i i i i i 11 I - - -II I I I . . i- x- 3 EBEKSBUIlG,''DBGEi;iBER 5, 1855. VOL. 3. NO. 7. NMW' S. i f-i ri r f m . i . - " ' m ii . . ? 1 " ' T B II M 8 : ?Iie DEMOCRAT & SENTINEL, 1 publish i erary Vl!esUy morning, iu EbeusLurg, Ca!nbrU Co., Pa:, at Si 50 per annum, if paid i aotaxcs, if not $2 will bo cbarged. AD V5 tlTlS E M E NT.S will bo conspicuously in . ertl at tho fuliowing rat, Tia : 1 siu-iro S insertion, 4100 Krory subsacjuaat iafrtian, 25 "1 siu;ire 3 months, 00 I ' 6 00 year, 4 r 80 15 6 00 00 00 .3 i OtiiTieM Cftrils. ,iTw9lr liaos constitute a aqnare. The following U boa'uiiful duo of tkoea little gctos iich touch tte keart : -. WATCH, MOTHER!" , f itothor! watcu tho little feet ' :l Cliaibing o'or tho garden wall. ". Bounding througb. the bt:sy street, . " Banging cellar, she J and hall. , , JTover. count tho moments x, Ierer.uuad the tiu;o it coatf, . X:.ttle fet-t will go astray, i . Q-jide them, Mother, while yen may. - -Hvtber! watch the little ban;! '";''.. riolriag berrioj ly tbo way, . Xfaking housej in the 6and, Tot-iing up the fragrant bay. v-:- STever dare tho question ask, Why to m this weary task " Thc eamo little Land may prove Messengers cf light and 1 jvh. Mother! watch the liulo tongue Prattling frequently and wild, What is said aud what fa 6ung, - "By the happy joyous child. Catch the word whilo yet unspoken, 8top the vow before 'tis broken ; Tela same tongue may yet proc!a:aj Liweiing ia a Savior came. ' Mkther! watch tho little heart Boating oft aud warm for you; "Wholesome lisons now impart. Keep, O kesp, tho young heart true."' Extricating every wood, 4 Siwing good and prerlou seed; liar rest rich you then inaj see, Sipeiiiug for eternity. THE PSETATT OALLERY nilS Ll'IEiLML . r- - r -.J3 - Dottglaf JTTo!5, a T?c!Hnon eontriLuor Punth, and e-ittor c( various publications, M a man about fifty year? of age, and in per son is remarkably spare and diminutive. Ilia tfsos is sharp, angular, aud Lia pyc of a grey isla hua. iia u probably on of the most biustic writers of the aje, and, with keen Sensibility, he ofteu writer under the impulao th-j moment artici3 w bieli his cooler judg tBeut condemnF. II U Cauulo Lcctarc3 have baea read by every on. In conversation ho is quick at retort not always reauod. lie husband and a grandfather. liiCAEXHT. Th ITon. T. U Macauley is short in sta fcars, round, and with a growing tendency to sUduruianic uisprcportlona. Ili bead baa the uus rotuudity as bis body, and stuck ou ad tlrmly as a pin head. TLia is nearly the eum Lis peraoual defects, all else, exevpt the uicd (which is monotonous and disagreeable), is certainly in Lb favor His face seems lit erally instinct with . expression ; Lis eyes, Jkbove all, full of deep thought and meaning. As be walks, or rather, straggles, ulnug the jitrert. beseems in a state of tvtal abstraction , amicdful of all thati3 going on around Lim, and solely occupied with bis own working jtuiad.- You caunot help thinking that litera to.ro. with lum ia not a mere profession or pur nuit, but that it Las almost crown a Dart or himself, although historical problems or an alytical criticism were a part of his daily foud. BAItST. A correspondent of the Tribune, writing from Nottingham, England, says : "I have eo BaJey, the author cf Festus.' His father is proprietor of the Nottingham Mer cury,, and the editorial department rests with him. lie is a thick sort of a man, of. a sta ture below the middle size : complexion dark, and ia years about eight-and-thirty. His -jibysiognomy would be clownish in expres sion, if his eyes did not redeem Lis other fea tures. , He spoke of Festus,' and of its fame in America, of which he seems very proud. In England it has only reached its third edi tion, whilst eight or nino have been published ia the United States." , CB QCISCIT. . He is one of the smallest legged, smallest 'todied, and most attenuated eiSgies of the tmmaa form divine tbat one could find in a crowded city during a day's walk. And if one adds to this figure clothes that are neither . fashionably cut nor fastidiously adjusted, he will have a tolerably rough idea of De Quin sy. But then his brow, that pushes his ob trusive hat to the back part of bis head, and his light grey eyes, that do not seem to look at- but to. be turned inward, sounding the depths of his imagination, and searching out the niysteries of the most abtruse logic, are omethmg that you would search a week to and the mates to, and then you would be dis appointed. De Quincey now resides at Lass- ' J Vmantic taral village, once the resi- Svr Wtlter Scott' boufc even miles o . tdinburg. Scotland, where an affectioti- :U thVtg ir W4tche 0Ter hia. bere Void. " UDtr7 P0P1 niHes - R?es, yom5g.ladJeB, fWv!y, a wim looking man with a long face, short. gray hair, a sienaer ngure, ana a buis oi black. Put a pen behind his ear, and ; be would look like a confidential clerk." Give his face more character and he would remind you of Henry Clay, lie has a fine head. pbrenoiogieauy speaking large auu rouuu ui the top, with a spaoious forehead, and a scant allotment of cheek. Prim is tho word, though'. Thers is nothing in his appearance which is ever bo remotely suggestive of the romantic. He is not even pale, and as tor a rolling shirt collar, or a Byronie tie, bo is ev idently not the man to think oi bucii tnings. Romance, in fact, is the article he lives by, and, like other men, ho chooses to "sink the shop," at least when he sits for his portrait. DUMAS. Ou the contrary, is a burly fellow. His large Fed, -round eheeks-? stmJret,'-U"t seem to stretch the very skin that covers them, and it looks as smooth as a polished apple. His black cripped hair is piled high above his forehead." nd stands divided into two unequal masses, one inclining to the right and th other to the left. His eyes are dark, and his mouth sensuous, but not to a degree of vulgarity. His -person is large, and hi3 flowing mantle red. . He is a "gentleman to lay bare his throat and look romantic, not Bvronically so, but piratically. Yet he looks good humored, and like a man whoso capacity for physical enjoyment is boundless. ; ECGENE 8UJ5. . Is reither prim nor burly. . He is a man of large frame, over which a looso black coat is carelessly buttoned. Complexion light, eyes blue, hair once black, now pepper and salt whiskers voluminous, eyebrows black and thick, good forehead, and the lower face am ple". This conveys no better idea of the man's appearance than a French passport. But tho truth is. Sue's countenance and figure have nono of those peculiarities which make de scription possible. He looks in his portrait like a careless, elderly gentleman, taking his ease in an easy chair and easy coat. He does not look like an author authors seldom do. His hair is rather that of a prosperous citizen. Sue is only forty-five years old, but he has lived fast, and looks fifty-five. Lamartine i3 sixty-three and would pass easily for fifty three Dumas is fifty, and could get credit for thirty-eight . . Crime in California. The California papers abound with ac counts of crime. . Murders appear to be of almost daily occurrence. Lynch Law, too. is carrioi out freely and .frequently. We have before us several accounts. In one case, six Spaniards were arrested, on suspicion of iiaviag amr iex$J several Chinese on Slate Greek Tfcy-were taken to St. Louis, when a committee of twelve men was appointed, with authority to investigate the testimony. After three days they returned a verdict that the evidence was insufficient. Fortunately, this decision tallied with the opinion of the outsi ders, and the accused were saved. In another case, however, a man named Barclay was bung by tho mob at Columbia. He waschar gcd with having murdered a female. After Li execution, a reaction took place in his fa vor, his body was exhumed, and buried in due form in a cemetary. Before bis arrest, he enjoyed an estimable character, and had many f. iends. A meeting was also held at Chinese Camp, Columbia, when the following rcsolu tions were adopted : Ilesolvcd. Tbat we, the citizen? of Chinese Camp, in fpeaking plainly our sentiments and feelings, upon this occasion, do so irrespective oi party issues, believing that no party is re sponsible for the private wrongs of any one of Us members, aud that any noutitical party that would attempt to mnke capital out of the affair that occurred at Columbia, tho 11th nut., is unworthy of an existence. Resolved, That it is with much satisfaction that we learn that the largest portion of the citizens of Columbia are m favor of law and order, and that they regard the shocking affair that occurred ou the 11th, in its true light. llesolved, Inat we do pledge ourselves to do all in our power to cause justice to be exe cuted upon those who participated in the mur der of "John S. Barclay, at Columbia, on the 11th inst. llesolved, That we call upon all of tie cit izens of this county and State, to discounten ance the act of carrying about their persons aeaaiy weapons, such as pistols and bowie knives, believing that any community can do witnout tnem, provided that the public senti ment should be arrayed ajrainst the use of said weapons. It would appear from the foregoing, that vfter the execution, by Lynch Law, of the wretched Barclay, the act was donounced as murder I The following is from the San Francisco Herald : Reported Mubder near Sas Jose. A re port reached this city yesterday to the effect tnat a man had been lound murdered at short distance from the old Mission of San Jose, ou the road leading to btockton; and tbat two Mexicans bad been seen riding has tily from the spot, some minutes previous to the discovery of the body. According to the report, the murdered man was tbot twice through the body, and was utabbed in the breast. Various other outrages are detailed, but the above are quite sufficient to show that there is a wide field for improvement and re form in California. Sad A?r air. A. Baxter, proprietor of the Melodian Exchange, in Cincinnati, was killed On Tuesday of last week, in an altercti6d With his own Bon, in consequence of falling end 6trikios hi had against a store.1 v - Trial Conviction and Execution of Gen. Cor- - ral for High, Treaon. Gen. Corral had entered Granada, and was received by Gen. Walker, when the pro gramme of the new ministry was promulgated. At this the people fere much elated, llow- ever, on tne ouwnstant, oen. vane nanaea several letters To Gen. Y alker, addressed by Get). Corral to Santos Guardiola, an ex-officer of the legitimist army, which were hostile to Walker, and invited u uardiola to invest the city,, when Walkers party might be routed and put to the sword. On this Corral was cnarged with high treason, tried by court martial, convicted, and sentenced U be shot. He was accordingly executed ou the Oth inst. Affirmation of Sentence of Court Martial and Order forLxecution of treneral I'onciaM Corral. Head JoXbtebX A&vrrtficXukGVJ iUA, I - Granada, Nov., 7 15S55 Having read and dulv considered the pro- ceeUmgs and sentence oi tuo. ourt luartiai organized for the trial of Don Ponoiano Cor ral, on the charge of High" Treason and of Conspiracy against- the Government of this Republic, the sentence of saidOourt is hereby affirmed, and it is ordered: That said Don Ponciano Corral be shot in tho Plaza of Granada, at 12 M., on Thurs day. Nov. 8 1855, and the Officer of the Day is charged with the execution oi tne sen tence. Wm. Walker,, General. Commander-in-Chief. The execution of the within sentence will be postponed until 1 o'clock P. M. of this URAXADA, .Nor. o, lboo. V - Wm Walker, General, ' Commander-in-Chief. . Within order complied with, and tho priso ner shot at 2 o'clock, P. M. Granada, Nov. 8, 1855. Ciias. II Gilsiajj, Officer of the Day. the pkooi-3 of corral's gcilt. The following are the letters referred to above: ( tbaslatioi Granada, Nov. 1, 1855., To Gen. Santos Gu&rdiola: ' My Esteemed F riend : It is necessary that yothould write to our friends to give them notice of the danger winch threatens us,- and to take active steps with you. If you wait two months it will fie too late.. , , . j Think of us and of your pffers " I salute your lady, and am your real friend to command. Yours, &c, P. Corral. . Nicaragua is lost. Honduras, Sau Salva dor, and Guatemala are lost if you let things go on. Come quickly and yu will find auxiliaries. '- FiiiEtio Dos I'&uro t We are badly, bad ly, badlv on. lbink ot your mends l was left here without anything but what I had on mv body, and I hope for your help. Your friend, &c, P. Corral. Managua, Nov. 3, 1S55. To General Santos GuarduAa : My Dear Sir and Friend I enclose to you letters from the General who does not write much on account of the insecurity ; but you already understand all he wants to tell you, and it is enough if you consider the sufferings of a man who has been forced to the sacrifice to do what he has done, and to whom they already deny what was offered him. We all expect a fatality, and always with hopes, which at the end only turn out illusory. We all confide in you, and only in you, to redeem this beautiful section of Central America. We hope tbat you and the real friends of Honduras will not be indifferent to our dis grace. Thousand probabilities many ele ments a good deal of disposition, and much repining! If things here go on badly, and cannot be remedied, I will with pleasure once more be come a Hondureno. I felicitate you and participate iu your pleasure in returning again to your beloved country ; always remain there, and may ty ranny never again take root in that soil so worthy there to be forever buried. I salute affectionately Lady Anita and you With all frankness command your friend, &c. Signed, . Thomas Martinez. - the execution. At 2J P. M., the prisoner, attended by the clergy, made lm appearance under an escort of soldiers, and crossing tho Plaza, took a seat in a chair prepared for tho occasion. The death sentence was read to him by Col. Gilman, officer of the day, and almost imme diately after, the spirit of Gen. Don Ponciano Corral had passed from time into the myste ries of an cfcWnity, haviug been pierced, we understand by every bullet fired at him. He met his fate with the composure of a soldier, and was evidently a man. worthy of a better fate. His countenance, though only some eighty hours had elapsed from his arrest to his execution, bore marks of the severe mental trials he had undergone. Others arrests in the same connexion were made on the 5tb instant; but the details have not transpired in a sufficiently reliable form to be the Eubject of a notice from us. In our next we shall, . perhaps, be enabled chronicle them. to MThe Philadelphia Sunday Mercury tells a good story of a fellow in that city, who, a few days since, stole a firkin of butter from a grocery store, and ran off with it on his shoulder. When the butter was missed, the thief was of course pursued by the owner and a crowd of men and boys, crying ' stop thief F Being strong and fleet of foot, the rogue had every prospect of escaping, but in an unlucky moment, ie attempted to shift his load from oue shoulder to the other, and irt so doing, he passed it under bis nose, when, as he himself declared in the Mayor's office, the scent of the butter was to powerful that it immediately knocked him dowa I This, of course. enabled the crowd to overtake end capture him. Important from theEussian Possesion The Allied Fleet in the Vicinity cf Ayan- Tfce whaling barque ' George Capt. Wall, recently arrived at San Francisco, in twenty-six days from the Sea of Ochotsk., The English, steamer Barracouta arrived off the port of Ayan on the evening of tho Oth of July ; a toat from her boarded all the vessels that werl then in port. The Commander of the steamer thought there were three ten-gua batteries in the port, and was prepared for ac tion when, he came in. He made inpuiries of the American whaling captains then lying in port, and found that, the place was deserted, lie ran in with the steamer and, anchored. After.-getting all the information that could be obtains! in relation to the liu&iana. tho tUSSiet-'l nder. way Zand stood oat to "Siia again, "to communicate with the frigates that were off the port trying n get in after she communicated with : the frigates, she slothl back into port, and came to anchor the same evening; On the 10th two frigates arrived in the bay, the Pique and Amphitrite. and came to anchor.- - The three commanders went on shore. Commander Frederi -ks stated to the American captains that it was not his in ten -tention to burn the place, but to destroy all vessels that he could fiud. Commander Fred ericks then issued bis proclamation, and re quested a Mr. Packard, who was then residing at Ayan, to use his utmost endeavors to send a proclamation to the inhabitants the proc lamation " granting" them protection The English commanders were very much surpris ed to find the town deserted the people hav ing previously all left the town when the steamer appeared. Their effects had all bveu removed some time previous, with the exee tion of some goods in the Russian American Company's warehouse, which they were in the act of removing at the time when the steamer hove in sight. After the Russians made out that it was an English steamer, they left every thing, and proceeded into the interior, where the remainder of their people were. There was at Ayan a small vessel on the stocks, which the Russians were building, aud: a small stcamor that had been brought there' the' year before ; she was inteuded as a tug boat on the river Amcr he Governor of Ayan had a hole dug in the beach,' above high water mirk", and with tackels -and pur chases hoisted the tug-boat into the hole, wiiL; the iqtentiqa.of, burjing'.hor. Ai- the time) the British steamer hove in sight the Rus sians were eu gaged in putting merchandize ia the tug-boat from the Company's warehouses. The 6teamcr had got so close to the shore be fore she was discovered, that the Russians did not have time to cover her up. On the 11th of July, tLe squadron fent their boats on fchore, and commenced taking &1L aud every-, thing they could find, that was of any use to them, that the Russians had left. On the landing of the boats, they found the place where the tug wa3 buried, and they com menced taking out the loses of merchandize and hardware that the Russians had put into the tug-boat, and conveyed them on board the squadron. After they had got all that was convenient for them to take, the com mander oidered the tug-boat to be blown up. which was done by putting one hundred pounds of powder iuto the fore part of the vessel, and applying to it a slow match which took fifteen minutes to burn to the powder. 1 he explosion was most effectual ; it com pletely ripped open the forward part of the i i-i i -i. vessel, wnicn was ouut oi iron. The Productiveness of England. The London Times conjrntulates itself tbat just now England is in a bright state of pro ductiveness is as prolific as ever, am' recruits day by day the losses of epidemic, emigration and war. The Times gives the following fig ures. "In the last quarter there were regis tered 154,83-1 births and 87,031 deaths At this rate the natural increase, as it iay be called, of the population of England and Wales is CG,90U a quarter, that is 207,000, or more than a quarter of a million a year. As far as can be ascertained, the number of English emigrants from this part of the king dom did not exceed 15,530, which is only 02,120 a year. Thus, after deducting emi gration, our annua! increase exceed 200,000. The utmost drain of the war, if the worst comes to the wort, is not likely to be more than 50,000 ; that is half the number of males annually added to our population at home. This is a very safe calculation, for, as war rais s w.-ges and increases the value of men, it has a tendency to diminish emigration. Already the number of cmigrauts from the United Kingdom, which was 109,230 in the summer quarter of 1852, Las fulle i to 44,098, which is nearly the same as in the correspond ing quarter of 1847. KefcraskA. Omaha City is growing rapidly. The Coun cil Bluffs Bugle says : " The improvements at this place are go ing ou rapidly and largely. Some thirty or forty houses are now in progress of erection. Tho brick hotel is now completed, and the Douglass House is said to be doing a good and satisfactory business. Stores, groceries and mechanical shops are crowding in all around, and business is lively, stirring and really look ing up. The only lack seems to bo a want of material with which to build." From the same paper we copy the following : ' A large bear tpi ang at a horse upon which Mrs. Boyd, of Macedonia Camp, was riding, a week ago Sunday, as she was going home from a neighbor's house. Such game is rare in our region, and the kick this chap received from the horse no doubt made him wLh be had remained at a more safe distance. We have not heaad whether he has been captured or not, but such kind of gentry should not bo allowed to pass through the country without a genuine passsort. Ilia propensities for hug ging would net suit ur otrronly ecTanranitj." St Bernard Dag. . A corresponded of tL Providence oarn&l gives an iuteiestiDg account of Lis asoent of the St. Bernard He was shown the portroit of a noble dog that 1 ad saved fifteen Luman lives. The breed is in danger of becoming extinct. The writer adds: Tha pictures that we see of St. Bernard dogs gun; tut with bottles tied around their necks, and pick ing up little children promiscuously in the snow, are all very pretty, but like too many other pretty things, not at all true. The dogs nevrr go out alone; but their wonderful saga city, and their strong scent, which, it is &&id, will detect a man three milos off, their power of following the path with unerring certitude, however deep it may be covered ith sno, their endura.tce, fidelity and courage, more than double the efficiency of tho men who they accompany - Their natural gifux are greatly improved by education, and as much is due to the cartful and laborious training which they receive as. to the singular power with-which they are originally endowed. In the training of the youDg dogs, the old ones are most efficient instructors, and it is this which mainly excites tLe anprehensi n at the danger of the extinction of the race. It would bir a work of im jaeuse labor, and perhaps of doubtful success, to attempt, without the aid of the dogs already taught, to bring up th. young ones to bo their equals. The same monk told me that the breed was believed to be a. cross between the dogs of the Pyrenees and the Newfoundland, but that now it might be called a distinct breed." Important Discovery. Jean Blanc, of New Orlefns, represented to be an agriculturist of considerable scientific attainments. Las secured letters patent from the U. States, f jr the discovery of a process of converting thirty differont variety of plauts, which grow wild in cnoimous quantities iu various sections of the Union, into flax of great strength and be tuliful texture. Specimens of the flax and of the plants from which - it is made, are on exhibition at the office of Walter E. Harding, No. 1 Hanover Square, where they may be s examined Ly all interested; - "Mr Blanc will be present during bus ness hours, to explain. the points' of the invention. Among the most interesting of th i specimens arc the flax made from the stalks of the cotton plant, large quantities of which are burned on the Southern plantations, to get them out of the way ; the centaury tree or wild Manilla, which grows in abundance in Florida ; the wild holly-hock, with a fibre ten to fifteen feet long; the gold nankeen, of a natural nankeen color ; the vegetable silk, and the vegetable wool. The process of preparation we under stand is simple and effectual, preserving all the strength of the staple, and so economical that the flax can be sold at prices far below those at which the article ia now sold. A IICSBAVD AND FaTHR Tt'RNED CP AfTlR Thirty Years Absence. We heard the par ticulars yesterday of ono of those strange epi sodes in life in which the old adage cf truth is stranger thau fiction, was fully illustrated. About six years fciuce, a lady uamed Mrs. Martha Wood, accompanied by her sou, his wife, and a couple of children, arrived in this city from New Bedford, Mass. She stated that she was a widow of twenty-four years' standing, her husband having been mast2r of a whaler, which had been lost at sea. The family have resided for the greater part of tho time on Liberty street, Mr. Wood, the son, workiug at his trade, which is that of a cooper. Yesterday morning a gray-headed and toil worn man called at the residence of the fami ly, and, seeing Mr. Wood, inquired for the widow, who, being called into the room, while gazing intently upon the stranger, whose eyes were fixed mournfully upon her, requested to know his business. " Do you not know me, Martha?" said he, and as the sound of his voice, like the memo ry of an olden melody, met her ear, she gave vent to an hysterical cry, and fainted in the arms which were opened to receive her. The tale is soon told; the ship in which he had made his last voyage from New Bedford, was cast away in the South Sea Islands, and he was one of the few who escaped a watery grave. After enduriDg almost unheard of privations, he succeeded, after thirty years absence, in reaching his native city. From a brother of his wife he learned their present location, and arrived here to find her whom he had left a young and blooming bride, far adVanced in the evening of life, while the in fant, upon whose lips when last he saw him he had imprinted a father's kiss, and who could then scarcely lisp his name, was now a stal wart man, and the bead of a family. How many hop .s and fears must have agitated the old mariner as he again set foot, after his long pilgrimage, upon his nativosoil Cincin'&i Enquirer, 27. "More'n You'll Keep. Some years ago an old fcign-pniutcr, who was very cross, very gruff, and a little deaf,, was engaged to paint the Ten Commandments on some tablets in a church not five miles from Buffalo. Ho work cd two days at it, and at the close of tbeec ond day. the pastor of the church came in to see how the work progressed. The old man stood by. smoking a fchort pipe, as the rever end peutleman ran his eye over ths tablets. "Eh! said the pastor, as his familiar eye detected something wrong ia the wording of the holy precepts ; Why, you careless old per son, you left a part of one cf the commaud ments entirely out ; don't you see ?" No', no such thing," said the old man put ting on his fpcctacles; "no, nothing left out ; where?" " Why there," persisted the pastor ; " here, look at them in the bible ; you bavo left borne of the commandments out." Well, what if I have?" eaid old obstinacy, as ho ran his eye complacently over his work ; what if I have f There's more there now than you'll keep!" Another and a more emrett artist wis em ploye next ity. . . The. Farmer's Future. ' An Euglhjh correspondent of the New York T xlum, expatiates oa the prospective mtro-. duo' ion of steam power as an aid ia agricultu ral operatives, as follow : The Farmer' Fu ture will be found in the application cfiteam; to the cultivation of the will We are rapidly coming to the conclusion here that the pood old plow is a humbug. We begin to tuiak that spadtt-husbundry applied Ly fcteam is th right thing ; indeed, there are some among us of the cpinion that a machiue maybe iu vented which would, in effect, plow, sow, harrow and roll altogether a machine, in fact, which should make a seed-bed and sow the seed all at cue-operation. There has already been one steam engine exhibited in this country which will walk ' any where and do anythicg that it is required to do. - It baa feet abot the tiz of yours, air, and it puts them down, upon the ground, one after the other, very much in the faihion of a dandy going epr Broadway, cnly the feet of the machine aru fixed ou wheels, and revolve regularly, instead of moving up and down awkwardly lika his. This machine will go . through a plowed field very comfortably, and rather quicker than good hunter will get ever it; and a it will drag a dozen plows after it, I do not see, for my part, why it thould not be made to carry, as part and parcel of itself, a mechanism that will readily convert the untilled ground into seed-bed. Well then, as to drainage. I saw a machine, the other day, that would dig, drain, and lay down sixteen and a half feet of pi ping per minute ; the pipes being rather more regularly and satisfactorily laid than any skilled workman can lay them. The machine labored under the disadvantage of being cum brous, and of being made to be worked by a stationary engine. But having got thus far, it seems to be only one step further to give Ul steam application to the soil, so as to enable twenty times" the quantity cf land to ba put under cultivation by the f-ame amount of labor, and at no greater cost thin now. Then we may hope for a produce of cheap corn, the great desideratum in this land of sweat and toil, whore it depends upon a shilling or two, more or Ices, in the price of food, not only whether a man can reap the advantages of his libor, but absolutely too often, wbvther be can continue to exist." Reward or Merit. A late namber of the Monileur contains eight columns of names cf soldiers, in every class of public service, who had the legion of honor conferred upon them for bravery in the Crimea. This is a Leroio catalogue, and will be read with pride iu hun dreds and thousands of families. . It is sot barren list of names. The special merit is often named. Thus, a sergeant in the first foreign legion received the cross for Laving lost both his hands iu pushing away a .shell that f--ll uear his captain. A car.Uiu is da scribed as always in the post cf danger another as " wounded in planting he staud ard on the rampart" another as ' always in front." A corporal "carried away Lis com panions by his example; a lieutenant was "the firit to throw himself on the euemy. This is the way in France, each hamlet catches some beams of glory; while as to England merit tights in the old shade of arutocracy. A Slight Mistake. A few days since, e German was riding along Sanson! street, ia Sacramento, when be beard the whizzing of a ball near him, and felt Lis hat sbakt n. He turned about and Saw a man wlih a revolver in his band, and took off Lis hat, and found a fresh bullet -hole in it "Did you shoot it me V a'-cd the Ger man. " Yes" replied the other party; that's my horse. It was stolen from me reccnily." " You must be mistaken," says the Ger man' "I have owned the horsa for three years." " Well," says the other, " when I come look at him, I believe I am mistaken Ex cuse me, sir; won't you take a drink T The rider dismounted and tied his horse. The two found a drinking saloon ; they drank together, and parted friends. That is ths California wsy of making acquaintance . What is a Mormon ? A Mormon is a living paradox ; he says grace before a cotill ion, swears in his sermon?, selects bis text indifferently from the Bible, the looks of Mormon, an almanac, or tho President's mes sage, aud is perpetually quarrelling far the sake of peace. His religion is a joke, and he makes the best storyteller a chief of the quo rum. He assumes dignities, but has not the slightest respect for them ; and the effect of Lis piety is apparently to put him on a level with the greatest reprobates of the time. In short he is a Latter Day Saint, or ia other words, the last one you would think of calling a saint. Singular Circumstance. Not long since Mrs. Kcndrick, wife of James Q Kendrick of Tax well county, Ia. , after an Ulnss of some length of time, presented every external evi dence of death, and preparations were made for her interment. About ten Lours after Ler apparent decease, some friends, who were employed in making a hourd, were amazed to hear her ask in a faiut voice, for food. It seems that she Lad a ctfc!epiic fit which for tunately passed off iu scoh prevent the horrors cf a premature burial. She w as, however, very low st tho last sccoci. TT An Irishman vos inJulgicg in the very intellectu A occupation of fucking raw rggs ani reading a newspaper. By some mis chance he contrived t bolt s live chicken. The poor bird chirruped as it went down his throat, and he very cooly observed : " Be the power my young friend, you spoke too late." Dzath or SrutT, the A&nsr. Mr. Rob ert M. Solly, the distinguished artirt, wh.o re cently left Richmond, Va., to take up Ha residence in Wiseonbin, died at Buffalo-, K. Y., a the 28 1 cf Ortober Itet.
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