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DIR. Kane and the Remains of Sir John
Franklin.
Mrs. Whittlesey's Magazine

FRANKLIN.
ga report has reached US, through tie
Lake Superior Mining News, that DR.. Kane,
the comma nder of the American Exploring
Expedition, has discovered the bodies Of Sir
Jokn franklin and his companions, in state
of perfect preservation, and expects to bring
them home with him. If this success was
attributed to any. one but DR.. Kane, we
should disregard it, as an idle rumor; but il
was altogether probable that he would hear
of the discoveries of DR.. Rae, and if he did,
it was telerably certain that he would not re-
turn without the bodies of the lost party, if
they were above the ground. The news ar
rives, too, through the same channel as the
intelligence from Dr.. Rae to Sir Geo. Simp-
son, aud is not open to any general suspicion.
Should Dr. Kane's explorations be crow ned
with this unexpected success, it will be far
more fortunate for his fame than for that OF
Sir John Franklin, who could have desired
no better fortune than to have his tate re-
main mystery. When his remains have
once been quietly hurried in an English grave
yard, his name will soon perish from the
memories Of men.
Circumstances concur, however, TO make
this signal triumph to DR.. Kane. If, after
all the English expeditions had failed in sue
cession, ard after DR.. Rae, with knowledge
of the decease of Sir John, had returned with
out his oody, young American, the com
manGcr of private, and altogether Phlan-
thropic expedition. finds the trail OF the lost
navigator and pursues it until he comes up
on all that remains Of the unfortunate party
such discovery will cover him with an i'm
perishable honor, and no one would feel that
he did not deserve it.
I 1--WE omitted TO state another circum'
stance, which has some weight in determin.
ing the value Of this report. DR.. Kane was
expected home last fall If he heard of DR.
Raes discovery in August, as he may have
done; or if be made the discovery that Rae
made in July, as he might have done, ht
would have been sure to postpone his return
until he obtained the remains that he went il
search of, to bring home with him."
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Evening aud Death.

Death never sppesrs a more welcome yisi-
tsnt than in the evenisg, VIXEN, as Jean Paul
so sweetly says, the "usy is dying omid bios
som ! clouds, and with its swan song.
Then even "the alleys and gardens speak in
low tones, like man when deeply moved: and
around the leay fly the gentle winds, and
around The blossoms the bees, with tender
whisper" as ifafraid Of disturbing the holy
stiffness At such time only, the larks,
like man, rise worbling into the sky, and
then like him, drop down again into the fur
row; while the great soul and the sea lift
themselves unheedeo and unseen to heave 4,
and rushing streams, sublime and fruit CIV.
ing, and thunder showers dash down the val
eys. In such en- hour, the tone Of the toll
ing bell, which tells of the dying, around
whom the Last Angel has drawn the shades
of night therein to sever his besrt-strings, as
they bandage ones eyes in the smputaton Of
a limb, seems unspeakabe sweet, and rises
iske hymn upon tho air II sounds if
Death itself we're flying down from Heaven,
es indeed il is, " th song upon its lips, and
singing on with one continuous tone of rap
ture, hanging poised with open wings above
the earth, "n,il the flowers shsuld have
sprung up for its evening couch.
In the evening Death comes gently, and
on its darkened battlefield no echo of the
receding earth can enter. Softly and .calm.
ly, n'the dim light, the angels fold about
the dying one the mantle of Eternal Love;
gently they loose the silver cord, and giving
Faith the helm Of their tiny barque, steer
out upon the shadowy waters that beat, in
the far distant, against the very gates of
Heaven.
Death in the evening is beautiful there
is in il then poetry and eloquence that
speaks to the heart like trumpet, and gar
land the soul of sushine. To be cherished
forever, as a precious thing, is the memory
of those who die in the lap Of the evening
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I'm Almost Home.

The traveller, weary and worn, covered
with dust, and suffering from many Privatons
sees in the distance the curling smoke ascen-
ding from his old homestead, and choked with
feelings almost too deep for utterance, ex'
claims, while tears Of joy roll down is
cheeks.--I'm almost home!"
The playful child, having wandered from
its fond parents, trembles for fear approach
ing danger as darkness gathers around its
footsteps; yet as soon as it sees some vel
known object, shakes its curling locks ana
clasps its glad hands, exclaiming--"Fm al
most home!"
The mariner, after long and toilsome
Journey, describes In the far distance the out
line coast Of his land and sings abound with
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Sir Isaac Newton.-An Example for Boys

SlT isaac NeWtOH--An EAdnple lot Doss.
In The middle OF the seventeenth century
there was an English boy ofmean and dmin-
utve appearance, and behind ell other Buys
Of his age. He was constantly at the foot o.!
his class, and verify it was believed that this
boy would become only bungler Of some
kind, for surely the soul o: learning was not
in him.
At theage Of twelve a change was wrought
in the character and fortune of the youth that
had never Obtained 'reward of merit, )" and
was regarded by teacher and schoomastcr as
an inferior. At this time an alteration took
place between the backword boy and the one
above him in the class, whereupOn the latter
treated him with Indignation and violence.
The pride of The boy was outraged. He
could not aVenge the insult by blow because
he was too weak TO cope With his opponent
phys 'cally. How, then, shall he humble his
assailant! He resolved to surpass him in stu
Gy. to get above him in the class and there
remain, to look down upon his, enemy, and
clip from him the laurels he so indscreetly
wears. He neutrality-suspicious.; became
a most devoted scholar; commenced career
of glory; and Sir Isaac Newton appeared with
key to unlock the mysteries of motion and
to draft true chart of the stupendous uni
verse.--Ex.
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Kansas--Gov. Reider.

A public meeting at Lesvenworth City,
nddresseda memorial to Gov. Reider, ash ing
him to order an Immediate election os mem
bers of the legislature. He responded, and
we are glad to say, he has manifested a dis
position to attend to his own affairs, and to
repudiate the insolent dictation of the Mis-
souri, Shareholders, who have attempted 20
control and direct bis movements. The Kan
sas Herald contains his letter in reply TO this
demand. We copy portion af it torthe pur-
pose of showing the extent of the slavehold-
ing interference in Kanzas. 1t illustrates,
THEIR idea OF popular sovereignty land proves
beyond all doubt, that the entire game of the
repeal of the restriction of 1920 was for the
express purpose of making Kanzas q slave
territory. Gov. Reeder says
"The meeting 'oaS not OF the 'citzcns of
Kanzas,' es your proceedings will show, if
you will produce .hem 1t was a meeting
composed manly of citizens OF Missouri, and
a few of the citizens of Kanzis. Your own
body, whom Lam now addressing, contains
two undoubted residents of Missouri, one OF
whom is your chairman, who resides with
his family in the town Of Liberty, Missouri, ,as
he has done for years, and whose only at
tempt at a residence in Kanzas consists Of a
card nailsd to tree, upon ground long since
occupied by other settlers,whe have built and
live, upon the claim. The president Of your
meeting was Major John Dougherty, a resi-
dent and large andholder in Clay county,
Missouri, as he has stated to me since the
meeting, and will not hesitate to state again;
and he is higii-mnded and honorable man,
above all conceament or disguise. The gen.
,lemen princpr lily composing your meeting
came from across the river, thronging the
road from the ferry to the town, on horseback
and in wagons, in numbers varieusly estims.
ted by different persons at from two hundred
to three hundred; and after the meeting was
over they returned to their homes in the State
of Missouri. These are facts us notorious
here as any public occurrence can be, and
every man wh1 had eyes to see and ears to
hear is cognizant of them"
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man have YOU good library

0-Young man have you good library I!
No. Why not! can't afford it. Why can't
you afford il! Because Pm too poor. Do
you smoke cigars, or eat oysters, or drink
brandy smash! Yes, oil three. How much do
they cost you per annum! A trife-a mere
trihe-only mere trile. How much do they
cost each duy!-Wel as I'm very temperate,
only abou ut dime for cigars and fifteen cents
for liquor, and quarter for oysters. AT the
end of the year, do you feel any better than
you..woulG you had refrained from the use
Of cigars and brandy and oysters! No, can't
say that do. Well, they cost you each day
fifty cents; or little more than one hundred
and eighty dollars per annum. Oh, not so
much; but stop, let me ses-yes you're right
"A hundred and eighty dollars year Now
that sum would purchase you first-rate libra
ry; yet you speno it, for what--aye, for what!
Do you now comprehend the reason that you
are too poor to have librury-do you comPre-
hend the reasen2
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p OE 7 r Y .
[Original.] ]

wintcr.--Impromptu.
Winds ere whistllng round me,
Winter is abroad
Cruelty il has blustcd -E
The faires. works of God.
The cold, deep snow i, lying
Where once were blooming flowers;
And winter winds are sighing
Through leafess woods and bowers.
cannot love thee, winter,
Although thy robe is white;
Thou bringest to me sadness
And JOY is in thy flight!
long TO see thee passing
From this glad earth away
To watch the green grass springing,
And howrets blooming gay.
No pleasant object greets me;
The esrth's barren waste;
No smiling verdure meets me-
Huste thee! winter, haste!
Shrill winds thy gayest music
Ice droi 3 thy sweetest ffowers! DEL.
There is no beam oi gladness
In thy long, dreary hours!
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From the Home Journal.
RAILROAD SONG.

AIR-"Ihe Steam Coach"
The most wonderit plan,
Fer invented by man,
That nearest perfection approaches,
Is roads made OF iron,
That horses meier tire on,
And travelled by steam, in stenm coaches.
Chorus.
And you've no longer "gee up and gee hot
But with z--fiz--fiz--oif we 60!
Forty miles to the hour,
With forty horse power,
BY day time and night time.
Arriving by right time,
Without rumble or grumblc,
Or chance OF u tumble,
The railroad forever ior me.
At the time on your route,
Not an ostler comes out,
To give water to Spunker or Smiler;
But lolled at your ease.
You ASK landlord "to please .s
To water little the boileI!"
The contractors won't fail,
When they carry the mail
Where coaches nser loi,er nor linger;
Should robbers approach
The smoking steam coach
They'll be rather apt to burn iingers!
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From the Quincy Patriot, Nsv 25.1
A Monument to John Quincy Adams,
erected by his Son.

A monument has just been placed ins the
Unitarian church, in this town, to the mem.
ory of John Quincy Adams, by bis sonssHon,
e. F. ADAMS. 1t 10 composed Of highly -pol-'
ished Italian marble, and in size aud form
very nearly resembles the one erected to the
ex.President.John Adams, with the excep-
lion Of the upper par,, where the bust rests,
which is inclosed on both sides by the upper
members of the cornish, that sweep upward
in graceful lines towards ii. II was designed
and executed at the Quincy Marble Works,
by McGrath, Mitchell & Co., and is beautiful
and perfect in all its -. and cannot failto
add much to the alressv1fde extended repu-
taton of the manufacturers, for ability and
faitblulness Of executing their work. The
bust, whic h rests upon the top, was execu-
ted in Italy, by the great American sculp-
tor. Hiram Powers. and ia very perfect and
life-like in its resemblance of the venerated
statesman to whose memory it was erected.
Immediately under the bust is Latin SEN
tence composed Of two words, "Alteri Secu-
TO-" separated by an oak branch, with two
leaves and one acorn.$ The following is the
inscription: 4fEN
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0TThe Cleveland Herald, in reply to ihe
remark of an indianapolis paper, to the ef-
feet that Ohians, in their present emergen-
cy, will soon be glad to get hold of Indiana
wild cat money, wittily remarks:
,"We shall give our Indiana free banking
neighbors sixty days. notice in Londcn and
Paris Of our intention to take their wild cat
money, reserying our right to give longer
notice if we deem it for our interest to do so.
We like our own banks best, for
You may run, you may bust the banks II you will,
Bat the cent OF the specie will hang round them STILL
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STATE BOARD OF AGRIcULTURE.-The
Board, composed oil the members holding
over, and the new members, organized for
the ensuing year yesterday. The following
ge n,leme u were selected to fill the various Of
tices of the Board:
Gen. Jas. T. Worthington. President; JOS
Sulliyant, Treasurer; John X. Green, Rec0r-
ding Secretary; G. Sprague, Corresponding
Secretary. ..aagf.
The next meeting of the Board will be Al
their rooms on the second Wednesday Of Feb
ruary nsxt.--0, S. Journal. bsi
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ALTERF SECULO.

n ~.
Near this place
Reposes all that could die Of
JOHN QUIN ADA me-,
Son of John and Abigail (Smith) Adams,
Sixth President Of the United States,
Born II July. 1857.
Amidst the storms of c9il Commotion
He nursed the Vigor
Which nerves Statesman and a Patriot,
And the Faith
Which inspires a Christian.
For more than half Century,
Whenever his Country called for his labsrs,
In either Hemisphere,or in any Capacity,
He never spared them in her Cause.
On the twenty fourth Of December, ASIA.
He signed the second Treaty with
Great Britain,
Which restored Peace within her Borders.
On the twenty-third of February, 1s4S,
He closed sixteen years Of eloquent Defense
Of the Lessons of his Youth,
By dying at his Post
In her great national Council.
A Son worthy of his Father,
A Citizen, shedding glory on his Country,
A Scholar, ambitious to advance Mankind,
This Christian sought to walk humbly
Iu the Sight of his God.
Beside him lies
His Partner for fifty years,
L O U S A G A Y ii T. K N Z,
Daugl ter of Joshua and Catherine (Nuth)
Johnson,
Born, l3 February, l775,
Married, 26 July, 1897,
Deceased, Is May. 1852,
Aged II.
Living through many Vicissitudes, and
Under high Responsibilities .'.
AS Daughter, Wife, and Mother,
.S4e-proved equal to all.
Dying, she Hftfo. her Family and her Sex
Tire bless Remembrance
OF a.NyNpmah That ieareth the Lord"
"HEHEIN is THAT SAYING TRUE, ONE SOW
ETH AND ANOTHER REApETH. l SENT
YOU TO REEF TAAT wHEREoN YE
BESTOWED NO LABOR. OTHER
MEN LABoRED, AND
YE ARE ENTERED
INTO THEIR
LABoRs." ....
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GIG, where we will the broad earth bears

GIG where we will the broad earth bears
the beautiful; it springs like hope from sorrow
over the ashes of the dead-It Ii es nesting
upon the bosom of the mother; it is with US,
when we open our eyes in the morning, and
he curtain of night shuts its visisn in our
hearts. 1t springs like the flower cut Of a
happy thought 1t floats down like Eliiahs
mantle, and the angels fold it about US whe n
we knsel at the shrine of prayer.
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A Loud CalI--An Extra Session.

The Cincinnati Enquirer contains an ar
ticle OF nearly tive columns addressed TO ''the
Governor of Ohio" on the subject of taxa
ton, the Supreme Court, and the remedy
Tho Enquirer says it is written "by one of
the most prominent legal and political men
in the State, and one of the soundest Of Dem
ocrats." 1t calls loudly upon the Governor
for an extra session of the Legislature, that
the burdens under which the people are crush
ed and groaning,may be renedisd by amend
ment of the Constitution, at the neft Octo-
Der election. This prominent Democrat al
so desires the Legislature TO extend ths time
for the payment OF taxes. He says the pee
pie of Cincinnati cannot pay the million and
half of dollars assessed against them by the
goth inst, because they have not got it, and
cannot get it, &c.
The Enqairer knows thot Gov Msdll will
give the subject his mature consideration, and
hopes he will act favorably. We have no
idea that an extra session will be called
Journal.
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ACCIDENT On THE CENTRAL ONO RAIL
RoAD.-On yesterday morning as the passen-
ger train running westward came within
mile OF Cambridge, the locomotive, owing to
defective frog, was thrown off the track,
and together with baggage car, the tender
and an oyster car were badly smashed up
The engineer was killed, and Mr.. Brown, a
fireman, was slightly injurel.'-O. s. Jour-
nal.
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WALLAcniAN MAn1InEss.

We learn from the Newark Sentinel that a
gallant young Jerseyman, named Barr d.
Porter, has been for some time an officer In
the Turkish service, in which he has won
honorable distinction. He has recently writ
Jon letter to that paper, dated at Buchsr-
est, in which Ire says, in speaking Of Wslia.
CHA :--"To tfe eye Of the political philan-
tbrepjst the country is in a dreadful state
The nobility come up TO ones ideas acquired
trofn reading of the most licentious and
~ofthless oligarchies Of the past. think
! may cay, there is no male or female virtue
in Bucharest Worse than that--worse than
Paris ever wns-there is no sentiment, no
romance, no chvalrous feelings existing be-
tween the sexes. The peusantry lack i'm.
mensely in manliness, are totally deficient in
spunk, very stupid, physically inferior to the
nations around; aud with,patriotism all crush
ed out Of them, they present the spectacle OF
. people, whom the most ardent democrat
would turn hi. back ufsn untitled for sol L
government. After two years of Russian
occupation and tyranny, they are degraded
to an extent unparalleled in modern history.
"Let me give you little scene. Some
few nights since, was returning from visit
to Wallachian official, to me camp, about
two hours distant. Knowing myself 10 be a
little-out of the road, and wishing to save
the horses, halted at the most respectable
cottage of little village came upon, when
| saw light. Very soon female appeared
at the door, with child in her arms. Not
expecting to get much information relative to
roads and my way from women, and thinking
it rather barbarous in husband To scad wo-
man nursing child to show Tia" road 10
strangers, Immediately entered the cci'a:e,
where found stout healthy man cro-slng
himself with great vehemence, and n,u,ter-
ing very fast something that was either u
prayer or an exorcism, perhaps both. As
entered my sword scabbard ratified against
stool, which SO frightened the individual that
he shriekcd horribly ,and strove for few Sec
onds with desperate energy to escape by the
chimney. A young girl of fifteen in the room
seemed to wonder why this creature in man q
habiments could be so frighten ned by harm.
less looking young stranger, and | was SO
disgusted with the creature trying to escape
by the chimney, that gave him an hour a
foot on the road in the direction of my bv.
onac.
"This poor country suffers very much from
| absentecism. A worthless nobility wiring
from the hands of peasants their vile trash
and spend it upon the adventures who come
from Germany and France to Buchcrest, OF
else live at the top os their means at Paris
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OrA man called upon an unfortunate
tradesman topay demand. Il can never
pay, said he, i am not worth farthingjbu
l will give YOU MOTEL am not SO poor YET
bu, that can sign a note.'
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MISC ELAN EOUS.
The Dying Gladiator.

The arrival in this country Of a fac Simile
in marble Of the famous antique statue of the
DYING Gladiator has led some of our jour
nails to reproduce the Impressions Of eminent
authors respecting this celebrated work OF
art; among them the beautiful and discrimi-
mating remarks OF our countryman, Mr.. Hill
LARD, recorded in his recent book on Italy
and Byron's immortal verse, both of which,
for tho gratifca:ion of our readers, we sub
join.
From Mr.. Hillard's Criticism.
The last room into which the traveller
passes contains several works of the highest
excellence, and above all the Dying Gladia.
tor. A statue OF such surprising merit as
this should have a room by itself, for in its
presence it is difficult to look at any thing
else. 1t is now admitted by The best author.
tiles that the statue is a dying Gaul and moi
gladiator, but to the popular mind the old
appellation will cling forever. Byron's i'm
mortal stanza--an exquisite creation of geni
as, equal to the theme which inspired it-i'
alone enough to fasten it there with associa
items that can never be severed. But there
is ne work Of art respecting which such dis
cussions are more intrusive or unnecessary
We do net ask whom it represents, because
we are SO wholly absorbed with what it is
Its power and pathos are independent of time
place, and condition. 49,.
What is it we see before us! A man dy
ing; nothing more. 1t is that which hap
pens to all men; the only inevitable fact il
every life. Nor is it marked or conspcu
ous person. He is not hero, or a poet, O
an orator. The form is not ideal, the head
not intellectual, the lips are not refined :
The shadows of great thoughts never darkeu
ed shat commonplace brow, nor did the touc
of beauty ever thrill along those coarse fbres
But tie charm and power Of the statue cor
sist in the amazing truth with which the tw
great elements of humanity and mortalit
are delineated. A vigorous animal life
suddenly stopped by the touch OF death, an
the "sensible warm motion" becomes
"knesded clsd" before our eyes. The a
tst gives US all the palhos and the TRACED
of death, without it's ghastliness and horro
The dying man is no longer a trivial perso
stained with coarse employments and vulg
associations, but an immortal spirit breskir
through its walls of clay. The rags of Ii
fall away from him, and he puts on the di
nifty and grandeur Of death. We feel OF
selves in the presence Of that awful pow
before whose icy sceptrs all mortal dislir