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We find the following melancholy story inlthe New York correspondence of the Philadelphia Post. It ia indeed dark shade nthe character of city life. lsi.3a5i

 A WOUNDED SPIRIT WHO CAN BEAR !"--Seme lew years since, two Interesting and accomplished young French ladies arrived in this country, oae of them as governess in the family of an opulent mer chant, returning from Paris. She remained with them number of years, and her sister was em- ployed as French teacher in . fashionable female seminary up town Time passed, and they reach- ed mature life, and by change of position or loss of friends. they were compelled to resort to needle work, having hired couple of rooms in a house beyond the densely populated portion of the city. They became very poor, but with the peculiar tact of French ladies. deicacy led them to conceal the fact from friends, who would most cheerfully have rendered them any pecuniary aid. M <.

 A few days since, a gentletAan received an ano-i jnymous note, probably written by, some one who suspected their painful situation, stating that these ladies were in state of extreme destitution, and one of them was dead! He Immediately went to their obscure home in the upper part oi the city, and the fearful truth flashed over his mind, that these refined, shrinkingly delicate women had suf- fered from absolute want, without even an intima ton of it to the family who occupied the other por tion of the house The surviving one was in fec

 

 at the loss of her sister, Every aid was rendered, and attempts were made to soothe the bleeding wounds of tho survivor But she was almost in- consolable, and although herself much emaciatcd and very feeh le, she refused to be comforted.

 Arrangements were at once made for the funeral, and on the afternoon of the succeeding day, num- Der of families went out in their own carriages, de- termned to take the surviving sister to one of their sumptuous mansions. Their amazement may well ho oI yhont irU Uaff ha ly home of these accomplished, and once beautiful girls they found that the remaining sister cGs Gl- SO dead !E Want had produced exhaustion, griei had aided the work of death, and when one sister died, the full heart of the other was broken with anguish, and both were laid in the same grave This is no fiction. It is solemn fact, and only an- other dark shade in tEe character of city life. I

 RAILROAD TO OREGON -Extravagant as such an idea may now seem to be, a railroad across the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, is thing which will be realized by another generation. French newspaper alluding to the plan recently submitted to Congress by MT. Whitney, speaks of such road as something which sooner or later is sure to be done, and makes the following remarks touching the consequences oft: s4a aiI

 s.Not only will Mexico and the States of South America be compelled 10 resort to this road, but even all Europe must q the same. America will furthermore have the vantage of obtaining, from first hands. Chinese and English Goods; and oi be- ing advised twenty days sooner than England can. of all the political and mmercial news of the Ce- iestial Empire. The in erior lakes q fhe Halted States will be subs:itlt for the Mediterranean, and the daily intercouis between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans VI wrest from England the keys of European comm rec tsb

 4 Sound Opinion. .--l positively never knew q man in fhe country wlAe was too poor to take newspaper; yet, eves many respectable people read no papers but what they borrow--as l speak generally, I hope 10 oie' idcne If dc, the great CT the necessity to speal on. Every man is able conveniently 10 take a D per. The cost is cents a week.. How many. to think themselves too poor to take newspape !. pay as much daily for mere frifies s---Dy. FienAfin. a N Y GNe t8SH s Ilts NatfF aS

 Crops in C0nneeGra -Mr. Ellsworth. in his Statistical Report tkase. mafes Connecticut crops in 1e44; 2,40s,O0O tsishSls Indian Corn 1 .1D8,. 900 bushels aais; I0a.Oos bushels Wheat, 2,llT,. 900 bushels Potatoes aH@ o7s'oOo tons Hay

 Faith is the link Gsat aDds pns tony Saviour good works the link that birds me 10 my fellow men.