O-JE D3LLAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
TO VOY^ID.A.:
Thursday Morning, September 13,1860.
\loitrn.
mmm •
[l'lH.ia tUt livening Eost.]
THE MOSS-GIIOWN BRIDGE.
r MRS. 1. 1. iiEMTNO.
Tii ,\ wild, rude spat, jet just the place
White poet'. lo\e to drcutß.
In the dpep, deep shade. 011 the moss grown bridge
That spans fti* mountain stream ;
On either Side ttse Mggjr recti
I.ikesen 1 ! i<"> stand alireifsr,
While on 'he top of their tawny trows
The ea?ie bu ids his ae-t.
'Tis a wild. "'ld -put. yet 1 love to rtrey
Alone by tli.- Witvdjfffj stream
And sittiner down t*r tlie mossy bridge,
0: other days to dr.-am ;
There fauey wi aves her f.iiry web
Of every -hade and i.ue,
Wilde age dep ttr ad o{ the buried past
T.ike a -anbeau: wanders through.
Where eve.ping weaves her mystic charm*,
To deck the twilight h air.
With plekwnt thowgiits I hie me there,
T > the I-rtSpe in the shady bower,
Aud there with happy mart. 1 siug-
Of future bliss i dream—
While"laughing eoh' f; tvoin the cave
Comie dancing down the stream.
And oft, Treti.'nV. I hear a voice
Among the Wpiling tret - ,
.And the rustling "fan angel's wing
Borne unite evening breeze ;
And coo .riess voices seeuno rise
Aronm! me every where—
While friends 1 ioved long, long ago
Couie Oaeh to uicvt me there.
Ar.d this is why 1 love this spot,
It ever brings to me
The happy bygones of roy youth
Enrobed in purfty :
And laiicy weaves her fairest wel>.
As thus 1 -it and dream.
In the epae' slwle u the m .ss-giown bridge
That spuAi- the mountain stream.
fetters from tfuropc.
frornspondeiire of the Kepotter.J
Horn. Lorn Its uo.v,
Yilleneuv. -Swiuerlitul, July '17,1-00.
HEAR CARRIE C. :—Dweller among Jukes
at.d wyiil-iatids as you are, you Lave never
t;tvi your eves to fairer f>re*t-t)M<rhts. nor
r-'.ul them, from any 44 fine frenzy"' iucideu- (
All i your geutle craft of tuiiiistrdsv, on the i
I "ivrv atnlwr of a lovelier sea, than greets J
I Lj tb.on as I write.
ft T - it' on Llue w uters of I.uke Lrmnn dim-'
■ :vA sn.iTkTJT beneath my window. so in ar ;
■ y „ * .1 fancy, till von tried it, vou could
f ' vn t ro.st* bud from your Lair, to float away '
I i flWr ireutle enrreut towards the sunset. -
Id - ,'U islet, hearing uhat seem.s, from this
F '"•c.eej a sin-vie tree, rises from the wuters,
' toe sootowurd : on lite right, cresting a
v unit form* untile peninsula at tb<- M'i;!,-
--tern curve of tire lake, repose the fearful '
-km !T lowers ami turrets of Oh{Tlon, conse-
M'ed in mouhifnl song, and honorable iu he.
:rc torv
11 -vlll_r eouiu. within a week, froui Geneva,
e city of It's love and hopes, dud with mem
ory aud fancy freshened Irocn her many foun- J
• ins of local tradftiou and patriotic; literature, ]
I hare comprehended, fn visiting tLe prison of |
doanivard. Letter than ever "before, how pro
: lucdly tuuc kingly personal, was 1
r nat four years experience of the martyrdom 1
I'aiM'Hty accomplished wiriuu these walls, j
Leaving the cliuuiing company with whom
i hid come bithi-r, tired and p'-n-ive ns so !
r.w? weary pige^*,ifi their chamber, I found ,
& )pjH)rtu®rtf to make this pilgrimage alone. I
Aveaog pea-snt woman, leadiug a sunny-eyed .
. of four, conducted me through the pleas- I
-A wirt, open to the .-ky, in'o the snhter- .
'• ■i i portion of the castle. You enter first i
iad form t f
■-"'ti only ly narrow apertures iu the wa.'f
overlooks the lake. During too davs of ;
iir-tlesce here of the swtevetgn family of
7, this apartment served as a chapel for
" nbfe retainers of the dneal ohntelafns.
inothr chape),—that treed by the Duke ami ;
-* Lnry.— is shown above; —it is uow a,
f' - l'i< ie-tant wursbip for the inn.ftt.-s of ■
'■ an, and for visions, j Ikyuud Ibu,
, ijv. ,n a dart ami uesulat* little chamber, 1
•i-hei with a nrt vf coneb of rock, where
nit pr .-mer* iiM.deuine i to death passed !
l \."- : ■"-'•Te their excyttfOn. A stair .
-''ids to the Hall, of Justice.
- 1. v ad this a pass a ehaiftW, qnife '
- ". in whiui wa* the aemTdd : in tlte outer 1
tins p,'aco of honor, von wiM see a <
' '\', i,ow c 'ed, wbicli upoW tfle
„ ' !" aevfui oWviofl of whose waters
■1 -a u:' y l na^L" r ' , uUkc to the 1
_ 'in.::'! the guilty viytiuif The uojit,
large Kiui staiti Ty fiall, rude out
j .' 1 1 -i" 'fa areln'tecrtire, and better !
ttitVi *i " 3 :^C Lave pwaScd. Thii t
t „ na ne - *o f witbstaiMiing its melanclvdJy
bt tk/" as a fO®mon liviug-rcom, J
the cnatle. lieyond this lies ! 1
, ireary and columned dungeon of the '
- J-'I of Cli:ioa. T:,. raw at .tare pilU™.
'-or-'fE ' . ra i ic L iSc - s them,as Gotbic— SHD- 1 1
lofty g. Iyu!f
of fw.i 'v 1 ' uain t'S of Visiters,—many!
Ca> an '! n , ot,i ! rank,—several of LUu-sUi- ''
wit L U ,lia< c ! y non'sis there,
fiV. ' U " lhe c " ,nrn " dewgnaird by the I
'■ f 'e am ns that of Bontiivard. Near . 1
• I ,' y l n,-ia exile f. .r lib-
Hxii hLI '; f own I"' 11 ' cUmpion, '
W re Tt . r ' E *- U^ H • s,r,)P k. 1 saluted with love
r ' L I • C £*' f S rald "auie, daply <
* \° bo with all <
s t ? lti W ls faire-it in
; he ' W J* os "*' HP ' l human in' 1
; nm e tVih UUd of ~"ow. ! *
t> co(, :mn d.s lST ,ne<l a-the'-
""" oQUiva fdwaschaiued,lobserva4i j
si
the ring* suli suspended from its further side,
—the same of vyljose "corroding touch" the
pVfSdnrr of Lortl Ryroit's poem so ]daiutivelv
eomofais. The windows are narrow and
without glass, mere fissures iu the massive
wa'ls of the castle. K.\oept for a few hours,
at aml-d*j, even in summer, thednngeon must
have yeeu dismal from lack o| light. But at
tlif Moment when I stood within thewhad-'w
of tlie' column of Bontiivard, a grfeara of gold
en £vehfn? splendor cauie through the chink of
space nearest to inc.: justiu that narrow aper
ture inijst.Luve perished, tho Llue-wiugcd visi
tor of Byron's " I'risouer that " son_', thai
said a thousand things," must have floated in,
mixed with the same selant sunset glorv that
gilds lor alien eyes this column of nmrtvrdom,
now thai three hundred years have slept upon
the grave of B t)iivaiu.
Space would faii me to speak worthily of
that other, and mere illustrious " Prisoner ot
Chillon, \\ ala, the friend and counsellor of
kings, who?e. poUe uarnu traiiamulcs into a
maji-st;c poem, some pages of the annals oi
the successors ol Charlemagne. Thinking of
these, a'na afterwards forgetting these, "at
rest from their IUIKUS," to remember the mul
titude ot those who nre todav in bonds.—the
enslaved of our own and of other lauds, —and
that " innumerable company whose serfdom
is of the soul, the chained aiuj'duiigeoned cap
lives of our not yet ]>erf'eeted FOeinl sfnte, — j
children on whom the sins of their fathers arc
visited, —women whose fetters are thr-ir own
heart-trings, aud whom itenth shall one trav
make irte, —poets, dreamers, tender and ns- 1
piling spuds, whom duty and net-easily, harsh, j
yet, we must believe, not mitrtendh* iroh'rs
pinipu uow, but shall t.ot forever hold iu bond
age, -thinking thus on those who are hound,
"as being bound with titeiu,'' I became, per
haps, C.viikirg daugliter of uianv mils
and many sorrows I) worthier to comprehend
; that ministry of captivity and pain, with which
: the amrete of hnmnn discipline to earlv
commissioned to visit your young life.
A'fining op into the som-hine, I would not
prof.me the solemn and r. vcrcnt 'mprcsdons pf
the place, by n eouvenal visit to the upper po 4 "-
tlun of the chateau. But ilm next day, taking
i tlie wings f the inoruiiig, and the eotnpsiuiou
i ship of a brilliant young Russian nolde, re
publican ni. i hrro-wor-htppcr, in the enthusi
asm of Iter seventeen vcftrs, I made the usual :
j tour of the apartments, formerly occupied by
the dukes i f SaVoy and their knightly retniu
ers, aud saw the modest military appointments
of the chambers—uoW .used us a national |
: arsenal lot the fair house wives of IVuutyl- j
I vatiiu'; firm houses, and the dwellers of her
i village toft ages be content ; not one of them
' won! 1 exchange her lowly chamber for the
! ugly discomfort of the sleeping room of those '
I ducLcs.-es of four hundred years ago, nor her (
j fair and wi-H-lighted breakfast-room, for the (
i feast-chamber uf those sovereign dukes. Rest, j
therefore, sister of the mountain laud, and i
, you, you..g poet of tue western wdJs, i-i peace,
uncoveting ! 11. C. 11.
Perils of the Arabian Desert.
The following i- a graphic account of the '
| simoon, the t' lror of those crossing the Desert, '
and the scenes that attend it, encountered near [
j Doan :
| '' The heavens became suddenly obscured bv
heavy clouds, until the sun. ray!e-s and as red
as Wood, warned us of the approach of the 1
i temjn-st. Whirlwinds of sKVtd mingled with '
' the falling vapors, swept the Desert, which !
j surged hefortl The Maid like angry waters.—
i Wo Lu.-liiy ranged ourselves in Indian file, so '
| as to present as little surface ;u jiassibie to
i the coming MIU- on. lor-wmcb, ou fliu? occasiou
we wi re not iinpreiiurc i.
j Gradually our lungs become oppressed, our
I eyes hlood-:tot, onr hps hot and parched The
air around us, scorching as the breath of a
j furnace, was charged witjl particles of fine
-and drifted Insfore the wind iike .iea-foaui iu a
j storm. The lightning bolts flashed, accom
panied by the crash of the thunder, which
J sounded over the gloomy desert like the voice ,
iof Jehovah. Meu stood in \%iiU ulTright, taut-1
els broke aw vy and rushed bp]lowing Irum the.}
J track, until tiiey fell headlong into the sand, |
; into which tliev plunged their head* and long
1 necks, seeking thus to escape the poison breath ,
of the plague wind.
Atfeneth the rainbow appeared on the .-kirts '
of thg tonipost, spauuit g the dark sfiace frmn
ea<> to W'-st like a kuatOutlS bridjre thrown i
across the Morebund 11 ndramont, one end 1
resling up>u Ujebyi-AkhLar aud tho oilier op- j
on Akhbar-Aud. * .N.ue of oar |
were missing, iu searching lor which wo ap- , '
preached the edgewf one of Ihe sand go its, i
when we stumbled upon the remain* of a car- i
avail Loynd from Grtiu iu JJadrumaig, tp tflu.
Jaseb. Tit-moving the sand, w.e Loyiuj several ( 1
dead Arabs, victims of the fell I'.usl of the
iu thg terror aud coufuaiuu caused Uy , ]
which tiny had evidently wandered Uiudiv to ,
tle edge of the treacherous quicksand in w hiph
the a, an Htidy of th caravan bad perfrbedr
Amoue them wo f mnd n voting man and u trirl ' 1
—brotnnr artiß sifter—: d in each Others 1 1
anus. A slight indication of moTsftfr^*drfflii f
bodicsof tieesc incited us with lidjve'thaVit
might not yet .fie too lata to restore ikciu to , !
cpuseiowcuws*. By jwdieioaa and persevering
friction, and the copious use of lavender water,
with which, luckily. I was always well
plied, I soon had the pleas Tie of secipg tllw . j
young ! revive ; whiln S ,Im, Ly the appi.- j •
cation of similar remedies to the youth, was ,
eoually successful"" ~~ _ .
_ m '
A RRAYPR —A Yankee eerving dtirintr the • 1
Mexicau War tm the eve of the battle of i;
Bucjua Yiaif weid out into the field and offer- t
ed the follow .ug j raj't r: | s
" Oh Lord, her.Q we four ikou-j'
wtDd of us, and twcii'y four thou-and YL xi-. 1
cans—enoflirh to'swn'ldvr us Without \
Now, if you can u. do ywrrfm'rvj
for hsjavpu's -ake don't Mexicans-*- I
and on- 'until to-morrow, and jottd \ \
u * (Imgaul darniest fight you ever seen ;u . j
your W|? Toiirs,'respectful!v, amcnl" It
'• j A •? a
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TO WAN DA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY £. O'MEARA GOODRICH.
* ! cmom ban yU/.#f bo* IAUOJAU raid , ~
R.EI3ARDLESS OF DENTIKCIATIOW FROM ANY QUARTER.
"
Sabbatli Physiology.
' - i " J *" : *
The Almighty rested oiie:seventh of time of
commanding man tp observe an equal
repose. THe neglect of this injunction will
always sooner or later, bring-mental, moral
aud physical death.
Ile.-t is au invariable, law of animal life.—
The busy heart teats ever, from infancy to
nge.-atrtl yet a large part of the time it is in a
state of repo<e.
VVilhuru i'itt died af apoplexy at the early
age of forty seven. Whon the destiuies of na
tions hung in a large .measure ou his doings,
he felt compelled to give an unremitting atten
tion to affairs of state. Sabbath brought no
rest to hiin, and soon the unwilling brain gave
eiirns of exhaustion Bnt bis presence in I'ar
ihiuiout was cuctived to be indispensable for
•.-Apluuutiou and dcleisce of the public policy.
C bilcr sue ft, ci reuiu.> t alines, it was his custom
to cut hearty, substantial food, most highly
sensoned. inst before going to his place, in or
der to afford th'bo Iv that strength and ex
cite the mind to that activity deemed neces
>ary to the moineutous occusion. But, under
the high tension, both brain and body perished
pfcimtorcly.
Not kjusr atro, one of the most active hn-i
--iH-s* men of Hnglatid found his aff airs so ex
tended, that lie dckberatcly deUsriuined to Ue
-1 vote his Sabbath.- to his accounts. He had a
miflit of a wide gra-p. ITis views were„o
comprebensivp. so f:ir-i'eing, that wealth came
ia upon bun like a flo ,1. He pirrcliascd ft
counUy-ffeat ut tint cost of four hundred thou
-and dollars, determining that be would now
have Vest and quiet. But it was too late. As
1 he stepped on his fhre.-liold after a siirvey of
his late pnrehn-'e. he b<-cnine ripopTeotic. Al
ihoucii life was not destroyed, he only lives to
be the wreck of a man.
It used to he said that a brick kiln " must
be kept burning over the Sabbath." It is now
know n to be a lullary. There eau be no
•'must" against' a divine command. Even
now it is a reOtivi.d opinion that iron blast
furnaces wdl buna rum if not kept iu contin
ual operation. L.ghUxiU years ago, an Eng
lishman determined to keep the Sabbath holy
u" to them, with the re-u!t, as his books testi
fy. that lie made more Iron in six days than he
i did before in seven ; tfiat he made more iron
in a given luue, in propoitioQ to the hands,
. and number, aud size of the furnace*, than
i any Psfahii-Lment in England which was kept
1 in operation during the Sabbath.
\u our own New York, the mind of a man
who in -be f.,i a uti-liou a year, went out in
the niirht of madness and au early grave iu on-
I ly two year-, from the.very -tram put upon it
I by a variety of enterprises, every one of which
. succeeded
| "It will take about five ye'ars to clear them
' < if, tod iiu observant" master ot an Uruo'ca
-1 nul-bouß alluding to tbe u..arAgmai influences
'on the'boatmen, who >yorked on Sabbath* as
other day-. As to the boatmen and firemen
j of the steamers on the Western rivers, which 1
j never lay by OH the Sal,bath, seven years is i
the average of life. The observance, there I
fore, of the .-eventlt poriim* ui. our uure lbr ,
i the purpose of rest, is demonstraoly a pfiysio
| logical uecesoity—a law of our uaturc.--/11..Tv
j J< i irtial i f JLIuUUi.
A (L ASS or RRAVPT. —Don't hurt anybody,
i Why, 1 knew a person, yonder he is now on '
j high-change, a speciim u of mnnly beauty, a i
i portly six /outer. ILc has tl.o bearing >| a I
I princes, llis tape wears the hue of health,and
j now, at the of fifty odd, lie has tie- tpiitk,
clastic step of fir young men of twetity five !
and none more full of mirth and wit than he, i
and 1 know he u< vcr dine* without brandy i
and water, aud uevcr guts to bed without a t
terrapin or oyster sujipt r, with plenty of cbatu- j
paigne ; and nioTO than That he wa a never
known to be drunk. So here is a living ox
ample and disprOQf of the temperance twaddle
about the dangerous nature of an occasional
! gia.v-puid the destructive effect of a temperate
use of go-ni liquors.
Now it so nammnea tliat this specimen of
| -aff brandy-drinking was a relation of ours.—J
He died in a year or two niter thnt.of ehrbiJc
- diarrher-.a •omanon end of those wh> are never i
drynk flor. ever out ol liquor, lie left his six |
children, a fid he liud vhips on every a eu, and j
credit at ey.ery couaigr, which be never Lad
ocv'tr-ions us nc.
For months before he di^d—lie wrt n voir '
in dymg—he d aid eat OP ctrink nothing with
out distress, am! at hi* dentil,the whole whue n- ;
tary canal was a ma.-s of-dis,ea-c ; in the iuiUl,
of the millibhs, he died of inanition. Tliat i,-,
' half, rr ivhv Ffc had been a steady dr;
'}r, a daijydrinker, for twpr.ty-eight years—'
He left a legacy fo-ms chtWren which he did
not mention, a up one
daughter,-for fifleep year* ; nnuUiur U> in the
mud-Loose ; the third ai±J faurtli of unqjirihly
beauty, there was n kind Of gratideiir in roat '
bcaoty, fcatnbe* hKghteil, mid pnbxl nnd fad- j
ed into biiaveu.we trun.ln their sweeteif tc^ns-1
a'loilwj - is lotLuriog on tho vcrc-j of the grave, |
maaoSs oT the ibises, ,
aml f -eacb of tfiefn as weak as water. Why,
we fume from (be disserting room and made a 1
note uf it, it w® so horrible— lfnWt Journal 1
(Jf IfwttL tisod booj * #d bf oil* .tojifccA >t
! —' h
CoQNir.M) 11a.—" What b;i* broaght v*oo f
beru.jT nd. a ione woman, who was quite i
-:i flu'-}rioted," Urn'.'ubLtar by an early ,
call ft"hi a b'K'b'M'r w'!. > lived .p
--.. t, .-! whi she with jie'ctiflft r
faror " I came to borrow I
a Matches 1 that's a likctf Ttory t"AVhy don't
jpbu make a match y wlrseTf? I know what you
conic for " cried virgin, a*
she backed the into a corner—" you '
came here to Ms* riieltflufbrt to death, '
you sban'r witliofit rob are strongest, ur..l '
goodness knows vOn are 1"
: j i. . • * ' • a .. I
'■ V V V Jt : I
If you wfS.ff |p. dysuqn.se witk butfeg, ,
take i -w.-et, plump dam-.I to' wife,' omi, it
\v-t. *TC r.cr, CAN ILLHI \ur I . .
cofiee at breakfast without any bulla,. I
THAT department of Jfnrper's j\hig*zine J
called " The Drawer " contains usually about
f the flattest and (silliest trah that ran be crop-,
j ed together from the newspapers. The folfhtv-1
I ing, in the present number, is a good deal bct
j than the average :
" In the winter of 1857, about midnight, a
passenger, with a carpet-sack iu one hand and
a heavy til.awl in the other, catered the Trc
mout llon.-e at Cldeago. "Walking directly to
the office he hailed the clerk who presides at
, Tremont. Being late at night, almost every
oue lad Left this popular esclruuge of the great
Northwestern hietpuolis, and the clerk had
fallen to nodding. Awakened by the saiuta
tion of the stranger, he jumpeel up. " Ah, Mr.
Harris glad to see you ! Just amved.sujtpose
fre>m Detroit !'
" ' Yes, jut in ; very tired ; have not had
my clothes off for two days ; straight from New
York. Can yon give me a room V
" ' I am afraid not ; we are very full.**
" ' Yon must stretch a uointjor 1 must have
a room,' replied Harris.
" After looking over the register for some
moments, the clerk said, " I can put you in
the same room Jijdyje Douglas occupied the
last time he w as here."
" ' Ah !' rrpb.d Harri, 4 that will suit m° i
I was born a Democrat, have livedo Democrat j
and hope to dle'Oue. I voted for Buchanan,
and would greatly have preferred yotiug for i
Douglas. Send me up—l want to wuau uiid
go to oleep.''
" A waiter was iuioicdiatcly called, who,
taking the carpet suck iu one hand a i'ght, in i
the other, -tou ted—.Mr. Morris following -lor
, 112. Arriving there, they entered a large aud
huudaqmelv fui'iu.-.ltcd UpaltUieJ.t, With four
beds—roue iu each corner of the room—two
geiitlemeu in each bed except one, there only
one. The gas from the chandelier was dimly
burning ever a large square table on which
-tood, iu zraccfai n 'gfage six gfasse*. tho ro
miiatits of ned up punches, two decks of
bo-t eagle backs, a larg" spitlon at each cor
ner of tire table, with tobacco quids ri-ing Tn
them sngnr-loaf fah?on : unmentionables every
where around. Harris looked mournfully |
around ; the waiter started off. Harris called i
ont, ' Stop, .Mike I I'll go down with you ia a
I moaicnt.' Arriving at the office, Harris .-aid, |
'See here ! I ain perfectly willing to occupy i
( the same room Stephen A. Douglas oc< uprid, i
' but I'll be burnt if I want to steep With the
mlu/U lAnocratic jnt r'y!'"'
1 Err Yortt IJEAIU) GROW.— IU 44 Timothy j
\ letters to young men. wo have the
,( following in reference to mat: s ...r.-ute uppcuu.
age :
" You find a- you couic iuto man's estate
that hair has a tendency to grow upon your i
litre. It is the mark by which God mean:
I that men arid wopieu shonl 1 be distinguished 1
.) from each other iu a crowd. That hair
( placed there by infinite wisdom, but your J
lutbers have been cutting it off from their
; chilis \u small erodes for tuiity or fifty years, i
i thus impugning nature's policy, wasting preci- |
t ous time draw ing agreat deal of blood, and tiy- i
j ing to froun Lneir faces tin difmlM tiiat j
was intended to be maintained between them 1
and women. If you are a man and have it to !
wear, wt r it. It is enough to make a man '
with a decent complement of Information and 1
a common degree of sensibility (and a hand- 1
j some beard) deny Ids kind to see these smooth
i faced men' around tlie'street and actually '
showing tin-m.-elves iu fciuui-. society. Let us
have one genera beards. '
A Fu'x.vv INCIDENT. —Not long since one of
' our luoit popular ministers WH.- mforuu d wfiile
t in hi* study, that a party was in the parlor !
t waitiug to engage his survi.-es,
; i'Le revcr tH'd geutlemm lai i down hibperi,
while vision- of a fee ti cited before hT- rves j
as he dohnH Filaek cont and—thought a fr-tv
good Wx<rd of advice that he would give the '
j conph'.-anxion- to be made one.
, L pon entering the parlor, he encountered
i mi old lady, and a younijTidy, aud ig-r beau,. ! ;
I Title >ld lady sp< ko a- follows
, 44 1 Wrslj yon to triarry my daurhtcr ami her
; fe..er,f rlisplavtng ranch more agitation than
I the pnrri' , s tiiofit intere-tH.
i 44 Certainly—l nm happy to see you. Allow ' t
| nic do look at your certificate " " \ ,
( The yonrig CdupleepmpTitJ with ilie r-qaest. t
I The revvreud gentleiu.ui giaueed over llpjt , r
docfilUeut, and a luok. of diaappotu. met.tap- ' f
p( :re.l Upon bis.face. j f
l llalio !"' ike would lie Itrfiiegrootu exclaim-; >
i ed. " Nutliiixr binvt, 1 hope '
i VI am aorry to inform v m that your cer-1 v
fifieate is infi rmal. nnd bwreinnMiffr I cnii*t 1
tnr.TTv you until nnolrer 're- of *A:rred."
44 Bnt, Mister." cried fk'e.Jri fadr, 4 ' can*' vbti' j
half marry ura for to-night, ar.! To fiiortob t
wtT irct a new prftifijfft and make It aU right., v
It Wu" b A a urcaufi.l to the,.,
gfHjpmu-• ■ p
- m
CARAVAN- THATEI ING IN AFRICA —One bv '
one the caravan sink?mr?t*~roTpi'j slumber— ,
this.time,cspe ialty wJii n in the bw gte b vruae
tlie scene often become* truiy imjwessive. The I
dull red fires tlickerii kMouing a circle of |
. ruddy light iu ike drptlis of the black forest,' f
fiamiug against the tall trunks uuddcliqiug the | *
Siliagc of the iicaru' frees, illuminate lurid
groups of *Avage niun, iu every variety of shape I
and posture. Abovp tly dark purple sky, d
\\ith bbuntls parrowed by fhe etopia of night, c
'Ahd,behlStH fill the weltern horizon,a spkfldid 1
creseent, with a dim ash &!ored globe ju his i
arrw, ami or owned by -parkibig -parkibig iike 0
a diamond, sinks through tlie rust space,in all 1 „
the glory ami gnrgeousness of ctcrnn! nature's [ c
jaibhmet works. From such a night, methinks
tic Byzantine man took his device, the Ores-1 r
<?rnt arid Star.— r ("iiiffd'n ljurlon's Central .
aPrim. C ~ .
• t 1 f
MfSJ* A Tittle boy Fctnrning from Sunday- 1
schoof, shfd'tb his m'dther. " Ma, aitil tTierc a . c
NI>W FBI' TFFTFE TLII Ai CDUSJU IU . T
i too hard for me.'' 11
Historical Facts.
The tardiness with which mankind adopt
, improvements, may bo iu some deeree iiiii.-n ai
ed by the following facts, hastily thrown
together :
Canal locks were invented in 1581, by en_-i
--neerp of Yiterbo, Italy. Th y were nearly u
hundred years getting fairly into use in Ernie e
aud aljoiit one hundred and lifty in crossing the
Brifi.-h L'lninncn.
At this time it was made felony, iu several
European states, to"ride in wheel carriages.
The steam eDgine was invented, or rather,
the liiinCipfo of it discovered by tire -Marquis
:of Worcester, as early as IGGO. Few nnder
i stood and none eiicouraced it. lie died in
1 great mortification. The honor was afterward.-,
engrossed by iSavary.
In 17G5 tho Earl of Sianhepe applied the
steam engine to propel ling a ve.-scl. A *tcaui
boat was run twenty miles on the Sankey
Canal, Liverpool,dn 1707, and another uu the
Forth Clyde Canal in ](?0l. A steamboat
trip was made on the Delaware as earlv as
ia'Jl. [-
In 1807, when Robert Fulton was fitting i.p
bis first styamboat at New York, re.-pcctablo
and gray haded men pronounced him 44 a fool
for his pain ."
Oiivur Evans went before coiniDit f ees of
Legi.-latures, first in Pennsylrauia and theu in
Maryland, with a pr J ct of a *Uam carriage
as early as 1-ttf. He asked a little aid to de
fray the expense, i'liev could hardly be pio
kveiited lixl.n hqiortitig IN favor, not of attain
,ot ca..,, ol a a j.n k L
for hiuiat'if. Now almost ail UatiOLo have fiad
the sagacity and ingoumt* to seize aud utili/."
the precious idea.
AN'hen Peter the Grea\ in 17GO or there
abouts, commenced a canal between the Walgn
and the Dou, the G> vcrnoEs and Boyarda of
tLe country opposed it turuostly, thinking it
impiety to turn 'river- ut of chuntiols which
Heaven had assigned thorn.
M hen - me Dutchmen proposed to make the
river Mauzauans uavignb.'e to the Tagus and
that to iji - Lou, the Council said if it hud been
the will uf God that the rivers .-Lould he navi
gable he would have made them so.
When BrinW, the great engineer, told a
committee ofil'iii ii.fiiwiit,tu whom Bridewatcr's
peiitiou was rulerred; tlmt canals were belter
than rivers, r.ud would super--. Je them for the
purposes <jf navigation, the committee were
shocked, and aked him. 44 And j r y, sir.wlmt
i were the riVer* made for 44 To feed the
i canal*," w as the auswer.
XI.. i raua,in.-nr.ej< u tue toute *-f tlie Dei
avvart an ; ( ae.-p ...a C..,„ at L. a o .vu err
pense, in 17 Cl.
BotVthese work- wa re snbsc.lueatlv accem
plisi.etl, bnt after irreut delay.
Dc. Zabdiel llovaLtou introduc d inocula
i tion for small pox in BosUm,in lTffl, and tried
lit i.r-t ou hi- ovru s u T . una-, and other
i nrembi rs of the familv : but su h wo - the fore -
of ] rejudice and unbelief that t;re other physi
■ ei.ins gave a un uiimous opinion acaiust it ; the
municipal government prohibited its practice*,
and the populace would have torn i.iui to piec
es it he had not retired from the city.
Or.TGTN OF ni" Ui'AS TREE STORY. —A real !
valley of death exists in Java : it is termed
the \ alley of Poison, and is filled to a con- '
siderable height with car bo nic and and gas, -
which is exhaled from crevices in the grouud.
If a man or any other animal enters it, J.e '
cannot return ; and he is not sensible of his
danger until he feels himself .-inking nnder th" '
:i uuei.ee uf the atmc-phere wi.icis surronn 1-
hini, t'.o carbonic acid, of which it chiefly ,
coiisi-ts, r"-': g tjj ti," of cigi.te. u i'..-":
from the bottom of the valley. Birds which 1
fly into tl.i- a':nophere dr"down dead ; airtf '
a low I thrown inb: it. dies before retching t!,
IkiUOUI, wLi. ! ie> *t:'' weu w itb carcases of va- i
rions animal- that Lava pei'L-Lcd iu tho disu.v
trous ga-'i— I'r jric.
THF. Cnoi* —Tl.n Chicago p,~ ttn ! Tri
bvr.e, in r-; !y to a South' : n pajx-r, make 1b :
fo'iowiag • si.inafe uf tho N nibwest: "llii
iio;s ha.- gi'uau uot u Losi.ci if wheat short u. .
ffii.OOb.Ot'O, arid Indiana aWut lS,oUb,oob. — |
Tue when' ehofi of M"- ■ wi!! txc' f 1 17,-
000.OflO. lowa 1 t.ffiio OOi. Minnesota 5,000*-'
Uliy, and Aliciiican K,OOl(iOO. Yonr estiurate .
iff Ohio, 'XuJ'OVi.vOO, i* about correct : but 1
many of imr .L^-t.ii Lntied e.'.iztn-> te.uk her j
etop will rea a 000,000. Tims yunr per
ceive that the veren North western States liavi
produced 118.000.*)'t<) bn-htls of wheat. Th" 1
surplus that rid ie spared from Illraois,'
AVLcausui, I. wa uud -Miiaiesota, after keeping j
abundance f r bre .l aud -<•. J, will be tqiia. ;
half of ;bc : r wlioje crop. If your net ;!e
i:. the Sooth are lik-.dy to be d< -titute of lire i '
th<y ran draw'rn tire " Prairie States' for!
* lns&l tnotigfl to make two mill is of barrels i
ot tijiy, uiidy.x .4u ->.... buve euvugii ai.a to t
WW';,
AVl'}* !.- a t%s 1"., ■ cre&tif n ? Bepausi
it is made* of nothing, and yet it is something. '
fLP* A man who was pitched out into a gut
ter where gar bare was thrown, describes him
self a* bfc.iig iu uu " offal euudiliou.
Cir llow long did Adaui remain iu Para
dise" before he sinned ? a.-ked an amiable lady '
of her hti-hJu. J. 44 Til! he got a wife,*' .was the
calm reply.
in all your undertakings consider the
one you Imvc in view, ami be sure it be reaiiy
good or at least iuuoccut.
A sensible farmer remarked " I would
rather be taxed for the education of tlie boy
than the ignorance of the man.for one or the
other I am i oinpelied to pay,"
iS? 44 It is a eaifconim. utarV upon the course
of ih'stTuctlOn pursutd in toting ladle-' schools,
thnt the graduate scPionj know how to 'c: iv
au offer of marriage.
VOL. XXI. —NO. 15.
<£(nrratnm<d Jfprtmettt
&&* The Teachers' rn=titntes for Bradford
County, for flic fall of 1 s0, will be LolJcn at
the following times, and places, viz :
For the towns of Smithficld, Athens, Uls
, ter, the two Burlingtons, an 1
. Itidgbnry, on Alone"!By, September 24, at
. Suiithfield Center.
For the towns of South Creek, Wells, Col
| mubia, Troy, Armenia, Canton, Leßoy, and
Granville, Monday, Oetobei I, at Alba.
For the towns of Franklin, Overton, Al
bany, A y!:.in, Monroe, t' e two Towandas,
\Vy x, and Siivshequiii, on Monday, October
i 10, at Monro .ou Bui. .ah.
For the towns ot Wy a! using, Pike, Der
rick, §timliujr Stone, Tuscurora, Terry, u4
Wilmot, on Monday, October b, at Merrvall.
Ik..:u {...-'.ilnle v.i.l con.m nee a' "Jo cluck,
I p. rn , and doit* on Saturday, at 12, noon,
j It is. exj .ctedthat the i.aciie:' -of thecoun
i 'ji will attend at least u.ie of tl.e.-e gather
. ings. AH inter -ad in our schools, are invited
j to meet with us as frequently as p <-.-i!>!e
Teacln : - w..! br.ug with ihein II .. .i. fa !I
--r ers, liiiell&ctua! and Written Arithmetics,
Mu.-ic aue. , and paper ...id pencus.
C It. COIiURX.
Towaula, Aug. 11, 1 GO.
+
ic;'" Tic: R. • If >rd County Teachers'Associw
tioup.vill hold it- ut meeting at the " liowley
School llou.sc,hi Wei's township, ow Friday,
rjcpieuibcr - ISCO,c. :nli. ncing at 10 o'ul- ek
a. ui. An address v.ni oc uehvered bv lie v.
J .JOEL J. • i, and an oay will be rend by Mi.-s
lieu.. SiL.u, or Mi B. L::. Ilcs-dutions
upon th • ge: ! i lUtert .-t> o c..u. itioii wiil also
be discuss I. W . are informed that the friends
in Wells are cxpe li: g teachers and friends
, from all pari -of the county. We Loue they
may not be disappointed.
KGUYEII, President.
B. L. Bhard.-LEV, Secretary.
We this week commence the publica
tion of a : ."S of ii,_ '1 [ !• r
written for the OI.CI War.mi ui Education for
1552, by Andrew Free-'?, of Cleveland. We
! hope that teachers will read them carefully.—
Tiny ( ..: in va! sugge.s:iu>..-, and advice
• none the less to be ; rized because the articles
were writ-. .. rig ty. ;•> ago.
DEAR FRIEXD: At your solicitation, and
agreeably to my pioa.. e, 1 LOW seat myself to
• !:kr vo i a f- v 1. ut.-. and suggestions relative
to the ore tiua a:.d general management
jof schools, ieh at leu :a- my experiei.ee will
( enable me to give yon. I ,-huil do so the more,
freely,in cou-L' •raf;--n that you are young and
I ii.expi ri need ia t! <• ' i. inc.-s of teaching, and
i arc about to er'.r upon the duties ot the
i scb ol ro and feel anxious to do well. 1
will undertake to predict that you rill do well.
The very fact fi it you arc s licitous about the
matter,! ids •. tut' i'.k o ; fori have seldom
1 known an anxioos&nd solicitous teacher to fail.
In the first ph. ?, let lae advise you to
I establish - 'r,atd as\ tan of things ut the
at the outset. Do :ot attempt to teach any
1 thing until y :i Lav it ; iud -1, there cau be
I no successful teaching where order does not
j prevail. I would not make a long parade of
rules, as some do, laying them down with the
. tone and air of •' one having authority," liiut
ing occasionally < f physical force, and perhaps
' displaying the imj before the school,
i A tew ph.iu regulations only are needed,
such as would at once eon-mend themclve to
, the good s:use of every scholar. A strict ad
herence to these, however, sh -old ut all times
be in -ted upon Not a single in-taut of the
1 infract; u of a rule she utu be suffered to pass.
| Here is the point where tea ' trs often fail in
i >chO(. irovi ri ut. 'J do ; t rr - err to
realize me importance of prompt and if" •ieut
, oometiOa in IIN Sett cases of transgression •
f they imagim that a little indulgence at fr.-t
1 wiil do no harm, liitie d;eaming that such a
j course is prcjini iui to the i nforceir.ent 6f rules
| thereafter. See to it, then, that yen do not
! eouiii short here.
Yoa must no: fail t > w itch ' • that
y< uuo not full into cureh' -s ha! its ; r i ni'ow
j the filar.- that you har dev.si 1 .or the -v-teni
| at iv order it th.; gs al out ynt, to fell into r:eg
■ lect. Govern y nr- ,f. This, alter a!!, is
the era .sec: t ( success is. ar ring a sclu !
! Weil. Tlit ere pr< ervine <; kr among vocr
scholars, will give you but lit !e trouble after
' :■ ( u far re brought yeurst If under a prorcr d:<-
ji ! :e. and can beep other things in o: h-r
a! you. But to be uthiWoiiyfirm ;: . punc
tual, to let; iistui.t and preserving rt all times
and in a", li !n_ in little thin. -n- wt.i as in
•great things—will co-t you no sumH effort, I
i know ijuilc well from txptri nee ; uud here I
j will Ln.a.k, that I i said this the most
LiiricUit jilt ol Si... 1 teael.iicr, so esyis it
i f- r the t.a her to dip along, " ju-t k--r this
' once," j : ticuiariy wheu h© is iu u hurry or
l f ■ Is a iittie i.i\ d, and not come exactly u:> to
I
I If you; ro t.ot always prccir j about the timo
oi opv.nit;g ji tir soLfltiji; if you are irregular
| about your recesses—sometimes allowing them
I earlier and •metiinc.s i.itec. —sou.ciim - _iving
! five minute* and at cti ?r times thirty ; if
your daily,order of exercises is . ' • V,
now pijstpftning a ' ou for want of time, and
again doing the same thing to snit the wishes
of idle scLvfar- ; dipc-nd in u it you will !...vo
eoiifusion ct:ongb, and accomplish tctLiug n 3
you should.
After efasdfy'ng your scholars, I should
advise you to establish an or 1 r of dally exer
cise#; to be permanent, arrigiLog a particular
hour to each exercise, and a!-o a definite uum
i Iter of minutes.
i Kvcry rebitatiop shotrtd tak jTace at stated
| timcc, and the scholar shoal! look forward to
it a= a thing of course, that knows no change.
When 1 visit a school atal Lear the teacher in
i quire if such and such chr-se are prepare 1 to
I rtcite tor say, " f will hear your 1 ut after
recess," or " 1 shall be obliged to d fcr your
lesson until morning-," 1 can nt avoid form:: g
an unfavorable oi'iu :i of the tea ! t.A. k 1-
ing sorry for the habits the p- :!s art contract
ing. A. L