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PUBLISnBD ETBRT 8ATITRDAT 4T BRKW^STK US. (on Ibo Bwism R. B.) NEW YORK. nENRT A. rax, Editor and Publllher, 0. n. MaLGB, Aasociate Editor. TERXS: Throe nfenthe, (in odvanoe) - - S .60 Advertising Torms can bo obtainod at the office, in the Town Hall. Brewster Standard. INDEPENDENT IN BVEUTTHl NO —NEUTRAL IN NOTHING. VOL. IIL BEEWSTERS, N. Y., SATUEDAY, JAN. 21, 1871. NO. 12. THE 8TANl).iBD J\o\b Office Is WPU stocked with oil tlie nccesflnry typ^ canlrt, paper, ink, etc., for executing with ncatnesR and i]ifl]mtch nil orders for Cards, drcttlartif BiH-ITeadB, :BA.I4T, IN-VITATION'S. Order* of Danolnff, &o. We received the Premium at tie Dan- bury and Carmel Fairs, 1869 and 70, for the best specimen of Cord and Job Printing. % The Hccrrtfl of tbe HearU OuoiiH. what coantod pobbloa U* In Ine ninhinR river; OuoBB, upon htm loRiiy bude May> ilrRt Btinbcame qnivor; Gncss, what words tho tiight«ngal* RiiiRH in wnods apart. •Tworo caBicr than divining tham, Tho Bocreta of the heart. Why, at earcloBH word or phraM^ Eyes mar flasli or fill; Wliy a hly'nr a rono Bccm a Hi^^n of ill; Why, nt Borne fatoiliar nami^ Suildcn Bhhnk or start; Do not try to fathom them, Tho BDcrote of the heart. Whv a merry tune may bring Hidden woonin^ after; Why n mnurniul air mav make Pica for hap))y laughter; Why ono common day may be Radly held apart. And anuthrr kept a feaat, By the eocrot heart. Why some pstha untrodden atUl By the wandrrinp feet; Why a otraiigo onchantme&t hanfa Bound somo woodland seat; Why Bomu book unopened Utm ; \\'hy somo favorilo art Left ooglocted, owns the iwaj Of tho Bocrot heart. Look on thorn ae holytbiaga. Turn tho gazo away, strive not thou to force the elae To the plare of day. QUd, aud frank, and bold, and prood HowBoc'er thou art, Oofl day, thou, too sbalt know The Bocretu of the lieart. Ail tiioso myriad marvela lia Hollowed from the touch ; Do not proBs upon tlioir aouroe, EftRT over much. Girl fi'om lover, friend from friend. Hornet hing holds apart; Child from i)aront sacred keep! The socrota of tho heart. THE RITAL LOTERS. My father was a Bowery store keeper, preity well to do; be employed two clerks; thev lived with us, in the stone building. Our two young men were named James Scott and Ilenry Schoolcraft Father took a (Treat deal of pride in them both, because they had come to him when they were very young, and he taught tham all they knew. Last vear Henry was twenty-two yeani old fliid James was twenty-one. 1 was ' eighicen and—well, it wonld be very fool- ish nciificnse I setting out to tell this story, to pretend at being too shy t o say that liutli of the clerks were In love with me, end had been for some time beforu, as I was ahnoKt certain after we began to talk about it at all. I liked them both and i t has often puzzled mti t o know exactly bow I did make up my mind that I preferred James. It's liord titsQv it makes the thing any more clear that there was a certain some- t* iug I cfjuldn't for mv life tell even to m^'self, that made nie like Jimmy Scott so much better thau I did Henry. I suppose all young women who love, talk to thcm- scl%-e< much the same way; but I couldn't make up my mind that it made this dilTer- (5UCC in mv case, that father vet7 much preferred lieury. It would be hard to tell which of my two lovers was most devoted to me—that is, as fur us attoutioiis go that a young girl likes to receive. They hadn't much money to b})end, to be sure, uu their small salaries aud if they had, father and Aunt Hetty had some very strict notions and would'nt have lot it be spent on presents and thea- tre ticliets and drives lor me, because, aa aunt often said, girls never knew what might happen, and it was hard to feel obliged to jK-rsous we might come to dis- liking. Little kindnesses that didn't cost much in money they ofleredme constantly, and with satisfuctlon to themselves and me, for they knew how father felt about such matterti—but 1 had, truth to say, my own thoughts about who took moat real pleasure in my pleasure—whether these were made good or not you shall aee. Unc day iu the fall of last year—it's not worth while to tell you how the thing erew fmm time to time, how father and Jumes, then father and I, had our long seriou'' talks, aud how James and I were with his coiiseut engaged, but with a pro- mise not to marry yet awhile. We did not know indeed when, probably not until father upjirored. James' salary was hardly large enough, truly, for him to take a wife, ecouomieaJly brought up as I had been, then. Father might increase it if we be- haved well to him ; we were sure he would though he did not say so yet To go hack to Ueury for a little. I had never liked him as much all this while we'd known one another as ] did aft^r I discarded him. He was disappointed, and he showed :t greutly, but he wished James aud me much happiness in a xery friendly, honent-SLemiiig way, and we both lelt something sorry for him. That is a very cold way to express all that was said and Mt on the occasion. Indeed, for some weeks suliKequeutiy my plighted hust^ud was ofti'u found saying that, intimate as he aud Ueury had alua>'s been the bear- ing of the latter, had been even more brotherly of late thau ever before, which, he aaid, argued KO wauly a spirit that he felt in iiih admission ol Hciuy as il he »'ould go almopt any length to aerre liim. A feu weeks subsequently to James' and my engagement, J said this was going on. It wuou'l more ihau aix, I think, when 1 observed that lather was looking exuoed- ingly troubled one evening. Ths had U>en thecasesevend days, indeed—quitea week at least, I think; out the uight I speak of it waii so apf«rout as t o depre^ us all in ilie family circle, which was lelt, though tiobody said any thing about it. After suj^ter the two youug mcin went ofl' as usuiu to right u^ books, billa and aoonunu, and to set tho store in order tor the coming day. Presently, Aunt Hetty took up lier bit of sewing aud went away. 1 suppiKiod to her room, but this was wun^ tiling unusal at sui-h an early hour, and I peparod to lollow her, just out <d a <iiild- lah ourioaity, ] am^toaa- Father said, \ Esther, stop hero. T want to speak to you.\ And I did stop and take my seat ngam. As aunt went away, I saw now surely that sometliing was the mat- ter ; I could not tell what. \ Esther,\ he went on, very solemnly, and in a way that chilled my blood, for father was very plain of speech always; \my money goes wrong out of the store some way, and I needn't say some way either, for, in spite of all the charity I try to have for my fellowman, I'm obliged to believe that Jaraos Scott is the thief]\ I jumped to my feet quicker than I can tell you, Rtung by the very thought that the man I had set all my lore on could be accused of robbing my good father, who, though very strict and something exact- ing, too, never defrauded a man out of a fraction in his life, and trusted both these \ boys,\ as he called them, with every cent he was worth. That James could be guilty of such heartless villtany I scouted the very sus- picion, and told my father so. I, who had all my life been a child, his little girl in my own thoughts as in bis, now grew to be a woman in this sudden bnpulse of mingled grief and indignation. I asked who informed him, and de^Jared, of course unreasonablv, that I would go t o his in- formant ana tell him to his tmth that he told a wicked untruth. \It cannot be, my child,\ my father said; \tho sums that have been missing ttxtm time to time amount now to near a thousand dollars, and that money I saw with these eyes in James' possession—in bis private desk in the office.\ \ And you I How came you in his pri- vate desk 7\ I answered. \ One who is his friend and mine showed it to me only to clear himself, Esther. They lay equally under suspicion,\ my fhthcr Bud. \ I pondered Ions as to the best way of approaching the subject; then I decided to open it first to the oldest. I hardly know why I was so stunned by the circmnstanccs. They both know the cash was short; both knew that I knew it; neither said anything. What was to be done?\ Let that night go; it was a horril^lc night to mc. I did not talk long with father. He saw 1 was ill and sent me to bed. I did not sleep, for all of kind Aunt Hetty's uneasiness and her far-away re- marks on my ailment, though I more than sub[ierted she knew all. 1 determined to be at breakfast next day, though my head ached as though it would split, and there was James, lutle as a ghost. He had an interview with father, who had set u p in tho i>arlor waiting for him after I left-the night before, though I didn't know it then, and it had endi-d with the^e words: \ Then, James if it is all an you say, and the time ever comes, you can make things clear and fair; come back, and you shall nave my daughter. She loves { 'ou, and she is bke her mother—if she oves once, she loves forever.\ Henry Schoolcraft looked embarrassed. pained, i-estless. Why should he not, and yet be innocent, even if I, in my passion, saw fit in some vague way not to be ex- plained, to transfer the otfeuce at issue from the one I loved to him ? 1 was not, I promised my tkthcr, to faint to James that Ilenry had said aught con- necting him with the outrage. It was through tears of blood as it werc.father said, that he wrung from him tho confession that he also suspected James Scott. '•I can't tell,\ my father had represent- ed him as saying, ** if I had had the same temptation, engaged to your daughter and too poor to marry her, perhaps for many a year, how it would have l^een with me, so It docs'ut become me to blame him.\ Then they agreed between thein to send poor James away, and never, never to breathe beyond themselves what had oc- curred, what had sepu-ated him and us. fiut James anticipat<'d. Ue was not sent away, because he took the stand at onoe, as soon as my father opened the sub- ject to him, that it was unfit ho should remain any longer under taint of susplciou. He had no means of proving hiti innocenue, he Kaid. He had inisKed moneys from the time the first inroad had been made on the store capital; he knew it lay between Henry and himself, the going of it; he was free of the ofl'euce, but since the money was found in his desk, though he VVSH not aware of its presence there until my father showed it t o him (he had counted aud put it hack again), he would leave aud go his way. After breakfast the morning fitllowing my horrible night, James rose from the table with a fearful btillnees in his manner, and a hollow tone in his voice, aud aaid, ''Esther. I wish to speak to you alone.\ Neither he nor I had partaken of the meal anything to speak oi; and he seemed to kuow that 1 had gone to it only to meet him, as he had for tiic sake of coming iu contact with me. How dead pale he was, and old-looking! Why, he might almost have paabod for my father. What u'as James going to tell me? Would he make a coiifcbsion of his guilt or deny the vile charge out-aud-out ? That reflection of Heurj''s stuck to me, I must own—the temptation of having to work hard for years, it might be, before he could take me a wife, he loviug me as he did all the while, aud the fear dt a poesible influ- ence from my father iu lleury's beiiaif; tor James knew how that matter stood. Oh ! it was likely to be the death of me! I hurriedly thui'ght of this first trouble ol mine as passing from room to room. The lou^ and short of James' story was that which hM.^ already boeu told, 'it re- freshed my faitii to hear from his own bps —*' As <jiod Uvee, Estier, I speak truly. 1 know nothing of this mutter.\ I promised to believe in his truth, and i did ; and^hen we parted it was iu full aith that God would defend the right, and bring mv dar- ling's guiUieaaucis out claar in the laoe of aUaonusen. We must have UJieved in one another, you wiU hay, because we were not to write or hold any intercourse. My father said tiiis first, and I oouplatnad of his cmeUy at the time, as I did t o James, when I told him of it; but he, generous tike himself, said that was right I believe he thought I was such an inexperienced creature that he would give mo an opportunity to know my own mind for sure in the matter. I wondered if Ilenry would renew his suit to me. Now I liegan to ponder to my- self when James had pone. I hadn't many weeks to wonder, lie was very delicate at flrst, I must say; but somehow Henry appeared to he under artificial excitement at timet. I could not tell what, and one of these tunes the old story came from him again, and met with just the same result as before. 1 w.^Tidcred if he hadn't bred a lie and told it to James' hiu-t, and if the act wasn't preying on his mind to make him act as strangely as b e now acted at intervnls. I wondered next if my own brain might not bo slightly affected by the shock 1 had received; nobody seemed to notice his queer ways but me; so, per- haps, ho hadn't them after all. So much for roe and my wonders. I didn't bother much to And out if mv mind was notvisikly the worse, as I think it was; my body certainly was. I CTCW very m^igre, and M-eak, and listtcss. Everybody noticed that; everybody in tho huuBo that is, and my father really was good to mc and concenied for me. NOW came the end. I was getting worse and worse ; was in mv room all the time, and on the bed, lounging for the most. There was n little surprise prepared for me one day. A bird and a flower basket Avere brought and hung in the windows uf the chamber adjoining Aunt Ilctty's.so 1 was moved in there for a change. 1 en- joyed it and went to sleep. After night father came in, took his seat quietly beside me, and kept silent for fear of wakingme, though he 'laid his hand on mine on tho bedside. I was busy a little with my thoughts, but had not energy nor will to sjjcak. This room opened into Ilenrj' School- craft's,and the partition door between them was swung back. It went on to bed-time. I didn't know the hour, hut there father sat, quiet as a mouse, and I liking the quiet. Presently wo heard Henry come up and somo one with him. Father made no motion to shut the door for fear of waking me, and it made no great matter either, that we knew. Henry was in one of his excitements. This M'as apparent to me at once, and he rattled away something recklessly to his companion—a young man I recsgnised by his voire an one who sometimes visited James and himself. Something recklessly ,did I say,he talked? You shall see! \I've got him out of the way, and tbe coast is all clear. Lord, Ijord! Hanson, it was a masterstroke upon old Groessbeck ; I went to my prayers ex- actly where I knew he'd see and hear mc, and thanked God I was not as other men —well, that is, I asked him to foi^vc Scott—for my taking his employer's money and putting it in his desk I How's that for high ? Confound the paltry thousand or nine hundred aud sevnty, I believe it was; I didn't want that no more than Jim, but, then, all's fair in love and war, yo<] know. I'd like to have the girl; good looking girl enough, and, then, you know, fair eye to tlio windward. Old Hunks icks the bucket and a son-in-law and suc- cessor is so handy to have in the house! Scott's gone to the dickens for all anybody knows, aud here am I with a fair field be- fore mo. He's an honei^t fellow and I'm a rascal, but that makes nodilference as long as one succcedK,a»i they call it,iii life. You're my best friend, Hanson, so I give you that moral, and illustrate it by a leaf from my own experience.\ Those are tbe very words he said; I could vouch for them if I were ou my dying bed. Well, it was a liard case, may l>e, that I should rejoice in finding out the wicked- ness that was in this man's heart, but it was Ijctter than medicine for me, or canary birds, or hanging flower-baf<kets either, for that matter, hut it almost stmmod my lather. I could hardly suppress a scream when the confession came, but all 1 did was to press his baud and let him know I heard it Not a breath stirred the silence, and presently when young Hum>on went awny. Ilenry came with an unsteady step, pulled the door to, aud fastened it. Next day i t was a conference of father and Henry. Henry denied nothing, and I don't think he wa^ bad hearted, either; he was only weak. He had a great desire to establish himself, and he would have liked whatmeaiu father had to assist him to do it. It was now poor Henry's turn, too, as it had been poor James', to go away and leave the old place. Nobody opposed it; father would never have suflered him to re - main; and, now that he has gone, we don't know where, it's no haiin telling all about it. I'he woi«t I wish him is that he may never offeiid again in like maimer, and that he may live and die ai honest as the man he endeavored to ruin. This is the amount of what 1 said to him when he bade me good-by and asked vay forgiveness. J was iu a good mood to give it to him. for my heart felt light tiiat day with reading iu itself as it were all day long a perianal that appeai-ed in thai morning's paper: \ If Jamus Y. Scott, fonuerly a clei-k at No.'— Bowery, will communicate with bis old employer at once, he will hear Mmie- thing to his advautage.\ Before the week was out a letter came from Jumes, in the far, far We»t. He was employed by a Canadian house, and had j$one away to do some trading for them in furs. He woidd call on his return. Several weeks paaacd first, and I was getting bettor in mind aud L>ody, getting to be my same old self again, when oue day the back dourofouraittiugroom opeu^ ed (thero'im conueciiug by an entry t o the store), and, befoiv J had time to consider, a pau- of Strang anus were holding me tight within their grasp, aud a good, hunebt kiss —yes, a number of thum—were showered upon my lipa. I couldn't speak, as you kuow,nxid ill had,what should I say 7 Aunt Hetty's aatouiahment ooly hrou|^t out \ Why, James I\ but it was of no use, and I think tbe saucy fellow bad some notion of giving her one in his bewilderment and if she hadn't always looked so demure, t know her hand hadn't had a heartier shako for many a day than it got then. James had seen father and everything was made up. and Aunt went considerately away to see about dinner; and James told me all this and a groat deal more. His obligations to his new employers hound him to them for a year, and though, as he said, it was hard work to forego father's oiTer ol a partnership and a rc<>idenco with us again, and whatever else might come, his word had ^nc, and he must he as good. The year is almost gone, too, now, an we said be- fore ; and the end of all is—well, won't you come and see, at Dr. Deems''' Church of the Stranger,\ on such night as I shall notify you in the present week. The llosDital *t Danniitadt. Fresh from the scenes at Spelcheren and Saarbruck, a walk through the Darmstadt hospital waa almost exhilarat- ing. There seemed good hope for the worst of the sufferers, and many of them had cleariy turned the corner, and were steadily on their way up-hiU. They smokcil with placid satisfaction, they read with absorbed attention, and jour- nals and novels were especially in de- mand. It is t o be regretted we i n Eng- land can d o s o little to supply that par- ticular want, for it would be hard to overestimate the pleasure that might be conveyed in a box of light literature. Hut tho pleosnntest sight of all was the way the saddest faces would brighten up 00 the Princpsa AucB stopped to Bay a few kind words and aak a question or two—not mere qmyitions ol course. In- defatigable in her attendance, she keeps herself iiersonnlly informed of each seri- ooH case, and from day to doy anxiously watches the progress of her patients. Indeed, they owe her far more tJian tbe kindness and generosity which is nearly universal in Germuny. I^ng before tliis war broke out, her care had organized a corps of educated nurses ; and when tlie sanguinary battles created an exceptional demand for their services, she had a cadre of skilled attendants, which expanded immediately into an eflicient force. The Alice-Praueuvorein has been rendering invaluable services ; and it is n o wonder that, in spite of great local liberality, its funds should bo well-nigh drained. The churitnble who desire to make sure that tlieir ctmtributions will l>o promptly ex- pended to tlie l>08t advantage, and im- partially distributed between the wound- ed of the two nations, can scarcely do better tlian intrust them to tlie Commit- tee of the Alice-Frauenverein. They will have iJie satisfaction of knowing every thing is done under the personid superintendence of on English woman, for her Boyal Highness has given up to the work a suite of her own apart- ments i n the Palace, and lets n o dxiy pass without n long viuit to the hospital— Al exander Imiea Sliand. A Prlueess* Letter lut rcepl«d. The Tours correspondent of the Dniiy 7eleffraph, give us tho following bit of gossiij: A few days age, in the Depart- ment of Yonne, the pruaontry captured a post-cart of the Prussian army in which were some tliousauds of letters for the men and offlcers of tbe different corps before Paris. These have l)Gen uU sent to Tours, where a number of clerks and others acquainted with German have l>een buwy iuteriireting them for some daya. Amongst other letters iu the liags was ono from Piiucess Alioe of England to Prince Louis of Hesse, her husband, who is serving with the 5th C!orps of the Qernmn army, in which, if I am not mis- tuken, be oommands a division. The letter is such that any gentlewoman might address to ber husband, and en- closes a note from Princess Alice's little daughter, thanking her pujta for the little doU he had sent her from France, and asking him to return home as quickly as he could. In other wars and otJier times such a h-tter would, as it ought now, have bi'en sent to Lord Lyons for trans- mission to the Prince to whom it was addressed ; but the present campaign is, I fear, far too savage a one for any a«t of courtesy to And favor with those who are in authority. There is something \ery revolting in tlie idea of privat* letters of individuals being handled about to be read and commented ou by employes, and still more in the petty savings from tlie wives or relatives tf soldiers, romit- led to their hobbouds, being confiscated by the enemy. In the Prussian poet- cart taken the other day, there were Ger- man bank notes in wtnall amounts mak- ing up n o less than 20,0U0f. (£800 aterl- ing), which have beoome the property of the French Government Retribution—A Strange St^ry. Tho Jimen Correspondent at Versailles says tho following story is i n circulation there : \A Prussian officer and a party of men came to tbe residence of the Marchioness of B , an old lady, who had not fled like her noighbors. Ho seemed to know ihe name, for h e inquired of the villagers where tho house was, and if the lady was still living in it He en- tered with his men, stormed and swore in the hall till ho saw the mistress. He ordered dinner for his party,, spat on the carpet, took up a chair and dashed it against a mirror, threw a vase down from its stand, broke a clock over the chimney- mecc, and behaved, in fact, abominably. The old lady was terrified t o death. Din- ner was Bcrvcd. Tho officer complainod of the wine, and told his men to throw tho bottles through the windows, till they got better drink. He dined apart, and treated tho servants with tlio utmost insolence. At lost, when the orgio was over, be asked to see the lady of the house. He was told she was in bed, HI and frightened. ' Whore ? Oh, in this room I But I am going to ^cep here.' Tho lady had to get up and turn out, and the officer when in, broke some things, got into bed in his clothes, and after a time rang tho bell violently. A servant np^ieared. The officer pursued the domestic and insisted ou seeing the lady. Surrounded by her maids, and 1 >tilo and fainting, tho old lady received lim at the door of her room. Ho took off his Iielmet, bowed with tho utmost courtesy, and said, ' Madame, I have ac- complished a promise and fulfilled a vow. Your husband waa Gencnd tho Marquis of B—?' * Yes.' ' He was in the First Bcgimcnt of Hussars as a captain when the French invaded Prussia ?^ ' I know ho served in that regiment * Well, tlien Madame, I have to tell you that he came to the house of my grand-mother, whose father had falleu at Jena. You think I have acted badly hero; but I know how Cajit. Do. B treated our bouse. I heard the story as a boy, and I treasured it in my soul. I know' Uie disgrace and niin be brought iiiion my name, and I spare you the recital of it But I made a vow when it seemed tlie idle whim of a boy, and now in jiart I have kept it Qood-night, Aladome. I do not {JOHS a night under your roof. My men will protcctyon,* and so stalked away. Well, suppose it be true. Will there be no such memories for the French children whom I set! going to school, staring at the grout PruHsiaus trudging through the snow ? \ MAPC TO KKBBIJ. —An occurrence took place last week at Ilosario reflecting lit- tle credit on the authorities. A re- ligious jiroccssion, with the usual accom- paniment of saints, crosses, &c., was go- ing along tho streets of Buenos Ayri-s. On one of these occasions natives gcn- erullv knoel with hats off; but a youug Englislimuu, u stranger iu tlic country, wud suddenly surprised Uy receiving a blow iu tho chest from the butt end of a rifle held by H soldier of tbe guard, wliich brought him to the ground. The sold- ier in question then called on the young man to knoel, but as ho did not under- stand tho language, the command was not obeyed, u]>on which the guurd leveled his rifle within six indies of the Englishman's head, and was about to fire, when a priest, with more lilierul views, coming along, managed to ar- range mutters in a satisfactory manner, else there is Uttle doubt but that the Englishman would have been murdered. This custom of kneeling aud uubatting waa formerly very general even in Bue- nos Ayres, but now is only seen oa a rule in tho provincial cities. HKOB 18 A GijHPBE o^ PAUS BM i t wu a mouth ago, aketched by a c3rres]>oud- ent of ^e Cinciuuati GaeeMc: \A little boy tuj^ing a sock of jKiLatoc^ in from the outskirts. He bad picked them beri- aoid there. A nmn bought them foi- 20 francs {H) and sold them for 40 fraucu or SS. This amounts to about five cents a piece. A cabbage bead sells for three francs ; a salad head for about two francs; a fish, about us big a s your liaud, about Uiree francs ; cluukous, twenty to thirty francs a piece ; huros, twenty-five frouos. Noticeable scufcity of meat to-day. We Imd some ooruod horse and canuttd com. Hoax of scores who could get uo meat of any kiud. More t<ilk uf tight times than evex before. Belleville restless ; some disturbance ooun bupprotisod. We ore now eating tlie unuuius of the Jurdin des Plantcs, or zoological gordeu. Hu^iug exhausted the lighter aud daintiex ani- ' mals, we are now dieadiug the hippopot- M&o* Aud oleplumt ^ \ T«KRB is a bill before tbe Virginia Lc^gialtttare to ohaufte the uanxe of tbe &t«l» to tih« \ Old Pominioa.\ importK aud Eiports. Tho monthly report of the Bureau of Statistics of the United States shows that, of the total amount of, imports for the nine months ending Sept. 30, 1670, S355,2HG,il47 consiBted of merchandise, and 91K,0U8,018 of gold and silver. The dutiable merchandise amounted to 3339,- S92,305. aud free of duty 3:14, OOli, 084. Entered fur consumpUon. 9218,7^,971 ; entered for warehouse, 8155,172,018. Of the total amount of exjj.irts, B]>ecific valuers, ff271,458.458 WOK in merchuudisi>, and $5(>.C13,7G8 in gold and silver. Of the total amount of merchoudisi-, 3262,- 483,231 was exjiorted from Atlantic ports, and £8,975,227 from Pacific i>orts, Of the total amount of foreign exports, $12,040,041 was merchandise, aud 910,- 503,994 was gold and silver. Tbe total valuation of foreign commodities re* inainiug in warehouse ou So]it 30, 1670, was $51,061,972, aeaiuat $56,250,290 in 1809. WAOBB IX ADSTIUA.—In Bielhtz, a fac- tory town, the average earnings of mO' chiuiios ore $2.50 par week—those of fac' tory woikere ore less. Tbe price of but- ter ia 30 oeut« a pound, bread 4 oeuta a pound ; meat 15 cents a pound. The weekly wages of u mechanic at Biellitz, —the higheat—will buy 65i pounds of bread ; the highest wages of Uie Vienna weaver will buy 75 pounds at the same price. The agricultund laborer of Eng- land who goto what is oouhidexed the highest wages—12s, a week—con at the presout time buy 90 poimds of bitmd with his woek's wages. The average condition of the Austrian meehsitic it> therefore below the average condition of tlie English utfricultuxol laborer; and the Douaitiou of tlie latter is gtAeroUy taken m tiie type of low pay, misery, and wretchedness, «ud who in his five • ioaes will dufe to oootradiot it Who*fi tho Rognn I A ropnish old follow is prnwIinR abont In field and in pardon ; you cnn't keep blm ont. No matter how taH, Yna build up your wall. Hell find a way over in spite of it all. On the glass of the window his picture yonU see, A grand exhibition I (admiRslnn in free;) He works hard at night Wliflo tho stars glitt«r briffbt; Bat, when tbo sun rises, be keeps out of sight. Hell sketch you a snow-covered moontain or tree, A torrent all frozen, a ship out st sea. Ho draws very fast; Bnt his work does not last: It fades when tho chill of tbe night-time Is paat Before tbo snn rincn, white hardly 'tis ligbt. Ho feols of tho fniit, and lakes a sly blw; Ho hoA a (Ino tanto, Thourtb a gro4t doal he'll waste. Then off be will go in very great baste. Now. who do you think this follow may be, Tbe bright, sparkling work of whose llgarea ws see? All winter boll stay? What more shall I say? Only this: that his first name l>ogina with a J . Wil nnd Wisdom. ' NEW \'O£K LEoiaxATCiUL—ThefoUow- ing is tlie recapitulation of this body : i U71 laio Oamoonls KflpuUluaa w w u « IS u bly. GALTESTON com-dains that its taty officials eat too much. PmLAPECiPHU pays $2,500 a year foi capturing stray cows. A would-lic highwayman, near Provi- dence, seized a gcntloman's horse, when the owner gave liim n sound thrashing, a couragooiiB lady piwaing by volunteering to hold the horse during the ceremony. THE present abnind way in which tbo ladies wear their hair, cut off short and brushed down over tbe forehead, is a try at youthful innocence. It originated in English nurseries, where the maids, to kei^p tbe hair out of their dear littla charges* eyes, cut i t off in front in tlie monner above referred to. An Atlanto paper of lost week aays : \A lady in this city tied her hubby'a hands and feet, the other day, just - ^or fun, and then went through bis pocket* for a certain billet-doux, and found it His physician tolls him that bis face won't bo badly soarred, though he may remain jiermanently bald.\ AN iroAcible old f^entlemnn wa« taken with sneezing iu the cjirs lately. After sueezinginaraostspaBmodic way eight or ten times, be arrosticd tho pnroxysm for a time, and extraetiuR his linmlkerchief, he thus indignantly nddreHsod his nasu organ : \ Ob I go on—go on—you'll blow your infernal brains out presently !\ • The operation of hog killing and dress- ing is so rapidly performed in Ohio, that if you study the faces of the IicigN after Ibey are hung up to cool, you will find an expression of tho most intense bewil- derment upon them, ns though the ani- mals were puzzling tbems(>lTcs to make out what had bfwn going on oud where Uiey were. Two Florida politicans hod a little en- counter at a hotel dining-fable, a few days siiict% in Jaf^ksonville, tlie weupona used being n seven-sliooter, a large carv- ing-knife, and a dish of nicely-cooked meat flesult—oil tho other guests put to flight, four bullet holes in the wall, some 1>rokcn crwkery, a soiled floor, and four gashes in tho face of one of the contestants. Many Maine hoyn who have been pros- pecting out West are returning liome, Katislied that n o State is Iwtter than tlieir own State after nil. Tliey report that throughout the West, and fwpecially in the large cities, there ore many youug men out of employment, who ore eager to work for their hoard, Iioing without the mejins of retumiuff to tlieir Kew Eugland homea, which they left t o \make their fortunes,\ CORBEspoNDENTS rcprcjieut that there is groat mortality among children in Paris. They are dying by hundreds and thousands. One writer savs that iu tlie neighborhood of Pej-e-la-ChaiKc, Mont- martre aud Montparnasse oue can hardly take fifty stej>s witliout meeting a liny coffin, wrapped in a cloth of white wool Many of tliese innocent little ones go t o tlieir last resting place unoccompauied, except by the two carrier' ; the father is at the ramparts, aud the motlier is stand- iug wearily outside the butt^her's shop or at the muuici]>al \ cJUitine.\ Some- timea half a doaeu or so relations or neighbors follow tlie procession of the humble victim, aud this is what is heard Huid : \1 saw it bom i n October last. and a fine, well mode hta it was I\ \ What did i t die of tlien ?^' '* Of uo- tliiug. The motber had uo milk ; there are uo more nursoa, and the ewes are all bent to the slaughter ; eh ! try and rear a child iu a besieged town ! \ BionsH teo-dxinkers have beaa alarm- ed by a horrible suggestion that tlie oflieuded Chinese may attemjit to jjoisou tbe whole British race by means of te*. There aeems little danger of such ou event, since thereby the CelcAtials would lose their best uuatomejx, aud they are us fond of the \almighty dollar\ a« other people. There is, however, little doubt that sundry uriicl<iK, not tiea loaves, ore s:>ld tmder that name. Investiga- tion has brought various adulteration* to light—such us rice and pea husks, leaves of the Chinese willow, decayed wood. Siieds, us well as iron tilings, lampblack., aud Pruboiun blue, wh'oh lat- ter IS actually poisonous, aud i s used to color bl-.ck tea to make it sell for greeu. The Chiuet>e do not want to kill their customum, but they axe williug to de- ceive them. A BoHton lecture oowmittoe Monutily iiivitud Olive Logan to lecture in that city on a Sunday uif^t Whej-oupon Obve replied as follow*: \Six day* bhalt thou labor aud do ull thy vty* • but the aevculii is the Sabbath of tit* tliv God ; io it tihoa th»}i not do 1*1 an J
