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''. Boiling in the breeze, "
; Biding over billow, .
' Titching into seas, -s'
Shaking with, the engine,
" Screaming wtb the 'Waal,
r iiEghty pleasant -nsodool .
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s"-'Under naath yonr feet,
Now it heavens yon up Kke
. . Toing in a sheet.
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Ladies looking pale
Captain eomea along, and
" Saya it'a quite a gale ;
raasengera inquire how ,
Long it'a like to last ;
Captain shakes his head " It'a
Rising very fast.
"r Gentleman in motion.
Looking quite distressed,
.Says he'd give his house for
Half an hour's rest.
Fidgety old lady
Wonders he could sup,
Has a poor opinion
Of his fringing up. t
Not the slightest doubt
. Another fit of straining
Will turn him inside out ; .
Lady on the sofa,
Lying dead almost, '
- Nothing more to give up.
Unless it be the ghost.
Gentleman n upper berth
. Little sleep enjoys,
Gentleman beneath is
, Making such a noise ;
. Gentleman in lower berth, '
. . Timid sort of chap,
fraid to put his head out,
. For fear of some mishap. '
iV
Cunntng-visaged Yankee
Looking sharp and slim, ?
Sajrs he guesses folks won't
Come it over him ;
Maatis to save his dinners ;
Prudent like a monk.
Got a pound of candles -
L-Kkeil np iu his trunk.
' Swaggering .weslern rowdy
Will do as he sees fit ; "
M:ns to go to Fentoa's ; '
. ; Mcau8 to smoke and spit ;
. Keep a pair of pistols,
Wear a bowie-knife ;
Never teok an insult, '
v 'iTevecin his life.
Lady gelling aervous, .
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Sodien in the night .
Gentleman resolving,
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TWHt spend his life on t'other side,
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r tioal TOona, nd opght to be read at
least. oce by ererj ona before he attempts to
writ for the benettt or instruction of the pub-
crtal of good writing wenvi to
T M ia tLii vet j sLoople tuaxiin : Be sure you
kayis ta Uem before yoa attempt to express it.
If ,ypa,c!aarly comprehend in jour owo mind
: ks.t yoa irii to comnmuicate, nature and
- Tca tc iiher with a litUe practice, will most
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THE SECSET3 C7 THE COHTECdOIIAL,
IHPOBTANT CEJMINAL tRtiL IM TIRGISIA IN-
' TEKE8TINQ CECI8I0S. ' I
'A case involving points of unusual interest
and novelty, bas just been tried in the Supe-. i
rior Court of Richmond, Va., Judge Jobs A.
Merdith presiding, . A man named Jobn Cro- ,
D10, a storekeeper in thti city, was tried for
the murder of hut wife, having inflicted upon
her, on the 28th of September t injuries which
ced to miscarriage and subsequent death. The
cause of this treatment was her detection in
adulterous cohabitation with a man named
Thos. Byron, who to avoid the"engeanc of
the aggrieved husband bad immediately quit
the city. For some days after the occurrence,
the injuredwoman seemed comapratively well
and it was not till : she had given birth, to a
still-born child, , which was about the sixth
day, that she manifested any alarming symp
toms. 8he lingered until the 13th of Octo
ber, and up to the moment of her death made
the most solemn asseverations of innocence in
regard to the charge of adultery made against
her by her husband. '
Among the witnesses examined," was the
Rev. John Teeling, Roman Catholic curate of
Richmond, to whom, the deceased, in the
presence of her husband, had declared her in
nocence, and the defence now sought to ob
tain from him- whatever of subsequent declar
ation she may have made, I in her " confes
sion,' previous to receiving ertremewnetion,
3Ir. Gilmer, the counsel for the defence, con
tending that such confessions could be intro
duced as her dying declarations. After "
lengthy examination, Mr. Gilmer propounded ;
to witness this question .
Mr. Gilmer Did she not confess to you
before she received absolution what was con
tradictory, or rather .the reverse of the state
ment made to you in presence of her husband ?
Witness I cannot answer that question.
Court Any declaration made by her in the
absence of her husband is inadmissible.
Mr. Gilmore here contended that he laid
tho foundation to justify the admission of any
declaration which she may have made at the
confessional, as a dying declaration. The
Court seemed to be of a contrary opinion.
Subsequently the question was repeated :
. Mr. Gilmer- Did the deceased admit to
you at any time, or under any circumstances,
that she was guilty of adultery ?
Witness Abstract from my capacity as
sacramental confessor she said nothing invol
ving herself in guilt of that character ; she
denied her guilt, as I have already stated, in
presence of her husband and myself; any
statement made in her sacramental confession,
whether iuculpatory or exculpatory of the
prisoner, I am not at liberty to reveal.
The question was argued at length by coun
sel oa both sides, after which Mr. Teeling
made the following statement to the Court:
Mr. Teeling having obtained leave of the
Court, stated his reasons for not answering
the questions put to him by Mr. Gilmer, as
follows : It is doe to this honorable Court to
state briefly my reasons for not answering the
?uestions proposed by he counsel for the de
ence. as, to hesitate to do so, would argue a
eontemjt for the majesty of the law. Were I
asked any questions which I could answer
from knowledge obtained in my civil capacity,
or as a private individual and citizen, I should
not for a moment hesitate nay, more:. I
wonld consider it my duty to lay before this
honorable Court all the evidence I was in
possession of, being mindful of the precept of
the Apostle" Let every soul be subject - to
higher powers, for there is no power but from
God, and those that are ordained by God.
Therefore he that rcsisteth the power , resis
ted the ordinances of God ; and they that re
sist, purchase damnation to themselves."
Rom. xiii 1,2. . Uut if required to answer
any question in quality of Catholic minister of
the sacrament of penance, where I believe
God has imposed an inviolable and eternal
secrecy, I am bound to be silent, although in
stant death were to be the penalty of my re
fusal. - The question proposed by the counsel
for the defence affects me in the latter capaci
ty, and hence I must decline to answer it,
whilst in so doing I most respectfully, dis
claim any intention of contempt or disrespect,
directly or indirectly, to this court- Is a
Catholic priest ever justified, - under any. cir
cumstances, in revealing the secrets of sacra
mental confession ? I answer no ; that - no
power or. earth, civil or ecclesiastical, spiritu
al or temporal, can ever, under any circum
stances, dispense with this perpetual obliga
tion of -secreey ; so that were Pope Pius the
Ninth in .this Court, and if I -can suppose for
a moment that he would so far abuse his. sab
ered authority, and in the plentitude of that
authority, as my first spiritual superior on
earth, should request,, admonish and com
mand me to answer the question proposed, my
answer would be to him what it was . to Mr.
Gilmer I can say nothing about the matter.
The law which prohibits my revealicj what I
learn in a sacramental confession, Catholics
believe to be divine and to emanate from God
himself. It is a tenet of the Catholic Church
that Christ instituted &e Esyes aaerxmenta-r
neither more nor less. Con fiorent in decrtto
ad Arrttenot A. D. 1539, Council of Trent,
Bpt. 6, canon 1. It ia also an article of
Catholic faith that penance is one of these
sacraments, instituted by Christ for the re
mission of sins committed after babtism
CouncU Trent, sept. 14, canons 1. and 6
that sacramental confession forma an essential
and component part of this . sacrament.
Further, that the obligation of aecresvis es-
.senti&lly eccnected with the divine institution
tr coxsaon: for if H would b lawful w a
Catholic priest in any cajer to reveal what was
confided to him in confession, the divine pre
cept of confession would become entirely I
atory, and there is no person who woyll be
willing to disclose io. a priest an occult sin
which could be made public and blacken !lia
fair fame.l . Such a revelalion, if , permit,,
would be destructive of . the divine prece;. of
confession. But as we cannot suppose f at
Christ, the Eternal Wisdom of the Etc: al
Father, would pull down with one hand wlat
he erected with the other, and, as we Ct. fo
lios believe, instituted sacramental ce-f-Lra,
and for the purpose of confession aecresy is
absolutely necessary we conclude tL: t iqyi
lable secresy is commanded, by our Xoql in
the obligation of secresy . If it were tbii so
far forgetful of the solemn cblitaoSHi;"-
tracted at my ordination an"oLJatu3 iot
arising simply from ecclesiastical, but from a
divine law not from man, but dLpectl: from
God as to answer the question proptssd, I
should be forever degraded,, rendered infa
mous in the eyes of the Catholio Church,
shunned by every Catholic, and I believe by
every honorable man, no matter how par bis
religious .opinions . and mine might .'differ;
shunned and rendered infamous as a ac reli
gious wretch who trampled on his mast holy
and solemn obligation, mud violated the sacred
laws of nature, of his God, and of man. I
would be forever deposed from the sacred
ministry, and where the common lawj forms
part of the civil law, be condemned to perpet
ual imprisonment in a monastery, there to re
pent during my life the horrid crime I would
have committed. And what is still more im
portant than all, I would violate the dictates
of jny conscience, that, stubborn monitor
whose voice would forever whisper to my soul
black and dire sacrilege. I might .endeavor
to smother ita cry, but all my attempts would
only a4d strength to its terrible, reproaches
and warnings : You have committed sacri
lege of the deepest dye sacrilege to be pun
ished forever by the eternal vengeance of a
just and offended Deity. I have endeavored
thus to state my reasons as clearly -and sim
ply as I could for not answering the question
proposed. I thank this honorable Court for
the kind and patient hearing which it has ex
tended to me. Whatever may be its decision,
I shall reeeive it with respect.
This statement was listened to with tho ut
most attention. It evidently excited a great
deal of astonishment in the Court. .; -
The decision of the J udge occupied consid
erable time in its delivery, and is, therefore,
too long to present in full, I shall, if neces
sary, furnish a fall report of it He decided,
in the first place, that no foundation was laid
for the introduction of the statement--of th
woman, as a dying declaration, and reviewed
the testimony of Dr. Gavenzel and Mr. Tee
ling, which were the most pertinent to this
point, to show that a sense of impending dis
solution or immediate death which could con
stitute her declaration a dying declaration did
not exist. He, therefore, ruled the presenta
tion of a declaration, made under such cir
cumstances, illegal. This rule necessarily
obviated any necessity to exact from Mr. Tee
ling the declaration made to him at the coa
fessional. Yet, since the point 'was argued
by both counsel, his Honor took occasion to
pronounce upon it. He went very folly into
this question, referring to decisions made in
the English courts in cases of a somewhat
similar character. He referred to two cases
tried in England, in which declarations made
by Catholics to Protestant ministers were
held to be inadmissible, though the clergymen;
not regarding th confession : as sacrament!,
were willing to disclose all that ; was commu
nicated to them. .The confessions were re
garded as made in a penitent spirit, in -the
hope of forgiveness for the sins disclosed, and
hence sacred, though in the estimation of the
clergyman, by no ; means sacramental. - He
said he regarded any infringement upon the
tenants of any religious denominations as a
violation of the fundamental law, which guar
antees perfect freedom to all closes in the
exercise of their religious duties To en
croach upon the confessional, which was well
understood to be regarded as a fundamental
tenet in the Catholic Church, would be to
ignore the Bill of Rights, so far as it is appli
cable to that church. In view of these cir
cumstances, as well as a series of other con
siderations connected with this subject, he
felt no hesitation in ruling that a priest enjoys
a privilege of exemption from revealing what
is communicated to him at the confessional.'
The court was crowded to excess during
the delivery of this decision. Never, proba
bly, was a judgement rendered in this court
or in this city, which excited more interest,
or was listened to with more attention. ' la
fact, the court room was thronged during the
hearing of the entire case. The counsel for
the prisoner entered a bill of exceptions to tha
Judge's decision, with a view to have the
points tested in the Court of Appeals. '
Both counsel then addresed the jury Mr.
Gilmer for tho prisoner, Mr. Johnson for the
Commonwealth. . . '
After a lucid charge from the learned
Judje, the case was given to the jury, and at
a late hour they returned to the court .-room
and returned a verdict of "guilty of volunta
ry manslaughter," 'subjecting the prisoner t$
imprisonment for five years ia the penitentiary:
The council having filed a bill of exception,
execution of the sentence will be suspended
to allow time to take case before the Court of
Appeals! ' , ' , " -
v ' - - - . i
A Gx RiA80!f. A grand jury jdowiv
South ignored a bill against a huge negro, for
stealing chickens, and before discharging him
from custody, the judge bade him stand repri
manded. He concluded as follows :
You may go now, John;" but (shaking-
his finger at him) let me warn you never to
arear here asain." ' 'I"
John, with delight beaming from his big
white eyes, and with a broad grin, displaying
a row of beautiful ivory, replied : '
- "I wouldn't tin dls time, only the consta
ble fetch me ;. c
The Early Life of Sir Isaac Newton.
Men of great learing and talents, whom all
people admire and prake, are found to bo
more ' modest than persons not so wise and
good Sir Isaac - Newton , was one of these
preat, and, at the same time, modest men.
When a little boy at school, he surprised ev
erybody by the curious little machines which
he made with his own bands: He had a num
ber of saws, hatchets, hammers, and other
tools, which he used skillfully. A windmill
.
frequently went to look at it, and pried into
every part of it, till he became thoroughly j
acquainted with it, and the way in which it ;
moved. ; He then began with his knife, nd I
saws, tnd hammer, and made a small wLui- :
mill, exactly like the largc'dne ; it was a very!
neat and curious piece of workmanship. llj j
sometimes set it on the house-top, that the
"ti r- r . r- - - " "
wind might turn it round. He abm enutrivod
to cause a mouse to tarn his mill. This little
animal being put inside a hollow' whenl, iu
endeavors to get forward turned the wheel
and set the machinery in motion. Thcie was
also some corn placed about the wheel and
when the mouse tried to get at the corn it
made the wheel go round. ' Having got an
old box from a friend, Isaac, made it into a
water-clock that is a clock driven by a small
r fall of water. It is very much like our com
mon clocks, acd four feet high. At the top
was a dial plate; with figures of the hours.
The hour hand was turned by a piece of wood,
which either fell or rose by water : dropping
upon it. Thia stood in the room where he
lay. and he took care, every morning, to sup
ply it with plenty of water. It pointed out
the hour so well, that the people of the house
wonld go to see what was the hour by it. It
was kept in the house as a curiosity long after
Isaac went to college. The room in which he
lodged was full of drawings of birds, beasts,
men, ships, and mathematical figures, all
neatly made upon the wall with charcoal.
When Isaac grew a little older and went to
college, h. had a great desire to know some
thing about the air, the water, the tides, and
the sun, moon, and stars. One day when he
was sitting alone in his garden, an apple hap
pened to fall to the ground. He then began
to ask himself what is the cause of the apple
falling down ? Is it from some power or
force in the apple itself, or is the power in the
earth which draws the apple down ? 'When
he had .long thought about this subject, he
found out that it was the earth, that attracted
or drew the apple down," and that this power
of attraction is one of the laws of nature. By
it, loo&e objects are retained upon the surface
of the earth, instead of flying abroad through
space. - You have learned, that this earth is
a globe, which turns over, day, . after day.
It is attraction, which gives weight to ob
jects ; hence it is sometimes called gravitation,
which means nearly the same things as
weight. Isaac Newton also discovered that
all objects whatever have an attraction for
each other, and always in proportion to their
size and the distance at which they are placed.
Thus the moon, though a large globe, is un
der the attraction of the earth and the planets
are under the attraction of the sun. And it
is by attraction they are all made to keep their
proper distance from one another. These
discoveries were justly considered as the most
important ever made ; apd for his having
made them reflecting men will ever venerate
the name of Newton. He was also tho first
who showed that every ray of light frojn the
sun consists ef seven different colors ; and he
mad known many other curious and wonder
ful things which were never known before.
He was of a mild and. equal temper, and
was . seldom or never seen ia a passion. He
had a little dog which be called Diamond.
He was one day called out of his study,
where all his papers and writings were lying
upon a table. His dog Diamond, happened
to jump upon the table, and over-turned a
lighted candle, which set fire to all his papers,
and consumed them in a few moments. In
this way Newton lost the labor of many years.
But when he came iuto the study, and saw
what had happened, he did not strike the lit
tle dog, but only said, Ah, Diamond, Dia
mond! thou little kuoweBt the mischief thou
hast done !" . . .
. Though Isaac Newton was a very wise and
learned man, he was not proud of his learning,
but was very meek and humble. He was
kind to all, even to the poorest and meanest
man.- Though he was wiser than most other
men, jet he said.. little before he died, that
all , his knowledge was as nothing when com
pared with what he had to learn. He was
sometimes so much engaged in thinking, that
his dinner was often three hours ready . for
him before he could be brought to the table.
He died iu the year 1727, at the age of eigh
ty five. '
' Fcltoh's First Passexgeb When Ful
ton's trial boat was returning to New York
on the first trip, a single passenger was found
on board. He went down into the cabin,
and counting out six dollars, offered it to a
sad and thoughtful man seated there. It was
Fulton the inventor. As the latter thought
fully looked at the money, the passenger,
thinking he had made some mistake, asked if
the amount was correct. At this question,
Fulton raised his head, and the passenger saw
that a Urge tear glistened in his eye.
t Forgive me," he said, in a falteriHg voice.
"I was thinking that these six dollars, were
the first .money I received for my long labor
.upon steam navigation; . I should like," he
added, taking the passenger's hand, " to con-
f sec rate the remembrance of this moment by
asking you to share a bottle of wine with me,
but I am too poor to offer it. - But I hope to
make np for it the next time we mget."
It is a pity that the name of Fulton's first
passenger has been lost. -
i C3" Do you mistake me, for a waiter?"
said an illbred, vain and purse proud fellow,
when some one asked him to pass a dish that
was near him. No, sir, I mistook you for a
gentleman was the prompt reply
Zlelancholy Story.
Last spring, while the western emigration
fover was at its height in this city, we met on
board a steamboat at the wharf, a farmer
from one of the Eastern States, on his way
to the State of Iowa. He was a stout; healthy-looking
man a fair specimen of a well-to-do
farmer and was accompanied by his
wife, a very handsome woman, and tcree in
teresting ohildren, tho oldest daughter just
budding into womanhood. He was full of
sanguine expectations of the happiness in
stoie for himself and family, in his new home
in the West, and left here buoyed up with
h:frh hupes and expectations.
Yeuitorday morning, while standing at the
dipot of the Pennsylvania Rail-road, we were
ai.'coftiioTby a poor, emaciated looking creat
ure, apparently just on the verge of the
grave, iu whom, after some difficulty, ; we rec
ognized the hearty," robust man; who; had de
parted in the spring so full of hope. He was
but the wreck of his former self, and his ato
ry, as related to us, was truly melancholy and
heart-rending : , . . .
- Arrived in Iowa, he settled on a claim pre
viously r.elected, but had not been more than
three or four weeks located, when his whole
family were attacked with the ague. After
suffering several months, his wife and daugh
ter apparently recovered, but only to be seized
with a still more terrible disease the typhoid
fever. -
First; the loving partner of his bosom was
carried off; next followed his youngest child,
and in three months his whole family were
laid under the ground. . The father, almost
broken hearted with these repeated misfor
tunes, essayed to leave the country, but was
himself taken down with same malady ; and
after several weeks of agony; left his sick bed
to find his constitution destroyed, and suffer
ing from premature old age. , . .
With only one object in view to reach his
former home he left the accursed spot, and
after some weeks arrived in this city, where
he was fortunate enough to meet an old friend,
who agreed to see him safely to his destina
tion. The poor man cried and groaned alternate
ly as he related his miserable story, and at
the close was so overcome as to be unable to
stand. He was kindly soothed by his friend,
who was to him a "good Samaritan" in his
distress.
- A more affecting tale of suffering and trou
ble we never heard, and hope never to hear
again. Pittsburg -Poet. y
A Good Wife.
The good wife T How much of this world's
happiness and prosperity, says Mr. Burnap,
is contained in the compass of these two short
words? Her influence is immense. ' The pow
er of a wife, for good or for evil, is altogether
irresistible. Home must be the seat of hap
piness, or it must be forever unknown. A
good wife is to a man wisdom, and courage,
and strength, and hope and endurance; a bad
one is confusion, weakness, discomfiture, de
spair. No condition is hopeless when the
wife possesses firmness, decision, energy, econ
omy. There is no outward prosperity which
can counteract indolence, folly, and extrava
gance at home. No spirit can long exist bad
domestic influences. Man is strong, but bis
heart is not adamant. He delights in enter
prise and action, but to sustain him he needs a
tranquil mind and a whole heart He expends
his moral force in the conflict of tho world.
His feelings are easily lacerated to the utmost
point of endurance by perpetual collision, ir
ritation and disappointment. ' To recover his
equanimity and composure, home must be to
him a place of repose, of cheerfulness, of com
fort ; and his soul renews his strength, and
again goes forth with fresh vigor to encounter
the labor and troubles of the world.- Bat if
at home he finds no rest, and is there met by
a bad temper, sullenness, or gloom, or is as
sailed by discontent, complaint, and reproach
es, the heart breaks, the spirits are crushed,
hope vanishes, and the man sinks in total de
spair? - Let woman know, then, that she
ministers at the very fountain of life and hap
piness. It is her hand that deals out, with
overwflowing cup, its soul-refreshing waters,
or casts in -the branch of bitterness, which
makes them' poison and death. Her ardent
spirit breathes the breath of life into all en
terprise. Her patience and constancy are
mainly instrumental in carrying forward to
completion the best human designs. Her
more delicate moral sensibility is the unseen
power which is ever at work to purify and re
fine society. And the nearest glimpse of
Heaven that mortals ever get on earth is that
domestio circle which her hands have trained
to intelligence, Virtue, and love, which her
gentle influence pervades, and of which, her
radient presence is the centre and the fun.
Dimensions, of the Americas Lakes
Tho latest measurement of our fresh water
seas is as follows: . .
The greatest length of Lake Superior is 435
miles; the greatest breadth is 160 miles;
mean depth,. OSS feet; elevation, 627 feet;
area, 32,000 square miles.
The greatest length of Lake Michigan is
360 miles; its greatest breadth 108 miles;
mean depth, 900 feet; elevation, 587 feet;
and 23,000 square mile.
The greatest length of Lake Huron is 308
miles; its greatest breadth is 160-miles; mean
depth, 800 feet; elevation, 671 feet; area.
20,000 square miles.
. The greatest length of Lake Erie is 250
miles; its greatest breadth is 80 miles; its
mean d'-pth is 84 feet ; elevation 554 feet ;
ar 60,000 square mile..
The greatest length of Lake Ontario is 180
miles ; ita greatest breadth is 65 miles ; its
mean depth 500 feet ; elevation 262 feet ; area
6,000 square miles. -
The total length of all five lake is 1585
miles; covering an area altogether of 5 op ward
f 90,000 square miles. ;
. JtNothing but a good life can fit a man
' for a better one. ,
The Three Jolly nusbanda.
.. Three jolly husbands, out, in, the country,
by the names of Tim Watson, Joe Brown
and Bill Walker, sat late one" evening drink
ing at the village tavern, until, Uing pretty
well corned, they agreed that each one, on
returning home, should do the first thing that
his wife told him, in default f which he
should the next morning pay the bill. . They
then separated for the nigli enajia to
meet again the' next morning, tE.1 five an
honest account of their proceedings at hornet
so far as they related to the bilL ; -
The next morning Walker and Brown were
early at their posts, but it was some tirna be
fore Watson made bis appearance. Walir
began first " - 1 - ' , , , . z .
" You see when I entered my house," the
candle was out, and the fire .giving but a
glimmering of light, I came near walking into
a pot of batter that the pancakes were to be
made of in the morniDg. My wife, who was
dreadfully out of humor, said to me sarcasti
cally : .
' Bill, do you put your foot in the bitter.4
"Just as you say Maggy said I, and witb
out the least hesitation I put my foot ia the ,
pot of batter and went to bed."
Next Joe Brown told his story : .
" My wife who bad already retired in our
usual sleeping room which adjoins the kitch
en, and the door of which was ajar ; not be
ing able to navigate perfectly, you know, I
made a. dreadful chattering' among the house
bold furniture, and my wife, in no very pleas
ant tone, bawted out :
Do break the porridge pot."
" No sooner said than done. . I raized hold
cf the handle of the pot, and striking it
againfthe chimney-jam, broke it into a thou
sand pieces. After this exploit I retired to
rest, and got a . cnrtaia-lecturo till I, fell
asleep." -
It was now Tim Watson's turn to give aq
account of himself; which he did with a very
long face, as follows: .'"''"
My wife gave me the most unlucky com
mand in the world ; for I was blundering up
stain in the dark, when she cried out : -
" Now Tim break your neck,"
I'll be cussed if I do Kate," sal J I, gath
ering myself up the best way I could no,
HI sooner foot the bill."
"And so, landlord,"- continued Tim,
" hero's the cash for you. . But by jingo, ibis
is the last time I'll ever risk - five dollars, oa
the command of my wife." , -
Important Geographical Discovery.
A great inner sea is said to have been dis
covered in equatorial Africa by Dr. Rtbmsnn,
one of the travellers with whose persevering
labors in that remote region the newspaper
public have become acquainted. He has sent
to Europe a small map, on which the sea oc
cupies the vast space between the equator
and ten degrees of sotHh latitude, and be
tween twenty-three degrees and nearly thirty
degrees longitude east from Greenwich, hav
ing at its south-eastern extremity Lake Ny
assa, attached to it like a tail piece. Mr.
Augustus Peteemaum, in a letter to the Lon
don Athenaeum respecting . tho discovery
says : .
"This immense . body of tratcr, with an
area about twfe as the Black See-, -(with tho
Sea of Azoff,) is inscribed with tho names of
Ukerewe, or loner Sea of Uniamezi, its nar
row elongated south-eastern end bearing that
o LuAc Kyassa; ana tne mscorery is said, in
the accompanying letters, to have been arrived
at by tho concurrent testimony of various na
tives dwelling on or clcse to the lako, both on
its eastern as well cs on its western shores,
with whom the missionaries came in contact.
Some of these native that came down to trade
on the coast, at Tanga, in particular, gavo a
clear account of it, while at other points of
the coast, from langa southwards for six de
grees of latitude, corroborative information
was obtained."
A QpiCK RfePARTKR. GOV. Morris. tf
New York, had a high" resprct for Bishop
Moore, a man noted not only for the purity
of his character, but ab?o for the retiring
modesty of his disposition, and for the gener
al favor in which he was held. .
A dinner was given by some of Gov. Mor
ris' friends when he was about departing for
Europe. Bishop Moore and bis wife were of
the party. . Among other things that passed
in conversation, Mr. Morris said that he had
made his will in prospect of going abroad ;
and turning to Bishop Moore said to him
" My reverend friend, I have beqnethed to
you my whole etock of impudence." '
Bishop Moore replied
" Sir, you are not only very kind but Tery
generous ; you have left by far tho largest
portion of your estate."
Mrs. -Moore immediately added
" My dear, you have come in possession of
your inheritance remarkably 6oon."
its'" There is a family within eight miles
of West Killingly, (Conn.) who are to all
appearance in the full enjoyment of an unciv
ilized existence. The family eonsists of a
man and wifr with four or five small children;
and the habitaiiuus where they "stop" (for
they cannot be said t3 live') is nHl anJ stone
hovel, without ft-inddrt and containing no
furniture. The inmate sit ni tba bare earth,
lie on the bre rnrth, ml cs the bare earth
with their finder ; Tnr do they seem aware
of the exVttnce f th li htest article of
domestic tomf-ft iu cirilizi.Le. i!!ing!y
Tderrraph. , . . . . . . ...
1 t - f .
Citi:f u cf the United States, in common
with all other foreign Christians, ecjoy the
privilege of exterritoriality in Turkey, delu
ding Egypt; the same in the Turkish regen
cies of Tripoli and Tunis ; and also in the in
dependent Arabid States of Morocco and
Muscat.
, .3r"Mi6fortuae add6 r, y lustra to the gi
ry of great men '