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              WJMiMlll "III 'J, fyiiy- .. J H I i ...... , ". lr .-"'-t-'. -"a.:. 1 i l MOUNT VERNON, OHIO: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER U. 1858. NUMBER ,21. VOLUME 22. 5 Vi Ofice in TfoobVaXiPB lot tkird Story. TERMS Two Dollars per unnntt. TpayAte fttf-anc; 2,5P Vithin six montbs; $3,00nfter the ex-fcimiou of th year. Clubs of twty I,50 each. WATHI or ABTtmiMK! c3 5 j 3 O O fft o s O " s S ? B 3- $ e. S e. $ e. $ e. $ c. $ c. S c. $ c. 1 60 I 25 I 75 2 25 5 tK,3 60 4 60 6 0 1 rgv&vw, 2 2itare. ' 3 tqnarei, il 75 2 2VS2S4 55 25 6 00 75 8 00 2 50(3 60J4 50 6 05 8 00 7 00 3 00 10 itquart; - '3 50 4 00 5 00 C 00.7 00 8 00 10 1 tquare. ehanyeabfe tnonthfy, $ 1 0 weekly, column, ehmiijeahUqitirtrrly ......... it column, changerhlt qnarterly column, chtiHsjeahle quarterly,,.,.......,.,....,.. 1 eo(mn. chnnqrahle annrterlti,. ......... .......... .12 ..$15 15 ..18 ... 25 ... 40 JtB' Twelre lines of Minien, (this type) are coun-. VJ as square. Editorial notices of advcrtisemento, or calling ktteotton to my enterprise intended to benefit indi-Tiduals or corporations, will be charged for at the ' Vate of 10 cents per line. 1f& Special notices, before marris-fcc. or taking precedence of regular advertisements, double usual - rates. . 35 Notices for meetings, charitable societies, fire companies, Ac, half-price. Marriage notices inserted for 50 cts ; Deaths 23 cents, unless accompanied by obitunries, which will be charged for at regular advertising rntee. 23" Advertisements displayed in lnrge typo to b charged one-half more than rcgular rntes. f j;jfirA tr anient advertisements to be paid for in advance. . ' Cljoicc )oc(njr. QU CRIES. : Is it any body's business, tf a gentleman should chooso . To wait upon ft lady, J If the lady don't refuse ?-Or to ,pcnk a little plainer, That the moaning all mny 1inow, Is It any body's business If a lady bare a beau ? I it'any body's business When that gentleman does call, Or when he leaves the ludy, Or if he leaves at all?-Or it neee'ary . That the curtains should bo drawn, To save from further trouble The outside lookers on ? I it any b-ilys business. Dnt tho lady's, if a lin.u ltid.c out with" other ladies . And dcsnt let hor know? . Is it any holy's business Hut the yrn tlo man's, if he Should ai'ct-pt another escort, Where he doeu"t chance to be ? .If a person's on the sidewalk, Whether groat or whether small, Is it any b'idy Ybudiies AV'licili.'r that (i.-r.ou iiuans to call ? Or if you sic a porui, Anil he's calling anywhere, lit it any body's business. What hid business tu.iy bo thero ? The substance of our nuery, '.imply stated, would be thi Is it any body's business AVhat another's business is ? If it is, or if it isn't, , Vo wouhl rc-ally like to know, For we are certain if it isn't, : There are some who make it so. If it is, we'll join therabble; And act the noble part Of the tattlers and defamer-v Who throng the public mart : " ' But if not, we'll act the teacher, . Until each meddler learns It were hotter in the future. To mind his own concerns, lobular Cities . III FfitST IJ-AST LOVE. BY MARY C. VAUailX. " I love my love with an L," said I, and away went the long app'e pairing over my shoulder. ' There was a rush and a scramble to see if my letter had formed upon the floor, and shouts that it was not, but, instead, almost every other letter -. in the alphabet. All the time I sat still, feeling extremely shy . and awkward, and not at all relieved when the point under discussion wag decided in favor of the L, although I had chosen that letter because, . co far as I knew, it did not form the initial of any one of the young- men present. , But I began to be afraid that I had not chosaa wisely after all. i nd that I might be called upon for some of thel j ridiculous forfeits of the flame. How I trembled I then, when I heard the shouts: . "Here is the L. Leander-Holme; Miss Kate - Iimfl chosen 70a! Look ! see the L npoa the floor." ' ' : ' ' . Somebody was coming toward me. Somebody a'aid, " Miss Betty Mr. Holme." A tall figure bent before me And sat down silently by my Btde. All this I saw dimly under eyelids that were cast down in real, not affected shyness, : How grate-' ful I was not to find myself pulled into the cen tra of the room and kissed boisterously, as happened to many of the girls present that evening, And who, under the infliction only.blushed a little and tittered good deal. This was my second country party. I had suf-; fejedtartuirea.at firstj and expected lo-sufer tor-' tures at this.' Tfeft tha I had escafed happily, if I miht but be Allowed to sit quietly in the j. ; cerner I had chosenj Even the very silent per; x - son at my side did not particularly annoy roe so 111 long as the noisy groap In- tbd centre of the o6m would allow me to be quieC .- 7rTji I hi been teared from early bildhood In the house of a wealthy cbiVdless sncle in the city. I Very joaug, and had no idea of sedfety, -ex . cep ium a uu gaioca oj netng a looker oa at my aunt's semi-annnal, stiflf and formal parties, where company was very decorous and exclusively Stupid. " My ancle had died very tuddenly, without a wftl, aoi his beirs at law had taken possession of his property, leaving ray auut with a comparatively small income, While I,' after having been reared unfi? the age' of sixteen in the midst of wealth and luxuay was left entirely unprovided for. ' ' My atrnt went to live in lodgings, and I was sent back to my father, who was a poor man, with many children, and ' a;' slatternly, scolding wife, who was not my mother. My own mother had died in myjnfancy, and it was said that my father had never been himself since. He had become dissipated, lost his habits of business, which were fast bringing him in wealth, and at la3t quitting business entirely had gone to live on a little farm in the interior of the state, had married, and was now surrounded by a large, disorderly family. Into this uncongenial house I was suddenly thrust from the refinements of life in the house of a wealthy citizen. I was shy and unhappy. I had never been accustomed to the companionship of children, but I soon found that whenever I shrank involuntarily from the dirty, noisy crew around me, I gave offense to the mother, and through her representations, to mj father, who seemed completely under her influence. Every instinctive indulgence in the tastes and habits in which I had been reared was looked upon as an evidence of pride, and I soon found all the influence of home arrayed against me ond my wishes. : I had shrunk, through shyness, from attending j the first party, but had gone because I could not resist my mother's sneers and my father s com mands. And so much had I been terrified by the good iiatured boisterousness of the young people assembled, that I mentally resolved never to go again. Notwithstanding I found myself once more in the same" circle, after a very trying scene at home and my dread of the thirty pairs of eyes fixed upon me had been drawn into their gairies." . I had not yet glanced at the face of the young man at my side, nor had a word interchanged when the noisy group in the centre of the "room, broke up. .They came crowding around me, uttering broad but good natural josts that I felt sent the blood (lushing aud burning into my facey My companion must have have felt me trembling tern, for h suddenly leaned forward and. whisper" ed " .r - " Do not be afraid, Miss Kate, they do not intend any harm, and I will see that they do not much annoy you." . . I - gave him one grateful glance, for I was too ! h nit crying to daro trust my voice, . and met a j pair of brill iiint, dark eyes fixed full upon ray ! face, very mirthful, jet a good deal compassion-j ate in expression. Suddenly he rose up, arid I drawing my arm with tit his, turned to the banter-t in rj- group : " ' - I " Mis Kate has chosen, me thi evening, and I I take "her unlcr inv 'protection I shall be a very tyrant. , and ri it one of you "shall speak to her with' oit my pi.-rfuiWioM.'' So savin?, he. led the way to an opposite c'or-uvr of . the room. There, seel u; that, between shyness anrl the an'noy'ance-just passed, I was ! still unable to control in)-, voice or features, he I stood .before ne.sppakiri j cal.-uly Httd quietly of some iinimpirtarit" subject.:- His - pleasant voice and quiet manner'soon helped me to control my agitation, and then he .gat down beside-me. I was -amazed at -myself talking gaily with this ! str;mrpr. and still mrr flmfiy.pfl in firiit mvcplf happy for several hours of. the evening to which I looked forward with so.murth 'dread,. and which ; had commenced -so unauspiciously.. -.'"-.- ; Ami wlien ho brought several of the bright ruddy-looking girls to speak to me in the course J of the evening, I found what foolish shyness had prevented me from learning before, that they were amiable, warm hearted creatures, in spite of their lack of refinement. So, dti: the whole, the evening passed off pleasantly, and I was never fraid to go again, especially as, when they found I was not too proud to join in their sports, they never attempted to drag me into any I did uot like. ' '.-" . But chief among the pleasant memories of that evening was the kindness of Leander Holme. A pair oT dark eyes hannted niy thoughts for many a day, and I never forgot the soothing im pression of . his calm voice and pleasant manner. Leander Holme was the son of the only rich man in the neighborhood. He had been well educated, and that alone would have rendered him infinitely superior to those around him, even if his winning manner had not been that of a perfect gentleman refined, courteous and manly. . . 'rvv:''.' Of course, no one will wonder that I became deeply in love with Leander Holme. ' His devotion bad never wavered from the first, and long before the first winter in my father's Tiome was passed, I had promised to become his wife. It would have been a dreary and miserable winter without his presence and his love, but with it, ahj'even now tha long years have passed, I think of that, only recurring to that time, and never of the discomforts thai had, in the fullness ot my happiness, ceased to make me miserable. My father and his wife were all smiles and-approval. But when, toward spring, our engagement came to the knowledge of Leander'a father he at once announced his decided disapprobation. I heard that be asserted that he would never consent' that his son should marry the daughter of a lazy, dissipated man, and he said that my city rearing was scarcely a better preparation of the duties of mistress' of' Holme Place, than I should hare received at the hands f u'-i? '" ' -i.it 1t' -.--:Z:C ' ' of that brawling, slatternly father's wife Leaader was rtn, and talked of thii "futura and paUent waiting. (BoVl felt that I M bees scorned, and my indignation was oobounded. : t wrpte to my -aunt, .telling herfall' the. measured phrase, and begged of her to seni for me to lire with tear if possible, i Her answer" was come at once, and I departed much to the consternation of my father, and the ill concealed delight of bis wife, 'who taled mo mor than efer tinea the heard of Col. Holme's remark. 1 left a little note for Leander; who was ab sent at the time, saying that the engagement had better end, and releasing him fully and unconditionally. I wrote and sealed the note without hesitation or faltering, although it cost me a se vere pang to do so. I did not know until I had been in my aunt's home a week, and my letters in a package directed in Leandet's hand, arrived without a Vine from bim, how I hoped through all that he would not consent to be released, but would still cling to me. . But he, too, bad his indignation he was hurt that I should have arranged for my departure without consulting him, and pained at the eold ness of ray note. So, through the faults of oth ers, and misunderstanding of their own, two hearts that truly loved were severed. Alas 1 that the story-bad so many counterparts. My aunt's income supported us, and had enabled us to retain our place in the society to which we had . been accustomed. It bad been more than she anticipated when she bad sent me home to my father, or she never would have exposed me to the trials I have passed. ' As time passed on, I had lovers, as any pretty girl will, for if I might believe my mirror and my friends, I was not without attractions, but none touched my heart. - On looking back I can see that I was always waiting, waiting for something that never came. Was it for Leander that I waited ? If it was, I never acknowledged it to myself but it was with a terrible pang, a dumb, but real sorrow,: that served as an excuse for illness, it was so like it, that I heard after two or three years that he was married. ; . . '. - My step mother wrote to me this wedding news - dilating maliciously on the wealth and beauty of the bride, who had come from a distant city to reside at Holme Place. Upon the planting and feucing, the painting, glazing and beautifying the old house, and upon the loads of beautiful furniture, which the bride's father had sent to refurnish the old rooms. .-.' . I answered very calmly that, Leander Holme was worthy the hand of any lady, and bade her congratulate him in my name, if she saw him ; hoping thus, I believe, to disarm bet suspicion and convince him. that I had forgotton my love for him. ."' -" I went more into society after this, and it was remarked that I was gayer than I had formerly been. I was not aware of it I only -knew J was striving to forget. I had no other, object in life now. -The years seemed very long and weary. Society did not satisfy me, and I came to be looked upon as a coquette when. One after another rejected the suitors whom my gaity and brilliancy brought to my feet. 1 became restless' ly unhappy, with a craving for some object for thought and duty that would not find satisfaction in the life I lead. At that time my aunt had a severe illness, and the new cares which then devolved upon me were very good for me. From this illness she never fully recovered, and for two or three years before death came to relieve, her from suffering, and while I.-w'a' busily occupied in ministering to her comfort, I crew more patient. By and by I was alone. I laid her who bad been all that a mother could have been to me for many years, io the silent grave, and I was left without care or duty. My means were now ample, for my' aunt had bequeathed her property to me, and except a tender sorrow for the be!ov ed dead, I should have been happy. But I was not. - .7; " : "" I brought one of my little sisters to live with mV, very glad to relieve her from such a home. I went for her, and while on my visit attended the village church,, and beneath my blajk veil saw Leander Holme and : the woman that occupied the place that should have been mine. She was looking pale and ill. It was said, that she was unhappy, and that her.husband treated her, though always courteously, with great coolness. I felt a miserable, choking feeling -half delight, half bitterness, at the thought that he did not love, her, but I baffled even mj step-mother's cu riosity by my impenetrability. I am sure she did not learn whether I took any interest in the dwellers at Holme Place. More years passed. I still hal offers, though no longer young. At last I determined to accept one. -.. ;:: : . -.-j : ;.-".", .' : ; ' -;-;:"; ,':: - Arthur Meriden was a man worthy of my esteem worthy of my love, only that I had no love to give. He was satisfied when I told him all, 1 ".-"." -. ----- and I promised to become his wife.":; But as soon as I had promised the 6ld wretch ed, waiting feeling came back. It seemed as if I vaguely expected something to intetpose and prevent the consummation of that unholy engagement.' And as the day approached I grew more and more wretched, till finally on a sudden impulse, I determined to go dd'wn to my father's to look once; raoce upon the old familiar scenes, the village church, and the Holme Place, before I should have promised away my freedom forever, miserable as it made me thinking of my past love. ;;-" ! ' - . ..-". 1 went, and the first sound that greeted me as I entered the village was the tolling of the bell, and the carriage drew up beside the road as a long funeral procession passed. - In the first carriage was Leander: Holme, very pale, bat calm 1 It was bis wite she whom I had always thought as occupying my place that they were conveying to the tomb. j .. . ., (: ..; r. : I remined at my father's for many days, not that I hoped or wished to see Leander Holme, but because I literally lacked the strength and energy for - my homeward journey. My sole thought war that now' Leander' is1' free. ' If he still loved me he might at some future' time seek me, but I was about to 'place a ta'rrier between us, and to become - the wife ' of one whom' X now knew more than ever, 1 could iof love. '-At lastj as the day ame-that I was to star on my return, I felt that I had 'gone too farto retract, and, must fulfill the .promise I bad Toluula-rjly made to an honorable tban; ' I .little pew the freedom that I would almost have given life itself lo secure, was already mine. " I had scarcely reached my home when a mes senger arrived to beg me, in the name of Arthur Meriden, to go an once to bis house. He had been thrown from bis horse that afternoon and fatally injured. He was still living and sensible and most anxious to see me once more. God only knows how I reproached myself for .the first intense feeling of gladness that flooded my soul as I heard these terrible things. - I stood beside bim to the last, determined, as a penance for my nnfeeling joy to spare myself not one of his painful though short sufferings. In a few hours, on the very morning that was to have dawned upon our wedding, he breathed bis last. His death set me free. . " ' 1- Yes I was free, but my freedom did not bring me any hope. Leander had gone to Europe im mediately on the death of his wife! Holme Place was closed, and it was said the farm was getting into a ruinous condition a years passed on and its master did not return. He held no correspondence with any one at home, except in the briefest business letters. : : So more years passed away. I busied myself in the education of my sister and introducing her into society, as she grew up a beautiful and brilliant girl, while I ceased to "feel sensible to the title of "old maid," and took my place placidly among the elders, and brushed my still luxuriant hair, now thickly streaked with gray, beneath a tasteful cap. " ; 1 had become almost satisfied with my lot and had ceased to think very "frequently of Leandr or Holma' when I was startled out of my usual placidity by hearing that he had returned to his home. This letter that stated farther that he was making many altera tions and improvements in the old pTaee and that it was conjectured that he was again about to bring a bride hither. "That old.- -man! - exclaimed my prefty sister as she read this'item; sister Katharine can you conceive of a man marrying at his age?7 I smiled, and reminded the bloominir little beauty that the man she called old could not be over foriy-five, although it seemed a great age to her. ; I sighed a little as I glanced at the mir ror, and saw my faded features as reflected from its surface. Soon after, my sister married. I gave her to the man she bad chosen, well pleased, for I felt that he was worthy of my -treasure. But it was with a very lonely, saddened, heart, that after the wedding brerkfast was over, and the newly Wedded pair and all the gnests, departed, I went to shut myself into my own room. I wept a little, for I was growing old and was all alone, and the future seemed very dark and drear to me as I thought what might have leen. had I been loyal to.my heart'a allegiance. aty maid knocked at my 'door. A gentleman was in the parlor and wished to dee me ""Did he send his card or name?" " "No, madame; he said he was an old friend. and would detain; you but a few minutes.15 "Go back and say that I can see no one to day, except on business tell him that my sister has just left me that I am not well The girl went back, and I listened as I lay for the eUng of the street door. But, instead, it was with a feeling of vexation, that I heard footsteps returning. She came in, and, perhaps. seeiug my impatience of interruption, laid a card in my hand, and retired without speaking . ' I.F.AJJBKR HOI.VE. The letters swam before my eyes, and I trem bled so that I could, iardly stand, as I tried to adjust my cap before the mirror. At length with unsteady steps I descended to the parlor; I opened the door and stood in the presence of the roanl.bad loved, and from whom I had been separated so long. : His hair was gray; there were lines of suffer ing all over bis face, only- the bright, dark eyes were unchanged, I gave - him my hand; he look, ed at me steadfastly a little while then he drew rae toward him, and without a word, I lay sob bing upon his bosom. ' "At last at last," he murmured. Thus was I reunited to my first and last love We are very happy now at Holme Place! My husband is all that : is good and noble, and my 4ife is spent in ministering to his happiness," and in. trying to fill a mother's place to the long-neg lected children'of the wife he bad never loved S.eligion In Virginia The following is from the Richmond Enquirt er, and is part of an article upon the condition of religion North and South, in which Virginia is said to be proven to be far more orthodox than New York or the -New England States: "We Would not boast of "Virginia, ""but it is due to ourselves to say that we- are a church-going religious people. - We do not boast of superior sanctity, nor do we claim that ail our people are personally pious, nor yet that there was not among us many who do not acknowledge the claims of the religion of the: Bible,' and that there is not a deplorable amount of wickedness prevalent; yet we do claim a universal and abiding orthodox religious sentiment, "exhibiting itself in a better, accommodation ia the Dumber of church buildings," than in any of the Northern or Western States better, perhaps, than in any other State- i trthe Union and; the respect and reverence for all the ordinances and institutions of religion, and also in the personal piety of thousands among us, and seen negatively in tha absence of every form of organized heterodoxy and infidelity. Upon reference to the census of 1830 wa findour'. white population over five years of age to' be fn , round numbere 759-j000, and onrtchurch sittuigs.to'i)4 856O00io tbat, if every wtite man, woman and child, over five years ef age, was seated at the same hour of the same, day, ia our churches we would have 100,000 VMant seata But where are our blacks? Ae:z00.a, Ter ".-Ji..oC age-,, of these we cart seat, . as above; nearly oneJburtbj4 and as is the custom f throughout our, State, our churches, except.a few, ia- our larger ciUes, are used by them (tha blacks) one portion of the Sabbath : , " " iiiettsHtt(j 0aridi). Trinity anrl Yalentia Bay, Trinity, on this side of the Atlantic, and Va lencia, on the other, will hold the two ends of the cable which ; is to annex the Old World to the Newi The ; Washington Union says of the two points: Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, and Valenlia Bay, on the western coast of Ireland, were se-j lected as the sites for the telegraph stations because of the peculiar adaptability of the beach, for landing tha cable. From :t past experience ', the company were convinced that these points presented superior advantages in consequence of the sandy and muddy nature of the -bottom of j the ocean, which secured the safety of the cable. h ile rocks or stones could not fail to be fatal to iL . Another reason, we are informed, had some weight. It has been determined hereafter to lay a cable from Placentla Bay to the best point either iu Noya Scotia or near Portland, Maine,' and the short distance between the two poiots wilt greatly facilitate the design. At present the connections will be formed with the land running from St. Johns, the capital city, to Cape Ray, the rhoqt extreme south-western point on the . island, where . the cable, which spans the gulf, was laid in the month of July, 1856. :.:-- . - -::,," - - The telegraph- house will be erected at the head of Hull's Bay. It will be a spacious frame building, containing, in addition to the office or operator' department, a.sitting room, a kitch en, eight bed-rooms, and all the other tt eeleras of a well-appointed household. A library will be provided by the company : for the use of .the operators, and they. Will ; have everything that they could desire for the purpose of. spending their time in an agreeable manner. The force of operators will nnmber seven, and these must have, among other qualifications, a perfect know-4 ledge of French, Germany Italian, arid English, so that they may be enabled to receive and transmit massages in all those i languages. In addition to the operators, there will be five mechanics to repair the telegraph instruments, and to perform any other work that may be required of them in their particular trade. - ' The other end of the line, Yalentia Bay, does not present quite so many ad vantages although it is the best, in many points of view, that could have been selected. The bay does not afford a safe place for anchorage during storms, and the population frequently suffer " from Tarhfne. The small iand-cove at the bead of the bay has been selected as their place for the landing of the cable," and the: telegraph house has been built about four hundred yards from the beach. The junction; with the enable will be formed by a land line running to Cork, from Cork to Dublin, Vbeoce acrivta thA Munnol . o England.; aV tiy other connections with the great net-work of tele-graphs, which extends over the whole continent of Europe, and which has already embraced within it portions of Asia and Africa. --:- . . . Romance and Crime. Extract from a Havana letter, August 18: By the last steamer from your city there arrived here a young American iemale, who gave her name as Mrs. A . She put up at the Hotel de San Fernando, A Spanish house ot respectability, The day after she arrived it was observed she appeared drowsy and ill, and she was urged to go to bed; she did so and then confessed she had taken opium to destroy ber life. The police and a medical man were sent for; the latter administered a powerful emetic and the requisite antidotes to opium, "while the police searched her baggage and found a large quantity of letters from gentlemen, several portraits of gentlemen and a lump of opium. The medical gentleman who attended her, and through whose exertions her life was saved, generously gave a certificate that she bad been accustomed to take opium for a chronic larache, and thus she was spared, the punishment that awaited her for attempting to take her life, which, under the Span ish law, is a very serious offense. The history of this female is somewhat romsnttc. She is a native of New York, but has resided for sometime at Memphis, where her life was not exactly that of a Lucretia. At Memphis she became in timate. with a gentleman who was in business in that city. She became so passionately attached to this gentleman - that she followed him .from Memphis to New Orleans, and from, that city to this. She refused to return' to the United States, to which a passage was offered her by the Hoi-ted States : Acting Consul General, saying she' would follow him to the end of the world. - He refuses to have anything more to do with ber. - A Costly. Bible. ; ; '." There is still in existence a copy 0 the Bible printed on vellum, which has been sold as high as $2,500. ; It is one of the few remaining copies of the first prinfed edition of the Bible. It may pot be generally known that the Bible was the first book printed after the discovery of the art of printing. It was a work of about one thousand three hundred pages, and consisted of two large folio volumes. A vast amount of time and labor was. required to print it- And the fact that it was not written with--pen, as other copies had been, was for a long time concealed. This Work was done about., the year 1 445 more than four .hundred years ago. Who can estimate Hs influence on the world?- As (he Bible was the first book -printed, so there have been more copies of the Bible printed than of any other work It is now translated into the leading I languages ot me eana. jxv. x. vnron. - "Death from ' Hydropnobia. -:A. .gentleman .named - James, residing at Whitewater, Walworth County, . Wisconaio, jras bitten nia weeks back, by a rabid dog. Thfi wound, after-, careful, applications, appeared to have healed up perfectly, and all traces, to bare passed away. ... Oa Saturday; night laat, however, while ivbed, he :eompIaiaed. of .sv peculiar paia ia tbeiregioa of the.wouod, and ..meadpniag it ti wiCn. . Mxrjresaed, him. feaxa 4if.sabseaaenti troQWe.-UnVPPiJy .lMi-,fe.ar wer too-vweli founded. 7He- continued to j grow worse, ; not- withstanding every effort was' made .to save Eim by tbVablest 'physicians, and' on "Sunday tight at one o'clock -dl&S ia T- fearful 'agostea. tr H leaves a wife and two children to lamest his dreadful tad. " - The foot of a -Horse. It is a marvel of mechanical ingenuity, which no mere human inventive faculty ever could have devised. Often has the human hand been' taken to illustrate, divine wisdom; but whoever may examine his horse's foot, will find it scarcely less curious. Though all. its part are some what complicated, yet their design is simple and obvious. The hoof is not, as it appears to the oareless eye, a mere solid, lump or insepsible bone, fastened to the leg by a joint. . It ia made of a series of tbin layers, or leaves of horn, aboat fire .hundred in number, uicely fitted to each other, and forming a lining to the foot it self. - Then there are as many -more layers be longing to what is called the coffin bone, and fitted into this. -These, are all elastic. Take a quire of paper and insert the leaves, one by onet into those:.of" another quire, and you will get some idea of the arrangement of these several layers. Now the weight of the horse rests on as many elastic springs as there are layers in bis (bur feet, about four thousand; and .all this is contrived, not ouly for the easy conveyance of the horse's own body: "but of human, bodies, and whatever burden may be laid upon him. President Buchanan in an alarming Posi- " '- . tion.' : ": A correspondent from Bedford Springs to the Baltimore Sun, writes as follows: - . ; .'"The lady of Colonel Alfred Spates, of Cum berland, Maryland, one of the visitors at the Bedford Springs, by her" dashing exploits with, a pair of superb horses has created quite a sensation. The other day he sent her card to "the President, who, of 'course, with bis usual polite-; ness, placed himself io ber charge, and the lady, gav him a glorious round behind her gay steeds. Dashing through Bedford town at a spanking pace, the horses ' flecked with foam, the lady glowing with excitement -and the President known to everybody, very serious alarm seized the public miod that some aspiring dame bad caught up the Chief. Magistrate of the United States, and was eloping'' with him. As is was. observed, however,' that the President took it very calmly, called upon Vrio. one for help, and seemed perfectly resigned to the consequences, whether it was a broken neck or matrimony, nobody interfered. I o good time the party returned, and the '-President - was restored safe and sound to bia anxious friends." - -:..": A Suicide or a Murder. The body of one Miss Kate Gill was found floating in the Maqaoketa, a short distance below the village of Manchester, : on Sunday, the 8th inst. The circumstances, as near as we have ascertained, are as follows: Miss Gill was a svrvnot girl at ibe Exchange Llotel, at which place she. made the acquaintance of a Mr. Brown, to whom, it is supposed, she was engaged to be married. . Soon after, Mr. B.- made the acquaintance of another lady, and was married to her. Not with ; this did Miss Gill's "love cease; it is thought she became annoying to her former lover. On Thursday of last week Miss G. went to the house of Mr. Brown to wash. -After she had finished, which was quite late in the afternoon, a walk was proposed, and the young lady, in com pacy with Mr. B. and three other men,': walked some distance down the river. SuCice it to say, the joung lady did not return with the party. r Three or four screams were heard in the vicinity of where the party were supposed, to be on the evening of the fatal deed. Delhi (iuica) DcuiO' crat, Aurpxit 13, . Boned in a Well. At Riesterstowo, Md., on last week, a mau named Smith, while engaged in cleaning a well was-covered lo the depth of .twenty feet, with some te-n feet of water below him, by the caviug inof the wall and earth! - This occurred on Friday at three oelock. A vigorous effort was imt mediately made to release him, dead or alive". Very soon a windlass and bucket were rigcred. The vilagert n incuse were there to render such aid as was ia their power. After Iaboriug till about six o'clock a distinct voice from the depth of the welll was heard,' I am alive." A thrill of joyran 'through' all present', and extra efforts were made, and in another hour hij was rescued, not much the worse for' beiug entombed nearly fbnr'hours ri',-fmpinetrabIe: darkness. In bis dangeon he gave cool and deliberate orders how to proceeaia removing; the? stone, r as they had formed a complete .arch over hiahead a stone resting on each shoulder and one oa the head, producing a slight pressure, which be sustained until released. '. - . ' -. . - ' "y A Sad AgkiK ;. v ' . '. A shocking occurrence,' says the Troy N. Y.j Wltig, took place afew days since at Sandy Ililf, Washington County, causing the death of a very estimable lady, who formerly resided in this city, where she has many warm friends. A niece of the deceased, a young lady, had been forbidden by hex father, to. a young man residing in the. village, or be seen ia hir eompany.. Diyegar: ding these commands,' the: young Jady, n the evening of the occurrence, took a walk widi him and was met by the . indignant father in front of his residence. r Angry - words ensued, when the young man drewadirk, although without any in. tention, as it seemed, to nse- iUj The aunt of the young lady, who witnessed the fraces, was terribly frightened, and was seized with violent spas. modic coaghing, . which continued for nearly an hour, defying all remedies -that were employed. Her struggles at last grew feeble, until suddenly ahe fell back ia her chair o'eaJ., ... , . x - t Pi JPcaaW9 An -editor ra Iowa haa beeu fine4 139 for Jmggtng a young lady ia ehurcn. Dailg Argus. - m .: . . Chesp enoughl, TTeneeIiuggeS. a girl io church some ten 'years ago,' and "Qxa scrape has cost us a thousand a year ever" since.V Chicaao . " .. . j-' . j. ... s....i . . whom,lie eaeouDtered, "don't? iou.bearTOM fa- ther speakicg .to jourit. .4a, ya-a-s Waed the youth, "but I don't mipd whaba eajs;, lothex don't neitber, and Hwlxt she and I we've about j got the dog so be don't. How to Exterminate the Weevil Iater- estinj Discovery. j J. L. Booth, now in this city, who has ma Jo sorae'valuable improvements in rrain cleanrig - machinery for flour rnilt3, sends us the result of some experiments with bis-, machine for scouring gratii ; lie obtained from a farmer thirty bushels of wheat from-a bin of tw hundred bushels, and after passing it through flie mach-ine,flaced in glass jars samples of the cleaned and uncleaned giaiu- - Upon examioauoa sonif time after, he'found the latter alive with weevil and badly eateri," wLjle that, which bad .been scoured was perfectly frcs from ' any "appearance of the insect. This led him to a microscopic examination -of the berry of the wheat, which . resulted iu convincing-Lim that any grain infes. ted with, weevil cau ba entirely cured-and preserved by the eiiup'e process cf cleaning, fn proof of which be spates that a large portion of the grain seemed ta haven single blister r . slight prominence upon the germinating end cf the berry, which was readily ; removed by", the point of a knife and the gg-"rf the .weevil :Vis. covered. Mr.' Brooth is saiisfied-thHt'.tl.iii thorough, scouriag: aid agitation of the graiu re movesthe glutinous covering 1 of the cell containing the egg, aud tbat.iu exposure to the air destroys its generating propeesiues;'; And if the wheat is taken in any condition, after the iosects has paed intotla larvjs jor perfect state, and treated fis abote rnentioneif whh any effective smutter, this pest"will be cmpletf-lv eradicated.'. ..Tlierefeothjr specrps of the same des- troyer-orw in whica'the-e?f 'is-deposited. in the berry wliile iu a spt state before harvest, and the depository being capped over tr exeluuVTho air, the egg remains-thin, pr ltetted oalil ih grain is aiaiq'ownt apd.-tloes not chaage uotil deoom-po'sition eoujmences froza the aetiou of- the earth and process of .ge'rmiaatjon.', Maay , ioi-fTectuul attempts to find a remedy "have bien rnaJe. ' JAs Mr. Booth's process-13 - within the reach of ai!, it is worth the wh.ile of thosd wbsK prairt w iii. fested by.the" weevil" ta try it, r,Ne"; Jor& Evening Post. " ' ' ' ' -': . ; '- Oiling Haraess- ' On a rainy day, when the farmer cah not work out of dors, one tha best things be tab do i.s to oil bis harness. sir..kcpt .e'eiia, ad propriy oiled and p'iaj'ei harneis will last .much J:ng r than if stiffened and 'renlerei gritty by a' oat of dirt, and left, riaid aoi liable to crack frma want of o.il. In Order to oil a harness properly, unbuckle and separ.iteevery scrap; then waah it in warm soap-suds. Th"' warmth" m.iy a little exceed that '-.of. ue"w milk if approaching hii. it will ii.jure the' leather. The soap suds huui 1 be used .rapidly, and . only luu etouh to remove the crust which has been . formed tn 1I10 harness by dust settling.-' on the previous oiiin?. If the application is "longer continued, it wul abstract too .much oil from the leather. Car-riage harness,: to look well, should then, be blacked, and afterwards ihe oil applied. A correspondent of the New England Farmer, recoin-" mends ihe following as the beit blacking he has trieij: One ounce of extract of lojwood, twelve grains of bi chroiaate pi potash. Loth jtouinied fine, and then two quarts of boiling raiii water added and stirred till -all is dissolved. It is kept in a bottle. This he : savs ii much better than-copperas,-which cuts into the leather. He liri applies Neat's foot oil, and afterwards the sanm vith one third castor oil, vrLich enables the lejith-er to withstand th effects - of "rain" ' and expos, tire longer thin otherv.-ise. It shoull not be fir-gotten tbat fuch parts of the burners aiarA worn and used moot should havo the most oi!, which may be given by a secou'l applictliou.- Couirfry Gentleman. - To Preserve Hams thronga the Snmmtr. Makea number of cottou bas, a Hi'le larcer than your hams; after the ham are well Kiiicke'l place them iu the bags ; then -g:t the be-t kir.d of sweet, well jnido Lav. cut it with a knife', and with your h;ind press it Tvell around the hnmn 'u the bag; tie the b.ig with good strings, j ut 011 a card oi' the--year to show their age, and bang them up in a .garret or sViae dry rootn.-iiud tb-y will bang fiveje.irs, siud w ill be better fr boilir,-than on thodnv you bung tliem up. Thi? metli-od cntits but little and the bngs will last ir' y years. No -flies 'or bugs, will:- trouble: the ban; if th? hay is well pressed aronnj them r A Vie s wealing' of the haws will be ta'-ien Yip by' U. hay, and the hay- will impnrt a firie.flavttr to tl.rj hams. . The hums should be treated in this ntHo'-: ner bofore the hot weather etd iu. &Mi'turn Farmer, . . . ; . :The young; gentleman who flew into a fission has had hU, wings clipped. -. . ; : A woaj without poetry is like a'Jandsc-apo without snnshine. . ' ' - "-" - " " "' J The shortness of VJe U very often owing t. .the"irrcgularitie3 of the'frfr. 1 f : : ' ' Is whatship have the greatest number of rq? n been wrecked? Courtship, Tue auxieiy that a maa ftls f;r the want of funds is called cati7.puniahmeut. ., Av4ibiny paper.says.there is a man in GreenA bu h who believes in rotation . ofcrops. u year Jie raises nothing, and the next weed. , '"PaAr, friend, are you- the master of jb house?! asked a traveler at an inn. r"xVg sir.' replied Boniface; "my wife has been dead ti-tn three tetka."-!...; i; V . -.-..-": ?.. j Tits: foU6 wing-bill was lately presented to farmer in SusseX: "To barigiug two bara -iloor and myself seven hours, four shillings and fix. peace." . r : -.. - . : '. - - AxsttEMAK who has a scoldieg viCt, iurftn. swer to an inquiry after Ler health, said 6l,e.ifis pretty wall, only subject at times to a "breiii.g oat in the mouth.' .c '. .' ;.- , ' . "Pat, buy a tfUDk, to put your - il&Jbvtjn; said his Yankee cornpation. 'What an" go naked tbi cold weather?'' asked the; boowt sjal-peeu xif Killarhey. . , . , -l sat, Pete, in gwoing ronn'ue worrtrabler tejl us dat you lose one 'hole day.-" , L';Dt am't nufiu), Sam, whea you caa make'ai cp aginV' "How job gwina to make it up ill me aiV "Why, jia turn round and ga back agin-" ; Tee eininent I)r. South, being, ia. -the, nldi oC a frolic oa one occasion, and aoeiii? a dignified unbending accuaintanceAFlroaca'I eJ"nel "Stopt wa, muiit, Le. grava nof, there U a fool com.ingr j, j. : :,t . - A CEXSORicrs aI conceited, lidy, vacliug ber good. figure), Vested Another th&l ir sis-. tax ani herself bad always beea rtmarkao!e Ijv tbe.beafttx ef . their bacVs GfTbat U il rV"1-I suppose, that jour frieuda are always 63 to see them,-was the reply. .