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Colketions, promptly made, in Lancrister and York Counties. Columbia. May 4,13.30. I. W. FISHER. P. L. RACKENDERG. Fl SHE & lIACKEIVBERG, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, 4=.01.1.3.3331.1=1 , 1.E11., Columbus. DA.VIES E. ERUNER, Esq., TTORNEY AT LAW E AND CONVYANrER. Aoffers his services to the citizens en Columbia, and assures them that lie will attend with promptitude to all business entructed to his care. Other—Frotit street, between UlllOll and Perry. Itesidetite-Isouill stile Second street. .nil door below Union. Columbia. January 13. 18311-ly GEORGE J. SMITH, WHOLESALE and Retail Bread and Cake Baker.—Constantly on hand n variety of t'alse, too numerous to mention; Crackers; Soda, IN me, Scroll. and Su g ar Biscuit ; Con fectionery, of every description. I.OrUST STIt NET, Feb. 2.'.56. Between the Bank and Franklin Rouse. SAMUEL LODGE, -I=Pza,G - 12..z.m-x-clart,x3l. Corner Front 4- Locust sts., Columbia Pa. Pictures taken for 25 cents Anti upward+, and guaranteed. lErisio Punta, need be 1,11. en iron, the Gallery it ii •u-t 1 a- i< renPr dceired. Columbia. March .11. 1 11.PPOTAD de. CO., .a2a . .trZa GENIR ES. AIWINGAND COMMIS &Mar ON MERCHANTS, te. C OA ILA.llltit P DUCE, And Deliverers on any point on the Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad. to York and Baltimore and to Pittsburg; _ . DEALERS lx Coal.. F1,01:11 AND WHISKY AND DACON, have large lot of rilonnosallela Rreli aed 1Vh1.4,,•y. from of w hint:limy will keep a .orply roa.ia ail} on hand. at low prier, Nog I, 2 und ti Canal I,:a-to. Columbia, January 3. SHILOEDZIIt, Ladies Boot & Shoe Paanufacturer, No. 1 Locust street, Columbia, Pa. R"qPECTI - 1: LIN teialerg thank.. for the very liberal patronage 114, ha. torch , ed. mid %, fold announce to his patrons that he ha. pod supplied him self Wail a large end choice variety of material, and in prepared to make up, in addition to las large stork of ready-made work on hand. Lialien. and Chil drens SHOES. GAITERS. 1300 TS. SLIP PERy &e .in the latest and bent styleg. Ile p solicits a continuance of the tutor so liberally bestowed by the JAMES SIMOEDRR. Columbia, Pa March 15, 1856. Penn'a Rail Road Freight Station. I IIEIGIIT OFFICE and DEPOT in the new ba11111111:. Comer al Front arid Gay Mree Line Collector',. Odle, Ticket O(f o •e for I'ac•envrr=, Cast the Allestunzion flow!. I:RASTI7:: MICE, April 19,1 , L6-1: k Ticket Agent OATS FOR. SALE 1U THE BUSHEL, or in larger quantities, .1) at Nos. 1,2 & 6 Canal Basin. U. I'. APPOLD k CO. Columbia, January .2G, 15.113 GROCERIES: subccrther would inform the public that hr T constantly rerewinz fri,h supplies of the be..t rtun ily Groceries the market will attord. Store. at M.ll price, Delis civil fire of charge. Sept. t.'7, I F5Ci. PRIME HAMS, I'2l-2 dr, per pound; Rhoulderr, 10 do to Drird Beef, 14 do do Ttde Dialer (anal Money receired for gno WELSII a. 111C11 Columbia. Map 17,1656. ALCOHOL and Burning Fluid, always on hand, at the tautest prices, at the Family Medicine Store, Oda Fellows Ilan. February 2, 1256. WHY should anypersea do without a Clock, when they can be had for £31.d0 and upward•. at 6FIRF:INb:1114? Columbia, Arril 2P,1915 823.1 Sasquehanna Planingll, COLUMBIA, PA. rrHE undersigned respectfully announce to I their friends mad pittrusio. and io tlie piddle t,,cti crane 11111 they are prepared in farnikh all kind. of FLOORING, SIDING AND SURFACED LUMBER. A 1.0. Door=, Sa.h. Shutter., Blind% Window arid Duni Frames, Moulding's, See, at the lowest 'Parke' oriee•• All order: by mail or otherkvi.e nildreAceil to ,he under-igmed, Columbia, Pa. filial receive p.ompi i• DICKINSON & Mae al 1,:m•Ir Elia I . N. THOUSAND DOLLARS symited ou mortgage, mt umucumbered real estate, North ten thousand Enquire of DANIEL lIERR, Presn of Board of Trustnes Columbia Public (round Company, Columbia. June 21. lrJti so 39 CIONTINITS to occult', the at the tarn,. of Second tail Lono.t street+, antl etfci• to the-e desiring ehmroriahle boarding the grest col., enienee. At lit- Saloon.. antl Itr•tnrrtmn Will he found [AIX. itt-• of all kind. , In 1-1 - .4 -nit, w•OI l.e .ervcit up itt the he-t Manner aria at the -hurt ei-t notice. lle re.tpeettuliv .011rint a Share of pntron age. (Golusitioni, Map 10. I•SO. Blount Vernon house, Canal Basin, Columbia, Pa. ITENRY K. AI IN ICH, PROPRIETOR. iCrThe he.t aceornts.othinon , and every nlletilioli given to gue , g, wlso may favor 11110 establp•htpesit wills their patronage. [A prtl 15. 1:53. it Franklin House, .Locust st. Columbia, Pa TIIE subscriber continues to occupy this well-known lintel. and will do everything in l it power to comfortably mom 111111 all who may patron me him. Ilia Methuen for ucgommoduting Drove 4, Sc., are superior. April ID. IS'iG•l y Washington House, Columbia, Pa. DANIEL H ERR, PROPRIETOR. TIIIS old and well-known house is Mill in the occupancy of the pub-ertlier.and nflerr evory inducement to the traveller. in the way of comfort end convenience The Cars, east mid weal. start from this emnblislitnent. and it has otheradvalitages unsur passed by any. 'Perms reasonable. MEM NT 1:•. CORNER of Front and Walnut streets, JOSHUA J. GAULT. PROPRIETOR. (Sucea-.40r to Mild, 111 4. 117,1elnatt and Mr. Hain...) The furoi•hrd with Imnrovr• inent, nod ever) /mention «•ill lie given to aceure rtu• comfort of Charge- moderate. lionliiii, A 1,8111.2 I~iO II NEW STOCK OF FANCY GOODS. undersigned respectfully announces to her meal. And the ouhlte. that she has now on hand at new nt....hrtacat of FANt 'Y . Alt !ICU'S...nett Illflllll , ' C:111, and llonnev...fratnmnatt, of every va riety. Noel, Collars. Ranbrottlery of all ktnaln: al.°. a ante 01 I.ndirl Fancy 11:14:et , I re.l,e t a. folly solicit :a evanmannat at my goad._ front tho, who are an at ant apt the above Incarnated arnelc4. MARTHA. J. :1111.E.5. rolannl.;n. September 13. 13".11. PRIME GERMAN SEGARS. !LIVE JUST RECEIVED 200,000 110 RE "r 1 . 1311: sroAns, 1 ay.ll cell CFI NA PER than arty Store in :hit or any other town t oraza2. - _c.oraorica, .1.1 Mb/ rt r• 01 .nie .1. eat ; L: Cure purelia-nag ri,where. ' The above mentioned Segart enn n rtt .1 F. 5.1111 11'S NVltote•intit entireetiotmr, e-taltlnthoptitt Front Qt. reel, 'WI. 0,01.. II t• lOW I Ino on !haute, Colosubt n. ( - Wootton. Am, .;ln. Gentlemen's Hair Drev.ing Saloon. THE subscriber takes this method of in k forum.: all %she have not already linen made ac quainted tt all the fact. that lie lit, token the stand Inte l) occupied by Churl,' %Vtilizinit..lo Front Strad, neat' (1("». It, Dr. Fiibr)t's, where he a illwara prepared to nfioril C 1,3 111111 coin -10 1400111:IWO. Dirt to pritei c the Puri* itt Profe.toon lie 'elicit: a 'hare of rublie ritiontwe. counitaiit Out: in. churl. 10 10. 1 11 g - nil lie •ati.ittictory. Collitti:oa......;.teint.r: a. I Just Received, BUS. PRUNE GROUND NUTS, al J. F s ‘i IT!! s ‘l. hole-ale .111 Itel.l:lCoorreimrirry t•-mt.li-Ilinelo non! rl. I,” don, Ihe ‘Vit.ltiligton 1100., C. 911.1.!.. [I ),tol., 23. I-36 .rust Received, 2 0 11 1 , i , 01: 1,1)1 At 11 2, 1411 F. :! and o,t onat Itattn. Colombia, October IC. reeelvell a 01 livid. Lc NnV 11 1-36. S. C ,IVATZTZ AIES Family Ilirdirinrs. For sale at Dvi.i.ET 1-.‘oly Nli•clurilte Stmt., Odd 11:11I Colllllllbl.l. OC111:11:r :25. I -5,70. N 1: e 'W .,., 11 1 Ril n l I V.l Large i 1. , or S. j n s lon Itin Leal !'lour, ,s t . b re ); I be ,01,1 at only (42/ cis. per '25 Het Nov. 1,1,56 SWEET CIDER, by the quart or gallon, for It!t• Ily M'tiOM I (HIKING GLASSES.BasIieIs. Buckets, Brooms, o•11.1to t g an d a .pleoLlid lot of Door J late, ju•t reVrtVell Icy June . 2. 4 , I rclr, IT AIR DYE'S. Jones' Batchelor's, Peter's and Ettyptian hair dye, %,:trranteil w critor thri hair any desired shade, uttliout [ajar) 10 the skin. For sale R %I - 11.1,1A MS. May 1(1, Front st.. Colittattia. Pa. (.11"1: ATI: Powder. Pods Vots der Had Water. oliva) it, be had, of ~..upersor . at NU - 7(M1:I .1: D1T.1.171 - s• F frilly Med:et:lc 5.-tore Odd frilow". Il all July %!1;.1,56 1,;Will Sr, THOMPSON'S justly celebrated Com. vter,t it :geld 01 her l';,•Id rest.—••he 1,1 the trtarke:-111-1 reeor, el P. t•E•11111:INI:R. Coltnt.l.t. April Q s ll l OA Et I lA, or Concentrated Lye, for ma- I. Ling I I!, ,• for one I,nrrel of Soft So•tn. or 114. Gore lb.. 11.1 rd sonp. fon direc t.... will 1 , 0 ttiveri nt 11n Cannier for ninLing Soft, Ilard and r..1,0y Soap,. ro, .ale Ly n. %VILMA:IIS. Colomhin, 111.treli 31.1,155 & SOLUTION OF CITRATE OF 1111CNESLI.or Por eat", Nt,ueral %% filer —TIu• ptrn•ant medicine as a ...u;,-route for np.orrl Split. Sruillti POW der.. Ile.. eon I. °waffled fresh every day at S:01'1. IMBER - 1"8 Drug Store, Front fig (,) O DOZEN BROOMS, 11) BOXES CB E.E.4:. For 44.7.1.2;,,,..her•yir,/;Kr 1,.54; B. F. AFPOLD & CO. JUST 1:1:CEIVI:D. It iSin.TC nod well 'alerted variety or nrn.11.4 rem•lcol.g, ill part of Shoe. Mir. Cloth, Cramb, Nod, Hat and Teeth 13rw.hes. nod for axle by WILLIAMS. Front otreet Columl.ta. Ps. GMOUE I= Slil'EBlO6 article of PAINT OIL. for gale by R WILLIAMS. Front Street. Columbia. Pa. y 10.1'.0 A, SCf'•EIAOII n rtoele of TONIC SPIGE BITTERS, sultub!e for Hotel Keepers, for stile Ity R. %I:MLitt:llS. Front streri. Columbia. 10.15.16 1711E.•IT ETIImr,AL OIL, always on bona, and re U *ale by it. WILLIAMS. May 10.19.56. rront Street, Columbia. Pa. Js - r received, F1T.E.311 CA :IIPIIENF.. and (or 1.2 le by R. WILLIAMS. May 10, 1650 Front Street. Columbia. Pa. TIE GRATH'S r.T.EcTnic olt.. Jun re eeireJ. 1re.411 .apply oiling popular remedy, and for •ale bS R. WILLIAMS. M•y 10, ItiG. Prom -Street, Columbia. Pa. A NEW lot of WHALE AND CAR GREASING A. OILS, reeeteed of the store of the ouhoenber. R. WILLIAMS. May 10.1',6 Front Street., Colorat l'a P. , ZOIVEIr VOVilg'Z'ED GERHARD RICAN CPT, MARTIN ERWIN MEI Bellevue House, Fluid. Fluid S SWART!. COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 6, 1856. .IYLY BROTHER [The following beautiful and touching lines were late• ly written for the Loutrvll e Journal. by Emma Alice Brown, of Pleasant Grove, Lancaster county, Pa.,—En. 11En.] briar-vine, clamber, And cover the chamber, The chamber so dreary 11111.1 lone; meekly closed lips, Andeyes in eclipse, Ply brother lies under the stone. 0! vroiet•. cover The narrow roof over, 0! cover the window and door, For never the lights In the long days or nights Make shadows across the floor. The lilltes lire blooming. the lilies are white ‘Vltere ploy-haunts used to be; And the sweet cherry blossoms Wow over the 60 , 011 N Of birds an the cud roof-tree. 'When 3 hear on the hills the shoot of the storm, in the valley the roar of the river, I shit er and shake on the hearthstone warm As I think of his cold •forever." For his white hands are folded, And nevi.r again With the tong of the robin or plover, IVhen the saintlier has come With her bees and her grans, Will he play in the meadow clover. 0, clear little brother! My sweet Intle brother, In the kingdom shove the stud 0! pray the good nngels, The glorious evoneels, To take me when life is done. p THE GOLDEN YEAR We sleep and wake and sleep, but all things move; The sun dies forward to his brother sun; The dark mirth follows, wheeled in her ellipse; And human things. returning on themselves, Move onward. leading np the golden year. Ali! though the nines when sonic new thought con bud, Al but as poets" seasons when the flower; Yet seas that daily gain upon the shore Hove ebb and flow conditioning their march. And slow and sure come' up the golden year. When wealth no more shall rest In mounded heapa, But subs %snit freer Held, shall slowly melt In many stream,ln fatten lower lands, And 11,111 shall spread. ni.d man be hover man, Throttelt all the craeona of the golden year. Shall on.;lea not he eagles' wrens he wrens , If all the world were falcons, whet of that? The wonder of the eagle were the less, lint he not less the eagle. I raptly days Roll onward, leadpa up the golden year' rly. hnppy, happy sells. and beer the Press; Ply. happy malt the mission of the cross, licit land to la.td. and blowing lwayeawnrd, Walt silk:, nail fruits. and spices. clear of toil Dutch the markets of the golden year But we grow old. Alk! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule. and universal peace Lie like n shah of light across the land, And like: ri In. of Le:1111F rithWar! the =en, Through, all the circle of the golden year. glisf Ella tint REVOLUTIONARY INCIDENT The hero of the following thrilling story was embodied in the person of a stout black smith, ay, an humble blacksmith, but in his stout frame, hardened with toil, throbbed as generous an impulse of freedom as ever beat in the bosom of Lafayette, or roused the heart of mad Anthony Wayne. It was in full ti.le of the retreat that a fol lower of an American camp, who had at least shouldered a cart whip in his country's, service, was dragging a baAgage wagon from the field of battle, while a short distance be hind, a body of continentals were pushing forward with a body of British in pursuit. The wagon had arrived at a narrow point of the by road leading to the south, where trvo high banks of rocks and crags, arising on either side, aflitrded just space sufficient for the passage of the baggage wagons, and not an inch more. His eyes were arrested I,y the sight of a stout muscular man, apparently forty years of age, extended at the foot of a tree, at the very opening of the pass. He was clad in the course attire of a me chanic. Ills coat had been flung aside, and ‘vith his shirt sleeves rolled up from his muscular arm, he lay extended on the turf, NI bile the blood poured in a torrent from his right log. which was broken at the knee by a cannon ball. The warganer's ..ympathies were arrested by the sight. lie would have paused in the very in of his flight, and placed the wounded blacksmith in his wagon, but the stout hearted man refused. "I'll not get into your wagon," said he, in his rough way, "bnt I'll tell you wrist I will do. Do you see yonder cherry tree on the top of that rock that hangs over the road?— Do you think you can lift a man of my build up there? For you see, neighbor, I never meddled with the Britisherq until they come trapping over this valley, and burned my house down. And now I'm all riddled to pieces and hain't got more than fifteen minutes in use: I've got three balls in my cartridge box, and so just prop me up against that tree, and I'll give them the whole three shots, and then," exclaimed the blachsmith, "I'll diet" The wagoner started his horse ahead, and then with n sudden effort dragged the wound ed man to the foot of the tree. His face was to the advancing troops, and while his shattered kg hung over the bank, the wag oner rushed on his way, when the doomed blacksmith proceeded coolly to load bis rifle. It was not long before a body of Ameri can soldiers rushed by with the British in pursuit. The blacksmith gmetod them with EtVJ. BY ALFILED TEMVISON a shout, and raising his rifle to .•-, shoulder he picked the formost from his sPilited steed, with the exclamation: 57 "That's for Washington." 14.: In a minute his rifle was rd ded, and again it was fired, and the purst "ii British rode over another of their office . "That's for myself!" cried theaeksmith, and then, with the feeling 00:broaching death, loaded, and raised his riefr-and fired his last shot, and another soldi:issed the sod! A tear quivered in the ! .es of the dying blacksmith. q.I "And that," he said, with arslty voice which strengthened almost to .I:•uut, "is for mad Anthony Wnya:-:" ;: ' 4 4 . 4 , 7 , Long after the battle of Brar *tile was past, the body was discovered' o ainst the tree, with the features frozen in .ath, smil ing grimly, while the rip* fill grasp ed the never failing riM ', ~ And thus died one .4: t'tholitand braveli mechanic-heroes of the 1 "- eilut§"i; brave in''' . 4 a the hour of retreat and._ is* ”.: ed in the, • hour of death. ' AMERICAN SHARE SHARE OF fUMAN HISTORY. - t.,;%- The following is extracted' om a. new work entitled "A Manual of Jed States History, by Mr. Samuel A. E' ; professor of history and literature, for ib ; use of col 4. loges and higher classes in se els, and of which the critics speak in flatt ring terms: "We are not to suppose the: tited States in front of the Universe, nor, - the contra ry, place them in the rear rit y because they are young and free. -Y- 'th implies both vigor and immaturiti, . ~,' d, when a nation possesses not only y-outhtat freedom, the certainty of its being both'::gorous and immature is confirmed. Such-pis our posi tion; we are strong, but we ark unformed. If we are younger than other countries, it is not altogether to our rolvantn* there may he more for us to learn and tqtro before we become a complete nation. Su, in being freer than other nations, we stAti exposed to dangers from which they aro 4' . altered by their very bondage. The ten. , cies to law lessness and to disunion aro_ NV % a - ' actions all around us. They i:" . . checked and subdued, bar, '., i is safe in itself or noble in ,t . :,.., stranger. On both grottasli . ,:',er that of youth and that VS" .. :k ~1- , under respeitatiTiti, - . 7.-• - r, m iThi. , :efif grerter than the aceompanyine, privileges. At the same time there is no doubt that we are the 'gainers by coming free upon the stage of history. We have been animated by the greatness, warned by the weakness of earlier times. Their burdens are not up on our shoulders, their bonds are not upon our limbs. What has been is not perpetu ally clashing with what is, or with what ought to be. Great, indeed, are our lessons, and great our resource.; great, therefore, I should be our deeds. If they are not so (mt. rank, historically, sinks into insignificance. But if they are, if the deeds bear full pro portion to the resources and the lessons, then, and then only, the part of the nation I in human history will rise to majesty." WASHINGTON'S DEATH He died as he lived, and what a beautiful economy there was ill his death! Not a faculty was impaired, rot an error had marred the moral of his life. At sixty-six, not quite three-score years and ten, he was taken away, whilst his example Was perfect. lie took cola, slighting the symptoms, say ing, "let it go as it came." In the morn ing of the 14th of December, '96, he felt se vere illness; called in his overseer, Mr. Raw lings, to bleed hint. He was agitated, and Washington said to hint' "don't be afraid." When about to tic up his arm, he said with difficulty, "more." After all efforts failed, he designated the paper meant for his will, then turned to Tobias Lear and said, find I am going; my breath cannot continue long. I believed from the first dial it would be fatal. Do you arrange and record all my military letters and papers; arrange my ac counts and settle my boobs, as you know more about them than any one else, and let Mr. Rawlings finish recording my other let ters, which he has begun." Between 5 and o'clock, he said to his physkian, Dr. Craik, "I feel toy-elf g,ing; you had better not take any more trouble about me, but let me go off quietly; V cannot last long:" Shortly after, again he said, ' . doctor, I die hard, but I ant not afraid to go: I heliesed from my first attack I should not survive it; my breath cannot last long." About 10 o'- clock he toads several attempts to speak to Mr. Lear, and at last said, •'I am just going. Have me decently buried, and do not let toy body be put into the vault in less than two days after I am dead." Lear says. "I bowed assent." He looked at me again and said, "Do you understand met" I replied, "Yes, sir," "Tis well," said be. And these were his last words, and 'tis well his last words were, " 'Tis well." Just before he expired be felt his own pulse; his hand fell from his wrist, and George Washington was no more."—Front an Oration by Ger. IVise of Virginia. Ham- DcarAts.—A Cincinnati paper says "another warning against the too com mon practice of hasty burials occurred in Fremont, Sandusky county, a few weeks ego. Daniel Stearns, Esq., who had been ill with a fever for some time, to all appear ance died on Friday afternoon. All the ar rangements were made, and the friends and the clergyman were assembled to pay thp htst tribute of respect to the supposed de ceased, when the body appeared warm to the touch. Restoratives were administered, and in a few minutes the man who had come so near being buried alive, was sitting up, and is now in a fair way of recovery." SHOW FURNITURE Furniture too good to be used is a nuisance. -Nought is more unpleasant than the aspect of a room or a suite of room., where every thing is bagged un. Chairs in pinafores, mirrors in mu , din, n druggeted carpet, a hearth-rug wrong side oat, and a chandelier in a sack, seen by the rays of light that struggle in edgewise through the slits in the shutters, and exhaling that peculiar brown holland fragrance which belongs to drawing rooms in marquerade dress, form one of the t cheerless, dispiriting, inhuman-like IVt.rteles in the diorama of dome,tic life. Itik 'would as lief be ushered into a vault as chilling to the feelings, except, per ' laps, a perspective vice - of the family wash taking an airing on the clothes line. Why do people buy magnificent furniture, to clothe it in hideous disguise? Does the glory of exhibiting the article undressed half a dozen evenings in a year pay for all the cost and troubte? The miser enjoys the flashing lustre of the gold every time he lifts the lid of his strong box; but what pleasure can there be in possessing a species of prop. erty that is invisible to time owner three hun dred and fifty days out of three hundred and sixty-five? Give us furniture to wear—ta bles upon which you can being down your list with an emphasis, without throwing the lady of the hone into hysterics, chairs that you can promenade upon—in a word give us comfort, and let us wear things out. It is provoking to see chairs and sofas preserv ed for years without a spot or blemish, while the wrinkles are multiplying on the face, and the grey hairs on the heal of the pro prietor. For these, and sundry other rea sons, we have especial spite for show-furni ture. 4en in men's tuat be met, it atepublie e 5 es of the ' . -refore, on DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In the year 1724 Franklin visited Boston, and on his return to Philadelphia, at every Stopping place, he was beset with officious inquiries for his name, business, ttc., on which_ he determined in he beforehand with such interrogatories in future. At the neat tavern he announced himself as Benjamin Franklin, from Bdston to Philadelphia, a printer not worth a dollar, 18 years of age, a single man seeking my Rubino. &e., and this singular introduction check ed all further inquiries, and effectually re pulsed the darling propensity of Yankee inquisitiveness. At one of the public. houses the fire place was surrounded by men so closely packed, our traveller could not np preach near enough to feel any of its agree. able warmth, and being cull and chilled, lie called out: n, we are 'Hos tier, ha‘e you any oysters?" 'Yes, replied the man. 'Well then, Bile my horse a peck "What! give your horeo opter , +':" cried the wondering skeptic. "Ve4," retorted Franklin, "gita hint a peck of oysters:" The hostler carried oat. the oyster.. and many of the occupiers of the tire place went a ill! Idin to is itness the great curiosity of a horse eating oysters. 'Franklin sea:r•d 16111- . 0 1f e,,mf , irtahly before the fire and de.drod much satisfaction and enjoyment from his funny experiment. Soon tho men cattle in, and the company with micro] fa , e. pre. el most decided dissati-faction at tier pointment. “The horse would riot rat the oysters, sir," and they had log their e., Cy, en InCortal)le, warm seats. •'Well," said Franklin, if the hor won't eat them, I'll eat than myself, and y.-11 may try him with a peek of oat+." A HAY FIELD ANECDOTE That is a g(”al story, which may have been heard in Mire than one Yankee hay. field this summer. We heard it one day when on a visit in the cotibt..y, we went out to show some men how to - pitch." Wl' had failed, an I wilted down under a haeock, and lay flushed, aryl `.itening the glow and sweat of our feature , in it comfortable posi tion, when one of the jolly haymakers re lated the anecdote of the old man Is h 0 was always bragging how folks used to work in his younger days , and challenged his two sons to pitch on a load of hay as fast as he could load it. The challenge was accepted, and the hay wagon driven round, aid the trial com menced. For some time the old man held his own very creditably, calling out, taunt ingly: “More hay! more hay:" Thicker and faster it came, whole hay cocks at a time, cloud after cloud, over whelming. The old man was nearly cover ed up; still he kept crying. "more hay! more hay!" until, struggling to keep on the top of the disordered and ill-arranged heap, it be. gan first to roll, then to slide, and at last ()Tit went from the wagon, and the old man with it. "What are you dawn here for?" cried the bocc `•I came down after bay: — answered the old man, stoutly. Which was a literal fact, ho had come down after half a wagon load, which had to be pitched on again rather more delib erately. A GREAT CURE-ALL Several gentlemen were talking one even ing at the house of a friend, when one of them exclaimed, "Alt! depend upon it, a soft answer is a great cure-all." At this stage .2f the conversation, a boy who sat be hind a table begin to listen, and repeated, as be thought, quite to himself, "A soft an swer is a great cure-all." "Yes,-that's it," cried the gentleman, starting, and turning round; "yes, that's it; don't you think so, my lad?" The boy blushed a little at find ing himielf so unexpectedly addressed, but; answered, "I don't know that I understand you, sir." "Well, I will explain then. In the days of my boyhood it so happened ti'ut.r.""; school to which I was sent, my scat was ' next to a lad named Tom Tucker. When I I found he lived in a small house behind the academy, I began to strut a little and talk about what lay father was; but, as ho was a capital scholar, very much thought of by the boys, we were soon on pi any good terms; and so it went on for some time. After a while sonic fellows of my- stamp, and I with the rest, got into a difficulty with one of the ushers, and some how or other we got into the notion that Tom Tucker was at the bot tom of it. "'Tom Tucker!' who is he? I cried, an grily. I'll let him know who I am!' and I went in a passion to Toni, and said, teach you to talk about me in this way!'— But he never winced or seemed in the least frighted, but stood still, looking at me mute as a lamb. 'Charles,' he said, 'you may strike me ns much as you please; but I shan't strike back again; fighting is a poor way to settle difficulties. I'm thinking when you are Charles Everett, I'll talk to you "Oh what an answer was that! HOW it cowed me down! So firm, and yet so mild! I felt there was no fun in having the fight on one side. I was ashamed of myself, my temper, and everything about me. I longed to get out of his sight. I saw what a poor, foolish way my style of doing things was. I felt that Tuna had completely got the bet ter of me; that there was power in his prin ciples superior to anything I had ever seen before; and from that hour Tom Tucker had an influence over me nobody ever had before or since; it has been for good, too. That, you see, is the power of a soft answer." A JEW'S PRUDENCE Among the tales of the Talmud, there is one of a parent who fell sick, w bile his son was distant from him at Jerusalem, pursu ing his studies. Too far off to recall hint before his rapid death, be mode a will and ' gave all his pr..perty to a truoty slave who nursed hint. with the provi , bm that his son should be informed of his death no soon as pus ills and should recelie as hi, portion! any oae tidily he should Select from his property. This gill thr tlave r itr I faithfully, aftrw the 11,-..bbi's th. , 01 , 0, and Int.:truing to Jeru:rdrin proved the iiirlauelioly event and the \VW to the' son. Of emiNe the young man NVIIS in despair at his 10-s and at tho same time astounded at his apparent ill treatment. Ile coin plained to a learned Jew wh.) was celchrated for his wisdom. "Can ton not perceive the goodness and prudonee of your father in the will?" Enid he, •'.l ;till explain it. 11, knew that if ho left his estate to you, while you were co re mote from it, that it would offer a great temptation to the cupidity of his y e q. Th e y woub! ' , rob:11)13- hate ravaged it and injured your life to save themseves. Therefore he willed it to his principal ser vant, who under the condition would tale rpnick measure; to npori-,e von of the event." “IVell, what furth , r?” n , ke.l the youth ^.1.,.c+ not all 11. e Aare big mast , l?" "Ye=." "Well, then, you ehoo , e your portion in this sla,e and n, a consequence the estate again reveit. t.) you. Thu. wa. the pru dence of your father e‘hibited even amid the trouble, of a dying hour. Remember him with gratitude." The young man el;c1.0 tlto , dace, and a ft er . ward g.ive him his freedom with considera ble gift.. PICTURES A room with pictures in it and a room without picture., differ nearly as much as a room with windows and a room without win dows. Nothing, we think, is more melan• eholy, particularly to a person who has to pass much time in his room, than blank walls with nothing on than; fur pictures are loopholes of escape to the soul. lending it to other scenes and other spherc•+. It is such ! inexpressible relief to a person engaged in writing, or even reading, on looking up. not to hale his line of ‘i , ion clipped off by an odious white nail, but to find his soul es coping, as it were, through the frame of an exquisite picture, among the beautiful and perhaps idylitic scenes, where the fancy of! a moment may revel, refreshed and delight ed. It is winter in your world; perhaps it ' 1 is summer in the picture; what a charming I momentary change and contrast: And thus j pictures arc consolers of loneliness: they are a sweet flattery to the soul: they are a re lief to the jaded mind; they are windows to the imprisoned thought; they are books; they are histories and sermons—which we can read without the trouble of turning over the leaves. [WHOLE NUMBER, 1,375. NUMBER OP TEE STARS Of the stars thousands are visible to the naked eye, and millions are discovered by the telescope. Sir John Herschel calculates that about five and a half millions of stars are visible enough to be distinctly counted in a twenty feet reflector in both hemi spheres, and thinks the actual number is much greater. His illustrious father esti mated on one occasion that one hundred and twenty-five thousand stars passed through the field of his forty feet reflector in a quar ter of an hour. This would give twelve millions fur the entire circuit of the heavens in a single telescopic zone; and this estimate was made with the assumption that the ne bula, were mas:.es of lamir•ous matter, not yet condemed suns. But with the increase of instrumental power, especially under the miz,hty grasp of Lord Rose's gigantic re flector, and the great reflectors of Pulkova and Cambridge; the most irresolvable of these nebula: have given way; and the Let ter opinion now is that every one of them is galaxy, like our own milky way, com posed of millions of suns. AN INFIDEL REBUKED An Infidel, boasting in a published letter that he had raised two acres of "Sunday Corn," which lie intended to devote to the purchase of infidel books, adds, "All•the work done on it was done on Sunday, and it willl yield some seventy bushels to the acre: so that I don't see but that nature or Providence has smiled upon my Sunday work however the priests of the bible may say that work done on that day never pros pers. My corn tells another story." To this the editor of an agricultural paper replies: "If the author of this shallow nonsense had read the Bible half as much as he has the works of its opponents, ho would have known that the great Ruler of the universe does not always square up his nccounts with mankind in the month of October." NClter.R. oF Peer OrricEs, &G.., IN VIE UNlMl.—Weleern from the Report of the Postmaster General, that the number of post offices in the Union on the 30th ofJune last was 25,662. Of these, 339 have an in come of over $lOOO per annum, and the Postmasters arc appointed by the President subject to the confirmation of the Senate.— ; The total compensation of Postmasters was, ! fee_t_im Isr,t _fiscal Tz ar. v 2.102 .8 90. filto number of mail route contractors was 6372; of mail agents, 394; and of mail messengers 1108. The mail was carried over 20,323 miles of railroad, over 14,951 miles in steam boats, over 50,453 miles in coaches, and over 153,915 miles by inferior conveyances. The cost of transportation for each mile travelled is, by railroad 10.6 cents: by steamboat, 20.3 cents; by coach about 7 cents per mile. The total cost of mail transportation for the current year, including the salaries of agents and messen g ers, but excluding the ocean service, is $6,576,128. Jr is so.—A man whistling merrily at midnight is a safe person to meet; and no murdering or cheating design lies under neath hearty and honest laughter. A hand organ and a monkey will sometimes light up the dreariest and dirtiest localities with a gleam of genuine felicity—transient, though it be. Therefore, recreations, orna mentation, a little of the line arts, may and ought t, he sent on it preliminary mission among the most degraded. Just administer to the het taste , and they will assert their• rightful supremacy. A pleased crowd, pleased with harmless pageants, amuse ments, and sports--generally behave well. They are not tempted to do otherwise. Conseptently, however, much is done direct ly to make communities better, much must 0.1 , 0 be th.me indirectly. PEorty. wm, Inve, WITIIorT "Thrs day beforo we reached the Orange River," says Anderson, in his Four Years' Wanderings in South Africa, "we fell in with n krall of Hottentots, wboin to our surprise. we found li%ing in a locality altogether des titute of water: The milk of their goats and co w s sup; lied its place. Their cattle, more oser never (..tdained water, but found a sub stitute la a kind of ire plant (messembryan thcomm) :fan eAceedingly succulent nature which aNJunds in these regions. But our own oxen. not accustomed to such diet, would rarely or mer touch it. Until I had actually convinced myself—as I had often the opportunity of doing in an after period that men could live entirely without water, I should, perhaps, have had some difficulty in rrabzing this singular fact." ie.54.,..110n..105eph P. Corneas, the newly appointed United States Senator for the State ~f Delaware, resides in Dover, and is married to a niece of the late lion. John M. Clayton, who had his home with Mr. Co megys up to the time of his death. Mr. C. is the son of the late Gov. Corneas and has served with prominence and ability in the Delaware Legislature. Ile is a lawyer of large practice, of sound legal ability, exten sive experience, and fine personal appeal-- al:we, about forty-five years of age. He is a gentleman of sterling integrity and deserved ly popular. He will fill his new position with honor and usefulness. sarA. good newspaper is like a sensible and sound hearted friend, whose appearance on one's threshold gladdens the mind with the promise of a pleasant and profitable hour. ANCE.