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XV. t'RAIU. BVS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ir.millbt Jurnithtdtt Thru Dollurt J, if, 'J r""m " . p "Wi. ih end of Me year. f'J ..... iitetotinutd until all arrearage! u,if ' 'i""" 0f""Pu 0""'r- i5 For the At gut. erfi MMr undrdicattd Album ttyled "Th. u utnttr Bird," and ae-ompunud by a cot- ,i,Mck tiny ""' p,f' . ., With wi"lf unruffled, unspoHeo. To nw ' l""1' eo,n,i h. ji wilh ull unbliilled, At anfe when iu erran le ero done. P0w u He "H 'ii"i Tlx wonli itiui l Ihi it will beer, Ktwr n'y opiniom , , Obtrude up.ai ear rj eo fuir. jj, ' thought kind Inkm (A r" !"' eai4el of truth), Of livt u-1 wun lu be broken, An off'' i";? fruin 'r "f ln youth. Theae graceful flow'lols I wild ihee, All niiivnof Oregon "a clmit. May wiaHom ever il'l llii 'I'lij heart for her Irulhe bo ehrine. 1SC0. Zalkiwa. jj. dm aide of 1 el lwitij alrean, An U'ly gentleman ait, On ibo top of hie h. d w.ie his w:g, On tbo lp of hit w g o liii hut. The wind it blew higli nd blew elmng Aa ihU elderly ( ntlenmn out, u ii look from Ilia bend in trio Ami be w iu llio river hie lint. Jsow race took commilid of hie breaat, An Ibio rlder'y geiilleiiien t. For ho drain in the rivor hie w g In alU-mpliiif h'p't out hit lint. Ilia breaat it g" Mek w'lh deapiiir, Aud luil in hie eve miidnrai ant, So ho threw in tho rivi-r Ilia cane Toewim wmIi hia nrinnd baluiL . Cool reflection At leiiRih enmo ncrocx, Aa llna elderly Kiiirin:iu oat, Sulio Ihoiifhllie would liillow the atruiin, And pick up hia wig, cane, and hat. Ilia head being lnrgr tli.m com nun, 0 er-b ilamfd tho rout of Ii a fat, 80 in lunifi liia Mil of a woin.iii, aw in with hi w g. emir, and hat. For the Argut. K Drrtated liaadlJale. I spent two of tho hottest summer niontliH in tlic liijjlilumlH almost the hi(rli it lands of New York. From witiw jKiinls I could overlook tereml counties nt once. Rome, Syracuse, mid Utiia were in tight licluw me, and 11 round thum strctclied the iltcnwtinj fields of grain mid tiiulier, Ike clieckcr-bourd. Just to tlio nurtli, ami almost beneath my feet, was Oneida Lake, surrounded with village aud dotted vilb tails sometimes glorious In the sun, Minetimes covered with a atorm. Pfterboro, a little villngc of three or four hundred iuhiibituiits oelebriited only m the residence of Gerrit Smith, lute Ab tilitiou candidate lor the Presidency was lli center of my rutublea. A lar;a dis trict of country about it was bought of the IuJ'sn owners by the father of Mr. Smith, before any settlement! were Hindu in this part of the Stute, and enough of the es tate to constitute immense weulth has de scended to the sou. About the center of the village stands 1 he family mansion, a hrg yellow frame house. Pirlmps six irrei of ground around it ore enclosed by n iron miling as a garden. These grounds are more ileiimnt than any others that I hire seen uear them. I never failed, on tiniling Peterboro, to refresh myself among tfaeir flowers and trees and summer-house. And whut this estate it to its neighbors, Mr. Smith is to his. In personal presence be is king of all the men that I ever saw; d jet, after a strict analysis, it is not easy to sny why. His body is large, but ot very lull, and the head rests upon the diouldcrs apparently without the interven tion of any neck. Long hair, slightly tinjTtd with grey, fulls down, just touching the ihaulders. A very long, heavy beard, little lighter than the hair originally, and little whiter now, floats upon his breast. The forehead is full, especially over the brows, Utt grows singularly narrow at the lop, leaving a line of prominence in the nidiile. Hig roiign'fiecnt eyes stand out front the cheeks, glowing with a fire, but rather waning light. One does not feel the full force of his presenee till in conver sion. The heavy, but kindly encourag ing tones, the hearty shake of his hand, give ono a feeling of ease, but not of fumil J'fi'y. His voice and gesture are full of persuasive magnetising one feels ready to anything, and there is no need of a command. ' Mr. Smith's character corresponds well ith one's first impressions of him. Ills gtnerosity ail( lurge-heartedness are not' meisnred by his income; they have reached "d reduced the principle. But there must " radical defect more dangerous than Mctssive generosity to produce a life of little public benefit flowing from a "fetimt f public work. His influence 9vf others has not only been unhappy, 0at its result have been bitter to himself; d be now stands on the cold side of life 1 discouraged and disappointed man. Tbif defect of character was from the first ant of firmness, an eccentricity of con ation. Since early manhood bt has P"ed through nearly every phase of po fricaj epinion, from the extreme indiffer- wealthy slaveholder, to the el dest AKelitionisra. Religiously, in ear jTjife, a Presbyterian, he bai passed snc 'ly through the phases of Sabbata- "a-luru. bantism with tKa Rim to ilia ,r, nO-churchim 11 ortladaxy. In his advocacy of all ! range and common thing, be has ! Btrd nany fine tentencc, bot there is a j dv d. ilje A Weekly Newspaper, devoted to the Interests of the Laboring Chides, and advocating the Vol. VI. want of tangibility, of firmness, in his rea soning, wh clt corresponds will with this infirmity of character. His logic is always suggestive, but never demonstrative it seldom deals In statistics and facts. Gifted with deep love to all men, and deep -pity, not htc, for wroug, his eloquence Is simply an appeal to these intuitions. And now, an nld mun, he is just burning that men are not to be moved in this way. Fur several years he has owned a house in which he and his friends meet on the Sabbath. Originally a pustor was em played, but as Mr. Smith stepped further into infidelity tho Sublimit exercises took a more disorderly aud irregular aspect the pnstor was dismissed, and Unitarians, Universulista, Spiritualists, Free Lovers, Abolitionists, or, when th-y could not be had, Mr. Smith hiaiself, filled tho pulpit. In the afternoon a free discussion is held by all who choose to take part, on any topic that may casually nrise. Of course, such freedom of speech cannot fuil to call out the smallest aud most riotous spirits of tho neighborhood. I attended one of these meetings, which, I understood, was rather a favorable specimen of them. Rev. Mr. C, brother of a noted New York anti- slavery divine now in Europe, delivered n plea for the church nnti slavery society. I think if the doctors should dissect him, they would not find any luuk-bnue; at least his plea was remarkable for its con cession to the nnti church sentiment of the place. At its conclusion, a resolution of co-operntmu with the society was present ed, and I5ro. P., ringleader of the church, responded, violently abusing Cnristiunity for not having long ago abolished shivery. The first reasonable, step toward abolition was addition of tho churches. Now there wi s present a man funiiliarly known us Old II, who, having once been a Weshyun, but losing the pearl of his pro fession, st.ll retained the shell, and mtiu tained it against all comers. He had for merly attended all the Sunday discussions, milking it a point to controvert everything thut was said in disparagement of the churches, and as the largest freedom was allnwid to nil, he could not be silenced, till Mr. Smith ofll-rvd him fifty outs a Sunday to keep still in meeting. Whether it was thut the fifty cents had not been forthcom ing on this particular Sunday or not, I do not know, but no sooner had Bro. P. done, than Old II. sprang to his feet, and replied with a volley of personal crimination. He was followed by squibs of abuse from nil parts of the house, amid which Mr. Smith But unmoved, and the scene was con tinued for about an hour and a half. Such a succession of novelties as have been brought thus before the people of Peterboro could not fuil to attract the flouting church goers, and too often church members. Tliey have created a taste for new things, even the most vulgar. The effect hus been particularly bad on the young; though since Mr. Smith's insanity the folly of a crazy muu preaching the Religion of Reason has opened the eyes of many, and his once unbounded control of them seems to be lost. His benevolence has called around him a class of low, vi cious families, who are n curse to the place. Mr. Smith's fnnaticul opposition to ull religion seems only to increase with years. After his nomination for tho Presidency, he published a politico-religious sermon of such a crazy character that Goodell, can didate for the Vice Presidency on the Ab olit on ticket, op nly opposed him. Hamilton, N. V.. Nov. 5, I860. r. J. OtSctat Vol r Orrioa. CountiM. L.neoin. Ur.-ck. Dunn. Bell. Cluckamas 409 324 173 2 Clatsop C8 29 38 Columbia 50 32 42 Wa.co 168 255 148 2 Multnomah 571 261 364 5 Tillamook 11 13 8 Washington 360 135 140 3 Yamhill 420 216 214 7 Marian 598 286 865 17 Pulk 180 215 390 4 T,j,i 580 671 312 5 lt,...tnn 202 381 140 3 ion. 492 555 166 8 Twin's 321 502 288 23 1 151 75 72 3 Coos. I An .1 e n 1 1 Vi u a 42 53 69 6 394 675 406 88 , 261 371 221 32 Curry Jackson Josephine. . . Total 5315 5075 4131 211 Thayer, for Congress, received 4,099 votes. The vote for the various electoral candi dates was as follows: L1XCOLN. Dryer, Pengra, Welkins, Smith, Douthit, O'Meara, Fnrrar, Hayden, Bruce, " 5.329 5.345 5,343 5,075 5,071 5,06? 4.131 4.131 4,131 BRBCEIKRIPGI. DOCG1.AS. BELL. Ellsworth, Greer, Rose, 213 211 210 xtp it OliKflON CITY, OREGON, DKCKMBEK 22, Oxi or Xapoi.kon' Solpikm. In the town of Ludlow (Mass.) there is living I soh licrof Nopohon, past eighty years 0f . in it 11 . . named Geo. Hyues. He entered Iha ...nl. ........ I.. I IrttL .1 age, French army iu 1795, ilien not quite fifteen, aud continued a soldier till near tho close of tho Russiuu campaign. He was repeat edly wounded. ll fought at Austerlitz, Eyhiu, Marengo and Borodino. He was present as a cavalry soldier nt tho terrible crowing of the bridge of Lodi was wound ed in the engagement, uud three of bis brothers slain. . lie attended Napoleon in his expedition to Egypt, and will, painful interest recalls' tho siege of Acre the forced march ucro the burning sands of the desert the thirst and hunger experieuc ed, and the skirmishing with the Mamelukes that ever harassed their flunk and rear. He was witb the French army upon its entrance into Moscow. Rim Madr or Women's Hair. The Stockton Rcpnbl can learns that Mr. Con nelly, who lias just arrived from Fort Smith, Arkansas, tin Salt Lake, reports having seen a Texiaa purchase a riata one hundred feet in length, from an Indian, for which he paid $20. Tne hair of which it was made was shorn from the head of the women who were slain at the ever-to-be-remembered massacre of the Mountain Meadows. This gentlemau states that the riata was one of the most beautiful speci mens he ever bclicM. even while the scene nf the cold-blooded slaughter rose to his view us he looked upon this trophy of the savages and their Mormon ullies, worse than savages. MtssoiRt. As the Tribune properly says, we beg leave to assure the Express that Missouri is not going out of the Union ut all; she is 'toying, and mil stay. She ha over 150,000 voters, not outciith of whom are slaveholders, and the dispro portion is increasing every day. The slaveholders can go, if they please, but the State and masses do not think of it. Her " interest" will make her a Free State, in less than ten years. Even now, if all her .-lares could be sent to Huyti or Guinea, and the State thus mndo free, her In ml would srll for millions more than laud and slaves together are worth today. Her white freenvn w II comprehend these truths long before her fire-enters get her to th'ltk of going out of the Union. St. L. Lcm. J6T A eond anecdote is told of Mrs. Patterson, of Riiltimoiv, the lady connected with the Bonaparte family by marriage. Ileing in Italy, at an evening party, it fell to her lot to be handed into tho mipper table by a young English nobleman who had a good slmn nf the puppy in his com pos' t 'on. Thinking to quiz the old ludy, he said; "Yon nra acquainted with the Americans, I believe." "Very well" " A monstrously vulgar people, aren't they?'' "Yes; but what could yon expect when yon consider that they nre descended from th English? Hart their progenitors, now, been Italians or Spaniards, we nvght look for some good breeding among them." The nobleman did not venture to address Mrs. Patterson again that evening. JfirThe New Orleans Delta thinks " the great danger in Mr. Lincoln's election is that he will administer the government honestly, and therefore insure the continued strength of tho Republican party." There may be danger in au honest administration of the government. It has, been so limg since honesty in the General Government was perceptible that the people don't know whether there is danger in tho element or not. DaUUERREOTYPK Hi" IitRHTNINO. On the 16th of Auirust last a flush of lichtiiiug si rui k a wind mill at Lnppion, in France, in winch there was a female, who was killed by the electric fluid, nnd ou whose hody there was left a picture of a neighbor ing tree, with nil its branches and leaves complete. This singular tattooing by the lightning was seen and attested by medxal examiners nnd the municipul authorities of the place. S8r The new Lindell Hotel, et St Louis, will cost aver $600,000. It is the l.irirest hoiel in the world. The front on Washington street is 212 feet, and its depth is 227 fret. It wi'l easily accommo date 1200 k-nests, and tho boarders can tnke a walknfnmde and a half, before breakfast, by going through the several halls, no one of them twice. py- The Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher, who cast his first vote for Washington, was tnk n by h; son on Tuesday to the polls in Brooklyn, that he might cast his last vote for Lincoln. As the venerable man, with flowing and silvery loeks, entered the room, the crowd parted right and left and silently made way for him. t&" Garibaldi had all the police agents of the King of XnpUs sent to the island af Tremiti. He could not set them at lilier- ty, nor did they even wish to be set ul. liberty, for the people would at once tear them in pieces. By a special decree hei , ,. ,. ' ,. f,K. Wt. suppressed all the conv,U of the Jeo.ts i and confiscated meir propeny w me use the State. Delightful Plac. Of thirty-six tTaves . Vipni." Hit iin.-tv-fire are ocenpied by bodies of persons killed by violence. So it taifl. UJOnirh IDe WCl It IO ouwi-,iiu ling for belief. Kroai llio Uli m.io Patriot, (.Ml. 9ili Tlia fust approaching t,oiiumm.il!',ii (the .fl'lion or Lncoln). which in now u.lm.lte.l by evfit the ew ioik HernM, will huvi LJ, ,.Hht w,i(., ,,0; Mrt wi, . I VO' IU I agree, Is Ueairuiile. It will Dually solve the question, and forever, we Uoh, set it ut rast, whether the luwful elect ion of any citizen to tlia Presidency, according to t'ie mode required by the Constitution and the laws, Is a sufficient reason for au attempt to dissolve the Union, If it be if any tniunrity, can thus, at their pleasure, aud because a inijorily, according lo law, docs not choose toaubiu.t In the minority V partisan dotation, renounce their allegiance, refuse to p'-riiiit, within their borders, the execution of the United Stales laws, and rise in rebellion, vh'ch tiinniit hi put tluwa at homr amn-ig the in-irlr-m or prevented by the sensible and patriotic men of the South: then we suy, this Union is not worth haviiur. Ilett'-r that it should be dissolved M'm that it thonld continue only at a pita nf tier t ion ttrint liicktey, to be. difalvrd by Demo crat, every four years, became they art refilled rantrot of it. Wi nf course have no fear In regard to it. We choose to believe that the greatest tiosi-ihln diiuuer which could urine, to the safety and continuance of the Union, iconlJ remit from t'ie er7" nf Mr. ISretkinriilgei nnd the renewal and aguriivatinu of the Slavery agitation, by the attempt to " pro tect" it iu the Territories now free. But we happen to believe, also, that even thut misfortune would not dissolve the Union; and we rather incline to the further opinion, that a Union vluch could vnwlnnd that auault upon tho npi'it and intention of . Irtnie who founded it, will not wither or de cay under the election oj Mr. Lincoln. Facts and Figcres. In an arliclu npon the census, the New Orleans Picayune makes the following estimate. The P. .'tins are sturtling: " Taking tho estimated increase of slavrs into calculation, the numerical power in the south will bo enlarged, but the rate of in crease will still be found lo be very decided ly with the North. The whites in both sections increase at the average rutc of about thirty-seven ar.d a half per cent, in every ten years. The representative population will be 29,099,570, of which the noii-slavcholding States will have 18,326,744 and the slave States 10,759,823. The proportions of political power, therefore, in the popular brunch of Congress, between the North aud the South, will be nearly as 63 to 37. With this increase iu tho same ratio, the number within tho United States in 1870 will be 5,360,000, and digressing fractions, will be as follows, at successive enumera tions: In 1880, 7,000,000; 1890, 9,100,000; 1900, 11,800,000; 1910, 15,000,000, and having nearly quadrupled iiself in fifty years, and in the lifetime of those who are now bom, it may reach to 50,000,000." A Great Battle. At length we have details of the bloody buttle of Vulturno, where the wonderful Garibaldi secured a victory along his whole line. After n drs perate fight of eight hours, tho Liberator, lending his forces with revolver in hand, completely routed his greatly superior Neapolitan assailant!,, and pursued them close under the walls of Capua. The loss of the Royulists is estimated at 3,000 killed and wounded, and 5,000 prisoners. A brigade of Germans was cut off from the main body of tho Neapolitan army and driven to the mountains. The Royalists attempted their rescue, but were repulsed. The King of Naples aud his brothers were present at the battle. Coal and Pkarls in Kansas. A gentleman writes from Clinton, Douglas county, to his brother in Erie county, Ohio, thut the drying up of the bed of a creek discovered a valuable, roal bunk on his farm, and that his family had gathered four hundred pearls, and had clams enough on the bank for three hundred morel They av erage over a pearl to eight clams; most of them are small, some very brilliant, some giving out rainbow hues, others nf a brown ish celor. Two sent to a Sanduky jeweler are pronounced genuine and valuable. t& Rev. Howard Malcmn, D. D., late President of the University of Lewisbnrgh, Ph., and formerly a missionary in Burmuh, in a rectnt communication, states that the Burmese Retrotricinu wells nre about two and a half miles from Irrawady, and nbiiut three hundred mile from its mmuh. Th y are two and a Imlf (ect in diameter, u.id three hundred feet deep, and liavn been worked for ages without railing in any resiect. Each well y elds aliout lour Inin dred pounds of oil per day, besides large quantities of water. The temperature of tlia o.l, as received in the buckets, ts ninety degrees JOT De Bow's mortality statistics, conv piled from the last census, show that the neonle of the United Slates nre the leni thirst on the globe. The deaths are 320, - 000 per year, or one and a half per cent, of 'he p.ilution. In Emland the ratio is nearly two per cent. Virginia and North J. J "of M(j 638 jn,bitunts over 100 yeart, Tie Counte.M of St. Germans, wife of the Earl of St. Germans, attached to . the suite of the Princo of Wale, is a grand dnnghtrr of the Marqnis Comwallis u'luuiauucu mo uiiiuu tiwyw i l mi 1 ' 1 side of Truth in every iasue. I860. No. 37. ra aorirni af Mr. aaa Mr. Uarala. Though descriptions of Mr. Lincoln's fca' lures, hit lamlly aud dwelling, have abound- ,i I.;. I. ..I. I. I I..-. I -l-.-l ....!.. which uo una juav iicrn riecicu, our n-aiit-rv will not be displeased with the following skilcKr by a Springfield correspondent of a New Yoi k paper: The visitor is ushered Into a moderately wide hull, either side of which doors lead to the rooms of the mansion. The one in which visitors are usually rcciired con tains a library of law aud miscellaneous booke, and upon the opposite side it the druwin room, simply yet elegantly furulah ed, and commanding an outlook upon the garden, which, though blcuk enough at this season of the year, must, In the summer, be extremely beautiful. Everything ubout tho house betokens the residence of the well-to-do, comfortuble citizen of the West. Lincoln himself has been so often describ ed, to often crayoned, painted, pencil rketehed and photographed, that hit per tunnel ought, by this time, to be tolerably familiar to thut muuy-heuded monster, the general public. One cannot lay his hand upon his bosom and say that Old Abo it a handsome muu; but there be those, aud judicious observers, too, who would hesi tate before pronouncing him ugly. His face is qti'ck and niob.le in expression, his eyes, dark and lustrous, set deeply in his bend, l.ke S'elister'a, spsuk belore his bps are 0cncd. His chit k bones are high aud prominent: the lower portion of hit face thin and drawn into bard wrinkles. The deep lines around hit mouth are probably as good a certificate as one would desire of that strenuous toil through which he hus made hit way up to fame. His great stuturc six feet nnd three Inches gives him an aspvet of lunkuess and thinness wh'ch does grave injustice to hit really slulwert, commanding proportions. He has a general reputation, wherever he is known, of being as " tough us whip cord.'1 The qualifications for legal cmiuence at the West were, iu the early days, partly mils cular. It not iiiifrequently occurred, that the presiding Judge found it necessary to dismiss the Court for a time, in order to flog relrnclory witnesses, or impress upon boisterous counselors the fact, that if resja-ct was not due to the judicial iicum-n of the Court, nt least its ability in a rough and tumble fight was not to be disputed. It is not probable that Old Abe ever fo.ind it necessary to cap hit arguments by thrash ing the oppnsing counsel, but had ho ever done so, all I enn say is, I would much rather not huvo been that counsel. Legends of his prowess, iu the days when he adorned the pursuits of flutboat n ivigntion, nre yet current among his early companions. I'roimhly to his piiyscul courage nnd daring he was indebted for his accession to leadership during the early Indian troubles on the frontier. His capacity as a leader was often tried during those short campaigns in the wilderness, uud was never found wanting. If he carries to the Executive chair the pluck and during which enabled hiii to hold his own nguinst the rampant flutboat men, with whom, from time to time, even tho most peaceful of the craft would now and then come in collision; if he takes thither the adroit finem and executive decision which ena bled him to evade an ambush of Indians iu the Black Hawk war, and to beat tho dusky warriors at their own system of fighting, whenever they ruvculed themselves, he will make just such a President as tho present crisis demands. The futnro lady of the White House is, perforce, a personnge to whm just now the liveliest interest attaches. Thut she will adorn and grace even the exalted posi tion to which she bids fair to succeed, none who have had the fortune to see her cnu doubt. She is yet npon the alvuntngeous side of forty, with a fnce upon which digni ty and sweetness nre blended, and nn air of cultivation nnd refinement to which frequent familiarity with the courtly drawing rooms of London, or the nrisiocratic saloons of Paris, would hardly lend on added grace, She is admirably calculated to preside over our republican court. If one were permit ted so fur to describe her personal appear ance as to meet half way the respectful curiosity which is generally felt upon the subject, the description would be, that she is slightly above I he medium stature, with brown eyes, clearly cut features, delicat mobile, expressive: rather distinguished in appearance thnn beautiful, conveying to the mind generally an impressioa of self- possession, ttateliuesi and elegance. I dis trust my own opinion ou subjects of the 1 knd, but I concur in the belief prevalent hereabouts, that the will make as aamirn ble a leader of tho stnf-ly dames and lovely demoiselles of the national capital at the most fastidious social martinet could desire. tfr The Indict of Washington, D. C, have gatha-red together large qoantitiea of clothing, old and new, and dry goodt, to be sent to B'wtoa, and thence to Syria, in aid I of the roJerlog Cbriatiaw. ipoaanaaaa-aaaaaaaajaajaa (aaaaaMaajaaj 1UTIMOK ADVKKTWlNOi ' " One niiar (lartka , or haaj, fcrtvler avaonro) adit inaoriivn..... .'. 'I '1 Keli autjaeiiuont inarrtiuR . I' lluainoMeatdaono yoar VUI! A liberal iMueiiou will Iw made le taoaa wi. Jvorliaw by the year. ' tH' The uuniber af lnrtlona ahaulJ be notul ou ilia margiu nt an ailverfMuiont, oiberaioe It will be ub:ialie till fvrbiildeu, a ltd charged ac- eor ol.iit.lv. T Obituary eotleea will be charged half the above mil a nt adve riiainf. tiTJ"a PaiNTiao cueulti) ueeli.c ai.d o1isnivh. - I'tgmtnt for Job Piinting mutt bt modi oa d'liretvof lb leork. Ma Die rear. ' It wot tad funeral to me,' tnld tho speaker, ' the saddest I have attended fr inuiiy ynurs.' I hat or fcuuiUBdsour ' Yet.' How did ho die?' 'Poor poor at poverty: hit lifu one long ktrugghi with the world, and nt every disadvantage. Fortune mocked Idm ull the while wilh gilded promiset that were destined never to know fulfillment.' ' Yet, he wot patient and enduring,' re marked one of the company. ' I'atirnt at a Christian; enduring as a martyr,' wut the answer. 'Poor man! II o was worthy of a better fute. He ought to have tuccccded, for be deserved success.' ' Did he not succeed?' questioned the ono who had spoken of hit ierscveruticti and endurance. " No. sir: he died poor, at I have just tnid. Noihing that he put hit hands to ever succeeded, A stranpe duality seemed to attend every enter prise.' ' I was witu nun in his last moments,' said another, ' aad thought he died rich.' ' o, he bat left nothing behind,' Was replied. ' The heirs will have no concern at to the ndiuinistration of the estate.' ' He left a good name,' taid one, 'and that is something.' ' And a legacy of noble deeds that weru done iu th name of humanly,' remarked urother. 'Lossons of patience In suffering, cf hope in adversity, of heavenly confide ncu when no sunbeams fell npon his bewilder ing path,' wut the testimony of another. 1 Anil.liiglt trust, manly courage. bcra:c fortitude.' ' Then ho died rich,' wet the emiihntx declaration; 'richer than the millionaire who went to his long home the tame day a miserable pauper in all but gold.' ' A sad fuueral,' did yon sayf No, my frien d, it it rather a triumphul procestionl Iet the burial of a human clod, bnt tho cere monial uttendant of tho translation of mi angel. Did not succeed I Why, hit wholu life was a series of successes. In ev ery conflict he came off victor, and now tLe victors crown is on Ins brew. Any griup- iug, soulless, selfish mun, wilh a share uf brums, may gather in money, and lenru the art of keeping it, but not one in a hun dred can bravely conquer in (he battlo of life as Edmundson has conquered, and si. p forth from the ranks of men, a Christian hero.' 63 Tho trustees of tho monument in Independence Square, Philadelphia, in honor of the signers of tho Declaration of Independence, report that they Intro not yet decidod upon any purticulur plan, but that their general design "embraces n structure of granite of thirteen tides, rest ing on a bast of sixty feet: the thirteen sides to be united by nn entablature, on which will be graven tho Declaration of Independence, the whole to bo surmount ed by a tower or shnft of thirteen sides; each side containing a niche, or space foi- the insertion of panels or tablets of niurblu or other atone from tho soverul States." (9 The Bulletin's Xew York corres pondent suys a mectiag of those favoniMi' lo the construction of a Pacific Railroad was called at the Cooper Institute, for 15thofov. Tho movement origuniti.d in New Englnnd uud it bucked by luacy Boston capitalists. A Tr.xr. " My breethring," tuid an oi l Hardshell preacher, 1 I'm gwine to prcucii you a plum sarmeut, that even wiinintei kin understand. You will find my b .v in the fivo vurse of the two-eyed chapter cl' tho one-eyed John." It was some lima before it was perceived that ho meant John I., chapter ii, Hkki.s and Hkahh. If a girl think: more of her heels thau of her head depend upon it she will never amount to rotti h. Brains which settle in the shoes never get much above them, This will apply as well to the musculine os the feminine gender. jfir The bridal veil originated in Ilia custom of performing tho nuptiul ceremony under a square piece of cloth, held ovur the bndegroem and bride, to conceal tl,o blushet of the latter.' At tho murriaga of a widow, it was dispensed with. (sir An old doctor said that people who were prompt in their payments nlwuys recovered in their sick nest, as thev wura good customers, and physicunt could i;g' afford to lose them. 85r Charles Reudo Is writing a new romance, to appenr in the Atlantic Monll. ty. It is said Mr. Rendo is one of t!i most pains-Inking anthers alive, and tlun he often rewrite his best pngct twent. times over. tef It ia extraordinary how many de fects we can discern in a friend after qiiM reling with him. The same remark apple ; to a woman after she has rejected us. JQT It i aid that the Prince of Wall . had hia pocket picked twice while in Nis York; a fact that will favorobly itnpr. .. him with the freedom of our institution I9 Sheridan beautifully taid: " Worn s govern us, let na rmder them perfect: t'.e mere they are enlightened, so much the. more shall we be." tGT It hi wiid that watch-dog is net ao large in the morning as at night, becuii'.. he ia let out at night aud takei in in tic morning. aMr. Putnam, the publither, L.u old eight hundred thousand volumes cf Irving't works. . " Friends aad pbotograplw aever flatter. -