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The Wonder op this Age. - The Stesimer Hibornia arrived at the wharf on Tuesday, Jan. 26th, at 7 o'clock in the morning. She brought the first copies of Dicken's nov Christmas Story, "The Battlc of Life." By the five o'clock train thnt left the same evening, sevoral thouaand copies of the entire work, making a I2mo pamphlet volume of near seventy pages, were despatched to New York. Eqalization. - The Southern membors of Congress are very palriotic in the mutter of raising out of the Northern workingmen to pay the expenses of their war wiüi Mexico. It issuggested in the Boston Whig thnt inslead of taxïug tho Tea and Coffee drinkors of the North exclusivelv, it might be the most appropriato and just to assess a tax of Ten Dollars a head on Slavcs. In this way Thirty Millionsof Dollars would be raiied. The tax on tea and cofFee would only come to three millions. pIETY. - The Episcopal Convontion of New York by a clerical vote of 98 to 54, decided nol to admit a congregation of negroes into its union, although the church had a white pastor ! Won't have viggers in their heaven ! The New York Sun snys that the membrrsof Trinity Church, New York, have a porter at their gate to keep out all the poorly drossed people who premime to enter, and after the congregation is in, he locks jntrudors out from the sanctuary f ' Won't havo nny poor in their heaven!! Important Decisión. - At a late term f the Court of Common Pleas in Lorain county. Judge Bissell decided that il was not an oflence under the Statute, for the judgos of an election poll to receive the vote of a negro. The question arose on an indictment of the trustees of the township of Russia, fin which is located the villagc of Oberlin,) who allowed the negroes generally in that place to vote.- Frue Dcm. Congress.- The Slaveholding Senators concludcdto save Mr. V. P. Dallas the trouble of appointing the usual standing committees, by doing it thomselves. They havo put " Democratie " slaveholders at tho head of twelve of the committees ; including those on the Judiciary, Foreign Relations, Finance, Military Affairs, etc. Out of the five committeemen on Military Affairs, therc are only four laveholders.- Hark. Frecman. A Veteran Minister. - Rcv. Samuel Nott, of Franklin, Conn., recently completod his 93d year. On the 13th of March next, it will be 65 yearssince he ivas ordained and settled where he still continúes to preach, and during this pe irlod he has been absent from his pulpi tut Uco Sabbaths. He hos never beer compelled to wear glasses. The Boston Journal give the follow ijng transcript from the laws of Massa husetts Colony in 1651 : Whosoever shall be found observinj :any such day as Christmas and the üke 5ither by forbearir.g labor, feasting,or ir any other way, upon such an account a aforesaid, every such person so offendinj hall pay for such oñence five shillings a fine to the colony.3 To Volunteers. - Wanted a Mex can in good order and condition, for Mr Clay to kill. Rancheros preferred.Yanfcec Doodle. A chiropedist has been committed 1 prUon as an imposter in England, it hav jngbeen discovored that hecarried abou him a supply of corns which he pretend ed to have extracted. From one lad, he obtained L6 for 24 corns, which h said ho extrncted from her toes. It is said that there are in tho highland of Scotland 50,000 families who suppor themselves on less than 5s. a week, o about ono dollar and a quarter. The expenses of the army and navy o Great Britain lnst year were about $84, 000,000 !