St. Mary's beacon., 1858-02-11

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TSx C.ravor TEE SUICIDES The New Or
cans ppIlesh. referring to the suicides OF SEM
.t,r H. Auson Jones and many others who {
.nre dssroyesi themsclEes, comes 10 sfae cssE-
!'us1on hat If the real sscts could be know, Dc
sould III found that in y.sst majority OF ms
anses tf.. cause Is 70 b fundAin enps md
dds:
xThe extensive adulteratiosss Qf llqnsss whicn 4
M : taken place Of late yeas &C Npca kie
bra Asnd destroy Its pse,scr Eiactivsk Fhfs-
isissA Y Apd others know xell that c. bran =
aA1ie Aiseise. almost A. Intseh - perhaps -
any otnsN Nrean, and wlsen it b 50 The indisid-
uil is-S and does not know what ne is do
ing. Inc Of the drunkard, 1t i well
known, wili fire, emitting . BLUSH hight
and causing III like burning alcohol.
we are stFsnA inclined 70 think that uasstt
suicides oy males arcicrable 70 this a the pri-
mary cause |'f .ss.ssT
WASHINGTON S6cf The Richmond I
South eEaitsa blue fame sire n washington |
society, in tue following ma er. ..The truth is,
'sossety N Aaslalllstna = iasss ssukinR unaAesana
accumulation of native follics aa f,re;pn fash- !
ions. The aristocracy of the FedAA Netrnro- /
lis are little better than an assoriatA ~ ss,nIs
Except among small. select class y peonIe. |
one finds there scarcely vestige Of tEArep,,b- /
ican simplicity VI earlier times. EverAthing
is sham and pretension. The profusion Of lAste !
and pinchbeck which dazzles the eye Of sAa- /
kins Is as genuine as the air Of courtly eleganA
which excites his enthusiasm. With the Spar
tan seyerity Of manner that once distinguished
the representative men of the country, have
disappeared the unobtrusive bua Substantial
virtues of its women. The changeis sadly sig
niicant of national decay"
"a The Governor of Maryland, elected to
Office by a Baltimore mob, undertakes to dis
course, in his message, on the CJmpromlses OF
1920 and 1850, in which he shows more lgno-
ranceof the whole subject than can be found
elsewhere in as many sentences. lie need new
or have joinetl a party ia ORDER to know moth
ing. His crudities arc not worth reply from
anvbsly. What he says III his message, We
presume he concocted for some den OF ignorants
in the pariiens Of Baltimore. He evidently
never read the COmprpmise of 1920, nor its his
tory; nor does he understand the measures of
1850. His information is on q level with that
Ola Plug Ugly in a Baltimore bar-room.--LOa-
isriIe Demo0at. ~
The New York Courier publishes q list OF
marine losses for the past, month, showing an
aggregateof eighteen vessels, OF which five
were, ships, three were barlSs, two Were sbrigs,
and eight were schooners. The total value Of
property Totally lost was $493 500. This is
the value of the property t,tally lost, exclusive
of damages to vessels not amounting 10 q total
loss and Of losses of cargo. As compared
with tine month of january, 1857, the above
shows a decrease in the number of vessels lost
and missing OF one hundred AMI seven, and in
the value of property lost, amounting. Of S3,-
049, 200. #ts ~.
Col. JOHNSTON jefferson Datis ia
speech in the Senate on Monday. paid the fol-
lowing high tribute to Col. Johnston the leader
of the Utah Expedition. He said: .,
81 hold that the country is intiehted to the
Administration for having selected the man who
is at the head Of the expedition who as sol
dier, has not his superior in the army OF. out OF
it-and whose judgement, whose ant, whose
knowledge is equal to- this or any other eIacr-
gen VI man of such decision, such resolution
t at his countrys honor can never be tarnished
in his hands--a man of su:h calmncss, s:ch
kindness, that a deluded people can never suffer
by harshneSs from him.. as
~ A correspondent of the Philnd.plia Press
coatraicts the statement that there ar ten times
as many newspapers printed i'm German in the
Unite States as in Germany. The 'tierman
Newspaper Catalogue, for 1856, states til.
whole number Of newspapers and periodicals
published in German to be 2,4l6, of which l.
31S are political. The number Of German
newspapers in the United States probably docs
not exceel two hundred, though the numbSr of
c,pies issued by them is much greater, in pro-
portion, than that of those issued in Ge.ma-
ny. s4. sa * ~ sr- Is t.. $685.
LUCaEzIA BoRGIA IN KASsAs.--The Law
renee, Kansas, correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette, says: Mrs. Mary p. Canfeld is un-
dergoing preliminary examination here on the
charge of poisoning her husband. There are
also rumors that she took the life of her infant
child in % similar manner. Illicit love is as
signed as the motive for the horrible deeds
She is young and pretty, and the affair is Great
ing great sensation" .a-@ -'f -
DTREcToNs FOR CARvING.-How to carve
your fortsnse.-Cut your poor relations, and
slice away as deeply as yen can into the peck
cts Of others. Help yourself always first. be-
fore you think of helping anybody else. and
help no man that Is not likely 20 help YOU i'm
return. Do careful about forking out, until
you have secured a. much as, if not more, than
YOU want. s@ ssziff
The best way Of carving goose. cut him up
finely, in the presence of his lady-lovc.
WHERE TALL SOLDIERS CoNE FsoM.--From
a notice of Surgeon General Lawson's report in
the American Journal Of the Medical Sciences
it is ascertained that the talest men enlisted in
the United States army are from the State of
Georgia, where, out of one hundred enlisted,
thirty were SIX feet and over while the shor-
est men are from New York, where only four
out Of one hundred were six feet Tie South
ern and Western States produce the tallet
men, and the Middle and Eastern States the
shortest. -
A northan letter writer in Washington exuIts
that Ex-senator Foose, once OF Missisappi, ard
Senator Hale, are very cosy with each c.iler /;
the former gentleman having renouncsd all idea
Of hanging the latter with grapevine as
high as HaEian. Hale, we believe Is fanatic
only in bis speeches. that is to say, he is dem
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