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CAPE MAY COUNTY OCEAN WAVE, CAPE^ISLAND, NEW JERSEY.

CAPE ISLAND N. J. XECUSAT xouzae, maich i, imo. asnx&Joo kkhakmum! s"

Cdttor,

PsbliAhor and Proprietor.

st Cape M»y C. U. Iisre exlended to B«r. not. (iooUeio, wbo ku bees laboring *ith tben for nfere tbso three week* pa* t, a onsnimoa* call to become their pastor; bet whether he will accept ikacall or not is not jet kaowo. hi r. Uoodwin has not I jet signified to the church at this place i bis decisioa in reference to the call which

TEX: - 0CEA5 WAT2- OTTICL, fbX BALD thej receptlj extended So him. It appears THE SUBSCUSER. tb* jn;Mi.htr «ad j that the churches is Cape May do not inI'eweTteiof of tfal* iwfee, Souia; »a»t u. do e evu-, uud to let Mr. U. lease the conotv If they Oaracatatrie^naarvb.hiu^hUbe^M.UOct. ' i , “ 7 ‘ V 7 rtmcaUl to ta. kesltt. -*«tt ta. lor : caD prevent it, hi* ministerial labors being

j highly appreciated.

Their !• yierythlaj eoeaectnl eUhtt atewiiy • ..... - • for a M.u »i aT> aaA Job OtMCB. FOr aa »e- WABHUCOTOH SUrPAE. tlr^ eaeemtsc. praetMl sHaUr, wSo l* mjiaUe«( Hie birthday of WashingU n wai celc-

CAXL TO TKZFAVTOXATZ. j present on account of the whether, i: was The Baptist chorch and congregation announced at the close, that the exercises

j brated at the Tontine House, Ueo. L. Lndj lam proprietor, by a supper giren in the evening. The day was ushered in by the firing of n cannon (a relic of the revolution j at snn*rise. The booming of the tame old piece was beard at noon, and at runletIn front of the bouse, colors were display, ed daring the day. The supper was served np at abont ten o’clock. The table al^ moat groaned under the load of good

things ae profusely provided; and thw Qrammi.r Mamso.—Th« Qearteriy \ Kpknre who could not be eaUtficd with Meeting of the M. K. Church, at thu ‘‘l** «««Sbt to aurve the rest of id ace, will be held n*»t belnrdey eveuiag ] b'» life, wwl tnirer'witEAie gout in Uieb-t •

and hnnday. The Presiding Elder is ex-1 6«n- * pected U be preicnt. j C^aLfOTm””

«rVS C ere happy to inform the cHxens j AgTceabl. to a resoluUbn of the City

r?*wutyac U. mow. lo toolbar •utocrlberVllI atoowtl hit PKIVATK HKSIUEKCK. The cottacw Am tore bull I Ibenil tea >Mn. u la ceod rwwatr. h«Wn«.b.il .lew weefc. aco. barn tAomuctil) rcjHuatrJ, both iMlde e«A nutMAs. II U ptouaatlr totaled, with * lull new -of the aseii.aBbrSlat a acat, Mewraleat hono for

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Tub Laws.—71>e Governor of the Sute having designated the “Ocean Wave,” n« one of the newspapers in which to,publish the laws of the present session of our Legialatare. we expect to commence tbs publication of them next week and to continue them until finished, i hose wishing to prenerve these laws for fotnre reference, will have an opportunity to do so. by terping the Wave an file, daring their publication. WTha series of meeticcs, at the Court House, were to be continued until last Tuesday evening, when it was lo be enounced whether they w*ere to be continued Ion. gwr or not. ia reference to which we have not beca able to learn. Two persons were iseptised last sabbath afternoon^ and wr ore informed Uiat others are entertaining bop*,

and elkers still are tMjeifiag.

gSr^’he next scion of the Cepe May MaMesioai Aseoetation will be b«ld at the Coert House, on Tbonday next, March h. colamer.dug at 7 o'clock in Ibe evening, if

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m the

wortiiy boot. S. B. Wool man. The table was loaded with everything that the heart or stomach of an Epicure could wiib. and much more than was conducive to the health of dispeptics. The supper was ready at six o'clock, when our worthy City Fathers were seated to honor theylay, and do justice to the bduntiful provisions

.spread before them.

Afirrthusupprr was over, and e^rery one had satiated hi. appetite, a vote of thanks lo Mr. Wool man. for the manner in which the eulenaiuiiirnl had U-cn gotten np. and the kind aitrntion abown, was passed, and presented in behalf of the Council, by W. W. Ware Kecp^tbe worthy Clerk, in an appropriate spreeli. which was resp-’Ciinl to a* aopropnatrly by Mr. Woolman. after which Mayor Ware, and J. S. Leach who wr# present a* an invited guest of the Council, bring called npon by a vbU of the Cunocil. made brief speeches, appropriate to the day and the occsuiou, when tbn com-

tueodabie interest in musical improvement. The exercises will be conducted by M r. X.

8. Corson.

Cocbcm. Mgcrffo—Therf was a meeting of the City Geeacil last Monday evening.

SABBATH SCHOOL AXKIVEESATT. Tlie bahbath School conneci«d with the

Melhdbist Kpucopal church at thia place, celebrated the 22d of February, and the six tee ut 3 anniversary of their school, by a

hearty a quorum being »m*nt. Orders public exhibition in the evening of that ww drawn Tor tbo following biOe : ! day. The evening being dark fad etonny. Joo. W. Blake, for keeping city dock, ’ and the walking exceedingly bad. the aaJhAO; Wm. Stile# 6 monlba salary at dionco was necessarily much leas than it

nreasarwr, $2h ; S. B. Woolman, for sop-1 would have Wn under favorable circnm-

per for Council, $IV

Mr. Blake, at his own reipiest. was released from keeping the city clock. Ad-

tomeel next Monday evening. nSJd or FKaaCART.—Oer cltixrns

teem to hare become more patriotic this year than ostial, on the enniverMry of Wothioglen's birthday, at will appear from notices in smother place. The Sabbath School connected with the Methodist Episcopal church paid th«ir respects to the bccasiou, and tbc mar whooe virtues and patriotic deeds gave birth lo the ob»«rvance of the day. by a public exbibitoa in the evening. The City Fatbera also obaerred the day, by a supper, at tha Washlagton Donae; and 'the programme was closed by a public aoppei* at the Tontine

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stance#. Nevertheless, the Urge ebartk was quite well filled, much better than w« anticipated, on so unfavorable an evening. Tbo exercises con*islet! of recitations of single pieces and dialogues, interspersed with singing of a nnmb-r af. sacred ar.d patriotic pieces, both by the school and by

would lie repeated the following Tuesday evening, if tbs weather should prove favorable, and if not, on ibe next favorable

evening.

BILLS AKDEtrPTLnmrrS PASSU). Supplement* to the charter of the Cepe Island Tuippike Company ; The Millville and Ciassboro' Bailroad Company, and the Weel piracy Bail road Company, passed oer Shell-Senate last week, and went to thAssembly for their concurrence. . Wbat the nature of the supplement to the Cape Island TantjAess.xs passed, we are not informed ; hut presume it is to authorise said company to construct a passenger failway on tbe turnpike ;,tbe supplement to the Wes^ Jersey Railroad to diminish their capital, Ac., and tbe supplwmen' to the Millville and lila**boro Bail, road to extend it to Cape Island. The bill to charter th^Cape Island City raasengers Railway, also passed tbe Honse of Assembly. Each of these hills at ill require the concarrence of the oi her branch of the legislature, and Urn signature of the Governor before they become laws; and wbat tlirir final destiny wit! be, yet remains to be seen.

rarOfo i pwa#t Wswu^' . M c. Liu ('ll.—btttr SirIn your paper of the 23rd Inst, you noticed under the fcead of “Out City Election.” what I think every citizen on Cape Island, should read and reflect on, previous to tbe eieetion so

near at hand.

Yon truly remark.—“There are offices to be filled at these elections of importance to the people, if not to the incumbents, in the way of vtnoleiMtils. Among the most important interval at stake, ghat of education, in yonr opinion aland* the most promjnunt. and you alto think it high time the matter

was looked to. *

We have continually before oar eyes, on our sea-girt isle, a standing memorial of tbe importance -of education, taken in its corn prehensile ( £irw ; to convidee ©f which, it is -tfllljr' necessary lo refer lp#tlie last report made by cur school, superi. ten dent who terajdoan the number of children on Cape Island betaWii the age of h and 18, el one hundred and eighty four. Looking at the deficiency of schools unCape Island, would nlmori imply that our sitizrns had entered into a rntsade agaiust schools, and the general education of the rising generation. Thoughts, like my own, would flow natural^ ly into snch a channel of reflection, and so with tuc3 or libera! vducatinu aad pa. triotic leeling. In a word then we hare

HEW JERSEY LEGISLATURE.

Momiav. Feb. 20.

There was not a qoorom present in tbo -work to Ire done by this gen

i j —< m-iiowi «bu - — - — — —a a Mlact company of adolta. The singih^ ^ a P* May; and the supplement for tbo

CATT WARWICKS BODT rOUHD.

Tbe laxly of Cup!. J«4.n Warwick, late master of the achoonee Frank 1>bv, which was wrecked on tbe 111 of February, near Cape Hcnlcpen, wa* round one day lost week, in the woods, about lao miles ‘fieHntw-jrtK* where lire vessel a si tH*o«led. He probably »ewm asho.a.in the bight, and periabad from exhaustion and cold, while seeking for shelter from tbe stormy blast. He had on. * hen found, five shirte and three pair of pan s ; but these probably being thoroughly saturated with water, did not afford an adequate prolcc-

was wall dose, and elicitated the alteaiiou

of the audience.

Among the recitations, ona attracted our especial attentoa and admiration. It was entitled "The Village Gonaip,” and was performed by four young ladies, who acted their parts lo perfection; .and we wished that a very large class of those who pan nnder tbe name and title of hsmao beings, who art evur ready with their tnalicions tattle to do their best to bifst the characters of their follow men, and especially of snch as happen to have the misfortune to be strangers in the community where go slips reside, (and ia whatcommuuity do they not reside?) had been present,to see and hear themselves personified. Tbe piece, and the reniution, was a complete take-off of that datesUtble fl»«# •nupifc.

wb« pride themselves on their riches, or. more properly, on their cpjrearamct of riches, in an outside, fasfalpoahle show, rather lima on their moral and intellectual worth ; and that alill more detestable class bo are ever busy in olaer men's matters. and ready, with their they-nay-sos, to bite

der whoso tongues i* the pollen of asps - -r-> And if there happened to be one of that J - PUforuon. Roiling. Shoemaker, Slaight. das* present, yhoae character was that K«*. T . Vanhorn*. Will*,

•w.-.-..l.j .a- a I "nod—35.

Senate. In the Uousa tbe following bills were introduced. To incorporate the Railroad Bank al Hoboken; sipplemeotto attachment act; farther rapphment to roads; further supplement to Generate Banking Law; autberixiog the granli&g of Lie. nsee to Boar-, ding Honsea for a less term than ©no year. Tvixoat. Feb. 21. Sorarn—Mr. Edmunds presented a memorial from the City Council of Pa|te Island in favor of supplement to Millville and Glaasboro Rcilrosd. Jntroductd.—By Mr. Edmunds, to protect the commerce of tbe Stela ; joint rr«olulion in favor of establishing a government foundry at Kaighn's Point or Trenton, or Florence. . I'ossri/.—Supplement to Ca|>e Island Turnpike; to provide that actimil on justices’ bond* shall be brought witlm: ten tears from date. • Loaf.—'Fbe bill toanthorixe Judges of Court* to *oiemnize marriagr# ; A bill to. authorize the sale of commutation ticheis on Cumdeu and Amboy Railroad from Trvntou lo New York, and the paying of of five per cent, into the Treasury of the, amount received for such ticket*, ia lien of the piesent iraastl duly* Mr. Edmund*. (Commerce and Navigation) reported a bill directing that vessvl# in this Htete?shall be enrolled in tbe district where owners reside; joint resold lotion to eVthblish a national foundry at Trenton Florence, ©r Kaighn’s Point. noi-sit—/alfW«ced^—Supplement to inns and Uveras. J’atuU.—Tbe supplement to the general banking law; to secure to workmen on railroads their wages ; to Incorporate Cape Island Horse Passenger Railway ; sup. to sheep law. A WnsviatOAT, Feb. 22. Sbbatx-—/’aord.—Supplement to West Jersey Railroad , bill for the relief of

Mary Hand.

Housk.—Tbe bill relative to fishing in

more easy foreclosure of mortgag s, were

ordered te a third reading.

TncaaDAT, Feb. 2$.

Sr*at*.—Mr. Edmonds geve notice bf a bill to regulate tbe length of*soine* axed in Ixierer Township, Cape May,Co. Joint Resolutions requesting Congress to establish a National Foundry at Trenton, or Floraece, or Beverly, or Kalgbs’s Point on the Delaware, were ordered to a

third reading.

HornL—Ebe Committee or Corporations reported the sup. to West R. R. Company, and the sop. to Cape Island

Turnpike.

Introduced.—Bill to charter Egg Harbor bank ; np. to small canse act. Tbe supplement to the Coctral Railroad authorizing extension to Bndeon river, wee

token np, and elicited considrreble warm drtyrie. The vote being taken cn the

final passage, resulted as follows

Yea*--Abbot. Applegate, Arrowsmlth, * • Banghart. Bennett, Barcroft, Cole, Cooley. c ^ or * Croxer Decker. Ifonson, Dobbin*. Drake, Graham, Haberroayor. Hopper, Horton, Ivins, Lanaleru, Mackerley. Man*, Mount, Mulford. A. D. Patterson, Peckbam. Pope,

The teteiain* were t

proprm laid out, and envfosed iu a suitebie cottn. aad. ou Monday Iasi, brought to ikt# place by the pflot boat Herald, and

coBVwMrf to tbe aflUcled relatives at Den- _ ,

1, .ill mi b. . ,.iu. ” l °)>- U "/ u » «<»4 fof-j K.J*—Ajtw, B,!i. IlotJ. Emumm. a> >dH » lt “ ■»•»« k-ld I B«TO. Bnrt.rl.or, C«t.f. tlimm. U. f ,

cratioii, to train up that a Inch is to sne cecd ; let the fault be where it ufll, tlie friends of liducatu n should not look on with indifference, or permit another year to roll on without 'redressing the wrongs that hare been suffered for tbe want of schools on Cape Island. If the system of public schools, for which si! are taxed, cannot be maintained, let it not be said ol onr citizens, that tbe door of tb»«r charity should bo shut against any call of rantribt ion larger than $370 dollars, which, as near as 1 can find, was the aggropatc of the school fond al Cape Island in itiiH. No better ev(denc-' can be ofiefeJ «-f pasl^ delects in our school sy tern and its ptanageiaeul, than tb« abstracts 1 will bfu< introduce from the Buprriutetxlenl'* last rlport. “Our schools do not comr op to a satisfactory standard, r.or ©ever will, anti! Mgreater interest i* taken for tbe adcanOMent.'' “Trustee* are not always careful e'nougo in selecting teachers of sufheien cumpetracy. bum«.-mptoy those whom they can.get the cheapest, and with the l*-a*i I rouble.” “Sonic of our obi iclroul Louses arc too small and inconvenient.” May rot mu! rnst soon (utith them, that they tnxv give place for larger and belter ono*. wed may every school be uugfat by u good teacber.

with as assistant.”

Bach -h pktsre, and coming from a source, that is undoubtedly familiar wiib tbu existing defvets. and preignted with an honest purport;, demandt mere tbun Ordinary intenst to be tabea. to wipe out the blot, thus cast a pom a matter of so murh importance, a# the functionaries who bare heretofore wielded the power of TegnlsUng tbo sistrai of educating the rising generation. Education may safely bo sal down as the safe guard of III*, guarding our bberliet, giving space and liberty to all lh* fine powers of man. and lilting kirn up to Ids own place in. lb* order of-Croatian. A ratCMi ro Edccatiox FOREIGN tBTELLIOEHCZ. By the arrival of tha steamship Europe at Halifax, w* bave- news from Europe one

week later.

In the Rritivli '’arliament tbe aanaal budget bad been introduced and showed tbe financial result wl the year to b* eminently SalUtaclorv. It wa# estimated that tbe expenditure* next year wilt be a«v«'>ijmillions steriiiigi and the receipts sixty and three-quarter millions. The deficiency is to be made op by oa income lax. • There will be a rede cl to u ol the customs duties between England and France by

treaty.

Tbe French troops in Italy have received orders to prepare to march at a day’s

notice.

It was supposed that the occupation of Toscany wav coaiemplated. in cat* IVdmooi continue-* lo oppose tbe annexation of Savoy to Fran©*. Auiina reject* the English proposals for the aettlemeM of tha ItaUsm question.

_ Got Oft.—Tb* schooner James Nell ton (incorrectly repain*J~Jat£ds~Ffct)BirlB tb« last Wav*.) which was ashore near tha Steamboat Landing, has been got off. Fart of her cargo was discharged, her ancarried off, and at high water the T*s#el went off with but liltl* difficulty.

wfikuefts. to bw able to cuusign tbe r»-1 np before them. m4»9» of tUir fo«wd on* lo Ucir iaat rrat- . Miuy «r lbo««

tog |4e«, i» a Mutable tcajmr

Hale. Ua«. Llppincolt. Maybww. McOrack-

to have taken • *n, McNinney, Reeve*, burr, blokes,

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^ pan in the exhtbiUou not being able to be j Tec**, Waldron. Wheeler—21.

HTOfficial IcformLien has been received at Washingtoa that lb* Navajo Indians have commenced war in earnest upon oer duteiiA, snd npon the Mexicans along the Rio Grande, bnperlntendenl Collins says that war with the tribe is now inevitable. CrThe Legislature of Alabama has passed a biQ excmpiikull goods from taxation imported al suetbeBi jxjn*. and sold ia Al-

•buns.

dTPoriovco »v Hrxtcinsu* WiuXxr.— Nicholas Spencer aad bis wifo. both colored, were poisoned ia Steubenville, Ohio. week before last, by drinking strychnin* whisky—the husband dying within half «a hour after taking tbe fatal dose, end tbe wife *affarlne so much al tbe time the letter wai written to tbe PltUburg Chronielu that her death was momentarily expected. The partiee, it seem*, procured a buttle of whisky at a tavern in town, which, it is •a d was heavily charged with strychnine. Both partook of. it. and both became alarmingly 111 immediately afteyrards, with what mult weJ:ag* stated. t$~In Qiiuflaoati it has been decided thiit lb* colored peugle are entitled to vide in the city cars. The caae arose from tbe ejectment of a negro woman from tbeeiu*.^ The judge said that matter what ebsa or color, so that the person behave properly, and is not afflicted with*anj infections disease, the company, as a common carrier, ha* no legal right to prevent him or her riding, and that tbe daciticu was fosadod upon the law of tie rail.'* CdfTfor Executive Committee <d the State Agricultural Society mat at Treatoa on Wrdnesday. The time for holding the next Fair wa* fixed for 4th ta 8th September : for the place of holding It. proposals will 1x> -received by the Srcratery. Mr. Force, al Trenton, till March ISlh. 9FWnoucoAur Fmsosuo.— a t Foo da l^ic. Wi*.. one hundred and fifty persons aero lately attacked with the bvwrl and stomach complaint, and poison was detected. It tamed out that a miller had been in thu practice, whm bis millstone groves wero^oo deep, of j utting in a propaialiofo of white lead, and thi* getting into tbe (four poisoned the whole neighborhood. EfSisjLUxa a Cojtiti'Mox Skbviiil—A sscnUgions wretch entered [ho Presbyterran Cbnrch in Alula, Illinois, some days ago,and stole the entire communion plate, which was very valuable. •iTTue Canadian i’nal. Otfice d-ipartmen s ba* recently adbpted tbe system of * temped envelopes which has bees in this country for severs! year*. Thu Canadian enveloie* aro impressed with a medallion bearing an effigy of Queen Victoria. Tea stamps are of different color*, devignstir.g their vain*. Tho*c ©f the valac of fire and ten cents only are a* yet issued These are for aalu at all tbe Canadian post

others,

tfovl’rof. Lorering, of Boston, in one of bis late as'rononrical lecture# beforo the Dowell Institute, s#ij that tbe great comet of IMG. which caused the abdication of Charles V of Hpain, Is confidently axpec ted In reappear during the present year, and French asironniaen are even nouf on the look oat for It. If no ereor has beet* made in the revised calculation, it will probably 1m seen from ibis planet during the fall of 1M0. ®rTho Hiames* Twins arc still livin; in Surrey qountj. NerlhCarolina. Ala lata revival the wifo of Chang was baptized. Chang and king seemed to be much cm* earned for themselves, and requested an interest in the prayer* of the minuter. <P*Tlie Philadelphia North American has been figuring over tbs population of New Jersey, and makes out that there has been an inerrare in tbe State since 1HS0 of 22 per cent., and put# down tlie population at 656.000. . . ' «-T.o of Hoe's rooster printing machines were sent out by tbe City of Manchester steamer to England. This is a decided compliment to American skill in mechanism. (9*IxrtA* Rucrnaic—One ©f the Penobscot Indians recently appealed lo th» Mains Legislature to build hii tribe a new scboolbcasc, and thus figuratively desert, ed the old one : “Tbe bnildiag he* become bald with age, and weeps cow, within and without, in every rain, and is as ragged k tattered as a dead poplar in tbo woods.'* trTbe Committee on Education of the Presbyterian Synod of New York snd New Jersey, call for paenniery aid for tbe ministerial educaUou of slaty young men, most of whom are ittbe Union Theological Seminary. 0* Advice from Tampico to.the 13th inn era received by ray nf Nc^Orieans Tho Liberal General*. Huxa Msgaaad Caravajal wee* matching to intercept Mirampn'a expedition against Vera Crur.- Genfs Morela afld Alveras were muiching epoe tie capHal wiib 9,500 men. General 1'vgolUdo was confident of defoatiug Mirimon. and bad gone to Puebla to direct the moremsat of tha Liberal*. Tbe wifoef Miramon go*# with her ho*baud on bis Vera Crux expedition. In *be event of hi* failure, it is supposed that be will quit Mexico.

S ■Information 1

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- —isgtoe that a party of Navjo Indian# lately attacked a party* of eighty soldiers near Fort Defiance. Mled four ef them, and wonnded ctberi, aad drove away seme of the wicks aad oxce befotging U tbs

tort.