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NB‘VS ITEMS.
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i.11, 1859.
T'HIGIZ EI
Norwalk, Tuesday, 0c
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AIR.
The Connecticut State Agricultural Society
will open its sixth _ Annual Exhibition at
Brewster Park, New Haven, to-day, Tuesday,
and continue through the week £111 Friday,
when it closes with an address from Hox. Ar.-
VAN P. HIDE. Mr. Dyer, the indefatigable
Secretary, as well as the other officers of the
Society have been diligently at work for
months past with'a determination to make
this Exhibition decidedly an advance upon
any previous Fair. The combined influences
of bad weather and worse times have had a
most depressing influence upon the State Ex-
hibitions for the past three years. We trust
the late storm has already spent its strength,
and that sunshine at least will cheer and bless
the efforts of those who have labored so un-
remittingly for a creditable exhibition.
BreWster Park is probably the most admira‘
ble location 10 o purpose in New England.
It certainly is far in advance of Hampden
Park, Springfield, or the great National Show
Grounds at Boston. It comprises fifty five
acres two miles west from the centre of N ew'
Haven, with an excellent McAdamized road
leading to it, The entire ground is substan-
tially enclosed, and is entered at the principal
point by a massive gateway of considerable
architectural pretension, while another en-
trance, or exit, has been opened on the eastern
side, at the head of Maple Street .' A tempo-
. rary office, for the convenience of the State
Society, is erected on the outside at the left
hand of the principal entrance. The main
feature of the Park is the half mile track
which is by all odds the best trotting track in
Connecticut. It is in admirable order for use
at present. Outside of this, a drive extends
entirely around the grounds, which, during
the Fair will be appropriated to miscellaneous
driving, reserving the track itself for exhibi-
tioneof speed. At a convenient point, sub
stantial seats with accommodations for 2,500
spectators have been erected, opposite which
is the Judges’ stand.
On Wednesday, at 10 A. M., the trial of
working oxen with loaded carts will occur,
and the exhibition of horses will commence,
to be continuad through Thursday. On
Thursday, at 10 A. M., the plowing match
will take place within the grounds,and Gold’s
Steam Plow will be exhibited.
The Messrs. Cooke, Carriage Makers of New
Haven, have rented our County Fair Tent,
and are to have it filled with their Carriages.
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Erratum—In our notice of the Baptist ordi-
nation in this town in our last,the types made
the new pastor at “ Slasher” instead of a sim-
ple Lasher as his name properly is. So much
for reading Theatre advertisements in the
New York papers, which speak of the farce of
“ Slasher and Crasher.”
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Killed by Lightning.
A little son of Chas.Murray, about eight
years of age, was struck by lightning during
the severe thunder shower of Saturday after-
noon, and instantly killed. The little fellow
was returning from a neighbor’s with a pail
of milk, and was on the angle of the road just
west of the residence of Mrs. Thos. C. Han-
ford, and in the middle of the road, when
stricken down by the electric bolt. His cap
was torn to shreds, which indicates that he
was struck in the head, although we believe
his flesh was not torn. From his head to his
ankle were traces of the fluid which had
scorched him, and his undergarments were
burned about the chest. No other traces of
the shaft were visible either in the road or
vicinity of where the child was found.
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fiThe Norwulk Harmoneons,by request,
give arehearsai in the CongregationaiChurch
at Greens Farms, on Wednesday evening, of
the present week. It is expected that their
notes will on this oecasion flow more harmo-
neously than ever.
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fl We understand that 9. Brass Band has
been formed in New Canaan,and also that
the Ridgefield Brass Band is once more in a
flourishing condition,and under the tuition of
a capable leader, they hope to soon be ena-
bled to discourse “Music most sweet” for the
public in general,and the “old folks at home,”
in particular.
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The New York Times says that in 1841 a
schooner, loaded with “seedling oysters.” was
capsized in the Sound, about a mile and a half
rom the Long Island Shore, a little west of
Laton’s Neck, and her deck load of thirty
bushels swept overboard. The great oyster
bed lately discovered in the Sound probably
sprung from the oysters lost at that time.
h. It was Capt. Daniel K. Nash, of Nor-
waik, who was capsized as above described.
The Deacon informs us that the accident oc-
curred precisely over this ground,and is clearly
of the opinion that he is entitled to the credit
of planting the monster bed. He has promis-
ed us a detailed account of the matter for our
next.
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h, We learn that Mrs. Thos. C. Hanford
has disposed of her beautiful homestead to
Mr. Capes—the gentleman who, a few years
since, purchased and soon after sold, the late
residence of Dea. Daniel K. Nash, on Flax
Hill. The price named is $15,500.00.
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MWe are told that there are now twelve
new buildings in the course of construction
on the Mott Property.
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fi Mr. Haddock editor of the Watertown
Reformer who was with La Mountain in his
late aerial voyage publishes in his paper, an
intensely interesting and thrilling account of
the trip. Finding that the current was con-
stantly waftiug them Nortliward, they conclu-
ded to land, which they did about ten o'clock
at night,and their consternation cannot be
imagined, when they found by the species of
trees in the woods, that they had made much
greater progress Northward than they had an-
ticipated and were in one of the great North-
ern wildernesses. After trying for 4 days to
work their way out and bejng without food,
all the time, they were fortunate enough to
fall in wilh some lumbermen out in search of
good timber lands who kindly took them in
their cabin and fed them after which they sup-
plied them with guidos to find their way out.
The party informed our balloonists that they
were “ one hundred and fifty .niles due north
of Ottawa, in the dense, uninhabited forests
whose only limit is the Arctic Circle.” A
few hours longer in the air would have car-
ried them beyond the Arctic Circle, into the
regions where Sir John Franklin is supposed
to have perished.
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Essus on Peat, Muck and Commercial Ma-
nure_s. By Samuel W. Johnson. Hartford:
published and sold by Brown .11. Gross.
The author is Chemist to the Connecticut
Stale Agricultural Society. and a Professor
ill l‘nlc College. He has given us here avery
excellent and valuable treatise on manures
which will prove very serviceable to the far-
mers of the Slate.
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;Efi‘ The Corner Stone of a Baptist Church
was laid at Bridgeport,on Thursday afternoon.
It is to cost $14,000.
Town Meeting.
For the information ,of about nine-tenths
of the voters of the town of Norwalk, who
feel an interest in the selection of its officers,
we will state that the customary ten or fifteen
were present at the Town House last Monday,
and appointed its annual Board of Relief and
Assessors.‘ If the appointments are not satis-
factory to the people, they have only them-
selves to thank, as Norwalk is probably about
the only town in the State where a paper is
published, that Town Meetings are permitted
to be held for any purpose without previous-
ly giving public notice thereof. We presume,
however, that so far as the selection of oflicers
go’,th.e gentlemen appointed will be general-
ly acceptable, although the mode of election
and quiet way in which they occur, has for
years caused a great deal of scolding. We
have no sympathy with the sore-heads, how-
ever, as any onc of them could doubtless have
the present mode changed so as to be accep-
table to all, by the simple introduction of a
vote at the annual Town Meeting that hereaf-
tcr no meeting of the Town shall be held for
the elections of Officers, or the transaction of
Town business, without having previously
been publicly advertised. The following gen-
tlemen comprise the two boards :
flssessors.——John A. Weed, Henry Selleck,
Henry Lamb, Samuel Richards, Henry W.
Smith.
Board of Relief—Eli B. Bennett, Daniel
Beers, Carmi Lockwood, Wm. T. Crow, Ste-
phen Olmstead.
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Tnn PRINTER Rnnnxannlmsn, Amine—We are indebted
to Mr. Chas. H. Wheeler, for samples very of fine Cauli-
flower, raised by him this year. We wonder he did not
exhibit them at the Fair.
Mr. Josiah Raymond, of Westport, for a Splendid wa—
lermelou of the Mountain Sweet variety.
Also to Capt. Hiram Jones for five Peach Blow Pota‘
toes, which weighed six pounds. They cracked open
and were as white and inealyas the best Michigan
flour, when cooked. The nearest approach to our ideal
0sz good potato we have seen these many years.
“ Some Pumpkins."
Orin L. Adams, of Bedding, who took the
premium on pumpkins at the late fair, exhib-
ited six of the French species which weighed
576 pounds. He raised 14 from 7 seed on a
ground but ten feet square. The smallest one
weighed 65 pounds. He leaves with us an
“ Apple Pie Melon” weighing 27 pounds—a
new thing in the vegetable line, which we
find thus described in the New York Weekly
Tribune :—
Tur. CALIFORNIA. APPLE PIE M sl.oN.-—This
melon attains a large size; I have grown
specimens the past season eighteen inches in
length weighing from 30 to 40 pounds. They
are cylindrical in form ; color when ripe a
golden tint, very solid, and flesh close grain.
ed, color of seeds a dark green or blue ; ri-
pens in September, and will keep sound and
good it is said for two years, but we have not
as yet tested their keeping qualities. They
prove hardy and of easy culture, and I con-
sider this melon as a valuable acquisition.—
We have tested the quality of t In for pies,
and find them very delicious. o prepare
them for pics, peel and cut up the melon
small, taking out the seeds, soft pulp,if‘auy,
dtc. Put them in aprescl‘ving kettle with
just enough water to keep them from burning
and stew over a tolerably brisk fire for three
or four hours, or until the whole is reduced
to asoft pulpy- mass free from lumps and
thoroughly “ done.” You have then a sub-
stance resembling green apples stewed,and
by adding a little sugar and lemon juice to it
and making it with a crust in the usual way,
it is impossible to tell it from a fresh apple
pie. If you desire a pumpkin or custard pic
of the melon, stew as above directed,but
omit the, lemon and bring the pulpy mass to
the proper consistency and richness by the
addition of sugar, milk and eggs. Little of
either of these ingredients will be found nec-
sessary—only sufficient to give the melon col-
or and flavor.
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was, The Pallladium announces the acces-
sion to the publishing firm of that paper of J.
W. Newcomb, Jr., late of the Courant. Mr.
Newcomb, having purchased an interest in
the Palladium, the firm will be Babcock, Si-
zerd’t Co. Mr. Newcomb will devote his par-
ticular attention to the local part of the pa-
per-,and from his experience and abilities will
be able to add very much to theinterest ofit‘i
columns. We wish the new firm, and partic-
ularly the Newcomb-er, all the success antici-
pated, and even more.
The Palladium will soon appear in new
type throughout, although it is well printed
and on clear type with its present dress.
Wm. P. Fuller, formerly of the Hartford
Press, and recently of the Norwich Bulletin,
0110 of the smartest and wittiest " locals” in
the state, has joined the editorial corps of the
Hartford Courant.
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Some young women in Syracuse have
established an association which they style
“ The Young Women’s Anti—Youug-Man-
Waiting-at-the—Church—Doors with Ulterior—
Objects Society.”——Exchange.
fl Good for them. We wish the girls
would start such a Society here for one is ve-
ry much. needed, as all the young ladies who
attend evening service at our Churches will
testify.
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fiThe Selectmen of Stamford report that
the total expenditures of that town for the
year has been $12,667.89 ; of this amount
there had been paid out for out-door poor,
$1,014.23 ; for schools, $1,221.00. The
Treasurer’s Report showed that there was in
the treasury last year a balance of $ 564.71
received from tax levy, $12,326.03; from
other sources, $1,465.66 ; amount paid, 812,-
796.29 ;-balance in treasury, $1,560.15. A
tax of 9% cents on the dollar of the grand list
has been voted. and Albert B. Keeler appoin-
ted Collcctor,with a compensation of $105.50.
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153‘ A rather comical ghost case was deci-
ded in the superior court in Haddam,in which
two respectable married ladies were sued for
ass-unit and battery, by another female, who
claimed that they chased hcr disguised as
ghosts!
ago, the two ladies were promenading one ev-
ening. near their residences, and feeling chil-
ly raised the skirts of their dresses over their
heads. As they were proceeding home they
met the lady compl.linant who mistaking them
for silos-ts set up the cry of “ murder.” To
keep “P lhelplfe, the two approached the oth-
er who perceiving who they Were and having
as is claimed an old grudge to gratify,
brought the suit. The Court decided that
the " approach,” under the circumstances,was
an assault and find them $35.
'l‘llQNew Haven Register in chronicling the
above ventures to assertion that no- man
would have been frightened by such appari-
tions. .
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Tun Honssrsln.-Our esteemed agricultural
contemporary, Tun IIOMESTEAD, has attained
Its fll‘tll birth day. We have rejoiced to wit-
ness its growing strength, and taken no little
satisfaction that our own State of Connecticut
now leads the agriculturalprets of the country
however much she may fall behind ill her
practice of farming, in the estimation of Mr.
Solon Robinson. Tun HOMESTEAD enjoys a.
thoroughly established scientific character.—
Ili its stall of editors and contributors it num-
bers men distinguished foriearniug and expe-
rience. It is original, independent, sound in
its science and practical in its teachings. No
farmer in this State, certainly should be with
out a copy, for it supplies a want,and discus-
ses subjects of vital importance to us, which
are touched by no other paper. A new vol-
ume commences in January, and we believe
the publisher offers to send the remaining num-
bers of this year free to those who subscribe
at once for next year. The price is $2 00 a
year, George D. Rand, of Hartford, is pub-
ls er.
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An editor in New Jersey has run off with
his wife’s sister, and two editors in Virginia
have been trying to kill each other’s wife’s
husband. Getting to be about as bad as the
Clergymen.
It appeared that about two years,
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Ridgefield Town Pair.
Our Ridgcfield friends -hold their 2d annual agricultu-
ral fair on Friday next. From phat they did last 3’0“
and the interest taken in it this year, we presume the
count y show will be. pretty nearly eclipsed. We hope
they may have fino weather for it.
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“a, The State Normal School anniversary exercises
were concluded on Wednesday. Tile following are the
graduates: Elizabeth Baldwin, New Haven ; Cornelia
B. Hours, New Britain ; Anna M. Campbell, Norwnlk ;
Mary H. Clements, New Britain ; Louise M. Eddy, New-
ark, N. J. ; Elects. M Ilerrick, Middletowu; Ann Eliza
Holcomb, Granby ; Charlotte E. Jones, Deep River ;
Keziah A. Peck, Bristol ; Amanda M. Root, Norwalk ;
M. Virginia Smith, Ansonia: Thomas E. Barrett, New
Haven ; Dwight Ely, Cromwell ;Calvin C. Foster,Hamp-
ton ;Abner B. Holley, Stamford ; John S. Linsley, Jr.,
Northford ; R. Henry Stone, Guilford.
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Town Meetings.
The returns- from Monday’s Town Meetings continue
to be most encouraging We gave yesterday says the
New Haven Journal and Courier 52 Repub-
lican towns and 24 Democratic ones. In these towns
the net Republican gain is 8. The Register publishes a
list of only about 30 Democratic towns and 49 towns it
allows to the Republicans. It is the first time we ev-
er knew of its permitting the Republican column to be
the largest or in fact to claim a gain. This fact tells
better than words that its party is badly defeated
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Burnosroar. —'l‘he annual city election in Bridgeport
was held on Monday. Silas C. Booth, republican, was
elected Mayor over E. B. Goodsell, democrat and post -
master, by a majority of S5, a gain of about 50. The
republicausalso elected the alderman, cou ncillnen and
other city officers by an average majority of about
eighty . Good for Bridgeport.
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m Our young telegraph operator had quite a dis-
play of fire works on Saturday, “ not on the bills.”—
The lightning flashes entered his offi ce,melted his wires,
set fire to the window casings, blackened the walls and
snapped and cracked about in a. most lawless manner.
At Bridgeport, we learn it played similar pranks.
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WI[.TON.—The Rev. Mr. Dimock, of Kinderhook, N.
Y., a clergyman of some note, is expected to preach at
the Congregational church in Wilton on Sunday next-
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I? C. H. Wheelerhas Raspberry bushes in full bloom
and bearing fruit. some loaded with green and others
with ripe ones. They match the strawberries which
Lev Clark, exhibited at the Fair, from his grounds.
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The Pillibusters.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct S.-——The fillibusters have arrived in
custody of the U. S. Marshal, Captains Maury, Fas-
saux and Scott and ham been held to bail in $3,000
each to answer. The rest of the men were left at the
barracks below the city, and have since decumped.——
There being no guard there the fillibusters made the
soldiers leave the steamer while coming up the river.
They state they were on a fishing party.
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A Confidence M. D.
Our friend Allis of the Allis House, had his hospitali-
ty tested by a confidence esculapius last week, but
smelt a rat before he got ‘ouried much. His baggage
inventoried one carpet bag, sundry rolls brown paper
(supposed to be for hotel & steamboat use)au unimpor-
tant preseription,a hair brush and an ivory search war-
rent. The Dr. was very indignant at theexpOSure, as
well he might be, but concluded to ramoase and call it
square ifthe landlord would. -
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Fine Arts.
Among the many things we desired to notice in our
last, but could not for want of time and space, were the
beautiful photographs, ambrotypcs, ivorytypes 8%,
exhibited by Mr. Whitney. We never saw his pictures
excelled at any exhibition, either State, National or
World wide. There certainly were nothing at the Crys-
tal Palace to compete with them.
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figThe city of Norwich has been mulct in $350
damages, at the present term of the New London Su pe—
rior Court, for permittinga citizen to have open, and
not properly guarded, an area extending into the side-
walk in front ofliis brick building. Tile plaintifl‘ fell
into the hole, sued the city and recovered the above
named sum.
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The grand jury of the Superior Court
at Hartford, had under consideration on Fri-
day uud Saturday the case of Joseph Wilson.
charged with stabbing Charles W. Banks, at
the occasion of the Seymour reception, Aug.
31. There were two separate indictments,
one for murder and one for manslaughter.—
The Grand Jury returned both to the Court,
Saturday. indorsed, ‘- Not a true bill." On
motion of thson’s counsel, the Court order-
ed the discharge of Wilson, and he was‘ set at
liberty, It is thus no harm to kill a man in
Hartford.
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’33:, The annual prize show of the Virtu-
ous Women took place lately at Suresnes. in
France, with great eclat. The virtuous wo-
man was proclaimed, and then crowned with
roses by the Archbishop. Ilis eminence gave
a. long alloculion in favor of virtue, and how
the woman in question maintained it—by nev-
er frequenting the Sunuay bails, never read
ing the romances, drc. The entire villege dc-
clarcd with one voice that there were good
reasons for her not reading romances, inas-
much as she never had learned to read!—
Howevcr. that did not interrupt the ceremo-
nies,|wheu|she rcceird the prizefconsisting of
three dozen goodly covers of solid silver.Wlth
five hundred francs in money, and one dozen
spoons and two hundred francs were donated
to the second best. It is not stated wherein
her" pcccadilios” consisted. Virtue in Sures-
nes seems to be properly weighed out and val-
ued. .¢.»
33‘ Prof. Coe. who made a thrilling descent
in his exploded balloon at Rome, N. Y., last
week Thursday, landing on the tops of some
tail forest trees and climbing down in safety,
under took, on Saturday, to dislodge the frag-
ments of the balloon, when he lost his hold
and fell a distance of some fifty feet ; his inju-
ries are so severe that his life is despaired of.
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ya- The following is the present equipment
of the Grand Trunk Railway :
200 locomotives.
133 passenger cars.
51 baggage and post office cars.
1063 covered freight cars.
1068 open platform cars. '
216 cattle cars brake-vans and ballast
wagons.
34 snow ploughs. ,
In addition to the above, the compau y has
contracted for 300 more freight cars,u portion
of which are to be put upon the road immedi—
ately —Porllaml .ddverhser.
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”At the Windham County Fair, three
weeks ago, it rained all the week ; the man.
agers of course were disappointed in their
calculations of a good time. They. however,
tried to make up for it with a public dinnei;fi
where they had all sorts of odd speeches an
toasts. Among other funny things, a wag-
gish guest offered the following resolutions :
Resolved, That a Committee be appointed
to wait upon the editor of the “ Farmer’s Ai-
manac,” and express to him the contempt felt
towards-him by the members of this Society.
for placing the words “pleasant Weather,”
against the 21st,22d, and 23d of Sept., 1859,
and that had they selected for the Fair the
days designated in the said Almanac for the
“ Autumnal Equinox,” they would have so
cured fine weather.
Resolved. That the Attorney of this Society
be hereby authorized and empowered to ascer-
tain if any legal redress can be obtained for
the pecuniary loss sustained by the aforesaid
fraud,and if‘in his opinion such redress can be
had, to sue at (flee, and in the absence of any
other sharp officer of the law, to employ for
that purpose the first “ sewing machine with-
in reach.
Resolved, That the Committee on Sheep
at the next annual Fair be respectfully re-
quested to forbid the entry of any bad wet/l-
ers. ,
THE Losr SPEECHES—Cut off by the
thunder storm which broke up the “ ban-
duet” at the last annual fair-—like the
Atlantic cable, possibly to deep ever to
be recovered.
THE Onpacr or Wmnuxu COUNTY—
Judging from the weather it is very evi-
qeut that they number in their ranks at
least one cold “ Water-man.”
’lHE MEDICAL FACULTY—-All-l1011gll
some of them are good gardiners, the
wards w1ll often make their appearance in
spite of them.
[TUNE—~“ All around mv bat.”]
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Inc BAR or WINDHAM Counrr —-Whllc
they have severe trials themselve they
live and thrive by the trials of othzfi.
THE STEAM PLOW—One of the few re-
formers that our agricultural friends are
anxious to see put under the sod.
Trm‘GARDEN or EDEN PAIR (Pear)—
The most prolific variety ever discovered.
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The Great Balloon Voyage.
We clip from'the Hartford Couranl. the following con-
deusation of Mr. linddock’s narrative of his and in
Mountain‘s lute balloon trip which we place before our
readers. Their ascent was very rapid and as late in the
afternoon as 37 minutes before six, they in a few luill-
utes left the clouds below them, which shut out the
splendid prospect they were enjoying. llnl'kni-ss Shun
shut down upon them. They heard as they paissctl
along, the whistle ofa locomotive, tho rumbling ol’tlic
curs over a bridge and the constant barking of dogs.—
At half-past seven they saw lights, heard the roaring
Ofa waterfall, and decendcd into a valley near a high
mountain. Not liking the appearance of the place,tlicy
concluded to go up again. In about twenty minutes
they decended again,but found themselves over a dense
wilderness. They ascended again, but La Mountain
said it was folly and madness to continue up any long-
er,and they had better descend and tie the balloon to a
tree. Haddock says :
In a moment we were near the earth and as
We fell I grasped the extreme top of a tall
spruce, which stopped her descent, and we
were soon fastened to it by the large drag
’ropc. The touch of that spruce sent a lhrIll
of discomfort to my heart, for I knew that Its
kind did not grow in any well settled nor in
warm countr .
Milli: La Mountyain said, after he looked
around and made as much of an examination
of the scenery as we could do for the the dark
aces and rain, (for it had ruined the past hour)
that the “ Atlantic was played out—we were
far into the woods, and if we got out alive
we ought to be thankful.”
After a night passed in great discomfort,
we were glad to see the first faint ray of day-
li ht. Cold and wet, and rainy, the morning
broke, the typical precursor,we were to learn
of many other mornings to be spent in those
unrivaled wilds. We waited until 6 o’clock,
in hopes the ruin would cease, and that the
rays of the sun, by warming the gas in the
balloon, would give us ascending power suf-
ficient to get up again, for the purpose, i! no
other, of obtaining-a view of the country into
which we had descended. The rain did not
cease, and We concluded to throw over all we
had in the balloon [except a coat apiece, the
life-preservers, the anchor, and the compass.
Overboard. then,tiiey went—traps of all kinds.
The Atlantic,_relieved of her wet load, rose
majectically with us, and we were able to be-
held the country below. It was an 'unbro-
ken wilderness of lakes and spruce—and we
felt, then. that we had gone too for through a
miscalculation of'tlle velocity of the balloon,
As the current was driving us still to the
north, we dare not stay up as we were drifting
still further to that “ frozen tide"from which
we knew there was no. escape. Mr. L. M.
seized the valve cord and discharged gas, and
we deccnded in safety by the side of a tall
spruce. We made the Atlantic fast by her
anchor, and for a moment talked over what
we should do. We had not a mouthful to eat;
no protection at night from the damp ground;
were distant we knew not how far from hab-
itation, were hungry to start with, no earthly
hope of raising a fire, and no distinct idea as
to where we were.
They then started south by the compass, La Moun~
taiu, as he left the balloon, giving the basket a shake,
saying, “ good-by, old Atlantic 1” They soon reached
the banks ofa small creek, running south, where they
found the remains of an encampme and some stares
ofa barrel marked Montreal, and knew they were in
Canada. They travelled all Friday down this brook,on
which was an old lumber track, for the stream had ev-
idently been used for floating logs down. Friday night
they crawled, hungry undwet, into an old shanty, the
logs of which they used in the morning to make a raft,
which they poled down stream. They passed through
several lakes, the stream continually increasing, and
had some difficulty in the lakes to find their outlets,
Saturday night they kept their raft moving, amid a
heavy rain, for Haddock says very coolly, that it is en-
sier to pole at night down stream, under a heavy rain,
than to lie on the ground and freeze. Where they
found rapids in the current, they untied the pieces of
the raft,tllcy took them down singly, but with trouble.
They spent the next night on the shores ofa large lake,
ten miles long. Haddock says :
By this time our clothes were nearly torn
off. My pautaloons were slit up both legs,
and the waistbands nearly torn oll'. My boots
bot; leaked, and our mighty wrestlingsiu the
caucus had tom the skin from ankles and
hands. Ln Mountain’s hat was gone ; the first
day out he had tin-own away his woolen draw-
ers and stockings, as they dragged him down
by the weight of water they absorbed. We
slept but little. It really seemed as though,
during the night, we passed throught the hor-
rors of a dozen deaths. At daylight, we got
up by degrees—first on one knee then on the
other—so stiff and weak we could hardly stand.
They spent several fruitless hours, the next day, in
endeavoriug to find the outlet of this large lake, with-
out success. The writer says :
It had now been four full days since we ate
a meal. All we had eaten in the meantime
was a frog apiece, four clams. and a low wild
berries, whose acid properties and bitter taste
had probably done us more harm than go
Our strength was beginning to fail very far-
and our Systems were evidently about to un-
dergo an extraordinary change. I did not
permit myself to think of food—the thought
of a well-covered table would have been too
much.
It: It 1: * I t #
Well, we turned the raft around, and poled
her back toward the place where we had eu-
tered this last lake. We had gone about a
mile when we heard the sound of a gun quick-
ly followed by a second report. Nosound was
ever so sweet to me as that. We hallooed as
loud as we could a good many times,but could
get no response. We kept our poles going.
and had gone about half a mile when I called
La Mountain’s attention to what I thought
was a smoke curling up among the treeson
the side of a hill.- My own eyesight had be-
gun to fail me to an extent that [could notde-
pend upon itgwhen a long, steady gaze was
necessary. He said it was smoke. and that he
thoughtjust below. it on the bank, was a bark
canoe. In a. few moments the blue smoke
roiled gently, yct unmistakably, above the
tree tops, and we felt that we were saved.—-
Such a revulsion offieeliug was almost too
much for us. We could hardly believe our
senses. and credited anything favorable to our
condition with the utmost caution. Our bit-
ter disappointments had taught us that lesson.
We paddled the raft with the ends of poles
directly across the lake, near. perhaps, three
fourths of a mile wide, and made for the canoe.
It proved to be a large one, evidently an In-
dian’s. Up the bank I pressed, leaving La
Mountain at the canoe to cutoff a retreat by
the Indian, in case he was timid and wished
to avoid us.‘ I came at once upon the shanties
of a lumbering wood, and from the chimney
of the f..rthest building a broad volume of
smoke was rising. I _,_halloed—a noise was
heard inside, and a. noble-looking Indian came
to the door. “ Vous purley Francois ?” was
my eager inquiry, as I grasped his out stretch-
cd hand. " Yes, Sir,aud English, too.” He
drew me into the cabin,and there was the head
of the parly,a noble-hearted Scotcllmanmamed
AngusCulncrou. I immediately told my story-
that we came in with a balloon, were lost. and
had been four days without food,uskiug where
we Were. Imagine my surprise when he said
we were one hundred and fifty miles due north
of Ottawa—in the dense uninhabited forest.
whose only limit was the Arctic circle- In a
word, w.wcre nearly 300 miles in a due north
course from Wutortowu, in latitude 4'7. '
Dinner was all ready. The party consisted
of four persons-M r. Cameron, and his assist-
allt,wllo was also named Cameron ; LaMab
MacDougall—a half breed—mud his son Beau-
ccil. I dispatched the young Indian for La
Mountain, who came ill alter a moment the
absolute picture of wretcheduess. All that
the cabin contained was freely tendered us,
and we begun to mt. Language is inade-
quate to express our sensations while doing
so. The clouds bad all lifted from our somber
future, and the “ silver lining” shone all the
brighter for the deep darkness through which
we had passed.
Here let me state that the stream we came
down so far with our raft is called Filiilnau’s
Creek ; the large lake we sailed around is
called Bosketoug Luke, and drains into Boskc~
tong River—which liowr into the Gatineau.
The Gatineau joins the Ottawa oppositie Ot-
tawa City. Mr.Cumeron assured us-lllat these
streams are so tortuous, and in many places
to rapid, that no set of men could get a raft
down. no mutter how well they knew the
country, nor how much provisions they
might have. He regarded our deliverance as
purely Providentinl , and many times remaked
that we would certainly have perished bu
for seeing his smoke. ' .
Cameron at once sent them with guides and
canoes to Ottawa, and they were saved.
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”- On Thursday Mons. De Lave attempt.
ed to cross a tight rope over Genesee river at
Rochester with u "lilfl on his back. When
near the centre oflhe river the rope began to
sway, and it was oils-2r that the feat was not
to be accomplished. Presently De Lave saw
that he was about to faltl,’ .6011 threw up his
pole and caught by his alum, The ~man on
his back caught around his body find drew
himself up on the rope. The .two {nonrigid to
reach the shorein solely upoufihe mac. a;
Love attributed the failure of thetfeat tot. .. 9
wet ro e—the e rs flying upon; in qui e ,a
shower-I.) The ngol- of Rochester has forbid-
den all such exhibitions in future;
.71, ~rv.~~r-~m ._.—,. . ~,»...
_,.£ ,_ L 33.32;, ,
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IMPORTANT FROM cxuronnm.
senator Broderick Killed in a Duel with
Judge Terry.
Sr. Lours, Oct. 8.—-Tlle overland mail of
the 16th nit., reached Jefferson City to-dny.
A duel between Senator Broderick and
Chiel'Justice Terry took place near San Fran-
cisco, on the morning of the llilll nit.
Broderick fell at the first five, having been
pierced through the lungs. He lingered lill
half past nine o’clock on the morning of the
16th, when he died.
During the political campaign closed by
the election on the 1th ult., Senators Gwiu
and Broderick hurled defiance at one another,
while expressing their readiness to settle their
griefs in a private way. A duel was looked
for after the election,and- the report that they
were to fight, therefore excited no great as-
tonishmeut. But instead of a duel between
Broderick and Gwiu, it turned out that the
affair was to be between Broderick and Chief
Justice Terry, of the Supreme Court.
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FOREIGN NEWS,
THE FATE OF SIR JOHN PRAN KLIN.
SACKVILLE, N. B. , Oct. 7, 1859.
The R. M. steamship Canada. Capt. Lang,
left Liverpool at 3 P. M. of the 24th, and ar-
rived at Halifax at 11 A. M. of Thursday, the
6th inst. -
THE ZURICH CONFERENCE.
The London Morning Herald gives promi-
nence to the following paragraph :
“ We have reason to believe that a definite
treaty of peace will soon be concluded at Zu-
rich. It will, flowerer, bear the signaturesof
only two powers. France and Austria. The
preliminaries of Villafrunca will be strictly
maintained. As to the relations of Austria
and Sardinia, we learn from Vienna that the
preliminaries of Villafrarca will serve as a
guide for the conduct of Austria.”
A Berlin telegraphic dispatch says a couri-
er from Vienna had reached Zurich with ili-
'structious to draw up a treaty ol'peace. and a
document for the ceasion of Lombardy to Sar-
dinia. No allusion is made to the Duchies.——-
It is hoped that a treaty will be signed in a
few days.
GREAT BRITAIN.
SUCCESSFUL SEARCH FOR SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.
The screw steamer Fox, Capt. McCliutock.
sent by Lady Franklin to the Arctic regions
in search of traces of Sir John Franklin’s
expedition, had returned, having been com-
pletely successful. At Point William, on the
northwest corner of King William’s Island,
a record was found dated April 25, 1849, sign-
ed by Capts. Crozier and Fitzjumcs. The
record says. the Terror and Erehus were
abandoned three days previously in the
ice, five leagues to the N. N. W.. and that the
survivors, in all amounting to 105, were pro-
ceeding to Great Fish River. Sir John
Franklin died June 1 I, 1847, and the total
deaths to date had been nine ofiicers and lif-
teen men. .
Many deeply interesting relics of the expedi-
tion were found on the western shore of King
William’s Island, and others were obtained
from the Esxniniaux, who stated that after
their abandonment, one ship was crushed in
the ice and sunk, and the other forced on
shore,'where she remained.
The Fox was unable to penetrate beyond
Bellot Straits, and wintered in Brentford
Ba , .
Syevernl skeletons of Franklin’s men, large
quantities of clothing, etc., and a duplicate
record up to the abandonment of the ships
were discovered.
The American occupation of the island of
San Juan attracts considerable attention in
the journals.
rut: GREAT EASTERN.
Thirty of the crew of the Great Eastern
had been arrested and tried at Wey mouth for
mutinous conduct in refusing to wash the
decks when ordered. The two ringleader-s
were sentenced three weeks’ and a month’s
imprisonment, respectively. at hard _labor.and
the remainder for a fortnight each. The evi-
dence showed that the ship’s crew was far
from complete.
The English journals strongly denounce the
incomplete and hurried manner in which the
ship was sent to sea. A vague rumor has been
current that her first voyage would be post-
poned until next year, and that in the interim
she would be exhibited at the principal ports
in the Kingdom. This, however, is authorita~
tively contradicted, and she is still advertised
to leave Holyhead for Portland on the 28th of
October. a
It is announced that the Queen, on her way
back from Scotland, will visit the Great East-
ern at Holyhead on the 17th.
Upward of a thousand marines, strong de-
tachments of the Rifle Brigade, two light
infantry regiments, etc., were to leave Eng-
land for China by the overland route. The
first of the squadrons for the service against
China had already sailed. The Government
intended dispatching fifty gunboats, besides
frigates and other vessels.
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Dispatches from China.
Important despatches were received at the
Department of State at Washington, from our
Minister in China, Mr. Ward, and also from
Flag officers Tutiial. They narrate with mi-
nuteuess the recent events in China and are
dated as late as the 4th of July. Flag ofilcer
Tatnal says that the British officer in charge
of the gunboat having visited him, said noth-
ing about aid, but his silent appeal was pow-
erful indeed. During the few moments he
was on board the Powhatan he would look
anxiously at his Admiral and at the boats.—
” After he left,” continues Capt. Tatnall, “ 1
held a conversation with our Commissioner,
Mr. Warden and he agreed with me perfectly
that under the circumstances of our position
with the English,and the aid the Admiral had
tendered me the day before, I could do no less
than to low the boats to his relief. I made
the offer which was thankfully and promptly
accepted. While the boats were making last
to the hawsers, which I veered asteru, l insis-
ted ou Mr. Ward and his suite leaving the
Toey—wan and going on board one of the junks
for reasons which will be obvious. He at
first reluctantly yielded,and left us, but soon
returned ill one of the English boats, declar-
ing that as the Toey-wan was his home,and
going under fire with his approbation and con-
currence. he would remain in her. I reluc-
tantly yielded to his gallant impulse.” Capt.
Tutnall towed the boats through the British
line to within a short distance of the Admiral
whose flag was flying, when casting them off,
he retired to the rear of the line, and anchor-
ed for the night. He took up this position as
it might enable him to aid the wounded, and
should any boats be sunk to rescue her crews,
in other words, “to afford all the aid consis-
tent with neutrality.” Haviug been informed
by a British officer that the Admiral was dan-
gerously wounded, Capt. Tatnall went in a
barge to visit him, When within a few feet
of Ibe Comoront a round shot struck the boat,
killing the coxswuiu. Mr. Hart of Brooklyn,
New York, and slightly wounding Flag Lieu-
lenant Treliehard. They reached the Como-
rnlit before the boot entirely sunk. Captain
Tutuull says the Chinese Commissicners had
previously notified Mr. Ward of their arrange-
ments and requelted him to accompany the
British and French Ministers to the Pclho.-
To this he consented, thereby to a certain ex-
tent assuming the same platform with the
latter. The sincerity of the Commissioners
was much douuted at the time.
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The '- Little Town Meetings."
The Democratic State papers are all of the
Opinion that the “ returns of the Town Meet-
ings come in rather slowly,” and with almost
equal accuracy announce that" they are gen-
elally favorable to the Democracy.” As a
matter of fact, the returns have been,recl-ived
earlier this year than usual—indeed, the Reg-
ister has received the elections from Rocky
Hill and Killingworth several weeks in ad-
vaucc of the election. What the Sham pu-
pet's mean by saying the returns are “ gener-
ally favorable to the Democracy,” can be in-
lcrred by comparing the Register-’5 list of 49
Republican and 35 Democratic towns this year
with its list of 52 Republican 59 Democratic
towns lasl yeah—JV" H; Courier.
.———-—Oo<.>o
w, The Washington correspondent of the
Tribune says that Col. Forney’s personal
friends assert that he has consented to be sup-
pored by his Anti Lecomptou Democractic
friends for the clerkship. with the understand-
ing that they will go with the Republicans for
speaker, the latter, of course, to vote for Col.
F. He does not expect approval by Judge
. Douglas.
w.———-—-—-
”From the statement of Mr. Collins,
Consular Agent at Amour river, in Asiatic
Russia, it appears that American commerce
at the Amoor is steadily increasing, Flvc
Americansteamers are now plying on its wo-
ters, which are navigable for steamboat! 3509
miles. The commercial products of that
region at present consist principally of fun
and minerals, hilt it is thought that when
navigation shall have developed the internal
,resoprpgs of the country, trade will be pro-
,pqrgqulgmy 'hpfgascd. From Moscow to the
. en oi e'
moor fare upwards of five hun-
rr'ejaslie'o. the silent
THE STATE FAIR.
The time is nearly at hand for the Sixth
Annual Exhibition of the Connecticut State
Agricultural Society, and weare happy to
add that the arrangements are very ucarlv
completed for its opening, and successfulcou-
tiuuuuce. The show now promises to be by fur
the most attractive ever made. It is a. fact.
worthy of remembrance that the only exhibi.
tion which ever resulted in profit to the soci-
ety was held in this city. There seems to be
no doubt that the pecuniary result this year
will be most gratilyiug to the society and its
friends and supporters. One thing is certain,
the Society have never held an exhibition on
so favorable grounds as those selected iii
Brewster Park. Those grounds comprise fif-
ty three acres, and are most admirably adapt-
ed to the use of the Society. With great nat-
ural advantages of location and scenery, they
add excellent accommodations both to exhibi-
tors and spectators. A truck of more than
a mile in circumference affords a very pleas-
ant and continuous drive without interfering
iii the least with the exhibition of articles,
horses or cattle. An inuir half mile truck.
gives superior accommodations to the large
number ofhorses which will be on exhibition
and affords excellent facilities for the display
of fast horses, and the exhibition of stock.—
Commodious seats are to be arranged for the
comfort of visitors. and ample accommoda-
tions will be given for the disposition of the
thousands who will fill the grounds during
the show. There will be a number of entries
of articles in which the public take great in-
terest, and which has never been on exhibi-
tion in this state. The list of entries is al-
ready large, and is being very rapidly iii-
creased. Our merchants, mechanics and fur
mere seem determined to not their part in
Spirit, and to do all in their power to reflect
credit on themselves and the Society. It be-
hooves the people of this city to the to it that
on their part nothing is wanting in the way
of accommodations for the crowds who will
visit New Haven next week. There is no dan-
ger of there being any lack of room or hospit-
ilable entertainment,our city is famed for hav-
ing the best hotel arrangements of any city oft
its size in New England—JV. H. News.
.—.——o«.
m. The steam tractor of Mr. J. S. Gold,
at New Haven is a curious thing. No mortal
would understand it, if he were to read twen-
ty descriptions from the most skillful pens, of
this nonrlescript ; therefore we shall not de-
scribe it but bid our readers go down to New
Haven, on Wednesday of Thursday next (Oct.
12th or 13th) en, as we heard Mr. Gold
promise Mr. Dyer. the Secretary of the State
gricuitural Society the thing shall be On the
tate Fair Grounds and in operation, servihg
as a steam plow, or coursing round the half-
mile race-track, or drawing strings of loaded
tenms,.as may be desired. When we visited
the steam-carriage, yesterday, it was in its
stable, so to speak. Steam had been got up
and one piston was in motion ; but owing to
the length of time that the machine had re-
mained unused, rust had accumulated on some
portions of the machinery,and the monster
was not ready to take the road. Mr. Gold
has had it out, however, in times past. and
told us he had no doubt of his ability to have
the machine in running order, on the State
Fair Grounds. by Tuesday next. As there are
thousands who believe with us, that a steam-
carriage, adapted to run upon common roads,
and capable of traveling 10 or 15 miles per
hour, is the thing now wanted and next to.be
developed in our Yankee progress we advise
them to take advantage of the reduced fares
on the railroad, and run down to New Haven
during our State Fair, and take a look at
Gold’s steam-carriage. Nothing short of see-
ing will answer.—Harlford Centaur.
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New Annaxcuusxr or run errsn Sun-:3
House or RErasssxrnrivss,—Theground plan
of the hall of the House of Representatives,
under the order of the last session removing
the desks, is now complete, although the sets:
which are to take the place of the huge and
gorgeous chairs are not placed. The rows of
seats rise above each other on the same eleva-
tion as bel‘ore,but the space is circumscribed
nearly one-half,and the members will be scat-
ed much more comfortably and conveniently
for the transaction of. business. The vacant
spaces to the right and left of the Speaker’s
chair, occasioned by the new arrangement,
will be occupied with large writing tables and
all the necesssary appliances. No special
provisions of that sort was made in the resolu-
tion dirating the change, but it was assumed
to be embraced within the general idea. The
alterations necessary to carry out the experi-
ment are of such a character as to insure it
atrial for the whole of the next session at
least because it would hardly be practiceable
to revert to the old system during the period
of an ordiliary adjournment over three days.
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”The Cleveland, Columbus and Cincin-
nati railroad has been fined $650 because one
of its conductors putofl' a lady and her two
small children, the family of the postmaster at
Salem, Ohio,within three miles of their home
the only money they had to pay their passage
from Crestline to Salem,onl y a few miles,being
doubted. The day was rainy and cold,,and
exposure caused the death of the youngest
child. Here is a case where the raierad has
not been fined enough.
—————.“.
A SNAKE Auoxo ru u Woor..—One day last
week. the “ Mineral Springs Manufacturing
Co.” in Stafford. received an invoice of wool
from the West per Railroad,aud in opening
one of the bales at'their store house a snake
18 inches in length of the “ copper-head” kind
crawled out upon the floor, Theshearing was
probably done,as is often the case, in the
month of June, under shade trees upon the
grass, and upon gathering up the wool the
" varmint” was. then bagged. .A viper oom~
ing out from a bundle of sticks would not have
frightened the wool sorters more. The wes-
tern copper heads are more poisonous than
rattlesnakes.—Pa1mer Journal.
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”.The Great Eastern calls to remem-
brance the American “ ship” Barth of Ron-
frew, of nearly the same size, launched on
the St. Lawrence river near? y thirty years
ago. She was 600 feet long, and was com-
posed ol louglogs of timber clamped togeth-
er io the roughest manner. She crossed the
Atlantic safely, and immediately on her or-
rival in England, was broken up and sold.—
She was, in fact, an ingenious expedient to
get rid of the timber duty, which was then
excessive, and was a sort of magnified and
finished ocean raft. The government would
not allow the experiment to be repeated, how-
ever, holding it to be a violation of the reve-
nue laws.
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Tris Sssns or Coxsuurrrou.—The terrible
mortality caused by bronchitis, pneumonia
and consumption, which kill—in England and
Wales only—u hundred thousand people, (be
ing one fourth of the entire mortality from
a hundred other causes in addition to them-
selves.) should make us think a little serious-
ly of many things, and not least seriously of
the freaks of fashion, which set climate at de-
fiance. Why do we send children abroad in
damp and cold we other, with their legs bare,
submitted, tender as their. bodies are, to risks
that even strong adults could not brave with
impunity? Custom has made this matter ap-
pear familiar and trifliugf’but it is uotont of
place to say, at the beginning o'fanothcr win-
ter, that the denial lo'youugchildren of prop-
er shirts to their clothes, and warm coverings
to their legs. has sown the seeds of consump-
tion in thousands and thousandsdiutl is, of
many dangerous things done in obedience to
laws of fashion, the one that is most thought-
less and cruel. it is in the child that con-
sumption can moat readily be planted, in the
child that when the tendency exists, it can be
cured , if at all,
it is to be fought against by protecting the
body with sufficient clothing against chill and
dump, by securing it plenty of wholesome
sibep, not sullbcative sleep among feathers
and curtains. plenty of free ablution without
predjndices on behalf of water, icy cold, plen-
ty of cheerful exercise short of fatigue, plenty
of mostand bread, and wholesome pudding——
Those, indeed, are the things wanted by all
children. Many a child pines in health upon
a diet stinled with the best intentions. But
the truth is, that it is not possible to over~fee¢l
a child with wholesome, simple eambles. It
can be slimuiated to excess in demolishing
sickly daillties,aild, with a stomach once fair-
ly depraved , may be made incompetent to say
when it has bad too little or too much. But
a child fed only upon wholesome things knows
better than any mammu can tell when it wants
more ; it can eat a great deal; has not only
to maintain life. but to add hight and breadth
to stature. Fortily it, lhen,nguinst variations
of climate, by meeting freely the demandspf
its body; give it full linimal vigor to resist
uuwholesome impressions. Especially Ict the
good housewife,who hasa young family to
feed. let her learn to be utterly reckless of
her milk score. Somebody has a declared a
pint of milk to contain as much nourishment
asp half pound of meat. Be that as it. may,
3; is the n ,ht loud for little ones to thrive up-
amend in, years plppp spbsequent expendi-
ture for cod liveroi .- .
Dirt-en's Household Words,
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13‘ Gov . Willard of Kentucky headed the
midnight procession of the Sons of Malta in
__.A little girl four years old. daughten 0
John Connor of East Bridgeport: “'33 playing
around a fire in the lot adjoining ll" ”Mum’s
house on Monday, when her clothes took fire
and she was enveloped in fiames’ She died
of her injuries ten hours afterwards. .
——’l‘hc Boston Courier says that Admiral
Hope. who was lately defeated by the 0““
ilese. commanded the frigate Elidylniou,when,
in 1815 that vessel. with three others, cup-
lured the II. S. Frigate President. lie was
then cap»ain. He fought bravely in that en-
gagement, but his ship was much disabled by
the cannon ofthe President.
——Mr. 11. B. Law. of Stamford. fell from
the roef of a building on which he was at
work. on Saturday last. striking on some tim-
bers and breaking his wrists. Mr. George L.
Lownds. of the same place. had two of his
finite“ cut Willy a buzz saw on Monday week.
——M- Blondin, the great rope walker, has
purchased a house completely furnished, at
Niagara Fails,_for four thousand dollars cash.
which amount is a portion of the profits ol
his feats across the chasm of Niagara during
the summer.
-——The ManchesteHN. II.) American joins
with the|N .Y.Herald In saying that there is an
intrigue on foot to make Franklin Pierce the
nominee of the Charleston Convention.
——Gold to the value of $29,000,000 has been
received from California the past year, an in.
crease over the previous year of $339,810,
and no end to it, yet. '
——Five little wars are now In progress ; two
ill Asia, viz: Russia against Circussia; and
France with Spain against Cochin China; two
in Africa, viz : Spain against Morocco, and
England against the tribes on the Gold Coast,
and one in South America, Buenos Ayres
against Montevideo.
—The skating movement has commenced in
eastern Massachusetts. A skating club was
organized in West Newton on Saturday even-
ing last, and a committee directed to make
arrangements to flow two large tracts of land
for skating ponds.
——A Portland paper says that during the
rain storm of last week, a lady was seen on
Middle Street, focused in II water proof suit
from head to foot. Her dress was not so long
as to draggle in the mud, and her person was
kept dry and comfortable.
....Mr. Botts refuses to run for the White
House. He says in a late card : “ The presi-
dency of the United States is a distinction,
(exalted as it is,) that my pride and sense of
proprietry would not allow me to run after.”
—A fratricide occurred at Derby on Solar
day evening. John Boucher was killed by his
brother Patrick, who threw him down and
stamped upon him until he had'iuflicted fatal
injuries upon him. Both parties were under
the influence of liquor The fratracide has
fled, and has not been arrested.
——-The English cricketers—the Eleven—
beat the 22 of the U. S.——all to nothing in the
late match at Hoboken. The former made 159
at their first inning. The latter scored only 92
at their two innings.
——-About two weeks ago a cargo of siavs was
lauded near Trinidad de Cuba. One of the
inspectors, a young Creole, informed the gov-
ernment of the fact. That night 'he was as—
sassinated in his bed.
—-—Crops in Iowa are good, The Sorghum
crop will be sufficient to supply the people
with syrup. or corn. pork and wheat, the
State has a large surplus.
——'I‘he Independent says that some of the
jobbing houses in New York and Boston have
introduced refreshment rooms in connection
with their cslahlishments. where they furnish
wines, spirits, cigars. and other creatule com-
forts. Such establishments willdoubtless ell-
courage a certain kind of custom,but we should
think that they would repel much of a more
valuable kind.
—--The right to publish Mrs. ‘Stowe’s new
story, “ The Minister’s Woolug.” was sold on
Saturday to Messrs. Derby «it Jackson of New
York. The work will all be done in Boston,
however, and the press will be kept running
night and day, until a. very large edition has
been printed.
....'l‘he loss by the burning of Peck, Smith
Jr Company’s Hardware Mauufactory, at
Southiugton, Sunday, was about 8125.000 ;
insurance about 650.000. Some two hun-
dred and fifty hands are ihrown out of employ-
ment.
——The Democratic candidates for Congress
in the first five districts of Georgia have sev-
erally denounced Senator 'l‘oombs for his qua-
si support of or toleration rather of Douglas.
Mr. Crawford, the candidate for re-eiection in
the 2nd. says that,in the event of such anom-
ination. he would advise the Soutnerh mem-
bers to withdraw from the conveuliou and go
home.
——Twelve and a half millions of railroad
bonds mature during the next year, including
one million Michigan Southern first mortga‘
gee, three million Illinois Central freelaud.
and a million and a half Michigan Central
eight per cents. It is hoped that the holders
of these bonds have not given notes which
they expect to meet with the cash proceeds
during the year.
. . . .Gold fish, which were originally brought
to this country from China, and once kept in
glass vases as objects of curiosity, have now
become quite numerous in some of our rivers.
In the Potomac, large shoals of them may be
seen sporting in the silvery water, and they
are quite numerous in some of the creeks
which feed the hudson River.
. . . .The New York correspondent of the
Charleston Courier says there is now a lively
movement of horses to the South. They are
generally fine blooded animals, bought in the
New England market at high figures; and are
destined to grace the stables of wealthy plant-
ers. The equine exportatious to the South is
uncommonly large this year. '
.....An " Italian wife” who begged for a livf
inglu Cincinnati, recently run off with an-
other man, because his“ professional skill”
in the art of begging was greater than her
husband’s. She took about $1,000 with her.
The husband expresses‘profouud regret, as
she was one of the best beggars he ever saw
in Europe or America.
. . . .The wife of a broker, in Columbus, Ohio,
having cause to suspect the fidelity of her
husband, repaired, a few days ago, to the
house of a woman whom she believed to be
the recipient of his attentions, and exclaim-
ing : “ You have dishonored my bed!" attack-
ed her with a knife. inflicting several severe
wounds. The woman finally rallied however
and succeeded in ejecting her assailant.
..Pelersons Counterfeit Detector gives a
list of_sreurv new counterfeit bank notes, is-
sued slnce the first of July. If this fact does
not reveal a deplorable state of afi‘uirs, what
could? There must be thousands of persons
regularly engaged in counterfeiting.
—-Insuits are like counterfeit money; we
cant help their being offered, but we need’nt
take them.
....A fly trap invented at Berlin, Conu.,
caughtiu a dining room in a hotel in Man-
cheater, N. 11., seventeen hundred flies in one
minute, on a wager, and of course won the
stakes.
——-Mr. Harris, our Consul at Japan, has
been presented with a magnificent gold snuff
box by Queen Victoria. The box is described
as about 6 inches in length, four in width and
two in depth, and is of wrought gold. hand-
somely washed. On the top is the Queen’s
cypher, surrounded by a wreath of diamonds.
a- Dr. Wistar's balsam of wild cherry is. truly a bnl
soul. It contains the balsamic principal of the wild
cherry, the balsamic properties of tar and of pine. Its
ingredients are all balsamic. Coughs, colds and con-
sumption disappear under its balsamic influence.
————0v<.>-o——
rm: CLOSING YEARS OF LIFE are often rendered
wretched by ailments which are trifling in themselves
and easily cured iftaken in time. Affection ofthe liv-
er, stomach and other organs concerned in digestlon
are the most frequent. They naturally make the suf-
ferer nervous, irritable and complaining. and relatives
and friends are forced to bear the brunt of their ill bu-
uior. The use of llosletter’s celebrated Stomach Ril-
ters will prove an efficient remedy for this evil ; it will
not only strengthen the whole physical organization,
but entirely cure the most obstinate cases of Indiges-
tion, Diarrliiea, llyscntery and Liver complaint. The
firstplly'sicians in the country are loud in their praise
of this preparation. Another recommendation of the
Bitters is that it is so palatable lo the taste that it may
be used even as a beverage Sold by all Druggiats, and
by Kssrr n errs, L. 1.. Barns & Sex, and E. P. Winn,
Nor-walk.
«Our——
m. The American sportsman, Ten Broeck,
is evidently taking down the English jockeys.
He has made a bet of $100,000 that his horse
Umpire will defeat Sir Joseph Hawley’s Loi-
torer in the Derby races of 1860. .Ilawley is
the most successful till-lite in England, having
carried oll‘ the Derby both lost year and this.
The extent of the wager and the character of
the horses will make thisrace one of the most
exciting for many years.
-e.—-—-Oo<.>oo————_
fl“ Fat contracts” and foreign missions
are the rewards of unscrupulous devotion to
w
Rushing into Print.
M ncb of the half-baked and incomplete char-
acter which marks a good deal of the litera-
ture of to-(luy, is undoubtedly due the “ inde-
cent haste” with which young writers rush be-
fore the public. through the medium of types
and printing ink. Many of them, who possess
real talents, of a high order, put for”. golden
thoughts in their first works, and rl-glet for-
ever after, that they were so rush in to pulp“,
before they could clothe those thoughts in be.
coming language.
Every person, who intend: writing for the
press, as a profession. should practice inces-
santly. but refrain from appearing in print
until competentjudges have pronounced incl-é
than favorably upon the merit of his produc-
tions. Oue's personal friends are always had
judges, and no end of mischief has been doll.
by their advice. which is, of course, always
the old story,--“ publish-—publisli-— pub-
lish !”
What a young person writes, in the coum
of study, may be very fine, hilt ifit is, an or
ten years ofripeniug cannot hurt its flavor;
and more than likely, its excellence may b.
doubled by the careful revision and correction
of maturer knowledge. Nothing can be last
then. by a period of whole study ; and the
budding author will be spared two severe in.
periences. first. the rejection of his underdone
articles, second. seeing them in print after he
has learned their faults. There are few trial
in a literary life harder to liter. than the un-
expected meetings one sometimes has, with
feeble and foolishly juvenile essays, forgotten
“ms before. but reproduced when fame has
attached to the name that flaunts at their head.
if a map dare not blush at such .a reminder of
Idle-lollldfi of his early literary career, then it
is time for him to wear rouge.
JV. Y. Mar any.
An Englishman's :Iiew of Broadway.
Mr. Mackay’s book on America,thongh
touching on some of our national charac-
teristics, rather roughly, also accords III
credit ill many respects. The following
is a passage from it describing Broadway
N. Y. : ' '
Sydney Smith’s assertion of the inferi-
ority of Broadway to Bond street is rid-
iculously untrue at the present time.—
Bond street! quotha? Bond street is
no more to be compared to Broadway
for beauty, extent, life. hustle, and wealth
than a dingy old furtlling of the reign of
the days of Queen Victoria.
street in London that can be declared sn-
perior, or even equal, all things consider-
ed, to Broadway. It is a street suz' gen-
e‘ns, combining in itself the characteris-
is, and of Cheapsidc or Fleet St, Lon-
don, with here aud there ' a dash of
Whitechapel and the Minories’l‘aud here
of Liverpool and Dublin. It is longer,
more crowded, and fuller of fine buildings
than the Bouvelurd dos Italians,-it ii as
bustling as Cheapside, and, more than all
risian.
names of Jones, Smith and Brown, over
the doors of the stores and warehouses,
and the English placards and advertise-
ments. that everywhere meet the eye, the
stranger might fancy himself under the
Napoleon III.
the design of its long lines of buildings,
Broadway would be one of the three or
sign—for each man builds exactly as he
pleases—the street, in its details, surpas-
ses any single street that England or the
British Isles can show. From the Bat-
u very iguoble commencement, to Trinity
Church, of brown stone, with its elegant
spire, to Grace Church, built entirely of
white marble, a dirtance in a straight
line of nearly three miles, and thence on
to Union Square, and the statue of
Washington, Broadway offers one grand
succession of commercial palaces. For-
merly—and perhaps when Sydney Smith
mete—the houses were for the most part
brick, gayly colored, with here and there
a house of brown stone or granite.
Conspicuous among the edifices that
gives its most imposing character to this
busy and beautiful street, are Stewart’s
dry good store,tllc iron palace of Haught-
wont & 00., such hotels as the St. Nich-
olas,the M etropolituu,the Lafarge House,
the St. Dennis, the Clarendon, the New
York and the Astor House. The last
mentioned 'was some years ago, the boast
and the pride of New York, and the won-
der of strangers,
As regards the mere volume and cir-
cumference of hoop cr crinoline, the he
dies of London and Paris are, to those of
NeW'York, but as butterflies compared
with canary birds. The caricatures of
the crinoline mania which the world owes
to its excellent friend Punch, if exaggera—
tions of English fashions are no exagera-
tions of those of New York, and ‘to get
along Broadway", where there is no tacit-
ly understood and acknowledged law of
pavement as in England, and where eve-
ry one takes the wall as it pleases him or
her, it is no easy matter. Even without
these abominable hoops, it would be dilli-
cult for an Englishman accustomed to
have the wall at his right hand, to make
apy progress, unless by a series of provo-
king Zngfig‘S, but hustled about by crino-
iues, the best thing for the gallant man
wuo is in a hurry isto step off the pew
ment into the road. Nor have the fair
ladies all the hoops to themselves, the
dark ladies share with them the passion,
or the sentiment, or the monstrosity, and
inflate their garments in the most ridicu-
lous proportions. Little negro girls of
fourteen or fifteen years of age, with
bright colored parasols, bright cotton and
silk dresses, of a width surpassing any
credence but that of the eyes of the be-
holder, flouucell awkwardly to and fro ;
and aged negresscs, equally splendid and
rotund, waddle like hippopotami among
their Allglo~Suxou and Celtic fellow crea-
tures, as if they had been rigged out ma~
liciously by some hater of crinoline, and
launched out into the street to convert
their fairer sisters to the use of a more el-
egant form of dress, upon the same prin-
ciple as the ancients inculcated sobriety
by the spectacle of their drunken slaves.
There is not only a craze for crinoline.
but crinoline-itself is crazy, huge, unwell-
(Iy, prchstemlls, and in every way ofieu-
slve.
c«>.q.—___ l
a. Mr. David A. Wells, of Troy. 1"
Y., formerly of Springfield, has been par-
tially successful in his 'nvestigstions into
the meteoric phenomena near that city,
last month, having found and identified
a fragment of the‘meteor, which was seen
to fall in the yard of a gentleman in Jer-
icho a few moments after the explosion
was heard. The stone is about as large
as o pigeon’s egg, and closely resembles
specimens of meteors ill the cabinet at
New Haven. It has been purchased by
tile authority of Gov. Not“ for “‘9
New Ymk State cabinet.
. «Or
New Work, ~
b r
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE:
Just Published: .,
the Democratic party. The firm of lrwiu
White .k. Co have just received the great con-
tract for taking arms supplies to Utah and
Oregon, and one of that firm is Alison White,
Pgmocratic member of the lust Congress. A
unions in mail: opt 3f pug minim: every year
by the fuvore oueswhohdf‘it." I the nebula
are swindled out of half a million or so, who
cares? good democrats pocket the proceeds as
Price $1.25—For Sale at CAMP’S.
—————~«-o»..—___
”The city of Detroit has had jud “MW
enlisted amps it 19 the we: of we. 00 ml
injuries lasts a by a lady in being thrown
from a wagon in confluence of gsewer bola
left open and unguarded, into which the ll.
the wages of their devotion to the party.
Louisville on the night of Sept 28. l
on ran.
George III, to a bright new sovereign of .
There is no ‘
tics of the Bouvelard ries Italians at For '
it has a. sky above it as bright as the sky
of Venice. _ Ils aspect is thoroughly Pa- :-
Were it not for the old familiar‘
maximized government and iron grip of ,
Were there anything like uniformity in ;
four most magnificent streets in the 3
world. Even without any general (111- ;
tery, facing the see, where Broadway has ,
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