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VOLUME XXXVI, NUMBER 15-1
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GREAT TRUNK LINE FROM
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Now York, Reading, Pottsville, Lebanon, Allentown,
Easton, fie.,
Train+ leave liarrislatrg for Pitiltol,lphia. New
York, Rending. Pottsville, and all Intermediate titi,
thins, at S A. 51., mil 2 I'. 51.
New York Express leaves Harristurgat 0.30 A. 51.,
rriving at New York At 1.15 the Nana. Muriling.
A speeial Aemitnntodat brit P.e.senger train leave.
Reading at 7.15 A, 31., and returns from Harrisburg
itt 5 P. 51.
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Philadelphia $2 55 mid $2 80. Baggage eheeked
through.
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2A. M.) Leave Philadelphia at 8.15 A. M., and s.:10
P. 31.
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through to and front Pittsburg, without eltange.
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Trains leave Pottsville at 035 A. M., and 2.30 P.M ,
for t'aila WWl', Harrisburg and New York.
An Accommodation Passenger train leaves Read
ing at 0.00 A.M., and returns from Philadelphia at
5.1)0 P. M.
.o _ill the above trains run daily, Sundays-ex
cepted.
.t Sunday train leaves Pottsville at 7.30 A. 51., and
Philadelphia at 1.15 I'. 51.
Commutation, Mileage, Seaton, and' Excursion
Tickets at reduced rates to and from all points.
:40 I'Olttilltl Baggage allowed each paqsettger.
G. A. NICGLLB.
General Superintendent.
nay -2,4sta
,-41-EA DING-ANB - COLUMBIA - R.
This pew ijo,pj 1s now completed. awl In good
running ortlor. antlt first-elass Passenger Cars, and
Laving luadle arrangements e tth the connecting
roads North and South, niters to the travellingpub
lic it direct and through mate, front WASH INGToN
unJ lIA I.TI MORE, via York. Columbia and Reading
to Allentown, Esstonend NEW YORK, irldeh &tine
rae beauty and 81111'11MT Resorts should be tried to
lr aopreohned.
Trains North leaveSultitnbia at S. a. in. Are.
p. nt. Past.
A rrive at Reading at ti .:at a. in. Are.
• 1.30 p. in. Fast.
Trains Smith leave Reading at 7.00
71.10 0. it. Fast.
II ion. Ace.
p. m. Fast.
Train): leave Columbia at 8,9) A. M. ar
rive in Philadelphia at 12.50 P. M. and in
New York, ut .1.40 P. M.
Trains leave New York at 9.00 A. M.and
arrive at Columbia at COO P. M. and leave
Philadelphia at 8.00 A. M. and arrive at
Columbia at 1.30 P. M.
The taker Susquehanna al Colnmitia is crossed by
a Steam Ferry, IL NEW lit /AT await the of
t he trains to eonvey the passengers cs or, (110dt:time
being delighttal. Passengers by the fast line pill
aline at Col ambit'.
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.krrive xt Colltitthia
it()ltEitT CILANI;'.
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,Trains /cave Columbia going east,
Columbia train, 7 30 A. M.
Cara A econintodation, S 31 P. M.
( to 6onneet with FILSi Mail east, at Lamas' r )
Harrisburg Aceomodation, 5 20 I'. M.
Trains leave west,
Mail Winn, - 11 50 A. M.
Irarrisburg Acemnoilat i 6 25 P. M.
Columbia train arrives, 8 10
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will ran ns follows, until further orders:
Leave Wrightsville, 8 15 A. M.
I 2 00 P. M.
8 15 P. M.
6 30 A. M.
12 10 P. M.
Li 35 P.M.
Leave York
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DEPARTURES FROM YORK.
For ILitirtmottn, .1,15 A. M., 8.30 A. M.,
anti 2.50 P. M.
For Ilsnarsnuno, 11.55 A. M. 6.10 P. M.
and 12.'15A. M,
ARRIVALS AT YORK.
Prone ur moan, 11.50 A. M., 6.15 P. M.
mid 2.2.•2.' A. M.
From HAUILISTIVUO, 4.10 A. M., 8.25 A.
M., and 2.45 P. M.
On Sunday, the only trains running are
the one from Harrishu rgat 5.2.1 in the morn
ing, proceeding to Baltimore, and the one
from ISaitimore at 12.= A. M., proceeding
o Harrisburg.
DR. HOFFER,
Front Street next doer
1/ to It. Williams' Drug Store, between
>oust and Walnut :its, Cola., Pa. Apr.
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COLIIIIBIA,
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T °tit y.
Written for the Columbia Spy
My Brother's Grave.
Dr HENRY J. lIORAIt.D
"lionqeholil gifts that memory saves,
But help to count the househo'd graves."
Look! beneath yon silvered willow,
Where its weeping branches wave,
Is my brother's lonely pillow
In the dark, and dreamless grave;
There his body peaceful slumbers,
Low beneath that grassy sod,
While his spirit swells the numbers
Of the "chosen band of God."
Well, too well do I remember,
(Oh! that memory lied died,)
Of the morning In November,
Brother last sat by my side;
Re then seemed tet happy ever
As rd seen him o'er before,
Yet, that day, we parted, never,
Ne'er to meet on earth no more!
Alone life's path I've wandered,
Since death rudely spread his pall,—
And the hours I have squandered,
May I ne'er again recall;
Yet, me thinks I fain must love him,
Tho' beneath death's dauntless gloom,
Ile sleeps—while we above him,
Weep o'er the imperial tomb.
Oh 1 how long upon thnt pillow
Will ho lie in dreamless sleep,
Where the silver'd, bending willow
Bows in silent awe to weep?
But his body peacefully slumbers,
There, beneath that grassy sod,
While his spirit swells the number
Of the "chosen band of God."
Had I loved him not so dearly,
In a world so cold as this,
Then, perchance, he'd not so early
Flown to Heaven's eternal bliss !
Hat since death has bereft us—
We'll no longer mournful weept—
For SI While, but short, he left us
'Heath the silent grate to sleep.
Then, oh! rest thou, dearest brother,
In the dark grave's dauntless gloom,
Or, arise to greet thy mother,
Who LILY triumphed o'er the tomb;
And I'll strive, whet. life is riven,
And my soul from clay hat!' fled,
There to join you both in Heaven,
When the graves return their dead.
Ortoinal.
For the Spy
Leaves of Travel, No 9.
EY HENRY J. HOWARD
-• I awoke not far from Carthage, on the
Genessee, just as the blushing east was
awakening to the ray of the morning.—
Not caring to tarry an hour or more, for
the cars, I walked on towards Rochester,
sonic three or four miles distant, pausing
in a charniing grove,vocal with the songs
of early birds, and sparkling with morn
ing dew, to look at the lower falls of the
Genessee, whose subdued voice filled the
wood. Without imprdssing one with any
great idea of grandeur or power, it must
be conceded that nothing could be more
picturesque. A view obtained from•the
ern Shore, on the following day,was
ore beautiful. I descended from
place called "Lorimer Hill," an en-
....anting residence and grounds, over
king city on the South, and the
adjacent country on the North, to Onta
rio, through beautiful sloping meadows,
redolent with the delicious Rerfume of
white 'apd purple clover,to the very edge
of the bank, and surveyed them with the
highest gratification... Who upper fall is
of greater descent, yet it lacks the at
tractive adjuncts of its younger brother.
Both, however, are respectable lions, and
would make the fortune of any village
within fifty miles of New York, merely
as natural spectacles. Of their utilitarian
qualities I shall doubtless speak hereaf
ter, not now, since I have not the room.
The Falls of the Genessee, however, are
not the only scenic attractions in the vi
cinity of Rochester. There is one, of
such singular and various beauty, as to
warrant especial mention. I allude to
the suburban cemetery of Mount Hop ,
which has long since been purchased b
the city, laid out, and intersected with
paths and excellent carriage roads. It
is a succession of rounded hills,and grad
ual hollows, raised and scooped by the
hand of nature, on a wooded eminence,
which rises some two or thee miles born
the town. You wind along its Feiraes,
more deeply impressed, at every turn,
with the manifold beauties of the spot
and the good taste which selected ap . •
appropriated it. Here flashes upon d o
eye a glimpse of the river,- lapsing along
its green shores, and there an opening
discloses a meadow field below; while
farther onward sparkles a clear spring,
that will hereafter feed the brooks which
run among the hills... From the gunainit
you look, on one hand, far over umbra
geous woods, to the blue Ontario; the
city, with its steeples and turre^ies
the foreground, softened by distance, the
blue vapor of the falls rising slowly be
yond, and like the vain shower of human
life, soon vanishes away ; and on the
other, a long stretch of verdant landscape
terminating in an undulating range of
pale, blue mountains, bounds the view.
One can imagine no lovelier burial place
than this must become, when garnished
by the hand of taste and affectinn. Such
repositories of the dead, exercise a be
nevolent and salutary influence upon the
living; and when
"Hero the long concourse from the mourning town,
With funeral pace and slow shall enter in,
To lay the loved in tranquil silence down,
No more to suffer and no more to sin:'
it will beguile death of half of its terrors
to reflect, that the beauties of nature are
scattered with such liberal hand about
the graves of the departed.
I encountered a literary gent, and a
contributor to many of the weekly jour
nals, soon after my return from Mount
Hope, as I stood gazing from the old
aqueduct, at the magnificent scale and
massive material and proportion of a new,
"I have seen that person before," thought
I, as a thin man, of florid complexion,
with a rusty coat that had once been
black, and a shocking bad "'at," cast
a hurried glance of recognition towards
me, as he slowly swept past on the deck
of a "liner," with an old brown cotton
umbrella over his head. At once his
vision was classified. He it was who I
once found, on a cold winter's morn,with
a bundle of MSS of various kinds, in the
" Standard" office,with which he desired
to regale tho readers, by "giving them
something new." He had the thorough
Yankee countenance, and " believed the
reader would find his articles acceptable."
He seemed modest and looked needy,
but not remarkably intelligent. Still,
thought I, his outward form is after all,
but his "husk or shine," and although
he lacks big speech and an imperative
presence, he may have a mind that makes
the body rich. The editor of the Stand
ard told me he accepted au article from
him, and it was a solid article, solid
enough for any manner of use. Heavy
writing was evidently his forte. Mr.
Editor said there was a dullness,an ultra
sobriety of tone. about it,that would have
suited the tastes of the drained and
parchment intellects, who sometimes ten
der us gratuitous counsel, touching the
proper conduct of a journal like the
Standa . rd. Tie said . lie returned the MSS
to the author, and desired hiin to - leave
a light article in its stead. One was soon
enclosed to the Editor, and I had the
pleasure of a perusal. What a tale it
was ! Words can scarcely tell how feeble
in invention, how puerile, diffuse,aud ar
tificial ; in erlarded at briefest intervals,
in the bombastic style of a stage struck
'prentice, with dramatic misquotations
misapplied. It reminded me of a a story
concerning a certain red-wigged woman,
who said she was a relative of the great
Shakespeare, until, in proof, that his
great genius ran the fiunily,she produced
a MSS play of her own composition,which
soon set at defiance all belief in her con
sanguinity. This case was not dissimilar;
and when, by appointment, on the fol
lowing morning, after I had read his
wonderful MSS., met the identical au
thor, and congratulated him on his geni
us. I ventured to enquire what it was
he had written for the " Ledger ?" . He
blushed to the very tip of his nose, au
intellectual rudder of most porteptious
amplitude, the lax smile of a sic lyena,
as lie stammered out; " I mad if
out the
index for several years!" But nothing
daunted by his confession, he prom"
to add : " I have a MSS plat in this city
which I would like to sell, dii you think
the Editor of the Standard will purchase
it of ine ? I sent it to Mr. Bonner,but he
returned it to me the next day, with a
cold note of two lines, saying that " it
wculd'ut do;" or words to that effect.—
~ hat was, however; because it was not
acting play; it is more for the closet,
you will find it to read voll in print.
`was composed in two nights, after the
modcl o lof the " Sea Serpent" of old,
whichlnce had so long a run. I call it
" The.Chesepeakc, or the first run of
herring." ItWould you like to—" I
imagined his wish, and very politely told
him I'd %them:4A, with aboutaromuch
courtesy as .T - said well command. -Idl
ing to mind, alAls • isaweare.4l di
street, an nod. d
"writio mss '' er—it ra
ro . • rnt gTow,"—/
Towardithe bott.. .f th# pagi
soy ght Gut, was t recorded : Mr.
said he thought that althopgh
thor's mind wa: yet Tel
might become, b roper care a
blessilig to him
am abou to close my " Leav,
Travel," reader, but if at any faun' pe
rioUlishall have the good fortune to
travel again, you may once 'more hear
from me. And now farewell, (methinks
I hear 31r,131dItor and the reader say,—
" So mote it be."
Baltimore, 1864.
IMke jaeklet; buttoned and double
breasliore tunong late female fashions.
I want no stone of marble white
To deck my humble mound,
I want no blooming flowers gay
Planted all around.
I want when life is o'er with me,
To rest within a grave,
Far down among the coral roofs
Beneath an ocean wave.
I want the wild, wild waves to chant
A requiem for me,
I want to rest where careless eyes,
My grave can never see.
WiorelLantotto
COQUETRY AND RETRIBU LION.
The south winds blew gently through
the branches of the stately old elm and
pine trees in the beautiful park owned
by Judge Auburn, whose mansion was
situated on the out skirts of' the beauti
ful village of L—, in the eastern part
of Pennsylvania; and on that calm warm
June evening might have been seen seat
ed in the little cosy summer-house in the
aformentioned park, with a volume of
Tennyson's Poems in her lap, beautiful
Viola Auburn, Judge Auburn's niece,
and the belle and coquette of the village.
She was in deep reverie. I fear my pen
would fail me if I were to attempt to
give to my readers a description of her
as she appeared in her evening wrapper.
Suffice to say, that her jet black hair
which fell in long curls around her beau
tifully moulded shoulders her fairy-like
form and her winning ways had wrought
for her countless. admirers. Among the
most ardent of' these ,wer.e E'ugone . Mon
tour and Harry Worthingtop.." Viola
was started from the reverie into which
she had fallen by Wirustling of the bush
es on the outside, and the next moment
she was. face to face with a young lieu
tenant—Eugene Montour.
"Go.od evening, darling," he said,
taking her proffered hand. "How is my
little one ?"
"Very well, I thank you. Why, Mr.
Montour, you look like the hero of many
battles already, with those regimentals
on."
"No flattery, darling."
"Indeed it is not flattery in the least."
A few more commonplace remarks
were made, when Eugene seated him
self by her side, and taking her hand in
his, said :
"Viola, the train which will carry me
to my regiment below will be due in a
few moments, therefore, what I wish to
say must be said in a few words. Our
regiment leaves the day after to-morrow
for Washington, and I could not go away
and leave you without once more asking
you to be my wife. I have already ask
'ed you twice, but I venture it the third
time. You little dream how dear you
are to mc,.and what a great pleasure it
,
will be . to me to know, while on the bat
'tlefield,Alutt. when I return it will be to,
elsim yota'st_my bride." Ile paused.—
He saw th.ifflie was about to speak, but
lie interrupted her, saying: "I fear your
answer. If you love me as I love you,
you will *not blast my future happiness."
'iriola rose and facing him said :
"Well, Mr Montour, !I may' as well
be frank with you : I do love you, but I
am engaged to another."
How harshly those words grated on
the brave young lieutenant's cars; and
j§st as he was going to a.11:.1vlio had been
his rival, a third partyi l appeared on the
the scene. It was Harry Worthington.
"I hope I do not Illtrudei'..
"eltinot in the reo.st. th`e con
trary, 'we ar 3 glad to ime yo," she said,
advancing and taking his kotted hand.
..-:Th two gentlemen w* then intro
aimed to each Ohm?, and ufter a few re
marks wire made atzr t:tlitevening, the
war, and a few other subjects, Lienten-
MEM
id bim tha
this•
I was to..ca;ry their regiment on
tagton, there to join an army
corpsditroute 8- Gettysburg. And the
next siay found our hero in Washington
awaiting further orders!'
Lem' return. to our heroine, whom
we left in company with Harry Wort
ingbon.r
"Viola," ho said, after they had -co.-
viirsed some time, "tell rdb what Mr.
Montour is to you?" 4 ,1'
"Why," she said with alaugh and
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coquettish toss of the head, we are be
trothed to each other !"
"Viola, I had long hoped to win your
love and to some day call you my own.
I have long loved you, and now that I
know that you can be no more to me,
the world will be dark at best. Miss
Auburn, I hope you will allow me to see
you home, as the evening is getting quite
dark."
"No, I thank you; I do notsish to
put you to so much trouble, and Trove to
be out after dark by myself."
"Than I will have to bid you good
evening, for I have made an engagement
that must be fulfilled," he said, rising
and taking her hand.
"I hope we part as friends, Mr. Wor
thington "
"Yes, as friends , but nothing more."
So saying he left her.
"Oh, the simpleton !" she said, after
he had gone, "to think that I would
bind myself to a confounded husband !
No, indeed ! When I want a husband
I'll let them know. Two more lovers
struck from my long list; yet it is still
long enough. Why, I'll have a dozen
offers yet before the month is out ! But
what do I care ? I can tell them al the
same tale I have told to-night. And
then see them wince, as though a shell
had exploded at their feet. Oh, it is so
dratnatical !' But still, in the long list of
my admirers, I belidvit Bugeiiii Montour
receives the Jar er Ortion of ml affections,
and if the truth werAnown, I believe I
love him,and I almost wish I had accepted
of his offer instead of telling I was en
gaged. But Still it is not too late.—
When ho comes home from the war I
will tell him tow I deceived, him and
and then I will set my cap for him in
earn est."
• So saying she flirted out of her retreat
and started for home. In the garden she
met her uncle.
"Ali you little 'truant ! I was getting
alarmeikat lone absence, and was coming
to hunt you.",
'"Oh, never fear me. uncle. I have
been having a splendid time with my
lovers, you know, uncle."
"Yes, I know," he said, as he return
edto his litirary, and Viola passed on to
her bed-chamber, there to dream of her
many lovers
The follotving morning, as Judge Au
burn was perusing the columns of the
morning paper, his eye caught sight of a
paragraphileaded "Suicide," and at the
same moment he heard Viola's merry
laugh on the outside, and-calling her in
to him, he said :
"Listen to this : 'Last night, about
ten o'clock, the dead body of Harry
Worthington was found in the :outskirts
of the village. He was shot through the
heart. A pistol was found on his person,
so that it is supposed he came to his
death by committing suicide.' "
The horror which was depicted on
Violo's face on hearing this can be bet
ter imagined than described.
"What can be the cause of •this?"—=
asked her uncle. .
"Indeed, I cannot tell. Why, it was
only last evening I saw Mr. Worthing
ton in very good spirits."
No more was then said on the subject.
Both were too busy with their own
thoughts on the sad occurrence to give
utterance to speech, and •Viola soon re
fixed to her own room, there to give way
to grief in a flood of tears, for well she
knew what was the cause of Worthing
ton's death. But after the first shock
was over she seemed to pay very little
attention to the melancholy occurrence,
and was soon carrying ou her old tricks
of coquetry.
The dreadful battle of Gettysburg had
been fought, and the papers contained
long lists of killed and wounded ; and
one evenim i g, as Viola was looking over
one of her eye caught the name
of "Lieu
agene Montour, killed."—
One shriek 'was all that escaped from
her lips, and her uncle, on bursting into
her room, found her in a state of insen
sibility . -
od her to her to her room.—
I :'.lcian was summoned, who pro
nounced her in a very critical condition.
After this, days and weeks of delirium
followed, and t only utterance to which
-ho gave v*nt was, "Eugene, Eugene!
how I level' you and cruelly wronged
you ;"
She finally recovered; but all her co
quettish ways have left her, and she re
fuses to receive the attention of any of
er late admirers. She says that her
• o is buried in, the grave of Eugene
.ur, whoinlihe so cruelly wronged ;
' she has_ never frequented that
mmer.hou-se since the night she re.
sic - gpt of the offer of the only
n she ever loved.
,
4
[WHOLE NUMBER 1,783.
Jeff. Davis' Message to the Rebel Con-
BIM
The message of Jeff. Davis to the reb
el Congress, which assembled on the 7th
instant, has come to hand. He reviews
the campaigns of the Federal• generals,
and deduces consolation from his own
statement of the facts. About the Fed
eral successes he is extremely reticent..
It is plain, however, from the attention
he gives to the subject of arming the
negroes, that the recruitment of the reb
el army is an extremely urgent matter.
Davis opposes in general the arming
of the negro slaves,and says he cannot see
the propriety of arming the slaves while
there are so many white men out of the
ranks. He would only drill and arm
such negroes as are already employed in
the quartermaster k and commissary de
partments, &c., and fill the places of such
by a draft of negroes from the planters.
He would give only the reward of man
umission to such slaves as shall have serv
ed efficiently with arms in the field. In
regard to the rebel currency, he says it
has become so depreciated that Congress
must provide some remedy. The ques
tion of foreign recognition or aid is dis
cussed, and he informs Congress that
there is absolutely no hope of any help
from abroad. Ile gives foreign nations
a loud and lofty scolding for their lack
of sympathy with the struggling 'confed
eracy, and comforts them with the assu
that the rebellion must rely on its own
resources.
The Richmond Whig, of the 9th, says
of Jeff. Davis' message :
"Two propositions are plainly deduci
ble from the President's Message,to which
we cannot for a moment believe he would
deliberately give his sanction. The first
is, the condition of freedom is so much
bettor for the slave than that of servitude
that it may be bestowed upon hiurai a
reward and boon. The second is that
the confederate government bas'• a right
to acquire possession of slaves by' pur
chase or impressment, with compensation
and then emancipate them without= the
consent of the States, or in case of im
pressment even without - consent of • their
masters. •
"The first propoSition is a rotudiation
of the opinion held by the whole south,
and by a large portion of mankind in
other countries, that Fervitude is a di
vinely appointed condition for the high
est good of the slave, and as that condi
tion in which the negr, o race especially
may attain the highest moral and Intel
lectual advancement of which they are
capable, and one itrivhich they may en
joy the most largely of such comforts
and blessings of life as are best suited to
them. Of this we have no doubt, and
we hold it to be an act of cruelty to de
prive the slave of the care and guardian
ship ot a master. If .the slave must
fight he should fight for the blessings he
enjoys as a slads, and not for the miser
ies that wouldigtand him if treed.
"The second proposition is still 'ilCire
startling. and it is a concession that the
confederate government has the power
and right to exterminate slavery by the
simple process of puchasing or impress
ing all slaves, and— then emancipating
them. Lincoln Nffivever gone so far
as this, for in his ;Mr for compensated
emancipation he expressly referred , the
question to the Stays, acknowledging
that they only could determine it. It is
unnecessary to dwell on the subject—
We are perfectly sure the President
could never have designed to give his as
sent to so monstrous a proposition as
this - •
The multiplicity and magnitude of the
subjects that claim his attention will sug
gests sufficient excuses for inadvertanny
of expressions, and the immaturity of the
views from which theories so out of place
in a communication from the President
of these slaveholding States aro deduci
ble."
THE VALUE OF A BAu OP Isorr.—A
bar of iron, originally valued at five dol
lars, is worth when worked into horse
shoes ten dollars and fifty cents ; into
needles, three hundred and fifty five
dollars; into penknife blades three thou=
sand two hundred and eighty-five dollars;
into shirt buttons, twenty nine thousand
four hundred and eighty dollars ; into
balance springs of watches, two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars. Thirtkone
pounds of iron have been made into wire
upwards of ono hundred and eleven miles
in length, and so fine was the Ramie that
part of it-was converted—in lieu of home ,
hair—into a barrister's wig !
A company organized for the purpose
of building Pelee Type Setting Machines,
have nearly completed a machine for the
Manchester (England,) Guardian.. .This
machine runs by steam, both sett type
and distributes at the same time. • "