0i; DSLLAR PER ANNJM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. T OAV"ANDA: Gatnrban fUorninn, 4Han 31, 1853. £clrtttb |)octrj. APPROACH OP OLD AGE. \ml Jt'.-t thou grieve because old age Coiues travelling on so fast 1 And that life's weary pilgrimage Must wear thee out at last ? p, wrinkled brows and locks of grey Thy troubled fancy fright ? The sim hath teamed on all thy day Why dread the moon at night ? \o. let Hie bad, the Vain, the weak, The flight of time regret, In pleasure's rank who vainly seek Their errors to forget. Who tares have planted in the past, Must in the future pine ; Who tried in spring life's (lowers too fast, M Ist mourn in harvest time. li,,t thou, tli.it on grave wisdom's track H, L t gleaned sach precious store. And on life's highway looking back, <ei-t little to deplore, !> , 11•' the vale of years may'st wend Thv way, and smile at care ; T what we have been, valued friend, That makes us what we are. H- who in folly's train hath danced, Or hvi-d the slave of gain, V.'h" ne'er another's joy enhanced, X >r -oothed another's pain ; 1 i m.s man, whose heart impure ( rn des within his breast— o: all ii.e miseries such endure, L'i":e; itude's the least. ihit vi e o'J age, more blest than youth, Tor i; rh error's mist can sec. At. i hav i;g faithful been to truth, rr in pr. ~ ill e is free ; Tie :• t mind resists decay. And -till is health's defence ; it throws the fro-ts of time away L!y sweet benevolence. \ •! a- the late sun. glowing bright, M •!;- on the ocean's breast, v I ,ots his id iry half the night ii T all tlie reddening we-t, - i it: a;s age looks calmly down, ie.-: .'rent t the la.-t, V.k .!Y.■- the light of worth's reuown l'u beautify the past. JU ist c I hutc on s. DEATH OF SILAS WRIGHT. ai llcitoii's Thirty Years' View, to te published in a few days by the Appletons.] He.!:,-J suddenly at tlie age of fifty-two,and • ' ut the sufferings ami premonitions which ixmliy accompany tlx? mortal transit from time '■<) eternity. A letter that lie was reading wis >ceii to fall from his hand : a physician was ciiai-d .- in two hours he was dead—apoplexy tic cause. T .ough dying at the age deemed yonng ia a-tat smaii, he had attained all that long life •onl.t give—high office, national fame, fixed 'iiaracb r and universal esteem. Ife had run the ;. V Tof honors in the state of New-York ' • 'vpvsentative and senator in Congress —and had ri fused more offices, and higher, -i •: !.-• ever ac-cpted. He refused cabinet : | 'lintments undt r his fast friend, Mr. Van ii.Teii. and under Mr. Polk, whom he may be •i i to have elected ; he refused a seat on the iof the federal Supreme Court; hcrejcc ' ! n■ -I:ti.t!v the nomination of 184 4 for Vice i -iiin.t of the United States, when that no- Mition was tlie election. lie refused to be ,a ni k"iiiiuatioa for the Presidency. He re t.- ito accept foreign missions. lie -pent that time io declining office which 1 "hers ilul in winning it ; and of those he did pt. it might well be said they were " thrust" '; >n him. Office, not greatness, was thrust ■;\tLni. He was born great, above office, 1 iiiingly descended to it; and only took r its burdens, and to satisfy an importunate cue demand. Mind, manners, morals, teai iiai.'it-, united in him to form the charae ' rili.it was piTtect, both in public and private and to give the example of a patriot citi ofa I'ariuer statesman —of which we have i (.i - iimaius and C'ato, and seen in Mr. on and some others of their stamp— hv nature —formed in no school : and "h tlie instances are so rare and long bc ! mind was clear and strong, his judgment •- (locution smooth and equable, his oi:g always addressed to the understand -• Hd always enchaining the attention of *Aho had minds to understand. Grave 4 u his forte. Argumentation was -ffs the line of his speech. lie spoke to , not to the passions ; and would have "•concerted to see anybody laugh, or cry, ; ;diing he said. His thoughts evolved ; :'-t-ou>Jy, in natural and proper order, '1 in language of force and clearness ; all •' itu'iy and easily conceived that an cx . arc o;i- speech, or the first draught of an . report, had all the correctness of a 1 composition. His manuscript had no !l pi'i-of that his mind had none ; ami lie . 3 Kat compact hand, suitable to a clear •■"'.id mind. ■ iue into the Senate, in the beginning '!S J.u -keen's administration, and re ; iiii'ing thut of Mr. Van Bureu ; and "/• and active part in all the great tfos et cutful times. The ablest the opposition always had to an t :i:; d wix.il he answered them, they : > then* anxious concern, that the ad •. u o - upon them whose force they dread iiiough taking his full part upon all I}''t finance was his particular depart • • • -V v chairman of that committee,when power, and by the lucidity of 1 MMits making plain the most intricate 1 m tails. He i uu j A j us t conception of betwi cu the functions of the Fi ' ' Uiiitt' • o| tlx? Senate, and the Coni :"id Means of the House so THE BRADFORD REPORTER. little understood in these latter times : those of the latter founded in the prerogative of the House to originate all revenue bills ; those of the former to act upon the propositions from the Honse, without originating measures which might affect the revenue, so as to coerce either its increase or prevent its reduction. In 1844 he left the Senate, to stand for the governor ship of New-York ; and uever did his self-sac rificing temper undergo a stronger trial,or sub mit to a greater sacrifice. lie liked the Sen ate ; he disliked the governorship, even to ab solute repugnance. I3ut it was said to him (and truly, as then believed, and afterwards proved) that the state would be lost to Mr. Polk, unless Mr. Wright was associated with liiui in the canvass ; and to this argument he yielded. He stood the canvass fur the gover norship—carried it—and Mr. Polk with him ; and saved the presidential election that year. Judgment was the character of Mr. Wright's mind ; purity the quality of the heart. Tho' valuable in the field of debate, lie was still more valued at the council table, where sense and honesty are most demanded. General Jackson and Air. Van Huron relied upon him as one of their safest counsellors. A candor which knew 110 guile—an integrity which knew no deviation—which worked right on, like a machine governed by a law of which it was unconscious—were the inexorable conditions of his nature, ruling his conduct in every act,pub lic and private. No foul legislation ever ema nated from him. The jobber, the speculator, the dealer in false claims, the plunderer, whose scheme required an act of Congress ; all these fouud in his vigilance and perspicacity a detec tive police, which dicovered their designs, and in his integrity a scorn of corruption which kept them at a distance from the purity of his at mosphere. His temper was gentle—his manners simple —his intercourse kiudly—his habits laborious —and rich ujion a freehold of thirty acres, iu much part cultivated by his own hand. In the invervals of senatorial duties this man, whore- fused cabinet appointments and presidential honors aud a seat upon tlie Supreme Bench— who measured strength with Clay, Webster, and Calhoun, and on whose accents admiring Senates hung : this man, his neat suit of broad cloth and line linen exchanged for the laborer's dress, might be seen in the harvest field, or meadow, carrying the foremost row, and doing the cleanest work : and this not as recreation or pastime, or encouragement toothers, but as work, which was to count in the annual culti vation, and labor to be felt in the production of the needed crop. His principles were demo cratic, and innate, founded in a feeling, still more than a conviction, that the masses were geuerally right in their sentiments, though sometimes wrong in their action ; and that there was less injury to the country from the honest mistakes of the people, than from the interested schemes of corrupt and intriguing politicians. He was born in Massachusetts, came to man's estate ia New-York, received from that state the only honors he would ac cept ; and in choosing his place of residence in it gave proof of his modest, retiring, unpretend ing nature. Instead of follow ing his profession iu the commercial or political capital of his state, where there would be demand and re ward for his talent, he constituted himself a village lawyer, where there was neither, and pertinaciously refused to change his locality. In an outside county, on the extreme border of the state, taking its name of St. Lawrence, from the river which washed its northern side, and dividing the United States from British America—and in one of the smallest towns of that county, and in one of the least ambitious houses of that modest town, lived and died this patriot statesman —a good husband (he had no children) —a good neighbor—a kind rela tive—a fast friend—exact and punctual in eve ry duty, and the exemplification of every social aud civic virtue. THE SELLER SOLD. —An incideut recently oc curred in a town on the Connecticut River, which illustrates the danger of practical jokiag, and served, at the time, its purpose of fun aud raillery. A certain barber happening in at a store, a clerk, who wished to play the barber a trick, offered him a liottle of bear's oil. The latter did not want it ; but being over-urged, took it and paid for it. On his opening it, in his shop, the oil was found to lie lamp oil, with a very rank smell. Nothing w as said of the shave which the clerk had practiced, aud the barber shaved along as usual, until the matter had time to be forgot ten. A few evenings since the clerk went into the barber's shop to be shaved preparatory to a ball. Afler the harvcttof the thick beardy chin was reaped, the clerk straightened him self up and exclaimed, " Now slap on the oil!" A good handful was poured out, " slapped on," and rubbed in. A second followed, but be fore it could be rubbed in, the clerk ' smelt su th in,' and leaped from the chair as if he had been shot, at tlie same time giving utterance to sundry expletives, coining under the cognizance of the statute against profane swearing. The barber assured the enraged customer that lie had put bear's oil on his head, and from the very bottle he had sold him. If it wasjiooroil, it was the clerk's fault. There was no resisting this, and the matter was settled by refunding the money paid for the bear's oil, anil a champooning at the clerk's expense. The clerk went to the ball, but the rank lamp oil stuck to his hair, and the snuffs of those who came near to him, showed that the barber was wicked when he champooued him. MORAL— Honesty is the best policy ; and lump oil is by no means the best thing to make the course of pleasure run smooth. ffsT " Mind, John," said a father toliis*so, "If you go out into the yard you will wish you had stayed in the house." " Well, if I stay iu the house, I shall wish I was out in the yard ; u w here is the great difference, dad PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA„ BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. " RESARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." The Mint of the United States. By the Act of Congress, of April 2d, 1792, " A Mint, for the purpose of a national coin age," was established, to be located at " the seat of government of the United States," (which was then at Philadelphia.) The Act of 14th of May, 1800, directed " that until the 4th day of March, 1801, the Mint shall remain in the city of Philadelphia," which period of continuance was lengthened for two years, by Act of March 3d, 1801 ; and this last enact ment was revived and continued in force for successive periods of five years, until the 4th of March, 1828, when the location of the Mint at Philadelphia was made permanent, by Act of Congress of May 19th, 1828 ; and here it has since remained, a great addition to the many architectural beauties of our "and an object of much interest to its citizens and to stran gers. The original Mint building, a portion of which is yet vstanding, was in Seveuth street, opposite Zane, and is still known as tlie " Old Mint." It continued in this location until the present noble edifice, was erected at the north west corner of Chestnut and Juniper streets,in the years 1829, '3O, '3l. The corner-stone of this magnificent structure was laid July 4th, 1829, and the building was finished and occu pied in tlie spring of 1833. The work was completed under the direction of Win. Strick land, Esq., architect'; the masonry was execu ted by Maj. Peter Fritz, and the marble work by Mr. John Strnthers, of this city. The build ing, which is of the lonic'order, after the cele brated Grecian Temple on the river Ilysus,near Athens, is of marble, faced with ashlers, hav ing a frout on Chestnutjstreet of 120 feet, di vided into a portico of 62 feet, and two wings of the width each of 30 feet. During the past nine months the interior has undergone very extensive repairs, intended to render it completely fire-proof, couducted under the supervision of Capt. ANDREW TAL corr, late of the U. S. Corps Civil Engineers, and advantage has been taken of tlie opportu nity tl.us afforded to introduce s leli alterations in the arrangements of the several departments of the institution, as wril afford increased com fort and facilities in the operations, and insure still greater security to the bullion and trea sure. In the execution of these alterations all the wood-work, which it was practicable to remove, has been substituted by iron frames aud girders, so that no danger can possibly be apprehended hereafter from accident by fire It may be interesting to present to our rea ders a brief statement of the modus operandi of converting the precious dust into the form of coin, and for this purpose we will follow a deposit through its several stages in the in stitution, until it has been manufactured into coin. The deposit is made in the " Weigh Room" of the Mint, in its crude state, and a receipt is given for what is termed its " weight before melting." Thence it passes into the " Deposit Melting Room," where it is converted into a bar or ingot, in such manner that the foreign substances—dirt and sand in the deposit—are collected together iu a concentrated form, and the weight of the metal remaining is then re gistered as the "weight after melting"—that upon which, and a determination of the fine ness by assay, the value returned to the deposi tor is calculated. The bar or ingot thus form ed from the deposit, is theu transferred to the Melting and Refining Department, and is here made of " standard fineness," (900-1000) by the addition of the proper proportions of sil ver and copper, if tlie gold is of higher fineness than standard, or the refining of the dejiosit by the removal of the requisite amount of for eign substance or metal, if under the legal standard of fineness. It is then turned into ingots of the fineness required by law, and in this form is passed into the Coining Depart ment. Here the ingot is rolled into a strip of the width and thickuess of the coin into which it is intended to be converted, and the strip thus obtained is passed through a cutting ma chine, by which the disks or planchets of the size of the proposed coin are cut from it. The planchets are then transferred to the adjusting room, where they are severally weighed by the adjusters, and if found to be too heavy, they are reduced by filing to the proper weight ; but if too light, the planchets are " condemned," au<l returned to the Melting and Refining De partment, there to be re-melted and cast into ingots, as before. Thus adjusted in weight, the planchets are passed through the stamping and milling machines, and arc then transferred to the office of the Treasurer for distribution in the payment of deposits, with the devices and edge familiar to us all. This brief statement, of course, can give but an inadequate idea of the several manipulations and operations necccessary for the manufacture of the dust, as it is taken from the mines of California, into the pieces into which it is con verted ; and wc have purposely avoided any description of the several operations of tough ening, refining, assaying, Ac., as requiring tlie use of technical terms unfamiliar to the read er, and occupying more space tluin wc can al low to this article. We may add, thut the supposition entertained by many, that the iden tical bullion deposited is returned to the depo sitor in coins, is an erroneous one ; this would occasion too great delay in the payment of de posits. By the assay of a portion of the iogot into which the bullion is cast after the first melt wc have described, the fineness of the whole deposit is determined ; upon the fineness thus found, and the " weight after melting," the standard fineness of the bullion is calcula ted, and the value paid to the depositor, gen erally the day succeeding that of the making of his deposit. All the machinery nf the Mint is of the most complete and beautiful description—the engine a very model of elegance, of workmnuship,utxl of accuracy in operation. It is believed that when the repairs to which we have alluded shall be fully completed, the capacity of the Miut will be amply sufficient to ineet every de maud likely to be made upon it The present force of the institution consists of one hundred land tivcnty-ninc operatives, divided as follows : The force of the Melting and Refining De partment is composed of 30 workingmen, and that of the Coining Department of 48 work men, and 47 females, employed as adjusters.— The former department is under the manage ment of Prof. JAMES C. BOOTH, as Melter and Refiner, and the latter under that of GEORGE K. CHILDS, Esq., Chief Coiner. The Assa£ Department, where the fineness of the several deposits made at the institution, and of the in gots, Ac., manufactured in the Melting and Refining Department, is tested by the process of assay, is in charge of J. R. ECKFF.LDT, Esq., the Assayer ; the force of this department con sists of four assistants and three workmen.— The Engraving Department, at the head of which is JAMES B. LONGACRE, Esq., the En graver, employs one assistant and four work men ; it is iu this latter department that all tlie dies, Ac., required for the coinage at the Mint and its several branches, at San Francis so, New Orleans, Charlotte, (N. C.) and Dah lonega, (Ga.) are prepared. The Treasurer of the institution is the Hon. DANIEL STURGEON, and the Director the Hon. JAMES ROSS SNOW DEN, through whose kindness we are enabled to present the information herein given. Attached to the Mint is a Musenm, contain ing a great number of specimens of the coin age of all nations and all ages, many of which are very old, and a number of them very rare, and forming a most interesting and vuluable collection of coins. It also contains superb specimens of ores of the precioas and other metals, from the principal mining regions of the world ; and a series of portraits of the Directors of the institution, from Mr. Rittcn house to Dr. Patterson. Here also are pre served a number of aucient relics, household vessels, Ac., Ac., and a cabinet in which are exhibited bronze copies of the medals struck under the authority of the general govern ment, in commemoration of national events ; tlie whole making a tout ensemble of exceeding interest. The admission of visitors to the Mint was suspended last summer, on the commencement of the repairs to the interior of the building, but it is hoped that in the course of a few months the alterations will be sufficiently com plete to enable Col. SNOWDEN to admit of the visits of strangers passing through or sojourn ing in our city, and of those of our citizens who have not yet availed themselves of an opportunity of witnessing the interesting ope rations of the institution, and of inspecting the relics and other objects of interest col lected iu the Museum. Notice will be given through the press, when these visits may be re sumed. — Monthly Rainbow, Phila. fesr-Thc physical appearance of a man some times changes the current of events. A case in point occurred the other day on Front street. The children of two neighboring families had their daily quarrels aud fights, which resulted occasionally in bruised faces and torn garments. The father of one family, believing his children to been sadly maltreated, and being a passion ate man, concluded that the surest way to set tle tie difference between their household per manently, would IK? to chastise the head of the other family, although as yet, he had never seen him. He thereupon procured a raw-hide, and abruptly entering his neighbor's tenement, inquired in a throating tone, for the " man of the house " " I am here sir," said a personage of up wards of six feet and weighing over two hun dred, as he approached to leant the business of his neighbor. " Dxl 1 understand you, that you were the gentleman of tlie house 1" " Yes, sir." " Well, I—l just dropjied in sir, to sec if this was vour raw-hide." OUR MINISTER AT PARIS. —TIie London cor respondent of the N. Y. Morning Herald, iu a letter by the last steamer, tells the following story " A good joke of our Minister at Paris, Mr. Mason, has come over here. He was at a court ball lately at the Tuileries, and his eye haji pened to light on tlie Charge d'Affuires of of Solonque, in France, a fine looking black.— Some one, observing his steady gaze, said : " Well, Mr. Mason, what do you think of yonder blackee, in his embroidered coat?" "Think," replied Mr. Mason,still regarding the negro with the eye of a connoisseur, "why, clothes and all, 1 think that fellow is worth a thousand dollars. Perhaps the story is true—and if it be, it only proves that our Republic is represented at a foreign court by a brute and a black guard. COLLOQUY. —A friend of ours was passing into the entrance of Townscnd Ilall, the other night, from the street, when he was accosted by an Irishman, saying : " An' what's that up stairs?" " An' how much is the commission fee ?" in quired Paddy. " Twenty-live cents," responded our friend, " and cheap at that." " Chape, is it—an' what sort of a thing do you sec up there for the twenty-five cents ?" " A nccromaucer," said our frieud, now get ting impatient. " A nager man* sir," scornfully repeated Paddy, " an' would yez pay twenty-five cints for seein' a nager man, sir ? Why I'll show you lot s of 'em for half the money—go along wid yez ;" and he went off reflecting on the folly of paying " twenty-five cints for seein' a nager man," instead of buying a gallon of whiskey with it.— Buffalo Republic. jfcy- Julius—Sam, did you eber notice what a good place de berry in* ground would be for a hotel ? Sam—De landlord could n't make much money out ob one dar. Julius—Why ? Rase, dar would be too many dead heads about it. t&e" The beggar always finds one kind of provision plenty, to wit : —The cold shoulder. Tin and its Various Uses. Every child in the land knows what tin ware is, but the number of persons who have even seen a piece of pure tin, or are acquaint ed with its nature and various uses is not large. Tin or " stannnm " is one of the ancient me tals, and was known to the old Egyptians and Hebrews. It is found in the state of an oxyd in various countries—Spain, Hungary, South America, and the Indian Archipelago, but most abundantly in Cornwall, England, from which place it was obtained by the Phoeni cians, when Tyre was mistress of the seas, and before Britain bore the impress of the Roman's heel. As a metal it has a white brilliant ap pearance, is very malleable, emits a crackling sound when bent, a peculiar odor when rubbed, and when ooled slowly from a molten state it erystalizes. The tin stone oF Cornwall is found in veins associated with copper ore, in granite and slate rocks, hence it is called " mine tin." The oxyd of tin is also dissemi nated through the rocks in small crystals ; and in alluvial deposits it is called "stream tin." When tin ore 1s mixed with copper— after lieing roasted—it is treated with sulphu ric acid, which dissolves the copper but not the tin. After it is washed, the ore—then called " black tin"—is ready for smeltiug. Tlie com mon method of smelting the ore is in a rever beratory furnace with coal, the ore being mix ed with powdered anthracite or charcoal.— When very pure metal is required the smelt ing or reducing is conducted in a small blast furnace, powdered charcoal being used to mix with the ore, also a very small quantity of lime as a flux. After the first smelting of the ore, it generally requires two other smelting operations to purify it for use. The refined and purest in it is that which is used iu the manufacture of tin plate, the tin being used for this purpose in a molten state, and thin plates of iron dipped into it, just like dipping thin boards of wood into liquid varnish. The metal plates for tinuing are made of the best charcoal iron. All the oxyd or rust is first removed from them, when they are scoured bright, and kept in soft water ready to be dip ped in the molten tin. Tlie tin is melted in an iron pot over a fire, and its surface is cover ed with about four inches of molten tallow.— The prepared plates are dipped into this, and left to steep for an hour or more, when tliey are lifted out with tongs and placed on a rack. The plates generally have a surplus quantity of tin adhering to them when taken out of the first pot; this is removed by dipping them into a pot of molten tallow and brushed. Great cure and experience are required in all the manipulations in order to cover the plates smoothly, aud not have too thik or too thin a coating of tin. The covering of such an oxydizable metal as iron with tin like a varn ish is one of the most useful qualiities this metal posessess, arid renders it better adapted for making various vessels, such as our com mon tinware, than any other metel. Nails, bridle bits, and many small articles of iron may be covered with tin, by first securing them to remove the oxyd, then tripping them into the molten tin. The metal is so ductile that it can rolled out into sheets of tin-foil as thin as wri ting paper. It is now much used for covering tobacco, for coarse gilding, for what is called " silvering looking-glasses," and for bronze powders. Peroxyd of tin is used by jewellers as a polishing material ; and fused with glass it forms a white opaqne enamel. It is much used mixed with copper, to form various use ful alloys of metal, such as gun metal, thej specula for telescopes, the bearings for shaft ing, the bronze of statues, and was used by i the ancients for swords, spear and armor ; anil! it is said these were tempered by a process now lost to the arts. Block tin is struck by the dies into various vessels for drinking, such as cups, tea and eof-1 fee pots, and mixed with a little copper to give it hardness it forms the beautiful " Brittannin ware." In the chemical arts tin is dissolved in acids, such as nitric and muriatic, and seems a common mordant for some of the most bril liant colors printed on calicoes, and those dyed on wool and silk. The uses of tin are more various than those of any other metal, and it possesses very valuable properties. England is the greatest tin-producing country on the globe. She possesses the most abundant natural sources of this metal, and lias long been the tinplate manufacturer of the world. The produce of the metal in Cornwall, is about 10,719 tuns per an num, but it is used for so many purposes that it is the source of a vast amount of wealth to Great Britain. We cover our houses with tin plate, and we manufacture vast quantities of it into vessels of every description for domestic use. We have iron mountains, and innumera ble beds of copper and lead ; we have the greatest coal-fields on this globe, and gold and silver exist abundantly in our hills and valleys. No country is so rich in minerals, but as yet no rich deposits of tin have been discoverd. We have some faith in the existence of this metal iu our rocks, and that it will yet be obtained in considerable quantities. We pay four million seven hundred thousand dollars annually for tin plate and sheets ; twenty three thousand dollars for tin foil ; seven hundred and twenty four thousand dollars for tin in pigs and bars, and forty-four thousand dollars for unspecified manufactures. RROADRRTM'S JOKE. —A Quaker in Philadel phia, wanting to buy some oysters, requested tlie oysterman to leave two or three bushels at his house. " Pray, sir," said the oysterman, smartly, " what might your name be ?" "It might be Beelzebub—but it is not," replied Aminadab, as he smiled at his finger's ends. 9SP "Ilans, what is the matter ?"' " I>c sorrel wagon has run away mil de green horse and broke <le axel-tree of de priek house what stands by de corner lamb-bost across de tele graph." To YOUNG LADIES. —She that marries a man because be is a " good match," mast not he surprised if lie turns out to be a " Lu cifer." VOL. XVI. INTO. 51 . Gen. Jackson at a Methodist Conference. The Western Christian Advocnte records the following interesting anecdote of (Jen. Jackson. The of it was in the Tennes see Annual Conference, held at Nashville, and to which he had been invited by ft vote of the members, that they might have the pleasure of an introduction to him: " The -committee was appointed, and the General fixed the time for G o]clock on Mon day morning. The Conference room being too small to accomodate the hundreds who wished to witness the introduction, one of the church es was substituted, and an hour before the time filled to overflowing. Front seats were reserved for the Conference, which was called to order by the Bishop, seated in a large chair in the alter, just before the pnlpit. After prayers, the committee retired, and a minute after entered, conducting the man whom all delighted to honor. They led liiui to the Bishop's chair, which was made vacant for him, the Bishop meanwhile occupying another place within the altar. The secretary was di rected to call the names of the members of the Conference, which he did in alphabetical or der, each coming forward and receiving from the Bishop a personal introduction to the ex- President, and immediately after retiring to give place to the next. " The ceremony had nearly been concluded, when the secretary read the name of Rev. James T ; an elderly gentleman, with a weather-beaten face, clad in a suit of Jeans, and he came forward. Few seemed to know him. He had always been on circuit or the froutier ; and though always at Conference, lie never troubled it with long speeches, but kept his seat ami said but little—that little, however, was always to the purpose. Mr. T came forward and was introduced to General Jackson. lie turned his face towards the General, who said, " it seems to me that we have met before." The preacher, appar ently embarrassed, said, " I was with you through the Creek campaign —one of your bo dy guard at the battle of Horse shoe—and fought under your command at New Orleans." The Geueral rose slowly from his seat, and throwing his long, withered, bony arms around the preacher's neck, exclaimed : " We'll soon, meet where the smoke of battle never rolls up its sulphurous incense 1" Xevt r before or since have I seen so many tears shed as then flowed forth from the eyes of that vast assembly— Every eye was moist with weeping. Eleven years have passed away since that day. The old hero has been more than ten in his silent and narrow home. The voice that cheered the drooping fight, and thundered in the rear of routed armies is silent forever. The old preach er, too. has fought his last battle, laid his ar mor by, and gone home to his eternal rest." THROW A LITTLE OF THAT IX. — " Cau you take oft'my baird here?" said a grave, tall, slab-sided Yankee to an Albany barber ; feel ing at the same time his chin with a noise like a grater. " It's a light baird ; what d'yer tax * Three cents for a light baird, ain't it V " Yes." " Waal, go ahead, then." While the barber was rasping three eent.-j worth from his chin, his "sitter"saw an as sistant putting cologne upon a customer's hair, through a (piili in the cork of a bottle. " Look o'here, squire," said the Yaukec, " can't you squirt some o' that jtpjrr sarst on to my head, tew ? Say, can't you throw a little o' that in, for three cents ?" PICTURE OF LIFE. —In youth we seem to bo climbing a hill, at whose top eternal sunshine seems to rest. How eagerly we pant to attain the summit ! But when wc have attained it, how different is the prospect on the other side ! We sigh as we contemplate the dreary waste before us, and look back with a wistful eye up on the flowery path we have passed, but may never more retrace. Life is a porteutious cloud, fraught with thunder storm and rain ; but religion, like those streaming rays of sun shine, will clothe it with light as with a gar ment, and fringe its shadowy skirts with gold. THE SOLAR SYSTEM. —The mass of the sun, as deduced by Laplace from the law of uni versal gravitation and the theory of ecutrat forces, is 354,936 times the sum of the mas ses of the earth and moon. The calculation of Prof. Encke has increased this to 355,499. This is 356,551 times the mass of the earth alone, and more than 700 times that of all tho planets taken together. The system of plan etary bodies revolving around the sun, con sists, so far as known at present, of 41 prima ry planets, 20 satellites, 3 planetary rings, atul about 800 comets. A colored preacher eloquently told his good brethren they "would mount on wea gle's ings, and sore to de land of catfich and eels, where de graby runs down bofe sides of yer mouf. Yea, verily de day will cum when you all will mount on de weaglc's iugs, and play upon de harp ob a thousan' strings !" " SONNY, who is your father ?" " Mr. Jenkius." " What .Jenkins ?" " Why, the Jenkins what kicked you ves terday for sassin' our servant girl." It is unnecessary to say that the conversa tion stopped there. (JRKAT FI.IUUTY OF LANGIWGF. —School- master—" What arc the three great requisites of penmanship V' Smart boy—" Legibilitivencss, despateliivc uess, aud skyrographicaldclusiveness. Master—"(ood boy—take the medal!" " Patrick, where is Bridget?" " Fn dade tna'am, she's fast aslape looking at the bread baking." JSkjy* A Western editor cautious his tall rea ders against kissing short women, as the habit has rendered him round shouldered
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