■ Cap Pan §cran Haw."-'

VOL. XI.

CAPE ISLAND. CAPE MAT COUNTT, NEW JERSEY, WE1&ESBAY. JANUARY 17, 1866.

: *' ' ' * V NO. 35.

®hf port's (E'Ovurr. THE BAILOH-BOV* KI^EP. Dowa b) Uf wfctapertac niuraiiirtn* «r i, Dow a uu Iba ikuc, where Ihr «ilver taada glow ; Down wh is I be conch-hell* their revet.*.!.. blow , Dowa where the aea-went ID crimson lijre. |>«lr ; Dowa w here the petrel* can shriek for the d»le ; Dowa where the watvjwtou tee on the strep", ' — > Lulled b> ibe lUcace, the "salter-boy deepa Away from the purple, the ODtaat oW hill." Away from the woodland and tr**h.w*lcr rllD l Away from the ro*e ciiuMac cord* by the door j Away from the mm epeillu* name* on the Boor 1 Away from the beauty that's eteeentalh-d ; Away fsom the lo»e that ne'er faltered or Dlled i Away from the home where Mi heart'* trio wrejw ; Aloan by the ocean, the aallor-boy sleep*. No loafer on •hipb-lerd at mM-rea he alnz*; No Ion yet at morning on maat-bend he (win*. ; No longer ha walebea the moon la tho Bight ; j No longer he wonder* what made It *o bright t \ Nolon*eebeDugli«aUher*lllcbtnln('. Klcr -, 1 No longer he aaha to by laid by the era i No longer a night-watch for mother he kerp*. | Pbr formic** In ren-eaod the sal iortaiy. sleep*. No autre af ht« -prayer u ill the ahlp-mra irjolc ; No more will he Hat for fhe tnrmoi'dln'* vjgee ; f Ko more Will hr welcome, with ehlklhoo.!'* delight. No more, on the billow*, the rainbow* at nigh*. ; No mora will he tilth to Iw out from the ahor* ; No more to the pirate-craft *hout a* before t No more wll] hit memory keep tain of Ihr tlrel*. For dream let* tod brcathk*. the tallur-tmy tleep* There vlewlet* thcU-longuee ting low of hit home ; There tprty tad mlrtge oitlte ghost* to the gloam ; There Ctry't eiilckrnt make print* in the etnd t ThctdDy to tell they were tamrd by hit hand) There coral tpalert their gem-Dland* weave j There Cahera' daughter* ehtnt A vrt tt eve i There, while the tern; ret lit lullaby keep*, Alone, it ht fancied, the talloMioy aleept. ' Foe the Ocean Ware. Vr« Year's Day. Our dear old friend hat ptaeed away — lie died tt clotr of yeaterday i Twelve month* he etay'd, welor.il him well. But midnight bell tolled forth hit knell. Buty memory takn ut bark. And bring* at o'er the beaten Dark . Of last yrar't Joyt, of last year'* woe*, • And day by day lit rrawd •how*. Have wo well our haltlea fought 1 Done our duty tt we ought 1 la at rang temptation, have we failed! Tamo hardly mortal— aot a Dull, Continued victory, not a half. Have we with courage done our bet! I Then M ut leave to Con fhe tret. The pari In gone, we caa't recall A deed, • hull howcerr small | Jutt ntw la oura, then let ut try Improve each moment tutting by. Welcome In the new young yong i Blemlng uf hgofBb find* ut here ; Cod of ntrtv-y I make ut strong, Another ytar our Urn prolong. Help ut better .till to do. Than In tha aid year, la the new s l>tr striving with our might Foe the hooett trullf.uj right. Select Reading. THE STORY OF AN ADTEITI!. HER. Heory Bargevine. the yoong Amorl- > > cnu who sorcerdrd Mandarin Ward in tbo command ' of tbe imperial Chioenarmy, and who -afterward* joined the rabol force* and wa* recently drowned wbile a prisoner, waa formerly a reiideat of Washington, and Id 1847 waa a page 4b tha Doited State* Senate. lie wan born In Newbena, North Carolina, in Alia year 1838. Ilia father wa« a Franchnat, — aa officer In the grand army of i Napoleon. 8ob*cqnrntly he wa* in the •err ice of 8pain,-and came to America ia tha capacity of Sorteyor-tteneral ofj Florida, married an American ♦dy, and died la 1848. leaving a family, consisting of tha widow, two ton* and a daughter Tha alder loa wa* a Brigadier General is tha Confederate service, and ia at preuot a citison of Arkania*, where the daughter alio re aide*. When only twenty year* of age, Han- j ry, who araa the yonoge*t of tb* family, j went to Aaatralia, and subaeqaeatlj to Oalcotta, where be learned the Uiado- j aunce laageage. After roaming foreign Janda for four yaart, be returned to this | country, and became a Democratic odT tor In a We* tern city. Hi* sabsrquint career ia tho* described by one hbo knew him : la 1859, Henry Bnrgevine again left tha shore* of America, oever more to Tatiltu. TtiU time hi* scheme* were more tnglbie. History could give him obis- 1 bM example* of men who had risen above their kind aa if by magic in tba great political convufefons of the world. Chins * ho aid be die fir Id of hi* glory, for here a gigantic wur had raged for yeort, sad her*, if oaywbere. we* (he place to win distinction, power, ampvrw.' To China ha wont, and the mat of hi* atory ; U tha history of China for c}a iaat firv ; J**m Whether Bergevia* want with; Wrnrdfrom this cm-try. ar mH him »m •

I wa* killed, antHIsnry liprgcrine beqnaie ' cotnnian Irr-in-cbiuf of the army of 60,- - 000 disciplined men, mostly European* and Americana In the eyea of oar hero . it wa* the first step to a tbroua. Afur Jilting f.irih these' facts in a letter, he nays; "After year* of patient labor, i watching, mid Tnffsriag my day ha* at j 1 rat come. In ttco years J ihall rule | i China !" The dream wa* never realised, the life , which was all action, all hope and all , uinhition has gone out in wretchedness J almost unparaloiled. The mother, to I whom in hi* palmiest dnyt liurgctine transmitted a sufficient sum lo make her 1 comfortable in her last bourn, was spared I the misery of outliving him, and of koow- | ing bow he dird. She expired peace- ] fui'y about one yesr since. . It it aim-rat Impossible to estimate the - udrautagrs to the world which bare been lo t by Iturgerille'a failure in China.— Had he acliiertd all hia nmhitinn hoped for, civilian iou and the highest enlightenment would hare followed him, and i, an empire, such a* Napoieon might hare j dreumed of, would bare dazzled the i world, and the name of Burgcvine, which • io a few year* will be lost to sate a few that knew' and lovrd him, would have appeared among "'the few immortal names that acre uol borp to dio." liurgevinc was a scholar, a man of rej fined taste* and literary habit*; modest, • simple and i/bafTected in bis manners ; 1 inclined to tie silent and gloomy at times, - but-guneraliy nffable and pleasant, pel - dam .peaking of himself; indeed, it was ; with the e'tmost difficulty hi* most intimate friend* could get at hit biitory.— No foreigner, who ha*, up to thi* time, j been identified with the Chioeie war, ba* had a tithe of tba ability of Bnrge- ! vine. Nor bai the world known the real *cope and extcDt of the plank of "that i sleepies* tool which perithed in its ; ! pride." llurgcville succeeding Ward, aasumed command of the Imperial army, which i pott he filled with great credit and diej tinctlon for over a year, wbeo, nofortuI nateiy, he had trouble with the Imperial ' authorities itft1- lation to the payment of ' his forces and finding hi* caret r bumI pared, hi* resiles* ambition led him to take ssrrice with the rebels. A large reward wa* offered by the Imperialists . i for bis head, and after several months i he wa* captured ; but owing to the protest of our Consul his life wa* not taken, - but the Imperialist* resorted to an old ■ and barbarous mode of punishment, of ; kicking open the wounds be bad received - ' in battle, and then turned him over to I the American Consul. Burgevinr then went to Japan, where he remained until 3 I hu had recovered from tbc bantal treatI I ment he had received. Some eight or > 1 - ten months ago he again returned to I jChina to try and retrieve hi* fortone, j I I but he wa* vary soon taken prisoner by I the Imperial Government, and as we arc ' ■ ; informed by late advice* from China, j ' wa* drowned while ia Iron*. Burgcvine, ' | while be was in favor with the ImperiaiI I i«ta, waa a mandarin of the "Red Botr; 'on." and - had powar of life aod death ! ' over two large cities. Reckless Fell]- end Ita Results. | Eighteen month* ago. a pleasure boat | i of fifteou ton* burthen, called the "Yi- j . ! aioa," started from New York to cross : I the Ailaatic. The crew consisted of . j two men and a dog. For the lattarsome j sympathy wa* felt by bfimanmand sensi- ; i bio people, for the former only pity for ' their reckless fully. Nothing more was i heard of the craft until a day or two piece a vessel which came into port • brought a statement that an-empty half barrel, on which tba word "Vision" was ' "painted, had been picked np about' six ; . weeks sgo ia mid-ocsan. There always i have been and alwaya will be reckless and foolish adventures attempted by men, bat this "Visior." enterprise was a piece of inexcusable folly. What would they have gained if the vessel had reach- I ed Epropt ia safely t Under peculiarly ' favoraWa circumstances 6T weather it might be poaaible for such a small craft ; to have crossed the Atlantic. Tim only ' , result would have been that o there woo Id , base attempted tbo feat and loat ibeir M 'heew oafortaaate madman have ! doa e. —BrocHyn Ee^U. r — ; — Iriwiag acow lor thosakw ofacat , I TWe is tt* Cbiaeee iaterpretatioa of : | «^ft »® »«w. . — • Jj — Tha coldest seat ia aa oaaatbat— • , , Tba wa* unrest the Pole. f,

. The Oldest City In tlie World. Dumssirus it the oldest city in the « world ; Tyre end Sidon have cruroblvd , on the shore ; Uaalbec is a ruin ; Palmy- - r ra lies buried in the sand* of the desert; | e j Nintfth aod Babylon have disappeared , I from the shores ol the Tigris and Kut J phrales. Damatcos remains what it was e 1 before the days of Abraham — a centre ' of trade and travel, an island of verdure . B in a desert, "a predestined capital," with ! I martial and sacred associations extend- „ beyond thirty ceoluriss. 9 It was Dear Damascus that Saul of ! i. Tarsus saw the light from heave n,"above r tbc brightoess of tbc son ;" the street I which is called Strait, in which it is said lie "p ray ejis^s till runs through the city; the caravan come and goes as it did one thousand years ago ; there is still the j , sheik, the ass, and the water-wheel ; the , merchants of the Euphrates and the Me- . dilerranean still occupy these "with the I multitude of their waiters." The city which Mahomet surveyed from a neighI , boring height, and was afraid to enter, , "because it is given to ipnii to have but , oue paradise, and, feirliis part, he was , resolved not bai* it in this world," is to k this day what Julan called the "Eye of j the East," as it was in the time of Isaiah j "the Head of Syria " From Damascus came our damson. . our blue plums, and the delicioo* apri- ' cot of Portugal called damanco ; damask , our beautiful fabric of cotton aud siik, with vines and flowers raised upon a smooth, bright ground , dsuiask rose ing troduced into Engiatid in the lime of . Ilenry Y1I ; the Damascus hlsde, so famous the world over for its keen edge and remarkable elasticity, the secret of the manufactnre of which was lust when . Tamerlane carried off the artists into I , Persia ; and that beautifnl art of inlaylug t { wood aud steel with silver and gold — » 4 tind of mosaic engraving and sculpture 1 united, called damaskeening, with which I boxes and bureaus, and swords and guns, , are ornamented. It is still a city of flowers and bright waters ; the streams from Lebanon, the I "rivbrs of Damascus," the "river of gold" fiatill murmur and spnrkle in the wilderness of "Lyriah gardens." > Persons Rons ut tlie Wrong , ! Time. s ' Dow, Jr., thus closes one ol his pa- , lent sermons "My respected friends-there are many : ataon'g you who, to be self satisfied, j onght to have been born a hundred years, f ago, and others a hundred years hence, j They appear lo have beeo cast upon the } earth at tho wrong period, and iti a i wrong place, like a duck's egg dropped j by the margin of tome mnddy pool. — They find no food, auitsd to liteir taste r j opou the sumptuous table spread before , ! them. They bad rather either go back i aod pick the hone's of the past, or stick r their fingers in the unprepared dishes of , i the future, than partake of the rich bouu- _ | ty that the present provides. Such folk* are born both before and after their . ; lime, and hare no basinets here at ibis . exact period. However, the fault it uol , j theirs; aod it is not my province to cast | blame upon their parents. We should | all, my friends, bestow little thought • ' upon what has been or what it lo be, ' j bnt make tbe best of what is; and joy, i peace, and contentment ahail be onrs in i , the end. So mote it be I" What We Love a Woman For. Spme one speaking of a beautiful girl ' with enthusiasm said he was almost io love with her, though her undemanding waa by no mean* brilliant. "Pooh I" said Goetbv, langhicg, "as if love had 'r nylbing to do with understanding. We; love a girl for very different things than i understanding. We love her for bar; beanty, ber yotfth, htr mirth, her confidiagneas, ber character, with iu fault*, caprices, and heaven knows what other inexpressible charms ; but wa do oot j Io»e her understanding. Her mind wa . , esteem (if it ia brilliant,) and it may | greatly elevate ber in our opinion ; nay ( mora, it may enchaio as when we already ! | love ; bat ber understanding 4s not what awakens and inflames oar paaaioM." — What will the strong-minded, plain woman any to such a heresy 7 — If a shoemaker, ia approaching his end, waxea cold aod give* op hia awl, what wiU became of hia aol* if h* cannot j baaatha his beL J — Soma say tbe qoickect way to dasi trow "wnwsU" ia to marry a widow. It ! M »° doabt a moat delightful -species of haabaadrr.

Our Philadelphia Work-Box. j Piift.AnKi.riiu, Jan. 1, '64. | Dbaji Warn. — "Yariaiy ta tba aptea oil \ • j lib," and bad weather is a condiment of 1 i ; I no healthiness. A hw weeks back, and our | I ,1 skirt vera almost Florentine in tba delicacy j I _ [ of tbeir tints, and* the winds wrre lad-n 1 ^ ! with balmy incense, and all tbe warmth and ! i ^ brant y of Indian Summer was np->n us.— j t : Now old llorens reigns supreme ; tbe clouds j I e | shut out tbe sunshine, aud the rain runs in ! i h at your bat and your boot* simultaneously- . I- i You go to church to hear a sermon, bat J i ' wheezy individuals blow tbetr noses so often ' if | that tliej deaden the goodly words from the ! „ | preacher's mouth, and precinde either at-., . t ' trntion or dreamy slumber. 'Tis just socb j j ! weather aa one might suppose lo bava exj isted when Milton jranned "Paradise l-ost," ! » | or when Dr. Yeurg gave vent to his gnsb- ; u i iog aud inelanrbniy "Night Thongbta." ^ « I What matters it, however, whether the t o j weather is bad or good — hot or cold— moist i. or dry. wr mast live and kerp the ball mov0 I ing. Apart from the various regdlar me. j i rhaiural. professional and mercantile parhave every uow and tbeo endemics and r/>i- . ' i denies of RpecaUtioa bnrating upon u»— | 11 , sumo legitimiie aod genuine, otb«y hum- [ bug. cry and swindle. 0 i Four year* hack every industrial pursuit if ; was absorbed in the one euguging theme of h war. "I'was the boy's ambition to be a | private ; tbe yonng man's, a lieutena:.., ( I aud lh« man's, a geueral. The mercenary I* I ingredient uf our |topc)alioo became con- | traclurs — ut firsl honest and welt meaning, then a IllUe dishonest, nod finally rascally/ '• Aud the shoddy-coo traclqr has reared^ , D-unuuient of his deed-, whihh yltatM^Ci ■$ I- lung as the memories of tbe rebellion. ,f Tbeo another fever enure upon as— Oil.' „ Tbe war wife forgotten in the immense ei- • citenieul occasioned by tbe strike. Fabn- (|. luus stories went tbe rounds, of men whose incomes were ten thousand a day, and how others had become wealthy, beyond -all pre- ° cedent, by a single invealmant. The reIf suit— companies spiang up on every side ; we had shares of stock at all prices, from • W do wo to 23 cent*. The first of these | couipauies were honest m iotentlon and , j declaration, wirj their immense eucrese. like rich groood, occasioned the springing of weeds jn ibe shape of other combinations— ^ curpalent, corrupt, grasping anif7rnduleni. Thouiand* were swindled, and the oil fever ba* uow become a thing that was. tbe form of Colorado and Nevada gold I mines. That gnld has been discovered - there, and in iarga enough <|aantil< to juaK J tify the outlay of capital in ubiaiuing it, i has beten proved beyond a doubt. Mr. W. i T. Thajkray, of this city, showed mo speciJ mens sent on by tbe Gral organized and | chartered company, tbe "Eagle," from Clear Creak, Colorado, which will equal In '. | fineness aud quality tbe heal California a specimen". Other companies are baiug | rapidly formed, sod tbe fever bids fair to j become geueral. _ ! Tnen again, we always have ia more or less varying quaotity tbe luee fever. Since ^ j the termination of tbe war, the number and brilliancy of tbe marriage* wilbin oar city k have been a seven-day wonder. The ootkjLys involved in furnishing wedding cosif j lumus have beeo unprecedented, as much | , j as 8ereral thousand dollar* being spent j ; npon a single dress, la the good old limes ;r J of long ago, soma hard cider and pound ' ^ cake was tbu marriage feast ; a calico dress ^ tba Irotstau, and a horse, cow aod "Uod bless you" tbe inarrihge dowry. Timet are 11 altered bow. The presents must all be of d silver and gold ; tbe dresses of silk, aod tbe it dbwry grand, or tha affair was not worth I, the consideration of this oi» highly eiril- j ', end enlightened (?) populace. ! u lint are such marriage* always happy?! A sequel onw being enacted in onu of oar i police courts will describe" the course id '. many. Some three year's ago the son ol ! 1 one of onr fashionable tad rich dentists ' „ murried the daughter or a merchant eqwally t 1 endowed with worldly goods, and sqaally well known io tba rashiotrabls world. Time | ^ sped on. The bosbnod loved tha clob bat- | ler than his home.Jand the wife loved like- I B j wise tbe company of her hu*bao.i's friends : 1 belter than toiilodt. Una of them in parf | titular the accompanied lo the cl.urch, the I - ■ theater, tba proineaade, and her rmo. The i , husband saes for diBorca on tba ground of l r adultery, sad tbe wife make* coontar-suit 1 t ! On the ground of wilful neglect aod iuat- f ( . trntion. Tha^sffair ha* been excluded fron. 1 1 tbe Philadelphia papers, hot unfortunately j not rfom the ears of your devoted > BAUH Rcstic. ! £ Truths. , A Mend that yon bay with presents will j fc ha bought from yon. That is a good horse t that never gram Lie*. Censors is a tax that j t man pays to tbe pablie for baing eminent. ' a ( lie thrifty to yoarself, that yoa may be j liberal towards others. Harry ia th* mark I a ' of a weak asind ; despatch ia tha avidaace 1 ii ' of titntfvw. When furtsoc carresees a mae loa aiach. aha m apt In oaks a fool > of Um. Between passion and lying there I » not a b|*f '* breadth. TAeve la no Mens- - f log like that of haaiih, particoUrly whan yoa-reskk. {.j

Cougreasiouwl. | Monday 8.— A commonieation from the i tof VVmshington. transmitting the w i result of tbe recent election there, adverse T to negro suffrage, was received and laid nli E j tbe table, as were alto the cred nttal* of ir I ltandall Hunt, Senator elect friyn Loui*i- ir 'ana. The memorial of the N'«w York I' i l.'liamher of ttouynerce, asking protection H ; Northern creditors agaiirai the of-era. lion* of .Stale glalules of (imitation in the 0 jfSoaib, sod several soldiers' petition* re- t) j questing equalisation of pay and bounty . a I were presented and refeirnd. Resolution* * ! were edoptud culling on the President for . l .1 informal ion regarding tbe order Aiui- I by l u onr military authorities io California for- I '| bidding exportation* of aruit to Mexico, | | ! sod for tbe reavoos why there has yet beeii i c i mission to investigate Ilia claims of loyal 1 (< t slaveholders for compensation for colored men using them service, who were enlisted „ tu the military service. "In the tlonae of Representative* a nnm ' „ ber of matter* reserved attention. Itill* c • were lOlroduced and referred to dj*po<« of u the public lund* of the South a* homestead*. ' , i to ameod the natnralization laws, to pro- ,i . vide pension* fur soldier* ol tho wnr of ; 1812. lor the com: ruction of u military and po.tal railroad between New York and , Washington, granting bounty and hildi- \ , tionul pay lo soldiers nod *eamen who enlisted in I SCI, to secure tbe benefit of tude contrary to tbe consiitatioo, uitii for J variou* other purposes. A bill wns re- , snorted from lliu Ways and Mean* Commute.. '' . and ordered lo be printed, authorizing the * i tjecrelary of the lYeasury to issue six per . * cent coiu bonds audio nt tu fund all the ' ' floating debt* of the 0bvernineol. The * on the expediency uf a reissuance of muti 1 lated bonds, nqif the RaukiOg Committee ' on tb# propriety of providing fur the re- r demplion by iuternnl revenue officer* aud ' other government agent* of mutilated 1 fractional currency. Th* resolution declar- " lug that tbe whole power of the guvesBment if iier<-**ary, shuuid be used to put an end J to polgamy, was adopted. Uesululion* ' " were alsu adopteY calling on tbe President ' ' for informatiun relative to the delivery to ' our government of the rebel pirate Hhensadosh, and in regard to '.lie alleged kidnapping by Maxinulliao of Mexico of one c of the Iturhide children, aud asserting as toe sense of the llouae tbst the national i t ■■Hillary forces should not he withdrawn | . from Ibe Southern Slate till their presence j 0 there ahail buve Wen declared by Congress ; no looger neeestuyy. Tho lust named reso- " iuiiun wa* adopted by maety-four to thirty- , I'rartic-Hl Rptraisclimcnt. (■eiieral Craot has ten! three member* of hi* staff lo the Department" of tire East, j W est sod Nualhwr* to aacertain if further : reductions caaoot ho safely made in the ! : military' forces and expense". This ia a ' moveWent toward practical retrenchment i , of whkh the tax-burdened people will most [ ' heartily approve. Tbe Lieuleoanl U neral , 1 began his rednctioq of the military expen- fJ *c# tbe moment fhal Lee surrendered. — i j Instead of proceeding in triumph, tike a conqueror, to ins|tecl the city he hud cap- 1 ( 1 j tared after so. long and bloody a siege, j : be harried lo Washington, like a sensible : I man. to col duwn tbo eaoriuons armies | . ' , which were no longer accessary. Since i ' then bo ho* dismissed onr soldier* to their ( homes and brought nearly every depart- , j or hi* command to a peace footing. It ^ would ba well for the country if we had a ] practical, common *eu"« man like Oranl in erery.barean of the government. Sugar. It is asserted that the use of soger was , j know "to the ancient Hebrew*. Tbe firsl 1 1 ' distiucl notion or the sngnr-cane is the nc- ' | | count of the expedition nndertaken by ! , Nearchns down tbe Iudns, ih lbs lime of j j Alexander. It appears to llav« been culti- ' , vated in Sicily as early as 1166. at which ; place there was also a mill for grinding it. ; , From Sicily the cane waa""truo«ported by , the Portuguese to Madeira in 1420, and lo ! , St. Domingo l>y Columbus in 1193. In i ( 1M1 it was transplanted from Uraiil to ; c and thence to other West In. ; c dia I land". Th* boiling and baking ofi* was first practised ia Karope nboat : c and tha art of refining sugar, and ofj i it into cooes, was communicated j ■ | a Venetian in 1530. | q A Lady's ronfldcncr. 11 Old Lady Hotamore was possessed of a u ' drunken coachman. Do om occasion abe '' L was at a party where her host thongbl it 1,1 I bit duty to inform her that tba man was so ' tipsy it woald oot do for ber lo allow him Ul , drive her home. Lady Kosemore only *i I said qniatly : " "I^t ma apeak to tha fallow myself," ' and weal to the ball ^oor where the follow- [ lag dialogue occurred : . I "Are yon drank. John?" .. "Yea, my lady. " * G "Are yoa mora Jruak than asaal, John?'' "No. my lady." "Ut <*ot tba slope, Thomas ; I shall 1 . . k.

STATE ITEMS. — Tbe New Jersey Historical Society will hold it* annual meeting in Trenton oa Jan. IStb. Joseph P. Bradley, Esq., of Newark, will read a paper, which indisposition prevented him from completat the May meeting, "On the IJfe and Public Service* of tha late ilom Wa. L. — William H. Yap Nortu ick, Rsq., connected wii h the Supi-rintendsnt'a slficaa of CaAidea nnd Amby Railroad Company, at i his place, for twelve yearn, baa beep appointed Io the responsible position of ltt-venue io*|M-clor for the First and 8e«- ; ond Congressional DistricU of New lerary. Tfrte ra a v*ry important appointment, and j the people of tha ten or eleven coaatie* j comprising these district", ara aatarally much intervstud ia th* *«lectloB.— UordtoRegister. — Mr. Win. A. Whitehead, executive aifentof tl.t- New Jersey Railroad Company, alio lies kept a record of tbe weather for ' years, report* Sunday night was th# coldest .nice 1hJ7. In Newark at seven o'clock on Mutiday morning, 8th inst., tbe thermometer stood twelv'e and three fourth* below zero. Tha only weather nppTooehin : thi» sine# 1*47 waa in January. Dj37, when the thermometer stood at twelve, and In January. 1839. when tha thermometer stood at twelve and a half degrees below zero. — Mr". Mary Williams, aged ION years, ' 9 Mouth* and 13 days, died near Whila lluu-e. Hunterdon county, on the 26>h ult. She never bud a sick day, to at to be confined to her bed, until the last few weeks of her life. It is said that her eye- ' sight continued good a a usual, ("he was alwoy* u little uear-sigbted,) and ai.jr one who chanced to visit hsr. even after she pihi.eU her one hundredth year, woold her agisting her daughter ia tba domestic affair*. Her faculties were retained during her whole life. Her hasbaod died *11 year* ago. 8b'c had five children, two of whom died before her. — The Ninetieth Session of lb# New \ ' Jersey Legislature was organised at three o'clock Tuesday afternoon, 9th iaat., by the election or tbe following officers : President. — Jas. M. Scovel, of Camden. Secretary. — Enoch R. Dordan, of R#rAssisfaot Secretary. — Edward I.- Dobof Essex. , Engrossing Clerk.— J. II, Vsmdorvere, i of Somerset. Sergeant-nl-Arras. — Samuel 11. Cavalier. ! of Atlantic. Keeper of Ladies' Gallery. — Towoseod Cox, of Burlington. HOI'S K. Speaker.— John Mill, of Morris. Clork.— George If. Cooper, of Cambariaod. Engrotsing Clark.— Myron II. Beaumont { of U nioli. Asaistent Clerk.— James Buchanan, of Mercer. Doorkeeper.' — Richard lhsrrastadt, af EaKeeper of leidies' Gallery. — Chart** W. la-vine, of Burlington. All Ibe Republican nominee* for officers ■ of the Senate, were elected by a qpte of 11 ] to 111. Ui-"tdntinn* were offered by Mr. Cobb, of 1 Morris county, endorsing the policy of President Johnson sod the 'administration i of Secretary Stanton. Mr. Robbius, Democrat, introdoced a resolution that an nh«olat< majority sboald ; be uscessery to .pas* a resolution which wa*. defeated by a "trict party vote. A Hiyklrnad Bill. | It trill be remembered that a bill iatroduced ioto Congress lately, by Mr. Waahof Illinoi", was hailed by soma of tbo us a blow at the Camden end Am boy I monopoly. Mr. Baldwin of Maasecbateu*. | in a letter to hi* (fWn paper, says ita Object was quite a different one. lie say*: <s It* real but undeclared purpose wa* to release tbe Illinois Central lUilroud Comi paay from iu obligation to carry troops ! and military store* for the government free j of qharge. Thai road ba* been cooilracted . chiefly, by mean* of the magnifioeot grant j of lead*, by Congros*; and now It* owners seek to escape from the obligations of tbe I coatracl made witb tha goreramaal, whea j they accepted those land*. The Wll, which ! went through the Hoese eoittr thaprevioa* question without being oodarstood, antborizome'very railroad in the conntry to eialm and raeeive compensation for earrytbg oo p* aod military store* for tbo gc«*mmeni, thus not only reloaslng.tho Illinoi* Central Company, but act softy readering null aad void tb* conditions under whibk grant* of lands wars mode to other railroads. I tthsk tb* bill will dia ia tt* Senate. * A V f- '' -:J iriaims.ilwg ' juvenile yaatarday to bia iodnlg.nt rtrv. "Pa. havn't I got a. veto aa well at the GovarMH." "No, my child." ■ "I* r *) S "" KStl-bJ "Thorn**, take thai boy to Us * rvtaad."