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akbncsbin Morning, %spot U, 1849.
.(Tor the Britaiord Reporter )
A WELCOME TO THE RETURNED SOLDIER
DT S. 11. D
1 Welcome home to the Soldier brave,
From the scenes of his bright career ;
He has fought fur his country, long and well,
-Wlth a heart unknown to fear.
From the dm of war, and the deadly strife .
Of the battle-field he's come,
Where his ralor has won him a glorious wreath ;
And gladly we welcome him home.
He has been far away where the billows beat
On Mexico's wild arid shore;
He has fearlessly faced the cannon's month, •
'Mid the battles deaf'n tog roar. -
Brave was his heart and strong was his hand;
Firmly and daintily he stood.
While the.heralds of death on each passing breeze
• Swiftly and wt Idly rode.
When the dead were strewn o'er the gory ground
When his comrades fell by his side,
His spirit quailed not, but "on to the tight!
On! on.! we'll avenge them!" he cried.
He has left many brave and noble hearts
MI still on the battle-ground,
%% here blood in their country's cause has gushed
Through many a ghastly wound.
He left the-joys of a happy home,
And all'of us brilliant train
And the re.itlecs waves of the ocean bore
Him away to the battle-plain.
But when sweet peace spread ber angel wings,
And hi - weed again o'er the land. •
lie turTi'd him hack. with a yearning heart,
To his home and its joyous band.
Then a welcome home io the soldier brave—
T.- r r country's faithful son!
A wreathed for his honored 12row,
Of the laurels his valor won.
liemck. Pa.
(Tnr the Br32.:artt Reporter I
LIWS
S;:t • c • ha? come, romantic hoar;
Tne dew had net. both herb and 11.pirer,
And nut a sound was heard;
Save the sort murmuring of the trees,
That rently bowed, fanned by the breeze,
0: - mat delictous hour. -
Alone I ssoj, by a clear bright stream,
f,To view the sun's .last softening beam
Play on the mountain's brow;
in the deeply glowing west.
uds with golden tints were drest,
To haunt my vision now.
P:l,re tee7e the beams of that glad boar,
S'- I 'r:•und, as if by magic power,
'nil wrap! in silent awe:
flri 1 rock 'round which the stream did play
1 •re docr,n awhile to stay,
While zerliyrs Canoed my brow,
tar around in azure deep
stars, their vigils keep.
truth. sincere and bright;
But one al me. could 6z my gaze.
An by as pure transcendent rays,
My soul was filled with light.
N g`:•. fast her sable mantle threw
A.r ^ d me. andlthe fallen dew,
'Ha.: damped my cheek and brow—
Yet on I dreamed of Hopes too hnght.
The star that shed in radiant irght
On me. has fadedi now.
Lit 1:st! there music passed ate by,
Tomas soft as wandering Angels sigh,
Borne o'er the crystal stream :
Tne minstrei breathed in aetsents low,
soft as celestial streams that, do,.
And waked me from my dreams.
Sur Wouitist as • Qeresr.—ln 1798, Sergeant
Bernadone t being then at Grenoble. fell in lore with
a pretty girl and Made her an offer of marriage,
but a watchmaker was also a candidate for her
hand, and she thought him a better bargain than a
soldier. She is still alive—a decrepit,, crooked,
wnrik:e.l old woman—a servant at a common inn,
and in a state of utter poverty. "Ah ! sir. (she
.said. in lately concluding her story.) I should hare
done much better in marrying Mr. Bernadotte. I
vnould hare been a queen now—yes a queen ! in
s•cad of waiting upon every body here, I sz.otild
t.ave had a crown, and subjects, and fine clothes.
•douli.l have been a queen! Ah ! I made a great
sad mistake. I ought to have foreseen
:is. for I assure you. sir, M. Bernadotte was not
a common man. I had a kind of presenumen
!ha . something would happen : but what would
x :u ifare hen we are young ire do not reflen.
we are not ambitious: we refuse kingdoms, and
:Make fo, - ds of ourselves. Saying that, she shed
'tears When asked if she had heard anything
him, she answered, "Never, sir: I have
u:Alen, to him several times since he became a
kin:. but he never returned any answer. My hus
tar::: says it is because I do not pay the postage on
rry letters. It is very likely and then. perhaps,
he mar feel annoyed at my harisq refused him
we were both free again,. and I had money, I
wou:d go to Sweden. Perhaps he would marry
or at any rate, girt me kis linen to wash. That
wonld be something after all From a diadem to
a tub! Could love himself have imagined any
tiog more romantic!
To Srov Roars Scrams LT.-it is said that bor
es Which run away , will stop at once if there is
anytlung, thrown over their heads, which hinders
their seeing. If therefore there can be a screen
fixed about the head stall, say of lath& rubber cloth
which can be drawn down by a cord over the hor
se s eyes when they run away, they will th us at
"RCP be stoppen. Such an arrangement connected
with two small cords to the seat of the carriage to
te piled from within, might be a great sakgaard
24-auust horses running away, of which there are
riany goof ones that seem to have a passion for
PAstrrst. TraawsT.—The Boston Mail says
thete ts a man in that city whose fortune is valued
E• 3 0 ,0 .)00, who allows his daughter to make
'lms *AA rests for trine-pence each, beams the
°Exec . ioved '• not wisely. bat too well." He ottlit
be w;thout sir. And is without !Asa= !
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The project for assembling a Convention to draft
a State Constitution, to be submitted to the people
for ratification, has now advanced so far toward a
certain accomplishment, that we feel it our duty to
offer a few suggestions relative to its composition,
and the principles Which should govern in selec
ting its members. We never had, and have not
now, any desire to..become a politician in the sense
in which the word is usually understood, but we
confesi. that it is a cherished Wish with us to ad.
vance the true interests of California. We desire
to see her take that rank which her commercial
position on the Coast of the Pacific, her untold min
end wealth, and her great agricultural resources,
point out as her destiny ; and we desire that she on
whom all eyes are turned, and from whom so much
is expected, should not seem ignorant of her own
illimitable resources, nor prove tecreant to the great
principles which 'were the first political lessons of
her citizens, and which the world expects her tcf
avow and to maintain.
Every person appears to be convinced that the
Slavery question under the complexion that it now ,
wears in the Atlantic States, defeated. the numer
ous attempts made in the last Congress to give to
California a territorial organization, and all men
ought to be as firmly assured that unless the citi
zens of California settle that question for them
selves,
and do s 6 at once, that it will prevent, defeat,
or at least protract, for some years to come, the es
tablishment of any government in the country. In
dependent of the moral consideration which weigh
so heavily against Slavery, and which we have nei
ther time nor room to repeat, as a matter of expedi
erry—as a means of . givitie to this country a goy
. eniment—it is necessary that the people' should
insert in their Constitution a clause forbidding the
introduction of negro or other Slavery. The high
est, noblest acts of humanity demand it—the pro
gressive doctrines of Republicanism cannot be
matntained,without it—and the interests of the mass,
the people—those who dig and delve, and earn
I their bread, and learn self-respect and enterprise
from the necessities of labor—render itimperative.
There must be no slurring over or avoiding the
question. The South have contended that it is a
question which should be left to the citizens of each
State to decide, and they cannot comp:ain if we de
cide against it; while the North have asserted that
it was a principle with them which . they are bound
to maintain at any and all hazards, and that, there
fore, they can never consent to the extension of Sla
very into California. True, the men who are most
vociferous are probably the least sincere ; but the
political character of the question has become such
that the great controlling mass of the North would
undoubtedly agree with and sustain their Represen
tatives
We do not fear to assert, then, thiii a State Con
stituuon for Califcmia, which does not contain a
provision against Slavery, will never be allowed to
go into effect by the Congress of the United States,
and We are still more firm in our convictions that
the people of California would never approve such
a document.
It then follows, that the people of the different
districts, in the.r primary meetings, must see that
their opinions in this matter are expressed and un
derstood No man should go to the Convontion
whose feelings on this subject are unknown, and
whose views do not coincide with the majority of
those whom he represents ; and every proper effort
should therefore be made to accomplish this result.
We abhor proscription. but we feel, at the same
time, that great interests are at stake, which call
for vigilance, firmness, and above all, a fair and full
expression of public sentiment. Let us but have
this, and the consequences will not be re g retted.
There are other minor particulars on which the
primary meetings should express their opinions,
and in r eg ard to which the principles' of their rep
resentativfti in the Convention shoold be known.—
Among these are:
I. The return by the U. S. of the duties collected
in California since the peace, to be made a gereral
fund for the support of a State Government.
2. The limitation of the amount of the espendi.
titre to be made in any one year for internal and
BATTY
other improvements.
3. The basis for the establishment of banking or
other incorporation&
4. The prohititioa of imprisonment ftrr debt.
5. The rightslot married women to theirindivid
ual property, acquired before or after eoverture.
6. The rtht•of universal sufferage.
7. The establishment of a Branch t S. Mint, in
California, the net proceeds o 1 which ithardd be del
voted to the support of a State Government.
8. The manner in which the mines 'should be
disposed of—whether surveyed and sold, or held as
common property, to be worked by permits to be
given alone to American -citizens, or to all wbo may
apPly
9. Whether or not the revenue derived from the
mines over and above all expenlitores on their ac
count, should be devoted to the support of a State
Government.
10. Whether the public lands should eely be sold
to actual settlers and soldiers, or to all who choose
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to pumbase.
11. The. passage of a law by the next. Congress
appoiting a Commissioner to audit and immedi
ately pay the California claims.
On many of the subjects above menti;oned, the
expressions of the primary meetings would have a
decisive eflect, while on the others they could not
fail to carry great weight, and to meet with respect.
We have no dispointion to obtrude our own opin
ions cet these subjects upon the public, bat et a fu
ture day we may deem it our:duty so to do. Mein
time, the object we have in view will *raked if
we can elicit and embody public sentiment on these
and kindred matter&
In the ateerme of all, piny distinctions, it has
heretofore been found diSzah to .hirsoonize and
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, ?Ar t BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH,
THE CONVENTION. •
From the Ahaitalibrniest, July 2
K ittic.imir.6r or DttitTittallOg AST ottarrrsar2"
who the body politic in:the elections which have
been held in the country. This has beetrparticeiar
ly disease in San Promisee. The consequence
ken been, that in nearly every election a lame por
tion of the legal votes* have taken noiniereet in the
canvass and have not voted, or else there have
been so many tickets in the field, that neither one
could be fairly said to express the wishes of the
majority. It is very desirable, therefoire, that
measures should be taken to unite the body politic
in the support of a ticket whictishall be Imexeep
tionable in point elites principles, the "Wily, and
the integrity of its candidates._ Ali with whom we
haveconverwed,slesinstbiti, nati.it- remains so be
ascertained by what means* can - be best accom•
plished. Among thevxpedients which hive sag
gested themselves,to our minds, we prefer the for
lowing :
That a meeting of the citizens of San Francisco
be held on a day to be fixed ; that that meeting ap.
point a day on which shall be held an election for
a nominatiag committer to consist of (nine) mem
bers; that the nominating committee be instructed
to require in writing of all candidatesamexpreasion
of opinion on such subject* as the meeting may
deem essential; and that thereupon, the nomina
ting committee report to an adjourned meeting the
names of the five candidates whom they recom
mend for the suffrages of the community.
It scents to us that this plan is both feasible and
proper, and we recommend it to the favor of the
public, with a reiteration of the wish for a harmo
nious movement under the banner of
" EV LaTTIIISO FOB THE CAVIST.."
THE PLACER.
From the Placer Tunes, May 26.
The arrival at our landing of a fleet of barks,
brigs, schooners, and smaller sail during the week
has tilled the streets with strangers, given to trade
a new impulse. and revived the general business
aspect of the place. The new comers are almost
to a man bound for the Placer, and encamped
along through the cool woodland skirting the water,
they may be encountered whithersoever one wan
ders. It bespeaks the intensity of the excitement
created abroad by the gold disco% eriesot this coon
try to witness the magnificent mistakes scale a; on
which the cows have prepared for openuing the
mines. All the absurd and outlandish inventions,
the ill applied contrivances, new-tangled works,
and novel implements to facilitate the finding and
gathering of gold ; all the =saleable, refuse and
musty trash from quid corners of store shelves; an
tiquated wares, trappings, trinkets\-in short, every
variety of useless article, it would atcrear, has been
shipped to " try its fortune ,in California." That
this is the fee, any one who has quieted Within him
the grasping after gain sufficiently to beSfow a few
moments attention upon things around, par. attest.
And instead of going sensibly to work anti com
mining such rubbish to the river'scurrent. " where
it will be very likely to go down," qpite deter
minedly, the owner or agent will make 'his camp
in the midst and quite philosophically will await
the chances of trade ; and with a manifestation of
the must complete stoicism, his notions are dieted
for sale at paces that not unfrequently lead one to
almost doubt the sanity of the vender. However,
the altogether false impressions of this El Dorado
market under which so many of the petty, specula
tive operators of the East arrive and renew their
pitiful process of money getting, very happily for
all, soon wear away. But with the worthless and
-unwieldy machinery for gold washing should the
new corner set out for the Placer. Here he will
discover that freight has been paid on a Cape Horn
passage of unserviceable material; for his machi
nery is perfectly innocent of any gold washing
qualities, and after all, goklwashing is hard work,
and fortunes are not to be made in a day. To pre
vent, then, the disheartening consequences attend
ant upon such an unproepered termination of their
long voyage, strangers had best accept, as they will
find of service, the following information.
They have been advised to visit the placer, and
at once, that a correct idea may be derived of a
gold washer's laborious vocation. During the pres
ent season the floods, it will 'be observed, cover
the richest washings, and numbers remain idle in
consequence. Companies are forming for turning
the streams at diflerent points, who upon perfecting
their plans, encamp:on the spot where it is propos
ed to execute them, and their rights are acknowl
edged and scrupulously respected by their fellow
laborers. The individual claim, which is Likewise
one of preemption, of the gold washer u similarly
regarded. There is seldom an encroachment, and
disturbances from this cause do not frequently cc
cur. The new comer, if he would Share the suc
cess of the body of those who at present wash for
gold, must adopt the system practiced so generally,
conform to the customs of the fraternity, of gold
hunters, and labor with diligence in the strait and
safe path marked oat by experience. Discarding
the visionary schemes of an over-wrought mind,
and divesting himself of the worthless weight of
material—evidences of man's folly, or phrmsy ei
ther, and ignorance of matters in this Et Dorado—
he should prepare foe the fortunes and reverses of
a practical goldwasher's life. He will encounter
fatigue and privation, but with due attention to the
preservation of health, he is soon secure against
one of the worst issues that can befal hisadventine,
that of premature disappointment
During the week several arrivals from the Pla
cer bare occurred. In every quarter where labor
is performed, those employed appear to be very
well rewarded. A report reached this place a few
days since that new gold discoveries bad been
made on the Sacramento River near its head wa
ters, and about 200 miles distant nom this point;
it is quite probable that each is the but as wash
ings were found high up on this stream last Suitt
mer. The gold was discovered in fine grains, and
scarcely in abundance sufficient to repay the labor
of exacting by the usual process. The late tains
in this valley proved snow and bail to the moan
tain &Clem, and thatch the cool weather of late
caused the firers to tall, at last accounts they were
rapidly rising again. A gentlemaniene the Amer
ican River Dry Diggings informs es that large
cessions to to the numbers already employed there
have taken place of Isle. This deposit is about 50
miles from this place ; work commenced in April
last, and since the gold has been found overa large
extent of country. There are those at present Ise
boring who average Stoo per day ; in most caries
the yield is from one to moon:ices. The diggings
are about four miles from the river, and lathe beds
Or sides of ravines, which now contain. water but
.atts later period are entirely. dry.
There _who are employed is-working the beds
divert the cootie of therotream with little difficul
ty. Hundreds have been floeking to the Middle
Fork during the month; encampments stretch
along the banks of the river to the extent of the
gorge; numbers are at work and - doing well. The
feeling against foreign labor in the Placer appears
to be pretty strong. It is at this time chiefly di
rected against the Chilean subjects, who are found
in great numbers upon the San Joaquin tributaries.
They are expert washers and a life of servitude,
together with exposure to a hot climate has well
fitted them 'or labor on the slopes of Sierra Neva
da. Abnnt forty of these people who had coma
upon the washing ground of the North Fork were
escorted from thence by a party of our country
men, and informed that their presence would not
be tolerated in that vicinity, at least. A correspon
dent• writing from the -Natoma mines, American
River. says:
Weather exceedingly hot here -river on the
rise again. If this weather continues two weeks
longer the river will be down to a low stage, and
miners here and on the North Fork can then readi
ly make from four to six ounces per day. No less
than six canal operations -are under way within
ten miles of this place, and all bid fair to be pro
fitable operations."
SiDin&ADOLVITFIC Lusr ocT.—One of the fresh
corners from the *Atlantic sale," who had brought
with him into this country, among other actions, a
lot of American side-saddles, wax recently sent
packing into the Placer after the foltowing curious
fashion :
, Making up to a buckskin clad knight of the
pickaxe and spade, " just in from the mines," be
addressed him first, upon the prospects of the dig
gings he had recently vacated, next, as to the near
est and beta route thither, and finally, " What kind
of a speculation would his side-saddles turn out I"
" First-rate ; splendid ! just the thing for the
mines," was the strongly emphasized reply of the
old sinner to the last interrogatory of the last eom
ner. " Yon don't say!" in a voice betraying how
nearly he had yielded to despiir, " and who'll buy
them, and how will they use them !" " Never
use anything else if they once get to see them.—
Why, stranger, I've seed some canions in my day,
but never was obleege, d to sit woman-like on a
man's saddle before, to save my neck in going up
the side hill." " I sere I have it," joyfully rejoin
ed the last out, " and so they ride along the carrion
side with one kg thrown over the saddle to."—
" ti e s, and in that fix I took out betwixt three and
hundred dollars one forenoon ; it was desperate
tiresome work, I tell you. A man with a woman
saddle, close by, doubled that heap, but then he
worked while I rested. Nothing like a side-sad
dle, stranger, for digging the side.eanions out
with!"
The above incident occurred in San Francisco.
Two hours after the narration of this esciting gory,
a launch hauled out from Clay-st. wharf, bound for
the Stank.taus, the Captain of which probably in
voked a curse upon the "traps" with which the
last passenger bad strewn his decks, and that last.
reader, was the last out the man with the side-still
dies !—Plarer Timm
3iterrsan grieutrra.—Our yanke traveller who
saw the live hosier, has again written to his moth-
" Western people go their death on etiquette.—
You can't tell a man here that he hes, as you can
down east without fighting. A few days ago a
man was telling two of his neighbors in my hear
ing a pretty large story.
Says I, "Stranger, - that a whopper!" ,r.
Says he, " Lay there, ganger r•
le
And in a twinkling of an eye I kitmd m If in
the ditch, a perfect quadruped, the worse far wear
and tear. Upon another occasion; says Ito man
I never saw before, as a woman passed,
" That isn't a specimen of your western women
is it ?"
Says he, " Yea we afraid of the fairer and ague,
stranger ain't you r ,
" Vary moth," sari i.
es Well replied he, "that lady is my wife, and if
you don't apologise, in two minutes, by the honor
of a gentleman, I swear that these two pistols,
(which be held in his band) shall ewe you of that
disorder entirely—eel don't Grier stranger!" So I
knelt dewit and politely apologised. I admire this
western country much ; but curse Me DI can Wand
so much etiquette ; it always takes we unawares."
Owego Demerit
Brae Ilmwr.—Ant you pm . shopping on the
threshold of life ! &scare a good moral character.
Without Puma you as not be respected; without
integrity, you can never rise to distinction and boo
m ton are poor, - pethapit. No matter; prover
ty is oftener a blaming than accarse. Look at the
young man who is heir of half a niiirica. What
is his standing ! Of what nee is he so the world
Yon snot make younieh.
" Comm.," said a father to his sce, while they
were wor k im a saw-milli--What peseessesyea
to: associate with such girls as you dal what
I bras of your age, I molds° with the first eat"
" Bat," said Charles, " the first eat is always a
slab—lid you know that!"
" Help me to tom this log, Charles—yuck.''
Maryann' sad Itestondiel If filiAL
Under thia heading, the American Phrenologi ,
Cal Journal has an ielerestirig article. On first
bearing that Professor Bressoweleinted to be able
teperfeet the sight of petal:ins U46OlE' that sense '
had become imperfect from age, Within, in the nose
of others is whom it was so wonatoarUy, we cer
tainly ihould have set the Pit. down as a hum-_
beg,
bag, had we not believed him to be quite ineapa., 1
bierkeif practising the inisterart of that very numer
ous Pperies.of entomology. But sometime after,
ward, a nearsighted friend doors, we observed.
was accustomed, when .lookireg at distant objects
to pow theballa Of its oyes with thanittana fore-fut‘
ger. lie told us the_pbeasuregready helpeathe.vis
ion producing the eireetof concave glass es. Thislit
tie incident was our clew to the philosophy of Prof.
Bronson's theory . ; and we have since, found no
difficulty in believing in the reality of those ". won
derful cures" said to have been effectedby
The fact mentioned respecting John Quincy Adams
in the article to which wahare adverted, and whielr
we give below is new to us. Gordo tee remem
ber the habit ascribed by the Ledger to Mi. Adams
though we doubt not to correctness of the Ledger's
statement, for that *son. In the few interview:
it was our privilege ; to have with Mn. .Ailatris f wet
were too much absorbed by the interest we feh in
his richeourersation, to notice the practice referred
to it existed:
" This is an important matter, yet easily obtained
by this simple ride : When the sight is too shot*,
close the eyes, press the fingers gently outward
from nose across the eyes. Short sight is caused
by too great boundness of the eyes, and rubbing or
wiping therm from the inner towards thew outward
angles, flattens them and thus lengthens or extends
their angle of visicnt. But tong as sight is catered
by tad too great flatness of the eyes, passing the
towel trout the outward angles inwardly, rounds
them np, and thus preserves the sight.' By this
simple means all persons can adjust their sight to
their liking, PO as to read without gtasses' just' as
well when old as young The valne'of this know
ledge is second only to that of sight.
Bronson is at present the leading promulgitor of
this idea, and claims to have discovered it. it man
be original with him yet was known long before
Bronson's birth. The grandfather of a female friend
of the editor's p-acticed fifty years ago, and by its
means preserved hai eyesight so as :o be able to
read fine print when eighty-eight years cild.John
Quincy Adams in conversation with Laivyer Ford of
Lancaster, Pa. who:wore glasses told him if he would
manipulate his eyes with his fingers from their ex
ternal angles inwardly, he would soon be able to
dispense with glares. Ford tried it, and soon res
toted his sight perfectly and has since preserved it
by the continuance of this practice. On this point
the Philadelphia Ledger remarks as follows :
RESTORATION OF Saiair.—The Boston Traveller
give some interesting accounts of experiments
made by Professor Baum in removing imperfec
tions of sight produced by ag e or malfonnation.—
—Axording to the Tra ller, old people . have
been enabled to lay aside their spectacles, and
people of all ' a2es, who suffered. from short
sight, have been e itirely cured".—The Traveller
says that Prof. Bronson is the author rtf those dis
coveries, and that his practice -consists entirely in
manipulation. Professor Mason is well known in
this and other cities, as a lecturer on elocution, and
has opened an office in New Tort, for medical
practice upon the eie in which we wish him falc-
Ce!Le.
But while giving credit' to Prof. Bronson for his
etlorts in doing good and while admitting that his
method of treating the eye: is original with him.
self, we do not admit that he was the first discov
erer. The very treatment ascribed' to him for yes ;
torus decayed sight, was discovered long agn by
John Quincy Adams and successfully practiced on
himself. This is not the only case in which scien
tific men hare made the same discovery w'ith
out any communication with each other. Dr.
Franklin in Philadelphia and Dr. Igetihouse in Si
Petersburg, without any knowledge of • each other,
made simulaneaus discoveries in eb;ctricity. There
fore we do not wonder at Professor Bronson's dis
covery concerning the eYes, without any hint from
Mr. Adams who had made the same discovery.
Mr. Adams di.l not communicate his distorrery to
the world but mentioned it incidentally, and as of
wrest importance, to two at three in the course
of his life: We certainly wonder st him sad them
for not perceiving its general taßity. Mr. Adams
never wore spectacles, his sight enduring to the
last. Yet those who remember him in private con
versation,may remember his habit, while Listen
ing of annivalating his eyes with his fingers, by
passing them gently over the surface, from the ex
temal to the internal angle. '
The decay of sight that is remedied by unit=
spectacles, is caused by gradual abeorbtion of the
human, or relaxation of the costa, rendering the
transparent cornea lens cover.. The manipulation
or gentle pie perhaps by stimulating the mats
and thereby causing them to contract, restores the
original perfection of:stk. In rubbing or wiping
the eyes, we naturally pass the hand or towel aver
the convex tartan from the internal angle. This
diminishes the convexity, and thus promo t es the
decay of sight, and therefore should be easefully
avoided. The pressure, whether in wiping or soars
should proceed, in eyes orOndly perfect,
from the eiternal angle. Short sight remediedYby
concave glasses, is caused by sodas convexity of
the external cornea, wtmther,coespotial or maw
ed by dome. In this case all wiping, nabbbg or
manipulation should proceed hour the Wing -to
the external angle, the reverse of the motion ne
cessary in the case fuse mentioned. In snaniptda•
tim ewe must be taken against passers too hard
or continued too long which may develops Main- .
atkm."
The same female friend mentioned above ins
bees troubled for yaps with a spontaneous veep.
o n of one of bet eyele, strichabo hasentirely cured
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by robbing sad wiping her elm, *ties showesbetre
She also - now treadir hem* prior whereat babes she
was nimble to do see. This Babied Will . of Wirier
commend itseltto the practical Walled all lobo may
be sobering from imperfect' sigif of *wilt t}) ++:
4yrrn Pioneer•
aIIOICIO.4OE-SCLITE ; Oa TVIT. STAT TO Gil' SPAS'
cd'sePoits rota Toiut—ht t6ie bleat choir *kw
site 3tnith's clock store, on- Fifth street, a 'Roe his
dible trick was plaied off on the boys in the shop.
The room. was well sem:dint wih cmtomem,
and the chance of getting shared in a lorry wart
out of tie qeestion:
4 smaßinan with. s wegtitrkfoolk earns to the
door, en* after seii.qii3g the crated, walked ie and
took a seat on thePsofs.
. a Wow far is it to a doctor's *Seer - 'asked die
strange gentleman.
"Susi across the way," replied one of the boys.
The eyes of the company were turned on the
stranger.
" feet bad," mid' he ; and ar the Bathe dine •
Fpas.m took him, and his hands clenched and his
legs drew or irr a-perfect and be rolled of
on the floor.
11 ' That's !t Cholera ease,'' said one, end lie took
bat and left. Thiswas the signal, and all followed
suit except those undergoing the shoeing operation.
The spasm seemed to subside—the inns and
legs stretched ont at Intl lenges and the patient lay
pnefeafed on his back.
" Wipe otl the lather," - sad the fat man next Iba
door, "1 11 come lir again -4 Can't stay now J',
Jest then =miller spasm took the stranger, and
by some strange movement be temneed open 'the
sofa without any apparent eflort, flat on his bark as
he was Haying nn the floor. fle roiled ep live a
bait again and rolled backward and forward etv Ohs
raga ins style that. would have dose credit to a
ens' es man.
Thin was a finisher ; those that were !bayed le*,
and *me not shaved hatfat time tansy ;- the boys
looked at ead other iu astonisdintent . Tt.e Chol
era !abject uncoiled himself and asked them his
inn. had come, when he took his seat and had a
good shave.
:tWbat's the charger' acid the atraniger k
"Nothirag t ” thebarber, you area kayo
your name.—Cincensati Cora.
Gsatmenrc.—None bat these who bare enjnyed
a garden can appreciate the saiferfastiewef sitting
down to a table spread with the fruits of one's own
planting and enfttrre. A btmeh of radisbes•—a few
heads of lettnce—talen from the garde ref a WM.
epees morning for breakfast, or a mess Of green
peas or sweet cam; is quite a different 'ratr from
buying it in the market in a dying eon:Fake, b be
put away in the cellar for ree. And a plate of
strawberries or railipberlrie lose none of their .pe
enliar flavor by passing direetfy from the border to
the cream, without brew. jolted about is baskets
until they have lost all form and cornered,.
ENDORSING A NOTC.-0111 clergymen Ste much
attempted in their devotions by notes sent ep to
the pelpit to oiler op for siek persons-to retool
thanks for a well persatt—for blessings * and bles
sings in espeetation—and for erery . ehilif born, a
note is to be sent ep to the minister: One of oar
Wall street brokers was gaite sick, ant/needy gone
" Fattier." said his son, by his side. "Shall ve send
in a note for Too ter-day " Yes," feebly respon
ded the old man, wbife a perm of 'Clans* kin
dled op for an instant his gluing eye; "yes, my,
son, and ask Parson Jones if be will andante the
note; be knows that goa3 for it."- .'
Beartne.-31ostachiosr. and beaids of every cut
and color are certainly among the notability of the
streets. There are faces that a hard.andlaastazhe
become , but these tawny and yellow boo eesttes- ;
ed ahem a visage, : like a stubble Geld alley a poor
harvest, are shocking in the erase. • The bees
of many a young blood whom we eneinsater in
our daily walk puts as mind, if the reader will for
give the honvefinen. of the comparison, of the skin
of a scalded pig, before it tias uncknpate.the scra
ping process.
butwourvoir.—in maUers of great concern, and
which must be done, there is no surer argument of
a weak mind .than immolation ; to be undetermin
ed where the cause is so plain, • and the necessity,
so urgent; to be always intending to lead a new
life, but never find time to set about it ; that is as if
a man should . put off eating, acid drinking, and
sleeping, from one day and night to motet, till he
is starred and destruyed. •
Caszarri. Slusar..—The peer Carpsni owe ask
ed his friend . Haydn, "how* is
happened that h
choith music was always of an animating, cheer
ful, and even gay description." Ta this, Haydn's
answer was, " I cannot Make it otherwise.
strife according to the thoughts which I feel ; when
when I think opus God, my boast is so fop of
joy, that the notes datce and leap, as 'it were,
from my pen ; and since God has given me a cheer-
MI heart, it will be easily forgiven me that I serve
him with a cheerful spirit."
" Boy," said a thwarter to a fide fellow elorbid
in pants roundabout, bat minis another very its
peasant amid. of wearing apps — "boy; where's
you shin!"
" Mammy's washing it r
" Have you DO other!"
"No other r exclaimed the urchin with iodic.
rant sem ; u would you wool a body to hive
thomand shirts." •
A Quaker, haying sold a saWkakbotr, bet bbed
horse, irked the isucheeer—" Well , friss& dolt
thee see soy bolt inhicor
"No' was the fielleret.
"Neither will he see any in thei r " arid old
brood briar.
bung:An QLwaT.-i-Whsn may eases be sie
to Ws. with ;be occasion
when be ors up in a bacon. .
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