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RUSSIAN PEASANTS.-The SerfS and
peasants of both sexes and all ages NAV
be seen at work in the fields. They are
very uncouth in look and dress, remind
ing one of the co:k-tree shippers in
Portugal. They are more degraded in
appearance than any class of our labor
ers, not excepting the plantation ne
groes. Away in the distance, across
the level plains, the white houses of the
owners of the soil may be seen, brilliant
IN the sunshine as it strikes their roofs,
painted in green or scarlet; and now and
then the gilded dome of some temple of
worship glitters in strong relief against
the monotony CT the immense undula-
ting plains, scrubby groves of young
pine, and the bleak and solitary villages
of log-huts. have never seen such
rude and miserable novels in our coun-
try, even in it's widest frontier region.
They remind you of the City of Eden
in Martin Chuzzlewit. And all this tue
result of centuries of bondage Many
years of emancipation will be required
to remove the depressing effects of their
serfage, and make their villages look
like those in France and Germany. with
their neat vine covered cottages, or
chards, green lanes, and the pleasant
comfort which L had witnessed there.
The agricultural implements are fash
Toned after those used by the farmers of
Old Testament times. The scythes are
the original of the old picture in which
Death is represented as moving down
mankind Cor. CIecelGnd Herald.
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When John Jacob Astor determined
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hotel, he went to his friend Costar to
buy his residence at the corner of Broad
way and Barclay streets. Mr.. Costar,
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1t has been announced that the fash
ionable gambling establishments at Ba-
den Baden and elsewhere in Germany
are to be closed up by order of the gov
ernment after January /, 1870. This has
caused considerable exercise OF mind
upon the part Of the loose characters
| who generally resort to such places, and
8 considerable display of virtuOus salts
faction by people on both sides OF the
Atlantic who Justly regard such places
as hotbeds Of vice and crime. 1t may be
questioned, however, whether some OF
| the people In our American cities, VINO
congratulate themselves upon the TACT
| that our government has never tole-
rated such vicious establishments, had
not better take closer look at what Is
going on at home. II cannot be
| concealed that gambling 70 an enormous
| extent, and for all sorts OF sums, from a
| few cents TO hundreds Of thousands OF
dollars. is carried on with but little at
/ tenpt at coucealment in every one Of our
cities. Suits for the recovery Of sums
] lost in gambling houses, by clerks anu
other persons who have robbed their en-
ployers or principals, come before the
/ public every year, and within few
| months actions have been brought in a
Deighboring city by various victims TO
/ recover large amounts plJnderad from
| them. Now and then such things
crop out in Philadelphia as vel
/ a. elsewhere, aud il is well known
that gambling houses flourish here, and
are doing the same mischief that
they do everywhere. Attempts to pros
/ ecpte and punish the keepers OF suon
plaees nearly always fail, and ia ways
that are very mysterious to the general
| body Of the people. It il the same with
/ lottery and policy offices, which are
nothing less than gambling houses; and
| although the sums involved are much
! smaller, yet the evils, distress, vice
and crime that they produce are
much more Widespread, because this
| species Of gambling is resorted to by
/ immensely lsrEerl. numbers, who are
| for the most paft poor, aRd even
very poor people. The proceedings OF
| these lottery and policy dealers are quite
as omen as those Of the authorized
gambling establishments in Germany.
/ Every one who cares about it can learn
| at sny hour Of the day or night where
he may purchase tickets, and the bulle-
! tins containing the drawn numbers are
/ regularly and openly served upon Gus
! toners, and can be had by almost any
nerson who chooses TO ask for them.
While it is notorious that such gambling,
along WITH all other kinds, is openly ear
ried on in many Of our principal streets,
and no serious effort is made to suppress
| II. i'm what way can the people Of this
ar any other American city claim su-
perority over the German provinces,
where it is authorized by law, simply be-
cause our government giveg no direct en-
couragement 10 Il ?-Esiia, Ledger.
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TIE KILLING OF sENATOR CASE
COrreet Particulars.

From Nashville Union and Dispatch, ISL
A correct account of the killing OF
Senator Case in Obion, representing the
senatorial district composed of the cOun-
ties Of Obion, Weakley and Henry, has
at length been developed.
Col. J. D. c. Atkins, who lives in
Paris, Henry county, and who is cog
infant of the facts, was in the city
yesterday, and from him We learn,
substantially, the following partic-
ulars: 1t appears that Frank Far
ris. who committed the deed, had been a
soldier in the Confederate army, and
that Einman, the man who was first
shot, had been strongly identified with
the opposite. On the return Of FaTris to
Obion county, after the cessation Of hos
tiIities, Kinman was officiOus in heaping
indignities and insults upon him. On
one occasion Kinman abruptly stepped
up to Farris and with his knife rudely
cut the Confederate buttons from his
lFarris') coat, which the latter naturally
enough, Indignantly resented. From
this circumstance hostile feelings were
st once engendered between the two par
ties, Farris harboring feelings of VEN
geance for the insult given him. On
Friday last the two met on horseback in
/ the town Of Troy the county seat of
Obion county, when words of no amiable
character passed between them. Kin
man dismounted and Farris drawing his
pistol fired, the ball taking effect in Kin
mans lower jaw, penetrating the head,
and coming out on the other side, inflict-
ing, il is thought, mortal wound,
though the wounded man was alive at
last accounts, with, however, little hopes
being entertained of his recovery.
After this transaction, Farris left Troy
and rode out to the country, his arrest
not having been attempted. He met in
the road Mr.. Case, who was also on horse
back. Farris turned his horse and they
both rode forward in the same direction
toward the residence of Mr.. Case. They
rode in this way together till they met
two other men on horseback, going just
the opposite direction. On meeting these
two men, FaTTis drew his pistol in the
immediate presence OF the three men and
fred at Case, the shot killing him almost
on the spot. Farris then took to the
woods and made his escape. The affair
creates q deep sensation in that part of
the country. 1t is to be hoped that
Justice will be done in the case.
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WASHINGTON, January 2l.-The secre
tary of the treasury was before the com
mittee on ways and means, Saturday, Oh
the gold bill. 1t is stated that Secretary
McCulloch urged the public sale OF golo
! from time to time in sums discretionary
with the secretary.
No trains have arrived from Baltimore
since yesterday morning.
/ Il is doubted in shrewd circles whether
the tariff and bank bills will pass this
session.
Gen. Logan, just from Illinois, says the
people are generally in favor Of impeach-
ment
NEW YORK, January 2l.-The Her
aids Panama correspondent says that
United States Minister Barton had a
serious difficulty with President Mos
quera and demanded passports. Barton
has broken off all communication with
the Columbian officials. IN
The yellow fever had broken out bth
was not epidemic.
A Lexington, Mo-, correspondence says
the excitement was revived by the srri-
val of troops. Bushwhackers disap-
peared. Business was entirely suspended
in Lexington, owing to the presence Of
the troops, who exercised a terrorism
over the people.
Arrived Steamer Zodiac, from Sa-
vannah.
The heaviest snow at indianapolis for
twenty years.
The Ohio river is closed at Wheeling
the first time in ten years.
The Camden and AmbOy railroad is
cleared. -Four thousand persons have
been detained since Thursday.
BALTIMORE, January 2l.--The steam
ship Cuba, for Havana from New Or
leans, forced her way through the twelve
inches thick on Saturday, reaching Fort
Carroll. To-day she got clear before the
storm. She had a full cargo and twenty
five passengers. The steamship Fannie,
for Savannah, attempted to follow the
Cuba, but was compelled TO return.
Preparations are being made to clear the
track.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, January 20.-Snow
two feet deep. All the railroads are
blocked up.
NEW YORK, January 2O.-Steamer
City Of New York, from Queenstown,
has arrived.
The London Times of the 9Th says it is
now left for the government of the
United States to say whether they will
accept AT bitratiOn in the great question
of the Alabama depredations. II thinks
the law officers of the two countries
could in few hours frame a perfectly
statement, and believes that
Lord Stanley, in making the proposal
declined by Russell, will be supported by
public opinion.
English papers contain accounts from
all parts Of the country of great storms,
floods, shipwrecks, and deaths from cold
and starvation.
The students lately arrested in Paris
for holding Illegal meetings have been
one for fifteen years.
Gen. MontebellO has been nominated
senator.
The Prussian government will not su-
persede the public functiOBaries in an
nexed provinces who will take the oath
Of allegiance.
Three ukases have been issued by the
of Russia, concerning Poland.
One places her finances under Russian
the second regulates postal |
affairs and subOrdinates them to Russia ;
the third divides Poland into five instead
Of ten provincial governments, gives
fuller powers to the governors, and forms !
local guards.
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MEsiPBIs, Tenn, January 10, 1851.
Meets First Monday in every month, al
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OFFICERS
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on the Anniversaries Of 81. John tss Baptist
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ment Of the secretaries of the various
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At PernambucO, recently, a terrible
riot occurred between the Brszilians and
Portuguese. Eighty Portuguese were
killed, when the Portuguese, combining
with the English, killed one hundred Of
the Bra2ilians,