13. F. CLOIL N, E dito r.
VOLUME 21.)
45115 truer.
13. F. SLOAN, EDITOR
OFFICE. CORNF: Q Ft UA STATE ST. AND PUBLIC
S RE. ERIE.
TERMS OF THE PAPER
Ca) sabsctlt ers by the earner. at 8 . 2,01'
8t mad, t,r at the other, In ativanee. I.:0
Lill not paid in ativrtnee, or within three monthd from the lime
of ..;,11,..c I Ailii;!, V l / 4 % ti dollars %% ill I,c charged.
j J'All etotnniuntratnni# onus, be 7>OSllglid.
RATES OF ADVERTISING
Cnrd, lot excel:ding lines, Otte )tyti.
ode ,ydare
do. do. F. 1% 111011(11,
110., 6.1. three 111011f11q•
Than -nett adtt•rtu-eluentr...7.o cents par square, of fifteen lines or
for the Let inter huh 'Li cents for each subst•queut insertion,
kil'e , rl) .0% Orit-erb 1..1,e the {lrv, ilege of changing at pleasure,
bui ueetitr.t more elfin two squares, and to
to (ended lel their arnnernale 4 "
A ,,,,,,fr,neuh.uot ha, tog other directions, will he inst.:lethal
(,0,01 are shared aceonhugi)
J `L' :8 8 JOG3G PYLV.
LAIRD et, RUST
W1111 , 1: 4 %1E: Rct ii Dealers 111 Dry Coods,Groteries,thrdwate,
',eters, Flour. Felt. t 4 alt &e., corner of State BIttICL and the
, .1,1.11'0,11C:1f the Cvtirl
Lrrll lIVST.
GALEN U. K EENE,
ri•hmilable_Ntor. belt, tesl the Reed and BrOWles Hotel,
CC I'l'l dune oil sliuft imuce. .tlO
OLI Elt t:Pi% VFOlt D.
itc.t.k-c&r and Fiat‘oher. and •M'atittfdethrvr of Blank Booky and
ruing li.k. corner of ilit! Diamolud nti.l +l eel.
J. W. DUI; (*ASS.
A r rinvry Ant) rot T.COR Is•IV - [':McColl SUlte Street. three
uorth of I:rum, ICS Ilotel, Crte.
CONIPI ON & n A I"ElitiTIC K.
Dritras lIT Thy Goodk flank% art., Crocker, Crucerieg an•l ror
eo, aad lIMNCH IC Llyuon, Iii”;111o:, and 31autifaciaters of
\o N , Kcal ilouee,.autPcorner of Fri:acts anti Penn
Flicos !Ate, Va.
VV.II. CUTLIAL
Aaorney & Coaa,eller at Law (thlice No. 2, Eric Hall, corner
el am &I.lopl ntreett., latitalu, N. le.
C.3llectl,N4 and CWIttIIV.IT iat tat-tiles, VIII receive slrotttpt attertion.
Rt.rork.acrA.—A. I'. Drat I. Et.q., th NJAMIN GRANT, 1.:“).
J. IL NICKLIN-.7
firicl/11, and general Agency and Counntesionklaillells., Frank
1111, Pn.
klfl4l - S - 11. f:ED,
R in German and American Hardware and Cutlery,
Moo. Nuns, An% VICCS. Mu and Steel No. 3 Reed llutwet
Erie. Pa.
W. J. F. Ll DOLE kV Co.
131ScxguKrus, Earrnim and Wagon BuiWere. Stale ilticet. be"
reit be% emit & L,ohlh. Eric,
L. S 111.0Nki.-.CCi)
Orr! . one Dcor uent of C. 11. WrlOU's store, up nfalre
'JJOCT. J. L. 6TEWA
r n fill Met. A. r.eveuth near SaseafrasYtretl. nor
s n ience, ou `, ,, ,0,,0rat, one door north ul Se‘enth
Iniiii
C. SIEGEL,
{Cann. sir. Road dealer w Groceries, Provision., Wine.,
&c., &e Corner a French and ritti,l 4 treclA.
oppodite the Farniere,' lion% Lrie.
JOHN NIcC.ANN,
W 1101) Al ~1:11 Retail 1/041 , ..) Groceiles. Crockery.
GL•e•s%e.ac. rs Block, Inc..i Ihl,
Iv Ihe high,t pnc^ pat,l fur Couutry VrodLice..LL •
I J. CoALIJING.
motor, NT is and 110,11 I%l.tto.r.—r•tore. No, 5 tteed4l:loc,
(0rp,,,00 ttv (tuntoll iik.rk) mate Strrect.
1V ET M Olt E.
A T 'r 0 I: :1 1:1 AT 1. A W
Otlice.uu r:e% euth :,1114t.E, gyp, ra
lIENILY CAIJWELL,
Inrnr.Trr..Jol„rr.nu,lltetail Dealer in Dry Goods. Grorerie4,
e m .Oter,, tt;ut•, t. :ilk cling. (taro ate, Iron. St, el, Nail.t,
soh( laiildre Stores State btfeel, tour d0(.1., Lclatt•
lima is Ltiv,
Als,t—Ant cle Anus • S. prings. and a general
......Ortutelll of Saddle and Carriage Trimmings.
f 3. MEII.VIN SNIFI'II.
rAul..xrce AT i...•s nrid luptiet of the VCrICP, and Al2Cnt for
tic he) t;tone Alutual Lire Insurance Cuutpauy—othce 3 uuors
Ssi!nl ‘Vrigati cure. Erie. ra.
li. -- 11. - KNOt - VI;TON & SON.
nr trJk. In ‘Vaicia-i, Clock*, Looking Glai,e4, natio Fortes
lirnanilia %Vail., Jest dry, mill a variety of - oilier F.ttn
lour dims belou. Brown's llun•1.
State :greet, Lrte. In.
Lo it 61: ll.cuft. L:11,
Avreavry A 7 LAIA, Girard, Erie County, Collections and
oinor ritionded to S.iii proinvii.ess and dipnatcli.
EMEEMEI
ATTOTINTS AT LAW—OTTITI . otCr t'. 11. lVtlghVg Store, WWI Mur
ra) %% bath. n. (:11.0, sir the ( wirt I twee.
C e nkr heg ii:ehmher prole.a.ouaal buisliee:. attended TON kb prompt
I” da llTid '
i;iu,W.\'S IWTEL,
comer 01'. , kati , ~trer t and Ole NIA it eptarq
Lrie, Ea-wrik .und P.4)111ilerll Fl"u!e,Mti~l•.
B. A. CRAIN.
%VITO , IniALE and RclAil dealer In tr.werie ,, ,, pro% j,irms,, Wines,
laquors. reots, Delrua Ale, 11 , .ificuit, Crackers, ace. tile.
i 'era ',side, Erie. In.
W. MOORE.
Dem.ert in Groeeries. %Vim,. Ligmt.+. Candies, FrWI,
&c.,1 4 •011, Pour Peolile'4 How, t 4 Ltte mret \t Erie.
JOSI<III K ELLOWA,
Forwar.lout & Conhhh.-uht Merchant, oh the Public Dock, east of
Slatyr.trect.
Coal, Salt. Pla,ter anJ White co:r•tnntly for pal"
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J. 11. %111.1..1A315,
Banker and Merl:logo Wolter. Instlrr in !tiffs of Car flange,
WMI4, ertiliCann•Or iirro,ite.“ol(l nmix , ilveYC.olii, &C.. &C.
I iihre.4 11,x)r9 I Om\ Items Ws llotcl, Erie, l'n.
NI IN F. i/ENNISON,
ATTORMFT AT LAW, CleVellll.l, illito—Otiiro :41tperior •trrvn,
In .11.1 au 'Hoek. R.•l%•r to Chief Jin.tice Parker, I:J.l'olll , 4re
LawSchvil; ihnt. Richard I' L •lrher, Si3test., tly,ton; lion.
r , anon IH. l'or'.ln., %V.llnut l'ltHeielptitat Hirletrri 11.
%Vali aurct, New York. For testimonials, re
fer to the+ other.
MARSIIALL & VINCENT;
ATToItVI Ts \t up cairs ill Titlnitially flail building,
north or me I'rotlionotar) 9 t, ot!tce. EtiC.
NIUARAY lIALLON,
ATT/11% , 1F3T ANT, (It/U.041.1.1M A•r I. ta laic,: over C. It. Wrighl'Er
more, elltrgtice 011 e door a erL of Slate tireet, on the lhaliaulid,
1. ROSENZWEIG &
Winn rg.t r r an 1142 All: 1; EA; .! no in Foreign and Dothr.oir Dry
4 • 00 ' 1 ". re•obr male Cl.th ,1:2,11..wis and r.:ltocs.&.c., No. 1, nom
`• log Muck. r , taw strict. 1 . 1
BIJALS,
As. nu Crockvry, hardware. &e•.
le,
Z1.11311:10.Y. •
Mkt FR inGroceries and l'rovn , ion.cd all kinds, Etale street, three
floVi, north of We Diamond, l.rie,
smiTii JACKSON.
DsAram in Dry Goods. GrocerieF, !lard” are, Lluecni \are, Lime,
Iron, Nall”, are., 1214 Clamlenle. Lrie,
- ,V; I LLIAM
C,,jwirr MAKLIC I tpitulster, and Undertaker, corner of State and
SLITCtn, Erie.
ELSO -- Wi,OOAllB,
C v•ram. Forwarding. Prudltce and Coolooson Merchants; dealers
to coarse and foie salt, Coal, Pla,der, &c.Puhlic dock,
%%est side ot the bridge, Llrte
Etqlvt J. K
iVALISEIt COOK,
Gest - Eti‘t, For nrdifig, c1)1111111S , 1011 and Produce 31ercliaiiter Sec
eri.d. of the hildic !fridge, Eric.
(i• WOMIS & CO. - •
DEAL , gel ill Wawhen, Jewelry, tither, Eerinan Silver, Placed and
Britannia Ware tattler) ' Miiiiar) Fancy Guods, iitate.treet,
uppui-ite the Ligle lintel. Erie,
0, L 0413101
CAItTl:lt & l Rol'llPat,
VVIIOISPAI.£ and Iti•unl dealers in Drurs,:iictiii.iiics, Paints, Oils,
Ste.., It(ed 11011 be. Erie.
JOEL JOHNSON, - ,
DE A, FP in Theological, Mi.ccilancoug, bun.lay and Classical
e , chool Rooks, thationary, &c. Park Row, Eric.
J A3IEB LYTLE.
rAqIIONATILF: Merchant Tailor, on the pulnic square, a few doors
neat of :Nate street, trie,
D. H. CLARK.
WITOLrFALE AND RrTAIL Maier In GrOft`firs, PIOVi.iODS. Ship
Chandlery, Stone-ware, Ace. &c.. No. 5. Bonnet I Bloc k. Erie.
0. D. STAFFORD. .
Dri!rt in Law, Me,litaL .cooOI.Ib.sCPIL3/IVOIII3 Books.stationary.
11,k, &e. State st., lour &KM. below Oquare.
Dlt. 0. L. ELLIOTT,
Resident hcatiit;4ind ditelliteg in the Beebe Block. On the
klaA huh , of the Pubfteiiguare. Erie. Teeth inserted on "4
Elate, Iron one to au entire bett. Carious teeth. filled with pure
gold, and moored to health and unefulnee.o. Teeth cleaned
wlth in4trutnents and Peutifice vb an to leave them °fa pc [lucid
elearac.s. All work warranted.
S. DICKERSON,
SVRGEON—OiIIee at his residence On Seventh street.
opp.-ite the Methodist Church. Erie.
JOIIN LI. litlliTON,
ISneLENAL3 Ail , rAii. dealer in Drug 4, Medicines, Dye Stuff's.
t.rocenee, 6.e. No. G. Reed IlourC. Erie.
110111 ACT S. 11U NTER.,
1) " 1 •Elt in hats. Caps autl Furs of all descriptions. 11.3. 10, Polk
Row 'Erie. oa.
BUTTER AVANTEID.--50 firkins ood Dairy Butter seam
in excllnnge for Cash or good,.
J. 11. FULLERTON.
AI ME (.1( 80tmet,,3914 receive 4 Expre by
Julie I. 3. H I'ULLERTO-ti
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For Ike Erie Obserrer.
STANZAS-TO CARO
Ezi:=l3
Dark are the skies to•n;glit, Caro,
I hear the insigne blast;
are the tales it tells, Ciro,
Al it goes utoattius Past;
Tales of the olden tittles, Caro,
Of hopes. the fondest. dead._ .
Tates that no make me tsectioCaro,
- And bow my sorrowing head.
Friends of the best Fse had. Caro,
lint they are dead and gone—
Bleepi lig their final sleep, Caro.
Arid wantPring one by one;
Wand*rAng in strange lands, Caro, • .
io lamp to guide their feet,
Where dangers thickly come, Caro,
For them alone to meet. •
Though the skies ore so dark, Caro, •
The moaning winds so•drenr,
Holies of the brightest dawn, Caro,
To Meta the falling tear; '
To the future I turn,Caro,
And view the radiant form. '
There. oh: there is the hope, Caro,
'The star above life's storm:
Itoneirlale, I&30.
I LOSS AND GAIN.
sr T. S. ARTHUR.,
Andrew Marvel was a merchant to whom his neigh
bors applied the word "thrifty." Ilfe had been in
business fur only arfew years; yet in that tithe, he
had made a great deal of money. Mainly, the thrift
of Andrew Marvel was the result of great shrewd
ness, industry, culla knowledge of trade. It was
alsi) dependant, in pall, on his habit of driving close
bargains, and gettin, whenever it was possible
to do se, some advaotago • in every transaction. Su
that he gtiitted, he too rarely stopped to consider who
lost—that is, he did not atop to consider while in the
warmth and eagerness-of business. •Then, his love
of gain ruled his actions. • •
Hut, in earlier years, Marvel had-received instruc
tion from the lips of one who taught hint to repeat
the Golden Rule, and this axed that heavenly pre
cept in his memory. It was, therefore, impossible
for him to act with dis -, 101041Y, and not, in some af
termoment, when his cirpidities were at rest, feel a
sense of di,quitude therefor. pe could not gain
a worldiradviintage of this kind, without losing so•tie
portion of self respect,sand that pea at conscience
without which no one can be happy.
In the gains of Mr. Marvel, there was, therefore,
a lose, and that a serious one—a loss of which he
was too often conscience—a loss that troubled him.
Strung m the lone of money;and eager fur its
accilintilationas a means or rarppineso, our mer
chant in acqdiring earthly treasure, was like a man
who builds a house, and uses, in its eredOonj a par
tion.of bad materials, thus making the whole stric
ture defective, and destroying all his pleasure in the
ni.e of the bail ling*. lle was getting ;doh fast Lie
was investing money year idler year. i And yet ac
companying his possessMns was a feeling of disqui
etude, a want of self-approval and 4 . ol . ..satisfaction.
And there , were times when, thinking over some of
his business deeds, he felt positively unhappy.,
Andrei! Marvel, at the time we have introdneed
him to the reader, was writ) over eig:ity thoiniund
dollars. Forty thousand ofithis sum was invested
in six per cent, paying bonds and mortgages, and
the remainder was in his business. -His family con
sisted of only himself and wife; and their tvbole ex
pense of living did not exefed two thousand dollars
per annum. ff
'Now the whole'immint tSf this property acquired
by over-reaeliing his business,. did not llceeit, if
esery little item of fraudulent gait' had been fairly
counted; ten thousand dollars. Had Marvel been
strictly honest, man with man, in all his dealings.
he would have been worth seventy thousand dollars.
But, his selfish desire to have more Than his own
share, led him. fur an additional ten thousand, to
mar all real enj qment of the seventy thousand.
Could he have obliterated from his mind the true
precepts he had learned as a child--could he have
I husked the whivers of e inscienci?, heard in the si
11efiCe of his heart Ether he had write 1 away froao the
busy world, he might have better enj iyed his wealth•
nt that was impo4sible. -
One day a gontletnin called uprln Mr. Marvel,
an said to hint: II
": widow, a friend of min has ten shares of
stock that she wishes to sec . The income from
this is tot) titian to be of any value to her, and she is
forced to part with ii, in order to meet the present
and pressing wants of her family. Do you wish to
buy?"
• %. •
"What stock is it?" asked theftierchant. '•`)1
Thn name of the Company was mentioned. tl
' "What - does she ask for ill"
' "She will sell at the market price.'
. "What is that?"
"I saw a broker josi now, and he said that. It was
worth eighty dolja'rs." •
\ Eighty was the quotation of the previous day.—,
lat o t Marvel knew that an advance had taken place,
and the true value of the shares was eighty,-five
•
dollars.. c ..,
"very well,',' said lie, with a pleasant feeling at
I
the t t aught of making fi fty ttoliars by the transac
tion i c'onscquence of the gentleman's ignorance of
the real value of the stock. ..rn take - the scrip.—
r\l
When do you want th'e in me yr ,
"As \
soon as the transfer can be made."
"11l ive you a check at any_i_noment," said Mar
vel. ,
So the / transfer was madejithouti delay, and the
stock be ame the merchant's.
"That much gained," said he to hinrelf, as he
placed // he certificates carefully'in his fire-proof.—
"I should like to enter, a kransaction,,like this every
day. / The stock is worth eighty-five. Sy there are
fifty' dollars clear. Howareivas not so wide awake
as'usual. notate sf l oCit was none of his. It is the
,poor widow, who has to sufrtr. A nice man, truly,
,to have the widow's interest in charge!"
" There was a sudden depression in the thermometer
of Andrew Marvel's feelings, at this last mental ex
clamation. A poor widow, bad been `wronged—iii
plain words, cheated—out of fifty dollars. Who
had done this? Who was guilty of so 'mean' an act
of dishonesty? Why, Andrew Marvel! The trans
action was a mirror, in which the merchant saw him
self reflected, and with a -feeling, of shame at his
SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 26, 1850.
heart, ho tried to turn hislyes away from the Hite
ness so little flattering to'tho good opinion of himself
the so fondly cherished.
t'lt was a fair business transaction," he a Ll to
himself; in the struggle fur self-approval.
But that Wutsld nut do.
- "The fiteek was ofibred rat eighty dollars, and I
I I
bought it. Was there anything wrong in that! It
was a goo bargain for me, I own; but every man is
entitled tr thle . best.bargain . he can make.?'
Still, tffe merchant felt uncomfortable: lie had
wronge4 a widow, whose slender income was insuf
ficient.for the Support of her family,''but of fi fty dol
lars. That was the plain truth; and gloss It over as
he would, he could not make it look any better.
Thus stood the account of lose and gain in that
matter. .
The sleep of Andrew 4larvel was not always sound
It too frequently happened, that, ere his senses were
locked in sweet furgetfulnees, there would intrud - 3
upon his mind the thought of something that he had
done, through the day, while he was absorbed in the
sphere of gain, that produced a genie of uneasiness;
and, oppressed with this feeling; he would turn upon
his luneasy pillow sometimes for, hours.
It was SO on the night that foilowePhis purchase
of the widow's stock. lie had lost far more than
he had gained, and the trouble of this would not let
him rest; At length, after many unhappy hours, na
ture gave way, and he sunk into a troubled slumber.
But, 'the current of hit, thoughts went on, uncontrol
led now 'by reason:and the real things aroudd
To a certain extent: he lived over very many scenes
in his life, and some of the actors
I n them were face to
face with him again.By this one he was charged with
overreaching in a certain transaCtion; by that one
convicted of falsehood in some business operation,
that he might acquire an advantage; and by another
pointetat its specioue' villain. At length his crowd
of accisers passed away, and hia was left abine with
his own unhappy reflections. Not long alone, how
ever, for the door of the room in which he seemed
to he setting o opened, and a woman, in widow's weeds,
ce?e - slowly in. Though he had never seen the per
son from whom he had bought'the stock on the pre
vious day, lie knew this to be her, By the hand she
held' two little children, pearly clad. They were
weeping. The woman ajyroached and stood before
him. For a little while she looked at him with a
fixed expression. Then she said, in a severe tone.
"There were fifty dollars gained. Mr, Marvel—,
fifty dollars gained from the small remnant left to
The wigmr and or?hans. Bit how ranch was lost.
Have you taken that into accunnt I Loss of honesty;
toss of self-respect; lose of peace; and, worse than
all, so much lost to. heaven. With whom do you
expect to live hereafter, Mr. Marvell With the lov
ing, unselfish, true-minded angels; or, With the over
reaching, dishrinnest, cruel-.hearted spirits who can
not enter heaven? It must come to this at last,—
There were fifty dollars gained, Mr. Ma • but,
how much lost? Can you estimate that?"
The merchtint heard no inure in his dream. Shud
dering, he awyke . with beads of cramtnyperapiration
on his forelmad.
On the next day, Marcel enclosed the witliWv fifty i
dollars, saying to her, In the note accompanying the
stun, that he (wind, mfenquiring, that her stock wills
worth just that, much more than he paid -her for it
To screen himself from being thought by her what
he really was—dishonest at heart—he evaded the 1
truth in los act - of restitution. But; so far as the 1
act went, it was good. The merchant felt !letter, I
therefor; and enj eyed the property he had purchas
ed far more than if his right to it had been vitiated
by the right of another therein.
AndreW Marvel weld nut forget his dream; nor
help recurring, now and again, to the profit and loss
1 1 account that was posted up in the Book 9f memory.
And, whenever he looked at this acco u nt, lie 4.as
_ou t tAircly unhappy. For the future, hn was wiser,
and endenarzl . to limit:l - is gains within the bounds
irf strict honesty between man au.l his- fellow man.
Cut, whatever is written in the Book of Memory, is
a permanent a re ird. 113 could nut rattan the past ;
' nor obliterate from his mind the c mscilmsneis,that
a portion of the wdrldly wealth he possessed was at
the expense of dishonetity and wrong to others. I i
several cares, he made secret restitution, thus light
ening the pressure that was on him. But a portion
of the weight could lint be removed; and thus the
abundance of this world's good things that were
gathered around him. were hut half enjoyed, because
a portion was not justly his own,.
Sd much fur loss and gain.—.lrthar's Gazette.
Good all Round.
Mr. Buckinham, in hieteminiscences states that
during the first session of Congress, the la i te John
Russell, who bad done so much in the Ceniind
wa tJs the adoption of the Federal Constitution in
'Massachusetts, wrote to the Department of State,
901-ring to publish all elle laws and other official,
ANctimenta gratuitously—the country being almost,
bankrupt. They were acccordingly transmitted to
him and published in the C. lumbian Centind "by
authority." At the end of several years he was call
ed upon for his bill. It was made out and in com
pliance with his pledge, was receipted. On 'being
informed of the fact, Geo. Washington said: "This
must not be. When Mr. Russell ofeered to publish
the laws without pay, we were poor, It wos a gen
erous ofrer. We are now ablO to pay our debts.—
This is n debt of honor and must be discharged."—
A few days after, Russell received a check for sev
ep thousand dollars—.the full swot of his bill. This
*as honestly remembering an honest editor—"all of
the olden time."
Industrial Houle Association.
A society with this title has been formed in
New York, the object, of which is to procure three
or four hundred' acres of land, to' be divided into
quarter acre lots for building purposes. It is to be
composed of 1000 mechanics or laborers, each of
whom is to pay, fur a year had a half, a weekly in
stalment of onedollar, at the end of which period
the land wili be bought and ready f►r occupation.
The association is rapidly filling up; numbering al
ready 220 members.
blotters of Wiliam ton-often matters of luck.
One bailor our dogmas we believe to be true, not
because they are so, but because •we were made to
believe they were so, before we were capable of
distinguishing between a fact and a falsehood. The
woman that rears a child, generally makes its re
ligion.
rrorrivAnn...
The practicability of navigating the air by means
of a flying machine has censatisfaetorily demon
strated and settled, as he thinks, by Mr. John Tag'-
gart, of Charlestown, Mass., who is at present to
be seen with his invention, at Dunlap's Hotel, 135
Fulton -street. The flying machine consists of a'
car, to the front of which is attached a pair of wings
somewhat like the screws used by propellors, and a
float or balloon fastened to the car in the ordinary
way, at an elevation of _six or eight (Vet. The .
wings, whith may be move d
i in any direction, so as
to assist in the ascent or descent of the machine, are
put in motion by turning 'a small axle running
through the centre of he car. The machine may
be guided in any direction by means of a rudder, the
slightest variation in which it obeys with wonderful
precision. The float or balloon, which is pearshap
cd, is thirty-three feet nine inches in height, having
a diameter of some twelve feet; and the whole
weight of the machine, when ready fur ascension,
is three hundred and fifty pounds, in addition to
which it will carry with ease over one thousand
pounds. The inventor told us that he had already
madeione ascension in it, for the purpose of practi
catty testing its powers. The ascent iron] the com
mons at Lowell, Mass., in the presence, of a large
number of spectators. ,Owing to some fault of in
flating the balloon, a quantity of steftin Was allowed
to interm4 with the gas, thus greatly diminishing
its buoy, aney, so that when the ropes which held it
to the ground were cut. the machineascentled only
to the height of a few feet, when it fell down, to
the imminent peril of the occupant. Aftet twU or
three ineffectual attompts, Mr. Taggart el4ated
the wings considerably above the line of thelcar,
which had the desired effect, and away went the
machine, - far above the heads of the spectators, until
he had dwindled in their gaze to the size of a swat:
low. After attaining a considerable elevation; Mr.
Taggart proceeded in the direction of Lawrence,
whence he pissed to Andover and Bradford,, over
which latter place he struck a current of air which
carried him, at a rapid i rate, to Redding. From
this again he ,passed to Salem, having crossed a,
portion of aid sea In his passage fromßedding,and
alighted at a distance of nine miles from Low
ellsacco mplishing the whole voyage in an hott and
twenty minutes. Mr. Taggart says, that at one
time he had abtained an elevation where the air be-
Caine so verified that it was with the grAte.t diffi
culty he could retain his powers_ of animation; his
haudr, and other parts of his body, swelled, and
blood spurted from his mouth and nose. The in
vention, he tells us, has met with the support and
countenance of several of the scientific men in NtoO
sachttsetts. It is the intention of slr.Taggart to
make an ascent 'from:this city,in the course of two or
tkite weeks. He has already invited some of our
most, eniment machinists, * arid men of science, to
examine his invention.—Euerting Post.
while con
CiX,tiano."
)f hia experi.
ing. Ile comma_ ;oblicatioq
about fourteen years ago in CllllllOl4
1117ist a
~,WildernesS. The editorials were written
and ifiiist of the type set, for the first number, while
fl4;ting down Me river wit/ his-printing dilw on a
fiat-boat. 'bonding where Chattanooga now stands,
and finding houses rather o, scarce
- commodity, he
located his office under one of' Me forest frees, and
printed Ills paper there,
,making a barrel-head serve
the purpose of his editorial tiple. •
After a while, he changed the loelition of his
of
lice to a blacksmith's shop, where lie continued for
sometime to issue his paper. lie had chosen the
right spot, however, as subsequent events hate
proved; for where fourteen years ng.) this pioneer
issued his paper in the open air under a tree, is ntiiv
a large and flourishing town, with the steam cur
doily, whistling through its streets, and -steamboats
visiting its WharOaden with rich products a the
vast area of country bordering on the Tennessee ond
its tributaries. Parham, we arc glial to know, has
reaped some of the merited fruits of his perseverance
and industry, and is now, as the saying goes, "very
well to do in the world." IlieGazelle appears reg
ularly on our table, and is a large and interesting
sheet.-411anta (pa.) Intelligeneer.
cheap ,Pleamitedi
, Did yrm ever study the cheapness of-Mme pleas•
urea" pid you know how little it takes to make a
multittile happyt Such trifles as a penny,- or.---
smile, o the work. There are to: , I or three boys.
passing ) along—give them each a cheStnut; and how
9Miiill; therlook ! They will not be cros for some
time.' A poor widow lives in a neighborhood, who
is thei mother - of , . half a dozen children; send them
half a peer of sweet apples, and they will be happy.
A ch Id has lost its arrow—the world to him—and
lie mourns sadly; help him to find it, or. make him
ano4er, and how quickly will the sunshine: play up
on Ins sober face. A boy bag as much as Ifs can do
to p6e up a load of wood; assist him- a few mo
ment!s, or speak a pleasant word, and he forgets his
toil and works away without minding it—Your op
pren ice has broken a mug, or cut the- - vest too
&Agr i or slightly inj !red a-piece otwork; say,"You
scoul drel" and he feels miserable; but remark "I
am s ,
rry," and he will try to da better. You em
ploy e\!,1 31 ,.....pay him cheerfully; and speak a pleas
ant word to him, and he leaves jourhouse with a
contented heart, to light up his own hearth with
smiles and gladness.
Pleasure is cheap—who would not bestow it liber
ally'', 1f: there are smiles, sunshine, and flowers fur
411 of us, let us nut grasp them with a miser's fist,
and lock them up in our hearts. . No! Rather let
us take them and scatter them about us in the cot
of the Witluw, among the groups of•children, in
the crowded mart, where men- of business ;•congre
gate,, in our
.. families, and everywhere. We can
make the wretched happy, the discontented cheerful,
the afflieted resigned— , at an exceedingly,cheap rate.
Who will refuse go do it. , ,
JENNY Llgto AND QUEEN EzdsnitzEr.-•-The grave
end discreet Boston Advertiser thinks that if Jenny
Lind ii as sensib.e as she is accomplished, she must
mentally at least, say of the ad oration which has
been paid twi n er since her nrrivalT in this country, as
Queen Elizabeth said to the provincial authorities
who waited upon her in one of her journeys through
the kingdom-.-" Lord, what fools we are ''
Plying Machine.
One of the Printers. '
re not a little amused a day or two since,
Treing with our friend Parham, of f r
\iGazette, in listening to some ink'
ce in the wsy_of—o^...-
RED
If there has ever been a mum touching and elo
quent eulogium upon the charms of home, and its
dearest treasure, woman, than is contaiiied in the
following extract from the Christian Inquirer, it has
not been our good fortune to meet it: "Our homes,
what is their cornerstone but the virtue of woman,
and on what does social well-being test bilt our
homes? Must we not trace all other blessings of
civilized , life to,the doors of our private dwellings?
Arc not our heCith-stones guarded by the holy forms
or conjugal, filial, and parental love, the corner
stones of Church and State; more sacred than eith-
more necessary than butlh? Let our temples
crumble, and our academies decay: let every pub
lic edifice, our balls of justice, and our capitals of
state, be 'leveled to the dust; but spare our homes.
Let no socialist invade them with his wild plans of
community. Man did not Invent, and we cannot
improve or abrogate them., A private shelter to!
cover in two hearts dearer to each other than all the
world, high walls to exclude the profane eyes of ev
ery human being; seclusion enough for children to'
feel that' mother is a holy and peculiar name—this
is home; and hero is the birth-place of every virtu
;l ous impulse, of 'every Booed thought. Here the
jehurch and the State meet c )me for there origin
I and their support. Oh, spare our homes! The
love we experience their gives us our faith iq an
infinite goodness; and disinterested tenderness of
o .r homels our foretaste and our earnest of a better
world.. In the relations there established and •fos
i ter d, do we find through life the chief solace of joy
a • existance. What friends deserve the ‘name,'
c mpared with those' Whim) a birth-right gave us?
The mother is worth a thousand friends; one sister
truer and dearer than twenty intimate companions.
We who have played-on the same hearth, Udder the
light of the, same smile ) who date back to the same
scenes season of innocence and hope, in whose
veins runs the same blood, do we not tint that years
only make more sacred and more important the tie
that binds us? Coldness may spring up, distance
may separate, different spheres mar divide, but
those who can hate anything—who continue to love
at all---Lmu.st find that the friends whom Cod himself
gave are wholly unlike an we can chose fur our
selves, and that the yearning fur those is the strong
est spark in our'expiring affect;on.''
'ngs
-6tl
r of his paper
'oogo, then al-
We never knew exactly what tins meant by giving
a chap "beans," till ue heard the interpretation given
to the phrase by a young lady in Indiana. As the
story goes,a getitlentrom from this regipn woe paying
her very marked nttentien, representing himself as
single, and desirous of changing his forlorn condi
ii•tn . He had mode route prog re ss in his 9u it , when
60 Indy learned that he was it married men! Iler
indignation on malting the discovery was unbounded
—.her thirst for ‘engence Fcarcely shakable. After
iirions plans had been considered abandoned, and her
purpose was fixed as follous. She loaded a pistol
with beano. and on his host wit she Mon uneere.
monsly presented the weapon, told him its contents
and imptirell if he would have them rote or cool: s ec( .
Hesitating, GS, it might naturally be expected he
would, in giving an answer, she decided for him, and
pulling the trigger, gave the to him raw. The aim of
the heroine was sit good, that two of the bean st ritek
her admirer, r inflleting slight, but somewhat painful
wounds! Tbe-Fonrce whence tie derive this ineident
the Daytoniturnal, infornia us that it la iv) fancy
sketch; an.t Would be sworrsto, by a friend of Os
s ittifferer, if need le, on a stack of Bibles as high as a
meet fug hottel
Tntt FiFirt ilsvusau.—llaynans danger at London
is commented on freely by the Paris papers. The
republicans say that Hayhau had wallowed in blood
in Hungary,,had shot down human beings as if it
were in spurt, had whipped delicate and noble wo•
men, and bad accumulated in his person all the
crimes which should Call down the execration of
honest men; they praise the hrewry men fur their
generous instincts, although the tranifestation of
them wns not parliam.untory. Other papers, do not
defend fisytnin precisely, but denounCe the act as
inhospitable to a stranger, and call on England to
punkt' the aggressors if she does not wish to devel •
ope fearfully the spirit of revolution. .Haynau dad
not go to Paris to see what portion of the press rep•
resented curreetly the publie. sentiment, but. relin
quish his apartment on the Hum Ituchelein and went
back to Germany . He had quitted his uniform fur
a plain dress, hut was recogniiing in the cars be
fore his arrival at Cologne. The papers of that
city say that all tine backs coach and omnibus dri
vers refused to tae him or his baggage to a hotel,
anti that the pnlice had to interfere to protect him
and procure him lodgings. A detachment of troops
were stationed around the hotel all night to prevent
his being the victim of a mob. Lem his fate be a
warning to the butqhers of a human race; he is dis
owned and disgraced by his emperor, Inched With
Mild by the London mob, insulted by German cab
drivers as a loathsome thing, and hooted at by the
children in the streets. His punishment has tom.
menced in this world. .
07- Here's a gold Story which the Sacramento
Transcript believe impliditly:—r
“Twenty-five miles above Mary svillei at a plot%
Segar's Bar t the lobs has been turned fur
space of 30U/eet. The bed was near the surface, and
caused a ripple in the stream while the water passed
over iti The work was accomplished by &company
of eight men from Ohio. As soon as the water was
diverted• three men Commenced washing from the
bed, and and for the first half day's work they real
ized 21i) lbs of gold. The next day ttiree or four ex
tra hands were employed, and at. night the company
bagged over 35 lbs. Since then they have averaged
each - from 600 to $lOOO 4110. When our infor
mant left, six days work had been done.”
THE LOCK OF HAIR,
She loved UM well whose precious head
This cherished ringlet bore;
if el tliee will coin, n time I thee&
*hen she will !me no more;
A thousand changes wi I occtir,
Her kinillicsctue.trange;
This Mlle lock is all °rho/
That can never changel
And when the lip that once I pron.
To me no smile will give.
This ringlet in my lonely breast
ahnil bid some eomfurt live;
And when sonic happier heart shall bier
The love I must resign.
How will I prize !Ids little tress.
Ilmaltfred still. end 11111141
Will she not chancel Ah, evtn Neff
I ace the change advance! '
Leis happy seems her lovely brow
To meet my loving glance!
And often 14 ben I might expect
My angel to appear.
She leaves me—can it mean neglect?
In vattito wish her nart
I have but little Joy on earth.
Or hope of joy above.
.kiave that which every Joy were worth.
The paradise of love!
Why nine( I know it will not last!
That fate will only 'pate.
Of all the love and rapture Past.
One little lock of hair:
Home tend Women,
"Giving Him Baans."
S 1 50 A iraAte, in Advanco.
NUMBER 24.
The Union—Slavery—California.
tl'IT to the Buffalo Daily Courier
We have the pleasure this morning of laying be.
fore our readers an eloquent and powerful extract,
from a volume of Lectures ocoarious topics, by our
townsman, theller. Dr.'l.oltD, soon to be published
in handsame form by Messrs. G. H. kstanr Co.
of this city. This extract is specially pertinentat
this time, and is a manly rebuke to\ the spirit of dia.
union that has latterly been manifested by the fanat
ics and demagogues of the country. We commend
it lo the perusal of every individual who cherishes,
awi for the harmony and perpetuity of the Union.
A doom like that of Uzzah will overtake those
who under the pretence of steadying and securing,
profanely touch the ark of the union of the Ameri
can States. The disunionist is not only a traitor
to his country, but to humanity itself, aiming a blow
at the land of his birth and the government to which
he ows allegiance—he is guilty of high treason
agsinst his race ) Who In the several places of their
bondage and from every wall of their captivity, have
still a hope to cheer them in the permanence of uur
Institutions, in the perpetuity of our Union. Shall
that flag fail from the sea where stairs and stripes
in every bay and - river of the globe are symbols of
hope to the Nations? Shall that dominion be bro
ken, which is the sole asylum of the unnumbered
exiles who flee from political oppression? Shall
that Republic be dismembered which throws the
.I.lzi of its protection, over the vanquished patriot,
of Buroil'e whn'enspe from the axe and the gibbet—
Toe et' nt whose bounds
Edops and calls Lack her battled hounds?"
May Heaven avert such a consummation and writ,*
upon the Union of these Stater, "este perpetua."
But passing from political considerations and this
Calculations of commerce, wealth and population, let
us turn to — tbe higher interests of our common hu=
mnnity; let us consider the moral influence destined
to be exerted by the settlement of this continent; let
ua notice the great ends which the )vine Provi
dence is about to-accomplish in this rapid movement
of our population westward to California—the gold
en land.
When the northern portions of this new world
were first settled, two widely different races of men
were brought together by the will of God, to (sect*
the territory provided for them—the English Puri
tan and the African Negro. The former, after a
desperate conflict with political-and ecclesiastical
despotism, and a partial triumph over both, was com
pelled at last, by the stern hand of persecution, to
expatriate himself to the wilderness of North Amer
ica;—the latter was stolen from his barbarous home,
himself the most stupid of barbarians, and forced by
the British Government upon their colonies on this
nontinent. The one had been trained and disciplin
ed in a severe vchool for many generations, to fit
him to found an empire on the basis of civil and re
ligious liberty—the other had been a servant of ser
vants in Otitis generations. The two extremes of
the human family were thus brought together—th e
most enlightened and the most ignorant: these whe
:had been in training for two centuries for the work
of human regeneration, and those who presented the
11 -
lowest point of depression of which Our, nature is
capable, and were thought by some to occupy a m id
die place between animals and men. The purpose
for which these two races—the antipodes of human
nature—were *driven to this continent—the one .by
persecution, the other be piracy—begins already to
appear. The one is destined to bear to the most
t benighted portion of the earth, to' barbarous Africa,
the English language, literature, and taws—the oth
er to introduce through the gates of the Pacific the
same gifts to semi-civilized and pagan Asia. The
African. Christianized and civilized, even in his ser
vile condition ,
is now cOlottizing hack to Africa, and
. , proving his natural equal i ty with h is more fortunate
1 brethren, by founding free States in imitation of our
' own on the western coast of that great continent, in
which civil and retigions liberty are secured;arid
Brder and law prevail as fully as in the land where,
from a bondage of nearly swo hundred years, he has
I commenced his exodus. Alter the lapse of ages of
1 degradation, it free African State at length appears
i —the herald of a brighter day for that benighted and
oppressed continent. Along a Coast, haunted but
yesterday by the slave-trader and his floating hells,
the flag of Liberia waves in the breeze; the thunder
of her cannon startles the min-stealer, who, driven
from his haunts, is lighted in his flight by the blaze
of his burning prisons. The miked. Negro from the
interior gazes with wonder upon civilized and Chris
tian men of his own color, and asks, as the greatest
of fat ors, the privilege of surrendering his tetritory,
and being received under the jurisdiction of those
wini appear to him as Gods-"the sto , y• of Whose
prowess, the history of whose stork of liberation, he
Carries back with him -to distant tribes, who receive
the message with a joy like that of the shepherds of
Galilee, when voices from Heaven proclairnid the
advent of Him whose mission was "peace on earth
and good will to men."
But while the descendants of Ham return to the
East fmm the place appointed for them, and front
among the people who l 4ere to qualify them for the
mission of regeneration to Africa, their Anglo-Seft
on Master and teacher is urged westward by provi
dential incentives selfish have no parallel in history
and which have brought him at last to the Pacific
Ocean, the" terminus of western migration. Over
the rocky riateintaitis the tide of population has been
driven as by the hand of God. What if the remains
of the dead strew the way—what if the solemn path
of divine cippolntment be batized in blood and tears
-.What though the cry of the mourner Is mingling
,with thevoiee of triumph and conquest.—what though
with herculean labor, with sufibrings greater than
those endured by his progenitors on the Eastern
cm's', the Emigrant forces his way over Desert and
Mountain, to his heritage in the West; is he not
fulfilling his destiny? Are not the ends secured
greater than all the sacrifices made? Shall not the
solitary plat!) be glad for them and the desert be
come as a garden of the bordl
‘Vhen was any great enterprise accomplished
without pain and peril? When were the nations col
onized without eating the bread of affliction and
drinking from the cup of tears? What birth of Em
pires without throes that have shaken the eartfi as
when a mountain has been upheaved by the fires of
a Volnot What great reformation has made its
way ,lon g a path of flowers and by rivers of quie
tude? What important end has, in, the Divine Prov
idence, been aecomelished without heroic sacrifices,