I” __ ';;-,. ; L' . ( , J . ■, ■ 1 ’, r ,, , . . . ..J.-. ..- , \ ~,,K ... No hull m. COUNTRY—MAY IT A WAYS BE BIGHT-r"BUT, RIGHT OB IYRONO, OUR COUNTRY.*' , , VOL. 47. I9IIED EVERY THims'bAY HOn.VI.VG BY jonnr b. bratton. . TERMS. iPTioif. —rOno Dollar and Fifty Cents, paid ice; Two Dollars if paid within the year; ..Dollars and Fifty-Cents, if not paid within 1. These terms trill be rigidly adhered to ip stance. No subscription discontinued until aro paid unless at the option of the ,o*’ ’ ■* . ri&frwrt— Such as Hand-bills, Posting-bills, Labels, &c. &e., executed /with ’And at the shortest notice. 'al h, ‘“nlr-i Wnlj lo earnest in thy calling, Whatever it may be; ! imo'a sands are ever falling, And will, not wait for thou I With zeal and vigor labor, And. thou wilt surely rise; Oh, suffer not thy neighbor « To hoar Away the prize 1 But form thy. purpose'gravely— Then quickly push along, ‘And prosecute it bravely, ' With resolutiou strong. hou wilt nqt bo defeated, But pressing firmly on, ind all at length completed— Thine object fully won 1 e earnest in devotion, Old age is drawing near j bubble on Time's ocean, . Thou soon will disappear! .'practice;.and in spirit; Iloro worship thou the Lord, >nd thou shall then inherit A rich and sure reward. HOPE; m Film ssbn shone dimly from the sky,. .'beforeat leaves are tinged with brown winds go moaning by, jtpd'Autnmn loaves come rustling down; plow era have faded fromtho hill, CTdldon i/roin supplies tho mill, grapes have yielded wine. ill® « J 11)5 tttVV I'fldil (lit Vi have drank the richest wino - o'er was mingled i n , th° - lihd won tt rny- dWlpo gbt our world of darkness up; ith that briTiant light within, ’ yet may make our “lives sublime;” save us from* the snares of sin guide,us o'er the sands of timo. - ind hardly crossed . the Atlantic, and ■inning to look eagerly for our first the New World, when a sudden occurred in the temperature, and the lays of April wore followed by a May I Cutting almost as winter. At length •ed the broad estuary of the St. Law id then the mystery was solved, for surface was chequered with masses /idently the broken up winter coy y the river above being swept by the iii';ji)ut;to sea. Nothing could exceed the 'tof the ice-fields as they flashed and id like gigantic gems in their setting -zuro sea. Many were of great size, ke floating islands, and the heap Cd-up upon their surface gleamed from adis ko cities of dazzling crystal, vind was in our favor, and our good ed up the gulf, threading her way the channels of the floating ice fields, eqr after hour, her passengers stood ; with unwearied eyes the splendid mhd them. Even when night came, I the same eager throng of gazers, large frozen plains glittered In the t with a strange, spectral beauty i had ever seep before, time, a mass of ice huger than oom jared floating down the stream, tly, wo learned that it was part of ie spray forms every winter before Montmorency. Onitcamo.gleam rgainst the deep, blue sky like a itless marble, rising in tower and missive buttress, and enriched by elioate tracery. Every eye was i in breathless admiration, as it locally by, until, as it passed be- V the wind, by its loftiness it mo joalmed us. Suddenly the star received a severe shock, which I.:- only through all her timbers, every one of the one hundred and i bemga who formed her living Iyer shall I forgot the shrieks of followed, ns women, well nigh fran- V clasped their children to their lieving that the ship had struck i, and that'their last moment had dry from the bow, that it was but a the ice, somewhat releived their they stood quietly by, while the jmt down, and the sails drawn ie effort to free us from the huge which still lay across the vessel’s ing and grating audibly against her A minute more, and above the din ind cordage, and the stamping of there orose a wild cry that echoed to over the surrounding ice fields, i every cranny of the neighboring ■” The ship is sinking 1” ah appalling announcement; and ely it was a true-one. The ice had leavior than wo thought, and its edge, keen and resistless as that messing against the bow of our lefendea as she wad by the double ided for ice encounters—had out : letely through; so that the water , ith the force and rapidity of a , ICAN VOLUNTEER —Accompanied by the cash, and hjing one square, will bo inserted throo Olid Dollar, and twonty-flvo cents for each fciJripction. Those of a greater length in HE EARNEST. with its gorgeous charms - dispel the bitter woo j it woo use to its arms— ip of peace was burning low, jn wings oflovo wo soar, ar not winter in his wrath, f and Joy havo strewn once more rosy garlands in our path. JSiMamm Pi-om Blackwood's Magazine. ICE-WRECKED. larful scene of terror and confu- I The. shrieks and lamentations 10 cries of children, arid the silent on, as they beheld the fears .and iose dearest to them. On none fall heavier than on mo; for I :o wife on board, and my two lit 'ounger was an invalid. Mean wns lost. There was no space to lower the boats,: and the pale, terrified pas sengers were hurriedly passed down, by the bowsprit, upon tho ico. ■ It -was touching to see some snatch a cloak or. wrapper as they passed, the sole relic of all their .worldly pos sessions ; while others, in their terror, depart cd without even that. A few provisions were next sent down, quickly followed by tho crew; and then we stood a wretched, cowering group upon the ice-field that had wrought us so much evil, watching for the last Moment of the good ship, which had brought us in peace and safety more than two thousand miles. It was not long in coming. Suddenly the bow.bent low, as if to salute tho waves, and the stern rose high into the air; then with a rapid for ward movement, the stately ship passed si lently down into the bosom of the deep, every tall mast and tapering yard in its place, and every sail spread to its uttermost, and gleam ing whitoly in the moonlight, until each in its turn passed from our eight. For a few mo ments there was a troubled vortex, and then the moon-lit sea rolled placidly on, and the gentle night wind swept over the spot, leaving no trace of the fearful shipwreck' which, in scarce ton minutes from the time the ice struck our devoted vessel had left us exposed and helpless upon tho broad son, our only ref uge that desolate field of ice—hard, inhospit-- able, and shelterless. . That night was one of infinite suffering to hardy men; what, then, must it have been to the feeble and helpless? A few loose planks and spars had been thrown over from the ship, and the scramble to obtain them was like a struggle for gold. I was so fortunate as to secure one, and on it I placed my poor wife and elder child, rolled together in our only cloak; while through the livelong night I passed to and fro beside them, with the lit tle-one wrapped in the breast ,of my coat, striving in vain to still its.cries; and as I walked, my foot clung to the frozen pavement beneath them, and the cold, shot up through my limbs like an Icy firo, causing intolerable pain. - . As the night passed on the cold increased, or else wo felt it more; and many times,- as I looked oh the shivering beings crouching around me, I thought that few among them would survive till morning. But thanks, un der Providence, to tho officers of the ship, who served out, at short intervals, small allowanr ces of spirits, the day dawned bn all save a few small children, my own dear babe among them. And truly, when 1 Idokedbn the wide waste of waters around us, dotted here and there by silvery ice fields, but’ uncheored by a single, sail, and thought of our desolation, our misery and probable fate, I felt it was mercifully called away from the Cvil to cOme. But the mother could not feel so, and graid her own sufferings, her tears fell fast on the sweet, placid face that would, never weep again. With the morning, the ship’s company and passengers were mustered, to ascertain if any ■wore missing, and great Woe oar consterna tion to find that,Mr. Grant was absent. , Eve- ry inquiry was made, and every search among the crevicesand’ urdnnloS of our ’.rugged Joe raft; but all in vain. In the confusion and misery of the night, none had missed him, nor was any trace of him to. bo found, and we were at length compelled to believe that our kind friend and.master had either perished in the wreck, or else in his passage to the ice. Meanwhile many wore the eager eyes con tinually scanning the horizon in the vain search for a friendly sail. As the day wore on, the sun shone-brilliantly out, and his beams flashed out in a thousand dazzling rays on onr ice raft, until wo were almost blinded by their radiance. Yet they shed a warmth through our chilled frames for which we wore most thankful, and in many snots they melted the ice, which ran iU little" rills, enabling us to quench our thirst without filling our mouths with ice. Twice in the day a, little biscuit and raw pork wore distributed to us, and thus sadly and suffering passed the day, till a .second, night of misery sot in. This proved far worse than the former, for, ere long, wild gusts began to howl over the ocean-wastes out among which we had now drifted; and heavy waves lashed and raged around us, and dashed themselves against our refuge; and though they had not power to put it in motion, we knew not how soon they might sweep over it, or shatter it in pieces. It was a fearful night, and so exhausted and despairing did it leave us, that we scarce could rouse ourselves to exertion, until a sailor’s cry of “ Sail ho!’’ awoke fresh hope. How many tearful eyes b’rightcd, and heavy hearts throbbed quick and gratefully, as they watched that sail speed oh towards us before the last breath of the expiring gale! As she drew near the only fear was lest she shoUld' not have space for all. Nearer and still hear er she came, until we could see the men upon her decks, and then—we could scarce believe our eyes—she passed us by, uUobsorviug or unheeding a signal wo had placed upon a spar, and the dark group of human beings clustered around it. If unheeding, Heaven forgive them, for it was a fearful depth of de spair into which to fling back so many of their fellow-creatures. The women sank down” too heart-stricken for Svords, and tho men lifted up their voices in bitter indignation at the cruelty that could thus leave women and children to perish, Death, in one of his most fearful forms, did indeed seem pressing’close updn us, for our scanty stock of food was ex hausted. Many flung themselves at full length upon tho ice, utterly indifferent to all outward objects ; while, others prayed earnest ly over the dear, ones for whom all earthly hope is past. Suddenly a loud shout rose above tho plash of _ tho waves and the murmur of sorrowful voices, and echoed cheerfully over our frozen resting place. Every eye turned seaward, and there, but a few fathoms from us, lay a large vessel, which, absorbed as wo wore in our misery, had approached us ymporoeivod. Her bulwarks wore filled with sympathizing faces, and to our feeble'cheer of welcome there came back so hearty aresponso that it sent a glow through our shivering frames. Never was kindness greater than we poor ice-wrecked voyagers received from tho erow and passengers of that! ship, crowded though she already was. To their care and attention we owed not only our own lives, but those of tho dear ones who seemed about to die ; and never can wo feel sufficiently grateful for their good offices, or the many sacrifices they made on our behalf. i Tho ship was westward bound, and on our arrival in Canada, the account of our misfor tunes brought us many offers of employment. Years have passed since, and the world has gene well with us, but nothing can erase from our minds the haunting remembrance of tho days and nights of suffering wo passed upon that fearful ice-field. ', 1 Unpaid Letters.—Careless persons and others will try to bear in mind that all unpaid letters are sent to tho dead letter office now, under tho new order of the Department. , , During a freshet in the Lehigh, tbrde loaded boats went over the dam at Easton, and Owen Canady,of Whitollavon, was drowned. LOVERS OF MINA AND AMD. . A man of Sassi had promised his daughter in marriagb to the son of one of his friends of the tribe of Askar. The promise was made at the daughter’s-birth,, and when-she was ■eleven or twelve ydara old, tho intended bride groom; 801-Gnssom, d handsome young man of five-and-twenty, in the employ of the “ Bu reau Arabe,” came to- claim his bride. The father of Yamina spoke to his daughter, but she rebelled, protested against being married,' ’ and would not be conducted to the house of her betrothed. This conduct, of course, gave great umbrage to Bel-Gassom and his party, who asserted that it would be an insult to the whole tribe of Askar, if a daughter of the Sas si tribe refused to fulfil the promise, her fath er had made, especially ns, if report must bo believed, the cause of . this refusal was no more norless than an insignificant little shepherd, Ahmed by name, with whom the girl had fal len desperately in love. As the father could not make up his mind to compel his daughter to bo married contrary to her inclination, he laid the affair before the Bureau,-and on the appointed day every one concerned appeared before the court,.Bel-Gas som beginning in these terms: ■ , “My lord, I: am one of thy humble ser vants; thouknowest me, and thou knowestif lam a man to be insulted with impunity. A daughter of the tribe of Sassi, who was to bo my wife, has refused my hand.- A few years since, my friends and I should have carried off my bride by force, and should have' saved our honor from affront. We are bearded men; the Askars'never have endured an insult, and thou surely Wouldst not blacken our faces in the eyes of-the Moslems?” When Bel-Gassem spoke of running away with the girl against her will, a young man, a relative of Yamina, came forward'quickly, and cried out: “Carry off a girl from the midst of our camp! Are there, then, no men left among the Sassis? For whom do you take us, oh Askars? and when have the Sassis suffered any such degradation! Are we warriors, or cabbage sellers out of the town ? We ask for justice; but rather a thousand deaths than that the Askars should put an affront like this up on us." ■ The matter was difficult to bo arranged, and generally an affair of this sort is loft to the .justice of the Cadi, but in this district a Cadi had not as yet been appointed. The tribes had formerly settled all matters, among them selves, in the presence of the great men; it' was .only for a few years past that they had sought the decision of the “ Bureau Arab.”— The parties concerned were directed to retire,, except Yarning, and the whole thing turned on the chance of gaining her consent. Yami na approached. She. was a charming little creature, small and delicate, oven for her ten der age; she had all the grace of a frightened fawn—her face a well-defined oval, her voice full of harmony, and without too much confi dence or false shame, she answered .so natu rally, so poetically, and with mmh good.fill ing, to what was. said to her, that it was/nil possible to wonder how such a creature could belong to the,rude‘and savage people among whom she dwelt. The Commandant and other officers were summoned, and the following conversation took place: “ No, young maiden, you must bo reasona ble; you know your father has betrothed you to Bel-Gassom, and wliat will bo tlio conse quences of your refusal to fulfil the contract." ' “Why did he make it? He had not a right ;,iit, is I, and not ho, who am to he mar ried. ' Why did he promise in my name?" “ Because it is the custom among you; and now the two tribes ore ready to light each other oh your account.” , • - “Is that my, fault? What do tho great people of the country mind me, a little thing, who wont nothing from them but to he left m pence.” “ But your intended is one of our handsom est and best horsemen, and ho is a man of consideration in his tribe.” “T do not love him. I love Atuned-the. lit tle sheppard. He is little, so am I; we are made for one another; God has united us— and we are so happy together.” “You will bo happy enough with Bel-Gas seni; you will have biit little to do; he has other wives and a mother, who takes care of his household.” “ Ah, his mother, indeed! I am afraid of her; besides, she has got great, ugly, black, hairy arms. I love my little Ahmed, and he and I should be happy together without any one to help us. Why do you make God’s creatures suffer ? You, who are so powerful; cannot you do what is right 1" , “Wo cannot have the whole country dis turbed on your account. Will you marry 801-Gassem ?” . “ No, —no—no—my lord; I am very sorry, but I cannot and will not.” “Very well, then, you will go to prison.— There is one prepared for you.” ■ “ Yes, I shall like that much bettor; shut me up with my little Ahmed; wo shall bo hap py if wo are together.” She was shut up alone for several hours, but she hold to her resolution unshaken. At last a compromise was arranged fit was agreed that Bel-Gassom should receive his bride on an appointed day, in a public man ner, that ho should marry and divorce her immediately, leaving Yamina free to listen to tho dictates of her heart. Cook’s North Africa. Hl3Ai.Tnpur.NES3 or- Apples.— There is scarcely an article of vegetable food, says Sail’s Journal of Health, more widely useful, and more universally loved, than'tho apple. Why every former in tho nation has not an apple orchard, where the trees will grow at all, is one of the. mysteries. Let every fami ly lay in from two to ten or more barrels, and it will ho to them tho most economical invest ment in the whole range of oulinaries. A raw, mellow apple is digested in an hour and a half, while boiled cabbage requires five hours. . The moat healthy desert which can bo placed on a table, is a halted apple. If taken freely at breakfast, with coarse bread and but* tor, without meat or fleshof any kind, it has an admirable effect on, the general system, otj ten removes constipation, correcting-acidities, and cooling off febrile conditions more eifectu ally than the most improved medicines. If families could be induced to substitute the ap ple—sound, ripe and luscious —for the pics, cakes, candies, sweetmeats with,which their Children are too' often indisorotoly stuffed, there would be a.diminution in tho sum total of doctors’ bills in a single year, sufficient to lay in,a stock of this delicious fruit for a whole, season's use. ' , D£7*'A follow whs doubting whether or not he should volunteer to fight. . One of the flags waving before his eyes, bearing inscription, “ Victory or death,” somewhat troubled and discouraged him.' “ Victory is a very good thing,” said h£; “butwhy put it Victory or Death? Just put Victory or Crippled, and I’ll go that!” CARLISLE, PA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1860. [From the hVahtinptoitiCopsUtittion uf the lithimt.] The South Carolina Declaration of Independ- A citizen of South Carolina has sent us the following ns one of the proposed forms of dec laration of independence;!*) bo submitted to the Convention which is to meet on the 17th prox imo: . , v - , a PROPOSED DECLARATION’ OF INDEPENDENCE OP course of human events, it be comes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which nave connected them with another,- and to assume among the pow ers of the earth fjpffiiopSKte end equal station to which the laws of niwiire and of nature’s God entitle them, a. decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which ; impol them to the separation. We hold, these truths!;'to bo self-evident: that, although.all man are created wholly un equal, mentally, morally, .and physically, yet they are all equally entitled, under every civ ilized government, to the full protection of their lives, persons, and .property, for which protection governments fro solely instituted among men, deriving their just powers solely from the consent of the governed ; that when ever any form of government becomes destruc tive of these ends, it is the fight of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute anew government,, laying its foundation on such principles', and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to ef fect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long es tablished should not be changed for light and transient causes; and,'accordingly, all expe rience hath-shown that mankind are more dis posed to suffer while ills are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which theyare accnstoiuci But when along train of apuses and usurpations, pursuing in variably the same object,"fcyinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their fight, it is their, duty,, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Su(ji has been the par tient sufferance of the Southern States of this, Union, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their. present system ■of Federal Government. . fhe history of the present Northern States is n history of repea ted injuries, insults,’ and usurpations, all hav ing a direct object in the establishment of an absolute tyranny over the Southern States.— To prove .this, lot facto bo, submitted to a can did world:'; ’ . ‘ , , Ist. The Northern States of this Union have for niany long years warred against our pecu liar institution of -slavery, by the dictates of a relentless fanaticism, which de clares that institution to be ji moral sin which we hold to ho a Divine institution, established by God himself in the following decree enun ciated to Moses on “Both thy bondmen and bondmaidi«W*mch thou, shaft have shall of tho, Uoatt'.®v : that are around. nhou bondmaids ; moreover, of titetohildrenof the strangers that sojourn among: you, of them shall ye buy, and they shall be your posses sion.: ye shall take them as an inheritance for. your children after.you, to inherit them for a possession ; they shall he yoar bondmen forev er.” And We further hold that this Divinely established institution was always sanctioned, by our Saviour and his Apostles. ‘ 2d. A large number of the’Northern States have nullified the Constitution of the present Union by passing laws to prevent 1 the fulfil ment of that Constitution, which declares that fugitive slaves shall bo delivered up to their owners; the principle of which fugitive-slave law has the express and sacred sanction of St. Paul the Apostle. 3d. The Northern States of this Union have declared that the people of the Southern States shall not emigrate with their property into the Territories, which rightfully belong to them equally with the North ;* and that tho people of the South shall not have their prop erty protected, by the Federal Government, when protection is (as above declared,) the solo object and end of all governments. 4th. Those Northern States have, ,by a re lentless and unscrupulous majority, constant ly imposed heavy taxes, not simply, without, but directly against our representation and pur oonsent in the general Congress, by levy ing onerous and excessive <Juties upon goods imported in return for, and purchased by our cotton, rice, and tobacco, in order to protect and encourage their own manufactures, and in order to expand vast sums at the North in improving and fortifying their own harbors, towns, and cities, at the evident and direct ex pense of the products and labor of tho South. sth. These Northern States have elected by an overwhelming sectional vote a President and Vice President, both from their own sec tion of country, in , direct opposition to our wishes and onr protests, neither of whom has received one single vote from our section, and' whose express creed is that “there is an irre pressible conflict against slavery, which can never cease until slavery is .extinguished.” Wo have, for long, years, in vain appealed to their sense of justice and common right; we havo.oonjured thorn by the ties of onr common kindred to disavow and abandon these usur pations, which would inevitably interrupt and destroy our connections and, our Union; But they have been deaf -to tho.jioice of justice, of honor, and qfconaafiguimty; Wo tmlst, there fore, acquiesce in the necessity which denoun ces our separation ; and hold them, as we hold the rest of monkind—enemies in war; in peace, friends. Wo, therefore, the representatives of the people of tho State of South Carolina, in Con vention assembled, appealing to tho Supreme Judge of the World for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in'the name and by the autho rity of the good people of this State, solemnly publish, arid declare that the State of South Carolina is, and of right ought to he, a free and, independent State'; and that all political connection between it and the Northern States is, and ought to dissolved; and that os a free and independent State we have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish, commerce, and do all oth er acts and things which an independent State may of right do. , And, for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance onHhe pro tection of Divine 'Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our, fortunes, and oaf sacred honor. • O" The receipt, of wheat, at Chicago, show an excess of 6,140,000 bushels, over those of, last yoai 1 ; which,-at a moderate estimate, gives to tho West $7,060,000 more on account of its wheat crop than was received in 1856, The amount of. corn received is slated at 14,935,- 891 bushels, against 4,793,615 for 1859, As the opposition have now Curtin, it is desired to know Whore plenty of work this for the homeless,” and tho “lands for. the landless”- may bo found. Who has the giving , of them where are they ? Echo answers “ where f” I i enco. SOOTH CAROLINA. How a Scoundrel Raised the Wind. The Easton Express, of Oct. 30th, says; On the 18th, of August last, “ P, Smith and lady,” as the Bogistcr of the United States Hotel tells iis, came to town and took rooms at the hostelry named. Mi - . Smith was about 40 years, of age, of very genteel address and appearance, while his wife was comely and apparently respectable. Mr. and Mrs. S. brought with them two children, and the par ty together formed a family group by no means uninteresting. They came “fromthe South," as the father and mother informed inquirers, and Mr. S. had some idea, could he find a suitable stand, of opening a large shoo and leather establishment- in town. The gentle man had plenty of money and paid his bills promptly. One day, some time after his ar rival, Mr. Smith paid a visit to Mr. Ehret, farmer in Lehigh township, this county, and purchased s'omo land from him. Entering very familiarly into conversation with Mr. Ehret, he managed to find out his circumstan* ces, ns well ns to learn how he spelled his name and what was the stylo of his writing, after which ho left, leaving behind him in the bosom of the farmer nfa suspicions of his honesty. How he got to Ehret’s place we do not know, but that ho pumped that gentleman well and proved himself a most infamous scoundrel by his doings after his visit to the farmer, all must admit. With the informa tion he had gained by his cell on the farmer, he started for Easton, where he employed h, lawyer to draw up a mortgage for §3500 on the property of Adam Ehret. He then took the writing, forged the signature of Mr Ehret and added it to it, hod the mortgage acknowl edged before Ebenezer Hanoe, a Bucks coun ty Justice of tho Peace and then entered it at the Recorder’s office, in town, after which he proceeded to Newark, N. J,, and made an assignment of the mortgage to. Messrs. S. S. Blauvolt, Ebenezer 0., and E. C. Aber, of that city, for $2BOO worth of shoes and, leather. Smith took the mortgage to the Recorder’s office on the 19th of Sopteniberj assigned it on the 22d, arid the assignment wjia entered at the office on the 24th by the above named Newark gentlemen, one or more of whom came here accompanied by a lawyer, to see that was all right in regard to the matter.— The leather Healers were satisfied with their bargain after examining at the Recorder’s office ; no suspicion whatever : rested on tho mind of the Recorder, or any one else who knew of the transaction, and so Mr. Smith slipped away with his stock of goods. Early in October, Smith wrote from Harrisburg, to the firm that ho had got his stock of shoes and leather off, stating that ho had not been able to get the store in that place that ho expected to, and that he had now determined to push on to New Orleans and open there. This ex cited suspicion in tho Nowarkers, who, coming on hero and visiting Mr. Ehret in Lehigh township, discovered that the signature to the mortgage ,they had received was forged, and that they had boon very nicely swindled by that scamp, the papers they. hehL being not worth a cent. Smith’a letter Id’Newark, to inform the Messrs. Blauvelt, Aber &. Co., .that he was going to New Orleans, was of course a mere ruse, for the purpose of throw ing those gentlemen off the track of tho swin dler, Smith sold some of his leather in town, and before this ho has doubtless disposed of the whole stock and is now enjoying the fruits of his infamous labor. The Messrs. Aber & Co., are-in porsuit of him, wo believe, and it is to bo hoped they may bring him injustice. Taking Cold. I A “ cold” is not necessarily, says the Scien tific American, the result of low or high tom-, perature. A person may go directly from a not bath into a cold one, or into snow even, and not take cold!. On the contrary, he may take cold by pouring couple of tablespoon ful of water upon some part of his dress, or by standingin a door, or other opening; whore one part of the body is colder than another. Let it bo kept in mind that uniformity of temperature over the whole body is the first thing to bo looked after. It is the unequal heat upon the different parts of the body that produces colds, by disturbing the uniform circulation of some part. -• If you must keep a partially ‘wet garment on, it would be as well perhaps to wet the whole of it uniformly. The feet are a great source of colds on account of the variable tem perature they are subjected to., Keep those always dry and warm, and avoid draughts of air, hot. or cold, wet spots on the garments, and other direct causes of unequal tempera ture, and keep the system braced up by plen ty of sleep, and the eschewing of debilitating food and drinks, and you will bo safe against a cold and its results. ° | Comic Acting on the Stheet.—Tlio drama io Feuilletonists of the Boston Saturday Eve ning Express relates the following joke of an incorrigible wag —Charley Salisbury, the comedian: Have you heard the last, Salisbury? If you don’t know what that means, let me say to you that it is a joke, (which I shall spoil in the tolling,) and the.last joke perpe trated by the great original, Charles Salis bury—not by the Duke of Wellington, nor by Napoleon Bonaparte, to whom it will be accredited in the course of time. In Portland, the other (lay, a horse and cart ran over a little pig. T.ho squeals of the dying pig brought together a crowd of people, including several medical men. There was considerable artxicty respecting the unfortu nate pig, and whether lie had any relations. Just then, Salisbury ottme rustling out of the house without his hat, while his hair was “ tossed by the wind.” “ Make way there, gentlemen—for Heaven’s sake, make way,” ho cried in supplicating tones. ' • The crowd respectfully divided, and Sails bury’approached the spot where the pig was suffering the agonies of death. lie knelt down reverentially, wiped a teat front his eye, and, aa thef poor sainted little pig gave his last gasp, the comedian exclaimed exclaimed, in a tender and pressive manner—Let me kiss him for his mother. Tho total number of baled of cotton raided in North Carolina for tho year ending August 31,-1860, was 182,907, valued at 89,000,000... This is more than over before produced in the State by 25 per cent. The next year s crop, ending August, 1861, it is supposed, will reach ashigios §OO,OOO bales This ble yield for the cotton lands of the old North State., ■ _ OZs* An exchange has the following; Mon scorn to kiss among IbomsolVos, And soarco will kiss a brother; Women often want to Kiss so bad, They smack and kiss each other.' (C7* Plutarch says in his life of Alexander, that the' Babylonians used, during dog d‘ir s, to sleep on skins filled with water. In these -days many men sleep on skins filled with bud A Chapter on Rais—interesting Facts Abon the Wire‘Tailed imps. Tho Newark (N. J.) Sentinel of Freedom furnishes the following information relative to that repulsive animal, tho rat: In tho indulgence of their predilection for eggs, rata display great judgment. It would appear almost impossible for them to carry on such fragile spoil without breakage; but they do contrive to do so. If the theft is achieved without a confederate, the rat stretch es out its fore leg underneath the egg, stead ies it above with its cheek, and hops away cautiously upon three legs. To convey an egg. from tho bottom to tho top of a house is a still more difficult affair, and probably an impossi bility for a single rat to perform. With tho aid of a partner, the operation is thus man aged ; The male rat stands upon his head, and lifts up the egg with his hind logs; tho female taking it thence in her fore paws, secures it till her lord ascends a step higher; and so they S recced from stair to stair, tilt their booty is oposited Safely in their ,hole. A pastry cook had some fine eggs which she prized highly, but tho number of which was mysteriously di minished night after night. Suspicion, of course, fell upon tho domestics. One'of them, a maid-servant, hearing one night’a noise on the stairs, stole out on tho landing, fancying she might bo fortunate enough to detect the egg pilferer. She was not mistaken, although she was considerably astonished at discover ing who the real offenders wore. She saw two rats, one larger than the other, busily engag ed in carrying the cherished eggs down stairs, and felt too interested in. watching their pro ceeding to think of disturbing them. The big rat stood on his hind logs, with his fore paws and head resting on tho stops above; the lady , rat rolled the egg gently toward her spouse ; clasping it gently, but firmly, he lifted it care fully on the stop upon which he stood, hold ing it there until she came and took charge of it, when he descended a step lower, till the clever pair reached the lowermost floor with their prize uninjured. The wholesale larceny with which the rat is too justly charged, is criminal enough, in all conscience, but worse remains behind.— He has been known to make a meal ■ of the fingers and toes of a living baby. Forty years ago a pie-maker, finding his delicacies unac countably- disappear, determined to lie in a wait in his bake-house one night, and so catch the delinquents. Unfortunately, they caught him, find devoured the unfortunate pie-man in preference to his pies. There is one dish that i is more tempting in tho rat’s palate than any other, and for which he will desert anything in. the eatable world —and that is a defunct relative.'- . r Should two rats agree to.settle their diffor , cnccs by: mortal combat, their friends and ac quaintances look on as complacently as dis -1 tinguished ariiateurs contemplate a fight for the championship. But immediately the af fair is concluded by the death of one of tho . combatants, tho spectators break up the ring, and iiiAiitinehtlyset upbii the vidtorandvan quished, and cat them up then and there,— Woe, too, to any meeting with an accident, or becoming infirm, for he is gobbled up without remorse. When a rat’s lei; is found in a trap, instead of its being a proof of his resolution in preferring" to leave a limb behind rather than remain in captivity, the ohanc.es are that some of his kith and kin have ea£pn him alive. In consequence of this propensity for cannibal ism, when Mrs. Eat becomes a mother, she, is obliged to hide her offspring, lost papa, or some old gentleman olii-is acquaintance, should ' make his dinner which ho would cer tainly do. if he found them unprotected. For the same reason, wild old rate retire into soli tude, disgusted with their kind, and if attack ed in their retreat,-prove desperate foes,, boat off auy rjjjjg, without regard to sox, that ven ture to intrude on their privacy. Ah bid gen tleman of this description' will keep a house clearer of vermin than any cat or dog, for he will allow no brother near his throne. The rat can scarcely, be considered a coura geous animal; ho relics more upon his cun ning than strength, and in the presence of a superior enemy, thinks only of escape; but if rendered desperate, by being pressed into a corner, will turn savagely—the sewer rat be ing more ferocious than Ins compeers. The females breed at throb months old; live in a state of polygamy, add to the" vermin pop ulation live or six times in the year, and pro duce eight, twelve, fourteen, sixteen, and sometimes as many as eighteen young inalit tor. It has been calculated that in three years there will spring no loss than 651,000 rats from a single pair. Although this sijonla too' enoA mous a number to be correct, it would perhaps be difficult to over-estimate the numbers of these animals. 600,000 rats were killed ,in Paris in the short space of a fortnight, merely to obtain, their skins for a couple of manufac turers at Grenoble,; 6,000 have mot their deaths from the’ dogs rind men at the slaughter-hous es of Mcmtfaucon in a month. At the pres ent time, Marseilles is overrun with them; traps and poison proving futile against the army of destroyers, who range oven the pub lic streets with impunity ; the cats have fled in affright; and tho only reliance' of the inha bitants lies in thri arrival of a cargo of En glish'torridrs, those little' champions of the pit alone being'.of riny avail against tho invading host; A PoisotfEii Bifid.— The PaHs papers state that a gentleman who had lately purchased some objects of art in the Hue St. Ilonore, was engaged in examining an ancient ring, when ho gave hhnsolf a slight scratch in the hand with a sharp part of it. Ho continued talking with the dealer for a short time, when he suddenly felt an indescribable sensation ovdr his whole body, which appeared to pa-1 ralyzo all his faculties, find ho soon became I so seriously ill that it was considered noccs-l sary to send for a medical man. 'flic doctor I immediately discovered every symptom of poison by some mineral substance. Ho np plied strong antidotes, and in a short time the gentleman was in o measure recovered. Iho ring was found to bo what was formerly call ed a death ring, in use in Italy when nets of poisoning were frequent, about the middle of the 17th century. Attached to it inside were two claws of a lion, made of the sharpest steel, (and having clefts in thorn filled with a violent (poison. In a crowded assembly, or in a ball, the wearer of tin's fatal ring, wishing to exor cise revenge oh any person, would take their hand, and when pressing it tho sharp claw would bo sure to inflict a slight scratch on the skin... This was enough, for on the following | morning tho victim would he sure to ho found dead. Notwithstanding tho many years since which th’e poison on this ring had been plated there, it retained its strength sufljciently. to cause great inconvenience to the gentleman, as stated. Irish*'--' ” An Irishman tells of a fight in which there was but, one whole nose left in the crowd, and that belonged to the tny-kittlo. Thursday, the Bth inst., was the one hundred and seventy-eighth Anniversary of the landing of Penn in Pennsylvania. Sgrirolforal lepartawi PREPARING FOB WINTER. “ Chill November’s surlrblost mates fields, and forests bare, iind._pJd3Vio.ter, -with his frosty board," will soon; be. upon us; and in the Northern and States winter, is, not a myth, but a substantial reality that can. neither be hushed up, coughed down, orthrustr aside. There is no shirking its cold and dri ving storms. It is a palpable thing—one that can bo felt by both man and animals; and it is the part of wisdom, in the farmer and all others,' to bo prepared to meet it, and as far as possible to guard against its severity upon the inmates of the barn as well as those of the house. ’ ■ - The dwelling house should be well banked > up if necessary, so ns to prevent the cold from entering the cellar and frosting the potatoes and other vegetables stored therein. From neglect in making their cellars frost-proof, wb have known many farmers to lose large quan tities of potatoes in their cellars, by freezing, and in the following spring they were obliged to purchase, (and sometimes at a high price, too,| potatoes for planting and for table use. A lew hours of well directed labor early in November, in fixing up their cellars, would have saved their potatoes, money and win ing. Broken windows should be attended to; glass and putty are cheap to what they were half a century ago, and there is no longer any excuse for filling the broken windows with, old hats, oast off undergarments and unmen tionables, ns was so frequently the case in the “ good old times” we occasionally hear of.— Everything connected with the house should bo made snug and comfortable, both inside and out. The principal living room should he upon the sunny side of the house, and bo; furnished with good sized windows. The bur rowing of families in ill-lighted rpoms, in the cold, dark, north side of the house, where the sun scarcely peers in upon the inmates from November to April, is poor economy indeed, and still poorer, to stint the children, who wish to read or study, to the feeble light of it small sized greasy tallow candle. Good oils of various kinds, for illuminating purposes, with lamps to match, are now everywhere ob tainable, and at prices within the reach of all. But abjure eamplieno and other burning fluids ps you would the fangs of the deadly serpent; Furnish the sons and daughters'of the formers with suitable books, agricultural and other papers and periodicals, and gb6d lights and pleasant rooms, and we should hoar less of their fleeing from the paterpab roof, and:the,, leaving of “the old folks at homo,” in-their,. down hill of life. . '- r rV;,;.; Over largo sections of the country, the fronts . of a few of the last nights of September found much corn unripe. It has dried son/owhat, and much of it appears tolerably sound/liut’ yet the cob contains alafgoamount of water; Where the corn is stored In cribs, ofin latioed,' corn houses, -there -i.J danger of itshccoming mouldy, and sometimes the corn is very much injured, by having the cob frozen. This was the case with tens of thousands of bushels of corn in the Western States, in the autumn of 1857. The corn was harvested and cribbed as usual, and near the close of November,of that year, a -few days of extreme cold occurred • which froze the juicy cobs, and when the weather became mild enough to thaw, most ’ of the corn was found to lib nearly worthless. (becoming slimy and useless,, except for tho compost neap. In tho latticed corn house a close box stove can bo profitably used tor kiln drying the corn, an experiment wo have known to be successfully tried oh several occasions: Where thd corn is spread upon the garret floor it should be daily raked over, and in fair weather the windo.ws should bo kept open for. tho purpose of keeping up a free circulation of air, winch will much, hasten thd process of drying, and prevent mouldinoss. A few days since we saw some newly har vested corn, which had been thinly spread upon a garret floor. The owner thought when harvested;, that it was well ripened and dry, : but upon examination a four days afterwards, the underside of a largo portion of tho ears was. mouldy. Such corn will not make good sweet bread, nor do well' for seed. , The raising of the windows, and daily- use of the rake in mo ving it about, arrested all farther mouldncsa.. This is a matter worth attending to, as is also that of picking over and assorting the potatoes' stored in thd collar, if there is much appear ance of rot. The good economy of carting out manure, and depositing it in conical or ndgo like heaps in tho autuniri, hear where wanted for.next • season’s crops, is well understood by all who' have practiced it. If there is danger of the heaps freezing badly, and not thawing in the. spring as soon as wanted, a good covering of brakes, leaves, of something of the kind, and kifl covered with largo bows of evergreens, will prevent freezing, and the process of de composition will in a greater or' loss degree bo earned on during the winter months. Whore’ the manure is coarse, or not well rotted dowd; when carted out, a farther rotting p’roc'feaa is desirable; 1 ■ ■ . ’ It is also good dcmionty to.plow during this month clayey and other stiff soils.- Tho fur row slices as loft by tho plot?, ttro generally id a much better coiiditiotf to be operated upon by the winter’s frost! and atmospherical agencies, than if they wOrd harrowed fine and then rolled; oorn and other stubble, ground, intended, lot wheat, barley, or Oats; the Oom ,ing spring,- accordiugto the evpcnenco ot soiho good farmers, should be well and deeply plowed ili tho fall. Such land needs only thO cultivator and harrow to prepare it for sowing the grain, and tho presumption is, a better crop of grain wi.l be harvested than if the land was sprin g-plowed. Everything should be dond in autumn thatcan ho, towardaspHug’s work: A scarcity of hay and wet backward springs;; sometimes puts the farmer so fur in the back I ground that he can scarcely catoh sap” through tho whole season—much cff. which, might have been avoided by having a portion of his spring’s work done m tho previous ,au* ’ tumn. . If not already attended to; tlio davit drizzly days of November afford the' farmer a favora ble time to repair and put in order Ilia sleds, chains, axes and handspikes, for. getting up' the year’s supply of firewood, timber, mi}i-’ logs, &o. ‘Whore the wood and timber let U not too rough and broken, it is much the bet ter way to have the sledding done in early winter. Eight to twelve inches of snow fre-‘ quontly affords good Bleeding to the wood lot; and if the sled shoe doe's occasionally get it severe grazing on the’ dnco'vored fo6ks, it is no killing affair—it is better to shoe plwjta than to break paths through-three feet snows, and crowd tlie team over oil through five feet snow drifts. . . ! Antiquity of “ Tab and Feathers.’—The * first mention of this favorite punishment bf i “Judge Lynch” is when the eeppmj cnjpbde. was commenced. Richnrdi Ceur de Lion or*, dorod that any soldier whp should bp diacpv ed committing a robbery, should be tarredr and feathered. ••" v NO. 24.
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