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CHURCHES, MINISTERS, *C.
Pr&rferian, Bev. * B. CORK, Partor.—Preaching «r
-rrr aShf^ l VsU o'clock, and in the evening at
tfSock? SabhatfcSebwlatSp'ckek;A.M,iattwW
t&Uopni. Prayer Meettog.aregr ffedneaday waning tor
Pwr v Bi^A. WnAWtopMtar<—Pmch-"
inunptog *t 11 o’clock and Ip theevoh-
Z Ueturepodm
«?'danwal Prayer Mretlnginaame roofn cVery Wcdne*-
Sy MeSng. Young Men's Prayer Meeting every ,Prt|j£
LuVuran, Rev. J .vcoa Sttat,. ■
iwttnn SabUlh raornln* at o'clock, and atBU o'clock 1
.Pt|.Si.i*C SabbithSctiool lu the Lcctnrefioowat
3U o'clock,!’. M. Prayer Meeting la aanw.room every
SUfteeday evening. _ _v! ~ ’ ■ ;
railed arriirea, llev. D. Brack,
tit Sabbath morning at 10 Jd o’clock and In |b« evehlnght
% o'clock. s»bbaUi School In Jtoiow'MO,
o’clock, A. M. Prayer Meeting werywedheeday evening
ifnmeroohi. ‘
TVo&honl JCpitcopal, Rov.R. M^Ouva^P^.— Mvtao
MnWth Sunday* of eachmonlh at IOJt o’rtjck
Aril, and 4J4 P. M. Sunday School atSp'clockA. M.
QUhrt(. Uf\. Jon* Twtous, PartoTr—Preaching at
dvjoctln thr mu'ntng. and attlUln the afternoon.
Ipe, B. u. Pun, Paetor— Preaching every BaW-ath
at 10V£ o'cltick, ahdWau in the evening. Sabbath
glfool at 9 o'clock, A. M.' Prayer Meeting .every Wcdnc*-
Rev. Sk»m* Cm, Partor.—Preaching
•Vert Sabbath morning at JU o'clock pud in the evening, In
CW old tJnlou School donee'. , '•
ALTOOHA-MML. SCHEDULE.
, ' MAILS CIiOSK.
AmlWii Way and UoUldajtbnrgat -
»•«•« “i
Haßiitojilnir;
KUrtcm Throush Mall
Weethra Trough, (Saturdays,)
MAILS AfiRJT*
Sutem Through Moil, - 8 36 A,Jf.
Wrftcrn Wnjr aud UullhUytlmrg, - • 11 SO & ML
fcrttxn 845 ,>*■
OBee open for the trannctioh of bueinrje* front 3 A-M
-to 8 P. M.. during the and to t ffdock, A. K.
eu.Snndajr. ■ V:/i-■,-> V * -
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RAILROAD SCHEDULE.
SmwTrsto Ksit wrivee 6,50 A. teATM-TAD-A. X.
Wort- “ ' • •
Vml " JUrt “ RAO P. ML “ 30,10 P.M.
“ “ Wert “ 1,35 A. H.. •« A.'M.
XIU « X*rt “ “ “ 11*0 * *
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The HOLUIUTBBCBO BRANCH comeete rtthlnnw
Twin Bert Mid We*L*9d yitb 3UD£nrtn
Til*^LAlESV'lWSlßAJlCn^o«wwt*^Wu»iK«D
T*ofe6l6Br2l^MB;
MEETINGS Oj( ASSQCUtTtOSiB>'
Mountain A. T. SIL Ka'SSli mee4aoneecdndTaea>
iv of each month, (nttoThtraafarjr of the Boaouic Xem
puw^njoviock.r.si.
Jliiflua* Encampment, A: T. if, Ro 10,' ufeeta on the
toMMy of each month,'fb IJ»o third storyofthe Ma
at 7k; o'clock, F.|L : . : l
Altnma Isidgt, 1.0. of O. f 473, meets every Friday
«****,secondstoryoflhe'Manorilf Temple,at7J£
Vrrt»da loigt, T.O. of O. F„No. 532.’meet* every Friday
third
HTnarteja JWBe*ko- 86, X. ‘0.8. If, hold Mated Own
eU» every fn*ad»y evening bi'lhoO.Ti Hall, In the
Tjnudf. ■Oounrif Fire kindledAtTtb ma 30th
w*«« ; TT. A.ADAM3, C h/A * '{JnirirtS, *B7-1/
J amor &tu of America, Oman K 0.31. meets every Mo«-
** t^9 Salt, at 7J£ o’clock
Fhtkapfoa Omp, JVa. M, Ji & A., -meetaerery
Tq ;*“J "wane, in the aTstor*<*Fattea’UlaU. J.
Altoona Duti&n, Jfb. 3W, A. qf- JVtheetievfety Bator
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Altoona ikehudd’ —r-~f ffrnrfini ffwna ilmunttr
?• V“ T“*“f CT< « ta * lB **«b*»o«h. Soom opes from
«to 10 o'clock »Y«ryete n fa> K (g^j,^ le^.P'
. 59UMTY ofFictjtG,
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K ciiri to Co*mStoim~nuA X. Caldwell.
ihrcaKtiU ApprotocTWoeeph O.AdJamT:
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Morrow, A. ft JtfcCvtoey, M
.Cbronrr—William Fox, '- . rj
**ffuUottenf qf iibinmon &AOOU-Johnlfcan. ' J,' r
ALTOONA BOROUGH OFFICERS-
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M. Jones. j--/ ■.< ;> £ "
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W. Pattern, C. B. Slalt. a C.
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“ u * Jacob Good;: ,_\
fete-
LARGK AMOUNT
“tom# JPS°.9.? S , lias lKH ' n received
aor l HollMaysbnrpt, which will be
Cash price*, wholCßalo or retell. The
to call. - [Dcc?l7, tf.
LEHR'S STORE IS IN
r ATES, PRUNES, CITRONS
unU In store and for sale tv
jTardi9<'»eq'V i , TVM. y. "SIIOOAED,
..19l.»ortli8a utrit-tjl'lilUd.djjhia.
LBAD AND ZINC
' STANTrAIID patent
u-e. wig?;*
jytd jflftrg.
“I AM SOT OLD.m
BT fJUUt MMMJAMOI,
H«B not old—tbeoghjreata have east ■
IMrdiidnngnßjlqr; ' •
X Mn not oU—tbooffa jp'ooth linn poHed
Oanjtid wlng*«w«jr; ■ ~
VOrtnav-boartofoantainaow*,
Anji roaaditple*wnt thought* repose,
Ana »ypath to* ond footing* high
’ Spring like itars on ovening** iky.
• • -->■ . '
I am not old—lime may haTOMt
. .....
And tome .feint farrow* thert hnTqjML ...
, 'WKich.cnre.BAjr dampen,nojr; ,
j. Tet Love, food Joto n chaplet mw .
' Offfoghyonng bod* and esnlant leniee, ’
* And. atm I fancy, l ean twine V j
Thoughts swvetasflujron that once weteinlne.
lam nut old—the cnonjr; tings
That’a (Uienott mjr hair.
What is U but a id Tar fringe
That raaksrthe head jnon fclr I
a Bad oontnat, tnajrKe, to the brown
Which mod todoekvinjr early crown;
“ Bot.lrt the »«illct6k«i* »t*y,
Kolnqaxlßof jajraoiSligray.
• vlßfo«ototdr-thoagli.l aunt leave - I
... Thiadarth and teat nat; '
" Soon,grfeco ■. ■
' Tor tfaoaa nhom hpwtorarbaat ' ■ ■
- What tlMbugh shall fade
.JaAg*’* mid «sii glow? tiuido,
I abaii regain the light, and be
Yugthpd in .inunortaliQ, .
ID 00
Hdttt Ipscfllanir.
We believe this pleasant amusement for
boys and girls, and sometimes those of
raorematore age, originated an -Germany,
where it was called vief UcbcheA, which as
spokenhas these \xsiofphtzwfan ; which
may have been of the word, to
which wehaie|psftu ahatin termination,
pen*, betanaehtiafrrs a penalty or forfei
twte if t|ie tact or man
.flptt!¥ith. *?
tne thing is managed, .however, excessive
ly wifltottt skill. person
&id
ed almond, and tim meat to
«ay»i orrathershoutd say:
Von eat a ; with me ?”~
Wie p%or mag:^y: "I am afraid,” Ind
refuse,or may* of the nets, and
oat it, at: the
pirty ea*s #»e otter!'? Thus theyseparate
Dtrt\whett. they meet .agun the one that
can sw# fast to the
to
nameswhere itsbaHbe. (fcneisdly, among
children, some or* among young
folks, some little present, suitaoic to the
condition pf therparties; 'Thus, a young,
lady who wins a philopena of a gentleman ,
may
lads.”.; If ttife parses meet in the street,
the lady may nay, /‘G, yes, I see you no
tice my paraaolis getting old. Well, then,
I accept.” But .the gentleman must nev
er alludfl to her. want' of an article, but ez
crcise hia p& tpwhatwouldbe
acceptable. Generally, in our baste to
win a philopena, we forget propriety, and
become rude In this land of thrift and
hiiny. / The fldng is far better and more
pleasantly managed in Germany, and calls
u*to'exercise some of tbs moot useful far.
culties of the mind. Whea t couple meet
the next timeafter eating a philopena to
gether, no istmten oif tbe other
until one of them pronounces the word
“ This is the warning that
tbe sport xb to begin.’ ■ lief us suppose that
agentlemancalls ppon a lady; jshe invites
«P» towdkin, but at the Same tame speaks
thetaKsmanie word. If he accepts tbe
otfe td w»lk in, he is
jbjh by telUnghim to go away,
bat, hemuat
lceep it on ;, or if at a table
w h*®- suDcy article which be
ihe vtii»‘ the forfeit. At the
S?wm|ug£,he is watching to catch hey off
wf ®wMr”fpr the acceptance of any offer
from the other, ends the game. Both are
exercising their wits to prevent
being caught, and the sport oftengoes on
all the evening. Perhaps the gentleman
brings j. little present saying, h Knowing
that 1 |hould lose my philopena, X have
it is” If she is
paugnt off har guard ■■ by this smodth
she loses, ' for he Igunediately
amims a IbneS. If neither wins at first
meeting, the sport is continued at the
second; and it may happen that half a
dbren parties meet at the same time, ad
anxious to win of their philopena partners;
so that the scene often becomes ludicrous
ly amusing.
How preferable is this German play to
our own! And as the sportdesvrod’mmh
philopena is very innocent and, pretty, jfe
commend it to the young folks of Ame
rica. ■ ,■
11 00 A.IL
8 00 A.M.
« 10 P.H.
800 “
800 “
Mother vou musn’t whip ne for
running awsw from school any more!
“Why/*’ “Because my school boot says
<tbat ants are the most industrious beings
in tiie tforld: and'ain’t I a tru-arUt” ~
. cannot aUoulacture consignee
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ALTOONA, PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1858.
The “Poison Wind.”
A Busman nobleman, who has been
traveling in Africa, gives the following
account of the Samieli, Simoon, or poison
Wind, which is such in object of interest
and terror to alTclasses and ail battens.—
He says: The Samieli is felt in (he Desert
from about the middle of June to the 21st
of September. It is experienced with a
very vtelentaouth west wind, and on those
days when the heat of the sun is most ar
dent It is burning j it comes in gusts
more or less scorching, of more or lesg
duration; each of them, however, even
the shortest, exceeds the time that a man
50814 hold his breath. . This wind consists
iii ‘a succession of burning,and cool gusts.
In the first, there is frequently a double
degree of heat and impetuosity. The dif
ference between the not and cold gusts
according to my observation, is from 7 to
10 degrees. The highest degree of the
hotgusts was 73 deg. of Farenheit; the
temperature in the sun, without the Sa
mieli, having been Constantly from 53
deg. to 57 deg. I thought Icould observe
that when this wind blows, a yellowish
tinge, inclining to livid, is diffused through
the atmosphere; and that, in its most vio
lent periods, the sun becomes of a deep
red.; Its odor is infectious and sulphure
ous ; it is thick and heavy, and when its
heat' increases, it almost causes suffoca
tion. It Occasioned a. pretty copious per
spiration, partly excited by the uneasiness
which one feels, and the difficulty with
which one breaths, on account of its foetid
quality. This perspiration appears to me
more dense and viscioiis than the natural
perspiration; the wind itself deposits an
unctuous fluid. The better to *Tan?iqy
its qualities aud-its nature, l opeaed my
mouth to the palate and throat
were it produced the
same eiffcct when 1 inhaled through the
nostrils, but more slqwiy. To preserve
one's self fsom it, and. keep the perspira
tion more free, iMs usual to wrap up the
with a icm«ltccchief. In passing (he
tissue it losses a part of its action and of
its destructive principle, and besides the
breath keeps up i degree of humidity, and
hinders the burning idr from suddenly
penetrating into the mouth and lungs.-
The Arabs, therefore, are accustomed,
whatever the heat may he, even in the
shade, to wrap the whpm body, not excep
ting (he head, in their mesehtah, (cloak,)
if they desire to sleep. wind causes,
by the rarificawon tbiteattends it, a pretty
strong, agitation in the blood; aud this in
creased movement soon' brings on weak
ness. It in general produces on man two
effects cUstinctiy characterized. It strikes
him with a kind of asphyxy, or
causes bun a great debility. The corpse
of a person so suffocated has this peculiar
ity, that du a few days, or even hours, as
some Arabs affirm, thp limbs separate at
tike joints with the slightest effort so
powerful is the action p£ the poison on the
muscular parts, giving astonishing activi
ty to the progress of putrefaction: Such
a corpse is reported contagious. I know
nothing so tcrrible as this wind; some in
terruptions, one of which was for three
days and three nights successively. My
interpreter, Mrl Bossdl, was struck by it,
huf escaped death by of blood;
That which confirms what I have said of
th« separation of the limbs, is, that, hav
ing been struck by-this air, I was affected
forsome weeks withan extreme weakness;
and toe'leaSt warm wind blew
ohme* I feltand perceiv
ed in nay Joints‘ a relaxation of the mus
cles. . •; a ■=
The dangers of this Jwind are guarded
agaiusthy inhaling fames of good vin
egar, and covenng the iaoe with the hand
kerchief. I naked the ..Arabs if lying
down; on the ground was r preservative
igainst it; they assured me it Was not. I
should hie inclined myself to think it pre
judicial. ?
Cabbage and Ditto. —We have just
heard a cabbage story, Which we will cook
Up for our laughter loving readers.
' | X loves ypu Bice anything/ said
a young copitryninp; ;to las sweetheart,
warmly pressing herhand. •
* < Ditto/ said' she gently returning the
pretoups. ' | - v :: :
Theardent lover, not happening to be
oyer And above learned, was sorely pus
zled to understand thja meaning pf ditto,
but waspshamed tp ejnrose his ignorance
girl Be v weot home, and
the '%e£k day being at yrotk in the cabbage
yard with hisfather,he spoke out — T
/ Baddy, What’s the meaning of ditto?’
;• * Why/ said the old man, ‘this here is
one cabbage-head, aint it ?’
‘Yes, Daddy.’ . .
‘Well,U»at are’editto.’
good for-nothin’ ga| V ejacu
lated the indignant son, * she calledWm
and I’Uhe'darhed to
Hon if ever I go to see her again/
SQL. A gentleman at a musical party,
seelqg tb&t the fire was going oat, asked a
friend, in a whisper, « How can I stay the
fixe without interrupting the music?”
“Between the bars/' replied the friend.
? mj\. 11. 'leii l * '■■■ ■ II |- in;. I J, (1,1. . ,
" iHft* Bacon says beautifully; “He that
robsin darkac-ss l>roakB~Hdd ? e lock”
• !. •' v.
[independent in everything.]
A Sensation Stomas given by Samuel
Sohnsing to Brudder Wite.—Mr. Wite
does you eber dispill de expression ob
spiritawhen you’s laborin under luoina
tionobicarniyeroua detractions wid litery
possoots ? N
Brudder Wite.—Wha—wha —toha dat ?
,S. J.—-Do you eber, Mr. Wite, read de
magazines, de newspapers, and dem like
saorificators ob do mantallects? Jiat you
gib four cents for de New York Ledger.
I's bin a readin sicb a putty story in da.
Sich a story. It was jist de most inter
est dat eber was, and data foo done gone
for sartin.
B. W.—Bound to hyar dat story. —
Jist am.
S. J. —Nuf to make a feller trimble
ober. Bern stories is always so Barrein.
Law blebs you, honey, day claws you, and
skeers you like a cat does a mice, dat’s a
fac.. Just tink of a feller’s bein in a bat
tle, kilim all de enemy wid an ole broom
handle, ketcheu up do bloody willin ob a
Fits Olarhm de Suortilo, an flinging him
up more’n eleben miles-*—
B. W.—-Jis—jis, you shut up. Ya-h !
who you spoae gwiue to believe—
S. W'.- —Dot's what de Ledger sea, any
how. Well, den, arter killin de willin, de
feller takes one tremendous leap arter de
flyin foo, froo de atinusfere, ; pin tin his
pistils at de treotin enemy, wen de flints
strike fiah in his volyer and blow up de
pecussin caps— -
P TY—Wa—wa dat. How could a vol
vdr pistol hub flints and cushum caps too ?
S J—Dot’s what the Ledger says. —
Well den, de fellow got participated into
tile briny deep, and arter dat he sun come
into his eyes an he gits blind an swum for
fourteen thousand miles. Weil, den, dc
chap cums to a desert islan wha dere
wusn't nuffin to eat,. an nobody to to
oh any consequence, an no sciety worf
mentiouim, an da he libs for fourteen yeas.
B W—See hyar. Jist tell us. how dat
man libed fbteen yeas da, when be coudu’t
git nuffin to eat ?
SJ. Da’s wha de Ledger sez anyhow.
Well den, de man’s tru lub \fhat he
had’nt seen for nineteen yeas, and he
started one morning to swim arter a wes
sel, kase he seed his sweetheart abo’d up
in de rigging. You see she went to se
dispiaed as a sailor. An only tint, it jist
shows what tru lub can du, an ain’t it
wondful now and dirt’s jis a fac ; dat gal
jist went an drest herself up in sailor close,
an dere wasn’t one sole aboard, nor de
captin nuther, did’n kuqw she was a gal.
And de chap ho jumps into de sea, to
swim.to de wcssel, but jib den dare sprung
up a tremenjus gale, and washed him off
for eber so far, till he cums to the foot of
a foftyfiedcation, an kase arter dark,
an de front door was shut, he jist climbed
up to one oh de cannins, and crept iu de
mouf ob de canniu, and lay down and
went to sleep.
Now stop dar. I should jist like to-hab
you cxpressify to me how a man’s gwine
to git in de mouf of de cannin ?
Well, .dat’s wot. do Ledger says; an
while he wap asleep, dere cum on a war in
de night ’tween de two countries, and de
cannins were all fiah'd off, and the got
shooted hack agin into dat vera identiclc
desert idao. Well, durin de night, de
ship got recked, and oberybody got drown
ed, oept de gal, an she swum asho'au up
to Where de feller lay souq asleep.
B. W. ; Now, you mean to* say dat dat
feller hadn’t done got waked up de whole
time, while he Was shooted out de cannon
an’ fell onto the island?
S. J. Bat’s wot de Ledger says; never
waked up at all; and de gal she seed her
lubber, mid grate big tears cum into her
eyes, and she creeped up ebber so sofly
and layed dawn by bis side, and jis put
her putty wite arms rouu bis neck an was
jis a gain to kiss him, wen all at wunst—-
Chorus. Go on fgoon !
8. S. Bair it sc*.—-‘to be continued.’
Bat’s wot de Ledgersez.
, Tiie llermlt of the Mountain.
, Wilburn Waters, the hermit .of Pond
Mountains, in the White Top region of
Virginia, has killed four bears within the
last three weeks, one of them exceedingly
large.. The Abigdon Virginian says of
this singular man;
# ‘Bor more than twenty! yean he has
lived Hone in the solitude of that -vast
mountain icgioe, devoting his' tiipe to
hunting and stock-raising. He claims,
webellcve, to be a half-breed of the Cat
awba tribe, and is a man of great physical
power. He owns about one thousand
acres of land, and raises and sells large
numbers of cattle and hogs, and takes vast
quantities of wUd honey. Although he
lives entirely alone, the latch-string of his
©•bln is always put, ### nothingpeeais to
beinore
dispensation of _ his hospitalities. But
poor mw», be pbw has ho latch-string or
oabm. During a few days* ah§nce, four
3 rel *« g.M.fm kome »
bank of ashes, and all thatbisbouae con
tained consumed. When we were therdl
last'week,- he had bhilt a fire upon the
spot where his domioil stood, andwepar
j took pf Ms hd»pitali|ies; upon alogj in the
Sair>DoBt Literature.
open air. Since bis residence upon the
Pond Mountain he has captured'B6 bears,
86 wolves, and upwards of 300 deer, and
a countless number of wild turkeys and
the varmints of the hills. _ He is forty-six
years old, has lived about half that time
at his present locality, and has never been
at Abingdon bat twice, though only thir
ty miles from it.
Opinions of Distinguished Basl*
ness Men.
“ Advertise your business. Do hot
hide your light under a bushel, What
ever your calling or occupation may be,, if
it needs support from the public, advertise
it thoroughly and efficiently in some shape
or other that will arrest public attention.
I freely confess that wbal success J hive
had in life may fairly be attributed more
to the public press than to nearly all other
causes combined. There may possibly;be
occupations that do not require advertis
ing, but I cannot well conceive what they
are.—P. T. Barnum.
“ I have always considered Advertising
—liberally and long—to be the great med
ium of success in business, and the prelude
to wealth. Apd 1 have made it an invari
able rule, too, to advertise in the dullest
times, a long experience having taught
me that mony thus spent is well laid optj
as by keeping my business continually
before the public, has secured many sdlles
that I otherwise would have lost.”—Ste
phen Girard.
“ Whatever success I may have had; in
business 1 owe mainly to continuous Ad
vertising, and I deem it good policy to ad
vertise long in the same papers. From a
close observation, I am fully convinced
that it is impossible to make much head
way in any branch of commerce, without
the facilities which the Press alone can
give.”— Jacob Ridgeway.
“ My motto through life has been —
work apd Advertise. In business, adver
tising is the true Philosopher's stone, that
turns whatever it touches to gold. 1 have
advertised much, both in the weekly; as
wbll as iu the daily papers; nor have I
found that those of the largest circulation,
of either class, benefitted me the most.” —
Joun Jacob Astor.
■ “ Advertise! advertise! advertise ! This
is the life of trade, and standing advertis
ments, you will find, will. prove the most
renumerative, at least I have found it so
during my business career thus farj for
should you withdraw a single week from
the paper in which you are ascustomed to
advertise, tea to one that would be the
time when sonic would-be new customers
will look into the paper for your business
address, and not finding it, you will lose
several profitable sales.’ —William Gray
Mr. Meagber’s Apostrophe to
Gold.
We are- 1 confident that our readers will
peruse with interest the following sketch
of that portion of Hr. Meagher’s eloquent
iu which he apostrophizes, the
“filthy lucre.” It is too noble to be’lost,
but it is not superior to the elevated and/
glowing tenor of his whole discourse:
“ Gold, which has caused many a brain
to ache, has blistered many a baud, broken
many a heart, has wounded many a stor
ing soul, and, clinging to it, has brought
it to the dust; gold, which has bought
the integrity of the statesman, and led ills
wisdom captive ; gold, which has silenced
the tongue of the orator, and bought the
flatteries of the poet ; gold, for which, in
the gay saloons of fashion, many a fair,
and noble girl has plighted the vow which
has consigned her life to bitterness, and
looked, upon her radient neck the- snake
that ffer veins with venom; gold,
which has stolen into the councils of the
struggling nation, has bred dissensions
among her chiefs, has the seal of
her sacred secrets, has iorCed tho gates of
her strongest citadels, has bought the evi
dences which hurried her apostles to’ the
scaffold, has bought the votes which made
over her inheritance, to others, and her
glory to a strange people; gold, which has
led the traitor to the garden, and with a
kiss betrayed the Redeemer Pf thc world;
gold, which in so many shapes has' step
ped with a stealthy tread or noted amongst.
men—-which has been the fever, the mad
ness, the despair,—has been in turns, and
in quick succession, the spy, the swindler
the perjurer, the assassin—the foe of in
nocence, the blight of beauty, the bane of
genius; gold has become a fountain of
me and joy and freedom—tho sexpeitthas
beentraasferred into a blossomed wand:
Lucifer has become the morning star, i To
yon (he citizens of America, R must ho
plearing, Indeed, tobehpld a new Repub
lic rising up to share /with you the labors
and glones pf a future, before Which the
conceit of the Old Worn shall he humbled
and in the light of Which humanity shall
grow strong.
IS»A gentleman was threatening to
beat a dog wbo bad barked intolerably. .
.f ‘^ouldi
you beat th§ poor 4umh annual
ouiF " ' “
iggr Ksccember the poor
EDITOKS AND PROPIUETOKS.
fieW In Western ahmbp-
j.,D. Austin, Esq., of the El Paso and
Eort Yuma Wagon-Road Commission,
writes under the date of October 3,1858,
fh>mFortYuma,as follows;
.“Near our old camp, and about fifteen
miles shove this place, a gold mine has
been discovered,, directly on the road,
which is represented as being exceedingly
rich, People are flocking to it from aU
quarters, and numbers of emigrants en
route for &alifomia\ have stopped there.
All the men who leave our expedition are
bound to this new gold discovery. X cent
a Mr. Kent, of our company, who is a re
liable man, and has; spent seven years in
the California mines, to prospect'the'lo
cality for mo. He reports that the pros
pect is good, and that the miners ore ren
ting from 85 to 825 per day. The dis
tance from the diggings to the mines is
from half a mile to a mile. The gold is
found in huujps and is readily washed. I
have as yet seen no dust; and, indeed, no
very small particles from this region.-
Mr. Kent has a brother with ns, who will
accompany the expedition to San Diego,
and then return to the mines. ' The two
brothers are New York farmers, in good
piroumstanoes, and they consider this a
favorable opportunity to bettor their for
tunes.” *
Mr. Austin has charge of this commis
sion, 'which consists of 12 6-mule teams
and fifty men, and left the valley oftho
Rio Grande in August.- Its object was to
increase the water > facilities of tho route,
and improve the condition of tho road be
tween El Paso and Fort Yuma. The ex
pedition arrived at the Western terminus
of the road, Fort Yuma, on the Ist of Oc
tober, and on the Sd started for San Die
go, where the property will be sold and
the commission closed. The gentleman
appointed to superintend the wort being
injured by an accident, which occurred
jus|b before leaving the Rio Grande, the
duty of his post fell on to Mr. Austin, who
was nest in command. He ha? discharg
ed it, apparently, in a very satisfactory
manner, and is’ expected home in Decern*
ber, proximo. Ho will return by the
uthmian route.- Washington Star.
Flatfooted CourtoWg.
One long sammer afternoon thOTo came
to Mr. Davidson’s the most curiooa spe
cimen of ait old bachelor the world over
heard of. He was old, gray, wrinkled and
odd. He hated woman, especially old
maids, and wasn’t afraid to say so. He
and Aunt Patty had it hot and heavy
whenever chance threw them together ;
yet still he came, and it was noticed that
Annt Batty took unusual pains with her
dress whenever he was One
day the contest waged unusually strong—
Aunt Patty left him in disgust and went
out into the garden. “ The bear I” she
muttered to herself, as she stooped to
gather a blossom which attracted her at
tention.
I What did you run away, for V said a
gruff voice close to her side.
‘ To get rid of you/
*' You' didn’t; do it, did you V
I ‘No j you are worse thaii a burdock
but/
‘You won’t get rid ofme, neither/
‘ I won't, .eh t’
‘ Only iu one way.’ '
■ ‘ Aid that.?’
‘ Many me !’
‘ What, ns two fools get married ?
What will people sayV
‘That’s notbing to us.
or n©7 Tin in a huriy/
‘ Well, no; then/
■* Very well, good-by, I ehan-t como
again/ - .
‘YrawnuT
‘i nv
„ *,4? you was of age.
Good-by.^
‘ Jabes Andrews, don’t be a fool. Ooxno
backv I say;
the oritterhas taken me for earnest- ia
be* Andref B ,!’!! consider —*'v ■ •
‘I don’t want no 1 considering. I’tn
gone. Becky Hastings is waiting for me.
I thought Fa give yon the fint.chance.
AH right Good-by.’ 1 * < ■
‘Jabeb —Jabeis! That stuck-up Becky
Hastings shan’t have him If I dm for it.
Jabea— Tc*. Bo you hear l-h Y-e-t. /’
WOMEH SIBOXOEJI JEAN QXEN.—It
is related of ascertain New England di
vine who flourished hot many' yean ago,
and whose matrimonial relations arc sup
posed to l)e of the most agreeable kind,
that, one Sabbath morning while reading
to bia congregation the parable of the sup
per, in Luke XIV, in which occurs thfc
passage: “ And another said Ih&vp
bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to
prove them- I pray thee to have me ox*
cosed, and another said I have marled a
wU% and therefore cannot come,” h$ sud
denly paused at the end this versp,’drew
on his spcctacles "and - looking around od
his hearers said with fediphasis: “ Thd
fact is brethren, , one wonikn oan draw a
infdn further from of heaven
1 than five ycko of oxejf. .
i■> .. ♦
Come,, say yea
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