VfiLVT!E rr>. NEW SERIES. THE BEDFGED GAZETTE IS Pl' BLISHKP F.VERY FRIDAY MORN IXI BY MEYERS & BF.N FORD, AT t}■ e following forms, to wit: Fldiii per aniiurn, CASH, in advance. ■sj.Ol) " " if paid within the year, tig. SO " " ii riot paid within the year. £~T~Sn subscription taken for less than six months Cyy-i paper discontinued until ail arrearages ar< I ..iii. Micas at the option ol the publishers. It ha: been decided by the United States Courts, that thi doppageof a m w> paper without the payment of ar reatag''-, is /.< jut it evidelice of fraud and is ; criminal offm re.- • fr"E*Thc courts have decided that persons are ac countable ior the subscription price ot' newspapers : ti.cv lake then hom the post offin, WSetbertbe j .-ui.-ct' :T them, or !• IJ aii n I a i' 5o u a . GENTLE ANNIE. I in). i wilt come no more, gentle Annie, Like a flower thy sprit (lid depart ; I'hou art gone alas ! like the many, I'hat have bloomed in the summer "> my heart. Shall we never more behold time, Never hear thy winning voice again— When the -pring time entries gentle Annie, When the wild (lowers are scattered o'er the plain We have roamed and loved mid the bowers, When thy downy cheeks w re in their bloom, Now i stand alone inn! the Bowers, While thej mingle their pes fumes o'er thy tornj) Ciioitt s—Shall we never more behold thee, Xe. Mi ! the hours grow sad while I ponder, Near the silent spot wheie thou art laid, And my heart bows down when I wander. By the streams and the meadows where we strayed. i'n s Shall we never morebeiiol 1 thee, &••. IJ IE t\ I MIL \ 0 F CO. M E TS. Here is a very amusing letter from the L>:i cbin Times, OH tilt* subject ol comets: 'A very general feeling exisls that astrono tners are not !x having well about the comet; to judge from the crumbs they occasi ma'ly let tail trom tlii ir scientific platters, they know all a bout it, but .still stiller a poor ignorant pi:'.lie to wonder and theorise in ignorance. At the beginning ol the \eai they volunteered mo.-t tninnle descriptions ■ 1 the signs and wonders that were to attend the annular eclipse, and, ielyiii ' on their information, many ol us trav elled hundreds o! miles with pockets full ol smoked glass, only to gel shunted in a marshy field somewhere in the midland counties, and spend two hours very much like a disappointed crowd at a prize fight, i' >ssi ly tile melan choly failure ol ii.iiley's beads and rise light* on that occasion mav deter the Earned Irm a'.- templing any nore jjivniaiuro ue&cit] . . Where everybody is anxious to know -,o:ne thing certain about com -t<, and nobody in structs Itiein, I am inclined to think very little is actually known on the su'j-'Ct. \ hat, (or instance has btcene <f the ccu.it liiat was expected last yar ? When may we look fbi j the re-appearance ol the rommel 111•t j> i lo: til ed such extraordinaiy vagaries in I s in. an I should return in IS.~k> or IS.ofl ! Di i t:;e corn et ol I Sit really kiil the cats, multiply tw in, and blind the fl:es ? And is there any diiigei of a similar infliction on h'lsbio Is and old maids at present? Last \ ear we were rather ii ighteaed about the comet, and ready toailii ute every possible phenomenon to its agency; 'at now it has come upon us so quietly and so tree iroin all alarming repents, that rv< n the most timid can admire it night alter night with out the dread ol losing a favorite tabby, or with oeing prematurely plagued with babes.— Imagine the consternation that would pervade t!. cnmi t's admrers ii, without any pieviou> warning, he should appear some mornffig or evening with two heads or half a <k-7.<'n -tails and yet the history of the comet of LSfG is pr. f positive that such an event might occur; r• i!: v philosophers should prepare lire public n.md | r such a possibility.' Atn n liiela's cornet was first seen-in 11> 4-., J it was quite round, w ithout any tail whatever. In ut t<-n days it produced a- smaller comet with a short tail, and not to be outdone in that respect, immediately shot out a corresponding fad itself. The growth of the young comet was very rapid; in less than six weeks it equalled ■'s parent in si/.e'aad brilliancy, and alter an ; il contest for some days it actually 'dip: ; it in brilliancy, but the exertion was ''J ;:mch; it joon after beg.in to pale, and grad- | •ally died out nearly a month before its pro- . z iiitor,. No sooner was it gone than old coin- i A, in an ecstacy of delight, shot out three tails, ; jtieof which was triumphantly pointed fhe vxicl spot lately occupied by its undutiful o!i-j spring. Comets are innumerable; they appear a! tin,.-.; at the rate of two a year, and the or- . bits of 200 have already been calculated; but; this is quite an inappreciable number when compared to those that are believed to traverse \ our system in all- directions, and .that Arago L puts at Irom three to seven millions, "1 heir ; forms are protean. Few, comparatively, have,l t2:!s; while producing afW ' casting tiiem off# at pleasuc*. The fomei ,oXi 1' W had six I ails, each ctiiled in tin* form of a : quidrant, while ihatJit'.iSFl/appearrng"at first J without any continuation, supplied that <1 fi ciency at th.e rate of 10,000,000 of miles a -Say.' Their spe.,! i> immense, anil their bulk incon ceivable; the comet ot 1803 moved at six times the rat eof the pat tit on its orbit, and that ot IS! 1 was 600,0-10,000 of times its size*. th• . i present one is only 1-00,000,000 of times tin size of the earth. The nucleus-is com post dol pond-rable matter, but in infinitely less propor tions than that c mtain< 1 by any of the planets, while the tail is m j r= !y attenuated vapor, many thousands of times less dense than our atmos i [diere. It is possible that the nucleus of a corn et should strike a planet, but the odds are 3 • >,- 0 )0,000 to I again-t it; the chance against the immersion of tin* tail is much less. The result •f collision with the nucleus iv eild be an im mediate return to most everlasting chaos, .vni'e an immersi n in its tail won! i probably he at tended with no visible result. Comets d i not a fleet the seasons. Taking an interval ot 16 years, the warmest was 170 !-, in which there .vas one comet; the coldest I< ■O, in which there were two, ami therefore it is not pro'a --! hie the cornets ev*r killed cits, wasps, or Julius J Ca'-ir: produced fin" vintages or great droughts, S -r can now he saddle i witti the jdague of d i !- j liy-long-legs, steel p-*tticoats, and other mon i strosi' i--s! THE POET PEPxdV.IL. i The New York 7V-71-S, in an aiticle on the ! lamented Percival, gives us an insight into his i private life, as follows : j Percival was one of the most remarkable j ;nen of Ins time. As a linguist and as a man ! of science he was more eminent tiian as a poet, • and yet his poetical faculty wis marvelously brilliant an ; prolific. II- was a geologist and a geographer; he understood the structure of the earth we live on, and kn-w all the highways i and hy-wavs of its surface—roads, rivers and j canals —as Familiarly as most m-*n know th-ir own domicile or the way t • market, ilis han ds of study were peculiar. I f-* would take up a volume at a bookseller's counter, and stand till he had r< ad it through. He never cut the leaves of his hooks. For many years he occu pied rooms at the Hospital at New Haven, and during the whole period those rooms were en tered only once by a visitor. He had no food cooked during that time, but lived frugally on dried beef, herring, bread, with apples an I other j frui's u h -n they were abundant in the market, j He read all day and al! night—throwing him self on his bed in Ins clothes, when nature in i sisted on repose. V\ r.en his bed-room was ! opened, after his death, it was covered more i than an inch thick with dust, except a patn that had been k> pi free from the door to the j bed. An anecd ste is f.>l iof him in this connecfi >n t that serves to ii lust; ate his character. The law contemplating the survey, provided that thege ol >gi-t should receive hi r -Tjun-ntion after he had ma le his report, and it ha I fv-en approved lh (Governor. Percival waited upon Gov ernor Ellsworth with the report, and was very courteously received. The Govern r t -ok the report, and promised to give it his immediate attention, and when he had examined it as the law required, would make the necessary re quisition if it wore satisfactory. Percival rol led up his report and withdrew. He insisted that neither the Governor nor anyone else wa competent t > pass upon the merits of his re p >r t, an 1 lie would not submit to the indignity. He was desperately in want of the money that ; the report would bring him. but he would not ; take it on such conditions. Some of his friends finally procured the report ! >r him -y an inno cent st alagem, and ii received, of course, the formal appro >ali m of the Governor, who ad mitted his incompetence to receive a g logical work of Dr. Percival, but was too gaol ii oiii cer net to vie! 1 due obedience t ) the ! iw. We a!! remember th story t-Hi of the j ai of new shoes left at Dr. J Vinson's d*>>r, when j he wis a young man, and ha i not a decent pai: j to hi-' tee?. Asi ' liar anecdote is related of : Dr. Percival. A friend noticed that the cap. which had so Jong peered above the cloak in which file D ictor enveloped himself, wai be coming ;ft got In-r too shabby, and I—l l word with a hatter on .Main street to pr esent him with 9 more appfopii ite, th< ugh less po. tica! covering. In the most delicate way possible. I the shopman intimat-d to the poet tfi.it any hat i mi the counter was at his service— but the poet i turned on his hod with contempt. II- would , never accept a pecuniary favor of any descrip tion. Being at ofte t irne somewhat embarrassed j by his expenditures.on his hooks, some of his ; friends made up a purse of $5,4-0'), which they tendered him to re I i v<- his difficulties. IP* would only accept it as a loan, and not only in sisted upon giving security, fait actually gave it in a mortgage on his library, horn which his | friends were ultimately reimbursed, principal J and interest. Ol his poetical reputation, Dr. Percival took nocaio. It he lia i managed his production-! with a tithe of art possessed by some of his I Parnassian brethren he might have acquired j money as well as fame from his writ ngs. Had j he studied the sei rets of the hot-press and em bellishment, of cream colored pape. laid be tween drab covers, or been familiar with the! effects of blue and gold in giving popularity to inspiration, Percival would have become a fa vorite, and the favor of the people could have reacted on his selection of topics and familiar ized his style. Those few poems of lis in which he treated common and domestic sub-j jects, met a universal acceptance m itli the lov ers of poetry, and alt of them deserve a far; larger popularity.than they enjoy. As to his library, we apprehend it will be ascertained not j to suites a city library for Chicago, and that it \vill be more usefully dispersed-among the va ' ious in-titutions of the land, aoeordin; to their several requirements.- BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 28,1.855. DEBIT AS A CLOWN. The newspapers chronical the fact, that the -on of a highlv respectable gentleman in Ken tucky has taken to the ring as a clown. The piebal i adornements of the horse-harlequin have rr.' re attraction for him than tiie guise nf respectability. The applause of the witless crowd, who are convulsed with thread-have and miserable jokes, is ot more value than the good opinion of ti ierids. And the rough, unrefined aid lo v-!ife n<-if. i i'ions bv which he is sur lound ■i, are more t • his taste than the company of the p. :;hed and educated. Tiie odor of dale fan, and tbe flicker of tallow dips, are ,•! • wanter in his nostrils than the atmosphere .f the drawing room. Bar roun mirth, and coirse, dirty I >n, are henceforth his enjoyments. Such are the bright I atures of his future. The shadows of his distinguished course will be ' professi rial jealously" and hearty hatreds, dissolute attachments an I rum riots infuriated spectators and mob onslaughts, broken Iliads and broken hearts; brok-n futunes, broken health, and general bankruptcy, mental, bodily and pecuniar. The papers say his family are "inexpressibly mortified." We might have guessed tii .', without the help of the journals, ouch a rewj p lor the care and anxieties of ear ly training in.ay well make parents mortified even to th* ■ if ath. But tli-re are otimrcl >wns besides those in (he ring. Thousands of ungrateful sons "make their <k-but"in row \ ism, u ilhout receiving the distinguishing honor of a newspaper announce ment. Ttiousands >f j menial hearts are woun- < ded, upon whose unhnppiimss the public prints are sil >nt. Si-ters w-'-p with vexation, and j conceal their teats, ft is some palliati n to ■ misery when it is not public, though it were haul to say what is public and what not.— Family and friends are our dearest world, and when in the cherished circle our grief and shame are known, it matters not so much, who beyond ;h it, learns our sorrow. Boys will make j their debut as c towns, sisters and mothers blush t for them, ami fathers almost hate them, just so iong as the incipent 3teps towards the customs ot barbarism are nut merely winked at in youth, but encouraged. The boy who, for any reason, makes a habit of spending liis evenings abroad, and prefers J places where his sisters and llieir Companions j cannot accompany him, is in training fbr his j deout as ciown. His laurels mav he worn in • the lager saloon, or the engine house, or on the j street corners; but w herevet first worn they j sj.ui 'ciu-ter thick upon him," ami the "inex- I pressible mortification" ot his family is a certain ! consequence. Cigars and tobacco, which rn >th'us and si t *rs cannot abod ■, are found to be no bar to his welcome in less fistidou- compa ny ; and many a young man makes his debut as | clown and marri-d man, by a misalliance which disgusts Ins friends. i'lic lad whose taste inclines htm to read of j •'nulling matches," an i who knows the slang ; nain sol the fighting men who atfects rat kill- j mg dogs, and studif s the lower descriptim ot ' newspapers—who is nejiher interested in home j j ur.-uits, nor able to g> t the sympathy of tiis I I. lends LI his own amusements, L> a promising 1 candidate tor the quest unable fame which lias j tiie honor of the i mg ciown, \v ithout his emo u- I merits. He is the glory ot his own audience, i and the arbiter in th ir disputes. And if he j lias only reached the favor of the underlings of i the theatres and the worshipful fraternity of i bar teiideis, so tiut 'm can presume familiarly t) say, "How ae y u Bill ! "to them, his gradua tion as a clou n may be considered as fixed.— He is to use the eiegant phraseology current in those distinguished circles, "one of Yin." ( ircus c impanics, and many other matters of the sort are, we suppose, "insulini >ns." With all theit disadvantages, they are tilings that can not be abolished wit hot a stretch of authority, which would produce worse evils. Alan has i need ot rehxation and amusement: -and with I every individual n-sts tiie discretion and re-, sjioiisioi s'y ol set,cting his own. The current ! too closely checked in one place, will force for | itsvii uutj. t> in Others. But admitting all that j can be sa;o iit facet of these doubtful things i tin ic. liuiild Still te, in yotig tie i,tbai decent ; pi ide winch would keep low compnv at a distace. We may laugh at a monkey, without inking bim to bed with us ; it we could not, it w> eDA r nev. rta laugh at all. The m-n is known by tiie company he keeps. Not only is lm known, iut made what fie is, by his i h -sen associates. It there are classes—and liny may be necessary—who wilfully make BOM m an- ut tbems. Ivi s for a living, it is no jail i.f wisdom, certainly, to envy them. Still bss should youth wittingly come in con tact v itli -"la-t people," or find amusement in d.Hitrtlui company. 11- who does it elects to himself the same chaiaiter, and is clown without'th<* perquisites and without the paint. Phi La .V. American AN INDIGNANT WOMAN. A lady thus ex patiates upon a delicate topic : "AMI man who loves unsought, deserves the scorn of tiie man she loves. ILav n !■ rgive ine ! iut may the man v\ tio penned that paragraph never see another bon net | May no white dimpled arms encircle his ! cravat, or buttons vegetate on his shirts. Miv ; no rosy lies ever p'ess his moustache, and the j fates grant that tiis dickey strings break short ufi every morning. May no womans heart learn to beat faster—except with indignation a! the meut ion bf tiis name, and may his stock ings always need darning. And when his nerves are nil unstrung by desease, and his head throbs with pain as though an earthquake were brewing in it, may he have nothing in j tiis sick chamber but boot heels, and see not one j inch ot mnslin or calico. (YF" In Philadelphia, on Saturday week, a countryman was victimized out of a gold watch by a sharper, who paid for the watch with a lot ol five dollar billon banks that never exis ted. The fools are not all dead yet. Freedom of Thought and Opinion. I "ALL IS NaT GOLD THAT GLITTERS." At a late school examination in Oxford, Al abama, Miss Emma H. Spencer read a com position with this title which says the Selrna Sentinel, '-'was conceived by tiie fancy gents present rather a 'tight p3per,' and consequently Miss Emma's name was used in unmeasured terms." Tiie offensive article which has made -n Alabama girl so suddenly famous ought to h i'-'e u run, fir it castigates as severely as justly a class of young men who are becoming quite ■■> numerous ill over the country. Here is the missiie aliuded to : * "T is lit • (Quality of that precious metal which men worship, to glitter, but it does not therefore f.liow (hat everything possessed of a shining <-xterior is to be true ; that we often see the bases! metal luminous with the most pre cipe- and so frequent is the case, that a coun t.-rfeit may often be detected by its very lus tre ! There is a significant moral in this, and copiou-illustrations of its truth may be found in almost every community; Look at our own village town, or neighborhood : look at our gentlemen of tii* nice sort. S-e that fellow with an enormous moustache and bloated self importance : tie carries a gilded walking cane and he smokes cigars ; lie speaks great s welling words of vanity, and domineers before respec table men like a Goliah ot Gail). He is a blus tering idiot, a noisy braggart. In short he lias the 'fuss and feathers,' ail the 'giittei' of super abundant gentility. He may be a merchant, or a doctor,<>r a splendid loiter ; but he is, nev theless—in the eyes of all sober people—a pit ilu! tool, a miserable leather-bead, a ri me ant- i ma! in broadcloth ! Ttvse gilded sp- rimeiis of !t he genus kimi—these p-r fumed dandies, and we may say beautiful fools are as pi-nty in thr world as the ma 's were in Egypt, and like Pha roh'a vermin, they often come into our houses. I sai l they glitter, and so they do : just look a! their finger-rings, their watch-chains, etc.— J And so so nvy are they that they often show t more than they birgain for— their ignorance, and all else that is abominaole. The old adage ;s very sppiopriate here ; '■A beautifoi i iol dresspd up in fin* clothes, ts like an old hog with a gold ring in his nose" They sometimes go to church, walk in, take their seats, and b -have with forced dignity, j looking cunning like so many foxes; but spit I rivers of amber on the tl >or, an ! curse the prea j cher when they leave. Tis amusing to no | tice their excessive vanity among the ladies, j the way they fling 'sheep's eyes' a! the lair sex i and count the number of their sweet-hearts on ! their soft fingers. Of course, when we speak ot beaux and gallants, they are die acknowf | edged 'li >ns' of the day. The most presupmtu | oiis one is generally the biggest fool : neverthe less, he leads the balance whereever he goes, i and thus the whole herd oi tlm.se contemptible 1 • j simpletons are a p-st I) t lie female community. | "Ait is not gold that glitters"—nothing is plainer-than tins declara'i in. Y-t, haw many ; are they who mis'.ake a mere pretender for a gentleman ! When I was a child, 1 thought | every man who had a bro.aJcloth coat and a ' pair of boots was a finishe I gentleman ; but now I have done with childish things, it is j real, and that "all is n>t gold that glitte is." A MEDICAL EXAMINATION. Professor of Anatomy How many bones are there in the human body ? Student—That depends upon what one has for dinner. In shad times there are generally more or less. Professor—Where is tiie heart situated? Student—Commonly in the left side of the thorax ; but the majority of the students lose theiis altogether before leaving college. Piofessur —Where are li e carotid arteries- ? Student —Th y aiiseon each sid * of the nee k and pi" as hi pi i ;h •sh rt collar then down the insensate canal, and terminate in both bods. Protessoi of Chemi try —Of what is the ilm snheie omjesed ? Student —O.xyggn, nitrogen and other fail gases, depending somewhat upon the inhabitants and the filth of Hie streets. PtofessOi Give an example of the non-elec trics. Student —Rosin, feathers, hoops, old bache lors and lightning rods. Pi.T's? >r of .Materia Medica—Name some of the e netic agents. Student —Ipecac, warm water, too much li quor and sea sickness. Professor What is considered the maximum dose of opium ? Student—One drop of the millionth dilution of one-half ot the smallest possible quantity, is a powerful dose tor a homMepathrc ; but we have teen adv'sed to give it as long as the pa tient can swallow and repeat the dose. Professor ol Surgery How would you distin guish a dislocation from a sprain ? Student—The safest way is to twist the inju red limb until we are sure that it is dislocated, then set it. Ail concerned are better satisfied. Professor—What is the treatment for enlarge ment of the tonsils ? Student —That must depend upon circumstan ces. li i had a toinil imstrument 1 should re move them, but otherwise tieat them rational ly. Profes-or of Theory-and Practice—-Give us the best treatment for intermittent fever. Student— Give quinine until .the patient is blind and then send him an eye surgeon. Professor Won id not tiie warm bath be good in connection with the quinine t Student—Certainly and the warmer the bet ter. Professor—How long would you keep the patfent in it ? Student Until the skin slips, then sweat him off with hot stuff. Professor of Obstetricks—Have you had any experience in the lying in department ? Student—Certainly, sir: I was noted for ly yig in our town, and came near being laid out j for it. 1 The student was allowed a degree. I MISCELLANEOUS. DR. FRANULIN'S ONLY SON. —As the name of Franklin is.ever prominently before the public, it may not he uninteresting to give so me ac count of his only son, Wiliiam, about whom we think little is known by the community at large. Unlike his father, whose chief claim is ; for the invaluable services he rendered his coun j try in her greatest need, the son was from the first a devoted loyalist. Before the Revolutiona ry War he held the otiice of Governor ot "New Jersey, which appointment he received in 1773. When the difficulties between the mother | country and the colonies were coming to a cri j sis, he threw his whole influence in favor ot loyalty, and endeavored to prevent the legisla tive Assembly of New Jersey from sanctioning the proceedings of the General Congress of Philadelphia. These etforts, however, dt i but j little to stay the tide of popular sentiment in fa vor of resistance to tyranny, and soon involved him in difficulty He was deposed from office by the Whigs, to give place to William Living ston and sent a prisoner to Connecticut, where ;he remained two years in East-Pindor, in Ihp house ol Captain Eoenezer Grant, near where : the Theological Seminary now stands. In 177S lie was exchanged, and soon after went to Eng land. There tie spent the remainder of his life, receiving a pension from tiie Biitish | Government for the loses he had sustained by his fidelity. He died in ISi3 at the age of; eighty-two. j As might be expected, tiis opposition to the j cause ot liberty, so dear to the heart of his fa- t ther, produced an estrangement between them. For years they had no intercourse. When, in 1784-, the son bvrotetu his father, in tiis reply Dr. Franklin says ; "Nothing has ever hurt me so much, and effected me with such sensations, as to find myself deserted m my old age, bv my only son ; and not only deserted, but 11 find him ta king up arms against me in a cause wherein my good tame, fortune and life were all at stake." In his will, also, he alludes to the part hi< son had acted. After making him some be quest*, he adds : "The part he acted against i me in the late war, which is of public noto riety, will account for my leaving him no more of an estate he endeavored to deprive me of." The patriotism of the father stands forth all the brighter when contrasted with the deser j ton ot his son. CAUGHT ON THE JURY.— The following whir h j we heard told as a tact some time ago, is too good to be lost, and inay be beneficial to some gentleman who has a young and' unsuspecting i wife. A certain man, who lived about ten miles from K , was in the habit of going do town about once a week and getting on a regu lar spree, and would not return until he had time to "cool off," u hich was generally two or j three days. His wife was ignorant of the cause of his staying out so long, and suffered greatly fiom anxiety about his welfare. When j tie would return, ot course his confiding wiie : would inquire what had been the matter with him, and the invariable reply was "thai he was caught on the jury and couldn't get off." Having gathered his corn and placed it in a large heap, lie, according to custom, determin ed to call in his neighbors and have a real corn shucking frolick. So he gave Ned. a faithlul ; servant, a jug and an order to go to town and i get a gallon of whiskey—a very necessary arti cle on such occasions. Ned mounted a mule and was soon in town, and equipped with the j ! whiskey, and remounted to set out fur home, ; all buoyant with the prospect of fun at the j "shucking." W hen he had proceeded a few hundred yards from the town he concluded to try the "stuff," and, not satisfied with once, kept trying until she world turned round so fast .that he turned ! off the mr.le, and there he went to sleep and : the mule to gracing, ft was nearly night, and when Ned awoke it was just before the break ol Eiav, and so dark that he was unable to make i any start towards home until light. As soon as : his bewilderment had subsided so that he could - get the "point," he started with an empty jug, the whiskey having Tun out, and afoot, for the , mute had gone home. Of course he was con- j templatmg the application of a"two year old hickory,"or a piece of twisted cowhide, as he went on at the rate of two-forty. Ned reached home about breakfast time, ana "fetched up" at the back door with a decidedly j guiitv countt nance. "What in Ihe thunder have you been at, you black rascal," said his master. Ned, knowing his master's excuse to his wife when fie got on a spree, determined to tell the truth if he died for it, an 1 said : "Well, master, to tell the (ruth, I was kotch \ on the jury and couldn't, get ojj. SLIGHT MISTAKES. Hon. Wm. L. Dayton once made a very long speech to prove that California never would be of any use to the United States, and says the Baltimore Exchange: "In 1523, Major Long, standing on the South-western shores of Lake Alichigan, descri bed Chicago as a wretched village, composed of" a few filthy log huts and bark houses, inhab ited bv a degenerate tace of Indiins and half breeds. A Her making an official reconnoisance of the village and its surroundings, with a view to ascertain its advantages as a port of en try, he expressed the opinion that the danger attending the navigation of the Luke, the scar city of harbors along the coast, and the sand banks which were in continual process of for mation on the Eastern and Southern shores, would prevent anv works of consequence from being undertaken "to improve that frontier tra ding'post, and must ever prove a serious obsta ctelo the increase of its commercial impor tance." . . \\ eaoi.i: 2Ka.i. CAPITAL SERMON A writer in the Sierra(Cal.)Ci7iVe, under the title of "Young Men and Tree Frogs," gives a better sermon, belter lecture on morali ty, and a better essay on mental'phtloshphy, all in a few lines, than are sometimes found in as many volumes of standard authors : "The tree frog acquires the color of whatev er it adheres to for a short time ; if it is lound on the oak, it will hear the color of that tree ; if on the sycamore, or cypress, it will be a whi tish brown : and when it is lound on growing corn, if is sure tote green. Just so it is with young men, their companions tell us what their character is, if they associate with the vulgar, the licentious and the profane, then their hearts are already stained with their guili and anil they will themselves become like the vi cious. The study of bad books, or the love of wicked companions is the broadest and most cer tain road to turn that young men can travel, and a few well directed lessons in either will lea i them on step by step to the gate of de -1 struction. Our moral and physical 'laws show how important it is to have proper associations of every kind, especially in youth. How dan gerous it is to gaze on a picture or scene that pollutes the immagination or blunts the moral perceptions or has a tendency to weaken a sense of our duty to God and man." SLYGVLJH LYFJTUJTIOX. ' I The Philadelphia Press mentions a curious circumstance connected with the loss of the Austria. The wife of Mr. Theodore Gerok, of Baltimore, is now visiting her relatives in Phil adelphia, and while they have no doubt of his loss, she alone has a deep conviction that he is not dead; either he was not on board the Au stria (though he wrote to her that he had actu ally paid for his passage) or if he was, that he must have been among the few thai were rescu ed. But here is something still more strange: It may be within the knowledge of many of our readers that a clergyman of this city was a inong those who left for Europe on the ill-fated President, and was never again heard of. His wile, who remained in Philadelphia, and was deeply attached to him, never did, because she never could believe that he Was lost to her eighteen years have passed Awav, and vet that trusting lady—we cannot speak of her as wife, and she> repudiates the name of widow—contin ues to expect h.is return. Every day a coyer is "dneed for him at the table where still stands his accustomed chair —Every ring at the bell, we are inform d, awakens the cherished con viction of her. heart that the loved one will re turn. A STRICT TEMPERANCE MAN. We w'orp accosted the other evening, savs the editor of a Boston paper, by a gentlemanly looking man, evidently balancing a clever siaed i brick in his castor. "I say, mis-mister, will yon be kind enough to tell me the way to Broadway V' | "No Broadway here, sir; this is not New | York." "Oh! ah ! yes, that's a lact. Well, I beg your pardon—yo.ur pardon—pardon; show me to Fourth street—.Mil—Miller's Hotel." "Now you're in Philadelphia, old boy Wrong again." "Ha! ha i Well, I'm darn'd confused, that's a fact. All right. Please to tell me whe whether it's left or right I take to llolliday street ?" "That's a street that ain't got this way vet. Perhaps you are thinking of the city of Balti i more ?" ; . • "Well, where the deuce arn I, stranger, any how ?" We told, him in Boston. He jammed his fists into his pockets, after hitting his hat a smash, and stepped out, ob serving : "Well, I'm darn'd if I follow this temperance caravan longer.'*' , we see a lady looking at us through an opera glass, we are apt to suppose she might think it very indelicate to look with her naked eye.— Prentice. Very likely she does think so in the case al luded to. A dirty object is always an "indeli cate" one Boston Post. A colored .nan, from the vicinity of Ur- . bana, ha> been spenbing a few days in Spring field, Ohio, who is one hundred and twelve years of age ! His hair is as white as snow.— Strange as it may seem, he does not claim to have been a body-searvant of Washington. [Gr'There is said to be more Lager Beer drank in Philadelphia, than in any city in Ger many. OGP"The yellow fever has abated in New Or leans to such an extent as to be no longer epi demic. Lancaster, Pa , an apple tree is in bloom again, and in New Jersey is farmer a sel ling his second crop of raspberries at $1 25 a quart. A popular writer, speaking of the ocean telegraph, wonders whether the news transmit ted through the salt water will be fresh. £F"Why is it easy to break into an old man's house ? Because his gait is broken, and hi slocks are few. Chicago Ladies went to a ball the other evening in a furniture wagon ; no ordina ry carriage cou Id contain the dresses-they wore. Q3r~Be civil fo the woman who bites the end of hpr gloves. VOL 2, NO. 17.
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