One (lay. nn old fellnce rnde t=^ to 111 m and nbjected to his method; Sinker-wheeled 'wrathfully. around, and, with a bln of his clenched Gat, knocked over the obi gentle- Tha w : , bo n e. lie WilS TieVer interfered with afterwardq. It may be inferred that Delaware Sinker is not a timid man. No, not a rery timid man. Timidity is a virtue to which the Sinker family necer mach any pretensions'. Of the two had boys who used to fight with Delaware in the little attic obamber, one has settled down into a clerk in a village store. and In apparently the fp - detest. easiest man in the world. So he is: but rouse him. and he will taltr, the town. The other had boy, after he grew up. became the terror of the nighborhoood. Ile is the fellow who, when his 'dander' was op. required the military } of F. to be called out to suppress him. Ile went to California. and worked like a horse until he had seven thonsarol dollars: planked it all on n single o(tr,l. and lost it. of course. What difterener (11 , 1 it make to Phil. Sinker? If anything is to be done in Buckingham and everybody is afraid to de it, Delaware Sinker is the were man who ain't. lie will go his death upon anything within the bounds, not of reason, but of honesty; and tho nearer he gaps to his death, the better he likes it. lle has a notion that he is made of whip leather, and that however near be may come to it, there is no danger of his being killed. Ilk opinion is that he will never die, but be taken bodily somewhere above or below, it matters not which. Beyond his pinek, his sharp home-spun wit, and his dispesition to stand by you through thick and thin, the greatest charm about the fellow i. his extraordinary faculty of improtising those short fictitious narra tives which country people, calf 'lies? Em erson says that Bonaparte NVni a L01.11111)C. ,, liar; my candid opinion is that Delaware Sinker could give Bonaparte, or anybody else, 'two and the deal,' and beat him.— Often and often he has lied to use until I al most doubled my own exi.tence. Ire per siste in his statement., and persists with an earnestness and truthfulness of face that would do credit to any lawyer. Meeting me after we had been separated several months, he goes on somewhat in this fash ion: 'Whack, old fellow, I ant mighty glad to sec you. I'm nearly dead: but you can't kill me: nothing can't hurt me. Never worked so hard in nll toy life: I sow guano, strip tobacco, maul rails, drive wagon, plow, cuss niggers, and whip 'em, nod pray for 'em do everything, and keep at knight and day the whole 3-ear round. Look at my hands! I tell you pa' Sinker is mighty near gone. Got drunk the other day when I went to me drink,) come back at night, pitch dark. hard as I could rip, rail into the fence and knocked down fifteen panels, and tore my buggy all into shatters. Tried to ride home, but fell ofl' my horse and my foot got hitched in the gear, and I wish I may drop dead in my tracks if that horse didn't drag me like lightning even two miles, over rocks and ev erything. lie stopped right at that gate, and we stayed there till broad daylight. It took a nigger more'n a hour to git me loose, and then he had to cut the gear. 'Thar ain't one parth le of skin on my back; if you don't believe me, I'll pull off my coat and shoe,- you. Well, sir, it never tilled me. I slept the whole thee, heap bet ter than if I had been in bed. I can sleep on the ground the coldest night that ever crone al.tng, and it won't freeze me. I never sleep in the 11 , 111 , C in the --nroinert sleep right flat on my hack, about a rag in er me. Woke op in the morning, and take a gourd full of caterpillars and lightning hugs out of my ears. 'But I sleep mighty little, I tell you. I Layout closed my eye, for—to-night will make fifteen nights. Haven't slept with both• eyes shut for four years: it's the truth, Whack, if I ever told it. 'I hate the delirium , ernetimes, and that flee thar gits on my tack, and curses mean over creation. 'That donne ' lice has run me forty miles many and many a night, I pledge you any word that very dog chased me one night in sight of Lynchburg and back again—short !light at that. It's a fact, and I'll swear to it.' rroin thi , it gill be ,cen that Delaware's fietitionh tarratite , , ate in e‘cry respect equal to the engaging exploits of Hercule:, rr tho,-e of the great Motoltausen himself. I do not know that the tendency to esagger ate prelail , more in Buckingham than in any other county, nor would I have it un derstood that Delaware Sinker is the type of the men of Buckingham, but I do affirm that a county full of such men would be the greatest county (to use Delaware's own expression) that 'ever come along,' What Delaware says of his drinking, has in it sr, little of the fictitious narrative as to Lute subjected me, fir seine weeks past, to serinnsunert , iness. We t that is Delaware ' and iny,dr: have -trtnit a sort of matrimo- I nial harg4in, to the effect that I shall exert me in fluent with a certain young lady to induce ber to beo,-one Mrs. Delaware Sinker, in return Cro which I am to have Dtslauare's daughter, when she grows up. I shall carry that young lady to the hy meneal alter with fear and trembling, lest. Gil the very night of my wedding,, my fiery-' hoarded, hot-blooded father-in-law may get 'tight,' and thrash rue like bla7c.. Et - r . F.krao hart a fashion of think ing that tin truth i. a , zpeeies of dull toma hawk. and that it. nfii.-inacs is proci.ely pro porti.uel to it= po•xt , r of mangtiny. TITAT . A TriT 4 , r , rfos•--ir a man addict- ; ea to tunulcing marries a widow, does it Cal low that hn mtit lay down liiqpipe because , she give° up her weeds? Da.Jobncan gireq the folleving deflaitlert Garret —The highe%t room in the hous e . Cori:MP—Me room ocer the garrot. l' 'There me tun kinds of family .jars: into one you put yceir elveetmeats, and into the other you put your foot. DarCita a role watch with a second-11 , 1nd be called a second-hand watch? E €nlndia gpll. I PENNSYLVANIA iNDEPESDENT JOURNAL COLUMBIA, PA_ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1857 Writer. David. Sterrett will preach in the Presbyterian Church next Sabbath morning and evening. ." - IV . e are indebted to Dr. N. B. Wolfe, of St. touts, tar late tve.,terrt ant Jo WI er n iittper ,, " :NTEW ADVERTI,EMENTS.-11.liaT119 Drugs J. M. Lindsay, Greui IL - edit:a/ Discocery: Daltiemari's. deco Goods; 3. D. Netc Caps; 3. W. Cottrell, Roafray State; Smith S. Whipper, Cars fia. Sae; C,.lumbio.Cts Company, Election: J. Way bin, Chenpastie Proress; Heavy Scharff, Sausage Sh ine. ttn.-..We are requested to give notice that the male department of the Washington Institute will be opened on Monday mot , nines. 2:3d inqt., for the reception of le~cnro.—tln Thursday afternoon Peter Craub, while detaching a team from a t rain of cars at the Columbia end of the Bridge, was crushed by being caught be tween some ears which were pulled back fur the purpose of coupling, and his own train. No bones NY ere broken, but the hurt being internal (his body was jammed between the bumpers) may prove serious. lie suffered mach pain during the night, but on Friday was pronounced better; and although his physicians cannot indicate the certain extent of his injuries, they think his recovery probable. A. painful report of the drowning of An drew Graub, brother of Peter, was received here on Thursday morning. He is repre sented to have been knocked from a boat in the Tide Water Canal, near the Slid, Tavern, by a collision whit another boat. Although Ida body has not been brought home, and we hme received no certain in telligence of the truth of this report, there seems to be no reason to doubt its authen ticity. ".,%lessengers have been dkpatebell, to recover the body, if the account prove curl ect. LINI n Arc-tut s:T.—On Tuesday morn ing last, Cyrus Strickler, .1 this place, had his arm crushed 'below the elbow, while coupling the ears of his train, the Express Freight, on the siding at the Canal Basin-- The arm is badl}• injured, but his physicians have hopes of sawing it. At the last ac counts be was doing welt. ISkraY^At n meeting of the stockholders of the Columbia Bank, held on the 11th inst., the following named gentlemen were elected Directors for the ensuing year: Barton Evans, Wm. McConkey, David Wilson, Jacob S. 'Mann, Henry Copenheffer, Samuel Truseott, Benj. F. Appold, Benja min Hershey, Michael U. Moore, Jacob C. Pfahler, John W. Clark, William F. Given. Barton Brans was, on the 17th instant, unanimously elected President, by the Direc tors. -.Const. Heller has opened a "New and Cheap Cgt , h Confectionery," in this place, on Front street, two doors above the Bellevue House. He has on hand a large and fine assortment of choice confectionery, &c., the prices of which are guaranteed to be so low as tl give satisfaction to purchas ers—Loth wholesale and retail. his de signs of ornamental work are beautiful. The store is fitted up in excellent style, and full preparation made for showing customers every attention. Marl:lfs Maataztxra—llarpor for Decent her has been received. Although no ad mirer of Harrer's practice of filling the pages of the Magazine with specimens of his pictorial publications, we cannot but express our admiration and appreciation of the ex quisite illustrations from a forthcoming vol ume, "The Poets of the Nineteenth Centu ry," a foretaste of which we have in the present number. Dailey's inimitable pencil has been employed to illustrate some of our first American poets, and to say that he has worthily interpreted Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes and others, is to do but justice to our great draughtsman. Lt this December number, too, we meet with two or three pictures from another hand which we greet with more pleasure than even Parley's; for they nro accessory to the author's great works of fiction. Pic tures by Thackeray bespeak a new novel by Thackeray, and we welcome the first MM. her of the "Virginians," which llarper's enterprise fins secured far his Monthly. Altogether the number before us is with out 1 04 1U:d. It is a Christmas number. ILirsmiomi Words.—The publisher, John Jansen, New Yot k, furnishes us with the De_ ceinber number of Household Words. This most populur of English magazines has taken its place among our men monthlies as an established favorite, and in desert is second to none. Es ery line iu it is worthy of peru sikl. and for instruction and pleasant recrea tion WC know no medium superior to House hold Words. The present number contains the whole of Dickens' new story, - The Lazy Tour of Two Idiot Apprentiees," besides a number of must entertaining talcs and sketches from the pens of eminent English authors. We cannot too strongly rcenm mend this periodical to the attention of our readers. It is a thousand times superior to nine-tenths of the trash that circulates so extrtsively. Gents . roil DECEMEER.—A number which upholds nodey's name as a discriminating caterer to the taste of the public. It is id terl with st thousand good things, pictorial and otherwise, calculated for the instruction and amusement of his host of lady readers. To look at the fashion plates you would think "hard times" a myth. now can time, be hard, and Gadey dress his Jarze family of angels mo richly? The Relief Fund The managers of the late Ball for the Benefit of the Poor, make the following ;taterncnt in regard to the amount of funds realised by that enterprise: Amount received for tickets, $125.00 0 Expenses, (music,) 21.00 Balance in hands of Managers, $104.00 In addition to the above there is sub scribed by citizens not desiring to take part in the ball, but willing to contribute the price of a ticket to the fund, the sum of i;54.00, giving a total of 5158.00. Subscribers are requested to meet at the office of A. S. Green, on Tuesday evening next, at 7 o'clock, for the purpose of appoint ing a committee in whose hands the fund ,hall be placed for proper distribution. Br ORDER CE THE MASAGERR, It will be seen by the above that the ball has proved a successful means of collecting a very respectable sum of money, to be ap plied in relief of the distress and suffering of the poor of our town. We trust that the efforts of the committee to be appointed, will not be confined to the distribution of the funds already collected, but will extend to the solicitation of further aid, which we feel certain will be willingly extended by many of our citizens if waited upon by the proper parties. It has been suggested that an understand ing between the dispensing committee of the sanitary Fund, and the committee of distribution of the 13a11 Fund, in the kind of relief to be of by each, would contri bute greatly to the proper expenditure of the money in the hands of both. No union of tho two funds is contemplated, but simply an agreement that while one charity gives fuel the other shall contribute provisions, so ' that the two may not interfere in their )perations. We trust .that whatever relief may be given, will he wisely and judiciously given. Altl•ough it is better to assist the undeserv ing rather than risk neglecting the suffering, yet in a season like the present, it is the duty of every man to see when he bestows a charity that it does tint go to a drone who robs a inure needy brother. The lazy and dissolute are always loudest with their cry it distress. To these the "no work" plea is is a God-send, and on them the disbursers of these public charities will have to keep a vigilant eye. THE CIII:OrLAST:C PROCESS.—In our adver tising columns to-day will be found no advertisement from Dr. John Waylan, of Lancaster, of this process, which has met with so much favor from those who have te , sted its merits—both Dentists and patients. We have heard it spoken of very highly, and believe it deserves the consideration of those who desire artificial teeth which will com bine at once comfort, utility, durability and beauty. ire are informed of one ease in this place in which a partial set put up on the Cheoplastic process by Dr. Waylan, is now used, after a trial of several gold pieces, and it is considerel far preNrablc to either of the latter, giving full satisfaction. See advertisement. G UILTY.—Mary Jane Sebastian, of Mari etta, was convicted on Wednesday last, at the Court of t - biarter ScsBions, of this county, of murder in the first degree, she having administered arsenic to her husband ingt summer. Mr. Fisher, her counsel, has made application for a new trial, on the ground of the discovery of important testimony since the conclusion of the Case. Dar . ilesidutions adopted at a meeting of Hope Lodge, No, 41, I. 0. of G. T., Tuctidny evening, Nov. 16, 1857 : WitEnr..ts, it Las pleased Almighty God, in his divine Providence, to remove from our millet, Nery suddenly. Sister E LIZ. 11F.T11 G ROSH. of Susq. Lodge, No. 281, I. O. of G. T., one of Our most energetic and faithful advocates in the cause of Temperance, who by her amiability and many estimal Is goal itie4, nod the deep interest manifested by her in the welfare of this Lodge, hod endear ed herself to nil our members, therefore, Revilred, not in this sad bereavement we reeognize the hand of Him who ...birth all things well," and who holciellt us all as in "the hollow of his hand;" and while ue bow in humble submission to his sot ereigo will, we deeply deplore the loss of one of our most devoted friends in the great cause to which we have pledged our lit es, and which we are earnestly striving by our or ganizat ion to advance,—cut down, as she was, in her early womanhood. when hopes were brightest, ftlemis 111.USt dear, and life was fair before her. Res./ red, That in this affliction, her hug parents, and friends, have our &sliest symjiathy —an affectionate wife, a dutiful daughter, a kind mother, and a warm friend, her memory will always be held in sacred ret emir 'lnce. Rego!red, 'Tot this di.pensation is keenly felt by the members of Hope Lodge, No. 45, I. 0. of G. T., who always listened with at- tention and profit to our late Sister Grosh's advice and instruction: associated as she wa., so long with the Good Templars. liorolred, That we most ellee• fully coincide with our brothers and sisters of Marietta, in saying, her place will not soon. be filled as an active Good Templar, ns n kind and pleasant neighbor, and as a friend in all hours of I listre,s. Peso That these re..olutions be pub lished in the -11ariellian, the Columbia Spy, nod that a copy be transmitted to the hus band of the deceased, and to Susq. Lodge, No. :2:41. Re.vo/tycl, That the hall of Hope Lodge, No. 45, 1.0. of tl. T.. be hung in muuning fur the space of thirty days. WM. L. SME . PLEY, (1. M. CLAWGES, } Committee J. H. ME.NGES, PIGS AND Rom ism.—Mr. Rives, of the Washington (Rube, is in New York, and oc casionally favors his friends with some sen tentious criticisms on municipal affairs.— Here is his last vim: "I don't believe in this feeding the poor from the public crib. I always noticed when we used to feed the hogs from a crib down in Virginia, two or three big bogs got all the corn and did well, and the rest got lean, but they all staid in the lane where the corn was thrown, and never put their noses to the ground to help themselves the whole winter. But those that were turned out and not fed from the crib, went off to the woods and in the spring were all as fat as butter, and their tails curled up so tight that they could hardly get their hind legs on the ground. It is the same with men as with pigs; if you want their talls to curl, you must make them root for themselves and not teach them to go to the crib." Items of News, The Lc-cot - Lipton correspondent of the St. Louis Republican, repeats the statements we have previously published from another source, that a majority of the Kansas Con stitutional Convention, headed by Calhoun, the President, propose to submit the Consti tution to a vote of all the actual residents of Kansas, with a choice for and against slavery, the election to take place on the 20th of December. The Convention was to have adjourned by the 7th inst. On the other hand, the Kansas correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat says that a radical pro slavery constitution has been drafted; that no chance to vote it down will be shown; and that the only thing submitted to the people will be a proposition for a provisional gov ernment with a pro-slavery clause—a sort of dodging of the question. By the way of New Orleans and Havana we have later news from California. The San Francisco Vigilance Committee had re voked the penalties attached to their sentence of banishment. This allows the exiles to return without molestation. The California papers contain accounts of the massocre of an emigrant train of one hundred persons by Indians, who spared only a few children, and sold them to the Mor mons. The latter, it was thought, were at the bottom of the affair. An arrival from China snys that all the European residents at Ningpo were banished on the 4th of August. The Kansas Constitutional Convention adjourned on the ith. It formed a pros is- Mont government with General Calhoun as lovernor, to go into operation immediately. The only part of the Constitntion to be sub mitted to the people, is the Otiose sanction hag , la%ery. The Legislature of Texas has elected J. Pinekoey Henderson and J. W. Hemphill, United States Senators. Captain Strom, of the schooner Merchant, was arrested by a United States Marshal's deputy at New York, on Saturday, on a charge of fitting nut the Merchant fur the Blase trade, The New York State Senate will stand IC.• Republican., 14 Democrats and two Ameri can.. To the Assembly there are elected 63 'Republicans, 60 Democrats, and o Amer icans. The result of the Minnesota election is still invotted in doubt. According to the St. Paid Pioneer, Sibley, Deni., is elected Governor by 618 majority. This. however, iv disputed by the Minnevotoan, which says that, in order to reach that majority, the Pioneer has included a variety of bogus re turns from unorganized counties. McLeod county includes 151 votes for Sibley, alleged to bare Leen polled at Cedar Lake precinct, where no election took place. Pembina , uhich an ufiicial report made to the Canadi an government estimated to contain ~00 in habitants, is set down at 700 majority fur Sibley. Most of these frandulent returns, Omagh counted by the Pioneer, are not re turned to the Secretary of State. The steamship St. Louis arrived at 'Sew York on the 16th with the California mails to the :20th and $1,170,000 in gold. Two severe shocks of earthquake wore felt at San Francisco on the 10th tilt. The Indians at tacked the settlements of Honey Lake Val ley, driving out the inhabitants and carrying oIT all the stock and provisions. An express had arrived at Sacramento, asking aid to pursue the marauders. P. A. Burnett lots been appointed Supreme Justice of Califor nia, in place of Judge Murray, deceased.— Business at San Francisco was unusually dull far all kinds of produce. Money was in easy demand. The receipts of gold dust are quite satisfactory. The St. Louis brings home Commodore Mervine, late of the F. S. ship Independence, with a portion of her ofilects and crew. Official despatches, received et Washiug ton, annottnees that Brigham Young has de- Aired martial law in Utitb, by virtue of his authority as Governor, NVilieh has not yet been superseded. lle forbids the govern ment troops to approach the settlement. The reports concerning the aggressions eranmitted by the Mormons oistn the con tractors' trains arc confirmed by dispatches from Col. Alexander. Brigham Young, in his expressions of hostility to the U. S. Gov• ernment is implacable. lie had issued a proclamation to the U. S. troops, in which he warned them to keep out of Utah, and counseled his people to bear towards them unrelenting enmity. Col. Alexander replied to Young in Very decided terms. = By the arrival at New York on Friday of the steamship Arabia, from Liverpool the 31st ult., we have news from the old world one week later than previous dates. She brings adi ices from India, and intelligence of the capture of Delhi, after a conflict last ing six days. The American horses, Prioress and Babylon, have both been badly beaten in the Cambridgeshire stakes. Mr. J. B. Roberts, the American tragedian, has been playing a highly successful engagement at Manchester. The steamships City of Wash ington and Fulton from New York. had ar rii ed out. The Borough Bank of Liverpool suspended on the 27th ult. The liabilities are estimated at a million and a half ster ling but are fully secured. Several Liver pool firms have suspended, and a number of the strongest firms of Manchester have also gone. The Indian mail brings impor tant intelligence. The British troops as saulted Delhi on the 14th of September. and effected a lodgement, and, after six days' obstinate resistance, had, on the 20th, obtained posession of the entire city.— ' Great numbers of the mutineers escaped, among them the King of Delhi and his two sons. The British had lost in killed and wounded up to the 16th. 64)0 in all, including 30 officers. Gneral Wilson had ordered no quarters to be given, but that the women and children should be spared. Gen Outram had reinforced Gen. Havelock at Cawnpore. The latter had started for LUC1:11101r, at which place the garrison had held out gallantly.— The news from the Bombay Presidency is favorable, although cases of disaffection had occured. A serious plot bad been dis covered to murder the Earopoaos at Kur rachee and been thwarted. Conqiderable reinforcements have arrived at Caloutia.-- Lord Ousely goer as a special Minister to Central America, by the way of Washington. General Cavaignac died suddenly of disease of the heart. The Spanish Ministry has been organized. Gen. Armero is Minisiter of War and President of Council; M. Mien is Minister of Finance; M. Dole Rosa For eign afihirs. The Prince of Prussia has un dertaken the conduct of public affairs, but the health of the king is improving. The Swiss elections have resulted largely in favor of the Liberf.ls. More failures have occured at Vienna, but the worst of the crisis is be lieved to be over. The dates from Hung- Kong are to Sept. 10th, and Shanghae to the Ist. The U. S. sloop-of-war Portsmouth has sailed for Japan. The Leven tand San Jacin to were at Shanghae. The blockade of the Canton River was strictly maintained. The American ship North Wind had put in dis masted. Teas had considerably advanced at Hong Kong. A HArry Buat.EserE.—lf Matt Peel, of the counterfeit darkey fraternity, had been upon the levee yesterday he might have got a happy wrinkle in his line from the perform ance of the genuine colored gentry. The carte of this entertainment was a burlesque auction sale. One of the darkey men, selec ted for his tourney qualities, mounted a box, and in good set auctioneer phrase, announ ced to a large assemblage of idle negro labor ers that he was now about to offer them, for cash 'to do highest bidder in dim crowd a fns rate boy, A Lsoun' an' healthy, an' warrant ed not to cut in de eye, balk in de step, nor steal chickens dat don't 'long to him; also 'ditional dis boy wars only one par shoes a year, an' dey's good at de end of it, takes keer on his close partickler, an' nether goes cortin'; don't go to sleep ober his work, is 'spectral an' 'bedent; is six feet tree inches high, weighs two hundred an' twenty pouns, an' can do more in hous or fief' dam any other one nigger. Step up byar, Sam, an' spew yourself to dese gemmen! Libely non•! Dar he is, gemmem! "Mire him for yourself!" ' And the sable auctioneer pointed with triumphant gestures to the subject of extrav agant culogiunt—a scrubby, knotty, nutted gray headed specimen of a field hand about four feet and a lair high, who mounted the box beside him, amid 'vast roars of laughter from the crowd. 'Dar he is, gemmcm! 'zmnine him an' stavt him nt sutlin, fur he mtis' be sole!— ! What does you say?' Several colored gem men mounted the stand and proceeded to "zamine" hint. One violently pulled his mouth open and reported—'dis nigger not sound—one jaw toot done gone.' Another tried to straighten out a lock of his wool, with 'don't like dis—lt'ar kink too much— nigger lazy!' Another pretended to dis cover something besides ideas running through his wool, and concluded 'nigger's head too popdar'—(populous.) Another said 'nigger's foot too lung on' slim—long foot nigger ain't wort fees.' Another—'nig gees toe-nails too long--scratch paint ofrr my parlor floor. No wants dis Yob! Hy ah! Yoh! 'Well, getmucca is you done lookin' at dat nigger? Is you satisfy? He's a prime lot! What do you say fur the boy? Start him at suflin? Ile's got to he sole—prunttory sale!' 'Ten cent!' came frorn the laughing crowd. 'fen cent!—ten cent:—going at ten cent— ten—ten—ten.' 'One dime' from the crowd. 'Thank you sar! One diine, one dime, one dime—go-i-C at one dime—d-i•m-e! Too bad gemmem make me saclue din artika dat way! Say geben?' 'One bit' from the crowd. ':\luch•blidged sar! one bit—one hit—one bit—hit—bit— bi t—bi t—l t—goi n'—won't nobody say leben for dis A 1, warranted.' &e., 'boy? going at one hit—goite—g-o-i-n'—gene ut ten cent! Yours 'sar, an' a dog sight more daft he's worf!' And he 'knocked down' the property to the quasi purchaser with a tre meuduous blow on the head with a barrel stave he used as a 'hammer,' which broke it in the middle, and 'knocked down' tic sold off the box without his apparently feelirig the blow, so massive was the confamation of his cranium. That was the greatest auc tion bale that ever we saw.— True Della. Torre CIIINAMAN AND Tue. I .. .op:tr.—A Sall Franckco paper relates the following incident as having occurred lately at a shoe store in that city. The parties concerned ware the proprietor of the store and a John Chinaman. Examining a pair of boots, the price of which was $5, John inquired: "How inuchee you nue for urn bootee?" In a spirit of waggery, it is presuinable, the owner replied: "Two dollars and a halfee, John. Very cheap bootee, aintee?" "Cheap bootee," said. John, who there upon ex...tained a pair, and concluded to buy, offering a quarter eagle. "But," said the dealer in leather, "thi. is only enough for one bootee. They are $2,50 a-piece; two bouts cost $5." John was somewhat astonished, said he would not buy, and demanded the return of his money; but the mau of leather was in• exorable. "No, John," said the latter, 'you hare got one boot and hare paid me for it. Now give me another piece just like this and take the other." John saw the drift of the game, and •wns at once resolved. "Well,"f ni I he, "this bootee be mine, may be: I paid fur um'?" "Yes," said the dealer. "And you no gist me the other bootee," asked Jan. "Nut without the money," said the other. "'Well," geld .John, "I do urn bootee what I likes—l cuttee um up." And thereupon John 'whipped out a knife, cut the boot to pieces and throw it into the street exclaiming, as he departed: 'that um my bootee; that other be your bootee; you sell um to nest fool Chinaman what come along." At last accounts the Yankee boot doaler was looking for the man with the wooden leg, to whom ho might sell tho odd boot, mid thus save oxpeasos. From the AVe.ttrtht4ter Res iesv Female Dress for 1857 Three years and a half ago, when treating of manners and fashions, this Review made the avowal "There needs, then, a protestantiam in social usages;" and the writer proceeded to point out how the ridicule played off by the humorists of society against our most glaring social follies must inevitably overthrow theme "Signs are not wanting that some changejs at hand. Ridicule has always been a revolution ary agent. That which is habitually as sailed with sneers and sarcasms cannot long survive. The time is approaching, then, when the system of social observances must pass through some crisis, out of which, it will come purified arid comparatively simple." Thus it appeared in 1851 that we had reached such a pitch of extravagance in our tastes and usages, that we could scarcely make ourselves more absurd; yet, during the intervening years, the gravest of these social extravagances, that of female dress, has become so much more con spicuous, that at any time within three gener ations, that the expected crisis must be very near indeed, and the conventional protestant , ism must be ripe for promulgation, if reform is really to crone about by such means. We see reason to believe, as we will presently show, that the prophecy of ISSI was a rational one; and we venture to hope, that the fathers and mothers of the rising female generation wilt have less to suffer in mind and purse from the follies of their fair relatives, than our neighbors of the present day. We doubt whether in any age of our nation- t al history, or on any spot of the globe, a morel indefensible mode of dress could be poiritedollt than we have displayed before us at this mo moment, in the World of Fashion, published by Simkin and Marshall, and (as the title page declares) patronized by the queen; and in the Ladies' Gazette of Fashion, distinguished by its faithful presentments of the actual mode , of upper class dress. Patting aside Punch, and every kind of caricature, we have plenty of prints of existing ladies before us every day to meditate upon with more leisure than the mind can obtain in Parks, Crystal Palaces, and Chis wick Gardens, where we have met the origi mils; and a quiet contemplation of the garb of 1357 can leave 110 other conviction, we are confident, than that, if our ladies were rational five years ago, no more reliance can be placed , an reason than on caprice. But the truth is, dress is not a matter in which reason has ever yet had much concern, It may be occasion ally reasonable; but it is not, therefore, deter , mined by reason. The female world, which, in the absence of any particular perturbation, some years ago, :f I , ressel in gowns of un easy length and breadth, moderate weight in the skirt, and a natural division at the waist, now plays the foot in a costume which barbarians might mock at, and all this because Paris is charming to the imag ination, and venerable in the traditions of the toilette, and because the womankind of Paris is ruled by a second Josephine, with vs hom dress is her favorite branch of the fine arts, and who is also a sprightly witch, well inclined to find how far she may go in caprice with the world at her heels, and to put to the proof the power of her beauty in making loolsof la. dies in all lands." A crowd of emotions—cu riosity, wonder, admiration, and all the feel ings which go to make up what we call (-a. mance—bbve urged the women of England, Russia, America, and perhaps a good many more, into extravagant exaggerations of the caprices of an extravagant beauty. One ar ticle al ine, the full skirts, will remain a mon ument of their tuspressibleness. It was con venient to the graceful empress to disg,inse her figure for a time, and every dowager, and every young maiden just emerged from the school room, adopted the device without any consciousness of the absurdity of the imitation. Thus are our ladies proving themselves no wiser than their great grandmothers, though they plumed themselves for a time on hemp; so. Their feelings have hurried them away into a fanaticism of fnshinn, which Punch may ex pose, but can hardly caricature. Glancing at the fashion for 1856, what do we see? On the head is a something, the purpose of which it would be dollieult to discover by reason—a structureof silk and stiaw, crowded on the angle of the jaws and the nape of t he neck, and with its fore part just reaching the crown of the head. We have Mr. Spurgeon's authority for the effect to the eye of the spec , tater in front. Being advised to preach against I the prevailing folly in head gear, he paused as he stood upon the platform, looked around him, I and said, "I have been requested to rebuke the bonnets of the present day; but, upon my word, I don't see any." 1 his is the bonnet of the year '57, pinned to the bead in some Iron ; blesonne way, leaving the lace exposed in such a manner that one need not be a Tuikish pa ! rent to disapprove, cruising the hair to be i powdered with dust, and the head and face al ternately heated and chilled by sun and wind, so that the physicians are easily Inilieved when they declare that cases of ep. disease, of tooth I ache, and neuralgic pains the head and face, are beyond all precedent 111 their practice.—, For many months past, English women and the ladies of America, where the extremes of heat and cold are greater than with us, have been subjecting themselves to the inconvem ences of going bareheaded, with the added an. noyance of an apparatus which heats and wor ries the back cu the neck The broad brimmed hats area piece of good sense ni the midst of a mass of folly. Punch, and other satirists, may , , quiz the hat as a device for looking young, but th e ridicul e touch e s only the elderly wearers, and leaves the hat unimpeached. Some quiz. atrial specimens, plumed and be-ribboned, and so turned tip and I wisted about as to serve no more useful purposes than the prevailing bon net, may be seen heir and there; but the sim ; pie original hat, with a brim which shades the eyes, arid a clown which piotects the head,lis worthy of all approbation, while it is exceed ingly becoming to young wearers. As to older people, if they decline wearing , the bonnet which exposes their gray hair to the ; very crown, and feel that the hat is 100 jaunty —why do they not recur to the trichgenuous., I serviceable, becoming, unohjectiona bl e, English straw bonnet, of all times? Not the fancy I chip, or the open shell work of straw, filled up with silk, but the veritable straw fabric, (Tus i can or Dunstable at pleasure,) which will out last all changes of fashion in a climate like ours. Thiele is no occasion to wear it in coal scuttle fashion, like holy District Visitors, so that a pious woman is always to be looked for at the end of a long bonnet, nor do milliners insist on all ladies going, bare-headed. The straw bonnet admits of all reasonable modifi- cations; and that of five years ago, enclosing the face modestly, and covering the bead com fortably, gratified good taste then, while it sat isfies sound reason now. Instead of it, we daily see old lathes in one of two extremes— eithei their lank jaws are exposed by the dark strings of a slouched hat, or their wrinkled fares and grey hair are encompassed with blonde and artificial flowers, as the trimming of the little excresence called a bonnet in our day. One would think that no woman could fail to perceive that wreaths and garlands are a youthful adornment, and that no one should wear artificial flowers who could not fittingly dress her hair with natural ones; yet we gee dowagers with roses and foliage clustering around their cheeks at every turn Itr.mmtK:cnr. MmuttAccs.—or the many Chinamen in New York, not a few keep ci gar stands upon the sidewalks. Their neighbors in trade are the Milesian apple women. Twenty-eight of these gtpplewornen have gone the way of matrimony with their elephant-eyed, olive-skinned cotemporaries, and most of them are now mothers in con ' sequence. The physiologists aver that the human being is improved as is the domestic branchof the quadrupedal animals,by "cros sing." If this be true—and we suspect it in—the natives of this country ought to be remarkable for physical strength and beau-1 ty--for surely there never was such a mix ture of races in any part of the world.— Representatives of all nations have ]seated and married here. We know of two Bed ouin Arabs, part of an exhibiting troupe, that oame to this country several years ago, who married wire: :try: are rearing up nfr spring in one of the llnd , on river counties: Siam has his representatives here in the fa mous twins, and in one of the np•town streets a wealthy native of Morocen domicil fates with a Westchester county spouse.— The mixture of Dutch, Italian, French,. Spanish, English, Irish, Danish, Swedish ; kc., is perfectly bewildering; but the amal gamation of the Irish and Chinese is more. than bewildering—it begets a chaos of ideas from which no ray of intelligibility can be . safely eliminated. Imagine - a scion of thia stock chatting gaily about "Josh" in one moment, and speaking of his father Ping- Sing-Chi, and in the next whirling a shille-- lab at a primary election, and.swearing that; he goes in, tooth and nail, or rather body and breeches, for the nomination of his• mother's brother, Patrick O'Dowd. Oht what a country this isl Munrcus asp Ixa.—The following analy-- sis of the manner in which spiritual music is sometimes produced, occurred a few days' since, in Lowell. The Vox Populi says:: "The celebrated 'Davenport mediums,'' who have been performing here for the last two weeks such wonderful tricks as drawing music from various ir•.struments without touching them, were outwitted, a day or two. since, by a printer of this city. The two boy mediums were tied hands and feet, and put into a dark (of course!) place with the instruments, the whole arrangement being first examined by the spectators. Now on this occasion the said printer was a visitor, and be had been to apply a little private te4 for his own satisfaction. Ile took along with him a very little printing ink, (which is a. tenacious as wheel grease,) and marked therewith the instruments. The perform ance went on; the mediums were firmly tied and bourn! to their seats, to convince the audience that they coed' not touch the instruments; then came the darkness; then instrumental music by the spirits; then the rmmager said 'Let there be Sight; and the medium' were unbound and came forth— each with fingers well bedaubed with print ers' ink!" ta" - Wlten Col, Lee, of New York, was collecting subscrsptions for the equestrian bronze statue of Wahington, now standing a monument of patriotism and art at the corner of Union park, he had occasion to visit an old curmudgeon in the neighborhood, and pulling out his subscription paper, cc (vested him to add his name to the list.— But old Lucre declined respectfully_ "I do not see," he said, "what benefit this: statue will be to met and .r.,.1110 is a great deal of money to pay for the gratification or other people." "Benefit to you?" replied the Ciihmel; "Why, 'Sir," it will benefit you more than anybody else. The statue• can be seen from every window in your homos: it hill be art ornament, and add dig-. ty to the whole neighborhood, and it will perpetually remind you of the Father of his Country—the immortal Washington!" "Aid Colonel," tuiswered old Lucre, "I do not require g statue to remind me of him, for I al sacs carry Washington here!" and lie placed his hand upon his heart, "Them let me tell you," replied Col. Lee, "if that is so, all that I have to say is, that you have got Wtishington in a tight place!"— Wits•llin !gem I iiion. CU It El) BY E e6'ED BITTERS. Yrimr r:.•n A. C. flotitre. Di•legate in Cottgre, front lousy now taininter to Spain D C.. May IF'. 15•57. Dm r; in h CiftYl:4—hear Sir. The Oxytzinintint ,N till %vinyl. you \Nene no 6Uui nn to fiirnPdi nn,. hav , - , hod a may riot ca..e. I usis fronting! wuh d).prpvn for loin . during %•herb Una• I tro•rl runny remedies. Flit never aa•t silk into no good (Mr linters. 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Sole Wfinle.ole A emit (Pr Colum bia Sold by till re.peemble Druavi.l4 lib'umthout 'he Vatted tato... , and Cattail, — Wet 17, 1ti374,y ------ Read the ToHosting-It needs nts Comment. Nt,,,,1ic., Jotter-nu 01.. N. V. June 4, 1535. P. V. t Coventry Jo t'n.:—Gent•—My daughter's affliction with ulcersteil throat Mid pint-Mach, hatpins non of the heart. and IlerVolls debility, in foe, it complete dertingement of the system. rendered hes ttl, ittino•l hopeless. indeed. 1 hove tried every .3., p, hi, 'ism, and ',nostrum preorrthed. with nn rived, o ,lit afriend learned her ease mil sent her smite of your onneh's American Compound' , by her brother. Ile was very confident that it would cure her. !she very reluctinitly tried It for n few days, but thinking it made tier worse. because her slomnolt and throat smarted so, she said she would tint take it for it burl tier. and laid it aside with her other medicines, 01411111er friend (who knew of similar cs‘es eared with the Compound) wrote her saying if she would .lOliotr directions strictly for one 111011t11 LIR! II did 1101 cure her he would fortes a small farm. Well. she and shr would give it a heir trial. for +he wa• sure of the farm. Well. she used it faitlifolly for ii fortnight, when she said she must give up the farm. for her throat and stotnneli had gut well. The palpitation left her. in fact she wits well. Cor the past three months she has continued to gain strength, nod boa not enjoyed better health in main years. Yr.n may make . hat use you please 01 this for Ilia benefit of like complaints. I hove since seen the good effects of this Compound in other eases, and I truly think too much cannot be said in ill praise fur all nervous and scrofula disease.. Your., with te'pect, Mn. MIRIAM PARIoIi. Mrs Parish will lie hoary to nnswer oily cOMlTlll riienhol about her dauchier's moos. 13neles Amerman Compound owe. its success 111 the illIfill•IC curative properties or the vegeinble:ri which compose it. It ernitains a eon:pound Fiend Krtritrrof french Drop or Carver R. 1." note first girrn to Mr Public, but long known to the Indians as a never foiling cure for Scrotulas. Consumption. Humors of the Illood • and chrome diseases in any part of the system. This medicine ass floor he had of ail relic btu dealers in the United Stoma and Canada. See advertisement in anotheicoluinn. October 30557.
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