y***i £22. (iIXNTEEII. MoSSuid'Bs’' AMERICAN Y 0 tlobn- li< Bratton. TERMS , SoasoiurTioN. —One Dollar and Fifty Cents, ' naid c in advance; Two Dollars if paid within the I voar- and Two Dollars and Fifty Cents, if not I oaid ’within thol year.-Those terms will be rig- I j d ]y adhered to. in every instance. No G acriplion discontinued iuntil all arrearages are K Ba jj unless at the option ofthe Editor. K * Advertisements — Accompanied by the oasu, B and not exceeding one square, will ho inserted I throe times for One Dollar, and twenty-five cents f for each additional insertion. Thoseofagroat- F for length in proportion. [ JODjl’mSTiNO—Such as Hand-hills, Posting bills, Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, &0., &c., exe cuted with accuracy and at the shortest notice. _patina. THE ABSENT MOTHER. BY MBS NOBTOS' It is tlio twilight hour,. The daylight toil is done, And the last rays are departing s : Of the cold and wintry sun. it is the time when friendship Holds converse lair and free, It is the time when children - Dance round the mother’s knee. 'v j}ut my soul is faint and heavy, r- - ' Wiltia yearning aad ad deep; By the fireside.lone, and dfeaVy ~;t me down and weep ! Inhere are ye merry voices, 4 Whoso clear and birdlifye tone Some other ear now blesses Less anxious than mine own 7 Where are ye, steps of lightness, , Which tell like blossom-showers ? Where are ye, sounds of lauglitcr, hat cheered the pleasant hours I Through the dim light slow declining, Where my wistful glances fall, I can see your pictures hanging Against the silent wall. They gleam athwart the darkness With their sweet and changeless eyes. But mute are ye, my/children, No voice to mine/ioplios. . Where are yo ? Arit you playing ■ By the stranger’s iflazing hoartl); Forgetting in your g(adncss , ' Tour old homo’s former mirth? Are ye dancing ? Are ye singing f Are ye full of childish glee 7 Or do your light hearts sadden ■Willi the memory of met ? Kound Whom, O gentle darlings, Do your young arms fondly twine 7 Does she press you to her bosom, Who hath taken you from mine ? Oh, boys, the twilight hour Such a heavy time hath grown— It recalls with such deep anguish, All I used to call my own— That the harshest word that ever Was spoken to mo there. Would be trivial —would bo welcome— In this depth of my despair. ■ Set no I despair shall sink not, While life and love remain— Though the weary struggle haunt me, . And my prayer bo made in vain. Though at tiiues my spirit fail me, And the bitter tear-drops fall, Though my lot bo hard and lonely, . Yet I hope—l hope through all! Wmllanmm* ALWAYS IN THE WAY. A STOUT POU PEttbSAU BT MOTHERS. “Kain. rain, rain; will it never stop?” thought little Amy Howard, as she pressed her small face close to the window-pane, in vain attempts to see further round tljo corner whence sister Anna must come from school. It was not one of those rainy days which every one loves, when the drops fall steadily and cheerily, and one feelasuro that they are completingtheir mission as., rapidly as possible in order to treat us'to a ' rainbow. , It was a cheerless, mizzly, drizzly rain, that seemed unwilling to leave cloudiand, ■ -bent upon making everybody sympathize with his ill-humor. Poor little Amy looked the embodiment of forlornity, as she watched the long, pendulous branches of the elms sway hither and thither in an uncomfortable manner. She wondered what made the rain fall, and it the poor little doves felt it through their glossy feathers; but she know it was useless to ask her mother, for she would only tell her not to ask so many questions and keep out of her way. .. Mrs. Howard loved her child ; but she was a bustling, energetic woman, whosechief care was to keep a well-ordered and tidy house, and she did not' understand the delicate nature of the little Amy, who laid been from infancy a feeble child, and stood sadly in need of loving and tender sympathy. She was not beautiful; but for those who loved her there was a depth of love in her little heart, which only needed an swering sunbeams to make it bear sweetest blos soms, and light up her wan face with tho beauty oi contentment. This hud been such a sad day. In tho morn ing she had climbed into a chair to watch her mother’s proceedings at the pastry table, when an unlucky motion of her hand had sent a dish ot flour to whiten the floor, calling forth an im patient-reprimand-from tho mother. Clicking back a rising sob, she left the table and essayed to play with her blocks, building with them a wall to confine White Lilly, her kitten. But, impatient at such imprisonment, she made a vigorous effort to free herself, and, as she .suc ceeded, scattered the blocks in every direction. « What a looking room ?” exclaimed Mrs, H.; “ I declare it’s no use to clean up, you got things in the way so.” ■ No more house building for Amy after that; so slid walked upend down tho room, singing softly to tho kitten in her arms, till it was time to Ibok for Anna’s return from school—Anna, the dear little sister, who loved the little one, and never told her to koop out of the way. At last her patient waiting was rewarded by a glimpse of Anna’s bonnet, and, with a cry of joy, Amy bounded to open the hail door to greet her sister with outstretched hands, and the words, ‘pi thought you would never comet” “ What ails my pet?” said Anna, as she took tho child- in her lap; and ■ xting tho hair from her pale face, remarked tho weariness in her eyes. “Nothing,” answered Amy, “ only my head aches so, and I can’t play without troubling mo ther.” I? Anna sighed, for she knew the little' heart had B Sore trials; so far into the dusky eve she sat m. with Amy’s head laid upon her shoulders* tell- H of the olden time, when the fairies danced K by moonlight upon the green sward j when K every bill and dale, every river and tiny stream- K let, was haunted by unearthly beings. Then H she told her of heaven, made glorious by God ft, Itud tho Angels; and as Amy listened her eyes f beamed with delight, and she exclaimed, rais *“B bet head with animation: “ Anna I must go there, X must; Is it such a ;/>% •, OI 'S wa y J ” Suddenly a shadow darkened her }j> taco as she-said sadly, perhaps, though, I ' * 'oaroiMs 8 ” 1 ln tho Way of ,lle angels, !am so i said the sister, clasping ' 'S I ' Il, “° form ’ «hiah in almost prophetic sense was too surely fading awav. At midnight there wore hurried steps and anx , ’lous questions, as the household wm awakened •■| 9hy Anna’s cry that Amy was After sgptt ■ ir i “Mother, said Amy’s feeble voice, «I didn’t w J “°°? to T b ° naughty, and got in your way so ■ much. I hope I shan’t trouble tho angels , Good bye, mother, 1 am going to sleep.’? And little Amy was dead, pife - Lon g years tho grass’has grown on Amy's f%|| f™' 0 ’ nl,<l harebells have rangtheir fairy chimes 5, °j° w bil« the birds sang requiems in tho ,'}S3f.; “““Wowing trees} but nightly, as she lays her American BY JOHN B. BRATTON, VOL. 45. head upon the pillow,. Mrs. Howard sees the Dying hours Of Aaron Butt. ' palo, woary face of her child, and hears a sweet ’ . . voice say, “ Mother, I did not mean to got in In re P*y t 0 th .° inquiry made in our columns the way.’ 9 Hot all in vain was the lesson taught a few weeks ago, for more definite information by those dying lips. Seeds of gentleness ■end respecting the religious views and experience of patience were sown in the mother’s heart, which, Aaron Burr, in the last hours of his life, a ladv watered with the tears of repentance, give pro- of great intelligence and worth, a relative of raise of an abundant harvest of pence. ’ the family ftnd of Ogden E. Edwards; who was r Burr’s last friend, writes to'us a letter, from •The Difficulties Of Home. which we make a few extracts. The facts here The house mother also has her troubles; ay, stated are thrilling in their own interest, and be she ever so gifted with that blessed quality • * ae 7 are , sufficient to stamp, os it deserves, the of taking them lightly and cheerfully; weigh* great prime against society, committed by the ing them at their just value and no more! never rece ? t biography of that bad man. Our corres tormenling herself and every body else by that j wntes; peculiarity of selfish and.narrow minds, which I _ o#o * Odgen E. Edwards, who makes the breaking of a plate as terrible as the ’ £* led lo4o, felt a grateful interest in Colonel crash of an empire. No one can hold the reins . from the fact of his having in his prosper ed family government for ever so brief a time l ou j added my grandfather, Timothy Ed without feeling fthab a difficult position it Is;]'?®™?* m . pecuniary difficulties. He admired how great is daily need of self-control, as the , a | so *be mind God had given him, which, in all very first means of controling others; of inces-1. 5 e gradations, shone forth in the most brill sant individual activity, and d persona! carrying . lfl nt and fascinating narrations. He spent a out of all regulations for the ordering of the es-! y eek wm y father’s after he was 70, and my tablishment— unless faithfully observed im P re ssion of him and all of ho said and did, is by the mistress, the eye and heart of the house, vei 2 v * vkk .. i . arc no more than a dead letter to the rest of the was a baler of all mankind, ,and a trifler establishment. No doubt this entails consider- pf all womankind, and violated all the rites of able self sacrifice. It is not pleasant for lazy hospitality in the license-of his behaviour.— ladies to get breakfast over at that regular early PartoQ,s book is a tissue of lies, as far as fami hour which alonesets a household fairly going matters are related, and oh how evil in its for the day ; nor for unarithmetical ladies, who. influence upon young men ! My father used to have always reckoned their accounts by six- . rrs billing Hamilton was the least pehces, to put down each item, and persevere in °- : balancing periodically receipts and expenditure; r *. Edwards.found that Burr was contin nor for weakly, nervous, self*engrossed ladi sto J* a "y annoyed, when he lived in Nassau street, rouse themselves sufficiently to put their house p a s ? t . of m,s< - rable beings, who pretended to in order, and keep it so, not by occasional have claims upon his charity. One morning spasmotic ‘.‘setting to rights, 1 ’ but by a general there were e, S hteen or twenty, each telling the methodical overlooking of all that is eoing on Blor y of h,s or , ber "™ n gs. The larger part therein. : were women. He snatched a shilling from im- Yet, unless all this is done, it is in vain to ? er his . P in J? d th f® vv } l atni3t }S them.; say insist on early rising, or grumble , about waste, with pne of bis withering looks, * -here, ye or lecture upon neatness, cleanliness and order, harpies, take the last cent ! have.’ Mr. B. the servants gdt .10 learn that “missis is never then removed him, to Richmond, Staten Island, in time l” and laugh at her complaints of their’ employed a fanhful Irish nurse 'unpunctuality. .They see no use in good man- aad went down every day to see him. ? agement or avoidance of waste. “Missis never ** Hne day as, he approached the hotel, the knows about anything.” She may lecture un* n . urs ® T ° et bun near the door, saying, ‘Tndadc, tiTshe is weary about neatness and cleanliness Si* ? ver ? *? ad ’* be wants ihe priest. ’ Mr. —“just put your head into her room and see!” ? dwards sent, her for the Dutch clergyman, and For all . moral qualities, good temper, truth, immediately entered Colonel Burr’s room. He •kindliness;, and-above .all. conscientiousness, if foua ? him struggling with death, and all he these arc deficient in a mistress, it is idle to ex- Coa^d understand was, ‘Call the priest, call, the pect it in servants or children, or any member P"® 86 -. The nurse soon returned with a Cath of the family circle. * olio priest, but he did not enter the. room. My added, with a shudder, it was a fearful scene, and I never wish to speak of it again.— My’ mother told me, three months before her death, that Odgen Edwards mentioned precise ly the same circumstances to her. “ We would gladly. that the grave should hide all the dark catalogue. But the life of Col. Burr is a study of no hlean interest and import ance, and is it hot of fearful import that the shoal upon whioh so gift.:! a being was wreck ed, should be discovered ?” Such is the testimony that has now been de veloped. and although it merely lifts the curtain for a moment upon the last, hours of Burr, that moment is sufficient to show -us the dying sin ner, struggling with the great enemy, and call ing help froth the religion he had in his lilelirae trampled under foot. The Mount of Olives. 1 am told tha't, a montly&ago, the. Mount of Olives was covered with beautiful flowers; now they are all over, and, as most of the corn is cut, it-is rather bare. It is dotted over with scattered olive trees, which, in our Savior’s time, were probably thick groves, giving a good shelter from the heat of the sun. Its present look is peculiar; the rock is a light gray limestone, show itself in narrow ledges all up the sides ; the soil is whitish, and the grass now burned to a yellowish color on the ledges in narrow strips, forms altogether a most deli cate and beautiful color, on which the gray green olives stand out in dark relief. The eve ning sun makes it at first golden-hued, and af terwards; as Tennyson writes, the purple brows of. Olivet. In the afternoon we walked up to the top of Mount Olives, whence you over look the whole city, and also to the cast, the Dead Sea, which is really only fifteen miles off, and which looks quite close. This is one of the most impressive views in ‘ the world, and if I have time ! will certainly paint it, but I fear that I shall not be able. On the top of the Mount of Olives are gardens, and cornfields stretoli down its sides, but all beyond seems perfectly barren rock and mountains. The Dead Sea seemed motionless, and of a blue so deep that no water that I have seen can com pare with it. The range of mountains beyond is forty or fifty miles oft, and a thin veil of mist seemed spread between us and them over the sea, through which they appeared mrial and un real: and, as the sun sinks, the projections be came rose-colored, and the chasms a deep vio let, yet still misty. When the sun left them; the hazy air above them became a singular green color, and the sky over rosy red, gradu ally melting into the blue. . . -Memoir of Scddon, the Artist, Teacher’s Difficulties, The opinion that che profession of teaching is one in which no one would wish to engage save those who are determined to “take the world easy," has found credence in the minds ol many of the present day. Though the labors of- the teacher have been greatly facilitated within tho last few years, yet there is a great amount still incumbent upon him in the proper discharge of his duty : and, how much greater is that amount when he lacks the co-operaiion of his patrons. They, have the power, and theirs is the duty to render him much assistance in his toils. There are many ways in which his lahbrs might be lightened. First, X would urge a regular attendance on the part of the pupils, though this is not generally supposed to inter fere with the working of a school, but how great the mistake, The proof of this can bo in ferred from a supposition. Suppose a class of six or, eight in Geography, Arithmetic, &c., and the time pf recitation has arrived : perhaps three or four of these were not present the previous recitation,-and as a consequence ‘,‘did riot know where the lesson was where is the teacher who has-not heard this excuse again and again? Nor is this the worst of it; for, if a pupil ik aware that he is to be absent from school, he would, most likely make no pretentions toward studying the lesson of that day, consequently there are two days lost for every one the pupil is absent; besides what trouble is thus heaped upon the teacher. Another fruitful source of trouble to a teach er, is tho,want of proper books, ora uniformity', of text books. . This is, perhaps, tho greatest difficulty with which a teacher has to contend. Ido not wish the inference drawn that the pupils Should bo entirely confined to books; far from it. There is much, very much useful knowledge not found between the lids of our text books, and knowl edge of that nature peculiarly adapted to the children of our public schools. ■ The preparato ry steps to a thorough, sound education seem to have been entirely lost sight of by our most distinguished authors, until quite recently, the author of a work on Grammar, (Mr. Greene,) has taken up the subject, and as. a result has given models, which must necessarily “unlock the various complex combinations ’ of ideas connected with a commencement of that study, by the children of our public schools; by es tablishing a principle of analysis and induction, he has rendered the study interesting to pupils, and easily and readily imparted by tutors. DSr*ln Philadelphia, on Saturday week, a countryman was victimized out of a gold watch, by a sharper, who paid for tho watch with a lot of five dollar bills on banks that never existed. The fools are not all dead yet. 02?” Tho oldest and at tho same time the smallest city in Now England is thatol'Vorgen nos, Vermont, which was incorporated in 1783. It is tho only city in Vermont, and in 1858 con tained 1,878 inhabitants.-. * ' ' . ’ CARLISLE-, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1858. The lust Shall Dc First, ... Four creditors started from Boston in the samp train of cars; for the purpose of attaching the property of a certain debtor in Farmington, in tho State of Maine. Ho owed each one sepo rately, and they wore each suspicious of the ob ject of -the other, but dared not say a word about it. So they rode, acquaintances all, talking upon every thing except what they had most at heart. When they arrived at tho depot at Farmington, which was three miles from Where the debtor did business, they found noth, ing to ‘put ’em over.the road’ but a solitary cab, towards which they ail rushed. Tlireoo got in and refused admittance to the fourth, and the cab started. ‘ Tho f’ourtb ran alter and got upon the outside with the driver. He asked the driver if he wanted to sell his horse. Ho replied that he did not want to—that he was not worth $5O, but he would not soil him for that. He asked him if he would take a hundred for him,... Yes, said he. The “ fourth man” quickly paid over the money, took the reins and backed tho cab up to a bank—slipped it from tho harness and lipped it up so that the door could not ho opened, and jumped .upon tho horse’s back and rode offj “ lick-a-ty-switch,” while the “ insiders,” wore were looking out of the window feeling like singed cats. Ho rode to a lawyer’s and got a writ made and served, and his debt secure, and got b/ick to tho hotel just as tho “insiders” came up puff ing and blowing. Tho cabnian soon bought back his horse for fifty dollars. The “ sold” men offered to pay that sum, if the fortunate one, who found property sufficient to pay bis own debtstfvouid not tell of it in Bos ton. , But as both parties have told a friend of ours, thinking the story “too good to bo lost,” wo fool at liberty “to lot the cat out of tho bagmore particularly so, as it illustrates a passage that we never heard fully explained but once, and then by a school master, who said : “ Scholars, this verso is plain ; when yon tie up the cattle, old Buck goes in first, and old Broad next. Broad went last, but ho will come out 11 rat, and Buck wont ip first, but shall come outlast.””' Do the Bight Thing, Whenever you are in doubt which of two things to do, let your decision bp for that which is right. Do not waver, do not parley: but square up to the mark, and do the right thing. Buy ! when you divide that apple with your little sister, be careful not to keep the largest half for yourself. Young. man ! don’t sneak out of the basement door because you wish to escape your father’s eyes. Maiden ! let not, the most trifling deceit pass cuircnt in those little acts which make the sum of your life. No matter who you are, what your lot, or where you live; you cannot afford to do that which is wrong. The only way to obtain hap piness and pleasure yourself is to do the right thing. You may not always hit the mark ; but you should, nevertheless, always aim at it, and with every trial your skill will increase.— Whether you are to bo praised or blamed for it by others ; whether it will seemingly make yon richer or poorer, or whether no other person than yourself knows of your action, still, al ways, and in all cases, do the right thing. — Your first lessons in this will grow easier, un. til finally doing tho right thing will become a habit, and to do a wrong will seem an absolute impossibility. D 2?” Business at Danville, Pa., is improving. Tho extensive iron works there, although notin' full operation, are doing a good business. 05” In several of tho principal cities through out tho Union salutes of one hundred guns have boon fired in honor of tho success of Judge Douglas in Illinois; 03?” A family in Now Bedford, Maas, j consist ing of peven persons, wore recently poisoned by using dogwood for fuel. Dogwood is generally known to be poison. 05” There is said to be more Lager Boer drank in Philadelphia, than in any city in Ger many. “O&ft CODNTRT—MAT IT AT,WATS BB RIOIIT—BDT BIGHT tIR WRONQ, OUR OOUNTRT.” flow the Price of Bread is Managed in Paris. Every bag of wheat, flour or meal that comes to the city must be brought to the Halle au Ble, or Grain Hall. This is an immense area, en closed witli a circular wall, and covered by a huge dome, so that it presents a vast; unbroken hail, of grand and beautiful proportions, lighted from the top. Various stalls, with desks, form the offices of the clerks and employees. On the floor of this hall are piled up, cob house fashion,, in huge piles, ten to twenty-five feet high, the bags of grain, presenting to the visitor a strik ing panorama of solid plenty. The.city of Paris .is surrounded by a wall, not for defence, as it is comparatively flight, but simply for police, revenue, and other mu nicipal purposes, one of which is the regulation of the bread market. Barriers, thafis gates, with police officers and- revenue attendants, form the only entrances to-the city "except the river Seine, which has also its guards. Every bushel of wheat or other grain brought to the city for sale, must bp registered and stored at the grain Ball, under heavy penalties. This regulation is rigidly enforced,, which it is easy to dp, at the barriers, with so bulky an article: especially as the bags must be of uniform size. From "this register of the daily supply, the government of the city know at any hour just how many pounds or pecks ofgrnin of any kind there are in Paris. From the accurate statistics required to be furnished, they know how much flour or meal is baked daily at each bakery, and how much bread of all kinds is consumcdl. They are therefore able to.fix the weight arid price of loaves, each size and shape of which has its appropriate name, according to the ratio between supply: and demand, allowing a fair and just profit to producers, traders, and ba kers, no more, no less. I’bts price, thus fairly graduated, at short intervals, is fully proclaim ed to the public, the dealers, the bakers, and the police. , , ■ . . The police are authorized to drop in. <U any time, into any bakery, or., breadshop. wherever bread is exposed for sale, and weigh the loaves. There is also a special inspecting officer ap pointed for this express purpose. His visits are not stated, that they'may not have things got ready for exhibition instead of inspection,, ■according to. ;ho English and American fashion of doing such things.. If the inspector finds the weight deficient, or the price of a particular kind of loal too high' for the grade, all the bread in the shop is swept off atonce, and distributed to the hospitals and other icleemosynary estab lishments of the city. Thus are the public pro tected against private cupidity speculating in the means of existence, i' : What Mr-DoTon Breathe ? . , Is it the hot, impure air of a close, linvontila tcd room, or the pure air of heaven 7 Much is said,and truthiulty, of thensupcrior vigor of our mothers and grandmotheVlover wivesand moth ers of the present day. It wou.d he interesting to know, how much of due to the kind of rooms they stay in—thoyctin not he said to live in such habitations. It ouimot he denied, that many farm-houses, as now Constructed, are un favorable to health. They are mofo “ comfort able” than those of gur.ibthprs, and.have many in' bno particular at lenstytheyardless conduciverto tho preservation Of health., The old-fhstiioned farm houses had' low ceilings, it is true, b|)t then it had largo rooms, especially the kitchen, and it had a broad, open fire place,'making abundant ventilation. The doors and windows, top, wore not so sorupuly tight at the joints, as though the external'' air were poisonous and must bo shut out. 31110 moderns wailed up our fire-places, listed every crack, and then put into them huge airtight stoves. Then wo have sat down in our comfortable rooms, expecting to enjoy good health I • It is no wonder that farmers’,families, every, where, arc becoming less robust every year.— Thu men, who are out of doors most of the time, suffer comparatively little injury j but tho females, confined ns they are, day and night, to those Close apartments, are growing polo and sallow, and nervous, and are breaking down prematurely. ; Every one should look at this matter, and, if possible, apply a remedy. A partial one, at least, is easily obtained. Make an opening In your tiro place, us largo as a stove pipe, and an other in the chimney-breast, near the coiling, for the escape of foul and oyer-heated air.— Then, to supply tho room with fresh air, and to promote a good circulation, attach springs or pulleys to the upper sashes of yourwindbws,so that they can bo dropped a few inches from the top. It is well to hang a ctirtain before the opening, to prevent too sudden drafts of air upon tho occupants of tho room,, .This, or somo other contrivance for introducing fresh air, and carrying off tho impure, will do much to pro mote tho health and comfort of our families. Many of our readers have heard of the “ First Families, of Virginia,” but few, we take it, know how the term originated. An exchange explains it thus r In the early settlement of that State, it was found impossible to colonize it unless women went there. Accordingly, a ship load was sent out, but no planter was allowed to marry one of them until he had first paid ' one hundred pounds of tobacco for her pass Age. IVhen the second ship load came, no one would pay more than seventy-five pounds for the matrimonial privilege, except it were a very superior article. Consequently, the descendants.of all those who Were sold for one hundred, pounds of tobacco were ranked as the first families, while those who brought but seventy-five pounds are now ranked as the second families ; and the reason why no one can never find any of • the. second families, is because you can’t gel a Virginian to admit that his mother only brought seventy, five pounds of tobacco. IX?” Tlio yellow foyer lifts abated in New Or leans to such an extent as to bo no longer epi demic. K?” The Delaware Bank, at Delhi, N, Y., was robbed, on Saturday night week, of $37,- 000. A pretty largo haul. qry- Xn Now York city the rate of taxation is something more than ton dollars a head for every human being within its limits.. IX?” A Yankee Physician, named Bates, from Ashfleld Mass., has established himself and is doing a'good business in Hakodadi, Japan. William Hoffman, of Honoybrook town, ship, Chester county, has sonta boot to the of fice of the Village Record, which weighs eleven pounds. ... [X?" At Lancaster, Pa., an apple tree is in bloom again, and in New Jersey a farmer is selling his s'oeond crop of raspberries at $1,25 a quart. Tho principal Telegraph Companies have very materially reduced their tariff of charges forqdespatohos between the principal cities of tho Unton. K?” Recently one of tho police officers of New York, while registering tho voters of tliat city, found in one tenant house fifty-one fami lies, comprising one hundred and sixty-seven persons, and in another house forty families, .numbering one hundred and eighteen persons. Origin of tlie P..P. V’s.'. lii olltittetts Penn’s Deed from Indians in 1085. This indenture witncsseth that we Packcnah, Jarcham, Sikals, Parlquesott, Jervis Essepen auk, Felktroy; Hekellappan, Econus Machido na, Mettheonga, Wissa Powcry, Indian Kings, Sachemakers, right owners of all lands from Quing Quingas, called Duck Creek, unto Up land, called Chester Creek, all along by the west of Delaware river, and so between the said creeks backward as far as a man can ride in two days with a horse, for and in consideration of these following' goods, to us in hand paid by William Penn, proprietary and Governor of the province of Pennsylvania and Territories there of, viz; - : 20 gnns, 20 fathoms mitcbcoat, 20 fathoms strand water, 100 bars of load, 40 tomahawks, I**o knives, 48 pair of stockings, 1 barrel of beer, 20 . barrels of red load, 100 fathoms of wampum, SO glass bottles, 30 pewter spoons, 100 awl blades, 300 tobacco pipes, 100 hands of tobacco, 20 tobacco tonga, 20 steels, 800 flints, 80 pair ot sci ors, 30 combs, 00 looking glass es; 2'‘o needles, 1 skipplo of salt, 80 pounds of sugar, 5 gallonspf molasses, 20 tobacco boxes, 100 Jewsharps, 20 hoes, 80 gimblets, 80 wooden screw boxes, 100 strings of beads. Do hereby acknowledge, &c. Given under our hands, &c., at Newcastle, second day ot tho eighth month, 108"). The above is a true copy from a copy taken from (bo original, by Ephraim Morton, now liv ing in Washington county, Penna., formerly a clerk in (ho Land Oflioe, which copy ho gave to Wm. Stratton, and from which the above was taken in. Little York, this 7th day of December, 1813, ~ , , Questions Answered. The Nebraska Post, under the above caption goeih it thus : “A tew. days since, we received a letter froni a friend at the east, making inquiries in regard to our Territory, from which we clip the fol lowing qu.stions, and append the answers. We have been in Nebraska but a short time, and our, knowledge being somewhat limited, we hope due allowance will be niade for any mis statements. ‘What kind of a country do you live in 1’ •Mixed and extensive. It is made up princi pally of land and water. ’ •What kind of weather ?’ ‘tong spells of weather are frequent. Our sunshine conies oil principally in the day lime.’ ‘Have you plenty of water, and how got ? ’ ‘A good deal of water scattered about, and generally got in pails and in whisky.’ Ts it hard V ‘Rather so, when you have to go half a mile, pud wade in mud knee-deep to get it.’ ‘What kind of buildings?’ ■ ‘Allegoric, Jonio, Anti-Baloiic, Log and -Slabs. The: buildings are, chiefly out-doors, and so low between joists that the chimneys all stick out through the roof.’ ’ ‘What kind of society ?’ ‘Good, bad, hateful, indifferent, and mixed.’ ‘Any aristocracy?’,, . . ' ‘Nan/ one.’ ‘What do your people do for a living ?’ ‘Some work, some laze around, one a shrewd basilicas manager, and several drink whisky.’ ‘ls it cheap living thereT ‘Only five cents a glass and water thrown In J ’ lAny taste for music:? ’ . . •Strong. Buzz and buck-saws in the day time, and wolf-howling and cat-fighting of nights.’ ’ ‘Any pianos there . •No ; but wo have cow-bells and a, tin pan in every family.’ , r ‘Any manufacturers ?’ ‘Every household. All our children are home productions.’ ‘What could a genteel family in moderate circumstances do there for a living V ‘Work, shave notes, fish, hunt, steal, or if hard pinched, buy and soil town property V ‘Aye your people intelligent V ‘Some know everything that happens, and some that do not.’ ‘Would they appreciate a well bred family of sons and daughters ?’ ‘Certainly, Great on blood slock ; would take them to tho next territorial fair and exhi bit them. Dear friend, your questions are an swered. Bring on yqur blood stock and make this your home.’” C?” At Hartford, Conn., a few days ago, Jos. Warren Newcomb, Jr., great grandson of'Gon. Joseph Warren, of Revolutionary memory, was married to Mary S. Sumner, great-grand-daugh. ter of Gen, Israel Putnam. t£?~ Recent advices from Paris say that tho Emperor Napoleon has requested Mr. Morphy, the American, chess player, to give a specimen of bis blindfold playing before himself and tbo Empress, at the palace of the Tuilorios. KF* Two men have boon arrested in Wolver hampton, England, for stealing a* coffin.“ Tho coffin was of copper and worth $BOO-. Tho thieves took out the body, and left it in tho tomb, and sold the coffin for old copper. ■XT’ Lord Napier, the English Minister, has informed the State Department at Washington, that tho government of Nicaragua will avail it self of the use of tho British fleet to prevent tho landing oT r Walker and his filibusters upon the soil of that country. . A-colored man, from tlio yjcinify of Ur bana, lias been spending a fow day’s in Spring field, Ohio, who is one hundred and twelve years of ago ! His hair is as white as snow Strange ns if may seem, ho does not claim to have boon a body-servant ol Washington. . Kt* A piece of petrified wood, with a screw perfectly formed in it, was recently found ono hundred and fifty feet beneath tho surface of tho earth, near Panola, Mississippi. It was em bedded in what appeared to bo a block of bick ory'wood twelve or fifteen inches square. [E?” There was,a groat snako hunt in Foster, R. 1., a fow days since. As a Mr. Brown was walking across ins Hold, he discovered a black snake, .which led him to believe that there wore moro. In company with.two others, ho dug over a small spot ol earth, and took out twonty throo snakes that measured nine-three feet. . UF”A Virginia gentleman proposes to do nate $20,000 for the erection of an agricultural college in tho vicinity of 'the University of Vir ginia, on condition that the farmers of the State will render the donation available for the pur pose, by contributing tho additional sum of $50,000. H?” Tho Anti-Locompton Democrats of Berks county, fired one hundred guns, at Reading, on Saturday week, In honor of the triumph of Douglass in Illinois. |TS”~ An ox, weighing 4,200 lbs., and measur ing 13 foot from tho end of tho nose to tho tip of tho tail, was on exhibition at tho Petersburg (Va.,) Fair, a few days ago. ff?” Two dozen largo and fine pears, of tho Duchess d’ Angoulome variety, were sold at six dollars a dozen. II?” A well known citizen of Cincinnati, John T. Elliott, a broker, has been arrested on a charge of conspiracy to blow up tho house of his father in-law with gunpowder. II?” Tho whiskey market at Salt Lake OitK Utah, - Is in a flourishing condition. It is retail ed at 26 cents a drink, but tho price does not seem to diminish tho quantity drank. AT $2,00 PER ANNUM. 0 /nrimr’o leparfomii Fruit Culture.’ We had “ out out” tho list of fruit for gener al cultivation, adapted by the American Pomo logical Society ns Well as those “ promising well,” intending to publish it as a guide in ma king selections. Since then we have concluded that tho greatly reduced list presented by the Germantown Telegraph? (nearly all of which are found on the Society’s list) might bo more satisfactory, and probably lessen the wide spread.evil of planting too many kinds, more for the sake of variety than regard to merit.— On this point we can fully endorse tho Editori al caution, which is: ** One thing, however, should be remember ed, that ft few good varieties, known to be reg ular bearers, of desirable quality, and adapted to the locality, should be preferred to an exten ded variety, one half of which may bo indiffer ent bearers.” APPLES, In one hundred trees of fourteen Varieties of Apples, we should plant as follows : G American Summer 4 White Seek-No-Far- Pearmain: ther; 2 Early Harvest; 4Rambo; 0 Fall Pippin. 4 Porter; 4 Golden Pippin, 4 Red, Astrachan ; 6 Baldwin.; .6 Rhode Island Green- , —4 Hays, ... ing , ' 4 'Fravenstein ; 4 R'oxbury Russet 6 Fdrnwalter ; 6 Esopus Spitzenbiirg ; G Yoder Pippin, or 4 Williams’ Favorite ; theNewionPlppin;4 Swaar; Hubbardston’s 4 AhTillen's Blush ; i. Nbne-such; 4Tfellow Bellflower: 2 Lady Apple ; 100 ■ At the late, Pomological Congress at New, York, the following varieties of Apples wore add d to the established list for General Culti vation ;—Autumn Bough, Broadwell, Carolina June, Coggswell, Fornwaldor; Jonathan, Mon:, mouth Pippin, Smith's Cider, and Wagener. PEARS. For twenty-five pear trees to be selected from fifteen varieties, wo would plant— -2 Bloodgood.; 2 Bello Lucrative ; 2 Dearborn’s Seed- 1 Urbanisto ; ling; . 2 Doyenne Boubiiac ; 1 Rosticzer; 2 Flemish Beauty ; 2Seckel ; 1 Easter Buerro ; 2 Bartlett; 1 Uvedalo’s St. Gre ff Qtt; main, (baking,) 2 Bucrred’ Anjou ; 2 Lawrence; .23 1 Chancellor; The following varieties of pairs have just been added to the General List by, the Pomolo gioat Society :—Brandywine, Beurre Clairgeau, Beurro Giffard, Burre Superfln, Babol Doyenne d’Alendon, Kingscssing, Onondaga, Osband’s Summer, and St. Michael Archauge. PEARS ON QUINCE STOCKS. From twenty varieties wo should select the following Jifty ; ~ • , ’ 4 Duchess d’Angoul- 2 Seclcel, • eme; : ■ 2 Paradise d’AutOmme,; 4 Vicarof Winkfield, 2 Ott, v ' - 2 Easter Buerro, 2 Nouveau Poiteau, 2 Gloue Morecau, 2 F/gue d’Aleuoon, 4 Louise Bonne de Jer- 2 Summer Frank Red, sey, 2 Belle Lucrative, 4 Buerro d’Anjou, .2 Sr. Michael d’Ait -4 Sieulle, change, 2 DuchcsS d ? Orlcans, 2 Buerre Diel. 2 Henry IV, ' 2 Doyenno Boussao, 50 2 Lawrence, The Pomological Society have added the fol lowing to Pears on Quince Stock: —Belle Epino Dumas, Buflum, Beurro Superfln, and Doyenne d’Alenoon. PEACHES. 1 The following list of Peaches for general cul tivation, is perhaps as good as can be present ed. It has the sanction of the best authority. They ripen in the order in which they are hero placed: Free Stones. Nivctto, Early York, Ward’s Late Free, Eearly Newington, , Noblesse, Oooledgo’a Favorite, Late Red Rare Ripe, George IV, Bergen’s Vellow, Gross Mignonne, Druid Hill, Crawford's Early, Clingtones ; Brevort, large White, Old Mixon Free, Old Mixon, Morris White, Heath, Bellegardo, , CHERRIES. For one dozen Cherries tho following will meet every requisition, and cannot be excelled. One tree of each variety might bo enough, ac cording to space and deniand. 1 Governor Wood, 1 Early Richmond, 1 BlaokTartarian, 1 Downer’s Late, I Bigarreau, 1 Elton, . ’ 1 Black Eagle, 1 Bello d'Choissy, I Mayduke, •. 1 Eeine Horlense, 1 Kirtland’s Mary, -- 1 Triumph of Cumber-12 land, , , For six varieties, we should select Governor Wood, Early Mayduko, Black Tartarian, Black Engle. Triumph of Cumberland, and Early Richmond. [Tho smaller tho variety of cherries the bet ter. The •• Early Richmond" is rather a small cherry, a poor bearer, and very sour., It falls behind lhe commonly called native “ pio” or Sour cherry, in all particulars. It ripens a little earlier.— Ed. Volunteer .] RASPBERRIES. The Allen, Allen's Prolific,” and “ Brinklc's Orange” are named. The latter is the “ crack” variety at present. It needs winter protection —that is a little earth thrown over the capes in the fall. It is not much trouble to lay them down. The hardiness of the former is yet to bo totted The old English Purple is the vari ety for common culture. Nothing short Of a .general blight of fruit effects it. Even this year from a row of plants not more than 200 feet long, we gathered nearly tifty quarts. It is so good that hard working men will not stop to question its quality, when served up in cool cream on a hot day in July. As a fall bearer, if you wish a curiosity, the Catawissa is pretty good. But don’t be too greedy—they wont bear two crops. If not frozen, cut otf the last year’s growth ; the present year’s wood gives the fall berries. The Falstalf is a large, fine flavored, prodet. ive kind, needs to belaid down .in the Winter. Ed. Volunteer. PLUMBS. This fruit is so complete a failure in this re gion ns .not to bo worth mentioning. The Washington, Golden Drop and Butler, are among the best—this last is the finest variety we know anything about. What its name is “ in the books,” we cannot say. GOOSEBERRIES. Tno English Silver, or Houghton s Seedling, wo consider the brat wehnYo yet tried. Fruit of mcdimn size, an abundant bearer. Sue flavor, and the fruit remaining on the. bushes a long while. fJVoodwnr.d’B 'Whitesmith is a large, showejr berry, and nut subject to mildew, as Other large berries ore.— Ed. Volunteer. The Dutch Red and White, and the Neapoli tan Black. There is a largo now variety call ed the Cherry, which is becoming popular, but we prefer the varieties named above. It is hard to improve upon them. . [The Dutch White and Red. are the same as the ordinary currants found in the farmer’s garden. There is no necessity of buyiqg them.’ When flrst brought from the nursery, they seem to bear larger fruit. This is owing to" high culture, an’d being grown probably on,sin glestones. ■ , The size of bunches has increased one half or more over the ordinary size, with us,'•'simply, by cultivating on the one stem system. Ed. Volunteer. NO. 23. Always a favorite, and imported ip such largo quantities that the bulbs may be had at, a very low price, They will grow always in any’soil,' but less perfectly in those hot'Suted to ;it. — The soil best suited to their culture, is d good fresh loam mixed with a portion of well rotted stable manure, at least two years old, and; the mixture of soil and manure should have been incorporated some inhnths before planting the bulbs, the soil and manure being not less than sixteen inches deep, the bed raised in the mid dle, and three to three and a half feet Wide. — ; Plant in rows Severt inches apdrt, and six inches between the bulbs. Plant with a dibble four inches deep, and protect with branded in seVcrb [weather. —Working Former. *■ There are upwards of one hundred varieties of this vernal flower in cultivation attended with They delight in rich soils, and may cither be planted in beds or rows, at least twoipohes deep and six inches frond row to row—They seldom require remo val; every three or four years will be sufficient. They can be purchased at from seventy-five cents to two dollars per according to quality. When they are done bloonning, the foliage should not be removed till perfectly de cayed." —Working Farmer. . Isabella, Catawba, Diana And Concord, cad all be relied upon. A variety called The hladd ria, with us is also worthy. It Is perfectly hardy, good grower, sure bearer,.maturcs a lit . tie later than the Isabella, bunches compact— about the size of Diana. When fully ripe it id , very'palatable—of alivcly vinuous flavor. The Diana is of n "honey” sweetness. The oply objection to it—and that is a trifling one—is its thick skin. The Concord, we think, will prove the hardiest of all. Its slight foxiness is fully compensated for. by its agreeable sweetness and early ripening. The Rebecca and Delaware are the most promising new varieties. Both are likely to prove acquisitions. ,T An admonitory remark or two in conclusion. From some cause or other—we suppose thd newspapers and periodicals of a certain, kind have a hand in it—there is a greater disposition to buy and plant trees prevailing than in years past. . It has been stated to us that an agent of one of the New York,nurseries has, in a cir cle of country not far distant, from Carlisle, its centre, disposed of trees, vines and garden fruit to the amount of slBoo.' ■ It has been re marked by observing men, that it is not alto gether from a neglect to plant trees that wd have dearth of fruit;' ~ Thousands and tens ojf thousands are annually .purchased,, but'front poor planting and careless culture perish before reaching a productive condition, while thou sands of others breathe out a somewhat longer, but scarcely a more profitable existence. The lime has come to rectify this error.. It the tree is to be starved, or left to the tender mercies of * murdering' cattle, bettor save the monew'Qno thing.above all others we woulcilry,AOnnipr&d Upon our farmers, and that is the almost u tiler ; impossibility of raising a profitable young «rj chard, and at the same time subject the ground to the usual rotation of grain and grass crops,. Wo can imagine how a partial success may be attained only. That is, by. manuring around the trees extra heavily top dressing often, and never ploughing more than three inches deep,’ within the circle of the roots of the tree, and' thoroughly protecting from cattle. All things considered, the true plan is now tp lay»out an Orchard, the fact where raising fruit is the first, prime idea to which all others must be subordinate. More return will be gotten from one acre of trees well planted, in ten years from this, than from ten acres, treated as orchards generally are, and cropped annually with graid or grass. ’ , For the five years following planting, the ground should beyond question be kept clean and open, by the culture of. some root crops ; potatoes, carrots, turnips, &c. Corn is admir able by way of change. When trees are well storied, as above, it is possible (hey may dp tolerable well in a sod —or rather they may bo made to do yell. If the : ground is devoted to pasturage, it will prove better than if annually mowed. It is not so hard on the ground., But in either case, partipnlarly if mowed yearly, the trees should receive a top dressing of manure,’ as far around as the roots extend, every year. This will keep the sod open and loose, and the . ground strong. A "big” growth of grass, and of trees, too, may bo attained. We would urgently impress the matter upon the consideration of our readers. There is no Viisdom and no propriety in losing more than one-half of the trees that are planted, through carelessness and bad management. Plant where you can—take care of the fruit ttees—and Hied do what you dan. If they are to be starved or' plowed to death, or destroyed, by cattle, better not plant at all, and save money and labor.— Ed. .., There does not appear to have been as much of the Sorghum cultivated this season, as the previous one. JThis wouldjieem to indicate that it failed to come up to “the expectation pf the cultivators. The inexperience attending the process of making molasses or sugar, and a want of experimental knowledge as to the bcpt time of cutting tho cane, must, however, be taken into consideration, lest a too hasty judg ment be formed of its unprofitableness- ,It is certainly very rich in Sacharine juices, and de serves a more thorough trial as a forage plant. In’fact, it is by no means Pertain that the far mer cannot, raise his molasties cheaper than he can produce grain 10 buy it with from the tra der.,, , , ..... We should be much pleased if every one who makes molasses this year, within the circle of our readers, would send us the fesult of their experiment. We think a much - better article and more of it, front the same quantity of cane, will be made this season, by virtue of the little experience attained last year. _ It is hardly do ing the plant justice “to give it up so.” Per gfsverence, gentlemen. There can Be ho great loss, surely.—Ed. - , The American Agriculturist gives an engra ving of this vegetable, which is below the size of those well grown one-half or more, and wishes to know something more about it. It has been for a number of years in gardens in Ibis sec tion, and is preferred by discriminating house keepers, for making pics green or for putting up for winter use for the same purpose. Reason —they make h more sprightly and agreeably flavored pie. not having that strong, peculiar taint of the common kind. When once m tbo garden they come up spontaneously, as other tomatoes, about, tho same season, but-unless favorably situated in congenial soil, herofail to produce a large crop of mature fruit before frbst but mostly give sufficient for household purpo ses without any earlytorcing^—-Ep. tCr" Be civil to the woman who bites the end of her gloves. CURRANTS. TULIPS; CROCUS. GRAPES. CHINESE SUGAR CANE. <‘rioSK" TOMATO. '/ ‘l’*Y
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