VOLUNTEER. PBBII3IIKD EVERY TiIBRSDAT MORNING BY Jolm K. Jliutton. _ SonsdßiPTiOH;—Ono Rollar and Fifty Cents, paid in advance; Two'Hollars If paid within the year; and. Two Dollatsinnd Fifty Cents, if not paid withifi the- yearj. These terms will be rig idly .adhered to. ini every instance. No sub scription discontinued until all arrearages are paid unless at the option of the Editor. Advertisements— Accompanied by.thocAsir, and not exceeding one square, will bo inserted throe times for One Dollar, and twenty-flvo cents lor each adtKtipnai insertion. . Thoseofagfeat tcr length in proportion. Jop-Jt’KnmNo—Such as nand-bills, Posting bills, Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, &c., &c., exe cuted witii accuracy and at the shortest notice. IpSSHilfi —A » Y FOR the i.hspepttpn of the. public, in filestore room fprmo'riy occupied by John G. Wil liams, two doora cast of Rhoads’ Warehouse,.a large .and complete sfoClt of GROCERIES con- » slating of Sugars, 'Coffees', Teas, Molas ses, Fish, Salt,' Spices,'China, Glass and' ■iQueenswarc, Pickcls, Preserves, FRESH CAN. FIiCITS, Oils, &c., allofVhich are fresh and well selected,-and to be sold as low as similar jGoods cati be-bought anywhere oulsido of Phil adelphia; . Butler, Eggs, So dp, Rags, Beeswax, Drica Frv.it, <sc., takChdu exchange for Goods. - I would respectfully invito all to give me a call and examine for yoUi'selvCs. . »•' Carlisle, Oct. 28,1858; Fresh Groceries. THE subscriber has just received an addi tional stock of Fresh Groceries of every kind at reduced prices, to which ho invites ins friends and customers. They, embrace, in part the following: Teas of every variety and host quality. Kio, Java and Maracaiba Coffee. Roasted Coffee. , Crushed and Pulverized Sugars. Refined and other Brown Sugars. Superior Syrup Molasses. Orleans Molasses. ■ Spices of every kind, pure. Starch, Farina and chocolate. Maccaroui, cheese and crackers. Tapiaco and Sago. * Indigo, Saleratus, Soda and Crcanv Tartar. ; ' Mustard and Corrknder Seed, as well as all the other articles belonging to a well established Grocery. . J. W. EBTI. Carlisle, Nov. 1858: " 1 7 WINTER ARRANGEMENT! CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAIL ROAD CO’Y. CHANGE OP HOURS. ON and after Monday, October 11th, 1858, passenger trains will leave as follows, (Sun days excepted:) ' , ||| : - ■ ' For Bffiu’riislmii'S. I’ Ist Train. 2 d Train. Leave ChambOrshurg, 8.25 A.M. 2.15 P.M. i “ SUipponsburg, 8.55' “ .2.40 << ’■«« Newville,' 9.27 “ SlB “ <<;r Carlisle, 10.00 “ 8,58 <‘ “ Mechanicsb’g, 10.32 “ 4.30 “ At Harrisburg,' 11.03 “ 5.02 “ For CUambcrsburg. Ist Train. 2d Train. ' Leave Harrisburg,. 8.30 A.M. 1.00 P.M. OSi-~ “ Mechanicshurg, 0.10 1.26 “ » Carlisle, • ;9.50 " <c 2.12 te “ Newville, ■ 10.30 “■ 2.47 “ ic * Shippcnaburg,' 11.02 ec 3.23 (C , At Chambersbnrg, 11.30 f 3,53 « id Trains leave Harrisburg for Philadelphia, via | pbnn’a Railroad, at 8.10 A.Mj'BLlfl P.M; 0.25 fe', p.m; and 12.00 night.: By Reading via Lebanon raw: Valley Railroad, at 2.25 n.m. Bk Por Pittsburg, 8.40~a.m5~T700 p,m, and 5.10 SMwjr n 111. Fpr Baltimore, 8.30 a.m. and 1.45.p.m. Treverton and Williamsport, at ,1:00 p. m, HP; and 8.45 p. m. Train.on Dauphin Road at 1.30 K Fares from Harrisburg, Mechanicshurg, Car f; ■ lisle, Shipponsburg and Chambersbnrg, will bo r .. ten 1 cents less.when paid for Tickets at the Of t . flee, than when paid in the Cars. s£;.•/ ■ O. N. LULL, Supt. ;• . Railroad Office, Chambersbnrg, t yi, ■, October 7, 1858. ) w ■. Meat tliittci s. 1 n DOZ. MeatCiittors and Sausage Staffers, ' J y Also, a very, largo assortment o( Butclior bV’ , Knives, Stools, Cleavers, Steel-yards, &p., just ; .received and for sale at very low prices, at the S| tclieap hardware store of the subscriber, East fe. .‘Slain Street. '. ife ■' HENRY SAXTON. - Carlisle, Nov. 11, 1858. , ' ■ Farm Bells. ?fv fTTtUE subscriber has been appointed agent for , sl Jo JL Cumberland county, for thesale of the celo- Ws;. -brated Grcenoastle Farm Bells, and is selling I if?, them at very low prices. They have been sold ■ all over the State and give satisfaction (p all 'Who have tried thorn. Also, on hand, some the Bell-metal Farm. Bells, and every thingelso' Vin the farming and mechanical line. All to bo ; -had at.tho cheap hardware store of ’ HENRY SAXTON. ■ : .Carlisle, April 22,1858. mmi Bar Iron. Hon Relied and Bar Iron; of the jUUU best brands, all sizes. Steel of , ■ all hinds at the lowest market prices. All Iron trA, ‘warranted to bo good dr tlio'nioqoy returned. K . ' ‘ JOHN P. LYNE & SON. ■fc;, Carlisle, Oct.. 28. 1858. lafls, Nails. ONE thousand fcegs best qualify of Nails.— Wo are prepared to sell nails of the very best quality, and at the very lowest price.— •Persons in want of nails and building materials would do well to call before purchasing else where. . ‘■'“V Feb. 3, 1858, .Furs, Furs. jIITT stock of Furs are Ain new, bought lor ■**> AvJLcash from the manufacturer, and will bo at astonishingly low prices. -;®W'call,and see them before purchasing olso ,%tord. . CHAS. CGILBY. ' ■ ftjfjeo. 7,-1858 ' ' Cianlienlcs, LIABLE Oil, (assorted) Kaisins, Currants, Oit ' A >ron, Ketchup, Pickles, Buckwheat, and oth s. «rarticlos suitable for the season, just opened ir il “Marion Hall” Grocery and Tea store, end <A for sale by J. W. EBY 'Mi" Novembcr d, 1858 ■ cedar & Willow Ware. ASKETS. Market, Travelling, and a vari- . a oty ol Fancy and other Baskets. Wooden ITore.-rTubs, Buckets, Measures, painted and other Buckets, Pails, Bed s' , Mats, Brushes and other necessary house •VAKCitticlcs. maf-Mich’s Brooms, known as the best Broom in any other market, arc for sale only by ’’ '.ijiA'subscribor. All articles in our lino arc of ■ftrStl at the lowest cash jprices. : rm- *> ms - ■■■f$SNCY Baskets for ladies, teeth and hair v jD4;ifroahos, Soaps, cologne, Extracts, for sale Wiv wm. bentz. Vf iKoytynbcr 1858. 4, ffil&LD BAND CHINA, in setts of 46 and 55 fV3T pieces, White Granite and common ware, 'GtataWare for sale' at the new Grocery of ttdy. 4, 1858. wm. bentz. Burning fluid, Pino on, wimio on, Lamps, Soap, Concentrated Lyo, Tallow, ’Adamantine and Sperm candles, for sale by J ■ *• Nov. 4, 1858. WM. BENTZ. • 1 f /CTOTEL KEEPERS and Dealers generally, '’'.AX supplied ini.lh lino Liquors at loss than city by . ■' \ WM. BENTZ. Oarli”’ >,20, 1850. T E R JT S AVM. BENTZ J. P. LYNE '& SON. North Hanover street. J, W. EBY. '-mC ■■ ill ’ •(■ H' :■• Ftp ■*>' 111 IA I w '. c I*'-1 ‘ ‘ : I ‘ I i/y.“[ H 1 9 B B H “■ •:■,■ ■*■-; B 9 n JJ> j%*. . . . ' V’■ ■ BY JOHN B. BRATTON. VOL. 45. TUB lAIIURER AND TUB WARRIOR, BY EPPE3 SARGENT. The camp has had its day ol song; The sword, tho bayonet, tho plume, Have crowded out of rhyme too long The plow, the anvil and the looln ! Qh! not upon our tented fields * Ate Ireedora’s heroes bred alono ; The training of the workshop yields More heroes true than war has known, AVlio drives tho bolt, who shapes the stool, May with a heart as valiant smito As he who sees a foomanreel In blood before his blow'ol might; The skill flint conquers space and time, That graces life, that lightens toil, May spring frora oourago more sublime Than that which makes a realm its spoil. Let labor, then, look up and see His emit no pith of honor lacks; The soldier’s rifle yet shall be Loss honored than the woodman’s axe; Let art his own appointment prize, Nor deem that gold or outward light Can compensate the, worth that lies In tastes that breed their own delight. And may the time draw nearer still When man its sacred truth shall heed. That from the thought and from the will Must all that raises man proceed; Though pride may hold our calling low, For us shall duty make' it good; And we from truth to truth shall go, Till life and death aro understood. NIGHT BEFORE; THE BRIDAL. The bridal-flower you gave me, The .rose so pure and white, I kiss it o’er and o’er, love. With tears of soft delight I Its odor is so heavy. It makes mo faint and pine; It is thy kisses freight it. That sweet, sweet love of thine ! To-morrow thou wilt give me, For a spell of joy and power, Thy whither hand, my darling, And thy heart, a richer flower: Thon this may fade and wither, No longer kissed by mo; For these, my burning kisses, Will then ho showered on thee I 3skellan£im THE- imi/IC’S SERMON. It was cloven o’clock on Sabbath morning.— Two sermons had been preached during the forenoon, and the “ horn” had been blown an nouncing the third. The people flocked into the meeting by thousands, for a very popular divine whs to preach at thatMiouA Tho, eloquent, minister, arose. .^U).,*as -In stantly hushed, arid the stillness of midnight reigned in that vast assemblage, Ho opened a book and read therefrom, softly, sweetly, musi. catty, a bymn which lie requested the congre gation to sing. The music of a camp meeting! Who that has ever heard it has not paused to drink the rich melody into tho soul ? , It comes with a grandeur yet softness and sweetness that can be heard no where else. The measured strains of a multitude of voices, united in charming melo dy and unbroken by walls, swell in solemn gian deur and roll deliciously through the forests, awaking re-cohoing cadence on-every hand, and “ Untwisting all the charms that tie The hidden soul ot harmony.” After the hymn had’been sung the minister offered up a brief, eloquent prayter and then re sumed his seat. He had taken the Bible on his knee and was searching for bis text, when he and the whole congregation wore startled by the appearance of the Maniac Smith. The young lunatic, who was known to nearly all present, ascended the pulpit with folded arms, bowed head, and slow and steady pace. Facing the immense congregation, he gazed carefully around, and amid breathless silence spread forth his hands, and in the most thrilling manner, said: ■ « Your music is the music of heaven. The pretty birds in yonder tree tops are bearing it with their songs to the lipsot angels above, who will convoy it as sweet incense to the omnipo tent throne ol God. Joy is thine, 0 Israel.— You possess the iivjng.soul, that rejoices in the glory of immortality. 'My soul is dead! A cherished child of pity, I became recreant to the God that gave me being and sold my life, my happiness, my immortality to the Prince of Darkness. Like the traveller who has a trodden path before him, but is attracted to dangerous places by the gaudy show of some poisonous flower, I have wandered to my death! My feet were placed in the straight and narrow way, were covered with the sandals ofpiety,;and the Christian staff was placed in my hands, and yet, 0 God 1 I wandered to my death. , The gaudy bauble of vice, the showy, yet thorny flowers Of wickedness drew me aside. I loft the smooth surface and ascended to the mountains of trou ble and yet I gained not the object of my pur. suit. On I dashed, reckless and indifferent to my fate. The wicked one, who sought my de. struction, led mo on, and I, cursed with remorse, followed. I knew I was plunging into ruin, with a soul already accursed, what oared X? — Voluntarily I had sought death and it came; It was one night, and oh 1 a fearful night it was to mo. Exhausted, doomed and accursed, I was still clambering up themountain of sin. I came toi a'Chasm, deep and fearful. The . lightnings of,heaven flashed about me, and the thunder of Omnipotence pealed in :my oars. Ifelt myself moving towards the, fearful chasm! Death, eternal death, stared mo in the face, and X screamed piteously for help! No one came fo aid mo. My companions in vice listened not to my cries, and ho ‘to whom I had sold my soul derided mo in mockery! Xwasmoved on near ear and nearer, to the precipice. ‘ Frantically X grasped each shrub and rock, and prominence winch lay in my way, hut they crumbled in my hands. I reached the edge of the precipice ! 1 glanced into the deep abyss of death 1 Oh! terror, terror I .X plead to heaven for mercy, but groat God it was too late I • My sin-covered sonl trembled with the agony it suffered, and was piteously in its appeals. But the thunder fold mo, “Too late," and gra cious heavens, my own cowardly soul told mo “ Too late 1” I felt myself going over the pre cipice. I clung with tenacity to everything within my roach, but nothing could save mo. 1 shrieked! I groaned 1 Down to perdition wont ray soni !” Hero the maniac paused. His vivid portrai ture of his career had startled the whole con gregation, some of whom shrieked outright ns he represented his soul’s frightful descent into perdition. Ho paused a minuto only. Then calm again, ho softly said : “I am living without a soul! You people of God may sing yonr praises, for it is as sweet in cense to your souls. But you sinners must re pent this day, or your souls will go alter mine over that deep, dark, fearful abyss into hell!— Will yon repent, or go with mo into eternal per dition ?” . The effect of this was more than terrific Screams and groans arose flora the gay and gid-, dy in tho congregation. A year or two before, this young man was iris* •V P - 1 ** 1 brought homo ono evening insensibly drunk.— The next morning found him the victim ot a terrible fever, brought, on by his sensual indul gence and extravagant course of life. Of that fever ho was, after many fearful days, and much tender care by his relatives, cured, but it loft him a raving maniac. So. fearful were his mad efforts, it became necessary to keep him in a Lunatic Asylum, to keep him from perpetrating mischief on himself and others. Ho remained there until-within a* few weeks* of. the camp meeting, when he became Sufficiently restored to bo returned to the custody of his family; Ho was still insane, but was mild and obedient, and under these circumstances ho was taken with the family to the camp meeting, the utmost vi gilanco being exorcised over him. Young men I beware of the cup, the destroy er of (ho soul! Chambers' Journal gives an incident ns hav ing lately occurred which ought to set mothers on their guard against allowing children to play with fancifully colored paper. The child was taken suddenly' ill, vomiting violently ; it lay ip deathly torpor. The mother said it was teething. But a neighbor who could not see, in the process of cutting a tooth, cause for the child’s sudden and violent illness, inquired what the child had eaten. The mother wasim dignant at this implied charge of carelessness or ignorance. But filially, R appeared that the child had been allowed to play with a piece of paper colored d brilliant green. Thepaperwns instinctively put in the mouth, when a portion of the coloring matter was dissolved by tho sal iva and swallowed. The rich greens which so please the children on bits of paper brought from shops on dry goods, are preparations of copper and arsenic—poisonous. Children should never be allowed to fake them. ' The writer of the article mentioned, states that two rooms in his father’s house were washed with a green solution; and when these walls were swept, the sweeper always complained of sick ness, and of a coppery taste in the mouth.. Also, that the physician who used to sit much in a room hung with green paper; was always made siqk by it; on removing to another room he recovered. But whenever he returned to this green room, the symptoms returned. Poisonous colors are often used to give tint to candies and other notions offered for sale by confectioners. Green is not the only color con taining poison. Blue and yellow are liable to the same charge. It. is saiij 'that in the dress making establishments, in Paris, the, young women employwl in making some beautiful green ball-dresses were suddenly ill. Tho. phy sician thought that by wearing these few dress, es in a ball room, poison enough would bo . de tached from the color to occasion most danger ous consequences to the company. Tunacitv op Life.;— At IheEoyal Institu tion, London,Tlr. Lacati recently delivered a lecture on the, earthquakes, of ‘southern Italy, and stated that during the last seventy-five years the kingdom of Naples had lost 110.Q00 inhabitants by such calamities.; In 1783, a yoong-and JicnutifilV .girl was buried under some ruins caused by a great earthquake, and was dug out hlivo after eleven days, during which she had counted the days by a single ray of light, which reached her through a creviee. She lived for nine years afterwards, but was always sad and gloomy. In the earthquake of December, 1850, two little girls were buried in the ruins of a house: one died, but tho other was disentombed alive after . eight days, and she still lives: A donkey which had been bu ried for fifteen days was dug out alive; two mules after twenty-two days; and two pigs after thirty-two days. The Bloom op Age.—lt has been beauli fuly remarked that a good woman never grows old. Years may pass over her head, but if benevolence and virtue dwell in her heart, she is as cheerful as when the spring of life first opened to her view. When we,look at a good woman, we never think of her ago; she looks as,charming as when the rose of youth first bloomed on her cheek. That rose has not faded yet—it never will fade. In her neighborhood she is the friend and benefaclor. Who docs not respect and love the woman who has passed her days in acts of kindness and mercy? We repeat, such a woman can never grow old. She will always bo fresh and buoyant in spirit, and active in humble deeds of mercy and bene volence. Happiness op Life.--It has been well re marked, that no man can judge of the happi ness of another. As the moon plays upon the waves, and seems to our eyes to favor with a peculiar.beam one Jong track amid.thowatcrs, leavipg the rest in comparative obscurity—yet all the while she is no niggard in. her lustre; for though the rays that, moot not our eyes are to us as though they were not, yet she, with an equal and unfavorable’ loveliness, mirrors her self on every wave—even so, perhaps, happiness falls with the same brightness and power over the whole expanse of life, though to our limited eyes she seems Only to rest. on thoso billows from which the . ray is reflected back to our eyes. , ' The Oak Tree.—The oak attains a very great age, and it-is said not to reach maturity until it is one hundred years old. Some of the aboriginal oaks of England have been known to exist for a thousand years. The oak against which the Arrow of Walter Tyrrel struck before it killed William Kofiis, was in existence about a century ago, and there is still scon at Tor wood,,in. Stirlingshire, the oak under which the famous Wallace convened his followers. At Waverly, near Boston, on the Fitchburg Rail road, there is a group of very old oaks, which probably stood there long before Columbus discovered this country. Look after the Shade Trees,—Now is the time for removing the larva) of the noxious in sects which in the early Summer convert our beautiful shade trees into pests and nuisances, A correspondent says, last Winter he had the cocoons or sacks cut off (such as may now bo seen suspended from many trees) from all the trees within a square of his residence; and in consequence, three trees were green and beau tiful all sumtper, while the foliage of others, not thus cared for, was entirely destroyed.— These nests of insects may now be readily olip ed off, but in doing so, be careful not to destroy the tree by trimming it to death, which is of ten done. Female Blandishments.— An act was , in troduced in the English Fafliment, in 1670, that “all women, of whatever age, rank, pro fession, or degree, whether virjgins, maids of widows, that shall, from and after such net, impose upon, seduce and betray into matrimo ny, any of his majesty’s male subjects, by scents, paints, cosmetic washes, artificial teeth, false hair. Spanish wool, iron stays, hoops, high-heeled shoes, bolstered hips, shall incur the penalty of the laws now in force against witchcraft, sorcery, and like tnisdemcanors, and that tho marriage, upon conviction, stands null and void. DTho Albany Evening Journal (Rep.) is out boldly for 1 William A. Seward, as the next “Republican" candidate for the Presidency. I “OUR COUNTRY—-MAY IT ALWAYS BB BlQ|tX —BUT'-RIGHT OR WRONG, OUR COUNTRY,” CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1859. Poisonous Colors, A Swiss Farmer and 3IIC Sabbath. In the fertile valley, of Bniitr.cnthal, in Swit zerland, lived a farmerV whq.cared neither for •God nor man. One Snbb'attj. afternoon, having a large quantity of uncut grain in the held, and observing the clouds gathering round the tops of the mountains, and the spring becoming full of water, he called on his i.dofncstics, saying, "Let us go to the field, gather and bind, lor to wards evening wo shall havaa storm., If you house a thousand sheaves before" it rains, you shall bo rewarded for so doirig.” He was overheard by Hs grandmother, a good old Indy of eighty yenrs‘ of age, who walk ed supported by two crutches.’ Sheapproached her grandson with difficulty.v “John, John; dost thou*ii(iisider? Asfaras I can remember, in my whole life I never Saw an ear of corn housed on day; and yet we have always been loadw with blessings, wo have never wanted for-anything granting it might bo done if there was a-rfaminc, John, ora long continuanco-of bnd weather, but thus far the year has been very dry; and if the grain get a little wet, there is nothing in it very alarming. Besides, God who gives the rain, gives the grain, also, and we; must take things as he sends them. John, do not violate the rest of this holy day, I earnestly beseech you.” At these words of the grandibptber, all the do mestics came around ■ her ; the oldest under stood the wisdom of her! advice, but the young treated it with ridicule,' and'said to eath other, "Old customs are out of date;; prejudice abol ished ; the world is now altered”’ "Grandmother,” said . ihch farmer, "every thing must have a beginning.‘but- there is not evil in this ; it is quite.indifferent to our God whether wo spend the dayin'filecpirig or in la bor, and he will bo altogether as much pleased to see the grain in the cora-lbft as to see it ex posed to the rain; that which wo get under shelter will nourish us, and< nobody can tell what sort of weather it will hp to-morrow.” "John, John, within doors and out,of doors are at the Lord’s disposal, and thou dost , not know what may happen thisevening; butthou knowestlam thy grandmother; I entreat thee for the love pf God; not to-work to day; I would much, rather eat no broad for a whole year.” . . ■ "Grandmother, doing o thfiig for one timeis not a. habit; besides it is riot a wickedness to preserve one’s harvest, and tq better one’s .cir cumstances.” :]■ "But, John, God’s commandments arc al ways the same, and what will it profit thee to have the grain in thy barn,: if thou lose thy soul?” . i Ah, don’t be uneasy'about=that,” said John; “and now boys go to work L time and weather wait for no man.” “John, John,” for the last time said the good old lady; but alas !it teas in vain; and while she was weeping and praying, John was housing his sheaves; i t might be said that they dew, men and beasts, so'-great was the dis patch. . • . ’ ■: ■■■; >■ , ■ ' A thousand sheaves were & the barn, when the first drop of rain fell; f John entered the house fofiowed with an air of triumph,: “Now, grandmother, all is securelet the: tempest.roar, let the ele ments rage, little concerns ;mol ( ray harvest is. under my roof.” . ...■ • 'Yes, John, said the grandmother solemnly, “but above thy roof spreads the lord’s roof." While she was thus speaking, -tho building was suddenly illuminated, and fear was printed on every countenance. t, y A tremendous clap of thunder made the house tremble to its foundations. “Oh!” ex claimed the first who could speak, "the light ning has struck the barn.” All hurried out of doors.. The building was in . flames, and they saw through the roof the sheaves burning which had just been housed. ' . The greatest consternation reigned among all tha men, who but a moment before wero so well pleased. Every one was.dejectedand incapable of, acting. The aged grandmother alone pre served all her presence of mind ; she prayed and incessantly repeated, “Wfhat shall it profit a man if ho gain the whole World and lose his own soul ? 0! Heavenly Father; let thy will, and not ours, be done The barn was entirely consumed; nothing was saved. , The farmer had said, “I.havo put my harvest under my roof.” “But above, thy roof is the Lord’s roof,” said the grandmother. This leaches the lesson that all is in the hands of God, whether in the fields pr in the barn; and what we endeavor to preserve from therein can be reached in any place, by .Him who com mands both the rain and thupder.— Dr. (Vkh ern. An Invitation to Dinner. It was observed that a certain covetous rich man never invited one to dine,with him. “I’ll lay a wager,” said a wag,’. “ I get an invita tion from him.” The wager, being accepted, he goes the next day to the rich man’s house, about the time he was to dine, and tell the ser vant he must speak with his njastcr immediate ly, for he can save him a thousand pounds. “Sir,” said the servant to Bis master, “here is a man in a great hurry tp -speak With you, ho says he can save you a thousand pounds.” Out came the master, " ’" i . “ What is that, sir, you sap ; ine a thousand pounds?” : " “ Yes, sir, I can; but I see, you are at din ner ; I myself and cair#gain.” » o, pray, sir, come in and takc dinner with me.” ' “ I shall bo troublesome.” “Not at all.” The invitation was accepted. As soon as dinner was over, and the family, retired. —• “ Well, sir,” said the man of the house, “ now to your business. Prfty let me know how I am to save a thousand pounds.” “ Why, sir.” said the other, “I hear, sir, you have a daughter to dispose of in marriage.” “Ihave,sir.” ' ; • And that you intend to portion her with ten thousand pounds. “ I do, sir.” “.Why then, sir, let me have her, and I will take her with nine thousand.” The master of the house arose in. a passion, and kicked him out of doors. B -j~ A printer not long since, having been • flung’ by his sweetheart, went to the office to Commit suicide with the ‘shooting stickthe thing wouldn’t go off. The ‘devil,’ wishing to paojfy him told him to peep into the sanctum, where the editor was writing duns to delinquent" subscribers. He did so, and the effect was magical. He says that picture of despair reconciled him to his fate. ■ C - The other day, while over in Jersey, a tall, long-legged, big, flat-footed, six foot Ver monter came ftp to us with a .tush, holding in his hand a pillow case well fi|led undoubtedly with ‘ home affairs and fixings,'and also gnaw ing away on a largo cako of gingerbread. ‘Can you tell mo, sir, what time the cars come in ?” ‘ Tho cars, sir V- ‘Yea sir.’ ‘ Tho cars, sir, come in after the locomotive.’; Down went tho pillow case—oft went his coat, and—away we scampered'. ■ J Id ■ IB I AA.- £ F /A /A AAj J%|P- 4r ♦ King Solomon’s Blacksmith. And it camo to pass when Solomon, the son of David, had finished the temple of Jerusa lem, that he called unto him the chief archi tects, the head artificers and cunning workers in silver and gold and in wood and in ivory and stone—yea, all who aided in working on the temple of the Lord, and lie said unto them : "Sit you down at my table; I have prepared, a feast f -for all my chief workers and artificers. Stretch forth your hands, therefore, cat, drink, and be merry. Is not the laborer worthy of his hire ? Is not the skilful artificer .deserving of hondr? Muzzle not the ox that treadelhout the corn." And when Solomon and the chief workmen were Seated, and the fatness of (he land and the oil thereof were set upon the table, there came one who knocked loudly at the door, and forced himself even ■ unto the festal chamber. Then Solomon was wroth and said, "What manner of man art thou ?” And the man answered and said:—"When men wish to honor me they call/Ac Son of the Forge; but when they desire to ttiock mo they call inn blacksmith; and the toil of working covers me with sweat and smut, the latter name, 0 King, is not inapt, and in truth thy servant desires no better." : "But, said Solomon, "why came yon thus rudely and unbidden to the feast, where none save the chief workmen of the temple are invi ted?” “Please ye, my lord, I came rudely,” replied the man, "because thy servant obliged me to force my way; but I came not unbidden. Was it not'proclaimed that the chief workmen of the temple were to dine with the king of Israel ?” Then he who carved the cherubim said,“this fellow is no sculptor.” And hb who inlaid the roof with pure gold, said, "Neither is be a workman in the line metals.” . And he who raised the walls, said, "He is not a cutter of stone.” And ho who made the roof cried out, "Ho is not cunning in cedar wood; neither knoweth he the mystery of uniting pieces of strange tim ber together,!’ Then said Solomon; "What hast thou to say, Son.of the Forgo,.why I should not order thco to be plucked by . the board with a scourge, and stoned to death with stones ?” When the Son of the Forge heard this ho was in no way dismayed; but, advancing to the table, snatched up and swallpwed a cup of wine, and said: ■ ••O', King, live forever! The chief men of tho workers in wood and gold and stone, have said that I am not of them, and they have said truly. I am' their superior, before they lived was I created. T am their master, and they are all my servants.” And he turned him around and said to the chief of the carvers of stone: , , . “Who made the tools with which you always carve ?” And he said“ The Blacksmith.” And ho said to the chief 'of the Workers in wood: -—“Who-mndothe tools with-which you-hewed the trees of Lebanon, and formed them into pillars and roof for the temple ?”. And he said ; “The-Blacksmith.” , .Then he said to the artificer in gold and ivory: - ■ “Who makes your instruments by which you work beautiful things for my Lord the King?” ' And he said; “The Blacksmith.” “Enough, enough, my good fellow,” said Solomon; “Thou hast proved that I invited, thee, and thou art ail men's father in art.. Go wash the smut of the forge from thy face, and come" and sit at my right hand. The chiefs of ray woikmen are hut men—thou art more.” So it happened at the feast of Solomon, and blacksmiths have been honored ever Since. Loudon Magazine. ■ Vesuvius—An Eruption in PnoseacT Tho National Intelligencer makes an extract Irom a letter addressed by Hon. Joseph R. Chandler, Minister Resident of the United States at the Court of Naples, to Professor Henry, of tho Smithsonian Institution, in which Mr. Chandler furnishes a brief account of the circumstances current at Naples at the date of his letter, De cember 16th, relative to an expected eruption of Mount Vesuvius. He says : “At tho present moment tho people of this city are in groat excitement at tho Indications of a dangerous eruption from Mount Vesuvius. [ For, a long time great masses of lava have been issuing from apertures on the side of tho moun tain, about half-way up; and these apertures have boon augmenting in number and size so rapidly that not only is there apprehension of an eruption, but serious fears are expressed that the sides of tho mountain will soon bo so worn and perforated as to bo no longer able to sus tain the superior portion, and people are leav ing the vicinity and coming into the pity pro. per. “Last night the mountain was truly grand. Tho hundreds of great tires on tho sides (red hot lava) wore terribly brilliant, while tho vast volume of smoko that rose slowly from the cra ter above had its side illuminated by the fire on the flanks, and presented an appearance of in. doscribablo grandeur. I, of course, am unable to say whether these fears are well foundedibut they are entertained by men of science and ex. porionco here.-—Tev-(lay tho people of the city are commemorating the first anniversary of tho awflii earthquake of 1857, and they aro all going to church.” "Wornim. Some poetically inclined individual delivers himself of tho following: “A pretty woman is one of the institutions of the country, an angel of glory. She makes the sunshine, blue sky, 4th of July, and happiness, wherever she goes. Her path is one of deli cious roses, perfume and beauty. She is a_ sweet poem, written in rare curls, choice calico and principles. Men stand up before her as so many admiration points, to melt into cream and butter; Her words float around the ear like music birds o( paradise, or the chimes of Sab bath bells. Without her, society would close its trust attraction, the church its fittest reli ance, and young men tho very bust of comforts and 1 company, if Her influence is generally to restrain the vicious, strengthen the weak, raise the lowly flannel, shirt the heathen, and encou rage tho faint-hearted. Wherever you find tho virtuous woman, you always And pleasant fire sides, bouquets, clean clothes, order, good liv ing, gentle boarts, piety, music, light and model institutions generally. She is tho flower of hu manity, a very Venus in dimity, and her inspi ration is tho breath of heaven.” \CTA Poor drunken wretch went to hear a Univcrsalist preach. The preacher argued that no matter how degraded or abandoned a man might be, he still would be saved. Tho drun kard became much interested iu a doctrine which left him room for hope; unfortunately, however, in the midst of tho argument, the speaker’s mind became clouded and confused, and he commenced blundering and staggering as though about to break down. The drun kard seeing this, arose, and supporting him self against the wall, cried out, ‘ put her thro’, bub, or I’m a goner!’ AT 52.00 PEK ANNUM Wlint they won’t own to. A willy writer says ‘There are several tilings which you never can by any accident 1 , get a lady—be she young or old—to confess to.’ Here aro some of them. • That she laces tight. 2, That her shoes are too small for her. That-she is tired at a ball. —That she paints. That she is as old as she looks. . That she has been more than five minutes dressing. That she lias kept yon waiting. That she pliisbcd on hearing a certain per son’s name mentioned. That she ever says a thing shedosen’t mean. That she is fond of scandal. That she Cannot keep a secrect. That she dosenl want a new bonnet. That she does Pot know everything. , That she can do with one single thing less when she is about to travel. That she has not the disposition of an angel, or the temper of a saint, or. how else could. she go through one-half of what she does ? That she doent know better than any one else what is best for her. That she is a flirt or coquette. That she is ever in the wrong. Constamt Employment.— The man who is oblgod (o bo constantly employed to earn the necessaries of life and support his family, knows not the unhappiness ho prays fer when be de sires wealth and idleness. To be constantly busy is to bo always happy. Persons who have suddenly acquired wealth, broken up their , ac tive pursuits, and begun to live at ease, waste away, nnd dio in a very short lime. Thousands would have been blessings to the world, and added to thp common stock of happiness, if they bad been content to live in an humble sphere, and earned Every mouthful of food that nourished their bodies. . Persons who are al ways busy,'and go .cheerfully to their .daily tasks, are the. least disturbed by theilnctnnlions of business, and at night sleep with perfect com posure. ■ (/_/' Some chap, not yet more than half thro’ with that delightful period known as the honey moon, lets off the following ill-natured dig at that highly respectable portion of our citizens, old bachelors: “A bachelor is a fellow who cuts himself off from a blessing for fear of a trifling annoyance, lie rivals the.pnseacre who secured himself against corns by having his legs amputated. In his selfish anxiety to live unencumbered, he only subjects himself to a heavier burthen, for the passions, that apportion to every individual the load he is to bear through life, generally say to the calculating bachelor, “As you are a single man, you carry double.’’ O”We copy the following death notice front the Lutheran Observer-: “On the 30lh ult., in Perrysville, Juniata county, Howard Alexander, son of Philip and Catharine Isehberg. in.liis Bth year. Howard, the deceased, for more than a week before his death, although in hsiiaV b'enlth, told his pa rents after Christmas he was going to die and be with his Saviour, and on the previous Sab-, bath, refused to take a Sabbath School book,: told his teacher it was bis last Sabbath, and bade many of the scholars farewell. Oh Thurs day' he took sick with malignant croup, and on Friday died. 0“ Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through overpopula tion. the most frightful of curses. To death We owe our life; the passing of one generation clears the way for another; and thus in econo my of Providence, the very extinction of being in a provision for extending the boon of exis tence.. Even wars and disease are a good mis understood. Without them; child-murder would be as common in Christendom as it is in over populated China. O* An eccentric, wealthy gentleman stuck up a board in a field upon his estate, on which was painted the following : ‘T will give tin's field to any man who is contented.” lie soon had an applicant. ‘Well, sir, are you a contented man?’ ‘Yes, sir, very. ” . ‘Then what do you want with my field?’ The applicant did not reply. A Rates.- —A country editor announces in the following terms, that he has suspended spe cie payment:— “K any wants to see stars, and appreciate one of the uses to which brickbats may be per verted, let him approach bur vicinity with an account. “P. S.—Wo keep a pile of bricks in our sanctum, and carry one in our hat.” O”An honest Dutchman, training up his son in the way he should go, frequently exer cised him in the Bible lessons. On one of these occasions he asked him : “Whovosdat vould hot shleep mit Bottl var’s vife ?” • “ Shoseph.” “ Dat is a coot boy. Dell vat vos dc reason ic would not shleep mit her ?” ‘‘Don’t know—shposo he vasn’t shleepy !’ Air lix-Timed Prayer. —East summer at Hull, a messenger having requested a London clergyman to announce if Dr. was among the audience, he was urgently wanted, the cler gyman added from sympathy, and may God have mercy on the patient ! ; The doctor in a rage, demanded and received an humble apology. ’ ■ Pipes and Ciraus.— Owing to the inferior quality of cigars now thrown in the market, many old smokers have been driven to the hse of the pipe, •• the quality o( Turkish and other fancy tobacco being better than that of which most cigars are made, and pipe-smoking being less than one-tenth as expensive as cigar smo king." E7’ A young Irish girl, who was given testi mony against an individual in a court of law said, ‘ I am sure he never made his mother smile.’ Them is a world of biography of un kindness in that sentence. O* Why is a young lady preparatory to dressing in her crinoline, like a flour barrel? Because the hoops will have to be raised before the head will go in. 0“ A temperance man cried out to the keeper of a rum shop on seeing a drunken man’s heels fly, up before the door, “Mister, your sign has (alien down !” (£7” An Irish lady, in her will, ordered her body to bo opened after her death, as she was afraid of being buried alive. ■ Women have more power in their looks than nien hare in their laws; and more power in their, tears, than men have in their judg ments. O’- Wisdom is bolter without an inhere lance, than inheritance without wisdom. “ tlow do you do this morning, Mrs, Semi* turn.’’ •‘.Ob, dear, Lord knotval’m feeble enough.— ; I don't see many well moments in the course of a year. It's nothing but ache with ino froth morning till night. I’m all run down. Idont have any kind of an appetite. All kinds of vic tuals look the Same to trie. I haven’t put'so much as a spoonful ol any kind of food in to my mouth to.dny. My stomach wont Bland it, I don’t know what will become of me. I don’t seem to have any strength.' I can hardly wallt;. about the house. I stagger every day when 1 try to do my work. Some pcOplc wouldn’t think they'.could sit up or keep oil from their, beds a single moment of their lives, if they felt ns I do. But somehow or other, X manage W keep about when nobody else would. But t can’t stand it always. I shall drop into my grave from this kitchen floor, arid then some body else will have to do the work." ■ “’But, Mrs, Scrantum, I shouldn’t think your work need to be very hard, with only your husband, little Charlie and yourself, to 1 cook and do for.” NO. 37. “ 0. you don’t undersfand anything about it, child. It’s the care, more : than any thing else: though, snkes alive, (here’s enough to do’ always, I liadn t ought to have anything else to' trouble me, when I’m so feeble. My nervous system is all broken to pieces. The least thing sets mo nil in n tremble, I’d give anything in. the world if I was only as strong, as most of folks. But its no use. My constitution is all broken down. I ain't whatT used to be once. My lungs trouble me greatly of late. Its hard work for me to speak at all.. Haven’t you no ticed that my voice was weak ?" “No ma'am." . . “ Well, that’s strange. My voice ain’t much’ what it used to be.. My,left [ting is in a terri ble condition. I told Mr. Scranlura this mor ning, that I could’nt stand it in this way much’ longer; but he don’t seem to notice much about me. Is’poseits because . I’ve been feeble so' long. I dont think,he means to be unkind to me, but I toll you what it is, it seems hard; sometimes, when I feel so dreadfully that ho' don’t realize more about it. He didn’t think,' I'm sure, what a terrible state my nervous sys tem is in.’’ “ Why don’t you have a doctor, Mrs. Scrim turn?” ■ ■' “6, a Doctor, dear; why I can’t afford to have one all the time, it cost's too much. And then, besides, I don't think anything can cure me. I'm most done with this world. I told ■Mr. Scrantum, this morning, that I should not be surprised if I did not live three weeks. ■ “Indeed!” “0. yes, I’m all run down. I've had the neuralgia shocking of late, in niy head, face and neck. I’ve been almost crazy with it.- Gut then, I seldom complain. It does rip soft of good. The only way, in the world is to bettf it, I tell Mr. Scrantum. - I think, sometimes. if I could only go out in the open air like other folks, I might feel better. - But 1 have the rheu matism so awful in my limbs that I can't walk with any kind of comfort. I have to content myself with looking out, though it seems a lit tle hard sometimes.” - * . “ Whydon’t you ride out Mrs. Scrantum ? ' “ 0, it costs so much to hire a carriage, that' Ldon’t dare speak of it. And then, Mr. Scran tum never thinks ol any Such thing. lie don’t consider how feeble t 'am, and thinks that I never grow tired of, staying in thohouse;-- I think it hard work (o sit all the time since I. have had the spinal difficulty. My spine is in. a wretched condition.. I have the back ache so badly that I can’t get any rest day or night. I think, .sometimes, if I could only sleep ns soundly ris Mr. §crantum does, I should bo happy. But it’s no use. I can’t Pest, and so I lay and toss about my bed till morning,— And then I have (ho toothache, though I dont know what makes mo, and the teeth-acho brings on the head-ache, and so there it is there don’t seem lo be much rest for me cither ono Way or another, lahould. think you ought, td read. a'-great deal.’ ‘ . . ; ,‘Rcad! Why, bless you, no! I cannot read any since I have had such an inflamatioh of the eyes. I was almost blind last summer for three months, and since that time I have been pretty careful. ■' I tell Mr.-Scran turn, if I .could Only have the use ofmyeyes ns I used to, I would not mind so much about my other dif ficulties. •Then you hire your.own sewing done, I suppose.’ ■O, no!— I do my own sewing, though it’s pretty hard work since I had the erysipelas in my right hand., It hasn’t been as it used to be since then, and sometimes I think it never will I’m all run down, you sec. • It seems as though I wasn’t worth anything to anybody. Are you going?' - : ’ ‘Yes, I cannot stay any longer. I have but a moment’s leisure.'. ‘Well. I aint much company for anybody since I’m so fycble. I seldom speak of my feel ings to any one, but I do assure you, that 1 am all run down.' ‘ I regret it exceedingly.’ ‘You are very kind ; but its no use, I am aln^ra through, Good;morning.’ [With a .•nuTpSwi a sigh.] ■ "i' ‘ ‘ Good morning, Mrs. Scrantum.’ He Didn’t Reap the Fapeiis. —ln the trial of the Doyan brothers recently in Michigan for murder, milch difficulty was experienced in ob taining a jury free from prejudice. At lust, af ter a large number had been rejected, a man from the back part of the country was called, who in response to tho questions propounded, said that he did not (ako or lead a paper, and had never hoard o( the murder. This was too strong a case, and Mr. Terry one of tho counsel for prosecution said:—“ We object to your sit ting on tho jury in this case; a man that don’t take a paper, and never heard of this brutal murder, don’t know enough to bo a juryman f Wo don’t want you !” Love and Poetry.— Young ladies shouldn’t write poetical love letters. It is dangerous.— Such a one was written to a Kentucky beau, not long since, which so affected him that ho stole a horse to go and see the writer. and got into jail to pay for getting in love with a poet ess. Here is the verso that d|‘l damage Mary Johnson is my name. And single is my station ; And happy wtyl be the little man. Who make's the alteration. 1A young man named Merritt Todd, who lived with his father in the township of Tilch field, Conn., a short time since, killed'his fathi cr, because he in some manner crossed his will. On being arrested, the unnatural son said ho bought thq, dirk he. killed his father with, a week before, for that express purpose. OCT” A gang of scoundrels broke into a now Methodist church in Birmingham, Pa., a few evenings ago, cut up the carpets and the pulpit Bible, damaged the pulpit, and otherwise did what injury they could to the premises. O’" “ Pompey. what am it dat goes when de wagon goes, stops when de wagon stops, it am no use to do wagon, and yet de wagon can’t go without it?”' “I, gubs dat up, Clem.”— “ Why, de noise, oh course.” “ Why does father call mother honey ?” asked a boy of his older brother, “ Can’t tell, ’cept its because she has a largo comb in her head. , . ' ' [CT - The trial of John Wiseman, for the mur der of John T. Farlow. a bov, is now progress ing at Towsonlown, Md. The accused is pot yet 10 years of age. ’ says, of an editor who said he ".smelt a rat.” that if he did, and the rat smelt him, the poor rat had the worslof it. II misfortune comes into your house, bo patient and smilo pleasantly, and it will soon stalk out again, for it can’t bear cheerful com pany. O' “ You are 100 hard on met’.’ as the cora said to the light boot. j Mrs. Scranton's fteallb.
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