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FoR THE WEEK ENDING——
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1854
(o> Unver the “ Notices to Correspondents,” on
page 252, will be found the announcement of all new
artleles examined and accepted for publication.
G>> Supscrisens should bear in mind that our
rule is to have the paper stopped at the expiration of
each time for which it is paid in advance. As, of
course, the buoks are not under cditorial su vision,
none will imagine they hare spec! of com-
plaint. We say this that-onr numerous pereanal
friends may not labor under a fulse impreseion.
Opinions and Personal Apposr-
anco.
Ir is very curious what an-influence a
man’s ideas have on his personal appear-
ance, his dress, and manners. While it is
true, to an extent, that his character may
be read on his skall,in his features, his gait,
and motions, it is equally certain that his
beard, his coat, his hat, and his collar—the
tie of his cravat, and the “set” of his coat-
tail, are ‘sure indices to his opinions and
thoughts. , We may not be sufficiently sharp
in our pereeptions to discern all the slight
differences, and trace their connection, but
we can see enough to know that other con-
nections exist which we might be able to
trace, if we but devoted ourselves to the
work, as the Fowlers, for example, do to
their scienée.
You can tell the character and opinions
of half the people you meet. ° A free-spirit-
ed, open-bearted man, does not choke him-
self with a cravat up to hisears. An eccen-
tric come-outer never looks like a doctor of
divinity. Long hair always grows | on a soft
soil. ' A’soft hand, with pretty rings, at one
end of an arm, always denotes a. soft head
at the other end. - A man of poetical turn
wears his garments with ease; and an, old
maid in trousers is never * mistaken for a
good fellow.
‘The Westminster. Review has a capital
article, entitled ‘Manners and Fashion,”
from which we make a few extracts:
-“ Whoever has studied the phy: siognomy
of political meetings cannot fail to have re-
marked the. connection that exists between
demosratie opinions and peculiarities ofc cos-
a i me
“ At a chartist demonstration, or a lec-
ture on sovialism, or a soirée of the ‘friends
of Italy, there will be seen many amongst
the audience, and a-~ still Jarger Taio
amongst the speakers, who get themselves up
ina sty le more or less owlré. One gentle-
man on the platform divides his hair down
the center, instead of on one side; another
brushes it back off the forehead, in ‘the fash-
ion known as ¢ bringing out the intellect ;’
a third has so long forsworn the scissors,
that his locks sweep his shoulders. “A con-
siderable sprinkling of mustaches may be
observed; here and there an imperial; and
occasionally some courageous breaker of
conventions exhibits a “full-grown beard.
This non- -eonformity in hair is countenanced
by the yarious non-conformities in dre:
which others of the’ assemblage mani
Bare necks, shirt-collars a la’ By ron, Wais
coats cut Quaker fashion, wonderfully shag-
coats, numerous oddities in form
and color, destroy the monotony usual in
these crowds. And when the gathering
breaks up, the varieties of head-gear dis-
played suffice to prove that were the world
distinguished by its hirsuteness.
thorities of
alike recognize certain forms of hat a
cative o
them ‘av cordingly, n' some places | the
wearer of a Uiowse runs the risk of being
classed among the suspects; and in others,
he who would avoid the bureau of police
“Dodge's Viterary Wuseum,
The au-;
Prussia, Austria, and aly, |
!
iffection, and fulminate a: against
ent te
Impudent Salesmen.
Boston is very rapidly gaining the rep-
utation of having the greatest number of
impudent salesmen of any city in America.
Many of the clerks have become so bold in
their insulting language, that ladies are be-
Seconds Minuted.
BY OURS. |
Tur executors of the late Samuel Ap-
made a donation of $20,000 to
‘The annual
pleton have
the New Ipswich Academy-
exhibition of the Massachusetts Horticultu-
ral Society, in the mammoth tent on the
must beware how he goes out in any but
the ordinary’ colors. | Thus - Democracy
abroad as well'as at home tends toward per-
sonal singularity.”
Common, passed off finely. The display of
fruits and flowers was magnificent. ‘Tom
» Hyer and Morrissey have made a match for
* Will some of © our readers immortalize ‘ $20,000, to come’ off in’ California, ‘within
| themselves by g getting up a new science ?: three months from. Sept. 15th. ‘There
Tt would have as thorough a foundation of. will be over a. half crop ‘of corn in’ Ohio.
facta as some popular “sciences” we wot of. | The total corn crop in the United. States |
rr will be two-thirds the average—about fifteen |
ee Tun. fellow who took offence «has not ‘bushels to the acrea+-—-600 barrels of her: |
| rings were: taken, af Treat’s Island, Me.,
ig Hemay life resembles books : : 1 Week before last, London, with a popu :
is at cach end a blank page, childhood and | eon at 2,900,000, had 1209 deaths daring
: he week ending July 12th,: while New
age, . I York, with 750,000 people, had 915 deaths.
pe Wuerrrore is the new moon like ——On the 30th of June, 1853, the’ sur-
a sickle ?. Because it is to reap all our Joys | veyed lands of the United States amounted
and sorrows in its progres: ‘to 336,202,537 acres, . the unsurveyéd | to
£@° Acturer was arrested at the Wine | 1,267,026,506 acres. , Up to the’same date,
throp House, in this city, last week, for | | there had been sold 103,197,356 acres.
stealing a valise of sermons from a clergy- | | Join B. Gough estimates that out of 500,-
|.000 who have taken the ‘Total Abstinence
. pledge in the. United’ States, only. 50,000
Courting Under Difficulties. have kept it. All the ‘members of Gen.
A CORRESPONDENT, who i is not used to! ‘Taylor's family, who lived: with’ him in the
writing for the press, and therefore hiakes i White House, are dead ; the pow Gover
along story out of a brief incident, gives himself, .his wife, his’ daughter, 3 rs. Bliss,
us an account of a laughable affair which and Col, Bliss. -_ Are, Filhnore As dead, and
occurred a short time since in the city a also her daughter. Lhe wife of Jackson
died . just betore’ he ‘entered the White
Charlestown.
som . i | House. Mr, Adams lost a son while there.
A young man from Waltham: rode on/
| Gen, Harrison died there. «While Mr, Ty-
horseback to Charlestown to see his sweet- | 1 there, hi t and intended father.
heart. “She ‘being a favorite’ with, the |“O* Y8S Heres dis guest anc antende
yet returned it.
there
may. He should be obliged to read them.
>,
Charlestown boys, they eut the girths of the | in-law, wag killed: ou board:.the, Prinveton.
countryman’ 3 saddle, tied “a strong cord t6 Me. Polk died soon after leaving this house.
,
the erupper, sprinkled small field peas on wo ass ee relanie of et
the outside stairs leading to the domicile of | 7% ‘are Beecher, Over olmes; an
the fair girl, and then’ lay low for black man Melville, G...W.. Curtis, Nathanie
ducks,” and to watch the result. Hawthorne, Miss Sedgwick and Fanny Bat-
, . .
Among « the wee short hours’ ayant the ler. It was also, until recently, ‘the resi-
P, °5, “They are bor-
twal,” the Walthamite bowed himself out dence of G. P. R. James. They are bor
the doors backwards gayly ‘turned a half ing an artesian. well in St: Louis, which is
s, a
pirouette at the head of the stairs, and com- already es ve deep. . phere is me at
menced his descent. But ’twas much more | B nu eston, . te a feet cep ATS.
rapid than he expected; for stepping on | 2°Mtoms wite of Col. Benton, is dead
the hard peas, which set themselves and the During the week ending Sept. 5th, ithere
young man into'a rapid rotary movement, | We"? 112 deaths from yellow fever in New
he turned two summersaults backward, ro!l- | Orleans. In, Savana the Shans week,
ed over sideways once and a half, and landed there were 74——The New Onleans Price
habump somewhere between his ¢ ears and | ‘Current’s annual statement sets: down the
boots. ‘ cotton crop at 2,930,000 , bales, and, the
Being ofa violent temper, and smelling a| year’s receipts at New Orleans, at 1,141,000
mice that the peas were not the result of a ales; the value of the cotton received at
shower, he imagined all: sorts ‘of: violent $54,250,000, and the value of other articles
oaths} but as his girl was a member of a at $60,000,000; the value of the year’s ex-
strictly pious family, he concluded to smoth-| Ports at. $84,000,000. There ~ were 52
er the oaths till mounted on his horse, when | 4eaths from cholera, in 48 hours; in Colum-
he would give vent: to his feelings in a blue bia, Pa. a short time’ since. Jncle‘Sam
streak. ' Untying’ the ‘horse, and’ spitefully | i dead. . is nate was Samuel Wilson, and
throwing himself, into the saddle, he gave he died in Troy, N. Y., in August, aged St.
the spirited ‘animal a'violent cut that was He first labeled Government goods * U. S.,
far. more indicative of intensity than tender. J . .
ness of feeling, and the next instant he was | !#¢ name of “ Uncle Sam,” instead of « Jon-
playing leap-frog i in the air, worse than nie athan.”——-The Spiritualists of Boston have
fore,‘ organized a, company. with a capital of
The’ correspondent ‘adds that the young | 514,000 for a Spiritual Home. Tda Pfeif-
man backed home 'the saddle, and had the | fers the distinguished German traveler, left
grit in him’ not ‘to be frightened off the Chicago for. Audson’s Bay, the other, day. |.”
course, for he continued his is visits, and final- The contributions tothe Washington
ly married the girl.” monument in September were $26,000,—
That’s the best part of the story; but he | They are using glass bricks m England ;
should have invited his competitors to the | V¢'Y cheap,‘ and durable. The Boston
wedding, and have given them nothing but Theater seats 3018 ee 1093 on the
pea-soup, first tier; 384 on the second; 850 on the
without’ like-minded, the - black eylinders third, and about 80 more. Mrs. though often the daughter is older than the
pose" tyrannize over us would soot Le de- = A MERcuANT wrote to. his agent :| Wallace of Charlestown and David Haskell | Parent. _ : py
* . ?¢ (What news » and received for answer: | of. Worcester, were injured, last week, by |. ga>.Tae man “who: “ took ap” another ' |
“Red Republicauiem hes always been |O (Nothing) o's 20s ce aS, | eamphene explosioma. fe) yoos yy one’s quarrel, has Jaid it down agains? 6 oc. '
=" ’ 7 eet
dinavian, Odin; Swedish, Godd;
from which practice the soldiers originated |:
coming afraid to “go shopping,” unaccom-
panicd by a male friend. If'a lady looks at
an article and ‘inquires its price, and does
not conclude to’ purchase without looking
further, she is grossly insulted, by sneering,
up-start, impudent, empty-pated clerks,
who have not the necessary refinement for
drivers to a coal-cart. Merchants will do
_ well to employ none but civil salesmen, and
then hang show-cards at their door,
LADIES NOT INSULTED HERE.
Want of room compels us to be brief, but
next week we shall cause a shaking of dry
bones in certain quarters. Look out for it.
" singular, . ,
Tuat the name of God should be spelt
with four letters in almost every known lan-
guage. It is in Latin, Deus; French,
| Dieu; Greek, Zeus; German, Gott; Scan-
2 Ilebrew,
Adon; Syrian, Adad; Persian, Syra; Tar-
tarian, Kiga; Sclavonian, Belg, or Boog;
Tratian, Iais; Spanish, Dias;. East India,
or Zeni Turkish, Abdi; Egyptian,
Auman, or Zeut; Japanese, Zain; Peruvian,
Lian; Wallachian, Zene; Et®urian, Chur; -
Tyrhenian, Eher; Ivish, Dich; Croatian,
Doga;. Margarian, ese; Arabian, Alla;
Dalmatian, Bogt. . ,
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> WE were, a few. days since, trying ,
to persuade a friend to introduce a bath-
room into his house. “Among otber reasons
adduced, we stated. that a daily bath gave .
increased action to the digestive organs.
“Tf it produces that effect on them,” he
exclaimed, “I. certainly shall snot have a
bath-room in the house; for my greatest ,
trouble is, to keep the digestive organs
quiet. Teat so much now that my wife is
scolding all the time, and I mustn’t do any-
thing to increase the trouble”.
g> ARE. both ‘stories true?
26.6.
Tazewell, the leading’ Democratic editor of /
=
XM chusetts, says that.'the Democratic
party, as,a party, is “ crushed ont.” “The
Louisville Journal (Whig) ‘says: 4 Six
months ago the Whig party was'a unit, act~
ing in concert, both in: plan and purpose; ;
now it appears about to be rent in twain.”
ge «Can I Srrax tae Worp THar
Pants Us? ”—This pretty song, ,on our last
page, was ‘composed by HL. A. Whitney, au
thor of «The Old Mill,” and several other”
popular ballads that have been sung in our
best circles during the past year.
hero. Thus it is in the farce of life. ,
men spend their time in mirth,
fools who are serious.
Wise
“tis only
wy
a Mr. Lroxarp. Diy, the old. con- |
ductor on the Fitchburg Railroad, was s¢-
riously injured’ by‘ being jammed between “
,
two cars, on the 12th inst. “Ife has the sym :
pathy of the entire public. '
ES> Esteem is the mother. of Love,
The Afu |
seum is eae admired for its nnequaled
ES We have observed that in comedies a
the, best actor plays the droll, while’ some
scrub rogue is made the fine: gentleman or»
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