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Thursday TCorniug, August 16,1860.
jStkriei Poctrn.
SUMMER DAYS.
In Summer wheu the days were long,
We walked together in the wood ;
Our heart was light, our step was strong ;
Sweet flntterings were there in our blood,
In summer wheu the days were long,
We stayed from morn till evening came ;
We gathered (lowers and wove us crowns ;
We walked 'mid poppies red as flame,
Or sat upon the yellow downs ;
And always wished our lives the same.
In Summer, when the days were long.
We leaped the hedgerow, crossed the brouk ;
And still her voice flowed forth in song,
Or else she read some graceful book.
In summer, when the days were long.
And then we sat beneath the trees,
With shadows lessening in the noon ;
And, in the sunlight and the breeze,
We feasted, many a gorgeous June,
While larks were singing o'er the leas.
In Summer when the days we-e long.
On dainty chicken, snow-white bread,
I We feasted, with ne gVace tut song,
I I We plucked wihl strawberries, ripe and red, .
in Summer when the days were long.
We hreJ, and yet we knew it not—
fV loving seemed like breathing tb*n ;
| We fot n ! . a ueaven in every -pot;
Saw angels, too, in all good m-eil :
And dreartea of God iu grove and grot.
In summer, when the days were long,
Alone 1 wander, music atone ;
1 see her not, hut that old song
I'nder the fraerant pirn! is b.oWrt.
in summer, when the days were long.
Alone I wander in the wood ;
But one fair spirit hears my sighs ;
And half I see, so glad and good,
The honest daylight of her eyes.
That charmed me under ira-lh-r -hi •.
in Slimmer, when the days f.tc long,
1 love her as we loved ot •-"d :
Jly heart is light, my -teg strrti.g ;
Fr love brings back t host- hours of good,
In Summer, when the days ar- 1 iof.g.
The Burial of the King cf France
i Writing Upon tTiis topir; the Boris rorrcs
|p • lent of the New York Jrilure says :
■ Tm-s matter of buryirg head!! -of Stati-s is
sL n grave one. It ha§ political irfiportan'ce.—
■ T..e i'mitik of St. Deuir. ft to dead monarch*
■ son; :hh.' mat the TaiTetis is to the litre one
traditional dead-htinse of royalty. The
I first pr/ace deposited there was one Dagobert
I—not lie of the mixed pantaloons, celebrated
Fin popular song—but the ton cf Chilperic.—
I!! - funeral took place dite afternoon it! the
'rear 580. From that date fdrwhrd, as death
fell, prince bones aftfit* prince bones, in reg
n sir succession, unbroken by change of dynas
ty, till " at. last God took pity on France and
let Louis XV dip," V/ere laid away there.—
Then came the terrible resurrectionists Of the
old Revolution, and Iftokc up the coffins and
Scattered the molderir.g mockeries of royalty
to the four winds. The first Napoletfn, whose
desire to tie buried under the dome cf the In
valides was ail after thertght that rune to him
at St. Helena, was married to M nia Louise
in this church, and meant theft to be buried in
it, and had it repaired And put in fit order for
the purpose. The only t /i>/ remains cf a
king now there are those of Louis X V if I •
the fragments of what pass for these of his
•'..happy brother, Louis XVI, are anything
but authentic Stili, the dynasty prestige he.
' tigs to the royal vaults always. The wish
then, of the first, and now of the third Napo-
W., to join in the regular, dkwstie funeral
"■(■-ion, is politic in its way. The purpose
iu fftillment is the more important to him,
'•~'e otherwise he has no burial place. His
[ HifiV rflrild well lie at the Invalided, but he
not fitly by his side. The famous tomb there
'•vas designed by \ isconti) fts a one-man monu
ment—let alone other excluding circumstances,
ft was rumored the other day that the occa
bon of Jerome's interment would be taker! to !
-ranfer the First Napoleon from his provision- 1
T tomb you know he has rnver been placed \
'1 the one built by Visconti under the Grand
J'ome of the invalides) to the Church of St.
Denis. p,ut beside that, the family tomb there
" not completed—the finishing work going on,
i-eihaps, with a purposed slowness—the Em
■'"or negotiations with Francis Joseph for
'-he bones Bf the D ike of Riechstadt, Xapo
"i H by implication since the present is ex-
P - 'it y Napoleon 111, are not Completed, it
•sas thought last summer that he hud proba
,j 5 secQ red them at Villafranca ; but as Vil-
Tranca " went to the bad" for F. Joseph, j
' " generous-minded gCntlerna-n held on to (
f[ o had bettefi overcome feie inherent i
'''fi'.ncss for dead and buried things and give !
• • u up. One would say that he had skele- !
I ' enough in his own closet, without keeping j
' e r oor boy s bones away from his family.
J™*" OR CLEANLINESS.— Somebody has
F..,.t V Wltb what cure and attention do the
■nV* er - raCe themselves, and put their
ordcr • how perfectly neat,
thp , andt ' e S an t do they appear! Among
the field, we find that those
e are the most cleanly, and generally the
cer " '" V aud clieprf,l l. a "d distinguished by a
ria lß of contentment . an(l sin g iag birds at . c
~i '• > r - ran rkable for the neatness of ilveir
,- nage. So great is the effect of eleanii ness
tb ® l !t e xtends even to his moral
iik' , irt,,e never dwelt lon £ with
, nor do we believe there ever was a ner
erupulously attentive to cleanliness who
as a consummate villain.
aw °hroker is like an inebriate ; he
I' edge, but can Dot always keep it.
The Susquehanna River.
If there be a more beautiful spot on earth
than that where the men of l'axto settled, we
have never seen it From its source in Otse
go Lake, where the great American novelist
has described it in language that will never
1 cease to be read ; along by its lovely-windings,
where the Chemung intersects the North
branch, whose beuaties have been embalmed
by one of our most graceful poets,; by the
Valley of Wyoming, which lives forever in the
imaginations of Campbell, but which is fairer
even than the semi-tropical fancy of which he
was enamored ; on by the bold scenery of the
meetings of its waters at Northumberland, to
its broad glory, celebrated in the new Pastoral,
and its Magnificent union with the Chesa
peake, every mile of the Susquehanna is beau
tiful. Other rivers have their points of love
liness or of grandeur, the Susquehanna has
every form of beauty or sublimity that belongs
to rivers. We have seen them all : Connect
icut, Hudson, Delaware, Ohio, Mississippi, '
Missouri. There is nothing liko the Susque
hanna on this continent. Its peculiar charac
ter depends updo its origin in the New York
meadows its passage through the magnificent
Pennsylvania highlands, and the richness of
the valleys that Ire between the mountains.—
i Everywhere its course is deflected * it begins
! a wooded lake ; it winds a limpid brook bv
I meadows and over silver pebbles ; makes it
1 way through mountains ; it loiters, restingly,
i by their basis ; it sweeps in broad courses by
| the Valleys. Its vast width, in its mad Spring
; freshets, when swollen by the melted snows, it
. rushes from the hills with irresistible force,
| sometimes causing frightful inundations, leaves,
| with its falls, bland after island in its mid
| channel, of the richest green, and ntcst sur
i passing beauty ; while those passes through
' the mountains afford points of scenery far finer
! than any one would believe them to be from
j any description, if he haft not seen then!.
The Susquehanna makes the grandest of
j these parages, just below the mouth of the
: Juniata Its ■course there is several miles J-oii"
before it entirely disengages itself from the
rapids, called Hunter's Falls, whi It are tire
remains of the ro< ky barrier, which once re
sisted its way. Entirely at liberty it pcucs its
■ stream, a ihife vide, aldng a channel some fif
| ty or s Jcty feet beneath its eastern bank.--
About seven miles below the mountains at a
! point where they look blue in the distance, a
! sheltering wall from the northern blasts, flo.vs
in a little stream which the Indians called Pex
' etang, I'aixtang or Taxton. This mountain
' is the northern boundary eff the gtoat valley,
which, underlaid with bine limestone, covered
originally with the richest and noble't forcst
, growth, and ine'uding within it the garden of
' all the J tlantre slope, extends from Ea.ston,
'on the Delaware, by Reading. Lebanon and
Lancaster, by !farrisburg, York and Carlisle,
by Chambersbnrg, Hasrerstown and Winches-
I ter, until it looses itself in the North ( aroli
ina hills. The point of greatest beauty in all
; that valley, is the spot where it is cloven by
the frupquehntifiii.
A hundred and forty years r.go, an enter
prising young man, from Yorkshire in Eng
land, by descent, probably, of one of those
■ Scandinavians, who, under the great; Canute,
' held p<sswssi';:n of the North cf England, and
' gave its main character to it, made his way to
Philadelphia. He married here a lady who
came oVer with a veil known > orkshire fami
!y of this city. Impelled by the same enter
prising spirit that bro'jght him from the old
world, and using the inevitable eye that was
characteristic of him. he went to the hanks of
the Stisqiieluluha. he settled for a brief pe
riod at a point above Columbia, where the
village of Buinbridge now stauds, a place
much frequented by the Cotmy or Gowanse
Indians. But he was r.fit satisfied with thi
location. Exploring upwards alceg the east
ern bank of the Husguehahnft, he advanced
until instead, of the Conewaga hills at his
back and on the opposite side of tlvs river he
found the enfraoeD opposite to bin of that,
most beautiful valley, already described, with
two fine streams flowing iutd the rive" about
five miles apart., and on the eastern side an
elevated plateau unsurpassed in loveliness in
the wide world, with the little Paxton flowing
at the base cf an elevated slope or Vidge of
land. Ifere he Settled, and the ferry across
the river to the entrance of the Cumberland
Valley was called after him. His son, the
first white child born west of the Conewaga
hills, subsequently laid out a town on the spot
and with singular forethought set apart six
acres on a noble hill which rises on the north
west, which he conveyed to the State for pub
lic purposes. The Capitol ot Pennsylvania is
now built upon it, and the city of Hurrisburg
bears his name.— Presbyterian (>nar!crly He
r lew.
LOVE AND MONEY. —As for those suits for
breaches of promise airongyontig folks, where
love is really supposed to exist, they are al
ways in had taste. If a man refuses to marry
a woman whom he has promised to marry, and
acts meanly about it-, he is a fit subject for a
brotherly flogging—that's all. >iobodv pities
him, of course, and nobody would object to
seeing him suffer a heavy fine ; but to under
take to recover the value of a heart, or a lost
love, argues such a low view of marriage, and
demonstrates so little damage really done, that
the thing becomes not only ridiculous but of
fensive. No high minded woman would touch
the money of a man who had discarded her,
with a pair of tongs. When a woman under
takes to bind up a broken heart with bank
notes and Ileal her wounded affections by trop
ical application of silver, she may be iu a pit
ied condition, but there i 3 no immediate dan
ger cf her dying. Not a bit cf it. It is gen
et ally the very best evidence that she is going
to live a good while yet, and wants something
to live on.
Society is shrewd to detect those who
do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes
her attention. Society is very swift in its in
stincts, and if you don't belong to it, resists
and sneers at you, or quietly drops you
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH.
" RESAR.BLEBS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER."
Bladensburg Dueling Grounds.
(Correspondence of the Cleveland Plaindeater.)
Buadensburg, June 18, iB6O.
Pistols and coffee for two. As I am alone
on the classic ground I can take care that
the pistols do no harm, and the coffee is barm
less anyhow. The place, so noted for its po
lite and refined murders, is about five miles
from the city, fresh and handsome, In full liv
ery of green, adorned with fiowers, and should
blush in its beauty for the scenes it has wit
nessed. Here, in a beautiful little grass plat
surrounded by trees, forms, made after the
image of God, come to insult Nature and de
fy Heaveu. In 181-1, Edward Hopkins was
killed here in.a duel. This seems to have
been the first of these fashionable murders 011
this dueling ground.
In 181b, A. T. Mason, a United States
Senator from Virginia, fought with his sister's
husband, John M'Carty, here. M'Carty was
averse to fighting, and thought there was no
necessity for it ; but Mason would fight.—
M'Carty named muskets loaded with buck
shot, and su near together that they would
hit heads if they fell on their faces. This was
changed by the seconds to loading with bul
hts, and taking twelve feet as the distance.
Mason was killed instantly, and M'Carty, who
had his collar bono brukctt, still lives with Ma
son's sister in Georgetown. His hair turned
white so soon after the fight as to cause much
comment. He has since been solicited to act
as a second in a duel, but refused in Accord
ance with a pledge made to his wifa scoii af
| ter killing her brother.
In Commodore Decatur was killed in
a diic-1 here by Commodore Bafireu. At the
first fire both fell forward and lay with their
heads within ten feet of each other, and as
each supposed himself mortally wounded, each
> fully and freely forgave the other, still lying
on the ground. Decatur expired in a few days,
j but Darren eventually recovered. In 1821,
! two strangers named Lega and Sega appear
! Ed here, fought, and Sega was instantly killed.
The neighbors only learned this much of their
! names from the marks on their gloves left on
the ground. Lega was not hurt.
In 1822, Midshipman Locke was killed
here in a duel with a clerk of the Treasury
1 Department named Gibson. The latter was
not hurt. In 1826, Henry Clay fought (his
second duel) with John Randolph, just Across
1 tiic Potomac, as Randolph preferred to die, if
;at all, on 1 irgitiia sml • lie received Clay's
1 shot and then fired Id-- pist •! in the air. This
was in accordance with a declaration made to
Mr. Benton Who spoke to Randolph of a call
the evening before on Mrs. Clat, and alluded
to the quiet sleep of her child and the repose
! of the mother. Randolph quickly Replied, " 1
<hr.ll do nothing to disturb the sleep of the
child or 'lie repose of the mother."
General Jes.sup, whose funeral i attended
: last week, was Clav's second. When Ran
dolph tired he remarked : " I do not ."hoot at
you, Mr. Clay," and extending his hand ad
i vauced tow ard Clav, who rushed to meet him.
Randolph showed Clay where his hall struck
his coat, and said, facetiously, " Mr. Clay,
you owe me a coat." Clay replied : " Thank
Go 1 the debt is no greater." They were
friends ever after. In 1832 Martin was kill
ed here by Carr Their first names are not
remembered. They were from the South.—
In >832, .Mr. Key, sob of Frank Key and
brother of Barton Key, of Sickles notoriety,
met Mr. Sherborn who said : " Mr. Key, I
ha*'e no desire to kill you." " N<> matter,"
<aid Key, " I came to kill you." " Very well,
then," said Sherborn, " i will now kill you
and lie did.
In 1838, W. J. Graves, cf Kentucky, as
suming the quarrel of James Watson Webb
and Jonathan Cilley, of Maine, selected thi*
plane for Cilley's runnier, but the parties learn
ing thgt Webl>, with two friends, Jackson and
Morre!, vt ere armed and in pursuit, for the
purpose of esse~<nating Cilley, mov;ed toward
the river afid nearer the city. Their pursuers
moved toward the river but missed the par
ties fend then' returned to the city, to which
they were soon followed by Graves, and the
corpse of Cilley. In 1845, a lawyer named j
Jones fought with and killed a Dr. Johnson.
In 1851, R. A. Hoole and A. J. Dallas had
a hostile meeting here. Pallas was shot in ;
the shoulder, but recovered. Jn 1852, Dan
iel and Johnson, two Richmond editors, held
a harmless set-to here, which terminated in
coffee. In 1853, Davis and Ridgeway fought
here ; Ridgeway allowed his antagonist to lire
without returning the shot.
Many of the names 1 could not get iu full,
and souk: other duels were indefinitely given
by the "oldest inhabitant," for whose courtesy
lam much indebted. My informant was an
eye witness to many of these beastly rencon
tres. In fact, these little amusements seem
to enjoyed by the IJladensburgers quite as
much as a regatta would be at Cleveland.—
When there is a lull in these sports, a sort of
amphitheatre is erected in the village, one
mile from this ground, and frequently one or
two fighting cocks arc entered for single coin
bat or duels. These fight for quite as well
grounded cause, never ending in bloodless bat
tles, and they never kiss and make up. When
I took the ears at six this morning, my friend
Stevens said I must be sure and make a note
of the " Bladeusburg races," so 1 very grave
ly, while waiting for my coffee, asked the bar
tender how often the " Bladensburg races"
occurred ? " Never but once," he said, " and
I hope they never will again." " Why, how
is that?" I innocently inquired. "By the
' Bladensburg races' they mean the race of
the American soldiers away from the British
soldiers in the last war. My father ran so far
in one day that it took him two weeks to get
back," said he. Mr. Stevens may make up
his taind to come out here in tho morning.—
Any distance over three hundred rods I shan't
object to. My blood is up and lam off.
jgjgy An Irish sailor, riding on horseback,
came to a stand still, for the horse, in beating
off the flies, had his hind foot caught in the
stirrup. " Arrah, now, ould Dobbin." cried
Pat "an' if it's yerself now intends to mount,
faix it's time I were out uv your way, sure.''
Oar Foremothers,
We heard enough about our forerrlothers.—
They were nice old fellows, no doubt perfect
bricks in their way. Good to work, eat or
fight. Very well. Hut where are theft com
panions—their " charirts''—who, as their help
mates, urged them along ? Who worked and
delved lor our forefathers, brushed up their
old clothes and patched their breeches ? Who
uupetticoated themselves for the cause of lib
erty ? Who nursed our forefathers when
sick—sang Yankee Doodle to their babies—
who trained up thcr boys ? Our foremothers.
Who landed at James Hiver, and came over
in the Mayllower, and established the early
settlements? Were there any women among
them to sustain with kind hearts and warm
arms, the flagging spirits of their male com
panions, and keep the stalwart but chilly old
forefathers from freezing to death, during
those horrible cold winters which some of
them had to shiver through ?
Who ushered us into this world—our fore
fathers ? Both ! No indeed, it was our fore
mothers. Who nsrsed George Washington,
Anthony Wayne, LJenj. Franklin, Israel Put
nam, and a host of other worthies whose
names will live forever, and taught them to be
men and patriots? Didn't our foremothers?
And who gives them the credit they deserve?
Nobody !
We have our monuments commemorating,
and our speeches, our songs, our toasts, ami
our public dinners, celebrating the wonderful
deeds of our forefathers, but where arc those
in honor of our foremothers? We had better
be getting them ready. We talk ourselves
hoarse, and write oiirselven reilnd shouldered,
while boiling over with enthusiasm about the
nice tilings our forefathers did, and yet nothing
is said about our foremothers, to whom many
a virtuous act ami deed may be ascribed,
snob as any hero would be prorid 10 o'A'rt.—
Besides we forgot to remember, that if it had
not been for our foremothers, we ourselves
would not be here to know, and be proud of
what our forefathers did.
OVF. TFKICK WRO.VO.— Workmen were re
cently building a largo brick tower, which was
to be carried up very high. The architect
and foreman both charged the masons to lay
each brick with the greatest exactness, es
pecially the first courses which were to sustain
all the re<t. However, in laying a corner, by
accident or carelessness, one brief: was set very
little out of the line. The work went <>n with
out its being noticed, but as each course of
brick was kept in line with those already laid,
the tower was not put up exactly straight,
arid the higher they tuilt the more insecure it
became '*ne day when the tower had been
carried up about fifty feet, there was heard a
tremendous crash. The building had fallen,
burying the men in the ruins. All the pre
vious work was lest the mat: rials wasted, and
worse still, valuable lives were sacrificed, and
all from one. brick I:i/l wrong at the start. The
workmen at fault in this matter little thought
how much mischief he was making for the fu-
tlire. Do veil ever think what ruin may come
!of one bad habit—one brick laid wrong—while
you are now building a character for life Y
Remember, in youth the foundation is laid.—
, See to it that ell is kept straight.
S&" Juleps are in session, and so in the
j story of a broad backed Kentnckian who went
i down to New Orleans for the first time.—
; Whiskey, brandy and plain drinks, he knew ;
but its to the compound and flavored liquors,
he was a 'know-nothing. Deposing on the
seats of tlie bar room of the i?t. I'hailes, he
observed crowd of fashionable drink mint ju
leps. " Hoy," said he, ''firing nie a glass of
that licVetage." V. hen he had consumed the
cooling draught he called the boy again." I>oy,
what was my last remark ?" " Why, you or
dered a jnlep." " That's right, don't forget
to keep on bringing 'ern.! '
A French magistrate, uotcd for his
love of the pleasure of the table, speaking one
day to a friend said : "We have just been
eating a siiperb turkey ; it was excellent,
stuffed to the neck, tender, delicate, and of a
high Savor. Wc left only the bones." " How
many of yori wefe thefie ?" said bis friend.—
" TWO," replied the magistrate, "the turkey
and mysfelf. '
ftSh An old Dutchman undertook to wal
lop his son. lint Jack turned upon him and
walloped the old gent. The old man con
soled himself for his defeat by rejoicing in his
superior manhood, lie said : " Veil, Sehack
is a smart vellcw. lie can vhip his own tad -
dy."
BfeF- A speaker, enlarging on the rascality
of Satan, said : "The devil is an old liar ; for
when I was about getting religion, he told me
that if I did get religion, I could not go into
gay company and lie and cheat, or any such
tiling ; but J have found him out to be a great
liar."
Tor: TREACHERY OK EVIL PASSIONS.— EviI
passions exert a powerful influence over the
understanding ; they derange its action, and
having the art cf self-concealment, are likely
to operate with greatest fatalitj when least
exposed to the notice of their victim. Of the
drunkard, it is often said that he is a poor
judge of himself, often imagining himself to
be sober Then he is not. !t is Very much with
all the evil passions that prey upon fallen ha
manity : they beguile and deceive, ruin and
destroy, without any advertisements of their
presence, except in tiieir results. They shrink
from the blaze of conscience, end burrow in
the heart.
J®* The lady who " knit her brows," has
commeueed a pair of socks Her sister was
choked with iudiguation. Iler brother went
away in disynst.and returned in a steamer. A
consin went into the rope line the other day—
I was bung. Her husband started on an enter
-1 prise—gone to Australia to escape the sheriff.
The Ivory Trade. —The amount of ivory
consumed in the workshops of Europe, Ameri
ca and India, is immense, and yet, great as it
is, the continent of Africa furnishes seven
eighths Cf a'l that is worked bp into orna
' inents, toys, and crucifixes in France : b'ea
than gods, boxes and fans in India and China ;
I billiard balls, boxes, miniature plates, chess
men, mathematical tides, keys for piano fortes,
I organs and melodeons, fans, combs, folders,
| dominoes, and a thousand and one other things
in England, Germany, and the Lmited Slates.
1 The immense demand for Elephants' tasks
' (called teeth in common parlance) has of late
years increased the supply from all parts of
Africa. At the end of the last century the
annual average importation into England was
only 192,5U0 lbs. ;in 1827 it -reached 364,-
784 lbs., or 6,080 tusks, which would require
the death of at least 3,040 male elephants.—
It is probable that the slaughter ir-much great
er, for the teeth of the female are refjr small,
and Burehell tells us, in his African travels,
that he met with some elephant hunters who
had shot twelve huge fellows, which, however,
altogether produced no more than two hundred
pounds of ivory. To produce 1,000,000 lbs.
of ivory, the present annual English import,
we should require (estimating each tusk at bit
lbs.) the life of 8,333 male elephants. It is
said that 4,000 tuskers suffer death every
year to supply the United States with combs,
knife-handles, billiard balls, tic.
A tusk weighing seventy pounds and up
wards is considered by dealers as first class.
Cuvier formed a table of the most remarkable
tusks of tvhieh any account has been given.
The largest cn record was one which was sold
at Amsterdam, which weighed 350 pounds
In the late sales at London the largest of the
: Bombay and Zanzibar was 122 lbs. ; of An
gola and Lisbon '39 lbs. ; cf Cape Coast Cas
tle, Lagos, Ac., 114 His. ; of Gaboon 61 lbs. :
Egyptian 114 lbs. But it must not be in
ferred from this that large tnsks are now rare.
On the contrary, it is probable that more loug
i and heavy teeth are now brought to market
I than in any previous century. A short time
ago, Julius I'ratt fc Co. cut up at their es
tablishment in Meriden, Ct., a tu-k that was
tiine and a half feet long, eight inches hi di
ameter, and which weighed nearly two hun
dred pounds. The same fire, in 1851, sent to
the " World's Fair," London, the widest, finest
and largest piece cf ivory ever sawed out. B\
wonderful machinery, invented in their own
factory, they sawed out (and the process of
sawing did the work of polishing at the same
time) a strip of ivory forty-one Teel long and
twelve inches wide. It took the precedence
of all the specimens sent in br England, France
or Germany, and received rewarding atten
tion from the Commission. Jt may be asked
what can be dene with such r.n imnienre piece
ot ivory ? VTe reply that the time lias come
when this beautiful material can lie used for
purposes of veneering, and we shall soon doubt
less see tables, bureaus, writing desks, and
other ceir.beto cf the furniture family render
ed as res.clettdgnk as the throne of Solomon.
We belieVe that it is now contemplated by
Steinway k, Sons to build a piano whose keys
sha!' not be the only portion from the teeth
of the African elephant, but an instrument
whose whole surface shall be of burnished vir-
j gin ivory.
i One thing is certain, that any piano-forte
manufacturer who should first attempt this,
will make a sensation by the novelty of the
ngair, and will doubtless be well rewarded for
his labor.
THE SOCIETY OK WOMAN. —Xo society i
more profitable, because none more refined
and provocative of virtue than that of refined
and sensible woman Ood enshrined peculiar
goodness in the form of woman tlistt hoc beau
tv might win, her gentle voice invite, and the
desire of her favor persuade men's sterner
souls to leave the path of sinful strife, for the
ways of pleasantness and peace. Put when
woman falls from this blessed eminence, ud
sinks the guardian and the cherisher of pure
' and rational enjoyments in the vain coquette,
i and flattered indolator of idol fashion, she is
I unworthy of an honorable man's love or a sen
; sible man's admifatioii. Put is then, at least,
but
——A pr?tty jvaythins—
Pr.ir deceit."
We honor the chivalrous deference which
is paid in our land to woolen. It proves that
our men know how to respect virtue and pure
affection, and that our women are worthy of
! such respect. Yet woman should be some
i thing more than mere woman to win us to
their society. To be our companions, they
' should be fitted to be oer friends ; to rule our
[ hearts, they should be deserving the approba
tion of our minds. There are many such, and
I that there are no more is rather the fault of
our own sex than their own, and, despite all
the unmanly scandals that have been thrown
upon them in prose and verse, they would
rather share in the rational conversation of
men of sense than listen to the silly compli
ments cf fools ; and a man disbdncrs them, as
well as disgraces himself, when he seeks their
circle for idle pastime, and not for the im
provement of his mind and the elevation of
his heart.
IiOVE. —The first symptoms of love in the
wisest of the world's philosophers were cer
tainly very remarkable. " Leaning,' says
Socrates, " my shoulder to her shoulder, and
my head to hers, as we were reading together
in a book, I felt, it is & fact, a sudden stirrihg
in my shoulder, five days afiefi, and a con
tinual itching crept into my heart."
Crrm's FETTERS. —The Washington correij.
pondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer, writes :
One of the bachelor members of the House
has been notified that if he leaves the city
without performing certain promises he will be
liable to an action for damages. His letters,
with other testimony, are in a lawyer's hands,
and he must cither obtain a "license and a
ring," cr visit the "office and settle."
VOL. XXI. —NO. 1 1;
Griiutatioiuil Department.
Editors of Educational publications to
whom this copy of the Reporter is sent, will
please to exchange or re turn this to the editors
of the educational cohioin,
C. R. CO BURN",
OLIVER S. EE AX.
BwT" The following suggestions in relation
to Plaster Blackboards, are taken from the
District School Journal, —they were writteu
by Prof D. I*. PACE, the first Principal of tho
New York state Normal School. Walls of
this kind have been in use, in that school, for
about fifteen years. White Crayon should be
used on inch walls, as the particles of flint,
found in chalk, will soon spoil them. We
would suggest to Directors to preserve thi.i
paper as it may be of use to them hereafter.
c. R. c.
The Plaster Blackboard.
Inquiries are so frequently made from dif
ferent parts of the State, as to the construc
tion of the Plaster Blackboard, used in the
State Normal School, that it may be well to
give, through the Journal, a particular de
scription of the mode of preparing it:
In the first place, the scratch coat, made
with coarse sand, is spread upon the laths as
usual, and the broren JSJI follow.-, being left a
little rough under the " float." When the
brown coat is perfectly dry, the black ccat is
laid on. This is prepared ot mason's "putty,"
and groUnd plaster and beach sand, mixed in
the usal proportions for hard finish. The co
loring mutter is lampblack, wet with alcohol
or whiskey, forming a mixture of the consist
ency of paste. This is mixed with the other
ingredients just as they are about to be spread
upon the wall. The quantity of coloring to
be used must be sufficient to make a black
surface ; the sufficiency being determined by
experiment, no rule be given.
For 10 square yards of black finish, take
' I '2 pecks of Mason's Putty ; 1 1-2 pecks of
Peach Sand ; 1 1 "J pecks of Ground I'laster ;
1 1-2 pounds of Lampblack wet up with 112
gallons of Whiskev.
An intelligent mason can very soon try ex
periments so as to insure success. It is to be
remembered that the black surface requires
more working with the smoothing trowel, than
ordinary white finish. It shouUl be finished
by being softly smoothed with a wet brush.—
When perfectly dry, it i nearly as hard as
slate, and almost as durable, if carefully used.
Great care should be taken not to put in too
much lampblack.
The advantages of this kind of black sur
face over the ordinary blackboard are, 1. The
chalk easily takes effect upon it. 2. The
chalk is much more easily wiped off. 3. There
is but little noise made in writing upon it. 4.
There is no reflection of light upon it. 6. It
is cheaper, it costs but a trifle more than ordi
nary hard finish.
la building a new school house it would be
well to have t belt of this biack surface pass
entirely around the room, at the proper height.
In a common school, when small children are
to use it, its lower edge should he about two
feet from the floor, extending thence upward
from "• to 3l ot teet. At the lower edge there
should be a "chalk trough"' extending the.
whole length, made by nailing a thin strip of
board to the plank which bounds the black
board, leaving a trough two inches in width
and depth, in which to place the chalk, brush
es, pointers, &c.; this would also catch tho
dust which is wiped from the board. The up
per edge should be bounded by a simple
moulding.
The J)rushes —The best thing for removing
the chalk from the board is a brush, made of
the size of a shoe brush, with a wooden han
dle on the back side, the face being covered
with a sheep skin with the wool on. This re
moves the chalk at a single sweep, without
wearing the surface, and without dieting the
hand of the operator. This is a great im
provement over a d'JSt-Cloth or a spenge. Id
all cases let the board be kept dry ; never al
low a pupil to wet the wiper when removing
the chalk.
Ju'iwtatirri — Ry long use, especially if tho
surface is ever cleaned with a wet wiper, this
kind of black-board becomes too smooth and
glossy upon the surface ; the chalk passes over
it without taking effect, and the light is re
flected by it. A very simple wash applied
with a whitewish brash, will immediately re
store it ; this wash is made by dissolving 0110
part of glue to two parte of alum, so as to
make a very thin Solution, tt is well to have
this Wash slightly colored with lampblack.—
Care should be taken that this wash do uot
have too fcSeh body
The above directions, if carefully observed,
it is believed, will be found sufficient to enairio
any district to procure, at a cheap rate; an
adequate amount of blackboard, ready for use
at all times. If these suggestions Shall tend
to promote the welfare of the schools, by im
proving tho means of instruction in the dis
tricts, the writer will h°ve a sufficient reward.
We hope that teachers and friends of
education in the western part of the county'
will bear in mind that tho County .Association
holds its next meeting nt tho Rowley sehoot
house, in Wells township. That will be tho
first meeting of the Association that has been
held in that section of tho county, and wo
have no doubt that the friends in that town
and those adjoining, will feel an interest in at
tending and taking part in the proceedings.—
The regular notico will appear in due time.
There is wisdom that looks prave, ami
sneers at merriment; and npain a deeper wis
dom, that stoops to he pay as often as occa
sion serves, and oftenest avails itself of shal
low and trifling grounds of mirth, because if
we wish for more substantial ones, we seldom
can be at all,