several winters past, which many grateful don, John W. Morgan, James Newcomb, high price of premiums on the pews cut 1815.. 5-91 1797..$8 50 | 1819..$6 12 | 1841..$6 71 1813.. 9.25 1835.. 6 37 1849.. 5 06 1850.. 4 85 1858.. 5 15 CITY ITEMS. CHRISTIAN CHARITY-BREAD FOR THE POOR. We notice in the daily papers an advertisement of a free distribution of bread from Mr. McDonald's bakery, to all poor applicants below State Street, on Wednesdays and Saturdays of each week during the Winter. The same generous donor has furnished the poor with bread gratis in the upper part of the city, for THE UNION NOON PRAYER MEETINGS. Taverners.-W. & J. Bacon, Cady & Beckwith, A. D. Spaulding, Pequot Co., James Robertson, H. S. Crocker. OFFICERS OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT Chief Engineer.-ARTEMAS G. Doug- previously announced the Noon Prayer Meetings held in the Conference House of the first Congregational Church during last week, were led by the Pastors of the various city churches in the following order. On Monday by Rev. Mr. Reid of the First Baptist, Tuesday Rev. Mr. Townsend of the Federal Street Methodist, Wednesday, Rev. Mr. Grant of the Huntington street Baptist, Thursday, Rey. Mr. Field, First Congregational, Friday, Rev. Mr. Willcox Second Congregational, and on Saturday by Rev. Joseph Hurlbut of this city. The services were well attended, solemn and impressive and we trust may not fail in the great object of their appointment, viz.:-The advance- LITERARY NOTICES. ment of the cause of Christ on the SALES OF REAL ESTATE. Last week the property at the foot of State Street, was sold at auction by Messrs. Phillips & Smith. The property consisted of the large brick Store and adjoining lot. The Store was divided into three sections and sold as follows: O. F. Smith, Edw. Prince, THE HIGHER LAW.-We have received from a friend thesfirst number of this splendid weekly paper, just started at Madison, Wisconsin, by Herbert Reed, Esq. It is a noble quarto of the very first class, and is highly creditable both to the editors. and publisher. The Higher Law is independent in Politics, and devoted to Religion, Temperance, Human Rights, Agriculture, Horticulture, Literature and News, and is in every respect a first rate family paper, highly instructive and deep The Easterly portion 27 feet front only interesting. For more particular refState Street, with its portion of land in the rear to W. A. Weaver, for $2,860. erence we insert the prospectus, in another column, to which we would call special Portion next 15 9-12 front, to R. N. attention. Westerly portion 25 11-12 feet front, to The lot of land, 25 feet front aud 26 feet JURORS AND TAVERNERS.-At a recent meeting of the Civil Authorities, the following persons were chosen for the ensuing year. Jurors.-Wm. H. Keeney, Henry Hobart, John Darrow, Jr., Joseph B, Cong MARRIED. PENHALLOW-SHEPARD.-In this city, Dec. DANIELS-DOUGLASS.-In this city, onfthe 9th DIED. BISHOP.-At Montville (Chesterfield Society), on the 9th inst., the wife of Nicholas Bishop, Esq., aged 73 years. LADIES DEPARTMENT. SELECTED POETRY. I MUST HASTEN HOME. I must hasten home, said a rosy child, I must hasten home to my mother dear- I must hasten home, said a beggar girl, I must hasten home, said the ball-room belle, I must hasten home, said a dying youth, But, a stranger he died on a foreign shore- I am hastening home, said an aged man, PRESERVATION OF THE HAIR. It is a melancholy fact that not one lady in a hundred, in the United States, has fine or luxuriant hair. Everybody is complaining of the loss of woman's chief glory," and wondering why on earth pomatums, fail to bring it back "as per advertisement." We supect there would be a general exclamation of incredulity among the gentlemen, did they but know what an immense proportion of the tastefully arranged tresses they behold on fair heads, grow on somebody else's pate. Almost every one wears a "roll" or braid," which comes from the hairdresser's, and costs from five to twenty dollars. It is disposed with consummate skill-you cannot distinguish the sly hairpins that fasten on the false decoration, yet there it is, a tacit confession that nature gives way to "roll" itself. Any hairdresser will tell you that the weight and pressure of this heavy mass of false hair with the heat it induces around the head, is highly prejudicial to the growth and welfare of the real hair. If you must wear a roll, let it be as seldom as possible. Whenever you can dispense with it, do so. Let its place be supplied as often as practicable with a light head dress, secured with as few hairpins as will support it. These last are fearfully destructive to the hair, cutting and wearing it to an incredble degree. Gutta-percha hairpins are the best, and even these should be limited in number. All sorts of pomatums, oils and preparations had better be let alone. There is no use in soaking the skin of the head in grease, as is often done. If the hair is harsh and dry, castor oil perfumed is the best application, but the scalp itself should not be saturated. Washing the head thorougly in fair water, once a week, will be found very beneficial. Bodily health is almost essential to the natural growth of the hair. Nothing indicates the progress of sickness so plainly as the dry, dead lock of the hair, and if our American ladies want lovely, luxuriant tresses, they must avoid heated rooms, late bours, and fashionable dissipation. There is no help for it-nature will avenge any infringement on her laws, and the sooner we become thoroughly convinced of this fact, the better for us. There is no ornament half so becoming to a female face as this, beautiful hair. It needs no decoration beyond a natural flower or two. Nets, diamond sprays, tiaras of pearl; are useless it is like "painting the lilly" to wear them. Remember this, girls, and take every precaution to preserve this exquisite ornament. of nature's manufacture. Once gone, it is hard to coax back again.—Life Illustrated HEROISMS OF PRIVATE LIFE. Greenwood's lecture on the heroism in The following extracts from Grace Common Life we clip from an exchange. The subject could not have been touched in a more truthful manner or have been better delineated by the gifted lecturer. "The heroism of private life, the slow, unchronicled martyrdoms of the heart, who shall remember? Greater than any knightly dragoon slayer of old, is the man who overcomes an unholy passion, sets his foot upon it, and stands serene and strong in virtue. Grander than the Zenobia is the woman who struggles with a love that would wrong another or degrade her own soul, and conquers. The young man, ardent and tender, who turns from the dear love of woman, and bruises deey in his heart the sweet instinct of paternity, to devote himself to the care and support of aged parents or an unfortunate sister, and whose lite is a long sacrifice in manly cheerfulness and majestic uncomplaint, is a hero of the rarest type-the type of Charles Lamb. I have known but two such. "The young woman who resolutely stays with father and mother in the old home, while brothers and sisters go forth to happy homes of their own; who cheerfully lays upon the altar of filial duty that costliest of human sacrifices, the joy of loving and of being loved-she is a heroine. I have known many such. The husband who goes home from the weary routine and the perplexing cares of his busines with a cheerful sinile and a loving word for his invalid wife; who brings not against the grevious sins of a long sickness, and reproaches her not for the cost and discomfort thereof; who sees in her languid eye something dearer than girlish laughter, in the sad face and faded cheeks that blossoms into smiles and even blushes at his coming, something lovelier than the old-time spring roses-he is a hero. I think I know one such. The wife who bears her part in the burden of life-even though it be the larger part-bravely! cheerfully; never dreaming that she is a heroine, much less a martyr; who bears with the faults of a husband, not altogether congenial, with loving patience and a large charity, and with a noble decision hiding them from the world-who makes no confidents and asks no confidencies; who refrains from brooding over shortcomings in sympathy and sentiment, and from seeking for perilous 'affinities,' who does not build high tragedy sorrows on the inevitable, nor feel an earthquake in every their children-she, the wife in every family jar; who sees her husband united with herself indissolubly and eternally in truth, in the inward as in the outward, is a heroine, though of rather an unfashionable type." No language is very weak in its natural course until it runs too far; and then the poorest and the richest are ineffectual equally. The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuituous and conventional. FOR Day of the week. Sunday,. REGISTER OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, AT EAST NEW LONDON. Monday,. 44" 39.6 37.4 S. W. S. W. S. W. 38 27 44 cloudy cloudy cloudy cloudy clear clear 9 16 64 North. North. N. E. cloudy snow Thursday,.. snow Friday,. Saturday, 16 4 14 16 46 12 N. E. N. E. cloudy cloud North. clear snow N. E. snow clear snow clear Wednesday, HORTICULTURAL. house." and wintered in a cool green-house or frame, will produce plants which will TWO FINE NEW JAPAN PINKS. flower when turned out into the ground DIANTHUS HEDDEWIGI.-The lovers of in summer; and seeds sown in spring will flowers in England were much excited by form a succession to bloom all the authe exhibition at the Royal Botanic Soci-tumn and early part of the winter in the ety's show in 1859, of a new and beautiful Japan pink, which formed one of the principal attractions among the novelties, and obtained a medal in testimony of distinguished merit. It was obtained from Japan by M. Heddewig, nurseryman of St. Petersburg, from whom it receives its name, Dianthus Heddewigi. M. H. sold Beeds to some of the leading English nurserymen, and Henderson & Son raised the first plants, which were shown as stated. The reputation of the flower had preced ed it, and there was the greatest anxiety evinced to see the flowers. Seeds were obtained in this country in the winter of 1859, and the past summer proved equal to the representations as given in foreign engravings, and to the high expectations raised in regard to its beauty and value. cloudy General remarks, observations, &c. &c. leasant. ull and showery. Very pleasant. Cold all day. Very cold. SOWING CALCEOLARIAS, &c. The cultivation of the calceolaria from the seed, requires a little extra care in the early stage of its culture. To insure success in the raising of seedlings, it is requisite to attend to the following directions as nearly as possible:-The seed should be sown in pots prepared in the following manner: The pot to be half filled with drainage; over the rough siftings of the mould, and the surface covered with soil as fine as possible, half of which should be composed of silver sand. When prepared thus it should be watered with a fine rose, immediately after which sow the seed carefully without any covering af soil. The pots should then be placed under a close frame or a hand glass, in a shady part of the garden (no artificial heat being required). In large establishments of course, they may have propagating or other houses that will do, where the same kind of moist temperaturc could be obtained, but any exposure to the sun must be carefully guarded against by mats or paper. If the situation is of the proper temperature, they will require watering but very seldom. Directly the seedlings are strong enough, they must be pricked off in pots prepared as before, and placed in the same situation; from the store pots they will require to be potted off singly; after this the plante will grow very rapidly. Through the winter the plants will thrive well on the shelves near the glass in the greenhouses; and, to obtain fine specimens they must be shifted on freely till the flower stalks have startIt is cultivated in the same way as D. ed, and should always be smoked with toHeddewigi, Seeds sown in autumn pro-bacco directly after the fly appears, as no duce plants which will bloom in a cool plants in cultivation so readily suffer from greenhouse all the following spring; and this insect as the calceolaria. sown in April, and the plants put out into the open ground, will bloom magnificently all the autumn; making with the former one of the most effective and gorgeous displays in the garden. In pot culture, the soil should be good loam and leaf mold, with an admixture of sand." DIANTHUS LASCINIATUS.-This is another new and magnificent Japan pink, which we had in flower the past season.The Illustrated Boquet says "This magnificent Japan pink is derived from the same source as the Dianthus Heddewigi, and distinguished from it by its taller growth, The Illustrated Boquet thus describes it rather larger leaf joints, and its remarka—“In its growth, Dianthus Heddewigi bly large and superb flowers, which are forms a neat, compact plant, growing from three to four inches in diameter. It from thirteen to sixteen inches high, and produces single and double blossomed vaby good cultivation branching freely from rieties. The petals have large lascerated the base, In some specimens the stems tooth-like fringes at the margin, from a are of a uniform purple tint, while in oth-half inch to an inch in depth, which are ers they are deep green; the leaves are very elegant, and produce a fine appearlinear oblong; the numerous flowers are ance. The colors vary from pure white terminal, borne singly on the branches of the stem, are single, and from two to three and a half inches in diameter, close, compact, five-petaled, and salver like, with fringed margins. The predominant color is crimson, varying in the richest conceivable shades and varieties, some plants producing self-colored, others parti-colored flowers, the former vieing with the finest dark velvet and damask tints, and these scem gradually blending in others with rich carmine and violet crimson; the center of each flower is picturesquely marked with a broad radiating dark zone or ring, the rich velvety colors of which are exquisitely relieved by the central silvery gray anthers. It is easily cultivated; the plants thrive luxuriantly in any rich garden soil, or in a compost of friable loam and leaf mold, with little sand. 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THE LITERARY DEPARTMENT 1 25 5 + of the paper will contain well written original arti40 cles, and carefully selected matter tending to elevate and enlighten the minds of its readers, especially of the great majority, the young. 5 25 15 30 THE CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT will also contain frequent illustrations, with origins! articles from eminent Naturalists, Botanists, and fe30 mate writers. DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF TRUTH, VIRTUE, AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. O, happiest he, whose riper years retain RIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. NUMBER NINETEEN. GEN. JEDIDIAH HUNTINGTON. BY ... G. NEW-LONDON, CT. Thursday, January 24, 1861. the work. It was completed in the year 1796, and is said originally to have borne a general resemblance to Mt. Vernon as it was at that time. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR No. 49. service, ardent patriotism and determined bravery. He was one of the volunteers that made a bold but unsuccessful attempt to destroy the Asia, a British ship of the line that lay in the Hudson, and in the battle of Harlem Heights he received a severe wound, After this ho returned home, married and enlisted in the garri son at Fort Trumbull, where as sergeant, he performed the various duties af build General Huntington is remembered as a man of small stature, but exceedingly well formed, with a sedate, yet agreeable countenance, very neat and preciso in his personal appearance, and polished, though reserved in his demeanor. He made a profession of religion at the age of twen-ing, drilling, and keeping guard. ty-three, and his life was marked by integ- When Arnold invaded the town, Sept. rity, piety and benevolence. His last will commences with these words" My soul has long been consecrated to my Creator, Redeemer and Comforter." Ho died Sept. 25, 1818, aged seventyfive. The funeral services were performGen. Jedidiah Huntington was a native ed in the Congregational Church, Sept. of Norwich, born in the year 1743. His 27, Mr. McEwen preaching from Ps. 112: father, Jabez Huntington, was a noted 4, 5, 6. While the procession was moving merchant of that place, and as a militia to the grave, minute guns were fired from officer so well known and distinguished, Fort Trumbull, and from the U. S. sloop that in 1777 he was appointed by the Gen- of war Hornet, which was then lying in eral Court, Major General over the militia the harbor, and all the shipping had their of the State, as successor to Gen. Wooster. flags at half-mast. He was interred in the Three of his sons were in the Revolution-City burial ground, but it was afterwards ary army. Jedidiah, the oldest, was Co-ascertained that his will contained a relonel of one of the regiments organiz-quest that his remains might be deposited ed in Connecticut, in 1774. He had af- in the tomb of his father at Norwich terwards the command of one of the State They were accordingly removed, but a battalions, and continued in active service during the whole war, at the close of which he had the rank of Brigadier General. At one period of the contest, he acted as aid-de-camp to Gen. Washington, who reposed in him unlimited confidence, and continued his friendship and correspondence with him to the close of his life. Upon the organization of the Federal Government, Gen. Huntington was appointed Collector of the port of New-London, July, 1789, and held the office during the administration of four successivo Presidents. New London was thenceforward his home; he entered heartily into its interests, and was ever ready to add the weight of his influence to the side ofmorality, education and religion. monument marks the spot that first received his coffin, with this inscription: Sacred to the Memory OF GEN. JEDIDIAM HUNTINGTON, for 26 years Collector of this port, who entered into the joy of his Lord, 25 Sept. 1818, aged 75 years. This spot first received his ashes, which are now deposited in the Family tomb at Norwich, to await the resurrection of the just. STEPHEN HEMPSTEAD. Stephen Hempstead was born May 6, 1754. He was an early volunteer in the Revolutionary army, arriving in Boston the very day of the Battle of Bunker Hill, For his residence he selected a beautiful but not in season to share in the hazard rising ground, where no house had ever and glory of that memorable conflict. He before stood. Here he erected his dwel- continued in the army for two or three ling, planning it himself, and supervising | years, distinguishing himself by cheerful 8, 1781, Sergeant Hempstead had just received from the Governor a Lieutenant's commission, and on the morning of this memorable day, flying to his post in great haste, he left the commission lying on a bench in his workshop. It was in a part of the town which had no shipping or merchandise, and no buildings of any great pretension or value. This quarter was therefore spared by the enemy, with the exception of Hempstead's house and shop, which were burned to the ground. It was supposed that some straggling party of the invaders, prowling about for plunder, had accidentally found the commission, and ignited the premisos in consequence. The garrison at Fort Trumbull being too weak to defend the fortress, retreated across the river and threw themselves into Fort Griswold. In the attack and massacre that followed, Hempstead was disabled by several severe wounds, both of ball and bayonet, and was one of that suffering company who were placed in a cart by the British, and rolled down the hill, while they set fire to the fort. Mr. Hempstead in his later days wrote an account of this dreadful scene, and lived long to narrate the particulars, in vivid and graphic terms. He seems therefore to loom up before us as indissolubly connected with the tragedy, though much of his after life was spent at a distance from his native place. He had a family of seven sons and three daughters. As the sons arrived at maturity, four of them emigrated to the West, and he himself followed with the remainder of his family in 1811 or 1812. He settled at St. Louis, and was instrumental in |