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WHOLESALE and Retail Bread and Cake
Baker.—Constantly on hand a variety of Cakes,
too numerous to mention; Crackers; Soda, %Vine, Scroll,
and Sugar Biscuit; Confectionery, of every description,
LOCUST STRIZET,
Fsb. 2, 'Sfi. Between the Bank and Franklin House.
B. P. A.PPOLD dr. CO.,
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GENERAL FORWARDING AND COMMIS
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RECEIVERS OF
COA LAND PRODUCE,
And Deliverers on any point on the Columbia and
Philadelphia Rndroad. to York and
Baltimore and to Pittsburg;
DEALERS IN COAL. FLOUR AND GRAIN,
WHISKY AND BACON, have just received a
arge lot of Monongahela Rectified Whiskey, from
Pittsburg, of which they will keep a supply constantly
on hand. at low prices. Nos. 1,.2 and 6 Canal Basin.
Columbia, January 27. 1554.
OATS FOR SALE
BY THE BUSHEL, or in larger qnantities,
at Nos. 1,2 & 6 Canal Basin.
rt. APPOLD B. CO.
Columbia, January 26, 1856.
ROPES, ROPES, ROPES.
50COILS, superior qualities, various sizes,
Jost recelved end for bale clioomby
‘VELSII & RICII.
Columbia, March 22, 1950.
Just Received,
. 5 n BUS. PRIME GROUND NUTS, at J. F.
smurtys 'Molecule and Retail Confectionery
uctablichmentt Front street, two dooro below the
Washington House. Columbia. [October 25. 1.252.
Just Received,
20 }HMS. SHOULDERS, 15 TIERCES HAMS.—
For sale by B. F. APPOLD k CO.,
Nos. 1, 2 and 6, Canal Basin.
Columbia, October 18, 1856.
Rapp's Gold Pens.
CONSTANTLY on hand, an assortment of
VV these celebrated PENS. Persons in went ors
good article are invited to call and examine them.
Colurnbia,June3b, 1855. JOHN FELIX.
Excellent Dried Beef,
QUOAR Cured and Plain Ham, siboulders and Sides,
1.3 for sale by
March 22,1856
Just Received,
LARGE LOT of Childrea'a Carriages,
Gig., Rocking Horses, Wheelbarrows, Propel
ere, Nursery Swings, &c. GEORGE, .1. dSIITII.
April 19, 1956. Locust street.
CHINA. and other Fancy Article*, too numerous to
mention, for rale by O. J.1.9h,1T11, Locust street,
'between the Bank and Franklin House.
Columbia, April 19, 1856.
THE undersigned have been appointed
agents for the sale of Cook & Co's UUTTA PER-
A PENS, warranted not to corrode; in et laslicity
they almost equal the quilt.
SA.YLOR & ItIcDONALD.
Columbia Jan. 17,1657
Just Received,
ABEAUTIFUL lot of Lamp Shan, viz: Tie
uterine, VOICUIIO, Drum. Butter Fly. 'red hoses,
and the new French Fruit :Shade, which can be seen
in the window of the Golden Alortar Drug store.
November 29,18.56.
A LARGE lot of Shaker Corn, from the
Shaker settlement in Maw Yolk, tufaT et jived,
at H. SUYDAM ASCTN'S
Cs lambi'', Dec. 20, Ma
HAIR DYE'S, Jones' Batchelor's, Peter's and
EFyptian hair dyes, warranted to color the hair
any desired shade, without injury to the skin. For side
by IL WILLIAMS.
May 10, Front it, Columbia, Pa.
- OAR be THORSON'S justly celebrated Com
mercial and other Gold Pena—the lapin in the
market—just received. P. SHREINER.
Colerabia,April29.lB.ss.
VIM FAMILY FLOUR, by the barrel, for
Bala by B. F. APPOLD t CO,
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Columbia, June '7. Noe. 1,2 and 6 Canal Bain.
DRIME HAMS,III.3 els. per pound;
hou Ide re, 10 do do
Dried Beef, 14 do do
Tide Water Canal Money received for goods.
WELSH dr. RICH
Colombia, May 17, 1856.
WHY should 'layperson do without a Clock,
when they can be had for 31.50 and upwards.
SHREINER'S?
M!MEM
QAPONEFIER, or Concentrated Lye, for ma
k) king Soap. 1 lb. in .ußieient for one barrel of
son Soap, or 11h.for D lbs. Hard Soap. Full direc
tion§ will be given at the Counter for making Soft,
Hard and Fancy Soaps. For sale by
Colombia, March 31,1855.
SOLUTION OF CITRATI OF ffiAONESIA,or Par
gative Mineral Water.—This pi aaaaa t medicine
which is highly recommended as a substitute for
Epsom Salts, Seidlitz Powders, gre., ran be obtained
fresh every day at SAM'L. FILBERT'S Drug Store,
Front st. tr 2
2 O DOZEN BROOMS, 10 BOXES CHEERS. Few
sale cheap, by B. F. APPOLD k CO.
Calculable, October 25, ISM.
A . SUPERIOR article of PAINT OIL. for pale by
R. WILLIAM%
May 10, 1106. Front Street, Colombia, Pa
TEST RECEIVED . , a tares and well selected vanity
er of Brushes. eannstinlr to part of Silos, Hair, Clout,
Crumb, Nail, Rey and Teeth Brushes. and for sate by
R. WILLIAMS,
Perch Front street Columbia,
From the Phila. Evening Bulletin
ELISHA HEAT WE.
0 mother Earth, thy task is done
With him who slumbers here below;
From thy cold, Arctic brow he won
A glory purer than the snow.
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Thy warmer bosom gently nursed
The dying hero; for his eye
The tropic spring's full splendors burst—
"ln vain:" a thousand voices ery.
"In vain, In vain!" The poet's art
Forsook me when the people cried;
Naught but the grief that fills my heart,
And memories of my friend, abide.
Mil
We parted in the midnight street,
Beneath a cold Autumnal rain;
Ile wrung my band, he staid my fern
With ••Friend, we shall not meet *gala."
I laughed; I would not Men believe;
He smiled; he left me; all was o'er,
How much for my poor laugh I'd give--
How much to see his smile ones mores
I know my lay hemeans the dead,
That sorrow is ■n humble thing,
That I should sing his praise instead,
And strike it on a higher string.
Let stronger minstrels raise their lay,
And follow where his fame has flovre;
To the whole world belongs his praise,
His friendship was to me alone.
So close against my heart he lay,
That I should make his glory dim,
And hear a bashful whisper say,
"I praise myself in praising him."
O gentle mother, follow nigh
His long, long funeral march, resign
To me the right to lift this erg,
Purtiug a sorrow that Is thine.
O! father, mourning by him bier,
Forgive thle song of little worth;
My eloquence is but a tear,
I cannot, would not rise from earth
0! stricken brothers, broken band—
The link that held the jewel lost—
! pray you give me leave to stand
Amid you, from the sorrowing host.
We'll give his honors to the world,
We'll hark for echoes from afar;
Whene'er our country's flag's unfruded,
His name shall shine in every star.
NVe feel no fear that time will keep
Our hero's memory. Let us move
A little from the world to weep,
And for our portion keep his love.
Feb. 27,1357. Gsoaa■ li. Boron
One by one the sands are sowing,
One by one the moments fall;
Some are coming, some are going,
Do not strive to grasp them all.
WELSH & RICH
One by one thy duties wait thee,
Let thy whole strength go to each;
Let no future dreams elate thee,
Learn thou first what these can teach
Hours are golden links, God's token,
Reaching heaven; but one by one
Take them, lest the chain be broken,
Ere the pilgrimage be done.
ELKANAH SNITHERS, JR.
I shall never forget my first journey from
Limerick to Dublin. A day-coach bad been
established, which was considered a marvel
of celerity. It left Swinburne's hotel early
in the morning, and contrived to accom
plish half the journey that day, arriving
at Mountrath, where the travelers slept,
whence, starting nest morning, after an
early breakfast, it entered the metropolis
by the light of the old oil-lamps, upon the
second day. You may yet see the old road
inn a little way outside the town of Mount.
nth—a large high house, retired a short
way from the road, having a spacious sweep
of gravelled space before it, and a multi
tude of windows; but, alas! it is now fall
ing fast into decay; and one never see the
bustling face of the white-aproned waiter
standing at the door, or hears the crack of
the postillion's whip as be leads out his
posters to horse a gentleman's traveling
carriage.
Well, all that is past and gone. On the
second day of our journey, we had all :as
sembled drowsily in the parlor. which smell
ed villainously of the preceding night's sup
per, and had sat down to a harried break
fast. By the time we had half-finished our
meal, a car &Gaup to the door, and in a
few moments a r a gentleman entered in
a large drab traveling coat, with half a
dozen capes, and a huge red shawl wound
round his neck. He deposited a, traveling
case leisurely on the sideboard, and then
looked keenly around him. The survey did
not seem to give him much gratification.—
The eggs had all disappeared, and the cold
beef was in a very dilapidated condition.—
However, he sat down, took off his coat and
shawl, and addressed himself to the cold
meat like a, hungry man. The waiter made
appoarance.
D=!
Itirtrg.
SIT DOWN SAD SOUL
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sit down. aad soul, and count
Tho moments eying:
Come—tell the sweet amount
That's lost by sighing!
How many smiles?—a score?
Then laugh. and count no more;
Por day is dying!
Lle down, sad soul, end sleep,
And no more measure
The flight of Time, nor weep
The lots of leisure;
But here, by this lone stream,
Lie down with us, and dream
Of starry treasure!
We dream: do thou the lams:
We love—forever;
We laugh; yet few we shame,
The gentle, never.
stay then, till sorrow dies;
Then—hope and happy skies
Are thine forever:
ONE BY ORB.
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"NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING,"
COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 18, 1857.
"Just five minutes more, gentlemen, the
horses are putting to."
The traveler looked up quietly. He was
not a man to be put out of his way. He
ordered some eggs, and desired the waiter
to make fresh tea.
"Are you going by the coach, sir?" in
quired the attendant.
"Yes, certainly," was the reply, in an
English accent (he was a traveler for a Lon
don house,) "but I must have my breakfast
first; so be quick will you?"
The waiter left the room, and immedi
ately after we heard the fellow telling the
guard to be expeditious; an exhortation to
which that worthy responded by a clamo
rous blast of his horn that made us all
start from our seats, and hurry out of the
room, leaving the English gentleman alone
to finish his breakfast, which, to do him
justice, he seemed by no means disposed to
neglect. The waiter, meantime, brought in
the tea, and retired; but was speedily sum
moned back by a vigorous ringing of the
bell.
"A spoon, please," said tho gentleman
The waiter advanced to the table to pro
cure the article, but, to his astonishment,
there was not a spoon to be seen; nay, even
those which had been in the cups had all
disappeared.
"Blessed Virgin!" ejaculated the dismay
ed attendant, "what's become of all the
spoons?"
"That's just what I want to know, you
blockhead," said the other.
"Two dozen and a half—real silver,"
cried Tom.
"I only want one," said the gentleman.
"Haven't you a spoon in your establishment
young man?"
Torn made no reply, but rushed directly
out of the room, and running up to the
coachman, cried out, "Stop, Dempsey, for
the love of heaven!"
"All right!" says Dempsey, with a twirl
of his whip, gathering up his reins, and
preparing to start—for we had all taken
our places.
" 'Tisn't all right, I tell you, cried Torn,
"where are the spoons?"
"What spoons? Arrah! don't be bother
ing us, man: and we five minutes behind
time. Juey, hold that off-leader's head, till
she goes on a bit."
By this time the master of the inn had
come out to learn what all the hubbub was
about. Torn, half-blubbering, poor fellow,
made him acquainted with the fact, that all
his silver spoons had vanished. The land
lord cried out "robbery!" the house-maids
cried out "murder!" and a variety of other
exclamations, too dreadful to contemplate.
When silence was restored, the inn-keeper
insisted on stopping the coach till he ascer
tained if the report of Tom was true. Ere
many moments he had returned, as pale as
a ghost, and said—
" Gentlemen, I'm sorry to trouble you;
but I must beg you'll come down, till a
search is made for my property. Torn,
here, will swear that there was a spoon in
every tea-cup this morning as usual—won't
you, Tom?"
"Bedad, I'll take my Bible-oath of that
same, sure enough," replied Tom; "and sure
I didn't swallow them."
The passengers all indignantly refused to
submit to the search proposed by the land
lord. An old lady inside went off in hys
terics, when the inn-keeper opened the
door, and proposed to turn her pockets in
side out. There was an officer with a wood
en-leg on the boa.seat who swore, in the
most awful manner, that he would run the
first man through the body that attempted
to lay a hand on him—by the way, he hadn't
a sword, but be forgot that in his fury.—
There was a Justice of the Peace for the
County, who protested that he would com
mit the host for contempt; and a Dublin
attorney in the back-seat intimated his de
termination to indict Tom, who had laid
hold of his leg, for an assault; and, moreo
ver, to commence an action against his mas
ter for defamation. As I was but a young
ster then, and the weakest of the party,
the landlord chucked me down in a twink
ling, and hauled me into the parlor, half
dead with fright; and thereupon the rest of
the passengers, including the wooden-legged
Captain, scrambled down, and followed, de
termined to make common cause and pro
tect me from insult with their lives, if ne
cessary. And now we were all again in
the breakfast room, clamoring and remon
strating, while, to add to the din, the guard
kept up a continual brattlo with his horn.
All this time the English gentleman was
steadily prosecuting his work upon the eggs
and toast, with a cup of tea before him,
which he was leisurely sipping, quite at his
ease like.
"What the deuoe is the matter!" said he,
looking up, "can't you let a man take his
breakfast in comfort?"
"The plate," said the master.
"The silver spoons?" cried the butler.
"Robbery!" shouted the mistress.
"Minder!" /sc.. screamed the house•msids
"Search every one," demanded the host;
"Como, let us begin with this young chap,"
diving his hand into my breeches pocket."
• , I think," said the English gentleman
coolly, "'twould be as well first to search
the premises. Is the waiter long in your
service?"
"Fifteen years last Shrovetide, and I defy
any man to lay as much as the big of his
nail to my charge."
By this time the English gentleman b ad
finished his breakfast, and, wiping his
mouth most deliberately, he commenced to
search the room. lle opened every drawer
of the sideboard, then he looked under the
table, then behind the window-shutters, but
all in vain. After that be stopped a mo
ment to reflect, when a bright thought seem
ed to cross his mind, and he raised the lid
of one of the tea-pots, but with as little suc
cess as before; nevertheless, ho continued
his examination of the tea-pots, and when
he came to the last, what do you think, but
he thrust in his hand, and drew out first
one spoon, and then another, till he laid
a number of them on the table. Tom rush
ed up and began to count—"two, four, six;"
and so on, till at length he exclaimed—
"may I never see glory, but they're all right,
every one. The Lord between us and harm,
but this bangs all that ever I seeml",i
"I'll tell you what my man," said the
gentleman, looking sternly at the astonished
waiter, strongly suspect you have been
playing tricks upon your master. A nice
haul you'd have had of it when the company
had gone away! I don't like the look of
the fellow, I tell you," he continued, ad
dressing himself to the host; "and if it
wasn't for the fortunate circumstance of my
coming in a little late, and wanting a spoon,
you would have lost your property, sir.—
You may count it a lucky day that I came
to your house.
The landlord was struck dumb with
amazement; even the mistress hadn't a word
to say, she looked wickedly at poor Tom,
and the house-maids began to cry and bless
themselves.
"Gentlemen," proceeded the Englishman,
"I hope you will overlook the insult you
have received; as, after all, the landlord is
not to be blamed; and if he will insist Cu
this blackguard waiter making an ample
apology, I will take upon me to say for you
all, that you will not take say proceedings.
All cheerfully expressed their assent to
this proposition except the attorney, who
still muttered something about assault and
defamation, which so tarried Tom that he
most humbly entreated pardon of the whole
company, though he still protested that he
was innocent of the crime laid to his charge.
"Gammon!" said the gentleman; but as
you have made proper submission, and
nothing has been lost, I shall make it a
further condition with your master, that he
won't turn you adrift on the world with a
thief's character, but give you an opportu
nity of reforming. Keep a sharp look out
on him, however, sir, I advise you. And
now, gentlemen, I think we'd better be
moving."
We all hurried out and took our places,
the English gentleman getting upon the seat
behind the coachman. Dempsey "threw
the silk" into the horses; the guard blew an
impatient blast on his horn, and off we went
at a slapping pace, the host bowing hum
bly to us until we were out of sight.
"I'm driving on this road these ten years,"
said Dempsey, when he slackened his pace
up a hill; "and I never knew such a thing
as that happen before."
"Very likely," said the Englishman, qui
etly, "and never will again."
"I always thought Tom Reilly, was as
honest a fellow, man and boy, as any in the
parish."
"I make no doubt be i 5," replied the other;
'he has a very honest countenance."
"I thought air," said the Captain, "you
did not like hie look?"
"Maybe I did say so," was the reply.
"And pray, sir, do you still think 'twas
he hid the spoons?"
"Not a bit of it."
"Then who the d-1 did?.'
"I did. Do you think I'm green enough
to travel so cold a morning as this without
having a comfortable breakfast?"
"Well, said Dempsey, that's the know
ingest trick I ever heard of in my life."
"Not bad," replied the gentleman, with
great sang-froid, "but it won't do to be re
peated."
When we arrived at Portarlington, the
gentleman—who. by the way, turned out to
be a very pleasant fellow, and up to all sorts
of life—got off the coach, and ordered his
traveling-case to be taken into the inn.
"Do you stop here, sir?" asked the coach
man. "Yes, sir, for the present. I have a
little business to do here as wall as at
Mountrath."
The gentleman haying given the usual
gratuity to the guard and coachman, and
also a slip of paper to Dempsey, which he
directed him to give to the host at Mount
rath, passed into the inn; the coach drove
on, and I never saw him again.
Dempsey having pocketed the shilling,
looked at the paper with some curiosity, in
which to say the truth, we all shared.
"There's no harm in reading it., at it is
open," said the Captain, taking it from
Dempsey.
There were I/ few lines written in pencil
on the leaf of a pocket book. and the Cap
tain read them out—l remember them to
this dap:—
•This is to certify, that Tout Reilly put
nothing into the tea-pot this morning except
hot water and sloe-leaves, and that the other
ingredients, the spoous : were added by me,
for the purpose of giving the composition
some strength. I further certify that the
aforesaid spoon are capital for making
•"Gineu under my band.
ELKANAII SKITIEERS, Jr."
Yon may be sure we ell enjoyed this !M
-idi to the joke, and Dempsey forwarded the
paper by the down-coach that poor Tom
Reilly'! character might be cleared with
the least possible delay. Tom was fully
reinstated in the confidence of his employ.
ere; but the landlady had got such a fright
that she determined her silver spoons should
never again be placed at the mercy of any
traveler. Accordingly, she transferred them
to the private part of the establishment—
substituting for them in:thelpublic room a
set of very neat pewter articles—there was
no German silver, or albata, or such things
in those days—which, when cleaned, looked
nearly as well as silver. Many a time I
stirred my tea at breakfast with one of
them, and thought of Elkanah Smithers, Jr."
ROW GIRLS ARE BOUGHT AND SOLD
IN MARRIAGE IN TRANCE.
"A gentleman who lately visited a matri
monial office in Paris, with a view of ob
taining an insight into the operations of the
system, gives some interesting details in re
gard to it.
"The women have little to do in these op
erations, nearly all the business being ac
complished between men. In the conjugal
comedy. of which the chief of the establish
ment is the manager, the women play their
part without knowing it. Thus he has cor
respondents in all the large towns. He is
in relation with all, or nearly all, the nota
ries in France, who keep him advised of the
different heiresses by divisions according to
their importance, and ho pretends that he is
the only man in France who can say, ap
proximately, each year, the total of the
united wealth of the heiresses of the empire.
"A gentleman wishes to get married—he
is a lawyer, an agent, or a merchant. Ile
presents himself to the chief of the ma.tri
menial establishment, who demands first to
know what are his pretensions. After this
visit, the first duty of the agent is to seek
information on the character and position of
the candidate, and if these are satisfactory
he appoints a new rendezvous and proposes
to his client different ladies. (The ladies,
you will recollect, are all this time ignorant
that they are the object of a speculation.)
When the parties come to forme the matri
monial agent puts in operation a plan to
bring the gentleman and lady together, and
ho arrives at this result naturally, without
the lady ever suspecting that she is a pup
pet moved by a thread in the hands of a mat
rimonial agent.
"If the heiress lives in the provinces, the
agent addresses a letter to his corresdent,
who can always find a means of bringing
these two unknown individuals into each
other's presence. A. soiree, a ball, an acci
dental meeting at the house of a third party
—there are many occasions of uniting these
two stars destined to shine in the same firm
ament. Once in the presence of the object,
the rest is the gentleman's own business;
he must put his talent into play. If the
fish bites, it is again the time for the agent
'to step in, and, through the agency of the
notary, make for the pretendent the official
demand, as is the custom in France, for the
hand of the lady.
"Here is an example of the manner in
which these marriages are brought about.—
The affair occurred in the department of the
Nord. At Lille, three months ago, a hand
some young girl had a fortune of six hun
dred thousand francs (L 40,000) to bestow
on a husband of her choice. All the young
men of that country had made efforts to
reach the heart of the heiress in vain. She
believed that, notwithstanding her beauty,
her admirers sighed more for her franca than
fur her person. She wished to be loved
(the old story) for herself—a log•cabin and
her heart:
"In her quality of rich heiress, the name
of the young girl was, naturally, found in
scribed in the books of our aforesaid matri
monial agent. Her name stood high up in
the list of the first category—one of the
rarest flowers of the matrimonial bouquet.
At that period our agent protected a hand
some young fellow, who desired nothing bet
ter than a match, such as this. The agent
pointed his finger to the young Lilloise, r
Etoile du Nord, (the star of the North.) He
wrote at the same moment to his correspon
dent, put him into the secret of the affair,
sent him three thousand franca to enable
him to give a ball, to which was to be in
vited all the flower of the town.
The morning of the ball the young man
fell as if by accident at the correspondent's
house, like a friend who makes a visit un
heralded, appeared at the ball and danced
wtih the young girl, letting off in her honor
a whole artillery of compliments, dwelling
especially upon his quality as a stranger.
Ile knew no one in the city, he was com
pletely ignorant of the name of the lady
with whom he bad the liappiness to dance;
but he had never been dazzled with such
bright eyes, he had never seen or admired
such hair, be had never seen such patrician
hands, such a. flexible waist, such pretty
feet, such perfect grace, etc., etc.
After the first contradance, he solicited
the favor of a. waltz, then a polka, then a
masonrka, then a schottische. He showed
himself during the whole evening so com
pletely devoted to the young girl that the
latter, reflecting that the good-looking
stranger had only arrived in the morning,
and consequently could not know the figure
of her marriage portion, believed that at
last ahe had found the ideal of her dreams,
the enthusiastic Werther, the Saint Pratt:
of platonic love.
'•A few days afterward the young man
obtained through the kind offices of his
friend, the enrrespendsat, en invitation to the
$1,50 PEE YEAH IN ADVANCE; $2,00 IF NOT Z 8 ADVANCE.
soirees, of the parents of the young girl, and
the Paris agent has just received a letter
from Lille, which reads as follows:
"'Mr DEAR Sza,—The game is bagged.
I conducted the sheperdess to the altar yes
terday, and to-day I pocketed my six hun
dred thousand francs.'
"And that is one way in which girls are
bought and sold in France, without know
ing it."
A SLIGHT MISTAKE
Jim Ward is a conductor on the eastern
division of the New York Central Railroad,
running daily between Utica and Albany.
Ward has been in the employ of the Central
Railroad for a long period of years, and is
one of the oldest conductors in the country.
Invariably accommodating and polite, he is
I particularly attentive to the ladies, and
always manages to make himself a favorite
with those of the fair sex who accompany
the trains under his direction.
A short time since, when a train under
his direction was on its way east from Utica,
one of those interesting incidents occurred
on board the train, which adds to the visi
ble number of passengers, but scarcely ever
increases the profits of the trip. Ward, as
soon as he discovered the condition of the
lady, bustled about, and with the train run
ning forty miles an hour, axed up a portion
of the express car, and had ber conveyed
thereto. A physician by the name of Beech
er was on the train. His services were im
mediately put in requisition, and in a short
time Ward had the pleasure of announcing
that "mother and babe were doing as well
as could be expected under the oircumstan-
The mother was a poor woman, and as
soon as it became known, Ward went around
with a hat, and in a short time a handsome
purse was collected, and Jim with his coun
tenance absolutely filtering off happiness,
took it in to the mother. After he re-appear.
ed the passengers proposed that the child
should be named. No sooner said than
done. Jim went in and got the baby, with
the consent of the delighted mother, and
brought it out, when it was proposed that
it should be named "James Ward," after
him, and Beecher after the physician who
had professionally attended the mother. It
was adopted by acclamation, and amid gen
eral shout and approbation, the babe was
named "James Ward Beecher —." Jim
with a smile of ill-concealed delight, was
lugging off his little namesake, when some
of the ladies requested to see the "little
baby." It was passed from hand to hand
among the ladies, all admiring the little
bundle, but at the same time a general die
position to smile anti stuff handkerchiefs in I
their mouths, became manifest among the
women. Jim wondered, but wondered in
vain, what this sudden laughter meant, un
til the baby was handed an old lady.--
She had not had it morrthan a minute,
when she exclaimed:
"Law, Sus!"
"Well, what's the matter?" said Jim, fear
fully.
"War, Ifs A GAL!" said the old woman,
handing the baby to Jim.
Then rose a yell of laughter, the men
broke out fast, then the women, then they
broke out together, until one universal
scream filled the car. Several gentlemen
threw their bats and mufflers out of the
windows, while others endeavored unsuc
cessfully, to "saw their legs off." The wo
men blushed and screamed: the men about
ed and held their sides. In the midst of
this storm of fun and laughter, Jim made
his escape from the car with his female
"Jim Ward Beecher," and, for the rest of
his trip, on the platform of the baggage car,
ruminated on the sudden changes and mu
tations of human life.—Bufale Rep.
LAND SPECULATIONS is THE WEST—TIIEIR
INFLUENCE Max.—The extent to which
speculations in land have been carried in
the West, cannot but exercise an injurious
influence, sooner or later, even here. To
use an old simile, the financial world is like
a placid lake, which a stone dropped into
disturbs, more or less, over all its surface,
however remote. Already, in fact, the debts
due to eastern restarhants from many quar
ters of that vast and growing section, have
failed to be liquidated at maturity, because
the farmers and other customers of the
western storekeepers, being embarked be
yond their means in land speculations, have
not been prompt in paying their semi•an
nual bills. The nearer regions of the West
have been the first to exhibit this deficiency,
for it has been from them, principally. that
the money for these speculations has been
taken, sad the actors in them have gone.—
As this state of things is not new, as we are
not without a parallel to it in the past, we
may almost certainly predict what is to fol
low.
For prosperous u the West is, specula
tion exaggerates that prosperity. Over large
portions of that thriving region prices range
according to its supposed future wants, not
according to its present ones. In Chicago
lands will, to-day, bring more money than
in corresponding situations in Philadelphia,
or even in New York; yet scores of persons
are anxious to purchase, notwithstanding
these enormous prices; in the hope of a still
further advance. Thus speculation stimu
lates itself. A fictitious value to property
is kept up. and will be till the bubble bursts.
Hundreds who an shrewd enough to see
the false character of prices, nevertheless
are embarked in speculations. believing that
[WHOLE NUMBER, 1,375.
they will be able to sell before the revulsion
commences, saying, "after me the deluge."
To carry on these transactions, however,
means must be had; and hence money is at
three, four and six per cent. per month.—
Honest debts are neglected in order to gam
ble in lands. Adventurous capitalists, who
have gone from the East, are doubling their
fortunes every two years, mainly by lend
ing at usurious rates, with mortgages for
collaterals.
It requires no long argument to demon
strate that this state of things cannot last
always. The bursting of the bubble is simp
ly a question of time. And when the con
vulsion comes, the East will be the sufferer,
though more innocent than the West—that
is, it will be the victim, unless it takes heed
in time and curtails the indebtedness of the
West. There was a period, which men of
forty or upwards still remember, when what
is occurring in Minnesota, lowa and other
points of the now far West, took place in
Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, a period
during which lands were run up to fictitious
and speculative prices. and after which they
fell, for long years, by a natural reaction,
to prices below their actual worth. Thou
sands of persons, even in the East, were
ruined by these fearful times. There will
be thousands ruined now, if they do not
take heed in season. We are not alarmists.
But we should be false to our position as
conscientious journalists, if we did not warn
the public, if we did not speak boldly out.
The contagion of speculation, which has
thrown the West into a financial fever, is
extending even to our Eastern cities, and
justly alarms all cautious and reflecting
men.—Phita. Ledger.
Tea /lOTA TRIM GROVE.—The Mam
moth Tree Grove contains 85 monster trees
in an area of 50 acres. The largest perfect
tree is 85 feet in circumference. When cut
down, its length was 300 feet. The stump
is six feet high; on this is the ball alley. It
took five men twenty-five days to fell the
tree, which was done by boring, and three
weeks to strip the bark off 52 feet. The
tree, by its rings, is estimated to be 3,000
years old. On the upper trail, the first tree
of note is the 'Miners' Cabin,' 309 feet high
and 80 feet in circumference. The front is
open 16 feet. 2d. The 'Three Sisters'—
a group growing from the same root, 300
feet high, and together 92 feet in circumfe
rence—are a beautiful group. It is 200 feet
to the first limb of the centre tree. 3d. "Pi
oneer's Cabin,' 150 feet high to where it is
broken off—small opening in the top. 4th.
The 'Old Bachelor' is a forlorn looking old
fellow, 300 feet high, 60 feet in circumfer
ence, and has the roughest bark of any tree
in the grove. sth. 'The Hermit' stands by
itself, 320 feet high, 75 feet in circumfer
ence, straight, regular and symmetrical.-
6th. 'Hercules,' the largest standing tree in
the grove; height 355 feet, circumference
108 feet; would make 725,000 feet of him
' her. 7th. 'Husband and Wife,' 250 feet
high, each 60 feet in circumference, leaning
affectionately toward each other. Bth.
''Father, Mother, and twenty-four Children.'
The Father was blown down many years
ago—height while standing 450 feet; cir
cumference 210 feet; remaining length
where broken off, 300 feet; circumference
40 feet; hollow entire length, so as to ride
in on horseback; near its base is a spring of
water; half its trunk is embedded in the
earth, the diameter of which is 22 feet.—
The Mother, a stately old woman, 91 feet
in circumference and 327 feet high, is the
second largest tree in the grove. The twen
ty-four children are of age and full grown;
the larger portion stand by the Father, the
rest by the Mother. A real family group.
Returning on the lower trail, we see
'Mother and Son,' 93 feet in circumference
—the Mother 325 feet high, the Son 300.
3d. 'The Siamese Twins and Guardian.'—
The Twins have one trunk; their bodies sep
arate 40 feet from the ground-300 feet high.
The Guardian is 325 feet high; circumfer
ence 80 feet. 3d. 'The Old Maid' stands
alone in her grief, unlike the other trees,
her head is bare; 260 feet high—circumfer
ence 60 feet. 4th Come the trees named
after the first ladies who made a buggy ride
to the grove—'Addie and Mary,' very beau
tiful trees, 300 feet high and 65 feet in cir
cumference. sth. 'The Horseback Ride,'
an old fallen trunk of 250 feet, separated in
two parts—space ridden through 75 feet;
diameter 12 feet clear. 6th. 'Uncle Tom's
Cabin,' 300 feet high, 90 feet in circumfer
ence—entrance 10 feet high by 21 wide;
will seat twenty-five persons. 7th. 'Mr.
Shelby,' the owner of uncle Tom's Cabin,
stands 15 feet from the Cabin door, 300 feet
high. Bth. 'Bride of California,' is noted
for being the smoothest barked tree in the
grove, 280 feet high. 70 feet in circumfer
ence. 9th. 'Beauty of the forest,' 300 feet
high; 65 feet of which is very straight and
nearly free of limbs; the top is Surmounted by
a beautiful regular green cap. Tae 'Belle
Cofforth' is a large and elegant tree. 'Penn
sylvania.' so named by Misses Lizzie Pom
eroy and Henrietta Thomas, of Philadelpbia,
is a fine tree, 315 feet high, and 24 feet in
diameter. :North Carolina,' named by a
young man from that State, is
i a very ele
gant tree. 300 feet high, 21 feet n diameter.
'Green Mountain State,' named by Mr. C.
A. Mead, of Stockton. is 300 feet high, 22
feet in diameter. 'Mississippi,' named by
Mr. W. W. Porter, is a fine tree, 325 fees
high, 88 feet in circumference. 'Old Do
minion,' 328 feet high, 8.5 feet in eirennifer
ence, is bending beneath the weight of his
honors; this tree is near the 'Horseback
Rides.' The altitude of the Grove is 4,550
feet above San Francisco, and 3,400 feet
shove Murphy's. As you approach the
Grove you pass between the very large tire/
called the 'Two Sentinel!: