tesespe; but jH-t *44 J re-e, away went the , aumb-waiter Up tnwurds the etilitig with', luyself itmide. The jar of the .first %tint-en:cm threw me hack. I hal nu ,itue to recmver my fee+ and 'kat:. i etaLla but pull the 1 dour to te; the box a.crnded, white the I.nrosy , in of lag:4liter th.it atillicted the girl ki the kitchen went to ho.art, and •inote I me with a foil!) e; akin to tnadat>s. I wotthi .1. , 0 Ce .0.161 IFy•;'. l .l it thttt lantactit 4", , r three I ••oitis or any Ileettht MAU ' S ntuttey. on tit:tv ts::ll.t.tiy howl htelel when rthe tltitult retched the liuin 1 1 ..0r iikito heard the , iitnia hall ei,:n 1 lee-, m‘.1,2.,,t, thew me lu trt rec otigniziXl that iif Angelina lier.ielr, ni she ex- vlaitnoll; ..Vote, pa, do lot a. have luueii. i am gso lttuio c.'• "YQ, you tat(," I th-0v4114, ••%vitrii craft - ?e the e.tH -e.:t•at Lit.t.Cs wady fart' prti!"— f.,r pvi , p;ratikltl Md . ; litToppilig amrc Tla do,,r ~f tb,• atnnb-waiter o•as I.l)vue.l Alta I walked There ea , a table set, and around it I 'beheld A ngelloa. her•fatlwr and tr.otlar. (•as I ,proivo.?. - -.1.% It o br,nhers, and two sisters. Angelina shtleked and fainted. I darted 1 toward.: the parlor door, but not tptite in time to escape a hlow from the Intek of a .chair aimed at me ii one or the young gent lemen. I att.! to my fee t, and then you should have seen tb.e rate. fortunately the waiter was jto,t admitting a gentleman at the open hall hour as I reaelleA it. Delight . 4 at the champ, I bounded past the visitor, and macie enw leap to the pavement. Three inure placed me on the platform of Second A% cone ear just pa-,ing. Need I say I 11:1VC. : peter entered Union intik doer.' I detest 2.. hr: spot. As to Angelina, the very thought of her makes my blood run cull; an,' if you want to create belligerent feelings in my ]polio at :lay time, just say - dumlewaiterr . to me, and look vut. That's all. Pilferin;s from Pun3:l NEw 4'%iaaN the ila.lloomtey 01 I ;,irgoutnan dres,c.s keep 4 1,1 ith the ladle.>, we fancy we shall shortly hear an hddit'o,ll to 0111. public cries. This cry will probably i—se fr.att Out trbulth of some Tinl;er, N% ho , :IS he prornen .o.os4 our lash:on:Ode with hi. pan of lighted elia.reoal in one hand whilst the other holds :t 10114 pole trout which will he dang- Rug something like a moiNter steel hen coop, will salute the dining-rooms and draw ing rooms with the following screaming, in quiry:—"Any lady's Creetioline., ur l'etti• .coat, to mend to-day!" Front the quantity work that the entelThrising Tinker will ~,loubtle,sly have thrown 011 his hands, we HhUlth). think that he would make a very pr,,titalac of it. 1)% ICE TO FA , T YOUNI 1;101111 to Settle, emigrate. THF: Pca•riT or Jor.iNr; rv.onit ter], German Ilan , ' playing limier the wind ow - yunn 14 lady praoli.ing t . .Prom.. next Polish Refugee :trguing with the huttlla.ly in the three gtts-men fixing up a "V. R. — un the bnlermy--4. 0 different voices battling loudly in the distance—and the Printer's Devil whistling ./itor th,./ Tray, uutside on the door mat! A. \rW MILIT 111 V .mr:.---The Uhler lA * the ('r 0.. i , certainly an hlnee 'tient to thr• goldier to go in for a higher game, a n d to play for worthier stake..— Very eurioq-ly. it i. pe0%,1 i%ith sol , lier-, it. kith sheep, that the Crof.l breed the best. i'ItETTV T1101'1:11T.--BY C: v-ii;ves reeoive thoir I.t,t =me trout the soft Lands or Wffi .1 , 01 I. not mo. hholos, 'Tooke our n 04.1 at tl:o :lauds yr the dear erea- MEM Ssrur TVIT. , .--Am intelligent N;) , 0 . 1 heing :1 , 1;e41 Wilat 1w th, .f• the two 5,„,,-, 2 1 .:i.t.,,?m• awl the Nution eharaeteri-ti.•ally c:i4,11,411, that he thnught "it Wa, I' rfr.uruv.% Viinr , :r.,.--11,athr thy earthquake at Naple , eoully e,tuu#;!:. It did Rut sh.tke hi, thiuue. =I Noi =1 I= =EI A polo!, ,silll II I 111011111111 111,11 ,, N,Oll ) 1111. .1111,11." I= I kali . 1/l1 ill , 1 / 1 01 II :%/1/111. r N 11:111' , 4 1,111 0• i 1.11 1 h /Mod'. r 41..) f r -I Ln, 4...4 4 , The rtll u 1 .4,0 ..! ltruuut =1!IMI!IIII! 1:1!!!1! 11111121111= 131!El!IIIIIIIIII5 I= r.) %%WI n•a.nn ro•ijosi,ll.% r. 'L• the> both lull 10. Z. t',.•4 'Naar beggol..: 10 :1.1.1re na). s‘itli England. la, proof ,, i,oil Trades n.,ei , eti4-4 at ner:la. wel come the newly-married Ittoy.ll couple. tL journeymen B.tkets arc 10 appear with three-eornered hat.: and , :word.. We cannot see what Baker 4 can ha% e to do with sword , . eapeers will perhap-; Bite their NN est,' s doughty appearance. 110VC TO M Nr.k. TE"..—G. , to any cheap advertising t;ria.zr . ... and ym,/ .ion leant 4to your co,t) how ten A ( - soon St KU\ 4* Tie.-1%, cch.Lr4te the - - -- late Royal 21I.trriage, it took tau le—, than one ii.:owitx's PATENT WAsulsu 31Acittsc.— Archbishop, three Bi , hopQ, une Dean, and Last week Mr. N. ti. Hinton. who has par one Rev. Doctor. We may confidently hope ch..„ed thw right of A. I, Harvey's patent tur i th r e permanency of the knot that must washing Machine for this County, exhibited have 1./cup Zaiawn no to tight by such a num- t h,, u) „,1„ o f o p e r a tion with the new washer. der of clergymen pulling all together. Thu 4. ork done was thormozh; so ..adj udged by Ti". PuJam4w:':l 114..vy-Lora.—Ar(e)a- t experts in the art. We havethe authority of Luba. i excellent 5.-dges for pronouncing this sinaplt . . A C ., .RREVT 74/" 7 " ,, En. — We irQtrw an old , /113 , 111 TIP of Mr. liiuton's a. arlinirabl!. - whip- ; lettin' on to be mighty good, and dat she , lady. who, when she alludes to theic,:der of ted to It and a.acing of labor was tendin' clinch reglar, when all de time the Mormon., glwapt calls him—eitilbe and time. WI• understand that Mr. IL ha. Ihe was curryin' on mid oder fellkra. I imAnt;onatty, or else by 41 curious jurniti.-- with in r;ir-po , al of the ..“11- watched olz wAtnult last night, and 'st.e,i,Al of Jlig,atity Voting." g , dn' t ,, trabbles tig,l,•,,J:f to her )I,lr enlumbia .1 PENNSYLVANIA :NDEPESDENT JOURNAL. VOLVAIBIA. SNITIWAY, FEBRUARY 27, IS'5B A CA rat,—The ladies belonging to the Dore3S Sk.elety of Columbia, return their sincere thanks to Mr. and Mrs. rirene man, of 11hie Rock fartn, and to Mrs. Antiw. Shuman. for their xbtittabLe sad tituely iloaations, or huge bits of prod-ions: and beg to theta t=hat inizmy a I.lw tu l le liuuilie< of the plain unite witlt them in their acknouleilgeinents, au.l iLliurnking the blesi.ings of a Lind ProviJ.enee on the generous 'Julius Nntv 11. Hunter, ./t/Ati:v. %/Mc i'eat-c; F. St.uch, .PfactLing Party; SaYey company, card; (2.6.:nibia P. ti.. Lisl Leiters. 01 . 11 P1111.11)L1.11:1 Cottro:srosnnsT.—We trice our eorrospondent's letter as it reached us, hut cannot refrain from differing front iima 41 the ••dis!•olution" question. We re gard the cry of disunion" as an arrant !militia, let it come front whidi quarter it may, North or South. tr,.l, • .\l'c have only room to call attention u. Pr0f..!, , 0r Slimeh's practising party. on Vriday mening next. It NVIII doubtless be up Mich Mr. Stoneh's usual taste and judAinellt. We trust the party may be well attended. RED MEN ' in 11.11.1., ON TOE 2.2N0.—A• announced in the Spy, the hall of the 1. 0. a R. m., v.as thrown open to visitors on Monday last. During the greater pert of the day it was thronged with visitors. and in the eccning it was a perfect jam. The ladies formed a large proportion of the crowd, and et Sty otm expressed pleasure at the in teresting eN.hibition. The Room was very tasefully decorated, some of the wigwams being curiosities of construction well worth examination. The Rolling Miil Reid 't as present during the ON 014 . 111.4. and their ex ,inisite strains added materially to the at tr A_ tally was kept of the numbers imtering the room. During the day it was visited by fifteen hundre 1 and five persons. The lied .lien understood the taste , ' of our citizens, and in throwing open their they gratified a natural and innocent cori osity, and deserve the th.iiiks of the public. ACCI DEN T ON TO n Ilivint.-0,1 the after noon of Monday, the ;22.nd inst., Dr. E. Hal deman's te•:un, driven by him-elf, in a sleigh, broke through the ice tut the river opposite Walnut Street, and a snort distance from shore. The occupants of the sleigh were in no danger, eNcept from the plunging of the terrified horses, but the animals were reqeued with some difficulty. The accident happened in a fortunate spot; one hundred feet farther from :bora the depth of water would almost have in mre.l the loss of the horses, but as it wl s, a .40mcwhat protracted cold bath was theii me it serious inconveni• once. Plenty of is Mina, hands readily lent assistance, and tde delicate task of roping the floundering beasts Ii um their uncomforta ble berth was performed without further acci dent. NrE,.--ir vo. DELL.; kTE ELECT!. N.-0 a Saturday, 2.oth hist:tut, an election of delegates to the oeratio County Convention was hold in Co- Itunbia, luad re.ultod as follows: In the North Ward the Lveomptun eon ; stitutit.olike made an i,stie and we B ite the entirt• )oto mile] IVil.on Paul ll:~milt•in. -I.Lev ti. „Lt Daniel lion% 11".•!-11. Abner 4a:14.... 31,N.141),,), /L.~~r:~o ll.:;an:~ci~a In the :• , etith War.l, Lee4unpt(in did 'ot enter into the conte , t. The I,lllowing goit- tiOnWil \lore i0.c..te , 1. I'. 11. Ebtir, Jame: e.,111t1 , . Patton, The 11,Irgati,m , from 1.411 Pr,!sideat 14 moo; %TA. Cot - Nry met on tho tn.prning of 11 'Jilt inst., at Vultm, 11411, Lanea.t...r, for the of clotting delegates t., the State I ',at entl4lll, which meets att Ilarristurg on pros. I eo. M. Steinman, was tinattimon.ly elosete.l Clmirtnan. and Mears. Fraih•y ant: 11110.1 es, Se.-retarie.. 3fessrs. Steinman, dianan, 1,. Itingavalt, 11. 11. llrene* man, .1. Rhodes. and Jacob E. Cross. were the delegates elected. The I;c.,latiuns rt.loyted enrlor,e the lA , - emnyton huliry r.£ the President, and that :.;entleman himself, t‘ , e'.l.er with .Nlessrs. C“1.11, T,meey, llrawn. Thorny ' mm, Mick, I'.l..ker and C,thim,t, and THE lit In MI: PArliqc ID , TtL—ST. Lot I,—We hate revel% ed front Dr. N. B. Wolfe, too late to do Mote than InentiOn, and thank bhp for. hi.; vourtesy, some particular: f the terrible tire iu tit. Loeb:, by which .onto forty or tifty lives were lost. By tele• 'graphic di•patelo•-• to eity dailies no per- , cell-a that three in.li% bleak, oue the propri clot of the hotel, have been arre-ted for set ' (jug fire to the premise:. The ex.eitement is intense and should there be grounds for the charge the shrift of the prisoners is like- IL to be a short one. Lecump'on A nit- Le,,invimi I OF Tug FIREMLN.-011 the after noon of the :12nd, the Vigilant and Column big, lire Companies paraded in celebration of the day, the former company at the same time housing a new reel, built by Mr. Sam uel Carter, of this place. The new acces sory "machine" is a remarkably neat and well finished affair, creditable alike to the taste and workmanship of time builder, and to the energy of the company in thus adding to the efficiency of its apparatus. In spite of the heavy state of the streets, the firemen turned out in respectable numbers, the Co beetled by the Rolling Mill Band, and drawing their Hose Carriage, the Vitf,i lents with their new reel, led by N. Dine fo Rand. "Old Culumby" displayed in the ranks a large red and white pennant with time name of the Company, COLUMBIA, in blue letters. The men of both Corn panics, in their uniforms, looked well, and attracted the usual crowd as they marched through the borough. After passing through the main streets, the party crossed the river to Wrig-lits‘ille, on the ice. This, probably the first occasions of a firemen's procession crossing the frozen face of the Susquehanna, added fresh interest to the celebration, and crowds of citizens gathered to watch the slender line of '•lcys" as it wound with the sigh track over the strawy mile-wide les-ruing to a thread and finally to a sp,t, as it neared the York county shore. (Pre ceding the march on the ice there was c. slight parley "Oa Jordatt's stormy backs,.. awl we regret to state that the Mill I:. R., thinking it too hard a road to travel, refused to take to the ice and "took the water" instead, adjourning to deponent tstith not. There was no bark in the boys, however; the order was hour t a the front," and they left the shore with drums beating ;ma colors flying.) Af ter giving the citizens of Wrightsville, by whom they Caere most hospitably recciael and treated, a touch of their quality, the Companies returned. via the Columbia Bridge, to town, anal marching to almir re spective houses, dismissed, well satisfied wail the afternoon's di-play, Police Items AL7ST Cll - 11" CoNIES TO day, ISt% inst., Aunt Catty Jones, of Tow' !lilt, seas brought before Esquire Welsh. by the inevitable Hollingsworth, charged with a cling Ilipior without license. on Similar Iliereot er, and to minors. Julia Thomas, aged 17, Sansuel Benson, aged 17, James Armstrong, aged 19, James Moisom aged 19, and all -Or testified to having tasted of Aunt Catty's tap on the prececiling Sab bath, each deponent solemnly pronouncing the beverage munitigated Lida-lime. 'lsaac Young, aged 2e), also dark, was then called to the Stand, lint a previous intimation from the Justice that lie (Isaac) eta n 1 charged on Isis (EisiCs.) docket widi having aired a pair of boots without leave from the owner so °Tem( d w tness' memory as to render him e ob'irions, not only regarding the ;nature of h's Aunt's refreshments, but also las to the precise date of his having sampled Clem. Pe was takea bad last Sunday—pain lin the stomach. Went to Aunt Catty's for I ; relief, and found it not. (Isaac, next time try "B;isley's Spiced Liquors, for the Speedy Cure of Diarrhwa, Dysenstery, Summer Com plaint, Cholera Morbus, and other Disorders of the Digestive Organs generally-?'') On one occasion he obtained something at Aunt Catty's that he took to be whiskey, but it might have been water; he was nut certain hether it was last Spring. the Spring before, or a pros ions Spring. Could not swear posi tively to the very year, but had little doubt about the season. Spite of Isaac's well M- I tended non-committal testimony, and that of a host of witnesses who went the unlimited animal on the old lady's virtue, respectabil ity, the Juctiee decided the weight of ,widener to be against the aeouseil, and bound ; her in the sum of three huniled dollars fbr her arise:mown at the April Sessions. John ;teen and Emanuel Benson gave the re mired i.ecurity, and the prisoner was die ' charged. Yuting'4 boot ca , c waq urst eullob but I , :ta,;', , memory nes yr thekrtvd on that :sub j,•ot—he had not forg.,tten ht make good lii ( , ( . 110 •'111 . 1.1; A Wm: AND list c .t Monday morning, 22nd inst., Mrs. Cornelia Handy, 'ice Oasis, of the Hill, entered coin.: plaint before J ustice Welsh against her sable lord, John handy, charging; him with foal tccatment (knocking; down, dragging out, flier lair.) and threatening ti kill.) Con stable Hollingsworth was armed uith a war- I PROCEEDINIIS or COUNClL—February 19, rant and put on the track of John, whom he ISsB.—Conneil met--Members present, sons apprehended and paraded. Ann Marin Messrs. Black, Murphy, Max ton, Pelan, Handy, Nathaniel Bacon, and Benjamin Pfahler, Pusey, and Bletz, President. Johnson, witnesses for plaintitT, swore to the Minutes of last meetings read and adopted. assault upon Mrs. 11. by her husband. and The following, bills were read and ordered to the two men further deposed that they had he paid. C. Hook, $12,50; D. Heisley, carefully abstained from interference, know- $10.29. ing the unprofitableness of stepping, between On motion of Mr. Black, the following the parties to a conjug,al passage at arms; bills were rejected until certified to: Jno. Johnson. especially, dwelling with much feel- Cooper, $5,34; Jos. Hogentogler. $50,U3 and ing on his bought experience in this matter. sl2,tig. Ceorge Martin, (late Sheriff,) Lill Nothing daunted by the array of sceuingly i for s'',39 was read and referred to J. W. unanswerable evidence against him, the Fisher, Esq. prisoner, leave being granted, addressed the Mr. Pusey moved that no bills be passed, court at length. Ile made no attempt to contracted under the supervision of the discredit the positive testhnony of witnesses 11. , fad Committee, which was agreed to. fur the prosecution, or to impeach their char- A commuMeation was read from 11. F. acter fir veracity. but confined himself tog Bruner, Esq., in relation to the payment of defense of an extenuative and justilicotory a loud Mr. E. Hershey holds against the character. lie pro.ltwed letters from his B .rough. On motion of Mr. Filthier it was wife, showing that she stood in the same re- referred to the Finance Committee. lotion to several other colored gnntlemen a s Mr. Pusey, from the Finance Committee. to himself, and that she had on different 0 , 2- submitted a report, which was accepted and easions left his bed :yid board fur that of his ordered to be published. - Mr. 'Maxton, from the Bowl Committee. reported that the work on Fifth street was emnplettol, and that the repairing of Fourth street would be commenced as soon as matrimonial partners. "Loa. yerc.'Spiiah, dar war no 'easion full her goin *liroml; always plenty in de house, ( contemptuous Plenty! Wonder who went to de country to collect dem cull wittles!" from the pertidiomi Cornelia.) and de woman had nuffin to complain of. De trufe sarin your Minor's and do lady's presence. she c .me.i of a d—a bad breed, any how, and de nebber he fetelied out oh her till he's lammed out. Don't I know her trick'? 1 know how she ran out 0' nights, mother's and dar I finds her kcepin' compa ny- 'long wid Sam Woodlouse. 'D cou'sc I lammed liar. Dough but you see, 'Squiah, dar's no use talkie'; de way 'ciety is on de hill a man must lick his wife 'casionally, or he can't keep her decent. If de 'Squiahs 'Lout dis yore town is goin to gib law to ebry nigga woman dat feels de weight oh her husband's hand when she deserves it, dey'll bob to 'large dat buildin' down to Lancaster. sure." Or words to that effect. The Justice, on the conclusion of Hardy's elaborate defense, stilling the tumult of de nial and recrimination on the part of plain tiff and friends, addressed a "few brief but eloquent remarks" to the assembled Tow Milers, in which he deplored the lax state of the llill morals, and severely censured Cornelia for her, not to put too fine a point on it, indiscreet conduct. He expressed a thorough appreciation of defendant's painful position, and while he admitted palliative eircumstances, and the abstract justice of .lohn's plea of a husband's inherent right to wholmminely. from time to time, chastise the wife of his bosom, yet, could not, with the evidence before him, (including marks on ; Cornelia's head, and a pocket full of hair exhibited on trial,) do less than hold prisoner in the sum of four hundred dollars for future good behavior. The hail not being within the limit of John's confidential friends, be had to go down for the April Sessions If trmca's Msn.i/Asz. Harper for March open•t tt•ith an unusual ewe:fence of wood cuts, illustrating "The tipper Mississippi," and “Tropical Journeyins." Thackeray's •'Virginians" is continued, carrying us again to England, where we make further aequaint.inee with the Castlewoods, sorry representatives. not in delineation, of our old friends. Lord and Lady Castlewood, Colonel !lorry, Viscount Francis, and Mistress Bea- trix E.mond, (now Baroness de Bermtcin, with a strong family resemblance to the old dowager Lady Castlewood ) Charles lleade's Elephant Story, "A Jack of All Trades," is concluded, and a number of shorter talc.; and articles complete the table of contents. Altogether a most readable number. Horst:notai Woaos.—We have received Ilonsohold Words nu. March. The monthly number of this magazine is a never failing mmrce or entertainment to us, \V find in its paps a greater proportion of really good and pleasant writing, than in any other pe riialieid amongst our exchanges. While its articles show a scholarship equally tousled with that displayed in those of Blackwood and the Reviews, in them is embodied a strain of delicate irony that renders them piquant, while the dryestnndhardest sub jeets are embellished by quaintness of treat ment :obi dietions. The work is republished by Janson SL Co., New York, at t 3 per an- K \ Buick comes ear lier than u.ual this month. lie is kindly welcome at all times and all seasons. We owe him many a hearty laugh, and many an hour or quiet enjoyment. Eschewing il lo•tration and puffery, our truedhlue friend keeps on his even way: rejoicing, nu doubt in a sufficing circulation, and daily making new friends for the old ones who depart for the better land: for we cannot conceive a sules.riber being lost to old Knick through anything but the inexorable interference of King Death, who stops all our papers one day. The present number is rich in all its departments. L'U , IL/oN QUARTERLY AND EDINBURGH RE e received these publications for the January Quarter. The London Quarterly contains: Difficulties of llailway Engineering; The Historic Peerage; Tobias Smollett; Wiltshire; Church Extension; Sense or P:6. in Man and Animals; Wool wich Arsenal and its .:Slanufacturing Estab lishments: Our Indian Empire. The contents of the Edinburgh arc Pros pects of the Indian Empire; Milltnan's His tory of Lalin Christianity; Scottish Univer sity Reform; The Angel in the Huuse; The Addington and l'itt Administrations; Turn Brown's School days; Abbe Le Dieu's Me moirs of Bossuet; The Hawker's Literature of France; Lord Overstone on Metallic and Paper Curreney. A E rirrlCS lroltE Sr v: +,7.INE.—TIS favorite Philadelphia monthly has been received.— It is Mk.' with its usual variety of readable nut:idler, and illivdrated with an infinity of fa-bions, ratt erns, &e., fur the ladies. practicable. r. from the Ordinance Committee, reported that the Committee had not been able to get together, and were not prepared to report upon the revision of the ordinance , . A communication was read from J. W. Fi.her, Rol., solicitor, in relation to the claim of Mr. Reese, of Mount Joy. for dam agei incurred by die breut.ing of his car riage, on Front street, sine time since. Council refit-4.d to take any actiou spun the ! claim .rludeter, ,r,.undi adjourmal. .'ttte.t• WM. F. 1.I.1)1 it. Clerk rur the Columbia Spy Philadelphia Correspondence. PIII7.APELI . IIIA, Feb. 24, ISSB After a two days' atom of wind and snow, last Sunday morning broke upon us more bright and mild than it had been for a week before. Though all the grog-shops were closed, as usual on the first day of the week, the "sun was strong in every one's eyes" 'til past the hour of two in the afternoon, and the pedestrian who entered one of our dimly lighted modern churches, was for a few minutes as helpless in his efforts to gain, or discern a vacant seat, as would be a blind mendicant bereaved of his canine guide.— The weather is now excessively cold, and the sleigh-drivers have as firm and broad a platform upon which to vindicate their prin-' ciples, as has any political party in Kansas or out of it. A vast deal of fuss has been made lately in some of the city papers about the weigh ing of coal: and many citizens complain bitterly of the gross swindles practised upon them by some of the dealers in this neces sary of life. Various remedies have been suggested for this evil through the columns of the Ledycr, which were daily loaded with the random suggestions of correspondents: same recommend the cart scale, by- which the coal is weighed in the cart at the door of the purchaser; others oppose this method, mainly on the ground of the unreliability in the apparatus, which is said to be constantly in need of adjustment, and never right at that. There is a very simple remedy fur all this trouble, which has been used in the city of New York for more than twenty years past. Every load of coal is weighed lip a public weigher, and his certificate is necessary to effect a sale of the article; the cost of weighing is only twenty-five cents, and is uniformly shared equally between the vender and the purchaser. Last Monday, (the 22n I,) passed off with something of the old style honors; but there was not a great deal of enthusiasm even among the "milingtary," who, though they turned out in pretty good force and marched the streets with flags flying to the rattle of the spirit-stirring drum, seemed to have rather a fatiguing and dreary time, with a sloppy tramp through the narrow and crowded streets of "the right-angled village of Philadelphia," as our great city is imper tinently designated by the cockney prints of metropolitan "Noo Yawk." In early morn ing the chimes of St. Stephen's honored the day with a long and lively ex:ereise of their melodious quality. But strange to say, the bells of Chrid's were silent 'luring the live long day, and sounded not a note in honor of the name which is still cherished within its ancient walls, in the empty show of a vacant pew where once the father of our country joined in the worship of the God of our fathers. Indeed the day is evidently ! losing its interest as a national festival, and perhaps the time is not fin• distant when iCs advent will be noticed no more, or it may give place to the birth-day- honors of a Ham-1 ikon or a Burr, or perhaps of a Paine, in some sections of the country—and following! out our train of thought to its conclusion— may not this be but one of the harbingers to more important events, the results of dif- I faring tastes and opposing interests, which before many years, shall lead the different sections of our country to seek, in a separate state, that peace, harmony, and }mildness, which for a quarter of a, century past, a dis tinction of race and opposing opinion have never vouchsafed to the whole country, ex cept in the brief intervals between the ses i :duns of our National Legislature? It may be asked, "and must this be so?" No other than infinite intelligence can an swer the puestion. Nothing is certain in human affairs. Events are shaped by con tingencies which may arise, and necessities which will compel action best adapted to the peace and happiness of communities.— Though the event may be painful to con template, and humiliating to the American patriot, what is there so really terrible in it, after all? When two men enter into a business co partnership, and find that, from a difference in temper or disposition, or from an oppo site interest, agreement and Harmony, pros- ; perity and success arc utterly impossible, 410 they not calmly agree to disagree, to sep arate, and each following the bent of his own inclination, pursue the path of life with single aim and unembarrassed energy? When husband and wife have found by sad experience, that owing to peculiarities of temper in one or both—a similarity of taste, a unity of feeling, and a common sym pathy are out of the question, do not a de cent sense of propriety, a respect for the opinions of others, and that last and only bond of sympathy (a regard for the welfare of their children.) demand that they shall separate? Who may question the propriety or the duty of the parties to come to such a decision? if then, in this most sacred of all social relations, and which is the found ation of our social fabric, separation is the only panacea for irreconcilable differences— what in the name of common sense, we may ask, is the reason that communities and states cannot be guided by the same rule of propriety and expediency? and why may not an empire be divided with as little vio lence and risk as a family. Recent news from Mexico give the sequent events to the expulsion of Ignacio Coulon fort from the Presideney, and his voluntary retreat from the courrry. Pelis Tulvaga, the "provisional President," is a friend of the church, and supposed to be a partizan ' Santa Anna, and it may be questioned whether the rumor. that Tulvaga will soon rice place to OsoHo, "a man of extraordi nary decision and energy of character," and favorable to a Spanish protectorate—is any thing more than a ruse to divert the popular mind, and more effectually pave the way f; a. the return of Santa Auna to the admin istration of affairs. It is certain that Santa Anna has a strong party in the United States as well as in Mexico, sustained mainly in the former by the force of large claiws against the Mexican government: while in the latter country, the overthrow of Conton fort's policy, the restoration of church pro perty. and the power of the clergy, leave the I hue? , o f lil,orty little to choos., betwften Santa Anna and any other military Presi- dent or Dictator The various rumors which have been for a few days past diligently circulated by "telegrams" and news-letters that Mr. Grow, member of Congress from Pennsyl vania, and Mr. Kcitt, a member from South Carolina, had gone north to settle a recent dispute by a resort to arms—may be re garded as set to rest, by the announcement on Tuesday last that Mr. Keitt delivered a lecture before the Masonic fraternity in Bal timore, on the evening of the 2nd. And this may be considered as rather an aggra vated example of the criminal mendacity and recklessness with which certain news mongers manufacture and circulate rumors prejudicial to the safety of individuals and the peace of society. Indeed, it is a sad truth that some of the more "enterprising" of the metropolitan journals, would scarcely hesitate to stir up strife which might sacri fice the lives of men, provided it might create an excitement, and stimulate the curiosity of the newspaper reading portion of the community. Since our last letter, the citizens of Phila delphia, a large circle of friends, an estima ble and affectionate family, and the frater nity of civil engineers, have lost in the death of Mr. Sam'! 11. Kneass, a useful member of society; an honorable man and sincere friend; an excellent husband and father; and an accomplished and intelligent member of a useful profession. There is little change in the business mat ters of the city since last week. Money can be had at very reasonable rates on first-rate security, and without that it can't be had at any price. There is evidently a strong dis position among capitalists to stock specula tions owing to the slow demand for cash among merchants. But the time for realiz ing fortunes by this kind of adventure is about three months past; for though Penn's R. It. at S-16 (ur 92 per cent.) is a capital investment, the chance fur a speculation at that figure is but indifferent compared with the same stuck at $3l (or 62 per cent.)— What fortunes might have been realized during the last three months, it men had but "confidence," or the information of 221011 familiar with the internal improvements of Pennsylvania and the west; unfortunately, this last class of individuals are not gener ally well provided with the means to turn their information to practical aceount. That poetical wag Dela has issued an in vitation in the newspapers to all whom it may concern to make common cause, and institute legal proceedings against all per- SOTI s concerned in the late frauds, specula tions, swindles, and mismanagement of the late Bank of Pennsylvania. At this rate, Mr. Del.• may find it necessary to proceed against all the Boards of Directors, all the Presidents, and about one-half the Stock holders of the Bank who have had an inter est in its management during the last twelve years at least. In the meantime Dela solaces himself and amuses the public by publishing satirical verses in the daily papers. SASII'M. WRIGHT, ESQ.,—Please announce that Jefferson Snyder will be presented by his friends, as a candidate fur the office of constable at the approaching election. He is a young man or energy, determination, and good health, and possesses in a very high degree the mental and physical quali ties to fit him fur an efficient and successful police officer. Ile is not a politician, and will not prostitute his office in the service of any partizan ends, but devote himself to the conservation of the public peace, with out fear, favor, or affection. I understand he will run as an independent candidate, and if successful will be bulependent, looking only for the approval of the people for a faithful discharge of duty. It can hardly he said that this course will do our town any harm. Then let the people support him for the peace and quietness and the suppression of the innumerable vices that prevail now with impunity. _ _ THE LGJIIIER TRADE.—There has been quite a change effected during the last ten days in the prospects of the Lumber Busi ness of this county. Within that time, plenty of snow has fallen, which has ren dered the hauling excellent, and given new impetus to the business. Considerable tim ber has been hauled to the banks of the streams, and more will be got in. We have no data by which to make an estimate of the amount of business that will be done on the river the ensuing spring; but taking into consideration the fact that little or no haul ing was done in January, we are inclined to think that it will not be quite as large as usual.—Resnian's Journal, Feb, 17. Prtomovr.n.—Col. B. A. Shaeffer, one of our representatives in the State Senate, was elected, on Monday last, Brigadier General of the Brigade composing the military of Lancaster. The General's military duties will not be very severe, for we believe the whole Brigade (!) is composed of one com pany—the Lancaster Fencibles.—E.ewnincr. Items of News. Press of local matter crowds out our items of news, and we can only say that in Con gress they still hammer away at the blessed Kansas question. In the Senate the Army Bill bus been defeated. Our Legislature has done nothing more noteworthy than appoint a committee to investigate the affairs of the Lancaster Bank. We regret our want of time and space to tell how Messrs. Clay and Cullom did not fight a duel, and how Lieuts. Bell and Williams did, and how the latter was severely though not mortally wounded in the hat. The Pacific Hotel, St. Louis, Mn., was de stroyed by fire about 3 o'clock, A. M., on Saturday. Every body in the house being asleep when the first alarm was given, the greatest alarm ensued, and ten persons were killed and many others seriously in jured by leaping from windows- A second despatch makes the loss of life more formi dale, over forty persons being missing.— Many were suffocated in their rooms. On Saturday evening the Methodist Prot estant church in Sizth Street, Cincinnati. was partly destroyed by an explo,ion of gas, A prayer meeting being; assembled at the time. eight or inure persons were severely wounded, two or three of whom are not ex , pected to lire. PICITRES OF CIIINESE PAS SION FOR. ()el ex.—Yet there never was found; in any age or in any clime, a tribe, a race, or a nation, which had not some stimulant in which they habitually indulged. Mrs. Chinaman takes her mundungus; her has , band varies the same pleasure with an ones- sioual whiff of the stronger narcotic. I wislk he would drink beer, or whisky, or gin, or British Brandy, for they are all recogni'zed means of intoxication, and British manufac- - tures. But he steadfastly refuses—Que' vortlez eons? II cst fait comme cela. A Chi , unman loves opium as he loves nothing else, The head of a Parsee house at Hong Kong. was so civil as to take me into his warehouse / and to open two chests of opium, that I. might see the drug as it passes in commerce, The first consisted of balls, the size of large apple dumpling, and when cut open' the mass was found to be solid; the other' was full of objects which a commander in. the navy not long since ordered his men to' return to the owners of a captured junk,-- "Arn't you ashamed, my lads, to loot a lot of miserable Dutch cheeses?" The "Dutch cheeses" were fine Patna opium, worth about five pounds each. They are globes of thick, dark jelly, inclosed in a crust, not unlike the rind of a cheese. My Parsee acquaint ance tapped one with a fragment of an irom fastening of a chest, and drew forth about a spoonful of the evil-smelling drug. It was not the opium which engaged my attention; it was the effect produced by it upon the surrounding coolies. I never before saw real excitement in a Chinaman's face. I've seen them tried for their lives and con demned to death, and I've seen them test the long-suffering patience of Mr. Tudor Davies in the Hong Kong police court, where the gentleman is daily engaged in la borious endeavors to extract truth out or conflicting lies. I've seen them laugh. heartily at an obscene gesture at a singsong, and I once saw a witness grin with great delight as he unexpectedly recognized his most intimate friend, a tradesman of reputed. wealth, among a crowd of prisoners in ther dock. But these coolies, when they saw that opium, opened their horizontal, slit shaped eyes, till they grew round and start ing; their limbs, so lax and limp when not in actual strain of labor, were stiff from ex citement; every head was pressed forward, every hand seemed ready to clutch. There was a possibility that it would be put down upon the window sill near which we were standing. I could see the shadow of fingers ready to slide in. It was almost certain that it would be thrown aside; there was the grand hope of an opium debauch gratis; and this was the state of mind that hope created_ The Chinese Governments have long ceased to strive against this passion for opium. I doubt whether they ever really did strive against it. At one time, when the balance of the trade was against China, the opium was drawing the Sycee silver out of the country, and Lin thought it absolutely ne cessary, as a matter of State policy, to stop the traffic. A Chinese official is the Joseph Surface of diplomacy; be his theds good or evil, they are certain to be concealed under a mass of fine sentiments. For the Col:1,711)1u Spy ABOUT SNEEZING.—St. AUbiß tells us that the ancients were wont to go to bed again if they sneezed while they put on their shoes. Aristotle has a problem, "Why sneezing from noon to midnight was good, but from night to noon unlucky?" Eustatious on Homer says, that sneezing to the left was unlucky, but prosperous to the right. Hip pocrates, that sneezing cures the pickup, and is profitable to various diseases. Pliny, Apuleius, Petronious, and a dozen others, have all something to say about it ; and 13uxtorf tells us that "sneezing was a mortal sign, even from the first man, until it was taken off by the special suplication of Jacob. From whence, as a thankful ac knowledgment, this salutation first began, and was after continued by the expression of tebincitawn or vita Lona, by slanders by, on all occasions of sneezing." GOOD ORDER When his majesty the king of Minomotapa sneezes, those who are near him salute him so loud a tone that the persons in the ante chamber hearing it, join in the acclamation.. In the adjoining apartments they do the• same, till the noise reaches the street, and becomes propagated through the city; so that at each royal sneeze a most horrid cry re sults from the salutations of his many thou sand vassals. A somewhat different custom prevails in Scnarr, where, when his majesty sneezes, his courtiers immediately turn their backs on him (fur that time only) and give themselves a loud flap on their right thigh. In a scarce tract, by Gerbier, master of the ceremonies to Charles the First. Oxford, 1665, be gives as a rule of good•breeding:— "It is not the custome, when a prince doth sneeze, to say, as to other persons, Diets vouse aydc, God help you, but only to make a low reverence." A llor.srcc "llEREmr.tur LEGISLATOR. " --• Lord Brougham's son, who is yet a minor.. and consequently dependent upon his father for support, has been noted somewhat of late for his attention to a young actress in the French theatre. Iris father recently wrote the following laconic epistle: "If you do not quit her, I'll stop your allowance." To which the son replied: "If you do not double it, I'll marry her." The son will en joy a scat in parliament when he becomes of age. A GonnKE.—A woman was testifying in behalf of her son, and swore "that be had worked on a farm ever since he was born." The lawyer, who cross-examined her said: "You assert that your son worked on a farm ever since he was born?" "I do." "What did he do the first year?" "He milked." The lawyer evaporated.—Hartford Cou rant. A Morr.—A thing that holds a young lndy's hnnd withont squerr.ing it.
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