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| profits will enable you not only to pay your advertising bills, | bat save you from destruction, and inspire confidence in your | ~~ creditors and the public. But should this expectation not be | mirt rate | - , ps ifally realised, you can hardly be worse off than you now are. THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS, : '* Nothing iacauhinn win.” You know that large fortunes

The argutnents for plurality of worlds contained a the | have been made by advertising—and you also know that no pre ecing chapters are so various, and have such different | man ever advertised extensively and thoroughly that did not dearecs of force, that different views of the subject will be) sueceed. Spend $500 a year in advertising and it will bring taken by persons who thoroughly believe in the general doe-! you in $5,000. Try it! Those who are doing busicess must trine. We can easily conceive why some persons May |advertise or fall!. It is true, advertising may not save all believe that all the planets which have satellites are inha-| who are embarrassed, for there are some whom even advertis- hite I, while they deny the inhabitability of those that have ing however potent, cannot now save ; but it will save many none, and also of the sun end the satellites themselves. —all who are not hopelessly insolvent—it will save hundreds Chere are individuals, too, though we doubt their faith in| who are doomed to certain failure without it. There is no sidereal astronomy, who readily believe that the whole.of| sense in standing idle—no sense in brooding over existing ills our planetary system is the seat of life, while they are start- —the true way is to commence a war upon them—and do it led by the statement that every star in the heavens, and | through the means and agency of the Press, which is truly avery point in a nebula, which the most powerful telescope | and emphatically “the mighty lever of the business world,” has not separated from its neighbor, is a sun surrounded by | and you know it. Advertising is the grand remedy. “ Cast inhabited planets like our own ; and that immortal beings | your bread upon the waters,” and in a short time it will are swarming through universal space more numerous than |return to you again. We ask no man to advertise for the drops of water in the’ocean, or the grains of sand upon its} sake of the Press, bet for his own sake—to save himself from shores. But if these person? really believe in the distances| bankruptcy, and his family from penury and want. The and magnitudes of the stars, and of the laws which govern | Philadelphia merchants and manufacturers are advertising the binary systems of double stars, they must find it equally, | vastly more than ours are, and the consequence is their trade if not more difficult to comprehend, why innumerable suns | is better than ours. Many of our business men appear to be and worlds fill’ the immensity of the universe, revolving | paralyzed ; they are panic-struck and trembling in their shoes. round one another, and discharging their light and heat into |They are wondering what is to become of them, instead of space, Without a plant to spring under their influence, with-| laying hold of the lever which alone can save them—ruin out an animal to rejoice in their genial beams, and without | stares them in the face! To all such we say, advertise— the eye of reason to lift itself devoutly to its Creator. In |advertise at once; let it be the first thing you do. If you peopling such worlds with life and intelligence, we assign |are too fur gone, it may not save you. It is, in fact, the the cause of their existence: and when the mind is once} only thing you can do and hope to weather the storm. Then alive to this great truth, it cannot fail to realise the grand | be about it at once; the engine can be set in motion. The combination of infinity of life with infinity of matter. In| experiment is worth trying, is it not? 1t is the last chance support of these views, we have already alluded to the almost of the business men who are in distress for more and better ineredible fact, that there are in our own globe hills, and jeustomers. Why should any one hesitate to resort to it ?— strata miles in length composed of the fossil remains of mi-| New York Tribune.

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Thus it will be seen our shoemaker has passed through all the stage of matrimonal trials in the brief space of five days, and 1s now a grass widower : verily this isa fast age.—Ogdensburg Sentinel.

truant wife returned to their home in Kington,

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Scicrve sy a Sup Capratn.—Yesterday forenoon the Coroner held an Inquest on the body of Captain Mayler of the Amazon, now in port, who committed suicide during the previous night, by shooting himself through the body. It appeared in evidence that the deceased had been in a very despondent mood for the last few days, on account of a great loss he occasioned the owners of the vessel by paying too high a price for tke freight home. About 40’clock yesterday morning the secoad mate was disturbed in his berth by the discharge of firearms, and on rising to ascertain the canse he found the Captain almnost lifeless from a pistol shct wound in his left breast. Dr. Fitzpatrick was immediately sent for, but before he could arrive life was extinct. A verdict of ‘Temporary Insanity’ was returned by the Jury.—Quebec Chronicle.

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Rarw Passace or 4 New Cxreper.—On Monday, the “ medium clipper” Dreadnought, Captain Samuel, one of Merges, A. Taylor and Co’s “ St. George’s line,” of New York packets, arrived here, after making the passage in thirtéen days eleven hours and fifteen minutes, allowing for difference of time and eight houn’s detention at the bar.— The Dreadnought has thus made the shortest eastern and wes‘e’n sailing passages on record, and it is no wonder, therefore, that she is a very favourite vessel with passengers. The Dreadnought has made four voyages in eleven months, a proof that her success is not attributable mereiy to the accident of good weather.

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Sprxtina Guns.—Spikes are about four inches long, and of the dimensions of a tobacco-pipe: the head flat; a barb at the point acts as a spring, which is naturally pressed to

croscopie insects ; and we need scarcely remind the least in- formed of our readers, that the-air which they breathe, the water which they drink, the food which they eat, the earth on which they tread, the ocean which encircles them, and | the atmosphere above their heads, are swarming with uni-| versal life. Wherever we have seen matter we have seen life ;

and in whatever spot we see its atoms, whether at our feet, | or im the planets, or in the remotest star, we may be sure | that life is there—tlife to enjoy the light and heat of God’s | bounty—to study his works, to. recognise his glory, and to'|

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Canronert 1x Love.—A romantic story is current relative to an attachment which General Canrobert is known to enter- tain to the daughter of one of our generals who fell on the Sth at the desperate battle of Inkermann. Previous to the departure of the French general with the army for the East, he had an interview with the young lady in Paris, and urged his suit with his characteristic enthusiasm. It is said that the interview was satisfactory, and the gallant general left expressing a chivalrous determination of winning a marshal’s baton, and thus becoming more worthy of the much prized

to believe that the earth is the only inhabited body in the| pyotich beauty. Sebastopol has, hewever, proved fatal to universe, will have no difficulty in conceiving that it almost |tho father of the young lady; but the same officer who might have been without inhabitants. Nay, if such minds/ tought the distressing intelligence was also entrusted with a are imbued with geological truth, they mast admit that for | message from the wounded Canrobert to the lady, in utter millions of years the earth was without inhabitants : and hence | ignorance of her bereavement, dilating on his brightered pros- we are led to the extraordinary result, that for millions of years pects as one step towards his implied promise of rendering!

the shaft upon being forced into the touch hole. Upon reaching the chamber of the gun it resumes its position, and it is impossible to withdraw it. It can only be got out by drilling—no easy task, as it is made of the hardest steel, and being also somewhat loose in the touch hole, there is much difficulty in making a drill bite as effectually as it should do.

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Ovr or Emrtorment.—Over 15,000 persons are out of employment in New York, and the distress is very great. A proposition has been made in the City Council to ap- propriate $10,000 for the relief of the poor.

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A preacher, advertising herself as “ Miss Sarah Pellet, a graduate of Oberlin,” delivered a discourse on Sunday in this city, taking for her text the words—“ Stand up, I myself am also aman.” If Pellet is a man, what right has he to ad- vertise himself as a woman ?”—New York Observer.

there was not an intelligent creature in the vast dominions of | the universal king ; and that before the formation of the pro- tozviestrata,there was neither a plagt nor an animal throughout | the infinity of space !

During this long period of universal death, when nature | herself was asleep, and the sun with his magnificent attendants, the planets with their faithful satellites, the stars in the binary systems, the solar system itself, were performing their daily, | their annual, ard their secular movements, unseen, unheeded, and fulfilling no purpose that human reason ¢an conceive— lamps lightening nothing—fres heating nothing—waters quenching nothing—clouds screening nothing—breezes fan- ning nothing—and everythingaround—mountain and valley, hill aud dale, earth and ocean,—all meaning nothinz—

*¢ The stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space.”

. To our apprehension, such 2 eopdition of the earth, of the solar system, and of the sidereal universe, would be the same qs that of our own globe, if all its vessels of war and of com- meree, were trayersing its seas with empty cabins and freightiess holds—as if all the railways on its surface were in full activity without passengers and goods, and all our machi- nery beating the air and gnashing their iron teeth without work performed. A house without tenants, a city without citizens, present to our miads the same idea as a planet without life, and a universe without inhabitants.. Why the house was built, why the city was founded, why the planet was made, and why the univers was created, it would be difficult eyen to conjecture. Equally great would be the difficulty were the planets shapeless lumps of matter poised in ether, and still.and motionless as the grave ; but when we consider

them as chiselled spheres teeming with inorganic beauty, ‘and iu fal] mechanical aetivity—performing their appointed mo- |

tions with such miraculous precision that their |

years.never err.a second of time in hundreds of centarics— }

the difficulty of believing them to be without life is, if possible, |

immeasarably increased, ‘To eoneeive any one material globe, | ewhether a gigantic clod slumbering in space, or a noble pla- | net equipped like our own, and duly performing its appomted

task, to have no living occupants, or not in a state of prepa-

riition to receive them, seems to us one of those notions which

could be harboured only in an, ill educated and ill-regulated |

lagenrre worthy of her hand,

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Braxkets nor THE War.—The woollen manufacturers in the neighbourhood of Iieckmondwike, in consequence of the (rovernment orders in course of execution, continue pretty busy, most of the manufacturers being tolerably well employed. An order for 20,000 horse blankets was recently received by

‘one firm, the whole of which was executed in a little more

than three weeks, An order for 30,000 pairs of blankets,

ofa superior quality, and, we believe, destined for the seat of

war in the Kast, was also received some time sinee from a private firm, and speedily completed.

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Scorrisn Jcsticr.—A poor man, half a century ago or more, was attempting to violate the game laws by shooting a deer, the penalty for the offence being a fine of five pounds, or, in default of funds, thirty lashes. He gave half the deer to a neighbor, who had the meanness afterwards to complain of him, in order that half must go to the informer and half to the king. The offender was convicted and fined accord- ingly, but pleaded that he had no money. ‘ Weel mon,’ said the magistrate, ‘we maun ha’e the lashes then.’ The poor man submitted. The magistrate then said to the sheriff, ‘Tak that mon, the informer, till yon tree, and gie him fifteen lashes, which will be his half, and when King George comes over we will gie him his half. Half till the informer and half till the king.’

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A poor MAN’s wis.—TI asked a student what three things he most wished. He said, “ Give me books, health and quiet, and [ care for nothing more.” I asked the miser, and he cried, “‘ Money—money—money.” I asked the pauper, and

days and their | be faintly said, * Bread—bread—bread !” I asked the mul-

titude around, and they lifted up a confused ery, in which I heard the words, “ Wealth,-fame and pleasure.” I asked a poor man who had long borne the character of an experienced Christian. He replied. “ All that L wish is health, wisdom, and to have a constant love for my Maker and Redeemer.”

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Tue Rotwe Passtox.—We read in the Courrier de la Giroude, “ An old soldier feeling his’ end approaching, and

_mind—a mind without faith and without hope, but to conceive | wishing to die like a good Christian, sent for a clergyman to

a whole universe of moving and revolving worlds in such a

category, indicates, in our apprehension, 4 mind dead to feel- |

ing and shorn of reason. But we have been mistaken in thinking that the universe was dead: it was but unborn—the perfect chrysalis, from which the butterfly was to spring. Protozoic forms arose at the divine command—the infant plant, the simple ‘molluse, the nobler fish, the still nobler quadruped,: successively appeared; and man, the image of his Maker, and the work of His hand, was invested with the sovereignty ofthe globe. The earth, therefore, was made for man, matter for life ; and wherever another earth is seen, we are forced to the conviction that it was made like ours for the use of an intellectual race.—-Str David Brewster's “ More Worlds than One.”

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Wu pon’s xou Apyentise ?—To those who are complaining of the severity of the times, we address this inquiry: Why don’t you advertise? It is just the thing’to help you out of your difficulties —to relieve you from existing embarrassments’!

—‘o Save you. There is no mistake about if, and the demon-} the Cistatistied groom, sought the esquire and demanded a! war. Sirations which have been made within. our Own ‘observation | divorce, bnt wasinformed that his vequest could not be compli- | for bayonet ‘wounds

Within the last seven years, by those who. have advertised | extensively, prove the fact that advertising is‘ the sure road |

_ (ti fortune. Do you say you've not, the means to meet the! nesday 2 soldier arrived here from Kingston and claimed the Newman was stabbed ali over.

expense, and cannot afford to do it?, You cannot afford not todo.it? There is thedifioulty. If you have tot the means

make haste to get ‘al —send.a lot of ibusty goods to auction! transaction. Our shoemaker was of course obliged to/to bayonet them as they passed —or try your credit. Your increased’ neo at additicnal | surrender “his claim, and on Thursday the soldier and his|Czar! These are the men to

administer to him the rites of the Church. After having attentively listened to thefexhortations of his coafessor, and received extreme unction, he asked him with a feeble voice, ‘Can you tell me, reverend farher, if Sebastopol is taken ? The clergyman, astonished at such a question from a dying man, answered that as yet there was no positive account of its fall. The sick mancontinued,‘ The reason I ask the ques- tion is, as I am about to depart for the other world, it would have given me great satisfaction to be able to announce the good news to Marshal St. Arnaud.’ At these words his head fell back on the pillow, and after half an hour's suffering the poor soldier breathed his last.”

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A Fasr Covrtr.—A large double-fisted masculine ap- pearing woman arrived in this place from Kingston, C, W., on Friday 22nd ult. On Saturday she fell in with a shoe- maker of this place-—was courted, won and married, (the ceremony being performed by I. G. Stillwell, Esq.) Sunday the parties went on a spree, quarrelled and fought, Monday

ed=with. He returned to his spouse and made up the family jar, and continued to live with her through Tuesday. Wed-

new miade'-bride as his property he having taken her for better or for worse, previously to the above

recorded | writhed in agony on the ground, and pointing to their men

PartraMentary Courresy.—When Mr, Canning, in his ministerial capacity, was being annoyed at some of Mr. Hume’s obstinate and blundering charges against public men, he de- clared that the member for Montrose was continually making allegations which he never succeeded in proving ; whereupon Mr. Hume retorted indignantly that the rig hon. gentleman himself was the greatest * allegator” in the House of Commons.

Tbe London and foreign contractors for Minie rifles are exerting themselves to the utmost to make up the deficiency caused by the apathy of the Birmingham gunmakers, who are now several thousand stand of arms in arrear. Contracts have been entered into for the supply of a nomber of rife carbines, it being the intention of the government te arm two light cavalry regiments (which will be termed the Light Dragoor riflemen), with this formidable weapon.

It is stated in the London Times, that the British govern- ment is now paying at ihe rate of three millions of pounds sterling per annum for the charter of steamers alone, besides furnishing them with fuel.

A thief being caught robbing a bank, when asked what he was doing, answered, only taking notes.

The editor of an Ohio paper publishes the names of subscribers who pay up, under the head of ‘ Legion of Honor.’

The young lady who caught the gentleman’s eye is requested to return it.

We admire women because of their beauty ; respect them of their intelligence ; and love them—because we can’t help it.-

« Miss Julia, allow me to close those blinds; the glare of ‘the sun must be oppressive.”

«« You are very kind, sir, but I would rather have a little sun than no air at all.”

Tn lieu of attaching ‘ Esq.’ to men’s names now, the letters ‘S. P. are substituted, signifying ‘ Some Pumkins.’

THE BATTLE OF INKERMANN. FURTHER PARTICULARS.

THE MURDER OF COL. CARPENTER AND COL. HALY.

The greatest atrocity marked the conduct of the Russians towards the officers of Adams’s Brigade who fell into their hands. Poor Colonel Carpenter, as he lay on the ground badly wounded, was bayonetted by a ruffian who, not content with that act of ferocity, clubbed his musket, and beat the

y-haired man with it on the head till he left him senseless.

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are to be indebted for their thrones, and it is,to such allies

that Prussia would give the hands of those whose ancestors fought under the Great Frederick !

MIRACULOUS ESCAPES.

In the 88th Regiment, Major Maxwell's horse was shot under him, in frent of the enemy’s column. Lieutenant Crosse and Lieutenant Haynes were surrounded by a body.of Russians, who attacked them with the bayonet, al were both wounded. Mr. Baynes miraculously Mr. Crosse was surrounded by four Russians, who t to make sure work of him. He shot the two in front of him with his revolver, and a private named Houlaghan rushed out of the ranks, shot one of his remaining assailants dead, bayonetted the other, and, taking up Mr. Crease in bis arms, ran back with him to the rear of the regiment and placed him in safety.

THE SLAUGHTER IN THE SANDBAG BATTERY.

The carnage at the Alma did not present anything like the scene round the Sandbag Battery, which his placed ona steep descent towards the Tchernaya. The piles of dead here were frightful. Upwards of 1,200 dead and dying Russians lay behind and around and in front of it, and many a bearskin cap and tall English Grenadier lay there, too, with frequent co of Frenth Chasseurs and infantry soldiers. At one time, while the Duke was rallying his men, a body of Rus- sians began to single him out, and to take shots at him in the most deliberate manner. A surgeon of a cavalry regi- ment, Mr. Wilson, 7th Hussars, who was attached to the brigade, perceived the danger of His Royel Highness, as- sembled a few men of the Guards, led them ta a charge, and dispersed the Russians. The Duke’s horse was killed im the course of the fight. At the close of the day, he called Mr, Wilson in front of the regiment, and publicly thanked him for having, in all probability, saved his life.

THREE MINES SPRUNG BY THE RUSSIANS.

A little before the retreat of the enemy I had ridden up to an advanced picket-house of ours, which commands a view of the French lines and of our right attack. 1 found there Mr. Layard, M. P., who is sitll an anxious and eager amateur out here, and a group of officers, looking down from the front on the town, which was smiling freshly in the returning sun- shine, and talking of an expected assault by the French. Suddenly a sharp, crashing rattle of musketry, which came distinctly to our ears through the roar of the cannon, was heard on the left towards the Flagstaff Battery, in front of the French lines. Through the glass I could see the caps of some French troops, who were advancing from the last parallel by a wall, which seemed to be inside the town. “ Hurrah,” was the cry, “the French are in the place !” a moment afterwards the Russians could be made out run- ning as hard as they could from the rear of the Flagstaff Battery down towards the houses at the side of the first har- bour, and ere three minutes ela; one! two! three! up shot pillars of dust and dark smoke into the air. The Rus- sians had sprung three mines inside the work. In less than two minutes more the two more mines were sprung. The musketry ceased and the smoke cleared away, revealing a mass of ruins and broken timbers, and beams of cottages, and pre- sently the guns in front of the Flagstaff Battery on the French, and destroyed all our hopes that there had been a successful assault. The Russians had made a sortie, and traversed two parallels ere they were Ised, and the French following them closely to the towa. It is probable that the Russians fired the mines to prevent pursuit, fearing they might enter the place along with them.

LIEUTENANT HOARE’S FAREWELL SALUTE,

In the valley behind the Russian guns we could see the Russian infantry retiring over the road at a good pace, in tolerable order, while their retreat was further protected by a strong body of cavalry drawn up on a mound in rear of the guns. A few rockets were directed against the cavalry by our men in the batteries, but they did no execution that I could see. Our admiration wassoon excited by the splendid fire of our two 18-pounders. — firing at about 1,500 yards, but their shot went right between the enemy’s guns, smashing horses, men, and carriages at every round. “ Bravo, they’re limbering up!” And so they were, leaving five tumbrils, one broken gun carriage, 27 dead horses, and 13 dead men behind them, ona very small space of ground. Again they halted, unlimbered, and fired a few rounds, but their 24’s and 32’s were soon silenced by our 18’s and at 1 30 they were retreating after their infantry into Sebastopol. Iaeutenant Hoare, in his Lancaster Battery, had pre a parting volley for both. He removed his gabions and sand- bags, got a good “open” on the road, and whenever a body of men or horses came in view upon it, bang went the long feltow, and the ponderous cone of iron whistled among them, ripping the column from end to end, and strewing the road with dead.

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GOOD USE OF THE REVOLVER.

The revolvers carried by our officers saved their lives on several occasions this day. When Captain Nicholson, of the 77th, was lying on the ground he was bayonetted by a Rus- sian. ‘The Colonel immediately shot the scoundrel dead. Ensign Butts, of the 77th, was taken prisoner by a Russian,

t, by keeping his evcked firelock te his head. The young Stow. watelad his chance, and shot him dead with his revolver, getting off in safety to rejoin his regiment.

A SOLDIER’S LETTER.

The following extracts from s letter from a native of Here- ford, now a brave serjeant in the Guards, will be read with interest :—* The enemy at one time completely surrounded us. We were then ina pretty fix, and I made sure it was all over. However we were determined not ‘o be taken prisoners. With respect to myself, I did not know whether it was best to fire at those in front or rear; but this was very soon de-

e Colonel lived but a few bours after he was taken to his, tent. Colonel Haly, of the 47th, ras treated im the same | way, as he was stretched in his blood in front of his shattered | regiment. The men on both occasions rnshed in and carried off their officers and bayonetted the Russians who had used | them so barbaronsly. “Major Powell, who was in command ‘of the 49th, was killed as he fell to, the earth, and his’ murderer, who is an officer, is in our hands a prisoner of Colonel Mackinnon, would, no doubt, have lived but | received while lying on the ground. | His leg wasbroken, and he was so — from Joss “oe ‘that he died under the operation of.aemoving it. Sir Sats Rusllen oficers were seen ‘passing their swords through the: bodies of our men as they

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cided, for I caught sight of a fellow in front taking aim, as.1 thought, at me. I did not wait to bring my firelock to the shoulder, but pulled the trigger. and down went my friend, Ssians 20 yards of us, aad those in front may depend we were not in a very wever we had but one alternative, and front of us, which we did, and very soon made the Russians take to their heels. Just at this time a reinforcement came up, when eee a good British cheer, aud after them we went _ Our men got almost close to the enemy ; but not having time. to load their

firelocks, they actually picked up stones and threw .at:them.

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