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Selected Poetry. THE SKEIN. ICY aosati-r i5ueinnAj BliP, yes. slip your skein, my Kitty, It 0 1er mny hands, niid wind, ani wind, Ali the while, with littlu pity, 'rangling, tangling, h.'urt and mind: Kitty! eyes upon the wool I U Not oun me, my beautiul I 5 Now you droop your eyes completely, I Winding, winding dreamingly ; d Wlerefore, wherefos o smnilet so sweetly On a thing that cannot. s. I It you must smile, smile this way E I will bear it as I may I A! tilo rosebud fingers flitting Swift about, the colored ball! Jiow mly heart beat (into while sitting; 8t111 1 try to benr it, all: Kitty, do you know or care "is my heart, you're windling there ? Kitty, I am in a vision t All the world to mist doth dio ; Only in an air Elysian, Little fairy fingers fly ; rurely, if they flit, too near, I shall cateh atid kiss then dear, Tangled I pout not, frown not, Kitty I c Though I gladly bear the pain ; For your anger is no pretty, It. an imaike me sin again. There I tis well I Now, wind and wind, Tangling further heart, and mind I Now, 'tig done! the last, thread hi'agers 8.adly from sme slow to part; Can'st thoru seo that in my fingers I am holding up my heart ? Wind and wind! I do not care I i'milo or frown I and I will bear I Ahl! so fast. and quick you wind it, I no. more can keep it mine ; Do you wonder that you find it Throbbing now, closo, close thino? Tangled, tangled, are the twain Riss, kiss, kiss thent free again I THE FINAL CONQUEST, Ilhe glories of our birth and stato Are shadows, not substant ial things There is no armor against fate : Seept.ro and crown Must tumble down, Anti in the dust be equal mado 1With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some me'n with swords may reap tlie feldt, And plant, fresh laurels where they kill, Rut thle strong nerves at last must yield, They tame bitt one another still. Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their nurmoering breath, When they pale captives creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon death's purple alter now Sce where the victim bleeds; All heads must como To the cold tonib. Only Ihe actions of tlie just. 81m0ll sweet, and blosseumi in th1e dust. - The ;' Folentiflo Fxpodition to Aiaska . - efessor Davioson's Account of his Observations. The San Francisco Dlhdletin savs: "A special meeting of the Academy of Sciences -was hold in this city on ledesday evening for the purpose of listong to a lecture by professor Davidson, chief of the coast survey ing expedition to Alaska, on ite gco logicia, cliimat'c, and geographical particularitios of that newly-acquired territory. lio said that in the lati tude of the Alcutians and of Sitka this warm vater currect encounters and is undorrun by the cold current from the Arctic sons, causing the groat Condon sat ion and rainfili noticeable at Sitka iand at other ploints in the now terri tory. During observations at Sitka for fonirteon years the average fall of rain each year was eighty-four inch. es. Thoro are to 1b0 found butt few valleys in the couintry, and they are all covered by a mossy carpet one to two feet thick. There is heavy timbler in the vicinity of Siika--trces one lumidrod and fifty feet high and four to five feet in diameter, ie describ ed a yollowv cedar which grows there, and saidl he was taking home a piece o'btainodt from tihe hull ofa vessel built in the country thirty-two years ago ; but the woiod is still as sound as it was when first cut. T1here is no WEood on the coast equali to it---the rest being of little note. There are no signs of hard wood ini the coun try. 'KLittlo p~atches of ground in the interior are cultivated by the indins but not a valley of 100 acres can be found en the whole coast. To show how humid the atmosphere of thte country always reinains, ho mentioned the faet that at no place except Chilli voto .could they find whore lire had raged in the woods. The best island on the coast is Kodiack. There are hills and vales with green herbage ; auousands of acres covered by green grass two and three feet high, alford ing abundant panturgo, and excellent hay for use in winter. There is suffi cient elear weather to admit of the curing of hay for stock. Tme waters of the archipolago abound in cod, halibut, and salmon, tihe latter being particnlarly abundant, in 50ome of' the strall streams inland the progress of boats is frequently impeded by thomn, and millions of thlem are thrown on loo shores in banks two or three feet sloop, iwhere they die. Many of the best fishing banks between Onal. naka and Kodiack are kept seeret by thofishers as a legitimate adtvantage in their bitsiness. "Hie had heard some persons say . the cod caught en the banks of the Alaska were not tho true cod, but he could not detect the difference, ox cept that those caught there are usual.1 I' V I rgr apd boave a bettor flavor than thosob ttiti 6r o banks of Newfound-. land. 1( said the aggregate of torri- a torf who're the cod arce found consti- c t;e~ reservoir of. fifty thousand I square miles In extent, with from a Atgenjy-Avo to, l ifty fathom# of water, r atV'o 'eit'ortaind 'fo t~ubt of ' the hI fact that the fishe'rIts will in the course f of afeWyeafa .'rove ntuohbetter and s there is tio'Rason why the same rosult t iould not follow in this State. TNhe rincipal diflioulty in the way of our shermon has been that they wcro bligod to dry their fish frotn April to optember; bIt in a country whe0ro ay can be curud, fish can be driod. r. Kellogg .-omarked that lie had Ion mlie nt drying salmon in the opeln r on Spruco island. Dr. Davidson id, in the lower part of Newfound rud it is impossible to dry hay. IN oseribed a specific breed of cattle >ind on Kodiack and Atto islands, .hiil wero impoited from Siberia bout fifty years ago. They are mall, hardy, round--limbed, and their osh has a fime flavor. They aro pas Lred in summor, and kept in adobe tables during winter. "lHe said that geological matters crtaining to the country still romain, o a great extent, a mystery. The xpedition could not make any exten ivo surveys. lIo believed, however, hat they suceecded in finding the ocality of extensivo deposits of bit inous coal, and he thwght if Gov rnomnt would fit out an expedition o explore it thoroughly the yield of oal alone would more thitan pay for he territory. Much of tihe coal in lie territory is lignite, but aill of it is asily obtained from placescontiguous o good harbors. Copper exists there n native form. lie had seen plates f that metal kept by tihe Indians as oirloomus, inscribed with certain ro sords and traditions. The coppor omoies fromt a point on Copper river Lboult twenty-five miles frm'.NI its moui1th. Io had no liesitation, however, in say. ng that tie deposits of gold and copper ink into insignificance whet compared vith the coal iman'res aid fishing banks, )t which latter tle wltliAe value of ie :ouintry depends." A startling bit of intelligence was ommumn1cated to us yesterday hy a gen. 10t1mant just returned from 1lor:it. Wer vive publicity to it fort the beiefit of the riends (so-called) of luimanity, and hope ley will take promptI steps to correct. 'h ovil. Slavory actuallv still exists n Florida! The rein an at of tie 3eni iole Ildins vet lingering in thel classic ihades of tie Everglades qtill own slave, and i.ersist in keepintg I them itt a state )> inl volilltary en itude ; and do it, too, n open defiance of tho great powers at Washintigton, and the laws they have mtacted. WhVie "Iillv"-hm' of tihe 'bowlegs"-and his foliowers transforred hicir hag and haggago to the itigLit) g rrounds of tIme Great West, they Were he owners of ia tnumaiber of slave. 'hese slaves did not wisit to accompany he aforesaid "V m." of tihe crooked hankiths, atind were r ,tlarly sold to that emnittant of tihe Seminole 1 tribe which efused to migrate, and are still foid ixurmating it) the umbrageous shades of .he Everglades. Ono old "Big-TIjun. ,Ie" is said to be tihe owner of several itrapping negro fellows, and when ad nonished that tite "institution" was a lefunct, one, replied : "Ugh I mino rive 1il Bowlegs blanket and shot gun -ngh I mine Il" Other inflitential men A the tribe own slaves, anl openly defy my power to tako them. We I rnst. ,hns outrage will not he permitted )y time "great powers"-hiis last foil >lot upon the eseiteheon of our onc :ountry-and that a "comi m issin" will it oncebe sent downl to wipe it, out. Jen. Meade can do it. Floridaz it ithi a his htailiwick, and why not let, the omtmission now etgaged in 'doinag tip'" he Anugusta umunicipjality, com inneIt leir peri grinations ? - Allantuc Intellige m. r., 10th. TH'Em (GovmxnNari.xr ANt) Hwasn.ior.1 F~ 'THms GAn JAeomnrN ii n.- WVe pretsumoi we'L shiall nt.~ violateC im'iperialI :ofidence b~y fore-shadowintg thle char icter of tihe governiment amid lieonschl >f tihe ne~ v and miagniflicent empiroe pro jiosed to be erected by the Jaeobims )upotin e ruins of repul lican Ilbert.y in) ihe Uniited Statera. I lere it, i: Ilis Imperial JIliliness Ulysses I. \rittnarcht of all1 be' surveys. aIperial M onithpico and Keeper of lie imperial WVord atd Conscior ce. 14. 1. WaVmshburne. Mintister of Confitscated E'states and cacnral F'actotmtm ot the Imperial Man nton.-iThaddeus Stevens. Minisi em of iliitarty intjustice--Ed via M. Stantoni. Mituister of the .Radical Raek atnd Political Joint Twister in General.. ?Jeorge TP. Boutw<-il. Usher of the Black Rod.-Fred. Douglas, Lord i gh Chtamblerlain atnd Picker [Jp of all thme imiperial Old Boots, Old Flats and Old Clo' Generally.---Johnt WJ. Forney. Imperial Soft,. Imipeacher anid Kiiight. 30ommntder of the Order of thme Sul. >hntreons'Bath.-James M. Ashlev. Imperial Wmndtmill and Chief of the Enmperial Blowpipes.-J. W. Hlmntni imtt. Court \Vashman.-il enry WVilsont. Coutrt, Iangmani.-Ben. Wade. Keeper of thme Imperiail Beodchamber, bharley Sumner. Lady in Waiting. -Anna Dickinson. [N. Y. Ikral. LJooK TO 'riC S-rAres.-At the IreSent session of t he United States Jourt tno less than fifty of our most *espo.,tablo retailers are indictedl for rolling sardlines,cosmecties, perfumery, ito., of foreign itmportatiorn, without a evonue stamp. The impression pre 'a us generally amongst storekeepers liat bocatse these irrtiolos have al endy paid an itmport duty, and in old, that they are relieved from nrthuer taxation, but -it is not so. ueh articles, nocording to the inter al revenue la~ws, require a stamp nd the vender is liable to a fine of fty dollars for ech violation. There re now several United States detec lyes regularly commlssloned, who rade with the ignorant and -unwai'y, nd we would therefore ad~vise those Ito offer such artio1os for sale to-looV 1 their stamps..-/mrleston Mcratry. Blooking tho Game, Calling nion 1he New York and oth 'r Democratic fre islaturns to repeal the o cliled Constitutional Amendment, he W rbl Says : "13y de4Featting it. we cani bloek the Repnblie-In gaie of Recocst riction. I'ic jiaeconstruction act provides that when such Constitttiton shall have been mbtnilteid to Congress for examination d approval, id Congrcs'3 sh1d! havr 1pp.'oved tho same, and when said 3tate, by a vote of its Legislaturo olect d ndiler said Constitution, shall have elopted tle amendment to tle Consti [tuon of tit United States, propos'ii by tie Thirty. mnh Congrets nid kInowr is artielo fourteen, and vhenai said arti -lo shall have become, a part of 11he Con. titutionl, Paid Stato siall ho declared if be entitled to repre si -nta tion ill uotizress ind Senators and liepresenttives shall be admitted therfrrom oil thei r taking the oathis priesc'ribeid by ilav.' 1y Lit very teris of tre RcoInist ruti on act, the negro govermlinilt. will Ibe excluded, imiel'ss th.e peindiig :aImililellt Ulil bo ratified Tie 1World ndds: "TJhei l giilature of New Jorser' meets next. 'TLoslay. T1he1 Democrats have a majority of oneo in the Semate, and of thirty t.wo ill I t I lose. Wii.h a majority in boti brancies, it is loped and expected that ii. will rescim the raltifienwion of the pening.Con.itution al Amenmlintit. passed at, its last. sos. sion. Thlo legislnt.ire of any Stato is comipotent to revoice its f.ier nation so long as the andi'midie ha.s in oi. becoiis. apart of the federal Costiiion ; an for reason which we will pn..ciiol.v ex plain, it, is important, int, this slotlnhl be done by everv Slate in vhiiclh tle Dem ocratic party retL:in-l control of hi lIgidi Ltre in Ile it e eiect ions. In Ohio, we have one mtiajo erity in the Sin. ate,.and seven in the i fouse. In Cali. fornia, the Scoate is against uis. by ia najority of six, :im1l wt, ',: ve a n1 vl'j-it y of ' wenty-foir in thI l. ilse ; bhii.' C li. fornin has not vet. netr-d in em I meid ment ait all, and we are safe a Ia inlst its ratieticaion bv th:t St.o. 1owa and Nobraska livo not acled It it ; and Deleware, Mary bod and K1Centucky hivt r,jected it." Tim S-r.%rr Tl or l-n te.s.--So many ineuw States have biewen aImitted into the Union withinl a few years past, that the public find it dihoult to "keep the rn" of them. We frequently read in t Ie papers and hear men speak of the "thirty-six States of this IUnoion." ]eveo in (jon gress, llmbers isomitioics speak of this numhior of States as the proper num5)er)CIr, while a liajolrity ofthat orldy make the nionmer much less than thirt-y-six. There a /ehr/y-srn States in tle Union, according' to the conservative dotrine, and in order that the pulblie may know and not forget their nam es, we firnish a full list of them below. in alphabetical order, viz : Ala bama, A rkassas, Cal i fornia, Clonnec-tcu(, Delaware, Flori da1, corgia, Illinois, Illinois, Indi ann, Iowa, Kansas, Kentncky, Louisi ana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusctts, Michigan, Minn'esot'a, lississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New llampshiire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Orogan, Penn sylvania, Rode Islnd, South Caroli na, Tetmesaee. Texas, Vermont. Vir ginia, W1est V irginlia, WV ic onsin. . GovERNOR 'IEN'KINS--We pl)UJlish, ml to-dlay's issue, a telegraphiie dlis.. patchs reporting the remioval ofChiarles J1. Jenkins, Governor of' the State of Geoirgiai, because, refusing to forget the duties imposed on him by his of lie, lie has tnt boweud a pliant kneo to the creaturo of lItadical fanatjii. TVhat noble old moan will earry withi him i into his retirement the respect and ad mirat ion of the whole Sonuthern people-a. reCspoet anld ad~mirati~on which he has bouight by persistent ef fort to rescuo his State fromt the dogradation and( rutin of slavish coim p1lianco with tlio Congressionail, scheme of reconstruct ion. Those who knew Governor Jonkl;ins in his private relations are glad to have the feelings withs which thley regardedi himi shairedl in by the entire comn.try. And when South Carolina writes dhown the list of her great nanded sons, .lho will not omit the namte of Charles J. ;Jonkinls, Governor of tile State of Georgia. [ Cha/wrleston Mllccur||. WVoomEN " W 11-AP " A ver y delicate, simnple, and beau'tiful mlachinol has been conutrneted. which will take a portion of a tree, after it hams been cut the right, length iinid width, and ohave it up mtto thin ribb~ons as wide an a roll oi houso paper, makmng 100 or 150 to thie itch. These rolls of wood are placed on the walls by pa per-hiangers pasto and brush precisely in the sam mlannor' wvth paiper. Tho wvood( is wet when used, and really works easier than papor, because it, is much tmore tonmgh and pliable. JIn these (days, when va riety is oumght for, one can ftinih thle wvalls of hiis htolse in difl'erenit wood~s -to atmit his taglo. One room enn 1)e fur. ma~hld in bird's-eyve tilnl(', another in cheanut, anothiar in cherry another in white wood,. and iio on. 4hns . ho has lie imitationi, but the real genioi arch clo upon his walls. Tihe eva ti'res of aet figures, such as wve havoe in ordinary paper hangings, hnt tover of natuirm it Self-. 'Thei iongi'r tile -woodl-hlanging (emnams on the wall, tho morq, distjint will be tho grain anid color of tho wood. "Whenever' vot fim1ndaiy menyotu find man:mimsfs,' exclaimed .a publha speaker.. "Tairnt so, by jingt," respond. 3d oneo of the auditors,. "if you lsk the whole crowd to take wa drink oit'hl find em pil of one fnund. Thme .ecturer caved1 without. tryig to experi nent. An invetitor pro 0oso. oar'ry rail ond Lirons. otlihs by mean* Spio from thoeAugusta 0onstitutionallet JUST So.-Warwick, the Washing. tonl corresponuloit of tho ilMaoon Tele gruaPh, says, with much truth : "Let the Sout'hern people resolutely set about the oultivation of grain and the raising of cattle ; and in so doing, whilo securin , their own prospcrity, thy will stri-o the deadliest blow at the ir Radical enomie at the North." CIANGE OF NMte,-Tho Now York AiTpre.s, in view of the surpassing in faimy of the "Rump," drops that Cromwellian title and dubs it the "Nfational Disgrace." The IJqpress thus dooms the "Disgrace" aforesaid : "In November next, as src as fate, tho whole concern will b swept out of existence, with scarcely enough of it loft to make a respoctable tombstono." T171 (Coulrr~ln-IIl,vor.UTr.-,Stant ton's appearauice at the War Oflico startled the Now York press, in spito of its outerpri.se. 'T'ho INald, in a sharp leader, conoludes thus : "From these mnovoientsl in Congress aid oth ers foreshadowed, and from all the signs of the timties, we may, wo think, safely haizard the opinion that wo are on the threshold of the imost mometit ous events in tle history of tihe Unitod States." AN APT COSIP.AzRsON. -- 130vorly Nash, negro delegato to tihe South Carolina monagerie, thus portrays that oiled and curled Assyrian bull, James L. Orr : "Governor Orr is in the position that the old woman said President 'Tyler was whein lie tried to turn a sommersct from the Whig to the Demuo cratie party ; left liatiging upsidC down, with the head down. Tho Con. servatives try to kick him off from tihe Coinservat ive trec, and the Republi. cans arc willing to let him hang by Iiis heels unt-il all his brains run down into his head, and ho will die of politi cal apoplexf.'' Coimimment is usoies. When a1 puth Iie mnm has been brought to that pass, lie is betwon tle devil and t' dep AN IfON-ORAnLE MAN.-Tho Atlan ta Jtdeliqcncer publishos a string of Yaiikec-hating rosolitions, wriiten and road by Parsoti Caldwell, in 1863, aid by him presented to a conference of time Methodist Episcopal Church. h'lie last resolution ruins thus : "That under no possible circum stances would wo coisent to live again under the Covernmnent of the United States with such a people." In 1868, Parson Caldwell is one of the most Yankee-slobbering and ig. ger-worshipping membersof tle Bones and Banjo (nicntion. If Caldwell is one of the Lord's anointed, the devil may as well shut up shop and take to the coiventiolo. lIRA , Tile BUUDII. -It is pretty generally known, or at leastit should be pretty generally known that somc years ago liram U.-alias Ulysses Grant, suddenly got oit of the United States army, in which he was serving. There was much speculation as to the ronson for his haisty exit, and it was finally ascribed to his dissolute and drunkon habits. This was so to a cortain extent, as his drunken sprees led. to the ierformaince of a trick which set tled thme case of the ignorant bummenr. While hiram was serving . on the~ Western frontier, as a lieutenant in the regular arumy, it was his customi with other officers to have many "niec and hilarious times,"-callcd by3 sonmc, sprees. During one of these times, whelin Grant was moreo glorious ly drunken than ever, lie mado a con venience of the soup touruon of thec 11e0S room. For this slight offense on (lie part of the besot ted lieutenant, thme com mnander of the post, Colonel Buchan an, called a court martial to try hmim for "an offense unbecoming an offierm or a gentleman." Before the court could convene, howevor, Lieut ant Hirami U., alias Ulysses S., resis ed his coinmission, and went into the t i nory besincessat (Galona. This is a brief and true stat of (lie early military expiloits of mili tary mullet-head, and natio I cigat smoking hiunmug (vide Ann ickin sonm,) which Ims been so refull y ketfrom thme worlId, for wvhi every thong elso relative to h' mae been published, his early n ry career lias never been merit nedc by his fricends. This story is o fabrication of ours, but can be vori d by all thie old ofiloors of the arm whto know~ why the oourt martia called, and also know why tHirat so suddenly re signed .-La~rosse ,ocrat. Goon NEwSF IRo. m.W HAMtP8ldRE. The [De.moerat' mass mneting al [LittletonI on th ' .h was one) of thme monist signiflennt. and nposig political do monstration ev nmdo in New Hamp.. shire, it wias ni t only very nutmmeous. ly attended-no -ly 2,000 people being presont-bot.. of its ofliceers, twventy. anen' m i unrn , womro respectable anid infhuntrial min who have heretofore Acoted with thm epublican party I All are mn of a stance, of intolli onde, and of ailit~y t command the confidence and support o their fellowv-citizens men whose e mple will bo0 followed by Pcores in thei ~arious localitie.--New Hfampsh irs triot. Thme ex- press Cairlotta was In, formed fo mo . first Limo, four days ago, of L 4eath of Maximilian. ItV Is not k wn how she received thie an<: nounce nit nor has any report sin*o boon do of her condition. The re mai of the late Emtpero't'Maitwhl. Iah t atM l aff~ricete on Thtlrs dtiy ?h uposinmg ,oorinoies. Ou or. Dan-r.-The State of Iowa has gratifying hond~ of beig entire. ly t of deb-a reced, iadmcl Apr iv ich no other Stato e&n id. Scientificleand Usofil. To DIcTPCT Woon IN PAi.:nl Pura'. M. Schapringer has Indicated a process by which to distingiish wood in paper Pulp). It consists ImI touching the pa per with nitrir acid at 30' deg. If it contaims wood fibre it will be colored brown, PVRFCOT MiETH[OD OP DETERMINING WVH EN COTTON AND Wso, A11W 1liXI.). Wool when mixed with cotton may be easily detected by the fhcilty with which murexido is fixed on the'former. In a bath composed of o)e part allox. antimle diesotved in ten parts of vateI, (lip tho Suspected stuff, dry it., at.1 re peat the operation, ien expose it, to the vapor of dry amniical gas, find wash with distLilled water. The woolon threads are dyed crinson, while the cot ton reminsi perfcctly vhito. To RE4movic IMPeURC A Pii TFuo 1 rl. BOTTOMS O1 W.LLS.---When carboiiie acid has accuniilted in the bottoin of a well, (and this too ofteni Ito hpels), mix 5u or 60 lbs. of lime inI a bucket of water, and pour it. little by lhtle on t lip Stones foruning the edgeo of tie well, then 20 or 25 lbs of ifick lime ar-e thrown into the water and form vapors which imediately ascenil. A ftert wen. t.y fjur hours a caludle will burn clearly inside the wIell, Wic indicates the dissi pationi of the noxious "as. To Pi'niaay P1x'-inaoo.--P.Ilumbiago coniims s1.suioxido of iron, find caor honate and sulplute of limN, as foud in nature. To purify it calcine it quickly in a cosed vesetl, and afterwards treat it it by hydrocholoric acid, which dis solves the iron rediced by caleinaliol, and the sulphidle of calcitmn tihts formed. Ito carbonatea of iron is also dissolv 0l HoW TO MAKI - MAi.ro Ai) iuom Svuoi ]3,nnu-:s.--Mai., acid. ma,'v he prl'epar'ed 1rom the berries of the Amae. (r/.s gl/n% or corier/i.) hie fuit i brmised and digenttd for Pourll da i cold water, with 1 frequent. stirring. Then precipitate with acclate of lead, aaid boil when a wIt hite prCcipita te of ma late of lead will separate, This acid imay b sepatrated from its salt by sniphnic acid. Inst.'nd of acetate of lead, carbonate of line nmly be Itse(d, and the litte sepa. ted] in the Saun)- way. AN IMl'RovjCD S[I'iIoD OF PiVoDUC iNo Jre Acm.-M b-at (ne pound of commiricial sullpliric acid over the wa. ter bath, and add in smial portions the bost.Pervian guano, fi11rst 11 hologtily dried and pulverimml, futil It acid wdIl ch,41solve no more. Dilute this sohution w ith 141 pilts of distilled water, decant the clear portions and l rte, collect the sedilellnt and wash till free froil acid. Boil Li us sedime0nt wiL h a dthltto0 soltion of caustic soda, filier again, and. precip1 UAtO by a sml11 e.CxeSS of h'drOCtoelo.ic acid ; thus prepared it is in the forn of small silky whit( seales, tasteless and imordorotis, hut slightly solueil in boiling water, 'and forming salts With tLhe aseS Called uraes. To D-r:i.c-r A JiJ.ovs Rt.PnEsi.:NTINo Goi.n.-To diitinuish glided ohjects from thoso which have otly the nppoar ance of gold is a very (:;y operation. For this purpose,. use a solution of chilo ride of copper, aid if thi Object is only an alloy. it is covered umniediatelv with ai briownl spot, which is inot the case if it is gol or gilded. IT iiRenroNA 01F Til H - ol'0E.....The, hldt Arctic explore'r, (3urtain Sherard Osbhorn. has met withi little enlcour'age menit from t he En~ghish press in htis (en deavors to get. up an exraedition to view the continent on whinch, according to the latest receivted doctrmti of nuavigators in E~gnghm, the Nothi Pole is sittuat ed. The axes of the eath , lie is told, are hiddetn from mortal ken. Even astron. omy cannot conjecture whieIhier they aire sulrrounde1td byv COnlitents, 0opea sa, or biy icebergs towetirs towvardsa the polar star Lto a greater altitude i hon1 the high est of the I limalay'as. Inideed, no one dreamns of exploring the eveir-blazintg volcanoes of the Anmarctic Ocean,' thlough the South Polo is seven lhumdred! miles beyond them. Hfowever, the Royal Geographical Society may bo kinder than the press, antd we shall not be sur prised 1o find that, a steamer or two are sent to explore this Utopia of' the North. Certainily, as at seems, no0 one ever set foot onl Kelle t.'s Lanud, antd the geogra phers Irid. at the notion of its lying there utivisite'd. The wvhale htinters tiik it is a chilly, umcomifortable and vahmaeless place : but this does not at all quoeh the spirit of men like Caiptain Osborn, who come of' the same stock as those dlari ng 01(1 ElizabethanI tid venturetrs wvho mado their wvay to the remotest lands. (C'Iareston .News. TiM.sTNA vE CANGED --Au ilicidont rocently occurred at alao, whighu, we think goes vory far to estalisht as. a fact that this is a 'world of changes. A Yale alumnus of' twonty years stand mng rotuarned after a long absence, to visit his Alma Mater, and was very courtoonsly recoivod andlshowin around by Po.T. After baving exhibited to hsguest most of'the int "ldorn lin pr'ovemnonts, tihe Prof. said '.t him: .."You have seen, I believe, al1 t.hot :in thle institution except the gy m nasiumn. Come, let uis go up thero, and P1' roll a string of' tenl pitis with you." "W1hatt, sir I" exolo~imed the. giie$, starting back in roal or sirninlaitod as. ton ishmient, - Why I" okolaimed the Professor, "We have a 'fine alleyt in our gynmna - iWand- I weiild limovry initoh to o' fhoroiend roll i sti-ing o' o nat you;. Wpifwt fen in hid'oy9; " sfr yelled frd Oolle~, tally of the reonsRtruoe on laws. Corry O'Lanus' Epistlo. AnOUT TilFl NJw YiAR, LlAP YjSAR, AND TIE LADIES. The Now Year and tie now public officers have beon dulv inraugurated, and are now Iin working'order. We soon got accustoined to such things inl a few days, the New Year gets to be quito an old aicqainrtancee. We got familiar with the niew figure, and put it in the date of our lotters as read: ly as though we had been used to writ inig it all our lives. The new year fitds us with a great deal of important business on hand, and it, will wit,lness tho clearing uip of several important qures-iois. The qtestorn of whether t he Q uakr City pilgrims got tight iay be handed lown to fuiture ages, biut before next. Christmas wo shail know for a certarmatv who will bo our eioxt Presidient. Eighteen sixty-eight is an importatt year oir another accolmit. It is leap year. Of which tact I wish to remind tie ladies Therre is a division of opini ais to tire right of a woman to Vote, lit thero cIn be no (qest iolr as to her right to a hushatad-il sie Ca get orne. Now is tihe tie. Buit I womld adviso young ladies not to be rash. Althourgh it is leap vear, yon had bettvr look before you healp. Because if you got a husbnid and Rhe doA't mit you, you can't. chaiige him for a better one, at least without goaing to Cicago. There are several considerations to be observct in tie selection of a hu. band. Looks are a ipat ter of taste :-size, complexion arrd color of whiskers may be left to individual taste They Iro of less conserpiernco tharn disposition anl peuiiarv resources. Particrilar ly tire resoiurces. I wouldrr't advrse any young wom ian to alrrry a m1ar, Who would e.X)CCL irer pa to support theill. It. is riot a fair thing on the old gen. tilmran, who Ias been lookig forward to ie marrriage of his daighter as a happy release from milliners' bilIs. Never disappoint your parents. Younr, ladies lived not iniire too par'ictlarly whether the man of their choice belonags to r. lodge wich wmeets four nights a week. She will find that out after they are aror iei. I (usbalds,like othber domestic ani. trmals, when caught.5 oung can sometires be trained to do a good marny usefil tinrgs. They rhave even b)n'l known to get up in the mrorinirig anid ligh t tihe ire II(when the girl had gono awav. Thre are soire proh-ssions rot, alvi 6ale to marr y into. Siuch as editors, for they nover get ricl. Or reporters who are never home at nrigh ts. Or politicians who are not satisfred with one wih', buat always gettinig Wed ded to their country, and like most bigaumists abirse both teir wives. lBrrt as tire great object is to get a hrI10.har11l, anad as the sirupply is liiite,') it raray rot. clo t(0 be! too particutlar. Yours, festrvely, CORRY O'IANr's. [ B1roolyn EAy(11. IIr.Nr-Trr I~t~ana NC.-A tinr, c'ada verous Jooking Jermnarn, abonrt lift'y years of age, entered tire oflice of a health in. suranice agent and inqynred: "'Ishr to mart irn vat, itnsures te people's hirdts ?" TIhie agent arnswered, "I at-tternd to thrat. bumsiniess..' "'\ell, I v'ant, myi behr nurd o you sharge ?" lsiurd Vt "DIdfl~ernt prices," aniswereud the ager:t. "Iromn three to torin dlilars a year, arid you get. torn doliard a week ina case of .Sickness." "Veil," said Mynrhreer, "I v'ants tori dollars vort" tr tt fIi The agent, inquiiredthel aoo i healt hi. "Vel,. I idh sick all dio time. l's shaust ont, of bed two or tr'ee hrours a tay, and to dloelor say he can't do nothing more good for mre." "If that is tire s'ate of yonr health," retrnerd thre agent-, "we can't insutre it. WVo only insure persons wh~o are ini good At t.is Mynheer bristled tap itn great "You must tink I's a fool. VoL yoru tinrk-.-I come pay you ten dollars for. in st-rormy holts von .1 vas vell ?" WHAT OUvoIT To0 n11 Dorm wrTU Tiul BunArsu.-An old darkey from thre counitry wa s- observed, a day or twvo .ago, mntentily .w atching ihe crowd of ap. plicants for charity at the sorap-house. *res.etly trning to a by-stander, lie exclaiedl: "What I dcy don't feed them big. strong men too, ehi ?" "'Yes "' was the reply. "Well, who does dat thing, I'd like to know ? Who's at. do head of it ?" "The Freedmen's Burear." *"WVell, I swear that feilar' ought to ibe h 1g for 'couaragin sick Iaziness. Dar aim't ii man thtar but what eatnld yearn a hymiu' if hre's a mind to." The negro walke~d ofi in inidignation, leaving thae by-standers improssod wvith thep truth of hris romnarks. Is Mr. Jones ini 2" tiaked an Irish man of the porter Int a hotel. "No," was theo reply, "will you leavo your Danio 2" "Qeh, mitrthaer, do yot1 thlik I'd be affgorgolng bonje wgthout a ntaun ?" A Kentuokiany.who had, after pro.. tracted oourtship, made up his mind tg prooe tQ 4 young .d y,ocarrjed 1 .. resolution into effoet, To .yong lay, w,@h somo,..besitatin,. replied : au'j partially >engego l, but mother 'Iow do yon de ine"'blaoc as your hati 1" - Darkness that ray b6 fdlt. - Inondiary l aagoZ. i tngd that breathe and words that born. Prayer in 'Jourt. Judge R- , relates the follow. ing incident as occurring in the course of his practice: "lie was trying a petty Case, in wlih one of the party was not ab1le to pay counsel fees, and undertook to plead his own cause ; butt Ie found, in the course of the trial, that tho kcon and adroit attorney who :nan. aged the case for the other party, was too much for him in legal strategy, evidently making the worst appear the better cause, The poor inan, Mr. A) ,Was in a state of mind border ing uponidesperation, when the op posing CounIsel closed Iis plea, and the Case was about to be submitted to the justice for decision. ''May it pleauise your honor," said tho Inan, "mlay [ pray T" "Thojudge was taken somew:at by surprise, and could only say that 11o saw n1o objection. Whereipon Mr. A- went down upon his knees, and mado a fervent prayer,in whiich he laid the merits of the case b)eforo the LordI in at very clear and methodical state. ment of all tic particulars, pleading thai riglt and jlstiOe might. prevail. ") Lord ! thou knowest that the lawyor has mislroprosented the facts, and thou knowc.A that it iL so and so -to the enld of the Chalp )ter, "Arguments v.iich hoe could not present in logical orray to tho under. standing of men lie had no difliculty in addressing to tho Lord, being evident ly better versed in praying than pet tifogging. "Wh(en 1he rose from is knees, Es uire V- , tile opposing counsel, very muchi exasperated by the turn the case had taken, said : "Mr. Just-ico, does not the closing argument, belong to me ?1" "To which the judge replied "You canl close with prayer if you please ?", "]'seinire W.-- was ill tie habit of praying at h1om1o, but not scoing the3 propriety of connecting his praver With his practice, wisely forebore, leaving poor A-- to will hisi casc, 11 lie did, by this novel mode of pre senting it.-S .,rk Christian Ad recate. A IeONKLY i';A: Mn.--In iy drink ing day I had a friend Who ht:m(] a 1mn key, which h1'. valfod at a ligli price. We always look him out on our ches nut parties, Ie shook all our cheisnits for us, aml w1e'n 1he conid 10Lot sh1ake them off, lie wolill go to thl very end of the 111111) ,(and knock (hem off with his list. One day we stoppeld at a tavern and drank freely. About a half a glass of whiskey was h-i, and Jack took the glass anld drank its contents. the etfects of' which soon brought him into ill operion-Skipping, h0ppilg and danc lug most entertailingly. Jack wIs drunk. Being six in miber, it. Was agreed diat we should conmo to 1110 tav ern next, and get Jack drunk againi and have sport al lay. I called in t1o morninig at, my friel'd's 1bonse, whlo wenit after Jack. Butl instea'd of being as usual oIi his box, ho was not to be seen. \Ve looked inside, alid there he was cronched up ill a 11ap. "Como olut, lere," said his master. Jack came ou1t; o01 three legs, applying his fore paw to his helad. Jack had the headache. Hto felt julst as I f'!kt many]) a morning. Ite was sick and couldn't go. So we put it, oUT throo days. Woe the)nhmot, and whlile drinking, a gilss was providedi for ,Jack. But where was lhe ? S3kulking beihind the chairs. "'Colmo hero, Jack,'" said blia master, '"and drik. holding a glass onlL to him. Jiack retreated ; and U as tile) (oor openled 1he slipped out, nrg in a nmoment was on top of the~ house3. H is ma)fsterl wenut and called hlim down. 1He, htowe'ver, refused to obey. My friend got a cowskin and shook it, t him, which thle monkey disregarded'. andl conltiumed on the ridlgepole, still obstmnately dIisobePdient. HIis m11aster got a gun and pointed it at him, but utnsuccessfully. lHe tilen got two guns, and had one pointed on eachl side of the bouse, wilen the monkey, sonin~g his bad case, whlipped uponi tile chimney, and got dlown iln 01n0 of thie fintes and held( on by his forepaws. My fritmd kept that monkey t~wolvoe years afteorwards, but cold never provail on him to taste another drop of whiskey.-Liuelc &iOl cr. A "KNtornTLY'' WALKm.1dul-Gris"' of the Cincinnati 7/mces gets off tho fol lowing. A young man who lhas been paying .strict attenltioa to a young lady of this city, with a view to matrimony, or any other money sho may ehance to hlaVe, grew chivalric tile other nighit and off'or od to undertake almost any task, howev or diffcult, to prove i love and dev:o.. lion. "Bid me," said h~e with a truly knightlyrapsody (althongh hue wasn't worthi a rap,) hid ma amo the lion ii... tho jungles, or restraia ana omee-seeker on his way to Washmington, anid I wdll do it. A sk me to cdlib the loftiest peak of tihe H imuleah, or aiddross a. tumnultuous assmembuhly of wvomen's rights wvomeln iln opposition to femaho Bsuflrage, and it is done Command that~ L shild bring snowflakes from the torrid skies of A f. rica. or an iceberg from the Sulphurio waves of-" "Hold," crie:d the maiden, "you Cal) more easily wmil my commendation and( contribute to my pleasure. Tihore is a Youth, Weoston is his name, who,, start. Ing from .ortlandl on tho Maine, is e~ven now stretelhing Is logs with eager intont towardl Chicago. Imitate his noble en. amlpie, and "What ?" XIe iook-the hit, and walked, Fon MIAN AND IE3.-----Itjkgtid that thieason 'why lattlir-~up ' at. the Ballard Hiouse was that he had1( bloardl that the Mossra.i.Ballard looe arn "old Virginia taivol'n6". Tho' wel knowd'esn of sokh ostabl ishune~ts - mnyrInnht for ati ud feast;" IJnguvirer a r g cr.