceniz Mac Bride,
j Because he rose from his ashes."
j Little by Uttle, he grew to be rich,
By saving of candle ends and "sich,"
j Till he reached at last an opulent niche,
I No very uncommon afiair;
1 For history quite confirms the law
Espresred in the ancient Scottish saw :
j A Mickle may come to be mair!
! Alack for many and ambitious beaux,
j She hung their hopes upon her nose ;'
i ( The figure is quite horatian)
; Until from habit the member grew
! As very a Hook as ever ye knew
i To the commonest observation.
; A thriving tailor begged her hand,
' 3ut she gave thc fellow to understand
! By a violent manual action,
She perfectly scorn'd the best of his clan,
: And reckon' J the ninth of any man, '
An exceedingly vulgar fraction!
I Another, whose sign was a golden boot,
i Was mortified by a bootless suit,
j In a way that was quite appalling;
i For though a regular suitor by trade,
1 lie wasn't the suitor to suit tin m,.;,
Who cut him off with a saw, and bade.
The cobbler keep to his calling.
(The muse maid let a secret out;
There isn't the faintest shadow of doubt.
The folks who oftenest sneer and flout
At "the dirty, low, mechanic,"
Are they, whose sires, by pounding their knees
Or .coiling their legs, or trades like these,
Contrived to win their children's ease
! Trom poverty's galling manacles.)
A rich tobacconist comes and sues,
And, thinking the lady would scarcely refuse '
.i. uuu ui iiis vca:ia ana noeral views
Began at once with, "If you choose;
And could reallv lnvi hm
But the lady spoiled Lis speech in a huff.
With an answer rough and ready enough,
To let him know she was. up to Enuff, '
And altogether abdve him.'
A young attorney of winning graee,
Was scarce allowed to open his face,
Ere Muss Mac Bride had closed his casa
With true judicial celerity.
For the lawyer was poor, and "seedy" to boot
And to say the lady discarded his suit '
Is merely a double verity. '
The last of those who came to court
Was a lively beau of thc dapoer sort
Without any visible means of support
A crime by no means flagrant '
In one who wears an elegant ooat
But the very point on which they voto
A ragged fellow a vagrant.
A courtly fellow was Dapper Jimr
Sleek and suple tall and trim,
Aud smooth of tongue as neat of limb
A maugre his meagre pocket;
You'd say from the ditterinr- tn'c ,n
That Jim had slept in a cradle of gold,
With Fortunatus to rock it.
Now Dapper Jim his courtship plied,
(I wish the fact could be denied)
With an eye to the purse of the old Mac Bride,
And really nothing shorter.
For he said to himself in his greedy lust,
Whenever he dies, as die he must,
And yields to heaven his vital trust,
He's very sure to come down to dust
In behalf of his only daughter. .
And the very magnificent Miss Mac Bride,
Half in love and half in pride,
Quite graciously relented ;
And, tossing her head, and turning her "back
No token of proper pride to lack,
To be a bride without the Mac,
With much disdain, consented.
Alas, the people who've got their box
Of cash beneath the best of locks
.Secure from all financial shocks,
Should stock their fancy with fancy stocks.
And madly rush upon Wall street rocks,
- Without the least apology.
Alas, that people whose money affairs
Are sound beyond all need of repairs,
Should ever tempt the bulls and bearg
Of Mammon's fierce Zoology.
Old John Mac Bride, one fatal day,
Became the unresisting prey
Of Fortune's undertakers ;.
And staking all ou a single die, ,
Ilis foundered bark went high and dry.'
Among the brokers and breakers-.
. - ' r
At his trade again, to the very shop
here, years ago he lei it drop, .. .
He follows his ancient calUng;
Cheerily too, in poverty's spite, -
.And sleeping quite aa sound at night,
As when at Fortune's giddy flight,
He used to wake with a dizzy fright.
From a dismal dream of falling.
"WE GO WHERE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES POINT THE WAV ;
HEME, Mill ii m
But alas, for the haughty Miss Mac Bride,
Twas such a shock to her precious pride !
She couldn't recover, although she tried,
Her jaded spirits to rally.
'Twas a dreadful change in human affairs,
Irom a place "Uptown" to a nook "Upstairs,"
irom an Avenue down to an aUey!
'Twas little condolence she had, God wot
From her troops of friends, who hadn't forgot
The airs she used to borrow:
They had civil phrase enough' but yet "
'Twas plain to see, that their deepest "re-n-et"
Was a dificrcnt thing from sorrow.
They owned it couldn't have well been any wors
To go from a full to an einrjty purse:
To expect a reversion and get a reverse
Was truly a dismal feature. '
Butit'wasn't strange they whispered at all
That the Summer of pride should have its Fall
"a quite accorumg to Mature.
And one of thc chaps who made a t un,
As if it were quite legitimate fun
To be blazing away at every one
AVith a regular double loaded gun,
Bemark'd that moral transgression
Always brings retributive stings,
To candle makers as well as kings ;
For "making light of cercous thaiss"
Was a very wick-cd profession.
And vulgar people, the saucy churls,
Inquired about " the price of Tearls,"
Aud mock'd her situation;
"She wasn't ruinor! timi- t--,,,..-
Because she was poor, she needn't in ope
Few people were better off for soap.
And that was a consolation.
And to make her cup of woe run over.
vicsrani, araeni, p lighted lover
1 Was the very first to forsake her;
; " He regretted the step, 'twas true
iiiw i;iuy una priue enough for two,
But that alone would never do
To quiet the butcher and baker.
And now the unharr-v Miss Mno P.rU.
The merest ghost of her early pride
jjvnuus ner lonely position;
Cramped in the very narrowest nicha
Above the poor and below the rich;
Was ever a worse condition ?
ilOBAL.
Because you flourish in worldly affairi
Don't be haughty and r.ut on ;
i "iiu luouicui pnue oi station.
Don't be proud and turn up your noso
At poorer people in plainer clothes,
But learn, for the sake of your mind's repose,
That wealth is a bubble that comes and troee
W!tll I n c- 1 f ...
uu irouu fiesn, wherever it grows
Is subject to irritation. '
Tlie Floivcr-Girl of Wyoming.
- Ingham, the Painter' has left after hfm a por
trait of the Flower-Girl of Wyoming, which is
regarded ly connoisseurs as a work of art of
great merit. Connected with this picture of the
Flowcr-Girl, is the following romantic, but real
ly authentic fctory:
Many years ago a gentleman from England
was travelling at his leisure, in the coaches of
the United States mail, down thc charming val
ley of Wyoming, and on a certain occasion chan
ced to tarry for a short time in the village of
that name. It was mid summer, and while en
joying his after-dinner cigar on the portico of
the tavern, a young girl suddenly made her ap
pearance, offered for sale, in the innocence of
her heart, a basket of fresh flowers. II pur
chased a handsome bouquet, and when the
coach was ready, continued his journey. AVeeks
had passed on, but wherever he wandered he
was continually haunted by the surpassing love
liness of the unknown flower-girl of Wyoming,
and he soon found himself once more a sojour
ner in the viUage inn. He had by thi3 time be
come so deeply interested in the stranger girl
that he had made many inquiries about her con
dition, and found that she was the only daugh
ter of poor but highly respectable parents. With
these parents he finally became acquainted, and
in the process of time obtained permisi ion to
place the daughter at one of the principal sem
inaries in the country. While she was storirg
her mind with knowledge, her benefactor was
living in England. Time passed on : he retur
ned to Wyoming, found the rustic flower-girl an
accomplished lady, offered her his hand in mar
riage, was accepted aud married, ; and after set
tling a property on his American parents, crossed
the Atlantic with his bride, and settled in one Of
the pleasant vales of England, where he now
lives in the enjoyment of every thing which
Wealth and education can afford. The picture
in question is an actual portrait, and was taken
from a sketch which thc artist painted on the
very day the English stranger purchased a bo
quetof the Flower-Girl of Wyoming.
A Brace of Cutting Impromptus.
Fox, the celebrated orator, was one day told
by a lady whom ho visited, that she did not care
" three skips of a louse for him." He immediate,
ly took out his pencil and wrote the following
lines : x
"A lady has told me, and in ber own house,
That she cares not for me 'three skips of a louse,'
I forgive the dear creature for what she has said,
Since woman will talk of what runs in their heads.'
After Burke had finished his extraordinary
speech against Warren Hastings, a friend of the
latter wrote the following impromptu, which
can hardly be surpassed ;
" Oft have I wondered that on Irish ground
No venomous reptile ever yet was found ; -.
The secret stands revealed in nature's work
She taved h'.r venom to create a Bubjli I"
WHEN THEY WTrt ,P"
1U LE4D WE CEASE
TO
Anotbcr Project, and a Wild Cn
uuxu, an LDghsh naval officer, who be-
. b " . rCCCnt "eyiug expedition at Bch
nng Straits, offers to go in search of Sir John
Franklin over land. He proposes to travel by
way of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Tobolsk, Irkutz
and Jakoutz, to the mouth of the Kolyma, and
ther CO commence exploring thc coast of Siberia
east and west, a distance Uttle short of 10 OtJ
miles. He does not ask for a party, but merely
for a companion and servant: and he tlm, -
the expense attending the journey would be tri-
mg,jn comparison to fitting out ships. The
English Admiralty declined this offer; but a -reed
to grant film an unlimited leave of ab.c if i,
could prosecute the journey by private subscrip
tion, lie will, therefore, apply to thc Russian
Emperor for free conveyances through hi
minions. He proposes to proceed first to St.
i etersourg, and lrom thence to Moscow bv rail
way; from Moscow to Irkutz Teligi, on sledges,
a distance of 8544 miles, and from Irkutz toJa
koutz, also on sledges, a distance of 1821 miles.
The whole journey occupuying about i months.
At Jakoutz all regular travelling conveniences
terminates, and the 1200 miles to the river Kol
yma, as well as the 2000 miles of search, would
have to be performed in a manner best adapted
to the resources of the country. In 1S54 the
task might be completed, if, unfortunately, be
fore that time, no traces should have been found
of tho missing ships.
Kxagsreration.
If there be any one mannerism that is univer
sal among mankind, it is that of coloring too
highly the things we describe. We cannot be
content with a simple relation of truth we must
exaggerate, we must have "a little too much red
iu the brush." Who ever heard cf a dark night
that was not "pitch dark ?" of a stout man that
wa3 not "as strong as a horse ?" or of a miry
road that was not "up to the knee ?"' We would
walk "fifty mUcs on foot" to see that man vho
Lever caricatures the subject on which he speaks.
But where is such a man to be found ? From
"rosy morn to dewy eve," in our conversation
we are constantly outraging thc truth. If some-
nuamaiciui in tue mgut, "we have scarcely
had a wink of sleep;" if our sleeves get a little
uamp iu a shower, we arc "as wet as if dragged
through a brook;" if a breeze blow uy while we
are in thc "chops of the channel," thc waves arc
sure to "run mountains high;" and if a man
grow ricbVwe all say' that "Le rolls in money"
No later than yssterday, a friend, who would
shrink from' wilful misrepresentations, told us
hastily, as he passed, that the newspaper Lad
"nothing in it but advertisements."
COOd.
The editor of the Bunkum lag S(if, heard
Jenny Lind sing during her first series of con
certs in New York, and thus speaks of the fact :
"We have heard the celebrated Swedish cocka
trice. We traveled some miles (free ticket) and
waited on Barnum. Sez he, "we give no tickets
to the outside press." Sez we, (with an edito
rial leader in our eye,) "we'U buy one." Sez he,
shaking our hand, "that's right." We bought
a walking ticket, and took a stand, away out in
thc Bay of New Yoxk. ' We heard her. A friend
of ours, when shc"got up in a-b-ub said, "cut my
straps and let nic go up!" We said, "don't ex
pose yourself." Her voice is not square, it is cf
an oval texture. It will suit the ear of Bunkum.
When she got up in the susUnuto we stood agash;
but when she tried it on with the jlauio, the
ollijato, and sunk down to the crupper-noics,
wo knocked under. She has no merit as an ar
tist, but as a singer, she is good! That's our
opinion. The price of good seats is six dollar?,
but the "Outaide Press" can get walking tickets
at one dollar."
Iompeii.
A recent letter from an American gentleman
in Naples, says :
"Vesuvius is calmly smoking, and seems dis
posed to rest himself from he fatigues of Lis
devastating labors of last' year. Pompeii is
slowly appearing above ground. About 20 la
borers are kept at work, who managed to get off
a cartload of earth a day frem the superincum
bent city. Not ono half of the entire city is yet
excavated. The earthly mound which covers it
is an exceedingly beautiful and rich vineyard,
with houses of peasants scattered ver its sur
face. A portion of the sea wall has recently
been unearthed, which goes to confirm the opin
ion that thc sea. now nearly one milo distant,
once laved the walls of PompeiL"
: The Colossus of Rhodes.
The Colossus of Rhodes was a bronze figure,
fashioned by Chares, a disciple of Lysippus,
three hundred years before Christ; and probably
thc idea was first conceived in the copper smith
ery of -Lysippus. Its height was one hundred
and five feet, . Its thumbs were a fathom in cir
cumference, and each finger is said to have Lecu
fuUy as large as an ordinary stutue.- Ships
passed between its legs on entering the harbor
of Eixotks, which they spanned. This statue
was upset by an earthquake, when it had stood
seventy years, and after lying on the ground for
nine hundred years, was finadly 6old to a Jew
merchant by thc Saracens, who loaded nino
hundred camels with the fragments.
FOLLOW
Tiic First Lesson.
No teaching like a mother's ! no lessons sink
into the virgin so cf childhood so deeply as
those learned at a loving mother's knee; the
seed sown thus and then, may be hidden for
years ; but it fctiil lives, and influences the
life and actions of the learner ever thereafter.
Ill fu.re.sit with the man who has no remem
brance of kneeling; as a child," beside his moth
er's knee, and learning his first lessons from J.rr
lips. He knows nothing of life's holiest memo
ries; and great is the resposibilitv of that moth
er who confides her child's first tiachin-r,
another who allows a stranger to write on the
tablets of her child's mind that which will bias
its whole life career, and be as indcjtructablc
as the mind itself. The lives cf thc great men
of history, most of them and when we say great
men, we understand good men prove this.
They have looked back to the time when their
teacher wa3 their mother, and thence have tra
ced a silent influence that was ever about them
"still, small voice" heard amid the loud tur
moil of bu?y life ; though
"Chances mocked and changes filled the cup of
alternation," j.
that chiefly led them onward, and set them in
high places in the sight of their follows. And
great men have loved the memory of thece
mothers ; other loves may have possessed them
the love of honor, of fame, of woman ; but
the Jove of her who framed their cliildish ac
cent and fvrnied their minds, has transcended
all ; set as a star apart, and worshipped when
they look to heaven. Other loves may fall in
to "the sere, the yellow leaf;" mny have been
mingled with suffering, and have left regret and
disappointment behind ; but this, beginning
with the first breath of being, ends only with
its lat.
It docs no good. Some tins
have a seeming
compensation or apology, a present graification
of some sort ; but niijrcr has none. A man feels
no better lor it. It is really a torment ; and
when thc storm of passion has cleared away
it leaves one to see that he has been a feci ; and
he has made himself a fool in the eyes of others
too. Who thinks well of an ill-natur6d man,
who has to be approached in the most guarded
and cautious way ? Who wishes him for a neigh
bor, or partner in business? He keeps all a
bont hira in the same stato of mind as if they
were living next to a hornet's nest or a rabid
animal. And as to prosperits in business, one
gets along no better for getting angry. What
if business is perplexing, and everything "goes
by contraries" will a fit of passion make the
winds more propitious, the grounds more pro
ductive, the markets more favourable ? Will a
bad temper draw customers, pay notes, and
make creditors better natured? An angry man
adds nothing to the welfare of society. Since
then, anger is useless, needless, disgraceful,
without thc least apology, and found only "iu
the bosoni of fools" why should it be indulged
at all ?
Patronage to I'rinlers.
It is stated that the day after General Jack
son's inauguration, twenty four editors of news
papers, marched in procession to the President
'to get their pay.' Poor old man. he was to be
pitied. Among them was Noah, of the Advo
cate, and Hill of the Patriot. Noah, was a man
of ease, and to appearance, well fed. Hill was
lean and a very Cassius. Noah, a cunnin
shrewd fellow, stopped thc procession and pro
posed a different order. 'Here!' said he 'Hill
you are the ugliest of the clan, and of hungry
aspect enough, 1 am fat and plump. You will
lead U3 ou, ; and as soon as the old President
sees this picture of starvation; he wiU surrender
at once." Well it worked like a charm. They
entered the palace in this order; the President
was sent for and entered the room. He started
back Good God! gentleman, take all you want."
The old hero, though his nerves never forsook
hin in battle, could not stand this but surren
dered at once, and twenty three of twenty four
obtained at once, and the twenty fourth; for be
ing left out, let out the whole storv.
Tlie President and his Coachman.
Hon. T. Corwin tells the following story of
the present incumbent of the White House :
President Fillmore, upon his elevation to th
Presidential Chair, was ohli
with thc dignities of Lis new faUtion, to purchase '
. .diuu,;c uoiaes me horses were obtain
ed aud Mr. Preston, of South Carolina, offered
to dispose of his fine coach, which was accor
dingly sent to the new President for his insncc
tion. A
Irish Jemmy, the White House Coachman,
was on hand when Mr. Fillmore called at the
stable to insnect it. and wish;
Jemmy a- to the fitness of the coach, asked if
he thought it fine enough.
" Och, it's a good coach, your lienor," said
Jcmiuy.
But is it good enough, ' Jemmy ? " said thc
President.
Jeiumy, with a doubtful scratch of the head
answered again, in the same manner; when Mr!
FiUmorc, wanting a positive answer suid :
"Jemmy, do you think a second hand carriage
would do for a President? "
"Och," said Jemmy, "remember vour honor's
M QOn,.1 linn.l T ? 1 . 1 . " -
-"'- uiuiu x ivsiueui ana sure it 3 just right
The President took the coach.
' Q
VOLUME 8. HHMBEH II.
From Our Exchanges.
One of tbe most distinguished of the Hunga
rian Generals who were takc-u prisoners and ex
ecuted by the Austrian?, bad the singular nam,
of Ernest Kiss. He was a wealthy proprietor
owning twenty-three Tillages, and "was a man of
excessive personal elegance as well as of chival
ric courage. HejrcguJarly sent Lis linen all tha
way from Hungary to Paris to be washed
was, in similar respects, a D'Orsav .. .
Bayard. His coolness in danger was remarkablo
and it is told of him that one dav. within
of an Austrian battery, making an observation
-rcu ms servant to brir- him a cup of
chocolate. A shot took it from his hand and
killed his horse. " Clumsy ra-cals V saij KjS9
" they have upset my breakfast." When taken
out with three others to be shot, he was superbly
dressed. The order was given to fire, and hia
companions fell, while he stood untouched.
"iou LaTe forgotten me," said Kiss in his usual
tone of voice. The corporal of the platoon step
ped up and fired, and, the baU striking Lim in
the forehead, he fell dead without a struggle.
The Editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer recent
ly saw a man who had a pocket knife upward,
of eighty years old. The blade was about four
in.-hes long, and an inch wide, roundine at tb
, point. It was manufactured by an Indian in th
Mackinarr country. The blade had formed part
of a sword taken from a Frenchman in the cel.
ebrated French and Indian war. The bone on
one side of the handle was from the thigh of an
Indian, and that on the other from the thicK-
, bone of an English soldier, killed on the Heights
ot Abraham, m Canada, where Gen. Wolfe lost
his life.
They seem to be lenient to roguery in the back
woods if the roguery is smartly executed. A
young woman lately dressed herself in male at
tire, Ftole her father's horse, and went off to
! SCCK cr fortune. She was caup ht. however and
I bought home. The editor who tells the story
comment;, upon it thus . " She is a girl who will
make her way in the world, and presents a riiLt
smart chance for seme fellow who wants a wife."
The passenger cars of one of the English rail
way companies furnish eleven miles cf seat-room
which would 'accommodate forty thousand per
sons. The surface cf the goods' cars is equal
to eleven acres, sufficient for the stowage of forty
one thousand tons. If all the wheels of all tLa
cars belonging to thc company were made into
one great wheel, that great wheel would be seventy-two
miles in circumference.
A farmer in Scotland, whose hbuse was re
cently attacked at night by five robbers fought
them for an hour, with horse-pistol and revolver,
his wife standing by loading the pistols, and ex
horting Lim to " take ste-dy aim." The rascala
at length, by burning damp straw at thc bottom
of thc ttairs, forced the heroic pair to a surren
der ; when the canny Scot plied them with whis
key to such a degree, that three of them wcra
found next morning in a drunken sleep ia a ditch
near thc house, and probably aU the stolen pro
perty will be recovered.
Gov. Young, of Utih, the Mormon Territory,
has, it is said, ninety wives. He drove along tho
streets, a few days since, with sixteen cf them
in a long carriage fourteen of them having each
an infant at her hosom. This stut-mcnt is en
dorsed by tho returning Chief Justice and Sec
retary. It is very well, we think, that President
Fillmore bus decided upon removinc this mpr-
. ican Turk ; for a innn with siich a family to look
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aitvr, can have precious little time to attend to
State affiurs.
A letter from Washington dated the 11th inst.,
says that Dr. Jackson of Philadelphia, who was
sent for to attend Mr. Clay, came down with his
friend J osiah llandalh The Doctor declared the
disease bronchitis of the right lung. ' Mr. Clay
requiring repose, will, at his physician's request
leave here to-morrow or next day for Philadel
phia, to stay either at Dr. Jackson's house, or at
that of his friend's, Jesiah Randall. It is thought
that Mr. Clay will yet recover by skillful treat
ment. The American Cemetery, in Mexico, construc
ted with funds supplied by Congress, Las been
finished. It is near the city of Mexico, and the
remains of the Americans who died or were kil
led during the Mexican war are to be removed
to it. It is laid out along side of thc EuglLh
burial ground, occupuying about two acres, and
enclosed by a thick wall, fifteen feet in heb-ct -
tac entrance is turough an arched gate-way, a
bout twice the height of the wall ; upon the arch
is a figure of a cross. Tho whole work is of an
appropriate and substantial order.
lhe work on the Washinston National Monu
ment has been suspended for the season. It has
now attained the height of one hundred and four
feet from the surface of the ground, and if it
advances with the same rapidity as it has so far
done, it wiU in a few y ears reach its anex at an
elevation of nve hundred and seventeen feet, for
ming the loftiest structure in the
Iau ltussel, Union candidate for audi
tor in Mississippi, being called cn for a speech,
began thus: ' '
"Fellow citizens, you have called on me for a
few remarks. 1 have none to make. 1 Lave no
prepared speech. Indeed I am no speaker I
do not desire to be a rpcak;r; I only want to b
an auditor. rf
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