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DECLINE IN RENTS IN New foRK.-It is stated
that there are one hundred and sixtv-one ito let
bills posted on buildings in Broadway alone, and
that there have not been so many unrented stores
in that street at any time since the great crisis OF
1867, as at present. The Evening Post says:
This is the natural result of the exhorbitant rents
that have prevailed in this great thoroughfare.
Only year ago, and the common price of first
floor, 90 by so, in good location was "a, 500 per
annun; of whole building % by so Or 200 feet,
ten or twelve thousand dollars; and we know ono
instance in which the owner of fine edfce,
situated not great way from Canal street, refused
to fix definite price for the store Go by about As
feet,) because he had been offered so much more
than he had designed asking-one applicant pro-
posing 10 pay $4,000, and to deposit 10000 worth
of 2oo, stock as collateral security for the payment
OF the gent-and che didn't know where the ex-
element would stop" The store has "to lease"
notice on it at the present moment, and may be
had, doubtless, for the amount so repeatedly offer
ed and spurned.
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Stray Chips.

Those who blow the Goals of other peoples strife
may chance to have the sparks fly in their faces.
1t is with narrow-scred people as with narrow
necked bottles-the less they have in them the
more noise they make in pouring it out.
If virtue is its own reward, there are people who
will have little enough.
The man Whowas in "ship-shape" must have
looked little out of proportion.
Short dresses begin to prevail on Main street
They are not bad to look at-nor are what
they develope 1t is so long since fashion let day
light In upon ladies' ankles that it is sort of god
send. Take seat for half day upon the curb
planks and see.
Never faint away. Always indulge in that weak
ness at home.
A suggestion to hungry people" become mealy-
mouthed."
The harder times grow, the more folks go into
matrimony. Let flour, pork, stock, calico, and
such institutions go up and the parson is sure to be
in perpetual demand Tight times and easy matri-
mony 60 together as naturally as Fourth Of July
and fireworks.
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LOUIS NAPOLEON BECOMING LIBERAL.-The
Paris correspondent Of the London Times gives a
circumstantial rumor prevalent there, which, If
true is not devoid of interest The story runs that
Louis Napoleon convoked an extraordinary meeting
of his council, to whom be delivered terse speech.
He desired to be advised whether, in case the
war should 60 on, it would be desirable to introduce
some notifications into the constitution Of the en-
pire favorable to the liberty Of the press. He
wished also that the council would consider the
same question on the suppositon Of q peace being
concluded.
The council debated the question in his presence
pro and con, and on division resolved, by ma.
jority to 9 against 5, that some alterations were
desirable-that there was something to be done
The Emperor, it is said, listened patiently, as bis
won't is to all the observations that were made and
at the end Of the sitting thanked the members Of
the council for their advice, without giving any IN
dication Of his own opinion.
1t is suggested that he may have been prompted
to this step by the advice Of Lord Palnerstoa.
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RAILROAD ACROSS THE ANDEs.-Wm. Wheel
wright, Esq. of this city, who has for long time
resided in Chill, engaged upon public works-such
constructing railroads and marine railways, build
ing aqucducts for the cities and establishing steam
lines upon the Pacific-proposes to open railroad
across the Andes and thus connect the two oceans.
The track will cross the plains of Buenos Ayres
and the mountains-which will be at grade Of
60 feet to a midtown through Chill, giving the
great Pacific railroad to the southern hemisphere.
If anybody can carry through such an enterprise,
Mr.. Wheelwright can; and he dares undertake
whatanybody can perform, being perfect Napoleon
much pleased with the idea and the only compen-
sation asked by him. is the exclusive privilege for
such a road for term of years, and grants Of 400
acres of land at each station house, which he pro.
poses to coloniae with European emigrants.
[NeagburYport Hernyd.-
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ANECDOTES OF THE WAR.-That surly cynic,
the London Diogones, has had some anecdotes
Of the war manufactured by its /" own cores
pondent" at Constantinople. He says:
The various weekly papers appear to be in
tent on cleaning what they are pleased to term
anecdotes Of the war, and as the perusal Of them
has much amused us, we have no doubt that
our own admirable collection viii equally amuse
our readers!
Z A Bosom FRIEND.-Ensign Cute received in
the action thrust from Russians sword,
which he thought was mortal. 1t transpired,
however, that he had received mere scratch,
the mystery being accounted for by the Cute
having the last number Of the Diogones folded
up in his breast pocket. 8 It was q good hit,
said the ensign, describing the affair afterwards,
sbut luckily, din'nt feel the point Of it,
CURING IT SHoRT.--As the Duke Of Cam
bridge was riding along the outskirts Of the
camp, one Of the enemy suddenly rushed from
behind a tree and aimed q blow at his royal
highness, which, however, did no other mis-
chief than cutting off his horses tail. He
Glove his assailant in two with one blow Of his
sabre, and encouragingly patting his steed's
neck, rode on, saying, Never mind, poor fell
low dead men tell no tails.
PARLIAMENTARY LANGUAGB.-Sir De Lacy
Evans WAS going into action, when cannon
ball took off his horses legs, and sent him
sprawling into the dust. mo matter" said
Sir De Lacy, rising and shaking himself tits
not the hrst time I've lost my seat "
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Holtoway's Ointment and Pills, certain Cure
for Bad Breasts, Caked Breasts, and Sore Nip
ples.-The wife OF Mr.. Fl, B., Of Broadway,
New York, suffered several months after the
birth Of her last child with . bad breast, seve-
raj holes having formed on the same. her nipples
wers nearly gone, and II was thought At one
time that the breast ;aust be- taken OF. Mr.. q
put her under course Of Ho,loways Ointment
and Pulls, after having sried every other means
without success: the Ointment was well rubbed
into the parts affected, and the pills were taken
regularly. In three weeks the anxious husband
was amply compensated. for his wife was quite
well.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-01-27
KNOW NorH1Nes IN CoNaREss.-The Wash

KNOW NoTHINGs IN CONGREss.-The WASH
ington correspondent of the Commercial Adver-
tiser, in his letter of the 1th instant, says:
"The House performed signal feat yester-
day. They overthrow the graduation bill and
homestead bill, by decisive vote. These hum
bugs have had their day. The elements in
opposition to them were, in the first place,
Know Nothingism, and next, conservatism.
The Know Nothings in Congress opposed the
project because it gave our heritage to aliens.
The Conservatives opposed it because it squan-
dered the heritage and rendered demagogues
popular, as long as they could get grants from
tie government to the people.
The vote yesterday showed that the Know
Nothing feeling is strong in the House-not
that many members belong to the organization,
but that they approve its principles.
The rumor that Democratic Senators will
unite in an expression of disapprobation Of
Know Nothingism is erroneous. Several Of
them are rather friendly to the objects Of the
order, and others will not certainly, as ut
present advised, dash their heads against q
stone wall"
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The GRAVE BURIEs PoLIrIcAL ANIMos1rIEs.--
A dinner was recently given to George D. Prentice,
Esq, of Louisville, by the citizens Of Paducah,
Kentucky, without distinction of party, at which
Mr.. Prentice made very fine speech. He was
much honored and highly and repeatedly compl-
mented and toasted.
Towards the close Of the evening, Mr.. Prentice
arose and said:
Fsllop citizens: must again repeat my thanks
to you thank you for the very many kind and
aattering toasts and speeches with which you have
complimented me, and for the enthusiasm with
which they have been received / thank you all,
Wings and Democrats; you who know great
deal, and you who know nothing. And now, as
you have come together to honor living editor, /
ask leave to offer toast to the memory Of one who
has. gone from among us. Whilst he lived was
his political opponent, and sometimes thought
and spoke harshly Of him but he was most able
man and patriot and he rendered eminent ser
vices to bis country at time when she needed
them. Ny friends, give you
The memory Of Thomas Richie.
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LOLA MoSrEz.-A correspondent Of the San
francisco Herald, under date of December lS,
says:
visited Lola Montez to-day at Grass Valley
She lives quiet and apparently cosy life, surround
ed by her pet birds, dogs, goats sheep, hens, tur'
keys, pigs, and her pony. The latter seems to be
fvorite of Lela's, and he Is her companion in all
her mountain rambles. Surely, it is a metamorpho'
sis to find the woman who has gained so world-re.
nowned notoriety, and who has played her part
upon the ttage of HE with powerful potentates, and
with whose name Europe and the word is familiar,
finally settled down at home in the mountain wilds
of California
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"CouRT HOUSE TAKEN FOR A GROCERY
The Terre Haute Prairie City, contains the
following good joke on Judge Huntington, Of the
U. s. District Court:
The Judge, as many of our readers are aware
is a very affable gentleman off the bench, but
on the bench he is a great stickler for the
dignity of the Court. While holding court at
Bowling Green, in the adjoining county of Clay,
some years ago, in a log cabin, the Judge,
Attorneys and others in the room, were startled
by a succession of sharp cracks not unlike
musket shots, accompanied by unearthy shouts
from stentorian lungs Of "Gee-whoo-a-haw,
boys! ~ The business of the Court had to be
suspended, and the Judge angrily directed the
Sheriff to bring in the tumultuous or-driver
The Sheriff soon returned with rare specimen
of the genus 'sHoosier," upwards of six feet
tancolored garments hanging loosely on his
explosion, in the ahape Of q whip as long as a
fishing pole; from under his arm protruded a
half section of gingerbread. He walked coolly
up to the table behind which his Honor sat as
if about to ask for something to drink, when
the Judge, putting on his severest frown, said
to him, '.What do you mean, sir, by yelling
through the streets and disturbing the quiet and
dignity of this Court ?" The Hoosier stared
around in utter amazement, and after pause,
shouted out, g Cowt-Court did you say, (giv-
ing q loud whistle.) Hi! I thought 1t aeas a
Grocay!'
The dignity of the Judge was completely
unshipped-Court adjourned amid roars of
laughter-the culprit was not fined for contempt,
but the Board Of County Commissioners of Clay
county soon afterwards passed an order for the
erection of a Court house, that could not be
mistaken for Grocery.
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ANEcDoTE OF Mr. JEFFERsoN.-Mr. Jefferson's
great height and slender figure exposed him to
much ndicule from his opponents; his sobrquet
with them was "Long Tom;" and when his famous
project of the substitution of Gun-Boats in place of
Navy was adopted by Congress- and the attempt
was made to put into practice the cannon, dispro-
portionably large with which each Of the il-con-
structed craft was burdened obtained, in contempt,
the name of Long Tom" Nothing could pre-
sent a more singular contrast than the figures of
Mr.. Jefferson and General Knox; the one very
short, as thick as he was long-the other lank and
lean, and unusually tall. They happened to meet
one morning, on the steps of General Washington's
lodgings in Philadelphia The two gentlemen APP
preached from opposite directions, and arriving at
the same moment, a1ontest in etiquette took place.
The General at the head of the army, and full Of
its chivalrous poiteness, could not think Of passing
in before the co-equal head Of the Department of
State while the civil officer of government was
equally averse to take precedence of the military
and they stood for some Moments each drawing
back and waving the other forward. In the midst
of this somewhat entertaining scene, came up,
directly in front, the notorious Judge Peters, the
greatest wit Of his day. Perceiving how matters
stood, and casting sly glance from one to the
other, he pushed boldly between them, exclaiming
as he passed -" Pardon me, gentlemen, if in my
haste dash through Thick and Thin"
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The GLIAAx OF DEscRIPTIoN writer in the
Home journal says of Mrs. Bodestem, Gate Julia
forthall She is an angel in q church choir, es-
pecaaly you can see her hallelujah expression Of
eyes while she sinps,
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-01-27

THE CIrIzEN.-John Mitchell Esq, has with
drawn from the Citizen, published in New York,
in consequence Of his eye-sight being seriously af
fected by his labors, and from the conviction that
the extent to which he has been personally iden-
tilted with the paper has been injurious to its IN
fuence and prosperity. He will still contribute,
however, to the Citizen, mainly on literary topics,
and always under his own signature. The paper
viii be conducted hereafter by Mr.. Mc'Clenehan,
who has been connected with its editorial depart.
ment from the beginning.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-01-27

BIOGRAPHY OF THE MUsQUIro.--We cut the fol
lowing from an exchange, in which it is appended
to a description of some experiments in raising
mosquitoes As the fruit of direct observation, it
seems worthy of reliance
The development of the mosquito is a curious
process. In the first place the egg becomes what
is called the water tiger"-a brisk little clock
faced devil, that devoures the smaller anmalcule
with Unsuitable appetite. In a spectrum of a drop
of water, projected from hydoxygen miscroscope
we have seen the shadow Of one of these water
fends swallow the shadows of dozen smaller imps
the larvae of mdges and such "smaller deer "
in less than three minutes. In due time change
comes over the monster. Nature envelopes it in
pelcle or semi-transparent shroud, from which all
the attanue of the mosquito sticks out at one end
and its tail at the other Finally the creature rises
to the surface, the canal bursts, and out flies the
insect like an internal illustration Of the table of
Psyche. In five days the machinery of its exis-
tence which is wound up to 60 for that time and
no longer, runs down. Such is the biography OF
the mosquito.
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nW The 1aborers and mechanics out Of employ
ment had another mass meeting in the Park at
New York, few days since, to talk over their mis-
fortunes after which they joined in procession and
marched through the principal Streets with banners
having such inscriptions as these: /" Live and let
live, We want work, Hunger lisa sharpthorn."
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ne. D.uE hosE. The horticulturists of Paris have
~ i. ~ artificial crossings in obtaing natural
49, ui'le color, which is the fourth color OBJ
q Y Z. afuncaai means that and the yellow or
~ ss Me black or purple rose and the striped
"a y inventions and the result Of skiiful
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CATCHING A TARrAR.-We publish the following
story, which is taken from New York paper, as a
caution to people who are fond Of eating soda
biscuit:
A few evenings since party of ladies' were in
vited to the house of physician in this city to sew
for some benevolent object, and in the course of
events tea was served. Some uncomn1only paat-
able soda biscuits were among the attractions of
the entertainment, and the guests all ate of them
freely Shortly after, the lady of the house was
seized with distressing nausea, and was obliged to
retire She had hardly made her hurried apologies,
before her guests, one after another, complained
of illness, and before their friends or carriages
could be sent for were all PROSTATE on the floor,
vomiting in every direction. The police in the
streets came in to know the cause of the rushing
to and fro, and the company We're seized with fear
full apprehensions Of having been poisoned. They
all had to be finally transported to their respective
homes in carriages Upon an investigation it ap-
peared that the cook had by mistake gone to the
doctors closet and taken some tartar emetic instead
of cream tartar for her biscuits, and made them SO
very light that they would lay upon the stomachs
of any that ate them.
NEWSPAPER FAcTs.-There are sixteen mill
lion fifty thousand four hundred and sixty
newspapers printed in the course of year in
the city of Albany TINS is s2l to each inhabi-
tant, or more than one to each person every
weekday in the year. "The man chat don't
take the papers" does not live in Albany.
The people of the Union spend in year for
newspapers $15, 900, or would if they paid
all their debts.
The newspapers that they read, if all put
together in continuous string, would reach
more than ten times round the world, and weigh
seventy million pounds If they were spread
out to dry they would more than cover the
whole District of Columbia like a blanket.
The origin of newspapers is traced to Italy
The first in England appeared during the reign
of "good Queen Bess," at the time Of the
Spanish Armada. 1t was named Ye English
Mercurie, imprinted in London by Her Highness
printer in 1888. Franklin's Boston Newsletter
was the first in America. 1t commenced in
1904. A hundred years ago there were not
more than twenty-five published in America.
albany Eueping Journal,
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A DISCOVERY WORTH PATRoNIsING.-Cham
bers' Journal says: "Recent discovery has
shown that remarkable effects can be produced
on plants by interposing colored glass between
them and the sun. Blue glass accelerates
growth, and Messrs. Lawson, of Edinburgh,
have built a stovehouse glazed with blue glass,
in which they test the value Of seeds for sale OF
export. The practice is to sow a hundred seed,
and to judge Of the quality by the number that
germinate the more, of course, the better.
Formely, ten days or fortnight elapsed while
waiting for the termination of the seed but in
the blue stovehouse two or three days suffice-a
saving of time worth, SO say the firm, So, 500 a
year."
This use of color in the growth of plants is
not altogether new, but its application to the
termination of seed has not, perhaps, COM
manded the attention it deserves. And all
scientific foriculturists must be familiar with
the experiments of colored glasses upon the
palm plants at the Kew gardens, and the graft
flying success that attended the experiments.
Varying climates will give varying results
just as solar rays vary. Thus, for example, the
best rose fanciers in this country find it difficult
to bring out any of the improved French yellow
rose, in the perfection of color they display in
France or England. We have never seen
Chromatella, or cloth of gold rose that came up
to the description of color given it by Rivers,
the English florist But no one who knows
him would call in question his statement. We
have no doubt that many Of the rich tints of
flowers of other climates, could be made perfect
in this country by properly colored glass, just
as the palms of Kew were made by colored
glass, to rival the palms Of the tropics The
subject opens wide field for experiments that
would richly remunerate an tnquiring and
tasteful foriculturist.
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Gun CorroN.-It is said that this powerful agent
is about to be made serviceable in the Eastern war;
and guns adapted to its use are now in process of
manufacture for the Austrian government A letter
from Vienna has the following:
"Thirty-two of the new guns -four batteries to
be used with gun cotton are already finished, and
it is believed that 16S more 16 batteries are to be
cast The military authorities are extremely re-
served just at present. but still it has transpred
that only II Founders will in future be cast, as
they need not be heavier in metal than the old G.
pounder-f gun cotton is used-and almost all the
Russian batteries are composed Of 12-pounders' ,
The experiments with gun cotton still continue,
and one result is too remarkable not to be men
toned A lib. ball was firedfrom gun charged
with powder at some thick boards prepared for the
purpose, and another ball of the same weight was
fred from one of the new guns charged with gun
cotton; although the new gun was 600 yards
further from the target than the old one the hole
made by the shot Of the former was well defined
and clean, while the or6ce made by the latter was
jagged and sphntery." @
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and interesting character occurred yesterday in our
for manslaughter for fighting duel, This is the
first conviction of the kind ever achieved in this
State. The public sentiment has for long time
justified and sustained the duello, as mode of de-
Gliding personal quarrels. Several attempts have
been made to hold parties liable for participating
either principals or seconds in duels but hitherto
they have invariably failed. Some Of these cases
presented none Of the modifying circumstances Of
the fair and legitimate duel, as recognized by the
customary chivalry. We remember one case in
which the accused was defended by Mr.. Soule,
when it proved that the duel was characterized
by circumstances of great brutality, the accused
deliberately walking up to his unarmed antagonist,
and firing into his bosom. Yet he was acquitted.
Now, the duel participated in by the party con-
victed yesterday, was marked by an unusual degree
Of chivalry and fair play. It was fought with
knives; the parties were equal in physical power,
and when one objected to the knife Of the other,
the latter offered and actually did exchange knives,
and with the weapon of his antagonist slew him.
The surviving party was indicted for manslaughter,
and after vigorous defense, was convicted by
Jury in which there were several Creoles This
conviction, which reflects high credit upon the
energy and perseverance of Attorney General
Morse, and District Attorney Tappan, marks new
era in the sentiments and habits Of our people.
Henceforth in addition to the civil Disqualification,
persons who undertake to settle their quarrels by
a resort to the duello win be exposed to prosecu-
ton and conviction in our Courts, for an offence
which subjects the party to an infamous punish
ment-N. o. Delta 10th inst.