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saps? MaWfffeM air ha floltlp litis sjjle Excejjt the magazines and periodicals, which fia6gf flrougHt were just bogmhlng to grow loud fil a considerable portion of the large grain districts at the Northwest, atid'setious losses were apprehended but last Sunday and Monday, copious rains afforded relief. Telegrams published by Cincinnati papers show that rain fell heavily all through Ohio and many porta of Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky. The Cincinnat i Gazette expects to hear of a decided improvement in the corn crop. The Columbus Statesman speaks of general and extensive rains, particularly along the line of the Little Miami railroad. The Milwaukee ATeics has full telegraphic accounts, of which it speaks as follows It will be seen that rain fell Sunday and yesterday In sections that were suffering most from droueht.

This will prove welcome intellis ence. and although the corn crop is not yet of of danger, the prospects arc now favorable for a partial recovery, at least, a fair yield, At most places, last evening, there were indications of more rain. At this place we have as yet had no raiu of cou sequencey but in tho northern part of the county there were heavy showers on Sunday, and iu the southwest, extending into Kentucky, there were copious rains yesterday. The Nashville papers report fine rains in that section, and the corn crop is represented as promising a large yield. The New Tork State agriculturists seem to be favored in all respects.

The Genesee Valley Pivss, in the following remarks, represents the universal satisfaction The West, the great American grauerv, has, for a few years past been sadly deficient in it's average yield 6f agricultural products. The present season, however, the Great West is little short of one vast granary. The wheat crop, the great agricultural staple of the North, is without parrallel. Even throughout the region visited bv the irreat June frost, it was deemed utterly ruined, a large crop is to be harvested. Perhaps iu no locality was the freeze more intense, and the effect of the frost more deadly, than in this county; and yet whole fields of winter wheat, apparently killed dead by the frost, are now ripening for the harvest around us, and promise a larger yield per acre than nas ueeu realized lor years, in many fields the place of one neau, two aud three make their ap pearance on a single staiK, ana an well tilled, and of excellent berry.

We seo it stated" by our exchanges that the wheat crop of the State of New York will this year vast ly exceed that ot any previous one for a long time. The corn crop too, is very promising. Never was so large an area of corn planted, and never wu it looking better at this point in the season. True, in Western New York corn is generally backward, but it is nearly up to were we commonly find it the last week in July. Nearly all the com will fully mature, should frost hold off till the middle of September.

Potatoes, oats, buckwheat and like productions were never looking netter, and a scarcity of no other product than that of hay is now anticipated. Nor is hay a short crop in any other than in the regions visited bv the frost. The and uis Victim. Virginia Stewart, the city reporters say, after lingering in an agony of pain for a fortnight, died yesterday, after "convulsions lasting several hours;" but (her spiritual advisers savl in a state of houcful peniteiisc, and praying, with her latest breath, for tne welfare ol her slayer. This unhappy and ill fated woman, it will be remembered, was shot down in Broadway, by a person named McDonald, whose mistress Virginia had at one time been, in Mobile.

The circumstances of the murder were of a peculiar atrocious character. McDonald threw himself in the woman's way at Taylor's Saloon; but there is testimony to show that she refused to have anythimr to do with him. After she had thus shaken off "the reptile, as it were, he, with a manliness and mae' uanimitv almost unheard of before, drew a pistol inv, iiumiui, nuuc sue ill? ill Llie act Ol fleeing from him, discharged its contents at her head. Upon the murderer's person at the time was likewise found a bowie knife. Shade of chivalry! A bowie knife and a pistol to wreak one's vengeance on a feeble, helpless, imoffendine wo man, fleeing through the streets at the time, and the murderer after her, in broad davliirht The victim is one to her final account but the mur derer awaits his deserts, here, in the Egyptian Tomhs.

It will not do to be over saniruineYhat he will ever be brought to punishment for reasons which have hitherto been hinted at. In the first place, lie is said to he. wealthy. That is something. ut uivs luiiuiuLUU invuun, ui uiii That is another thing.

Then again, Virginia was only a prostitute. That is one thing more and even if all these things fail, is there, not still remaining the old plea of "insanity," that never fails to'cheat justice out of her due May it please the Court wo move that Robert C. McDonald, the murderer of Virginia 8tewart, be discharged without further ado. We are tired of going through the forms of mock trials for offenders of this stamp. It is a needless expense to the tax payers of the county, and a gratuitous mockery of the" forms of law.

Let him go He might as well go now, as some two, three or six months hence. A'. Y. Express. Destruction of Sheep by Dogs.

The assessors in Ohio, under an Act of the Legislature, have endeavored to ascertain the total number of sheep killed and injured by dogs during the year 1858. The returns from only a few counties have been published but these, few as the counties are, disclose a fearful amount of slaughter. The returns of eleven counties, covering' not more than one eighth of the State, show over 7,000 sheep killed and nearly 8,000 injured, at a cost to the owners of over $25,000, and all by a pack of curs utterly worthless. If the proportion holds good throughout the State, the annual loss to sheep growers must be about 200,000, and if all the dogs in the State were put together they would not be'worth a tenth part of that sum. We trust that the legislation under which these statistics have been gathered will be followed up vigorously, and that some judicious measures will be taken to abate an evil of such magnitude.

Oher States will doubtless follow Ohio in any efficient measures she may adopt. The danger to shesp from dogs has for a long time prevented an increase in the sheep growing interests of this country. Many men who would otherwise engage in it are restrained from venturing, from the risk attending it in consequence of the dog pest. If this were removed, the business of wool raising would at once become a leading and profitable one. Pitttburyh Gazette.

A Vert Singular Affair a Babe Elega st l.V COFFINED AST) BURIED IN THE RlVEIi. EarlV on Saturday morning two laborers discovered "a canvas bag floating in the river at the foot of Cherry caught between the projecting rocks. It was found to contain an elegant walnut coffin, in which was the tastefully shrouded corpse of a male infant, about one month old. The shroud was of white muslin, and the little head was gently laid upon a pillow of raw cotton. The features were natural and tranquil, nor were any indications ofa violent death discernible.

The Coroner was called, whose investigations showed that the babe died of congestiou and dropsy of the heart. How singular an incident Here evidently was no infanticide. Evidently the little one was loved, cherished, and tearfully resigned to death. The daintily wrought shroud, the soft pillow, and the tasteful coffin indicate affection, means and leisure. But the strange burial The mother undoubtedly would have placed the relic of her treasure where she could have planted flowers upon its grave But she dared not.

It was therefore placed iii a canvas bag and launched into the river. Jlore than one head and pair of hands evidently were engaged in the arrangement of this singular obsequies. It. hmis JJenuicrul. Orkiin (if the Term Old Dominion "Few things are so well calculated to awaken in the mind of the proud Virginian, when wandering in foreign lands, touching reminiscences of home and kindred, as the simple ment ion of the 'Old Dominion And yet comparetively few are aware of the orb'in ol the term.

It originated thus During the Protectorate of Cromwell, the colony of Virginia refused to acknowledge his authority, and declared itself independent. Shortly after, when Cromwell threatened to send a fleet and army to reduce Virginia to obedience, the alarmed Virginians sent a message to Charless who was then an exile in Flanders, inviting him to return in the she ship with the messenger, and be king of Virginia. Char les accepted the invitation, and was on t.im nnlnt nr embarking, when he was called to the throne of as soon as ne was lairly seated ou the throne, in gratitude for the loyalty of Virginia he caused her coat of arms to be quartered with those of England, Ireland and Scotland, as an independent, member of the empire, a distinct portion of the aid Hence arose the origin of the tei m. Copper coins of Virginia were issued as late even as the reign of George which bore on one side the coats of arms ol England, Ireland, Scotland, and Yirginla, 411 nc cunt, tnsugh re elicawly manufacttirodf liatlv TbB snmAM islted bv ffthimbnt iiorAeu muu wueu nrsv mode QXtobaeooialtingyi'ot yat.gtve$in this volumejhiit which is evidently tho origin of the cigar. It is told by Lionel Wafer, in his account ofhis Travels in the Isthmus of Darlen in He sayB that when the tobacco leaves are properly aneu ami cured, the uatives 'laying two or three leaves upon one another, they roll up all together sideways into a long roll, yet leaving a little hollow.

liound thb they roll other leaves one after Jiuhe name uuuuci, uui ciuws unit aara uu me roil ia as big as oae'i wriBt, and two or three feet In lenfrth. mnt. ingwhen they are in company together thus: A boy lights one end ofa roll, and burns it to a the part next it to keep it from wasting tod fast. The enil so lighted he puts into his mouth nnd blows the smoke turuugu vue wnoie lengui 01 ine roll into the face of every one of the company or council, though there be two or uree nunureu oi inem. men lliey, sitting in their, usual poBture upon forms, make with.their hands hold together a kind of funnel round their mouths and nosea; into this they receive the smoke as it is them.

sniulne it nn greedily and strongly, as long ai.evdr they are able to hold uiiii aim Deeming 10 oicss memselves, as it were, with tho refreshment it gives themi' Lieutenant Paee who commanded the Amerlcnn tji speaks of tho universal custom of smoking in Paraguay and inviting visitors to join. Tho servants, as a matter of tumuli umig Buiun urass vessel, containing a lew coals of Are, and a plate of cigars. This last hospitality Is offered in every house, however humble in pretensions fn other respects; and all men, women and children delicate reOned girls, and young masters who would not be with us promoted to the dignity of pantaloons smoke with a gravity and gusto taat is irresistibly ludlcrious to a foreigner. My sou sometimes accnmmmicii mi. and was nlwoys greatly embarrassed bv the pressinc offer of e.gans.

I made his excuse by saying 'Smoking is aprac tice we consider injurious to 'Si sfeniSi iii Paraguayan would reply, 'with nil other tobacco, but not m. lln uumsL.ic8 lonacco is u. con slant passion." After smoking, take a pinch it is not, however. without its perils Scented snuffs were sometimes made the recipients of poison. In 1712 the Duke de Noaillcs presented the Dau puisuessoi ranee wun a box or Spanish snuffin which she uuiigiiieu; mie Kept, a lor a lew aays privatolv; It was charged with poison, which she inhaled, and five "days after the present snemefl out, complaining of a Bharp pain in the icmpies.

ins exciteu much attention, and great fear of junto on uie one nana, or oitenng it ou the oilier. It became aereneral belief Hint Mm. i In Spain, and by Spnnise emissaries to clear nway political onnoncntn." The Homance op Monte Christo. That won derlul romance, "The Count of Monte which is assuredly the rfiefl'ceiwre of Alexander Dumas, relates with equal force aud uiinutenss, how Edmund Dantes, wronged by various persons in his youth, relentlessly devoted the energies of las mind, in maturer years, to obtain siffnal re venire .,11 1 'iuu an. viic uy one nicy suncr exemplary punishment death, or disgrace far worse man ueatn.

une by one, the suffer, kiiowiiiL' while they writhe, that the wronged of bygone rlnva rnmrlil tlinn, nil 1 11 in UJUl LUC ICITIOU tivejustice which smites them down has borl its arrow fashioned by tiix dexterity, feathered by Ms anger, barbed by M.i hate, and shot from the bow by ix revenge. it is a fact, we believe, that the main idea of Dumas' romance was supplied bv a circumstance which actually oceured in Paris. The real hero was a shoemaker named Picaud, whose marriage was prevented, in 1S07, by four false friends. After a lapse of seven years, this man emerged from the Castle of Feneslrelle, in which he had been confined on suspicion excised by bis fouruuemies of participating in the nnti Napbleonie principles ot'La Vendee. He returned to the world in 1814, after Napoleon's fall, aud was so changed that he could not recognise his own face when he looked iu the mirror.

Seven years within four walls had bowed him as much as half a century of ordinary life could have done. He had obtained, in prison, the regard of an Italian ecclesiastic, also a captive, who, deserted by his own relatives, bequeathed seven millions of franks in ready money, and almost as much more in jewels and bullion, to this one faithful man. Having realized his property, so as to yield him an immense income, with a large sum in hand, Francois Picaud arrived iu Paris, calling himself Joseph Lucher, ou the 15th of February, 1815 eight years, to the very day, ou which he had been arrested on the false evidence of his friends. Meanwhile his betrothed had married one of his friends, two years after the disappearance of her betrothed. The four false friends still lived.

One of them was soon found with a dagger in bis heart on the Pont des Arts, and ou the handle oi the poignard was inscribed. Number One. The daughter of the woman who was to have wedded Picard, alias Luqhcr, was the next victim. She was married to a Marquis, who turns out to be an escaped convict. Another of the enemies dies oi poison," and a paper with the words Number Two is found pinned upon his bier.

The eon of Mar .11,1.1. ynwj i.u uave inarriea J'icaud in lsui) is tempted to commit burglary, narrowly escapes the galleys, and is sentenced to twenty years imprisonment. His mother dies broken, hearted his father dies, stabbed lu the street bv Picaud, who discloses himself as he strikes dowii Number Three. As be struck, a blow prostrated himself and stunned him. On recovering he was himself the captive of a confederate, who attempted to extort immense sums of money from him for food, (as was done to the French banker in the eve of the Romau bandits,) who fiually slew him buch are the outlines of the real story on which Dumas founded his string romance.

The New York correspondent of the Charleston Courier tells pretty story about a pretty maid servant, which we copy, proem and all Almost everybody that is anybody is now out of town. The business streets are less crowded than, usual, while the fashionable ones are entirely deserted. The young men in the down town wholesale stores have nothing to do but to loaf, read the papers, and try to keep cool. The splendid residences in the Fifth avenue and other similar sts are barred and bolted, and even a procession with a band of music brings no one to the windows as it passes but the servant girls who remain at home They have a good time playiDg the lady while their mistresses are dancing at Saratoga and bathing at Newport. But I would have you know that some of the maid servants here are a very good looking and well behaved class.

A most amusiiv illustration of the attractiveness of certain pco" ple, and of the infatuation of others, occurred tho other day. A young man from one of tho interior States, having come to town, thought it but right and proper that he should pay his respects to a family with whom some members of his own had beeh well acquainted. He got himself up regardless of expense, and having shaved and been shampooed at Phalon's and having dined at the St. Nicholas, he started to call upon his aristocratic, but unfamiliar friends. Ringing the bell, a very handsome young woman came to the door and let him in.

Upon inquiry as to whether the "folks were at home, he was informed that they were not, but that they had been out of town for some time, and would be absent all Summer. The man was fresh from the country, and cpnld not distinguish the lady from the lady's maid. Havingheard Ins sister describe Miss fl he made up his mind that the person before him was none other than she whom he had called to see. The maid servant denied the soft impeachment, but bo would have it that she was only playing off. He had a night or two before been to see 'She Stoops to ponquer" at one of our theaters.

The maid servant finding it impossible to undeceive the young man from the country, invited him into the parlor. They spent the evening very pleasantly together, the ready and spirited conversation of the servant convincing licr visitor that she had been playing an assumed part. He thought that she was intelligent and handsome cuough to be the daughter, of the proprietors, if she were not. Under this conviction, he went to his hotel, not, however, until he had assured her that he would call again, and his sleep was of course sweetened by pleasant dreams. His visits were frequent and constant.

And although he has since satisfied himself that the young woman whom he saw was a maid servant, and not tho young lady of the house, his interest in her has increased to such an extent that he has formally proposed marriage. He is honest in his intentions, aud well to do in the world, and of course she will have him. This marriage will or should create quite as much talk as that soon to take place between the millionaire Spaniard and the daughter of a gentleman late Lieutenant in the Navy. The Buffalo Express says a woman named Louise beriyens, the wife of a canal boat captain, getting ircd last Saturday of lvinsr Idle in nnrr 'i? rJZ arrested nnrVlnnVvii ti.n stnnding that he should be released Monday night: and then, leaving!) in the hands of an officer to given him when he was sobered and set free, to pay ins fare t0 Rochester, where he could overtake her, she started eastward with the craft, assuming the command, and transacting all the business of clearance, Don't be afraid of the Jenkins," said a boarding housejnisjtress toa'boarder Not at fljji madam, I've seen apiece twice as large, and aiBB'tscftMnje abKi" ne ulm nujmrior omccr to finish up a spree in which he had been engaged soveral days ie the boat was loaded and ready for a start, nail mm arrested nnrl'lnnVnii II. llr.r..

little role, by 6. sueum liUiiutm wmiai we cresumey tne namcrs. or some other repo auce nerc, containing a history of the weed which is so generally used, and frequently abused, iu this country. How the weed" has been; abtwed la familiar to most personslT except smbkerV and' anuff takers. Perhaps it was most abused' by Caroline, of wrtef of George the Second.

Her Majesty was. unreasonably fond of melon but she cared not a lig for the pleasant fruit', unless: she could eat It plentifully besprinkled with tlttilJ lating Spanish snuff! Used or abused, tobacco has stood its ground. Almostentirelyuselessas.it is, in nuti cases, it lias rendered itselfto thousands, a prime necessary of life. The most terrible despots have fulminated innocuously against the leaf and the poVder. The Sultan Amurath fulminated more furiously still against the plant and its patrons.

The sons of Islam smoked onand with the bow string round their necks puffed out a last defiant Allah Akbar What the Sultan Amurath was wont to do with regard to smoking, the French physicians were accustomed to do with rcspoct to snuff takers. They publicly lectured against the powder to attentive anil half convinced assemblies; but when their brain became dull and their memories imperfect, and the lecturers unconsciously took out their boxes, dipping therein the finger and thumb, and applying tho stimulating pinch to their eager nostril, the whole audience burst into a roar of laughter, and every man who could, immediately followed the practice rather than the precept placed before him. Numberless are the treatises devoted to the history of this singular plant and to nnecdotes connected with it. Mr. Fairholt has added a volume to its many predecessors, and goes gossippingly through the story of tobacco and the three centuries of possession which it has held since certain Europeans first beheld a few American savages "enjoying a pipe." That original pipe was called a "Tobago," a Carribeau name which Columbus subsequently gave to the Island so called, because he thought it resembled the shaped instrument liy means of which the savages, as he thought, perfumed themselves.

The herb used had different names; probably in the Tobago different; sorts of herbs were smoked in different countries. There is even some suspicion that there were smokers in Lngland before the great admiral discovcrcdAme rica and that the monks, especially those who lived in the unhealthy neighborhood of marshes, were in the habit of smoking "colt's foot" in order to keep the bad air from their vigorous stomachs. The latter herb, in more recent times, was often mixed with the Indian weed, by way of adulteration; and indeed there are still provincial smokers who maintain that eolt's foot is more agreeable and more useful than tobacco itself. It is even now offered to the patrons of the pipe at the herb stalls in the Loudon suburbs. It is probably true that eolt's foot and similar herbs were commonly "smoked" for especial sanitary and.

not for luxurious purposes. Tobacco alone has been ordinarily taken for the mere pleasure of inhaling aud exhaling it. Some smokers confess to little weaknesses which require the application of a pipe or cigar as a ealmaut or sedative. John Wesley vigorously opposed eveu this sort of application. One of his own "preachers," much addicted to tobacco, was compelled by the great "leader" to promise uever to smoke single pipe again.

The next time Wesley entered the preacher's room the delinquent was calmly smoking two pipes at once The founder of the Methodist eveu insisted that tobacco meant dissipation in which opinion he was decidedly wrong. Gravity, perhaps, predominates where there is smoking but it is a gravity which may unite it9elf with gaiety. A group of smokers gravely gay or gaily grave cannot be said to be more inconsistent or absurd than aroom full of waltzers whirling round to Strauss's adaptation of the "Miserere" of Verdi. Snuff taking, indeed, is, generally speakipg, a more serious and solemn affair than smoking. It was certainly most in fashion when our habits were moat BtxtL ana our cuaioms moat xormal.

It irnve delight to the universal steady and unsteady public alike and it created large fortunes for half a dozen eminent houses of venders, at least. After Queen Charlotte died, and the fashion of snuff taking went finally out, the fortunes of those half dozen houses trembled in the balance. The terrors of the proprietors were calmed by the cigar mania which aose, and the fortunes, diminished for a time, began again to increase. Ruudell i Bridge, indeed, and others, experienced a permanent diminution of profits in the dnnart snuffboxes, so long the favorite gifts of kings to ambassadors and of anxious nephews to ancient aunts but then arose the happy and lucrative idea of "testimonials." It became the vogue, and it continues to be so, to terrify everybody into giving apiece of plate to somebody and the gold and silver smiths continued to be able to keep country houses, men cooks, and well cushioned pews for miserable sinners, as before. There is one phase of the snuff box trade that is not generally known.

We allude to the presentations made by sovereigns to the diplomatic gentry The regular gift was a box with a portrait of the august donor, surrounded by diamonds. The order used to be forwarded from Buckingham or Carlton House toRundell Bridge, to supply such a souvenir. The goldsmiths forwarded one accordingly, which the King or Prince graciously placed in the hands of the recipient. The latter, on withdrawing from "the presence," bade his coachman drive to Ludgate Hill, he placed the same box in the hands of the makers, who gave him for the pretty, but not much coveted ware, a modest but acceptable sum. The box did duty again at the next presentation, was charged for as a new one, and again found its way back to, and was bought by the makers.

The process was an understood thing, and nobody complaining, everybody was satisfied. But we are straying away from Miy Fairholt's book, which Is rather a collection of materials than history: but by good arrangement of those materials, with little or no original matter, may serve lor history particularly with the pleasant addition of such illustrations as the compiler has included within his volume. Here is a whiff or two from the well filled pipe "Ofliterary men Goethe hated Ubaceo, a very extraordinary thing for a German to do. Heinrieli Heine liad the same dislike. Of French litterateuors Balzac, Victor Hugo and Dumas, did not smoke but the smokers are Alfred de' Musset, Eugene Sue, Merimce, Paid Ie St.

Victor, and Madame Uudevant, better known by her sobriquet George Sand, who often indulges In a cigar between the intervals ofliterary labor; as the ladles of Spain and Mexico delight In doing at all other intervals. Uharlea Lamb, 'the gentle was once a great smoker. In a letter to Wordsworth he says 'Tobacco lias been my evening comfort and morning curse for these live years. I have had it iu my head to write this pot for these two yearn ('Farewell to Tobacco'), but tobacco stootl in its own light, when il gave me headaches that prevented my singing its praises." Lamb once, iu the jglit of his smoking days, wits j. idling coarsest weed from a loqg clay pipoiti oompany with Parr, who was careful in obtaining finer sorts, and.

the Doctor asked him how he acquired this 'prodigious power Lamb answered, 'by toiling after it, as some mon toil after virtue." Of other Hterary araokera in England we may note Sir Walter Scott, who at one time carried the habit very far. So did the Poet BloomBcld. Campbell, Moore, and Hyron delighted in Us temperate enjoyment, as doea our preaciil Laurent Tennyson, who has echoed its praises with hyron in immortal verso. Itohert Halt, when ut Cambridge, acquired the habit of smoking from being in Parr's company; and being asked why lie had commenced, 'I am qualifying myself for the society ofa Doctor of Divinity, and this (liotdinsr up the pine) is the test of my "When presented with Clarke's pamphlet on 'The Use and Abuse of ho said, 'I can't refute his arguments, aud I can't give up smoking." The learned In the law' as well as the dignitaries of the Church have smoked. Lords Eldon aud Slowed, and Lord Brougham in early life.

Indulged thus. The late Duke of Sussex gave it aristocratic sanction, asd George the IV. royally patronized it. Thus, from tho throne to the cottage the pipe has been a solace it has aided soldier and sailor In bearing many a hunl privation. Many would rnlher go wllhout their rations than their pipe, and endure any hardship with il.

Here is a modern instance from the late Crimean war: A lady told me a story of a man, in herdivision, which shows how much some of them will venture for a smoke. He had just had oneof his toes taken off, under the Influence of chloroform, ttbled profuBtly; and the surgeon, after, binding it up, wont away, giving l)er Btrict.InJuiic tions not to allow him lo move, and ordered him some me medicine, which he would send presently. She was called away to another patient for a few minutes, and went, leaving with strict orders not to put Ida foot down. On her return to his bedside, to her astonishment he was gone and, afer some searching sho discovered liim by the truoes of blood on the stairs and corridorc, sitting down to have a pipe with the greatest sang frvtd. She spoke to him seriously about disobeying orders and doing bjmself an injury but he was perfectly callous on the subject of hw mo, Hqcoeoded: in working on his fecUhgS at having disfigured the cflrrldore with blood, and ho came back saying, 'Indeed malanif Iir could not help going to have a pipe, for.

that was the nastiest stuff I eveVgot.dronk on a ray UreVWqdlfeM'tiif' Hr the come iorin regaraiess oi limes uuu seasons, tne publishing business seems to be at a stand still. The Harpers have issued the first volume of the biography of Jabez Bunting, who wa.on$ of the faihers of English Methodism. It j9 a biography which will be eagerly read by the Methodist'com nrunlty, both on account of the position which the subject occupied in the Church and the character ot tne work, it is crowaea to repletion mtn traits and anecdotes for which Methodist have such a penohant. As a writer, Mr. Bunting is sincere, unaffected earnest, ot course, In the advocacy of his own convictions more credulous in accepting certain facts than those without the pale of Methodism will be but seldom rancorous.

Jabez Bunting's parents were of humble ex traction. The father was a tailor in Manchester a Liberal, "who warmly espoused the "cause of French revolutionists," but was a staunch Methodist. So also was the mother of Jabez, who had entered the sect in opposition to her family. Jabez was born in 1779, and in his infancy was "de voutly blessed" by John Wesley a blessing laid much stress on lor their children by "firm and lively" Methodists. He became early remarkable for talent as a boy at school, and there was popular as well as clever "Was above the height of most bovs of his ace: pale aud delicate looking; and, though possessing very suapeiy tegs, ot feeble ana uncertain treadand walk.

He shot up quickly, aud stooped; and there were times when the garments of olive colored velveteen, which should have clasped his dark grey stockings at the knee, refused the meeting. He was very modest and courteous. Wheu not hard at work, the boy, Jabez Bunting, was fond of tronc; and those who knew him intimately later life can readily believe it. Knocker tying, on a dark night, wis a favorite sport." It. was intended that he should study medicine, and with that view Jabez was placed with Dr.

Pcr cival of Manchester, a man of Laucashirc celebrity; but the persuasion that preaching, and not physic, was to be his vocation, grew irresistibly, and after four years of pupilage, in 1798 he stood at the doorway of the house of James Asheroft, and "there addressed a congregation on religious subjects." From that time forward his life was principally devoted to pulpit services. As affording an insight into the character of the man and a view of his domestic life, we copy the following characteristic passage "Every Methodist'Preaeher, when his probation has ended, and he is fully received and recognised as a Minister, but not before, is entitled to charge the Connexion with the maintenance of a wife. The regulation is easily vindicated, when explained. For the candidate's own sake it is expedient, except in very special circumstances, that his attention should be exclusively devoted to the duties and studies of his vocation besides which, no man of honorable mind will expose a woman he really loves to the results of possible failure. To the Connexion, the arrangement secures all the advantages which the probation de rives, from it and it is' far easier to deal faithfully with the case of an unmarried man, than with that of one who has doubled his responsibilities.

Wheu the period of trial has been honorably passed, all parties derive benefit from the speedy, if prudent, marriage of the young Minister. He settles down at once to the business of life, with all its sympathies and interests, and finds in the joy and solace of his home, the readiest assistant of his work abroad." The above passage introduces a long paper of considerations, in which the young preacher weighs the pro and con of his matrimonial hopes and fears ou paper. That this was serious and conscientious, we have no doubt but the circumstance of such a meditation of numbered advantages and objections being carefully drawn up by one who, being in love, also desires to do right, makes lor our argument as illustrating the re strained passions of those who, incessantly called on to quicken and lead others, are no less inces santly accountable for every action of their lives, for every pulsation of their hearts, to the very per sons whom they are to swav and subdue. Jabez Bunting, however, married a good, zealous, cheer ful wife a woman of whom ail survivorH sneak I with respect and affection. She teased lilni Curing the days of consideration and courtship with the love of flue clothes.

She had livelier spirits than some might approve in a preacher's helpmate but she was approved by the Connexion she was influential in it, aud appears to have borne the ceaseless publicity and scrutiny belonging to her lot without fear or arrogance, like a thoroughly true hearted woman. The Christian LXw of Amusement. By J. L. Corning, Pastor of Westminster Presbyteriau Church, Buffalo, N.

is the title of a little volume of lectures, which the author delivered to his congregation, and has now collected and published. The views advanced are sound and rational, the necessity ofamuscment admitted, and the duty of seeking recreation which is neither immoral nor unhenlthful forcibly urged. It will be read with advantage by all who to see the important subject it treats of sensibly handled. For sale bv Mr. Babcock, No.

340 Fulton street. Under the title of American Wit and Humor the Harpers have issued a volume offuu collected from the lighter departments of the Magazine, and furnishing food for laughter to the most melancholy hypochondriac. The illustrations by McLcnan are full of life and character, and are irresistably comic. We have neglected to notice the last number of Harper's Monthly, which, however, requires no aid to reach the public. Its pictorial articles are the "Cruise of the Essex," the "Hunting Ground.

of the Saranae," and the "Musicians of Our Woods." The latter is devoted to a description, with microscopic illustrations, of katydid, and invests that interesting vocalist with the charm which science throws around the commonest niem bcrs of nature's great family. Au excellent essay on "Visitors discusses the modern method of vis. iling in a sensible and judicious manner. To he guile the tedium of these Bweltering days thei is no better assistant than this magazine, whi.l, amuses and instructs without taxing the mind liy abstract and heavy disquisitions. From across the water we hear of the approaching ii'sue of several new works of interest.

Tint London Athemteimt states that Mr. Owen Maddvu is engaged upon a work called Thomas Irish which is likely to throw Hunt on society in Ireland during the Repeal movement and the closing years "of O'ConncU's The cur respondents of Davis is said to be stamped with all the freshness and genial sincerity of his im, resting character. Mr. Bentley has a promising list of announcements. In addition to which hear the 1 Lives of the Princes of Wales," by I)r Doran, spoken of.

The author of John Jlalifa' is also engaged on a new story, A Life for a l.if,.' Lady Charlotte Pepys is at work on the illustration of 'Female Influence'; aud the author of 'Charles Auehester' is underlined for another appearance in a new book, Almost a As for the popular novelists, if we may give credit to repori, they are more than usually lively iu this oppressive season. The Jiiiiritnt nf (Jnumterm finds fault with tin editors of Appletou's new Cyclopaedia for partiality. It says Take the sixth volume just issued. We should say of Dumas iils, for instance, that ten lines would have sufficed to make mention of his existence anil ofhie exceedingly French and demoralizing writings, instead of three fourths ofa column, to the exclusion of far more valuable matter. Andrew Davis, the apostle of mesmerism, spiritualism, and other shadowy humbugs, is gallantly served up a column and a half of closely printed type, while the heroic Baron DcKalb, the com uamon ot Lafayette, and who, after lighting bravely for our country, fell at the disastrous battle of Camden, is dispatched in thirty lines.

Again column and a half displays the rise, struggles, pro gross and success of Miss Charlotte CuslinW theatre actress, while for Hon. Judge Curtis of Boston We fflVt mention other fifering disproportions but these will an wer for the present, FRIDAY BTjBlrtJTC, Bo inn tt ater uonru mu of the Water Rent. The, Old Board of Water CoriunisBiOncrs are a mosi ztrkbrainary set of men. They have served the duWIc, so say their apologists, who by the way are reduced to a very limited number, for years without fee or reward, and are the most self sacrificing body of men in existence. Their leader, xnagnudmonsly visited Albany atan expense of time and frfcrieyto aid in the passage of an act which was tp enable himself and colleagues to retain pos session pf the Water Works for all time, without the shadow of responsibility or control, from the Common Council or the people, and all this from pureiiand lofty and patriotic benevolence.

Of course they have had no object in view but the benevolent one of taking care of the interests of a community unable to take care of itself. Nor do they intend to cease from their tutelary guardianship of an. ungrateful people. The Act of last winter provides that "When the said (Water) WorfiS' shall be completed so as to be capable of delivering and distributing a daily supply of ten millions of gallons in the said city, the said Commissioners shall certify the same to the Common Council and thereupon the exclusive copllrol and management, thereof as fast as the same shall be completed shall be transferred to a pennment Water Board" The engineer of the 'irks Jested their capacity some weeks since and, if We'are not misinformed, Mr. Welles has his certificate in bis pocket that a daily supply of ten millions was being delivered, and the works were capable of furnishing that amount.

Still we do not hear of these disinterested patriots relieving themselves of their duties. They continue to collect the water rent and have got an opinion from their lawyer, Mr. Van Cott, as to the legality of their light to make such collection. In some respects Mr. Yah Cott ought to be peculiarly qualified to give such an opinion.

Being one of the authors of the act originally introduced into the Legislature, whose merits were sufficiently discussed and were it not for his scorn for the disciples of St. Crispin, as set forth in the defence put forward by the' Commissioners when arraigned by the Common Council) ire would add that he was the chief in patching up the present celebrated enactment. But inasmuch as he is the lawyer ol the bid Board, in sustaining his employers, his opinion may be open to suspicion of a slight bias. The 18th section of the act provides that the Water Board shall recommend to and the Common Council shall by ordinance establish a scale of an nual rents for the supply of the water as distinguished from the assessments, Ac." Now, according to Mr. Van Cott, this section is a dead letter the Commissioners go on and collect rents for ever and the Common Council need never be referred to.

The water rents as distinguished froui the assessments, are to be called annual or regular rents," and these rents are to be established by ordinance by the Common Council. The only power conferred upon the Board in the matter is that they they may fix the time when the rents shall be payable, a provision simply for their own convenience, as there must be some particular tirrte when all taxes andassessments are due. But if they can go on as Mr. Van Cott argues, why was section inserted at all The provision declaring that the New York rates shall be payable, except as other rates shall be fixed by the Common Council, might give color to the Commissioners to collect the rents if they had first applied to the Common Council to fix a rate, and that body had delined or failed to agree upon one. But as the law stands it is far from clear that the Commissioner's are acting legally.

Their management of the works so far has rendered their administration sufficiently odious to the community, and the more doubtful powers they assume, and the more jaunty superciliousness they exhibit towards the Common 'Council, to whom the Legislature delegated the power to fix the rates, the more they will increase the dissatisfaction of the public. They should first have applied to the Common Council as directed by law, and if that body had failed to act, they would then have had a valid excuse for usurping the power they have assumed. The Philadelphia Ledger describes an unusual mania that seems to have taken hold of the young bloods of that city. It is known as the Meerschaum fever," and so rapid has been its growth that a smoker of cigars or fine cut is not considered genteel or fashionable unless tne smoke of his "regalia" or "Turkish" passes through a meerschaum. The meerschaum is only considered valuable when it assumes a dark, reddish appearance.

No matter how much it may smell like an old pipe, and scent one's clothes until friends turn their nose to the windward, fashion has issued its mandate that meerschaums must he colored. Cigars are smoked without number, sleepless nights are spent in extracting the oil from tobacco, so that it may be absorbed in the beloved meerschaum, and the coveted color obtained Friends are invited to smoke that never were invited before, so that the time may come when the owner can, with feelings of gratitude, exclaim: How beautifully It is colored." Fabulous amounts are paid for them when they baye donned the fashionable hue, and that which was worth hut fifty cents when new, has been sold ae. ilgb. as fifteen dollars when colored and rank with the oil of tobacco. The price, however, can not be considered enormous when it is understood that the finest quality of meerschaum cannot be perfectly colored under three months, and then it must be in UBe nearly all the time say, for in himj uiguia yer uu smoueu mrougu one, each cigar costing three cents, would make the cost for ninety days $81, without counting sick headache, nervousness, The meerschaum, or that portion of it in which the cigar or tobacco is placed.

is made in Vienna, of clay found in Asia. This clay resembles the porcelain clay of this country, sad is easily moulded into any required shape, and the finer the quality, the more easily colored by the oil of tobacco. The mouthpiece of the meerschum is made of amber, a substance resembling rosin, fouln alont; the Baltic Sea. This is valued according to the size of the piece, and its fitness for mouth piece. Many of the meerschums, since the great demand far the article, are now made of French clay, with mouth pieces of copal, and so strong is the resemblance that none but judges of the article can distinguish the difference.

They are called by the knowing one "Mere shams." They sell from twenty five centB te one dollar, and upwards. The Teal meerschaums are valued, as before stated, by the length and purity of the mouthpiece, and the Oneness of the clay from which they are made. Some of them sell as high as 20, and the bowls for pipes as high as $50, in consequence of the elaborate carving upon them. They ore made in Vienna, where a large number of persons are employed to meet the present demand. One firm, Doll have sold over $6000 worth the present season, and the cry is still "more meerschaums." These pipes have been in use in Vienna and Germany for fifty or more years, and by a few Germans in this country, but not until very recently have our own citizens taken such a fancy to them.

Now, the fever is equal to the mulberry tree mania which spread over the country, and every cigar shop has its display of meer schanms Those who are not able to purchase the 'Simon Purcs," use glass imitations, and one respected friend has brought into use a portion of a lobster's claw, because it had been colored, with tne necessity of killing himself by smoking an unusual number of cigars. Zeal thbut knowledge Is but a religious freii ItlateligJonBighteneaoutofitswUs. Tfilsourailf Commissioner. Jtou asfc my opinion, whotoor water rents can be coilec led by you before a scule of rents shall have been fixed by the Common Council i The act pn8ed April 15th 1S9. (Laws of ISM 809) expressly provides (JlSXtWl the regular atid extra rents now charge In the CityoT New York for the ifse of the SSlsr vaiil forthe In tho City of Brooklyn as hereinbefore provia'ea except as a different Bbale shall from time to time ba flxed by the said Common ConncUt'j i The upon the recMuWendation; Sf fife TVater 'BcJard td'eBlahllth a Bcale of annual rents by ordinance.

The Legislature thusjtoonecole of "Water rents and authorized the O'ortmon Council to fix auifferent scale Nothing can' bo clearer, than that the1 Legislature scaio remains until displaced by the different scale which the Common Council may establish. Certainly, what the Legislature has 'done does not require the aid of an ordinance of the Common Council re ouactingtte same scale. The sovereign legislative power does not invoke the, help of the subordinate Itself has created. i The expression ''shall be paid as hereinbefore provided" in sec. 18, refers to sec.

12, which provides that "all water rents shall be paid collected by tho said Board," and to sec. 14, which provides that "the saidBoard shall fix when all rents shall bo payable." The plain import of the three sections taken together, ia that the water takers shall pay the statute (I. e7Croton) rates to tho Water Board at such times as that Board shall fix, and that the eomtnon Connell on the recommendation of the Board, may from time to time fix a "different scale." 11 n'Ight well ftp asked, why'did the Legislature refer to the Croton rates ijr the act fixed no rates, and the Common Council (which derives from the Legislature its whole power to fix rates) was authorised only to fix "different rates." The Legislature did not choose to leave the fixing of tha rales to the tardy action or divided opinions of the Common Council, but at once fixed the Crolon rates; leaving to the Common Couneil at its leisuro.andas it could agree to make a different scale from time to time as tho Dubllc welfare might require. It is extraordinary that any doubt should have arisen about a Legislative intention so clearly expressed uly 80lh, 1859. Joshua M.

Yam Coct. An Affair op Hokob. The Richmond coires pondent of the Petersburg Express says "A duel, of a novel character took place at the residence of Robert Hancock, Sbockoe Hill a day or two since, during the absence of that gentleman from home. Two men gaged a quarrel, in which both were much abused, they resolved to heal their wounded honor by a resort to the duello. There was but one pistol accessible to the combatants an old horseman's urna but they got out of this dilemma in the loHowiuir remarkable maunp.i The heavily charged, the distance (ten paces) marked on, and the privilege of the first fire decided by the toss up of a cent.

The parties then took their position, and the fortunate tvinnor nr ti, asked his antagonist if he was ready. Receiving an affirmative response, the pistol holder blazed away, striking his opponent on the side of the forehead, the ball tearing up the skin and glancing off. piumpiy instant death would probably have ensued. As it. was tho darky was severely stunned, aud fell to the floor." MARAV1LLA.

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23 Myrtle avenue, near Fulton st. ao28 3m PIANOS TO RENT. JAMES E. LENT, 359 Fulton street, (opposite City HalLl Brnnklm Would respectfully inform the liuUlic that hp style of Instrument, from a very large stock, by the tear or month, at prices which will meet with the views of those desirous of RENTING PIANOS. Having devoted special attention this branch of the business, and with sunerinr fnniiiti feela assured that he can please all parUes.

Every advantage is offered to those who wish the rent within a given time to anDlv to that, nnrnnw a UOICKCASBE MADE iKOM SKW PIANOS. IK PREFERRED. m26 3m SILVER SOAP. This unltiae preparation for cleaning and polishing Silver, 'lated and Britannia Wares, Mirrors. Marble.

Tin. tc most convenient and effective. It contains nothing that can possibly Injure the finest plate or Jewelry. It gives a finer and more lasting polish than whiting or rotten stone, with half the ouuva, iue angers. For cleaning fin valuabfe Wlndnw eIas3" and mage mountings, ish PUMICE STONE SOAP.

ROUGH AND RHADY." This Soap will remove from tha hands as if by magic, stams of all kinds writing and printers' ink, pitch, varnish, withoutthe aid of oil, akoholor acids. No counting house or workshop should be without it 0nl7 by tht' B0SHN INDEXICAL SOiP COMPANT HEflZvVT'HABeD1J' 68 strMt sSSte HEGLMAN 4 Broadway. In Brooklyn by my7eod3ny MRS. M. HAYES.

175 Fatten street. PERUVIAN SYRUP. This preparation of ljo differs from all others, behwaDro tected solution of tho Protoxide, a combination never before obtomed in a permanent form. It is widely known In Boston and NewLugUndWhereltls prescribed by the most prom nent physicmns, and is extensively used by the most intelUgeiH and respectable cltliens. For DebiUty from any cause pepsia, and the various diseases arising from a deteriorate P.ifnn?611'!04 'J extremely effieous? Pamphlets, giving a full description of the remedy and the re markable cures it has effected, may be obtained of the agents.

We subjoin an article from the Boston Daily Adverttecr, at unc, 1858 Peruvian STRDP. We feel Justtfied In calling attention to this medicine, after carefully weighing the evidence of its bene flcent qualities. The value of iron to the system is well known, but it has heretofore been deemed impossible to maintain Its protoxide In solution, fn such a mariner ns to be of permanent value. We have now, however, the testimony of Dr. Hayes our State Assayer, that a method of combination has been discovered.

which obviates this difficulty, and that this preparation of the protoxide of iron may replace all the existing ca. lunations of the Materia Medica, It has already received the approbation of several physicians of high standing, white the proprietors have many testimonials from respectaNfc private citizens who have experienced its virtues. We believe that is is very efficacious for the cure ofa variety of diseases to which the human race is N. L. CLAEK Proprietors, 6 Water street, Boston, Mass.

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STODART PIANOS. JAMES E. LENT, Having been appointed by the manufacturers, Stodart Morris, Sole Agent for the sale of the above justly celebrated instrument for Brooklyn, begs to Inform his friends and th public that he Is prepared at all times with a full assortment of all sizes am) styles, which he Is enabled to offer theowest manufacturers' prices. E. deems it ouite TunneceaS to refer to the merits of the STODART PUNO.

as it is w51 known by all makers and dealers, as well aa own ant have used them for the last quarter or a rJenS whS will testify that they are beyond all doubt one of the Sl'atW not the very best) Piano Fortes ever manufactured iiistli known as the sweetest toned ami the most durable flie manufacturers can with uridc point to every'Piano as an advertisement, and every owner as a frfendPartle ilesirous of purchasing on time can accommodated bvndfl Alf lhoae wish tohire can alws bt suited both In price anil and style of instrument. JAMES LKNT, 359 Fulton street oppositeolty Hall. Hoi.t.owav's Ointment ani Pit tiip TTimr enthhour. Let no victim of Scrofula San jcum iT or eruptive malady, fancy a iw Imnosslhle it too ate to use Holloway's i 21 AlISF and byallDruggUUi.ataflc.,a': tod lp'er pSt or box' ygr Locust Mdunt.vis Coax. We have now i org, in line order, from under cover mWpi! trill, nnV, i cover, guaranteed nn nn.n.tiiunT "f' lu? aosence or cllnl 3i nker and small Fobnaces or Stoves' Orders re "nine, renner tms Uoal gren eatly superior Kklm OATUKMNB FttRRlES, Brooklyn, and at to Beaver street, two doors from Wall, New a5 MARSTON POWER.

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Residence 195 Smith street, near Baltic. lafiem (Mice, 343 Fulton street, Brooklyn. "Pbahcb, J. Walker, PLUMBERS AND GAS FITTERS, J.rPw Practical PlumherN 57 Fuit0n 83T Jouven's Kid Glove Cleaner, 25 cents 0n? hoUe cleans 50 pair. The name of J.

Cxarc 8So Broadway, New York, is upon every bottle oTthe genuine. For safe by Mrs. M. Hayes, 175 Fulton street. anS jeloiy" Attorney and Cronseilor mW' iaie IS irec from William street, nfZ JSJfe Notary Public.

CorotnUaloner of Deeds for the cS or Brooklyn, and Commissioner to take Teal many, Acknowt street. 2d dotty from Butler st. Broklv. loUt'tf it. ai.m vj, ui, PmUo itwit, Brooklyn.

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