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The Seasons.
When “ Jan-us” burls his northern blast,
From arctic icebergs frozen fast;
He loads with frost the shivering air,
Till Winter chimes In wild despair.
Grim “ February ” clad in icy mail,
Drives on the boisterous wintry gale—
His winds the Alpine summits know,
While girding on perpetual snow.
Wild blustering March is cold and drear,
Un 11 nrlght sunshine days appear;
Then Winter’s Ice-bound spell is gone.
And flowery Bpring soon blossoms on.
When April s sun resumes his sway,
And sheds his warm eflulgent ray ;
He clears away old Winter’s track,
And brings the genial Bpring-tlme back.
When May In brightest green appears,
And Na'ure’s flowery costume wears;
Bhe spreads her blossoms o’er the trees.
And flings their perfume o’er the breeze.
Fair June begins bright Bummer’s day,
And clothes her flelds with new made hay;
Hbe spreads her grandeur o’er the main,
While zephyrs wave her rlpentng grain.
As rolls fair July's sun aroiu d,
The harvest sheaves are reaped and bound;
Ami e’er the lammas floods begin,
The ripened shocks are gathered In.
The Hummer’s glorious orb of day,
Pours forth his heated August ray;
llui soon his heal begins U> wave,
And Autumn winds resound again.
When o’er trie equinoctial’s gale,
September s winds begin to wall;
Ami o'er the Autumn Irostsjiave come,
The Hummer’s flowers are gathered home.
’Tls on October’s milder day.
The ripening corn is sLored away •
Bui when fair Indian Summer's o l er,
The Autumn skies begin to lower.
Throughout November’s eve’s ofgloom,
The forest walls the faded bloom;
The Summer’s flowers are strewn around,
And withered leaves lie o’er the ground.
Del-ember’s winds drive o’er the plain,
A ml Boreas shakes his front# mane;
But all forget ire,
When clustered found the Christinas fire.
Old Sadsbuky.
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The One-Eyed Servant.
A Story Told to n Child
BY J KAN INGE LOW
Do yow see those two preLty cottages
oil opposite aides of thecominon ? How
bright their windows are, and how
pretty the vines trail over them. A year
ago one of them was the.. dirtiest and
most forlorn looking place you can im
agine, and its mistress the most untidy.
She was once sitting at her cottage
door, with her arms folded as if she
were in deep thought, plough to look
at her face, one would not have' sup
posed she was doing more than idly
watching the swallows as they floated
about in the hot, clear air. Her gown
Svas torn ami shabby, her shoes down
at the heels ; the little curtain in her
casement, which had once been white
ami fresh, hud a great rent in It; and
altogether she looked poor and forlorn.
She sat some time, gazing across the
common, when all of a sudden she heard
a little noise, like stitching, near the
ground. She looked down, and sitting
on the border, under a wall-flower bush,
she saw the funniestlittle man possible,
with a blue coat, a yellow waist-coat,
and red boots ; he had got a small shoe
on his lap, and he was stitching away
at it with all his might.
“(food morning, mistress!” said the
little man. “A very fine day. ~Why
may you be looking so earnestly across
the common?”
“ I was looking at my neighbor’s cot
tage,” said the young woman.
“ What? Tom, the gardener’s wife?
little Polly she used to be called; and
a very pretty cottage it is too! Looks
thriving, doesn’t it?”
“ She was always lucky,” said Bella,
(for that was the young wife’s name,)
‘‘and her husbandis always good to her.”
il They were both good husbands at
first,” interrupted the little cobbler,
without stopping. “ Reach me my awl,
mistress, will you, for you seem to have
nothing to do ; it lies close by your
foot.”
“Well, I cun’t say but they were
both veVy good husbands at first,” re
plied Bella, reaching the awl with a
sigh; “ but mine has changed for the
worse, and her’s for the better; and
then how she thrives. Only to think
of our both being married on the same
day ; and now [ have nothing, and she
has two pigs and a—”
“ And a lot of flax that she had spun
in the winter,” interrupted the cobbler;
“and a Sunday gown, as good gVeen
stuff*as ever wasseen, andto my knowl
edge, a hundsome silk handkerchief for
an apron, and a red waistcoat for her
good man, with three rows of blue-glass
buttons, and a flitch of bauou in the
chimney, an,d a rope of onions.”
“Oh ! she’s a luckywoman,” exclaim
ed Bella.
“ Ay, and a tea-tray with Daniel in
the Lion’s Den upon it,” continued the
cobbler; “ and a fat baby in thecradle.”
“ Oh! I’m sure I don’t envy her that
last,” said Bella pettishly. “I have
little enough for myself and husband,
letting alone children.”
“Why, mistress, isn’t your husband
in work?” asked the cobbler.
“No, he's at the ale-house.”
“Why, how’s that? he used to be
very sober. Can’t he get work ?”
“ His last master wouldn't keep him,
because lie was so shabby.”
“ Humph !”said tlie little man ;
a groom, is lie not? Well, as I was
saying, your neighbor opposite thrives
wonderfully ; hut no wonder ! Well,
I’ve nothing to do with other people's
Secrets, but 1 could tell you, only I'm
busy, and I must go.”
“Could tell me what?” cried the
young wife. “0, good cobbler, don’t
go, for I’ve nothing to do. Pray tell
me why its no wonder that she should
thrive?”
“ Well,” Bald he, “ it’B no business of
mine, you know, but ns I said before
it’s no wonder people thrive who huve
n servant —a hard working one, too—
who is always helping them.”
“A servant!” repeated Bella, “my
neighbor has a servant! No wonder,
then, everything looks so neat about
her; but I never saw this servant. I
think you must be mistaken ; besides,
how could she afford to pay her wages?”
“She has a servant, I see!” repeated
the cobbler “ a one-eyed servant—but
she pays her no wages, to my certain
knowledge. Well, good morning, mis
tress, I must go.”
" Do stop one minute,” cried Bella
urgeutly “ where did she get this ser
vant ?”
“ Oh, I don’t know,” said the cobbler;
servants are plentiful enough, and Polly
used her's well, I tell you?”
“ And what does she do for her ?”
“Do for her? Why, all sorts of
things—l think she’s the cause of her
prosperity. To my knowledgeshe never
refuses to do anything, keeps Tom’s and
Polly’s clothes in beautiful order, and
the baby’s.”
“Dear me!” said Bella, in an envious
tone, and holding up both hands; “well,
she is a lucky woman, and I always
Baid so. She takes good care I shall
never see her servant. What sort of a
servant is she, and how came she to have
only one eye?”
“It runs In her family," replied the
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cobbler, stitching busily; “they are all
so—one eye apiece; yet they make a very
good use-of it, and Polly’s servant has
four cousins who are blind —stone blind;
no eyes at ail; and they sometimes come
and help her. I've seen them in the
cottage myself, and that’s how Polly
gets a good deal of her money. They
wdrk for her, and she takes what they
make to market, and buyß all those
handsome things.
“Only think,” said Bella, almost
ready to cry with vexation, “and I've
not got a soul to do anything for me;
how hard it is!” and she took up her
apron to wipe away her tears.
The cobbler looked attentively atber.
“ Well, you are to be pitied, certainly,”
he said, “ and if I were notin such a
hurry—”
“ O, do go on, pray—were you going
to say you could help me ? I have heard
your people'are fond of curds and whey,
and fresh gooseberry syllabub. Now, if
you would help me, trust me that there
should be the most beautiful curds and
whey set everjr night for you on the
hearth; and nobody should ever look
when you went and came.”
“Why, you see,” said the cobbler,
hesitating, “my people are extremely
particular about—in short, about clean
liness, mistress ; and your houSfe is not
what one would call very clean. No of
fence, I hope?”
Bella blushed deeply. “Well, but it
should be always clean if you would—
every day of my life I would wash the
floor, and sand it, and the hearth should
be whitewashed as white as snow, and
the windows cleaned.”
“ Well,” said the cobbler, seeming to
consider, “ well then I .should not won
der if I could meet with a one-eyed
servant for you, like your neighbor’s;
but it may be several days before I can ;
and mind, mistress, I’m to have a dish
of curds.”
“ Yes, and some whipped cream, too,”
replied Bella, full of joy.
The cobbler then took up all his tools,
wrapped them in his leather apron,
walked behind the wall-flower, and
disappeared.
Bella was ho delighted she could not
sleep that night for joy. Her liusbaud
scarcely knew the house, she had made
it so bright and clean ; and by niglu
she had washed the curtain, cleaned
the window, rubbed the fire-irons,
sanded the floor, and set a great Jug of
hawthorn in blossom on the hearth.
The next morning-Bella kept a sharp
lookout, both for the tiny cobbler
ami on her neighbor’s house, to see
whether she could possibly catch a
glimse of theone-eyed servant. But, no
—nothing could she see but her neigh
borsitting on her rocking-chair, with
her baby on her knee, working.
At last, when she was quite tired she
heard the voice of the cobbler outside.
She ran to the door and cried out—
j “ O do, pray, come in, sir, and look at
my house!”
“ Really,” said the cobbler, looking
round, “I declare I should hardly have
knowu it—the suu can shine brighly
now through the clear glass ; and what
a sweet smell of hawthorn.”
“ Well, aud my one-eyed servant?”
asked Bella—you remember, I hope,
that I can’t pay her any wages—have
you met with any one that will come?”
“ All’s right,” replied the little man,
nodding. “ I’ve got her with me.”
“ Got her with you?” repeated Bella,
looking round, “ I see nobody.”
“ Look, here she is!” said thecobbler,
holding up something in his hand.
Would you believe it, the one-eyed
servant was nothing but a Needle !
Heading Aloud.
Hall's Journal of Health thinks this
exercise is one that combines mental
and muscular effort, and hence has a
double advantage. To read aloud, well,
a person should not only .understand the
subject, but should hear,his own voice,
and feel within him that every syllable
was distinctly enunciated, while there
is an instiuct presiding which modu
lates the voice to the number and dis
tance of the hearers. Every public
speaker ought to be able to know
whether he is distinctly heard by the'
furthest listener in the room ; if he is
not able to do so, it is from a want of
proper judgment and observation.
Beading aloud helps to develop the
ungs just as singing does, if properly
performed. The effect is to induce the
drawing of a long breath every once in
a while, oftener and deeper than that of
reading without enunciating. The deep
inhalations never fail to develop the
capacity of the -lungs in direct propor
tion to their practice.
Common consumption begins uniform
ly with imperfect, insufficient breath
ing ; it is the characteristic of the dis
ease that the breath becomes shorter
and shorter tbrpugh weary months,
down to the close of life, and whatever
counteracts the short breathing, what
ever promotes deeper inspirations is cu
rative to that extent, inevitably and
under all circumstances. Let any per
son make the experimentby reading the
page aloud, and in less than three min
utes the instinct of along breath will
show itself. This reading aloud devel
opesaweak voiceaud makes it sonorous.
It has great efficiency, also, in making
the tones clear and distinct, freeing
them from that annoying hoarseness
which the unaccustomed reader exhibits
before he has gone over half a page,
when he has to stop aud clear away, to
the confusionof himself asmuch as that
of the subject.
This loud reading, when properly
done, has a great agency in inducing
vocal power, on the same principle thut
muscles are strengthened by exercise—
those of voice-making organs being no
exception to the general rule. Hence
in many cuses, absolute silence dimin
ishes the vocal power, just as the pro
tracted non-use of the arm of the Hin
doo devotee at length paralyzes it for
ever. The general rule in appropriate
cases is to read aloud in a conversational
tone, twice a day, for a minute or two,
or three at a time, increasing & minute
every other day until half an hour is
thus spent at a time, twice a day, which
is to be continued until the - desired ob
ject is accomplished. Managed thus,
there is safety and efficiency as a uni
form result.
As a means, then, of health, of avert
ing consumption, of being social and
entertaining in any company, as a
means of showing the quality of the
mind, let reading aloud be considered
an accomplishment far more indispen
sable than that of smattering French,
or lisping Italian, or dancing cotillions,
gallopades, polkas and quadrilles.
It is stated that a large majority of Con
gress are opposed to the proposed measure
for the equalization of bounties. It would
require, according to an official statement,
over $600,000,000, and four-fifths of the
amount, it is claimed, would go to specula
tors and claim agents, who have bought up
soldiers’ certificates, 1
Swallowing an Oyster AHVe,
At a late hour one night, the door of
an oyster house in St. Louis was thrust
open, and In stalkecLa hero from the
Sucker State. He was quite six feet
high, spare, somewhat stopped, with a
hungry, anxious countenance, and his
hands pushed clear down to the bottom
of his breeches pockets. His outer cov
ering was hard to define, but after sur
veying it minutely, we came to the con
clusion that his suit had been made in
his boyhood, oT a dingy yellow linsey
woolsey, and that, having sprouted up
with astonishing rapidity, he had been
forced to piece it out with all colors, in
order to keep pace with his body. In
spite of his exertions, however, he had
fallen in arrears about a foot of the ne
cessary length, and, consequently 9tuck
that far through his inexpressibles.—
His crop of hair wassurmounted by the
funniest little seal skin cap imaginable.
After taking a position, he indulged in
a long stare at the man opening the
biyalves, and slowly ejaculated—“ is
ters!”
“Yes, sir,” responded the attentive
operator,—“ and fine ones they are too.”
“ Well, I’ve heard of isters afore,”
said he, “ but this is the fust time I’ve
seed em, and perhaps I’ll know what
they are madeof afore Igetoutof town.”
Having expressed this desperate in
tention, he cautiously approached the
plate, and scrutinized the uncased shell
fish with a gravity and interest which
would have done honor to the most il
lustrious searcher into the hidden mys
teries of nature. At length he began
to soliloquize on the difficulty of gettiug
them out, aud how queer they looked
when out.
“ I never seed anything hold on so—
takes an amazin site ofscrewin, boss, to
get em out, and aiut they slick, and slip
pery when they iloes)come? Smooth asan
eel! I've a good mind to give that fel
low lodgin’jist to realize the effect, as
uncle Jess used to say about specula
tion.”
11 Well, sir,” was the reply,
with two bits, and you can have a
dozen.”
11 Two bits !" exclaimed the Sucker,
11 that’s stickin’ it on rite strong, moss,
for isters A dozen on em alnt nothin
to a chicken, and there’s no gettin
more’n a picayune a piece for them'.
I’ve only realized l'orty-llve picayunes
on my llrst venture to St. Louis. I'll
tell you what, I’ll gin you two chickens
fora dozen, If you'll conclude to deal.”
A wag who wasstandingjby Indulging
in a dozen, winked to the attendant to
shell out, and the offer was accepted.
“Now mind,” repeated the Sucker,
“all fair-two chickens for a dozen—you’re
a witness, mister, turning at the same
time to ihe wag; none of your tricks,
for I’ve heard that you city fellers are
mity slip’ry coons.”
The bargain being fairly understood,
our Sucker prepared himself for the on
set ; deliberatlely put off his seal skin,
tutted up his sleeves, and, fork in hand,
awaited the appearance of No. 1. It
came—he saw—and quickly it was
bolted ! A moment’s dreadful pause
ensued. The wagdropped his knifeand
fork with a look ofjmingled amazement
aud horror—something akin to Shak
spere’s Hamlet on seeing his daddy’s
ghost—while he burst into theexclama
tion.
“ Swallowed alive, as I’m u Christian!”
OurSuckerhero had opened his mouth
with pleasure a moment before, but now
it stood 'open. Fear—a horrid dread of
he didn’t] know what —a consciousness
that all wasn’t right, and ignorant of
the extent of the wrong—the uncertainty
of the moment was terrible. Urged to
desperation he faltered out —
" What on earth’s the row '!"
“Did you swallow it alive?” inquired
the wag.
“1 swallowed it jest ns he gin it to
me,” shouted the Sucker.
“You're a dead man !” exclaimed his
anxious friend, "the creature is alive,
and will eat right through you,” added
he in a most hopeless tone.
“Get a pizen pump and pump it out!”
screamed the Sucker in a frenzy, his
eyeß fairly starting from their sockets.
“O gracious what’ll I do!—lt's got
hold of my innards already, and I'm
dead as a chicken ! Do something for
me, do—don’t let the infernal sea-toad
eat me afore your eyes.”
“ Why don’t you put some of this on
it ?” inquired the wag, pointing to a
bottle of strong pepper-sauce.
The hint was enough—the Sucker,
upon the instant, seized the bottle, and
desperately wrenching out the cork,
swallowed half the contents at a
draught. He fairly squealed from its
effects, and gasped and blowed, and
pitched and twisted, as if it cours
ing through him with electric effect,
while at the same time his eyes ran a
stream of tears. At length becoming a
little composed, his waggish'advertiser
approached, almost bursting with sup
pressed laughter, aud inquired :
" How are you now, old fellow,—did
you kill it ?”
“ Well, I did, boss—ugh, ugh o-o-o
my iunrds. If that ister critter's dyin
agouies didn't stir aruptionin me equal
to a Bmall arthquake, then taint no use
say, in it—it squirmed like a serpent,
when that killin stuff touched it; bu’
—and here with a countenance made
up of suppressed agony and present de
termination, he paused to give force to
his words, and slowly and deliberately
remarked, “If you get two chickens
from me for that live animal, I’m d—d! '-’
and Beizing his seal-skin he vanished.
The noncy Moon,
Why is the first month after marriage
called the "honeymoon?” Doubtless
on account of the sweet lunacy which
controls the heads of the parties during
that brief aud delightful period. What
a pity that they should ever get quite
rational again ! That sentimentality
should give place to sentiment, senti
ment to sense, love yield to logic, and
fiction to fact till the happy pair are re
duced from the Eden of romance to the
Sahara of reality—from Heaven to earth
—and perhaps a peg lower!
Strange as it may seem, there have
been couples who have quarreled in the
first month of matrimony, and have got
back to their astonished parents before
the good mother had fairly got done
weeping, (and rejoicing, too), at her
daughter’s departure. Their “honey
moon ” soured at the full of her thorn
and become a moon of vinegar instead.
Abad.omen, that! There was much
sense and propriety in the text which
the ancient olergymen chose for a wed
ding sermon. It was taken from the
Psalms of David, and read thus: “ And
let there be peace, while the moon en
dureth.”
Another cold term is upon us. In the
West yesterday, the weatherwas unusually
severe. At Leavenwortn, .Kansas, yester
day* the thermometer marked sixteen below
zetro; at St. Louis ten above; at Cincinnati,
zero.
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21, 1866.
. A Hundred Years Hence.
How melancholy the contemplation
when ono allots the mind to wander
back through the dim vista of-by-gone
days, a hundred years ago. But if this
is melancholy, how unutterably so wheu
we suffer the imagination to launch out
in the mazy depths of the undiscovered
future “a hundred years hence.” What
solemn thoughts are suggested! Wnere
will be the countless myriads who now
throng the busy streets, and to whose
ringing tread thesepavements nowecho
a still Small voice, stealing up from the
misty shades of the past, in hollow
tones replies:
As you ate now so once was I.
as I am now so you must lie. ’
Yes, der aether we are fast
traveling lafc bourne whence
no trave " Soon will we
have to b kindred, friends,
loved onei u we cherish and
hold dear jrrestrial ball and
go down with our kindred
past. Thf level all ranks.
Pain raci : the rich man as
well as thj gar, and then the
palatial r< be exchanged for
a darkenea x feet b3 r two of
mother earth while the diadem flashing
upon the brow of royalty, aud the gems
blazing upon the breast of beauty, will
be exchanged for no other ornament
than the winding Bheet of death.
Where, then, will be the haughty aris
tocrat, with a chilling sueer, or the
mighty potentate with whose name the
world resounds, and at whose nod mil
lions notice and obey? Ah, then the
rich and the poor; the high and the
low ; the kiug and the subject; the wily
statesman and his silly dupes; the
warrior and the vanquished; the plot,
the counterplot and the victim,; the
smiles of beauty and her frowus; alike
the blushing maid and her sighing lov
er; the bright birds now singing in the
forests; and the sweet flowers now
blooming in the valley,, will all have to
share the fate of all things mortal,
while “ Ulema Quieta ,” will be written
high overali that remains of them “ a
hundred years hence.” Then what
matters our petty Btrifes and conten
tions,our jealousies and heart burnings,
our hopes and fears, our Joys and sor
rows? What matters it when all is
over that the polished tongue of slander,
envy and jealousy now blight our fair
hopes and blast our brightest prospects
with poisonous mildew of their en
venomed hearts? What matters the
plot that now works our ruin and
misery, or the pangs of unrequited love
borne by the breaking, bleeding
heart amid the taunts, the jeers
and sculls of enemies, with no
friendly bosom near whereon to
lay the head aud And sympathy and
comfort in the hour of grief and woe ?
What matters it that we have trusted
and been deceived ; that we have built
up bright visions of hope but to see
through tears of wo their brightness
fadeaway? What matters it that clouds
of grief now hover darkly over our path
way, and that love, hope, friendship,
joy aud happiness are all hidden from
our longing vision by its leaden lining?
“ It will be the same a hundred years
beuce,” as, side by side, we lie down
together in the cold and silent grave,
with the wild winds chanting requiems
through the branches of the cypress
and weeping willows as they wave over
the dull cold marble which taught by
the sculptor’s hand to weep, will be the
only mourner over our ashes “a hun
dred years hence.”
Couldn’t Keep Them All Night.
A short distance from the city of
Montgomery, in the State of Alabama,
on one of the Btage roads running from
that city, lived a jolly landlord by the
name of Ford. In fair weather or foul,
in hard times or soft, Ford would have
his joke. It was a bitter, stormy night
or rather morning, about two hours be
foreday light,that he wasarousedfrom his
slumbers by loud shouting and knockß
at liis door. He turned out but sorely
figainst his will, and demanded what
was the matter. It as tar,
and seeing no oue, he cried out:
“ Who are you there?”
“Burder, and Ynncy, and Elmore,
from Montgomery,” was the answer,
“on our way to attend court. We are
benighted, and want to stay all night.’’
“ Very sorry I can’t accommodate
you so far ; do anything to oblige you,
but that's impossible.”
The lawyers, for there were three of
the smartest in the State, and all ready
to drop down with fatigue, held a brief
consultation, and then, as they could
do no better, and were too tired to go
another step, they asked:
" Well, can't you stable our horses
and give us chairs and a good fire until
morning ?”
" Oh, yes, gentlemen, can do that?”
Our learned and legal friends were
soon drying their wet clothes by a bright
fire as they composed themselves the
few remaining hours in their chair,
dozing and nodding, and now and then
swearing a word or two of impatience,
as they waited till daylight did appear.
The longest night has a morning, and
at last the sun oame along and then in
due time a good breakfast made its ap
pearance ; and to the surprise of the
lawyers who thought the house was
crowded with guestß, none but them
selves sat down to partake.
“ Why, Ford, I thought your house
was bo full you couldn’t give us a bed
last night!” said Burder.
“ I didn’t say so,” replied Ford.
“You didn't? What in the name'of
thunder did you say?”
“ You asked me to let you stay here
all night, and I said it would be impos
sible for night was nigh unto two-thirds
gone when you came. If you only
wanted beds, why on earth didn’t you
say so?”
The lawyers had to give It up. Three
of them on one side, and the landlord
alone had beat them all.
Beautiful. .
At a Sabbath School anniversary in
London, two little girls presented them
selves to receive the prize, one of whom
had recited one veree more than the
other, both having learned several thou
sand verses of Scripture. The gentle
man who presided inquired:
“ And could you not have learned one
verse more, and thus have kept up with
Martha?”
“ Yes sir,” the blushing child replied ;
“ but I loved Martha, and kept back on
purpose."
" And - was there any one of all the
verses you have learned,” again inquir
ed the president, “ that taught you this
lesson ?”
“There was, sir,” she answered,
blushing still more deeply: “ ‘ln honor
preferring one another.’ ”
—Nine months ago Pithole City, Penn
sylvania, consisted of two 1 houses. Now it
supports a newspaper having a circulation
of 3,000 copies, receives 60, OOOlettersmonth-
ly, and sustains twelve hotels.
artTusccllaueousi.
Printing, Lithography, EngraTlng and
Bookbinding in Pennsylvania.
Compiled from the Census Heport.
In 1860-Pennsylvania contained 267
printingestablishments, with an invest
ted capital of $4,137,850, and a product
of $6,022,877, This was more than double
the product of any other State, except
New York. In lithography we had 23
establishments, with a product of $386,-
300, which exceeded the return of any
other State, and was nearly half the
product of the whole Union. We had
12 type-foundries, with a product of
$308,300 (part of which was for stereo
typing), ranking second to New York.
We had 72 engraving establishments,
employing 242 persons, with a product
valued at s322,4oo—ranking in this
manufacture, also, second to New York.
Our book-binding and blank-book es
tablishments numbered 56, with a pro
doct of $984,678 —exceeded only by that
of New York. Our State shared in the
remarkable progress in these pursuits
which marked the period from 1850 to
1860—the number of printing establish
ments having increased from 165 to 207,
and their product in the-former year
having been only $1,717,612. Nearly
all of this was executed at Philadelphia
and Pittsburg, and comparatively asmall
amountinthelatter city—more than So,-
000,000 worth being produced by news
paper offices, book-publishing houses,
and job-offices in our city. The book
printing of Pennsylvania was executed
by 42 establishments, to the value of
$2,377,400 —employing a capital of $2,-
19i,500and 816 hands. Sixty-seven job
printing offices, having invested a capi
tal of $589,600 and employing 739 hands,
executed work valued at $1,084,225; and
158 newspaper establishments, with
capitals amounting altogether to $l,-
356,750 aud 1,847 hands, printed news
papers annually to the value of $2,561,-
252. Sixteen newspaperestablishments
in Alleghany county (chiefly in Pitts
burg) employed $248,400 capital aud 326
hands, aud printed newspapers to the
value of $-538,103 annually. AVilliam
Bradford, in 10S0, four years after the
first English settlement was made in
this city, erected the first printing-press
in Pennsylvania, and this was the sec
ond province in which this business
was established. In that year he printed
a small quarto tract, of which a
copy is still extant, aud soon after
" Leed’s Almanac," followed by other
ephemeral aud controversial tracts on
religious and political subjects. In con
sequence of litigutiun with the authori
ties, growing out uf some of his polemi
cal publications, Bradford removed to
New York in 1603, and established the
first press in that province. His Phil
adelphia office remained under the
management of Jansen until 1712, when
Andrew .S, Bradford, a son of William,
assumed control, ami continued to be
tlie principal or only printer In this
city until 1723, when 8. Keimer, an
English printer, commenced a rival es
tablishment, aud employed among his
workmen Benjamin Franklin, who in
his autobiography has immortalized the
peculiarities of his employer.
In December, 1719, Andrew Brad
ford commenced the publication of the
Americdn Weekly Mercury , which was
the third newspaper in the colonies.
Magazines and other serials were at
tempted by Dr. Franklin as early as
1741. The census report of 1810 return
ed 108 printing offices in Pennsylvania,
executing work to the value of $353,517.
The number of offices in this city at
that time was 51, aud the number of
presses 153. They were supposed to print
annually 500,000 volumes. A great
impulse was given to the uook
trade of the United States by,the annual
fairs and trade sales. The former was
suggested by Matthew Carey, who, in
1804, issued in Philadelphia the first
quarto Bible printed from movable types
in America, and the trade sales were
planned by his son, Henry C. Carey, the
distinguished political economist.
The Public Ledger was the first press
(manufactured by Kichard M. Hoe, of
New York) which printed with revolv
ing type. In 1818 Adam liamage, of
Philadelphia, patented improvements of
Ruthven’s Scotch press. The rollers
for distributing ink on tjie types, pat
ented in 1817 by Hugh Maxwell, of
Lancaster, was a great improvement on
the balls previously used for inking. It
was computed to save each press six
dollars per week, besides a gain in time
and.quality of work. The Columbian
press, a hand-press invented by George
Clymer, of this State, was Introduced in
England in 1818, and is still used there
extensively. In style of finish and em
blematic embellishment it exceeded
anything before seen there. It was the
first press constructed in America to
print two sides of a newspaper at once,
which it effected by a combination of
levers.
The first published specimen of Ameri
can lithography iscontained in the-Ina
clcctic Magazine for July, 1819, which
was a few years subsequent to the in
troduction of the art from Germany
into England. It was executed upon
Munich stone by Benjamin Otis, of
Philadelphia, who had also executed
lithographic engraving upon stone from
a quarry near Dick’s river, Kentucky.
The Becund regular lithographic estab
lishment in the United States was com
menced in this city in 1828, by Kennedy
& Lucas, but failed for want of experi
enced printers. John Pendleton, Kear
ney & Childs commenced the business
soon after, employing as draughtsmen
Rembrandt Peale and Mr. Swett.
The hook-binding and blank-book
establishments in our State employed,
in 1850,641 male and 1,474 female hands,
paying annually $297,816 for labor, ami
having a capital of $518,900. Andrew
Bradford, one of our early printers, in
1718, and Benjamin Franklin, in 1729,
established book-binderies here. In
1810, returns were made of 102 estab
lishments In Pennsylvania, with a pro
duct worthslo7,lB3. In 1840 only 4(1 es
tablishments were reported. Marbled
paper of superior quality has been made
in this city for a number of years.—
Bookbinder’s tools for producing the
ornamental work were manufactured
here more than 40 years ago, by David
H. Mason, who took ont a patent in
January, 1820, for ornamental rolls and
stamps for book-binders, and in part
nership with M. W. Baldwin* the emi
nent locomotive builder, introduced
many new designs. Benjamin Gaskill,
who was established as a book-binder
here previous to 1812, was one of the
first to use hydraulic presses, and other
machinery in bookbinding in this
country
Former Armies of the Unitell Stages.
The largest army ever assembled at
any one time during the revolution was
that commanded by General Putnum,
on Long Island. That numbered seven
teen thousand men of all arms. The
next largest was that with which Wash
ington captured Cornwallis ut York
town, when he had sixteen thousand.
Our largest army assembled in 1812 was
commanded by Jackson at New
and counted but six thousand. Coming
down to the Mexican army, Taylor won
his victories with a force never exceed
ing five thousand, and Scott’s largest
force was not beyond eight thousand
five hundred. The largest army prior
to the rebellion was, therefore, that of
Putnam, at Long Island—seventeen
thousand men.
Origin of Certain Habits.
Many of the most pernicious habits
were contracted originally for the sake
of health. Wine and distilled liquors
are taken to strengthen; tobacco, opium
and hasheesh to relieve low spirits; card
playing to amuse.'. But, too often, the
persons who innocently aequire such
habits, know not how to, limit the ex
tent of the indulgence, Jor to abandon
them entirely when found to be preju
dicial. The dose of excitement must he
increased ; habit exerts its sway • we
are enclosed in its net, and happy is he
who is able with resolute effort to ex
tricate himself from It.
Sheridan.
We take the following graphic sketch
of the brilliant Sheridan from the Paris
correspondence of the New York £ve
ning Post, in which it is quoted from M.
Taine’s “ History of English Litera
ture
; “Sheridan was au adroit, amiable,
‘ generous, successful adventurer. The
stepping-stone to his success wasscanoal
He ascended like a brilliaut meteor to
the literary and political empyreau, ap
parently taking his place among the
constellations, and then, gleaming for
an instant, exhausted himaeif and van
ished. Xo obstacle opposed his progress ;
he triumphed at once, seemiugly with
out effort, like a prioce who securely
throws himself in a crowd when all
make way for him. Every enjoyment
attendant on success, every brilliant
artistic attribute, whatever society most
prizes, belonged to him as if by birth
right. Unknown, impoverished and
autfering/'iljp translator of au unread
able Greek sophist, wauderiug through
the streets of Bath at twenty, in a red
vest and three cornered hat, and never
unconscious of empty pocket, he could
yet win die heart of a beautiful woman,
aud—a first class musician—bear her off
in the face of rich, eiegantand titled ad
mirers; fight with the most desperate,
come off victor, and carry by storm the
curiosity of a bewildered community.—
Devoted after this to fame aud mouey,
ne poured upon the stage in rapid suc
cession pieces of the most diverse and
popular character—comedy, farce, opera
aud grave poetry ; purchasing and man
aging an extensive .heatre without a
sou, improvising success and a revenue,
and capping the climax with la life of
elegance, amid delightful family aud so
cial relationships, to the astonishment
and admiratiou of Everybody.
“He aspired still higher and won
power. He eutered the House of Com
mons, and showed himself equal to the
firstofils orators. He combatted Pitt,
attacked Warren Hastings, supported
Fox, rallied Burke, and sustained with
eclat, disinterestedness and constancy
the most liberal aud most dillieult of
roles, becoming one umong three or
four of the most remarkable men of
England, the equal of peers, a friend of
the Prince Royal, and, at length, an of
ficial of the highest rank, as Receiver
General of the Duchy of Cornwall and
Treasurer of the Admiralty. He stood
at the head of hJs career, no matter
what it might be. ‘ Whatever Hheridau
has done or chosen to do/ says Lord
Byron, * has been>par excellence, always
the best of his ldnd. He has written
the best comedy, (School for Scandal,)
the best drama (the Duenna,) the best
farce, (the Critic,) and the best epistle,
(Monody on Garrick,) and, to crown all,
delivered the very best oratimV(the fa
mous Begum speech) ever conceived or
heard in the country.'
“ All the ordinary rules of life were
reversed for Sheridan. At forty years
of age debts began to overwhelm him ;
he hud drauk too much and supped too
much; his cheeks grew purple and Ills
nose grew red. In this beautiful plight
he encounters within the Duke of
Devonshire’s walls a charming young
girl and is smitten. At the first sight
of him she exclaims, * How ugly ; what
a monster!’ He converses with her;
she admits he is very ugly/but very
entertaining. He converses with her a
second and a third time, and she finds
him exceedingly amiable. He converses
with her again, and she loves him, and
determines at all huzurds to marry him.
The father, a prudent man, desires to
forestall the project, and declares to his
future son-lu-law that he must provide a
dowry of fifteen thousand pounds; the fif
teen thousand pounds appear as if by
magic, and are deposited in thehaudsof a
banker. The newly married couple de
part for the country, and the father,
meetiug his son, a firm, obstinate man,
and ill disposed to thematch/persuades
him that it is oue of the most reasona
ble a father could expect, and the hap
piest circumstance a brother could re
joice over I Let the man and the cir
cumstance be what they will, persuasion
overcomes every thing. There is no
such thing us resistance; all yield to the
charm. What could be more difficult
than for an ugly man to blind the eyes
of a voung girl to his ugliness !
“One thing more difficult there is,
and that is making a creditor insensible
to indebtedness. There is something
more difficult yet—to convert a credi
tor's demand for money Into an offer to
loan more. A friend of Sheridan Is ar
rested for debt. He summons Mr. Hen-
deraon, the crabbed financier, Sheridan
coaxes hinp, interests him, softens him,
inspires him; he overwhelms him with
general considerations, and so eloquent
ly that Mr. Hendersou tendered his
purse, begging permission to lend him
two hundred pounds more, and finally,
to his grfeat delight, prevails on him to
accept it. Never was such amiability
and such facility in the obtaining of
confidence! Rarely has such natural,
genial, absorbing sympathy displayed
itself more powerfully! It is literally
seduction! Creditors and visitors
thronged through his house daily, Sher
idan would enter the room smiling and
at ease, and demean himself so graci-
ously, so cordially, that people forgot
their claims, their uecessities, and seem
ed to be there for no other purpose
than to call on him. His inspiration
was electric; his wit incomparably daz
zling ; his fund of bon mots, his; inveu
tion, his fertility of ideas, his! sallies
were inexhaustible. Lord Byron, who
was a good judge, says he never heard
or imagined such extraordinary power
of conversation. People passed entire
nights listening to him. Nobody
equalled him as a boon companion.
Even when intoxicated his mind never
failed him. Picked up one day in the
street by a policeman, the latter de
manded his name. 4 Wilberforce,’ he
gravely replied. There was no coldness
or formality to strangers or inferiors ; be
had the rare frankness, that natural ex
panßiveness which. In its generous self
abandonment forbids the slightest sus
picion of reserve. Lord Byron’s candid
praise of him drew tears from his eyes,
and he wept on recounting the miseries
of poverty-stricken ambition.
People do not want to bestow sympa
thy and friendship on such natures,
they immediately aoflf a suspicious, de
fensive attitude; finding a man self
surrendering, they In turn surrender
themßelves up to him; expensiveness
begets expensiveness. Sheridan's in
tellect was a quick, sparkling, impetu
ous instrument. The discharge of his
teeming brain was like the rattle of
musketry. 'He would maintain himself
sole speaker unwearied until five o'clock
in the morning, ever manifesting the
same brilliancy, variety and incredible
fertility. A man is bound to be on
his guard against such talents for
improvision, such tastes for self-expan
sion, such love of pleasure. Life is not
a fete, but a struggle with others and
with oneself. We are ( obliged to think
of the future, to question our powers,
and to husband our resources. We can
not live without commercial precaution
and common-place calculation. If we
sup too frequently we end in not being
able to dine ; if our pockets have holes
in them silver will not remain there—
which is a trite remark. Debts accu
mulated with Sheridan, and hisstomach
oould no longer digest. He lost his place
in Parliament and his, theatre in a
conflagration. Officers Were in hot pur
suit of him, the law tor a long time
having had possession of his residence.
Finally a bailiff arrests the dying man
and proceeds to carry him from his bed
in blankets, relaxing hiß hold only
through fear of prosecution, the physi
cian declaring that bis patient would
die on the way. A newspaper excited
the shame of noblemen who could
abandon such a man to so miserable a
fate, and they hastened to leave their
cards at his door. The funeral was at
tended by the King’s two brothers, by
dukes, by counts, bv bishops, by the
first men of England, who either bore
or followed his body to the grave What
a singular contrast is the summary of
his llfe_and genius—lords attended his
3 lies, and bailiflfb were the minis
of his death-bed 1”
NUMBER 7.
One Passenger More than was Registered.
On Monday morning last, soon after
i the mail-boat General Buell had left
Louisville, Mr. Penniston, the clerk,
happening back in the ladies’ cabin,
saw a lady sitting solus and very closely
vailed, and conscious that no such per
son had registered their name upon the
bookß, he sought the chambermaid and
sent her on a voyage of inquiry. That
feminine official speedily put herself iu
communication with the vailed lady,as
certained that her name was Mrs. Scott
and that she was bound for this city, on
a visit to some friends, and she was in
a very short time furnished with a state
room, with the privilege of occupying
it alone, into which she retired.
At the dinner hour it was noticed by
Mr. Penniston, who did thesbouors of
the table, that the above named lady
did not make her appearauce, and it
was also noticed that she was absent at
the supper table, whereupon the Clerk
sent the chambermaid to her room to
ascertain the reason, who soon returned
with the information that the lady felt
very much fatigued, aud declined to
join the passengers at that social meal.
On the following morning she made
her appearance in the ladies’ cabin with
a face as pallid as a sheet, and with such
an appearance of extreme illness as to
attract the attention of the other lady
passengers, together with the chamber
maid, all of whom inquired the cause.
Trembling with exhaustion, she pointed
to her state-room, and then fell back in
a lamting fit. The ladies rushed to the
room, when they found in the lower
berth a new-born infant, of which the
sick lady had been delivered during the
night; and that, too, all alone, without
the assistance of any body, and so
quietly that even the occupants of the
adjoining room were unaware of it—
which is a fact that would almost seem
incredible. Of course, all the needful
nourishment was afforded by the offi
cers of the boat, aud the lady was soou
recovered from her exhausted conditiou.
At the suggestion of the lady passen
gers, and with theconsent of the mother,
the iulunt, which is of the female per
suasion, was named Buella, in honor of
the boat. Upon the arrival of the Gen
eral Buell at our landing, (Japt. Phillips
generously called a carriage and had
Mrs. Scott and her Infant conveyed to
St. John’s Hospital, where the twulu
were put in charge of Sister Anthony,
than whom no oue knows better how
to provide and take care of them. The ■
lady passengers in that eventful trip i
will no doubt long remember the “ one i
passenger more than was registered.”— <
Cincinnati Knquircr, B th inut. \
Attention I congress!
A few days since iu Indianapolis, a
negro got drunk—engaged in a row in a
nlggerorous, kept by a tun colored wench
—was killed by another nigger and lain
out in a back room waiting burial. The
rats, not having the fear of Howe, Thud
!Steveils. Sumner, or the ghost of John
Jlrown In their eyes mude a feast ou the
child of Ham, and in Lhe languuge of
the Indianapolis lltrald—
When iho coroner arrived at the house, it
was found that both eyes had boon eaten
out by the rats, and the most of the flesh of
the right side of the face gnawed otf, leaving
the hones bare, thus intensifying the nat
urally disgusting appearance of the corpse.
We appeal to Congress! A sacred
object has been molested by copperhead
rats. And that, in Indlauupolis where
the abolitionists had such*a majority in
]B<>4! Let the rats be destroyed! Let
Sumner, Anna Dickinson Howe Stevens
and other smaller dogs in the abolition
kennel, bark. Let Congress appropriate
nineteen thousand million dollars for
rat terriers and a rat collector. Let the
vermin be wiped-out before they have
another meeting to rat-ify some other
“man and brother” of African descent.
Let the churches be draped in mourn
ing—let those who will not hang out
black rags or bunches ofwool.be mobbed
and business given them to do no more
forever. Let a vigorous law be passed
against rats. Give the niggers United
States bonds exempt fPom taxation and
make the rats puy the interest! Here is
au insult to Congress—to John Brown,
and also to the late martyr. Perhaps
the rats had orders to mutilate the body
ala Booth, from Stanton. Let itbein
quired iuto. Let a committee be ap
pointed to go to Indianapolis to sit on
rats—we mean the nigger, and let that
committee have a train of cars, steam
boat and stores at government expense.
And let the mayor of that city be hung
for allowing rats to dine from the flesh
of one of our prosperous nation's
figure heads. • Send Carl Shurz down
there to report. Send Butler there toblow
them up. Send Curtis there tosteal their
cotton. Let the rats be destroyed, and
then reconstructed, for here is disgrace
most deep and damnable on the Amer
ican people! Declare Indiana uuder mar
tial law—for there is In that state so
much “Disloyalty” that even rats have
caught the infection, and like the
present Congress, seem bound to dissect
the nigger. Oh you wicked, impious
rats—how dare you?— La Crosse Dem
ocrat.
The Alleged Attempt to Assassinate Sen-
ator Wade.
W. L. Fleming, the “ mysterious man
in grey,” who figured so extensively in
recent newspaper reports, as the alleged
would-be assassin of Senator B. Wade,
in Washington, iH out in a card, deny
ing the whole statement of the Senator
as an absurd story. He says that the
interview he had with Mr. Wade was
not for the purpose of getting his aid in
securing a situation, but to see him
about the discharge of civilians from
navy-yards. The writer says he served
honorably in the navy, and produces
letters of recommendation from Sena
tors Wilson and Wade, and oilier prom
inent people. He claims to have been
mixed up with Senator Wade in Kan
sas affairs, in 1857, and to have been
valuable to him, and declares that on
the night of the alleged attempt to as
sassinate, he was treated very cavalierly
by the Senator, for the reason that Mr.
Wade had heard reports that Fleming
had divulged 11 certain things In regard
to Kansas affairs prejudicial to the
Senator,” to parties iu Massachusetts.
In conclusion Fleming declares that he
never saw a pistol, or noticed any of the
dramatic incidents pictured in the
newspaper accounts of the affair, and
asserts that theonly knifehe (Fleming)
hud wasa “ blunt affair "ofa jack knife,
which he pulled out to cut off a chew of
tobacco, which he took, saylngthat the
“judge,” as he calls Mr. Wade, wusget
ting “sulky,” and declares that if the
Semftor had produced a pistol, under
the circumstances described, it would
have found its way out of the window,
and had he attempted the kicking busi
ness, he (tile Senator) would have fol
lowed his weapon. In conclusion
Fleming says: “lam a tolerably pa
tient man generally, but, like most
bard-fisted, able-bodied Yankee me
chanics, should not stand kicking more
than a week withoutgettingmy dander
up. But there was no occasion for'any
such deeds of valor on his part, and he
certainly attempted nothing of the
kind.”
A Beautiful Idea.
Among the Alleghanies there is a
spring so small that a single ox could
drain it dry on a summer’s day. It
steals its unobtrusive way among the
hills till it spreads out into the beautiful
Ohio. Thenceitstretches away a thous
and miles, leaving on its banks more
than v a hundred villages and cities, and
many thousand cultivated farms, aud
bearing on its bosom more than a thous
and steamboats. Then joining the
Mississippi, it stretches away some
twelve hundred miles or more, until it
falls Into the great tributaries of the
ocean, which, obedient only to God,
shall roll and roar till the angel, with
qne foot on sea and the other on land
shall lift up his hand to heaven and
swear that tlqje shall be no longer. It
is a rivulet,'an ocean, boundless and
fathomless as eternity.
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Liebig’s Method of Making Coffee.
Baron Liebig, in the last number of
the London Popular Science Review f
gives the following account of his meth
od of making coflee, by which, he Bays,
the full flavor oi the berry is preserved:
The usual quantities both of coffee
and water are to be retaiued : a tin
measure containing half an ounce of
green berries, when tilled with roasted
ones, is generally sutlieieut for two
small cups of coffee of moderate strength,
or one, so-called, large breakfast cup—
one pound of green berries, equal to six
teen ounces, yielding after roasting
tweuty-iour tin measures of half ounce
for iorty-eigln small cups of coffee.
“ With three* fourths of the coffee to
be employed, after being ground, the
water is made to boil for ten or fifteen
oue quarter of the coffee
which has been kept back is then flung
in, and the vessel immediately with
drawn Irorn the lire, covered over, and
allowed to staud lor live or six minutes.
11l order that the powder ou the surface
may lull to the bottom itis stirred round,
the deposit takes place, and the coflee
poured oil is ready lor use. lu order to
separate the dregs more completely the
coflee may be passed through a clean
cloth, but generally this is not uecessary,
aud otten prejudicial to the pure flavor
of the beverage.
“ Abe first boiliug gives the strength,
the second addition the flavor. The
water does not dissolve of the aromatic
substauces more than the fourth part
contained in the roasted coffee.
“The beverage when ready ought to
be of a brown-black color; untrans
parent it always is, somewhat like
chocolate thinned with water; and this
want of clearness in coffee so prepared
does uot come from the ttno grounds,
but from a peculiar fat resembling but
ter, about twelve per cent, of which the
berries contain, aud which, if over
roasted, is partly destroyed.
“In the other methods of making
coffee, more than half of the valuable
parts of the berries remains in the
* grounds,’ and is lost."
Liebig proceeds to discourse the cof
fee drinking and coffee in general In
this entertaining style:
“To judge as favorably of my coffee
ua I do myself, its taste is not to becorn
pared with that of the ordinary bever
age, but rather the good effects might
be taken Into consideration which my
coffee lias on the orgunism. Many per
sons, too, who connect the idea of
strength or consternation with a dark
or black color, fancy my colleo to be
thin and weak, but these were at once
inclined more luvoi ably, directly I gave
It a dark color by means of burned su
gar, or by adding Home substitute.
“The ruul flavor of coffee Is so little
known to most persons that muny who
drank my coll'ee tor the first timo doubted
of Its goodnessj because It tasted of the
berries. A colleo, however, which has
not the flavor of the berry is no coffee,
but uu artificial byvuruge, for which
many other things may bo substituted
at pleasure. Hence it comes that If to
the decoction made from rousted chicory,
carrots, or beet-root, the slightest quan
tity ot codec be added, few persons de
tect the difference. This uceouuts for
the great diffusion of each such substi
tute. A dark mixture, with an enipy
reumatical tuste, most people fancy to
be coffee. For tea there are no substi
tutes, because everybody knowj9 what
real tea is like.
“Jieating qualities have, generally
been attributed to coffee, aud for this
reason it is avoided by many people j
however, these heating qualities belong r
to the volatileproducts called forth by
the destruction of the soluble parts of
the berries in the process of roasting.
Coffee prepared iu my manuer is not
heating, and 1 have found that it may
be taken after diuner wilhout disturb
ing the digestion, a circumstance which
with me atleust ulyays takes place after
the enjoyment ofstrongly-roasted coffee.
“ For special cuses, such as Journeys
and marches, where it is impossible to
be burdened with the necessary ma
chines for roasting and grinding, coffee
may be carried in u powdered form, and
its aromatic properties preserved by the
following process: Oue pound of the
roasted berries are reduced to powder
and immediately wetted with a syrup
of sugar, obtained by pouriug on three
ounces of sugar two ounces of water,
and letting them stand a few min
utes. When the powder is thor
oughly wetted with the syrup,
two ounces of powdered sugar are to
be added, mixed well with it, aud the
whole is then to be spread out in the
Air to dry. The sugar locks upon the
volatile parts of the coffee, so that when
it is dry they cannot escape. If coffee
is now to be made, cold water is to be
poured over a certain quantity of thie
powder and made to boll. Ground cof
fee prepared in this way, and which lay
exposed to Lhe air for oue mouth, yield
red, ou being boiled, as good a beverage
as one made of freshly-roasted berries.’ 1
The l)eer Chase,
Deer swim with great strength and
buoyancy, and when hard pressed gen
erally make for water, or as it in techni
cally termed, “soil.” To determine the
best direction in which to make casta
for recovering the scent when lost at
water, demands the greatest perfectloi*
of the huntsman’s skill.
Occasionally deer have been known
to take to the sea. A stag leaped over
a cliff near C'orscombe, a heightofsome
three hundred and sixty feet, and was
rO f course dashed to pieces, as were two
or three hounds that followed him. On
another occasion an old stag when hard
pressed took to the Bristol channel, and
swam boldly out to sea. He was ob
served from a small vessel, and a boat
was sentafter him. With much trouble
he was secured, hoisted on board, and
eventually taken to Cardiff, and sold.
In some cases, where a boat has been
found ut baud, the huntsmen have fol
lowed, and secured the animals when
exhausted by long struggling with the
waves, by means of ropes thrown over
the horns.
The speed of the red deer Is very great,
although the animals never appear to
hurry ; it is said to equul that of the
hare.
Five Days’ Imprisonment Id a Ballroad
Car.
A train on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne
and Chicago Itailroud, laden with dress
ed hogs, which left Chicago on Friday
morning of last week, arrived in this
city on Tuesday evening. Upon open
ing one of tlie cars a mun was found
lying among thedead animals. He was
in a filthy condition, and was almost
dead, having eaten nothingforftvedaya.
One of his feet was frozen, and he was
unable to walk or even stand. He was
taken out of the car and properly cared
for. When he had recovered sufficient
ly. he stated that he was a discharged
soldier, and finding himself in Chicago
without means, aud being anxious to
reach New York, he visited the freight
depot for the purpose of discovering
what chance there was for a passage to
New Y’ork. He was told that the car
containing the hogs would go directly
through in the shortest possible time,
and seizing an opportunity to slip into
the car unseen, ,he (lid so, and had not
waited long until he heard (he door
shoved forward and the lock fastened.
Here he remained for five days and
nights, without water or provisions.—
He says that he did not eat any of the
raw pork, as he became quite sick, and
had no stomach for it. The employees
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
raised a handsome purse for him, and
he was sent free over the road to Phila
delphia.
The Canadian people and press are
greatly excited over the failure of the at
tempt.to renew the reciprocity treaty. The
government journals profess to be pleased,
as It will lead to the consummation of th«
confederation Boheme.