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Heinrich Heine's Opinion Of London

have seen the greatest wonder which
the world can show to the aston ished--and
still there remains fixed in my memory the
stone forest of houses, and amid them the
rushing stream Of faces of living men. with
all their motley passions, all the ir terrible
impulses of love, of hunger and of hatred--J
mean London. Send philosopher to Lon
don; but for your life, no poe,! Send q
philosopher there, and stand him at the
corner of CheapSide, where he will learn
mere than from all the books at the last
Leipsic Fair; and as the blIow of human
life roar around him, SO will a sea of new
thoughts rise before him, and the Eternal
Sp irit which moves on the face Of the wa
ters will breathe upon him; The most hidden
secret of social harmony will be suddenly
revealed to him; he will hear the pulse OF
the world beat audibly and see it visibly--
for ii London is the right hand of the world
its active. mighty right hand--then we
may regard the route which leads from the
Exchange to Downing street as the worlds
pyloric artery. But never send poet TO
London! This downright earnestness of all
things, this colossal uniformity, this ma
chine-like movement, this troubled spirit in
pleasure itself, this exaggerated London,
smothers the imagination and rends the
heart. And should you ever send German
poet thither--a dreamer who stares at every
thing, even a ragged begsar woman, or The
shining wares CT goldsmjth's shop--why,
then, at least, he would find things going
right badly with him.
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JEFFERsoN.-In the year of 1921 +. Ken
nedv visited Monticello. 81 was accom-
panied" says he, 'by friend, and mad a
letter of introduction from Mr. Writ. had
never seen Mr.. jefferson. 1t was hci day
in July when we reached the top of the
noun ain and entered the spacious aall otthe
mansion. We presented the letter to lady
o the family. Mr. Jefferson had been very
i'll with recent attack of his malady, and
there ore excused himself from receiving
company. There was large glass door
which opened upon the hall, and separated
Mr.. Jefferson's apartment from it. Whilst
we sat in his hall, tall attenuated figure,
slightly STOPPING forward and exhibiting a
countenance filled with an expression ofpaln,
slowly walked across the space visible
through the glass door. 1t was MIR. Jeffer-
son. He was draped in costume long out
of fashion--small clothes, W aistcoat with
flaps, and as it struck US, in the brief view
we had, some remnants of embroidery
The silence ofthe football, the venerable
figure, the old costume, and the short space
in which that image glidsd past the glass
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-11-13

GA remarkable discovery of tite-deedt
of property. embracing some fifty thousand
acres Of land in New-Jersey, besides large
tract situated in ..the centre of New York
city, is reported to have been made recent
ly at Oswege, New York; and if the state
ments made by the Palladium o: that place
are reliable, some litigation of Importance
and changes Of ownership may follow. If
there is any truth in the story we shall
doubtless hear more of it hereafter. At
any rate, the narrative is interesting, if not
reliable. 1t seems that at the breaking out
of the revolutionary war an old lady, then
residing upon farm now embracing the
most central part of New York city, un-
willing to encounter the troubles incident
to the approaching struggle, returned to her
native place in Holland; leaving daughter
in New York, and sons in the county
DYING soon after, search was everywhere
made FOR the deeds to her farm and other
property in this State and the scity of New
York, but they could not be found; and
amid the disorders of the time the family
was deprived of their estates, and scattered
in different directions. A female relative
of the old lady, residing near Oswego,( New
York } had for long time been in posses
sion of an ancient chest OF drawers, upon the
bottom of one of which she mad observed a
large square piece of tin. Curious to dis
cover its use, she tore it off a few days ago,
and on doing 50 discovered seven title-deeds
on parchment, in the Dutch language, all in
a perfect state OF preservation. These
deeds, upon examination, proved to be the
long-missing instruments whose loss has
prevented the lawful heirs from claiming
very valuable property in New York city
now held by the corporation; also about fifty
acres of land in New jersey,
leased to different individuals in small farms
for term o. ninety years, which leases
are now about to expire. The necessary
steps for recovering all these lands will be
Immediately taken.--Nepark Duly ADJ.
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The Celestial Dial.

Our artificial time-keepers-clocks, wat
ches and chrouometers, however ingenious
" contriyed and admirably fabricated. are
but a transcript, SO to say, of the celestial
motions, and would be of no value without
the means of regulating them by observa-
ton. ~
tits impossible for them, under any crcum-
stances, TO escape the imperfections of all
machinery, the work of human hands-and
the moment we remove with our time keeper
East or West it fails US. II will keep home
time alone, like the fond traveller who
leaves MS heart behind him. The artificial
instrument is of incalculable utility, but
laust itself be regulated by the eternal clock
work Of the skies.
This single consideration is sufficient to
show how completely the daily business OF
life is affected and controlled by the heaven
ly bodies. 1t is they and not our main
springs, sour expansion balances and our
compensation penduums, which give US our
time. To reverse the line of Pope:
lis with or watches as oui Judgment
Go lust alike, but each believes his own"
But for all the kindreds, and tribes and
tongues of men each upon their own me-
ridan-frum the Arctic pole to the Equator,
and from the Equator to the Antartic pole.
the eternal sun strikes twelve at noon, and
the glorious consultations far up in the
everlasting bellries of the skies, chime
twelve asmidnight; twelve for the pale stu
dent over his fickerng lamp; twelve amid
the flaming glories of Orion's belt, if he
crosses the meridian of that fated hour;
twelve by the weary couch of languishins
humanity; twelve in the star-paved courts
of the Em?yrean; twelve for the heaVing
tides of-the ocean; twelve for the weary arm
of labor; twelve for The toiling brain; twelve
for the watching, waking. broken heart;
twelve for the meteor which blazes for
moment and expires; twelve for the comet
whose saerlad is measured by centuries;
twe.7ca fcr every substantial. for every i'm
aginary thing, which exists in the sense, the
intellect, or the fancy, and which the
speech Or thought of man, at the gi"en
meridian. refers to the lapse of time.-Ed-
toard EuereH.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-11-13

HORRIBLE scene AT AN EyEcUTIoN.-A
shocking scene occurred at the execution of
two robbers named Boye and Olsen, a: As
sens, in the Isle OF Funen, in Denmark, on
the 18th uit. Olsen made such desperate
resistance, that the executoncr and six men
who helped him could not bring the criminal
TO the block without calling the soldiers to
assist them. As soon as O!sen's head was
severed from his body, two young peasant
girls. fifteen or seventeen years OF age.rush-
ed through the double line of armed police
who guarded the scaffold, and filled the cups
which they carried with the blood that
spouted from the neck of the mu:Iai ed
corpse, and instantly swallowed the horrible
drausht. There is an old superstition a.
mongst the rural population of Denmark
that the blood of beheaded fel lon, if drunk
while it is warm, is an infallibe preserva-
tive against epilepsy and apoplexy. The
girls were taken before n police commits.
sioner, and declared that they had snly done
what they had right to do; they showed a
paper, sigosd G. Olsen, in which he had
authorized them, whenever he should come
to be executed, to drink his blood.
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Winter is Coming.

Ugh, the wind comes keenly, and we
shrink shiyering from its autumnlsh breath.
1t is too early in the season yet tor BRISK
fires. and thick over-coats look effeminate
in these bright fall davs, but winter IS COM
ing on pace, and his forerunners are among
us with the chilliness of his icy breath about
their skirts, and making their mark upon
the woods. The leaves are as many color
ed as diving dolphin, and like him. 1t Is the
hand of death that is painting them in such
brirbt tin,s. Ere long the last leaves will
have fallen, and the winter will then nave
no obstancles in the grand old woods to
cheek his onward progress. The North
wind will bring his ice-crowned majesty on
through the gaunt stark limbs of the denuded
trees without let or hindrance, and we may
soon look for his in-co ming.
And oh! that coming of winter! with the
favored sons and daughters of humanity, the
COMING ofthe season of snow and ice only IN
wolves the ordering of new furS and thick
soft clothes-the filling up of the bin with
coal-the putting in order of stoves and
grates-the anticipation of a merry season
of ba lis. of parties and Of sleigh rides, and
those happiest hours ofs right minded mans
:existance when he gathers his loved ones
about his hearth stone of winters night
and when the bowling blast outside only en-
hances the appreciation of home and homt
comforts. But
"A pleasant tune,the North wind blows,
| When that's without and ye within"
| And that terrible wind, fresh from frozer
regions, that makes such brave music inyoul
chimney, and around the angles and gables
| of your comfortable mansion, how it carr les
misery and desolation into many human
| heart.
Winter brings terror to those who lack
the comforts of home, who pine for food IN
cheerless dens, and who have not sufficient
clothing to bid defence to the blast. There
is wide field in great city for the prac'
tice of charity, and those who have enough
and to spare of this worlds goods, cannot
better evidence their appreciation OF the
blessings Grey enjoy, than..by lending help
ing handtathOse who are unable TO help
themselves. Winter is coming-do not lei
its chill blasts freeze up the well springs oI
your heart, and hedge in more completely
in barrier of selfshness, the better promp-
tings OF nature.
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CoNMEEcE.--The people of Danvers
Mass, recently complimented Mr.. George
Peabody with festival, upon his return to
that tswn-hisibirthpl lace--aiter an absence
of twenty years. Edward Everett was pre-
sent, and in reply to sentiment appropriate
to the occasion, embs llished with that felici-
tY of illustration and finished eloquence,
which SO eminently distinguishes all his
public efforts offered this beautiful and strik-
ING tribute to commerce:
Track its history for a moment, from the
earliest period. Ia The infancy Of the world
its caravans, like gigantic sik-worms, went
creeping through the arid wastes of Asia &
Africa, with their infnitesimal legs, and
bound the hu man family together in those
vast regions as they bind it together now
Its colonial establishments scattered the
Greciau culture all round the ,shores of the
Mediterranean, and carried the adventures
of Tyre and Carthage to the north of Eu-
rope and the south OF Africa. The walled
cities Of the middle ages prevented the arts
u
out of existence under the iron heel of the
feudal powers. The Hanse towns were the
bulwarks of liberty and property in the
north and west Of Europe for Cages. Tee
germ of the representative system serang
iron the municipal franchises of the boroughs
At the revival of letters, the merchant
princes OF Florence received the fugitive
arts of Greece into their palaces. The
spirit OF commercial adventure produced that
movement in The fifteenth century which
carried Columbus to America, and Vasco di
Cana around ..the Cape of Good Hope
The deep foundations of the modern systems
OF international law were laid in the il
terests and rights of commerce, ard the ne
cessity of protecting them.
"Commerce sprinkIed the treasures Of the
newly found Indies throughout the Western
nations; it nerved the arm of civil and re-
ligious liberty in the Protestant world, it
gradually carried the colonial system of Eu-
rope to the ends OF the earth, and with it
the elements of future independent, civilized
republican governments. But why should
we dwell ON the past! What is it that givss
vigor to the civilization of the preseu, day
but the world wide extension OF commercial
intercourse, by which all the products of
the earth and of the ocean, of the soil, Of
the mine, of the loom, of the forge, of boun-
teors nature, creative art, and uutiriag in
dastrv, are brought by the agencies of COM
merce into the univ sersai market of demand
and supply! NJ matter in what region a
desirable product is bestowed on man by a
liberal Providence, or fabricated by human
skill. 1t may clOthe the hills of China with
It's fragrant folisge-it may glitter in the
golden sand of CalitOrnis-It my waliow
in the depths of the Arctic sess-it may
ripen and whiten in the fertile plains Of tho
sunny South-it NAV spring forth from the
ayiDg shutties of Manchester in Eagland.
or Manchester in America--the great mag
net of commerce attracts i: alike and gath
ers 1t all up for the service of man."
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AgriituGurd.

WAGON FKLLoE..-The following is said
| by practical farmers to be the best ever Of
fered for the purpose.
"Take the wagon 1elIoes after they are
dressed, and boil them in linseed oil from
one to two hours, and you will never be
troubled getting your wagon tires reset.
WORKING LAND THoRoUoAtY.---Our
young farmers especially would do well to
perusa with attention the following extract
of a letter written by George Washington to
Arthur Young:
The agriculture Of this country is indeed
low, and the primary cause of it is, that in
stead Of improving little ground well, We
attempt too much, and do it Ill. hall,
third, or even fourth of what We maggie.
well wrought and properly dressed, would
produce more than the whole"
SEED CoRN.-For preserving seed cora
farmers should select it when well matured.
certainly not later than October, then ptses
it in a dry room--one, for instance, through
which the pipe OF the family cookisg stove
is preferable. Spread it thin on TIE hoor
uIljl the ensuing spring when warm wsata-
er set in. Never depend upon bsynig Il IN
:he spring as you may want il ~
+ w. p. O:tley.. to wbom the d. !. State
Agricultural Society awarded the Erst pre-
uaiu.n :or the best managed farm in 1854,
says: 1T is safe reckoning that draining
will paw for itself, with intsres, of cost, In
two crops" -
CATTLE RAIsIss.-The Pittsburgh Eve
ming ChronieIs calls attention to the d.
N inishing supply OF beef cattle in proper
ton TO the demand, to show our Western
farmers the Importance of paying more at
tention to this department Of :heir busi-
ness.
At the present prices of beef, there is ne
branch of farming more profitable than stock
raising, or that can be carried Oh with fewer
hands, and at less expense. A farm devo,-
ed 10 stock raising may be constantly In
creased in fertility and richness, while oas
that Is employed in the cultivation. of tas
cereals is liable to constant and speedy az
haustiCn.
There are thousands OF acres ofwild land
in Texas and other Western States, admi-
rably adapted to stock raising, where ths-sI-
pense of rearing and winter is compare
lively triaing. But in this business, as in
all others, every farmer should aim at inn
2rovement. A half, three quarters, Jr full
blooded Durham, which will cost no more
to rear it, will bring, at three years old, sag
SIS or 800, while an enimsl Of the COM
mon breed hardly half this sum can be rsi-
lized for it.
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Society OF WoMEs.--DTsraeli, speaking

Society OF WaMEN N--DIsraeli, speaking
of the society of woman, says, alt is an ac-
quaintance which when habitual, exercise a
great influence over the tone of the mind,
even if it does not pro duce any, more violent
effect II refnes the taste, quickens this
perception, anu gives, as it were, grace
and flcxibility to the intellect" Somewhere
else the same writer remarks, that. 'men arc
as much stimulated to mental effort by the
sympathy of the gentler sex, as by the desire
of power and fame Women are more dis
posed to appreciate worth and inte llectual
superiority than men,or at least they are as
often captvated by the noble manifestations
o. genius, as by the destinations of manners
and the charms of person." And Sydney
Smith is equally correct when he says that
"among men of sense and liberal po!iteness
woman who has successfully cultivated hel
mind. without diminishing the gentlenes'
and propriety Of her manners, 10 always sure
to meet with respect and attention border
ing on enthusiasm"
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Gbaitt MliselIlangg.
From the New Monthly Magazinel
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

MaLMA1soS, another melancholy relic of
fallen graneeur, has ever been to me place
of peculiar interest. Unlike Marley, where
every association is Of courts, kings and eti-
ouette, this was the domestic hearth, the
beloved home o: that great conqueror, who
here forgot glory and victory, only to re-
member that he was a man-the ardently
attached husband, the affectionate friend. 1t
is a place connected with all that is most
interesting and attractive in the career of
Napoleon.
Who does not remember the lively ac-
couu, given by the Duchesse d'Abrantes, in
her amusing Memoirs, of the happy days
PASSED at Malmaison by the First Consul
and his friends-the merry games Of hide
.nd.seek, when he chased her and Hortense
Beauharnais (lhe present Emperor's mother),
and many other happy young spirits, through
the trees. becoming so excited in his en-
deayors to catch them Qor he must be sue
cessful everywhere) that he quite terrified
them.
Then the evenings passed in those rooms
a hich it had been the mutual delight of him
self and Josephine to adorn with every Curl
osity and luxury, where all the party played
at cards, and Josephine, dressed in an ele-
giant costume Of white muslin, (Napoleon
said women should always dress in white,
moved about among her guests in her own
quiet, graceful way, or j0inec in the round
game at his desire, and was SO egr@glcuSly
cheated by him, that even she. wh" mover
thought about money, comPlained; when
laughing at her indignation, with pinch
and a fond kiss, he pounced all his gains
into her lap and made his peace. Ala! Ma.
poIeon was happy then, and there is in
these scenes a domestic charm that endears
his memory to every heart, for all have, al
some period of their lives, experienced the
exquisite delight of household love.
Sometimes things did not 60 on quite Sc
. smoothly, however, at Malmaison, when any
of the Bonaparte family visited Josephine
for a most cordial hatred seems to have ex
listed between her and the ladies Of the i'm
perial family, psrtakiRg somewhat of female
rivalry and jealousy.
One evening in particular-when tht
sented to Josephine, on ner marriage witt
the Prince Borghese-must be noted in tn,
annals of Malmaison. Pauline, clever, witty
and most lovely, had accepted the hand o
the Borghese, almost fool in intellect
solely on account Of his money and his title
Sacrificing her heart to her ambition, sh
determined to make the first use of her nev
honors, by endeavoring to humiliate poo
Josephine; and in order to carry out thi
amiable reso luton, announced her intention
of visiting her on certain evening short
after her marriage. Days were passed il
preparing the splendid toilette which was
crush her sister-in-law. At length the mem
orable evening arrived. Josephine, full
aware of the intentions of Pauline, too
her own measures accordingly. She al
ranged herself for this trying ordeal, of
graceful against beautiful woman, wit
consummate tact and perfect knowledg
of that peculiar style Of dress we'll calculate
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The SHADOW ON THE PILLow.-The fol-
low ing incident was communicated by Sir
John McNeill: ~ Highland soldier had his
arm So severely wounded that il was about
to be amputated, when Miss Nightingale
requested the operation to be delayed,as she
thought that under careful nursing the arm
might be preserved. BY her unremittins
care this was accomplished, and the poor
soldier, on being asked what he felt towards
his preserver, said that the only mode he
had Of giving vent to his feelings was by
KISSING her shadow when it fell on bis pill
low as she passed through the ward on her
nightly visit"
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Dursg the stormy days Of iS4S four stall
wart mobocrats entered the bank OF the
late Baron Ansclm de Rothschild, OF Frank
fort You have millions on miilOns," said
they to him.ss'an we have nothing; you
must divide with Us Very well ;,what do
you suppose the firm of De Rethschld is
worth h!''--"About forty millions of florins I"
Forty millions, You think, eh! Now
there are forty millions of Peop ls in Ger
many; that will be ao;in apiece. Here's
YOURS" -.s~ .-.F
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Home is the residence no, merely Of the
body but the heart: il is place foF the af-
fec,ions to unfold and develope themselves;
for children To love and learn, ard pay in;
for husband and wife toll smiling toge,he-
and make life blessing. The object Of all
ambition should be 10 be hspPy at home: if
we are not happy there, We cannot be happy
elsewhere 1t is the bes: proof Of the virtues
of family circle u see Il happy fireS.de.
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Original poetrp,
To Midnight.

Come, lonely honr OF midnigh, come.
Through thy still chambers | would roam,
Where silence relgns supremely mild
With calm moaotony beguilsd.
Ok,.hour of calmness. mild midnight
The rrincely stars with kisses bright,
From out their heaven ofblue,
Will weety greet thee;
And will meet thee.
Ike dreamer true.
Solemn midnight Oh, hasten on,
Ere yon bright moon has sunken down
Behind those hills that girt the west,
In garb of misty darkness drest.
Oh. fond midnight, I've found in thee
- : Z. sSJewels fair;
That live within my memory
sShining there.
Ma4<izs FERRY, Ohio. ]. d.
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door, made strange and mysterious impress
sion upon US. 1t was II that ever saw o
the sage oi Mont ticello."
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LITTLE GRAyEs.
There's many all empty cradle,
There's many vacant bed,
There's many lonely bosom,
Whose JOY and light is fed;
For thick in every graveyard
The little hillocks lie
AND EVERY RILDocK REPEEsEYTs
AN ANGEL IN THE SKY.