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U.S. Journal including Rosa Bonheur's celebrated picture of the "Horse Fair,".

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Farmer's Bank, Wickford.... Hopkinton Bank, Westerly.... Mount Vernon Bank, Providence.. R. I. Central Bank, East Greenwich.. Tiverton Bank, Tiverton... Warwick Bank, Warwick..

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Mount Vernon, a beautiful print, 17 by 20 inches in size, in 15 oil colors,.... Edward Everett, a splendid portrait of this distinguished man, in oil colors,... $1,50 From the above it will be seen that a subscription to the Repository in connection with many of the above publications, will absolutely cost nothing, and with the others only from twenty-five to fifty cents, while every volume of our paper actually costs the publisher more than a dollar. It is only through the liberal arrangements of cotemporaries, therefore that we can afford to be liberal. Specimens of the Magazines and Engravings may be seen at the Book store of Messrs. Starr & Co., No. 4. Main Street, who will receive subscriptions for the same in connecon with the Repository.

FOREIGN POSTAGE. The following table shows the rates of postage be tween this and the various foreign countries and ports with which regular mail communication is established.

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MAIL ARRANGEMENTS.

POST OFFICE, NEW LONDON, January 1, 1860.( NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN-[By Steamboat.] Closes at 8 P. M. Arrives at 2 o'clock A. M. NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN-[By Railroad,] Closes at 11 A. M., and 53 P. M.

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NEW HAVEN.. Closes at 11 A. M. and 53 P. M. Arrives at 1 and 8 P. M.

The mail closing at 53 P. M. is the way mail by which the offices are supplied between New London and New Haven; matter for offices beyond New Ha ven, however, is also sent by the mail which loses at 12 P. M. An additional New Haven mail is also received at 8 P. M.. bringing nothing from offices between New Haven and New London.

BOSTON, PROVIDENCE AND EASTERN. Closes for the "Shore Line" R. R. Route at 12 M. Arrives at 11 P. M.

Closes for Steamboat and N & W. R. R. at 8 P. M. Arrives at 101 P. M.

ALBANY AND WESTERN-[By Railroad.] Closes at 5 A. M.

Arrives at 6 P. M.

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Closes at 7 A. M., Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Arrives at 3 P. M., Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

On alternate days via Norwich, closing at 51 A. M., arriving at 6 P. M.

CALIFORNIA MAIL.

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For Overland Route at St. Louis, every Monday and Thursday.

The Post Office opens at 6 A. M. and closes at 8 P. M. On Sunday opens at 7 A. M. for one hour, and these hours will be strictly observed.

Letters or papers put into the outside box before 8 P. M. for the New York Steamboat mail, or before 5 A. M. for the morning Railroad Mail, are always in time STANLEY G. TROTT, P. M.

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Goshen Bank-refuse all notes printed on white paper, as the bank repudiates them some having been stolen. Hamilton Exchange Bank, Green....

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Ontario Bank, Utica, secured notes. Ontario County Bank, Phelps.. Pratt Bank, Buffalo...... Reciprocity Bank, Buffalo. Sackett's Harbor Bank, Buffalo.. Western Bank, Lockport... Yates County Bank, Penn. Yann..... tWeekly, per annum. Papers in all cases to be All the rest of the State. paid in advance.

Newspapers to England, Ireland, Scotland and France, should be sent with very narrow envelopes, otherwise they will be subject to letter postage.

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DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF TRUTH, VIRTUE, AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

PUBLISHED WEEKLY.

Vol. III.

HOME.

"Home's not merely four square walls Though with pictures hung and gilded; Home is where affection calls

Filled with shrines the heart has builded!
Home !-go watch the faithful dove

Sailing 'neath the heaven above us-
Home is where there's one to love,
Home is where there's one to love us!"

From the Ladies' Home Magazine. "ALL GONE."

BY V. F. T.

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Thursday, May 3, 1860.

It was very strange, and now and then an exclamation would slip out of Mrs. Ames' lips with the caresses she lavished upon her child—“I wonder what is keeping papa! I guess he's forgotten mamma and baby. Oh, dear! that coffee 'll be spoiled! I don't see what has got into Harry!"

At last she heard the front door open, and the familiar tread along the hall and up the stairs.

The door opened. "What has taken you, Harry," began Mrs. Ames, but the words were cut short on the young wife's lips, with the first glance at her husband. His face was white as the face of the dead, and it had a half wild, half frenzied look that fairly froze her heart with alarm.She sat her child down on the carpet, and sprang toward him.

Mrs. Ames knew that something was the matter, her husband came home to dinner every day with such a worried, abstracted air; he was growing pale and thin, and she felt that he did not hear her half the time when she was talking to him; and what was worse than all the rest, he had gone off that very morning without kissing baby though he had crowed" Don't speak to me Mary," and he sank to him out of the cradle, feeling quite as certain of being taken up and trotted five minutes on "papa's knee, as he was of his breakfast.

Mrs. Ames turned over all these things in her mind, as she sat late that afternoon knitting a baby's "sock" and jogging the cradle in the nursery.

She was a pleasant faced little woman, and while the night of the brief winter day dropped about her, her thoughts went to and fro after this fashion: "I wonder what does ail Harry, poor fellow! I'm certain it must be some trouble about his business; I'll find out to night, and won't be put off any longer with his "Oh, Mary, don't bother me now; women don't know anything about men's affairs." I'll hurry down and make the coffee myself to-night, he's so fond of it, and then he thinks nobody prepares it quite so well as I do."

And the loving, thoughtful little wife laid down her knitting, and went down stairs humming a tune to herself, but still there was a little shadow on her forehead.

An hour later Mrs. Ames sat in the nursery, tossing her baby up and down, tumbling him back and forth, and still Harry didn't come.

"Oh! what is the matter, Harry?"
But he waved her back with his hand.

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"Mary, do you know what you're saying? What is to become of us?"

"No matter, we shall get along somehow. Trust me to do my part, as a true, loving wife should. We'll rent a smaller house and begin anew. I'll give music lessons, and that'll help matters along until you get into business, and we commence creeping up again. I'll do anything, Harry, if you won't give up and say all is gone.'

She had nestled up close to him, and he drew down her fair head on his shoulder and strained her to his heart.

"No, Mary, I won't give up so long as I've got you, my precious wife, the best and truest one that man ever had. I came home to-night, dreading to look upon your face, dreading to hear the voice of my child, a distracted, dispairing man, and I never knew half your worth until now.No, it isn't all gone, for a man's rich without a dollar in the world, and such a hag-wife as you are!"

into a chair and buried his face on his
arm, and a groan dropped out of his lips
which fairly stopped the beating of Mrs
Ames' heart, She knelt down by his side,
and her hands shook as she laid them on
his arm. "Tell me, Harry, your own wife,
what it is. Don't keep it back,"

The young merchant lifted up his
gard face and looked at her a moment,
with such an expression of mingled pity,
and tenderness, and dispair, that she could
hardly bear it. "I'll tell you what it is,
Mary, and God help you to bear it! I'm
a ruined man! every dollar's gone. The
blow fell this afternoon," and he dropped
his face as though he could not bear to see
the effect of his words on the woman he
loved better than his life.

But a sudden smile broke into her pale
face, and the smile only looked the bright
er for the tears which were running over
it. She drew close up to her husband and
dropped her fingers into his hair, and her
voice was brave and joyful. 'Is that all,
Harry? is that all?"

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The merchant lifted his head and looked at his wife in blank amazement. "Is that all, you poor child! You don't understand me. I've failed! I'm a ruined man! All's gone, Mary, all's gone!"

And then a little silence fell between them, and as her head lay on her husband's shoulder, Mrs. Ames felt his tears drop softly into her hair.

A moment later, she felt a small, weak, human fluttering along her dress, and looking down she saw her boy, who had crept along the floor to his parents; then he stood vainly trying to lift himself up, his sweet, innocent face full of wonder, the blue eyes agape, and the small mouth, red as a cluster of ripened currants, full of laughter.

"See, papa, see, papa, you've got baby too," sobbed the young mother.

And the child lifted up his dimpled arms, and lisped out, in gleeful triumph to its father, "Baby too! baby too!"

Henry Ames bent down and lifted up the little fellow; but he did not speak, for his heart was full of its "thank God" at that moment.

She was not one of your brilliant, showy, captivating women, but she was a true, sweet, loving, faithful wife, and oh, was she not indeed to her husband, in the hour of his calamity and despair, a "Gift of the Lord ?"

Years afterward Henry Ames was a successful merchant, honored and beloved of his fellow-men; and to one who was very dear to him he spoke thus of his wife; "If it hadn't been for her I should be, at

this moment, a miserable, broken down,
ruined man.
Her love and faith held me

up when I was falling, and I owe all I
am, under God, to that blessed woman, my
wife, Mary Ames."

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capital. New Bedford last year it is said, sunk more than $1,000,000 in whaling, and the encouragement offered at present is very small to owners of this class of 37 vessels to refit. Under these circumstances would it not be well to cast about for some new enterprise in which to employ the surplus vessels of our whaling fleet rather than to have them lie useless at the wharves? It is really becoming a serious matter, and while we honor our enterprising citizens and others for their manly and liberal spirit in still sending their vessels again and again to perform their perilous voyages under such discouragements, we trust some judicious philanthro8pist who have had experience in maratime affairs, with true Yankee proclivities, will suggest some plan by which a more 1 profitable business might be introduced for their benefit. We hope for it—we confidently look for it.

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Pleasant and precious words to the heart of a woman, more to be desired than hon-Salem, ors, or riches, or all earthly gifts! Blessed words! to be set in pearls of

living light over the days of her life, and to shine there forever and forever.

THE REPOSITORY:

NEW-LONDON, CONN.

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Through the kindness of an esteemed friend (B. F. Brown Esq.,) we have been, favored with a comparative view of the hitherto great interest of New London, (Whaling) as it was in 1846, and as it is now, as per latest record. It has been carefully prepared, and we think may be relied on as correct. As there are reported to arrive in 1860, 89 vessels, and there are now 87 in port, in all the ports engaged in the business, it may be presumed the fleet will be reduced from 75 to 80 vessels this present year, owing to the enhanced expense of the business, unusual length of voyages, the depression in price of oil, &c., with heavy losses on vessels absent. During the past three to four years "not one in twenty," Mr. B. remarks, "have had a profit, if indeed nineteen in twenty have not lost money, as many maintain, and some know, to their cost."

As citizens of the third whaling port in the Union, we are particularly interested in the oil market, and really on taking a back view from our present stand point, we are admonished of the propriety and the necessity even, of turning the enterprise of New London into another channel, as will be seen by the statement as follows:

Mystic River,
Stonington,
Sag Harbor,
Greenport
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New York,
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Bridgeport
Sandwich,
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Total, 736 232,701 564 173,945 87 The above table presents some curious and striking facts. New Bedford is the most important city in which any gain in vessels has occurred. The increase has been 43; and 37 are now lying in port.And this seems to be the case in the very few instances in other ports where there has been any addition during the last 14 years, viz., at Dartmouth, Mattapoissett, Westport and Edgartown, there are nearly as many vessels now lying in port as there have beer. added to the list. This of course is not intended to refer to the few ports where the whaling business has more recently been introduced; as San Francisco and three or four other smaller places, but even these do not by any means equal the number of cities and towns which in 1846 were engaged in the business, that now have entirely discontinued it. These are Plymouth, Boston, Freetown, Ports. mouth, Providence, Bristol, Lyme, Somerset, New Suffolk, New York and Bridgport, eleven in all, numbering 35 vessels, where now not one is employed in whaling. In addition to this Nantucket has reduced her whaling interest from 74 to 22 vessels, Mystic River from 18 to 5, Sag Harbor from 63 to 18, Greenport from 11 to 1, and our own city from 77 to 41, and 8 of these are now in port. As a general thing where the number of vessels has been increased it has been at a great sacrifice of

CHAM-PAIGNE.—-A correspondent of the Springfield Republican in speaking of Paine's new steam engine. says "it is designed as a rival of the Ericsson engine, and if it performs what it is promised, will be a very formidable rival. I can only say that the flame from a single gas burner drove it with great force and velocity. Mr. Paine claims that small engines for driving printing presses, &c., can be driven by the flame of three to five ordinary burners. He proposes to make it by and by, profitable and indispensibie to horse railroad companies, and so turn the Like the equine race out to grass. Ericsson engine, it consists of a single action cylinder, embracing the air pump, but it has but one piston, and one connecting rod while the Ericsson has two pistons and three rods. At the pump end of the cylinders is an apparatus somewhat like the chambers of a revolver. The chambers are filled with a disk of wire gauze, which, as they revolve, become charged with moisture by contact with water in a tank. Each one of these chambers is brought before the induct part of the air pump at each half revolution and the air, passing into the pump, traverses the instertices of the wet disks, and becoming charged with moisture, is driven into the heater, and expanded for duty in the cylinder end.— The use of moist air instead of dry increases the expansive force, and gives it great energy and power."

The almost marvellous inventions of Mr. Paine that have for the past fifteen years been heralded before the public, have

been "like the baseless fabric of vision." Not even a "wreck," has been left behind. Our own citizens will doubtless remember his Chateaux en Espagne in connection with some of his quondum friends two or three years since in his wonderful discovery in Electricity and Galvanism, and the quasi purchase of the New-London Foundry property to carry out his vast conceptions in using the Thames as his cup, and the granite foundations of our city as his battery to produce the revolution of man. If we were to design a coat of arms and suggest an appropriate motto for this gen tleman, we would certainly inscribe Cham paigne upon an enormous balloon in its last stage of collapse.

SHORE LINE ROAD.-The Editor of the

experiencing relief from their slavery to lecturer, and but few have attained a the needle. The number of these ma- higher degree of popularity. His lectures chines sold last year by the leading manare exceedingly interesting and his extenFor the twelve- sive chemical and philosophical experiufacturers is enormous. month ending July 1, Wheeler & Wilson mental apparatus surpasses probably any disposed of 15,774; I. M. Singer & Co., other of the kind in the country. Circu9,728; Grover & Baker, 7,823; A. B. lars now being distributed among our citHowe, 536; Ladd & Webster, 188; Bar-izens show to some extent the rare and altholf & Co., 712; Leavitt & Co., 228; most wonderful developements of his chemWhitney & Lyon, 261-making a total of ical and philosophical knowledge, illustrat37,442. Mr. Elias Howe, to whom each ing and elucidating the subjects of which manufacturer pays tribute for his lock- he treats. The low price of tickets for stitch, has an enormous income therefrom. attendance on the course, (only one dolOne periodical has stated that it amounts lar,) would seem to place them within to $100,000, but at $5 for each machine, it the reach of all who desire to be instructamounted to $187,210. ed in the wonderful phenomena of nature, as developed by science and art.

RAISING A BLOCK OF BUILDINGS.—A most remarkable operation of mechanical skill has just been performed in Chicago.

An entire business block of first class brick

N. H. News in a recent number of that paper remarked: "We passed over this road to Boston and back last week, and and marble, four and five story stores, towere much pleased with the admirable gether with a massive marble structure, arrangements which have been carried (the Marine Bank building,) in all three out for the accommodation of the travel-hundred and twenty feet in length, together ling public. We took the Express train with the side-walks of the streets, have for Boston and reached that city within by a single operation, been raised nearly

the time advertised by the Company, without a change of cars, and with no noticeable delay either at the Connecticut river or New London crossing. The arrangements for running the cars upon the ferry boats at these points are complete in

every respect, there being not the slightest danger or inconvenience to passengers attending the change that is made. The road at the present time is in admirable condition, with a first class equipment throughout, and as gentlemanly and courteous conductors as can be found on any road in New England. The amount of through travel over the road is daily increasing, and we have no doubt but that

the present season will largely augment the receipts of the company from this class of travel. The road is destined to become a popular one with the citizens of New Haven, and we bespeak for it what it unquestionably deserves a liberal share of public patronage.

SEWING MACHINES.-These comparatively recently introduced and invaluable household appendages are, in reality, becoming household necessities, and we are pleased to learn, are becoming exceedingly popular in the community. In almost every family the "Song of the Shirt" is superseded by the cheerful click of these lively little workers, and thousands of our hard working females are absolutely

five feet. The operation occupied but five days, and was carried on with so much skill and little confusion that the merchants and other numerous occupants were not in the least disturbed in their business operations. So carefully was the whole performed that not a pane of glass was broken, nor a crack in the masonry, either externally or internally, appeared.

The process of raising, was by the screw, at six thousand of which, three inches in diameter and of three-eighths thread, were six hundred men employed, each man in screws. A complete charge of ten system of signals was kept in ope

ration, and by these the workmen passed, each through his series, giving each screw a quarter turn, then returning to repeat the same.

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ACCIDENT.-A young man named Chas. Winslow, belonging in this city, was struck The entire weight of the buildings thus by the cars on Rope Ferry Bridge on Satraised, was estimated at about forty thou-urday last, and knocked overboard. His body has not been found.

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VALUABLE RULES, HINTS, &c.

USES OF ICE.

We copy the following very valuable suggestions from Hall's Journal of Health. They should be remembered and followed. We insert them for the benefit of our readers. Ice is too frequently the cause of serious and sometimes fatal injury-and at the same time if properly applied, a valuable and efficacious remedy.-Ed. Repository.

"In health no one ought to drink ice water; it has occasioned fatal inflamations of the stomach and bowels, and sometimes sudden death. The temptation to drink it is very great in summer; to use it at all with any safety the person should take but a single swallow at a time, take the glass from the lips for a half a minute, and then another swallow, and so on. It will be found that in this way it becomes disagreeable after a few mouthfuls.

On the other hand, ice itself may be taken as freely as possible, not only without injury, but with the most striking advantage in dangerous forms of disease.If broken in sizes of a pea or bean and swallowed as freely as practicable, without much chewing or crushing between the teeth, it will often be efficient in checking various kinds of diarrhoea, and has cured violent cases of Asiatic cholera.

A kind of cushion of powdered ice kept to the entire scalp has allayed violent inflamation of the brain, and arrested fearful convulsions induced by too much blood there.

FOR CROUP.-Water as cold as ice applied freely to the throat, neck and chest with a sponge or cloth very often affords an almost miraculous relief; and if this be followed by drinking copiously of the same ice cold element the wetted parts wiped dry and the child be wrapped up well in the bed cloths, it falls into a delightful and life-giving slumber.

All inflamations, internal or external, are promptly subdued by the application of ice or ice water, because it is converted into steam, and rapidly conveys away the extra heat, and also diminishes the quantity of blood in the vessels of the part.

A piece of ice laid on the wrist will often arrest violent bleeding of the nose. To drink any ice cold liquid at meals retards digestion, chills the body, and has been known to induce the most dangerous internal congestions.

POETRY.

The following lines, unless we are greatly mistaken, were written by one of our own favorite and frequent correspondents. They are full of poetical truth and beauty.-Ed. Repos.

A FANCIFUL FANCY.

I have a lover.-A crimson love
Is his, rose delicate,-

All full of worshipful thought and breath,
With glowing Life elate.

But the rose may fade,-the leaves may fall,-
Or the first wild storm may break,-
And darken quite the delicate blush
Of this love I must not take?

I have a lover.-A golden love
Made up of starbeam and sun
Is his, all gold to the very heart,
And I call him my dazzling one.
But that is too bright, too bright for me
Who have wept too deep and long,
To bear such light on my aching eyes,
So clear, so keen,-so strong!

I have another.-A love cold blue
Like the hue of the cruel steel,-.
Shall I clasp a sword to my bleeding heart,
And sing of the bliss I feel?

I have another,-A violet love,
All purpling with passion intense,
Whose warmth and beauty and fragrant breath
Weave charms for my troubled sense.
Oh, passion-tremulous, violet love,
You would wrap me in gorgeous guise,
But I should fade in the tropical heat

And die of your life-drinking eyes.

I have a lover,-A white, white love,
Mystical, tender and bright,

All hues and all passions commingle to make
One lover whose love is white.

He hath the glow of the crimson love,-
Its graceful, worshipful ways,-

He is more bright than a golden love,
With a halo of holier rays.

He can be cold as the blue steel sword,
To the world when it frowneth on me,-
His heart beats high with royaller love
Than mere purple robed passion can be.
White, white, his love enwraps me round,
Pure, pure, his soul meets mine,→→
He fills my heart,-oh, happy heart!
And Life has grown divine.

COMMUNICATIONS.

For the Repository.
PRECOCITY OF THE AGE,

NUMBER THREE.

In this world there is no such thing as "The perfectibility of man" or higher law ethics, One man can adopt such sentiments as well as another, and thus all might construe any law of the land as they pleased, or any article of the constitution to suit their purpose. A man may imagine that his conscience objects to a

law, and therefore he will not support the his resistance amounts to an overt act, it law, but on the contrary will resist it. If becomes insurrection, treason, and rebellion. Such are the legitimate fruits of higher law teaching. Before a man can subscribe to such a dogma, he must come to the conclusion that he himself is wiser than the laws and constitution of his country, and also that he is a believer in "The perfectibility of men."

Such men will tell us that the strongest argument against any subject would be that it will not bear a free discussion. This is a very specious, although a spurious kind of ethies, undermining the moral foundations of society.

An able and popular lecturer can always introduce or insinuate his own proclivities and impress his sentiments upon his audience whether they be for good or evil. It is therefore of the highest importance that none but men of sound moral and religious principles should be engaged in popular lectures, so that the impressions received may be fraught with improvement to the hearers.

Our country, so extensive, and bound together by the strongest ties of national and individual interests, is in no danger of a disruption of the government. No calamity like that will ever overtake us, if we are true to our Creator and to ourselves, but it cannot be too often repeated that our government is a government of laws, and that the only security for freedom itself, is in the supremacy of the law.

The moral and religious character of the United States is often damaged by political discussions, and the Union itself is most in danger from what seems to be its greatest security, and that is, our freedom and intelligence. But if the public mind be disabused of these humán foibles, "The perfectibility of man" and the equality of man, and trained to a habitual respect for the laws, it will be prepared for the reception and exercise of freedom and intelligence, as well as for the enjoyment of liberty regulated by law, and then we may say, in the words of the great defender of the Constitution ::-"If we work on marble, it will perish; if we work on brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust. But if we work on immortal minds, if we imbue them with high principles, with the just fear of God and their fellow-men, we engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface, but which will brighten to all eternity. X. L.

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