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BY II. 13. MASSEB,
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-A e'.:nnntiaicuiioiis tr lei rer on Inisinens relating to
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ivriiitioii to the American-.
P-tmistrs will plcasonct ns oor Aaeitte, and frank
't iters s.mtiiiiiing eiiliecriplMt money. 1 hey are permit
ted to dj tlm umler the 1'iiet Onice Law.
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JOB PRINTING.
We have c ntnected with cur establishment a well
ic ei-te'l JOB OFFICE, which will ennhle us to execute
in the neateit style, every variety of printing.
El 3. 1 ASSES.,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BUNBTJRTT, PA.
Buine attended to in the Counties of Nor
Ilium! cvland, Union, Lycoming Montour and
Columbia.
Htfcrencct in Philadelphia :
linn, tuli R. Trsan, Chas. CilaVme, T?iq..
Somen S.iolgrass, l.niu. Smith A: Co.
WHITE Asll A NTH 11 A CITE COAL
FlIOM Ti'.K I.iCrlH Col.LlLtlT,
Northumberland county, Pa.,
VtTHF.MS we liave very extensive improve-
' incuts, and are prepared to oircr to the
public a very superior article, particularly euited
lor itie manufacture of Iron and making Steam.
Our tuei tit Coal are:
IX MP, ) for Smelting purposes.
S TEAM BOAT, ) for do. and Steamboat
HUOKEN, 1
E(fr, for Family Use ant Steam.
sit'OVE, )
FE' "r 'mo'ul'rlier ar,d Steam.
Our point of Shipping i Stiiihury, where ar
tuugeutenla are made to load boata without any
delay.
COCHUAN, PEALE & CO.
I. J. Ccciiiiax, Lancaster.
C. V. I'cali, Shninokin.
1!kj. Kt:iMii.ii, Lancaster.
A. B i mii a mi.vr.n, do.
t-7" Oi tiers addressed to Shamokin or Sunbury,
will receive prompt attention.
Feb. 10. 1 .').. ly
XT- S. OF -A..
"God unci oar Xa'.irc Land,"
fl'?QT;PU ANNA CAMP. No. 29. nf the O
of the I'. tS. A . hn'.il" il stated nettsiona everx
Vovhat evening in their New Hall opjoaite E
i. Itiuhta atore eunbury, I'a.
Initiation and
rega u, v
:,oo.
T. M. 6HINDEI., W-
Em'i Wit.vrnT. K. S.
Sunbury Oct. 20, 1S55.
O. OIF XJ.
CJUNBL'KY CDL'NCM,
J. ML.
, No. 30, O. nf I.
A.
M. inci'U evcrv 'I'ti'iiav een:ue l" the
,tne.icnn Hail. nKiKite E. V. Uriah!' ttore,
M-irKet street. S,i,'ii,ny, Vn. Memhrra of the
tiler arc ten; ool.'uMv requested to mtciid.
J. M. SHIN DEI., C.
A. Hiiovi ii. r. s.
Snnlitiry, Oct. 2(1, HR5.
LXi! ELSIMU LAYING SUflOS!
. 2 LI S i. WIIAKTOX
TJ,'J.S it'neii the Saloon foimrrly occupied
by
V luitt'in &
rishiT,
Li Met: !, it .Suare, Suruury,
nbcro he vi!l be Itaiyy to dli-pense to hia
f'ion la nn.l liie calina uhlie generally, all the
dinii-jti" of tna Ke.isiM. L n 1 1 1 ii ; i , ii ())iei lioh
did Kji i C-l. '!" of i.i'fl will include sul-
tan'i.ili.iU'' Jeli.-acU-. cul ul itcd to aati.fy Ihuae
w!i rj ii l i;r , and llmje wito denire merely to
naAe t'.'-ir inlatcs tickled. It will be ojicn at all
tiro., of H e day, ar.d all rcuson.ihla houraof the
l,i lit. I live us a tail and tiifto I ir vonreelvea.
17 rimilicH and parties supplied un shart
TiOltee.
fcui.biiry, Pept. 22. 183.1.
LEATHER,
rsta sz, S2:.E&v to.
Vo. 2'i XorUt Third Street, I'l.iiadctj.hic.
MOlliK'CO Manufacturers, Curriers and Iin
porieis of r KL.NCil C. l.l'.isM.Xs, aud
dealers in Ked and Oak SOLE l.EATHElt &
KIIT.
fcb. 17, IoS5. w ly
F. II. SMITH,
PORT MOxJNAIE, POCKET BOOK,
Urcuhinur c'ane Mainir.. tuicr,
X. H'. cor. orurth Chestnut Sts.,
PlflLAUCLPIllA.
-waye on hand a largo and varied assortment o
l'ort Moutiaics,
Work Boxes,
rocket Books,
Hankers Cases,
.No'e Iloldira,
Port folios,
Tortablo Desks,
Oabas.
Traveling Bags,
llackgaminou Boards,
Chess Men,
Ciar ('es.
Dressing ('sses.
Tockcl Memoruiidum Books
Also, a ceneral assortment of Eucttdh, l ieiuh
nJ Oermaii f ancy tioods. r itie rocKct Cutlery
JSaixrs, Kaxr Strops aud Cold l'ens.
VUulsa!, Second and Third Floors.
F. II- riMITII,
Pf . W. eor. Fourth cV Chestnut fc!ts., Thilnda.
N. B. On the receipt of $ I, a Pupeiior Gold
Pen will be sent to any part of the United State,
ty ni ii!; tlescribing pen, thus, ineJium, bard,
cr sjf'.
Phila.. March 31. 1855 ply.
DANVILLE HOTEL,
JOIilT DEEN, JB-,
Morl-et Street, JJaaMie, I'a,
'TIPl is one of the largest aud most eommo-
-- dious hotels in the interior of Pennsylvania
1 1 has been recently filled up, in excellent style,
with all the modern convenience.
Danville, Sept. 23, IHJ5
FARMERS TAKE KOTICE.
Ti 1UU bushels 1'laxared wanted immediately at
S th Cheap .Stora uf 1,. V. Bnght, lot which
the highest m irkt price will he paid.
HnniV, U.tjber6. 1850. if
nABDWARE.-Table Cutlefy, Rasora, Pock
ei Knivta. Hand aawa Wood aswa in
fr.mes. Aits. Chisole. Door Lock, and H'.ngea,
Hsu 1 Bells, Waiters. Jc, just received and for
sir ssttiaiun I 1A
sle by i. tv. ifcfcii w.
fciu-bury Dee. lijllM.
klttt Jocirg.
From the KnlclcerbocVer Gallery.
THE SN0W SH0WEH,
BY WILUArt Cl'IXBtl BRYANT.
Stand liore by my side and turn, I pray
On the htko below thy gcntlo eyes ;
The clouds hung over it. heavy ond gray,
And dark and silent tho water lies;
And out of thnt frozen mist tho snow
In wavering flakes bppins to Bow j
Tlako after fluke,
They rink in the dark and silent lake
See how in a living swarm they como
From tho chambers beyond that
veil.
misty
Some hover awhile in air, and somo
Rush prone from the sky like summer hail.
All, dropping swiftly or stilting slow,
Meet, aud ate still in the depth below;
Fink after Hake
Dissolved in the dark silerrl lake.
Ilere delicnte snow-stars, out or the cloud
Come floating downward in airy piny,
Like spangles dropped from the glistening
crowd
That whiten by flight the milky way ;
There broader and burlier masses fall ;
The sullen water buries them nil ;
Flake after flake,
All drowned in the silent hike.
And some, as on tender wings they glide
From their chilly birth-cloud, dim and
gray.
Are joined in their fall, nnd, side by side,
Come clinging along their unsteady way ;
As friend with friend or husband with wile
Makes hand in hand the passage ol life ;
Each mated (lake
Soon sinks in the dark and silent lake.
Lo 1 while wo are gazing, in swifter haste
Stream down the snows, till the air is
white.
As, myriads by myriads madly chased,
They fling themselves from their shadowy
, h8i",,,t'
The fair frail creatures of middle sky,
What speed they make, with their grave 60
'igh ;
Fluke after flake,
To lie in tho dark and silent lake?
I see in thy gentle eyes a tear,
They turn to me in sorrowful thought;
Thou ihiuki'St of friends, tho good and dear,
Who wero for a time and now are not ;
Like these fair children of cltmd and frost,
That glisten a mjment and then nro lost,
Flake after flake,
All lust in the dark and silent luke 1
Yet look again, for the clouds divide ;
A gleam of blue on the water lies ;
And fur away, on the mountain side,
A sunbeam falls from the npeiiinjf skies,
Hut the hurrying hrst that flew between
The cloud and the wntcr no more is seen ;
Flake after fluke,
At rest in the dark and sileut lake.
Cimcs.
New Hampshire Fifty-rive Years Ago.
Some pentlemnn of tho old school, says the
New England Fanner, has written tint for
the New Hampshire (Juzetto, his recollec
tions of'Noitliampton titty-tivo lears Ago.'
His story is quite an ngreeuulo oi:p, and wo
havo selected fur our columns a few pava
irrnnhs th.xt ure of moro than locnl interest,
illtistrntii g us they do, some of the customs
prevalent in the Connecticut river towns, ut
the commencement of tho present century.
Food. Bean porridge (the coffee and the
tea of our ancestors) had not wholly disap
peared, but tho use of tea, and of something
u..justly suspected to bo coffee, was general.
Wheat bread ("white bread.") only to be used
on great occasions ; in fore-nanded families"
the concluding slice was permitted from it.
Rye bread, and especially rye and Indian, or
"brown bread" was on every table. "Indian"
was employed in every form. It was told to
ns, that one morning in school, the master or
dered every boy who hod eaten hasty pudding
to rise, and all rose but one. hen the soli
tary was asked, he whimpered as an excuse
ror his oddity, tnat "l'ad could not get Ins
grist, and so had to make his mcul of thick
ened milk.
Seatino Tnn Mketiko norsF.. "Soatintr
the meetinghouse" was an operation perform
ed by tho Belect men annually in December,
and an awful lime it nsed to be. It was tho
rule to set the "old folks" in tho "body pews,"
and the younger married ones in tlm wall
pews. It is never a graceful process to grow
old, and tins open declaration ot old age, by
a change of seats, nsed to be manfully resist
ed, especially by the women. Besides, there
was a well understood conventional difference
in the respectability of the Beats. The sec
ond and third wall news on each side of the
pnlpit wero first in dignity; and from thence
respectability tapered oft. The front pews
in the broad alley were given to the very old
people; the high pews, and front seats in
the sido galleries were devoted to the young
fashionables. It is easy to seo what a fruitful
sonrca of "small potato" quarrels would
arise from this usage. The regions of dignity
and self-respect were exposed to sad invasions
and not a year elapsed without some people
taking it so hard as to spend their Sundays
at home.
The seats were hung upon hinges, to be
turned back when tho people rose in prayer,
when prayers were ended, they were dropped
with a clutter resembling a volley of musket
ry. In those days it wag not looked upon as
uncivil, but rather as a complimentary mark
of attention, fort lie listeners of the sermon to
relieve themselves from a long continued, se.
deotary, somniferous position, by rising aud
standing.
Ihk i horihtkr. The congregation was
proud of its music. The sining master him
self was a curiosity and a study. It was the
fashion to use a white cravat, in which was a
pad called a pudding, long enough to go
around the neek, aud quilted with wool. The
master had tall portly figuro, and A very
loug neck ; his dress was of orient colors.
vest of sulphur yellow; his cravat absorbed
yards of muslin, and s pudding of most por-
teotious dimensions. It was a sight to see
him lead the time. He would first handle his
'tooting weapon," (it was before the days of
tuuing forks) he ereatnetf through it a tender
note, to VTbicb he listened with an expression
of intense anguish, then dropping bis head,
be performed an umuloiiigibie solo, wdicd
sounded like s dietuot caterwaul, "to get the
pitch." Then rising gracefully in the centre
of the gallery... with a countenance radiant
with happiaeet, be poured forth tbe key uote
wna ezvuiptar Tiger, mut swvifeiuvg uie iiu
to the fullest extent startol on the tune in
full cry, rising nnd sinking on his toes with
each bar. and beating lime with knee, body,
arm, neck and head ; but probably from some
defect in his throat, seeming to choke nnd
swallow at every other syllable, bearing no
small resemblance to a ben swallowing stolen
hot hasty pudding.
CoNvivAt. Habits. A custom of long con
tinuance had not become wholly disused in
1800, by men of all occupations ; farmers,
mechanics, and others, used to quit work, on
Saturday ultcrnonn at three o'clock, "to go
down town," do the errands of the week, nnd
spend the hour in athletic nnd other amuse
mcnts. Drinking wus not forgotten ; it was
not forgotten at any meeting of friends, ex
cept on Sundays. At taverns, for six days of
every week in tho year, the tndtly stick was
never dry, nnd while pies wero kept in the bar
room, the flip iron was never cool. It is a
wonder thut my sobriety was left, as no re
straints seemed to exist from prudence, mor
als or fashions.
MiNisTKitiAi. Toppv. The clergy was not
behind tho society in yielding to the indul
gence, nnd gave occasion to tho nnmo of min
isterial toddy to one of tho tipplers, by the
following adventure. The ministers from the
river were crossing the bleak hills of Berk
shire, one very cold day, ono stopped at a
tavern to warm and get something comforta
ble. Culling for half a "mug of toddy." they
differed in opinion, whether it should be mndo
of rum or brandy, and finally compromised
upon "half mid half." The iu'ii keeper heard
the discussion, but mistook the direction, nnd
produced the article, composed of htill'ofeoth,
but without water, and disguised by being
mado very sweet with molassna. The simple-hearted
good men, unsuspectingly took a
long, hearty, breathless pull ut the deceitful
liquor, find returning to the sleigh, and set
ting their faces against the cutting North
wester resumed their conversation by the in
quiry, "Urvthcr, has not the weather Modera
ted a rjnml ileal."
A Ci.KRii'Ai. Joke. Tho minister was the
Rev. Solomon Williams, a good nnmo, and
of n good stock. I was too young to ap
preciate his acquirements, literary, intellectu
al, social or moral ; I only remember some of
his peculiarities. Ho suffered from some dis
ease in childhood, (the ricketts, 1 suppose.)
by which he hulled in his walk, ami which
rendered his address and bearing not impn
sing. lie lived lone mid I believe lieaeeniilv
with his people; 1 suspect thut his nttuin
ments were not high, and that his influence
was limited; but I remember hearing that at
a ministers' meeting in Hatllev. the younger
brethren, in the familiarity and license of tho
olden time, begun one after another, to ques
tion Rev. Dr. Lyman, or Hatfield, the pa
triarch of all that country, what the people
of their respective parishes said about them,
and they wero answered in tho same sportive
spirit, that tho reply which Mr. Williams re
ceived was that "when his people, should havo
occasion to knock his bruins out, they inten
ded to strike him below the waist-band."
Pranks. Tricks, jokes, ridiculous stories,
mystification, and every kind of laughable de
ception, and this pntres of Burmim (the most
disgraceful, because the most truthful repre
sentation of one phrase of American society.)
might receive many good illustrations from
these scenes. Mr.'Chuiles Tnppnn, in his
letter of October 12th, has given u specimen
of the stories they used to get up on each
other, but ho told Hie half only. A tailorand
a hatter, both respectable, lived near each
other in "Comfort street." The story ran,
that the tailor found u "humble bee's nest."
and told the boys what line fun they might
have, by lighting it witln heir jacket's. The
halter seeing them thus employed, ran to
them in great haste, aud putting on a most
ferocious countenance, exclaimed. "Yon young
dogs, what would your mothers gay, ii' they
knew you abused your clothes so ? put oil
your jaeliets tlis iiitunt mitl n.' vonr hais.
I he lending blcakKiiiilh of the town, n man
of respectability and wealth, but eccentric in
manner and austere in appearance, almost to
grimness, at one of these afternoon ossein
blages, once boasted, that in his hhop might
be round ready for use, every article of black
smith's work, which a farmer would ordinarily
require upon his farm dining tlm year. The.
opportunity for fun was too good to be lost;
a large party repaired to his well-filled shop,
and after u ilose examination, no steel was
found to be used with u Hint, to make a fire
for burning the stubble on the meadows, and
it Cost the blacksmith a pretty penny to es
cape the laugh, and treat the company.
CompreEsinj the Bulk of Flour.
Tho Albany Journal states that Louis Na
poleon, whom men begin to recognize as
Napoleonic sort of n man, in H;u conceived
tho idea that it would be practicable to com
press nour so ns to diminish tlio bulls, and in
that way facilitate its transportation, nnd yet
not injure its quality. In July of that year
an experiment was made by his command to
test his views. Flour, subjected to a hydrau
lic pressure of 300 tons, was reduced ill vol
ume moro than H per cent. On close exam
ination, it was found to possess all the quali
ties it had previous to its violent treatment.
It was men put into zinc boxes and sealed up.
At the same time, other flour manufactured
from tho same wheat, but not compressed.
was sealed up. In October thereafter, sever
al boxes containing both kinds of (lour, were
opened and examined. The pressed was pro
nounced to bo the best. I welve mouths ulter
this, in October, 1854, another examination
took place, and with the samo result. Tho
two kinds were then kneaded into loaves ami
baked. Tho pressed flour made tho best
bread. In March, '.", more of the y.iuc boxes
were opened, aud on examination the loose
flour showed mouldiness, whilo the pressed
was sweet untl retained till its qualities. Made
into bread, the samo differences were obser
vable. 1'ho Emperor has ordered experiments
to be made ut sea, as well as on laud. Men-of-war
are to take out both kinds of flour, and
both are to bo sent on sea voyages to hot
and cold latitudes, and examinations are to
be made and recorded of the influence of cli
mate uud suit uir upon ouch.
Ui.d A ok. "Uno evil of old age is that, as
your timo has romc, you think every little ill
ness is the beginning of the cud." "When a
man expects to be arrested, every knock at
the door is an alarm." And again, "Among
the evils or getting old, one is. that everv lit
tie illness may probably be the last. You
feel like delinquent who knows that the eou
stable is looking out after him."
"What's in a Namb ?" A friend just re
turned home, says he once found two Aus
trian Custom officers endeavoring to make
oat his name from his travelling trunk. One
called while the other wrote. They had got
it "Mr, Varanti Solexer." The truuk was
marked "Warranted Sole-lesther,"
A arenius has lust invented a stove that
uvea three-quarters of the wood, while tbe
uses 11 DUKSS payi tor ice remainder.
A Discovery In Peru.
A SrtRorD op Gold. The Hon. Thomns
Ewbank. in a letter to tho National Intelli
gencer communicates some Interesting in
formation in relation to recent discoveries in
the excavation oT Peruvian tumuli. It was
received by Mr. Ewbank, from W. Evans,
Esq., engineer of tho Africa and Tuena Rail
road in Peru, M r. Evans states that in mak
ing excavations for the railroad at Aricu,
hundreds of graves are demolished, in which
aro numerous Indian relics. The excavations
are seventy feet deep, and as the soil is loose
sand, nnd as the work proceeds, everything
from the top comes sliding down dead In
dians, pots, kettles, arrow bends, ire Among
other interesting mortuary relics, nn Indian
was started out of his resting place, rolled up
in a shroud of anld. Before Mr. Evnns had
knowledge of tint incident, the workmen had
cut up this magnificent winding sheet and
divided it among themselves. With some
difficulty Mr. Evans obtained a fragment and
despatched it to Mr Ewbank.
Mr. Evuns notices as a very remarkable
fact, that in hundreds of Indian skulls which
he has examined, not one has contained a
decayed tooth. Mr. Ewbanks thinks the
weight of the entire shroud must huvo been
eight or nine pounds, and hod it been pre
served, would have been the finest specimen
of sheet gold that we have heard of sinco the
times of the Spaniel conquest. In somo
eloquent remarks upon tho preservation of
souvenirs of the departed, nnd tho futility of
attempting to secure tho great dead from
contact with their native earth, Mr. Ewbank
says it is tho form of features, and not the
body or substance of the dead that should bo
preserved, ami adds :
"The mummies of Egypt nro quarried for
ftlcl, and, whether those" of tho Pharaohs,
their wives, their priests or their slaves, ore
split open and chopped up with the same in
difference us so many pine logs. Tbe gums
and balsams nsed in embalming them havo
made them a good substitute for bituminous
coal ; mid thus the very means employed to
preserve them have become tho netivo agents
for their dissipation. So it is when materials
of coffins have a high marked vnluo ; thty aro
then seized us concealed treasure, and their
eoutetits cust out as rubbih. Like heroes in
the Eastern hemisphere, tho descendants of
Manco Capoe were sometimes, if not always,
entombed in such, nnd with considerable trea
sures besides in vessels of gold and silver,
hence wo learn how the Spanish cououerors
sought for, often found, and as often plunder
ed rich Indian sepulclnes."
The Free State Election in Kansas.
We give some few returns of tho election
in Kansas on the loth December, on the pro-
(iommi rrru nuiu" V onsiltuiioil. u I course,
the Free .State men hud it alt their own way.
The 'Constitution, says the St. Louis Intel
litjenccr, will be adopted by a small vote, and
we. think the provision "excluding Free Ne
groes" from Kansas will also bo sanctioned,
1 f t Lis should be the case, what would tho
Abolitionists of the (iurrison school say !
Cucss they would oppose tho admission.
Tin: Votb ontiik Coxstiii.tio!.
Tho Kansas Freeman, says : From all wo
can learn, the vote on Saturday wus not so
large us could have beeu expected, or would
have been under circumstances of a more
favorable character. The. excitement which
existed throughout the Territory by reason of
tlie threatened demolition ot Lawrence, nnd
the consequent call of our citizens to that
point, prevented a thorough canvass of the
Territory, such as had been arranged.
We understand there has been but ono
opinion in reference to the Constitution, al
though we have differed on the minor points
more materially. From what we can learn,
the Constitution will bo adopted, nlso tho
Black Law proposition and Banking Law
Uuise. Below wo give tho vote so far us
heard from :
Topeku For Constitution. 135: exclusion
of Negroes, CS ; against. C3 : for Ucueral
Banking Law, 127; against. 8.
Lawrence For Constitution, 348; against,
1 ; for (ieneral Banking Law; 22"i ; aguinst,
33 j for exclusion of Negroes; 13 1: against,
'iVcttmsch For Constitution, 3") ; exclu
sion of Negroes, 35 ; for General Banking
Law, 34 ; against, I.
Those "Wicked Common Schools.
The Freeman's Journal (organ of the Most'
Kevtrentl Archbishop llntlics) never ets
slip an opportunity for n sneer at "New Eng
land," aud "New England Protestantism."
Thus, it heads its account of the recent mur
der of Justus Matthews by the "Wukeiuau
ites," after this fashion :
"IHKSrw HAVEN' TRAflEDV."
Protestantism in Connecticut. A new Re
formation and its proto-martyr."
There nte probably moro murders, and as.
sassinations, nnd throat-cuttings, in the Papal
portions of Ireland, in one week, than there
is in all Now England in proportion to pop
ulation from one year's end lo the other.
Judged by the same rule the Journal applies
to 1 rotestantism here, ltomnmsm in the Uld
Country must bo infinitely worse than even
W akemaiiism.
The occasion is also turned to account by
his Crace (or bis organ, which is all tho
same,) to indulge another sneer at the Com
mon .Schools and the Bibles thus :
'The 'laud of Common Schools and of open
Bibles without note or comment' tho favor
ed and sanctimonious land of Connecticut,
has taken a new step in religious reformation.
The sect that has arisen in the bosom of that
community, and the acts that, thus far, have
marked its development, speak irnmpel-
tongtied in favor of leaving men to Bibles and
to Common Schools, and of repudiating the
idea that man, to save him Iroin lutnl aberra
tion, needs from Uud an infallible Church tor
his guidance,"
PisrosfFRTixa a.s Orator. It is an as
tonishing thing how little a matter will some
times disconcert a man who is accustomed to
speak in public, and to have his thoughts
about hi in, aud ready at cominaud ori almost
all occasions.
"I W4S once opening a speech from the
stump," said a distinguished western politi
cal orator to us recently, and was just be
ginning to warm with my subject, when a
remarkably clear and deliberate voice spoke
out behind me, saying :
"Uuess be wonlil'ut talk quite so hifululio'
if be knew that bis trowsers wag bust clean
out behihd I"
"From that moment I couldn't 'get on.
The people in front begun to laugh, and there
wut a loud roar In my rear and I dared not
reverse my position, for fear of having bew
audience of my condition. I made, or rather
invented, an excuse for delay, and sat down.
The malicious scoundrel r continued the
orator, "it wag only a mean trick after all.
There was nothing under heaven tbe matter
with my unmentionables I"
The India Rubber Tree.
Chevalier D. Claussen, inventor of the flax
cotton, read a paper on tbe above subject.
Ho stated, that iu tho course of his travels in
South America, he hod occasion to cxomir.e
the different trees which produce the India
rubber, and of which tho lloncornin tprciosa
is ono. It grows on the high plateaux of
South America, between the tenth and twen
tieth degrees of latitude south, at a height
from three to five thousand feet above the
level of the sea. It is of the family of tho
Sapotaca;, the same to which belongs the tree
which produces gutta percha. It bears a
fruit, in form, not unlike a bergnmot tteur,
and full of a milky juice, which in liquid India
rubber. To be eutable, tho fruit must be
kept two or three weeks after being gathered
in which time all the India rubber disappears,
or is convened into sugar, and is then in
tasto one of the most delicious fruits known.
and regarded by tho Brazilians (who call it
Mangava) as superior to all other fruits of
their country. The change of India rubber
into sugar, led him to suppose that gutta
purcha, India rubber, and similar compounds
contained starch, lie therefore tried to mix
it with resinous or oily substances, in com
bination with tannin, and succeeded in mak
ing compounds which can be mixed in all
proportions with gutta percha or India rub
ber without altering their characters. By
the forgoing it will be understood that a great
number of compounds of tho gutta percha
and India rubber class may be formed by
mixing starch, gluten, or flour with tannin
and resinous or oily substances. By mixing
some of those compounds with gutta percha.
or India rubber, he can so increase its hard
ness that it will bo like horn, and may be
used ns shields to protect the soldiers from
tho effect of the Alinie balls, and some of
these compounds in combination with iron,
may be useful in floating batteries nnd many
other purposes, such ns tho covering of the
electric telegraph wires, imitatiou of wood,
ship-building, ic.
0 C t r
PINKY WINKY AND HER FATHER.
AX IMITATION OF
"HIAWATHA,"
LOW.
BY LO.NOFR!.-
Said my daughter, Pinky Winky,
Pinky Winky young and tender,
AVith a cheek as red as roses,
With a lip like a ripe cherry :
Father, dearest farther, tell me
What it's best to have for breakfast?
Said I, darling Pinky Winky,
Proud its makes my heart paternal
To perceive this thirst for knowledge,
Mien a laumuio inquiry
Should be answered, who can doubt it)
Therefore, dearest Pinky Wiuky,
Since you asked mo 1 will answer,
1 will answer, I will tell you,
Possibly it may bo Liver.
At this only bare suggestion,
Pinky Winky slightly shuddered,
Saying with somo hesitation,
Liver is tho food for Paupers,
To be eaten but with mustard ;
Mustard which is hot and fiery,
And is opt to burn the gullet.
Then, renewing the inquiry :
Father, dearest father, tell me.
Tell your fond, devoted daugher.
'hat it's best to have for breakfast !
Said I, with a deep emotion,
Wliilu my heart overflowed with kiudncss,
Dearest little Pinky Winky,
Since you ask nie I will answer,
1 will answer, I will tell you,
It will probably bo Sausage.
At this answer. Pinky M inky
Turned her little taucy nose up,
Saying pertly, smartly, tartly.
Sausage, sausag,), always satifage
I am tired to death of sausage
Sausages ore fat ond greasy.
Sometimes mode 'tis said of puppies t
Puppies juvenile nnd tender.
Which come to their eud uutimely.
No, my venerablo father,
If you love your Pinky Winky,
Don't by any means have sausage !
Then nguin my Pinky Winky,
Asked, with question pertinacious :
Father, dearest father, tell me.
Tell your fond and loving daughter,
IV i.. I . I e , , r . .
ii .ii. ii a dim vj nave ior uiea&iast I
Now I felt my anger rising,
And a rising of my dander ;
Said 1 with so no irritation ;
Since yon persevere in nskiug,
Pinky Winky, Pinky Winky,
I will answer, 1 will tell you
Said I, in a voice emphatic,
Which can only bo compared
To tho sound of rolling thunder,
Which reverbrutcs from the mountains j
When it scatters wide destruction ;
Or the sound of raging whirlwind
Or the sound of mighty waters
At tho cataract of Niagara ;
Or tho sound of booming cannon.
Spreading widely fleath and carnage;
Or the braying ol the trumpet.
Urging on tho charging squadron ;
Or tho neighing of the' war horse,
As he rushes; to the buttle.
ISuid I, in a voico empathetic,
Then it must bo buckwheat pancake.
As a fair and blighted lily
Droops beneath tho fervid sunbeam;
As the grass oppressed with moisture
Droops with weight of pearly dew-drops,
Drooped tho head of Pinky Winky ;
While her tears in gushing; torrents
Fell in puddles on the table ;
Deep her bosom heaved with auguibh,
Sadly in a voice of sorrow,
And of tender melancholy.
Sad she murmured buckwheat pdiicaket t
O my graciovt-buclcu:heat pancakes!
Fcxch on Wof.n. Women are never sat
isfied. If a man is jealous, they cry out
against his tyranny ; ir he is not jealous, they
complain of his indifference. A man ceases
to be a good fellow the moment lie reiuseg to
do precisely what other people wish him to
.)., 'IV.lt . n,A ,!,. I fl.-t an. I el,A
IIU, J Gil wuiiirii But. mi., im .ai " . ,
laugh ; that she is ugly, and she will get an
gry i but just hint (hut she is growing old,
una sne win never lurgivv you. uuu love is
love with two bandages over its eveg instead
nf rnt A man marries irenerallv to leave
society a woman to enter it. Those who
live only for appearances, generally end in
making one at the insolvent eiurt. Mauy a
man talks with loud complacency about the
charm of his fireside, and yet let temptation
give but the smallest tap at tho door, and be
evinces tbe most wouderful alacrity in leaving
it. Satire is dangerous acid, which none
but the most "kiKul should presume to use.
Many a clumsy band has been blown to pieces
oy tne explosion oi uis own retort.
i lndiaa depredations rooUnne is Texas.
rmra the Oemiantnwn Tetegmpri J
Tho Jcpan Pea.
Our neighbor, the Public Ledner, con
(ained a few days ago, an editorial on the
cultivation nnd merits of various foreign
seeds, among the rest nnd particularly that
of the aftrmn Pea. Its wonderful product
iveness is especially noticed, and its merits
thus! "It is very nutritious in its qualities,
snd makes an excellent winter food for man."
The Japan Pea is an old acquaintance of
ours, having produced it upon our premises
in 1853. It is besides well known by all
seedsmen and cuUivators of rare productions
generally throughout tho United States, tla
ting from about that time. We distributed
tlm seed in 1854 nnd last spring to somo
fifty different persons. Its productiveness,
as given by pur,cotcmporary, is fully sus
tained. We raised nearly a pint from half
a dozen seed the joil mid climate, suit it
well J but we nssuro the Ledger it is totnlly
unfit for human Tood, unless, ns in the case of
the poor sailors, who had either tn eat the
pea or starve. They would perhaps have
eaten their old boots, under the same circum
stances, if they bad been deprived of the pen.
Wo have seen it stated thnt horses and
cattle would cat it ; but generally thosu who
have raised it. condemn it altogether when
compared with the excellent beans and pens
of our own or at least adopted by ns. We
have cooked the Japan t'eo, or rather bean,
as it is nothing else, ar.d pronounced it at the
time to bo the hardest human fodder we have
ever been pat to. It is almost always found
that seeds imported, especially iroin distant
countries, are of Iittlv or no value, rsowand
then, at long intervals, wo fall upon some
thing worth cultivating and even valuable.
The seeds distributed through the Patent
Office, last winter, havo not proved to be of
much account. 'Among the rest was a con
siderable number of squash or pumpkin seeds.
We gave them to many farmers, and the
only ono who has made any report to ns, is
Mr. Bones, farmer for J. Dorance, Esq.. near
Bristol, Bucks county. We sent him six
seeds of a squash, so-called two, only, of
them grew, which produced six pumpkins
averaging ono hundred pounds ench in
weight I This was a great yield, certainly,
but the quality, we hear, is not to compare
with our own many fine though less produc
tive varieties ; and the probabilities are, that
in a few years it will diminish in size, and be
cast aside, as is usually tho case, as useless.
Now, if our good neighbor will turn its
attention to the encouragement of the Mexi
can or Spanish Black Bean, known as tho
Frejole, it will bo doing n real service to
peoplo depending on the Philadelphia mar
kets for supplies. Hero is tho best bean
ever produced in this conntry it is acclima
ted, easily raised upon any light soil, requires
nine intention, yieim wen, und is really
worm two or three times us much us any
other bean in the market. Wo shall give
from 25 to 50 packages of it in the spring to
the first applicants, and shall bn glad to Fend
some to the editors of tlie Ledger,
A Pretty Woman.
The subjoined waif wo hate discovered in
an exchange : "A pretty woman is one of
the "institutions" of the country nn angel
in dry gootis and glory. She makes sunshine,
blue sky, Fourth of July, nnd happiness wher
ever sill! pneg. Her path is one or delicious
roseB, perfume ami bounty. Sho is n SToet
poem, written in rare curls and choico calico,
and pood principles. Men Etand up before
her .s so muny admiration points, to melt
into cream and then butter. Her words float
round tho ear like music, birds cf Paradise,
or tho chimes of Sabbath bells. Without
her, society would loso its truest attraction,
the church its firmest reliance, and young
men the very best of comforts and company.
Her influence and generosity restrain tho
vicious, strengthen thw weak, raise the fowlv,
flannel-shirt the heathen, und strengthen the
faint-hearted. Wherever yon find the vir
tuous woman, you ulso find pleasant fireside
bouquets, clean clothes, order, good living.
gentle heaits, music, l.ght ami model institu
tions' generally, Sho is the flower of human
ity, a very Venus in dimity, and her inspira
tion is the breath of Heaven.
Crnioi-g llKniiitAi'iiic.w. Fact. Coptain
Win. Allen, or the British Navy, ha? publish
ed a book advocating tho. conversion of the
Arabian Desert into an Ocean. Tho author
believes that the great valley, extending from
tho Southern dcpresicm or tho Lebanon
range to tho head or too (Ju'if of Akuba, the
Lastem branch of the head of the lied ftea,
has been once an Ocean. It if, in many
places, thirteen hundred Icet below the level
or tlio l'ead tea ami the ea ol liuenus. lie
believes lhat this Ocean, being cut ofl" from
the Red Sen by tho rise of the land at the
ionthcrn extremity, ami being outvied bv
small streams, gradually became tiiiod by
solar evaporation.
He proposes to fit o canal or adequate size
from tiie neud of tho Golf of Akaha to the
Dead Sea, und another from the Mediterra
nean, near Mount l armel, across the plain
Esdruelon, to tho fissure in the mountain
range of Lebanon. By this mruns the Medi
terranean would rush in, with a full cr thir
teen hundred leet, fill up the valley, and sub
stitute un Ocean of two thousand square miles
in extent Cora barren useless desert: thus
making the navigation to India as short as
the overland route, spreading Tertihty over a
now arid country, and opening up the fertile
regions or Palestine, to settlement and culti
vution. Tno conception is a magnificent ono
but no sufficient survey lift been mtJo to
determine its practicability or its cost.
Pat's Drram. Tw o sons of the green and
glorious is!o met a day or two since, uud thus
colloqnized .'
"Good morning, Pat."
"Good morning, Dennis."
Dennis. "How is it wid ye Pat? ye tame
in a quundry."
Pat. "Bedad, but it's all right ye aro with
out knowing it, for it's in Unit same I am. It's
a provoking dhrame I've had." .
eunis. "A dhrame I wag It a good or a
bad one I"
Pat. Bad luck, but it was a little of both.
I dhrumed I wag wid the Pope, who was as
grout a gintleman as any boy in tbe .district ;
and he axed me would I diirniK. i nniks i.
would a duck swim T und secin' the Iitishown
and the sugar on the sideboard, I tould him I
wouldn't mind t.kin' a wee dhran of puueh.
Cowld or hot T gays the Pope. Hot, uy I,
and with that he stepped down to the kitchen
for tha hot water t but before ho got back I
wuke up, and new it's ditlbrefsiu' me to think
I jlidn't take it cowld."(
The finances" of the editor of the Elkton
(Ky. Banner are in a desperate coudiiiofv.
In an appeal to his subscribers to pay up. be
says: "Friaods, we, aro almost penniless
Job's turkey was a milliohairS compared with
our present depressed treasury 1 To-day, if
ice price 01 sail was two cents a barrel lull.
we eoula ut bey noo;h to pickle a jay bird '.
Sketch of General Walker.
f ho following sketch oftheNicorsgua bpro.
is fornbhed to tho Washington Star by s
correspondent; " ; ' : ..j--
William Walker was lorn in Nashville,
Tennessee, and is now about thirty three
years old. His father is James olkcr, Lsq.;
a citizen of Nashville, of Scottish birth, anrf
very much respected. His mother was
Miss Norvell, an estimable lady tronl Rrrn
tucky. Wulker. otter quitting school in his
native State which he did with much credit
and honor commenced the study of medi
eino in tho University of Pennsylvania, where",
he graduated. He then went to Europe, en
tered tho medical schools or Paris as a stn
dent, received a diploma there, and after.sbffiS
time spent in trael, returned to this country,
went to Nashville, nnd commenced the stmly
nnd practice of Ihe law. Walker is thu
both lawyer nnd physician. From Nashvuo
he went to New Orleans, and was for some
time editor of the Crescent. In J one, 1850,
he went to San Francisco, and became one
of the editors of tho Herald: While in this
position, an article appeared in tho He ram.'
animadverting upon the judiciary, to which
exception was taken by .Tudgo Parsons, of
tho District Court, who forthwith summoned
him before his Court, nnd inflicted on tlm
editor a fine or 500. This Wnlker refused
to pay, nnd was accordingly imprisoned, but
was subsequently discharged oa a writ c.
habeas corptts, issued from the Superior Court,
which action was sustained by the I.ogisla.
ture at its next session. The next enterprise
in which waiKer was eugageo wu, inn
famous expedition to Sonora, with tho disas
trous result of which your readers are as
familiar as they ore with his more recetit
history. i .. . ;
From the above it may be t sen that Wal
ker is of resnectabio family, intelligent, well
educated, a regularly trained physician, and a
graduate or one ol the Dest ecnooia in Ameri
ca. Ho is, besides, a man of indomitable
courago and perseverance. When a student
iu Philadelphia, strange as it may seem, no
was remarkable for his diffident and ever
taciturn manner and gentle disposition. In
person, ho is rather under than anove tue
medium height, nnd was formerly of fair com-,
plexiou, somewhat freckled face, with light
hair, grey eyes, and high cuectt cones.
anus
Epigram.
As my wife and I, at the window one day,
Stood watching n man with a monkey,
A cart came by, with a "broth or a boy,"
Who was driving a stout little donkev.
To my wife I then spoke, by way or a joke,
'There's a relation or yours in that carriage
To whichshe replied, as tho donkey sha spied,'
'Ah, yes, n relation by marriage ' .
GfAxb. Tho Fredericksburg (Va.) Herald
says that 8300,000 worth or guono is con
sumed in tho district which rurniishes wbent
and corn to that market. The wheat sales
it says amounted to fi08,000, from which it
up peurs that tho cost of guano the present
season has been neatly one-half of tho wheat
sales.
i .
Cashmere Kins. Dr. J. B. Davis, of
South. Carolina,, has recently sold , fifteen
three-quarter bred Cashmere Kids, .seven,
months old, and one pure bred two years old
Cashmere buck, to a gentleman in Tennessee
for 54,000 the ewes at 209 euch, and tho
buck ut S1.M00.
A Batesville (Ark.) paper has thw follow
ing advertisement: "Wife Wanted. Any
gal w et's got a bed, a coffee pot and a skillet,
knows how to cut out britches, cau make a
lk ii 1 1 1 i i .shirt, ar.d knows how to- take rur of
children, can have my sarviees uutil death
parts both of us."
The Contractors of tho Union Canal,
Messrs. K a pp Rockefollow, arc carrying
on the work of enlargement with energy, aud
have put a largo force of men at work along
the entire line.
CoMror.TAtii.E. Thero ic a viHaJo in Mich
igan where tho church bell is rung every day
at twelve o'clock, for the people to take their
quinine, as they have tbo chills aud fever all
around.
A Clergyman was censuring a young l.a'ly
for tight-lacing. "Why," replied the Miss
"vou would not surely recommend loose h-
bits to your parishiouers." The clergyman
tinned.
AMIixt. An exchange says : Uow yoon
men can consent to loaf obout the corners
and taverns as they do, when a good dose
of arsenic can be purchased for a hix-pence,'
is really surprising.
Tun Schoolmaster. The Salem Gazette
snvs the following notica may be seen nt n,
blacksmith s shop m Kssex: "No bosses euca
on Sunday 'ce;it Sickness or Doth."
Italy has often been compared to a boot J
and it is a boot, we should say, that would
almost give its tole, it it could only sco the
last of Austria.
"I say, Pat arc yon asdape 1"
"Divil the tlupe."
"Then be atther le.ndin' me a quarter."
v "I'm aslape, bo jubcre,"
"Sniglefrits, will you have some of the
butter t" "Thank vou niarni : I belong to tha
temperance society, and can't take auythitg
strong."
The Chicogo papers state that emigration.
from the Eastern and Middle Htates to the
West, was never more active than at present.
A house at Terre ifaute, Ind hai an en.
p.igement to put up 5i)i:0 tierces of beef for
tho English muiket. , .
Tho Howard A nociatinn of Norfolk have
rented a commodious bu'.ldifg oa Church St.,
for iho orphans.
There are now laid nn in winter qnvtefs
at Chicago two hundred and eighteen steam
ers and sail craft.
Nfw Cars Tbe Cattawissa & Williams.
port Railroad Company have recently placed
a set of new corg on their Road.
The assessed valuation of pronertv fft V'
Orleans, this year, ia 846,000 Ujss ffcja last
year.
A short time glnee, about two tons of
poultry were shipped by one dealer, in cnj
day, from Ann Arbof, Michigift, for the
New York market.
Ninety inferior glaveg were Mi In Pike
county, Alabama, on tbe 16th, for $C5.000.
Gov. Shannon, of Kaunas ill, !t is sal '?,
soon resign. i
' The small-pfx hag broVeq col in Hi Tcei
hotjeat PUUbargh t.
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