-- A wild child is roaming through the forests of Iowa, and exciting much discussion among the primitive naturalists of that section of the country. The nearest approach that has been made to its capture was to find the place where it had slept, and the remains of a frog, whereon it had supped. This latter fact seems very clearly to indicate a French parentage for the young Orson. He probably resembles a canard.

-- The views of the Pulpit upon matters of social interest do not often widely diverge from those of the Press. Dr. CHAPIN sees something to condemn in "the frivolity of the day which pens lengthy romances in faulty grammar, computer marriage settlements in bad arithmetic, and overwhelms a Japanese youth with avalanches of sentimental love-letters." It is pleasant to know that the efforts of the Press in the way of social reformation are thus seconded by the pulpit. The Doctor, in justice to our countrywomen, will please take notice, however, that the pleasant story of a "pile of love-letters a foot high" has been exploded.

-- The people in some sections of Mississippi must occasionally experience a great dearth of news. An editor at De Kalb in that State has just announced to his readers that the Tycoon of Japan has been assassinated, and that a total nullification of the late treaty will undoubtedly result from the change of government. He also communicates to his readers the fact of the nomination of BELL and EVERETT by the Union Party. Commenting on the character of EVERETT, he says: " There is, possibly, acts and facts connected with his political history that we cannot indorse." The schoolmaster of De Kalb must be not only abroad, but quite bent on permanent emigration.

-- Cleveland is again in the enjoyment of a sensation. A young Octoroon has become a resident of that City, and the indefatigable "locals" are rejoicing over their new item. Columns are filled with details of her history, and innumerable paragraphs are devoted to descriptions of her personal appearance. With other interesting information we are told that her complexion is neither yellow nor brown, "but a combination of pure black and white." It is difficult to imagine what this shade may be, but it has at least the charm of novelty. The handwriting of nature is legible upon many faces; but it is not often that she ventures to put down her lines in black and white.

-- To say anything unkind of the Japs after their departure, would be a flagrant breach of hospitality. But it is very certain that they have little taste for high art. In visiting APPLETON'S, their attention was arrested by the cheap and highly colored wood-cuts in juvenile publications, wholly to the exclusion of fine and finished engravings. The idea of showing them THORPE'S painting of Niagara arose from a mistaken estimate of their attainments in the realms of art. The Kamis would have been much better pleased with a highly colored show-bill, or the pictorial cuts which accompany the true and veracious histories of Jack the Giant Killer, and Whittington and his Cat.

-- The Augusta Banner tells a pleasant story of an Irishman, who became the victim of a singular misconception. The Kennebec County Jail, located in that city, is said to be an "elegant granite structure," in point of architectural beauty rivaling, if not exceeding, any building in the place. An Irishman, of late introduction to the locality, and probably unfamiliar with [???]ESOP's fables, gave himself up to the too prevalent custom of judging by appearances. Walking up to the front entrance, he prostrated himself upon his knees, and devoutly sealed his forehead with the customary cross; and then, rising, inquired of a passer-by at what time the cathedral would be opened. From the gloomy exterior which distinguishes the generality of American churches, a mistake of the opposite character would seem more natural.

-- Gen HOUSTON has lately been made the victim of an unintentional bit of satire, peculiarly rich in its way. Passing through the Texan city which bears his name, he was furnished with an ovation at the hands of the inhabitants. This was all well enough; but several of the "principal and most influential gentlemen of the city" called upon him, and, so says the Houston Republic, from which we gather these particulars, "lavished on him their warmest congratulations on the brilliancy of his Presidential prospects." Had these "influential gentlemen" been enemies of the General, instead of friends, who ventured on this little piece of pleasantry, the result of the interview can very well be imagined. Fancy a deputation congratulating Mr. BUCHANAN on the glory of his setting sun, or Mr. BRECKINRIDGE, or Mr. DOUGLAS, on the harmonious unanimity to which his nomination has restored the Democratic Party.

-- As the caricature of Mr. LINCOLN, to which we lately made allusion, has disappeared from the columns of the Milwaukee Sentinel only to turn up in the Alton Courier, we infer that a compromise must have been effected between the two journals, and that the "picture" will pass back and forth between them during the campaign. For it is impossible that two such miserable misrepresentations of one man should be in existence at the same time Poor Mr. LINCOLN is made to look as though he had been dragged through a very rough knot-hole, and subsequently beaten with a soot-bag. If an action for libel would not lie against the proprietors of the abovementioned papers, then there is no such thing as political and pictorial justice. There is a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, but a Presidential candidate has no friends till after his election. Even the witty and good-natured Momus, quoting from a Western editor, who describes the rail-splitter as "no porcelain, but a piece of sound and serviceable delft," must have its fling at "ABE," and pronounces him sheer "wedge-wood."

-- We fear our neighbor, the Leader, has no great reverence for title, birth, rank, high-breeding, and all that sort of thing. The style in which he treats our late visitors, the Princes of Japan, is in the highest degree uneomplimentary -- not to say disrespectful and contemptuous. These people may have the blood of a thousand generations of Kamis in their veins; their ancestors may have been leading actors in the massacres which, at a much more recent period, deluged their island with Christian blood; -- they may themselves be as " noble" as the proudest member of the British peerage. Yet this is the style in which the Leadertreats them:

A meaner set of barbarians our eyes had never the misfortune to rest upon. Stunted, ill shaped, narrow headed, yellow skinned, high smelling, ferret eyed, flat footed, greedy and cunning -- it makes our blood tingle through every vein when we reflect that the virtue of American Womanhood has been slandered and called in question on account of such half-human abominations. Not a man in the Embassy knew the meaning of personal cleanliness. The "Princes," (God save the mark!) had but two suits of silk-clothes each, which they wore without change of underclothing, from the day they left Nyphon until to-day.

We are very much afraid that such language as this will give color to the belief, that the Americans have no reverence whatever for high rank and noble birth.