Mt. Vernon Democratic banner (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1853), 1861-03-05

              - 7 r, a C -.; f " CS- y Nv X 3- 1 ?v- -rrr VOLUME XXIV. MOUNT VEECM ' OHIO : rrt, MARCH 5, 1861. NUMBER 46; y y n r rvf or, fCi I . i i 'y i t- IS.rClLtRBCD ITI1T TTZSBAT KOUrXXS, 0He9 In TToodTArd'f Block, Third Story .TEEMS T we Dollars per annum, payable In ad vance; $2,60 within six snontbs $3,00 after tbe ex piration of tbe year. THE STAR S PAS G LEO BASSER. r vsaxcis a. xrr. Tfepablish tbis morning tbe national wsi wrlt-tta when tbe enemy with whom our country was at war was bosobardiflg Fort MeHeary, end the booming of the guns iu ringing la the ears of Its author: j . '-- Oh ! say, ea yon by the d waa Yearly light, What so proudly wa bailed at the twilight's laat '' ' gleaming j Whose broad atripw ard brijbt atari through the j perilous light, O'er tbe rassparte we watehed, were so g allently ( atreeming, And tba rocket's red glare, the bombs banting in . !air, - ;:- Gave proof through tba night tbat or flag waa still , . j there. Ob 1 say, doet the ttar spangled banner y'ek ware, O'er the land ef the free and the home of the brave? On the abore dimly aeea through the midatof the I deep. Where the fee'a bangbty boit in dread ailence re-) poeea, . What a thai, vbioh tba breeie o'er the towering 1 ." - -eteep, " At it Wully blowabalf eoneaaIa,.balf diaeloaea ? . Now it jeatebea the gleam of the mornlng'a firtt i beam, la fall glory. refleeted now tbinea en the atreeme ; ' Ji the aUr apaagled banner, oh ! long may it ' 'jware, .. O'er the land of the free and the boms of the :; ' jbrare t ' And where ia the band who io vannting awore : That the baroe of war, and the battle's eonfaiioa, ' A home and a country ahould lea re na no more t Their blood: baa washed out their foul footstep' pollution. No refitge ooald sare the hireling and slave, from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave ; And the star spangled banner in triumph doth . " ware, , ' O'er the land of the free, and the home of the .ibrare t Ob, thnsbs it ever when fraem ahall stand Between their loved home and war'a desolation ; le?ed ''with rietory and paoe may the Deaven reaened land Praise: the power tbat made and preserved at a Ration. Then eonqner we mast, when oar eaase it is jast, "And this, be oar motto "In God is oar trust I" And the star spangled banner in triumph shall ; : wave, O'er; the land of the free and the home ef the ibraro ! A!S) IXCORUlGinLE FLIRT. Iloop'a "Song of the Shirt" has been parodied by a poetial correspondent of . the Chicago Trilune, who thus addreases an "Ioeorrigihlo Flirt" : j. Flirt, Flirt, Flirt, In the rooming, at mid-day, and night ; . Flirt, Flirt, Flirt, . ' , . . Till with flirting you've surfeited quite ; . Flirt with each mirth-loving halle, Whose beauty, assisted by art, To her friends she will vanntingly tell, . Has won your impressible heart. ; Smile, smile, smile. Upon every maiden in town j j - gmlle, smile, smile. And receive 1b return bnt a frown j Smile on the haughty coquette, : Since wisdom yon never will leara,-And: the precious reward that youll get, Will be bather scorn in return. i - Flirt, flira, flirt, In avenue, alley, and lane ; j Flirt, flirt, flirt, With aoara oaa, though trxs so vatn j Flirt with the heartless and gay, Flirt with virago, or shrew. Flirt, air, wherever yon may, Raise a tempest or mighty ado. 1 Smile, smile, smile, Nor eount all thy smiling a sin; ' Smile, smile, smile, A heart's young affections to wis j Then, leave it alone, with its fears, v Its bltur and deaolaie grief. With sighs, meditations, and tears, Tbat afford bat a transient relief; . j Flirt, flirt, flirt, There are yet many hearts to be won j ; Flirt, flirt, flirt, Till your mission on earth shall bo done j Its folly yon never will see, ' , 8a tirt.till your tbet laat bkbath, , And the- rerdiet of all mast then He, Bt ruartao be eame to bis bsatk. . Singular if Trne.' " -Tnej TTauriel Friend, a German Cincinnati, baa k latter from a correspondent in f ' ! A . a m 1 W mm m vwdbi, wQica siaies inat an iogiiauman ealled oa the Pope! Chamberlain laat moatk, and requested a aodiaoo with bia Holiness. Tba Ciamterlaia i a mediately made known bis re quest t tu Pop, who replied to him, aayinv "tbat be did not wisb to speak to the dead." Tbe Cbamberlaio, not understanding tba reply. tepeated tbe Ensliab man's reqaest for aa audi Bcet whereupon his IZolIness quickly and itern-1 replied ;ain, ayin tbat b did not wiab to t peak to tba dead." Oa beana tbi eain. tbe CbaznberU'n retired, and found tba En?ljbroan Tjiox ead la tbe ante-cbamber, and appearing to haveTCroj'pe Cfaaeaaaenly, Oa opening , tia coat t!be.-3 wcra fjnnd two loaded revolvera, lia contents cf wbicb, do doabt, be intended to girt to LU Cells e4 tut Qod protected LU cer Tist, tci etxack tb$ woali-be csriertr tzzl oa lis rrcV. Tls Fcre.ky izerlra'.'.ia, kaaw of it al.ls- bt osUbsr saw tba tsas cor rpie to him. ' ' Choice loclrg. TFnmOn' m TotalU on. lit Bomndarif An-- - otaer World." THE TWO BISTEES. In tbe month of October, 1833, Mr. C , a gentleman, leveral member of whose family have since become well and favorably known in tbe literary world, was residing in a country hoase io Hamilton county, Ohio He bed just completed oew resideactf, boot seventy to eighty yards from tbat in which ha was then liv ing, intending to remove in it in a few days. The new bouse was in plain sight of tbe old one, no tree or shrub intervening, but they weie sep arated, about half-way, by a small, somewhat abrupt ravine. A garden streatehed from the old boose to tba hither edge of this ravine, and tbe further extremity of this garden was about forty yards from the newly erected building. Both buildings fronted west, toward a public road, the south, side of tba old dwelling being directly opposite to the north side of the new. Attached to the rear of tbe new dwelling was a spacious kitchen, of which a door opened to the north.- " '..V'v : The family at the time consisted of father, mother, uncle, and - nine children. Ona of the elder daughters, then between 15 and 16 years old, was named Rhode ; and another, the young, est but one, Lucy, was between 3 and 4 years of age. ; - J. y- One afternoon in tba month of October, after a heavy rain, the weather had cleared up, and be tween four and five o'clock the sua shone out. AKoot 5 o'clock . Mrs. C stepped out into a yard on tbe sooth side of the dwelling they were occupying, whence, in the evening sun, the new house, including the kitchen already referred to was distinctly visible. Suddenly she called a daughter. A, Baying to ber, "what can Rboda possibly be doing there, with the child in her arms. She ought to know better this damp weather."-"-. A. looking in the direction in which her mother pointed, saw, plainly and un miatakably, seated in a rocking chair just within the kitchen door of the new residence, Rhoda-with Lucy in ber arms. "What a strange tbiop!" she exclaimed; "it is but a few minutes since I left them op stairs." And, with that, sroing in search of them, she found both in onr of the upper , rooms, and brought them down. Mr. C and other members of the family joined them. Their amazement, that of Rboda es pecially. may bo imagined. The figures seated at tbe ball door, and" the two children now actually in their midst, were absolutely identical in appearance, even to each minute particular of dres. Five minutes more elapsed in breathless expectation, and there atill aat the figures ; tbat of Rboda appeariug to rock with the motion of tbe chair on which it seemed seated. All the family congregated, and every member of it twelve persona in all saw tbe figures, noticed tbe rocking motion, and became convinced, past all possible - doubt, that it was the appearance of Rhoda and Lucy. Then the father, Mr. C resolved to cross over and eudeavor to obtain some solution of tbeir mystery, but, having lost sight of the figures in descending the ravine, when he ascended the opposite bank they were gone. " Meanwhile the daughter A bad walked down to the lower end of the garden, iso as to get a close view; and the rest remained gazing from the spot whence they had first witnessed this unaccountable phenomenon. . Soou after Mr. C bad left tbe bouse, they all saw tbe appearance Rhodv rise from the chair with the child in her arms, then lie down across tbe threshold of the kitchen door , and after it had remained in thai incumbent position for a minute or two, still embracing tba child, tbe figures were seen gradually to sink down out of sight. When Mr. C. reached the entrance, there was not a trace nor appearance of busaan being. The rocking chair, which had been conveyed across to the kitchen soma time before, still stood there, just inside the door, bnt it was still empty. He searched lb bouse carefully from garret to cellar,, bnt nothing whatever was to be seen. He inspected the clay, soft from tba rain, at tbe rear exit of the kitchen, and all around the house, but not a footstep could ha discover. There waa not a tree or both anywhere near, behind which any one could secrets himself, the dwelling being erected on a bare hillside. . The father returned from his fruitless search to learn, with a abndder, what the family, mean while had witnessed. The circumstances, as may be supposed, made upon them a profound impression, stamping itself, in indelible characters, on the minds of alL But aay mention of it was usually avoided, as something too serious to form tbe topio of ordinary conversation. I received it directly from two of the witnesses. in New York, February 22d, 1860, Miss A and ber sister. Miss P u They both atated to ma their recollections of it were as vivid as if it had occurred only a few weeks since. No cine, or explanation of any kind, was aver obtained; unless we are to accept as such the fact that Rboda, a vary beautiful and cultivated girl, at tba time in blooming health, died very unexpectedly, oa the 11th af November of the year following j and that Laey, tbsa also perfect IV wan, followed her sister oa tba 10th of Deean bar, tba eama year; both deaths oconrring, it will be observed, wkhia a little mora than a year of that day an which tbe family saw the arparU tioa of tba sisters. r-:-:.:-':--':: ; The)' BeartX'.:V;:- Under this beading the "Medical and Sorgieal Reporter" has the knowing redactions, la reply lo the objections cf a eoteniporary tS i '-' There . -ara phiaiologicai : objaetionr . against siavirj, ts ,i:ns cf -icb wa wiH can ltsn :i Ia tls C.;t j!ic3, it it wtH iaowa tlattiavic? stimulate tba growilt cf balr.cioet decidedly. talatUaal'. aLavsrs w ganaral! tim it grow at least a uat ia two days ona hundred and eijbty- three lines in a year fifteen Inches. - Few men's beards will grow to one-half this length in that time; consequently, whatever force of circulation or innervation, of primary and secondary meta morphoaie is necessary to produce that artificial stimulate growth, so much is the shaving individual abnormally and unnecessarily taxed in his heart, bis blood and his nerves. We have, of course, no data by which to calculate this loss positively. But that there ia a loss, by this superimposed taxation upon tbe system, there can be no doabt. It is not, however, simply loss of the hair, but also the continual irritation of ihe skin by this process, which must eecessarilly re act upon the system. It of 60,000 daily pulsations of the heart only ona hundred pulsations are necessary to carry on the ni&tamorphotic pro cess and supply the expenditure causeu rectly or indirectly by the unnatural stimulated growth of beard, leaving 59,000 pulsations for all Other growth and process of nutrition, etc, it will give as 36,500 contractions of tba heart in the year, or 1,095,000 in thirty years (a geration) of sbaveable life equivalent to eighteen days ; or in other words, the tax upon tbe system by shaving would shorten life eighteen days ; this," multiplied by the figures of a shaving nation of thirty to forty millions, reckoning four millions of shave- able individuals, amounts to a loss of about 200,- 000 yeara-du ring the period of thirty years, usually allowed for one generation ; or 6,666 years per" annum. The continuat daily use of tbe razor in densd ing, exposing, and irritating the skin of the cheeks, and lower maxillary and cervical regions' deadens the sensibility of the cutaneous nerve, and in this way, by lessening their power of exciting reflex action, destroys that vivacity of the countenance and play of features, which is oat. oral to man as an emotional being. It has been ell said that there is more expression in aboard than in a Smooth face. Contrast the vivid play of features and expressive vivacity in a full- bearded German or Frenchman, with the cold, stolid, pasteboard look of a daily shaving English man, when under the same emotional influences? or Observe tbe quick, healthy blush of the cheeks apparent even through the beard of a Italian or Spaniard, when under the same circumstances the dullness of partial paralysis overhangs the victim of the barberous custom, and his very emotions only betray themselves in grimaces. Tbe fact will be apparent to all who choose to inquire into the subject, and to none mora than to thoee who daily torture themselves with the razor, that the process of shaving produces tem porary or partial anaesthesia of the cutaneous sensitive nerves. ben yon feel your cbeefe and chin with the band, after every vestige of manli ness in tbe face has ' been backed out almost by tbe root, do you not feel as if the cheek did not belons: to yourself but tbat you were feeling over some old parchment ? And is not the anaesthesia produced such that you do not even feel that your face has been cut until jour fingers are besmeared with blood ? Are we not justified, then( in asking, why should man thus waste time in a practice which spoils his . manly looks, dulls the expression of bis features and makes them grimaces, while it permanently destroys the sensitiveness of the cutaneous nerves involved ? But, besides this, the natural growth of hair on the cheeks, lips around and under tbe chin. serves as a protection to important parts under neath. The-.vocal aparatns, we all know, is very readilv affected by sadden changes of tempera ture, by too rapid evaporation of the perspiration, or by a continuous draft of air around the parts in the same way as toothache, rheumatism ofthe neck, or shoulders, and tonsillitis often arise from the same causes. : The injurious effect of the removal of this protection, even in midsummer, is observed, in nine cases out of ten, in the" buski nesa and hoarseness of the voice, when your friend has "caught cold" after having shaved off nature's "comforter." ' The injurious effects of cold are not manifest ed where the temperature, though very low, retains a more or less uniformity tboughout the year. It is the extreme changes, and more than this the sudden changes in the temperature, with their accompanying changes n the hygrometrica! state of the atmosphere, that effect the health in various ways. Hence it is that the Caucasian race, inhabiting countries where the heal of the summer sometimes vies with the tropica, and the cold of the winter with that of Siberia, and where the meteorological changes are characterized by suddenness aa well as extremes, and a race, which i itinerate, emigrating, colonizing, active, par excellence, should have been supplied by Nature with a protection which Other races do not need' because they are not subject to the same in fin' ences. '-'.It is not as a colorifacientthat the beard is claimed aa a protective against cold, as our cotem porary assumes, but as a natural equalizer of heat and cold in the sudden changes of tem perature. And, hence, we claim that there is no country in which the plea for beard is more timely then here where these influences are intensified ; where movement, action, exposure, from our very life-clement ; where,, to-day, wa get into cars, muffled up ia overcoats and shawls, to land, in a few days, whe linen coats and straw hats are quite comfortable. Inquisitive People. : Defend us from people, that are' always asking questions. : People that sea your alabasters and damasks with the tips of their fingers and your preserves with the ends of their coses, and want to know how much the thing costs and what is tba nsa of that article people that surround yon perpetually, with alt the terrors of a Spanish In qaisition 1 What an indescribable relief it would ba, if ona only dared to tors epos these hornets in broadcloth and crinoline, aad esk them the good old query , "if tbey over heard of the man who got rich by minding Lis own business? We are pretty certain they caver did.; : " , Now, if we only knew just what these inqnisi- live iudiTidaals would, Jiio jto taa cut, it would ba codporatively caay to g.t printed schs- dnlfcf fUteent."-CT7sr cihl'."tarlit.' enr house wss r-ainted yeHow, I :cat:E9.it sai'.el enr taste; list onr fai'ar waa t t cs.r-t'.:i wi.h velvet becausa we couldn't aTv:i it; that onr hu. band's whiskers were red because they grew so; that our milkman's bills were paid twice a month, and that the reason oLoul windows being wash' ed once V week was that fhey. got dirty. And when wa came to the end Nsn might put In an N. B. All other questions that suggest themselves to the inquiring mind of Yanteedom will bo answered every Friday.; evening, between the bonrTpf five end sixT Thet would save a great deal of time, certainly, i But, nnfortunately, these people veer and chaege about like wea thercock in a high wind. Like a troublesome erysipelas, yon don't know ffhere they will "break out" next; it is as likely toibe ia one place aa another,- ; ':- . " -- '- A great many of these inveterate question- askers are kind-hearted, gonial people and yet all their pleaaanter qualities are absolutely neu-iralized by the one disagreesble element Of which they themselves are sometimes almost nneon scions. In many cases it is a mere habit. But it does happen occasional! that a habit is worse than a vice. Politenesa U1, nothing tnore -or less than a coosideratioa of the right! and feelings of others, and you may vainly : study and observe all the min;l formula of its lesser details as long as yon set its spirit at defiance, in indulging a useless cariosity. Yon have no more right to pry into tbe arrangements and internal economy of your neighbor's house than yon have to open his desk or to pick the lock, of his trunks. ' , . isms, i i .1- -. Troubles. " Was there ever a family without its troubles? Adam and Eve had their troubles in Eden; and all families have had their, troubles. Every family has a skeleton behind the door; every person a thorn in his side. 1 is said that misery loves company, so take courage hapless mao wearied woman. You are ia the majority. Man is born to trouble si the sparks fly upwarda." A useless family would yours be if it knew no trouble. Trouble is our great teacher. If nerves us with strength; it gives u courage; it tempers our mettle; it develops our self-control; it quickens our inventive powers."- Troubles are to us what the winds are to tae oak, what labor is to muscle, what study is to m(nd. Life is a school trouble is one of its great lessons. Troubles are not to be courted, but when they come we must get over them the best waj we can, or bear them with the best ' fortitude we can arouse. Take courage, therefore, troubled; one. Not in vain are your trials. The; maVe ..you brave, strong: and it is to be hoped, better.. -.Be not cast down, cheer up; cast aside your weeds and woes. Look the world in theac!doo'lrtjtake everj trouble by the horns, overcome it with the courage of a true soldier : io life's great battlea, and stoutly contend for the victory ef will and wisdom. Jfrcm Probable Attack on Fort Sumter. The following significant paragraph apperas in the advertising columns of the Charleston Mercury ot Friday. The name attached to it is that of the President of the South Carolina College and who about the time the Brooklyn was first rumored to be preparing for a visit to Charleston, published a pamphlet imploring the authorities and citizens of that city not to oppose her entrance to the harbor, and avoid thus the responsibility of initiating civil wan Fort Sumter The time is approaching when Fort Sumter will probably be attacked. Let the assailants remember that tba srarrison are. in the main, poor hireliogs, bound to obey the orders of . 1 . . . . .. --: ... ineir superiors, ana aouotless, not disposed to fight if tbey could avoid it. That thev are not responsible for the acts of the President, or of tbe united states, and that not one of them should be put to death, but as a necessary measure to secure the fort to South Carolina. Let not one be killed after the fort is eurrendered ; let as little blood be shed a possible. ;;r v' - jl, B. JjonosTB.VmA The work of fortifying Charleston harbor Is being pressed with great vigor and skill. . Tbe chief of the Engineer corps of that State, at the instance of the Governor asd Executive Council, advertises in Charleston papers of Friday, for severalhundred laborers to construct new defences in that harbor. The Suta offers to pay for the services of the laborers, and to furnish them with provisions nd quarters, j ' ' A Charleston correspondent of the Columbia South Carolinian thus describes the prepara tions which are being made for the capture of Fort Sumter: ---.- : ; Cummin's Point battery (Fort Stevens,) has at last been finished. It is covered on tbe outside with railroad iroor and is almost as impenetrable as Fort Sumter. Three large ' mortars, bearing on the latter fort, are monnted in it, and .three sixty-four pounders-hearing in the same direction Anderson's largest guns are pointed against this battery, but oar soldiery have very little fear of them. This tort is on Morris' Island, and within five-eighths of a mile of Fort Sumter. Fort Morris, half a mile farther off, has also several heavy guns moon ted A few twenty-four pound era ara mounted on Fort Johnson, but these ara not expected to do much destruction. The great reliance ia placed on the mortars three of the largest size being mounted ia iu Bj4he-by, I hear it hintedth.it these bombs will be filled with Cayenne pepper and other mothering combustibles. .. ...... ; M-Cr- - - , ' Qatside of Fort 2IoultrIe, ea Earjvan'a Wand are two mortar batteries seven beieg monnted in one and four in the other.; The two forts have been strengthened by ; aodU;s these latter having bean bound together by , iron bars. The floating battery" is almost c0mj;!eted.4 It u expected that it will be ready 'for caa daring this or next week. ' It U tlirty fict ia height cen-talne an upper and bwer dec'- The breafitircrk io front forms aa an-'.a cf about 3 decrees; with the horizon, and wiU . te cc7;rl rsiJ railroai irba.-:.FoBr cassia, t:z.tj-f.r .cusders,' te placed -upon egch dacV,and a cosj-aay or:-cca-pacies of artl"ery .'ani i-f-r!ry "A psa it. I tear from good aulbcr'.iy tL-t it wHl be brout close ander tbe .icz-srel- f;ri.;:vad,iv.ii hoped tbellajor (Andersoq) will cea C. e. ' 6outh Carolina SnUifjisj Agaio. The Charleston Mercury is discontented with the new constitution of the Southern Confedara' cy. It says: "We deem it enfortonate and snoZ apropos that tbe stigma of illegitimacy and illegality should bo placed npoo the institution of slavery by a fundamental law against the slave trade. In bur opinion it is a matter of policy and not of principle, to be decided now and hereafter, from sound views of the necessities and safety of our people Wa think it a proper sub ject of legislation. ' We are; will ing to prohibit it by legal enactment, like any. other topic ofleg-elation. But while England imports her thoa sands of Coolia slaves, and France bers, under the "farcial appellation of 'apprentices' while they are striving by these means to compete with us, and supersede ui, in producing the tropical productions of slave labor while we have with in our reach a large scope of fertile territory un cultivated in Texas, and may have, ere lor g, the silver mines af Arizocia and the teeming states of Mexico to populate and reduce to agricultural productiveness it seems to ni short-sighted, weak and sentimental to preclude for ever, by fundamental enactment, the adoption of a policy that may become essential to our successful com' petition with the hypocritical nations of Europe. But the constitution, as adopted, ia only provisional and temporary, and may, therefore, be ex eusable, on that account." Fortress Uooroe. As some discussion is going on about the arm ament of Fortress Monroe, Ya., it may not be out of place' to give en account of it. A few pieces of loose ordnance have been sent down lately; but the mounted battery remains almost in its usual state. The number of guns mounted is no less than two hundred and eighty fire, which throw twelve thousand four, hundred and seventeen pounds of iron. There-are, besides, ten mortars and five siege howitzers. The new Fort, commonly known as the Rip Bap, will, when perfectly completed, have one hundred and eight eight in eh Coin m binds, and fifty.four forty-two gonfj, all casemated, and eight ten-inch Colombi-ads and forty-six nine-inch ditto, all embarbette. Valuable Table. Few readers can be aware, until they have had occasion to test the fact, bow much labor or research is often saved by such a table as the following: - 160T-1 Virginia settled y-tha- English.-" 1614 New York settled by the Dutch. 1620 Mass. settled by the Puritans. 1624 New Jersey settled by the Dutch. 1628 Del. settled by Swedes and Fins. ' 1635 Maryland settled by Irish Catholics. 1635 R. I. settled by Roger Williams. 1650 N. C. settled by tbe English. 1670 S. C settled by tbe Hogueoots. 1682 Peon, settled by Wm. Pnn. 1682 Georgia settled by Oglethrop. 1791 Vermont admitted into the Union. Mtts statistics. 1792 Kentucky do do 1796 Tennessee do do 1802 Ohio do do 1311 Louisiana do do 1816 Indiana do do 1816 Mississippi do do 1818 Illinois do do 1319 Alabama do do 1820 Maine do do 1821 Missouri do do 1836 Michigan do51 do 1836 Arkansas do do 1945 Florida do do 1845 Texas do do 1846 Iowa do do 1848 Wisconsin do da 1850 California do do 1858 Oregon do do 1858 Minnesota do .do ; Weight and Measure. We have recently published the standard weights and measures of this State. They were copied from an exchange, and we have since as certain ed tbejr were not entirely correct. The following we have ourselves copied from the Statute, and know them to be according to law. The standard bushel of stone-coal, coke and uoslacked lime shall contain twenty-six hundred and eighty-eight square inches, ' "V Clover Seed, Sixty pounds. - Timothy seed, forty five pounds. Buckwheat, fifty pounds. Beans, Sixty pounds. Peas, sixty pounds. Hominy, sixty pounds. .- Irish potatoes, sixty pounds. Sweet potatoes, fifty pounds Dried peaches, thirty-three pounds. Dried apples, twenty-five pounds. Wheat, sixty pounds, -. Shelled corn, fifty-six pounds, : Corn in the ear, seventy pounds. Rye, fifty six pounds. Flax seed, filtysix pounds, . Barley, forty-eight pounds. Oats, thirty two pounds. Malt, thirty-four pounds. Hungarian grass seed, fifty pounds, Hewip seed, forty-four pounds, f Millet seed, fifty pounds. : . . , . . - -r-: United States' forte Ta&ea by the People. The following earned Federal fort ifieatioas have been taken possession - of by the people, in obedience to the orders of the Governors of the States io which they are loeatedt . Forti 5 cations. Location. Guna 150 14 152 . S3 .. 1 87 64 " 25 124 U3 43 Fort Pulaski , Fort Jackson Fort Morgan '-Fort Oaiaes Fort Macoa -r Tort Cawn f VorJlpa Ca- Pinckney ,:.;.8avannab :..r.; , Savannah '' . ; Uobile :.."'" - ''.-''-"Mobile - ;':-' ' 1 - Beanfort, N. C. , ;-..Oak Island, N C. Charleston . r " Cbarlestoa '; Loulilaaa '-.;;-.v.Loai5;a5-rs ;V V. n - LoBiiaaa,-. . fort Fa "Toi4 v--e r - 7 Tf lAtU st.TJti ftf tifc Kfts staa'M -w-a tIc2?4jacj2Jii?jr-s.!rssd -,-rsaaseEt-wtf V Interesting 0ariet. IXarriage of Jerome Bonaparte. Have we a Bourbon amongst us? used to be the question running through the papers. - Dave we not the legitimate heir of the late Prince Jerome Bonaparte among ne? is the question which is agitating not so much our own country as France, and especially the Paria courts of law-It of course matters nothing lo the honor or the property, of the Patterson family, which is above all reproach, and amply provided for pecuniarily. I The refusal of all compromise that might iu any way affect the validity of the marriage which nearly sixty years sgo, took place in Baltimore, between Jerome Bonaparte and Miss Patterson, has placed her character before the world in a light in which no other wife of any other Bonaparte has ever stood. : It is, in our view, rather remarkable that a sovereign decree having once been given on this question, the present snit should not have been instantly quashed on that account. -There is no doubt, however, thet a marriage, valid by tbe laws of this country, took place, celebrated and certified by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore, a marriage which the Pope refused to annul. It was valid by the laws of the Church and valid by the laws of the country where it was celebrated. : It is contended, however that it is invalid by tbe laws of France, which require the assent of the parents up to the age of twenty-five, and Jerome Bonaparte was only a young naval officer of twenty-two. . The law of France on this subject, howeve is very intricate, and was altered about the time of this marriage. : It goes, however, "upon the principle that marriage can only be contracted validly and properly with the consent of the family council, and that all other connections are nat valid; Of course, the result of this is a vast amount of immortality. France, like all other countries, has a right to its own peculiar institu' tions within its own limits. ' Bet the" real qucs tion is, whether she has a' right to annul or de clare void eb initio a marriage which was valid by the laws of the country where it was celebrated, and whether a child, begotten In lawful wed" lock, by the laws of the country where the par ties were residing at the time of marriage and of the birth of the child, can be declared illegit imate because the forms of the country of one of the parties were not all complied with. In England, the laws of marriage used to be much more strict than those of Scotland, and in Gretna Green, eswe all know, a , border towp, tbo-yn-lage blacksmith could and did perform hundreds of marriages for. runaway couples. But it was because England thus recognized marriages performed according to the laws of the country where the parties then were, that these marriages were good for anything. . It seems to us that, by the law of nations, if this matter is not clear, it ought to be made so- Foreigners ever have and ever will intermarry, even when the nations to which the parties belong are at war with each other. But ie such eases, we are surely entitled to demand that, where the marriage takes place are all complied with, the children of such a union shall be deemed legitimate the world over. There is no doubt that the decision of the first Napoleon will be sustained, because, now, any thing else would illegitirnatize the, children of the subsequent marriage, and xob Prince Napoleon of bis titles and bis privileges. But the principle ought to be introduced into all our di plomatic alliances with foreign nations, that what is a valid marriage mnst, in each case, be settled by the law of the land where the union takes place. Otherwise, in the case of foreigners, it would seem impossible to tell when and whether tbey were trnly married. PttQadelphia Ledger. Extraordinary Phenomena in Boring for Oil in Canada, . A number of residents of Michigan, went over to Sombre, C. W., in the early part of October, and commenced boring some fifteen or twenty feet from a creek, under the belief that oil would be found and on the 17th of the month, when they had gone down about fifty-seven feet, they struck vein of gas. - On removing their auger, the gas rushed with great force from the aperture, and continued to throw up dry sand lor an hoor. It then ceased, and tbe boring was tesumed but as soon as this was done, the gas rushed np with such violence as to throw the drill-a piece of iron one and a half inches-: in diameter, eight feet long, and fifty pounds cloen out of the hole, and it con-tinned discharging water and stones, some of the latter weighing twenty-five pounds, up into the air a distance of one hundred teet. " The stream widened put to the diameter of a barrel,after leaving the hole.and the quantity was such as to raise the creek considerably above it, ordinary level, though -it is here about twentyfive feet wide! . After the flow of water subsided, the gas was fired, and an explosion took place which shook the ground for half a mile, and then con. tinned to throw up a sheet ofjlame. as higk as the water had previously gone. The flames could ba seen for miles, and was ultimately extinguished with great difficulty. It is thought tbat the oil springs, for such it proved to -be, will be one of tba best in the eountry. v i - . - . t ' - The Case of the fngtlve Anderson. The final decision in the ease of Anderson, the colored fogitive, was given at Hamilton, Canada oa the 16th inst. The Court sustained . the decision of the Court of Queer's Bench on the question of law, and was unanimous in discharging the prisoner on a technicality in the commitment Anderson is, therefore, set. at liberty! ,Ander-soa wsj claimed, not as a fagitive slave, but on a charge of murder preptrated , in Missouri. lie was a slave, bat ran; away from his master in that State; was pursued. there in its territory by a white raaa, who was shot dead by Anderson. The latter then escaped to Canada, where be was arrested, and his delivery claimed under ibs Asburtoa trexty. .Tbe Canadian. Court had de tmioed to order hire to ba deUvered cp to the Americaa authorities, but the anti-slavery men, under the belief that the charge of murder at e&icst him was only a plea to get him back inta slavery, applied to Chief. Jo a ties Cockburn, oC England, who issued a writ of habeas corpus &. recti og that' Anderson be brought befare him. ia,: r j t. : . .-. ... ... tially disallowed by the Canadian' court, which l. an tA tm nwn writ m f; a iK&t fwim f.nitnn t r- A has now settled the question without allowing tia case to ba transported thither, Ly dJecharglr the prisoner on a legal qnibbl. ' . Hobbery. One day of week before; laat, Mr. Samuel Smith, af Richland townships took some begs to Mt. Holly to have sent to the railroad for ship ment east. Among the hogs were four or ve that could not be drove which Mr. Smith loaded in his wagon to haul hom. His resideaoa fa about four miles from Mt. Hollr. Being late ia getting started night came on before be reacbed home. It became very " dark." When within a mile of his house and about a quarter of a c.!a irom uat ot iflr, xeidehauser bis horses storrel he got out to see if something was not wrong SB V A I. A mmm mmmT1j.Ji V .t . 1 ' . ... wuei. uv wm mmucu v; wres ma van, sua, out speaking, knocked him down and robbed him of $195 in money. His head was - bad cut and two or three of hi ribs broken, Af.e he regained bis coascionsues be called for help - ... uuM.a& wua bib rojicx soa took care of him. The horses ran away and broke the wazoo to oieces. We learn that'lfr. ' - - a 8.,tM verr nearlr recovered from JiU bfarie. - . - t No clue has been obtained to the oeroetratora of the assault'and robbry. Holmes Farmer. ' .- :'' , Be-TJnion of the Old Union. Private letters from Montgomery, Alabama, state that with the exception of South Carolina. all the members of the Southern Congress con template in their hearts a re-union to tba old IT-nion. This ia especially the case, with "Missis's 07 pi, lvouismna ana ueorgia. .ineaaoption ot.tne Couftitution ofthe Union, the continuation of the enforcement of thn lawa tf tb TTnlnn nrt the election of Hon. A-HJ Stephens to tbo Vice Presidency, as announced by telegraph, all-signify re-construction, - South Carolina, it ia presumed, is opposed to all tbese propositions, tl 1 a..ji . mc Sebastian of Arkansas, who has refused to attach his name to any of th disunion documenU issued by other of the Southern Senators and Representati ves, for the purpose of inflaencicg their States to withdraw, rfxom tha Union, baa Ktely received the most gratifying, .intelligence from. his State, to the effect that Arkansas will not follow the bad example of her neighbor, Louv isiona." . . - Belting; the Worjd by TelesTaph. ' The report in relation to a telegraphic survey, Riada Vflatflrla.v h TTrif Jnhn fViolinna m Chairman of the House Committee on Commerce wes based npon the memorial of P. Med. Collins, of California, whose name is very familiar-io connection with his interesting journey fron, St. Petersburgh to the mouth of tbe Amoor river. i.ne report provides tor a careful survey or tba route for a line of' magnetic telegraph from San Francisco via Oregon, Washington Territory the British North - American possessions, Has-sian America and Behring Straits down to lh-mouth of the Amoor river. The two national vessels of the United States which are to assist in the survey, will necessarily fit out and start, from San Francisco, The telegraph proposed via the route named, in connection with tbe Sib. ley Telegraph line from Missouri to San Fran- v. r : 1: 1 r ir.. cow to the month of the Amoor, will connect tba whole-civilized world' by continoeus telegraphic communication. ' . . '.' . ' - Yancey Betiree to PriTat Life, The Mobile ReaUler announces tbat William L. Yancey is about to retire to the shades of private life. In fact, Yancey has already made bis. dying speech and confession. Addressing his fellow conspirators in the Alabama Convmtioiv the other day, he declared "it was for the lit time. A sad, disappointed man. Yancey seeks shelter in obscurity. His fool visions of plac and power in the new Confederacy are mdely dir pelled. Instead of being President, he has teen forced to relinquish the sequivocal honor cf tbat position o Jefferson Davis, who is aa al!y tf not a wiser man. It was unkind to Yaseyy to deprive him of all return for his selffsacrl'cir devotion to cotton t but-with all their Badness. the rebels are still too shrrwd to irsst their prsn earions fortunes to a man like Yancey, whose intemperate zeal let onrelievrd by tbe fkintest gleam of common sense or the smallest particle of sound logic, :': - ' . : ; The Duty of Virginia. Tte Richmond IFaisayai If all tbe Cotton states declare themselves out of the Union, let Virginia remain until the last leritimafa measa ofobtaining redress within the Union is exhausted. If she succeeds, her most hasty "Sooihrn s";ere may retrace their steps. If she fails, the right of defense or Of revolution will net be iap'red or weakened by tice, but she will gaii rsaci ia moral power bv a rodent course and c.r." ate action. The true position of . vira is ta occupy neutral ground to ftaod as a t;. . t ?" tween the waves of JTrthen and Zjz'Z:: fu naticism. Noblv and bravely let lr l it, with the emblem of peace raised b her battle menu, regardleas of t&nuU cr tlrcit from any point of the compass, bc til a clIzi tl't. quiet tha angry wares of sectiocsJIia. tti-in-La-!?.- Mrs. Abraham Liccc'n, wifa of the rrr" of tbe fi'd Union, has two married - a visit t" "rr.'roT'erT. Ala, 0:J U f 1 tucky, a'sd rn a vis't to ber s'er, ! r Selaia, Ala. Tbey ara bolh alror - r --and opposed to tbe government cf i. ' r . ia-iaw, ALraLarn Lioec'a. Cfc: tract eonsideral!s-at!e- is, s ! t of Fcnth?rners. Tbe hu-'. .- ! 1 ' ti bis .services to Governor ? : to farther tb eanne cf e'ce:. and BapnVieaa ""i Liberty. C", ; Timet. .