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8|-.3. K. LOCKWOOD,
NORWALK, coNN.,
 xisirrxcruasns or
TIN, SHEET IRON & COPPER
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. no DEALERS I.\‘
Stoves, Ranges, F u-maces, Cutlery,
Britamzia, Porcclam and W0odm_
.W'm'e, and Kitcken Fm'7i»z7ztm'e
0 in general, Pumps, S/I.-€98

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' Store has been

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DRY GOODS.

HE Subscriber would return his thanks fol‘

the very liberal pati-onag-c with which his
‘ favored the year past, and hopes
by a constant atte'rit.ion to the wants of the

orable dealing, to retain his share of_‘ trade for
the year ensuing. His Stock comprises at all
times a choice and varied selection offashi_ons-
blc and seasonable Dry Goods, of every quality
and price. He is confident that purchasers
will find every article purchased at his store,
equal in quality, and as cheap in rice, as can
be omained elsewhere. Particii er. attention
devoted to the selection of Cloths, Vestings,
&c.. &c., for Gentlcmens wear, which will be

sold at the lowest market prices.
Jan. 16. L. H. RANDLE.

O. FIELDS,

Manufacturer and Dealer in
300353. 8301-B AND R'033l.'a.S-
HE subscriber has on hand and is ready foi-

and .Dress Boots, of French Calf or Patent
Leather. From his long p1?ct_ice in this branch
of the trade, he_is conflden ,th’a_t his work will
compare favorably with that of-city-A manufac-
ture. He has also it general assortment of
Congress Shoes, Oxford ties, brogans, &c_. ;
For the Ladies, he has-_n complete stock of
Guitar and Morocco Boots, Buskins, &:c.‘ ‘

ahil made to order. " India ’Rubber Boots: and‘
Shoes! of" allikinds, ;a't ; O. FIELDS, opposite’

Norwalk, Nov._1-0, I95-_l-. , 'iy"-47;

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1: audrur -Emporium.
THE .subsc:iber:hur'ihg;'re‘xiioy A }‘to No,
2 _Sk.i<1dyfg ,Bloc.1i'9 .\\7_ould,s..ay_. that having

jusfmade vory’fl‘a_rge.‘ifddi’tions~ to‘his'former

stock," of’new"“ tun“ fashionable" g'oods*in= =‘his*

line, would=no’tv 'c'i'ill .tlie.at—tc’ntiou ofthc public‘
generally,-;to.th,e,-gr_eat_ advantages which he‘ ’
is Pnabled to o1fcr.,over his ‘competitors in
Norwalk. 'Confinin'g our‘ 'whole‘ ‘attention- '-to
this one bI'ftl'K!iI‘U1"’lJII'3ilIOSR," wcvfeel that we
can make pitrcliascs and secure a much -.__d)8i.tPI': _
quality of goods, than thrgc comp§.rativclya
unacqunintcd with, the business. We‘*havej
now on ‘hand as fine assortment of H.i'rs,just'
suited to the season and the wants of the ;com--
munity.—For_fui%tliei;particula_rs,j_ust drop iq
and examine foryoursclvcs, at No.2 Skiddy’s
Block. Main street. ‘

Nonwagn nivrronrumi

H.C. RANDLE. '

trading public and by a system of fair and hon-‘

orders of all kinds of Water Proof Boots, ‘

UkiIdren_’s work or all descriptions‘ on ‘hind: .

-Lead 4- Lead Pipe,
Cave/cerg/, Glass
and C'}l»’i7L(l.

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, . J’. I‘. TOOTH,
Attorney and counselor at Law,
omjlcui: OVER .MJ1LLORY’S STORE

N____orwa.lk, Conn.

.11. s. 3 E E R s ,
SDOCESSOR TO

A. S 3,

,Book'sel1er, Stationer. & Binder,

I7 ll1_,as'n‘Szreet, No7walk_

H. M. rnowrr-r,

Teacher of Music.
Lessons on the Piano Forte, Melodeon, and in
_ S q, _ , Vocal Music.
Pianos and lfelodeons selected, with grestcare
as to tone and quality, for those desiring to
purchase. ans

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Over D. 8:. N. Depot.
N ORWALK.

I. .i k e n e _s 9 es
Warrarzted to please all Good Judges

1'. H. NASH,

Waonssxrm -AND Ri:r.uL DEALER is
S T O V E S
- J;L=.2\‘I.’F.&CTUREl‘. OF .,
rm, SHEET IRON & COPPER
' W a r e s ,

Has cc-nsza.nzl_7/ an la-and alarge assert
ment qf general House-keeping
Furniture, at So. Norwallc,

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Norwalk Post Office.

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.'l"elcgraph Oilicc in Norwslk is now

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 open on week daysfrom 8 A.M. to 9P.M.,
H and on the Sabbath from
: Oflce as heretofore at Ans-.ten’iz. Dsgucrrean
. Rooms. Danbury and Norwalk Railroad Depot.

7 to 8 o'clock, P. M.

Iolotober lilth, 1854. 1y -

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“"7. min... A mitts...
Br CHARLES Tunas.

LL orders for building raising and mov-
ing, left with the Subscriber, will receive

; ;_»P-;.°mpt attention and be executed in the safest

_ ' t ,x editions manner.
—»"°‘i”"°’ P P .103-.i-iisusrnnnv.
Carriage Maker, fig cut.

it neatness and dispatch, at
F. H. NASHS. So. Norwalk.

M I-Idirsdlilankets.

‘ ELL Jobbing in Tinuers Line executed with

 

p , . 3333 of the best and cheapest asscrtments
, -..O’of Carriage and Stable

are to fhun_d at Wu. 8. . ON
Eist side the Bridge, Westport,Ct. . 4

 

‘muses, Suction,Forc_e. Cisterlly W11 and
En‘ ‘-'*IGha.in Pumps a.t

‘ "‘«"H’?jiit:.sLiiiri Ware, Brass-kettles, Fry-pans,
tongs._.sad irons, Ovenfronts,

. LOCKWOOIVS.

hoes, rakes, etc., at

" I-0Gl£WOOD’3-

3.19, ‘spades,

1

Horse Blankets,
6

gt all hours. (Danbury, Sept. 5, I853.

Pii.ov~iSroNS~. - ~EEUirS,,
Vegetables. of Fisliall kinds.
clams, oysters, doc. _

As good as the market afi’ords_. constantly to be
found at the well known cstublisliniciit of

ALLEN, MEEKER 3; CO.
@‘ Goods of the above description received

jaily, and for sale at whosesslc and retail on
the most favorable terms.

. Lime.
100 Bbls. of Lime for sale by T. L. PECK.
Timber and Lathe
AT SOUTH NORWALK.
350,000 Plastering Laths.
50,000 Feet Pine and Spruce Timber.
10,000 Pine Picketsjust rec’d and for sale
y THOS. L. PECK.
South Norwalk,Aug. 2. 1853.

New Goods at Southport.

AUGUSTUS JENNINGS has opened during

the past week a. large and well selected

assortment of DRY GOODS, DRY Gnocnnms,
Caocxsur, FURNITURE. CEILDRENB AND Lunns

SHOES, liars, Cars «in LADIESBONNETS, Looking
Glasses, Paper Haiigings, W'indow Shades,
Umbrellas, Parasols, Trunks, Warp, Batting,
S.-c. A weekly supply of fashionable goods.-
All orders promptly filled at the lowest cash
prices; Satisfaction given or goods may be

snwnve,
Coats, Pants, Vests, Drswers,&c.,consta.ntly_

returned.

on hand for "all good Sewers. Those in Nor-
walk can be supplied everv Monday from the
dwelling of Mr. Lewis Smith,iu South Norwalk,
between 9 and 12 o'clock, A. M. Those on
Redding Ridge and vicinity can be supplied
from Samuel Osbot-n’s every othcrwednesday,
P. LL, commencing 10th of May.

Southport, May’2d, I854. 18

woos‘:-an Hausa"-

GORNER OF MAIN AND WHITE STREETS

Near the Rail Road Depot.

THE subscriber having leased the above nam-

eil Hotel, is prepared to receive boarders

and transient visiters. The House is abundant

ly supplied_with spring water. and has all the
conveniences necessary to make guestsc0mfort-
able. and the undersigned feels confident from
the experience that he has had in the business
of hotel keeping, that he can give satisfaction
to those who favor him with their

at-ronage.
JOHN R. FORR STIER.

N.B.——W:u'm and Cold Water Baths rcésfgy

cheaper than Ever
./It the South .z\"ar-wa.ll.:
GROCERY STORE.
HE subscriber has on hand by ‘far the
large: and best 5-election, of Family Gro-

ccries and Provisions, to be found in South
Norwalk, which he offers to his customers and
the public, of greatly rciluceil prices. I-Iis fa-
cilities are Such that he will be constantly re-
cciving new and fresh supplies of goods, as the

wants of’ his Customers may require, which will
always be of the best quality and sold at the
very lowest possible price, and he would re-
spcctfull solicit an examination and trial ofthc
Si1m0- GEO. W. SMITH.

1 South Norwalk, May 15th, 1854.

Q Land For Sale.
ABOUT_ciglit acres of good land, near
Main-st., one mile north of the Bi-idgc,is offered
for sale upon very reasonable terms. It is ad.
\ni_rabl_v aclaptcd lor_building_r lots, or for gnu]-
ening purposes, liaving a quick and rich soil,
anda large bed of vegetable iuoiild,orcompost
manure tlicrcon. or it is well calculated for s,
first I'il.tC_lll0tI.tl0\\'.' It IS wclllcnccd and in 3,
Very ?l1g1l;lo loc:it_ion. For furflicr particulars
ell-€[llll‘C at this oilicc. L13

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Hardware and Cutlery,
llfcc/iaiuhv Tools, Fa.r’rm'2z g Utensils,
Gmzx, Pistols, Iron and Steel,
l’V1’mZ0zv Glass, Pciints
am! Oils.

HE subscriber has nowin store, and is con-
stantlyrcceiving direct from the manu-
facturers,a large supply of foreign and domes-
tic goods. under the above denominations,
which makes his assortment of articles suited
to this market, or us] to any in the state. and
which will be sol either wholesale or retail,
on as favorable terms as can be purchased in
New York. For list of articles and prices,
purchasers are requested to call and examine
for thenisclvcs. WM. 0. STREET.
Norwalk, April 17th.

% cabinet Ware Rooms at
WESTPORT!

THE subscribers would respectfully inform
their frlenils and the public generally, that
they are still located a few doors north of the
WI‘l1i»'ll>‘-C’. Opposite the store of Alva Gray,
where may be found a large and splendid as-
sort_i:nent of C.tBI\'iC’I‘ WARE in general.

U/zrlr; rt‘ar’.~ing in all its departments attended
to at the shortest notice and upon reasonable
terms.

An examination of our stock and price‘: is
respectfully solicited, as we m-e.ae;e;-min“ not
to be undersold, b any sigqiilsr establishment

to the COGNI-

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For the Gazette.

Orange Flower.
Flower of soft and ‘sunny skies,
Whose zephyrs play with tresses fair,
And lovers ask and give replies,
With flowers whose fragrance fllls the air;
Cora! this flower is like to thee,
Emblem of love and purity.

Flower, thy home is one long spring,
Where bloom the eglautine and rose,
Where birds in lightest carols sing,
And woo the mind to sweet repose;
Coral these scenes remind ofthee,
Emblem of love and purity.

Flower, thy beauty soon must pale,
Yet will thy fragrance fill the air,
Andon the breeze will upward sail,
An incense to its Maker there ,
Coral these thoughts remind of thee,
Emblem of love and purity.

February, 1864.

BOOTS.

A littleglove stirs up my heart, as tides stir
_ ,_ up the ocean,

Andsnow-‘white muslin, when it fits, wakes
many a curious notion;

All sorts ofladiesfixius thrill my feelings as
they’d orter,

But littlefemalc gaiter boots are death, and

nothing shorter. _ .
Andjust to put you on your guar
_ I-‘ll give you. short and brief,
. A small hotel .exp_er_ience_. _.
» Which fll-led.my heart with: grief.
Last summer, at thefllsrcndon,
I stopped it week or more,
And marked - two .“ boot-ies’! ‘every. morn,
Before my -neighbor-’s door-
Two boots with patent-leather tips-
Two boots which seemed to say :
“ An angel trots aronnd-in-us;.’l
Theystole my hcartaway.
I saw the servant take"em‘ofl“,
With those of other brutes—-
His soul was all in sixpences,
But mine was in the boots;
And often in my nightly dreams
They swept before my face,
A lady growing out of them,
As flowers grow out of a vase.

' But ah! one mom I saw a sight
Which struck me like a stone ;
Some other name was on the boots-

- Those boots were not alone .'
A great tall pair of other boots
Were standing by their side!
And of they walked that afternoon,
And with them walked a---bride !
Enough, enough, my song is sung,
Love’: tree bears bitter fruits ;
Beware of beauty—reader, mind,
But-oh! beware of boots!

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k. The following was written by the
youngest son of the late Capt. Willis, one of
the pioneers to California :-
A Trip to Oregon.

One day, as my father was seated in
the cabin of his ship, engaged in making
up the _accounts of his last voyage, Mr.
\Vai-d, awealthy merchant, came on
board and inquired how he would like a
trip to Oregon, to obtain a load of lum-
ber. The gold mines had recently been
discovered, and the vast influx of popu-
lation, consequent upon that event, had
increased the value of lumber, as well
as other articles to almost lhbulous pri-
ces. The vast forests of Oregon were
to supply the former, the Atlantic states
the latter. My father having expressed
his readiness to undertake the trip, prep.
arations were soon made, and iua week,
we were all ready. The day that was
appointed for our departure was a busy
-one. At first all was confusion, sailors
running to and fro, hauling home the
sheets; in gang at the anchor were light-
ening their labors by the cheerful song,
‘that kept time to their nimble move-
ments, the captain was bowling hoarsely
through his trumpet, and everything he-
tokeneil disorder. But soon every stitch
of snowy canvass was spread to the
breeze, and the gallant ship was plowing
through the water "like a thing of life,”
at the rate ofseveu knots an hour. \Ve
had on board a crazy man, who beguiled
the time for us by his tantrums, in one
of which he pitched my father's spy-
glass overboard. In eight days we made
the mouth of the Columbia river, We
lay off and on for several days, waiting
for a pilot, but no pilot came. However
as good luck would have it, three other
ships were in the same predicament.—'
One of them happened to know the way
and took the lead, while the rest follow-
ed in her wake. Having crossed the
bar which stretches across the momh of
the river, \ve anchored in a large and
beautiful bay. Our anchorage was op-
posite the place where Pacific city now
stands. Then nothing but a dense forest
occupied the spot. After remaining at
anchor two days, we began to sail slow-
ly up the river. We passed Astoria, a
beautiful little town named after John
Jflcob Astor, the pioneer of fifirneflcan
enterprise on the Pacific coast. Our
Passage up the river was slow. Some-
times we were wafted along by a pros-
perous breeze, at others we kedged, or
“me ‘°“’°‘1 bl’ our boats. We soon
reached the mouth of the Willamette,
one of the principal tributaries of the
Columbia. 1 have not words to des-
cribe my emotions upon gazing at 11,.
beautiful. scenery, along the banks of the’
river. The hills through which it flowed
were crowned by the beautiful fir, while
luxurious herbage grew to the water‘;
edge. As yet. Nature reigned in all her
pristine glory. The hand of man had

NOUD&"‘iBU$N. ._.3llIl3‘

,yet‘msr_red'«.oone of her beauty, and

 

. way more than another.

 naught disturbed the silence of solitude.

~,,.__, 5 except the warbling of the feathered

 songsters. N'ow and then we glided by
 little island, that reared its green head
lamid the crystal waters. Their surface
was covered with geese and swans, the
latter of the purest white. We aucti-
ored about two miles below Portland,
gone of the largest towns in the territo-
J ry. A canoe coming along side, my
father gave me permission to go on shore
which privilege I soon availed myselfof.
I passed the time in plucking the deli-
cious strawberries, which grew in great
abundance in the vicinity. It was near-
ly dark before I returned to the ship.
The next day we weighed snchor,‘and
soon arrived at the wharf in Portland,
having made a prosperous and pleasant
voyage. We met with some striking
‘adventures on our return trip, a descrip-
tion of which I will reserve until some
other time. E. A. Winnie.
Reading Institute, Feb. 16th. 1865.

 

Henry Ward Beecher,

Has been giving some of his experien-
ces and observations by, Railway. from
Wateriown, N. Y., to Albany. We ex-
tract from last week’s.Iudependent, the
‘following, for the.enter,tainment—of our
readers.—-Ed: Cour".

A Ride 6’e7tcnd_ the‘ Snow 1?lau_!.-'-
Among the thiiigswhich‘ I ‘havéaiways
longed to see‘,'is‘ the w‘oik"'of-the snow-
plow driven along the covered track,anil
througlfheaped snow--drifted into deep
cuts. This I have-at length seen-. - .Tli"e
train came to~Waterto\vn from Cape Vin-
cent, N. Y.-, with two engines -audio
snow plow. When-wereached Pierpont
Manor, the -conductor? kindly acceded to
my wish to go'.for\vard and take a berth
with the engineer. I was soon in- posi-
tion. Fortwo days it had been atomi-
ing. The air was murky and cross.-—
The snow was descending, not peaceful-
ly and dresmily, but _ whirled and made
wild by fierce winds. The forests were
laden with snow, and their interior look-
ed murky and dreadful as a \vitch’s den.
Through such scenes I began _iny ride
upon the plow shoving engine. The en-
gineers and firemen were coated with
snow from head to foot. and looked like
millers who had never brushed their
coats for a generation. The floor on
which we stood was ice and snow half
melted. -The wood was coated with
snow. The locomotive was frosted all
over with sno\v—whec|s, connecting-
rods, axels, and everything but the boiler
and smokestack. The side ‘ and front
windows were glaced with crusts of ice,
and only through one little spot in the
window over the boiler could I peer out
to get a sight of the plow. The track
was indistinguishable. There was noth-
ing to the eye to guide the engine in one
It seemed as
if we were going acrosq fields and plun-
ging through forests at random. And
this gave no mean excitement to the
scene, when two poiiderons engines
were apparently driving us in such an
outlandish excursion. But their feet
were sure, and unerringly felt their way
along the iron road, so that we were held
in our courses.

Nothing can exceed the beauty of

snow in its own orgation, in the grace-
fulness with which it falls, in the curva-
ture of its drift-lines, and in the curves
which it makes when streaming 03 on
either side from the plow. It wis never
long the same. If the snow was thin
and light, the plow played tenderly with
it, like an artist doing curious things for
sport, throwing it in exquisite curves,
that rose and tell, quivered and trembled
as they ran. Then suddenly striking a
rift that had piled across the track, the
snow sprung out, as if driven by an ex-
plosion, twenty and thirty feet, in Jets
and bolts; or like long-stemmed sheaves
of snow, what spread out fan like. In-
stantly, the drift past, the snow seemed
by an instinct of its own to retract, and
played again in exquisite curves, that
rose and fell about our plow. “Now
you’ll get it,” says the engineer, “ill that
deep cut.” We only saw the first dash,
as if the plow had struck the banks of
snow before it could put on its graces,
and shot it distracted up and down on ei-
the: side, like spray or flying ashes. It
was but a second. For the fine snow
rose up round the engine, and covered it
like a mist, and sucking round, poured in
upon us in sheets and clouds, mingleil
with the vapour of steam, and the smoke
which, from impeded draft, poured out,
filled the engine-room and darkened it,
so that we could not see each other a foot
distant except as very filmy spccter’s
glowering at each other. Our engineers
had on buffiilo coatsfwhose natural hir-
suteness was made more shaggy by tags
of snow melted into icicles. Tosee such
substantial forms changing back and forth
every few moments from a clearly, earth-
ly form into a spectral lightness, as if
they went back and forth between body
and spirit, was not a little exciting to
the imagination.

When we struck deep bodies of snow,
the engine plowed through them labori-
ously, quivering and groaning with the
load, but shot. forth again nimble as a
bird the moment the snow grew light.

Nothing seemed wilder than to be in
one of these whirling storms of-smoke,
vapor and snow. You on one ponder-
ous monster, and another roaring close
behind, fastened together, and looking up
when the snow mists openedca little black,
and terrible. It seemed as if you were
in a battle. There was such energetic ,
action, such irresistible power, such
darkness and light alternating. and such
fitful halt lights, which are more exci-
ting to the imagination than light or
darkness. Thus whirled on in the ho.
som of asiorm, you sped across the open
fields, full of tviId,driviiig snow, you ran
up to the opening of the black pine and
hemlock woods, and plunged into their
sombre mouth as if into a cave of dark-
-ness, and'wrestled your way along thro’
their dreary recesses, emerging to the
cleared fieid again, with whistles screa-
ming and answering each other back
and forth from engine to engine. For,
in the bewildering obscurity, we have

lcloivq the excited steeds and rein them
l hack to the depot. ‘

’ W’e- think Mazeppa’s ride, lashed to a
wild horse and rushing the forests wolf-
driven, to have been rather exciting. If
a man in a buffalo hunt, by some strange
mishap should find himself thrown from
his liforse and mounted on the shaggy
hack of an old, fierce buffalo bull, and
go off with a rush, in cloud and dust,

pursued by yelling Indians, that, too,
would be an excitingride. But neither
of these would know the highest hilarit-
tion of-the chase, until in a wild storm,
upon a scowling day in January, he rides
upon a double engine team behind a
snow plow, to clear the track of banks
and burdens of snow.

Waiting for the 0ar:.—About 12

we reached Rome. All the trains on
the-Central Road were behind time, but
they", were Just about to arrive, and they
were just a going to arrive for five hours
The. room in the station house was soon
fille§i._ Ladies there were, but in no pro-
portion to the gentlemen. They were
more patient; at least, outwardly;.stay-
ing'__;iu the house was more natural to
them. But the men were full of calcu-
lstioiis, how long before they must arrive
now, when it would probably be at Syr-
acuse‘ and Buffalo, or Utica and Albany;
(vital: the chances were for getting to
Neiv York. There were seats in the
gentleman's room for eight,‘ and there
Wolfe, from tliirty to fifty persons present.
Some heaped up the indolent mailbags
an sat on them. A roll of bnffalorobes
"Behind the door was a special luxury.
Sqghé mounted on trunksthat had accu-
‘fUtkI_fitEd,lll one corner Apphreiitly they
_wej'e not soft,‘ as they seemed willing to
exchaiige for the ‘buffalo robe whenever
itjttizis vacated. Others stood about the
‘outirageously hot stove.’ Every body seem-
edjo’ be seized’ with a desire to put in a
sti§ ud when it could hold no moi'e,they
tvdti occasionally open the door look in
poke and kick with their feet to crowd
théin. closer, and so it roared red-hot and
terrible as a red dragon. But stout, full
bléoded men sat about it with great coats
anq mufflers on, drinking-"in heat as if
they had a salamander enjoyment of it.
The only relief was in the frequent open-
mg of the door to let in new comers.——
Tliey came pushing in red faces and
white coats, powdered with snow like a
coiifectio_iier’s cake. The first business
of every one, on entering, was to ask af-
terhthe train, to which some gave quiz-
zichl answer, some peevisli and queru-
lous answers, some downright truth ;—
a few were always hopeful, and note
fevir sat silent and even sullen.
e next resource of every one seem-
ed to be in an attack upon the pop corn
and up le baskets. It was a great day
flfg ‘,1. e apple boys. When the "sale
seemed to flag, they would fill up with
fresh specimens, and one of them would
come rushing in from the telegraph of-
fice “Train only‘ got to Little Falls.”
"Little Falls!” exclaim a score of west-
ward going passengers, "it won't be here
for an hour." At that they turned dis-
consolately to the apples again. By-and
by, in plumps another boy. “Express
train only just reached Syracuse; just
come from telegraph " This was a clap
upon us eastward going passengers, go-
ing, but not gone; and we sighed, and
remarked, and comforted ourselves with
apples!

talked at first produce, then politics, then

they told stories as long at their memory

held out: and then each would saunter

up and down the room, with hands in

pockets, or behind their back. Newspa-

pers, of which a few were present, were

read through, advertisements and all.-—

One great comfort was in going to the

ticket-ofiice window and peering in—for

questions were out of question, the tick-

et master lying in the corner asleep. At

length he got up and shut his window.

This was a great misfortune. Men now

would walk up and look vcfy solemnly

at it, as if tobe '=sure that it was shut,

and then go iothe door or window as

if determined to look out of something.

At last, some one pulled a sliver from the

wood and began to whiule. In a few
moments another followed suit, and be-

fore long half a dozen were contentedly

whittling. Ienvied them. They seem-

ed at least consoled. I envied that fat
man in the corner, who had sat without
winking, certainly withouta motion that

I could notice, for a full hour. He‘ see-
med entirely occupied in breathing. I

anvied that old farmer that fell asleep

sitting bolt upright, but gradually, like
an apple roasting before a good old-fash-
ioned fire, slept himself down too. heap.
1 envied the impuitable content of that
plump country-girl who stood before the
glass combing her hair with a fine-tooth-
ed comb, and dividing, and smoo ’ng,
and placing it as if she were in a sum-
mer afternoon chamber all alone, fixing
for a visit from her “intended.” The
boys were the only utterly cheerful and
happy set. Their sales over, they amu-
sed themselves with all manner of boyish
tricks. Giving each other a sly nip, giv-
ing a choking pull at each other’s tippet
or crushing them down over the eyes,
snapping apple seeds, or throwing cores,
and all manner’ of monkey-pranks.

We read all the show bills, all railroad
placards, all the time tables, all the ad-
vertisements, and studied all the vera-
cibus railroad maps, on which ramshorii
rai;roads were madeto flow on in straig|.*
lines of very gradual curves, while com-
peting roads were laid down in all their
vicious sinuosiiies.

When lsaid that the boys were the
only happy ones, I must except the hap-
py old lady in the corner with her knit-
ting. She has two younger women by
,hei-, and the three are talking and work-
ing as placidly and conteutedly as if in
the great kitchen at home. Ah! bles-
scd be knitting! Whoever saw a per-
son other than quiet and peaceful that
knits. If anger breaks out, the knitting
is laid aside. \Vhen the needles begin
ngniii, you may be sure that all is right
within.

At length the five iiours were accom-
plished; the train came thundering up
with double team of engines. The crowd
poured forth eagerly, and in a few mo-
merits we were dashing off toward Alba-
ny, which we reached at ten o'clock
Saturday night; too late for any train to
New York that night. "

run past the station. and must choke

N. r.zn4-p-mm.

. ,
we ..$a.. .__....-u.7...__. _..a»..i;.s-_-2-&.....-.>.-s--i..-ovum...----....s....\se.s......

among ten thousand tramping fellows, 1

Men then gathered into groups and'

l The Dark Side of Military Glory;
‘ Not long since Victoria wrote a par-
ticular letter of inquiry into the state of
the wounded soldiers at the Crimes, in.
tended to convey to them a deep feeling
of sympathy on her part.’ In contrast
with that letter, read the following scor-
ching article from the London Times, on
the inliumdnity of the reception of I car-
'go of wounded and sick" soldiers from
the Crimea :

at Portsmouth, and after a delay of twen-
ty-four hours, ranged alongside the jetty,
and began to unload her melancholy car-
go of sick and wounded--the shaken and
mutilated remnants of the heroes of Al-
ma, of Inkermann, and of Bslaklava.
It must have been in itself a touching
and moving spectacle. such as the stern-
est nature could scarcely witness with-
out pity. ' Here were men, who, expos-
ed to every hardship, and urged on by
no incentive but a feeling of honor and
devotion, by the‘ mere effort of neon-
querablc will and unflinching h ihood
had saved our army from destruction
and our country from disaster, and what
now was left of this tremendous infant-
ry, this gallant and dashing cavalry ?—
Armless, eyeless, footless, our correspon-
dent describes them,-areiit with shot or
shell, pierced by bayonsts, hacked by
sabres, they staggered on, supporting
each other in this melancholy march,
till they stood once more on that sacred
soil which had sent them forth to con-
quer, nnd which may almost be suppo-
sed to throb under the feet of its return-
ing protectors.

They came, but who was there to
welcome them '1 Everybody knows that
Portsmouth swarms with officials, naval
and military and that if the Queen had
been laiidiiig from Osborne instead of
our helpless and crippled soldiers from
the Crimea, there would not have been
wanted one of the tale to swell the un-
meaning pomp and idle ceremony.--—
We should have had the Admiral Su-
pelintendem, the Port A dmiral, the Lieu-
tenant Governor, and a host of other of-
ficials whose titles it is not worth new
recording, as none of them could find
time to attend to this ordinary duty of
hospitality and humanity’, or to see that
the noble freight of the Himalaya was
received with all honor, all gratitude,
and tenderness. The officials were not
there, although they received 24 hours’
notice, and the disembarkation was left
to be affected by the invalids themselves
with such aid as the crew of the steamer
could afford them: But there is-one
class of officials fiever wanting to the
duty of saluting an Englishman on his
return to his native land. If the Gene-
rals and Admirals were wanting, the
Custom House oflicers were not. -

They were there to examine the bag-
gage of the wounded soldiers, laudably
anxious that no single pound of tobacco
should escape its contribution to the
revenue, and afford an untaxed solace to
the miserable hours of sickness or con-
valescence. The search was conducted
on the open jetty, and until it was con-
cluded no soldier or officer was‘ allowed
to leave the spot. They eat and crouch-
ed as best they might in the bleak Janu-
ary afternoon, those shivering and muti-
lated relicts of the strong and the brave,
and pondered, doubtless with thoughts
too bitter for words, on the welcome
which the country for which they had
given all, extended to them in return.-
There were no ambulances, no strech-
ers; there was no one to care for them,
or to conduct them to their allotted home
until, at last, after the matter seemed al-
most desperate, help came in the shape
of omnibuses for those who could sit, and
stretchers for those who could not ; and
the miserable scene was thus brought to
a tardy end. With such a specimen of
Portsmouth, it were vain indeed to wastl?
criticism or indignation on the miseries
of Balaklava or Scutari. How has war
already hardened our sympathies!

 

GOVERNOR DUTTON.

Gov. Duttoii has lately been making
speeches in New York and Boston at
Temperance meetings, and in defence of
the Liquor Law of this State. In the
latter city, he made an address which is
reported at full length. \Ve make the
following extracts :

riis GOVERNOR on rm-: raoiiinrroar LIQ-
UOR LAW.

He would say that, in his judgment,
the law had been fully operative and
beneficial. The absence of crime, the
order which everywhere prevailed, the
diminution of rowdyism, the quietude
which generally obtained, all proved
that the law worked its mission and was
a blessing to the community. In New
Haven, where he had his walks, and
knew the people, he did not hesitate to
say that you might search as with a can-
dle, and it would be almost impossible
to find even the amount of a gallon of
intoxicating liquor, except at the town
agency. He would not say that it might
be found in some out of the ‘..vay,obscure
and iiidden hole. Where is the place
where laws, even the best qnd most pop-
ular, are not violated—the law against
burglary, against theft, and other crimes?
It was not expected herein Boston ; and
what was true in regard to the violations
6‘ law here, was doubtless also true in
regard to the prohibitory law in this city
But generally speaking, that law was
most successfully and triumphantly sug-
tained in New Haven. And what was
true of New Haven, was also true of oth-
er towns in Connecticut. He had means
from his official position, as well as from
other sources, of learning the operation
of that law, and he ._ was prepared to say
it had been moss. complete. Gentlemen
engaged in shipping, in mechanical pur-
suits, in trade, in all parts of the State,
bore the same testimony, thlt 1'10 “W
was being carried into effect. ‘ind Md 3
most beneficial result upon their respec-
tive communities. .

The correspondence which he had, as
well as the newspaper press, in letters
from prominent individuals, all tended to
the same indisputable conclusion. Now
he was I lawyer, accustomed to look at
evidence, and he knew not what inter-
pretation to put on all this mass of evi-

dence, save that it was copclusive that

On Tuesday last the Himalaya arrived-

. u s
the law was most successful in removing
intemperance, crime and immorality.
was GOVERNOR ON ‘ms ruiivrronn rmss.

Quoting the statements of the Hart-
ford Times, that the law had been unsuc-
cessful, that crime had increased under
it, in Hartford, New Haven and other
places, and that the assertions of the gov-
ernor, at a meeting in New York, were
not correct in relation to the operation
°f the law. &c., he showed their utter
fallacy. and the impotency of the so-cal-
led facts which-that paper adduced in sup-
port of its statements. He examined the
“statistic_s"- also, put forth by the Times,
and showed them to be totally unreliable.
and even fictitious. It really seemed
strange that the editor of that sheet did
not see that he was risking his well ear-
ned reputation for menilacity, in putting
forth such bold statements, which carried
no probability with them. [Great laugh-
tei-.] Quoting fuitber some remarks of
the Times, that he was-“ii greedy office
seeker,” the Governor said that formerly
an office seeker had to stand upon a rum
barrel; but now if he wished office he
must seek to promote virus rather than
vice; he must stand up firm for all that
promotes benevolence and humanity.-
He should now let it ass that the audi-
ence took it for gra that the prohib-
itory law waseuccessful, and had decom-
plished its mission.
ran SKILL wrrn wuicu run cossscricur

LAW was nasrrsb.

The law in Connecticut was drawn
up_ with a great deal of care by those who
had experience in such matters. The
laws of Massachusetts and Maine, and
other States, were examined ; and.keon_
men, who knew the shifts and subterfu-
gas to which men under conviction of
rumselling would resort to secure-escape
passed upon its every provision. Their
law had many good features. It was a
simple law in all its parts. When it took
hold of a man for drunkenness, it dealt
with him for that offence. The com-
plaint for that was coupled with no oth-
er misdemeanor. So in regard to the
other particulars , It did one thing at a
time. The accused had a distinct trial
on the charge; and he was fully tried,
having every opportunity to be heard.
while the case was patiently considered.
He did not hesitate tosay that at the
time the law was passed, it was the mast
efectioe and perfect law for the object.
then in existence. [Applause.] Anoth-
er great and effective feature of the law
was its seizure clauses, which struck at
the root of the matter, and did much to
render the enactment popular with the
masses, who saw the source of trouble,
and who like to seea thing done up brown
or not at all. [Laughter and applause]

Another feature of the law. which
gave it popularity and efficiency, was the
provision that if a man was found public-
ly drunk, he should be detained until he
told where he got drunk, or was punish-
ed for. being drunk. (Applause) It
cools off a man's appetite wonderfully if
he has the prospect of a prison ahead;
and, on the other hand, it serves to make
the dealer consider how many doses he
can administer to a man before heis com-
promised--hs learns just how long it is
before a toper will reveal'a secret; and it
does not take a great while for the cold
walls of a, prison to loosen the tongue of a
drinker, and make him tell where he got
his potion. (Laughter and applause.)

‘rim nrrscrs or run LAW.

The results of these two principles had
given the law of Connecticut is great
amount of its efiiciency. ,Without them
nothing would make the law popular
Will] the people. Yet it would be very
strange if their law were without defects
There was one clause that towns might
appoint agents; and it was found that
some places all of a sudden became won-
derfully teetotal ; every voter would
march up to the polls and vote against
any agent at all, the enemies of the law
supposing that if no agency was estab-
lished, a great inconvenience would be
established, by temperance men. But
they found that temperance men could
do without liquor for any purpose as long
as any body else, and longer too ; and
those who were not friends of the law
were soon glad to go in for the agencies,
and they now existed, suitably regulated
in nearly all the towns. The law wan-
ted in provision that would break up the
practice of buying liquors by the quanti-
ty and their conveyance to club rooms
where they were dealt out to young men
It also wanted a provision preventing the
transportation of liquors over the State
by common carriers. He was glad to
learn that it was probable these impor-
tant features would be incorporated into
the law soon to be submitted to the Mas-
sachnseigs Legislature. They were es-
sential to a perfect and efficient statute.

[At one of the Governor’s earnest ges-

tures, be overturned the glass of water
placed on the desk for his convenience
the contents of which took effect upon
the back and head of Mr. Kendall, of
VVesrminster, who was sitting near by.
Amid the mei-riment of the audience,
the Governor drily remarked—“I ap-
prove of cold water, but not quite such a
free application as that"—-the sally being
received with renewed laughter-.]

v

 

[§° An English paper, in recounting
the achievements of Sir De Lacy EVW5
mentions that "it was he who at the
need of a hundred men, fOI’ce’d.IiIe House
of Congress at Washil1§‘°“’ ‘”_ ‘he “’_‘“
of 1812. Not a very extraordinary dis-

play of gallantry. that-

___,________._

According to the late census, the
‘hp-ee smgllest places in the U. States are
3,315, Essex county, Vermont, having
a population of eight ; Averill, in the
same county, seven; and Liberty, in Ke-
okuk county, Illinois, with a population
of five.

Q’ Excess of ceremony shows want
of breeding; 'hat civility is best, which
excludes all superfluous formality.

Master and Man.—It is said that So-
lon Robinson is drsmatizing 'Pnrton’s
"Life of Horace Greeley," for Wallack’s
Theatre.-—N. Y. Express.

 

g’ The Britisli Admiralty Chill 0f
the Arctic sea lately issued, gives to the
land discovered by the Grinnell Expedi-
tion the name of “Grinnell's Land-” . In
a former chart it had been clllfid PHDG9

lMlIOtt'I Laud.

—

From the Hampshire Bangle.
A Talk About-the -Bill‘. 
i‘-i;t_"Why is it,” said a bright-sydlhoy
his father, "that you don't 
your eye-staches '.”’ q _ 
"Shave off my eye stuehss‘!"=o§'oIaItI-
ed the astonished parent. - "Why; Chet
new word is this‘! You malt‘ '
I suppose." » - ~ 
“No, no," rejoined the lsd.=’“I‘-' nib
eye-steches. -I read in e- book tboxflher
day, that the hair which grows two
the mouth-, is called. ii 
I thought the hair that g-rc‘vvs‘s rib
eye, should be called. an eye stash "a 
“You are. mistaken, my son,"-ssldithe
father. "The hair, whiclrsoms:-.peapls
are so foolish as to west -on the uppit-
lip, is called a momtaclu, not ..
stache, while tharwhich -grow! -IIIOVO
the eye, is termed an eye-brW- : -_= .:- -
«w,,n_ ,y..brow.t then, if thaws-,i 3“.
name. Why don’t you. ’shnVO?0‘==!°"
eye-brow: ?” asked the inquioitivmiboy.
"You know that you and Dctoonvlllt
face said it was ridiculous to let.i III!
beard grow." ° . . ’ -
"True, my son," continued tbolfothc,
“I and my friend Bsrefaes have. ttfi
bitterly against the foolish‘ custemsmf
wearing the beard, which is; 
alarmingly prevalent, and which Wflfut

is the beginning of a falling 

barbarism. it isso savage sndh
ish.” . .. = ‘ ~ '--.i'

"I know it. father," said, I{.oIsert,=,-9.91
know you said so; and when I saw yup:
great, black eye-brows. this .tnorn_i;g, I
wondered why you .didII.'!- ..lh§!.9 
ofl. as it is so. ;.w.icked.-..to»let, the, -hair
grow on the face.”

"But, my child. theeye-browili’ _

everybody lets tluns-»g;ow..".. i ..;s
".0. then whstgevcrybod 490351733108
is it '3” continued Robert. -€ . H

“Little boys must. not talk much.
was the parent's definite I’Cpi’.._".*-.1~:,‘- ...; ..
"Well, father. I won’t.ts|k -may _ ,
now, if you will just letmo -toll-;_|s,I_g;I
prayed last night, after hearing you and
Deacon Bareface tell" how foolish mud
wicked it was to let ‘the beard‘fgrow‘."
“Well, Robert, how did you’p‘fe'y‘}"
asked the father. ' ’ 
The bones:-hearted boy riplisd,“ "'I
prayed like this: ’ > _
“O Lord, thou seest how mlisy in
getting wicked and letting the-‘lissrd
grow all over their faces. Ojthutitltilo
men would learn to obey thy glgwsflby
shaving their beards as did" Modes “Ind
Aaron, and all the holy ' prophets 
apostles, and all wise and ‘good lltonln
all ages. 0 Lord, how could you make
such a mistake as to form man with:
heard that -would keep growing ‘as fast
as it was cut off. I thought you Did
everything you made was made’ ‘fury
good," but father and Deacon .‘Be1_'g,fIco
say it makes a man look ridiculous to
wear a heard. 0 Lord, how sorry Item
that you __¢_:om_mitted' that original-sin of
making ‘a beard which has been visited
upon the children for so many-_ geosta-
tions. 0 how I wish father and 
Bareface had been there whenyou-i_nsde
Adam, for they would have given -you
some good advice, and told you jibe!
bad taste you showed when--" - - -
"Stop ! stop !" cried the horrificd~put-
em, "how could you pray in such obtus-
phemous”—but here the conviction -‘of
the consistency of the child’s- prayer
with the teachings he had given, lashed
upon the father's mind, and he fled-.flgl||
the room to polder the folly and ‘eliotifdo
ity of the creature's ridiculing the -works
of the Creator and endesvoring-to‘ -30
counter the laws which an‘ Allwiso 
ing has established. " ‘

 

“Bare-rooted Printer‘ lC1.”"

The Pittsburgh Morning Ariel, under
this caption, gives a short history. of a
distinguished citizen of Pennsylvania, as
follows: i \ “ '" i

Some thirty years ago a bars-footed
boy floated down the Susquohsnu_eh‘iiv-
er oniau humble raft, and arrived edger-
risburgh, He. He came from 
and belonged to a large fam_il'y; ill
his worldly goods tied up‘ in alittlg 
et handkerchief; he sought‘sn§‘obtiinpd
employment in a printing antes ii ap-
prentice. From an apprentice toe jour-
neyman',.from a journeyman-do s repor-
tel‘, then an editor, the bsrefootgd prin.
ter boy worked his way agiiliitfoliifaclos
which the struggling poor only gkuow.
The pei-severing follower ih ’Fr|,_nklin's
steps began to realize the fruits of his pa-
tient toil and privation. The young‘ _'ss.
pirant become Printer to the State‘, and
by frugal management’ was soon eooblpd
to accomplish the object des'rest"t6 
heart--the establishmenrof hl5__l,ll5!5OI’
in a home above want——in the_pogsi_sgi_on
of every comfort she could de.gI=l'¢-,_‘_',

His brothers were n9Xt'hlI!‘§iT‘O";»_‘,I‘
like Napoleon, he had a strong 
which to aid him—-an ind9“?!¥!.l’l'.7.§"‘
severance that nothing conld7*loIig"suo-
cessfully obstruct.‘ In a few years, they
mo, with his sisters were.~ind_eiiint,isntof
the woi-ld—the once bare-footed-splinter
boy was in possession of aflueacs_o..snr-
rounded by a young aflhctiouste flnjly.
He did not stop here. He was a.-friend
to the friendless, the patronof merit, and

the encorager of -industry. ' Horroopin

honor and in office, -until: thepoot .- hare-
footed boy’, who entered a printing ofice
Han-isburgh, in hungry and wo_Ilj.=l|id
down his little bundle on epile of wet
paper and, asked to become a printer's
apprentice, was elected a senator in
Congress! , That,msnis.Sr_xo_i_I Ch)!!!

of Pennsylvania. . . ~

[§- Two of Vanderbilt's stsslllltl.
the Magnolia and Ariel, intended to.rII|
between New York and LiVe_l’p99|. If 50
gets his mail contraci .“'.°’”...:-.c.°3.‘5"_'0
are nearly ready for sea. 'l'l1.§_Y.,§.§9..._9“
to be superior spe¢im¢D3 05 . .é»l,llI[l.¢Il|
naval architecture,_nnd cost b§,¢l_.l_ ‘§9°o°
ooo‘ and $600,000. The ,Ari,I_l_i_s, 3.300
tons burthen, has three decks.‘ , 3" _

 

3:? Mrs. Sinclair "has
been presented with»; diamond
($3,000) by some of her admirorspin 
Francisco. ' ' i » ,,

nazigsaus New-pqpérs in E, 
--The London Patriot gsyq, =_I
really religions newspapsr.isgun3Il9_.!l!|"|
England, and that in thoIO,°f Q-!9,',',I!F_..,°“'
kind. religion must be ,
ssoulsrity suprsint. -_._ ;: ..: , .; _-.,