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Positive and Comparative.

Among tlieA delegates to thu Medical
Convention, now in session in this city, is n
gallant Bostonian-well known to fame
Dr.. John Il. Moriarty, physician, to- Deer
Island Hospital, DIR. NJ. is aeman of large
hesrt, and POSSESSES corpofeh frame 10
matcl-tlle latter weighing four, hundred
and ten pounds. :. 0fcourse soS ,elcphan-
tine figure occupies some little space up
on the sidewalk, and space no less Mate.
rial at tho dinner table. The doctor iss.. n
guest at the GirafG House y@shereske, TOOK
up his quarters night before tsst. His frat
appearance at the gentleman's ordashy
was, therefore, Sat spterday smosDine's 3
fssaldastS Tie doctor itSok his saxt in close
vicinity 10 thestenor Amodio,, WHO, as our
opera:going readers arc aware, is a remark
able specimen0f rotund .adipesity, weigh
ing typ hundred and. eighty pounds, and
being nearly as broad,as lie is long :.
AS soon- The doctor WAS seated, the
tenor dropped the table cutlery from his
hand, and sat with lis eyes fixed upon the
,f,rmer in mute astouishnent untirthe meal
was completed. The tenor left the table
just as the doctor was putting the sugar io-
to his cup Of coffee, and sought out Ms.
Chadwick, one of the heads jfsthe establish
ment. "Mistare Chadwick, Iswant Won in
PRODUCTION to ze yerrabig gentleman which
ssat opposite to me at ze table"
"Certainls :siriaswalk up,gs was thevre..
ply; ;;eapd 4 moment aftcrward, the greater
andfffe lesser giants WERE energetealIy
shaking hands, Tie intsrcharge,of two
oblong bits of pasteboasd hayingfatther 10.
tSodnced the parties, DR.. M6riarty. assured
s1e tefos that he WAS very. happy. osnake
His acqasintance, 10 which the tenor rejoin-
ed "Ah Tiny yefy. dear sir, I; pm twibe
glad TO- know ypus rppcc fot8onfo own sake,
and twice BECAUSE now they are no snore
call mo vonsfat man.; Besides you,. r am
like ze,rhinoceros. besides ze. elephant I"
The doetorIaughel Heartily. al the te-
nor's comparison, and both gentlemen
made their exitinto side, room, where
table graced swith, .sundry mystsssious. fia-
.gons with foil around -tlieir necks. The
gentlemen. s.smilea etegatbsr--who e6uld
Blame tie.s Philat. ! North .4nerioan.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-10-21
MilliOnaIreS.

What constitutes fortune2 With u.s. a man
who possesses q capital of 100000 is honored
with the brevet title of Millionaire In Eng
land there are hundreds upon hundreds OF pri
vate gentlemen, each with 100000 per annum,
who are rather looked down upon as only indif-
ferenty well of, by magnates, with halfa county
as their territory, and revenue OF principali-
ty for their income. We do not allude to the
Marquis of Westminster, with $2,000000 a year,
or the Dukes of Buccleugh, Portland, Devonshire
or Sutherland, each of whom is nearly as veal
thy.
The curious thing is, how little the wealth Of
the British middle classes is made matter Of os-
teutation. The other day Mr.. Muntz, who had
been member of Parliament, went to his long
home. He had been patentee of an improved
method of copper sheathing for ships, and was
believed to be wealthy. His manner of living,
plain with all his comforts, never indicated vast
wealth. His will was proved fortnight ago,
and the mere personality, which is wholly If
respective of his landed estates, amounted to
$3, 100000. He left $4,000 and the use of his
furnished house to his widow $l25, 900 to each
of four sons; $4,000 to q son in New Zealand 4;
81, 100000 to his daughter; $4,000 to his broth
err, (the executor and all the rest, according to
the law and fashion of English primogeniture, to
his Oldest son. Had so wealthy man passed
away from us, he would have been duly adyer-
tised. In England, few lines, without any
gloriication, simply announced how his proper
ty was disposed OF. There is no surprise what
ever at tradesman's having realized, in addi-
ton to his other wealth, the sum of $3,000,O00
of personal property. t.-t
In England, the least ostentation is displayed
bv the WealthieSt Some wears ago friend OF
ours dined at private house in Manchester, the
cotton-opolis of England, and among the half
dozen of whom the company were composed,
our friend, man of letters, and therefore poor
being the best dressed of the lot-one owned
FIVE millions sterling; two had three millions
each fourth had two millions and the host,
comparatively pooramong such mlionaires, was
worth about one million. Here were G14, ,000,-
900, or $40, ,0O0, 900, owned by five men, painspo-
ken, plain hammered and plainly attired, Pill.
Press
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-10-21

A TERRIBLE PUNIsHMRNT.-The London Spec
tator contains the following expression of opin-
ion as to what should be done with Nena Sahib
in the event of his capture alive:
He should be Gagged as matter for study;
and, after exhibition in India, should be brought
to England and carefully guarded, to live out
the term of his natural or unnatural life like
monster withoutsympathy. His physical health
should be preserved with the utmost care, and
he should live to undergo the most painful OF all
punshments to such miscreant-the absence Of
all sympathy and the knowledge that he was re-
duced to the condition of "a captured beast of
prey, study for the natural philosophers of the
nation he had outraged, as some compensation
for forfeited humanity. He should be Gagged in
the Tower as the real Bengal tiger, with some
of the four.footed tigers in cages alongside of
him for comparison. We do not revenge our
selves on wild beasts; we kill them out of the
way, or reserve them as specimens; and we cam
not afford to waste the opportunity for the pun
ishment of a human tiger as warning, pun
ishment that distant from the scene OF his atroc-
tiles will magnify manifold as deterring inhu-
ence He is q gentleman, q high caste, ever
susceptible of modification by the process of de-
graduation from the condition Of humanity to
that of brutality; devoid of moral feeling, prob
ably moral idiot, and only sensitive in pride
or vanity. The spectacle of his hopeless cap
tivity will do more to deter than would the
hanging of hundred thousand Of his fellows
Mere death would be no punishment to this hu-
man bruts-would have no effect on the future.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-10-21

A Goop WORD FOR THE LADIEs.-Some of the
papers are lecturiDg women upon extravaganza
in dress, and advising them to retrench, especial
ly during the present financial difficulty. Doubt
less there are many cases of unwarrantable ex-
travagance in this way but do people ever con,
slider that two or three glasses of brandy and
half dozen regalias, INDUCED in daily by a
man, to say nothing Of five and ten dollar din
ners. amount to more in year than would be
required to dress woman up to the full require
ments of fashion2 Much of this talk about the
extravaganza of women is nonsense. They are
almost universally careful, and many o trader
would to-day have been safe and sound if he had
listened to the prudent counsels OF his wife, rath-
er than the reckless promptings of his own am
bition. 1t is natural for mean men to endeavor
to shift the responsibility of their folly to other
shoulders; but it is rather too much to charge a
commercial reyulsion like this upon ones wife
and daughter
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-10-21

SCOTTISH SUPERsTITIoNs.-On an infant enter
ing the first strange house, the person who car
ries it demands piece of silver, an egg, and
some bread for good luck to the child. This is
a folk lore in Edinburgh does it exist any where
else9
2. When pea-pod containing nine peas is
found by young woman while shelling peas,
she places it above the outer door, and the first
yonsg man who enters the door thereafter is to
be her future husband.
8. There are fishermen in Forfarshire who,
on hare crossing their path while on their way
to their boats, will not put to sea that day.
4. In some parts of Scotland horse shoe that
has been found, when nailed to the mast of a
fshing-boat, is great means of ensuring the
boats safety in storm.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-10-21

An old woman who lived near the frontier
during the last war with Great Britain, and pos.
sessed marvellous propensity to learn the news,
used frequently to make inquiries of soldiers
On one occasion she called to one Of these de-
tenders of our rights, whom she had frequently
saluted before.
"What's the news9"
"Why, good woman" said he, "the Indians
have fixed a crowbar under Lake Erie, and are
going to turn it over and drown the world!
"Oh, mercy, what shall | do1" and away she
ran to tell the neighbors of the danger, and in
quire of her minister how such q calamity might
be ayerted.
"Why," said he "you need not be alarmed =
we have our Makers promise that he will not
again destroy the world by water"
Il know that" exclaimed the old lady hastily,
"but he's nothing to do with it; it's those pla-
guy Indians"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-10-21

INDIA.-Inda is a country that has never be-
longed to its natives. Two thousand years ago
Alexander and his Greeks led dusky captives in
golden fetters from there to Athens. After him
it became the prize of Parthian bows and Scy-
THAN spears. Then came Mohammed and his
Persians from Ghuznee to teach by scimeter the
new theology, "Allah il Allah, and Mohammed
is his Prophet" Then the Afghans drove out
the Persians The Tartars drove out the Afghans
Then came Timour, the terrible Tartar, and the
long and princely line of Great Moguls, Baber
and Akbar, Jehangire and Aurenzebe. The
Mogul Empire got, like the British, too big to
hold together. Down went the throne at Delhi,
and up sprang a crop of ofViceroys, Nizams, Kings,
Shahs, Rajahs, Newabs, and Nabobs all over the
provinces. About this time H. B. NJ East India
Company came to trade, and stayed 10 rule
By cajoling one prince, threatening another, in
vading third, and protecting" fourth, they
got the whole concern into the hands of John
Bull and the lion and the unicorn. If the Sepoys
succeed in securing native Hindoo dynasty
now, it will be the first they ever had.-Albany
Journal October 7th
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-10-21
Horrible Revelations.

The Ayr Observer publishes the following ex-
tract of letter from Gen. Neill, dated Gavin
pore, August L:
sSince | arrived here I have been hard at
work to get order re-established. l have now
put a stop to the plundering found going on by
re organizing police. am also collecting all
the property of the deceased, and trying to trace
if any have survived, but as yet have not sue
ceeded in finding one. Man, woman, and child
seem all to have been murdered. AS soon as
that monster, Nena Sahib, heard of the success
of our troops, and of their having forced the
bridge, about twenty miles from Cawnpore, he
ordered the wholesale butchery of the poor wo-
men and children. find the officers servants
behaved shamefully, and were in plot, all but
the lowest caste ones. They deserted their mas
tiers and plundered them. Whenever rebel is
caught he is Immediately tried, and unless he
can prove defence he is sentenced to be hang
ed at once but the chief rebels or ringleaders |
make first clean up portion of the pool of blood,
still two inches deep, in the shed where the
fearful murder and mutilation of women and
children took place. To touch blood ismost alb
horrent to the high-caste natives; they think by
doing so they doom their souls to perdition.-
Let them think SO. My object is to infict o
fearful punishment for revolving, cowardly,
barbarous deed, and to strike terror into these
rebels The first caught was Sabahdar, or
native officer, high-caste brahmin, who tried
to resist my order to clean up the very blood he
had helped to shed; but / made the provost
marshal do his duty, and few lashes soon made
the miscreant accomplish his task. When done,
he was taken out and Immediately hanged. No
one who has witnessed the scene of murder, mu-
tilation and massacre can ever listen to the
word mercy, as applied to these fieIds The
well of mutilated bodies, alas containing up
wards of two hundred women and children, l
have had decently covered in and built up as
one large grave. ! am in the entrenched camp
a most miserable position"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-10-21

UNFoUNDED RUMoR-The London Times in
the course of recent article alludes to the IA
cility with which credit can be destroyed by g.
vil-minded persons, where there is no prompt
legal redress. That paper says:
'.Nothing is easier than to ruin bank, and in
England, in consequence of this facility, such at
tempts are classed with the worst offences. At
this moment two persons are lying in Newgate
for endeavoring indirectly in particular case
to excite public distrust, and, although one of
them was a man of respectability, who acted
upon fancy that he had been personally injur-
ed, no one has been found to utter complaint
of the severity Of the sentence. In New York,
on this point, there is perfect freedom. Hence
no institution is spared, and, indeed the leading
concerns are the first to be attacked, since if
these can be broken, the minor ones are sure to
follow"
A fabricator Of false reports should be re-
garded as the worst of criminals and it is pi-
ty that in this country, SO few of them are
brought to justice. Many an honest man has
been ruined by such vicious agency.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-10-21

THE CAwNPoRE MAssAoRRs.-The following
are extracts from letters from an officer in one
of the Queens regiments belonging to General
Havelock's movable column, dated Cawnpore,
July 18th and 21st:
IL was directed to the house where all the
poor miserable ladies had been murdered. 1t
was alongside the Cawnpore hotel, where the
Nena lived. never was more horrifed! The
place was one mass of blood. am not exag-
gerating when l tell you that the soles of my
boots were more than covered with the blood of
these poor wretched creatures. Portions of their
dresses, collars childrens socks, and ladies' round
hats lay about, saturated with their blood and
in the sword-cuts on the wooden pillars of the
room long dark hair was carried by the edge of
the weapon, and there hung their tresses-a
most painful sight | have often wished since
that had never been there, but sometimes wish
that every soldier was taken there that he might
witness the barbarities our poor country women
had suffered Their bodies were afterwards
dragged out and thrown down well outside
the building, where their limbs were to be seen
sticking out in mass of CORY confusion. Their
blood cries for vengeance,a and should it be grant
cd US to have it, l only wish may have the ad-
ministration of it.
81 picked up o mutilated Prayer Book. 1t
had lost the cover, but on the fiyleaf is written
For dearest Mama, from her affectionate Tom.
June, 1845.' 1t appears to me to have been o.
pened at page Sc, in the Litany, where | have
but little doubt those poor dear creatures sought
and found consolation in that beautiful suppca
tion. 1t is here sprinkled with blood. The
book has lost some pages at the enc and term
mates with the 47th Psalm, in which David
thanks the Almighty for bis signal victories over
his enemies, &c.
"Those poor ladies were massacred on the
18th, after we had thrashed the Blackguards at
the bridge The collector who gave the order
for their death was taken prisoner the day be-
fore yesterday, and now hangs from a branch a.
bout 200 yards off the roadside. His death was,
accidentally, most painful one, for the rope
was badly adjusted, and when he dropped the
moose closed over his jaw. His hands then got
loose, and he caught hold of the rope and strug-
gled to get free; but two men took hold of his
legs and ierked his body until his neck broke
This seems to me the just reward he should have
got on earth for his barbarity."
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-10-21

A DARKEYs SpEEoH.-In one of the smaller
cities of Massachusetts,, the colored population
held meetings to discuss the propriety of cele-
brating the anniversary of West Indian Emanci-
patton, August 1st. At one of these meetings,
very conservative gentleman was exceedingly
surprised to see some of the "fair sex" rising and
taking part in the discussion. After two or
three OF the sisters had "freed dar mines" on
matters under debate, he sprung up in greatly
excited state and addressed the audience =
'Feller citizensl Eff I'd a sposed at dc LADIES'
wood be p'mitted to take part in dis yere dis
cussion-(sensaton)- -ef I'd node at de ladees
could jine in dis yere debate-(all eyes turned
on the speaker)-e I'd bleeved for one moment,
feller citizens at de female sect wood dar to
raise deir voice in dis yere meetin', Pd-feller
citizens wOt wood you've a did, eff
you'd node ita" shouted two or three of the
strong-minded sisters as the whites of their eyes
flashed on the speaker)-I-(scratching his woody
I'D 6rung my soife along aoid me"
Here the discounted orator dropped into his
seat, completely exhausted
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-10-21

time 1t fell out otherwise than that, however,
for charitable individual, who has the rare gift
of approaching noble qualities when exhibited
in common place garbs, saw the true state ofthe
case, and bought out the entire remaining stock
for quarter" and told the boys to never
mind the change" At the last accounts, this
romantic pair were luxuriating on doughnuts
and coffee at a stall in the market, but their pre-
vious conduct was one of those strong practical
proofs of the efficacy of honest work to accom-
plish whatever it sets out to do, which may be
read every day, on every side, by all those who
have ewes to see,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-10-21

MAcAULAY's MEMoRY.-A London writer gives
the following illustration of Baron Macaulays
tenacious memory and happy turn ror apt quo
tation:
"At breakfast recently given at the house OF
distinguished authoress Lord Carlisle and Mr..
Macaulay were present. The conversation hap,
pened to turn on the catastrophe which occurred
some months ago in Tottenham Court road, by
the falling down of three houses, which buried
the inmates in the ruins. The lady, who in her
youth professed Deism, but who In her senility
has degenerated into sort Of Atheist, took oc-
casion to talk in most reprehensible strain
with reference to this particular event, to the
great discomfort If not disgust of the historian.
lie endured the infiction for a while, but at
last, turning to Lord Carlisle, with ludicrously
piteous expression of countenance, he repeated
the lines
Here falling houses thunder on your head
And here female Atheist talks you dead
The lines are in Johnson's poem of london"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-10-21

THE KING OF SIAM AND WEBsrER's DIorIoN-
ARY.-An officer of the United States ship Ports
mouth, writing to his friends in New Haven,
mentions that he had been introduced to the
King of Siam, who he found to be an accom-.
plished scholar, and extremely we'll acquainted
with the English language. The King had num-
erous books, and in speaking on the subject, re-
marked that he found Websters American Die
tionary one of the best he had ever met with
pointing at the Same time to two copies of the
from the papers that thousand copies of Web
ster's Spelling Book have recently been ordered
for Constantinople, who can tell whether Siam
may not yet come under the instruction of the
"Yankee schoolmasters" We saw not long since
letter from the King of Siam. 1t was in the
hands of the person to whom 1t was addressed,
and under two or three covers. The writing
was very excellent, and with the exception OF
two or three misspelled words, was well CON-
posed.-New Hacsn Palladium, OctO6sr2.
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POETRY.
The House Across the Way.

The House Across the Way.
Sitting nightly at my window,
had watched a feeble ray
Darting thro' the halfclosed easement
0fthe house across the way.
Little knew I of its inmates,
What their station nought could say;
We lived with world between US
Yet twas only 'cross the way.
There, they said, on bed of anguish
A fair child of promise lay
Told that suffering made her dwelling
In the house across the way.
Then, by kindly feelings prompted,
There sent choice boquet,
And blessed smile seemed waited
From the house across the way.
Night by night that feeble shining, a
Streaming forth with steady ray,
Told the hours of care and watching
In the house across the way.
Till at last, when nighthad curtained
In her dusky folds the day,
All was darkness, all was silence,
In the house across the way.
No one told an angel spirit
Had cast off its bonds of clay,
Few that knew Death waved his sceptre
Der the house across the way.
Few the mourning friends there gathered,
Small and poor the sad array,
As it crept toward the churchyard
From the house across the way.
Yet methinks strain of glory
From the heavens far away,
Told an angel had been tarrying
In the house across the way.
Pause, proud spirit, and consider!
When the powers of life decay,
Will thy station raise thee higher
Than the child across the wayg
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-10-21

ANEoDoTE OF THE LATE DUKE OF YELLING.
ToN.-Some years ago it was proposed to him to
purchase farm in the neighborhood of Strath-
ieldsaye, which lay contiguous to his own es-
tate and was, therefore, valuable acquisition,
to which he assented. When the purchase was
completed his steward congratulated him upon
having had such bargain, as the seller was in
difficulties and forced to part with it. "What
do you mean by bargain ?" said the duke; the
other replied, ut was valued at 1,lOOl, and we
have got it for 80Ol"
SIN that case," said the duke, "you will please
to carry the extra 300l. to the late owner, and
never talk to me of cheap land again. ."-Raike's
Journal.