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CAPE ISLAND, CAPE MAY COUNTY, "NEW JERSEY. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 27, 1869. ' ■"■•' — — M

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^tai Ik* teM, ti itlw, I Jo,. »S^.«'u»VO«klt.U.,> 2205 S.,,., ' • ftrvkitfiTnM. I "ss?£$siz"""" •TSMgaagSffrm . A -J roc- tafctac HIHI«m I L rt-«'" fc. niiu^MiMMiM, I ^w*a^j-wrts«wsstlrsfo«i ^ . """f—" -IMicir r/.Ultn-asU mall. ' A., <o».. lov«'. wllekvr) . "" 1 ■Wit mid Wisdom. — Why do honest clucks dip tlieir 1 ' head* uudor water V To liquidate their ' ^ nuk un«. — TMt ehiguon excitement 1. in Jo cadea6a. The Udic* breathe freer au.l ' ■scratch less. — Why la a peo»y preacher like the , middle of a wheal? Breause lire fellow. , •round him are tired. — Ladies who wish t . keep their r a-ear loomed? rings. i — A love of the drama should never < trees." They era two very distinct I I things. f — '• W1B you mm. to die bower? " ' aa the ' gay gambokur ' a ild when he 1 led the right' and enchrvd the greru- 1 horn. ' — Money nud Unit have both their 1 value. I hi who makes a had use of the ' i nne^will never make a good use of tlx [ I — A atmlaot riding, bring jeered on , the amy Ihr wearing lint une spur, said , W that if one aide of his horse went on, ( ^ It was not likely that the other woukl t V stay behind. t L — " If other, can't I go and have ■ my dngwrrncype taken?" "No, I I gam It lent worth while." "Well, , thaw you might let me go aud have a 1 tooth pulled, I never go anywhere." — A gs-ntlenuin who had built a j ■mall house in a sequestered part of hit groan-", « 'yt a private study, showed ' I It to a friend, remarking. " Here I alt 1 ■ rending Brora owning till night, and ' i nobody* With* Wiser." — A rpejql writer sayr: "Thuvi* \ nuiny a proud-spirited, sensitive wo- , man, who fcelsAesmdf a beggar, and unless from absolute u -ed, will go without j-a'-brr than ask her husband , for «■..-> for her own use." 1W , — An old miser, who v.-a» notorious ; L rot- A.tr denial, waa one day ssked why , ^ he 4ns »o thin. "Ido not know," ■ saldfthe raiser, "I bare tried various , F iiH-ans lor getting fetter; but without , r success. " " Have you tri-d victuals? " i inquired Ihu friend. — A Yankee lawyer, w ho was plead- i Ing the cause of a little lioy, took hiu i up in his arms, and bold Idm up to the Jury, suffused to tears. This had a I great efiM, until the op|«slte lawyer i asked the- hoy. " What makes you i cry?" " lie's pinching mo," said tk« i ^ — "Why draft yott gat married?" ■ said a young lady the other day tea ' B Iracbelor friend. " I havehoen trying ■ for the last km years to ilnd some one W who weald he elUy enough to have I me," we. the reply. "Ignee. you L lis vent bean up our wny," wss tlx |fe insinuating rejoinder, J — "Isay."tsld» WsgtoataUyouth, r whose apprxrauuc *111 U; readily understood; "wasn't ther.- a tall tree growing in front of vour father', house." "Why so?" required the josng fellow. "Beatuai you look so ir rscnisTaS 1SS mended Mm to surrender, wbenupoo .^r.vtdUr.i'.hl'.di^le .SkSSSS

gfottlUEtflMS. GOD'S. DEIECTIYE. A stSioetAB came. a*d now rr was ItWTO OPT. Odcasiptmlly we meet a lect so out of the ordinary course of human action as to arrest attention. Such an one has just come to notice in a community— it matters not whether East or West The whole najyatjrc was communicated by a gentleman Intimately acquainted with all the particulars. Nearly three yean ago a man on hie way home from a distant city had j stopped at the town nearest bis own ' resilience to get a draft cashed for nearly thirteen thousand dollars. The hank doing the business had no large bills; and therefore the packages, composed of email notes, were in bulk equal to about two bricks. These the nun placed la a valise, ill which he waa oho tarrying some presents for his The valine he placed at his feet in the cars, his overcoat and blanket being on the hack of his scat. On reaching T., being In the rear he stepped to the rear platform of the ear, without any very well deduwl purpose, except to "stretch bimwir." Just as the train started, he caught sight of his brother ia the crowd beckoning to him. At tint thought he resolved to give no attention to hia signs; but aa be continued to make them more emphatically, the tliouglit flashed across hit mind that something dreadful had happened in hU own family, from whom he had , absent seven! weeks, and forgct- , ting all about hi. money In the cars, he leapt to the ground. He had scarcely tour tied the ground before the money as suddenly flashqd into his mind, and ' he seised the railing of the ear to regain hia plaoe; but he was foiled by the great sliced already attained by the train. Ac (act of hia mind, which a mod ment , previous • waa so intent on the laqp sum of money in hia Keeping, being instantly and perfectly abstracted it to auotlicr subject is a very curious illustration of the mind's action. And moreover, it is a curious tact that this ia a chief means uw only with Jugglers In performing their marvelous tricks, but with tho pickpockets and thieves. By some sudden and startling thing they divert the attention or their victim, and thcu easily rob liim. This man's money was in on unprotected traveling-bag In a railway train, and its owner indulging In no very pleasant fancies as the swift train W^fened the distance between- him and his hard-earned treasure. He at once telegraphed to a Mr. K., a railroad official at the .terminus of the rood, some twenty-live milca distant, describhis valise, its poslllou and value, and asking him to board the train on i arrival and secure It. Meauwliile ha had found one uf the , fovorite conductors on the road, a Mr. f W., in the town of T„ where he liad I k'ft the train; and with Mm arranged , that, when by thenext train he should I go to L., lie should take the valise and bring It out by his owii train— the nddulght train -and leave it al C., with a ' brother-in-law of the nun who had lost Uw money. As soon as the train arrived al L-, ' Mr. K. boarded It, and found the prr- | clous valise, pod also Mr. II. 'a coat and In the pfeentoo of three persons connected Willi the railroad office, 1 ho opened the vslire, and found tho ' packages apparently all right; 1 ami putting them buck he at once lele1 graphed to Mr. B. that his valise waa I safe, and asking for his directions what 1 to do with It. He was answered at once to, put it III Conductor W.'t care • and send it back to C. by the midnight I train. • The valise was accordingly left in i the office, and the watchman or clerk : directed to giro It to Conductor Vi„ al i midnight ; Inst the lattor being in comi maud of a heavy passenger Iraln, and at night, declined tw lake charge of so i vqjaahlo a package, alleging that he , could not collect his fare* and. watch ! this large sum of money. He accord- , ingly tokldbe clerk to take rare of it, - and send It out by tlu- morning train, i This was done, and the baggage suas9 ler having U in charge gave it to a Mr. Ia, at V., the next morning, saying ^ there is B.hi carpet hag." Mr. I. ' alleges that he put it in his office within! examination, and In the r. yt., ° when the owner stepped from the car, ' handed U to him precisely as he re- ' orived it. Mr. B. took his bag, hot was horrified to find that the money J parcels were "efanh gone." Al once the uiost active search was instituted, with a view to the recovery 5 of the money and the arrest of the ' Uilet The mast careful e lamination ' of the officials nt 1.. foiled to giro any ' light beyond what has already been stated, that when Mr. K. exjudincd ' tlio hag iu presence or wituesaea, a]J ' appnnuitlv was safe— and undoubtedly tlie corners of the money packages a dmwed. The taggage-maetrr declared g he had deUvered the hag to Mr. L. Just if as it waa detivrred to hint at the rail- « way station In U; nod on hia part Mr. I- L., who received it atC., protested that i- be had ma touched it, but had given it n to Mr. B. aa he reed rod it from the r- There waa only one very well catnb- . llshed foes— and Hud was the tnouey c waa gone, A.Toit. mprtalrrandroorealment, not one thing was known. , The Usury, ihtw for ma* a gnat n flgnra; not only te«he feral papers, bat • I; Mr. B„ the mifortunste loser, and g ' m TJL^.^TT' " i '^ rv.'^'Wl Mr^-.^, rre

cle, was put on trial and eoovictrd of 1 the. crime of stealing that money? I ! — am told he was scntcilced for a term of 2, yrart to the penitaniiary; but a new t trial was granlyd on the ground ofh1 some alleged Informality, and than the 0 accused barely escaped conviction. As * my Informant says, the gates of' the I State Prison turned on their hinges to * as receive the alleged culprit. ' 'it He was at last acquitted; hut In his " 't. defence he had spent all his property— ' »- not a largo properly, bud his all. HI" ' " "■ brother syinpttthising with him^apent lis J suit. Tbeae. two men were financially id i ruined; and the worat of it waa that, . 1 ' although Mr. I. at this sacrifice was " >r legally acquitted, he was sUll hold re- r * sponsible for the crime by the public. I n I® If innocent the case to him was pecul- > "■ iarly hard; tl Alter Use trial was thus ended, thru " ti the partner of Mr. B., who lust his " IS money, brought suit against Sua To rei" rover half of the lo-t money; the ground is of the suit being that he had dlahoni- estlv ami fraudulently secreteted the * money, for the purpose of injuring his " it partner and creditors. Mr. B., on the T if trial of the suit was acquitted by the ^ d Jury; but tlie loos of his motley, anil his &| " heavy expenses in looking for it and it defending himself before the court, t- bankrupted him, as I am told. So tint " i- at least three wcll-towlo mpu were thus ' " s for financially ruined by this inysteo rions robbery. . e Meanwhile, the baggage-master who ,t lnd charge of the 'hag, and delivered . n to Mr. Ia, at c\, was so dislrea-ed and d troubled at the suspicions which pointt- ed in "some measure nt him, that he, ,, being naturally not very strong-mindeal y succumb. xi. cither to this pressure or ^ v some other, and lieqome {uirtiaUy cmnv d' arid is said to bs so still. •- After the suit of Mr. B. r partner * ie agniust'hiiu terminated, the two part- ^ e ners brought suit against the railroad company to recover the money, because " >4 their care earri.d the valise to L., their ^ ie officer took it from the cars at Ia in n >- Uie presence of other employees of the ^ d road, examined it and found tho raonev y sale, kepi the valise in the company's :- office, and then returned it to C. litis Ihcir own baggage-master. -This suit y wss pending until within a few weeks; a r- and it waa not unlikely the company is would have lost It had It coine to trial. * d Iu addition to all tbvae direct and posi- j I- tive evils may In mentioned tin laage y costs entailed on two counties in UKtrial of the suits, and the untold Mtb-r- )- ucss and feuds which distracted whole a i. districts, especially in C. county: ami " y for all to no purpose. ' u u 1 am now to relate a Diet which il- si d lustralcs a physiological theory at held ui c by Leibnitz and expounded by Sir it d William llnmilton, in Ihr discassinn F I, of tlie question, " Is the mind ever uu- v, >• consciously modified?" A question an- -, swervd in tlie afflrntaUvc by Hauulton, tl u and generally believed Jiy metaphyai- Is eiana. His illiistratinii is something a ■« like this. You think of A. and in- I '■ atontiy ('. comet up into consciousness ti ■l —not becatue A. called up C. directly, d -d but because A. was associated with ,1 W B., which did not crane up in con- t, d scluusuess al all, an.) C. was also asm — « 1- eiated wl»h B„ so that the mind was p a uocouaffioualy modified by B. so for as « SI tliat il linked A. to C. without its own v presence bring seen or known. This il »• Uteory receiics a striking confirmation II r" in the development of this singular a id chapter of crimof 1 have aahl that Mr K. opened the o valise In the qm-acnco of three other p ■e men, and in tlicir pn-senec restored tlie ll packages to the valise, and did with ti e- the valfoe as already ^escribed. Be- 1 ta |H.-rtt.-ilW tiiesc four men-all of them li »t reliable men— have been before the u •t oourt to state under oath all they kufev o re about the transaction. No doubt fifty li lit times, if not donhle that, tbey have v been asked by the lawyers for Uie prus'u centlon and the defence "Was any iaxlv b rk else prewml when Uie bag was exam- n at Liu-d III the railroad office?" And all a ii- of them- have as often declared that, to r id tlx- beet of their knowledge, no one t-1-- v Is® Nut tlie bust positive on this point n :h was Mr. K. himself, whose reputation n d- is Urst-rate. And so the matter has t It, gone on for nearly three yeara. Mean- i n. while every man known to have been t a- in any way associated with thft valise, r. from the time Mr. B. left tberara nntil tg il was put iu his hands again at C. J I- without iu precious ronton ts, has been 1 h- •• shadowed " by delecUves. observing 1 i-, their moromenls, habits, invratmanta, -r, and expenditures; and yet, daring the 1 v three .ware, the detectives did not light 1 ut upon a suspicious circumstance bryood ' T what has already been related. But ' all this while, as now appears, Uicre as has rested on the mind of one of tlie ' ry four men who witnessed the opening of ' lie the valise iu Uie railroad office a very m taint Impression in hit mind that there ' iy was tome one elao in the office at that en time. Yet it was so (hint that it 1 ed sfiemed folly for .him u> mention it, and' ' H) accordingly he held hia peace; but that ' lly very dim impresaion was the Subject of of thought, and when flearly three years ■] had elajised without giving any sort of ed mini- or form to that impression, tud"t imly otw night, a month ago, whilst ' il- wide awake and thinking about Uie Ir. theft, it suddenly came into hit mind lat Hit a certain young mar. was present nt whose name sod person up to this time bo were not In Urn slightest degree associated with Uio crime. After three ib- yrare -suddenly, and no doubt occney sioned by some assodathm of which be m- was not eonsdour snd which heron , ■n. not now recsU-thU young nan sudnt ileuly <bujs up into memory as having ait been there. He wag at tint tins; an employee hi the office. Uu during all - nd the time not a detective " sladow.d ' «. I.im;«alnow, iu this imraupreWiMo maniwr, one who was there .ud-

bonds by the express. Not the least singular fact was that the young man for nearly three years ,has been quietly pursuing his studios miooilv, boarding himself and dressing : 'plainly —on example of diligence sod success in his studies, and much relooted by his associates instructicbcd orie morning iw waa confronted by the railroad president and officer and charged with the tlu-ft, and theu lie acknowledged 11 The !| most of the money he restored, and related how lie commitnd the deed. He I came into the office Juat as the four lad finished the inspection of the valise, learned Its contents from their remarks, and after they left at night, ' Ik gained access to Uie office, unlocked the valilc, took the pockagbe and started home. When he reached home, lie sat down on the door-step and considered what a crime he had committed. ' and was mntrd to go hack and restore ' It, but hearing tho whistle of tlie train which was to talcs [be bog to C. as lic snpposrd, he went back home and concealed the nioneyi Afterlcveral months : lad tbiperel, he ventured to "convert ) it," as already indicated, all the while ' lite hungry ruin to swallow 1 up several men whom he knew to be 1 innocent, without malting a sign or I taking n step towards restoring tlie ' property! The suits at law and con- ' scauqiit .foliages, undoubtedly lave ' crot more than tlie sum originally 1 stolen. It would be difficulttopar.diel ■ tlu: cane; ami the physcliological fact is 1 truly wonderftd also. As if to add another curious feature 1 to the sories, the grand jury refused to ' flud a hill against the yonng tuan who 1 liad originated So many misehieToui 1 consequences, on the ground that the statute ofllmitatioil, barred a prosed- 1 lion. He had neither fle.1 -from Uie 1 to escape Justice, nor liad lie cou- I ecak-d himself in Uie (state for that pur- 1 pos.-; hut for two years— nearly three ' —he had remained so near tlu- place 1 •where lie eouimitte.1 the crime that he collld have been found ally day. Such ' is tlie substance of a very bad law, with its attendant induration. And such is God's detective, " slia.lowing " crory one by "thai "mysterious ' au.d startling power of Uie- human soul, , which may at ntiy moment bring to light the most earefully concealed crime ami Ihe nttcriy nnsuspectcd eriminal.• I'usel Oil— Whut Is Itt The New York "ii Id has instiltit.xl a series of investigations into the tricks of trade," which combine adulterations With abort weights mid meaIn tho former case, o»|»viaHy as applied to our popular beverages, Journal is performing a pul.lie duty. oil seems to be, from tliesc inrostigmliona, Uw active agent in the composition of liquors that gives Ihciit their "snap "and strength; Hut what fusel oil? What arc its character " and its elTects upon the human system? It is tlia vegetable oil left after tlie disof the spirit, and is the proof a frirther distillation. But the Is not absolutely ueeessary its generation. It is found in wines, -.which are never diatllk-d, although the percentage of this oil in wines is very smqll, ly also increase? ill amount whenqJJfflUcd liquors are " aged," and appearance on the surfoco of tho in an, oily coaling, is held t*be an evidence i>f age. Its qualityiis pungent and somewhat otic naive to the smell, acrid and unpleasant to thi, taste, and Injurious to coating of tlie stomach, and irrilatter quality shows itself In the whisky— which contains a forger percentage of the oil than other distilled by an infiatnntlon of the blood vessels of the eye, teen in the "white." Fusel all is slto generated in the of brown bread or comcakcs, as it is very abundant in maize or corn, nod is lilx-raled by tlie amount of heat to break the blVad. Tills Is what gives the burning sensation to the stomach aljer eating Indian bread, and occasions Uie convulsions known hie coughs, by its Irritating tjflkct on tlie stomach. It hi not necrsaarily noxious unless taken in large quantities or umnlxed with other tuhatanocs. A Ssiakt Widow. - A poor man on death bed made his wiiL He ralk-d wife to hlra, and told her Uie provisions he had made. • "I hare left," said he, "my -horse my parents. Sell ll and hand over the money you receive. 1 leave you dog; take good care of him and he will serve you frdthftiliy." The wife promised to obey, and in duo time set onl for tlie neighboring . market with the horse and dog. " How much do you want fot^ your r horw^f' inquired a famyr. " I earn not sell the horse alone; but may hare both at reasonable, rales. Giro IW a hundred .lobars for thedog, and one dollar for the horse.'* . The former laoghcd, Imt aa the tctms , wqre low, he willingly accepted them, p Then the worthy woman gave the husband *a parents the dollar received for . lite hone, and kept the hundred dollars [ licrseif. Kigbt shrewd.whlow. that. I — " Well, Mr. (ruow, I wants P> ax 1 rouii question." ' "Propel it, dm." -' Wbv am a 'grog shop like a traini forfeit dollar? " " WeB, Ginger, I gibs dat rigtit np. " ' " Hoes' you gib it up?— Kase j you "Yah! yah! nigger, yotT'talk so 1 much bout your i-ounterfo^t dollars, I forfeit dollar is Hke'un apple yur? >' "Oh! l^rapsthe«marttoddiwt : . . w^WHkT^*,I*Sd^»h"

It Religious Associations of the Presidents. , .as fitr as U U known ' no President of ( , s ihe United Stain since the days of , a j Washington lias biro a communicant , ,1 ins church. John Adams was tho ; j ; representative of tlie liberal qotmnunl- i . ty of his dsy. Jeflrraon was styled a , . frre-thinker. An attempt was made . when Jefferson was a yriung nun to , t make thr Episcopal Church tlie estab- , , llsbod religion of Virginia. John Le- , . land, a travelling Baptist minister, , . preached a sermon in the presence of ■ . Jefferson, on what Ik- called the "In*" , r cratoous connection of. Church 'and. } . State." This sermon converted Jef- , . fl-rsoii to that doctrine. Ills persistent ,, oppoaltiori to a State religion caused r I hlra to be stigmatized as an Infidel.— , . Mrs. Madison wss a commnnicatit nt , , the Episco|ial Church. , Her husband was not. Monroe was , , a member of an Eplsciqul ixirish, hul , , not » communicant, John Qniney | , -.Adams, though n ihemlrr of a Uni- | , tarian |nrith in Maasaehusetts, held a . pew in the Second Presliyterfon church j i in Washington, of which he was a , ; trustee, and there he worshipped until , . ilia death. In a violent snow storm I , - saw him wading to chureli, one Sun- j . was one of the seven (ersons who ' , composed the congregation that mora- [ ! ing. He never oommuried in the , chureli. General Jackson was a regu- . attcndant,on Sunday mornings.— , I ne worshipiwl in tlie 2ml Pr.sbyterfon , i church till his quarrel with the pastor , about Mrs. Eaton, lie tlu-u left for , the 4J street church and look his Cabs , i and entered hi" |w\v. wlilrli was on the , Earliest aud devout attention he gave' f . to tlie sermon. It was Ids custom, at , , the close of the'sertuon, to rise in tlie ' iiiltiistcr and thin walk out. the an- ' , dience waiting in their p-ws till he liad , reached tlie vestibule. Vgu Huron's Home Church ut Kiiul- ' , erliook was Rcformeil Dutch. At , Washington, wlien lie went to rliureh he attended St. John's Episcupul in . the morning. Mm. Polk was a devout ' , and earnest Christian wongin, l.-lorig- , Jng to thg Presbyterian Church. Mr. ( , Polk iK-companled his fiunily evhry . Sundur morning tothedj street chureli. .• Mrs. Polk usually attended the Second . Prenhyterinn Church in the afternoon, where she HeB a peW. Tho President ' seldom accompanied Iter at the second ! seniee. Geneml Taylor whs nut a professor of religion. When he at- " tended elqireh lie sat til tlw President's ' pew at Nt. John's. President Pierce was a meinlicr of a Cougregalioual - Society in Coqcotd, N. II., but not of ' his attendance at tlie Presbyterian 1 Church iu Washington on the morning 1 jif each Sabbath. Buchanan nttruded ' the small Presbyterian Cliureli on F ' street, near tlie White House. This ' Senatorial life. Ho was not a member c of the rliureh. He came to worship -' usually on foot and uoatfoiidctl. His * |K-w was on the side, about two-thirds ■' of tlie way from the door. He usually I walked up the aisle with :i -cat-like ' step, went to the extreme end of the pew, curiod himself up in the corner, ' Uc rarely »poko to any one, and linstcned from Ihe church to the White ' House. Mrs. Lincoln was a communicant at tho New York avenue Pres- ' b^tcrlan Church. Mr. Lincoln was not. But he was a regular attendant at worship. Johnson seems to lave II no religious home, but rattier inclined 1 t.. the Ltitlierans. Gwfewl Grant is " tint s professor of religion. He is a trustee 'of the. National Meilioillit Cliureh at M*aUin«toth and is a frequent atteridant oil tlie preaciiiug of e that ohnroh.— Car. tt-ntm Juurntil. . Velocipedes, t Nearly, or quite half a century ago, s two- wheeled velocipedes, pro| wiled by o tlie fret at a very respectable spcetl I, wore popular and common, but |thry u gradually went out of use.- The ren vivnl of this mode of progression at the y preseot is due lo a great improvement i- in the machine, l-v which a much higher speed is obtained, andjs greater skill required. In Europe they are at- '[ ready very jiopubir, and their popular- ™ Ity is rapidly increasing In this cotra- *" try. The BttlEBrig .of Velooipedes now *' forms an important branch of trade ip " Paris. There are not only manufnet- " ones of these new locomotives, but "" foundries where the iron work of which they arc equip**:! is qssL Ont{tif these n employs two hundred juid fifty werk- * men. and fioltlies twelve Veloripedea |«r day. for a conch builder of Lyons. lr A Lyoncsc velocipcdist is willing to take any bet that be wlU beat the fastest " trotter in a rare. A new Velocipede has been invented " in Portland, Me. It has three wheels. but a fourth is In be added. The rno- " lion ia communicated cither with the "' hands or feet, orwitli Ixith, and the *" vi-hicle ia capable of being attached to " a horre and drawn like no ordinary * boggy. Tlie stoering apparatus is managed by the knees of the rider.— a There are several other dilfcrencrei, said lo be improvements, and Inge* iofaely contrived. "• DUTV.— Keep the law of duty ever ' before you— let it or your never-failing pillar of HghL He brave, and on the m j square with you coneefeeo.' to the last. j.Your success in life may not be equal •o to your hopes or your deserts; it is not ■s. in mall to insure succsqs. The best u- and wisest of us may fail in the struggtc; flhl we have cmr traisototion even t ' tluui. To gain lla- world's applause. ' 7 aud snatch Its tk-rtiug spoils, is not a " ; aad brokapa him onward in the race " : fir those sfo-rnal honors which the * -lie pri'p" thin all may strict™. v ' ; .. . * ■ .

Dead Latter s. Of all tlx- official work done at 1 Washington uooe b regarded with f more Interest by the transient viaitor 1 ! than the Dead Letter Office. Here sit : some fifteen or twenty gentlcuiro- fu' ' ' is a (auk disgraceful to humanity , ' that females can not he employed, so . > obscene fetters poison the mails , ! — coutinunily engaged in opening the 1 four or five millions of letters that an- 1 uually find their wny there. More than I. j.Oft) fetters are daily emptied ' their desks, asking to be. opened. , Uie letter is found to have valuable contents, those coutenta are en- 1 xtoreed-opon its and the letter letqtneii ^ the envelope. A record is mode of all such letters, and tliey are at once r returned to their writers, without repostage. So perfect are tlie ar- 1 rangrmcDts that it is liardlv jioesible that a valuable dead letter, wnich has ' otiee reached the office, should fall of , re-visitliig the writer, if it is hi tile ' power of tlie deportment to discover - him. -During the past year 33,0(10 letters, inclosing £141,234, wore received nt 1 office, and nearly 2H.00O of them, ( containing £130,020, were restored to ' fellers, there were- 21.000 dead fellers. ' containing bills of exchange and other ' valuable matter, appraised at over 8">,- r 000,000; over 40.000 .-ontaining plioto- f gmplis, jewelry, Ac. ; ami IC.OOU cou- ' Value; nearly all of Uirm were n-tunH d j why any of tl.. >.v letfora foil of Is itig [ re-lnroed is not tlie fault of the d; part- | ' f ® "yo^f aflertlonate Adie;^ and as j ^ fine!- 'writing thus fore I lave on.-e I ' gratifies curiosity. Here 1 saw eferks 1 1 profnselv scatter. <1 over their draks, • 1 and amoug tlie various artiek-s recently ' taken out «.f their enrohqx-s I noticed ' the fellow ing: slippers, valentines, a 1 ; tore*, paper colfora, einulets, horns. ' pijx-9, wateli-cases, h.s.p.. albums. | .lolls, (one or them two feet high; it ' ' lets of fhH size, tar-rings, butter-knivro. ' 1 little gold or silver about than, h.nv f tares, a Ix.x of cigars, a lxutle of Ja1 tunica ginger, a squirrel's tail, prisius. J combs, boxes. Ac -/four, al Ihmt 1 xluKtUur ■■hrnomeiin on flit- } Ohio. | , As the Mctqphb and Clnciuatl ltaek- ' coining 'up tiic Ohio, fosl night, at SJ , o'clock when within a short distance ' oecured betax-en tin- Mail Line sfoumJ ere United Statcl and America, the j watchman. Mr. Jacob Thorp, aud tiic , liarkeept-r, Mr. John Mcllurem, who i were on tlie guards, togi-tlier with Mr. Murphy, tlu- steward of the boat, look- . ing out for the wreck, and desiring to i! sett how the place looked, wer startled . by a singular pole Mim light, which . row slowly from out the wafer to the a height of several feet, and I fed about t fifrv seconds, when it diss qqqarcd — e The liglit Itself was not roey. lyiftlit, yet 1 they could distinctly see tlie oujftiies of s tin- wreck and on tile bonk foriwiiiwdis- » tance. They were- at first puzzled, hut t liefore a minute elapsed another lignt a was seen io rise tlie sonic as- the first, if The pilot who saw the first one wns now also puzzled, auil was ready to believe it a " hatlj' and about to answer it, when a third column of blue light '' rose nearly alongside, as several of the I offierra saw them, and consulted as f hey gazed in wonderment at the spectacles, y at the same timo wntchbig closely for " any signs of nien ahont the inick, and * failed to discover any cause for these ** died, and one or iwo rafer terrified, as !r tliey were not much unlike the ghosts of tht departed. The officer* Who saw r" them affirm positively, and we can not doubt ihcir ancrtiotun,' assertrel earned ly as they are, that these llghta, so singular, wonderful, and unnccount- ^ able exploded, or expanded, after ris- ~ -ing, and asaunietl human forms,— ' Every one on the boat wns aroused, and great exdfement prere-alfed. All * went out on wafeli, hut nfti-r Jiasxikg j. IttmiiKMKD spirits abide at tlie o source uf all felidiy, and enjoy incoaat ccivahle pleasure*. Tbey are com--plrtely rr leased frookall sin* sutlirrd lugs, from all feinptatioinaud s-.rrows. s. Moral evil, with all Its attendants, Is »■ eternally haniahid from those bright ie abodes: for the people who dwell there ie are ail perfectly righteous; nor shall ta any of the inhabitants of lhal land say, ry ■' I am sick." Their garments are- always white; — their harps are always tuned. Boiug a, with Christ, according to Hiz promise n- tiiev behold -IHs glory, aud are <Mlghted with His beauty.— Hood, or BEAUTiri L Tnouoirr.— Dickens ig wrote: "There Is nothing beautiful i*' and good thai dica and Is f.wgotten. An infant, a prattling child, dying in ad it" cradle, will live again in tiic better o' thoughts of those who loved it, play itwpart, thougliJts body he hurneti to 2" ashes' or drownrtl in tiic deepest sea. ™ There is aot an aagel addsd to the «. heats of heaven but doea its blessed ; work hu earth in those tliat love it re. here. Dead! ah, if Jibe good deedsjof W. human creatures rouhl lie traced to cc their souixxq how feautlful would even he death appear, fur how much charity, ay mercy, purified affection, would be aero w, tn have their growth in dusty graves.'' A saTCltAX, riava— The tea anrt

THE two t'Ri»;\ns. A. it.;;-, tacxlmaJ si m. last lay ^ ( 1 sHH't^'a ! * , Bn.o-ls1:.aytUl.ta...ral a Of tSosc wheat j .-se by j eir uarlicrcC is Brief stneare jalnre! asra, to foot o AslouaCnl, ssal fn.» aoat ostrsa^rd. t| At Je*4 of alzht taelr sslti wore SIloA d Ah^ra^^wruTi^relSTwUloo' r wLodl sal njrf one tliaiNiM ruales- „ jour .ISepl.lsth., join »,,lo. . » TS|ota«r font lam ko«r st twt. t' Ills remarkable tluit n-|.iitaiice was |i the firet subject that Jolin the Baptist. .. Christ, ami his apostles qireaelird on, ft and from-tllis we learn the great u.xx-s- 1. sitv of il; tutd as they puhiidy nd- p dressed all sorts of psraons, we See tliat fi the luisthk.-s reiure-rni ng repentance, n tinl reformation; but this foils short" of q | in a true rexivlctlon of siu. and our be- y liuhle to eti-nial punishment it for sin aa nsakts the sinm-r taUeri^ra " 'I'.""" IMl^r;,"n nqra,"in]|"il'nf all ' | It. Christ. Thus the true |H-uifeut is [ i I fully c.mvln.ral in hia judgment ..r Oir j< it in the glass of the moral law ami the j t aufli-ritiga of Christ. He feral, tin . much oife'uded so holy ami gnufl.ois u j < , God. ami he not only renounces the H sistaitiT .If the Iloly Spirit, he endrav- I or* to follow the I .onl frilly in all holy ' obedience to Ids blessed will. ' J al a tfinc. ' " ' *n,,> : " itthsough the OI,l Mid Ne^f Testa- ■ hi the way .if enforcing a. all i-xautpt- - - Willi otlKiKof a dltferenMiqw. ' • T. Find out the roiilnist between » ". Take a verse somctiuics to pieces. | ■ word by worel; ami find when the po- 1 1 you lut/eu't a conmien'tary.' put by the i 1 iiiflieuit passages to ask your minister - B tlic/ueantug of tlicm. " your n ailing of God's word improve ' .von in the article of self-examination ] '' and growth iu grace, t " fsu'l Rub II Out." t "Don't write. there, ' said a father ~ to the son, who was writing with a i " diamond on Ids window. " " Why not? " r "Because you can't rub it out.',' j d Did it ever occur to you. my child, | e that you are- daily writing that which j », Yon made a cruel sprech to your 'r mother the other day. . It wrote itself d on her taring Ix-art, and gave her great w | rein. It is there now, and hurta her (. ,-vcry time she thinks of it. Y.mcap't is You whispered a wicked thought w one day ia the ear of your tjlqj-mnfe. ft It wrote itself on Ida mlndgtad 1.X1 him 1- U. do a wicked act, II j» tbemlnbv: w you can't rub it ouL / t- All your thoughts, all your words, »-. all yaffis acta, are writtro in the book - or God. The record is a very sad one. 1, Yon can't rub it out. B Mind toe! What you write on the :g minds of others will stay there. It can't he rubbed .ml anyhow.. But, glorious news I What is written in 18 God's book can be blotted ouL You *' can't rub it out, but the predous Idood of Jreiis ran blot it ont if you are sorry. r" and ask Him. *' Go, then, O my child, and ask Jesus * In blot out the bad things you hare written in tht book of God. ill TueFoixtain or Ltvi va (Vatek. y, — It is refolcd of n benevolent man tluit he lived in a, village poorly supplied e; with wafer. Dry seasons exhausted ig the wells and reduced the eitixeus ta se great straits. About a mile distant it- was a ucvcr-fiiflliig apring. The waters from this he conducted by pipes ta the heart of the village, and so furnished a !'' supply al all seasons Ui the inhabitants. This act oT generosity touched tlie people, aud when he was dead they erected a monumeot to his memory by tiw fountain that lw had opened for tix-lr Iwncfit. Such a fountain has ° j Jesus iqiened to nastiagc tlie thirst and i save the lives of pcriahlng men. II . risi's as tiic rlwr of the water of life out . j of the throue of .God aud the Lamb; and tlx Spirit and the I wide rak to the ; thirsting multitudes liuifl^ts banks to . approach and partake freely of it^heal- , iug virtue. Shall we not erect in our hearts a UH-umucnt w Ihe Author of .. this living fountain; a memorial of our : gratitude and devotion, testimonial .(I

I " ' " " 1 11 11 1 11 t*1 IsMprovr lite r.Trninas. With the nrttini of the lengthened, I , and pleasant and cool evenings, comes tlx- query -to all, how shall we liqlt lot- : prove ihcut?. Tlwre are a thousand ./j* lilcasont ways of >ix-ndlng a foU^ftr "inter evening within the nm-hof tliow | who have coinuiatid of their own time; • and ; imminent among Uh-sc is iadul- 1 gvuee in literary pursuits. -Hqwffew, .xmfiamtlvciy. of tlx- youug'i*si|do of »* preseut day appreciate, as tliey dl should, tlie Inestimable privileges tliey * enjoy? Surfounded, as are tlie young "J of forge cities, with all the opportuni- ^ tie* necessary for the cultivation of a * apixura to improve tlwsr golden *' chance*. Occasionally, it is true, wc ,r meet with a young man or a young * wlw. firmly gnu-i« the idea " kfiowfedgn is power, ' ' l.ut these, ^ the rule.. * Thntndntls -ryouug men, who hare 1 coiufortiihl.- bonus whose parents are w willing to supply litem with foxiks and P1 Iq^-ad of svalUng thenirelve, * of llieae adTanUig.-r, s|x-imI their long foil and winter .-v.-nlugt citlier in idle ^ Thus, winter after wllfor " passes away, eneli one l.ringing Owni " U Ihe age, of manli.nd. lajf not fitting tlicinjur tiic i-rop.'i>titsrtl5rge.if t h.- duth-s Ihm a frill maiduxjd re- » quins. Thev enter ll|K.u the husv oi stage of life •with U--U- ^ s I throw, a rouu.l it. is— .a. nr. They " j Start "Ut folx.ritlg mater a thousand nl ! sliadow. l.-fore U .vcll-infewnird mind. '' i Tlie fact tliat the. i do not contemplate ^ auy ilegr.v n ll.-re lla-m fr-aii the J' Ihtwfritferiiig nirrtlVpr.ri.ms Imure d III.- long evenliigs of | Ik- foil! ami ° Fate ot the Apostles. f. Matthew i. stippxral to hare suffi-re.1 a ' martyrdom, or waa slain Ins city of t. , I Kthiopia.. , a Mark was dragged tliniugll tlie '1 , - nttm-ls of Mexau.lria. till lie expired, p at Home, l.ut as«i|irtl dentin Fled l» n . , Ixrak of the " Itr retail. ms." II.- tlkxf i . j a natural .l.Attli nt K|diesus. AMa. i: ' piiiiin.-le ami lx-3ten to A-atli. 1 , ' Iforthol.niit-w' was skiiuud alive, u . 'like the letter X-henre. St. Andrew's t I Thomas was nm through witli a I ' ; Simon Pi-ler wits i-rucified, head . r | down-wards, bocuufo lie did not feel I e I worthy to he eraeilkd like His Master, i I I The Greek cross colors from t Ilia. I | i'aul was beheaded by the tyrant - f Nero of Home. i l.pst Time. | j Tlie boy who spends nil hour each j evening, tauugiug idly on a street r j corner wastes, ill the course of a single n | year, three hundred and sixty-lire prej clous hours, which, if applied to study, would familiarize him with Hie rrnli- ! menu at least of almost any of the faI | miliar, sciences. If, in addition to Hull j wasting of an hour each evening, iuI sjicuds lire cents for a cigar, Which is IC wiftae than wasted, would pay for four lt of tlx- leading magazines of the counj r try. Boys, tliiuk of these things.— .( Think liow much precious time you are wasting, and for what? Tlx gratllt llcation afforded by the lounge on the h comer, of by the cigar, is not "only temporary, hut poaitivcly hurtful.— ^ You caunot indulge in tin* practices without seriously injuring yourselves. You acquire idle and wastefril habits. ,l| which will' cling lo vnu for life, and p, grow upon you with rach succeeding year. You may in after life shake M thsrn off; Imt the pfobabilitii-s are tluit 1, habits thus formed in early Hfe, will lt, remain with you UU your dying day. Be cautioned then in time, and resolve tliat as the hour spent in Idleness is ^ gone forever, you will improve each y, passing one, and tlxreby fit yourselves for tax; frllness snd happiness. re Nnccess. The successful man Is uot axvxorily the man to he envied— not always »• the lispidcst man. Human nature al cannot have its own will long without «i becoming deteriorated by IL We are appointed to struggle, and in struggllug our highest life is developed.— nt Tlx time will crane wlxn tlx laws of -ra our present condition win -cease, snd he wc shall be able to bask in the sunshine ' I a of success without danger ta virility, • M- or enervation of our virtues. Till then j e3 it is our wisdom to accept our lot aud i oy make the best of It— to sock for our en- 1 by jnymeut in our work rather than what [ 'or ;la- work produces— to till the soiLand as dismiss nil ueedleaa anxiety about the | nd harvest — lo he more concerned that we j should he right than tliat we should ml succeed; in a word, to bear ourselves ib; like wcll-diiclplined soldiers, with he whom strict obedience is the most sscred or obllgalioos, and who are thereal- by absolved from responsibility as to 'ur results. Tlien, so for as success is vouchsafed us. It w[H be grateful; so iur for as it it denied, it win not discon1 cert n- Thus living, our Ufr will ie

< OAunr.ax. *JoXl>AV, Jon. Jtk— 1» ihe hemic pr. -.-ot.-d. M ry- Niiemian. from tlxFtuano- l',xuifottre. reported s bill Jbey woul^pLiix— amendnxnls to il. •Several pctWawl i xpfonstlons In answer to arebipoprr crmriwnk were indulged In. j^hy'Committee tin CornNew York ("xi JxHuhm Telegraph lo bind Iheir cafatss on ihr ■boas uf tlx; United Stairs and reeoni-iu.-ii.icd its passage. Mr. Murbia's t|x-cir payuxat bill Wss reportxl hack from the Finance (Aifiimittcr. Wlh r n-qucsl Hist llxy be discharged from furciirr (x.usideration of tin- same. Mr. TrambuB Introduml a hill amending lit tlx- Judiciary Couunitiev. - Tlx. bill lo regulate Ihe duly on copper pos.xt by Mr. MOrrili waa lost.aixi lis Senate adjourned without taking ft irT tlxr action on the bill. -in the House, uii.I.rlheeall of States, numerous WlU were introduced au.l referred, among then; one prupoahl; i iiit^d State* bauda, Uk^ of telegraph line*, tinder Ihe direction of tlx l'osl Offioi Department, between New York, Ifextou. Fiiiladelphia aud IVtishiugton: to exempt mnmifecturer* of prinhxl u.-wspajx-rs from tax, and to admit Mississippi to representation (by Mr. Ilingliaiiii; n nrailutiiat declaring no frirtiu-r snhsifiies sliotiid Isgiven by Congress to niiinaufeur other crporations was ofli-n-d by Mr. Holof In. liana, and |iasse<l under tlx previous qucBti.ni, by a vote uf tsl to grant* of public land t» cor|airaUons wns fold on the table by a vote of I HI to 34. Tlx Naval Appavui. A resolution waa ofii-red hy Mr. illltler directing Ihe Comptroller of the Currency to inform tlx House wlml tZitioual hauka had been allowed for Paeilfe; Itnllraid curreury bonds, and lo give utlx-r information refotlv. to national Links. The Vrsolution. after SOUK- warflf debate n> uilfipt.d. Senate joint resolution res)xcting provisional govern menis .in Virginia ,-ui.l Texas was passed. Tlx House s.s.11 aft.-r went into I '.nnmittoi- of tb^ H'tede on tlx Is-gisfotive, Executive mid Judicial Appmprfotioti Mil. ami was a.hlieswxl l>y Mr. \Y.xxL after Ti EsiiAV. Jan. ill.— In tlx Senate lla- reply of i'resitlent lo Ihr aniSeiiatvr Ferry said tliat theinquiry was liol answered as to tlx right of tho Th< documents wen-1, referred U. tinJtaliefory Committee. A resolution . asking fe.r information relative tot ho cltuse of Alaska was adojiteil. A bill provitle forn mail ami emigrant lin.of stcauisliipe heliveen New York and was iutnxluced and refcrrrel to tlx Post Office Committee. A resolution proposing negro suffrage throagliI tlx Constitution was adopted. The .xittsideralion of tlx Copper bill was then rammed, and, after general d.--Iiato, was passed,, only eleven Senators t voting in the negatire. An executive sessiou was lxld. The timytix ate I sidorcd and the English treaties were I referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. The Senate then adjourned. In tlx House Mr. Robinson tried to get in n resolution proffering the use ' of tlx ball to George Francis Train, ' but the regular order of busineas wss * insisted upon. A resolution for the '' printing .-f 300,000 copies of tlx report '' of the Special Cotumiasiotxr of tlx " Revenue was reported, and Messrs. " Kelfey, Garfield, Jenrlm, and other* » length. The resolution wss sdopted. ' The bill regulating elections in tlx orII gsninsl Territories was passed after " some debate, by a vote of 61 to fid. The '' Senate tall granting lands to the Deny vsr Pacific Railway and Telegraph - Company was takro up aud generally '• debated. Mr. H'sslitainx madr a '• strong sixech in opposition to It. and *• at the conclusion the House afijoorned. ld WkdmebdaV, Jan. 20— In the 8enate a biU to extend tk- jurifidictitm of the Court of Claims to claims of loyal 11 citizens in rebel Htates was introduced " and referred to tire Judiciary Commit* >'• tee. Two bills lor tlx reorganization c of the army were introduced hy Mr. is Wilson and referred lutire Committee h Military A flair*. One of them pro '" piers to abolish the rank of brigadier general except in esse of staff oBesrs and to have brigades iu time of war commanded by colonels. A motion to take up the Air Idna-llalll IffiffffiWlaHi vailed after some opposition, and Mr. » Whyte, of Mary laud, made a long arT gument against iL as an afornuog en- ,( croachment of fikferal power. At the .-"iH'lu-ion the Senate went into Execuv tivescsaioo, where the Ctunmingt nam - i- itutikm waa diseuox.1 without action. - The Senate soon after adjourned. „f In the House Mr. (fcbenck intro- , . doted a tail to strengthen the public credit and relating to contraeta for the 111 . payment of coin, which wee referred jr. to lfcfcifonimitu.-c<-n Wars and Means. , Mr. FaTRkmarth, from Ox Post Office . Committee, re^find stall to restrict •t | ful for the privilege to be used only hy id I a written autograph signature; but the .. c-coud section, which was stricken out , br a rote of 123 to 66, abolishes the right of stty oueentitfed to the frank to id receive mail matter Uirough tlx Post rs Office free of postage. Tbe Reconstru I'll, : tion Committee reported a bill for the . removal of dieabtHtiee front a force *• numher of pencna in the Southern j itite^wo^thUd^ma^^y. ' ^ rretauSon