AMERICAN VOLUNTEER., PUDBISUED EVERY MIUESBAY HO&KIM BY Jfobtt B> Bratton. TERMS. I- Sciisonirtiox. —Ono Dollar and Fifty Dents, Ipaid in advance; Two Dollars If paid w-ithintbe [year; and Two Dollars and Fifty Cents, if not {paid within the year. Those terms will bo rig [fdly adhered to in every instance. No s«b [soription discontinued ndtil all arrearages are [paid unless at the option oi'thO Editor. [ Ad vEßTisEMENta— Accompanied by the cash, i and not exceeding one square, will bo inserted ’ three times for Ono Dollar, and twenty-five cents i for each additional insertion; Those of agreat , ter length in'proportion. ■ , Job-Fiuntlno— Such as Hand-bills, Posting bills, Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, &0., &0., oxe i'outed with accuracy and at the shortest notice. KHarnsbnrgi -Carlisle,. and Bi' burg Turnpike Road Company. ~ Pv'.TTtXHIBIT of Tolls received, Repairs and Ex r ■ -till penses, oh the Harrisburg, Carlisle and /Ohamberslmrg Turnpike Road, Company, from f 3 t of January to 81st December, 1-858, -inclu. Sire, as follows, to wit: ' DU. Amount of tolls received at gates, $3,105 20 at settlement of 1867 paid |||v into Court, vlan’y 1858, Salanco ol 1867 paid to creditors per act of Assembly ot 1823, 28 & 30, $359 61 aid for repairs of road lor 1858, 1,424 67 aid Gate-keepers salary, 920 04 aid Managers, 291 00 aid Secretary, 25 00 aid Treasurer, ■ , -75 00 aid Incidental expenses, . 47 75 aid postage, taxes'and stationary, 10 00 Mi lalanco paid into court to bo applied L under act ol Assembly aforesaid. " . - $3,464 87 Copy.— Certified cm oath to tho Judges ofthe Jourt of Common Pleas of Cumberland county, liollth day of January, A. D. 1859. SAML. W. NEVI-N, Tfeas’r. ■ I TAKE NOTICE, . -.'That the Court of Common Pleas of Cumbcr and County, have appointed Tuesday, the 22d lay of March next, at the'Court House, in Car isle, at 10 o’clock, A. Id., for hearing and de. ormining the claims of the respective creditors gainst the Company, agreeably to the. acts ol Assembly made for the relief of said’creditors K’ .'jHih the first day of April, 1823, and the supple - • V;.!a)onts thereto, at the aforesaid time and place, ‘Mi?; preferred (if.any) and all other oreditrs are requested to have their respective claims duly : W Authenticated and presented, and also to furnish si<Wdence at the same time, whether any claims liave been assigned, of are stilt held by the ori '’■vft’Kihawowners; and also proof to establish the ideratiomof their cljtiins, whether for work, rials, #c. y , ■ munry 27, 1859 WINTER ARRANGEMENT! GUxVIUERLa'ND valle.y ; RAIL ROAD CO’Y. CHANGE OF HOURS. if and after Monday, October llfh, 1858, passenger trains wiHlcavuasfollows, (Sun ekcejiicdj) , L ft For Harrisburg. Ut Train. 2d Trhin. Lcavc Chamborsburg, 8.25 A. AL 2.16 P. M. ; *«-.:■ Shippcnsburg, 8:65 *2.46 '« |S& .<* Ncwville, • 9.27 « 318 “ ■mk-.u* ~<<• Carlisle, • 10.00 « . 3.68 <*■ MechanicslPg, 10.32 ** 4.30 ■*** BKKgJkt .Harrisburg, l ' M■ 03 « 6.02 <* ' 8%/ ; ■ '. lit Train. 2d Train. ■ Pf Leave Harrisburg, 8.30 A. At. 1.00 P. M. f * e . t( 1.2 C sc f .. <<■"' 'Carlisle, 9.56 tc ' ' 2.12, iS k «e Newvillo, ,10.30 et 2.47 i( I. .... . « Shipponsbnrg, 11.02 “ 3.23 “ SV.. • 11.30 « # 3.53 c< ' 1 Trains leave Harrisburg Tor Philadelphia, via §• . Railroad, at 8.10 A.M; 2.15 P.Mj 6.25 oiV;;f'#.ra? and 12.00 night. By Reading via Lebanon K. -./STalley Railroad, at 2.25 p.m. { 7 For Pittsburg, 3.40, a.mj 1.00 p.m. and 5.10 For Baltimore, 8.30 a.m. and 1.45 p.m. JFor Trevertou and Williamsport, at 1.00 p. ni., ' and 8.45 p. m. Train on Dauphin Road at 1.30 Ife , Fares from Harrisburg, Mechanicsburg, Car jgfc, lisle, Shippensburg and Chambersbmg, will be §BBBl. ieu cents less when paid /‘or Tickets at the Of, ißß&ifice. thaiTwhcn paid in the Cara. WmS ! : ' . ' o. N. LULL, SttpL Chambersburg, I October 7, 1858. f ifel;?!? -. ' .Meat Cutters. SS;-V'A DO2. Meat Cutters and Sausage Staffers. '’TU Also, a very largo assortment‘of Butcher KV: --‘Knives, Steels, Cleavers, Steel-yurds, &c.j just received.and for sale at very low prices, at the Bk;' cheap hardware store of the subscriber, Last j 'Main Street. Ife&T • HENRY SAXTON. Nov. 11, 1858. ■ iliil'' •' '• Farm'Bells. . ; subscriber has been appointed agent for Cumberland county,.for tbosalo of thecele ■MifH Greoncastlo Farm Bella, .and is soiling Sllpffifem at very low, prices. They have boon sold the Statu and give satisfaction to all have tried-them. Also, on hand, some of SiS'BoIl-raetal Farm Bolls, and every thing else pS'iH'fn^tbe'Terming dnd moolianical lino. All to bb fuCthe cheap hardware store of ; ■ . HENRY, SAXTON. s April 23,1858. . Bar Iron. ' J KA ; Anf\ LBS. Rolled and Bar Iron, of the | OUiUUU bost brands,.all sizes. Steel of , 'jjU Itinda at tho lowest market prices. . All Iron /Vittanted to be good or tho money returned. . - JOHN P. LYNE & SON. K ■ ‘'ii'Carlisle, Oct. 28, 18(58. stfai«B, af:iilB. ~ r * : thousand kegs best qualify of Nails. — llkjl.jYo are prepared to sell nails o{ the very ‘'' quality, and at the very lowest price.— is in want of nails and building materials do well to call befpro purchasing else- 3, 1858, Furs, Furs. stock of Furs are au new, bought ior ish from tho manufacturer, anid will bo ; astonishingly low prices, and see them before purchasing eiso- CHAS. CGILBY. . 7, 1858 .Cranberries, ILE Oil, (assorted) Raisins, Currants, Cit n, Ketchup, Pickles, Buckwheat, and 6th ioles suitable for the season, just opened larion Hall" Grocery and Tea store, and ,Qb y J. W, EBT. 'ember 4, 1858. for ladioS > tßeth and hair • <' bo3 ’ Soaps > cologne, Extracts, for sale 7 4. ' in se,ts of 40 and 65 lM,|!cces Wu e Granite and common ware Glasawaio for sale at (lie now Grocery of ’ V 4, 1858. WM, 13ENTE. jt»UUNING FLUID. Pino Oil, Whole Oil, Lamps, Soap, Concentrated Tallow - i Adamantino and Sperm candles, for sale by ’ ‘VP~ y ° v - i > 18S8 - WM. BENTZ. ' t ( ' , ( ”S|IXOTEL KEEPERS and Dealers generally. 1 V supplied with fine Liquors at less than city v S’pricos by WM. BENTZ. t >< Carlisle,■ January 20, 1859. 359,61 $3,46187 $3,153 07 311 SO Br THE CoOET. J. P. LYME & SON. North Hanover street. MeriM BY JOHN B. BRATTOfr, VOL, 41. V pmlml FOOTSTEPS ON THE OTHER SIDE. Sitting in tr.y humble door-way. Gazing out into the.hight. Listening to the stormy tumult. With a kind of sad delight-^ Wait I for the love who comes not, One whose step I long to hear f One who, although he lingers frortviuc, Still is dearest of the dear. ' Soft he comes—now heart be quiet— Leaping in triumphant pride; Oh! it is n stranger footstep. Gone by oit the other side ! Ah ! how many wait forever, For the steps that do not come; Wait until the pitying angels Bear them to a peaceful home. Many, in the still of midnight. In the street have lain and died. White the sound of huntan footsteps Went by on the other side! Ears, so oft you have deceived me, Heart, such false alarms you beat, -I can scarcely dare to trust you, . Yet methinks that up the street Sounds a step I know, now hearer Comes it witlra rapid stride— . Iliippy wife, that welcome lootslep ■ Passes not the other side. God grant all who wait, an ending . To their, watch as sweet ns mine ; God send out of tears and storm clouds Smiles to cheer and'stars to shine. Go! bid drooping hearts be 'hopeful, That long hours have prayed and sighed, 'For, perchance, the steps wiU.sometiines . Not go by the other side 3ffiWlanwtisf.' THE ROSE AND NETTLE. • In a country somewhere in tho world no matter vrherq—at tho North Polo, probably, or may no at the South—orperchanco between tho live—there rose a largo arid flourishing city.— Its.manufactories were noted for their extent, and the merchant princes of that place revelled in the wealth those manufactories produced.— On tho outskirts of the town were built 1 two houses—alike in form, in extent, in value.— “ Two peas,” or “ two nuts,” or « two pins,” bad frequently deseribcdfhcir.S'milarity. Now, in those two houses, lived two brothers—twins .—tho only sons of tho builder of those ’ two houses. It had: been the fancy of tho old man to have “ the boys,” ho called them, lodged alike; and his means being ample, ho had tho power of indulging.his fancy. “The boys” niarried, and on the wedding day tho first stone of either house was laid. . . “ Time enough to get them finished,” said the old gentleman, ache rubbed his hands in glee; “ won’t want a nursery tor a twelve ■month; at-any rate;- •SriialHiouso-dwtilbtheH.r’-i; Tho young brideswore present when that re mark was made. Ono blushed, and smiled; the other blushed, and frowned. It was the nettle and the rose again standing side by side. Six months passed, and (ho houses were half up—the old gentleman himself directing all the arrangements ot tho building. " “ It is good indeed in your father, now an old man, to take an interest in our comfort,” said one oftboyonngwivosto her husband. ‘Ralph,’ —that was tier husband’s name—“you can nev er repay him for his kind feeling and his gene rosity to us.” “ It is an absurdity for your father to play tho architect,, and almost bricklayer,” remarked the other wife to her spouse, Boydell:—his name.— “ You should tell him it is inconsistent with bis calling and his station.” “ It is consistent with his pleasure,’? remark ed tile husband, “arid therefore I am content.” Twelve mouths passed and the houses were finished. “ Nursery ready in time,”, said tho good old m a n —“ready in timb—ready in time.” Tho ileuses were occupied—in the course ot twelve months the nurseries wore occupied also. . “ There are unceasing anxieties in araother’s lot,” said the good wife of Ralph, “but imeea. sing pleasures, too,” and she siriiled at tho in. nocCnt face of her sleeping babe. « How women can like tho bore of children I cannot imagine,” remarked her sister-in-law, as her child was hastily given to its nurse. Years passed on—ns they always dor-and the young wives became middle-aged women.— Sons and daughters clustered round them, and the grandfather, old and teeblo, now leant on those young things for support. Time had worked a wondrous change in the* two brothers—Ralph’s told of a homesfock of happiness, from which ho drew largely; while Boydell looked as if coritentnnd happiness were not in the world at all. ' At this time, when the families of each were springing up, and needed money to be spent on them in education, maintenance, and the differ, ont adjuncts of their station, one of those panics of the commercial world, which ruin thousands, took place. Unfortunately, Ralph and his brother had entered Into largo speculations, which, failing, they were involved in the pro. vailing ruin, and found themselves verging on bankruptcy. „ ..“Bo of gotd heart, Ralph,” said his wife, >< there is broad in this great world for us all. Our fine large house,.our servants and our car riages, are not absolutely necessary to our hap piness i we can do as others do—live without themj and the children 1 (his lesson of adversity may bo for their welfare. Take comfort, Ralph! there is plenty of that left in the world, if our wealth has flown away.” “Yes,” answered her husband, as he clasped her hand and drew her to him—“ Yes, there is never-failing comfort' hero, Lucy. God bo praised for having given me one so ‘ meet to help’ me, both in joy and sorrow, wealth and poverty. a You should have foreseen this crisis,” re marked the wife of Boydoll, t( and not allowed your children to be brought to beggary at their age, when just entering on life. Expenses are unavoidable, unless, indeed, they be educated as the laboring classes—which idea may be worth your wise consideration.” She ceased witli a sneer on her face. <* Other men would not have been so venture some with their money,” she remarked. “The Brownings, for instance, and the Smiths, with drew in time, and Lionel Blagdon told tne that your children might thank you, and you only, if starvation wore their fate.” “ In mercy cease,” replied the husband, “or you will drive mo mad,” . “ I must put your conduct fairly before your eyes—it is my duty,” she replied. “Then reserve it until 1 am likely to appre ciate your effort ot the performance of the du ty,” ho answered bitterly. Poor “Butyl” how dreadfully is she mis handled by these ascetic dames. “It ill a duty!” and: under that plea many a harsh truth is ut tered< “It is a dutyso says tho strict dis ciplinarian,. and coFd stern words are driven forth to tremble on an oVer-worked and wearied brum. “Itis a duty!” covers the cruel rebuke and tho severe rejoinder. It may bo a “ duty” to speak plainly and boldly sometimes —but it is n duty to choose tho opportunity when tho speech may bo acceptable, and not frot and chafe the wounded heart by a repetition of the very truths which silently recognized, are gall ing it already. ' Boydell knew quite well that ho might have foreseen and paitially have provided for the melancholy event which had taken place. His conscience reproached him bitterly for careless ness and rashness, and his wife’s words were not needed to add Ip the self-reproach, which left to Itself, might have worked some good by pro ducing a quiet determination to abide by the more sober counsels qf Ralph in future, for Ralph’s voice had boon lilted against the specu lation which had caused tho joint failure ol the brothers. Fretted and, galled, and wearied of life and life’s struggles, Boydell know not whithor to turn for comfort and consolation. His father had been gathered to the dead. His brother — Boydell was too proud to betray bis lack of-do. inestio peace to him. His 'children,, imitating tho bad example of their mother,-filmed against him, and instead of clustering round hini in the hour of woe, openly blamed him for the course ho had adopted. . At last his mind, torn by a thousand conflict: ing sorrows, gave Way; a lunatic asylum be came his homo, while his wife and children drag ged on a life of misery, supported by the mere charity cf relations. . Far differently fared Ralph. In tho humble cottage on the outskirts of the town, where ho how dwelt, a smile always welcomed him when he came homo from the .city’s toil and din, tired with tho business of the day, heart sick with Us disappointments. Rest arid peace and happi ness awaited him in that little homo. Bis chil dren—drawing their tone item that good wife and mother—thought only how they could soothe tho tired wanderer who had returned to them, and make him lorget in tho placid joy of the present, the misery of the past. “ Ralph,” said.ids wife, one day, “ I would scarcely exchange our present lot tor the one wo held when first I became your wife.. There is an earnestness in this quiet life ol strict utili ty which is lost in the gilded days of wealthy, splendor. lam as happy here, Ralph, ns ifyou had placed me in a palace—happier indeed--’’ Bo stopped her as Tie looked lovingly into her gentle time; '. “ Not happier, Lucy,” ho added, “ not hap pier, dear wife. Tour natriro would carry biiss as perfect as this world can bestow info any phase ot tile —not ‘happier,’ Lucy, but. as happy either hero, or there, or anywhere on earth—ns happy as aucli a kindly heart as yours can and should, and will ho anywhere.” Ralph lived to an old age; his hair was white, and his step tottering; but tho heart and mind were firm still. Bis children were married, or thorwisq settled in the world ; wealth had fal cn to the share of some, competency only to the lot of others.” But sorrow, keen sorrow, now foil on Ralph. Lucy died; and as ho saw the mould fall on the ■lowered coffin Until it was hidden from his view, he whispered, ns if to her who lay there—“ I know what'‘loss’ is now, dear wife, I never felt its meaning betore.” Boydell also lived to an old ngo. A partial recovery enabled him to return to his home, but ho was no welcome guest there. Unkiridncss andwantof care: had the result which might have been expected—he returned to the .asylum, hopoiossly mrid, and died there some: years af terwards, to fhe very evident relief ;of hie wife ami-cbtHrvri- —; ,I— Now, in all.human probability, those two wo men worked the sequel to tho.fate of fheir hus bands. The one by her gentleness soothed the .wounded spirit, and: in seeking to bless him, rowed a.full harvest of blessings for herself. And tho other! truly did she “ cast her seed upon the waters” and “truly did she find it alter many days.” It was like the poisoned Upas berry, taking root and springing till the deadly tree casts its destructive influence on those poor wretches who sat beneath its branches. A “Billions” Story. It was a perplexing arid infelicitous circum stance, that which .happened to .discomfit .the good housewife who had fattened a young Tur key tor her husband’s’.delectation, boiled, as was his weakness, witli the accompaniment of a savory sauce. Two or. throe days before his death (the turkey’s) a box of household pills fell by accident into the yard, where tho bird performed his daily perambulations and gqbling. Ho picked up tho kernels of anti-billions corn, and survived their effects until his decease, when he was coriimiltod to tho pot, ail the piece de re sistance ot a sumptuous dinner. But ho would not boil tender; hour alter.liour the hot bubbles burst around him, but all to no purpose; the harder and tho longer he was boiled, the tough er and the moro. uncarvablo ho ibeenmq. At fength, however, he was served up, and a doc tor, a next door neighbor, who was, a guest, was requested to solve , the mystery. ? “ \Yo bi’lod That turkey six long hours, doetot, by the clock,” said tho down east hostess, “ and yaou. see liO-'v awfully tough lie is neow. Could it be tho pills, d’yeou think, doctor, that I was tollin’ you about his eatin’ ?” ! . . “Undoubtedly, madam,” replied the doctor, “ it would riot have made the slightest difference if you had boiled him two days; there was no in him, madam!” An explanation equ ally professional and satisfactory. WALKING. '"'lt is really astonishing to see how few people have ever,learned to walk property, The I art of pedestrian’locomotion is one of the earliest of human acquirements, yet hardly one. in ten docs it gracefully or characteristically. In the city, people all walk in too much of a hurry — they seem to have no time to straighten out the knee-joint, at the end. of every step, but go trptting along, with bonded legs, leaning for ward, and presenting.nltogeiher, a very ridicu lous appearance. In the country,the heavy, slid boots generally worn, and the soft nature of the ground, give to the walker the air of having thirty-six pound of shot fastened lo his ankles. . , Women very rarely walk well.. Even those who dance, sit, stand, or recline with tho grea test grace cannot walk easily, and it is posi tively unpleasant to see many ladies perform pedestrian duty. In walking, one should keep the shoulders back well, and move the feet neither too fast nor too slow. The toes should bo turned out, and the knee joints entirely .straightened at each step. • The carriage of the head has much to do with the gait, and should, be upright though not stiff. It would be an excellent idea for walking to be taught inCjihe schools, as a regular branch of exercise, especi ally in this country, where Us beneficial effect and value in giving grace to all other movement are so universally ignored. . •One Hour. —There was once a lad who at fourteen was apprenticed to a soap boiler. One of his resolutions was to read one hour a day, or at least at that rate 5 and he had an old silver watch, loft him by hla uncle, which ho timed his reading by. Ho stayed seven years with his master, and hia master said when ho was twen ty-one that ho know as much as tho old squire did. Now let ua see how much time ho had to road in seven years, at the rate of an hour a day. It would bo twenty-flvo hundred and fifty five nours, wnich at th*o rato of eight reading hours a day, would bo three hundred and nine teen days equal to iorty-flvo weeks, equal to eleven months; nearly a year's reading. That time spent in treasuring up-useful knowledge would pile up a very large store. lam sure is worth trying for. Try what you can do. Be gin now. J ‘OUB COUNTRY—MAT IT ALWAYS DB BIOUX—‘DCV KlSto OB WRONG, OUR COUNTRY.” CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1859. AN ,;V| L SEEMINGLY- WITHOUT A REMEDY, There is one evil under the Rbn without a remedy, and that is the power of what is called fashion over women, „ In Some mysterious way it comes to be understood that tire correct thing for ladies'this winter is to carry im amount of inflated dress round the lower part of their per sona, which will make theta from twelve to fif teen feet in circumference. Implicitly they submit to have themselves.so d&ssed, ns if it were'somc supernal decree whiclijit was futile to try to resist, let the consequences, be never so inconvenient to themselves and the society of which they form a part. The rcsulting con tour of the figuife is, in the first’ place, ridicu lous; in the second, immoral,‘because false. It.involvcs waste, to the distress'pf those who have, to pay the milliners’ bills, and to the of fense of God, who tells us that not merely pur superfluities, but much of our ordinary mean's',,, should tjo bestowed upon those'who want.— Finally, it creates danger, for a dress sweeping wide of the person is apt to oatqji fire, and, of ten docs so, with the most tragical effects. Not a month before we write, two daughters of a noble house bad their dresses thus ignited, and as the arrangement is favorable to. combustion, they were so severely burned lliat they oidy survived a few days. Yet the inconvenience, the ridiculousness, the immoral falsity, the sin ful waste, and the frightful danger, while on all hands acknowledged, arc wholly unavailing to abate an inch d£ the evil. The mysterious de cree has gone forth“we,” say the ladies, “cannof-he singularthe evil,'.consequently, must be endured. ' '. It is important to observe regarding the sub sserviency of these mysterious decrees, that there is no progressive improvement. One year it is an absurdity; another year,‘another. Bal loon-sleeves now—miid-trniling sfiirts. then.— Here, invisible bonnets, exposing tho head to colds, and. the complexion to'injury; there, wasp waists, destroying the play, of the organs of circulation and digestion. Always some enormity, and no one better, than, another, or "more partially exemplified., Reasoning, on the part of tho other sex is-Wholly in vain to effect any:correction ; of what use, indjeed, is reason, with people who admit, the absurdity of their conduct, and say they 1 Cannot help it ? • Let parents ponder bn tho truth contained in the following remarks, which we cut from the Mome Journal: ' . “The ‘Tom-boy’ is a oageryCarnost, impul sive, bright-eyed, glad-hearted,' kind-souled specimen of genus feminist. . It her laugh is a little too frequent, and her i.ono a trifle too em phatic, wp.are willing to overlook these for the sake of.tho true life and exulting vitality to which they are the' escape-valves];” and indeed wo rather like the high pressurofnaturo which must close off its superfluous “atcam” in such ebullitions. The, glancing eye! the glowing cheek, the fresh, 'balmy brcathjtbo Utho and graceful play of tho lltoba, tcU a ialc of healthy and vigorous phj-sfctil dpve|dponeht 'which is have before ns a woman in’thc highest sense of the term. v ■■ ,r r ''' - V~ ’ ' ' , Wlibh the “Tom-boy” has sprung up to a healthful and vigorous womanhood sbo will bo ready to.tako hold of the duties of life, to be come a Worker in the great system of humanity. She will'hot sit down to sigh over the “work given her to do,” to Biuipermdnsenae, languish in 'ennui, or fall sick at heart—but she will over be able to take up tho burden of" duty. In her track there will be sound philosophy, In her thoughts, boldness and originality, in her heart heaven’s own purity, and the “world will bo better that sho has lived in its” To her allotted task, she will - bring health, vigor, energy, and spirits, and these will'give-her both the power and the endurance without which her life must be, in some respects at least; a failure.” If you .are well, let yourself alone. This is our favorite motto. But to those whose febt are inclined to be cold we suggest: As soon as you get up in the morning, put both at once in a basin of cold water, so as to come halfway up to the ankles ; keep them in half a minute in winter, or two in summer, rub bing them vigorously; wipe dry and bold to the tire, if convenient, in cold weather, until convenient, in cold weather, until every part of the foot feels as dry as your band, then put on your socks.. On going to bed at night, draw off your stockings and hold the feet to the fife until per fectly dry, and get right into bed. This is a most pleasant operation, and fully repays for the trouble of it. No one can sleep well or re freshingly with cold feet.' All Indians and hunters sleep with theif feet to the fire. Never your bed with tho naked feet on an uncarpeted floor. I have known it to be the exciting cause of months of illness.' Wear woollen, cotton or silk aWckfngs, which, over keeps your feet most comfortable ; do not lot tho experience of another bo your guide for different articles i what is good for a person whoso feet are naturally damp, cannot bo good for one whoso feet are always dry. Tho, don key who had bis bag of salt lightened by swim ming a river, advised his companion who was loaded down with a sack of wool, to do tho "same, and having nb more sense than a man or woman, ho plunged in, and in a moment, tho wool absorbed the water, increased the burden many fold, and boro him to tho bottom'.—Boll’s Journal of Health. -0“ The military of Rhode Island must be in a shocking state of insubordination, if the following reports are to be taken as instances of the spirit that prevails: , “A valient Colonel was sentenced by a court martial to give up his sword, which he did; but soon after his as'lonished commander saw him at the head of his men, with all the con sciousness of unquestioned rank- ‘Where did you get that sword V indignantly asked the officer, ‘I bought it,’ was the, reply. The other example is a still more fragfitnt disregard of ihat malitia discipline, without Which the militia is of very little use. An offlicer had been tried by court-martial for some offence, what it was we do not remember; perhaps for assuming the rank and duties that appertained tn a higher grade. Ho was sentenced to bo reprimanded, and to deliver up his sword for thirty days. The reprimand he bore with great equanimity; as for the sword, he inform ed the court that ho had returned the weapon to George Baker’s store, whend he had hired it at the rate of four and six pen'ce a day, and ho did not doubt that the court might obtain it on the same terms, or even at a discount from ■ that priee, in consideration of the long time for which it was wanted." 0j?~ A Young Tennessee Clergyman seems to have compressed the whole body of his sermon on “deceit,” in the following! “ Oh, my breth. ren, the snowiest shirt-front may conceal an aching bosom, and the stiffost of all rounders encircle a throat that 'has many a bitter pill to swallow.” O'?” Bill Tompkins says that a widdor is a married woman wot’s got no husband, koz he’s dead i and’ that a 1 widdower is a feller ns runs arter widders.- (IN PETTICOATS. The “Tom-Boy.” Cold Feel, Do The Deacon and the Irishman. Under this head we find the following amu sing story going the rounds. A few months ago, as . Mr. Ingalls, of Swampscott.'R. 1., was traveling the western part of the State of New York, ho fell in with an Irishman, who had lately arrived in this country, and was in quest of a brother who came before him and settled in some of the dig gins in that vicinity. , . Pat was a strong, athletic man,'a true Cath olic; and had never seen the interior of a Protes tant chureh. It was-a pleasant Sunday morn ing that brother Infills met Pat, who inquired the road to the nearest church., Ingalls, was a good-and pious man. He told Pit he was go ing to chureh himself, and invited his new made acquaintance to keep him company thith er, (his place of destination being a small Meth odist meeting house near by.) -There was a great revival there at the time, and one of the Deacons, (who by the .way was very small in Stature,) invited brother Ingalls to lake a seat in his pew. He accepted the invitation, and walked in, followed by Pat, who looked in vain to And the altar, &c. After he was sealed, he turned to brother Ingalls and in a whisper which could bo heard all round, inquired.' “ Sure, an-isn’t this n hirritick church ?” “ Hush, said Ingalls, “ If you speak a loud word they will, put you out." “And faith, uot a word will I spake at all,” replied Pat. ■ , . The meeting was opened with prayer by the pastor. Pat was eyeing him very closely, when an old gentleman who was standing in the pew directly in front of Pat, shouted “Glory !” “ Hist, ye blear demon,” rejoined Pat, with his loud whisper, which was plainly heard by tho minister, “ bo dacent, and don’t make a blackguard of yourself.!’ , The parson grew more and more fervent in his devotions. Presently the Deacon uttered au audible groan. “ Hist-t-t ye blackguard; have you no daecnoy at all ?”■ said Pot. at the same moment giving,the Deacon a punch in the ribs which caused him'nearly to lose his equili brium. The minister stoppld, and extending his hand in a supplicating manner, said— “ Brethren; we cannot be disturbed in this way. Will some one put that man out?” ."Yis, your rivirenccj” shouted Pat, “I will!” and suiting the action 16 the word, he collared the Deacon, and to the utter laughter and astonishment of the pastor, brother Ingalls, and tho whole congregation, ho dragged.him through the aisle, and with a tremendous kick ho landed him in the vestibule of tho church. -■ .HoW to Stop Blood. Many a death has resulted from an accident, when a. little skill in the ireaunent of a wound might have prevented a sacrifice of life. In rhe excitement attendant upon the iryury of a fel: low-being, we are. apt to lose the presence of mind necessary to.a.propcr consideration ol the means by.which relief can be rendered; and •thus the necessity of- making ourselves perfect ly familiar with' the manner in which wounds ' and injuries should betreated in cases of eraerr « c to be adopted for the stoppage of bleeding Hbm a .wound may be of service to us when we (vast expect it, first, if the blood flows but in a stream, no tice particularly whether the stream is an even, steady, or a jerking or a pulsating stream : if it is oven and ; stcady, the probability is it is from a vein, particularly if the color of-lhe blood is a dark red. : Bleeding from an artery is peculiar, the blood being of a light scarlet color ; the stream comes in that jerking manner which is seen when a fire engine is playing upon a high building. To stop the flow of blood from a vein, fir,-1 close the wound with the hand, firm , ly, then fold up any cloth, tow, flax or leather, and make it into a hard pad, au inch thick, at least, large enough to cover the entire wound, bind over this tlrmly any bandage, handker chief, or strap, or even the bark of a tree: raise the wounded part higher than the body of the patient; keep him quiet; if he has bled a large quantity, give him (if at hand,) a little water and spirits, and send for the dctoior, If the bleeding is from an artery, take your handkerchief, tie it around the part between the wound and the heart: put a Strong slick under the handkerchief; give it two or three twists, and you will stop the blood, if you have made it tight enough. In all plher re 1 spects, the same treatment as above. In small wounds, merely elevating the part higher than the body,,and‘retaining it so for a short time, will arrest the bleeding. For bleeding at the nose, apply ice to any part of the body, moving the ice around ; it is best to apply it to’ the.arm pits, nape of the neck, <fcc. Keep the patient quiet; do not let him cough, or bleeding will return.— BaUmorc American. Toughening Infants. A writer on physiological subjects in Black wood givesibefollowing advice to mothers, on the above subject: • “ Maternal instinct has in all ages and in all climates taught women to keep, iheir infants warm. Philosophers have at various times tried, by logic and rhetoric, to twhari this in stinct. Philosophy has been eloquent on the virtue of making infants “hardy,” and has de clared that cold baths and slight clothing must he as ‘strengthening’ to the infant as to the adult. Listen to none of these philosophers, ye mothers 1 They arc to be suspected when they are talking physiology, for under circumstan ces they are worst.qf guides, deceiving them selves and you by that fatal facility which in tellectual power gives them of making ignorance look like knowledge, and of so speciously ar raying absurdity that it looks like plain com mon sense. It is bad, very had, to listen to grandmothers, mothers in law and nurses, for their heads are mostly mere lumber rooms of crotchets and absurdities: hut it is better sometimes to listen to them than to philoso phers who inspire more respect, and cannot ir reverently be treated as ‘old women.’ Mater nal instinct must not be pervertetf by such un physiologioal teaching as that ot • hardening’ infants. It is true thk't strong infants can en dure this process, but it is certain that in all cases it is more or less injurious ; for the uni versal law is that tho yoqngcr the animal the feebler its power of resisting cold, in' spite of its possessing a higher temperature than the adult.” OC7' A suit came oil. in which a printer nam ed Klevy was a witness. The case was an as sault and battery, between two men, named Brown and Henderson, “Mr. Klevy, did you witness the affair re ferred tol” “Yes, sir." “Well, What have you to say, about It I' 1 “That was the best piece of punctuation I have seen for some time." “What do you mean by that?” “Why, that Brown do’ttcd one of Henderson’s eyes, for Which Henderson put a period to Brown’s breathing for about a minute and a half.” The court comprehended the matter at once, and find defendant $5O. lilt Mf ■ J|4' lil- iV JV 4k .w ♦. A' Scrap lor lovers of Motossas. Wc copy the following from along and inter esting article, entitled “ Rambles in Suritf am: “We went to tho boiling house, and saw the molasses dipped out uf the cistern and put into barrels. The molasses that runs from the sugar barrels is conducted by a gutter iiito the cistern which, is under ground, and swarms with roadies and rats, many of which arc found dead in the molasses, by which they are pre served from putrefaction. I could not help thinking that this country would be an elysi um for Chinamen, for they might feast here on their favorite dish (rats) abundantly, and molasses-cured rats into the bargain. Ido not know il the molasses which is imported into this country is used for anything else besides distilling rum. It is certainly not lit for table use, for besides the above mentioned abomina tions, it is handled by the negroes in such a fil thy manner, that the description of it will dis gust everybody with the same. “ The molasecs is dipped out of the cistern with large copper spoons, lb Which are attached long handles, but when tho majority is remov ed, these spoons cannot he employed any more, on account of the quantity oi sugar which has settled at or near the bottom, imparting a great toughness to tho molasses. Some negroes have to set down Intoait, dipping out with largo gourds, and it reaches often over their knees. Cleanliness is to be observed, and their feet and legs are generally covered with jiggers and oth er sores. If our delicate ladles and gentlemen had an .idea of the manner in Which our impor ted niceties were handled, they would surely abstain from the use of .them'. I once saw a dog fall into a copper in: which Cane juice was boiling intensely : ho was nearly done when the negroes succeeded in getting him out. It Imp pens, sometimes; that a negro who sits on the mason work.into which the coppers are imbed ded, slips into the foaming-syrup while dosing, and is boiled to death instantly. In neither case is the syrup.thrown away, for it will gran ulate all the same and nobody is the wiser for it.” - illayimonial Infidelity , and Sdicide-^A i The Bellows Falls Times brings us the de tails of an unusual combination of serious crimes, which had its devclopcnlcnt and crisis in that village on Friday morning. A young man, but nineteen, named William 11. Sanders, eloped from Springfield, Vermont, with his brother Daniel’s wife, who. though married for five years, was herself but nineteen years of age., ■ ■ They left home Thursday'evening, came to Bellows Falls, and look adjoining rooms at the Bellows Falls House, registering only the name of-the woman, as " Miss Kendall, of Weathers field.” i Towards morning the husband arrived in pursuit, and on being arrested and their guilt detected, the runaways immediately took strychnine; which the, young man had provided in his pocket, apparently for, such an emergen cy. He died soon after, in great agony, but the woman recovered from the poison, and was car ried back home on Saturday. —JtoedloUo'ars; Pallit / L'ilnea-fldds.tlKr-iijllowing facts: “We learn that the strychnine «'aS pro : cured some time since, arid that an elopement was attempted about a Week before. At this time,. W, H. Sanders proposed going with his brother’s wife to Obcster to a ball, to which the husband consented, and finally concluded to go himself, and his presence frustrated the object, in view. Daniel Sanders, husband of Hie truant wom an, is said to be a very steady, industrious, hard working man, and exceedingly indulgent to bis wife, for whom he has been ready to make any sacrifice, and within a short period had pur chased for her largely in dresses and jewelry.— On tiie other hand she is said to be rather pretty looking, giddy, and light-hearted, caving more for balls and transient pleasures than her own household. She has a young child, which she left at home sick when she ran away. On an examination of a trunk which she left locked up at home; she had taken out her things and partly filled it with wood. She. got money of her. husband under pretence of buying a shawl on the evening of her desertion, but made no purchase. She is of French birth and a native of Canada. - ’ The render is expected to believe the following story in every particular: ••When a young man I was travelling in western New York, and ln(e of a stormy night applied at a log cabin for lodging. The occu pant, a woman, refused it, saying her husband and sons were out hunting, and if they , found me there would murder me. 1 preferred the chance to a storm, and she consented that I might lie down before the lire. In the night I heard them coming and scrambled up the chim ney.. Thinking I was safe, went at the top, I stepped over the roof, and jumping down at the back of the cabin, stuck plum into n Wolf trap. A scream of pain from me brought Ihe man and boys out, and they declared I deserved a much more severe punishment than death : so they kept me both in the trap and suspense until morning, and then heading me up in a hogshead,-with no light or air. but the bung hole, they putting me on a sled, drove me some four miles up a hill, and then rolled mo off to starve. This f undoubtedly, should have done, but for a very i-ingular occurrence. The wolves smelled me out a fid gathered around my prison when one of them', in turning around, happened to thrust liis tail into the bung hole. It was my only chance. I cau,' t a firm hold, and held on like ‘grim death lo a dead nigger,’ which frightened the wolf, of course, and he started down tiie hill followed by the hogshead and roe. It was a very uneasy ride over the stones and stumps : but I bad no idea how long it was, until the hogshead striking a stone fairly, the staves, worn by long travel, were broken in, and I jumped out and found myself way down in Cattaraugus county, some thirty miles from the scene of disaster. The Boston (Mass.) Courier relates the fol lowing:. Mr. Webster married the woman he loved, and the twenty years which he lived with her brought him to the mcridean o( his greatness. An anecdote is current on this subject, which is not recorded in the books. Mr. Webster was becoming intimate with Miss Grace Fletch er, when the skein of silk getting into a knot, Mr. Webster assisted in unravelling the snarl— then looking up t 6 Miss Grace he said,‘‘We have umied a,knot, don’t,you think we could tie one?” Grace was a little etnbarassed, said not a word, but in the course bt a' M minutes she tied a knot in a piece of tn'po i'ud handed it to Mr. Webster. This piece of tape, the thread Of his domestic Joys, was found, after the death of Mr. Webster, (iHserved as one of his most precious relics. Sb.Vsibi.e,—lt is a fact worthy of remark that tlfb ladies are beginning to discard paper spied shoos, and aro now, tho most of them, not ashamed to wear shoos that .will protect thoir feet from cold and dampness. Some of them aro not ashamed to wear call skin. Very sensi ble.- ' Al' $2,00 PER ANNUM. NO. 35. Strange History, A Story as Is, a Story. Anecdote of Webster. ” , A sVriig »! Patti. the following striking Scientific facts picked np In the coarse 'of oup reading, from , various reliable authorities. Wo tkfnfe iiiaSy of them will be «c& to Our readers c ; IJhp diflerende heVwijcn. tho skullSicf.nitflt meslio hog and wild boar, 1? as. great ah .that betfreen the European and the negro bkul|. Domesticated anitealk, that have subsequently run Wild in the forests, after a few generation? ■ Iptc ill traces of their domestication, an'4 are physically difldrent.from their tarn* originals,,, It is hot, natural for a CO'S?-' any more than for any other female animals, to 'giro milk when she has no young to nourish. The permanent production of tin milk is a modified Wnitnil function, produced by an artificial habit foV several generations. In Columbia, the practice of milking cows having bccti laid aside, the nat ural state of tire function has been restored. The secretion continues only 'during the suck ling of the calf, and is only an occasional phe nomenon. If the calf dies, the milk ceases Id How, ami it is only by keeping him with hiS dam by day, that an opportunity of obtaining milk from cows by night can be found,' The barking of dogs.is aii acquired heredita ry instinct, supposed to have originated in_ v ad attempt to imitate the humin voice.' W'ld dogs and domestic br<?ed,s Which become wild never bark But ftoWl. Cats* Which so dis’turjp civilized communities by their midnight “catet;. waulf’.in the wild state in South Amcrica.'aro quite silent. •' Tito hair of tho negro is not wool, but..a curled and tWlsfefd hair. Tho distinction be- r tween liair and wool is clearly fcVealed by the microscope, The dark races have less nervous sensibility than the Whitts. They irt not subject to ner vous disease. They sleep soundly in every dis ease ; nor docs any mental disturbance keep theni awake. They bear surgical operations much belter than the white people. A certain Species of filhgus his been known to attain the size of a gOUrd in One night; and it is calculated that the 'Cellules, of which it ,iS composed, must amount to forty-seven thou sand millions. If ft gbewin twelve hou rs f this Would giVe (our thoUsind millions per, hour, or mute thin sixty -six millions each minute. ' Animalcules ImVe been discovered so small that one million could not exceed a grain of sand, and live hundred millions could sport in ti .drop of water. Yet each of theie must have blood vessels, nerves, muscles, circulating flu ids, &c., like large animals. < One of tbelnoSt Wondetfur tVihifeVetnenls of astronomers, is the weighing. of the bodies of the solar system. It-is certain that the mass of Jupiter is more tban'322, and less than 223 times the mass of this globe—so accurately has this work been accomplished. The mass of the sun i 5,330,551 tittles grbatef than that of the earth and moon, arid TOO times greater than the united masses of all the planets. The planet Saturn is composed .ot matter only half as heavy ns Crater : Mercury is con sidcrably heavier than .quicksilver, and a third heavier thaniead ; and our own globe is twice as heavy as common roCk, and half as heavy aS lead—a fact which sllCvVs tile density of inter nal parts. A flash of lightning oh, the earth would bo visible on the muon in a sechnd and a quarter : on the sun in eight minutes; bn Jupiter, when farthest from us; in fifty-two minutes; on Uranus in two hours; on ,Nfeplune in jfoui hours rind a quarter ; on the star Vega, qylhq first magnitude, in forty-five years; on irstat of the eight magnitude in four lhods4nd.yearS{ and such stars are Visible through the teled copc. La Place, the great French aSlWriiJtiiei*, gays; .'•I have ascertained that between tile heavenly bodies all nttraOlitinS lire transmitted with a velocity .which, if. it bfe hot infinite, surpasses several thousand tlltibS ilia velocity, of light. 1 ' His annotator cslilhilea it at, eight million of times greater than tllrit of light. . , The circumference Of the earth is 25,02 u miles. A railway train travelling liittessantly night and day-Vat-thr late an hour, would require stir weeks tb gt) found it.. A tunnel through the earth, (fblti England to New Ucalaitd, would be nearly eight thou sand miles long. Curious Attack of Ants. One morning, during my residence hi trinfl dad, I observed an uncommon number of cbost suer ants crawling about the floor of the room. They did not crawl upon ray person,' but it was surrounded by them. Shortly'after this; the walls of the room became covered by thenl,' and next, they began to take possession of thti tables and chairs. I now thought it necessary to take refuge in an adjoining room, separated only by a few ascending steps from the one wo occupied ; and this was not accomplished will!-. out great care and generalship; for had we trodden Upon one wo should have been summa rily punished. There were several ants on the step of the stair, but they were not near so nu merous as in the room we had left;. hut the up per room presented n singular spectacle; not only were the floor and walls covered- like thd other room, but the roof was covered also. The open rafters of a West India house, at times afford shelter to a numerous tribe of fn ; sects, more particularly the cockroach; but, now their destruction was inevitable. The chasseur ants, ns if trained for battle, ascending in regular, thick flics to the rafters, and threw down the cockroaches to their comrades on the floor, who, as regularly marched off with the dead bodies of cockroaches, dragging then! away by llieir united efforts with amazing ra pidity. Either tiie cockroaches wore stung to death on the rafter, or else the fall killed them. The ants never stopped .to devour their prey, but conveyed it all to their store house. The windward windows of the room Were glass,.dnd a battle now ensued between the lints and jack Spaniards, on the panes of glass. The Jack Spaniards may be called the wasp of the West Indies: it is twice as largo as a British WitSjfi and its sting is in proportion, more painful.— It builds its nest in trees and old houses, and sotnedmes in the rafters of a room. . The jack Spaniards were not quite such easy prey, for they used their wings, which not one cockroach had attempted. The jack Spaniards, hotly pur sued on the window, alighted, on the dress. of one of ray children. In an almost inconceiva ble short time, a patty of ants .crawled upotl her frock, surrounded and covered the two jack Spaniards, and crawled again.to the floor, drag ging off their prey, and doing the child no harmi From this room. I went, into an adjoining bed chamber and dressing-room, and founa th'ettf equally in possession of tlufchasseurs. I open ed a large military chest of linens, Which bad been much infested ; for I was. determined td take every advantage of such able hunters; X found the ants already inside: I suppose ths'4 they must have got in at some opening of the tiinges. I pulled out the linens on the floor, and with them hundreds of cockroaches, not one of which escaped. We now left the house, and went fo the cham ber, built at a little distance; but these also were in the same state. I next proceeded td open a store room al the other end of the. house, for a place of retreat; but to gel the key, I had to return to the under room, where the battle was now more hot than ever; the ants had commenced an attack upon the rats and tiliiA, and strange as it .may appear, they were no match for their apparently insignificant foes.— They surrounded them as they had, the insert tribe, covered them oyer, and dragged them off, with a celerity and unioW of-strength, that no one who has not watched- sucha. scene, can comprehend. I did not second mouse Or rat escape, and fam sure I M a score carried off in a very short period. I think it was' Shout ten when I first observed the ants; and about twelve Ihe battle was formidable; soon,after one o’clock the great strife commedced with the rats and pike, and about three the houses wert cleared. In a quarter: of an hour., padre the ants began to decamp, and! soon not one was td bo seen within dours. , , Sketches of the West Indio, CCT” Very bad—the foads'i
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