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VOL. XI.

CAPE ISLAND. CAPE MAY COUNTY, NEW' JERSEY, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 7. 1866.

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®ht f art'# Corner. For th# Ocub Wats. TO IDA ST UMI. HSBBV »IUO». r. ». A. NwtolV-tsle bln.h, tnbrmWBg hand Dlsclo#"! ouutil rl 4> to r>" i Ko UlUrlo* wonl, /of .mothrrM ticb. Betrayed *tr. noeWxrrt. Bat with • smile snAlls" "-good bj»," Wr parted m we wekayt. Pfthapa we ne'ef ma)' meet again On We'a dark tfeubted shore, But etlQ, within my heart MI keep. Thy etemoty Am wiwra board their ablate* gelt. Ill tl««ur* IhongMs of thee ; And lore thee, lad), Iho' thou ne'er m think of thre, at of the el Are, The! hrttfhtly ehlne ebore. And etlll ehell worship end edore, Tho' thou mays' never love. Like the blue wnvre, when the cherte moon le mlrrotM la the ere, I'll beer thy llkeneee In my breeet, * Tho' rotd your looke may be. My life, though not\ia happy quite, Aa othera may bare known, Mad glided on all quietly, With Jo)™> peaerful tone. Contraied ellll I might bare Herd, And braved life's trmpeat wrath, r If fate had not thy Image thrown Across my lonely path. Lore came, aa romee the lightning, Too aw 1ft to Bee the dgM i In rain. In rain I atmggled. To race the captive heart. Oh t do not think tTehlde me, Or bid me to forget— ' Tho' Lethean etteem haa oft been nought,

A I.I. I'OR laOI.D. BT RAMON 1VE1. J amen Reed was a strong, energetic nan, whose willing hands had procured a snug home for himself, wife and children in a amall but flourishing town in Central Ohio. To accomplish thii had bean Lis chief aim when he joined hands for life with Lucy Mason, tbt^ prettiest ynng girl in •II the salley. lie was more than content— he was happy In the eejoymect of bis little possessions. He could see that now, with reasonable frogaiity and in- 1 dostry, be woold be able not only to maintain his family with respectability, bat be eoold make pro* isien for the education of hii children. He took pride in the reflection that hit daughter would have far greater advantages than her mother; not bnl that he appreciated that mother's sterling worth, hut the diamond lhould have a worthy artiing His sons aboald not be stinted in opportunities for knowing books and ihe world ; then, should tbey choose to follow their fa- : fber'a avocation, they would make none the less skillful builder*. Jomcs Rccd j enjoyed tbese draamings, and thought to make them real. Unhappy day for all that household when the gold fever reged throughout the village. No sign on the lintels prew«nted the evil from entering, and he, the master-spirit, became bewildered and was led captive. Mr. Read was a kind and affectionate man, very stvrn and decided at times ; ao when ha announced to Ids wife his determination to sell bis property and hasten to Join a company that was soon to start for Idaho, she did not remonstrate. Remonstrance, she knew, potild be worse than oaeless. With a heavy heart abe made such preparations as her bnsband suggested, but could oot enter into the glow ing expectations that elated him. And the wild glee of ihe children •t the prospect of loog tidea, of privi- j leg* to sometime# drive the (laid oxen, their anticipated relish ot living out on the broad prairie*, with no roof but their teats—ail. all fell on her ear aa mournfal forebodings. Their merry voices •oandad bat as a knell tolling the departare of every earthly joy. They aoon succeeded in- disposing of their effect#, and early on a bright morning In April the villager* were astir, that tbey might say a last word to ibosa who, that day. war# to go ont from among them. Some looked on with regret, that thty eoold not go in company, envying them their goldeu prospects.— Other* shook their beads dubiously, saying : "It it a rash nadi rtaklng. '' Old )|r Mason, Lucy's father, was there. Aa ha snlemoly placed bia band on each yoMg head, and gave bis partiag kis# and Wearing, the children began to think that "fWag »»ny" waa not ao plaeaaat a* they had aoppoqgd it woold he. Taking the head #f his daughter. he said : "Loty, Jfl* have been a dntifoi, lov- 1

ing child, and I don't know what yonr old father will dO\witbonl yon, now that „ your mother haa gone to ber grave, and | my only son is off to tb» wars. Lney, ; daughter, farewell for ever; these old | eyes will never look on your face again. J till wo are bath on the other side of I death's river." Then turning, to that ■ hn sun-in law stood within the little | group, he continued: "With all your j getting, my children, do not neglect the j peerl of great price, which ia to be bad, fur the asking." IUsty good-byes were said to all. and . James Reed, his wife, snd three children 1 moved oot from their home-roof and joined the train beaded for Idaho — land of gold I the story of whose glit'er and abundance had grown none the leas enchanting aa it came from lip to ready lip ' back from those untamed gorges. ( Mr. Reed, though his attention was ' much occupied by the bustle of preparai lioti and starling, could but notice his | wife's sad, submissive face. Ho felt I chided for not consulting her wishes ! ] more than he had, though ho still felt 1 unwavering confidence in his superior j jo Igment. To ease hii conscience, and, ( if possible, bring back the old chcerfuli ness to her face, lie waa doubly a'aidu- | ous in his card for his family, and enj deavortd in every way to beguile and ' entertain them. Now that he was con- | stsntiy with them, they grew daily dear- ] er to bim, and ihe kind concern he ever = | manifested, showed a depth «f fueling that filled even his own wife with grate- | ful surprise. Two months of travel found them quite beyond civilization. IJefore, behind, 'to right or left, they aaw only the c extended plain ; no sigh of humanity, d except here and there an old camping- |. ground and the trail they ware slowly □ following." Nothing of note had occurred to break iu upon the monotony of f their jonrncy ontil now, little Mary, the b one daughter, is taken tick, n The anxious parents feel that helpless . j sickness anywhern ia painful, bot here if j on tho wilds, with little skill to, combat 1 1 insidiou^viiisrasr, few luxnriea. and no . rest, it is almost insupportable agonizo ing The train moves on ; tbey dart not linger, thaogb each jolt cf the cum- . hroof wagon sends a keen pang to their c heart*. In Ibeir sympathies and appreJ | hension* they suffer more than doe* (be r ; half ancontcions liitle one. t For t! ree day* they bare traveled, A three nights watched with intense anz- ■ irty b side the sick couch ; and now, at ( ; the sun is sinking in the west on the f j fourth day, the command is given to bill . ' lor the night. A kind friend relieves r j him from the labnrs that would devolve A upon him, and the father hastens to the 0 j aide of bis dying child. Two amall hands { are ouUtrelcbed, and a .wailing voLe j ; eakt "if father will take Khr op." In a ( moment she it in the strong arms of . James Reed ; and he presses btr to his ,t heart, he feels that he could carry ber A for ever if she woold only live. The tears fall fast on the thin, pale face. P "Do yon love me so. father 7 Then why did yon take as away from our hapF py home! This is such a long, long j road. I'd rather live in our old bouse, , with never any music bot mother to ting . to nt. Yonr little Mary won't live to 1 get to the golden land, and then you'll f bury her hero, so far away from you all, c where nobody ever comes. Twill be, f oh I te lonely, to v^ry lonely," Then | the was still for several minotrs. In her , simplicity she did not comprehend how . heavy and bow cutting was overy word , that fell from her lipa.^ "Father, raiac i me a little higher," lb» said, "then tell r me If yon'll be bapfy in that new, rich . home yon mean t» get if Mary is not i there! Sometimes think of me . lying all alona— " . Her words died out. It waa plaia the ebild was failing fast, f and he laid bar down on bar little cot. . Kricndg gathered ronnd aod beard her t murmur : "There the street* are paved , with gold. Won't that be aa well, far iber 7 I'm going to the golden street* , aod golden harps." There waa • thrill - throagb all hvr from*, and Mary was - very still— the stillness of death. To that stricken family i| waa tb* I keenest distress to go on and leave ber, as she said, "on the wild plain alone," b with only a wooden slab telling the e | thoughtless bead that shall pass next k j year thtt "Here He* all that remains of t i Mary Reed, aged seven " To the bereft : :- j race the moving train seams aver after j as a funeral corMys. Only six days for- ■ - ! iber ou, aed another grave is made, an- >

r I other slab it r*i«cd — this "To. 'be mem- ! t | ory of Charley Reed, young-ft child of d James and Lacy Reed. The sammer wears away, ind at last d the weary travelers enter the golde* i. city At leeet one of thet Incoming f throng bae lost hie eagerness. There ! t are no allurements for him now Two | e liitle ones fallen by the wayside, and his r own Lucy slowly bot surely dying. All r her energies were tsxed to reach the end I, of the joarney, and now aba is fast wasting away. As ahe lies helpless on her d painlrta conch, she has virions of the n long ago. She ia again a gleeful girl d in ber father's house ; ahe aeys the beaud tiful stream before the door — no other d half ao beautiful. Ah I tbe clear deptha | - of the cool water at ahe glided down the p tide, on that bright moonlight night, to the tone of a light guitar ; then a heart s was won and lost. Qnickly after, she - took a new nemo and became mistress ' in ber own cottage. She eecs her child- j 1 { ren, bright and happy, joining other j 8 children in their sports— area them gain- 1 1 I ing knowledge at the day and Sabbath j r i schools, and all is j >yona. She thinks > ' of all this, and^S^t upon him who sits j " beside ber, her dying eyes look always i ' kindly ; her patient lips utter no chiding " words. The sufferii g man almost wish- ' es they woiild, that his aching heart " might find relief or break. To-day, if you were in Virginia City. r and ou looking outkhouid see a tall boy I of ten years, with a face several yeais ' older, and beside him a man with haggard, hungry look, both walking down 1 he street In an aimless way, by-sttnder» ' would ^ay . "There go James Heed and ' iiis one boy — all there it left to him." b&shious of the South During . , the War. Fashion, says the Rich tpohd" ~7i m es , ' begins to re-assert Its empire in the South. During the war a man was deemed fortunate if he owned a couple of fig-bushee, for then he was sore of ' having his family provided with a suit of | primitive clothes, as good as that wuru ^ ^ by onr first parents, if things came to the worat. Men and women did not care much what they wore, so they wore something. Norjras the style or cnt of garments much regarded, for there was a eort of carnival of old clothes. It was | not uncommon to mcvt a gentleman with a coat or pantaloons which looked as if tbey had been cnt out with a broad axe ' and nailed together horridly by a rough carpenter. The patterns too, were as strongly spiced with variety, as well ss | tbe odor of great antiquity. The old swallow-tail and shad-belly coat, which is 'bought by many to be tbe style worn 1 by Nosh whom he harangocd the anted!- . luvians on the probabilities of en onpre- ( cedented freshet, was exhumed and ret stored to general favor. Trowsers made f in the old-fashioned way, with drop enr- ( lain in front, wire brought to light by r venerable and respectable gentlemen, , who have never been satisfied with modern innovations in dress, and for a long | time battled stnbbornly against them. Hats not inaptly designated as camp- , kettles, stove-pipes, and bee gams, by many soldiers of Lee's army, whenever ' they encountered the lnckleaa wearer, | and called opoti Mm "to come ont of it," wrro very prevalent among aoberaided civilians; coon-skin and skull-caps of a strange and oniqne model, were worn in bold and utter defiance of all previous proprieties of fashion. Tbe ladles of tbe South exhibited a similar spirit in yielding to the necessities of the times. The distentions of crinoline , were neglected, and our dames and damsels looked as lovely and attractve in bomespon and linieye a* tbey had ever donp in silks and aatina.. Bonnets of the coal Seattle, gig top and chickencoop type, fossils of fashion which were the pride end glory of the Elizabethan age, were drawn fprlh from dusty closets and old time band-boxee, and were conscribed sod forced ioto service. 8boes i which were regolar old knocker* and I beetle crashers, covered tender toes and weil-tarned ankles, which had been need to tbe Guest calf akin and moat delicate ( morocco There was eminent good sense and good taste in all thjs, and we hope that the Ins on* of wiedom aad economy inculcated by the war will not be forgotten at It* conclusion. M f — A mean thing on ice- A nice young l j man in Sandoaky, Ohio, lb* other day, r | obtained an istrodnglioo- to* a young - j lady on the iee. 'iwl a few minutes after - ztola her skates.

TALKS WITH WOMEL f| cocsTav nowra. ! Coontry homes are opt to he a little doll t * in winlet ; eo city people think, and their i | occupants ihemselves are apt to say the , : name thing ; bat surely the mere thought B | doee them injastice. In the clear reirospoct. r ol a not vrry distant past stands oot one 1 I coontry home, aa It look-d in the fading ' ! light of a winter's earning sky. A cot- ' tsge, not large or picturesque, bot with a 1 ! warm light shining hrigh'ly oot, through - lbs closed blinds, npon the whity glistening j r i «noW, end promising good cheer sad comB | fort wiihio. ,| j Women, young and old are afraid of win. I ler in. Ihe country, and lhat is the reason 1 1 they do not enjoy it. They give up all ■ out-door exercise, -except such as can be | •l-lakeo in a swift sleigh, end beneath thick | • I buffalo-robe*, confine themselves in-door*, i n «nd become bilious and melancholy on t { immense hntre-niade doughnuts. saoViges ] „ i and mince-pies. Such a diet would he sufI j ficteiit for ao individual sailing round Ihe j North Pole, and ia suicide for women a ho ' 1I...I . of oin.iy o, • I hundred, and ahirer avery time tho door is "I opened into tho "best room, " whico is • j only opened on occasion*. " Winter is beautiful in tho country, if yon « j will only get close enough to it to become • i acquainted. Meet i' in a friendly way. de- ? ; feud yourself wj'h warn, flannel., and wbol- . j ens and Turs 10 the heel of your ability ; t then welcome it bravely, aod it will show aa much of beauty and almost as many attracj lions os itt more gorgeous aister, summer. • Put oo stool shoe# or rubbers, snd walk f over the crisp, sparkling snow to the vil- • lege, insteod of wai'ing for the horse to be ■ put to the aieigh ; go out into the yard and , I make a snow-man for the children, or 1 i play snow-balls, till tho red color comes j to your cheek and Ibr brightness to your i •>""*- j Perhaps you think you have enough of ; j exercise in attending to household duties : but that will not do. You need movement . ; in tho pure air — active, rxhilerat.ng move- > 1 niuut, which will send the blond couralog I j swiftly, and introduce freali oxygen into the > ' air-vessels of the longs. f i The principal advantage that women in - cities have over fhoso in the country is. | that tbey walk more; that they have an '-yflbjrct— something to wslk for. But. »urc- ' ly, country ladies could find many oppoitn- ' J nitics for accomplishing short distances— - ' anything within five miles — if tbey _ (fit so1 f disposed. Visits to the post-office, to the l store, and calls upon friends might often I furnish an occasion ; hut if a day romcs , when none such occurs, occopy yo -rvelf in I « j the lion's till nightfall, and then tnke Johnny's or Willie's slod, und "coast, or ! go skating on the pond at the hark of the 1 house. A good roo in the snow will be 1 better than nothing,_with husband or j i "Johnny" for a Companion, and will give I additional beauty to the bright wnrm sit- | i ting-room, and to the fresh mugixines and neespaper*. which ere ready for the eeen- | ing's amusement. - Oh ! the pleasure of the social winter ; evenings, remembered among the treasured j experiences of country life ! The intimacies ! formed with favorite authors, the disens- ■ sions as to their merits, the firm faith in ail r the iliosions which they created and tbe enchantment which distance and seclusion, like the vail of the prophet, threw over , them! One can feel nothing like thjs in a city. How is it possible when one het | ' barely time to cut ihe leaves of a new ma*. ■ " azine— when, if yoomdmire an article, or a ' book, and mention the fact, yon are sure to r hear that tho author, he,or she. drinks, or , ! does not take care of her, children, or has f ; run away from his wife, or is supposed to j . | be partly insane, or does not write whet is ! , credited to him at all T This is one of the j _ resulis of "knowing life;" but we mest ■ . confess to preferring the old faith in tbe ! truth of what it writtao, and thalslmplir.ity ; ' which is tho charm of our country hotnn*, ' and which believes as firmly in print as in f th* Una pel. A Protest. There ia room to dodhs th* propriety of 1 changing the phraseology of the Bible, as ' has been done by tha American Bible Union r in their new edition of lb* Scriptures.— ■ One of the changes read* "John tbe Imi mrraer," instead of "John the Baptist." , Th* priacipl* if carried out, woald allow of ! some queer changes. The "centurion" might become the captain of an imantry company Instead ol the simplest behest 1 "thou shalt not kill," w* should be told ' that "thou shalt not with fore* of arms, I and divers -sticks. Mount, clubs, and with I tumultuous and offensive carriage, beat, ! maim, destroy, wound, kill, ar caused to ; be killad." Th# subject grows as it goeet , Live us tbe good, old, homely and aubf lima aeoteaces of th# Bible. — Hart font Pa A — Sincerity dees oot consist in speaking your mind oo all occasions, hot io doing it '■ wbea silence would be csasarsbl* sod fslse- . hood inexcusable. f I — One dry good* house i*< New York r | sold last year seventy millions cf dollar* 1 wurlk of goodi.

The Telegraphic System of the Suited States. An exchange gives the following ^etch 1 of tho telegraphic system now in operation r in this country, showing thal-iv^s rapidly " becoming very complete : | Of course, tbe linwof telegraph follow ' line* of trade und travel, und consequently , " do not, at yet. cover so closely the .South- j eastern Steles as tbey do the rest uf the j coootry. The American Telegraph Company und : tlir Western Uunioo Telegraph Ompwsy, | * I by mrana of contracts with Canadian, Nova | Scotia, end Newfoundland companies, on . j the one hand, and with Southwestern and | * ) 1'acific companies, on the other, have toI getber a complete system of commnnica- j I tion over the entire territory of th# United , * j Slates. Tbey have, too, through the New- ! I fouadlaod companies, practically an cxclu. i ' ' sit* "connection with the Atlantic Cable. i> 1 it ever be laid. Their liurt and the iuiee with which they are Ibus connected, begin I 'a I at Cepe Uacr, Halifax, and Father Point, j ! on ttie northeast ; they go to New Orleuns j i on the southwest ; I hey icucli Sun Francia- ' co. oo the Pacific, and, through California, j I ihe British possessions to the north of Oic- ' KonThere nro two wires through the length . " of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick ; tnree ! ® others between Bangor and Boston; Shir- ! I" tern through-wires from Boston io New i York; fourieeo tbrnogh -wires between New , ' York and Pittsburg ; t.-n holweou Buffalo * und Chicago. ' Month of Washington thev connect with : _ all the i'l-porlant towiis^dn the Atlantic conn!. and"\kugu«tejx«tiil an inland line, connects LyncWIurfT Chattanooga, Allan* * U. Montgomery. Mobil* end New Orleans, j In the Northern State* there are stations , i in almost every town, and between all the i largest cities there are tevrrul distinct f West of the Mississippi River, they reach ! Western Missouri, Nebraska. Kan. as. and | -Salt Lake. Two wires run frunrfft. Louis I west lu Omaha, Nebraska Territory; one \ runs from the tamo place to Fort Smith, : Arkansas, connecting with Iho lip* to Hooe- 1 ' tou and tislveafoQ, TeBue. i From Omaha, neat, ono wire rant to 1 Denver City and other point' in Colorado, ' and another tu Salt Lake and San Fran- . Cisco ; thence northward to New Wetlmioi via Omaha, to San Francisco. Unilur the same control is to be the . Overland Line to Ksrnpe, Hint miles of | j which has been opened to the public, nonh j ' j of New Westminster, within ths lust three I ^ months. • Of coarse, ton, as industry and Icaflic re- | coyer io the South, new lines of telegra- j phic communication will ha opened there, i : The whole country will soon be a marc cub- ' !!"*• ■ What ! Another Trt T I ! Emigration to the State of Michigan wa* ; ■ I so great durin g ihe years 1H35 and 1836, i that every house was filled every night with ; i traveler# wanting lodging. Every traveler I | there slAhat time will remombor tbe dido 1 I colty of obtaining a bed at the hotels, even I - ! if he lied two or three "strange bad fvl- { I | Iowa." The Rev. Hosea Brown, an eccen- j f j trie Methodist minister, stopped one night j ■ i at one of th* hotel* in Ann Arbor, and I r | inquired if he conld have a room snd bed to 1 k ! himself. The bar-keeper told him he eoold I 1 unless they should become so foil a* to j - render It nccsseary .to pot another in with | ' I him. At an early hour the reverend gen- 1 1 j lletnan went to hit room, locked the door, i r , retired to hi* bed, aod soon sank ioto a " | comfortable sleep. Along toward mid- ' night he was roused from hii slumbers by a " lond knocking at hie door. ' "Hallo I you there," be exclaimed, "what 1 j do yoo want noirf" — particular stress on ' j the last word. ' ■ "Yon most lake another lodger, air, ia > with you," said tha voice of the landlord. 1 "What ! another yet T" "Why, yea, tbere'i only one io here, ia lliare T" f "One ! why here ia Mr. Brown, and a Methodist preacher, aod myself, already, , and 1 should think that enough for on* bad even in Michigan. " ■ The landlord seemed to think so^too, . and left the trio to tbeir repose. ' W o ax. — What yoo have to do, do thoroughly and completely, never satisfied with ' lesa than perfectoess. Be it ever so great or small, "do It with all thy might," aod ' ' never lay it said* till it is done.- Each day's j account ought to leave this balance — of ' something done. Something beyond mere pleasure, one's own or another's. Let Ihe superstructure of life be enjoyment, bat 1st ' its foundation be in solid work — daily, r* ^ golar, conaciantioaa work. - — Mrs. Partiogtoo tap thai Ike, having become very much eoameled of a siren io [ Boston, haa led ber to tb* mental altar.— t He dida't appear tha least bit decomposed. - On the back of bis wadding cards war* !>til* eobebs with wing*. . i — Th# shoe basic*** it exceedingly pros- . i peroes. beceaae every pwir is eoled before j

STATE IT EPS. * — Seton Hall College at Orange, "N. J.. s has been destroyed by fire. - I — Tbe citixens of Freehold, withoat distinction of party, have tendered ex-OoV-erpor Parker a complimentary enpper, on ! hie return to his home in lhat town. . |pTh» tenth annual meeting of lb* New ' Jersey Editorial Association will, be held ( at the Ameiicun Hotel, Trenton, on Thnnd ; day, February 8. 1866, at eleven o'clock , ' A- $'■ -4 a' — We understand that petition* are imn ; mediately to be eircalated io avery part of j ! the State for rii'ndfcrsf, praying (lie present >. I Legislature to pats a law-,- making eight ,- hours a legal day'# work. • «l j — It it understood Hon. R. S. Field ha* . - ! accepted the invitation tendered him by i. I the Legislature, to deliver an oology on i' ihe late President l.inrola, on the evealng » of the Pith of February, his birthday anniu vtrtary. '• | — By a special telegram from Washington '•j we learn that the Judiciary Committee of '• Ihe United Bute* Bennte hare reported ; that Mr. Stockton Is entitled to bis seat. '' ! We h-ave no doobl that, thir Benate w|j| su'tain the report of the committee. '' j — It is said that the Executive Chamber " is daily thronged by visitor! from all parts j of the State, desirous of congratnlating * Coventor Ward on his accession to tho * Uubernatorial chair, slit pleasant affable 0 , manner in receiving nil who dhll, amidst , the pressing and perplexing duties of hht office, i< the general remark, while profuse 1 are the wishes that his administration may prove to himself us personally gratifying at *j it will douhileis be profitable to the inter- ' I ests of tbo Sttht. K\ — The cold weather of January Pth has , killed pretty much all tha peach trees iti Hopewell ; some of the farmers sey they ^ i cannot find a lire bud on tbair trees. One j man (end a good judge) has examined several different orchards in different localities "! end found no live buds. If the blight is as % j bad as reported, the loss to tbe farmriswill | be very greet, at many of them have the most of their land sot with tree*. Tbo euds of the limbs on the trees are frozen . back some six Inches or mora. — About 9 o'clock Tuesday forenoon a lire occurred in the extensive oil refinery B or Mr. J. Charters, Newark, caused by Hies bursting of a "elill" of liquid io one of tho outbuildings. The Oatnus spread with great p rapidity to the main building and the entire f ; premises were consumed in a short tima. % j Tbe loss amouuta to aboot $10,(10(1. opon ( i which there was ar. insurance of $5,800. — Three men who were engaged at work io . I the room in which the explosion occurred! I sustained serious . injuries, being severely | burned. Considerable alarm wet created _ ; by the continuous explosions of naptha and other material* in barrel*. | — The following statement of the condl- [ Don of the IVlawste and Rarilao Canal and ' i Camden and Aniboy Railroad Companies, ■ ; on January L, l8f.G, is taken frW the reI' port of thesa companies filed in the office ' of the Comptroller of the Treasury of New ' , Jersey, in porsoanc* of law : 1 i Capital Slock, Canal; *SwRg.29fl 400 - " Railroad, 4,543,^(» ' Joint Stock, 6,8(2,200 ' j Funded debt, $10,169,472 d ; Other iodebledness, 17A.000 0 10,344,472 d Iteceipis on Canal A R. R., 1866, 6.274,637 0 | Expenditures for same period, -1,572,303 j Natl current $1,702,354 — We understand that tbe Atlantic and B Great Western Railway Company, under 1 the term* of their agreement with the Mora | ris and Essex Railroad Company, have al. i contracted for the grading of the t whole of the branch-rood from DenTille tb q Bloomfield. This line will pass through U > oo too, Little Falls, and theGreal Notch „ In Firat Mountain, and will be som< twontythree miles long. A corps of Engineer* is ' now engaged between Bloomfield end Paa terson in staking oot the propoeed new road, preparatory to commencing work. B Tbe grading on this pert of the rente it to be finished during tbe present year, and ^ also that portion bet aeon Dee villa and Boonton. At the same lime, tb* work ou tbe entira line of tb* road it to be poshed forward with ell possible deapatcb, and tha contractor* hope to have tbe whole cotn- - pleted within twelve month*. h — la the Circuit Coort. Thursday after. t noon, the jnry in th* cat* of David Price, 1 vs. tb* First Methodist PretctUnt Cborcb, * ' for aboot $5,000 claimed by him to hav* f bees oif ancerl tot thair use, and not given s to them, after deliberating an boor and a * half, cam# in with a verdict for deftadaote. I Th*. announcement of this result occasion. d quite a sensation among the large number of spectators present, moat of whom were g member* o: the above congregation, iocludq ng many ladies. — An Irish glasiar was potting a pans of - glass ioto a window, whew a groom who * : waa staading by begaa joling him, telling i him -to mind and pwt ia piaaty of patty.— i- ! The Iri'bm.B bos*, tbe banter k-r soma j time, bat ai laat til# need bia loratenter, by | "Arr*h now, ba off wid y« or ate* I'll pai a pate ia yoar bead wutoui say pally!"