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New Orleans Markets.

CDfTON-The market has been unusually quiet to-
day and the sales confined about zoo bales Old
aud new crop. We repeat our
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I'm p WILLS Home Journal al vertises circulars
furnished gratis explaining the reasons why requires
gentleman OF accomplished mechanical genus'' to
operate a Wheeler aud Wilson's Sewing machine and
Why so many 'exceient house Keepers can not do
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markets by Telegraph.

New ORLEANS, August 25.-Cotton. sales
400 bales, prices easier but quotations are I'M
changed, new 1ls; Flour has an advancing
tendency, superfne So l21. Exchange on
London Sc: New York sixty days II; sight
discount
New YORK, Aug. 25.-Cotton quiet; sales
500 bales. Flour unsettled. Western red
wheat | 20; white 80. Bacon quiet, 6s(o6
g.. Sugar dull, hos. Coffee steady; auc-
ton sales 8s(gl3i.
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FOR RENT

A NEAT and comfortable dwelling, situated lust
n beyond the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad
Depot in Hiaes's Addition, with good cistern and
every convenience necessary 10 render a desirable
residence Apply 90 W. J.. BOYD, Jr.,
aug2S-d No. SO Cherry st.
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LEAvENwoRTH, August 22.-The board of
Commissioners proclaim English proposition
rejected by 95l2 majority.
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Atlantic Telegraph Successful.
* r5at q e5nt *
lS5S. 1888.
FALL TRADE,
At THE
New York Millinery Emporium,
81 Union ss.. Nashville, Tenn.
French Pattern Bonnets.
Enbrolderies,

such a. Collars Sleeves, handkerchief ssfss Ranas
glngz. Chiidrea's Robes, Waists and Capes tzrre
ioi ~ fatent skirts and Cfsets cioth naks a. Il,
naust popaizr styles FuFs great sa4ztltg sslI ths
gay fron the ko1ky Mountains.
a. old Boanois FuaoRaied and rstFimnsd IN No.
] btytr. .sa. =
sagit-Q iiRs DOYLE.
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aud new crop. We repeat our
CUrT1S QUOTATIONS.. ~
Inferior....-... al Mddling ......11 GILT
Ordinary 90 Good Niddling. g
Good Ordinary. 91sOlo AIildling FAIR @
Low Mddlmg .l0149lo24 Fair....-..... o.
Good FAIR. nominal.
SUGAR-Sorne so hhds. have been sold at previous
rates Fair 10 fully far et99lic. = ID
p AOLLAsEo-Ne notice sale OF 80 bbls. Leighton
at BIC. 2 gallon.
FIOUR-Ihe sales have been confined TO a few IL
mitcd Parcels. nclu,lmg "a bb!s st Louis superiue
in three lots AT So; so pc &C. and IS ST IS
2 bhl.
NHEAT-We hear Of nothing doing.
CORN-About ,t0) saks have been sold, including
100 rejected at 60c. 444 mixed S. 265 at the same
and $50 white at lie. 2 bushel.
BACoN-fhe principal sales rep rted TO day was 10
casks Shoulders at Sc. 2 fb
LAR-Nothng OF any Importance doing.
CUFFEE-Nothing OF any moment doing.
WHlSkY-50 bbis. RecIiled sold at sc. = gallon
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yellow Fever.
Arrived.

NEW ORLEANS. August 24.-Deaths yester-
tcrday "A. Deaths to-day A.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1858-02-03

said lie, like the confessions of penitent
monk These isolated expressions, my in
formant says, convey no idea whatever Of
the fiery impressiveness with which he
spoke. He justified all he had done; nay,
applauded it.
He was moved to the depth of his soul
the pent up feelings Of twenty-five years
burst into speech. His companion who had
known him intimately many years, and had
never seen him reused before, was almost
awe-struck by this strange out-burst of emo
ton, and the startling force of many of his
expressions. He remembers wondering that
he should have thought Burr small of stat
ire, for, during the scene, the loltiness of
his demcanor was such, that his very form
seemed TO rise and expand. 1t was long
before he regained his usual composure.-
All the way home he still spoke of the old
en- time, and seemed 10 renew his youth,
and live over again his former lfe."
A few years after, however, when he lay
sick with paralysis, and near death, he said,
after reading in Sterne's 'Tristram Shandy,'
'If had read Sterne more and Voltaire less,
should have known that the world was
wide enough for Hamilton and me.'-Lie H.
lustrated.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1858-02-03

A SAMPSON IN SHACKELs.-The Monroe
(Wis.) Press says they have prisoner IN the
Greenco. jail, by the name of Sam. Witham,
who has been amusing himself and astonish-
ing the jailor, with his teats of strength
Unaided by single instrument, he broke a
set of the strongest patent handkufIs, rent
the shackels from his feet, tore off several
locks from the door of his cell, broke q large
iron door which served as an additional
fastening, and passed out into the hall Of the
JAIL exercised himself in the satisfactory
mysteries of pigeon-wing! A night or
two since he concluded to give another en-
tertainment, which consisted of breaking
two Of the iron bars of the CRATES Of his cell
door, but his performance being unsea.
sonably cpecked by the enterance of his
keeper, he retired from the scene in evident
confusion.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1858-02-03

THE OUTER AND THE INNER WoRLp.-There
are some who seem 10 live entirely in the
outer world; while others find their true
position in the inner-a few live in each
alternately.
The first are such as seize the pleasures
of the present, with no thought of the future,
and find matter for enjoyment and nirth in
almost any class of externals into which
they may be thrown. The second are con-
templative, sensitive and poetic; their
thoughts are with the glories of the past, the
localities of the present, the bright hopes of
the future. They merely live in the outer
world; their pleasures are all drawn from
the inner. The few, of the third class, com.
bine happy admixture Of reality and
ideality. To-dayihey live in the outer world,
tomorrow in the inner. They laugh with
the cheerful, and dance with the gay, yet
deep within their souls is n contemplative,
sensitive, poetic gem, which, ever and anon,
shines forth amid the grosser glare of out
W ard iormalities.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1858-02-03

THE LADY WITH THE RED PETTIcoAT.-The
Washington correspondent of the Pcnnsyl-
ranian says of the red petticoat, recently
introduced by the wife of British Minister
Ousley:
"There is an English literary lady now in
this city, whose dress, known in London as
the ''peasant costume," has caused quite a
stir among the fashionables. The dress con-
sists of red and black striped petticoat,
descending within six inches of the feet,
over which is worn a dress of the usual
length, but hooped up to the height of the
skirt. A 'dreadnought overcoa., with gilt
buttons, serves 10 keep out the cold and
damp; while straw hat screens the head,
and real genuine long legged boots protect
the feet do not think the dress is very
neat or pretty, but it is novel, and that is
something. 1t it considered an improve
ment on the Bloomer costume. in all the
mud of Washington winter, il is a much
better dress than the street sweeping ma
chimes which have so long prevailed.o
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1858-02-03

GETTING OVER DirrIcULTy-A class
which graduated not over thousand years
ago, embraced among its members one Tom
Elliott, an incorrigible wag, who was not
noted for any particular and marked atten.
zion 10 his studies. Mathematics was
particular object of Toms dircgard, and
this caused him an occasional jeu d esprit
With tfrc'l5iry Aarninssor of COMICS. On one
occasion, the professor, during the recita-
ton, asked Tom 10 explain the horizontal
parolaX of the sun.
Tom replied: ~ don't know how.n
"But." said the professor, "Suppose you
were appointed by the government to as
certain it, what would you do?
"Fd resign" gravely responded Tom,
amid the convulsive laughter of the class,
and even the professor actually perpeirated
a grin.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1858-02-03

OLD BIBLE.-The oldest book in the United
States, it is said is a manuscript: Bible in the
possession of Mr.. Witherspoon, of Alabama,
written over thousand years ago! He des-
cribes it as follows: The book is strongly
bound in boards of old English oak and
with throngs by which the leaves are also
well bound together. The leaves are entirely
made of parchment of a most superior
quality of fineness and smoothness, little
inferior TO the best satin.
The pages are ruled with great accuracy,
and written with great uniformity and beauti-
full in the old German text hand divided off
into chapters and verse. The first chapter
in every book is with large capitals, and
splendidly illuminated with red, blue and
black ink in vivid colors, and no two Of the
capital letters in the book precisely alike.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1858-02-03

Ii is not your neat dress, nor your expen-
sive shawl, that attract the attention Of men
of sense. They look beyong these. 1t is
the true loveliness of your nature that wins
and continues to refrain the affections OF the
heart Young ladies sadly miss it who labor
to improve their outward looks, while they
bestow not thought on the mind. Fools
may be won by gewgaws and fashionable
showy dresses, but wise and substantial are
never caught by such traps. Let modesty
be your dress. Use pleasant and agreeable
language, and though you may not be cour-
ted by the fop and the sot, the truly good
and great will love to linger in your steps
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RALPH REDBLosoM.

TaE CAUSE OF SUlcIDEs.-The New Or.
leans Bulletin, referring to the suicides of
Senators Rusk, Anson Jones, and many
others who have destroyed themselves,
comes TO the conclusion that if the real facts
could be known, it would be found that in
vast majority of instances the cause is to
be found IN cups and adds.-"The extern
sive adulterations of liquors which havo
taken place of late years act upon the brain
is liable TO disease almost as much so, per-
haps, as any other organ, and when it is so
the individual is-crazy I! and does not know
what he is doing. The brain of the drunk
ard, it is, we'll known, will take fire, emit
ting blush light, and causing smell like
burning alcohol. We are strongly inclined
to think that most suicides by males aro
reierable TO this as the primary cause"
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Hon. WILLIAM BIcLER--We take pleasure

Hon. WILLIAM BIGLER We take pleasure
i'll quoting from the Pe,uasylvanian, the fol-
loving satisfactory exposure of a charge of
inconsistency made against our distinguish
cd Senator:
Our attention has been called 10 an allega-
dion, in the opposition newspapers to the ef-
fec, that Senator Bigler declared in Kansas
and elsewhere, that he should resist the ad-
mission of Kansas as State, uulss the
sense of the people was first taken on the
Constitution, entire. We have the highest
authority for saying, that this statement is
not correct. Holding, as he has uniformly
held, that the people had perfect right TO
make their ordinary institutions of govern
ment in their own way, he never could have
taken the position attributed 10 him. Doubt
less, Gov. Bigler said in Kansas, as he said
in the Senate the other day, that he pre-
fencd the submission of the entire .Consti-
tuition 10 vote of the people; but that he
ever said that he would resist the admission
of the Stale unless the Constitution was so
submitted, we know 10 be incorrect. We
met MIR. Bigler soon after his return from
Kansas, when he freely expressed TO ourself
and other friends that the Convention would
submit only the slavery question, and indi-
Gated that there would be sufficient 10 secure
his vote, though he preferred that the entire
instrument should be passed upon. the peo-
pie. There are many persons at Washing
ion, in this city and Clearfeld, 10 whom he
gave his views freely. But his Clarion
speech, in reply to Wilmot, in August last,
is enough Of itself to put this whole story 10
rest.
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JAM UARY.

Tho yonr has lost its leaves again,
The world looks old and grim;
God folds his robe of glory thus,
That we may sec but him.
And all his stormy messengers,
That come with whirlwind breath,
Beat out the chaff Of vanity,
And leave tho grains of faith.
We seek no oil in summer time
Our winter lamp to trim,
But strive to bring God down 10 rs,
More than to rise TO him.
Wo tread through folds Of brightest flowers
As if we did not know
Our Father made them beautiful,
Because he loves us SO.
We seek, in prayers and ponance,
To do the martyrs part,
Remembering not the promises,
Arc to be pure in heart.
Then blow, o wild winds, as 20 List,
And let the world look grim
God folds his robe of glory thus,
That VIC may see but him. ALICE CAREY
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A SsAKE SToRY.-We learn from the AL
bany Times that Mrs. Hays, of the town OF
Day, Saratoga county, N. Y, whose case
was detailed some time since, and who had
lived nineteen months without food or drink,
died week or two ago. She remained in
sensible for fifteen months of the period,
and up 10 few days of her death, when
she seemed TO revive, and spoke OCCASION
ally. After her death her body was opened,
and snake fivs feet long and half an inch
thick was taken from the stomach
1t was alive when removed but died soon
after. ...
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RoMANTIc.-The Provincetown Banner
says occasionally an incident occurs in vii.
laee even as regular in its habits as this,
which rivals some of the golden fables in
the Arabian Nights. A short time since an
unpretending Down East coasting schooner
arrived in our harbar. She was bound for
New York, probably put in consequence of
all unIavorable wind, to wait a fair chance to
get run over the shoals. The captain came
ashore, and one evening was making visit
at the house of an acquaintance. Here he
chaEccd TO spy atyoung woman who was
stopping there, and at frst sight the gallant
tar was 'sniiIeR." Calling the yodng
woman to the doorway, as he passed out,
he addressed her directly 10 the point, with
"Will-you-have-me?" ?" The lady was
"struck," even as the captain had been
smitten. "I am bound on cruise" said the
sailor, "and you can wait till a year has
passed; or you can go on board and go home
with me; or we will be married 10 night if
you will. You can inquire of my friends
$50 and SOY in regard to my character. am
widower and have few thousand dollars
worth of property" The lady "bustled
round )" that night they were married, and
went on board the vessel; and the next
morning many of us from the shore were
wondering why the coaster had so many gay
flags flying. Happy voyages and pleasant
gales may they enjoy.
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oh oifc 1poetrp.
SPARKLING AND BRIGHT.

Sparkling and bright in liquid light
Docs the wine our goblets gloam in,
With hue as red rs the rosy bed
Which n Doe, would chose to dream in.,
~ Then fill tonight with hearts as light,
To loves as gay and neeting
As bubbles that swim on the beakcr's brim,
.. And break on the lips while meeting.
.! II Mirth might arrest the fight
or Time through Life's dominions,
We here awhile would now beguile
The gray beard of his pinions.
Todrink tonight with hearts as light,
To loves as gay and feeting
As bubbles that swim on the beaker's brim,
And break on the lips while meeting.
But since delight can't tempt tho wight,
Nor fond regret delay him,
Nor Love himself can hold the elf,
Nor sober friendship stay him.
We'll drink tonight with hearts as light,
To loves as gay and fleeting
As bubbles that swim on the boaker's brim,
And break on the lips whilc meeting.
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enough 10 leap over sich place mule
mout have done it, but dad warnt actin
mule. crept up to the edge and looked
over. Thar was old dads bald head, for all
the world like peeled iugun, a bobbin' up
and down, and the hornet sailin' and cir
clin' round, turkey-buzzard fashion, and
every once III while, one, and sometimes
ten, 'ud make dip at dads head He kept
up peart dodgin' under; sometimes they'd
hit him and sometimes they'd hit the water,
and the water was kivered with drowned
hornets.
"What on yearth are ye doin' thar, dad I"
says I.
"Don't (dip) you see these internal var
mints (dip) onto me 2"
"What,n sed I. "Them are hoss flies
thar; ye amt really afeard of them, are
yep
Il" Hoss flies 2" sed da2 they're rale (dip)
ginewine bald hornets, you (dipj internal
cuss.n
"Well, dad, you'll have 10 stay thar till
mite, and arter they go 10 roost, you come
home and I'll feed you."
"And knowin' dads unmodified natur,
broke from them parts and sorter cum 10
the copper mines. staid hid about till
next afternoon, when seed fellow trav-
cling, and sed |: "What was goin' on at
the cabin this side of the creek, when you
passed itw
"Why, nuthin' much, only man was
sittin' in the door with nary shirt on, and a
woman wus greasin' his back and arms,
and his head was about as big as ten gal
Ion keg, and he hadn't the fust sign of an
eye-all smooth"
"That mans my dad" sedI
Been much fiten in this neighborhood
lately 2" sed the traveller, dryly.
"Nun wuth speakin' of, personally or
particularly" sed I.
"Now, boys,'l hain't seen dad since, and
would be afeard to meet him in the next ten
years. Let's drink"
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1858-02-03

VUAT An INFATUATED YOUNG MN
WOULD DO FOR HIS LADY, LOVE.
For her I'd climb Parnassus high,
And there I'D scan the weather,
I'd wrench the rainbow from the sky,
And lie both ends together.
For thee I'd apple dumplings make,
And stufl'em full of plums,
For thee I'D castor oil take,
And then I'd lick my thumbs.
For thee I would my bosom tear,
And then I'd wallow in the dirt;
For thee I'd pull out all my hear, -
And then I'd tear my shirt.
For thee I'd meet either Joy or care,
Commit any sort of folly,
And thee I'd cover with kisses rare,
Indeed would by golIy.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1858-02-03

u Mr.. Jenkins was dining alta very hos.
pitable table, but piece Of bacon near him
was SO very small that the lady of rhe house
remarked 10 him: r.a...
''Pray, MIR. jenkins help yourself to the
bacon. Don't be afraid of it."
"No, indeed, madam, I shall not be. Pve
seen piece twice as large, and it didn't
scare me Bit"
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The FOLLOWING is the transcendontal f

The FOLLOWING is the transcendental for
"Biiss, will you take my arm ?":-
"Young lady, will you condescend SO far
sa TO sacrifice your own convenience to my
pleasure, as to insert the digitals and part
of the extremity of your contiguous arm
through the angular aperture formed by the
ssooking of my elbow against the perpen-
dicular portion Of my frame W -.--
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DEATH FROM THE BITE OF CAT:-A clerk
in the employ of McCreay s. Company, at
Andenreid's colliery near Jeanesylle Luzerne
county, named John Able, died on the 9Th
ult. from The effects of bite of cat receiv-
ed len weeks before.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1858-02-03

A SON OF GALES, who was very angry
when any joke was passed on physicians,
once defended himself from raillery by say
ing, Il defy any person that ever attended
to accuse me of ignorance or neglect."-
"That you may do safely" replied wag
" for you know, Doctor, dead men tell no
tales"
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1858-02-03

A couple of "sentlemen of color" were
overheard talking politics yesterday, and
one says TO the other, "Who do you so fol? 2"
''Wcll, think goes for Mr.. Wood" the
other says, do you not think Mr.. Wood an
"Well kinder think if was
a chicken in barn yard, and should see
MIR. Wood around, should roosl pretty high.
IN Y Post.
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e A well known political economist
says: "We pay best, first those who des-
troy us-generals; second, those who cheat
us-politicians and quacks; third, those who
amuse us-singers and musicians and least
of all those who instruct us--authors, school
masters, and editors" ..,, ..... ....-.
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Y The GloucesIor tMass.) Telegraph
SAYS: "From q somewhat careful estimate,
we Judge there is now lying unsold upon our
wharves S2aO, 900 worth ol mackerl and cod
fish,"
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I A divine informed sailor that the
Devil was chained up.
elbow long is the rope?"
ooh. was the dignifiedreply, "it extends
over the whole world"
"Does it," rejoined Jack, eff 80 the lub-
ber might as well be loose"
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wA good story is told OF "counuy

TA good story is told OF "country
gentleman" who, for the first time, heard an
Episcopal clergyman preach. He had read
much of the aris,ocracy and pride OF the
Church, and when he returned home he was
asked il the people were "sluck up"
"Pshaw, no." replied he; why the minister
actually preached in his shirl-sleeves p
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1858-02-03

v 1t is said the kind mothers of the east
have got SO good that they give their chill
dren chloroiorm previous to whipping them
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1858-02-03
- A bachelor, after all his matrimonia

v A bachelor, after all his matrimonial
attempts, pathetically exclaims:
When remember all
The girls Pve met together,
felt Ike rooster in the fall,
Exposed 10 every weather;
feel like one who ireads alone
Some barn yard all deserted,
Whose oats are hed-whose hens are
dead,
And off to market startled.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1858-02-03

In Great Britain the financial affairs are
rapidly improving.
Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1858-06-03

GOLD IN IowA.-We have been inclined TO
believe that the stories of finding gold in
Southern Iowa were inventions OF specula-
tors inviting settlers. or that they were pre-
dicated on the discovery in limited qusnti-
ties of metal erroneously said to be gold
But there seems to be no room for doubt
that in the counties Warren. Madison.
Polk, Adair. Clark, Guthrie and Dallas in
the vicinity of Fort Des Monies, more or
less gold is daily found along the margins
of the streams, by the hundreds, perhaps
thousands of men engaged in the search
There IS ss yet nothing to warrant the be-
lief that the deposits are large. or that gold
washing in that region viii ever be re-
munerative branch ofthe States industry.
Men who ought to be following the plor
have left that standing in the furrow, while
they, bare footed and bare-legged, are wa
ding up and down the creeks for wages
which average about the cost ofthe salt fcl
Chicago Tribune.