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"Unlady-Iikev Electioneering.

Fox had most able canvasser in the person
OF the beautiful Duchess of Devonshire. Her
grace freely bestowed kisses for promises of
votes, and had no less than three of her own
carriages constantly engaged under her imlne-
date directions in bringing electors to the poll
ing booth. Tie lampoons upon her character
seemed only further to excite her energies, and
she speedily became so great an adept in cleo
tioneering tactics as to assume their principal
direction on behalf of Fox. Her grace attended
the meetings sometimes in male attire; spoke,
jacoled, chaffed, drank, smoked, treated, promis-
ed, begged, ordered, bullied, threatened, sang,
danced, prayed, and cried, to further the cause
of "her man." AS an instance of her enthusiasm,
it was told that whilst she was canyassing a
butcher, by some accident her shoe became so
much torn that she could not keep it on. In
this embarrassment she kicked the shoe away
and said, "See! 60 barefoot to serve my
friends!" She won the vote-which had been
promised to Wray. Upon asking candle.maker
for his vote-"I viii give your grace plumper,"
said the man Of grease, 'ane procure yon five
more on certain condition. What is that e.
THAT your grace will give me kiss" "Why,
then," saiG the duchess, "take one." These ia
miliarities We're in turn brought into use by 9TH
er ladies of high rank, both for and against Fox.
The committee over which the Duchess ofDevon-
shire presided had among its members the most
celebrated beauties of the day. The Duchesses
of Rutland and Portland, the Countesses Of Car
Isle and Derby, Ladies Beauchamp and Duncan
non, and, in fact, most Of the ladies of rank in
London were engaged in the contest, and, in ma
ny instances, much to the dissatisfaction of their
husbands. The hustings were constantly beset
with their carriages, either in bringing up voters
or encouraging adherents by their presence. The
obstinate and opposite canvassing fairly bewil-
dered the Westminster tradesmen, and many, to
ease their lives, left town for the country. One
lady had troop of milliners in her carriage, oc-
cupied in making up cockades for Lord Hood,
and distributing them to the spectators. Her
Grace of Rutland superntended the distribution
of rum grog to Lord Hoods sailors and soldiers,
so that Fox's partisans could the more easily de-
feat them, end she encouraged the fierce battles
between the marrow. bones and cleavers and the
seamen. The Devonshire ladies had balcony
erected in Henrietta street, and there they greet
ed friends or foes as they passed to the hustings
The secret committee was held here. An ex-
ample thus set by the higher classes was not
long before it reached the Westminster danes of
every grade, and Sir Cecil Wrsy very soon found
that he had more to fear from the woman than
from all Fox's anu Hoods roughs together
Household Words.
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The BIBLE FOR COMMON LlFE.-We hear much
in the present day about religious and secular
education; but, even for the present life, the Bl-
ble is the best book after all. No situation in
which man can be placed either collectively or
individually, is omitted in its pregnant pages;
for every such situation we may find an eXan-
pie, promise, or warning The famine and
the pestilence are there; the battle and the
tempest are there; the journey by land and the
voyage by sea the siege and the ambuscade ;
the furious mob and the grand assembly; the
shout of victory and the wall of defeat. Every
incident in domestic life is there; the marriage
and the funeral; the joy for first born son, and
the grief at parting with au aged parent; the
sweets of holpebred Affection the horrors OF
fraternai fiscord the notifications of the proud,
and the cain enjoyments Of the humble. 1t is
as true now as of old, that Gods Word is the
best lamp unto their feet, and the best light un-
to their path; that its hidden treasures will re-
ward all their seai oh; thatit should be read ,and
read, and read again, till it truly becomes the
engrafted word, which IS not only able - save
their souls but to teach item to orde: the affairs
of this life with descretion-E Excelsior.
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Weight of Coins.

The coins authorized to be made by law are,
of gold,
The eagle, of the value of ten dolarsor units,
to weigh 25s grains.
Half eagle of the value of five dollars, to weigh
129 grains.
Quarter eagle, of the value of two dollars and
q half to weigh Ga 12 grains.
Double eagle, of the value of twenty dollars,
or units, to weigh 516 grains.
Three dollar gold pieces, of the value of three
dollars, or units, to weigh 81 4-10 grains and
gold dollars, of the value of one dollar or unit to
weigh 25 $40 grains.
The Act of Congress, January, 1887, estab-
fishes the standard of gold at 900 thousandths
fine.
Of silver, the dollar or unit, to weigh 412 1-2
grains. This denomination has ceased to circu-
late, being at premium the weight of the low
er silver denomination having been reduced q
little over seven per cent.
Half dollars, each to weigh 1872 grains.
Quarter dollars, each to weigh 1872 grains.
Dimes, each to weigh one-fifth of the half
dollar or 3S 40 grains.
Half dimes, each to weigh one-tenth of the
weight of the half dollar, or 10 2-1O grains.
Three cent pieces, each to weigh three-it-
teenths of the weight Of half dollar, or II 52-
100 grains; and of the. same standard of fine
ness.
The standard of silver coin is 900 parts of cop
per alloy.
The new cent pieces ordered to be coined un-
der act of Congress of the recent session, have
now appeared They consist of eighty.eight
parts of copper, and twelve of nickel, out of ev-
cry 100 parts, and weigh 70 grains.
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POETRY.
The Duel--A seasonable Ballad.

The Duel--A Seasonable Ballad.
BY THOMAS HOOD.
In the Brentford town of old renown
There lived Mr. Bray,
Who fell in love with Lucy Bell,
And so did Mr.. Clay.
To see her ride from Hammersmith,
By all it was allowed,
Such fair outsides were seldom seen,
Such Angels on q Cloud.
Said Mr.. Bray to Mr.. Clay,
'You choose to rival me,
And court Miss Bell, but there your court
No thoroughfare shall be,
"Uness you now give up your suit,
You may repent your love;
l who have shot pigeon match,
Can shoot turtle dove.
$50 pray before you WOO her more,
Consider what you do;
Fyou pop aught to Lucy Bell
I'll pop it into you.
Said Mr.. Clay to Mr.. Bray.
''Your threats quite explode;
One who has been volunteer.
Knows how to prime and load.
"And so say to you unless
Your passion quiet keeps,
who have shot and hit bulls eyes,
May chance to hit sleeps.
Now gold is oft for silver changed,
And that for copper red;
But these two went away, to give
Each other change for lead.
But first they sought friend apiece
This pleasant thought to give
When they were dead, then they should have
Two seconds still to live,
To measure out the ground, uot long
The seconds then forebore,
And having taken one rash step,
They took dozen more.
They next prepared each pistol-pan
Against the deadly strife,
By putting in the prime of death
Against the prime of life.
Now all was ready for the foes,
But when they took their stands,
Fear made them trenble so, they found
They both were shaking hands.
Said Mr. C.. to Mr.. B.
''Here one of us may fall
Aud like st. Pauls Catheral now,
Be doomed to have ball.
"I do confess did attach
Misconduct to your name;
If withdraw the charge, will then
Your ramrod do the same?'
Said Mr.. B.-"1 do agree
But think of Honor's Courts
If we 30 Off without shoot,
There will be strange reports.
"But look, the morning now is bright,
Though cloudy it begun;
Why can't we aim above, as If
We had called out the SUM-
So harmless up into the air,
Their bullets they did send:
And may all other dues have
That upshot in the end.
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Hume, the spiritualist, has become nothing
less than King, or at least Grand Duke of an
invisible empire in Paris. He treats sovereigns
and grandees as do these more common people,
1t would be difficult to predict to what result
his influence is going to lead. lie has placed
his young sister, who is but II years old, at
school, ,and processes himself to be student. Two
or three rivals are attempting to divide with
him the honors of his diaboc reputation, and
one a Mr. Buchanan, has already made a cer-
tain impression in the saloons. If all this is to
continue comet would not be bad invention
to save the world from the scandal of having
turned fool
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THE Power OF THE SUN-A distinguished
chemist in recent lecture, while showing that
all species of moving power, have their origin in
the rays of the sun, stated that while the iron
tubular railroad bridge over the Menai straits in
England, four hundred feet long, bent but half
an inch under the heaviest pressure of train,it
will bend an inch and half from its usual hori-
zontal line, when the sun shines upon it for some
hours. He stated that Bunker Hill Monument
is higher in the evening than in the morning of
sunny day; the little sunbeams enter the pores
of the stones like so many wedges lifting it up.
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ORANGE PEEL.-The especial attention of pa
rents and others is called to the following facts
The New York Journal Of Commercelearns tina
a little son of Robert Oliver, of that city, abou
five years of age, is now lying in very critica
condition from the effects of eating orange pee
on Monday last. Parents cannot be too cautious
in keeping orange peel from their children, as j
contains an active poisonous oil, which in man.
cases has caused the death of persons who indis
oreetly made use of them. Life is jeopardizze'
every time the rind is taken into the stomach.
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FL1Es.-Housekeeper grocers, butchers and
all are crying out against the plague OF flies
The following method OF preventing their in
gress into shops may be of value;
A traveller remarks that the butcher shops OF
Geneva are all open, and although immense
numbers OF flies may be 4, seen on the outside
walls, not one comes in; Tins is caused by the
inner walls being rubbed over with laurel
oil. which is an effective preventive against the
intrusion of these troublesome insects. The
Courier de Haure in alluding to this fact, states
that no fly will enter o room in which a
wreath of walnut leaves has been hung up. The
exnar;ment is worth trying.
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GALLANT TO THE LAsr.-A correspondent Of
the Evening Post, writing on the woman Cues
ton says:
81 confess in all sincerity. that have never
vet seen an ugly woman. l never fi1d any wo'
man entirely ugly. l enlarged upon this idea
once before an audience OF women. One who
was extremely fiat nosed said to me: Sir de-
fy you not to find me ugly You, madam
replied, ARE an angel fallen from heaven, only
you have fallen on your nose.' Probably she
did not believe me, and has maintained against
thd whole world that she is ugly.
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TIT FOR TAT-A newly married couple (says
late French paper being visited with seren-
ade, the bride inquired its meaning. my dear, v
replied her husband, "t is usual in this town OF
ours, when gentleman is married, tor all the
ladies whom he has Tilted, or hirted with, to
bring him each bridal present of loaf Of bread,
accompanied with music. ."-"Ah!" exclaimed
his young wife, "love, why didn't you tell me Of
that before? How provoking why, would
have made all the beaur that have had come
over from my town, and bring me each bottle
of wine. And then, dear, we would both have
had enough to be merry on, dare say, for the
whole year to come"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-07-15

Dr. Hall, in his Journal of Health for Nav
speaking of the Importance of building houses
in such manner as to protect the health of their
inmates, refers as follows to the Bible:
"There is more sound practical hygienne. on
this subject of healthy houses in the fourteenth
chapter OF Leviticus, from verse thirty-four.
than in all the skulls OF all the health commits,
sioners and common councils of all the cities of
Christendomn
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A CONSTABLE PUT TO Ills WITs.-The Louis
Vile Courier tells of rather keen sheep affair
in that city. A drover was in with good flock
which he was about selling South; but pending
the trade q constable levied upon the sheep for
an old debt. and drove them into an enclosure
The moment the constable was out of sight, the
drover sold them to another man, who turned
them in with another flock. At last accounts
the constable was trying to identify" bis sheep.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-07-15

A young friend OF ours was engaged in teach
ing mutes. He was explaining by signs the use
and meaning of the particle dis, and requested
one of them to write on the black board q sen.
tence showing her knowledge of the sense of the
prefix. A bright little one Immediately stepped
forward and wrote the following: Bows love
to play, but girls to display
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-07-15
The Grave Of Henry Clay.

'Ireneus," the editor Of the New York Ob.
server gives the following account OF VISIT 10
the grave of the Sage of Ashland:
We went to his grave. In the midst OF
beautiful rural cemetery, arranged with remark
able taste, and with some features of attraction
that have rarely been excelled, Henry Clay is
buried. The turf is green on his grave, as his
memory is in the hearts of his friends, but no
record, no stone tells the name of the sleeper
there. But it is not unknown nor to be for
gotten. A well-worn foot-path through the
grass attests the frequent pilgrimages hither,
and none come to the cemetery without finding
his grave and bending over il, to muse on the
end of human greatness and glory. Here lies
the man whose name was the rallying call to
millions! Here lies the man who led Senates
by the magic power of his resistless words; who
shook the continent with his voice; reused the
spirit of liberty in the people, and sent words OF
hope and cheer to yearning hearts in other lands;
who held out the olive branch of rest and peace,
when the ark was riding on stormy seas, and
stout men trembled lest she would perish in tu-
multuous waves! The great peace-maker, as
well as Senator, orator and Statesman! Who
was often voted to deserve the highest post IN
the gift of his country, but perished without
reaching the goal OF his proud and manly ambl-
ton. Such is human glory. 1t yanishes into
thin air when grasped it eudes the grasp of mil
lions, who seek it and die without the sight.
On the Fourth of July the friends of Henry
Clay from all parts of the country are coming
here to lay the cornerstone of splendid monu-
ment to his name and fame The foundation is
already laid the materials for the structure are
in preparation, and it will rise, white, pure and
beautiful from this green sod to the height Of a
hundred feet, witness Of the affection with
which his name is cherished by the people of
this wide spread country. Safely may we say
that no man since Washington has been loved
by so many of the American people-no man
whose patriotism, talents and experience had so
clearly marked as lawful aspirant for Presi-
Dental honors, and who failed to reach them
What lessons of rebuke to the passion that burns
for worldly fame and power do we read over this
unmarked grave. And when the noble shaft is
raised, and in the chamber at its base is placed
the sarcophagus with the ashes of this illustri.
Gus man, pilgrims of successive generations will
come to it as shrine, and rehearse the tradi-
tionary stories of the eloquence of Henry Clay.
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LITTLE GlRLs-There is something inexpres.

LITTLE UIKL5.- IeTt IS sUIIttII1Ig IIe3 pres-
sibly sweet in little girls. Lively, pure, inno-
cent, ingenious, ,unsuspecting, full of kindness to
brothers, babies, and everything. They are
sweet little flowers, diamond dewdrops in the
breath of morn. What pity they should ever
become women, flirts, and heartless coquettes
A REMEDY.-We have it from excellent au-
thority that no fly will enter room in which a
wreath of walnut leaves has been hung up
When these winged annoyers are SO abundant
the experiment is worth trying.
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AN IRISH FEMALE PREAcHER is drawing crowd

AN IRISH FEMALE PREACHER is drawing crowds
of all sects to listen to her eoquence. Her hair,
eyebrows and eyelashes are almost white; her
face pale, and she is only twenty-five years of
age. She has had many invitations to preach
from different parts of the country, and even
from Scotland She accepts no earthly fee or
reward, and says she is prompted to speak in
obedience to an answer to her prayer twelve
month since.
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A New York editor thinks from the manner
shirts are made in that city, there ought to be
an inspector of SeWers. The editor went to the
expense of q new shirt the other day, and found
himself, when he awoke in the morning crawl
ing out between two of the shortest stitches.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-07-15

A nervous man, whose life was made misera
BILE by the chattering of two blacktmlths, pre-
vailed upon each of them to remove, BY the OF
fer of pecuniary compensation. When the
money was paid down he kindly inquired wha
neighborhood they intended to remove to 2
"Why SIR" replied Jack, with grin on his PHI
"Tom Smith moves to my shop, and l move te
b;s ~
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Done IN BUSINESS STYLE.-A young man who
was very desrous of marrying daughter Of q
tempts to broach the subject to the old gentle.
man. in very suffering manner, said:
"Mr, o., are you willing to l-l-let mo
h-h-have your daugh-daughter, janet"
"Of course l am" grufly responded the old
gentleman, "and l wish you would get some
other likely young fellows to marry the rest of
them"
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Two Weavers working in one shop in the
city of Houston, were conversing one day on
the subject of authorship, when one of them Oh.
served that the man Finis was q great author.
he had seen that writer's name attached TO .
great many books. You must be q stupd
blockhead,' replied the other, that man named
Finis is the printer
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Hebrew Poetry.

Hebrew poetry has exerted, and is now ex-
erting, more influence than the poetry OF any
other nation. 1t is co-extensive with the lam
ruage of the civilized world. How widely, for
instance, are the English conquests carrying the
English translation of the Bible. The sweet ly-
rist of Israel has penetrated farther than Alex
ander of Macedon. His odes are now sung in
the vale of Cashmere, and at English tresides
half way up the Himneleh Mountains The
Scotch bugler, as he picks up the Greek coin in
Old Bactria, comforts his exile with Psalm sing
ing from the version of the Covenanters The
extension of the English language, to which no
limits can now be set, will, in variety of ways,
perpetuate the influence of the Scriptures.
Hebrew poetry is the fountain head to which
the great masters of song have always repaired.
A separate essay has been written to show how
much Shakespeare was indebted to the Scrip
lures. One of the most original poems in the
language is the Ferie Queen of Spenser, won
derfu for its invention, its singular tancieS, its
humorous stories. 1t is easy to perceive the
influence of the scriptures on the imagination of
Spenser. The Red Gross Knight is the Chris
tian in the last chapter of EpheSians. s.armed with
the panoply of the Gospel Of Milton, Words
worth says: However imbued the surface
NAV be with classical literature, he was He.
brew in soul, and all things in him tended to-
ward the sublime" If his epic shall endure as
long as the language in which it is written, it
will be greatly owing to his inspired prototypes,
who suggested or aided his adventurous song
IF time does not crumble the adamant of Shaks-
peare, it must be ascribed in considerable de-
gree to the same cause Tho Messiah of Pope
is only paraphrase of some passages of Isaiah.
The highest strains of Cowper are but an ex-
pansion of chapter Of the same prophet
In the Thanatopsis of Bryant, the lines
"Thou shalt lie down with patrarchs of the infant
world,
With kings the powerful of the earth the WISE the
good"
remind us at once of the words of Job.
Lord Byron's celebrated poem on Darkness
"The bright sun was extnguished and the stars
Did wander darkling in eternal space" &C.,
was evidently founded on passage in Jere-
mah.
In short, il would be impossible to estimate
the influence of the Bible on the poetic litera-
ture of all the Christian nations.-Pr9t. Ed
1cdrds
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Royal presence with visible proof of the un-
gentle treatment had undergone on my brow.
The man in scarlet who had soverthrown fine
took no notice of the accident his rudeness had
occasioned, nor have the slightest idea who
he was. The confusion at going away was, if
possible, worse than the difficulties of the ap
proach. The crush and bad order in the lobby
prevented me from reaching my carriage when
it was called several times, so that | did not
leave the Palace till past six in the evening, in a
state of great exhaustion
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WHAT AN IDEA WILL Dot is astonishing
what an idea will do A man coneeives the j.
dea of making steam drive machinery, and 10!
tens of thousands of laborers are supplied with
employment, and millions upon millions OF wealth
are amassed,by that single conception. Anoth-
er imagnes that magnetism can be- applied as
to furnish means for instantaneous communica-
ton between remote places, and behold, the e.
lectrc telegraph with its manufactures for the
production of wire and apparatus and its thou
sands of employees. The Idea" is equally po-
tent in less scientific spheres. A man hits upon
q novel and etfectual mode of advertising-he
strikes out new idea in that direction and how
soon the papers swarm with limitations A wri-
ter originates style which at once sweeps the
land, and is triumph from the moment of its
birth again imitators spring up on every hand,
and the country is surfe1ted with trashy diu-
tions of the original. man conceives the idea
of conveying small packages to and from New
York and Boston; he begins by carrying few
in the crown of his hat; and from that small
gem has grown the mighty and tar-reaching ex-
press business, which now stretches its Briare-
an arms over all lands and across all SEAS
Great is an idea.
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L1pERALrrY OF THE AGE.-Street Merchant
with a tray of toothpicks before him. "Here
YOU are Three penny! Toothpicks Three
a penny! Pick and try 'em, before you buy
'em !n-Pu1ch.
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A THoUGHTFUL HUsBAND.-'Isn't it time to
think about getting up9' said the wife, as she
ratified at the door. Yes, my DEAR replied the
husband, 4 have been thinking about it an hour
and half