The Penny Press, 1859-12-07

je9Aa aotrosj, if protty, frequently gives up thostaye for a oarriago. jaVice vorsa, it, literally translated, vicious vore. fi3A. young lady who awaits impatiently hor woddiDg day may be luapactod of JBSTk young middy, who was making his first voyage, had so severe art atUck of pea pea-sickness - sickness pea-sickness that he threw up hie cotuuiiiision. JSB-The young man who pays his addresses to dumb-belles is in no danger of being dis discarded. - carded. discarded. - jOEf'The most profitable) business in Virginia recently has been tho manufacture of rogl rogl-inentals - inentals rogl-inentals and uniforms for oitizen soldiery. A vessel reeeatly arrived in Kngland from Sebastopol, with a cargo of two hundred and thirty-seven tuns human bones. There is glory for yon of the rarest kind. "Tho November number of the ilevue dei Deux MundeH has an elaborato review of Mrs. Btowo's new novorby M. Cucheval Clarigny, undor the title of Lafianeee fu ministrt. ;3&6f Juhn Douzhcrtv, a younc man. hiiDit binnoll' in his room in Brooklyn, N. V., last jtrtday, alter tnrco auoinpts, two ot wbioli proved unuccoijttii. -The groat work of SI. TbieM, the "His tory tt the Oonsnlate and Empire." which bai como to anopparentstnnd-Btill for the Inst two years, is to be finitbeil this winter, &f(7fint. John Ttrnwn wad htinc in 0'iifv ia front of tho St. Louis Court-liouso last Sat Saturday, - urday, Saturday, by the same personB, doubtless, who draped tiieofiico of the Missouri Dtmvtrat with orape. ;"Th Episcopal Church in the United States contains 33 dioceses. The present num num-bor - bor num-bor of bishops, provisional bishops and assis assistant - tant assistant bishops is -13; priests and deacons, 3,030; parishos, 2,110. --The Maniuia de Gulifibt (C. A. Bries- ted's antagonist in a duel) has married M'lle Latlitte, a grand daughter of the oelebrated banker; the Frenoh Empress negotiated the marriago. :EflAt a recent oxecution In Kontuoky.the clergyman prayed that all present might be duly impressed with the "shortness of human life." The man on the platform seemed to be convinced of the faot already. TProf. Tishendorf has received from the Monastery at Sinai an anoiont MS. cf the Bible which has never been published, or used in the preparation of any printed .mme. t At a rocentdiffioulty in Anlioch,Tenn., during a shooting matoh between Geo. Ab Abbott - bott Abbott and a man by tho name of Ward, Abbott waa shot entirely through the body and al almost - most almost immediately killed. S-Tno salo of "The Ministor'a Wooing" has already a circulation exoeedlng 50,0110 copies. Mrs. Stowe has realized more than $10,000 upon it, and will probably receive as much moro. fiZTk reoent letter from Farla states that the display of jewelry, not enly on full-dress occasions, but even in the morning, driving and noon-day apparel of the Frenoh Empress and her visitors, Is truly magnificent. rSenator Sumner has been chosen a for foreign - eign foreign assoolate member of the Pronch Society of Political Economy at Paris. He is the first American on whom this honor has been con conferred, - ferred, conferred, A reouisilion is to bo made, it ia said. upon the Governor of New York State, undor the Fugitive-slave law, for the surrender of II. R. Ilolper, author of the Impending Crisis, and Professor Hedrick, expelled from North Carolina University. fc9"Tho two moBt successful books of the lato London season are doelared to bo (always after Adam Jlcdt,) Our Farm of Four Acre; a two-shilling book by Miss Coulton, andfyHiu yVnA'i, Pnmet nnd Olaciert, a volume of mixed science and adventure. S8 At Messrs. Smith & Elder's rocent trade salo in Loudon, $5,01)0 oopics of their new half-crown edition of Jliss fironh't Life jvere disposed of, .notwithstanding tho large sale it has already mot with at the former pi ice of six shillings. "The Warronton (Va.) Flay, having boon informed that over twenty copies of the New York Tribune are taken at the l'ostoftice of Prinoo William County, suggests that those receiving them should not only bo presented before the Grand Jury and fined heavily, but dealt with even more severity. The Fekb States from a Viruinia Point of Vibw. The Richmond Dupakh of a late date observes: We think they (the North) will hardly deny, themselves, that they are the most selfish roue on whom the sun of heaven ever shono. No man takes any interest in his neighbor, except to get the better of him in a bargain. They can entertain strangers hospitably, but bow do they entertain each other? The iceberg of the poles has as much heat and geniality and sympathy with tho iceberg floating by its side, as most of the New England raco tor eaoh other. In this we find an explanation of tho faot that gentle gentlemen - men gentlemen of Northern birth, who have made the South their permanent hoino, are among the most loyal and ardent in their devotion to their adopted land. We will not deny the courage of the North. It has been shown on land and sea, and fully understand that, when the struggle oomes, not with the blatant abolitionists, who are nearly all cowards, but with the sober masses whom they intend to force into this fight it will be no ohild'a jfiay. We are willing to do justice to every good quality that the North can claim, to its energy, valor, system, and Industry, and, having made allowances for all, we can ealmly, and, as we venture to supposo, intelligently, give some reasons why we do not think that sections has any right to stand in the most eonsplouous place ia tho tern- f ie, and thank Clod that it is not as this Pub Pub-ioan. - ioan. Pub-ioan. '

An Eccentric Swiss Misua. A Swiss wiser diod lately near Zurich, who is repre represented - sented represented to have been as fair a speoimen of the class as ever existed. He was a self-made man, a man without education, and without any prominent talents his principal qualities being a horrible avarice and an iron industry. The proprietor of a large manufacturing estab establishment, - lishment, establishment, bis great objeot was to extort as much work as possible from his laborers at as little expense as possible. He was sever mar married, - ried, married, never enjoyed any of tbe pleasures of lifsf and lived in a small, low, dirty room, whose only furniture was a bedstead. An adjoining room served as a kitohen, where his only ser servant - vant servant resided aud cooked bis meals, which he ate standing, lie never kept any regular books, and never took an inventory. Twelve years ago his - friends persuaded him to have one taken ; but when, long before it was fin finished, - ished, finished, it showed a property free of all debts tf nearly four millions of dollars, he toro up the papers and stopped the proceeding. He died as he had lived, in dirt and apparent poverty: and, true to the principles that had guided him through life, loft nothing to bonevolenoe or any useful institution. Value of Portraits. Barry Connwall says of portraits: There is something delightful in the inter intercourse - course intercourse whioh we have with another's likeness. It is himself only ones removed; he is visible, not tangible; wo have his moiety. Iaapio Iaapio-Hire - Hire Iaapio-Hire of history, there is often indeed more to admire than in the face of one individual, man or woman. There is more room for the skill of the artist: it is better adapted to exem exemplify - plify exemplify a moral. But the sentiment that ohalns us to the other is wanting, we are not familiar with it; one Is a brave matter a splendid thing: the other is a person, and becomes our friend. It is thus that affection and kind feeling are perpetuated. It is thus that ths form and features of the child are made known to its pining parents afar off. It is thus that the faces whioh wo love to look upon are re deemed from the grave, and eont to us aoross deserts and woodland mountains, or over a thousand leagues of water. This is the great greatest - est greatest boast of art, as well as its most delightful viotory. It annihilates spaoe, if net timo, and makes the absent happy. The Good Effect of Periodicals. Ralph Waldo Emerson says: Show us an intelligent family of boys and girls, and we will show you a family where newspapers and poriodloals aro plentiful. Nobody who has been without these silont private tutors can know thoir educating power for good or evil. Have you nevor thought cf the innumerable topics of discussion whioh thoy suggest at the break breakfast - fast breakfast table, tbe Important publio measures with which, thus early, our children become fami familiarly - liarly familiarly acquainted great philanthropic ques questions - tions questions of the day, to which unconsciously their attention is awakened, and the general spirit of Intelligence which is evoked by these quiet visitors? Anything that makes home pleasant, cheerful, and chatty, thins the haunts of vice and the thousand and pne avenues of tempta temptation, - tion, temptation, should eertainly be regarded, when we consider its inllucnoe on the minds of the young, as a great wotai and social blessing. . Mysterious Poisoning in Massacbusktts. An attempt was made a few days ago to poison s family named Kursau, living in Uuggles's l'laoe, Roxbury, Mass. Thefamily discovered a bad taste in the water of their well, and on examination of eome of. it, oreosoto was dis discovered - covered discovered floating on the surfaoe. Soon after two empty bottles were found near the well, whioh had evidently contained oreosote. About the samo time one member of the fam family, - ily, family, a girl, was taken quite ill, and her sick sickness - ness sickness was decided to havo been oaused by the poisoned water. No other injuries from its use, however, resultod. Tbe family had sus suspicions - picions suspicions in regard to tho parties who poisoned the water, and tho motives which actuated Ibem, but investigation shewed them to be groundless, and there is no clue as yet to the guilty ones. Jewels or am Egyptian. The Jewel-box of an Egyptian Queen, which was found In one tf the King's tombs In Egypt, Is now greatly admired by the Parisians. One of the journals cays the most elaborate workmanship of the present day cannot surpass tbatof this jewelry, wlilon IB exquisite in uooigii ana execution. Especially fine Is a little gold crown, a thick gold chain, six ftet long, and a beautifully chiseled gold plate with a male portrait, per perhaps - haps perhaps that of tbe King.

The late Mr. Baylo St. John, in his biog raphy of Montaigne, thus describes the essay essayist's - ist's essayist's monnorof seizing; a thought: Montaien'e made it, as it were, a business to think at his castle. lie was ever on the look lookout - out lookout for ideas and images. A thought would suddenly strike him In the family part of his House, ana ne would oiten, not naving ms tablets at hand, hurry across the court and olimb his tower, In order to set it down. ' Ex Experience, - perience, Experience, however, had taught him that the thought might be lost on the way, whisked out of sight by some sudden gust of sensation; so he used to take care before setting out to tell it to his wife, his daughter, or anybody else who might be at hand. Imagine a gap gaping - ing gaping servant-girl of Perigord being Intrusted with suoh valuaWo deposits! What an amus ing revoiauon is tnere in an this or Montaigne in his literary character Montalgno the maker of books. His essays were never out of his mind! He seemed ever to have been employed in meditating end carefully inscrib inscribing - ing inscribing his thoughts in his brain, so that his manner of speaking to othors was constrained, dry and brief. He haslenod back, as it were, to his own thoughts , for tear ne should lose Sight of then. Of another of Montaigne's processes of thought the biographer says : See how surely Montniene proceeds when he undertakes to develop some moral idea I He knows who have said the best things on the subject. lie turns to their pages, reads them over and over again, and porfeotly cer certain - tain certain that his mind Is not enslaved by theirs, makes use of their knowledge as thoy bad inado use of the knowledge of thoir predeoes predeoes-sors - sors predeoes-sors ; gives, perhaps, a touch here, and adds a tint there, and sometimes, having done no more than this, appeals to the judgment of the judicious whether he has not worked well; and cares nothing for tbo minute oritio who follows him with a cry of "Stop tliiofl"

A Frail Wife and aw Indignant Husband in New Yore. The village of Canandaigua, N. Y,, was thrown into commotion on a re recent - cent recent evening, by the sudden exposition of a oase in which parties well known there were concerned. The parties concerned are Wil Wil-linm - linm Wil-linm II. Phelps, William Warren, and the wife of tho latter. Phelps is a bachelor of sixty, a brother of Ollvor H. Tholps, an in insurance - surance insurance agent, wealthy, and an old resident of Canandaigna. Warron is a stone-cutter, undor forty years of age, in moderate olreum olreum-stancos, - stancos, olreum-stancos, of good standing, and has a family consisting of a wife and five children. Mr. Warron mot Phelps just loaviDg his wife's apartment, and at once onsaitltedhim. Phelps win much tho hoavior man of the two, but the stono eutlor made up in knowledge of pound pound-iog - iog pound-iog what he lacked iu woight. Tholps was thrown down aud kenton serioimly about the head and lace. Monnwhile tho wifolookod on ,torror-strickon, and tho cries of l'uolps brought .to tho spot, from the chamber above, tho daugher nnd eon of Mr. Warron, who wore much terrified by tho proceeding to them fo lraugo, Mr. Wa -ren called to his sou to briug him the rtitviug-knifo, that lio might dispatch l'holps upon tho spot. Tho boy refused to comply, nnd assured his father that be would be bung if be killed tho man. rrcsontly Fhelps es escaped - caped escaped from Warren, and ran into tho yard, but he was overtakon and again beaton. By this timo tho alarm had spread in tbe neigh neighborhood, - borhood, neighborhood, and peoplo ropaired to the spot to see what was going on, when Pbolps was taken into custody end the combat terminated.

He says, "I do not believe slavery to be wrong. I do not believe it to be a moral, social, or political evil." He claims that the patriot eagts of the revolution did no wrong to humanity in embodying it in the Constitution; thoy but followed the customs, the laws, and the example of the whole oivilired world. Abraham introduced slavery into his system of government. Moses found it a part of the Jewish polity; undenounced by the Savior and the Apostles, it eamo regularly down to us, through all tha various changes in socioty and government. '. Europeans brought the slaves here as property, as merchandize, and it was an existing institution here when the Colonies re rebelled. - belled. rebelled. It Is now one of the oompaots of the Constitution. For Kentucky, he denounces tho proclamation "that the United States Government cannot exist as part free and part slave, but must bo all one or the other." Kentucky has seven hundred miles of exposed torritory, and suffers an annual loss of her slave property of $100,000, will be without excitement, and offers no threats, bat will aot with the dignity, moderation and wisdom whioh becomes her. Under the broad shield of the Constitution, she will stand by the Union. She stands by the land-marks of the fathers, that each Stale should be the judge of, and regulate its own domestio institutions without interference. She believed that slavory Is neither a moral, social nor political evil. The whites In slave states are as agree- able, as refined, as hospitable, as charitable, as brave in battle, as obedient to the laws, as loyal to the government as the people ia the free States.

The Governor in Kentucky.. and reoommenda proteotivemcas uresof security and safety, "whether the agents and omissiaries of the Republican party, and the enemies of the Union, eome among us as teachers, as peddlers, or as free negroes, from the troe States, l would, inereioro, recom mend a heavier taxation upon peddlers, a ro peal of the law imposing a heavy penalty upon them for oomlng to the State under any pretense whatever. I further recommend a chance of the laws allowing slaves to hire their own time, and the passage of muoh more stringent laws to correct this alarming evil. It would be well, too, to offer to eaoh free negro, who wished to leave the State, who had not the means, a sufficient sum of money to bear his expenses to his destination; when onoe out ho oould not return." He re commends a reorganisation of the militia sys tern patrlotlo, well-duel pllned, a ad thor oughly organised militia in Kentucky. ' KIVIBW OF THE GROUND. The Governor contends that the slaves are not discontented , and that none are truer or sounder on the slave qnostion than the non non-slaveholders - slaveholders non-slaveholders of the South, lie appeals, then, to the Unlon-lovlrg masses of too North to refuse to follow leadors whose success would madden tho South and endanger ihe Union. He says: "We wilt not yet despair of the Ropubllc; we have faith in the pibllc virtue, bet, forewarned as we have ber a, let us be on our guard, and be prepareu tor tne worst."