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P jhrurr 17, 19&4. SO-v
Report of Hie Secretary of the Usury.
The annual report of the Hon. Jamts . Dob
bin, Secretary ol the Navy, will be read with in
terest by the friends, of our navy. It abounds
with interesting facts and important suggestions,
and display a commendable zeal and energy on
the part of its author. We hayc room only for
the following abstract :
the enactment for new regulations for the disci
pline and improvement of seamen.
The movements of (he varii.-us squadrons are
I reported in detail. The sloop of war Albany, last
heard from at Aspinwali en 28'bSept., when she
lefi lor New York. Painful anxiety is lelt touch
ing hT late. The steamer Princeton was sent in
search ol her several days since.
Lieut. Slrain and party are complimented for
enterprise and exhibition of powers of endurance
and generous devotion to duty in the exploration
of the Darien ship canal route.
The result of the expedition is, according to
Lieut. Strain's report, that the proposed canal is
totally impracticable, and this the Secretary ap
prehends settles the question forever.
The bombardment of Greytown by the sloop of
war Cyaneis narrated, and the Secretary remarks j
that "he could not reprove Commander Hollins
for his conduct. Humanity often lends her sym
pathy to the sufferer, however just the punish
ment ; but patriotism rarely condemns the brave
officer who administers that punishment, from a
sense of justice to his countrymen, whose proper
ty has been destroyed, and whose national flag
has been insulted."
Commodore Perry is highly complimented for
his success in Japan.
On the increase of the Navy the Secretary says
he "is far from the opinion that the enlargement
ol our Navy should stop with the action of last
Congrt ss. The protection of our commerce ; the j
guarding our extended coast ; the preservation of j
our rank as a nation, demand that we should not
be intircly stationary, and with inactive indifTer- j
ence behold the progress of other poweis in naval
svrength. Even with the additional unfinished
s cam frigates our naval force will not exceed fifty
vessels in condition for service. Weakness invites
aggression, and never inspires respect, while ac
knowledged strong bh and visible preparations com
mand consideration and are the true safeguards of
peace." The necessity and propriety of an aug
mented Navy is eloquently argued at considera
ble leng'h and the objections thereto answered.
The Secretary does not propose to increase the
number of officers nor materially enlarge the
squadrons, and thereby largely increase the cur
rent expenses, nor have a navy of the immense
size and extent of some of the navies of European
powers, but to increase the material of our navy
so as at least to approximate to a s'ate of readiness
for emergencies, which wise statesmen strive to
avoid, but wiser statesmen prepare to meet. It
will be 'lie Secretary's pleasure to co-opperate
with 'he legislative department of the government
in practically carrying out these views.
The Secretary renews his recommendations of
Inst year for the reorganization ol the Navv ; the j
creation of a retired list for infirm officers ; the I
i i f . - . i i
uiscnarge oi ine inemcienr, ana to nave promo
tions regulated by capacity and merit in some de
gree, instead of by seniority of commission and
pay, to some extent controlled by sea ervice.
So far as he has authority, these views will
guide his action even without legislation. He
" cannoi recomtnena ior promotion to
higher rank and pay officers who do not merit it,
Irom incapacity, either moral or physical. I do
not appreciate the justice or policy of promoting
to a higher grade an officer who cannot perform
I its duties, unless in rare exceptional cases, as
complimentary reward lor services rendered.
It is neither more nor less than elevating the in
competent and then ordering the ur.promoted com
petent to do their work."
The objections against the proposed reform are
i ably considered. He says much is still to be done
j to give proper shape, origin, vigor, character and
success to a system of discipline in naval service.
He is far from recommending the restoration of
flogging. The xperience of the navy justifies its
abrogation. There is, however, urgenf necessity
i for some substitute, accompanied with a plan of
; reward as well as punishment a substitute which
i would he Jffomut and sure in order to restrain
. ofrender and deter '.he inconsiderate: to re-
ward equally sure, the generous ; to encourage
fidelity and promote respectability. It is not the
severity, but the certainty and promptness of pun
ishment which promote discipline. He recom
mends that ihe commande-r of any vessel be au-
i ihorized by law to order a summary court martial
for ihe trial of petty officers and those below them;
that :hey have power to punish by dishonorable
discharge in any port, or by confinement on fe
duced rations, and without pay, with extra labor
and a dental of shore privileges.
He renews his recommendations of last year of
the plan to iuduce seamen to become permanently
attached to the Navy, by granting conditional
leave of absence at the end of a cruise and in
creased pay on re-enlistment, li is the Secretary's
purpose to immediately adopt in modified form
the apprentice system, and encouruge the enlist
ment of American boys from fourteen until twenty-one
years ol age ; to train them first on a re
ceiving ship, then on cruisers, in practical seaman
ship. He is clearly of the opinion, also, that the
number of men in the service should be increased
at least twenty-five hundred. The number of the
marine corps is deemed entirely too small, and an
indefinitely stated increase is earnestly recom
mended. The corps would be improved and ele
vated in character by adopting some system of ap
pointing officers of military education and train
ing. A marine oasin and railway at the San Fran
cisco navy-yard is recommended.
Prof. Maury's achiVvments in developing his
theory of winds and currents and his preparation
oi charts are noticed moat flatteringly. It is esti
mated that the saving to our commerce by the use
of his charts would amount to several millions
per annum.
Robert L. Stevens' iron war steamer, shot and
shell proof, for harbor defence, is rapidly progess-
ing. Tfte boilers will be ready to put on board
.IaiiI llir.a u La
Of the Naval Academy aV Annapolis, ihe Se
cretary says:
"The Naval Academy has, during the past
yar, continued to present to the couutry practi
cal evidenco of the wisdom and foresight of its
projecior. Under the vigilant superintendence of
Commander Goldsborough and his worthy assis
tants, the strictest discipline has been enforced,
to the marked benefit of this institution.
"The plan of education is now thorough, and
the training of the youth admirable. The cruise
in the Practice Ship is of immeasurable advantage
in imparling at an early age practical knowledge
of seamanship. During the last summer the Pre
ble, with 31 young Midshipmen, visited Ports
mouth and Plymouth, in England, and Brest and
Cherbourg in France, thereby affording tdnn nn
opportunity of examining the naval establishments
at those points.
"The contract has been made for the erection of
a machine shop at Annapolis under the act of Con
gress authorizing it, and I shall avail myself of the
first opportunity when the service will permit, to
substitute a steamer for the sloop now used as a
practice ship. The number of students now at
the academy is one hundred and sixty. Attention
is culled to the report of the chief of the bureau
of ordnance and hydrography, and the annual re
port of the board of examiners, as also that oi the
commander of the practice ship."
The legitimate expenditures for the support of
the navy and marine corps for the fiscal year,
ending June 30, 1854, amounted to $6,891,832,
with some outstanding claims to be paid. The
amount required for the same purpose, for the fis
cal year, ending June 30, 1856, is $S,917,297.
Secretary of War's Report.
The annual report of Col. Jefferson Davis, Sec
retary ol War, is an interesting, business-like
document, and makes many important recommen
dations, in order to give increased efficiency to the
important branch of the public service over which
he presides. We annex a brief abstract :
The actual strength of the army is only ten
thousand seven hundred and forty-five. The
whole authorized strength is fourteen thousand
two hundred and sixteen. The deficiency is last
decreasing by more rapid enlistments. A state
ment of the changes made in the distribution ol
the urmy duruig last year is given.
The removal from Florida of the remnant of the
Seminoles, has received the attention of the de
partmcnt, but its efforts have not been very suc
cessful. Belter fortune is expected next year,
through the instrumentality of the new plan of
opperations. The Indian difficulties elsewhere
art: ulluded to. The massacre of Lieut. Gratton
and men by ihe Sioux is narrated, and the fact
stated :hat the army fbnee is juiei inadequate to
the protection of our Ironliers and to punish Indian
aggressions. Our entire loss in Indian actions
during the year is four officers and sixiy-three
men killed and four officers and foiiy-iwo men
wounded. The occurrences on the frontier fur
nish deplorable proofs of the insufficiency of our
military force, and of the absolute necessity for
its increase, which was urged by the Secretary
last year.
Our effective force does not exceed eleven thou
sand men, which is entirely inadouale for the
purposes for winch we maintain u stunding army.
Its immediate increase is urged, at acost suflicient
to give some degree of security to the Indian fron
tiers, for which services the regular force is the
most efficient, cheap, proper and constitutional
means. The increased pay to enlisted men induc
ed the enlistment of 1,005 men in October nnd
September last, against 309 men during the cor
responding months last year. The number of
recruits required for the service of the ensuing
year will probably not be less than 6,000. H
recommends the use of camels and dromedaries
for military purposes again, and asks an appro
priation to test their usefulness. An increased
pay for officers is urged as an net of justice and
necessity. Additional legislation is asked to place
the widows and orphans of the officers and sol
diers of the army on an equality with the widows
and orphans of the officers and soldiers of the
navy.
The necessity of a revision of our military leg
islation in some important particulars is pointed
out, in order to prevent conflicting claims in re
gard to rank and command, which now give rise
to much inconvenience and trouble. One great
source of difficulty is the double rank recognized
by our laws ; to remedy this it is proposed to give
effect to brevet rank only when the President may
see fit, and forbid the exercise of brevet commis
sions in the regiment, troop, or company where
officers are mustered. Elaborate suggestions for
reorganization of the staff corps are presented, j
and compared with European systems. It is pro
posed that there be nine Brigadier Generals; one
lor each department; one lor Quartermaster Gen
eral, one for Adjutant General, and two for In
spectors General ; being an addition of three to
those who now, by brevet or otherwise, have rank
and command as Brigadier Generals. Other
marked changes in staff appointments, rank and
duty are proposed.
Reforms in the organization of regiments are
also suggested. The expediency of general pro
motions by senioiity, instead of merit, is doubted
by the Secretary ; and the establishment of a re
tired list again urged. Professorships of ethics,
and of English studies, at the military academy,
are recommended.
Many other subjects are treated of at consider
able length.
Sir John Franklin's Remains. We copfed
a statement a few days age from the Lake Supe
rior News, to the effect that Dr. Kane had suc
ceeded in finding the remains of Sir John Frank
lin and his men, completely frozen and in a per
fect stale of preservation. The New York Jour
nal of Commerce says :
"Dr. Kane was, when last heard from, at
Smith's Sound, and it is improbable thai any of United States of America, now statiooed in the
his party should have since thn found their wajr ! Canton river, are there lor the sole object of pro
down (o the Black river, where Sir John Frank- ' tecting the lives snd property of American citizens,
lin is supposed lo have perished. We fear that! and that any assault upon them, or any inlerf-r-the
story will prove to be a distorted version of ence wiih their just rights ss secured by treaty,
the acco tnt of Dr. Rae, originating in the substi- ; come from whatever ouarf r, wiJ be summarily
lotion
foy his rsmc of that of Dr. Kane.
From the Charleston Mercury
The Kavy Department.
'V
o man has ever held high office in this coun- :
try with a more complete exemption from popularity-hunting,
than the present Secretary of the
Navy, Mr. Dobbin. Personally he hs the de
meanor ol an unobtrusive gentleman, in bis of
ficial conduct lie has maintained the same demea
nor. He is neither good-tempered nor bad tem
pered ; he has neither favoritism nor hostilities.
He is simply a faithful public officer, devoted to
his duties, and w ho xnows but one rule, Justice to
all. By adhering inflexibly to this, he has made
! a great and v:ry necessary reform in the person
nel of the havy.
But Mr. Dubbin has also shown that this
severe sense of duly was no offspring, of a
narrow mind. He has infused system and
efficiency into h is whole Department, and it is
scarcely extravagant to say thai his administration
has been the best which the Navy has ever eii
joyed, and will leave frui's behind it that will
make it memorable in the history of our military
marine.
But our object was to introduce and commend
the following strong testimony to the merits of
Mr. Dobbin's administration of the Navy Depart
ment, from a political adversary, one of the lead
ing Whig journals of New England:
We have rather narrowly watched the course
of Mr. Dobbin since he became Secretary of the
Navy, and are bound injustice to declare that his
administration thus far has been signalized by
great diligence, by decision and judgment, ard by
an enlightened policy towards the accomplishment
of what the country has very much at heart the
increase atid improvement of the right arm of our
public defence. We have not yet heard any com
plaint against Mr. Dobbin in his official position,
and he will retire from the naval bureau with the
respect of ihe nation. To his very able report
upon the navy we owe the act of last session in
creasing the naval force by the addition of six new
steamships, constructed to carry batteries equal to
many of the three-deckers in other services, and
to the remodeling and completion of several other
ships which had for twenty years been lying idly
upon their stocks. His next report, now soon to
appear, will without doubt, maintain his reputation
as a wise and zealous executive officer and im
press on Congress the necessity of a far greater
expenditure for the Navy, to provide for a contin
gency so imminent and threatening as war with
somfi of the belligerent European powers. The
public will doubtless sustain him in recommend
ing a very great enlargement of our present Na
val establishment. Indeed, it is cheering to ob
serve that the press, with much unanimity has
1 already taken up the subject, and are showing the
nrcessity of our being better prepared to meet any
possible runiure of our peaceful relations. At
present the new frigates, sloops-of. war and steam
ers afloat, with the meagre force in reserve, would
muke a very pitiful struggle against the vast arm
aments of England or France, and our commerce
would 1)k driven from the ocean, and our sailors
shut up in foreign dungeons before we could build
and arm a sufficient navy to offer successful re
sistance to a maritime foe. Boston Courier.
?lr. Soule.
A private letter from one of our correspondents
i r i 1
now in Europe g-ves us the following information :
Paris, November 2, 1854.
On my arrival here I find considerable excite
ment about the Soule affair. It seems that a week
! ago, as he was about to enter France from Eng
i laud, he was refused admittance, though his pass
port was correct. He has been suspected lor
some time by the French Government of tamper
; ing with their politics. When here he was under
the surveillance of the police, and it is thought
the government has discovered good grounds lor
their present action. Both Mr. Mason and Mr.
Buchanan have demanded of the government the
I reasons of their act, but no reply has yet been
made. The papers here and in London 6y that
the Government will refuse any explanation, but
I have tho best au'hority lor saying that a reply
will be given in the next two days, and to the ef.
feet that nothing was intended disrespectful to the
American Government, but only against Mr.
Soule personally. I regret very much in my
travels that our government has lost much of her
dignity from the kind of men that the present ad
ministration has sent abroad in man)' instances;
and even here in Paris, our minister, Mr. Mason,
a gentleman of well known worth and ability, is
not treated by the government with the respect he
is entitled to. This is probably owing to the fact
that all the Americans are suspected of sympa
thising with Russia in ihe present war. Many of
the papers, the English particularly, while proles
in to have tIl(i greatest wish to preserve peace j
with the united States, abound with warnings lo
us to beware of our conduct, or they will treat us
as they are doing Russia. The alliance between
England and France has done much to increase
this feeling towards us. They talk a great deal
about the self-reliant character of us Yankees, but
I think they show their egotism and vanity a great
deal more when they talk of serving us like they
do the Russians. J.
Congressional.
In the Senate, on Thursday, the 7th inst., Mr.
Badger gave notice of his intention to introduce a
Bill to increase the pay of Members of Congress
and of Judges of the Supreme Court.
In the House, a Bill lor making further appro
priations for the improvement of the Rapids of the !
Mississippi River, was introduced ; also, a Bill
providing for the sale of reserved Lands in Flori
da. On motion of Mr. Perkins, of La., the Bill lo
remodel the Diplomatic and Consular Systems
was referred to l be Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Neither Houres of Congress were in session on
i
i i iuiy .
.
Hon. R- M. McLane, our minister to China,
issued a proclamation dated Canton, Sept. 11, in
which he declares, that (he ships of war of the
CJnst'ted.
From the American Farmer.
Curing ISacou.
Deak Sir: Asgcod bocon isan artielrof great
interest mi esery family, I furnish yoti with my
method of curing it, as may prose alike ben-iicUl
to some of your subscribers as it has done to my
self and family.
Whf never 1 think the weather cold enough to
prevent my pork from spoiling before? the lt can
penetrate the flesh, preparation is maos for kill
ing my hogs. As soon as they sre scalded,
scraped and entrails taken out, they are washed
out and allowed to dry till my hands have taken
their breakfast, then the process of culling up and
salting commences, even while the fifth Js quite
warm, as experience has taught me that warm
flesh will imbibe salt more readily than cold.
Place tiers of shelves two and a half ttet apart
on three sides of your storehouses, making their
bottoms of stiips three inches wide planks, so
that air may be admitted to the bottom as well as
the sides and top of ihe pork. In packing down,
place a row of middlings first on '.he shelf, next
one of shoulders, and lastly, the hams on the lop.
This is as much as I ever put on one tier of
shelves. Proceed in like manner till the whole
is packed. Use 5 pecks of salt to the 100U lbs.
T . U ks-w-a n ma loi-.-n kttf it email mtn htlK-I flfi
the thousand will "answer. Mix equal parts of!
powdered saltpetre and red pepp
)eon'-r and apnlv a
tublespoonful to each of the joints before the salt
is put on ; but if the pork is small, half thut
quantity will be sufficient, n the weather is
moderate, six weeks will be long enough for it lo
remain in salt ; if very cold, let it stand two weeks
longer.
When the time convs for hanging up sift some
clean Hickory ashes, and alter having put the
strings into the joints, brush or wipe of the salt,
(never wash,) and apply a coating of fresh ashes
to the flesh side of each piece, and hang up care
fully ; the middlings need no ashes let it hang
three or four days, and dry before you begin to
smoke. After that, make one smoke a day only
for ten or twelve days. In the month of March
take down your joints and put them into bags
made of thin cotton cloth, carefully tying each
bag around tho string by which ihe pieces of
meat were hung up. Hang up again and let it
remain till wanted for use.
If a Montgomery Farmer will nail a sheet of
tin on each corner of his smoke houae, (outside,)
near the eaves, he will more cheaply keep out
Tats, ihan by any method that I have tried. When
he wishes to smoke, let him cover the centre of
the floor, about two inches deep, with dry earth,
place aa iron pot or oven on it, and smoke in thnt
way, as I huve done for several years, without
incurring any injury from fire.
Color and Dress.
Red Hr apery. Rose-red cannot be put in con
tact with the rosiest complexions without causing
them to lose some of their freshness. Darn red is
less objectionable for certain complexions than
rose-red, because, being higher than this latter, it
tends to impart whiteness to them in consequence
of contrast of tone.
Green Drapery- A delicate green is, on the
contrary, favorable lo all fair complexions which
are deficient in rose, and which may have more
imparted to them without inconvenience; but it is
ww. aJ I u w aui aw Lt'lll 'li. Aiuua iu. t i i w uu
, (han nof tnose'lht have tint of orane
nif co In i.Tr:j Uu Ira m ra . ilovwna I k o t cs ma cm ti ma vari
mixed wiih brown, because the red ihey add to ibis
tint will be of a brick-red hue. In the latter case
a dark green will be leys objectionable than a de
licate green.
Yellow Dbapery. Yellow imparts violet to
a fair .-kin, and in this view it is less favorable than
a delicate green. To those kins which are more
yellow than orange it imparls white ; but this com
bination is very dull and heavy for a fair complex
ion. When the skin is tinted more with orange
than yellow, we can make"it roseate by neutral
izing the yellow ; it produces this effect upon the
black-haired type, and it is thus that it suits brun
ettes. Violet Draperies. Violet, the compliinenta
tary of yellow, produces contrary effects; thus, it
imparts some greenish yellow to fair complexions;
it augments the yellow lint of yellow and orange
skins
1 ha utile blue there may be in a complex
ion it makes green. Violet, then, is one of the j
teasi lavoraoie colors to me sKin,at teas', wnen it i
is not sufficiently deep lo whiten it bv contrast of
one. Washington, Nov. 17. I have already stated
Blub Drapery Blue imparts orange, which j that in spile of the increased expenses of the in
is susceptible of allaying itself favorably to white j creased usefulness of Ihe Post-Office Department,
and the light flesh tints of fair complexions, which ! such is the rigid eeonomy with which it is being
have already a more or less determined tint of j managed that with the increased revenue from post
this color. Blue is, then, suitable to most blondes, I age it is expected that in about four years from
and in (his case justifies its reputation. It will i now, provided the same economical sdministra-
nt suit brunettes, since they have already too
much of orange
Orange Drapery. Orange is loo brilliant to ' March, 1852, but ono single defalcation has oc
be elegant ; i: makes fair complexions blue, whi- j curred, (in ihe case of the postmaster at Troy,)
tens those which have an orange tint, and gives a but the sub-treasury act being promptly applied,
green hue lo those of a yellow tint. j the whole amount was recovered, and no loss
White Drapery. Drapery of a lusierless j therefore was sustained by the department. Coo
white, such as cambric muslin, assorts well with j sidoring that there are about 23,000 post-offices
a fresh complexion, 4f which it relieves the rose j in the United States, the fact is certainly highly
color; but it is unsuitable to complexions which creditable, both to the administration of the Post,
have a disagreeable tint, because white always ex- j office Department and to the discrimination used
alts all colors by raising their tone; consequent-) in the appointment of pos-mastem.
ly, it is unsuitable lo those skins which, without
having, this disagreeable tint, very nearly approach
it. Very white light draperies, such as muslin,
plaited or point lace, have an entirely different as
pect. Black Drapery. Blsck draperies, lowering
the one of the colors with which ihey are in jux
taposition, whiten the skin ; but if the vermillion or
rosy parts are to a certain point distant from the
drapery, it will follow that, although lowered in
tone, ihey appear relatively to the while parts of
the skin contiguous to the same drapery, redder
man ii ine contiguity to ihe mack did not exist.
Harmony of Colors, by M. R. Cucvreul.
Cottoxi Plant. lo conversation wiih a very
intelligent planter of our county, we were inform-
d that so far as abservaiion and inquiry enabled
him lo speak, he thought be could safely say, that
of the top bolls, or second gruwt " of the crop
this fail, not more, perhaps, than one out of twenty
bolls has matured, or will opeu. At one lime, a
favorable estimate was mads oi lite production of
tbs growth, as one of the items to bio included in
estimating lbs aggregate crop of this year.
Air. Sonic.
The Washington Star, gwM-rally wall informed,
in an article on cha Ulterdict applied to Mr. Smile,
ayt :
"It is not now doubted tbat the pt iinar-use
of all the difficulties which occurred at Madrid
between the Soules (father and son) and the Duke
of Alba and M. Turgot. the Freucb ambassador,
was tfte falsehood covertly manufactured "d put
into circulation at Paris, and reproduced, us i
staled in certain New York prints. a lo their
comments, upon the Emperor and Empress. And
it is also well known at Paris, and this city, that
it was a repetition of these slanders against Mr.
Soule, and tha propagation of soms additional
newly invented falsehoods of similar character
last month by toe same tribe of mischief making
earwigs, (alien to every Iroly American feeling.)
that excited Louis Nnpoleon to disregard the
counsels of his Empress and ol two of his most
sagacious counsellors, and hastily adopt the silly
course of excluding the American Minister to
Spain from crossing Prance in his journey from
England to Madrid. The meeting of three or four
private gentlemen, personal friends, at a contin
ental watering place, because they happened to be
all American Ministers in Europe, was uy stmiior
singer misrepresentation distorted into a political
' or diplomatic Uongress, to tieciae now or worn
the United States ought to intervene in the con
flicts of Europe; and in fact ever means lo cre
ate trouble and difficulty was caught at.
"We are gratified, however, lo know that ihe
firm and dignified conduct of Mr. Mason, our
Minister at Paris, ltd to an eclaircisstmertt and
mutual explanations, and ultimately, upon com
parison of notes, to the full discovery nnd explo
sion of the whole batch of intrigues, nnd the de
velopment of ail the miserable conspirators, of all
genders, by whom the Imperial family had been
imposed upon. The squint eyed envy at the bot
tom of it in reference to the injury attempted to
be done to Mr. Soule is doomed to still further
distppointnu nt. We do not believe that its ef
forts will be successful to effect the refusal of the
Spaniah Government to receive him. And if e
mistake not, also, the arch conspirators will ere
long find to their cost that the French Emperor
aud Empress and the French people now under
stand the means by which it was sought to impose
upon and mislead them, and will take occasion to
demonstrate fheir convictions in nn emphatic man
ner. Whatever punishment may be visited upon
the perpetrators of the plot, if caught in France,
no sympathy will lie extended towards them by
the people of the United States. It will ue invok
ed in vain."
A Drop of Oil.
Avery man who lives in a house, especially if
the houae be his own, should oil all tha vaiious
parts of it once in two or three months. The
house will last much longer, and will be much
more quiet to live in. Oil the locks, bolts and
hinges of the street door, and it will shut gently
with luxurious ease, and with the use of a little
amount of force. A neglected lock requires great
violence to cause it to shut, and with so much vio
lence that the whole house, its doors, its windows,
its very floors and joists, are much shaken, and in
time they get out of repair in all sorts of ways,
to say nothing of the dust thai is displaced every
time the place is so shaken. The incessant bang
ing of doors, scrooping of locks, creaking and
screaming of hinges, is t. great discomfort. Even
the beil wire cranks should sometimes bo oiled,
and they will act more certainly nnd with such
gentle force that there will be little danger ol
breaking any part of them. The castors of tables
and chairs should be sometimes oiled, and they
will move with such gentle impulse and so quietly
that a sleeping child or an old man is not awak
ened. A well-oiled door-lock opens and shuts
with hardly a whimper. Three pennyworth's of
oil used in a large house once a yoar will savu
many shillings in locks and other material, and in
the end will save many pound in even the sub
stantial repairs of a house ; and an old wife living
and sleeping in quiet repose will epj iy many roors
years of even temper and active usefulness
House-kpepers, pray do not forget tho oil. A
stich in time saves nine, and a drop in lime saves
pounds. The Builder.
tion of lite department be continued. ih rov-mm
will cover the expenditure. Since the 4th of
Cor. of the Baltimore Sun.
New York, Nov 17. 1854. The Asia's news
yesterday created something of a sensation.
Everybody expected to hear that Sevastopol had
fallen, but ihe Russian attack oo Balaklava has
converted those expectations into doubts whether
we are to have the allies conquerors there lor
weeks to come. In this view of the case, the
news may be said to have an unfavorable impress
ion in business circles. The chances are that the
wsr is to go on that peace is out of the question,
and that, therefore, new lotos and fighter monev
markets are coming.
A good old Dutchman and bis frow set up till
gaping tune, when the latter, after a full stretch,
said :
I vish I vaa in heben.'
Hans also yawned and replied :
' I vish I vas in der shiill-house.'
The eyes oi Be Hie flew wide open, as she k
claimed :
I pa pound for you, you always vish yourself
in da r post blues.'