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Year: 1860

The opening mail, says the New Orleans
Pcayune, places us in possession OF still fur
ther particulars of the failure of Jecker & Co.,
the great bankers of Mexico. ..


In making this statement TO their creditors,
Jecker & Co. ask an extension Of five years,
promising to abandon 10 them each year
twenty per cent. Of their entire capital, and
to pay on the remainder per cent. interest.
They are unable, however, to offer any guar
antees Of their ability to 60 on successfully
any longer and at the first meeting the prop
osition was not accepted. Another meeting,
however, was to be held on or about the 2sth.


The failure of this great house, the real
supporter of the Reactionary Government,
has Of course been received with great re-
joicing by the Liberals, but not unmingled
with regrets. Mr.. j. B. Jecker the princi-
pal was gentleman Of pleasing manners
and great Kindness of heart, and was sur
rounded by large circle Of devoted friends.


As to the immediate cause of the difficulty,
we learn it was the failure Of the house 10
realize any thing in ready money, from the
immense amount of Government bonds, which
they held in return for the large advances
they found themselves compelled to make in
support of Miramon's worthless Government,
and expensive but fruitless, expeditions.


They are also out in the sum Of probably
not less than million of dollars for surveys
ON the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and in the
State of Sonora, under various contracts, for
which they have as yet received no return
whatever. Nor is il probable that in the
present unsettled state of the country, they
will for years be able to realize any thing
from the immense tracts of land which have
thus come nominally into their possession.
Year: 1860

PLEASANT PRELUDE TO PIcNIc.-Some
people in Milwaukee, Wis, met at private
house, preparatory to starting on picnic.
Two of the gentlemen got to quarrelling
about one of the ladies, and finally fought in
good earnest. The ladies also pitched in, and
sandwiches and doughnuts were hurled in
profusion at antagonistic heads. Bonnets
were mashed and white dresses ruined, and
biliments. When the excitement was over
it was decided to adjourn the picnic, fight
and pleasure party being considered rather
too much for one day, and that day the Sab
bath.
Year: 1860

rHIERs ON HIS TaAvELs.-M. Theirs has
gone to Belgium to inspect the battlefield Of
Waterloo. He is constantly engaged on the
18th volume of his Consulate and tie Empire,
in which win be detailed the events of that
momentous struggle.
Year: 1860

AT 2lI SUPERIOR ST.
IF YOUR TEETH ARE GOOD,
i read the following lines II your teeth bad read
hem with great care II you have teeth at all lisp
fact that isl daily exhibited in the Streets in the social
circle and in the paror By the humbes peasant and the
poudsH that hundreds Of persons lose good
Of teeth for the Of the timely aid Of good and
kful dentist poor and inferior operation is inmany
cases worse than all II your teeth good have
hem examined BY good dentist aad keep them in erdsr
poor no should be lost but have them repaired the
the better and that which Burns says Is the
ue OF All diseases All irregularities Of the teeth should
oenttsnded 70 IN childhood and youth.


All persons dssirOus Of fine dental operations iuVit
cd call at my where particular attention Is; wen
% The preservation Of the natural teeth, where the


VULCANIZED CORALITE,


GUTTA PERCHA B ASE,


For Artificial Teeth


Is manufactured and all varieties Of artificial teeth
at up IN the best manner W B. IhGERSOLL,
mylsRs
Year: 1860

Six years since lady living at North
Sandwich, New Hampshire, swallowed ao.
cidentally needle. The needle was shoe
needle and little over an inch long, She
was considerable alarmed at the time, but
not feeling any inconvenience from it, the
circumstance in time passed completely from
her memory. A few days since, however,
she felt pricking sensation in her foot, and
in course of time the needle was taken from
the outer side of the foot near the little toe
joint-the wound soon healing with out
giving her any trouble.
Year: 1860

AN EXAMPLE WORTHY OF IMITATION.


Hon d. X McRae, who ran as the Oppo-
sition candidate for Governor of North
Carolina at the last election, has declared
his intention to act with the Democracy in
the coming election. In letter to the Ash
vile, n. g., Democrat he says:


81 have returned to the Democratic or
ganzation, and shall support its nominees
both State and FederaD who may be select
ed by the conventions of the party at Raleigh
and Charleston. l regard the Union as in
imminent peril. A sectional organization
strong, united, determined and aggressive
menaces the honor of the South, attacks her
vital interests, aud threatens her very exist
ence. am desrous to engage and combat
this enemy inside this Union and under the
Constitution, and by defeating him, success
fully maintain the one and uphold the other
I find but one national party with which l
can affiliate in this contest. 1t is true, a
small band of conservative Oppositionists,
as they are called, (but coming entirely from
the South are standing opposed to the foe
and they have here and there an individual
sympathiser and supporter in the free States
but they are wholly without national
organization, and, as I think, powerless to
resist the "common foe"-and | seriously
apprehend that their effort to organize iuto
a separate body will but give strength to
our enemies and endanger still further the
Union.


81 have then but one reason to abandon
my points of difference with my party-en
ter its organization and fight under its ban
nor; and | would l could induce you, my
other friends and hosts of patriotic old-line
Wings and Americans in the State, for they
are true, to forbear party and unite with us
in an effort to crush out fanaticism and re-
store the equality of the States


81 expect Gov. Ellis will be re nominated
without opposition. If he is, shall Ger
tainly support him, both because | think be
has administered the government with a
patriotic purpose, and because by this means
| will contribute to build up the party which
| think the only party capable of crushing
out abolitionism and disunionism.
Year: 1860

UNEDUCATED WOMEN There is no sight
so truly ptiabIe as that afforded by rising
family Of children under the guardianship
of an ignorant mother. We would be
understood by the use of the term ignorant
as wishing to convey the picture of a mother
whose maiden days were devoted to the ac-
quiremeut of fashionable accomplishments,
to the exclusion of solid mental culture and
requirements. The woman who reigns queen
of the ballroom is very seldom found capa.
bic of being the governness of her own chill
dren; and the time spent at soiree and route
will be bitterly regretted when age brings
experience and consequent remorse for the
evil she has inflicted, and left incapacity to
discharge properly the interesting and i'm
portant duties of her station, when it was
her natural duty to be at once an instructor
and an example The maiden who casts
aside her book for the cotilion, will never
win the love and esteem of sensible man !;
and should she select partner for life
among her partners in the dance, she will
find, when it is too late, that her choice has
been unfortunate as the place where she first
attracted his notice was injudicious. We
look with pain upon that wife who enters
upon her second era with fashionable ideas
Of society. Her first era has been devoted
to the attainment of certain rules and sys,
TENS pardonable in the girl, certainly cen
surabie in the wife, and criminal in the
mother
Year: 1860

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Year: 1860

ing delights which cold reality n9ver can
bestow.


Lugare lifted his rattan high over his
head, and with the true and expert aim
which he had acquired by long practice,
brought it down on Tins back with a
force and whacking sound which seemed
sufficient to wake freezing man from his
lethargy.


Quick and fast blow followed blow
Without waiting 10 see the effect of his
first cut, the brutal wretch piled the in
strurnent of torture, first on one side of the
boys back and then on the other, and only
stopped at the end of two or three min
utes from very weariness


But still Tim showed no signs Of mo
sion; and as Lugare, provoked al his tor
pidity, jerked away one Of the child's
aims, on which he had been leaning over
his desk, his head dropped from his grasp
and his eyes, stretched wide open, gared
at monstrous spectacle of horror and
death. The sweat started in great glo-
bules seemingly from every pore in his
face his skinny lips contracted and show
ed his teeth-and when he at length
stretched forth his arm, and with the end
Of one Of his fingers touched the chiId's
cheeks, each limb quiyereI like the tongue
of suake, and his strength seemed as
though it would momentarily fail him.


The boy was dead! He had probably
been SO for some time, fol- his eyes were
turned up and his body was quite cold
The widow was now childless, too. Death
was in the school room, and Lugare had
been tloggii.g a corpse!
Year: 1860

Romance in ROme-A Young Italian En-


nmOred OF the Voice of an Earthly Ma


donna.


A correspondent thus writes from Flor
ence Of his attendance OF a church in that
city;


This church, you may know, belongs to a
convent of nuns, and they have a school for
young ladies in the building. The church
was dimly lighted by a few lamps, and there
are few if any ornaments on the walls; there
are also pews as in our churches in America.
The congregation-not a large one-seemed
to be engaged in silent prayer. In few
minutes the organ began to play very SIM
pie air; it was the Litany of the Virgin the
nuns and young girls responded. At last, in
one part was heard single sweet voice. it
seemed to belong to something more than
mortal. seem to hear it now. The Words
mater Del, ora pro aobis." l have been led
away before and since by sweet, silvery
voices, but never did hear such an holy
one. There is grating dividing the nuns
from the body of the church, so l could not
see the person to whom the voice belonged.


was speaking of this wonderful music to
friend of mine, who had been some time in
Rome, and he informed me that there was
young lawyer, Roman, who, like myself
had gone to that church to hear the chant
ing. When he left the church that voice
seemed to follow him; in his dreams. in his
studies--every- where he felt the echo of it.
He returned every Sunday to hear the
reality.


At length, through the influence of an
uncle of his, who was priest of high rank
he obtained permission to visit the convent.
He begged the Lady Abbess to point out the
one who sang the solo. She pointed to one
Of the young ladies' of whose face he could
only see part. She was looking down. but
such sweetness, such sadness, such holiness !
Was it the Madonna herself2 His mind was
made upin amoment. Had she taken the vail2
Yes, only the white one; but she had nearly
made up her mind to take the black vail in
about a month. He hurried out of the
school, paid q visit to her father, and declared
his desire to make her his own. His wealth
and family were equal any other young
mans in Rome.


The father consented readily to an inter-
view with the young lady herself We can
imagine he used all the arguments possible
to induce his dear one net to become nun.
At length she told him that inasmuch as it
was matter on which her future happiness
depended, she must have time to reflect. She
would give him an answer in one month
from that time. | left Rome few days be-
fore that important event was made known
to the young lawyer, and have not found
out if that sweet voice is yet heard in the
church of the Convent of Trinita del Monti
Year: 1860

THE WESTERN MAN SEEN BY A TRAVELLER.
Bayard Taylor drew this unjust sketch of
the so-called Western Man:


'He has no especial characteristics except
a certain restlessness in his manner, and an
expansive use of adjectives in his talk. He
has great habit of saying, That's soP and
his location is denoted by the use of peculiar
words and phrases rather than any distinct
popularity of accent. He has a rampant
pride in his own peculiar city, and county,
and State, and our Atlantic communities
seem slow to him. He is the most demon
strative of Americans and you need never
ask second time for his opinion. He, as
well as the Southerners, is apt to chew to-
bacco, and he prefers Bourbon to Verzenay.
He does not object to community of towel
and hair-brush in hotels-in fact, he is easily
satisfied, and generally of very cheerful
and iovial temperament"
Year: 1860

THE INvINoIBILITY OF LovE.-The follow
ing passage we find in Tupper's Crock of
Gold;


Love is the weapon which omnipotence
reserved to conquer rebel man when all else
had failed. Reason he parties; fear he an
swers blow to blow; but love, that sun
against whose melting beams winter can not
stand, that soft subduing slumber which
wTestles down the giant-there is not one
human creature in million, not thousand
men in all earth's large quintillion, whose
clay heart is hardened against love.
Year: 1860

A CLERGYMAN WITH AN EYE TO THE MAIN
preacher in one of the Oldest towns in Con-
necticut, was one summer day preaching to
his flock, when he discovered signs of ap-
preaching rain. Stopping in the midst of
his sermon, he said: "My friends, we should
not slight the gifts of the Lord by neglecting
to take care of them; and as have little
piece of grain out that is likely to get wet, if
you will rise I'll pronounce the benedic-
tion." Having given this, the old gentle
man went to look after his grain, leaving his
sermon for the next far day.
Year: 1860

Fortunate Pseudo sister of Charity


Compromise of n Legacy by Marriage.


There are in Paris a number of women
calling themselves Sisters of Charity, be-
cause they adopt their habit, and act as nuns
at the Hospitals. One of this class, accord
ing to a correspondent, obtained fortune
recently in this peculiar manner:


She faithfully attended respectable old
gentleman at his hotel, by the desire of the
doctor, who had known her at the hospital
The old gentleman was delighted at her
kindness, at her good feeling and right
mindedness of his views; so, to prove that
he had profited by her spirited-I was going
to write spiritual-conversation, he made his
will; for despite of her attention, his hour
was come, and he gave in this testament all
his fortune to his fair nurse, some E20, 900,
forgetting his nephew, who should have been
his heir. OF course there was an explosion
when the expectant youth found how mat
ters had been made comfortable, and he
sought an interview, with the help of nun,
with angry intentions. She was however,
a woman Of the world, and suggested, after
she had somewhat calmed him. that there
should be compromise. What was it? an
swered the youth, catching at q straw when
there seemed chance of regaining the lost
fortune. Marriage was the faint whisper
of the blushing sister He looked at her,
she was fair, and her 100000 still fairer
Could he resist? MOL there was his hand
and kiss upon it--upon the bargain, not
the hand-or the nun might not have blushed
so scarlet ...E
Year: 1860

The great aim and object of life, both iu this
world and in future state is happiness. The
way to be happy is to be contented and as those
virtues which are cultivated in our youth arc more
like to blossom and bear fruit in after fe,we wish
to point ont to hOse wao have the care of children
that, next to the control of the temper, without
which there can be no such thing as happiness,
they should teach contentment. How disgusting


it is to others, as we'll as misery to ourselves, to
have child continually crying for something it
has not got but this is not much the fault Of
the child as the parent. 1t has never been taught



lis the duty Of all to examine their own con-
duct ard correct their errors, repressing those
faults to which they are prone, and resolving to
cultivate those virtues that they find they are de.
feetve in. But it is also the duty of parents and
teachers to point out those defects to the young
and how can they chide child for doing what
they themselves are guilty of.
Year: 1860

NOT lNsANE.-Some amusement wns created in
the New YORK Supreme Court on Thursday by
humorous excuse assigned by Mr.. Oliver Johnson
editor Of the Anti-Slavery Standard, why he should
be exoneratod for jury duty. Being summoned as
a juror, he wrote upon the back Of the precept to
the effect that he ought to be deemed disqualified
because he was generally deemed crazy for having
asserted wish for the dissolution of the Union
and belief that the Constitution was league
with death and covenant with hell This excuse
was returned to the CLERK, and afterwards handed
round within the Bar. AS Mr.. johnson was not
excused, however, we suppose itmust be consider
ed that strong Anti-Slavery sentiments are not
deemed in the Supreme Court necessarily amount
ing to insanity.
Year: 1860

In conclusion, we would point out that in edu-
cation the cultivation of the heart must keep pace
with the cultivation of the mind or we shall look
in vain for that happiness which should spring
from learning. but which learning alone, without
virtue, can never give us.-The What Not.
Year: 1860

EXTRAORDINARY ELoPEMENT IN THE SOUTH.
A most extraordinary elopement took place
last week from Ridgeyille, South Carolina,
under singular circumstances. The parties
were widower and the wife Of a, highly
the time absent from home. The widower
has abandoned six young children, and the
partner in his guilt leaves three, one of
whom is an infant. The faithless wife left
for her husband a short note, in which she
rather cavalierly notifies him of her inten-
tions, and consigns her children to his care
Year: 1860

The following we clip from an exchange


1t is believed that a seventh son can cure
diseases, but that a seventh son, of a seventh
son, and no female child born between, can
cure the kings evil. Such q favored individ-
ual is really looked on with veneration. An
artist visiting Administer in 1928, noticing
the indulgence granted to one urchin in
preference to others, and seeing something
particular in this child addressed his mother
as follows: "This little brother appears to
be favorite presume he is your little
Benjamin" Hes seventh son, sir" said
the mother Affecting an air of surprise,
expressed myself at the instant, as being
one very anxious to know what a seventh
son could do2 The mother, very civil
woman, told me that 81 she did think, to cure
all diseases, should be, the seventh son, of a
seventh son; but, many Jolks do come to touch
my son.


In April, 1926, a respectable-1ooking
woman was engaged in collecting penny
from each, of thirty young women, un-
married; the money to be laid out in pur-
chasing silver ring, to cure her son of
epileptic fits. The money was to be freely
| given, without any consideration or else the
| charm would have been destroyed. The
young women gave their pence because it
would have been pity for the lad to con-
tinue afflicted If the charm would cure him.
Year: 1860

EXTENT OF THE SEwING-MAoHEE BUSINESS.
One thousand men are employed in the
United States in the manufacture of sewing
machine needles, and the profits on them
amount to nearly 5000, 700 q year. Since the
sale of spool-cotton has increased to the eX-
tent of more than million and half an
nually
Year: 1860

EOR the next sixty days shall offer my en- A tire assortment of JEWELRY and YANKEE NOTIONS at greatly reduced prices, preparatory to buying new assortment of Jewelry for the Spring time when those wishing to purchase Jewelry at a low figure, do so to their entire satisfaction, as have large assortment, most of which is first class Jewelry. The cheaper portion would be happy to sell at, or even below, cost in order to get rid of it entirely, as wish to keep nothing except the best quality of Jewelry.

 Great care given to the cleaning and repairing of fine Gold and Silver Watchcs)

 CHRISTIAN REINHART. Litchield, March 5, 1860. 46-2m
Year: 1860

SmlleU WlCn lnHnlGe uellgnC as a DOQueC was alm- ed straight at the black eyes of mysterious boy of hers, who, in red cap and sash was shaking his tin trumpet and growing from window above. As to the delight it gave the beautiful peasant girls and boys below to have boquets thrown to them by gentlemen and ladies in fine carriages, and what delight it gave said gentlemen and la dies to receive the same in return of course all can appreciate without description.

 on the whole then as you see am in favor of tue Carnival. It could never be introduced with success among New England people, yet the sPirlt ot It could be adopted by the latter with ausanage' 50 long as the eternal and com 1lenuaoie question is asked as an inquiry after 1onais G ana cents, Does it pay?" neither the CarnlVai nor any other amusement can ever thfive m any country. And so long as man considefs nlmself alone in deciding mon such questions there must be general negative given. for It IS doubtful whether amusements wifi evar pay the man who takes pleasure only in race;v- ing and none, or not mainly, in impartine en;ov- ment. 1t IS not until amusements are put mon purely benevolent ground that they can be pro. perly judged. It is not until one is prepared to leave himself out of view in his amusements. and IS prepared to contribute to the enjoyment of his ffiend as he would give him bread if he was hungry. or the every day kindness of common life without any thought of return that they will pay any man.

 It is because detect this benevolent feature in the origin and the present Festivities of the Carnival that am strong in it's favor, and sdrise all my friends if they are ever in Rome during it's season to enter into it with such money and muscle and spirit as they may have to spare

 Very truly, s. S.
Year: 1860

In yonder calm and lonely dell,


Where weeping willows wave
There is a spot dear to my heart
1t is my fathers grave:


The grave Of him | fondly loved
As child can parent love;
OF him who breathed my name
Ere scared his soul above. VI
Oh! oft | watch the sunbeams b
In mild and beauteous play,
Calm and lingering round that h
AS daylight fades away.
And when the last bright ray is
And twilight shadows steal, r
l love to seek my fathers grave, \.
In humble prayer to kneel.
AS gentle zephyrs softly play


Around that spot ! love,
Methinks I hear the whispered wt
OF angels from above.
They seem to say, "Oh do not "
Thy father now is blest.
Dost know thy God, in wisdom, d
All things as seemeth best
"1hy father dwells in realms Of 'bl
And smiles, lone child, on thee /;
On earth dear as thou vert to him
Thrice dear in heaven thou'lt be
Weep not! but humbly, gently bo
To Gods most holy will,
Oh! calm the anguish Of thy hear
Its deep, deep sorrow still.
"And when thy pilgrimage is past
Thy day of sorrow DER,
Ihonlt meet in heaven thy father
And meet to part no more"
And then thy stricken soul is chce
Upward I turn my gaze,


In calm submission to adore


My Gods mysterious ways.
homeward bend my weary step
With slow, unwilling tread
For could dwell, by day, by mis-
In converse with the dead.
And as the twinkling stars appeal
/ leave tile willows wave
My heart, my soul, vigil keep


Beside my fathers grave.