Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1858-12-16

CONGRESSIONAL CoNFABs. - The Washing
ington States, in it's notice Of the opening Of
Congress, says of the Senators Seward and
MASON gossip themselves into laughter; while
Thompson Of New Jersey, has 'few words"
with his neighbor, Hammond who, all the while,
is diligently looking over his correspondence
Kennedy bends Economically over the desk Of
Rice, as though to say sly things Of one of the
fair sex. Slidell and Gwin put their two white
heads together; Colamer, with stopped shoul-
ders, listens to Green; Cameron ponders, head
on hand, alone; King indites blunt missives :;
| Wade wades through the columns of newspa-
per; Foot and Wilson square their chairs, and
face each other in light loquacity; Gen. Shields
and Ward the new Senator from Texas, pass
seasonable compliments; Clay listens to Iverson;
Jones taps his thumb-nail with his paper cutter;
Stuart is very sedate, while outside Of the bar
Bright and Duff Green confab Il. F. Meagher
attentively scans the scene, and various other
strangers distinguished" of course, or they
could not get the foor-pass repass, recognize,
and inquire.
YEDDo, IN JAPAN.-Mr. Consul Harris, in a
private letter to an officer of the Navy who was
in the Japan expedition, gives the following
description of the city of Yeddo:
II have visited the city of Yeddo twice, and
have had an audience of the Emperor. pass
ed nearly sic months in Yeddo during my two
visits, and succeeded at last in making COM
mercial treaty that fully opens Japan to our en-
terprising citizens, and brings Japan fairly into
the great family of nations.
''Yeddo is large city Of two-story wooden
buildings. The streets are generally wide and
we'll severed, but are not paved. 1t is proba-
~ IL,
100000. There is neither beauty nor splen-
ses is the same as those you saw at Simoda and
Kanagawa, and the interiors are quite as desti-
tute of furniture or ornament. Even the palace
of the Emperor is built Of implanted wood, and
is equally bare of any furniture. The golden
columns and roofs spoken of by old writers have
vanished if they ever existed. and l am assured
by the japanese that their buildings and mode
of living are precisely the same that they have
been for the last five hundred years.
USEFUL HINTS TO YOUNG MEN.-How many
young men ignorantly deny themselves for
tune. There is scarcely young man of good
sense in this city who cannot save $500 easily
from his annual earnings, and, if he will forego
cigars, billiards, and juleps, he can save double
that amount. flSures sometimes produce al
most incredible results. Thus for instance, if
a young man upon his twentieth birthday will
invest 500 in any stock, paying ten per cent,
and annually thereafter will invest the same
amount and the accumulation of interest, he will
be worth, when he is thirty years old, $1,753 :;
when forty years old, $4,000: when fifty years
old $18, $50; when sixty years old, $4S,7OO.
How simple then is the plan by which youth
of the present day can pass his old age in COM
fort and luxury. He has only to regulate his
expenses so as to save one hundred dollars each
year from his income, If the amount saved be
larger, then the sum total will be increased in
the same proportion.
Only think of it, that $500 saved annually
and invested in ten per cent. stock will amount
in forty years to $243,5OO. One million inves-
ted in the same way for ten years will amount