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Year: 1859

Cow SToRY.-The ST. Louis Herald tells a
tough but lively story of cow in that city,
Chasing young man wearing flaming red
shirt He ran and the COW ran, up one street
and down another, the cow making rather the
best ''time.'' Red shirt thought to escape by
lodging behind such persons as he came a.
cross, the result was that several innocent Pc
destrians were perforated and carried of upon
the infuriated animals horns. Red shirt final
ly sought safety in a house, up the stairs of
which he ran, the COW following for few
steps. She was finally driven ont, and officer
Finon placed two balls from his revolver into
her head, which put quietus upon her hostile
demonstrations upon red shirt. The red shirt
gentleman, in consideration of his hair breadth
escape, demanded the cows CARCASS, and
upon The officer refusing to permit him to
remove ii. he created disturbance which led
to his being arrested and locked up.
Year: 1859

Doc TRAINS ON THE LAKEs.-A letter from
Bay county, Michigan, thus describes the dog
trains on the Lakes, by which the mails are
carried during the winter months 1--WE
have, during the close of navigation, what we
call the dog mall and, by the by, will de-
scribe to you how our mail is carried in this
new and wild country. The route is from Sa-
ginaw city to Green Bay or Mackinaw, by land.
The contract is taken By half breeds, French
and Indian, hardy, athletic men. They have
the thing arranged that one train of dogs
leave each end of the route every week. That
gives all the offices on the bay shore mail a
week each way. The train is composed OF
from four to six large dogs, harnessed in sim
gle file, and attached to what they call a
trance This is kind of dray, some seven
feet long and about fifteen inches wide, turned
up before, so that it will run easily over the
snow, on which they bind their mail-bags first,
then their blankets, snow-shoes, provisions,
hatchets, &c. They are prepared to camp at
night wherever darkness overtakes them
There are generally two men and six dogs to
each train. They feed their dogs on dry corn
meal and tallow. Their mail, baggage, &C.,
make up quite load, which the dogs seem to
draw with much ease and speed. This mail
continues only during the close of navigation
Year: 1859

The DETROIT BoGTs.-We are informed by
Capt Pierce of tue Cleveland and Detroit line Of
steamers that the Ocean and May Queen viii, if
the weather is propitious, commence their regular
trips between the two cities, about the middle Of
this month. These boats have been overhauled
and put into complete trim for the coming season.
1t is well known that this line is one of the most
regular, comfortable and safe in the country.


Our city will have an extensive steamboat trade
during the pres Mt year, and passengers will find
the boats from Cleveland to Detroit and 10 Buffalo
unsurpassed for pleasure and comfort.
Year: 1859

Mr. ANONYMOUSLY have struck fellow,
very mildly, in another short paragraph, and
will add that if castigation Of such offenders gives
offence to any subscriber he will please apply to
us, and we will gladly refund his subscription
from our own salary and gladly write no more
for him.


We hold the anonymous assassin of reputation
in unspcakable dctestation, and we despise the
editor who will permit masked liar to say what
he dare not utter himself-it is the meanest cow
ardice known to the most ague-hearted fugitive
from the gaze of men. Our purpose is to put an
end to these defamatory communication MS repu.
table newspapers If citizen is aggreved by
this journal, let him come to us and tell us where
in he thinks we have done wrong; we will treat
him kindly and respectfully, and having unwit-
tngly wronged him, will try to repair But what
do you think of the skulkng dog, who, too cow
ardy, too little of man to reprove us face to
face will sit down in a corner, protected by
shades of night, and write to distant journal
what he is afraid to make known to us? Why, a
reputable hound would not bark at such fellow
"a beggar's louse woud crawl off from him,
disguised with human species. and ragged chill
dren would pet him with hands full of mud.


Scarcely less unmany is the journalist who will
print for Others what he knows to be a lie-he is
a coward at heart-a vcnomous but shrinking
reptile, that borrows a more courageous creatures
fanps
Year: 1859

Az intelligent and upright man with a news
paper, is ten thousand times more powerful in the
even and quiet pursuit of bis duties than all lit
tie town combinations of character questioners
and loud escape pipes of ogotsm and SANDER
His position, without his effort, is sufficient to
Withstand their envenOmcd and vulgar talk,
which at length becomes stale even in disreputa-
BILE places The Journalist whose motives are
honorable and whose independence is fearless,
may feel pain from the misrepresentation Of
street blowers and vain imposters, but the cure
comes speedily in the reflection that all around
him are men of superior worth, whose silent es-
teen oblitcrates the greatest injury which loose
aud lying tongues can inhict on private feelings
or public reputation Sierra Citizen.
Year: 1859

THE Florida Legislature has determined to let
the poor remnant of the Indians, about eighty in
number, live there unmolested. They were NOV
ed to this by their reply to the state agent who
was urging them to remove: =" There is room
enough for all TO live together in peace, for you
as well as for us, but as for u.s. we will live until
we die in the country that God has given us,
where are the graves of our foreiAthers.N
Year: 1859

LIFE AFTER BURIAL.-A singular occurrence.
says the Albany Knickerboeker of April 81,
was discovered in vault attached to one of our
burial grounds on Sunday last. 1t was that OF
female. who was deposited therein for dead
some two months since, being found, on open
ing the coffin, to be lying on her side with one
hand under her head. From this it was evident
that the woman was alive when placed there.
and awsking from the trance into which she
had fallen, endeavored TO extricate herself
from her entOmbment. This. of course, was an
impOssibiliiy; the cover was not only screwed
down tightly, but the space was too contracted
TO allow Of even an effort. Ii was evident. how
ever, that the unfortunate woman became con-
vinced of this fact, and concluded TO die. She
therefore took the easy posture in which she
was found, and bresthed her last. The though ht
that they had buried her while yet alive, set
her friends almost craZed. The body was that
Ofa woman who formerly resided in the Bowery


The father and mother of the deceased had
just arrived from the old country last week, and
were brought 10 the vault to see their child
The scene is related as heart-rending. This is
another instance If too hasty burial. We have
often heard of similar eases to this i'm other
parts Of the country, but none in this neighbor-
hood.
Year: 1859

that another peril, and one scarcely
less to be dreaded than the first, was
near, and the certainty that if they es-
cape! this they would be comparative
~ safe, added not little to the breath
less interest with which they awaited
the event.


Scarcely a cables length interviewed
between the ships bows and the out.
ermost breaker, when Warner put his
trumpet to his lips and the warning
cry


deck. Luff now, luff all you can, so
steady" he shouted to the hellsman.


The ship plunged down the side
of a mountain billow which was
instantly churned into foam upon
the sharp rocks and when she
again rose upon the summit of a wave,
the reef was fairly astern, and the
Cornucopia in safety.


No immediate sound of rejoicing
arose from her decks, but when the
spell was broken, cheer succeeded
cheer from pent up bosoms, making
the "welkin ring" and carrying joy
to the hearts of the frightened women
in the cabins.


The remainder of the story may be
briefly told. The Cornucopia had a
pleasant, safe and speedy passage
from the Bermudas to her destined
port. On her arrival the captain for.
mally resigned his command and de-
parted for Italy, 10 seek in warmer
climate the restoration of his health.


Warner was appointed his success
or and as Mr.. Lemaire thought best
to have the ship re-fitted in Liverpool
she remained there until her owner
was ready to return in her to Ameri
ca. His daughter, of course, accom-
panied him, but not as the Miss Euge
MIA Lemaire of the outward passage
She had become Mrs. Captain War
ner +; for the promise given upon tina
lee shore of Bermuda had been faith
fully kept.
Year: 1859

A Coon WIFE.-In the eighty-fourth
year of bis age, DR.. Calvin Chaplin
wrote of his wife, who was a daughter
Of the younger president Edwards
My domestic enjoyments have been.
perhaps, as near perfection as the hui
man condition permits. She made my
home the pleasantest spot on earth to
me. And now that she is gone, my
worldly loss is perfect How many
poor fellow would be saved from
suicide, from the penitentiary and the
gallows every year, had he been
blessed with such wife She
made home the pleasantest spot on
earth to me-" What great tribute
to- that woman's love, and piety and
common sense Rather different was
the testimony Of ali old man, some
three years ago, in the Toomb's yard
of New York city 81 didn't intend
to kill my wife but she was very
aggravating woman
Year: 1859

CRME-The league between virtue
and nature engages all things to as.
sumo front hostile to vice. The
beautiful laws and substances Of the
world persecute and whip the traitor.
He finds that things are arranged for
truth and benefit but there is no
den in the world to hide a rogue.
Commit crime, and it seems as if q
coat Of snow fell on the ground, such
as reveals in the woods the track Of
every partridge. fox and squirrel.
You cannot recall the spoken work !;
you cannot wipe out the foul track |;
you cannot draw up the ladder SO as
to leave no inlet or clue. Some dam.
ming circumstance always transpires,
The laws and substances Of nature
water, snow, wind, gravitation-be.
come penalties to the thief.
Year: 1859

the watchmen came up with Francis Loving. a
very Incorporate woman. just as she was in the
height of "blowing of" process, and es they
could neither stop her tongue, get her to quit
the public thoaughfare they took her to the cage.
Yesterday morning, when the officers called TO es.
cort Miss Fannie to court, they found her crampel
almost unto death. ami fearing that she might pipe
out, hurriedly procured her glass of noun tain
dew, which she took down at a single swallow,
and was well in minute. As she was known to
be an old topper, the Mayor sent her to prison.
Year: 1859

worthless free negro known as jim Tate, was caps
fured and Gagged last Thursdsy night for being
drunk In the street and having no papers. When
brought before the Mayor yesterday morning, be
was turned over to the Sergeant
Year: 1859

TERRIBLE LOCOMOTIVE EXPLOSION Tvo Ms,c KiH.
ed-On Wednesday morning last, about O'Clock
the engine attached to a coal train on the Resding
Railroad, exploded in the oath ward of philaae,.
phia The train was standing waiting for the
aid of another engine to push it around a curve
The Philadelphia Bulletin says:


From some cause the boiler of the epoira .v-
pioded while standing at the spot we have de.
scribed, and frightful consequences eusued Tho
locomotive was broken away from the rest of the
train by the force of the explosion, aud it was
dashed on to the bridge, distance of sixty or sew
enty feet. The engine was literally blown IN
pieces, the boiler being shattered and even the
running gears wrecked. 1t was coal burner en-.
gine OF great power.


Two men were instantly killed by the accident.
The engineer, Josiah Missimer, was upon the en-
gine at the time, and it is supposed that he was
blown into the river trace has vet been found
OF his body. John Foley, the first brakeman, was
blown distance of fifty yards from the spot
where the explosion took place. His body was
found upon the towpath, within four feet of the
river. he had fallen headfaremost among some
rocks, and his brains dashed out. Missmer, the
engineer, was married man. Mr.. Foley, the
other victim, was unmarried.


The dollhouse at the west end of the bridge was
shattered by the explosion and the building was
set on nre. The tolI-gatberer and his family ere
asleep in their beds at the time. The toll gatherer
was thrown FROM his bed by the shock and dashed
against the wall. A portion of the iron work of
the boiler was blown into a window of the toll.
house, aud falling upon the foot ofa boy lying in
bed, it burned him. daughter ofthe toil.gath.
erer was so stunned that she could not be aroused
for some time None of this family received any
very serious injury.


The fireman made narrow escape He had
just left his post aud had gone into the toll house
to procure drink when the mishap took place.
The explosion was accompanied by tremendous
shcck and report. Buildings in the Thirteenth
Fourteenth and Twentieth Wards of the city were
shaken by the explosion, and the report was heard
distinctly for great distance. The safety valve
Of the engine was blown entirely across the
Sebuylkill. and it was found after daylight in the
yard of a house at the Falls. 1t seems that at the
time the explosion took place, the train was wait
ing for an additional engine to push the cars
around a curve The shock of the ex pIosion
shook buildings at Frankford and Germantown,
as well as in upper parts Of the city.
Year: 1859

MADELINE SMITH-LIeHT ON AN OLD CASE
A correspondent of the STAN ford Herald states
that gentleman who has just returned from
abroad throws some light upon the death of
L'Angelier, for the alleged murder of whom,
it will be recolected, Miss Madeline Smith was
put upon trial. Itsays:


About fifteen or eighteen months before
L'Angelier's death, this gentleman attended o
chemistry class along with him, sat next 10
hlm In the class, was accustomed to walk home
with him after it was dismissed, and was thus
on somewhat intimate terms with him.


One day in the class, L'Angelier was
searching for something in his pocket, and
not being able to find it readily, he turned
outthe whole contents on the seat, and among
other things, q small paper parcel tied with
string. The string got loose, and one end
of the paper had opened little, SO that part
OF the contents, whitsh-like powder, tell
upon the seat. The young gentleman hav-
ing asked L'Angelier what powder it was,
the latter said it was arsenic, and that be
had been in the habit of carrying some of il
in his pocket ever since he left Jersey. On
his companion expressing bis surprise that
he carried poison in his pocket, and inquir-
ing what use he made OF it, L'Angelier re-
Piled, 81 could or would use it il anything
troubled or annoyed me-"
Year: 1859

Tue CHEMISTRY OF NATURy.-0ne Of the
mountain streams which form the Schuylkill
River holds in solution so much lime from
the limestone region which it traserses that
the water is unsuited for domestic purposes.
Another stream is so strongly impregnated
with sulphuric acid from the coal mines that
it kills all the fish within thirty miles. Both
streams, which unite above Reading, are
clear and transparent above their junction,
but below the united stream presents milky
and clouded appearance. Here nature per-
forms one Of the largest, grandest and most
useful chemical experiments in the world.
Here two streams of impure water are made
one, and purified by the chemical attraction
of the impurities Of both. Here the lime
held in solution by the waters of Maiden
Creek unitss with the acid which imprcg-
mates the Schuylkill, and forms gypsum
first coloring the water blush white, and
then rendering it clear and, pure before it
reaches Reading, by the sinking of the gyp-
sum to the bottom of the stream. But for
this combination the city of Philadel
phia, which it supplies, would bs without
water from its present source fit for domestic
use,
Year: 1859




NEVER Do Too Much At ATIME.-Sir Edward
Bulwer Lytton, in a lecture recently deliv-
cred in England. gave the following history
OF his literary habits -a.. ..


Many persons seeing mo so much engaged
in active life, and as much about the world
as if I had never been student, have said
to me: "When do you get time to write all
your books? How on earth do you contrive
TO do so much work." / shall surprise you
by the answer ] make. The answer is this:
| contrive to do SO much by never doing too
much at Il time. A man, to get through work
well must not overwork himself; or, If he do
too much to-day, the reaction Of fatigue will
come, and he will be obliged to do too little
Tomorrow.


Now, since I began really and earnestly to
study, which was not till had left college
and was actually in the world, may perhaps
say that have gone through as large course
of general reading as most men of my time. I
have travelled much, and have seen much
haye mixed much in politics. and the vari-
GUS business of life; and, in addition to this,
have published somewhere about sixty vol
umes, some upon subjects requiring much re-
search. And what time do you think, as q
general rule, have devoted to study-to read
ing hnd writing? Not more than three hours
a day; and when Parliament is sitting. not al
ways that. But then, during these hours, I
have given my whole attention to what I was
about.
Year: 1859

DEPORTMENT OF JAPAEEsE PUpnS--A letter
fun Shanghai, China, written en- board the
Po,Okata. to the journal of Commerce, contains
some interesting information about the Japan
ese, and their facility in mastering the En-
glish language, also descriptive of their man
nors and habits. The writer, it appears, kept
a school at Nagasaki, and ho thus speaks of
the department toward him and to one another
Of his pupils:


How gracefully they walked in How low
they bowed, all these coming forward to shake
hands! What smiles always SAT upon their
faces, while they instantly sat down to the
table and vigorously commenced the studies of
the day Nor was their courtesy to me greater
than to one another for when one came in
later than the rest, they rose to receive him,
while be held his head almost to the floor in
return. Not one instance of disobedience or
disrespect occurred--not one angry or discour-
teous word was uttered-not one moments
passion was lowered upon single face. SEN
timents of mutual affection soon sprang up,
which was strengthened to the close of the
school, and made the last hour truly painful.


They had never written with quill, but in
stantly used it with the utmost ease, though
from habit preferred the hairpcncil universally
in use by tho Japanese as we'll as the Chinese,
India ink was the only kind used. Their
specimens Of chirography are SO much alike
that it ia hard to distinguish one from an
other, while the round manly hand could be
improved by no master. The boys cvinced
much affection for their teacher, as well as
great aptitude in acquiring tho English Ian
| guaYe.
Year: 1859

Oh fair but unforgiving, thou


Whose red lips curl in pride,
If but an erring sister brush


Thy silken garb aside;
Shrink not from that profaning touch
Frown not thy naughty brow
In Gods great eye that scorned one


May be as pure as thou.
Thou canst not know, thou canst not tell
The struggle and the strife,
The fierce temptation that beset


Her fair unspotted life; ta
And gave to that hearts purity


Its first dark tint of sin;
Nor, now its angel turned to weep,
AS came its temper in.
Judge not!-that soul condemned by thee
May shine in Heaven afar,
Reclaimed from its strayed orbit here
A fixed and glorious star,
A sinless mothers prayers perchance,
Breathed DER her long ago,
May have won above, from a God of love,
The mercy thou can'st not show.
Year: 1859

The following awful story Of tht
sufferings Of the mail party thai
start ed to cross the plains in Decem
Der, is told by the editor of the
Valley Tan, the Gentle paper Of Salt
Lake City:


An ambulance, containing three
passengers, was found one day last
week, upon the road between this
point and Fort Bridger, frozen stiff
1t appears that the fore feet of the
lead mules we're frozen while in the
act of stepping forward, and the en-
tire team stood in studied attitude,
resembling highly finished bronzed
statues. One OF the passengers was
in the act Of pouring some cognac in
cup, when the piercing blast came
upon him, freezing him and the Ii
quor, the latter presenting the ap-
pearance Of an icicle, from the mouth
of the bottle to the cup. A second
passenger, who had been enjoying a
smoke, was observed with wreath
of smoke frozen as it ascended up
wards. The third had been attempt
ing to light his pipe; he had liz
match which had blazed up only to
be frozen. Only think Of weather
cold enough TO freeze fire!
Year: 1859

A most unparalleled act Of mean
ness lately occurred in Buffalo
An individual held an execution
against another, which was placed
in the hands of the sheriff, but
that officer finding no property, re-
turned the deed unsatisfed. The
creditor, however. not to be done
out of the claim, discovered small
monument at marble-yard in the
city, which had been ordered by
the debtor to be placed over the
the grave of little child he had
recently buried, and forthwith instruc'
ted the sheriff to levy apon the stone
IA little monument of a little chic
with the names of its parents and tbel'
offspring upon 1.-THE figure OF {
dog, the emblem Of fidelity, 10 al
attitude of Iepose surmounting it
That worthy officer very properly
demonstrated against an act Sc
barbarous and uuehristian, but with
out avail. He was threatened with
prosecution unless be performed
this unpleasant duty, and the stone
was accordingly seized and Ii
due time sold. There was no on'
mean enough 10 bid upon 1t bu
the creditor, and it was knocked
down to him.
Year: 1859

A small deg which recently died
IN boston, was lately sent to Ban.
gor' Me, in a ziac case and buried
at Mount Hope, near its former
mistress, on account Of whose loss it
grieYed to death.
Year: 1859

Eleven foreign ships are now in
Savannah. or will be there in the
next thirty days, after timber.
One firm has a contract for forty
seven million Of feet, and some Of
these vessels are now loading with a
portion Of it.
Year: 1859

WAsHINGToN, April 6.-The Postmaster General
has by letter informed the Boston Committee that
Sl2o0o must be deposited in SPECIE for the rent of
the Summer street Post-ofice, and 5000 for the
order will issue, restoring the office to State street


IS asserted in usually reliable quarters that after
the goth September next, the mails will be carried
between New York and San Francisco by the
Nicaragua, instead of the Panama route, the con-
tract to continue until the 30th of June 1860 the
end of the present fiscal year, leaving Congress to
determine. meantime, what shall be done after that
date The authority for this contract is claimed
under the law of lS45


Ihe jury in the Sckles case is generally regarded
as good one, it being composed of some of the
most respectable citizens of the District of Column
bia ~
Year: 1859

NEWARK, April 5.-The strike of the boatmen
at Newark still continues, and the strikers
have expressed determination to allow no
boats to pass up the canal until their demands
are complied with. boat was, however
forced through yesterday, by detachment Of
police. as far as Bloomfield, where constabu-
larry force took charge of it to the borders of
Passaic county; here it was taken in charge by
OF the strikers had collected along the canal some
OF whom were armed with clubs, and a riot was
feared. No resistance, however, was offered, ex.
cept at Paterson, where the owner of a boat was
The Mayor and squad of men were applied to,
and requested the ringleaders of the crowd to dis
perse 1t is the intention of the company to send
squad of police with every boat going out at
present
Year: 1859

HOLIDAY STREET THEATRE.-Senor VoEiente was
received last night by crowded house The per-
!ormance was the first production of the play and
it was eminently successful. 1t will be reneated
tonight with the same excellent cast.