BY DAVID OVER.
STATEMENT AND REPORT
OF WILLIAM LEARY, STEWARD OF
THE POOR AND HOUSE OF EM
PLOYMENT OF BEDFORD CO.,
FROM THE FIRST OF JAN
UARY, A. D., 1860, TILL
THE FIRST OF JAN
UARY, A D.,
1861.
1860. DR.
Jar.'jr. 1. To Balance on settlement $8 244
Arn't. received from sundry persons, 34 12
42 364
Balauce due Steward, Jan. Ist, 1861 19 821
62 19
OR.
By uniouul paid sundry persons 62 19
Statement of Poor House Mill from Jan. Ist,
1860, till Jao. Ist, 1861.
DR.
Amount of Grain
brought in as per
monthly Reports,
Wheat Rv Corn
293 255 56
Bo't of sundry persons, 196 " "
Amount- 1 , 489 255 56
B. Wheat. Mixture.
374 504
JLi't ot sundry persons " "
Amounts, 374 504
gr:
By amount of Grain u-ed in Poor House and
sold to sundry persons fur cash and on ao
counis, &c ,
\\ beat Rye Uoru
Use of P. H ,&0., 415 193 27
Sold to sundry persons 26 16 6
Amounts, ill 209 33
Remaining in Mill 48 46 23
Whole our.nut 489 255 56
B. Wheat Mix't.
Use of P. H., &c., 134 26
Sold sundry persons 15
284 26
Remaining in Miil 9 244
Whole amount, 374 504
LIST OF PAUPERS admitted, discharged,
died, &c., during each month, and the nam
her remaining at the end of each month; also
the average number supported in the House
during the year, together with the number
of out-d<-or paupers supported by the lnsti
tnti'-n, from the Ist of Jan., 1860, till Ist
Jan. 1861.
> w a
77' * CX.
q G> 65
6 8
5* t 1 P
p- 5 *
1860.
January, 8 1
February, 10 I I
March, 1 3
April, 6 11
May, 3 8
June, 5 I
July, 3 I
August, 2 2
September, 1
October, 5 1
November, 2
December, I
Total, 39 24 1 4
cs o" P3 se
—®r v a _
-1 c —. c s
i ft.sF 2. ~ §.§
<=3 2. S" 2.
3 a 2 = a
4860. *
January, I 24 29
February, 1 30 32
Marcb, 27 33
April, 24 34
May, 21 32
June, 23 34
July, 20 33
August, 20 33
September, 21 33
October, 17 31
November, 18 32
December, 19 32
Total, 2 264 388
Making an average ot 544 per month, of
whom-2 are colored, 2 blind, 8 iDsane, and 1
confined to bed. There are also 2 out-door
puupers who are not included in tbe above
• r GS wayfaring paupers were provided with board
sad lodging.
PRODUCE OF THE FARM GAR
DEN.
38 Tone of Hay,
12 Load* of Cornfodder,
350 Buahels ears of Core,
125 Bushels of Oats,
63 Bushels of Rye,
26 Buahels of Baekwbeat,
350 bushels of potatoes,
3 bushels of beans,
2500 heads ot cabbage,
8 barms uf oncumber pickles,
18 bushels of large onions,
2 bushels of suidl onions,
3 load* of sweet pumpkins,
12 bushels of tomatoes,
8 bushels of beets,
1675 pounds of pork,
442 pounds of beef,
407 pounds of veal,
640 pounds of lard,
346 pt uods of butter.
A Weekly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Politics, the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, &c., &c---Terms; One Dollar and Fifty Cents in Advance.
I beef hide,
6 calf skins,
II barrels of soap.
STOCK ON FARM.
2 bead of horses,
7 cows,
2 heifers,
1 bull,
21 bead of bogs,
66 sheep,
ARTICLES MANUFACTURED BY MAT
RON.
73 shirts, 41 pair of pDts, 31 ohemese, 39
women's dresses, 4 children's dresses, 10 sheets,
16 comforts, 9 women's sacks, 33 aprons, 15
pair of women's stockings, 4 sunbonnets, 3
caps, 6 quilted skirts, 5 hoods, 7 pair of men's
socks, 8 round jackets, 8 vests, 3 table cloths,
15 towels, 12 bod ticks, 7 bolsters, 4 pillow
slips, 2 shrouds, 5 pair of drawers.
We, the undersigned, Directors of the Poor
aod House of Employment of Bodford County,
do certify that we Lave examined the above
socount, statement and teport of Wiu. Leary,
Steward of said Poor and House of Employ
ment, from the Ist day Jan., 1860, till the Ist
day of Jan., 1861, aud find the same to be cor
rect.
Witness our bands and seals, this Ist day of
Jauuary, 1361.
JOHN AMOS,
JOHN KEMERY,
J. S. BRUMBAUGH,
Directors.
Attest:
THOMAS R. OSTTYS, Clerk.
RECEIPTS KM .EXPCXDITURETOF
THE POOR AND HOUSE OF EMPLOY
MENT OF BEDFORD COUNTY FOR
THE YEAR ENDING JAN. Ist, A. D.,
1861.
GEORGE BLYMIRE, Treas'r.
DR.
To cash rpe'd from Collectors, $4549 94 1
Thos. Ritehey, error iu settlement, 41.00
Mary Oiler, pd. W. S. Fiuek, 50.00
Constable McCroary, Fines 4 00
$4644 94
Balance du eouDty 4Hjv99"
$4228.95
OR
By arn't. p.id out on sundry checks as fol
lows, viz:
Officer's salary, $218.19
Win. Moorehead, (late Steward) 85.15
Advertising, 176.154
Repairing Mill, 299.87
Beef, Pork, Ac. 323 08 4
Hardware & oasiing*, 102.394
Building purposes, 213.644
Cows & Hogs, 46.02
Relief &o. of out door paapera 158.684
Grain, 507.32
Merchandise, &J., 709.064
Rcpiova] of paupers, 69 56
Is-uiug orders for removal of paupers 36 65
Ain't overpaid on duplicates, 34.91
E. L. Anderson & S. Bcrohart wheat
in mill, 59.05
Buckwheat buller. 76.85 j
Miscellaneous checks, 434.74 ;
Due treacurer on last settlement, 47.05 j
G Lysioger, bal. on settlement of aeo't 57 13
D. Fletcher, salary as Auditor for 1860, 5.00
Percentage allowed collectors, 226.261 !
Exonerations, 160.18 I
Uncurrent money, 10 00
Treasurer's salary, 40.00
Auditors & clerks, 20.00
Sthiioruey, 5 00
$4228 954
Amount due from collectors, $3643 79
For want of proper vouchers for sundry
checks and part of checks paid by the treasu
rer, $477,774 *as not received by the Audi"
tors, which will occount for the above balance
due the Couuty. '
We, the undersigned, Auditors of Bedford
Couuty, do certify, that wc have examined the
foregoing acoouut of Geo. Blyaiire, Treasurer
of the Poor and House of Employment of Bed
ford couuty, and find tb" same to be correct
and true as above stated, and that there is a
balance due the county of $4L5.954
Witness our bands and seals this 4th day of
January, A. D. 1861.
JAMES C. DEVOIIE,
DANIEL FLETCHER,
GEORGE BAUGHMAN,
Auditors.
Attest :
T. R. GKTTYM, Clerk.
March 15, 1861.
A calm, blue-eyed, self possessed, young
lady in a village 'down East,' received a lung
call, the other day from a prying old spinster,
who, prolonging her stay teyond even her own
conception of the young lady's euduracoe, csmc
to the main question which had brought her
thither. 'l've been asked a good many times
if you were engaged to Dr. D. Now if folks
inquire again whether you be or Dot, what shall
I teil 'em I think? 'Tell them,' answered the
young lady, fijtmg her calm, blua eyes in un
blushing steadiness upon the inquisitive feat
ures ef ber interrogator, 'tell them you think
you don't know, aud that you are sura it's none
of your busioess.'
♦Can you tell,' asked a blcomiug lass of a
suitor OBoe, 'what ship carries more passengers
than tho Great Eastern.'
•Well, madam, really , I don'l tbiuk I oan.'
'Courtship;' replied the muiaou, with a con
scious blush.
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY. MARCH 1861.
sotirq.
TO THE BOYS.
UY ALICE CART.
Don't you be afraid, boys,
To whistle loud and long,
Although your quiet sisters
Should call it rude, or wrong.
Keep yourselves good natured,
And if smiling fails,
Ask them if they ever saw
Muzzles on the quails !
Or tho lovely red rose
Try to hide her Hag,
Or the June t smother all
rier robins in a bag!
If they say the teaching
Of nature isn't true,
Get astride the fence, boys,
And answet with a, whew !
I'll tell you what it is, boys,
No water-wheel will spin
Unless you set a whistle
At the head of every pin.
And never kite flew skyward
In triumph like a swing,
Without the glad vibration
Of a whistle iu the string.
And when the daya are vanished
For idleness and play,
'Twill make your labors lighter
To whistle care away:
So don't you !>e afraid, bdys,
In spite of bar and ban,
To whistle—it will help you each
To aiake au honest man.
F rom Forney's Press.
An Open Letter to James Buchanan.
j Four years ago this day you entered the Presi
! dential chair, the Chief Magistrate of the happiest
] and freest people on tho earth. The contest from
which you emerged a conqueror, although distin
guished liy unexampled ariimatiou and acrimony,
was tbiiowed by expressions, on tho part of liiend
and foe, of complete confidence in your personal
integrity. Those who had opposed your election
were profuse in announcing their disposition to give
your Administration tho fairest trial. The prin
ciples which prevailed in your triumph had been
anticipated in your speeches before your nourina
ti : , end. aaar letter accepting it, affirmed
-W)o4f "liiau'giiial address, and reaffirmed in your
letter to Governor Walker, under <itu of July 12,
! 1857, and where so plain, so self-evi lent, and so
• convincingly right, that the American people were
; ready to hail in you tho august successor ard rop
j rescutative ot those great men who laid the fbun
! daticn of the Government. In the choice of your
Cabinet you wore supposed to be singularly suc
cessful. From the aged statesman at the bead of
your constitutional advisers, down to your Attor
ney General, there was no name that had not at one
or at another time been associated with high and
honorable position. These gentlemeu, selected
i from both sections of the Confederacy, each a type
of his own people, were known cordially to sanction
aud heartily to co-operato with you in the policy
to which you had been committed iu the previous
campaign. .Every department of the Federal
Government was in your hands. Both branches of
Congress were controlled by a majority of your
supporters. Jl'he Supremo Court of the United
Stater was known to sympathize with you. Our
commerce with all the world was in the most
flourishing condition ; internal trade in its in inifold
ramifications was prosperous beyond all eximplrf ;
, sectional strife had terminated in a national victory,
thus giving new guarantees for the preservation ot
a Union which at that time seemed held together
, by bonds alike sacred and indissoluble.
This inspring prospect should have elevated you
; above all unworthy passions and uuholy ambition,
j When you mounted tho Presidential chair you
were not according to your own account, quite
; sixty-five years of age. Too old to uu iertake the
i destruction of your country, you were young
: enough to make it more potent at home an 1 more
i honored abroad. Your enemies for more than
forty years had imputed to you many questionable
qualities of head and heart j but your friends re
lied upon your administration to repel this impu
tation. The flist accused you of selfishness, in
gratitude, and aristocracy j (he socond claim :d for
yen the highest attributes ot private character.—
The first had frequently predicted that, if ever
clothed with the almost imperial power of the
Presidency, you would devote yourself to the
overthrow of the party to which near your fortieth
year you attached your political fortunes; the
second contended that by your moderation and
consistency you would not only immortalize your
self, but so consolidate the Democracy as at the
close of your Administration to leave it without a
respectable adversary, llow you fulfilled the pro
phecies of the one, and how you disappointed tho
hopes of the others, the impartial historian will re
cord on his imperishable tablets.
It would be superfluous to recapitulate the thrice
told tale of the downfall of yourself, your party,
and your country. Even those who envied your
friends, while those friends were rejoicing over your
election, were shocked at tho manner in which
you persecuted and hounded the men who, during
many years of minority, had carried yonr cause
upon their shoulders, until finally they placed you
in the Presidential chair. No such spectacle has
ever been presented iu any country. Yon struck
the most fatal blows at those who had rendered you
the most devoted service.- There was a rancor
and a cruelty In your treatment of these men that
no imagination could have anticipated, and no
logician defend. Even these who attempted to
maintain their usual kind relations to your person
were repelled with hauty aud freezing indifference,
or subjected to your will by being made the slaves
ef your caprices, and the echoes of your treach
eries. In proportion as you conducted this un
provoked warfare upon these citizens you took
into your confidence men who had never treated
you save as an object of batred and of scorn.
Posterity takes little note of the treatment ex
tended by a public mau to life-long supporters.—
It is not so tolerant, however, when such turpitude
is accompanied and succeeded by persistent at
tempts to distract and demoralize a happy aud
united people. Had you but served tbe Republic ;
had you maintained your plighted faith to yeur
principles ; had you displayed a wise, comprehen
sive, and practical statesmanship ; had you insis
ted upon economy and integrity in your Adminis
tration—tho judgment of tho people would have
rewaidedyou. aud your recreancy to your friends
would have been forgotteu in the stern impartiality j
and justice of your policy. The ruler ot a civali
zed and Christian people may, in a moment of rash
impulse, inflict incalculable injury upon his country.
But you have no impulses. That which at first
seemed to be the madness oi the moment soon as
sumed the shape of settled malignity. When you j
consented to trrraple upon a holy and as undying
truth, it is now evident that you had made up your
mind to persevere to the end. No entreaties could
move you to change your course. Even those
whom you had wounded without provocation, re
peatedly and humbly exhorted yon to pause in your
career. In vain. You seemed to have become
the incarnation of Absolutism. The bloody fields
of Kansas, the perishing industry of Pennsylvania,
the arguments of tho good, the thunder-tones of
the ballot-box, produced no more impression npon
you than upon the walls of the building in which
you sat, cold and heartless as those walls them
selves.
Not content with doing wrong yourself, you in
sisted that all others over whose interests you ex
ercised the slightest control should likewise do
wrong. Hesitation or refusal on their part to yield
to your commands was punished with instant ex
clusion from place, or remorseleess social ostracism.
No one was too high to be reached by tbe shafts
of your anger ; no one too low to be ground under
the heel of your proscription. Yon raked the offi
cial kennels for victims. Whether an honest man
objected to your conduct who held position under
you in a foreign land, or in your own State, or near
the Presidential mansion, he was recalled or re
moved without an opportunity of dcfenco. And
in proportion as you persecuted the good you corn
| pensated tho lard. Thus, your own example bo
! came a grand premium to a'l who were ready to
j accept place at the loss ef character. !
When the money of the people was used to de
j bauck the people—when tbe Chiet Magistrate con
: seated to degrade himself for the puiposeof grati
i fying bii rev*.age—the reckless men around your
person imcopted your owe conduct as a license to
1 shein. Dent alike upon plundering the treasury and
' breaking up the Union, they organized a system of
; peculation and fraud unequalled in any civilized
Government, and, with your aid, enlisted in the
work of destroying the Democratic party. You
, proteud st this day that you were ignorant of their
j practices iu the first, hut you cannot deny that you
aud encouraged them in the second.—
I The disruption of the Democratic party at Uharles
| ton and Baltimore was plotted in the White
j House ; and when it was accomplished, although
j admonished tb it it must lead to tbe dislocation of
i the Union itself, you relused to throw yourself
; into the breach, and to accept the regular nomina
, Hon of tho party. Once more you employed the
| patronage of your Administration in order to
gratify your worst passions. You never forgave
Stephen A. Douglas because be indignantly retusod
to eudorse your defection of 1857 ; and when you
contrasted tho popular verdict which gratefully ap
proved his course with the popular expression which
condemned your own, you res:lved that he should
• be defeated, even at the hazard of the annihilation
iof the Union. You saw the Democntic party
staggering under the double burden of being held
| responsible for the enormities of your Adminis
tration and of being.identified with the cause ot
; Disuniou. Again you were admonished that per
: severance in these proceedings must lead to the
i raost direful consequences, aud again yowefetused
,to listen to tbe voice of reason. Indeed, through
i your organs and your friends, you circulated the
doctrine that it was far better that the general op
; ponents of tho Democracy should triumph than
that the regular candidate of the party shorn ' be i
j elected; and when this portion of your programme
, was fulfilled, when by uieuna of your patronage,
; and with the aid of your tui-rceucries, you assisted
, to elect Mr. Lincoiu to the Presidency, you gave
j currency and credit to that fatal theory which has
i hurried our free institutions to the very precipice
|of Disunion. Preparations for armed resistance to
| the laws as a consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election
were made under your own eyes, participated in by
j your own Cabinet Ministers, advocated by your
! own newspaper exponent, and so far approved by
those who held position under you, in the different
States North and South, as at last to assume the
air of a virtuous revolution. Iu that hour, when,
for a moment, you seemed to comprehend the
i magnitude of your crimes, did you step forward to
execute your high trust, by anticipating the maehi<=
nations of the Southern conspirators, by crushing
Secession in the bud, and by making an ex ample
of every man who held a commission at your bauds
who dared to approve their proceedings I Alas !
no. In your last annual message to Congress,
whilst arguing against the right ot a State to with
draw from the Union, you offered immunity to the
enemies of the Union by declaring that you had no
authority to punish them. Your Cabinet exploded
in the tuidst of your own complications and your
country's distrtsses, and theu was disclosed a
picture of crime, moral and political, such as no
nation has ever been called upon to witness.—
Compelled to summon to your side other coun
sellors, animated by different sentiments, and re.
solved so far as they could to rescue the Union,
you embarrassed their action by your timidity, va
cillation, and weakness. At this moment, while
you are pr- pariug to assist in the iniuguration of
your successor, it is doubtful whether you have
lelt him even a fragment of a Government to ad
minister. Your enemies might congratulate them
selves upon the entire fulfilment •! their predic
tions, if they were not called upon to mourn over
the decay and downfall of the Union itself.
It may be said, these are harsh words to address
to an old man. Your couutrymen have been told
that as you approach the close of your official term
you manifest some regrtt at the past, and within
short time it has been given out that the weight of
years and cares has leartully oppressed your spir
its; but, Mr. Buchanan, rite very last acts of your
Administration have shown that still in their ashes
live the wonted fires of your malignity and revenge.
Many of your recent appointments have shocked
the country. Even uow, the name of one of the
chief agents in all those proceedings which have
eoutributod to rush the Republic upon the verge
of ruin is pending before the United States Senate
for a high judicial position, and others who have
been equally prominent in the proscriptions aud
treacheries of the leur years gone by, have been
honored with tiie most distinguished marks of your
confidence. It will, therefore, be seen that you
return to private life, just as you are approaching
the Psalmist's age, without feeling a single emotion
of remorse fertile wrongs you have inflicted upon
a patient and suffering people. Ido not envy you
your reflections in the winter of your years; but
like that Frenchman, when called upon to vote
whether he would doom the tyrant of bis country
to tho death he s. ticbly merited, I conclude this
epistle in his ewn words: " I commiserate the poor,
and the needy, and the oppressed, but 1 have no pity
for the oppressor of my country."
MEJY OF AJ\GLES.
There is a typo of character in every com
munity which louie uoknown writer very ap
propriately styles the angular. It is illustra
ted in men whose dispositions are well supplied
with corners, so to speak, which are oonstantly
obtruded on the oomfort of their neighbors.—
Not that bodily angularity necessarily implies
a disobliging nature. Many, whoso bodily
movements are awkward, are of an accommo
dating and of a "giving way" disposition.—
But mental angularity almost invariably has an
arigulariziug effect on the carriage of the body.
Every reader hs doubtless suffered, at one
tune or another, at the hands—or, properly
speaking, at the elbows—of a nnn of angles.
Look out for biui when ha comes. Ho takes a
manifest pleasure ia crowding you into the gut-
ter, although bo bas plenUf of room oo tbe
sidewalk. He contrives to carry bis umbrella
or cane so pornted that it may gouge out tbe
eye of some passer by. He seems to like tbe
fuu of walking upon tho dres9 ef every lady
be overtakes. He goes out of tbe way to kick
a dog. In an omnibus be sits sideways, iu
order to take up twice as much room as be has
paid for, and when he wishes to be set down,
he announces the fact by pulling tbe strap with
a fierceness which indicates a desire to draw
the unlucky Jehu through the aperture. At
tbe table ho obviously takes it ill when asked
to pass anything, and signifies his displeasure
by upsetting the dish which he passes. He is
iu his element in a crowd, where he amuses
himself by exploring with his elbows tho ribs
of these around him, and by grinding their
oorns until they begin to think they've got a
miller among them. As for she amenities of
life, he has none of them. Long practice bas
made him familiar with the vocabulary of
grievous words. He rejoices ID asserting his
independence on all occasions, without reflect
ing that it is the peculiar kind of independence
which is shared with him by "the patient ani
mal that browses oo the thistle.lie belougs
to tbe class of runn of whom it has been said
that their oppos' ! 'oa way be reckoned on to
auy measure which bas not originated with
themselves. However, not to paint these wor
thies blacker than they really are, perhaps the
office which they perforin io tbe world is salu
tary, corresponding to that performed by brakes
when a train of oars get on too much headway.
It may be that men of angles are designed as
checks to tho too rapid progress of society.—
A hard-hearted, obstinate, unreasonable man,
wbpn viewed in the light of a brake, is by no
means a contemptible appendage to the car of
civilization.
GRAPK CULTURE.— We would suggest that
in addition to the fertilizers recommended iu
the following, leaf mould, the cleanings of
old hedges which consist largely of twigs, and
swamp uiuck, with asbes intermixed, arc a
valuable addition to tbe soil of tbe vineyard:
Strong and stimulating manuro is most dan
gerous to the vinous property of the grape. —
Tho general rule in viue-produciog countries
is to manure e!y with its own cuttings, or the
refuse of tbe grspe when pressed, which con
tains tartar, essential to the vinous property
of tbe grape. Excessive richness of tbe soil,
though it gives a larger orop, aud the best
fruit for tho table, detracts from the character
of Hie wioe. There have been several re
markable instances of this fact; amongst oth
ers, the celebrated viDeyard of Jobauoisburg,
which sooio fifty years since had been richly
manured, it for several years afterward pro
duced a grape whieh gave wine of an inferior
quality. It took tweuty years before the soil
became sufficiently poor to restore the vinous
quality of the grape. Soils which produce
choice and rare wines ara ncrer manured with
auy description of fetid manure, generally ap
plied for the purpose of fertilizing land; but
the wool, horn, bones, aud the euttiogs and
refuse of the vine irself, being only used.—
Tbe scientific botouist tells us tbit the vine
only takes up from the earth carbonic acid,
ammonia, etc.; praetice and experience, both
ancient acJ modern, affirm the contrary. —
Florist and Frui'ist.
MANNERS. —Emmerson, iu his eccentric
way, has an odd thing on "manners,'' in a re
cent number of the Atlantic:
I wish cities would teach their best lessons,
of quiet manners. It is the toible especially
of American youth pretension. The mark of
the man of the world is the absence of pre
tention. He does not make a speech; be
takes a low business toue, avoids all brag, is
nobody, dresses plainly, promises not alt, per
forms much. He cails his employment by its
lowest uarue, and so takes from evil tongues j
their sharpest weapon. His conversatiou 1
chugs to tho weather and the news, yet ho al
lows himself to be surprised into thought, and
tbe uulockiug of his learning and philosophy-
How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes
of some great men passing incognito, of a
king in grey clothes! of Napoleon affectiog a
plain suit at his glittering levee!—of Bums,
of Scott, of Beethoven, of Wellington or any
other container of transcendant power, passing
for Dobody—of Epaminondas, "who never
9ays anything, but will listen eternally!"—of
Gothe. who preferred trifling subjects and
common expressions in intercourse with strau
gers, worse rather than better clothes, aui to
appear a little more capricious than he was!
There are advantages iu the old hat and box
coat. I have beard that throughout this coun
try a certain respect is paid to good broad
cloth; but dress makes a little restraint; men
will not commit themselves. But the box
coat is like wine—it unlocks the tongue, and
meu say what they think.
A HUMOROUS INCIDENT.— An old farmer
who had two handsome daughters, would not
permit them to keep the company of youug
men. After the old man had retired to rest,
tbe girls would bang a sheet out of the win
dow, and each beau, wit h the assist men of his
lady, who tugged lustily above, would thus
gain an entrance. Girls, what do you think
of this plan? It so happened that one even
ing the girls hung out the sheet too early; the
old gentleman spying the sheet could not con
jecture the meaning of it. No doubt you
would think this very silly. So he caught
hold and endeavored to pull it dowu. Foolish
exertion. The girls supposiog it to be oue of
their fellows , began to hoist, and did not dis
cover their mistake until the old man's hand
was level with the window sill, when one of
them exclaimed:—"Ob, Lord, 'lis dad!" and
letting go tbe eboct, down came the cid gen
tleman to the ground, dislocating one shoulder.
Withdrawing all opposition to their keeping
company, he was soon a bappy father-io-law.
VOL. 34, NO. 11.
THE W AR RAl"T.—This machine now build
ing at Charleston harbor, is said to have sides
of iron and palmotto logs, and on the inside
of these is to be placed a layer of cotton bales,
thus making a solid wall of from five to six
feet in thickness on the attacking side, while
on the other side and ends it will not be any
stronger than is necessary to resist the effect
of the concussion of the firing of the gnns.
It will be partly filled with water, whiob, it is
supposed, will destroy the effect of the bombs
which fall into it; consequently, there is a
large opening left in the deck. It will mount
four gnns, which are now lying by the aide of
it—three 32 pounders and one 44-ponnder.
They will be mounted all on one 6ide, it being
tho only one that is protected, the other side
and ends having only a railing around them.
In regard to its efficacy, opinions differ, but
among the soldiers it has the opprobrious epi
thet of "Slaughter Fen," and each company
are faarfnl that tbey shall be called npon to
man it. From the materials of which it is
built, it must be extremely combustible, and
heated shot will be very apt to set it on fire.
Again, it will have to be moored and kept in
exact position, for if it swiDgs ronnd, or its
moorings are out, as they might be by chain
shot, it would be completely at the mercy of
tho fort, which might easily sweep the exposed
deck by grape or canister shot.
VV'HISKT DRINKERS, OH! —It was on one of
the river steamers, at dinner, that an amiable,
matronly lady remarked; in the midst of con
versation with a very grave-looking gcntle
maD, on the subject of temperance, "Oh 1 I
despise, of all thing 3 in this world, a whisky
dritiket!" The gentleman dropped his knife
and fork, in the ardor of his feelings extended
bis haods and took hers within his own, and
wiib emotion that threatened tears over the
loss of ruined sons, be replied with faltering
words, "Madam, I respect your sentimeDts,
and the heart that dictated them. I permit
no persoa to go beyond me in despising the
whisky drinker. 1 have been disgusted on
this very boat, and I say it now before our
worthy oaptain's face. What, I ask you, can
bo more disgusting than to see well-drossed,
respeotahle and virtuous looking young man,
whoso mothers are probably prayiDg that the
tender instruction by which their yonth was
illuminated, may bring forth precious fruit in
their maturity— I say, to see young men step
up to the bar of this boat, and without fear
or observing eyes, boldly ask for whisky, when
they know that there is in that very bar the
best of old Oognao braudy!"
PETROLEUM PREPARATION FOR TUB JUDG
MENT DAY.—A number of wioked editors are
much distressed about the theory lately ad
vanced by philosophers that Tophet is near
I by, and that a forerunner to its coming is the
breaking out of innumerable oil wells in va
rious sections of the country. One of our
frightened cotemporaries says that the latest
and most feasible theory growing out of the
sudden appearance of oil in such immense
quantities tu regions where it could not have
existed but a compartively abort time, is,
"that tho internal fire of the earth known to
exist are making their way to the surface,
where, iu accordance with the prophecy, 'the
elements are to melt with fervent heat.' The
caloric from these subterranean fires has just
reached the coal strata, and the oil which
forms the igneous portion of that carbonic
compound is driven from it, and forced by
superineumbcGt pressure ta occupy fissures
and the softer formations of the earth below,
until relieved by apertures from the surface.
Tbose living in the coal regions, and nearest
Tophet, of course, find oil first. Watch and
P™J-"
HENRY CLAY'S SARCOPHAGUS.— The beau
tiful sarcophagus intended for the remains of
Henry Clay, which was designed by Mr. Fre
derick Graff, and executed in Philadelphia,
arrived in Pittsburg over the Pennsylvania
Railroad, a few weeks ago, and conveyed by
Adams' Express to Lexington, Kentucky, and
—all the way free of charge. The material
used, which is pure white marble, is from the
quarry iu Montgomery county. Oa the raised
lid, enoircled in a laurel wreath is the uame
"Henry Clay" in black marble letters; on tho
end in front of the base, the following; "Pre
sented by William Strutters, marble mason,
Philadelphia." The inscriptions on the side
of the base are from Clay's speeches. One,
"1 bad rather be right than President. Truth
is mighty and publio justice certain." Again,
"1 can, with unshaken confidence appeal to
tho Divine Arbiter for the trutb of the decla
ration, that 1 have been influenced by no im
pure purpose, no personal motive; have sought
uo personal aggrandizement, but in all my
publio acts 1 have had a sole and single eye,
and a warm, devoted heart, directed and dedi
cated to what, in my best judgment, I believ
ed to be the true interests of my country."
VANITY FAIRINGS.— It La stated in some
quarters that Abe Lincoln will turn out the
worst President the United States ever had.
Too true. He will turu out Jatnc-s Buohanan!
Ceremony takes place Maroh 4th.
It has long been said that "Britannia rules
the waves," but sines the fort aid arsenal
capturing busidfess has flourished so, down
South, we must surely agree that South Caro
lina is First on the Seise.
Ride a Cook-Horee—
Sail down a 'liner* to South Carolina,
And let Uncle Sam with a blockade confine ber :
Sam in her bay, and Sambo at her heels,
She'll soon have to knuckle, however she squeals.
The song of the new State of Things—Hail
Columbiade:
" Tho aim of the South—to keep all the
Kernels, and throw us t&e Shells-
The real molio for Sooadcrs—"Let U. 8.
alone."
The only thing to "sweep the sea" with—a
brush with the enemy.