Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1856-02-26

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OLDS, Bookseller, Sandusky, Ohio. " N. B. C. V. Olds will furnish (postage free) any book published, on tlio receipt ol the Publisher's price. , Also, Sheet Mu9ie and musical Works to dealers and teachers at the usual discount. Sandusky, Feb. 5. 1850.-W6, Attach incut Notice. Aaron Sham, ri'ff, T)EFORE S. O. vs. J Beach'J: P. of John J. Johuson Defend 't. ) Olintou Township, Knox Countv. Ohio, on the 4th day of Feb ruary, A. D. I85G, at my instance an order i,t Attachment was tbls day issued against the defendant. John J. Johnson, a non-resident of aid Countv, in the above cause for the sum of .... " ..ny-iTtTT.llll $44 44 : AAUUii DUAnr. Feb. 12-w3. rnrm for Sale. TO persons wishing to buy a homestead of about ONE HUNDREB ACRES an oportu-nity is now offered Said premises are distant about 24 miles from Mount Vernon, and on roads leading from thence to Coshocton and to mills formerly owned by Robert Gilcrest. A bout fifty acres are under good cultivation, residue well timbered; also House, Orchard, Springs, Ac, necessary to make said farm a desirable residence. Will be sold on temrms to adit purchasers. JOHN ADAMS, Agent. Jan 22 tf For Sale. TIE West part of Lot 512, on Sugar street, Banning' addition to the City of Mt Ver-npn wilh two story Frame dwelling and frame Stable. The buildings on this property are new and in good repair, and has a well and two cisterns. It is quite a desirable residence. $1,700 in good payments will take the property as I wish to invest the money other wise. For farther particulars enquire of J. O. ORR, or W. H. Cochran, Mt. Vernon. jan. 27-tf TH03. D. SIMPSON. Attachment Notice. Rufua WiUoti. (AT my instaneo as vs. x- plaintiff an order of Hiram Cunningham (Attachment was, on the 21st day of January, 1856, issued by Thompson Cooper, a Justice of the Peace in and for (Jlin-ton Township, Knoz County, Ohio, against the good and chattels of the defendant Hiram Cunningham, for the sum of 180 00.. Feb. 1 2 3 w. RtJFUS WIL80N. Farm for Sale t ' I OFFER for sale 185 acre of land, on Vernon river adjoining the city of Mt. Vernon, being the farm recently owned by J udge Bev-ana. About 80 acre cleared, 20 of which are meadow. The whole farm ia bottom and second bottom and under fence. A frame dwelling and fr.me barn and out buildings, an old orchard, and ayoung one, the latter first rate grafted fruit. This farm ia a first-rate one and can be had in whole or part, on reasonable terms by applying to the owner residing upon the premises. WM. LOGSDON. .' Jan. 29-2mo. )" Mechanic . , TlfANCFACTURE of Steel Companion of ; X'-a. the Millwright, Cabinet Maker, Vjer, Brewer, Workshop, Ae.- Rudiments of Archl- tectum and Building Byme'a Architecture-Byrnes Mechanics Fhilosphr of Mechanics Treatise on Box InstrumenU-Manifee's Mecban- ' ical Drawing Engineer's Guide Gelespie'i Land Surveying e., A i at the ; por.lS-tf. , BOOK STORE. For Dale t ... ' ni ACRES of land, i miUa north-east : from Mt.Vernan, near iheOoahocton road about 25 acres cleared, and ia good condition ; ; dwelling house, stable, orchard, springs, At. v Tha land ia of reasonable good quality, can be had at 25 per acre in payments. . Now is your time to Kt cheap farm near the city. ."jail. 29. W.H. COCHRAN. Real . . t . t Estate and Gen. Agent. History ROLLIN-Allison-Gillie'aand Grote's Greece -Gibbon's and Fergerson's Rome Hume .! MeCauley Goldsmith's and Knightly sEngland- Bancroft's United Stales-History of Ohio, New-York, Virginia, Ac, Ac, " pqTtS tf. BOOK STORE. "- ' ." . " ; ' '. , ; I MR. SUITE LOUNGES OK THE S07A. There is a touch of practical good sense about the following, that will be appreciated by many. We find it in the Marys-ville 'lribune. "I declare, Mr. Smith, this is too bad. Here you are stretched out on the sofa, mussing it up, and my nice carpet is all spoiled by the tramp of coarse boots. I shall be ashamed to bring any one into the parlor again and I have taken so much pains to keep everything nice. I do think, Mr. Smith, you are the most thoughtless, careless man, I did ever Bee you don't appear to care how much trouble you make me. If I had no more care than you Lad, we would soon have a nice looking house it will not be long till our new house and furniture would be just a bad as the old," said John Smith's wife to him, as she saw him in the parlor taking a nap on the sofa. Mr. Smith rose up slowly and answered, "I was tired and sleepy, Mary, and the weather so hot, and this room so quiet and cool, and the sofa looked so inviting, that I could not resist the temptation to snooze a little. I thought when we were building a new house, and furnishing it thus, we were doing it because the old house and furniture were not so comfortable and desirable, and that I and my own dear Mary would indulge ourselves in a little quiet leisure in these nice rooms.and if we choose, in lounging on the sofas, and rocking in these cushioned armed chairs, away from the noise of the family and the smell of the cooking-stoves. "I did not dream of displeasing you, Mary, and I thought it would give you pleasure to see me enjoy a nap on the sofa tnis aliernoon. l notice when Mr. merchant Swell, or Col. Bigham, and their families, are here, you appear delighted to have sofas and cushioned arm chairs for them to sit in or lounge upon. I thought the house and the sofas were to use that we were seeking our own pleasure when we paid a large sum of money for them; but 1 suppose 1 was mistaken, and that the house and furniture are for strangers, and that we are to sit in the kitchen, and if I want to take a nap or rest a little when fa tigued, I am to lie down on a slab in the wood-house; and if you want to rest, you can go to the children's bed-room where the Hies can have a chance at you." The irony of Mr. Smith's reply only provoked his wife, and seeing himself threat ened with a repetition of Mrs. Smith's speech, with unpleasant additions and va riations, and knowing that he would get tired of gaining victories over her in argu ment, before she would think of getting tired of defeat, he took himself out, and left Mrs. Smith to fix up and dust out, and lock him out of his own house, and took a seat in the old chair in the kitchen, which Mrs. Smith said was good enough to Use every day in the kitchen, where no one sees it. Poor mistaken Mrs. Smith, thought I. And yet most women are like her. They want a fine house, and hen they get it they want an out-house built to live in and they confine their families to a few small rooms, poorly furnished, while the maiu rooms, well furnished, are never Seen by the family only when visitors (some 1 Both house ahd furniture are too grand for use. The carpet is too fine for their husbands to walk on the mirrors too fine for him to look into the furniture all too fine for him too see or use. Just so it goes; we dress we women, I mean and lam sorry that many meh are as foolish as we are, to please others or rather lo excite their remarks; we build houses and furnish them for those outside the family, and live as poorly when we are rich as we did when we were poor; as poorly in the new house as in the old. It is a fatal day of enjoyment when a family gets a house and furniture too fine for use; and yet most wocften have an ambition to have it so. Better would it be if they were content ed w ith such a house and such furniture as is suited to every day use the house large enough to accommodate one's friends and the iurnitare such as ail use wnen at nome. Even With Her. A rrond nolitical storv was told in our hearing the other evening, by an old Whig, which we do riot remember ever having seen in print. Of course we do not vouch or its trutn in every particular. A fnar vfira since a rmrtv of verv dis- ... - - j V tinguished Southern planters, two of whom were Democrats ana one a vrnig, Deing on a visit to the North, were invited about election time, to dine at the house of a wealthy, aristocratic, and withal, very beautiful lady, in Southern Ohio. After being intprl at the tnhl which was luxuriantly spread with all the delicacies which wealth could command, a large burly negro came i ...j i, : tr . in RI1U sclllru uujibcii uiivwujr ufiusuo iug gentlemen at table. The gentlemen were too well bred to notice the intruder at the limo, but imme diately upon his retirement from the room, one of them remarked to the lady: "What could have induced you to insult us by the presence of a nigger at your laDie?" . "Why. eenllemcn, he is my husband I" replied the lady. "lour nueDandl ' exciatmea tne inree simultaneous, with unfeigned astonishment. "Yes; my sister first ruined our family pride in marrying, and I resolved to equal ber. This colored man was wealthy, and so I married him." "Pray, who did your sister marry?" asked one of the party. "Whv. aha married a Locofoco. and I have never been able to hold my head up lincet" The two Locofocos made an excuse for cutting their visit short. Tbey endeavored to keep the joke a secret, but the Whig would tell, and so the "story got out." A Pair or Bnurrias. An exchange says, a lady went into a hardware store yesterday, in which there were a couple of clerks, and called for a pair of snuffers. "SuoDOse Ton take us." said one of the clerks "we both snUff." The proprietor of the store put them both out. .'. . t . MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, The First Glass of Wine. "One glass," said a sweet voice, "take rust ont glass with me," said the speaker, a dark, eyed girl, looking bewitcbingly at her companion and gracefully proffering mm a gooiet, uuea witn me rosy wine. They were sitting at a richly laden din ner table, and the choice liquors, which had for years mellowed in the hosts cellar, were circulating freelv. Ladies and Gen tlemen, young and old, even the little children, were drinking at the grand Christ mas feast. Of all the merry company gathered there only ont abstained from the intoxicating bowl, and that was he to whom these winning words were so musically ad dressed. He glanced around at the guests and re plied firmly, but gently! "No. thank vou I never drink wine." This was noble language from him, and proved that he was not destitute of moral couraco which leads its possessor to brave anything rather than to make a sacrifice of pure and lofty principles, uut noDoay ap preciated tue ueea. juany gazea at mm in astonishment, and the lady's fine lips curled with the expression that told plainly enough how seldom the slightest wish was thwarted. "You surely will not refuse me so small a favor," she continued in a manner half proud and haughty. "Ask anything but this," was the an swer in a low tone audible only to her for whom the answer was intended. "'My father died a drunkard, and over his grave I made a solemn promise that 1 should never taste the poison that ruined him." "But vou are too particular," rejoined the light-hearted girl; "you can drink moderately without any danger. For my sake, now, take this," and again she held up the SDarklin? Jdaidaria. For a moment there was a terrible con flict in the young man's soul; duty, long established habits, and a desire to win tne rocard of the temptress, waced a strong warfare. At length the latter conquered, and he drank the first glass of wine. Do you say it was a harmless act, rea der? It was the first step in a path that ended in woes which no pen ot ours can describe; the germ of a harvest of misery, which he reaped ere time had silvered his hair or measured out half the span allotted to mortals. A year after that time of trial he stood at the altar with that fair girl who had thrown around him the spell of inebriation. She was pronounced his bride; and when the friends crowded to offer congratulations, bis cheek wore the flush, his eye the fatal brilliancy which the red wine had kin dled. But his hopes were bright; he was gifted and wealthy, and none prophesied that his star would soon set.or be obscured in fast gathering clouds. Time went on, ana he a ran it aitiiy wiin his brother lawyers in splendid saloons, and at his own festal board. Fortune yet smiled, business increased, honors and wealth poured in upon him, but there was those who marked the meteoric brightness of his intellect and the expression of his countenance that pernicious practice which was yet to prove the curse of his life. Years again rolled away, and his affairs began to assume a changed aspect. He had grown neglectful of his profession, and clients had lost their confidence in his ability. Half his estates had been sold, his library was mortgaged, and even the old homestead, which he had resolved to keep as long as h e lived, had passed into the hands of stran gers. His wife had grown pale and care worn, all her vivacity had fled, and you would hardly have believed her the same girl who urged him to drink ther( glass of wine. Five years were past, and he was a con firmed sot. His property has been wasted, his intellect deadened, his lofty aims crush ed. A mere hovel sheltered him and his familv. There was no fire there, no food, none of the comforts vbich he bartered for strong drink. , In this bloated visage and trembling frame there was nothing to remind the beholder of the elegant and intellectual looking young man who once so nobly refused to partake of the intoxicating draught.then yielded and sank into the snare. Dimensions of American Lakes. The latest measurement of our fresh wa ter seas is as follows': The greatest length of Lake Superior is 435 miles;the greatest breadth is 1 60 miles; mean depth 988 feet; elevation 587 feet; area 32,000 square miles., . , The greatest length of Lake Michigan is 360 miles; its greatest breadth is IQ8 miles; mean depth 900 feet; elevation 587 feet; area 23,000 square miles. fU rw m.I.bI lunrvtli nf T.nlrA TTd mil in 300 miles; its greatest breadth is 160 miles; mean depth UUU leet; elevation oii ieei. area 20,000 square miles. r .i r t T7 ! een The greatest lengtn oi iaae crie is oau miles; its greatest breadth is 800 miles; its mean depth is 184 feet; elevation 655 feet; area 6,000 square miles. The greatest lengtn or JLaue uniano is 180 miles; its greatest breadth is 65 miles', its mean depth is 600 feel; elevation 162 feet; area 6,000 square miles. The total length of all five lakes is 1,5-85 miles, covering an area altogether of upward of 00,000 miles. Wiiittikr oit "DouonFACM." In a po-em lately read before Abolitionists at Boston, John O. Whitlier touches doughfaces as follows : "Whom shall we strike who most deserve our blame The braggart 8outhron, open in bis aim And bold as wicked, crushing straight through all j 1 That bars his purpose, like a cannon I all? Or the mean traitor, breathing Northern air, With nasal speech and Toritaoie air, Whose cant the loss of principle sruvives,. As the trfud-turtle Sven its head outlives." . Wti.Jnn t mil hold TOUT head UD in the world.asldo?" asted a haughty lawyer ot a- sterling old farmer. "Squire,"j said the farmer, "see that field of grain: the well-filled -heads hanrf down, when; those only that are empty stand upright." TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 2$, A Schoolmaster "Boarding; Bound." Extract from the journal of a schoolmaster, published in a Vermont paper. Monday Went to board at Mr. B 's. Had a baked goose for dinner. Supposed from its size, and thickness of the skin, with other venerable appearances, to have been one of the first settlers of Vermont. Made a slight impression on the patriarch's breast. Supper Cold goose and potatoes. Family consisting of the husband, gude-Wife, daughter Pegg, four boys, Pompey the dog, and a brace of cats. Fire built In the square room 9 o'clock and a pilo of wood lay by the fire-place. Saw Peggy scratch ,her fingers and could'nt take the hint. Felt squeamish about the stomach, and talked about going to bed. Peggy looked sullen, and put out the fire in the square room. Went to bed and dreamed of having eaten a stone wall. Tuesday Cold gander for breakfast, swamp tea, and some nut-cakes, the latter some consolation. , Dinner The legs of gander &c, done up warm, one nearly done up. Supper The other leg, dco., cold. Went to bed as Peggy was carrying the fire in the square room. Dreamed 1 was a turtle and got on my back and could not get oacu again. Wednesday Cold gandt r for breakfast, Complained of sickness snd could cat noth ing, i Dinner Wings, ic, of the gander warmed up. Did my best to destroy them for fear they should be left for supper; did not succeed. Dreaded supper all the afternoon.SuDC-er Hot iohnnv cakes. Felt re lieved. Thought I had got clear of the gander and went to bed for a good night's rest. Disappointed very cold night and couldn't keep warm in bed; got up and stopped the broken window with my coat and vest no use froze the tip of my nose before morning. Thursday tiold gander ag-un. lelt very much discouraged not to see the gander half gone. Went visiting for dinner and supper, slept abroad and had pleasant dreams. Friday Breakfast abroad. Dinner at Mr. B's. Cold gander and hot potatoes the latter very good, went to school some what contented. Supper Cold gander again and no po tatoesbread heavy and dry. Had the headache and could not tat. Peggy much concerned; had a fire built in the square room, and thought she and I had better sit there out of the noise. Went to bed early. Peggy thought too much sleep bad for the headache. Saturday Breakfast, cold gander, and hot Indian johnny cake; did very well, glad to come off so. . Dinner Cold eander again. Didn't keep school this afternoori Weighed and found that I had lost six pounds me last week! Felt alarmed. Had a talk with Mr. B., and concluded I had boarded out his share. Every House has its Skeleton. How various are the modes by which men seek to plant their gardens of earthly delight! One expects his in tlie abundance of his wealth. No sooner, however, has he gone through the labor of accumulating it than In constitution is wasted, and he finds his grave in place of the Eden upon which his lancy had so long run riot. Another hopes for his garden amid the distinctions of intellectual preeminence, for which he feels himself endowed by nature, and to acquire which he spends years of laborious study, till at length he rules the empire of mind with undisputed sway. But is his garden without a sepulchre? nothing to disturb his repose? nothing to remind him that he was not born for tkis world, but for eternity? Alas, I have seen an end of all perfection. He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. "Lo,"says Solomon, "I am come to great estate, and have gotten me) more wisdoM than all they that have been before roc in Jerusalem: Yes, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge, and 1 gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know folly and madness: I perceived that this, alio, is vexation of spirit; for in much wisdon there is much grief," The younj have their fond anticipations, of which nothing can cure them but the rugged realities of an embittered experience, or the vision of their sepulchre in their flowery field of real or imaginary delights. An article appeared some years ago, entitled "A House with a Skeleton," detailing the story of a family deemed a rsodel of happiness above all others in Venice, till, upon inquiry the wife took one who was curious to pry into the secrets of her bliss into an upper room ahd exposed to view the ghastly skeleton of her former lover, whom her husband had killed out of revenge, and preserved his body in that form to febuke her wandering affections. Thus every house has its skeleton, every garden its sepulchre. Another Reform. Some old bachelor, in n communication in iUb Pineinnti Commercial, unon dolls. proposes a new Reform; and as Reform is the watchword of the ladies, at present, we copy it for the benefit of the mothers, whd, if they appove, can begin with their little girls at the advent of the next new doll. The Reform is embodied in the following paragraph: "Her small fingers, guided by a womanly heart, had been out ting and making garments for her pet, even to its neat, white Shoes; when I went to town I was Charged to get soft leather to make shoes of. These little developments caused me to think that dolls are more instrumental in teaching little girls useful lessons of a domestic nature, than all the books they read. And the question naturally obtruded itself to my mind 'vfiyar notdollt dressed in mali clothe; to that the girls tali learn to makt them!" Verily, nobody but an old bachelor would ..-U liimanlf ihnut ft tremendous HOT. nUIIIEU u IlllflUi. " ' -- a fwfnrnY that! lfa can rest assured that he will not have the thanks of the female sex for bis suggestion. -San. Btj, First Trip of the First Locomotive in America. Wm, Wurts, Esq. of Carbondale, Pa., communicates the following paragraphs, clipped from an old newspaper, to the Car bondale Transcript. These paragraphs confirm the statement of It. t . Lord, hsq., published in this journal a few weeks since, and apparently settles the question as to whom belongs the credit of having run the first locomotive steam engine on the Amer ican continent. Tri-Slates Union, Port Jervis, N. Y, "Major Horatio Allen the Engineer of the JNew xork x Jine Uailroad in a speech made during the recent festival occasion, gave the following account of the first trip mado by a locomotive on this continent 'When was it? How was it? And who awakened its energies and directed its movements? It was in the year 1 828, on the banks of the Lackawaxen, at the com mencement of the railroad connecting the Canal Company with their coalmines: and ho who addresses you was the only person on the locomotive. The circumstances which led to my being alone on the en gine were these: The road had been built in the summer, the structure was of hem lock timber, and the rails of large dimen sions notched on the caps placed far apart. The limber had cracked and warped from exposure to the sun. After about three hundred feet of straight line to the road crossed the Lackawaxen Creek on trestle work, about thirty feet high, with a curve of 350 to 400 feet radius. , The impression was very general that this iron monster would either break down the road, or that it would leave the track at the curve and plunge into the creek. My reply to such apprehensions was that it was to late to consider the probabilities of such occurrences, that there was no other course but to have a trial made of the strange animal, which had been brought here at great expense; but that it was not necessary that more than one should be involved in its fate; that I would take the first ride alone, and the time would come when I should look back to the incident with great interest.,As I placed my hand on the throttle valve handle, I was undecided whether I would move slowly or with a fair degree of speed; but believing that the road would prove safe, and preferring, if we did go down, to go handsomely, and without any evidence of timidity, I started with considerable velocity, passed the curve over the creek safely, and was soon out of hearing of the cheers of the vast assemblage. At the end of two or three miles, I reversed the valve, and returned without accident to the place of starting having thus made the first railroad trip by locomotive on the Western Hemisphere.' " The Great Eruption. The Honolulu Friend, of Nov. 14, con tains a letter dated Hilo, Nov. 7th, 1855, from whioh we ex'.ract the following: I have made a sjcond trip to the erup tion, the last to the terminus of the stream in the woods. This I accomplished in one day with all the windings, beating through dense jungle, wading one half of the way in a siream irom one to tnreo teec deep. There is no abatement of the fire. The stream pushes si jwly on through the woods, in a straight line. It is some 10 or 12 miles from us. On a good road, with a good horse, it might be reached in 2 hours. You will marvel, then, why it was not long since upon us. We all thus marvelled, but my personal visit has explained it to my satisfaction; 1st. The fusion goes winding 95 miles from its source. Immense quantities are thtfs spent in deposits along the track. 2d, over the plains at the base of the mountain through the for est, the angle of the decedent is small, say 30 min. to i deg. Of course it moves slowly. 3d, its lateral expansion is great. It appears 3, 4, and even 6 miles in some places, and there it leaves immense deposits. 4th, the soil,' mud, streams, ravines, ridges, hills, pits, basins, pools, with the dense jungle and mighty forest, interpose obstructions almost insurmountable, deadening the incandescent stream, checking its momentum and making its course tortuous. Its present progress, therefore, canuot ex ceed one mile a week. I spent one stormy night within five feet of its glowing fusion, in a straight line, betwixt burning and chilling with cold soaking rain. The stitam before us was some three miles wide, and as far as the eye could see above and before ue, 10,000 fires mineral an vegetable were glowing amidst the midnight gloom. The jungle was burning the water was boiling and the trees were falling and consuming all around. We dipped up many specimens of the igneous fusion, cooled it and brought it home with us. We also boiled our tea kettle and fried oUr ham over the fusion. Disconcerting an Orator. It is an astonishing thing how little a matter will sometimes disconcert a man who is accustomed to speak in public, and ready at command on almost all occasions. "I was onte opening a speech from a stump," said a distinguished western orator to us recently, "and was just beginning to warm with my subject, when a remarkable clear and deliberate voice spoke out behind me, saying: "Guess he wouldn t talk guile so hilalu- tin if he knew that his trowsers was bifsl clean out behind!" "From that moment I could not 'get on.' The people in front began to laugh, and there was a loud roar in my rear, and I dared not reverse my position for fear of Having a new auaience sensiuio oi my condition. I made, or rather invented an ex cuse of delay, and sat down. The malicious scoundrell continued the orator, "it was only a mean trick after all. There was nothing under the heavens the matter with mv unmentionables. . . ; A distinguished Parisian physi cian writes to a friend in (he West, Who is in delicate health '. ."Take to yourself 1 youne. healthy, virtuous and amiable wife It will do vou more good in one winter than all the mineral water in America fur twenty eaf 3.' 185G. TI1E LITTLE KAIfJEH'S THAYER. Thore is a touohing sweetness in the fol lowintr lines, which were originally pub llshedin the Churchman, from the pen of an anonymous contributor: She knelt ber down so meekly, Bolieving none were nigh, , Clasped her little hands so sweetly, And then, wilh upturned eyes-Said, "Father! please to bless me, Through ill the long, long day, And keep me all so safely, Till I come again to pray." She simply asked forgiveness For evil she had done, Then said, "Now I'm forgiven, Through Christ, God's own dear Son." Shu prayed for loved ones near hor, For friends, both far and wide; Said, "I want thee, Ood, to bless them, And all the world beside." A Beautiful Incident. A naval officer being at sea in a dread ful storm, his wile, was sitting in the cabin near mm, and tilled with alarm for the sate ty of the vessel, was so surprised at his serenity and composure, that sheened out: "My dear, are you not afraid? How is it possible you can be so calm in such dreadful storm." He rose from his chair, dashed it to the deck, drew his sword and pointing it at the breast of his wife, exclaimed, "Are you afraid?" She immediately answered, "No." ".VVhy?" said the officer. "Because," rejoined the wife, "I know this sword is in the hands of my husband, and he loves me too well to hurt me." "Then, said he, "I know in whom I be lieve, and that he who holds the winds in his fist, and the water in the hollow of his hand, is my Father." Cheap Provisions. Tho New York Journal of Commerce says: "Mr. aumson s experiment ot supplying fresh provisions from the country, at a price less by the amount of profit commonly accruing to hucksters and middlemen, is so far successful as to encourage its prosecution on a more extended scale. It will bo seen by his advertisement, that he proposes to use the facilities which ex tensive arrangements witn tne large ex press companies afford, for procuring articles of fatal produce, at places far and hear, which will be sold to those wno accept nis terms, at a price made up of the cost of purchase, transportation, and a nxea commission for his own service. , Those terms reauire that parties proposing to employ his agency, shall advance a small sum of mone) , to bo returned to tnem alter a cer tain brief period, in provisions." How Crampton Looks. Among the many foreign celebrities here, none cuts a greater dash than Crampton, the British Minister. Of course he is seldom seen except in the street, when he gives his ensigns of royalty an airing. His equipage is distinguished from all others by its extreme brilliancy. Every fair day he takes his open barouche, a pair of spanking grays; mounts tne driver s seat, noias tne ribbons himiself.and drives furiously around the broad avenues; his footman, a dapper little gentleman, with a blue cape coat and cockney bat, sitting in the cushioned seat behind. Crampton is six feet high, strait as a gun. gray hair, and rotund like every other beef-eating Englishman. Cleveland Leader. A Yankee Boast. A correspondent furnishes the following report of a conver sation which recently took place in a stoie in Boston. He says: An innocent and p'ure-mmded Jonathan, in a warm argument with a John Bull, on our National institutions, was endeavoring to floor his antagonist, who had sneeringly remarked that "fortunately the Americans couldn't go farther westward than the Pacific shore." Yankee scratched his preg nant brain for an instant, and triumphantly replied, "Why, good gracious, they're al-otv lovillincr the Rockv Mountains and ivwwj j - -j carting the dirt out West; I had a letter last weett irom my cosin, woo is living nuu-dred miles west of the Paeific shore on made land. WxAaiNQ Jbwelrt.- Female loveliness never appears to so great an advantage as when set off with simplicity of dress. No true artist ever set off his angels with towering feathers and grand jewelry; and our dear human angels, if they would make good their title to that, name, should care-fnllv avoid ornaments which properly be long to Indian squaws and African princesses. These tinselries may serve to give effect on the stage or on the ball room floor, ... ' L !... f .. but in daily me mere is no suusmum simplicity. A vulgar taste U not to be disguised by gold or diamonds. Crakdbrixs and ERTriPBLAS. The Niles, ("Michigan) Republican says: "A lady visited our family a few days since, and stated that her daughter bad the erysipela rv bad. We call d to mind the remedy recommended by a New Haven editor. On returning home in the evening she found the disease spreaaing rapiuiy uu assumed a frightful appearance. She imme- Hifttplv untitled a rjoutlice maae oi cranoer- ries, which seemed lo arrest it at once, and the second poultice cnectea a complete cure." aar While manv of our exchanges con tend that the fruit trees have been injured by the cold weather, the Pittsburg Qauttt says: "We have inquired of practical ahd experienced fruit growers in this region as to their opinion as to the effect of the cold weather UdoU beaches, and other tender fruit, and they are unanimous that there Is no injury so far, after the heat his expand; ed them, we shall have a good crop. Dry cold weather does not injure the buds or trees here. It i the sudden changes In Ihe spring, whed the sap begins to flow.' 3T If you wish to succeed In life, govern your tempeif.1 ' ' Beven Foobf. 1 '. .'J,' V I, The envious man who sends away' his mutton because the person next to hint (s eating venison. i . . . ( .. - , 2. The jealous man who spreads his bed with slinging nettles, and then sleep in it. - , , . 3. The protd mW who gets wot tWcC sooner than ride in the carriage of an' in feripr. . , . ., . 4. The litigious man who goes to Ia in the hope of ruining bis opponent; mi gets ruined himself. 5. The extravagant mad who buys i herring and takes a cab to carry it home. -' 6.. The angrt rda'n who loams the ophN cleide, because he is annoyed by the playing of his neighbor's piano. 7. The ostentatious man who illumes the outside of his house most brilliantly; and sits inside in the dark. Punch. Rather Skeptical. A lady riding in the cars a few weeks since, found herself seated by the side of an old matron Whd was exceedingly deaf. , j, "Ma'm," said she, in a high tone, "did you ever try electricity?" wnai aiu you say, miss: "I asked you if you1 ever tried electricity for your deafness?" , , i , Uh, yes, indeed l did; its only las; summer 1 got struck by lightning, but X don't see as it did me a bit of good." 5T At the Plymouth dinner Wendall Phillips said that: . "The Pilgrims, if they had lived in 1855, would not be in Plymouth, but in Kansas. If Elder Brewster were alive now.he would add to his creed the Maine Law, the Under Ground railroad.and a thousand of Sharpe's rifles, addressed "Kansas" and labelled Books.' " Applause. AJT An Osase chief, attenantihg to de scribe a fire engipe he had seen in operation at St; Louis, took a quantity of water id his mouth, and placing his arms in a horizontal line from one first to the other mov ed them slowly up and down like a seesaw, while from his puckered lips was spun out three yards or more a steady jet of writer. .... JtarA colored servant sweeping oat m hotel boarder's room, found a sixpence. which he carried to its owner. "You may keep it for your honesty," said he. Shortly after he lost- his gold pencil ease; and enquired of the servant if he had seen it. ' "Yes sar," said the darkey. "And what AiA vnu An wilh ill" "I keen uni for mv honesty," said the darkey with entire sim plicity. AMV-Thprn wpffl In the United State) ' - -" .- during the present year 142 railroad acci dents, killing lib persons ana wounarag 539 others. Among the killed were zu en gmeers, iu bremen, o conductors ana 10 brakemen. Last year there were 193 accidents, and 186 persons killed, and 689 wounded. , Jt3T"Sam, did you ever double the Cape of Good Hope?" "I expect I have." ' "When?", "Last night, when I put mj arm around the cape that belongs to the dress of a young lady whom, I have good hopes' of making Mrs. Dusenb'ury." JtSTGreeley says, Benton is at Washing ton; he is far beyond lis seventieth year, bearing the marks of age and bereavement, still erect and vigorous, his brow-scarcely wrinkled, his hair silvered but not yet white. . trsrA. census of Nebraska territory haa just been completed, showing a total pop ulation ot ibbo. iue numoer oi legal voters 1465. There are 1 1 Blaves in theterritory- ; . . . Advice to Barnum. Now yon'va written your life, try to mend it. .... Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes her. , . . . . Paper makers transform beggars rags into sheets for editors to lie on. - ; . ; .' Tim thought it much joy the first , year of his married life,but more jawey the . second. 1 . 3It is stated that the Clerkship of the House of Representatives is Worth 920, 000 a year, above expenses. jtarTravelling on the Sabbath, In the-Sandwich Islands except in the direction of a church is strictly forbidden by lawi .... Remember, ye who ridicula young man for bis parsimony, that by and by be can be generous when you have nothing to give. Their clress cool out West; A youog lady, being asked if she should wear that bonnet to church, replied, she should not wear anything tlst. ,' . '. , ; ; k there are two bores ini society- the man who knows too much, and the . man who knows too little. ; . . .Sim's hat was blown under the cart wheel, and badly crushed an accident b which, we fear, many Uvts were lost. .' . . . Mould, when seen through a micro, scope.is found to be a living forest of vege , tation. ....',, .... "Twins! by the powers!" said thai horror-struck Irishman, as the nu ll brought bim a pair of brats. "An' sure it's the Missed whiskey makes ns see dott ble." - ' ':.:.,. .... Marriage is the mother of tha world, and preserves its cities and its chnr. ches, and heaven iuelf, and is that slate at good things which,God bath deigned aa the present constitution of the world. at, A physician, being atkad the heat-fhiest way of nsing cocumbtia, replied peal them fresh, and poor over them vine gar, oil, and mustard, khxm wtu. pepper, salt and onioDs,then give ikven to the hogs, . ', . i To tell Good Eggs. If job desire) to be certain that yonr eggs are good aed fresh. putthm in water. Jf thetruU up' they are not fresh. This i aa iafaKblo rule to distinguish k good egg fro a bad otie. - -' . -'- 'T ' I 1 ! !