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And well I know you'll ne'er forget, Whate'er your lot below, That dear old spot we loved so well, Just fifteen years ago. I'm thinking of the school, John, The master, too, so grim, And how when he would turn his back, We twain would mimic him. The master sleeps death's dreamiest sleep, The bright green turf below? Onr childhood's home has vastly changed. Since fifteen years ago. Last summer time I wandered, John, To where we used to play; The school house was not on the hill, The brook had dried away; The old mill-Wheel had ceased to move, The cottage was laid low? The faces were not those we knew Jnst fifteen years ago. t >V,ft ohnrchVftrd. John. 1 WCIUUCtCU VMV v~. V r - -And stepped beyond the wall; The graves were many, and the grass O'er them grew thick and tall; Upon the stones I read the names Of those who slept below, And they were names we loved to speak Just fifteen years ago. With saddened heart I turned away, And gained the dusty road, And from that spot so dear to me, With rapid step I strode; I could not bear to look around, It made me sad to know That all were gone whom he had loved. Just fifteen years ago. My eye3 are wet with tears, John, They are falling while I write, Friends that we loved are cold in death, And I am sad to night; But, John, our sorrows soon will end. Life's stream will cease to flow, And we rest where erst we played, Juet fifteen years ago. Cl)c (Tatar in OEnrojie. THE LATE BATTLE IN EUROPE. New York, July 13. The steamer Etna, which saile-1 from Liverpool on the evening of the 2d instant, (a few hours later than the Canada,) arrived to-day. It is believed in some quarters in Paris that the French loss at the battle of Solferino is about as follows : Neill's division, sis to seven thousand; Hillier's, nearly five thousand; McMahon's, two thousand five hundred; Canrobert's, one thousand; besides casualties to the artilery and other corps. The French people are dissatisfied at the very meagre details Tbo Paris Patrie says that Napoleon had an epaulette shot away. Some of the French regiments were nearly cut to pieces. The Piedmonteso suffered so severely as to be unable to form a line of battle. Vienna, June 28.?Some days must elapse before complete Austrian returns can be procured. Some of the Italian regiments have become very difficult to manage, deserting by scores and fifties. At Trieste, a whole battalion pronounced in favar of Victor Emanuel. A vessel bearing the American flag had been detected iu the act of taking deserters on board. Second Despatch.?It is reported that knfrln nf Sr.lfnrinn nonrlv RVerV officer au luc uavuu vi K/viivi*uv uv*.j ^ and man belonging to the artillery of the Imperial Guard was put horn dc combat. The Austrian accounts admit 20,000 killed, wounded and missing. For several hours, the chances of the battle seemed in favor ol the Austrians, who retook Solferino, but the French rallied and broke the Austian centre and won the victory. Hilliers' corps sus^ tained the attack for three hours before sua cor arrived. Garibaldi was ordered to occupy the up per Valtelioe and the Tynlese were occu pied in fortifying the passes. The military commissions of the Frank fort Diet approve of the demand for mon men for the army of observation. Twenty thousand corpses were buried afte the battle of Solferino, and many more wen lying in the ditches and corn fields. The French were making immense pre parations for operations on the Adriatic.? The French Admiral was about to open hi; sealed orders. Sackville, July 13.?the despatch for warded from Halifax by the horse expres was received to-day. The following is the latest telegraphet from Paris to Liverpool: The Moaiteur publishes the following despatch from the Emperor to the Empress: "Yallego, Friday.?The whole army has passed the Mincio. The Sardinians have invested Peschiera. By the arrival of Prince Napoleon's corps of 35,000, I am enabled to approach Verona without compromising other positions." The Monitenr contains the official bulletin of the battle of Solferino. The enemies' force amounted to from 250,000, to 270,000 men. The French loss amounts to 720 officers and 12,000 men killed and wounded, including 7 colonels and 7 lieutenant colonels killed and five generals wounded. Despatches from Vienna say that the first correspondent asserts that the Austrian loss was ascertained io be 1,900 killed and 100 wounded. A Paris letter gives a few details of the first great battle in Italy. General Neil, with thirty five thousand men and two divisions of cavalry, in all about fifty thousand, were engaged till 4 P. M., when he succeeded in forcing the Austrian centre, after twelve hours' fighting. The Austrians bad brought up their reserves of eighty thousand, and the Allies theirs of fifty thousand. It was a most critical moment.? Three hours more, and the general fightiDg ended to the advantage of the Allies. The Zouaves are said to be much cut up, and the 1st Chasseurs of Algeria terribly treated.? Four generals were wounded and one killed. Fourteen thousand beds have been commanded at Milan for the wounded. The reason why the Austrians crossed the Mincio to fight is attributed to the suggestion of the Prince of Prussia, who said if they gained the battle, the intervention of Prussia would not be needed. If the Allies followed the Austrians across the water that would alter the question. The French government does not appear alarmed at the military movements of Prussia. The garrison on the entire frontier have not been reinforced. Marshall Pelissier has made arrangements with the railways to convey thirty thousand troops from Strasburg withio twelve hours, so that one hundred thousand men may be assembled on the Rhine within thirty-six hours. Paris, June 29.?The Moniteur contains details of the battle of Solferino, but which are reports of the different attacks of the corps d'arm.ee. The Moniteur does not state the number of killed and wounded on either side. "The Austrians on the first retreat across the Mincio desired to inspire us with adventurous confidence. Thus we should deploy our lines to a great extent, and enable them to attack our columns thus distant from each other. But the Emperor without departing from that exalted prudence which regulates courage, the further the army advanced the more the columns strengthened themselves by concentration. Solferino is one of those battles which, if they do not end a war, at least allow the solution to be foreseen. The Emperor of Austria commanded in person, and had thus been able to see of what a nation he had made himself the enemy." Turin 28th.?The Piedmontese Gazette publi&hes official details of the battle of Solferino, written the same evening. Accorto positive information, twenty-five thousand Sardinians held ground against fifty thousand Austrians, who occupied a formidable position, from which they were dislodged by the Sardinians, under the orders of the King. The loss of the Sardinians is said to be about one thousand killed, and same number wounded. The Times' correspondent at Paris reports that a project is opened for mobilizing one 1 1 1 f xl XT_ a.* 1 f\ J nunarea oauauoas 01 ine aciouai uuaru, and re-organizing them for garrison duty.? On the 8th an aide-de-camp of the Emperor Alexander left St. Petersburg for Italy, said to be bearer of an autograph letter from the Czar to the Emperor Napoleon. Chances of Peace.?From Christmas to Easter, Europe was engaged in the endeavor to avoid war and to escape the solution of the Italian question by force of arms. Had Lord Derby been less Austrian, and Austria less obstinate, Francis Joseph might have held his own in Italy at the price of abandoning what belonged to others. By the sacrifice of a few illegal treaties and of an undue influence, the Kaiser might have retained undisturbed possession of the Lombardo Venetian kingdom.? It was not to be so., Austria drew the sword and struck for her wrongs, instead of re maining content with her rights. From Easter to mid-summer the tide of war has rolled eastward, and now the huge w^ve pauses a moment before the last Austrian defence, soon to overwhelm it. Before Michaelmas pen and paper will have their | full scope, diplomacy will be arranging the terms of peace; but not yet. Negotiation is at this moment absurd. It is idle to suppose that Prussia can now step in to arrest the Allies at the Mincio, and save some por; tion of her Italian kingdom for Austria.? France and Sardiniaarepledged to free Italy. 1 It was Austria who appealed to the arbitra1 ment of the sword, and by the fortune of war she must abide. Now, it is scarcely presumptuous, after such a succession of victories, to suppose that the allied arms will succeed in their object. The battle of Solferino has shattered the whole strength of the Austrian army. Peschiera must fall. The Mincio will be in the command of the J Allies. The famous quadrilateral will become a triangle. There remains, then, only r the siege of Verona. This proving succe^s' ful, combined with the advance of Prince Napoleon, of the Adriatic expedition, and - of the gunboats up the Pu, will leave no al ternative to the Austrians but to seek safes ty in the flight. Italy will then be free, and the work of France and Sardinia be nccom plished. JJS?" Solferino, which is now given as the 1 site of the great battle, fought on the 24th Jane, between the Austrians and the French and Sardinians, will be found nearly southeast from Breseca, and distant about twenty miles, and about the same distance southwest from Verona, and near the line of approach from the latest position of the Allies towards the Mincio at Goito.? Charleston Courier. Attempt to Poison Napoleon III.? We take the following extract from the letter of a correspondent of the Providence Journal, dated Florence, June 10th. The story may be true or may not?at all events, it will be new to our readers, and we give it for what it is worth : A nfflopr here tells the following story. He says it has not been printed in the French journals?and certainly we have seen no account?but the fact is known to the army, and the story is true. On Good Friday, if at no other time in the year, all good Catholics partake of the communi on. On that day, the 21st of April last according to his habit, the Emperor was to receive the consecrated wafer in the chapel of the Tuileries. Before going to the chapel, be was told that he must not eat the holy particle that was to be offered him, as it had been prepared with a subtle and malignant poison for the purpose of destroying his life. The informant was a party to the diabolical secret, but horror of conscience and reverence for the Emperor, led him to betray the ; conspiracy. The Emperor knelt at the altar during the mass, but did not eat the bread. When the offico was finished, the officiating priest was invited into the aparti ment of the Empress to partake of a collai tion, while the wafer was submitted to chemical examination- It was found to contain, i as the informant had said, a concentrated poison. The priest is now in a fortress.in Algeria. The soldier says that the priest was an instrument of the Jesuits; but. whether in Italy, Austria, France or England, is not understood. So much for the story. Military Value of Railways.?The German papers express their astonishment at the omission of the Austrians to tear up the railroad track, and so destroy the military means which the French have so utilized. The Vienna Presse, improving the topic, points out tho fact that the French onlrliorc hrniiffhfc nut frnm thfi TfiSerVf! St Montebello, approached so near the scene of action in the trains, that they commenced firing from the windows before they disembarked. Activity of Napoleon.?A private letter from the seat of war says that since the active work began, Napoleon knocks up two horses every day?being in the saddle from 4 o'clock in the morning; and some of his grooms have just reached Paris for a new supply from the imperial stud. His indefatigable inspection of all matters involving supply, commissariat and reinforcements, was the theme of the whole army. jfcaF* The French Emperor employed the brothers Godard to tukc an observation from a balloon of the cosition of the enemy at Castelnedolo. M. Godard rose to a height of from 500 to 700 yards, stopped for a minute or so, and then descended again, with as much regularity as he had shown in ascending. It is believed that the balloon will be a useful auxiliary in the war. Ipscellaiwus A PERILOUS HOUR. I was apprenticed to a decorative painter, but being of a bold, danger loving turn, I ran away to sea before my time was out. After some years of knocking about, I got tired of maritime life, and having married and determined to stick to the shore, I got work with a builder whose peculiar lino lay in erecting tall chimneys. I had always a cool head, and could stand on elevations that made most men dizzy, and so I was soon a favorite hand with my master. We had on one occasion to fasten a lightning conductor, which had sprung, near the top of a very high chimney, and Mr. Staming choose myself and one James Colly to do it, ?.s the most during of his men. About half dozen of us went that morning with a hand-cart, containing the necessary ropes, blocks, the kite, and a box or cradle. Having flown the kite, and dropped its line across the top of the chimney, we soon drew ? i -e Lt. i. up a rope, at toe cnu 01 wmcu wus u ujock, through which ran the line whereby we were to be drawn up. Colly had ODly been married a fortnight, and as we stepped into the cradle, the men banteringly asked him if he hadn't a. last dying speech to leave for bis wife; and Mr. Staming having shaken hands with us, and bid us be cool and steady, we were drawn slowly up. It was known all over the town that the conductor was to be fixed, though as the day was not named, I did not expect we should have had many spectators; but as we got higher, and the view opened tinder our feet, I saw that the streets were thronged with starers. Colly was very quiet; and when I waved my cap to the people, he said snappishly that this was no time for such folly, and that he thought I might think of better things than how to amuse these gaping fools, who he dared say, desired no better fun than to see us meet with an accident. 1 had come up in the best heart, thinking, indeed, nothing about the danger wc incurred ; but us wc drew nearer and nearer1 to the top, and had nothing, as it seemed, belonging to this world nearer to us but j this straining rope, I begun to see the peril of ray undertaking. What Colly thought | of it, 1 don't know?he sat at the bottom of : the cradle, never looking out, though I told him he would do better to keep his eyes about him, so that he might get used to the height. What! What was this ? Here we were within a yard of the top projecting coping, slacking speed in the least! I guessed in a moment that they mistook our height, and that with the great purchase of that windlass the rope would be broken, when the cradle came to the block. I sprang up, and catching the rope, climbed hand over hand to the coping. Colly, too, sprang up and followed me. He, too, got safe; and still they went on winding up, winding up., till the rope sung again with the strain there was upon it. Then it snapped, and cradle, bauling-line, and the main rope, with its block, fell down. Thus were we two' poor men left in a most desperate situation. Poor Colly was completely dazed with affright ; and the moment he got on the coping, which was only a foot and a half broad, ho called out: "Where can I pray? where can I kneel and pray"? and 60 I said, very solemnly: "Sit down, Jem; God will hear us if we pray to him sitting down." The color of his face was a transparent blue; and it was distorted and twitching, as if he was in a fit. His eyes were very wild, and drawn into a squint, and he couldn't sit 6teady, but swayed his body backward and forward, so that I felt certain that he must topple over. "Come, Jem, lad," I said, thinking to take the fright off him ; "it's bad enough, but it can be mended. Hitch up a bit. and put your arm round the rod?onaybe it will steady you." "Where are you ? and where is the rod?" he asked in a very hollow voice, though he was looking straight at me, and the rod was only a foot or two to his left. By this I knew that he was gone blind with the fright; and self-preservation said, Don't go near him ; but then I remembered his new-wedded wife, and that taking him all through he was a very decent fellow; and I thought how I should have liked him to have done if T had been in his case; so I determined to run a bit of risk in his favor. Of course, I durst not get on my feet; but working myself on my hands I got to him, and putting my arm round his waist, and telling him as cheerily as I could to keep cool, I got him with his arm round the rod. It had, however, sprung the stapling for five yards down, and was so loose that it swayed with him, and I expected every minute to see him fall head and heels down, and the rod tearing away with him. There wc? great bustle down below, people were rushing round the yard : and pushing to get in, but as yet there were but some score of men at the foot of the chimney, and by close looking, 1 saw them put somebody on a board, and carry him gently towards the engine-house. One of the men walked n o V\o f in l>io V* o n /I flinn T lrnnnr aiLL! yt il 11 a uat xu uin ijuuu j uiuu x nutn that someoody had been hurt by the falling cradle, and that it must be poor Mr. Staining, as none of our men wore hats. Not a face was turned up to us. I learned afterwards that our men were so taken up with sorrow that so good a man and so kind a master should be killed, that for awhile they had never a thought about us; and the people outside imagined that we had come down with the cradle, so thus were we left in total isolation for full twenty minutes. While I was watching them below feeling very sorry for my poor master I was startled by a wild laugh from Colly, who began making catcalls, and yelling as if be was possessed. Then I knew, of course, that he was gone mad. Even now I tremble when I think of that time; it was horrible to peer down the snatt, black and sooty, and yawning, and scarcely less so to look outside and see a flight of pigeons sweeping round at considerable less height than we were. Then Colly?he was so dazed that he could not see me?called my name three times, as I sat fairly cringing in dread that his sight might clear, and with a ghastly grin, and chewing with his mouth, he began working himself towards me. I worked away from him as noiselessly as I could, with every hair of my head standing on end. He followed me twice round that horrid coping, making most hideous noises, and then being come a second time to the rod, he got an idea in his muddled head that I was fallen over, for he never lost a sense of where he was all through this trying time. Then he tried to get on his feet; but, at the risk of ray own life, I could not let the poor fellow rash on certain death without one more effort; and I cried out for him to sit down, and he cowered down like a whipped dog all trembling. I suppose it had been put into his head that I was a dead man speaking to him. - i i i _ i .ii._ mat morning my wue naa got a lener from hersister in Canada, and as there were parts we could not make out, I had put it in my pocket, intending to get our timekeeper to read it for me. It had a scrap of uncovered paper at the bottom; and by another good Providence, I happened to have a bit of red lead-pencil in my pocket. I wrote on the paper, "Get us down?Colly's gone mad j" this I shut in my tobacco box, and was fortunate enough just to drop at the feet of a couple of men who were standing by the engine-house door. I Directly all was bustle to rescue us. They got the kite up again, and I watched it mounting Blowly?slowly, and when the slack twine fell between Colly and myself, I took it in my hand and could have kissed it. Poor Colly with his teeth chattering, still fancied I was a spirit, and I did all I could to favor that idea until they got another cradle up to us. Then having got him in, I scrambled in myself, and clutching him fast, I shouted for them to lower; and so we were got down, he wrestling and fighting with me all the way. He was in a madhouse for some months, and then went to soavengering, for he never could face any height again; and I never had the same clear head since that adventure.?Chamber's Journal. Is the World a Mistake??One of the saddest mistakes which good people have made is in supposing the world to be a mis^^^^^^^^^eople?and their number is not small?the earth is but a theatre of t pain and sickness, sorrow and death. Joy c is allusive, pleasure a cheat, laughter a mockery, and happiness a thing impossible, c and not even to be looked for on this side ( the grave. The performance of all duty is f the 'taking up' of what they call ?a cross.' t They are actually afraid to be happy, under ( an overshadowing impression that they have t no right to be happy in this life. They he- 8 licve that there is something intrinsically a bad in the world they inhabit and all the s joy that proceeds from it. They have an \ idea that the moral evil which afflicts the i human race has struck in. All the suffer- i ings of the brute oreation?their throes of a labor, and sickness of body, and pains of t death?are so many voices proclaiming the i fatal failure of Adam. Human nature itself \ is an awful thing. God is a great lawgiver, t an inexorable avenger, an awful judge, a 1 Being to be feared more than loved. Life s is a trial?severe, unrelenting, perpetual.? f All that seems good and graceful and glori- c ous in the world is a hollow sham, for the deception of the unwary and the ruin of the s unwise. i ? ? THE OLD TURNPIKE. j Wo hear no more of the clinking hoof, * And the stage coach rattling by; For the steam king rnles the traveling world, ^ And the old pike's left to die, C The grass creeps o'er the flinty path, a And the stealthy daises steal Where once the stage horse, day by day, ' Lifted his iron heel. No more the weary stager dreads The toll of coming morn; c No more the bustling landlord runs ' At the sound of the echoing horn. For the dust lies still upon <he road, And the bright eyed children play Where once the chattering hoof and wheel Rattled along the way. No more do we hear the cracking whip, Or the strong wheel's rumbling sound : And ho! the water drives ns on. And an iron horse is bound! The coach stands rusting in the yard, And the horse has sought the plow, 1 We have spanned the world with on iron rail, And the steam king rules us now! The tfhl turnpike is a pike no more, ] Wide open stands the gate ; We have made us a road for our horses to stride, And we ride at a flying rate ; We have filled the vallev and leveled the hills, And tunneled the mountain's side. And r6und the rongh crag's dizzy verge Fearlessly now wo ride. ' i Oh! on with a haughty front! A puff, a shriek a bound? While tardy echoes wake too late < To babble back the sound. i And the old pike road is left alone, And the stagers seek the plow; We have circled the world with an iron rail, And the steam king rules us now. i DANCING. | Rev. J. II. Brookes, late of Dayton. Ohio, | and now pastor of the Second Church, of St. Louis, lately preached a sermon on dan- | cing, of which the St. Louis Presbyterian ( gives the following: ? It is contended, he s&id, by those who are in'favor of dancing, that it is no greater sin than for a party of ladies to meet together j and gossip. In the first place, replied Mr. y B., Christian ladies don't gossip. But look- ? ing at this as an argument, one who had ( told a falsehood might as well endeavor to i excuse himself by saying that it was no more j sin to lie than to steal. j Dancing is alluded to in the Bible something over twenty times; but in about all ' the cases in connection with idol or other . worship, in the open air, and not with the mingling of the sexes. David danced before the ark, and was reproached for his folly. Herodias danced and John the Baptist lost his head. However, it was not because of its b"ing a sin in itself \ that dancing has ever been condemned by the good of all de- < nominations, but because of its associations i and tendencies. A young man, said Mr. B., i in my former charge, was arraigned before j the session on the four charges of dancing, going to the theatre, intoxication, and pro- 1 fane swearing. On his arraignment, he con- j fessed his shame and sorrow on account of < the three latter charges. As to dancing, he would yield nothing.- By tender counsel, however, and a few days' thought upon the subject, the young man made a confession, ' which made the dancing the greatest of all < the sins for which he had been arraigned, as 1 it was the associations of the dance which ' led him, step by step, to the commission of ' the whole! ' Again: There is nothing that warrants < the supposition that dancing is a duty; such i being the case, it is not likely that any young 1 man or young lady, before going to dance, ' can or does ask God's blessing thereon.? 1 Nay more, when returning therefrom, weary, I or excited by the hilarity of the occasion, 1 it is rot likely that the mind and heart can ] be quietly and sweetly turned upon God and ' heaven, and the soul put in proper prepara- | tion to meet its Judge, if called away be- 1 fore the dawn. i We are enjoined to abstain from 'the appearance of evil;' and as there is much in the associations of the dance, such as the < dress, the dissipating tendency, the light I conversations, the captivating enchainment < of the affections towards gaiety and world- I ly pleasure, it must be that dancing has i the appearance of evil. As Christians, there- . " ?_ 1 1 J x- C lore, we are in amy douuu to rciraiu uuui > it. i In this connection, it maybe urged that danciog may be engaged in without excess, and consequently no harm can ensue. Facts, however, substantiate the assertion, that the taste for it increases with every new participation, until the young lady or gentleman who began it in the parlor, longs for it in the largest and most fashionable assmbly. Again : The relish for dancing is a dangerous sign, betokening a heart more allied to,levity and worldly pleasure, than to humble and prayerful consecration to Christ and his cause. It is also a grief to many of God's people, who regard it as an unquestionable wrong. And if Paul could say, <If eating meat cause my brother to offend, I will eat qo meat while the world stand,' is it not olwrly the Chris ian's duty to be carefal 'lest he offend one a if these little ones V b In the days of persecution for righteous- if less' sake, there was something to try the christian. Now, a profession of religion is K)pular, and all may be churoh members by aaking apparently but little sacrifice for ^ Christ. Dancing seems almost the only b hing whereby the young Christian may o how a spirit of non-conformity to the world; b i thing which even non-professors them- b elves say is their portion, and with which ^ rhich the Christian should not interfere.? * \nd that young Christian girl who engages t n it, does so not only at the expense of her B onl's interests, bat at the expense of the es- 6 eem and respeotfnl regard of the very yonng b nan who requests her hand in the giddy 11 vhirl. And al*s! how sadly does the vir- 1 nnns maiden, (christian or not. compromise * " """ 7 " ~ * * ler modesty in having her waist encircled, * is is too often the case, by some debauched * bp, who is her partner in the immodest d lance! In conclusion, Mr. Brookes said he was 1 torry that there had been ohurch members a vho had not been guiltless in this matter, ? tnd hence the presentation of the whole sub- 1 ect. At a recent meeting of this session, ' he question had come before its members, 1 vho deemed it their duty to advise the 8 ihurch against such things, as being incon- t istent, not only with the welfare, but with 1 he discipline of the ohurch. Peace.?A soldier was wounded in one ' if the battles of the Crimea, and was carried ^ mt of the field. He felt that his wound was e nortal, that life was quickly ebbing away; 8 tnd he said to his comrades who were carry- ^ ng him : 'Put me down: do not take the rouble to carry me any farther: I am dy- * They put him down, and returned to the ield. A few minutes after an officer saw ( he man weltering in his blood, and asked ( lim if he could do any thing for him. 'Nothing, thank you.' 'Shall I get you a little water ?' said the : jind-hearted officer. 'No, thank you: I am dying.' 'Is there nothing I can do for you ? Shall [ write to your friends?' 'I have do friends you can write to. But there is one thing for which I would be much obliged: in my knapsack you will find i Testament; will you open it at the 14th of John ? and near the end of the chapter you will find a verse that begins with 'Peace.' Will you read it ?' The officer did so, and read the words: 'Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I anto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.' 'Thank you, sir,' said the dying man; 'I bave that peace; I am going to that Saviour; - ? -?? T wry nn^ n\A*A on/1 111 jroa IB Willi llic j x. rrauu uu uiuiu y uuu tu- | itantly expired. Railroad Slaughters.?Referring to ta- ) }les, regularly kept in that establishment, j ;he N. Y. Herald finds the number of per- j sons killed and wounded by railroad aeoidents t iuring the last six years and a half in the United States recorded as follows, and contrasting very unfavorably with similar tables t for Europe: ( Killed. Wounded. ; 185 3 234 495 185 4 186 598 ' 185 5 119 539 185 6 195 629 , '<>? 150 rtfio 1 www 1858 119 417 1859, six months 72 214 Total 1,052 8,414 The killed and wounded by similar accidents in England, France, Belgium and Germany, during the six years from the beginning of 1850 to the close of 1855, only amounted to the following figures: Killed. Wounded. Belgium 85 64 England 300 1,200 France 71 149 [ Germany 11 214 i Total 417 1,425 j This, says the Herald, shows a fearful j kulnnnft nf homicides against the railroad companies of the United States. Twice and i half as many killed and nearly thrice as many wounded here as in fourgreat countries Europe, each of two of them greatly exceeding the American Republic in population, and one of them being at least equal to * it in the number of inhabitants. How is y this to be explained? What have the railway directors to say for themselves in reply to this indictment? What rrason is there more lives should be lost by railroads here than in any country of Europe with the same l population ? None whatever. Now, the ? x?i? loss of life and nmD is aoouciweive wuicaoa ( great here as in the countries of Europe : when the comparative population is taken j into the account. ( Snatching at Straws.?Standing in a ? shop door with a friend the other morning, ? be wished to wager us that the next three ? men that passed would bear straws in their hands. 'Is there a bale of straw lyining upon the side walk up the street ?' we asked. t Laughing, he answered, 'There is.' True ( enough, of the six persons who came along, ] 5ve had straws in their hands, which they t were toying with or nibbling between their j teeth. The sixth, occupied with his own j thoughts, pushed gravely on, paying no heed < to such trifles as wisps or spears of straw.? j Here, then, was a decided display of charac- ; ter. The firet straw bearers were either men at ease in mind and body, or they are easily diverted from their course, by any chance ( allurement that crosses their path. Number j six is more sure to look after number ooe, ] and more likely to succeed in business affairs ] of the world than either of the others, but ( he may not be so happy at heart. He is ( intent upon some enduring pursuit. He has , no thought of pleasure or the by play of life *nd is looking strictly and straight forward after the main chance. Straws, it is said, . show which way the wind blows, and the i ame liittle indexes may point as clearly tbe ias and course of hnman character. This 3 one morality by the shop door. Shooting Affair.?On Friday evening ist, Owen Norment inflicted on Charles 'ittemary a mortal wound, of which j^ohnd ie died on Sunday night last. Th^ oanse f this affair is said to be: that Tittemary iad made some charges against Norment's lonesty. They met at Quinn's Grocery and torment asked Tittemary if he still persised in making those charges. On replying hat he did, Norment deliberately pnt s cap ipon his rifle, which he had previously loadd, and shot him, the ball entering just a ove the left nipple and going through him to the wall, making a horrid wound. Titemary was sitting and smoking, and alhongb he most have seen Norment making hese preparations, yet he did not notice them, liter he was shot he remarked he way lead man and fell over. Norment was entered to make his escape. The Sheriff be g oat of town no effort was made, as far 8 we have heard, to arrest him. On Satarlay the Sheriff had bills printed, aod sent various directions, bat as he was not anhorized to offer a reward, they will be of ittle service. This is the second case of hootin?. which resulted in death, that has oj ~ ?T?'.JTT ~~7~ ?een perpetrated In that boose and within wo feet of each other.?Charlotte Whig. Criticism.?There is a well-known faile told of an ancient painter who opened a >icture to public criticism, requesting that ivery person who observed a fanlt would put k mark upon it. When the artist came, in he evening, to take his paintgpg home, he ound it one mass of marks of disapprobaion. Every critic had found in it somehing to condemn. The next day having rarefully erased the marks, the painter again lisplayed his work of art, requesting that svery beholder who noticed a beauty would )ut a mark upon it. At evening, he found he canvass was covered with signs of approration. Every part had found its admirers n similar touches with those that had, only he day previous, been condemned by the sritics. Is not this fable true of the world 0 day ? Do not the majority of those who sriticise, either to praise or condemn, follow rach one, the bias of their own taste, rather ban any just standard of literature or art? Power oe Love.?Thackeray sayB that <when a man is in love with one woman in 1 family, it is astonishing how fond he besomes of every person connected with it.? 3e ingratiates himself with the maids; he s bland with the butler; he interests himlelf with the footman ; he runs on errands 'or the daughters; he gives and lends mon* ;y to the young son at college; he pats lit* ,le dogs which he would kick otherwise; he imiles at old stories which would make him jreak out in yawns were they uttered by iny one but papa; he bears even with the jontankerous old maiden aunt; he beats ime when darlicg little fanny performs her jiece on the piano; and smiles when wicked, ively little Bobby upsets the coffee over his .I.;**? An Impostor.?-We have been requested o re-publish the following, from the Owurlian of yesterday. We lean that the same dividual was in Columbia, and imposed jpon the Masonic fraternity in this place: "A correspondent of the Savannah Republican warns the public generaHyand the Masonic fraternity particularly, against a man who has been travelling under the name jf Dr. A. P. Jones, alias Wilson, and by his plausible, insinuating manner, deluding imiable and unsuspecting members of the fraternity, eztortiog from them considerable mms of money. We hope he will soon cease ? be so obiquitous in his character." Carolinian. Population.?The whole North Ameri;an Continent has only 36,000,000 of inhabtacts, hardly as much as France or Austria, rhe whole of Central and South America ias only 23,000,000; less, then, than Italy. European Prussia, with its 60,000,000, has is many inhabitants as America, Australia ind Polynesia, together. More people live n London than in all Australia and Polylesia. China proper has more inhabitants ban America, Australia and Africa put together, and India has nearly three times as Dany inhabitants as the whole of the New iVorld. * Monthly Bank Reports.?We shall mblish in our next issue the monthly report >f the Comptroller General. The Mercury uakes the following comments on it: "A decrease in the total of liabilities and if resources of 81,187,344 83; a decrease n circulation of 8981,094 50; a decrease n deposits of 8435,300 97; a decrease in . i f an<n 99. .. lomestic excnange ui wm,uiu oa , au >u:rease of specie on band of 8617,664 33; in increase in discounts of 8392,231 14; tnd an increase in foreign exoh&nge of 827,168 55.?Carolinian. Official Vote of Virginia.?Tbe Richnond papers publish the official vote for Governor of Virginia, with tbe exception of Boone, Brooke and Elizabeth City, and from bese the votes are given, which are believed ;o be correct and reliable. Letcher's maority is only 5,470. The falling off in the Dpposition vote 1,711. The aggregate vote s 148,756; in 1845, (Presidential election,) 150,483, and in 1856, 156,629. Arkansas Currency.?After the 4th )f July it will be unlawful for any person to pass or receive in the State of Arkansas any bank bill of less denomination than ten dollars. After the 4th of July, 1860, no bill }f a less denomination than twenty dollars can be put or kept in circulation. This is approximating to a specie currency. Worth Knowing.?A hot shovel held over burnished furniture, will take out white spots.