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" What are you thinking about, my man ? " said Lord Hill, as he approached n soldier who was leaning in a gloomy mood upon his firelock, while a round him lay mangled, thousands of French and English ; it was a few hours after the baitle of Salamanca liad been won by the British. The soldier started, and after snluting his General, answered - "I was thinking, my lord, how many widowsand orphans 1 have this day made forone shilling." He had fired six hundred rounds of ball thnt day. N. E. Johnson, formerly Editor of the New York Evangelist, died on the lüth instant at the hospital in Richmond, Va.,' of dropsy. He wasattended in his last moments by several ministers of "ihe gospel and brethren of the Sons of Tempernnce, of which Order he was a member. Keep Your Temper. - A Mr. Paulding in attempting to correct a refractory slave in New Orleans, seriously hun his hand. In the course of a year he paid one physician's bill for altendance of $500, another of $600, a third of $100, a fourth of $300, and is nowcarrying on a suit against another doc!or who claims $1600 for attendance and medicine for that unfortunate hand. The doctors bilis alone would have purchased a dozen slaves. Another Lesson. - The Boston Chronotype informs us that the gre:it fue in that city on the 22d inst. by which 100 buildings were destroyed and 50 families rendered houseless, was occasioned by intemperance. Several persons became intoxicated in a bowling saloon, in which Ihe fire originated, and in their drunken revel ries kicked over the etove and communicated the fire to the fioor. They were so overeóme by the liquor that they were unable to replace thestove or extinguish the ñre. . Phvsic and Infancy - " Ah ! poor thing ; it's gone at last," said a fond father to a friend, alluding to the dealh of a baby two months old ; " but we did all we could for it, and there's no use repining. It was only 5 II a weck, and during that time we had four doctors, who gave it eight calomel powders, applied one leech to thechest, oneblisterto the chest, six mustard piasters, and gave it antimony wine, and oiher medicines in abundance ! Yet the poor thing died ! " - The friend, in amazement, replied, "Died! it would have been a miracle if it had lived." Gov. Young has remitted the sontences which were in execulion upon the unfortunate men, who participated in various ways, in the anti-rent disturbances of 1845. They are all restored to the rights of ci.izenship except four - Dr. Boughton, of Columbia, C. Conner, Van Steenburg, and Moses Earl, of Delaware. These men, with the rest are set at liberty, but not restored to the right to vote or hold office. The License Law seemsto be enforced in Utica, N. Y. Seventeen indictments were found by the "Grand Jury at a recent session of the Kecorder's Court. The parties, with one exception, plead guilty, and fines ranging from $10 to $75 were imposed, amounting in all to the sum of $495. Arbitrators. - A 8mall body of men, mostly three in number, selected by two quarrelsome neighbors, to share in the abuse which they had previously heaped on'y on eaoh other. Babies - The most confirmed suckers in societv j supposed to have originally descended from the " milky way." Twenty-eight of the ihirty-two towns in Rhode Island, have voted not to license taverns whore liquor is sold. Noah's ark was 546 English feet long, 90 broad and 54 high. "The present age is impudent enough," said Geo. Channing, " But I foresee that the next will be all irony and railery."