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From the Nashville Patriot.
A ROMANTIC WEDDING.

During this season of matrimonial progress
sion IN this vicinity, there is one circumstance
that is worthy of notice. or, at least, some
thing new under the sun" On an evening not
long since Miss B., beautiful young lady, was
engaged 20 marry two gentleman at the same
hour, Mr.. G. and Mr. NJ. At the appointed
time, these two hopeful lords of creation made
their appearance, ready and equipped with law
ful credentials, no doubt each exulting in his
good fortune as being the "chosen of her
heart " and around his vivid fancy PLAYED ethe-
rial beings, that pictured to his imagination
fields of Eden and skies of light" The Rev.
Mr.. w. was engaged by both Of them. On the
arrival Of the parties at the brides house, each
claimed her hand, to the utter astonishment of
the other, and valiantly contended for the prize.
The parson had private interview with the
contending parties, and, finding they could not
settle the matter satisfactorily, suggested that
they leave it to the public decision of the bride.
to which they at length agreed. She was ap-
prised ofthe fact, and accordingly met them both
in room filed with guests. Rev. Mr.. W. then
told her that Mr.. G. and Mr.. NJ were present.
and presented claims for her hand in marriage
each having license to that effect, and she must
now, in the presence of these witnesses, decide
which should be the favored one.
There they stood side by side,
The bridsgiO01ls and the bushing bride;
Around her fSTm 80 fair and light
spolless robe OF simple white;
A blash her brighter brow o'eFxpread,
As she bravely raised her head and said,s
81 believe loM take the one 10Th the 'yallosc
Jacket ONE This being her decision, Mr. c.
being rejected, withdrew while the ceremony
was performed as solemnly as the occasion
would admit. This being over over, Mr.. g
felt that he had at least one request 70 make Of
tho hrida Go he nresanfad him aalf hafnro ha,
with an assumed air of all-oyer consequence,
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Western towns generally, bat so far as it was q
new experiment of social life it failed.
Mr. Owen was the author of several books on
social science the principal of which were the
" New Moral World" wherein he discussed his
doctrines at length, in a simple and unpretend-
ing style, but with considerable clearness and
vigor He was, in fact, monomaniac on the
subject of socialism he talked of nothing else,
wrote of nothing else, lived for noting else /;
and, in almost any other cause, might have
compelled success. Even in that he would have
succeeded to much larger extent, if he had
not connected the practical provisions of it with
an erroneous philosophy, and an ayowed disbe-
lief in Christianity The latter, however, to-
wards the close of his life, he yielded through
the influence, it is said, Of the spiritual com
munications.
Mr. Ovens last work was an Autobiography,
which abcunds in the most interesting details
of his career
He was man of the kindlieSt nature, sim
cere aud truthful, and of the most unreserving
generosity, both in his judgments of men and
in his conduct towards them. Nothing ever
rufied his temper; nothing could abate his
energy; and, though he failed in the chief OBJ
ject OF his long and busy life, it must still be
said, to his credit, that he did more than any
other man towards directing the attention of so
ciety in England to the melioration of the con
ditiOn of the working classes.-N. y. Ere. Post.
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did, from what cause soever and, as often as
could lose myself in feyerish slumber
found myselfin wilderness of mere huge hard
gray granite cubes, pentagons, hexagons, hep
tagons, and oetagons-every block that look
ed at successfully having more and blunter an.
giles, and huger and banker sides than its
neighbors-pi up to the sky, around to the
horizon, and down to the centre. At last, when
had fully possessed myself of their grim indi
viduality, and they themselves of mine--for
they all seemed to watch and crouch for me
like so many blind but sentient Sphinxes, they
began to stir and tumble GRITTY down over one
another, and finally over me when the hard
blank, horror reached its climax, and / awoke
screaming
TO BE CONTINUED.
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BUCKLES BELIEF.

This is the creed-let no man chuckle-
ofihe great thinker, Henry Buckle:
81 believe in fire and water,
Aud in Fate, dame Natures daughter;
Consciousness ] set aside
The dissecting-kni my guide.
believe in steam and rice,
Not in virtue, nor in vice.
In what strikes the outward sense,
Not in mind or Providence;
In a stated course of crimes,
In Macaulay and the TINS.
As for truth, the ancients lost her
Plato was a great imposlor
Morals are a vain illusion,
Leading only 10 confusion.
Not in Latin nor in Greek
Let us for instruction seek;
Let us study snakes and flies,
And on fossils 6X our eyes
Would we learn what we should do,
Let us watch the kangaroo
Would we know the mental march,
II depends on dates and starch.
! believe in all the gases
As means TO raise the masses.
Carbon animates ambition,
Oxygen controls voliiion;
Whaie'er is good or great in men
May be traced to hydrogen;
And the body, not the soul,
Governs the unfeuered whole.n
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WASHINGTON D, c, THURSDAY, DECEMBER g. 1858.

Gifts rocky pride, doth stcop
TO wet the lips of flowers that droop
In the louviy vale beneath
There opal clouds It's beauty wreathe;
The heavens that see il straight fling down
Their striped rainbows, for lis Gro n;
And ats abasement speaks in thunder,
With such a voice, that all men wonder,
And the rooted earth d-th shake,
And an answering Snunmor make.
WouIdst thou be so highg
Bow in charity
To The hnmblest near thee
Those who need, yet fear thee!
Then shall clouds, il they sarnoand, ~
But adorn, " ih rsinbows wned,
Thy heaven-wslched, plenieoHs, bounteous life;
The world, amid It's selfish strife,
Around thy path shall feel thrill
OF wonder, mnfmur, and be still;
While with grand unearthiv voice
Thy long-maie being bids rejoice
The heavenly Shepherds painting focks,
That beat along the thirsty rocks,
And, even in Thy saddrst hours,
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-09-22

There are certain points raised in the course of
the Quarantine agitation, which we may now con-
slider sufficiently discussed and elucidated They
are a. follows:
l. A Quarantine for this port is urgent public
necessity, not only for the City itself, but for all
the cities and villages within fifty or hundred
miles, whether in this State, in Connecticut or
New-Jersey. 1t is not device for the benef. or
protection of our citizens only, as ii is too gener-
ally considered, but for the common good Of this
entire region. To abolish it, or render il inef.
fective would be not merely local but general
peril and calamity.
III. If Quarantine exists, its hospitals mus, be
located somerhere, aud that location must be rea.
sonably accessible and convenient
III. The location at Castleton, thoagh formerly
wise and proper, has ceased, through the increase
and diffusion of population, commerce and travel,
to be suitable or safe. That location, in the mds,
of dense and busy population, constantly passing
under the Quarantine walls on their way to and
from this City, is calculated to defeat the objects of
Quarantine and render its precautions nugatory.
". Since the Hospitals for contagious diseases
eight thousand people must be removed it
able and proper that the Hospitals should go rather
than so many people.
V. The State has not failed to perform her duty
in the premises. She has in every recent instance
turned willing ear TO the remonstrsnces Of the
Staten Islanders, and has grudged neither efforts
nor means TO effect the desired removal 1t does
seem 10 us that the Staten Islanders have no,
given due consideration 10 this fact and that their
repes,ed CONGREGATIONS should have been withheld
in view of it.
VI Abundant experience concurs with reason
in affirming that location on Coney Island, or any
other spot eastward Of the ship channel out to sea,
would be unfit and perilOus The yellow fever
contagion is waited by warm, sultry winds, such as
blow from the west and southwest, never BY such
damp, chilly winds as blow from the east and
northeast.
VII. The construction Of an artificial island in
the Lower Bay, of which We have heard some
thing, must be not only an expensive bat tedious
process. II would be likelier to cost over than
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-09-22

If III. Herald is really in earnest-ve very much
fear We shall be laughed at for our simplicity, for
suppOsng The H,rcid in earnest sbous anything
bu, if The Herald is really in earnest in its pro-
fessed desire for the union Of the taxpayers Of
New-iork to put down municipal stesiing and ex-
trayagance, and to introduce in their place econ
omy and efficiency il will not only at once drop
the advocacy of that measure, but will come out
warmly against il. The public are apt 10 judge of
causes BY the character and past history OF their
advocates: ard to see the late champion of Woods
reelection and the present apoogist and eulogst of
Judge Russell, setting up for a leader in municipal
politics is rather too severe tax apon the COM
plscency of the public. The taxpayers OF New
York may b. willing enough TO smase themselves
with The Hefaid-it is an excellent journal to
lansht at; bat to take sdyiee from il, or to
accept its leadership, is quite another matter.
The part of The Herald in our Sew-fork trsgi-
comedy is very much like that II the clown N
Shakespeare plays. IL says great many smart
things and serves TO relieve the graves Of hie BY
its rattle Drained talk and the exuberance OF its
fclhes. The elewn thought himself the grandesf
personsge in the play, and 81 does The Herald;
bat even the very pit that naghed at him k~v
how 10 estimate him at hia true value nor ara the
Eew.Yerk public any leAs knowing.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-09-22

The charge mad. by DIR. Gould against the nine
Trustees Of the Dudley Observatory. who assume to
remnant the whole Board that in Their statement they
have - INITIATED gsrbd his letters that they cease
20 represent either bis sentiments opinions st the
time they were written. j. met with fst and IN
eou;yoca denial bv those Trustees. TINS reduces the
question for the present, simply TO one OF veracity
Have the Trustees fal,ifed DR.. Could. letters Has
Dr.. Gould ial-ifed bis own letters Which IS Il
Assertion row on either side : equally valueiess We
have no more right TO judge one party guilty OF ia'-
ho., than thu Other. DR.. Gouli however, thus Tar
hes the sdvsnisge He has published his version oil
the letters which he sIege-, they have CARRIED and
fal .fed They have not disproyed the base act OF
which such publication not dsproyed, conyct,them
Instead of III. they content themselves with simple
but emphatic denial till the appearance of the roin-
der OF the Scientific Council But Dr. Gould, II seems,
is not 81 willing TO wait =, they sre. He demands I'M
mediate action ard propose. to leave the whole ques-
ton o; verscity srbra,ou the Trustees To choo'
on their part two men. 70 whom shall BE- gwen all
Dr. Gould letters in their possession: d.. Gould on
his part. to choose two other men. 10 whom he Will
nirust his let,er-books and these four men To come
together for an examination and comparison OF these
letters II the Trustees do not accee to this PROPOSE
ton there can be- il TO us but one Judgment a.
TO the whole matter.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-09-22

We report this morning in full, Mr.. Stewards
argument in the Albany Bridge case, delivered
Yesterday in the United States Circuit Court in
this city Ii is an admirable specimen of the tai
ept, which itsdisinguished author 80 often evinces,
Of giving additional interest to the most interesting
! questions, by bringing out into new relief and
prominence the general principles with which they
are connected. In the present case he shows that
the point at issue is nothing less than the right of
the State to regulate its affairs, except in mat
tiers where the Federal Government has been ex-
plictly ntrusted with exclusive or superior author
ity. This great principle he defends with eminent
power and clesrness; indeed, We can recall no
ADLER exposition of the subject. This speech,
apart from its bearing the building Of the bridge,
marks remarkable epoch in the discussion of the
vital and farreaching question of States Rights as
against the centralixng and overshadowing as
sumptions of the Federal Government.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-09-22
From Boston,

BosTos, Tuesdsy, September ., Lee.
Ebene,er Francis died at his residence p.,,SSAa
square, to-day, eigh,y-:hree years od. n. 80
al, "a; four millions, nearly two millions sss ~
wh,ch is in cash deposits in Boston Bsaks. 1
The ca, Of T rv1 d the r 5 Save Captain
Commissioner was further postponed MT S,,' Ss
next.
The Royal Mail steamship Asia vii h.vs.
erpcol VIA Halifax about noon today ~, a sA,'
closed at :: ~ g. m. m&s
The following are the tooiings Of our Bsnl ..
for the past week;
Capita Stock...... So-Sle De % o,Ars s,,l, a,
Losn. and Dscount. s,ilt 90 l-po.ss ,...... 49,
Specie ............. Az iI'rl sf.0u. sSSU
D. I'm other Bsnks. tS,svl ""A0
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-09-22

In the Board Of Councmen last night, il ap-
reared that the members had been served with =
preliminary injunction issued by Judge Brady Of
Peter Ten Eyck and wife, enjoining them from
concurring with the Board of Aldermen in repeating
the ordinance prohibiting the Use Of steam on Fourth
avenue below Forty-second street. Considerable
Indignation was expressed at the manner in which
the Court. granted injunctions, and preamble and
resolutions were adopted censuriDg the present
practice in that regard, and instructing the Corpo
ration Counsel to take measures to have the order
dissolved
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-09-22

SPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE n. T. TRIBUNE
Prov q Special Co~,.rrordest.
WASHINGTON, Tuesday Sept. 81, 1858.
The President. upon the occasion of his return,
will not be much gratihed 10 meet Number of
New.York politicians. OF late he has spoken
sharply of constant Interruptions BY pscemen to
the prejudice of important matters.
Emanuel b. Hart is here at the National; also
John Minor Bolts, c. NJ. Conrad, and Capt. Marcy
of the United States Army.
The Navy Department pumes itself upon the
dispatch that has characterized the fitting out of
the Niagara. 1t was reported to the Department
that twenty-five days would be required; one week
only was given upon peremptory direction.
Ii is stated that sn effort will be made at the
next session to break up the arrangement BY which
Wendell obtained the House printing from sted-
man.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-09-22

An important communication was made BY the
Street Commissioner TO the Board Of COuncilmen
last night, showing certain Deficiencies in the Tax
Collectors Department. b, a careful perusal of
the document, which will be found in another col
umn, the taxpayers will be able to get little more
light as to the manner in which the financial con-
Germs of the city have been conducted. The COun-
gel to the Corporation, upon being requested to
institute proceedings to recover the amounts Of
these alleged DEFICIENCIES replies that he does not
feel compelled to prosecute the implicated parties
until after being instructed to do 50 BY the Com
mon Council.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-09-22

The Hon. Albert Galatn Brown, L. $. Senator
from Mississippi, has been making speech at Hs-
zehurst in said State, to which the editor of The
IioksJurg Hhig listened Brown is a Estate
Rights" Democrat, which means We believe that
he has not bis arm quite so deep in the Federal
fesh-pots as he wishes he had. His speech, PC.
cordingy, has an undertone Of grumbiing at the
way things go at headquarters. For instance, he
said he had always opposed the Missouri Compro
mise" disliked many features Of the Kansas
Nebraska bill, and fairly boiled with rage when
" he heard Of Com Paulding's arrest of Walker"
the Fillibuster Chief. He thought rather small
beer Of the Lecompton bill, though he approved
and supported it; but the English bill (Which be
also supported throughout) seemed To him very
poor affair, which be wished now that the people
of Kansas have spurned the bnbe) had never been
concocted. Says The Wig:
The Governor certainly declared his preference
that Lecompton, after being defeated, should have
been allowed to stay dead and not been galvanized
into hfe again by political doctors in the shape Of the
Conference bin. H. declares that he had never sup
ported the latter BILL except to defend il from the
sau's Of its enemies and 10 vote for H. HIS defense
merely going TO show that the objections 10 il not
tenable. The Governor, however. expressed ms ac-
quiescence in the Conference BILL and hoped il would
be enforced He stated that he called The President
before he left Washington, ard that NJ. BnetaT0a
assured han in he most positire ard pneqs'c9cal
terms that he vOuld appoint no man 10 0rce nso heid
tie opinion that Kdnsa. ought 10 BE- admitted before
she la, population rh'es eould eaIe her 70 rePre-
"ptatirc "a Congress- (GccordsHg TO theter~s efhe
Conference blu ard tia, Ne sroald decoptate srery
oce-holder rho expressed such 5ei,sf. Gov. Brown
went Oh state that he regarded Ihls as solemn
pledge the part Ut Mr.. Buchanan, and although ne
considered him - little weak in the back, he be-
Hcved he would stick up 70 it. Whenever he Gov
Brown pigbted his faith to any man, he always stuck
to il, aud he intended 10 hold Mr.. Buchanan 10 his
declaration
Gov. Brown expressed HE belief that Slavery
and the Union could not EXIT together. lie would
not say that suc coud rot be the case bu he simply
meant 10 say tha, rop!d not. lie declared himself
asist the Union il that contingency, AID did lot care
how the time mig ht come
MIR. Buchanan appears to have one rule for his
Office holders by appointment, and another for his
members of Congress The latter are all trying
TO crdwl into Congress by promising 10 vote to ad-
NIT Kansas at and any how
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To the Associated Press.

WAsHISGTos, Tuesday, Sept. IL 1853.
Messrs. Chubb Bros bankers and brokers' who
suspended payment yesterday, report their liabilities
to Washington depositors al $l5Ooo and their assets
ample. They continue their collection and commits
sion business, hoping al an early day to arrange with
their creditors. They make assignment
The Joint Commission for running the boundary
between the United States and Texas will not CON-
mence operations until the Spring.
The Secretary of the Treasury has decided that
tsmarnds preserved in sugar subject to duty of
thirty per cent cotton socks with dyed tops, fifteen
per cent; and spring steel, the rate of duty.
The Secretary of the Navy received dispatch this
morning stating that the Niagara with the capture
Africans, left Charleston last night, for Africs.
The Postmaster General, Attorney General and
Secretary Of the Treasury have come to an agreement
a. yet private concerning the Post-Ofhce Court and
Cu-tom-IIouse accommodations IN Philadelphia.
The steamer Water Witch left for Norfolk to-day,
and the Fulton will follow tomorrow morning They
will there take board the remainder of their
aud thence proceed without delay TO Buenos Ayres,
to await the arrival Of the other vessels Of the Para
quay Expedition.
The President anticipated return this evening has
brought 10 Washington number Of prominent poll
tcl6u-.
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Congressional Nomination..

SPECIAL D-istchrs 20 Inc ~ l.
WATERTOwN, Tuesday, Sept. 81, ISIS.
The Hon. c. b. Hoard was unanimously renom-
mated to-day at the Congressional Convention
holden in this place for reelection from the XXIlld
District, comprising Jefferson and Lewis Counties.
ROME, Tuesday, Sept. 81, ISIS.
Roscoe Conklm, Republican, has been NOM
mated for Congress in the Oneida (the XXth) Dis
tric,, now represented by the Hon. o. b. Mstteson.
Add smother noble man to your list Of candidates.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-09-22
Maine Election.

BisecR, Me-, Tuesday, Sept. 81, 1853
We have reports tonight from Aroo-took County
complete, with the exception Of small plantation
The Republicans put Bradbsrys majority in the coun-
~ at @3J, while the Democrats clsim for him 9s5.
This would leave the whole district according to pre-
vious reports, 81 1876 majority for Foster, the
Republican candidate.
The Democratic candidate for State Senator in
Aroostook, reported here to b defeated II 60 the
Senate viii be unanimously Kepsbiican.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-09-22

We have news from Europe to the Sth inst
four days later than our LASTLY the steamers
North Briton, which arrived at Quebec from Liver.
pool yesterday morning, and Northern Light,
which arrived here from southampton last evening.
The most interesting piece of information concerns
the Atlantic Cable which ceased to give ineligible
signals, it seems ON the morning Of the Sd inst,
from some unexplained cause. 1t was, however,
thought by those most likely to know that the
difficulty was at the shore end near Falentis
Engineer Bright had received the honor Of knight.
hood, and great Atlantic Telegraph banquet at
which the Lord Lieutensnt of Ireland was present,
had taken place at Killarney. The telegraph be-
tween England and the channel islands had been
formally opened. The latest accounts from the
French Departments announce improvement in
commercial affairs, and the quotations of the Paris
Bourse were advancing. The editors of the Steele
and Pays had fought bloodess duel. The Rus
sian squadron at Amoor River was being reen-
forced More of the effects of religious fanati.
cism in the East are reported. At Aleppo
and Tnpoli terrible panic had prevailed
resulting in the destruction of the former
place by the Mussulmans The Nord contains
report-which ia, however, discredited-that the
Consular Agents in the Archipelago, except the
representative OF England, who escaped by jump.
lug from window, had been murdered.
Cotton had advanced. Breadstufs were firm.
Consos closed at 96i TO 96s for money, and 81 for
account
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-09-22

- Il ~ n t. IuN"aV' NJ. y IA
largely attended. The meeting "a the PiS.s
for The Sabbath Sehool Confer, roe this ass-,0e A
depsey crowded. Able addresses were uosS. ~ s
Rev. Messrs. Adams Of Worces,er, Moore Of V,yG
S., John Chanlre Of Newark, Minor Of Bo,,a, ~
OF chicago. Inc a"endsnce on the pubhe s-,v,xS
use Of tie Conference, ard these -. p,s, "a Ne
u,mo-t capacity tbs, there /. no, even go, ~
room.
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Pcnnsylvamia State Fnir.

HARRisBr Re-, Pa, Tuesday. Sept, " iSn
The Agricultural Far conIn-sos- to-norruv. a
one thousand entries have slread, ban made -
ng one hundred and sixty horses. The dispis, -
eIceed any State Fair ever held here Horace ca
delivers the address On Friiayi