Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1856-03-04

              ''.Ti i 11 ' ... -v" .it ' j .:.. j i it i ii "i i i u ii a c VOL. II, MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 4, 185G. NO. 10i taoiWT VEBNOl REPUBLICAN ruBLIUHlD XVIEY TtllKPAT UOBN1K0, , BK WM. H. OOOHBAM. fa B EM LIN BLOCK, Ur-BTAM. terms: 2,00 Per Annum, if in Advance. ADVERTISING Ths Ripublioan lias tho largest circulation ti the county and is, therefore, the best medium through which business men can advertise. A d Vertisements will be Inserted at the following RATES. 1 square $ c. $ c. $ c, 2 !j a -a a s a g a o S o a a a a g et n to O Sc.SC. 1 00 I 25 1 752 253 003,50 4,59 0 00 3 sqr's.,1 75 3 25 3 25 4 25 5 25,6,00 0,75.8 00 3 sqr's.IjS 8(3 604 50 00 6 pO7.o6j8,OolO 4 sqr's.,!3 504 005 006 007 00 8,00'IOOQ 13 $ e'$, etc 1 squar" changeable monthly, $10; weekly, $15 M co'. iimn changeable quarterly, 15 JJ column changeable quarterly, 18 yt column cnangeaoie quarterly, no l column changeable quarterly 40 DTTwelve line in this type, are counted at a square. 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Akt or the $3 00 Magazines roa $2 25. THE undersigned is now prepared to mail to subscribers any of the following $3 Monthly Magazines at the very low rate of $2 25 a year. The Magazines are ; Harper, Monthly, ; $2 251 Putnam, " 3 251 Knickerbocker, Monthly, 2 251 Graham's, " . . 2 25 1 Godey's Lady's Book Monthly 2 251 NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE. Back numbers furnished if desired. All are invited to embrace this rare opportunity to get sterling literature very cheap. Send in your orders immediately, and be particular to give the Post office address in full, lo insure against mistake. Address CHAS V. OLDS, Bookseller, Sandusky, Ohio. N. B. C. V. Olds will furnish (postage free) any bnok published, on the receipt of thu Publisher's price. i Also, Sheet Music and musical Works to dealers and teachers at the usual discount. Sandusky, Feb, 5. 1856.-w5. Farm for Sale. TTIO persons wishing to buy a homestead of . JL about ONE HUNDREB ACRES an oportu- nity is now offered Said premises are distant about 24 miles from Monnt 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 suit purchasers. JOHN ADAMS, Agent. Jan 23-tf For Sale. THE West part of Lot 512, on Sugar street, Ranninf'a addition to the Citv of Mt. Ver- ' non with 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. G.ORR, or W, U. uoenran, jut. Vernon. jan. 27-tf. THOS. D. SIMPSON Farm for Sale ! I OFFER for sale 125 acres of land, on Ver non river adjoining the city of Mt. Vernon being the farm recently owned by Judge Bev- ans. About 80 acres cleared, 20 of which are meadow. Jhe whole farm is bottom and sec ond bottom and under fence. A frame dwelling and Irome barn and out buildings, an old orch ard. and a vounir one. the latter first rate graft ed fruit. This farm is a first-rate one and can be had in whole or part, on reasonable terms by applying to the owner residing upon the prem ises. WM. LOGSDON. Jan.29-3iuo. From the Forest City Visitor, TITLES. IT X. S. S. HOUSE. Titles, what are they, but ridiculous and unmeaning?Empty as bubbles blown from expansive gasses? How we would laugh to hear them assumed by Insects I And what aro we all but Insects In God's crea tion? My lady Butterfly I soundoth very beautiful My lord Grasshopper I is it not euphoneous? The Hon. Peter PollyWog ! lookoth well on pa per. Queen Dowager Sow bug I cuts a respectable figure, The Grand Duke of Molehill! is ahigh-sound ing title. Tho Viscountess Tumblebug I is an aspiring dame. The brave Capt. Yellow -jacket I sports his ready rapier; While his lady Hornet looks rather waspish I The dapper Maj. Gnat is as keen as a cutworm The gallant Col. Snappingbug is sudden in a quarrel , Giving quick assurance that he is at least re vengeful j While Maj. Gen. Bumblcboo, the world-renown ed veteran, Of undisputed courage, reposes on his laurels His awful presence striking with dread the Rev Moses Silkworm. The Hon. Justice Tobacco worm weareth the spotless ermine, And Tim. Twist Spider, Esq., proveth that black is white, Espousing the cause of innocent and injured Mrs. Fly. With a volunteer willingness that really issur prising I Lord of all worlds t in thy all-searching view, How insignificant are the proud devices, Honors, and distinctions, of thy poor, human insects I What are we, alas! but insects of a larger growth? How similar in thy sight to the tiny tribes I Restrain our pride, "and lead us not into temp tation." Yet titles and appellatives designative of office, May all be very proper, when properly applied. Such are not inteudedly included in this satire; Any further than they may have been, and of ten are perverted, To the vain subserviency of pride and ostenta tion, That such is done daily to an extent ridiculous' It would be audaciously preposterous to deny. Partisan editors are particularly careful to prefix to the names of their favorites all the honors to which they make pretension; and not unfrequently assume the responsibility of conferring lilies, gratuitously, for the purpose of giving political demagogues a fictitious respectability; which, they might otherwise, never obtain. In a Columbus newspaper, appeared last tall, an account ot the proceedings of a po Uicai party meeting; in which nearly all actors were dubbed (Jolonels, Uenerals, Honorables, and Esqs.; for tho obvious purpose of giving to tho body an air of re spectability; while, of the warlike gentlemen, most likely not one of them was at all familiar with the first rudiments of military service; and to the honorables and esquires, it would be vain to look for more than mediocre honor, honesty, or intelligence. Vanity that is invulnerable to the detergent of common sense, the shafts of ridicule may sometimes effectively pene trate. So mote it be. .-Mount Vernon, O., Jan., 1856. Trinity Church New Tork. How much is the corporation of Trinity Church worth? has long been a question that few persons could answer. The builders of the temple, whose noble spire which toons aown the crowded street of mammon cortatnly had money and a great deal of it at their disposal, but whether the amount was reckoned by eight figures or only in seven whether it was in tens of millions or only in plain units of millions, was not often told to any but the warders and ves try thereof. It seems, that many years ago, a certain member of old Trinity, being devoutly disposed, and perhaps, wishing to atone for sundry onences against the Church and bis own conscience, left the corporation a certain cornfield adjoining the then city; but which in the march of improvement 1!... ! 11.. L .1 1 T I uuw iius in uie part opposite me x ant. This property has of course become immensely valuable, and is a source of reve nue, that may well be called princely. Legal proceedings have been recently threatened, with a view to dispose Trinity of much of this property, which has been stated by somo of the counsel employed, to oe -Deyona tne dreams ot avarice." To remove what is styled a popular prejudice on this subject, the rector has published a pamphlet, in which lie describes, what has been done with the income of his church, and estimates the present value of its es tates. The total income of the corporation from an sources tor the year ending in May last, was $89,406 55. The interest on the debt, $5,481 13, (which is said to have been mainly incurred by others,) was $34,781 28, leaving a new revenue of $54,785 25. Its gifts for charitable purposes have been large and constant, and especially to va rious churches in the City and State of New York. Its real estate is estimated by the rector to do worth tour millions a sum which ought to do a great deal of trood in the world. If the present possessors have not a good title to this property, it will escheat to the estate; and the legal proceedings we have alluded to are threatened by speculators, who propose to take the job on shares with the Commonwealth. It is not supposed, that they will be successful. Mechanics. TITAN UFACTURE of Steel Companion of J-iJ. tne Millwright, uaoinet Maker, JUyer, Brewer, Workshop, Ac Rudiments of Architecture and Building -Byrne's Architecture jjyrnes mecnanics rnuospny ot juecnauics Treatise on Box Instruments-SlanilVe's Mechanical Drawing Engineer's Guide Gclespie's Land surveying die, &e , at the nov.!3-tf. BOOK STORE. For Bale I ACRES of land, 2 miles north-east JJ irom Mt, Vernon, near ineuoehocton road about 23 acres cleared, and in (rood condition ; dwelling house, stable, orchard, springs, Ac me land Is ot reasonable good quality, can be had at 25 per acre in payments. Now is your lime to get a cheap farm near the city. Jan. 25. W. H. COCHRAN, Real . Estate and Gen. Agent. History. D OLLIN-AUison-r Gillie's and Grote's Greece Gibbon s and Fergerson's Rome Hume anil ITniahtlv'fl V.ntr. landBancroft's United Stales-Hiatory of Ohio, ' "', Virginia, sc., ac.ai me novlS-tf. BOOK STORE. Look Here I IF YOIT cant find the article yon want, go lo Washis Millib's and you will be sore to find it. But to save time you had better go there msr. ... novl3,'55. Agriculture. COLBURWS Agriculture Scientific A grl-enltnre Fruit Gardener You ate on Cat-Us Yaoat and Oodd on the Horse Ac, Ac, at the BOOK STORE. o.13-tf. . Poetry. . . ENGLAND and American Poets, Plain and Gilt, full assortment at the aovl3-tf. BOOK STORE. ROSE CLARE, by Fanny Fern; Mimic Lips, by Mrs. Mow alt; Widow BedoU Papers. Afresh supply at tha - Boos. Sieaj. 3T We herewith furnish our readers with an extract from "Progress," a satirical poem by the witty J. G. Saxe : Now saw-mills grate in every forest nook, Now spindles hum beside each mouutain brook; Through virgin forests locomotives wail. And prairie flowers are crushed beneath the rail; Where ocean rolled so trackless once and free, The age of prose stalks forth and maps the sea, And the swift lightning once celestial firo Does drudgery, in harness, on a wire; While patents fill the air, bestride the wave, And dog us from tho cradle to the grave; Machines that rock to sleep our infant cry, Machines that wait upon our latest sigh. We wait by telegraph our love's young dream, Live by machinery, and die by steam. The spirit-rappings also receive a hit, after the following style : Prosiic after death, our spirits then Invent machinery to talk with men; And, rapping from the world beyond, disclose New depths of dullness and eternal prose. No more the fairy queen, "in times of night, Is lulled in flowers with dances and delight;" No elves by moonlight tread their dusky round And trace green circles on the dew-dropped ground; No spooks haunt churchyards and no corpse lights burn; No gobliii checks the butter in the churn; And young America laughs to scorn The good old devil, with his tail and horn- Poetic follies of a younger age I We deal in acts, more prosy and less sage; For Sbakspeare's spirit visits earth to tell How he and Washington are very well; And Lindley Murray, from the body free, Can't make his verbs and nominatives agree; Ben Franklin raps an idiotie dream, And Webster scrawls vile twaddle by the ream: The splendid knave, Lord Bacon, has turned fool; And Penn'i great soul is busy keeping school; Well may the livino poet heave a sigh To think his spirit, stooping from the sky, When he is dead can rap at mortal call Bad rhymes and wretched metre on the wall; Well may the hero shudder in despair. Whose soul can choose lo animate a chair; And the great statesman sinking in the tomb, To rise and wheel a table round a room. Who knows how soon we. too. must loin these hosts - Of silly, dull, disreputable ghosttT How soon oor friends and relatives most shed Some decent tears, and cut onr spirits dead? And w ho will work for Character or fame,' If his owe ghost can fuin his food name! The Five Points. This far-famed locality in New York, is distinguished by want and suffering, beg gary, shame nnd crime. The Angel of Mercy has swept over it, and stirred un the'pirit of beneficence in some hearts at least, and reared a house and provided a superintendent, 'whose whole time and energies are devoted to the physical and spiritual relief of the children of distress. Five years the institution has been sustained with all the zeal of the children of the most earnest Christian philanthropy ; five dark and dreary winters have passed, and many a suffering child of poverty has been comforted by kind words and noble deeds, nnd many a reclaimed victim of vice has been provided with the means of a thor ough reform and honorable subsistence. Within the past year over twelve hundred have here found a home, and more than eight hundred of them have been placed in eligible situations abroad. Among the out door poor, three thousand pairs of shoes have been distributed and other garments in proportion, while they have been supplied with over o.ie hundred and fifty meals, beside Christian burial for at least a score of persons, who would otherwise have been carried to the "Pottersfield." These surely are labors of love deserving ot record and of wide spread notoriety not so much for the praise of those enga ged in them, as for the stimulus they are titled to supply to other minds in other lo calities, where folly and suffering nestle, inviting death and destruction to brood over them ; above all, as displaying the genius of pure and undefiled religion to the glory of its Author. If there be spot on earth where the angels of light best love to congregate, and where the Lord of angels reveals his compassion for "publicans and sinners" most clearly, it is at the "Five Points" institution, and others like it. Congregatwnahst. A Scene in Kentucky. A young man, personally known to us, and naturally of a very mild and molten sive spirit, by the name of Brady, went over Irom Uhio to Lexington, Kentucky, some two years since, and engaged in school teaching there. During the latter part of uecember, be wrote to an Oxford (Ohio; paper, some account of the way Christmas was spent in Kentucky, intermingling his description with some remarks on slavery. A Lexington paper copied the letter from the Oxford paper, nnd the citizens of the Kentucky cnpitol at once booame stirred up. On Friday night, January 11th, a gang of men with faces blackened, and masked, visited the residence of Mr. Brady, and as ho stepped to the door to answer a rap he was seized by the throat, dragged out, his hair torn from his scalp, and black paint, with a stench almost intolerable, poured over his heod and shoulders. Saturday morning, tho 12th, the School Board sent word they wished to see him, nnd though disfigured and sore from the previous night's ruffian outrages, he went, and they, after some mock sympathy, told him he must resign and leave Lexington at once, or else "his ears and neck" would come next. A crowd soon collected around the (loir of the School Committee room, and Mr. lira 1 v was told to make tracks. Ha tried to escape by the back door, but was headed off. He then made a plunge through the front door, numbers giving him chase, nnJ several tel ling him that his skin wouM not hold corn husks by sundown, if he did not leave Kentucky. Mr. Brady at once left Lexing ton and came to Cincinnati, his wife following day or two subsequently. On Jan uary 17th, it nffoids us pleasure to state, Jar. Hrady was examined by the Cincin nati Hoard oi sct:ool Examiners, passing a mobt triumphant and splendid cxamma tion. One remark on the foregoing: were t citizen of Kentucky to come to Ohio, and were he to speak against any Ohio institu tion, all of Kentucky would be on fire at the outrage; but as Mr. Brady wrote 'a letter to Ohio, reflecting slightly only on the "peculiar institution" in Kentucky he must be dragged Irom his borne, gagged, choked, hunted down, and driven from the city. Such is slavery hateful demon- breathing, and possessed of the spirit of perdition. n estern Onrmwn Advocate. Truth Stranger than fiction. Last winter a gentleman in New York connected with the Mission Sunday School of Dr. Alexander 8 Church, found a rag ged little giil selling candy and apples in the r ark on Sunday morning. Un ques tioning her, he found that she came over from England, that her father and mother died on the passage, and she was then living with an old woman who forced her to sell in the Park on Sundays. The kind hearted gentleman at first made a compro mise with the old woman by giving her fifty cents every Sunday to permit the child to attend Sabbath school, and afterwards put the law in force and took the girl from the old woman 's control. She was then sent to an asylum, and thenco to a farm house. The lady to whom she was bound was so struck with the little girl that she questioned her closely as to her history. The facts elicited induced her to write to England, and soon received the joyful intelligence that the child's grand-parents were both living in Sellinge, Kent county, England. The family were substantial farmers and forthwith sent funds to bring the lost one home. She went accordingly in the next steamer, and is now living once more in comfort and affluence at the old homestead. A narrative, giving the whole story, has just been issued by the American Sunday School Ucion, under the title of the "Candy Girl." . . . ."An'is O'Flaharty yer name?" said Paddy to his new made acquaintance. "Share, I knew two old maids in Tippe- rary of that name; but they wern't yer mother, was they?" . . . . The jolly chap who married a fat old lady with i 100.OOO, says it was not his lfe s luce attracted him so mucD. as uer fgure. : . . "What is a backbrter?" asked the parson of his Sunday school. This was a poser, till a little urchin ans word "Be he a Ilea?"- - ' - . The Eich Hen of New York. Mr. Bench has recently published an ac count of the rich men of New York whose fortunes exceed 8100,000. Of this number there are 1,060, divided as follows: $100,000. 314 individuals; 8150,000, 205; SiOO.OOO, 159; $250,000,79; S30O,- 000,75;!3!350,000, 10;$400,000, 37; 450,- 000, 3; 5OO,00O, 7; 8600,000, 24; 8700,-O0O, 5; 000,000, 25; $1,000,000, 15; $1,500,000, 5; $2,000,000. G; $3,000,-000, 1 ; $4,000,000, 2 ; 85,000,000, 1 ; $b',000,000, 1. The total of the fortunes of these 1,CG0 individuals amounts to the enormous sum of 8296,650,000. It is in teresting to see how these favored sons of fortune began life. W. B. Astor, whose fortune is estimated at $6,000,000, is the son of the famous John Jacob Astor, a German emigrant, who landed at New York in 1734, almost penniles. Stephen Whitney, who is rated by Mr. Bsechat 65,000,000, and by others at double that sum, acquired his wealth by bold speculations in cotton and real estate. William H. Aspinwall, (84,000,000) cx-member of the firm of Howland & Aspinwall, inherited the bulk of his prop erty from his father. N. Longworth, (82,- 000,000, ) resident at Cincinnati, but owning a great deal of real estate in New York, is the son of a poor shoemaker of Newark, New Jersey. Peter Harmony, ($2,000,-C00,) deceased, came to New York a cabin boy. The Lorillnrds, ($8,000,000.) of an old Huguenot family, were quite poor on their arrival in America; they have made their fortune in the tobacco business. A. T. Stewart, ($2,000,000,) the famous silk merchant, began business thirty years ago in a small retail store in the bowery, ueo. Law, ($1,000,000.) the owner of a line of Ualilornia steamers, in Ins youin was a day laborer on a farm. Cornelius Vander- bilt, ($1,500,000.) thirty years back, was a Staten Island boatman. Among those who are rated at $1,000,000, are J. Cues-terraan, formerly a tailor's apprentice; P, Cooper, once a starch manufacturer, and Henry Brevoorl, the son of the owner of a small farm of eleven acres on Tenth St., New York. Of the 1,060 individuals men tioned in the book of Mr. Beach, 800, at least, began life in poor and needy circum stances. Henry Ward Beecher and his Congre-, ,,. gation. From an interesting loiter to the Pittsburgh Dispatch we niako a brief extract: On Sunday I had the great pleasure of listening to a cuaracicristio aiscourso irom the Kev. Ilonry Ward Beecher. , I found his church, in Drooklyn, fa large, plain. but very comfortable and well arranged building,) filled almost to its Utmost ca pacity with an audience of at least fifteen hundred persons. Mr. Beecher is a plain. shrewd, business-looking man, yet exhibi ting no assumption or consequence what everutterly devoid of pomposity, and de livering himself without attempt nt display in an easy, natural manner, as (he subject msy rcumro. lie used a manuscript, oc casionally, but principally delivered himself extemporaneously. His text was in Romans: "We are saved by hope;" and tho object was to inculcate tho important duly of christian hopefulness supported ns it is, on one side by Faith. and on the other by Love, and whilst tho grand lesson of the text was brought out logically and scripturally, tho discourse abounded throughout with the most pointed, practical application to his hearers of every class by nomean3 missing the millionaire and aristocrat. I may illustrate his manner by giving his hit at tho "Fifth Avenue" people. Said he: "One starts out for a millionaire, with a Fifth Avenue mansion in his eye, and forthwith buttons up his coat and closes his heart, and picks his steps cautiously, (step ping carefully across tho platform, in a most miserly manner,) and the wrinkles gather on his face, and on his soul yet he moves along, coldly, heartlessly, with an eye for nothing but gold, nnd business, and siocks and everything that is lovely and hopeful withers beneath his shadow, un til he reaches his gold a miserahle wretch.' (in his loudest tone,) unhappy as if every dollar was red-hot, and he tos sed in the midst of them!" A most pleasing feature of the worship in mis cnurcn was tne congregational singing. Beecher insists that every man, woman nnd child should sing and can sing and although led by a line choir of christian working people, (a rarity, by the way,) and an excellent organ, the entire congregation joined in the grand, solemn exercise like tho ''voice of many waters" rolling upward in melodeous harmony. Extract for the Sober Minded. The following waif, afloat on the 'sea of rending, we clip from an exchange. Wo do not know its paternity, but it contnins some wholesome truths beautifully set: "Men seldom think of the great event of death until the shadow falls across their own path, hiding forever from their eyes the traces of the loved ones whose living smiles was the sunlight of their existence. Death is the great Hntagomst oi lite, and the cold thought of the tomb is the skeleton of all feasts. We do not go through the dark valley, although its passage may lead lo Paradise; and, with Charles Lamb, we do not want to lie down in the muddy grave even with kings and princes for our bed-fellows. But the fiat or nature is inflexible. There is no appeal of relief from the great law which dooms us to dust. We flourish and we fade as the leaves of the forest, and the flower that blooms and withers in day, has not a frailer bold upon life than the mightiest monarch that ever shook the earth with bis footsteps. Generations of men appear and vanish as the grass, and the countless multitude that throngs the world to-day, will to-morrow disappear as the foot-prints on the shore." . . . The best protection against the ri gors of winter is matrimony. But what is the best protection against the rigors of matrimony? ' . . . . Doctor, can you Ml me why my eyes are so weak?" "Yes," replied Galen, "because tbej are in a weak place." . Indian Corn. Mr. W. F. M. Amy, an eminent agriculturist nt Bloomington, McLean county Illinois, has communicated to the Patent Otfice the results of some varieties of corn. It appears from this communication, and from the accompanying specimens, that the "Wyandot Proline Corn" does not, in that locality nt least ; realize the liopcs liereto- tore entertained ot it, but indicates a tendency to degenerate into the common gourd-seed corn. The writer expresses his opinion, however, that it will do very well in a more southern latitude. The soil upon which these tests were made ia very fertile, requiring no artiucial nutriment or stimulus.The same writer, several years ago, procured in Tennessee, seeds of the "ll'ennes-see flour corn," which he cultivated with great success in Western Virginia for a time, and then took with him to his present nome, ana has propagated with equal success in that region. He thinks that it is as applicable also to Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and the southern part of Wisconsin. He plants in tho first week of May, nnd harvests in the first week of November, making the hills four feet apart and having 3 stalks in each hill. His estimated yield of dried shelled corn is one hundred bushels to tho acre.sixty pounds lo the bushel. This corn, it is added, is not only prolific, but will also bring a few cents more per bushel than the yellow, because of the whiteness and purity of bread made from its meal, and also because it is one of the varieties from which starch is made with great fa cility. The Day After the Battle. A popular writer thus describes the horrors of the day succeeding the sanguinary battle of iiylau. It gives a revolting but true picture of the terrible evils of war: Such wasjthe battle of Eylau, fought in the midst of a piercing snow storm. Murat was a thunderbolt on that day, nnd the deeds that were wrought by him will ever furnish themes for the poet and painter. But let the enthusiast go over the scene in the morning after the battle, if he would find a cure for his love of glory. Fifly-lwo thousand men lay piled across each other in the short space of six miles, while the snow, giving back the stain of blood, made the field look like unto one great slaughterhouse. The frosts of a winter morning were all unheeded in the burning fever of ghastly wounds, and the air was loaded with cries for help, and groans, and blasphemies, and cursings. Six thousand hor ses lay amid the slain, some stiff and cold in death, others rendering the scene still more awtul by tbeir shrill cnes of pain The cold heavens looked down on this fallen multitude, while the pnle faces of Ihe thousands that were already stiff in death, looked still more appalling in their vast winding sheet of snow, r oemen bad fallen across each other as they fought, and lay like brothers clasped in the last embrace; while dismembered limbs and disemboweled corpses were scattered thick as autumn leaves over the field. Every form of wound, and every modification oi woe were here visible. No modern war had hitherto exhibited such carriage nnd where Mural's cavalry had charged, there the slain lay thickest Standing Committees, i Wasiiinqion, Feb. 13th In tho House, the following standing committees were nnnouncea: , Committee on Elections Washburno, Me; Stephens, Watson, Spinner, Oliver, of Mo., Hickman, Uolfax, Bmitb, ot Ala,, and Bingham. , . ' , . Ways and Means Campboll, of Ohio, Howard, Cobb, of Oa., Jones, of Teen. who was afterward excused nt his own request; Davis, of Md., Sage, Phelps, Campbell, of Pa., and Dewitt, Claims Oiddiogs, Letcher, Bishop, Jones, of Pa., Dunn, Knowlton, Taylor Gilbert, and Marshall, of III, On Commerce Washburn of 111,, Wade, Millson, McQueen, Tyson, Kennett, Felton, Corains. On Publio Lands Bennett of N. Y., Harlan, Cobb of Ala., Lindley, Cullen, Walpridge, Brcnton, Maxwell andTho-rington. On Post Offices Mhco, JN'orton, linger, Barclay, Day, Powell, Walker, Wood, and Herbert. District of Columbia Meacham, Dodd, Goode, Cumback, Dick, Harris, Bennett of Miss., Trapton and Bell. I On Judicary bimrnons, liumph. Mar shall, Barbour, Caskic, Galloway, Harris of Ala., Lake, Wakeman and Tuppan. On Revolutionary .Claims Itttchie, Mur ray, Smith of Va., English, Fuller of Me., Allen, Clawson, Cragin nnd hmne. Un 1 ublic Expenditures JJenn, Covode, Kelly, Mott, Penrce, Vail, Elliott, Wal-dron nnd Brunch. On Private Land Claims Porter,. Hor- ton of Ohio, Thorington, Ethcridge; Bowie, Sandcmon, Herbert, Robinson, and Horton of New York. On Manufactures Clark, Knight, Crawford, Bliss, Durfee, Edwards, Dowdell, Campbell of Kentucky, and Ricaud. On Agricultures Ilolloway, Ready, Grow, Bell, Campbell of Ohio, Morgan, oa-pen, Cullen, nnd Mullen. On Indian Affairs Prcngle, Orr, Eil- linghur3t, Greenwood, Leiter, Hall of Mass,, Todd, Caruthers and Herbert, On Military Affairs Quitman, Allison, Sapp, Faulkner, Williams, Stanton, Denver, Ruffington, and Washburn of Wis. On Militia Kunkcl, Whitney, Harrison, Hoffman, Foster, Parker, Walkin3, Wright of Miss., and Hall of Mass. On Naval Affairs Benson, Slranekcn, Bocock, Haven, Winston, Seward, Davis of Mass., Boyce, nnd Millward. On Foreign Affairs Pennington, Bag-ley, Clingman, Aiken, Fuller of Pa., Mat-teson, Sherman, Burlingame and Thurston.On Territories Grow, Giddings, Pur-vifince, Richardson, Houston, Granger, Zolucotfer, Merrcll and Ferry. OnRevolutionnry Pensions Brown, Al bright, Edmunson, Miller of New York, Miller of Ind , Croige, Knapp, Woodruff, and Hall of Iowa. On Invalid Pensions. Oliver of New York, Pike, Florence, Savage, Welch, Tal-bott, Dickson, Lumpkin, nnd Robbins. On Roads and Canal3 Knox, Hugh-ston, Rufen, Scott, Peck, Moore, Barks-dale, Bradshaw, and Rust. On Patents Morgan, Chaffee, Smith, of Tenn., Paine and Emrie, On Public Buildings and Grounds Ball, Todd, Puryear, Keitt, and Roberts. On Revisals nnd Unfinished Business Sabin, Knowlton, Warner, Clark of N. Y., and. Shorter. On Accounts Thurston, Cadwalader, Nichols, Buflington, and Carlisle. On Mileage Snced, Brooke, Kelsey, Evans, and W ood worth. Joint Committee on Libraries Aiken, Tyson, and Pettit. On Enrolled Bills Pike nnd Davidson. On Expenditures of the State Department Brool-s, Smith, of Tenn., Parker, King, and Damrell. ' On Expenditures of the Navy Department Harris of 111., Wheeler, Washburne of Wis., Underwood, Wright of Pa. On Expenditures of the Post Office Department Pettit, Cox, Williams, Burnet, and Reade. On Expenditures on Public Buildings McMullen, McCarty, Stewart, Swope, and inpp. On Expenditures of the Treasury Debt Waldron, Wells, A K Marshall, Kidwell, and Clawson. On Expenditures of the War Debt Cragin, Valk, Jewett, Rivers, and Covode, On Engraving Kelsey, Damrell, and Wright of Tenn. On Printing Nichols, Cragin and Flagler.The House adjourned. , Kentucky CbiTalry. .., We are informed that a dastardly oiiW rage on liberty of speech was perpetrated in Newport lust evening., . It seems that a dramatic and musical entertainment was to be given for the benefit of Mrs,,Cunls, an estimable Kentucky lady, Being requested to aid in the effort, Alfred Burnett, Esq.; of this city, consented to do so gratuitously, arid accordingly went over tho river last evening, in company with his wife and one or two other friends. After crossing on1 the ice they were going up one tho principal streets of Newport, and were about fifty yards from the house in which the entertainment was to have beer! given ', when : a friend meeting Mr. Burnett begged him ns he valued his life, not to go to the house, for there was a force of one hundred an fifty or two biindrcd rrtcn about the door threatening to kill hint, and tar and feathers were prepared for treating hint with the grossest indignity, Mr. liurnett wished to go forward, but was induced by the entreaties of his wife and the counsel of friends' to retire. He was walking away when the hooting crowd started in pursuit. When the mobocrals caught up with Mr; Burnett one fellow named Dale grasped him by the collar and insisted on his going back. Mr. ii. protested against me out? rage, and disclaimed having said or intended to say anything against slavery. .'. He was forced to go with the crowd, but the screams of his wife induced a Kentucky gentleman to pledge himself for Mr. Burnett's safe return. Mr. R. protested that he had been requested to perform for the benefit of Mrs. Curtis, and had tendered his aid gratuitously that he had never ta- ken nn active part in the slavery controvert sy, and did not intend last night, to say a word upon it was married to a Kentucky woman, and wished to perform for the! benefit of a Kentucky lady. "Are you an Abolitionist?" said one fellow. Mr. Bur nett refused to answer, and was finally taken to his wife by his captors, who. claimed to bo a committee appointed to return him to Ohio. The benefit of Mrs Curi tis was prevented, and Mr. Burnett started ' for the river, followed by the mob, and by a largo number of boys, who rattled tin. pans and shook old oyster cans at an ex- ' traordinary rate. At the river Mr. Burnett addressed the boys, and shamed them for their conduct, until they threw down their tin ware and, left. He and his- wife, with a few friends. . then crossed over the river, back to free soil. These are as near the facts as wo : could ascertain. There may be trifling inaccuracies, but in the main it is correct. It shows that a worthy citizen of Ohio, waa driven out of Kentucky by a dastardly mob. solely because it was suspected that he) was unfriendly lo slavery. What would be said if one of the KentuckianS who come to Ohio in search of fugitives,' was4 thus driven out or tarred and feathered. Is slavery any more sacred than, freedom Must the right of free speech be trampled upon by the very slaveholders who are: o instantly chanting the duty of obodience to Constitutional obligations. Daily Sun, - Jt3T Twenty years ago, when the City Hotel was the great house of New York, a guest from the extreme Southwest ap proached the bar, and caning for brandy, filled his tumbler, drank off the liquor, and laid a smiling on me counter. Mr. Jennings' returned him nihe cents change. "I thought," said tho guest, "that you charged a shilling a drink at the City Ho'fl?" "Ah yes," replied Mr. Jennings, 'thnl h when we sell at retail, but when we sell at wholesale we make a deduction," S3T An ingenious down-ens (er who has invented a new kind of "Love-Letter Ink," which he had been selling ns a safe-guard against all actions for breach of promise of marriage inasmuch as it entirely fades from the paper in two months after date, was recently "done blown" by a brother down-easter, who purchased 100 boxes of the article, and gave his note for 00 days. At the expiration of the time, the inventor called for payment but on unfolding the script, found nothing but a piece of blank nper. Tho note had been written with lis own ink. Pat's Dream. Two sons of the green and glorious s'sfef met a day or two since, and thus collo- quized; "tiood morning, Fat." "Good morning, Dennis." Dennis "How is it wid ye, Pat; y same in a quandary?" rat "liedad but it s all right you are widout knowin it, for it's in the same that lam. It's a provoking dhrame that I,ve had. Dennis" A dhrame! was it a good or a bad one?" ' , Pat "bad luck, but it was a little of both. I dhramed that I was with tho Pope, who was as great a gintlemin as any boy in the district, and he axed me would I drink? Thinks I would a duck swim, an'. seein' the Inishowen and tho sugar on the sideboard, I told him I wouldn't mind ta-kiu' a wee dhrap of punch." "Uowldor hot, said he. Hot," says I.. ,, . ,' . And wid that he stepped, down to the kitchen for the hot water, and before he got back I woke up; and now it's disthres-sin' to me to think that I didn't take it cowld." tiT We were conversing with a young lady, some tew evenings ago, at a literary re-union, and as she had been introduced as a poetess, we of course touched on poetry. It was not many minutes before she had run through tho stereotyped list of favorite authors, when she concluded with Byron, asserting her conviction that he was the greatest poet that ever wrote. We modestly hinted that we preferred according that distinguished position to Shakftpeare, upon which, with an unaffected laugh at our simplicity, she cried: "Why, Shakpeare wasn't a poet; hi pfoyi, don't rhyme!" Toledo Blade. tip One of onr exchanges, in noticing the present of a silver enp to a cotempora-ry, says: "He needs no cup. He enn drink from any vessil that contains liquor, whether the neck of a bottle, the mouth of a demijohn, the soile of a kecr. or the bunir I ef a barrel." ; tST Our readers have all heard the saying that "Nine tailors make a man." Possibly, however, some of them would like to know the origin of the saying. Here it is: . , . "In 1742 nn orphan beggar boy applied for alms at a tailor's shop in London, in which nine journeymen were employed.' His forlorn but intelligent appearance touched the hearts of the benevolent tailors, who gave him a shilling each. With this capital the young hero purchased fruit, which he retailed at a profit. From this beginning", by industry and perseverance, ho. rose to distinction and usefulness. When his carriage was built, he caused to be painted on the pannel, "Nine tailors mada! a man." tlT People talk about the dull routine" of ordinary existence quiet, common-' place monotony with which the mass of mankind pass through life. There is no such thing as quiet, common-place monotony. Every life is full of incidents, and every heart is full of feelings; but they are' not all published. "The heart knoweth its own bitterness, and a stranger tntermedletbr not with its joys." - i - Jt5T "Why did Joseph's brethren cas him into the pit?" asked a Salbatli-schoof teacher of his Class. ,rBe6ause," replied one, slily, "they thought it a good opening for the young man." Commentators are requested not to avail themselves uf this' explanation, as a copyright has been secured, . ; - ' A country parson had rf s'ngufs peculiarity of expression, alwBys u-ing the phrase "fhtter myself," instead of "I be- lieve," Having occasion to exhort hi congregation during a revivsl, he "flat' tered himself" that mors than half of then would be damned!' , i' i