, 1854-10-14


VINO WANTS a CRYSTAL PALACE THE
directors of the unfortunate Crystal Palace,
says the New York Herald, have, we un-
dcrstand. decided on selling it for some
thing like S350,00O, including the iron
fence which surrounds it. Capitalists will
at once perceive the eligibility of the in
vcstment. 1t might be made winter gar
den, or a grog shop--a grand bazaar in
the eastern style, or shambles-or some
enterprsing Snowman might buy it up for
a museum destined to rival Barnum's and
to be the wonder and delight of our coun-
try friends. Somebody proposes to carry
it down to the Battery Somebody else
wants to trot it off to Philadelphia or Bos-
ten. A third suggestion is that it be han
ded over to Adams express and forwarded
anywhere out Of the neighborhood it has
ruined. Everybody's object seems to be
to get rid Of the concern. 1t has been SO
mismanaged, and every one is so thorough
y sick of it, that if it were carted into the
Hudson, and nothing more said of it, New
York would experience q sensible relief
The next time we get up a worlds fair, we
shall order matters better
The Washington Star comments as fol-
lows on the statement, by Liverpool pa
per, of the distances Russia has extended
her frontiers within half century:
within the same space of time, Uncle
Sam has extended his dominions from tho
Mississippi to the Pacific. At the present
time, the old gentleman has one foot upon
Central America and the other upon Cuba;
one eye cooked at Canada, and the other
leering impudently at the belligerents of
Europe. As his appetite is always sharp
set, there is talk Of his swallowing q
Sandwich, and other savory slices to be
furnished by His Serene Highuess Of Mex
leo and the Autocrat of oil the Russias.n
RECRUITING FOR THE ARMY.-For the first
time in several years past, recruiting for
the United States army is going on in all
regions Of the country, perfectly satisfacto-
ry to the War Department, VIC imagise,
thanks to>the enactment of the law increa-
sing the pay of the non-commissioned off,
GERS and men Of the service. At one of the
half dozen rendezvous in New York city,
in the course of ten days, very recently,
ninety-six presented themselves, but twen-
ty-four of whom were accepted. At four
other rendezvous in New York, in the same
time, fifty men were accepted, and seventy
were not found fit to be enlisted. glsr9I
A correspondent of the Springfield
( (Mass.) Republican, says of Mr.. Grimes,
the recently elected Governor of Iowa
He was educated at Dartmouth College,
and studied law in the Office Of James Wal
ker, at Peterboro', n. II. He began his
professional career very early, being less
than twenty-one when he settled in Iowa,
andYas chosen the first mayor Of the in
FAINT city Of Burlington. For many years
he has stood at the head Of the bar in Iowa,
and engaged in extensive circuit practice.
Will OF CoMoDoRE PoRrER.--Welearn,
says the Washington Union Of the 20th,
that Mrs. Porter, widow Of the distin-
guished and lamented Commodore David
Porter, on Saturday last exhibited for pro-
bate, and proved to the orphans court for
the District Of Columbia, the Geographic will
of her deceased husband, bearing dateiat
st. Stephens, near -Constantinople, October
16, 1872 The Commodore by this will be-
queathed to Mrs. Porter his entire proper
ty. Major G. Tochman appeared for Mrs.
Porter her attorney. 'ls -iat
Loomis, editor, Of tho Ashtabula (0hioJ
Democrat, offers reward Of fifty dollars
to any person who will produce any article
ever published, with his sanction. in favor
of human slavery. Awarding committee,
any three members Of the Baptist Church,
in that place, not moro than two Of whom
shall be freesoilers. The editor has been,
or is about, being excommunicated from
the Baptist Church, Of which he is mem
Der, because he is in favor Of the Nebraska
bill. ....
Mr. BARNuM's ExPERIkScE.--We see
that this distinguished parsonage Is now .
engaged, at his palatial Connecticut resi-
dence, Iranistan, in writing two lyceum lee
lures, which he intends to deliver the COM
ing season. One Is entitled The Science
Of Humbug.' This we have good reason
to know, Mr.. Barnum will make good
and entertaining thing Of: for amesing as
are the adventures Of his eventful life when
told by others, they are trebly 90 when
narrated by himself Hr