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TIRE associated in the Practice of Medi-
Col umbit, April 1 nt, 18.504 t
DR. G. W. MIFFLIN,
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sce. Columbia, Pa.
Columbia, May 2, 1858.
H. M. NORTH,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Columbia, Pa.
Collecuona, r.romptly made, in Lancaster and York
Counties.
Columbia, May 41,1850.
J. W. FISHER. P. L. HACKENBERG.
FISHER & HACRENBERG,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law,
ChDluintalk:sotob,
Columbia, *eptember ti,1656-tt
DAVIES E. BRUNER, ESQ.,
ATTORNEY AT LAW AND CONVEYANCER.
carers his services to the cstirens of Columbia.
and assures them that he will attend with promptitude
to all businevs entrusted to his cure. Office—Front
street, between Union and Perry. Residence—South
side Second street, 2nd door below Unton.
Columbia, January 13. 1855-1 y
GEORGE 3. 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; Confectmucry, of every description,
r.of 17ST S
Feb. 2,'56. Between the Bank and Franklin House.
SAMUEL LODGE,
3:1z0.g - tlox-x-oleee.2l .4gLx-tiesirt.
Corner Front 4- Locust sta., Columbia, Pa.
Pictures taken for 25 cents
And 11f1WardS, rind 4 1ati.reetion gl.tnratflecti•
jl7 - Dits Picture need be taken front the Gallery
lalllkll,l it is su-lt as is really desired.
Co'within, March 31 12• 1 545,
IlloAL AL. As—a-..
11. F. APPOLD & CO.,
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GENERAL FORWARDING AND COMMIS ,
lON•ditEROISAin 114"-74; 0 4
RECEIVERS OF
COAILAND PRO DUCE,
And Deliverers on any point on the Colombia and
Philadelphia Railroad. to York and
Baltimore and to Pittsburg;
DEALERS IN COAL, FLOUR AND GRAIN,
NV RISKY AND BACON, hove jars received n
Biqa lot or Monongahela Iteelified Whiskey, from
Piumhurg, of which they will keeps supply con.motly
on band. at low price.. No; I, 2 and G Canal llama.
Columbia, January 27, 1654.
J. SIEROZIDER,
Ladies Boot dit. Shoe Manufacturer,
No. 1 Locust street, Columbia, Pa.
RESPECTFULLY tenders his sincere thanks for the
very liberal patronage he has received, arid would
announce to his patrons that he has just supplied hint
self with a large and choice variety of materials, and is
prepared to make upon addition to his lar4e sto c k of
ready-made work out hand. Lathes. Misses. and Chit.
deco, SHOES, GAITERS, HOOTS. SI.IP
PERS, &c.,in the latest and hest styles. Ile
solicits a continuance of the wear so liberally
bestowed by the public.
JAMES SIIROEDER.
March IS, MG. Columbia. Pa.
Ferea Rail Road Freight Station.
14 1 11 EIGHT OFFICE and DEPOT in the new
building. corner of Front and Gay stteets, near
the Collector's Office.
Ticket Office for Passengers, En•t and West. nt the
Washington Hotel. FEASTUS K. 1101C1•
April 10, 1'446.1f Freight & Tict et Agent.
OATS FOR SALE
BY THE BUSHEL, or in larger qualities,
at Yea. 1,2 & 6 Canal Basin.
D. F. APPOLD tc. CO.
Columbia., Santry• 26, 1e56
GROCERIES!
11111 E subscriber would inform the public that he is
I. 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.
r VMS, superior qualifies, vuriems sizes,
Lev last received and for, sale cheap. by
WELSH & RICH.
Colombia, March 22. ISM.
Balm of Thousand Flowers,
DISCOVERED by Dr. Fontaine. Paris, for beautifying
the complexion, cunng all the diseases of the skin.
for Shaving, cleansing the met h; for the Toilet and the
Nursery; for bathing and manymadical purposes For
sale by
Golden Mortar Drug Store. Columbia. Pa.
Columbia, March T2,lu5G.
Rapp's Gold Pens.
CDNSTANTLY on hand, an assortment of
these celebrated PENS. Persona in want of a
good article are invited to call and rxamine them.
(Columbia, June 30, 1853. JOHN FELIX.
Excellent Dried Beef,
ZUGARCured and Plain Hama. Shoulders and Sider.
,J for sale by
March W,
GEORGE J. SMITH,
4013 T MEIST,Ims just commenced man
uiseturing I.EMON BEER. and kerp• con.:111It ;5
„on band. a full wortmoni of SUMMER DRINKS.
Columbia, April 19.1556.
Just Received,
IitIRGE LOT of Children'g Cartiogex,
Gm., G., Racking Ilorset, Witeeihnrrow., pr,.,,,,,-
tarp. h - umery Swings, &c. GEORGE. J. ISMITII.
April 19,1836. Locug street.
(10114 A and other ,Fancy Articles, 'no numerous to
Al mention, for male by G J. SNATIL Locust street,
between the Bank and Franklin llou,e.
Columbia, April Ilk, ISSG.
Feed, Feed, Feed.
TIORN, Oats. and Flour, en n he had at S C Swartz's
lJ Stdre. at Mill prices. Delivered free of charge.
Sept. 27, 1656.
1011111111 • RAMS, 11 I-2 di. per mind;
Phouldere, 10 do do
' Dried Beef, 14 do do
Tide Waser Ganal Money received for good..
WELSH & RICH
Columbia, May 17,1366.
ALCOIIOL and Earning Fluid, always on
hand, si the toare.it prices, .m the Family 'Medicine
Seow. Odd Fellows' Hall.
Februery 2,185 e.
WHY should anypergan do Without a Clock,
when they' can be had corttl.ba and 'lnward..
at 8
Colombia, Argil 29,1833.
Pennsylvania Commercial Institute,
LOCATED in York, Pa., offers Young Nell
all the advantages of a thorough Business Edu
cation.
TUE COURSE OP STUDY embraces Double En
try Book-Keeping, as applied to Wholesale, Retail.
COMllliSiioll, Manufacturing. Shipping, Stearn-Boat
log, Individual, Partnership and Compound Company
Business.
FM
PENMANSHIP in all the Ancient and Modern
Hands.
Al.o—Lecture• an Commercial Law and Political
Economy. by Titosra• E. COCHRAN. Esq.
Ezr For Circulars, &c., nntlre.• the u n dersigned.
T. K. WHITE, York, Pa.
Aug. 23, 1256-3 mo
Susquehanna Planing Mill,
COLUMBIA, PA.
TUE undersigned respectfully announce to
their friends and patron.. and to the public gen
crony. ilint they are prepared in form-h all kind+ of
FLOORING, SIDING AND SURFACED
LUMBER.
Also, Doors, Snsb, Shutters, Blind•. Window and
Door Framer, Mouldings, &c., at the lowest market
prices.
All orders by mail or otherwise addressed to the
undersigned, Columbia, Pa.. shall receive prompt at
tention. DICKINSON dc HUEY.
Muy 31.1P50-tf
SSIX THOUSAND DOLLARS wanted on mortgage
on untueumbercd real estate, worth ten thousand
Enquire of DANIEL HERR, President,
of Board of Trustees Columbia Public Ground Company
Columbia, June :21, 1850.
CONTINUES to occupy the large building
at the corner of Second and Locust streets. and
offers to those desiring comfortable boarding the great.
est eonveinences. At his Saloons and Restaurant
will be found Luxuries of all kinds in season, which
will be served up in :lie best manner and at the short
est notice. He respectfully solicits a shire of patron.
age. [Columbia, May 10. iS5f,.
Mount Vernon House, Canal Basin,
Columbia, Pa.
'HENRY K.MINICU, PROPRIETOR.
UrThe accommodation. and every attention
given to ROVES, who may favor Chit establishment
with their patronage. [April 19, 19115-tt
Franklin House, Locust st. Columbia, Pa
THE subscriber continues to occupy this
well-known lintel. I will do every thing in his
power to comfortably entertain all who may patron.
me him. Ills facilities for accommodating Horses,
Droves, &0., are superior .
April 10, y
Washington Rouse, Columbia, Pa.
DANIEL HERR, PROPRIETOR.
THIS old and woll•known house is Mill in
-a- the ocel.Pm.eY of the suhseriber,and offers every
iiithteeinent to the traveller. iu the way of comfort and
, 011VCIllellre. The Cars, east and west. start from
this establishment. nod it lin• other:advantages unsur•
passed by any. Terms reasonable
Columbia, A p ri: 12. Ift:l6-1,
Bellevue House,
NE. CORNER of Front and Walnut streets,
• c(M,UNI l'A.
ur
Jos, 4. J. GAULT. PROPRIETOR.
(SuccePsor to liurdruci I Oc. ltrencman unit Mrs linine.)
The Home iv (mulched Titlt MI Modern linurove
mentv, and every attention will Riven to secure
the comfort of guerr, Charge. moderate.
Cottnton, April la, 1235G•tf
NEW STOCK OF FANOT GOODS.
=le 111 ' 1, 11LImMieiritt , &Saha - h - aliiron
hand a new assortment of ''ANCY ARTICLES, such
as 111111Its'VS and Bonnets, Trimmings of every va
riety, Itlocke Collars, Embroidery of all kinds; also, a
lame asmrtment of Endo,' Fancy Baskets I respect.
folly solicit no examination or sty good., front those
ccho are tit want of the above menttoned article,
Columbtn, September 13. 1.:..56
PRIME GERMAN SEGARS.
T DAVE JUST RECEIVED 200,000 MORE
of thine PRINIK SEGARS. wlooli 1 will sell
CHEAPER than nay Store to thin or any caller town
Eitctx - cals_aoicoovesr,
and others will do well by giving me a eail before
purchasing elsewhere.
The above niennoited Segues ran be .ern at
F. SMITII'S
Wholesale Confectionary cootitishmelt.Frotit street,
I w o door., below si t e Washington llouse,Columbia.
IN
Music and Musical Instruments.
TIE undersigned haling made arrange
merits with Mr. J Ii GOCl.D,w•ould respectfully
inform the Lndies of Columbia and vicinity Slut be
is now prepared to w nu•h Al nide ut the shortest
notice
l'epions in want of first-elite Violins, El mei, Gni
tnrs, llamas, or any other Musical Instruments, are
respectfully invited to cell at the Deuilquarters and
News Depot.
S. B. s.vvAirrz
N. 11—A very fine assorttnent of Violin and Guntur
Strings, nlsvnys on lumd.
A.2a•t 2. iesfi :Im
Gentlemen's Bair Dressing Saloon.
rrlIE subscriber takes this method of in
-1 forma,: all who have not already been made ac
quainted with the fact, that lie has taken the stand late•
ly occupied by Charles %Vtlltotoo. to
FrOld Street, next door to Dr. Filbert's,
where he is always prepared to afford easy and com
fortable shares to gentlemen, and to practice the other
parts of his profession Ile 15011,11% a share of public
Marmset'. confidant that his of
to please will be
satisfactory. WILLIAM WATT:RS.
Columbia, September iii, 156-1 f
1 °RING CLASSES , Baskets, Dockets, Brooms,
jj Wash-Boards, and • splendid lot of Door Mots,
311.4 received by
June 2S, I..nr,G. 8. C.RWARTZ.
ITAltypunn DYIV
I S , . : To , nes' rF,, B .. ateh , el d or; : , Pleterd's a
endr
HFmr
any dewed shade, without injury to the skin.
For, sale
by It WILLI:OISi.
I‘{ay 10, Front at . Columbia, Pa.
C
ITR ATE, MAGNb:SFA, Senllnz Powder, I.ode
Powder and Mineral Water. always to be bad, of
a superior wrathy, at
McCORKIS:
Family Medicine b7gorc, Odd fellow's
July 26,1.t.1
I'ARR & THOMPSON'S justly celebrated Com-
L and oilier Gold Pena—the hems in the
niattr:—Ju•l received. P. SHREINER.
Columlon.Aprittl.s.lSSS.
QAPONEFIER. or Concentrated Lye, for ma
t J king Soap. I lb. iv vutlirient (or one barrel of
Soft Sonp. or 111,f0r9 lbs. Ilard Soap. Full direc
tion. Will be given at the Couider for making 8011,
(lard and Fanny Soaps. For sale by
K. WILI.IAMS.
I=l
Columbia. March 31, es.l.
QOLUTION OF CITRATE OF IRAGNESIA,or Par-
Ranee Mineral Water.—Tht• pleasant medteine
which is highly recommended as a suh•ntnte for
Ep•om Salm:S.oldr Powder.. hr.. ran he obtained
fresh every day ai FILIJERT'S Druz: 4 %ore,
Front an.
20nozi:N BROOMS, 10 BOXES CHEESE— For
sale cheap, by B. F. APPOLD A. CO.
Colnnabm, ()elem . :s, 1f.56.
JVAT lIFC.EIVEID. a lame and well celerted variety
of Brat... ron.istina in part of Shoe. flair, Cloth.
Crumb. Nail, flat and Teeth Drachm and
LIAMS for pale by
K. WIL.
March V, '53. Front street Colombia. Pa.
A SUPERIOR article of PAINT OIL for .tatt, by
R. NVII,I.IAMS,
Mae 10.1E56. Front Street, Colombo,. Pa
SUPERIOR atone of TONIC SPICE LIMERS,
Ruitsble for Hanel grrpers, for %OP by
R. WILIAAMS.
May 10.1656. Front strret. Colam.na.
PREt-11 ETHEREAL, OIL S away
.
W ! on hanA MS.d, an for
I *air' I. RILLId
May 10. 18:.0. Front Street, Colamtna, Pa.
TI:ST received, FRESH cAsip HEN F.. nod for vale
el by 11. WH3.IANIS.
:tiny 10, ibid. Front Street. Columbia, Pa.
DE GRATE'S ELECTRIC OIL. Tao, re ceivel.
fresh %apply of this popular remedy. and for sale
by E. WILLIAMS.
:tray 10,1956. Front Street, Columbia. Pa.
aNEW lot of WHALE AND CAR GREASING
OILS, received at the store of the .uhtcnber.
R. WILLIAMS.
May 10, 15.56 Front Street, Columbia, Pa.
DIONEIY WANTED.
GERI! ARD BRANDT,
MARTIN ERAVIN
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COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SA.
"GHOSTS OP LONG AGO."
Er HENRY HOWARD BROWN LL
When at ere I sit alone
Thinking of the Pat and Gone—
While the clock WWI drowsy finger,
Marks how long the minutes linger,
And the embers dimly burning.
Tell of Life to Death returning—
Then my lonely chair around.
With a quiet mournful sound—
With a murmer soft and low,
Come the Ghosts of Long Ago.
One by One, I count them o'er,
Voices that arc heard no more,
Tears, that loveliest cheeks have wet,
Words, whose music lingers yet—
Ifoly faces, pale and fair,
Shadowy locks of waving hair—
Happy sighs and whispers dear,
Songs forgotten many a year,
Lips of dewy fragrance—eyes
Brighter, bluer than the skies—
Odors breathed from Paradise.
.And the gentle shadows glide
Softly murmuring, at my side,
Till the long unfriended day,
All forgotten, fucks away.
Thus, when I ant all alone,
Dreaming o'er the Past and gone,
All around me sad and slow,
Come the Ghosts of Long, Ago.
From the American Presbyterian
DRAWING NEARER.
[lf our readers have seen a more beautiful piece of
original poetry than the following., for. a year, they are
fortunate. It ix by a young lady, from whom we hope
to bear again.)
"For now a your salvation neamr, than when ye
believed."
Nearer! yes! we felt it not
Alid the rushing of the strife,
As we mourned our changeful lot,
Toiled beneath our shadowed life,
By each step our worn feet trod,
We were drawing near to God.
When the day was all withdrawn,
And we walked in ten-fold night;
When we pained for the dawn
Of the ever blessed Light;
In those hours ordarkness dam;
We were drawing nearer Him.
D. lIE RR
When beneath the sudden stroke
All our joys of life went down—
When our beet•belovcd broke
Earthly hounds, to take their crown,
Dy the upward path they trod,
Nearer drew we to our God.
In those days of hitter voe.
When we saw their smile no more;
IWhen oar hearts , tvcra bleeding slow,
Stricken—stricken—oh, how sore!
e were nearer to out Goa.
When upon our laced cyc
Gleamed a vision of our lime,
When we cow the glory high.
Flooding all that spotless dome;
In that hour of raptured sight.
Pressed we nearer our delight
Through the long and vanished ycors,
Doubling. struggling; mid &preset',
Shrouded with their mists of tears,
We were passing to our rest.
Tempest-tossed and current-driven,
11, - er drawing nearer heaven.
gfricrt ktims.
THE CAMBRIC HANDKERCHIEF.
[We hope that none of our readers will
pass this story. We promise them in ad-
Vance that it will do them good to read it.]
In one of the busy streets of a busy city
walked an elderly lady, accompanied by a
gentleman who had lately completed his ed
ucation. Being engaged in conversation,
neither of them seemed to attend to anything
besides until the crowd pressing against
them caused the gentleman to look around,
when he perceived some boys, of what he
called suspicious appearance, following their
path. "Ah! I must watch my pockets," he
said; "I had a warning when last here of
what I may expert in your city."
"What was it?" inquired the lady.
"Probably what is only a common occur
once. My India handkerchief was picked
from my pocket. 'Sir your handkerchief
is stolen,' said a woman. I looked behind
and there was a young lad making off with
it at full speed; I followed and if my fingers
wore not as light as his, my feet were.—
When be saw that I was likely to win the
race, he dropped his spoils, so I recovered
my property, and the little rogue might
have got off better than he deserved had not
a policeman witnessed the transaction, and
Provided him with lodging gratis, yet not
quite so, for he had to pny by hard labor
for board and lodging while he remained."
"And doubtless he came out of that lodg
ing better qualified and better disposed to
pick your pockets than when he went in."
"That is no affair of mine, Mrs. Harman.
My business is to punish a thief when I
catch him. Chaplain reform him if he
can."
"Aided by the society to to which the
poor culprit will be condemned during his
imprisonment?" answered Mrs. Harman.—
"Ah: my dear sir." said Mrs. Harman,
"how different is the end man proposes in
the case of an offender against himself, from
that which our heavenly father designs in
dealing with far worse offenders! Man aims
only to punish; God seeks to convert."
"But you hardly expect me to stand
preaching in the street to every little thief.
whose band I may find in my pocket."
"No, Ido not. But as we are all inter
ested in the suppression of vice, I would
have you and all others alive to the impor
tance of making use of the means by which
these poor outcasts may become respectable
members of society, and instead of handing
them over on every occasion to the tender
mercies of the law, endeaccrr to place them
"NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO CHEAP AS R3l:
r)aetus.
EEL&LIE
rig
i
Ifs may be checked,
livated."
where their evil
and their intellect
"All perfectly 11:;•ian, Mrs. Harman,
believe me. ShOWllit :a single instance in
which any good fru' ...is ever been found
on one of these crab" •cks, and then I may
try and act as you dtire the nest time my
pocket is picked."
"You promise me nt, do you?" said Mrs.
Ifarman, looking up4a6estly into his face.
may, very safel*." he replied laugh
ing. •7-
v,;,,
.
'Well, when we ar eat the cottage, I
will tell you a tale t ' think will interest
ho t ,
you." : 4 - .- .. .
This cottage (Mrs;tilarman's residence)
lay at the outskirts ci r -the city, and was
soon reached, and 410 she and her young
friend were seated she egan as follows:
"You may have ha nia from your mother,
that I was once in a iatnation different from
that which I now oct;(upy; that I was in fact
what many would c4trivealthy. But with
i this portion of my hgitory I am not going ,
to trouble you, save kily to mention that it
was then the circumtance took place which 1
forms the groundwot;:of my present story.
I had driven out one. ay in an open car
riage to make porch . sin the city, and was
returning home wheto had occasion to stop
in a crowded thoroughfare, to speak to a
1 person whom I employed. While doing so
I forgot that at the otUer side of the open
[ carriage lay a 143 et containing seine
valuable articles, anf out of which hung a
cambric handkerchitie Having finished my
business, I turned Nound just in time to
see a boy, apparently, abort ten years of
age, draw the hanclkeichief out, and he was
on the point of making off with it when my
servant caught him by the ragged collar of
a miserable coat, and applying to him seine
not very complimentav epithets, was about
banding him over to a policeman when
something in the WS countenance struck
me with compassion.: e had not only the
appearance of extreml want, but when de
tected in the theft hunghis head with shame,
a burning blush spreading over his wasted
and pallid features,:
" •No, no, John,q iried,-do not give him
up to the police. lotus try if we can
not do somethingillgter for him than
that.' t'rr''''..
,ht John declared the
ed riothi: but the
"It was in vairi4
an experiment with this unfortunate child.
I told him where I lived, promising him a
good dinner and a coat if he would come to
my house that evening.
"It would have amused you had you seen
my servant's face when he heard me invit
ing a thief to my house and promising him
a reward for coming; predicting that I should
soon have a visit from a ganger housebreak
ers, and that this 'little viler' would show
them the way.
I promised him to lei cautious, and not to
let the boy see any of the house until we
had proved him. He came an hour after,
and had I not myself been watching fur him
I should never have known of his arrival, t
for he hung about the back door without
courage to kuock. Most unwillingly the ,
cook sent hint out a plentiful dinner, and I
stood by while lie ate it, or rather part of it,
as he asked leave to take the rest home.—
As yet I had asked him no questions, but
now inquired where was his home? Wheth
er be had parents or any family living?—
Where his home was lie would nut tell; hut
he had no father, no mother, no brother nor
sister; and with much difficulty I gathered
front his lips the following tale;
"His father had been a laborer, and was
killed by a fall from a scaffolding the pre
ceeding, year. His mother went nut to V"rk
and earned a miserable pittance which
.just
preserved them from starvation. She had
died about three months before I met him,
(probably from want,) and he bad not any
one to look to fur a meal but the owners of
the lodging-house, one corner of a wretched
garret of which he and his mother had
occupied. These people would allow him
to remain only on one condition, namely,
that he would do something for his own
support. What that something was you
can easily guess, mid he soon learned
the necessity of attending to their require
ments. Becoming a regular street pilferer,
if he returned home in the evening empty
handed, he was beaten and sent supperless
to bed; and such had been his life from the
time his mother died until I learned his mel
ancholy story.
"1 was encouraged in my desire to take
some steps to rescue him from destruction,
by perceiving that he was not yet hardened
in crime; and I wits still more encouraged
by seeing a glow of pleasure on his counte
nance at my proposal to give him a bed in
an out office, and breakfast and dinner every
day, provided he would give up his wicked
Practices, of which I tried to show him the
evil; and after he had done some errands,
and what be was capable or doing in our
farm-yard, attend a school every day. Well
washed, well clad, and looking fresh and
strong after even one week of his new life,
Ned C went to the school, where he
did full justice to himself and his master.--
There was nothing which the master was
capable of teaching that Ned did not show
he should after awhile, be capable of learn
ing. There was one branch of knowledge
in which his progress gave me by far the
greatest satisfaction—l mean the knowledge
which maketh wise unto salvation. He at
tended a Sabbath School and quickly evinced
a deep interest in the lessons there impart.
ING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING."
RDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 22, 1856.
f ed. His behavior became marked by so
much propriety, that he obtained, I may say
even the respect of those who had known
the circumstances of his early life. Still as
he grew up, I could observe symptoms of an
uneasy and unsettled mind, and on my
questioning him about it one day, when he
was eighteen, he confessed to me that the
one thing he desired more than any other
was to get away from the scene of his juven
ile wickedness and to seek his fortune in
some foreign land. I could not blame him;
and much as I valued him as a useful and
trusty servant, I resolved to f)rward, his
wishes by every means in my power.
"I had then some friends abroad, and to
them I recommended Edward C-. lle
had laid by sonic money while in my service
to which I was glad to make such an addi
tion as would provide him with a reNpecta-
Me outfit. That morning on which he went
away he said he had a favor to beg of me;
I saw his lip tremble and his check flush a ,
he told one what the favor was. It was only
this; that if I still had the remains of the
cambric handkerchief, which had been the
moans of introducing him to me, I would
allow him to take it with him. It would be
of use to him in two ways, he said it would
remind him of what he once was and k.•ep li
hint humble.; and it would also remind him
of her who had rescued him from Ith, degra
ded condition and keep him grateful. It
was with many tears that I gave him the
handkerchief; It had my name embroidered
in one corner; he gazed on the letters and
folding it up in a paper, he asked my pray
ers and blessing cud departed. I heard
from him in two months. lie had a
situa
tion in a counting house. Ile continued to
write frequently, and in about a year I had
the joy of receiving a letter from his
master, informing me that Edward C--
was every day standing, higher in his confi
dence, and he had little doubt that he would
ono day do well in business for himself.
"Some years elapsed, and then the change
in my circumstances took place, by which I
was plunged from affluence into compara
tive poverty. I had to part with everything
except what would enable me to furnish in
the simplest style two humble apartments,
into which I moved when I left my house.
I could not bear to inform Edward C--
of the reverse I had undergone; and when I
wrote merely mentioned that I had changed
Ho begged to know why I had left my plea
sant home but I evaded his questions till I
could evade them no longer, for he accused
me of want of confidence in him, and of
keeping back something that he ought to
know. I then told him all, at the same time
assuring him that I was very happy, as hap
py as ever and that one of my pleasantest
thoughts was that I had been the means of
his rescue and prosperity.
"It WaS several months before I heard
from him again, and one day, just as I be
gan to wonder at his silence, I was told that
a gentleman wanted to see me. Not feeling
well, I was unwilling to admit strangers,
and sent a request that lie would send up
his name. The servant brought in reply, i
not a card, but a small parcel, which, when
I opened it I found to contain, Mc cambric
handkerchicj: It was Edward C—. Af
ter the receipt of my last letter, he had been
Prevented from coming home at once by the
necessity of arranging a huge amount of
business in the concern, of which lie was
now. a junior partner!
"The moment he was free., he set out fur
his native 'and that be might hee me. I
need only add, that there tuns 11 , 1 gerVICV
that he could offer that he aid not warmly and
affectionately press upon me; but the ut
mo.t. he 0,11141 prevail upon me to accept
was a long lem , e on this pieta- little cottage
with the adjoining garden and field, where
I live a ith every needful c omf, o l, and peg
sessing the ability to show kindness to the
poor and afflicted. Edward C re
turned to his adopted home, taking the
cambric handkerchief with him. and 11 , ‘ does
not allow me to forget him!"
"Well Mrs. Harman, yours it really a
very interesting story," said her young
guest, "and it has made Me feel that if I
had that poor boy whom I. handed over to
the police, I should be much disposed to vice
if some means could not be adopted fur en
deavoring to reclaim hint."
EXERCISE IN THE OPEN AIR
From Hartstenc's Expedition to the Polar
Sea we extract the following:
Nature has qualified man to breath in at
mosphere 120 degrees above zero, or 50 be
low it, a difference of 170 degrees, without
injury to health; and the doctrines of physi
cians that great and sudden changes of tem
perature are injurious to health is disproved
by recorded facts. There are very few Arc
tic navigators who die in the Arctic zone; it
is the most healthy climate on the globe to
those who breathe open air. We have among
our records the changes of temperature in
Australia, where the temperature rose to 115
at 3 o'clock, P. M., and next morning at 5
o'clock was down to 40 deg.—n change of
75 deg. in 14 hours. There the people are
health; ;—and at Franconia, N. 11.. the chan
ges are the most sudden, the most frequent
and of the greatest extent of any place with
which I am in correspondence on the Amer
ican continent, and yet there is no town of
its size that has so groat a population of its
inhabitants who pass the age of three score
years and ten. It is the quality of the chan
ged air that constitutes the difference that
physicians notice, and not the temperature.
1 I. ~~ I r k ! 1 ~ Q 1 ~ 1 r
Zlismiturt.
[Mom Dr. Kane'„ Arctic Explornitens. published by
Childs runt Peterson, Philudelphta. Pa J
PARTING HAWSERS AMONG THE
ICEBERGS.
It blew a perfect hurricane. We had
seen it coming. and were ready with three
good hawsers out ahead, and all things suite
on board.
Still it came on heavier and heavier, and
the ice began to drive more wildly than I
thought I had ever scei k it. I had_ just tinn
ed in to warm and dry myself during a mo
mentary lull, and was siretehingmy , elfout in
my bunk, when I heard the sharp twanging
snap of a cord. Our six-inch hawser had
parted, and we were swinging by the two
others; the gale roaring like a lion to the
montiv.vard.
Haifa minute more, and "twang, twang!"
came a second report. I knew it was the
whale lino by the shrillnos of the ring.—
Our noble ten inch manilla still Mit on. I
was hurrying my last sock into its sealskin
boot, when Z , lttGary came waddling down
the companion-ladder.: "Captain Kane, she
wont hold much longer; IL D blowing the devil
lihmelf, and I am afraid to surge."
Ths manilla cable was proving its excel
lence when I reached the deck; and thecrew
as they gathered round mc, were loud in its
praises. We could hear its deep 2Eolean
chant, swelling through all the rattle of the
running gear and moaning of the shrouds.
It was the death sung! The strands gave
way with the noise of a allotted gun; and 13
the smoke that followed their recoil, we were
dragged out by the wild ice, at its mercy.
We steadied and did some pretty warping
and got the brig a good bed in the rw.hing
drift; but it all came to nothing. We then
tried to beat back through the narrow ice
elogg-ed water-way that was driving, a guar
ter of a mile wide, between the shore and
the pack. It cost us two hours of hard labor, I
thought skillfully bestowed; but at the end
of that time we were at least four miles off,
opposite the great valley in the centre of
Bedevilled Reach. Ahead of farther to
the North, we could see the strait growing
still narrower and the heavy ice tables
grinding up, and clogging it between the i
shore cliffs on one side and the ledge on the
other. There was but,ono thing left for us:
nrcArLsomet_ sort C 0 1 ,122141.42
helm by going freely where we must other
wise be driven. We allowed her to scud
under a reefed furetopsail—all hands watch
ing the enemy, as we closed, in silence.
At seven in the morning, we were close
upon the piling masses. We dropped our
heaviest anchor, with the deaperate hope of
winding the brig; but there was no with
standing the ice torrent that followed us.—
We had only time to fasten a spar as a buoy
to the chain, and let her slip. So went no •
beat bower.
Dawn Nye went upon the gale again,
hcpe
lessly scraping along a Ice of ice seldom less
than thirty feet thick, one floe, meatsured by
a line as we tried to fasten to it, more than
forty. I had seen such ice only once before,
and never in such rapid motion. Doe up
turned mass rose above our gunwale, smash
ing, in our bulwarks, and depositing, half u
ton of iee in a lump upon our decks. Onr
staunch little brig bore herself through all
this wild adventure as if she had a charmed
life.
But n nen- enemy eame in sight alieni
Dire •tly in our way. ..lust Leyond the line of
flee ire, against which we were alternately
sliding and thomping, was a group of lterg:4.
We had no i.oWer t , . :amid them: and the
on ly que.linn IA :IQ, whether we Nvoro to he
dm.he.l in pieces against thorn, or whether
they might not offer ns some pro 'Mem i al mok
of refuge ftma the storm. But as we near
ed them, we perreived that they Were nt
some distance from the and sepa
rated from it Ity an interval of open water.
Onr hopes rose as the gale drm e us toward
this passage, and into it; and we were ready
to exalt, When ('ruin emit° unexplained came,
palpably an eddy of the asind against thc
lofty ice-walls, we lost our headway. 20-
most at the same ITlOnlrrli, we saw that tiro
bergs were not at rest—that with a mom rtO
tam of their own, they were bearing down
upon the other ice, and that it must he cot:
Gate tut be ern.hcal beta\ een the two.
Just then n broad sconce-piece or low wa
ter washed berg came driving from the south
ward. The thought flashed upon me of one
of our escapes in Melville. Bay, and as the
sconce moved rapidly close alongside u s,
MeGary managed to plant an anchor on it•
slope,atul to hold on to it by nwhale-line.—
It was an anxious moment. Our noble tow-
horse, whiter than the pale horse that seem
e•l to be pursuing us, hauled us bravely on.
the spray dashing over his windward flanks.
and his forehead plowing up the lesser ice
as if in scorn. The bergs encroached upon
us as we advanced: our channel narrowing
to a width of perhaps forty feet: we braced the
yards to keep clear of the impending ice- ;
walls.
w e p w zge,l clear: but it was a close Shave
—co doe that our wort quarter-boat would
I have been crushed if we had not taken it
from the davits—and found ourselves under
the lee of a berg in a comparatively open
lead. Never did heart tried men acknow
ledge, with more gratitude. their merciful
deliverance from a wretched death.
The day had already its full share of
trials; but there were more to come. A flan
drove us from our shelter. and the gale soon
carried us beyond the end I.f the lead. 'LC•
[WHOLE NUMBER, 1,373.
were again in the ice, sometimes escaping
its onset by warping, sometimes !breed to
rely on the strength and buoyancy of the
brig to stand its pressure, sometimes scud
ding wildly through the half open drift.—
, Our jib-boom was snapped off in the cap;
we carried away our barricade stanchions,
and were forced to leave our little Eric,
with three brave fellows and their warps,
out upon the floes behind us.
A little pool of open water received us
at last. It was just beyond a lofty cape that
rose up like a wall, and under an iceberg
that anchored itself between us and We gale.
And here, close under the frowning shore of
Greenland, ten miles nearer the pole than
our holding ground of the morning, the men
turned hi to rest.
I was afraid to join them; for the gale
was unbroken, and the floes kept pressing
heavily upon our berg,—at one time eo
heavily as to sway it on its vertical axis to
ward the shore, and make its pinnacle over
hang our vessel. My peor fellows had but
a precarious sleep before our little harbor
was broken up. They hardly reached tho
deck, when we were driven astern, our rud
der splintered, and the pieties torn from
their
\•iii l ezan the nippings, The first
~hock took us on our port-quarter; the brig
bearing it well, and, after a moment of the
old-fashioned sugpensc, rising by jerks hand
somely. The next was from a veteran floe,
tongued and honeycombed, but floating in a
single table over twenty feet in thickness.
Of course, n., weld or iron could stand this;
but the shoreward face of our iceberg hap
pened to present an inclined plane, descend
ing deep into the water; and up this the
brig was driven, as if some great steam
screw-power was forcing her into a dry dock.
At one time I expected to see her carried
bodily up its face and tumbled over on her
side. But one of those mysterious relaxa
tions, which I intro elsewhere called the
pulses of the ice, lowered us quite gradually
down again into the rubbish, and we were
forced out of the line of pressure toward the
shore. Here we succeeded in carrying out
a warp, and making fast. We grounded
as the tide fell; and would have heeled over
to seaward, but for a mass of detached land
ice that grounded alongside of us, and, al
though it stove our bulwarks as we rolled
over it, shored us up.
anal d - her , ily:gortervirtdbli , : as I Wont
down into our littered cabin on the Sunday
morning after our hard-working vigil of
thirty-six Ileum Bags of clothing, food,
tents, India-rubber blankets, and the bun
; dred little personal matters which everyman
I likes to save in a time of trouble, were scat
tGred around in places where the owners
thought they might have them nt hand.—
The pemmican had been on deck, the boats
equipped, and every thing of real importance
r•c sly for a march, many hours before.
During the whole of the scenes I have
been trying to describe, r could not help
being struck by the composed and manly
demeanor of my comrades. The turmoil of
ice under a heavy sea often conveys the im
pression of danger when the reality is ab
sent; but in this fearful passage, the parting
of our hawsers, the loss of our anchors, the
abrupt crushing of our stoven bulwarks, and
the actual deposit of ice upon our decks,
would have tried the nerves of the most ex
perienced ioemen. All—officers and men—
wui alike. Upon each occasion of collis
i at the ice which formed our lee-coast,
vr.rorts were made to carry out lines; and
s.a.te narrow c- rare; were incurred, by the
ze..l of the parties leading them into posi
ti..n-, of danger. Mr. Bmsall avoided being
erm , hed by leaping to a floating fragment;
moo no less than four of our men at one time
were carried down by the drift, and could
only be recovered by a relief party after the
z.,le had subsided.
As our brig, Lorne on by the ice, com
menced her ascent of the berg, the suspense
was uppres•ive. The immense blocks piled
again-t her, range upon range pressing
themcelt C 3 under her keel end throwing her
over upon her aide, till, urged by the sec
, ce ,, i‘c accumulations, sbe rose slowly and
se if with convulsive efforts along the slop
ing wall. Still there was no relaxation of
the impelling force. Shock after shock,
wring her to her very centre, she continued
to mount steadily on her precarious credle.
llut for the groaning of her timbers and the
hoary sough of the floes, we might hate
heard a pin drop. And then, as she settled
down into her old position, quietly taking
her place among the broken rubbish, there
was a deep breeching silence, as though all
were waiting for sonic signal before the
clamor of congratulation and comment could
burst fl.rth.
A NEWSPAPER NOT A PERSON.
To those who are accustomed to speak of
Dr. A. or Mr. 8., having, said so and so, re
ferring to what appeared in the papers of
which they were editors, we commend the
following:—
"A. newspaper is an impersonality.—
Readers, in genernl.care very little, certainly
are not at all concerned, to know who may
be the writer of a particular paragraph.—
A newspaper's material, if it be anything,
cannot, nou-a-days„ be exclusively the pro
duction of one man. It is immaterial who
writes—unless in a case that deniands per
sonal accountability or personal offence—
and an opposing journal would be better
employed in answering the arguments or
overthrowing the positions of an article.
than in assailing or alluding to its imagined
author. This is a point of newspaper eti
quette wbich should he observed by all who
would maintain the decorum and aignity of
the press."
El