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Washington telegraph., 1855-11-14

The Shreveport Democrat say. that a
large amoun.of work ha, been done in the
region Of the ran The hand, have been
employed in cutting, aving and burning
the drit wood and in oxcasaiiag. There
is considerable water running through the
new channel, and Col Gilmcr ,upposcs.
that when tue river rises, boats will take
that route.
Washington telegraph., 1855-11-14
AURELlG s

1t is ,aid that an application will le made
to Congress 10 establish the grade ard rank
Of Admiral. with the understanding that
"O.d lrJnsiie," is to bc the frd on whom
lhi. honor /. to be conferred.
Washington telegraph., 1855-11-14

DlssoLuuoN--By reference to our I'd.
vertisine columns it will be seen that Mesrs
Tolcr & Hooks have dissolved, and iha. the
former is to carry on the business in lis
own name. Mr. Toler has but recently re.
turned from New York. where be la. pur.
chased au ertagliga sssOy'a.sa, q fancy
goods. &c, but when they arrive ho will
doubtless let the public know It.
Washington telegraph., 1855-11-14

The San Francisco Chronicle publishes
list Of The members elected 10 the next
Legislature. The state Of pariies is said to
be as follows :-Senale-Amcricaus 10 /;
Democrats, IL House Of Representatives
Americans, So; Democrats. 25; Wings
]. According to this statement tue Ameri.
cans will have Eve majority in The Senate
and iwenIy.seven majority in tho House.
and majority Of thiriy.two on joint ballot.
Washington telegraph., 1855-11-14

Rev. George II. DOane, (laic Episcopal
minister, and son Of Bishop Doane, Of New
Jerey) who joined the Roman Catholic,
Church has sailed, for llavre, France He
goes to the College Of ST. sulrice pari', to
study for the priesthood and will 10 there
about q year and half
Washington telegraph., 1855-11-14

Wm Denuis, a Colonel in the French ar.
my under Napoleon, aud who had for sever.
al years been acting rs penny post IN Gin.
cinnaii. committed suicide in that city re.
Gently. By taking morphine.
Washington telegraph., 1855-11-14

Colonel l'ogers-a hall.brecd lndian-
on the Goth nit, commenced before the
Court Of Claims, the argument in the cclc.
biated Cherokee case. lie claims for him.
self and other. Chcrokccs who ha,c become
citizens Of ibe United States, the sum Of
one hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
under the provisions Of the treaty Of 1885
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17
A Mirage On the Prairie.

The following is communication in
the Bloomington Paragraph, in relation
to phenomenon not very unusual on our
prairies:
son yesterday we had the privilege of
seeing the rare sight-a mirage on the
prairie. On approaching the town of
Lerny, about a mile and quarter this
side, we found the whole intermediate
space between US and the grove. of trees
beyond the town apparently occupied by
a beautiful lake of water On the appa-
rent shores next to ourselves the road ran
down and disappeared in the lake, as did
the fence upon one side of the road, while
the placid and beautiful water extended
upon the right and left, until lost in the
distance. The entire space between the
apparent margin of the lake nearest to us
and the grove beyond the town. more
than mile of, was, so far as it was pos
sible for the eye to determine, occupied
by one of the most beautiful, bright, and
placid sheets of water we ever beheid:
while the trees in the distance appeared
to be immersed for half their length in
the lake, as if growing in the water.
"Even the shadow Of these trees, and
of the clouds above, were distinctly visi-
bic. Take it all in all, this mirage on
the prairie was one of the most beautiful,
bright, aud placid sheets of water we
ever beheld and we were almost forced,
against our better Judgment, not only to
believe in its reality. but felt spontane-
Gus impulse to rush forward and bathe in
the crystal waters. We approached the
vision, and Il vanished" =
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17
4 Beautiful Thought.

60 AS In the light of cultivated reason
you look abroad and see wealth of beau
ty, aprofusion of goodness in the work
of Him who has strown flowers in the
wilderness, and painted the bird, and
enameled the insect, in the simplicity and
universally of His laws, you can read this
lesson. An uneducated man dreams not
of the sunlight, which now in its splendor
floods the armament and the landscape !;
he cannot comprehend how much of the
loveliness of the world results from the
composite character of light and from the
rejecting propensities of most physical
bodies. If instead of red, yellow, and
blue, which the analysis of the prism and
experiments of absorption have shown to
be its constituents, it had homogeneous,
simple white, how changed would all
have been. The growing corn, the ripe
harvest, the blossom and the fruit, the
fresh greenness of spring, and autumn's
robe of many colors, the hues of the vio-
let, the lily, and the rose, the silvery form
of the rivplet, the emerald of the river,
and the purple of the ocean, would have
been alike unknown. The rainbow would
have been but pale streak in the grey
sky, anddull vapors would have canopied
the sun, instead of the clouds, which in
the dyes of flaming brilliancy curtain his
rising up and going down. There would
have been no distinction between the
blood of the children, the flush of health,
the paleness of decay, the hectic of dis
ease, and the liyidness of death. There
would have been an unvaried, unmean
ing leaden hue where We now see the
changing and expressive countenance.
the tintedearth and gorgeous armament.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17
Triumph of Learning.

Mind constitutes the majesty of man
virtue his true nobility. The tide of i'm
provement which is now flowing through
the land like another Niagara, is destined
to roll on down to the latest posterity.-
And it will bear then, on its bosom, our
virtues or vices. our glory or our shame,
or whatever else we may transmit as an in
heritance. 1t then, in great measure,
depends upon the present, whether the
moth Of Immortality, ignorance, and luxu-
ry. shall support heragainstthe whirlwind
of war, ambition, corruption. and the
remorseless tooth of time. Give your
children fortunes without education. and
at least one half the number will 60 down
TO the tomb Of oblivion. perhaps to ruin.
Give them education, and they will be a
fortune to themselves and country. Itis
an inheritance worth more than gold, for
it buys true honor they can never spend
nor lose it, and through life it proves a
friend, in death a consolation.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17

1t is far from self-conceit which prompts
these remarks, or urges me to say that
the accumulation of facts which as mat
ter of course must have resulted from my
long bearded experience, viii enable me
to give comforting suggestions to such as
are almost persuaded to follow the teach
ings of nature and true philosophy in this
matter. The task is harder in later
than in earlier life, before the beard is
excited to unnatural growth. And as
there is, as l most solemnly believe, not
one well-founded argument why men of
any age or condition should continue the
habit of shaving, there can be none why
boys should ever commence it. Nor
would one of thousand of them do so, if
they only knew its evil consequences. 1t
not only destroys the germs of their fu-
ture physical health and manly beauty,
but it wastes away the dews of their
youth, their native simplicity, their truth
fulness and confidence in the wisdom of
their Creator. Neither the image of God
nor any of his works remain sacred in
their sight. For if, as they say. the ''hu-
man face divine may be improved by
their boyish efforts, what of Gods crea-
ting may not be? Natures teachings
and the dictates of conscience become
less persuasive than human wisdom, and
they verify the fact that man, though
formed at first upright, will "seek out
many inventions"
The habit of shaving is not of origin
divine" as thousands seem to think, but
quite the reverse. The ancient patriarchs,
the holy prophets, Christ and his disci-
pies, and the earlier and probably purer
Christians, deemed tia violation of the
laws of their nature. Alexander enforced
it upon his army that they might thereby
gain bloodier conquest. The nobility
of Spain adopted it through courtesy to
their beardless prince. The mass were
of course subjected to the humiliating
process, but expressed their repugnance
to the outrage in the well-known proverb:
"Sinee we have lost our boards, we have
lost our souls, that is, ourselves, our
identity. We are rather soulless slaves,
than the men our Maker made and de-
signed US to be-
Will not the free-b born sons of America,
whose pure patriotism scorns the dicta-
ton of foreign potentates, dare to be NOR
ally as well as politically free-free from
all conventionalities which oppress COM
mon humanity, and weigh heavily on the
mass of our population; and, especially
free from every influence which insidi-
ously tends to vitiate and depress the
true manliness of man, and womanizes
those masculine and gigantic powers
which are to be our country's defense
against the jealous, hungry, crouching
nations about us? And will not their
mothers, sisters, wives and daughters,
second these efforts, and exercise their
own good taste in creating and sustain
ing such purely American fashions and
habits as will, to the end of time, render
them and their progeny still more excel
lent in all the various relations of life.
Yours truly, E. SANBORN.
ANDovER, Dec. 8, 1854.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17
Good and Bad Humor.

There is no disposition more agreeable
to the person himself, or more agreeable
to others, than good humor. It IS to the
mind what good health is to the body,
putting man in the capacity of enjoying
everything that is agreeable to life, and
of using every faculty without clog or
impeachment. 1t disposes to contentmeut
with our lot, to benevolence to all men,
to sympathy with the distressed. Ipre-
sents every object in the most favorable
light, and disposes us to avoid giving or
taking offenses. There is disposition
opposite to good humor, which we call
bad humOr, of which the tendency is di-
recty contrary, and therefore its infiu-
ence is as malignant as that Of the other
is salutary. Bad humor alone is suffi-
cient to make man unhappy; il tinges
every object with Its own dismal color,
and like part that is CALLED, is hurt by
that touches it. 1t takes of
tense where none was meant, and leads
10 envy, and in general to malevolence.--
Reid on the Mind.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17
Woman.

As the dove will clap its wings to its
side, and cover and conceal the arrow
that is preying on its vitals. so is the na-
ture of woman to hide from the world
the pangs of wounded affection. With
her the desire of the heart has failed.
The great charm Of existence is at an end.
She neglccts all the cheerful exercises
that gladden. the spirits. quicken the
pulse, and send the tide of life in health
full currents through the veins. Her rest
is broken, the sweet refreshment of sleep
is poisoned by melancholy dreams; "dry
sorrow drinks her blood, until her feeble
frame sinks under the last external as
sailant. Look at her after little while,
and you find friendship weeping over her
untimely grave, and wondering that one
who so lately glowed with all the radisnce
of health and beauty, should be brought
down to darkness and the worm." You
will be told of some wintry chill, some
slight indisposition, that had laid her low,
but no one knows the mental malady that
previously sapped her strength, and made
her so easy prey to the spoiler.- Wash-
ington irving.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17
KnoWledge.

How beautiful and exalted are the fol-
lowing sentiments of De Witt Clinton
pleasure is shadow, wealth is van
ity, and power pageant; but knowledge
isecstatic in enjoyment, perennial infame,
unlimited in space, and infinite in dura-
ton. In the performance of its sacred
Offices it fears no danger, spares no ex-
pense, omits no exertion. 1t scales the
mountain, looks into the volcano, dives
into the ocean. perforates the earth, en-
circles the globe, explores sea and land.
contemplates the distant, ascends to the
sublime! No place too remote for its
grasp, no heaven too exalted for its
reachl'' .
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17
Live for Somethtug.

Thousands of men breathe, move, and
live-pass off the stage of life and are
heard of no more. Why? None were
blessed by them, none could point to
them as the means Of their redemption,
not line they wrote, they were not re-
membered more than the insects of yes.
terday. Will you thus live and die. OF
man immortal? Live for something. Do
good and leave behind you monument Of
virtue that the storms Of time can never
destroy, write your name by kindness,
love. and mercy on the hearts of thcus-
ands you come in contact with year BY
year, and you win not be forgotten. No;
your name, your deeds will be as legible
on the heart you leave behind as the stars
on the brow ofthe evening. Great deeds
win shine as brightly on the earth as the
stars of heaven.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17
Poetry.
souis. not Stations.

Who shall Judge man from mannersa
Who shall know him by his dressi
Paupers may be fit for princes,
i. Princes fit for something Less.
Crumpled shirt and dirty jacket
May beclothe the golden ore
OF the deepest thoughts and feelings
Satin vests could do no more.
There are springs of crystal nectar
Ever yelling ont of stone;
There are purple buds and golden
Hidden, crushed, and overgrown.
God, who counts by souls, not dresses,
Loves and prospers you and me,
While he values thrones, the highest,
But as pebbles in the sea.
Man, appraised above his fellows,
OF forgets his fellows then;
Masters remember
That your meanest kinds are men.
Men by labor. men by feeling,
Men by thought and men by fame,
Claiming equal rights TO sunshine
In mans ennobiing name.
There are foam embroidered oceans,
There are little weed-clad rills,
There are feeble inch-high saplings,
There are cedars on the hills; .-..
But God, who counts by souls, not stations
Loves and prospers you and me;
For to Him all vain distinctions
Are as pebbles in the sea.
Toiling hands alone are builders
OF nations wealth and fame;
Titled laziness is pensioned,
Fed, and fattened on the same,
By the sweat of others foreheads,
Living only to rejoice,
While the poor mans outraged freedom
Vainly Efteth up its voice.
But truth and justice are eternal,
Born with loveliness and light;
And sunsets wrongs shall never prosper
While there is sunny right;
And God, whose world-heard voice is singing
Boundless love to you and me,
Will sink oppression with its titles,
As the pebbles in the sea.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17

w 1t is Christianity alone that can
give to man the two great sources of in
ward JOY; the exercise of love towards
. deserving object, and the exercise of
hope terminating on some high and as
sured happiness. -
In the government of the thoughts the
great object should be to take the most
effectuai measures to prevent the intro
duction of such IS are sinful; and to ex-
pei those which have introduced them
selves without the consent of the win.
a man may look ct pane of glass. or
through it, or both. Let all earthly
things be unto thee as glass. to see heay-
en- through. Religious ceremonies should
be pure glass. not dyed in the gorgeous
crimssns and purples, blues and green's.
Of saints and seintesses. -coi<gidee.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17

In our intercourse with one another,
there are many little ways which We may
assume without the imputstion Of little
ness or Oppishness. A smile, a cordial
bow, an earnestncss efsnanner in address
ing friend, or more especially a stEsn-
ger, costs buta slight effort, and gener-
ally will insure corresponding pleasant
ness, even from the ill-tempered. This
would be but 3 melancholy world if all
the courtesies of life were disregarded.
and sulky, mistaken kind of straight
for1ardness adopted.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17
vastasss Of the univsrss.

= n =
Prof. Hitchcock, in one of his populzf
scientific works, has aptly illustrated the
vastness of the Universe Light, al
thoughapparently visible instantaReously,
requires an apPreciable time to travel
4 fash of lightning occurring on earth
would not be visible on the moon till
second and quarter afterwards on the
sun till eight minutes /; at the planet Ju-
piter, when at its greatest distance from
us, till fifty-two minutes on Uranus till
two hours on Neptune till four hours
and quarter on the star of Vega of the
first magnitude, till forty FIVE years on
a star of the eighth magnitude till one
hundred and eighty years ; and stars of
the twelfth magnitude till four thousand
years-and stars of this magnitude are
visible through telescopes nor can We
doubt that, with better instruments, stars
of far less magnitude might be seen 50
that we may confidently say that this
flash of lightning would not reach the
heavenly body till more than six
thousand years. period equal to that
which has elapsed since mans creation.
Here is vastness beyond the capacity Of
mind to contemplate
EF Eloqucnce is not only the art of
men in public-it is the gift
Of strong feeling, accurate thought, ex-
tensive knowledge, splcndor of imagins-
ton, force of expression, and the power
of communicating in written or spoken
language, to other men, the idea, the
feeling, the conviction of truth, the ad-
for the beautiful. the disposition
TO uprightness, the enthusiasm for virtue,
the devotion to duty, the heroic love of
country, and the faith in immortality,
which make men honorable-the feeling
heart, the clever head, the sound iudg-
ment. the popular knowledge. the artistic
imagination, the ardent patriotism, the
manly courage, the attachment to liberty,
the pious philosophy, and, lastly, the re-
ligion consonant with the most exalted
idea of the Divinity, which render the
individual good, the people great, and the
human race sacred. 1t supposes in as
the possession and exercise of all the in
tellectual and moral faculties that are in
volved in speech-the power of the hu-
man woRD.-Lam0rkine
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17
-I,ohod;e,ce =, .o,,e .nth,orolo.

r. La obedience to some anthropolo-
gical law. the Indian race of California is
fast melting away before their Caucasian
invaders As one instance of the rapid
decrease of the aboriginal population. the
Sacramento Union instances the Hook
Farm Digger. This tribe, according to
Gen. Suffer, numbered over five hundred
souls few years since, and but fifteen of
them are now living. The race is destin-
ed to vanish from the path Of the white
man.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-02-17

H If we apply ourselves seriously
to wisdom. we shall never live without
true pleasure, utlearn to be pleased with
everything. We shall be pleased With
wealth so far SIS it makes Us beneficial to
others with poverty. for not having
much to care for; and with obscurity tS
being uneuvied FlE&GyuA.
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BItis very clear, says the Albany Argus,
that the public sentiment here at the North
has undergone already great and favorable
change on the subject of the Nebraska enact
ment-and that it has all but ceased to be an
available or convenient theme with political
aspirans. That misehisvous agitation has
had it, day
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a. In Pittsburg the Wings and Democrats
have united against the Know Nothings, in
reference to the municipal election. They
have formed citizen ticke. with the present
Mayor at the head for re- reelection
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r The number Of emigrants landed at
New York during 1854 has been s13,747, which
is 30, AS moro than in 1853. The number
from England is 5000, Ireland 79,4Oo, Ger
many 166,723
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e The number of the illustrated London
News, received by the last steamer, informs
its English readers that in the late New York
election the contest for the Gove,no,ship of
the United States was very close one
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CHILDREN'S BOOKS.

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" Tho Common Council Of Albany have
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NATIONAL THEATRE.
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THE CELEBRATED
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Concluding W it'll the successful Pas de Deux finale of
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To conclude with the sero-comic Pantomime OF
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On TUESDAY EVENING, JAMS,
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CAROLINE AS GISELLE.
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"HUMAN1TY IN THE CITY This 10 the title
OF series Of discourses recently delivered in
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