The Columbia spy. (Columbia, Pa.) 1849-1902, July 10, 1869, Image 1
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S. SMITH, DENTisr, Graduate .of Pennsylvania, College of Dental Surgery'. Office In - Wag - noes Building'. over Haldema's dry goods store. En ..trance... 27/L.Loeust. At•rter. • " Columbia, Penuia. - Dr. J. S Smith thanks his friends and the pub lic in general for their liberal patronage in the past, and assuring them that they can rely upon having every attention given to them in the future. In every branch of his profession he has always given entire satisfaction. He calls attention to the - unsurpasssed style and finish of artificial teeth inserted by him. He treats diseases common' to the mouth and 'teeth of children and adults. Teeth filled with the great est care and in the most approved Manner. Aching teeth treated and filled to last for years. The best of dentrlf Ices and mouth washes eon, stantly on hand. N. B.—All work warranted. ap24.lyw J. S. SMITH, D. D. S. HOTELS. W ESTERN HOTEL, Nos. 9, 11, 13 & 13 CORTLANDT STREET, NEW TORR. • THOS, D..WINCTZESTER, Paorwrroit. This Hotel is central and convenient for Penn sylvanians. ABLE MrsimEn. of Reading, Pa., is an assistant at this Hotel, and will be glad to ace his friends at all times. ectiO-tfw " CONTII,TENTAL." THIS HOTEL IS PLEASANTLY LOCATED, between the Stations of the Readingand Colum bia, and Pennsylvania Railroads, • FRONT STREET, COLUMBIA, PA. Ample accommodations for Strangers and Trar• eters. The Bar is stceked With CHOICE LIQUORS, And the Tables furnished with the best fare. URIA FINDLEY, Columbia, April 29, 1867.] Proprietor _FRANKLIN HOUSE, LOCUST ST., COLUMBIA, PA. This is a. fast-classhotel, and is in every respect adapted to meet the wishes and desires of the traveling public. .tAJtTIN ERWIN, Proprietor, F RENCH'S HOTEL, On the European Plan, opposite City Hall Park New York. R. FRENCH, Sept. 19.1865. Proprietor. MISECLER'S HOTEL, West Market Square, Beading Rein's. EVAN NIISHLER, Proprietor. MALTBY HOUSE, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND. This hotel has been lately refitted with all the necessary improvements known to hotel enter prise and therefore offers first-ans.% /lemma - 10dr, Mons to strangers and others visiting Baltimore. A. B. MILLER, Proprietor. lileiRB.L.E WORKS. COLUMBIA MARBLE WORKS. The Subserlbero 'would re , :pecifolly inform the citizens of Columbia, attd4 surrounding eonntry, that they have opened A NEW MARBLE YARD IN COLUMBIA, On sth Street, between Locust and Walnut Sts., and ask the patronage of the public. They have had great experience on tine work. both in Philadelphia and New York. They will furnish in the highest style of the art, handsome GRAVE STONES, MONUMENTS, STATUARY, ORNAMENTS, 45:e. also MARBLE BILTLLOTROr WORD. 6r.c. Orders promptly attended and executed at cheaper rates than elsewhere. Call and see ut Designs of new styles of Fine work,such monumental ,fine arts, 4:c., will be furnished parties' upon application to the proprietors. HEFTING & 31EHL. May 1-iv.] LANCASTER MARBLE WORKS, LEWIS HALDY, Proprietor. All persons in want of anything; In the Marble line, will be furnished at the very lowest prices. Only the best workmen are employed, conse quently we are enable to turn out in a superior manner MONUMENTS, STATUARY, TOMBSTONES, ORNAMENTS, MARBLE MANTLES, BUILDING FRONTS, SILLS, And Marble Work of every description. ID - Orders promptly attended to LEWIS BALDY, • Lancaster City, Pa. May ~87] HAIR PREPARATIONS. ALL'S VEGETABLE HAIR RENEWER AND • RING'S AMBROSIA- ' These popular Hair Restorers and Tonics on hand, at R. WILLIAMS' DRUG STORE. ' - Columbia, Pa. -DrEADQUARTERS • - For SLEEVE BUTTONS AND STUDS, At ERIS/lAN'S, No _4114 North Queen St.; Lancaster, Pa , . 1/ '' '1 ' 7 <I 'l_,• o / , i - Z (&',C,,,,,,,,, ,(:•( z ..." Li Li .---1 , .. \'*6...".........\ k I 1 '... '''''..--- . „ .. , . ,- • \ •,..... I ;.' '.." 1 7 ' OM .' - . '''' I ' 7'll'. ''- . : . 1iw .„... . ._ . , . _ . ,:,',,,-;-,,,-- - --• ' . , [Written for the Daily Spy.] At the Grave of "The Little Drum 'rimer Boy," of the Brooklyn Four teenth Regiment. Suggested during a recent visit, to the beauti ful Cemetery of the Evergreens,—the writer be ing attracted to the spot by the chirping of fair birdlings in their little nest on a low bush be side the resting place of the young hero. .FrvE CENTs Wandering 'neath the leafy branches, Where departed pilgrims slumber, Wid the quiet summer stillness, Where the f'agrant vines and blossoms Shed their sweetest smiles and perfume, Where tile little warblers gather, Sing their melodies so cheering Undisturbed—'mul place so sacred, Rearing here their tender off-spring, Filling lawn and grove with praise. 031 ELM I= As through avenues I winded, )3y the resting place of mortals, Reading o'er the names and ages— And the letters of inscription— Telling of the friends departed— Of the dearly cherished dead ; I heard sweet sounds maid the st Mness— Coming from a bush near by me, Little - voices full of music - Calling in their baby-bird-talk, Twittering to their loving mother Sitting on a twig beside them,— Little fledgelings—four in number On their pretty, downy nest. O'er the spot a while I lingered, Watched therm in their home so lowly, AVatched the parent bird so happy, Perched near by, and so wadding— Seeming pleased to have me notice— View her little ones so fair. Glancing o'er the sweet surroundings, Grass and vine and flowers so smiling, Tree and shrub and bushes verdant— Scattered o'er the scene so hallowed; Stepping from the nest so cosy, By my side I saw a tablet, Reared above a little sleeper Laid amid the flowers to slumber In his beauty and his glory— Sleeping soundly—sleeping well! " Aged, I.3"—The Little Drummer, Died upon the field of battle, Fell amid earth's greatest heroes, To Country true, for Freedom fighting— For the land our fathers gave us, 'Oaiust the false and wicked traitors; O'er many a field of blood and carnage, Where the conflict raged the fiercest, There his drum was ever sounding, Calling soldiers to their duty, Filling patriot-souls with ardour— . Worthy comrade of the bravest— Our gallant—glorious old fourteenth! E're his eyes were closed in slumber, As they spoke of friends and loved ones, Ile whispered. his last,—dying accents— " Tell them! tell them l—don't forget it! That I fell the foe still facing, To my God and Country true!" Rest young soldier in thy glory! Thou bast won thy Country's laurels, Kindred round thy tomb shall gather, A. grateful people do thee homage, O'er thy grave bloom dowel's the fairest— Shedding o'er the sweetest incense, Round thee, birds shall love to gather, Build their little nests above thee, Sing their sweetest songs of gladness Where thy peaceful ashes rest! Sunday graing. ourth of July in Columbia—ln teresting Religions Services. Sunday last was the ninety-third anni versary of American Independence. The day was ushered in by the ringing, of bolls, mid flags were displayed in honor of the event. The occasion was appropriately ob served in our churches, and we give below a synopsis of the sermons preached: SERMON - DELIVERED BY REV. W. H. STECK, • PASTOR OF TUE ENGLISIT ENAIsIGELICAL LUTItERAI: Esther, 9th chap., 28th verse: "These days should he remembered and kept throughout every generation ; every taraily,every province and every city." [The occasion and circumstances which suggested our text were briefly these: One Human, a designing and unprincipled man, was plotting the ruin of the Jewish people, when Esther, a Jewess, whose life was de voted to her nation, was exalted to the throne of the Medes and Persians. Through her instrumentality under Divine Provi dence,:flaman, the traitor, was hung upon the very gallows he had prepared for the Jewish patriot, Mordecai, whose influence, united with that of the Queen, saved the Jews from the fearful massacre with which they had been threatened. In rommemor ation of their deliverance they instituted a religious feStival of two days' continuance, which the Jews were sacredly to observe every year. a God's ancient people are not the only na tion that has set apart days commemorative of great deliverances and great events. We also have our national holidays commem orative of great national deliverances, among which, perluiPs, there is none ob served with greater enthusiasm and unan imity than Independence Day; and, con cerning these days, as year after year they return, the sentiments and feelings of a patriotic, liberty-loving people are like those expressed in our text: "That these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation; every family, every province and every city.") Without any further introductory we come to the subject of our discourse. "Independence Day "--the reason 'why and the manner iu which it ought to be ob served. As not quite a century has elapsed since the immortal declaration went forth to the world which, under God, has made us a free people, it is not necessary to refer to the cause and circumstances which lead to its adoption. Suffice it to say that long enough had the American colonies endured unwonted grievances us British subjects. Like the air they breathed they would be free; and their brave and stirring words once expressed in the "Dedlaratiou," they were ready with unsheathed swords to maintain to the bitter death, the great prin ciples for which they pledged their [foes, their fortunes and their sacred honor. For their high resolves and stirring words in Congress assembled, when they calmly de liberated and nobly resolved for Independ ence, we honor them. For their sacritice of blood and treasure in the maintenance of their rights as freemenove should gratefully remember them. a a Because of what they did, and what they suffered, and what they achieved they should be remembered, and th'ese days should be kept. a a The Jews remembered with gratitude, Queen Esther and Mordecai who, under God, effected for them a great deliverance. So should we remember the patriot dead who periled their all, counting not their lives too dear, that they might transmit to us the precious boon of "life, liberty and the pursuit ofhappiness." Keeping these days by honoring the na tion's dead for their worthy deeds, we should not forget or neglect to honor God, under whom they became the nation's de liverers. On our days of national rejoicing we are not, to forget• how it is written: "Promotion cou.eth neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God Is the Judge of all: he putteth down one and seteth up another." Following the example of the pious Jew, these days should be retigiousty obsrved. If patriots indeed, true to ourselves, true to our country and true to God, we will re member and keep them, with praise and thanksgiving to the God of our fathers. Not in rioting. and drunkenness, dishonor ing the names of the patriot dead, but with songs of gladness, with ringing bells, and with music's joyous strains let the day be cz.--------- `goett ti. I= COLUMBIA, PA., SATURDAY MORNING - , JULY 10, 1869. remembered and kept evermore. Let, the christian patriot rejoice, but let his rejoic ing bo in the Lord. Let the hearts of the children be made glad on the return of this day, but teach them why and how they should rejoice. Show them that the liberty they enjoy is not a gross license to do evil either to therhselyes or to others. z The God of our fathers and the God of battles then, He should be the God of their children and the God of peace now. Tenderly thinking of those who sleep in patriots graves, joyfully we'll listen to the peals or many bells which say by their joy ous notes—the nation lives though her sons have perished. s t 4 Having so recently passed through the second baptism of fire and blood the mem ories of which still linger with us, our soil made double sacred ; twice red with patri ots.blood, with a double emphasis we now may say, " The land is holy where they fought, And holy - where they fell, for by their blood the land was bought— The land they loved so well." Doubly precious should our country and lier free institutions be to us now since twice redeemed with the price of blood. Remembering how Liberty came to us through agony and sweat and blood, and prayer and laitb, and knowing how the blood of the noble slain was poured out like water ou Freedom's soil, well may we ask, " Llves there a man with soul so dead, That never to himself hat h said: This is my own, my native land!" Lives there a patriot in all the land, 'who cannot say in the touching* and appropriate language of our text: That these days should be remembered and kept through out every generation ; every family, every province and every city." May they be re membered and kept long years to come; and when kept no more by us, may others arise to call blessed the " nations dead," to honor God and love their country. EXTRACT "FROM .1. SERMON DELTVE.RED nk REV. B. S. DOUCiLASS, PASTOR OP ST. PAUL'S PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CECTJRCR. FREEDOM PRODUCED BY THE TRUTH. "And ye shall know the Truth, end the Truth shall make ye free." (John VIII: i 2,) The recurrence of the anniversary of our National Independence,lays us under deep er obligations, year after year, to the Giver of all good furl - Lis pecial mercies. Among these blessings, it is not a slight one that the dark cloud which enveloped the desti nies of our nation has dispersed, and the bow of promise is seen smiling in the heavens. The mind is no longer on the rack, apprehensive of evil, unconscious of what dangers the next telegram may dis close; but the dire strife has ceased, and the fields once red with carnage are clothed in their loveliest summer garb and aro waving with the promise of an abundant harvest: "Now all Is cairn and fresh and still, Alone the chirp of flitting bird, And talk of children on the 11111 And bell of wandering line are heard." "Ah ! how shall the land forget How ushed the life-blood of her brave Gushedwarm with hope and courage yet, Upon the soil they fought to :ewe." ' For the exemption from the horrors of war, we cannot but feel thankful, but let us endeavor, in keeping with the sacred char acter of the day, to ascertain whether with all our boasted advantages, we are free men indeed. There is a great deal of cant about this word freedom. No one is absolutely free, except the great God who made us. He only is independent of all beings and of all created things. He is the source and foun tain of all things, and. on Him all things de pend. • Nor only so: we are not only dependent on God—we aro dependent on each other. I The eye cannot say unto the hand, "I have I no need of thee, nor again the head to the feet, I...have no need of. We are aroindeed members one of another. The eye in its sphere is supreme, free to ful fil its office, and it best fulfils its mission when it confines itself to its proper work ; and in subserviency to the needs of the whole body performs its appointed task. Within a certain sphere n roan hest+ right to think,speak and act its he chooses; but be should choose to think, speak and act with in the limits marked out by the laws of G o d an d or the Commonwealth. To assu tne to do differently would be to make himself an independent factor in the universe, a being outside of all law. Even in matters of taste, he is not to bo envied who pays no deference to the wishes, or views, opin ions, or feelings of others. If one chooses to dress as a Hottentot, or an inhabitant of Japan be may do so—if he chooses to build a dozen chimneys to his house where only two are needed he may do so, but he must not complain if he becomes the object of re marks and ridicule. And not otherwise is it when a man breaks the laws of the land. lie may hang out his banner on the outer wall with freedom emblazoned upon it, and proclaim his house as his castle, but it is only while he walks within his castle in de cency and decorum. Freedom is a relative term. When wespeak of freedom we think of something from which one is released. Is it moral freedom—it is the liberty to think as we choose—without any attempt at coercion. When we speak of bodily free dom, we mean a state of release from bodily constraint or personal violence. The sphere in which a citizen of the United States moves is very large, yet it has its limits. No one is free to injure his neighbor. No one is free to overturn the government. No one is free to do wrong. No one is free to maltreat or enslave his neighbor. What God has given to inn, he has given equally to others,so far as certain natural rights are concerned. There may be differences in social position, in educa tion, in natural endowments, in those priv ileges which are the gifts of the States in wbieh we dwell or art, the reward of honest service, but there is a right enjoyed by every one to breathe the pure &rot Heaven, to seek his pleasure where he can tied it, and to better his condition if it is within his power, and he is under no obligation to another so far as Hine and labor are concern- ed. These are rights which oar moral.in- • stincts suggest, which are needed for our health, comfort and happiness, and in refer ence to which we allow no coercion. And that liberty chichi we feel to be our own privilege we should cheerfully accord to others. This is the golden rule. This is the only condition by which the social compact is moulded together. Deny to man this, his bodily or his mental freedom, and he ceases to be a man and becomes a mere chattel, a mere thing, a mere machine to be worked or driven at thei plecemre of another, without any will whatever in the matter. But freedom is use, not abuse. The i tots:- hafted rowdy who longs for his holiday only that be may spend his wages in dissipation has no idea of freedom. The young man who longs to be of age only that he may break through all restraint, is not his own master, but slave. Had the youth on enter ing his imajority really become his own master, his first act would have been to ask with meekness of his Saviour and his God, "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do." Freedom is the unfettered use of all our powers in the manner in which God has designed. The eagle is free when lie soars to heaven on expanded wing. The whale when it takes its pastime in the northern seas, and the tiny trout that darts through the rippling waters of a mountain stream— these are free, each in its sphere. Remove them, take them out of water,they tire dead. Freedom is action, roll, unconstrained ac tion in the sphere God has given us. The highest archangel who wings his alight to distant worlds at the bidding of Jehovah is free in the highest sense because doing God's will, arid doing it in the noblest, pos• Bible manner. For God is one whose ser vice: to use the language of our Liturgy is perfect freedom. To love and serve Him is to be happy and holy, and happiness and holiness are heaven begun on earth. And God bath sent his Son into the world to free our souls from the worst form of bondage— the tyranny of the world, the flesh, the Devil. No one is really free who is the slave of any passion, or lust, or evil habit. No one is really free whose mind is fettered with the shackles of childish superstitious, or dismal forebodings, of dreadful terror, of tormenting guilt. No one is free who serves sin,who makes it God of his appetite, or who secretly cherishes thoughts of mal ice and wickedness—the works of the Devil. "If the Son therefore shall mako ye free, ye shall he free indeed." Another bait covering a barbed book is con tained in that fascinating word "free think ing"—as if to cast away the traditions of the past, and to set aside everything ancient, the'llible not excepted; were an essential of true mental emancipation. Our Lord thought not so when he enunciated the words of our text: "And ye shall know the truth, cud the truth shall make you free." What truth we ask? .God's truth— the truth - as it is in Jesus—not mere spew], "NO ENTERTAINMENT SO CHEAP AS BEADING, NOR ANY PLEASIIHE SO LASTING." lation, but the simple doctrines of the cross, which are able to make us wise unto sal vation, and to teach us how to live soberly, righteously, and - godly in the present evil world. The Divine Master would have us give proper scope to our thoughts, and give a reason of the hope that is in us, yen, en courages us to prove all things,holding fast to that which is good; but free thtnking is very far from being necessarily false think ing, if we think carefully, prayerfully, looking above for guidance, and not loose ly and licentiously, supposing that all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are locked up within the store-house of our own minds, or that the light of the world has never benefited any besides those of our own generation. When we come to take the dimensions of scriptural truth, then do we begin to see our true - relations to our God and to our neighbors. We no longer see men as trees walking. Our confused ideas on religious points are re moved. The questions - which often puzzle us are, so far as is good for us, set at rest. Our doubts are silenced ; but above all, our conscience is pacified, for in our misery and unrest, in our guilt and sin, we are pointed to the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world. • "Ile is the freeman whom the truth makes free And all are slaves beside! SYNOPSIS OF SERMO: , ..7 DELIVERED BY REV S. H. C. SMITII, PASTOR OF THE M. E Cnuncu. Text--" Genesis, 18th Chap., 23d to 26t11 verse Included." The points discussed were: First—The Principles of the Divine Govern ment. Second—The effect of Righteousness upoir In livid arils and Nations. The history of nations roust be regarded by every enlightened mind as the history of the attributes of God,clisplayed in the gov ernment of his creatures. We, need no other argument to prove this than the constant connection which every age has witnessed between vice and misery, rebellion and punishment. It is a fact that in every age when God's blessings have been abased to luxury and excess, they have been witbeld and plague or famine have testified that God is no unobservant spectator of human actions, When, in time of peace, men being in no danger from abroad, have grown fearfully licenti ous at home; the sword has received its commission to awake against such as are sitting at ease forgetful of God. When war has corrected the vices of a land, the sword of the Lord has returned to its scabbard. I and has rested till tae daring crimes of men have again provoked the keenness of its edge. When men elated with pride have trampled upon those whom by their °thee they were bound to protect, a spirit of resistance has been raised u p against them in their own Kingdom and has strick en down the government unsupported by the love of the people; and when, on the other hand, a people mistake Licentious ness for liberty, and rend the State by faction and rebellion, heayen, in its anger, chastises them with scorpions who refuse to be governed by equity and moderation. These are events which not only we but the people of every age have witnessed. This is the development of the principle of God Almighty's government. Righteous ness exalted] a nation, but sin a reproach to any people. It is was so ill the case of Sodom, punished as an example. Their transgression had become obduracy ; their obduracy had blossomed out into punish ment, but a chance in the Divine Govern ment yet remained to them. Abraham knew that the Judge of all the earth would do right, peradventure there might be ten righteous in the city. If there had been tell righteous there, they would have been the substance, the essence, the strength of the devoted nation ; through them the ruin of the land might have been averted, and utter the Divine displeasure had passed away there might have sprung up renewed strength and recovered glory, which brings us to• the. second .point of diseussion. The effect of righteousness +mon individuids and nations, we may fairly, I think, take ' this as a general principle, that righteous, godly men in all ages of the world's history, are the true strength of the nations which, in God's providence they are permitted to live ; oftentimes averting calamity, often times restoring strength and blessings, which butler them it would haste lapsed and gone forever. This is the doctrine brought out of the history with which our text stands connected. Sodom would have been spared if ten righteous men had been there. Pious men, therefore, are presented to us as the safety of the nation in which they live. This is the truth for which we con tend that God preserves nations fur the I sake of pious men, and I am bold to affirm nay conviction that the destiny of these United States is at this moment in the bands of her pious men. Let piety prevail and that will preserve the freedom of the land. Ido not mean that crouching ones- ' milation on one hand, or that ribald licen tiousness on the other, both of widen have been dignitied by the name of freedom by extreme political parties. I mean well or dered and rational liberty—liberty that re spects the rights of other people at the suite time that it asserts and vindicates its 'own —liberty which with one hand will render toCeaser the things which are Censer's, and with the other take care to render the things to God that are God's; and when righteousness shall become universal tben the sons of our common country in their not unholy pride, may wave their stars and stripes in the wind, with the motto emblazoned thereon, Ele is the freeman whom the truth makes tree, and all are slaves besides. In conclusion let me say that it is our altars and not our politics, our bibles and not bur statute books that have been the source of our nation's great ness and prosperity. Prove recreant to these and our Chief Magistrate will lose his command, and Congress its lustre. Be traitors to God and a lava tide of 30801a lion will sweep over all mat is noble and consecrated in our country, and the angels may sing the dirge over a once great but fallen nation. But he tree to God 111 the perpetuation of the heaven approved prin ciples as enunciated on the ever memorable Foon•rn or Jots, 1776, in our Gee-ap proved declaratiou, that "ell men are created free and equal," and there 5111111 be tio bounds to the magnificence of our be loved country. But when the fires of the last day shall burn up all things that are perishable, we shalt see the light of the divine counteettnee gleaming harmlessly above our brow, and hear God's voice ad dressing us from his throne saying, " have made thee a little lower than the angels, and crowned thee with glory', im mortality, eternal life. VoETTII O3>JIILY IS TILE U. B. ClitTltCll., The pastor, Mr. Keys, announced as a Theme becoming the day, "God's dealingS with America ;" taking for his text—lsaiah, 00th ebnpt. and part of 22nd verse: "A small one, shall become a strong nation. I, the Lord will hasten it In his Hine." "God IS!"--IS the voice of nature! "God Reigns!"—is the voice of history! And the true minister, linking himself to the divini ty that pulsates with sovereign power in the event, in the hour, in the man and in the nation, will essay in pulpit and elsewhere, to awaken the God-sense of the human heart, by which the Divinity which shapes ouronds, is recognized, seen and felt. Wemect on the Ninety-third Anniversary of our American Independence!" And it is the province of the Pulpit to-day, to exalt and sanctify this festival occasion. with something better than the merry-making racket of squib and rocket, booming can non, and senseless powder. It has always appeared to me as a bitter satire upon the rational manhood of the American people— this buffoonery of powder, belching of eln shotted guns, burning of colored lights, and endless clatter of chinese crackers.as au ex pression of joy and in the thanksgiving for a great national blessing! But; lite is full of these travesties of human nature. It has been estimated • that in Salvos, royal and military courtesies, exchanges of official noise, signals of tiquette, roadside and citidel formalities, salutes to the rising and setting sun, every day, by all torts and war vessels, the civilized world tires each twen ty-four hours 150,000 useless cannon. At :31.25 a charge. it would amount to 5157,500 a day, or $08,439,500 per year, spent in smoke. What a terrible derision lurks be hind an estimate like this! And now, on this National Anniversary our people are panting to spend millions of dollars in tire works, while they groan with heavy taxa tion, and the wail of want goes up from multiplied thousands, by whose sufferings America is permitted to hail this day. We frown on it ; we call it trilling; we say it is a parody on Providence, a gibe at desti ny, a mockery on earth's manhood and Heaven's Godhead! But some one remarks, "It is better that the fool shonld be an in stitution, than that no one should smile." The most significant point Is, that all this senselessness is commemorative of our National Independence—a foolish demon stration over the grandest achievement ! `We remember the day,' when the Nation's destiny hung by a thread, p day that open ed upon the feeble Colonies years of carn age and swept their hearths with cannon-• storms and rifle—bail and bayonet slaugh ter, until their vallies and hills smoked with their burning homes and reddened with the blood of our martyr fathers - we remem ber this day and to show our deep sense of its grandeur, and our obligation to the Providence that 'crowned it with gloriobs victory—we burn powder, and get drunk! Ab, this Fourth of July, as we too general ly make it, is to America what the ancient "Jester" was to the bloody Kings of Ed rope; with caps and bells and motley garb it was his to make comical faces, and en liven scenes of blood, and hush the wail of the dying with a noisy buffoonery. Ido not denounce the joy of the day; Ido not ' condemn its observance; no, but I would exult it! I would put God in it, instead of powder. I would enshrine and deify it in stead of degrading and sensualizing it. And now, to him that increased) the nations and destroyed) them again; that enlargeth the nations and straighteneth them again— "To Hint be power,and dentin lomand glory forever." "A small one shall become a strong nation, I the Lord will hasten it in his Mae." Our text shall direct your thoughts. You are called upon to content plate— I. Tax PROVIDENCE OF GOD IN NATION GIIENTXESS. (L) Nations, as individuals, exist only by Divine Sufferance. The right to existence inheres in no fallen creature. By the "ruin of the fall" everything was forfeited to the race. Then and thenceforth the claims of man, I seperately and communistic, were all void, and their very being from that hour was a matter of pore grace. And in the bestowment of National Ex istence, and in the gift of National Prosper ity, lie determines which "nation shall cease and which shall remain before Min tbrever." When He wills, He Taus out ut terly the remembrance of Amadei:: trout under hen ven,and makes Ed oin a perpetual waste and with equal sovereignty, "He smites Egypt," and heals it with the return of His favor, and makes Assyria. even at blessing in the midst, of the laud. Isaiah XIX: 22 24, 25. Does lie choose Jacob for His inheritance and Israel for His people. Ho assures them that they were chosen, not because they were more in number than any other peo ple, or that He had found excellency in Judah, but for His own namesake. • (2.) And yet further: Ile determines as King of• Nations their local habitations, and the boundaries of their national sway. • Men talk of geographic linos and national boundaries with its much assurance as ifit was their's to map oir the world, and terri torialize the nations ut will, forgetting that "the earth is the Lord anti the fullnetss thereof, anti they that dwell therein," and that it is His prerogative alone to plant, to pluck up, to increase or destroy, to enlarge or straighten again. and therefore that all existing boundaries, as well as territorial claims, whether based on the natural or any other ground than the Divine Willotre situ ply Godless presumptions. If these two prin ciples be well founded—that "nations exist only by Divine sutferanee,"and that God sty:- erelgoly determines their habitations and bounds them according to his own pleasure; We are prepared to recognize and acknowl edge Dis dealings itt our own history as a nation. IL A. smA.r.t. ONE Iris III:COME A STRONG NATION. (1.) Ninety-three years ago the birth throes of Atnerican liberty startled the world. The old Quaker City lost its quiet ude forever, us the State House bell pealed out its challenge to tyranny and proclaim ed to the winds of heaven, the birth-song of Independence. Then we were a little nation ; scarce nuntbertng 3,000,000 of pets an‘kthatittualL belt .of territory...nest ling between thrAlteshames and rho At lantic, known :Is the "thirteen provinces" of the King was the whole inheritance of this new-born child of Providence. Nor was this inheritance to be enjoyed without a struggle. The baptism of Liberty, like that of the world's redemption, was to be bellowed by the heart's best blood; life must grow out of death, light out of dar•k ness. and peace ou t. of strife. For eight long years the camp fires of a murderous despotism hearthed upon our valleys, and the sulphurous clouds of war hung like the sl road of a nation over all our land. For eight long years the flag of thir teen stars trailed its holds in blood, and our proud eagle with um; (siding eye, and un faltering wing hovered o'er the eyrie of freedom, alike unsolved by the tyrant of the throne, or the Arnold of the camp. Amid the perils of gloomy and treacherous wilds, swarfning with disasters and death, as on the gory held of songeance,where massacre glutted to its full, the young giant of Liber ty never swerved, but hurled his deadliest thunderbolts upon the invading mercenary foe, until the dripping sword fell front the palsied hand of aggression and the eagle of destiny soaring to higher heavens, sot earn ed the death knell of oppression. The fledgeling, nestled among the stars and stripes,eradled by numberless Providences, then commenced its unexperitnented flight into regions untraversed before, by other titan the adventurous wing of angel that swept the apocalyptic skies in the circuit of the everlasting gospel. Plucking gent after gem from the coronet of power, She chroni cled cacti as a star its the galaxy of the free. The American History ie without a par allel. Our increase langlis at arithmetic!. It is but yesterday, us it were that the first pioneer - paddled his canoe across the great river of the West, and already have we seen the power of the nation, balanced upon the ridge of the Alleghenies and then pon iterating on the other side! Americans, be hold your inheritance! - . 1. In its territory,it embraces the startling, figures Of over 3,010.000 square miles; ex tending in width .I , .:orth and South. almost 2,000 miles, and in length East and West. 3,000 miles. This can be better appreciated by comparison. Take the single State of Missouri and you have a larger territory than all Denmark, Holland, Belgium and Switzerland com bined with their• twelve millions of inhabi tants. Add Texas to Upper California, Vir ginia and lilerida. and you have a country equal to Great Britain, France, Turkey in Ettrope, and Austria together, with their more than one hundred and ten millions of people. The State of Ohio exceeds either Ireland, Scotland or Portugal, and equals Belgium, Scotland and Switzerland together. Missouri iii more than half as largo as Italy, and if you add to it the great State of Illinois, you have in these two States more territory than all England,Scotland,lreland and Wales combined. The whole of our vast country is more Than eleven times larger than both Britain and France,and four Canes greater than the whole of France, Britain, Austria, Prussia, Spain, Portugal, Belgium. lfolland and Denmark together. "The land of the free," equals in extent the tier. covered by the fifty-nine or sixty Empires, States and Republics of Europe, and is greater than that of the Old Roman Empire in its Augustinian age, or that of '• Alexander the Great," when he was said to have " conquered the world." And that hallowed 'spot of Israelitish memories, Palestine, the•.land of a thousand p ropliecies, whose history was written by signs in Heaven, and signs on earth, whose every foot'of soil has been glorified by un earthly prodigies, and whose every bill and valley has pulsed with miraculous God head, Palestine, sacred to the end of time, was only one 'hundred aild fdrty miles in Ifilgth, and averaged about forty miles in breadth, being less than our " little sister," tho State or Vermont. And your classic Greece, the theme of poets and orators; Greece that holds a larger share in the world or history than any other nation, was only two hundred. and fifty miles long, and one hundred and sixty wide scarcely equal in extent to Vermont and New Hampshire. Were you traveling from Paris, in France, to - Vienna, in Austria, you would tread the soil of five empires, and yet would only go as far as from Boston, in 'Massachu setts, to Pittsburg, in Pennsylvania. Front London to Constantinople, across Europe, (one thousand four hundred and ninety miles) is not far as front Boston to Nash ville, Tenn:, (1,590 miles). It is only ten miles further from London to ROMP, (910 miles) than from Charleston, S. C., to Hart ford, Cram., (900, miles). It is out so far from St. Petersburg to Thebes, in Egypt, ( 2 . 800 miles) as from the source of the Mis sissippi to its mouth, (2,9.36 miles), And from St. Petersburg to Madrid, though you pass over eightgreat empires, it is not as far as front Pittsburg to New oilcans, via. of the river: So vast is our country that the mind staggers In its efforts to grasp its greatness. And this whole mighty area, with the exception of a desert belt from two hundred to four hundred miles wide, and a part_of the mountainous region, is capable of the highest cultivation;—which leads to consider the greatness of its wealth. (2.) And by what arithmetic will we tell of its treasures? Or by what figures will we portray its immeasurable riches? It embraces every variety of soil and climate, every variety of agricultural and mineral Wealth, with facilities for every kind of com mercial, manufacturing and agricultural enterprise without a parallel in the history of nations. Our every mountain heaves with rich ores, and coals, and marbles, and granites, and groans with exhaustless forests. Oar precious metals know or no bounds. Orators and Poets used to tell of the yellow sands of Thddekel, and caps the climax of lavish munificence by brilliant etchings of Potosi and the Dorado, but America will fling a richer, golden wealth from a tail race of a saw mill in her California, than ever flowed from all the opened sluices of a world famed Golconda. Our ploughs turn LIP the Soil of over three million of farms. And who can balance the books of American Agriculture? Our soils are almost magical in their 'strength and fertility. From the census of 1800, we learn that our fields produced over 171,000,- 000 bushels of wheat; 202,000,000 bushels of corn; 172,000,000 bushels of oats; 20,000,000 bushels of rye; 10,000,000 bushels of pota toes ; 157,000,000 pounds of rice; 429,000,000 pounds of tobacco; over two billions of ginned cotton ; over 60,000,000 of wool; over 200,000,000 of caned sugars; 460,000,000 of butter; 105,000,000 of cheese; 20,000,000 tons of hay • 62,000,000 gallons of nrolasses; over $10,000,000 of garden stuff; and more than $10,000,000 of orchard produce. The two greatest grain markets in the old world are Archangel having, an annual market of 9,326,000 bushels, and Ualats and thralls, with a yearly market of 8;320,000 bushels. The two greatest in America arc Chicago with a trade of over 30,000,000 of bushels, and Buffalo running over 25,000,000. Thus the energies of the whole globe scent to have turned themselves in upon America. The soil, the spindle, and the mountain shaft, all conspire to make our future a his tory of, glory and prosperity, before which, Persian affluence will pale out of sight. Let eloquence and rhyme continue to paint their pictures of the olden times and mythi cal realms where palaces were built of sil ver, America, if true to herself will bang them all in solid frames of gold. (3.) And in the progression of the Arts ' and Sciences, America stands "head and shoulders" above all other nations. Our cities, towus and villages contain over seven million of Mitoses. American Inven tions; our railroads, our canals, outstrip the world ! At the World's Fairs of France and London, her machinery bore oil' the palm of triumph from the assembled me chanics of all nations. And let me remark, that the measure of a Nation's greatness and power does not consist in her.nurnerous population, the de- ' liciousness of her climate, the fertility of her soil, or the illimitableness of her terri tory. In proof of this, cast your eyes to Chinn. Persia, or all India, Africa, Spain, Italy, Brazil or Mexico,and then look upon those nations,proverbial for their "mechan ical resources," that are eminently nations of znechanias and machinery, Great Bri tain and the United States, and you will learn that the true source of national great ness is to be found in the mechitnisin of educated labor. And were we 'destitute of the Briarian him of iron which spin, weave, sew, plant, reap, forge, grind, saw, plane and hew, America would not be great though its inhabitants were twice its numerous and its native resources tenfold more abundant. The mechanics of Ameri ' ea form the bone and the sinews, and the life-blood of our national prosperity. Our steam engines, our locomotives, our tele graphs, our reapers and our threshers—all the great inventions that elevate the hand :mil heart of the toiler above the thuggery -of his MB, andiiing brain and sou - I-Upward to heaven, are beyond all comparison. (4.) And then her People are Free. The Press, the Palladium of Liberty knows no restraint. The pulpit, the school, the soul and body, the heart and conscience are all as free as God's air, and as full of hope and comfort as Heaven's sunshine. (5.) Once more: America is great as the Centre of Religious Purpose and Christian Enterprise. God works by Central forces. From the World's Centre of Civilization came the World's Redeemor. From the World's Centre of mind and power up heaved the Great Protestant Reformation. And Americans, He has planted you as a Nation here, with the open Bible, holding . the Central place in the Commerce and in terchanges of the world. The gales of China, Japan, Australia, Bombay, and Cal cutta, open wide their welcome to our en trance with "the bread of life." God's footprints are traced in the whole of our American History. In its Peace, as in its Wars, God would make of us, for him self. a peculiar people, zealous of good works. By America He would Regenerate the World ! Let us then awake to our responsibility, and let no man, let no nation, "take from ti.s our crown." Think not that we are neces sary to the Great God for the fulfilment of his ends. Let America be false to her mis sion, and God will shake heKout of his lap as a very littlo thing. Let her he true to Right, faithful to Hu manity, and loyal to Heaven and per's is a Destiny glorious beyond all that mind can conceive. Let her be but false, and no curse or plague of heaven-blasted Egypt, could be more unpitying in the sweep of its desola tions, than will be the doom of her ruin. May God save our Country from the sin of a nfait hful»ess. 11liwilaucou5 gutting. An Heiress in Disguise The St. Joseph (Mo.) Gazelle of a recent date, relates the following, somewhat ro mantic story : Seine time last fall a young lady came to Sl.Joseph front the East to spend the win ter with a relative. Unassuming,hundsome, graceful and intelligent, she created a most favorable impression with those who enjoy ed the pleasure of her acquaintance, and formed an agreeable addition to the social in which she moved. She was remarkably retired and quiet in her manners, and stud iously sought to avoid all ostentatious dis play in her apparel, but at the seine time, exhibited in her dress the most exquisite taste, and in her manners the most elegant refinement. Shortly after the young lady's arrival, she was called upon by a -young gentleman (a resident of this county), who had formed her acquaintance in the East, and soon thereafter his visits became fre quent and his attentions marked and devo ted. It was noticed, as the friendship of the too ripened into intimacy, that the lady be gins to Institute, in a very cautious manner, inquiries for the purpose of ascertaining whether the gentleman had the least idea of her history and condition, end particularly of her financial affairs. These inquiries were prosecuted for some time, and seem to have resulted satisfactorily. At least, after a courtship of some months, she committed her happiness and fortunes to the care of the gentleman alluded to, and the celebra tion of the nuptials was duly recorded in in the early part of the present spring. The happy couple immediately started for the East, and are now residing at the for mer home of the bride. And now comes the sequel. :The quiet and—unassuming youg lady was in reality the possessor of immense wealth, and undoubted heiress of an estate worth over $4,000.000---it fact wholly unknown far the time even to the gentleman who bad sought her hand and heart. She had taken this method to test sincerity of her admirer, and finding his heart the true gold,"had committed unhesi tatingly a golden treasure and a pure warm heart, to his keeping; without even permit ting the many gallant youths of St. Joseph to catch the faintest idea of the glittering prize apparently-,within their reach, Two blind people In lowa heard a harper harping with his harp on the opposite side of the street, recognised him by his touch of the instrument, crossed over and shook hands with him. - The three, all blind, were old friends, who had not met before for years. $2,00 Per Year, in Advance; $2,50 if not Paid in Advance. Little George's Stor3 r AryA Aunt Libby patted me on the head the other day and said, " George, my boy, this is the happiest part of your life." I guess my Aunt Libby don't know much. Iguess she never worked a week to make a kite, and the first time she went to fly it got the tail hitched in a tall tree, whose owner wouldn't let her climb up to disentangle it. I guess she never broke one of the runners of her sled some Saturday afternoon, when it was "prime" coasting. 'guess she never had to give her biggest marbles to a great lubberly boy, because he would thrash her if she didn't. I guess she never had a "hoc key stick" play around her ankles in re cess, because she got above a fellow in the class. I guess she never had him twitch off her best cap, and toss it in a inutLpuddle. I guess she never had to glve up her bum ming-top to quiet the batty, anti had the paint all sucked oft'. I guess she never saved up all her coppers a whole winter to buy a trumpet, and then was told she must ' not blow it, because it would make a IZOi4C. No—l guess my Aunt Libby don't know much ; little boys have troubles ns well as grown people,—all the difference is they dare n't complain. Now, I never had a "bran new" jacket and trowsers in my life —never,—and I don't believe I ever shall ; for my two brothers have shot up like Jack's bean-stalk, and left all their Out-grown clothes "to be made over for George;" and that cross old tailoress keeps inc from bat and ball, an hour on the stretch, while she laps over, and nips in, and tucks up, and cuts off their great baggy clothes for um. And when she puts me out the door, she's sure to say—" Good-bye, little Tom Thumb.' Then when I go to my uncle's to dine, he al ways puts the big dictionary in a chair, to hoist me up high enough to reach thy knife and fork ; and if there is a dwarf apple or potato on the table, it is always laid on my plate. If Igo to the play-ground to have a game of ball, the fellows all say—Get out of the way, little chap, or we shalt knock you into a cocked bat. I don't thiok I've grown a bit in two years. I know I have n't, by the mark on the wail ` (and I stand up to measure every chance fget.) When visi tors come to the house and ask me my age, and I tell them that I ant nine years old, they say, Tut, tut! little boys should n't tell fibs. My brother Hal has got his first long-tailed coat already ; I am really afraid I never shall have anything but a jacket. I go to bed early, and have left off eating candy, and sweetmeats. I haven't put my fingers in the sugar-bowl this many a day. leat meat like my father,and I stretch up my neck till it aches,—still I'm "little George," and "nothing shorter ;" or, rather, I'm shorter than nothing. Oh, toy Aunt Libby don't know much. How should she? She never was it boy Death in the Prize Ring—The Fight at Cayuga Lake. The fatal prize fight near Cayuga Lake, New York, has already been mentioned. NVe gather the following additional particu lars front the Ovid flee. The parties had been boasting of their prowess for a long time, each claiming that ho could whip the other,and tinnily they made an arrangement to light at Farmerville. Constable Gelatin ver, hoirevoi-.notilied them that they would be arrested if they did so, and induced them to shake hands and say "quits." The saute evening a gamblerand despera- do, "Art." Wood, of Ovid, who bad put him self forward as Donlez,os bunker, induced the parties to change their friendly purpose, and a fight was made up for ten dollars a side. On Saturday last the parties with their seconds and others, went to the place designated to have it out. A rope was stretched and the two pugi lists shook hands preliminary to entering the ring. For some reason McGraw did not wait, but commenced the fight during the' hand-shaking, and dolt his blows so power fully that Donely,after being knocked down three or four times, retreated, saying that he had had enough, But "Art." Wood, his second, took a revolver front his pocket and told him he must whip McGraw, and at the sante time informing the bystanders that he would shoot any one that interfered. Donley returned, seized McGraw by the colhir, and kicked him. The kick caused McGraw to bend over, and, as he did so, Donley bit hint on the neck with all the l'orce be could command. The -blow burst an artery, and McGraw died in two min utes. When be fell, and bystanders ex claimed that he was dead, the notorious "Art." swore that he wasn't dead,and offer ed to back up his assertion by a bet of tk. Directly "Art." started Donley oil on his own horse, and he gut out or reach an soon as possible. Ile went to a ravine near Ovid, left his horse, and concealed himself. We hear that he was found in the ravine on Mondoy, disabled, having fallen from a cliff. Farm erville is notorious for bloody affrays. Only two years ago one man was pounded to death there by another, and afterward ac quitted on the ground that he did it in self defence. "Art." was under double bonds to keep the peace at the time of the late fight, in consequence of his brutalities. In one in stance he had throws a tumbler at the head of a deputy sheriff, inflicting a dangerous wound. His ease seems to need particular attention, and we hope Seneca county jus tice will put him where he belongs. A Barbarous Duel A letter from Italy says: " The barbarous features accompanying the practice of the dual in this country have been frequently brought into notice by the press both here and abroad. We have now u fresh case in point. Four ;eoliths, natives of Faenza, iii consequence. of a quarrel, which is old as last Carnival, met some days ago in a field at a short distance from the city, after having dined together, says the account, with every appearance of cordiality and good fellowship. Each was pitted against his respective adversary, the con ditions of the light being that after dis charging their pistols the parties should continue the combat -with their knives. In both cases the pistols were fired of/ without effect, and the second act of the drama be gan. One pair of combatants fought with great fury, and in a few minutes both men were on the ground, one with five wounds and the other with seven. A fortunate ac cident put an end to the second encounter, for one of the knives, coming in contact with a button or some other hard substance, was broken in two, and the horrid spectacle of their friends weltering in blood seems to have suggested other thoughts than that of continuing the conflict. A medical man, called to the spot, gave small hopes of the recovery of the two wounded men." TuE: Mormons have a great deal to learn, When the Utah Central Railroad WIIS re cently opened, there was not a speech, al though Brigham Young and many of his elders were present et the ceremonies. We Gentiles manage to get speeches, even from leneral Grant, Perhaps men with a dozen w ives apigce, hear so much talking at home, that they are glad of the chance of silence when they go into public. ANDY SotittsoN intends to write it history of his administration. [ - WHOLE NUMBER, 2,077. s,arni and mouvhotd Toittnin. AalllCUL'fli It E is the mo=t useful aname , ,tnable employment of mitn.—Wisninioron. COMMITSICATI(MS, Selections, 'Recipes and ar ticles of interest anti value, are solicited for this department of the paper. We desire to supply the publlcwlth the (l e st practical Information In reference to the farm, garden.and household. Transplanting* In the Night. A gentlemen anxious to ascertain the ef fect of transplanting at night, instead of by day, made an experiment with the follow ' ing results; Ito transplanted ten cherry trees while in bloom, commencing at four o'clock In the afternoon, and planting one each hour until one o'clock in the morning. Those transplanted during daylight shed their blossoms, producing little or no fruit, while those planted in the dark maintained their condition fully. lie did the same with ten dwarf trees, after the fruit Was one third grown. Those transplanted during the day shed their fruit; those transplant ed during the night perfected their crop, and showed no injury fro m having been re moved. With each of these trees, he re moved some earth with the roots. The in cident is fully vouched for; and if a few more similar experiments produce a like result, it will be a strong argument to hor ticulturists, etc.; to do such work at night. RECIPE. IVO P.TII ONE. TILIOUSAND DOL LARS.—The Ohio Gultivato>• says the follow ing recipe is worth one thousand dollars to every house-keeper: " Takc one pound of sal soda and half a pound of unblocked lime and put them in a gallon of water, boil twenty minutes, let it stand till cool, then d rain off and put in a small jug or jar ; soak your dirty clothes over night, or until they sic wet through, then wring them, and rub on plenty of soap, and with water, add one teacupful of the washing fluid ; boil half au horn• or more, rinse, awl your clothes will look bettor than by the old way of washing twice beforo boiling. This is an invaluable recipe arid every poor, tired woman should try it." TO COOK CCCUMIIIMS.—Pare off the rind, then cut the cucumber into slices, length wise, dust either side of those slices with corn meal or wheat flour, pepper and salt them to please your taste; this done, fry them brown, and you wall have one of the most delicious dishes that you can imagine, combining in their flavor those of the oyster plant and egg plant. Of their healthfulness, thus cooked, there can Le no question, and of their palatableness, it is only necessary or you to try them, to say with us, they are exquisite. . Piorr.r. E•ltontci beware bow they buy boxes and trunks at auction, hoping to dis cover in their purchases something very valuable. A man in New York bought a box at a sale of au undertaker's establish ment, and, subsequently ascertaining that he had purchased a dead baby (as a bar gain), he was obliged to have a funeral, and considering the cost of such ceremonies at the present day, the pecuniary results were probably not satisfactory. To MAKE A J7ALXY Hon Dit India, when a horse can and will not draw, instead of whipping or burning, him, as is frequently the intone° . In' more civilized countries, they quietly get a rope, and at taching, it to one of the fore feet, one or two of the men take hold of it, and advancing a few paces ahead of the horse, pull their best. No matter how stubborn the animal may be, a few doses of such treatment effects a perfect cure. SMALL BED Rooxs.—Small bed rooms are death to those who sleep in them. A bed• room should be the largest room in a house; and where it is hot it should be ven tilated by open doors, dropping windows, and the chimney. Many a person has sick ened and died 'without knowing what the trouble was, from sleeping in small and tight bed rooms. A single night in such a place will leave its marks upon a child,who will rise the morning tired and wilted like a fading tlower, PEnsoxs who havo pet canaries willlfind that they are extravagantly fond of the seed produced by the plantain, which may ho found in almost every yard, the leaf of which is known to every school boy as an excellent remedy for the effects of a bee sting. The birds will eat these seeds vora ciously, when they appear to have a decided distaste for every other kind of food offer ed them. TOAsT Punnixa.—Mix one quart of milk, three eggs, and a little salt, us for custard. Cut, a small loaf of baker's bread into slices half an inch thick, and lay them separately on platters. Pour the mixture over them, and let them stand two hours, or until the milk is soaked up; then fry brown on a griddle, and serve with sauce. ITALIAN LEMONADE.—Pure and press two dozen lemons; pour the juico on the peels, and let it remain on them all•night, and in the morning add two pounds of loaf sugar, a quart of good sherry, and three quarts of boiling water. Mix well, add a quart of boiling milk, and strain in through a jelly bag to clear. A SUMMER DRINK.—One quarter of a pound of tartaric acid, four pounds of su gar, two quarts of boiling water; when cold, add one half an ounce of any kind of essence, and bottle it. When used, put a little into nearly a tumbler of Ice water, add a quarter of a teaspoonful of soda, stirring quickly until it foams. MOLASSES BEEIL-Six quarts or water, two quarts of molasses, hairs pint of yeast two spoonrulls of cream of tartar. Stir all together. Add the grated peel of a lemon ; the juice may be substituted for the cream of tartar. Bottle after standing ten or twelve hours, with a raisin in each. Tite Omaha Herald states that the sec tion of the country between Wyoming and Utah territory., known as "Bitter Creek Region," and heretofore supposed to have been valueless, has been discovered to be the repository of untold petroleum wealth. RASPBERRY TA 31.---Plek them carefully take equal quantities of berries and sugar stir them continually: put the fruit first into a sauce pan, and when the watery particles are evaporated add the sugar, sim mer slowly fifteen or twenty minutes. Ilanvus r with five gallons of good water, a half a gallon of molasses, one quart of vinegar, and two ounces of powdered ginger. This will make not only a very pleasant bovearge, but one highly in vigorating and healthful. Till: New Orleans papers are boasting of the low price of beef in thnt city, it being sold for ten cents a pound. In summer time, during the war, it frequently hap pened that one scent was enough. Tun occasional nse of onions, mixed and Jed to poultry, with other food, is said to be one of the surest ways of keeping a yard of poultry in health. --- A half ear load of peat:hos from the lower end of the Delaware road passed through this town on Monday, for New York.— Clayton (Da.) Herald. •