Valuable Recipe

-Tbe followin'g vulvable recipe lor ceinenting porcelain, glass, etc, vvo copy ironi Godcij tot Maroh : Take of ising-glaae two drachms, wet in with wa'er und allow it to stand until sol'tenod ; then add as rnucli proef spirits as will ruther more Ui&n cover it and dissolve with a iiiotlt'Tat'e heat. Take of gum mystic one drachin, dissolve it in two or three drachrns ot reotified spirit. Mix the two solutions, and Btir in one djraebni c{ gum ammorracum in a fino povvder, ni'd n:b do-.vn with a little water. - Keep the coment in a bottle. When rcqnired for use, place the bottle in warm water and upply the cement with a stjck or small icii'd Urush to the China, prüviously wanned. Compress the pieces firaily together until cold, taking caro to niake the contact perfect, and usin u very thin hiyor of tlio ccinuüt, U3CT Tbe government has contraeted witii the builJcrs of the Monitor at Green Point, Long Island, for the construct on of six more vcsssils similar to tlie oiie they havo already turncd out. Proposais are to be oponed on Mouday for the construction of ;i number of irön ciad vessels. As niany as a dozeu, it is thought, will be built. UW PifeO Indiana are aboujt the only rebel forcea left in Northern Arkan8as,and they kill and plunder frietids and foo?, without diütinctioo. The Arkar.sas uuthoi'ities .sent for these Indiana to plunder Missouri; Bot, füilin in tbis, they must now subinit to be phindered thernselves by these savagea- A most rigliteous retribution ! f5 Whon the venerable Commodore Sm'th crrne to the Navy Department on Sun.c'ay tnornïng, tliuy tojtl hipi tha lieavv news: " Vour hou, eohimonditig tho Consfrees, in, we fear, a piisoner. - ')'iu Oiiagresfl gro.un.ded early m the aotion and hoisted tbe white tlag." ïfio cld man covered bis face. u öerrtTêmten," sVd ho, " tny pon la deiid. He nevur would h:ivo struok to a rebel. My boy is deaa." The next (ay we learned that Lieut. (jommandinyr Stnitb had boon blown liU-raüy to rieces by u shell fi'oiu tbe Morí iiuac.