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CAPE ISLAND. CAPE MAY COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 27. 186b.

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®he J? act's Corner. THE BOAT OF FIFE. Let*' t*k« Uiln wand u him wide soeae. Through which, In frail bat buoyant boat, Toactber 1 and thou mutt float | BsboMlofl oft, on either a .ore. Bright apple where wr ahonld lore toaUy, Bat tune pure a wilt hit By In* oar, And an we aperd— away , away. Should chilli ox wlnda and ralna come on, We'll ralae our awntof Hraieat the shower— Sit eloaer till the atorm La fotw. And aniline wait a aunnler hour. And If that aunnler hour ahould ahlne. We'll know Ita brlghtsess cannot etay. And, happy while 'tie thine and nunc. Coat plain not when It fadre away. Thua reach we both, at laat, that fall. Down which llle'e curienta all mustjjo— , . The dark, the brUllant, destined all To atnk into the rold below i •' Nor e'on that hour ehall w ant lt» ehama, II ehte by aide atlU fond we keep. And calmly In each other's arm., Toe*hcr linked, (o down th' ateep. THERE AKE NO DEAD. at cm t» itnoi. There it no dSUth ! The atare jt> down To rtaa upon aoaic fairer ahuie t And bftflht In Heaven's Jewehd crown They ahuie for at . nnorei There la no death I An anfrl form Walke o'er the earth with ellrut tread, He hoare our heart-loved Udnce away, And lhan we call Ihcm "dead." Bora into that uodylog Ufe, They leave ua but lo come tpafn. ' With Joy we welcome ihcm-lhe aame, Kserj.1 in tin and pain. And ever near ua, though unaern. The dear Immortal eplrite tread, For all the hounoltaa Loners* la life— Ihnre art no dead. § rlcct gUaditig.

SACRIFICED, W» sire them lo lhe camp, the Held, The dearcat thli** of Ilia we jtUd, Noe fniilfla the aacrlllc* I Take one. take all, O lcnte.1 plain, O balllc-fleld, where deadly rain Of ball and hullrl fl.ee. The loved heart, the cturdy frame We venture i but lAr rlren, yood nawe, "0 1 Matny, i*«ps has come, papa bse «ome!"shooted little Harold Jamee, spring- . lag lo meal hla aiater, an eh# reloraed from afternoon achool. "Hat b«!" dried Man', ber gentle fact, lighting ap with joy. "0 1 how %Ud. I am ha waa oot killed,— and now 1 (ball have piy riog," and the followed, with flying feet, bar littlo brother into the booee. Her overflowing joy waa eotnawhat damped at fight of th« red- faced floldiar, who, clad io won and dirty clothes, flat in the corner of the room, smoking ao old black pipe. Bat he took the pipe out of hi* mouth and held oat hi* haad to ber with a (mile, and after a hesitating look toward! her mother, who nodded to her to go on, She drew near to the man nod ktwed him. "Yoa have almoflt forgotten yoor father, child," be »aid. Mary bloihed, but made no aaiwer. Her rather bad been the hero of ber daily and heraightly drwam*. She remembered bun aa one who had alwayt beeo kind In bar, and who bad seemed to ber childiflb eye* aa the ▼try pattern of all that waa aobfe and manly. Bhfl could not qaile roeoocilo hie prefleet appaaranca with bpr memorial and her dream*. She bad an iofltiactiea feci in.', too, that ber mother was disappointed and grieved, for what, she could out have told. Something wafl wroog, nod little Mary'* heart tank heavily, while even merry Herdld*i »oog wa» (tilled. Hifl flonny face became vary gtawa, and retiring to a comer bo flat down, and leaoing hie early bead •gainit the wall, applied himself to his eeer-preeeot comforter— hia ibumb— and remained silently aucking it for a long time. "Mamma," laid Mary, when ibe bad •aid ber prayer that night, and ber mother was about leaving her to her alrep, "we oipectod to be very, very happy when papa come home ; hot we »re not, are treT" ' "Do not talk flo, my love," eaid her mo'har, gently. "Yonr papa ia very tired. He baa traveled far, and bad a very bard I time. To-morrow, he will feel batter, and ao, 1 hope, afaall we all." Ae the mother turned away, tears rolled from her eyes to the floor. Ah 1 wbea something is wrong with or in a friend bow long can a true and loving heart be deceived. When the war broke out and Leonard Janjea frit it hia doty tn go, hia wife tried oot to oppoee him. She gave him up io ber coeutry, (arrowing and fearing moat of all that he was not a Christian. But aba commitisdliim into the band, of God, boleiving that He bed power to keep bar husband aa aafely an the battleHeld id at home. Leonard bad been abeent three years sad a hair, and hod aeot home liule money, and hod written uofreqoently. Whevevrr be did write, be made eo many plaaaihle escaaea foe his neglect that Mary hoped tbroogb (ill, that it was bis misfortune aad not bit fault which caused it. But ber heart miagave ber. She reaaoied beaeely againat ber heart. A lea! it waa traar lhan her head— as heatU are apt to be.

Poverty had come npon boa. She had •treggled hard with want and ill health— " hot »he vfoqld not allow herself to blume l.-nn»riL By-and-bv he would return, end 'ken all woold be right. She talked tnncb of their "dear papa" lo her children, teach ing them to remember end love him, and tp Ling for hit return. He bad writteo that he would certainly bring Mary a ring wbeo be came, and ihia gave the dear child great pleasure. She talked of it almott daily, lo her mother, her brother and h r achoolinatea. O ! how happy ebe wan lo be when her papa came borne from tbe w.r and brought her that beautiful ring. Well, be waa borne from the war hut (be had no beautiful ring, and ahe waa oot happy. Poor little lite ! shadowed before it we* fairly begun. The d»y after Leonard's return, when he ' bad, (Her much entreaty from hia wife, bathed and changed hi* garments, he revoied rather more like him. .-If, He talked pleasantly, and played with the children. He assisted hi. wife about ber work, but not yet bed he mentionsd a word eboul any money. He took out hi* watch and hung it in its old place near tbs window, saying, | '"Til almott dinner time, wife. What are you going lo give o» lo eal ?" "Wo never have duin.-rV, pa," said Mary who had not gone to school that forenoon. She bad tried bravely to keep back (be tears when her father told her he had lost her ring, with his carpet suck, on hi* way home, and bed almost forgotten it in her enjoyment of her lather's stories of bis ad"Why don't yon have dinner*!" he asked, "Because ma is so poor she can't buy any," wan tbe reply. At this Leonard rose, took down hia •aleh, end went out Mary and ber mother hoped H waa to buy some loud. Hut the day wore on and he did nut return; night ^came; but nohushand.no father. With a heavy, heavy heart the mother prepared what she bad in the bno-e for sapper, end she end the children ate, "We hsve to stop eeting before we are done, because there it no more food," remarked Mary, when the last bit of "bread " bad vaoiahed from tbe table. ^Iiis waa as ■ nesr lo a complaint as eithsr of tfivschildren . j ever got. They understood loo well and i sympai hired loo deeply with their mother's , feelings to complain. They knew that she , ; did for them all she could, i The mo her, Lo nervous to sit alone, , kept the children both up eith her to wait j for her husband's return. Harry could not keep awake, but Mary, feeling that things t were very wroog, scarce touk her eye* from , her mother'* pal* face. g About eight o'clock there came a pound- I j ing, and stamping, and shuffling at the cot- ' f j tags door, and presently Leonard came i b j staggering and limping in. hia hair all dast j a | and sticks, and bit face red and swollen, j He tumbled through the uU ing. room into ; i. the b«d-ruom, kicked and Bung olf bis , clothes and rolled ioto bed. And the poor wife rat yet in her chair, r trying lo die; hut tbs could out. Ah! no, 1 one cannot die when one would. Death t* * coy; it aver flies from those who seek it, it ; i delights only to take away those who love | e and cliog to lib. i. "Mamma," aald little Mary, "I want to ' i. aee my papa. May 1 go and tee what ail* r him!" "Husb, child," aaid the mother, harsh ' d ia her bitter eog iah, "you lore no papa." j L The poor little one, strickeo into silence s eat grave as a hopeless woman, by her mor- tber's aid*. There waa no weepiog ; the trouble waa | r 100 deep for tear*. Th* wife sal motion- ' J leu* till tbe midnight boar waa struck, and s the child, overcome at laat by sleep, slid d softly to th* floor." g As it drew near to one o'clock, groans from tbd bed-room called. Mrs. James io. d Iwooard was choking, and in great pain r with hi* fool. 11* bad sprainad it badly, e Lifting hi* coat and veet, bis wife found a the watch wa- gone. "Yon have pawoed it; bat not for food r for yonr wife and children," (he said. Me I. ' answered with enraes. J j What need to tell more of tbti story? d The and w* cannot tell. It is not yet. For this is na fancy akstch. It it, one of the d many over true tales of wo* and sngaisb thai most go to make nptthe annals of the „ war. l.eon*rd is but one of those that are -„- sacrificed, soul and body, in tbia dreadful * strife. Hifl wib and little ones are not tbe o only mourner* over infinitely worae than tbe e .lain. d Let not lb* chartity and tbe sympathy i. that ia awAibarallv extended U> the soldier la sad to fM aoldier'a widow forget the vieo time of th* returned soldier who hat cum* »- back a drunkard and a living enrae. The it wife abd th* children of auob men are tbe ie greatest sufferer* of the war. Their very y. all ha* been taken. Tbe sturdy frame, the y loyal heart, the good name and lb* eoal of ry htm they leaned on— all, all ar* aac rifled, r- Are they not paupers and desolate ? There i* ae agony like that of seeing a beloved' a- friend going sorely to destruction by hi* own voluntary sin, and there ia no poverty pi so miserable as that of thoeo who are thrast into It by the band that should lift tbeta ap.

I Our Philadelphia D ork-Rot. Pftii.aBKM'BU, Se'pt. 18th, 1866. ' l'car Way*:— Kain. rain, rain! Joet ' now wr are having all the delightful variations of a fall equiooxr-proetrating wind* — ite uging waters tod dampened rpi ilt per- '' vade alike both soul end stomach. Our arwspeper literal ore ber* is delight * ful lo peruse at present. All politic*!— ' Prominent men c°*ll each olher, thieves, 0 liaf* and cowards, with the* coolest sang j froxd. The past livas of all political a*pij ranis undergo rigid scrutiny ; and th* newspaper* daily relate, how often Mr. Blank ravaged the auger bowl, and played truant ! from school ; while Mr. Blank's political j ' defender* retaliate, by letting how .often 1 Mr. Nameless (Blank's opponent.) violated j tji* sanctity of neighboring hen-roosts, and ' : weal gunning with wicked buys ou Sunday. ' Is'* sad but true, that we Haven't a res- » pectablg psrti.sn sheet in Philadelphia. ■ They alUflpulge io bad metaphors aud 9 scurnlytis aTTuse of their opponents. r The*pnl<lical campaign, being just begun, I has elicited upthing new since my last |rl- > ' ter. Tbe red hand of murder hss again p - appeared among us. Two young German ; brother* becoming mutually enamoured of L a fair young "fr*«i" one, to e*d all rivalry. lovingly plunges a oine-rnch dirk in hi* i brother's breast ; and, as a uatural 'consequence, the victim now lies in our hospital , in a dying condition, while the assa**in, i renounced by tbe lady, meditate* upon things iu general, within a dark and fulsome r dungeon. ' "Such i- life !'" Then again, we have' bad a water-spout j or bursting of a ruin-cloud willu^ur city. Io B Teen minutes water fell to an average r depth of three niches iu the streets — deluging reslaurgnt*, cellars and everything else. ■ In one instance in the lower recti<-a of the city", a basement kitchen filled so fast that a mother wa* ouabl* to rescue her babyi twin, who were asleep in the cradle. Her i criea attracted a policeman, who, unable i ' to get iu tie cellar, lemovrd a portion of j the flooring in the first stoty, and there, - right where he lifUd the bourd*, Busted . tbe cradle, with the little innocent* sluep- | -'lug, slightly d*mp, and aucking each other* , thumbs. The mother liked to have kissed , them to death. I In my lien I will give the ladies a hint i »* lo the Tall and winter fashion* ; were I i to do *o- tbia'Wvck, the city milliner* and | dressmaker* would gorrolte me on tbe first , opportunity. I Th# theaters' are all doing well. Mr*. Bower* at the Walnut, and Edwin Adams , at the Arch; and tbe Chestnut St., under I , I the able management of Win. E. Sinn, is ; j crowded to repletion, nightlyr Railroad stocks and gold still command j good premiums. Oil certificates and city , | 6'* are worth "nix." It is cooler her* . i ban it has beeo ; business is brisk, ond if I 1 am not, this letter will miss the mail, ao, " , ' with love to the ladies, 'good bye' for a , week. Truly, Rst.rH Rustic. Dlaeahr* of Advanced Eire. lir. Hay, in hi* excellent treatise on the "Diflaaae of advanced life," points out the ' cause of thi- difference between the *<-xe». ' ; We cannot in a non-professional poblica- ' tion explain these in the language ol the writer, "but suffice it that women, after a ' ' certain time of life, attain, as it were, a ' j state of equilibrium, and gcneially fiud j themselves better then in the earlier period* ' i of their adult aud middle ages. Their oervou* system ioaae tbd irratability which ' | it preeiou-ly exhibited, and with advancing ' | years become* more fixed and uniform io ! its action, lo tbe male aex tbe opposite 1 ; bold* good. Tbe ebauges occurring iu advanced life tend to keep ap a degree of 1 morbid excitement that li in itself almott a disease, aud is most prejudicial to tbe well being of tbe.tDdividual. "1 am io- ' clioed to lyelieve," adds tbe doctor, "that ; 1* incoieeq ounce of thi* difference in the | ' euoditioa'of the sexes io old age, that we ' so much more frequently see C*l old^womeo than lal old men." ' It i« evident that Dr. Hay agree* with tbd popular view of the ' subject io looking upon a moderate amount ' of tat as a sign of health, well being.-and longevity, and the physical consideration ' of tha subject bears oot this opinion. Fat ' ie, indeed, more or lea* essential, to modsr- ' atiou, to healthy life, from infancy to old ' age, most to infancy and old age. r . .i . i — He who, by bis conduct, make* good I Iriv ni. ou the one band, and bitter hater* , ou tbk-ofber, gives etideuce that th*r V is c something of lb* bold, independent, Jbp. right man in bis composition ; while the r cbtcken-hrarted, imbecile character b capr able of making neither friends nor foes. — The Chinese ar* queer people to go to " market. A geotlewiau at Canton writes " that a neighbor of bis bat got to hit wio- ' ter's provisions— a quarter of a horse and I two barrels ot bulldogs! • . ,r LoywoYbby. — "Obmoth*r"satdavery I- little child. "Mr. t> does love Aunt wLuc> — lie sits by b*c and bugs her," ^ "Why, Edward, yOur aunt doe* Dot aof- '» fer that, does shef \ y "Buffer it ! yes, mot»r— she Imstt iu" it >. — Men of straw — nuot-julct drinkers

Sayings of Josh Billings. I think afier all, tbe injun-robber kind - t ov virtue, that will bend aud stretch, jist a 1 little, anitfhen fli right back tairita place, , is safer Ibao ixikle virtue, that ig pretty! sure lew melt, unlets you keep it on the north tide ov the bern awl th# time, and j when it once melts that is lbs ta*t or it. ! The man who kan walk out wheo the ' month of May bat on her summer clothe*. r without singing a nn song at every strp, j wouldn't be ov enny more ns'e in heaven j than a spare pomp would be on erlb. ( Men differ jist abuut as much io their • j judgment as tbey do io their pashon*. I j Aim hi young man— trackshuneov gravi. • t | tasbun will fetch yu down fast eouff. I I The more barbarous a people are. the I | more austear they are iu religious rues — ! relneiuent seems to change venrasbuu into ' _ ! familiarity, and familiarity will git tbe ; screw* loose, in any man's machine. j I { It n quires a grate dele or native taleol • i tew tril the truth. ! Men owe as mulch ov their suckset tew ^ aeksidrni ax they dew tew design, but tbey ! jfluan't forgit that acksidents dou't bap'peo | ' only lo ibo-e who are continually in Ihedef signing bizzinr** — lightning donl go outov ! ; iu way lo bit eony body a lick. , The buty ov many ov the sermons that ! fx preached, consist* io their grate length, I for If it want for their length, their wouldn't - . be much ov thuin. : j I would like lew have the world batter i t i nature it, i wouldn't make it enny wiser if . ! i could, it is full ov jure and trouble now, ! aud they are ooly other names fur wisdom , KUiiigle* it e it tiered Fire-Proof. ' ' Mr. John Mear say*, in the Boston -Cultivator, that he has prepared shingle* in ! the following manner, and after ao experience of elevrti year*, and nsing seven Ibrges in bis blacksmith's shop, lie bus • ' never seen a shingle nn fire, nor ha* a nail [ Started. Th* shingles are prepared thus : ri "Having a large trough, I put into it a j bushel of quirk-lime, half a hu'liel of refuse i salt end Ave or six pounds of pota'h, add- j | ing water to slack the lima and dissolve | : tbe vegetable alkali aod the salt—well knowing that piece* of ao old lime-pit, a 1 soap barrel, or a pork tub were not the best kindling stuff, and having long since learned ! -j whifft at the Vineyard Sound, that hot salt water whitewash would endure f»r longer ■ than Hal made with fresh water, absorb. I ing moisture, striking into the wood, and | not po.ling and Washing off. I set the j | I handler of *)iinglo* nearly to the bands, in , j the wa-h Tor two boor* ; then turned tbem j | end for end. When laid on the roof and j walls, they were bruahvd over twice with j | the liquid, and were brushed over at inter- ! , j vale of two' or three yeere after." Making Short Hater-Proof. ' A writer in the Mechanic*' Magazine, who says he baa had three pairs of hoots last him six years, and thinks ha will not require any more for six yeara to come, : tells haw h* treat* them. "I put a pound j f each o' tallow und resin io a pot on the fire ; i ( when melted and mixed applv it hot to the boot with a painter's bmsh nntil neither j the sole or the opper will r oak any more. ( j Iflt is desired that the boot* ahould imme- | i diately take a polish, dissolve ao ounce of | wax in a teospoonful of turpentine and I lampblack. A day or two after the boot* j | have been !reale<i with the resin and tal- j low, rub over them this wax and tmpeh- i | tine, but not before the fire. Thus the ex- i terior will have a coat of wax tlnno, and shine like a mirror. ' Tallow and grease become- rancid and rot the atitcbing or Ualher; but the resin gives it an antiaep- ^ tic quality which preserves the whole." — A correspondent of the Bnatoe Transcript tells tbe following story : A worthy ^ woman lost ber worthy hnsbaod. Io tbe ^ midst of b*r grief she was aoxioos that his remain* should be duly honored according to the "proprieliea." She did the best ahe could with ber contracted premises to | make th* needed room. Before the ho r , appointed for If* services or the expected J frien is and relative# arrived, in came snoffy ^ Mrs. Granny on a preliminary call of corit osity and inquisition. "L«w* me!" sb* exclaimed tbroogb her oasal organ, a* she j peered about, "how nice you do look. All fixed op for th* fooeral, very smart indeed. Borrowed some cheers, didn't ye? Bless I tne, got* new clock, too, since I was h*r« i last, there io tbs coroar, haint ye?" "Ob i no! oh no!" rocked oat aod groaned out ■ the disconsolate widow, "that'* — my — poor I — dear — dead — hohand. We had— to — , stand — bis— coffin — ap — on — end -to- -make — room — enough — for — the company— oh ! oh I" i - » . l — Yonng ladies are often asked why . they blosh so wheo spokeo to abont their | lovers, but they seldom are able to giro a satisfactory answer. Taking pit$ on their basbfalneas, a writer io tba American MtdiF eal Gazette furnishes the following locid t explanation of the beautiful phenomenon : "Tbe miud communicates with the central ganglion, tbe latter, by reflex notion tbroogb the brain and facial nerve, to tbe organic nerve* in tho race, with which it braoi bet inosculate." Tbe tnyalery is now perfectly clear.

Rr Your Own Right Hand Mnit> I ! People who have been bolstered up and : i ] levered all their lives, are seldom good for ! , anything in a crisis. Wheo misfortune j r' comes, they look around for something to ^ ■ cling to or leau upon. If th* prop is not I j there, dowu tbey go. i Once down, they are as belplrss as cap- i • j nixed turtles or unhorsed ineo in armor, < i j and^caooot Bud their feel again without 1 i j assistance. i tiuch silken fellows no more resemble j self uia-la men, who have fought tbeir way i ■ ' to positron, making difficulties .their step- ' ' pmg stones, abd -deriving determination . , from defeat, than vine* resemble oaks, or ! | spluttering rush-tights tbs stars of Hesveo. I i Efforts persisted to to achievement* train man to self reliance, and when he has i proved to tbe world tbet he can trust him- ■ i self, the world will trust him. | We say, therefore, that it ia otherwise ] , lo deprive young mro of the advantages | which result from tbeir energetic action, i I by "bvuatiug" tbem over obstacles whiCb ! | they ought to surmount'alone. Willing to Pay Damages- , j A good story 1* told of e railroad ecci- ! j dent on the New Lontfon railroad, which j I bed rather * Indicrous endiog. A halT Idloxicaled Irishman was sitting on the rail, Lwl,eo the engine from the train to Norwich j j struck liiiu u der Ibe haunches and tossed j htm down the embankment. The train w.s f slopped and lamed buck lo pick op the j I deed body. Paddy was fouod alive, how. j | ever, only somewhat bruised, and taken to j ' Norwich. Here ibe conductor kindly of. \ fered to send the man to bis home, a few ■ miles away, io a hack, but Paddy ioaiited i on hi* abdily to walk, aud refuted to be sent home iu a "kerfldgr. " The coodoci tor pressed the matter, when the Milesian, I who hsd stood tbe bailiDg of the cow- j I catcher so well, bristled up w th: "Go : uway wid y«r kerri.lge. I'll go borne by i myself— on' ii I've done any damage lo yqi i olll'l ingine, hedad I'll pay if oa tbe spot." ■ j — Hartford I'rtst. \ I Ilia A .Dark. The mark which persons who are unable > I lo «ril* are required to make, instead of ! I ! ibsvir signature, it io ibe form of a cross ; , ' and this practice having formerly been n|. lowed by kiogs aod nobles, is oonsiamly referred to as an instance of lb# deplorable ignorance of ancteol times. Tbe signature ! is not, however, invariably a proof of sucti j ignorance. Anciently, the use of this mark was not eoofined lo illiterate peraous; for, | ! amongst tbe Baxons, tbe mark ol the cross as an atiestsltoo ol the good feitb of tbe | | persoossigoing, Was required to be allapbed J . to the signature of those who could write, . as well as to stand tn tbe place or the *igj nature of those who could not write. Io j thfase times, if a mao could write, or even ' I read, his knowledge was considered proof j i P'eaumtive thai be waa in holy orders. The j j word clerical, or c.'eri-, was eynonyinous I with penman ; aod the laity, or people who i j were uot clerks, did not feel aoy orgeot ue1 ; cessity for Ibe use of letters. The ancient ; use of tbe cross was, therefore, universal, alike by those who could, and those who J ■ could not writ# ; it was, indeed, the aymr bol of eu oath, from iu holy associations, I and generally tbe mark. On this account, i | the editor ol the "Pictorial Bhakspeare" ■ I explain* tbe expression of "God save the | ' mark," as a fonn of ejaculation approacb- - log to the Iberacter of ao oaib. ( — Skntimkjital Akitiiuetio.— Calculate that : - glances— make one look. 2 looks— make ooe sigh. 4 sighs— make ooe waltx. 3 waltzes — make ooe palpitate. . 2 palpitations— make ooe ckll. , 2 cells— make ooe attention. , If attention* — make one fool, [some two.J , 2 fools— make one flirlatioo. t 1 flirtation pins 2 boqoet* equal to I en- , gageuieot, equal tb 1 marriage r —The newest thing oat is "plumpers" • for hollow cheeked damsels. The plumper f is made of porcelain, pear aheped io form, • flat on ooe side aod bulgiog oot oo the • other, and fit* on the inside' of tbe mouth. ' Our Jersey girls don't need the ' plumper" 1 —they have "cheek" oooogb already. , — When the cold wind blows, take care , of yonr oose, that it don't get froze, and j wrap up your toes iu warm woolen hose. , Tn* above, we suppose, waa written in r prose, by some oo* who knows tbe effects . of cold soowt. Witty ltrroav.— "Will yon give me that ring?" said a village daudy to a lady, "for it resemble* my love for you ; it lias oo f end." "Excuse me, eir," was ibe reply, ' "1 choose lo keep it, as being emblematix eel of mio* for you ; it baa no beginning." — "Siv." asked a oewly-fledged lrgislai tor of afalluw paseenger oo tb* Hudson : River Railroad, "are you going to tha Le- ■ gisiaiure t" "No, Ulaok God ! oot ao bad a a* that. I'm going to the Slate Prison 1" — t — He is tb* great* t mao whose strength | V carne* np the moat hearts by the atliacuoa , of hie o*o. - 1

. | NT ATE ITEMS. ' — Hon. John C. Ten Eyck, let# U. 8, ' Senator from this Statr, is a candidate for ' I Secretary of the United States Senate, t —A locomotive attached to a freight | train exploded ber boiler a few day* sloca at ibe Somvrville depot. Fort loately oo ' one was injured. [ — Horse Rivaling ha* been very preva*. | lost in the vicinity of Mount Molly for tha , ; p«*t few weeks. Several very valuable t ■ animals have disappeared ot late. . ' — One Edward McDonald, was arrested , In Newark, oo Friday, charged with high* r way robbery and threatening to kill his . i victim, Waldo L. Fay. He was committed , j to jail to answer. i j — The census returns of Newark (except • ' the Seventeenth and Tenth Wards, which hare not yet been published, )*how« a pop- > | ulation of G1.69C. agsiust 58,353 in I860— i j an increase ol 2.813. - — Quite aa excitement prevailed among 1 i (he workmen rngaged no the turnpike, at | Highsinwo, a lew days since, resulting I from thc annduocemeut that a vein of tho I pioqiou- y-ttow metal bad been discovered. ^ ; it turned out to be a beax. . j —The Newark Journal aays, tho New Jersey Railroad Company have reduced the , wages of tbeir employee* in tbe workshop! I mt Jersey City and other mechanics and laborer* along the route, that of tbs" me- , | chan.cs being reduced 15 cents per day aod thBt of tbe laborers ten cent*. , | — The steamboat Chicopwe, belonging . to the Stephens A Condit Transportation i Company, of Newark, was burned at her I dock in Newark, at 2 o'clock oo Friday . morning. The Chicopre, which wa* an old . boat, was formerly ron between New York .and Newark a* a passenger boat. . i — Tbe Highttown village camp meeting > will comm. 'tiro in tbe M. E. Church, of that r place, on Monday, October 1st, and coni none daring the week. Several prominent ' clergymen belonging to Philadelphia, N*wi ark and New Jerrey Conferences hsve acj cepted the invitations to bo present and : participate hi the exercises. f| — The Grand Jury of Atlantic, county, at the recent term of the Court, found no ' bill aguiosl Guorge Hoovey, who was ar- , rasto't aud committed to answer tbe charge i of murdering Thomas Shriller, in Atlaotio i City last sominer. The widenfee wa* so , strung in favor of Mr. Uooycy, as having ( ■ acred in .clf-defcnce, that the jury refused to indict htm. , j — A party of wreckers tre now at At- , | laotic City engaged in raiting lead from a I J vessel which was sunk there below lb* lolei, about oinelhen years ago. Consider- . ' utile qusntiiy of the lead with which it wa* , loaded has been at different limes recovered. , j The wreck is now covered with some eigbf teen laches of isjil, and therefore much , ; trouble is now anticipated in raisingenongh , of Ibe car o to make it profitable. ' — The jewelry elore of Mr. Ware, on - Market etrerl, Camden, was entered on t Friday night and robbed of watahes, hair . jeWelry, Ac., to tbe value of ovht'oue tboo- > sand dollars. Mr. Were resides oo Fifth - street, above Cherry, and leaves liis (tore ■ in charge of a boy every night. Tbe boy . | went out for a short time, and upon return- ' i ing be fuuod the place bad been entered ° 1 and entirely stripped of it* coolant*. — A man named JobnStagg, of Slrtgack, who wa< charged sometime since with hav- • iog passed counterfeit fifty cent currency at I'ateraon, was arrested oo Monday morning hy a detective of Nnwavk.'tskeo before U. 8. Commissioner Whitehead, and committed to jail to a«ait examination. Spanous twos, purporting to have beeo uttered by the Farmers' Bank of Mount Holly, were circulated yesterday afternoon. J The note is a Aril-executed alteration from tbe same broken hank. ' ViKBLaBD.— Since tb# beginning of tbia « prosperous settlement, wbicb is located 00 ■ the Glsssboro' and Mill wills- railroad, it ba* r advanced rapidly io its improvements, aod, besides tbe agricaltaral interest* connected „ with it, coositkr ruble manufacturing it earned on. During the past year it bus in- ' created very much in site end tbe number of iu inhabitants, and it is now tbe improflsian that some three hundred new dwell c iog bousos and boildiog* of various kind* d will be erected there within the next twel re '• months. ( — An order has beeo issued for thq;annoul encampment of the State Guird and Rifle Corps, aa provided by tbe laws of ,t New Jersey. It will be held for four duyi r dorlng ibe first week of October. We opo derstand that Colnoel Sewell, formerly of >, tba 5th New Jersey, aod more recently of j. the 38th New Jeruy Yolnateera, ooe of • bravest officers of tbe late war, will ba In command. Tbe encampment will comment* oo Tuesday, October 3d, whan tha trbopa o I will report to Col. Bewail, at Jamesburg . i. j Requisitions for transportation, camp and d garrison equipage aad eobeistence, will be " I made upon the Quartermaster General of | the Btatt. Th* order will prubably reach h i the d ffereot companies before the publieao ! lion or tbie paper. Latmr military friende lie opsnd doing. — Trtntqn American