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THE OLD BACHELOR'S NEW YEAR.
aasasaaaaasaa)
' BY CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINK.
Oh, the Spring haih less of brightness
Every year;
And the snow a ghastlier whiteness
Every year ;
Nor do Summer blossoms quicken
As it did the seasons sicken
Every year.
It is growing colder, colder,
Every year,
And t feel Ilia I 1 am older
Every year ;
And my limbs ure less clastic,
And my fancy not so plastic,
Yes, my habits grow monastic
Every year.
'Tis becoming bleak and bleaker
Every year,
And my hopes are waxing weaker
Every year:
Care I now for merry dancing,
Or lor eyes with passion glancing !
Love is less and less entrancing
Every year.
Oh, the days (tint I have squandered
Eveiy year,
And the friendship, rudely sundered
Every year !
Of the ties that might have twined me,
Until time to death resigned mo,
My infirmities remind me
. Every Jear-
Sad and sad to look before me
Every year,
With a heavier shadow o'er us
Every year !
To behold each blossom faded,
And to know we might have made it
An immortal garland braided
Hound the year.
Many a spectral beckoning finger,
Year by year,
Chide me that so long I linger,
Year by year ;
Every early comrade sleeping .
In the churchyard, whither, weeping,
I,nkmp: unwept, am creeping,
Year by year.
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THE BRIDE OF THE WRECK.
"I was a lonely sort of a bachelor, and
had never yel known what young men style
'the passion.' Ot passion 1 had enough, as
my old mate yonder can tell you. I broke
his head twice, and his arm once, in fits of
it ; but he has always seemed to love me all
the belter, and he clings to me now very
much as two pieces of the same ship cling
together when drifting at sea. VYe are the
sole survivors of a thousand wrecks, and of
the gallant company that sailed with us
two years ago,- no other one is left afloat.
I had been a sailor from boyhood, and when
I was twenty-five, I may safely say no man
was mufe fit to command a vessel among
(he mariners of England. And at this time
my uncle died and left mn a fortune, I
had never seen him, and hardly knew of
his existence ; but I had now speaking evi
dence of the fact that he existed, and equal
ly good proof that be existed no longer. J
was very young, strong in limb, and I think
stout in heart, and I was possessed of a ren
tal or some thousands per annum. What
bar was there to my enjoyment of the
goods ot life? No bar, indeed, but I felt
sorely the lack of means of enjoymont. I
was a sailor in every sen.e. My education
was tolerable, and I had read some book;
but my tastes were nautical, and I pined
on shore. You will easily understand,
then, why h was that I built a yacht and
spent most ol my time on her. She was a
fine cralt, suited to my taste in every res
pect, and I remember with a sigh, now,
the happy days I have spent in the Foam.
I used to read considerably in my cabin,
and occasionally, indeed weekly, invited
parties of gentleman to cruise with me.
But the foot of a lady had never been on
the deck of my boat, and I. began to have
an old bachelor's pride in that fact. Yet,
I confess to yon a secret longing for some
sort of affection diflrrent from any 1 had
heretofore known, and a restlessness when
men talked of beautiful women in my
presence.
"One summer evening I was at the old
hall in which my uncle had died, and was
entirely alone. I owards sunset I was sur
prised, while looking over my books, by
the entrance of a gentleman, hastily an
nounced, and giving indications of no little
excitement.
"Yotrr pardon, sir, for my unceremoni
ous entrance. My horses have run away
with my carriage, and dashed it to pieces,
near your park gate. My father was badly
injured, and my sister is now watching
him. I nave taken the liberty to ask your
permission to bring him toyour residence."
"Ut course my' consent was instantly
given, and my own Carriage despatched to
(be park gate.-
"Mt. Sinclair was a gentleman of for
tune, residing about forty miles from me ;
and his father, an invalid, fifty yeart-or more
of age, was on his way, in company with
his son to that son's house there to die and
be buried. They were strangers to me,
but I made them welcome to my house as
if it were their own, and insisted on their
using it.
"Miss Sinclair was the first woman who
had crossed my door-stone, since I had been
the possessor of the hall. And well might
she have been loved by better men than I
She w very small and very beautiful of
tne size of Venus, which all men worship
as in perlection of womanly beauty, but
having a soft blue eye, strangely shaded by
let black brows. Her face Dresented the
contrast of purity of whiteness in the com
plexion set off by raven hair, and yet that
hair hanging in clustering curls, unbound
by comb or fillet, and tb wboU (ace lit
up with an expression of gentle trust, and
omp!et confidence, either in all around
SUNBURY, NORTIIUMBERLAND ' COUNT Y.Y'A., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4,
her, or else in her own indomitable deter
mination. For Mary Sinclair had a mind
ot her own, and a farseeing one too. She
was nineteen then.
"Her father died in my house and I at
tended the solemn procession that bore his
remains over hill and valley, to the old
church in which his ancestors were laid.
Once after that I called on the family, and
then avoided, them. I cannot tell you
what was '.he cause of the aversion I had
to entering that house, or approaching the
influence of that matchless girl. I believe
that I leared the magic of her beauty, and
was impressed with my own unworlhiness
to love her or be beloved by her. 1 knew
her associates Were of the noble, the edu
cated, the refined, and that I was none of
these. What, then, could I expect but
misesry, if I yeilded to the charm of that
exquisite beauty, or graces which I knew
were in her soul.
"A year passoj, and I was a very boy
in my continued thoughts of her; I per
suaded myself a thousand limes that I did
not love her, and a thousand times deter
mined to prove it' by entering her pres
ence. At length Ithn-w myself into the
vortex of London society, and was lust in
the whirlpool.
"One evening, at a crowded assembly,
I was standing near the window in a recrs,
talking with a lady, when I felt a strange
thrill. I cannot describe it to you, but its
effect was visible to my companion, who
instantly said, 'You are unwell, Mr. Stew
art, are you not ? Your fare became siid
denly flushed, and your hand trembled so
as to shake the curtain.'
"It was inexplicable to myself, but I
was startled at the announcement of Mr.
and Miss Sinclair. I turned, and saw her
entering on her brother's arm, more beau
tiful than ever. How I escaped I do not
know, but 1 did so.
"Thrice afterwards t was warned of her
presence in the same mysterious way, till
I believed that there was some link be
tween us two, of unknown but powerful
character. I have sincp learned to believe
the communion of spirit with spirit, some
times without material intervention.
"I heard of her frequently now as enca
ged to marry a Mr. Weller ; a man who I
knew well, and was reidy to do honor as
worthy of her love. When at length, I
saw, as 1 supposed, very satisfactory evi
dence of the truth of the rumor, I left Lon
don and met them no more. The same
rumor followed me in letters, and yet I was
mad enough to dream of Mary Sinclair,
until months after I awoke to the sense of j
what n font T hail hpn. fmivmrprt nf
this, I went on board my yacht about mid-
summer, and for four weeks never sat foot j
on shore. .
"One sultry day, when pitch was frying j
on deck in the hot sun, we rolled heavily j
in the Bay of Biscay, and I passed the af-
ternoon under a sail on the larhoard nnar- i
ter-deck. Toward evening 1 fancied
storm was brewing, and having made all
ready for it, smoked on the traffrail till
midnight, and then turned in. Will yon
believe me, 1 telt that strange thrill through
my veins, as I lay in my hammock, and !
awoke with it,, fifteen seconds before the
watch on deck called suddenly to the man
at the wheel, "Port port your helm ! a
sail on the lee-bow. Steady ! so !"
"I was on deck in an instant, and saw
that astiffbreeze was blowing, and a small
schooner, showing no lights, had crossed
our fore-foot within a pistol shot, and was
now bearing up to the north-west. Ihe
ky was cloudy and dark, but the breeze
was very steady and I went below again,
and after endeavoring vainly to express the
motion I had fell, in any reasonable way,
at length tell asleep, and the rocking ol
my vessel, as she flew before the wind, !
gave just motion enough to my hammock j
to lull me into a sound slumber. But I
dreamed all night of Mary Sinclair. 1 ,
dreamed of her, but it was in unpleasant j
oreams. I saw her standing on the deck ,
of the Foam, and as I would advance to- :
wards her the form of Waller would inter-
pose. I would fancy, at time, that my ',
arms were around her, and her form was
resting against my sine, and her head lay on ;
my shouider; and then by the strange mu-
tations of dreams, it was not I, bat Waller
mat was Holding her, and I was chained to
a post, looking at them ; and she would i
kisj li.m, ami 1 again the kiss would be burn-
ing on mv lips. The morn'mor f.uinl ma
wide awake reasoning mvself out of mv
fancies. By noon I had enough to do
The ocean was roused, A temnest was
out on the sea, and the Foam went before it
"Night came down gloomily. The very
blackness of darkness was on the water as
we flew before the terrible blast. I was on
deck lashed to the wheel, by rthrch I stood,
with a knife within reach to cut the lash
ing, if necessary. We had but a rag of sail
on her, and yet she moved" more like a bird
than a boat, from wave to wave. Again
and again a blue wave, went over its, but
she came up like a duck, and shook off the
water and flashed on. jNow she staggered
at a blow1 was on the weather-bow, that
might have staved a man-of-war, but kept
gallantly on ; and now she rolled heavily
and ifowly. but never abated the awrfl
llKrht towards shore. It was midnight
when the wind was highest. The howling
of the cordage was demoniacal. Now a
scream, now a shriek, now a wail, and
now a laugh of mocking madness. On, on
We Dew. 1 looked up, and turned quite
around the horrizon, but could see no sky,
no tea, no cloud all was blackness. At
that moment 1 felt again that strange thrill,
and at Ihe instant, fancied a denser black
ness ahead ; and Ihe next, with a crash and
plunge, the Foam was gone ! Down went
my gallant boat, and with her another
vessel, unseen in the black night. The
wheel to which I had been lashed, had
broken loose, and gone over with me. be
fore she sank. It wai heavy, and I cut
away, and seeing a spar went down in the
deep sea above my boat. As I came up
to the surface, a hand grasped my boat. 1
seized it, and a thrill of agony shot through
me as I recognized the delicate finger ol a
woman. I jlrew her to me and lashed her
to the sparby rny side, and so, in the black
night, we two alone floated away over the
stormy ocean.
"My companion was senseless -for
aught I knew, dead. A thousand emotions
passed through my mind in tin? next five
minutes. YVho was my companion on the
light spart What was the vessel I had
sunk? Was 1 with the body of only a hu
man being, or was there a 'spark of lile
left? and how could I fan it to a flaitu-?
Would it not be better lo let he sink than
float off willi me, thus alone to starve or
die of thirst and agony?
"I chafed. her hands, hrr forehead, her
shoulders. In the dense darkness I could
not see a feature of her face, nor tell if she
were old or young scarcely white or
black. The silence on tin? sea was fearful.
So long as I had been on the Ueck of mv
boat, the wind whistleing through the
ropes and around the spars had made a con
tinual sound; but now I heard nothing but
the occasional sprinkling of the spray, the
dash of a foam cap, or the heavy sound ol
the wind pressing on my ears.
"At length she moved her hand feebly
in mine. How my heart leaped at that
slight evidence that 1 was not alone on the
wild ocean. I redoubled my exertions. I
passed one of her arms over fiiy neck to
keep it out of the water while I chafed the
other hand with both fcf mine. 1 felt the
clasp of that arm tighten, and 1 bowed my
head towards hers- . She drew me doe to
her and laid her cheek against mine. I
let it rest there it might warm hers, and
so help to give her life. Then she nestled
close to my bosom and whispered, "Thank
you." Why lid my brain so wildly throb
in my head at that whispered sentence ?
She knew not where he' was, that was
clear. Her mind was wanderiug. At
that instant the end of the spar struck some
heavy object, and we were dashed by a
huge wave over it( and to my joy were left
on a floating deck. 1 cut the lashings from
the spar, an J fastened 'my companion and
myself to a part of the new rait or wreck,
1 knew not which, and all the time that
arm was around my ueck and rigid as if in
death. Now came tlu' low wild wail that
preceeds the breaking of the storm. The
air seemed filled with viewless spirits
mournfully singing and sighing. 1 never
thought of her as anything else than a hu
man being. It was that humanity, that
dear likeness ol lilt? lli.it endeared lit-r to
me- 1 wound my arm around her, and
drew h,'r cluse lo ,r.v f"'arf ariil bowed
m.V head over her, and in tlie wi'nesi ol a
moment I prised my lips to hers in a long
passionate kiss of ii.t.-nse love and agony,
That kii;s a5ail unlocked the prison of her
sJl1'- She Liave it back, and murmuring
some name of endearment, 'wound bolh
aims around my neck, and laying her head
on my shoulder with her forehead pressed
against my cheek, fell into a calm slumber.
That kiss burns on ray lips this hour. Half
" century of the cold kisses of the world
have not suthced to chill its influence. It
thrills me now as then! It was madness,
with idol worship of that form God gave
us in the image of himself which in that
hour 1 adored as ever (j'od ! I feel the un
earthly joy again to-day, as 1 remember Ihe
clasp of those unknown arms, and the soft
pressure of that forehead. I knew not, f
cared not, if she. were c1d and haggard, or
young and fair.
I only knew and rejoiced with jo untold
that she was human, mortal, of my own
kin by the great father of our race.
"It was a night of thoughts anil emotions
am1 pnantasms that never can be described,
Morning dawned grayly. The first faint
plfam of light showed me a driving rloud
abv my head, it was welcomed with a
shudder. 1 hated light ; 1 wanted to' float
on on ovlr lllal "'aiiig ocean, wnn mat
form, clinging to me, otid my arms around
it anJ my lips ever and onon pressed to
the passionless lips ol the heavy sleeper.
1 asked no light, ft was an intruder on
my domain, am! would drive her from my
embrace. I was mad.
"But as f saw the face of rry companion
gradually revealed in the dawning light, as
my eyes began to muke out one by one Ihe
'features, and at length the U-riibli? truth
i rume slnwlv Imrr.inir inln mv brain. I
1 mourned aloud in mv anrnnv. (Jod of hea-
j v?n, she is dead!' And it was Mary Sin-
! clair.
"But she is not dead.
"We floated all day long on th-e sea, and
at midnight ol the next night I hailed a
ship and they took us off. Every man
from the Foam and the other vessel were
saved with one exception.; The other ves
sel was the Fairy, e schooner yacht, be
longing to a friend of Miss Sinclair, with
whom she and her brother and a party ol
ladies and gentlemen had started but three
days previously lor a week's cruis. 1 need
not tell you how I explained that strange
thrill as the schooner crossed our bow the
night before the collision, and which 1 felt
again at the moment of the crash, nor what"
interpretation I gave to the wide tumult of
emotions all that lone nioht
"t married Mary Sinclair, and J burled
her thirty years afterward ; and I some
times have the same evidence of her pres
encow, that t as d. to have when' she
livef jne Mm Mrlh 'ith me."
SlgfTfTanley", One of Mr. Steven' Explo.
rnig party, says that the , distance from Mis
sisippi to Ihe Pacifio i 1800 mile.; Ibut the
country i riuh;'and level, and Ihe yrde forty
feet to the mile through Cadotie'a Fas.
A singular mortality is raging among biids
and beauts in California. Many sea gulls,
pelican, chicken, hogs, dogs and cattle,
have been taken sick and died; the deaihl
among the a bird being very aumerou.
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Science ant the srts, Slortculturt, iwarfccts, amusements, tc
1S4.
AMISIiMEST OF Tl'KKISlI WOMEN.
Mr. B.iyle Si. Juhn, in the volume he has
jusl issued, effectually dispels the prevalent
idea s to ihe enlirft secln.ion of the Indies
of Coi.stniilinople lie says, 'Nearly nil Turk
ish women sally out evory Fiiday to lake tho
air, away fiom th tovui, on the banks of the
Bo.phorns, or lo ome of the places where
water and slMdu may ba found. The weal,
ihy t" in "f" without springs, of unwieldy
and piimiiive consluclinn, six or seven heap
ed tenet her; nndsometiir.es their husbands
lead the oxen or horses lo lha chosen spot,
nn.l thai gn nwny, leavina the women free
lo enjoy themselves a they please. The
mo.l popular amusemi'iit nro the singing
and mitrin ir the gipsy women, who repair
lliilher for the purpose mucio which is
amorously languid, and singing which is de
testably indecent. A lunch is generally
brought nut, and when this is dispatched,
smoking mid dunking commence drinking
not ofsheibet, but of good brandy, or other
strong liquors, which soon induces a boister
ous gaiety, so that ihe sultanas, whom we
oflen imagine as pining impiisoned, may be
seen rolling in convulsions of extinguishabld
laughter on ihe. turf, or huddled up in a still
more advanced stage Of intoxication, like
bundles nf lugs.
The Montenegrin servants; vfho fire Ihe
privileged beholders of these scenes, are often
compelled to haul them into their cn'rls, in
which they are jolted back in the harem.
Tho.e wlio are not Inn far gone frequently
pull up, in passina thiough the Clirstiai: quar
ter, at the doors of tavern.., lo get more ili ink ;
nml n file of a hundred carts may uflen be
seen stnppinc iu one utreet, nil full of women.
some made bold and rhaltering by their ex
cess, olhers hanging sleepily about and mur.
inuring to be taken home. There is a walk
planted with elm trees, nol fur from ibecity,
v. herp only women aie' admitted. Two or
three thousand assemble thereat a time, and
siltina nptin a verdant slope, enjoy the inde.
sci ibetible puntomine of a comedy, which
some infamous Jws hired for Ihe purpose,
perform on ihe limits of ifie forbidden ground,
for their amusement. Europeans, of course,
cannot eutei the walk itself; but they may
see crowds collected a I a distance, and hear
ihe shiill pp?ause which every act more
than usually beastly of the mountebanks cre
ates in llm female crow d. On these occasions
it would scarcely be possible for a stranger
to recognise eastern life, from the descriptions
he is accustomed lo rend "
Tiir PiiT and tiir Wkasri.. My infor
mant stales, that n farmer in the state of
Maine, nf his acquaintance, had noticed at
difieu'iit limes, for the period of two weeks,
combats between a large rat and a weasel in
bis tvirn ; from which encounters ihe latter
invaiiably came off second best. One day,
being at woik near his barn, his atlention
was attracted to Ihe weasel very busily enga
ged in digging a liolo in a dung heap. He
watched Ihe weasel until be had "tunnelled''
Ihe heap; ami made a hole of considerable
size at the entrance, and about half way
thronghthe heap; the res) of t ha hole waa
tapered off, so tlr.it at the place of egiesa it
was of barely sufficient si.e for ihe aliin little
body of the weasul to pas ihiough. When
the plotter had finished his bole, he went
into the lain an J engaged his antagonist rat
(hip. Beaten, of course, again in the encoun
ter, the weasel ran, pursued by the rat, into
Ihe hole of ihe dunghill, the grain-eater little
suspicions of the snare laid for him. Like
many unfortunate human t'eiiu'r, the poor rat
was 'stuck,' and halted sadly between the
two extremes ; n hilobis cunning little foe
emerged from lha small end. and whipping
round briskly to the larger entrance, 'brought
up Ihe rear," and that was soon a dead rat.
Here now was a reii'jbr plan laid, a hhrewd
design carried out successfully on the part
of the weasel, for destroying a foe which was
loo much for him in a fair fight. It showed
forethought and contrivance, are very strong
symptoms of something more than mere in.
stinct reason' Tu-lci F'u'rmer.
Married at Podunk, by the Rev. D. Willis,
Mr. IT. llur;', to Miss Ann Uanvk, all of that
I '
now mtlt'M a lianill wilha'it any lioe,
And useless a trie without a haiulls ;
No better a winU;r without any supw,
Oi n c-'iii'llcaurlc minus a cnudle.
But hers joined iu one, tha liaiidls nud hoe.
Will lile 'a rugged journey aroootli over,
An I m il prove a helper in tins wrlj below,
Till Uclh alull h ie ?th to anothsr'. '
DIsPAIMTY OP AGE IS MARRIAGE.
IW'e clip the lollowing interesting para-
graph about the age uf onie of Ihe wive of
dUlinguished personage from an english pa
per : "Mahomet'e lirst wife, Kadyalv, wa
at least forty, when he,"at the age of twenty
five, rnuiried her. Slmkspoai' Ann Hatha
way was seven year bi senior. Dr. John
son's wife was liuidlly almost double hi
-r ft til l t C I
j age. i lie wiieoi t.oiu iieruerioi iutiuinr,
I six or seven years oMer than her lord. Sir
Thomas More' wife was also seven year
olJer Ihau ber liu.banJ. Howaul, Ihe phi-
lanlhiopial, at the age of twenty-five, mar
tied, a fnsl wire," ho wa then fifly-lwo
Mr. Rowe, the authore, wa fifteen year
older than Mr. Rowe.' Rapel the German
De Siael, wa about as much older. The
Counte D'Osaoli (Mia Fuller) was nearly
ten year hr husband's senior. Jenoy Lind,
loo, i said )o be eight or ten year older
than Herr Goldschruidl." ,
In the West Chester Market, on Saturday
morning, butler sold for i cent; egg 20
and 33 d. ; chickens from 62 1 ds. lo II par
pair ; potato ?74 a 90 ets. per bushel.
THE MAMMOTH TREK or CALlFonNtt
Two regular live Yankees have just return
ed from California, and report that they have
got the Big Tree on the wnj home.
This mammoth tree was siiuuii d en ihe
snuth-westeily slope of a hill, iu a soil of (if.
teen feet deep. Its loots extended in all di.
reclions for more than fiTty rods upon ihu
hill-siiU and downwards to the depth of ihe
soil. The diameter of its base was twenty
two feet, and the circumference sixtvsi.t a
single dec, round unJ symmetiiral, for three
hundred and Iwenyt fiva Tert, up to its lop.
where a fe'v huge branches have spioud
iheir evergreen fiinges to the siinhilie and
'ho storm for jeats uncountable. From ac
tual estimate of its diurnal layers, it is more
than three thousand years since this mum
moth cedar was a sapling in its teens. Then
for a large space on the outer surface next
to the bark the layers of yearly growth are
so lliin as to render them uncountable. Here,
then, is a specimen of aniiqnity which carrie
us back beyond the usual object and events
referred to in the illustration of old things
All the startling events iii the histories of
men and nations during the Christian ora are
but as yesterday, and we are compelled to go
back to the time of Noah's navigation aqd
the fearing of the Tower of Babel, or the
laying Of the foundations of the great pyr
amid. For in those days, almost at Ihe be
ginning of earthly events, must (he seed have
sprouted from which gre .v tb'ia tree.
There is no object hereabouts to w hich it
can be compared, but Bunker Hill monument ;
and here we will follow our brace of Jona
thans in their calculations. Supposing it to
be sound, after taking its altitude, they cal
culute that there are 300 cords of wood. If
il could be shaved into shingles, (here would
be 300.000, and 100 cords left in the limbs
and chips. Its entire weight could not be
leas than 500 Ions.
After the incessant labor of four men for
one week, chopping at the base, ihey suc
ceeded iu cutting so far into the rind that it
enormous weight broke off some twelve or
fifteen l'eel ol solid wood, and it full with a
shock as if an earthquake bad moved tho
hill, About 00 feelfioin the. ground, where
il measured twelve feet in diameter, it was
broken off by the fall as bort as a pipe stein.
The next thing lo be done was lo cut off a
section, and this requited two entiie chop
pings through Ihe Iree. Alter 1!5 days labor
a section of ten feet was separated, square at
bolh ends, with tho baik entirely peifect.
But at Ihis point, after such indefatigable toil,
away in a wilderness infesled w ith wild bull
and grizzly bears; Indians prowling in the
neighbei hood they were about to give up
in despair of accomplishing their design for
how were they now to tran.parl that mas of
wood, weighing some 28 or 30 tons ? By
any available meaus at hand it was as im
movable as the bill where it laid. They
however procured a pump auger, bored
through iheeeutre, then dug away the earth
at one end, tipped Ihe thing up, and built a
fire underneath, which they kept burning for
several weeks. The auger hole made a gooj
chimney, which was enlarged by the aclion
of llm lire), until tho men could work inside
with their axes. In this manner it was c.v-j
carated to within about two fuel of the outer
surface It was afterwards moved down the
hill for more than a mile by levers then pla
ced upon Mexican adobes and drawn by 20
oxen, eighteen miles to Marlinos, and then
shipped lo S.in Francisco.
It was not until the tieo waa safely landed
on California wharf thai they were fully con
scious of Ihe labois performed, or of ihe greet
curiosity in their possession. The w hole ci
ty of men, women and children, flocked to
see the si,:'o of Ihe ties that had been grow
ing almost since ihe woild was made. One
hundred men could easily stand wiihin the
hollow at the same lime, urn! a six-foot man
roduu full eied horse through' n ithout touch
ing his hut to tho upper snif.ice.
Finally, the tree was shipped on the deck
of ship Messenger, Cap'. Fiank Smith, Nov.
2, 1853, for New Yoik, where it h novr dai
ly expcclcd to arrive. Huston Transcript.
Putting Her Foot irflr. There was a
grand ball lately, at the Aihentcum, Sunder
land, when all Ihe youth, beaut-; and fashion
of ihe district w ere gathered together. In Ihe
midst of Ihe amusement nf lhe night, when
the general enjoyment wa ut it highest, a
rude lump ef plaster fell fiem Ihe ceiling on
the head of a young lady, who was p'aying'
the "light fantastic toe" to the musiu of Ihe
Post horn galop." A scream a swoon a
removal from the ''marble hall." threw Ike
company into consternation ; which, subsi
ding in curiosity, l!te spectators looked up,
nd beheld a lady' leg liungliugdowii below
the ceiling! "All hand aloft ! wa the cry,
and soon it wa discovered I bat sundty
servanl maids, coveting a si.'iil of ihe
ball, had scaled ihe height lo gratify their
deshe ol a ventrlalor; when one of illeui,
"piitiing her fct.l in it," made Ihe aw kward
exhibition alluded to. She was extricated
from her predicament bul little woise for the
display of her "fantastic toe."
A dashing and handsonis young widow
threaten to sue tome gentleman for a breach
of promise, merely lo let it be known llut
she i in Ike maiket.
"Guilty or not guilty ?" said a judge te a
native of Emerald Isle.
And w hat the divei it your boner silling
mere lor out lo tindj eot," replied Pat.
Two colored gentlemen of New Orlean
were arrested last week, while in the act of
fighting a duel.
THE t dTOFFICET
OLD SERIES, VOL. 14, NO.' SO.'
coiamso. in tdsk.M'.'Tio.
A ew York paper recently slated that in'
one we.-UiCv ,... .it' .a
in iliat
j r...,,, ,lluu , ronsunipuoii
CUV. nenltenini, oulU.I .... ... .
')' "r two after tho apnenmnee i.f tlie .ii.
men! , w(,o actually escaped from the fn,,es
reonsnmptinn some years ago ; and we are'
induce,! to present the circumstances :
'i 011 spenU of couching continually
Let me surest , you the qiiciy, whether"
this U not unnecessary and injurious: lhave
.-..s uceii sniisneii, 110m expeaance and ob
servation, that much of lbe coughing w bicb'
j precedes and attends consumption is volun
tary. Several years ago 1 boarded with a
rnnn w ho was in ihe incipient stage of con
sumption. I slept in a chamber over In''
bed-room, and was obliged lo hear him
cough continually and distressingly. I en-'
dined ihe annoyance niyhl after nieht, till it
led me lo reflect whether something could,
not be done lo slop it. I watched the sound,
which the man made, and observed that he
evidently made a voluntary effoit to cough.'
Alter mis 1 made experiments on myself.
and found that 1 could prevent mysef from
coughing, sneezing, gr.pping, fcc, in case of
ihe strongest propensity to these acta, by k
slreiieeus effort of the will. There I reflected
that roughing must be very .irritating and in
jurious to the delicate, organs that aro con-
cerned in it, especially when they are in a,"
diseased state. What can be worse for ulcer
ated bronchia, or lungs, than ihe violent
wrenching of a rough? It must be worse
llian speaking. A tore on any part of the
body, il is constantly kept open by violiyit
usage, or made raw again by a contusion
just w hen it is healed (and ol course begins
lo itch will grow worse, and end in deatl
Certainiy, then, a sore on the lungs may
lormiuate fatally, if it is constantly irrita
ted and never suffered lo heul ; a:-d Ihis it
seems to me is just w hat coughing dues for
it. On iho stre::gh of such considerations
ns these, I made bold to ask the man if ho
could not stop roughing, lie answered no.
I told him w hat I thought about it, as above.
He agreed lo muke a trial ; and On doing so
he found, to his surprise, that he could sup-i
preis his cough almost entirety. The pow
er of -his will increased as he exercised it,
and in a few days he was most rid of the
disposition to cough. His health, at the
same time, evidently improved, and, when.
1 lust saw him, he waa in strong hopes of
getting out of death's hands.
This occuned eighteen year ago, and the
man come round now, an active business'
man, averring that he has not had a sick
day since.
YANKEE BRAGGINO tH PARIS.
Mr. Kemfeli, one of the editors df the.
New Orleans Picayune, in a recent teller
fiom Paris, says:, "I feel a disposition to
crow over Ihe vt hofe tribe of these Euro,
peans. Do not our clipper ships . out-tail,
ihem all and our threshing machine oat
Ihesh them all or thresh them all out, if
you will? If a man on this side wishe to
keep his ihroat moist, does he not swallow
an American julep, cobler, or cock-tail? If
he wi.hes to keep his feet dry, does he not
wear an American overshoe ? If he wishes
to keep his blood purified does he not use
.Ameican Sarsaparilia and pills? Ifhewishet
lo keep ahead on the road, doe he not buy
an American trotter? If he wishes to keep
warm, does he nol procure on American stovc
If he wishes to keep cool, does tie not ssnd
foi American ice? If he wishes lo lfeephie
money and etTects safe, doe he not purchase
om: of Hobb' American locks? If he wishe
lo keep himself and family from want or tar
vation, does he not go to America or turn,
his eyes and thoughts in that direction? I
lell you that 1 feel Chapmaiiish this mor
ning repeat that I have a desire to crow,'
and lustily, over the handiwork and advan
tages of iy own countrymen."
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FATE OF THE APOSTLE. f
The following brief history of the fate of
thoaposlle may be new to tliote whose
reading has not baen so evangelical as to
know thai : Si. Malhew is supposed to have
sulTered maitydom, or was slain with a
sword. at the city of yClhiopia. St. Mailt
was dragged t hi one ft the streets of Alexan
dria, in Egypt, till he expired. St. Luke
was hanged upon an olive tree iu Greece.-
St. John was put into a cauldron of bolhing
oil in Rome, and escaped death 1 lie after-
ward died1 a'natnral death at Ephesu, in
Asia. St. Jame ihe Great was beheaded at
Jerusalem. St, Jamr lha Las wa thrown
from a pinnacle or w ing of the temple, and
then beaten w ith a fullci' club. St. l'hilip
was hauptl against a pillar at llieropnlis, a
city in Piirygia. ill. Kurtholomcy was ffiy
ed alive by the command of a buibaiou
king. St. Andrew wa bound lo a ciom,
whence he pieached lo the people until he
expiied. Si. Thjiua was un thiough the
body with a lance, at Curomaiidel, in tho
Fast Indies, Si. Jnde was hut lo ilea'h
with arrow. St. Simon Zelolea wa cruci
fied in Persia. St. Mallhtua was fiial (toned
then beheaded. St. Barnabas wi.a atoned
lo death by the Jews, at Salstiia. Si. Paul
w beheaded at Ror.ie, by the tyrant Nero.
The farmers a:e sowing a great deal of
wheat, particularly in Ihe Soutli-m portion
of California, which i now beginning to
prosper as a farming country,
1 1111 .- .
Joshua Newbold, of Byfcerry, Buckcooniy
recently caught a ir.ging mouse, in hie
wagon house, anj confined bina in a cage.
The borrow! i a'ave t the lender, a"'!1
, ihe security to both'.'