BY DAVID OVER.
Ir 11rt |5 D ftrt). !
THE DYIXU GIRL TO IIER 3MIX
STREL-LOVER.
BY GEORGE I). PRENTICE.
Minstrel, thy farewell song,
Sad as a dirge heard through the midnight rain,
Falls on my heart—and Love's dear years again
On memory throng.
The music of the pass
Comes floating round me—and young Fancy brings
Sweet dreams of lore and glory on her wings
Too bright to last.
The bow that spanned the years
In Life's young morning glows with blessed ray,
But soon, too soon, its beauty melts away
In cloud 3 and tears.
1 may not hear that tone
Of mornful minstrelsy again. '1 is well
Alas ! that earthly tones should ever swell
So wild and lone.
Minstrel, I love thee now
As first I loved thee. In this raven hair
I twine, as then, thy favorite flowers—but where,
Oh 1 where art thou I
The solitary star,
That rose so sweetly o'er yon mountain's brow
On that blessed eve ot love—'tis rising now
But thou art far.
I gaze yon dear moon
As CT st we gazed ere Love's young ilitarr.s were
dull,
And weep that dreams so passing beautiful
Should fade so soon.
I wander on the spot
Where first we met. The notes of early birds
Bull float upon the air, but thy sweet words—
I hear them not.
I am aioue and fast,
My life is fading from tb earth—this breath
Is faltering now, and the low wind f death
Seems moaning past.
'Tis well, and I have come
To boar in silence. I can calmly sue
Life's last pale blossom wither on its tree,
Then seek my home.
Minstrel, this mournful token
Of love is thine—it is my heart's farewell!
I leave thee soon—oh ! keep it as a spell
Of love unbroken.
AGRICULTURAL.
From the Vermont Stock Journal.
HINTS TO BUYERS OF HORSES.
Many persons who purchase and pay for good
horses, are sadly disappointed with their bar
gains. Of course, many bal bargains will be
made. The really fine animals and the seem
ingly fine to common eyes, appear just alike.
To man, they are very uuiiko aud such purcha
sers are not easily deceived. Still, no man is
beyond being sometimes overreached by an im
posing animal in the hands of an artful jockey
This kind of imposition can never be wholly
prevented, and must be endured.
But there are some causes of dissatisfaction
with the buyer, for which the seller is no way
iu fault. A hoise, or a pair of young horses,
arc bought of a breeder or dealer, which pro
bably have been usod to light work on a farm,
and to daily exorcise. The buyer drives them
a few time" and feeds them high. They are
not bought for regular, steady labor, but for
occasional use, when the owner has leisure.—
After the novelty of the new horses is gone,
they are consigned to the groom. They remain
day after day, and sometimes for weeks, stand
ing on a bard p'.ank, indulged with high feed,
and deprived of all exercise. The horse de
lights in motion: confinement he abhors. Ho
watches the long days to have one come to take
him out and give him a chance to move. The
master very likely seldom sees him, and he is
left to the mercies of the groom.
After a week of inaction, ho is orderod to
be brought out for use. He has been fed high
for a week, and it may be for a fortnight, and
his feet are hot and dry from standing on a
hard dry floor: but be is a fast horse, .and was
perhaps bought bocase ho was fast; consequent
ly, the owner roust drive fast. Ho is driven
eight or ten miles at a rapid pace. lie i 3 cov
ered with foam, and panting for breath. The
owner is surprised. He cannot imagine what
makes the horses sweat so. He bas been well 1
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fad, find not been out of the stable for a week,
lie begins to think the horse is tender, and
lacks a good constitution. When the horse re
turns to the stable, heated with a sharp drive,
how many owners see that they are carefully
rubbed until he is thoroughly dry, and know
by their own observation that the groom is faith
ful.
The horse, with his fine spirit, high courage,
and boundless ambition, will go till he urops
dead in the harness. But whoever wants to
drive fast must remember that, in the first place
the horse must he prepared for it by daily ex
ercise. Secondly, he must not be driven fast
after a full meal ; and thirdly, after being
driven fast, he must have the best of care.—
Horses for fast driving must not carry much
flesh, or they are more liable no injury.
If you arc the owner of a good horse, see
him daily. A little practice will make it
pleasant to you, and you will see how soon he
recognizes you and loves to acknowledge your
caresses. Be careful to whom you commit a
good hoise. A coarse, brutal man is unfit to
have charge of him. The horse is easily won
by kiuduess to the most implicit obedience,
while harshness and violence are very sure to
spoil him.
From the Country Gentleman.
RECEIPT FOR A CHEAP BLEU. —A corres
pondent in your valuable journal, makes in
quiry in reference to brewing spruce beer. As
many of your subscribers may be benefitted
by the followiug recipe, I take pleasure in for
warding it to you. I use it in preference to
coffee iu the morning, in preference to wine at
dinner, and consider it superior to tea at sup
per. It i 3 a valuable and for dyspep
tic patients is a valuable medicine.
Prepare a five or ten gallon keg, in propor
tion to the size of the family—draw a piece of
coarse bohinet, or very ccarse book-muslin over
one cud of the faucet that is inserted iu the
keg, to prevent its choking, a good tight hung,
and near :o tbut a gimlet Lelo, wi.h a pug to
fit it'tight.
Recipe for five gallons. One quart of
sound corn, put into a keg, with half a gallon
molasses; then fill with cold water to within
two inches of the buug. Shake well, and in
two or three days it will be fit for use. Bung
tight.
If you waut spruce flavor, add one tea-spoon
ful of essence of spruce--lemon, if lemon is
preferred—ginger or any flavor you prefer.—
The corn will last to make five or six brewings;
when it is exhausted, rcuew it. Wheu the
beer passes from the vinous to the acetous fer
mentatiou, it can be corrected by adding a lit
tle more molasses aud water.
This is a simple, cheap beverago, costing
about three ceuts a gallon. After the beer be
comes ripe, it ought to be kept in a cool place'
to prevent it from becoming sour before it is
exhausted.
8., Conekuh Co, Ala.,
To KEEP IIAMS IN SUMMER.- -Ono good
way is to put a layer of coarse salt in the bot
tom of a barrel, then lay in a ham and cover
it with salt, and then another, and so on uutil
the barrel is filled. Of course, this salt should
he dry, aud the barrel should he kept in a
place.
Another and better way is to sew each ham
in a coarse cloth bag, then give the whole a
coating of whitewash aud hang up the bag in
a smoke house, cv any dark, cool place.
A sure way ol keeping hams fresh, but not
a noat way, is to bag them as before mentioned
and buryiug the La*in the ash-holc, taking it
out as it is wanted.
We Lave known them to keep very well by
simply wrapping in several thickuess of news
papers and banging in an open garret. A cor
respondent says they also "keep perfectly, as
he has proved, by packing in sweet dry bay
ruu through a hay cutter. Then wrap them
with a single thickness of newspaper, and sur
round each ham with a portion of the hay ; tie
the whole in large cotton bags, and hang in a
dry piaco."
Giubs ar.d Wiro Worms iu Corn Fields.—
Sward laud, ploughed iu the SpriDg for Corn,
is often found filled with worms which arc sure
to make groat havoc with the seed unless they
are exterminated. The following is an excel
lent remedy: After turning under the sod sow
broadcast a bushel and a half of flue salt to
the acre, and harrow it in, following with the
roller. Soak the seed in tepid water about
-eighteen hours. Hissolvo two ounces of sal
ammoniac and add it to the water. This
amount will answer for a bushel of seed, l'iant
the corn soon alter sowing the salt. The seed
will germinate quickly an I the plants will come
forward at once. Between the salt and the
ammonia, the corn will suffer little from the
worms.
THISTLES. —If thistles are cut when iu full
blossom, are carefully kept down thro' the sea-
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, JUNE 2-5, 1858.
son, they will be greatly weukeued and a few
repititions will entirely destroy them. No
weed is more troublesome than the thistle, es
pecially when by long neglect it has become
thoroughly radieatctl, and allowed to spread
its long roots like a uet work through the soil.
When this is the case, the work of eradication
cau only be thoroughly effected by digging,
care being takon to remove all the fibres, and
clear them from the ground by burning or haul
ing them off. When cut green, and put into
the hog yard, they make an excellent manure.
For the Inquirer.
WOODBfiRItY "LOCAL."
WOODBERRV, Juno 14, 1858.
Mr. OVER: —"Romance assujned the air of
history"on laHt Thursday night a week ago,
even in this staid aud practical country, where
all seem to exert themselves for the sole pur
pose of living in the greatest possible harmony
and good will. Ou this occasion, there was an
effort made to revive the Dean and Boker farce
which occurred in New York, and was con
sidered tLe eighth wonder of the world by the
"upper-ten for several mouths, wheu ali tho
fishy came to the conclusion that it was only a
marriage of taste.
Our story, it appear?, runs thus, as reported
by those intimately acquainted with the facts,
aud, to some extent, interested:
Miss Wilkes, daughter of Mr. Wilkes, the
lessee of Rebecca Futuace, became enamored'
with a young man named William Maloue, in
the employ of her father, as master miner, and
alter keeping up a secret correspondence for a
considerable length of time, on last Thursday
utght a week siuce, during the absence of Mr.
\\ ilkes in Philadelphia, she stole out of tho
mansion, and joined her anxious lover outside,
who was waiting, but not as lovers in days of
yore, with au invincible vehicle, and a charger ]
ol the Rosiuaute stripe, and squire. The two j
sentimental lovers, all ulonc, started across the ;
mountain on foot, which arnW -
riment to their successful flight. Miss Wilkes
had very light attire, her shoes gavo out the
first day, and neither had money enough to buy
a pair; thus they were left in a sad plight.
As soon as Miss Wilkes was missed at home,
search was instituted, the neighborhood arous- J
ed, aud couriers dispatched in every direction,
and iu a short time the intelligence preceded
them everowLere, and frustrated their design ■
of getting married. In the meantime tLe itin
erant wanderers whom Cupid had dispatched
iu bad trim, found au asylum in quite a senti
mental manner. They stopped at a house to
get a drink of water. The lady of the house,
struck, no doubt, with the singular beauty of
Miss YV iikes, and their wearied, careworn ex
pression of couuteuance, inquired iu a very
pleasant manner whether they were not the
runaway couple reported; the disposition man
ifested by the lady won their confidence, and
they imparted their secret, and were invited in,
aud the best in the house offered thciu. The
lady (for such she was,) informed them of a
similar piece o'" romantic history pertaining to
herself; the result was that Miss Wilkes re
mained there until last Friday; Malonc in the
meantime returned to the Furnace and Mar
titisburg, procured a horse and buggy, and
staited with her for Yellow Creek. On their
way they passed through Woodberry ou Satur
day last, at full speed, through all the rain,
and literally covered with mud, and unfortu
nately for them, some person recognized them,
and notified Wilkes, who, with a posse, follow
ed in hot pursuit iu the course of au hour, and
succeeded iu regaining his daughter, and ar
resting Malonc at his (Malono'?) brothei-in
law s. They passed through town yesterday,
looking somewhat sad and dreary.
The Branch of Dunkards known as "River
Brothers," held their yearly "Love Feast" on
the premises of Frederick Kauffman, about
two miles and a balf from town, ou Saturday
and Sunday. This yearly meeting is, us ageu
eral thing, very numerously attended, but ow
ing to tho inclemency of the weather, on Sat
urday, there were not as many prescut as usu
ally attend. The "Leaves Mole," as it is gen
erally denominated, is a great place of resort
tor young folks—misses uud beaux. Young
ladies have their buuuets finished after the la
test style, their dresses trimeJ u la latest fash
ions, shoes, pius, brooches, yes, everything be
longing to ladies' apparel "done up" for the
"Leaves Mole." Y r oung gentlemen brush up
their dickeys, robe themselves in itieir "Suu
day-go^to-meetings," and shape their faces to
give themselves the best possible appearance,
and saunter forth to captivate or be captivated.
Yesterday there were not less than seven hun
dred persons present, and as a matter of ooursei
among them a number of rats, who, lam in
formed, behaved themselves very disgracefully
during Saturday aud Saturday uigtt. Capt.
Whiskey floored a number and terribly affect
ed others, oausing them to whoop, halloo,
swear, blackguard, rout and revel in the most
abominable manner. Cards and whiskey were
the ruling elements among the rowdies. Why"
such an honorable, lespeetable, moral and re
ligious society of men should allow themselves
to be so damnably imposed upon, I cannot see.
Punish every offender summarily, and, mark
..ye! you will end sueh base proceedings. 1
must do our citizens the justice to say that
they never, with a few exceptions, participate
in such disgraceful and outrageous actions,
but that tho offenders generally belong to Iron
works, Turnpike, &e. S. S.
SPEECH OF SEDLVSen CAEtEROrJ.
A few days ago, in the United States Senate,
Hon. SIMON CAMERON presented a petition
-signed by a number of laboring men iu Nor
ristown, asking Congress to afford adequate
protection to the great Iron interests of Penn
sylvania. lie prefaced his motion fur the refer-
of the petition with the remarks which we
subjoin, and with the j\'oxth .fixer ic<t ii } "wo
are glad to place on record a speech, which,
like this, gives promise of so much beyond.—
It is au iudex to a volume, and it serves to
dismiss the last of the doubts the most in.
credulous may indulge as to the effective rep
resentation ot Pennsylvania by Senator Catne
fOit. Ju the policy here iudicatod, Senator
jPameron is sure of the enthusiastic support of
not only the entire opposition to the democratic
partv, as now organized, but also of the gicat
't'C share of those hitherto vo'iog a spurious
and mongrel ticket, made up of men who pro
fess something at borne, yet, at Washington,
conduct themselves after the fashion of Gluucy
Jones, who betrayed Berks county, and Sena
tor Bigler, wbo betrayed the whole State. We
thank Senator Cameron for the brevity as well
as the force of his urgument, and wo trust the
tens of thousands heretofore misguided ou this
great question, may arm him with the effective
weapon of an overwhelming vote in October
next, for the struggles of tho next session and
next Congress^"
to-'pfcaenf a petition, svgaod
by a largo number of laboring men engaged in
the manufacture of Iron in Pennsylvania. 1
receive a great many letters daily from persons
of this class, and I will say here, what vvil 1
save me the trouble of writing a great many
letters. They thiuk the (JoQgress of the U.
tStates cau relieve them from all their troubles.
There has never beeu a time in the histoiy of
the iron business of Pennsylvania, wheu there
was so much real distress auiuug the laboring
nicu of my state—the meu who do the work,
the men who go to the forgo before daylight,
and remain there long after tho moon has risen
than there is at present It is not a ootn
pluiut now uti the part of the capitalists. Men
of capital; men of fortuuc, can take care of
themselves. Capital can always take earc of
itself, labor, poverty, indigence aud want, al
ways need sympathy aud protection.
These persons reside iu the of Xorris
town, ou tho Schuylkill river, some twenty
miles above Philadelphia. Tho river Sehuyi
kill is traversed, on both sides, by a railroad,
one exteuding some twenty or thirty miles,
another one hundred utiles. Ou tho one side
of the river is a canal. All these works have
been made for the purpose of couveyiug coal
aud iron to the place of manufacture and sale.
Tho county of Schuylkill, the great coal de
posit of Pennsylvania, has a population of soiuo
80,000 or 90,000 people, all of which has j
grown up within the last twenty-five years.
At this time tho whole laboiiug population
engaged in the iron and coal business, of tho
whole country extending from Philadelphia to
the mountains of Schuylkill county, are entirely
idle; tho boats are tied up ; tho locomotives
are iu a great measure, standing still, and the
laborers are running about hunting employ oicut
and hunting food.
These are tho persons who complain : they
think that Congress can relieve thorn. L have
told them, uud 1 have written to them, that
they have the power iu their own hands.
The laboring meu of this country are power
ful for good always. They do coutrui wheu
they thiuk proper, and 1 thiuk the time is com
ing when they will control the politics of this
country. 1 tell them that before tuey get com
mon protection they must obaugo the majority
iu tho Senate—they must change the majority
of tho other House of Congress ; and, above
all, they must change tho occupant of tho
White House, who is the dispenser of the pow
er which controls the legislation of this coun
try. Iu place of gentlemen who sucor when
wc talk about protection, they must seud men
bore who knows something of tho wants, some
thing of tho interests, something of the useful
ness uf tho laboriug man.
f iithortu tiioy have Hot acted as if they cared
for their own interests, while they talked about
a tariff which would guard their labor from
competition with the pauper labor of Europe,
they would go to elections under some ward
leader aud vote for men to represent them hero
aud elsewhere, wbo cared only for party drill,
aud who had no iuicrcst above party success.
This systom they must change if they hope
for success. 1 think the laboriug men of
Pennsylvania, at least, are now boginutug to
put their own shoulders to the wheel, aud 1
believe they will make sueh a noise in uext
October as will alarm the gentlemeu all over
the country who laugh at them.
Tho cauals, railroads and mining operations
of this region of country have cost more than a
hundred niillious ot dollars. Tho furuaocs
ami other works connected with the manufac
ture of iron, an enormous suiu, and tho people
interested in the iron and coal business, directly
or indirectly, along tho valley of tho Schuylkill,
amount to more than three hundred thousand
souls. Since 1855, there has been a blight
upon the business, growing out of the uuwise
legislation of Congress, which has really pro
tected the iron of Kngiand, Russia and Swe
den, and thus taken the labor and the bread
from our own workmen*
This iron iuterostof Pennsylvania, in which
these men are employed, commenced iu 1820,
with a production of only 20,000 tons. In
1855, when it was up to its greatest extent,
the prodimiion was a million of tons of pig
metal. Wheu this pig metal is worked into
the various uses iu which iron is to be consum
ed, it amounts to very many millions of dol
lars. The annual produce of coal iu Schuyl
kill county alone, iu 1855, amounted in value
to some $20,000,000. When it is known that
it requires two tons of coal to make a ton of
iron, you cau imagine the number of persons
who rely for their daily bread on the produc
tion of iron and coal. Iron, in its native
mountain?, is worth but 50 eents a ton ; wben
it is worked into pig metal it raDges in price
from §2O to §3O, and sometimes to §4O a ton ;
and when worked into various uses it frequently
amounts to many hundreds of dollars a ton.
I have said that these people have the pow
er in their own hands. lam speaking to them
now, aud I wish them to exercise the power
they have. I cannot help them, much as 1 dej
sire to do so, nor cau any of their friends hero ;
.but when they go to work as men determined
to succeed should do, 1 have no doubt they wiil
get protection. The people iu this valley and
on the slope of the Schuylkill mountains have
voles enough to change and control the polities
of the Union ; for as goes, eo
goes the Union iu great elections ; and their
votes can at all times decide the politics of
Pennsylvania. Let them exercise the power
wisely, aud they will no longer be without
plenty of work and good prices
I move that this petition be referred to the
Committee on Finance.
KISSIHCi IX PARIS.
Paris ought to be a perfect Paradise to young
bachelors who are fond of kissing the ladies,
according to a letter of a correspondent writ
ing from there. Our correspondent says :
"The almost universal custom of kissing, iu
Paris, seems at first singular to a stranger,
couiming from a country where the proprieties
much less to salute Lor. in France, to kiss a
lady with whom you are not intimate, on meet
ing her is very common ; especially is this the
case if she is a married lady. Not only the
members of the family, but all the guests, ex
pect invariably to salute the lady of the house
on coming dowu in the morning. But though
the modest American may, perhaps, escape the
ceremony on ordinary occasions, yet, on New
Year's morning, it is imperative. On that
morning I came down to my coffee about 9 o'-
clock.
"I sat down, quietly bidding Madame bon
jour as on ordinary occasions. In a few mo
ments she was at my elbow, with
"Mons. 8., 1 am angry with you."
"1 expressed, of course a regret and iguor
ance cf having given her any reason.
"Ah !" said she, 'you know very well the
reason. It is because you did not embrace
me, this morniug, when you caiuc down.'
Madame was a lady of perhaps, twenty-eight,
with jet black, glossy hair, aud a clear, fair
complexion. She was very beautiful—had she
been plain, I could have felt less embarrassed.
She waited, as though expectitig me to atoue
for my neglect, but bow could 1 before the
whole table I 1 sat, all this time, trembling
in my scat. At length Madame said ;
"Mons B. embrasez moi.'"
The worst had come. I arose trembling,
put my white, bloodless lips, all graesy with
butter and wet with coffee, (for iu nij embar
rassment 1 had dropped my napkin,) to those
of Madame. This was my first French kiss.
Poor fellow! We can ituaginiuc his embar
rassment just as well as if wo had been present.
In tho same predicament we should have fain
ted—iu the lady's arms.—.V. Y.
LOOK BEFOUL TOP KICK..
A minister in one of our orthodox churches,
on his way to preach a funeral sormou iu tho
country, called to see one of his members, an
old widow lady, who lived near the road he
was traveling. The old lady had just been
making sausages, and she felt proud of theiu,
they were so pluiup, round aud sweet. She
preseutod some to her minister, hut he objected
on account of not baying his portmanteau
along. This objection was soon overtuled, the
old lady after wrapping them iu a rag, oare
fuiley plaecu a bundle in either pocket of the
preacher's capacious coat. Titus equipped he
started for the fuueral.
While attending to the solemn ceremonies of
tho grave, some hungry, dogs scented the sausa
ges, and were not long in Hacking them to the
pockets of tbo good man's overcoat. Of course
this was a great annoyauce, and ho was several
times uuder tho necessity of kiekiug these
whelps away. The obsequies at the gruvo com
pleted, the miuister and congregation repaired
to the church woro the funeral discourse was to
; be preached.
After tho sermon was finished, the minister
halted to make some remarks to his congrega
tion, when a brother who wished to have an
appoiutment given out, ascended the stops of
the pulpit and gave the minister's coat a hitch,
to get his attention. The divine thinking it a
dog having a design upon liis pocket, raised
his foot, gave n sudden kick, unci sent the good
brother sprawling dowu tho steps.
"You will excuse tue, brethren and sisters!"
.said the minister, confused aud without look
ing at the work he had just don. , —"for 1
could uot avoid it. I have sausages in my
pocket, and that dog has bceu trying to grab
them uvet aiuee I oamo upon the premises I"
You, reader, may judge of the effect such au
announcement would have at a funeral.
VOL. 31, NO. 20.
LARGE FIELD OF PINE-APPLES.— In Liberia,
a few tnilcs northward from Monrova, towards
Cape Mount, is a tract of land about a utile
from the beach, of more than ten utiles in ex
rent, entirely covered with pine-apples. The
fruit buds out in April and May, and ripens in
August and September. It is of a delicious
flavor. The apples are taken to Monrovia in
considerable quantities, where they are sold as
low as two for a cent. It seems a pity that
some means is not kuown to keep them from
decay during a voyage to this country. —
Could they not be put up there in jars and
preserved ?
Dr. Luquebeel, in his sketches of the geog
raphy, climate and productions of Liberia, says
pine-upplcs grow wiid in the woods ; arid lie
has seen thousands of them in half an hour's
walk.
Mr. Bowen (a missionary,) was in Liberia,
and in his own book, 'Ccutral Africa, 1867,'
says, the piuc-apple flourishes very well in ILo
woods of Liberia, and is superior to any wti
can procure in this country.— Journal of Com
merce.
BOTH SIDES. —Iu the old time, in Philadel
phia, the disciples in the faith of Win. Pent;,
invariably wore the single breasted drab or
snuff-colored coat and were strict in their
uotiou of haviug the buttons thereof ou the
left side of the coat aforesaid. At a dinner
given by him, friend Eiias Breasy had secured,
a big buek darkey to 'tend table,' to whom he
gave imperative orders to hand things to the
guests at the loft side.
'Thee will always know by their coat but
tons, Caesar, which is the left side.
Among the guests was a French gentleman
who wore a double breasted coat —a worldly
garment. The darkey, in handing round the
soup, paused behind the French gentleman,
looked at his coat and stood for a moment) an
ebouy statue of despair, straggling wi'h doutt
aud a plate of soup.
Presently he yelled o'bt, 'Massa 'Lias —it's
no use—buttons on boff sides,' arid handed the
plate to the French guest over his head. <Dt'
de fust time I ebcr seed a man dat was kfl
handed on boff sides ob his coat!"
No WASHINGTON. —A friend of ours tell*
the following story of himself.
\Y hen young, he had read the wcli-kuown
Sfeftrf ifere 'lf;.'*
his son, so well manifested on the occasion re
ferred to, of George's cutting down the cherry
tree, ackuowledgiug his transgresion, and re
ceiving a full and free pardon, besides praises
and kind caresses from his father. So Jim,
actuated by so noble an example, thought he
would try the experiment ou. lie supplied
himself with a hatchet, and goißg into his
lather's orchard, cut down some choice fruit,
trees. He then cooly sat down to await the
old man's coming, and as soon as ho made his
appearance, marched up to him with a Very im
portant air, aud acknowledged the deed, ex
pecting the next thing ou the programme to be
tears, benediction, and embraces of the offended
parent. But sad to relate, instead of this the
old gentleman caught up a hickory and gave
hiiu an "all-fired lamming." Jim was no
Washington.
INDULGENCES GRANTED IN UOROKEN.
The coronation of the new church-picture in
Oobokea, of Our Lady of Grace, will take
place on the 20th ir.st., ou which occasion, it
is officially announced in the Freeman's Jour
nal, that—
"Those who will he present at the corona
tion can obtain a Plenary Indulgence , granted
by Our Holy Father the Pope, for this day.
"Jilis Grace, the Bishop of the Diocese, has
been pleased to grant one Indulgence of for
ty days to ail who shall visit the chntch during
the Octave."— Exchange.
Those who desire to "indulge" will find this
a splcudid opportunity. Hobokeo affords con
siderable facilities and is easy of access. The
Cothamites will no doubt patronize the corona
tion extensively.
MINISTER'S HONS. —The Episcopal REOR
der has an aiiiclo touohiug this class, iu which
it depreciates the idea that they arc worse than
other sons, and draws for important informa
tion on Doctor Sprague's late work, which
gives the lives of several hundred American
•Calvinistic' ministers. It takes the biographies
of the first huudred and says : *Of tne sous
of these hundred, over one hundred aud ten
bocame ministers. Of the remainder, by far
the larger proportion rose to emiuenco us Lou
orable and successful men in business, or iu
the learued professions. Is there any body of
100 men, taken at random from any other
pursuit of life, of whom the same cau bo
said V
PRETTY HOUSE MAIDS AND THE BURGLARS.
—A 'reformed burglar,' writing in the. •Sew
York Herald, says burglaries are mostly com
mitted by acquaintances of servant girls.—
The burglars contract friendship with the git Is,
who arc often unaware of their, ehaiactor, sflid
introduced into houses as their hrothors, cousins,
&o. They make use of their opportunities to
learn all the internal arrangements of the
houses, procure koys, &c. lie warus persons
to exclude unknown male visitors of domestics
from their houses.
THE ECLIPSE OF THE SUN IN SEPTEMBER
Sir John Parkington has offered to piaec ves
sels at the disposal of men of science for ob
serving the great Eclipse of the Sun, which
will take place in September next. This E
clipse will be total, ana its appsarunce triii be
oest seen in South America, particularly about
Lima. It is anticipated that an astrom urical
expedition may be organized, and in this e so
foreign astronomers wonldbe invited to join t!..*
expedition.— Pennsylvania**.