The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-08-23

to give to every worthy object of chart
ty. Moreover, there are some who ap-
pear hard and crusty, but do many a
good deed in silence, by the way. An
eminent banker on Wall St. took it into
his head to come down early one MORN
ing, and to see for himself whether his
clerks were In the habit of coming up to
time. He came down in his carriage at
GA. NJ, and found no one but the post
er, building the fire, and eating a dough
nut. What are you always eating for ?"
exclaimed the banker. "You do moth
ing but MUNICH in the counting-house,
all day, all of you" II came down to
start the fire., sir" said the porter,
"and I have got to go back to my break
fast yet" F." Well" said the banker, Ego
down to DELMoNICo's and get your break
fast, them" hading him a v. That was
a %trile, but it showed a kind heart
But we have wandered from the consid-
Grafton of our subject, the Nebraska lit
erary curiosity. At Belleview, Nebras-
ka, near Omaha, another paper, also
democratic, is to be started, called the
Nebraska Palladium. Look out for
the day when Nebraska gets fairly 60
ing May we be there to see.
Last Saturday evening the street
preaching excitement revived a little
The city Hall steps in New York, held
over a half dozen amateur orators, de-
nominating themselves both Catholic and
Protestant, and. anxious to protrude
their valuable opinions and experience
upon the world at large. You will not
hear the last of street-preaching so long
as there are loafers enough around the
city Hall to keep one of these stump or
ators in ~countenance. The Catholics
and Protestants made an amicable ar
rangement, by which each one was 90 be
permitted to have his say, at the rate of
fifteen minutes apiece. At a Park in
Brooklyn, near the Navy Yard, there
were several thousand persons assembled
to hear a sailor, named SrALEY, and a
disturbance arose. Stones were thrown,
and there was, for time, a fair chance of
a riot, but it was finally put down.
The Crystal Palace shows signs of
awaking from a long snooze, consequent
upon its superhuman efforts to awaken
the interest of an uninterested popula-
ton. 1t has been pretty fairly run into
the ground, but may obtain a degree of
success in its last effort. The Fall ex-
hibition opers on Thursday, Sept. l.,
when medals will be awarded. 1t is to
be hoped, for the sake of the credit and
cash of the Institution that it will not
make such a broadcast and ~heterogene-
Gus distribution, as was made last year,
when everybody and his relations had
Crystal Palace Premiums. The Amer
lean Institute makes no display this
year. Last year it sunk some thousands
in trying to compete with the Palace,
and now lies off. Wonder what is to be-
come of our beautiful bubble of glass,
when the exhibition is ended. Perhaps
some incipient BARNUM will take it on a
tour through the United States, stop
ping at all the principal towns, and per-
forming the Yankee Doodle Quadrille,''
a la BARNUM- 1t ought 20 be preserved,
however, to adorn great Gotham. Peo-
pie are beginning to look up the antiqui-
ties of four city, the headquarters "Young
America !" We nave some antiquities.
Yesterday 1 passed a house in Cherry
st. which is reputed to be over 200 years
old. (No. 40). In that day, Manhattan
Island was smaller by the width of three
or four streets than it is now. In the
lower part of the city, the space occu-
ped by Pearl, Water, and South SITS, was
formerly under water. Dutchmen fer
ried the natives to Brooklyn, in a row.
boat, for m penny a head ! The space
occupied by the fine old park On the
Battery, was a heap of stones, under
water at high tide, I believe. These de-
tails are gathered partly from old
GRANT THoRBUN, well known as LAU-
RE ToDD, the hero Of a popular Ameri-
can Romance. He is a queer; that lit
tie old boy, about 80 or 90; has recently
married a young, beautiful wife carries
essence of coffee in his pocket when invi-
ted to tea, and puts it in his cup. He
now has a berth in the Custom House.
The twelve sheets-o Of writing-paper-
and-twenty-fve-se self sealing envelopes-for
four-cent" man in Nassau ST., or M of
his emulators, has got into trouble and
into the Tombs. He bought 40 reams
of paper for fifty cents per ream, of a Ia
dy with a hand-cart. This paper it
seems was stolen, and the ~melodious-
voiced vendor is judged in consequence.
A letter to a merchant in this city, from
a correspondent in Labrador, states that
the Hudson's Bay company is known to
have instigated the Indians, at different
times, to murder settlers from the States,
offering them arms and liquor. This, he
says, is the belief of all the residents
The Hippodrome of FRANcoN1, person,
by the way, of fabulous existence, is get-
ting up some funny spectacles for the
amusement of the million. Public no.