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T m mt.,: ...II known Boiler- ore kept eOll-tautly on hood at ',neut.! -.trent. npputine the Franklin !Muse COlOllll,lll. July Itt, Ira; Harrison's Coumbian Ink. A rriicii o ior clic., pi:no:mein lv bloc k rr ,sitd 11 , 4 von° ling pro. von I.e bad in an. ...tinily. in Ile• Z 4 lnto, and blacker ,el 1- EinT,l4.ol Ito,. Poli•11. Columbia 1.1 w• 9.1-59 CASTERN PUMP. a large , lark of 010.1E11110. 10 m•hacl, lie Clll . , le 1110'1111011 01 1111 - [OlOlO, lie 0- pa ejt.nn•d 10 11011110111 tip lOC 11..12111 .4 60h-raw:A alai rndunug tralittur El= ( RAIIAM, or, Bond's Buslon CrarkerA, for NJ 0, iool Ar o Rout 17....“•t0•t tot 1 0 - nilli childien—nrw article- in Coltirnliin, '4 lie Irainoly Medicine Store. Atm! 16. 1.,19 NEW CROP -_:EEDLF.SS RAISINS. T III.; for eats, Pudding, ke —o _fresh ,111111) at II r.1.71* Grocery Slore, Corner Fronton(' Nov. 19.1.039. SHAKER CORN JUST received. a hr-t rate lot of Slotker Worn I. SUYI)A M's I:merry Store, corner Front and Union •t. Nov. ..20. 1 b. 59 *c.PALDING'S PREPARED GLUE.-Thc want of -uch tall tar u•le I, tell In rvrr) fanuly, and now van he soap:led; for invading Inanalure. chum ware. ornamenitat work, ray:. \r, ihere nothing mincrior. We have found n u•eful in repuirthg nue uy uriicie- which have been u-eless fur month, You Jan Ittin It ut the ta.ouliA FM I Ll' MEDICINE STORK IRON AND STEEL ! MllESubscotber. have revolved a New and Largo Stock of all kola. and 41 V.: Of • BAR IRON AND STEEL ! They are con-runup •upp:icd tvith :so :hin brand: of Las 111.1.111,M. undonti luinsb it to eu.nomor- in large or ~mull quantities, Ea the iov,egt late. J HUM PI.E & SON. street below Second. C0111111101:1. April AREA'S COLORS. A general assortment of color- in tubes. Alwo. vorteiy of Aril-r' 01 the Uoldell :Manor Drug-rare. [July: 14ITTER'S Compound Syrup of Tar and _Lod w, Id .'berry. tnr Coogll-. C. Id. &,e Fur -ide a h. C;.ildca Nlocal Drugstore Prom et puiy2 AYER'S Compound Coneentrated Extract r-unpinllo kit the ewe or Selolodo or Evil. and nil -croritiou.•drecrion, u fre, , li drift:le ju-t received and for -ore by It WILLIAMS. Front 61, Columbia, verr. ;4 I FOR SALE. • 200 CROSS Friction Molelies. very low for cosh Joule 25. %% H. 11711.1,1 A DRIED FRUIT. TOR Drir.l Fruit—Annie, hlache,, Cherrie, X ille io,l in the nntrket, to II r•liVI).1 Grocery Store, Corner Front and Union RI, Dutch Herring! ANY one fond of e. good Herm. , * numnied at 11 , .F 1.11V:1, 1 _Nov.l9. . 1859 Grocery Stoec.'9. o. 71 Locuqnt. 1 - „YON'S PURE 01110 CATAWBA BRANDY WINES lor Melia:MOE , ,Pd ...7. l acromentul purpo-e, ni I ile• JU11.23 NI I IN 11.11191.71:Vr. 91 ORM. _ NICE RAISINS for 8 els. per pound, arc to be IMO °llly at 1::31:111.X.IN'S Grocery Store, Morel, 10. iFno. No 71 heertt.i .treet GARDEN SEEDS.—Fresh Garden Seeds, war mated purc, of . 1111 k•nti..ju.i rPretved EBERLEIN'S Grocery Store, March 10. lea) No 71 la - mit-t .oreet POCKET BOOKS A IV DIV RSES. ioi of Fine mild Common Porkel Book* 11. and P.urses, at from 15 cent. io two doll:iv...each Ilt Idquartcro and New, Depot. Columbia, AprA 14,1 •60, A EEW more of those beautiful Prints bell, which will be SAYLOR a hicDoNA mys Columbia, Pa. April ,U Just Received axed For Sale. 1500 SACP Ground Alum Salt, in large oR .mallqua nti t Ye!, la A PPOILITS Warehoow. Canal Mays 'GO TAMARINDS, last received a new lot of Tumarmds, at the Golden hlortur Drug Store. ay It, IEOO. COLD CREAN OF 6LITEBINE.—For the tore and prevention to chapped honde..te For .ale at the GOLDEN MORTAR DREG STORE. Dee. 3,1855. - Front etreet. Colombia. Turkish Prunes! • TOR a first rate article or Prunea you ream BcoIN to S. . lERL'S N0v.19 , NW. -Grocery Stor P e,N No 71. Locum at GOLD PENS, GOLD PENS. JUST received n large and fine amoitment of Gold Penv. of Newton and (Memo mannfaciure, at SAYLOR a McIDOIVALD'S Book Store. Agrit 14. 1 - root tgrect, above Locott. EEE3 I= it where he by chance is born? Doth not the yearning spirit scorn In such scant borders to be spanned? 0, ye , : bus fatherialiu inn.: be El= Is it alone where freedom is, Where God is God and man is man/ Dada he not claim a broader spmt, For the ,ours iove of home than till,/ 0, ye-! has fatherland must lie As the blue heaven wide and free! Where'er u human heart dolt wear Joy's myrtle wreath %r soirow's gyve:, Wheree.r a human spirit strives After a life more to ue mid fur, There is the true males birthplace. grand, Nis is a wort i•wids fatherland! Where'er a single clove loth pine, Whereer one man may help unoihei Thank God for such a birthright brother,— That 'pot of earth is thine and mine! There Is the true man's limn-place grand, Ili. i. n world-wide fatherland! "Whet a fellow you are, Routitout, can't you let us enjoy our breakfast in peace?" good•homoredly remarked handsome Fred, as he balanced on his fork the bright purple end of a pulony at a bachelor's breakfast party. Now old Routitout wasn't a hit of a cur mudgeon, but when be took up any subject nothing could induce him to let it go until, like a puppy with a new rug, he hail tugged it to pieces. The report of the debate in the House of Commons on the adulteration of fod, unluckily, just caught his eye, and ac cordingly he went into the subject, with which he was really well acquainted, with a, much gusto as Tutu Sayers went in at the Benecin Big. "It's all very well to say, don't care for adulteration,'" he authoritatively ex claimed, "hut you must: this breakfast ta ble is built up of adulterations; take th..t pidony you think so spicy, what will you .ity to finding your to:is rutting off in o month In• two, like an old post in damp ground ?" "Come, that won't 1111, old follow, why should we take in dry rut with German Fllll - ?" "My dear boy, that is precisely what you must take your chance ot, if you will eat these poison bags without inquiring; why, in all probability, that sausage is made from putrid meat—you may always suspect had meat where there is high seasoning, and there are hundreds of instances on record of people rirting away at their extremities from eating these . putrid German sau- 12. I'FA 111.1.112. I.l)en.i -lice, sageq." We all looked up; Bob Saunders, in his amazement, spilt a spoonful of yolk down his handsome whiskers, and there was a general pause. There is nothing, like opening a con versation with a startling, fact, and this; old Routitout knew full well, and proceeded to take instant advantage of the sensation he had created. "Fact" said ho, "here is an account" (nulling an old German newspaper out of his pocket) "of three German students who gradually rotted away from eating putrid sausages at Heidelberg." "Well, they may keep their polonies for me," said Bob, "I stick to eggs; what can you make of them. old fellow?" "Why, in all probability, the one you are eating ought to have been by this time a grandfather. Laid in some remote village of France this time last year, it has lain ever since pickled in lime water. The antiquity of your London eggs is marvelloo.. They come over hero by the million at a tine, and you don't suppoe the continental hens hold monster meetings to suit the time of the ex porter ?" "I wish you sviuld turn the conversation," Bob replied. "I taste the lime quite strong, and must wash it down with a cup of cof fee." "Bean-flour, you mean," replied his for mentor, "and possibly something worse.— Just turn it over in your mouth again, end see if there is a saw-dust smack in it. The fine dark Mocha you get ;rt the Now Cut, for instance, is adulterated with mahogany saw dust." My friend, Ned Allen, a bit of a heavy swell, who effected to admire now and then a plebeian thing, struck in here in his lisp ing way: '•Well, I mustit declare the finesth cop of coffee I ever tastlited was at four o'clock in the morning at nn itinerant coffee-stand, af ter Lady Charlotte's ball—'twas really deli cious I" I saw . old Routitout's eye twinkle. as much as to say, "now thou nrt delivered into my hands." "Fine body in it, eh! Such a 'horse-doggy' man ns you should have re cognized the flavor of, &c., &." "Good God! what can you mean?" ex claimed Ned. "Ohl nothing, nothing; no doubt you folt a sinking after that old skinflint% supper, and wanted some animal food." "Animal food in coffee, prepostwbusl" "Ah! my ddar friend. I don't like to dis turb your equanimity, biat'it is ¬ed fact that the strong coffees used by the itinerant coffee stand keepers get their flavor from the knockers' yards. There are manufac• Eorttg. The Fatherland BY SAMIC 4 11.111.. ELL LOWELt gatttiolu. Our Peck of Dirt "NO ENTERTAINMENT TS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING." Uk,L u E tories oror in tite Borough, where (hey .dry and pulverize horses' blood for the sake of adulterating cheap coffees; and then the cream, how do you think they could give you such lucious cream in your coffee at a penny a cup?—why, simple enough, they thicken it with calves' brains. If you don't believe me, read 'Rugg on London Milk,' and see what he found in it with his micro •cope." "Well, I'm safe, then," I interposed, "as I never touch anything but the best green." "That's just the mistake you reading men always make," he replied. "I dare say you innocently believe that green tea is made of the young and tender leaves of the plant, but the real truth is, it is black tea painted —painted and bloomed like a worn out old hag." Old Itouitout dipped his huge fist into the caddy and took out a handful of young I.ly son, and held it side-ways to the light on his open hand: "Do you see that beautiful pearly green color, that's called the glaze— a mixture of turmeric and Prussian blue.— Think, my dear fellow, of the dose of poi son you have been regularly taking nigh, and morning; perhaps yea can now account for that dreadful nightmare you had last night. Old Sarah, the first and great duch ess of Marlborugh, used to say that she was born before nerves came into fashion; and she never said a truer thing, for green tea came in about her time, and 'the cup that cheers, but not inebriates,' began to du its deadly work upon us Britons." "Do the Chinese drink green tea?" I in quired. "Yes," Ile replied, "the real young sprouts of the shrub, but not the glazed abomina tion sent over beret—that is manufactured by them expro, ,, ly to suit the barbarians." "But is there no tea wholesome?" we all cried in astonishment. "Yes," retorted old P.o❑ titont, tartly," your good stron:4 Congee 34. 4d. is generally pure: hlack tea In pre utile.c you happen to get seme lri- i There are people who go about to club houses to collect oil tea T i hrt:-: , carpets with, but to recur] u l lye, and again. If you h won't ta lake a tha• ta , aes like hay, he sure that there ha= been a resurrection from the teapot. lluroirerls .01• tons of it arc ma4e in London yearly." "Have an an, Ii cry, Bob?" "They ain't anchovies," interposed our old friend. "I) you think they can afford to give you real anchovies at a shilling a bottle? I tell you what they are, though. Dutch fish colored and flavored to suit the market; that red paste in which they swim is bole armenian, a ferruginous earth. You IMISi eat your peck of dirt before you die, you know." ".11 , " dear Mr. Routitout," interposed a quiet gentlemanly man of our parry, "take a pinch of snuff to restore your equanimity." Our quiet friend might just as well have trodden at that moment on the tail of a puff adder. Old Itoutitout took a pinch with mock se renity, and said, "Ye., if I wished to he poisoned." "Do you ever feel a weal:nets in your wrists, my dear friend, eh!" "Good gracious toe! no sir!" "Well, then, if you will only persist lung enough in taking this kind of snuff, you will gradually find your hands full power less at the wrist. like the paw:, of a kanga- lIIIM Here was another sencatiom and we all looked for seine expLination. "You think you are taking nothing hat Powdered tobacco," said our oil friend, glar ing at the snuffer. ••but I tell you there is either chromate of potash, chromate of lead or red lead in it to give it a color. nod you get saturnine poisoning ac a eunsequenc, ." "Come, take a pickle?" archly intcrpo..Nl that incorrigible BA, determine , ' to rile our tormentor, "the vinegar won't disagree with your ., "You are verdant enough to suppose that is the natural color Of the vegetable, 1 sup p-se?" retorted old Thoutitout, harpooning a gherkin with his fork. "To be , ore I cm, my Diogrmel" that youth replied; "come get out of your tub and descant " "Then give Diogenes a steel fork. a knit ting needle—anything of bright steel will do to touch this verdant lie, and show you the ugly venomous thing it contains. Now let that knife remain in the jar for an hour, and perhaps we shall learn the secret of these verdant pickles. The very vinegar is falsified." "While you are about it you may as well attack the whole cruet stand!" "Nothing easier in the world. That prime 'Durham Mostnrd,' forinstance, is a delusion rind a snare. There's scarcely a bit of mus tard that you can gct pure at any price.— This stuff is nothing more than ninety-five per cent, of wheaten flour, just a dash of pure mustard, turmeric to paint it up to concert pitch, and black pepper to make it sting; and you have been laboring under the delusion all the while that you have been eating mustard, sir." "'Pon my honor I have," replied Bob; "but what about the vinegar?" "When do you particularly like vinegar?" "Wen, to tell you the truth, I like a dash on a native, taken standing at an oyster stall, just to cool one's coppers after the— opera." "Just so," said Mr. Routitont, gravely drawing from his pocket a note book. "I'll NiNSVLVANIA. SATURDIY MORNING, OCTOBERI3, let Dr. Hassell here a word with you—this what he says for your especial comfort: `We have found some samples of vinegar to consist of little else but sulphuric acid col ored with sugar; it is in low coffee-houses and oyster-stalls that such is not uncom monly met with.' So you see, my friend, you are in the habit of 'cooling your cop pers' with vitriol, sir, vitriol:" "Now, then," said Bob, not half liking it, "serve out the pepper, my Imy." "Well, pepper—what you call pepper—is mainly flour and linseed meal, flavored with D. P. D." "What in the name of all that is sacred is D. P. D?" "Oh, D, P. D. is short for dust of pepper dust—the sweepings of the mills. The man ufacturers supply it to the grocers in bar rels, so that they can falsify at pleasure." "Don't forget the soy while you are about it." "Well, that's nothing more than treacle and salt, so says Hassell, and the fish-sauce nothidg but vinegar and catsup colored— with what do you think?" "Can't tell." '•Minute chips debarred deal!" "Come," I interposed, "after all the dita. greeablenesq, allow me to recommend you one of these sweetmeats, What will von hacd—a mutton chop, a rasher of bacon, nr an oyster all done in sugar—or here's a cock colored to the life. "Charming bird, certainly: rind so you recommend this cock fur n delicate stom nob?" "Well, drop it in your pocket, and I dare say one of the little Itoutitouts will not make wry faces about it," "Won't they? I think I know something about this amiable bird. Look et his bright yellon• beak—well, that's only chro- mate of lead, and those blood-red wattles— there is nothing more injurious in their colors than vermillion. Those beautiful stripes of yellow on the wings are gamboge, and the verdant stand on which he is strut i.ar,:eniare of c•ipper, or Soheele'. gre —three deadly poisons and a ira-tie purge! Perhaps 11 , N7 you would like one of you- Y .unk,rs have a suck at th N same pullet?" •'\or. so MO as that, old fellow!" I re p:led, furtively dropping out of my pocket a colored bonbon intended for the little one at home. “A .light indigestion, perhapQ, that a dose of gray powder would put to rights in a day." ant very glad you mentioned gray p user—mercury and chalk that should be; for let me tell yon,you may find the remedy worse than the disease." "Why, do you know, sir," he said, raising his voice, "that they sometimes make this infra tile remedy out of the scrapings of looking-glasses?" "Ant what are the scrapings of looking glasses composed of ?" "Why, an amalgam of tin, antimony. an arsenic, as a foil for the mercury. They sell this abeminahle stuff at S,l. a pound• and if you happen to buy gray powder in a low neighborhood, you stand a very g•,ud chance negating some of it. Not content with poisoning and loading our food with all sorts ot indi4c4tinle ruhhihh, they next proceed to adulterate the drugs me depend upon to cure us." upon my word," said Bob, "here we've been ,jollying at this elegant dcienuer a la fourcheile, and eating all the delicacies of the season, when in conies this learned wretch and turns all into gall and worm wood. Let us see what we've really taken. Why there's a whole paint. lox of paints to begin with—Prussian blue, turmeric, bole I=l "Stop a bit," cried old Routitout, "thc•o preserves look very red—there's cochineal in them; Tut down cechineal." "Very well, cochineal—blue, yellow, red and searlet—four coats of paint for delicate stomachs." "Isl ,, tc, then, for the mineral.: sulphur in the sulphuric acid, lead in my friend's rap- "Stop a minute," eagerly interposed Routitout, "again let me esamin e the knife," and rushing to the picklejnr tie triumph ! I aptly returned. "Copper! I told yon so— look at the coating on the knife. Copper, jingo! „ "Veryjingo. " , Very well—lend, copper." "And if any of you had happened to have sweetened your tooth with that cock of meg nificient plumage, there would have bee an addition of mercury and arseninte of copper, a pretty metallic currency to put into your blood's circulation with your breakfast, and then for a gentle alterative to-morrow morning—antimony, mercury and nrsenic, alias gray powder, would be likely to set matters right with a vengeance," and old noutitout laughed a demoniac laugh, "and, stop a bit, you have not done yet—there's lime in the eggs, sand in the sugar, horse•blood in the coffee, nod, per haps, mahogany saw-duet! just throw these little items in to make it 'thick and " "Bob," said I, turning very briskly upon our tormentor. "let's wash our mouths out with a glass of beer." "Here's to you," he said, watching with his clear blue eye the "beaded bubbles winking at the brim." "I dare say now you think that fine head is a recommendation to your tipple. The ;author of a practical treatise on brewing' however, lets us into a secret; the heading he tells us, is a mixture of half alum and half copperas ground to a Sae , powder, and is so called for giving to porter and ales Mt beautiful head of froth which constitutes one of its peculiar properties, and which land lords are so anxious to raise tergratify their customers. That fine flavor of malt is pro. duced by mixing salts of steel with coculu s indicus, Spanish liquorice, treacle, tobacco and salt." "But there's nothing of the kind in pale ale," I replied. "Well," sail he, in a half disaprpinted tone, "they used to talk about strychnine, though I believe that's all bosh, but you can't deny camomiles." "But what's the tiQc of disenchanting ty= in this way, if tradesmen are all robbers to gether?" I inquired. "What remedy have we?" "That's just the thiig the House of Com mons at this very moment are trying to give you. Mr. Seholeficld's bill on the adultera non of food, which was oriFinally intended to hit the adulterator very hard, is etnascu hated enough. for fear of interfering with trade; but there will be sonic protection for the intelligent classes, it is trite. Any article suspected of being adultetated, may be publicaliy analyzed, and if f mad to be sophisticated, the guilty party will he liable to a fine; this will lead to the better class of tradesman warranting their goods ns pure, and the middle and upper classes will. •in the end, reap the benefit of Dr. litt•tddl'i, investigations, and Mr. Seltolefield'a bill— but as for the poor, God help them! They pay dear for what they have, and never, by any chance, have it pure; and as they can't afford to have suspected articles analyzed, they must go to wall, as of old. We want a little touch of French deipotisin iu these matters. Every drop of milk brought into Paris is tested at the barriers by the laetometer, to see ill the 'iron-tailed cow' has been guilty of diluting it—if so the whole of it is remorselessly thrown into the gutter—the Paris milk is very pure in con sequence If a tradesman adalterates any article of food offered for ails, he is first lined, and then made publicly to confess his fault, by means of a large placard placed in his window, setting forth the exact nature id the trick he has played upon his ou-dinners. Imagine smite Of our leading tradesman obliged to sit in stiek.el 'tit and ashes, and suffer this mural pillory! Ooe lor two rogues thus cap ised world hove a t marvelous effect in keeping the sand out of the sugar, and the burnt beans out of the coffee, ,ke., "Now then, old fellow, as you have work ed yours, - If round into good humor again, take a weed?" "\ at the slightest objection in life, for it', the only thing to be got unsophisticated —there k plenty of bad tobacco, it is true— bat we know it is tobacco. There are many tales going, about the fine qualities of British tobacco grown in the Camberwell cabbage beds—but it's all fudge." "C.•tne," said I. "let's take a cnnstitu banal in the fresh air after this lecture?" "Fresh nir indeed;" 'all our old friend's savngeness was fast reviving. "Fresh air, with every gully hide sending forth streams of sulphurcted hydrogen, and < aiphuria acid, impregnating all the water—whore on earth do you find t our fresh air?" When he would' have ended there is no telling, had nut Bob slily tempted him with a thumping principe, on which his mouth closed with immense satisfaction to all par ties concerned. Telegraphic Literature llessr4. Ticknor & I'u•tds, of B t.foa, have just published a work on the Ilistory, The 'try and practice "1 the Electric Telegraph. It is from the pen of Ow .rgo 11 Premottt, Supetintentient t,f :he Telegraph Lines, whose experiete.e eitatues him to write intelligently and interestingly on the sulijeet. From the intsdellaneons parts or the hoo6 we take the following: I= The despatches winch p.ts, , tver a tele- graph line in the course of a year. if col leacd together, would present a very curi ous and interesting volume of correspon dence. The price of the transmission of a message depending upon the number of words which it contains, of contse renders the construction of it necessarily as brief as possible. Most despatches are contained in less titan ten words, (exclusive of address and signature, which are net charged for,) and it is surprising how much matter is often contained in this brief number.— Among the best examples of brevity which we have met with, however, arc the two following: A lady in a neighboring city, desirous of ascertaining when her husband would return home, sent him a message making the in quiry; to which he responded that important business detained him, and that he could not leave for some days. The lady immediately replied by sending him another despatch in the following, la- I=2 "At Home, .AuguAt 12, 1850. "To P. C. P.—Despatch received. Dent• eronomy.xxic, ,I (Signed) The g,entleman to whom the despatch was addressed, upon referring. to the passage in the Scriptures alluded to, obtained the fol lowing suggestive epistle: "When a man bath taken a new wife he shall nor ge out to war, neither shell lie be charged With any business; but lie shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he bath taken." The second example is the reply sent to a. $1,50' PE'R'YEATI IN ADVANCE; $2.00 IF NOT IN ADVANCE. '6O. person in a distant city, who having com• 1 mitted some offence against the laws, and run away; was desirous of ascertaining if it would be prudent for him to return. Lie therefore telegraphed in the following la conic style: "New York, July 4, 1859. "To B. C. N.— Philadelphia: "Is everything 0. K? D. T. M. To which he obtained the following brief reply: "Philadelphia, Ju ly 4. 1559. "To D. T. M—, New Tork:—Procerbs, emp. axvii. 12. B. C. M." Upon reference to the passage indicated the inquiring, individual obtained the fat lowing valuable advice, which, it is to be presumed he followed: "A prudent man fmseeth the evil and 7:i16171 himself: but the simple pass on and arc punished!" I= Some years ago there was a joke passing around upon the different telegraphic lines, which was played oft on a good many nn• suspecting individuals, in the following manner: "Boston. April Ist, 1855. "To L. E. Thant, at some hotel, Neto Bcdford: "In leaving this morning Sou neglected to take your trunk. What shall be dune with it? By pronouncing the name of the party addressed quickly, and the signature slowly, a solution of the '•sell" is obtained, and you get a view of the elephant at the same time. = There is another mode of receiving inted ligence In connection with the Morse lines,' besides those already described; namely, by means of the pass,age of shocks through the system. This we presume, has often been accomplished by different persons, although we have nut been knowing to the fact. Mr. Milliken, of the American Telegraph Office in Boston, assures us that he once read the greater part of a despatch as it was passing oler the wires between Boston and Port land, and that ho beard the Portland oper ator respond “0 K" (all right) to it, while he was seated upon the draw at Mystic river bridge, and held the end of a wire in each hand, thus passing the current through the body, 'and enabling him to read the let ters by the duration and number of the shocks he received. We have succeeded, upon several occa sions, in receiving messages in this manner, when we have been at a distance from an office and wished to obtain information in regard to the state of the line. Not long since we had been annoyed upon one of our wires by a very bud earth cur rent, and none of the repairers being able to find the difficulty, we instituted a search for it. Finally, upon arriving at Nepenset, we opened it circuit at the draw, and in quired of the Boston operator, by touching the ends of the wire together in the proper time, if the et:nit-current was between us and the Biiston office, or beyond. This he would at once tell by my opening the cir cuit—disconnecting the wires; if he got nay magnetism when the wires were disconnec ted, then the earth-current was between us and the office; if he got none, then .the trouble was beyond. This was important for us to know. lie replied that he did get an earth-current then we opened the cir cuit— We asked if it was very strong.— "Tee," I e replied, "nearly as strong as when you close." All this, the reader vi ill understand, we received through our system, and interprmed by the duration and number of the shocks. ••There is trouble also on the New Bedford wire,'' said he; "I have not had any circuit f+r nearly half an hour." We then sent an order for a line repairer to go out at once mid repair that line, and th en recommenced our investigations into the location of the earth-current. which we shortly aricrwahls succeeded in finding. =I S.me ten ye.irs or more ago there was upon the New York and Washington tele. graph line, at the L'hiladelphin station, an operator named Thayer, who, besides hying an adept in the business, was a gentleman of cultur.l and wit, and exceedingly fond of a joke, no matter nt whose expense. At the New York terminus of the line there was, upon the contrary, a steady, matter-of fact sort of man, who was no appreciator of jokes, and never practised them. The Pres Went of the line was lion. B. B. French, for many years Clerk of the !louse of Repre sentatives at Washington, n wit, poet, and humoris'; of course he appreciated humor wherever he canto across it. Thayer took it into his head one day to send a despatch to some fictitious name in New York, for the purpose of enj•+ying a laugh at the expense of the operator at Ncw York. Accordingly he composed and fur warded the following:- 1 "PIIIIADELPUIA. April ], ISGO. J . "To Mr. Jones, New York: Dent- "Scud me ten dollars nt once, so that I can get my clothes. (Signed) Juma." "13 words, collect 34 cents." The operator of 'den• York, not suspect ing any, joke, asked the Philadelphia opera tor for the address. The Philadelphia operator replied that "the young lady diirnt leave any;" and asked him to "look in the Directory for it." The New York operator replied that he "bad already done so, but as there were over fifty Joneses in the Directory, he wcs at a loss to know which one to send it to." I [WHOLE NUMBER 1,571 "If that is the case," says Thayer, "you bad better send a copy to each of them, anti charge thirty-four cents apiece." . The New York operator did so, and I will give the result of the arrangement in the words of the President, Mr. French, from whom, a few chys after this affair Mr. Thayer received the following letter. "NEW YORK, April 6, 1860. "MR. TnA%ER,—Sir: A few days since you sent a despatch purporting to be from one Julia, addressed to Mr. Jones, New York. The New York operator informed you that he desired an address, as there were upwards of fifty .Joneses in the directory, and was at at a loss to know which of them it was de signed for. You replied that in that case he must send a copy to, every one of thorn and charge upon each; and,the operator in New York, in the Innocence of his heart, did so. Some twenty of the Joneses paid for their despatches, but there was one sent to the residence of an elderly merchant by that name, who being away from home when it arrived, it was opened by his wife, and was the occasion r f a very unpleasant do mestic scene. Mr. Jones has been to see me in relation to the matter, and threatens to sue the company for damages, taking the thing very much to heart. "Now, this - nll very funny, and a good joke, and l have laughed nt it as heartily as anybody; butyou hail not better try it again or any of the rest of the operators upon the line, if you rdue your situations." "ADAM GooDSCI.I.." We chin - teed to be conversing with the manager of a telegraph office in his coun ting-room, when an individual entered, and proceeded to the counter where the business was transacted, winch was at the farther side of the room, some litle distance. froth where we were standing, and commenced preparing a dispatch for the clerk, who stood ready to receive it. The manager, with whom we were conversing made sev eral apparently careless little taps upon the shelf before him with a pencil, which he held in his hand; the clerk at the other end of the room was also, apparently to us, drumming listlessly with his penholder, as he waited on his customer. All this time, while four of ua were holding an animated colloquial intercourse, the apparently care ' less tops of the two telegraphers were intel ligible communications exchanged between them. @ME Noisager.—"Give your attention for a despatch." (The usual taps for a "call" of an operator from one station to another im plying the above.) Clerk.—" Al l right; go ahead." Munagir. —"Don't send that man's mes sages unless he pre-pays in ensh." Clerk.—" All right; won't credit him .a dime." . . Xanager.—"After he pays this one, col lect sixty-eight cents for messages sent by him yesterday, which he was trusted' for." By this time the clerk had a bank mate which the dilatory customer had produced, upon learning that it was necessary for the messages to be prepaid, and from which he blandly made change, deducting the sixty eight cents. The communicated sound had in this in stance proved of some little service, and was utterly unnoticed save by the two par- ties interested. Some ten years sine° ti.c•e was a very ludicrous, and at the same time natural blunder, prepetroted upon the line between Roston and New Fork. A gentleman sent a despatch I....questing parties in New York to "nit ward sample forks by express."— 'When the message was delivered, it real thus: "Forward sample for K. S." The parties who received it replied by asking what samples K. S. a:lilted. Of cunr:e the gentleman came to the office and complained that the despatch had been transmitted wrong, and the operator prom. ised to repeat it. Accordingly ho tele graphed the New York operator, that the dispatch should have read, "Forward sam ple forks." The New Yor•k operator, having read it wrong in the first instance, could not decipher it differently now. lie replied that he did rend it, •'Sample fur K. S.'' and o delivered it. "But," returned the Boston' operator, "I did not sny 'fur K. S., but f-n "What a stupid fellow that is in Boston." evelaimed the New York operator, in n rage,. -Ile say• lie didn't say fur K. S., but for K. Sr' The 'Boston operator tried for an hour to make the New York operator read it "forks," but not succeeding, he wrote the despatch upon a slip of paper, and forward ed it by mail; and it remained n standing' joke upon the line for many months after wards. .Since the paper has been abolished u p on the ,parse lines, errors like the above rarely occur. The car is found to be a much more reliable organ for the telegraph er than the eye. We do not think we should overshoot the mark if we said there : is not one error made in reading by sound where there were ten formerly in reading from the long strips of paper. Ono reason is, as we remarked in a previous 'chapter, I that the operater in reading by so n d ' has I his eyes at liberty, and can write dotra his despatch as he reads it by the tick, with all the facility with which an expert reporter can follow and note down accurately all the ADrANTACE CW RE .DISC BY SOUND The following was the dialogue which oc- I=l MIMI
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