Dd[ 41: 11 E C 11111 COLEMAN J. BULL, Editor and Publisher VOLUME XXVII, NUMBER 17.1 ,PUBLISIIED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING. Office in Northern Central Railroad Com pany's Building, north-west corner Front and Walnut streets. Terms of Subscription. *QM Copy per annum, if paid in advance, i •4 •• tfi f not paid within three months from commencement of the year, 200 4C I =it iss a Copy. No subscription received fora less time than !IX =Goths; and no paper will be discontinued until all Arrearases are paid, unless at the option of the pub. iv... Money m ay be remitted by mail at the publish •t's risk. Bates of Advertising j square [6 lines] one week, •• three weeks, ,s each subsequent insertion, 10 1 " [l2 :fines] one week, 44 three weeks, 1 50 00 is each subsequent insertion, 20 Larger advertisements in proportion. A liberal discount will be made to quarterly, half yearly or yearly advertisers,who are strictly confined to their business. Drs. John & Rohrer, T_T AVE associated in the Practice of Medi- Columbia, April tat.lBsG•tf DR. G. W. MIFFLIN, DENTIST, Locust street, near the Pod 01 flee. Columbia. P. Columbia. May 3, 1856. H. M. NORTH, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. Columbia, Pa. Collections, promptly made, in Lancaster and York Counties. Columbia, May 1,1950. SAMUEL EVANS, TOME OF TEE PEACE. Office in the Odd Fellows , Hall, Second *treat, Columbia, Pa. Columbia, August 25, H 155. J. E. RACHENB ERG, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Columbia, Penn's, gap.. in Locust street, four doors above From colminbia, May 13, 1652. DAVIES E. BALMER, ESQ., TTOFINEY AT LAW AND CONVEYANCER, li oa - ers his services to the citizens of Columbm, anti mamma them that he wilt attend with promptitude ,to all business entru.ted to his care. Office—Front sweet, between Union and Perry. Residence—South side Second girt.et,lud door below Union. Columbia. January 13.1655-1 y GEORGE J. SMITH, WHOLESALE and Retail Bread and Cake Baker.—Constantly on hand a variety of Cakes, too nu merous to mention; Crackers; Sodu, A me. Scroll, ;tad Sugar Biscuit; Confecuottery. of every de , ,eription, etc., a,c. LOCUST Feb. 2,'36. Between the Bank and Franklin I louse. SAMUEL LODGE, 33‘4,anutox-x...2•1.45t.33. -4\artiffirt, Corner Front 4. Locust sta., Columbia, Pa. Pictures taken for 25 cents And upwards, and satisfaction ;guaranteed. irr No Picture need be taken (rain the Gallery unless it is such as is really desired. Columbia, March 31,1855. • „To. P. .&PPOLD d CO., - • • - .IMi GENERAL FORWARDING AND COMMIS gIIWIMISION MERCHANTS, Qa t. RECEIVERS OF COALANDPRODUCE, And Deliverers on any point on the Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad. to York and Baltimore and to Pittsburg; DEALERS IN COAL. FLO U R AND GRAIN, WHISKY AND BACON, have Just received u large let of Nououge.liala Rectified Whiskey, from Pittsburg, of which they will Seep a supply constantly on band. at low prices. Nos. 1, 2 and 6 Cunal Basin. Columbia, January 27, 1554. J. SttRODDER, Ladies Boot dr. Shoe Manufacturer, No. 1 Locust street, Columbia, Pa. RESPECTFULLY tenders his sincere thanks for the very liberal patronage he has received. and s%Ol/id 4111110tUICC to Ins patrons that he has Just supplied him self with a large and choice variety of matermls, and :4 prepared to make up, in addition to his large stock of ready-made work on hand, Ladies. Misses. and Chtl arena SHOES, GAITERS, BOOTS. SLIP PERS, fr.e., in the latest and best styles. Ile solicits a continuance of the tavor so liberally bestowed by the public. hlstrah 15, 1856, reaufa Rail Road Freight Station. /4 . IIEIGIIT OFFICE and DEPOT in the new building. corner of Front and Gay streets, near the Collector's Oifiee. Ticket Office for Passengers, East nod West. nt the Washington lintel. FRASTUS K. POICE, April lit. IVA-if Freight & Ticket anent. OATS FOR SALE BY THE BUSHEL, or in larger quantities, at Nes. 1,2 & G Canal Bann. 11. F. APPOLD & CO. Columbia, January• ec, las°. GROCERIES! THE subscriber would inform the public that he is constantly receiving fresh supplies of the beg Fam ily Groceries the market will alTord: come and satisfy yourselves, S. C. SWARTZ. Columbia, Jane 21,15.56. ROPES, ROPES, ROPES, 50 COILS, superior qualities, various sizes, jut,: received and for, sale cheap, by WELSH & RICH. Columbia. March 72. 1856. Balm of Thousand Flowers, DDISCOVERED by Dr. Fontaine. Paris, for beaunfling the complexion, curing all the diseases of the skin. for Shaving, cleansing the teet In for the Toilet and the Nursery; for bathing and manymedical mayo.,' For sale by SA.SI'L FILBERT. Golden Mortar Drug :tore, Columbia, Pa. Columbia, March 22, iSIG. Rapp's Gold Pens. CONSTANTLY on hand, an assortment of these celebrated PENS. Persona in wain of a good article are invited to call and examine them Columbia, Jane 30, 1855. JOHN FELIX. Excellent Dried Beef, OUGAR Cured and Plain Huns, elhouldera and SHIM P for ',ale by Mardi 22, iStei. GEORGE J. SMITH, T OCIIST STREET, has just commenced man- J_J ulacturing• LEMON REEK. and keep envoi:x.loy en band,* full asmortmoni of SUMMER DRINKS. Columbia, April 19. 1856. Just Received, ALAUB LOT of Childreata Carriage*, Gigs, Rocking Horses, Wheelbarrows. Prepeb Ws, Nursery Swings, dm. GEORGE. J. SMITH. April 117, 15.16„ Locust street. CITINA and other Fancy Artielee. too numerous to mention, for wile by Ci. J Shi Fill, Locust street, between the Bank and Franklin House. Columbia. April ID . mph D 8. 1 116 RASO! 1-1 eta. per pound; shoulder., 10 do do Dried Deer, 14 do do Tide Water Gana! Money received for goal.. WELSH & RICH Columbia, May 1%,1656. ALCOHOL and Burning Fluid, always on hand. at the lowest prices, at the Family Medicine Wore. Odd !•Mows' February Y, 185 G. _ . WRY should any person do without a Clock, when they can be had forSl.soand upwards. at SHREINER'S! Columbia, April 29, 1855 Q C. SWARTZ bin just received an Fatra Brand We of Tobacco and Betray., wbecb sill be sold to rinallors attic lowest rano. (Kay 1.0. CONTINUES to occupy the large building at the corner of Second and Locust streets, and offers to those desiring comfortable boarding the great est conveniences. At his :Saloons and Restaurant will be found Luxuries of all kinds in season, which will be served up in ;he best manner and at the short est notice. Ile respectfully solicits a share of patron age. [Golumbia, blay 10, 1850. OM Blount Vernon House, Canal Basin, Columbia, Pa. HENRY K.IIIIVICH, PROPRIETOR. larThe best acenminotlations and every attention given to gues:ft, who may favor this establishment with their patronage. [April 19, 1856-u Frank iu House, Locust st. Columbia, Pa THE subscriber continues to occupy this well-known Hotel. and will do everything in hi, power to comfortably entertain all who may patron ize hint. His facilities for accommodating Horses, Droves, &e., are superior. April ID. 18.51151 y CIA Washington House, Columbia, Pa. DANIEL HERR, PROPRIETOR. TICS old and well-known house is Mill in 1 the occupancy of the subscriber • and offers every inducement to the traveller, in the way of comfort and convenience. The Cars, east and went, start from this establishment, and it has other advantages unsur. passed by any. Terms reasonable, Columbia. April IL 1 R. 511.1 NE. CORNER. of Front and Walnut streets, col-MINA, PA. JOSHUA J. GAULT. PROPRIETOR. (:tucce•sor to lta rilwell k Brenrman and Mrs Haines) The House is furnished with all Modern Improve ments. and every attention will be given to secure the comfort of guests. Charges moderate. Columbia, korll 1.2.15.5G•tf J. W. FISHER, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, ZI SIIEPARD would respectfully inform r the citizens of Columbia and vicinity, that he has effected all agency with the Philadelphia Plano Forte M.nufacturing Company, whose Pianos for superior tone, finish, and durability. have for years stood unrivalled. He is prepared to deliver them here at the lowest city prices. and would most respectfully solicit the patronage of such as wish to procure u good and substantial In strument. A specimen of the above mentioned instrument may be acme by calitag at his music room, cunt corner of Front and Locust streets, Columbia- February •2. 12.93. Music and Musical Instruments. THE undersigned having made arrange ments with Mr. 1. E. GOULD,would respectfully 11110111 l the Ladies of Columbia and vicinity that he is now prepared to famish Music at the shortest notice. Persona in want of 4rat-rate Violins, Flutes, Gui tars, Demos, or any other Musical Instruments, are re.peet Wily invited to cull ut the Headquarters and News Depot. S. D. SWARTZ N. It —A very fine assortment of Violin and Guitsir String.., always no hand. A lig 1.10 ti 1,16.3ta NEW ARRIVAL of Preserved Pine Apples, Citron, Crab apples, Limos, Pears, Plum, and Iliac kberry Jam, at S. C. SWARTZ'S, Aug. 30, 1656. Odd Fellown' Hall. Columbia. J UST received acid for sale by S. C. SWARTZ Drawly Peite bee mid Cherries, Fresh Whortle. berries, Black borne=, Cherrie,“ Pine Apple, Cloo.e. berries and Currants. [Coluinliia, Aug 20, TTAllt DYE'S. Jones' Batchelor's, Peter's and Ileyptinii hair dyes. warranted to color the hair any desired shads, without injury to the shin. For sale by K. WILLIAMS. May 10, front st.. Columbia. Pa. riITRATF. AlMilNi.:St seidlitz Powder, Soda V Powder told Mineral Water, always to be had, of a superior quality,ut MeCOftli:LF, h DEI.I.ETT'S Family Medicine Store, Odd Fellow's Hull. July 26,1. w. PICKLES, Pepper Sauce, Mixed Pickles, Cher- Kelekup and tiriumeh ()liven, Just received and for mule 113. S. C. SWARTZ. Columbia. Aug. t 54. vARR & THOMPSON'S justly celebrated Com• reercial nod other Gold Pens—•the her.' in the market—just received. Columbia. April V. 11.,55 SAPONEFIER, or Concentrated Lye, for ma king Soap. 1 lb. i= sufficient for one barrel of Soft Soap, or Ilb.for 9 lbs. Hard Soap. Full direc tions will be given ur the Counter for making Soft, Hard and Fancy Soups. For sale by It. WILLIAMS. Colombia. March 31.1.955. JAMr.S snnor•.nra, Columbia, Pa 'TABLE 01L—Just received a fresh supply of superior Tuble Oil. at McCOIIIICLE & DELLFITT'S Family Medicine Store, Odd Fellow's Aim] Id 131.11,11 A LLSTRES: We have received another supply of three new nod beautiful goods. so very desirable for f.ndies"rravelling Dresses. Those in wain of them can be supplied at FONDERSMITH'S May 21.1556. Ceople's Cash Store. SOLUTION OF CITRATE OF MAGNESIA,or Pur gauve Mineral Witten—This pleasant medicine which is highly recommended as a substitute for Epsom Salts. Seidlitz Powders. he.. eon lie obtained fresh every day ut SAM'L. FILBERTS Drug Store, Front at. D 2 ACIIELOR'S HAIR DYE—No burning, bl:ntering 1) Compound could ever have attained the univernat favor accorded to this the original, never-fading favor ite Nausea in not more true to herself than the brown or black produced in the reddest, gray es:. or mo.'t frowny hair by tt. Made and sold, or applied at Bach elor's Wig Factory, tat Broadway, N. Y, The genu ine article fur sale at BUBO R & DELLETT'S April 11. Family Medicine *Aare. TEST RECEIVED, a large and well selected variety of Itru+he•, conrt•una ❑t part of Shoe, Extr, Cloth, Crumb, Iliad, lied and Teeth Brushes, and for rate by R. WILLIAMS. March 22, 'SG Front street Columbus. Pa. SUPERIOR article of PAINT OIL. for vile by R. WILLI ANIS. May 10, ISM Front Street, Columbia, Pa A*UP6IIIOR article of TONIC SPIGE suitable for Hotel Keepers, (or Pale by R. WILLIANIS. May 10,1550. Front street, Columbia. EIR CS(' ETIIEREAL OIL, altanya on hand, and for File by It. WILLI AMs, Nay 10. 1.4.76. Front Street, Columbia Pa. wra.su & RICH JUST reeerved, rft CAM PHFINE. and for rale er by IL WILLIAMS. May 10, ISM. Front Street. Columbta, Pa. DE GRATH'S ELECTRIC OIL. Just received, 1./ fresh supply of flits popular remedy, and for sale by n VI L.LIANIS , May t 0,19.56. Front Street, Columbia, Pa. A NEW lot of {VITA LE AND CAR GREASING Ak OILS, received At the etore of the .I.lllfcrther. R. WILLIAAIS. 7lTny From Street.Colionbin. LX'rRA FAMILY' FLOOR, just received and for ALJ sale by June 21. 1P.54. S. C. SWARTZ. SUPERIOR CATTLE POWDER. For *ale at McEolt KU: tic DELLErrs July 26, I F.,341. Early Medicine Store RIRD SEEDS.—Canary. Hemp. and Rape Seeds 1) For Male 6: McCORKLN& DELLETTS April 12. Funiily Medicine Store. QAI SAGO CH KESS. Pickles, Kele:tops, &C., just received and far sale by June 22, 1556. Feed, Feed, Feed. CORN, Oat•, and Flour, can be had at 9 C. Swartz's Store. at Mill pricey. Delivered free of cbarge. Sept. 27, 1959. SWEET CIDER, just rteeired and for sale by Sept. 21, '56. S. C. SWARTZ. SQUAIL Cured Huns, Shoulders, Sides, &e., jags received and for 1/1111 by 8. C. SWARTZ. glepiennber Yl, lOW GERUARD BRANDT, MARTIN ERIN IN Bellevue House, Cofumble, September tt, PIANOS. From the St. Louis Republican. DISSOLVE THE UNION. Dissolve the Union! Who would part The chain that binds us heart to heart! Each link was forged by sainted sires Amid the Revolution's fires; And cooled—oh, where so rich a flood— In Warren's and in Sumter's blood. Dissolve the Union ! Be like France IVhen "Terror' reared her bloody lance, And ',Man became destruction's child, And woman, in her passions wild, Danced in the life-blood of her Queen, Beside the dreadful guillotine! Dissolve the Union! Roll away The spangled Flag of Glory's day; Blot out the history' of the brave, And desecrate each Patriot's grave— And then, above the wreck of years, Quafran eternity of tears. Dissolve the Union! Can it be That they who speak such words are free? Great God! Did any die to save Such sordid wretches front the grave— When breast to breast, and brand to brand, Our patriot-fathers freed the land? D. lIERR Dissolve the Union! Ho! Forbear! The sword of Damocles is there; Cut but the hair, and earth shall know A darker, deadlier talc of tyro, TLan llisery's crimson page has told, Since Nero's car in blood e'er rolled. Dissolve the Union! Speak, ye hills, Ye everlasting mounted:a. cry; Shriek out ye streams and mingling rills, And ocean roar in agony: Dead Heroes! leap from Glory's sod! And shield the manor of your Gal: A DOLLAR OR TWO. wtth cautious steps as we tread our way thro' This intricate world 215 other folks do, May we cull on ourjourney, be able to view The benevolent face of a dollar or two; For an 'excellent thing Is a dollar or two; No friend is so true As a dollar or two; Through country or town As we pass up and down, No passport so good As a dollar or two. Would you rend yourself out the bachelor's crew And the band of a gentle divinity sue, You must always be ready the handsome to du— Although it would cost a dollar or tw•o. Love's arrows are tipped With a dollar or two; And affection is gained By a dollar or too; The best aid you can meet. In advancing your suit, Is the eloquent chink Of a dollar or twa. Would you wish your existence with faith to imbue, And enroll in the ranks of the sacrificed few, To enjoy a good name and a well cushioned pew, You must freely conic down with a dollar or two. The gospel is preached For a dollar or two, And salvation is reached By a dollar or two; You may II nt some times, But the worst of all crime■ Is to find yourself short Of a dollar or two. Bisrtttrottxuts. A LETTER OF DANIEL WEBSTER We copy by permission, from the sheets of a revised and forthcoming edition of Mr. Lanman's "Private Life of Daniel Webster," now in the press of harper & Brothers, the subjoined familiar letter of the lamented statesman. It has been said of this great man, whose loss the country day after day only the more deeply deplores, as the un filled vacuum he left in our public and po litical affairs becomes day after day only the more apparent, that it is difficult to de cide whether be was more distinguished as a lawyer or a statesman, unsurpassed, if unrivalled, as he was in either character: and it has been justly held to constitute the peculiar distinction of his greatness that ho ; was thus able to combine in his single per son the attributes which if restricted to a single one of these walks of life, would have ! been fully sufficient to earn for their subject 1 , no common fame. But, in addition to this double natured developetnent of Mr. Web- ; ster's mind, it is not unknown to many read ors that lie who was thus "proudly eminent" in the two highest arts of civil life was hard ly less happy or less admirable when, un bending from the cares of State and relax ing the massive brow, he threw aside alike the gravity of the Senator and the Advocate, to don the ''easy dress" of home scenes and of daily life. Those who think of Mr. Webster only as a Statesman or Lawyer have sometimes ex pressed surprise that one so much cumbered with the weighty cares of clients and affairs of State should yet have found time to cul tivate the genial veins of friendly and pri vate correspondence, oftentimes infusing in-1 to such epistolary compositions as much of t sportiveness("hugegamesomeness" we think Lord Byron calls it) as of gravity in his State papers and legal arguments. To those I however, who were familiar with Mr. Web- I ster's daily life and private habits the ex planation of this mental trait, as exemplified in familiar notes to a friend or in business letters to a "John Taylor" or his 'Marshfield manager, will not be difficult. Indeed, they may be said to have grown out of a habit I which, in one of such letters, he assigns to his motive for writing it—the habit of early rising, and the demand for mental exercise during the time which was thus redeemed from sleepy indolence. Ho had a maxim, indeed, that nothing great was ever achieved by a late riser. In this he resembled his eminent cotemporary and fellow statesman, John Quiney Adams, whom the sun never caught in bed; and Mr. Webster's celebrated dispatch to the Mexican Minister, Boeanegra, was begun at five o'clock in the morning and finished before his dinner hour. = Y. C. SWA RTZ "NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING." COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25, 1856. 'arttilj. When, however, WO time *s.s taxed with no such extraordinal demands, the leisure hours before breakfast were whiled away in a stroll through themarket, with a kind word fur the friends lie met, and a pleasant greeting to familiar - kees among the coun try folks "with produiee to sell;" then home to skim the morning ,papers, and, to pass the time, to write aipleasant note to some familiar friend, perftlips an invitation to dinner in terms of grave pleasantry, or a latter struck of in a Isportive mood upon some incident in sooitintercourse, which gave to the missive a - th 4 arna known only to the favored recipient; or it might be a letter to "John Taylor," or, like that we now sub join, to Porter Wright, Lis manager at Marsh field. Such letters may be truly said to il lustrate the "Private Life of Daniel Web ster," since they grew out of it and aro "racy of the soil."—NO. Intel. WAsiruccroN, November 12, 1856 PORTER WRIGHT: I you will find places somewhere forme turnips. There is the floor of the sheep barn, as well as the cellar, and the floor and hovel of the new barn, (if we have no cattle there,) where turnips can be placed and covered up with hay or straw. Indeed, I suppose if you were to make a platform, a foot front the ground, with loose plank, you might lay turnips upon it two or three feet thick, and cover all up with hay or straw, and that in this manner they might be kept till spring. I am willing you shoe d sell the jumpers* if you can get a full, frtii price for them— not under a hundred dollars, and as much more as you think they are worth. Ido not exactly remember heir size, but they aro a handsome pair, MS* in good order, will be six years old in spring, and if you do not need to work them this winter, we have hay and turnips to give them, and they may easily be nsadsikgood beef by July when good beef generfly brings a good price. Exercise your ots judgement, but do not sacrifice soy favorites. I wish you to get threi•or four nice half barrels by the time yogi kill the hogs.— Marshfield pork is very p?pular here, and I shall want as much as three half barrels sent to me. I should likftto know how the beef cattle get along.; Vaiit!poso you will slaughter the hogs _a&d,a342, keel' cattle about thtFvreek'nfaillTtikskTvirtg. If Mr. Baker has any of the common geese left more than he wishes to keep, ho may send them up from time to time to Mr. Appleton, and so of the white turkeys, ifhe can make them fat enough. Do not fail to remember the oil cake fur the calves. Take one of the best turkeys for your Thanksgiving dinner, and tell Mr. Baker to take one fur his. The barrels of vegetables Lave not arrived, but I suppose they are on the way. We have now cast wind enough to bring them along. When you have got in the turnips let me know the quantity. How does Mr. Weston get on with his bridge and his barns? I enclose a. draftfor a little money, f which suppose you will consider the very best part of this very long letter. DANIEL WEESTER *A pair of oxen. ffhe amount was WO SPANISH ATROCITIES IN HOE- LAND In the year 1567, Philip the Second of Spain, sent the Duke of Alva with an army of 10,000 men to reduce the Low Countries then in a state of revolt. Ile was success ful, and soon re-established the Spanish rule. Then commenced a series of cruelties unparalelled in the history of the world.— The tens of thousands in those miserable provinces who fell victims to the gallows, the sword, the stake, the living grave, or to ; living banishment, have never been counted: for those statistics of barbarity are often effaced from human record. No mode in which human being have ever caused their i fellow creatures to suffer, was omitted from daily practice. Men, woman, and children, old and young, nobles and paupers, opulent burghers, hospital patients, lunatics, dead b all were indiscriminately made to furnish food for the scaffold and the stake. Men were tortured, beheaded, hanged by the neck and by the legs, burned before a slow fire, pinched to death with red-hot tongs, broken upon the wheel, starved and flayed alive. Their skins, stripped from the living body, were stretched upon drums to be beaten in the march of their brethren to the gallows. The bodies of many who had died a natural death were exhumed, and their festering remains hanged upon a gibbit, on pretext that they had died without receiving the sacrament, but in reality that their pro perty might become the legitimate prey of the treasury. Marriages of long standing were dissolved by order of the Government, that rich heiresses might be married against their will to foreigners whom they abhorred. Women and children were executed for the crime of assisting their fugitive husbands and parents with a penny in their utmost need, and even for consoling them with a letter in their exile. Such was the regular course of affairs as administered by the Blood-Council. The additional barbarities committed amid the sack and ruin of those blazing and starring cities are almost beyond belief: unborn infants were torn from the living bodies of their-mothers ; women end children were violated by thousands ; and whole populations burned and backed to pieces by soldiers in every mode which cruelty, in its wanton ingenuity, could de. vise. THE THRONE OF SOLOMON The following account (says an exchange) lof a remarkable piece of mechanism is 1 taken from a Persian manuscript called "The History of Jerusalem." It purports to be a description of the Throne of King Solomon, and if the details are correctly given, it undoubtedly surpasses any piece of mechanism produced in modern times.— The sides of it were pure gold, the feet of emerald and rubies, intermixed with pearls, each of which was as large as an ostrich's egg. The Throne had seven steps—on each side were delineated orchards full of trees, the branches of which were of precious 1 stones, representing fruit, ripe and unripe : on the tops of trees were to be seen figures of plumage birds, particularly the peacock, the staub, and the kurges. All these birds were hollowed within artificially, so as to occasionally utter a thousand melodious sounds, such as the ears of mortals never heard. On the first was delineated vine 1 branches having bunches of grapes, com posed of various sorts of precious stones, fashioned in such a manner as to represent the various colors of purple, violet, green and red, so as to render the appearance of real fruit. On the second step on each side of the throne were two lions of terrible as pect, large as life, and formed of cast gold. The nature of this remarkable throne, was such that when Solomon placed his foot on the first step, the birds spread forth their wings and made a fluttering noise in the air. On his touching the second step, the !lions expanded their claws. On his reach the third step the whole assemblage of demons and fairies and men repeated the praise of the Deity. When he arrived at the fourth step, voices were heard address ing him in the following manner : "Son of David, be thankful for the blessings which the Almighty has bestowed upon you."— The same was repeated on reaching the fifth step. On his touching the sixth, all the children of Israel joined them ; and on his arrival at the seventh, all the birds and ani mals became in motion, and ceased not un til he had placed himself in the royal seat, when the birds, lions, and other animals, by secret springs, discharged a shower of the most precious perfumes on Solomon, after which two of the kurges descended and placed.a golden crown upon his head...- fore the throne was a column of burnished gold, on the top of which was a golden dove, which held in its beak a volume bound in silver. In this book were written the Psalms of David, and the dove having pre sented the book to the Kin, lie read aloud a portion of it to the children of Israel. It i is further related that en the approach of a 1 wicked person to the throne, the lions were wont to set up a terrible roaring, and to lash their tails with violence. The birds also began to bristle up their feathers, and the assembly also, of demons and genii, to utter horrid cries ; fur fear of theta no one dared be guilty of falsehood, but all con fessed their crimes. Such was the throne of Solomon, the son of David INDIAN SUMMER Do our readers reflect that we are now in the enjoyment of our Indian summer? The season is now the loveliest of the year, though at the same time the saddest. Na ture is dying in beauty around Ul. As she fades on earth, each hue is lovelier than the last, until the brown tinge of absolute de cay covers her brilliant charms. The smile on the cheek of the expiring season was never more beautiful—more winning. One would suppose that its very loveliness would turn aside the dart of death, or, if that could not be. strip it of all its poison. Beautiful as the season is, it is most mel ancholy. The varied hues of the bright leaves are t,o well known to be the hues of death not to create sadness in the beholder. The gay dress of the forrcst cannot compen sate fur its silence. We tread over the scattered and fallen leaves, and ask, as our footfall strikes dead on the car.— '•Where nre the furest birds , Thr nnswer to n silent our, .Bore eloquent than words,' But let us enjoy the season while we may. Its vivid beauty will not last us long. It is as evanescent as it is gay. Let us then give our heart to its loveliness while it tla%hes around us. Winter and death will soon enough spread their gloom around us without our pining ourselves romantically with their anticipation. Nature will not he dead. She only sleeps to rise in beauty for another year. Is it not so with tnanP--liartford Courant. SNIART BOY When Lieutenant Goy. Patterson WAS Speaker of the Legislature of one of our States, some dozen boys presented themselves for the place of messenger, as is usual at the opening of the House. Ile inquired their names, and into their condition, in order that he might make the proper selection.— Ile came in the course of his examination, to a small boy, about ten years old, a bright looking lad. "Well, sir," said he, "what is your name?" "John Hancock, sir," replied the boy. "What!" said the Speaker, "you are not the one that signed the Declaration of Inde pendence, are you?" "No, sir," replied the lad, stretching him self to his utmost proportions, but I would if I bad been there." "You can be one of the messengers," said the Speaker. $1,50 PK YEAR IN ADVANCE, $2,00 IF NOT IN ADVANCE. THE SAGACITY OF TURNSPIT DOGS. • Among the mental problems which occu pied much of the attention of Ampre was the vexed question of the nature of the fac ulties of animals. He originally decided against their capacity to reason, but he abandoned the opinion in deference to a sin gle anecdote, related by a friend on whose accuracy he could rely. This gentleman, drive en by a storm into a village public house, ordered a fowl to be roasted. Old fashions then prevailed in the south of France, and turnspits were still employed in the place of the modern jack. Neither caresses, threats, nor blows could make the dog act his part. The gentleman interposed. "Poor dog, in deed!" said the landlord, sharply, "he de , serves none of your pity, for the scenes take place every day. Do you know why this pretty fellow refuses to work the spit? It is because he has taken it into his head that i‘c and his partner arc to share alike, and it is not his turn." Ampre's informant beg ged that a servant might he sent to find the other dog, who made no difficulty about per forming his task. He was taken out after a while and his refractory partner put in, who bogan, now that his sense of justice was satisfied, to work with a thorough good will, like a squirel in a cage. A similar inci dent was related by M. de Liencourt to the great Arnauld, who, with other Port Royal ists, had adopted the theory of Descartes, that dogs were automatons and machines, and who on the strength of this conviction, dissectel the poor creatures to observe the circulation of the blood, and denied that they felt. "I have two dogs," said the re monstrator against this cruelty "who turn the spit on alternate days. One of them hid himself, and his partner was about to ho put to turn in his place. He barked and wagged! his tail, as a sign to the cook to follow him, went to the garret, pulled out the truant, and worried him. Are these your machines?" The great Arnauld, mighty in controversy and redoubtable in logic, must have had a latent cansciousness that the turnspit had refuted him.—Arago's Account of Ampre. FEATS WITH WOOD ON RAIL ROADS. The N. Y. Tribune, of the 2d ineL de l iiribeiihatliiui - iietionarkoiiiktireetiFftTvi ning great distances with a small quantity of wood. It states that a locomotive on the Pacific Railroad (1lo.) lately hauled three pas.engcr trains with 106 passengers, and one baggage ear, 125 miles in 7 hours with one curd of oak wood. On the Ohio and 31imissippi Railroad, a looomotive recently I hauled the night express train 1-19 miles with one and a quarter cords of weed ; the time not given. On the Norwich and Wor leester Railroad a locomotive regularly hauls the accommodation train back and forth -12 miles—making 32 stops, and standin , one hour at Worcester, with only Sel en feet and a half of wood—or S cubic feet less than one cord. It also states that the aserage performance of locomotives is only from 25 to 60 miles per cord of wood. We have noticed the performance of the locomotive, on the Pacific road, in a former number, and allude to it again in connection with the other two, to say that the feat win not a great one, as the speed was not quite eighteen miles per hour. The consumption of fuel by locomotives, is in proportion to their speed. the load hauled, and the resis tance overcome. A locomotive may ho run 150 miles with one cord of wood, while an other equally economical will requiro one cord for twenty miles. It is the work done, and not the distance run, which is the true test of the economy of fuel on railroads.— The account of the running on the Pacific Railroad is somewhat satisfactory, because the speed and size of the train are given, but statements respecting the other two locomo tives—neither speed nor load being given— amounts to an absurdity so far as it relates to their economy NOBILITY OF BLOOD Crams, iu this •'Fozon Ili,tory," tells as of an Earl of Alsatia, surnamed, on accout,t of his groat strength, ''Lion," who was a g,t eat favorite with Edward 111., of England, and much envied, ns favorites are always sure to he, by the rest of the courtiers. On one occasion, when the king was absent, some noblemen malitiously instigated the queen to make trial of the noble blond of of the favorite, by causing a lion to he let loose upon him, saying, according to the popular belief. that if the earl was truly no- I ble the lion would not touch him. It being customary with the earl to rise at break of day, before any other person in the palace was stirring, a lion was let loose during the night, and turned into the lower court.— When the earl came down in the morning, with no more than a nightgown cast over a shirt he was met by the lion, bristling his hair, and growling destruction between his teeth. The earl, not in the least daunted, called out with a strong voice—" Stand you' dog:" At these words, the lion crouched at his feet to the great amazement of the cour tiers, who were peeping out at every win dew to see the ist.ue of their ungenerous de sign. The earl laid hold of the lion by the main, turned him into his cage, and placing his nightcap on the lion, came forth without ever casting a look behind him. "Now," said the earl calling out to the courtiers, "let him amongst you all, that stand most t upon his pedigree, go and fetch my night eap. [WHOLE NUMBER, 1,369. THE VALVE OF A eau'. LADY. Once I assisted at the soirie dansante of the Countess of Fritterfield. The most brilliant star in that galaxy of fitshion was the young and lovely Marchioness of Fiddles dale. I saw her dancing in the hall. Aronnd her snowy brow wore set five hundred pounds ; for such would have been the an swer of auyjeweller to the question, "what are those diamonds?' With the gentle un dulations of her bosom, there rose and fall exactly thirty pounds ten shillings, the tam she wore in the guise of a brooch of gold and enamel. Her fairy form was invested in ten guineas represented by a slip of lilac satin; and this was overlaid by thirty guineas more in two skirts of white lace. Tastefully disposed down each side of the latter, were six half crowns; which so many bows of purple rib bon bad come to. The lower margins of the thirty guinea skirts were edged with eleven additional guineas, the value of some eight yards of silver fringe a quarter of a yard in depth. Her taper waist, taking zone and clasp together, I calculated to be confined by f,rty pounds sterling. Her delicately rounded arms, the glove of spotless kid be ing added to the gold bracelet which encir cled the little wrist, may be said to have been adored with twenty-two pounds five and sixpence, and, putting the silk and satin at the lowest figure, I should say that she wore fourteen and sixpence on her feet.— Thus, altogether, was this thing of light, this creature of loveliness, arrayed from top to toe, exclusively of little sundries, in six hundred and forty-eight pounds eleven shill ings.—Jus. llume. LET ME PRAY FIRST. A very intelligent little girl was passing quietly through the streets of a certain town a short time since, when she came to a spot where several idle boys were amusing them selves by the very dangerous rractico of throwing, stones. Not observing her, one of the boys, by accident, threw a stone towards her, and struck her a cruel blow in the eye. She was carried home in groat agony.— The surgeon was sent for, and a very pain ful operation was declared necessary. -When the time came, and the surgeon had taken ni7 14 3 .nairhelLik;" - . 7- . . "Icie 7. "No, father, not yet," she replied. "What do you wish us to wait for, my child?" "I want to kneel in your lap, and pray to Jesus first," she answered. And then kneel ing, she prayed a few minutes, and after wards submitted to the operation with Sao patience of a woman. How beautiful this little girl appears, un der these trying circumstances! Surely Je sus heard the prayer made in that hour; and he will lore every child that calls upon his Inc.; Let every boy and girl learn to pray; and let idle boys be careful how they throw stones. GOLDEN RULES OF LIFE. All the air and exorcise in the universe, and the most liberal table, are but poorly sufficient to maintain human stamina if we neglect other operatives—namely the obe dience to the laws of abstinence, and those of ordinary gratification. We rise with a headache, and set about puzzling ourselves ;to know the cause. We then recollect we i had a hard day's fag, or that wo feasted lover -bountifully, or that we stayed up very ! late; at all events, wo incline to find out the fault, and then we call ourselves fools for falling into it. Now this is an occurrence happening almost every day, and these are the points which run away with the best ' portion of our life before we find out what lis f. , r good or evil. Let any single indlvid inal review his past life; how instantaneously I the blush will cover his cheek when he thinks of the errors he has unknowingly I committed, because it never occurred to him that they were errors until the affects that followed betrayed the cause. All our sick- Hess and ailments and a brief life mainly depend upon ourselves. There are thou sands who practice errors day after day, and whose pervading thought is, that everything . which is agreeable and pleasant cannot be hurtful. The slothful man loves his bed— , the toper his drink, because it throws him into an exiliarative and exquisite mood— the g , urmand makes his stomach his god— and the sensualist thinks his delights im perishable. So we go on, and at last we stumble and break down. We then begin to reflect, and the truth stares us in the face, how much we arc to blame. SAVING BACON. As the reason will soon be at hand for our farmers to lay up their usual stock of bacon the following from a correspondent of the Neu England Fanner may serve a good purpose:— "lie was once entertained at the house of a friend, and at dinner be had reason to compliment him on the excellent quality of his bacon, and inquired to know his method of preparing and preserving. lie stated that it was his practice to slice and fry his bacon immediately on its being cured, and then pack it down in its own fat. When occasion came fur using it, the slices, slightly refried, had all the freshness and flavor of new bacon just prepared. In this way our friend had always succeeded in 'saving 'his bacon' fresh and sweet, through the hottest weather."
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