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A liberal discount will be made to those who advertise by the year. (Cl)oicc floetrji. THE EVENING UEARmSTuivE Gladly now we gather round it, For the toiling day ia done, And ihe grsy and solemn twilight Follows down the golden sun Shadows lengthen on the pavement, Stalk like giants through the gloom, Wander the dusty casement, Creep around the firs-lit room; Draw the curtain, dote the shutters, Place jhe slippers by Ihe Though the rude winds loudly mutter- What care we lor wind-spite's ire Whaleare we for onlward seeming, Fickle Fortune's frowning smile, If around its love ia beaming? Love can human ills beguile. 'Neath the cottage rool and palace, From the peasant to ihe king, All are quaffing from Li'e's chalice, Bubbles thai enchantment bring. Grales are glowing, music flawing From those lips we Inve the best-0! the jay, ihe bliss of knowing There are bearls on which to rest.

Hearts thai ihrob with eager gladness- Hearts that echo to our With what care and haunting sadness Mingle ne'er in look or tone. Care may tread the halls of daylight, Sadness haunt Ihe midnight hour, But the weird and witching twilight Brings the slowing hearthstone's dower. Altar of our holiest feeli.igs, Childhood's well-remembered shrine, Spirit yearnings, soul revealings, Wreaths immortal round thee twine. miscellaneous. llurled Trresuies.

The Tiber is not only rich in historic associations, it is rich in treasure. An English company has actually offered to turn the current of Ihe stream far above the city and around it, provided the government would give them what they might discover in its present bed. This would be attended with a vast expense, but it would pay. Treasures of art Irom age to age have found their way into Ilia stream, which would bring into Ihe market perfect remuneration. In the museum of St.

John Lateran, a magnificent column of stone is lying, which was taken not long since from the Tiber, a portion of which has been polished to show its beauty, and no one can sea it without wishing to have more of the secrets of this river revealed. Statuary more perfect and perhaps more beautiful than any of the ancient works of art now seen in Rome lies embedded in groups beneath the stream. Agoslino Cbigi, the famous banker at the time of Leo once gave a splendid entertainment to the Pope and his cardinals, at which the dishes were nil precious metals. The price paid for three fish was 250 crowns. It is said that the dishes were all thrown into the Tiber by order of the rich banker, in order that no less illustrious guest might ever use them.

The Facred vessels brought fiom Jerusalem by Titus, among them Ihe golden candlestick, are reported to have been lost from the Mitvian bridge, and if so are still lying Tbe present government of Rome will suffer nothing belonging to ancient art to pass Irom ber territory, nor is it able to carry on such an investigation on its own account. A victimized Youth. One of our country friends the other day related to us the particulars of an incident that occurred in tbe vicinity of bia residence, which may serve as a warning to young Jereeymen who venture over Ihe "old Keystone" on courting expeditions. As the story goes, a young gentleman residing in New Jersey made several call on a young lady living in a neighboring township, tbe daughter of a widow lady of considerable During one of hit visits he waa purauaded by the of the mother and daughter to promise to marry the engagement be afterwards felt anxious to be released from. He to told the widow, who raved and stormed a means of enforcing her purposes, retained the splendid horse and beggy of the unfortunate youth, at tbe same lime declaring that she would not consent to restore him his property nor release him from the engagement until he paid down the sum of SIOOO, which he actually Threats of a lawauit for breach of promise of Marriage so frightened the verdant Jerteyman that he "socked down the cash" rather than encounter the perils of a suit in Court.

Look out for the widows, boys 1 They are troublesome creatures to deal with, especially when a poor Jerseyman fall into their East on Argus. PAPER TOWNS IN NSBRASEA Nebratka Pioneer ofMich 24th eay: "We would advise all oof fiiends to beware of paper towns. There i at this time a perfect town making mania; everybody seema desirous of being the owner of a town. Ail persona desiring to secure an interest in Nebraska would do well to examine for thetnaelvea or get a responsible agent to act for them. Never buy from floating speculators, unless you thoroughly examine the title snd property, or you maybe fleeced." BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1857.

The Norcross Trial of McKlns. THIRD DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. At 8 o'clock on Saturday morning the Court met, Judge Taylor and Associates Jones and Caldwell on the bench. The excitement was as intense as ever. Joshua Bresson was recalled, and being questioned by Mr.

William A. Stokes, identified the ohecksof the trunks of McKim and Norcross as duplicates of those he had given out on the 16tb of January. Joseph Trout, recognize the prisoner, and knew bira before this, when at Mr. Thurlow's job, about a mile and a half above Alloooa, on the new Pennsylvania Railroad, crossing the Mountain; that was, I think, during 1853 and 1854. He was engaged in carpenter work, as bos carpenter, erecting shanties, itc.

Andrew Pureed, witness was engineer on the Pennsylvania detailed the circumstances of his having seen Norcross beside the Railroad, wounded, and his having conveyed him on the engine to Altoona. He identified articles of Norcross, violin bag, carpet sack, George Kramer, (in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad,) the Coroner's Investigation at Altoona, the body was given into my charge, and I had it properly washed and dressed, the cofiin made and placed in a box of ice; it was then taken to the storehouse, to await the arrival of friends. A severe storm was raging? the road was blocked, and the corpse remained there until the next Sunday, when Benjamin Poland arrived at Altoona, and on Monday morning, at 8.30 o'clock, I delivered to him the bod). (He also identified articles of property.) Aaron Dongherty, was called to make a pott mortem examination of the body of a man at Altoona, on the morning of the 17th of I found the body lying ak the Exchange Hotel, Altoona; it was of me 9 dium size, probably not exceeding five feet seven inches in height, rather delicatp; upon examination, I fonnd wounds about the head and face, and the head very mcch swollen; the first was a wound across the throat, about four and three-quarter inches in length; this wound divided the skin and cellular tissue, exposing freely the upper portion ol the windpipe, but the caroled artery and jugular rein were untouched; the wound appeared to have been produced by a sharp cutting I instrument (razor shown witness;) it was a wound such as could have been produced by that instrument; snother wound b- Mtvad an lbs inlaiioi bono about two inches on the right of the chin; this was about one inch in contused, lacerated wound; on further examination of this wound, I discovered that the inferior maxillary bone was complete fracture, another wound was on the left side of the face, commencing at the angle of the jaw, and extending along the base of the jaw for an inch and a half or an inch and threequarters, also evidently produced by eome sharp cutting instrument; another wound extended above the angle of the right eye, passing rather obliquely over the cbeek, in length two and three fourths inches; this was a contused, lacerated wound, producing oxtensive fracture of the molar, or cheek bone, and extending to the interior orbit or plate of the eye, end the fracture continuing in this wound to the base of the skull; there was another wound on the nose, accompained with faoture of the internal and external i bones; another wound was on the back part of the bead, dividing the scalp without fraclure, about an inch long; the wonnd upon tbe face, extending into the base of the skull, was a fatal one, and the wound in the throat of itself waa not fiecessarily fatal, although mortal, bad the person been exposed to the cold at night; the cause of this man's death was injury to the brain and shock to the nervous system; the wounds produced death, taken altogether, upon the inferior extremities there were slight bruises and abrasions of the skin. C'ub shown witness, and in answer to question of "District Attorney The wounds might also have been produced by an instrument like 'hat.

Dr. Davjd Hays, was present at the post-mortem examination. saw the wounds on the face and head, the cot on the neck would not, I think, have affected the bain; he might fall from the loss ot blood from that wound; but Ido not think the wounds on the head could have been produced by a fall on the stones or iron rails. Had the man fallen from a railroad car, upon that club lying on the gound, it would not likely to have produced a wound like that of Norcross'. Samuel McMsrtus testified that at Pittsburgh McKim had dark whiskers.

(His face now is clean.) C. Eton, kept boarders at Dunleith, last winter, and of them, two were Norcross and McKim. They slept together; the circumstances of McKim as to money I cannot say; several times he said he could not pay his board just then; the day before he and Norcross left, he came to me and paid up, except nine dollars, which he made up by a doe bill for that sum of Mr. Curry's; at the same time, he said he was short of means, or would be short if he was detained on the road, bat when he got to Pittsburgh be had friends there, and con Id get any amount that he wished; as to having friends in Philadelphia, or funds, he represented himsell as being well off, he said that during the present winter, he did not expect to make more than expenses, his object was to do ho more than look for a good location for business, and that he had a brother with whom he was concerned were intending to I invest some 830,000 in ajmecbanical businew be spoke of slatting a plaining mill in Hne town, and couneoting with it the occupation o( master builders; Norcross' health was delicate; he had bad cough, but 1 never knew of his ever having fits, or of bis being crazy, or of his attempting to destroy himself; I never knew of two men being required to hold hint. (Witness identified carpet bog, shawl, as having belonged to Norcross.) Norcross could not undress and drers himself alone.

(He identified several of clothing contained within McKim's trunk and tbe trunk itself.) The two men left my hoose together on the morning of the 12th January; I did not see them on the cars. On leaving my house Mr. McKim said he was going to Philadelphia, where he said he owned a house, No. 10 Poplar street. He said that he had a wife and one child there, and that the house was pleasantly furnished and situated.

He invited Norcross to stop witb him there and rest, and said lie could stay there any length of lime, and that he had a family physician, and that be, (Norcross) should receive every care without expense. Then, if his health did not improve, he (McKim) would see him home, This last conversation was perhaps two weeks before their departure. Norcross, I think, called him McKinney. McKim came to my place, 1 think, the 24th of November last to board, and remained there until tbey left Dunleith. Andrew Kaufman, am subpasnaed in ibis case by David Stringer McKim, and I live in Dubuque, Iowa; I knew McKim at that place; he wore whiskers at that time; he came and boarded with me; he left me and went out west, about twenty-two miles from Dubuque, and was gone about a week; he came back and then went to Dunlietb; he owned no property, but had money to pay the bill to me always.

(Witness identified rthe coat of McKim.) During the examination of this witness, tbe course of questioning was such as to induce Mr. Stokes to stale that so moch interest had the Pennsylvania Railroad taken' in the matter, that they had furnished free passes to the witnesses, a very commendable act. Dr. Thomas F. Rumbold, knew the prisoner from 1896, until the Thursday preceding the lime of their leaving Dunletth, Illinois.

Samuel Townsend More roes was my student; Norcross left in consequence of his ilj health; the prisoner told me one day that they both were going to the Rast together; he stated that he lived io Philadelphia, and had a wife, and that he was going there, and that could accompany him there and rest if too tired to go on, and said that he had a family physician to get assistance from; Norcross had neither fits nor craziness of any kind; there was nothing in his disease calculated to produce insanity or violence; Norcross bought a pocket-book, a large one; the peculiarity about it was two long straps; on the two "tucks" or "flaps" which were arranged in a certain manner; it was not bright red, but dollish. (Witness positively identified all the principal articles of clothing of Norcross, together with jewelry, spent a great deal of his time in bed, resting; I think probably that the shaking ol the cars would have been sufficient to have produced pain to him. At this point the Court adjourned until afternoon. AFTERNOON Wm. C.

Addick, resided last winter at Dubuque, and know Norcross; the prisoner I know by sight; the first interview that I had with tbe prisoner was on the 7tb of January last, at oor office in Dubuque; my business was to buy and sell real estate, tbe firm being that of Addicks, Norse Mr. Norcross came Into the office in company with the prisoner, and wanted to sell tie interest in two lots in Dubuque I told him it was at least three months to soon, and that he would by his haste lose from thirty to forty per he said it did not matter, that he had been sick the most of tbe year, and wanted to go home to his friends; I asked him what price he wanted; in reply, he said that E. S. Hoar held his note for SISO, with ten per cent, interest accruing lor eleven months; he said that if I would lake up his note and pay him S7OO for bis interest in the lots, I could have them I said that I would let him know the next day; he said be could not come in himself, being to unwell, but pointing to McKim, he said that his friend would call for and answer; on tha Bth the prisoner came there alone, and I told him that we would take tbe lots; he went away, and on tbe 9th both parlies came to my office; there were some street assessments, unpaid, whioh we wished to deduct trom the amount, and he agreed to it. Tbe papers were drawn and executed; I said to Norcross that I would give him New York exchange for the amount; he asked if it would be as convenient lor him as anything else would; I told him it would be just as convenient and more safe, and if lost could be recovered; he seemed to be inolined to take a draft, until the prisoner at tbe bar said that he wouldn't take it, nor advise him to take it; that he bad seen repeated cases of that kind where there was a great deal of trouble, and he might lose the money entirely; i asked McKim whether be was agent for Norcross or whether Norcross done his own business; he said he wss not agent, only a friend, aod calculated to see justice done; I remarked to him that ha was just the kind of friend that I wouldn't want; I next counted out tbe money to Norcross, first telling bim tbat 1 bad two SSO notes on tbe Orwell Bank, Vermont, and that I would give him Ibem, and gold for the balance; I then gave bim the two notes, $550 in Amer- Truth and Right Gad tad Cawtry.

-J I I ican gold, in twenty dollar gold pieces cept one piece, and fifteen dollars in email billa. Some conversation ensued, and Norcroaa said that he war going home, to stop by the way for two or throe weeks with his friend in the aame time pointing to the prisoner as bis friend- I told hies again that he had better take a draft ma 1 -flew York I told him the draficokw be eaPhedhs easily in Philadelphia as in Ifcer YoHt. The prisoner spoke again and said that he wouldn't do it il he was in bis place. I then remarked to Norcrosa that "be'd certainly lose his money, if he didn't his life." Norcrosa remarked that "be'd riak to which I responded, "that shrewder men than him bid fared as bad as that." McKim had heavy whiskers lat iW time him now if I had not seen him for ten years. THE FRIEND OF THE DEAD! Benjamin Poland, residence is in West Cambridge, and my place of business in Boston.

I koew Norcrosa, 1 have known him for eight or ten years at East LexingtOD and West Cambridge, I saw him last alive in West think in May, 1855. From thffe he went to Dunleith, Illinois; I am awaia of money having been remitted to him one-time, one of his sisiers (school teachers) remitted 8500; another 8300, and he received S6OO from another source. The next time I saw him was at Altoona, a corpse, on the 25th January last; I ctme to that place far the purpose of taking the corpse to his friends; I received the body from George Kramer. (The witness swore thst the clothing in the trunk of Norcross was the same as that given to him by Kramer, as having bettTllpttn the body of the deceased.) The trunk itself I received in Philadelphia. know that the money was sent, because I saw it prepared; I think it was in 1855.

THE FATTIER. John Norcross, (the father of the deceased,) had a son that went to the West, his name being Samuel Townsend Norcross, and I last saw him alive on the 12th of May, 1855; I next beheld him on the of January, 1857; he was dead; the corpse was in the hearse house at East Lexington, having been brought from the West by Mr. Poland; when he left home for the West he had money, but he did not tell me how much, and I do not know; I never knew of my qon having being insane, or violent; and trunk shown the pants ware made in my house by his mother, and the trunk I tfought for him in and had a brass plate put upon it; his health when be left us was not very good. the examination of this witness the utmost silence prevailed, and the crowded audience manifested a universal feeling of sympathy.) James Trees, business is that of inspector of the passenger cars at Altuona; the exprsss train from Pittsburg to Philadelphia reached Altoona on the 16lb of January between three and four o'clock; I was on hand and saw two passengers get off the train; I noticed that one was a small man and the other was a large man. The first started towards the water tank, having got off on the side of the cars opposite to the Logan House, not the usual side for passengers to gel off at; the last I seen of them was about one hundred yards from the hind end ol the passenger cars going up the railroad; they went west, past the sugar house and Exchange.

The taller of the two men I should think was a little over six feet, and the smaller a little over five feet. The witness wts subjected to severe cross' examination but without shaking his testimony. John E. Warple, reride in Blair county, about 12 o'clock, on the 16th of January, was on the old Clearfield road, about a mile north of Bell's mills, about half a mile from the railroad, driving along the road with a team and sled; tbere was a man standing beside the road, and thai man Was the prisoner at the bar, although ke had whiskers on then; when I drove up beside him, he asked me if he might tide on the sled, and I told him he should; he then asked me if I wes going fsr up that road, and I told him about half a mile; I then asked him if be was traveling and he said he was, he said be was going to Harrisburg, and from there to Maryland and to some plaoe else; I asked him if his people lived there, and he said some of tbem did; he asked me if that was the way to Harrisburg, and said ha had come to Altoona on the oara, and waa almost out of money, ot "strapped," and had inquired of ao liishman at Altoona, how much it would lake to go to Harriaburg by railroad, and be bad told him S2O; before that he aaid that be had lain sick at Minneaota, in the western country, and thought he would rathar walk, and see the country, to go by railroad; he then wanted to hire me to take him to Harrisburg, saying tbat as I had a pair of good horses, I should hitch tbem up and take him in a sleigh, and be would pay me whatever he agreed on in advance; I objected to tbat, and he than inquired the best and nearest road to Harrisburg; I told him the direction past Ftstorie and Tifton, and he wanted to know whether either of these were public places; be asked me if I knew wbere he could get a good riding horse in the country, as he would like to have one; the road that I drove him on was not leading towards Harrisburg, but to Clearfield, on the Allegheny mountains; when he lelt me, he started in the direction rather towards Tifton; I was about 74 miles from Altoona, when the man first came to me. identify the prisoner as the man who rode on my sled by hiseoun- tenance; we were together probably fifteen or twenty mlnntes; I told this story before I heard of the killing of Norcross.

The Court adjourned. VOORTH 4. The Court met on Monday afternoon, a( two o'clock, the room being as crowded as usnal. THE BANE DEPOSIT. Mr.

Charles J. Faber, being sworn, testified that at Reading, while acting in his oipacily of hotel keeper, he waa called upon by the prisoner, on the afternoon of the 22d of January. McKim requested to stay all night; be wrote his name in the register as Tbomas Bragg, be said be was from St. Pant, Minnesota; after supper he left the house and did not return until next morning, about nine o'clock, when be look; breakfast; he then paid his bill, and asked which was Ihe best bank in Reading, to which the response was given that both were good. He said (hat he had money to deposit, and was so much pleased with Ihe place that he thought he would buy a house, or board there for a month; witness told him he could not board him; on the 24tb of January, in the afternoon, he came again, took dinner, and asked whether Ihe witness would take charge of his bank book, as he was among strangers; tbe witness consented to take charge of it, and in taking it up stairs, saw that Bragg or McKim had made a depoaite in bank of 8550, on the Monday morning following be came for bis book, which was given to him and he left.

On the cross-examination, the witness de-, scribed the whiskers and dress of McKim, when at Reading. Mr. Lewis J. Henald, was receiving teller of the Farmers' Bank of Reading in January last. (Witness shown signature book of Bank.) On the morning of the 241h January last tbe prisoner stepped to the bar of the bank to make a deposit; he placed on the oounter large gold pieces with the exception of one piece, which made up the whole sum of 8550; at the same time he offered me a fitly dollar bill on some eastern bank, either New Hampshire or Vermont; I handed the note back, saying that we didn't like it; I tbon furnished the prisoner with a pass book and that ia tbe one, in which I also made tbe entry; he went out; in the signature book of the bank he wrote tbe name "tomas Bragg," Lancaster; he said that he had bought a house in Reading, anil on ib Fibiay following drew bit money by a check, which 1 wrote and he signed.

The cashiar paid bim 8100 in gold, and the rest in bills of the Farmers' Bank of Reading. Charlotte G. McKensie, January last, I was slaying at the house of Miss Susan Eamore, No. 1. Walnut street, and lsaw the prisoner (here on either the 21st or 22d; he came there on Thursday noon; I heard MIS 9 Eamore call him Bragg; he left there on Monday morning next, and I saw him at different times between; I asked him if he wouldn't go to Pottaville; he said he'd put us to housekeeping, and I expected of course a private house; we went first to the Pollsville House and pu( up; we bought furniture from Mr.

Kline, household furniture; the furniture was taken to Mr. Womelsdorf's house in Callowhill street; Bragg was the manager; be remained with us a week, and then said he waa going to Philadelphia to return in a day or two; I next saw bim here recently; he had given Misa Kagle money on the morning that he left, and we never aaw him afterward; we had everything in the house that we wanted to eat; there was no peculiarity about his habits; he never made any lascivious approaches to me. I recollect reading a piece from the newspaper, but I cannot say positively that be waa present, but I think he was; 1 recollect reading a paper to him, ana his saying "Go on, and read the rest," but the subject of the article 1 do Dot recollect; I never read but one newspaper to him. A very close and minute examination by Mr. William Stokes failed to bring to the mind of the witness a recollection of the particular article in the newspaper.

He directed me to say if any body called for Bragg, that Mr. Boyer waa Mr. Bragg; he bought a number of newspapers; he came in in the afternoon, and said that he had seen his cousin and his cousin's wife, and that he didn't think tbey would have known him, but that tbey did recognize him, and if anybody oalled I should tell tbem that Bayer was Bragg; on Monday morning, he left the house about o'clock, asking me what time the cars left for Philadelphia, to wnich 1 replied 7 o'clock. Samuel Mann, keep the Pottsville House, and saw the prisoner there on the 26th January, and I heard the yonngman who was with him call him Bragg, and he had whiskers; the young mar, named Caise Boyer was with bim; he came there in a two horse sleigh, between 1 and 2 o'clock in the afternoon; he asked me if I was the landlord, to which I replied that 1 was, when he asked me if be could have accommolation for the party; I asked him if the women were their wives; he said, sir;" be said one of them was his brother's wife, and the other one lbs young man's sister; they were shown in and took dinner after that he asked me if there were any houses to rent; I told bim yes, and asked what kind he wanted he said a good one, for his brother would be np next day or the day after, when both would start the carpertering bnsiness; I told him there was some up Market street, and.be slatted and went book and staid over I night; next morning they went away between I 9 and 10 o'clock, but during the week fol' lowing was visiting at my house. IN TUB DLOOMSBURO JAIL.

I next saw him at Bloomsburg, Columbia county, a day or two after he waa taken there; I recognized after three or four questions, he said that he did not recolleet having stopped with the party at my house. I am," said he. "an innocent man," he told me lhat when he got his friends to know where he was, it was all right; I asked him what made htm leave Pottgville so mysteriously; he said he did not feel disposed to answer; I told him I did not come to ask any questions to convict him, only to recognize him; he said he thought that if he had the mondJWov the furniture it would do-him good; be said he had walked mway from Pottsv ille, he told me that he had not been in a railroad car from the lime he arrived at Pottsville; he said he had traveled with Notcross; I do not know whether it was before or after saying that I did not come to convict him, that I asked him the previous queations; I have held out no inducements to him further than I have stated; he told me he had left Nororoes in company with a man named Robinson; I asked him why he had kept the checks about him, and he said What checks;" he arked me who told me that he had kept the checks; I told him ihem who had seen them; he colored up in the face at that time. I started to go away, ancf hecalled ma back, saying that he wanted to ask me something in private, andasked me if I knew what had become of the women who were at Pottsville; I told him they had gone to Philadelphia. The Philosophy of llail stones.

The New York Almanac remarks that hail is chiefly restricted to the temperate latitudes, and in these most frequent during the spring and summer. Within the- tropics it seldom falls at a lower altitude than from to 2,000 Icet above the level of the sea. The explanation usually given of this fact is, that the temperature, which increases downward to the surface of the earth, is constantly so high in those regions lhat hail never descends to a lower altitude than that above mentioned without being melted. The squall of wind, which accompanies and ushers in the hail storm, is, no doubt, produced by the depression of temperature which the hail commuicates to the lower atmosphere in its descent to the grouud. Hail presents every appearance of having frozen during its fall, and not like snow freezing in the form of clouds.

It has much puzzled meterologists to show why ah on Id vr gel frozen in descending to a lower altitude, instead of meltir.g and coming in the shape of rain. A cold current of air blowing sudden'ylir. the direction o( a rain cloud, is understood to be the immediate cause of most hail showers. The large size of hail siones is attributed to an accumulation during the progress of their descent. It is probable thai the Urges! commences with a small nucleus, which receives continued accessions from vapory particles in the neighborhood.

Accordingly, hail stones are fonnd to be smaller or- the tops of mountains than in the neighboring plains and valleys, because, not by falling so far, they dA.nol augment their size by the addition of successive layers ef watery vapor. The Waters of the Nile. The Nile wster is particularly soft. It fills the mouth, with a rich creamy taste; and in drinking it, in order to enjoy it, it is well to spread it over every part of the palate. It should be drank, not to quench thirst, but to create high pleaanre.

It should not, therefore, be swallowed in large draughts at a time, but taken at short intervals, every other hour or so. In the house the admirable Egyptian water-jar, which is so much more porous than the Indian jarshould be at hand by day and by night continually. The passion for Nile water, like the love of everything that is intensely exquisite in its way, increases with its enjoyment. No one who has once or twice lasted Nile water, and has a capacity for pleasure, will ever after consent to drink of it poisoned with the infusion of any other liquid. Jealous of its own honor, it appears to be the most averse of sli waters to join in harmony with wine.

Indeed, mixed with wine, it is a moat nauseous compound. In the hotels, the water undergoes filtration. In the cottages through the country, it is kept large vessels, which allow the sediment to fall to the bottom. The small city jars, in which it is placed before you in the hotels, are very graceful in form, and finely adapted lo keep the liquid Brtrce'j Scenes and Sights in the East. Desolation of Palestine.

In Palestine you art nearly as much in the wilderness as in Arabia; as to inhabitants; they are precisely the things which do not exist, for all vou can tell, except in the towns and villages you pass through. You tide on day after day, and you rise over eaeh hill, and sink into each valley, and except an occasional solitary traveler with his servant and his muleteer, or a Turkish officer and his parly, rarely does a moving object appear upon the landscape. No cattle are on the land, and no passengers are on the highways. The loneliness strikes you more like tbat of ttie deserl, for it teems unnatnrkl, because here there should be life, and there is none. Sometimes you may make out at a distance on the hillside a single figure, a man on a donkey.

It i the only moving thing you can detect all aronnd. From Jerusalem to Beyrout you scarcely light on one tingle soer.e of rural one single scene of life that can be ooropired wiib thoee on tbe Arab pastures from the top of Jabel el Sufar to the wells of el Mileb. There in plaeee, the country full of people end children, and flocks and rejoicing pioture of pastoral existence in mil its wdslth; while hero, in the country of tillage, and towns, and viilagee, the whole land seemed to lie under a spell. Dollars per Annra. NUMBER 17.

Caleb Cashing upon Manifest Destiny and Filibustering. Hon. Caleb Cothing has been making a speech to bis friends and fellow citizens, si Newboryport, upon national politics, and the extension of the U. 8. over the Continent.

He considers it the mission of the American republic to conquer this Continent, and establish republican empires over its whole extent. This is the inevitable decree of destiny, the necessary march of fieedom. But this work is not to be accomplished throngh fraud and injustice, and such weak and miserable agents as Walker and other filibusters, who retard rather than advance the movement. Mr. Cashing says: "I reprobate, not war itself, but all irregular enterprises of 1 hold that the great issues of peace belong to the eovereign power of the Union, and should not be wantonly usurped by individual rashness.

1 glory in the acts which it has fallen to me to perform towards the repression of all such undertakings in the United Slates, whether on the part of a presumptuous British Minister, recruiting troops within our jurisdiction, for the purpose of warfare in the Crimea, or of a reeklets American adventurer, recruiting them far the purpose of plunder and murder in Nicaragua. No, let not the small man, Walker, be honored for this, on account of which the great man Burr was damned. Non tali axilio, nec defenaoribus istie, Tempus egei. The United States require no such instruments to help them forward to the consummation of their destinies in America. On the contrary, they impede us, just as Walker, without capacity or power of possible good in himself, has only served to obstruct national purposes in Mexico, in Nicaragua, in all Spanish America.

All such things tend to discredit us also. Thus far, if there be, in all the annals of time, a case of a mighty nation steadily advancing to its zenith in the shining light of untarnished honor, it is these United States. So mote it be nobleness oblige. Independence of England, with our limits of dominion intact, we achieved bravely in the field of battle, in righteous war, with Bunker Hill at the beginning of the contest, and at tlto close of it Saratoga and Yorktown. Our succeeding great step was Louisiana, and that came to us by the spontaneous aot of our oldestand may she never cease to be our constant and friend, generous and glorious France; followed by the Extorted by us from Spaiq, but ceded to us by her, as John Quincy Adams once, with his forcible eloquence, explained in my us in fair exchange for our own province of Texas.

That again returned to ns of its own free will, after having been raised, through the gallantry of her sons, with Hunter and Rusk at their head, to independence of Mexico, by the same identical right that Mexico was independent of Spain. And now California is ours, which we acquired by just war, and might have kept by the just right of war, but disdained to do so, choosing rather to hold it by the tenure of cession and of contract, with contribution of ample indemnity therefore to Mexico. I say, all this is a record of which any nation might, with good proud; and so may it be continued on hereafter in the same bright line of glory and of justice to the end! The true mission of this Republic is, not as Mr. Cushing believes, to become the masters of this continent like the ancient Romans, conquering by force, but to show such an example of justice and of good government that the various peoples of this tinent will be ready lo follow our example and desire to share our prosperity. Horseback Hiding.

N. P. Willis, in one of bis "Invalid Letters," thus speaks of the therapeutic virtues of horseback riding: It was a secret which I did not discover by books; that exercise, with the legs of a horse to do the work, distributes the blood's fulness and freshness to the extremities; but tbat exercise with your own legs to do the work, draws the fullness and ftenhness of the extremities to the centre. Life and strength, tbat is to say, are centrifugal, if you exercise on if you exercise on foot. To test this, you have only to do the two things.

But look io a glass whan you return horn a ride in tbe saddle, and you will see that the hollows under your eyes are filled out sod freshened in color, and tbat the incipient lines in your face, (for I presume I am addressing a middle-aged, charming woman,) have disappeared wholly, or become indistinct. Tben, look in the glass on your return from a walk, of equal exercise, and you will see just tbe eyes sunken and the licet of your face deepened with the fatigue. Or, atill more the fresh colored fullness of your hands and fingers' ends, after the one exercise, with their dragged and depleted spareuess after the other. A recognition of the same fact may be seen in tbe advice given by medical books to literary men wboae brains are overworked by prolonged attention of any kind. "Avoid talking And the reason given is "that the concentrated exertion at the hips and loins of the pedestajian, poll directly upon the of the spine whieb sustain the brain." And it ia natort's rallying calling in of recruiting power from tbe extremitiee to supply the demand upon the center of tbe system, whioh equally robs tbe brain, the face and the of their proportionate supply of fullness.

Your beauty, msdam, merely pays ite recruiting tax with the test..