text: •UttuÙf aWïTfS * tfiwü r« s lW?f #.ä te t ♦ i«i i * % Ktfcfl V-îSa Witte Jlr$H i &tm n from - v/aw ôv> ■j j \ j\ rl 1*1 4UUr) mm Min B iK'l ■ ' ri Vif 11 I 3 % 1 f\ à V ai ■VJ 1 lMt*l f> *| r< u 3 N • Mwrdiut .i?P . Mit v MS» ■»■«!■ iAK.I ♦ çr >. 1K» <1 * T* ..JTiSv» .Al V ' ■U i. PMI* 1 H« >« 4V, n 1 «c f| : ■ ■ - f - S T*" 1 JP-JJ ■■JB ! L I JLiX-LaJIi. ., JBE g B J t e ; T» 1 i apcr, gektà to temperance, HTora% ttanilion, literature, Agriculture ak General Intelligence. -I» U » ■ ■ — • lOfiSlflflrï ''Wl » i.îll i'IÂ '"••Jâ'»! . •••« ... • •'• • '21 '' 'a _ ■ ■«» ■ - ml A S i-a untk T v SMYRNA, DEL., THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, I860. NEW SERIES-VOLUME VIL-NO. 6 WHOLE NO., 475 7>N)IJ ou CHOICE POETRY. The Rain Concert Millions of tiny drops Art falling all around : They're dancing on the house tops, 4» They're.hiding in the ground. They are fairy like musicians. With anything for keys, Beating lane upon the windows. Keeping tine upon the trees. A light and airy treble \ They play upon the stream. And the melody enchants us Like the music of a dream.. A deeper hass ia sounding Whim they're dropping into caves , With a tenor from the aephyis, And an nfto from lha waves. O, 'lis a stream of music. And Robin "don't intrude," If, when the rum is weary. He drops an interlude. It seems as if the warbling of the birds in all the bowers had been gathered into rain and was coming down in showers. MISCELLANEOUS. A CUSTOM. — The best authorities consider that all the gold and silver in the bands of man at the birth of our Lord, in the form of cots, utensils, etc., have long since disappeared from the face of the earth. The amount in use at that epoch is estimated at 1,327,000,000 of dollars of our money, of which about two-thirds were silver. The amount dug out of the earth of gold and silver, in the last 185th years, is put down by the most reliable metallurgists, at sixteen thousand millions of dollars, of which nearly sixty percent was gold. The loss by abrasion, dissipation in the arts, and by fire and shipwreck, has been estimated at six thousand millions in the same time, so that there is now in the world about ten thousand millions of these two metals, 60 percent of which is silver. The product of gold jumped up from millions in 1860 to 240 millions in 1853, a result of the California placers. A curious question arising out of this subject is, what has become of the metallic metal that has thus changed its form? A celebrated Scotch miner recently claims that it is gone to its liking in the bowels of the earth, that is precious metals are constantly increasing or growing. He contends that the placer mines are now in the form of a metal that has been found to be precious. (California are the product of only a few hundred years past. The subject is one stimulating of reflection. Baltimore Patriot. Very touching incident occurred at the funeral of Mr. W. B. Clifton, who died in Louisville last week. Prior to his death, he was entitled to his slaves, numbering some forty, a large number of whom attended his funeral. On Saturday last, during the march, an old slave who had been greatly attached to his master came up quietly to the hearse, the fringe of which he respectfully kissed, and behind the cemetery. After the prayers at the grave were closed and all had gone save the blacks, the old man signed to them kneel, and throwing himself upon the ground prayed most vehemently and tearfully for his master and those he had left behind, which so affected the listening mourners, that the place was filled with cries and groans. The Prince of Wales will be a very agreeable member of his mother's family if he takes home with him all the gifts which he has received in the Canadas. He has already acquired a large Newfoundland dog of rather dubious amiability, a canoe, a pair of paddles, and a spear. Add to these the alarming consideration that his Royal Highness "smokes," the "cavalier," and it will be seen that for the peace of Windsor it is extremely desirable his own private establishment should be kept ready for him before he returns. A squaw, a tomahawk, and a buffalo bull are the least remarkable additions which may still be expected for his Highness' household. Kossuth, with the few remaining members of his family, were in Paris at last accounts. It is said that the illustrious Magyar felt keenly the death of his sister, and that when he said the account of the attention and respect manifested by the gentlemen of Brooklyn at her funeral, he wept and exclaimed—"Oh, that their people were my people, and their God." From some mysterious source, the following note indicates simply that it is from a friend in America, and that it is intended to be better so as expenditures. The Crop Prospects.— The whole world, as well as ourselves, have occasion so rejoicing in the splendid crop prospects of America. While there, every reason to believe that the whole Western country will yield bounties, the reverse, it is the other end of the world, likely to remain heavy. From France, it is hoped that every year, the visit of the Great Eastern, by the Baltimore Patriot, has brought prominently to the surface one of our weakest points of national character, and that is our love of eating and drinking. People could not visit the monster, while lying at the wharf in New York, without wanting to eat and drink, and because the Directors did not turn the ship into a hotel and distribute viands and drinks gratis, they have been heartily abused. And so of the trip to Cape May and of the visit to Annapolis Roads, if we can't move without something to eat and drink, it is time that everybody should turn himself into a walking restaurant. OCT In Texas, a white man, named W. H. Crawford, supposed to have been an abolitionist, was found, near Fort Worth, hung dead to a tree. In Grimes co., two white preachers of the gospel were also hung for the same offense. About eighty negroes, supposed to be concerned in the revolt, were put in jail. In Dallas, on the 24th, three negro men were hung for being concerned in the intended insurrection. Abolition Position of the Methodist Episcopal Church. DR. RAVEN ON THE NEW CHAPTER. Mr. Editor: —I send you, for publication in your paper, an outspoken, honest exposition of the New Discipline, in reference to slavery, by Dr. Haven, in a recent editorial in Zion's Herald. Dr. Haven was a prominent member of the General Conference at Buffalo, and acted with the majority on this subject. Hesays: Now look again at the present chapter and note its directness, its brevity, its point. "But we are told "it is declaratory and advisory." True enough, it is; what then! It does declare the doctrine of the M. E. Church; it does advise all ministers and societies to enforce and obey the doctrines of the M. E. Church on slavery; what then! "But it is not a law; what then! is new law necessary when all the old law that is needed exist — The chapter says that buying, selling and holding slaves, is contrary to laws already existing. What is the need of new laws then? But why not pass a new law? Because it would be entirely superfluous to do so. As much as to give a man two heads. Had the General Conference passed a new law, it might have been pleaded as a justification of church divisions; it therefore declared the true meaning of OLD LAW. The General Conference is the highest judicial of the M. E. Church, and this Supreme Court has decided that holding human beings as chattels, of property, is contrary to the Bible, and contrary to the fundamental law of the church already existing. Of course, that declaration itself is not law, it is a judicial decision. It is "declaratory and advisory." It declares what the old law means, and advises to obey it. Let them go to their hazard. If anybody now wishes to know what the old law according to the new chapter really means, let them get up a case. Explain a "buying selling" of a human being to be used as a chattel, let an appeal be made to an Annual Conference, and from that to the General Conference, and we hazard our reputation on it, the General Conference will decide without hesitation and right. It can have no other meaning, and no body really believes that it has. We are astonished at the apparent earnestness with which a few dull minds seem to be pouring over this new brief chapter, to find out whether it is a law or not. We have a few old spelling books and dictionaries that we would gladly lend them. What difference does it make what you call it? It is the doctrine of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It is a part of the Discipline. The General Conference says, by solemn vote, that that is the meaning of the Bible, that it is the meaning of the Golden Rule, and that is the meaning of our General Rule that forbids doing harm. Now, then, if an Annual Conference allows a minister to buy, sell, or hold a slave, or if a minister or church allows a member to buy, sell or hold a slave, they do what the Discipline of the M.E. Church declares is contrary to its own Rules, to the Golden Rule, and to the laws of nature and of God. What more could the Conference do until a direct case was brought before it for executive action? We repeat it, the Discipline is strong enough; what we need now is its enforcement, and we shall have it. Under this Discipline, holding cannot thrive, cannot exist, exist among the people, who sooner or later, in any way, except by our cut, it is sure to leave rapidly, and better, all good men will say. We rejoice now over the expulsion of slavery from the Discipline; we expect immediate time to rejoice over its expulsion from the Church. This is a sufficient answer to all that has been said and written by the ministers in the minority—urging the border to submission, and representing the new Chapter as only advisory. Important Discovery.— By a careful examination of the geography of the world, it has been ascertained that the great artesian bore of Columbus, Ohio, will on passing through the opposite side of the globe, come out exactly fifteen miles from the great Chinese wall. The Chinese side, and about two hundred fifty miles from Pekin. This is a discovery great importance. If they do not succeed obtaining water, they intend, we are told, pass a telegraph wire through, so as to bring Columbus into direct communication with Celestial Empire. In the Illinois there are ninety-one Democratic papers for Douglass and two for Breckinridge, thirty-nine Democratic papers in Indiana there are sixty-four papers for Douglass and four for Breckinridge. In the latter, one out of the eleven Democratic papers and four for Breckinridge. In the latter, one out of the twenty-five papers and four for Breckinridge. The story of the flax was in full bloom; its delicate little flowers were blue as the heavens and fine as the wing of the butterfly. The flax was in full bloom; its delicate little flowers were blue as the heavens and fine as the wing of the butterfly. Un shone upon it, and the rain watered it; and this was the flax just the same as it is to little children, when they have their faces washed and receive a kiss from their mothers—they look so much prettier. People say that I stand up so straight and strong," said the flax, "and that I shall be so very long, I shall make a beautiful piece of linen. Oh! how happy I am! I am certainly the happiest person in the whole wide world. Everything is so good to me, and in the end I shall become something of use in the world. How the sunshine rejoices one, and how the rain refreshes one. I am immeasurably happy; I am the happiest of all." "Ho, ho," said the thorn-hedge; "you know nothing of the world, that's clear; but we know it, for we have thorns. And then it snapped out crossly: "Schmipp, snap, schnare, Basselurrs; the song is done." "No, it isn't done," said the flax; "tomorrow the sun will shine or the rain will fall with its refreshing showers. I feel that I blossom. I am the happiest in the whole world." But one morning came the workpeople, seized the flux by the head, and pulled it up by the roots—how it did burst! And then they laid it in water, as if they wished to drown it, and then it was put over the fire, as if they going to roast it. It was very dreadful. One can't always have good fortune, said the flax. One must pass through trouble; then one becomes wise. And trouble after trouble did come upon it. It was steamed, and cooked, and broken, and... Backled, till it did not know itself what all was done to it. Then it came upon the spinning wheel. Schnurr, schnurr! It was impossible to keep one's thoughts together there. I have been so very happy, it thought, amidst all its pain; one must be content with the good which one has received. Content to be content, it were; and that it still said when it came upon the loom; and from that it came forth a large and beautiful piece of linen. All the flax, to the very smallest stem, was contained in that one. This is truly extraordinary. I never could have believed that fortune would be so kind to me. The thorn-hedge certainly did not know, what it was talking about with its 'Schnipp,' schnapp, schnorre, basselurre! The song I lent by any means done. It commences now, the same as it was when I was young. I am paid now for all my sufferings. I am the happiest of all. I am so strong and so fine, so white and so long. This is somewhat different from being simple plants, although one does not bloom. Why, the linen was brought into the house, and then came the scissors. Oh how they did cut and slit! and how the needle flew in and out. But from the linen came twelve white garments of the kind which one desired. es not quite like to name, but which, nevertheless, everyone must have. Only see, now, said the flax; now for the first time, I really have become something useful. Now I shall do some good in the world, and everyone knows that to do good is the greatest pleasure one can have. We have become twelve things, but we are still one and the same—we are a dozen. What an extraordinary piece of good fortune it is. And years passed by, until they could hold together no longer. Everything must come to an end sometime or other, said each piece. I would willingly have held together a little longer, but one must wish for impossibilities. And so it was torn in shreds and rags. It thought everything was over now, for it was torn, and steamed, and cooked again, and then—it became beautiful white paper. That is a surprise, and a delightful surprise, too, said the paper. Now I shall be greater than I was before, and now I shall be written upon. What is there in the world which cannot be written? O! what good fortune it is. And there were, in truth, the most beautiful stories and verses written upon it; and only once was there a blot. And the people heard what stood upon it. It was so wise and so good that I thought it was a great spell in the words upon that paper. This is more than I ever even dreamed of, when I was still a little blue field flower. How could it ever occur to me, then that I should at some future time bear happiness and knowledge to mankind? I cannot yet understand it; but it really is so. I myself have done nothing to deserve this, and yet I am crowned with one joy after another. Each time, when I think I am done, then directly something better than all happens. Now I shall certainly be sent all over the world, that men may read me. Nothing else can possibly happen. That is the only thing possible. I have precious thoughts upon me, even as I once had blue flowers. I am the happiest in the whole world. But the paper did not go upon its travels; it only went as far as the bookseller's; there all that was written upon it was placed in types, that a book might be made of it—yea, even many hundred books; for in this way much more pleasure and good might be done than if the single sheet of paper upon which it was written had gone forth in the world. And then the paper was tied together in a bundle, and thrown into a large barrel, which stood in the wood-house. It is best to rest after accomplishing a great deed, said the paper, for then one can collect one's thoughts, and find what more lies in one. Now I know for the first time what is in me; and to know oneself, (be first step in true wisdom. What will now happen to me? Forward! I must go—everything goes forward; that I know by experience. But it stayed in the wood-house until finally one day all the paper was taken out and laid upon the heart. There it was to be burned, for if it's worth enough to be told to the grocer, and so used as a wrapping for bread, it's worth enough to be told to the grocer. New and sugar, they said; no, it was only rubbish, and so it must be burned. And all the children in the house came and stood round, for it was such fine fun to see paper burned, it flamed up so high in the air at first, and afterward, one could see in the ashes so many red sparks, which ran about hither and thither: One after the other went out so fast—that they called "seeing the children come out of school," and the last spark was the schoolmaster. Often they thought that the latter had gone, but in the very same minute would come out another spark. "There goes the schoolmaster," they cried. "Ah, that was grand fun. They would have liked well to know who it was really wont there. We knew it; but they didn't. All the old paper, the whole bundle, was laid upon the fire, and it burned up fast enough. "It's a light!" it said, and blazed up in a clear flame. "It's a light!" it said, and blazed up in a clear flame. "It's a light!" it said, and blazed up in a clear flame. "It's a light!" it said, and blazed up in a clear flame. "It's a light!" it said, and blazed up in a clear flame. "It's a light!" it said, and blazed up in a clear flame. "Schupp, schnapp, schnurre, Bameforie; The song is done." The little invisible beings said: "Be never done—that is the beauty I know it, and, therefore, I am still be happiest thing in the whole world. When, however, the whole was in flames, it streamed higher up in the air than the flax had ever been able to lift its little blue flannel, and shone as the white linen had never shone. All the written letters upon it were for a moment bright red, and then all the words and all the thoughts vanished in the flames. "Now I shall go directly up to the sun," it cried from the flames. And it was as if thousands of voices repeated the cry, and the flames rushed up through the chimney high into the air. And finer than the flames, invisible to mortal eyes, fluttered about tiny little beings, even as many as there had been flowers upon the flax. They were lighter even than the flames from which they had sprung into existence; and when the latter disappeared, and only the black ashes of the paper remained, they ran over them like little red sparks. The children came out of school, and the schoolmaster was the last of all." That was good sport, and the children sang over the dead ashes: "Present Summer bids fair to signalize it at least in the annals of Mr. Meriam. A season at its outset so remarkably reduced in temperature as to allow of warm weather, and attended by celestial and atmospheric phenomena of unusual frequency and re-splendor, offers to the student of this peculiar class... Science and the Weather. The meteorological characteristics of the sun to strike despair to the souls of patient wait. The early spring witnessed repeated displays of the Northern Aurora, to the serious derangement of telegraphic communication. During the summer, the sun shone brightly, and the sun shone brightly. The summer has brought with it a series of whirlwinds, and tornadoes, which have desolated the Western States, and have been attended with unprecedented disturbances of the magnetic field. Earthquake shocks are of daily occurrence, and the earthquake reports several distinctly noticeable shocks as observed on Tuesday in Kentucky. The almost entire absence of rain in the West Indies for now more than a year, and the constant recurrence of earthquakes, have given rise in that quarter of the hemisphere to reasonable apprehensions of a hurricane of unparalleled destructiveness. Mariners coming from the West Indian waters further report a dozen of the most surprising phenomena than the reversal of the trade winds—a phenomenon that has been widely observed in the past. From England, we are informed that Sir John Herschel, whose attention has been for many years devoted with persevering ardor to the solution of problems, has been instrumental in bringing about a more equitable and equitable solution of the problem. imagines As found reason to predict the coming of a tempest in the course of the present year, so nomenon, we believe, unobserved for more than of the an violent and destructive as to exceed any remembered experience of the European world. Then, again, repeated exhibitions of meteors or shooting stars of extraordinary size and character, which are currently reported from Paris with renewed energy to inquiry into the origin of these as yet inexplicable vagaries of nature. Throughout the world, we have no idea of becoming alarmists, or of urging confiding readers to the question of their Tennessee gas, or other distant securities, at an eighth below market value. Nor are we prepared to recommend a careful perusal of the Great Tribulation of the despondent Cummings, as a careful preparation of the physical convulsions as may perhaps be anticipated. We simply invite to the subject the serious attention of the Association or the Advancement of Science, as such, for the solution of the problem of foresight and practical enterprise as they seldom enjoy. There is no department of natural science of such great importance to mankind as the solution of the laws which govern the weather. The 5aw * ° r if the prediction of Her »chel and present tropical indications prove to bo may become the subject of general investigation; the meteors, ol which show * r< those of 1831 sie, in the opin ion of comp«'ent people, to be anticipated in the month of November, rosy be careiully ex amined ; and from these data a real advance in •«'«»«• be made, which will give a cf«d'table aignifiohnce to the title of tbe Asao o' 81 ' 00, W# beg, therefore, with all deference t0 l " ve th * w ^' b ® r £. lbe " nd# ot lh * New ' P° rt ■*vans.—AT. Y, Times. oub directions, are engaging the ationtion of scientific observera, who are addicting tbem In alluding to these indications of an onusual derangement of meteorological conditions Personal. -It will be remembered that during the recent European trip of Champion Heeenan, a certain damsel catling herself Ada Isaacs Men ken Heenan created great enthusiasm amongst the frequenters of the Bowery, churning to be the lawful and wedded wife of the champion aforesaid. John disclaims all knowledge of the woman, and utterly repudiates her, while she avows her determination of bringing « the Boy" to bis proper bearings, and right soon. Heenan is at Newport, and the lady i%at pres ent in New York. -Dr. Sontag, who was for a long time Astronomical Observer at the Dudley Obser- vatory, resigned bis position when he accepted the appointment of Astronomer to the Hays Arctic Expedition. His successor, who has just been appointed, ia Mr. Henry Ward Poole, formerly of South Danrers, Mass. -Columbia College has bestowed the well deserved honor of the degree ot LL D. upon the venerablf alumnus John W. Francis, M. D. A medical friend inquires, while we respect the duplex Doctor, will it be considered incompatible to dislike triplex pills? That modern Simpson, Dr. Wilcox, of Boston, has recently astonished his friends and admirers by lifting a dead weight of eleven hundred and sixty pounds. Muscle and mental uppermost now a-days. Prior to making his Western campaign tour, Gov. Seward will visit his relatives on the Hudson river, spend a few days in New York, and take a short trip into Vermont, where he has a valuable estate. Gov. Hunt was fined $25 recently by Judge Davis, for non-attendance as juryman. The Governor had the good sense to pay the fine, and will, doubtless, do better the next time. The gifted though eccentric Tom Marshall has been delighting the people of Poughkeepsie and Milton with his lectures on Henry Clay and Temperance. Mr. Marshall, at the close of one of his temperance discourses, announced his intention of out-witting the Alms House and Insane Asylum, by signing the pledge, which he then and there proceeded to do. A monk, preaching at Treviso, a few days since, took the Virgin Mary sharply to task for allowing the Pope to be despoiled of the Romagna, after he had recognized her divinity! Elias Howe, Jr., the inventor of the needle and shuttle combination on the sewing machine, and the recipient of half a million dollars out of the poor needlewomen of the country, is pressing for a renewal of his patent. We sin. Celyle, very much hopes that Mr. Thomas will utterly ignore the prayer of the petitioner. Gen. Joseph Lane— Jo Lane—has a who is a cadet at West Point. The General has occasion to visit his son a few days since, it is pleasing to know that the young gentleman has more than fulfilled the most sanguine expectations of his distinguished father. Gen. Lane was received with all honors and conducted himself with that modest dignity of manner for which he is so well known. We desire to congratulate Rev. Mr. Sheens, who is the reported bridegroom to whose fortunes are now allied the fame, name, reputation of Mrs. Emma Cunningham-Burdell. Mr. Sheens is a Universalist preacher of more than ordinary talent. Let us hope is happily located and may live an enviable life for many long and blissful years. A man with a singular name, but who seems to have been able to survive the infliction of living in the thriving town of Rising Ind. His name is Solomon Pangborn; was born in the City of New York in 1735, when it was a small town of five hundred and twenty-three houses. Solomon is therefore years old, and is able to split rails or sail a flat-boat. His name has never been mentioned as a candidate for the Presidency, but he is and has been for fifty years a Justice of the Peace. Mayor Wood, Judge Russell, Mr. J. G. Bennett, Gen. Webb, J. G. Saxe and sundry other celebrities, have been rusticating at Saratoga. Mrs. Bennett has a suite of rooms at Union Hall, and somewhat astonishes the unsophisticated sojourners in the town by her daily drives. In her Victoria. She handles the ribbons herself, and drives a pair of handsome apricots with special grace and elegance. Got. Reeder is so fortunate as to own a farm—a farm of 640 acres—acres of choice land lying a few miles north of City, Kansas. Recently he visited that section the country, and made arrangements to have form fenced, stocked and put under immediate cultivation. It is said that it will prove one of the most productive pieces of property in the country, and that Gov. Reeder's fortune is secure and large enough to satisfy any modest man, from this possession alone. Capt. John Vine Hall, Commander of the Great Eastern, was the recipient of much private hospitality while in Baltimore, at which place he became a general favorite. Aysley-Beg-TararoUky, of Beyrout, has presented to Senator Seward three fine Arab horses, (one stallion and two mares,) whose arrival at Boston is looked far daily. Friends of Gen. Cass say that the state of his health is such that it is extremely doubtful whether he again resumes the toils and cares of his official position. The venerable statesman is sojourning at Detroit. Moos. De Lave appears before the public again. He is about throwing a hempen bridge across the Niagara, near the Falls, and intends purifying thereon before and of the Prince of Wales. Blondin has been displaying himself before the Buckeyes, and on Thursday he made an ascension at Chillicothe, which netted him one thousand dollars. Levenworth in honor - Benson J. Lossing, author of the "Field material Book of the Revolution," is gathering for a history of the "Last War." Martin VanBursn is out mildly for Douglas. Bulwer calls a newspaper the common reservoir into which every stream pours its living waters, and at which every man may come to drink. The Moqui--A New Race. Prof. Newberry, in his paper read before the Scientific Congress, gives a vivid description of the geological features of the great plateau sweeping east and west from the Rocky Mountains, illustrated by the colored drawings. He well-bored, fiercely bearded face gave evidence of the effects of the sun and the wind on the vast treeless plains that skirt the Colorado. He incidentally gave a most interesting description of that strange people, the Moqoi, whose cities he had seen in New Mexico, and but a small remnant of whom now exist. They belong to a hitherto unknown race. Prof. Newberry thinks they may be remains of the Aztects who ruled that region on its discovery by the Spaniards. From the characteristics, however, of the melancholy remnant who now exist, it seems more probable that they are to be referred to the Tolecs, who were dispersed by the Aztects. Mr. Newberry described them as a race apparently entirely distinct from any other Indian continent. They are smaller, have a distinct conformation of skull and face and are peaceful agriculturists. They weave cloth, work with implements of stone, and build towns of stone and mortar on the mountain table lands which rise 800 or 1000 feet above the lowland plateau. They build wall around their towns, and their only means of ingress and egress is by ladders which they draw up after them when they enter the town. There are seven of these small towns still inhabited by this fast-fading race. But their ruins extend over the whole valley of the San Juan— apparently ruins of a race once numbering millions of men—and many of them (the towns 800 or 1000 years old). Cashmere Oil Springs. —Great discoveries are being made at Cashmere, on the river Thames, about 40 miles west of London, C.W., and 3 miles from Bothwell station, Great Western Railroad. Men of capital are sinking wells for the purpose of taking the oil, and expect to realize fortunes from it. The earth, for three or four miles east and west with the river, seems to be completely saturated with oil, as it comes up in several places on either side of the river, and great quantities are running off with the stream. It is thought by men of experience, that when the wells are properly opened they will drain the "Enniskillen Springs."— London Free Press. Next to the talent for administration and experience, comes the talent for quick adaptation to the unexpected, for making the best of things as they are put into your hands; hence women's great readiness, her superior natural gift continually developed by circumstances. Many men would be driven mad if they were exposed to the same despotic capacities, sudden changes of plan etc., to which they frequently subject their wives, who thus obliged to learn the wisdom of expedients. The Express publishes the names of fourteen papers, in the State of New York, that are supporting Bell and Everett; and it adds another to the list in its last issue. It says, also, that it believes there are five or six other papers in New York that are supporting Bell and Everett, with which it does not exchange — thus making twenty papers in the State of New York that support Bell and Everett. Last of the Evening Gun —The old practice observed in New Orleans of firing at the hour for slaves to be at home, tried out July 30th for the last time. On the 1st lost, all the bells connected with the fire alarm telegraph struck one lap to mark the hour of twelve, at noon, and at 9 o'clock p.m., taps as the signal for negroes and to mark the hour likewise. Meteorological Iron.—In Prof. Shepard's cabinet, at Amherst College, Mass., masses of meteorological iron may be seen, which weigh from ten to one thousand or fifteen hundred pounds. At the Smithsonian Institute, at Washington, D.C., a mass of meteoric iron may be seen, which weighs from ten to one thousand or fifteen hundred pounds. At the Smithsonian Institute, at Washington, D.C., a mass of meteoric iron may be seen, which weighs from ten to one thousand or fifteen hundred pounds. It is exhibited which probably weighs twenty-five hundred to three thousand pounds, and which falls in New Mexico. The Frenchman likes to catch his truth in the most summary way, and put it in his game bag at once. The German, when he has got his truth, by circumventing it, prefers to let it go again, and watch its hare-like doublings, and if he can lose sight of it altogether for a while, so much the better. There are both sorts of minds in England. The Census.— The four leading Western cities are now nearly of the same size, although ten years ago there was an extraordinary disparity between them. Cincinnati now numbers a population of 165,000, St. Louis 145,000, Pittsburgh 130,000, Chicago 120,000. Memphis, Tenn., is probably growing more rapidly than any other. The Population of Illinois. — The returns from Illinois already received at the Bureau in Washington indicate the total population of that State to be 1,600,000 in 1860.— On the basis of one Congressman to every 120,000 inhabitants, it will now be entitled to 15 members instead of 9. Humors of the Census. — The census laker in Jonesville, Mich., put down a man's age at 300 years, instead of 300 acres of land, which was intended. He was beaten, however, by the census man in the town of Allegan, who put down a man as having 160 children, instead of 160 acres of land. A little girl one night was under the starry sky, intently meditating upon the glories of the heavens. At last, looking up to the sky, she said, "Father, I have been thinking it the wrong side of heaven is so beautiful, what will the right side be!" Dixie Land.— The origin of this popular air is said to be as follows: The word Dixie is an old name for the negro idea of heaven that is, a place where there is no work, plenty of possum, pig meat, sweet potatoes, big hominy and molasses, all ready for the eating. Summary Punishment.— Several recently caught tampering with negroes who were employed on a railroad near Verona, Alabama. The leader was seized, and after a trial, had 39 lashes well laid on by one of the negroes. Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent, but it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two. The Mormons have gone to work again on their temple in Salt Lake City, which does not look like emigration. 18 census men were. 