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Drs.-John Ecjtohrer,• AVE associated in the Practice of Heine. Columbia, April Ist, 1856. if mt. G. W. MIFFLIN, DENTIST, Locust street, near the Post Of ace. Columbia, Pa. Columbia. May 3, MG. IL M. NO'RTIL ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. Columbia, Pa. Collections, i.romptly made, In Lancaster and York Counties. Colambia, May 4, tsra J. W. FISHER, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Csollai-mbolatai, Pea.. Columbia, opLoalibor 6, tuou•lt GEORGE J. SMITH, WHOLESALE and Retail Bread and Cake Baker.—Constantly on hand ft variety of lices, •too numerous to mention; Crackers; Sods, Wine, Scroll, and Sugar Biscuit.; Confectionery, of every description, tee, &c. LOCUST sTnEgr, Between the Bank and Franklin House. DAVIES E. BRUNER, ESQ., ATTORNEY A.T.LAW AND CONVE YAWER. offers his services to the citizens of Cplumbin, end assures them that he will attend with promptitude to all business entrusted to his care. Office—Front street, between Union and Perry. Residence—lß:lath side Second street,2nd door below Union. Columbia. January 13. 1335-1 y S. F. APPOLD & CO., 'GENERAL FORWARDING AND COMMIS kaidEASION MERCEIANTS, Sa t RBCEIVERS OF COAL LAND PRODUCE, And Deliverers on any point on the Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad. to York and Baltimore and to Pittsburg; TI E:Arogns COAL. FLOUR AND GRAIN, 1) WHISKY AND BACON, have just received a lsrass -tivt es , Pittshurg, of whir II they will kee andpy constantly on he nd. nt low prices. Nos. 1,2 6 Canal Basin. Col unthin, January 87.1834. OATS FOR SALE Ba THE BUSHEIJ, or in larger quantities, at Nos. 1,2 & 6 Co36ll,Basln. 13. T. APPOLD & CO. Columbia, January .9.6,19.56 ROPES, ROPES, ROPES. 50COILS, superior qualities, various sizes, ' J ust ret:e. d and for. suit chenp.by & RICH. Columbia, March 22,1956 Just Received, rn BUS. 111 S %% PRED R E GROUND NUTS, at ecti .nery F. sNllltoleshle and etail Conf J e.tablishment. Front street, two doors yorlow the Wa.longton Muse, Columbia. (October 25, ISZA. - :rust Received, ra A 1111DS SHOULDER .. S. 15 TIERCE HANTS Z V roe sale by 0 1 , C0.. :Coq. 1, 2 9.m11 , , Caßal Ba•in. Columbia. October IS, 1e56. Rapp's Gold Pens. CONSTANTLY on hand. an assortment of there celebrated PENS. Permit,. in want cola good article are invited to call and examine them. Columbia, June 30, 1833. JOIIN FELIX. Excellent Dried Beef, SCured and Pima Hume, Shankle.rs foul Shies, for sale by March 2.2, Just Received, A . LARGE LOT of Children's Carriages, Gig., Rocking florae., Wheelbarrow., Prepel ltr., Nursery Savings, &-e. GEORGE. J. 8311T11. April 19,1836. Locust street. (IRINA and other Fenny Artieles. too numerous to %.) mention, for *ale by (i. .1. 53,1T11, Locust atreeh between the Bank and Fronklin Columbia, April 19, 1956. T HE undersigned Care been appointed agent.. forthe stile of Cook & Co'r GOTTA PER t T ILE mirrnnied not to corrode; in e Insheny they almost equal the quill. SAYLOR & McDONALD. Colombia Jon. 17, 1657. A LARGE lot Of Shaker Corn, from the tilirucer settlement in New• Yn, k, juvt received, y t H. SUYDAM & SON'S Columbia, Dec. W,1.9.50 TATNES Family Medicines. For sale at MiCORKLE/b uI LLET f'S Family Medicine More, Odd reliOWlo . Columbia, October '25, leXi. HAIR DYE'S. Jones' Batchelor's, Peter's and 1 7 4yptian hair dyrot. warranted to rotor the lour any desired shaft, without injury to the shin. I'or sale R. WILLIAMS„ Trout tt.,Coltantna, Pa. 'May 10, 'PARR & TIIOMPSON'S justly celebrated Com a.: mercinl and other Gold Pena—the twat in the :market—just received. P. sittuusul. Collar:lda, April 2A, 1555. XTRA I FAIIIILY FLOUR, by the barrel, for Co:iimbin.! . fune 7. 1'5..%% I : , 1 4 end t i S . l' ) a n. VRIIIIB HAMS, 12 14 do. per pound; ilioulder., 10 do do Dried Beer, 14 do do Tide Water Donal Money receiv rLsit ed for good.. wRICII .Columbin, M ay ISS4. WRY should anyperson do without a Cloek, when they cad he had fottl.(land iIttEINE uptvltrdo. • BWS! Columbia, Arril eo, QAPONEFIER. or Concentrated Lye, for ma• king Soap. 1 lb. iv vuffiesent for one barrel or Soft Soap, or Ilb.for 9 Ilia. !lard Soap. Full dived. tionsyrill be given at the Counter for making Soft, Hard and Fancy Soups. For sale by R. WILLIAMS. Columbia, March 31, 'IESS. SOLETION OF CITRATE OF MAGNESII,or Par !Wive Mineral IVater.—This pleasant medicine which is highly recommended ns n subacute for Epallsm antis, Powders, he.. inn be obtained fresh every (May at SA3II, FILBERT'S Drug Store, Front st. J 2 20:107.EN 13R001t 4 , 10 BOXID 4 CIIIM.II For gale cheap, by 11. F. A PPOLD & Colamb's. October A SUPERIOR orisc{e of PAINT AIL for mole by R FronfStrret, Co . its. I'm MEM St GO Take the Spade of Perseverance, Dig the &chi of Progress wide; Every rotten root of faction flurry out and cast aside; Every stubborn weed of Error; Every seed that hurts the soil; Tares. whose very growth is terror— Dig them out whale er the toil! . Give the stream of Education Broader channel, holder force; Heel the stones of Pro.ectidon . Out whereer th.'y block Its course; Seek for strength in self-exertion; Work and still have faith to wait; Close the crooked gate to fortune; Make the road to honor straight! Men are agents for the future; As they work, so ages win Either harvest of Advancement, Or the products of their sin! Follow out true cullivation; Widen Education's plan; From the Majesty of Nature Teach the Majesty of Man! Take the Spade of Perseverance, Dig toe field of Progress wide; Every bar to true instruction Carry out and cast Aside; Feed the Plant whose Fruit is 'Wisdom; Cleanse from Crime the common Sod; So that from the Throne of Heaven It may bear the glance of God. SUNSHINE OF THE HEART OW don't go sighing through the world, There's sunshine all the w•ay; If you'll but do the acts that e'er Reftect the blessed ray. It glistens in the grateful tear, That flows for kindly deed, And quivers in the voice that Bobs Its thanks, for help, in need. It sparkles oft in radiant smiles, At tones, tuned in the heart, And guideth o'er the page of life With beams that ne'er depart. ft ilwelleth in the loving look, That answers to our own, And swollenh up a spring of joy, To selfish taste unknown. It smooths the rugged wale of life, With carpets, soft and light, Woven of conscience free from frowns And impulse acted right. It cheers the darkest honr an earth— Steals under sorrows deep; And even smiles above the path, 1,0,4 4 , alroornt,es gistritantint4s. A SINGULAR AFFAIR A Frenchman Cow-hidr,l by a Jealous The correspondent of the New York hi /mne, writing from Wilmington, Del., gives the following details of a recent incident at that place: "On Wednesday night last we had for this city certainly an extraordinary scene. Mr. John C. Patterson, an eminent lawyer of this city, one who is esteemed and res pected by all who know him, had cause to suspect the fidelity of his wife. She is one of the most beautiful women in the city.— Accordingly he placed spies upon her, who found that she was in the habit of walking until late at night in the outskirts of the city with a French gentleman, a resident of New Orleans, who is visiting this city for the purpose of having an iron steamboat built at Messrs. Betts, Pusey, Jones do Co's. On the night above mentiotod, her husband after following her in company with his brother-in-law, Lieut. Webster, and others, and seeing her enter his back gate; reproach ed her with her conduct, and sending for Thomas Hawkins, the High Constable of the city, sent by him for her parents, and ' sent her home. Then sallying forth with his friends, he attacked the French gentle man on the steps of B. T. Turner's hotel, 1 striking him, to begin with, a dreadfulitow in the face with a cowhide. The gentlait an 111 being thus suddenly assaulted, ran, shrieked for "guards and police." "But rows :Wes° unfrequentin this city that all we deem it necessary is to keep a con stable or so, and of course they were not there to protect him. lie ran, shrieking murdeD down Shipley street, thinking I suppose, that his assailants intended to murder him, and dashed into the dwelling of Mr. Jackson Pusey, a gentleman whom he had been in the habit of visiting. Mr. Patterson dashed in after him, accompanied by his friends. lle ran into the ,parlor, whore his friend had been in the habit of receiving him. Mr. Patterson followed him, the door of the parlor was immediately locked, and some say Mr. Patterson alone, and others say, others also assaulted him. There he was beaten with a cowhide for the space of twenty minutes. In the meantime the shrieks of murder .attracted the crowd who rushed in, and were on the point of [breaking the door open, when it was un locked and the gentleman, dreadfully in jured, was carried up-stairs to one of Mr. Pusey's chambers. A cry was raised from the crowd of "lynch him," "lynch him," (meaning Patterson). But getting on the top step, he called out, "I am John C. Pat terson; you know my residence; I will an swer for the deed." Knowing from the character of the man that he must have re ceived some great provocation the crowd dispersed. & RICH "The parlor where this desperate conflict occurred. is reduced to a perfect wreck.— The walls and furniture are stained with blood. The furniture is all cracked and broken. The bs nd-.erew mirror 14 cmurbed Itcrity. SONG FOR THINKERS I=l Itusbaml "NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO CHEAP AS rt-r Ann-a, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING." COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 21, 1857. to pieces, and the blinds are so twisted and broken that it has been found impossible to close the windows. Mr. and Mrs. Pusey were ouLat the time. The servants ran up stairs and locked themselves in the upper chambers, nearly frightened to death. "This affair has here convulsed our whole community. The gentleman assaulted, since his residence in Wilmington , (before this unfortunate occurrence), had won many friends among our citizens. ne was every day becoming better and batter liked." EXCITEMENT IN DELAWARE. Unsuccessful Attempt to Capture Fugitive Et72E2 On Tuesday morning last our town was thrown into much commotion in consequence of an almost successful attempt to capture eight runaway slaves, for which rewards are offered of upwards of three thousand dollars. It seems that sometime during Monday a man came to Sheriff Green with the information that he had discovered eight runaway negroes, and had made arrange. ments to have them in Dover that night, the negroes supposing they were to be concealed in the town until the next night and then wend their .way upwards. Accordingly, about 4 o'clock on Tuesday morning the man and the negroes appeared at the jail. While the Sheriff was dressing they all en tered the jail, went up stairs (in the dark,) found an open room and went into it, but there being no fire they came out into the entry. By this time the Sheriff had dressed and followed them up-stairs, supposing that he would find them iu one of the rooms and that all he would have to do would be to close anti bolt the door. On discovering that they were all in the entry, the Sheriff returned to his room for his revolver. The negroes, anxious to got to a fire, followed him down and wore all in the Sheriff's room, where his wife and children were asleep, before he could sieze his revolver. By this time the suspicions of one of the negroes were aroused and with the exclamation "ho didn't like do looks ob de place; I'se guine out o'dis," he bolted for the window. The Sheriff siezod him and while engaged in the struggle the rest of the negroes burst through another window and escaped, first scatter ing the fire over the floor, the man standing hearted coward. The Sheriff alarmed by his family and the fire, let go the negro for a moment, when in an instant he bounded through the window and was gone. Thus they all es caped. Six of them were tracked to a house in Camden, but the officers could not enter for the want of sufficient warrant which the magistrates said they had no power to give. On Tuesday night, it is currently reported, the six were conveyed to the house of a man residing near Willow Grove, whence they were forwarded up the country by the forest roads, or rather on the underground rail road. The other two were seen, shortly af ter the escape from the jail, going out of Dover in a northernly direction.—Dorer Re porter, Marell 13. FEMALE SLURP PRACTICE.—Sonia years ago a young gentleman living in Crawford county "went west," settled in a western 1 city,and became rich. Ire married a lady residing in the city where he located. Af ter he had been married six months, he pre pared to visit Crawford county in com pony with his bride. But a few days before he was to start, he wss acci dentally killed by a crate of crockery fal ling upon him from the second story of his warehouse. The event was duly communi cated to his family in Ohio. This was about eighteen months ago. About three months since, the father of the deceased was startled to see a carriage drive up to his door. A very interesting lady, dressed in mourning, stepped out and introduced herself as the widow of the dead son. Great was the joy of the household at the visit of their beloved son end broth er's relict. She said she was going to Rhode Island, and could not resist the op t portunity of seeing the parents of her "be loved Harry." This was accompanied by a flood of tears and "furnace sighs." Three weeks passed by, and she had worked her way indeed into the affections of the family. Sho was regarded a daughter—as a sister -1 The hour came for her departure—they had exchanged miniatures—the farewells were said—the blubbering was at its very height, when she called the old gentleman to one side, and with great embarrassment told hint she had lost her pocket-book on the cars, containing all but a trifle of her funds. She felt a diffidence in making the request, but if she could not apply to her "beloved Harry's father," to whom could she go? The old man's heart melted, and in mo ment his wallet was produced, and ten X's of the Seneca County Bank were tendered and accepted. She departed—alas, that dear friends must part! Time new, and a month passed, but nothing was heard from "beloved Harry's relict:" The old gentleman became alarmed, and addressed a letter to the father of his son's wife, detailing the circumstances of her visit. An answer came. It is stated that the widow of his late son was at home—had not been away— and that from the description given, the wo man who personated her was a servant girl who bad lived with them, and had gleaned enough of the history of Harry's family in Ohio to enable her to play his wife.— Tiffs ( Oh io) AdrertivT, r..h. 13. THE PIIMITER Hon. Ellis Lewis, (thief Justice of the Su preme Court of this State, in a recent lec ture took occasion'to 'efer as follows to the position of printeil. Tndge Lewis is a prin ter himself, and knot fully how to appre ciate the value of tirA class of community of whom he treats: "No class of soeict:: - ,Aeserves more public consideration than 0,4' Printers. They are the treasurers of the .fierld; they are at the same time munifieer.". , almoners of the Al mighty. They reee:A.c.m.tributions in arts and science, ;led in4.l ll* useful knowledge, from every quarter of dcle and fr - .e the most distant age4'6f antiquity. They distribute their trelE•ure throughout the world and transmit it:in a durable form to the remotest posterit74 It is distributed at a rate so cheap as bring it within the reach of the humblet, day laborer in the land. Nothing has landed so much as this general and cheap ditksion of knowledge to improve the conditi,,, of the masses—to qualify the industrige class to take their proper position in s*iety, and to fit them not only for the pratirable pursuit of their own occupations, but for any other employ ment to which their eittuntry may call them. To the freedom and lower of the Press we are indebted for our 'free institutions, and these institutions estAulish equal rights.— By its power, the diadem of royalty is broken—the stars and garters of nobility are trodden down—ane Man, as man alone, without ancestry cr family connexions to aid him, stands upon his own merits, equal to the proudest peer in England's realm.— The humblest appreatice in the shop may become the President of the United States. The most gifted in common sense and well stored in .practical knowledge are found in self-taught men, who have raised themselves from the laborious *occupations. Roger Sherman was a shoemaker, David Ritten house was a watchmaker, Benj. Franklin was a printer. Theeis and a thousand other instances prove that :he industrial pursuits instead of throwing• insurmountable obsta cles in the road to' preferment, strengthen the body and the mind-and lead to that use ful, practical knowledge that fits the work ing man for the stron-:;ist struggles and the highest favors. CITY OF TIIC BIBLE ....ORD.—The Paris cor respondent of the Journal of Commerce thus alludes to the discoveries made by Sir Hen ry Ravrlinson in Assyria, confirmatory of the truth of the Bible Record: Among the recent public lectures in Lon don, you may be struck with that of Sir Henry IlawEpson, on the Oriental discover ies in relation to the Bible. It occupied nearly an hour and a half. Sir Henry ex patiated on some of the most important results of his discoveries in Assyria, consti tuting a verification of scripture history; he illustrated his topic by numerous drawings and models taken from the sculptures now in the British Museum. He could educe, by abundant coincidence, the authenticity of the Holy Writ. The earliest period to which the inscriptions he bad found referred Iraq about two thousand years before Christ. The whole country of Assyria had been ex cavated in the course of his researches; a multitude of inscriptions had been decipher ed, and in many instances, they confirmed, in the minutest details, the pages of scrip ture, and explained passages which had hitherto been obscure. The instances which he cited teem with instruction and force: the interpretation of derivation of names in particular. The earliest connection of the Chaldees and Indians and the Babylonian mythology, the ethnology and geography of the Assyrians, the historical records, all are illustrated; in every case, there is an entire agreement with the Bible. The lecturer in ferred from his studies that the Book of.Joh belonged to a time about seven hundred years before Christ. In the inscriptions there is a period of nearly a thousand years, without mention of Judea, but during that period there was no inducement for inter course between the Assyrians and the Jews. The visit of the Queen of Sheba to Solomon was verified. So the wars between Senna chcrib and Hezekiah. There were four dis tinct captivities of the Jews. Some inscrip tions referred to the time of Nebuchadnez zar; others threw light on the existence and actions of Belshazzar, who was joint King with his father Minus, and who shut him self up in Nineveh. THE NEED OF LOVE Oh that there were more lave in the world, and then all these things that we deplore could not be! One would think that the man who had loved any woman, would have some tenderness for all; and love implies en infinite respect. All that was said or done by chivalry of old, or sung by troubadours, but shadows forth the feeling which is in the heart of any one who loves. Love, like the opening of the heavens to the saints, shows for n moment, even to the dullest man, the possibilities of the human race.— He has faith, hope and charity for another being, perhaps but a creature of his hung ination; still it is a great advance for a man to he profoundly loving, even in his imag inations. Indeed, love is a thing so deep and so beautiful, that each man feels that nothing but conceits and pretty words have been said about it by other men. And then to come down from this, and dishonor the imago of the thing •+e loved: HOME OPERA Since the night when Ike went to the Opera, he has been, as Mrs. Partington says, as crazy as a bed bug, and the kind old dame has been fearful lest he should become "non pompus mentas," through his attempt at imitating the operatics. The next morn ing after the opera, at the breakfast table, Ike reavned over his cup, and in a soft tone sung— AVM you, will you, Nrs. P., liclp me to a cup of ten. "What do you mean, my poor boy?" said Mrs. Partington, tenderly. "Do not. do not keep tne Do not. pray, be !it...fanny, uta nna,uun to v 8.1th , , - , So pour out ns ciLLIC I / 4 a. winking., She gave him the tea with a sigh, as she saw the excitement in his face. He stirred it in silence, and in abstraction took three spoonsful of sugar. At last he sung again— + , Tahlc sloths and cups and saucer+, flood with bread and active jaws, sirs, Tea, gunpowder and souchotig, Street enough but not too strong; Mid for health to eat hot bi+cuit, but Fa risk it. Luttrell risk it., The old lady looked at him with surprise, his conduct was so unusual, and fur a MO meat she hesitated. lie continued in a more compassioned strain— " All right. tartniy. never clenrer, Never loved a t rcaklu,t denrer, I nm not bound by witch nor svicvnrl, So dolit trot your preeirnut girvurd "But Isaac," perpisted the old dame. ITe struck his left hand upon the table, and strung his knife aloft in the right, looking upon a plate upon the table, singing— "Whet farm is that to me approaching? it mackerel or [lemur? Let me thigh upon it quick: Neer again that fish shall kirk; Neer again though thrice n, large, Charge upon them, I.aue, charge." Before he had chance to make a charge upon the fish, Mrs. Partington had dashed a tumbler of water into his face to restore him to consciousness. It made him catch his breath for a moment, but he didn't sing any more at the table; though the opera fever follows him elsewhere. She is very uneasy about him.—Boston Post. THE VALUE OF SELF-RXPRTION. The value of self-exertion appears no• where more decided than when we follow the track of those who become eminent with out having the vantage-ground of instruc tion from which to start. There is scarcely anything more gratifying to mind than the well written life of a person whose intellect ual struggles through every difficulty arising want of patrono.r, ftv3,d who, notwithstanding these impediments, continues to struggle till he triumphantly emerges into notice. Art surrenders some of her choicest secrets, science smiles, and fame or emolument, or both, place the suc cessful experimenter far above common names. Not scantily are the niches in the temple of Fame ornamented with lasting memorials of persons thus claiming their well deserved honors—persons who have been the boast and blessing of their country by dint of unsubducd patience, fortitude and vivacious genius. Every department of art and science is filled with them. The stim biting examples are on every hand. From the lowest rank of life they start forth.— They break all the shackl.s of ignorance.— The repulsive frowns of the crowd cannot daunt them. The fears of the timorous they do not listen to. Determined to excel, they do excel. Their native energies urge them forward in the honorable career, till success more or less complete, crowns their glowing ardor. EX-PRESIDENT SANTA ANNA ; en. Santa Anna's son and his father-in law, both of whom are •now in Havana watching the course of afiltirs in Mexico, have addressed the Mexican public through the Havana press, denying the rumor thnt came from Spain to the effeet that Santa Anna bad sent an emisary to Madrid otTer ing to bring the Republic ngain under the Spanish Crown. The letters are full of pro fe.sions of patriotism, and that of the son contains this paragraph: "Often as he (Santa Anna) has left the supreme command of the Mexicali nation and retired spontaneously to the circle of private life in an humble spot, Ile has never disturbed the course of the tlovernments that have succeeded him; on the contrary, he has always and on every occasion, when many Mexicans have appealed to his res pectable person, replied that he would not place himself at the bead of the designs that might he formed by the good citizens of Mexico for the regeneration of their country, but that he would not abandon them in anything that might promise good for her if they invoked his name." THE MOTHER'S INFLUENCE. The solid rock which turns the edge of the chisel, bears forever the impress of the leaf and the acorn received long, long since, ere it had become hardened by thee and thee le ments. If we trace back to its fountain the mighty torrent which fertilized the land with its copious streams, or sweeps over it with a devastating flood, we shall lina it dripping in crystal drops, from some mossy crevice among the distant so, too, the gentle feelings and affections that enrich and adorn the heart, and the mighty pas sions that sweep away all the barriers °Nile soul and desolate society, may have sprung up in the infant bosom in the sheltered re tirement of home. "I should have been an atheist," said John Randolph, "if it had not I been for one recollection: and that was the memory of the time when my departed mother used to take my little hands in hers, land (mused me on my knees to say. 'Our 1 lather who art in Heaven?' •' 13!El $1,50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE, $2,00 IP NOT IN ADVANCE IS THERE A MAELSTROM? Every school boy of the last century has been taught to believe that there is a won derful vortex on the coast of Norway, with an eddy several miles in diameter, and that ships and even huce whales were sometime= dragged within its liquid coils, and forever buried in "ocean's awful depths." A cor respondent of the Seienti)l , Ameriran says: "I have been informe , l Ly a European acquaintance that the Mit±trom has no ex istence. A nautical and scientific commis-! sion went out and sailed al' around and all over where theto be. ! but con: ;. mcoth where the whirlpool ought to be as any other part of the German ocean." We presume the above is correct. The' latest geopraphers and gazetteers barely al lude to the maelstrom. Colton, in his large atlas, gises the site upon his map, but does I not allude to it in his description of Nor-1 way. Harper's G%zetleer in its article on , Norway says that, "among the numerous islands on the west coast there are violent I and irregular currents, V;hich rendor they coast navigation dangerous. Among these is the celebrated Ma Sfrom, or Meskermes I Strom, the danger fwio which has been greatly exaggerated, since it can at nearly I nll times, be passed over even by boats:'—; The romance of the maelstrom has been pretty effectually destroyed. SECRET STABS There is nothing that more betrays a base, ungenerous spirit than the glaring of secret stabs to a man's reputation; lampoons and satires, that are written with wit and spirit are like poisoned darts, which not only in flict a wound, but make it incurable. For this reason we are very much troubled when we see the talents of humor and ridicule in the possession of an ill-natured man. There cannot be a greater gratification to a bar barous and inhtlman wit, than to stir up sorrow in the heart of a private person, to raise uneasiness among near relations, and to expose whole families to derision, at the same time that he remains unseen and un discovered. If beside the accomplishment of being witty and ill-natured, a man is vi cious into the bargain, he is one of the most mischievous creatures that can enter into a civil society. Ills satire will then chiefly cram it. yirtnp.,plierit,arkeversthirvy_klutt is praiseworthy, win be made the subject of ridicule and buffoonery. It is impossible to enumerate the evils which arise from these arrows that arise in the dark; and we know of no other excuse that is or can be made: for them, than that the wounds they give are only imaginary, and pcodneesothing morel than a secret shame or ,sorrow in the mind of a suffering person. SCENE ON THE LAKES The Green Bay Advocate thus describm an ice highway on Lake Michigan: No one who has never seen such a road can form any idea of it. Imagine a plateau of ice, smooth as glass, an hundred miles long, with an average width of ten miles, over any part of which an army could move with safety, and you will have something of an impression of it. Although there is no place unsafe for teams, yet constant travel from point to point in a direct line has marked out roads, which are followed more for custom than for any thing else.— Thus these roads to Oconto, Menominee, Suamico, &e., on one side, and to the Bay Settlement, fled River: Sturgeon Bay, on the other—dim whitish tracks, made by the horse,' hoofs in the clear blue ice, which forms the highways of this great floe. There is no such thing as overloading a 15010: horses trot along as glibly with a cord of stone as with a cord of wood. It is the ca pacity of the sleigh to bear up which is to be tested, and not the strength of the horse.. MUSICAL JEALOUSY A singular incident in natural history oc curred at Chesterfield last week, which we learn from a friend and an eye-witness of the occurrence. A mocking bird, in a hap py state of freedom, was trilling its notes in the orchard below the walls of our friend's • horse when its music excited similar efforts from a caged bird of the same species, which was suspended in front of one of the adja cent houses. These feathered songsters per severed in raising their melodies to higher and higher efforts, as if in earnest rivalry: when suddenly the bird among the trees darted from its perch upon the wicker cage of its competitor, broke the bars, entered it, and commenced an assault upon the musi cal captive; the owner of which, hearing the unusual noise, came out, took the aggressor prisoner, and sold it into bondage. The ill tempered mocking bird had therefore paid the penalty of sacrificing its freedom to its jealousy. The anecdote is a fact, and not written, as it might seem to be, for the pur pose of pointing n moral against musical jealousies among human vocalists.—•Coati Side Democrat. COMMON SENFE.—Common sense is the most uncommon kind of sense we meet with in ordinary life: but we find a good deal of it in Hall's Jour/Jai qt . /hal/A occa-ionally. and couched sometimes in the most unpol ished language. Dr. Hall says: "Once a week i 9 often enough for a decent white man to wash himself all ca or: and whether in summer or winter, it ought to he done with soap, warm water and a hog's-hair brush, in a room showing a beat of at least .events d•'grees of Tahrenheit... [WHOLE NUMBER, 1,371. THE SANE OBSEQUIES The remains of the late Pr. Kane, the the Arctic navigetor, reached Philadelphia from Baltimore, at about half past four o'clock, on Wednesday, 11th inst., when a processionwas formed at the Prime street rail road depot, accompanied by the First City Troopand Washington Grays, and proceeded to Independence llallovhere the remains were deposited until next day. On Thursday morning, the funeral rites, proper, were ob erved. flags were everywhere hung at half mast or muffled with crape. Great mul titudes of spectators assembled at Indepen dence Hall and all along the route of the procession. The mil. tary were under com mand of Gen Cadwnlader. The comrades of the deceased in the Arctic expedition at tended the funeral in a body, as did all the public authorities, foreign consuls, the "Scott Legion," members of the Corn Ex change, &e. The military escort consisted of a squadron of cavalry, a battalion of ar tillery and a regiment of infantry. A mag nificent funeral car w-as used. It was got up for the occasion. nom Independence the procession moved to the Second' Presbyterian Church, in Seventh street, be low Arch, where the funeral services took place. The sermon was preached by the pastor of the church, the Rev. Mr. Shields. The body was subsequently interred at Laurel Hill. rer... We find the following quaint but sensible advice in a chapter on tho husband ing of time and small means, and give it here both fur its novelty and merit: : 1 What could a journeyman shoemaker do with a penny? I answer at once—buy a pennyworth of leather, make a pair of trow sers.straps, and sell them for two penee.-- . But another proposition—what could ajour neyman tailor do with a penny? I have known boys' caps to be made out of the merest scraps of cloth, and to be sold at a great profit in comparison with the cost of the material. A carpenter with a bit of wood—a tinma.n with a bit of tin—a comb maker with a bit of bone—au engraver with a piece of copper or a bit of wood—a fan maker with a piece of paper and a few chips —a designer with a black lead pencil and a 174.-stlisa •Aaaellsust . a square yard or grout - with a little color and a piece of card-board —an engrosser with a pen and ink—indeed, anybody with anything, resolved upon mak- I ing a beginning may do it. Many will say, had they a few pounds they feel that they could do something. To such persons I say; begin and get a few pounds. Do not let life slip away and see you still lamenting the want of opportunity. Begin—work first for the opportunity, and then for the result. tn.-Cornelius Agrippa, a doctor of divin ity, who lived in the fifteenth century, wrote a curious work entitled "Nobility of the Female Sex, and the superiority of Wo man over Man," which knocks all tho no. tions of the equality of the sexes head over heels. In the first place, he says that wo man has a better name than man. Man was called Adam, which means earth; but woman Eve, which means life. Man was made like the brutes in the open land out side the gates of Paradise, and made wholly of day; but woman was made, afterwards in Paradise it , elf. She was not the sole para disaical relation, She was not made of clay but from an influx of celestial matter; since there went into her composition nothing ter restial except one of Adam's ribs, and that had been already purified and kindled by the breath of life. "It is," saith Cornelius, "because she is made of purer matter, that a woman front tr hatever height she may look down, never turns giddy, [Cornelius lays it on a leetle thick here,—we have an impression that we had occasionally seen giddy women] and her eyes never have mist before them like the eyes of men. More over, if a man and woman tumble together into the water far away from external help. the woman floats along upon the surface, but the man sinks to the bottom, &c." The ' doctor is a great flatterer of the sex. 11e mu.t have seen the ladies at such a distance ' as lout a little extra enelmntment to the MEI CITILDREN STOLEN EY INDIANS AND DEAES. —Some months since, the Wisconsin papers gave a thrilling account of the loss cfa child which had been carried off by a bear near Manitowoc. No traces of the child have been discovered, and the eveitement was about dying away, when, on IVednesday of last week, in the same locality, a Mr Wood ward, !king near Sandy Bay, had some dif ficulty with an Indian, whom he hnd fed nearly every day during the past winter, and kicked him out of doors. The next day his little girl, three years of age, was stand , ing near the house, when an Indian sprang out of the thicket, clasped her in his arms, and bounded away through the underbrush. Pursuit was commenced immediately, but up to Saturday without success, though in formation had been received, which, it was hoped would lead to the recovery of the child, an Indian and a squaw having been seen the day after the abduction, carrying a child which was closely wrapped in a blan ket. and was rry:ng bitterly_
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