tably, never hese Leen discovered.
"foal halve already done we an ineadma
tle favor," be began; 4 ‘but I bee. still another
to 0.31 r. "
1 now thought sn'ypilf conceited, and tried
tc, remember my twee, but I could avid
imagining vim:. he meant from hip, manner.
"Rebecca," he whispered, "win you
I, rout ie e to brighten, with your presence. the
1,1(1 nnuNion you have been the means of re-
storiuj::"
••I thonglit,"l replied, in confuEiGn,"tliat
GM
"Miss liildegarde is a very pretty
wild he, "and I have had most delightful
conversations with her, of which you wero
the subject?"
I exclalnand, in unfaignzd astonish
merit.
"Yes, you," be replied pressing the lkand
r,f which be bad som e how contrived to pos
',ens himself. "I loved you," ho continued,
`•thy first time I saw you, fur your resemb
lance to one who has been to me more than
a mother, and through your littlo cousin I
havebeo.me betteracquaintcd with you than
you imagine. All that she told roe confirm
..d my firk imp/ essien, and the discovery of
your 'masquerading folly,' to use yours own
words, had filled me with the deepest grati
tude. Bat yea ha,.e not answered my ques
tion?"
What fulluwed is of no consequence to
any ono Lot myself, sufflee it so say that in
proper time my uncle and cousins were duly
informed; but they perversely refused to be
Astonished. They all declared that they
had a presentiment of this from the begin
ning, and Uncle .Althorpo mischievously
asked if he had notprophesica that I would
"do?"
When Mr. Dernmore f,,llowed me 13.‘me to
he inspected by those morenear and dear to
me, he passed the ordeal with credit, and re
very long time elapsed crc I was installed
mistress of the old mansion.
Strange to relate, none of the five beauti
fal ceasing have ever married while I have
gained a prize which I believe any one of
them would willingly have appropriated. I
do not regret my masquerade, and I have
become reconciled to my nave, for I believe
that had it been at all different I should
never have found my husband.
JETUMLL P S WIT.—"DOI/gla9 JerrObrE Wit, "
iust published in a neat volume by Ticknor
Fields, improves upon every fresh reading,
though there i 4 considerable in it which is
n wiser or wittire than other people have
e-ritten. Some of his illustrations aro ex
,•!llor.t. Take this, for instance, and we
nerd not go to a cabinet minister to find
specimens of the bear.
"It occasionally happens that a bear afloat
on an iceberg drifts into a warmer latitude
then the latitude of eternal frost, and es the
iceberg melts and melts under the increasing
heat, the bear shifts, finding his footing
passing from beneath him, and at length
owls piteously, to know the dissolution of
she iceberg must in time occur. We would
not compare a minister of State to a polar
bear, nevertheless, even a chancellor of the
exchequtr, as ho finds Parliament melting
and a dissolution inevitable, will sometimes
change his music."
Here is a story which is exceedingly fun
ny, too humarous some think, to be Jerrold's
awn invention:
"Wo have heard of a man, reasonable in
all other matters, who declared that he had
Leen ruined, all his vast property swallowed
by aaa earthquake. But when asked by
strangers, 'What earthquake—and where?'
the ruined man, with a deeper look of in
jury upon him, would reply confidentially,
•That's it, that's just it. That earthquake,
sir was most shamefully hushed up,"
That is good, about the Jacobite and the
•chig who quarrelled, and when one of them
cried nut, spit upon your king William,"
and the other, "I rpit upon your James the
Second," Jerrold rung the hell and shouted,
-Waiter! spittnons for two!" So is his rea•
banter the "fall." "Eve," Jerrold said, "ate
the apple thut she might dress." What is
better than this?
"Jana is's" Lrrr OrT."—The fashionables
at Washin;ton now °vehicle journalists
from their fancy dress halls. for reasons
stated thus: Certain officials have been ter
rified by the rumor that a political opponent
of a member of C.mgregq, who figureJ at
has bud a lithographic por
trait of his rival publimhed, en en. pane, for
distribution at the canvass next fall. This
fear of political ridicule hoe induced the
giver of the Lull which is to cwrie off this
eck, to ban- ' - conf.dential" inscribed on
I.vr cards, and to nezlect newspaper people.
ID-A rather plain epoken clergyman
t,elt for his tett, this pasPrig,e in the
30:alrnc: - I said in my haste all men are
Litte:'
Looking up. Lrparently ae if he saw tho
Palmist, w.a a imrnoliately before him he
••1'.741 Sui , it in : - . lll;:mst , i, aid ynn David
W'el! if :;vu hnd ri-tm Lore,
.7:u 1 might Lave
it kite; 'nature reflection."
Zt_ct—"ran you let me hare twenty dollars
0,1. , morning. to purchase a bonnet, my
c.•n.e" said n wife to her husband. one
a‘nrnin,; at breakfast. "By and by, my
I 0.e." "That's what you always eny, my
bnt. rvm I /,..vy and Znty without money?"
oscr.
.144'"P:zesr:cr, nt cll. , Louisville Journal.
rt,jezts to thr five minute rule in the New
Y.rk 1 - 4.17. r me , tlng.. He Rap, "imagine
(old Bennett. of the Herald,
hiA Rill, in the ridirulrme epaceof
utet:'
bell" Test-A.lllpr, the other day asked a
rwighl.or if he were mgt inclining to the
Temperance Society. and he replica, "Yea;
I':r when he saw liquor hat mouth. watered."
V.P., An ozchasge tells a stury or anegro
l.e.y who full into a. hogshead of Molasses,
wonders if tboc lieLe.i hint when they
( , ):1 hlro
.1,27.."31r. Conductor, are you running on
l;:uo to-4R7?" ••N wo. am running for
casb "
Clit talumbia
A PLICNSYLVANIA ZDEPESDEn/UITENAL.
COLUMBIA, PA.
SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1859
NOTlCL—Service will be held every Sun
day morning and evening. in the German
Reformed Church of this place. Rev. J.
W. Nevin. D. D., or other Professor.; of
Franklin Marshall College will officiate.
LSLIfj FAIR----011 Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday of nest week the Ladies of $t
Paul's Episcopal Church kill hold a Fair
and Festirnl, fur the sale of Fancy Articles,
Refreshments, &c., in the Odd Fellows
We understand that the display of articles
will be unnsally large and beautiful, and
from the reputation of past festivals we an
ticipate a liberal consumption of the deli
cacies of the refreshments tables,
The fair is to be conducted upon jnstnnd
equitable principles, nod the objectionable
roulette, lottery and gift-heol: feature will
be omitted.
From the generous support heretofore ac
corded by our citizens to similar enterprises,
we may s.trely ask fur a like liberality in
the present instance. The eiTorts of the
young ladies who have gotten up the fair are
certainly deserving of encouragement. The
hall will i n a pleasant place of resort during
the continuance of the Festival, and we call
attention to the ad , . ertiqement in another
column for price of admission, &c.
ELECTIO`; or Orrtcrns.—At a ctatej meet
ing, of the Vigilant Engine and Hoge Com.
pane, held in their Hall June 4. 18.5.9, the
folloning, officerq Wf1..9 elected to serve for
the ensuing year.
Pre , ident, John D. Wright; r&ce..Presidcral,
G. W.Envin; Secretary, G. W. Miles; Treas
urer, 11. M. North; Chief Director, Joseph
Ffogentogler; Assistant Directors, J. B.
Wolf, D. A. Ciolin, G. F..Golin, John J.
Long, J. C. Fullerton, Harry Boyer; Gusto
diers, Michael Collins, 13. Zeigler, F. W.
W. Fraley, D. K. Aurand, E. M. Shreiner,
Richard Strawbridge.
G. IV. Secretary.
NOTrrit IlarTS9n fir.virw.—This Review
fur May, from Leonard Scott Scott Co.,
contains The Philosophy of History; Pro
fessor Owen's Works; Gothic Architecture
—Present and Future; The Scottish Uni
versities—Defects and Remedies; Lieuten
ant Maury's Geography of the Sea; Par
liamentary Government and Representation;
The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart;
Patristic Theology and its Apologists; Rifle
Practice; Poems by Coventry Patmore;
Recent Publications.
Police Items
A FIQIIY TRAXSACTION.—On May 29th
complaint was made before Justice Welsh
by John P. Stamen, of West Ilempfild
Township, near the Borough, against Jack
son Clingier and unknown partner, fish ped
dlers,for fraudulently obtaining money from
his family. The complainant stated that
the fish-men on the morning of the 29th,
appeared at his farm-house, with shad for
sale. They informed the housekeeper thnt
Mr Stamen had directed them to leave
eighteen fish and collect the price, 5.50.
The story was credited by the woman who
received the shad and paid the money, but
upon Mr. Staman's return, discovered that
she had been swindled. The fish turned
out decidedly below par.
Upon the complaint being entered the
Magistrate placed a warrant in the hands
of Constable Baker, of Lancaster, who ar
rested Clingier. Bail was given fur the de
fendant's appearance for trial at the August
sessions. The partner has not been dis
cue ered.
This practice of taking advantage of the
familen of farmers during the absence of the
male members is quite too prevalent in our
neighborhood. and we are glad to note Mr.
Staman's prompt measures to bring the of
fender to justice. Were every farmer to fol
low up each case of attempted or successful
imposition with arrest, and if possible,
punishment, the county would soon he freed
from the straggling scoundrels who live br
their miserable, wits, and are a source of
annoyance to the entire community.
Wirt. Cnrutsur.a.—On Tuesday, Sth inst.
Mrs, Bridget B. Quinn, appeared before
Ire mire ;Welsh with a complaint against
her hu=hancl, Stephen Quinn, fur drunken
and disorderly condttot and brutal treatment
of her:elf and children. The parties are!
from Henry Cloy Furnace, and the husband
had, previously to the late increase of accent
modations for strangers and trat•elor borne
the character of an orderly and industri
ous man, but recently ho has taken !Wynn
tage of the abundance and low price of;
whiskey to make an exceeding brute of him-
self, endangering the lines of his family in
his drunken sprees. Ho was sentenced to ;
30 days at hard lalor in the county Prison.
The Justice read the offender a lecture on
the miserable sinfulness of his late life, and
admonished him earnestly, entreating him
to give up corn and behave himself like a
decent citizen and affectionate husband and
parent, after his release from his temporary
salutary quarters at Lancaster. Stephen
promised amendment, end expressed no re
pugnance to the hard labor count of the
sentence, but deprecated confinencent inthe
dark•. Whether his late familianty with the
demon whiskey had introduced to him the !
attendant imps and devils, is not recorded,
but from his terror at the supposition of!
seclusion in a dark cell we are inclined to
believe. that Quinn had been indulged in a
"sight."
ARBITRITION.—.On Wednesday an impor
tant case waft arbitrated at the 'Washington
House, Chief Justice Hunter, Associate
Justice Welsh and Joseph M. Watt, Esqr.,
being the Referees. The parties were Mary
Fisher and Charles Clarke,. both colored, I
Col. Fisher appearing, for the plaintiff (the
lady) and H. M. North, Esq., defending
Charles. The court was crowded both with
spectators and witnesses, the latter of a
complexion in keeping with the principals !
in the case. The little difference amen'
from alleged appropriation by Clarke of
bedding and wearing-apparel belonging to
plaintiff. In December, 1857, Isaiah Fish
,:er and Mary, ids wife, deposited in care of
I defendant, of Tow Bill, a trunk containing
a quantity of clothing, &c., the property of
Miry, On Ne* Year Ere - Isaiah was hap
pily drowned in the anal at Wrightsville,
while attempting to escape from an officer
rent to arrest him for robbing Diffenbach's
store, in Marietta. Mrs. Fisher demanded
the surrender of her property by Clarke—
which was refused—hence the action and
claim of $G5.75.
Plaintiff produced a strong array of wit
nesses—to wit: Charlotte Shedd, Martha
Brown, Stephen Miller, Levi Taylor, George
Morris and John Thomas, all of the 1.1111,
whose evidence was to the effect that the
trunk had been pieced in care of Charles
Clarke by Mary and her husband.
Mrs C. Shadd was positive as to the iden
tity of the trunk, "'case it had Edwud
Sprigg's name on it. I seed de name.—
Seed IV. S. on de trunk, and knowed dat
meant Edwud Sprigg, or some oder Sprigg,
—'f co'se it did; ebry body knows dat S
stands fo' Sprigg. 'Spose W doesn't stand
fo' Edwud, dat's no reason de trunk wasn't
Usti! Make n mighty fuss 'bout one letter!
But go on! go on! I isn't mindin' you. Huh!
think dis nigga's n fool?"
Shadd was informed that her season was
about over, and Wa9 permitted to retire into
privacy without the expression of the opinion
of the Court regarding her mental integrity.
John Thomas was sworn, and commenced
a recital of his knowledge of the transaction
which dated back so remoter• and ramified
so extensively that it was deemed expedient
by the Court to limit his testimony to a gen
eral sketch of Tow llill life, and the antece
dents of the parties concerned in the case
under consideration. In no wise pleased
with this curtailment of his narrative the
witness, who hail evidently set out to un
bosom himself of all he knew on every
topic of interest, proceeded doggedly, throw
ing not the least light upon the transaction
between Fisher and Clarke, and finally
went down after a little cross questioning
by the attorney for defence, which he look
ed upon aria special indignity, and resented
by a frigidity ofdemeanor totally at var:ance
with his ordinary free and easy, not to say
jovial bearing.
The defendant effcred no evidence, but
rested his case on the soundness of his law
and the eloquence of his counsel.
The case was ably argued by the attor
nies of the parties, who cited many authori
ties, both foreign and domestic, with so
effectually complicating a result that the
court held it under advisement until Thurs
day morning, when a verdict was returned
for Plaintiff, for $36.67 and costs, Justice
Hunter dissenting.
Philadelphia Correspondence.
Pnu-knELerun, June 0, ISSB,
Vie Heat---Ps i!pect on Literature--1?e
-markable Effrvescense:Qf that Drug-71'o
man's )Ji.,•yiun—llcr Destiny—The Sage
of our Prers—lle Interprets—The Briii.sh
again.
The weather is hot, exceedingly hot. It
is hard on newspaper-men, newspaper-boys ,
and news-paper-readers.
Even the Sunday press with its thrilling
stories of love and desperation between the,
races, must have a hard time to weather
the times, and eke out a living, besides the
segars and lager, and a small supply of ice
water on hand for visitors, "contributor"
and other loafers.
But it is a pleasant end reviving circum
stance, in the midst of this distress, to be
hold the indomitable perseverance, and ex
traordinary success of our friend the Blotter.
Since our last first rate notice of that re
markable hebdomadal, its circulation is sup
posed not to have diminished by one single
subscriber. And, Sir, the strangest fact on
record is, that it is utterly impossible for
any subscriber to drop off, or stop off—
unless the Blotter should drop and leave
the subscriber solitary and alone, helpless
and limp, with no mental stimulus, and no
moral support.
The expedient to produce this surprising
result, is original, and indigenous in the
brain of that prince of bibliopolists, Bunger,
the publisher. It consists in keeping three I
yarns continually spinning in the columnsl
o f s he Blotter at the same time; the ends of ;
these yarns are ingeniously lapped over as I
it wet e, whereby a kind of yarny mesh work
is wrought, in which the wretched reader
being nose captured is held entranced by
the rapid succession of thrilling, narrative;
in a certain sense ensnared forever, and
drawn "toward the vortex of immensity"
as "the Lady in the wig" remarked to the
Hon. Elijah Program. And as n natural
consequence, our enterprising friend's sub
scription list remains the same as quoted on
a former occasion, to wit 211, 301 copies; till
high tariff, paper money and good times
piles it another shove ahead.
That valuable contributer Polly Potato-
Patch is still blazing in the columns of the
Blotter. Her last article is of so remarka
ble a type, and so brilliant, so characteristic
and so beautifully adapted to the wants of
her abused and "down-trodden" sex, that we
aro forced to copy it entire at the peril of a
prosecution for infringement of copyright.
'Mr Oetsrox ox TUE I:SE OF SALERATUS
AS A CFLINART AGENT—PT PORLT POTATO
PArctt.—Du I approve of salmratus in biscuit
and griddle-cakes? Yes, I do, most decidedly;
and not only in those edibles, but also in
pastry, loaf-bread, doughnuts, gingerbread,
bread-pudding, and pot-pie into the bargain,
or any where else that it will make cookies
rise, and reduce labor. Why Should it not
be used I would like to know? Because it's
' a drug? Well what of that? Is n't hops a
drtig; is n't salt (or salts) a drug; is n't cof
fee—especially when it 'a ground up with
chiceory—tt drug; is n't Camden and Atlan
tic Rail Road stock "a drug"—finally is n't
almost everything more or less a drug?
Certainly it is; and why shouldn't woman
avail herself of a drug to lighten her labors
and abate the infernal nuisance of house
work? Why, I should like to know?
"Not use salratus indeed! Humph!
she may use salt in the soup, or pepper in
the sausage; she may use sand on the floor
/ to help scrub, (gracious mmisaion!) abe
may use lye is tie; soap; and pray why
may a't she use lye in the bread if it does
the labor of two hours inside of ten
mjn
'ules? Just because it eaves" her labor and
toil and groat drops of sweat, like blood
drops from the galley-slave. Is that the
reason, hey? No? Because it riles man's
stomach? Blast him, let it rile, 'til it riles
him into the shape of a hoop. .Good for
biro; so it don't rile his outrageous temper,
and bring him down on the wife of his bo
som, like ten thousand brick on a young
fireman.
No; I say, let woman stand up fur her
rights and saleeratus. Why should she
knead and knead, and stand up to her arm
pits forever in need?' Why should she ham
mer the dough with a rolling-pin„ for a solid
hour, and wear her heart out of her fingers'
ends, when she can stir the whole thing up
with a long polo, as it were, and have it all
done in a jiffy by the aid of that benign
pearl of chemical science, salmratus?
"It's a great leveller, is it? it 'makes
everything taste so much alike—and rather
soapy?' Well so it ought to—nothing better
than soap to cleanse, inside or out. Man
kind needs purging, heaven knows. 'But
alkali as a dietetic is unwholesome.' how
do you know? Homcenpathy says so? Yes,
exactly, I knew it. Well homeopathy 's
foul; and it's just like it to lie about lye,
and let everybody lie flat on their backs all
their lives, under 'h - ealmenf,' or lie under
the influence of a miserable delusion, which
is still worse.
"If physic is good for a man, I wander if
the more you take the better you wont be?
If alkali will cure dyspepsia, how in name
of common sense can it produc dyspepsia?
What nonsense! Let the men stand back.—
Women! Sisters! Rise up, asserts your
rights. Do your house-work as quick as
ever you can with the aidof pot-ash or pearl
ash, or any other kind of ashes, e xcept
sackcloth and ashes. Press on t o your
legitimate duties—writing for papers, and
delivering:orations—. Fulfill your destiny,
govern the world.—Beeswax!
Well, if this weather dont take the starch
out of that stiff "critter" the Man-Tyrant.
Mistress Polly will- surely bring it out with
such hot showers as the above. Wonder
what P. gets for that kind of twaddle? Pretty
good pay probably; but she is writing on
reputation ; on excellent capital in the ab
sence of merit. Good-bye Polly! Prattle on;
fulfill your destiny. Where do you expect
to go when you die?
It is a part of the business of your cor
respondent "to keep you posted"—if you
can pardon the vile phrase—on all matters
of moment, which transpire in the Penn
metropolis; and to present such things of
importance as may have escaped your ed
itorial eye, in as strong a light as justice
shall suggest and circumstances permit. For
this reason, the following quotation from a
Sage of the city Tress, is offered for ypur
()WU edification and the patriotic instruction
of your readers.
The subject is, "The Whr Spirit."—The
matter, in part, is—" Well knowing that
the only purpose of the Administration and
its followers, in exaggerating the troubles,"
—with England on the subject of search—
"must be to escape the terrible odium of the
Kansas iniquity under cover of a foreign
war . . . . we deprecated the heedless de
sire manifested by statesmen of both parties
to plunge the country into a bloody and dis
astrous war. for the sake of partizan gain."
"If any section of the Union is likely
to gain by t, war it is the North." Speak
ing of the great stimulus the manufactur
ing interest here, would receive from a war,
the Sage continues: "This consideration
alone, if there were no other, would be
sufficient to excite the cupidity of the North
and lead it to favor a war." At this point
the venerable wag is suddenly converted in
to a "smart fellow" of the most extraordi
nary amount of cunning and foresight.—
He thinks there is another spur for the
northern war horse, and that is the probable
acquisition of the vast region of "free ter•
ritory"—meaning, Canada and all the other
British possessions on this continent; in other
words, that salubrious pleasant and highly
valuable expanse of territory which may
he termed the American Siberia; "and if
the Republicans look forward to this possi
bility with pleasure, it is quite excusable."
Such a motive as is here attributed, would
not occur to the unprejudiced reader of the
remarks made by Senators Hale and Wilson,
upon the gross and insolent outrages recent
ly perpetrated by British cruisers in the
Gulf of Mexico. And the unsophisticated
citizen would not think to trace backward
to some mean or sinister prompting. the re
ally manly remarks of the New Homy sbiro
Senntor—"to resist such acts by acts and
not by rtrgumet ts:" thus by no means urg
ing our Government into a war, for most
assuredly if war were to follow, the decla
ration must come from the other side of the
water.
We are not aware of any very absurd re
marks made in the Senate on the War topic
except tho fuming diatribes of the Senator
from Georgia, but then Mr. Toombs is given
to exaggeration and absurdity, and rarely
loses an opportunity to exhibit it. The mo
tives which governed the Opposition Sena
tors alluded to, are without doubt much less
mean and unmanly than the imagination
of the Editor in question.
It is hut fair, and an act of justice to our
"common humanity," to say, that the afore.
saie Editor was not horn on American soil,
and is naturally deficient in that love of
country and reverence for our country's flag
which is found in the heart of all true
Americans, in New England or out of it.—
However, if the venerable Editor has held
his own under the incubus of Mr. N. C. Carey's
twenty-odd letters on finance and "protec
tion," he will probably be able to weather
the storm of indignation which his conduct
in regard to British insolence has raised
against him, in this community. P/1.
Nan , Posr Orncr.:—A post office is estab
lished at Chigoes, (on the rout between Co
lumbia and Marietta,) Lancaster county,
and E. Haldeman appointed postmaster.
glay•Wby is a rejected councilman like a
bad key? Because be doesn't snit the ward.
PROCEEDINGS or Cousci L.—A special
meeting of the Town Council was held June
2, 1858.
Members present, Messrs. Fraley, Myer
Msaton, Pelan, Pusey, and Piahler.
In the absenceof the President Mr. Posey
was called to the chair, who stated the ob
ject of the meeting to be, to fix upon a day
for holding a Court of Appeal, wheropon,
on motion of Mr. Pfahler, Saturday, the
26th of June, ISA was fixed upon, to be
held at the Town Hall, from 2 to 5 o'clock,
P. M. On motion Council adjourned.
I:M.Ey request we publish the fullowin,
"Extract from the Eleventh Annual An
nouncement of the Homoeopathic Medical
College of Pennsylvania, Session of 185 -
-69:"
Ten annual courses of Lectures have al
ready been given in this Institution, and
more than eight hundred students have
matriculated and pursued their studies un
der the direction of the Professors since the
College went into operation; and more than
three hundred physicians now in practice
may be numbered among the graduates of
the Institution who doubtless will take plea
sure in referring to the same, as their Alma
Mater.
After ten years of labor, the Faculty of
the College take pleasure in announcing the
entire success of the experiment. The Col
-1
lege, organized upon its present basis, and
with no reference to local or partizan inter
ests, has prospered from year to year; and
although many discouragemente have pre
sented themselves as matters to be regretted
it is nevertheless confidently announced
that the nomteopathic Medical College of
Pennsylvania will continue to prosper. be
cause it has been reared for the good of
mankind. It is the first Institution in the
world that was expressly chartered for the
purpose of embracing in the ordinary curri
culum of medical studies, the science of
Ilomceopathy; and in accordance with the
principles of its character, the College pre
sents itself as a complete Institution, with
all the facilities for imparting instruction
1. In Practical and Surgical Anatomy.
2. In Physiology.
P. P. P."
3. In Materia Medea and Therapeutics.
4. In Ilumceopathic Institutes, Pathology
and Practice of Medicine.
5. I❑ Obstetrics and 2 , ledical Jurispru-
EIMIE
G. In Chemistry and Toxic°lorry,
7. In Operative and Medical Surgery.
The opportunity for acquiring thorough
knowledge in these branches is as great in
this Institution as in any in the country; so
that no physician of the Hommorathic
School need feel any hesitation in sending
his students here to he educated. It is not
true that Allopathic Colleges furnish great
er facilities for acquiring a greater practi
cal knowledge in the various departments
of the profession, than does the Homoeopath
ic Medical College of Pennsylvania; and as
proof of this the Faculty of the College refer
with pleasure and gratification to the Al
umni of the Institution, scattered over the
entire Union, who hare won laurels for
the Iluntccepathic profession. Many of them
at this time are enjoying enviable distinc
tions in society on account of their skill in
Surgery, Obstetrics, and in the art of heal
ing.. As gentlemen, we aro pursuaded, they
will compare favorably with the Alumni of
Allopathic institutions; as well educated
physicians in every department that per
tains to the profession, we are assured that
they will more than compare with the aver
age standing of Allopathic graduates, and
assuccessful practitioners we unhesitatingly
declare them, immeasurably in advance of
their competitiors.
Macaroni Making
It was towards the afternoon that we got
into Amalfi. A host of touters besieged
us in vain; and as Domenico, the driver of
the coach that brought us, usually gets a
fee from the padrone of the inn for every
guest ha brings, ho was eloquent in its
praise. An army of beggars surrounded
us, shouting for a "bottiglia; and, thus ac
companied, we arrived at the doors of the
Locanda dci Cappuenii, where the Don
Mattheo is something of a magnifico, and
seems to think it somewhat of a condescen
sion to play the Lost. The fare and treat
ment are very good.
I had a special of in view, which was
to describe the great branch of industry by
which Amalfi and the neighborhood subsist.
"Where will you take us, Luigi," said I
to my cicerone, "to see macaroni made?"
"Well, sir, Gambnrdclla is the largest
maker," was the reply.
Off we went to the great flour prince of
Amalfi. A stream of water rushing down
from the mountains in front •)f It great fac
tory marked the place we were in search of;
but, before entering, I stopped to purify my
shoes from the dirt acquired in the way.—
One rushed to get water, another straw, and
another a brush.
"I'll Ain this stranger:" said the first of
my eager assistants. "If I don't get half
a piastre out of him—may I be hanged!"
"You have made a mistake," I replied, in
Italian. The whole 'crowd laughed heartily.
The scene within the fabrica was comical
enough. A crowd of men and boys, half
blind with flour, and as white as culiflow
ere, sat on a lever, bumping up and down,
ann making it describe the are of a circle.
Grinding, sifting, mixing, kneading and
pressing were all going on in the same
place; the manufactured article being taken
to another place to dry. With pencil in
band and book en a sack, I began to take
notes.
"He is going to make a story about me,"
said one of the men who had mustered
around us.
"No, he is not," said others; "he is going
to set up a macaroni fabrics in England."
"Signor! will you take me with you?"
stud a sharp-looking, fair-complexioned
young man. "Fifteen hundred ducats only
will set it a going."
The poor fellow was really in earnest, I
believe, and was somewhat disappointed
when I assured him of his mistake.
The grain used for making macaroni is of
the rery hardest quality, is grown principally
Wu. F. LLOYD, Clerk
There arc various kinds of macaroni, or
pasta, rejoicing in different names, as ver
micelli; stellate, starred; acme, dippe ricel
fuitant, flowing rocks; semaza di melmei,
melon seed; occhi di pernici, partridge eye;
capelletti, little hats; stivallettion, small
boots, punti delago, needle-points. Thefirst
is that long sort which we English use as a
dolce or nu gratin. All the other are used
to thicken soup, like barley. First, let me
speak of the vermicelli. When kneaded,
the dough is put into a large copper cylin
drical vessel, hollow above and below; but
at the lower extremity is fixed a moveable
plate, perforated with holes. When held up
to the light, it looks like the section of a
honey-comb, being circular. On the top of
the cylinder is a block corresponding to its
size, and the whole is then exposed to the
action of a press. Screw goes the press,
and far below, from out of the holes of the
cylinder, a series of white worms protrude
their heads. Screw, again, and out they
come, longer and longer; until having ar
rived at the legitimate length, they are cut
off; and so the operation of screwing and
cutting is continued until the whole quantity
of dough is exhausted. The vermicelli is
then hung upon poles for drying, which re
quires usually about eight days under fa
vorable circumstances, a north wind being
always preferred, as a sirocco wind is pre
ferred fur the kneading. With regard to
the smaller kindsof paste, they arc madeby
a mixtureof machinery and hand-work. Thus
the cylinder being placed horizontally., a
man with a razor stands by the side; and, as
the dough protrudes through the boles, he
cuts it off immediately into small bits,—a
simple and primitive method enough. The
smallest kinds of all are made, however, by
hand, and principally at Id inori and Slajuri,
two small villages which we passed en route
for Amalfi. In fact, the whole coast lives
by making and eating macaroni; and one
probable tcason of this is, that lying, as the
whole of this district dues, under lofty moun
tains which are intersected by deep ravines
down which pour mighty torrents, there is
an unlimited supply of water power. I was
informed that in Amalfi alone, about eighty
thousand tomuli of flour are consumed an
nually for all purposes:a very small propor
tion for bread, fur your macaroni eater is
not a great brc•td cater. Altogether, there
are about twenty fabriebe of macaroni in
the city each fabrics employing in the sim
plemanufactureof theartieleabout 15 hands.
Then a much larger number of persons are
occupied in the washing, and preparation,
and carriage of grain; for every thing is
done by hand, and great numbers prepare
macaroni on a small scale without dignify
ing their more limited enterprises with the
title of fabrics. Gambardella is evidently
the great num of the place, for be imports
his own grain: has four brigantini, of two
hundred and fifty tons each, which bring up
grain from Manfredonia and Sicily; and,
what Gambardella does not consume, he sells
amongst his neighbor.
Let me now put on a paper cap and
waiter apron, and, before concluding this
article, give some experienced hints on the
cooking of macaroni. In England, it is
boiled to a pulp—error the first. First take
your water, as Mrs. Glass might say; let it
boil well, and then put in your macaroni.
The finger will soon ascertain whether the
macaroni is softening; and, before it loses
its consistency, you must take it up. Now
then for your sauces. You may mix with
it either a good tomato sauce, or a rich
meat gravy, and a plate of grated cheese
must be placed on the table; out of which
you must perforce sprinkle your macaroni.
There are many other more complicated and
luxurious ways of dressing the article,
which are beyond the reach of my science.
With the smaller kinds you will enrich your
soups, and some of them you may convert
into really a delicious dish, called Priest
Stranglers, so fond are the reverend gentle
men said to be of it.
When we had finished our surrey, we
found the horses at the door, and so was
Domenico. D. Mattheo, from a window at
the primo piano, was tasking dicers elegant
and condescending bows to us. We rushed
through a host of beggars, who beset the
path, and away we dashed through Atrani,
Majuri, and all the other places which were
traversed the day before. There was not a
cloudlet in the heavens, and the heat was
all too powerful; yet it was the middle of
November. What a climate! what a coun
try! and yet what a government!—Souse
hold Words.
in Puplin, and is known as &ragala. It is
washed in the mountain stream which flows
down from behind the city, and woe to the
wearied traveler who is awakened at the
dawn of day by the numerous grain wash
ers. The operation is cleverly and rapidly
done, and amusing enough it is to watch it.
When ground—which is by the action of
water mills—the firma is sifted into five dif
ferent qualities. The first is called Farina,
which ; being sifted, is divided into Fiore
and Brenna. The fibre is used fur making
the ordinary macaroni, while the brenna
is used fur horses and pigs. The fiore is
itself again sifted until a yet finer quality,
called azemmatura, is formed. This is used
to make a superior kind of macaroni. A
last sifting produces semolina, the finest
kind which can be formed.
The flour is well mixed in a large tub, in
the proportion of twenty-four caraffa (a
caraffa being about a pint and a half,) to a
hundred and fifty Neapolitan pounds of
flour. The quantity thus used, goes by the
name of Pasta, and is put on a large knead
ing board. At the further end of the board
a long lever moves horizontally by a swivel;
and, on the other extremity of it, sit three
or four half naked girdled men, who, for
three quarters of an hour, move backward
and forward on a kind of horizontal sec-saw
describing diminutive arcs of circles. In
this way the lever is brought to hear upon
the dough, kneading and cutting it till it is
ready flit pressing. The men remind one of
figures in Egyptian drawings; stiff and un
natural. "f is hard work, however, and there
is always a relief party to take the place of
the exhausted men. The last operation is
most important, as it gives its character and
form to the macaroni.
TnE SUETZIFF . B Srosy.—ln the summer of
185—,while traveling on business in the
wilderness of Northern Maine, we stopped
one afternoon in the little village of P—,
which nestles cosily in the shade of Saddle
back mountain. After supper, while enjoy
ing our cigar upon the "porch," we noticed
a peculiar looking scar upon the landlord's
cheek. Thinking "thereby hangs a tale,"
we asked him to inform us the cause of so
unusual a mark. He professed himself per
fectly willing to relate the story, and, draw
ing a chair close to our side, commenced:
In my younger days I was sheriff in the
county in which 1 then resided. In the
spring of 1839 a murder was committed in
a neighboring town, under circumstances of
unusual atrocity. The deed was done by a
Frenchman, whose rfame was Liste. He,
with his wife, lived in a log cabin in the
woods, some ten miles from where the deed
was committed, anti had long been suspec
ted as being a thief and secreter of stolen
goods. I:was sent to secure him, and you
may be sure I did not relish the job much,
but go I must. As I had ten miles to ride,
I started early, and arrived at the cabin at
about noon. Tying my horse to a tree, I
went up to the door and knocked; after con
siderable delay in: unfastening more than
was necessary, the door was opened by his
wife, who demanded, in no very' pleasant
tone, what I wanted.
"Is your husband at home?" I asked
"No, he has gone to the village, and will
not be back till night," she answered.
"Then I will wait till ho comes home."
said I, and, without giving her time to re
ply, stepped into the room.
One glance around convinced me that the
murderer was at home. A rifle stood in the
corner of the room, which ho had been
cleaning, as I drove up, for the water was
even dripping from the tube. I said noth
ing, however, but sat down, and began to
take a survey of the room. He could not
have left while I stood at tho door, without
my seeing him; so that ho must either have
left before I came, or else, which I consid
ered more likely, was concealed about the
cabin. My eye fell upon a rag mat, lying
on the floor, and taking that up, the mys
tery was was explained. A trap door was
underneath which probably led to the hole,
or cellar in which he was concealed. I lift
ted the door up, and was looking for some
means of descending, when a push from the
"glide wife" sent me down without the use
of a ladder, and the door was suddenly shut.
I tell you, sir, I was in no enviable posi
tion, in a dark cellar with a murderer—for
he was there, ns I very soon after found out.
Thinking I heard him move, I took a step
in the direction of the sound. In an instant
there was a flash, a loud report, and I felt a
burning pain in my cheek. I saw him by
the flash of the pistol, crouched in the furth
er corner of the cellar. My blood was up,
and I made a spring and closed with him.—
We had a sharp tnssle, for a few moments,
but at length I manged to get the bracelets
on his wrists, and then it was all over.—
Meanwhile his wife was above, standing on
the door, and asking every now and then.—
"Have you fixed him, Jem?"
Putting my hand upon the man's mouth,
and imitating his voice, as near as I could,
I told her I had, and ordered her to lead the
sheriff's horse into the shed. My ruse suc ,
ceeded• perfectly, and, as she left the room
I ordered him up the ladder, and by using
the argument of a pistol persuaded him to
go. Once up, the rest was cosy. Ills wife
was some astonished when she came in, but
seeing I was well armed, made no resistance.
The man was sullen and refused to speak,.
but I did not care for that. I put him on.
the horse, and led the horse two miles through
the woods, to the nearest neighbors." Se_
curing the assistance of one of the "men
folk," I had him securely lodged in the jail
that night, and he is now in the State Prison
serving his sentence, imprisoment for life.—
But that was the hardest fight I ever had,
and I shall carry a mark of it to my grave•
Sc ends the sheriff's story.
PONTIUS PILATE NOT DEAD YET.-WhED
Mrs 8., the actress, was making a summer
excursion in the country, she was accom
panied by her husband, and a party of his
and her friends. One of these was a Mr.
—, formerly a pilot on the Boston station,
who had laughed and grown fat so long that
he had become, like Wolsey, "a man of un
bounded stomach." Some one asked, "Who.
is this large man in Mrs. —'s suite?"
"That," said his informant, "is Mr.—;
he is apilot." "Exactly," was the response,
"I should think he was—pauncheous Pi
late!"
DREADFUL WASTE OF MATERIAL.-If the
Chippewas who got up that battle at Shakopee
had but sent an advertisementto afew lead
ing papers, what a house it would have
drawn. They might have madea handsome
fortune by selling whiskey on the ground.—
Where was Barnum and Ullman? How lit
tle du savages know:of the improvements of
modern civilization.
WIIT A MAN RAY MARRY A DECEASED
Wires SISTER.—One argument in the Brit
ish Parliamentin favor of letting men marry
their deceased wive's sisters was, that by
doing so a man had only one mother-in-law
instead of two.
SSA vocalist says ho could sing "way
down on the old Tar ßiver," if he could only
get the pitch.
101-Spriggles says that, although there is
no such thing as muzzling the press in this
country, there is plenty of book muslin.
SfirlYby is any attitude of a printer's
devil a bit of swindling?
Because it is an imp-posture.
liteL.Why can't the captain of a vessel
keep a memorandum of the weight of his
anchor, instead of weighing it every time
he leaves port?
may-Tho Oxygenated Bitters are doing
wonders in the cure of Dyspepsia, Debility,
Jaundice aad Licer diseases. Of the thous
and and one preparations offered for the
care of these diseases, this alone appears to
perform all it•promiees,