Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1858-08-24

              1 .'!'" V.,!','i''''!'" " 1 : . ' .. 1 " ' .- . ; ..i . , ' .. . 1; ': . .. . i, . . , , - . . . : ' 1 '. '. -.m VOL IV. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, TUKSD(A-Y- MORNING, AUGUST 24, 1858. -NO... 11. . .. .. ...... . . . . .i f ' - . . , . , ' ?-wt"'rw-.!A..H' ti ; . A meeting of the Old Settlers , .May where vou are., ,. . Uosc of the senatorial Strnirff c housrmold or m Lau Doo ( uo i vuiiauuu a itjiiu iuici The scenes of earth are passing o'er; l.iTt timelis drawing nigh, , . heql must leave the world below And go above the sky. t'l-'iill I .... I , ,.: : : The summons of my Lord is sent; -v. The dying strife's begun; JL solemn change comes on my sense; - The world beyond1 appears. I do not (car the swelling tide, ' Nor dread to launch my soul; ' Jesus, I at thy welcome rise . . , , Within thy courts above. , H''jhiH "i ' f ' My life of toil and Btrife is closed. The last great conflict's past; Beleased1 from earth, my happy soul ' f( Would here no longer stay. ' 0, the transporting lovely sight, That fills my cup of joy! .1 view, in glory crowned with light, My Saviour and my God. . ' ,:' S. Waterous. Lucerne, Ohio.., " 1 ' ' ' ' From the National Era. 1 '"; 1 The Sisters, A. PIOTDBE DV BARRT IN THE BOSTON ATHBNEUM. The shade for me, but over thee . '.'" The lingering sunshine still, ' . As, smiling, to the silent stream Comes down the singing rill. . r ... So come to me, my little one, '" My years with thee 1 share, And mingle with a sister's love ' A mother's tender care. But keep the smile upon thy lip, The .trust upon thy brow, . , Since for the dear one Qod hata called, ' ; ' We have an angel now .Our, mother from the fields of hoaven Shall still'her ear incline; ' - ; 1 JfcTor need we fear her human love . '" .In less for love divine. "The spngs are sweet thoy sing beneath Tht trees of life so fair, tButsw eetestof the sounds of heaven ' Shall be her children's prayer. .'Then, da. rling, rest upon my breast, ' .And tet ch my heart to lean With thy h weet trust upon the arm : AVHich foi'ds us both unseen! J. G. W. : How to make up a Quarrel willism Xadtl was the President of the Aitierftan Feaee Society, and he believed that ths pficoiple f peace, carried out, would maintain -good wi U among neighbors as well as nations. 'Bat : there was a time when he had not fulty com lidered this subject had not thought much a bout it as I dare say my young readers have lot, and he believed that if a man struck him a '. blow, it was best and fair to strike right back again, without considering if there were net ome better way of overcoming the offender; or, if a man did him an injury, why, as peoi "l8 commonly say, he would "give him good as he sent." He then had a farm; and a poor man, who lived on land adjoining h is neglectod to keep up a fence which it was hi is business to keep in order; and, in consequen. ce, his sheep got into William Ladd's wheat : field, and did much mischief.' William LadQl tow bis man Sam to go to the neighbor, and tell him he must the fence and keen t he sheep out. But the ahaepcamein again, find William Ladd, who is a very orderly man himself was pro- "Sam," said he, "go to that fellow and toll him, if be don't xeep nis sop " w uy Twheat field, I'll have thm shot': " Even this did not do the sh P were in again. "Sam," said William Ladd, "take my gun and shoot those sheep." I would rather not," said Sam. "Rather not, Sam? Why, there are iut v three; itfs no great job." "No, sir, but the poor man has but three vin the .world, and I'm not theporson that k likes to shoot a poor man's sheep." "Then the poor man should take propex care of them. I gave him warning; why did jhe not mend his fence?" "Well, sir I guess it was because you sent j him a rough kind of message; it made .him , mad, and so he wouldn't do it" considered a few minutes," said William S.Ladd, "and then I told .Earn to put the heme , in the buggy." "Shall I put in the gun?" said Sam. "No-," said I. I saw he half smiled; but I . Hid nothing. I got into my buggy and drove up to my neighbor, lie lived a mile off, and 1 1 had good deal of time t think the matter ..Over. . When I drove up to the house the man was ..chopping .wood. There were a few sticks of .wood and the .house was poor, and my heart ,was softened. "Neighbor!" I called out , The maa looked sulky, and did not raise his head. ' ."Come, come, neighher," said I, "I have come with friendly fevu'ng to you. and yeu .must meet half way;" He perceived that I was in earnest, laid 4 own his axe and came to tbe wagon. .-"Now, neighbor," said I, "we have both been in the wrong; you neglected your fence, and ,1 got angry, and sent you a provoking message. Now let us face about and both do .right. .I'll forgive you. Now let's shake .hands." He didn't feel quite-like giving me his hand, tatbe let me take it 'Now, said I, "neighbor, flrwe your sheep down to my pasture. They shall share with my sheep tUl next spring; and you shall have all the yield, and next summer we shall start , fair." " .. : His band was no longer dead in mine, and he gave me a good friendly grasp. The tears came into his eves, and he aaid, "I guess yen area Christian," William Ladd, after all." . "And the little fracas with ray neighbor about tbe sheep was," said William Ladd, ''the first step to my devoting my self to the Peace Society." Mw. Leaflet!. Barnum; it Is' stated, Is engaged to give a series of lectures the ensuing Winter in Lon- ' don, on. "Humbug, Money-getting andMon-ey-losing," three subjects he has perhaps studied more patently than any man living. . , Of Indiana,'. "V Rbhimisoekckb or old times and exhibition of BKLics. The second annual meeting of the Old Settlors of Indiana was held at Knightstown Springs, on Thursday, the 12th inst. The first meeting was held at the same place a year ago. . BEI.IC8. , ' " ' ' Mr. Harmony Laughlin, of Rushville, exhibited a Dutch Bible and a Bible Dictionary, printed in Amsterdam in 1718. The text was in large type clear and distinct the annotations in small letter, and equally as legible as the text. The Bible cost 15, or about $75. In it was a record of one of Mr. Laugh-lin's ancestral families. Mr. Laughlin also exhibted a very large sized linen vest, worn by his grandfather over a hundred years ago, who was a man weighing 840 pounds. In a pocket of the vest was a roll of Continental money .amounting to $2, 400. It had been given to Mr. Laugblin's grandfather for services in the Revolutionary War. ThisTnoney was regarded as a curiosity many personson the ground had never seen a Continental bill or its fac simile. This currency was, at one time, almost the only money in circulation in the Union. The old saying, "not worth a Continental," had its origin in the depreciation of the money which the Continental Congress issued to defray the current expenses of the War of Independence.Mr. Peter Louny, of Noble township, Rush county, produced a powder horn sixty-five years old; and a small ax which was used in Wayne's army, in 1794, in clearing a passage for the baggage waggons through the wilderness. The ax had been preserved in his family as a memento of old times. The powder horn had been used on many occasions for hunting deer, Indians and "nther game!" Mr. Jacob Parkherst, of Rush county, was the oldest man present, and he made the first JACOB FABKHEBST'S REMARKS. Mi. Parkherst came to Indiana in 1819. He was with General Harmer in 1790 throughout the disastrous campaign of that year. The year before he had a sister scalped by the Indians at North Bend. The Spring after Harmer'K defeat the Indians lined the Ohio River watching for boats containing emigrants. In that year lie started in a boat from Lime stone, Kentucky, to go to his father's residence in Pennsylvania. Soveral in the boat with bim were killed and wounded. On going ashore to "skirt" for the Indians ho got lost from the boat and traveled five days without fire or provisions in the month of March, to Gallipolis. Ho had suffered his greatest hardships in Pennsylvania and Ohio. bince ne bad been in Indiana he had had easy and prosperous times. His boys had taken good care of him for many years past. SAMUEL BABBETT. Of Rush county, next took the stand. Thirty-two yearsago he came to Indiana from Virginia, and settled on the Bluffs of Blue River, just north of Knightstown Springs. The country was then almost an entire wil derness, ne set to work immediately to clearing the forests. He had spent all his money ($450) for his farm, and had nothing to improve bis lanas witn but his own labor, He was disappointed in his first corn crop, and had but little to live on. But.he was good with a ntle, and killed deer for his subsist. ence. Tbe bides and bams be could sell for half a dollar, and that amount of money went a great way towards buying necessaries for his family. The forequarters ot the animal his family would eat. The next year he ran ed several hundred bushels of corn, and that made him rather comfortable. BEV. JAMES HAVENS Was a native of Kentucky, but came to In diana Irom Uhio, in isja. tie had then a wife and eleven children, and forty-nine dol lars in cash. His first home was in the woods in Rush coun tr a pole cabin with the cracks stopped with poplar slats and mud daubing. He was at home but little. His wife had of ten told him how the wolves howled about the house at night, and how she staid up all night and kept a fire burning in fear that the wolves would take hor children. All kinds of wolves two legged and lour legged were afraid of light. His wife helped to make the first fence on the farm he had purchased when he had settled in the State. She also assisted in rolling logs together, and keeping the logs burning. He, himself, when he came home from the rounds of his circuit, would employ his "rest" days in making (ence rails. Ho had made 150 rails after night by brush light This work used his hands badly. When on his bed the pain in his palms and fiDgers would become so intense as to cause him to wake, and bathe them in cold water. The next morning he wou.d open bis hand little by little, and blood would ooze from them when fully opened. A iew years after his settlement here, he and soveral of his neighbors built a school house. Greased paper was usod for window g lass and a hewed slab answered the purpose of a writing desk. DR. HACKXEMAN Came to Indiana in 1806, and sottled a few milos south of Brookville. At the midnight hour it was common to hear the howl of the wolf and the scream of the panthor. He had seen thron or four hundred Indians at a time encamped within a short distance of his father's house. He knew what it was to live in dread of tlio scalpnig knives and tomahawks of the savages. The luxuries of life now enjoyed by us were then unknown. Clothing at that day wati made from flax raised in patches about the house. He had not worn any shoes until he was thirteen years pld going barefoot during the deep snows of winter as well as in the hosts of summer. The mothers and daughters of the pioneer days used spinning-wheels instead of pianos for making music. JOHN l acr -Said lie was present at the first court held in Wayne county. It was held in the woods the jurors using logs for seats, and the judge taking anothor. He came to Wayne county w mil. lie married bis wile in the woods near East Germantown, and at one 'time it was five weeks whon neither he or his wife saw another woman. At the time he 'first went to Wayne county, corn had to be brought from the Miami country, a distance of sixty miles. The door of his cabin was bung on wooden hinges, and when the weather was dry they would creak. When he would open the door in the morning the deer tn his cornfield near by would take the alarm, , utter their peculiar sounds, and disperse. Fat. The Ashland Union publishes thirteen columns of an advertisement from the Post Office Department, being a law of the United States to establish certain post routes in Alabama, Arizonia, Arkansas and elsewhere. We congratulate the editor of the Union, H. S. Knapp, Esq., who was an original Lecomp-ton man, on his "fat take." 0. S. Journal .Stay where you are. We believo more men have been disappointed in "going West" than wore ever known tn California from wantuf means in gathering gold. . The idea seems to prevail that all a mechanic, or farmer, or common laborer, has to do is to find ways and means to go west to Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, or Minnesota where his fortune is made 'His long days of labor And nights devoid of ease," are over, and ho has but to enjoy himself, rea ping rewards for small investments of money or muscle. This is a pernicions delusion, nothing else. We say, Irom a (rood knowledge of the subject, that the west is a hard place to obtain a gocd living, except a person has money with which to purchase a house, and has means to make himself comfortablo in it; then incessant industry, contact with all classes and characters of men, eyes open to every advantage, will give the perron a living, with the promise of something more after a few years. But, for men without means, dependent upon what "turns up" for a living, we know there is a better chance in the older settled States, where thore is a more settled order of things, more woalth, more population. A young man, full of health and energy, without a family, who can do well anywhere, is the person to go to the new States, for he has youth and health and none dependent on him, and can, therefore, afford to labor and wait for the good time coming. We say this from no desiro "to retard, in any way, the growth of the "mighty west," but simply to state what seems apparent and proper from observation. Before seeking the new home we should advise the person to consult some friend on the ground, in whose judgment he can have confidence; and never, under any circumstances, emigrate except a fullknowledge is had of the particular locality, its people as woll as its soil, its health as well as its future prospects. Otherwise it may cost him doar. U. 8. Journal Drop op Water in a Queer Place. We were shown, while attending the anuual examination of the Union Academy, at Pleasant Ridge, by Dr. K. F. Boucholle, one of the most interesting geological curiosities we ever saw or read of. It consists of a specimen of rock of the primitive ordor of lormation; and of the pentsedral order of crystalization, containing in its centre a globule of water movable and visible. The water is, if there be any truth in geology, oneof the oldest dropsof water in the universe, far more ancient than the waters of the flood of Noah. To use the language of Dr. Boucholle, "it is a drop of the waters that covered in darkness the face of the great deep, when, the oarth was without form and void in other words, this little drop is a portion of the first water that was created during the six days of Genesis, and became entangled among the particles of the rook du-ing the act or process of crystalization. The rock being primitive, or the first of creation, the water must also be primitive." Ary person wishing to see this geological wonder, can do so by calling on tho Dr. Eutaw Ah.) Ubservcr. A Quick Quarter. A boy worked hard all dav for a quarter; he bought apples, and took them to town and sold them on the street for a dollar. With the $1 bought a sheep. The sbeep brought him a lamb, and the lleece brought bim another dollar, with tho do! lar he bought another sheep. The next spring be bad two sbeep, two lambs and a yearling sheep. The three fleeces he sold for three dollars, and bought three more sheep. He now had six, with a fair prospect. He worked. where he found opportunity, for hay, corn and oats, and pasturing for bis sbeep. He took the choicest care of them and soon had flock. Their wool enabled him to buy a pasture for them, and by tbe time be was twenty-one he had a fair start in life, and all from a quarter earned in one day. A Paradise. In Lewis township, Clay county, inaiana, tney nave a sort ot loretaste or the mellemum. It has within its limits one hundred and seventy families, all white except one, and they keep dark about it-There are one hundred and sixty-five voters. and during the last twenty years there has never been a fight or quarrel at any election held in tne township, it contains seven school houses, seven road districts, seven bachelors and seven large, men; three church. es, three preachers, three pair of twia boys, three fidlers, three carpenters, three post offi ces, three crazy men and three over seventy. five years old. There is not a lawyer, doctor, or loater in it, nor a grocery, nor a pauper. A bettor, friendlier, happier population is not to be found in the otato. Electoral Vote for 1860. The electoral vote for 1853 consisted of 296 votes. The admission of Minnesota will increase that number to three hundred, and should Kan sas and Oregon be admitted, tbe entire vote will be three hundred and six, requiring one hundred and fifty-four for a choice of Presi dent. Of this three hundred and six, there will be one hundred and twenty from the Blaveholding States, and one hundred and eighty-six from the non slaveholding States. In the Charleston (Democratic) Convention, under the two-thirds rule, it will require two hundred and four votes to make a nomination. It will require eighty-four Northern votes even with the united boutb, to make a nomi nation.' Anecdote op Cvrus W. Field. The Springfield News says of C W. Field: This gentleman, now one of the most wor thy and famous public men of the age, has been singularly a lavorite oi lortune. Tbe following incident is told by one of his per sonal friends in this place: When Cyrus was a small boy, he was told by one or his neighbors that if he would come to his house, he would give him a pair of rabbits. The visit was made, the rabbits produced and placed in his basket, and with a joyful heart he started homeward. On his arrival he uncovered the basket, and lot thi two rabbili had increaicd to tevenl A Fiction. We have, in the Religious Recorder, the following clear definition of fiction: "Any book is a fiction that represents men and things as they are not nor ever were." This definition will ombraoe almost the whole stock of novels and romance much that has been called philosophy much that passes current for history a vast amount that is thought to be rhetorical and logical, and not little that is most strangely and absurdly Styled lluologieal. Or Bam um passed through Paris, a few days ago, with Tom Thumb, on his way to Baden Badon, where he is going to exhibit Next winter Mr. B.is going to deliver lectures in Londorton "humbug, and tho way of getting and losing'money." of the Senatorial in Minnesota. The desperate efforts of the Democrats of tbe Minnesota legislature to oloct a successor to Gen. Shields in defiance of law and propriety, were headed off in tho House on Tuesday by the indefinite postponement of the resolution to go into joint convention. The Minnesotian says: When this matter first broke upon the Le-comptonites yesterday they became perfectly frantic. All tbe tactics known to the parliamentarian were resorted to, but of no avail. They then resorted to the desperate crime of stealing tne resolution, but tbis only recoiled on their hoads. The scene that ensued baffles all attempts at description, which our meagre reports convey but a faint idea of. In their last extremity the LcGomptonites pitched into their Anti-Lecompton brethren in a spirited manner. And as open confession is good for the soul, they thus rclievod themselves of any amount of bile. The Anties paid them bock with in-torest, much to the edification of the Republican members and the lobby. A similar resolution which had been introduced in the Senate was laid on the table yesterday morning. In tbo afternoon, after the aetion of the House had taken place, an attempt was made to take up this resolution, but it failed. Thus the question is disposed of in both Houses. The Rioht kind op Backino. Obadiah Pringle, a good Democrat and a personal friend of Mr. Buchanan, writes as follows to tbe Indianapolis Journal: "That fool, Foley, if he evor wants to rite another letter, make me his distributing office, and I'll transcribe his letter and correct the spellin, and put the matter, in form for him. Mr. Editur Such mean riting and spellin is a natural shame ! I haint felt so bad since my boss died as I did when I seed that letter. IUs not only a disgrace to that 'punkin head' himself, but to the whole democratic party." Bbeslis in Canada. The Cleveland Herald says: We learn by a former Clevelander residing in Hamilton, that the "half-millionairo" leads quite a quiet life among the Canucks, visiting the Reading Room often, but does not seek to make acquaintances, and seldom allows a person to catch his oye. He has no employment in Hamilton, and appears like a person ill at ease. Persons frequently call on him from this side the Lake, but "Ohio" is the most definite locality they leave on the hotel registers. Breslin does not appear to be flush in funds, and by the Canadians is thought to be poor. Michigan Swamp Lands Sale. The public offering of the Michigan Swamp Lands at Lansing closed on the 5th: Of tho five million acres offered at public sale, only 24,938 acres were sold, amounting in the aggregate to $dl,ol&. Uver 5U.U00 acres of tbese lands were taken by settlers within sixty days after tho passage of the act, which, added to tho late sale, make over 75.000 acres. The unsold lands can now be entered at $1,25 per acre, ono-quarter down, balanco in ten years, at 7 per cent, annnal interest. Much of tho lands are good qnalily, and the chance is a rare one to actual settlers. " A Fiction. We have in the Religious Recorder, the following clear dofinitien of fiction:"Any book is a fiction that represents men and things as they are not nor ever were. This debmtion will embrace almost tbe whole stock of novels and romance much that been called philosophy much that passes current for history a vast amount that is thought to be rhetorical and logical, and not a little that is most strangely and absurdly styled theological. A letter dated August 2nd, at Wyandotte, says: The "Democrats," Know Nothing lawmakers ot Kansas, cut off more than one hundred free State votes in this precinct alone.by requiring foreigners to have full papers. The propositions was rejected by about seven to one. h o news from any ether district, ex cept Shawnee, where the vote is about equal. against 800 majority under tbe Calhoun dy nasty. 03" A union Convention of the Opposition votes has been held in Belmont, which nominated a People's County Tickot. Tho St Clairsvile Republican says: "All that is now lacking, in ordor to trot Lecomptonism through in double quick time, is a good candidate for Congress, either Dr. Warfleld, T. C. Therker or Mr. Fostor, will unito the entire anti-Lecompton forces in the district and be triumphantly elected. How to get Rid op Trouble, To shako off trouble we must be doing good to some body; put on your hat, and go and visit the poor; inquire into their wants and administer unto them; seek out the desolate and oppressed, and tell them of the consolations of re ligion. I have often tried this, and found it the best medicine for a heavy heart. Howard (he Fhilanthropitt. CtTCongress appropriated money to buy from six to seven thousand tons of Iron Pipe fer the Washington City Aqueduct. In the face of the fact that an American Iron Master offered to take the contract at a lower rate than any other, it was awardej to a Glasgow Scotland, Company. Americans Mechanic should remember this. ' (r A few years ago, when the river Dela ware was frozen over,, a number of booths were ereoted on the ice, near one of which an Irishman observed a person to (all in; he ran immediately to the proprietor ot the booth, told him that he had just seen a man enter his cellar, and advised bim to take care of his liquor. ftir Dr. Charles Wilson has written a vol ume of some hundred pages to explain the path-dog'f of drunkeness. Diogenes defines it in two sylables tij-tag. : ftfr Cash helps along courting amazingly Astonishing what balls and suppers, bracelets, "love of a bonnet," surburban rides and picnics will do towards' t)zpanding"the feminine heart, and getting into tbe lathers house-. (KT A maa at Augusta, Maine, bought a basket of champagne from the State Liquor Agent for "sacramental purposes." Upon being analyzed it was. found to be Jorsey cider, 03" John Gordon, the richest commoner in Scotland, died On the 16th of July. He was worth about $15,000,000; V w Col. Atkinson, one of the heroes of Fort Stophenson, died at his residence in Lucas county ,on the morning of the 2dinst.,the anniversary of Croghan's great victory, and while that event was being celebratod at Fremont. The deceased was buried at Gilead, Wood county, with military honors. The Sultan of Turkey is sick near unto death and a gloom pervades all Turkey in prospect of his decease, which is considered not far distant. The Sultan's fourth son died recently, and it getting abroad that it was the Sultan himself who had Buccumbed, the sensation was intense and universal. The New York Herald, rebels against the English Compromise, so unanimonsly endorsed by tho Ohio Democracy and says: "It is perfect lolly to suppose, after what has happened, that Kansas will remain out of the Union until she can muster some ninety or one hundred thousand people." A MOMENT. A moment is a mighty thing, Beyond tho soul's imagining, For in it, though we trace it not, How much there crowds of varied lot, How much of life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity. Sshool Days at Rbgby. Lord Brougham, in his speech the other day at Derby, said rom urown's "school Days at nugby" wo'd do more to elevate tho character of the youth oi England and America than any work that bas been published for half a century. OCT The New York Herald rival Admin istration organ, sneers at the Union') notion of tbe Kansas "settlement." and says: "All hands would do well to prepare for another ventilation ot the subject with there-assembling of Congress." Tub Methodist Church South has just organized a new Conference, embracing both banks of the Rio Bravo. It is known as the Rio Grande Conference. Five thousand dollars have been appropriated to its use by the Mission Board. 03 There was much sound truth in the speech of a country lad to an idler, who boasted his descent from an ancient family. "So much the worse for you," said the peasant,; "as we plowman say the older the seed the worse tho crop." - . 05" Says the Autocrat: "Our brains are seventy year clocks. Tho angel of life winds them up once for all; then closos the cases, and gives the key into the hand of the angel of the resurrection. 05" One man 86 years of age and another 76, who had been 40 years a confirmed drunkard, united with the Congregational Church, in Sumner,- Maine, on the same Sabbath recently, i 05" Trust the plain and positive promise when you cannot see through the dark clouds of Providence. The present gloomy night may terminate in a bright and glorious morning.05" "I always sing to please myself.' ' Said a gentleman, who was humming atune in company. "Then you are not at all diffioult to please." Said a lady who sat next to him. 05" G. W.Cass bas resigned the President ey of the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne and Chicago Railroad, and is succeeded by J.Edgar Thompson, of Philadelphia. 05" The Missouri Democrat estimates tho population of Kansas at this time at 88,000. Leavenworth County alone containing 15,000 inhabitants. 05" A large and esthusiastio assemblage of Republicans was addressed a few day's ago by Senator Trumbull and Hon. John Went-, worth at Chicago. Romb. John P- Stockton, Esq., will sail for Europe, on the 21st instant, to enter upon the discharge of hit duty as Minister Rosidont ofRome, ,t A , .... !" ' 05"Jered Sparks, just returned from Europe, has gathered fresh materials which to enrich the history on which he is engaged.' ' , . . 05" Rev. W. H.Collins, Presiding Elder in the M. E. Church for Detroit district, died in that city on the 13th ult., aged 43. 11KF0HM IN TflB HOUSEHOLD OP THE NEW Princess Rotal op Prussia. A Berlin cor-respondent relates several anecdotes of innovations and reforms in tho household made by the Princess Victoria since her arrival in Prussia from England. One is as follows: The chambermaids whose propor business it is to clean the rooms, discharge the duties of their position in silk dresses. The daughter of the richest sovereign in the world has decided to put a stop to this extravagance. One fino morning she had all the female servants summoned to her presence, and delivered what may bo considered a highly successful maiden speech. She began by telling them the expense of their dresses must evidently exceed the rate of their wages. She added that as their wages wero not to bo raised, it would be very fortunate for them if they were allowed to assume cotton articles of clothing. "In order to prevent every misunderstanding," the Princess continued, "I Shall not only permit but ordor you to do so." They are tanning an elephant's hide at Cincinnati. It was purchased by a furrier in Wisconsin, .where the animal, which belonged to a menagerie diod. The freight to Cincinnati cost $12,00. It is an immense hide, so bulky that tho tanners handle it with great difficulty. It is nearly two inches thick, and a full year and a half will be required to tan it thoroughly. It will be a curiosity whon thoroughly tanned and seasoned. 05" Miss Jane Loyd, the wealthiest of English heiresses, is to be married to Colonel Lindsay, tho "hero of tbo Alma," who was lucky enough to got nine Russian balls fired into the colors which ho carried, without receiving one into his own body. The fortune of Miss Loyd is stated by tho Illustrated London News to be from twonty-five to thirty millions dollars. Return op tub Bank op Enqland. The weekly return of tho Bank, made on the 28th of July, gives the amount ef notes in circulation at a little more than a hundrod million dollars, a decrease;ofjnearly $2,000,000 in the weok. Tho stock of bullion was $85,000,000, an increase of $250,000 from the previous weok. Continents HYMN TO THE ATLANTIC CABLV. Bow, Science bow thy head in awe, With lightning chain in hand, Be still, as through the ocean's depths, Thou bindest land to land. For thou haat wrought a miracle, Next to the Son of God, Thou walkest down on sea's dark floor, High on the waves He trod. lie holds the lightning in the cloud, And thou within the wave, And wind and wavo, which yield to Him, Thou hast had powor to brave . Then tremble thou before thyself, So near to God akin, That to thy hand his power comes, And seems to dwell therein; And hushed and trembling thank the Lord, For favor on thee ahed, That thou.through sea with lightnin' chain, Two continents hast wed. K Y. Courier J- Enquirer. Success Complete! The Batteries Work! The Queen haa Spoken!! President Buchanan Replies. The long-looked-for, anxiously-expected message of Queen Victoria to Piesident Buchanan, has at length arrived, and the practicability of thaA.tlantic Tolegraph is fully established. The world has witnessed the time when the miraculous powers of science have brought the rulers of two nations, separated by an ocean boundary of two thousand miles in extent, to converse, as it were, face to face. Over tbis triumph it is befitting that demonstrations of joy bo made, and that the song, "Glory to God in the highest, on Earth, peace and good will to men," shduld ascend from the jubilant sons of earth. The following is the message of Her Majesty, to His Excellency, James Buchanan: To the Hen. tlm President of the United States: Hor Majesty desires to congratulate the President upon the successful completion of tnis great international work, in which the Queen has taken the deopest of interest. TUB PRESIDENT'S REPLY, Washington, Aug. 16, 1858. To Her Majesty, Victoria, Queen of Great Britain:Tho President cordially rociprocates ths congratulations ol Her Majesty, the Queen, on the success of the great international enterprise, accomplished by the science, skill and indomitable energy of the two countries. It is a triumph more glorious, because far more useful to mankind than was ever won by con queror on tho field of battle. May the Atlantic Tolegraph, under tho blessing of Heaven, prove to be a bond of per petual peace and iriendsbip between the kin dred nations and an instrument dostined by Divine Providence to dilTuse religion, civiliza tion, liberty and law throughout the world. In tbis view, will not all nations of Chris. tendom spontaneously unite in the declaration that it shall bo torever neutral, and that its communication shall be held sacred in the pas- i iL.! 1 . . .. saga io weir pmces oi ucsunauon, even in the midst ol hostilities. (Signed) James Buchanan, . Cyrus Station, N. F., Aug. 16, To the Directors of the Atlantic Telegruph liompamj, jseio lorn: Europe and America aroaunited by telegraph. "Glory to God in the higheat, on earth peace, good win toward men." (Signed) Directors Atlantic Telegraph Co., Great .Britain. As soon as these messages were received here, the faet was at once announced, an im promptu demonstration of the most enthusi. astio character ensued. All the bolls in tho city were rung, bonfires were lighted at dif ferent points.numerous private dwellings were illuminated, fire-works set off, horns blown. gongs thumped, and every conceivable means of making the enthusiasm manifest that was felt by all was adopted. .Numerous speeches of an appropriate character were made, and any amount of hurraing was done. Scarcely has our city ever witnessed a more jubilant uomonsirauon. The Telegraph: and the Biule. 'Canst thou send lightnings that they may go, and sayumotnee, uerewearo.'" 'Who bath divided a water courso for way for the lightning?'1 'IbeJxirdon high is mightier than tho noise or many wattrs, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea." -no maue a accree lor tno rain, and a way ior me iigmning."' "He directed his lightning unto the onds of the earth." "The lightnings cometh out of the Eaat.and shineth even unto the West." " His lightnings enlighten the world." "Their line is gone out through all the earth and their woids to theend of the world." Psalm xix, 4. Bell Rinqino Extraordinary. The Fire Alarm Bells of Boston are now rung by telo- graph, and the Traveler states that on Friday me ouperuuenucni oi tne lioston t ire Alarm Telegraph rung all the bells of Boston con nected with the fire alarm, from the office of the American Telegraph Company at Portland. The Traveler says: This extraordinary feat indicates the prac ticability of a simultaneous ringing throughout the world of bolls. This event was immediately succeeded by the ringing of all the bells in honor of the laying of the Cable. 05" We find the following shocking para graph in a Wheeling paper of Saturday: Found Dead. We learn that during the latter part of week before last Mr. Wm. Montgomery, father of Hon. Win. Motgomery, was found dead beside a barstack near the Virgin ia line. It is not positively known in what manner he came to his death, but from the tact of two whisky bottles being found neir the body, it is presumed he killed himsell by the excessive use of intoxicating liquor. He hid procured a (fbantity of liquor id Triidcl- phia, Virginia,adayoriwopreviously. It isnot known how long he had been dead before his body was discovered. His remains were interred in a graveyard in Washington. The age of the deceased was aboat seventy years. ' t -Tho two United. From tho SanIuiliTBeglUr. llic New Kansas Test. The Democracy of Ohio are making desperate cirort to ignore the Kansas question in its now phase. The Washington Union however, will not permit them to do So. It declares that tbe Domocratia principle henceforth will be to keep Kansas out of the con-federacy of Statos until she has "about ene hundred thousand inhabitants." la other words, a slave Stato may be admitted with only 35,000 or 40,000 inhabitants ; but a free State must stay outside until she bas a hundred thousand. This is rather a severe, test. It is too big a question to be overlooked; even by the convenient optics of tbe Ohio Democracy. We don't think they caa put suoh, a mountain out of their way, by merely refusing to look at it. The question will meet them at tbe next session of Congress if Kaiv-sas presents herself with a free State ConstU tution regularly and legally framed, will they voto for or against its admission? Thore is ne, dodging the issue, and they must "face the. music" during the coming canvass. The Administration has taken the ibiative. mIcnnsylvania,andOhio must be brought into line. Those Dtmocrats who are in favor of fair play towards Kansas must b smoked out and proscribed. Says the Philadelphia, (Forney 's) Pi ess: ,. , "The Lecompton Administration of the Oen-oral Government are resolved, it will be seen upon making their Kansas polioy such a test in our Stato election, in October, as will leave no room for cavil. They insist upon having everybody speak out: they domand the re nomiation of all the Lecomptonitos;and, they say,"a neutral candidate will not be tolerated in a crises like this." Our verdant Big- ' ler and our Tittlebat Jones say there is no test and that the question is settled; but other and higher authorities "aay no!" "Neutral will not be tolerated." From the Now lltivon JournnVlOthlaat. A Bold Bank Robbery. We have nearly two wooks been in the pos. ' session of the facts in relation to a bold robbery of aconsiderablo amount of money from the counter of the New Haven Bank, but nave, by request, refrained from publishing them, it being supposad that the ends ofjus- ' tice would be the better attained by secrecy, As, however, another paper has taken the liberty to make tho circumstances publio, we an no longor bo under obligations of secrosy. , It soems that two weeks ago to-day, a person ' walked into the Now Haven Bank, and requested permission to write a note. The Clerk stepped from his desk to hand him paper and pen, but roturncd in an instant and continuodhis business. The stranger wrote a short time, loft his paper aud wont out. In making up the accounts in the afternoon it was discovered that a packago of $2,200 in eastern money was missing, and the only probable way of accounting for its loss was ' that the genteel stranger stole it. The prob-ability is rendered greater by the foot that the same porson previously mado asimilarer. rand at tho City Bank, but a certain uneaai-noss of manner being obsorvod about him he was watched and soon left without a cba'noe to steal. The officers of the old New Have Bank are the most careful and trustworthy f our citizens, and the man who can play a trick like tbis on any of them must be a very shrewd one indcod. '' Union in Hamilton County, There is to bo a united opposition in Ham'ilton ' county. Atameetingof the Executive Com-' mittce of the Republicans held on Saturday evening last, a resolution was adopted to the effect that "all the voters of Hamilton county without regard to previous political affinities, who are opposed to the extension of slavery-arid the policy of the administration, are cordially invited to take part in the primary, meetings and convention. The American Committee had previously recommended an union of tho opposition on similar terms. The basis of representation proposed is the combined Republican and American vote at the last State eleniinn Th. convention is to bo held on Tuesday, the 11th ol September, and the whole number of dele-gatos appointed on the above basis, will U three hundred and tlilrty-ntne. . . Tbe nnion will insure the election r.t one, and probably two members of Congress the whole county ticket of Hamilton Co., aa4 a handsome majority for the State ticket. It is important, moreover, as indicating the faet that the opposition of the present ruinous policy of the administration will k. throughout the Stato, in the coming canvasa! 05" Tho Hon. John Hirk man la nna ' .f ii I WUl Ui the most able and earnest and bitter of the Anti-Lecompton Democrats in Pennsylvania He now represents tho 11th Punnu. Congressional District, and has appealed t his constituents for re-election. Th Phil dulphia Press says that his triumph is or- wm. ma ucieat would intonsoly gratify Mr.' Buchanan. Col. Fornov. savs in bin tumtr f Saturday: ... "Ho addresses immense assomUiaai ly every night in tho week, and has markad out a scries of meetings which will absorb uiuni vi ins time ueiore tne election. The utmost and constant labor is thus self imposed. The effect which the arguraonta of Mr. Hickman produces upon the minds ofhii condim ents may be appreciated when we state that ii is m.ssiuio 10 una nans and public build, ings large enough to accommodate hia iurfU ences, and that ho is compelled to speak la the open air. The style of his oratory, hia ability as a logician, his powerful invective, and his keen satire, added to the sineerity which marks tho whole man and his history,' make in bigdistrict like the progress of a triumphant horo. Whenever he speaks ha mu conviction to the minds of honost men, particularly to those who have been operaud spoa by the emissaries of power. ' Tub North Carolina Ki.n-Tinn Tii from North Carolina, says the National InUlli. gencer, state that the Hon. Z. It. Vance, tbe Whig and American candidate, hu ln ed to Congress in the Mountain district lately represented by Sonator Clinimin. Th. mm. jority is said to be small. Mr. Avery was the democratic candidate. Judge John W. i!!i Democnt, is elected Governor of the Bute by a large mijority over Duncan MoRae, also Democrat, and who is in favor or a distrnSo-tion of tbe proceeds of the publie lands, and anas an independent candidate. The Dem ocrats have also earned the LeginUture, bnl their majority, though large, will be let than in the last Legislature. 'Two United States Senators are to be elected one in the nl of Asa Biggs, resigned, and the ether in tbe plac of David 8. lleid. whose term of service will expire on tbe 3d ef March, 1859. ; ' - 05" Joseph Miller. LeeommonlL. re-BOtnlnated fur Conirrasi in ih chilM, .ii, District, . " ; ' - i .i l f l V e