y ~ - —. .... —;— ..... —■!— VOMI: ss. NEW SERIES. THE EEDFCIiD GAZETTE IS PU MASHED EVERY FRIDAV MORNING BY AIEYEIIS Sc BEN FORD, At the foliowine t>*rms, to wits 51.50 per annum, cash, in dilvancp. jiJ.OD " " if paid within the year. $.2,50 n " it not paid within the year. subscription tsiken tor less than six months. fj~*"Xo paper discontinued until ail arrearages are raid, unless at Ihe option of the puidishers. It has freen decided by the United States Courts, that the stoppage of a newspaper without the payment of ar rearages, is ;>/. ma facie evidence ol fraud and is a criminal offence. OCP'The rousts bare decided that persons are ac countable for the subsetiption jiriee of newspapers, if they take them fiom the post office, whether tbey subscribe ior tbcni. or not. "HHHSr A TOUCHING ADVENTURE ON THE COAST OF NEWFOUNDLAND. [The following story we extract from a new novel, entitled, "The New Priest in Concejt lion Bay," in Two Vols., Price, $1.75; publish ed by Messrs. Phillips, Sampson N. Co., Boston. The authorship (•! the work is attributed to Rev. Roht. T. S. I/rWell, brother of the Poet Lowell. Skipper George's Story is but one of !he many similar gems with which the work abounds.— The poetic grace of the style, and the absorbing interest of the story are highly pleasing.] "Yon have the * est lookou! in the neighbor hood," sai i! a landmark V "'Tis, sir, it may be, in a manner; "but not fur s'ilnn on those waters. "T was set theie when riches was taken avv'v. Riches came a gain, but 't was laved, for 'e'd larned partlv how to value riches." The gentl'inan looked, as the moonlight showed, interested!v at the speaker : "Another story with a lesson in if T' he said, "If it were not lor keeping you out so late, I would usU vou to do me the favor of telling it." "Av, sir," said Skipper George. "I said there were amany lessons sent us. This one coined nearer to me again than the lot her.— J hope I've lamed sometbun by that stoi\ ! Fishermen don't heed night hours mucn; but it's i.lte fur vou as Well, si". Mob re 'ee'd plase to walk inside a bit ?" he asked, wilh modest ur gencv, "It's a short story, only a heavy one!" "Another time, perhaps," said the strange gentleman; "not now, if you'll excuse m.-: but if it would'nt be too much trouble 1 would (bank you for it where we are. One hour or another is much the same to me." At the first words of this answer, Skipper George turned a iook of surprise r.t the stranger, and when the latter had finished speaking, asked: "Be 'i c davun hereabouts,then, sir ?" Perhaps iie ma\ have thought it stiange that one who looked so like a clergyman should be stay iiig for anv length of time in the neighbor hood, without being better known. "i am a clergyman," said the gentleman frankly; "but not of your church; and 1 don't feel free until I'm better known." Skipper George apparently weighed the an swer. fie did not urge his invitation; but his open face became char and kindly as ever. '•Then, sir," said he, "ef 'ee'd plase to be seated 'here j I'd tell the >tory. I know it well." Before beginning it the fisherman cast a look at his house, and then gazed awhile upon the restless waves which here glanced with the gleam ol trt acherous eyes, and there were dark as death. "Do 'ee mind about ten years ago, in New foundland, sir ?" began Skipper George, turning I is steady eyes to his hearer, and speaking as if the date or t lie v ars since the date bad been painful to him; "the hard year that was when thev bad the'rails,' they railed em "Yes; though I was in England at the time, T know piettv well what happened in New foundland. It was a sad time." "Av, sir, 't was a sad time. Many people suffered: some wanted food, and more agrn got broken in spirit, (and that's bad for a man.) and some jot lawless like. 'T uas a sad time in deed!" Skipper George having lingered thus before his tale,began it abruptly : "Well, sir, 'twas on tlie sixtppnth day of Januaiv—a Thursday 'l w as—l was acomun down Back side fiom the Gosh, hau'ling a slide load o* tim ber, an' mv youngest son wi' me. It had abeen a fine day, first gonn off, (for aw inter's day,) wi'jiift a flurry o' snow now and agen, and a rival o'snow on the ground, tuii about after noon it began to blow from about west, and bv nothe, or thereaway, heavy and thick, and giowun heavier an' heavier, an' hitter cold.— Oh !'t was bitter cold .' We did'nt say much t get her, George an' I, but we got along so last as ever we could. 'T was about an hour or two before night, mubbe; and George says to me, 'L>t's lave the slide, father!' 'T uasn' but we could ha'kep' on wp it, though't was tairible cold, hard work; but'twas sometbun else! "So we turned the slide out o' the way and laved her, and corned on. 'T was blownn gales up over Backside; we could sca'ce keep our feet; an' 1 hard somethun like a voice—l suppose I v ' as Ihinkun o' voices—an' I brought rrght up tn ! he wind. 'T was just like beiin at sea, in a manner, and a craft drivin' right across our wake, an' would ha' been out o' sight an' hear on in a minute. Then I knnwd by the sound was tlie- Minister— (we didn't have e'er a rev ' rpjJ gentleman of our own in the days; but H lived over in Sandv Harbor and 'e'd nose to "o all round the Bay.) We could sca'ce bide ' 'gether, but I was projwr g'ad to meet un, 1 ' >r a minister's a comfort, V know sir;) and e said, '/? nnt/bot/y 0"f V 'There's two o' brother Izik's orphans, sir, I'm aleared, and ■J others along vvi' 'em,' I said. S> 'e said, God help them ! Where are your two oiher bovs, James and MaunselH' 'Along wi' brother Izik's two,' I said. 'T was blowtin larrible hard, and cold, ana thick; and the minister turned wi' us, and we corned up, ploddun through the drifiun snow, and over the nidge. When we opened the door, first mother thought there was four of us: and so she said, 'James!' for "we were all snowed over; hut she s'id there was only three, and 't was the minister wi' us two. So she begged his pardon, anJ told un our }x>or boys were out agunnun, and she was an old punt they had. VVe were (far we didn' think o' nawthin hut the bus) when two coined into the door, all white wi' snow.— ' T wasn'they twOj sir, but 'twas my rievy J esse and another. 'Haven't they coined V 'e said. 'Dear, what's keepuitthey V "Jes-e had abin out, too, wi' Iziic Mafieen and Zippin Merchant, and they were over to back-side o' Sandy Harbor together; on'y our poor young men were about three parts of a mile tinther down, mubbe. So, when it coined on to blow, Jesse and his crew made straight lor Back Cove and got in, though they were weak-handed, fur one had hurled his hand wrist—and so, in about three hours, they got round bv land, and thought the (other poor fel lows would do so well. 'Whit can us do f*n cle Geoige ?''e said; for he's a proper true hearted man, sjr, and 'e was a'mos' cryun.— 'First, we can pray,' said the minister; and so he said a prayer. 1 make no doubt I was tliin- Uun too much over the poor young fellows: and the wind made a tarrible great bellowing down the chimley and all round the house, and so J was ruther aw'y from it more an'd I ought.— Then the Minister and Jesse and I started out. .My mistress didn' want me to go: but 1 couldn' bide; and so afore we'd made much w'y up haibor agen the w inu and growun dark, (though 't wasn' snovvun,) we met a-man coinun liom (other side, A bran, Frank; and 'e said last that was set (i of our four was, they were piillun in for 11 >b!iis' iJ j|e, and then somlhun seemed to give-way like, wi' one of 'em rovvnn, and then they gave over and put her aw'y before the wind, and so as long as tlmv could see anything of'en , one was standun up sculiun astarn.— (l'hat was my James, sii !") A very long, gently breatlied sigh here ma le its-!! |-aid in t'le d-ep hush, and as Mr. "!)•• bree turned, he saw thesweet face of Skippei George's daughter turned up to her father, wit! tears swimming in both eyes and glistening or her cheek. She had come up behind, and n; possessed herself quietly of !ier tatlo-r's tiarel. "So we tnrijed back, and the minister wi' us ;'t was a cruel night to tie out in.) and the wint almost took and lifted us, and sot us down - by the loot 'o the path over the rudge; but whet we got atop here, and it conied athwart, i brought us ail down kneelun, and we caul scarce get nvrr tn the dodr. The poor m 'the got up hom the chimiey-corner and came for ward, but she needn' a-k anythin'; and then was a pretty young thing by '-he fire, (thi girl was a little thing, asleep, but there was ; pretty young thing there,) that never got up o looked round; 't was Milly Kegsle, that wa trothpl'ght to James. They was to have beei married in a week, ef tfie Lord willed; an, 't was for 'e's house we were drawan out th< timber. She just rocked herself on the bench She's gone, long enough ago. now sir! "So the Minister took the Book and read ; hit. 1 heard un and I didn' hear un; lor I wa; AW'y out upon the stormy waters wi' the JKJO! young men. Oh, what a night il was! it's n< use! blowun and blowun and Ireezun, and ict all along shore to leeward ! "Well, then, sir, about two hours 'o nigh there corned a lull, an ! then there was a pusr or shake at the door, and another—and anolfiei and another— (so it was, we a'l thought, and then the door banged open. 'l' was naw thin hut cold blasts coined in, and then a lull a gen for a second or two. So [ shut to the door: and the poor mother broke out acryun, an I poor Milly f 'I over and slipped right down upon the hearthstone. We had a heavy lime of it that night, sir; but when the door hanged open that time, ibis child, that was a little then, Ivun upon -the bench sleepun, made a soart of gurgle like, w hen the first sound corned to the door,and when the flaws o' wind corned in she smiled and smiled agen, and laughed a- ef a body m'y besayun pootv things toher in d'y time. Jesse sid it, and plucked me by the coatsbvvp, and I sid it, to. "Well, sir, night passed : 'ee may be sure we didn' sleep much on'y cat nap ; and one or twice I hilled into a kind of dvvall, and star ted, Ihinkun Ihey wasspeaku.n to me. Mornun coined slow and cold, coldf r than night. So the neighbors corned in at mourn, and sat by : and now and agen one 'ould say they were line voung men : and after a bit another'd say James was a brave heart, and how he saved a boat's cr -w three years ago, scuilen them into [J'y H.irb' r ; and so they said how h- began to 'each in Sundav School Sunday before ; and how brave 'e was, when they sid the Inst of un sen 1- Itin aw'y round the point and over the b'y, for t'other side, or Belle-Isle, or some place to lee ward. So they saiil James 'ould lake 'em safe, plase God, and we'd hear of'em SOIJIP place over the b'y in a d'y or two.—Then they said they wondered ef the voting men could keep from Ireezun their hands, and said mubbe thev wouldn'git' touched, for they was well clo thed, and James 'ould keep op their spirits, and brother lzik's little George was a merry boy, and great play-game for the rest ; an my Maun sell and 'e's tother cousin, John, were steady young men, and wouldn'give up very easy; but thev w-re both quiet, and looker! up to James though John was a good l it older. "Wull, sir, the day went on, cold, cHd an' blowun heavy, an' the water black an white,wi' while shores, 3n' slop-ice all along ; an' more, agen, an' heavier, to leeward, sartently. We could n' stir hand or foot that day, nor next; hut the Lord's day came in softer, an' we got a good crew an' a stout punt to saicli for the four BEDFORD, PA, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY IS, 1859. poor boys that hrui been three days a missun. and old Mr. Williamson, the clerk thai is now, sir, made a prayer over us before vve laved.— When we came to put oil, they left me stan dun ; I make no doubt but J esse maned to spare me ; but I called un back for T said, why should I be settun Hl' my bands folded, or walking a bont, lookun out over the water, and I may jnst as well be Sonn somethun like a lather for my sons an' for my brother's orphans ? "We- maile for Broad Cove : lor so we thought the wind would ha' driven the poor young fellows a-Thursday ; but we couidn' get lnto*Broad Cove, Ibr the slob an' cake# of ice. 1 lie shore looked tariible cruel !" Skipper George site thoughtful a moment, and then began again. "At Port'jfal (j )ve,' t lie continued, looking over t lie water, "they tiidii' know about e'er a punt, an' no more they dido' at Ilroad Cove, nor Holly-Kood ; fir we staid three days, an' sarched all over. An' so, a Thursday morn agen we corned back borne ; —t' was cold, but still. S) when we coined round Peterport Point, (that's it over at the outside o' Blazon Head, yonder,) every man, a'mosf, I >oked owr his shoulder, thinkun mubbe they'd {got in ; but'twasn's\ They hadn' come, nor they hadn' been bard irum. So my mistre S 3, an' .Millv, an' George, an' f; an' this maid kneel ed down alter I'd toid 'em how 'twas, and prayd to the good Lord. "An' so we waited,an' didri' heat from the poor boys, not for a good many days." Skipper George stopped here again for a wliil-. "Awell, sir, then there coined over that j some men had abin lonnd at Broad Cove I—it wasn' known wbothev were ) but we knowd. So they got Mr. Wtimer's boat, and a crew of 'em went round, and Skipper 'Jviery R-ssle, and Skipper I/ik Re.s-de, (that was Miliy's la ther,) ami Skipper J/.ik Marchant, wasn' Skipper then, liower,) but a many friends goej in her—l couidn' go thattime sir. "I'was about suu-gp-down slie corned in Never a word nor a sound ! She loooked black seemuuly; and r.o colors nor Hag. "Twasthey I Sure enough, 't was they I "A man had sid a punt all coverpd wi' ice and hau'e I her up ; and when he corned to j clear away the in*, there w as a man, seerminl v, i in the for'ard part ! He called the neighbors; ! and sure enough, Ihere'e was, anil another one along wi' un; andjbolh seemuuly a-kaeeluri a:id leannn over theloi'ard tii'ait. They were. Jthe two brother, John an- 1 'bile GeurW. fjoz> still, and two arms locked together ! I hey died pr'yun, sir, most likely ; so it seemed.— They was good lads, sir, and iliey knowed liteir God ! "So, then, they thought there wasn' no more—." The fisherman hero made a long pans**, and getting up from bis seat, sii !, "I'll be back al ter a bit, si:;" an i walking away from Mr. D - bree and Ids daughter, stood f>r a little while with his back toward them and hir bead bare. The maiden bent her gentle fare upon her knee within her two hand*. The moonlight glossed her rich black hair, giancd Irom her white cap, and gave grace to her bended neck. At the iir.-t motion of her father to turn about, slie rose to !I-I feet and awaited him. t'j.on him too—on his head, bared of its hair, above, on his broad, manly front,and on his steady eye —the moonlight fell beautifully. Mr. Debree rose, also to wait Ibr him. Skipper George came back and lock up his broken story. "Bumbve, sir, when they corned to the after part ol the boa?, there thev found a young man lyun in the starn-sheets, wi' no coat, and his— his poor, lovun aim under his brother's neck : —and the tother had the jacket ro'led up for a pillow under hie head, and 1 suppose lie di-d there, sleepim upon the jacket, that bis biuthef rolled up fir un." The voice ot the faiher was vary tender and touching : but lie did not give way to tears. "So, sir, that young man bad done his part and sculled '< m safe right along vvi' the tarrible cruel gale, a'wy over a twenty miles or more, to a safe cove, and his hand-wrists w-re all worn aw'y wi' workun at the oar ;—but he never thought of a cruel ga'e of ice right alore the cove ; and so we made no doubt when he found that, in dark night, and found he couidn' get through, nor he could n' walk over, then he yave hisselt up to Ids God, an I laid down, and nut his tired arm round bis brother; and so th-re they were, in short after that, (it could n' ha' b en long,) there wis four dead tnen in their boat, awaitun, outside o' Broad Cove,tuli some ane 'ould come and take their poor bo-I dies, and stiip aw'y the ice Irom 'em and put Yin in the ground, tiiat conies more nal'ral, in a j manner, sir ! "Th-v d id'n find e'er an oar, wha'mer be comed of 'em; but they found their poor guns, 1 and the two orphans had their names cut, 'John Bar bury,' and 'George B.arbui y,' and one of 'em bad 'Pet—lor Peterport, and couidn' cut no more, for cold and death. "There was three guns cut ; and" one had 'James BarH —that poor Miunsell must ha' cut, poor fellow, afore the deadly cold killed un. So the kind people that found the poor boys, Iliey thought James was a respectable young man, and when they come to lav 'em ■ out, in the school-house, (they were proper kind, sir,) they put a ruiile shirt on him o' lin-n. "So, sir, the Minister coined over and buried the dea I. Four coffins were laid along the aisle, wi' a while sheet over everv one, because we had n' palls : James and Maunsell, of George, and John and little George, of Izik ; and we put two brothers in one grave, and two brothers, side by side, and covered them ! ''There was two thousand at the funeral ; and when the minister conldn't help crvun, so 1 think a'most every one cryed, as ef 't was their own : and so we hard that people lived on Kel ley's Island, hard singun goun by in the dark, like chantunvve have in church. They said 'v\ as beautilul, comun up an' dyun aw'y Freedom of Thought and Opinion. wi' the wind. It's ver like sir, Paul and Sila sang in prison, so they sang (in storm ! "I'hen Mjlly, poor ; tbing, that never goed back to her lather's house, took a cold at the i funeral, seemungly, and slie died in James' bed a three weeks after She was out of her mind, ! too, poor thing I" After another silence, in which Skipper I George gazed upon the restless said. ''l brought home wi' me the best stick from the timber, arid laved the rest, and no one ever t touched it, and there it staid. So next winter, sir, my (other poor young man djed in the woods o' masles, (thank God ! —we never had to move in (ill I lost my fine boys,) and the next sixteen' day of January I set up my pil lar, and this is my pillar, sir. I said the Lord given, anil the Lord have tookt away ;—Bles sed he the name of the Lord. All the riches 1 bad I thought 't was gone." "You SJKI riches came again," said M. De bree, deeply interested and affected. "Ay, >ir. My maid is gone back to the house. 1 can' tell Ve what she is, sir :—There's plenty in the harbor will speak o' Lucy Barburv, sir. I hone 'ee 'II excuse me lor keepin "ee so late." "I thank you with all my heart, for that beautiful story," said Mr. Dehree, shaking the fi-herinan s hand. "Good night, Skipper George ! Yon have learned me a lesson, indeed, and, with God's grace it shall do me good. It is a no ble lesson !" "I he Lord showed me where to find it in my Bible and my pr'yer-book, sir. 1 wish 'ee a good eveoun, sir."' A STRI.XG OF CUIIIOU6 FACTA. The foilowi ng striking scientific facts were picked up in the course ol our reading from va rious reliable authorities. We thing many of them will be new to our readers : The difference between the skulls of the do mestic hog and wild boar is as great as ".hat be !ween the European and .Negro si.till. Domes ticated animals that have subsequently run wild in the lores!, after a few generations lose a>i trapes of their domestication, and are physical ly rklerent frotn their lame originals. 1 is not r.aturul for a cow, an)' more than fn 'ther female animals, to give milk when she .as no young to nourish. The permanent product ion of milk is a -modified animal func tio i, produced by anaitificial habit for several sir • a ">ns. In ( dumbia, the practice ofmil- SA ' |J - i..; c. ftci.t.i, e. entura! r>tafe of the function has been restored. Th sec (ion of milk continues only during tin suckling ol tlie calf, and is only an occasiona phenomenon. If the calf dies, the milk cease •o flow, .and it is only by keeping him with hi dam bv dav, that an opportunity ol obtain ing milk from cows by night can be ouml. Tim barking of d igs is an acquired hereditary instinct,supposed to have originated in an at tempt to imitate the human voice. Wild dog: and dorne>iic breeds which become wild, nevei bark, but howl. Cats, which so disturb civili zed c immunities lv their midnight "catawaul,' in the wild >ta'e in S.uth America are quite si lent. The hair of a negro is not wool, but a curled and twisted hair. The distinction between hail and wool is clearly revealed by tlie micro scope. The dark taces have less nervous sensibility than the whites. They are not subject to ner vous disease. They sleep siundly in every dis ease ;nm does any mental disturbance keej them awake. They bear chirurgica! operation: much belter than the white people. A certain species ol fungus has bepn known to attain the sizp of a gourd in one night: am! it is calculated that the cellule?, of which it is composed, must amount to forty-seven thousand millions. It it grew in twelve hours, this would give four thousand millions.per hour, or more than sixty-six millions each minute. Animalcules have been discovered so small that one million would not exceed a grain of sand, and five hundred millions would sport on a drop of water. Yet each of these must have blood vess.-ls, nerves, muscles, circulating flu ids. fkc., like large animals. One of the most wonderful achievements of astronomers, is the weighing of the bodies of the solar syst.-m. It is certain that the mass of Ju piter is more than 322, and ]es> than 323 times the mass of this globe—so accurately has this w-ork been accomplished. The mass of the sun is 339,551 times great r than that of the earth and moon, and 700 times greater than the uni ted masses of all the planets. The planet Saturn is composed of natter on ly hall as heavy as water ; Mercury is consid erably heavier than quicksilver, and a third heavier than lead : and our own globe is twice a? heavy as lead—a fact showing the great den sity ol internal parts. A Hash of lightning on'he earth would be visible on the tnoon in a second and a quarter ; on the sun in eight minutes ; on Uranus in two hours; on Neptune in four and a quarter : on the star Vega, of the first magnitude, in forty five years : on a star in the eighth magnitude in four thousand yars ; and such stars are visi ble through the telescope. La Place, the great astronomer, says: "I have ascertained that between the heavenly bodies all attractions are transmitted with a ve locity which if it be not infinite, surpasses sev eral thousand times the velocity of light. His annotator estimates it at eight times greater than that of light. The circumference of the earth is 25,000 miles. A railway train, traveling incessantly night and day, at thp rate of twenty-six miles per hour, would require six weeks to go round it. A tunnpl through the earth from England to New Zealand, would be neat ly eight thou sand miles long. is a horse half way through a gate like a penny? Because it is head on one side and tail on the other. A PROSPECTIVE RETROSPECT. EY JOHN G. SAXE. Tis twenty y-'ars, and something more, Since, all athirst lor uarful knowledge, T look same draughts of classic lore Drawn—very mild—at- rd College ; Yet 1 remember all that one Could wish to hold.in recollection : | The boys, the joys, the noise, the Inn ; . But not a single Conic Section. I recollect f*we harsh affairs, The morning bells that gave us panics : T recollect the formal prayers That sepmed like lessons in Mechanics : T recollect the drowsy way In which the students listened to them, As clearly, in my wig, to-day As when, a ooy, I slumbered through them. T recollect the tutors all As freshly now, if J may say so, As any chapter T recall In Homer or Oeidins Naso. I recollect extremely well, "Old Hugh," the mildest of fanatics; 1 remember well old Mathew Bell, But very family Mathematics. I recollect the prizes paid For lessons fathomed to the bottom ; (Alas, that pencil marks should fade ; !) I recollect the chaps who got 'em The light equestrians who soared O'er every passage reckoned stony ; And took the chalks—but never scored A single honor to the pony. Ah me!—what changes Time has wrought And how predictions have miscarried!— A few have reached the goalthev sought. An i some are dead, and some are married : And some in city journals war ; And some as politicians bicker ; And some are pleading at the bar ; For jury-verdicts, or for liquor. And some on Trade and Commerce wait ; And some in schools with dunces battle ; And some the gospel propagate , Arid sc me the choicest breeds of cattle ; A nd some are living at their ease : And some were wrecked in "the revulsion Some serve the State for handsome fees • And one, I hear, upon compulsion. Lamont, who , in his college days, Thought e'en a cross a mortal scandal, Has I. ft his Puritanic ways, And worslnprnow with wii a.u . , And Mann, who mourned the nogrot's fate, And It eld the slave as most unlucky, Now holds him at the market rate, On a plantation in Kentucky ! Tom Knox, who swore in such a tone It fairly might be doubted whether It really was himself alone, Or Knox and Erebus together,— lias grown a very altered man. And changing oaths for mild entreaty, Now recommi n 13 the Christian plan To savages in Otaheite ! Alas, for young ambition's vow, How envious Fate may overthrow it ! Poor Harvey is in Congress now, Who struggled long to be a poet : Smith carves ;quite weii 'memoi ial sloner, Who tried in vain to make the law go . Hall deals in hides; and "Pious Jones" Is dealing faro in Chicago ! And, sadder still, the brilliant Hays, Once honest, manly and ambitous, Has taken latterly to ways Extremely profligate and vicious ; By slow degrees—l can't tell how— He's reached at last the very groundsel, And in New York he figures now A member of the Common Council ! NOT TO HE TAKEN IN! An exchange paper has the following capital storv about one of the best fellows in the world who has no fellow : Mr. Fields, the Boston publisher, has a wonderful memory, and his knowledge of English literature is so available that when a friend wishes to know where any particular passenger may be found, he steers at once for the corner and consults the man who is very likely to give the desired information. A pompous would-be wit, not long ago, think ing to puzzle him and n.ake spoit for a compa ny at dinner, informed them prior to Mr. Fields" arrival that he had himself that morning written some poetry, and intended to submit it to Mr. Fields as Southey's, and inquire in which of his poems the lines occurred. At the proper moment, therefore, after the guests were seated, he began : "Friend Fields, I have been a good deal exercised of late trying to find in Souther's poems his well known lines running thus—can you tell us about what time he wrote them ?" "I Jo not remember to have met with them before," replied Mr. Fields, "and there were only two periods in Southey's life when such linescould possibly have been written by him." "When were those?"'— gleefully asked the witty questioner. "Some-: where" said Mr. Fidds, "about that early period , of his existence when he was having the mea- j sles and cutting his first teeth; or near the close of his life, when his brain had softened, and he | had fallen into idiocy. The versification be longs to the measles period, but the expression clearly betrays the idiotic one." The funny questioner smiled faintly, but the company roared. [I^ := "Bubbv, why don't you go home and have vour mother sew op that hole in your trowsers ?" "Oh, go along, old woman, our folks are economizing, and a hole will last longer than a patch." the effects left by tfm Sultan of Muscat, recently deceased, was fift}- thousand dollars in American dimes and hall-dimes. WHOLE W TIBER 2837. A STORY AS TS A STORY. I lie reader is expected to believe the follow ing in every particular : When a young man, f was traveling in wes tern New \ork, and late of a stormy night ap plied at a log cabin (or lodging. The occupant"* a woman, refused it, saying her husband and sons were out hunting, and if they found me there would murder me. I preferred the chance 'o the storm, and she consented that I might lie down before the fire. In the nigh! I heard them a coming and scrambled trp the chimney. 1 hinking I was safe when at the top, I stepped over the roo(, and, jumping down" aljthe back ol the cabin, struck plump into a wolf trap. A scream of pain from me brought the man and boys out, and they declared I deserved a much more severe punishment than death : so thry kept me both in the Imp and suspense until morning, and then heading me up in a hc-y head, with no light or air but the bung-hole, they putting me on a sled, drove me some four miles up a hill, and then rolled me off to starve. This I undoubtedly should hare donp, but for a singular occurrence. The wolves smelled£me I out and gathered around mv prison, when one : of them, in turning around, happened to thrust | his tail into the bung-hole. It was mv only chance. I caught a- firm hold, and held on like grim death to a negro, which frightened the wolf, of course, and he started down the hill followed by the hogshead and me. It was a very uneasy rjde over the stones aud stumps ; but 1 had no idea how long it was, until the hogs-head striking a stone fairly, the staves, worn by a long travel, were broken in, and I jumped out and found myself way down in the lower end of Cataraugus county, some iiiirty miles from the scene of disaster. HAFTY IF NOT FAlß.— "When we heard of Albert Pike's (supposed) decease," says the .Montgomery "we could but regret that Oid Ned or some other expert wa; not near, to try on hirn whal'proved so successful in the case of thp, ''Old Arkansas fientleman," in"*hi3 own song : "They laid him out and spread him out and fixed bim for'the tomb, And then, on account of the"* * J ' roW ' or b' s dec< oe,~i>ened the biggest kind of a game of Faro, right there ic-h's own room ; Bui when he heard the rattling of the checks, he tore the linen fiom his face, And bounced up and sung out, 'Hold on Prin dle ; don't turn ; I'll go tweuty on the king and copper on the ace,' L,ike a nue Aikansas gentleman, close to th* Choctaw line." rrr-Du ring a recent trial at Auburn, the following occurred to vary the monotony of the proceedings : Among the witnesses was one, as verdant a specimen of humanity as one would wish to meet with. After a severe cross examination, the counsel for the government paused, and then putting on a look of severity, and an ominous shake of the head, exclaimed : "Mr. Witness, has not aii effort been made to induce you to tell a different story "A different story trom what I have told sir?" "That is whatl mean." es sir ;. several persons have tried to get me to tell a different story from what, I have told, but they couldn't." "Now, sir, upon your oath, I wish to know who these persons are." "Waal, I guess you've tiied 'bout as hard as any of them." The witness was dismissed while the judge jurv, and spectators indulged in a hearty laugh. ' _ strange creatures girls are.— Oiler one of them gepd wages to work for vou, and ten chances to one if the old woman "can spare any one of her girls —but just propose matrimony, and see if they don't jump at the chance of working a life-time for their victoals and clothes. [EP'Thp Editor of the Woonsocket Patriot makes merry over the mistake ol an old Shang hai hen of his, that has been "setting for five weeks'on two round stones and a piece of brick ! "ller anxiety," quoth he, "is no greater than ours to know what she will hatch. If it proves a brickyard, that hen is not for sale." (CP" A waiter at a fashionable hotel, the other day, requested a boarder, if he needed his services,to "just agitate the communicator."— Previous to the rapid march of intellect, "please to ring the bell," would have been the phrase used. [CP*A fellow was told at a tailor's shop that three yards of cloth, by being wet, would shrink one quarter of a yard—"Well then," he inquired, "if you should wet a quarter of a yard, would there be any of it left ?" QjF=""l never complained of my condition," says the Persian poet Sadi, "but once when my feet were hare, and 1 had no money to buy shoes, bit I met a man without feet, and was contented with my lot." St. Louis Democrat estimates that the census of 1860 will increase the number of repr sentalives from the Northern Stales to 155 and decrease the number from the South to 78. Quite a difference. KF*"Halloo, stranger! What time is it?— How high's the creek? What's the price of butter V' "Past eleven; watsl deep; eleven pence." a', home ?*' "Nosir, he's out." "Mistress at home ?" "No sir, she's out."— "Then I'll step in and sit by the fire." That's out too." [CP s "Money is the root of all eviL VOL % NO. 29.