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Eddystone Lighthouse.

The care of This important beacon is commit
ted 10 four men two of which take charge of
II by turns, and are relieved every six weeks.
But as 1t often happens, especially in stormy
weather, that boats cannot touch Eidy s'one for
months, proper quantity Of salt provisions is
always laid up, as in ship for a hong voyage.
In high winds such briny atmosphere sur
rounds this gluomy solitude from the dashng
of the waves, that man exposed to it could
not draw his breath. AT these intervals the
two forlorn inhabitants keep close quarters and
are obliged 10 live in darkness and stencil, lis.
tehing TO The bowling storm, excluded in every
emergency from the least hope of assisia nee
and without any earthly company but what is
administered from the confidence in the strength
Once, on relieving this furlorn guard, one of the
men was found dead, his companion choosing
rather. TO shut himself up with purifying car
cass, than, by throwing it into the sea, to incur
the suspicious Of murder.
In fine weather, those wretched beings
scramble little about the rocks, when the tide
ebhs, and amuse themselves by fishing, which
is the only employment they can have, except
that of trimming their nightly 6res. Such to-
tai inactivity, and entire seciusion from all the
joys and aids OF society, can only be endnred
BY great religious philosophy, which we can
not Imagine they feel or by great stupidity,
which in pity We suppose they possess. Yet
this wretched communication is so small, we
were assured that it has sometimes been scene
of misan,hropy. Ius,ead Of suffering the recoI-
lection of these distresses and dangers in which
each is deserted by all bu. one, 10 endear that
one TO him, we are informed that the humors Of
each were so soureG they preyed both on them
selves and each other. Ifone sat above, the 9th
er was commonly found below. Their meals,
too, were solitary, each, like brute, growing
over his food alone. The element Of this ardu-
ons post is ego YER, and provisions while
on duty The house to live in may be fairly
thrown into the bargain The whole together
is perhaps one of the least eligible places Of
preferment in Britain.
Eastern times., 1856-04-24
Plant Corn.

The question of cheap bread for the working
man, and whether there will be good supply
of beef, depend upon how the people plant
corn.
II pork next fall is scarce and high, those
who have it 10 sell may think it is prosper
Gus time for them, but it will be more so if
they generally have planted corn. 1t is no
true argument that the price would be 'ruinous-
ly low No country ever was ruined by cheap
bread.
We abjure you, therefore, every man OF
you, TO plant corn-in the English acceptation
of the word, anything that will make bread =
but more particularly we entreat you TO plant
Indian corn We ask it now because now is
the time 10 prepare for it. We ask it for the
good of the country-for the benefit of the far
mer. Is there man living who took our ad
vice and increased his crop last spring, and
who has since had moment Of regret that he
did so! If he has, his deeply benefited coun-
try has not. The people return thanks to God
for bounteous crop. Without it what would
those who buy bread have done in all this ter
ribe wntert
Last spring a general effort was made 10 in
crease the product of the land. Heaven
smiled upon it, and the people were made
glad. There was cause then-there is cause
now-that the people should plant corn-mere
than was planted last year, for nowhere are
the granaries full, nowhere is there surplus
laid up against an unfruiiful year, and without
such surplus no country can be independent,
no people prosperous and happy. Let them
plant corn. sssf
We have had winter Of severity, such al
Eastern times., 1856-04-24
An Unfortunate Traveller.

4 Mr.. w atson, of ST. Louis, commenced
an unfortunate career of railroad travel last
summer, at the time Of the Gasconade disaster,
at which time he nearly lost his life. Scarce
ly had he recovered from the injuries then re-
.ceived, when he again narrowly escaped death,
from an accident which occurred to the train
while he was coming East. He was laid up
Sur some months at the Girard House, in Phil
adelphia, on account of the injuries received.
As soon as sufficiently recovered, he TOOK pas
sage for Pittsburg. Some gentlemen who
intended to go in the same direction, purpose
ly delayed their departure, in order TO avoid
participating in his apprehended misfoftanes.
But as it singularly occurred, Mr.. Watson's
train met with an accident after proceeding
few miles, slight indeed, but sufficient TO de-
tain the train for several hours and before ar
irving at Harrisburg, second accident oc-
eurred, with detention of 81 hours. In the
meantime, the cautious gentlemen before al
luded to. pursuing their journey, overlook Mr..
W., and unwittingly got on the same train, for
Pittsburg. Before reaching its destination,
however, the fated tr ain was thrown eRtirely
from she track, by the breaking Of wheel.
The passengers alighted, and, greatly to their
CONSERVATION, found that Mr.. W., Jonah,)
was on beard. Thereupon the whole com
pany became greatly exasperated, and respect
fully informed the conductor that it would be
utterly impossible to proceed in his company.
Our informant states that Mr.. W. has succeed
ed in reaching Pittsburg, and is recovering
from his contusioRs, at The Monongahela
House. Mr. W. declares that once more at
home, he will remain there.-Nerv York jour
mel Of ConlDscrcc.
Eastern times., 1856-04-24
Of 4olititaI aa0 6tneral Mebs--An A6bocatt Of Gqn
BATH, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL "a, 1856

had been contented with getting rid of the fe-
verishnsss of the night, and returned to his
bed, the chain would have been broken for
what was more out of the natural course of
events, than that. at two in the morning, the
idea should come into the head of any man 10
go to his office, and sit down in the lonely
rooms of his department. for no purpose of
business or pleasure, but simply from not
knowing what to do with himselft
Or if, when he had let himself into those
solitary rooms, the book of entries had not lain
on the table, (and this we presume to have
been among the chances, as we can scarcely
suppose books of this official Importance to be
generally left TO their fate among the servants
and messengers of the Office y or, if the en-
try, instead of being on the first page that
opened to his eye, had been on any other,
even the second, as he might never have TAX
en- the trouble of turning the page; or if he
and the chief clerk had been five minutes later
at the Clerk of the Crowns house, and in
stead Of finding him at the moment of getting
into his carriage, had been compelled to incur
the delay of bringing him back from the coun-
try, all the preceding events would have been
useless. The people would have died at
York, for, even as it was, they were stopped
on the very verge of execution.
The remarkable feature of the whole is, that
the chain might have been snapped at every
link, and that every link was equally impor-
tant. Ia the calculation Of the probability Of
any one Of these occurrences, mathematician
would find the chances very hard agains, the
probability Of the whole. If is asked wheih-
er sufficient ground for this high in,erposilon
Is TO be discovered in saving the lives of few
wrelched culprits, who as frequently in such
cases, probably returned to their wicked trade
as soon as they escaped, anG only plunged them
selves into deeper iuiquity the answer is, that
IT is not for US, in our ignorance, 10 mete out
the value Of human life, however criminal in
the eyes Of heaven"
Eastern times., 1856-04-24
Decline Of the Native Population in the
Sandwich Islands.

DR. W. Hidebrand in letter to the Royal
following account of the decadence Of the Hs-
waiian nation
sThe Hawaiian nation, which 20 years ago
was estimated variously at from 100000 TO
400 900, now only counts 72,00O. decrease
within this period Of at least twO-thirds. Vast
tracts of land do not harbor a human soul;
fertile kalo Is, once under cultivation, are
left 10 the rule Of grass and weeds. The is
land Of Kauai, remarkable for the productive
ness of its soil and capable 10 sustain Popu-
lation of at least loo, 900, contains only COCO.
1t is not TO cruel and devastating ware that we
have to attribute this unparalleled falling offln
so short time. The wars of kamehamena
l., however e6ergetically they were carried onf
cannot, in the remotest degree be compared,
81 far as waste Of life is concerned, with those
Of modern civilized nations. And it is after
these wars, moreover after the blessings Of
civilization were transferred hiiher, that the
blight falls most mercilessly on this doomed
people. The cause OF the evil is an internal
one, not caused but increased by external in
fuences. Its investigation resolves itself nat
urallv into these two questions the scarcity
of births and the frequency Of deaths"
Al New GUN-A new fre-arm has been pa
tented by J. w. Post, of New York. 1t is
re eoeating rifle, which Gin be loaded and dis
charged thirty times minute is light and
convenient has but one dischargihg barrel.
and does not revolve. Under the barrel, in
place Of the ramrod, in other guns, is tube
which receives thirty acorn-shaped waterproof
balls, each containing within itselfpowder and
percussion for propulsion. The act Of cooking
the piece places the ball in the breech, and the
whole thirty may be discharged len times in
ten seconds. The ball is shaped like that OF
the MIME rife, and the gun itself is calculated
as well for long distances as rapid firing. n.
| y. Commercial Adrertiser. sts M
Eastern times., 1856-04-24

magnilicence, wisdom and renowned seats OF
learning mysteriously passed for ever away,
and their places overgrown with the rank
weeds and moses OF superstition and igno-
rance. Oh, thou mischief maker, Time! tell
me, why didst thou demolish grandmother IS
spinning wheel, that used to hum such pleas
ant dltties, and steal grand-father's silver knee
buckles, that were wont to.glitter so brightly
in every Sundays sun, But forgive thee
all, if thou wilt only let go my hair.
My brethren since Passing away' is ev-
erywhere scribbled on earth, let us look alott.
There is the shining, starry frmament, just
exactly as it was when God said, Let there
be light = Not single s,ar-hower has fallen
or faded in this splendid celestial boquet. Ii
continues TO bloom, as it ever has bloomed, in
all its perennial brightness and glory and ii
will continue as 10 bloom, till the heavens shall
unroll as scroll, and the Angel of Time
swear that time shall be no more - Look
up, then, and be comforted !; and wait patient
ly for the last grand change, that shall trans
pose you to another and happier sphere, where
no such ominous phrase as Passing away,
was ever heard or thought off,
"Where Beauty no longer her shall nourish,
Nor the lily o'erspread the cheek of Despair
So mote it be!
Eastern times., 1856-04-24
Shrubbery.

Let there always be lawn in front of the
house, and lei the hardy climbers find all over
il appropriate places on which 10 rest, and
fasten their wondrous burdens Of grace and
loyeliness let honeysuckles and jessamines,
clemats and bignonias, and wistaries, and
roses cluster over it and weave for it veil of
beauty, which the sun shall every moment di-
versify with bewitching light and shade, and
in which the zephyrs shall always nestle, and
rock themselves to sleep; where the bees
shall come light-hearted, and sing their monot-
onous lyrics Of industry as they gather sweet
est nectar; and where the little birds shall
build their annual nests and rear their families
not more loving than the one that dwells be-
meath those empowering vines.
Cultivating such natural ornaments upon
and about house will refine the taste of the
family, will improve the manners, will ele-
vate the morals, and strengthen all the domes-
tic and social affections in their hearts. 1t
will assist also in forming habits Of industry
and frugality, as we'll as habits of observation
and intelligent piety. LIE, family plan how
best to adorn yard and decorate house with
foliage, and they will find springing up in
their hearts a unity of feeling and strength
of sympathy to which others are strangers
Each one labors to promote the pleasures OF
the o,her-hence domestic affection; are all
planning for the future, hence hopeful pa
tience all seek to turn every spare hour to
the common profit, hence orderly arrangement
of time, frugality and industry.
Eastern times., 1856-04-24
Leather and the Shoe Business.

: The Newburyport Hrald has the following
remarks on the high price of leather and its
connection with the shoe business -:
Thinking Of leather suggests TO US that the
time must shortly come for the use OF other
materials IN this manufacture. What these
WIN be, does not appear, but necessity is said
TO De ihe mother Of invention, and from the
consumPtlon 20 much exceeding the supply,
that necessity VIII soon be upon us. Hides
are not SO much more eostly than formerly, be.
cause freights are higher, or the prospects Of
the importers larger, or because there is any
conspiracy 10 defraud purchasers OF make them
60 baiefooted but the plains Of Brasil and
Buenos Ayres, and the shores Of Africa can
not furnish them for Massachusetts, tanners
and shoemakers to waste They are as high
abroad as at home, and the prices will never
go down to the old figures. Only look at the
imporiations of hides and leather into Massa-
chusettsI If the whole amount was as thor
oughly and properly tanned as it is in Europe,
and the shoes were as we'll made as they are
m Germany or France, the Massachusetts man
utacturers alone would sEo. the whole human
race but it is considered a great object to get
cheap shoes, and we de get them. The tanner
purchases his hides on six months credit, and
/ they must be out of the watts and into money
before the notes mature. BE burns the life
and strength out of them TO begin with, and We
can scarcely get them ON to our feet before the
stocks breaks to- pieces. Then the trade of
making is learned in fortnight, and the per
son sets up as a master mechanic before he
can make thread !; and where the leather
don't break the seams do rip, and man with
a half dozen children has to keep one Of them
all the time running to shoe store to keep
their feet from the ground. Under such dire
circumstances il would be impossible, if there
were whole worlds of cattle breeders, TO keep
a supply of skins. Either there will be i'm
provements in the stock and the work before
long, or they will have TO find something be-
sides leather to make shoes Of
Eastern times., 1856-04-24

those who are most able TO work have never
known before, and may never know aoair
But that is not certain; the next NAV he one
Of still greater severity, and if so, wha, a de
mand there will be for bread. Let the faruer.
plant corn.
Owing to the fact that the ground has beer
covered with snow for many weeks, aud that
snow is an absorbent of feriliziug elements for
the earth, we have reason to believe that this
will be great grain-producing season. Lei
the people plant corn.
Not day is to be lost. We know that the
ground is still frozen-that the SHOWS of Janu.
airy still linger on the surface; but we repeat
not day is to be lost from your preparation
If you intend more than last year, to plan
corn.
Let il not be argued that the price of corn i.
falling-it is still largely remuneralive, while
all lis products are equally So. Look at The
prices that farmers have realized for beef anc
pork, aud though The latter has fallen, it is still
above the point of profit 10 the maker. Their,
is no prospect that beef will fall below lei
cents pound on the hoof for all that is corr
fed during the year. AT any rate it will pa,
to plant curn.
There is pressing need now for a great crop
as great, or greather than that of last year
and we may have il, if those who read this ar
ticle will bear in mind the burden of its song
and urge upon all with whom they have am
influence, TO plant Compliant more than yol
intended-more than you did last year, if onl,
by one grain, ole hill, one rod, one rood, one
acre, one field-still let vour motto be iha
which begins and ends this appeal-PLAN,
Corn IN Y Tribune.
Eastern times., 1856-04-24

A printer, not long ago, being flung BY his
sweetheart, went to the Office and tried to COM
nit suicide with The shooting stick, but the
thing wouldn't so Off. The devil wishing
to pacify him, told him TO peep Into The sane
tum where the editor was writing duns TO de-
inqueui subscribers. He did so, aud the eff
fec, was. magical He says that picture Of de-
spair reconciled him 10 his fate.
Eastern times., 1856-04-24

The question of cheap bread for the working
man, and whether there will be good supply
of beef, depend upon how the people plant
Eastern times., 1856-04-24

'' As victor exult, or in death be laid low,
With his head to the field and his feet to the foen
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The Foreign Vote in Iowa

Iowa has doubtless turned over from Buchanan
exchanging that one Democrat for the other, Free
mont A despatch from Burlington says:
"The Germans were true as steel to freedom and
led the van in the contest"
Can there be any doubt now of the wisdom o.
the American movement? Can Southern Demo-
Gratis longer hesitate as TO the course they should
pursue? Iowa is but the precursor Of Wisconsin
Illinois, and Michigan. Even in St. Louis, South
ern city, the foreign vote has been given to +. P
Blair Jr., who is rabid Republican as his faith
er. Kentucky, Louisiana, and Texas wiz also cast
a large Republican" vote. Where is this state Of
things to end, il not Immediately checking9 The
checked? The only practicable mode of checbi1g
the advance of the Republicans" is for the Nation
al Democrats to unite with the National Americans
upon Mr.. Fillmore. And such, We are confident
will be the case with the rank ard file Of the Ma
tiona Democracy, whatever may the decision Of the
poliicans.- Wash. Organ.
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Mr. FilImOrc's Response to the wings
of Virginia.
BUFFALO, n. Y, August 6, 1856.


BUFFALO, n. l., August b, 1896.
WYNDHAM ROBERTSON, Esq:
SER:-I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of the 23d ultimo, trans
hitting a copy of the preamble and resolutions
adopted by the Wing Convention of Virginia,
lately assembled at Richmond, by which that
intelligent and patriotic body recommended to
their Wing brethren throughout the State to
yield to my nomination for the Presidency
their active and Jealous support
Standing, as do, as the known candidate of
another party, yet receive this recommends
ton with gratitude and pride feel that it is
made, not because the principles of the two
parties are identical, nor with a view of merg-
ing them in each other-for such an object is
expressly disclaimed by the ConventiOn--but
because the principles which my nomination
represents, approach more nearly to those
maintained by the Wings of Virginia, than
those of any other candidate; and because, as
the Convention was pleased to say, of their
confidence in my late administration of the
government.
Whatever may be our differences on minor
subjects, | am sure there is one on which we
agree-and that one at this moment is para
mount to all others. | ande to the preserve
tion of the Union of these States, and the res.
cnelng the country from sectional strife. The
question is not 80 much, how shall the govern
ment be administered, as how shall it be pre-
serped; and on this great, vital question, ma
tional Wings, national Democrats, and Union
loving Americans may well act in concert.
On this basis, shall with great pleasure receive
the votes of all who have confidence in my
integrity and ability, and who ask no other
pledge than my past service, for my future
conduct. This position seems to me alike hon
orable TO all. No principle is sacrificed No
deception is practiced; and trust that no one,
casting his vote for me on this ground, will
ever have cause to regret it.
With many thanks for the dattering manner
in which you have been pleased to conmunis
cate the result of the Convention, l
have the honor to be-
Your friend aud fellow citizen,
WILLARD FILLMORE.
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE U. s. OF
AMERICA.
A PRoCLAMATIol

Whereas, While hostiIites exist with various oil
the lniisn tribes on the remote frontier Of the
United States and whilst IN other respects the pub.
nc peace is seriously threatened. Congress has ad-
journed without having granted the necessary sup
plies for the army depIiving the Executive Of pow.
err to perform his duty in relation TO the common
defense aud security, and extraordinary occasion
has thus srsen Tor the assembling OF the two Houses
OF Congress:
/, thereby, by this my proclamation convene
said Houses 70 meet At the Capitol, in Washington
on Thursday, the alst day OF August; and hereby
require the respective Senators and Representative
then and lhere to assemble and determine on such
measure as the state Of the Uniou mag seem &c
reqare.
Ia testimony whereof, have caused the seal o.
the United States TO be herennto affixed, ahd havs
signed The same with my hand.
Done at the city Of Washington, this the stl
day OF August. Ia the year of our Lord one thoas
and eight hundred and hlty.six, and the lndepen
denee Of the United States, the eiehty.hrsi.
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
BIZ order Il she Presidents
Wa, /. hAncx, Secretary Of State.
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PERSIAN PRlNCEss-I went to see the Shahs
hasisser beautiful girl of Is, who lived with her
mother IN az obscure part Of the ante~room neglec
ted by the Shah, and consequently by every one
else. She really lovely; fair, with Undesirable
eyes, and figure only equaled by some Of the
chiefs q 9Evrs of Italian This is 50 rare among
Persian women, that she was one Of the few per-
sons saw in the country with approach 10
good figure. She was dressed in the usual fashion
Of trousers trousers, the last pair being Of such
stiff brocade that If put staEding upright in the
middle of the room there they would remsin.
Her hGir was curled, not plated, aud she was
literally covered with diamonds. She quiet in
her manners and seemed objected. She was most
anxious to hear shout European customs What
seemed to surprise her most was that we took
the trouble 10 undress every night going to bed;
and she asked me was it true we put on long
white dress 10 pass the night ins All Persian
women are sstonished az this custom, aud
quite unable to account for h-They never
undress at night; they unite their thin mattress
iron its silken cover draw IL out from its place
sgans, the wall, aud roll themselves up in the wad-
ded quilt which forms their blanket. The oaly
time they change their clothes is when they go 20
bath fthey 90 out 70 visit. thev, Of course, put
GU sheir best garments; and take them Of al night
but Generosity they lie down just SIS they are, and
even In cold seasher they wear their ehsdoor, or
out OF door ve'l at night idy Slislds' Glimpsss
n life ssd AsHars ~ Persia S
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AMERICAN MOVEMENTS IN NEw YoRK.--The ball
is in motion in New York The largest political
meeting ever held in the interior of the Empire
State was the American mass meeting, convened
at Albany on the l4th inst. Delegations were
Island, Cohoes, and Greenbush. Il is estimat ed
that not less than $4,000 persons were on the
ground aud in the hall of the Capitol The prin-
cipal speakers were F. A. Talmadge, W. c. Has
BRONX, Francis Granger. George CONWAY, E. T.
Wood, Thos. II. Bond, E. o. Perrin, Sam1 Slower
of Troy, and others.