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              MOUNT VERNON, .OHIO: TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1859. NUMBER... 17. VOLUME XXIII. - It FDt.TRRm ITMr TCSSDAT MOaXUiO, ;f ;t v BY JL. UAH!?!:!!. Uffloe in WooiTd' Block, Third 'Story .TERM'S Tw )o11m pr annnm, payable in ad-Yauee; $2.50 witbin six months; 9.00 after tbe ex-T ptraUoa of the year. Clubs of twenty, $1.50 each. ma From the Pittsburgh Post... In Memory of Oscar Lai will , Died J'y 4(a, 1859, aged 24 yar$. "Oh! God! howjrery stransrs it aeemi To sleep so long, yet never move." Sleeping, dear brother mine, on thy low pillow, No ray of sanMn playin o'er thy brow, fixed, so. holy in its .marble beauty, "With darkly mournful eyes o'er shadowed now; And in thelemn path tbv feet have entered, "With solemn tread our footsteps all must go. sleeping, no thought disturbs thy eo'rf. cold pillow; No weary suffer! ig. restless, troubled dreams, " Ob, nevermore mav Ufa's unquiet billow Over thy boom roll iti tirrbiel stream; In the clear light of God thy soul is learning A11 high, true, holy and ennobling themes. - Brother and friend, say doe thy spirit see os? "' Can those dark .eyes, washed pure by death's cold wave, Read all our erring human hearts, still throbbing, .' Within the chilling shadow of the grave? Thou who wert erst so kind and true, and gentle, ' The memory of our love torn thought must crave. ' Oh! brother mine, benenth the deir old oak tree, . At the calni home where gathering shadows fall; And loved, familiar tones float gently round me; Thy sweet, tweet srailo Id routing over all; And softly looking .upward through tho twilight, From thy high homo I scorn to hear thoe call. Sleep well, my brother, on the green bright hill side, T oould not ohocse a lovelior place for thoe; Shadow and sunshine, and soft wind are playing The gentle haunt of flower, and Mrd, and bee, And soon beside thoa. on as cold a pillow. We all muBt sloop, Ood, tull we tonke with thett Rochester, Pa. Lydia. M. Revo. itcnui) iuisccllaiw. THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER. A STORY OV THE LAST CENTURY. BY WASBIXQTOX mVlKO. AsTom waxed oldhowever, he grew thought ful. Having secured the good '''things, of this world, he begun to feel anxious nhout the next-lie thought with regret of the bargain he had made with his black friend, .and. his "wits to work to ch at bim out of 'his conditions. He became, therefore, all of a sudden, a violent chnreb eoer. lie prayed loudly and strenuously, as if hpaven were to be carried by force of lung. Inieed, one might always tell' when he sinned most dir ring the week, by the. clamor of his Sunday de- votion. The quiet : Christians who had been tnodaratelv and quietly traveling Zioriward were i -Struck with-self reproach at seeing themselves so suddenly sutstr'ipped in their career by this new made convert. Tom waj s riid in religion as in money matters; he was a stern supervisor and censurer of his neighbor, and seemed to think every sin entered up in their aeount became a credit on his part. He even talked of the expediency of reviving the persecution of the. Quakers and Anabaptists. In e. word, Tom's zeal became as his riches. ..Still, in spite of his- strennom attention to 'forma, Tom had a lurking dread that the devil after all would have hi due. -That he might not be taken unaware, therefore it is said he always carried a small Bible. in. his pocket, ne also had a great folio Bible in bis counting house desk, and would frequently be found reading when people called on business. On such occa- ". . sions he would lay his green spectacles ou the book to mark the place, while he turned around . l0 drive some usurious bargain. Some say Tonj grew a little crack brained in .bis older days, and that fancying his end ap- . . prpaching, he had his home newly Bhod, saddled and bridled, and buried with his feet uppermost, because, at the last day, the world would be turned upside down, in which case he would find 7bis horse ready for mounting, and he was determined, at the worst, to give his friends a run for "' it. This, however, is probably a mere old wif'g fable. - If he really did take vthat precaution, it -was totally superfluous at least, so says the au-tbentio old lesrend, which closes his story in the following manner: One hot afternoon in the dog days, jnst as a terrible black" thunder gust came up, Tom sat in his counting house in his white linen cap and India silk morning gown, lie was on the point of foreclosing a- mortgage, by which he would complete the ruin of an ui. happy speculator for whom he bad professed the greatest friendship. The poor land jobber begged bim to grant a few months' indulgence. Tom had grown testy and irritated, and refused another day. "My family will be rained and brought upon the parish," said the land jobber. "Charity begins at borne," replied Tom, " most take care of myself, these hard times. Yon have made so much money out of me," . &id tbe speculator. " Tom lost bis patience and bit piety. "The devil take me," taid he, ''if I have made a far- - thing." Just then there were three load knocks at the street door. lie stepped out "to see who was there. A black man with a black horse, which neighed and stamped with impatience. "Tom, you are come for," said the black fellow, gruffly. . Tom shrank back, but too late. He bad left his Bible at the bottom of his coat pocket, and his big Bible on the desk, buried under the mortgage be was about to foreclose caver was a poor, sinner taken more unawares. ' The black' man whisked him like a child astride . " of the borse, and away be galloped in the midst ..: . f. the thunder storm. The clerks stack their . pen behind their ears and stared after him from - the windows.' Away went Tom Walker dashing i t pwn the streets, his white ; cap bobbing up and t dajrn bis morning, gown flattering in tbe wind, i : i ,ani kit steed striking fire oat of the pavements 1 ": I ,";t' t'varr bpand. . YTtea the tlerke taroed to look DiaeK man Had auappeared. - - Tom Walker never returned to foreclose the mortgage. A countryman who lived near the wamp reported that in the bight of the thunder-gust he bad heard a great clattering of hoofs and howling along- the road, and that when be ran to the window he just caught eight of a figure such as I have described, on a horse that galloped like mad across the fields, over the hills, and down into the black hemlock swamps, toward the old Indian fort, and that shortly after a thunderbolt fell in that direction, which secerned to set the whole fcrest in a blaze. The good people of Boston shook their heads and shrugged their shoulders. They had been so accustomed to witcbs and goblins, and tricks of the devil in all kinds of shapes, from the first settlement of the colony, that they were not so much horror stricken as might have been expected. Trustees were appointed to take charge of Tom's effects. There was nothing, however, to administer upon. On searching his coffers, all his bonds aud mortgages were found reduced to cinders. In place of gold and silver, his iron chest was filled with chips and shavings; two skeletons lay in bis stable instead of his half starved horses, and the very next day his great house "took fire and burned to the ground Such was the end of Tom Walker and bis ill-gotten wealth. Let all griping money -brokers lay the story well to heart. The truth is not to be doubted. .The very hole under the oak tree, from whence he dug Kidd's money, is to be seen to this day, and the neighboring swamp and the old Indian fort is often haunted in stormy nights by a figure on horseback, in a morning gown, and white cap, which is doubtless the troubled spirit of the usurer. In fact, his story has re solved itself into a proverb, and is the origin of the popular saying prevalent throughout New England, of "the Devil and Tom Walker." rasing iJanetir. Hot-Housing tha Intellect. We have no relish lor precocious children. The boy man and the girl-woman are cur especial aversion. We li!ie.to sea an infant act'as an infant, and a youth erjoy itself in all the bliss ful ignorance, the unaffected innocence of youth. 'She i q'lite a little woman" is a 'compliment that never yet recommended a miss in her pina fore to our affections, and "He is a regular little man" always inspires us with a disposition to tii rb' our back on the advancing jacket and trow serj. .Childhood is a season sacred to the phyui- cal growth, and no .unnecessary mental growth .should ha permitted to interfere with it. It can not thus interfere without mutual injury. All that the mini needs at that age it wilt take up spontaneously. To coerce it into the receipt of more, is only to destroy its delicate substance before it has aeqnired the muturity demanded for deeper impressions. Mrs. Barbauld used to o1h.tvb that she much preferred that a child should not be l!e to read before it was'five years of age. One of the mot popular writers! of the age tells u that she could not read at seven; and yet at eighteen she had paid her fui iter's debts' by the product of her pert;' and twelve years after had published thirty volumes. For our" .part we would not allow a child to know more than his alphabet at seven . years of age; then let'hira commence to studv, with his.memo-ry fresh, welt ..hardened, greedy fr novel impressions aiid made retentive by delay, and our word fur it ho will have treasured up mare lear- nine at twelve than any one of similar inte!Iectr ..-I ,.l:v, .u i, i ; i r c'S Hot housing the mind to develop it in ad vance" of nature's intention never yet succeeded in producing anything but sickly productions, and it never "will. Will parents be wise enough to think of thii circumstance, and "make a note of it?" X. V. Sunday Tim is. Wedding Rxng ology. As most of oar fair readers have a fourth finger, and that finger is liable to be called upon, or is already used, for consecrated services, it is worth while to give ''the doctrine'' on tbe subject: ' . ;" .' lhe veddtng-rmg Jinget is the fourth finger on the left hand. Wh this particular digit should have received such a token of honor and trust beyond all its congeners, both in Pagan and Christian times, has been variously interpreted. The most common explanation is according to Sir Thomas Browne, presuming therein that a particular vessel, nerve, vein or artery, is conferred thereto from the heart," which direct vascular communication Browne shows to be anatomically incorreet. Macrobius gives another reason, which may perhaps satisfy those anatomists who are not satisfied with the above. ' Pollex," he says, or thumb, (whose offices and general usefulness are sufficiently indicated from its Latin derivative polleo, and from its Greek equivalent antichicr, which means "as good as a hand,) is too busy to be set for any such special employment; the next finger to the thumb being but half protect ed on that side, beside having other work to do, is also ineligible, that opprobrium attaching to the middle finger, called mcdictis, puts it entirely out of the question; and as the little finger stands exposed, and is, moreover, too puny to enter tbe lists in such a contest, the spousal hon ors devolve naturally on pronubus, the wedding- finger. - In the British Apollo, 1783, it is urged that the fourth finger was chosen from its being not only less used than either of the rest, but more capable of preserving a ring from braises; bav. ing this one quality peculiar to itself, that it can not be extended but in company with some other fingers, whereas the rest may be stretched oat to their full length and strafgbtness. The Garden of Gethsemne. ' The venerated aceo of our Lord's passion is about a third ore acre in extent, and is sur rounded by a low wall. Wheol Mr. Catherwood was there ia 1834, Ukinjr the drawiegs, for bis oeaoiuui panorama oi Jerusalem, the carden was planted with oliv( almond, and fig treesv- Eight of the olive trees ara so large that tbey are said to have been in existence ever since the time of Jesus Christ, although, we learn from Josephus that Titua cat down all the trees within 100 furlongs of the city. These trees are highly venerated by the members of the Roman Communion there, who consider any attempt to cut or injure them an act of profanation. Should any one of them be known to pluck any of the leaves, he would incur a sentence of excommunication. Witness. Save Ycur Papers. . : . A eotemporary wisely suggests that readers of newspapers are little aware what they lose bj destroying the issues they are daily in the habit of reading. If preserved and bound which could be done at a trifling expense the would have a connected record of current events in the most convenient and comprehensive shape, which would be valuable at all times as a book of reference, besides affording great pleasure in reviving old recollections and associations iu tbe mind of the reader. He would therein have a chain of history-ssentially local, yet somewhat general in its character growing link by link, yearly becoming of more interest and value. It would be an encyclopedia a cabinet of liter ature, of information in the sciences and arts, history and biography a volume embellished with ah occasional ; gem of thought of the first water, which if not thus preserved would be wholly lost. It would be a museum in which the most inveterate statistician could, find deposits worthy of his attention, while at the same time it would afford a field of delights in which the most accomplished in intellectual attainments could revel for days and weeks. Shaking Hands. The mere offer of the hand is the readiest sign of voluntary " courtesy or forgiveness, and its non-compliance the most civil yet meaning of repulses. Shaking hands is a mode of greeting, the origin of which is lost in obscurity. Individuals display character in their , mode of so doing. Who cannot feel atjnee the antagonism b tween the touch of a prude and the cordial grasp of a friend? Who knows not the sailor's grip of candid heartiness from' the conventional "giving of hands?" How perfectly does the graduated lingeriug pressure cause the mercury in love's barometer to rise or fall by the scale of hope! " What syrnpat Lies and antipathies are demonstrated by the various degree of kindly irresolute, vivacious, careles, fond, or earnest manner of shaking hands! It is this relation be tween temperament, feeling, consideration, and lue injunctive action or the hand, whicn nas given, rise to "those theories which profess to road the predominant impulses of character in the traits of one's hand'-wriiin?. The Tongue. Let us often deny the tongue. "No man speaks safr-ly,"" says a great saint, "but ho who is silent willingly." It is impossible for persons I to talk as' fast and' as much as" they do without f.tlly and sin. "We talk too much. If we doubt this, let us' think for a moment bow, little. -we' say which is worth saying, how much that does harm to others or Ourselves and then we cannot doubt it again. . We talk too much..: When, then, we are incited to talk rapidly, let us check ourselves, partly to prevent our saying what we" should afterwards repeat of, and partly to give ourselves perfect command over any motion unless we can bid it stop as well as go on. It is quite as needful in taming a horse to teach him to pause at our bidding as to move on. .- Let us learn, them, to command our tongues by denying them, by not speaking at times when we are tempted to 'do so, and thus obtaining a. victory aud power over this unrnl v member. "I Dare Refuse to Fight." After school at uight, George joined some boys who were amusing themselves by sliding down hill on their sleds. George had drawn his sled up to tbe top of the hill, and was riding down again, when one of the boys, to tease bim, drew his sled directly in the path, so that when George's sled came in contact with it he was thrown off into the snow. George was inclined to be angry at first; but he soon recollected himself, and thought "if I do not get angry now, this will be a triumph, I am sure." All the boys gathered around and said, "Give it to him, George; give it to him. 1 would pay him well for that." "No," said George: 4if be has done wrong, that is no reason why I should do wrong too." "It is because you dare not fight me, that you have grown so wonderful good all at once," said the boy who had thrown him from bix sled. George felt his spirit begin to rise at this taunt; but he knew be was in the right of it, and he an swered calmlv: "1 aare rrjusc to ngot, notwitnstanding your sneers; and I leave you to judge which requires the greatest courage.' All the boys knew that George was right, and had displayed the best and most difficult kind of courage: so they urged him no more to fight, and even the boy who had throwu hitb from the sled could not help feeling ashamed of bis conduct. A Short lecture to Young Men. Keep good company or none. Never be idle. If your hands cannot be usefully employed, at tend to the cultivation of jour mind.. Always speak the truth. Make few promises. Live up to jour engagements. - Iveep your own secrets, if you Lave any,. When you speak to a person, look him in the face. Good company and good conversation are the very sinews of virtue. Good character is above all things else. Your character cannot be essentially injured except by your own acts, llf one speaks evil of yoa, let your life be so that none will believe him. Drink no kind of intoxicating, liquors. Ever live, misfortune excepted, within jour income When you retire to bed, think' over what jou have been do ing during tbe day. liak ,iio, haste.to ba ricbr if 'yon ' would . prosper; -am all, and tteadj faint give competency, with tranquility of mind.' New goiitjis' 30 n er play at any kind of game of chance.. Avoid temptation, through fear you may not withstand it. Never ran iu debt, unless you see a way to get out again. Never borrow if you can possi. bly avoid it. Never speak evil of any one. . Be just before you are genet ous. Keep yourself in nocent if you would be happy. Save when you are young to spend when jou are old.-r-Uunl't Mag. ... " ' Happiness m Childhood. It is wonderful how happiness used to be. It lay about, like the sunshine, within arm's length of everybody. It used to grow in the field; we have found it there, bat not lately. Sometimes five speckled eggs in a grassy nest constituted iljr sometimes four beautiful ones in the lilacs. It used to swim in the brooks, and turn up its silvery and mottled sides, like a polished little sabre, sprinkled with tbe color of fame,: which is gen. eral'y understood to be crimson. We have foood it many a time beside a mossy stone, when it looked very much like a first spring flower; we have seen it come down in the shower, and beard it descend in tbe rain. What a world of it used to be cro wded into a Saturday afternoon! An old newspaper with cedar ribs, a tail like three bashaws, and a penny's worth of twine, have con stituted many a time that is, many an old time the entire stock ia trade of one perfectly hap- P7- ;"- "; Judged by the Company you Keep. Young persons cannot, be too guarded in respect to the company they keep, for, however erroneous the conclusions may be in certain cases, it is a fact not to be lightly considered, that the character of the man is judged by the company in which be is seen; and this on the known law, that like has an affinity with like. Many a young man ha lost a golden opportunity because, in a single instance, perhaps, be has been seen in the company of those known to have bad habits or corrupt principles, and been judged as like them. To all young persons we would say, be exceed-ingly careful as to . the individuals with whom you are seen. 'Your experience is small; your knowledge of character limited, your principles of life only in the' forming, state;, and the inference in your case will be that you incline to the known habits of your supposed associates. ':':.'-: The Bocks of Children. : The poet Cowper boauiifully says- speaking of. the charming and simple religious books that pleased his childhood: " 'Twete woll itb movt if boot i that could engajs Their ehijdhood pleajd tbem at a riper age;-Tho man, approving What hud charmed tbo boy, " Would dia atlaat io cimfxrt, peaoo, and j. And not with curves cm hi heart who stole The gem of truth fri Lit unguarded soul." cv r ; Sardinia as Kow Constituted. The superficies of Lombard jj "ceded to Sar d'mia by the recent treaty of peace, in 8,5li8 square miles. Its population is 2,800,000 soulii Loncbardy has hitherto been divided, ad ic in is tratively, iuto teu proviuces or delegations, vie: Milan, Pavia. Sodi. Corma, Cremona, Como, Mantua Sondrio, Breschia and Bergamo. 1 The fortified towns of Mantua nd Peschiera form part of the province of Mantua. The fortress of Pezzigheltou is comprised in the province of Cremona. Including . Lombard;, the kingdom of Sardfhia will cotitaiu a superficies of 37,540 square miles, with a population of 7, 800,000. As regards territorial, extent, .it will occupy a tenth rank iu Europe, and will come immediate-1 after, the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, and before Portugal and Bavaria. With respect to population, Sardinia will stand in the ninth rank on a level with Naples, and will be above Sweden and Norway, Belgium and Bavaria. The follo wing .table completes the comparison as re gards Italy: - Area sq. ra New Kingdom 37;ti40 Venetia 'J.525 Papal States. ........ ...... 1 7.21 8 Tuscany......... ............ 8,74 1 Population. 7,800,000 - 2,200,000 2,yoo ooo 1,750.000 . . 500,000 4IO,0(o 8,400,000 Parma... ; . . 1 9 J . ..... ...... 2.278 iuoaena. : . -2.0U0 .42,000 Two Sicilies.. Grain Business of the Year. The receipts at Chicago, during the last week have been, of flour 5, 1 37 bbls ; of wheat 17, 1 51 bushels; of corn, 68,501 bushels; of oats, 11,181 bushels; making a total of 130,329 bushels of grain. The entire receipts since the 1st of January last, have been 225.203 bbls. flour; 1,483,-951 bushels wheat, .3,046,113 bushels of corn, 383,576 '.bushels oats, and 99,2&6 bushels barley making a total-of C.138,881 bushels. The receipts at this time last year, were nearly twelve millions of bushels. . The shipments daring the last week have been 6,088 bbls. of flour, 45,874 bushels of wheat, 119,671 bushels of corn, . 42,999 bushels cf oats, and 2,762 bushels of barley, making a total of 241,747 bushels of grain. The total shipments of the season, since the 1st of January, have been 196,584 bbls of flour, 987,550 bushels of wheat, 2,169,442 bushels of corn, 243,47 C bushels oats and 39,593 bushels barley, making a total of 4,422,021 bushels of grain., Tbe shipments at this time last year, were nearly 10,000,000 bushels. : Hew Counterfeit ' A new and dangerous counterfeit bill, denomination one State Bank of Ohio, has just been put into circulation. The bill is so well executed that those experienced in the handling of money failed to detect tbe fraud before comparison with tbe gesuine. Lee's Bank Note Register gives this description of tbe counterfeit, with" which, it is said, Cincinnati and other places in the State hate been flooded: The bill is ' lettered H, and signed J. RFioa, V, President; and Win. Phil, lips, Cashier. The tignette is almost complefe in its imitation, the principal fault-being that in iai some parti the shading is very eoare; present-ing the 'appearance "of having 'been hurriedly done.1 " Tbe sledga hammer ljinjf al the foot of the figure n tha left hand eoraer of the vignette, is CI proportioaed, while'in the'ceDoiae'the rep- terfsimg resentation is exceedingly accurate. The female figure on the right end of the bill, instead of being filled up with hair lines, is finished with dots resembling more , a lithograph than a copper plate engraving. -' .- - -'"- The Treaty of Villafranca. If the war got up by Louis Napoleou on the false pretense of liberating Italy, gave rise to a general confusion of ideas, a shifting of positions, and a prostitution of men and things without paralled in the history of Europe, the peace of Villafranca has brokeu the fatal spell. Whatever may have been said or Louis Napoleon's astuteness, that peace has destroyed his prestige, and even alienated from bim the French people and the French army, whom it was his chief purpose to attach to his dynasty. When he tells that army that be made peace from fear, both of Prussia and .the Austrian quadrangle, he tells them what can only awaken dipgust iu their hearts. And when he tells that people, every one of whom is born a revolutionist, that be was checked iu his victorious career only by the fact that the next step in advance must have been taken with Uevoluliou as his ally, he may be sure that they will regard Lim with far greater distrust and aversion . than the bugbear with which he seeks to terrify them. In all the Europe of to day, there is no other such failure as Louis Bonaparte with Lis Italian war. -The bambug exploded at Villafianca. The speculators of the Slock exchange exult at it, the chop- fallen demagogues stand aghast, the betrayed Italians tremble with rage, tbe "meditating pow ers" cut sorry figures, the Brit ish and American believers in Louis Bouapaite s democratic mis sion hide their shame in unmeaning protests and in genious explanations; but those who dared to oppose a deluge of self delusion, at the peril even of being accused of Austrian sympathies are now proved to have been aloue in the right. N. Y. Tribune. . From the Indiana State Sentinel, Aug. C. . The Corn Crop. There is little doubt, from present prospects, but Indiana will have a" larger, crop of corn ihi season than she has in many years. The corn tii the up and sandy lands has been materially injured by. the recent drought, but in the soil peculiarly adapted to this gruin, the yield will be abundant, A friend who has recently returned from a trip through Montgomery, Parke, Vermillion and -Vigo counties, speaks in slewing terms of the growing crop oh the corn soil,. He says it never looked better, or covered a greater surface. .The Wabash" bottoms, -especially are tilled with a tall and vigorous growing crop. The recent rains which visited the Slate ' generally have given renewed vitality to this crop, and it has probably been sufficient to make it. Iu ibis county, upon, the high lands, the crop is somewhat injured bv the drought, but even with that drawback we can look, for a better yield than for years past. . Judging from the reports in our exwbanges, aod .'.'from visitors who have been here from various parts of the, State during tba paat few days, we can coafidently predict that the general crop of corn in this State will be lurge, aud we doubt not but that the yield will be as fully satisfactory to the producer as that of the" recent wheat harvest. So far as the products of the soil are. concerned, .and tbepros-perity it will bring, the people of Indiana have everything to encourage them. All over the State the husbandmen will be busy for the com-iug week preparing, the soil "for wheat sowing, which in breadth will probably be larger than ever. .' . : , .-'.-' A Horrible Story. We find the following horrible story in the Valparaiso Republican of the 28th ult. If it be true, it betrays an amount of iuhumauity on the part of tbe employees of the road rarely equalled and which cannot be too severely condemned. The Republican, buys: "The freight train of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad, which killed Mr. Butler at this place, on Wednesday evening,; ran over a drunken man on the track, about fourteen miles "west of. here, cutting off both legs one above and the other below the knee. lie was put off from the passenger train coming from Chicago, near-Liverpool, where he belonged, being In a state of intoxiation. He wandered along the track instead of going home, and laid dowu until be was run over, some two hours afterwards. The conductor left hiri at Liverpool, and next morning, when the freight train came out from Chicago, they found him stilt un cared for, lying on the floor, his wound undressed, and while groaning with , pain and begging for water, his wife lay upon the bed in a quiet sleep, and the men at the rtation proceedi ng as li nothing' bad happened, and there was no misery to relieve. In one corner of the room they fdnnd the dog busily engasred with a piece of the limb remaining in the boot. . The men on. the fretjfht train, after threatening the whole town of Liverpool with a lynching, came down here and sent two men to take care of the wounded man. They arrived ou Thursday in time to see bim die." Monument to the Pilgrim Fathers. 'The comer stone of a monument, to be con structed in commemoration of the landing 'of the Pilgrim Fathers of America, was laid with imposing ceremonies at Plymouth, Mass., on Tuesday last. There were several thousand people present. Address were made by Richard Warren, of Boston, President of the Association, under whose auspices the work is undertaken, Gov. Banks, Mr. Burlinggame, Gov. Chase, of Ohio, and others. The day's proceedings closed with a: banquet in a large tent. " Tbe site selected for the monument is very fine. It is to be" erected oh one of the lofty hit's that skirt the village of Plymouth, and from. its prominent post will be visible from all points to persons visiting the first settlement of the Pilgrim Fathers oi" New England. At the same time its site is so commanding that almost all the objects of interest relating to Pilgrim history, and tbe homes of oar Forefathers, cau he readily seen from its base. . m It is estimated that about a quarter of a mil lion of dollars mast be collected to carry oat tbe plan proposed. Of this su mahout $45,000 have already been subscribed. ' ; The Italians. "Malakoff," the able Italian correspondent of tbe Ne York Times, writing from Milan, after describing the coldness with which Napcleon and Victor Emanuel were received on their retarn. from the Mincio, says the feeling of diasatisfao lion and discontent regarding the terms of the peace treaty, are quite general. . 'Rely upon -it, he writes, ."that the heart of the people of Italy are more deeply wounded to-day than lbey were eoder the Austrian oppressions They look forward to worse trials and ' deeper eomplicationa than those thai 'have gone before. The j' bad hoped at last to unite in one kingdom with a con- Mutational government the heretofore divided 1 Bectioas, and thus td coostitaie a' nation strong enough to protect for the future their own inde pendence. Now they see themselves again divided, and what is worse, the Pope, whom they de test, invested with increased power over them. They see nothing before theut but internal dissensions. Oppression, wftr and bloodshed, and the heart of Italy, healed for a day by tLe generous aid of the French army, bleeds "afresh as freely as era tn Use of Balloons in War. We see it stated that the Emperor Napoleon employed the services of M. Godard, the baloon-ist, well known in this county, in making recon-ooissances just before the battle of Solferino.- This is the third time, we believe, that tbe French have applied the art of aerostation to the purposes of war. In 1794, uuderthe order of the lie-publican Directory, a special corps was organized for the purpose of reconnoitering the movemeuta of tbe enemy in the Netherlands. The first accents made ia pursuance of this plan were made at Mauberge and Charleroi; the balloon being manned by two officers, who signalized by (lags or slips of paper their observations to the generals beneath. The French army in Algiers, in 1830, were also prepared for using the same ex pedient, but whether they availed themselves of it we are not informed. " We are not apprised that iu the recent observations with the balloon in It aly the electric telegraph, was used. But it is evident that it would be a signal improvement in that species of reconnoissance, and its practica bility, by mean of wires unrolled from reels and connected with portable batteries at each end appears equally obvious. "Wool Growers' Fair. The Fair of the Wool Growers opened at Cleveland Thursday morning. The object of this fair was stated to be to improve the breeds of sheep abd to promote the interests of wool growers generally. The attendance was very large, and much interest was manifested.' The lie view sa a the whole number of lots of wool on exhibition waa about one' hundred and forty, and the "number of pounds about 000,000. There were a number of fleeces ou exhibition from each of the following States, viz: Kentucky, Michigan, Indiana, New York, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri. There Were also shipment from other States, including Arkansas, which did not arrive in time for the fair. We see that there were 1875 fleeces from Erie county on exhibition The wool growers in attendance met Thursday afternoon for the purpose of organizing a .Wool Grower' Association. Officers were elected aud a committee was appointed to report a code of rules governing the Association. The rules have not jet been published. The fair was a decided huccess, fulfilling more than the expectations of its most ardent friends. A Ctrrions Resurrection -Oasr 7 Tbe Columbus Fact says: A curiousfase oc1 curred last week at Rome, in Franklin county Ohio. Mrs. Peters, wife of a German of that name, after a short illness, was supposed to have died. Her husband made 'immediate '-arrange, ments for her funeral, having procured a colli 11 in this city. On placing her body in tbe coffin a general perspiration was 'observed throughout the skin, which was reported to the husband, with the suggestion that the burial be deferred, in the hope of reanimMion. To this the husband objected, and - had her interred the same day, (Saturday.) s After the burial services were over, some relatives ot the supposed deceased, who reside in this city, tu rived at Rome to attend the funeral, which had already taken place and bearing of the cucumstances, caused the body, which then had been four hours in the grave, to be disinterred, when, to their surprise and joy, they found signs of life still remaining. Restoratives being administered, Mrs. Peters gradually recovered, was taken by her friends to this city, and is now well. We are informed that she refuses to aain live with her husband. The circumstances connected with the affair are strange indeed, arid should undergo investiga lioj. v Death, of Horace Mann. Horace Mann, President of Antioch College, at Yellow Springs, Ohio, died at that place, on Tuesday afternoon. President Mann was a native of Massachusetts. As Superintendent of tbe Common- Schools of that State, he rendered the cause of education great service, aud won for himself a wide reputation. On tbe death , of John Qaincy Adams, Mr. Mann succeeded him in Congresi, and represented the district for two or three terms. In 1854, he accepted a call to the Presidency of Antioch College, w'hich post he has since occupied. Mr. Mann was an earnest friend of human liberty, and devoted himself untiringly to the instruction and moral improvement of the young. Mysterious Disappearance of a Younj Liaay irom oprinneia. . Mis Elmira Benson,' whose father lives a few miles East of Springfield, Ohio, visited that city on Tuesday week, to return-the same eysning to her lathers , and has not since been beard ot. Her disappearance has caused considerable excitement at Springfield, and the citizens held a meeting on Friday at tbe Citv tiall, and appoin ted a committee of citizens from each ward, to make search for her. It is thought that there could be no motive for her disappearance, and that she must have met with foal play. The following 1 a description 01 her person and dress: Elmira Benson was of a medium height, fall face, sallow complexion, and a little past nineteen years of age. When she was last seen, she wore a brown shaker bonnet, trimmed with brown Berage, a brown and white small plaid gingham dress, with a small cape of black network, point in front and on the back. The Wheat Crop. The wheat crop of this country jast harvested, iaset down at 201,000.000 bushels, or about 40,. 000.600 barrels, or ooe and three-fifths of a bar rel of flour for every one of the 25,000,006v of individuals 10 this country. This would not seem to be a great deal more than our own wants would require, and it woalJ not be it we bad not the ether cereals and particularly the great crop of Indian corn to help Out the supply. Ohio has riven a production of 20,000.000 bushels; Peon r'vaaia 25.00O.O00j New York 20,000 OOP; II-lmbia 20,000.000. The New England Sutes bave decreased in their prod action of wheat, but the west basimrreaeed four to ooev .The amount of lanC under wheat cultivation this year is tbir tv-three per cenU greater than in 1S55. " w e fre- queotly hear of a production of thirty-oae bush els to' the acre", but the aetaeJ production per acre does sot average two-lairdsof that amount. Digging Gold from Old Grarea. Later accounts represent that the gold fever at Panama was raging- fearfully. Great nam bers wero leaving for, the Indian burial plaoea atChiriqui; vessels were up to transport thoa who proposed to proceed thither, and tbe wiliest reports of success .were ia circulation. Tb correspondent of tbe Tribune writes "I bar seen at least one hundred pounds weight of thW golden ornaments, some of which, are very ovri-ous. There are about 200 natives of the province at work. Some men have obtained as much as seventy-five pounds weight.! One man dug Seven hcodred dollars out of one grave.-Another found a golden hat or crown, weighing, it is said, thirty fie pounds. " But the image a average only from one ounce to a ponnd and a half, though I saw one of three pounds weight, a very well wrought figure. 9 0isccllani. mmoroiis Learning Grammer. .-Mr. Editor-. 1 bave. been sendin my dater to scool to a scoolmastor in this naberheod. Last Friday I went over to the scool-just to we bow Nancy was getting along, and I sees thing I didn't like by no means. The scoolmaster waa-larnin her things entirely oat of the line of ed-dycation, and as I think improper. I set a while in the scoolhouse and beered one class say their lesson. They was a epellen, and I thot spelletl quite exceedingly. Then cam Nancy' turn to say her lesson. She said it very spry. I was shot! aud determined she should leave tlrat scool. 1 have heered that grammer was an en-common fine study, but I don't want enj mora grammer about my hotxse The , teasooi .that Nancy said was nothing hut the foolisbest kind u v talk, the ridicles luv talk you ever seed. She got up and the first word she sed was I love! I looked rite at her bard for doia so improper, bat bhe weat rite ou aud scd: Thou lovest. " He loves, ' . and I reckon you never beered such a riggermy-role iu your life love, love, love, and nothieg but love. She sud one time, . 1 did love. - SesT, "who did yer lover Then the schol-lers laffed, but I wasn't to be put off, and Ised "who did you Iwve, Nancy? I want to know r who did you love?' Tbo schoolmaster, Mr. Mc-Quillister, put ia and ted he wo a Id explain when Naacy finished the lesson. This sorter pacified me, atd Nance went on with awful love talk. I got wus and wus every word. . She sed I might, could or would love. I stopped her again, and sed I reckon I would see about that, and told her to walk out of that house. The school master tried to interfere, but i"wouldn't let him say a word. He sed I was a fool and I knocked him dowu and tnaJe him boiler in short order. I Uukt tba strata thin him. "I told him I'de show him how baede Urn my dater grammer. I got the nabers together, and we sent Mr. McQuillister off in a hurry, and 1 reckon lhari be no more grammer teecbin in these parts soou. If you know of any rather oldish man in your region that doant teach grammer, we would be-glad if you wool send him up. But "in the footure we will be keerful how we employ men. ' Young school-masters wont do, especially if ther teeches grammer. It is a bad thing for inorils. Yours till death, ' THOMAS JEFFERiON SOLE. Man of Peace. , - Some of. the senior members of the worthy ''Society of Friends commonly called Quakers, who flourished in the generation now. fast fading out, were oftimes witty and waggish, if not sometimes witty and wicked. Friend Zphanlaii I3' d-dack, master and chief owner of thj old whaling brig Grampus, was one of the straite. toot but-tonless and drab-colored models of the sect of passive obedience and non-resistants. Bat hi chief officer, or mato, belonged to the world's " poeple, and despite of frequent remonstrances would persist in the use of profane interjections. . They were cruising near the Western Islands in the spring of 1813, and wishing to escape tb visitation of a long, low, black-sided schooner, Capt. P. desired a couple hands to go aloft to perform some necessary operations open the topsails.: The men said nothing, hut would not budge. Earneet entreaty and quiet rearming could not move the delinquents. At length Zephaniab, turning to the mate, raid, ''Cousin Nathan, thee must talk to them in thy language. Instantly the first officer gave forth a Jl, ith a fearful oatb, "damning their eyes fore and aft. and the men at or.ee sprung to their duty, but too late to fulfill it in such a manner a to effect the desired change of the vessel's coarse. The schooner soon came up wjjhii gan-ibot. Na than, who bad upon the forecastle a favorite old swivel, burdened with a fuur p-ed nail, was desperately preparing to blaze away at random. Bat the master stepped forward and gently re--marked: Matty, if J were going to pnin't that shooting iron, I woold take that craft a little abafi tbe fore chains." J.L waa done, the shoe told, and as the visitors wore off, Zephaniah waved bis band From tbe qaarter-leck, saying. "Fare thee well; bote thee will always strive t be peaceable.- Boston PosL . .' - To Wine . Drinkers. . .' .-Gen. Cary, in the address which be delivered before tbe Son i of Temperance suted that a friend of his while traveling in Paris, thought he would take what was called in that city a wiae bath. He found it to be very rcfresbiog. Ha was waited upon by a colored servant who had fled from the United Slates to avoid the fugitive law. He asked the waiter bow it was that such Urgo quantities' of wine could he used fef sooh ay-purpose. It must be rery expebive,n said ha, . ?"0, aaid the waiter, "the same .wine, which yoa have csad is ran throua all the. baths ia the establishment,- ... . ..'- . . - "And what do yen do wiih, it then?1 said the Wrdast American.- - J ' "' ;'"' 1 x . i.Oywa bottle it rr an4 eecd -tt to the Unite i Sfafcs. jibexajak! r-wTJcist rrrzt