the literati themselves, -whether they were mandarins, or filled othor government of came to seal , his counsel. It was re .,•:•••1 thvhezhout the neighborhor.d that lie , 0 Ttl..re than a hundred years old, and that 21e hid spent his n - hule life in study. and :hitt twice every month he held converse :with superior intelligences. o.le day, when the sun was sinking in the :west, and while the laborers were taking :heir third repast:, one of them, named Xiang approached the grotto. I ! le carried in a plum -leaf basket a few provisions as an of fering to the bowie. lie had not forgotten t 7 > accompany the present with a small glIall• tity of the precious, first-gathered tea, which the Chinese reserve fur their own special usage, whilst they supply Europeans with what is regarded as comparative refuse. Kiang deposited his reapeetful tribute on a polished stone in fruut of the cavern ; and utter 7erfortning bhe complicated salutation required by Chinese etiquitte, he remained sta , ulin r before Liss, who had resumed his yea t, ant address•cd him iu the following MEE 1 am come to you, the wisest of men,be rause a certain npprehension oppresses my ;mind. A month ago, Ti-hon, the mnnufuc •`turer of silken stuffs, who used to live at the end of the village, baught the ino.n.e ...ontignons to mine, and of which I had long wished to become the possessor. Ife now resides there. so that he is now my nect•door neighl»r. Since that time I cannot have my bouso, I cannot return home again, with out being constantly liable to meet Ti-hoe: and—would you believe ir, sage Liao? er ers time that I catch sight of him I feel a distressing, sensation of pain. I fancy that I am looking nt some hideous object, some repulsive and obnoxious animal. At this very moment 1 sin afraid to return to the h, cruse I shall be obliged to cross the, moadow where he has spread EC rend pieces of silk to dry. I shall probably meet hint there, busy in preparing them fur stow ing in his warehouse." "And you hare been subject to these ulariningsymptoms ever since he bought the house you wished for•" "Exactly SO," replied Kiang; "and the complaint only gets worse and worse, I can noth4 thinking his visage becomes more and more malignant and ugly. I feel as if I could take a delight in doing hint some injury. One day last week I experienced the feeling very strongly, when I noticed that he was talking about me to a young man related to him, and that ho laughed when he looked st me." "O. I see that you need a speedy remedy. 1M you know where Ti-hou is at this mo- rient?', "Look! there he is, walking away in the di:action of the city! If he is gone there, be must be absent for a couplo of hours." "It is a walk that perhaps may cost him dear; for in another half-hour there will be thunder-storm, and every ell of his silken id,bries will be ruined." A flash of delight illuminated Kiang',„ cointenance "But," continued the benevolent bonze, •'we will discover at once the means of preventing his loss awl of curing your com plaint. Follow me quickly!" So saying, he advanced with rapid strides towards L.-boa's meadow. When they reach ed it, big drops of rain were already begin ning to fall. Liao hastened to pack on Kiang's broad shoulders the silk which was lying outspread on the grass. lle ordered him to take the whole to the warehouse, and deliv er it to the attendants without any expla nation. The bonze retired. Kiang obeyed; and then hurried back to the shelter of his own roof, for the rain was fallingin torrents. Next day at noon, Kiang returned to the grotto. He threw himself at Liao's feet and thanked hint for the prodigy he had worked in his favor. "Venerable sage," he said, "I have seen Ti-hou this. morning. Ile came to my house to thank me fur having saved his stuffs.— Ills face was really handsome: and, far from being ominous of any ill luck, it ap pc:trod to r resa,ge a long course of happi ness in the friend-hip he desires we should c,adraet together. 0, how grateful am Ithat you have thus change.l the heart and the, teatures of my enemy He was inclined to harm me, and his disp.eition has become I%ic-olly; his visage was horrible to look at, r:1,1 is now almost beautiful." ••Ignorant mortal. - replied Liao, nttribute to me a power which is not given to man, not even to the moot fevernt adorers Li. Ti-law has never Leen other than he i. h.-lac; in cony heart only has the change plac.. The great Confucius said, "if on hate any one without n motive, render Lim a service, and you will love him furth uith." .1 I:, m CoAmaßE.—The J'.tris press thus r.tlatcs an incident that happened in thot city nml caused:l.:Tat glee. Mr. X. is to:ln.:ea and the father of a charming, girl. s o on St. John'a day. NN hid' vas also his Lirthday, the mother and daughter made n I,resent to Mr. .X. of a magnificent robe de 11(,),Are, which proved to have only one defect, that of being, tan long by more t.,han a quarter of a yard. It was in the evening , •1 the 23d of June that they ascertained this, and Madame X.,who, that evening, re fini fled :tt borne, at hilt: her husband and , langhtcr Ivey- at a party, took the oppor t t, shorzen the rube without saying a word to anvlaidr. The neat dtiy Madenudselle X., rising ery early. hastened with the same discre tion, to cut off the bottom of the garment, which she thought too long; and two hours nfterwards. when Mr. X. on getting up, pereeiNed the robe dc cholnbre thrown across pnrt-mantenu, he immediately directed his rervant to take it quickly to the tailor to tike off the quarter of a yard. which he I thought was rtill on. Alas: ashen they` hrought back the unfortunate garment at , .linner time, and Mr. A. called his friends , to admire his present. ite found that instead ,f a quarter of a yard. it was shortened by nearly a yard, and was no longer a robe de el.ambre, but only a rest. Imagine the laughter whice ensued when all WAS ex- However, it may be imagined at neither Madame nor Mlle. X. joined in the liugli su-y hrartily. Ei; s t einumbia gpis. COLUMBIA. PA. SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, ISSS The "Thing" Works Since the laying of the great International Ocean Telegraph was "sprung" upon the community, the glorious event has of course constituted the almost exclusive topic of newspaper discussion. The necessary de lay in the successful working pf this im mense submerged line has occasioned infi nite speculation as to its ultimate utility, and afforded foundation for the erot.kers, upon which to build their blank walls of discouragement—superstructures they have liberally run up. "Signals—electric pulses. as it were—are kept up, but no intelligible message can be transmitted!" "Messages may be received from 'Valencia, but no re ply can be returned from Trinity Bay!" "The cable will part bcforo the line is got in working order!" "We tad you the thing was impossible:" Such were the wet blankets With which the Job's comforters strove to smother out the electric fire in the land; but to the hopeful millions the great fact of the cable having been successfully laid, outweighed every prophecy of evil, and, patiently or impatiently, they awaited with unshaken confidence the message that should give the signal fur a national rejoicing. On Saturday the latest word was but feebly encouraging, and p delay of .days— perhaps weeks—was foreshadowed by the unsatisfactory driblets of messages front the operators at Trinity Bay. The people had laid down quietly, hoping for good news, while the despondents and the bears hugged themselves in anticipation of disaster, and groaned anew. On Monday afternoon, like the startling news of the arrival of the Ni agara with the cable, the working of the line was unexpectedly announced, and the shout of gratulation went up from the St. Lawrence to the Gulf. The first message transmitted was from the Directors of the Atlantic Teegraph Company, Great Britain: Crere STATION. N. F., August IG. To the Directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Co: Europe and America are united by tele graph. "Glory to God in the Highest, and un Earth peace, good will towards men." Signed, Directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Com pany, Great Britain. Then followed the message from the Queen to Mr. Buchanan: Her Majesty desires to congratulate the esident upon the successful completion of this great international work in which the Queen has taken the deepest interest. Mr. Buchanan's answering telegram was delayed a few hours, the President being at his country residence, "The Soldier's Home," at the time of the reception of the Queen's dispatch. On Ins return to Washington the following reply was forwarded to Trinity Bay: WAqIIIVGTON CITY, August 16, 183 S The President cordially reciprocates the congratulations of 11cr Majesty, the Queen, on the sucee,s of the great international en terprise accomplished by the science, skill and indomitable allergy of the two countries. It is a triumph inure glorious, because more useful, than was ever won by the con queror of the field of battle. May the Atlantic Telegraph Company under the blessing of Heave:), prove to be a bond of perpetual peace and friendship be tween the kindred nations and an hastru ' meat destined by Divine Providence to dif fuse religion, civilization, liberty and law throughout the world. lit this view, will not all the nations of Christendom spontanrou , dy unite in the de claration, that it shall be forever neutral, and that its colmnunientions shall lie held sacred in passing to the place of their desti nation in the midst of hostilities. We believe that amid the unbounded re joicing over the successful transmission of a greeting from England to America through the depths of ocean and the immense stretch of cable—the realizAtion, in fact., of every hope of the most sanguine—a general feel ing of disappointment and chagrin was caused by the curtness and coldness of the Queen's message, which not even the great joy over the mighty triumph of science could bani-h. It was not bitterly or harsh ly commented on by the press, but the thought was unmistakably expressed that Her Majesty had successfully damped the feeling of international friendship, to which the electric cable was expected to add a new and powerful bond, and thrown away an opportunity of joining hands with the pee -1 pie of this land in a grasp which no future I , blundering of diplomacy should loose. On Tuesday morning, however, the clouds were dissipated by the receipt of the Queen's message entire. Through some disarrange ment of the working apparatus at Valencia the transmission of the message bad ceased lat the termination of its first paragraph, and the operator at Trinity Bay, believing the dispatch complete, gave the assurance that "this was all." Tho entire message is as follows: ERIE VALESTIA Via TRINITY BAY, August 76. Tv the Itm. the Pre,ident of the liided &Wet tier Majesty desires to congratulate the President upon the successful completion of that great international work in which the Nuevo has taken the deepest interest. The Queen is convinced that the Presi dent will join with her in fervently hoping that the Electric Cable which now connects Great Britain with the United States, will prove an additional link between the nations whose friendship is founded upon their com mon interest and reciprocal esteem. The Queen has much pleasure in thus communicating with the President and re newing to him her wishes fur the prosperity of the United States. The above dispatch entirely satisfies the expectation of a friendly greeting from the Queen on this auspicious occasion: it is marked with especial good taste and ab sence of clap trap, and expresses the senti ment of regard for the friendship of our country, the omission of which in the in complete message of the day before occa sioned so general a disappointment. Mr. Buchanan's reply, although in res ponse only .to the first sentence of Her Majesty's greeting, is a full and complete answer, in becoming kindly spirit, to the entire dispatch of Queen Victoria. Throughout the entire country the IR u c ceseful working of the great Submarine Telegraph has been celebrated with ringing of bolls, firing of cannon, bonfires and shouts of triumph and rejoicing. Although no general plan of action was agreed upon between the principal cities and towns, an expression of popular feeling has taken place over the whole wide extent of the United States and Canada, wherever the Telegraph carried the glad tidings. Mr. Field, to whose energy and perseverence the success of the undertaking is so greatly owing, has returned to New York in the Niagara, and announces his entire satisfac tion with the working of the line. Ile ad• vises the construction and laying, as soon as may be, of a second cable, as one will probably prove insufficient for the business of the line. The cable will be devoted to experiments and the transmission of dis patches between the government of the two countries until the first of September, after which time it will be thrown open to the public. A Telegraphic Retrospection. While the successful working of the great Atlantic Cable commands the attention of the public, and the wonders of Morse's great adaption is in everybody's mouth, every item of information, every scrap of history, every anecdote connected with the introduction, success or final crowning achievement of this grand modern scientific triumph is favorably received. It needs but a brief backward glance to carry us to the day when Prof. Morse. after encounter ing opposition and discouragement in all fortns, established an immortality and the Magnetic Telegraph. The first message sent over a working line was, it is almost needless to state, over the wire between Baltimore and Washington. This line was the first ever erected; the next, or among its immediate successors, was the present line—part of the great Atlantic and Ohio Telegraph—between Lancaster and Harris burg. The subscription papers of this en terprise under the title of the "Atlantic, Lake and Mississippi Telegraph Line," were first opened at Rochester, New York. in the fall of 18-16, and the suns of four thousand dollars was then placed in the hands of Henry O'Reilly, Esq., for the con struction of the initial link of the line, from Lancaster to Harrisburg. From the report of the Superintendent of the Atlan tic and Ohio line, J. D. Reid, Esq., rendered in 18.19, we propose giving some extracts illustrating the feeling of distrust against which the undertaking struggled, and the pecuniary straits of the early Telegraphic Operators in this benighted region. Mr. Reid's enthusiasm seems to have anticipa ted the present connection of the two conti nents by the Magic Wire. He says in his letter to the President of the Company: "No one can see the end of a system which is to bring the poles together, and unite the hands of the people of all zones, and tropics and tongues. The leer of incredulity meet ing the first results of an unseen agent that spoke, noiselessly, through the dark night. over a few miles of Lancaster county, will, before many years, scarce be seen when Philadelphia Lids Kamtschatka 'good morn ing' at the dead of night, and London shakes hands with Peru. The mind is lost in the distant results of the power of genius, opening, with its never-tiring fingers, new avenues for its triumphant progress, where in past years the mind of the Almighty alone wassupposed to hold undivided sway. "Time, in the future, will have so heavy a burden to bear in the rapidity with which telegraphic operations will have to be re corded, that it maybe useful, at these yearly interviews, to gather up the items of the year that has passed, that its progress may be the more clearly marked, and that the generations that succeed may know some thing, of the infancy which commenced their manhood. "Few men, nt the first announcementof the discovery of Professor Morse, could be brought to look upon it as an ngent at all suited for the conveyance of dispatches of such length and diversity as to make it popular commercial or social medium of communication. Even men with nretensions to science and shrewdness saw barriers to its use so limit° 1, as to render it a matter of governmental or scientific charity to construct and employ. Even when endors ed by the names of men of the highest rep utation, it is too well known how tardily the subscription papers became filled, and how tardier yet the instalments of the few shares taken were paid into the hungry treasuryof the starving contractors. "Tlieadvent of Mr. O'Reilly and his suite at Lancaster, was an era in the history of that steady sided city, as the erection of poles was to the incredulous and astonished farmers of the country, who esteemed rail roads an innovation upon their much loved wagons, and, to whom, the transportation of letters through the air smacked of brim stone and collusion with the world below. But when it became known that the light ning itself was the great agent of transmis sion and which Mr. O'Reilly and his imps bottled fur use and fingered as freely as the water of the mill, the most extravagant ideas were entertained, and we were looked upon as denizens of another world come to break the quiet and honest industry and sobriety of Pennsylvania. Then it was mooted abroad that a pigeon had been killed on the wires, that birds had been found dead underneath it, explosions had been heard in the office, and a bumming sound had been heard at midnight from the poles as if some divinity held converse with the winds attbat lone hour, and the terror increased. Ow' frightened matron, it wns said, fenced a pole carefully to keep her cz.vr from the conta gious touch that would spoil her milk and be witch her bead. Others carefully watched in the distance to see the developments of the last iniquity, while others, more wise, laughed heartily at an undertaking 80 Quix otic, and which must result so ruinously to its devotees. Still the wire, the first foot of which was erected on a fine star-lit morn ing upon a pole adjoining the outer bridge at Lancaster, the 9th of November, 1846 kept moving on until, on the evening of the , 24th of that month, on a thanksgiving day, the snow blowing piteously through the al most naked streets of Harrisburg, four hungry, dirty, unkempt and unshaven men might have been seen on the verge of the canal, near the railroad depot, with nn empty reel and wearied hands, hitching the last thread of the mystic line to the post op posite its destined termination. * * * * * * "As might have been expected, the result of our first operations was very small. The receipts of the great government line upon its first day of public use was one cent; but Harrisburg, brighter than Washington, saw the clear visage of a dime, and sober Lan caster gloried in the possession of a fip.— The two Ilepositaries were David Brooks, assisted by James M. Lindsey, at Lancaster, and J. D. Reid, at Harrisburg, who were both so entrusted without bond to be the residuaries of the line's receipts. The fruits of the first day's business were appropriated, by general consent, to the celeb ration of the auspicious event. "Gradually the business crept apace until after the laborious efforts of a month, the two treasurers gloried nightly in the happy possession of half-dollars, and sometimes happier still in whole dollars, which were wrapped carefully aside for the demands of the landlord and the washerwoman." FRESHET IN YORK Cowry.—We find the the following in an extra of the Wrightsville Star, of 19th inst: 'We learned, yesterday afternoon, after our edition was worked off, that the lower or southern portion of our County was visited, on Tuesday evening last, by one of the heaviest rain storms that has been known in that section for eighteen years past. We have not the particulars or the full extentof the damage done, but learn that the waters of Muddy Creek became so high as to carry off three of the County Bridges on that stream. We also hear that some damage was done to Castle Fin Works, the property of COLEMAN'S heirs, on that stream. in Lower Chanceford township. Muddy Creek enters into the Susquehanna Canal twenty miles below'this place, and we learn that the deposit of wash and sand in the Canal front the Creek, has been so great as to obstruct the navigation and hin der the passage of boats at that point. We have a rumor also, that a breach occurred on Tuesday night in the Tide Water Ca nal, a short distance below the Maryland line, which carried away some fifty or sixty feet of the towing path. This latter breach may not be so serious as represented, as we have no direct information from that point. Last night about 10 o'clock, another very heavy rain passed over that region, which we fear added to the injury already done by the previous freshet. 101, - The Philadelphia Xerll American gives the following as one of the incidents attending the rejoicings in that City on Tues day in honor of the reception of the Queen's Message: In coming down Race street in the morn ing, we saw an enthusiastic English gentle man standing on his door step, a big brass dinner bell in each hand, which he rang with such effiect thatthe din fairlydeafened the entire block. Re was perspiring like an ox, and alternately shouting, "Long live 'er Majesty !" "Long live Prince halbert!" We passed the spot half an hour afterwards, and found hint still ringingand cheering, his voice dwindled to a gruff whisper, and his bald head glistening in the sun like a newly scoured porringer. OBITUARY POETRY.—The supplication in the prayer book against "sudden death," must be doubly devout in the minds of those who consider that it is one of the most terri ble circumstances attending death by acci dent, the deceased is generally subject to a second "taking of" at the hand of some re morseless doggerel-monger. Here is tbo last murder we have seen of that sort, copied from the Woodstock, Vt., Standard, which, we trust, in respect of poetry, is not the standard of taste and talent in the Green Mountain State: Charles II Smith will be no more, With us. upon ht s iintive shore. lie's lei: his tender parents dear, Brothers and sisters which were near. Ile to the river did repair To b.ttlie, mid for church prepare. Snot, in the water he was found, Lae wax extinct, and be was drown'd Friends sod physicians soon were there, Bestowed on lain the hest of care. But all was done, could not avail, Alas'. wino can with death prevail! Ile was °nonfat] twenty years of age, 'When called to leave ibis mortal stage, Of two sisters he had been bereft, lle's gone io them—a sick one left. That his brothers and sisters were "near" to him as well as dear, snakes a pathetic as well as extraordinary feature in the case; but that poor Smith should iIiLVC been drown ed after "life was extinct," is an aggrava tion of horror in decease by water, well worthy of the poet who describes it. Lucki ly, "this dull, cold ear of death" is insensi ble to the cacophony of grave-yard elegists. Boston Post. Ikw . A MoRNON PRIEST FULFILS TLIE GOL -1/EN RCLE AND PRAYS FOR uts Said llcher Kimball—who is next in power to Brigham Young—"l love my friends, and I don't love my enemies; but I follow the Scripture rule and pray for them."— This was said in the presenceof Dr.Forney, the new Superintendent of Indian Affairs, who complimented Heber upon his christinn spirit, telling him he was happy to hear that he prayed for his enemies. Imagine the horror of the good Doctor (Big Medicine, the Indians call him) whoa Heber added— " Yes, /prey that they may all go to Bele— The Bible says if a man mites you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. Well, turn the other cheek, but if amen smites that, let him look out for a d-1 of a lick himself." ss-Never neglect a Cough, however slight. It is inexcusable, when r. simple remedy like Wietar's Wild Cherry Balsam is within your reach. In nearly all cases this will effect a speedy care. No family should by without it. 1019.-Prentiee, of the Louisville.rourne, thus 'hits the present fashion of low nock dresses. He says: •"It is supposed that nngels do not wear dresses. Our fashionable ladies are getting gm end uria angelic 'Teri Sear ." The One an Circus. MOST ItEYARKABLE PERFORMANCT. When the hour for the performance t.r rived, the audience fastened their eyes upon the opening through which the Ring-mas ter accompanied by Mr. Merryman, is wont to make his entrance previous to the Grand Entree-with which all well regulated cir cuses commence. Imagine their surprise when, instead of -the Master and Clown, there appeared before them a middle aged gentleman, diessed in a full - . suit of black broad cloth, slightly bald on the top of the head and wearing gold spectacles. This preacher-like person advanced to the centre of the circle, and exclaimed in a loud but respectful voice: "Ladies and gentleman, Pm a man by the name of Robert Ridgely, formerly of a place called Richmond X Roads. This here circus stopped at Richmond X Roads, and the bad whiskey there made the circus men, women, and children sick excepting myself. They held up pretty well until they got here, when they all broke down, and I'm obliged to play the whole circus myself, and I'm going to do it." Without another word, Mr. Ridgely made a bow and disappeared. In less than two minutes he returned leading the Grand Entree consisting of eight horses and one rider. So admirably trained were the horses, and so accustomed to the performance, that with the assistance of a few oaths and gestures from Mr. Ridgely they performed all the various and difficult evolutions with. out a single blunder, excitinggreat surprise and pleasure in the audience. Scarcely had the last horse disappeared behind the curtain ere Mr. Ridgely returned in the costume of the clown, and cracked the regular role of circus jokes with an imaginary ringmaster. Retiring for a moment, he soon came forth as a sailor, and went through with the whole performance admirably well, not forgetting to stop oc casionally and jump down from his horse and take up the clown and ring master's parts where he had left off. Next he played the Two Horse act, and played it well.— Next the Indian—admirably done. When he alighted from the horse, and pretending to receive a severe cut on the b—b—breast from the imaginary ring -master, clapped the palm of his hand to the wounded part, the effect was electrical--the whole house roared. So he went on with the four horse act, the bare back act, the India-rubber man, the cannon ball man, the tight rope performance, the ground and lofty tumbling, and indeed every part belonging to the regular circus role; all the time keeping up a running fire of jokes with the invisible ring master, and eliciting a continuously increasing amount of applause. He also sung two comic songs, both of which were rapturously encore:L— ilt: also danced the Highlaud fling and a Virginia break down. It was taken for granted that the part of Eugenio Duprez, the great Parisian Equestrienne, would not bo attempted. But the versatile and daring Ridgely, like the countryman with the bill of fare, was de termined to eat or rather to play through the entire bill. IVhen he came out in "low neck and short sleeves," very brief petticoat, and flesh colored stockinet, and commenced smiling and kissing his hand to the audience, as he rode round the ring, the excitement was be yond anything in the history of circuses. Four fifths of the audience went into such convulsions of laughter that many ofthem rolled off the benches to the ground and struggled there in uncontrolable writhings of amusement. Mlle. Dupree Ridgely's legs, we are bound to say, were very credita ble legs, and displayed themselves very freely. This was decidedly the great hit of the evening. Mr. Ridgely's performances concluded with the exhibition of his pet elephants, named respectively Gizzard and Charles Jeems. Bringing these in under his arms, lie placed them on the ground, and then made them stand on their heads, turn sum mersaults, dance jigs, and pick his pocket. At the end of the entertainment, Mr. Ridgely thanked the crowd for their patron age, and invited them to come again to-mor row evening, and to come early, as he was in the habit of doing when he was a voting man. He begged them to make allowance fur the fact that it was a new business to him, but he declared with emphasis that be meant to keep a pitchin' in till he got the hang of the thing. He was in the ring and meant to keep the ring. A Passictates DIARY or Boot:y:88.—A pocket diary was picked up on the street in Boston. From the following extracts it ap pears the loser was a "medikul man!" Kase 230. Mary An Perkins, Biznes, washerwoman, Siknes in her bed. Fisix sum blue bills a soaperifik; aged 62. Ped me one dollar, 1 kuarter boges. Mindj get good kuarter and make her tak mo fasik. Kase 231. Tummns Krinks Bisnes, Nir ishman, Lives with Pady Molony, whet keeps a dray, Sikness, dig in the ribs and two black eyes. Fisik to drink my mixture twict a day of sasiperly bore, and jullop, and fish ile; with asifidity to mak it taste fisiky. Rubbed his face with kart grese liniment, aged 39 years of age. Drinked the mixter, and wouldn't pay me because it taste nasty, but the mixture'lt work his in nards, I reckon. Kase 232. Old Misses Boggs. dint got no biznis. but plenty of money Sikness all a humbug. Gave her some of my celebra ted "Dipseioikin." which she drank like tee —which it was too. Must put sumthink in it to make her sik and bad. The old wo man has got therox.—Boston Traveller. J& An Irishman who had been reading in this morning's paper the despatch from the "reliable gentleman at St. John's, who is in a position to obtain the earliest and most correct unofficial intelligence concern ing the cable," was overheard to observe to his comrade•. "Honey, do you read that? All the in diligence comes that way, and domned the ha'porth will go back. They needn't worrit themselves about the recording instruments and the aignals. Nothing that comes from England guest to imorikYr will Over go back."—N. T. POst. A SWEDISH JOURNALIST SENTENCED TO DEATH AND PARDONED ON THE SCAFFOLD.- Mr. Lindahl, the Editor of the Faederlandet, a Swedish Journal, was recently sentenced to death for having published an outrageous libel on the character of Henriette •Mendels sohn, a prominent Stockholm belle. A. Stockholm correspondent states in relation to the young lady: "Every one knows young Henriette. She is eighteen years old, fair hair, of elegant person, and has eyes of a deep blue and of a poetical expression. She excels as a wri ter in prose as well as of verses, and nothing can exceed the grace and beauty of her ap pearance. Before the slander to which we refer poisoned her existence, she was noted for her animation and cheerfulness, and was passionately fond of amusement and especially dancing. Her dancing was ad mirable, her manner bewitching, and the Swedish dialect that she spoke gave an ad ditional charm to her conversation. In one word, she was a flower of the land, and when the news of the slander upon her spread about, she became the object of uni versal sympathy, the whole odium of it fall ing upon the detractor. When the day of his execution arrived, (July 2, 1858,) this gentleman seemed com posed, and said: "I am going to suffer the penalty of death, which I deserve; however, it shall soon be made evident that, at all events, I was not a coward." He then gave some of the papers which were upon his table to the jailor, giving him some private instructions about them; and having taken a letter sealed with black from the bible and concealed it in his breast, he proceeded with unfaltering steps to the scaffold which was prepared for bim.— Twelve witnesses, required by the Swedish law to be present on such occasions, had already arrived. Lindahl's hands were tied and his eyes bandaged as he arrived at the foot of the scaffold. He, however, main tained his self-possession, addressing those around him as follows: "Farewell, gentlemen. Take care to re port my death and my repentance to those who were familiar with my life." Ascending to the fatal platform, he had already put his feet on the second flight of steps, when he felt a pressure, and in a moment his eyes and hands were set free.— Henriette Mendelssohn stood before him.— "Mr. Lindahl," she said to him, "I pardon you." Mr. Lindahl, at once falling upon his knees before her, and taking the letter which he had concealed in his breast, said: "Madame, I accept your pardon. My last thought was to implore it of your mag nanimity, and I felt sure that you would not refuse it, at least to my grave." This romantic affair has created the great est sensation all over Sweden.—Tribune. Hercules in the Temple of Error TILE PILLARS OP PREJUDICE OVERTUROWN The most stubborn enemies a great in vention or discovery encounters, are the in dividuals with whose interests it interferes. Vast indeed must be its value, palpable as the sun the benefit it imparts, in order to override and subdue the professional oppo sition of the Apostles of Error whose theo ries it orerthrows. Holloways system of treatment founded upon immutable truth has accomplished this Herculean task. It has swallowed up conflicting dogmas, as the rod of the Patriarch swallowed up the rods of his less favored competitors. The old practice, with its complications and contra dictions, its volumes of mystification, its absurdities cloaked in the dead languages, its profitable alliance between the physician and the apothecary, its pecuniary policy of regulating the progress of a cure by the length of the patient's purse, its blind ex periments upon the constitution, its skir mishing with the superficial manifestations of disease, its short sighted attempts to suppress instead of to destroy the maleries morbi or seeds of a disorder, has been shak en to its very foundations by the uniform success of Holloways two remedies. Oaeof the great merits of his Ointment and Pills is that they remove the complaint without pros trating the the strength of the patient. The ordinary theory is that acute disease can not be cured without weakening the invalid; the process of reinvigorating the system is an after consideration. Professor Holloway utterly rejects this plan of debili tating the patient in order to reduce the disease. His medicines sustain and assist nature while combating and conquering the malady, and nature thus reinforced, ex pedites the cure. It seems to us that this is a method of treatment that is consistent with common sense, however inconsistent it may be with professional jargon. To depress the strength of a sick man by powerful depleting medi cines, or by bleeding, is to rob him gratui tously of a portion of that vitality which disease is laboring to extinguish. Strong indeed most be the constitution which can withstand the combined attack of a pros trating complaint and a prostrating system of treatment. The object of Professor Holloway is to fortify and sustain the vital powers while the virus of disease is being driven out of the system, and that object is accomplished by his celebrated medicines.—Beaton "Jour nal." SOP - In a down east town (as everywhere else) a flaming placard was stuck about the street, bearing in bright vermillion charac ters, this device— Have you read Cobb's Tetl7 store One of the •`lads" of the Tillage paned before the poster, and scrawled beneath it with red chalk— "NARY RED:" II!!!!.."My good friend," exclaimed an enraged author who had been lampooned in a review, ".I have strong reason to suspect that I have received this stab in the dark from that rascal M—." "Make your mind perfectly easy," said his friend, the last man to give you a stab in the dark; first, because be always held you in light estimation, and secondly, because I know him to be a fellow who ironid not stick at anything." • They tell a good story of an Irish re porter at Toledo, who took down the Dec laration of Indepennenco as it was read, under the impression that it was "die greatest oration, be jabers, he had ever heard." When he wrote it off, from his notes, it was so highly embellished that the editor scarcely recognized it, till he came to:the "names of the signers," reported as "committee of arrangements!" APPROPRIATE QUOTATION.—The most hap- , py citation from the• Bible, we have yet seen, in reference to the Telegraph, which is 30 soon to girdle the globe, appeared in the National Intelligencer of Monday.' "Their line is gone outthrough allthe earth, and their words to the end of the world."— Psalms am, 4. Itifir"l'm terribly distressed, said a clergy man of indifferent reputation farshnerity,to a rough neighbor, "to hear you stfear so." "Oh, don't let that distress you," said the. neighbor: "I swear a great deal, and you pray a great deal, but neither of us mean anything by it. SM.A vendor of cement describing its action said it was particularly useful in mending jars. A witty purchaser asked him if it would mend the jar of a door.— "Theie is no occasion for its use in that case," said the pedler, "fur that is general ity sound enough." ItED—One of the most amusing applica_ tions of a provincialism we have ever heard was that of a youthful southerner, who ex plained his sum in addition as follows: "Add up the fust colyum, set down the units and tote the tens to the next colyum." A "BREAKFAST TABLE" DISCOVERY.—Doc tor Holmes, the "autocrat," declares that he has observed that coffee bought ready ground never affects the headl And it is extremely lucky that it is so; for none but very weak-headed persons ever buy ready ground ceffee. Itgt..A New England writer, of a speen lative turn of mind, says that "a man can not be active and quiescent at the same time." Facts prove incontestibly, however, that some chaps, while bustling about terri bly, can lie slit/. Tte...The captain of a Western band of regulators boasts that he has "fifty picked men" under his command. If they are not very careful, they may get tarred and feathered and then they will need picking again. ASSEMMX.—We are authorized to an nounce that C. S. KAUFFMAN, of this place, will be a candidate for nomination for the Assembley before the People's convention of Lancaster County. Penn'a R. 8.--Departure of Passenger Trains. Lam. Columbia. arrive as Pita Trains East Express, 9.00 e. x. Harrisburg Ace., 3.30 1... y. Mail Train, 6.55 " Fast Line, 8.00 „ Trains West. Leave Columbia. Arr. at Ilartisburg Mail Train, 11.16 " 12.30 r. u. Harrisburg Acc., 7.40 " 9.00 " al Columba• 2.40 4.25 r. s. Expresg, Fast Line, llntloway's NI/s.—The stomach, by the chemical Itgener of the solvent fluids. converts the food into crude blood: the liver furnishes a secretion which fit. it for the venous a) stem; the longs vitalue ti. If the stomach is diseased, it cannot produce it healthful element. and if the (mouton of life in infected. all the streams that flow front ti must be poisoned. It is upon the stomach, the grent feeder of the systom. the manufacturer of Ile aliment tsbicli sub-roue:lily become bone, muscle, sinew•. and flesh. that II stlloway's Pills exercise their salutary influence, curing indigestion in all its shapes, and thus Riving a vivant]. toile to every dependeat organ. 'Phis is the philosophy of the rapid and thorough cures of all the varlet., of interim] disease accost/IMO ed by this powerful remedy. j]7•Pee advertisement of Dr. Sanford's LIVIIL Is vacolorron. inatiother column. =MI THE CiLIEATEST 110/115E MARKET,-Cille 1111 l now .he largest horse musket is the United hitines, and dur ing one week, lately, forty thou•nnd doilies.' worth of lior+es were sold lit the various stables. Philadelphia is the greatest clothing market, and the greatest establish ment in it is the Brown Stone Clothing Hall of Rock lin! de Wilson, Nos. 603 and 605 Chestnut street, above Sixth. July 21,1959. THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY. SIR JAMES CLARKE'S CELEBRATED FEMALE PILLS. Prepared from a prescription of Sir J. Clarke, M. D., Physician Exit oordinary to the Queen. This invaluable medicine is unfailing in the cure 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 MARRIED LADIES it if peculiarly suited. It will, in a short rirne, bring on the monthly period with regularity. :Each bottle, price One Dollar, beam the Govern ment Stamp of Great Britain. to prevent counterfeits. CAUTION. These Pills should not be taken by females daring the FIRST TH REE MONTHS of Pregnancy, as they arc sure to bring on miscarriage, but at any other time they are safe. In all cares of Nervous and Spinal Alrectione,. Pain in the Back and Limbs, Fatigue on alight exer tion, Palpitation of the Heart, Hysterics and Willie!, these Pills will effect a care when all other mea na have tailed, and although a powerful remedy, do not contain iron. calomel, antimony, or anything hurtfah to the constitution. Full directions in the pamphlet around each pack age, which should be carefully preserved. Sole Agent for the United Stales and Canada, , JOB NOSES, • (Lute f. C. Duldwin & C 0.,) Rochester, N. Y. N. 8.—✓11.00 and 6 postuge stamps enclosed to sup authorized agent, wit I insure a bottle, containing sob rah., by return mail. For sale by Dr. E. B. HERR, Agent, for Columbia.. T. W. DYOTF & SONS, Wholesale Agra**, Pnita. Nay 134 1858. IWO DOLLARS REWARD will be plod for any Medicine that will excel PRATT & BUTCHER'S. MAGIC OIL for the following di :—R hennas.. Liam. Neuralgia. Spinal A fferlions,Contraeted Cholie Pain•. Pain• in the Side or Back. ITeadache, Toot h ac h c, eip re i 110,643 re Throat, Cats, Ms neve a. Horne; and all Diseases of the Sk in, Muscles lied the Glands. None eremite without the isigsleigre of PRATT AV BUTCHER attached to each label Principal 011ie% 206 Washington sireet. Brook lin, N.Y. The great number of perseus that have been imme diately relieved in all the eitiC, and towns where it liar heel. used, an well ise to this city, sustain them jai nnying , „ In all candor, that it is the greetest cure in Gm world for palm. ever mild. Dr. E. B. HER R. Sole Wholesole Agent fee Colons hie. Sold by all respectable Draggists he United States and Canada. lOct. 17,1657-11 y z:)::tLmt. Oa Sunday 15th inst.. in this borough, Mrs. Parsert.t.e. wife of Samuel Lodge 31 years, 3 mouths and 24 days.. TOWN PILOPERTY FOR SALE. TO property In Walnut street, be -A . t ween Front and Second street. Columbia. adjoining propernes of I.leorge Wolf and 7kemilrl Llojd E-quires. is offered at Private Sale. For terms, &c., impose of York, • agusr2l, 1258-2 t TEOS.. E. COCHRAN DR. J. Z. HOFFER, Fruit Street 4th door front Locust. over Saylor t illeDonstd , s Book .tore. Columbia, Pa. [D , E.'4IIItIICC, between the Book sod Dr. ilerr's Drug store. (August VI , 12.50 r. r. 7.45 " 11.00 " 4.40 A.X.
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