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,
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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.
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• _ Gorham. Mc.. March 14.1854.
. • .
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if not the only medicine Hutt will cure Dyspepsia. 'suf
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medicine. I strongly recommend till Dyspeptics totry it.
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_ .
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