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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-10-23
FINANCIAL.


A QUARTERLY DIVIDEND OF THREE PER CENT
vii be paid by the Sixth avenue Railroad COMPANY
hrosgh their Treasurer at the nhemca Bank on the Is; q
7. BAILEY MYERS Secretary
EIRsT CLASS DRY GOODS, GRoCERs AND IRos
oval street (Manhsttan Bank,.
Collections made throughout the United States and Canada
OFFICE Of THE AMERICAN GuANo COMPANY,
NV YoRk Oct, IA, 1855
s s sfs hereby G the so r s Of S sa a
men, is called and made payable on or before Dec ensuing
scrip stock on which ts ns,amens are not PAID IN aeccr
snes with The cal q he Board Of W.T. be forfeited
for the fourth insament previous which the second install
third insalment with interest from sept ss. BY order Of
OE.crET Or TIE AyEyT Ts.
stockholders company place their once
Third avenue between sixty dh aud sixty sinih streets on
which there Mbe election for thirteen directors
hs e1T ss po bo x VIII Se sPs o.d so% M
until the lith proximo. SAMUEL b. IsAAcs, Secretary.
OF TIE NEW YORK Gas LIGHT
the capital soc Of the payable . ths sockhod
G. L. EvERTTT, Secretary.
CoUTHERN FUNDS wASTED-By worHERsPooy.
- klNGsfoRp CO., No Hanover street.
CROOKS AND BONDS PURCHASED AND SOLD FOR
- cash only, the brokers' hoard on commission
JOHN ID. MURRAY, 40 Wall street
Notes drafts collected throughout the United
T'o ExCHaSGE-sIpoco FIRST MORTGAGE srER
ling bonds first class railroad IN active operation
VIII be exchanged for good city property with little In
cumbrance, first class country property nnncumber.i
l.. SlMONSON, 80 Nassau street.
TINTED STATES AND CANADA-THE UNION BANK
u ofLondon as agents Of Messrs- DUNCAN, SHERMAN
co. bankers New York, hereby give notice that they viii
receive money that arm, for which they will
Of charge letters OF credit circular Gle
ards similar those Ia such
Continent of Europe and elsewhere payable all the
pal cities and towns In the United states Canadas &c
lVANTED-A LOAN or &aGo on USrNcUMBERED
w property on broadway the City Han. worth don.
BILE brokers need not apply but the principals viii
BE- dealt ih. Address box 400 Post ollce.
SOOUUO Al 10 Per cent, on propsT, IN one X The wss
Siars worth three times thai Address C
Post Office.
S1nn nnn WANTED TO PURCHASE. NEW
CJVV.VOV. England bank charter, In good standing
Address Cashier. Herald onice stating part alars
S100 600 TO LOAN or FIRST CLASS BusI
good circulation viii be required Persons applying viii
please state their address Direct 10 a. NJ h. e3
oiiee.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-10-23

WE. TTF UNDERSIGNED, SURF MEN on THE
w cnasi ~ New Jersey having tested the qualities 81 tho
several lie boats exhted the III the Ocean House.
give II opnon whatever may he the decision of the
Government Committee that the Larher gulii percha boat
life boat every where and place, The model Of
now tried being Cor deep II adapted Tor surf
hut have enough NJ the qualities % the material
and tourhness convince thst gu percha boat of
model would excel All boats known 10 for all pur
poses connected with the services IT the coast
Jos. WEST
TIMOTHY q LLOYD
HfRNFy VAN BRUNr,
HENRY GREEN.
sTHFPEN CORIfS,
JOHN q. PIERCE,
October ~ lssa RICHARD LAYTON.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-10-23
STEAMBOATS,.


nNLY SUNDAY BOAT TO HAyRRSTRAw.-TTIB
~ steamer SATELLITE, Captain Hammond, viii leave Jay
street every Sunday morning ~ o'clock touching ri Amos
street and landing Yonkers Hastings Dobbs' Ferry Pier
mont Tarryown and sing sing Returning leaves Haver-
straw nj ~ M
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-10-23

BILLIARDS.
billiard TABLES
ID OF every description including Pheisns improved Ia
bles and cushions with balls, cloths
everything appertaning billiards, for sale At The lowest
o'ooSNER corIENDER, Manufacturers,
90 Ann street. N. ".
IroR sArF-sprENDID MARBLE AND grAEr BED
tables for SIS and $3.50, everything complete DO
pay double price the patent hurnbng cushion second
hand tables for sale cheap.
W IT, GRIFFITH, 16 Fulton strec,
DuEIAN's IMPROVED BILLIARD TABLES
III AND COMBINATION CUSHIONS.
Protected by letters patent dated
Feb 49, 1856.
Oct ~ 1856
Dec n
Jan. IL 1853 two Of this date)
The recent improvements In make them unsr-
passed IN the world. They offered scentiac
billiard player AZ combining speed with truth OBJ
atned IN any billiard table. SalesrO0ms Nos
broadway New York Mandatory, So Ann street
w sHARps IMPROVED BILLIARD TABLES. ron
" public and private use, with Homans patent rcnexibe
cushions Patented May 1858. Superior 10 any
bles for sale cheap.
on ANN sTREET-THE OLD p.-gFNTrEMEN
Nv can always be supplied with superior billiard tables
WIN my late improved cushions warranted superior 10 all
Vbes NJ B-four second hand marble bed tables cheap
Y pGoKkR.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-10-23

DoARD wANTED-By A GENTLEMAN AND WIFE IN
Id strictly private family whore other boarders
taken Address stating situation, rooms and price W. H. X
h,xl 4a Herald ONCE.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-10-23

the city q New York win commence ~ annual session
Monday evening Oct Is at IA O'Clock ia IN. large chapel Of
the University The opening address Will be delivered BY
Rev Isaac Ferris ~ D. LID Chancellor Of the University
President OF the Faculty The Introductory lecture the
course VIII then be delivered by the Hon Thomas Cerke
Senior Professor of the Law Faculty Suhjecega Educa-
uon and the best method ~ rendering elective Members
OF the bar with their ladies' the friends the
generally invited 10 attend The law lecture
University viii be open Saturday and Monday from TO II
O'Clock where students apply for admission Tuition $780,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-10-23

BOARD wANTFD-ABOvE TwENTy-sIxTH STREET
ID and Broadway, by family Of three adults. Two
connecting preferred and dinner ~ about O'Clock
a.AND
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-10-23

A QUARTERLY DIVIDEND OF THREE PER CEN
"A will be paid by the Sixth Avenue Railroad COMPANY
November he looks Of the company will close
oath nsan; until that day
7. BAILEY MYERS, Secretary
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-01-14
Oratory.

In looking over some old papers day or
two since we stumbled over speech delivered
BY Henry Clay before the students Of the N.
Y. state and National Law School. Speaking
Of the art Of extemporaneous speaking, he
said:
"Iowe my success in life to one single fact,
viz: that, at the age of twenty l COM
menced and continued for years the process
of daily reading and speaking upon the con-
tents of some historical and scientific book
These off hand efforts were made sometimes
in cornheld, at others in the forest, and not
unfrequeatly in some distant barn, with the
horse and the OK for my auditors. It is to
this early practice Of the great art of all arts
that am indebted for the primary and lead
ing impulses that stimulated me forward, and
have shaped and moulded my entire subsequent
destiny. Improve, then, young gentlemen,
the superior advantages you enjoy. Let not a
day pass without exercising your powers of
speech. There is no power like that Of orato-
ry: Cesar controlled men by exciting their
fears;-Cicero, by captivating their affections
and swaying their passions. The influence of
the one perished with its author that of the
other continues to this day."
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-01-14
Sound Advice to Young Men.

Keep good company, or none. Never be
idle. II your hands can't be nsefully employ
ed, attend to the cultivation Of your mind.-
Always speak the truth. Make few promises.
Live up to your engagements. Keep your own
secrets, II you have any. When you speak to
person, look him in the face. Good COM
pany and good conversation are the very sim
ews OF virtue. Good character is above all
things else. Your character cannot be essen
tally injured, except by your own acts. II any
one speaks evil of you, let your life be so that
no one will believe him. Drink no kind Of
intoxicating liquors. Ever five (misfortune
excepted) within your income. When you're
tire to bed think over what you have been do
ing during .he day. Make no haste to be rich
ifyou would prosper. Small and steady gains
give competency, with tranquility of mind
Never play at any game Of chance. Avoid
temptation, though you fear you may not with
stand 1t. Earn money before you spend it,
Never run into debt unless you see way to-
get out Of it. Never borrow il you can possi-
bly, avoid it. Do not marry until you are able
to support wife. Never speak evil Of any
one. Be just before you are generous. Keep
yourself innocent, if you would be happy
Save when you are young that you may spend
when you are old. Read over the above max
inns at least once week.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-01-14
Mild and severe winters.

A wet summer is always followed BY a
frosty winter, but it happens occasionally that
the cold extends no farther. Two remark BILE
instances Of this occurred in 1sO7-s, and
1Sl3-14. With these exceptions every frosty
winter has been followed by cold summer.
The true cause of cold, or rather the direct
cause, is to be found in the winter excess of
west winl, every winter with the excess Of
west wind being followed by cold summer
and if there is no cold before or during a
first excess, then second excess Of west wind
in winter occasions a colder summer. It also
appears, by repeated experience, that cold
does not extend to more than two years at a
time. Again, if the winter excess of the east
wind be great in the first instance, the winters
will be mild, and followed by mild summers,
while the summer excess of east wind is itself
in the first instance, always mild, but Uniform
ly followed BY cold winters ami summers,
which continue, more or less, for one or two
years, according to circumstances. These are
the notions of an old meterologist. The pre-
vailing opinion, at the present day, is that cold
is the sign Of cold, and heat the sign Of heat,
and that after a cold winter another may be
expected. We have had two severe winters
in succession, and according to the above thee
ory we are likely to have another, as the pre-
vailng winds have been easterly and the sum-
mel wet.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-01-14
A Question Answered.

Uunder this head the Chicago Tribuns pre-
sents the Black Republican views Of popular
sovereignty" and shows what Mr.. DoucIAs
may expect from the Black Republicans:
The inquiry is frequently made, "Why do
the Republicans commend the action and ap-
prove the position of Senator Douglas, il they
do not believe in his doctrine of popular SOW
ereignty?" The answer Is easy: popular SOW
ereignty is the law Of the land, ana as long q
it is so, and as long as Congress persists in
giving the people of an incoming State rower
to establish slavery by majority vote, the Re-
publicans as party, being law abiding men.
are willing that the law should take its courss
and properly commend any one who resists
the attempt TO warp it to the purposes of in
justice. That's why. But let the Republic
can party once come into power, and, a
Western men say, it will knock Mr.. Douglas
popular sovereignty and its author 'higher nor
a kite" 1t is the Republican creed, that Con-
gress has, and should always exercise the
right to prohibi. slavery in the Territories Of
the United States; but that it has not and can
not exercise the right to establish it anywhere.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-01-14
Sunday sickness.

There is remarkable and mysterious kind
of malada that prevails extensively in every
community. 1t is Sunday, or seventh day,
epidemic, not named or described in the books
Of the medical faculty. It's peculiarly con-
sists in the fact that it is on intermittent OF
hebdomadal disorder, which keeps the patient
away from church on Sunday, though he is
always well enough to attend to his business
on Monday morning. Though contagious
disease, we never knew it to kill any one and
it is an extraordinary fact, that while it lasts
the patient has firstrate appetite, and actu-
ally eats and sleeps rather better than usual.
If the disorder is checked so that the pa
tient escapes an attack on Sunday, heis apt
to have relapse about the following Wednes-
day night, in consequence Of which he is un-
able to 60 to the lecture. He is up again,
however, bright and early on Thursday NOR
ming, eats hearty breakfast, and hurrys of
to business, and no one who sees how intent
he is in making money all day long would
suspect that he had been so sick only the
mig hit before!
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-01-14
Original Anecdotes Of General
Jackson.

Old Hickory crossed the Warrior river at
the close Of the campaign, at Carthage, in
Tuscaloosa county. There he halted and
rested for the recruit and refreshment Of ths
sick and wounded for few days. The
citizens Of Tuscaloosa, then small village.
got up apublic dinner 20 the general. A de-
putation of militia officers, armed sap.a-pie,
wentto Carthage to extend the invitation to
Jackson. They found him busy, on foot, near
the main road, dismounted and with: well set
phrase. their spokesman invited him to din.
ner.
"For how many have you made provision ?''
asked jackson. "For all my men?o
"No, only for yourself and officers"
"By the ---, then" replied our hero, "f
nor ne officer Of mine will eat dinner not
provided for all our boys! !''' Then turning on
his heel abruptly, he left them. ."
The poor militia men were sadly discounted
and mortified at this rebuff. But worse was
in store for them. A quartermaster, or his
assistant, had laid hands on every horse Of ths
delegation, and claimed them for public ser
vice. Furious, they appealed to the General.
He declined interfering, could make no dis
tinctiol. Other mems horses were taken,
why not theirs s?-was surprised at their want
of patriotism, not willing to give up their
horses for transportation of the sick and
wounded soldiers! The case was hopeless
the weather warmj the military trappings,
coat, sword, boots, &C., all unsuited for along
march in the hot and dusty weather. No con.
veyance however. could be had. The Gener-
ais, Colonels, Majors and Captains Of the
Tuscaloosa militia. walked to Tuscaloosa.
"And that's reason." naively added my in
formant, ''why Tuscaloosa, I own, always vo-
ted against the Generslo
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-01-14
Douglas ON the senate Floor.

The Washington correspondent Of the Inde
pendent gives the following vivid description
of the ''Littls Giant" when under full head.
way:
He is very short in stature, but of such
physical proportions, aside from this lack, as
instantly to attract the attention of stranger.
A very large head, connected with broad and
powerfully built shoulders by short, full
neck; chest sufficiently roomy to contain
the lungs Of giant, and pair of short dumpy
legs, complete the physical picture Of the
'Llttle Giant" if we except the broad, lofty
Websterian brow, and the deep set, cavernous
eyes that sparkle and glow, when excited,
like miners lamps beneath it. 1t is the tre-
mendous brain power, lodged in that perpen-
dicular precipice Of forehead, and shooting
out its fires from its shadowed eyes, that has
given him the soubriquet which he will carry
to his grave. When excited and in full flow
of debate, that massive head rolls and shakes
with the emphasis Of his thought, and the
huge hand doubles until the nails indent the
palm, or else the broad, open hand receives
the blow Of Its mate, and italicises the sem
tence with stunning report. The sweat pours
from him profussly, and falls from his head
or is thrown clear Of his shoulders by those
inlmical shakes of the head, as the rain drops
are shsken from the tree by storm. Add to
this thick bushy head of hair, and restless
uneasy feeling, which prevents his being at
rest for five consecutive minutes, and keeps
him moving from one point to another in the
Senate Chamber, and my picture OF the "Li,tle
Giant' is complete.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-01-14

HlsroRY OF CANNON BALL.-At the
commencement of the action on board the
frigate President, ball, an Spound shot, from
the Bevidere, came over the waist cloth of the
President, and such was the force of the ball
it actually cut off, without throwing them
down, the muzzles of several of the muskets,
(Which had been left there by the marines, }
from six to eight inches in lenghth; killed one
marine; took of the wrist Of midshipman,
Mr.. Montgomery; killed another, Mr.. Bird;
and fnallv lodged upon the deck, and was
taken below by the narrator of this, and
shown to Lieutenant Dallas, who took it in
his hand and wrote upon it with chalk, s.Cous-
in, have received ysur present, and will re-
turn it to you again;" then clapping it in a
gun himself, fred the piece; and it is a remark
able fact that it actually killed several of the
officers and men on board the Belvidere, and
finally lodged in the cabin Of that vessel, and
was afterwards hung up In the Belvidere's
CABIN as globe during the war.-Ponlasd
Standard
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-01-14

"a There are some sad sights in this world
a city sacked and burnt--a battle field after a
great slaughter-a Loadon in the midst of the
plague ship burning at sea "a family pining
in starvation-a jug Of molasses wrecked up
on the pavement-a pair Of irrevocably dam
aged pantaloons; but the saddest to US of all
is an old bachelor, stolidly walking towards
his end, bis grsa. duties undone, his shirt but
tons off, stockings out at the toes, and nobody
to leave his money to. Were we such a man,
the mild approving eyes of widow or
maiden lady would drive us mad. But there
is still hope. Uglier and older men than any
OF our friends have married beautiful women,
who trained them admirably, and spent their
money elegantly.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-01-14
Singular Suicide.

In the little town Of Dover, which is stu
ated on the Cumberland river, in Middle Ten
nessee, there lived, some time ago, an eccen.
trio and Incorporate old bachelor by the name
of Kingston. On one occasion. when prostra.
tea on his bed by excess, and suffering acute,
lY from those things and horrors peculiar to
his situation, he sent for him. Shyrack, fol-
that was the others name, came duly into
Kingston's room.
"What's the matter, Kingston?"
"Shyrack, shut the door. Lock it.'
"Eh?o
clock the door!' ....
"Certainly, my dear boy"
"Shyrack, Pm going to kill myselfi'
"My dear fellow, let me entreat you not to
do sol"
ssI will.o
"No, no-oblige me and DON'T"
"Must 60 it."
"Don't-it 4 be the death of youl''
Shyrack was quite cool and ocose, little
dreaming that so terrible ar event was actually
going to take place.
Kingston had, as the last eccentric act oil
his life, taken chisel and mallet to bed with
HIM, and now with the desperate resolve, he
seized the extraordinary tools of death, and
in an instant drove the blade Of his chisel into
his breast.
The hair rose upon Shyrack's head, ant
fright spread like sheet of snow over hi.
face.
s'Kingston! Kingstoni my dear fellow-you
grand rascal Kingston! do you want to have
me hung? Hold on! don't you die till call
somebody's .u......
Shyrack ran to the door and called like ,
mad-man to some people across the street:
"Halloo! here! say! you, mister! all you stu
pid people! make haste, over here, or there
will be murder.' ..... ..s.
The people crowded into Kingston's house
"Don't die, Kingston! Don't chisel me tina,
way! DON'T die till you tell them who die
it.o
81 did it myself" said Kingston, family.
s'There, that'll do; now my dear fellow you
may die," replied shyrack, taking a lone
breath and wipiag the perspiration from hi.
forehead.
And Kingston did die, in th at extraordinar,
manner, leaving his fate to be recorded as a
suicide, almost murder.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-01-14
Two Ways TO Tell a story.
Elizabeth Barrett relates the following spi
sode in her history:

Elizabeth Barrett relates the following epi.
sOde in her history: Secs
First time he kissed me. but he only kissed,
The fingers Of this hand wherewith I write;
And ever since it grew more clear and white;
Slow to world greeting-quick withit "Oh, hst !"
When the Angles speak. ring Of amethyst
could not wear palmer to my sight
Than that frst kiss Obi beyond deedi
That was the crysm oflove, which loves one erevn
With sanctifying sweetness did precede
The third upon my lips was folded down.
In perfect purple state
I have been proud, and said, my love-my own!'
s'Sut Lovengood," Of Tennessee, has exper-
fenced similar felicity, and describes II In
the following:
81 happened to pass next day, ov course
stopped to enjoy look at the tempter, and she
war mighty luvin to me~put one arm round
my neck am tother wun whar the circingls
goes around boss, took the sinturn on me
with her left foot an gin me kiss. Says
she, s'Sutty, love, I've got somethin' for you-'
a new sensashun'- Ibelieved Il, for be-
gun to feel it already. My toes felt ~ Il mine
ners wur nibblin' at una cold streak run
up and down my back like a lizzurd with .
turkey hen after him in settia' time, and my
stummick was hot and on-satisded Ike.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-01-14

..@ A son of Mr.. G. w. Thompson of Des
Moines county. who was out cunning in COM
pany with another boy, was killed by the dis
charge Of his gun. He was getting into a
wagon with his gun loaded, and as it was hand
ed to HIM with the muzzle towards him, the
hammer Of the lock caught and few back,
discharging the contents Of the barrel through
one thigh into the other, in such manner as
to sever the main artery. He survived but
fifteen minutes after the discharge.
Certainly this is another solemn warning
TO young boys who are in the habit Of US
ing firearms.