Taotrain 2:10130
TOWANDA:
ealarbati ittontinn, December x. 1552
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HOME.
nr CU•RLEP COLLIGE
War.az is thy home !" t asked a child,
Most beautiful and fair;
twining dowers from nature's wild,
Mule sarlands for Its hair.
Mc home," the happy heart replied,
s rales of childishglee.—
• s, me th v ry hank—the melees aide—
E;ch has its home forme."
.1\ bcre 1 , thy home ?" I asked of one,
aLth a •• bluihing grace,"
NiT to hear love's silvery tone,
In t h e a ild-wood's secret place,
,pole not, but a 'varying cheek,
Theo well the tale impart ;
h, tar" for that yodt4 spirit meek,
Was in a kindred heart.
t act is thy home, thou lonely man 1"
z,k , d a plignin grey;
he a tth a furrowed brow, and wan,
Cime marching on hip way.
yr passed ; with a trembling hand.
tt twit care's rough storms had given,-
- The home I seek--a happy land'
nr /hunted up to Neaten.
From the Boston Ouse Branch.
IE BASKET OF GRAPES
TING 110 W -MILS. JONES WXS CtBED OF Pa 67621
510N8 AM) PETTY SLANDER
s. Jones stood in the - midst of cambries, cot
, •terts and calicoes She was sorting this, cut_
• !hal, and folding the other on a long tnble
when in came a little woman with
srec:ades. satin bonnet, and an extremely
e rnus:in dress ; and sat down, looking fa
,I t,uNtr.
st see you, 3lrs. Gllly,take off your bon-
Mrs bat=il:::g tmart.l , her, " full
„c see. as usual
i• ‘k.u. I can't stop a minute ;or least
-e . h3:l returned Mrs Gilly, tanning
: re !cule. I declare what an in-
creal.e >au we, Mrs. Jones ; it seems to
are :,rec er busv."
irn 1, Fpecially at this Season ; you
e I% , mmy Jefferson and Henry Clay, and
Was.h.nz;on. the) 'ye all got - to have a fit out
:sr% a-d jackets, jackets and trousers—what
• . •.• a-c : and !here's Mary Antoinette and
ans! Cleopatry, and little,,V ictoria
s.e's.asleep now, mast blessed baby ever
wake up by and by: you'd die a laugh
. ,re txr,e of her tricks—they've ail got to be
an,! !lat not. Oh ! dear, how much one
a ,10 that brings up a family ; what great
i.c are
•ac a word—don't say one word;' said
• t,. v..; tip her hands and making a
laze, expressive of resipation and
z.- i 0: eri think of third 'epeeially when
te•v trc übiesome."
k i ne!'re seldom anything else," si2hed
mentatly admiring a beautiful piece of
ar.,l th.nking how much it would
c.i..tta America. But dear Mrs. dilly,"
y rwtatmo, starting from her reverie,
where.l can hire a sewing girl for
rr :ev
:our neighbor has otie for two. Of
•=t Anlzelwe , says,'' replied Mrs.
' Oh, you rneal4 Mrs. Elden ,
; her husband is or was captain
c.frpany somewhere ; only to think I.
21Te nor. •he sent us yet, and her vine bore
leastways have Bent you a
Low Mrs Lane, that lived there last
tsed lo send us a considerable sized plate
e rines ',l:en never yielded as they have
';ey hare naJ so much attention that
?-.-e loaded down ; and they're pick
- r: ‘l 3- M Eden gathering them myselt."
_:e:e are some mean folks in the world,
dei t:hleil I should be to send
.t=''s a", :)ce; the stil,rge ; but there it is;
1,44 iLa., gat the head seldom have the
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' think maybe I want
ee.i I don't want them. rii
artl maybe her aid is disengavd."
• G , Ly s s;nee inmate had le:.gthened In an
2 se In depart : as soon as she,
‘ M.< .1,1-es hastily indited a able to bet
despatched it by Mary An-
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E-•:ea reaj looked curiously et the child,
L= l7 r^.= Nen a most mirthful expression
'11;7 cor.veilanCe she raised her eve-
;- ' l4 lang,!=ed to herself, and mentally
car-y out the joke," she env:feted
1:-...%•1' note, t'.treeting her to the Nitrite's
'mate IlLsi Witt Holmes vas at present
IL" , e scutre's hoose was a fine, Old-fishion
- rtszxixrc atiai:, very lofty, and located
Lm? - 3.f.r t g eieration, sutroanded by gigw•
tvw• knooth cralkot, beautiful garden-IT and
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that held within their grand :pace
" 4 " 4 ::%14 e brt4,4est, the tenderest flowers, filling
4 = Lr wi.n then. pethatne.
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• liar Lizzie Holmes, while siting
dressing room, received two
- When she real the first she blushed,
, '.1.4t- ' 11 :-‘ 1, 7. 1 1!. and laid it on the table ; when
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she laughed, threw back her
7---isSe,i by her wogk, and springing up, she
4 one or two very graceful hubs
eving,cp her sewing r with the notes - she
!te a zazelle throqgh the door.
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The nett day Mrs. Jones was up early in the
morning, sweeping and dusting, throwmg the win-
dows open wide, now - in the parlor, now in the
kitchen, alternately scolding her children and her
maid, and will a great deal of noise and bustle, set
ting things to rights. She had just ptit-the finishing
touch on the parlor, when she heard a timid knock
at the door; and shaking her dress a little, she hur
ried out, and came back immediately, followed by
a neat-looking girl, attired in a close titling dress of
black silk, with a white linen apron and a collar,
and a most timid air.
" Let's see, what's your name, miss I" asked
the good lady, as the young girl smoothed down
her curling hair.
" Lizzie Holmes, ma'am," she answered with a
sweet simplicity.
" Lizzie—Lizzie Holmes—yes ; come froth the
country, I suppose ; well, I heard of you through
royfriend Mrs. Elden ; and as I have got any quanti.
ty of sewing, I thought I would patronize you."
" Thank you," said Lizzie humbly.
" Nov I hope you sew fast, as well as neat; I'm
willing to pay a
. goof price, I suppose you don'',
chale more than a dollar a day, and it's my way
to invite company when I want a good batch of
work done, for my friends think so much of me
that they always will take hold and help, whether
I want them to or no; so I humor them. You will
please commence on these plaid pants, and the ta
ble yonder with the red cloth on it, yon can have
it undisturbed ; I suppose you woull prefer to bit
alone."
Lizzie seemed satisfied% took her seat, and plied
her needle so very rapidly, that even Mrs. Jones,
as she came and examined her work once in a
white, (because she Wired so young and inezpe-
rienced,) was perfectly delighted. Friends dropp-
ed in one by one until there was quiteli room full,
and such clatter al tongues as might be heard in the
cosy parlor of the.would-be-leadiug lady of the vil
lage, Mrs. Septimos Jones ! Most of the good com
pany preferred to keep the seamstress at a proper
distance ; but two or three of those rare people,
who by some mistake sometimes find their way
into gossiping v illages, and almost redeem them,
took more notice of our lovely Lizzie on that ac-
count. 1 heir afterwards said they found a wonder
ful beauty in that quiet blue eye, and her tones
were as sweet and well clio,en as those of any la
dy to whom they had ever before listened.
We should do wrong if we were to deny that
there was some scandal afloat that afternoon ; be:
cause Mrs. Jones narrated her opinion of Mrs. El
den's—her new neighbor—parsimony at long de
tail, and all the ladies cried " mean r and "scan
dalous !" and then, alter they had thought on every
thing /hey could say.....abont, her appearance, man
ner, Sc , conversation turned on young Mr. Neale
well, the son of their old pastor, who had lately re-
turned from abroad, such a gentleman, was at pres
ent stopping at his father's. They expatiated on
his extraordinary many beauty ; his princely form,
his graceful carriage—and one and all united in con
sidering him bat little less than a dirinity, au'd won
dered " who he would have."
At dinner aid at supper there was unit:win:lately
room for all but one ; eery body looked signifi
cantly at Lizzie Holmes, who, declarer that she
would rather wait than not ; so on both occasions
she eat with the children, who were so much occu
pied in staring at her, that they neglected to act in
their usual boisterous manner.
In the evening, after lamplight, those who had
good eye-sight sat down aglin to sewing, and seve
ral old ladies took out their knitting wmk. Our he
roine, the seamstress, timed her chair back to
wards the door, so that she might devote her atten
tion more entirely to her task. IVith swill flying
fingers she had contrived stealthily to embroider a
tiny pink rose, with two little green leaves, on the
waist of a white frock but these she had kept Ind
den from the light. She looked somewhat pale and
fired, but,no one asked her to rest for a while—why
should she
once the door opened, and Amy, the stout domes
tic, came tramping into the room, her arms spread
wide apart; and between them a latge basket heap
ed to the 1011, literally running over, with
lustrous grapes, in great, rich clusters.
" Mrs. Elden's compliments ; marm, and would
you accept a dew grapes from her choice vine 1—
They
were picked off tts , day."
Mrs. Jones rose, her face and neck suede! ; nev
er was there ti more self-woos:mg being than she I
at this moment. Some of the prudent guests smil
ed, any many of them looked as conscious almost
as herself; but there was a long silence, broken
only by some apologizing remark ; so the feast of
grapes was not altogether a merry one. It was ob
served that when the seamstress took a few, as they
Were passed towards her, she gave a peculiarly arch
smile; and Mrs.. Jones noticed it, and curled her
lip, but prudently said nothing.
Therewould bare been a general and early break
ing up, but fat the appearance of a new corner—
and that Personage no other than the youthful Mr.
Hazieweil hinsselL The ladies were astonished ;
the three or four young utridens grew, less stately,
and• more interesting ; Lizzie alone did not even
.once turn her bead ; but asmile soda blush spread
over her delicate tam
Young Hazewell apoltaized for his intrusion, the
ladies cried out that he had not.intruila a bit, but
said that his father bad not been able roaticept their
kind invitation,and so he had availed himself of
the opportunity to get more acquainted.
A. dozen " I'm very glad's," and we are de
lighted to see-you," &c., followed this little
Speech ; and they all grow quite chatty and merry
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD - COUNTY, PA., BY E. WitEARA dOODRICH.
The. party had g,rown guile merry, when all at
atam. -
The young man m *delightful talker, and af.
ter a while, conversation turned upon the old
equine, with whom none pre.ent were exictly
on
intimacy, but then they profess J to be well sr
qbainted with him—oh ! yes ! He spoke of the
squire's family, aril particularly about a 116 a Aim
h, his mainl-danPer,.aa heiress from the South,
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who had recently arrived, and was visiting at pre*•
ent the village. 'He said he , had met her in New
Orleans, and spoke so. warmly and Admiringly,
painted her virtues so vividly, that the young ladies
present felt a kind of coldness creeping aioni4 (heti
hearts. He was still in the Mt tide of description,
when the seamstress, who had seemed unaccounta
bly nervous for the last few moments, gathered her
work all in her hands, and—ber eyes Ought as
Cars, her cheeks as softly dashed as a ripe peach
—arose, walked timidly towards Mrs. Jones, and
murmured, " Does the *stiching of this band snit
you ?"
There was a roguish smile in the corners of her
pretty mouth ; still she tried lo look demure.—
Young Hazewell glanced up, started, passed Iriv
hand over his eyes, moved deliberately from his
chair=then, while a bewitching smile broke like
sunshine all over his face, 'he exclaimed, ig Mos
Ainsly, have I indeed the honor I" and held forth
his hand. She bowed gracefully, and exter.ded
hers.
What a moment ! sixty eye-balls glaring, thirty
mouths wide open, a dozen knitting needles trans
fixed with astonishment, and shining savagely ;
twice as many arms sopped in their career, and
awkwardly spread, as if their owners weredeliver
ing patriotic orations; twenty long necks strained
from the perpendicular ; all grave circumspection,
dignity, forgotten, gone, buried in the graves of
wonder and curiosity.
" You—you—l—l—it is—perhaps you are mis
taken," gasped Mrs. Jones, snatzhing at her sell
possession as a drowning man will at a straw ;
" this is Miss Lizzie Holmes—a isn't it !" she con
tinued, looking round in most ludicrous agony at
her dear friend, Mrs. Dilly.
" Excuse me madam, my name is Lizzie Eiolmes
Ainsly ; and though an heiress, Ido not know as
I am entitled to any more respect and attention than
Lizzie Holmes, the seamstress—especially as the
sewing girl has been very industrious, don't you
think she heti 1" she added, looking archly up at
her employer.
Poor Mrs. Jones was in real distress ; the color
flitted from her cheeks, and came 4ain, each time
with an inteneer crimson ; the minister's son, just
comprehending the affair, begged Miss Ainsley to
be seated. Chatting on in a tone and with a man
ner as unaffected as before, Lizzie requested the
ladies to consider her a seamstress till her sewing
was finished. Some of them, with characteristic
presence of mind, entered into the scene with con
siderable pleasantry ; and a nimble-banded matron
caught op the grapes, the half of which had not
been distributed, and passed them around again.
But poor Mrs. Jones could not get over her mor
tification ; and bow was it enhanced when young
Hazewell innocently said, " These grapes, bliss
Ainsly, taste very much like some I had at your
sister's last night."
r• I presume they are the same," replied the
young lady demurely. " I think sister Elden's
grapes the best I have ever eaten."
A new revelation ! What prevented Mrs. Jones
horn falling " right flat on the floor," she declares
the never did know. Here she and others had
been reviling Mrs. Elden in the very presence of
her sister. And more than Mrs. Jones looked their
shame and distress ; it Scat considered a good joke
when the oflence laid mainly at mat worthy wo
rban's door, but it assumed a more serious aspect
when a dozen burning cheeks, and many a fast
beating heart bore evidence to their own sin of
slander.
Ina short time Mrs. Jones' parlor was vrattaled ;
and the poor ooman, humbled and repentant. Wet
her pillow with many a tear that night. The gen
erous nature of Lizzie Ainsly, who thus undertook
to teach personally a tboral lesson, readily forgave
the slights put upon her, as the unknown seam
stress ; and White in alier years the aliair pasied into
oblivion, the mural did not.
Mrs. Jones now makes it a point of conscience
to treat the veriest awkward menial with as ranch
respect as she woad any one et the qu}re'r family ;
and you cannot bfori a more cautious woman than
she when speaking of her neighbors ; indeed, in
the latter virtue she is a paztem to the villagers ; and
she acknowledges to much more happiness than
she ever enjoyed as petty slanderer.
And what of Miss Ainsly Only that one glori
ous night there was agrand wedding in the squire's
rich old mansion—and the bride so beautifully attir
ed in pure, white mualtn, was Lizzie henielf
11 you should ever. happen to be intimate with
Mrs.lones, reader—which it is possible you may
—she will, in some garrulous moment, produce a
pretty little frock, with a pink rose and two little
green leaves waked upon its bosom : and then she
will tell you that the Honorable Mrs. Hazewea,
whose husband is senator, you know-, worked that
for her, with her own bands. Whether she will
farther commit herself, is not known to.
(I:4l—As the express train from Montreal was run
ning with great speed to make up lost time, be
tween St John's and Rouse's Point, says the Bur
lington Free Press, the engineer discovered a wo
man standing in the centre of the track C-anticly
swinging a basket, evidently with the intention of
copping the train. The whistle was immediady
sounded for "drown brcbts kerd," and with great
exertion the train was brought to rest a few feet
from the woman who never,stitted from the hack
or evinced the slightest fear.
The engine men, firemen, brakeman and Su
perintendent, (who happened to be on the train,)
ran up to the woman to find out what-horrible ac
cident had happened ahead to tall forth such a
wrong demonstration on her partz,Eacb asked eag
erly the cause for her siwnaL•," Earful :aka" re•
plied she, " I never seed one of them machines be
fore in my lite, and I do declare it is the funniest
thing I ever did see."
Manx thou...ands bll by ea...fling swords, ten
fall by corset-bonds : yet giddy fermaies,
thou.:Wens thin!—fit sake of fuhiotiyield to pain.
—Tied Eorts,
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ai azisastaxss or' DENUNCIATION PRoit
From lloossbold Words.
Au Opium Factory.
,:,.d
Al Ghazeepore, one of and windy day, I went
down to the " opium owns" or Mores. The
atmosphere of a hot and windy day at Ghazeepore.
it it should ever be thought suitable for invalids or
others, may be inhaled in England by any one who
will stand at the open door of an oven and breathe
a,fog of fried sand cunningly blown therefrom
After a two miles drive through heat and wind,
and odorifatous bazar, we (I had Iwo friends)
found our way to a practicable breach or gateway
in a high railing by which the store-house is sur
rounded., 4 faint scent, as of decaying vegetable
matter, asseiled our noses as we enter‘a the court
of the go-down; as for the go down itself, it was a
group of long buildings fashioned in the common
Indian style, Venetian-doord, and 4sivin g a great
deal more door than wall. In and out and about
these doom there was a movement of scantily clad
coolies (porters) bearing on their heads large ear
then vessels; thise vessels, carefully sealed, con
taining opium fresh out of the poppy district. Pop
py headed—l mean red-turbaned—accountants hus
tled about, while Burkunday (or policemen) whose
brains appeared to be as lull of drowsiness as soy
jar in the go-down, were lazily lounging about, with
their swords beside them, or else fastened in sleep
beside their swords.
The door-way was ahown to as through which
we should get at the "Sahib," or officer on duty.
Entering the doorway, we pushed through a crowd
of natives into an atmosphere drugged powerfully
with the scent of opium. The members of the
crowd were all carrying tin vessels; each vessel
was half full of opium, in the form of a black, sticky
dough, and contained also a ticket showing the
name of the grower, a specimen of whose opium
was therein presented, with the names of the til
lage and district in which it was grown...
The can-bearrers, eager as cnnnibles all crowded
round m t.
a desk, at which ti it victim, the gentleman
on duty, sat. Canes w fl owing in from all sides.
On the right band of th)x hib rancid, a native Me
phistopheles, with sleeves tucked op, who darted
his hand into the middle of each can as it came
near, pawed the contents with a mysterious rapid
ity, extracted a bit of the black dough, carried it
briskly to his nose, and instantly pronounced in En
glish ii number which the Sahib, who has faith in
his familiar, inscribed at once in red ink on the
ticket. As I approached, Mephistopheles was good
enough to hold a deign) , morsel to my time, and call
upon me to express the satisfactinn of a gourmand.
It was a lump of the finest, I was told. So readi
ly can this native tell by the feel of the opium
whether foreign substance had been added, and so
rapidly can he distinguish by the smell its quality,
that this teat by Mephistopheles is rarely found to
differ much in its result from the more elaborate
legs presently to be described. The European of
who was working with the thermometer at a
hundred, woulri be unable to remain longer than
lour hours at his desk; at the end of that time
another :would come to release him, and assume
his i lace. ..
Out of each can when it was presented far the
first rough test, a small portion of the dough was
taken, to be carried off into another room. Into
this room we were introduced; and found the ther
mometer working its way up trom a hundred and
ten degrees up to a hundred and twenty. On our
left, as we entered, was a table, whereat about a
half a dozen natives sat, weighing out, in measur
ed portions of one hundred greats, the specimens
that had been just sent to them out of the chamber
cleans. Each portion of a hundred grains was
placed, as it was weighed, upon a small plate by
itself, with its own proper ticket by its side. The
plates were in the next place carried to another pan
of the chamber, fitted up with steam baths—not on
like tables in appearance--and about these baths
or tables bays were sitting, who, with spatulas, in
dustriously spread the opium over each plate, as
though the plate were bread, and the opium upon
it was a piece ot batter. This being (Irate over the
steam•bath. causes the water to depart out of the
drug, and left upon the plate adry pow tier, which,
being weighed, and found to be about twenty-three
grains lighter by the lass of moisture, is called *Wid
en! opium. If the hundred gains, alter evapora
tion, leave a residue of more than seventy-seven,
the manufacturer is paid a bigger price for:his more
valuable sample; if the water be found in excess,
the price paid for the opium dough is, of course,
lower th;n the standard. I thought it a quaint sight
when I watched the chattering younehemiess na
ked to the waist, at work over their heated table:,
grinding vigorously wilb their blunt knits-blaJe■
over what appeared to be a rely dirty set of cheese
plates. But, the heat of this room was so great that
we felt in our own bodies what was taking place
about us, and helitte there hid been time for the
reduction of each hundred grains of our own flesh I
to the standerd seventy-seven, we beat a retreat
from the chamber of trraporatio' n.
With the curiosity of Bloebeance wives we pro
ceeded to inspect the mysteries of the nest cham
ber. tt was full of vats, and in the vats was opium 1
and over the vats *ere relies depending from the
ceiling, and depending from the ropes *ere naked
men—natives—themselves somewhat opium-color
ed, kicking and stamping lustily within the vats
open the opium eacb vat was In fact a mortar,
and each man a living pestle, and in this room a
quantity of opium—worth more Isis of rupees than
have ever bad between my flegeter-wwas being
mixed and kneaded by the legs of men, preparato
ry to be toads op into pills.
From the chamber of pestles, with curiosity un
used, we went knward to peep into the chamber'
of the pills.
A malt of imps in the tight brown themes for."
imbed to them gratuitously by their mother Nature,
each imp carrying a bolus in his band about the
size of a forty two-pound shot, encountered us, and
almost laid as passrate as we amend. Tha-.the
rag 3 1 %, ..eWriber was a long and narrow room quire
BEM
full of busy natives, every tongue intlustriourly
talking, and every Anger nimble over: work.—
Around the walls of this room . thete are low stools
placed at even distances, and. dpon each ?toot a
workman rather squats than sits, having before him
a Waal Cup, of whieli the interior would fit ,one half
of a bolus. Before each msn,upon a stool, there
stands a man without a stool, and a boy with a
saucer. The Mall without a stool has by his side
a number of dried poppy fetveti, of which he takes
a few, and having moistened them in a dark gum
my liquid, which is simply composed of the wish
ings of the various vessel's used in the establish
ment, he hands the moistened poppy leaves to the
man upon the stools who sits before the cep. The
man upon the stool, who has been ribbing the same
liquid gam with his fingers over the inner surface
of the cup—as housekeepers, I suppose but:er their
jelly moulds-proceeds to fit in two or three leaves;
then, with his fingers spreads over them more
gum ; then, adds a few leaves more, and fits them
neatly with his closed hand round the bottom of
the cup, until he has made a good lining to it.—
Hiscompanion without the stool has, in the mean-
time, brought to his him(ta fixed quantity of opium,
a mais weighing two poands r and ibis the genius
of the olvol puts into the cup ;. leaiies are then add
edson the top of it, and by a series of those dexter
cats and inscrutably rapid twists of tbe, hand .with
which all cunning workmen are familiar, he rapid-
ly twilit', out of his cup a ball of opium, within a
yellowish brown coat of leaves, resembling as
have already said, a forty-two pound shot. Ile
shoots it suddenly into the earthen saucer held out
by the boy, and instantly the boy takes to his heels
and scampers 01 with his big pill of opium, which
is to taken into the yard and there exposed to the
air until it shall have dried. These pills are call
ed cakes, but they belong evidently, to the class of
unwholesome confectioniry. A workman of average
dexterity makes seventy.such'cakes in a day...pur
ing the manufacturing season, this factory turns out
daily from six thousand five hundred to seven
thousand cakes; the number of cakes made in the
eamii factor) in one season being altogether about
twenty-seven thousand. A large proportion of these
cakes are made for the Chinese, but they do not at
all agree with the Chinese digestion. tlle manu
facture of the opium is not hurtful to the health
of those who are engaged upon the factory.
The key of a fifth chamber being in our power,
we continued steadfast in our enterprise, and bold
ly looked into the chemical test-room of a small
laboratory, of which the genius appeared before us
suddenly with a mist benign expresaian of coun
tenance, and dieted chairs. His clothes are great
ly splashed, and he ill busy among opium tins, of
which the contents have been pronounced suspici
oas by the Mephistopheles in the first chamber.—
From the contents at one of these cans an asaistrnt
takes a portion, and having made with it a solution
in a test tube, hands it to the chemist. Thechem
ist, tram bottles is which potent and mysterious
spirits are locked op, selecting one, bids it, by the
mysterious name of iodine, depart into the solution
and declare whether be finds starch to be there.—
The iodine spirit does its bidding, goes among the
(vim, and promptly there flashes through the glass
a change of &aloe!, the appointed signal, by which
the magic spirit of the bottle telegraphs to the be
nign genius of the laboratory, that " The growe r
sent this opium fraudulently, added flour to it, in
order to increase its weight." The fraud having
been exposed, the adulterated drug has a little led
ink mark made upon its ticket. The consequence
of that mark will be confiscation, and great disap
pointment to the dealer who attempted a dishonest
increase of his gain
.We have nothing more to see, 66-we have same
thing more to hear, and the very kind chemist will
be cur informant. There are two opium agencies,
one at Patna and one at Giaazeepore. I know noth
tog whatever about Patna. Far the Ghazeepore- '
agency, the opium is groin in a district lying be
tween its head quarters, Ghazeepore and Agra. Its
cultivation gives employment to one hi:milted and
taenty-seven thousand laborers. The final pre
paration of the ground takes place in the months of
Cs..eober and November. Under the most favorable
circumstaeces of soil and season, twenty-four or
twenty-six pounds weigfit of standard opium is got
from one bizgah Oland one blg,g-aft being a little
more than three-fifths of an acre. Under unfavora
ble circumstances, the yield may be as fi=de as six
or eight pounds to the biggah, the average produce
being from twelve pounds to sixteen
To obtain the opium, as is well 'known, the cap
stile of the poppy is scored or cut ; the sccong is
elected with apeculiar tool that makes three or
lour (vertical and parallel) wounds at a single
stroke. This wmindina of the hearts of the pop
pies is commonly the work of women. The wounds
having been made, the quantity of juice exuding
seems to depend very much upon conditions of the
atmosphere. Dews increase the flow, but white
they make it more abandarr, they cause it atime to
be darker and more liquid. Fast winds lessen the
exudation. • A
moderately we st erly wind, with
dews at night, is the condition most favorable to the
opium harvest, be as 'regards quantity and quality
of produce.
The average per centage of morphia in this opi
um is horn tare and three-quarters to three and a
ball ; of narcorine, from three quarters to three and
a half. These are the 'mineable principles of the
;bog. in some Opium, the percentage of morphia
runs op to tea and threelearten , per cent. of mar
phi; and six per eetit of narcotine.
The incolle drdwn from its opium by the East
India Company amounts to waste tea and a half
moms of rupees—two and a half milliocis of pounds
I n, The daughter of Tbemisurehas had two toy
er the ace a coxcomb sod the other an bones
man. The firm was rich, the second poor. He
took the honest man for his son-in-law ; Ex I had
rather," said be, " have a man that wants wealth,
than wealth that wants a man."
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Alvrit the time of the first influx of emigration
into 6glifornia, alittle teens occurred on the
er Tennessee, during one of her arrant cruises _in,
the Pacific Ocean, which we do not remember of.
seeing in priin, - blit trier published or not, will, we
think, bear repeating. • .
One of these moralfingi on society, known in
general patiante by,tbeionbriquct of " black-legs,"
had spread a tempting bait, in dm way of a little..
game of pharo, before a promiscuous assemblage
of Suckers, Hoosiers. Sockeyes, Corncrackers,
who were on their way to the new Et Doradoo—,
4.mong.the number was a sturdy Kentuckian, who
in his hcrhble suit of home.•puo, stood arsuchiug
the game with interest.; Presently thrusting his
bands into the depths of his over.coat pocket lie
prodnept a greasy, well worn, but withal, well ha l
ed pocket•book, and taking from its recesses a bill,
be extended it to the dealer, raying :
g' Here, old teller, I lust a ten that time, sad
here's the money."
"How is that," exclaimed the sharper, is I saw
you make no bet ?"
" Wall, you see, I sez to myself, ISPZ 1, that jack's .
been en uncommon lucky keard, and dod darn my
l
pictures, of I 4lon't bet a ten on ii : so the pesky
jack lost, and you've got my money."
Thinkir.g he had picked up a greenhorn, the
gambler gave a sly wink at the lew " knowing
ones," who encircled him, and went on with - the
game. ' ,
After a few deals, our corn-cracker smacked bis
fist emphatically on the table, and exclaimed .
" Itod rabbit it, thar goes another " saw buck" on
the plagnylack, here take it , ole horse-fly."
With an ill suppressed grin of satisfaction, the
sharper took the money, and added it to the rapid
ly growing pile' before him.
In doe course of time, the jerk came up trtumphi
ant, and onr yeoman jumping up nearly to the ear
lines, cracked his heels together and exclaimed:
" By G— d, / won fifty that time, so fork op you
lovely old cots you."
Tire !geer‘was so evident, that the gambler
had nothing else to Jo than pay the mnney, which
he did with the remark, that " the next time die,
Kentuckian made a bet, he wanted him to put the
money down." _
WHAT ;was iT COT WITH.—A party of friends, had
assembled one evening, and after dismissing the
various topics of the day, one of them remarked:
iVell, boys I &oppose youv'e beard of Dave
Dancomb's marriage!"
Some of them had beard of it, and some of them
bad not.
" Well," continued the speaker, " he is math.;
ed, and I was at the wedding. A right marry time
we had of it, too, I assure you ; bat there is aim
thing that surprised me very much, and that was
the manner in which they cut the wed ng cake—lL
can't help thinking of it. Now what do you sup
pose they cut it with r'
" The wedding ring," said one.
"so," answered the first speaker, " you must
guess again."
" A Siring . ," said another.
ig sii
" A stick whittled tc an etlie," suggested i t
third.
U No."
"A piece of tin," ventured the fourth, thinking
that he had hit it.
•
N o !,
. .
" Well, what was it," exclaimed they all In on;
brea:h idler guess.M.; every ima, , ,,inable article they
could think of, except the right one, that could eittia,
er possibly or impossibly, be put through such •
cake.
~ Why," eaid the quiz, " they cut it with a kniM,
to be nue. '
A McNair', Cot: r.—During ine summer of '3B,
writes a southwestern correspondent, If A 20 k fteti
misgske the year, I was present at a contt held at
Pafcagoula, Mis.ias.ppi, (a tavorio resort for Mo.
bilians doting summer.) to try the landlord of the
hotel for siting liquor in leas quantity than a gal
lon, it being contrary to the law of the S:ale. Pres
ent, Justice Hawkins sitting upon a decayed slump
in front of the flotel wish a pea Inuit alongside of
him.
Prisoner ; what have yon got to say ! guilty of
ncx guilty?'' "Not guilty !" " Prisoner, you know
pia lie, for I have drank myself at your house at,
least twenty times a day, and I am • presy, go"'
witness as well as judge of liquor ; but as ll:cream
some &tube., in my miod whether Pasca,goola De
lon.T4 to any paffeitlar State, and as half the Mobile
boys would dte without their liquor, the court in its
clemency, imposes a fine on you of one picayune,
but blast tne man that informed upon-you! Sheriff,
take this pea brush, and whip the informer out of
town. Landlord, you had Inner treat the patty
Dates sea rut Miat --On Sunday mottling, be
fore going to church what a dreasinither, is ammag:
all classes, and what a stir to appear gay and pleas
ing, ! Is it qnite sufficient for the great purpose of
cur existence to wash the onside of the platter !
Curls may be arranged, fine torto:4o shell combs
fixed, sparkling ear rings bung, splendid garments
displayed, and
,yet, perhatts, the gay fair one's mind _
may be poiArned with conceit, and troubled with ri
valry, and Feet on the torture by ignorance ant),
vanity. Windsor soap does not wash out the stains%
ol the herrn. Colorroe water cannot throw a fra
grance over an Inspire aura ; nor will the rubies,
of Golconda Janie the recording angel into kisses
fuhress of filling up the leaves of the book of rein
btaion.
" Hasa man," asked a prisoner of a magistrate
"a rigtu to commie a noisome 17. " No, lir, not .
even the mayor." " Then,sar, I claim my Merry,
*vas arrested as a atriums, ak m! ca , a,mse has
brat to comma me , more tat a nonsalt."
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