Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1854-07-08
No debt contrarted for liquor can be
collected in Connecticut.

TAeage noe 1ive in.-Pine apples were
received in Minnesota in four days and
twelye hours via New York.
All AT Louisville, last week they
were luxuriating on ripe peaches. and
water.melons.
Grass1oppers have appeared IN swarms
al Cumberland, lNd.) and are doing a;
vast amount Of damage toyegetation.
Late accounts from China say the po-
si,ion of the emperor is critical. Pc
kin is expected total in short time
Why Is caterpillar like buckwhest
cake7 Because it is the grub that makes
the butter fly!
Black Tonguc.-An old divine calls
prolane swearers, black tongues!
What an appropriate name. Reader,
is your tongue black?
AN Australian, from the number OF
murders committed in that aurterous re-
gion, thinks Melbourne is the place
Shakespeare speaks Of when he says, that
bourne from whence no traveller returns.'
At,orney.Genesal Cushing has writ
ten long opinion, deciding that tho
necessary expenses incurred in carry
ing out the fugitive-slave law are all to
be borne by the Government.
JUDGE Story wrote: The first duty oil a
lawyer is TO bis God and his religion; sec
ondly to his country and lhelaw;; thirdly
to himself, and lastly to his client. New
er mistake the law. Lie for, no man,
cheat for no man deceive no man. Be
true to the law, true TO the court, true 10
your CLIENT 25I
We regret to learn that Josiah Hol
brook. Of this city, well known for his
scientific writing, &C., was accidentally
drowned at Lynchburg, Va, on Mou-
day.
In answer 10 inquiries. the proper Off
Ger in the Post Office Department decides
that there is nothing in The laws or Post
Office regulations that forbids Justices Of
the Peace being Post Masters. It is also
decided that Post Masters cannot deliver
letters from theirrespectjye Offices which
may be addressed deliverable from other
Offices. l5t
.A4Es
joint iWorm.--In Fauquier county,
Va, until The last ten days the prospects
for abundant crops were never more flat
tering. Since then, however, the raya-
ges Of the Ayand ioint-worm have been
50 great that probably not more than one
or two out CT twenty crops. are worth
harvesting.
A BIG Pklcs.-The strike Of the Ell.
gineers of Erie railroad still continues.
An engineer was offered, and the Offer
accepted, $1,000 to run the mail train
one trip. The poor fellow was well
pclted with over-ripe eggs hef,re he
star,c. The strikers" ~ no doubt, thought
they were serving him egg-zac,ly right.
Great Speed.-Mr. Gwin, in the course
Of his speech in the United States Senate
on the Pacific. Railroad, argues that on the
completion|of that work, the mails may
be carried from New York to California
in six.days,and at a cost little exceeding
The expense now incurred in sending them
semi-monthly in twenty-five Of thirty
days. K
The Cambridge Chronicle says DR.. Ba-
con closed his lecture with the following
words:
"Give me, in the calm, cold hour Of
death, not dissolution, bestowed by ptiestly
hands, nor benediction pronounced by
pIiestly lips, but that strong and earnest
faith in the Gospel which inspired apostles
and martyrs, which gave strengthto the
Church Of the Pilgrims, and which still
glows in the bosom ofthe Christian teach-
er in temperate or torrid climes-infor-
eign lands aud oceans isles"
The black minister was closing uphis
prayer, when some white boys in the COR
ner had the i'll manners to laugh, so that
the sable supplicant heard them. He had
said but moment before and very ear
nestly, I'VE pray dat de Lord will bress
all flesh datIis human when the laugh
occurred: and commencing againjust be-
fore the 'Amen.' the pious old negro said:
% Lord, we are not in de habit ofad-
ding posescripts to our prayer; buff de
'spression, Dress all datishnman.' won't
take in desc wicked white fellars, den we.
pray dat de Lord will bress some dat amt
human, also, besidesn
Progress ofAe Evangelical Sects d.
ring he last HaJf.cen,ury.-ltis very
prevalent opinion that their increase has
not kept pace with,hera,o ofgrowth in
cur rapidly-multiplying population. sla.
tistics, however, prove the ialsity Of This
opinion. For, s'during the past fifty
years,'' says a@riter on religious statistics,
in Tho Nlnrninr Star.of Nav e. Mhe nnv,.