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.
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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.
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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.