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HEW SERIES VOL. 3, NO. .
SUNBURY, NORTIIUA1DERLAN I) COUNTY, PA., SATURDAY, APRIL 0, 1830.
OLD SERIES VOL. 10, NO. 34
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A CALL TO HOUSEKEEPERS
At llie Cabinet Ware lloo'u of
SEli'N 1IOUPT & CO.
Market Square,
rtjo at the enrntr nf Fawn street i" the Railroad,
SUXBLTxV, PA.
Thankful for tli patrnnarc nf his friend, snj
customers during the 17 year, lie ha. lwcn in busi
ness in this place, he solicits from the pub'ic a con
tinuance of their favors. During this period he
lias endeavored to keep up willi the improvements
of the dsv, and lias accordingly e.tenitt'd his liusi-
liass in every branch and variety. The public are
therefore invited to the attention of the present
stock of
CABINET V. ARE AXD CHAIUS,
Masufactubk.d by
SEBASTIAN KOUPT & CO.
At the Old StKiid,
Where in addition to their former stuck f the
VHtulili.hincnt they now manufacture
Mahogany, Walnut & Cane-Seat Chairs,
Lunre Spring Seat Mocking Chairs,
Dressing Bureaus, Centre Tables,
tMarble Top Wash Stands,
and a variety of other
new stifle and
F;tliion:ibIc Furniture.
Having secured a Hearse and made the neces
sary arrangements for the purpose, they are now
prepared for Undertaking in all it. bratiche., in
this vicinity or at uny convenient distance.
Ye inuiils and inistreysc, and husbands too,
Here's furniture of every .tyle und hue,
I-'rom side h.r.W down to kitchen tables,
From rockinf chairs to locking crudlcs
Hhould you not have the ready John to pay,
We'll rait awhile for a brighter better day,
Or take potatoes, out., corn, wheat and rye ;
liurk, hoop poles, staves, or lumber wet and dry,
Or any thing but yokes and threshing Hsils,
Ftoin pigs aud turkies down to little quails.
Come on thea friends, eome one and all,
Keep trad, a moving, so .'goes on the bull."
C7 Orders from a distance promptly attended
to and work of all kind, delivered with dispatch.
Sunbury, March 9, 1850. tf
REFORM YOUR HABITS
Come y., with gsrueut. hare .nd seedy,
Ye boch'lors, wi.lo'ers and huslsi.ils too,
If, in Hi outward man you'r aeedy;
Mre soon can make you as good as uew.
THE lulincribcr respectfully informs his friends
and the public, that he will commence ui this
place, on the 6th of April next, the
TAIXOKIXG HI SI ESS
in all it. branches. He will be careful to see tliut
hi. work is made up in the best manner, and he
flutter, himself, that he will lie able to (rive entire
satisfaction in point of cut, fit and hiyle, as well
a. hi price. He therefore rcsiiectl'ully solicit, hi
friends and the public geuerully to cull and give
him trial.
Hi hoi is a new building in Fawn street lie-
low Weaver's Hotel.
JACOB O. BECK.
Sunbury, March 30, 1850. Cm
" E1)WIN1ULL,
(T.iTi or TBI Finn or W.TKissoir & Hall,)
Yo. 24 South Second Strut,
Philadelphia,
1) ESPECTFL'LLY inform, hu old friends and
customers, as well as the public generally,
that hs has opened an entire new stock of elegant
styles of
Spring & Summer Sresi Goods.
His aMurtment consists of the latest and most del
fable styles of English, lierman, French Ac Ame
rican Goods. Hucb as Delaines', Tissues, Urra
gea, Silks, Lawns, M uslins, tSliawla, ll.lkfls, Gloves,
and every variety of Dress and Fancy Goods.
J'l.ilsd. March 16, 16i0.--ly
SELECT POETRY.
From the Daily New..J
THE "LNIO.il FLAG.
BY CHARLES J. LUKE.NJ.
When kingly presumption loosed war's deso
lation
To sweep o'er Columbia and sully her
eliarms,
Our fathers united 1o found a new untion.
Which Ihey symbolizt'd well in our blazon
of arms.
Their homes were thii ttsen j so they followed
that number,
Seven red and six white, in a serirsofbars;
And paintini; love's vigilance, foreign to
slumber
They cho.se a blue quarter, besprinkled
with stars.
By the while of ihe field, they discarded op
piessiod ;
Showed a pasion for peace, and abhor
rence of war;
By tho red in excess, they premonished trans
gression That it aye slioul.l be met nnd repulsed
from their shore.
Truth shines in Ihe quarter the tincture of
heaven
Youth and sirenglh. in ihe star that have
ne'er paled or set ;
Day by day more nppi-ar May God grant
that their leavon.
Increasing, the world shall rejuvenate yet !
So fashioned our fathers the FLAG OF THE
UNION',
Which glads every wave of woild-compas-1111"
seas,
Twice revered by euch man in our patriot
communion,
As the handsomest banner that rides on
tho breee.
Vi!h this sign they conquered '.Midst can
non and mortar,
Sword, musket and rill.', still glitters this
shield,
A quarter that stoops to no nation for qnar-
ler
A field flying ever where foes are a-ficld.
As the stars and the stripes are our Slates
inter-woven,
Having grown thus from weakness to far-
spreadino; might:
Then perish the villian ! who, wanting them
cloven,
Would quench the blight rays in perpetual
night. -
May "A blacker than Cain," on his forohead
be branded!
May his race be accursed, as clods of a
clod !
Mav tho talo to futurity's farthest bo handed
That damns him, a traitor to man and to
God !
a lcucr Skctcl). '
JOHN TAYLOR:
TUB
TIMON OF THE BACKWOODS BAR AND
I'ULriT.
BY CHAS. Sl'MMERFIELD.
I can never forget my first vision of
John laylor. It was in the court house at
Lcwishurg, Conway county, Arkansas, in
the summer of 1838.
The occasion itself possessed terrible in
terest. A vast concourse of spectators had
assembled to witness the trial of a young
and very beautiful girl, on an indictment
lor murder. The judge waited at the mo
ment for the sheriff to bring in his prisoner,
and the eyes ol the impatient multitude all
centered on the door ; when suddenly a
stranger entered, whose appearance riveted
universal attention.
Here is his portrait ? a figure, tall, lean,
sinewy and strait as an arrow ; a face, sal
low, bilious, and twitching incessantly with
nervous immunity ; a crow, nroaa, soaring,
massive, seamed with wrinkles, but not
from age for he was scarcely forty ;
eyes, reddish yellow, like the wrathful
eagle, as bright and piercing; and finally,
a mouth with lips of cast iron, thin curled,
cold, and sneering", the intense expression
of which looked the living embodiment of
an unbreathed curse. He was habited in a
suit of new buck-skin, ornamented alter
the fashion of Indian costume, with hues of
every color of the rainbow.
Elbowing his way slowly through thn
crowd, and apparently unconscious that he
was regarded as a phenomenon, needing
explanation, this singular being advanced,
and with the haughty air of a king ascend
ing the throne, seated liimscli within the
bar, thronged as it was with the disciples of
Coke and Blackstone, several of whom, it
was known, esteemed themselves as far
superior to those old and famous masters.
The conti'ast between the outlandish garb
and disdainful countenance of the stranger,
excited, especiallyj the risibility of the
lawyers; and the junior members began a
suppressed titter, which grew louder, and
soon swept around the circle. They doubt
less supposed the intruder to be some wild
hunter of the mountain?, who had never
before seen the interior of a hall of justice.
Instantly, the cause and object of the laugh
ter perceived it; turned his head gradually,
so as to give each laughter a look; his lips
curled with a killing smile of infinite scorn;
his yellow eyes shot arrows of lightning:
his tongue protruding through his teeth lit
erally writhed like a serpent, and ejacula
ted its asp-like poison in a single word:
'Savages !" No pen can describe the de
fiant force which he threw into that term,
no pencil can paint the infernal furor of
his utterance, although it hardly exceeded
a whisper. But he accented every letter
as if it were a separate emission of fire that
scorched his quiverinz lips : lavine horri
ble emphasis on S, both at beginning
and end of the word : "Savages!"
It was the growl of a red tiger in the Aim
of a rattlesnake.
"Savages !"
The general gaze, however, was imme
diately diverted by the advent of the fair
prisoner, who then came in, surrounded by
her guard. The apparition was enough to
drive a saint mad. For hers was a style of
beauty to bewilder the tamest imagination,
and melt the coldest heart, leaving in both
imagination and heart a gleaming picture,
enameled in fire and fixed in a frame of
gold from the stars. It was the spell of an
enchantment to be felt as well as seen.
You might feel it in the flashes of her coun
tenance, clear as a sunbeam, brilliant as
the iris ; in the contour of her features
symmetrical as if cut by tho chisel of an
artist ; in her hair of rich auburn ringlets
flowing without a braid, softer than silk,
finer than gossamer ; in the eyes, blue as
the heaven of southern summer, large, li
quid, beamy ; in her motions, graceful,
swimming, like the gentle waftures of a
bird's wing in the sunny air; in the figure,
slight, etherial a sylph's or a seraph's;
and more than all, in the everlasting smile
of the rosy lips, so arched, so serene, so
like starlight, and yet possessing the power
of magic or of magnetism to thrill the be
holder's heart.
As the unfortunate girl, so tastefully
dressed, so incomparable as to personal
charms, calm and smiling, took her place
before the bar of her judge, a murmur of
admiratidn arose from the multitude, which,
the prompt interposition of the court, by a
stern order of "Silence," could scarcely re
press from swelling to a deafening cheer.
The judge turned to the prisoner; "Em
ma Miner, the court has been informed
that your counsel, Col. Linton, is sick, have
you employed any other V
one answered in a voice sweet as the
warble of the nightingale, and clear as the
song of the sky-iark : "My enemies have
bribed all the lawyers even my own to be
nick: but God will defend the innocent!"
At this response, so touching in its sim
ple pathos, a portion of the auditors buzzed
applause, and the rest wept.
un the instant, however, tne stranger,
whose appearance had previously excited
such merriment, started to his feet, ap
proached the prisoner,and whispered some
thing in her ear. She bounded six inches
from the floor, uttered a piercing shriek,
and then stood trembling as if in the pre
sence of a ghost from Eternity; while the
singular being, who had caused her unac
countable emotion, addressed the court in
his sharp ringing voice, sonorous as the
sound of bell-metal :
"May it please your honor, I will assume
the task of defending the lady."
"What !" exclaimed the astonished judge,
"are you a licensed attorney ?"
"The question is irrevalant and imma
terial," replied the stranger with a venom
ous sneer, "as the recent statute entitles any
person to act as counsel at the request of a
party."
"But does the prisoner request it!" in
quired the judge.
"Let her speak for herself," said the
stranger.
"I do," was her answer, as a long drawn
sigh escaped, that seemed to rend her very
heart strings.
The case immediately progressed ; and
as it had a tinge of romantic mystery, we
will epitomise the substance of the evi
dence. About twelve months before, the defend
ant had arrived in the village, and opened
an establishment of millinery, liesiding
in a room connected with her shop, and
all alone ; she prepared the article of her
trade with unwearied labor and consum
mate taste. Her habits were secluded,
modest and retiring; and hence she might
have hoped to avoid notoriety, but for the
perilous gift of that extraordinary beauty,
which too often, and to the poor and friend
less always, proves a curse. She was soon
sought alter by all those glittering fire-flies
of fashion, the profession of whose life,
every where, is seduction and ruin. But
the beautilul stranger rejected them all
with unutterable scorn and loathing.
Among these rejected admirers was one of
a character from which the fair milliner
had everything to fear. Hiram Shore be
longed to a family, at once, opulent, influ
ential and dissipated.' He was himself li
centious, brave and ferociously revengeful
the most famous duellist of the South
west. It was generally known that he had
made advances to win the favor of the
lovely Emma, and had shared the fate of
all other wooers a disdainful repulse.
At nine o'clock on Christmns night,
1S37, the people of LewlSburg were star
tled by a loud scream, as of one in mortal
terror, while, following that, with scarcely
an interval, came successive reports of fire
arms, one, two, three; a dozen dealentng
roars. They flew to the shop of the mil
liner, whence the sounds proceeded ; push
ed back the unfastened door, and a scene of
horror was presented. There she stood in
the centre of the room, with a revolver in
each hand, every barrel discharged, her
features pale, her eyes flashing wildly, but
her lips parted with a fearful smile. And
there at her feet, weltering in his warm
blood, his bosom literally riddled with bul
lets, lay the all-dread duellist, Hiram Shore,
gasping in the last agony. He articulated
but a single rwetepce "Tell my mother
that I am dead anufWTf'ilTfflell !" and in
stantly expired.
"In the name of God, who did this ?"
exclaimed the appalled spectators
"I did i'.," said the beautiful milliner, "1
did it to save my honor.
As may be readily imagined, the deed
caused an intense sensation. Public opin
ion, however, was divided. The poorer
classes, crediting the girl's version of the
facts, lauded her heroism in terms of mea
sureless eulogy. But the friends of the de
ceased, and of his Wealthy family, gave a
different and darker coloring to the affair,
and denounced the lovely homicide as an
atrocious criminal. .Unfortunately for her,
the officers ol the law, especially the judge
and sheriff, were devoted comrades of the
I slain, and displayed their feelings in a re
volting partiality. The judge committed
her without the privilege of bail, and the
sheriffchained her in the felon's dungeon !
Such is a brief abstract of the circumstan
ces developed in the examination of wit
nesses. The testimony closed and the
pleading began.
First of all, three advocates spoke in suc
cession for the prosecutions ; but neither
their names nor their arguments are worth
preserving. Orators of the blood and thun
der genus, they about equally pariioned
their howling eloquence betwixt the priso
ner and her leather-robed counsel, as if in
doubt who of the twain was then on trial.
As for the stranger, he seemed to pay not
the slightest attention to his opponents, but
remained motionless, with his forehead
bowed on his hands, like one buried in deep
thought cr slumber.
When the proper time came, however,
he suddenly sprang to his feet, crossed the
bar, and took his position almost touching
the jury. He then commenced in a whis
per, but it was a "whisper so wild, so clear,
so unutterably ringing and distinct, as to fill
the hall from floor to galleries. At the out
set, he dealt in puae logic, separating and
combining the proven facts, till the whole
mass of confused evidence looked transpa
rent as a globe of glass, through which the
innocence of his client shone, brilliant as a
sunbeam; and the jurors nodded to each
other signs of thorough conviction; that
thrilling whisper, and fixed concentration,
and the language, simple as a child's, had
convinced all.
lie then changed his posfure, so as to
sweep the bar with his glance; and began
to tear and rend his legal adversaries.
His sallow face glowed t sa heated furnace;
his eyes resembled living coals ; and his
voice became the clangor of a trumpet,
I have never, before or since, listened to
such murderous denunciations. I was
like Jove's eagle charging a flock c crows:
it was like Jove himself hurling red-hot
thunderbolts among the quaking ranks of a
conspiracy of inferior gods! And yet, in
the highest tempest of his fury, he seemed
calm ; he employed no gesture save one
the flash of a long, bony fore-finger direct
in the eyes of his Iocs, lie painted their
venality and unmanly meanness, in coal
escing for money, to hunt down a poor and
friendless woman, till a shout of stifled rage
arose from the multitude, and even fome
of the jury cried, "Shame!"
Ho changed his theme once more. His
voice grew mournful as a funeial song", and
his eyes filled with tears, as he traced a
vivid picture of man's cruelties and wo
man's wrongs, with particular illustrations
in the case of his client; till one-half of
the audience wept like children. But it
was iu the peroration that he reached his
zenith, at once, of terror and sublimity.
His features were livid as those of a corpse;
his very hair appeared to stand on end ;
his nerves shook as with a palsy; he tossed
his hands wildly towards heaven, each fin
ger stretched apart and quivering like the
flame of a candle, as he closed with the
last words of the deceased Hiram Shore:
"Tell my mother that I am dead and gone
to hell !" His emphasis on the word hell
embodied the acme and ideal of all horror
it was a wail of immeasurable despair.
No language can depict the effect on us
who heard it. Men groaned ; females
screamed, and one poor mother fainted, and
was borne away in convulsions.
The whole speech occupied but an hour.
The jury rendered a verdict of "Not
Guilty," without leaving the box ; and
three cheers, like successive roars of an
earthquake, shook the old court house from
the dome to the cornerstone, testifying the
joy ot the people.
After the adjournment, which occurred
near sunset, the triumphant advocate arose
and give out an appointment ; "I will
preach in this hall to-night at 8 o'clock."
He then glided off through the crowd,
speaking to no one, though many attempted
to draw him into conversation.
At 8 o'clock the Court House was ajain
thronged, and the stranger, according to
promise, delivered his sermon. It evinced
the same attributes as his previous elo
quence of the bar ; the same compact logic,
the same burning vehemence, and increased
bitterness of denunciation. Indeed mis
anthropy revealed itself as the prominent
emotion. The discourse was a tirade
against infidels, in which clasthe preacher
seemed to include every body but himself;
:t was a picture of hell, such as Lucifer
might have drawn, with a world in flames
for his pencil.
But one paragraph pointed to heaven,
and that only demonstrated the utter im
possibility that any human being should
ever get there. 6'rai ll'est.
A Yoi'No gentleman was frequently cau
tioned by his father to vote fur "measures,
nut men." He promised to du so, and soon
after received abouasto vote for a Mr. Feck.
His father, astonished at his voting fur a man
whom he deemed objecliouabl , inquired his
reasons for doing so. ' Surely, father," said
ihe youth, "you told me to vote for measures,
and if Peck is not a measurey I don't know
what is."
Tin Honesdale, Wayne county, Pa., Her
ald, of the 27ih ult. says : '-Quite an cxciie.
ment has bwen creating among a portion of
our citizens by an unaccountable 'tap! tap!
lap!' which nightly disturbs the quiet of their
slumber from their heavy eyelids. But what
is it 1 what does it mean V
fot'KD Peat. Oil Saturday morning of
week before last, a stranger, name unknown
was found dead in a stable belonging to the
Commonwealth, at Berwick. He had been
in the village for four or five days, and all
that could be learned of him was that he was
a jour, printer. loem.!i''rj Star.
Qistorical.
1 HE BATTLE OF MOIST TABOR.
Our readers, we are convinced, will feel
a thrill of something deeper than pleasure,
in reading the spirited description which
follows; from Headley's "Sacnd Moun
tains :"
Forty years acroj a form Was seen stand
ing on Mount Tabor with which the world
has since become familiar. It was a bright
spring morning, and as he sat on his steed
in the clear sunlight, his eye rested on a
scene in the vale below, which was sub
lime and appalling enough to quicken the
pulsations ol the calmest heart. That form
was Napoleon Bonaparte, and the scene be
fore him the fierce and terrible "Battle op
Mot-NT Tahor." From Nazareth, where
the Saviour once trod, Kleber had marched
with fifteen thousand French soldiers forth
into the plain when lo, at the foot of Mount
Tabor he saw the whole Turkish army
drawn up in order of battle. Fifteen thou
sand infantry and twelve thousand splen
did cavalry moved down on this band of
three thousand French. Kleber had scarcely
time to throw his handful of men into
squares, with the cannon at the angles be
fore these twelve thousand horses, making
the earlh smoke and thunder as they came,
burst in a headlong gallop upon them.
But round those steady squat cs rolled a
fierce devouring fire, emptying the saddles
of those wild horsemen with frightful ra
pidity, and strewing the earth with the bo
dies of riders anil steeds together. Again
and again did these splendid squadrons
wheel, reform and charge with deafening
shouts, while their uplifted and flashing
cimclars gleamed like a forest of steel
through the smoke of battle, but that same
wasting fire received them till those squares
seemed bound by a girdle of flame, so rapid
and constant were the discharges. Before
their certain and deadly aim, as they stood
lighting for existence, the charging squad
rons fell so fast that a rampart of dead bo
dies was soon formed around them. Be
hind this embankment of dead men and
horses, this band of warriors stood and
fought for six dreadful hours, and was still
steadily thinning the ranks of the enemy,
when Napoleon debouched with a single
division on Mount Tabor, and turned his eye
on the vale below. What a scene met his
gazC. The whole plain was filled with
inarching columns and squadrons of wildly
galloping steeds while the thunder of can
non and fierce rattle of musketry, amid
which now and then was heard the blast of
thousands of trumpets, and strains of mar
tial music ; filled all the air. The smoke
of battle was rolling furiously over the
hosts, and all was confusion and chaos in
his sisiht. Amid the twenty-seven thou
sand Turks that crowded the plain and en
veloped their enemy like a cloud, and amid
the incessant discharge of artillery and
musketry, Napoleon could not tell where
his own brave troops were struggling, only
by the steady, simultaneous volleys which
showed how discipline was contending
with the wild va!or of overpowering num
bers. The constant flashes from behind
that rampart ol dead bodies were like spots
of flame on the tumultuous and chaotic
fi. Id. Napoleon descended from Mount
Tabor with his little hand, while a single
twelve pounder fired from the heights, told
the wearied Kleber that he was rushing to
the rescue. Then for the first time he took
the olleiisive, and poured his enthusiastic
followers, on the fallen foe, carrying death
and terror over the field. Thrown into
confusion and trampled under foot, that
mighty army rolled turbulently back to
wards the Jordan, where Murat was an
xiously waiting to mingle in the fight.
Dashing with his cavalry among the disor
dered ranks, he sabred them down without
mercy, and ra,-;l like a lion amid the prey.
This chivalric and romantic warrior de
clared that the remembrance of the scenes
that once transpired on Mount Tabor, and
on these thrice consecrated spots came to
him in the holiest of the fight and nerved
him with tenfold courage.
As the sun went down over the plains
of Palestine, and twilight shed its dim ray
over the r.'iit anil trodden and dead covered
field, a sulphurous cloud hung around the
summit of Mount Tabor. The smoke of
battle had settled there where once the
cloud of glory rested, while groans and
shrieks and cries rent the air. Nazareth,
Jordan and Mount Tabor what spots for a
battle-field !
Boll back twenty centuries and again
view that hill. The day is bright and
beautiful as then, and the same rich orien
tal landscape is smiling in the same sun.
There is Nazareth with its busy population
the same Nazareth from which Kleber
inarched his army ; and there Is Jordan
rolling its bright waters along the same
Jordan along whose banks charged the glit
tering squadrons of Murat's cavalry ; and
there is Mount Tabor the rame on which
Bonaparte stood with his cannon ; and the
same beautiful plain where rolled the smoke
ot mortal combat. But how different is
the scene that is passing there. The Son
of God stands on that height and casts his
eye over the quiet valley through which
Jordan winds its silver current. Three
friends are beside him; they have walked
together up the toilsome way, and now the
four stand, mere specs on the distant sum
mit. Far away to the north-west shines
the blue Mediterranean all around is the
great plain of Esdradon and Galilee east
ward, the lake of Tiberias dots the land
scape while Mount Carmel lifts its naked
summit in the distance. But the glorious
landscape at their feet it forgotten in a
sublimer scene that is passing before them.
The son of Mary the carpenter of Naza
reth the wanderer with whom tbey have
eaten and drank, and travelled on foot
many a weary league, in all the intimacy
ol companions and friends, begins to change
before their eyes. Over his soiled and
coarse garments is spreading a si range
light, steadily brightening into intenser
beauty, till that form glows with such
splendour that it seems to wave to and fro
and dissolve in the still radiance.
The three Astonished friends gaze on it
in speechless admiration, and then turn to
that familiar face. But lo, a greater change
has nassed over it. Tho man had nut nn
the God, and that sad solemn countenanced
wnicn has been so often stooping over
the couch of the dying, and entering the
door of the hut of poverty, and passing
through the streets of Jerusalem, and paus
ing by the wayside eye, bedewed with
tears of pify now burns like the sun in
his midday splendour. Meekness has given
way to maiestv sadness to dazzlin? edorv
the look of pity to the grandeur of God.
THE TIN TANS
Or Life In California.
I heard of a 'good one' that occurred a few
days previous to my arrival here, which
shows that the Elephant can travel beyond
hiscustomy limits when occasion requires.
A ship-load of passengers had just arrived
below, and a number from tho shore went off
to meet their expected friends. One of them
stepping up to a man who was about to toss
an old tin pot over the side, exclaimed, with
much surprise, 'Why, my dear sir, what are
you about 1 Don't wasle such valuable pro
perty in that way. Here, (taking some gold
from his pocket) I'll give you an once for it
they're worth two ashore.'
Tho ruse succeeded j our passenger, think
ing ho could do the same, like a true Yankee
refused him. The other had 'let out' a Icetlc
too much, nnd lost the trade. Down dove
the passenger into the steerage, to buy up all
tho tin pots, pans, kettles, &c, that he could
muster, knowing his fortune would bo made
in a hurry; but his earnestness to buy only
aroused the suspicions ot the others, and they
began to hold on to their valuable tin ware,
till finally one had the boldness to ask an
otinco for a new pan, not dreaming bo would
pntchase, but he took him up and paid him
the money. This was enough; ho couldn't
buy any more nf the price; but he had been
fortunate enough to obtain nearly a hundred,
at a cost of ttro hundred dollarr, and, as he
strung them together, he would mumble to j
himself "This ono will bring me three
ounces this one two here's a coffee pol,
bran new, I won't sell under five,' till ho
had completed his bundle. On deck he
scrambled, and hailed the nearest boat for a
passage ashore.
'Got an ounce to pay for it V mid he; 'and'
(seeing his huge pile of tin afoot) 'another
for your traps."
This was a drain on his pocket he had not
calculated on; but ho found it useless to ex
postulate, so he reluctantly forked over the
amount, and they shoved off. About half
way to the shore, they were boarded by an
officer of tho Customs, who informed him
that he must return immediataly to the ship,
until she had been inspected. Here was
another 'damper.
"Giro him an ounce for security, nnd he'll
let you pass on,' whispered the boatman in
his ear, at tho same moment loosing the sheet
and making preparations to 'go about.'
He hesitated, felt his empty pocket, looking
at his certain fortune, and out with the dust
gave his name with a long curse after it, and
then left him. But he consoled himself with
the enormous profit to be realized on his pre
cious tins, till having reached the pier, he
sang out to a loafer on the dock to catch his
bundle.
'Do it for an ounce!' was tho only reply,
as ho moved off.
'Deuce take your ounces, answered Ihe ped
lar, 'you look as if you had taken one In drains
at the last rum hole.'
With the assistance of the lioatmnn, ho
managed get on to terra firmn, and hastened
off. The first man he saw, attracted bv his
glittering prize, he fro.a to, but kept his ton
gue tied, hoping to receive an offer, for he
now began to imagine that he had set loo
small a value on them; but the man passed
on, merely saying tiiat he would find richer
men than he was, farther up. This whs
enough ; four ounces was now too small a sum
for them, and away he went gazing at the
thousand tents that covered tho ground on
cither side, and looking with a air of pride at
every one he met. Presently he saw some
thing in the road that looked very much like
tin ware,-and taking it from the mud, lo his
great astonishment, found that it was a tin
pan, as good, with the exception of a (mall
hole and a dent in the bottom, as any in his
bundle. This was a poser ; he began to
'smell a rat,' and going into the first tent
with many sad forebodings, enquired the
slate of Ihe tin market.
'Don't uso 'em ; nothing but the gilt ones
suits me now,' said the man.
'Why, you must be joking ! They told me
aboard they were worth two ounces ashore !'
exclaimed the now crest-fallen pedlar.
'So use for 'em ; they won't go in this
market,' said tho other, and at Ihe same mo
ment his clerk placed his digit just beneath
his right eye, and slightly drew itlown.
,:DuId, by Gemini!' said ihe pedlar, walk
ing off, and flinging bis wares into ihe first
vacant lot.
Uut ol Iliat, tnal s my property !' cried a
savage looking fellow, drawing a revolver
and cocking it. 'Off with your rubbish, or
I'll blow you to thunder !'
Perhaps they did gooff a little the quickest
Our emigrant began to open his eyes, but
he was rm for it,' and determined lo make
money or die game. Feeling hungry he step
ped into a cotton lent, on which was painted
in large green letters, 'Refreshments furniih
ed at all hours, and Seating himself at a
rough board bench, he railed for aornd fresh
meat and a cup of coffee, which Wa food fat
before him in a very small dish.
Ten dollar, sare, if yon please ) very cheap
sare,' sare the waiter, eyeing hii customer
rather closely.
Cheap' said our victim) rising, 't wouldn't
give you one for it V
'You won't, hehP said the waiter, stepping
up to him ; 'then pay me for my trouble ia
cooking it for you.'
No, I'll not do that either,4 was tha stub'
born reply, but at tho sight ef a dagger, h
began to soften a little.
Down went the dollars, and down went
th 3 fresh meat and coffee ; but era ha
had finitihed, he had struck a bargain with
the waiter to join capital and open a hotel to
gether. Tho next week the famous 'Sacras
mento House" was thrown open to the pub
lie.
FOR THE LADIES.
Tho Hagerstown News says that the fol
lowing recipe was handed to the editor ot
that paper by a friend who, having tried ft)
thinks it not only a saving of more than half:
the labor of washing, but one that render
that hitherto laborious task a mere "frolic.
As gentlemen are not always vary good judge
of such things, there may be soma mistake
in it; but our lady readers can try it fof
themselves:
"Prepare a common wash tub full of warrA
strong soap suds, take three spoons full ot
spirits of Hartshorn, and nine teaspoons full
of spirits of Turpentine j mix them and put
them into the tub and stir Ihcm well, put
the clothes into the water thus prepared, let
them remain in it 30 minutes, taking then!
out of the suds, putting them in clear cold
water, let them lie 10 minutes then rinse
them in the usual way. If limestone water
is used in making the suds, add a teaspoon
full of Soda before putting in the Hartshorrt
and Turpentine, this will be sufficient for a
many clothes as will go into the tub. For
more water increase the ingredients tairi
water will do without Soda."
ia jo i ix rnANKLix-report of
HI9
SAFETY.
We are indebted, says the New York Ad
verliser, to Mr. John Randall, fur merchant
in Water street, for tho following information
forwarded by his agent or correspondent at
St. Paul, Minnesota Territory.
"St. Paul, Minnesota, March 12.
:A dog train arrived here yesterday, froa
some distance above Lake Superior, bringing
news that an American vessel had ben seen
by some of the Indians, and had sent letter
saying that Sir John Franklin Was foundi
The particulars I cannot learn. Howeter(
they say he is safe,"
Tho writer of the letter is the brother rf
Mr. Randall, and we have seen ihe letter
containing the intelligence. Both are eeri'
tlemcn of high respectability. lie writes by
every mail, so that we hare through bis let'
ter the most recent news. Our former ad'
vices from St. Paul were to the 6th of March
The dog team mentioned some ten days ago
as having arrived at St. Paul, was from BcU
kirk settlement which lies quite in another
direction from Lake Superion
It will be perceived that the Informal iorf
is given as a report which reached the writer
at the moment of closing his letter, and he
had not time to inquire into its truth, ki
such we give it, not feeling at liberty to with
hold anything communicated Id good faith
on so inteiesting a subject.
The Amciican vessel spoken of must have
been in James' or Hudson's Bay, which lie
about three degrees north' of Lake Superior:
In this Bay it is probable Sir John Franklirl
will be found, if found at all. The report,
though so indefinite, we hope may prove true.
It comes just in lime for testing it by the
Arctic Expedition now fitting out through tho
liberality of an enterprising merohant of New
Yoik, Mr. Henry Grinnell. We see that the
merchants of New York are asking out Gov
ernment for the services of thirty United
States seaman as volunteers in this expedition
and that tho discipline of the Navy may be
extended over the men nnd Navy volunteers
allowed. This we should consider essential
to its success.
The Fire Annihilator. Mr. Philips, tha
inventor of this new apparatus, recently gave"
an exhibition of its powers to a large compa
ny assembled at the London gas works, Vaux
hall. After some preliminary remarks on
the vast losses from fire, amounting, annual'
ly, in the three kingdoms, to 2,000,000, and
the inellicacy of water in quencing a furious"
conflagration, he set fire to a compartment ef
a large open building, filled with partition
and l-mporary joisting of light wood daubed
with pitch and turpentine, and hurig wiih
rags soaked with the same Combustibles. The'
flames ascended, roaring with such vehe
mence as to repel the spectators to a distance)
of forty feet, reaching, apparently, beyenrJ
all remedy by water; when Mr. P. with fJha
of his hand machines, somewhat larger than
a good sized coffee pot, front which a volume
of gas and vapor was discharged, extinguish'
ed the flames "in half a minute;" and then
to prove that there was no noxious quality
in tha resulting air, immediately walked;
through the building with a lighted candle;
in his hand. A company hat been formed
to manufacture these new-styled fire engines
which, if Ihey answer as well in practice at,
they seem to do in experiment, will, soon
make their way to this country, and find thoir
field of operation in subduing flame and jir
Hap, fit e tiots.