ONE DOLLAR TO ANNUM, INVARIABL 1 TOWANDA j grjjnrs&at) fUorning, 11, £7. j<ritb LOOKING BACK. Over the moor the wailing Was floating like a kuell. Its mournful music on the eat Like solemn dirges fell; j Then to the soul 'twould genfly wafl / A musical retrain. That touched a chord like tialt of so Almost forgotten strain. Although the wintery wind without Was wailing rouud the d"r ona. Looked back through biiuig ters To other days that long tad pt Within the-tomb of yetrs ; He saw the old familiar lous; ♦ That stood beneath the hit And o'er the windows lor itemt . j The woodbine clainbend st. He listened, and he fhoiijht lieal The music ot the strean, Along whose banks his dibit loed To wander and to dreni j And then he went his hen card >y, The toils of the day wre *, His children met him attheite, His wife was at the dor. The old clock struck—Ate elfin id gone, The old man s dream tad owit lie found he still must juri# ou ; Life's weary way alot •; | lie felt he'd meet his *' >veo lack, butjoperfluitv •iehtftnents ot tne frittfluu ailtT %s the political degraded of his coun f- We Yankeee barbarians ke outfit to leave Otnctbing to chance. Wefledtkfjinconven /enee of this, and certain c* or—-i 1 foes or our friends' foes having suflrecfrci a chance tread—exclaim violently, Irik oj viciously, against this "imperfection ,of thirs. It is what lawyers, with a sharjjeye'ofees, have fouomiuated "the gloriousince*ttity of the law"—a very troublesome fiinf i the indi vidual sometimes, bat resting mitly in the geucral good. Now China is a eountryfiaisliednd fenced (or walled) in, and of cwtse notljg can be left to ehance there. CelAial safe, philoso phers, end emperors have J-en tinjriiig away at die Chinese law-code tlfee nan centuries, until the result is the Cliia of |e present day. ! I Chinese legislation is, a/najih/ supposed, the most complicated, thcboit, the most barbarous, and ie ni c 4 absurd im aginalile. Its great aim > ttjfivde before hand for all possible or (toneribic circum stances of crime or misdlmeiuf Its rerults are, acuruberons, unmanlgedf code ; uldue legal interference in such fary and perronal affairs as are best regulated public opiiion, custom, and private consfe I; and fina.ly a barbarous severity uudiugioas variety of punishments. |U ... The bamboo is the ftroc punishment of the Celestials. An old tfaier says : 'Of a surety here men be al*vys eating or leing beaten." In fact, th;se arthe two alttrna tives in Celestial life. A (inaman's rise in the world is just this—fonjeiugthe recipient of the bamboo to being! itiadministrator. — The viceroy bamboos t e nawhrins, these •wmboo the inferior offic s.biseju turn bara the common people e'en the last Scwn e e ' a tory privili ;a for he hosband -boos his wife, and t fatheriis son—no matter what his age. The chapter of accide s is lamlJtably small among the Celestials, "( be sie, a China tuau may break his wat jar or iekle pot, or ev, - >r j bis leg or neck, wist beaming liable W the bamboo. But thaiceroy if the prov ince is personally responllc fo all beyoud ' !ese minor mischances. If a co Igration oc '"r *'thin his jursidictioifit ista in for grant that he has not exercisfl sutfu nt vigilance r. Vei ' straw-thatched its of is subjects. 0 'he eroj {'ail ? His ;old-bitoned Exoel- CJK-y u degraded : for In lie tain care, this U ( 'U . 1101 of happened. toes apnnsual fall Off IU cause river t overfld its banks ? I l? 0^0 but n—anoberhaps the beneath ; for was >t its o*r appoiut- C ro y expressly to j eteut di der ? Moreover, tne high o| cials ho their in d'ors et i ua "y rcßjKß-;ibl for the i ety of the in^t triJeDtß um * er tbeir < tm. TLt agjstrutes rmmci U{,oD subordiuit police ore severe lina]|p' m t at n l bey thfimelves r live ; aud, the 1,:.', f ! c Ce , leStial I >Qc * na * 3 isits upon - { 5 of the families utdcr his barge the THE BRADFORD REPORTER. ADVANCE. transgressions of their wives, children do*-* pigs, and ducks. ° ' The penal code of China is arranged under no less than fifteen hundred and fifty-seven h- ads. The punishments are barbarous and in discriminating in the extreme. For treason, not ouly the criminals but their families are punished. Mandarins are degraded, stripped of their riches, forced to do menial offices, or bambooed. The manner of administering justice in China is exceedingly summary. For the ac cused there is scarce any protection. The or dinary tribunals have but one judge. The accused remains on his knees during the entire period of his trial. If a witness displeases the mandarin who acts as judge, he also is whipped and cuffed till his answers are more in accord ance with his Honor's opinion of the case. Thieves and rioters—as disturbers of the natural and quiet order of things—are very severely punished in China. Fines, the bastin ado, blows on the face with thick pieces of leather, the cangue or porable pillory, the iron cage, in which the unfortunate prisoner is con fined in a crouching position, perpetual exile, and death by stranguh.fc on or decapitation— these are the varijus grades of punishment in flicted. It may be curious to glance for a moment at a few of tbe Chinese laws. The Celestials are great office-seekers. They must at one time have carried the matter to excess, per haps worried to death some poor Emperor. According to a law at present in force, it is considered treasonable to send tc the Emperor any recommendation of a third person to office or honors. Death is the punishment for such offense. Also, it is a punishable offense to use in any address the name of the Emperor, or to throw stones at the Imperial residence, or to assume the Imperial name. The bamboo cleanses of these offences. The bamboo, too, is applied to the judge who has rendered a mistaken verdict. But death is the portion of that official who has (by accidentjsealcd a mandarin's letter wrongly. For fear that, after all the existing and prospective laws and sub-laws, there should still be eases which not even Chinese wis dom could foresee, the following law is enact ed. "Whoever shall observe a line of conduct which offends propriety, and which is contrary to the spirit of the laws, ecen icit/wul any spe cial infractions of any of their enactments, shall be punished with forty blows, or eighty if the impropriety be very great." Of course this iucludes every body ; and there is, therefore, no case in which a mnndaj riu may not consistently administer the bam boo, to the extent of at least from forty to eighty blows. To contumacious witnesses and to suspected robbers the Chinese officials are severe. M. lluc, one day on the road to Pekin, met a party of soldiers, with an officer at their head escorting a number of carts, in which were literally piled up a crowd of Chinese who were uttering horrible cries. Says he : "We were seized with horror on perceiving that I "*"] —:t^ re s were uaiied by the fiahd'tb Tiie planks of the cart. A satelite whom we interrogated replieif with frightful coolness : "We've been routing oat a nest of thieves. We had not chains enough to secure all, and were thus obliged to contrive some plan to prevent their escape. So you see we nailed them by the hands." This fellow thought it a very ingenious contrivance. The Celestial's regulations concerning mar riage are very strict. It is forbidden to nar ry during "the period set of mourning" the death of u father or mother. It is forbidden to marry a person bearing the same name, or one guilty of crime, or a musician, or au actor, or a Widow, whose former husband has distinguish ed bims If The inevitable bamboo is the punishment for transgressions of these laws.— Parties safely married, who cannot agree to g•( her, may separate. Divorces are also grant ed for the following causes : sterility, immo rality, contempt of the husband's father or mother, projiensity to slander or theft, a jeal ous temper, or habitual ill health. A man is allowed to have, but one wife by law, and the law punishes him with eighty blows of the bamboo for every aditional wife lie brings home. The secondary wives—of whom there are a great plenty —have no rights whatever. The children of the legitimate wife wear no mourning for tlicm at their death. But if they should omit the mourning dress upon the demise of their own mother, the inevitable bamboo would be administered. The China man takes care to use all the liberty left him by the innumerable laws. His legitimate wife hi dare not put away except for causts spc i lied above. His additional wives the law does not recognize, aud he therefore treats them as he pleases. Robbers are tortured. One of the modes of torture is this : The culprit is suspended by the wrists and heels to two ropes hanging from the ceiling of the court room. His body is thus thrown into the form of a bow. Beneath stand executioners, with rattan canes and stout leather straps. These are applied with might and main to the body vibrating above. Parricides are subjected to the torture of the kuife. This is indicted thus : The execu tioner takes out at random, a kuife, from a basketful of these instruments. Each knife bears the name of some portion of the body.— This portion is cut off, and another knife drawn out. The victim sometimes liugers long under horrible tortures. Next to the bamboo in frequency of appli cation is the atngicc, or walking pillory, of which a representation is given with this ar tide. This is a heavy wooden frame, divided iuto two parts, but connected at one side with a hinge, aud (when shut up) fastened ou the other side by a screw or bolt. In the centre of this frame is a hole— i e," a semi-circular piece is cut out of the internal sides of each portion of the machine, BO that when closed a circular aperture appears. In this aperture the neck of the culprit is inclosed, so that it forms, as it were, a huge collar ; aud when hi?- hands are caught up in two small boles, one at cacb side of the larger one his misery is PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANM, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. " REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." complete. The fastening of the machine is sealed by the committing mandarin, a paper con taining the record of the poor wretch's crimes is posted 011 the frame, and he is sent forth to wander. Or, rather, he is sent forth at the end of a chain, to be trailed by an official every morning, into some public place—there to stand, only too happy if there be be a good comfortable wall to recline agaiust till night comes, and he is led back to the jail. The horror of the punishment consists in this : that the cangue weighs from sixty to two hundred pounds ; and it is sometimes never taken from the culprit's neck for six month. It is com monly worn for several weeks. \\ here a number of criraiuals are to be exe cuted at once they are brought to the scene of death in wicker cages, out of which they are emptied, just as a brutal fellow would throw a pig out of a similar receptacle.— W hen there is*but one culprit, he is generally made an example of being led to the execution place on foot. A flat lath, or strip of wood, which is attached to his neck in such a man ner as to project above his head, bears, in Chinese characters, a description of his crimes. If he is to be decapitated, the victim is compelled to kneel. The executioner's assis tants then seize him from behind, passing their arms beneath his, and giving him a swinging movement. This causes him to stretch out his neck. The executioner stands, in front, holding his sword in both hands. Using ali his strength, the sword descends up the out stretched neck. A second blow is never need ed, travelers tell us. "At every three or four blows the executioner changed his sword, which seemed to grow dull. The execution of fifty-three poor wretches only lasted a few minutes." A more cruel punishment is the collar by means of which the victim is garroted. He is firmly attached to a cross, his feet and arms being fastened by cords, and his tail or queue serving to secure his head. A cord is then passed about the neck, and gradually tighten ed by means of a lever, at the back of the cross till the sufferer expires. In the extrem ity of his agony t lie blood gushes from mouth, ears, nose, and eyes. Finally the head is cut off, placed an open cage, and hoisted to the top of a high pole, as a warning to the public. The malefactor's children are also brought to view the head of their sire. Near the towns, and where rob bers abound, and often fifty or sixty of these heads, in all stages of decomposition, are lmng up by the road side. A RUINED CITY. Petra, the excavated city, the long lost capital of Edom, in the scriptures and profane writings, in every language in which its name occurs, signifies a rock, and through the sha dows of its early history we learn that its in habitants lived in natural clefts or excavations made in the solid rock. Desolate as it is, we have reason to believe that it goes back to the time of Esau, the " father of Edom that princes and dukes, eight successive kings, and again a long line of dukes dwelt there before any king " reigned in Israel and we recog nized it from the earliest ages as the central point to which came the caravans from the in terior of Arabia, Persia, and India, laden with all the precious commodities of the East, and from which these commodities were distribut ed through Egypt, Palestine, and Syria, and all the comers bordering on the Mediterrane an, even Tyre and Sidon, deriving their pur ple and dyes from Petra. Eight hundred years before Christ, Atnaziah, the King of Ju dea, " slew of Edom in the valley of Salt, ten thousand, and took Selah (the Hebrew name of Petra) by war." Three hundred years af ter the last of the prophets, and nearly a cen tury before the Christian era, the "King of Arabia " issued from his palace at Petra, at the head of fifty thousand ineu, horseaud foot, entered Jerusalem, and, uniting with the Jews, pressed the seige of the temple, which was on ly raised by the advance of the ltomaus ; and in the beginning of the second century, though its independence was lost, Petra was still the capitol of a Roman province. After that time it rapidly declined ; its history became more obscure. For more than a thousand years it was completely lost to the civilized world ; and until its discovery by liurckhead in 1812, except to the wandering Bedouin, its very site was unknown. Anil this was the city at whose door I stood. In a few words this ancient and ex traordinary city is situated within a natural amphitheatre of two or three miles in circum ference, encompassed on all sides by rugged mountains five or six hundred feet in height. The whole of this area is a waste of ruins dwelling-houses, palaces, temples, and trium phal arches, all prostrate together in undistin guishable confusion. The sides of the moun tains are cut smooth, in a perpendicular direc lion, and tilled with long and continued ran ges of dwelling housts, temples and tombs, ex cavated with vast labor out of the solid rock ; and while their summits present nature in her wildest and most savage form, their bases are adorned with ail the beauty of architecture and art, with columns and porticos, and pedi ments, and ranges of corridors, enduring as the mountains of which they are hewn, and fresh as if the work of a generation that had scarcely yet gone by. Iu front of the great temple, the pride and beauty of Petra—of which more hereafter— -1 saw a narrow opening in the rocks exactly corresponding with my conception of the ob ject which I was seeking A full stream of water was gushing through it, and filling up the whole mouth of the passage. Mounted ou the shoulders of one of my lledouins, I got uim to carry me through the swollen stream at the mouth of the opening, and set me down on a dry place a little above, whence I began to pick my way, occasionally taking to the houlders of my followers, and continued to ad vauce more than a mile. I was, beyond all peradventure, iu the great entrance I was seek ing. There could not be two such, and ! should have gouc on to the extreme end of the ravine, but my Bedouin suddenly refused | me the further use of his shoulders. ' He had been some time objecting and begging ine to 1 return, and now positively refused to go any j further, and in fact, turned about himself. I j was anxious to proceed, but I did not like ; wading up to my knees in the water, nor did-1 I feel very resolute to go where I might ex- j pose myself to danger, as he seemed to iuti- j mate. \\ liile I was hesitating another of my men came running up to the ravine, and shortly af ter him Paul and the chief, breathless with haste, and crying in low gutterals, " El Arab! el Arab !" The Arabs ! the Arabs ! This was enough for me. I had heard so much of cl Arab that I had become nervous. It was like the cry of Delilah in the ears of the sleep ing Samson : " The Philistines be upon thee." At the other end of the ravine was an encamp ment of the el Alouins ; and the sheik, having due regard to my communication about money matters, had shunned this entrance to avoid bringing me the horde of tribute gatherers for a participation in the spoils. Without any disposition to explore farther, I turned to wards the city ; and it is now that I began to feel the powerful and indelible impression that must be produced on entering through this mountainous passage, the excavated city of Petra. For about two miles it lies between high and precipitous ranges of rocks, from five hun dred to a thousand feet in height, standing as if torn asunder by some great convulsion, and barely wide enough for two horsemen to pass abreast. A swelling stream rushes between them ; the summits are wild and broken ; in some places overhanging the opposite sides, casting the darkness of night upon the narrow defile, then receding and forming an opening above through which a strong ray of light is thrown down, and illuminates with the blaze of day the frightful chasm below. Wild fig trees, oleanders, and ivy were grow ing out of the rooky sides of cliffs hundreds of feet above our heads ; the eagle was scream ing above us; all along were the open doors of tombs, forming the great Necropolis of the city ; and at the extreme end was a large open space, with a powerful body of light thrown down upon it, and exhibiting, in one full view the facade of a beautiful temple hewn out of the roek, with rows of Corinthian columns and ornaments standing out fresh and clear, as if but yesterday from the hands of the sculptor. Though coming directly from the banks of the Nile, where the preservation of the temples excites the admiration and astonishment of of every traveler, we were roused and excited by the extraordinary beauty and excellent con dition of the temple at Petra. Eveji in coming npon it as we did, at dis advantage, 1 remember that Paul, who was a passionate admirer of the arts, when he first obtained a glimpse of it, involuntarily cried out, and, moving on to the front with a vivaci ty 1 never saw liiin exhibit before or after wards, clapped his hands and shouted in ecs stacy. To the last day of our being together he was in the habit of referring to his extra ordinary fit of enthusiasm when he first came upon that temple ; an 1 I can well, imagine that, entering by the narrow defile, with the feelings roused by its extraordinary aud roman tic wilduess and beauty, the first view of that superb facade must prove an effect, which could never pass away. Even now that I have returned to the pursuits and thought-engross ing incidents of a life in the busiest city in the world, often in situations as widely different as night from darkness, I see before me tne facade of that temple. Neither the Coliseum at Rome, grand and interesting as it is, nor the ruins of the Acropolis at Athens, nor the Pyramids, nor the mighty temples of the Nile, are so often present to my memory. Leaving the temple and the open area on which it fronts, and following the stream, we entered another defile much broader than the first, on each side of which were ranges of tombs with sculptured doors and columns ; and on the bottom of the mountains, hewn oui of the solid rocks, is a large theatre, circular in form, the pillars in front falling, and con-' taining thirty-three rows of seats capable of, containing more than three thousand persons. I Above the corridor was a range of don's open ing to chambers in the rock, til seats of the princes and wealthiest inhabitants of Petra, and not like a row of private boxes in a mod ern theatre. The whole theatre is at this day in such a state of preservation that if the tenants of the tombs could once more rise into life they might take their places on its seats and listen to the declamation of their favorite prayer. To me the stillness of a ruited city is nowhere so im pressive as when sitting on the steps of its theatre, once thronged with the gay and plea sure-seeking, now given up to solitude and desolation. Day after day these seats have ! o -n filled, and the :iew sileut rocks had echo ed to the applauding shouts of thousands, and little could an ancient Edomitc imagine that a stranger from a then unknown would one day be wandering among the ruins of the proud and wonderful city, meditating upon the fate of a race that lias for ages passed away.— Where arc ye, inhabitants of this desolate day? you who once sat on the seats of this theatre —the young, the high-born, the beautiful and the brave—who once rejoiced in your riches aud power, and lived as if there was nograve? where are ye now ? Even the very tombs whose open doors a-e stretched away in long ranges before the eyes of the wandering tra veler, cannot reveal the mystery of your doom, your dry bones are gone, the robbers have in vaded your graves, and your ashes have been , swept away to make room for the wandering ! Arab of the desert. But we need not stop at the days when a gay population crowded this theatre. In ear liest periods of recorded time, long before this theatre was built, aud long before the tragic name was known, a great city stood here, when Esau, haviug sold his birth-right for a mess of pottage, came to his garden amoug the moun tains of Teir and Edom, growing in power and strength, became presumptuous and haugh ty, until, in her pride, when Israel prayed a passage through her country, Edora said unto Israel, " thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword." Amid all the terrible denunciations against the land of Iduruea, " her cities and the inhabi tants thereof," this proud city among the rocks, doubtless for its extraordinary sins, was always marked as a subject of extraordinary vengeance. " I have sworn by myself," saith the Lord, " that Bozrah (the strong or forti fied city) shall become a desolation, a reproach, and a waste, and a curse, and all the cities thereof shall be a perpetual waste. Lo, I will make thee small among the heathen and des pised among men. Thy terribleness hath de ceived tlice, and the pride of thy heart, oil thou that (lweliest in the clefts of the rocks, that boldest the height of the hill, though thou sliouidst make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saitli the Lord. They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing, and thorns shall eome up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortress thereof, and it shall be a habitation for dragons and a court for owls." I would that the skeptic could stand, as I did, among the ruins of this city among the rocks, and there open the sacred book and read the yords of the inspired penman, writ ten when this desolate place was one of the greatest cities in the world. I sec the scoffer arrested, his cheek pale, his lip quivering, and his heart quaking with fear as the ruined ci ty cries out to him in a voice loud and power ful as that of the risen from the dead. Though he would not believe Moses and the prophets he believes the hand writing of God himself in the desolation and eternal ruin around him. Steve its' Travels. IIKADIXO ONE'S OWN OBITUARY. —The ten ure of the Major Generalship of Massachusetts, that of a good many offices in that ancient Commonwealth, is for life or during good be havior. The Bostou Transcript says that one of the former lived so long that a wicked wag, at his reported death, gave, as a sentiment at a public dinner : " The memory of our late Major General—may he be eternally reward ed in heaven for his everlasting service on earth." Judge of the surprise of the author ot this toast, on learning, the next day, that the report was false, and the veteran officer still lived. This reminds i-s of an oceutr met that took place in the same State years ago. In the days of old Mycall the publisher of the Ncw buryport Herald, (a journal still alive and flouiLhing) the sheriff of old Essex, Philip Hugely, hud/ieen asked several times to pay his arrears of subcription. At last he told Mycall that lie would certainly " hand over" the next morning as sure as lie lived. "If you don't get your money to morrow, you may be sure I aiu dead," said he. The morrow came and passed, but no mon ey, of the sh i ffs 1 c ings when on the morning of the day after, lie opened the Her ald, and saw announced the lamented decease of Philip Bagley, Kq., High Sheriff of the county of Es a ~ wth an obituary notice at tuehed, giving tbe disease credit for a good many excellent traits of character, but adding that lie had one fault very much to be deplor ed—he was not punctual iu paying the priu tcr. Bagley, without waiting for his breakfast, started for the Herald office. On the way it struck liiin as siugular that none of the many friends and acquaintance he met seemed to be surprised to see him. Tuey must have read their morning paper. Was it possible they eared so little about him as to have forgotten already that he was no more ? Full of per turbation, he entered the printing office to d J ny that he was dead, iu propria prrsona. " Why Sheriff'!" exclaimed the facetious editor, " I thought yon were defunct." " Defunct !" exclaimed the sheriff. "What put that idea into your head ?" " Why yourself!" said Mycall. " Did you not tell me " "Oil ! nli ! I see," stammered out the sher iff " Well ! there's your money ! And now contradict the report in tiie next paper, if you please.'' " That's not neceessary. friend Bagley," said the old joker ; " it teas only printed in you r copy!" The good sheriff lived many years after this "sell," and to the day of his real death al ways took good care to pay the printer ! 2V. O. Picayune. ESTABLISHING; AV ILElß. —lion. I*.— K, lute Prolate Judge of a neighboring county, was w itcd upon o:;e warm aftern ton by a bu.v m matron with a child in her arms, whose busi ness was, as she Mr. K. being a polite man, intimated his read iness to learn her wishes. " Now," said she hushing her baby, and squaring heself for a regular talk, " you see, Judge, my husband was a forehanded man, and left n good farm well stocked, and just because I am a lone woman in the world, his relations are going to throw out -all but my third. Now, Lawyer told me, some time ago, that if there was an heir, he would take it all and I should be his guardian." " How long since your husband died 1" ask ed the Judge. " About thirteen months," was the reply. " And how old is'the child ?" " Four weeks, was the answer. " I am afraid this enso is beyond mv jurisdiction," said the Judge, " you had better go back to Squire ." " But," said the woman, " if yonr Probate Court cau't establish an heir, what is it good for Kgc Boy with ragged trowscrs and rimless chip hat, runs into Dr. Fuller's drug store with a dipper in his hand : "Doctor, mother sent me down to the shottacary pop quickern'n bla zes, cos bub's sick as the dickens with the pip euchox, and she wants a thimbleful of pollygollic in this tipper, cos we hadn't hot a gottle and kiut pup's got the bine witters in it. Got any P *-• . . ... * - VOL. XVIII. NO. 1. WOMAN'S LAUGH.—A v.Oman has uo natu- I ral grace more bewitching than a sweet laugh. It is like the sound of Antes on the water.— It leaps from her heart in a clear, sparkling rill, aud the heart that, hears it feels as if bath* ed in the cool, exhilarating spring. Have you ever pursued an unseen fugitives through trees, led on by her fuiry laugh, 'now there, now lost, now found? \Ve have. And wo are pursuing that wandering voice to this day. Sometimes it comes to us in the midst of care, or sorrow, or ii ksome business ; and then we turn nwuy and listen, and hear it ringing through the room like a silver bell, with po wer to scare away the ill spirits of the mind. llow much we owe to that sweet laugh I It turns the prose of our life into poetry, it flings showers of sunshiue over the darksome wood in which we are traveling, it touches with light even our sleep, which is no more the image of death, but is consumed with dreams that are shadows of immortality. THE FINNISH WOMAN' ON* " Kissivo."— Speaking of the Finns, in his last letter to the Tribune, Bayard Taylor says that " while both sexes freely mingle in a state of nature, while the woman unhesitatingly scrub, rub and drv their husbands, brothers or mala friends, while the salutation for both sexes is an em brace with the right arm, a kiss is considered grossly immodest and improper. A Finnish la dy expressed her astonishment and horror, at hcuriug that it. was a very common thing in Kugland for husband and wife to kiss each other. "If my husband should attempt such a thing," said she, I would beat him about the ears so that he should feel it for a week." PERMANENT VALUE OF KNOWLEDGE. — One of the most agreeable consequences of knowl edge is the respect and which it communicates to old age. Men rise in character as often as they increase in years ; they are venerable from what have acquired, and pleasing for what they can impart. If they outlive their faculties, the mere frame itself i 9 respected for what it once contained ; but wornau (such is their unfortunate style of education,) haz ards everything on one cast of the die ; when youth is gone, all is gone. No human crea ture gives his admiration for nothing ; either the eye must be charmed or the understand ing gratified. A woman must talk wisely or look well. Fvery human being mast put up with the coldest civility, who has neither the charms of youth, nor the wisdom of age tt&cA sick man, slightly convalescing, re cently imagined himself to be engaged in con versation with a pions friend, congratulating him upon his recovery, and asking him who his physician was, he replied ; "Dr. brought me through." " Xo, no," said his friend, "God brought you out of your illness, not tfte doctor." "Well," he replied, "maybe he did; but I am certain that Ihedoctor "will charge mc for it." Sr*f lie content as long as your mouth is full and body covered ; remember the jioor ; kiss the pretty girls ; dou't rob your neigh bor's hen roost ; never piek an editor's pock et, nor entertain au idea that he is goiug to treat ; kiek dull care to the deuce ; black your own boots ; sew on your own buttons ; and lie sure and take a paper and pay for it. Good practical advice. THE SOUND OI SUXSF.T. —On the arrival of an emigrant ship, some years ago, when the North Carolina laid off the iiattery an Irishman hearing the gun fired at suuset iuqured of one of the sailors what that was ? "What's that?" Why, that's suuset! was the contemptuous reply. " Sunset ?" exclaimed Paddy, with disten ded eyes ; "sunset! Oil Moses, and does the sun go down in this country with such a clap as that.— Porter's Spirit. A young ladv returning late from the opera, as it was raining, ordered the coach man to drive close to the side walk, but was st'll unable to step across the gutter ; "I can lift you over it," said conchy. "Oh no," said the miss, "I am too iicavy. "I.or mist,' re plied John, "I am used to lifting barrels of su gar." We wonder if it was John Dean per petrated the above. ' II K.II PRICE or SLAVES. —SIave property is now very high, ami rapidly increasing in value. This is an evidence that the supply is wholly inadequate to the demand. At the present rate of increase, slave labor will soon be far the most expensive that can be obtained. A slave paper says that "at a recent sale of slaves iu Fayette, Mo., a boy twenty four years of age brought $1,550, aud a woman, with? throe children, $2,350." A GREAT FAVORITE. —"Your hnsband seems to be a very great favorite among the ladies," said Mrs. Jones to Mrs. Butterwood, theotlur day. "Yes," said Mrs. IF, "but for the life of me, I dou't see where they find anything to like—l never could." BUT A donkey with salt was crossing a brook. The water diluted the salt, and light ened the burden. He communicated his dis covery to a brother donkey, laden with wool. The latter tried the same experiment, and fouml his load double its weight. JfeyAn Irishman observing a daudy taking I his usual promenade in Broadway, stepped np | to him ami inquired: "How much rent do | you ask for those houses "What do you ; ask that for ?" "Faith aud I thought the whole street belonged to ye." yy Go it strong when you advertise— business is like architecture—its bett suppor* i rs art in columns.