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Solected Poetry. IOK RII WIIEq HE'S DOWN. Wheu the isuu of prosperit,y's shi-aig, And a man's growing riohor every day When in easo and fin comfort reolinuing, And golden sioress orowns his way How ftrionds will tho flook about him, But it' fortune sliould happen to frown, Hlow quiokly ho'll got the "cold shoulder,'' And be "kicked becauseo io is down." -How kindly the world will Smile on him When, life with suocese'et abound; Hlow cordilly, bltamidly. 'twill gAret hia As in pleasure he's riding nrotid ; But then let reverse o'ertake himn, And his friends both itl countlry aigd town, Hlaive not. a kind sentence to -oliuer hini, But will 'kick hilin ass ooU tin lie's iowna." Let a nan get position or wealth. Mutrers not-if by intrigue or fraud The world nods approvingly at hin, And his acts will loudly applaud. What though he-aay be a great villain 1 Witli the simple, the wise and tho olowa', While he's tip hu'; a "tip-top fellow," Aut they'.ll "kic: him If ever he's down." When a man ine plenty of' "greenlaoks,". And le's healihy and "festive and gay," l'm cotint ed it "bu!ly good chtim," then, Anid the crowl >lproves all lie iy say. 3u1t just let him losie All his trensures, Perchance, too, his henllih hiny be gono, 11e'll set to be. nuoboly quickly, And sure to be "kicked wien he's down." Whal.'s the tu~;e of being moral and honest, Or striving to be upright foad true or unles a linn iihas lots of mn01ey;" The woili i bunt to ,it, hinm right Itrough. They'll "go for him" certain and surely, Froi lie juckiey to lwiest in his gown, All will tand ready to "'tub" him, And-"kiok him because le is down." Oh I when will mankindi be 'ess selfish ? I wonder if 'twill ever lie ths That we'll love to do to each other As ve woul have them to do to us? And if in adversity's ocean, We aro sinking and ready to dewrn, Thrice blessed be the friend w hose devotion Will help a man up when le's down. Too Mut Government. The Hon ('o>rge U. Pendleton, says the Charlton 1.5:w, in a bril iant Speech, dolivered in M\ ilwaukoe a few d iays ago, fearle.sily laid bare the root of the evils of this over-gov ernted country ; and, wh ile appealing to sound tins' and sober foeling, prov ed-to hits hearers by the-legio of facts that the souren of our trotubles is "ox cossivo administration." and that, our present distracted and oppresried con ctitiont has grown out of the "lfraud corruption and mal-admini.'stration" of the Party now in power. If the taxation of the United States for.tae year 1866 were distri buted eiqually it would amoutat to $1 1.46 in gold on every Man, woman and child in the county ; or.16 ;.,uld amount to no less than $3.90 upon every $100 of roalhnd personal pro :perty in the United Statesa. Tito li. quidated debt alone is equivalent to $74 por head, agiast $37 in Franne nd $12 in free and progressive Pris. sia. And the immoinso dubt which this represents has been beaperd up .by, robbery, by cheating, by frauds upon .the governtment. PonPdloton argues that the ten forty )oTjs alono are payablo. interest and principal in gold, and erides fhat Or'y of Creiinli ationti" whiuh comes with .oxcellent graeo rlrom thoso who have comnpelled the work;,.ng uman to take payment in "legal cnde " and who have lathlorized every ma "ho 'had agreed to pay a hut dred dlollars in goldi to dischargo the debt of pay.. iang a hundreil:d dollars -in paper. lIe 4 ill vo of paying off' the whole those bonds expr'ess;ly declared to be payale in gold, bitt w.ouldU only do so as for is Iniih t be' dlone withtout inflat ing the car.renacy bey'ond~ a safe and utdt pota--t p'ropositicon beingv that w hole debt c:an ho paid in groen. backsin t~welve or fourteen years with.. out the atdiitiohl of otic dollar to the daat son or circulating mnediunn. Then l.-t. the expenses of the government e'xclusivje oc' interest, b'e r'educoed to) $15o0000,000 ; and, with the present, micomoe, t~he pincipal and inter'eat of the pubhlic'debt can be paid off -in. fiye years. Mr.' Pondlet on is eloquent as well as practical, and the two following ex t-racts will give an ideoa of his views upon the situation of' affairs in .the South, andl thc means of saving the whole country ; Militar'y govornment and the Freed mao's Bureau h ave been ettblishod all over Itho South, They coat the people of' the country, by appropriations and other ways; $200l,000,000. And what have they done ? They have sub verted civil govertimontaain ten States of 'the Union. :They hbold the. 'tifo, aind librt, ndproperl y of those States 'n the mailed hand of 'mllitary power. TLhcy. hav'e ,subverted the social sys temnl; they have subvterted the oldbor systetn ; they have dIestroyeod ,the sup ply of labor ; they have turned the eight'hundlred thoumsrn1 :blacks from .tepursuit of agriculture pnd'indus ry to the pursuit of spolities'; they ha vo turne d gardens -11to 'deserts ; thyhave, by unjust and trbitrary that colmntryu.until every incontive to houaest industry ,iasaes ..away ; they aave utterly destroyted the'. ability of This p~plo to pay' their 'Iegitinia~te almr 6fthetaxation of the coo'untry, '! ed thte fyra stop Iftbe right Aircton iato )ay.at oery .fraudy ea olpso etid oneet all corruptios,. o ut al' eyunnecOessfty .e*tyndi. tr to dismiss overyspnorf ebelder, to aka#1ori. 'eo Wen tiary goyrnete, to return, to. of*o teaohingsof our..oQuatitution, -and the peoa1ll$asre. iss; to e os t the:herta of-thapeople 4n 6Vhdt oarihrewaird flyr its indit ly. .The rest of. tbo jomriO to h-a .. aid pence, will be comparatively easy. Tho first atop will cost you labor. t ,an only be accomplished by putt.ing yut of power the Republican party, md putting in its place the Democratic party. The Great Robbery In Now York A dispatcl published some days ago ;tated that a clearing-houso clerk of a bank in Philadolphia was seized, b~c 'ween 10 and 11 o'clock on Friday, it the corner of Wall and William itroots, and thrown-into a sleigh with is satchel and robbed of a large minount of chocks. The robbery oc murred in Now York and the Post gives Kb following additional particulars : The sleigh was driven on rapidly, md tho men tried to throw the olork >ut, but ho held on the satchel, which 3outained about three million dollars in obecks and about five hundred dol lars in money. The clerk was sovero ly beaten before he would relaso his bald of the satchel. He was thrown )ut into .tho snow, bloeding from the wounds inflicted upon bim by the thieves. The stolen checks cannot be used by the robbers, and they have gained but little by their attempt. Any attempt to convert tile obocks into money would insure the arrest of the persons presenting them. Lewis J. Kingsley, the mossonger of the bank, had just left the clearing-lhonse when a man on the sidewalk, who had been watching for him, seized hold of the bag which lie ,wa con vOying, anmd !prang into a sa igh which was in wait lug. :There were two other men in the sleigh, ad they drove off at once'with great speed. Young Kingsley was not disposed to yield up the matter quiet ly, but. retained his hold of the handle of the satchel with obst-inate tenacity. The mon beat him upon the head, neck and hands with ruilanly violence, still he held on for several rods, till they finally auoceeded in wrenching off his hold. They then drove away with their booty. Kingsley was bad ly bruised. The oflicers of the bar.k, are of opin ion that the thieves did not gain mitch from this robbery. Kingsley had j*ut -taken into tile clearing-house the checks, &a., upon other bauks which had been taken up yesterday by the Bank of New York., and had received in exchange chocks, drafts and oortifi cates which had been deposited by tIein. He probably had not exceed ing-'$25 in molloy which t'he thieves canl make available. Tile bank at onco caused notices to be served ol its depositors, that they may be able 4 .ive such information as will ona blo'thc a gsting of the books without d ifliculty. The Bank of the State of New York cautions all persons against re ceiving or negotiating checks or drafts on their institution without first communicating with the bank oli 00rs. EXTRAOn1oNARY REVENGE.---The Providence l/erald of the 21st tells the following ridiculous story of a hen peeked husband who took a nmoit sin. giular revenge : A singular case of matrimonial in. felicity is reported'on Village stret, two or three evenimgs ago. A couple, both slightly under the influence of bg'erages, lhad a "cheerful d iseussion,' which culminated in a regular quar rel, after.,t.hey had retired to their couch for vh. niught. At last, rendher ed frantic by C'e stinging words of his wife, and in ord.er to revenge him self upon her', tihe m:0~ sprung from his bed and seated huimnsdf upo the hot cooking stove, uaccoutriett .as *ho was" in a very limited line of worr ing apparel. The stove being very bot, the man's ficah burned on and his night garment somehow entohing upon01 the roar of the stove lhe was unable to release hiself. His soreams for help1 were treated with cool indifference by his wife, and -it wan eonly when his cries had( called in two men from an.. other room), that he was extricated from his uncomfortable position by beoing-pulled off the stove by mainm strength. Of course his burns were torrible, and the physioians who at tended him predict that they will re sult-in permanent lameness. Twenty-seven years ago Edward Oxford, a silly port-boy, fired a pistol at Queen Victoria, was tried, acquitted on the ground of insanity, and conflued mn a crmmnal lunauae asylum. The~ pe-n. alty of high treason wvas at thlat timho ,hangm g, draw iing and quartering, the bill provided corporal punishniment for any who assaumlteid the eoveregn having net been , paased. In the asyhim Ox ford was'quiet, anl well behaved.; but. evidently ntot mad. His own statement was that the pistol comainied no ball, and that ho onlyj sought notorietv. -Tile foolish fellow, after passing the best years of his life -in confinement:, isinow released and sent out or Englatnd, but. how lie will mnako his living, odoIes he is .penskned, is unknownm. There is snmo trotublo brewing again .9n the Rtio Grando frontier. It appears l~hat two Amorican citisons were recent ly forced'into the Mexican arney at Matamoras, -nndor the ]uato decree of Juiarez proclaiming thiaj every citizen owed the. Republia 'any sor4 o service hemight see fit to designato. 'General Mc~enimo,, commranding at Browvnsville, ha-dbrought the subject, to the notice- of Qolone . Palacios,. commanding the Stexican forces iAt Matamoras, and ias Mooeed the re'ply that theolatter would alro I tts i&#dt (Iiuko a rival h yotetehr G Yaleymit Vtatedy >n the Toulom~o Ttfer. Te:fal1 in tred foot in holght, anda are Very illo An Ovation to Gen. Leo. AN "UNPLIEASANT JPI'S0DI." Tho visit of Genernl 'Robert 1. Loo to this city, on Thursday, to attend the Iuptials of his Son-, was rendered a per. feet ovation by tho greetings of the ettizens. Upon tho -arjival of the train at Pocahontas bridge, Childress' excel. lent band, which volunteered. for the oc -casion, sounded the firat noto of wel como with the beautiful "Marseiliso Hymn." The band then gnt on the train, and, or. its arrival at Jarrett's Hotel, strw.k up again, but the musie I was almost drowned by the humza of the immenso crowd as-8mbled there. The General no sooner enterel Ih Car. ringo in w a it ing, than i ''t Itee tIn i.s three' wei given, hts aind handker chiefs were waved :loft., ani1d everv ex. pression of prile anil dehgit at. the 1p pearance inl our mhl'St of one who ha so signally endeared hi mseif to the Southern people. was maIifes(tedl Iy tIe throng, The halconies and wid ivs of the hotel were filled[ with idie, anrd the whole area in front was alive with people. II reiponls to their limiiet a tions, the General arope in hi .carrge, lifted his hat, from lihs hcad and bowed to the vast. aiembla.o. H1e was ae coipanied by Majortu-G-neral William 11. \fahone, wV hose guest he was. In ih,- meantituei the banld contitimiled to porform popular inal soul s7tirring irtn a1d as the carr:iage tnoved awav. the shuits of the people mingld wil iih the :Uiis of music, and followed him until it ,as out of sight. Ono little unilleasan lt episodeoccr red during tne dienoutrat ion ai t the depot. A prson, whose iao is un known, expres h,,i4 I0sentimnuits by nt terin g a groanii m. ' . e a; uo. Mr. Benajmuin Butt. wh-]to was standing near, knocked him down. 1-o wIs uotit to punish him further, when thr umknownm person draw a kinifie, staubbd 'Mr. Eitts in the hand. anthlen scrOw e linm over 1pon ali-fours, (ed lr w1i inli : m m:d-t of tihe crwd and dis-!tpptvired 'ndm.e1'i We suppose that it: "groaner" cosid. ers it-politica: *a . for a d isarmI people to express I heir ,gralita ion 111)011 muectinug a Cofederat o Gen,-d. MappiTy, anh anl in' ole. t. spirit <lots not an mate the truie nwn of the North1, amd when. we remembier how Geeral Lee was htr.'aad by Ow l'edral solhors in RichmoI afI-r (e s'1urnfil r, how mlanyI of theml sou.'d dhe priv-ih--re of testifying thi ir atoprecit.on (ft his Virtues by gaspig his 1:111.1. t he spite fuil groan 'of ti uniikniwI inlividual as assumes the lowetsi place among 1hm1 contm pt ible. - Je!rsh arg ( Pa.) e pre v. FAnt A Co*nI:su.:s --lit the fnNi'y the law of pl.;: nt re ough'it to ex' end from the .ldighoe:t tn tOhe lowest. You ae himil to ph-aw 'o ir chiiliron, and your (*hi dren are biuunil to please each other ; and you are bound to f'ease vonr servants, ifyoi expect ithem to pierse you-. Some Imlenl amre plensanlt ill the household-and now here else. , Iave seen such mIen. They are good -fathers atd kind .hesand. If you ha een them in their own houise Vou n have thougi t. * hey WOe- atl wtl ahnmost ; but. if you had seen tem oil the .t:-ect, or in the storm , or anywhero ele out of tie house, yoi would have thoughit, them i -2 demioniac, But, th opposite it apt to be tm ease. When we are amaong our n<-ighibors, or among strangerls, we ho~ld ouirselves with self-respecs, and el ativor* to net with propriety ; bumt wvhen we get. hme we sayv to onaselve' :"'' have played~ part long enotugh, and! n m now going to he natural." S3o we sii. (lown, and we are ugly. and unatppish, anid blu'n t and d isa Cour)terica that makese u he rouighuss floor smooth1, that miike the lha ruest thing like velvet; and t hat. make lilo pleasant. WVe expem] all our politeness where it g"ill be proftable- where it, wili bring silver a..ld gobil. Enigland ls.' 1e''n looking withI woni der, mingled wie h amnusemnent, at. thme ptrogr'ess of a jtiarrs. het WO(en parties near Snuderhond, invok .'ng the owner. ahip of a ship. A man or 2.'red a ves ael of a builder, and had paid inst,..bnents of the price amounting in all to nea~f ?1000. A dispnto arose about theo remaining payments. The ship was nearly ftnished. Mr. Nichiolsq, thie build. er, hired a party of shupwrights to do wvhat remainad to he donie in the ,night, and to launch the ship. The next morning Mr. iRogerson, the purchasor, got his workmen -together, with se volunteers, rowved out-to the ship, anid riter a hard fighit suiceeded in t~hrowing Mr. Nichols' erew into t~he river. The ship . was towed t~o the quay *of Mr. 'Rogerson's yard, andI t here scnttled and iank for great or security. A few (lays a fter~ward Mr. N'ichols invadod rthe ieyard with-a small army of' worknmn, drove oil the Rogeruonianns; oruised, .pnnmpad out, tand repn ired the ohip, and 'Lank -it down 'thme Worar t~o Bunderhin d. TPhe polico enjoyed the spectacle of . Vlhese ba ttles, but dhbd not intor fore. 'Tho ques tion goes to the c'murts, The AniiSlavo'ry handar'd, in n 'let. ter front Washiington, hasa -. Curious .-revelation af the feluhngs plan anid putrposes of'the -ladioa' party.-. t says they havo been holding conferences to -ofl'oct an organiz~at mar of itheir own, apart from that of the .Republican Patrtv, and that they intenid to renew thme project of .impqachment as a quetion of privilege, on which thiop have a righit to be hoard, ,Xt is refreshing to' hle them coth dain inlg of' "the Lyrann of iO..nAjerty.In shmuttmg~ oi fdeiato. - R' h ~ fo in 1 The Sotj a.b lina' Railroad. Con ayto ,enjohn theo Auut.Rira the Qourt of ApE peals haa, we blete' ,d~o e 1~ has a his6 8 n r han MiIhtary Tyranny. -Tho Vicksburg Daily Times, of tho 7th ilst., Comis to us clad in mourning, ,ontaining the following from the pCu of ts editor - TO THIt PUBLIC. Tho Daily 'Eme,, of this morning, is la d in mourning for the death of perso. al rights and the Liberly of the PressT Both wore strangled yesterday by a "Special Field Order" from 3revet Major General Ord, commanding my irrest, for the purpose of "preserving le publie peace !" I execu1ecd a bril Itu, "Ik nk movement, . *avoided the rg-anit and threo muln, who were spnt to IIIV oflice to arrest me, took a carriage and procoedeod directly to the leadiquar xres of Geina Gilieni, and reported Iv. , hi s Ii-- ste rvice. I was there inf...rimied Latt ; wonhl be reqii red to keep tihe eace in regard to everybody for ,welve m1(o11s, amil not to write allyhin "li. bltm1ln" ngrainllst anV one for the mame [P1riod of time --that aI bond inl the penal omm of one thon3aid dollar~1 with a oitficient surety, wonkH be accepted, "LId in defiult of which, JI wold ' iunprisoned ! have publicly, private ly, persisten:Ly :md uniformly, proclaim d imy purposO not to commit ia breach f tie peace, anl I have not done so I I have never designed, nor havo I threatoned, to 'distcurb lie peace" in any portion of the 4th Miilitary Distriet, and yet I am reqmr.,d Lu give a boid that I will not do so anlywhere, during Lihe next twelve monithis So also inl rtlg.ird to writing libellous articles. I ai'n no libeller. I have never libelled Cieneral Ord, or his creatures ; I main. tain diat I havo penned no libel and if I had done so in the past, or shoidI do o im tle future, I conteld t hiat the Military Commander of this Disrlet, has no right to arrest or punish mue for it I sublit that it Ut, now, and nev er was, the provinco of any 11ilitary Cei, y whethier any pibli. 'anion is ibeilhens, assume to arrest, and tieii try, and punihi by a unlitary tri. hunial. Su l I an assumpition of p1ower, strikes down, at a single low, every b uhwar[ of freedom, an'd destroys forever thaiott "1palladium of civil liberty'"--the Public Press I Ieu:g pov.orlesei to remst t-h )ayo netu of (4en. Ord, I gave the required hond, iii preference to ag:in becomimig thie -er ced recipient. of tihe boudlless hospit alitie s of l hii elegant and spacious ld//, aid Mr. Charles Peine was ofiOr. ed and141 accepted as my ourety. As aything not. complimentary or nreeableto military commander, loya hsgims, radical legislators and oflicials may, and probably will, be pronounned "libelionls," and my bond declared for. feited, L shall be compelled, by the pow er of the ba'yonet, to "Jpak witsh bated breath," and whlen noticing public func tionaries, I shall be compelled to aing niithing bu '-hymns of loftiest praiso '' Whet her thbose hymns be chante(d inl "Ilorid prose," or sung in-"homited lies of rhyr'e," will I suppose be a mattor o'f sall moment. I 1a sufficielit amount. of landation. ad uiatio and fulsome.proe is littered, I presume the hapipy recipi tenis will care very liu lte for ether .t1une .or metre. I do not reo.ard ("on. Ord as tho Nm peror of this country, and, as I believe that President Johnson and len. U. S. Grant nre his o'licial superiors, I shalo aply to therm for relief andt redress, If they cannot, or' will not, strike fromi my limbs the fetters which hav e been placed uipon lthem by tahe Comniander of, this M~lilitary District-ifi they canniot, ori will not, remiovc the shackles whiich lie has imiposed~ on thle Timhes, then the lib~erty of the prs, the most chterichied tigh o (f n :free .people, mu st be ch ssed the using." Very resp~etfully, WV. H[. McCAnrI.S. :lbecemnber 'i, 18C,7. A letter written on board the United States steamer Wachiuseti, at Pootoo,ani island at the muouth of the Yaingtse iver, says tho islainil is considered hlvk ground by the Chiinese, who visit it, annuanlly during the mionthis of Janunary andl February. to tho number of ten or fifteen thousand. Tlhiey worshiip 13minl.. dha and thie western Hleavene, andl a amount, of motney has been hdd out og Qiildintgs for the idols and the numerous *'-*iiti. The grouinds are teauiti flly' etv'e antd all tho aven nios of approach to tti2 t (mph'-is are lini ed with shade trees. Th,.; chief idlol mn the main templo is thirty foot ,';.iigh, and at least, ten in breadth , it is in a c,!ting posture, wvith li mbs crossed something after Ihe manndr of the Turks. TheIi idols airo comlposed of plaster or some thinig of that nature, anti aro all heavi ly gilded. -One oftltheJBrahmjn priests who died recently had held his right arm up for thirty -years, and had let .lis 'fin gier nails grow until they~had penetrat.. ed the fflosh. Usually thoro -aro about 300 piiiosts on the island, but at~ the time of the annual worship they number.as high as 5000. 'WITriHOtDNG COTTOU ON IWicw AJANOFs - HAVE DEEN MAD.--Wo have noticed in some of our Southern 3xoblangos artiolos reoferxing -to the very disoreditablo, or to spohik mnore to the point, abeiohtoy ~dishonest yourse i which has .heen pursuod by someeplantorse in obtaining ad'anoos mntheiir elops front factors and than lsposing of their ootitomn to other pa' ,ies, Without rehlnbalrsig the docetor ewhom they:Jm~ -oblhgated them dIves-t oconsign 16 in any shape w~hata er, At thA preoent' tutto there ia v6ri-grot:to sgy, a ease of thi. kind >nndIng Ipour own, eosllt, : i!i4 laws >f thipitate are ordOedingyLIrII onS hqa of both ftor)dtnd an t d 14 one oro& , th law 'Agl ~an oroed in 1td futlioet eatenit. -R 0; o'rfee Cront Monster Petition. The Now Orleans Crescent publish. es a potition to the Congross of the United States, for tho ropeal of the Roconstruction Acts of Congress, to be sigued by the wholo people of the South. 'Iho Crescen advises that it should bo signed genorally by the people of 011 the orth aind South. As i mattor of public interest, ot the prosent time, we subjoin the petition : To IMs '-celknc, the J'r'sident an( tli enators u R"'1 epresentatives o the Unitd St"s conyrcs: The undersigned, citizens of the State of Louisiana, respectfully repre. sent that the political dovelopmente of the past. few months have demon strated tle fact that the Reconstrue. tion Aet'3 of Congress wi!i, if persist. ed *n, produce it confliot of rac'H wh ici wYill result inl the1 desolation of the country., and the seric-us, if not ir reparablo in.jury of both races inl the loiithern States. That the neg roes of this State are oIrganI.ized into secret bands, termed "Loyal Leagues,'' .worn a.d coibini. ed against their former owners and citizens of the S- :te. inl order to os. tain control of th G overnimen 4 That thits credulous race l.areo boon deluded by -the designing men into the ' clief that the property of the w .e citizens of the Stato will bo di. Viued aiong them. That, under these demoralizing in. fluences, they are daily refusing to fulfill their contracts, or labor for the Support of themselves o: their faui lies. ihat, in consequence( of thisdemor aliz.ation, planting ill this State has resulted in tje ruinous fail'ire of a large majority of our planters, and, of course, in tLe necessity of its .abandon inecut. That before the close of the pres ent year, the nc-groes, with bti few exceptions, -will have consumod oi wadted their wages, or share of the (crop, -. . be destitute of the means of Yi. . the white raec will be com pelit. to limit their planting to thie labor of their own fam inS, while tle negroe w ill not 'havo the ieiais, if they luld the capacity, to plant on their own account. Under tle..e circumiistancea, faniine. with all its attendiant. -hrror, must SoonI colie upoli this im) -vitent racc, In view of dhese impending, ci lanii. ties, the undersigned would unre t ly appeal to tle lPresident and Congres togive protupt attontion to this vit-al1le importan matter, and provide immn diately such remedy ms ill their w.i dom can be devised, to avert the ruiu which, uless arrested, nust speed ily colne Illpl us. Tiis Ovs-ri: Tuit.: -The Baliimo (azette speaks of lie oyster.trnd' of thai ciy as constitiuting one or ts larges induit rial int eresis. The business of can iing oysters there was begun only abot tenyears ago. The miagljnitide to which ii hn mount e. up Imany he ticlrsi lood from 11h following st atement of the Gazrte: There aire at prcqent about I birty pick lng houses -iin ilie city. employing sonu forty-five hundred shitc'-urs or openers o oystors, of whom tihe larger number are col ored men and women. Over toil thousani peolple ne interesed in the n ter shuck '*sna~r ':nors. 'iox- makers, wafgrn ers, anid the emlployees in the different pack ing hious~e. (Ot the il,800,000 buebe'ls o oysters annuntialy arouight to this city 1,.875,000 hushels are packed raw, I .300, 0001 hulshelm are pirseired by Stenminug anld pvcked, andl l025.000 biuishels are used i; thle shneli 1('or iho ciity anad sulrroinlg coun f i.)'ry oli'nsu ption. -1 is 5 es imatedCI thai diuriing I he hitiest SeeIson thle various pnek ing houises in the ity openi an- ngroguate (. -t5,000' bushlmca daily. I) f ithi' large aniolon by far thin greator Ci part is distrlibul~ltefamong t hei Pit ies of Sil holni-, Chicago. Cincinnati and Louisville, anad the remalinder' goes the s maller West ern ci tdes and town~is. many1) boxecs gointe as far West na Denver anm Sanota Fe. The trade ia an immense onie nnid br'ings a v'ery' large amount at ioflmon into Baltimoro, besides .givringenimploymeni to so many per'sons andl vessels. Monie Nvew Ezor.Axn PIry.--omoe tim< since, a reverend divine, from Middleton Connecticuot, calling himself Dennison miado is appearance in this city, and edi. ied ithe "'Loyal Leaguers" with muchi preaClching. After ai shlort soournl, the sait4 reverend gent lemnan propatted to depart, ala miade 111$ appearance at tihe .depot. with largo box, which lie directed to Middleton. Connecticumt, anid marked ''Iron Pumrp.' 1t0 w.as shippod as anl Iron pump, lut, Oin r'eachuing No)r ohk, thle way bill being blur. sod, and iho mnarking hin'g become indis tinct, a deapute arose between two railroad ngents ther'e cc to whether it was a piane box or* i puinp) box. A wager was the result and1( to dlecidet it, the box waes opened, when to the anmzemient of theofciicials, the', .'-und therein a didnte'~rred corpse pa'ked in saw.Just. Tfhe freight upon an iron pumyp to Mid~ton being about forty dollars less thhit.ipon a corpse to the samflO place, thec rovercnd gent-lemnan had concluded to avail himself of this opportunty for a litle sly chenting, which would Jia-:e proved success buit for can accident. We get tho above facts fromn (lie agent, of (lie -Ralojghu and Gaston Railrtoad, now In this.itgy, vand a goentlemlan of veraci ty.---Charlotte .New'. Apropos of the walking manIa . now so prevalent throughout the country, Mr. John Qnuil.miakej the following offers "I -will walk -with any good looking girl' who has .a fortune in hor owni right, npQn any gteen moonlight night, both partien to go as 'slow as.t-hiey please, and1( neither to hurry back to the starting polant I will thau, on the word, walk into her alffetions,- and-walk off with her foritune. "I will walk around the -earth with any man who will bring at pile of it, and -lay 1 downi in donvenient spot. Or, I will walk Aoroits the plingd f segarpenber oan be found to put, ta lot of thecm in.A row. I will also taJ oit ro eo alk iIth aInyper'son who will Al sh epilital andh gI me share in time business, I Verftutio to -bn ethat r osi tg as tpod lim9onA idnke wal ,ts auly ofd~r mAan. 'ieetofs;. M;alklrauhaw and yop. ry ttor oom tm'es, andthe O"Wailks r4olerde 'I di utos Ioe bosled by her at *ao no ep opx ty~ qn a 4g1 t ao A $95-pearl was-found In au oyster at. Aloandria, VA,,thQ olkhns dy. AN IMPSNDIG NujsANc,.--I is coming I The "skatorial" nuisanco is upou its! Tho note of preparation has been soinded, and the Toadv Jenkins tribe have sharpened their pe'ncils for a dlivo into tho slough of abject flunkyisn, which, for the iast Iev years, has characterized and debased the Americn presp. The base ball nuisance has retired to wmnter inarters, no moro to be daily poked under our noses unil the advemt of spring. The season was far from satislactory. Only five base ballers kill. -od outriait., and a shamliefully aSIr"al inmber of the cusses maimed for hfi. Not one of them has had his traus knocked out. Neither itive we heard of any brains being knocked out of a base ball. Skating, like base ball, is an offshoot of New Yol k snobdomo. It is a shoddy epidinic that rnges fearfully among weak minded menti. and strovg minded women. It i an nppropriato aimuse menit for boys, and if women and old men feel disposetd to i tnmilgo i) sliding onl the ice, to on1e hs a rht to b ject to their ipeculiar exh i-iionq, Uncder the Consti1ition and all 11he :nn emt1tilIltS )eo)lo have a right to make fools of theimelves if they want to. But have editors -of twelve dollar newpa pers any ight to itfhet upon their readers a dal. ly dose of maudlin Jenki nism, portn: ing tioe extraordinary feats of sfoit . beaitifil "skatress" or ". katesC or cskatorial champion," as tho case may be. Cleatly not. l'a young lady in Now York desires to show -ier ait.y on the Ceantral Park, why lot. her slide. Sie czlnnot disturib ottr eqianimitsy or shock our sense of propriey .t that dis tance. But that is not it. S0he does not stfvr cold feet and a dripping nor.e for the pleasure thero is in skating, but for tle pleasure she feels in being para ded m the 'newspapers. Aspiring 'ocals gives us her biography ad naumctm ; tbe pictorials give us her likenoess and antecdotes of her spriglttlhess are rife. In tl s manner the contagion is sprend and become geteral.-- .Yuba Dom,. h. E.a-Sia.--Milton's -ind ness was the residt of overwork and dyspepsia. One of the most emineit Anerican divines has for sometime been comi pell ed to forego the pleauturo of reading, has spent thoitsands of dollars in vain. and lost years of tie in coniequence of getting uip several hours before .Jay, and studying by artificial light. Multitudes of mon and woment have tnade their eyes weal: for life by the too free use of the eye-sight in read ing small print and doiig line sewing. In view of these things it is well to observe tite following rules in the itse of the eyes : Avoid anddenuitanges between light and darlkness. Never begin Io read, r write. or sow, for several initutes after cominto from darkness to a bright light INeiver read by twilight, or hmoon. light, or of a cloudy day. Never read or sew droelly in front of tite light, orI winJw, or dor.C lt is bet-ter to have the liiht rl flromtt above oblirinuely ovel the lc t shoulder. Never sleep so that on first awaking the eyes shall onen on tho light of a w htlow. Do not. use the eye'sighit So scanti thtat it requires att effort t d discrimi nato. 1'oonuruch light, creates a glare, and j'uLns and contuses (tho sight. fThe nmomtent you areC sentsiblo ol' an elfort to distinguish, that moment conse and take a walk or ridlo. 'As thte sky is blue and the earth is I reent,it would .setm that the coil inc jihoulhd ho a bl1uish tintge, and theo walls of seine mnelloiw tint. The motment you. aro instinctdively prtomnpted to rub thte -e;:es, that mto mnent stop) using them. If the eyelids are gluted togelbher oni waking utp, do not forcibly open them, but apply the-sal-iva .w.ith -the finger, tt ts the espeedjest dilutent in the world. Then wash the eyes and face in warm water. ([Flail's Jounrnacl of Healthm. "NE~7W iousss FoR E Pns - Thte Washinigton correspondent of the Anti Slavery1 Blandard, .who ought to .know, writos: "Some -curious revelatlins are crop ping .out -about the means whereby the Russian purchtase was lobbied through It was among .the amusing things in legislative biatoiry to learn how rapidly senators changed front on the expedioncy of theo Russian pur.. chase. It is estimated by shrewd lob-, biests, thatd it took about two millions out of seven to seeuro the result. One -senator, who is known to have changed his ilews quite suddenly, purohased a -nansion'here for' th irty thousand dullars imtmedlately after thme passage of the treaty.- He waus neveor before credited with Co -mnuch .rmonoy."~ ]ta:i not likely that Russia invested her moeney in this way ; but seine son atorsedo livo'in houses of their -own w~ho dijl noi have, It is sai~d, even board ing-housos 'before they wero e ed here. Budh chrrgcs from Radicals against adicals ouglxte oe vinyesti gated. Eelvery snecessivo redttcetjon .of the tolls on >the Atlantic cable lhas br~tighzt the Cal(lCompany n naccessiont of but. Aflmfess so great.as- to int~casd its p rofits, 'lTho rate now: is one-fouirth what, t, was 'when-the-cable was lrit byetied 'to Lhe publio, yet ,at those greatly redutceti rates, the. number of. urnesagg liaes d much increased that thomernoi'at of casti reeeived:,datly is annontticed -ton be fat grerter..th~n .ever before... Tsa-is coming to AIe eA&latiqig porte now by the way of San Franisco, an4 some shtpers are satda-; to'pre ffr that route to the old one through the IWasi Indies anid around the Cape of Good Topn. TUoIr IT- WAS P OUnIr O JULX. Mistaking thanksgivng day for the Fourth of July is about as big a blunder as we have known in a long time. Tho police picked up i. mnin last night who wais laboring under that aiillucinal.ion, HO had an old inmuket, and was loading ard firing, with vociferous vell for "our (hie) glori's in'erpen'aince." li had collectied a knot of people ieaIr the Fifti .strecet Market, to whom he delivered an oration smithing after tile following fasiion : "1'll'r-cit C'n1,-ThIe day w'e have mol#t to chbaethis evenlin' is okac~l to N. (hie) w'hiole weck of or'na V day3s. 11.0 is er day our. f,,'later St Bnnker liT Monnrment :he bi0 v en 'rl Jackson licked tle Bri h wA h N ew 'leans m'las SeS aiid a Cottont Ia.le ;the day Go - 'Orge Washington c(t dow- hIs fathir' cher' ry tree to iild 1V' J uy (btic) honi fir , the day Amnericai fl;. hainld dovn Oen'iial ix and shoo(hic)oot. 'im oin t h sp1o ; the day wt pay iecone tax ; Ohe day lHorace Gre'ey haied out, the Bos'n tea party, th day we celebratIe. Wha. wou]d I been if hadii been fer Fo' Jiuly ?" A voic l3en sob-r. may be-.'' "l'm chamlilion of 'mericani liberty. I'll wrip iyself in star-span gled baW'r, 1ount the 'muer't eagle, oi ini g 'M;i ;p of er G od''ss of Librty, and (lie) soar--l sa y I'll soar Man inl the crowd- n bt'il b or enoiigh11 0 lio-Ilmorrow iiiorn'iniDIgI. W'I:thh1dol at the inlterruptl on, '.A chamzion of Ainerican liberiy brought Is patriotieora tion to an abrupt. close .1;1 "weit for hin. The police inter ferel, and 1:: the irate orator away. Ile insisted that lie was a c-:li'bra'tion. and declared that ilwy-%' had no businesst to arrest an eitire antiversary in that Kix LQuiItn as.-Cousini Kate was a s'eet wide-awake beauty of about sevetiteenl, and site took it inte her head to go down to Long Island to . 1 soC relations of hers who hail Lia.h, .niisfortine to 1-ive there. Amiong those relations there chanced to be a young swain who had Peon Kate on a previous occasion, and sein g, . fell deeply inl love with her. Ile caliled at the boie on the evening of her ax rival, and she mot him Oil the piazza where site w., onjoying tlie ev'ening aiir in comln:iy wiaOh two .or three of her fi'ieinds. The poor fellow was so bashful that. lie could not find his tongue for sone time. At lenuth he stainmered out. 'Ifow's you'r mother 7' 'Quito well, thank you.' Another silence on the pad-'!, of J'oshi, iduring swhich KLai and her friens did the best they could to relicve the monotony. After waiting about f.. teen n'mnites for hiti to coinmeneo to make :imnel iigf g1enab1 ble, Ie again brCik : Fpll 'by '1 im your fat~be.?' which was an swi'erti -clh after the same fashion as the fir ' ine, and thenfollowed anoth er silece like -thle other. C low'.s yoiur father an(] mother ?* again pt n t-h" bash ful lover. 'Quit well, both of themin.' Tht is was follow ed by an exchange of glan ces atnd a suppressed umile. This Lasted some ten minutes more, during which Josli was fidgeting in hiis seat and str'oking hiis Sund ay. But at length anomel~.r question 'llow's you'r parents ?' This pi'oduced an explosioni that' made the w~'ods ring.1 Wmmo'j~ F'1.Ina.-"I wish that I hlad same good friends to help mle onl in life." "(Good fr'iemnd. 1 'Why, yoim have ten."' r'eplied his imaster'. .t.'in iii'e 1 haven't half so Cmany, andt those I have are too pioor' to help imc." "Count yoiurt fingers, my .boy."~ Dennis lookedl at his large strong. hand. "Count thunmlbs and all." "1 have, there are tofl"sa'id the lad: "Then never say you have not ten good friends able to 'hop you on in' life. Try wlihat those true friends can .do before you 'begin grumbling and freott-ing -becauee you .do not got anmy help from others." "'Whatdo you call this ?" said Mrs. fast with his folk. "Call it," snarled the lamndlordm, "what do you call it ?" "Well, really," said Smith, "'I don't know. .Thbere.-is not 'hair enough in it -for' mortar, but t~here is entirely too much if it is imteiided for hash I" Cu ' Onl COLD FEHr.-We ar.ue~assurI. by one who has give)n the experknent. a____ trial, that eold feet, and Aspeoialhly -thb super'la.ively.frigSid feet 4.hat .1ro kept chill.. ed b~y perspirat~lon,- may be 'elieved b~y.a sinple expedient. This is to wear cotton soaks noext the skin aind woolen stodinge outside .of thenm. in the Instance *t,..our informant, the result wuea .svoocessfuil *a keeping lis feet, .warnm and dry. .The sin. gular consequen'ceialso ensued, that at night lie woul d tflad tha coatton nooks (next, his skin) quito dry, whutio the outside woollen stockings would be pe-rfectly .dlamp. A .man allvertised for a wife, aind requested each canidnlate to enclose her onarte Alo vicite. A spirited young lady wrote to the advediser in the following tej'ms: "Sir I do not enclose my carte, for. though 4here is some autliority .for putting a cart bef~ore the horse, I-knows of nono for put ting onp beiforo.an ads ' The .nagistrates otMassachiusetts in 1632 ordered "hat no tobacco should botisad ulicly. In1.649- the generai t 441%60rbhibited lts us A por 'aiigr en be Wbgo n 'higelse ho otenyo. 7 Z: 4 t' w1e "wae aski to take off the~ "'1lak CrcSh(' said he enul41 50n lin to tak 3.1.1