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OUR FLAG.
The following beautiful lines were written by a gentle
man holdings distinguished potition under the Federal
Gorernmeut ha Washington City:
PARODY
" WOOD.V.t:f, BPARZ InST TOIL"
Madmen, spore that nag I
Touch not a single star;
From sea to mountain crag
Its stripes have gleamed afar;
'Two our forefathers' hand
That pro it to out lot,
There, m- Iman, let it about
Your luso !shall harm it notl
that flag of Liberty,
Whose glory and renown
Aro spread o'er lend and sea
And would ye strike it down?
Madmen, suspend your will,
Cut not Its henron•born Una;
Our Country's ensign still,
Streaked pith celestial dyes!
On OCCfae, {MVO aael heath,
In battle and to blast,
Our fathers cheered beneath,
Or nailed It to the mast ;
A tear fur those who fell,
Fur those) who bred, renown,
It cenght their last farewell—
Ohl do not hew It down.
Our heart.stt fillip round thee cling,
And mem'ries o'er thee crowd;
On field and deck thy wing
Iles been a froeruan's shroud?
Ohl Yin, the storm still brave;
And Traitors, leave the spot;
'While we an arm to Rae
Your rage shall harm It not.
THE QUAKER'S REVENGE.
Obadiah Lawson and Watt Dood
were neighbors, that is, they lived
within half a mile of each other, and
no persons lived between their respec
tive farms, which would have joined,
had not a little strip of prairie land ex
tended itself sufficiently to keep them
separated. Dood was the oldest set
tler, and from his youth up had enter
tained a singular hatred against Qua
kers ; therefore, when he was informed
that Lawson, a regular disciple of that'.
class of people had purchased the next
farm to his, he declared he would make
him glad to move away again. Accor
dingly, a system of petty annoyances
was commenced by him, and every
time one of Lawson's hogs chanced to
stray upon Dood's place, it was beset
by men and dogs, and most severly
abused. Things progressed thus fbr
nearly a year, and the Quaker a man
of decided peace principles, appeared in
no way to resent the injuries received
at the hands of his spiteful neighbor.
But matters were drawing to a crisis,
for Dood, more enraged than ever at
the quiet of Obadiah, made oath that he
would do something before long to
wake up the spunk of Lawson. Chance
favored his design. The Quaker had
a high-blooded horse, (or filly, accor
ding to the western mode of speaking,)
which he had been very careful in rais
ing, and which was just four years old.
Lawson took great pride in this ani
mal, and had refused a large sum of
money for her.
One evening, a little after sun-down,
as Watt Dood was passing around his
cornfield he discovered the filly feeding
in the little strip of prairie land that
separated the two fiirms, and he had
conceived the hellish design of throwing
off two or three rails of his fence, that
the horse might get into the corn du
ring the night. He did so, and the
next morning bright and early, he
shouldered his rifle and left the house.
Not long after his absence, a hired
man whom he had recently employed
heard the echo of his gun, and in a few
minutes Dood, considerably excited
and out of breath, came hurrying to
the house, where he stated that he had
shot at and wounded a buck—that the
deer had attacked him, and he had
hardly escaped with his life.
Tho story was credited by all but
the newly employed hand, who had
taken a dislike to Watt, and from his
manner, suspected that something was
wrong. He therefore slipped quietly
away from the house, and going through
the field in the direction of the shot,
he suddenly came upon LiMSOII'S filly,
stretched upon the earth, with a bul
let-hole through the head, from which
tho warm blood was still oozing.
The animal was warm, and could
not have been killed an hour. He has
tened hack to the dwelling of Dood ;
who met him in the yard and deman
ded, somewhat roughly, whore he had
been.
" I'Ve been to see if your bullet made
sure work of Mr. Lawson's filly," was
the instant retort.
Watt paled for a moment, but col
lecting himself, he freely shouted
"Do you dare to say I killed her ?"
"how do you know she is dead ?"
replied the man.
Deed bit his lip, hesitated a moment
end then turning walked into the house.
A couple of days passed by, and the
morning of the third one had broken,
as the hired man mot friend Lawson,
riding in search of his filly. No throat
of recrimination escaped him; he did
not even go to law to recover damages,
but calmly awaited his plan and hour
of revenge. It come at last.
Watt Dood had a Durham heifer,
for which he had paid a heavy price,
and upon which he counted to , make
great gains.
Ono morning, just as Obadiah was
sitting down, his eldest son came in
with the information that neighbor
Deed's heifer had broken down the
fence, entered the yard, and after eat
ing most of the cabbages, had tram
pled the well made beds and the vege
tables they contained, out of all shape
--a mischief impossible to repair.
" And what did thee do with her,
.racob ?" quickly asked Obadiah.
"I put her in the barn-yard ?"
"Did thee beat her ?"
I never struck her a blow."
" Right, Jacob, right; sit down to
thy breakfast, and when done eating,
I will attend to the heifer."
Shortly after he had finished his re-
Llwson mounted a horse and rode
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VOL, XVI,
over to Dood's was who sitting tinder
the porch in front of his house, and
who, as he beheld the Quaker dismount,
supposed ho was coining to demand
pay for his filly, and secretly swore he
would have to go to law for it if he did
get pay.
"Good morning, neighbor Dood
how is thy familY?" exclaimed Oba
diah, as he mounted the steps and seat
ed himself in a chair.
" I have a small affair to settle with
thee, this morning, and I came rather
early."
" So I supposed," growled Watt.
"This morning my son found thy
Durham heifer in my garden, where
she has destroyed a good deal."
" And what did ho do with her ?"
demanded Dood, his brow darkening.
" What would thee have done with
her, had she been my heifer in thy
garden ?" asked Obadiah.
" I'd shot her," retorted Watt, mad
ly, " as I suppose you have done ; but
we are only even. Heifer for - filly is
only tit for tat."
" Neighbor Dood, thou knowest me
not, if thou thinkest I would harm a
hair of thy heifer's back. She is in
my farm-yard; not even a blow, has
been struck her ; she is where thee can
get her at any time, I know thee shot
my filly, but the evil one prompted
thee to do it, and I lay no evil in my
heart against my neighbors. I came
to tell thee where thy heifer is, and I'll
go home."
Obadiah roso from his chair, and
was about to descend from the steps,
when he was stopped by Watt, who
hastily asked :
" What was your filly worth ?"
" A hundred dollars is what I asked
for her," replied Obadiah.
" Wait a moment;" and Dood rushed
into the house, from whence he soon
returned, holding some gold in his
hand. " Here's the price of your filly ;
and hereafter let there bo pleasantness
between us."
Obadiah mounted his horse and rode
home with a lighter heart, and from
that day to this Dood has been as good
a neighbor as any ono could wish to
have--being completely reformed by
the returning good for evill.
MYSTERY OF KISSING.
Depend upon it, a kiss is a great
mystery. There is many a thing that
we can't explain, still we are sure it is
a fact for all that. Why should there
be a sort of magic in shaking hands,
which seems only a mere form, and
sometimes a painful one, too ! for folks
wring your fingers almost off; and
make you fairly dance with pain, they
hurt you so. It don't give much pleas
ure, at any time. What the magic of
it is we can't tell, but so it is tor all
that. It seems only a custom, like
bowing, and nothing else. Still there
is more in it than meets the eye. But
a kiss fairly electrifies you; it warms
your blood, an sets your heart beating
like a bass drum, and makes your eyes
twinkle like stars in a frosty night.—
It is a thing never to be forgotten.—
No language can express it; no letters
will give the sound. Then what in
nature is equal to the flavor of it 1—
What an aroma it is ! It is not grass,
for you can't feed on it. It is neither
visible nor tangible, nor portable, nor
transferable. It is neither a substance,
nor a liquid, nor a vapor. It has neith
er color nor form. Imagination can't
conceive it. It can't be imitated or
forged. It is confined to no clime or
country, but übiquitous. It is disem
bodied when completed, but is instant
ly reproduced, and is so immortal. It
is as old as creation, and yet as young
and fresh as over. Ii pre-oxistea, stilt
exists and always will exist. It per
vades all nature. The breeze, as it
passes, kisses the rose, and the pendant
vine stoops down and hides with its
tendrils its blushes, as it kisses the lim
pid stream that wafts in the eddy to
meet it, and raises its tiny waves like
lips to receive it. Depend upon it, Eve
learned it in Paradise. How it is
adapted to all eircumstances,l There
is the kiss of welcome and of parting,
the long-lingering, loving, present one,
the stolen or the mutual one; the kiss
of love, of joy, and of sorrow ; the seal
of promise, and the • receipt of fulfil
ment. It is strange therefore, that a
woman is invinciple whose armory
consists of kisses, smiles, sighs and
tears ?
BEAUTIFUL ANSWERS.
A pupil of the Abbe Sieord gavo the
following extraordinary answers :
What is gratitude ?"
"Gratitude is the memory of the
heart."
"What is hope ?"
"Hope is the blossom of happi
ness."
"What is the difference between
hope and desire?"
"Desire is a tree in leaf, hope is a
tree in flower, and enjoyment is a tree
in fruit."
"What is eternity?"
"A day without yesterday or to
morrow—a line that has no end."
"What is time r
" A line that has two ends—a path
which begins in the cradle and ends
in the grave."
" What is God ?"
" The necessary being, the sun of
eternity, the machinist of nature, the
eye of justice, the match maker of the
Universe, the soul of the world,"
" Does God reason ?"
" Man reasons because he doubts;
lie deliberates—he decides. God is
omniscient; Ho never doubts—lie
therefore never reasons."
Par The red, white and blue—the
red cheeks, white teeth, and blue oyes
of a lovely girl—are as good a flag as
a young soldier in the battle of life
need fight for.
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 80, 1861.
THE POOR WIDOW,
I was left au orphan when a mere
baby, and received into the house of
an uncle. My family had been rich,
but their wealth had been dissipated,
and I was poor as well as parentless.
My uncle was a keen, cynical, world
ly, poor man. He lived on the rem
nants of a fortune (which I had heard
he acquired by his wife) and the tra
ditions of family greatness. his wife
was dead—had died while I was still
very young. I scarcely remembered
her, and she had never awakened my
affections.
As I grow up, I insensibly acquired
a low estimate of woman. 3.1 y uncle's
influence all tended to this result, and
there was nothing to counteract it. I
was taught that my future position
and comfort depended upon winning a
wife who possessed fortune.
"No matter what the woman may
he," my uncle would say, " unless, in
deed, she be strikingly vulgar. Mon
ey covers all other defects, even ex
treme ugliness. But don't marry a
widow, my boy. It is said there's a
skeleton in every house, but don't let
yours be the skeleton of your wife's
' dear departed.'
Every year since my childhood I
had been accustomed to visit Lyme
Hall. There dwelt au aged pair who
had been my mother's earliest friends,
and were, in fact, distant relations.—
They had always manifested a warm
affection for the child of their dead
niece. They made a point of receiving
these visits—they were wealthy and
without direct heirs, and my uncle
was averse to any neglect of the con
nection, while I really enjoyed a few
summer weeks in this quiet retreat,
where I was treated like the son of
the house, and where every variety of
rural sport abounded.
It was hero I met 'Harriet Marsden.
" Harriet Marsden is here," Mr.
Lyme said, as I shook hands with him.
" You will be glad to meet her, I
ata sure. She will make the house
less dull than I feel it must be to a
young man with only the timid wife'
and myself to welcome him."
Before I had time to reply Mrs.
Lyme entered, and she too, hastened
to tell me that "Harriet had arrived,"
evidently expecting that I should ex
press my gratification at the announce
ment. My curiosity v. as roused, but
before I could seek its gratification
visitors entered, and presently a slight,
graceful figure entered the room. In
troductions followed ; there was a lit
tle tumult of pleasant voices while I
leaned back in a fauteuil quite unob
served for the time, and feasted my
senses on the perfect oval of that fair
face, the deep, sweet gray eyes, the
pure brow, shaded by dark brown
bands of satin-smooth hair, the grace
ful ease of the figure, and the melody
of the clear, liquid tones of a voice
that reminded mo of ono I had heard
chanting Chorals in a dim old German
church.
That night Mr. Lyme was attacked
by a slight illness which confined him
to his room for a week, and kept Mrs.
Lyme in close attendance upon him.
"Miss Harriet," as everybody at Lyme
Hall called the beautiful guest of my
old relatives, and I was perforce
thrown into constant companionship.
Walking, riding, singing, wo were to
gether all day, save when Harriet took
her place for an hour or two in the
sick room, and I stole off to my room,
or for a solitary ramble in the grounds,
and thought of her. Ere the week
was ended, I knew that I was madly
in love with Harriet Marsden, and felt
strong enough to sacrifice anything
that i might win her.
At the end of that time I sought an
interview with Mrs. Lyme. I knew
so little of Harriet that I dared not
speak the words that trembled on my
tongue. For the first time I felt a
lover's painful timidity. - I wanted to
know what obstacles, if any, stood in
the way of the fulfillment of my wish
es.
The information obtained at this in
terview made one thing certain to me.
My uncle, on whom was my sole de
pendence at present, would never con
sent that I should address Harriet
Marsden, poor and a widow.
I seemed to shrink beneath his
sneers, his ridicule, his worldly-wise
advice. How I longed for fortune.—
How I wished for strength to enter
the arena of human struggle, and test
my powers with my fellows in the
race of ambition! Labor would be
sweet with Harriet' s love for reward.
To gain her hand would be better than
all social triumphs ; and for the first
time I felt how ignoble it would be to
owe fortune to another; and a keen
sense of degradation oppressed me as
I thought how I had sought wealth,
and looked upon the woman who was
to bestow it upon mo as little better
than an eneumberanco to its enjoy
ment.
I braved my uncle's wrath and ridi
cule; was cast off by him; was aroused
from my torpor by the shock; devel
oped powers that I had not known of;
siuc months later was on the road to
success and proud independence, and
dared to claim my bride, not fearing
my ability to provide a home of simple
comfort for her acceptance.
" Why not have a quiet wedding
hero, to-morrow morning ?" said my
dear old granduncle, as we all bat one
evening before the glowing parlor
grate at Lyme Hall. The little hand
that lay in mine traniblod, and a soft
blush stole over the check of her who
sat beside me—but no word was spo
ken. The elders smiled at each other
from the opposite arm-chairs. Then
they rose and withdrew.
" Come to me, Arthur, in the libra
ry when you have finished your talk
with Harriet," said Mr. Lyme, and I
nodded assent, scarcely daring to hope
-PERSEVERE.-
that sho would consent to the conscious
proposition that his words had encour
aged me to make.
But the task was not so difficult as
I had feared, Harriet's objections to a
speedy marriage being founded almost
entirely upon her fears that a wife
might be a hindrance to me in the
pursuit of my lately begun profession
al career. An hour had scarcely
passed, ore, elate with her promise to
become my wife next morning, I took
my way to Mr. Lynie's library.
The good old man read the tidings
of my success in my countenance and
warmly congratulated..me.
"You have gained a prize, young
man, a prize of the highest value. Be
sure that you receive it as such. Har
riet Marsden penniless, is worth scores
of the senseless daughters of fashion.
And penniless sho means to go to you,
to redeem you from the name it seems
you once had of—fortune hunter. It
appears she has a little fortune, but
she chooses to make it all over in ad
vance to you. Here are the papers—
nay, no thanks, nor disclaimers. It
is her will and she is entitled to it now
on her last day of freedom."
I took the papers almost mechani
cally. The gift was trifling, without
doubt, and since it pleased my bride
to bestow it, I would not be so churl
ish as to refuse.
On examing the " documents" after
our marriage, I found that my wife
had bestowed a fortune on me. She
had been vastly rich all the time, but
had kept the knowledge of the fact
from me.
My uncle cordially " forgave" me,
on learning the good news, and de
clared that he "suspected how it was
all the while."
AN ELEPHANT EGG.
The following Frenchy anecdote is
translated for the Boston Saturday
Gazelle:
At the last fair at Tarascon there
were, of course assembled a troup of
gymnasts, jugglers, acrobats, and a
multitude of menageries, in one of
which was an Asiatic elephant remark
able for the largeness of his ears. His
owner called him Kiouki
Among tho acrobatic troupe was a
maker of red balloons, recently so pop
ular in England and America. He
travelled with the show, and. seduced
a couple of sous from the pockets of
many a patron of it by selling him a
balloon.
A countryman stopped one day be
fore the menagerie tent, and enticed
by a painted representation of the
elephant, paid his money to see him.
Astonished at his size, ho asked the
balloon man as ho went out :
" Does that beast bring forth young,
or lay eggs ?"
Without a moment's hesitation, the
mountebank replied:
"Re lays eggs."
" I thought so."
" And if you wish one, to afford you
the happiness of possessing under
your own roof an individual of this
species, for a franc I will guarantee
that you shall carry home what no
one else in the country possesses."
The greenhorn (lid not hesitate to
dffer his money, and the acrobat pre
sented a red balloon.
" Behold the egg I had the honor to
promise you. It is one franc—and
only for you, because the Sardin des
Plantes at Paris buys all my elephant's
eggs at six francs apiece, for the Alp
rine expeditions, whore they use all
the elephants they can find for the war
against India. I chose the lightest egg
I could find for you, that you rui&fht
not wait too long for it to hatch. Its
mother having already sat upon it
many days, it will suffice you to wrap
it up in wool and lay it in a dry place,
to obtain, without expense and without
effort, the magnificent Asiastie pro
duct which it contains I"
"Astonishing but how in regard to
suckling him?'
" Easy enough. No consequence
what quadruped nourishes him. Lack
ing a cow, a sow, or even a goat, you
can bring him up yourself on turtle
soup."
The countryman departed charmed
with his prize, and to keep it as safely
as possible, wrapped it in a blue cotton
handkerchief which he had bought at
the fair for his wife. But in spite of
all the care of which the egg that bore
Kiouki 11. was the object, it was writ
ten in the Book of Destiny that its
proprietor should not see it hatched un
der his roof.
Somo little distance from the village
where our countrymen resided runs a
stream. lie approached it for the pur
pose of imbibing the clear water. For
the purpose of making a cup with his
hands, ho deposited his precious bur
den on the ground. lie drank freely
of the water, then rising, turned to his
elephant's egg. lie looked to the right
and to the loft, but no egg! lie looks
above him, sees the egg rising higher
—higher—and carrying with it his
wife's handkerchief.
He believed that the elephant was
about to be hatched, and it was not
long after the egg was out of sight that
he returned home crest fallen. His
wife asked him whore the hankerchief
was he had promised to bring her.—
Then he narrated the entire adventure.
The good woman opened her eyes and
ears, and seeing her husband's grief
not only at the loss of the elephant,
but of the handkerchief, exclaimed:
" Content yourself, husband; I'll be
content with my black handkerchief,
and I'm glad to know that the poor
baby hasn't gone oft' without swathing
clothes
Kings never hear the voice of
tenth until they are dethroned, nor
beauties until they have abdicated
their charms.
PETER OARTVVRIG.HT.
A remarkable character was Peter
Cartwright. He was a great anti-sla
very man and struck right and left to
all who opposed him. One day, on
approaching a ferry across the river
Illinois, he heard the ferryman swear
ing terribly at the sermons of Peter
Cartwright, and threatening that if
ever he had to ferry the preacher
across, and knew him, he would drown
him in the river. Peter, unrecognized,
said to the ferryman :
" Stranger, I want you to put me
across,"
"Wait till I am ready," said the fer
ryman, and pursued his conversation
and strictures upon Peter Cartwright.
Having finished, he turned to Peter
and said :
" Now I'll put you across.
On reaching the middle of the stream
Peter threw his horse's bride over a
stake in the boat, and told the ferry
man to let go his pole.
" What for?" asked the ferryman.
" Well, you've just been using my
name improperlike ; and said if ever I
came this way you would drown me.
Now you've got a chance."
" Is your name Peter Cartwright ?"
asked the ferryman.
" Aty name is Peter Cartwright."
Instantly the ferryman seized the
preacher; but he did not know Peter's
strength; for Peter instantly seized
the ferryman, one hand on the nape of
his neck and the other at the seat of
his trowsers, and plunged him in the
water, saying :
"I baptize thee (splash) in the name
of the devil, whose child thou art."
Then lifting him up, Peter added :
" Did you ever pray?"
"No"
"Then it's timo you did."
"Never will," answered the ferry
man.
Splash ! splash ! and the ferryman is
in the depths again.
" Will you pray now ?" asked Peter.
The gasping victim shouted :
" I do anything you bid me."
" Then follow me; ' Our Father
which art in Heaven,' Sze. Having
acted as clerk, repeating after Peter,
the ferryman cried:
" Now let me go."
" Not yet," said Peter, " you must
make three promises :—First, that you
will repeat that prayer morning and
evening as long as you live; secondly
that you will hear every pioneer
preacher that comes within five miles
of this ferry; and thirdly, that you will
put every Methodist preacher over free
of expense. Do you promise and vow?"
"I promise," said the ferryman.,
And strange to say, that man after
wards became a shining light.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES.
A schoolmaster who had been en
gaged a long time •in his profession,
and witnessed the influence of a news
paper on a family of children, writes as
follows:
I have found it to be the universal
fact without exception that those
scholars of both sexes, and of all ages,
who have had access to newspapers at
home, when compared with those who
are not, are
I. Better readers, excelling in pro
nunciation and consequently read more
understandingly.
2. They are better spellers, and de
fine words with ease and accuracy.
3. They obtain a practical knowl
edge of geography in almost half the
time it requires others, as the newspa
pers have made them familiar with
the location of the most important
places, nations, their government, , and
doings on the globe.
4. They are better grammarians,for
having become familiar with every va
riety in the newspapers, from the com
mon-place advertisements to the finish
ed and classical oration of the States
man, they more readily comprehend
the meaning of the text and conse
quently analyze its construction with
accuracy.
This is a good and competent wit
ness. The school teacher. Who more
competent than he to determin6 the
real value of the newspaper as an aid
to education and the development of
the struggling mind? We prize his
testimony as every one else should,
and would add in this connection, that
the primary and absolute advantage
of a newspaper in families consists in
the familiar subjects to the minds of
its youthful members—subjects of com
mon life and every day incidents, in
which the rising generation feel suffi
cient interest, if not to enable them to
comprehend their purport and mean
ing, certainly to onquiro and to desire
explanation from their seniors. The
habit of reading understandingly once
acquired, leads onward by rapid and
progressive steps, until the whole field
of newspaper intelligence becomes sus
ceptible of interest and cultivation.—
The amount of information which can
be accumulated by an early course of
newspaper reading, extending - through
the years of minority, cannot easily be
estimated.
BEEF EATING IN NEW YORK CITY.--
During the year 1860, 150,000,000
pounds of beef were consumed in Now
'fork city, at a cost to the butcher of
at least $12,000,000. The number of
beef cattle received during the year
was 267,747 head; the average price,
$8 15 per hundred weight, which is
about one cent per pound cheaper than
in 1859, and one cent and a half less
than in 1858. The total number of
live stock slaughtered last year in the
city was 1,107,882 head. If they were
placed together compactly on a road
of fifteen feet in width, the drove
would cover 220 miles
Small fltults indulged, are little
thieves that let in greater,
TERMS, $1,50 a year in advance.
TELL YOUR WIFE.
If you are in any trouble or quan
dary, tell your wife—that is, if you
have one—all about it at once. Ten
to ono her invention will solve your
difficulty sooner than an your logic.—
The wit of woman has been praised,
but her instincts are quicker and keen
er than her reason. Counsel with
your wife, or your mother, or sister,
and be assured that l_ight will flash
upon your darkness. Women are too
commonly adjudged as verdant in all
but purely womanish affairs. No phi
losophical student of the sex thus
judges them. Their intuitions or in
sight aro most subtle, and if they can
not see a cat in the meal, there is no
cat there. In counseling one to tell
his trouble to his wife, we should go
further, and advise him to keep_ none
of his affairs secret from her. Many a
home has been happily saved, and
many a fortune retrieved by man's
full confidence in his " better half"—
Woman is far more a seer and prophet
than man, if she be given a fair chance.
As a general rule, wives confide the
minutest of their plans and thoughts
to their husbands, having no involve
ments to screen from him. Why not
reciprocate, if but for the pleasure of
meeting confidence with confidence ?
We are certain that no man succeeds
so well in the world as he who, taking
a partner for life, makes her the part
ner of all his purposes and hopes.—
What is wrong of his impulses or judg
-1 ment, she will cheek and setright with
her almost universally right instincts.
" Help meet" was no insignificant title,
as applied to man's companion. She
is a meet help to him in every dark
ness, difficulty and sorrow of life. And
what she most craves and most de
serves, is confidence—without which
lore is never free from a shadow.
THE PRINTER.
The Belfast Mercury, give the follow
ing in relation to printers :
" From high to low, they are the
same careless, light-hearted, clever,
well-informed reckless fellows, know
ing how , to act better than they do—
nothing at times—yet everything if
occasion requires, or the fit take them.
Wherever you go you are sure to meet
one. No sooner are they comfortable
in one town than they make tracks for
another, even though they have to
travel on " hair space means." And
to what will they not turn their hands ?
We have seen, says an American edi
tor, one and the same individual of the
craft, a minister in California, a lawyer
in Missouri, a sheriff in Ohio, a boat
man ,on the Western canal, a sailor
master of. a privateer, an auctioneer in
New York, and a pressman in a great
printing office. Nor are those charac
teristics of the printers in any one
country—they aro everywhere the
same. We have met them as lecturers,
actors, traveling preachers, ventrilo
quists; in fact, as everything. We
have met, on a tramp in this country,
members of this roving profession, from
all quarters of the globe—Frenchmen,
Spaniards, Portuguese, Germans and
Swedes—and all apparently as much
at home as in their own country. Ar
dent lovers of liberty ; kingcraft and
priestcraft find but little favor in their
eyes. They aro always with the peo
ple. When the chartist excitement
was raging in England, the most elo
quent leaders of the movement were
printeks. When the barricades were
raised in Paris in 1848, the composi
tors cast their type into bullets and
fired them at the Royalist troops.—
When the Americans were at war with
Mexico, General Taylor's regiment
was composed almost evclusively of
volunteer printers, and they were the
bravest of his troops."
AN EDITOR, IN DisuumE.--:Wm. H.
Clark, the editor of the Kendall (Ill.)
Clarion, loves a good joke, and never
lots an opportunity slip that promises
dish of fun. Here is his last:
"DisoufsEn.--We have lately got a
now suit of clothes, and no man could
be more effectually disguised. We look
like a gentleman. Upon first putting
them on, we felt like a cat in a strange
garret, and for a long time thought we
were swapped off. We wont to the
house, and scared the baby into fits;
our wife asked us if we wanted to see
Mr. Clark, and told us that we would
find him at the office; went there, and
pretty soon one of our business mon
came in, with a strip of paper in his
hand. fe asked if the editor was in;
told him we thought not; asked him
if ho wished to see him pa,rtieulary ;
said ho wanted him to pay that bill;
told him we didn't -believe ho would
bo in; business man left. Started to
the house again; met a couple of
young ladies; one of them asked the
other, 'What handsome stranger is
that 7' In this dilemma we met a
friend and told him who we wore, and
got him to introduce us to our wife,
who is now as proud of us as can be.
The next time wo get a new suit, we
shall let her know beforehand."
FOR PARENTS-HOW TO RUIN A SON.
--Let him havo his own way—allow
him free use of monoy—suffer him to
rove where he pleases on the Sabbath
day—give him free access to wicked
companions—call him to no account
for his evenings—furnish him with no
stated employment. Pursue any one
of these ways, and you will experience
a most marvelous deliverance, if you
havo not to mourn over a debased and
ruined child. Thousands have realized
the sad result, and have gone mourn
ing to their graves.
~Paris, at present, it is said, pub
lishes 503 newspapers, 460 of which
are devoted to art, science, literature,
industry, commerce and agriculture•
ADULTERATION OF FOOD AND
The British Parliament lately passed
a bill for preventing the adulteration
of articles of food and drink. It im
poses a penalty an every person vend..
Mg or exposing for sale any article of
food or drink with which any noxious
ingredient has been Mixed. More Over,
the offender's name, residence, and
offense are to published In the news
papers, or otherwise, at his_ own •ex
pense. • As a further chock, prefession :! ,
al analysts are to be appointed by, the
vestries, district,boards, or town-coun
cils. Purchasers of provisions may
have their purchases analyzed by
them on payment of a small fee; and
their certificates may be produced as
evidence against fraudulent vendors.
The privy council is also empowered
to cause analysis to be made; and to
regulate the use of materials or ingre
dients distinct from the natural com
position of any article of food or drink
with which it may be mixed.
It is hoped, and there is good rea
son to believe, that this act will great
ly improve the health of Great Britain.
Few have any idea of the extent to
which the adulteration of food is prac
tised. In some eases it is physically
harmless, and has the effect only of
cheating . the purchaser. But in a
great majority of cases it not only de
frauds, but also causes great injury to
the health. In either case, such wild
' teration deserves -punishment-with-a
severity proportionate to the hurtful
criminality of the fraud.
A few instances of such adulteration,
proved by repeated examinations by
ohemists and other professional ex
perts of high character,
will serve to
show the necessity of legislation for
its prevention. Bottled fruits and
pickles aro colored a lively green by
the use of copper, This is a most
dangerous, and, at the same time, a
most foolish adulteration, which plea
ses the eye, while it destroys the
health of the consumer. When the
London Lancet called attention to the
hurtful effects of this use of copper,
Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, pickle
manufacturers of London, abandoned
it. At first their business was injured
by • the change. Their customers
wrote to them that their pickles did not
sell so well, because they were not so
green as formerly. Their business
has increased, however, since a label
has been pasted on each bottle, ex
plaining the cause of the change.
In England, and perhaps also in tho
United States, wheat flour is mixed
with bean-meal, rice flour, barley, In
dian corn, rye, potatoes, alum,
bone-dust and plaster of Paris. Alum
is used in' baking bread, to make' it
lighter and crisper. It is very hurt
ful to the stomach, and works a great
fraud, which weighs heavily on the
laboring poor. Confectionery, besides
being adulterated with starch, chalk,
or clay, is colored to please the fancy,
with preparations of mineral substan
ces, such as lead, arsenic, and copper,
These poisons are what medical men
term cumulative; that is, when taken
up by the system little by little, they
finally produce the most injurious ef
fects. Hence, in France, the use of
coloring ingredients in confectionery
is stringently forbidden by law. These
poisons aro not always of slow effect.
Many instances are recorded, and
might be cited, of quick and violent
poisoning, sometimes resulting in
death, from eating colored sweetmeats.
Milk is made unwholesome and dan
gerous by feeding cows, for the sake
of greater profit, on slops from distil
leries. It will be remembered that
this abuse existed to a very great ex
tent in New York a year or two ago,
and was exposed in a well-known illus
trated weekly. Ground coffee is adul
terated with chicory, beans, and va
rious kinds of grain, Chicory, in its
turn, as adulterated with Venitian red,
which is adulterated with brick-dust.
Many of the preparations sold as co
coa and chocolate, consist of a. most
disgusting mixture of bad or musty
beans, with their shells, coarse sugar
of the very lowest quality, branny
flour, and animal fat, generally
It has been denied that tea is colored
green by the Chinese;- but Sir John
Bowring, formerly . British Commis
sioner to China, declares it to be true :
and Mr. Fortune, an Englishman, who
actually witnessed the process,
has
published a description of it. After
the tea; reaches Groat Britain, it is
colored with more deletrions substan
ces than those used by the Chinese,
and is mixed with the leaves of a,
groat variety of plants.
The adulteration of intoxicating
drinks is almost universal; and its ef
fects aro most pernicious, because of
the immoderate use of such drinks for
pleasurable excitement. To the cred
it of London brewers, London porter
and stout have been pronounced by
chemists to be perfectly pure; but beer
and ale are corrupted by the mixture
of a vast quantity of deleterious drugs.
Suffice it to Say of brandy, whiskey,
gin, rum, and the great variety of
wines, that their constant and increas
ing adulteration has fearfully increas
ed the miserable consequences that
result from their immoderate use. To
drink any one of them, at home, an&
when we know it to come from the
most respectable dealers, borders on
folly; but to drink it at a public bar
is downright madness. , Ono who, in
the face of • the fearful disclosures so
frequently made as to the poisonous
corruption of common liquors, continue
their use as a beverage, drinks damna
tion to himself, and deserves what
follows.
We have thus instanced, at some
length, the general prevalence of the
adulteration of food and drinks, to
show the necessity of following in
America the good example in this, re
gard set by Great Britain.— Washing
ton Globe.
NO. 32.
REAL ESTATE AT WASHINGTON.—
The political troubles of the times,
and the danger that at some future
time, if not now, the Union may be
divided and Washington cease to-be
the capital, has greatly. depressed the
value of real estate in that city. Ono
of the largest real estate holders has
gone insane over the troubles,- and
been carried to the insane Asylum.—
Ile was formerly a resident of New
buryport, bat removed to Washington
many years ago, where he had amass
ed a large fortune by speculation - "in
real estate, and the impending- crisis
has caused his ruin.
ie.. What resciables a half a ebeeSe ?
The other halt . .