The `.`Autocrat' - ' on -Trp.s. —My Friends, I shall epetik of trnAs as ,we see them, love them, adore them hit _the #ehls, where they are alive, holding their green sun-shades over our hes i de talking with their hundred thousand whispering tongues, looking flown upon us with that ; , .veet meckness which belongs to huge, but org,imisms,—whieh one sees in the brown eyes of oxen, 'but most in the patient posture, the outMretehed arms, and the heavy-drooping robes of these vast beings endowed with life, but not with soul,—which outgrow us and outlive us, but stand help less,—lmor thing,:—while Nature dresses and n ndresses theM, like so many 1:01-aired, butt underwitted There is a mother.idea in each particular kind of tree, a hieh, if well marked, is probably enibulie l l in the . poetry of every language.. Take the oak, fir instance, and" tae always find it as a type, of strength and edurance. I wonder if You ever thought of the single mark of supremacy, which dis tueruishe-t this tree from all other forest at-v..? • All tile re lof thou shirk the work resistinggravit.t: the oak a:une d,cties it. It clauses the horizontal position fur itt their whole weight may tell, —and then stretches them out fifty or sixty feet, so that the strain may he mighty enough to be worth resisting. You will find, that, in passing from the extreme downward tl,...sip of the branches of the weeping-willow to the extreme upward in clination of those of the poplar, they sweep nearly half a circle. .1t 90' the oak stops short; to slant, upward apother degree would !nark intirinity of purpose; to bend down wards weakness of organization. The American elm betrays something of both; yet sometimes, as we shall see, puts on a :certain resleinbance to its sturdier neighbor. It wont do to be exclusive in our taste nista trees. There is hardly one of Ahem %%hie!' has not peculiar bsmuties in some fit ting place fur it. I remember a tall poplar of monumental proportions and aspect, a vast pilly.r of glossy green, placed on the sumniit, of a lofty hill, and a beacon to all the country round. A native of that region saw fit to ltuild his house very near it, arid, having a fancy that it might blow down some time or other, and exterminate himself wad any incidental relatives who might be ''ittspping" or t;irrying" with laboring under the delusion that human life is under all circumstances to be pre ferred to vegetable existence,—had the great poplar cut down. It is sy easy to say, "It is only a poplar!" ...and so much harder to replace its living cone tbl'n to build a granite oblik. I shall kever forget my ride and my in ,truduetion tu the great Johnston elm. I always tremble for a celebrated tree hen I approach it fur the first time. Pro vincialism has no scale of excellence in man or vegetable; it raver knuiva a first:rate ar ,tiele of either kind when it has it, and is eunstantly taking second and third rate ones fur Nature's best. I have often fancied the tree was afraid of rue, and that a sort of shiver Caine over it as over a. betrothed maiden when she first stands before the un known to whom she has been plighted.— Before the measuring-tape the proudest tree of them all quails and shrinks into itself.— thi,e stories of four or five men stre,tch ing their arms around it and not touching each other's fingers, of one's pacing the shadow at noon and making it so many hundred feet, die upon its leafy lips in the presence of the awful ribbon ,which has strangled so many false Pretences. As I rode a limg my plcasatd way, watch ing eagerly for the object of my journey, the rounded tops of the elms rose from time to time at the road-side. Wherever one rooked taller and fuller than the rest, I asked myself,-- - Is this it:" But as I drew nearer, they grew smaller,—or it proved, perhaps, that t.c standing in a line had looked like one, and so deceived me. At last. all at once, when I was zut 4:inking of it,—l declare to you it makes my flesh creep when I think of it now.—alli4 once I saw a great, green cloud swelling in the horizon, so vast, so minetrical, of such Olympian majesty and imperial supremacy among the .iesser forest-growths, mat icy heart stopped short, then jumped at my rib as a hunter springs at a five-barred gate, and I felt all ihrough me. without need of uttering the Svords,—"This is it:" tlo out with me into that walk which we call the Mill, and look at the English and American 1:11ns. The American elm is tall. graceful, slender-sprayed, nod drooping us if from languor. The English elm is apact, ro'atit, h )Ids its branches up, and carries its Daces fur necks longer than our own natiNc tl%e. Is this typical of creative force on the two side-i of the ocean, or not? Nothing but a careful comparison through the whole 7ttulea of life can ansxer this question. A :VAG,: tt•tistors licsnAtin.—Not long since, a widow, one of those whom we are in the habit of calling well preserved, by the name of Madame yielding to the ardent solicitations of one of the young literary men of Paris, married hini. On returning frdn the church and the mayor's office. the lady took her husband aside; and itna said, "Pardon me, my dear, fur I have deceived you:" "In what?" said the young man rl• le!ter•=, n2.uelt troubled. "I told you ,that I had two hundred !honsand francs, nnd " Well, and you have not!' Never mind: it's all the same to me." "No, that is not it exactly; I have two millions!" The husband forgave her. A LlAnn NUT FOl7. PEENTICE.—From !lie Fubjoined jcu d' esprit it may be inferred that the Boston Post is not very friendly to the ecliter of thp Louisville Journal: Premien hes tried how aptly nod well he C ou ld m ti!n tn• jokes oni poor Monsieur Belly! flit on older French gentleman mernufhe more fa end einternl hurt of l'renUce's —ger Ohl Ilu•a, those u?n,p; there'■ no curb /11a.n't for rent., b.•eu a butt 0 OM Sour Ctlr COLT:II S 4I3L.N. 'A.. SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1358 A PIIA:sa.:E.-111r..qovrard D. Little has purchased SumMcfril's Daguerrean GalOry, and has just ree9ind a 864 of new mate rial with which heis prepared to turn out drat class pictures of every description.— Give him a call. THE MILITARY FEYER.—Under the opera tion of the late State law, giving a bonus to the citizen soldier who shall appear in pub lic, duly equipped in the regulation uniform, brigand beaver and all, we are likely to be come a warlike nation. We read of Volun teer Companies being formed in all direc tions, and although the Williamsport En campment, (which, we are told, is to cost the State a nice little sum) as is predicted, may prove a failure, yet, if all the raw mate rial which now proposes to assume the pomp. &e., of glorious war can be worked into shape, the Governor will be at no loss next season fur an army. Our minty, of late years lamentably slow in martial spirit, under the spur of $1,50 per diem comes bravely forwdrd. Companies have been (brined in Maytown, Mount Joy, and else where, and we are told of a very formidable hotly of brave men bearing down on a tailor in Lancaster, demanding to be measured by word of command. Where is Columbia, that the fever has not attacked her? Where are the Pah Utah Guards? Bigamy Young's pitiful submission seems to have taken the tight out of them completely. We will hear no imputation of want of pul lie spirit on the part of our boys; our town contains as sol dier-like a population as is anywhere to be found, but unfortunately in all ell; its here tofore to consolidate the loose vim which so abounds, the natural desire of obtaining a commission and a handle to the name has possessed each individual volunteer, and it has been found impossible to reconcile con flicting claims. There is a strong feeling at present existing in favor of a military or ganization, and we hope it may eventuate in the 11mnation of an infantry corps which shall be a credit to the town, There is stuff enough for a good company, if it can be got into pliable shape. If we were still young we would gladly take part. Who will move? TILE OUTSIDF:WOULD:C.mcan the tri fling segment outside Columbia. It is not often that we have to go abroad for excite ment, but we arc this week diven by stress of weather and an unusual reign of order amongst the pugnacious and litigious of our community to an unwonted quest of matter for an editorial. In New York the "De rivicre case" still obstinately, and in face of thorough pub lic disgust, refuses to be settled, Blount Mere and Blount Pere splitting on the financial rock. The Colonel resolutely de clines furnishing the "rocks" indispensable to the liquidation of Madiune's little debts, and his spouse is equally inflexi ble in her determiuination not to be rocked iu the cradle of the deep until her liabili ties are discharged. Missy has meantime wisely taken refuge on the paternal waist coat, while her "luckless, loveless lover" may be "on the sea, .and half-seas-over," for all that appears to the contrary. The "case" has been a fertile one for the press, but, with our usual liberality, we have not claimed our share. In Philadelphia the "Kirkpatrick Poison ing Case" forms the prominent feature, and has grown to be a bore of stupendous pro portions. The disinterested reader of the city dailies is tempted to exclaim "Why did'nt Kirk eat the pie and say no more about it?" On Monday night the City of Brotherly Love was favored with a fight in which one mulatto, barber hacked another to death with a razor. The matter excites little interest in the police; the murderer is still at large. In Baltimore there has been no rioting lately, therefore nothing of interest to re cord. lYashington is empty, comparatively, so is the Treasury, positively. The letter wri ters say that Mr. Buchanan can't go to Bedford for avant of funds, but we don't hay h ‘ elieve it. Cuba is not yet positively acquired. The South is tranquil, notwithstanding Fillibuster Walker's anathema's against the Administration. Mr. Yancey has de finitely made up ids mind to dissolve the Union, but has not set a day. In the West the waters nud the excite ment hare subsided together. In Illinois the place of the former is liberally supplied by wind—opposition candidates fur office are stumping the state. In the Far West the gold of Frazer's River has set the world mad. The discov ery of the precious metal in that distant region is likely to drain Calitmnia of the ruffianly population with which it has been cursed; at least that portion of it which can find means to get any. Lot us hope that there will be enough good citizens left to hang the rogues who remain. To come nearer home: Lancaster has re joiced in the Commencement exercises of Franklin and Marshall College. Addresses were delireled by the pupils, each of which, according to the Dailies, was better than all the others. The Howard Association still lives. In York the political wrangle has com menced and the town and county is conse quently uninteresting to any beyond tts borders. In Reading the papers are wrangling over the remains of J. Clancy Jones, the man who dined with the President. At Safe Harbor the Roiling is about being or has just been started—good news for the heals. Tllackberries are ripe in IWrightevillel We have sent the Devil to Marietta to in quire the pews there: from the length of his stay we fear be may have fdlen into bad company. A Scrowaa.—There has at last been a let up in the prolonged "dry." On Friday af ternoon came a sudden, unexpected. blessed shower which only lacked quantity—the quality was A. No 1. From its rarity it deserves a notice. DULL. DRY A:CD DLSTT.—Wbat shall are say to save our credit with our exacting rea ders this slow,soAemn, horrid, torrid day 7— There is nothing stirring in our sanctum, not even a "breath of air," and except the regular noisy steaming through of the trains of the Penna. R. p. nothing stirs in the street.—Stop! Yes; there is our active Su pervisor with his gang, stirring the bowels of the Walnut street sewer which are sadly out of order. He piles the street with bul ky cobble stones, and huge flags, and chink-filling gravel, and then right down through two feet of macadamization he delves to the covering -stones of the drain, These are slowly hoisted into the street, and there is laid bare the sore-place which needs healing. A filthy, oozy, choked up puuddle it is, evolving a stench that might breed disorder which nut even Mr. Supervi sor Evans could stay. But the crumbling side-walls are torn out and re-built, the cob ble paving is retold with dull thuds of the rammer, and graveled, the flag covering let solemnly down, as the lid of a coffin, the various strata which compose the Front street formation shoveled into the gaping cavity, and the patient is convalescent. The refuse of Walnut street now enjoys uniuter rurted and peaceful flow to the water-house: the fate awaiting it there we all know. But that little spirt of intense excitement does not outlast the day: it is over. What next?—ln vain we crane out of the win dow in search of a trifle of life, or send our Devil to the battlements to look abroad for that cloud of dust betokening a delin quent subscriber making fast time to our relief, or a dog fight up Front street!- 1 Here comes something at last! A fast horse, a trotting wagon, with—and—inside! I They come with modified-lightning speed: they make a short turn at the corner to avoid the debris of the culvert job--lurch goes the wagon,—-nap goee the wheel, and an excited crowd, the existence of which five minutes since was undreamed of, gathers round to sympathise (?) with the sufferers and speculate on the accident and its causes with corner gravity and profundi ty. But it is too warm for even this inter esting investigation; the vehicle is wheeled to the National, the busy crowd dissolves, and peace and quiet again settle severely and determinedly down. Half an hour gone and not a show for a paragraph.—Ha! we thought so! There comes—wiping his lips; lie's just done a sensible thing, and One becoming the weather! And now the ice is broken there go—and—, arm in arm. They catch our eye and cut a hyeroglyphic in the air which successfully represents a pretzel.— We look at our hat, and half-rise from the editorial uneasy-chair; our good angel nudges us to go, and—here the Devil malig nantly shouts "copy!" and his evil counsels prevail—we despairingly shake our head, subsiding with a heart-broken sigh. Our friends look commiseratingly and pass on to Andy's, "tswi lager," and blessed solace: we sneak to the water-cooler, and, after a short mental calculation as to whether it is river-water or spring-water day at the reser voir, and a private apology to ourself for the act, worry down a measure of the un accustomed beverage. Again we look out the window entreating ly. The calm is more utter than before— not a ripple of life on the street.—Ali! there come two Tow Milers! . They meet! They accost each other in approved llill style, with excessive politeness and much salaam ing! Their conversation grows earnest! They gesticulate! They plunge their respective hands into their respective trowsers pockets— for weapons!! Surely they will fight: Huzza!!! —Nu! confusion! they have clubbed their available resources and find them equal to two drinks. We are in despair. Derrick! Hollings worth! Welsh! Will nobody come to our relief with even a dog fight? EXAMINATION AND APPOINTMENT OF TEWII- E11.5.—0n Wednesday last the applicants fur situations as teachers in the public schools of the borough were examined by the County Superintendent, Rev. Mr. Crumbaugh, and the following appointmelits made by the Board of Directors: Male Teackers.—J. H. Jacobs, W. II Gray, G. M. Clawges, James Allen, A. J Hughes. Fonalc Teackers.—Miss Grace C. Clark son, Miss Ann E. Lemon, Miss S. J. Halde man, Miss Mary E. Greene, Miss F. A. Jone., Miss Rebecca C. Fisher. We are requested to call attention to the advertisement for a teacher for the colored school in to-day's paper. Tharr.a.—Harper fur August contains a number of illustrated articles, the chief of which is, Whiter in the South," by Strother. Vagabondizing in Belgium is a readable sketch, and there is much pleasant matter throughout the volume. The edito rial department is interesting and amusing as usual. BLACKWOOD ' S MAGAZINE.—From Leonard Scott S: Co., New York, we have received Blackwood fur July, containing The Soldier and the Surgeon; The Poorbeah Mutiny— No. V.; What will he do with it?—Part XIV.; The First Bengal European Fumileers of Lucknow; A Plea for the Principalities; My First rind Last Novel; The Great Im- posture; Mr. Dusky's Opinions on Art. AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST.—This admira- Lie Agricultural Monthly has been received, and we can commend it as filled with mat ter of first-rate merit. It is the beat period ical of the kind now'printed. President Buchanan left Washington on Thursday, morning en route fur Bed ford Springs via Cumberland. The Pres ident is accompanied by his niece, Miss Lane, lfiss Bright, and Sir Gore Ouseley and family. At the Relay House n special car was provided for the party by the Rail road Company. They reached Cumber land in good season, and after a brief stop at the Revere House, left in carriages for the Springs. Items of News Before dey, opMoriday morning, t shock ing murder was perpetrated at a huilding.in Lombard street, abOve Seventh, Philviclphia, called the Philedelphia Institute. 4. quar rel had occurred in a restaurant, and the parties went into the yard and stripped to fight it out. One - Of thecombatants, named Peter Miller, a barber, struck thefirst blow, and cut his antagonist, Jerry Dickson, over the eye, whereupon Dickson ran into a bar ber shop and got a razor, returning with Well he attacked mid butzbered Miller in a horrible manner. He then escaped. Both parties wore colored men. By an arrival at New Orleans we have later news from Mexico. Zuloaga is said to have abandoned the cnrital. San Luis Potosi had been captured by the constitu tionalists under Vidaurri. The liberals were about to unite against Zuloaga. The U. S. Navy Department has decided against the request of the Collins line of steamships, that Portland be made the west ern terminus. The election in Kansas, todeteruaineupon the adoption or rejection of the Lecompton constitution, will take place next Monday. The Railroad convention in session at Cleveland, has decided on making the through passenger rates from all points the game as by the N. York and Erie roads.— Freights are to be $1 per ton more than the rate on the New York Sand Erie. The wes tern roads were not fully represented in the convention. The new rates took effect on 3londay last. Dispatches from Salt Lake reached the department last week. Strict orders have been issued to the army forbidding any one to leave the ranks while passing through the city. The peace and pardon proclama tion of Gov. Cumming accompanies the dis patches, An officer of the army. writing from Washington territory, relative to Col. Steptoe's defeat, announces that the east ward and northward routes from Colville are blockaded, while the force now on the spot must be increased tenfold before peace can be accomplished. By way of Leavenworth, Mo., we have late and important news from the Salt Lake, and the intermediate points. beneral Harney having been overtaken by the express mes senger, has issued an order, making a fresh disposition of forces. Col. Monroe would remain in the Platte district with two com panies of dragoons, Col. May at Fort Kearney with three companies of artillery, and one of dragoons, and Major Sedgwick. at Fort Riley with two companies of cavalry, while six companies of Col. Sumner's command would concentrate at Fort Kearney fur ser vice on the plains, and two companies of the same regiment, now in Utah, would go to Fort Riley. The Mormons had all re turned to their homes in different part of Utah, and Gen. Johnston's army passed through the city of the Salt Lake, and en camped thirty miles distanton the otherside, no troops remaining in the town. The gov ernment officers had been duly installed in their various offices, and were preparing fur duty. Brigham Y ,ung wants to be tried for treason, but insists that the jury shall be Mormons only. A fleet of six. or seven vessels will be sent against Paraguay. President Buchanan has appointed John Nugent, editor of the San Francisco Herald, an agent to prevent collisions between our citizens in the Frazer river gold region and the British authorities. John B. Seroggins, alleged to be thelcader of a notorious band of horse thieves and robbers in southern Kansas, has been ar rested in Leavenworth city. He is charged with several murders. We have later news from California, &c., by the arrival at New York of the steamship Moses Taylor. The Frazer river gold ex citement continues unabated. The reports from there hate become fabulous in their character. One letter writer, vouched for in the San Francisco papers as reliable, says that hii first day's work was seven hundred dollars. Victoria was crowded with Americans, who had run up the price of building lots to $20,000. The Hudson Bay Company are buying gold at Sl5 per ounce. The Indians had commenced mo lesting the emigrants on their road to the mines. A party of ton miners, encamped near Sehome, were attacked, and six kil led. Twenty-two canoes, filled with Indian warriors, were passed going into Victoria, and two hundred more were on their way and daily expected. It is feared that the mining region will bo overrun by these war riors, and an indiscriminate massacre fol low. Fourteen steam and sailing vessels had left San Francisco during the fortnight ' for Frazer river. The California Supreme Court has decided the Sunday law to be un constitutional, and all prosecutions on that law have been abandoned. A hundred houses in the Chinese district, in Oreville, have been burned; loss SBO,OOO. Several build ings were burned at Stockton,July4th,includ ing the Massaclon.ei ts House and Bowen & Brothers. The Upper Columbia Oregon Indians were collecting in large numbers. The Oregon State election has resulted in the choice of the whole Democratic ticket. The commander of the Pacific Military Dis trict was hurrying forward all the troops attis command, but their numbers as well as their equipments wore wretchedly inade quate. IMBE2 The arrival of the America at New York, places us in possession of three days later tidings from Europe. The news, though interesting, is not important, The House of Commons had passed the India bill. Lord Malmesbury announced that orders had been issued for the with drawal of British cruisers from the coast of Cuba. The blockade of the African coast is to be continued. There is no additional information in regard to the Atlantic Tele graph cable, Its the Agamemnon has not re turned to Queenstown, The Niagara had taken in coal and was ready for sea again. The Directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company will determine upon future plans on the arrival of the Agamemnon. Her report of the accident is considercAl impor taut before taking further action. It was generali t y b,elleved, but not 3-et officially an nounced, that Qtmen 'Victoria would visit the Emperor of France nt Cherbourg, ifshe did not attend the naval demonstration.— The Paris Conferences were drawing to a close. The Bank of France had increased in specie daz - Z tg the month to the amount of eighteen millions of francs. It was again stated that the Spanish government was organizing an expedition of ten thousand men against Mexico. The India bill passed the House of Commons without a division. The House of Lords passed the Jew bill through committee. The bill regulating the government of - New Caledonia, passed second reading in the House of Commons. It was generall3-supposed that the Agamem non returned to the rendezvous in mid-ocean again, to prepare fur a fourth attempt. INMEI Later news from Europe is at hand by the arrival, at Quebec, on Saturday afternoon, of the steamship Indian, from Liverpool the 14th inst. The Agamemnon and Valor ous returned to Queenstown on the 12th.— The final break in the Atlantic cable was just below the stern of the Agamemnon, af ter one hundred and forty-six miles had been paid out of that vessel. The Agamem non than returned to the rendezvous in mid ocean, and cruised there fur five days, in anticipation of meeting the Niagara. On her arrival at Queenstown, it was resolved to coal, and start for the final attempt on Saturday, the 17th, there being still twenty live hundred miles of cable on board both] ships. In Parliament there had been an important debate on the question of the slave trade, during which the government stated that the difficulties with America had been swept away, and .that Secretary Cass had assured Lord Napier that the American government would give an earnest considera tionito any proposals suggested to them for the verification of the nationality of vessels. It is officially • announced that the grand naval review at Cherbourg will take place on the fourth of August. There had been a terrible massacre of Christians at Jeddah by the Mohammedans. Twenty persons were murdered, including amongtheir num her both the English and French Consuls.— Three British men-of-warhave been ordered there. There is later news from both India and Chinn, but the advices contain no pec uliarly important features. Useful Kansas Knowledge. The antediluvians who live in Virginia retain many old and obsolete laws, and among them one for the imprisoment of any such persons as get unfortunately in debt. It is said that a particularly lean kight of the quill, living in one of thesouthern coun ties, was arrested a short time ago by a physician, to whom he owed a balance on account. The jail is rather a primitive affair, not very well "el/inked," and im mediately adjoining the sleeping apartment of the jailor and his wife. The guilty man naturally asked permission to carry in his papers, scissors and pen, that he might pre pare some "copy" forafuture day. Among the documents he fortunately took with him a long speech on the Kansas question. About 7 o'clock in the evening Ile placed himself in the attitude of a Senator,repeat ed in a loud and husky voice, and with great deliberation, the entire document. The jailer and his family, who had never been used to such exhibition, were ln,rrified and kept awake all night. Theeditor slept a portion of the next (lay to recruit his ex hausted strength and lungs, and in the even ing began to deliver to the naked walls the same "summing-up" which he had pro nounced twenty-four hours before. Ire had uttered but a few paragraphs when the jail or appeared and politely requested him to lower his voice. In answer, he assured the guardian of the public morals that he ex pected to go to Congress in a few years, and NV:IS in the habit of reading one of these ef forts every evening to his family "to keep himself in practice." "And do you mean to read the speech every night in my hearing?" "I do, sir!" "How much do you owe that Doctor?" "Thirteen dollars, sir:" (with Congres sional emphasis.) "Will you refrain from keeping my family awake until I can make out the papers ne ees,nry for your discharge?" "I will, sir!" In a short time the jailor returned, and assuring him he had paid the debt, request ed him to give his note, payable in six months, and then, as an especial favor to depart from the premises. The editor went on his way rejoicing, and the jailor will, no doubt, at the end of six months, renew the note. rather than accept the alternative of harboring a Kansas man on his property.— Cincinnati Enquirer. A TURIYING TRADE.—A correspondent of the Dayton Journal, who has been traveling out in the Wabash regions of lloosierdo►n, discovered one peculiarity in every town he tarried in: "Speaking of 'grass' reminds me of the fact that Indiana (and particularly the Wa bash) is literally swarming with 'grass widows.' Every hotel or tavezn has, or has had, one of these bewitching vixens domi ciled with them for ten days, which makes them citizens and residents of the State of Indiana, and with a little bard swearing, natives too. At the expiration of ten days a suit is commenced against some vile hus band, and, as a matter of course, a divorce is granted, if for no other cause than in compatibility of temper.' Here arc congre gated from all the States in the Union (ex cept Illinois which is a competitior for this profitable lawyer trade) all the disconsolate grass widows. A case I heard of in Peru, where the wife of a millionaire came from Brazil, remained here ten days, got her di vorce with some 5100.000 of alimony, and would have got more: but oid Crtestis had no more in the United States that was come atablo." We are nfraid some of the other Western States Will open opposition shop, if the business continues as profitable as is repre sented Above. Money is scarce in the West —lawyers lack business, and as they have the making of the laws generally, we may expect neer divorce bills. • MAKING A NEEDLE.—Let us take a peep into the needle factory:—ln going over the premises, we must pass hither and thither, and walk into the street and back again, and drive to a mill, in order to see the whole process : We find one chamber of the shop is hung around with coils of bright wire, of all thicknesses, from the stout kinds used for codfish hooks to that of the finest kind of cambric needles. In a room below, bits of wire the length of two needles are cut by a vast pair of shears fixed in tho wall. A bundle has been cut off; the bits need straightening for they have just come off the coils. The bundle is thrown into a red hot fur nace, and then taken out and rolled back ward and forword on a table until the wires are straight. This process is called "rub bing straight." We now see a mill grind ing needles. We go down into the base ment and found a needle pointer seated on his beach. lie takes up two dozen or so of the wires, and rolls them between his thumb and fingers, with their ends on the grind stone, first one end and then the other. We have now the wires straight and pointed at both ends. Next is a machine which flat tens and gutters the heads of 10,000 needles an hour. Observe the little gutters at the head of your needle. Next comes the punching, of eyes; and the boy who does it punches 8,000 an hour, and he does it so fast your eyes can hardly keep pace with him. The splitting follows, which is run ning a fine wire through a dozen perhaps, of these twin needles. A woman with a little anvil before her, files between the heads and seperates them. They are now complete needles, but rough and rusty, and what is worse they easily bend. A poor needle, you will say. But the hardening comes next. They are heat ed in a furnace, and when red hot, are thrown into a pan of cold water. Next they must be temperd, and this is done by rolling them backward and forward on a hot metal plate. The polishing still remains to be done. On a very coarse cloth needles are spread to the number of fifty thousand. Emery dust is strewed over them, oil is sprinkled, and soft soap dashed by spoon fulls over the cloth; the cloth is then rolled up, and with several others of the same kind, thrown into a wash-pot to roll to and fro for twelve hours or more. They come out dirty enough; but after a rinsing in clean hot water, and tossing in saw-dust they look as bright as can be, and are ready to be sorted and put up for sale. But the sort ing and doing up in papers, you may im agine is quite a work by itself. Tnt STL - B-TOED BooTs.—A certain party, whose names it is unnecessary to mention, were camped out West near the Des Moines improvement. They .had a large tent fitted up very comfortably, and the Hoosiers about there were in the habit of frequently drop ping in and making themselves perfectly at home. One afternoon, one of the party, C., was sitting straddle of a trunk, with a glass before him, shaving, and a pair of stub toed boots sitting on the trunk before him—not such stubs as the fancy used to wear, but different in every way. You may form some idea of their shape by the doctor saying that "the shoemaker who made them was too poor to buy a last, and therefore must have made them over hislap-stone." C. had not been engaged over five minutes when in comes one of the Hoosiers, very leisurely taking a seat and commenced taking a good survey. After endeavoring to draw out one or two of the party, and finding it "no go," his gaze at length rested on our friend C.'s shoes. Thinking he had a good subject fur discoursing on, he said: "I say, stranger, how did the toes of them 'ar (pointing to his shoes) ever git drawed up so?" C. got up and looked at him a minute, and then, in a rather unpleasant tone of voice, said: "Sir, I drove the toes of those shoes, as you see, by kicking men out of this tent fur asking impudent questions." The fellow did not stay a great while after that, hut moved out with hisfaceto C., with his eyes fixed firmly on the stub-toed boots. Douglas Jerrold's wit and Humor WOMEN AND WARRIORS.-With women as with wrarlors, there's no robbery—all'scon- quest. TREASON.—Treason is like diamonds there's nothing to be made of it by the smal trader. Toe SWEETEST PLUM.—In all the wedding cake, hope is the sweetest of the plums. A BROKE.): CIIARACTER.—The character that needs law to mend it is hardly worth the tinkering. A LAND OF PLENTY.—Earth is here so kind, that, just tickle her with a hoe, and she laughs with a harvest. SECOND MannueEs.—Pre heard say wed lock's like wine—not to be properly judged of till the second glass. DANIP SBEETI3.—To think that two or three Yards of damp flax should so knock down the majesty of maul A VERY RoccE.—Had he to cut his neigh bees throat, he'd first sharpen his knife on the church marble. JEvrttst—lt's my belief that, when wo man was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous. A WEDD:NG GOWN.—After all, there is something about a wedding gown prettier than any other gown in the world. A BINDING PROIIISE.—IIe kissed her, and promised. Such beautiful lips! Man's usual fate—he was lost uron the coral reefs. MAIDS AND Wivas.—Women are all alike. When they're maids they're mild as milk; once make 'em wives, and they lean their backs against their marriage certificates, and defy-you. WOMAN'S LOVE OF DRESE.—Aak a woman to a tea-party in the Garden of Eden, and stied be sure to draw up her eye-lids and scream, "I can' go without a new gown." te—A regular diet up to the point of tem peretice enres more people than physic. PRENTICE'S JOKES.—The folk/Wing ared taken from one culumn of the Louisville, Journal. "James G. Jameson, nephew of Ex-Presi-• dent Pierce, cut his throat with a razor and died, in Roston, on Th ursday."—Exchange. We really do not think there was suf= cient reason for the young man to cut his throat. He might have removed to a foreign country, where his relationship to Ex-Presi dent Pierce would never have been known. The editor of the Portland Democrat re cently proposed to pay some of his small debts by sending his paper to his creditors. A neighbor of his thinks it would be out rageous to pay a debt to the devil himself in such a depreciated currency. But we don't see why the devil shouldn't be paid in his own coin. "Be careful, neighbor Prentice, fur H' 'the righteous shall scarcely be saved,' what the deuce will become of you in such an event?" —Cin. Enquirer. Why, of course, in that event we shall "scarcely be saved." The Cairo papers say that Cairo will be entirely restored in a few months. It will be the must wonderful instance on record of the restoration of a drowned subject. Several of the Cairo houses that recently embarked for the Gulf are said to have ar rived there in pretty good condition. We have not heard of their being captured by the British cruisers. We hope the merchants of Cairo are doing a fine business. We know that, a short time ago, they were entirely out of dry goods, Cul. Drinkhard is acting Secretary of War in the absence of Secretary Floyd.— Too many of that family are in office these days. The Washington Union boasts that the• affairs of the Government are going on like clock-work. Oh yes, they aro going on— tick, tick, tick. 'When the constituency elect such a man. as Bill English to Congress, they undertake to pass him at more than his value. He is "a raised Bill." TEN CENTS A YARD.—Thernemphis Aval anche, giving an account of the failure of the Citizens' Bank in that city„rnentions the following as among the incidents of theday: "When the crowd gathered around, com posed mostly of mechanice and working men, with here and there a woman, and at intervals some poor market-man, we observ ed a little fellow with a wonderfully exag gerated nose, who had a package of the Bowleg's notes in his hands—some one ask ed how much he had; he said 'these bills, amounting to three hundred dollars, are the profits on my labor for six months past—look at my hard hands and see how I have toiled; I have a wife and children, forwhorn I muss buy bread, and fur whom I must provide a shelter and a home; but gentlemen, it is all gone; they may be houseless wanderers and homeless beggars, if I should knuckle to this misfortune. It is all gone.' The little gentleman with the Slawkenbergius nose, which we read about in Tristram Shandy, at this point in his speech 'humped' himself, and began to lay his wild-cat bills in a row down the centre of the street. When they were thus distributed, he turned to the crowd, saying, 'Gentlemen and ladies, I will sell this—infernal stuff at ten cents a yard, tape measure' The crowd roared, and good humor was thus substituted for the angry feelings for some time manifested, and which, by any accident, might have resulted in the demolition of the banking building." Penn'a R. R.—Departure of Passenger Trains. Train, Eart. Leave Columbia. Arrive at ?Airs EX' press, 9.00 A. M. 12 50 r. x. Harrisburg Ace., 2.50 p.m. 7.05 " Mail Train, 6.55 " 11.00 " Fast Line, 8.00 „ 4.40 A. 3f. Trains 7Prsr. Lfarr Columbia. Arr. at Harrisburg Mali Train, 11.1 G " 12.30 P. r. Harrisburg Acc., 7.40 " 9.00 " Arr. at Columbia• 2.40 A. W. 4.25 P. M. E s press, Fast Line, liollowav's Pill, and Ointment—The axe is not more necessary in new sediments 1111311 are These woudertu I medicines. which cure with rapidity and certainty all those debilitating affection , of the stotnnch and the bowels which paralyse industry in unhealthy..regions.— Piising through the absorbents iii .o the interior organs, this Ointment urns like a magic balsam on the intiamed and irritated parts, while the Pills, by their actirm on the 1110011. neutralize the elements of disense. Caution should be used in seeing that the medicine is genuine.— To do this. look narrowly for the %t'ater..mark, which appears in every leaf of the book of direction,. They arc not genuine wiles, the words, ..lioiloway, New York and Loudon." can be seen, in netui-trmispareat letter, in the paper itself when field to the field. July 31,1e5e. REMARKABLE CURE OF DYSPEPSIA. • _ Gorham. Mc.. March 14.1854. . • . Mr. If. ff. llny,—Darr Through me you may con fidently recommend the Oxygennted fritters, as the best, if not the only medicine Hutt will cure Dyspepsia. 'suf fered for more than six years as only n dyspeptic can suffer, tried numerous medicines, and the skill of many phy-icians. but annul no permanent relief, until I ob latimil from you the al,mve Bitters. The contemns of three bottles so far restored my health. that for the last two yearn I bare lind no occasion for medicine. I strongly recommend till Dyspeptics totry it. JOSEPH W. PARKER. _ . Seth W. Fowle & Co., 73e Washington Street, Bos ton. Proprietors. Sohl Ily their agents rerryv, here. AGENTS.—MeCORKLE & DE:m.l:m, Columbia; JOSHUA 1.13 A OUR. :Mount Joy. July 31, 1558. IrrSee advertisement of Dr. Sanford's LIVIZ Ix.. inanother column. May tat, less. THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY. SIR JAMES CLARKE'S CELEBRATED FEMALE PILLS. Prepared from a prescription of Sir J. Clarke, M. D, Physician Exit aordinary to the Queen. This invaluable medicine is unfailing in the erre of all those painful and dangerous diseases to which, the female constitution is subject. It moderates all excess and removes all obstructions, and a speedy cure may be relied on. TO M 4.ItRIED LADIES it i• peculiarly suited. It will. in a short time, bring on the monthly period with regularity. Each bottle, price One Dollar, bears the Govern ment Stamp of Great Britain. to prevent counterfeits. CAUTION. These Pills should not be taken by females daring the FIRST THREE MONTHS of Pregnancy, as they are sure to bring on miscarriage, bat at any other time they are safe. In all cares or Nervous and Spinal Affections, Pain in the Back and Limbs, Fatigue on slight exer tion, Palpitation of the Heart, Hysterics and Whites, these Pills will effect a care when all other means have tailed, and although a powerful remedy, do not contain iron, calomel, antimony, or anything hurtful to the constitution. Fall diree.:ions in the pamphlet around each paelt ■ge, which should Le carefully preserved. Sole Agent for the United States and Canada, JOB NOSES. (hate I. C. Baldwin Jib C 0..) Rochester, N. T. N. 8.-41,00 and 8 porta ge stamps enclosed to say authorized agent, will insure a bottle. coataiaing JS Pills, by return mail. For sale by Dr. E. B. ITERR, Agent, for Colonsbin.. T. W. DYMT & SONS, Wholerele Avant, Phil.. IM) , 185 S.
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