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From the Dn Iti mora Clipper.
THE FESTIVE CUP:
Hf THE THIhD WARD BUGLE.
Take, lake away the festive cup
IN or tempi me Willi llio winning glass
For painly o'er its minor brim,
D.uk lorms of vice, like specters, pass;
Each flu wing bowl each sparkling drop,
la pregnant with milium ber' J. ills-
wakened memory oil unfolds,
l ast scene, at winch the bosom thrill.
Take, take away the feslive cup
io more its potent spell 1 leel
Twill tear each germ of virlue up,
And o'er the heart, like shadows, steal;
For (hough 'lis wrealh'd in rosy smiles,
And seeming pleasures on it ride.
There's misery, woe, mul wretchedness,
commingling with Us purple tide!
ake, iRke away the festive cup
It ctiills my soul with lion id tears !
Tis filled wilh woe with wretchedness
M'i'h widows' and with orphans' tears!
Oh may I, wilh supernatural aid,
1H guarded Irom Its mamrs powers,
Then will Ihe heart beat light and free,
And gladsome as in boyhood s hours.
vtljrilling Skctcl).
THE OLD MAN'S STORY.
1 shall never forget the commencement
of the temperance reformation ; I was a
child at the time, of some ten years of age.
Our home had every comfort, and my pa
rents idolized me their child. Wine was
often on the table, and both my father and
mother frequently gave it to me in the bot
tom of my morning r!ass.
One bunday at church, a startling an
nouncement was made to our people. I
knew nothing of its purport, but there was
much whispering among the men. The
pastor said on the next evening there would
be a meeting, and an address upon the evils
of intemperance in the use of alcoholic
drinks. He expressed himself ignorant of
the object of the meeting, and could not
say what course it would be best to pursue
in the matter.
The subject of the meeting came up at
our table after the service, and I questioned
my lather about it with all the curious ea
gerness ot a cnilJ. ihe whispers, and
words which had been dropped in my
ring, clothed the whole affair with a
reat mystery to me, and I was all eager
ness to learn the strange thing. My father
merely said it was some scheme to unite
church and state.
The night came, and groups of people
gathered on the tavern steps, and I heard
the jests and the laugh, and saw drunken
men come reeling out ot the bar-room. J
urged my father to let me go, but he at first
refused Finally, thinking that it would
be an innocent gratification of my curiosity,
he put on his hat and we passed across the
green to the church. 1 remember well
how the people appeared as they came in,
seeming to wonder what kind of an exhi
bition was to come off.
In the corner was the tavern keeper,
and around him a number of friends, l or
an hour the people of the place continued
to come in, until there was a fair house
full. All were curiously watching at the
door wondering what would appear next.
The pastor stole in and took a seat behind
a pillar under the gallery as it doubtful ol
the propriety ol being in church at all.
Two men finally came in and went to
the altar and took their seats. All eyes
were fixed upon them, and a general stil.'
ness pervaded throughout the room.
1 he men wore unlike in appearance,
one being short, thick set in his build : the
other tall and well formed. The younger
had the manner and dress of a clergyman,
a full round face, and a quiet, good natured
look, as he leisurely looked around over
the audience.
But mv childish interest was all in the
old man. His broad, deep chest, and unti
sual height, looked giant-like as he strode
slowly up the aisle. His hair was white,
his brow deeply seamed with furrows, and
around his handsome mouth, lines of calm
and touching sadness. His eye was black
and restless, and kindled as the tavern
keeper uttered a low jest aloud. His lips
were compressed and a crimson Hush went
and came over his pale cheek. One arm
was otf above the elbow, and there was a
wide scar over his right eye.
The younger finally arose and stated the
object of the meeting, and asked if there
was a clergyman present to open it with a
prayer,
Our pastor kept his seat, and the speaker
himself made a short praver, and then
made a short address, af the conclusion
calling upon any one present to make re'
marks. The pastor arose under the gallery,
and attacked the positions ol the speaker,
uiing the arguments which I have olten
heard since, and concluded by denouncing
those ensased in the new movement as
meddlesome fanatics, who wished to break
ur the time-honored usages of good socie.
ly, and injure the business of respertable
men. At the conclusion 01 nis remarks
the tavern keeper and his friends got up a
cheer, and the current of feeling was evi.
dently against the strangers and their plan
While the pastor was speaking, the old
man had fixed his dark ey upon him, and
leaned forward as if to catch every word,
Ai the pastor took his seat the old man
rose, his tall form towering in its symmetry
anA I,;. rhi swellin? as he inhaled his
hr-aih through his dilated nostrils. To me
ai that time, there was something we-in
anirin? and erand in the appearance of tbs
old man as he stood with bis full eye upon
ih a idience. his teeth shut hard, ana a si
Lnra Ii b that of death throughout the
iu.ure.lu
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He bent his gaze upon the tavern keep
er, and that peculiar eye lingered and kin
dled for half a moment.
The scar grew red upon his forehead
and beneath the heavy eyebrows his eyes
glittered and glowed like a serpent's. The
taven keeper quailed before that searching
glance, and I felt a relief when the old man
withdrew his gaze. For a moment he
seemed lost in thought, and then in a low
tremulous lone commenced. There was n
depth in that voice, a thrilling pathos and
sweetness which rivited every heart in the
house before the first period had been
rounded. My father's attention had be
come fixed on the eye of the speaker with
an interest which I had never belore seen
him exhibit. I can but briefly remember
the substance of what the old man said,
though the scene is as vivid before me as
any that 1 ever witnessed.
"My friends! lam a stranger in your
village, and I trust I may call you friends.
A new star has arisen, and there is hope
in the dark night which hangs like a pall
of gloom over our country." With a thril
ling depth of voice, the speaker locked his
hands together and continued 'Oh ! God,
thou who lookrst with compassion upon
the most erring of earth's children, 1 thank
thee that a brazen serpent has been lifted,
upon which the drunkard can look and be
healed ; that a beacon has burst out upon
the darkness that surrounds him, which
shall guide back to honor and heaven the
bruised and veary wanderer."
It is strange what power there is in some
voices. Ttie speaker's voice was low and
measured, but a tear trembled in every
tone, and before I knew why, a tear drop
ped upon my hand, followed by others like
rain drops. The old man brushed one
from his own eyes and continued :
"Men and Christians! You have just
heard that I am a vagrant fanatic. 1 am
not. As God knows my own sad heart, I
came here to do good. Hear me and be
just.
"1 am an old man, standing alone at the
end of life's journey. There is a deep sor
row in my heart and tears in my eyes. I
have journeyed over a dark beaconless
ocean, and life's hopes have been wrecked.
1 am without friends, home or kindred on
earth, and look with longing to the rest of
the night of death- Without fiiends, kin
dred or home ! It was not once so !
No one could withstand the touching
pathos of the old man. I noticed a tear
trembling on the lid of my father's eye,
and 1 no more lelt ashamed of my own,
"No, my friends, it was not so once.
Away over the dark waves which have
wrecked my hopes, there is the blessed
light of happiness and home. I reach
again convulsively for the shrines of house'
hold idols that once were mine, now mine
no more."
1 he old man seemed looking away
through fancy upon some bright vision, his
lips apart and his fingers extended. I in
oluntarily turned in the direction where
it was pointed, dreading to see some sha
dow invoked by its magic movement.
I once had a mother. With her old
heart crushed wilh sorrows, she went down
to her grave. 1 once had a wife, a fair,
angel-hearted creature as ever smiled in an
arthly home. Her eyes as mild as a sum
mer sky, and her heart as faithlul and true
as ever guarded and cherished a husband's
love. Her blue eye grew dim as the floods
of sorrow washed away its brightness, and
the living heart I wrung until every fibre
was broken. I once had a noble, a brave
and beautiful boy, but he was driven out
from the ruins of his home, and my old
heart yearns to know if he vet lives. I
once had a babe, a sweet tender blossom
but these hands destroyed it, and it liveth
with one who loveth children.
"Do not be startled, friends I am not a
murderer in the common acceptation of
the term. Yet there is light in my evening
sky. A spirit mother rejoices over Ihe re
turn of her prodigal son. The wife smiles
upon him who again turns back to virlue
and honor. The child angel visits me at
nightfall, and I feel the tiny palm upon
my feverish cheek. My brave boy, i I he
yet lives, would lorgive the sorrowing
old man for treatment which drove him
into the world, and the blow that maimed
him for life. God forgive me for the ruin
I have brought upon me and mine.",
He again wiped a tear from his eye
My father watched him with a strange in
tensity, and a countenance unsually pale
and excited by some strong emotion.
"I was once a fanatic, and madly follow
ed the malign light which led me to ruin.
I was a fanatic when I sacrificeo my wife,
children, happiness and home, to the ac
cursed demon of the bowl. I once adored
the gentle being whom I injured so deeply.
"1 was a drunkard, i rom respectability
and affluence, I plunged into degradation
and poverty. I dragged my family down
with me t or years I saw her pale cheek,
and her step grew weary. I left her alone
amid the wreck of her home idols and riot
ed at the tavern. She never complained,
yi t she and the children went hungry for
bread.
"One New Year's night I returned late
to the hut where charity had given us roof.
She was yet up, and shiverins over the
coals. I demanded food, but she burst in
to tears and told me there was none. I
fiercely ordered her to get tome. She turn
ed her eyes sadly upon me, the tears falling
last over her pale cheek. At this moment
the child in its cradle awoke and sent up
tarnished wail, startling the despairing
mother like serpent's sting.
" 'We have no food, James have had
none for several days. I have nothing for
the babe. My once kind husband, roust
we starve V
'That tad pleading face and those
streaming eyes, and the feeble wail of the
child, maddened me, and Iyes, I struck
her a fierce blow ia the face, and she tell
forward upon the hearth. The Juries of
II E II LA N D COUNTY. PA., EATUHDAY, AUGUST SO.
hell boiled in my bosom, and with deeper
intensity as I felt I had committed a wrong.
I had never struck Mary before, but now
some terrible impulse bore me on, and I
stooped down as well as I could in my
drunken state and clenched both hands in
her hair.
"God of mercy, James!'-exclaimed my
wife, as she looked up in my fiendish coun
tenance, "you will not kill us you will
not harm Willie,' and she sprang to the
cradle and grasped him in her embrace. I
caught her again by the hair and dragged
her to the door, and as I lifted the latch, the
wind burst in with a cloud of snow. With
a yell of a fiend, I still dragged her on and
hurled her out into the oarknessand storm.
With a wild ha ! ha ! I closed the door and
turned the button, her pleading moans min
gled with the wail of the blast, and sharp
cry ot her babe. Hut my work was not
yet complete.
"I turned on the little bed where lay
my older son, and snatched him fiom his
slumbers, and against his half awakened
struggles, opened the door and thrust him
out. In the agony of tear, he called me
by a name I was no longer fit to bear, and
locked bis fingers in my side pocket. 1
could not wrench that frenzied grasp away,
and with the coolness ol a devil, as 1 was,
shut the door upon the arm, and with my
knife severed it at the wrist."
The speaker ceased a moment and buried
his face in his hands as if to shut out some
fearful dream, and his chest heaved like a
stoam-swept sea. My father had arisen
from his seat, and was leaning forward, his
countenance bloodlems, and the large drops
standing out upon his brow. Chills crept
back to my young heart, and I wished 1
was at home. The old man looked up, and
I never have since beheld such mortal ago
ny pictured upon a human face as there
was on his.
"It was morning when I awoke, and
the storm had ceased. I first secured a
drink of water, and then looked in the ac
customed place for Mary. As I missed
her, for the first time a shadowy scene of
some horrible nightmare began to dawn
upon my wandering mind. 1 thought I
had a fearful dream, but involuntarily
opened the outside door with a shuddering
dread. As the door opened, the snow
buret in, followed by Ihe fall of something
across (be thresh-hold, scattering the snow,
and striking the floor with a sharp, bad
sound. My blood shot like red hot arrows
through my veins, and I rubbed my eyps
to shut out the sight. It was ii O ! God, I
how horrible ! it was my own injured Ma-
ry and her babe, Irozeu to ice ! 1 he ever
true mother had bowed herself over the
child to shield it, and wrapped all her clo
thing around it, leaving her own person
stark and bare to the stoim. She had pla
ced her hair over the lace of the child, and
Ihe sleel had frozen it to the white cheek.
The frost was white in its half-opened
eyes and upon his tiny fingers. I know
not what became ol my brave boy."
Again the old man bowed his head and
wept, and all that were in the house wept
with him. My father sobbed like a child.
In tones of low and heart-broken pathos,
the old man concluded.
"I was arrested and for long months I
raved in delirium. I awoke, was senten
ced to prison for ten years, but no tortures
could have been like those I endured with
in my own bosom. Oh, God, no! Iam
not a fanatic. I wish to injure no one.
But while I live, let me strive to warn
others not to enter the path which has been
so dark and fearlul a one to me. I would
see my wife and children beyond this vale
of tears.
The old man sat down, but a spell as
deep and strong as that wrought by some
wizaid's breath, rested upon the audience.
Hearts could have been heard in their beat
ing, and tears to fall. The old man then
asked the people to sign the pledge. My
father leaped from his seat and snatched at
it eagerly. I had followed him, and as he
hesitated a moment with the pen in the
ink, a tear fell from the old man's eye on
the paper.
"Sign it, sign it, young man. Angels
would sicn it. 1 would write mv name
there ten thousand times in blood il it
would bring back my loved and lost ones."
My father wrote "Mortimer Hudson."
The old man looked, wiped his tearful
eyes, and looked, again, his countenance
alternately flushed with a red and death
like paleness.
"It is no, it cannot be -yet how
strange," muttered the old man. "Pardon
me, sir, but that was the nameol my brave
boy."
My father trembled and held up his left
arm from which the hand had been severed.
They looked for a moment in each oth
er's eyes, but reeled and gasped
"My own injured boy
"My father!"
They fell upon each other's necks until
it seemed that their souls would grow and
mingle into one. There was weeping in
that church, and I turned bewildered upon
the streaming faces around me.
"Let me thank God for the great blessing
which has gladdened my guilt-burdened
soul," exclaimed the old man, and kneeled
down, pouring out his heart in one of the
most melting prayers I ever heard. Ihe
spell was then broken, and all eagerly
signed the pledge, slowly, going to their
homes, as it loth to leave the spot.
The old man is dead, but the lesson he
taught his grandchild on the knee, as his
evening sun went down without a cloud,
will never be forgotten. Hi fanaticism
hai lost none of iti fire ia my manhood's
neart.
Tue Franklih Railroad Book of sub
scription lo the capital slock of the Franklin
Railroad were opened in Charobersburg, Pa.,
on Wednesday of last week. On the same
day the whole amount required wai taken.
Science ana the arts, aarfculturr, ittarJicts, amusements, Sec
A GREEN 'UK 1.1 A SANCTUM.
As we sat quietly at work in out ' Sanc
tum," says the editor of the Albany Express,
a decidedly "green 'un" entered the outer
room, and shuffling up to the clerk, queried:
"Is the ediior in neow V
"Yes."
"Is he &t it now 1"
"At what?''
"Why editin', la be sure."
"Oh, 1 suppose io, he is usually at work at
this lime of day ''
"Is he quiet to-day ?"
' Perfectly so.
"Can I see him safely V
"Oh yes; wulk right in !"
"Thunder, no ! let me got a peak at him
first, can't I !"
'Certainly, juM climb up on this desk,
look over carefully into Ihe den, and you'll
be able to see him."
In a moment we heard our visitor climb
ing up to get a sight of the "critter." Sit
ting back in our chair, elevating our blessed
feet higher than our blessed head, clutching
a large walking stick in one hand, holding
a pen in the other, and puffing vigorougly at
a cigar, we stared him full in his face the
moment that interesting component part of
bis animal economy appeared at the edge of
the partiiion. And what a phiz it was!
What a compound of verdancy, cunning, cu
riosity, apprehension and astonishment! A
single look seamed to be just enough, fur he
reached the floor on the other side at a
leap.
"Great ox gad ! yeon!" he exclaimed to
ihe clerk, "the critter's in one of his tan.
trums I reckon ! Would'nt go in there for
tew shillings in cash !"
"Oh, he'll tame down in a minute or
two."
"Think he will! Hope so, for I'm bound
to talk to him, and see him edit to boot."
The cleik looked into the room, and re
turning, announced that the coast was clear.
In a minute or two we heard him exclaim.
"Neow or never, by the livin' pie-plant !''
and presently he edge-wised into the room,
and stood in "ihe presence," twirling his hat
in his fingers, and rolling his eyes about
"like a duck in thunder " We were scissor
ing, leading and scribbling by turns, and
taking it rather easy.
"Good morning, sir take a seat."
"No, lhank ye ; I'm in considerable hurry.
Calc'lnte yeou ain't editen' neow !"
"Oh, yes; this is a share of the job.
"Yeou don't say. But yeou ain't goin' it
vety steep, ate ye 1"
"No, we are only skirmishing with the
exrhanp.es a little, preparatory to Ihe usual
heavy work."
"1 thought so! 1 thought so!" he ex
claimed, with evident delight. "I'm in a
desput hurry, but I should like to see you
edit for kill just onc't. Take your roat off
and up sleeves then I recon 1 Who larn'l
you to edit? Did'ut it cum kinder luff at
first 1 Half to keep at it nil Ihe time '!"
To this swarm of queries we replied with
nods und shakes of the head. Our visitor
wandered into the compositor's room, and
after asking numberless questions there, and
getting wofully sold by Ihe Imp of that do
main, returned to the Sanctum. In the
meantime we had got into a sharp engage
ment wilh the "leader" for the next morn
ing, and our pen was making frequent jour
neys to and from the inkstand. Greeny
fairly danced wilh excitement, exclaiming
Neow yeou are editin , am l yeou, old
boss ? By scarecrow, Sou ire, yeou are a goin
! it the pizenest kind. Who are yeou pitchiu'
in tew? Give it to 'em ! Don't let 'em up
a mile ! They deserve it all, bust their con
sumed picturs !"
Stopping a moment, he clapped us on the
shouldeis with a hand like a side of pork,
and remarking that he was in a great hurry,
asked if that ( pointing to the was
"agoin" inter the paper next day 1 We re
plied wilh some little impatience, that it
was, provided we could oe alone long enougn
j to finish ii, and intimated that we should be
1 happy to bid him good bye.
"Oh, sartin!" he exclaimed, "no wonder
you're a little riled given il lew 'em so
rot iheir picturs! I'm in a mosaus hurry.,
myself, but I want you to send that paper to
me to-morrow morniu V. Green, Green's
Corner, Green Co., New York. Will yeou
neow 1"
Oh, yes ! Good morning friend !"
"To be sure ! in a minute. What's the
damage V
For what!"
"Fur one day's subscription to the paper."
Oh, nothing! Now do go!"
"Sartin 1 will. I want my folks, and Sal
and all on 'em, tew see the piece that 1 seen
veou edit. That's all. Ef I warn't in such
a drefful hurry, I'd make yeou quite a stop.
'Skuse me this time. Good bye, Squire!"
"Good bye."
And away went our friend, and we went
at it again, to make up for lost lime Scarce
ly had we achieved a aingle sentence ere
back again he shuffled.
"I say, Squire ; for mawy's sake pilch il
. . , . . .
intew 'em toe biggest sort, uive 'em scis
sors towards Ike bottom of the piece will
yeou?"
The apparition of our cane, and the toe of
a very uneasy boot iusianily rid us of Mr.
Green, of Greene's Corner, Green County,
and be vanished into Ibe street, firm in Ibe
belief that the eritier was in another tan-
trurn.
The death of Col. Bliss is oonfirmed. He
was attached lo Ibe Staff of Gen. Twiggs, a
Esl Pascacoula. He died of billtou tevsr.
MR. IIOBDS AMD THE ENGLISH LOCK
SMITHS). It is now pretty generally known that until
the year of the Great Exhibition nobody had
succeeded in obtaining the "200 guineas"
offered by Messrs. Bramah to anv nerann
who ouuld pick their celebrated lock. This
piece of mechanical ingenuity was at last
performed by Mr. Hobbs, Irom America,
who was not a lockmaker but a lockpicker;
since then the art of picking locks has be
come somewhat elevated, and has attracted
the attention of several of our first-rate engi
neers. The Society of Arts, in John street,
Adelphi, being desirous of promoting Ihe
skill of English locksmiths, issued a circular
last year for premiums on various articles of
manufactures, among which was one "for
the invention of a cood look." combining
strength, and great security from fraudulent
attempts, cheapness, freedom from disar
rangement by dirt, and requiring only a small
key. The conditions upon which the prize
of 10 was to be awarded seem to be some
what inconsistent with the object required ;
but nevertheless the offer commanded alten.
tion, and the successful competitor was Mr.
Saxley, of Sheerness; and to him the prize
was awarded by the committee, the chair
man being Mr. Chubb, the lockmaker in St.
Paul's churchyard. By a letter from Mr.
Hobbs, which apppars in the Journal of the
Society of Arts, of the 24th of June, we find
that Air. Hobb's curiosity induced him to
inspect this piece of mechanism which the
committe, presided over by Mr. Chubb, had
pronounced to be one most in accordance
with the prescribed rules of the society :
when, so from its possessing that "great se
cuiity" required, he discoveied that it was
constructed on the principle of the "Yale
lock," such as are manufactured by Mr.
Cotterill, of Birmingham; and to prove to
the persons present that it possessed no "se
curity," Mr. Hobbs, taking a small straight
iron wire from his pocket, and a thin strip
of steel, opened it in ihe presence of several
members of the society in three minutes.
London Bankers Circular.
ClltMlCAL MEDITATION.
Messrs. Waler and Oil,
One day had a broil.
As down in the glass they were dropping;
Aim would not unite,
But continued to fiht
Without any prospect ol slopping.
Mr. Pearlash o'erheard,
And quick as a word.
He jumped in the midst of the clashing ;
When all three agreed,
And united with speed,
And Soap came out ready for washing.
Ri'M Dnors. The New York Times com
ments in severe but just terms of censure up
on a new form of confectionary calculated
to cheat Ihe young and unsuspecting into ac.
quiring a taste for intoxicating liquors This
disguised emissary of the fiend is a sugar
preparation of alcohol in the ahxpe of drops
or lozenges, and which michl bo more op,
propnateiy named "Hum 1'iH." Ihey are
manufactured by confectioners nol as pep
permint and other essential oil drops are
prepared by combination, but Ihe brandy,
rum, or gin is enclosed in sweet globules.
In this form the drops are sold at the most
respectable saloons. Ladies and young gills,
who would shrink from Ihe touch of the in
toxical iug cup as they would from pollution
do not hesitate to swallow in this form the
disguised and sugar-coated poison, which is
made doubly dangerous by the form in which
it is presented to the palate.
Judge Edmonds on Spiritual Kappincs.-
Judge Edmonds, ol New York, is out in a
long aiticle on tha spirit rappings. He
throws no new light upon the subject, but
reiletates the writer's implicit belief that the
rappings and table movings are ihe woiks of
spirits, and repeats thai he has had frequent
communications from the dead. He profes
ses to have sought earnestly for the motive
of these manifestations, and to have found it
out, but he reserves telling what it is until
he publishes his book on the subject.
A "Slip-" A travelling lecturer picked
up a candidate for a wife a few days ago in
Lynn, whom he selected through bis know!
edge of "bumps," as he ' had never known
her until an hour and a half before. He pro
cured a marriage certificate and they pro-
ceeded to Salem, whon ihe gilt, who had
been nothing loth lo accept ihe otter, found
the house of her iiitendod, who had buried
his wife four days before, well stocked with
ebildron, but having little else in it. She
was immediately seized with home sickness
and borrowed money enough to return in the
cars. Boston Courier.
DIFFERENT THREAT
ST liOJTUl.
I nnea into a forest fai,
My maiden want to seek,
And fell apnu tha neck, when, "Ab '"
Slie threatened, "I will ahrtek"
Then cried I haughtily : "I'll crush
Tha man tliat dure, come uear Uiee V
"Hush !" whispered she, "my loved sue, hush
Or else they'll overhear thee '."
The friends of Ihe Maine law in Carroll
counly, ld., held a convention ai wenmin
ster, on Ihe 30lh nil., and resolved to vote
for no man for th Legislating who would
not pledge himself lo go for said law, and in
ease the candidates to be nominated by the
two political parlie refuse lo ao pledg
ik.mulvea. thev further resolved lo norm
...... - , .
nste a ticket of iheir own.
A Recifs The
Jorod ia to love.
way to make yourself
AlODtSOF PR EPA Rl ltd THE PEACH.
A wiiler in Ihe New York Times, pub
lishes a long account of Ihe Peach, its usee
ihe manner of preparing and preserving it.
He concludes his artiole with Ihe follow ing
receipts, which we commend our female)
readers, if they observe anything new in
Ihem, to keep until the proper time arrive
to test their application :
Peaches in Brandt. Wipe, weigh and
carefully select the fruit, and have ready a
quarter of the weight of powdered white su
gar: put the fruit into a vessel that shut
closely, throw the sugar over it, and then
cover the fruit with brandy, between Ihe top
and eover of the pot put a piece of double
cap paper,; set the pot into a saucepan of
water till the brandy is quite hot, but not
boiling : put the'fruit into a jar, and pour the
brandy upon il, and when cold put a bladder
over and tie it down tightly.
Pickled Peaches. Take a gallon of good
vinegar, add a few pounds of sugar, boil it
for a few minutes, and remove any scum
that may rise; then take cling stone peaches
that are fully ripe, rub them with a flannel
cloth, to gel of the down upon them, and
stick three or four cloves in each; put then
into a glass or earthen vessel, and pour the)
liquor upon Ihem boiling hot ; cover them,
up and let ihem stand in a cool place for a
week or ten days, then pour off Ibe liquor,
and boil as before, after whioh return il boil
ing to the peaches, which should be carefully
covered up and stored away for future use.
Peach Preserve. Take enough clarified
sugar lo cover the fruit, boil it till ibe yrup
blubbers on the opposite side of ihe skim
mer, then put in the fruit and let it boil lively
two minutes, remove ihe same; let it stand
from the fire till the next day; then take out
Ihe fruit, boil the syrup again, and as soon
as the fruit boils take them from Ihe fire
and when cold put into jars, and keep free
from beat or moisture.
Peach Jm Gather the fruit when ripe.
peal and stone them, put into the pan, and
ma.h them over the fire till hot; rub them
through a sieve, and to each pound of pulp
Id a pound of white susar and half an ounce
of bitter almonds, blanched and counded 1
let ii boil ten or fifteen minutes, atir and
skim it well.
Peach Jelly. Take fiee 'ones, not tco
ripe, whips ihem, and cut into quarters;
rack ihe atones and break Ibe kernels small ;
put the peaches and kernels into a covered
set them in bmliiii: water, und let them
do till soft , strain them Iht'iuuh a iel!v bu;
till the juice is squeezed out; allow a pun of
white sugar lo pun of a juice; put the si)i:ar
and juice into a preserving kettle, and boil
them twenty minutes, skimming very care
fully ; put the jelly warm into glasses or jars
and when cold, lie up wilh brandied papeis-
Peach Wine. Take nearly ripe fruit
stone it and bruise the pulp to one quart of
water, and let it stand twenty-four houis,
then squeeze out the juice, and to eveiy gal
lon of it add two pounds white sugar; then
put into a cask, and when it has fermented
and become perfectly clear, bottle il up and
use at pleasure.
COOKING EGG PLANTS.
As we shall now, iti the course of a few
weeks, have this excellent vegetable in sea
son, we publish in advance, Ibe lollowinz
mode of cooking the Egg plant in the South,
which we find in a monthly agricultural pub
lication, called Ihe Sod of ihe South:
Are you fond of sweet oysters? If so, wt
w ill give you a dish equal to the Mobile Bay
oysters. First, peel the iruit, and slice it
thin, boil it in salt and waler until thorough
ly done. Now drain off the water, cover it
wilh tweet milk, crumble in tome toasted
bread and crackers, with pepper, and such,
other condiments at the laste may dictate.
Now break in two or three eggs, and a it
simmers over ihe fire, stir all together; as
soon as the egg begins to harden the meta
morphosis is complete ; the oysters are ready
for Ibe table.
To fry the egg plant, they should be (list
peeled and parboiled, then dipped into batter
and dropped into boiling lard taking care to
season ihem piuperly. before frying.
BttooM Corn and Wkkpino Willows. la
the Mohawk Valley, says the bcientifio
American, vast quantities of ihis crop are
annually grown. Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Connecticut are the next largest producers of
it. Its origin as a cultivated plant in this
country, is attributed to l)r. r raiiKiin. ii is
a native of India. Franklin saw an imported
whisk of corn in ihe possession of a lady iit
Philadelphia, and, while examining il as a
curiosity, found a seed, wnicn ne pianieuf
and from this small beginning arose this val
uable product of industry in ibe Uuited
States. In Ibe same manner England and
America are indebted for ihe weeping wil
low lo the poet Pope, w ho, finding a green
stick in a basket of figs senl to bim as a
present, from Turkey, stuck it in his garden
at Twickenham, anil thence propagated this
beautiful tree. ,
Am Interesting Postal Question Set
tled. The Post Office Department have
recently decided that under Ihe law of 1852,
s mbsciiber residing in ihe county in which
a paper may be primed and published, is en.
tilled lo receive through Ihe mails free of
postage from the post otfioe atithiu the deli
very of which be may reside, even ihough
that offiee may be situated wilheut Ihe limits
of the counly aforesaid.
"Exopi's" it the fashionable word now for
emigrating, or "putting out."