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Q J. MURRY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
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: Mechanical Dentist, will prac-
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IIIA U. MITCHELL. CYRUS T. ALEXANDER
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THE HORSE XHISDISEASES:
BY ROBERT JENNINGS, V. S.,
PATHOLOSY AND OPERATIVE SUR
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The People's, Cook Book.
MODERNIOOKERY
IN ALL ITS BRANCHES, -
BY
MISS ELIZA ACTON.
CAREFULLY REVISED BY Mrs. S.J. HALE.
It Tplls You how to clhoese all kinds of Meats,
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BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING;, APR,, 18. 1861.
The Future of America,
[We copy the following excellent ar tide from
the Baltimore American of the 2d instant:]
i . .
The Abbe Lacordaire, upon his inaugura
tion into the French as the succes
sor of the profound and philosophical De
Tocqueville, who alone of. all foreign writers
on the United States has comprehended the
true genius and character of our institutions
and people, passed a most glowing and e o
quent eulogium upon America. We are
aware that the secession of some of our States
may appear to detract from the force of this
grand tribute to free principles, but it is in
appearanoe only. The recent movements in
the Sputh have exhibited.no tendency what
ever to tbe transformation, o£a Republic ino
to a monarchy, nor in any way invalidate the
great principle of the capacity of man for,
self government. Whatever probability there
may be of the ultimate detachment and sep
aration of the federal, groups, when the fr ac
tions of which the whole is composed prove
too numerous and powerful for their pre
scribed limits, there is no throne in the world
as and stable as the free representative
government.of which this Union is composed,
because they are identified with national
manners, and havo their roots and sap in the
habits and souls of the people. We may,
therefore, hail with unalloyed pleasure this
tribute to America of the learned and elo
quent Lacordaire, one of the literary mag
nates of a nation which was tbe early ally
of our country and is still our most faitftful
friend.
" What is America to become ?" exclaims
another distinguished writer of the same gal
lant France which always contemplates our
growth and prosperity with pride and satis
faction : "An aggrandized EuropeL And
what is Europe ? Tbe space comprised be
tween the Alleghenies parallel to the Atlan
tic, and the Mountains parallel to the
Pacific, is, as is well known, six times larger
than France. If to this is added the three
hundred and ninety leagues of the old Statee,
and the more recent acquisitions from the
Rocky Mountains to. the sea, imagination it
self is astonished a( these proportions, is
the tenth part of the, whole, globe !"
What a contrast is all this to. the petty
vindictiveness maaiferted in a late number
cf the London Times, where it taunts Ameri
ca with their boast that " the State of Vir
ginia is larger than England," and exulting
ly points them to their present disruption !
Why, tflat disruption, even if it becomes
permanent, will prove only a transient check
to American progress. It will not even in
terrupt permanently the friendly relations of
the two people. They will, in all probabili
ty, he united by an offensive and defensive
alliance, and therefore, in all important as
pects of their foreign relations, will remaiD
ONE us at present. Thpre will be no change
yvhittever in Republican institutions. Wheth
er States secede and stay seceded, or wbeth -
er they return, the race and society to which
they all beloDg can not secede from itself.—
The New Yorker will continue to become
easily acclimated iu Louisiana, and so the
Virginian in York. Still enjoying thq
full development of his American strength,
each will feel that he is fart of substantially
(he same otganic and harmonious body.
We say thus much on the supposition (hat
a reconstruction of the Union will not soon
occur—an event which we believe to he as
certain as the regular return of the seasons
year by year. But, whether that event hap
pen or not, the secession of the Gulf States
can not retard the inevitable developments of
tbe New World. The grand characteristic
of the American mind is embodied in ths
phrase of David Croekett, " Go ahead ;" it
can die, hut can not surrender that mortal
vigor which is the seciet of its strength and
progress, and which was never surpassed by
(he energy of Rome under the Scipios, of
France under Louis XIV, or of Spain under
Isabella. A ladd i® which everything moves
—in which the rivers change their beds—
the climate becomes more temperate—the
means ot subsistence multiply—and the pop
ulation doubles every twenty years—can not
soon be expected to come to a stand still.—
At the end of this century the eighteen mil
lions of the North will be seventy millions—
as large a population as that of Russia; and
the twelve millions of the South will be forty
millions —a larger population than that of
England or France; the whole whether uni
ted or divided, possessing the same free in
stitutions to which tbe Abbe F&cordaire has
paid his glowiDg tribute, and over whose
downfall the organs of absolutism and aris
tocracy are now indulging in premature ex
ultation.
Napoleon'g Tomb at St. Helena.
An English steamer recently brought from
St. Helena Gapt, Masselin and two soldiers
of the Third Regiment of Engineers. They
have been employed in repairing the tomb of
Napoleon, at St. Helena, by direction of the
French authoritiee, and with the permission
of the English Government. The tomb haß
been completely restored to the condition in
which it was at the time of the deposed Em
peror's interment; and Longwood, the house
in which he died, has been put in a state of
substantial repair. Capt. Masselin and his
engineers were dispatched to St Helena, via
Southampton, two years ago, and they have
been occupied with the work of restoration
ever since.
Eall of the Crystal Palace.
During all Thursday the wind blew over
the bills at Norwood with extraordinary
fierceness full against the front of the Palace
facing toward London* That it was more
violent here than in other suburban districts
is evinced by the broken branches of trees,
the palings, and even garden walls, blown
down in ths neighborhood. But, although
the pressure of the gale upon tbe who'e sur
face of the Palace must have amounted in
tbe aggregate to several thousand tuDs, not
the smallest perceptible effect was produced,
upon it, and, as we have stated, not a single
pane of glass was broken. All stood well
till about o'clock on Thursday evening,
when one of the fearful gusts which then
swept over the hill, some men in the carpen
ter's room heard a little crashing of glass and
iron, and immediately ran out on to the ter
race garden.
In another minute.with an appalling crash,
the huge tower fell among some trees, and
lay smashed into millions of fragments on
the ground. Ip the ccurse of two or three
minutes more the rest of the wing went, by
30 or 40 yards at a time,
of about 110 yards strewed tbe earth, a mere
mass of splinters of glass;, wood, and iroh.
Any thing more complete than the destruc
tion it would be difficult to imagine. Tbe ap
pearance of the ruin rather suggests that
every part of the building has been careful
ly broken into suuail, pieces than that it has
been msreiy blown down. A tremendous
explosion could not probably have shattered
tbe place more effectually. The woodwork
is all in small pieces, tbe cast iron columns
are broken up Rke glass, and the rods twis
ted and torn into every shape.
Fortunately, there was nothing in (his s?iDg
but the empty pens used at the late poultry
show, and a number of garden seats ; all
these, oi course, are iqore. or less destroyed.
As far as can be judged £rom the way in
which the ruins fallen, it vyould seem
that the corner column nearest the railway
must have had to sustain the thrust exercised
upon it bj the outer columns yielding to the
force of the gale. As tho wind came in gusts,
it is supposed tbe tower must have occillated
to such a degree as to force the corner col
umn on which the main qtrain came, out of
its perpendicular, when, of course, it snap
ped at once. It was no doubt the breaking
of this which the carpeuters first heard, when
the tower, thus deprived of its main support,
fell instantly before the next blast. It is a
great proof, however, of the strength of the
structure that, when the rest of the wing was
thus weakened and broken by the fall of the
tower, it was not inqtanly overthrown also.
It stood for several minuteq, and only fell,
piece by piece, as the wind swept down upon
it with almost the force of a hurricane. The
strength of either of these wings, however, is
not to be compared with the enormous
strength and compactness with which the
main building is put together. The cost of
rebuilding the north wing, it is stated, wo'd
cot amount to more than about £G,OCO, but
as lately it was never used for anything but
the poultry shevys, which can just as well be
be held in the south wing, it is not prcbable
that it will be rebuilt at all .—London limes,
Feb. 23.
A Scene Worth Considering.
Years ago, the office of the old Gazette was
in Hanover Squarq, near the corner of Pearl
street, New York. It was a place of resort
for news and conversation, especially ia the
evening. The evening of February 15, 1815
was qold, and at a late hour only Alderman
Sehra and another gentleman were left with
father Lang, the genius cf the place. The
office was about being closed, when a pilot
rushed in, and stood for a moment so entire
ly exhausted as to he unable to speak for
some time.
"He has great news 1" exclaimed Mr.
Lang.
Presently the pilot, grspiDg for breath,
whispered intelligibly —" Peace ! peace I"
The gentlemen lost their breath as fast as
the pilot gained his. Directly the pilot was
able to say—
" An English sloop is below, with news of
a treaty of peace !"
They say that Mr. Lang exclaimed in
greater words than he eyer used before—and
all hands rushed into Hanover pqilare ex
claiming—" Peace ! PEACE !"
The windows flew up—for families lived
there then. No sooner were the inmates
sure of the sweet sound of peace, than the
windows began to glow with brilliant illu
minations. ~ The cry of " Peace ! PEACE ! "
spread through the city at tbe top of all voi
ces. No one stopped to inquire about " free
trade and Bailors' rights. " ' No one inquired
whether even the national honor had' been
preserved. The matters by which politicians
had irritated the nation into war, had lost all
their importance. It was enough that tbe
ruinous war was over. An old man on
Broadway, attracted by the noise to bis door,
was seen to pull down a placard, " To Jjet,"
which had been long posted up. Never was
there such joy in the city. A few evenings
after, there was a general illumination, and
although the snow was a foot deep and soak
ed with rain, yet the streets were crowded
with men and women, eager to see and par
take of everything which had in it the sight
or taste of peace.
A Gaming Story.
T.he following story is told by a German
paper of a youDg man who had squandered
at the gamiDg table of one of tbe GeTman
Baths his entire fortune, amounting to about
eight hundred, thousand francs I Re bad
lost, successively, his park, ckpteau, city
mansion, and country bouse, and. there re
mained to the unfortunate gamester, out of
all bis estates, only a single spot of ground
—a small orange plantation—which he had
carefully excepted from bis other stakes.—
The winner, ( for his antagonist throughout
bad been the same person,) was an English
man, phlegmatic and unsocial in appearance,
but whose curiosity was aroused at the so
licitude of the rash youth for the preserva
tion of a dilapidated, and seemingly useless
house, containing a few boxes of orange
trees.
" What are you going to do with this?"
he asked ; " let us play for.it. "
"Never!" replied the young man. "This
orangery is a souvenir, a relic of my child
hood. My mother has passed many hours
there with me. I may die there ; I may try
to live there—but I would blow out my
brains rather than stake on cards a single
flower of those trees ! "
" It was just one blossom that I was about
to propose as a stake. Since you have noth
ing else, I will play \vitb you for that—a
simple orange blocsom. Will you consent to
it I"
" But what could you wager en jour side
against a flower, if I should consent to
play ? "
"O, a mere trifle, of course. I, too, would
sacrifice a little sentiment. Here is an au
tograph, for instance, which I will deposit as
a wager in the hands of a third, person. "
Tho young man laughed and yielded.—
Notwithstanding his filial sentiment, he saw
no profanation in the offering of a flower to
Chance, the god who servel him so ill. As
ths game was about to commence, the Eng
lishman said to tbe young Frenchman—
" Xou swear, on your honor, if you win, to
accept the stake, however ridiculous it may
appear to you? "
" I swear—because I have confidence in
you, my Lord. "
Cards wete brought the game commenced
and iu a lev? minutes the young man had
gained the mysterious autograph. Re re
ceived it with some emotion ; but how great
ly was it increased, when he read a dona
tion, in regular (orm, of the eight hundred
thousand francs he had lost 1 The blnsh of
shame mounted to his face- Ue protosted—
be refused—he declared that the bargain was
null I
" I have your word of honor, " replied the
Englishman, smiling, " Tbe agreement was
in earnest. If I had won, I should have
claimed the oracle blossom [ You thought
more of your orange Hees, for you would not
stake them, than of the BQQ,QOO. francs. Tbe
match was equal. "
After two hours of debate, a court of hon
or having examined into and weighed the af
fair coclly, decided that the Frenchman
could accept—and he finally did so, on con
dition that Lord Z would remain his
dearest friend.
No Sabbath.
In a " Prize Essay on the Sabbath," writ
ten by a journeyman printer in Scotland,
there occurs the following striking passage :
" Yoke-fellows ! think how the abstraction
of the Sabbach would hopelessly enslave the
working classes, with whom we are identi
fied ! Think of the labor thus going on in
one monotonous, and continuous, and eternal
cycle —limbs forever on the rack, the fingers
iorever playing, the eyeballs forever strain
ing, the brow forever sweating, the feet for
ever plodding, the brain forever thrtbbing,
the shoulders forever drooping, the loins for
ever aching, and the restless mind forever
scheming! Think of the beauty it would
efface, ot the merry-hearteduess it would ex
tinguish, of the giant strength it would tame
ot the resources Sf nature it would exhaust,
of the aspirations it would crush, of the sick
ness it would breed, of the projects it would
wreck, of the groans it would 1 extort, of the
lives it woulcf immolate, of the cheerless
graves it would prematurely dig ! See them
foiling and moiling, sweating and fretting,
grinding and hewing, weaving and spinning,
sowing and gathering, mowing and reaping,
raising and building, digging and planting,
unloading and storing, striding and strug
gling—in the garden and in the field, in the
granary and in the barn, in the factory and
m the mill, in the warehouse and in the shop,
on the mountain and in tbe ditch, on the
roadside and in the wood, in the city and in
the oountry, on the sea and on tbe shore, on
the earth in days of brightness and of gloom.
What a sad picture would the world present
if we had no Sabbath 1"
A man who cheats in small measure,
is a "measureless rogue.
If he gives short measure in wheat, then
he is a rogue in grain.
If in whisky, then he is a rogue in spirit.
If he giyes a had title to land, then he is a
rogue in deed.
And if he cheats wherever he can, then he
is in deed, in spirit, in grain, a measureless
Bcoundrel.
From the Biiller Union.
A New President.
BY RALPH CLUBB3.
We are living under a new Administra
tion ! Well, we don't see any difference in
Nature; —tbe water still r jna down ; the
trees stand upright; the smoke ascends ; the
birds, (what fow there are of them,) sing
as usual; the fires burn brightly : indeed,
we can see no change in anything. " But, "
says one, " is there not a change in political
policy I " " True, my friend, we did not
think of that. But what of it ?." " Why, "
returns he, " we may have a high old.war."
"Perhaps not," we add. As we cannot
concur with our friend, wo are immediately
struck with this very amihble truth—that
3onre people are exceedingly fond of war!—
xYnd a civp war 1. Bjqt that is foreign to our
purpose.
y?e know, or at least the papers tell us,
that we have a new Administration. This
brings up to our mind a great many things.
And we are led to believe that being Presi
dent is not so pleasant after all. Why, you
may ask any man who has enough to eat,
and perhaps enough to drink, who has a com
fortable home, and a happy fireside, if he
would exchange conditions. lie would, most
undoubtedly, answer in the negative ; that
is, after giving the subject careful consider
ation. A grefft many'people, perhaps the
majority, upon first thought, think it a very
nice thing to be called great men ; to have
themselves recognized as the prime movers
of nations ; to have themselves looked up to
as something very little below the Gcd ; to
knqyv that as they think, whole nations think;
to win sunny smiles from gay ladies; to
mingle in the gorgeous dance, and be the
observed of all observers ; to sit enthroned
in state, and when the command goes forth,
a multitude of people bow in a grand concert
of motion ; in fine, they think that to be
great should be the brightest and most ea
gerly to be desired summit of man's ambi
tion. Well, all this will do to talk about;
but, on Solomon's authority, "all is vani
ty.
Our new President is about to start from
his far western home. He finds a difficult
passage to the train. I'he ways are all
thronged ; the depot crowded. Men, woman
children bellowing, and roaring, and yelling,
for a farewell speech. President stands on
the platform ; speaks. Then comes the cer
emony of shaking hands—all kinds of hands*
too. There are rough hands and smooth
hands; hard hands and soft hands; big
hands and little hands. All kinds of sha
king! Some shake awfully and some shake
modestly. There are hard shakes, (that is
pulling the shoulder out of place) and push
ing shakes, (that is, putting it back to its
place again—sometimes only half way;) up.
and down shakes ; down-and-up shakes, and
shakes ! Then thcie are all kinds of grasps
—vise grasps ; kid-glove grasps ; and grasps
ala big turtle. Gets to bis place in the cars
at last 1 Draws off his oyersoat; seats him.
self; begins to look pleasant. Locomotive
whistles ; come to another town ; great crowd
of people j loud noise ; " speech," " speech ;"
speaks ; loud notse all the timo 1 Train
moves; locomotive whistles ; big crowd ;
speech ; noise; off
crowd ; speech ; noise ; gets hoarse. On, 6n
hundreds of towns; as many speeches; a 8
many crowds ; and more noises ! Comes to
big city ; bells ringing ; gas lights gleaming;
people yelling; chiltfrfen screaming'; white
horses; rich carages ; military men ; fire
men ; all kinds of msn, crowding, pushing,
jarniug ; streets blockaded ; worry through ;
reaches hotel; speaks from balcony ; every
body noisy; gets into the house; office
seekers surround him ; hold him by the
hands, by the coat tails," by the hack' tje—
asking this, begging that, promising 'tother {
Gets weary; retires ; can't sleep.
Gets up ; goes through same programme ;
starts again on bis journey ; speeches, more
speeches, interminable speeches; crowd's,
more crowds, interminable crowds ; immense
jamming; excitable cramming ; tremendous
noise. Life threatened ; Dight time : incoy!
and cheats death ! Reaches seat oi governs
ment; goes to cabinet-making. Some peo
ple are mad; some in good humor; whole
States going to "smash the machine," or
smash something—and this is but a small
hint of what it is to be President! We be
lieve we shan't run. '
How TO BE A MAN. —It is not by books
alone, or chiefly, that one becomes in all
points a man. Study to do faithfully every
duty that comes in your way. Stand to your
post; silently devour' the chagrins of life ;
love justice ; control self; swerve not from
truth' or right;' be a man of rectitude, deci
sion, conscientiousness ; cue that fears and
obeys God, and exercise benevolence to all;
and in all thia you shall possess the ouly true
manliness.
JEsF* A queer suit has been decided in fa
vor of tbe plaintiff at Chicago. A well-to-do
man went to an intelligence office, saying
that he wanted a wife ana would like to try
her first as a servant. He paid §3 down, and
agreed to pay $7 more if he married tbe girl.
He soon married, and then refused the $7
owing; hence the suit, which was most just
ly cast.
EDITORS & PROPRIETORS.
NUMBER 15,
Extraordinary Phenomena.
A number of residents of Michigan went
over to Sombra, C. W., some time since, and*
commenced boring, some fifteen or twenty'
feet from a creek, under ihV belelf' that oil
would be found. When they hadgODe down
fifty-seven feet they struck a vain of gas.—-
Ou removing their augur the gas rushed with
great force from the aporturCj and continu*'
ed to throw up dry sand for'an hour. It
then ceased, and boring was resumed ; but
as soon as this was done the gas rushed up
with such violence as to throw the drill— a'
piece of iron one and a half inches in diam. v
eter, eight feet long', and weighing fifty
pouDds—elean out of the hole, and it &>ntin
ued discharging up watßr and stones, some
of the latter weighing twenty-fire pounds,
into the air a distaoce of one hundred feet.
The stream widened out to the diameter of
a barrel, after leaving the hole, and the'
quantity was Buch as to raise the creek con
siderable above its ordinary level, though it
is here about twenty-five feet wide. After
the flow of water subsided the gas was fjied,
and au explosion took place which shbok the
ground fob half a mile, and then contihued
to throw a sheet of flame as high as the wa
tef had previously gone. The flames could
be 86sn for miles, and were filiimdtely ex
tinguisad with great difficulty, " ft is thought
that the oil spring, for such' ft proved to be,
will be one of the best in the country.'
A New Implement of War.
Mr Vfm. McCord, of Sing Sing, has devo
ted the last two or thee years to the invention
aud perfecting of a gun to dischaige succes
sive volleys without the necessity of inter
mission for reloading or adjusting the parts g
or for allowing the implement to cool. Thia<
result be claims to have most sttccessfully ac
complished ; and a number of military and
scientific men who have witnessed its perforn
maace, bear testimony to the amazingly de
structive poworß of the new weapon.
The piece is discharged by the turning of
a crank; the loaded, with percussion caps
attached,' passing into the barrels from a
hopper, so'that the only labor ot loading, is
to shovel'the kalis, like grain, into the hop
per, It can be kept in aetien from hour to
hour, or from day to day, like any other piece
of machinery, and for ought we see, might
be propelled by steam. The sample which
has been constructed is certified to fire two
hundred and forty balls (weighing forty to'
the pound) per minute ; but the inventor is
constructing larger peices, and expects to be
able to discharge cannon balls of ample size,
through with less rapidity. ' There is a con
trivance which, it is said, effectually prevents
the barrels from heatiDg.
A Com(H)ical Panic.
In the year 1712, Whiston predicted that
a comet would appear on Wednesday, Octo
ber 14, at fire minutes after 5 o'cloek, A. M.,'
and that the world would be destroyed by
fire on the Friday following. Hio reputation
was high, and the comet appeared. A num
ber of persons got into boats aud barges oh
the Thames, thinking the water the safest
place ! South sea and Indian stocks fell.—
The captain of a Dutch ship threw all bis
powder into the river, that the ship migh£
not'be endangered ! At noon, after the com
et bad appeared, it is said thai more than
one hundred clergymen were ferried over to
Lambeth, to request that proper prayers
might be prepared, there being none in the
Church service 1 People believed that the
day of judgement was at hand, and some ac
ted on this belief, more as if somd temporary
evil was to be' expected. There was a pro
digious run on the Bank! and Sir Gilbert
Ileathcote, at that time the bead director, is„
sued orders to all the fire ofiicete in London,
requireing them to keep a good look-out, and
baVe a particular eye upon the Bank of Eng
land ! h • "•
An Irishman got out of the cars at &
railway station for refreshments, and unfor*
tunately the train left before he had finish"
ed his repast. *'ll6uld on !" cried Pat, as
he ran like a madman after the cars—
•' hould on, ye murtherin' ould stams ingino
—ye'vef got a passinger'abootd that's lilf ba
hind I"
A SON or SENSIBIUTT. —A fellow entered
a hardware store in Cleveland last week, and
seeing a buzz-saw suspended against the
wall, remarked: " I had an old dad ripped
to pieces one day last week with one of tbend
fellers."
CAN'T FORGET IT.— " I forget many things
which happened," 1 said a little girl, the tears
running down her cheeks ; "but I can't for"
get the aDgry words I spoke to my D EA '
mother, who is now dead." "
S&" The persons most anxious to add to
their wealth are generally those who don't
know how to make any good ues of what
they have already. *> ' f
S&" If you respect yourself as much ae
you do others, you will be as careful to do
nothing mean when alone as when in
pany. "
fifc£f"Tbe use we make of our fortune da.
teriaines its sufficiency. A little is enougl
ji used wisely -too much if qsea fa^fcj^L