Variety

The Feel. - For upwards of 20 years, as a boot-maker I have made the feet my study, and during '.hol ieriod unnny thousand pairs of feet have reeeived my attention. 1 have observed with minute care the cast from the antiquate as well as the "modern instances," and I am obliged to admit that much of the pain I have witncssed, much of the distortton of tlio toes, the corns on the top of the feet, the bunions on the sidi-, the callosisies beneath, and growing of the nails between, are attributable to the shoe-makcr. The fret, with proper treatment, might be as free from disease and pain as tlie hands. - Their structure nnd ndaptation to the wants and comfort of man, as we have seen, is most perfect. Thirty-six bones and thirty-six joints have been given by the Creator to form one of these members, and vet " cramps, cabins and confines" his beauüful arrangements of 144 bor.es and joints, together with muscles, elaslic cartilage, lubricating oily fluid, ve;ns, and arteries, into a pnir of slioes or boots whicb, instead of protecting from injury, produce the most painful as well ns permanent result?. Many volumes liave been w ritten on the cause of corns, and it has been my lot to wade througli mar.y of them, without gaining much for my pains. I have therefore arrived at the conclusión, notwithstanding all that has been aid lo the c ontrary, that corns are iu 'M cases the results of pressure. - BalTs Book of the Feet. Preserving Tomaloes. - A correspondent of the (.uit i vator, in a late number, intiiiiates that preserving tomatoes is n liumbvg. Doubtless untried experiments tnay be freqneiuly published. But wc t,hould always remember that a single J'ailure does not prove that suceoss is impossible. 1 have known persons failing ï-epetedly in making soda bisc-uit, nnd give up n desp;.ir; nnd vet afterwards breóme aecu-tomed to the process so r.s to make soda biscuit with more ease and certainty than any other kind of bread. My wife has bnen in the liabit for several years, of putting up tomatoes Cor winter use, and lms kepi them good for a year and a half. She snvs they must be stewed a long time- fne or six hours at len.st. They aiethen wel! sea-ioned with s;ilt nnd prpppr; liottled and corked tiglit, nnd kft cn..I. Üurs are usually set in tlie wirth in Ihe cellar bottom. My familv are veiy fond ilf it, either rold or wnnii, witli beef staké or ront beef. - ('uliiralor. X. "i. Z. 'J'hc íémocraiic State Cuiivcntion whicli met at MUIedgvilln last week, re-ado,ted the Virginia esolutinns.to rrsist the Wilmot proviso, even if it sliould breóme a Uw and passed t'ie following addiliona', resol ut ion! Resolved furtlicr by tliis Cmvention, That the democratie party of Georgia wil] give their support to no candidate for the Presidency ofthe United States who d.es not unconditionnlly, clcarly nnd uncquivoeally, declare his opposition to the principies and provisions of tho Wimot Proviso. It snot known wherc he that invented Ihe plough was bom, nor where he riied; yct hc bas effected more for :he huppinessof the world iban the whole race of héroes and of conquerors,wbo drenchcd it with tears, and mnnured il with Wood, andwhosebirih, parentage, and education, have been banded down to u with a piecision precisely proportinate to the mischiefthey have done. The age ichen man sliould ccasc to be a Dresshig-maid.-The American copies an adverti.sement from an old number of Le Moniteur, a Frenen paper of New Orteans, of wbich the following is a literal translation: - "For Sale, a vcry handsornc nfgro lad nineteen years oíd. He 3 a tolerable cook, hasbeon instructed in lailoring, is an excellent in-door servant ar.d errand boy, and has no faull whatever. Hw mistress parts wtlh him because, liaving bought him when a child, sho has used him principally as a dressing-maid, and he is now loo oíd lo do this service for a lady. Enquire at this office." Early Rising. -TUo famous philosopher, the really g.cat Czar Pe'er, of Russia, whose memory wil! ever be the admiration of Europe, always aróse two l)ours befare day, and when he saw the day break, would express his wonder that any man should be so stupid as not to risft every morning, and behold one of the most glorious sighlsinthe universe.- Men take delight," said lie, in gazing on a picture, the rifling work of mortal, and at the same time neglect one pair.ted by the Deity himself. 'For my parí,' added he, "I am for making my life as long as I can, therefore sleep as liltle as possible." Itis calculated that, in London, L50,000,000 sterling worth of goods are now in dock, occupping no less than 190 acres. Wilkinson; who poisoned the wedaing party in Texas, nol long since, has been hung in due form by the people imder the Lynch eode. Good Advicc. - If you have " an eighty" of solid land, with a title that goes down lo the centre of the enrtli and up to thesky, stay on it. 69 three miles to mili, five miles to meeting, and ten lo inarket, bui when you are at home, iel i( be on that eighty. Sell your corn for fii'ty cents if you must, seveniy-five cents ifyou can; butdon't exchange it for city lots or bales of cloth, or cases of silks, unless it bc'a dress for your wife,and a coat for special days and Sundays. Plough, dig, toil,not too hardjbut hard as you can; and if your " brow is wet with honest sweat," the poet's other line will also be true, "you fear not any man." With brcathing room and clhow room, wi:h nobody's brick house hiding the sun from your garden, and nobody's hens writing their names in your melón patch,you can wcnr youi own cloth, clipped from sheep raised on your own plains, and wrought by the hands of your daughters in your own looms. In a word, you can be what the poets say does not cxist, almost " an independent man," co-worker wilh the God of the season, looking to every sursliineand rain for a dividend, liberally discoun'ed, had without usury, at the "bank ofgoodsoil," tlie only institulion of the genus banks that thrives the best to the longest run. "„Why don't you practico as you preacli?" peihaps somebody says. The reply is obvious ; we have not got the "eighty." Give usa respectable patch, only lot it not be like the "JFrenchman's water lot?," and we'll go to diggingfor dear life. - Broohlyn Advcrtiscr. IJenry Clay Baptized. - We learn fom a correspondent of lh Baptist Banner. that the Hon. Henry Clay was baptized on the 02d uit, in oneof the beautiful ponds on liis own estáte, near Lexington. fie united with the Episcopal church, hut demanded immersion. Life, to theyoung, is a fairy talejust oper.ed - to the old, it is a tale read thro', ending vtiih death. Be careful how you get crossed in love. The way to prevent it is, 1o love very moderately lili you have made sure of your object, and tlien let in all you know. Ti Pbiladdlphia Sentinel says it is a "standing law of Providence that the poor should always be nmong-it us." A country editor says he has found the rule reversed in lus case - having been always among the paor. To Cleansc the. Teclh and Improve the Brealk. - To fjur ounces of frrsh prepared water, add one dram of PeruvJan Inrk, nndwash the teeth with tliis water in the morningand evening-, before brcakfast and after supper. It will effectually destroy the tarter on the teeth and remove the ofïensive smell arising from those that are decayed. Prince Jerome Napoleon, eldest son of the former King of Westphalia, the last surviving brotlier of the Emperor, lias recent ly died, in Florencp, at tlie nge of 33. The fether of Prince Jerome, and bis unele, the King of Wurtemburg, solicited permission for the unfortunatR young man to visit the south of Franco, for tlie sake of certain medical springt, which Dr. La'letnand had [)rn?cribed, with sornc hopesof tlieir beneficial eflects. Tlie permission was refused. This proceeding, which is juswiied by no pnlitical necessity, says the Siècle, is so Foreign to our manners and feelings, and is so universally odious, that there can be no (íoubt liie Ministry will be called upon to justify it before the Chumbera. Barrels vcillhi Chcaper. - A machine has been invenled, and is n operalion al New Haven, for dressing barre! staves. It will make 7,000 such staves, or 4,000 hogshcad staves it) ten hours. A Mulhcr and Son on Ike Scaffold. - A motlier and her son wcre recently executed at Poiliers, (Trance,) upon the same scaflbld, the crimes of thofi, assassinalion and parricide. The molher incited tlioson lo the crimes which lliey publicly expifited. The hardened and depraved characler of the wretched woman was manifested up lo the last moment when she impiously exclaimed, " lliat the Almighty would be astonishcd at sceing her." New Hampshirc. - A rcsolution in favor o" the 'jVVüinot Proviso,' and npprovng ihe vote of the Senators and Representativa of that State in Congress thereoo, lias passed the New Ilampshire House of Reprcsen1atives,by a party vote. The Whigs proposcd a different series of resolves upon Slavcry in genera?,, which werè voted down. - N. H. Courier. The Editor of the Chronolype had sevaraljof his teoth extracted while under the inrtuence of ether. He is now convinced that there is no humbug in this pain preventor. He suggests that people in deht might avoid the pain of being dunned by keeping a vial of ether in their pocket and inhale a little when they see acreditor appronching. Coming down a Peg. - The Lieutcnant Governor of the State of Connecticu is now a convict in the Norwich jai!, fbr keeping a grog shop and selling liquo contrary to law. That's right - sarve 'em all alike - don't make flesh of one and fish of other?. Homehj. - What ií yon ore homely ns a log liut. Don't cry about ií. Let goodness of hcait make üp íor ou'.ward looks. A lady with cyes that resomble pealed onions, and as crookod asa polilician's creed - a nose like a hoe, and a mouíh that sirelches from ear to ear, and opens likea jack knife, wil! be more respected and b'elovèd, by thoso whose good opinión is worth one's pains to secure, if slie possesses a kind disposition - than if slie was as beautiful as Milton's live, wiih a coivscrew disposition nnd a heart of lead. The wise never judge from the complexión of the skin or the symmetry of the forin, but ihe viriucs of the heart and a corresponding life. Loafers. - The following story, lold of Franklin's mode of treating the animal called in those days " Lounger," is wortli putting into practico occasionally, even in this age and generation. One fine morning, wliile Franklin was busy preparing his Dewspapdr for the press, a Lounger stepped into the store, and sper.t an hour or more in looking over the books, &c, and finally tuking one in hand, asked tho shop-boy the price. " One dollar," was. the answer. " One dollar," said the Lounger',"can't you take less than that V' "No, indeed, - one dollar is the price." Ar.other hour had ncarly passed, when the Lounger asked. "Is Mr. Franklin at home ?" " Yes, be is in the printing ofTice." " I want to see him," said the Lounger. The shop-boy immediately informed Mr. Franklin that a gentleman was n the store waiting to soe him. Franklin was soon behind the counter, when the Lounger, with book in hand addrrssed him thus : " Mr. Frankün what is the lowest you can take for this book V' " One dollar anda quarter," was flw' ready answer. "One dollar anda quarter! Why, your young man asked only a dollar !" " Tiue," said Franklin - "and I could have botter ailorded to take a dollar then, than to have been taken out of the office." The Lourger seemed surprised, and wishing to end the parley of bis own making, said, "Come, Mr. Franklin, teil me what is the lowest you can take for it ?" "One dollar and a half." "One dollar and a half ! - why you offered it yourself for a dollar and quarter." " Yes," said Franklin-" and I had better have taken that price then, than a dollar and a half now." The Lounger paid down the price and went about his business - if he had any - and Franklin relurned into the printing office. Lightning travels with a vtlocity twice as great as that oí light, beingat the rate of 24,000,000 miles a minute. The moon is 230,000 miles distant from ihe earlb. With an instrument ihat mag-nifies a thousand timos, she appoars but 230 miles off. The moon is but tlic fiflieth part of the bulk of tho earlh. A convíct confined in the Penitentiary of Allegany city, has made a clock, the worksof which are entirely composed of lealhcr. The clock isin operation at the Penitentiary. Frederick Douglass has given vip the project of publisliing an anti-slavery paper in this country. The extraordinary fact of a black woman turning white, has recently occurred at Cairo. The Fsbing Vessels seized on account ofaviolation of the revcnuo laws, and carried inlo Newport, have been libel'ed n tlie U. S. District Court fur Rhode lsand. The wlieat erop in Arknnsas issaid to be very fine, and the farmers were reapng it the last of May. A herrait was once asked how he could venturo to live alono in a single cottage, on the top of n mountain, a mile from nny ïabilation? IIo replied thnt Providencc was his next door neiglibor. Never marry without lovc, nor lovc without reason. The Scramble fur office - The N. Y. Sun says the Colloclor of the port has on file over fifleen huwlrcd applications for office, or more than threc candidatos are applying for the phee of every ofTicer or emploijer in the Custon House. The company of Gapt. McReynolds, from this State, lost one private killed and two wounded. Combê,ot Teeumseh,vm killed. The names of tho wounded nre not givpn, though it is said they were doing well. Capt. McReyriolds, and Lieutenants Brown and Williams were in good liealth and spirits. - Free Press. Consciente. - Neighbor .Iones has a conscicncethat looks forwanl and kerps him from doing. wrong. But neighbor Smith's oonscience is of the ex-post-facto order, never manifesting itself till after the wrong deed is done, and thon acting as a terrible Rvenger. How many there are of this kind, aUays sinning and al ways repenting ! No class of men, in n moral point of view, suffer so inuch as they. Ruilroads in the Ünilcd Slalcs. - According lo the tabular statement giving in the American Railroad Journal, t nnpears tliat there are 147 railroads in the Uniied Sfates, measUring 5392 miles now finished and in xe There are S0 more now being constcucted, mcnsüring, 2857 miles, and 12 more, measuring 715, which liave been commenoed and abandoned. Among tliese last, there are 484-J miles in Alabama and Florida j the lliwasse Railroad is nlso included here, though a stroiig movement is now being nulde to CCHflptota it. Oí the unfinished roads, 1414 miles are in Illinois, mostly State woríc. The longest road in ihe United States owned by one single' company, is that from Savannah to Mncon, 190 $ miles ; the next is the Baltimorc and Ohia Raüroad, and the third on the list is the Georgia Rond, from Augusta to Atlantd, 172 miles long. The first railroad ever built in the IL Stntpp, was the Quincy, 4 milos long finished h 1827; the second was the Mancli Clunk Road, Pennsylvania, 9 miles long, having a track but 3 feet 0 indios wide. The highest grade of any traveled roadj (80 feet in amile.) is on the S[)ringfielci and Albany, where it crosses the Green Mountain chain. That froin Cleveland, Ohio, to thequarries has a grade of 204 feet to the mile. There are 19 roads wilh nclir.ed planes requirir.g stationary engines, and on the Portage Road, over the Allegany Mountains in Pennsylvania, there are ten inclined planes, in a distance of thirty-six miles. There are 15 tunnels on 12 different roads, the longest being on the Long Island R jad,under Atlantic street, in Brooklyn, which is more than half a mile in length. There is a tunnel 000 feet long, thrcugh solid rock on the Haarlem Road, near New. York. On the ReadingRoad there are three tunnels, 900, 1000 and 1933 feet long. This road, though only 93 miles long, cost $10,338,530. Marshal Grouchy.-The French steamer brings the intelligence of the deatli of Grouchy, at the advanced age of 82. lf he liad died before the battle of Waterloo, it is possible that the result of that terrible battle might have been different. It was he who commanded the F ranch corps (Varmec, which was destined to employ the Pruss:an army while Napoleon attacked the Duke of Welüngton.at Waterloo, but failing to execute the commane's ofthegreat captain, Blucher effected n junction with Wellington, and Napoleon lost the empire. The Emperor died at St. Helena in the belief that Grouch had been operated upon by corrupt appliances. The following order has recently been abopted by the Posmaster General. Sec. 244. It is ordered that Regulations 549 which authorizes persons to subscribe for newspapers, depositing monoy with postmasters &c. be and the same is hereby repealed. This order to take effect from and after the Ist day of July 1847.' There anivcd at Qtfebcc, during the four days up to Gth int., over Six Thousand passenger., in 25 ships, namely - 956 from Bramen, 953 from Liverpool. 851 from New Ros?, 774 from Newry, 440 from Dublin, 393 from Glasgow, 474 from Belfast, 274 from Waterford, 243 (rom Southnmpton, 110 from Denegal, and 25 from Youghall. New Bampshire. - Tcck (Indepondent) is elected to Congress by 2000 mujority. Gen. Wilson (Whig)is elected by from 300 to 000 majority, according to the Tnbune's despatcos from Boston. The second chkl bom in Cincinnati siill livos, and has not seen the middle age oflife, while Cincinnati contains 80,000 inliabitants ! The old pioi'eer wlio first settlcd wliero Cincinnali now " stands, when Ohio was a wi!derness,wn]ks nmong us. healthy and strong, amid a throng of two millions of souls!" ': And Ihe first child born of American parenis West of the Allegniiy Mountains, who knew Washington as a surveyor on the banks of Ihe Kanawha, when the wliole Norili West, with nimaterial c.ceptions, was in possessinn of the savnge, is yet alive, and scarce nuröbers more than four score years and ten ; yet, in her dav, she witnessed the growth of an empire - the pfopling of the mighty valloy betwecn the bnse of the Blue Ridgc and the Rocky Mountains !- St. Clairvillc Gat. Value of Newspapers. - An idea ma y be ibimed of ihe value of newspapers- of soine newspapc rs we menn - by the subjoined statement, sliovvs what ' good wil!' may bring in the market,it having been decided that the good will of a i.ewspaper comprises ihe chief part of its value. " The Philadelphia U.S. Gazette recently sold for 45,000 ; one half of tlie Boston Atlns has beo purchased at a cost of $35,000; the Boston Dnily Advertíser is valuedat $00,000 - 40,000 has been refused for one half of it ; one-third of" the New York Couries was sold a few months since for $30,000 ; and one quarter nf üio New York Tribune for $25,000. Cranterries on Upland. - In nddition lo statements beretofore published n the papers, the Prairie Farmer gives figures sliowingthe relativo size of fruit grown wild and on cultivated ground, showing the great superiority of the latter. In the Cultivated cranberry the color wns much more uniform approaehing at the blossom end lo deep purple or black' - "Most men in comparing the latter, would pronounce the cultivated fruit at least three limes largor than tlie wild." Preservin Green Carrants Fresh. - M. S. Wilson, of Lonox, Mass., preserves green currants in dry glass boltles,corked and sealod tight, placing them in a cool cellar. Green gooseberries rnny be preserved in the same way. He ndds, " In ihis marmer green curranls have ben preserved in my cellar for years. I have green curant pies on my lable at all seasons of the year." The Fhiliulelphin Evening Bulletin snyslhat n liltle girl in tlial city diedon Monday evening f'-om over-exertion in 'jumping ihe rope.' It seatns therewas a Irial ofskill going on with a party as to who could jump the longest without resting. The decensed, fluslied with a desire to excel, took the rope, and sprang lightly over it for some minutes, nnd, though her companions beggetl her to stop, cotitinued until she sank to the ground and expired. Independent Post Office. - James W, Hale, so well known as an independent letter carrier belwecn New York city and Boston, previoUs to the reduction, in the public rates of postage, is about to resume business on his old route. Ile wil! take letters for three cents. Of all the tricks a mari's passion play hitn, that is about the cunningist when he is persuaded that he is governing, even at the same time that he is gratifying them. The Go-Belween. - There is, perhaps. not a more odious character in the world ilian that of tlie go-between - by which we mean tliat crenture who carries to the ear of one neighbor every injurious observation that happens io drop frora another. Such a person is the slandcrer's hcrald, nnd is altogether more oJiousthan the slanderer hirnself. By his ofliciousness he makesthat poison eflective which else were inert, for three-fourths of the slander ia the vvorld would never injure their object, except by the malice of the gobetweens, who, under the mask of friendship, act the part of doublé traitors. The late learned Dr. W , having manied a lady by the name of Experience, who was very tall, on being asked some time afier the event,how he liked the married state, replied 'that he found by long Experience, that it was not good for a man to be alone.'