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H K W llT , Attorney and Counsellor-atLaw, JnefSce of'the Peace and Notary Pablto; will attend4o I<aw business in: all the Gonrts. dratrBeeda and ill other writings; take aoknowledgiaents; and afficavitsi procure Boufity and- hack'pay for relatires of deceased soldiers; pay taxes oh ■ftfestemlands and redeemlandssoldfor taxesi: All collections attended to prftmptly. Sfy: old office. No. 36, opposite. Eagle Tavemv Batavia, J anuary lOtb, 1863. lyrl . M Y R O N H . P E C K , Attorney and Gounsellor-at-liawi Batavia, N. E* ■ Office in old American Block, second fioor Batavia, N.Y. 16 H . e n s i g n , Uannfacturer and dealer In Saddles. Barnesses Whips, Trunks^ and. Garpet Bags, South side Main street, 'hearty opposite Mechanic. Also agent for the “ Buckeye Hower,” 32 E D WIST COX, - guocessor to J. G. WILSON,^—54 Main Street Dealer in choice Family Groceries and Provi slops, Eoreign Fruits,; etc. Find'Br&ndies Wines, etc., in BotUea. 52 C H A E L E S BEN S H A W * Attorney and C o u n selIor:a*-l*w ,G ffice4nfhc Court House, Batavia, - 32 . f -f :^ailn Bfai’ .. '0f:*ffti«n-nMsiy. • s e t ii out of dodis , . i JniftJ phtoethitti iiliftay avvif«4,! • .(Three days/or.% lady. Bi .i,:. 4 ................. ........ ........... . ........ .fti'c!* n*. »fi.5 y<m\ ■ ,.s n ' ^ ' k Itshoffidbf oftini * ^ or, Iftihftp)^ hClfettetal fiVi the kettle nk ' Btttonit'holiingV * Siifti the liquor well To pjevept ita oi7ii*A‘, Per thieieiipifMM: HttU Take of rfct-^oef k®?®!''^5 Use to lighti th« fire ' 'Somea«^pai)fr’diiitni|l. . Bettheiijwpr boil hoiiiv- no longer, (Ifitaforattaan) • ' You ftanmakeEatronier, Should you now desire That the ioup he iasoa % Stir it onft arounfi WUh a s^ckof savaiy, you choose IttStto put a snatch in. 'Twill be fiavmw^ne Ifyou dip yanr'wafefiih.. When the broth is done ' Let; the patient ««<« i t . If Jm chanCe to die,- 'Sity tbftt nature did it; But if he gets'well Give the Bro/S the creldit. I » | t i i | g s 3 1 f i § e & ” A tittle nonsense noW and then, ' Js relished, h j the wisest men.'' w e e d e n m B U m r ,1 Attorney and- Gounaellor-at-Law, second floor, American Block, Batavia, 13. Y, Negociates Loans on: real estate, and the purchase and aaleofBondsand Mortgages. 22 E A G L E HOTEL, ’* BxmpTAw; B expt , ProprietoE. Good Livery attached to/he House; alaft a Bar,; contain ing the cnpioesfeLiquors and Cigars; a Free Carriage runs to andfronuthe carsj 23 H . .& E . M. McCOEMICE,^ Dealers in Hats and Caps, Bnflhlo an^WoJf Bohes. Furs o f all Kinds and Varieties, and articles in ouEline ofhusinesa of the; latest styles and the best make, ' 22 JE E O M E A. CLA R E , Dealer in ■Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, and Gold and Silver Ware; also a variety of rich Fancy Articles adapted ta_all tastes and mannfac'- tured for every Ornamental and Gsefni purpose. Batavia, N.Y. 23 H O R A C E M. W A I ® E N , Livery Stahlei—Stables in rear of American Block, Batavia. Borses, Buggies and Carria ges to hire on short notice Experienced driverasent if required. 22 W E S T E R N HOTEL, Main StreeL Batavia, N. Y.,K, H. N obtok ; Pro prletor, ihftilumeroaB guests fair yeafs ftf the favorite- W estern B o t e l. baa giycu it a feputaUott fat and wide. It has tecently been remodeUed; xefitted .and renovated thro’ont. Heals APS Lodging 25 cents each. Good stahifngattacbed. Free oronjbus to anfi from the cars. Stages leave daily fOr Albion, Me dina and Perry. * , B A I L B d A B i m m ^ m 'e- tCftrreftfed lJdve:mlfeEl8tl, ■Trains leatft Batavia at thePdqioVingtilhe the fanning, time heing20 |ninateA faster than yillageflimeir^ - ' N . Y . C E N T R A L R A I L R O A D . GOING e a s t , Buffalo &N. ■P. Express...... . 6 10 A M 5fay Freight , 7 4(» A M. ^t60ni‘^OAir tJBsplTCBS*« a . 9 XO .A A- M a i l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ............ . 4 40 PM Chicago and Gleve. E xp.,. . . . . 7 22 P M Cincinnati Express. , . . . ___ _ H 35. PM GOING WEST. .NightExpressT-. . . . . * ........... . ^ 50 A M Emigrant... . . . . . . . . . 7 20 >A M NewVorkMail.vT;.... . . . . . . . . 9 35 AM Accommodation.. ......... - ........ 12 30 PM Way F reight... ........... 2 10 PM Steamboat Express,. . .......... . . . 6 60 P M New:York Expresr..i .iii-7,-^ 10 P M A T t I P A AfeBtm 9 0ft A Mr 12 00 3C B 15 P JL B R A N O H , DEPART. 9 l5 A M . I2;B(FBM: * 6 60 PM. .CANANDAIGCA. BATAVT a and TONA t TfAKHABEANCM, ; .,3 ; , , . : Arrive. ’ xast . . Depart., Mail,. 8 5 0 a m , Accom... 6 25 am, Frtt.. 2 \Oft: p m . * Fr't... 9 36 a m. ; Exp.. fi iftp a L : : Mail .-V, .14 40 p m. Arrive. wnsr. Depart. Mail ..9 00 , , Mail ^i4 40 ‘ The Freight Thjain rpna Efts* ffom, Batavia,: pu Theadays^ Thursdays and Saturdays and ar- Corrected iyJ.ilA S K lE L ,l^ ^ sThe'fifena¥!fi{erfefea;aBd at the B U F F A L O , Nv Y , & B R I E , i W hy is A lovfpg yctfng woman like A hinge? Becauseahe a something to adore. A man with a soolding wife, when infuired o t respecting his occupation, said he kept A hot house. My wife,” Said a w ig the other day, oatile ntjar calling mei honey last night,” \ Indeed, how was il a t ?” “ hy, she called me old beeswax.” P a t was a volnhteer, and he got sick. The first qnestion the s irgeon asked hitn/was, “ Pat, are your bow els reguiat!” “ No, he Jabers, Pm a volnnte 3r.” J S r A physician, once in eftmpany with others of his- cloth, thus bofts ted: “ I was the first to discover the Asistic cholera, and communicate it to, the public.” JB y O n eof the Richmond, Va., papers thus annoauces; the death of ti newspaper tnan in ih e Libby prison: “ A 'Tankee reporter gone homo to write up his reports by th t4 r e ,’4 ; ■' won’t l i e , ; . v ^ | i a y f muttered a eeedy gentlemaof, hddfeg dp to t k to h p q it. “ Well, jierhapi they won’e^lie; TOt T eeft* A figure that won’t Stand, anyhow.” , “ We all of US shoulc Le ready to make sacraments,” said Mrs, Partington, solemnly, as she heard that a neighbor’s -son had been drafted j “ I f I had a hun dred sons, I should be wi|liDg| that ©very ohe o f them ‘should teei^einptt’^ , ' “ W elLJane, this js a dueer world,” said Joe to, his sister; “ a sec( of women philosophers has just spruDg|up.” “ In. deed ! and what do they hfild? “ The stroDgest thing in, nature,” said, Joe, “ theif tonghes.” Exit Jpe, sqmewhit hurriedly. ft Will yous have i t n r e or well donie!” said a waiter to a n lris iman; a few days ago, as ha was catting a i ilice o f roast beef, “ j love it well dona f er since I came to this coupthry,” replied Pat, “ for it was rare enough we ate i t in Ireland.” J ^ * The Albany KnicTctrhc cker relates that there iaone tnan in Potigh ceepsie who has been rather' unfortunate Iduring the past few Weeks- Within that tirna be has beftn drafted, inarried,. and burned out.— H e might have recovered from the draft and the barn, bat the marriage settled h m . A lad^ was ofica declaring that sh9 donfd n o t , understand fiow gentlemen coold amoke. “ I t certainly sborteni their lives,” said 'she. “ T d6n*t know that,” exclaimed a gentlemen; “ thfire-a my fallter wha ftmokes ©very blesseji day, and he is now seventy years old.” “ Well,” was the reply, “ i f he never smoked, he might have been eighty by this,time,” An eastern j^per tells agoed story ofA ten-csntsbinplaster^oiie of the new, patent medicine laLel style—Iwhich was sdowa to a well known city clergyman, a day or two ago, as a curiosity, '*^9 tljat a coimterfeit ?” he inquired. “ Noj that’s one of the new ten cent bills,” “ iNell,” replied the clergyman, with acomicallook, as if he smelt the joke in the distance, ft there was a coDtriputioa a t idy church Iasi Sunday,Jbr the saaltary cc mmission, and we found dbe o f those hilts iij the box. The deacon and I ' both thougl t it was counterfeit, and I tote ' that place went to answer the ring of'ihe door belh a t the request o f hia wifet where le found a basket ,in .which was fi beauti- 1 ul child about five months old, ^ The gen tleman-carried it into the hduse, where one o f the; iady visitbrf t06k up thfi baby arid found a fiote pinned to itsdresSi which charged the geDtleUian With being its fath - er and irapw ed him to support it. 4 always' been a |aRhful-bUsbahd; Finhlly' ^ e lady very' rogufthly' t o ^ b i d i i t wa® ffrfirf , ^ ppiPIPmtuf^^^rfldsprrng iai jm>4 'i b e ^ takeu' from, b e r cradifi for thi W ^ ^|\of*pIayiU ft/feJaid,.... : e i ? T P P i ^ n , . a v s y f e T 8 j Among the most terrible events qf, this civil strife, to which the atCentibn of. the bwtdrwt WiH m ©aired, is ChdVt^ifl Bawl reuee Ifass«cr«i (i EoR/ci-fifeltypSavagetiW and few ityi. J t stand® hbrifalladJB thU w«r, and wa m u || turn our eye back and sbaich' the pages of the history o f the early pfoueetij When they fought the sSv- agee; When whole Villsgea were laid' Waste iu a single day o f night, itid helpleae ViO- tims were: carried off t&i satisfy the Just andjevepgei of a relentlett and worse than pagan foe, to find .its cojunterparti Not such, ekactly was; the LaNrenceTmassacre, yet i f the foe ia this caSe w as nht the wild m a n d f the forest, he w^s none, the less relentless or infuriate. Their leader was a man in whom they I had confidence -—brave, determinedf reekless, and Well fitted, both by h it naturef charaoleristiiis, and*expeii0nce for such ku expedition.— I shall speak of him' ak he related his history .himselfi to a personal friend. ^ .Quantrel was born* in Frederick, Md., and was of a good family. He was 'edu cated at the University o f Virginia. In the summer of 1856, he with his brother emigrated to Kansas, taking with them two or three negro slaves. In those days political exciitement ran highland seciionaj feeling bad attained such a pitch that brothers bad begun to imbrue their hands in each other’s biooA The mUtterings of the coming storm echoed over the plains of Kansas, aUd reverberated through the land'. Sneh was the commencernent of this unnatural war-^brought about by most unnatural noeans—^by the fornaatioD of aid societies and continual appeals to passion and violence, ib this connection I must mention the natne of James H. Lane—known as “ Jim Lane”—^who was prominently associated With the exciting events of those days. H© was well known and recognized as a loaddr of those organ izations made up of men sent'tbither by Emigrant Aid Societies in the Norihern S/ates—whose avowed ohject was to make Kansas a free State, at all hazards—even if at the expense of blood and human life. In an hour when least eipected, Quantrel was suddenly attacked—ibis slaves taken from him, and in the sifiray his younger brother Was killed. He then fled back into Missouri, barely escaping with his lifeu i t was then, when 4vcry feeling and instinct of hate was aroucied, that he vowe^ he would be revengeg; and in fulfilraeni of bis bad purpose, be set about organiz ing a band of trusty folloVers. This band 6f men received Ibe niime of “ Bordey EuMans,” Aiafi w 4 ll,yt^, might their tagonists beyond ttie 1imits l of Missoafr have;beep similarly^named. Quantrel then set'a Watch for ft Lane,” against whom he ever felt a particular spite, and indeed it was by a miracle that his antag onist eluded hiB pursuer's vtgllaDce.-r- Often he fell into a trap set for him, but ifiVaiiably escaped, sotubtimes by flight, sfttnethiiea by secreting himself. The shcnes that marked the strife of four yoara of border war, might furn'sh the thread of a oiore exciting tale than any that ever emanated from the pen of Copper or Scott. The story of these events, a§ narrated by Quantrel, 'would chain the listener more closely than does the story of the “Arabian Nighit’’^lh6 IBoy o f tweRo years; But I pass them oven. I t was not until years of mutual wrong and strife—r-yeara of bate and revenge—years of plottings and mid night assassinations—years o f robbing and murder— that such a wholesale butchery and' conflagration as, that of the Lawrence massacre should come to shock our pars and thrill our minds with horror. Those =Who, in their desperation, followed their young leader to the p,erpetration of this deed o f blood and fite, had been inspired to it by the accuniulated wrongs which they bad sufiered. The name of Quantrel will be remembered, and well it mav;'but let Ltoe^i be remembered, too, for if he bears the boaoted title of United States Senator, it cannot shield him from the infamy which attaches to his respohsibility for the many wrongs which the people of and brings Charleston papers to that dalej the border cOuntiea o f Missouri bad suffered togetl^er with important dispatches. The captain reports four blockado runners cap tured between Nov. l l and 14, Another steamer, in order to avoid capture, was se^ on fire by the crew^. The E . D. Vance and Banshee succftpded in running the blocka'da and gettibg into Wilmington safe. JL G ood J okb .— A good practical Joke is sometimes mentioned in the newspa> iers; but we have seldom read one ihore ikely to produce a good laugh at anptb er’s expense than the one which is said to have been perpetrated in Jaroacia L. L,j» Orougnt inere a n a uept—aye, Apw.mno few days smee. One of ’ihe citizeUs o f ^eut children were consumed m the mcon- befor© thcjr participated in this awful tragedy.- They had been exasperated by deeds too fouil to mention, not the least of which Was that under the name of “Union,” their negroes had been stolen and carried away to-a worse travery in~tbe Cherokee Nation and to Texas, their homes maije the abodes of fear, no man knowing when his bouse might be invaded and lighted by the assassin’s torch. And it required years of just such accumvlatei wrong to incite them to an act of such atrocity. “ I will lead you,” said Quantrel. “My brother’s blood cries from the ground for vengeance.” The preparations were made and a rope was taken along for the neck of Lane. Narrowly he' escaped. The tale of that .(ilay’s slaughter has been told; low men and Women (some innocent men) were shot down' like dogs, because among them might he Lane, and because the stolen of the invaders’ .property had beeq- jrought therei and kept—aye, how inno diary conflagration, their cry for mercy ailing on no tender ear* So iLended.-ft* The prime objectof lheir bate had escaped, led. - It'would, be impossible to d4s(5iib6 the lorroT of that dreadful scene, nor could my pep: portray the sufieriflga th a t befell the people of the bordef'oounlties of Mis- sourr when thi# act was over; *■ (Sen.* Ewing unTortuDately ordered that a l f thcf border counties' sfioflld, hn depo^u- ated; and then for days and Neejis'Wns Becaibe long train of .hofiseless, homeless jGopjis fiasfetoing avfay' frdrfi ’ ibetr “ viiie ifid fig -Iree;’? ' wendipgl their way they maw not* whiither— their all left behipA them—neyer again to be behpld or enjoy ed. ‘ Oh,,what longue shall speek these sorrows'! God’ who is din D istent aloh© knows ihom.,'' '*:-*■ ' ■>' ' yho|rai7l<* tHo’ unpid- likll^d Ved dMdD, c a m Mid awepka«©is^m»ift ind plM^ Mi^hAfd/becomflidutprey, aad uqw^wly^l 18 left Wasterp M ^qurl, is simply H black.^chaited. waste. rOh, GodI ^‘^eaulG c^'tfiW s ■'bd^nd dot ©deW our ? Verifyj ft* truth iaftTHugef than fietJon;” , MMSoum,, Deceinber, 1868.^ '» Ftdid the Manchester Bxaminfer. • Tha Lkat Omiie o / the S«iater<» The once famdus cruiser Sumter, now the Gibraltar, Bt4aWed Into Qdeenitdwa' harbor ou Saturday night, with a cargo of cotton, with which she ran ‘thfthlockade from Wilmington, N , 0 , A correspondent of the Duhlin J^xprett gives the following interesting narrative o f the outward and homeward voyage o f the Gibraltar, as related to him by Gaptaio Reed :—^The vessel left^Liverpool on the 4ih of July, and on the* 16ih of August, when in sight of the shore of North Carolina, one of the engines broke doWo; and, after some delay, was repaired. Soon after the accident. Captain- Reed wodt aloft, when be Saw three of the blockade squadron—one on the starboard, one on the larboard side of him,^ and the other directly in front and bearing down. The captain, kpowin.g it would be ruinous to seek to evade scrutiny, at once hoisted the American pennant on the main and the^nsign on the peak, and bore directly o4 for the steamer in front, passing so-close, j to. h e rsu to see the men repairing their hammocks and some sails on deck. This bold epurse of proceeding, and Captain Reed’s i-eady response to the hail of the Yankee8,| a t oUce disarmed suspi cion, and the Gibraltar was enabled to get under coyer, of .the guns of Fort Fisher, which isTn ihe hands of the Confederates, without rnterruptiop. On account of the state of the tide, the vessel could not get past the bar ofl ih© p r t of Wilmington, and her position soon attracted the notice of the flagship butside. A number of shots being firefi from the flagship, three q{ the squadroDi joined her, and the Gib raltar Boou became the object of their united attentioo{S. Forty-eight shots were fired, the greater humbef of them whist ling through tb9 rigging, and within two hundred yards qf the Gibraltar. She was enabled, however, on the rising of the tide, to get out of her unpleasant position, and deliver her cargo. During Capt. Reed’s slay in Wilmington the town was paid a visit by President Davis, who WM {received with the greatest enthusiMm,' CapLRfied''war required in Chajctosto|i,.Mfid A* Aesdribes (ho feeling there in favor ofas.mwt intense, the ladies especikliy being mc^t enthusias tic, arid so forgetful of self, that they dis regarded Gen. Beauregard’s injunction to leave the city and get out of the reach of Gou. Gillmore’s “ Greek fire,” For some time after her arrival the Confederate Government had under consideration^ the propriety of taking the Gibraltar again into service, but on account of the slate of her boilers, they deternained io let her proceed. Having taken tfie cotton on board, and paid ^1,500 to a pilot for the run to Bermuda,: the captain proceeded down the bay, but got aground fin the Rip in sight o f the blockading squadron, wbifeh ■ was nbw increased from four to seven veskela Tho..vcM0l boikg got ofij an endeavor was made to get her down ibo new inlet, but the pilot agatp got her aground, and as she was now in close proximity to the squadron, Captain Reed telegraphed hia positioU up the bay to the Confederate battery at Fort Cbswell. Three launches, each having twenty men on board, were at once sent down to bis protection, re maining by the side of the ship, lest she should be “ c u tout,” until the third night, when the captaip, having previously taken the bearings of the flagsbip^sUcceeded in getting out. The Gibraltar /eached Ber muda in two and a half days, and made QueeUstown in IhirCeon days. Captain Reed IMt Wilmington on the I4th Nov., all the in detaib'^and aUyDue ;.^ii'£tempRni;. l a Jdo so wouia bk charged 'with '^exfi^^eration.— .Yfil»«fi»lwtthstaadi%4he*.over^^^ superiority, in stee^lh^ Bia nolwuhsiandmjf the terrible conse- qttancosi • ^ h ich }this ^ dlvoted Jandi ihe insur^iion strfihge .tdsayiislill wbic^.'^yen} TAf invm d e Rvss&S& fain tO admit,; N^rbutt, 1116 terror o f '■he t RuBsiana in Liithuanm’, has died'the death of the brave with thn Polish flag on his breast. SabloUo.wski; the vailient leader- of the Kowfip Insur-; gents, Who a t Repielaney thrice defeated 1,600 Russians with Poles, has disap-; peared; Stamewiefi, the warrior o f Algier, : and the CaacHsu8,is no longer heard’of. Kosejwa* 8ierakowski,KolvSi8k8, and many other heroes have >perished on the gibbet of Mouravieff; yet Mackiewicz, Lunkie- wicz,. Erasowski, Mukaszonas,- Wysloueb, Wrobldwski, and others, dci ndt lay down their arms, often effectually hiuder the Russians in their cruellies, and continue to dispute with them; the po^essionof Liihu-' apia. This, added to the fact that the Li- tim inia provinces have sent the address of vVhich you have no doubt heardi signed by nearly 250,000 persons to the National Government of Wafsew, cTeirfy proves that Lithuania wil). contiouq the national struggle for indei^nflenco Ho her last breath. The whole of the nobility and the land- owners are, with few exceptions, either in prison or in exile; their estates arf de stroyed or sequestrated, and the- EuK^ian Governaient cannot now with any show of credibility say that t l | # insurrection is the work of the nobles only. Prince Gortschakofi' has frequently re pealed in all hjs dispatches to the West ern Powers that i t is the greatest wish of the Government to introduce peace and order in the whole of the iusurgent terri- story. Peace and ordeft as it iamnderstood by the Russian Government, consists in the desolation of the land and the extermina tion of the Polish face. Mouravieff’s'd e crees fell much more heavily on the' peace*- ful population that upon the insureents. The latter a t least sell their lives demly inr the woods and marshes where they take refuge. It is the defenseless landowners, the intelligent peasantry, the officials and servants on iheestates, the local funclien- aries, the priests and the students—all, in a word, who can be suspected of any ten dency to political or national feeling that are the most hardly treated. , The properly of the accused 'is partly A F bw W ords to F athers .— Take your son for a Companion whenever you coUveoienily can; it will relieve the al ready overburdened, a,Dxiou8 mother of so much care. I t will gratify the boy; it will please the mother; it certainly ought to be a pleasure to you. What raotbor’s eye would npt brightein when her child is kindly cared’ for! 4 n d when his eye kindles, his heart beats, and his tongue prattles faster and faster with the idea of “ going with father,” does she-not share her little boy’S:^l»fiPpfo*!®®i and 4a not her love deepened by her husband’s considora- tioD, so just, and yet too often sp ex'trapr- dibary f It will keep ffim’ and yon cat of places, society and tem{i|tations into which Separately you might enter. It wij] estab lish confidence, syrnpathy, esteem; find toVe between you . I t will give you'abundant and very favorable ppotlwniiies tp Inopart instrucliom to infuse and cultivate noble principles, and to develop and strengthen a true rriatibood. I t iviill enable him to “ see the world,” and to enjoy a certain liberty whjph may prevent tfial future li- Jeollousnesa whiph so often results from, a SUddOri ffoe^bm froth long restraint. Do(itOii:..:a-Tfao rebels-are devising means to covert the dogs inte oil and' their skins into leather. It is estimated thfit the oil will be- worth about 1^15 per gallon., Th® numher of dogs iii ,lho Slate of '\firgihia, ficcofdmg to a low esfirante, ig flOOiOOO. Each dog will yield say onS gallon o f oil---^ 6Q3i090;gallqns’|it 'fl5 per gallon’uv$Ti569000.' 500,000 skins, at $8i average for green.4,250,000.. St $38 for drCBSed. ‘ diery devtilate the lands; corn; brandy and other provisions are seized for the ar my; plate, clothes, dresses and cattle fire- taken to the nearest town, and there being but few purchasers, a re sold at nominal prices; If nb. purchaser is to be found all is destroyed, and tho furniture and other articles which 1sro not easily moved are broken to pieces and burned^on the spot. The greatest severities of the Russian Govern'menl are now directed against tha women of Poland.-^ About IGO women linger in the prisons'of Wilria alone, from mere children like Julia.. Misiewiez, who is barely 14, to venerable! matrons like the mother of the late insurgent chief, Narbutt, who is 69 years old. Among others, Theola Kwiatbowski, a young lady of 20, belonging to a wealthy and distinguished lamily, was seized al night on tho estate of one of her relations, lakfin to Wilna un der escort, and shdl- up in the station house with the skum of the town, . I t was only afte^ much interest had -been used on her behalf that she was, removed to another prison, b u t she had scarcely been there three days when she was sent off abne to Siberia. The fate of Theola Ewiathowska has been also that of Idalia Lopacinska.-^ Micbeiin Countess Pater, Adels and Idalia Hoiodkerska, Michelin Richter, an^ other ladies. Although masses of the proscribed are sent out of Wilna on these fatal Fridays; (the train of the 22d Oiitobet alone con tained 857 exiles,) all the prisons and many of the monasteries and private hous es Which are turned Into prisons are over crowded. In the town of Wilna alone there are about 2,600 prisoners; in tha.t of Grodne 800; ih the palatinate of Kowno 2.500, and other places are equally full.—r Not only is the food given the prisoners disgusiii g, but the air in which they live is equally poisoUed; from fifteen to twenty persons are huddled together on the bAi-e boards in narrow cells. Many have per- ishedj under their suffering; others^ have bej^tne insane. Among this cloud of prisonersis Count TiefotStarzyniski, whose fate appears hot yet to'hav© been decided on. He will, it is^aid, be septence.d to twelve years^ hard Ifiber. You will per haps remember that during, the. last two yeafs, before Ihei puibiTeak of the insurrec tion, he had labored with the most loyal inteniioDs to effect a reoooclliation between the gpverm ^ u t Arid the Lilhuttian prov inces. , ' . ’■ The sou ofMourAYieff, wfio has been ap pointed Governor of Kowno, does t o t yield to bje father ip cruelty:, and even exceeds him in petty atrocities; Ho draws up the programme pf the executions hiinself, and has placed the gibbet, s^hieh whAformerly outside the town, in the raidist of Kowno. A “ T r a p l l e r / in A letter.lo^h© ]^ ^ don TimeSymj&:—r. ' I;Caij,.AS?are you if w,e gq tO;MafiY?ith Chinese affair, ’ They .are hold Courageou Ay proud,«nd eager after every^kind o f knowL . . . . - , edge. ^ -A triend pf mine gfive A workman cast h ou A Bramah lo^k to put on a box; it was not; discovered until some time af^rward, and only thenr hy the absence o f the naniei tbat-the lock had been imitated,: and, aS the workman confessed, the original hept A pattern. I hav0''been on board » sTeamcr (paddle) which used three, years ago to run between Nagaski and J^eddo, six hundred miles, whose. engmes and boilers, and eVfejV part of her machinery, were made o f wpper. iShe was huili by a ddctor In J e ^ o , whose Ofify guide A Dutch description of a steam enginAtraus- latedinto japanese. An America gun nery offiefer Wafi sent Over lir Iflfifi' in 'the: FowhattAU, tqdeach th e ^ gqmet^^ He t 1 ’ j \ i- t- . - rival Mexico and Australia; iron, copper plundered and the, test destmyed or S0'^ and profusion. A friend ^uesterod. DetatcbmenlA- of-AAfagAfiok! o f ^ m e - A t Y ^ o h a m a gav#%“dfipauese A ipg nearly 30 jhCheA IfldkriiztK inches in difimbter? The placediin A oradjA jiad Rftefi l a t h e of the gun by meims o f mareable legs provided with. h lo c k tjm % a f t^ A - ^ ’ The hradle hinges o n wva obuple of hdoVt on the mouth o f the pikfie,‘‘ and holds t t h ponderous shot in the pfoper-posidon for being rammed home. , Tfie gun w ^ i v e n one degree of eleKati% .and ihe word passed t h a f ; ^ was ready., The last bnglf call was Sounded, and the’, great gun wa* fired for the first,time. T h e .ponderous with a ternfllljW h and roar, striking t|itf , , . „ , 8»udAt Aboutljl* M was courteously received,! and then taken leaping and dasWng dnWard, ^ d o c|etting, over tho arsenal at Jeddm He returned five or six times, and firially hW#ymg itself to the ship. Baying “ he Had-heen taught near the 4,000 yards target.. , , a lesson instead o f having ’. ’ ' In many of the arts and manufactures, th they excel us: their beautiful ratings in bronze would puzzle the most experienced European workman.^* I have shown Spec-' imens to clever workmen who have con fessed they could not imitate them. I have seen samples which w6uld rival in brilliant cy any made in England. The French ------ Minister had a large ball, s5 clear and of powder, 03, about equal |h l ct^^^ such, perfect color that he believed i t to be powder for a 68-pounder. This monster a 'gigantic sapphire, and bought it for a gopd round sura. Their paper , imitations of leather are perfect; their paper ■water proof coats are bought by the captains of ships for their exposed boats’ crews; their own elockfi are good;' and they have imi tated our watches; they walk about with pedometers’ attached tp their belts, and they are not backward iii eopperplate en graving and perspective. Their chtna is fef superior to the Chinese. The' country abounds with coal, though they only use that found close to the surface; but even that, a soft o f bituminoaB ahale, is good.— In gold and silver, H believe they could the first shot 1,880 yards, AUd the second 1,890 yards, tho elevation being five de- greeS, The steel shells which Are to h« employed for the gun, and which will pos- After the pfipst RaeskOwski Wafi executed, jail;/, a wreath.of immoftollca waa found on the 6pph which it appeaw had been p la c ^ there hy a girl of eighteen, named Imsch®- nhik. That ver^ day her ’ whole family was thrown into prison, apd two days after the girl, her father, (3 smaH house propri etor of Kowno,) her inolhef and six sisters, were seft by young MburWieff' to RIteria, A short lime ago h e ordered a village ;of sixty houses, named Ibiany, to be \burnt and leveled with the ground, and its m- habitants, withHbefr wives and ’chpreU, Icr he sent to' the Ural. Thfi Wtfd was di vMflfiiinfohg’ihfi Ruisianf bfitlfi-Pld f th h pij^e o f English cotton shifting; in a few ■q^s the man brought back two pieces, atfe my friepd had much difficulty in say ing which was his, so closely had it been imitated. In fact, they are a people who Want for nothing hut teachers. Sewing^ Him Up. A newly married wife living in New Orleans, recently discov^ji that her beL ter-half was disposed te t^ m e home fra quently late a t night in a state of “ oblivi 0U8 forgetfulness.” She determined to cure him of this habit. About two weeks ago he returnsd a t midnight, and stagger ed into the bed.cbamber, tumbled into bed and was .soon asleep. The wife said nothing, but when she thought ho was sound asleep she procured a large darning needle, and threading it with a strong piece of twine, sat quietly at work sewing him up in the blanket. She. sewed good and strong, till, as tho gray streaks of dawn began to lighten the East, her task was done. In this condition she left him, and repaired to tho dwelling of a friendly neighbor, there to await the result. About ten o’clock persons in the neighborhood were startled by the sound of the moat distressing cries issuing from the bouse, and fushiug to the rescue; supposing tfiat murder was being committed, they forced the door, find there found the poor man bound up as tightly as a bale of cottOPi ia. the blankets of his own bed. Ho begged them to release him as he was dying from thirst and could not move. The neighbors stood agast. They thought him the vie lira of some terrible plot; soibe burglar’s scheme; but 'as they were in the act of extriAuing him, in rushed the wife and ordered them to desist. • .“ Cut not a lay there till he makes a solemn promise never to come home drunk again.” H e declared he would in future keep better hours and drink less Turn. EmTORS.^Bulwer’s “ Last Days of Poropeii” says that an editor was the :per- son who gave the word when combats were herald. In later times an editor superin tended the compilation of books, and still later, the preparatfon of newspapers.-^ Strictly, the word editor meanti a publisher. An edlior of a newspaper is. not oedessarily the^ writer of itS' original articles. His .business is to overlook wb'st is written, and select what is proper to be printed. Auslra inust bo a jolly plac^for editors. Out .of one hundred' and twenty seven po litical journals, the most are in opposition to the Government, and the greater - part of the editors of these are in prison at the presen t time. In Ytenna; the capital, the editor of every 6||o8ition sheet is how in J f \ A t a j^ronch iChorcb, recently a woman got up and exclaimed aloud, “ The tuno .fixed on by Diaiue anger has arrived; in a fo f d ^ s the sun willbeiei^iogflifilfo^: the slam wifi faU to the tefirthj , tlte jour hooks which 8uS|mridlhAheAvens wil! give way, and the sky fall. Repefiti theru- fore, and give a H you have to the poor.—, Follow mci a n ^ Twill taka ypu-aU ,to the desertiv t h e r e . ^ Will rvr»p yourselves in sacks and live 'on, locusts nintil you hear the lhM»p0t'.&'neuucin2 the eud'of ifie .iw w w .” ' : 22 tens, i i d h l ^ t i e h g over^lL l^^ borapft l f l j ifichefewai^^^k trM e r t r S h o e h u l ^ ; T t s f i |r i i e i « ; c < f f i i c 8 l ^ i ) S h h l l ^ ' rshot^eigMpg^ffOft^T^hdl; teontMng foaTSSh I 40;;ik)undi te.f p61»dor;^^^40i®ohai^'j >.r gun win be-able to send one-of these steef shell a distance of 1,800 yards, and, p a striking an -object, its effeefi ;wii};: ft M said, bo eqttaHd that of placing the mua(- zle of a 68 pounder close to or through m . ship’s side or fort, and firing into it with Ihel fUll service charge. ' NothwithsUndmg thb men war© new ta tho guri|. if . iVift' worked wfth eomparatiy| &ciljmAud the first two or three rounds, ibd lim e r e - . quired for loading and f i r i n ^ ^ utes. Twenty men Were s u ^ T e n .t iq it ^ load and fire the piece. Tho -reooii ranged . from nine foetrto nidefeet sixioe result of the trftl W as 'tory in, thw d;^feSt ■- i ■'\-■'-■i*.' ,, _ .......................... reason to bo satisfied with the gun. The 600 pounder’s ultimate range; with higher degrees of elevation, and with seventy-five pounds of powder, may, says the Motniap Post, bo safely set down as 10,000 yards, or 88 falling shor t by two Or three hundred yards only of six miles, t ' Number o f Kernels in M B n ^ l o f Graiiitf^ . . ^ - I*:.— . In England land is dear an d faboit cheap, and tho largest amount mu«t b« produced from an acre. There ar© 42,360 square feet in an acre; e ^ h fpohdiyid^ ! into four sections, and each section having, a single kernel of wheat in its centre, it' would take only four-fifths o f a boshel iO cover that amount of ground. A buShek \ of wheat contains 560,000 kernals; if \ bushel: of teats, LflOOiOOO;; barley, 52<M ' OQftf .Englph. horse beans, 87,009. ^Tbis- nei of grain or a single bean, is called “ dihhhug,” And Is rpractisod l y Eii^Mh agriculturalists; lotebtaih the - on th^ Smallest amount:of lahA ' :• ^ A eight waV .whnewed ,Qn- thw plains'neaf j|a y . Which bo humkn e y e \ ^ probably o v e r witpessed befoi^. o r f t ever to see a g m . ift ' snopxing, as ft Cifitoihi wiihiu the itcih|y shadow of A.sii»nted ;gUpi Iree, his slUm« /_ hers were disturbed by what he describee^ - *8 “ like A rushiBg wind w!hftlliog through a bed of reeds.” But on looking around ‘ him, what was his surprise to behold the ' plain, for at least\ a square mile, covereff with ioDumCTahle frogs. On, on ib e f came, ifi their hiindfedt arid Ihousandt,- out till ’ the creeksaft«doomri“^-Lffid IhW Bishop of Narai been preslul, h e ffiight have suppoeod, and with sOnie refieOn, t08, that Providence Wjte copvifiemg^^^h^^ ocular demonslration, that the uiDihpliilik Of E g y p t was hfttori<»!Iy true. I t certainly A At^fingA ii^ht,: thiAtexodai h f frog% and ft thus A ^ i i n t e d for; the lon^ to begin a t the amphitheaters—a sort of '““d excessive d rou^' to which ihft p a rt o f the <»Iony has beett MlijlctAd^ i a d jpletely dried u |r t h A D l a y e Y ^ ^ i r h f t f t they inhabited, and :lbe:'^kflr^reiHUrei,*to- ;SRVte .themselves ftoin ptsfthing, WetW ob^ed to emigrate, for wheur ihe fihe^ herd saw them they werA «AtWwft:^r thw Murrumbriagei and ft is Worthy t i f Ti“ mfitk that many of th e :pld':fto]^ catnedl pleaninny frogs upon theiii hackAr~^ftK 6aii<e Qowier^; ' . ‘ \ God offaifi to every mind i u choice between truth and repose, Take whftft yon pftasel you can never havft j ^ Retween: thnip, ift a pendhiftfoi. osciV lates. , WhdW ihelOVAtef r^poae pnev doimnatei wiH.hpnept th e |h»;t first jhiloaophy,.the meets, mp#t Jikfify father^' g f t i . rest,.cofl!impdfty. aucl .rfipAtAt%D;|;i>Jtt^*BW ifini#the|ooi,of:trft% H h in love of trnth i^adoiAiwites wfll ie e |s him? self aloof from fill moorin^i Aftd: He Will abstain from wlf #gmAtftm» and which, fia W alftjhft fteifig:» awiteaft submits to the ineoufeiieneA of »|gpns4 fin'd perfect.tepinion, b u t h e j l W for trfiih,' as the otherft teel,? m d tho'iiighest I
