BY DAYID OYER.
SELECT POETRY
THE DREAM OF HEATEN•
Lo, the seal of death is breaking,
Those who sleep its sleep are waking,
Eden opens her portals fair! N
Hark ! the harps of God are ringing,
Ilark! the seraph's hymn is singing,
And the living rills are flinging
Music in the Immortal air!
There, no more at eve declining,
Sutis without a cloud are shining,
O'er the land of light and love ;
Heaven's own harvest woos the reaper,
Heaven's own dreams entrance the sleeper,
Not a tear is left the weeper,
To j-rotiine the flower above.
No frail lilies there are breathing—
There no thorny rose is wreathing
In the bowers of Paradise ;
Where the founts of lite are flowing,
Flowers unknown to time are blowing.
Mill superior verdure glowing,
Than is sunned by mortal skies.
There the groves of God, that never
Fade or fall, are green foravor,
Mirrored in the radiant tide ;
1 here along the sacred waters,
Unprofaned by tears of slaughters,
Wander earth's immortal daughters,
Each a pure immortal bride.
There no sigh of memory swelletb,
There no tear of memory dwelleth,
Hearts wli 1 Meed or break no more;
Past is ah the cold world's scorning,
Gone the night, and broke the morning,
With seraphic day adorning
Life's glad waves and goldeu shore.
From Ihe boston Traveller.
THE IU R.MAG OF THE AUSTRIA.
Litt to those solemn dirges
Which the wild waves sing,
While o'er the rising surges
Cries of terror ring ;
See, from the fated barque
Fierce flames arise,
Where on the waters dark
Helpless she lies.
Never again shall they,
That trembling hand,
Clasp friendly hands that wait,
Vainly, on land.
Manly hearts, lovely forms,
Childhood and age.
Midst burning horrors fall,
Or from their rage
Plunging 'neath rolling waves,
Soon where the deep
Greets them with chill embrace,
Silently sleep
Long in the distant fatherland
Shall fall the bitter tear;
And homes shall long be desolate
For those who perished here ;
And o'er them still the winds that sweep
Across the trackless main,
Shall chant a reqnium for the loved
Earth ne'er shall see again.
A FAIR TURN.—'I uuderstaud, Mr. Jones,
that you can turn anything neater than any
other man in town?'
'Yes, Mr. Smith, I said so.'
'Ahem! Mr. Joues, 1 don't like to brag, but
there is nobody on earth can turn a thiug as
well as I can whittle.'
'Pooh, nonsense, Mr. Smith, talk about
whittling—what can you whittle as well as I
can turn?'
'Anything, everything, Mr. Jones. Just you
name the article that I can't whittle that you
can turn, and I will give this dollar if 1- don't
do it to the satisfaction of these gentlemen
present. (Here Mr. Smith tables the dollar.)
'Ahem! Well, thoD, Mr. Smith, suppose we
take two grindstones, just for a trial, you
know, you whittle the me, while I turn the
other.'
'A fair sell!' Mr. Smith stared for a mo
ment and vamosed. The forfeited dollar was
quickly disposed of by those preseut with great!
glee.
SPITE. —The Harrisburg Patriot and Union i
tries to say some very severe things of the j
Americans, because they did uot preserve a
distinctive organization in the recent contest. J
Its shot, however, fulls short of the wark, ".uJ ;
is not likely tbaf anybody will be hurt by !
tlieut. If the Patriot and Union preteuds to j
be a newspaper, it ought to know something of
party politics, and any one with the sense of au
°yUsr, who haa beon in Pennsylvania for the
b'Bt two or three years, knows that the opposi
ttoo of Americans to the Republican move
'n"ta wae on account of its sectionalism. That
laving been abandoned, tbere could be no ob
jection to a union with theut upon a national
:Ms - This was accomplished, and the happy
' stilt has cheered the heart of tho good old :
- ystcne State. Americans aro very comfort- !
'"•b- ;*i i,r the infliction of Locofoco wrath. In
l ' ; , h , 'y rather like it, and if indignant exple
will mitigate the horrors of defeat, theor- :
> of tiie great king are welcome to explode '
f *!<•.— Unity JVens. I
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! Arkansas in New Orleaus.-l'arryiiig
Concealed Weapons.
The "local" of the New Orleans Delta gets
off the following capital sketch. The "repor
ter" referred to is, of coarse, a revolver, and
the "half moon concern" is the crescent which
is worn by the New Orleans police, as our po
lice wear a star:
"This reporter got a sight, a few nights ago,
while taking an outside peep through the bars
of the First District Lockup, of a gcuuiue
specimen of an Arkansas tiaveller, who had
'kum' all the way dowu to Orleans and the
'yaller fever' to buy some wheelbarrows, which
tho Napoleon merchants failed to furnish.—
Feeling a little curious to know how a stianger
bad thus been taken iu -and cooped, we veutured
to ask how ho managed to be put in. Well,
you see,' said the traveller, at the same time
exteudiug bis long shirt-sleeved arms through
the gratiug, and lifting up his light leg, with
jeaus pautaloous stuffed in tho top of his boots,
and with ease, rcstiug his foot upon the cross
bar, on a line with our head,'l was pressed for
some wheelbarrows, aud 1 just left the old
place iu the luteh, and <suui dowu on my old
' mule Sal, til J ketched a boat from up country
coming down a bulging, aud 1 got aboard.—
Well, you see the first thing I noed, ihe boat
she fotcned up at Vioksburg, and then I hustl
ed around, but no wheelbarrows could 1 tiud,
bekasc 1 kalkilale to take up twist twenty or
thirty, aud bless my soul, sir, there wusu't that
mauy in the drated town. Well, you see, 1
i just got aboard the keers, aud cum dowu to
Orleans, vhar I uued I'd get utu.'
'•You dou't bcloDg to the perl ice do you,
: straugor said ike traveller, eyeing us for a
moiueut steadily, "bekase, if you do, you and I
eau't hetch horses."
Upon our assuring him to the contrary, he
eomiuued :
"Well, you see, when I was about pulling up
my pegs to cum dowu, 1 says to Bill Blake,
'Bill, i' m agoin on a bit of a trauip, cau't you
lend a feller your reepeetor V Well, you see,
Bill is a reglar out-aud-outer, and toies a
i heart as big as ait Orleens, aud be just jerked
out his reepeeter and stuck her in my breeches,
! ready loaded, and says he, 'Suu, don't, foot
! with her 'till you're icady.' Well, when 1 got
: to Orleens, the folks at the tavern says to me,
; it's agin the law to tote concealed weepons. So, 1
I just stuck her iu front with the buudle out,
so ibe perltec could see 1 wasn't the man to tote
concealed weepons.
"Well, see, stranger" and shifting his
right leg tor the left, aud clearing his throat,
which he said was rather husky, as he hadu't
bad a chance to "lieker," •'! just stepped over
with a feiler to licker wheu 1 seed a kinder
cute lookiug chap eyeiug me purty sharp, aud
I says to myself, that feller aiu't after no good
--and sure enough, he wasn't neither.
"I tipped the wink to the feller aloDg with
me, bekase I'd hearn tell about the lighting
chaps iu Oileeus, aud 1 just wanted to show
them a thtug or two. So, jjst about the time
I was goiu to ask him if he had any busiuess
with me, lie fotcbed his baud on my shoulder,
aud says he, I arrest you for toting concealed
weepons. 1 don't carry concealed weepons says
I, aud I axed the liker uealer if be didn't see it
when I faust coute in, aud says he, yes, and
then I told tho feiler to stand back.
"Well, you see, striuger, be did stand back:
but he pulled out a halt-moon concern, aud I
noed I was done for. I'd liearn tell about
these half- utoous way up in Arkinsau, aud I
noed there wasn't any Use kicking agin then
things, so 1 just give iu. Well, i cum along
with that gentleman with a halt-mouu, like a
man orter when he 8 arrested ; but I'll tell you
; what it is, strauger, i wasn't treated right in
! that ere office, nohow. I axed for a hearing,
aud they Wouldu't give it to ine, but jus bus
, tied me off here —aud that's how I come to be
. behind these sticks."
i liy this time we felt somewhat interested iu
the man, who seemingly told a straight story,
and suggested that be bad better engage some
lawyer to se9 him through.
"Well, you see strauger, that's just the thiug
I'm after, only 1 uun't kuow any."
Tbiuking lor a moment,, we said that Mr.
Van i/alslou was as good a uian as he coulu
probably get.
"Well, 1 declare ! you don't tell me Van
Dalston'a taw tug it down here, strauger ?
Why he Used to be preaching up our city. Wbv
strauger jist tell biui to come round and git a
fellow out that he's kuowu from a brat up, and
1 reckon he'll haul me out of these sticks like
a flash. Well! well! Who'd a thought Y r au
would ever quit a preaching."
Upon our informing him that he was mista
ken iu the person, he remarked :
'Never mind, stranger; tell biui to cum
around ; 1 kinder like the name, bekase they're
all good talkers. 1 never beam tell of a Van
Daistou but what was good on the speech.'
Promising Lite to sec that he was not De
gloeted, we left him bumming a verse <>f that
good old song, 'Tito Arkansas Traveller.'
FILIBUSTERING.
A proclamation ha 9 been issued by tho Pre
sident against the filibustering schemes of Gen.
Walker, aud others, who contemplate making
a descent upon Nicaragua. Tue proclamation
is mild but tirm in its tone, and whtiu it meets j
the approbation of ail good citizens, will scarce
ly be regarded by the pirates whose infamous
proceedings it is designed to arrest. The len
iency of our Government towards Walker,
when he was captured by Uoui. Puul.ing, was
not calculated to inspire our navat officers with
any great degree of confidence that their exer
tions to maintain the honor of the nation, iu
ibis particular, will meet with general appro
val. The proclamation is outy intended by
the administration to deceive the people.
BEDFORD. PA., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 19, 18-58.
"KING OF THE AUTUMN."
la a recent issue of the Hatrisburg Tele
graph, a beautiful aDd poetic description of an
"American Autumn" was published, from the
pen of the gifted Preutioe of the Louisville
Journal, which has since appeared in the col
umns of nearly every paper that visits our
sanctum. The following article oo November,
as "King of the AutumD," breathes the true
spirit of poetry aud eloquence, and will be
equally appreciated by the admirers of Pren
tice, whom they justly regard as one of the
most graceful of our American prose writers.
We copy from the Journal of Monday week:—
NOVEMBER.— Room for the athlete! room
for the broad-shouldered, deep-chested, and
vigorous November, who leaps with an elastic
bound into the arena! He has divested him
self of all supeiflaous clothing, every limb is
bare, aud his brawny trunk stands iu glorious
majesty, while his bead, encircled by a coronet
of the purple vino and scarlet berries, pro
claims him (he King of Autumn! Doomed as
be is, deserted by his fleeting brethren, pressed
by the advancing legions of gloomy Winter, he
still looks 'every inch a king!' He has gath
ered about hiui iiis vasais, who neither trem
ble with fear uor look pale at ihe p-wteuts
around them, hut every one has thrown dowu
his leafy gauntlet, aud bent his branchy iance
to await the coming storm! Like the last King
of Assyria, he has surrounded himself with all
the luxaiious garniture of nature and the vo
luptuous revelry of the season, and looks to
his parent son to send dowo his fires to con
sume theui all bcfoie he will surrender! Above
and around him the winds sing a witching soug,
and the bright plumage of the clouds glows
with weird lustre as their winged flm-ks soar to
the z -uith or sweep majestically to rest upon
the bosom of the h-ttizon. Type of tho
uiuuth—symbol of the pendiug fate of No
vember—arouud the golden couch of the!
setting suu tho curtains of royal purple
are drawn, and earth aud sky are hushed
aDd mute, lest a breath should disturb his
sleep, whilfl stars that spangle the meas irel
dome above siuk Jowly apd softly their lollabjf.:
So will November sink to repose after a life of
majesty and of strong action, to the mellow
cadence-i of the Indian Summer, amid the bla
zonry of the golden maple, the gorgeous crim
son of the forests, and tho brigut scarlet of
the running vines which gird his sturdy guard
of monarch oaks. Y\ lto then can usseut to the
poet's idea that with November, "the melan
choly days have come, the saddest of the yeat ?'*
Not we ! There is no saduess Id any work of
God's providence; he orders all things in kiud
ncss, anil his smile can warm this last autumn
al month, and make it gorgeous in the sun
shine which fills the hutnan soul with gratitude
and illuminates it with the full, bright aud
beatific kuowledge of his Eternal Love.
A NEW ORLEANS INCIDENT.
The New Orleaus papers from time to time,
relate many touching incidents occurring iu
that scourged city, where the pestilence runs
riot, striking down old and young, strangers and
citizens, aud desolutiDg the homes of high and
low, rich and poor. We daily look over the
columns of the Picayune with melancholy in
:erest, aud find in every issue a sad talc of
come "straDger in a strange laud" being strick
en down by "tho skeleton hand of tho pesti
lence." Among the numerous incidents rela
ted by the papers of that devoted city, we have
read none more affecting than the following,
from the Picayune:
AN INCIDENT.— About a month since, a
stranger of fine personal appearance evidently
reared amid the associations of good society,
applied to one of the benevolent societies of
■ out city to he taken into their infirmary, as he
was suffering under the first attack of fever,
j aud had no friends iu the city. He was one
of the first who oaine from the far North to
seize the golden opportunity for desirable busi
ness situations made vacant by death, but fouud
the beckouing of Purtuue to be in reality the
wave of the (skeleton baud of the Pestilence.—
Around his couch strangers ministered with the
tenderness and the assiduity of life-long friends,
but tho fever ran riot in his veins, and his iron
constitution only utade the struggle with the
disease the more terrible. From the day he
sought assistance, it was evident he was doom
ed; but in his descent into the dark valley lie
had all the attentions which could have been
provided iu his Northern bouie. The benevo
lent friends who had watched, and nursed, aud
ministered to him, aud provided him wish a last
resting place iu our city of the dead, wrte to
his frieuds the sad tidings of his decease, con
veying his last messages of love to parents
aud relatives, and such consolations to the be
reaved a were uaturally suggested.
Iu seven days front the receipt of tho letter
in that Northern home made desolate, while
the tever was at its height, a cousin, iu the
prime of life aud vigor of manhood, arrived iu
the city to convey the body of bis deceased
relative to a last, resting-place beneath the fu
neral willows tu the family burying ground. —
Scarcely had ho time to flue the charitable
friends of the deceased before fie was seized
with fever: his application for the body of his
relative prove i a demand fur the same chart- |
ties that had been bestowed upon the recent ;
dead, lie was placed in the same itifiruiury, j
occupied the same couch, and utter wrestling
with toe pestileuee seven days, died, aud now j
lies buried by tlie side of bitu be came lo bear
back to his native home. '
THE DEAD SEA.
j The editor—correspondent of the Utica
! Herald—graphically describes the Dead Sea
j sea thus:
As I first looked over the Dead Sea I tho't
it lovely. Its waters were beautifully blue as
! those ot the noble lakes of my owu uative
j land. Not a ripple disturbed its fair face; it
! seemed dreaming in the tranced hush of the
hot noonday. Its translucent waves lazily toy
d with the pebbly beaeh that wound about its
skirts tu many a graceful curve. Then it
stretched endlessly away between two frowning
ramparts of hills mirroring on its glossy bosom
the mountain of Moab and the mountains of
Judea. 1 could not realize that this lake that
lay so tranquiliy sleeping aud smiiiogso sweet
ly on the wilds arouud, could be that fatal sea
on whose every Wave rode grim and ghastly
death, that its breath bad blasted the plaiu
and blighted every 6pcck of verdure OD the
hill. But as 1 looked more intently over its
broad expanse it seemed to assume a certain
unbealthtul, lurid hue, and there catne up
Jroui it a hot and sickly mist as if seething
;tu its rocky cauldron. Its rest, too, seemed
troubled, as it it were rather the stupor ot fe
ver than the healthful bush of sleep. Aud the
i ttauaiueeuoe ot its waters was deceptive, for
Whenever they touched the shore there remain
ed a black and oily deposit.
I Probably uature does not afford a more des
Folate scene than that of the region of the Dead
kSea. It lies in a vast basin, four thousand
I feet below tho .Mediterranean. It is bounded
jou the north by the plain of Jericho; on the
[ east its waves wash the base of the calcined
r hills of Moab; on the west the uarreu moun
tains of the desert of Judea rise above its
shores; whil* its southern extremity touches
the region of Atabia Detract. The eye looks
iu vaiu for any sign or vestige of life. No
living creature inhabits its shore, no fisb swiui
, in it; no buds dip their wings iu its waters.—
rGne endless range of barren hills meets you on
[every side. There is no escape—no refuge
rtrout the desolation that begirts you. This
sea, wuieb receives the living Joruau, has no
! outlet. It remains a problem—an enigma to
! science. Numerous efforts to explain it have
; been made, many adventurous travelers have
; lust their lives iu the attempt, and Mr. Lynelt,
whose survey is so imperfect, lost his first as
sistant. Even the wild Bedouin, whose home
is the desert, shuus it io his wide wanderings.
Its origiu involves a wide aud fearful history.
The shores it laved once teemed with life. Its
waves roll on the sites of tho "Cities of the
Ptaiu." Deep dowu iu its depths lies dead
and damned Gomorrah and Sodom.
•
STUPIDITIES.
Hall's Journal of Health enumerates the
following. The list is capable of being cx-
I tended indefinitely. Indeed, if oue should
1 specify all the silly and ridiculous habits and
j practices by which the majority of reasoning
J aud sensible mortals are iujurtug thpui
! selves, be would make a chapter as long as the
! Atlantic cable.
"Walking along the street with the point of
! an umbrella sticking out behind, uuder the arm
jor over the shoulder. By suddeuly stopping
! to speak to a friend, or by some other cause,
I a person in the rear had his braiu peuetrated
| through the eye, in one of our streets, aud died
j iu a few w^eks.
•'To carry a long pencil iu vest or outside
enat pockets; not long since, a clerk in New
: York fell, and the loug cedar pencil so pierced
I au impel taut artery that it had to be cut dowu
; from the top of the shoulder to prevent death,
with a three months' illuess.
"To take exercise or walk for the health,
when every step is a drag, and instinct urges
repose.
"To guzzle down glass after glass of cold
water, on getting up in the morning, without
feeling of thirst, under the impression of the
health-giving nature of its wasuing out quali
ties.
"To set down to a table and force yourself
to cat, wheu there is not only no appetite, but
a positive aversion to food.
"To take a glass of toddy, or of gangarce,
or mint drops, on a summer day, uuder the be
lief that it is safer and better than a glass of
cold water.
"To economise time by robbing yourself of
the necessaty sleep, an the ground that an
hour saved trout sleep is au hour gained for
life, when in reality it is two hours actually
spoiled.
"To persuade yourself that you are destroy
ing and unpleasant odor by introducing a
stronger one, that is by attempting to sweeteu
your own unwashed garments and person by
envelopiDg yourself iu the fumes ot musk, eau
de cologne, or rose water; the best perfume
being a clean skio and well washed clothing.
A CURE FOR SCROFULA.
The Cincinnati Commercial publishes the fol
lowing oommuiiicatiou from Nicholas Long
worth, the great wine manufacturer of that
city:
All the papers I had giving the oure for
scrofula have been distributed to persons seud
iug for the remedy. 1 tuve uevir heard of a
case where it did uot effect a speedy cure, aud
it can in no case do au injury. In several iu
iustaoces, where it has been applied in old
sores, it has also speedily effected perfect cures.
Put oue ounce of aquafortis iu a bowl or sau
cer, drop in it two copper oents; it will effer
vesce; leave the cents iu; wbau the efferves
cence cea-es, add two ouuecs of the strongest
cider vinegar. The fluid will be a dark green
color. It should and will smart. If too so
vere, put MI a little ruin water. Apply it to
the sore, morning aud evening, by a soft brush
or rag. Before applying it, wash the sre with
water.
Its first application known to me was a poor
girl sent to our city feom Memphis, to have her
leg cut off, as it was feared she might not live
long enough to have it cut off in that hot cli
mate. She was refused admittance to the poor
house, and was lying on the sidewalk, as she
could not even stand up. From her knoe to
her foot one third of the flesh was gODe and all
the skin except a strip about two iuches wide.
She was laid on a bed and the remedy placed
on a chair by it She could rise up aud apply
it.
In a few days her peace of mind returned,
and she declared it was getting well. It was
supposed it was a relief from the pain only,
but when examined, fresh flesh was found grow
ing, and skin over it. She was soou runuing
about, and would work, which delayed the en
tire cure, leaving a small sore, which was in a
lew months entirely healed. A young girl
with scrofula itt her neck, having a large open
hole aud deemed incurable, cauie one mouth
after, entirely cured, and recently married,
with her Itusbaud, on their way East. 1 have
; never known a case where it did uot effect a
| cure.
ANCIENT SHIP-BUILDING.
Ibo ;>neiouts seem to have outdone all suc
ceeding attempts—the Leviathan of 1858 alone
exccptod. Some of the galleys, from descrip
tions left us, were supetb. Ptolemy Philupatcr
had one built which was four hundred and
twenty feet long, and twenty-eight broad, and
required a complement of four thousand row
ers, four thousind sailors, and three thousand
soldiers ; but that of Hiero, constructed by
the reuowed Archimedes, consumed Wood
enough to build sixty largo galleys: and it was
fitted up in a style that throws the most splen
did of our vessels into a wide distance. There
was not oulv banquetting room, galleries,
baths, library and a spacious gymnasium, fin
ished and furnished with the most admirable
skill and costly materials, wiib stables, fish
! ponds, mills aud gardens; but there was a
I 1 •'tuple of VeDus, fitted up iu a gorgeous
| style, the floor being inlaid with precious stones,
J the watls of cypress wood, ornamented with
cbice paintings aud statues. The warlike ap
: purteuances of this maiiue monster were on a
cot responding scale of formidable grandeur.—
| The vessel was surrounded by iron bulwarks,
' like a rampart, missy, and strengthened with
! eight towers, and tbere were machines suf
ficiently powerful to project a stone three hun
j dred pouuds weight, or a dart seventeen feet
and a half long, a distance of a half a mile.
AN EMBARRASSED FATHER.
.
The following true incident will show the
dangers to which young children are exposed in
the public squares of our cities. A gentlemna
ou Saturday afteruoou was taking his little boy
—an only child about six months old—on an
airing iu Madison, Dark, New York, when sud
denly a well dressed woman, an entire strau
gor to him, rushed frantically after him and
with screams and jestures, demanded her child.
The astonished father, of course, pushed her
aside, aud told her to clear off, upon which she
persisted, attempting to lay hands on the baby,
and drawing with her screams a large crowd to
witness the contest. Of course the crowd,
with their usual huuiauity, sympathised with
the bereaved woman until the unfortunate 'pa
rent' was compelled to call a policeman, who
took his tormentor away.
It seems a little strange that wheu there are
so many unclaimed babies, she should be so
; anxious to seize an only child, the solo object
of parental affection. The probability ts,
I however, that the vixen who was a good look-
J ing French woman, of about thirty or thirty
five, had lost a baby, and seeing a handsome
boy, had mistaken him for the one she was seek
ing. From the pertinacity with which she in
sisted on her ciaiut. it is aiso probable thai she !
would have succeeded in runuiug off with the j
baby, bad it not been protected by the strong i
arm of its father, and had its only guardian
been, as is often the case, a servant maid or
nurse of fifteen or twenty years.— Phila. Pa
per.
Kobber's Care near Clarion.
Our neighbors up at Clarion hive a "myste
ry" in their vicinity, whicU considerably ngi- ;
tates them. The Citizen says that about five
miles from Clarion, near where the Pittsburgh j
road crosses Sandy creek, a singular discovery :
was utade by a Mr. Masoo. While hunting |
bees, ho Doticcd undoi some rocks, a buffalo I
robe aud other evidences of the former pres
ence of some anim tls less laborious and less
honest thau those he was in search of. Being
somewhat frightened, be called others, who, af
ter some search, discovered jewelry of differ
ent kinds, worth inull, about opo hundred dol
lars. Iu addition to this, a pair of boots and
pantaloons, a vest, cravut and fine coat, with
the skit t considerably torn, pieces of which were
found iu different places, were picked up ucar
the jewelry depot. The circumstance iuduoed
ten of the adjacent citizens to repair to the spot
and lie in wait that night for the return of the
depositors, but through the imprudence of kind
liug a fire iu the after uigbt, nothing was ef
fected. In dispersing next tnoruiug, a sack of
flour, three freshly dressed chickens aud a j
ulauket, were found unconcealed, as though j
they had been hastily left. Several other ar
ticles, such as powder, caps, au old rovolver,
augers, a bottle of chloroform, &c., were pick
ed up.— Pitts. Jour.
True friendship is like souud health : its
j value is seldom kuown until it isJosL
VOL. 31, NO. 47.
EDWARD MCPIIERSON, ESQ.— Among th e
marry gratifying results of the lute election in
this State, none are more gratifying than the
success of Edward MePherson, Esq., who has
been elected to Congress in the Seventeenth
District. In that district, Wilson Reiiiy, the
Administration candidate, had a majority of
509, two years ago. Now Mr. MePherson
carries it by 267 majority, against this same
] Wilson Reilly, who was zealously aided by his
friends, and the whole power and patronage of
the government. The people of the State arc
to be congratulated upon securing the services
of such a man as Mr. Pherson. We have long
known him as a gentleman of fine talents and
attainments, perfect purity and uprightness,
j thorough knowledge of the wants of Penusyl
j vania, and entire devotion to her interests.—
. His articles on the sale of the State Canals,
I published in our columns, did more than any
thiog else to open the eyes of the people to
. the abuses of the State system of managing
tbeui, and hastened the accomplishment of the
sale, which is nowhere regretted except among
Democratic politicians. He has, in many ether
ways, exhibited his knowledge of the State
and what she requires, and it is a matter for
real rejoicing, that such a man should be sent
ito Congress. We predict that Mr. MePherson
i will make one of the best, most faithful, most
| useful and most respected representatives that
1 Pennsylvania has ever sent to Washington.—
I P/iu'a. Bulletin.
AN IMPORTANT MEDICAL FACT —Suicide
; Averted by Means of Artificial Respiration ;
Several days ago a weli known citizen attempt
ed to commit suicide by taking laudanum. Ho
swallowed about two ounces and a half. As
soon as the fact became known medical aid
was called in, the stomach-pump and other
j appliances made, but seemingly all in vain. AH
hope of averting death was at last given up by
j those in attendance. Some several hours after
the occurrence, the physician ot the family ar
rived, but too late, as was supposed, to do any
! good. Jhe Iho't struck him, however, of test
ing efficiency of artificial respiration, so suc
; cessfully used of late in cases of strangulation
by water. He proceeded immediately to work,
and soon began to pereive symptons of improve
ment. Encouraced. he labored nn. as.-iistr-d hp
medical gentlemen, and in the course of nine
hours succeeded in restoring the unfortunate
man. The inteuded suicide is now well. The
entire success of the experiment is worthy
the attention of the faculty.— Cincinnati Times.
Contest of Florence's Seat,
It will be seen by the following that Flor
ence's right to a scat in Congress is to he con
tested, and we have no doubt that Col. Hyan
will succeed io making good his claims :
To the People of the first Congressional
District . As it is my intention to contest the
right of Col. Thomas B. Florence to a seat iu
,tbe Congress of the United States, I would re
spectfully urge upon all those who have any
knowledgj in relation to the frauds perpetrated
at the reoent election iu the First Congressional
Distiict, to transmit all the information in their
possession to JOHN W. RYAN,
944 South Front street.
CALUMNIATORS. —Calumniators are tbosd
who have neither good hearts nor good under
standings. We ought not to thiuk ill of any
one till we have palpable proof, and even theu
we should not expose them to others.
We suppose that egotistical people may he
set dowu as taking excellent care of themsel
ves, for every man minds his I.
A waggish candidate coming iu the course
:cf the canvass to a tailor's shop, "What wo
look for here," said he, "are measures, not
uieu."
>He is happy whose circumstances suit his
temper; but he is happier who can suit his
temper to his circnmstances.
To the poor the gosple was preached, not
only in the days of Christ, when the common
people heard him gladly, but all ages of the
Church the sweetest, richest pieces of experi
ence in the work of grace are from the poor,
to the poor, and for the poor.
Some hard-money rascal recently perpetra
ted the following upon the back of a one dol
lar bill, Bank of Tennessee :
"Thou art but the Ghost o, cash,
The spirit of a specie dollar,
Thy paper fabrick is but trash,
And all thy promises arc holler."
What part in a play do drinking men always
like the bast ? The fine ale to be sure,
A Western jury brought in a verdict of
'Death by hanging—about a groggery !'
Tying a Mackerel to your coat-tail, and
imagining yourself a whale, is one of the first
lessons in codfish aristocracy.
Why is a little nurse-maid like the evening
star ? Bccause's she's a wee-nuss.
Some writers, iu a vaiu attempt to be cut
ting and dry, give us only what is cut and
dried.
Why ate ladies like bells I —Because you
cau uever dud out their metal until you have
given them a ring.
Some judges commit a
vet vviv ■'.vcr.iO the o~, r loyn.cnt by
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