come to learn trades in ou r cities, or to fill si t uati ons in com m ercial houses, we bid you beware of spendmg wastefully your sp are mo· ments-,pare moments are th e gol den sands of life, bart e r them not a way i n the p u rsu i t of folly but in the p u rsui t of wisdom and true k n ow ledge . If you fa il to do this, you are recreants to virt ue, your country and fr eedom. Pumps ror Vessels. Cheapne •• or ForeIgn RaUroad Iron. A corres pondent of th e Boston Daily Ad- The price of

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... oad il on , at the places vertiser bri ngs to our notice the great impor-from which the greatest supplies are derived, lance of having good pumps for all sea· goi ng i s a m atter of great interest to all who are vessels. He s a y s that " during this prese nt i about to e n gage in th e construction o� rail year, and principally within a fe w weeks, I road. Th is article has been gradually fall ing there have been two barks, one b rig and two in its principal p r o d u c i n g market,-Wales schooners re ported in d istress from bad pumps, trom its highest point, $63, down to $24 50 one of which, th e bark Agnes, was abanGon-per ton at the shipping ports, which is about ed at sea with a c argo of gu an o ; another, the as Iow a price as it has ever reached. The Li Golconda, fr om Neev York to I reland, I' etuw-verpool Times of June 17, remarks that the ed to New Y ork with five feet wate r in her \" demand for British iron fo r home consu mp h old . with a c argo ot corn ; the br i g Mary and tion c ontinues on a ve ry reduced s cale, and J an e from New York to Jacksonville, in ba llast , for many kinds lower pric es have been sub w as knocked down In a gale, ballast shifted, m itted to." The price of freights from the sprung a leak, p u mps c h oked , sev e ral fe e t shi p p i n g ports ir. Wales to New York, varies water in h er hold ; succeeded in ge tt ing into fr om $2 40 to $,1 80 per ton. Railroacl iron Nassau, N. P., and was obliged , u nd e r the d i-c a n n o t long remain at its present low price