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Calico Penetrice.,,,tn interesting description or
the process of printing calico, may be found in another
oaten. It is from the correspondent of the Public
Ledger. . _
at sunset, stars enough for observations in
Fassorr's Expanixtos.—We publish, this week,
the early evening, and then closed over us as
a part of an article giving an account of Capt. Fremont's
before. Latitude, by observation, 40 ° 48' 15".
Exploring Expedition west of the Rocky Mountains.—
January 4.---The fog today was still more
It will be found of intense interest.
The
portion
which
the
must is from his w a
... en e se„nd the people were again
traveled a few Miles around the Western
and is a description of the sufferings encountered by his ,
point of the ridge, and encamped
ed wl4er
the e
par ty on their return to the United States. The work
were a few tuns of gratis, but no "e ater. Our
is now printing by order of Congress, and when comple- I animals now Were in a very alarmi n g state,
in ', will form one of the most highly interesting and and there was increased anxiety in the cwArip,"
valuable works extant. The sth, the fog continues ; the 6th, the
The object of this expedition, the most general in its same ; yet is he toiling on. -Directed by a
cai mption, and hazardous in its execution of any since column of smoke, (steam.) he discovered the
that of Lewis & Clarke's, yet remains with the pow.. most remarkable hot-spiings of his route. We
CIS that be," at Washington, though as one of discovery, ' subjoin his own.descnption of them, and of
t h e great and unexploied 'region west of the Rocky the condition of the party. The latitude of
Mountains, presents a grand theatre for botanical, mine- these springs is 40° 39' 46".
**Entering the neighboring valley. ar.d cross
rogical and astronomical observation, diversified with
ing the bed of another lake, after a hard day's
scenes of suffering and peril. Towards this country,
travel over ground of yielding mud and sand,
• we turn our attention with vague and undefined ideas of
we
hed the springs, where we found an
i ts worth. of its aspects, its climate and its soil. 'Those a b undance of grass. which, though only tolera
who have ventured so far from the bounds of civilization blv good. made, this place, with reference to
and bred the danger of starvation and the treachery of ; the past, a refreshing and agreeable spot.
the unirandly savages, have given accounts of it mag- 6. This is the most extraordinary locality of
nincenee sod magnitude ; its salt lakes and mighty moue- of hot springs we had met during the journey.
rains. capped with eternal snow; its verdant and ever , The basin of the largest one has a circumfer
blooming sallies; which have but served to stimulate ence of several hundred feet ; but there is at
•cunmity. Hitherto, its geography has been undefinedL,nne extremity a circular space of about fifteen
and the situation its lakes and rivers a matter of doubt, feet in diameter, entirely occupied by the boil
and one of the benefits of Capt. Fremont's labors has ing water. It boils up at irregular intervals,
been the plotting of a map of the country, upon which and with much noise. The water is clear, and
travellers can hereafter rely. the spring .deep ; a pole about sixteen feet
This is Capt. Fremont's second expedition ; he has brag Was easily immersed in the centr . but
just set out on his third, and is expected to return in the ; we had no means of forming a good idea of
the depth. It was surrounded on the margin
year 1846. with a border of green grass, and near the
shore the temperature of the water was 206 ° .
We had no means of ascertaining that of the
centre. w here the heat was greatest ; hut, by
dtspt rsiog the water e tilt a pole, the tempera
ture at the margin was increased to 208 ° , and
in r centre it was doubtless higter. By
drier g it e pole tow ands the bottom, the water
vs a, made to troll up with increased force and
noise. There are several oti er interesting
places where water and smoke or gas escape,
but they would require a long description.—
'File water is impregnated with common salt,
but not so much so as to render it unfit fur
general cooking ; and a mixture of snow made
it pleasant to drink.
In the immediate neighborhood. the valley
bottom is covered almost exclusively with
chenopodiaceous shrubs. greater luxuriance,
and larger grow th, than we have seen them in
any preceding part of the journey.
I obtained this evening some astronomical,
observations.
[From the Washington Union.]
Fremont's Exploring Expeditions.
eoin piettd all 1116 arraligeh.lthlt.. I
• Dal es. - on 111. 25th of Novenito r C a p.
Frei...lit too inelieed his iiiiirhey
Ills 11,11r,r Nay solidi
.• .nib Prairie." of Fait titer. he o Ito r
rim!. w i It Ir , quint flurries id snow.' lie
pitched the silt Prairie " ou the He
rinds in his route a ri markalde ceposite of
11; mode iniusoria, 66 Inch were afterwards sub.
.vcied to inicri.ropical examination by Pro
-I,ssof Bailey of West Point. December the
Ist lie encountered thick ice in watercourses.
On the l'ilhDeceinher, the latitude of his camp
was 43' 30' 36". and its longitude west of
Greenwich 121' 33' 50." On die Etili he
crossed the east branch of " call river." His
route lay through the most splendid pine for
ests. filled with trees of remarkable dimensions.
On the Ilth he arrived at Tiamath Lake. " It
is simply a shallow basin, which, for a short
period at the time of melting snows, is covered
with water from the neighboring mountains."
Ott visiting a village of the lake, he says of the
party which came out to meet him :
" We were surprised, on riding up, to find
one of theiii a woman, having never before
known a squaw to take any part in the busi
ness of war. They were the village chief and
his wife, who, in excitement and alarm at the
unusual event and appearance, had come out
to meet their fate together. The chief was
very prepossessing Indian, with very hand
some features, and a singularly soft and agree
able voice—so remarkable as to attract general
nonce:.
...From Tlamath lake', the further continua
tion of our voyage assumed a character of dis-
covery and exploration, which, from the In
dians here, we could obtain no information to
direct, and where the Imaginary maps of the
country, instead of assisting. exposed us to
suffering and defeat. In our journey across
the dt:sert, Mary's lake, and the famous Buena
ventura river, were two points on which I re
lied to recruit the animals, and repose the par
ty. Forming, agreeably to the best maps in
my possession, a connected water line from
the Rocky mountains to the Pacific ocean. I
felt no other anxiety than to pass safely across
the intervening desert to the banks of the
Buenaventura, where, in the softer climate of
a more southern latitude. our horses might find
grass to sustain them, and ourselves be shel
tered from thrgrigors of winter, and from the
inhospitable desert. The guides who had con
ducted tis thus far On'Our journey, were about
to return; and I endeavored in vain to obtain
others to lead us, even fora few days, in the
direction (east) which we wished to go. The
chief to whom I applied, alleged the want of
horses, and the snow on the mountains across
which our course would carry us, and the sick
ness of his family, as reasons for refusing to go
with us."
From this lake he continued his i journey
eastwardly. On the 16th December he was
!raveling through snow about three feet deep.
Ills journey continues marked by the singular
enterprise and resources of his mind, to the
mouth, which also closed the year 1842 ; yet,
nothing daunted, he,. goes on. We now make
the following extract from his reports
"January 3.—A fog, so dense that we
could not see a hundred ji ards, covered the
country, and the men that were sent out after
the horses were bewildered and lost ; and tt e
were consequently detained at camp until late
to the day. Our situation had now becun.e a
serious one, We had reached arid run over
tile position, where, according to the best maps
in illy possession., we should have found Ma
ry's lake, or river. We were evidently on the
verge of the desert which had been reported to
us and the appearance of country was so for
bidding, that I was afraid to enter it, and de
termined to bear sway to the southward, keep
ing close along the moutains, in the full expec
tation of reaching the Buenaventura river._
This morning I put every man in the camp on
rooi—nayaelf, of course, among the rest—and
to this manner lightened by distribution the
THE BRADFORD REPORTER,
loads of the 4nimals. We traveled seven or
eight miles alops the ridge bordering the val
ley. and encamred where there were a few
bunches of grass on the bed of a hill torrent,
without water. There were some large arte
mikiat ; but the principal plants are chenopo
diaceous shrubs. The rock composing the
mountains is here changed suddenly into white
granite. The fog showed the tops of the hills
" Our situation now required caution. In
cluding those which gave out from'the injured
condition of their feet, and those stolen by In
dians, we had lost, since leaving the Dalles of
the Columbia, fifteen animals ; and of these,
nine had been left in the last few days. I
therefore determined, until we should reach a
country of water and vegetation, to feel our
way ahead, by having the line Of route explor
ed some fifteen or twenty mile's in advance, and
only to leave a present encampment when the
succeeding one was known."
The boiling point of Fahrenheit is 212°. and
as these springs, on being a little stirred, gave
a heat at their margin of 208°, we have no
doubt, at the centre, that the heat was fully
equal to boiling water.. We have here, there
fore. provided by nature, a great steam power
without expense of fuel.
On the 10th, he-discovered a fine lake, which
he called " Pyramid- Lake:"
" The elevation of this lake above the sea is
4.890 feet, being nearly 700 feet higher than
the Great Salt lake, from which it Ices nearly
west, and distant Shout eight degrees of longi
tude. The position aril elevation of this lake
make it an object of geographical interest. It
is the nearest lake to the western rim, as the
Great Salt lake is to the eastern rim, of the
great basin which lies between the base of the
Rocky motfiiiiins and the Sierra Nevada ; and
the extent and chrracter of which, its whole
circurnterence and contents, it is so desirable to
know.
"The last of the cattle which had been dri.
ven from the Danes was kiPed here for food.
and was still in good condition."
He passed on the eastern side of this lake ;
and. encamping upon a hold stream which
emptied into it, and which he found well sup
plied with fish. enjoyed all the luxury which
rest and die finest trout could furnish. He
could obtain no information of the country in
advance of his position ; and, when he en
deavored to obtain a guide from among the
Indians, they "only looked at each other and
laughed."
On the 16th (ofisnuary) he left his encamp
ment at the month of Salmon-trout river, and
made 18 miles that day along its valley. On'
the 17th he left the river, traveling twenty miles
that day :
• On the way we surprised a family of In
dians in the hills.; but the man ran up the
mountain with rapidity, and the woman was
so' terrified, and kept up such a continued
screaming. that we could do nothing with her.
and were obliged to let her go."
On the 17th he was still moving on. endea
voring in vain to find the • Buenaventura."—
On the 18th the came. 'I he country was evi
dently in a state ofkalarm. Columns of smoke
were seen in every direction at intervals—
•• signals by which the ludiaris here and else
where communicate to each other that enemies
are in the country." On making his encamp
ment that evening. he says:
•• Examining-into the condition of the ani
mals, 1 found their feet so much cut up by the
ranks, and so many of them lame, that it was
evidently impossible that they could cross the
country to the Rocky mountains. Every
piece of iron that could be used for the purpose
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had been converted into "nails, and we could
make no further use of the shoes we had re•
tnaining. I therefore determined to abandon
my eastern course, and to cross the Sierra Ne
vada ir.to the valley of the Sacramento, wher
ever a practicable pass could be found. II1)
decision was heard with joy by the people,
and diffused new life throughout the camp.
" Latitude by observation, 87° 24' 16".
On the 19th he had a heavy snow. On the
20th, now traveling suuthwardly, discovereo
the snow to be coveted with tracks of Indians,
- and the usual sign , of alarm by the number of
smokes. 21st, 22d, 23d, still moving south
wardlv.
• January 24.—A man was discovered run
ning towards the camp, as we were about to
start this morning, who proved to be an Indian
of rather advanced age—a sort of forlorn hope.
who seeme.2 td have been worked up into the
resolution of visiting the .strangers whti were
•
passing through the country. He seized the
hand of the first man he met as he came up.
out of breath, and held on as if to assure him
self of protection. He brought with him in a
little skin bag a few pounds of the seeds of a
pine tree, which to day we saw for the first
time, and which Dr. Torrey had described as
a new species under the name of pintos mono
phyllus ; in popular language, ii might he call
ed the riot pine. W e purchased them all from
him.. The nut is oily, of very agreeable fla
vor, and must be very nutritious, as it consti
tutes the principal subsostence of the tribes
among which we were now traveling. By a
present of scarlet cloth, and other striking ar
ticles, we prevailed upon this man to be our
of two days' journey. As clearly as possible
by signs, we made him understand out object;
and he engaged to conduct us on sight of a
good past; who eh lie hem. H,re ne revs, d
to, hear Me Slionoliono u lai gunge ; tlo,ot of this
man being perfectly unintelligible. Several
11/111211s, who had been waiting to see what re
ception he would meet with, now came irate
camp ; and, accompanied by the new comers,
we resumed our journey."
These Indians appeared to have no know.
ledge of the use of horses. They assisted to
guide the party for two days ; then left it,
pointing out the course to be followco. The
ground was covered with snow, the weather
very cold, the thermometer in the morning ye-
ing two degrees below zero. But the `• sky
was bright and pure, and the weather changed
vapidly into a pleasant day,"
His route continued through dangers, toil,
and difficulties. T he 27th was occupied in
reconnoitring in advance.
January 28 —To-day ,we went through
the pass with all the camp,-and, after a hard
day's journey of twelve miles. encamped on a
high point. where the snow tfad been blown off,
and the exposed grass afforded a scanty pas
tun• for the animals. Snow and broken coun
ty together made our traveling difficult: we
were often compelled to make large circuits,
and ascend the highest and most exposed
ridges, in order to avoid snow, which in other
places was banked up to a great depth.
"During the day, a few Indians were seen
circling around us on snow-shoes. and skim
ming along like birds; but we could not bring
them within speaking distance. Godey, who
was a little distance from the camp, had sat
down to tie hie moccasins, when he heard a
law whistle near, and, looking up. saw two
Indians half-liMing behind a rock about forty
yards distant; they would not allow lam to
approach, but, breaking into a laugh, skimmed
off over the snow, seeming to have no idea of
the power of fire-arms, and thinking themselves
perfectly safe when beyond arm's length.
"
'l'o-night we did not succeed in getting the
howitzer into camp. This was the most labo
rious day we had yet passed through; the
steep ascents and deep snow exhausting both
men and animals. Our single chronometer
had stopped during the day, and its error in
time occasioned the loss of an eclipse of a
satellite this evening. It had not preserved
the rate with which we started from the Dalles ;
and this will account for the absence of longi
tudes along this interval of our journey
" January 29.—From this height we could
see, at a considerable distance below, yellow
spots in the valley, which indicated that there
was not much snow. One of these places We
expected to reach to-night ; and some time
being required to bring up 'the gun, I went
ahead :with Mr. Fitzpatrick and a few men,
leaving the cap to follow in charge of Mr.
Preuss. We followed a trail down a hollow
where the Indians had descended, the snow
being deep that we never came near the
ground ; but this only made our descent the
easier, and, when we reached a little affluent
to the river at the bottom, we suddenly found
ourselves in presence of eight or ten Indians.
They seemed to be watching our motion, and,
like the others, at first were indisposed to let
us approach, ranging themselves like birds on
a fallen log on the hill-side above our heads,
where, tieing nut of reach, they thought them
selves safe. Our friendly demeanor reconciled
them, and, when we got near enough. they
immediately stretched out to us handfuls of
pine -nuts, which seemed an exercise of hospi
tality. We made them a few presents, and,
telling us that their village was a few miles be
low, they went on to let their people know
we were. The principal stream still running
through an impracticable canon, we ascended
a very steep hill, which proved afterwards the
last and fatal obstacle to our little howitzer,
which was finally abandoned at this place.—
We passed through a small meadow a few
miles below, crossing the river, which depth,
swift current, and rock made it difficult to ford;
and, after a few more miles of very difficult
trail, issued into a larger prairie bottom, at the
farther end of which we encamped, in a posi
tion rendered strong by rocks and trees. The
lower parts of the mountain were covered with
the not-pine. Several Indians appeared on
the bill-side, reconnoitring the camp, and were
induced to come in ; others came in during
the afternoon; and in the evening we held a
council. The Indians immediately made it
clear that the water on which we were also
belonged to the Great Basin, in the edge of
which we had been since the 17th of December;
and it became evident that we had still the great
ridge on the left to cross before we could reach
the Pacific waters.
" We explained to the Indians that we were
endeavoring to find a passage across the moun
tains into the country of the whites, whom we
were going .to see; and tuld them that we
wished them to bring us a guide, to whom we
would give' presents of scarlet cloth, and other
articles, which were shown to them. They
looked at the reward we offered, and conferred
with each other, but pointed to the snow on
the mountain, and drew their hands across
theil necks, and raised them abovelheir heads.
to Show the depth ; and signified that it was
impossible for us to get through. They made
signs that - we must go to the southward, over
a pass through a lower range, which they
pointed out; there, they said, at the end of one
day's travel. we would find people who lived
near a pass in the great mountain ; and to that
point they engaged to furnish us a guide.—
They appeared to have a confused idea, from
report, of whites who lived on the other side
of the mountain ; and once, they told us, about
two years ago, a party of twelve men like our
! selves had ascended their river, and crossed to
the other waters. They pointed out to us
where they had crossed; but then, they said,
it was summer time, hut now it would be im
possible. I belieVe that this was a party led
, by Nlr. Chiles, one of the only two men whom
I know to have passed through the California
mountains from the interior of the basin--
Walker being the other, and both were engag
ed upwards of twenty days, in the summer
time, in geoingover. Chile's destination was
the bay of Sari Francisco, to which he de
scended by the Stanislaw' river; and Walker
SlibPl quently informed me that, like myself,
&Fr. 'Kling to the southward on a more eastern
line, day after day he was searching for the
Buenaventura, thinking that he had found it
with every new stream, until, like me, he
abandoned all idea of its eitstence, and, turn
ing abruptly to the right, crossed the great
chain. These were both western men, anima
ted with the spirit of exploratory enterprise
which characterizes that people.
" The Indians brought in during the even
ing an abundant supply of pine -nuts, which we
traded from them. When roasted,tneir pleas
ant flavor made them an agreeable addition to
our now scanty store of provisions, which
were reduced to a very low ebb. Our princi
pal stuck was in peas, which it is not necessa
ry to say contain scarcely any nutriment. We
had still a little flour left, some coffee, and a
quantity of sugar, which I reserved as a defence
against starvation."
The Mediu.
Ab, does not every raptutolobought
Now burn with brighter Own,
At this fond meeting after year.
Of separation's dream!
And does not miry pulse respond
To what the heart would say,
Yet cannot vent the gush of thought,
That drives each word away
The eye alone am then express
The bliss of such an hour ;
The bright'ning hopes, the dreaded fears,
That flash with changing power !
The pressure of the hand says more
Than any tones could speak ;
And more of joy is written then
Upon the glowing cheek.
The trembling lip's vibrating tone,
Is sweeter than the strain
Of minstrel's harp, or malady.
Ne'er sung before in nin!
The tear of joy that glistens then
Within the moisten'd eye,
Is brighter, richer than the gems
That deck vain royalty
TRUE —The history of the world, as well
as the biography of those who have played a
prominent part in its concerns, teach one great
lesson, Worthy of everlasting remembrance.—
It assures us that it matters but little what form
of danger may assail a man, if he be true to
himself. Poverty may lay its chilling hand
upon him, and freeze up the fountain of his
brightest hope—disappointments May meet
him at every step—affliction may strike down
those who are dearest to his heart—the breath
of slander may - attempt to sully his name, and
tarnish his reputation—still let him be true to
himself—let hint maintain a stout heart and
clear breast—aril he will eventually outride
the storm. Let those who are struggling with
•• low birth and iron fortune" remember this
truth—and let them remember, too, that no
man ei,n he destroyed by others, without fault
and weakness in himself. •
YANKEE Ica IN INDIA.,—The Hong Kong
-11:iiifer copies a long article from the Bengal
Hurkarn on the subject of the ice trade. The
quantity shipped from Boston last year is said
to have been 55,000 tons, delivered on board at
a cost of 82 50 per ton, while the product-of
sales is put down it 83,575,000. Mr. Wyeth,
at Calcutta, has erected a noble building for the
storage of ice ; it has a tripple wall, 40 feet high,
178 wide, and 108 feet long, enclosing more
'than three quarters of an acre, and capable of
holding 30,000 tone of ice. The walls are of
brick, and measure, from the outside of the ex
terior to the inside of the interior walk. with
flues or air spaces between.
The Register calls loudly for the establish
ment of an ice house at Hong Kong. and rejoices
in the knowledge that a good supply has been
orderid from Boston. The commodity appears
to be plentiful at Shanghai, and is freely used by
the Chinese.
Hoon.—Not long before Thomas Hood's
death, one of his literary friends wrote him of a
severe illness from which he had himself been
suffering. Hood's characteristic reply was—
.. I am sorry to hear of your dangerous attack,
and rejoice that it is passed : as for me,- I have
been so near Death's door, since I saw you,
that I heard 110 creaking of the hinges.
GOODRICH SON.
The Old World
=
There was once a world, and • brave old world,
Away in the ancient time,
When the men were brave and the women fair,
And the world was in its prime ;
And the priest he had his book.
And the scholar had his gown.
And the old knight stout he walked about
With his broadsword banging down.
Ye may see this world wu a breve old world,
In the days long peat and gone,
And the sun it shone, and the rain it rained,
And the world still went on,
The sheherd kept his sheep,
And the milkmaid milked the kilns.
And the serving•man was sturdy loon
In cap and doublet fine.
And I've been told in this brave old world,
There were jolly times and free,
And they danced and sung, till the welkin mng,
All under the greenwood tree.
The sexton chimed his sweet, sweet bells, •
And the huntsman blew his horn,
And the bunt went out, with a merry shout,
Beneath the jovial mom.
Oh, the golden days of the brave old world
Made hell end cottage chine;
The squire he sat in his oaken chair,
And quaffed the good red wine;
The lovely village maiden,
She was the village queen,
And, by the mass, tript through the grata,
To the May-pole on the green.
When trumpets roused this brave old world
And banners flaunted wide,
The bestrode the stalwart steed,
And the page rode by his side.
And plumes and pennons tossing bright
Disked through the wild melee,
And he who pleat amid them best,
Was lord of ell, that day.
And ladies fair, in the breve old world,
They ruled with wondrous sway ;
But the stoutest knight he was lord of right,
As the strongest is to-day.
And the baron bold he kept his hold,
Her bower his bright lady!,
But the forester kept the good greenwood,
All under the forest tree.
Oh, how they langli'd in the have old world,
• And thing grim etre away !
And when they were tired of working,
They held it time to play.
Then bookman was a reverend wight,
' With studious face so pale,'
And the curfew bell, with its sullen melt
Broke duly on the gale.
And so passed on, in the brave old world,
Those merry days and free;
The king drank wine, and the clown drank de,
Each man in his degree.
And some ruled well and some ruled ill,
And thus passed on the time,
With jolly ways in those brave old days
When the world wee in its prime.
POPULAR READING.—Amid the volumes of
trash, or worse than trash, which the steam
power press is throwing out upon the'corninu
nity, threatening not only general dissipation
but desolation to the yontlfful mind and heart,
it is eneq — oirar:trg occasionally to meet in the
dignified Quarterly a stern and solemn rebuke,
like the following from the Edinburg Review :
t' The whale subject ol popular literature
requires the deepest consideration. The world
has become a great school, and the ravenous
appetite of an idle people, always craving for
some most unwholsome food, is daily stinnila
4ing the' market. W hat should we say if a
man had the power of so volatilizing a grain
of malignant poison. that its effluvia would
spread over a whole country. entering into
every house, and penetrating to the most vital
parts of the body And yet, until it is ahown
that the human mind is good itself, and the
source of good—that is not what we know it to
be, save only when purified by religion. cor•
rupt itself, and a corrupter of others—this
power, which every man possesses and which
so many exercise, of diffusing their thoughts
and insinuating them into the heart of a nation,
is, in realtty, the power of spreading a pesti-
lential miasma."
ENOLIAII LADIES IN CANTON.--The ladies
contrived by their disregard of Chinese preju
-dices and English gentlemen's advice. to get
up a mob, some two years ago, which cost
some blood and property, and threatened much
more disastrous results than were actually
realized. The daring of the sex is not yet
subdued, though though the riotous disposition
of the China men may he, as the following ex
tract of a letter just received from Hong Kong,
will prove :
M rs .—, a lady of fine appearance and
resolute character, who has been residing a
short time at Hong Kong, went to Canton a
few weeks ago, to see that city before her re•
turn to England. She went without her hus
band, and walked about the streets just when,
where, and how she liked, without regard to
crowds or customs, or the remonstrances of
merchants, who were very fearful of the "eon
sequences : but it all passed off quietly. She
has secured the honor of being the first English
lady who apppeared thus in Canton. So great
a change astonishes every one."
HE AND HORSE RACE.—At Long Branch
lately they got up a race between a dull horse
and a fan oz, which attracted a great crowd.—
A colored rider mounted each animal, and
strange to say. at the end of the mile. the ox
beat. The ladies were very much excited, and
several expressed 'a desire to " ride that sweet
ox."
POVERTY.—'Tis . an ill thing to be ashamed
of one's poverty, but much worse than not to
make use of lawful endeavors to avoid it.
Fattening of Pork in lrelund
We notice in the Louisville Journal, an ar
ticle on the Provision Trade of Ireland,"
evidently written by a man who understands
the subject. He informs us that the Irish
pork, which in the English markets is prefer
red to any other, is fattened almost entirely on
potatoes. He says
The pork of Ireland is raised and fattened
exclusively by the peasantry on cooked pota
toes, with occasionally very little oats. I ne
ver knew an iimial.er of more than ten hogs
being fattened by of e man for sale, and this is
a very rare occurrence. The great bulk of
them are got from men who fatten but one or
two hogs."
The writer is of the opinion that the best
brands "of beef can be put up in the western
section of our country, and sent into the British
'market so as to pay a handsome profit ; but of
pork lie has doubts whether even the heat can -
be sent there to any advantage. On this point
he'remarks
We know that a division of labor on any
thing is sure to produce a more perfect article
and at a cheaper rate. Just look at the ease
and cheapness with which an Irish peasant can
fatten his one or two hogs, almost entirely
from the refuse of his family table, and see
how superior the flesh of that-animal must be
that is constantly fed from its birth on good
cooked food.
Our principal object in" making-the above
extract te, to check' the prevalence of what we
believe to be erroneous impressions. The
first of which is, that pork made from potatoes
is not good—and second, that hogs canna'. be -
fattened on potatoes. The latter opinion has
latterly received considerable support from
some distingushed French chemists. It may
be proper to remark, however, that other
chemists, Liebig. Johnson, &a.. do not agree
to this conclusion, which the experience and.
observation of many farmers show to be falla
cious.
Tug VALVE 4 0y A CHARACTER.. --An elderly
man, by the name of Curtis Wooster, was
robbed in Kensington, on Monday night i of a
gold watch, worth fifty dollars. Ile had been
in a tavern, in Beach street, near Maiden,
Kensington. where he imprudently displayed
a considerable sum of money and his watch.
He attracted the attention of a man named Ed•
ward Galdis, who was in the bar at the time,
and who went out with him when he left.—
Gaddis walked homewards' with Mtn, and
when they parted left him minus his watch.—
Saunders Gavit, Constable of the First Ward
of that District, anu a capital hand at police
affairs, saw the two together, and made a note
of it. In the morning he was told of the rob
bery. and at once said, I thought so, and I
see the fellow now who has the watch." Cad
dis was in sight, and was in custody in a mo
ment. Finding himself in Gavit's hands, and
cornered, he confessed the robbeiy, and took
the officer to his residence, in Oak street, where
he produced and delivered up the watch. Be
fore 9 o'clock yesterday morning the stolen
property was restored to its owner, and the
thief was on his way to Moyamensing, on a
commitment from Alderman Clouds.—Ledger.
Do SomEmmo.—That's it, do something.
Right glad are we to see yom at work; for, to
tell you the truth, we think you have been loaf
ming long enough. We knew you would have
to come to it, when we saw yiiti idling away
your time at the corners of the streets, and in
the idler's resorts. And you feel ail the better
for it. You look healthier and your face be
trays fine spirits. There are a hundred men
we wish would imitate your example. They
have been waiting a twelve month or two, for a
clerkship for a paltry office, but have been dis
appointed, and so they will continue to - be, - till
at last, like yourself, they will continue to be,
comp. Iled to dig the soil and cultivate pieces of
ground by the halves. It should he the fist ar
ticle in a young man's creed—do something.
And if he possesses common abilities it will nev
er be said of him, lie is a lazy drone. There is
no trouble about it—whoever 'is determined to
have work, and obtain a decent living, is never
disappointed. It requires but little energy and
a disposition to labor. He who is destitute of
these traits, must be miserable ini'eed. The
poor-house must eventually bring him up, un
less he has relations rich enough to line his
pockets with money, not bread in his mouth, and
pay the tailor for measuring his back.
WAR.—In the Crusaders of Holy Wars •
continuing 394 years, '20,000.009 men were
butchered, besides women and children.
At the battle of Waterloo, more than 50,000
men perished.
At the battle of Chaions the number slain
was 153.000.
The Persian expedition against the Grecians
lost 200,000 n,en.
At the battle of Canna 40,000 Romans were
slain. After the battle. three bushels of gold
rings-were found showing the number of
knights slain.
By the will of three military (Imprint—Cm
ear, Aletander and Napoleon, 6,000.000 men
were butchered.
Eighty thousand men wore left on the field
of Borodino.
To CIVILIZE CLERGYNEN4—John Adams was
at one time called upon by some one to contrib
ute to foreign missions, when I.e abruptly answer
ed, ‘, I have nothing to give for that putpuse,
but there arc here in this vicinitv.. six minis
ters, not one of whom will I rcarh in each nth
ers pulpit. Now I will contribute a., much.
and more than any' one else, to civilize these
clergy men."
CANDLES THAT SEED NO SNEFEHNH,,--Cary.
dies may be Made to burn their own wicks by
saturating them a with a stmng solution of nitre.
and then thoroughly drying them. The cause
of the wicks of the candles refusing to burn, is,
that the air cannot get access to them. The iti 7
tre, however, at a high temperature, will supply
oxygen enough for this purpose.