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Eighth of January toasts given at Norwich :-

 By ?. M Judsen. The Ladies-Who, reversing old Hickorys method of defence, place the cotton bags in the rear. Followed by grand double cho- rus of applause.]

 By Dr. Rogers. Cotton-A material in high re- pue among ladies and warriors, for the erection of breast-work! [The cheering, accompanied with peals of laughter made the welkn topplel An Editor in 7rouble-An Alabama editor makes an apology for a lack of editorial because Sal (the endearing title of his better half has the scissors- The babies,' he says, must have shirts, and Sal won't cut out shirts with hand-saw, no way 1t can be fxed.'

 Hus6and Wanted !-The MiddIetown Sentinel contains an advertisement of lady for husband- The advertiser states that she is neither old nor too young for gentleman off or 4o.' The Passing Yeor.-The following reasonable passage is from Goethe: This year is dying away, like the sound of bells. The mind passes over the stubble and finds nothing to move. Only the red berries of that slender treo seem as if they would fain remind us of something cheerlu-and the msa- sured beat of the threshers fail calls up the thought that in the dry and en lies 50 n,ucA ef nourish- ment and LGe.'

 Water running up hiN.-Dr. Smith, in a recent lec- ture on geology, at New-York, mentioned curious circumstance connected with the Mississippi river.

 It runs from North to South and its mouth IS actually four nies higher than its source result due to the centrifugal motion of the earth Thirteen miles is the difference between the equatorial and polar ra- dius; and the river in 20OO miles has to rise one third of this distance, being the height of the equa- ! tor above the pole. If this centrifugal force were l not continued the rivers would flow back, and the ocean would overflow the land.

 A bankrupt in Vermont lately gave among his ef

 ects as the product of his labor, nine small children. He said they were fruits of one speculation, and his creditors were entitled to them.

 | The Picayune says-"T Down Easters will put . supercargo on a bunch of shingles the next thing, and send him to foreign ports dispose ofit l To which the Nsw-Bedford Bulletin retorts :- "Ws. what have you SOuthcmers to say about it. who build card house, put tin kettle in it. call it a steamboat, and then advertise to take freight and passengers for the far Westf

 The Rev. MT. streeter. of Boston, has tied up lls couple the past year. The hands probably are not very oppressive, whatever the old bachelors may l think about t.-N H. Pal Henry ClGy.-Mr Clay met with a splendid recep- ton at N. O. on the 18th ut. IL is supposed that there were 6O,OOO persons in the crowd, which had assembled to welcome his arrival. He was received amid the laundering noise of cannon. and by neat speech from Col. Wm. CAristis.-IB.