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The Irrepressible Tooth Pick.
Is this a dagger that ! see before me !

| Is this dagger that sec before me
MACBETH.
A few days since a friend showed us one Of the
thousand pike-beads prepared by some Christian
Yankee manufacturer for the pious 0ssawottolnie
Brown and intended for the phianthroic perfora
ton Of the bodies Of the women and children Of
Virginia. 1t is delicate little affair weighing
about three pounds ayoirdupois and measuring in
length fifteen inches, more or less. The keen blade
is double.edged, sharp-pointed, two inches wide
and ter inches long. The guard is a separate
piece of iron or steel four inches long and of an
inch thick through which the shank ofthe blade
passes at right angles The humane intention of
the guard is quite evident. In the pursuit Of the
irrepressible conflict old Brown appears to have
thought that gentle insertion of TIE foot of blade
into the body Of Shareholder would be just as
efseetuul as if his heroic followers were allowed to
thrust in their spears, head ard staff, and draw
them forth on the other side. For what was the
use Of being cruel when kindness would accomplish
Just as much at far less outlay of muscular
StcHStH! NOnslaef, moreover Lile Convenience VI
haying this little attachment to the fraternal i'm
plemcEt by means Of which Brown sought to show
his amiablc regard for the people Of Virginia.
Suppose, ior example, detachment of philaathro-
pist, at midnight surrounding the burning dwell.
ng-house OF a faIuy in Charlcstown how could
they toss little children back into the flames
without some such instrument as the Brown spear
with its Kansas guard and its Ossawatomic handle?
Why should Major General" Browns soldiers
soil their hands with sticky blood when q guard
would keep it off their pikc-starrs!
Below the guard was asocket or tube in which
piece of the handle of oak was still inserted. fas-
tened with screw which pierced both about one
inch from the end. The handle was originally
about six feet in length and constituted, with the
bead, guard and socket above described very
efectuai utensil for holy Aboitionsts to manifest
their charity and brotherly love witbal, equally
adapted to benignant severance Of the neck with
side stroke Us to religious thrust through the
diaphragm.
We hope this and the remaining nine hundred
and ninty-nine delicate memcntoes of northern
pious philsnthrophy may be preserved and circn.
lated until every man, woman and child in the
South shall have seen one of them.
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,sTRAYED OR STOLEN

T,RoM Alexandria, with saddle and ekS<
I bride on, BROWN MARE, about N
l45 hands high, both hind feet white,
branded j. Is. on the left shoulder, small ssa' =
the face
will pay liberal reward to any one de'iyen:s
the same to ME, or r. C. Hetherwick, Alexand1@
Nov, 23,-4t Nv. HADN0T, Rigoiets, Id
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A SENSIBLE NFGRo.--In the Mississippi Legisla-
tute last week.
Mr.. suratt, from the Committee OIL Propositions
and Grievances, to whom was referred the petition
of William Wcbser, free negro, praying to be
elevated Into slavery and permitted to become the
slave OF DR.. Athhald Ball, OF Charleston, Tallalas
chic county, Miss reported the same back to the
House, wi h bill, and recommend thatth do pass.
Received and agreed to--hiii passed.
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by order Of the Parish Executive Committee.
Alexandria, Nov. %, 1859.
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DEATH OF Mrs. P, 0. HEBEKr.-The much
esteemed wife Of Elk. Governor Hebert
died this plantation, in IberviIle Parish
on the s6th inst, and was buried on the
18th in the family vault Of her respected
mother, Mrs. Vaughan. This sad event
will cause deep affection to the immediate
family and kindred of the deceased, but
IN their bereavement they will have the
heartfelt sympathy Of that numerous
circle Of acquaintance who knew Mrs.
Hebert for what she was, an excellent
wife and mother; and a fine specimen Of
the warm-hcarted, intelligent and refined
sontbern natron B r. Advocate.
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SENATOR sLIDElI.-The Washington cor
respondent Of the Delta writes Nov. 25th.
One Of your own distinguished Senator'S has
arrived and is ready for the conflict. No man in
the nation, perhaps, enjoys greater popularity in
Washington circles than the honorable John Sill
dell. Long may be live.
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sB Capt. McClintock has declined the gift Of
the yacht Fox. which Lady Franklin Wished him
to accept
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FREE NEGRO IN MISSISSIPPI.

III the Senate of the Legislature Of the
State Of Mississippi the following Lii was
recently introduced:
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GREAT BRITAIN.

The prize fight reported took place
on the Goth. Sayers and his opponent
were in splendid condition. The cham
pion fought his antagonist at odds, laying
G4O0 to e200. A bet of 9200 to ego
was also accepted on the part of Brettle
that he was not beaten in ten minutes
making the total sum depending on the
issue of the fight 1920. After hard
fight of fifteen rounds, occupying nearly
% minutes, Savers was declared the
winner, Brettle having injured his arm.
Another account says that Sayers
beat Brettle after seven rounds, in IL 1-2
minutes.
Capt. Vansittart, who was in the Peiho
affair, writes that the forts were manned
chiefly by the Mongols of the AMOR
region. A writer in the Times confirms
this supposition, and gives some account
of the warlike skill of those tribes. He
says:
Like yourself, / am disposed to be.
lieve that the supposition Of Russian
soldiers serving the enemy's guns is err
roneous. That the Chinese may have
had Europeans among them is certainly
not impossible but it would be far easier
to distinguish them than a genuine Mus
covite, the whole of which population il
the northeast of Russia in Asia have a
much Monaghan features as the Chimes
or Mongols themselves; indeed, 2oi
miles to the eastward of Moscow and 81
Petersburg you will find them the pre-
dominent cast among the genuine Mus
covite race throughout the whole EN-
pre-
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The FATE OF THE BALLOONIs1

THE FATE OF THE BALLoONIsT.-
The Watertown IN. " Retormer;
the paper with which Mr.. Haddock,
who accompanied Lamountain, was
connected, comedies the probable
loss of the two excursionists, and
speculates as to their destiny:
The ascension was made on the
23d inst. The last that has been
heard Of it was its passage over the
town ofFowler, St. Lawrence coun-
ty, thirty miles distant, when it seem
ed to be moving at rapid rate in the
same direction as before. 1t was
supposed that they would come
down before dark. They were well
clad, and could not suffer from cold
They had but a small quantity o.
provisions, say three pounds, but a.
this season of the year they would
not find it very difficult to obtain the
means Of sustaining life. They haC
from two hundred and fifty to three
hundred pounds ballast, which would
enable them if they struck the Gul
of st. Lawrence, to cross the ocean
J iftheir course lay in that direction.
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-. H. uon Alfrna I..o,..n,, -.

nS The Hon. Alfred kerson,o one
of the United States Senators from
Georgia, has written a letter in
which he expresses the opinion that
if the Southern delegates at Charls-
ton will unite and be firm, they can
either force the Northern Democ-
racy to yield their demands, or else
unite the South upon a candidate of
their own. With regard to Senator
Douglas he says:
/ cannot believe that the South
ern Democracy will commit so suici-
dial an act as to adopt either Judge
Douglas as their candidate for the
Presidency, or his dangerous politi-
cal heresies. lido not believe that he
or his policy can receive the sanction
and support of the Charleston Con-
vention. ] await the action Of that
Convention, in the confident hope
that both will be repudiated, if mot
by majority of the Convention, at
least by decided majority of the
Southern delegates, and that they
will so act as either to defeat him
and his Free Soil Squatter Severe
ignty doctrine and policy, or break
up the Convention and take proper
and effective steps to unite the whole
South upon Southern right princi-
Piles and Southern rights candidates
in the Presidential election of $50. "
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by every other legal means in her power
According to a Hamburg paper the
Emperor Francis Joseph is ready to re-
move the greatest stumbling block from
the path of the negctiators at Zurich or
Biarritz, by Withdrawing the demand, to
which the stipulations of Nillairanca en-
title him. a restoration Of the Central
Italian princes. He viii be content, and
viii show it by proving tractable in other
questions, if France will only give Sc
curity that the Central Italian States be
not annexed to Sardinia.
The Allgemiene Zeitung estimates the
the cost of the late war at f52,000,000
sterling, distributed as follows: Austria,
about 920,000,000; France, 100000
600; Piedmont, f4,00O,0o0 other TIA
Ian States, 100000; Russia, 91,200,-
600; England, 9sS0,ooo; Germany,
E5,120,000.
The Espero reports, on the assurance
Of most reliable informant, the fortif-
cation of the valleys of the Tyrol by the
Austrians, as well as the progress of new
works in the great citadels Of the Quad
rilateral,
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The CRICKETERs.- york,
Oct. 3.-The great Cricket Match
between the All England Eleven,
and twenty two Of the United States,
was commenced to-day. The wealth
er was all that could be wished and
the ground in capital order. 1t is
estimated that there were as many
as six thousand to seven thousand
persons on the ground at any one
time during the day.
The United States were first al
the bat and their innings amounted
to SO. At about 3 o'clock the AL
England Eleven went in, and at {
O'Clock, when the stumps" were
pulled, they had scored 50.
The United States manifested
much nervousness during the larger
portion of the day, improving some
what at the close.
John Lillywhite, on the part o
England, and Chas. Vinten for thu
United States were the Umpires to
day.
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MURDER-AN ATTEMPTED DUEL
STABBNG AND SHOOTING AFFRAYs.-
New YORK, Der. 3.-An Irishman
named John Burns was arrested yester-
day morning on a charge of having the
night previously beaten and kicked his
wife Anna to death.
An attempt was made on Saturday to
fight duel at Hoboken. The princi-
pals were VIM. Mulligan, the pugilist
and Captain De La REVERE, the Cri-
mean and Mobilian hero. The affair
fell through, as is alleged, in consequence
of the unwillingness of the Captain, who
was the challenger, to come to time after
both parties, with their seconds, had met
on the ground.
A man named Michael Cornelius wa:
found yesterday morning in cellar a
the Five Points. He had been stabbed
in the left breast, and his recovery j;
hopeless.
A shooting afray took place last nigh
at French's Hotel, between Henry Will
kins, printer, and William Hughs
Hughs received a wound in the breas
from pistol shot, and was conveyed tt
the Hospital.
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A Rich Letter.

Some irate chaplin Coventry, "not hav-
ing the fear of the schoolmaster before
his eyes" and with but little Of his in
struction, has sent us the following rich
letter, which in all haste we give place
in our columns, just as it was written,
verbdtim et hteratiH, ct spelldtim. We
don't know who our learned correspond
ent is, but presume that he is "some
pukings," that won't be kicked without
kicking back. He speaks of "oui
dance" shoots hard, hot and heavy
hence we infer that be is the chief gun.
ner of their artillery. If he is not, he
ought to be. Pity the SORROWS" of the
poor miller after such raking broadside
as is given below. "Oh ~ the dance
Ohll7
For the Standard Coventry Sept 20 1855
Mr., A, A Earle
Dear Or
/ was informed
that their was TO be a dance at the towr
hall in Country the evening after the
muster and after the boys had lighted
the hall a miller came in and few in the
lights and put them out. OH! foolisl
Miller burn your own wings for the por
pose of breaking up the dance oh wha
Smell you made it was like the Smell
of the filth of gehenna and the wore
that proceeded from your mouth wa.
like that of man of Some pukings ant
if you Come and try to break up oul
dance again and do not have any Serious
pulbacks you will make Some mighty
great bag of flush especially if you eve.
get in the great office of School cormit
tee From Some that
was their
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CALIFORNIA Observation-Disclosures
OF THE ADMINISTRATOR DEMOCRATS.
St. Louis, Oct. 2.-The overland mail.
with San Francisco dates of the 9th ult.,
arrived this evening. The State cleo
ton on the 9TH resulted in the undoubt-
ed choice of Milton S. Latham, the Le-
compton Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor, by very large majority, per-
haps 10000. Messrs. Scott and Burch-
all are probably elected to Congress, al
though their opponents, Messrs. Baker
and McKibben, who received the united
vote of the Republican and anti-Lecomp-
ton parties, have the benefit of slight
doubt in their favor. The Anti-Lecomp.
ton candidate for State Printer, who was
also supported by the Republicans, ha:
slight chance of election. With these
possible exceptions, the Democratic lie
compton State ticket is elected by an i'm
mense majority. Both branches of the
Legislature are largely Democratic. L
would be about a week before the officia
returns were counted.
The Peoples Reform ticket, being tn
regular succession of that inaugurated il
1856 by the Vigilance Committee, ha
again triumphed in San Francisco by
handsome majority.
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o. Rev. A. Wright, pastor of a
Methodist church at Cleveland,
Ohio, has been expelled from his con-
ference by avote of 81 to 40, his off
.enses being romantic walks by moon
light with young sisters in the
church, kisses to the same that were
too warm for kisses of chastity, worse
than all, hint given to a childless
marriedlady ofhis congregation that
it was not too late yet to have a
boy" The affectionate pastor is SO
years old and has a wife. He ap
peals to the general conference, de
clares the kissingperfectly harmless
and says thehint to themarried sister
was physiological" merely.
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THE FAIR AT CRAFTsBURY.-Let
every man and woman in Orleans Coun.
ty attend the coming Fair at Craftsbury
1t takes place next Tuesday. We learn
that it is the intention to beat the Mis-
sisquoi Valley Fair, lately held at South
Troy. We hope it will be done, but
don't believe it can. Ifthey do we shall
say so. Do your best, then. Bring GU
your oxen, horses, cows, calves, bulls
your vegetables, rich and rare. We
wish to see the best of everything in Or
leans County.
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Foreign News.
THE ZURICH CONFERENCE.

n correspondent VI TUG SVAfsf0t W
Dimanche, written from Zurich, gives
long account of the difficulties which
have been encountered by the plenipot-
entiaries there assembled. From this
account it appears that on all the chief
points of discussion the ENJOYS Austria
and Sardinia take quite irreconcilable
positions, and that the only point on
which something like agreement was ar
rived at was, that both the Emperor OF
Austria and the King of Sardinia should
divide the right of appointing knights of
the Order of the Iron Crown-the form
er in virtue of his retention of the iron
crown of Monza, and the latter in virtue
of his holding Monza, to which place the
crown belongs. When the Sandman
plenipotentiary urged that the fortresses
of Mantua and Peschiera, the keys of
Lombardy, should be ceded to his mas
ter, the Austrian insisted that, in justice,
Borgoforte, as well as we'll as Mantua
and Peschiera, belonged to the Emperor.
When Sardinia offered to buy the two
fortresses the offer was refused; and
a proposition to purchase Venetia as well
as the two fortresses was also rejected.
The title of King of Upper Italy, which
Victor Emmanuel demanded, appeared
to Austria threatening in the extreme,
for it was held to indicate design to
drive her out of Venice, and she there
fore resisted the demand.
On the question of the debt of Lom-
hardy, no approach to concord could be
established. Austria wanted 100000
900 francs, to replenish her exhausted
Golfers and to cripple the resources of
her enemy; Sardinia was resolved to
keep the money, wherewith to erect fort
resses to confront those of Mantua and
Peschiera. On the question of restor-
ing the Dukes of Tuscany, Modena and
Parm a, the Austrian representative
feigned to believe that there could be no
difficulty; the thing had been settled by
the treaty of Villafranca, and Sardinia
was of course morally bound to assent.
/ The Sandman representatives, however,
took up from the very outset the position
that King Victor Emmanuel had not
undertaken any engagement, moral or
material, upon that question that no
such engagement had been demanded OF
him, and that if it bad been sought to
exact any such engagement of him he
would have fatty refused to undertake
it, because he is an honest man, and
never promises what he viii not main
tain. The chronicler of this scene Of
prolonged discords thus closes his mar
rative:
Need l, then, tell you that scarcely
put any more confidence in the future
labors of the Conference than in its pas
labors for the settlement of the Italian
question No arrangements essentially
modified will be introduced there; NJ
such communications as those of th'
French Momiteur will be capable of in
ducing Austria to renounce her require
ments or Italy to renounce her hopes
All that they will be enabled TO do is t.
come to an agreement on questions O
detail; but the main difficulty cannot b
} solved except by a European Congress;
, if by that.
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Loss OF THE UNITED STATES
STEAMSHIP FULToN.-New Orleans,
Sept. 10. The steamer Atlantic,
which has arrived below, reports the
loss of the United States frigate Full
ton, which went ashore on Santa
Rosa Island, near Pensacola, during
a gale On the 10th. The hull lies
high and dry, and is breaking up
The crew and stores were saved.
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La MOUNTAIN SAFE; Four DAYS
WITHOUT FooD.-Troy, N. Y, Oct. 8.
A dispatch was received in this city
this evening, from Prof. La Mountain,
dated Ottawa, C. W., Oct. 3. 1t is as
follows:
"Lost all. Landed three hundred
miles north of WATERFOWL, in the Cana
da wilderness. We were four days with
out food. Brought out by Indian guides
in canoes, etc. Please inform my wife
JOHN LA MOUNTAIN"
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PRETTY GooD.-We learn that A.
F. Adams, of Derby, with dairy of six
teen cows, has this season made forty
tubs of butter, averaging about ffty-one
lbs. to the tub. His family for the most
of the time, numbered eight persons
The ten first tubs brought him twenty
three cents per ID. and the remaining
thirty, twenty-five cents per ID. making
the snug little sum of $453,90. We cal
this good business.
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Perfldy Of the Chinese Fearful slaughter Of
British Troops near Pekin.

The China mail, which reached Eng
land on the l4th, brings news Of excit-
ing interest. The British and French
Ambassadors, en- route to Pekin under
the provisions of the late treaty, were
repulsed at the mouth of the Peiho r.
yer, on the 18th of June, with great
loss, which was all the more severe be-
cause unexpected. The squadron, under
command Of Admiral Hope, arrived on
the 18th of June off the Peiho a small
river leading to the city of Pekin, 100
miles in the interior, and navigable for
boats to within twenty miles of the capt.
tai. Admiral Hopes arrival was IN an
Enthusiastically pacific character. A soli-
tary man of war boat carried in his first
message, announcing his arrival, the Flu
ry and two gun-boats being left outside
the bar, while the rest Of the squadron
was lying thirty miles off. The ambas-
sailors, finding no proper officers to re-
ceive them, joined forces on the 25th and
decided to force a passage up the river,
the mouth of which had been efectually
barred by iron stakes and booms. This
bar was also commanded by line of
several newly constructed forts on the
river bank, mounting from ninety to one
hundred guns, but on the first arrival no
guns or men were visible. When the
forces had arrived, however, and had
spent six or seven hours in the vain en-
deavor to force a passage, the batteries
were on a sudden unmarked and opened
a destructive fire, such as was never be-
fore experienced at their hands.
AT about 5 pm. the order TO land was
given, but here new difficulties presented
themselves, the mud so retarding pro-
gress that the Chinese were enabled to
throw in a perfect hurricane Of shell,
gingal balls and rockets with deadly ef-
feet, while the troops were unable to re-
turn the fire or the ships in the ofing to
render any service in covering their op-
, erations. OF 1000 men who landed
barely 100 We're able to reach the first
of three bitches which interviewed be-
tween them and the forts. Some 20
brave men, who alone had been able to
keep their ammunition dry, succeeded in
reaching the third ditch, and with one
ladder which remained ten Of them seal
ed the walls. Three of them were i'm
mediately shot dead and five others
wounded. Orders were at last given fo1
the retreat, but in efecting this probably
more lives were lost than in the advance
The total killed and wounded were
British AGA French 4 killed 10 wound
ed; marine brigade, % killed and 4E
wounded. Admiral Hope was severely
wounded, as were several other promin
ent officers. Some wounds are said tC
have been effected by Minnie balls, ant
the belief was general that Russian en-
gineers planned the Notifications and con
Quoted the Chinese in their resistance.
' The Americans assisted in helping tn,
disabled troops away, and took many o
the wounded on board their own ships
The feet at once returned to Canton
y where all was quiet. The hope of tn
treaty being carried out is given up, ant
a fresh war is imminent. The Englisl
and French secretaries of legation al
:, rived home on the mail steamer.