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DR. G. W. MIFFLIN,
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ffice.
Columbia. May 3, 1146.
H. M. NORTH,
A !RODNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT UN.
Columbia, Pa.
Collections, I.romptly made, in Lancaster and York
Counties.
Columbia, May 4,1850.
SAMUEL EVANS,
JUSTICE OF TILE PEACE. Office in the Odd
Fellows' Hall, Second street, Columbia, l'a.
Columbia, August 25,1855.
J. E. 11ACILENBERG,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Columbia, Penn'a.
Ovirtcs i n Locust street, (our doors above Front
rtolumbia, May 13, 1852.
DANTE'S E. BRUNER, ESQ.,
ATTORNEY AT LAW AND CONVEYANCER,
offers his services to the citizens of Columbia,
and assures thein that he will attend with promptitude
to all business entrusted to his cure. Office—Front
street, between Union and Perry. Residence—South
side Second street, 2nd door below Usuou.
Columbia. January 13. 1835-1 y
GEORGE J. SMITH,
WIIOLESILE and Retail Bread and Cake
Baker.—Constantly on hand a variety of Cakes,
too numerous to mention,. Crackers; Soda, Wine, Scroll,
and Sugar Biscuit; Confectionery, of every description,
die., &.c . LOCUST STRIZET,
8eb.2, , 58. 'Between die Bank and Franklin Douse.
- -
SATITUEL LODGE,
Xasza- - azoznrolislack..4l6x - tiost.
Corner Front 4- Locust ate., Columbia, Pa.
Pictures taken for 25 cents
And upward*, and F tis Cacti° n guaranteed.
133 - No Picture need be taken from the Gallery
unless it ie su , h ag it really desired.
Columbia, March 31,1833.
D. P. APPOL3) & CO.,
,••
GENERAL FORWARDING AND COMMIS
aigatSIONMERCHANTS, a ti l t
RECEIVERS of
COA LAND PRODUCE,
And Deliverers onany point on the Columbia and
Philadelphia Railroad, to York and
Baltimore and to Pittsburg;
TiFiALERS IN COAL. FLOUR AND GRAIN,
WHISKY AND BACON, have Just received a
large lot of Itlonongabeln Rectified Whiskey, from
Pittsburg, of which they will keep a supply colisimitly
on hand, at low prices. Nos. I, 0 and 6 Canal Busin.
Columbia, January 07. 1354.
T. SH.ROMDMIL,
Ladies Boot dr. Shoe Manufacturer,
No. 1 Locust street, Columbia, Pa.
110aESPECTFELLY tenders his sincere thanks for the
lA, very liberal patronage he has received, and would
announce to his patrons that he Inns Just supplied mini
self with a large and choice variety of materials. and is
prepared to make up, in addition to his large stock of
ready-made work on hand, Ladies. plisses. and Chil
dress SHOES, GAITERS, HOOTS, SLIP
PERS, &e., in the latest and hest styles. Hell
solicits a continuance of the tavor so liberally
bestowed by the public.
JAMES SIIROEDER.
Columbia, rim.
March IS, 1856
Penn'a Rail Road Freight Station.
Ij`REIGIIT OFFICE and DEPOT in the new
building, corner of Front and Gay streets, near
the Collector's Office.
Ticket Office for Passengers, Eat and West, at the
Washington Hotel. ERASTUS K. BOICE,
April 19.1'LA•tf Freight & Ticket Ag e nt.
0 ATS FOR SALE
BY THE BUSHEL, or in larger quantities,
at Nos. 1,2 & 6 Clonal Basin.
B. F. A.PPOLD & CO.
Columbia, January 211, 1856
GROCERIES:
Tram subscriber would inform the public that he is
1 constantly receiving fresh supplies of the best Fam
ily Groceries the market will afford; come and satisfy
yourselves S. C. SWARTZ.
Columbia. June 21,1856.
ROPES, ROPES, ROPES.
5n ?OILS, superior qualities, various sizes,
v
just received and for.sale cheap.by
WELSH & RICH.
=
Balm of Thousand Flowers,
DISCOVERED by Dr. Fontaine. Paris. for beanufying
the complexion, curing all the diseases of the sloin.
for Shaving, cleansing the beet h; for the Toilet and the
Nursery; for bathing and manymedical purposes For
sale by 5.A.1411. FILBERT,
Golden Mortar Drug Store, Columbia, Pa.
Columbia, March 22, 1e.56.
Rapp's Gold Pens.
VONSTARLY on hand, an assortment of
-, 1,/ three celebrated PENS. Perrone in want or a
good article are invited to call and examine them.
Columbia, June 30, 7855. JOHN FELIX%
Excellent Dried Beef,
JGAit. Cuted and Plain llama, Shoulders and Side.,
or sale by
March 22,1856.
GEORGE J. SMITH,
T OUST STREET, ha* jnd commenced man
ofaeturing LENIcaN BI fl. and keep. enn•:antly
on hand. a full assortment of SUMMER DRINKS.
CoMashie, April Ilk 18.50,
Just Received,
A LARGE LOT et Children'i Carriage'',
Gigs, Rocking Gorses, Wheelbarrows. Frepet
rorrhiursery Springs, Esc. GEORGE., J. SMITII.
April 19, 1858. Locust street.
111111 , 1 A and other Taney Artieles, too numerous to
V mention, for sale by C. .1.92n1T11, Locust street,
:between the Bank and Frankton House.
Columbia, April 19„19541.
101110113 HMSO? 1-! rte. per ponni4
j_ should., 10 do do
Dried Beef, 14 do do
Tldd Water COOK) Money received for goodr..
WELSH & RICH
Columbia, May 17, IMO.
AliColloll and Burning Fluid, always on
Mind. st the Iceir"st prides, at the Firmly Medicine
ridtaterOed 11211.
February 2,18:id.
171. TUT should any toenail do without a Clock,
v V widen they eats be had for 81,50 and op waida.
SFIREINEWSI
at
Cefiatithilt4 A rril 29,195 X
40. C. SWARTZ haejust received an Extra Brand
tae .or Tobacco and Sega'', which will be Fold to
=acme at the lowesit rata. (May 10, 15.56.
CONTINUES to occupy the large building
at the corner of Second and Locust streets, and
oilers to those desiring cotuloctable boarding the great
est conveniences. At hie Saloons and Restaurant
will be found Luxuries of all kinds in season, which
will he served up iii :he best manner and at the short
est notice. He respectfully solicits a share of patron
age. (Columbia, May 10, 1856.
SI SO
Haunt Vernon House, Canal Basin,
Columbia, Pa.
HENRY R.MINICH, PROPRIETOR.
CrThe beat accommodations and every attention
given to guests, who may favor thin establishment
with Their patronage. [Aprill9, 1:355-tt
Franklin House, Locust st. Columbia, Pa
Fr AB subscriber continues to occupy . this
well-known Hotel, and will do everything in his
power to comfortably entertain all who may patron
ize him. His facilities for accommodating Horses,
Droves, &c., are superior.
MARTIN ERWIN.
April 19, 1850.1 y
Washington House, Columbia, Pa.
DANIEL HERR, PROPRIETOR.
TINS old and wellAnown home is CH In
1 the occupancy of the subseriber,and offers every
inducement to the traveller, in the way of comfort and
convenience. The Curs, east and west, start from
this estublssliment, and it line other advantages unsur
passed by any. Terms reasonable.
D. lIHR R.
Columbia, April 12, 1256-1 y
V E. COgiO. 9f Front and Walnut streets,
( „,-.,q,L7116 IA , PA.
JOSHUA J. GAU T
_LT, PROPRIETOR.
(Successor to Bard well & 13reneisiZ and airs."
The House is furnished with all Modern :Z.Voit'
mettle, and every attention will be given to secure
the comfort of guests. Charges moderate.
Columbia, April 12, 1856-tf
ZII. SIIEPARD would respectfully inform
Li. the citizens of Columbia and vicinity, that he has
effected an agency with the
Philadelphia Piano Porte Msnufaciuring
Company,
whose Pianos for superior tone, finish, and durability,
have for years stood unrivalled.
Hs is prepared to deliver them here ut the lowest city
prices, and would most respectfully solicit the patronage
of such as wish to procure a good and substanual in
strument,
A specimen of the above mentioned instrument may
be seen. by calling ut his music room, cast corner of
Front and Locust streets, Columbia.
February 2, 1856.
BORDENTOWN 1731YLELLEI
COLVEGII,
BORDENTOWN, New Jersey—This institu
tion
is pleasantly located on the bank of the Del
aware Haver, near the grounds of the fate Joseph Dona
parte.nant directly on the railroad between New York
and Philadelplata. Being chartered with full colle
giate powers, at confers diplomas on those who com
plete the pa escrihed course of study. Entire expen
ses for board, tuition, &c., for the collegiate course.
one hundred and tarty-four dollars per year. Orna
mental branches extra. Pupils received at any period
of the year and charged accordingly.
Catalogues may be obtained by addressing
Hey JOHN 11. BHAKELEY, A M.
President,
= - 4=alt3Col9l.
From the Trenton Daily Slate Gazette
BORDIENTOWN FICSLA
• • A more beautiful situation and one better
adapted to its purposes, can rarely be found. The
young ladies have an elegant p!uy ground, well
shaded, and commanding a fine view of the Park, the
Delaware. Venn's Manor. aud.,Treltioll. 1 ihai an cx'
t . 13110.0111111.11 Apparatus, a
large herbarium, and a fine collection of America],
and Foreign minerals and fossils.
REV. Mn. BRARRLEY'S FEMALE SEMINASIT.— •
• • • lVe may add from our personal acquaint
ance with the Principal, hai pupils could not well be
antrum.' to the keeping of s more estimable teacher
than he is—Sink Taiernal, Wilmington, Det.
DORDENTOWN PENIAL6 COLLEGE—II ..ern" 10 UP that
the COUrae of .104 in:irked out it ulO.l
just the proper one to Ming forth true women, nod lint
ilic bauble% tarried nIT from twiny of our female semi
naries.—Comden lk mot-nu.
BIIRDENTOWN FRMALIi COLLENGIC.—The fact that on
most prominent citizens and acknowledged careful
parents entrust the welfare annul education of their
daughters to Rev Mr. Brukelt.). 11 a for greater tes
tirnontal in oehalf than any array of references.—
American Banner.
BOHOHNTOWN FEMALE COLLEGE--We know of HO
location tin the country where the health of the ,tuden;
can be NO promoted on litre: while the nr of beauty
and romunce which surrounds the place must tend in
no small degree to the refinement and elevation of
lone nod ferlang. •• • •
Of the Inerari advantages we need not speak; the
Hartle of Rev J. H. Brakeley, us President, In a suffi
cient guarantee for them. Of stein integrity and
moral worth—in his deportment mild, yet firm and un
moved. and endowed with superior educational cml.
ifications—fie cannot fail to exercise a toast healthful
and ennobling influence upon all who are under Into
intluence.—Bordemoten newish,.
BORDRATOWN FKMALP: Cot-Lsoa.—A more pleasant
and healthy sight could not Pe selected in all New
Jersey for no lustuutton of learning.—Newßruns
wick Fredonian.
June 21.18511—W0
F - PARR & THOMPSON'S justly celebrated Com
l.: mereiol and other Gold Penn—the hers in the
atuket—juot received. P. SHREINER.
Columbia. April dd. 15.55.
SAPONEFIER, or Concentrated Lye, for ma
king Soap. 1 Pl. i. •utficsent for one barrel of
Soft Soap, or Ilk. for 9 lbs. [lard Soap. Full affec
tions will be given at the Counter for making Soft,
Hard and Fancy Soaps. For sale by
It WILLIAMS.
Columbia. March 31,19,35.
TAM 011).--Just received a fresh supply
of superior Table 011, at
AIcCORIELE h DELLETT'S
Fumily Medicine Store, Odd Fellow's Hall.
April t 2
HIMALAYA LIISTRES! We have received
another supply of there new and beautiful roods.
so very desirable for Ladies' Travelling Dresses. Those
in want of them can be su
hi. at
C FONDERSMITH'S
May 24, IMO. 1111
People's Cash Store.
SOLUTION OF CITRATE OF MAGNESIA,or Par
gntive Mineral Water.—This pleasant medicine
which is highly recommended as a substitute for
Epsomsults, Seidlitz Powders. k.c.. rail be obtained
fresh every day at SASPL. FILBERT'S Drug Store,
Front st. D. 2
BACHELOR'S HAIR DYK—No burning, bllstering
eompoun.l could ever have attained the universal
favor accorded to this the original, never.faiting favor
ne. Nature is not mare true toherself than the brown
or black produced In the reddest, grave.:. or most
frowsy hair by tt. Made and Fold, or apulted at Bach
elor's Wig Factory, =3 Broadway, N. Y, The genu
ine article for sale at
McCORKLE & 1/ELLETT'S
April 12. Family Medicine Store.
WELSII & RICA.
JTUST RECEIVED, /I large and well selected variety
of Brushes. consisting in part of Shoe. Hair, Cloth,
Crumb, Nail, Hat and Teeth Brushes, and for sale by
R. WILLIAMS.
March 22.'56. Front street Columbia. Pa.
A SUPERIOR article of PAINT OIL. for Pale by
R. WILLIAMS *
May tO, 1553. Trout S reet, Columbia, Pa
ASUPERIOR article of TONIC gPlOg RITTER .,
'suitable for Hotel Keepers, for sale by
R. WILLA AIMS.
May 10, 1956. Front street. Colombia.
FETHEREAL OIL, 'away.% on hand, and (or
1 . Mile by R. WILLIAMS.
May 10 5.56
„ I . Front Street, Columtna. F.
J — - -
EST received, FRESH CAMTHF.NE. and for vele
by FL WILLIAMS,
May to. VW. Front Street. Columbia. Fn.
DE GRATH'S ELECTRIC OIL. Just received
Yeah supply of this popular remedy, and for sale
by R. WILLI AhlSt
May 10,1858. Front Street, Columlna. Pa.
ANEW lot of WHALE AND CAR GREASING
OILS, received at the store of the .ahocriber.
R. WILLIAMS.
May 10,156. Front Street,Columbis, Pa.
MIXTRA FAMILY FLOCK, Ng received and for
.124 vale by
June 21, 1_ ' , -15(1. S. C. scrAwrz.
SUPERIOR CATTLE POWDER. Fur ' , ate ot
McCORKLE & DELLETT'S
July 2S, 195 a. Firmly Me4teine Store
BIRD SORD . S.—Doneq', Hemp, and Rape Seedo
For sole at McCORKLE k DELLE=S
Apnl Family Medicine Store.
GERTIARD BRANDT,
Bellevue House,
PIANOS.
"NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO CHEAP AS rte'; ING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING."
COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, Si n 'DAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1856.
latrg.
For the Columbia Spy
THOUGHTS.
El=
As year on year roll slowly by
And mingle with the past,
I give a smile, but ne'er a sigh,
Thank God'. 'tis gone at last.
Again thank God: another day—
So marks the setting sun—
Has gone, with his declining Tel
And one more race been run,
Why this weary task pursue,
Of hope, a gleam not one,
To cheer with but a brighter view
Some happiness to come.
A "doom' hangs o'er me evermore
Of desolation deep,
To time forever—ne'er before,
In calm and peaceful sleep.
For the Columbia Spy
LIFE'S CHANGES.
Our hearts are light on the morn of Ids,
When hope is stronger than fear;
Impulsive we are and we onward treed,
Nor think of the past nor present heed,
But dream of the coming year.
Onr heart.: are warm in the noon of life,
H o p e t quially blends with our fear;
We turn and we gaze on the scenes that strew
Our path, and with reason calmly view
Each wreck of the fleeting year.
Our hearts arc cold on the eve of life,
When hope is merged in our leer;
We doze and we try to dream again,
The joys of our youth, though false and Cain
And dead for many a year.
We call them up from the buried past,
We greet them with many a tear
They saddeu Tire heart they illure no more,
Yet fondly we strive to dream them o'er,
The hopes of many a year.
SUIISIIUIVILLE, ILL, MG. R. S. Brnx
JOSEY'S BABY
(We like rhyme that touches the heart, and if the fol
lowing does not produce a moisture about the eyes of
every parent who reads it, we do not envy the construc
tion of his or her "make up." Certainly see love "Josey's
baby." Who is the autlmr'.-1•:n. SPY.
Sister Josey's got a baby;
(She is but a child herself()
And the baby is a bright-eyed,
Laughing, cr3 ing little elf.
Well I mind the April morning—
I was scarcely five years old
Addie came with smiles of gladness,
And a wondrous tale she told.
Bow a tiny, pretty creature,
To our mother's arms was given,
BOW a white winged anp.l-inwught.it...--..._
From its happy home in heaven.
Mother called our baby Josey,
And she was our pet and pride;
No one thought of scolding Josey
When she pouted, frowned or cried
Only think how years crowd round us,
Bringing trouble, bringing change—
Now that baby's got u baby—
Bless me ain't it very strange?
Such a precious, winning, darling,
Eyes of softest, darkest gray,
Checks where blessed cunning dimples
Play bopeep the livelong day,
You should hear bun laughing, gaily,
Cooing like a tittle dove,
If you were the crossest
Josry's baby you would love.
Mistrltaitrinto.
A SCENE IN 1956.
BY BEN SCRIBBLER
A very pretty, delicate, fashionably drcsed
young gentleman is seated in a drawing
room, working quite desperately at some
embroidery, and now and then heaving a
gentle sigh. Ile is attired rather differently
from the youths of the last century, fur his
hair is parted in the middle, and falls in
clustering curls to the throat, which is orna
mented with a splendid necklace; his coat
(with the tails reaching almost to the floor) is
made low neck and short sleeves; shoes are
of the softest kid, and pants of fine silk.
A ring at the door. The servant announ
ces Miss Fast. Mr. Manly rises from the
sofa, blushes deeply, and casts down his
eyes; not so the lady, who advances with a
firm step, wishes the gentleman "Good
evening," and softly touches his delicate
digits. After a little conversation the beauty
takes up his fan, saying—"l saw you, Miss
Fast, this morning, walking very rapidly
past our house, and I thought something
dreadful had occurred; at first I imagined
our dwelling was in flames, and was so over
come (for my nerves are very weak,) that I
gasped for breath and nearly fainted. Now
please do tell me what was the matter with
you, for I have hardly yet recovered from
my fright."
"Ah, my dear Mr. Manly, I fancied you
looked pale when I came in—l missed those
beautiful roses on your cheeks, and can I
forgive myself for being the cause (though
innocently) of so much suffering?"
"Oh, no ma'am—pray don't distress your
self; lam quite well now. But he added
with a sweet smile and killing glance, "what
made you walk so fast and look so thought
ful?"
"Why, I was going to court," commenced
the lady, pulling her cravat and looking
professional. "as I had a cause to plead, and
a strange one it was too. A man was such
an outrageous fool as to disobey his wife
and insisted that be ought to carve and she
pour out the tea; but when she informed him
that no such thing would be allowed in her
house, be thre o wjer the teaboard and dash
ed from the r easing his wife and law
ful protector petrified with astonishment.—
The lady followed him soon, however, and
told the man she was grieved to see her hus
band act in such a manner, expressing the
desire that the off , . , - - -.:'ght not be repeated;
but be behaved in'a . t unmanly way, said
he had borne t : v" - long enough, and
would have the :.':rights men possessed
in the last century ADid you ever hear
anything like it?) .',,, ':-.',:,
When he could .1? be paeified his wife
quietly turned the . '' of his boudoir, and
leaving order with . :ervants at what hour
to have dinner, wen .". tto her business.—
On returning boge ?: e discovered the mis
creant had fled, and a short time he ac
tually applied for a . voree. Of course he
could not gain it, tit • -,was not u shadow of
chance."
Oh, dear! oh, deatiLexelairns Mr. Manly,
i z,.
I fear he is derangW ;, hope he will not be
allowed to remain at., ge; I shall not sleep
a wink at night until: *now he is confined.
t
Oh, Miss Past, will x : you see he does not
Igo about unless 0.4 y guarded! I shall
' die, I am certain, wee"l to meet him in the
street." ,At
"My sweet Mr. Mitily," replies the Indy,
with a look of inexpia*lble tenderness, "do
not fear, I shall see tliaiirou are not troubled.
Mrs. Rampant, the esf of the police, shall
be informed of the u t ter—l am sure you
can trust mc." • '
"Yes a'am, I will iely on you, as I have
al—"here ho check§himself blushing deep
ly.
"What pleasure I i eive on hearing you
say so, and those be
. tiful downcast eyes
tell more I hope, tha .o.our rosebud mouth
can utter."
"Now Miss Fast,' trios the gentleman,
rt i
at the same time to iltg her with his fan,
"you are beginning our flatteries. What
a bad, naughty, hate creature you are.—
Ido protest," he ea jwith an enchanting
lisp, "that you are th *lost perfect flirt. I
know how you trifle "th us gentlemen."
.1 n
"Trifle with you r. Manly," the lady
burst forth, going do on her knees. "Is
not my whole life b ond up in you—will
you not smile on me with delight, when I
confess I adore you .vra all the power of a
strung womanly nature.--that I will protect
you through life's jqurpey, and you shall
desire no firmer arm lid lean upon and look
to for support. Oh, iitt .t y, my better angel,
that you will be minet!:,. f ,
"Really Miss fast-:, ,4,?rt--spare me—
I am not cul.n just no ,
~ x 'lope other time—
I am very young— , u• ,i''.>":l -rence—oh—ab
pitate—a glass of water"—and the gentle
man sinks back on the sofa, nearly swoon
ing. lie recovers shortly, as the lady fans
him most vigorously, and looking up in her
face with swimming eyes, says, "Go ask my
noble mother's content and then this poor
worthless hand and heart you prize so much
will be thine (Orem," and a flood of tears
from those soft, sweet orbs, rains upon the
devoted lover, and extracts most all the starch
from her Byron collar.
THE WHITE ROSE
"Now, please tell us, Uncle Lewis, about
the white rose. When the fireworks made
such a noise, Friday afternoon, that we could
not talk arty longer under the grape arbor,
you promised to tellus that story, as soon as
you came up the river again. What was it
uncle? Did it really happen? Is it a true
story?"
"Set your little chairs here in front of
me, children, and you shall have your cov
eted story. Fred, my little nephew, do you
know the great white house at the foot of
the hill, where the cross roads meet, with
maple and butternut trees in front, and the
large poplar on the south side of it, and the
great pear trees in the garden, along by the
fence."
"Oh, uncle! it is a true story. It is true!
I know that old place, just as well—"
Anne, have yougotyour chair fixed to suit
where you can hear the story, every word.—
Because when I once begin 'the rose story,'
you wilt be so engaged with it that you will
feel unwilling to move till it is all over,
and you will want to see my face, and my
lips, -while I tell it, too. Now if you are
ready. I will begin."
"When I was about eight years old, I
went to school every day but Sunday, right
past that house."
"But, uncle Lewis, was it you that got
the rose?" asked Anne, moving her chair
nearer.
"It was uncle Lewis himself, dear niece,
that had the most to do with it. And may
you never do as he did, nor feel as ho felt,
as long as you live."
"The house stands near the fence, you
know, Fred. Well in the corner of the lit
tle front yard, nearest the house, grew the
white rose-bush. I had seen it two or three
years, perhaps longer, and every year it
grew more handsome. We hadn't any
white roses in my father's garden, at home.
Oh! how much I wanted a white rose, for
my own. I never had one. I felt ashamed
to go and ask, because I was not much ac•
quainted with our neighbors who lived
there. They knew me very well, and I now
know would have given ma a rose or a
handful of roses from the bush, that very
bush, if I had asked in a proper and modest
way."
"What did you do, uncle?"
"After several days' longing and wishing
that I bad one, and thinking about it, I de
termined to take one!"
"What! steal it! whyl I wouldn't have
thought of such a thing'."
"No, my dear Anne, I hope you would
not, and God grant that you may never be
tempted. or yield as I did."
"It came a bright morning. My little
brother Henry was going to school with me.
It was his first summer at school, and he
was about four or five years old. When we
came near the house, we saw the beautiful
roses. How very beautiful! They were
almost the handsomest sight my eyes ever
saw; I remember it now. I told Henry to
walk along over the hill, because I did not
wish any one to see me take the rose. Ile
went on out of sight.
"I climbed the fence, and walked along
on the rail to which the pickets were nailed
till I reached the bush. I caught the stem
of a large white one, and started to go back
along the rail, pulling it off as I went. It
was in my hand as I jumped to the ground
and I ran to overtake Henry.
"'Where did you get that?' lie asked.
want one too.' I felt so badly, I must tell
him a lie, or own that I had stolen it, or go
hack and ask one for him, or give him mine.
What should I do? I let him smell it first,
and then carry it. We went on. The fur
ther we went the worse I felt. "Mien thief!
thief!' the birds seemed to be saying. And
the leaves rustled the same, thief! thief!
thief!'
"Ali! Fred, I thought of my school mis
tress, how badly she would feel; I thought
of all the neighbors, and of all the scholars,
as if they would know it; and of my dear,
dear parents. lots mean, how bad, how
Ashamed and guilty I MC I
"Did you carry it back, uncle Lewis'!"
asked Anne, "and tell Mrs. Hand you were
sorry."
"No my dear niece, I wasn't brave enough
to do that, and it was near school time be
sides."
"The rose now, as my stolen property,
seemed hateful. I could not bear to look at
it, for it reminded roe of what I bad done.
I thought it a witness against me. It tells
the story to every eye that sees it. It must
be put out of the way, be hid, so that it
shall never be seen again. Au !my nephew,
since I have grown older, I can understand
how the robber becomes the murderer, as he
thinks 'dead men tell no tales.' Remember
the Lord's Prayer, how it says, 'Lead us not
into temptation.'"
"What did you do with the poor rose?"
exclaimed both the children.
"I buried it deep in the ground. By the
side of the turnpike there was a swamp.—
days, and I rolled up the logs of my panta
loons, walked out into a miry place, and
with my foot right upon the rose, pushed it
down as deep as I could among the mire and
stamped upon it.
"But, my precious ones, I think of that
rose yet, often. Never shall I forget what 1
felt as a thief, when I buried that white
rose."—Lidependoil.
A NIGHT WATCH WITH A. DEAD
INFANT.
Moorest thou thy bark so soon, little voy
ager? Through those infant eyes, with a
prophet's vision, sawest thou life's great bat
tle-field swarming with fierce combatants?
Fell upon thy timid car the far-off din of
its angry strife? Dropped thy head wearily
on the bosom of the sinless, fearful of earthly
taint? Fluttered thy wings impatiently
'gainst the bars of thy prison house, sweet
bird of Paradise?
God speed thy flight! No unerring sports
man shall have power to ruffle thy spread
pinions, or maim thy soaring wing. Nu
sheltering nest hod earth for thee, where the
chill wind of sorrow might not blow. No
garden of Eden, where the serpent lay coiled
beneath the flowers! No "Tree of Life,"
whose branches might have sheltered thee
for aye.
Warm fall the sunlight on thy grassy pil
low, sweet human blossom! Softly fall the
night-dews on the blue-eyed violet above
thee! Side by side with thee are hearts that
have since sensed hoping or aching. There
lies the betrothed maiden in her unappro
priated loveliness; the bride, with her head
pillowed on golden tresses, whose rare beau
ty even the Great Spoiler seemed loth to
touch: childhood, but yesterday warm and
rosy on its mother's breast; the loving wife
and mother, in life's sweet prime; the gray
haired pastor, gone to his reward; the youth
of crisped locks and brow unfurrowed by
care; the heart-broken widow, and tearful
orphan, all wait with folded hands, closed
eyes, and silent lips, alike with these, the
resurrection morn.—Fanny Fern.
ROSES IN FORMER TIMES
Among the ancients, to enjoy the scent of
roses at meals, an abundance of rose leaves
were shaken upon the table, so that the dish
'es were completely surrounded. By an in
genious contrivance, roses, during meals,
descended on the guests from above.
licli
ogabalus, in his fully, caused violets and re-
I ses to be showered down upon his guests in
such quantities that a number of them, be
ing unable to extricate themselves, were suf-
feeated in flowers. During mealtimes they
reclined upon cushions stuffed with rose
leaves or made a couch of the leaves them
selves.
The floor, too, was strewed with
roses, and in this custom great luxury was
displayed. Cleopatra, at an enormous
expense, procured roses for a feast which
she gave to Anthony, had them laid two cu
bits thick on the floor of the banquet room,
and then caused nets to be spread over the
flowers in order to render the footing elastic.
lieliogabalus not only caused the banquet
rooms, but also the colonades that led to
them, to be covered with roses, interspersed
with lilies, violets and narcissi.
$1,50 PER YEAR. IN ADVANCE, 52,00 IP NOT IN ADVANCE.
A DOG STORY
BY CIIINeGOPES
We stepped into the telegraph office in
Portland, Ohio, soon after it was established;
fortunately just in time to witness the fol
lowing amusing scene:
While the oi.ero tor was explaining to us
the mysterious working of the galvanic cur
rent and the modes operandi of its applica
tion in transmitting intelligence between
distant places, a i,i and particularly un
gainly specimen of the.!matts homo, stalked
into the office..Trc was a muscular, brawny
fellow, of the species Pike, and to judge by
his brusque manners and uncouth appear
ance had always dwelt on the frontier, or
somewhere near sundown, outside the pale
of civilization. Ile showed the symptoms
of a rapid walk, and hastily inquired:
"Telegraph office, eh?"
"It is, sir," replied the operator politely.
"Runs front here to Dayton?"
Oyes."
"Good? I have got a right smart job fur
yc. I left filar afore sun up this rnorni»',
in such an all fired splutter, I clean forgot
my dog at the tavern. He's a mighty pow
erful good dog, suanger, I tell ye—a cross
betwixt a Newfoundland and a regular hull
—smart as a mountain cat, and stout as a
grizzled bar. He kin whip his heft in wild
cats every day, an' is -truth hi u-chickomin
to hunt Injuns, an' that's just whar I'm
,twine. Now I want you to tclegraft him
down here in do..L•!e quick short metre, fur
the steambote is guise to leave in an hour,
an' I wouldn't lose the critter fur heaven."
We observed a comical expression flit over
the operator's countenance as ho pretended
to note down a description of the missing
quadruped, and answered, "All right, sir,"
to an assurance on the part of his excited
customer that he would "drap in arter the
dog in half an hour."
When he returned, the first object that al
(meted his attention was a stump-tailed pup
of the most diminutive proportions, which
was tied to the leg of the operating table,
and saluted him as he entered with a shrill
bow! wow! wow!
"You are just in time, sir. Here is your
dog, all 0. K. Only a little out of breath,
owing to the rapidity of his journey," said
the operator,•blandly.
"'{Phi interrogated Pike, striking an
wns too c pregnaa for words
"Here, sir, tied to this table.
h at! that teeny sprinklin' uv fizzled
bar my dog? You dont mean to say that
that titer dod darned, short legged, little,
squint-eyed, lop-eared, mangy beast is my
dog? No, sir, that ain't my dog. Mine is
the hest dog in Oregon—a wallopin', big,
suplendid aniruile—a reg'lar beauty—a two
hundred pounder, sir! Phew! cuss a
snake—."
At this point the speaker, having ex
hausted his vocabulary, stopped to take
breath
"Very singular! extraordinary singular, I
must say. Has your correspondent made
a nalstake, and forwarded the wrong ani-
IMMO
"Mistake he cussed! It's a regular swin
dle, sir. That blaste.l tavern keeper up thar
has stole my dog, nu' sent me this infernal
little runt in his place. What's the dam
age?"
"Nothing, sir, as you have failed to get
the right animal," replied the operator, who
joined us in an uproarious burst. of tnerri
ruent as Pike left the office, swearing, 'lie
was guine up to Dayton to scalp that dud
rotted, dog-stealing, tavern-keeper."
AMERICAN SLAVES IN EUROPE.
The European correspondent of the New
ark Daily Advert i.ter, writing front Florence,
under date of August 23, advi,es American
travelers in Europe to leave their time, at
home.
All parties and cha-ses in Europe, how ever
Imuch they may di:Ter on questions touching
their own rights and condition, appear to
I concur in being thorough abolitionists a 4 re
garde African Slavery in the United States.
which is every where (denounced 11 ith
on
spairing bitterness. An excellent Virginia
lady who has been sojourning here some
years with her family, having recently made
arrangements to return home, found on the
eve of departure that a negro girl of some
22 years, who had been brought up and
most kindly treated as a confidential domes
tic, had been advised to leave her and re
main in the country, which she resolved to
do; notwithstanding her own manifest at
tachment
to her benefactress and her chil
dren. The girl besides having been well in
structed in the more common branches of
an English education, had been taught both
•
IFrench and Italian, under this beneficient
'care. She had, moreover, beou repeatedly
I assured that she might consider herself as
free, whenever she could advantageously
change her circumstances. Yet the influ
ionce of numerous advisers here has prevailed
and she remains in a land of strangers, un
-1 der the alarming conjurations of Italian im-
I aginations. A New Orleans lady lost a fa
vorite domestic in the same way a few months
since, and the poor creature, having thus
deprived herself of early associations, and
a sure support, lost her wits in the trial. and
is now in a lunatic asylum. It should be
added to the honor of the lady first named
that she has made ample provision through
a friend here to secure her lost favorite front
such a contingency.
[WHOLE NUMBER, 1,365.
WHY JEWESSES ARE BEAlinakui,
Chateaubriand gives a. fanciful but an
agreeable reason for the fact that Jewish
women are so much handsomer than the
men of their nation. He says Jewesses hatp
escaped the curse which has alighte4 oD
their fathers, husbands arid sons. Not a
Jewess was to be seen among the crowd of
priests and rabble who insulted the Son of
God, scourged Him, crowned him with
thorns, and subjected him to infamy and the
agony of the crctv. The women of Judea
believed in the Savior, and assisted and
soothed him under affliction. A woman of
Bethany poured on his head precious oint
ment which she kept in a vase ofikabaster.
The s7innertnnointed his feet with perfumed
oil and wiped them with her hair. Christ
on his part estended mercy on the Jewesses.
Ile raised from the dead the son of the wid
ow of Nain, and Martha's brother Lazarus.
lie cured Simon's mother-in-law, and the
woman who touched the hem of His gar
ment. To the Samaritan woman Ile was a
spring of living water, and a compassionate
judge of the women inladultry. The daugh
ters of Jerusalem wept over him; the holy
women accompanied him to Calvary, brought
him balm and spices, and weeping sought
him in the sepulchre. "Woman, why weep
est thou?" His first appearance after the
ressurrection was to Mary Magdaline. He
said to her, "Mary." At the sound of his
voice, Mary Magdaline's eyes were opened,
and she answered, "Master." The reflec
tion of some beautiful ray must have rested
on the brow of the Jewesses.
THE RAGE FOR FICTION
"I want a paper that has long stories in
it," said a young lady; and she added, "I
don't want a paper for anything else."—
Poor girl! much to be pitied—and a pitiful
appearance she will make through life, at
the present rate. She wants nothing seri
ous, no acquaintance with the history alter
times, milling intellectual—nothing butnews
paper novels! Empty headstheymustbe, that
can find room every week for some ten col
umns of a sham story. Yet these are the
heads for which the weekly press toils and
groans, throwing off by the ten thousands,
its sheets of shallow, insipid, and disgusting
fiction; and for this, an amount of money is
paid which a sound literature utterly fails
to command. Yes, Christian fathers and
and daughters, and so minister to dieirig
noritnee and destitution of an taste and fit
ness for life's duties. Doubtless the period
ical press does more than any other one in
strumentality, to decide the opinions, habits
of thought, and generel character of the age.
A family will very soon begin to show a
sympathy with its weekly paper, and pa
rents and child will soon begin assimilating
to it in sentiment and feeling; and as fami
lies are, so is the community at large.—
Blind and stupid, therefore, yea worse, aro
those parents who tolerate in their houses a
class of papers which are good for nothing
—made up of the writings of silly, ignorant
scribblers, who would be "at the foot" in a
town school, much more in a school of good
morals. Such arc the teachers of half the
present generation.—. Albany Spectator.
AN IRISH WAGER.
"Nate hand you are, thin, my darlin!"
said one Irish bricklayer to another; "you
mount the ladder wid your hod full o' stones,
and sratter 'em on the beads iv us as you
go. OA blatheration, blood and owns! by
thim that's licitly, I'd carry yourself up,
from the flats to the roof, and down &gin
widout your being spilt."
'You don't do it, sir:" returned the follow
laborer; -I'd lay a trifle you couldn't:"
"For n pint of whiskey I would
it the likes of you I would not lift? D'ye
take my bet, bonQ?"
"'Faith, I'll Let my hide against yer pint,
and that's a fair trade, thatyou can't."
"In wid your dirtily karkati, and we'll
dirs.. it."
Fearful as the experiment may seem, it
was successful. When two-thirds up the
ladder, Paddy roared out:
"McCarthy, ye, sit airy, or I'll
spill ye"
"Sure, an' isn't it that I'd be after haring
ye do!" returned Mae.
When safe landed he exclaimed
"I didn't, think it was in the likes o' ye.
As it happens, you're won, I'm bate; but
just as we was coming by the third story, I
teat in 'lves
lIEROTC CONDreS OP a YOCNO LADT.—The
' Albany Knickerbocker says:
A little child's life was saved yesterday
almost miraculously. It was left in a wag
on on Broadway, while its parents went next
door to do some shopping. During their air
eence something frightened the team, and
away they went down the street like a gale
of wind. Just as they passed Lydius street,
a young lady of our acquaintance saw the
danger approaching and in an instant pre
pared to rescue the little fellow. Throwing
her hat and shawl on the sidewalk, she made
' a spring for the tail of the wagon just as it
was darting by her, and, as luck would have
it. caught firmly, the momentum of the wag
on jerking her inside the box. She iMIII6-
deately clasped the child in her arms, and,
siezing a favorable moment, sprang to the
ground, without injury to herself or her lit
tle foundling. Such conduct deserves to be
heralded, and she a first rata husband.