ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. TOWANDA: (Llinrslmn fllorninn, Juln 18, 1857. j?clcrtti) Ipoctrn. UP AND DOING. BY MRS. L. H. SIGOIRNKV. •• We can't afford to wait,"— Bisnor CLARK. Lo! from the wild the city starts, And ou the prairie's breast Spring dome, and tower, and spire, like dream Of Araby the blest; And they who fall l>ehiud the age, Or move with snail-like feet . Are in these days of progress deemed Defunct or obsolete. The world grows busy, and expects Her sons to do the same ; She makes the boiling water work, And yokes the winged flame ; She bids the mightiest elements Her varied will obey, And calls the lightning from the skies, Her whispered words to say. The idle man is like the dead. Who can no burial find :* HI fares it, in the race, with those Who halt and look behind ; Even she. who backward gazed of old, Was petrified, we read, Aud how cau we afford to wait Amid this railroad speed ? The tares are growing in the field, Though we supinely sleep. And he who sows no seed 1-crimes, May hope iu vain to reap. The prince of evil never lags, X--r loiters o'er his prey, And they rau-t needs be wide awake Who think to bar his way. The paean people fade and fall lit ignorance aud night. With..at a cheering ray from heaven The dreary grave to light. Tue ready mission ship but asks Our bounty for its freight.— Hark ! to the cry of dying souls, They can't afford to wait. If there's a duty unfulfilled. A blessed word unspoken— Haste ! ere the hour glass of our days 1- wasted, spent, or broken ; Xor let procrastination lend Its burden to our fate.— We can't afford to wait, ay friend.— We can't afford to wait. * •• The idle are a peculiar kind of dead, who cannot be buried."— Arxbisn Proetrb. Jfi isre 11 a iu ou s. I From the Missouri Democrat.] A LAWYER'S ADVENTURE. W presume our Illinois readers will readily expand the tew it C mentioned into the id ..owing sketch into Carlyle : About three or four years ago, more or less. I was practicing law in Illinois iu a pretty large circuit 1 was called on oue day in my office, in tLe town of C . by a very pret ty woman, who, not without tears, told rae her i.usbaud had been arrested for shorse-teal- wished to retain me fur the defence. I -.-kid her why .-he did not go to Judge 8., an tx -euator of the United States, whose of fiee was iu the same town. I told that I was a young man at the bar, Ac. She mournfully said that he had asked a retaining fee above ter means, aud besides did not want to touch the case, for her husband was suspected of be • Qsring to a gang of horse-thieves aud coun terfeiters, whose head-quarters were on Moore's prairie. I a*ked her to tell me the whole truth of the natter, and if it was true that her husband did belong to such a band ? " Ah, sir," said -he, "a better man at heart than my George never lived ; but likes cards and drink, and I am afraic that they made co what he never would have if he had not c.ruuk I fear that it eau be proved that he had tii-. horse ; he didu't steal it ; another did and tossed it to him." I didn't like the case. I knew that there a great dislike to the gang located where -r Bsuued, and feared to risk the case before ••She seemed to observe tuy intention ' refuse the ease aud burst into tears. I aevtr could see a woman weep without tecling '.ike a weak fool myself. If it badu't Lru for eyes brightened by "pearly tears," ibUst the poets that made them to come in by praising 'em.'i I'd uever have beeu cAight in the lasso of matrimony. Aud my tud-be-elient was pretty. The handkerchief "•it Lid her streaming eyes didn't hide her r i -hp 4, aad her suowy bosom rose and fell ; ic a wuiio guil in a gale of wind at sea.— 1 took the ease and she gave me the partieu , The ga! g. of which he was not a member, Lad t. r-uaded hiin to to take the horse. He knew the horse was stolen, and like a fool - \:.c dged it when he was arrested. Worse I L- had trimmed the horse's tail and mane - n ' r his appearance, and the opposition i prove it." i: -- trial came on. I worked hard to get a of gnoraat men, who had more heart than 3 '• who. if they could not fathom the of argument, or follow the labyrinthine -■—*> >.'! the law could fee! for a yonug fellow &'-.ad fix a weeping, pretty wife, nearly ' farted and quite distracted. Know - the use of "effect," 1 told her to dress in CMjrniag bring her little cherub of "' i' y three years old, into court, and sit ."f'ir r husband as the officer would let " 1 tried that srame once in a murder case £r \* *vep-uig wife and sister made a jury . -oeket and a knife out of the other, then putting the one on the pris oner's head with the latter he severed the cord that bound his bauds, behind his back, and, taking }him by the arm, walked away with him, as if it was some oue faint with ter ror of the spectacle. Nobody took notice of them. Draggingthe victim along, rather than leading him, for the poor man had lost almost consciousness, he at length got him into a cof fee house, where he was soon brought to him self." ftgp 3 * The most eloquent of all the Southern ers, as I thiuk, Mr. Prentice, of Mississippi, was addressing a crowd of some 4000 people in that State, defending the tariff, and in the course of an eloquent period which rose grad ually to some beautiful climax, he painted the thrift, the energy, the comfort, the wealth, the civilization ot the North, in glowing colors, when there arose upou the vision of the as sembly, in the open air. a horseman of magnif icent proportions ; and just at the moment of hushed attention, when the voice of Prentice had ceased, and the applause was about to break forth, the horseman exclaimed, " Damn the uorth !" The eurse was so much iu uuisou with the feelings of a Mississippi audience, that it quenched their enthusiasm, and nothing but respect for the speaker kept the crowd from applauding the horseman. Prentice turned his lame foot around aud said, " Major Moody, will you rein in that steed a moment ?" He assented. Said he, " Major, the horse on which you sit came from L'ppcr Missouri ; the saddle that surmounts him came from Trenton, N. J. the hat that on yonr head was made in Danbury, Conn., the boots you wear came from Lynn, Mass., the liuen in your shirt is Irish, and Boston made it up ; your broad cloth coat is of Lowell manafacture, and was cut in New York ; and if to-day you surren der what you owe the " dauiucd uorth," you would sit stark naked."—lJ endall Phillips. MOSEY.—Mouey is a queer institution It buys provender, satisfies justice, and heals wounded honor. Everthing resolves itself into cash, from stock jobbing to building churches. Childhood craves pennies ; youth aspires to dimes; manhood is swayed by the mighty dollar. The blacksmith swings the sledge, the lawyer pleads for his client aud the judge decides the question of life and death for his salary. Money makes the man ; therefore the man must make the money, if he be resjiected by fools ; for the eye of the world looks through golden spectacles. It buys Brussels caqiet, lace curtains, gilded cornices aud rich furniture, and builds marble mansions. It drives ns to church iu splendid equipages and pays the rent of the best pew. It buys silks aud jewelry (or my lady—it commands the respect of gaping crowds and insures obse quious attention. It enables us to be charita ble, to send bibles to the heathen, and relieve domestic iudigcuce. It gilds the ragged scenes of life aud spreads over the rugged path of ex istence a velvet carpet soft to our tread : the rude scenes of turmoil are encased in a gilt frame. It bids care vanish, soothes the an guish of the bed of sickness, stops at short of nothing save the grim destroyer, whose relent less hand spares noue, but levels all rank and mortal distinction, and teaches poor, weak humanity that it is but uust. Thns wealth pauses on the brink of eternity ; the beggar and the millionaire rest side by side beneath the sod, to rise iu equality to answer the final summons. A YOUNG MIX'S CHARACTER. —No young man who has a just sense of his own value, will sport with his character. A watchful regard to his charater in early youth, will be of iuconeievable value to him in all remaining rears of his life. YY hen tempted to deviate from strict propriety of deportuieut, he should ask himself, " Can I afford this ? It is of ele vated mind ; for this is the foundation of a good character. The mind, in order to be kept pure, must be employed in topics of thought which are themselves lovely, chastened and elevating. Thus the miikl has, iu its own power, the themes of meditation. If youth on ly knew how durable and how dismal is the injury produced by the indulgence of degrad ing thoughts—if they only realize how fright ful are the moral depravities which a cherish ed habit of loose imagination produces— thev would shua them as the bite of a uriKLt [From the Lewisburg Chronicle.] Useful Receipts. Bleeding of the nose. —Elevating the right arm aud keeping it in that positiou for some time, will stop bleeding at the Dose, according to Dr. Negrier, a French surgeon. Hiccups. —Hold up high above your head two fingers of your haud, lean back in your seat, and opening your mouth and throat so as to give free passage to your lungs, breath very long and softly and look very steadily at your fingers, and it will cure your hiccups iu less than two minutes. A traveler on the railroad from Cumberland and Baltimore, who was nearly " worn out with suffering" from hiccups, and could get no relief from a physi cian to whom he applied, was cured in this way by a stranger in the cars, iu less thau two min utes by the watch. Cough. —YY T henever a conghi ng spell comes on you, take a spoonful of the syrup of a quart of molasses,containing a lump of alum of the size of a hen's egg and simmered over the fire in an earthen vessel till the alum is dead. Cold. —Abstain from all tood for a day or two, aud drink cold water freely, aud your cold will be gone. This is the simplest aud most effectual remedy yet known . Inf amotions. —A snow ball wrapped in a piece of cloth, or a rag dipped in cold water aud applied to any iuflamatiou or swelling ari sing from a fall, cut, bruise, or cold settled in the part, will reduce the iuflamatiou quicker than all the camphor, spirits, and other hot stuffs you can apply. J lea da chs, Vomiting, and Pain of the bowels. —lnto a tumbler two-thirds full of hot water, put oue teaspoonful of ground ginger, one of brown sugar, a piece of butter about the size of a walnut, aud half a spoonful of soda, and drink it warm. This is a sure and rapid cure. A cloth dipped iu cold water and applied to the head, will also cure the headache wheifthe stomach is not disordered. So au occasional table spoonful of strong hot coffee, without sugar aud milk, will also relieve the vomiting peculiar to cholera morbus aud cholera infan tum. Sprain. —A poultice of wheat or rye bran and vinegar will soon reduce the iuflamatiou produced by a sprain. Fresh cuts and wounds. —An application of New Eugland rum in which balm of Gilead buds have beeu soaked in a bottle, it is said to be the best cure in the world for fresh cuts aud wounds. The buds must be gathered when in their most gammy or sticky state, which con tinues only for a few days in spring. If a fin ger, Ac. be cut off with a scythe, Ac., take the piece off aud (if it js already pale aud cold) wash it in warm water—this done, pat it to its place by sewing and bandages, and it will grow fast and become sound again. This has often been done—then be sure iu such cases to " save the pieces." Tooth Ache. —A few drops of hartshorn or equal parts of alum or salt, applied to the cav ity of the tooth in a bit of cottou or lint, will often afford relief. Aud so will freshly slacked liiue water, and warm and strong salted water when held to the aching tooth. Snake bites. —YY'hiskey, brandy, gin, or any alcoholic liquor drank by the patient in smail and oft-repqated doses, will neutralize and cure the bite of rattle suakes, copper-heads aud oth er snakes. So will a free application of spirit* of turpentine to the bitten part. And so will a plaster composed of salt stirred into the yolk of a good egg until it is thick enough to form a plaster. "The Wisconsin Fanner" says it will ensure your life for a six pence, agaiust the bite of a rattlesnake, if you apply this aud egg plaster to the wound. Bee, Wasp, Spider and other insects Bites.— Rub the bitten part with spirits of turpentine, or spirits of hartshorne, or pour on it a drop of the liquor of j>otassia and it will affurd imme diate relief. Over-loaded Stomach. —The best remedy in cases of extreme danger from the excessive eat ing of too much fruit or any kind of food, is said to be eating a good quantity of old cheese. Goitre or Swelled At'eek. —YY*ashing the swell ed part with brine or strong salted-water, and drinking it twice a day, will, it is said, care it. Hydrophobia or Bite of a Mad Dog. —Wash the bitten part immediately with warm vinegar or water, and after the wound is dry apply thereto a few drops of muriactic acid, which will nuetraiize and destroy the poison of the saliva and enrethe bite. Au English Journal says that an old Saxon has urged this remedy with perfect success for the last fifty years. This is the simplest remedy 1 have yet seen —let it be tried. Baldness of t the head. —Rubbing the head once or twice a day with the surface of a raw onion, till the roots of the hair are moistened, wiil, it is said, prevent the hair from falling off. Aud a mixture of brandy and sweet oil is said to be very good for cleaning the hair aud ma king it grow. Tooth and Gums. —Washing the teeth and gnms every morning with salt and water will preserve them aud answer all purpose of the costly deatrifiees used by" fashionable people. Dr Johnson in his " Economy of Health" says " The mouth should rinsed in hot water and then immediately with cold every rooming throughout the year. If this were regularly done in infancy tiie dentist might shut his shop 1 Others tell ns that the best article for keeping the teeth clean is soap-suds made ont of the purest white soap, for no other soap should be used for this purpose. Lightning. —Persons rendered insensible by a stroke of lightning, may be revived by pour ing cold water over the face aud bead. Bod"smells, Infectu ns J-?-. —Dissolve a pound of copjeras (six cents worth)Jin a gallon of water, and sprinkle the water in your privy and over your drains, ditches, Ac., producing noisome smells, and it will speedily remove the smell and make the air wholesome. If the smell be very bad, double the quantity of cop peras should be used, with as much ground j plaster as will form a thin paste. 65?* What is the differancc between a Pu seyite and a Baptist ? One uses wax caudles, and the other d'ps SIMPLICITY OF AN ENGLISH DRESS. In the families of many of the nobility and gentry of England, possessing au annual in come which of itself, would be an ample for tune, there is greater economy of dress and more simplicity in the furnishing of the dwell ing than there is in many of the houses of our citizens, who are barely able to supply the wants of their families by the closest attention to their business. A friend of ours, who so journed not long since, several months iu the vicinity of some of of the wealthy landed aris tocracy of England, whose ample rent rolls would have warranted a high styie of fashion, was surprised at the simplicity of manners practiced. Servants were much more numer ous thau with us, but the ladies made more account of ono silk dress than would be thought hereof a dozen. They were generally clothed in good substantial staffs, and a display of fine clothing and jewelry was reserved for great occasions. The furniture of the mansions in stead of being tnrned out cf doors every few years, for new and fashionable styles, was the same which the ancestors of the families for several generations had possessed—substantial and in excelleut preservation bat plain, and without any prettnsious to elegance. Even the carpets, ou many suits of parlors, had been on the iloors for fifty years, and were expected to do service for another half century. With us how different is the state of things ! YVe are wasting au amount of wealth iu this coun try, ou show and fashion, which if rightly ajc plied, would renovate the condition of the whole population of the world, and Christain ize, civilize aud educate, all mankind.— Calen der. [From Chambers' Edinburg Journal.] FEVER-POISONS. On the subject of the scarlet fever, which has lately been extraordinary havoc among old and young, the following useful observa tions occur iu a small tract intended for pop ular dissemination by Mr. R. Pairman, surgeon, Biggar : After referring to the value of thorough ventilation, light, and cleanliness, in order to disinfect clothes and apartments from the in visible air-poison exhaled from the sick, the author proceeds : It is important to know regarding infection, that when not destroyed or dispersed in the sick-room, it attaches it self aud adheres with great tenacity to all arti cles of furniture—chairs, tables, drawers, Ac., nestling in their innumerable pores ; and unless these articles be scrubbed with a solution of chloride of lime, or exposed to a strong heat, or a free current of air for several hours, it may again become evolved, more virulently than 'at first, after the lapse of many weeks. But ! it chiefly adheres to cotton and woolen mate- I rials. The patient's body-clothes and blankets 1 become saturated with it, like a sponge with water. And iu airing these materials, a mere passiug breeze is nut always sufficient to carry it away. A genteel country family lately re lated to me that a few years ago they Lad an occasion to reside some time fu Edinburgh ; while there, one of the domestics became affect ed with fever of a j>eculiar type. After her recoverd, the bed-clothes—as was tLought— were sufficiently aired, packed up, and convey ed home along with the family. Through some inadvertence, they remained for four months thus folded up ; after which being re quired for use, they wereopenedcut and wash ed. YY'ithin a week, the person who washed them became attacked with the same type of fever, though none was prevailing in the dis trict at the time ; so that infection thns im prisoned in a blanket, or anywhere else, aud not exposed to any current of air, seems uot ouly quite indestructible, but. while tlins con fined, probably grows in virulence every day. Thus the infection of plague—which is just a form of typhus fever —has been packed up in a bale of cotton, and after beingcouveved many hundred miles, struck with instant death the ]>erson who uulooscd it. The following cu rious and dreadful incident, related by I>r. Parr, of Exeter, shewing how p'ague was once dis seminated iu an Euglish town, we extract from Macaulay's Diet una ry of Medicine: "The last plague which infected the town in which we now write," says Dr. Parr, "arose from a traveler remarking to his companion, that in a former journey he had the plague in the room w here they sat. "In that corner," said he, "was a cupboard where the bandages were kept : it is now plastered, but they are proba bly there still." lie took the ]>oker and broke down plastering, aud found them. The disease tns soon disseminated, and v:as extensive ly fetal? The next point requiring notice is, that one man may convey infection to another, while he himself escapes the disease, borne year> 3go I received a message from a much esteemed and worthy miuister, requesting a visit to two of his children. On arriving, I found them ill with scarlatina ; j.nd as they i.a 1 b; th be come suddenly affected a' the very same, hour the previous evening, it was evideut that both had simultaneously imbibed the poiso ous dose. But the question arose : Where could they possibly get infection ? for they had ever been j carefully tended by their nurse, come in con tact with nobody but menders of the family, j and no fever of any description was prevailing for several mile 4 around. At length the fath- I er remembered that abuut a week before he hail visited a little girl under a scarlatina in au j adjoining parish : had, in the act of religious j conversation, sat by her bed, taken her by the hand, nibbed his clothes on the bed-clothes of the patient—in a word, had quite unconscious lv done everything likely to saturate his own clothes with infection ; after which, the night. being cold he wrapped his great-coat firmly aronnd him—thu- inadvertently preventing its dispersion—mounted his horse, and trotted home at a rapid pace. On reaching home; threw off his great-coat, drew in his chair to a comfortable fire, and as any fond parent wnoki be apt to do, forthwith got both of the child- j ren perched upon his knee, little dreaming of. the poisonous present a father's lore was uu- f consciously bestowing Thai this wi: the VOL. XVIII. NO. <>. ' mode of communicating the disease was evident ! by a process of exact calculation ; for the in | fection of scarlatina lurks in the blood about five days before the fever shows itself; and on calculating five days back from the onset of the fever, we were brought exactly to the time when the incident occurred. ; If two pieces of cloth of the same material the one black, and the other white, were in ! equal circumstances, and for the same length I of time, exposed to infection, the black cloth i would be far sooner saturated with it than the j other. We have here something analogous to the well-known law about the absorption of heat. As dark objects absorb heat more pow erfully than white ones, so do they also more : readily absorb infection, and all kinds of smells. | Ileuce the mere fumigation of closes and wynds in epidemic seasons is not enough ; they are : afterwards very properly whitewashed. Hence I also the wholesomeness of light as well as air in the dwellings of the poor, and of all those measures of cleanliness and comfort which the whiting-brush is able to impart. The haunt 3 of infection realize those conditions with which childish fancy clothes the haunts of spectres. — Dark and cheerless are its favorite dens.— j The "bleezing ingle and the clean hearth stone," it seems to shun ; but lurks and lingers in the gloomy hovel, fattens on its diet, and in the crevices of its smoked and dingy walls find those most congenial nestling-places which it j cannot find in the plastered, white-washed, smooth, and shining walls of cleanliness. Its fittest emblem is that mysterious plant the dead ly nightshade, which loves the darkness: rather , than the light, and luxuriates less abundantly than in sunshine than in gloom. COUNTERFEIT LIQUORS. — Interesting State ment.—The London Times notices, in a list of joint stock companies in Paris, formally saut | tioned by the prefect of jxjliee, the name of i the "General company of Fictitious or Coun terfeit Wines." The company boldly state . that no grape juice or alcohol is used, but do not specify the ingredients. The article is sold at from four to eight sous per quart, and the company Las a capital of six million francs.- These liquors are, of course, sold as genuine.— i Our markets are flooded with ?purious liquora and no ouc cun tell when he buys the genuine j article. The Springfield Republican says, ! that au informant of that paper was on a visit to a friend, a liquor dealer iu a western city, and, in the space of an Lour, he saw himtrans i form a barrel cf high wines into "pare French : brandy." The barrel was stamped with tLe custom Louse brand, and had all the appcar- I ance of a sea voyage. The manufacturer ! poured in the basis of the ingredients (the high | wines,) and then, having scented it with about ; two ounces of the oil of cognac, added a pail i full of a compound which he had mixed froia one bucket to another, and which was to give jto it its taste and color. TLe component par's j of this last mixture were absolute poisons, di • rectly destined to sap tLe energy, and finally, destroy the life of the poor victims to a habit that leads them to the use of stimulant;.— When such facts are taken into consideration, there is no wonder that a prohibitive law is demand for the suppression of the traffic. ERRORS. —The little I have seen cf the world, says Longfellow, and LLOW of the history of j mankind, teaches me to look upon their errors in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the his tory of one poor heart that has sinned and suf fered, and represent to my.-eif the struggles and temptation it passed through ; the brief pulsation of joy ; the tears of regret ; the fee i bleness of purpose : the pressure of waut ; the desertion of friends : the scorn of the world, that has iitt'.e charity ; the dissolution of thu soul's sanctuary and threatning voices within ; health gone ; I would faiu having the erriug soul of my fellow man with Him from whose hands it came. A SOI.EMN THOUGHT.— It has been observe 1 with much significance, that every morning we enter on a new day, carrying an unknown ' future in its bosom. How pregnant and stir ! ring the reflection. Thoughts may h; boru to I day which never extinguished. lloi>e may be I excited to day which may never expire. Acts | may be performed to dry, the conseqnence of which may not be realized till eternity. Sitting on a pile of lumber yesterday, a couple of yawning loafers were talking jwh ! tics : " Well, Joe," said oue, "when a fellow rum* for Governor Le gets awfully abused don't he V " Yes," replied Joe. " I wonder what they would say about me if I was ruuniug ; I expect they'd say I stole horses, ami didn't pay any l>oar>i " " Yes," answered hU comrade, "and if they should ask me about it, I would say it is true." Joe was shoved off the lumber by the other, and they both started down street to ring ;u I for a lunch and a glass of the be-joyful." fito?"Now anl then yon meet with a j*rsou so exactly formed to please, that he wnl gain npon every one that hear or beholds him : this disposition is not merely the gift of nature, bat frequently the effect of much knowledge ! of the world and a command over the passions. fer" Gaiety is to good humor annual perfumes to vegetable fragrance. The one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them. Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain : good humor boasts no faculties which every one does not believe in his own power, and pleases principally by not offend ing _ BEST THSNG. —The best to give to your en emy is forgiveness: to your opponent, toler ance :to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example : to a father defueuce ; to your mother, conduct that will make ber proud o her son : to yourself, respect, to all men. cha;- i*y : *c God. obed.euce