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THE LADIES AND THE CENSUS London
paper SAYS: The returns of the ages of ladies
have given some trouble, and slight correc-
ton has been necessary. Those who, in 1851
were between 20 and %, must Of course have
been between 10 and Is at the previous Gen.
sus; but the number of girls between 10 and
Is in 1S4l was not large enough to grow into
the goodly company who in 1851 say that they
are but between 20 and %. The return, also,
between 80 and 80 in 1851 is too small as COM
pared with the return for the favorlte age OF
2O-25 in l84l. After allowing for immigra.
ton, and comparing the number with those OF
men, the register general and his assistants are
of opinion that about $4,000 ladies who have
entered themselves as between 20 and 40really
belong to the next age 1890, to which the
body of delinquents are transferred in the cal
culations and tables accordingly. The gentle
men who feel driven to this conclusion very
hansomely suggest that those who made these
MISREPRESENTATION may have done SO because
they were quite unconscious of the silent lapse
of time, or because their imaginatioRs still lin
gered over over the hours of the younger age
but they are obliged to add that it may have
been because they choose foolishly to repre-
sent themselves younger than they really were
at the scandalous risk of bringing the state
ments Of the whole Of their country-women into
discredit."
The mean age at which marriages are first
contracted in England and Wales is 25.S years
for males, aud 24.6 for females while 81 in
every 100 brides and 81 in every hundred bride
grooms, are 20 and under rs years of age.
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EFFECT OF MOONLIGHT ON FIsH.--In the
"Scientifc American" page l86, the question
is mooted whether the putrefaction of fish and
meat exposed to moonlight, is more rapid than
at any other time. That moonlight affects fish
is not only Evolutionary belief, but positive
fact which can easily be ascertained by those
who have doubts upon the subject. i have
known it to be so for more than forty years. /
recollect an instance where person purchased
newly-caught fish at the fishing station, and
threw them Aoundering into his wagon, with
out taking the precaution to cover them from
the moons rays of that night. He lived a
distance in the country, which required about
five hours to reach, and he thought, as the
tourney was to be made in the cool of the night,
all would be well, but he was greatly surprised
when he arrived at home at daylight, to find
most of his fish so green and putrid that they
had to be thrown away. Why was this? Such
an effect would not have been produced upon
fish on moonless night, nor even by exposure
TO the suns rays for the same period. All old
houskeepers are careful not to expose fresh
fish or meat to moonlight. 1t is also generally
believed that it is dangerous to sleep exposed
to the moons rays. These precautions and
Evolutionary opinions had their origin in facts
which have observed on both land and water
The great thing in mooted questions, in ma
tural philosophy,is first to discover and arrange
facts; but in accounting for them, there may
be a variety Of opinions, until some new fac
is discovered which settles all the disputed
points.--Scientifc american.
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Marine Glue.

Our planters are well aware how soon the
bottom Of fence-posts, frames, and all wood
work used for ornamental and other purposes
about garden, decay. A substance was in
vented several years ago, and after repeated
experiments, is now being much used in France
and England, and this country, and considered
a great disideratum in preventing such decay.
tits called Marine Glue" and resembles pitch
in appearance, but possesses many greater adj
vautages. 1t is insoluble in water; it does not
melt with the beat of the sun, or crack and
scale from the effects Of cold. 1t will glue
wood tightly together; and, accordingly rs it is
prepared, will be either inaexible or flexible,
and will prove an admirable varnish in pro-
tecting any wood or metal from the action Of
the weather. 1t is one Of the best substances
that can be used in grating and building, and
will prove Of great value in this climate for
very many PURPOSES Scientific amer.
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WHAT Is TO BE THE END OF 1.-THE follow
ing terrible picture of juvenile depravity, is
from the New York Mirror. 1t is no wonder
that murder stalks abroad in that city when
the dark stream Of crime is fed from a foun-
tain so prolific. We may well ask what is to
be the end Of all this?
Zone of the most pitiabe and painful sights
in this city, is the thousand and one bare
footed, ragged and filthy children idling about
the streets, or, in stormy weather, plying old
brooms at the streetcrossings. Running
among the omnibuses and carriages, they per-
form, it is true fair share of what little street
cleaning is done, to the shame Of our authori-
ties be II said--and their remuneration consists
of the few pennies dropped into their palms by
pedestrians.
"No less than thousand Of these unfortu-
mates may be counted in New York on any
rainy day. They are principally girls, most Of
them under ten years of age, but many ofthem
twelve, fourteen, and still older. Mixed among
these girls are enough boys to educate them in
all the viciousness and vulgarity of their sex
and between their own depravity, ingrained by
n life in the streets almost from infancy, and
that csxght from their male companions, they
pressSff : picture Of debasement which might
aelirbt o fend bent on the humiliation Of hui
msnity
slow slang, obscenity, and blasphemy Of the
coetsest kind is their current language from
morning until night This is visible to an
one who traverses our streets, unless his eye
be strained on Africa, or some distant land o
lesser heather. When the night comes thes4
children scatter to their haunts = where
Some 90 home more filthy than the streets the,
have been sauntering or sweeping, wher'
drunken fathers and mothers eagerly seize th'
earnings of their children's sin and shame, Z
rrolong the foul orgies Of Five Points am
KINDRED places; and some, already reckless
home. or homeless, seek rum-holes, or hells o
vice still mere disgusting"
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SKrLLrUL THIEVES IN PAR1s.-A Paris CO.

SKILLFUL THIEVES IN PARIs.-A Paris cor.
respondent of an American journal says:
Probably at no other city is theft carried
on with so much cunning and adroitness as
here. This mornings paper notices the last
novelty in this line. Two men with false keys,
entered house during the absence Of the pro-
prietor and proceeded to assert the furniture
and other articles, and placing together in one
place such articles rs suited their convenience.
Then, while one kept watch, the other sought
dealer in secondhand furniture, and, bring
ing him to the house, desired an offer. The
bargain, Of course, was soon struck, the money
paid and the thieves left for parts unknown.
Imagine the purchasers CONSERVATION at find.
ing his right to remove the articles questioned
by the proprietor, who returned during the re-
mova.
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DIED.

On the 18th ultmo at Camden, Caroline county,
Virginia, the residence OF John Pratt, EDWARD
DIXON, of Fauquicr county.
Mr. Dixon was a man OF much genius, 6ne at
tainments and exuberant wit. He was generous
TO a fault, and as genial and ehec,ionate as he
was generous.
On the 30th utimo at the residence of her
father, Mrs. IA RRIET VALINDA FARQUHAR,
widow OF the late T. c. FARouHAR, and daughter
children.
July Doth, on board the ship Francis 7. Sage
10 degrees south Of the equator, Atlantic, on his
passage home, FREDERICK w. DE Kraft
of Georgetown, ID, q.
On the 2eth ultimo, at liz o'clock, p. m, IDA
aged IL months and days, only daughter OF Am
BRosE and LucINA II. GARNER. 3t
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From the St. Louis Democrat
An Extraordinary Gift.

For some time past there his been boy in
our city who is gifted with almost incredible
power Of calculation in numbers. We do not
know how or where he is lodged or fed, yet we
see him almost daily walking the streets, and at
short intervals we discover his posters at the
principal public places, telling, in his own way,
Of his wonderful powers, and asking the assist
ance of the charitable. His cards are usually
done up in alternate lines of red and blue ink,
all of the letters being in capitals
During the days Of The late mobs, two Of his
cards at the corner of Fourth and Chestnut
strests seemed to attract great deal of atten
ton, which, perhaps was more the result of the
excited state Of the public mind, and its conse
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LIFE's VIcIssITuDEs.-In the year 1890
Colonel Zachary Taylor wrote letter to Gen.
McNiel, who had then been appointed sur
veyor of the port of Boston, as follows
clam fully aware that it is almost impossi-
BILE for us to pursue any profession-particu-
larry that of arms-for fifteen or twenty years
without forming strong attachments 10 it in
various ways, and of course, must abandon
them with considerable reluctance, but there
are circumstances which should reconcile us to
doing So and to justify us, not only in our
own eyes, but that of the community. Could
1 get civil appointment as respectable, with
half the emolument attached to it as there is to
the one you have received, and where |
could be located so as to superintend the edu
cation of my children, I would resign forth.
with; for after serving twenty-five years and
upwards in the army, all of which time on duty
withthe exception of afew months, without being
stationed two years together at any one posi-
during that time, begin to think that | need
repose, but as do not possess influence to pro
cure civil appointment of any grade, l con
slider my doom fixed.
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4 Weary of the Pen

What slave ftbe quill has not had at odd times
some such musings as these fting through bis
routine-worn brain
i weary Of the pen,
And write not OF my own accord
II was my slave, and was happy then;
IT'S now my lord.
weary Of the themes
Which the gross multitude pursue;
Who writes for bread must bid all higher dreams
His last adieu.
Harness the antelope,
Burden his neck until il bleed
Trampe his fiery spirit, and then hope
His former speed.
Life grows a stagnant pool,
Green with the drugs Of trade and toll
Youths pure ideals Of the beautiful
Are lucrcs spoil.
I weary of the pen,
And write not Of mine own accord;
Ii was my slave, and was happy then
Alas lis now my lord
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The Lifetime Of Man.

When the world was created, and all crea-
lures assembled to have their Lifetime ap.
pointed, the ass first advanced and asked how
, long he would have to live. 4
Thirty years. replied Nature; twill that
be agreeable to thee?"
"Alasl" answered the ass, ait is long
while. Remember what wearisome existence
will be mine; from morning until night shall
have to bear heavy burdens, dragging corn
sacks to the mill, that others may eat bread,
while / shall have no encouragement, nor be
refreshed by anything but blows and kicks.
Give but portion of that time, prayW
Nature was moved with commission, and
presented but eighteen years. The ass went
away comforted, and the dog came forward.
"How long dost thou require to live?" asked
Nature. "Thirty years were too many for
the ass, but wilt thou be contented with
them?p
ais it thy will that should?" replied the
dog. Think how much / shall have to run
about; my feet will not last for so long time,
and when shall have lost my voice for bark
ing, and my teeth for biting, what else shall
be fit for but to lie in the corner and
growl?'
Nature thought he was right, and gave
twelve years.
The ape then appeared.
"Thou wilt doubtless willingly live the thirt y
years." said Nature; "thou wilt not have to-
labor as the ass and the dog. Life will be
pleasant to thee"
others, but it will not be Should buildings
ever rain down, l shall excite laughter by my
grimaces, and then be rewarded with a sour
apple. How otter sorrow lies concealed behind
Jest | shall not be able to endure for thirty
years.
Nature was gracious, and he received but
ten.
At last came man, healthy and strong, and
asked the measure of his days.
"Will thirty years content thee ?"
"How short time !" exclaimed man; "when
/ shall have built my house and kindled fire
on my own hearlh-when the trees shall have
planted are about to bloom and bear fruit
when life shall seem to me most desirable,
shall die o, Nature, grant me longer pc
Rod ~
"Thou shalt have the eighteen years of the
ass besides"
"That is not enough" replied man.
"Take likewise the twelve years of the dog"
at is not yet sufficient" reiterated man
give me more"
81 give thee, then, the ten years of the ape
in vain wilt thou claim more"
Man departed unsatis6ed.
Thus man lived seventy years. The first
thirty are his human years, and pass swiftly
by He is then healthy and happy. He labors
cheerfally, and reioices in his existence. The
eighteen of the ass come next burden upon
burden is heaped upon him; he carries the corn
that is to feed others blows and kicks are the
rewards of his faithful service. The twelve
of the dog follows, and he loses his teeth, and
lies down in the corner and growls. When
these are gone, the apes ten years form the
conclusion. Then man, weak and silly, be-
comes the sport of children. Translated. from
the German.
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New York Market.

NFw York, August 3l.--Flour--ihe market is
unchanged, with sales of $50 barrels State and
Ohio at yesterdays rates.
Southern -four is also unchanged, with sales OF
1000 barrels at yesterdays quotation.
Wheat is firm, with sales OF $500 bushels
Southern red at 81 S7l.
Corn has advanced one cent per bushel, with
sales Of $4,000 bushels at s6@S7 for western
mixed, and 90G92 for white,
Pork is unchanged with limited business.
Beef is unchanged, and in moderate demand.
Lard is firm, with sales at III.
Whisky--sales Of Ohio at 37i.
Stocks are dull and lower. Money is un.
changed
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Naval Affairs.

BosToH, August 31.-Onc hundred seamen from
the navyyard will leave day, 10 join the irigate
Independence, at New York.
The Cyane will be paid off soon, and will prob
ably be discharged.
The corvette John Adams is ready TO receive a
crew.
The San Jacinto leaves on Saturday, her dam
age was slight, and is easily repaired.
BosroN, Aagua 3l.-An arrival from the coast
Of Africa reports the United States ship Constitu-
ton at Monrova, on July s; the Marion at Goree,
July 0, all well. She brings letter bags from both
of them. > iH
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quent appetite for novelty, than the strange
ness of the boys placards. At any rate, we
give place TO his advertisements just as we
copied them from the posters:
II have great gift in knowing all sums
mentally by my head. If any man will tell me
what year and month he was born in, it is like
a voice strikes my head to tell him what day in
that he was born in. That is the only way
that can make myself acquainted with any
person. Now the place for to meet me at, is
at the courthouse, from o'clock to ! o'clock
a. M and from 2 o'clock to o'clock p. m.
rs cents. M MEREDITH HOLLAND.
Another of his cards read as follows:
" Now take notice that viii give true an
swer in any sum mentally by the head wish
for the public to patronize me- ! have had
forty days schooling. cannot write running
hand. / was born with this natural gift OF
knowing what the amount of any sum was men,
tally by my head. / was born in Munroe
county, Kentucky. / am not nineteen years
old, quite. ] do not improve any at all in this
gift. For / could tell as much in numbers
when was three years of age as can now
cannot explain it mother. Have hundreds OF
men test it, indeed. never saw any man that
was Christian that they would always give
me something to help me along. Now here is
another subject on wickedness. No man can
spell his first name without the five letters A,
L, N, r, s. But there are seven names that
can be spelled without these FIVE letters. All
cked-hearted, hard-hearted men have to make
use of more or less Of those five letters. 1t is
not hardness of heart causes this to be. This
will satisfy all who hears answers in knowing
the results of sums mentally in my head.
Twenty-Five cents is nothing TO let me have, for
have an extraordinary giftn
The boy, Meredith Holland, has rather a
simple looks most slovenly in appearance,
and when engaged in any of his mental calcu-
lations, mentally, in his head he stops up
both his ears with his thumbs, looks to the
ground moment, and then announces the re-
suit He is q rather singular specimen.
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FreesoiI and Fusion Convention.

CoScoRD, dug. 31.-The freesoil and fusion con-
vention assembled yesterday at Wolfboro', There
was about $500 persons present, embracing all
shades of politics. The Hon. ]. Chadbod Goodwin
presided and speeches made by the presi-
dent, Amos Tuck, James Bell, J. p. Hale, and 5.
p. Chase. The tenor Of the speeches was en-
couraging to the fusion Of all political creeds in the
formation Of a great northern party opposed TO
slavery extension. The Nebraska Kansas bill was
severely condemned. No resolutions were Of
farad
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The REPORTED DIsAFECTIoN IN THE DEMO
CRATIC STATE CoMMITTEE-WHIG AND ADOLF
TON ALARMs.-Several prominent papers in
this and other cities having taken occasion to
deny, with a seeming show of authority, that
the Democratic State Committee had, at its
late session in this city, refused to pass reso-
luton endorsing the administration, we take
the liberty of stating what we know on the
subject.
Although not member Of the committee
ourselves, we have the authority of the chair
man of the body at the time the resolve was
introduced; of the gentleman at whose in
stance it was presented, and of others who
were present, and taking a lively interest in
the proceedings, for stating that the resolution
WAS adopted aoitho,a a dissenting roice.
We will take this occasion to state that while
we regard this action of the committee as a
matter of no essential Importance in itself, yet
it is result which every democrat had right
to expect if such a proposition came before
any regular organized and responsible demo.
cratic State Committee The call of that COM
mittee for State Convention has been pro.
mulgated; and in response to that call, we ex-
pect to see none but democrats attend demo
Gratis ready and willing to support the admins.
tration in all its principal measures, and to
take bold and manly stand in defense of the
broad and well-defned principles Of the Demo
cracy of the Union.
Persons claiming to be democrats, and en-
tertaining views in opposition to the measures
of the present democratic Observation-Disclosures
who have denounced ecery act of the admins
tration merely because that administration was
personally obnoxious to them, are not expected
to respond to the call no more than those who
opposed the great measures of Jackson's adj
ministfation were expected to respond to a
call for democratic State convention in those
days.
The wings and the abolitionists are always
ready to cry out that division and disunion
exist in the democratic councils; and it is gen
orally the case, that when such an alarm is
given, the true Jeffersonian and Jacksonisn
democracy are never sopnder at the core, nor
better prepared to battle for the creed of the
patriots of the party Of other days, nor more
willing to sustain their standard-bearers when.
ever and wherever they shall exist.
Boston Times
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Motitfs.

HS- stimulating Linfment, as prepared
at Glmans drug store is deserving Of the highest
meudaton a for Chronic aud Acute Rheumatism
II seldom fails 10 give speedy and permanent
lief This Eminent has been prepared by T. u. Gilman
chemist Of this city for years. and since it's ntroduc
ton has been extensively used by many Of the most
spectacle families In the District and vicinity, whom
be made at any time its magical
in curing Rheumatism in elderly persons who had
been sufferers for long time IL originally made
horses for the Ameness saddle gals, &C.
much used for such purposes being aluable
article wherever Linment required either for
benst. Nav %
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HF- Special Notice.-HENRY'S INvIGoRATIEG
C0EDIALThe merits OF this purely vegetable extract
for the removal and Of physical prosrson genital
debility Affections &c. &C. fully described in
another column of this paper to which the reader Is
frred 81 per bottle, bottles for Sj six bottles for IS,
Slb per dozen. Observe the marks Of the genuine.
Prepared only by 8. r. COHEN, No. 8 Franklin Row,
Vine street, below Eighth Philadelphia, Pennsylvanis
For sale by all the respectable druggists and merchants
throughout the country, and by
W. II. GILMAN, Washington, d. @.
CANDY HATCH, Baltimore
PEEL STEVENS, Alexandria, Va,
Wholesale Agents for virginia
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Gelegraptir.
ARRIVAL OF THE WASHINGTON.

The Queens Speech-Spanish Affairs, sc
New YORK, august 3l.--The steamer Wash
ington from Havre and Southampton, arrived a
IL o'clock this morning Her news is superseded
by The Europa, but she brings some interesting
details not forwarded from Halifax.
The Queens Speech.
Parliament was prorogued on the 18th by the
Queen in person. She was received along the
whole route by the most enthusiastic cheers The
following is the substance Of her speech:
AFTER returning thanks for the zeal and energy
shown by Parliament in providing means for the
vigorous prosecution Of the war, she said:
In cordial cooperation with The Emperor OF
the French my efforts will be directed TO the
efectual repression OF that ambitious and aggres-
siye spirit on the part of Russia which has COM
PEELED us 10 take up arms in defense OF an ally and
10 secure The future tranquility of Europe, you
will Join with me in admiration Of the courage
and perseverance manifested by the troops Of the
Sultan in defenseof Silisiria, and in various mill
tary operations on the Danube"
The rest OF the speech is quite local in charac-
ter, and matters connected with the war prevented
the consideration of subjects promised to be
brought forward at the opening Of the session.
Naval Affairs.
Hone KONG, June 22.-The United States
steamer J. Hancock, sloops- ofwar J. P. Kennedy,
and Vincennes, brig Porpoise, schooner J. Fenni-
more Cooper, were in harbor at Hong Kong AT
Canton the United States steamer Queen, and at
Shanghai the sloop Plymouth.
No mention is made Of the Japan squadron.
England.
The cholera was making steady progress al
London amongst the deaths is that of Lord
Jocelyn, son-in-law of Lord Palmelsten.
The London Times continues TO censure the
Greytown affair in strong terms 1t also denounces
the Presidents message to the Senate on the
Spanish question.
France.
Ii is said that. on the occasion of the fete OF
Napoleon, twenty-five hundred and eightytwo
pardons or reductions of punishment We're
granted.
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Health Of Charleston.

CHARLESTON, August 3l.-The yellow fever is
absting and we hope soon TO record its final de-
parture. There was but one death yesterday
from fever. a.a.
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Fire in the pine swamps.

BUFFALO August 3l.-The Ohio pine swamps,
west of the Hudson have been burning for sew
eral weeks. The meadows, TO the extent of sew
eral hundred acres, are burnt four feet deep. The
ERE bursts out from the soil, causing the greatest