Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1855-11-20

              rT."g.',''i.'rg m4 www iSSJJjiS!! I'" - - "IF A FREE THOUGHT SEEK EXPRESSION, SPEAK IT BOLDLY SPEAK IT ALL." j ItfiRl'J ' ; ; I ' VOL.11. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, TUESDAY MORNIISG, NOVEMBER 20, 1855. ' VNO.-T,! THE KNOT VERXOX REPUBLICAN II rUBLIIUID EVEKV TUESDAY M OH NINO, IT THE "RppiJ!)Jican Printing Company," Incorporated under the General Law. TERM9. In Advance $2,(10; within liz months, $3,25 ; after the expiration of six month. 9,51); after the end or the year, JJ uu Bubncribers in town, receiving their papers by carrier, will be charged cents additional.Clubs of ten, $1,75 to be paid invariably iu advance. . , All communication for the paper and buel-eat letter ahould be addressed to WM. H. COCHRAN, Secretary of the Republican Printing Co. THE SONG OF HIAWATHA. The following are the opening lines of Long-fullow's new poem : Te who love the haunts of nature, Love the sunshine of the meadow, Love the shadow of the forest, Love the wind among the branches, And the rain-shower and the enow storm, And th gushing of arcat rivers Through thi'ir palisades of pine trees, And the thunder in the mountains, Whose innumerable echoes Flap like eagles in their eyries; Listen to those wild traditions. To this aong of Hiawatha I Ye who love a na inn's legends, Love the ballads of the people, That like voices from afar off Call to us to pause and listen Speak in tones so plain and childlike, Scarcely can the ear distinguish W hether they are ung or spoken j Listen to thin Indian Legend, lo this songof Hiawatha. ' Ye whose hearts are fresh and simple, W ho have faith in G id and Nature, "Who believe that in all ages Every human heart is human, That in even savage bosoms There aro longings, yearnings, strivings, For the good they comprehend not; That the fe.-ble hands and helpless, Groping blindly in the darkness, Touch God's right hand iu that darkness, And are lifted up aud Mrengthened Listen to this simple story, To this song of Hiawatha Ye who sometimes' in your rambles Through the green lanes ol the country, Where the tangled barberry bushes Hang their tulis of crimson berries Over stone walls gray with mosses, Pause by some uel- cted ifrave-yard, For a while to muse and ponder On a hilf effaced inscription, Wiiiten with little skill of song-craft. Homely phra-es. but each Inter Full of hope, and yet of heart break, Full of all the tender pathos, Of the here and the Hereafter Hi ay and read this rude Inscription, Read this song of Hiawatha A COUNTRY HOME. Oh I give me a home in the country wide, And a seat, by tin- farmer's wood fireside, Where a fire burns bright, On a fro-ty night, free-Where the jest and the song, and the laugh are Oh ! the fa. liter's huuie is the home for nie. Oh 1 give me a home in the country wide, When the earth comes out as a Mushing bride, With her buds and tlowers, In the bright spring hours, Her bridal song ringing, from fresh leaved trees . And melody flouts ou the perfumed bretze. In summer, a seat in a shady nook, Aud close by the side of a cooling brook, Where the violet grows, Or the pale swamp rose, beam. Fainting and sick, neath the sun s scorcuing Dips her fair petals in the cooling stream. Oh I give me a home in the country wide, In the golden days of the farmer's pride, When his barns are filled From the fields he's tilled. And he feels that his yearly task is done, Smiling at winter, he beckons him on. An Eloquent Passage. The address before the American Institute, at New-York, was delivered on the the evening of he 85 h by the Hon. George P. M-ir-h. We give -below the Herald report of it : Each new discovery helps to others. If a new truth shines upon us, its ramifications are ine'xhausnble. As we continue to explore n, i hjiihimuui v, r ... de(j m,e,gence tied 7 L ok upon the us till it seems illimitable, and runs its ten-'colj ivid msly corpse that lies before drils round 'he world. If we had but one you XhHt W8S bul anul anJ great original principle to work at, we nev- CRr hIy coverj,,g, whica hed ,or a whie r could exhaust it, for it links itself to all the j,Iim(,rta essence that has now le't it ; the universe. The further back we trace t.fl it t0 ran ge perhaps, through illimita these principles to their original springs ble e ,0 receive MW 0ap8ciijes of de. amidst the elements of truth, the neaier i(,ht , nevr poW)M 0f conception ; newglo-do they come to their common origin, and ril.g beautiludo? Ten thousand fancies the better illustrate the simplicity and uni-: rugh upon tho miml M jt 0ontempiate9 ty of truth. Take the apparently uncon- awful moment between life and deth 1 nected sciences ot music ana mamemaucs. Where will you find more uncongenial com-1 panions than melody and figures ? How j can narmiiun-s wri.il. -.. cj..T...jr in tho multiplication table, or concord be developed in the rule of three. ? What bond is there between the intricate calculations of L i Verrier, and the massive combinations of Beeihoven ? Yet music is mathematical science. It cannot exist independent of numbers and proportion. Its tones are magnitudes of time, magnitudes ( of sound. Exact proportions exi-t between tbe different scales, the various keys, tbe protractions of sound, the spaces between sounds ; the whole science rests on a mathematical basis. These instruments of music, so attractive at your f dr, are as much mathematical as tbe compass or the rule. The truths that sustain both sciences are the same ; one phase is abstract numbers ; anothe', melody. , If a new power is nnfolded, how various are the uses to which it will be applied. ' What a slave it becomes, toiling in our ranks I When steam first applied its infnnt shoulders to lift the ke tie cover bef -re the eyes of Watt, how limited iu expect mt uses, even to the wildest hopes of that for tunate thinker I Now, behold the giant of the niueteen h century, how he is compel led to tug and strain be tireless sinews of bis stiength, in counties neius oi usetui-nes andlabor I 8ee how bravely he bears us through the storm. Insensible io cold and careless of sleep, behold the snow ihat blockades onr path fly before him in the dim star light. ' With mouth full of fire, and nostrils expanded wilh smoke, hear him laugh d6autly at the Solstitial rays, beneath which every laborer would melt, pee him furrow the billow brine, for mill- . ' -' ' ' - V i J . Ii ' ' ions of miles, and interchange the growth of different ernes. He sp ma the seas with bridges. He enters the factory and seizing its central crunk, ho plies its complicated machinery with inconceivable velocity and power, I In weaves our garments and carves our furniture. He multiplies our thoughts in books and newspapers, and impels them through tho world. He bores his way throu h rock and mountain, and leaves an avenue for the fl w of commerce. He grinds the giain of continents and carries it to meet the n- eessi ies of man. He clenches the tough quartz, and crushing it in his iron fist, compels it to surrender the golden treasure it so tightly held He lifts and excavates ; he flumes, aud saws, and hammers, and with infinite and etherial delicacy, he points the finest needle, and draws the -i etallio thread. No labor is too undignified for him to perform no task to beavy for him to accomplish. He delights in noise, and dirt, and soot, and smoke. He is not afraid of his dainty fingers. Wherever wotk is to bi done, there is horn--. Whenever a difficult j ib is placed before him, his iron muscles fairly thrill with joy. & e how, in a few years of his wonden'ul activity, whole forests have gone down his throat, leaves, boughs, and mighty trunks. And who shall say that this laborious Titan has vet got himself ful ly in harness ? What we have seen him do, is mere preparatory service the first trial of lus boyish strength, before commencing the serious business of his life. To search out new modes of toil, will furnish employment for man, perchance, while the world endures, in stimulating the progress of these great interests of the country, yout instiiuiinn, whose twenty-eighth anniversa.y we are now celebrating. has Been ot eminent service. It whs the first, upon this model, in America, if not in the world. Slates and counties are following your example. We may hop- that the lime is not distant when there will not be a Slate or county in the Union deprived of the benefit of such a society, and these societies, in their turn, more or less tribuaury to their original. One thing, Mr. President and gentleman of the Institute, your asso ciation seems lo demand, and that is a con venient, adapted And prominent depository lor ihe oili-rings conn led to your charge. What structure so suited to your object as this arch ot crystal, that stretches now be tween us and the clouds ? Well chnsien- ed was it for such a purpose. Let it be come ti e perpetual home f American genius. Hilherwurd tend nil the contributions of Ameiican invention, so Hiat if any one would know what America is and can be come, let him bend In - steps to this temple ot Uses, it a new Whitney shall ar se, whose throbbing brain tdiall start an idea to improve the condition of ev ry man in cliris end.-m, let some perpetual niche be assigned hi in in these hails. II some modern fiich, or 1' niton, or Ev .ns shall deseiy semi as yet undiscov ered force to whirl us over land or main, let his monument be erected here, within this endurmg network of iron lace. If some unknown Wliittera re, with intense and btifil?d industry, strives fur a ureal discovery winch yet eludes him, till the heavens in kindness let in the secret to his soul in the visions of the night, here let his productions stand to catch the gaze of the luturp. Whenever a I'erkins, n Ulan-chard, a Bushnell, an Eckford arises, on the scroll of this Ins ilute let his name be recorded. If Colt infuses six times addi tional power into an arm of defnse if Hobbes affords us new security from violence if S eers shall launch new models of fJeetness and beauty to glance upon (he wav s if Morse shall invade the arcana of the sky, and bring the very bolts ofhe-wen to do our bidding here let their achievements be displaced and their titles vindicated.Death. What a change. Tell me, ye who are deepest rad in nature and in God, to what new world are we born ? What new being do we receive? Whither hai I thill npw ennr- that llnn nni.nmnri.liwn. It is a raollisnt wilh imagination' greate;St hopeg f . it U iUB 0l)nau. ,a,ion lhal ct.ari( U(J a mygtt.ryrt.solve. al! doubts which removes contra tiction and destroys errors. Great God 1 what a flood of rapture may at once burst upon the departed soul, lhe unclouded brightness of the celenial region the solemn secrets of nature may then be divulged ; the immediate unity of the past, the pres uarmony ; forms o imperishable beauty, ent and the future ; strains of imaginable may then suddenly disclose themselves, bursting upon the delighted senses and bathing them in immeasurable bliss I The mind is lost in this excess of wonder-ous light, and dares not turn from the heavenly vision to one so gloomy, so tremendous as the department of the wicaed I Human f -ncy shrinks back appalled I MT The effects of ignorance are truly deplorable A poor fellow in Massachusetts has been mulct in 92.600 d ra -ges in ao action for breach of promise, b- csu-e he didn't know a hawk from a handsaw, or a mop handle from a pretty girl's waist 1 Her mother a was witness snd gave the following very satisfactory testimony : " At one time Dw;ght saw Eunice mopping the fl-or. He asked her lo eome to the door and see a big hawk there waa there. ' She went out, and in a moment I followed to see the hawk too. I did not see any hawk, but I did see Dight with his arm Arouad Eunice's waist. . I saw him kiss her, and tell her he didn't want her to mop floors. 8he said she could do it better than mother." . t, . The fellow who cracked a joke" has sent it to be rpalred. i' The Horrori of Wax Of all the pic ures of the horrors of war which havt) been presented lo the world, the ho-pital of Sevastopol presents die most horrible, heart-rending, and revolting. It cannot be described, and the imagination of a Fuseli could not conceive any thing at all like unto it. How the poor human body can be mutilated and yet hold soul within when every limb is shattered, and every vein aud artery is pouring out the life stream, one might study here at every step, and a: the same lime wonder what Utile will kill. The building used as an hospital is one of the noble piles inside the dock-yard wall, and is situated in the center of the row at right angles to the line of the lied an. The whole row was peculiarly exposed to the action of shot and shell bounding over the Redan, and to the missiles directed at the Barrack Battery, and it bears in its aides, roofs, windows and doors, frequent and destructive proofs of the severity of the cannonade. Entering one of these doors, I beheld such a sight as few men, thank God, have ever witnessed. Ia a long, low room, supported by square pillars, arched at the top, and dimly lighted through shattered and ungluzed window frames, lay the wounded Russians, who bad been abandoned to our mercies by their,General. The wounded did I say? No. but the dead, rotten, and festei ins- corpses of the soldiers, who are left to die in extreme agony, uutended, uncared for, packed as close as they can be stowed, some on the floor, some on wretched tres- les and bedsteads, or pallets of straw, sop ped and saturated with blood, which oozed and trickled through upon the floor, min - gled with the droppings of corruption. With the roar of exploding fortresses in their rs, with shell and shot forcing through the roof and sides of the rooms in which they lay, with the crackling and hissing fire around them, these poor fel- lows, who had served their loving f.iend and master, the Czar, but too well, were consigned to their terrible fate. Many migntnave oeen saved ny ordinary care. tajns divided by tremendous clefts and Many lay, yet alive, with maggots crawl- j ravines, of that dark indigo Lue, which you ing about in their wounds. Many, nearly sometimes see on the edge of a '.hunder-uiad with the scene around them, or seek- cloud bul in the back ground, towerin" ing to escape from it in their extreme! far, for above them, rose the mighty pin-agony, had rulled away under the beds, 1 nacles ot the Gungoolree, th-j Burdreenath, and glared out on the heart-striken spec-j Bnd the Kylas, the heaven of India, where tutors, oh ! with such looks. Many with H,e Great Go I, Mahadeo, still sits on his arms broken and twisted, the jagged splin-, tlr0ne. inaccessible to mortttl foot. I was ters sucking through the raw fl-sh, im- fi.ty miles nearer these mountains than at plored ai !, water, food, or pity ; or, de- R00rkhee, where I first b.-held them, and prived of speech by the anoroacU of death. or by dreadful ii juries on the head and trunk, pointed to the le lml spot. Many seermd bent alone on m iking their peace wilh heaven. The auLudcs ol some were to hideously fantastic as to appeal ..J - . ... .1... . 1 .. . . A mm out u. iu .no giuunu uy a son oi ureadiui lascina ion. Could that bloody, in i5s u. ciuiuiiig Hii-1 wmie uones ever have been a human being, or that bu nt black iiirtss of ik-sli have ever been n human soul ? It was fearful lo think what the answer niigl t be. The bodies of numbers of men were swellen and bloated to un inerHftihle nVirri'u anil tlii, fi.uliird tended to a giganiio size, with eyes protru-' dimr from the, sor-leta nnd ih hi. L..n..,l ton..i lollin-r out of tho month. comnrpS. sed tio-htlv hv thfl tenth, vhinh hul apt upon it in'ihe death rattle, made one shud-, der and reel around. In the midst of one of these "Chambers nf hnrmra" fr them ... m, f n,Bm were found some dead and some livin soldiers, and among them poor Captain Vaughn of the 9th, who has since succumbed to Ills wounds. I confess it was impossible fjr me to stand Ihe sight, which horrified our most experienced surgeons the deadly clammy stench, the smell of gangrened wounds or corrupted blood, of rotting, were intolerable be) ond endurance. But what must lhe wounded have felt who were obliged to endure all this, aud who passed away without a hand to give th.-ni a cup of water, or a voice to say one kind ! ffOFU 10 thfDl Most of these men were wounded on Siturday-many. perhaps, on the Friday . - J . . ' ,r . T .. . ' before; indeed, il is impossible to say how lung they might have been there. In the k iu T -l.n hurry of their retreat, ti e Muscovites seemen to have carried in dead men to get them out of the way, and to have put them on pallets in horrid mockery. So that this retreat was secured, the enemy cared bul little for the wounded. On Monday only did they receive those whom we sent out tj them during a br.ef armist.ca for the pur- pose, which was, I believe, sought by our- selves, asi our over-crowded hospitals could not contain, and our over-worked surgeons could not attend to any more. j The great Redan was next visited. BUVU It VI niCbkltllU IUIII. All UUUa es a mass of broken stones a clock turret with a shot right through the clock a pagoda in ruins another clock tower, with all the clocks destrjyed, save the dial, with the words "Barwise, London," there-: on cook houses, where human blood was running among the utensils ; in one place a shell had lodged in a boiler and blown it and us consents, and probably Us attend-1 anis. .io pieces. .vervw,. ere wreu n,m destruction. Tins evidently was a beau quartttr. once. The oldest inhabitant could not recognise il now. Climbing up the Redan, whioh wan fearfully cumbered with the dead, we witnessed the scene of the desperate attack and defence which cost both sides so much blood. The ditch outside made one sick it wa- piled up with English dead, some of them scorched ! aud blackened by the explosion, and others lacerated beyond recognition. The quantity of broken gal-ions and gun carriages here was extraordinary ; the gr -und was covered witn them. The bomb proofs were the same as in the Malakotf, and in one of tbem a music book was found, with a wo nan's name in it, and a canary bird and a vas of flowers were outside the entrance. Seva-topol Corrttpondenci of the London Timi. iMrTbe Judge who "suspended his opinion," no doubt is in favor of capital punishment. " jtT Some are silent for want of aarnr- snee, others are talkative for want ol sense. From Bayard Taylor'i new Book of Travels First ffew cf the Himalaya Mountains. It was about eight in the morning an atmosphere of crystal, and not a cloud in the sky. Yet something white and shining glimmered through the loose foliage of some trees on my right hand. My heart came into my mouth at the sudden bound it gave, when, afier plunging through the trees like one mad, and scrambling up a great pile of dirt, I saw the Himalayas before me I Unobscured by a single cloud or a speck of vapor, there stood revealed the whole mountain region, from the low region of Siwalik Hills, about twenty miles distant, to the loftiest pinacles of eternal snow, whioh look down on China and Thibet. The highest range, though muoh more than a hundred miles distant, as the crow flies, rose as .far into the sky as the Alps at forty miles, and every glacier, chasm and spire of untrodden snow as clearly defined. Their true magnitude, therefore, was not fully apparent, because the eye refused to credit the intervening distance. But the exquisite loveliness of the shadows painted by the morn ing on those enormous wastes of snow, and the bold yet oeau uul outlines of the top most cones, soaring to a region of perpetual silence and death, far surp tssed any dis tant view of the Alps or any other moun 1 ta'i chain I ever saw. As seen from K-wrkhee. the Himalayas present the ap pearance of three distinct ranges. The first, the Siwalik Hills, are not more than two thousand feet in height ; the second, or sub-Himalayas, rise io eight or nine thousand, while the loftiest peaks of the 8nowy nW visible from the point, are 25,000 feet above the sea. Far in the ' norm-west was me unore, an isoia'ed peak i which is almost piecisely the height of M1 Blanc, but seemed a very pigmy in comparison with the white cones beyond it. anotheb view of the Himalayas. To the North, I looked into the wild heart of the Himalayas a wilderness of j barren peaks, a vast jumble of red m .un- with the additional advantage of being mounted on a fool-stool, equal to one third ot their height. They still stood immeas urably above me, so cold, and clear, and white that, without knowledge to the con trarv. I should have said that thi v wire ' ' . not more thao twenty miles distant. Yet, , tltJ crow flies, a linn of seventy miles would scarce h ive reached tneir summits RlDIt ON AS KLKPIIANT. Tbe rajah had kept his promise. and his big she elephant had already arrived. biie knelt at the keeper s command, and a small ladder was placed against her side, 'hat 1 "'o1'1 c imt' uPoa lhe Pad 88 1 llad been unable to procure a howdah. I had 8 Pkage of bread and cold Iroa-tbeef, to se-ve me as a tiffin, but was careful to conceal it from tho driver, otherwise bim- 8elt ana lnu eiepnant witn an her trap- pings must have undergone purification n account oi me unclean nesn. i toon reluctant leave of Mr. Keene, seated myself astride of the pad with the driver before me, on the elephant's neck, and we moved off. The driver was a Sikh, in a clean white and scarlet dress, and a nar row handkerchief bjund around bis head. His long well-combed hair was anointed Wlln DU,teV ftna 1,18 .nea, was Ji under i,Uii.,u,; .the un;tious odors. He carried a short lron .T".' Wnlcn. he occasionally V "e ?ead, eg her to snor ?nd throw urP,her Jll'u,nk, a'.8he 1mckened Mai I nana T itii it lA (ha mnhnn trn m iinU fv i.uuu viiu uiuKivu i ji j uiuti like 11 atof ,arSe dromedary, and by no mea"8 unpleasant or iai.gu.ng. inougn w.jlbtnrv alia Bunt a .Uu a, eF ntn.il dna s- " ; -u. .. mues an nour. a nonet u mat me anver fr- quently spoke to her, in a quiet, conversational tone, making remarks about the roads and advi-ing her h w to proceed all of whioh she seemed to understand perfectly, and beyed without hesitation. aJ!h Thn TTiivrA and Rmithamntnn gteamship Arago arrived at New York yc9terday, with four days later news from Vlmino ti,: ; ih firt ,.in in nm time lhat thl) Havre steamers have been kV enough to anticip.te the intelligence by the Cll(,ins anJ 0uHrj Xhe new8 is important. The report of the capture of Kinburn is confi med, and what is of more si.mbcance, ti-e strong fortress of Oschakoff, a place renowned in history and esteemed of gieat imponauce, si uaied near Kinburn, was blown up by the Russians, who would seem, by this act, to be disheartened and desperate. The Allied innj , , mii, r , are tt)irly th0U.Bnd gtrong. Thig indicates that the' Allir8 do not propo,0 malte a e Dueiper -rftat movement in the Climea just HOW. Ti,ere is nothing new from the Crimea re- ported in our Kgulftr diapalcn( bui we fenrl) (rom privaie dispatches that Gen. sim90n hM resigned. and that Sir J. Cod- rington." another fogy, is Commander in- Chief of the British Aimy .CVn. Commw- cl- uj ' " Ma," said i. young miss lo her mother, tbe oilier day, what is emigra ting V " Emigrating, dear, is a young lady going to California " " What is colonization, Ma T" " Colonisation, dear, is marrying there and having a family." " Ma. let me go toCalifornia 1" JTJT Recently, io Detroit, when Romeo and J uliet was " in the bills," a scapegrace known as " R -meo" was in the pit. When Juliet exclaimed, "Romeo, wh.re art thou f" (we quote from memory and may not have the text,) the youngst- r rose and said, " Here 1 am in the pit I had only a quarter and couldn't get into the boxes I" Juliet fainted. They shall not Blush for their Father Two men had entered into an agreement to rob one of their neighbors. Everything was planned. They were to enter his house at midnight, break open his ohests and drawers, and oarry off all the silver and gold they could find. ' He is rich and we are poor," said they to each other, by way of encouragement in the evil they were about to perform. "He will never miss a little cold. while its powssion will make us happy. Besides, what right has one man to all this world s goods T Thus they talked together. One of these men had a wife and children, but the other had none in the world to care for but himself. The man who had children went home and joined his family, after agreeing upon a place of meeting with the other at the darkest hour of the coming night. " Dear father," said one of the children climbing upon bis knee, " I am so glad you have come home." The presence of the child troubled the man, and he tiied to push him away ; but his arms clung lightly about his neck, and he laid his face against his cheek and said iu a weet and gentle voice " I love you father 1 ' Involuntarily th man drew the innocent and loving one to his bosom and kissed him. There were two older children in the man's dwelling, a boy and a girl. They were poor, and these children worked daily to keep up the supply of bread, made deficient more through idleness in ihe father than from lack of emplyment. These children came home soon after their fathers return, and brought him their earnings for the day. " Oh, father," said the boy, " suoh a dreadful thing has happened 1 Henry Lee's father was arrested to day for robbing ; they took him out of our shop when Henry was there, and carried him off to prison. I was so sad when I saw Henry weeping. And he hung his head for shame of his own father ! Only think of that;" " Ashamed of his father," thought he. " And will my children hang their heads, also, in shame ? No, no ; that shall never be 1" At the hour of midnight, the man who had no children to throw around him a sphere of better influence, was sitting at the place of rendezvous for him whose children had saved him. But he waited long, in vain. Then he said : "I will do the deed myself, and take the entire reward." And he did according to his word When the other man went foi th to his la bor on the next day, he learned that his accomplice had been taken in an act of robbery, and was already in prison. " Thank Heaven for virtuous children !' said he with fervor. " They have saved me. Nevr will I do an net that will cause them to bluh for their fa.her." Eoitino a Paper, It is a somewhat cu rious fict, says the Philadelphia Bulletin, that a vast number of men, who are utterly incapable of managing their own business or any other, still thin k that tbey perfectly understand that of an editor, and regard themselves as under a special mission to give the latter the benefit of their views ou all occasions. It is singular, but ihere are very many who really seem to sincerely believe that wri'ing comes by nature lhat the editor is without this endowment, and that they ought in christian charity to help him out. Could some of these self-elected censors be put into harness for a while, and realise what it means to be a mental engine under a perpetual press of intellectual steam, they would probably change their views of the ease with which they would knock off a little article;People who think that editing a paper is a pleasaoter diversion than digging cellars by moon light, or lugging bricks up a four Siory building in a hot July s sun, may profit by tbe following sensible remarks irom the editor ot the iicdlord (Yt.( Ua zetie : " It is not so easy a task to write for a newsnacer as DtODle suddoso. A man may be a good scholar, a profound thinker a vigueni ooserveroi passing events, without being able to write for a newspaper. The power of writing a leading article for a newspaper is a tact which few possesses, and which we have known many, with all their learning and diligence, unable to acquire. It requirti a large amount of infor mation on various subjects, and a readiness of application that must never be at fault or the writer will fail. For, remember, the editor is always writing against time and the inexorable printer must have his copy, and that there is no lime to revise and amend ; but as slip after slip is writ ten, the " devil" snatches it away, and one ball is usually set up in print before tbe other half is written. This exacts a deci sion of thought and a facility of writing which, like poetry, seems rather a gut of nature than aa acquired faculty." A " Middt" Enthused. A " middy" has been visiting Niagara. Inspired by the sublimity of that great demonstration,' he seizes his pen and dashes off the following for the Home Journal : Next came the horrid desire to write something something eloquently touching and sentimental and in a moment of thoughtlessness, I gave way to it. Regardless of the consequence, " I took my pen in hand," poetically speaking; but truthfully, my pencil and in the next instant the following simple but beautiful lines were gazing at me from the paper : Niagara! Niagara! o'er much of Mother Earth, And much of rather Ocean, 1 have stumped it from my birth, But never have I witnessed, from old Ootham to Pern. A creature plav the " drop game" as completely AS JOS do. t3T Tom Hood said that when he was a young man be couldn't wink at s-irl, but that she took it for an offer pf marriagn. Tbe consequence was that a good many of the girls got hood-wi eke:. , Adventures of Col. Walker. Were it not for the tremendous strug gle going on in Europe, among the first- ciass powers mere, me events that are just now transpiring in Central America, there can be no doubt, would make a great noise n the diplomatic circles of London and Paris, and in all probability be the occasion of England and Franoe reconsidering their po-itions towards lhat now fully exploded myth European intervention in American affairs. For it may be affirmed, in general terms, that Amerioan citizens are overunung, and taking possession of by force of arms, Nicuragua one of the leading 8tates of Central America, a power (such as it is) with which wo of the United Slates are at peace, and to the government of which we have an accredited-.minister. The war is under the directorship of a Louieianian (Walker), and is waged principally by successive bands of adventurers, who have, from time to time, followed him from California. To give liberty lo the Nicar- aguans, and to aid an impalpable something called the democratic party, (men in buckram, mostly,) agninst the "aris tocrats," (the existing government,) con stitute the pretence for these extraordinary pioceedings, but the real object, there ia but little doubt. if lhe scheme suc ceeds, is the overthrow of the Hispano- American government, in Central Ameri ca, with a view to anexation to the United States. These Californians are men of metal. They are good fighting men, have been inured to the hardships and privations incident to a roving life in Cali-forinia, and when it is added, implicit believers in "manifest destiny," it is no wonder that a handful of them have been able to meet in the field repeatedly, the native troops, twice and often thrice their numbers, in almost every instance winning the day. These Nicaraguan troops are but a type of the same degenerate race, that in our war with Mexico sought in vain to resist the prestige of the Northern 'barbarians." Wherever, or whenever the two raoos have come in collision hitherto, the result has been ever the same a victory for the Americans. A foie-shadowing is it? of that eventual ab sorption ot the whole Spanish American race into one Anglo Saxon system, which we are often told by the prophets, is to take place one of these days. 1 he news of Walker s more recent ex ploits, his battle of Virgin Bay, his cap. iure oi uienaoa, ana me consequent consolidation of his authority in Nicaragua.nev-ertheless, will attract attention abroad, amidst all the clangor of tbe Russian war. In view of the affront the British government may think wo have jut been giving it in arresting its recruiting agents here, and bringing its Minister at Washington even tosharp account, her Majesty's Ministers may take it upon themselves to ascertain how far the American government, in not exerting itself to stop the California reinforcement for Walker, has violated in spirit the Clayton-Bulwer trea'y, by which we are pledged (in common with Great Britain) never to interfere, assume, or ex ercise any authority or control whathver over those woo may see fit to colonize Nic aragua, inasmuch as n was notorious that Capt. French and Col. Fry were re cruiting for Walker many days before they sailed for San Francisco ( so notori ous, indeed, that tbe expedition was adver tised in the public journals there) the federal authorities meanwhile, making no effort to stop them, the question arises. could Walker "exercise," or "obtain" any "authority" at all in Nicargua but fron the non-enforcement of its neutrality i . . . -. . - . . laws on tne part oi tne united states gov ernment, which seems to be singularly sensitive about the observance of those laws when British agents, or British Minis ters, are supposed to be open to their pains and penalties. We are less concerned for results in this connexion, however, than for the perils which beset the lives and property of peaceable American citizens, passing to and fro, on the Nicar aguan route of travel In the affair of Virgin Bay, we have seen an innocent woman and her child killed by a cannon shot from the belligerents, at tbe same time that the lives of a larcre number of other unoffending passengers were jeopardized. The case is one. with which, under the peculiar circumstauces of tne case, we do not, just now, see our gov ernment can interfere with. If people will travel through a country distracted by civ-el war, with a government that eannot protect itself, much less the lives and pron erty of foreigners, they must do so at their peril, lhe Xransit Company, however, it seems to us, would better consult its own interest, were they to refuse their steam ers for the conveyance of "fillibusters," along with passengers fiora California, who are only passing through, not making war upon Nicaragua. 2f. r. Express. Tall Braooinq. A sucker specimen, whose visit to the State Fair gave him liberty to stretch the truth slightly respecting what he saw in his travels, was detailing to a Hoosier the immense business done in packing beef in the Garden City. Said he, "they kill a million head a week, and the blood discolors tbe water in tbe lake half mile from shore." "That's nothing," replied the Hoosier: "at my nncle's. down in New Albany, they have a trip-hamzer, driven by a forty horse power steam engine, just to knock the eattle down with; and there is so much blood, that with it they drive grist mill of six run of barrs, and never stop on account of low water." iHsoaimoR roil A Sun-dial Dr. Henry L. Bowditch, of Boston, Mass., being about to set np an ancient sun-dial, sent to John G. Wbittier for an inscription, who returned the following : . "With warning hand I mark time's rapid flight From life's glad morning to IU solemn night j But throne- the dear God's love I also allow There's light above nie, by ths shade below. " UirsoFHrsTioATirj. An innocent correspondent from tbe country inquires wheth er mock turtlt seup is made oat of tortoil t toiis sMU cats, Privileges or ibb Cokfrsioal. A '. trial was had in Richmond, Va., few-days ago, of John Cronin, for the murder of his wife for unfaithfulness to her mar-, riage vows. He had inflicted such injuries as to cause her death. Previous to her death, but when there was no irame diate danger of that event, she had confessed to her priest, in the presenoe of her ' husband, that the charge against her waa ' untrue, The statement made in the sacramental confession the priest declined Ut '" divulge, as it was not consistent with his ' duty as a Gatholie minister. Knowledge ' obtained in his civil capaoity, as an indi-vidua! and citizen, he would freely impart,' ' but as question in his eanaoity as a Catho - lie minister he was bound to keep the se- " crets of the confessional. Not even the- ' Pope himself could induce him to violate - that secresy, though death were the penal- ' ty for refusal. TheJCourt sustained the wit- ness. The Judge said he regarded an infringement npun tbe tenets of any religi ' ious denomination as a violation of the fundamental law, which guarantees perfeot ' freedom lo all classes in the exercise of their religious duties. To enoroach upon the confessional, which was well under stood to be regarded as a fundamental ten-et in the Cattiolis Church, would be ta ' ignore tbe bill of rights, so far as it ia ap , plicable to that Church. In vbw of these , circumstances, he felt no hesitation in, r,ul-, ing that a priest enjoys a privilege of ex ' emotion from revealing wbat is communis cated to him at the confessional. The ju- ' ry relumed a verdict of voluntary man, slaughter. Yesterdny Constable Miller went wilh a search warrant to look for some alt. , len goods. After some examination they , were found in the possession of u bounoing servant girl. The property consisted prin- ' cipally of articles of dress, among which '' was a fine worked collar. This the officer endeavored to gel in his hands, but the girl put it in her mouth and "shutdown, on it.', The constable determined not to be foiled in this way, run his finger in the 1 girl's mouth in order to pull out the collar, ' when she opened, and taking his finger between her teeth, crushed it almost to a jelly. The officer not liking the trap,; jerked out his Cuger, and tbe girl swallow-ed the collar. This ended the search, as Mr. Miller concluded the collar was then ' beyond his jurisdiction. Healthy girl, that, and fond of delicacies. Terrs flauh prsss. .. , , -j i Yankee Doodle in Uhanada. An eyewitness gives the following sketoh of an incident connected with the recent capture of lhe capital of Nicaragua by the AmerU cans under Gen. Walker, It is character, istio of our people : On the evening after the arrival of tho Americans, a few of our men having pro cured a couple of drums and a fife, went on the plaza, and played several national airs, among which were " Hail Columbia," 'Yankee Doodle," itc, visiting the American minister, and a few of the Amerioan residents. On arriving at Gen. Walker's quarters, ho was loudly called for, whe ne made tne lollowing brief and pointed address : ....... " Fellow cilizens and soldiersThis is, perhaps, the first lime that such music baa been beard on the plaza of Granada. Let us hope that it may be heard there throagh future ages." ., S3T At Benica, California, in 1853 James W. Coffroth said, " If I ever desert he democratic party, may my right arm be withered." At the last election he waa chosen Senator by 100 K. N majority, and on the day of election fell from his horse and broke his arm. Mr. C. is a fine looking man, and a Philadelphia printer by trade. The stump of his arm must be a pleasant memento, ' Good Gbit. A colored boy, says the Herald, by the name of Frank Snowden, about 15 years of age, being at Buffalo and desiring to come to Cleveland, applied for free passage on the cars, slating that he had no money. Being refused, he went away, but appeared at Erie upon the uu der side of the platform of the hind oar, a distance of 95 miles ! Admiring his pluck me conductor gave him a tree passage home. iMrSomebody in Alabama, wrote to Horace Greely, to know if be had ever jo'n ed the Know-Nothings. Mr. Greely wrote baot: "Si : I never waa oonsciously within a mile of a Enow-Nothing lodge, and never could have been induced to join one on any account. . By plaoing your foot against the author of the silly report notioed in your letter, you will he certain, to kiok a great liar." tW The best and most conclusive reason for an effet t that we ever remember to have heard, writes a westerneorreapc-d-ent, was one given by a "one idea" Dutchman, In reply to a friend who remarked, " Why, Hans, you have the most feminine cast of countenance I have ever seen." . "0, yaw," was the reply, " I know der reason for dat ; my nodrr teat m oman," Sweet Potatoes is Illinois. Measrs Mabee fe McGowan. of Alton, engaged In tbe cultivation of sweet potatoes, publish an ao count of their profits during the past season. They planted twelve acres fpo-tatoes, the expenses of whioh. delivered In market, were .187,50. The' total amount of sales were f 1,800, leaving $2,01 J 60 for net profile. This gives an average profit of 1167,80 per aore. I3T The woman who reiims aueen of the ball-room, is very seldom found capable of being the governess of her own ohil- dren. tW Tbe remains of the bachelor h " burst into tears" on reading a descrintiaa of married life, have been found ' f A M-Ti ... ,....? : ""':: .if v - - -hi ' L-i e T ' 1 drkk youAeih(5l..v ; , , A ; : r r i : r