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! AC' : ' '-' ffy ' T Part) in.gMlt. ; -' - r ' - - s&jm Leaf woven ringlets of summer-are falling, Lock after lock, until Autumn looks old. Like hoary-haired age, the Pale one is calling, Avay o'er the jnountahia of silver and gold. Oh ! Autumn of ages cold, cold on thy bosom Tlie hopes of life's-spring-time and summer sirewu ( With ringlets and tresses, and sweet scerited blos soms, . : , ( robbed in your parting from golden haired Jane. Mourners, the wind-harps are moaning and signing -Ah I rijthiDg for glories that ne'er will return. Tin S; ring with warm fingers, ice-fetters unking, Shall kindle the fires of the summer to burn. Sa.1 emblems ye bring to ns. touching and lonely. Of if &ures once dear, now faded and gone- , Oh ! tould we but shared them the half of life only So Bauness had flown in one note of Its song. But tears over life leaves and roses are stealing .Peace, froia the bouom and joy from the heart. While the fingers of Grief .for it's love cards are feelingj With touches that pain like the pangs of the dart. For the friends that rstnrn to onr bosoms no r ' fmare; Beatiug ,like wave from storm-lash retreating y Keireaung irom wiia wina and rook-frowning shore, i s Waterloo. 1869. I eneral JSntelllqcucc. THE OXOSDAUA GIAXT. A Stupendous Hoax. A,S.vracuse- correspondent Vriles to the New York Herald the following exposure of the "Onondaga Giant" mystery: It has been the custom for several years lr Frenchmen to come from Canada and w ork during the season ir? the quarries of Onondaga. Three years ago a Canadian by the name of Jules Geraud came to On ondaga to hek work. Geraud was a mono maniac. His one idea was that he was an artivt destined to rival tha famA rf XThoi Angelo. - He was taciturn and of retired habits. He inhabited a secluded shanty, and when not at work in the quarries al ways retired to it. No person was ever in vited into his cabin, and people passing it on the Sabbath: always heard the mallet and chisel at full play. This first excited no woziuer, but when the sam sounds of labor in the shanty were heard month after month until late at night, the cariosity of people was awakened. This ; thing con tinued lor nearly three years, and the most active curiosity-beeker never penetrated the myMefy of Geraud's labor. In' the nionth of October, 1868, Geraud was ni.-e'd for several days from the work ot tlin quarries.1 An American by the name of George Hooker, a fellow-laborer, actua ted by a spirit of philanthrophy, visited t tie shanty of Geraud, and found him Buf ltring from a low form of fever; he brought him food and such medicines an he thought his case required, as Geraud refused to "see aq.'lrmciau. About a week from his first visit Hooker visited Geraud in the night and found him-very near his end. Geraud expressed. himself grateful for the attentions of Hooker, and told him he would reveal to him a great secret. He requested him to pass behind a screen that divided the cabin and look at his beautiful statue the most beautiful statue in the world, Geraud said. The, ruling passion of the poor man was 6trong in death. . Hooker did as requested. He saw lying before him an object covered with a large and ragged pidce of canvas; he rained it, and to his astonishment, uncov ered the colossal tstatue of a man lying on his back. He returned to Geraud and ask ed him who it was. Geraud's eyes gleamed wildly as he answered. "It is St. Paul." Geraud requested Hooker in the most im passioned tetins to swear not to reveal the secret until he had been dead a week. Hooker, wishing to oblige the dying man, complied. That night Geraud died. But four per sons attended the funeral. Hooker among the number, the three others being- Cana dians, i The fifth night after the burial of Geraud the cabin was observed to be on lire. No one paid any attention to it; but Hooker, who had not seen the fire during the night, on passing that way in the morning saw that the cabin was burned. He walked up to the spot, expecting to find the statue of St. Paul, but to his utter inimzement not a vestige of it was to be he HPen; it had vaniished as completely as if it lad been a snap bubble, instead of a ton. of carved stone. This mysterious dis appearance so 'impressed Hooker that he wished keep the fact of the statue a se (rct JJeside his superstition which was actively aroused, he dreaded the laughter of his companions if he revealed his dis covery. Hookc- has been employed as a' teamster ia this" ci . A few days before the discov ery of the ftatue, Hooker had an attack of aeiite pneumonia. On a frame weakened by exposure and dissipation the disease .made rapid progress. The news of the dis covery new like wildfire, and was much talked ol by those in attendance on the sick Miiu. lie was deeply affected by the dis covery. ( n the day it was rumored that Professed Hall, the State Geologist, was to visit the fcene of discovery, Hooker made an urgent request that his physician be sent for. Dr. hastened to his bedside. Hooker aked the doctor if he thought he .,.,1 1 . ,' i-vv that V A ' v i la n I atlv-Aj hjvj ..-w- could net live much longer. Hooker then told the doctor he would reveal the secret r.e .v,,, rwijcr -f TW . than tnTrl Hooker that he should like a responsible witness present. Dr. therefore sought me. us he knew I took a deeD interest in Julius A. Bonitz, Editor and Proprietor. 7 "For us, Principle is Principle-Right is Right jjyesterday, to-day, to-morrow, Fo7er7 j GQLDSBORO NORTH CAROLINA; filmYQVEMBER 12. .KfiQ VOL. IV. NO. 17. HUNTING ADVENTURE IS THE NORTH WOODS. A Thrilling and Perilous Experience. A correspondent of the New York Re public writing from i the "North Woods," tells the following story : At the foot of the Lower Cedar, about fifty yards from the shore, is a small and low, rocky island, not more than thirty feet in diameter, having a few shrubs growing upon it, with a single scrubby spruce and a young mountain ash in the centre, neith- ia tweive jeei ln.neignx. the snbit-ct. We both repaired to the house occupied by Hooker, near the west suburbs of the ciiy. We found the patient but little excited, and. in the opinion ot Dr. perfectly sane. Hooker then made the statement which I have above detailed. After I had written it, almost in the very words of the above, I read it to Hooker, and he then affixed his mark to the follow ing dying declarations I, George H.oker, knowing myself to be liHRr mv death, have heard read to me me r.bove fetatement, and it agrees with the statement already made by me, which I solemnly declare to be truth. I. have heard the description of the Cardiff giant, and believe it to be the same statue found lying in the cabin of J ules Geraud, at Onondaga. George Hookeb. . Witness Thomas B. Ellis. This finishes all positive information re OTTrJino tr.is wnr.derful hoax. I now come to that part of the history which is a "mys tery." , One year ago, about the time of the burn ing of Jaltjs Geraud's cabin, a stranger came to the hotel in Tully for a guide .to the house of Newell, at Lafayette. A wagon and guide were there furnished him. Al ter traveling to within sight of Mr. Newell s ho use, he paid and dismissed the guide, and proceeded on foot. This was the last seen of our mysterious stranger. A tew days after-some of my informants say two, and others say three days-a wagon containing a large box eleven teet long was observed to be making its .f.8 , New, lis house. Several 'nesses are willing to swear it was Newell s t.p.am" There the substantial part of my narra tive ends. I am confident the publication r7 xi": f will brine out further r S I Parties werS mixed up to- n . a-nc this fraud, and tear, ffff IXZZZ Ti? human nature, will compeTsome of tbe parties to JtadAthj missing links in the chain of facte I have detailed above. The most surprising thing v ia ih magnitude of tne noax. ii n .nAmnfa at lmmVincffinflr sinK into ;r,c;;ao hvilha side Oi the "Oarain Giant." Richard Adams Locke a moon bfoax and Poe's story, "Hans Phaal, are simply moonshine when compared with the cool enrontery of this Cardiff hoax. Jrny' . i iw-is, geologists, lecturers and sarans have visited the statue of poor, half crazy Geraud, and returned dumbfounded. I will close this narrative by saying that Newell and his abettors have persistently refused i o allow any person, competent to decide the question of this being a petrefation or work of art, to inspeet it Prof. Hall, who was allowed a few moments ot examination, . was pledged to reserve his opinion until S, permission was given him to make it known. Itewas January. John left his home, -some sixteen miles away, taking a bag of provisions and a few spring traps to be absent a week or more, in pursuit of mink and marten. It was an open season. Little snow was upon , the ground, and all the lakes were unfrozen. John made his way alone to the Lower Cedar lake, deposited his provision 4bag in the log shanty, and taking his boat and traps, rowed over to the little island which has just been described. Running the boat up on the rocks, he stepped out with a trap, and went to the opposite side of the island, a distance not exceeding twenty-five leet, carefully set his trap and returned to the landing. i . What wis Lis dismay to find the boat caught lightly upon a low rock about two rods from the island. Here was a serious predicament for the incautious trapper. There was not a tree nor a branch by which he could reach the boat. There was no withes nor bark which, being tied together and attached to a stone, could thrown into the boat: He had never learned to swim a stroke. Between him and the rock on which his boat was strand ed were the waters, dark, cold, and ten feet deep. What was to be done? Johnwasan iron-hearted man, but while delibrating in much agitation, had the ad ded horror of seeing the boat swayed first by the wind, then grating harshlv upon the rock, at last disengaged, , and'drifted slowly out into the middle of the lake. The case now seemed absolutely hopeless. As the hunters and trappers frequently go forth alone in. the winter, and are absent several weeks, his stay would attract no attention at the settlement. No human dwelling was nearer than sixteen miles Confronting, philosophically, therefore, his alarming situation, he scoured the is land in search of fuel, which resulted in his finding a 6mall quantity of a substance resembling peat. He now began the con struction of a kind of earthwork, in semi circular form, as a protection against the wind. Gathering enough of the peat to keep his hands and feet trom suffering, as the early darkness drew on he wrapped himself in his coat as closely as possible, and lay down for the night Long, dreary, dreadful were those hours, relieved by oc casional snatches of 6leep. Morning came, but it was barely welcome. It only reveal ed his desperate condition, and brought no intimation of relief. The sun arose, climbed the sky, sank to his setting; no food, no fire, lest he should exhaust his stock of fuel; no sight or sound 01 hope. Night settled all its shadows upon his heart. Hungry, faint and wretched, he lighted his meagre fire and laid him down. That night he slept from sheer exhaustion. Again the morning; the live-long day the sinking suDj the blank shadows, the fam ishing body, the howling , wolves, the thoughts of horror, the vision of inevitable death ! Thus dragged the hours till the sun arose. And thus, with fast" failing pow- ers nan uewnaerea mmd, he lived, or rather was dying, through four days and five nights. During the fifth night the wind changed to the north, with bitttr, freezing cold. Now, thought the trapper, the end has come. Still, pitiless frosts fell from the crystal heavens. He had no hope ofjseeing the mornicg light. But what he forebod ed was to be his destruction was find's wondrous provision for his salvation. The lake froze over, and on lilting his eyes in the morning, a new hope struggled with the sunbeams in his despairing soul. Stiff ened, emaciated and'unablo to stand, he thought "Life is dear, and home is sweet. I can but die if I venture forth. To Mnger here another day is certain death, I will try the ice. Crawling i orth from his damp lurking place to the edge of the lake, he cautiously felt his way out upon the thin, transparent ice. As well from inability to stand as from a consideration of prudence, he crept on hands and knees over the treacherous surface. It bore his out spread weight Slowly he moved, with trembling advance, for longseams shot from beneath him and clicked like the report of a pistol to the op posite shore. Once the faithless floor gave way at his knees and the chilling water came half way over him ; but with the en ergy of a dying man, he sprang upon the unbroken surface, and with shivering fear acain moved on. Again he broke through the ice ! again he saved himself with des perate strength. But at length joy un speable, and that almost overcame his ex hausted nature he drew himself upon the solid shore! Resting awhile from his superhuman ex ertions, and now. with hope and home ris ing like twin stars in the east, he made his way slowly to the cabin where his stock of provisions had been lelt, lhere were bread and dried venison, but he could not eat. Nature had borne the fame too long. He laid down and was almostinstantly bur ifid in slumber, from which he did not wake until the shades of evening were draw' na on. Then he found himself able to take refreshment, lay down and slept until broad daylight, rose and ate again, and in its strength felt his precarious waytoward his home, which at eventide ne reacnea, emaciated almost beyond recognit ion, more nearly dead than alive, but restored at last from the jaws of an unmarked grave, saved lrom the vulture ana tne won, ana rejoic ing in the arms of wife and children about his ewr? fireside. j A Romance of Lake Erie. A few years since, a young Englishman, with his wife and two servants, arrived in Maiden from the north of England. ' In stature he was above the middle Bize, well- Eroportioned and of a commanding aspect; is features, though not exactly correspond ent with the finest models, nor altogether regular, were strongly marked ; and the toul ensemble gave an expression of countenance somewhat tinctured with melancholy, but indicative of an intelligent mind. His fulL dark byes,' that Unconsciously betrayed a Erond and indignant spirit, when aroused y the gaze of impertinent curiosity, would instantly yield to the softest expression of love and tenderness, if met by "the smile of his Mary. " Reserved and formal in his in tercourse with the world; studiously avoid ing all inquiries concerning his former his tory, and seemingly living out for his wife, Charles Lovell, lor by that name hi. was called, excited the attention of the whole village. ; His companion, more like the be ing of a fairy tale, than the unadorned exile ot real life, exhibited the finest symmetry of persofi, harmony of features and expression of countenance. - Her dark auburn locks which fell in . clustering ringlets upon her shoulders the sweet serenity of her hazel eye Iho grace and dignity of ''her move mentsthe mellow tones of her voice, and the ' beamings of a highly-polished mind that hghtened her countenance with all the ineffable charms of intellectual loveliness, would have rendered her equally the fas cinating object of admiration, amid the gay splender of a city, or the rustic simplicity of a village; she was like the pliant seed ling pf the forest,, which rises" with reno vated strength and beauty, frourthe ravages of the whirlwind, while the majestic oak stands scathed and riven; the 6torms of ad versity which had exiled and sorrowed her husband, served but to call forth the firm ness of her soul, and to add dignity to the feminine softness of her person. With Mr. Lovell she was happy, though surrounded by the gloom of a wilderness, and to restore his wpnted peace of mind, she strove to maintain in his presence the same spright-' ly look of cheerfulness which marked her youthful lays. The exercise of my professional duties (the narrator continued) gave me an early introduction to this rrysterious couple; and in tue course of a few weeks I accompanied Loyell on a visit to Bass-Island, during which he disclosed his intention of select ing far his future residence a spot sequest ered and far distant from the busy scenes of ar ungrateful world; the island proved equal to his wishes, ana immediately upon our return mechanics were employed; and in the space of three months Lovell and his little J family were in quiet and undivided possession of their sylvan abode. In the course of the first year of their residence the wife had the fond satisfaction of pre senting to her husband a lovely boy; the silken chords of affection were drawn still closer by this first pledge of their love, and their fervent aspirations daily ascended to Heaven for the safety of their infant off spring, over whose eouch they hung with unwearied patience and delight. The birth of the little stranger seemed indeed to be the consumation of the brightest hopes of the mother, and a healing balm to the wounded spirit of the father.' More serene and cheerful, Lovell now divided his morn ing between the necessary rural , occupa tions and a well-selected library; and dur ing the afternoon's relaxation in the Bociety of his wife, their mutual relish, for connu bial felicity, literature and song, apparently left not a moment for the faintest reminis cence of past adversity. As time rolled on, thestormy misfortunes f other days im perceptibly vanished from the memory, and the winged hours, as they danced by this amiaole pair, located "On- ferfgki Uttla Ule of their own. In a blue summer ocean far off and alone," teemed with content and cheerfulness. the feathered tenants of the grove, sent up their melodious orisons to Heaven, uncon scious that the late happy pair, around whose rural dwelling thev had so long carolled with delight, were reposing, in the sleep of aeatn, beneath the clear blue waves oi ljaxe Erie. Puhlished Semi-Weekly. Subscription, $3.00 per Annum. i It was a fine day of June, in the third year jof their residence on this romn,'A spot, that Lovell nr t uis Jdary as he rose from dinner, and cast his eye npon the inviting bosom of the waters, an after noon's pasting upon the lake, with that nromot and cheerful acquiescence which ever constitutes the most endearing charm of wedded love, she smiled assent, and in a few moments everything was in readiness j and the white canvas of the pleasure-boat was unfurled to the whispering breeze. The serenity of the blue depths of heaven the glittering resplendency of the sunshine upon the waters, and the merry notes oi the feathered songsters mong tne tremmiDg foliage, presentad, as the little bark gaily sailed from the harbor, one of nature's most echanting scenes. Rendered uncon scious of the passing moments by gazing upon these transcendent beauties, or by listening with rapturous delight to the prnt- tle of their rosy-cheeked boy, nan an nour Viarl flnwn ranirllv awav. when Lovell optn- - l : . ed Akenside s pleasures ot the imagination. It was a favorite poem of her he loved ; and in thus complimenting her taste, he did no injustice to his own: with unusual anima tion and interest he read among those pas sages which she had previously marked with" a pencil as peculiarly happy, the fol lowing beautiful lines : ' Ask the faithful youth An Astonished Conrt A few days aco. says the- New Orleans Picayune, an old lady and a young one found thtmsslves in Court, charged with ;atnrhina the neace. The officer's state ment was clearly given, and certainly dis closed an equal culpability in both, it was evident however, that the Court inclined a favorable' iudement to the youngest, and the scales of justice were rapiaiy uppuig " "Whv did you abuse this young lauyr the magistrate demanded of the old one. "I had a right to! was tne cairn repiy. "What was she doing?" . . "Keeping company with a very improper character. "And what is that to your "SVia'k mv dauchter." Oh. indeed! and you think the person . i was an improper tuaio-i i T do. BIT! "Do you know who he was?' - -. ; T I don t Know nis name, I've seen him f-r.tiu nrowlincr around after night. & rA then an 11 acLuatsu u j onvv. AUU " i. ladv adinsted her spectacles. p u, i w rvvni-t. frnm nnder peerea canuoawj i uio Wu.. - orrat RTin-bonnet. and then exciaimea. "v . . . , i i TIT nr'rl "Good lack I gooa iac i A. - I" tne man i . . , . Dt,aa . , i v f.iin tvnmaTi I nin VUU DIM V JU UOUIT. . ixc, " " .-., A Again the spectacles were J0"C"' , , . nmlnnoPil. while the Old ine ciuwui gi" 0 , i 3 Uar taari at. intervals. lauv uuuuou T, "Yes, yes, it s in same ugijr sure of it; but I'll forgive you this time- Why the cold urn of her, whom long he loved, So often fills hia arms, bo often draws His lonely footsteps, silent and unseen,' To pay the mournful tribute of his tears ? Oh I he will tell the that thee wealth of worlds Should ne'er seduce his bosom U forego Those sacred hours, when stealing from the noise Of care and envy, sweet remembrance soothes With virtue's kindest looks, his aching breast, And turns his tears to rapture. At length he was aroused by the noise of the curling waves, as they broke against j the 'sides of the pleasure boat; and upon raising his eyes, " he observed some small. fleecy clouds gliding aiong tne wentem horizon: conscious that they were but too frequently the precursors ot a storm, ne directed the faithful pilot to return to the harbor without delay: 'lhomas oDeyea, though reluctantly, for he was always pleasd i with an opportunity of displaying his nautical bkui amiu mo uaucm ui tem pest In a few moments a dark cloud made its appearance me wiuu uww vim.- ly. S and the azure waves, bngnt anaspant- Knt? with the broken, tremulous sun-beams, rolled careeringly by, like the gay, fantast ic visions of a maiden as she contemplates fear bridal dav . " - i v ii r T.fwoll with calmness sootnea tne iears hia trembline Mary, while he seized an w M aoRirit in retraining the still distant iiaAn- Presently whole canopy of the sky was shroud and darkened with i lowering clouds; the wind m fearful gusts nowiea ih wide waste of waters the rain de scended in torrents and the forked light nings played sublimely from Heaven to earth, tintnncr tne aarx runm wm j D a .. .. TT UI- 1 In ; ii Miini nt 1 1 j7 ri L- uuauie iuukdi iu 1UL14VI' JS"""-" O ' - . , ... t.Ma th hoat over the raging billows, Mr. Lovell, in utter despair, abandoned his oar; a at tha moment his arms were encircl ing and sustaining his lovely wife, who sat rle ana mouoniess, fm6 ." . l . - . i.AArrf aiiAntlir lnvnlr- ..wr- i li Va temrpnt and fll- incf mm wno nuco : . -a v.a Btorm." the boat was overwhelm ivxjva ' ... J 1 bv a mountain wave, ana me uym,; Mathematical Geniuses. ' , From the Manufacturer and Bu'lder. On the 3d of July, 1839, some of the em inent members of th Academy of Science, at Paris, including MM. Arago, Lacroix, Lebru, and Sturm, met to examine a re markable boy, whose powers of mental cal culation were deemed quite inexplicable. Thejboy, named Vito Managiamele, a Sili cian, was the son of a shepherd, and was about 11 years old. The examiners asked him. several questions which they knew, under ordinary circumstances, would be tedious of solution such as the cube root of 3,796,416.-and the tenth root of 282, 475,219. The first of these he answered in half a minute, the second in three minutes. One question was' of the following compli cated character: . What number complies with the following prox&sitionSk that if its cube be added to five times its square, and i men 42 tunes the number, and the num ber 42 be subtracted from the result, the number is equal to 0 or zero? . M. Arago repeated this question a sec ond time, but while he was finishing the last word, the boy replied, "The number five." " Such cases greatly puzzled ordinary mathematicians. Buxton, Colbourn and Bidder have at different times exhib ited this unaccountable power of account ing. Jedediah Buxton, although his grand father was a clergyman and his father a schoalmaster, was so neglected in his edu cation that he could not even write; his mental faculties were slow, with the one wonderful exception ot his power of men tal arithmetic. After hearinj? a sermon he remembered and cared for nothing concern ing it except the number oi words, which he had counted during their delivery. If a period of time, or size of an object were mentioned in his hearing, he almost uncon sciously began to count how many hair's breadths there were in it He walked from Chesterfield to London on purpose to have the gratification of seeing George .II., and while in the metropolis he was taken much notice ol by members of the Uoyal Society. On one occasion he went t see Garrick in Richard III., but instead of attending to the performance in the usual way, he found occupation in counting the number ol words ottered by each performer. After striding over a field in two or three directions, he would tell the number of square inches it contained. He could num ber all the pints of beer he had drank at all the houses he had ever visited during half a century. He once set himself to reckon how much a farthing would amount to if doubled 140 times; the result came out in such a stupendous number of pounds sterling as required twenty-nine places of figures to represent it In 1750, this problem was put to him: To find out how many cubical eighth of an in ch there are in a quadrangular mass which measured 231,145,789 yards long, 6,642,732 yards wide, and 54,965 yards thick, He answered this, as all the rest mentally. On one occasion he made himself what he called "drunk with reckoning " the follow ing: "In 200,000,000,000 cubic miles how many grains of eight different kinds of corn and how many Lairs an inch long?" He ascertained by actual counting how many of each kind of grain and how many hairs an inch long would go to an inoh cube, and then set himself about his enor mous self-imposed task. He could suspend any of his problems lor any length of tiv - - ii u - i4 aft t and could converse on other subjects while thus employed, lie could never eive any ac count of the way in which he worked xiux his problems; nor did his Bingular but ex ceptional faculty bring any other advantage than that of being invited to the houoe of gentry as a kind of show. Zerah Colburn, who excil much inter est in London in 1812, was a native of Ver mont At G years old he suddenly showed extraordinary powers of mental calculation. By processes which seemed to be almost unconscious to himself, and were wholly so toothers, he answered arithmetical . ques tions of considerable difficulty. When eight years old, he wa3 taken to London, where he astonished many learned auditors and spectators by giving correct solutions to such problems as the follow ing: Raise 8 to the sixteenth power; give the square root to 106,929; give the cubic root of 268 336.125; how many seconds are there in 48 years. The answers were al ways given in a few minutes sometimes in a few seconds. He was ignorant of the ordinary rules of arithmetic , and did not know how or why particular modes of pro cess came into his mind. On one occasion tne Duke of Gloucester asked him to mul tiply 21,734 by 543; sometimes in the boy's manner induced the Duke to ask how he did it, from which it appeared that the boy arrived at the result by multiplying 65,202 by 181, an equivalent process; but why he made this change in the factors neither he nor anv one else could tell. Zerah Colburn was unlike other boys also in this, that he had more toes and fingers; a peculiarity observable also in his father and some of his brothers. An exceptional instance is presented in the case of Mr. Bidder, of this faculty cul tivated to a highly useful purpose. George Parker Bidder, when six years old. used to amuse himself by counting up to 100, then to 1,000, then t& 1,000,000; by degrees he accustomed himself to contemplate the re lations of hich numbers, and used to build up peas, marbles, and shot into squares and cutes, and other regular ngures. ne invented processes of his own, distinct from those given in boons on aritnmeuc, and could solve all the usual questions mentally more rapidly than other boys with the aid ot pen and paper. When he be came eminent as a cmi engineer, ne was wont to embarrass the parliamentary coun cil on contested railway bills, by confuting their statements of figures almost beiore the words were out their mouths. In lobo he pave the Institution of Civil Engineers an interesting account of this singular arith metical faculty bo far, at least, as to snow that memory has less to do with it than is generally supposed; the processes are actu ally worked out seriatim, but with a rapid ity almost mconceivaDie. KO MORE WARS. rr . -r, . nrm Peace. theJi0'0.8 BPee Wore lani It ffi'fe6'"! Site- important condition TTvere, 18 a uuifcxou orotnerhood. ciusjon ox nis address: e wno Poarew ,n ml?1' We de8ire it uT7 oetween weea race and advocaov nt This is the con- ,,;.- fc. -""ire itard- people and rf ?rotheI- SWIM'S Do desire it. at n , . t --..uuutar vvul v nuiut WUU1UUD8 f ISO want it? we havrt XT . head i W4antnoU peace of despotism under batoipr todsr the scepter. KS ditioi of,1acei is deliverance. For Tw8 dehvtfanea there must bean effort, assured ly iS8' Wch "HI be the supreme. atfdafcB! perhaps a war which will be thi last ThenallillbeaccompliHhed. Peace being bvipkble; will be perpetual. Then isi52Jp f ore 8l , Thf, -7n- We will iifplhMlZh, purchase,'sell, speak, love and think free ly, and that they Bhall have schools making citizens, and no more princes making n tin men. I We will the great continental Re public, ve will the United States ot Europe, and I conclude with this watchword: Liber ty, the object Peace, the result gricultnral. FARM, MUDEN A1SD HOUSEHOLD. Soap Madno.- In tbe first plaoe, it your wood is poor, your ashes will be poor and you will no have good soap Take good care of your ashes, and one week before the lye is required puttEem in the leaoh, pounding them dowr solid. It is easier done it they are dampened. Then pour cm water until they begin to drip, af ter which let them stand one week to "rot;" then hang on your kettles, and commence running off lyefor operations. By letting the ashes stand to "rot," as it is called, the lye is stronger, and the soap of a better quality, and not so apt to be "livery." If the lye is teo strong, I weaken it; if too weak. I boil it The proper strength can be told by puttiDg a fresh egg into it It should throw the big end ot the egg up above the surface to show about the size of a silver dime (if any one now-a-days can find one to make the comparison. ) If the lye is a trifle weaker the egg sinks. With lye af this strength, take a pound of clear grease, or its equivalent in "common soan each gallon of lye used, and set to boinW itfei mn ntj mtftmxaU- tors will "eat, or take the nlume off a feather, put in more grease. If a whit scum rises on top, skim it off. CIUCAUO CORRESPONDENCE. -FRIGHTFUL CALAMITY. Burning of tne Steamer Stonewall--. Ovir Two Hundred Lives Lost. Cracuio, Oct 28. A special from Car bondal,i Illinois saysi that the steamer Stonewall, which left St Louis for New Orleaa n Tuesday evening, heavily laden with pa&etgers, horses, mules, hay aud other freight last night about 8 o'clock, when xear tfeely's Landing, ten miles from GrandTower, took fire, and despite all ef forts to sav her, was burned to the water's edge, i When the fire broke out every ef fort ww made to land, but the steamer was so heanly iaden that she oould not be brougty nearer than one hundred yards of the ehre. Great contusion and terror pre vailed! There were about twor hundred cabin and deck passengers aboard, quite a numbgr of whom were women and child ren. The flames spread with great rapidi ty. Scorw of men sprang into the water and atternjpted to reach the shore by swim ming.. Nearly all these were lost Every conceivable object that could be obtained was taro into the water, and to those the psssetgers olung with all the tenacity of life.: j Mr. Beecher's Book Farmliiff. Froa Mk Twain' "Beecher's Private Habits." Mr. pwcher's farm consisti ot thirty -six acres,, and is carried on on strict scientific principles. He never puts in any part of a crop wibout consulting his book. As soon as the library is complete, the farm will begin to be a profitable investment But book farming has its . drawbacks. On one occasiot, when it seemed morally certain that th hay ought to be cut, the hay book could not be found, and before it was fouud it was to late,-and the hay was all spoiled Mr. Beecher raises some of the finest crops at wheat ia the country, but the un favorable difference between the cost of producing it and its market value after it is produced has interfered considerably with its success as a commercial enterprise. His ipecial weakness iB hogs, however, lie couJo "b Kflt mme a farm produces. He buys the original pig for i. du. ana ieeas nam worth of corn, ueu sens him for about $9. This is mo unjy crop he ever makes any monev "t, iron lDe eorr' Dat be. makes fT'CJ on tb ho?vT2. v i -'. be cause mrneTer expects to make anything on corn any way. And any way it turns out he has the excitement of raising the hog anyhow, whether he gets the worth of him o not. His strawberries would be a' comfortable success, if the robins would eat turnips, but they won't and hence the difficulty. Two) years ago Mr. Beecher's far-sightedness warned him that there was going to be a great fc-cariity of watermelons, and therefore he put in a crop-of twenty-seven acres pf that fruit But when they came up they turned out to be pumpkins, and a dead loss was the consequence. Sometimes a portion of his crop goes into the ground the most promising sweet potatoes, and comes up the moat inrernulet carrots though I never have heard him express it just ia that way. ; Mr. Beecher's uioat dis astrous experience was the time he tried to raise an, immense crop of dried apples. He planted fifteen hundred dollars' worth, but never a one of them Bprouted. mm Ravages op the Cholera i.v India.- A letter- from Calcutta, dated August 29th, presents the, following sad picture of the ravages of cholera in India: Although at Umritsir, Agra, and several other , places which have been attacked, cholera haa sensibly abated, it is still racing in many districts in various parts of the country with fearful violence, and the total deathl rate is, at the very lowest estimate, 400 a. day. Sinoe 1858 there has bcn no hot season so fatal as the present to Euro peans All through the Northwest prov inces; the pestilence is maKing saa ravage. At Gvalior the deaths are from sixty to a hundred a day, and Sepree, Bhopal and Se here.are suffering heavily. The scourge seems, indeed, to be steadily marchimg along' the Agra road to Bombay. At Indore the native Rajah has made the people offei sacrifices outside the city walls, with bare heads and dry chvpaitves, but without any marked success, as upwards of 1,000 men have perished during the past three weeks. All through Malwa the horrors of pestilence are aggravated by the privations of famine, especially among the thousands of pilgrims who have been visiting the shrine pf Omcar, and are now obliged to remain in that dis trict until the rains are over. From South ern India wo hear almost equally gloomy tidings. 4 At Hyderabad the cholera has mads terrible inroads, and at Madras and all the other main centres of population it has had more or less victims. or nut in more lye. Thh, scum is crease, and should never be left until it is cold. Boil until it looks ropy as it runs off the stirrer. If not boiled too thick, all sediment will settle while it is coolina. and I Drefer not to have the lye poured in. A former writer eives her trouble with grease that was too salt I think if she had rightly known, hjr lye was too strong. I never haa trouble with salty grease except that it makes the soap hard. A lady once put up her ashes with mine for making soap. It was so strong as to bear an east entirely above the lye. I weakened mine and had no difficulty. She tried an experi ment and boiled all day: stilt as she ex pressed it "it wouldn't come worth a cent" A.n old lady seeing it told her to pour wa ter int it She added nearlv as much wa ter as there was compound in the kettle. Instantly the soap came. Cor. American Agriculturist. A Good Vaenish fob Boots. Shoes akd Harness. Put half a pound of erum shel lac, broken up in small pieces, in a quart bottle or jug, cover it with alcohol, cork it tight (to prevent the alcohol from evapo rating, which should be pure) and put it on a sneii in a warm place; shake it well sev eral times a day; then add a piece of gum camphor as large as a hen's egg; (.hake it well and in a few hours shake it acrain. and add one ounce of lamp black: if the alco hol is good it will be dissolved in three days; then shake and use. If it gets too thick, add alcohol pour out two or three teaspoonfuls in a saucer, and apply it with a small paintbrush. If the materials were all good, it will dry in about five minutes; and it will be removed enly by wearing off, giving a gloss almost equal to patent leather. The advantage of this preparation above others is, that it does not strike into the leather and make it hard, but remains on the surface, and yet excludes the water almost as perfectly. This same prepara tion is admirable for harness, and does not soil when touched, as lampblack mixtures do. I will add here that as far as I have heard of the above mixture being tried, it ans wers all the purposes claimed, for it It would be excellent for boot and shoe, as well as harness makers. Management of Pottltbt. Very few far mers pay sufficient attention to the breed ing and management of poultry, although it ia well worth while to do so. The price of. jw and dressed poultry has been re- .The EUeUsat-Tk Grain Moment Kxtravr&canee-llttsle and tfea Hade CHiOAoo.Oct. 30,1863 Nothing ia talked of ui me cuvju-i now out the election to come off next Tuesday At fairs and festivals, in the street cars and on the streets, in stores and factories, ji saloons and hotels, the great burden of taht u politics. There has been a bitterness about this contest unusu .1 even in political warfares, r If one were to believe the charges of each party against the other's candidates, a worse set of officers could hard ly have been selected from the most dishon est class of society than the menpresented fir the suffrages of the voters. Doubtless, after election, these alingers ot vile epithets will regret the hard words they have spoken. But it will not be easy for some of the maligned candidates especially the defeated on a to forget the accusations made against them. I am glad that tbe contest is to be so soon endL for these personalities are ilia. tasteful to me. rux obatn xovnmrr. The receipts of whs.t are still largely in excess of almost double the shipments, and there is not likely to be a very active movement ot wheat to the seaboard till there is a rise in the price of it in the eastern mar kets. With gold and TJniUd BUtes bond lower.tnd No-a w -1 tbt. fcv. .mm a oh tndivwnMDl for owners of wheat to sell it. if they are able to hold it .... -.-i - , ,.- - XXTSAVAGAjrCE. , Perhaps there is no city where those who have come into the possession of wealth are more anxious to display it, than In Chicago. Nor is this passion peculiar to either sex. I wasreminded of this on seeing a half column notice of the private residence of a superin tendent of one of the city railway companies here. Hiit house cost $100,000, and hi barn $18,000. In this republican country, where thfl property does not descend by law to thr eldest son, but is divided equally among the heirs, such an establishment seldom remains in the family. For if a man has half 'he or thodox, or scriptural number of children, he is seldom able to leave enough to each of them to keep up such an establishment, and it has to be sold, at his death, at a great sac rifice. It almost never is transmitted, in the family line, to the third generation. And while men are at liberty to indulge in all the extravagai.ee they can pay for, jet those'wbo ape the feudal aristocracy are not doing their own generation or posterity the best service by such use of their wealth, and deserve critioism rather than praise. . VUBIO AND THK JTCIIO TRADE. One of the marked siirna of progress in the northwest is the improvement of the people in aesthetio taste and culture, as shown uot only in the ereatlv improved condition of tluir buildings, household appointments, modes, of living, scnooia ana churches, but in their cut uTatiuu uu appreciation oi me aivine ar. p: music. And this is one of the most boptia. signs, jror the renning, elevating and pun tying influence of musio cannot be overesti mated. And no intelligent and judicious pa rent wui ever gruage tne expense or.a musical eaucation ior nis sons ana daughters. Tbe exchange of a little material wealth for that which becomes a part of tbe soul, and there fore immortal, impressing itself In enduring uu nappy mnnences upon tne cnaraoter for ever, and making it the imperishable her itage of his children, is a sure and profitable luTcsiuiouv. ax it is not lavinsr nn l i -i . . . a r treasure in ueavea, it is laying up iuu wuiou iieuuer mom nor rust can corrupt aou wuoa luieves cannot oreaK tnron?h nnr steal. And to the enterprise, eood taste and tireltss energy of the musio dealers of Chi cagothe Head (Jenter of the Northwest ia tne general amusion or musical instruments and the culture of musical taste in a n-eat j mi i . . . iuomuio uuo. lucre is one iact wnich pur chasers of pianos and other musical lnetru ments will do well to remember. There are improvements constantly beim? made in th various imaa perore tne public so that some wnicn iormeriy naa tne nrst-class no longer retain their pre-eminence, ard othAm for merly indiflVrent now are eana.1 to tha hMt in the nae qualities of clearness, depth of tone uu rower, xt is not so mnf.n iiia mmil tne quality of ths instrument that should be consiaereu; ior in nmv is Tunable only aj it represent quality. The vearlv sal nf mn. sioal instrument in u&icago exceeds a million Uiscelianeons Items. . Tennesaps) -. owe $39,264,244.55, an has only $29,200 in its treasury. . "Slippery Sam" ia tha not rery dlgnifled title given to the Bishop of Oxford. It is computed that the English languaue is understood by 100,000,000 peo ple. A new illuminating mixture consists o' two parts rape-seed oil and one of petroleum OiL . J :,-. The result of the great fire in the Dis mal Swamp is a lake from three to ten feet deep. . A late fire in New Hampshire caused n neighboring row of apple trees to bod an Blossom, Dr. Cooler, of Kansas City, recently' performed the operation of removing the entire collar bone, . At the Boston Mechanics' Fair, 4778,-" 700 pounds pf humanity were weighed. The average was 133 pounds. Tbe recent oensus of Atlanta, Georgia; shows the population of the city proper to be 29,166, of whom 13,184 are colored, , One hundred head of horses were sto len by Indians from the ranches and sta- - . . . r . i tions along Uanon creex, Aioniana, in mrj days. - Pour women were elected members ol , the School Committee in the town of East- fard, Windham county, Conn., at the re oent election. A sleeping car on the Oswego andSyra- cuse Railroad ran off an cmbankmeu on the 30th ult Several were slightly, but ' none fatally, injured. An enthusiastic Free Trade meeting was held at Detroit on Friday evening last at which Prof. Perry made a telling speech. A Free Trade .League was organized. . A paper at Elko, on the Pacific Bail- road, speaks of the apathy of the highway -Deputy. Sheriff Major James Fitewil lisxna, of Erk&svme, Ini., was shot thro' - the heart in a saloon, by one of the ponce men of the city. The murder caused great : excitement An alligator was captured in the river at Alton, 111., last week. It was 7i feet long, and weighed 175 pounds. ' It - was covered with thick laminated scales, and was very repulsive and formidable looking. The castor bean, from which the oil is made, is becoming an important industry in Perry county, CaL One prominent deal er received at his warehouse 1,000 bushels n one day. oav in e $3.18 per bushel. It yields more bushels to the acre than wheat In 1810 only eleven newspapers were published in N. H-, one of them being the New Hampshire Patriot Five are suu in existence and flourishing: The number now published is thirty-six, or reckoning dailies apart from the weeklies in connec tion with which they are issued, forty-three." Pittsburg, N. H., is much excited over the prospect of finding gold in its borders. The town has been regarded as in the gold bearing stratum, and the assistant geologist" of the state survey encourages the belief in the existence of the precious metal in the tract mentioned. v A furiously written epistle was found posted on the window of the San Francisco Bank of California a few mornings since. It stated that the writer was at ths head of 700 men sworn to ' ' masicree every China man and Chinawoman in the city of San frisco & 10 miles Bound a bout if they didn't leave within fifty days. A lecturer in New York said: Tyran- ny of capital was the cause ot treianas wrongs, of the Revolutionary war, of our late rebellion, and was also the cause ot - the demoralization of society. To remedy these evils the speaker advised the work ingmen to unite for mutual protection, and elect none to office but those who labor either with the head or the hand. After the recent flood in Hartford, Ct, a large pumpkin field in that city presented a singular appearance. Ihe iresnei cover ed the field with six feet of water, and the pumpkins, anchored by their stems, wwre bobbing up and down. The surface of two acres of water was completely covered witn them. Personal Items. ' Mark Twain always writes with a goose quilL Brigham Young is growing extremely plethoric. Tennyson haa "left the Tale of Wiffb -"on tu . k ' j v. i .a im .r - t, tt . ' ... -je ior several years, "yftr f "t;, f"z Jr uramnot. And i B""" iu uAmpsuire, wn to b? so. r rr TT 7Z?fiZ-- rr: a. "JorB' ue &ul Mr. Henry c. poultry noum-, v... ". properly managed and applied to garden and field crops is very beneficial. To the orchardist toul try are a necessity, for he wants them for picking pupae or larvae ot injurious insects, ana saving his fruit from destruction. The apple worm ana tne curcuiio have Deen nearly externa nated in some orchards by the simple rem edy or preventive of keeping poultry about the trees. No remedy for the striped Dug, tne destroyer ol the melon and cu enmoer vines, nas een louna equal to a flock of small chickens. Every farmer should have a well arrang ed poult rv home in some well -sheltered nook, wiih a doer opening into the orchard. If the orchard is not very near the dwelling house, the best plan will be to winter the fowls in a warm house in the barnyard and to put up a shed in the centre of the orch ard to be occupied by them during sum mer. Milch Cows. Milch cows should be fed night and morning regularly now, and housed nights and in wet weather. They should not be obliged to depend too much on the pastures; there n no reason why a good flow of milk should be stopped now, as it too often is by short pasturage, and there is no economy in feeding the mowing among his brethren, stands W. W. XIXBALL, 63 WA8H1SOTOW STREET TKa lkrnPAot . n 3 n . , . A 1 .1. " . , ucBuciBui ioo well. WUOSS cinv nn, .tri- in the Opera House, is filled with musical in' sirnmente. On enU ring this immense estab lishment I noticed, among many others rme splendid Lights,' A Co. piano;, Hallet, h W Pohtcb received the si ver medJ. first premium, at the recent Min nesota State fair, and created quite w sena tion, having all the modern improvements "nd te aff?nt ?Kk monS eK pianos nr,.n!iJs?tiy cflebrtl Smith's American Organswhich also carried off in triumph two silver med&ld . uuuauu uuuuicut vi wnicn can be for shipment to customers. TH WKATHKB at this seen ready Henry C 'Watson baa becomcttie. musical critic for the New York Democrat Henry Konig, the veteran German nov! elist has just died at Wiesbaden, at an ad vanced age. i Bev. Thomas Noble, an English cler gyman, is only an inch taller than Tom Thumb. Francis P. Blair, Sr., has been arretted in Washington for selling vegetables with out a license. Constance Skiwa is the name of a new pianist who is giving concerts in London. . She comes from. Vienna. - M. de Lesseps, of Suez Canal fam ia about to marry a young b.dy just forty -four years younger than himself. Mr. Greeley, it is reported, is alvmt to nas oeen remarkably cold tie past week with buy a thousand acres of land in irgii.i the exception of two days, but is a'h't e and divide it up into teu farh for as muy m.ldertoday. We have had nn r famii; U'l WUBKi. inH tV . . Betting with St. Giles. Near Cernev. in another little village, ia the church of St Giles. By the side of the altar is an image of the patron saint and at his feet is a bov placed there for the pur pose of receiving contributions, (juite re cently the padre noticed that although con siderable money was deposited in the box, yet the amount that he louna there was ai- ways very small; ana as no one oesiaemm self and the beadle - had access to the de pository, he at last accused this functionary of abstracting the money. He at first de nied it; but after a while coniessed that ne had at times taken small amounts, but he explained it in this wise: "When it was a said he, "ana 1 wan tea a annx, hot day, said he, "and l wanted a infirm of -wife-mychUdr wasbut andhadno meney with which to buy it I clamationof rny wiie my faintly audible amia tne unsparAuB Han oi tne eiemeuw. late was sur- ITfoiive you." AndThe ofd lady hobbled that placid and 1 1 n yfJrrTvw aasnine with as- ed gilding with Italy's four predecessors ZZTld tunable to interpose an ob- enchanting, butmoTirniui j lvo of their successors, f01!!! gleftm fr hWT; hnfnf aa T in 1 TOO. Charles jection to her departure. Shadowed by the somber hue of laoiriTicT the Court gasping -ThA Tf incr of Ttalv's fonr nredeceSSOrS WJ ; i. irr all abdicated in favor namelv: Victor Amadeas TT in 1Rf)9 Vilrr T'.mmannel . . - M. , . riiA . ji I rpt a Ti Ataf.Tiip 1. m 131, and Charles Aioert in ana xuo irrVitv vears tradiUODai policy x-nceow auu " " -II 't v,A first inat citv, 11 I 1 A. A. m BJ'nW f If 1 M. I'MI LI1JIJ premium at tne aiw a" tnt.i Alrx rtmtA onll Y QTlll WIIVD TT1U mvs v hands. Gazette says that Mrs kh la lUUlurcU tunb bum ucmuuw-u jaiv; i 7 . A wiUalso be adopted by theBeGaliantuomo of age, resiaing in u Within a few hours, anaau 1 Th thnnaer-ciouoH, tnj 'a if twn nnn&llins elements, anon were "melted into air, tu ' surges sunk into , genue ------ 11 t-Ti-n f 1TI Ul tU.V3 a.'- departing sun-beams, as they streamed over ?rti;A ar,n lnve.lv sheet of water seem- tllUll IJMWi " 1 IV. an evanescent giory, mo Vmfc monrnfnl scene, mat soon over- twilight V At WXiliHA UMV " - w.,.a-vhnHa rippline murmurs were ren dered more truly saddening by the scatter- would eo into the church, walk up to St Giles, and Bay to him: 'Now, old fellow, I will bet you a franc that I will beat you in a race to the church door.' Then I would count one, two, three, and away I and I al ways beat him, though I gave him & per fectly fair chance. - Of course he could not take the money from the dox ana give it to me himself, and so I took it out; but I never took more than the amount of the debt" The beadle lost his situation, though he protested that he had always given St - . . . V ' A Giles a fair chance, ana naa won nas uew Paris Cor. Providence Press. A Goon Mediotsb. The Telegraph, published at Kenosha, Wis., says: 'it is not often that we say much in favor of Patent Medicines, because it is hard dis tinguishing between the humbug and the really valuable medicine. But we go out of our general custom to say that Hoof- land's German Bitters is no humbug. We have tried it and we know it to be almost infallible in oases of indigestion, disar rangement of 1 tha liver, Ao. It has sured us of the most obstinate case of the Jaun dice, after every other remedy had failed. And in no less than half a dozen instances where we have recommended it to our friends for the same disease it has proved alike effloaoious; and we have yet to hear of the case .wherein it has 1 ailed. Hoof lond's German Bitters is entirely free from all Alcoholic admixture. 'Hoofland'a German Tonio is a combina tion of the ingredients of the Bitters, with pure Santa Cruz Bum, oiwge, anise, Ac. making a preparation of rare medical value. The Tonio is used for .the same diseases, as the Bitters, in cases wbre some Alco holic stimulus is necessary.'"" in favo'- of Prince Humbert. T o-n vonnc men named Appleby, of and Charles Morrison, of Rome, were killed by falling froin the pole for the Vermont is the richest state r capita, in the Union. The "rainy season of California is shown by statistics to be a slight shower in ed wreck of the pleasure boat, as it floated cornpanson wi of Tery in fragments to the shore. , . California, but the fall for the Next morning tne sun ro B - ,f onmnn waa onlv four times that hright nrn eisiancv JVtvf f two oTys in New York a week or two lamity r,ZrZ;X ''J rising, to cum tne iusw m mvw, --- Bomip Bext raoM Soup. The beef ta ken from a soup may be utilized in various ways. I am myself of the opinion that ths best way to employ boiled beef is to cut it, cold, into slices of extreme thinness. dressed with buttered toast; or else to eat it as a salad, the dressing to be seasoned with' plenty of pot herbs.' However, for those who prefer it hot, there are excellent ways of serving it For example: lands down to the roots of the pide, herbage when frost-bitten nutritions than if it had not been exposed to the frost and substantial fodder is es sential for animals which are either grow ing or producing. At no season of the year may pumpkins, root tops, immature cabbages, and even gram, be used to bet ter advantage than now. An abundance of good water is necessary, also a fre quent supply of .salt Massachusetts Ploughman. Washing Sweated Horses. A corre spondent of the London Field answers an inquiry whether it is a Bafe practice to wash sweated horses in cold water. He says be bas adopted it and with beneficial results, both in summer and winter. Alter wash ing, the animal should be rubbed dry, as far as practicable, and the legs especially. Should the hair on them be too long to ad mit of this being sufficiently done, flannel bandages shouldlbe put on, and a woolen rug thrown loosely over, but without the roller. In the course of an hour the horse will be tolerably dry, and should then have anoth er rub down, and be clothed fn the ordina iy manner. If horses were treated in a more rational manner than is oiten tne case, with pure air ana scrupulous cleanli ness, disease would be far less common. Exchange, To Seed Grapes. Boil them until they burst then part or loosen 'them gently with a wooden fork, or otherwise, so the seeds can sink to the bottom; then with a spoon in your hand, pour and scrape out of the vessel, leaving the 83ds at the bot tom. Then spread a few of the grapes on a flat dish, and with a teaspoon remevs the remaining seeds. Then re-heat and can. Corn VrjfEQAB Bolt a pint of corn until it is a little soft; put it into a jar; add a pint of molasses and four quarts of water; - . . A A mix well together ana set near tne sov. In two days it will De gooa peer; ana in twu or three weeks it will be good vinegar. The same corn will do for six months. When the vinegar is made, pour it off ana aa mnlAiifuyi and water to the corn, in this way you will have a constant supply. A Cheap akd Delicious Puddlwo. Take four tables poo nf Ola of flour, wnicn mix Gradually into a quart of mils; add tne yolks, well beaten, of four eggs, reserving the whites 01 the same unui uiuuieu w fore placing in the oven; grease your dish and pour in the above mixture, and bake in a quick oven fifteen or twenty minutes. Eat with any kind of sauce -you choose. exceedingly dry to a great depth AMCSEaiXTS. "Woods Mnaenm" v..- 1 ... "Aikeu's Museum" in honor r h.cnmten.ea and king of manTgers, Frar k E k ' baa added to it some rfw wonn60' h .hem Chang, the Chinese w a"3m?,g grasses; be- 9' !h zteo child-tU lti of 'hT. tten is less PPear Monday. Novembei At Jttcvioker's. Mm r o" r : "r. . . American atrA.. V -"'cr8.lQ . ,, : : : u 1 rew Mr. Orange Judd has given to Wesley an University, at Middleton, Ct, $51,000 for a building for the department of natur al science. The rumor that Baron Hausamann. the prefect of the Seine, was dead, arose from the death of a cousin, a worthless young man of Bordeaux. Mr. Elihu Borritt is turning his great energy to the task of sending English wo men to America to supply the crying want of hundreds of households. There is a remarkable diver named Coad at B"dnin, in Cornwall, Eog. , who, ell to-nieht in M.J8li?e P1" .ner during a recent swimming match, remained Monday Joseph Jefferson hWV w under water three minutes and ten sec- uioui wua nis dog great actor, and "dri ocnneider." H aws ' if anv nn n Westxbx Patents. The following West- S isL at6nt f0r ending Oct l6odo!. 2SJ?, SElls- T r . wio ui American ana Sule? 162 1 d CQn8elora i Patent Causes, 162 Lake street, Chicago, HI : rxxnrois ."-S. Black. tone. Warren. v id? ' .Kankakee. Eg Detector-Prank J. EJ.enman, Chi- RX1rFeD8ler' Kankakee. Bailway Coupling- -Mathew Qoinn, WaUea. Condenser for, Stills-Edward 8eeth. Chi capo. Water Wheel-B. W. Tuttle, Galena. Weather Strio-J. R. Webber. Chicago, ingtom Fl0w- M. Cr;vath,l?oom- oofti IDQ uocn inr RhiA.11 r Rockford. r rajte L. Gibbs, Dunleith. Loc kndC Door-A.' V. HartweD, Chi- Hand Loom-Abraham Jones, Clinton. Kerosene Store -R. M. MitchellTCWcaro. cSago Dd 8eder-llM 0.1jchofieid, Culiivator-J. A. 8mith, Lacon. ., . , , WPlAWA. JI?"1--8- f- Et", Richmond. uZ- -Jacob Clos. Decatur. r " a i 1In.DM. iion Mills. Tuyeie 8. Enlev. M, MT.um vioa render I. 4 Orth. y L W. Hhreins. Keser, Middle- U. - Urske-L I town. Cultivator Walker A Pratt, LaPo: wmooKsnr. Clothes Rack Jamea HatflAM 4i. Wash Boiler D. A J. Lucs,Qre, 1 Bay. Sleigh Coupling W. K. Von 3sh k. Del Blind Hmre-A Velguth, Milwaukee. vater Wheel J. 8. And erson,Oconomowoc. rowA. Show Counter A. Beardsley, Mount Zlon. Horse Power W. N. Berkley, Cedar Rapids. Harrow J. 8. Lewis. Elkader. but the fall for the ihe Spanish Bank of Cuba has now in circulation $zy,uuu,uuu in paper, xo oacK this there is a Bum below $5,000,000 of gold nly. At the New Albany find.) Boiling Mill two bars of railroad iron have been made, nnA of which is 58 feet 8 inches long, and the other 60 feet The usual length of a bar of railroad iron is 27 feet, and it re nnires six men to work the rolls and handle the levers, tongs, Ac. In the rolling of the 60 feet bars it reauires as many, men as can well get around it to put it through the process of manufacture. Louisville has $602,000 invested in school-houses. . If Dr. Livingstone has really discover ed that one of the sources of the Nile rises ten degrees south of the equator, that river becomes the longest in the world. The distance trom such a southern latitude to Cairo is about equal, in an air line, to the distance from the months of the Mississip pi to Sitka, inAlaska, or to Upemavik, in Greenland, or from the Isthmus of Pana ma to the month of the St Lawrence Biy. ex. onds. This exceeds anything of the kind on record " Alexandre Dumas says that the cook- -book of the nineteenth century has not yet been written, and that he would be prouder to write it than to compose a very popular noveL ' Charles Crocker, of Sacramento, CaL, and Superintendent of the Central Pacific Railroad, pays $10,000 currency for Thom as Hill's painting of the Yo Semite Valley.' . George Butler, a well-known journalist of New York city, who assaulted Hender- -son, the agent of Lydia Thompson's troupe a short time since, has been appointed by the President Consul General to British. East Indies, with headquarters in Calcutta. Hia appointment is credited to .California, and he was recommended by 'the Senator from the Pacific coast, and by two New York Senators, and a large number of other Congressmen. , - Foreign Items. ' The total value of cotton produced this year in Italy is estimated to be about 12, i 000.000 . .1 The cholera has made its appearance in Moscow, Russia, and the deaths average thirty per day. j The police force of Berlin is to be ' armed with life preservers, which have re cently been ordered in Paris, j A copy of Shakspeare's comedies, his tories and tragedies, printed in London in 1623, was recently sold for $1,690. i - Over a thousand Parisian lorettes have gone to Alexandria, Cairo and Suez to be present at the inauguration of the Suez, CanaL. ! An Irshwoman in London has been ar- rested for drunkenness more than .three hundred times, and has been convicted and imprisoned more than one hundred times. , ' j The Cincinnati Board of Education has prohibited the reading of the bible in the public schools. The resolution was carried by a vote of 22 to If. j The North-German Correspondert says: irroi. jraDers speaxing-machineis to be exhibited at Hamburg during thu continuance of ths International Horticnl- ) tural Exhibition. It is said to articulate various words, and even to answer sta tions by simple sentences with wonderful distinctness. This is by no meaas theflrst invention of ths kind that nas-teen invent ed. Wolfgang yon Kempeten, the inventor of a cheaa automaton, . who was born at Pre burg ia 1734, aim uiea at Vienna in 1804, bota constructed a machine of the kind and wrote on tne suDicct The cna- WHAT IS the best and safest tirerjararirm I i4n about ia be exhibited at Hambnrt- ia. MiMix w na natural color but 1 however, more perfect than ar.y previous hw u;i. i AAAu s Dicmau Joan ae&ewer. 1 mTerruon ot tae cna. balloon.