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A qviLll37l INDEPENDENT JOURNAL
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SATURDAY; SEPT. 6, 1856.
iterWe trust our Marietta friends will
not become r too ninth dsdited over thb "Ce
cilia" affair. VC are not musical, and
therefOre cannot 'Understand all the terms
harmonioui, used in' the' communication
signed "IC.'s Violin,',' in the last Mariellian.
We have, however, a kind of knowledge
of what is meant l,y the terms
_flats and
sluz7 F. Hire Tightly understand the signi
fication, thPYlwill apply to the writers
en
'gaged in this controversy who figure on the
other side, and hope their amiable diSposi
'tions will not be outraged at the designation.
Seriously, Messrs. Correspondents, you
should confine yourselves to the subject un
der discussion tct d got ramble over •ta.neient
lore" or a.:anifc.St your knowledge of the
dead languages, when there is so much liv
ing bczuty in thi.World that asks your heed.
2f our Marietta writers go it on lahn—ldt.
'em; but youi hold on to the kind of talk
other people can comprehend.
FROM Srats.—Since the fall of ,Saragossa.
nothing of particular note in politics had oc
curred, and the new order of affairs appears
to he securely
was
for the present.
The.4l*ra was making considerable rava
ges in Cadiz. The Chamber of Commerce
of that
. pot.t, in answer to a call from the
Miniyter Tomento," state their opinion
that the high price of flour and grain t hrough
°At ,the country is a consequense of a real
scarcity, oral notsaus,ed .by the manoeuver
jag of sitc.culators. The province of Mueloa
is attracting public. attention by the immense
wealth of its copper distinct, chiefly owned
,by the. government. A survcy.has been re
cently' ordered by the latter, according to
which. the mines belonging to it, properly
_attended to, will yield per annum 20,000
tons of pure copper,,an income of over $20,-
.000,000.
VERMONT Et.=TtoN.—The recent election
in Vermont resulted in the Republicans car
,rying the State,,lpy,a majority of fwaa 20,-
. 000 to 25,09 Q. This is large gain over
over the majority of ,1352, when the vote for
Scott and Male combined, amounted to a
majority 'of 3.7,000 over Pierce. The lowa
election, in the es.treree West, gives a
still larger gain.
1:0-The lrater-Care Journal recommends
the following pritetiee as sure to cure the
worst cese of hiccups in less than two min
utes:—hold up high above your head two
•• . • . . .
lingers of your hand, lean back in your scat,
open your mouth and throat, so as to give a
free passage to your lungs; breathe very
long and softly, and look very steadily at your
fingers.
EXHIBITION OF. TILE U.S. AGRICULTURAL
nocrETT.—'l.6.o exhibition for this year will
be held at Philadelphia, commencing on
Tuesday, October ith, and continue fire
days. .We refer to the adrertisement in to
(lay's paper.
gFLure's communication was unavoid
ably crowded out pis week: will appear in
our next.
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.LITERARY NOTICES
nE9,...The Pictorial Cyclopmlia of Biogra
phy, No.'s 7 and S. embracing a series of ori
ginal memoirs of the most distinguished per
sons of all times, edited by Rev. Dr. Hawks
of New York, is on our table, and justifies
us in recommending it warmly to our read
ers. This work is issued every two weeks,
by W. & W.II. FrCemnn, of Lancaster, Pa.,
and sLculd be taken ',!y every reader. The
information contained in its pages will be
beneficial, and all who wish to hear of the
prominent persons in the past in a brief ,
way, should t Ike it. The numbers men-
Coned contain portraits of the Poets Southey
and Moore. X. 'Zeigler will attend to
receiving sub , criptious in this place.
rCrWe have ab , o received from the same
enterprising firm, Nos. 7 and 8 of The Re
-1 nthlican Court, or American Society in the
'days of Washington, by Rufus W. Griswrld.
Each number of this splendid work is em
bellished with a handsome steel plate engrav
ing of the ladies who were first in the prom
inent circles of fashion Lad education, at
the -important period of the Revolutionary
War. The price of this work is 25 etc. per
number and it is fully worth the amount.—
This book is suitably adapted to the ladies
wants and they all will, we presume, have it
on their centre tables.
thLT , -..The new volinneg of Blackwood and
the four British Reviews, continence as fol
lows: the North British, May, 18513; Edin
burgh, July, 1i456: London Quar., July.
1856; We,ttnin.der, duly, 1856, and Black
wood, July, 1836.
.cobscription Peires.—Blackwood or any
one of the Ile icws, :33 a year. Blackwood
and one Review—or any two Reviews. $3.
The Four Review, $B. Blackwood and the
four Reviews, stn.
Postage (which should be paid quarterly
in advance) on the four Iderhu.rs and Black
wood to any Post Office in the United States,
only ,S 0 cents a year. Namely: 14 cent; a
3 ear on each Re iew, and 24 cents a year
on Blackwood. L. Scott S Cu., Puhlishers,
r,4 G.. 1.1 street, corner of Fulton, New York.
These works are all well-known by the
reitdiag public, and therefore do not require
notice by us, but we would suggest the pres
ent no a favorable time for new subserip
tio.,‘ to begin.
PORTER'S "SPIRIT Or THE TIMER: 7 -W. T.
Porter, Esq., for many y ears th e presidi n g gen
lus over the columns of the New York Spirit
of the Times, the only sporting newspaper in
this country, will issue during the first;
week or .opterl 2 ber, a weekly sporting and
literary newspaper, under the above title.
It vial be of the same size and character as
the Spirit of the Time*, which has flourished
and become ramous under Porter, and he
has assurance that it will he contributed to
by that brilliant circle of corespondents and
'Writers who have so long given to the Spir
it its distinguished position among the liter
';iry journals of the Inited State-.
Cixux pereM9 that 0.7
Richmond, Va.., neighbors are .r .tempting
the experiment of a "chain gang,'; as anode'
of municipal punishment. Of 'course,
is tbkir ;31111 business, and we rinse no wish
to be considered officious in relerring to the
matter. But we do trust that this demoral
izing and offensive' lookiiak,
will not extend itself' within the boundary
of this State. 319:mrever it exists it is more
than an annoyance—it is a curse, always
liable td the danger of gross injustice and ir
remediable wrong. JJould none but the ut
terly depraved he branded by its ineffacea- '
ble stigma, it - would Still he liable to the ob
jection of clogging up the avenues to repen
teance; but as it has happened• in all coun
tries where used, it is sure, at some time or
other, to number among its victims some of
the lesi vicious. In such case, its public,
galling, ensbiving'pen'alty is seld9m if ever
known to 'fail in firing a sialletaness of wit
liany„ hegotterl Of deprair, that places the
wretch condemned to it beyond the pale of
repentanceand reform. It may be remark
ed,liowever, of the particular case of Rich-
Mond that the press of that city seems rath
er disposed to ridicule than to tolerate the
nuisance.—Ralf. American.
CURIOUS LEGAL DEClslo.—There has
lately occurred in Germany, before a lthinish
court, a trial in which the judgment finally
delivered on appeal would seem to conflict
literally, if not essentially, with the old com
mon law maxim that a landholder owns
from the soil upwards. The case and pro
ceedings arc thus reported:
A man po3sessea some nut trees, of which
the branches hung over the ground of a
neighbor, who picked up the ripe nuts that
fell from the tree, and also broke some of
the branches. For this the latter wns pros
ecuted fur theft and trespass, but acquitted
on the ground that he was entitled to profit
by growing over his own property. Appeal
was made from this decision, and the judg
ment reversed by the superior tribunals,
because the principles of civil law ordain
that all fruit and branches belong to the
stem, and the stein to him upon whose
ground it is planted, and that the right of
property of the latter does nut cease with the
extension over neighbors' ground, no matter
how far this extension. The accused was
consequently condemned on both counts.
TUE NEW STATISTICAL BUREAE.—We are
glad to learn, says the National bileilifiewer,
that the Statistical Office in the State De
partment, lately authorized by Congress, is
now permanently organized. Edmund Elam,
Esq., has received his commission us Super
intendent, and he is allowed as an assistant
one of the clerks of the Department. The
gentleman at present selected by the Secre
tary of State to assist Mr. Flagg, 11. C. Mc-
Laughlin, Esq., is a good linguist, and is
well known to the commercial interests of
the country for his valuaVe contributions
on commercial subjects. The Statistical
Office will be of great service to the merean
, 6 - 4......w,c5tr , or the country, and its yearly
report to Congress will be as welcome to our
mercantile fellow-citizens as the report from
the Treasury Department on commerce and
navigation has heretofore been. The selec
tions of the Secretary are regarded as very
judicious.
LET THE CHILDREN SIXG.—The editor of
the American Magazine, in speaking of vocal
music, says
"All children can learn to sing if they
commence in seasom. In Germany every
child is taught to use its voice while young.
In their schools, all join in singing, as a reg
ular exercise, as mitch,..as they attend to the
study of geography; and in their churches
singing is not confined to the choir, that sits
apart from the others, perhaps in one corner
of the hou,e, but there is a vast tide of that
incense going forth to God from every heart
that can give utterance to this language from
the soul. In adition to the delightful influ
ence music has upon the character, ithats also
a marked influence in suppressing pulmona
ry complaints. Dr. Rush used to say that
the reasons why the Germans seldom die of
consumption, was that they were always
singing."
LIBERATION Or TWELVE SLAVES.-CMIIIII ,
km Smoot, of Jefferson county, Kentucky.
widow of Alexander Smoot, who died in
1847, was a passenger on the mail
boat from Louisville to this city, with eleven
slaves, whom she proposes to emancipate.
She was offered $lO,OOO cash down fi,r the
lot, but she said that the money was no
temptation, as she would free her servants
because she was convinced that it was her
duty as a Christian to do so. A black man
belongs to her who was not with this compa
ny, as he is hired out for a term, at the ex
piration of which he too is to be freed. She
i says that she considers it her duty, after
freeing her slaves, to make such provision
for them that they will not suffer or become
burdensome to those among whom they will
make their home.—Cincinnati Commercial.
SANowteu tsu.—King Krunchameha
was married at Honolulu on the 19th June,
to Miss Emma llooke, daughter of Dr. T. C.
B. Rooke. The ceremony was performed ac
cording to the rights of the church of Eng
land. About three thousand persons were
present on the occasion. In the evening
there was a grand ball at the palace. The
king is 22 years old the queen 20. On the
:td of July, H. E. L. Keelikolani, the gover
ness of Hawaii, was united in marriage to
Isaac Y. Davis, Esq. The 4th of July was
celebrated with more than usual spirit in
Honolulu. A, ball was given in the evening.
TWO KINDS OF DISUNIONISTS DEFINED DV
Ci..ty.—At the Union Mass Meeting,
held at West Chester, N. Y., Jan. 30th, 1851,
a letter from Henry Clay was read, in which
ho said, that "two classes of disunionists
threaten our country; one is that which is
open and undisguised in favor of separation
—the other is that which, disowning a de
sire of dissolution of the Union, adopts a
course and c‘ntends for measures and prin
ciples, which Must inevitably lead to that
calamitous result." lle considered the let
tter "the more dangervUss, bemuse it is do
erptive and insidious."
ano 3, 'gite_i•z•
CORNER Sro s E.—The corner stone of the
.Columbia Public Ground Company's School
Hollse,. near the Cemetery, was laid on Tues
day morning last, by J. W. Fisher, Esq., in
the presence of a few spectators. The cere
mony was quite interesting ;•'Squire Fisher
made a few appropriate remark:, in which
he alluded to the necessity of the cultivation
of mind in order to perpetuate our republi
can institutions, the benefits that would be
conferred on society by this institution, and
the grateful remembrance in which the name
of the late Samuel Wright, Esq., through
whose munificence the building was now
being constructed, would always be held.
It is intended to make this school second to
none in the State, in the advantages it will
possess. The following articles were depos
ited in the corner stone:
The names of the President of the United
States and his Cabinet, of the Judges of the
Unitecl States Supreme Court, of the Gover
nor of the State of Pennsylvania and Heads
of Department, of the County Officers, of the
Borough Officers, of the Trustees of Public
around, of the Building Committee, of the
Contractor, of the School Directors, of the
Churches and their Pastors, of the Attorneys
n'nd Physicians of this borough, of the Offi
cers of * Masonic and Odd Fellow's Lodges,
with their Constitutions, Constitutions of
different Fire Companies, Constitution of the
Christian Association, lot of Wheat, Rye,
Corn, Sc., a lot of Flower Seed, an Almanac
for 1856, and a copy of the Columbia Spy.
WrAt an election fur five Directors fur
the Columbia Pier Company, to serve until
the first Monday of April, IS5i, held. at
Col. D. Herr's, on the nth ulthno, the fol
lowing persons were chosen:
Jno. Cooper, Col. Daniel Herr, Jas.
Vaughen, Washington Righter and Isaac
Pusey.
On the evening of the same day, the Board
of Directors held a meeting at the office of
John Cooper, Esq., at which Cul. D. Iferr
was elected President, Amos S. Green, Sec
retary, and George Bugle, Treasurer and
Superintendent of construction of the work.
It was agreed to proceed at once to con
struct one Pier opposite Walnut street, in
such a manner as to force a current of water
towards the shore, in order to keep a chan
nel washed along the wharves; also, in such
manner and place as to answer the other
purpose for which they were intended.
COUNTY ScrtmixvEsnExT.—Rev. J. S.
Crumbaugh, of Lancaster, has been appoint.
ed County Superintendent of Common
Schools, vice J. P. Wickersham, Who
resigned the situation, having accepted that
of Principal of the Millersville Normal
School. Mr. Wickersham's administration
has been highly successful, satisfactory
and popular. He has done much for the
Common Schools of the county during the
time he has served as the Superintendent.
increased their organization, efficiency and
usefulness, and elevated the standard of ed
ucation and moral discipline in them.
Mr. Crumbaugh is spoken of as a gentle
man well qualified for this important posi
tion, and it iR to be regretted that he only
intends to perr..m the duties of Superin
tendent for the unexpired term of Mr.
°Mnn, which will end next spring, when
the position will be open for another occu
pant.
REMOVAL—Attention is invited to the
card of Mr. J. Dellinger, of Lancaster, Pa.,
who has removed his Daguerreotype and
Ambrotype Gallery to the north-west corner
of North Queen street and Centre Square,
second story. Mr. D. has fitted up his rooms
in excellent style, and is fully prepared to
supply all persons with pictures taken in the
highest perfection of the art. Entrance to
his rooms from North Queen street, and
from Centre Selma°.
CHANOE.-Mr. T. J. Knelt lies purchased
the store lately kept by Mr. Benj. Herr, in
Locust street, opposite the Franklin House,
as will be seen on reference to our advertis
ing columns, and will always be found at
his post ready to supply the public with dry
goods, groceries, &,•., at the lowest cash
prices. We have no doubt the "Farmers'
store" will continue to be a favorite.
Da s , Itice's Great Show," will e*
hibit in this place on next Saturday, 13th
instant. The press everywhere this exhibi
tion has traveled speaks of it in terms of the
most decided commendation. It is said to
comprise talent of the highest order and of
fer several features, such as the intelligent
hors?s, mules and elephants, never before
attempted in an exhibition of the kind.
PRISON liras.—The following statement
exhibits the business, Ec., at our County
Prison for August:—Cash revered for Car
pet sold, $833,75,1; Carpet wove for custom
ers, $230,79A: Bags, $152,02; Segars,S9tVG ;
Baskets, $36,02; Fish Net.. $42,75; Pants
loonry, $151,14; Boots and Shoes, $50,62 : 1.
Total, $1,591,363.
Prisoners in confinement-38 convicts, 18
vagrants and 15 awaiting trial.
Articles manufactured-3,275 yards car
pet wove; 39,000 half-Spanish segars made,
800 yards bagging and 450 yards shirting
wove; 218 baskets made; 1G dozen grain
bags made; 98 fish nets knit; besides several
thousand pounds carpet rags cut and sewed.
For the Columbia Spy
Mn. Roma—Permit one through your
columns, to call attention to a matter in
which our people should manifest more in
terest than is now evident. I refer to the
keeping of our cemeterys free from the
growth of bushes and noxious weeds. In
no place which I have ever visited is so lit
tle attention paid to beautifying ground in
which reposes our kindred dust, or even to
putting it in condition to visit with any de
gree of satisfaction or comfort. It has been
remarked that the refinement of a commu
nity is evidenced by the manner in which
the memory of the dead is revered; and if
we may judge of the finer sensibilities of
this community by the regard shown to the
last resting places of the remains of friends,
they must be placed very low in the scale.
But I will be more charitable, and sup
pose this neglect is more the result of want
of thought on the subject, than anything
else. I cannot believe that the wild looking
s tate of the burial grounds is generally
known in our town. Nor can I believe that
It' is from a want'of disposition te - confribute
hie means necessary to keep them clean, and
neat, that they are in this wild looking con
dition. A very small amount—a trifle—
from each citizen would suffice to remove the
brush and poisonous weeds, and keep the
grounds in a condition of which we need
not be ashamed. I hope this matter will
_receive immediata attention from some of.
our public spirited citizens, for it is essen
tially a public matter.
Truly, yours, F.
For the Columbia Spy
Ma. EDITOR-I can't be obstinate. Noth
ing can induce me to be stubborn—l have
set my mind upon that. And whenever Ido
set my mind upoj it, I can be led about like
a lamb in tethers, or anything else remark
ably mild and docile--tether'd or not. I
don't just now remember any particular in
stance in which a lamb had to be tried, as I
have been, by your obstinate correspondents.
I hate obstinacy—l hate anybody who in
sists upon anything—l don't care what.—
Your correspondents are obstinate, sir; yes,
sir, obstinate as Cossacks. By the way, do
you happen to remember whether Cossacks
are obstinate, or ttb?
Not only your own, but the scribblers for
the Afariettian bore me, sir ; they're worse
than the asthma. lam a nervous man, sir;
—I am startled by everything—or almost
everything. I don't like a noise, for most
dangers are accompanied with noise; and I
don't like dead silence, because calms gener
ally precede a row of some kind. My idio
syncrasy, sir ? is to be in a happy state of
betweenity—to use a lucid term of Mrs.
- Beecher's Toe. You think this digression
beating the bush ? It may be, but don't in
sist upon it. I shall recover presently. I
mean to rate the scribblers, sir, one and all.
They keep me in hot water. "Card of
Thanks" opened this Pandora's box, and out
hopped K., XX, Phillibeg, Flute, and K's
Violin, and a pretty concert they have made,
to be sure! "Card of Thanks," first grum
bled at a lumber bill and inhospitality—both
of which X X. contended were all right.—
"Card" retorts and like a bottle imp itching
for notoriety, up pops K. K. may mean
Kraken, or by the new method of spelling,
]Crab, or Klerk—either of which characters
are testy enough in all conscience and are
fully represented. Well, K. went "slashing 1
roundrlike a mad bull in a china shop, blind
ly goring friend and foe in playing the part
of champion. He's a crazy fellow, Mr. Edi
tor—crazy as a loon—'pon my word I think
so. Perhaps he is only vain; but that's bad,
too,
for a writer. "Phillibeg," in bad taste,
let loose at K. particularly, and Marietta
generally, raising a pretty row indeed, draw
ing down the vengeance of K. upon a Pro
fessor not only innocent but absent from the
scene of tumult. "Flute" follows, boring
away like a gimlets at the musical, china
graphical, classical, nd financial peculiari
ties of K. and Co. ' to tones from K's Violin
4 ,
el, -,. the program . They are somewhat
iii.mt , lAigiblerbut tt makes them the more
valuable, you know. Some of them may
ie., t: something—and it is best not to laugh
at
ions fur fear of doing a hurt to mental
pcm er—under a cloud. There's where Flute
did wrong. Ile snicker'd out something
about diplomas and dunces ; quaintly hint
ing at a way the latter have of getting the
sheep skin, under peculiar circumstances.
"Flute" should'nt laugh at such things, nor
should K. irreverently attack the bugs, bats,
and owls of Professors, for only fools laugh
1 at what they don't understand.
In conclusion,Mr. Editor,l am a"Ceeilian."
Don't understand me as claiming the ability
to "draw an angel down" as old John Dry
'
den wrote of the original Cecilia. I suppose
in that case the "angel" came down hand
somely, which is more than old John could
have written of X X., K., Doe. & Co. We I
presume, Mr. Editor, must take the niece of
"old Timotheus," and if we can't boast of
raising "a mortal to the skies," we do know
1 that we have raised a pretty row by "trying
it on," upon barbarians. David, when he
harped fur that old curmudgeon, Saul,
was'ut used more scnrvily than we, when we '
touted and sung for X X., K., Doc. and kin- I
dred vandals, in the grand plaza of Marietta.
That's a historical fact. e
P. S.—l have seen "Phillibeg." Ire ex
presses contrition for his offence against the
Ladies, and good people of Marietta, but is in
flexible in his condemnation of those who
"soaked the Cecilia," and the writers,who de
fend that meanness. Ile intimates an inten
tion of visiting the "Frogs" in a short time,
with a jews-harp band—now under training,
and hopes their efforts to please will be appre
ciated. I'll persuade him out of it, if I can.
I can't bear any more of this—l shall insist
upon peace, and I hope nobody will grow
stubborn and refuse the boon. I hate stub
born people.
Bob suggests that the treatment of the
Cecilia should have been expected ; that
"Qui vult cardere eanem, facile invenit fus
turn," applies well to the disposition of K.,
X X, and others, whose spite against Colum
bia is notorious.
Pere. COLUMBIA. Sept. 4, 1850.
For the Colombia Spy
ORATORY.
"A man who boaqed of his eloquence, said
that he often declaimed to himself, on which
another observed, 'I am afraid, on such oc
casions, you have a very ignoran t audience.' "
Christina, queen of Sweden, having attend
ed a very long harangue, which much fa
tigued her, was requested afterwards to show
her liberality to the orator; but instead of
giving anything, she said, "1 think he is
much indebted to me for sitting to hear his
discourse."
Henry IV once entered Amiens very much
fatigued, and being sal ated by an orator, who
began his harangue with, "most great, most
el eme n t,raost magnani nous," i 13 terra p ted him
by saying, "add, likewise, and most tired,
so pray leave me to repose, and I will hear
the rest of your discourse another time."
Mr. Editor, a word to the wise ought to
be sufficient, and those orators who make
long prayers and long sermons ought to be
admonished by the above extracts, also
those who are superfluous, or fulsome, or
use high Pounding expressions.
Yours, affettionately,
en IX LI ft I• , Sept. I. 1856.
EDITORIAL GLEANINGS
Mar The Colonies of the South Pacific are
•
fast becoming of importance in the
Australia was a large and flourishing colony
before the discovery of the gold nines there;
but that event has given a wonderful stimu
lous to its progress. The people of the
Sandwich Islands, though decreasing in mere
numbers, are making steady progress with
a civilized white population, and have al
readya valuable commerce. Under the domi
nation of the French, the Society Islands
have assumed a not less promising aspect,
while the British have made New Zealand,
since the year 1840, a colony of superior
pretentious. In all that portion of the ocean
realms stretching southward from the south
ern shores of Asia, British supremacy is com
plete, so that England by means of her pos
sessions, has entire control of the intercourse
between China and Europe, around the cape
of Good Hope. The growth of the British
colonies in that region is one of the extraor
dinary phenomena of modern times.
THE EARTH A GRAVEYARD.—SeiCrItifie
writers assert that the number of persons
who existed since the beginning of time
amounts to 36,027,843,285,075,845. These
figures, when divided by 3,005,000, (the
number of square miles of land on the globe,)
leave 11,320,089,732 square miles of land
on the globe, which being divided as before,
will give 134,022,970 persons to each square
mile. Let us now reduce miles to square
rods, and the number will be 1,853,174,000,-
000, which being divided as before, will give
1,283 inhabitants to each sql1P. 1 ..";:1 - ‘74 wisien
being reduced to feet, will give about five
persons to each square foot of terra firma.
Thus it will be perceived that this earth is
one vast cemetery. 1,283 human beings lie
buried on each square rod—scarcely suffici
ent fur 10 graves. Each grave must con
tain 128 persons. Thus it is easily seen
that the whole surface of the globe has been
dug over 128 times to bury its dead.
DELAWARE PE.tCU CROP.—The Delaware
peach crop is a very light one this year.—
The Wilmington Gazette says—"We under
stand there will be from 16,000 to 20,000
baskets sent to market from Appoquinimink
Creek, in which region more than 100,000
baskets were yielded last year. Mr. C. Donat,
produce merchant in this town, has purchas
ed the fruit in Eeveral orchards in Kent
county, Md., and expects to gather there
from about 8000 baskets.
Itia,..The Washington Union announces an
improvement by a citizen of Alabama, of a
form of projectiles fur rifled cannon, which
have since been twice submitted, with good
results, to the test of actual experiment.—
These experiments were made with a rifled
twenty-four pounder, conducted by ex
' perienced and competent officers of the Uni
ted States army. The results were such as
to induce the War Department to make a
third and more extended trial of the new pro
jectile, with a view to its adoption by tlie gov
ernment if finally as satisfactory as antici
pated. 'The projectile is 'of an elongated
form, and, it is said, by a simple, yet inge
genious combination of cast and wrought
iron, secures all the advantages of the Min
nie ball.
NEW MATERIAL TOR PATER.—The Cleve
land (Ohio) Plaindealer, says: The Planet
brought down from Lake Superior a thou
sand pounds of moss for Dr. Terby, of De
troit, who has been making experiments up
on it in the manufacture of paper. The Dr.
says that moss makes a beautiful white pa
per, without any preparation of the raw ma
terial for the common paper mills. In all
respects it is equal to linen rags, and can be
found in unlimited quantities on Isle Roy
ale and several other localities in the vicin
ity, at a very small comparative cost.'
GREAT LONGEVITT.—A mother of five gen
erations, named Katurah Cleveland, widow
of Ichabod Cleveland, a revolutionary sol
dier, died at Hackensack on Monday, aged
02 years. She had 10 children, 55 grand
children, 10(1 great-grandchildren, 10 great
, great-grandchildren, making a total of 181
offspring, 135 of which number were living
at the time of her decease. She has a son
aged 71, a grand-daughter aged 50 years, a
great-grand-daughter aged 26, and a great
great-grand-daughter aged 7 years, all living
at her death.—Bcqiimfe Watchman.
A !Immo ACT.-A day or two since, as
the express train on the Buffalo, Corning
and New York railroad was approaching
Batavia, in its usual high rate of speed, the
engineer, Mr. Berry Hughland, discovered
a man walking on the track. Seeing that
although speed was slackimed, the man
could be crushed, the engineer leaped out
of the forward window of the locomotive,
seized the man by the body and they both
rolled into a ditch. It was afterwards as
certained that the man was deaf, and had
not heard the train approach.
,11L Golden Plover are unusually abundant
at Nantucket this season. As high as fifty
have been shot in a single day last week.
Golden Plover are valuable birds in market,
and when they are shot scientifically, a good
business may be done in this kind of sport
during the season.
Itigk-In this mammon-worshiping Age, it
is rare to find a man place his usefulness to
the public, before his interest. During a
late visit to the "City of Spindles," we were
presented by a professional friend, to the
celebrated Chemist, Dr. J. C. Ayer,
whose name is now perhaps, more familiar
than any other, at the bedside of sickness,
in this country. Knowing the unprecedent
ed popularity of his medicines, and the im
mense sale of them, we had expected to find
him a millionare, and rolling in wealth.—
But no. we found him in his laboratory, busy
with his laborers, among his crucibles,
alembics, and retorts—giving his best per
sonal care to his compounds, on the virtues
of which, thousands hang for health. We
learned, that notwithstanding his vast busi
ness, and its prompt returns in cash, the
Doctor is not rich. The reason assigned is,
that the material is costly, and he persists
in making his preparations so expensively,
that the nett profit is small.--4merican Far
' mer, Philadelphia.
Holloway's Pills, an unfailing Remedy for
Bilious Complaints.—Thomas Ilodson, of
Fourth-street, Philadelphia. had the misfor
tune to be afflicted with the severest of bil
ious disorders, nausea, and a foul stomach,
which prevented him relishing any kind of
food, and frequently threw him on a bed of
sickness for several weeks. De tried many
remedies recommended him by friends, but
they only tended to increase has malady; his
brother, last fall, recommended him to use
Holloway's Pills, which he did; the result
to use his own words, "was truly extraordi
nary, for after about six weeks usage of this
in est im able med cine, I was coin pl et cly cured;
and will never again be without it—T guess."
•BY MUORAPIL
Telegraphic °pertains occasionally have
some rather singular messages brought to
them for transmission. The following is
copy of one handed into the Telegraph office
in Utica to be forwarded:
To George—
Third epistle of John, 13th and 14th cer-
SCS.
(Signed)
By referring to the test, it will be seen
that there is quite a respectable reference
contained in the verses designated, and a
small amount of money saved, viz :
"I had many things to write, but I will
not with ink and pen write to thee.
But trust I shall shortly see thee, and we
shall speak face to face. Peace be to thee.
Our friends salute thee. Greet thy friends
by name."
CLERGYMEN AND POLITICS.—The venerable
Bishop Meade, of Virginia, has addressed a
letter to the Protestant Churchman, in which
ho discourages any active participation in
politics on the part of ministers of the Gos
pel. He says he never gave but one vote at
an election, and that ut an early period. He
freely acknowledges that other good and
wise men have entertained a different opin
ion, and believes that there are times when
religion and patriotism call upon the clergy
to exhort their people to the defence of their
persons and firesides against invading foes ;
and occasions when the great principles of
divine law are assailed and trampled upon
even by rulers, and when duty to God re
his ministers to cry aloud and spare
not. But he says that in determaning when
and how to lift up their voices there is need
of the wisdom of the serpent and the gen
tleness of the dove. He adds, that when de
fending his own course against those who
differed from him, lie has always assumed
the ground that ministers had so many oth
er occasions on which to show their fidelity
and independence, and in which there is no
likelihood of giving offence, that they might
be spared the exercise of the right of voting;
that the probable good of an individual vote
could scarcely counterbalance the evil result
ing from the offence given by taking part in
such exciting scenes.
TOE CHARTER OAK ACAIN.—The interest
felt all over the country, in the old Charter
Oak of Connecticut, is evidenced in the fact
that the same morning the tree fell, there
were applications to Mr. Stuart, from resi
dents of Texas, Georgia, Alabama, Missis
sippi, (the President of Jefferson College in
that), Minnesota (for the Historical Society
in that Territory), for fragments of the tree,
to be preserved as sacred relics. One man
applied for a piece for a cabinet of Natural
History in San Francisco, and for a cane for
Rev. Horace Bushnell, for that State. Both
his requests were complied with. It was es
timated that a cord and a half of wood was
carried off, the morning the tree fell. Mr.
Stuart, however, provided watchmen to see
that unduoliberties were not tate., and he
had a guard about the tree all night long.—
The fate of this tree will be commemorated
centuries hereafter. Old men bowed with
age, begged a sprig in commemoration.—
They had heard the story of the tree in their
childhood, and were saddenced at its fall in
their old age.—Hart,fird Courant.
CHARTER OAR ITEMS .—On the night of the
fall of the brave old oak at Hartford, says
the [Tedford Times, Mr. Stuart, the proprie
tor, was engaged till midnight in writing his
last chapter of its history. A copyright
engraving of the tree as it appeared after its
fall is being made; and a sound limb is be
ing made into an elbow to a ship, to be called
"The Charter Oak." A swarm of bees came
out of a hole in the fallen trunk, on Satur
day morning, and lodged upon another tree,
but soon returned to their old quarters, from
which they were securely and safely hived.
They will be tenderly cared for from the as
sociations connected with them. Their pres
ence in the tree was not known till it fell.
REPORTED SETTLEMENT OF THE CENTRAL
AMERICAN QUESTION. -A special London
correspondent of the New York Herald
states that the Central American question is
definitely settled, and gives the general terms
of the adjustment. The notorious Chevalier
Wykoff is undoubtedly the author of the state
ment, and its reliability is, therefore, a mat
ter of doubt. He says that the convention
restores the Bay Islands to the sovereignty
of Honduras, only stipulating, on behalf of
the peopfe who have established themselves
there under the British occupancy, the per
petual enjoyment of certain rights and priv
ileges. The ground upon which the restor
ation is made, is the importance of preserv
ing neutral the route of the proposed inter
oceanic railway through Honduras. We
titbit the letter to be nothing more than a
shrewd guess.
HOLLOWAY ' S OINTMENT AND PI LLB.—Won
derful Remedies for the Cure of Scalds and
Burns.—Emelia Anderson, of Newport, 11.
1., was accidentally severely scalded by
some boiling water falling over her. The
whole of the right side and leg in particular
was in a most shocking state. Something
in the hurry of the moment was npplied
which caused the flesh to peel off almost to
the bone, and rendered her utterly unable
to move; she was carried to bed, medical as
sistance called in, and her recovery despair
ed of; it so happened, that a friend who
paid a visit that day, had just been cured of
a dreadfully bad leg by Holloway's Ointment
and Pills, and she recommended the same.
The Pills and Ointment were according
bought and used; by continuing them for
two weeks, she was perfectly well, and has
written most gratefully to Professor Iloilo
waY, for the cure effected.
Columbia Post Office
TIME OF CLOSING AND OPENINe MAILS.
EASTERN.—MaiI closes at 8.00 A. M. and
7.30 P. M.; arrives at 11.40 A. M. and 2.45
A. M.
SOCTIIERIV.—MaiI closes at 12 M.; arrives
12.15 P. M.
Wasranx.—Mail closes Cp.3o p. M.; arrives
3 P. N.
SAFEATARIIOII.—MaiI closes 7.30 A. M.;
arrives 5 P. M.
Mocsrvim.E.—Three mails a week.—
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday—mail
closes 1 .35 P. M.; arrives 11.40 A. M.
SILVER SPRING.—Three mails a week.—
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday—mail
closes 11.30 A. M.: arrives 11.30 A. M.
lit Maritrtz,
COXdVAIBLA LUMBER. KBT.
WHOLESALE PRICES.
Common, ull Boards & Grub ,Pjank, $lO 00
Culling do 13 00
2d ,Common do ]BOO
Ist Common do 30 00
Pannel do 36 00
Hemlock Boards and Scantling, 11 00
Do do do long lengths, 13 00
Pine Scantling, 15 00
Plaster Lath, $2 00@ 3 00
Shingles, 12 00&18 00
PHILADELPHIA MARKETS,
Julia
FLOUR AND MEA.L.-Fresh ground flour
from new wheat is held at $6.1. Old stock
and recently ground is firm at $ 5 .41101 6 1--
Sales for home consumption at $63 7i.—
Extra and fancy brands are selling at•s7l i o
8,25. Rye flour is worth $3,50, and Corn
Meal $3,50 for strictly fresh ground Penn
sylvania, and $3,75 for Brandywine,
GRAlN.—Wheat is dull, and prices are
higher. Sales of 7,000 bus. new Southern
and Penna. red at $1,55®1,56, and $1,64®
1,6 G for white. Rye is wanted; sales: of
Penna. at 75c. afloat. Corn is in fair de
mand, with sales of prime yellow at 65®66e.
Oats are in demand, sales at 40c. for of d
Penna., and 39g40c. for old, and 38a38ie.
for new.
WIIISICEY is scarce—sales of bbls. at 33a
34e. and hhds. at the same price.—Ledger,
sth rout.
TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS.—A retired clergy
man, restored to health in a few days, after many
years of great nervous suffering, is anxious to make
known the means of cure. Will send (free) the pre
scription used. Direct the Rev. John M. Dagnalt, No.
59 Fulton street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
September 6, 1950-Imos
nr AGUE AND FEVER of three years standing
CUItED.—Mr. John Longden, now living at Beaver
Dam, Hanover county, near Richmond, had Ague anti
Fever for three years. most of the time bad chills
twice a day, and rarely less than once; he was
parched with fevers as soon as the chill left lam; and
after trying physicians. quinine, most of the 'follies
advertised, and everything recommended to him, was
about to give up in despair, when Carter's Spanish
Mixture was spoken of he got two bottles, but before
he had used more than a single one he wan perfectly
cured, and has not had a chill or fever Able°.
Mr. Loncileit is only one out of thousands Vebolll2ll4l
been benefitted by this great tonic, alterative' sub
blond purifier.
...,*See advertisement.
August 113, MG.
l o r mi.9Arvl''optrs iNviocittleron is receSP
mended to the public, relying' ttpot ifs flitririsie cleat ,
lenee to secure it favor.
For all Bilious attacks, it Inay be may flbsi
relied upon as being fully capable of removing toe
diseases for which it is recommended, and far giving
tone and vigor to the general system.
Its qualities have been fully tested in a long prac-
tice, by the proprietor. Through the urgent
subtile
ttons of many, who have used and been benefitted by
st, the proprietor has been induced to plate it before
the public. For all Bilious Derangements, Sick
Headache, Chronic Diarrhma, Habitual Costiveness,
Bilious Colic, Dyspepsia, Pain its the Stomach and
Bowels, General Debility, Female Weakness, &e.
For sale by druggists generally, and by Sam'l Fil
bert, Columbia, Pa., and J. A. Wolf; Wrightsville, Pa.
Dyou & Sons, general agents, Flitladelphia.,and also
by Sanford & Co, N. Y.
Nay 3, 1.9511-ly
ll*lr DR. ISAAC THOMPSON'S much celebrated
EVE WATER. 'ltsments stand unrivalled."
This old, tried and invaluable remedy for all disea
ses of the eyes, after having stood the test of over
Fifty Years, and the demand for it still increasing, is
now. and has been for the past two years, offered for
sale in an entire new dress. Each bottle will have is
Steel Plate Engraved Envelope. with a portrait of the
inventor, Dr. Isaac Thompson, New London, Conn
and a Inc simile of his signature, together wrath a fat.
simile of the signature of the present proprietor, John
1.. Thompson, No. 161 nod 163 River street, Troy
Now York. and none other can be genuine.
The proprietor has been compelled to make this
change in the style of the wrapper, owing to the large
quantity of counterfeit which for the past few years
has been palmed upon the community, and especi ally
at the west.
Purcha-era are particularly requested to buy none
but the above described, and a 4 the iv/ label hereto
fore used has been called in, any bound in that fs
propg Joao. %Ital. JIM he.lituc to pronounce count
felt.
For sale by all the respectable druggists in the
United States and Canadas. [Sep..V, 1855.
ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW.—ReArt THIS—OLD
AND YOU:GO—PROF. WOOD'. HAIR nR.TORATIVE—.wiII
restore gray Hair to Is original color permanent;
made to grow upon bald heads; remove all dandruff
or itching, destroy all diseases of the scalp; and if
used say once or twice a week regularly, will pre
vent the hair from becoming gray or falling, to any
imaginable age. Rend the following( testimonials
and we defy you to doubt. (Says the 'Waverly Mag
azine )
Success to the genius whose tonic we say
Turns back to its color the hair that wasgray.
From the Roston Herald
SONICTIIING WORTH KNOWING:—By using Professor
Wood's Hair Restorative, gray hairs can be pm:ma
ne ntly restored to its original color. The subjoined
certificate from Johnston & Stone, Gardiner. Ale., is
but one of the many instances that ore daily coming
to our knowledge ails wonderful effects. It is no
longer problematical, but a self.evideut truth, as hun
dreds in our community can testily. .
GARDINER, Me.. June 22, 1855.
Prof. 0. J. Wood—Denr Sir:-1 have used two bot
tles of Prof. Wood's Bair Restorative, and can truly
any it is the greatest discovery of the age for restor
ing and changing the flair. Before using it was
man of seventy. My hair has now attained its origi
nal color. You eau recommend it to the world with.-
out the least fear, as my case was one of the worst
kind. Yours, respectfully,
DAsi'LN.Mmirny.
Baociarraus, Mans., J0n.12, 1255.
Prof. Wood—Dear dirt—Havilg made a trial of
your Hair Restorative, it given me pleasure to say
that its effect had been excellent in removing inflam
mation, dandruff, and a constant itching tendency
with which I have been troubled from childhood, and
has also restored my hair wt ich was becoming gray
to Its original color. 1 have used no other article
with anything like the pleasure and profit.
Yours truly, J. K. BRAGG,
Pastor of the Orthodox Church, Brookfield.
From the Editor of the Real Estate Advertiser, 2
School Street.
Borroy, March 20,1821.
Prof. Wood—Dear Sir—Having become premature
ly quite gray. I was induced some six weeks since..
to make u trial of your Hair Restorative. 1 have used'
less than two bottles. but the gray hairs have disap
peared; and although my h•tir has not fully attained
its original color, yet the change Is gradually going
on. and I have great hopes that in a short lime my
hair will be as dark an formerly. I have also been
much gratified at the heillthy moisture and vigor or
the hair, which, before, was harsh and dry, and it has
ceased to come out as formerly.
Respectfully yours,
Mikr.yor.D. Co., Mass., Nov. 11,1854.
Prof. U.J. Wood—DearSir--1 take pleasure in bear
ing voluntury . testimony to the magic effects or your
wondertut Hair Restorative. As far back as 1836 my
hair commenced fulling otr, until the lop of my scalp.
became 5a14 and smooth as glass, and it leas continued
to full fora great man yyears,nothwithstanding I have
used many celebrated preparations for its restoration..
Seeing your advertisement, I was induced to give
yourarticle a trial, and to my skier astonishment, I
found after a few applications that my hair became.
firmly set and assumed a very glossy and beautiful
appearance; and, by the lime I bad used a quart bottle
nay bald head war covered over with a young and +rigs
orotas growth orhair, which is now from one to two
inches In length,and growing very fast. Yours, truly
-- Iig:CRY GOODRICH.
- •
liAra HIC+TOR ATIVE.—in our columns to-day will .
found Prof. Wood's aavert clement of the above article
to which we call attention. What it has done, we
have witnessed upon several of our acquaintances in
ot. Louis. Hair once gray met our view, black or
brown, as the case might be, being the color of early,
matiliood; and as fine and glossy us silk, and that
without any oilier application than the Restorative.—
If it has done this upon others,will it not do the saints
tor any of our readers whose ••frosty pales" were,
once like the ....oven locks" of Loeltiel's warlike chief
if they will try it? We think so.—.7aeloonriffe "Cosutf
. .
tut:ow:list, °eel., .
Address 0. J. Wood & CO. , 312 Broadway, N. Y.,
and 214 Market street, St. Louie, Proprietors.
T.W. Dyon &Sonri.whoiesale Agents, Philapelphig
For sale by W. J. Shireman, Front street, Columbiri
Pa.
Ma:0115,1556.
07 - DALLET'S GENUINE PAIN EXTRACTOR
wall subside the pain and inflammation from the seve
rest bunts or scalds, in from one ,o twenty minutes•-
and that it will heal the wound without sear, and ef
fectually cure Fever Sores—Piles—Salt Rheum—ln
flammatory Rheumatism—Sore and Inflamed Eyes—
Cutr—Wounds—Druites—Old and Inveterate Sores
—Scald Head—Corn. and Runions.—Erysipelas—
Sprains—Swellings—Felons—Chitaleans—Dates of lar
sects—Swelled and broken Urea-t—Sore Nipples-.
Erupt none—and all other inflammatory and cutaneous
diseases, where the pans affected can be reached.
Don't be incredulous about the many diseases
named to be cured by only one thing—but reflect that
the tew, but positive prop cities which the Dailey
Salve alone contains, and as heretofore enumerated
—one to four—can reach not alone the aforsmen
tanned diseases, but many more not enumerated.
Query.—Do not regular physicians prescribe calo
mel inwardly ter scores of different diseases.
Each box of genuine Dailey's Pain E x tractor has
upon it a steel plate engraved label with the signs.
tare of C. V. Clickener & Co-proprietors, and Henry
Miler, Manufacturer. All others ■re counterfeit.—
Price 25 rents per box.
IHD - All orders should be addressed to C. V. Click,
saner & Co., SI Barclay street, New York.
September W, 1555.
Remember the Large Auction Salo
AT CARPET HALL. THIS AFTERNOON.
THE GOODS will be well arranged and may be el
*mined before the commencement of sale.
LINDSAY 3 JACKSON.
Columbia Sept 61666
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