YOLOIE 55. NEW SERIES. THE BEDFORD GAZETTE IS PUBLISHED F.YF.RY FRIDAY MORNING BY AIKYEKS & E F.N I'OR D, At tii* 1 following terms, to wit: SI .50 per milium, CASH, in advance. sg.oo " • if paid within the year. s•.'.<so " " if net paid within lii- year. OyNo subscript ion taken tor less than si* months. KiTX# paper discontinued i: itLI all art *a rage* are pard,unless at the opt lon of the [ !<!.- ers. it has Been decided by the United Mates Courts, that the stoppage of a newspaper without the payment of ar rearages, is prima facie evidence ot fraud and is a criminal offence. (£/"Tbe courts have decided that persons are ac countable for the subscription price of newspapers, if they take them from the pot office, whether they subscribe for them, or not. ""SBStrv! SPRING. UV ALFRED T E.NXYsCN. J>ip down upon the Northern shore, () sweet new y<ar, delaying hint; ; Thou t! rest expectant nature wrong, Delaying long ; delay no more. What stays thee 'rom the clouded noons, Thy sweetness ft run its proper place i Can trouble live with April davs, Or sadntss ,ji the summer noons Bring rirchis, bring ihe fox-glove spire, The little speedwell's darling blue. Deep tulips dashed with fierv dew, Laburnums dropping wells of iire. O. Thou, new year, delaying long, Delavest the smrow in my blood, That longs to burst a frozeu bud, And flood a fresher throat with song. Now fades the last long streak of snow ; Now burgeons evers maze of quick About the II iw'ring square, and thick By ashen roots the unlets blow. Now rings the woodland 100.1 and long, The distance lakes a lovelier hue, And drowned in vonder living blue The iaik becomes a sightless song. Now dance the lights on lawn and lea. The flocks are whiter down the vale, And milkier everv milky sail On winding sir. am or distant st a. IVL- . - - i ey r ]'i voikUt £rceim:g gleam, and ny The happy birds, that change their sky, To build ami brood, that live their lives From land to land ; and in my breast Spring wakens too : and try regret Becomes an April vio ■ .. And buds an I blossoms like the rest. DE.uocr.finc twwder : THE ( D.N YENTiON SI STAINED BY "* tile democratic Tiiess :: (From the Ebensburg Democrat.] The resolutions adopted by the Convent um, will we mink, give uuiveisi! satisfy: tion to the party. Their language is at once firm, inde pendent and teuipnate, ami nothing is said, that is calculated to ufienJ sincere tie i.• • of the party. Ail the political ol t.. ■ day ate met 'on the square,' and ttie National Administration sustained in unqualified The confidence which the Democracy o* Penn svlvania rejiosed in Jantes Buchanan, whet; they ca.-t thett votes lor htrn lor I lesirtenl m lSs~t>, remains undiminished, and it was rigid that their delegates should say >. The resolu tions sustaining his administration were ad.-, unanimously sy tne Convention. It ;s ce, -iii lv tube regretted that tiie few friends ol Gov ernor Packer in the Convention endeavored t< obtain the passage of a resolution endorsing bis Administration. They certairilv knew, or ought to have known, that a nuii'ber of the ineasiues advocated by him were oh ms to a large majority ol the Democracy <>f the State, anJ that'his officious intermeddling in national affairs had placed him in a ridicnUi- position lielbre the entire nation. It his Iriends bat acted prudently, he would have been spa;.\ the tnortification of a rebuke lrom the ussem hied del-gates of' tiie party which elevated hin to olbce. [From the Carlisle \ olunteer. j It will tie seen that the Convention to U bob and decided ground in favor of the Nat ion a Administration. The resolutions approving o Mr. Buchanan's official acts were adopter unanimously, which is evidence that .ne i iesi dent still retains the confidence, the rcspec and the fiiendship of th- Democracy of the ok Keystone. After this emphatic expression by the regularly constiluted delegates represen ting the Democratic party of- the State, thosr who continue to oppose ihe President, will be. and should be, regarded as mischief-makers and tiisop'-onrz-rs. Ti they are Democrats, as they pro I ess to be, they will now yield their opin ions and join the g-eat mass of the parly am. assist to achieve a brilliant victory in October. Opposition to the National Administration in this State by a small minority—a mete corpo ral's guard—cannot be regarded with inuihei ence"any longer. Those who are not for us are against us, and those who disregard the unanimous sentim-uts of a full State Conven tion, cannot expect to be considered friends ol the Democratic party. "The will of the ma jority" has always been regarded a principle in the Democratic creed, and those who, at this late day, attempt to repudiate this principle, will find themselves outside the pale of the Democratic party. We hope these men (Gov. Packer and his Attorney General tm iudK. : , are now convinced that "honesty is the best policy, and that Ihe Democratic masses have no sym pathy with them and their private grievan ces. _ . , , [From the F.aston Sentme..] The resolutions adopted by the Convention are eminently sound, patriotic, judicious anu ! proper. They are progressive without being wilt! and visionary, conservative without hang ing like a dra>; upon all attempts to fight the coming battle upon such live issues as time and circumstances may develope in the future. I'liey cover the whole ground of National poli tics, and also those other great questions which ahead)' are beginning to crimson the political horizon with their rising beams, ami which must enter into the campaign of 18G0, for prac tical solution. A resolution vyas presented, endorsing the State policy of Governor Packer, which gave rise to considerable discussion. The few who advocated it, disclaimed any approval ol the Governor's conduct ui reviving t.'.e L-comp ton question in his lu*t message, ami in other respects lending himself to the puiposeof party disorganization. Ttie cour.-e of his Attorney General, A nox, was expressly repudiated by the delegate who offered the resolution. The majority, however, could see neither policy nor propriety in giving any such expression 0! opin ion as proposed by the resolution, and very properly rejected it by a decided majority.— His course since his elevation to the guberna torial chair has not been such as a Democratic State C invention could approve of, consequent ly they did right in passing him by in silence. Tin: DOUGLAS ORGAN REPUDIATES FORALY, We copy the following article from the YVdishi nglon H/a/ts, of Match tU-tli. TUE PES.NSYLVANIA REBELLION.— We have already announced the fact that a portion of the i> mocratic party 111 Pennsylvania had repudi ated the action of the recent convention at Jlar risburg, ami hive initiated measures lor another independent and inimical organization. We confess ourselves at a ios to understand the object id this movement. We know noth ing of the individuals responsible for it, nor are we apprized of the purposes they voteitaiu. In this case we are reduced to the necessity ul in vestigating tfieir motives in the light oi' their own public declarations. I! there had been any avowal of principle by the convention at Jlariisburg which the authors ol this schismatic demonstration < ouid not ap prove, they might properly vindicate their con sistency by formal remonstrance. Rut from a comparison oi t he flarrisburg platform with the protest oi the recusants in the Philadelphia enne in respect oi fundamental po#icy. i ney are agreed in support ot popular sovereignty, protection, and specific duties, as wei! as oi ev ery other measure of federal administration. — What then d ) these schismatics seem resolved to push to the extremity of irreparable separation \n attentive and impartial observation oi the course of the disorganizes >a!isiics us that they are animated by tto oth'*r motive than an im pulse of personal hostility to the admiuistf at ion. Timir movement is resolved into an erudition of resentment against the President. And this is the must charitable construction of their con duct ; lor some jtersons contend tor I'. is no sudden outburst of anger which transports them beyond the [.ootids ot reason, but that ti.ev act upon calculations of selfish expediency, and have delibeiatt ly resolved to take refuge in she bosom of the Li.ick R j ucdcun par ! v. Whether or not this be the purpose of the men 'A ho have raised the flag of revolt again -., the Democratic organization in Peiinsvlv itna, the obvious and inevitable effect of trie move ment is to promote the interests of tue opposi tion. To he candid we have had very little h pe of the alliance of Pennsylvania in the next contest, even under the most propitious circumstances ; and it is not therefore, because of snv material damage to toe party so much as on account ofthe demoralizing influence of the example that we deplore this in>uriec!ionary demonstration in Philadelphia. \\ rule the .De mocracy maintain a compact and vigorous or ganization, tiiev need not despair in any ex re mil V of adverse fortune •_ but it the rivalries oi faction and peltv jealousies ol politicians are to be thought a justification of rebellion, we may as well suspend all effort to preserve the party, ft is the apparently unprincipled motive and the inevitably ]>< nucious effect ol ihi>schismat ic movement in Pennsylvania, against vvbiih we are hound to protest in the interests ol the national Democracy. It ttie rebellious "minority are governed by principle, let them avow their patriotic pur pose. If they intend to strike a bargain with the Mack Republicans, they should be more manly than to cover their retreat under a pretence ol virtuous indignation. THE LOtsT WED DING IXC. The Scotsman newspaper relates the fol low ing cm ious case of the recovery of a lost rinn "About the end of July or the begin ning of August last, a woman named WcCiean, of Clifton, near the head of Loch Lomotil', iOst her marriage ring whilst engaged in putting in or building peats, and, notwithstanding thai every seaich was made for it at the time, ii couid not be found. About a fortnight ago the cat brought a rat into the house, and around the neck ofthe rat was the missing ring. It is sup posed, as rats are known to carry oil coins 01 pieces ol silver or gold, that the ring had beer taken to the rat's nest, where it had got over tin n*ck of one of the young ones, and remainet there until the animal had advanced in growl I and cuiiuusly enough, been captured by the 1a Mrs. McClean, who bad been about a year mar. ried,"was no less rejoiced" iu getting possessiot again" of her lest ring than surprised at the verj singular way in which it was recovered. Qjf~"You would be very pretty indeed," sail a gentlemen pair nizingly to a young laJy, "1 your eyes were only a little larger. "Mi eyes may be very small, sir, but such people a you don't fill them. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 15, 1859 I DANCING SCIIOOZ REMINISCENCE In the dance I stood beside her, With my arm around her waist, She danced w:th ease and beauty Hut stared me in the I ace I tell divinely happy then, And danced with ease and grace ; But tiire-e confounded eves of hers Looked right into my face— All the "iris did look at m--, When from my s u at I rose ; Went to the looking-glass, and found / had dirt upon my nose ! "il/T MOTJIEII." The influence upon her child of a Christian mother's jure, unselfish love, is never lost Worldly pursuits may cover it from sight, iotre, warm and passionate, se in to bum it from the heart, but with subtle gentleness it still exerts its hailowed power. Many a dying bed has borne such testimony as the following : "It I could only see my mother!" Again and again was that yearning cry re peated— • i "It I could only see my mother The vessel rocked, and the waters, chasedM u fresh wind, played musically against the side of the hip. The sailor,-a second mate, quite youthful, lay in his narrow beil, Ins eyes gpi zing, his limbs stdieningj his breath failing^— It was not pleasant to die thus in litis shaking, plunging ship: but tie seemed not to mind tis bodily discomfort—his eves kxrked tar aav arid ever and anon Uoke 10. ih thai grieving cry "It I could only iee mv ir. >t Ij-t !" An old sailor sat by, the Bible in h-* hand, from which he had oerti reading. lie hem over Hie young man, and asked him why he was > i anxious to st e the mother he had so wilfully left. "O ! that > the reason," he cried in anguish. "1 nearly broke f.n heart, and 1 can't die in peace. She was a good mother to me—()! so ;ood a mother, she hre every thing from her .vild boy, and once she said "My son, when you come to die, vou will remember ail this." "O! if I couid only see my mother *'! He never saw his mother, lie died with the yearning cry upon Ins lips, as many a man has lied who slighted the mother wf l {'lie waves roll over ana i; drea I cry ,u> rone be tore toon, mere lo be registered foi evcr. SINGULAR SCENE IN A CHURCH. PLEASANT VALLEY, Barkhamstea!, March, gS.—A singular incident occurred here yester day (Sunday) afternoon. A preacher from Mime other town had been expected to hold forth in the Bdptist church, mid the audit net Wire gathered, aod the preacher arose. Alter announcing his text, lie proceeded with his ser mon, but had. not gone far, when lie ssia to the astonished audience: * I have been instructed not to preach any thing oi Abolitionism or Republicanism— bat, I must serve my M >-ter, an.! f " At this juncture, Deacon Doolittle rose and '•Hold .m. It's my "impression tHat you have said enough." (Turning to the audi ence): "Meeting is out." 'J'ite audi, ace rose simultaneously, and ta king their hats, went out. Tire minister sat down. Deacon Dooiitlle went la the pulpit and said to lorn : "If vou want to preach politics, I have no objection, and my house i> at your servi*. — Cut this church is not the proper place, and it cannot be j>eimilted. Ji you desire to give a political sermon or speech, vou ran do so at my house, or dov other j.iace, ami 1 vvtil warrant a good audience, and \ou shall have lair pi ay and not be hint. Cut you must not attempt it in tins church." There was no more preaching in that church that al.ernoon. These are the facts us related by some who were in the audience when tins scene took place. LITCHFIELD COUNTY, CONN. II U NT J Nit IN AtilS-yINIA. What was the spiral thing that roiled and unrolled itself at the end of a branch, some inches P urn my lace? A slender serpent, some inches in length, yellow as a dead h-af, with a black ribbon on the spine. Let it bite the most robust man, and he is dead in a lew bonis. 1 bounced back. But how shall 1 describe my terror on seeing tiie ground at my feet, the branches over mv head, the tiunks at my side, alive with hundreds upon hundreds ot these reptiles, some motionless as a corpse, others i slowly waving in the sunbeams that lillertd through the leaves? Ifelithe fascination ol Medusa. Overcome with fear, I would have (given the world tor a Iree passage and power ito fly. Vet I seemed rooted lo this perilous j ground, and not daring to make a step for lear J ''if coming in contact with some ol these horri i 'tile animals. My legs, feet, chest and arms j were bare, which made my position yet more ; dangerous. Nevertheless, something must be 1 done. Making myself as siriafl as possible, that the least twig might not he touched, gathering ; tiie folds of my mantle around me, and shud dering lest they might enclose a serpent, meas uring every step with mv eye, now on all fours, now striking down an erected .lead with the but of rny rifle, now bounding over fallen trunks, w hose cavities seemed alive with snakes, ! 1 struggled on for some five minutes, which seemed an age. At length, the ground becom ing clearer, 1 began running like a madman It.rough the I rakes in which 1 had just tounu it dilficult to walk. A lew bounds brought me to the dry bed of the torrent, ten steps from our , tent. I had hunted enough for one day. \ Travels in JlbysAnia. Freedcia of Thought and Opinion. I A GHASTLY EXPERIMENT. Spirits of wine poured on a teaspoonfui of , common salt in a vial, well shaken, and then i put on either lamp-cotton or low, and ignited, | will burn with a peculiar, colored flame giving ■ out purely yellow rays. This mysterious effect changes the appearance of all earthly objects. Coral Jip.s become a livid hue ; rosy cheeks turn ghastly pale : red cap ribbons become black ; m tact, everything appears different from what it does by (lie white light we are familiar with; and of all thirsts the human face undergoes the greatest change. Very young children should not be shown this experiment; for though there will be laughing lips and dazzling eye?, yet they are of such unearthly color, ■ that-old friends would appear with new faces, and a child would scarcely know its own ; mamma. SINGULAn INS TINCT IN MICE. Mr. Sanderson, of M-tal Hill, Sunderland, furnishes us witn a somewhat novel mode of catching mice which lie practised with effect, some yeais ago. Having fixed a trencher near I i shelf by two pins near the centre upon which d swung, he placed upon the lighter end some bait, and underneath it a mug of water. As ! the mice ran across the trencher to the bait, i the lighter side went down, and they were | thrown into the water, and drowned. Having ha ! occasion to try the plan again, a short time ago, he found to his surprise, the bait eaten, but no mice caught, and at last discover ed that while some of the mice crossed the trench- r to reach the bait, others held on bv the edge of the trencher, and prevented its precipitating their companions into the water. JREOCLARCV SOLO OCT. —During the month of January, !8b(), while stopping at the Sutter I! ease, in Sacramento city, California, J acci dentally overheard a conversation between two gentlemen, one of whom was from New York city, and had been in the country nearly a year, and the other had just arrived. i he new-comer was lamenting his condition, and bis •' !'y in leaving an abundance at home, .-.nd especially two beautiful daughters, who were just budding into womanhood—when he asked t lie V w Yorker if he had a family. '•Yes, sir : I have a wife and si, children in rt£ttrs\'V" commenced : '■Was you ever blind, sirV' "No, sir." "Did vou marry a widow, sir "No, sir." Anoth'-r lapse of silence. "Did I understand you to say sir, that you had a wife 3tut six children living in New York, a in! had never seen cne ol them f "Yes, sir—l so stated it." Another and a longer pause of silence.— Then the interrogator again inquired : "How can it be, sir, that you never saw* one ot them V "Why," was the response, "owe of them was born after 11- ft." * . "Oh ! alt !" and a genera! laugh followed; and after that the New Yorker was especially iistinguished as the man wh<> "had six children, and never saw one of them. ' A Nr.w DILI, OF lit CS — A wag has made up a sun :.ary ol what he callsthe -'lnaliena ble Rights of Americans," and which are not enumerated in ihe Declaration of Independence. There is a vein cf poignant sarcasm running through it : To know any trace or business without apprenticeship or experience. To man v without, regard to fortune, slate of hea tii, position of parents or friends. To have wile and children depend nt on the contingencies ot business, and incca p oi sudden death, leave them wholly unprovided I for. To put o/Tupon hireling strangers the literary, moral and religious education oi children. To teach children no good trade, hoping they will have, when grown up, wit enough to live on the industry ot other people. To enjoy the general sympathy when made bankrupt by reckless speculations. To cheat the "government, it possible. To hold office without being competent to discharge its duties. To build houses with nine and six inch walls, and goto the tun :a sul tenants, firemen, and others, killed hy their fall, weeping over the mysterious dispensations ot 1 rovidence. i To build up cities and towns without parks, j public squares, broad streets, or ventilated blocks, and cail pestilence a visitation ot Cicd. Tins Goes FOK Norn INC.. — It is related of that singular but g tled man, John Kandol; !i, that being, as was supposed, upon his death bed, several persons v\ bo had been tus enemies called upon him to offer acts oi kindness. Among others of these was the hie John C. Calhoun, who desired a reconciliation with Randolph before his death, especially lor its political benefits. Randolph received him kindly, accepted his proffers of sympathy, and freely lomave him ff-r his previous opposition and accepted an amicable settlement ot all difficul ties. , r Calhoun was delighted with this mani.esta tion ol kindness, but what was his surprise when on taking Rave ol the exhausted and, as it was supposed, dying Randolph, the latter calhd him hack to his bedside with this excla mation : "Now, Calhoun, remember, if I get well, all this goes lor nothing." He did gel well, and took an active part in politics, but never spoke to Calhoun again during the bal ance of his days. It did all go for nothing. Taylor, after all is, only s journtv- man printer, and his "Tales oi a Travel er," might just as truly be termed "Travel of a Taylor." NOISE IN THE SICK ROOM.— It is extraordina ry how many persons, unused to the sick room, mistake certain noises for quiet. When sucli people have to walk across the room, they da so with a balancing sort of movement that makes every plank creak uneasily. Their very dress rattles in away that would make the fortune of a rattle snake. If anything has to be said, it is spoken in a loud whining whisper, that conceals the words but makes the most irritating of noises. Now the silence of a sick room must not be labored, it mut be natural. Shoes that do not creak must be worn, and in walking, the foot must be put down carefully, of course, but with a firm step, that comes gently, yet steadily, on the floor. This will not make thp creaking sound caused by the toe pointed, gingerly mode of movement so much adopted by those whose experience of sick rooms is small. The dress must be made of some noiseless material, wool or cotton ; silk must be avoided, for it squeaks with every movement. In speaking, the pitch of the voice must be slightly raised, and the words, instead of being hissed, as in whispering, should be clipped short, and cut distinctly. By this means the person spoken to /.'ill hoar what is sait' 5 while the least possible souifd accompanies the word.— BnrtcelPs Care of the Sick. ". M'j'mwk Dutch." —The following story is good because it is true. We had it from the lips of a good woman, who was told it by the principal actor herself : "Yen I first come to Filadelfv to serve, I was very uncivilized." said Katarine, now a lidv, intelligent servant in a respectable family : "I laugh mooch, and I feel mooch ashamed to remember how I behave ven I know so little. Shon, that was my beau then—Shon, he took me to (lie theatre one night, when I been in Filadeily hut three weeks. We sits in the gallery, and we not see good, and Shon said he would g-t a better seat. So lie puts his leg round de post, and shlides down mid de pit, and he looks up and calls out. 'Katarine! Katarine ! cooin down ! tish a good view here " and I leaned over, and said I : "How can I coom Siion ?" And lie said : 'Just shlide down.' So I put my legs round de pillar, and shlides down, too. Donder! how de peoples laugh ! Dey laugh so dey play no more dat night upon the stage. Every body laugh, and yell, Mid whistle all over de house! I was much it." MRS. PARTINGTON PATUIOTIC. — "Hurra!" said Ike, as he read the fact in the papers, "here's O'Regan admitted to the Union." "A furriner, I should judge," remarked Mrs. Par tington, looking very wisely at the steam that rose from the tea-cups end formed in one cloud near the ceiling, "but I'm glad they've let fi.irr come to enjoy our political rights and lefts and other prerogatives. There's room enough, and the rear of our institutions should be extended. I don't believe a man should be cut of] because he wasn't born in this country for twenty-one years, which of course wasn't any fault of his, for everybody would be born here if they could have their own auction consulted." 'lt means.' said Ike, "a new State." "Well, child," re plied she, "the odds is only the difference— State or man, "lis all the same. Let ein come into our grand consternation, where the eagle shall spread its broad opinions over 'e:n, and make 'c:n hanpv in an unlimited bondage ol brotherhood, like the Siamese twin.-." A LIVING FAITH.— In a public school in New York,a short time since, on an alarm of fiie a terrible panic, ensued, and many of the schol ars were injured by rushing to the doors, an 1 one ol the teachers a young lady, jumpeu from a window. Among the hundreds <d children with whom the building was crowded, was one girl among the best in the school who through all the frightful scene maintained entire com posure. The color indeed lorsook her cheek. Her lip quivered. The tears stood in her eyes but she moved not. After order had !>een re stored, and her companions had been brought back to their places, the question was asked hei how she came l<> sit still, without apparent a larm when everybody else was in such a liight "My father," said site, "is a fin man and h told me if there was an alarm of fire in thi school, I must just sit still." AN ANTI-SICKLES AFFAIR.-JA gentleman o high social consideration, in Georgia, recentL made the discovery that his wife was unfaitlifu to him. Waiting his opportunity, lie found th guilty pair, together, and politely showed then The way to the sheet door, which he closed af ter them. He then sent a servant for an un dertaker, Ol dered the arrangements for a funeral sent out cards of invitation to his friends, anc over the empty coffin performed the ceremony for a departed "wife. This over, he delivered the lioht burthen to the hearse, and once more addressing his friends, called tor their congratu lations upon the fact that he was now a widower—upon which, opening the folding doors, he intioduced them to a splendidly pie pared feast. The gayeties which thus introdu ced his happy return to "single life" were pro longed till morning. PROFANITY. —The famous Dr. Johnson nev er suffered an oath to go unrebuked in In- pres ence. When a libertine, but a man of some note, was once talking before hiln, ami inter larding his stories with oaths, Johnson said, 'Sir, all this swearing will do nothing for your story, 1 beg you will not sweat. ' The muta tor went on swearing. Johnson said, "I must again entreat you not to swear." The gentle man swore again, and Johnson indignant.\ quitted the room. 52P""Buv a trunk, Pat," said a dealer.— "And what for should I buy a trunk ?" rejoined Pat. "To put your clothe* in," was the reply. "An'go naked 1" exclaimed Pat. "The divi! a bit of it 1" WISOLE Xl'ttßEK 2813. ' iwo IVBONGS MAKE A RIGHT. —In the course of a conversation between several gentlemen, one of them had occasion to rjuote the common saying,'two wrongs do not make one right." ''Sometime s they do," interposed a seedy looking bystander, with a down-east nasal twang; "they did with me once." "How was that ?" '* Val," replied the Vankee, "there was a fellow passed on to me once a one dolhr bill, and it was a counterfeit. Wasn't that wrong?" 'Certainly it wa3 wrong, if he knew it to be counterfeit." "V. al, expect he did ; I did. any way, when I passed it to another chap. Now* wasn't that wrong ?" "Wrong!—of course : very wrong." "Wal, it made me 'all right," was the triumphant rejoinder ; " so two wrongs docs make a right sometimes." Kxow-NoTfliXGisM—The editor of a Georgia paper overheard the following conversation on the re-opening of the slave trade : "Clem, I SP tell you. if dey* gwine to 'deavor to fotch ilem 'ported niggers ober dis way, which i hear dey be, dere'il be a fuss in de family sure. 'Spert dey want us lo 'sociato wid dem niggers on 'quality. Neber do it sure." "Sam, dun you raly tifrk dey'li iotch dem niggers here ?" "for saitin, Clem. I heard massa sav dare was five thousand 'ported sonf in Carolina, and half of dem now ready in dis State. I tel 1 vou, Clem, if one of dem forin, unat'alized niggers calc'late to 'sociato wid dis cliiie, he is a boin' do wrong Somethin' will hit him like mule kicked him, for sartain, and it won't be dot animal eder." Or# 2 *A highwayman undertook to rob Major Jones. He nut Jones ir. a wool over in Jersey. He asked Jones for his pocket book. Jones re fused to yield. Highwayman took Jones bv the neck, and undertook to choke him. Jones made fight and kept it up for half an hour. At the expiration of that time Jones caved in, and the highwayman ceinmenced rifling his pockets. The contents amounted to eighteen cpnts. "Is that all you've got V' "Every cent." What made you fight so long?" "Didn't want to be exposed. * Had enough to have only eighteen cents ; a great deal worse the whole world to know it." taken pains 10 asceriunrifTarrvc X-J-•. Pike's Peak. He says that it is difficult to find any one who knows anything about the gold; there are big stories everywhere of rich placres in this and that place, but when you go there, it is like tlm milk sickness, somewhere else.— He says :—"I would advise all who think of going, to wait till the Ist of May: if the mines are realiv rich, they will keep till after that time, and if they are not, we will by that time have ample testimony upon the subject." A GOOD ONE.—A few days since, a rough country looking fellow entered one of the New York Banks, and marching up to the counter exclaimed, "Here I am, I want you to take a fair look at me." Without a word further he strode out. The next day the same customer ap peared, uttered the same words, and again dis apneared. The third day, at about the same lime, he walked in, and advanced to the teller's desk, threw down a draft payable three days after sight. "Now," said he, "you've seen me three times, I want the money for it." SINGULAR ! — it is generally observed that persons ol about forty years, especially young ladies of that age, are so very forgetful of those with wnom they were acquainted in child hood. This remarkable dimness of memory ha-- been appropriately styled "The darkness of the middle ages." [HP* A book-keeper was "engaged," but could not get married at the specifivd time, owing to want of funds. "The time was fixed for yesterday," said a liiend. "I know it," rejoined he. "Then why were you not married ?" "Well," said "he, looking very :erious, and approaching his ear confidentially, "the fact is, 1 have got an extension [GP""Mother, I shouldn't be surprised if our Susan gets choked some day." "Why, my son ?" "Because her beau twisted his arm ronnd her neck the other night, and if she had not kissed him to let him to let her go, he would have strangled her. (CP* Money Lender—"You want a hundred dollars IjHere's the money. 1 charge five per cent, a month, and as you want it for a year, that leaves just forty dollars coming to you." Innocent Borrower —"1 hen if I wanted it for two y-.ars, there'd be something coming to you." (£P*A lady, when told that Mr. Beecher w33 about to deliver a lecture on Burns, sugges ted the equal necessity ot a lecture on "scalds." Mr. Beecher is so constantly in hot water, that he ought to be pre-eminently qualified to handle sush' a theme. A farmer, the other day, was fold by his landloid that he was going torais* his rent.— "Much obliged," said he, "for I find it impossi ble to raise it myself." is a man in Connecticut, so lazy that he relu.-ed to be a candidate for Congress, ami when asked the reason, he said it was be cause "he would have to run for ri.' 33^"Whoever is afraid of submitting any quest ion, civil or religious, lo the test ot free discussion, is more in love with his own opinion than with truth. (Er The printers of New Haven, Conn., have formed a society called the "Stick and Rule Club." VOL. 2, NO. 37.
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