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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-02-08

THE nativity table gives 32i natives OF the United
States 81 Of Ireland, 2C of Germany, II Of England
and of Scotland.
We understand that steamer started from this
port yesterday TO endeayor to open communication
through the ice with the Sound. As we have not
heard OF her return the effort has probably proved
successful.
Representatives, from the leading fire insurance
companies met yesterday 10 Wall street 10 hear the
Uport q committee appointed 10 consider the bet
means OF preventing FIRE from heaters and hot air
furnaces curing extreme cola weather. The report
81 the committee wa 20 the effect that the Legisla-
ture should be requested 10 pass law prcscri Ding
penalties sgsnst those who put heaters in stores
and dweipes, unless in such manner tbs. they
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Newspaper Personalities.

The following remarks, which we
copy from the New York Tribune, are
worthy the attention Of the conductors
Of newspapers:
Tn one point the conductors Of the
Press Of this country eminontly fail
that is, in courtesy and forbearance to-
ward each other. While Doctors Of
Medicine arc VIGOROUSLY slow to blazon
each others mistakes and shortcomings.
Clorgymen evince a very proper and
general respect for the cloth, and even
Lawyers, though pitted against each
other in wordy war, contrive, like we'll
made shears, to cut, not each other. but
whatever comes between them, Editors
are too apt to enter the arena as gladia-
tors, and blacken each others reputa-
tions quite as often as they elucidate
eace others errors of fact or Of iudg-
mont. With the mere january of par
ty, who belongs to this or that aspi-
rant or clique, who bought his press and
types and can turn him out of doors
whenever he chooses TO foreclOse his
mortgage, this may seem inevitable; not
so with the Editor who owns his own
establishment and asks of his customers
only that they pay for what they choose
to buy Of him. With the Press Of the
great cities, on which the shackles Of
party are apt to hang loosely, and which
ought to be able to discuss principles
and measures Of grave import without
resorting to personalities to render its
essays piquant. the excuses urged for
petty ordinations and re-criminations
are even more preposterous than in the
case Of others.
Can we not amend in this respect2-
May we not be Free Traders or Protec-
tionists, Republicans or Democrats, Pro-
Slavery or Ant-Slavory, License or An
d-License, without assailing each other
personally? Are the questions which
divide us so frivolous, the issues which
convulso the country so unimportant,
that we can only render our columns
readable by pitching into each othcr2
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Affairs in Kanses.


We invite attention to the following,
from the Locompton correspondence of
the Missouri Democrat, written April
9th:
OUTRAGEs UNDER THE CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTION LAW.
The law under which the census was
to be taken, and q constitutional con-
vention called, is carried out ina manner
still more fraudulent than the law it.
self The county courts, under it, de-
eide what shall be the precincts in each
county, and the places of voting The
county court Of this county, recently ap-
pointed by the bogus legislature, have ta-
ken this step. In doing so they have
been guilty of a great outrage. They
have made four precincts and voting-pla-
ces in Douglas county. In these Law
renee is omitted Lawrence and the VI
cinity around it contains half the in
habitants ofthe county, but has been de-
MED a voting precinct. Lecompton is
one, and is not sixth part as large as
Lawrence. The other precincts are To-
Gated at obscure points, where there are
few prO-slavcry settlers The census
list is a great fraud, so far as known,
but the lists have not yet been posted up
publicly, which ought to have been
done on the 1st Of April, according to
the enactment of the bogus legislature,
1t is not supposed that it will be done.
This is going to be the grandest Of all
the Kansas sWindles.
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DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

ScANLET FEVER. II correspondent of the
New York Post says the following is a very
simple and efinacious remedy for the terrible
soreness aud liberation Of the mouth and
throat i'm aggravated cases Of scarlet rever:
"Take equal quantities Of honey and swpe
oil, both should be pure-say one table spoon
ful Of each, or enc Tea spoonful, heat it on a
sheet Of glazed letterpaper over a spirit or
fluid lamp, and give the patient, at frequent
intervals, small quantity as cold as ii can
be taken. II eau do no harm, and has in some
cases, where the collection. of mucus In the
throat aud mouth almost produced sulfocation,
saved the patients life.
To KEEP TEA-KErTLEs CLEAv.-Water of
every kind, except rain water, will speedily
cover the Inside Of a tea-kettIo with an IN
pleasant Crust this may be easily guarded
against, by placing a clean oyster shell in the
tea-kettle, which will always keep IL in good
order, by attracting the particles Of earth or
stone.
PAPER FOR RooM.--Iu choosing paper for
room avoid that which has variety of col
ors, or large snowy figure, us no furniture
can appear TO advantage, with such, Large
figured paper makes a small room look smaller.
To Cure CRAMP.-A cold application to the
bottom Of the bare feot, such as iron, water,
rock, earth, or ice, when Il can be had-tho
colder the better. 1t will relieve in five min
utes. II in the upper part Of the body or arms
then apply the remedy to the hands also.
To CLEAN Straw MATTWG.-Straw mating
may be cleaned with a large coarse CLOTH Dip
ped IN salt and water and then wiped dry; tho
salt prevents the mating from turning yellow.
MILDEwED LINEN may be restored, by soap
ing the spots while wet, covering them with
fine chalk, scraped to powder, and well rubbed
in.
To WASH GLAss.--Glass should be washed
in cold water, which gives it a bright ter and
clearer look, than when washed in warm water
To CLEAN CARFET.--Bsat it on the wrong
side first, und then more gently on the right
side.
To CLEAN CANE CHAIRs.-Sponge them until
soaked with soap aud hot water.
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The Passover


Yesterday was the last Of the eight
days during which the widely scattered
children Of Israel have eaten unleaven-
ed bread For more than thirty-fve
hundred long years has the feast been
sacredly observed in commemoration Of
the fight from Egypt, when the Israel
ties had to depart in haste, taking with
them their unleavcned bread to harden
beneath the rays of a tropical sun as
they journeyed. 1t is their anniversa-
ry Of indepondence-''their fourth Of
july if We may so term it-and ever,
whether in the palmy days of Jcrusa-
lem S prosperity, or in the prosecutions
to which the race has been subjected,
has the miraculous deliyerance from
Egyptian bonds been loyalty celebrated.
In every Jewish family, during this
"teast of unleavcncd bread, the cir
cumstances of the midnight flight are
read from the "Hagada. " or sacred histo-
ryt by the head of the household. He
sits at the head of a table, on a cushion
ed seat, leaning somewhat to the left, to
indicate that he is no longer a bOndm0n,
but the equal Of king The reading
.of the record occupies an hour, during
which the family are RECALLED with un-
leavened bread with bitter herbs to re-
mind them Of the bitter treatment Of
Pharoah; but afterwards more accepta-
BILE ediblcs are provided Nowhere in
Christendom are the Isroelites in such
unrestrained enjoyment Of their faith as
in the United States, and their numbers
are largely increasing by immigration.
-CSeyc. Plain Dcalcr 2Oh.
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MARRIAGE DIsAPPoINTMENTs.- Lis
ten to the stories Of the disappointed
in marriage, collect all their complaints,
hear their mutual reproaohos; upon what
fatal hinge does the greatest part Of
them turn? "They were mistaken in the
person" Some disguise either of body
or mind is seen through in the first do
mestic scufies, some fair ornament, per
haps that very one which won the heart
the ornament Of a meek and quiet
spirit-falls of. Be open be honest;
give yourself for what you are; conceal
nothing, varnish nothing; and if these
fair weapons will not do, better not con-
quor at all than conquer for a day. If
the heart beguiles itself in the choice,
and imagination will give excellencies
which are not the portions Of flesh and
blood, when the dream is over and we
awake in the morning, it matters little
to whom the self-deceived one is united.
Bethe object what it will, as it must be
on the earthly side, at least Of perfec-
ton, it will fall short Of the work of fan
cy, whose existence is in the clouds
In such cases Of deception, let no one
eXola.m, "What is it thou hast done
unto me2" for 'tis his own doing, and
he has nothing TO lay the fault on,
but the heat and poetic indiscretion
Of bis or her own passion,
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For the News.
IN HEAVEN.

NN AANh D.
"And God shall wipe away al tears fror
herir eyes, and there shall be no more death
neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall thsr
% any more pain."-RsU. H Chap, am Ucrs
No heavy shadows, no sad years,
No wuiling heart, no burning tears,
No dssoluuons, griefs, or fears,
in Heaven.
No fallen hopes, no bitter blight,
No deep despair, or fading light,
Whore dwell tho angels pure and bright,
In Heaven.
No pale wan check, or toar-dimmod eye,
No half-uupprsssed, hsart-broken sigh5i
No waiIing wild Ger severed ties,
In Heaven.
No toiling hands or widows groani
No little children's piieous moan
No weary feet tread all alone,
In Heaven.
No sickness there no bitter cry
o'or dear ones gone, floats sadly by;
For loved friends never, never die,
In Heaven.
No whispers dark, or hearts Of guile,
No stinging words Of slander vile,
Can ever enter the bright Isle
OF Heavenl
Bulufter life, on angels wing.
The coon will tune their harps and siugi
Redeemed, the tidings they will bring,
In Heaven.
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For the News.
Our notwithstanding has gone
to Heaven.

For the News.
Our sabbath-schoolmate has gone
to Heaven.
Why all this mournful moving to and
fro? Why does sadness reign through
out our little village? Why weep ye
all around? Tread softly, gently, low
ing ones. A youthful one has fallen
Harkl hear that wall of woel It comes
from a little heart that has not longer
experience of life's trials and sorrows,
than the little form that lies pale, cold,
dead, before us Deadl it cannot be
that dear little Dora, the bright, the
beautiful, the gay, is dead. It cannot
be that that angel form is motionless
and cold;-that those rosy cheeks and
ruby lips are sunken and colorless;-
that those bright, sunny tresses will
never more wave to the summer breeze
in childish mirth;-that those swift
gliding feet, tripping so gracefully every
Sabbath morning to Sabbath School,
are still And that sweet voice, which
rang out so merrily in our Sabbath
School choir, it cannot be that it is hush
ed and still in death. But alas! it must
be so. Yesterdays sun shone upon the
little velvet-coyered coffin that encircled
all that remained Of the loved little Do
RA; and the clods of the valley told, as
they ratified upon her coffin, that she
had passed away from us foreverl
Aud methought, while loving friends
stood weeping round, how vain are all
the hopes Of earth, But one short
week ago Dora mingled in gay
scene, herself the widest spirit Of all,
the gayest Of the gay, and the merri-
est Of the merry. But pleasures day
is a brief, though bright one. Life is
not all a fairy scene, Quickly the rava-
ges Of disease fastened upon her delicate
frame, and soon the Angel Of Death
came; his icy fingers passed among
the tender heart-strings, and they
ceased to vibrotoi his breath passed over
the marble brow and it was chilled,
and DoRA's freed soul was borne away
on ongol-wings, to the land Of spiritsl
o. how'wo all viii miss her Father
Mother, brothers, and sister, all who
still hold the family circle dear, will End
that in the childish glee one voice is
gone-around the family hearth one
seat is vacant, and at Sabbath School
well find, one smiling face is not there.
Wen all, all miss her here; but she's
gone to meet her baby brother that went
before. Angels are her companions,
and we hope some time to meet her
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The White Men

OF Missouri are being aroused to the
fact that slavery is to them a greater
curse than to the negroes. 1t is won
derful that, in the slave States so palpa-
bic a proposition has so long remained
in obscurity from the vision Of the la
boring whites. Free white labor OPP
posed to black slave labor was the form
in which the question was presented to
the people of St. Louis at the late elec-
ton which resulted in the significant
triumph of the omnncipationists The
Missouri Democrat says, in reply to the
cant of the journals opposing its course,
which raise the mad-dog cry Of slavery
agitation:
eve wish to submit only one word
about agitating the white mans ques-
ton 1t is the latter that we arc en-
gagged in and not the former. Iti is the
prosperity and welfare of the white race
that we are examining, and the condition
Of the black race is not now under our
consideration We wish TO invite immi-
grafton Of free men TO Missouri-not Of
slaves. We wish the increase Of the
population Of our State to come from
industrious white communities, and not
to be the vicious and perhaps criminal
otfscourings Of the slave markets Of
Virginia and Carolina. We wish to
proclaim throughout the length Of our
iand-room for more. White men arc
the documents we design to circulate
white men are the facts we appeal to-
and this is what we call agitating the
white mems question The Republican
calls it agitating the slavery question,
because It looks upon white men only
as slaves.
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WRITE OFTEN.


[Cut out the following and place II IN III
leTt letter you write 10 q dear friend. A moi
appropriate poem for such service was nevo
Rritten,l
Write to mo very often,
Write 10 me very soon
Letters TO me are dearer
Than loveliest flowers in June;
They are affections torches
Lighting at friendships limp
Fitting around the heart-stringg,
Like hrs-Aes In the damp.
Write to me very often,
Write in the joyous morn,
Or az the close Of evening,
When all the day is gone.
Then while the stars arc beaming
Bright In the azure sky,
When through the fading forest
COldy the wild winds sigh,
Draw up thy little table
Close 10 The fire, and write
Write TO me soon In the morning
Or write TO me late at night.
Write TO me very often;
y Letters are links that bind
Truthful hearts to each other,
lettering mind to mind,
Giving 10 kindly spirits
Lasting aud true delight.
If We would strengthen friendship,
Never forget TO write,
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Temperanee Matters in RiobIand

a
We see by the Mansfield Herald that
nearly all the liquor sellers in Mans
field have bee Indicted by the Grand
jury Of Richlau county, and their ca
ses continued to the next court A
liquor seller in Belleville, in that coun-
ty, was fined $40, and sent to Jail for
20 days The Herald states
The most interesting case before the
Court was a prosecution by this same
liquor-seller, of eleven Bolleville ladies,
for riot. Ttappears that they all had
either fathers, husbands or sons, who
frequented the doggery, neglocting and
frequently abusing their families. The
ladies consulted together and resolved
to extinguish the cause of their trou-
bles, and armed with hatchcts and 9th
er implements, proceeded to the dog
gerry. The keeper resisted, seized a
can of powder and searching his pock-
cts for a match, threatened to "blow
them all to h-p' The can, however,
was wrested from hiri, and he carried
out of the house Oy several men who
were looking on The testimony show
ed that he kept a very bad house,
curse to the community The suit was
instituted at the November term, and
the ladies held to bail in the sum of
$500 to appear for trial The case was
on trial for several days, and resulted
in the acquittal of the ladies, on Friday
night last, the jury returning a verdict
of "not guilty" When they returned
to Belleville, it is said, they were met
by large delegation, and were trium.
phantly escorted to their homes.
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there, where death and sorrow arc not
known, and parting never comes.
Fond parents mourn not, your darling gone,
She basks in eternal light ubovei
She's gone to lure you from this vain world
To one Of happiness and love-
MoLLIE q. X.
Cedar Hill, near Rainsboro, Aug. 9Th,
1856.
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JUVENILE DEPARTMENT.

For the News.
Miscellaneous Enigma.
am composed of28 letter8.
My 6, g, /, is an animal
Ny 10, 10, ., "a, is rams name.
Ny 8, 10, is a boys nickname.
My IS, II. /, 2a, 9, Is an animal.
My2, 5, 26, is a boys nickname.
Ny g. 8, !, is an animal
My g. 10, Z, l6, Is an animal.
My 2, 25, IA. is a kind Of fowl
MY2l, 10, q, 20, is much used by tho Irish.
My "a, n, %, is very useful
My l3, 8, s, 10, 10, 10, is lake in N. York.
My q, 10, 9, IL, is very useful
My 10, %, ~, u, %, is "a girls nickname.
Ny ! l3, 9, Is, 26, 1, 10, is town in Can
ada.
My8 81, 81 i, 7, %, is "a kind Of fruit.
My ., l3, 8, %, is a mans name
My q, 10, 26, IS, 3, is a kind Of boat
My 9, I'D. 9, /, is a mans name.
Nj whole will long bo remembered by all
true Americans. CLATE II,
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"WHAT's IN A NAMEp'-Beware Of
top-heavy names, such as Byron, Wash
ington, and Shakespeare, which only
serve to belittle the wearcr. Better bv
half call them all John and Mary. Give
them good, plain, manly, spelling-book
titles, and then if any man nicknames
your child, prosecute him for slander.
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4Ortrp
MAY

Leigh Hunt whose writings ors remarkable
FOR an extreme dehcacy Of fancy, although
somewhat deiormed by quaintness Bavorlng
afIectation, is the author Of the following poem
suggested by the season, which shows In a
striking manner both his excellences and his
defects:
May thou month Of rosy beauty!
Month when pleasure is a dutyi
Month Of maids that milk tho kline
Bosom rich and breath divine:
Month Of bees, aud month Of howorsi
Month Of blossom laden bowersi
Month Of little hands with daisies,
Lovers love and poars praises;
Oh, thou merry month complete
May thy very meme is sweet.
NAV was maid I'm olden times,
And is still 90 Scottish rhymes;
Mays the blooming hawthorn bough
Mays the month that's laughing now.
I NO sooner write the word,
Than it seems as though Il heard,
And looks up and laughs at me,
Like a sweet face, rosilyi
Like an actual color bright,
Flushing from the papers whites
Like a bride that knows her power,
Startled I'm a summer bower
II the rains that do us wrong
Come to keep the winter long,
And deny us thy sweet looks,s
can love thee, sweet! in books
Love thee in the poets pages,
Where they keep thee green for ugoBi
Love and reads thee, as a lover
Reads his ady's letter over.
Breathing blessings on the art
Which commingles those that part
There is May I'm books for ever;
May will part from Speuser neveri
Mays I'm Milton-May's i'm Prior
Mays in Chaucer, Thomson, Dyori
Mays in all the Italian booksi
She has old and modern hooks;
Where she sleeps with nymphs and Olives
In happy places they call shelves,
And will rise aud dress your rooms
With a drapery thick with blooms.
Come, ye rains, then, If ye will,
Mays al home, and with me still;
But come, rather, thou good weather!
And find us In the fields together.
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That was a beautiful thought of the
little Swedish girl, who, walking with
her father on a starry night, absorbed
in contemplation Of the skies, being
asked Of what she was thinking, replied:
81 was thinking if the 1rong side
of heaven is so glorious, what must the
right side be?"
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CoNs.-Why is lady sweetest when she Is
just out Of bed On tho momingl Because then
she's a rose.
What 10 tho difference between q maiden Of
sixteen and a maiden Of Slxtyl One is careless
and hoppy and tho other Is hairless and copy
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Picturosl picturesl hang your walls
with pictures. Let your children re-
member the sweet engrayings of home.
Cherish that innocent love of the beau
tifuI
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No SLAVERY IN MEXICO. - Accor-
ding to one Of the provisions Of the new
Mexican Constitution, all persons born
in the Republic Of Mexico are born free,
and all slaves touching Mexican soil re-
gain by that act their liberty, and have a
right TO tho protection Of the laws
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them mentioned that he did not thin k
Of the terrible night and the fearful
death to which he was doomed by the
Tribunal Of the Holy VEHME.
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Kissing

Hardly any two females kiss alike
There is as much variety in the manner
of doing it, as in the faces and manner
of the sex. Some delicate little crea-
lures merely give us a slight brush of
the lip. This is a sad aggravation. We
seem to be about to "have a good time -
but actually get nothing. Others 60 in
20 us like q hungry man to beef steak,
and seem to chew up our countenances.
This is disgusting, and soon drives away
a delicate lover Others struggle like
hens when burying themselves in dry
dirt-the kiss is won by great exertions,
and is not worth the trouble it costs.
Now, we are in favor of a certain shy
ness when a kiss is proposed, but this
should not be continued too long, and,
when the fair one 'gives in, let her ad-
minister the Kiss with warmth and ener-
cy. Let there be a soul in it. IF she
closes her eyes and sighs deeply imme-
diately after it, the effect is greater
She should be careful not to "slobber"
kiss, but give it as a humming- bird
runs his bill into a honey y-suckle-deep,
but delicately There is much virtue
in a kiss when well delivered We
have had the memory of one we receiv-
ed in our youth to last us forty years,
and we believe it will be last the thing we
shall think of when we die.--ED.
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UJ-Answer to Enigma I'm last weeks Naws
is-"Samuel Edward Reynolds"
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Music is the most delightful, rational
entertainment that the human mind can
possibly enjoy-Sydney Smith.
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All the day had Adrianua remained
mournfully within the castle of Drack-
enfcls. Her father had summoned her
to depart with him on the day after the
imperial ball, without assigning a rea-
son for his strange proceedings. The
thought Of hor lover mourning her alb
senco preyed upon the spirits Of the