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.VOLUME XXXIV, NUMBER 20.3
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ATTORNEY AND comma AT LAW.
Columbia. Pa.
Collections r. romptlymade nLancastemndSark
'manes.
Columbia, May 4,1850.
• DR. HOFFER,
DENTIST: --OFFICE, Front Street 4th doer
from Locust. over Saylor &IbleDonald's Book sto
I Colon* a Pa. EU - Entrance, same I'h
oomph Gallery. [Amy. 21. 're
Harrison's Conmbian Ink
wincti is a superior article, permimentlr black,
I'l' and not corroding the len, eau be had in any
at the Family Medicine Share, and blacker
yet to that English 13001 Polish.
Columbia, Juan 0,1839
Another Nem Arrival.
NATE are opening dila dny o beautiful line of Ladies',
bents' and Hipp.' wear, which we are offering
at prices to suit the times.
STEACY& BOWERS,
cor. :Id nod Locust :Os
Julia 4,18,6,2
Vous ek eep e r's, a Word:
JUST Received.n full stock of blenched mid un
lileachcd Aludms. Checks. Gingham.
nod Prints, in n word. everything pertaining to do
"uestic nat. _ Cull and examine for your.elvcs. at
STI•:ACV & ROWERS.
cor Sd and Locust
'June 7, ISG2
Lawns, Lawns, Lawns.
•T Fs cidl and see our licutniful Id: cent Lawns.
fast esdoss, st STEACY & 110
June 28. 1t Oppo.ite odd Fellow- , I 1011.
, HOOPED SHIRTS.
!NEW and splendid •iyle of Hooped Filarts, juin
I received; Also, n full issoinnent of oilier styles,
;very cheap. A l 4:-.T I3 Y & CASE ,
Columbia. A pr-I 26, ISGI. • I.ocuiit Street.
FOIL SALIM,
15 0 o Shelf. G. A. Suit, 100 Sacks Ashton Salt Ap
ply at A I' POLD'S
Warehouse, Canal Basin.
Columbia. Dre.lS. ISGI.
NOW FOR BARGAINS.
TTTE linve ja.t seceitred another Int of all-wool
Y Wine• and plaid Alosintiliapie... which we rifler at
seduced prise:, :TRACY' h HOW Kits.
Cola. June it.E, 1E62 Cor. 2d and Locust to.
TOLD CREAM OF GLYCERINE.--For the etirr
and prevrolion fn rbupprd handu. Ike. Vol un't
/LULN :11t1ItTA It DRUG ST4 MI.:.
grout
MCI
Dre I,IBZS
270T1C11.
Tunileeiti t pleil node• that he inteetl.
/. lietealler Ile do a leash, nod will sell ationit
.11 reiloresi men .111,1 niiterii wlw cis
eeiee then pity moi,,hl wri Le niieweil u credit
:/(/ 11. 1 , . VEIL
Oct 0419,a.
'..%49.1 AT! SALT!
JUST received by the .Itll.l.riber, ut their More '1
Lot old nreet below Second,
• . 100 Bags Ground Mum Salt,
ik..t twill be sold at LIIC Lowell market prices.
Cali .jmy .1. ItUMPLIZ & SON
GLASS, GLASS, GLASS Y.
"frUST received. irons the manufactory. n In'rge lot o
0 Glass %V are. at very law prices. The place to get r
cheap Tumble cc to put your jellies in. is
STEAM - & BOWERS.
corner Second turd Locust Sts.
Columbia. l'a.
July 19,15 - Z
TO THE LADIES'.
'UTE would call your .peciul attention to a <sew and
11 beautiful line of Dtess Goods we bass just ra
c.ciyed,ar reduced priCes ATEAcv t
now Err,.
Opposat Odd Fellows' Holt.
Colunlibm,ra.
Mny 17, ISO
Tom Thumb About Again!
AV PC:Arleen Tin and Hourie-furnia 4 irag t" tore, bo
11. eirvt -thret.oppothe the Bank. 'I be Taamh.
limlp• 'r• the very beet Coal Oil Latro• enr •'^rl
and exits - nitre I,'mi.
11 - 7" . Beet Coal Oil at 25 cts., per sailer., at
Columbia. May 17,1 , 52. Pt A tir.r.rt,4
FArmix. wow?. notrsx* vrovri
The last chance for bargains.
2500 Pieces Watt Parer,
OF our beg et) lex and quality. yet on hand, which
we are elo-o.a out at 50 percent. lower than rhila
delphia Wholesale l'oces. Cull tOOll as we u•.- sell
mg of rapidly
H. C. FONDERSNITTR,
Adjoitimg the Egok,
Columbia. March 29.1862
AERW morn of those beautiful 'Tuts
which will lie cold cheap, at
SAYLOR lc fiIcDONALLOA
Columbia. ha
Carl
We Have Just Received
R. CUTTER'S Improved 'Chest Expanding
SoPpentier and Shoulder Braces for Gentlemen,
and Patent Skin :Flueporter and Brace for Ladles,
lnst the article that is Wanted at thin time. Come
and see them nt Fa mily,Medicine Stare, Odd Fellows'
[April 9, I 5.59_
.or, Pond's' Boston Crackers, for
'MA — byarwritiea, and Arrow Root Crackers,
vrlida and elsildeen—new articles in Columbia, al
the Family Medicine Store,
April LG. 11159. - -
PREfitItGO GLUI—The want of
fh" wch an article to felt In every family, and now
cam be supplied; for mending furniture, china
:rantre.ornametita I Work, toys. &c., there in nothing
.superior. %V e have found it usefulln repairing tnnny
articles Whirl, have been useless for months. Yo
Jastriiii it at the
"ItegsanAl MILT NIIMICIN F. STORE "
POCKET BOOKS AND PURSES
ALAW: E lot of Fine and Common Pocket Books
and Purses, at from 15 cents to two dollar. each.
He Idriouriers and News Depot.
April 14.1 t6O.
AWL PST ARAM/IM.
AVING just received our first
NEW RING.. STOCK. we would a nnounce to
:Min citizens of Columbia and - mei idly, that it is
-NOW READY FOR INSPECTION,
4o till whom:my favor as with a call, feeling confident
, we ran offer goods at such:inlets as.sv ill induce all to
, t iateitase.
in. - CALL AND t 4 ER THEM Ea
& ito
.roreier !Itt and Locust Sm.
Opposite Odd Fellows' Hell.
E33=l
xxosimix, ito - sumur.
tapes , awl Hoye iloalery.in great
.1J variety notwithnanding the great advance In the
priee of go ode,we will sell at dor weal low price.
, • itTSACY dr. BOIVP:R3.
-Corner of•llecoud and Loottat Street*.
Cora. Toll . 10, 4 02. - CotegAtia, Pa
•:,-- PISUI - 713311
,Arkaantin. by the !Mire?. half barrel and quarter
r barrel., et the best qbalates.
tirsply to
Colombia. letly 12. iPO2.
- - CORN . - VINEGAR! •
• .yr ns.:..m , bPst aetiek or Viewer in th
MIMS 4- COS "reTir CORN 171. AS" P .424 ,
Which may be bad Emileellulactooy, in bei'end .t.,
zeijOining tee.' Fellows' - • -
. l ! C. C. ItISIS . it. COr•
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TO PRorEsson.s OWEN AND HUXLEY.
Say am I a man and a brother,
Or only an anthropoid ape?
Yourjudgment, be't one way or Vother,
Do put into positive Bp ape.
Must I humbly take rank ns quadrattan
As Owen aian:mins that ought:
Or rise into brotherhood human,
As Huxley hurt flateringly taught:
EMI
for though you may think a gorilla
Dim% think much of his rank in creation,
If of feeling one have a scintilla,
It glows to know 'who's one's relation"—
Apes and monkeys (now crowding by dozens
Their kinship:sviili us to save proved),
Or on Oweu and Huxley for cousins,
Though, it may be, a little removed,
If you ask me my private opinion
(Which humbly through Punch k submitted),
jro which sphere of nature's dominion
I seem to myself to be fitted:
To peak with decision I'm funky,
Nature's field when I selfishly scan,
For in some if man's above monkey,
In some monkey's fur above man.
My ignorance needs no apologies—
With ;mammy nought I've to do—
This with all the appurtenant .ologies"
1 leave, my professors, to you.
But the point; wherein I say that man
Must perforce monkey own his iuperior,
Are where man apes the apes all he can,
And yet to the apes in inferior.
Thus, power of jaw apes beat fellows
Of your 011 , 11 ECIC)II4C =ocietie•;
The I'. R. they outrival in "bellows."
In gymnastics your first Dolomites.
What's Rtondin to every chimpanzee,
Or Leotard great in traprze
If their icats mow the pulthe
NVlint rat title a gildion •boutd raise!
You ' ve low comedy set°, , on , utntrtate
lu c11.2,;41,,T,. :131d
lint In many who'd trueu :mu, look glum at
Toe rtutukey-eitee• woken. , u laugh.
\\'h+ll litgger-dullVer., and jibes
To the blank .pider monkey COIll011.1044:
Ilefore preseher.drionkeys by
llow entail ucum one Spurgeon's proportion,:
One distinction ;alleged, I must soy
Betwixt man and monkey is hollow—
Vt'kere monkey or mon shows the way,
Other men. oilier monkeys will follow.
But from all points of difference one toms
To this crowning divergence to come,
Not one man ia.si Ilion..ond e'er learns
To keep silent—ail monkeys are dumb:
ror distinetiona of brnin—cerebehum--
Po-te riot. lobe—hippoertmou
I leave you TO eat down or owell 'rm.
They are scarce the di..tilleholla to stamp a•
Now thi. way, now that, Withifill end,
Pin c+raycd by tha pro , . nod the enni,
An I (eel man and mimicry tmatend
Which in cature'.. doom a are ;he dmi•,
Tbru )u•lp inc, Profe..nrs, I orny;
For Engl.-It opimo•t 1 v . .l'ur;
(You I lank law• I ruff . ..real Wlll3l/ Only '
So pitched Mill me, through no Clru )
A usticony out of Ihr qa,..1
Had I ',viler be motley or roar,
By ciilmfottord rrlf•lnier.Fr4 .11)Toilion?
Say you—for hung an, ill Can.
Pleasant Railroad Pellowz
Does any one know them, I wonder?
Will any one have the least spark of pity for
a 'timid man, who, in locomotive days.
weakly confesses himself to he no traveler?
end who, under the misery of an unavoid
able journey, suffered one of those friends
who speak of themselves as "lawyers al
ways on the line," to beguile him out of the
snug empty carriage he had subsided into,
on the plea that "the nest best thing to a
good carriage is good company."
I was that man, helpless in my friend's
hands, and trying to do a little off-hand
bravery, in feeble emulation of his "always
on the line" noncltaknee. I dare say my
carelessness was not n success; I know it
was mixed up with a strange desire to ask
my better informed friend how many tun
nels there were on my route, and whether
they were very long ones. nut shame
helped me and I refrained. I took, also,
silently and in great humility, my seat in
the carriage which it pleased him to point
out. And when the train became uneasy.
and showed symptoms of a bolt, looking
once more in through the window, he nod
ded slightly to my fellow travelers, and
gave me comfort in a whisper aside:
"You'll do now," be said; "pleasant con
versable fellows on a journey."
I don't know that I like the motion, but
certainly it seems to me that the sensation
of being whirled rapidly through tbo fresh
air does not induce a longing fur conversa
tion, but rather predisposes ono to silence.
I looked at my companions however, grimly
enough from my corner. There were only
three of them—wiry man, with white hair,
whose cheek bones looked as if the skin was
too tight fur them, and they must inevita
bly burst it; a dyspeptic looking individual;
and a man, whose face I could not see, as
had got behind his newspaper, but from the
way in which he rustled that same paper,
and gave,vont to an occasional "Ll'm! h'm!"
I concluded that he was a lamas man. As
they all were, nr seemed to be, reading, I
had an opportunity for a copious analysis
of expression and featirre . , if f had felt dis
posed for it; and I was just in the act of,
maculating, from - the legs and other portions
of body which were visible to me, what sort
of a faro might appertain to the third Judi
vidusis when its owner lowered the paper,
and cut short, my examination with hor-,
tibia •,abnaptness. •
:Another frightful railway'
mid-thernervirak solmondyiceterms-el.
B. V. A P POLD,
Canal arson
Elytttg.
The Gorilla's Dilemma
grtutinu.
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"NO ENTERTAINMENT SO CIIEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING."
COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 13, 1862.
ing is becoming a thing of positive danger
It's awful!"
And be placed a finger, which trembled
either with the motion of the carriage or
from neuralgic causes, on a column of the
paper.
"Humph!" said the dyspeptic man. "Did
you ever happen to be in at the death—l
mean, in ut, , a collision, sir?"
"I cannorsay I ever did," was. the agita
ted response.
"Ah! it's not a pleasant thing."
"So I should imagine. I..was once in a
train when it took fire. The screams of the
women were appaling, perfectly. We hap-
pened, fortunately, to be near a station, or
I don't know what the consequence would
have been. And that is a casualty which
may Occur at any moment.".
"I was once in for a collision," said the
dyspeptic. "The only, sensation I can think
of in connection with it, is what I should
suppose to be implied by the figure of
speech, 'pitched into the middle of next
week.' That, at least, was my first feeling;
the , oext was one - of violent anger against a
lady whose head had butted like a batter
ing ram into my chest. I suppose she could
not help it, and I dare say I was not the
only sufferer by the contact, but people
should be more careful how they sit. My
digestion has never been right since. With
the exception of that, I sustained no injury,
which was fortunate, as there were a few
people killed, and some disagreeably
wounded. I also cnce traveled in a carri
age whose several joints were in such a
state of disunion that I positively at times
held my breath in terror, expecting every
minute that the thing would smash under
me. At the first atationl callef, the gunrd,
of course. He just gave a look at my 'car
riage, and shook his his head at it know
ingly.
"'Oh, it's that old customer again, is it?
He's at his old tricks. He'll drop to pieces
one of these days. Come along, sir, I'll
find you another."
"What line.was that on?" inquired :the
nervous man.
"When one thinks," proceeded the dys
peptic, disregarding the question, "Of the
trivial causes which will produce railway
accidents, the only wonder is that there is
not more. I have heard it asserted that so
slight a thing as the burrowing of a mole is
enough to throw a whole train off the line,
by causing the sleeper to sink. Whether
it is true or not—"
A voice interrupted the speaker. By the
way, I put it to any candid and unbiased
traveler, whether these, my companions,
were such as he would chose under the head
of pleasant conversable fellows on ajourney?
But that is set aside. I was following with
painful minuteness the scene of the mole's
burrow, the sunk slecrer, and the train
pitched over an embankment, when the
voice above mentioned, to my unspeakable,
but, alas! only momentary satisfaction,
broke the dyspectic thread. It was a deep,
hollow voice, and it proceeded from the
chest of the wiry man. And it said, "I
once had an adventure—" It paused at a
groan which I tried to smother in my big
plaid; while the two other pleasant "fellows
bristled up with a ghoulish expectation.
REM
"I once had a little adventure in a rail
way carriage, which may strike you, gentle
men, as at least uncommon. It occurred
in the closing stage of of a pretty long jour
ney, and upon a branch line, on which, for
tunately for me, there was little traffic.
must premise, however, that there were two
lines of rail. In changing carriages I was
tired and stupid, and got into the first which
offered itself, rather glad to find that it had
no other occupant. And as I calculated
that there were full two hours of slow
traveling before me, I made myself as snug
as circumstances would permit, and the re
sult is simple. I fell fast asleep. I had all
sorts of fantastic dreams, of course, ns one
does have in unusual positions; but what
waked me? I did not know; nor why I felt
constrained to start up with a horrible mis
giving at my heart, as I opened my eyes.
It wait . ; pitch dark. The light in the roof
had gone out, or else never existed. ]lut
where were we, and why was it dark?
Above all, why were we not moving, and
why did the darkness grow upon me as
something that could be felt? There is n
song about the beating of ones own heart;
it was, indeed, the only sound I heard as I
made my way to the window. I could see
nothing but the luminous rings whiCh came
as I beat my eyelids together, vainly; I
could not see my hand before me; I could
only feel. I tried my waiscoat pocket for a
fusee box—found it; there were but two
matches, and I struck one desperately. Ohl
the glorious beauty of that light! transient
as it was; the utterable darkness which fol
lowed, as it sputtered for a moment and
then went out. It had showed me nothing
but a ghastly heap in one corner, which
started from nervously, remembering the I
next moment that it was my own coat and
wrap.
•'I shouted, but there was no one to an
swer, while the sound of my own voice told
me where I was. I knew all about it by
this time, though I tried to fight off the
conviction. I had gut into the last carriage
in the train,.and bad been left behind; not
under the broad sky, where the starlight
might have helped me, but in a tunnel, and
alone. That was the crowning: horror.
Why should this last carriage have been the
only one left, its it masthave been, for I
bid:shouted loud enough to Totem therSeren
Sleepers; and why was there no one in it
but myself? I knew the tunnel and its
length, but 'whereabouts in its hideous
blackness was I? Should I get out? I tried
the doors, but they were locked; I could,
perhaps, have scrambled through ono of the
windows, but to what purpose, and on which
side? Stretching out my hand, I tried to
feel for the wall of the tunnel, shuddering,
as I thought it would meet me clammy ond
stone-cold, like the hand of a corpse. But
I could not reach it. Was it the other side!
I pressed over to try. Hush! What was
that? I daew back my arm instinctively,
and sank down a - helpless mass on my seat
again. Do you know what it was, gentle
men, that I heard then? It was the snort
of a distant engine. Everywhere before
me I saw the glare of two ferocious eyes,
like the eyes of a wild beast in his den, and
I knew that every snort was bringing the
monster steadily closer. Which lino of
rails was it upon? Nearer still. Another
minute more—and where should I be?
Mutilated fragments of a.human body once
my own, whirling awry in all directions,
rose up to answer that question as it passed
through my mind. Nearer still. It takes
but a second, say the wise and learned, to
bring before a man" his whole life; but in
that strange moment, instinct as it was with
a horrible fascinated excitement, I saw only
the ferocious eyes, anti heard the voice of
my young brother, dead long years ago,
calling upon me to save him, as he was
wont to do in delirum. Nearer still—and
the earth quivered beneath me, and thunder
filled my cars. There was a whirling rush,
a quick wind, and then the roar going off
into the distance again. When I could
think of myself, I found that I was sitting
doubled up, skrinhing as a man would from
a threatened blow, and my hands were
clenched till I felt the smart of tic nails in
my flesh. The train had chanced to be on
the other line of rails, or 1 had not been sit
ting hero now to speak of it. An engine
was despatched to bring up the missing
carriage, its soon as the fact
,of its having
been left, behind was discovered. And
so ended my little adventure—in good
time, for this is your station, I think, gen
tlemen."
And the nervous man and the dyspeptic
got out. The hero of the little adventure
looked at me, and coughed twice; then he
sneezed; but my eyes were sealed in the
energy of dezmair, and finding his case
hopeleq, lie suffered me to do the rest of
the journey in silence, with a buzzing brain,
and the mental resolution of a timid; man,
who will never again suffer himself to ho
beguiled into putting himself in the power of
"plea not conversable fellows on the jour
ney.'!
The Double Robbery
Toward the close of the last century
Northumberland and the border were ter
ribly infested by those—to the bucolic mind
—particularly obnoxious specimens of the
!gnus thief known as "rierers," or "lifters of
cattle."
Almost all the - rascals who.followed this
not unluorativo profession trusted chiefly to
mere brute for.ce to carry out successfully
their nefarious - schemes. There was, how
ever, ono exception to this rule to be found
in person of a celebrated free-hooter, known
as "Dickey of Kingwood." This worthy
openly expressed iris disapprobation of
rivals' vulgar mode o f following tieir
pao
fession, and repeatedly boasted that ho
could achieve twice as much by his cunn:ng
as they could by their brute force. Nor
was this assertion of his empty boasting—
far from it.
In a few years' time Dickey's name be
came the terror of the country side. No
farmer felt secure when he retired to rest nt
night that his cattle might not have vanish
ed before morning. Su cleverly, moreover,
were all Dickey's enterprises conducted,
that no man could ever succeed in making
personal acquaintance with him. lie openly
set justice at defiance, nod Lughed at the
futile efforts of law to punish him. Per
haps, however, the best way to illustrate
the adroitness and good luck which charac
terized all Dickey's proceedings will be for
me to relate the story of one of his exploits.
It appears, then, that during the course of
his peregrinations through Northumberland,
one fine afternoon, Dickey's eyes were glad
dened by the sight of a pair of fine oxen
which were quietly grazing in a field near
Denton Burn, a village distant three miles
from Newcastle.
Determined to possess thorn, Dickey hung
about the place till nightfall, watched where
the animals were driven to, and—his usual
good fortune assisting him—speedily secured
hie prize. Ile also contrived, by the exer
cise of his accustomed conning, to leave
such traces behind him as wade the owner
of the oxen certain that the free-booter
made off toward Tweed. Thither he accor
dingly proceeded in hot haste. In the
interim, however, Dickey had lost no time
in "making tracks" towards the west country
and so expeditious were his movements that
in a short time he reached Danercost, in
Cumberland. Liere he fell in with en old
farmer on horseback, who being delighted
with the appearance of the oxen, forthwith
purchased them_
Dickey was of coarse rejoiced at getting
rid so pleasantly of n charge which could
not fail to be troublesome—nay, possibly
dangerous—to'him longer to retain. Tne
farmer, 'moreover, • was mounted upon a
splendid mare, which Dickeyorith 'his -pe.
culiar ideas on the .autiect of mews and
Mum, at once resolved by fair means or foul,
t secure. Eie.therefore willingly accepted
the farmer's hospitable invitation to ac
company him to his house in :order that
they might "crack" a bottle of good wine in
honor of the bargin. Presently Dickey in
quired of the farmer if; he would sell his
mare?
"Sell you my mara" exclaimed his host,
all aghast at this proposition. "Sell my
mare? No, thank you. Why there's not
her equal in tho whole north country!"
"I do not doubt it, Mr. Musgrave," re
sponded Dickey; "and from what I saw; of
her paces this morning, I am quite of your
opinion that there's not her equal within a
hundred miles of us; but," added the 'obse
quious Dick, "since you will, not sell her,
I can only wish you a long life and good
health to enjoy her."
This sentiment was of course duly honor
ed in a bumper
"l hope, Mr. Musgrave," next observed
Dickey, "that you keep a close look-out after
your stable door, because now, whore that
rascal Dickey of Eingswood is allowed to be
at liberty, a man cannot be sure but that
any fine morning he might find his stable
empty.
"Stable! hal ha'." chuckled the farmer.
"I think," be continued, "that Dickey Kings
wood would find it rather difficult to steal
my mare from her stable:"
"Indeed! where may her stable be situ
ated?" inquired Dickey.
"Her stable! bless you, sir!" answered
Mr. Musgrave, "her stable is in my bed
room! I'm a bachelor, and so every night I
fasten her to my bed post. I have had a
manger put up fur her in the room, and no
music is so pleasant to me as to hear her
grinding her corn all night by my bedside.
Dickey was astounded—as well ho might
be—ut such unheard of precautions: but
disguising his astonishment, he contented
himself by simply expressing, to the farmer
his hearty approval of the means lie adopted
to secure the sa fety of his favorite.
"I suppose you have a good lock upon
' your bed room door?" wits Dickey's next
"feeler."
"Come with me, and I will show it you,"
replied the unsuspecting farmer.
This was just what Dickey wanted. lie
examined the lock carefully, and soon satis
fied himself that he could pick it without
much difficulty. Ue, however, declared to
Musgrave that it was •just the right sort of
lock; it couldn't hare been better in fact;
it t•es quite non-pickable," etc.
Again the cup passed round, and after
draining a bumper to fbeir."next merry
meeting" Dickey departed.
The old farmer. af,er hid guest's leave
taking had been completed; carefully went
the rounds of his house, locking doors and
closing windows with all due precaution.—
lie then, as usual, tied his mare to her ac
customed post, retired and was soon lulled
to sleep by the sound of his favorite7grind
ing her:corn.
So the night wore away. Presently, ns
the first gray streaks of dawn began to ap
pear. Mr. Musgrave awoke, and feeling
very cold ....nd chilly, looked around to as
certain the cause. To his astonishment, he
Ifound that all the coverlets had been taken
off lie bed and that his blankets had been
speed out upou the floor. For what per
t pose? thought Mr. Musgrove. Was he the
i ‘l..:tila of some horrible nightmare, or was
he really awake? Mechanically his eye
giant:ad to the spot where his mare should
have been. She was not there! She was
gone—stolen! During the night some dar
ing thief had broken into the farm house,
had picked the lock on the door of the bed
room, had spread the blankets over the floor,
so that the hoofs of the mare should make
no noise, and had thus triumphantly made
off with his prize.
Of course Mr. Musgrave roused his house
hold, and commenced a vigorous search after
the thief. It was useless. The despoiler
had left no traces behind him, and eo Mr.
Musgrave was obliged to return home dis
consolate,
and to content himself with vent
ing curses—neither few nor far between— i
upon the thief.
In the meantime our friend Dickey—,for
his was the deed—was comfortably mounted
upon Mr. Musgrave's favorite mare, and
was every moment increasing the distance
between her outraged owner and himself.
So great was the speed of the mare, that by
the break of day Dickey felt himself secure
from pursuit. He had directed his steps to
the eastward, and while crossing Ilaltwhis
tle Fell, whom should be encounter but the
veritable owner of the OXIIIC he had stolen
two or three days before and had just sold
to Mr. Musgrave!
Dickey knew the owner of the oxen well,,
but, luckily for the freebooter, that injured ,
individual did not know him. He therefore
accosted Dickey, and inquired if he had
seen any oxen in the course of his travels)
similar to those he described himself to rick'
as being in search of.
"Why to be sure I have!" replied Dickey;
"with the very same marks as you describe,
grazing in Mr. Musgrave's fields at Later
cost, only yesterday. I was fathers struck,"
he continned, "by their appearance, and,
learned; on inquiry, from one of his servants,
that Mr. Musgrave had purchased them
just yesterday. Undoubtedly the oxen are i
yours. - I would-advise you to go to Loner-
oleic at once and claim-them.
— "Certainly "Pori replied the other.—
.•13cit d eartiredowitb Lard wiakiavaptit
$1,50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE; $2,00 IF NOT DT ADVANCE.
is a long way to Lanercost. I aeo you ride
a good beast. Will you sell her?"
After some hard bargaining., terms were
agreed upon, the purcha.e money was paid
down on the spot, and Dickey and the far
mer separated; the farmer to seek his stolen
oxen, actually from the very owner of the
stolen mare he was himself riding, while
Dickey proceeded "where lie li , ted."
The next day the farmer reached Loner
cost and at onco recognized his own oxen
grazing in the field. He forthwith ride up
to an elderly man standing nrar. whom he
judged to be the owner of the field and ex
claimed:
"I say, friend, those are my oxen in your
field: How may you have come by them?''
"And I'll be hanged replied the other,
(after taking a long, astonished look at the
animal on which his questioner was mount.
ed,) "if that's not my mare you are riding!
flow may you have come by her:pray?"
Each of course described the person from
whom they had respectively purchased the
oxen and the mare; and when this was done,
they discovered they had indeed been "sold"
by a rogue of no common order.
So laughable did the joke appear—even
to those who had to "pay the piper" in the
affair--that neither party could prevent
breaking out into a peal of merriment when
the particulars were fully disclosed.
It was now clear that the only way to eat
tle the affair was for each party to take
back his own property. Musgrave was of
course overjoyed at the recovery of his fa
vorite mare and the Denton Burn farmer
being equally delighted at the recovery of
his oxen, it fell nut that, in the general
burst of rejoicing, Dickey was allowed to
quietly pocket the sale money of both mare
and oxen.
Whether Dickey ultimately came to an
untimely end, or whether he reformed his
ways, nod died, duly "shrived," in his own
bed, history telleth not.
Certain it is, however, that to this day
his deels are "household words" in many
parts of Northumberland, and the mention
of his name among the peasantry is consid
ered synonymous with "cuteness."
The Marvels of o. Seed
flare you ever considered haw wonderful
a thing the seed of a plant is? It is a mira
cle. God said, "let there be plants yielding
seed," and it was further added, "each one
after his kind."
The great naturalist Cuvier, thought that
the germs of all past, present, and future
generations of seed ware contained one with
in the other, as packed in a succession of
boxes. Other learned men have explained
this mystery in a different way. But what
signify ull their explanations? Let them
explain it as they will, the wonder remains
the same, and we must look upon the re
production of the seed as a continued mira
cle.
Is there upon earth a machine, is there a
place, is thero even a city, which contain s
so much that is wonderful as is enclosed in
a little seed—one grain of corn, one litt'e
brown apple seed, one small seed of a tree,
picked up, perhaps, by a sparrow for her
little ones, the smallest of a poppy or a
bluebell, or oven one of the seeds that are
so small that they float about the air invis
ible to our eyes? Alt! there i, a world of
marvel and brilliant beauties hidden in each
of these tiny seeds. Consider their immense
number, the perfect separation of the differ
ent kinds, their power of life and resurrec
tion, and their wonderful fruitfulness.
Consider first their number. Ahout r..
hundred and fifty years ago, the celebrated
Linn:cos, who has been called the hither of
botany, reckened 5,000 different
kinds of plants; and he then I timglit that
the 'whole number existing could not
10,000. hue one hundred years 1141 Pr him,
M. de Candolle, of Geneva, described 40,0(.0
kinds of plants, and supposed it possible
that the number might be 100,000.
Well, let me ask you, have these 100,000
kinds of plants over failed to bear the right
seed? Have they ever deceived us? Has
a sycamore tree over sprung from au acorn ,
or a beach tree from a 'chestnut? A little
bird may carry away the small seed of a
sycamore in its beak to feed its nestlings,
and on the way may drop it on the ground.
The tiny seed may spring up and grow
where it fell, unnoticed, add sixty years
after it may become a magnificent tree, un
der which the flocks of the valley and their
shepherds may find.rest in the shade.
Consider next the wonderful power of life
and resurrection bestowed on the seeds of ,
plants, so that they may be preserved from
year to year, and even tram century to cen
tury.
Lot a child put a few seeds in a drawer
and shut them up, and sixty years after
wards, when his hair is white and his step
tottering, let him take one of these seeds,
and sow it in the groudd, and soon after he
will see it spring up into new life, and be
come a young, fresh and beautiful plant.
Jouaneut relates that in the year
1835, sevral old Celtic tombs were discovered
near Begerne. Under the bead of each of
the dead bodies there was found a small,
square stone or brick, with a hole in each,
containing a few seeds which had been
planted there beside the dead by their
heathen friends, who bad buried them per
haps 1500 or 1700 Jeers before. These
seeds were -carefully sown 'by those who
found thorn. ;, What was -seen to spring from
theelast of the dead? l3ekritifal sanattwer*,
blue coralfiluerers„.stad 'skiver bearing ,bloat
[WHOLE NUMBER 1,686,
' Boras as bright and sweet as those which
i are woven into wreathes by the Me — rri"erilr
dren now playing in our fields.
Some years ago, a vase,' hernretically - '
' sealed, was found infs mummy-pit in Egypt,
by the English traveller, Wilkinson,' ah
sent it to the British Museum. ThelibTd-
I rims there, having unfortunately brOlren it,
discovered in, it a few grains of wheat and
one or two peas, old, wrinkled and as bard
us stone. Tho peas were planted carefully
under glass on the sth of June,lB4 and
at the end of thirty days these beeds were
seen to spring up into new life. They bad
been buried probably about 3,000 years
ago, perhaps in the time of Moses, and bad
slept all that long time apparently _dead,
yet still liting in the dust of
.•the tomb.--•
Lecture by Peat. Claussen, of Sioib:erlanei.
WnAr A VOLCANO C.tx Da.—Cutopazi,
1733, threw its firy rockets 3000 feet above
its crater; while in 1751, the binning mass,,
struggling fur an outlet, roared so that Its
awful voice was heard a dist ,nee of more
than six hundred miles. In 1702 the crater,
of Tungaragna, one of the great peaks of
the Andes flung out torrents of mud, which,
dammed up rivers, opened new lakes, and
in valleys of 1000 feet wide made deposites
of 03 feet deco. The btreara from Vesuvi
us, which in 1337 passed through Torre del
Greco, contained 33,990,000 cubic feet of
solid matter; and in 1793, when Torre del
Greco was destroyed a second time, the mass
of lava atnoanted to 43,030,090 eishici - feet.'
In 1700, Etna poured forth a flood which
covered SI sr aro mile.; of surface, and
measured nearly 109,003,000 cubic feet.—
On this occasion the san I and scoria formed.
the Monte 11.39:21i, floor Nicholosa, a cono
two miles in circumference, and 4000 feet
ME
The stream thrown out by Etna in' 1570'
was in motion, and at the rate of a yard 'a.
day, for nine months atter thr eroption; and
it is on record ihat the lava of same
mountain, after a terrible eruption, was not
thoroughly cool and •nonsolidated ten years
after the event. fo the eruption of Vesuvi
us, A. D. 79, the scoria and ashes vomited
forth far exceeded the entire bulk of the
mountain; while in MO Etna disgorged
mare than twenty times its own mass.—
Vesuvius has seat its ashes as fair as Con
stantinople, Syria awl Egypt; it burled
stones, el-lot pounds in weight, to, Pompeii,.
•
; a distance of six miles, while similar masses
were tossed up 2003 feet above its, summit
Cotopaxihas projected a block of ,109 cubic,
yards in volume, a distance of nine miles;,
and Sumbawa, in 1315, during the most
terrible eruption on record, soot its ashes as,
far as Java, a distaaec of 393 miles of sur
face, and out of a population of 12,090 souls
only twenty escaped.—Rsereatios Science, •
ONE WAY OF DISGRACING SOLDIERS: L- 1U
Ntlqh,DlO Union gives an account of a mili
tary procession which passel through 'the
streets of Nashville on Thursday last,. -ex
citing the pity of soma and the derision Of .
others. Some fifty Federal soldiers, who
had been captured and paroled by tho
guerillas, at various times. under ei-ount
stances not at all creditable to 11:e prison
ers, were collected, by order of Gen. Roie:
crane, and adorned with nigld•cups, with
red tassels in the centre, and in this °etre.
uniform paraded through the streets, to•thot
roll of the drum. "and the shrill squeaking
of 'the wry-necked fife," before the gaze of
admiring thousands, who cheered thorn ost.:
their "winding way." No doubt a atria
enforcement of military ,discipline would:
have condom:tied many of these, soldiers to,
death fur their pusillanimous behavior,
nG,...Conimissioner -Newton, of the Agri.:
cultural Department, has received froni"Dr.
A. R.. 1. Von Welibach, Director of the im
perial Pu nting establishment in Vienna, a
number of specimens of porn., manufactured
from the husks of Inditin corn. Also aped
mens of yarn, linen cloth, &c., nude out' of
the same material; also specimens of maize
flour (the only nutritive subsietanco of tho
corn-shucks) obtained from the mess. The
paper has the appearance (and app trently
the durability) of parchment, and fur print
ing purposes es excellent, as is alio by
some of the samples which bare been thus
used—the impression of the type being a
great deal clearer than on paper manufac
tured from cotton rags. The most remark
able thing in regard to the process of its
manufacture is simplicity. The hutnblest
laborer cam learn the process of nuinufacture
after an hour's inatrucion, and is enabled
to effect the production of any of the above•
named articles in the cora-field itself, with•
out the slightest expense.-
ViiirA Congressional candidate was thus
interrupted by an inebriate; "lkly friends,"
said be, "I am proud to sec around me to
night the hardy yeomanry of the laud, for
I lore the agricultural interests of the
country; and well may I love tbeti, my
fellow citizens, for I was born a farmer—
the happiest days of my youth was spent
in the peaceful avocations of a son of the
soil. If I may be allowed to use a figura
tits+ expression, my ft:iends, I may say, I
was raised between Iwo rows of corn." "A
pumpkin! by thunder!" exclaimed the in
ebriateddeo: Sr
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