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JOSIAH WRiGHT.
Nali0nnI Ern
THE COUNTESS OF OSSlLLl.

The Philadelphia Bulletin has tho following
notice of the gifted lady who met an untimely
death last week by the wreck Of the brig Elizabeth
on the shore Of Fire Island
"The Countess Of 0ssilli--better known q,
Margaret Fuller-was the daughter Of Hon Tim
othy Fuller lawyer of Boston, bat nearly ali his
life resident Of Cambridge, and Representa-
tive Of the Middlesex District in Congress from
lsl1to 1925 She WAS the first harn,af sir chit
drcn,;' ahd early unpmyeu great eanen1s which her
father, with more regard for her mental than her
bodily health stimulated by iucessant study. The
early destb oftbispsreat LEI, Margaret to depend,
on herself for a livelihood. Accordingly she ap-
piled herself to teaching as a vocation-frst Ia
Boston, then in Providence, and afterwards In
Boston again. In lS4i she abandoned teaching
and assumed the critical department Of the tn
blHe, where her articles attracted much attention
The following year she visited Europe, as cor
respondent of the same paper, and continued to
reside abroad, where she bad married until few
weeks prior to her death. She was the author
Of two noticeable works. Summer on the Lakes
and Woman in the Nineteenth Century, be-
sides numerous shorter articles, the best of which
were collected by Putnam, In 1916, under the
title Of Papers on Literature and Artn
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We are panied to hear that n telegraphic des.
patch was received just before the adjournment Of
the House yesterday, by Mr.. Winthrop announ-
cling the death Of the Hon. Daniel p King, Repre-
sentative in Congress from the Second Congres-
sional District Of Massachusetts, He died at his
residence in Danvers, on Thursday afternoon,
where he happened to be on visit to his family
having left this city in good health but few
days ago.
Mr. King has ably represented his district in
Congress for many years, and was highly esteem.
ed by all who had the pleasure Of his acquaint-
unconstitutional Iuellgencr.
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JUST PUBLISIsED,

EPLY ~ Remarks Of Rev. Moses Stuart on Hon John
JAY and an Examination Of his Scrptursl Exercises
contained in his recent pamphlet entitled Conscience and
the Constitution by William Jay An octave pamphlet
In q neat cover. Price cents For sale by
Aug. WIN. HARMED, 6I John street NJ York
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The Hon Thomas Ewing Qate Secretary of the
INTERIOR has been appointed, by the Governor of
the State of Ohio, to be Senator Of the United
States until an alection Is made by the Legis-
lature Of that State to succeed Mr.. Corwin, re-
signed.
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YERDINAND MOuLrON,

ATTORNEY AND cOUNsELL0R AT Law,
WILL pstss 10 sks several courts In ths Dsstyst ssa
w sstssd 70 the psossssssa u ssAms against 0evsru
nsnf.
onss ssssss u saa ssvssA sssssss spssas NE oss-
srsl Posi- 0GSs
Refers 70 naisos ef National krs and MsmSsss Of
Usss fro@ Maryiand Psnnsyivsnis MAssasbasssss sAd
New Hsmpshirs. Julyis
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LIrrELL's LIVING AaI

4 NONTENTS OF No. 30. - Price, twelve snd . ksH
" cents.
T. Recent Arctic Expeditions. - United Service Masa-
lbts.
e. Acoustics for the Houses of rsmsnt--Spsoalor.
q Letters from ysrasisa.- Nsw York Evening Post
T. The Spanish Beauty - Bsnlsy's Mscslany
3 Episodes Of Insect life l--Eeiscfac Rso<r.
8. Dsborshs Diary, Part w. hary~s MSgaTfns
7. FANTASIES Of wAipurgts Nsxht--Zschohl<
Our Old DrsssmAksr - Ckaplbsvfs Journal
o. An Idssl Wornsn.--La1i<s' Cosaeaeicn.
~. The Great Salt LAKE. National hstshxenssv.
II Does Nature Provids CompaSsT - Rooassicv Adc~
ngU,
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The credentials of the Hon Thomas Ewing.
appointed by the Governor of Ohio, Senator. in
the place of MIR. Corwin, resigned, were pre-.
scented by MIR. Davis of Massachusetts
MIR Douglas Of Illinois introduced resolution
for the application of the Previous Question in
the Senate Laid over till Monday.
The death of Hon. Daniel p King was an
nounced; the Senate adopted the usual resolu-
tons, and adjourned.
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~ITOF "
Sa't1a any one can see at glance, Is more than
Since the weekly report Of the Goth the deaths
have been 'o'"' 'n' ''"'hS
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WINTER SESSION OF 1850
WIN the frat Monday Of Hovsmbsr and con
Time seventeen wssk hs last week devoted ths
dates for gniustion Tbs expense Of fcssts, 72 ats
cnation, % graduation S20 Board, from % % per
week,
One hundred dollars In advance will secure ssrtiAssts
that will entts the purchaser his assgnes 10 many
o. lectures hs require for graduation Il
and buildings. Aug lin
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The report for the first week was very imper-
ana no doubt below the truth, at least in re-
sira 10 'ne number OF deaths from other diseases
nan choiera As the matter becomes system
Stized and the provisions Of the law known. we
snaii nave reports as reliable rs those Of any
other city find that Of the deaths in the above
'aoie somewhat less than one-half (about 4.l0ths)
were OF persons born in foreign countries
me mortality in our city for the correspond
Jog three weeks in July, ls4s, was
week ending July 9Th l,O22
10 July 18th $50
10 July ed 5l2
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ton, Hunter Mason, Miller, Morton, Phelps
Rusk, Sebastian, Seward, Smith, Soul6, Turney,
Upham, and Yulee--29
NAys-Mcssrs. Atchison, Badger, Bell. Ber-
ren, Bradbury, Bright, C ,ss, Clay, Cooper,
Dawson, Dickinson, Dodge Of Iowa, Douglas,
Downs, Felch, Foote, Jones' King, Mangum,
Norris Pearcc, Pratt, Shields Spruance stur-
geon, Underwood, Wales, Walker, and Whit
comb--29.
Mr. Hale moved TO amend the amendment by
striking out the words "or at any period since
that datep And the motion was rejected by the
following vote
YRAs--Messrs Baldwin Benton, Chase, Clarke,
Davis Of Massachusetts, Dayton, Dodge Of Wis
consin, Greene, Hale, Hamiin, Miller, Seward
Smith, Upham, and Walker-i5
NaYs--Messrs. Atchison, Badger, Barnwell,
Bell, Berrien, Bradbury, Bright, Butler,
Cass, Clay, Clemens, Cooper, Davis Of Missis-
las, Downs, Ewing, Fech, Foots, Houston, Hun
ter, Jones, King, Mangum, Mason, Morton, Nor.
ris, Pratt, Rusk, Sebastian Shields, Soul6, Spru-
ance Sturgeon Turney, Underwood, Wales
Wbitcomb, and Yulee-4i.
Mr.. Turney moved TO amend the amendment
by adding thereto ms follows
Pyopided, That In the event Of the Commission
ers falling 10 determine the true line, no pecuni-
AIRY consideration shall b. given 10 reconcile either
party to departure thcrefrom.
Msssrs Foote and 1'urney debated this amend
msnt and the question being taken thereon, 1t
was rejected by the following vote:
YEAs-Messrs Baldwin, Bsrnwell, Benton,
Butler, Chase, Clarke, Clemens Davis Of Massa-
chusetts, Davis OF Mississippi, Dodge Of Wiscon-
sin, Hale Hunter, Mason, Miller Morton, Sew.
ard, Soult, Turnsy, Upham, and Yulse--20.
NAys-Msssrs Atchison, Badger, Bell, Ber-
risn, Bradbury, Bright, Cass, Clay, Cooper, Daw'
son, Dickinson, Dodge Of Iowa, Douglss, Downs,
Ewing. Fslcb, Foots, HAmlin, Jones, King Man
gum, Norris, Pesrce, Pratt, Shields, Smith, spru-
aacs Sturgeon, Underwood, Wales, and Whit
oomb---32.
Mr.. Hale moved, and the Senate then nd
journed.
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ntCtlcut unueretOOu the SenhIo7 from NtW Ork
to speak OF law higher than the Constitution,
which was In harmony with the Constitution.
THIS was the law Of Heaven, which made the OBJ
ligstion 70 support that CONSTITUTION inviolable
But that was not the higher Law spoken Of by the
Senator from New York; that Senator spoke Of n
higher law which, when IL conAicted with the
Constitution, he was to obey, regardless Of the
Constitution and his oath TO support II. For the
assertion Of such law he had alluded 10 the SEN
ator from New York, and had suggested that
having come into the Senate under supposed
obli gatlon to his oath, now that he acknowledged
mono as agsinst this higher Law, he should be ex-
PEELED And II tho Senator from New Hampshire
held similar doctrines and positions, he would
oheerfally unite him with the Senator from New
York In the expulsion.
Mr.. Baldwin read from Mr. Stewards speech
the only sentence In which be had alluded to the
higher law II was to the effect that there was
Law higher than the Constitution. That the
Constitution devoted the public domain TO the
purposes Of Justice, defence, welfare and liberty,
and that the Law higher than the Constitution
regulates cur authority over the domain, and de-
vctrs II 20 the same noble purposes
Mr.. Seward said that the speech as read by the
Ssnasov from Connecticut Was verbatim az he had
delivered n -----------
Mr. Davis Of Mississippi said that he had been
absent srom The seaa,e for ftw moments When
he wen, ca, an amendment was pending on which
he was prepared 10 vote, ~ he had been on all
propositions connected with this bill But on bis
rv.ass he fsuad he Senate engaged In theologi-
cal dsqslslsloa, aad hls mind vas no, prepared TO
ve,e srsa u ~ present. lie wanted At least ons
Might hv rv6estian, aad ~ The debate bad closed
With . ps~ysr by hrothsr Baldwin, no moved that
tAe Senate sSjsxra. Il.AueAtsr
Mr. Clay AsAsd The yeAs AMI nays which were
~rAssva cod, The Qsss(lca .heus taken, the Sen
ale r~fsssd ~ AAjsxrN, ~ telievsl
rsAs~-Msnes baldwin, narnweil, bsnton,
nsslss, cAssA ClArAs nsvts Of Massachusetts,,
navkss M,nAsttst Dayton, Dodge Of Wisconsin,,
uvss~~. Hale. naNlis, ltssssv, Mason, Miller,
Ms<t.s, sswsra, s~IsAs Ss~k, Taraey, urbam,
.~a vslee o.
Naw--M.~w A,sAsses, badger, Brrisn,
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Banks for overiSsuing, the Merchants for
overtrading, &c. in which those who
have eaten, drank, worn out and but half
paid for the excessive Imports which are
at the bottom of the mischief will be
loudest ofany. Then will Congress be
called together, as in 81 and Al, TO de,
wise ways and means Of extricating tl!,.
Government at least, and perhaps the
Country also, from complication Of dis
asters. Then it will be plainly seen by
the considerate that the Government ~
not paying its 'coy By many millions
PER an~um, but in spending the duties on
Railroad iron imported when it should
be made at home, and on Champagne
bought, on tick, and drank at five dollars
bottle on the strength of speculations
now esteemed fortunate but which will
turn out quite otherwise at least, it is
really anticipating and eating up the
income oftuture years. We maintain
that the Duties collected on Imports not
paid for do not truly belong to the cur
rent Revenue and ought not to be spent
until those Imports shall be paid for,
and that the Treasury therefore really
ran behind Five Millions last year ana
is running behind Ten Millions this
year.
Are these things 500 If yea, isno.
action impcratively, pressingly deman.
ded =! What say you, fellow citizens
~. Y. Tri5une,
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]lolitiral.
The State ofthe Nation.

Mr.. CoRwIN's truth-telling and lucid
Report on the National Finances is now
fairly before the country. If it could
only be read with candid attention by
our whole voting population, we believe
it would suffice ofitselfto secure ben
eticent change in our National policy,
But how many Of our Three Millions of
Voters really study and take to heart
those great topics ofNational concern
which their votes are annually and vital,
ly afiectingl This Report and the ia.
bles accompanying it embody more facts
which should enter into and modify the
National Policy than We're ever before
presented in aSpace equally limited.
No man can vote intelligently, safely, at
the approaching elections for Members
of Congress and President who has not
made himself master of these facts, what
ever he may choose to think of the Sec
retary's deductions therefrom. And yet
| how large share ofour voters will new
or read them at all ! How many will
barely skim over the more prominent sta
tistics while smoking a cigar, and speed
lily dismiss them from their remem-
brance! And-alas that it should be
SO what vast majority Of those who
don't read and won't think will vote dead
against the Secretary's warnings and
recommendations, not because they be-
iievc them unsound or mist AIKEN, but be-
cause they are told that tits Democrat
ic' and regular to do SO! Just think of
the Five Points and Corlaer's Hook set
ting in judgement on tie differing theo-
ries Of Secretaries Walker and Corwin,
and what abominable majorities they are
certain toroll up for the former =!
Whether there be or be not any natural
and necessary affinity between them, it
is certain that those who obtain their
livelihood from the practitioners of free
gambling, free drinking and free de-
bauchery do give the great bulk oftheir
votes for what is SO speciously termed
Free Trade. Their vacations do not i'm
mediately, palpably suffer much from the
competition of similar establishments in
Europe; and they are not addicted to
forecasting calculations. Of all the
votes cast in this City by men who would
rather not tell how they make their liv-
ing, nine-tenths are thrown steadily
against the doctrines Of Secretary Cor
wins Report and the candidates who up
hold them. And it is much the same ev-
erywhere. If every man had an honest
useful calling and earned his living by it,
we should have an efficient Protective
Tariff forthwith and la consequent and
lasting increase of the general demand
for and reward Of Llbor throughout the
country.-As it's, we must struggle, ex-
postulate and hope,
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SATURDAY MORNING DECEMBER % 1850

idly in the house and sought private
interview with Emily. His guardian
had fled, with all his money and left him
pennyless.
He told her if he never should recover
his loss, he was strong in resolution and
in hope, and nerved by the love he bore
her, he could build up a fortune for him
self and her more than he had lost. She
burst into tears, and made no reply. She
rejected his attempted embrace, and
sinking into sullen mood, refused to
marry him. Chagrined, frantic, he left
the house heaping bitter curse on her,
and from that moment was lost man.
Into drunkenness he plunged at once.
Oh! how many mistaken, yet noble
souls have been driven by untoward grief
and misfortune into the same fatal error,
to seek relief where, instead of finding
relief, they find misfortune and woe a
thousand fold multiplied, and overwhelm-
ing disgrace.
Lower and lower he sunk. until be
became an ontcast. Once he rallied for
a time, and for few months remained
sober, but fell again. 1t was when he
heard OF Emily's death. After the day
on which he left her, she attempted to
60 into gay society, but met with cold
ness and dlstrust. Admirers no longer
tlock2d around her, and her affected gai-
ETY. after vain Struggle to maintain its
supremacy, failed her. Her reason tot
tered, and finally she died maniac, in
utter misery. Her sad fate touched him,
even in the depths to which he had sunk
but the habit he had formed came on
him again like an avalanche and bore
him away, From one mental employ
ment to another he went, till finally at
the aforementioned date, he went as q
hand on a raft in the Susquehanna. His
fate has been told You reader; the spot
where he lies sleeping has been shown
you; over it as write, the gusty winter
wind is signing, and bowling through
the top OF the old poplar. Peace to him,
Soon your head and my head will lie as
low as his-lct us endeavor so to live
that we may not, like him, die an out.
cast on the earth, but with kind friends
around us to smooth our aching brow s.
to live SO that when this life gives place
to death, we may entertain a glorious
hope of a brighter life beyond this land
where living is at best too fraught with
anxiety and sorrow. Z.
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CHAP. III.

The parents of Martin Howard were
wealthy people and he was their only
child. In the war of 1872 his faith
er was killed on a Friday in skir-
mish with the British troops; the next
Friday the sad news reached the ear of
his mother, and fainting she fell and ex-
pired. Thus while little more than
.prattling babe his parents We're snatched
away, and he was placed under guar
dian, who was given control over the
large estate left by his father. As he
grew he became beautiful, active and
intelligent boy, but his school fellows
observed that on Fridays he was always
sad, and often, bursting into tears, hid
himself away from their sight. The
mournful death ofhis parents on that day
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an old oak, and there huge chestnut lift
their great arms towards the sky. Yon-
der is the pretty residence of Miss Gill
pin, and see beyond that broad meadow,
the tall dark woods, that, bereft of leaves,
look SO chilly and cold; and beneath
them the dozen arches of the railroad
bridge are seen, mingling in the view
something of the beauty Of Art with the
wintry beauties Of Nature around. See,
in the edge of the ravine there, that tall
poplar--it has been riven with lightning
and its top is dead. 1t leans towards the
opposite bank and directly beyond it, see
the rough head and toot-stones Of two
graves. Ofthe slumbering tenant ofone
Of them, have something to tell. Oh
vivid, sudden, and fierce was the light
ming flash by which that tall tree was
ri,cn; and suddenly down on the heart
OF deienceless mortal, often comes 9
blow and blight, more fatal to it, alas
than the lightning stroke to the tree.
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r R ID A Y"
A Tale OF superstition and Fact.
CHAPTER I.
For Tae Cecil Ukig


It's sweet enjoyment to wander forth
from the busy town in the calm summer
time, and drink in from the out-sprcad
beauties Of Nature, inspiration to holy
thought and noble purpose; and away
in the deep wood, or by the riverside,
to commune with ones own heart, where
the idle laugh and babble of the crowd
cannot CRATE on the car, and disturb the
sweet sadness that at such time comes
over the spirit.
And though in this winter weather,
when bright afternoon tempts us forth,
we miss the flowers from our path, the
verdure from the fields, and the birds
from the branches, there are still left
beauties enough, to make stroll in the
fields and along the sunny edges of the
wood, delightful. So found it when,
a few days ago, walked forth with a
couple oil friends. We rambled away,
reader, a mile from the town, to Gilpin's
Ford.-Come with me a moment thther,
till | show you the scene. How beauti-
fully the Big Elk sweeps along at the
foot of the hill, broken into a thousand
ripples and eddies by the rocks that lie
scattered in its bed. On its edges, thin
sheets of ice glimmcr like mirrors in the
sunbeams. See to the right those clus-
tiers of laurel and cedar, that crown the
brow of the hill forever in wreath of
green. The trailing arbutus that blooms
so sweetly beneath that old beach in the
spring is missing now, but creeping there
are seen little green vines spotted with
red berries, that defy the frost. Here
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r,5oa :, !,
IN 'Ae summer Oh 1897 ',e lolloWihs
no'Ice appeared In one Oh Tie E4Atoh
papers:
"a stranger was ioHnt deaa on the roaa SIDE;
Pr ie NORM [ ni0h on ha s the S[ n ri
cfage-had an Intellectual avpcal ancr and there
was nothing upon his person by which his name
coulibe ascerteined' On his arm, in Indian ink,
was nhprlh. . 'ne Wo." Mrraa a AN hques'
cause. lie was dercn,lv Inferred On the ton Of
the hill by Gilpin's Ford
Tired and fra,oa with hrs;opss in
Sontarnher 1G1qItonl y t,';,, ara,. ar3ona
tba lille alona f,o Srsn,nHanna nnar ;f .
sonrcn in the State Of Nav Work. 70 Graf.
| ;Cv , Observation-Disclosures nat,roj in
etinct with roa--to s,n,, ,,nonn Iart ol1
woods and ansb;no ,nn,nta;n s+rsan,s :,
short se.son If rassn;ts fron to ii ,' c,r.
daya Of snoa. ropns. tbat br;ncs "; n
it STRENGTH bnovancv Of sn;r;t Clearer
head and y mora exnondad boart At
tho c]osn IF , dav srrnt ,,ortl,, IN trout.
f.h;ne, and nortIv IN cI;nohirr 70 b;nb
b;ll.tons r., lpol, },r ovor n,,tl s1,otoh;n7,e =,
vallies 7 found mvsalf somor1hat ovaro
coron With fat;cns e;it;nn i, ' v;IIaao
tovarn noar 5,ro,,,, IF lounrors r5o
unra d;scnSr;rcr fbe ross;n oftbo no;a.b
horhooJ Th99 coryers1t;on nreSar7 ",
turned n,,on nna STort;n Hovdrd nbo
i annnarnd Lad ,anr hH,n ,,;ss;na f.l,n,
his frinrls and 80 one If tha snoal orc
nroccpded. His case moves to me- that
had luck attends svarv no, horn M ri.
dov y cre,v ;ntnrostod- tb;nL;na 10 bear
.on,a oF tbe detail md ;nc;Janfs vh;cb
lnn,, ol;,o j., that oo,,,+r,, ~ s,,rorat;
ton that Fr;daT i an rnI,,cLr l,I A.
I listened var;ons evants in The life of
the ;nd;v;a,,al tbnv hal waved ,,ora 20.
f,rrad "a sbow;nn hin, tn b,vo baon
doomed ~ = str,nne sar;os or NH, I'D
c.o,' u,a;. tas.;,a,. - .lo,n. 49,. al.'
rv Tr;Iov re hi. Tr, la Loa, frarab.
with 1is3stcr
Ola Iaft bore !, +ho srr;,o of 1900 "
sold ono n tbe rart,- ,tond ,re,+ ~, .
ran dow, tbo r;mnr A lo.tar ,,,,, -,
ccived from, him wr;+ton ot port ns %o
m tLo FIST 81 r.,,s ,'; i, ,hat Vow i,;nna
| then nntb;nn bas boon hard from Kim
un ,vaS .4T,nra fallou.,, cOnt;nnad tho
sneaker ..anI bal;evad that from b;s
lex La r.a, LooDead ~ III I rar,o,,, ,'
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For The Cecil IFhir.

Mn. EpIroE:-I stool in the graveyard the
other day, the still AMI solemn graveyard, and
thought how surely the fire of the eye AMI
the glory of the worli had and must go down
and be quenchcl there, where the night is
so dark AMI the silence is so deep and so ptiless.
Some venerable men have been laid down to
sleep there, Witherspoon, bod and Edwards
were mouldcring away few feet beneath the
dead stalks that ratified against their marble.
Aaron Burr too. lies there; AMI little way oil
stands pyramid under which u?oullcrs the hand
that pannei the two lines below.
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A novel Gun has been patented by
Manton, Of London, the peculiar feature
of which is that seventy rounds may be
fred without stopping to prime.
AT FALL RIVER the operatives have
quit work, owing to reduction of wa
ges,, and the mills, without exception,
will remain idle.