(HE DOLLAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. TOWANDA: Thursday Morning, December 1,1859. jscleticb [From the N. Y. Evening Post ] LAYING DOWN THE KINGDOM. BY J. B. ORTON. So Thomas is going to get married, To bring home a bride, a young wife, He said it himself, and he never Deceived or joked me in his life. When AVilliam got married it gave rae No thought of regret or surprise ; For the boy seemed just made for a woman— To live in the light of her eyes. And when Clara was wed to the Southron— Though Clara, my daughter, was dear— And removed to the far Rappahanaosk, It cost but a sigh and a tear. But Thomas, my staff and my eldest, Seemed never to care for the girls. So proud, like the oak, to surrender At last to soft eyes and soft curls ! Since John died—six years ago Christmas— Our Thomas—he's always the same— With more than the strength of his father Has stayed up the house and the name. I never once thought he could marry, So kingly, so firm and so kind— Ah me .' tears will come ; they are needed ; For my old eyes, indeed, must be blind. He tells me I'm getting so aged, I need more repose, more Iresh air; So a daughter he'll bring me to lighten My burthen of labor aud care. Ah me! He may think so ; he brings nle A mistress, it must be, instead. The sceptre must pass to another, And I to my grave, or my bed. But, hold ! It is well. omy Father! Help me to subdue my proud heart, I have reigned like a queen ; but 'tis over ; And another of right takes the part. I yield her my empire forever f And. Thomas, I'll love all that's thine. Thy chosen shall have all her honors, As I've always had all of mine. Come hither, my little man. Tommy, Come hither, my rosebud, my Jane ! You are Grandraama's darlings and treasures— Her pearls hung about her again. Not Papa.tlncle Will, nor Aunt Clara-- So grand and so sweet when he comes— Ever gave me one half of the pleasure Of these little sproutlings of Tom's. They have kisses and cheer in the morning ; They have kisses and cheer all day long ; And their sports, and their griefs so alarming, Which always are cured witli a song. They know where to find a consoler ; As little birds fly to their nest, They climb Grandma's knee for a co\ er, And always find peace on her breast. Miscellaneous. [From the Common School Journal ] To Directors. State Appropriation: The 36th section of | the general school (C. S. L. & D. page 18,) authorizes the State Superintendent (but only on certain important conditions) to issue his warrant for -the State appropriation to the several school districts. It is iu the following words, viz : SECTION 36. That as soon as the schools of any district have been kept opeu and in op eration at least four mouths subsequent to the first Monday in June preceding, the presinent of the board of directors, or controllers, shall certify the same under oath or affirmation, to-' gether with the name of the districts treas- 1 urer and his post office address, to the county | superintendent, who shall immediately forward j the same to the Superintendent of Common j Schools, who upon the receipt of the same shall j draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for j the whole amount such district is entitled to receive from the annual State appropriation : Provided, That said board of dirctors or con trollers shall have nuide RF.POST of the condition of the schools in their districts, as directed in the txceut y-third section of this act : And provided also, That the foregoing certificate shall have been transmitted to the Superintendent of Common Schools within the school year for which the warrant is to be issued. These plain, clear provisions of the law, most be complied with hereafter. The four months' certificate must be transmitted within the school year, and the annual report of the | board ot directors must be received at the Dc ; partment, before the warrant for the State ap propriation can be issued. There is no hard- j ship iu these legal requirements, and they are S absolutely necessary to the proper and success ful administration of the system. It is true i that some directors—whose promptness and | fidelity in this respect are worthy of the high . est comraeudation —make out their report in I due form und in due time, after having received the appropriation ; but us a general thing there is so much negligence as to time in for warding the annual report, and so much care lessness and inaccuracy in preparing it, that in self defence the Department can no longer extend the indulgence heretofore granted, and which seemed in some degree proper while school officers were getting accustomed to the act of 1854, aud the changes which it made in the workings of the system. County Superintendents are instrncted not to mail the four months' certificates to the De partment, unless accompanied by the district report ; and they are particularly requested to examine both documents carefully to see that they are properly made out, and the different items correct. After the certificate und report reach the Department, they will be carefully examined, and if fouud correct, the school warrant will be immediately made out and mailed to the Treasurer to the district ; but I if not properly filled up, they will bw returned to the Secretary of the board for correction, and the warrant withheld until they come back again. It is in vain to hope for statistics that shall be worth the printing, unless this mode of procedure be adopted. The shabby reports complained of are not confined to obscure rural districts, with direc tors of limited education, but some of the most striking examples have come from the hands of respectable lawyers and merchants, whose business habits and skill in arithmetic, • as illustrated by their school reports, would not command much higher figures than 3 or 4, if presented at a teachers examination. Directors should beur in mind that the dis trict report cannot be made out until the schools have closed for the year. The report embraces the whole year, and uot a part of it; and as jt i 3 the official history of what the schools have been anil done, for that period, ! the record cannot be truthfully made up, uutil i ufter the schools have finished their work. One district is not dependent upon another. Therefore when any district has transmitted j its certificate and report, the County Super intendent will immediately mail them to the Department, without waiting for other dis tricts ; the school term in some districts being only four or five months, while in other* it is eight or ten, and some directors are more I punctual than others. The principal cause of the imperfect district j reports, is the carelessness of the Secretary in keeping the minutes and a. counts of the : Board. There is no justification for this nog 1 lect, for the Secretary can be. paid for his ser > vices ; and if he is not, when he accepts the office, he accepts its whole duties, absolutely and without reserve, and should either perforin ; them or resign. Wiih this timely notice that a bungliug report will not procure the Stute i appropriation, it is hoped that the respective j Secretaries will take pains to keep their ac i counts and records in an intelligible und accur ate manner, so that neither they nor their suc cessors in office will have any difficulty in making out the annual report, from the re corded und documentary evideuce in possession of the Board. Blank District Reports : The blanks tor the four months' certificates and district reports for the current school year, are not printed yet, but will be within a short time, —as soon as the statistical tables of the past year are finished, and the detailed examination of the last year's reports has been completed, and it has been ascertained what modifications of the form, or additional instructions may be ne cessary. Superintendents will be duly notified by mail. Teacher's Sheets: The new style of blanks for Teacher's Monthly Reports, will be fur nished to Teachers by the Secretary of the Board. If be have none, he will apply to the County Superb.teudent, who is charged bylaw, with the duty of supplying the School Boards of his county, (C S. L. & I>., page 21, No. 61.) Teacher's Statistics: The " Recapitulation" on the back of the Teacher's Monthly Report, is intended to secure greater accuracy in tlie statistics of the schools. Tfce " average daily attcndance of [Hi pits," means the average num ber of scholars attending daily during the month. Teacher's Wages: Economy is always a j commendable virtue in School Directors, pro vided it be the genuine article, and not blind parsimony. But the last place to economize is in teacher's wages, and directors cannot practice the virtue in this direction, without losing vastly more than they hope to gain by the operation Skillful and successful teachers are entitled to full compensation and can fair ly earn it ; and if it cannot be had, they will as a matter of course go where they can get it, or quit the business ; while half price teach ers are a dear bargain although it only takes ! half us much money to pay them. To tie sure, ' the district has paid out less cash, but what is ' paid is lost, for the teacher could not earn it, ; and the pupils have spent the r lime without being benefitted, and quite likely will after wards have to unlearn what they did attempt i to acquire A low priced teacher is not a cheep ! teacher, and it is a great misfortune that this ; fact is not more generally understood. I'enu ?ylvaiiia loses a large per centage of her best teachers, because they are properly compensa ted at home. Some of the western counties have been deprived, this fall, of many of their most worthy teachers, because of the large re ; duction in the wages offered ; and wherever this has been the case, the schools will go backward more during the coming winter, than they cou'd go forward iu two winters iu the bauds of good teachers. Even " hard times" and the " frost" are no justification for the ; employment of low priced, incompetent teach ers. Teacher's examinations can not build up the system, so long as those who merit and re j ceive first class certificates, are driven out of the schools by the inadequate compensation offered. There is another cryiug evil, and it is this : i Paying fair wages to inferior teachers, that j should not he paid to any but good teachers, j The wages should always be gradueiled to the qualifications of teachers. Pay a good teacher, good wages ; and if you must put up with an inferior teacher, cut down the wages, unti he qualifies himself, or a better one can be had, and then raise the wages accordingly. But don't cut the throat of the school system by paying good wages to good and bad teachers ulike, indiscriminately, for it is only offering a premium for incompetency. School Direc tors ure the buck bone of the school system. They have more power and responsibility than all the other officers of the system put together. And this is right; but they can only " magnify their office" and uphold the system, by looking at their duty in its true light, and then faithfully performing it, with the same practical shrewdness and sound judgment that they would exhibit in the man agement of their own private business affairs. The principle is the same, the policy the same, \ and the results cannot be otherwise than erai ! nently beneficial ; while the contrary policy . ucjst, every where aadalways prove disastrous PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TO WAN DA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEAKA GOODRICH. " RESARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANT QUARTER." Railwayism. A correspondent joins issue with us on the questiou—to whom is the world indebted for the system ot Railwayism ? We have claimed the credit of that development for George Stephenson upon the following grounds : As early as the reign of Charles the Second way-leaves (which would now be called rail roads), were in use in that part of England called Northumberland, chiefly in connection with the coal-mines near the town of Newcastle upon-Tyne. A century later they were des cribed by Arthur Young, who noted that pieces of wood were let into the roads for the the wheels of the coal-wagons to run upon, which so much eased the traction, that one horse was able to draw, with ease, fifty or six ty bushels of coal. The same principle may be seen in operation in our streets every day. The Passenger Railroad Cars ewe their facili ties and success to it. The wagon roads were not confined to the North of England. They were to be seen in ; part of Scotland, and in connection with col lieries at Whitehaven, Sheffield, Longborough, j i Derby' and Coalbrookedale. Cast iron rails ; were first used over a century ago, at White- : i haven. By degrees, great economy in horse ! power was obtained. Numerous projectors i j suggested plans for impelling wagons or other | carriages along the rails : some by rails, some ; by the application of steam-power on the nigh ; | pressure principle. Over two hundred years ago, one Solomon i j de Cans was imprisoned iu the Bieetre, at Paris ! as a madman, one of his out-of-the-way points j ! being the belief that by steam ships could be navigated and carriages moved. At a later period, others got the idea that carriages might be propelled along ordinary highways, by this same motive power. In 1763, a French man named Cugnot exhibited a steam carriage before Marshal Saxe. which, when set in mo tion, went forward with so much force that it knocked down a wall which stood in its way. ; D''. Smiles says, in his excellent Life of George Stephenson, " Au American iu vector, named Oliver Evans, was also occupied with the same idea, for, iu 1T72, he invented a steam carriage, to travel on common roads, atid iu 1787 he obtained from the State of Maryland the exclusive right to make and use steam car riages. His invention, however, never came into practical use " This, our correspondent informs us, is a mis take. Mr. Evans invented and constructed a high pressure steam locomotive capable of good work upon iron railroads, (practically had it tunning in the streets of Philadelphia,) and, as early as 1809, vuinly endeavored to organ ize a company to make a railroad from Phila delphia to New York. He clearly saw what i might be, though he did not anticipate the full extent. In 1813, Mr. Evans wrote as follows : "The time will come when people will travel iu stages moved by steam engines, , from one city to another, almost as fast us \ birds fly, fifteen or twenty miles an hour A carriage will set out at Washington in the morning, passengers will breakfast at Balti more, dine at Philadelphia, and sup at New York the sutue duv. To accomplish this, two ! sets of railway* will be laid so nearly level us not in any place to deviate more than two de- ! i trrees from a horizontal line, made ol wood or j iron, on smooth parts of broken stone or ! ; gravel, with u rail to guide the carriages so j i that they may puss each other in diflVient di j ! rcetions, and travel by night as wd! as by j ' day ; and the passengers will sleep in these 1 | stages as comfortably as tin y now do in steam j j sta-re boats." ; In 1784 Mr. Symington, who made experi- ! meats on stgam navigation—though Fulton most undoubtedly must be considered the in j ventor of steamboats, seeing that he was uc- j tually the fii t person who did run a vessel by : steam upon t e water, for a distance—con- j strueted a steam carriage to run on common j roads. In the same year William Murdoch, ; assistant of James Watt, made a steam-loco- j motive, on the high-pressure principle, which j actually ran e.way with him. In 1802, Rich cliard Trevetliick patented a similar invention, j with the improvement of moving a piston by | the elasticity of steain against the pressure only of the atmosphere, un l actually ran it, on ordinary roads, from Cornwall to Loudon. ; j He subsequently made several improvements. In 1813 Mr. Blackvtt, a northern colliery ! owner, who made a great many experiments jon adapting steam locomotives to railway i travelling, discovered that the weight of the engine would of itself produce sufficient ad- j , hesion to enable it to drag ufti-r it,on a smooth tram road, the requisite number of wagons, in all kinds of weather. This was a great step I in advance. About the same time, George Stephenson, then a man with little education, was engine wright of the collieries at Killingworth, near Newcastle, and desired to save expense by a | more economical haulage of the coal from the i pits to the side of the river Tviie. The keep of horses was costly, and he wished to use an ! engine on the tram road to supersede them.— He made himself acquainted with the principle ' und working of Trevetliiek's and other steam ! locomotives within reach, and set to work to ; make one of his own—combining, embodying, ! and improving the good points of the others. I Lord liavensworth, who had a large coal \ property in the vicinity, authorized him to con struct an engine at his cost. He put smooth | wheels uoon his locomotive, and his enirine, 1 after ten months labor upon it, made its first trip in July, 1814, drawing eight loaded car riages of thirty tons' weight at four miles an hour, and continuing in regular work for some time. In the following year, Stephenson in : vented the steam-blast, which doubled the ' power of the engine. Practically, that was the commencement of the Railway system.. Other improvements followed, and, witUqmt much original invention, but great adaptive : skill, George Stephenson, iu 1815, had pro duced the type of the present locomotive on giue. Still it was", not yet capable of being worked, on the colliery tram ways, at a cheap er rate tbaD horses worked. He bad to im prove tbe railroad itrelf. At last, iu 1822, Mr. Stephenson constructed the Helton Rail way, eight miles in length, near Sunderland, and each of his engines, at four miles au hour speed, drew after it a train of seventeen wag ons, weighing about sixty-four tons. At the same time he was constructing the Stockton and Darlington Railway, twelve miles long, which was opened for traffic in September 1825 —the locomotives running upon it sometimes at tbe speed of twelve miles an hour, and tak ing passengers as well as drawing coals. The material and pecuniary success of this railway was sufficient to encourage the inonied , men of Manchester and Liverpool, to construct a line between these two great commercial towns,the execution of which was entrusted to Goorge Stephenson, who accomplished it amid numerous difficulties. At last, however, on the 15th of November, 1830, the line was opened. The Rocket, Stephenson's prize loco motive, had actually run 35 miles in an hour. ! I This properly commenced railwayism iu Eng- j land, which immediately radiated over this and other countries, until the length of the lines J muy be counted by thousands of miles. George Stephenson, who had been working ' at Railwayism for over twenty years, who was the man whose ability and perseverance sue cessfully completed it, who did what others j talked of, ai d who improved the old wooden ! tramway into the malleable irou railway, must | be looked upon as the person to whom the world is indebted for the system of Railwayism. | Mr. E vans invented the high-pressure en- j j gine ; but, with worse luck, he made nothing j lof it, did nothing with it. The principles of his discovery were speedily appropriated liy other persons—by Stephenson himself among them—but he was a generation or two too soon, George Stephenson, no one can doubt, was the practicel person who gave Railway travelling to Euglaud, aud to the world. SECRET OF UNHAPPY HOMES.—Why goes forth that man this Saturday evening from the roof under which his children live? Why j turns he from the engaging little attempts to detain him, and roughly moves them away, while he loves them dearly? Why sits another j by his fire, sullen, discontented, unwilling to speak the kindly word, while his heart isyearu ing for converse aud enjoyment .' Why flies the cruel speech to her for whom the bosom's strongest affection is nourished ; And why, searching into deep depths, why does man be- I come so often a tyrant, so often a criminal, in l.is home? Truth has to be told ; but oh ! ! listen to it kindly, for it is hard to tell. It is because woman does not truly appreciate her ' mission in domestic life. Under the present | conditions of existence, she has become weighed ! down by cares. As a wife she is different lo j what she was as a mistress. She is ever em ! ployed in drudgery for children and household. She neglects her dress, she torgets her man- i tiers, ner husband sees tlie change, does not perhaps find sufficient excuse for it trom the ! condition she labors under. He flies to the tavern and billiard tables ; and she increases in sourutss and asperity as the" increases in years. That much of this is owing to the - present circumstances of social life is true ; but that much of it is cliurgrabie to a sad submission to those circumstances is also but too true. It is more or less in the power of woman to make their domestic life nun at- ! tractive to their husbands, and more holy in | its discipline and ends than they now do. A : j great reguiuri'y iu time a great simplicity in I ilr-ss —a more determined adherence to that ' i which is right in one's oa n eyes, rather than that which is well thought of in the eves of I j others—an orderly apportioning of various pe- | riods for different occupations, —would make ; i evenings at hoiue pass away very differently! ! low hat, in the great majority of cuses they ; are now doing. ~ j CACCHT IN HIS OWN TRAP.—Once two ■ ! ministers of the gospel were conversing on ex | temporaueous preaching. " Well," said the old divine, waxing warm, "yuu are ruining yourself by writing your ser mons and reading them off. Your congrega tion cannot become interested in your preach i ing ; and if you were called upon to preach unexpectedly, unless you could get hold of an j old sermon, you would be completely confused."' | | The young divine used all his eloquence but , in vain, to convince the old gentleman that I the written sermon expressed his own thoughts i and feelings, and, if called upon, he could preach I : extemporaneously. I "As we are of the same faith," said the j | voting minister, "suppose you try me next 1 i Sabbath morning. On ascending the pulpit ' I you can hand me a text from any part of the Bible, and 1 will convince you that 1 can | preach without having looked at the text be fore I stood up. Likewise, I must be allowed tiic same privilege with you, and see who will make the best of it." The idea seemed to delight the old gen ; tlenian, and it was immediately agreed upon. ; The following Sabbath, on mounting the ' pulpit, his senior brother handed him a slip of paper, on which was written : "And the ass opened his mouth and spake from which he preached a glorious sermon, chaining the at tention of his delighted hearers, and charming his old friend with his eloquence. Iu the afternoon, the young brother, who was sitting below the pulpit, handed his slip. ! After rising and opening the Bible, the old man looked sadly around—" Am 1 not thine ass ?" Pausing a few minutes, he ran his fin gers through his hair, straightened bis collar, blew his nose like the last trnmp, and read alobd—"Am I not mine ass?" Another! pause, in which a deadly silence reigned. After reading the thire time—" Am I not thine ass?" 1 —he looked over the pulpit at his friend, and j in a doletu' voice, said— " I think IBroth er." If you want an ignornmns to respect you, dress to death, and wear a watch 6oal about the size of a brick-bat. BgL- A year of pleasure passes like a fleet (lng breeze, bat a moment of misfortune stoni? au age of pain. Living on Stilts. Did the reader ever observe the motions of an aspiriug juvenile mounted on wooden con tinuations of his rather short legs ? Did you ever observe how pertinaciously he risks a bloody uose and bruised limbs for the satisfac tien of stalking awkwardly about some three or four feet above the ground ? That boy is the typo of the future man. He may throw away his deal-board and leather supporters when he is old enough to play billiards or "run with the machine," hut the chances ure that he will continue to use stilts all his life ; that is to suy, thut he will always endeavor to be higher in the esteem of others than he deserves Towards the close of a long life of bitter ex perience he many acquire the good sense to kick off his stills and walk among men with ! his own natuiai gait. Now and then, too, we j find a man who acts and talks naturally, aud J who has no disposition to he esteemed better, wiser or richer than he is. But the greater ; part of the world, dissatisfied with a just esti | ination, are continually striving to appear and | be thought better than they are. That writer who is endeavoring *;o magnify ' a trifling subject by long winded essays, or j who expresses his ideas in the words of " fear ful length and thundering sound" instead of of the plain simple and natural language to which he is most accustomed, and which is the ouly kind to attract the favorable notice of ; | men of common sense—that writer is on stilts, i and there will never be any comfort to him or satisfaction to his readers until he tomes down I Ito the common level. Turgid, heavy, dull and I ! obscure, Ins essays cost him more labor tliu.ii 1 j if prepared in a simpler style without being of' j much benefit to his readers. There arc those of that class who seem to spend their whole i time in ransacking the dictionary for words of . imposing sound. The young man who receives all he earns, : yet w hose income is limited, but who wishes to j appear to have au abundance and to keep I puce with the extravagant and spendthrift j I folly of the wealthy of his age, is on stilts. He must appear a little higher in the world j than he is entitled to, and therefore must spend more money than ho has earned. His pride ! keeps bis pocket empty, and prevents him j from resorting to such rational and innocent pleasures as are within his reach. His position is j consequently as painful as itisawkward and un natural. Throw away your stilts, voung i friend —cultivate pleasures which ure not ex- j | pensive—live within your income, and you will ! j be much better and much happier for it .' j Fashion-loving and fashion-following people I are ail on stilts—run mad with notions of gen i tilitv—forever desirous of crcatiug for them j selves a peculiar circle, and of excluding the i great mass of mankind from it —u peerage of i rags—au aristocracy of gloves, cravats, laces 1 and jewelry. Of the wild m izes which the vo- i turies of lolly dance through, that of the peo ple who are on stilts of fashion is the most j absurd. The love of tiu< ry chokes out all i thut is good in their hearts—they become iden tified with their garments —they arc laced and I starched into uoncnities —wholesome natural feelings, vigorous thought, generous emotions, lofty impulses are all swallowed up in show Squalid poverty has nothing half so pitiful us j the state ot those whose souls are all taken no ! witti pomp, purad-, show, styie, fadnon and i ; cclat. The wild Indian that limits his game j for food, adores the Great Spirit, loves his ' ( friend and hates his enemy, walks on this earth a head and shoulders taller than the dandy on , his st.lts of fashion, f.r he is twice as much a ' man Still, awkward and unsafe is the -tilt J march of those who chase this ever-changing I phantom fashion. Their heads are raisei above the sphere of affection aud of rational ; : enjoyment. All the noble traits of the char- ! j acter in tlicm huve been replaced by dillet- I i lanism and snobbery. Taste they may indeed ! . have, but it is a taste which gives its possess- i ors no genuine pleasure. Refined they may 1 I be, but in the process of refinement their na- ' ; tive excellencies have been destroyed. Equally to be pitied are those who are ' raised upon literary stilts—who have imposed i upon themselves, and who ure sworn to main tain the reputation of " well-read people." ! The t.t.-k they assume, compels them to read or glance over every new hook, although not ! one in twenty, is worth n thought, leaving no i room for originality. They are compulsory ; I book-worms, with little pleasure, except what | they derive from the gratification of a child ; ish vanity—of no other use to the world but j to serve as walking catalogues. I In short, a large proportion of our people j ure raised upon stilts of some kind oi another, 1 j above nature, above usefulness, above enjoy- I nient. The examples we have presented, are i sufficient to convey our meaning. It is too ! much, perhaps, to expect that any great im | proveuient will soon take place, but it 111 i"' VOL. XX. K0.26. The Mine of Schuylkill County. In company with a tciuud, wc recently paid a visit to that great cariosity of the Anthracite cuai region, the burning iniue. It is located in what is known as the "jugular veiu " of the Broad Mountain, near the village of Coal Castle. Tne scenery around this ruining vill age is strikingly grand aod beautiful. Wher ever the eye may turn, the smoke of stenrn engines can be seen ascending, while their deep pulsations break the stillness of the giant mountains. A hundred little brooks and rivu lets make music in the deep gorge* and over the shining pebbles. Immense structures built of timber and blackened by the coal dust, tell of the enterprise of the operators ; while the dusky countenances of the toil-worn miners bear witness to their industry. Leaving the high road which passes through the village, we wended our way op along the mountain gorge to the burning mine. A well worn path indicated the locality of the curiosity we were iu search of, and following this we soon cam" within range of the sickening ordors which rise from the hidden lire. After climb ing with some difficulty from the gorge to the j .summit of the mountain spur, beneath which which the devouring element rages, we catne to the direct evidences of the magnitude of this subterranean fire. Immense holes wero formed in the mountain, funnel shaped aud : about twenty feet in depth, where the surface j of the earth had caved in upon the cavity form ed by the fire. Those extend iu a line from , the entrance to the mine a distance of several ' hundred yards, and present a most singular ap ' pearance. Around them the trees are killed by the vapors which continually arise in the form of steam from the bidden laboratory.— The rocks and pebbles are colored with a sul phurous coating of a yellowish-red hue. The earth over the mine is loose and porous, being apparently disintegrated by the continual action ! of the hot air and steam which arises from the fire below and by thrusting a stick into it the ; vapor will at once burst out. \\ e cannot describe the sickening odor of this vapor. It is sulphurous, and there is a damp, stifling effluvia about it which is very I nauseating. The steam which rises through j the earth is only modern)ely warm, owing to the great depth of the fire. We lingered around the externa! evidences of this wonder ful subterranean combustion nntil we wero sickened by its breath, and the odor of ithr.ng about us for bouts after we had reached a i purer atmosphere. '1 11s burning mine was first ignited in thb winter of One of the watchmen placed a light near a prop, wfcich caught fire, and ; soon the fire was communicated to the coal, .m l since then has been burning incessautlv. llow much coal has been consumed in this scoi eof years can only be conjectured, but I certainly many thousands of tons have been 1 necessary to feed the devouring element. A vein underneath that which is burning is now worked. Several times the lire has communi : cated 10 this vein, but it lias always been ex tinguished by filling the mine with water. At present there are no signs of fire in the lower vein, and the miners work without any diffi culty or uppa at tear. We could not but j iiiiik, however, that tile labor of digging coai i near six hundred feet below tht earth's surface, with u Ure of iweuty years' standing, covering ; acres ot ground, above their heuds, was not the most agreeable occupation iu the world.— | Mining Reurd. i MEDICAL USE OK SALT.—IU many RATES of | d surdere i stomach, a teaspcoufull of salt is a ! certain cum. In the violent internal aching, termed ciiodc, aii'.l a tea.ipoonlu! of salt to a pint of cold water - drink it and go to bed ;it is one of the speediest remedies known. The i -nine will revive receiving who seems ultuost i dead from receiving a heavy fall. In an aj o ibctic fit, no time ihould be lost l in pmring dow i salt and water, il sufficient ' sensibility remain to allow the swallowing—if • not, tiie head must be sponged with cold wa ter iiitH.the senses ritirn, when salt will im mediately restore the patient Iroiu the lethargy. Iu a fit, the feet should be placed iu warm , water, with mustard added ; and the legs brisk ly rubbed, all bandages removed from the neck, and a cool apartment procured if possi , b!e. In many cases of severe bleeding at the lungs, and when other remedies fail Dr. ltuch found two spoonfuls of salt completely stayed 1 tile blood. In case of bite from a mad dog, wash th© port \vi h >'ro g •r n ■ for an hour, then bind on some salt a iili u rig lu toot! a li', warm sulC—.ind water held to the jirt ami renewed two or three times will relieve in most eases If the gnuis be affec ted, wash the mouth with brine ; if the teet be covered with tartar wash them twice a d*< with alr and water. in swelled neck, wash the part with brine , and drink it also twice a day until cured. Salt will expel worms, if used in the food in a moderate degree, and aids digestion ; but salt meat is injurious if used too much.— .Sa j en'ifi Arric.ri -n it ttkfe'* A barn filled with tobacco, oats and wheat, belonging to Aiulnw Mi* thorn of this I village, was destroyed by fire with ail its con j tents, at Ilig Flats on Friday night. Thecoij. j tents belonged to Mr Geo. Tenbrok of Big Fiats. 'llie los< is estimated at .$ 1.000. No t insurance. The fir© was undoubtedly kindled by the torch of an incendiary. Similar de ! perflations have been committed in, and about Ibg Flats for some time past. It is ardently hoped that these black hearted vidians will I o speedily smelt out and brought to justice ere any more destruction flow from their ruinous hands.—JL/vti a Advertiser. FATAL RxtLnoAb Accibrsr —The engine No 111. attached to a freight train on the New-York and Erie R lroad, ex plod t d about 9 o'clock on Wednesday morning last, thrt-o miles West of Suvjo* h.uimi, seriou.-ly injur ing N .than Whitnee, eiig necr. H. Vease", fireman, a:•! Fred Bowers at;J S. Harris.!, broken.tn.