tU ! «4i| aulf; i «at ■gunny and golden,... .< ; - ; its of the days ogonc, . hy hoarMiko the flashing" ir&idfi the coming dawn; Jbqlorod and true-hearted, . addohod the days of yore, '' ”‘tig through Memory's portals ig bosulo mo once'more. ; root aro the cohoes ly heart doth dwell— - ; |lko the chimes .of the silv’ry V'for-offboll ,v 1 ‘upland tender, ,' '' listening >d ofmy childhood-g -riper years. . ; ' V, ilpVbi 'my. j tN% ji£* .:p|m te ' ti ■j l . . ■*«»• W" " fifi mylWvfJpiii '''&s&’ |p-' : »U(Ttho -absprit /* soijje iu heavoo; .|s£oljjid cjy.fireside . ; , ~• / ■tfeyon, inis fcbb rose-leaf—r te sunsot aky*-~ •-; «»wen«aottt, r --great and small, on his breast, ■^^ ' . ' [,-. knelt in toars —Wp Ah ! Toml ; .'oMnot go I . .• . >■ ; : >V.' •Iho;kindiyiapgel oojno, 1 •. simple grave, did ■ -'i- ~ —: —rr~* Vo,;': mV ■ the celebrated Connelly, which Wo ~, even though it !ft t,)O kU'rig, 4. K Will Servo ns an introduction '9/PWIW. to. the .suit are both citizens, residing in Alle 'ly. tho defendant, is a' b;p- We. plaintiff, follows the Mr. Connolly had- pur noh had strayed away, ver/il niohths, ■ Driv igh.town.'nearM’lm as h£ supposed)' his 'en home. Soon af cow, and learning otho aninial.bohad saeh examined the '°ry critically, and 'ood than ever that: 'Morrison .wasiap-' T O' number of ro ar sides,' the " Case rfix. . The-plaintiff .t the cow. from a > had raised her, and iff his farm'till sold or hand, Connolly led the muloy from, /which individual •ovefj The Mayor ond it was referred -Messrs. Stephen (.imd Col.Blnok tp be well versed •ties their , e appeared before ,r witnesses,.each : pase.,,Mr e 58timo.ny.;. 'Suffice, and 'op 3 -, 'There- was ) waver,* * ■ the cow* ved to be young, reen much older. )r appeared#* il, EBq,; for dofHi the counsel pre dicted the strong r oll j as. the \vealc )apted. at’ length tostirnony, m might hd 16 laws of nature ’ight sun shone '■, - V- ■■‘ ‘' ” VOLUJV.TEEII. TinjnsDAV iionsixo nr ’ABRJcTTOWi' -v . kit;its v ..' ■3)ollar and . Fifty Gcnts> paid, lari if paid within the year; ' w ifty-Conts, if.nofc paid within 1 ill borigidly adhered to in; oripiion. discontinued until, iloss at tho bption-of-the 1 companicd bytho cash, and Ure, will boinscrtod' throb cl - twonty-fivd bents cacfa. ioso, of a greater,length in bfiairrthd-billg/Poatlng-bnis, ibcle; of tho carth-lifo,. ag shadows entwino, ash of twilight diest shrine. , id.and bolj, liill iicver die. ANNJII.” >■ Tom! Hannah Vsako, arty I kuowi... Sr tkoro, r ■ ’ . i'. ••'V' i u>j '■ *‘ ' .escorting bpmo thp lovely Charlotte I was,'at'tlio, time; quite ■'. dovoted; wo got into one of the crowded Ave nue cars. Charlotte could scarcely find room . p° ; spread her crinolino apd arrange\ her toIu • p\P 9US floimces; I stood up near her, there .; being no vacant seat.,.. After a few minutescame in a poor ■woman who disposed a basket of clothes on tho .plat '■ *°ffi. an . , er arras a small child while ' a little girl hung to her dress. She looked . tirodjand weary, but there was novaeant scat p-tqJje.fiure.Charlotte might have condensed . ; her pounces, but she did not. , , - Beside her, however, sat a very.elegant and lovely young woman, who seemed tryinc hv moving down closer to others, to make room between.herself aud Miss D.- At last she silo needed and with the -sweetest blush I over saw, she invited the poor burdened female to bo seated. Charlotte tt , drew her dra pery around her, and blushed too, but it .was , not a pretty blush at all, ; and she looked an noyed at the proximity of the newcomer, who ly ? eiad W ° VOr ’ ° lean ahdlhjcently, though thln- The unknown ladydrew the Jittle girl upon ■her lap and wrapped the velvet mantle mound the small, half clad form, and put her muff over the half-frozen little blue hands. i ho great was the crowd that I alone’ seamed to observe.■ The child shivered—the kdOii wind,from the door blew uppmher unprotec ted neck. I saw the young lady quietly take : ’which she softly put bn the shoulders of the little one, the mother lookinir on with confused wonder. After a short time she rose to leave the car, and would have re moyed the .shawl, but the unknown 1 gently whispered) ‘-No, kcep.it on, keep it for her.’’ d i ld i ,? oI V Anwor, the conductor a-u d hor.out, but hor ayes swam in tears, which no one saw but me, J noticed her as she descended to a basement and.X hastily marked the house. J _ Seep after my unknown also rose to depart J was in .-despair, for. I. wanted to follow and discover her residence but could not leave Miss D.— ~ ,l ' 0 , sl ; 0r ! :on *>>6 story as much as possible, that ia now my wife. In the small inci dent which in troduced her to me, she showed her real character. A few days after our mar riage I showed .her the blessed crimson shawl, which I had redeemed from its owner and shall always keep as a memento. There are some, titaes_ pleasant things to he found in unpleas ant places—certainly I may be said to have picked put my wife in theicars." -V abo-bbrn/' ere here';' uureod us all igiug year I tbo fire, • blag low # riatmas times, rdcu wall, ils side—-* tplr eyes'! thorn both. ;aveB behind ■t, I know. n^,i C V^' mop 'l c waa at one so;i son 80 much •IwZtZ!’' cr ra s ßr ‘the Hotels in its immediate j'.,. y wore, that the farm houses worn idled One of tha,worthy farmers,re- * '! g ‘hcre waa especially worried: almost to if- 8 ' Tho / fault with, fit to car^ 11 ' 8 thlng ’' vea to d - Wd that wasn’t “Darn it,” said old Isaac, oho day-Owhat'a are making. - X can eat ” boarder/ 0 * 1 -° at CrOW? ” said one of bis young ' “Yes, I kin oat crow.” ■ ”®°t you a-hnt,” said his guosti ' -The bdt.was made, a crow was caught, ah’d I nicely;Toasted; but, before serving, up, they contrived ,tp season-it with a good dose of pootch snuff. , ; Isaac sat down tothocrow. Hetookagobd ■ „ a ?".:began to chow away. ;. ; eator °w,” Another bite fs vmil ‘ J faC6l ;“ Yos - 1 kit — eat orow- Ur*™ of nausea)—l kin-—eat—crow; but 1 11 bo darned I hanker after it I", ... | Qowj Vinkoar.—As country ,rr-r°/ ers , aro frequently at alossforgdol to h(Vprcnl| ' yO T5- m y reoi P e > which I know ono c a E ‘ eht q«wts of rain water, ■Benn? of. molasses, and one, pint of fresh d\i ln • our weo ka 't will be equal to the pi ? okle? r V,nofiar -' 1 USO no otho " kind f° r -•- : - i..fi' ‘;,i in the heavens, it' would lie safe to swear that it .was day. ; Or,,when footprintswereseenin the otherwise undisturbed, show, you .could give your unerring testimony to' the fact that a, human, being had passed .there. Such tes timony needed ,np) corroboration. Now) the case under pohsideration, is he would clearly demonstrate, must tiirh upon the question of age.,,,. It,was,in.evidence .that the.eow claimed by his client,.Mr) Connolly, was at least' ten or twelve years old;, while the plaintiff’s cow was maHy years .younger. [Mere the arbi trators began to open their eyes, and our clev er fi-tend, Large, was all attention, for fear of bemg ovonvhelmed.l “Now; gcntlemoh," con tinued 'Mr. IVlutosell, still growing more bold and confident,, “I will rest this whole case upon the question, of dye ,alone. As I have al ready said— nature will not,lie. , You all know' that,. Now, my point is hero... The plaintiff’s 1 cowus admitted to be young—a more heifer, yeetlemen, the cow in dispntelfos not a single tooth intJic upper jaw 1\ They are all deeay-i od; and you .know,very well, gentlemen, that cows do not lose,their upper- teeth until they are ton or eleven years old!' . : ' j-f ffhp arbitrators and.the opposing counsel. 1 ()°kod au l azccl at this announcement. : The plaintiff’s cash seemed hopeless—but the Ar bitrators were shrewd', enough not to take £'< word for gospel,, and . they (Mr. | Wnitesoll and Mr, Large consenting) all went out to examine the cow’s teeth. The poor unconßoious pf.the--important results' Which bung upon her, upper jaw, submitted gracefully to_ftn inspection, although she did ; not relish being disturbed in her rumination. Imagine her mouth wide open, and the three, Arbitrators,- counsel aiul witnesses, nil peering in as if,,to ascertain what the animal had ea» ten for her last meal 1] “It’s so,” exclaims Stove, tTt’s so," responds the Captain, . - “White'sell's right this-time,?’adds Bhtcli stook. • ■ Our Large friend felt so']mdly taken down ,that ho had noticing to say. -Facts wore stub-' . horn things. , . ; 1 • At this important juncture, when . the . case was jnaeed likely to turn upon the “question an old farmer, who had been attract et. - crowd, stepped forward and asked .what was wrong with the co'w. A bystander enlightened him in regard td/the niatfer, and bursting with laughter,' he oxchunied: “Good heavens, men, did you ever see,or ever hoar of a cow that had any teeth, in her U ,PP® 1 * J aw \lf youdid/Fd like to sCe her, 1 ' ; Ihe.Arbitrators, the. couhscl and’the wit nesses loft tlia, ipuloy insiantej\ conscious of having been. badly sold, .’and.’, feeling .-that,! 1 sharp as they were, an bid fiirmcr'could yet .teach them somo very important facts.' e . Mr* Large hiul now no difficulty in answer mg the .difficult point made /by his. opponent, and the Arbitrators awarded the cow to the, plaintiff, ' ;■ ■ , ■ ; It is said'that the counsel and tho Arbitra- have quit using milk altogether, but wo! tmnk they have only horn 5• ' ■••••••• KertV idttv Can yon Bat Crow? The Captured Africans at Key West. ' The iKey Jjjte Gylf Says :—The buildings erected on.Whitohead Point for the accommo dation of the negroes brought in by the Mo-‘ hawk and Wyandotte, give to that part of the island quite a town like appearance. The de ppt is-215 feet long .by 44, divided into, nine large rooms, sodhiit tlie s’ejbs are serin/-, rated, as well'as children, from those of larger growth: ■ In;thdso ed rooms,.they, eat arid sleep, and;during: tho. heat of .the day rqpose ,from,'avlyertical.,sun.., ,lhey are fed in squads of ten, seated around a largo bucket, filled with Hce and nie'at, each' one armed with a spoon to feed tvith.i 'Thirty gallon ,tubs. starid.riri the-centre of each room, and_ they are. permitted to help themselves., freely to water. This from the well. ‘ .’j ;The hospital is 107 feet long by 25 wide— and contains at thedresbnttime 180 patiehts. i Ihere are afflicted, with Gptholmia,.some sixty : r—many totally blind—with Dysenteric, Drop sical and Rheumatic afflictions, {is "well as dis>; cased.lungs. Some twenty-three" have, died, principally from those so attenuated arid worn out, that it was a marvel: they, lived as long' dl(1 -.: The Opthalmia cases of the ( o;*«'nw3, are numerous; but those in,which tlio eye is whole, are improving under the am tive treatment which their case demands, iho number of Africans originally taken on hoaid-tlia Williams at tho. Congo rivoiv is nously stated.- The American Captain says ■there were only bix .hundred arid sixtylmr received, while other, arid perhaps more cor rect accounts, state, the number to have been seven hundred and fifty, , Ifithis.bo true, the, mortality among them has. been very .great, tor there wore butYivo hundred and forty-six Africans on hoard when captured, thus leav mg two-hundredandfour to be accounted for; lo this latter number inust bo added; thesis found dead on board, (said to have bcon kilted by tho crew in preserving silence and provont ing detection before boarded,by captors,) and tha thirty-threo who died on the passage to this port—making a, total-of,-two hundred and' forty-three deaths f . Iffleritahs in Japiin---Dnfi)rtnnate Incident, t -A- n -incident in. Japan, which, r iiough trivial in. itself, may be productive of serious consequences. It seems that a mer chant'by the name of Sihith, doing business in Hakedadi, detected? a- party of* nativos ip the act of robbing.his house. . Mr* , Smith was. armed with a revolver of the. most improved pattern, and instantly opened a'fire upon the! party, -wounding one of them mortally. Mr. Smith was arrested and tried before the Amer ican; Consul,' the trial resulting in his acquit tal and a. verdict df justifiabhs homicide;--But it 03 .said; that the natives are not at all pleased ■? the proceedings. In the tiiis summary method oi punishing theft does not at at all coincide With the Ori ental, notions ofjusticd.; ‘-To their crude think ing- life is of more -value than in. few tape and calico. Nor do. Ihoy.think coflsul wasjjistifipd in disposing’ of the base; qmtd soAffhahTdMly'jftl^-seeih^in cljnedtoclmmarepresentation-of-thoiiativo judiciaries in an aflair pf this kind; .v'h:- 14 is neatly > .he regretted ; that iuoli! an occurrence has taken place. At the vorymo mont of the-ratification .of a treaty,' and .the interchange, of courtesies between the Ameri can Government and a people -who.have so long held themselves, aloof from interchurse with_ other nations,, that Mr. Smith should step in, with pistol in hand, and imperil the friendly relations, is a little provoking.. It was hardly time for the introduction of our n'ation lonal .weapon, or the establishment of . the somewhat summary-code of Western-justice. It would undoubtedly have been, bad for .'Mr. Smith to lose his goods—hut it will be still', worse if the treaty box is blown to atoms by this premature discharge of-'one of Colt's in ventions.- ' , : , ' !.1 A .Delightful legend* .; i .Thera ia a charming tradition connected with the site on which the Temple of Solomon jv r as erected. It is said to have been occupied in common by two brothers one of whom had a family; the other,nope. On this spot was sown a field of wheat. On the evening suc ceeding the haryest, tho wheat having been gathered iu separate shocks, the elder brother said to his wife, VMy yoUngor brother is un? able to bear, the bjtirderi and boat of the day ; JL wul arise, bike offmy shocks and place with mg,, without his knowledge.” The younger brother, being actuated by the same lent motives, said, within himself, “My broth or has a family, and J have none; I will con? tribute to their support; J will arise, takeoff iriy shocks, and place with hiis, without‘his knowledge. Judge of their mutual astonish ment "when. om fho following morning, they ' nri?* n ■ tllo i r respective: shocks undiminished. ; Xhis course of events transpired for several 1 'nights, when each resolved in his own mind < to stand guard and solve the mystery. They dufso; when on the following night thoymot each other half way between the shocks, with their arnm full, Upon ground hallowed with ®ueh associations as this was tho temple of Solomon erected—so spacious and magnilif cent, the wonder and admiration of the world. Alas I in these days, how mgnywould sooner steal thbir neighbor's whole stock rather than ftdd tp it ft single sheaf! • ■ . [ One of the famous in sonption— ‘ l Mari/ f the Mother q f Washinaion" -upon tha -tombstone of that immortal wo man,has always been admired for. its tcuoh . Jhg simplicity and. grand significance. I think J can furnish you with an instance of qittpli s father, an un pretending but worthy - citizen, died a few' years sipge,, when this nopoful son caused-to be erected oyer his remains, -whore’it still : Stands, a stone with this iiiseription; ; • .iN. iiEuonv; op , ABEL .3 OHJfSON, PATHBE OF OEOBGE P. JOHXSON, ESQ, ; I 4 yiwAßi,E iiod.-Trßocently the adminis : tramps of oho Elisha Harris, deceased, late a resident of Luzerne: county, Pa;,: offered his effects at public sale, among them an Uncouth block of wood, supposed to be part of a cheese press, and which was purohased for 15 cents, by onoiDavid M. Hatmachof,. . On,the;morn ing succeeding the., sale, the purchaser, in a sjpirit'of inquiry‘‘bharaoteristio'of the age we Jivo in," split the block open, when' he , dis covered a. qiifeer secret door; opoijcd by the pressure of a long rod, and containing; bonds; notes and other matters, besides about $2 000 in silver coin;' To test the right of ownership in the treasure, an amicable euit for itsrebov ery was instituted in the Common Pleas of Luzerne county, resulting,in : a verdict for the ‘ executors for §1)000.- QRUSLE, M.. inCBSIIAr, IKSE il, ISCO. ' ' : ■ From tpi Nm York. Leader. Anecdotes of lifltike Woleh, On Mike BTalsh amvmgat Washington to take,his seat in Congress, he registered, his name Ut thehbtel/wbett the book-keener bland ly inquired for his baggage. ! /‘ I stand in the ;nudst of ; it,,Bir/i.said JSlike, , Ho was no her lioTor:in.much baggage. , ..Ryem a carpet bag tor the most distant Journey he considered’as derogatory to n true'philosopher,- Who ought' not to .incumber himself'With niotd than ho‘ could do-up in a handkorohfcf.When toldof General Sir. Charles papier’s saying that “ a piece Of, soap, a tooth-brash .and a spare shirt w.as all an officer should start With oh a cam paign, "he said “ P’shaw I'when I Went down with tho-array ofoccupationin thegreat Rhode Island- revolution,; we werediglitor equipped' than that—we lOftou t thechango of linen, the tooth brushea aud t.ho soap.';' - 11 ■ ln CohgrOSs, the bbldhbss Wd originality of his views, when.he: chosOtSeriously to setthem,' forth, went, judges, as tar, towards impressing tEemas ever happens to an, orator in toassbmblyiSphsisiine of men whose opmionsHn the fcnjbfity/of cases are; pre-astabifshed, and • who speakvfiot with the'idea of persuading, ouch, or Ovbn.rml to each other, hiit to,.thov|t 1: • ■=. ££>•• ■ r . asked d Dutchmans court what cai; marks a pig had that was in fispute? “Well|hohas ho erir marks,-eiifejpl n jMy ■ sho.rt tail,'' 1 was the reply. •> ” : : r t l ’^’ nf}t. U. ■, (C?“ No dust effects tho eyes lifca a(IJ diifit and no glasses like brandy glasses, if’ : ' Thfire is a very curious case to. be tried at the next session of the Paris Tribunal. Tfie circumstances, which seem more like the fin ancial creation of, a novelist than real facts, are as follows: ; ; • ’ . Nearly thirty years ago a widow lady of a poblo and powerful Huguenot family.rcsiding ,m the South of Prance, placed her child with ja gnrdnor s wife, whb waste act: as a foster mother and;nurso to the iieir to the vast fam-' ily. estate. One day, as ; the young heir, was sportmg. before the, door, and the garnenor’s child was; lying on a bed in; the cottage, the nur , s .° beard the wheels of a carriage, and im mediately suspected-that, the mother of the young charge was doming to see her son.. In , r flu , rr y she snatched up the heir, but slip ping, let him fall upon a heap of stones, breaking his right arm'and collar bone/ In her terror she rushed to, her Husband, who .her to. stow -away the. screaming vie tim under the bed clothes, and taking his mr ments, h.e placed'them on'his Own child, and boldly stood at;the door 'to wait the lady’s Contrary to the usual casual glance given by per on.her previous visits, tho lady uiothor was so struck at the change in her narling, to the lean, brown,-bungry 7 l6oking 'haoe which sheheheld in the place of her own plump baby, that vexed and exasperated be jyond. measure,', she seized the child in her arms, and .bade. the postilion drive away. The gardener and his wife wore terribly frighten ed, but decided ■to •go the next day to the .chateau and'make an explanation'.' To their further:consternation,;they found,on. the next morning that'the;lady was gone, and -had tdn ken away the child/ .Years spedbb, ahd the, tamily did'-npt. return, while the ignorant cot tagers.'influencedl by. terror,-never dai-ed to stir in the matter;; until the gardneris wife on' herdeath-bed ropentlyj made - a full confcs sion ! In the meantime the cottager’s child'had passed his life as a member of one of the ho blest families of France, has .beeh.attaohcd to' an embassy, and now holds a desirable'official position,-while the real-heir has spent his jronth in discipline and privation as a soldier in Algeria. The latter now brings suit to recover his .property and title,, and-the trial promises one of the mostextraQrdinary pf modern times.,, Bprryer, now probably the mpst celebrated lawyer in'France, has been retained for the defence. ; ■ , The muscular strength of thdhuman body' is wonderful. A 'fiwkislr porter will "trot at a . rapid pace, and carry a weight of sixhun dred pounds. ..Milo, t tfjp celebrafpdathleticoif : yretonn, ig, Italy, accustomed hiijisolf to carry the greatest burdens,’ and by degrees .became a monster in strength',: It is saidithat he car ried on his shoulder an ox, four years old, and tveighing upwards:of one thousand! ; pounds j? d „ a \ to hillßd:bim blow of. : sKs” v i : He wgs seven, times .crowned,at the presented himself dim seventh time, but rid ??*’ bda_the courage; to enter the list"against him. . Ho was one of;tho disciplesfof Pytha goras,; and to his uncommon strength that preceptor and his, pupils owed their lives. I fhe pillar which supported the roof of the fb"f5 sud deiily gaveawayj'blit Milo-sndpOrt the roof of the building, and the phi losopher time to escape., In old age he at tempted to pull np a tree by the ! roots and break it. Ho partiolly effected it, biit his strength being gradually exhausted,' the tree cleft re-united, and left his hand pinqh (jd m the body of it. He was then alone, and unable to disengage himself, died in that po sition. , , ■ Haller mentions that lie saw a. man, whose fingers caught in a chain at the bottom of the mine, by keeping it forcibly bent, supported by that means,the whole weight of his body, due hundred and,fifty pounds, until.he was drawn up to the surface, a distance of six hun dred feet. Augustus 11, King of Poland, I could roll'tip a silver plate like a sheet of pa per, and twist,the strongest horse-shoe asun- lion is said, to have left the impression of his teeth upon a piece of solid iron. The most prodigious power of muscle is exhibited by the fish’. The whale moves with a' veloci ty, through a,dense medium, water, that would I flarry him round the world in less than afort night. A sword flsh'has been known to strike [ his weapon through the thick plank of a ship; q. specimen of such a plank, with the sword , ■sticking in it, may bo seen at the British nluseum. , ~ , . Hay Making, As the season for hay making is approach bug, we will give a few words of caution in .advance. Don’tdryyour hay too much. Hay “"ly he dried, till it is as worthless as.straw. ,As a good coffoe-maker would say, "Don’t burn f’ coffee; but brown it;" so'wd Say, don’t ry your hay, but cure it. Our good old mo there,; Who relied upon herb tea instead of k Apothecary medicine,” gathered their herbs : when in blossom, and cured them in the'shade. Tins is the philosophy of making good hay. Gut in the. blossom,' and cure in the shade.— , The sugar of the plant, when it is in bloom, is an the stock, ready to form the seeds. If the iplant is cut earlier, the sugar is not there; if ' 7, l^er ’ sugar has'Becdmd converted to woody rf jWSy snduld'be, weli'wllted' in the .sun, but Cured in-the cock. • Better to be a little too . kan too dry. ' If, on patting it into the 'hafhv tfeof'e.iadangetof/‘ heating in the mow.’’ lass '°n l|»» $ none the. :/ Heat, the starch nnd tho.goodnoss of hay,.out of it; ahd.with;ihV'addition-,df'a shoWer,...render' it"dliilqat WdrthleSsV. "Gras’s cured with the least' exposure to the drying winds ahd Benrohing.snhshmo,ds more' nutrH' turns than if longer exposed! however good the weather may be; If ever "cured, it contains mofo woody fiber and loss nutrilious jhSffor. : . The-true att of hay-making; tlieii; Consists m cutting the grass Wheu the starch and su gar arc most fully developed, and boforo they are converted'into Seed and woody fiber,; and curing it up to : tho point when it will answer, to put into the'Barn without heating, and noj more.—CVito Farmei jma ndii, fteho , j -A Husbajw-—’Hear'what Saxoj the poet, sq,ys of a model husband:-^. I I:«aw'o model a drbaoi. I 1 Whorq things, aro not exactly what they aconl; ' A moral man, to slcoptios bolt knoivn ; Tbo wife ho loved and cherished was—his own,; tA'fad for the lost—l saw thb husband Wait -With horse and dhaiso fire Minutes nf the gate, iVhjlo pat pi)hor things; nor speak onosour Or biltdr word; though waiting half an hour Jor dinnerp imdj like Pationoo on d throne; . Ifo,didn’t swear to fiqd a button gone. ■ ■ - ' ■ ' ", i.. ■'pfA ' ‘ r t • i ' editor ivWjngv'afertisod that ho' would.send his. paper gratis %Pma tfoar to tho pprson .who-yvopU qcjnd-hima of tern received a ten sp6t of clubs frbw'a'ybune ldd a m tho country. ARomanceforPlayriglits, Jlnseiitojr : Strength. A gentleman who imported fifty Sky Larks from England, four or five years ago, and lib- j orated them in the hopes of naturalizing them,; wishes information concerning them. r A cold ny was observed upon a farm near.Centerville, lor sorttal months, and doubtless others wont to Chester county,.. ,Minute details of these » lr ds, shCir nests: or. to there whereabouts, aro requested to bo fowarded to Wilmington Post Office, Delaware, Box No, 234. The birds is about the -siiie of the reed-bird of our marshes, or the cedar-bird, and iiot very unlike the.for mer in its plain plumage, exceptthat the breast Jsmoro spotted and less yellow, It never alights upon a tree, the foot being so formed ?? ?°.*i id allow it to clasp a branch, but will bo, best known: during; the. singing season—; April to August, inclusive—=by the manner of its song, difieront, as it does in this respect Irom all ourbirds, Itspringsfrom the ground, otten soon after daylight, commencing its song at once, and continuiug.it as itmounta spiral ly upwards, sometimes until quite out of sight, Where, having reached its height, it remains either poised, or moving slowly in a more con fiact circle, and only visible when in its turn ings the wing refieots the light, hut still sing, mg from five to fifteen minutes; when it com mences its downward movement, still appa rently following the: spiral lino by which it had ascended, and with little diminution in the gushing's of its melody, until .within, twenty to ono hundred feet of-the ground, when," with wings Closely clasped, it shobts,-froth some im pulse gatheredin this'whirling descent, ‘in a line often but little inclined from a perpendic* ular, though.sometimes when it comes’ Wbe tore commencing this movement, In a direc tion nearly horizontal and with the direct- seemingly'almost the colerity of a' bullet, until within-a-few feet of the;.ground/ when its ,motion is suddenly, arrested, and spreading its wings, it alights. . Peculiarities of the Boon. . *^ ie moon has generally .been considered by men-of-scienoe as an entirely mineral .sphere, I without water, or atmosphere, or any living organism. When viewed through a telescope, it has. an appearance of utter desolation. Its Surface.is apparently dotted with huge .cra ters, and scarred with seams of lava. If it has no atmosphere, of course -no living 1 crea tßro possessing a material frame like those on the earth can I'ivo upon it, but it has been re cently ascertained that h limited atmosphere has been, discovered., M, Ja la Hive arid Fa ther Secohi, of France, arid Mr. Schwabe/a German astronomer, have lately asserted that the.moon has an atmosphere; arid the latter States that it has-also some vegetation bn its surface. Hp says! in the Asirmomische Kach xic?it€n t ' 'that tho surface of the moon presents to the view numerous narrow streaks similar l in ahpearariceito furrows, which, at times, ap pcar laid, over it straight, at,other times- in circular .linos. According to.his theory, the Ty(;ho,'one,of the. moEt clevated of tho mouri tains of, the mopri, have; at certain 7 periods, a greenish,tint, which they-lpso at the end of a I few months. Hence he infers that there ex ist in the moon vegetables,'which shoOt forth l.at a spasori corresponding, with our Spring, **,& se fisori corresponding lyitTi our Xall, like all the plants of our But wbafcnow becomes of the assertion, commonly I no water on thesur t i[r CO S f J b °i m T n 7 If tho which hns remarked on our satellite, reflected a blue, red or yellow fay, [ wo could I admit that its nature was-difiefenfe frora ‘that which exists on our earth ; but ip is thoresult ot the same chemical combinations ? Water should then become a necessity. Asa photographof tho Lord’s prayertaken on a piece of paper the size of a pin’s head, | oan bo read distinctly with a microscope, it was supposed with some degree of reasop, that a large, photograph of the moon would reveal very minute objects on its surface by the micro scope., Quite a number of such pictures have been taken but not a single grain of goldori sand has been-added to the-treasury of Qur knowledge thereby. Wo have examined ste rescopic pictures of tho moon, takeh by the Rutherford telescope iri this city, and the lu minary appeared like a huge ball of sandstone; there wore neither signs of water nor life upori ■h ln several pictures which were taken at different times, all of them exhibited a great depression hear the upper side, as iftherehad been a vast basin scooped, out of the solidrbek and worn siribnfh by water npd abrasion.— This appearance may have been caused.by the instrument in which the pictures were taken we merely mention the fact in order to direci tho attention of astronomers to it, Planetary Scamlitl. Prentioo, in speaking of the recent ooculta ion, suggests a good deal more than ho says. Hoar him: Jupiter, on Thursday night, did not approach the “ cold chaste moon" as closely and fondly as did the rosy Venice on Tuesday. Jupiter seemed just to kiss the forehead of Luna, and gazed lovingly and paternally upon her face —“was there pot nil the father in tfio look ?” —while Venus,, the laughing mother, of amo [ rops .desires, hid, her burning cheeks within the close embrace of the twin-sisters of Apol lo, till ;Cynthiii seemed to glow with enkindled beauty, arid might haya proved a dangerous rival tor the prize adjudged by young Paris to the fairest of goddesses., AVo are hardly able to study the portents of these occultations.— When wo see Venice running about at early evening, and hiding in the shade of the moon, we think there must bo mischief afoot—some ddw elopement from her blacksmith husband, Yplcan.- ■ Two nights afterwards her Old fa wor; Jupiter, does. not go to rest until after .midnight,' and is peering all around and about,; to seie if ho can detect any man in the moon in with his daughter. . Than opr suspicions,.were aggravated, but when wo I are told th.ai Mars, the old lover of Venus, and I ■thdTather of her;bby-god> Popid, will, bo found | loitering around-the old frysling'placfi on tho I tenth of May, we Bcgm’-to boiiovo that tho bus- j picions of Jupitoraro correct, and wo are pre- I pared for another extraordinary excitement in Olympnsi on that day.whcn Phoebus shall ex ' pose tin's noVvamour, and tho jealous hustjand shall catoh thalovers in his net. We ar6 flop py io state, howovor, on the best astronomical [ authority, that, if any second scandal is con templated, tho “ fond parent,*’ Jupiter, will on fho twenty-fourth of May. be in the field of the moon, before sundown, and will keep such a careful watch on his daughter that it is not probable Mars will bo able to sing “Meetmo by moonlight” again to Venus for a long, long n What (ihurßh do you attend,. Mrs. Partington? “0, .any paradox church, where tho gospel is dispensed with." • fl@“ A Texas paper says Rev. It. P. Thomp son, a native missionary in that. State, is breaking himself of tho h&bit of BWGftping, and reads tho Scriptures quite fluently• SKYLARKS. I was present it. ip Wsfomiitieh rf two ohimals that died of pleurfrpnpn&opiA, : -The disease : is lit Ghatnani, isftiout 8- ; m® from this place,; and-at Newark, on the’ fanty of Abram 'Johnson. • . /> :! , : The history of the disease; it as near as, we cap learn, ia'this; ; Suriftiithef summer of 1858, Mr, H, B, Jacobus bought: some twenty young cattle in Nejfr Yd#, which he brought homo .and turned -Into pasture; some three miles from Chatham; It urns about three weeks after when Mr. J. again saw them,». when to his surprise,- he found :two dead, and two or three others sick. They were at onoos placed in separate pasture and none of-these • have since had the disease; Dtirihg.thh sihie; Sl- ? rJ um of Chatham, bought three,heit, : fers from; this lot Of unhealthy Cattle, yarding. them with his other stock. Soon after which ! the disease made its appearance among some.’ of; his older -animals—four dying- very scop after, and others taking’the disease, hut-re covering. , Fr°n> Dr.Mum'a yard it was communicated to that of Mr. Imn,. by driving a cow there, where she remained but a short time. Hr iiun has since lost six ; cattleV font Others ’ which pad -the disease, he thinks have recov ered,'and ,ond; is how suffering from it, but with a prospect of • . .. > Fro “ these yards: it spread to 'six Others— ‘ each of them losing from one to five animals—i. , making twenty-four deaths in aliin this placed .loro are now but two cases in the place » and it is hoped that, .by. proper care, it miy' Be. confined to them. • r Thecases atNowark pro alsotracdtf direct - ly to. cattle brought .from Ndw York. Mr. ■’ Abram Johnson, a farmer and dairyman, liy., ' ing about one-mile from Newark, on tlie road i leading to Elizabeth,- bought in Browning ? s yards in. New. York, about the 20th ofDecem ber last, six spring calves, and took them td ‘ his farm, where he theii had some sixty head. About six weeks after receiving these fcalyes ‘ one of them was taken sick, refused to food; - and showcd all the symptoms of. the disease,' as it exists -in- Massachusetts. After linger ing about twd weeks it died. . Two weeks af- was taken- in the same way; sho 3 also lived for about two weeks. /About three * weeks after,- three others took it; and new ; cases have been- frequent up to this time.— 1 Mr. Johnson has lost four animals, has had five cases which he thinks have entity re- - covered, has now five sick, and one whs killed to-day for .examination,.making fifteen cases m alb on his place. Earlyin May of this - year, Mr. Johnson s'ent .forty-two head of his'* cattle, including thfc Svh rbniaining chives ,■ from Brow;ning r a yard; to Newfoundland.. Moms county, .to pasture, for thd . sUMmerl—' At that place there were largo; tracts of ’Up- ’’ ■ .enclosed, lands, op which’ : large numbersof ■ tho.kuininer.aud- , I"'! 0, ?s- feared, may, by coming-in v’- contact with hundreds: of otherg r -spread the disease over a wide extent of country. Mr dohnson, at the. time, of sending these, cattle to pasture, was not aware of the nature of tho’ ’ disease,- and has not since heard froin them-: ,>•’ , t was present td-day at an examination of -- two animals: on his place—one a-bull that diedyesterday, tho,other a cow killed to-day tor .tlie purpose of examination. Tho aufopiy; ’ was’ conducted by Dr. C. 0. Gryce, Y.- S;,’df - New York,: ir) presence of Pi-a. lGoorira 1' ■ QuiubyandtYoodruff of Morristown; and Drs.- |)V ard and Peck of Newark... Gov. Olddn of " .our Slate, Mr, Jlubtead, President of the- Stato ACTicultura! Society, A, M.” TfedWell: ’ liea J amin Tjfainds, Esq., ' ot Elisabeth, and some twenty other gontlei - pnnoipally interested in > stock -raising;'- - The bull that died yesterday was the'first anw mal examined, and after him a cowfhaf had ! boon sick one Week. , Both cases presented # every indication of the disease existing In > Massachusetts, and were pronounced tyDr.' V Gryce, as Well as the medical gentlemen nre- . sent, unmistakable puses of ple'uro-pneumo- ” nia - .J- eases examined at Chatham pre^’- sented_the; same convincing proof, and we arC ' too well satisfied that wo havo the dreadful plague already in odr midst; Yesterday iliorning. nt (in ciirly.liour, end of the police of the Fifth Ward, fourid a glrl about 17 years of age, in South Second street, who was crying bitterly, and, took her to the fetation IIouso: During. £he;day, ; . she . was brought to the Mayor’s Office,, when she told ! the following sad talo: r,. She had previously resided, with her;ftthef about four miles from New Orleans, La., and attended school, Some months since a mad was engaged a? a farm’ hand by her father,' »ad was in the habit of taking her to' school i W ‘ir ?A 10ree and Parrihgo.',. lie ,availed him selt pt the opportunities afforded during these' drives, to initiate himsejf into, hor era, ops, and wori.her ijffeotions.’ ..things wmit all > right tor some time, when finally he induced . her to take §lOO from her' father, and secure. her clothing; for the purpose of leaving home ' With him, ho promising to bring her to this ,- city ana marry Ijeri.. .aftorgettirig possession!;., of the money, hb started with, ffia poof gifl.l •; an/• screamed out, “ Oh.bygarlF shallhavo der, : revenge. I have one tam Style sheep, dog *|'r : homo f I go call him GuiUaumo WnsMiVfflon;" by gar!' I V THE PLECBfI IN NEW JERSEY; : Mr. D.;B. Logaii writes to the Tributti follows,. under ; date of Morristown. Mfty 31:. ; V'.V '* 4 Sad Case 0/ Adduction* ■f ft » t i;.s-;p JiWJO H-n? W2Q y *T ft m 2. T/«’ IK