{g£ qollAß per annum invariably in advance. TOWANDA: Thursday Morning, Kay 2d, 1861. jsjlcttci) |cttrc. TIME. T 0. !>• PKBSTIO9. Vet why ma Torn the P" 1 with * nrro,T ? TLu " Rh the 7# * r gone to LlenJ with (be mysterious tiJ. Of oia Eternity, and Lornc along Unnn its heaving breast a thousand wreck# Ofglory and beauty. 3t why tn.ra TUa t such is destiny? Another year Ledcth to the past; the same bk.e arch • That has hung oVr us, will hang o er u# yet. The same pure stare have hoc to ■> ". Will bhssam still at twilight's gentle hour Like lilies on the tomb of Day ; and slu . Man will remain,to dream a* he hath dreamed. _ Ami mark the earth with ptw "'• '" lil From the lone tomb of old Affection* op , And Jov. and great Ambition wHIr-se np they have risen, and their deed# will be Brighter than those engraved on the scro.l 0, parted centuries. Even now the sea Of coming years, beneath wh w mighty watea , prc.it events are heaving into birth. Is tossing to and fro as ii the iiid# Of Heaven were prisoned in its socailleM depth# Aa i struggling to bo free. Weep not that time j. „ vss ; n g on :it will ere long reveal I■. liter era to the Nations, llark ! . . , the valleys and mountains of tlio earth I M . s - 1S a jeep pretentious murmuring, I ■ >;,e swift rush of subtcranean streams— I sftne mingled sounds of earth and air, f v ,;. c fierce Tempest, with sonorous wing, j. r vM ~ deep folds upon the rushing winds, nd La- lies onward with his night of clouds ,n-tcternul mountains. 'Vis tlie voico Idf infant Freedom—and her sterring call I he.rs and answered in a thousand tones. I r-nia every hill-tap of her wcstenl Lome— y ;i la! it breaks across old Ocean s flood. *• Freedom " Freedom !" is the answering shout V ,tions from the spell of years. I -. 1t1 i.,v spring'—see, 'tis hright'ning in the heaven#! I eMt hm< nefth • night have caoght the sign— [ F- m tower to tower the signal fires flash free— Aai the deep watch word, like the rush of sea# ' Tia: heralds the volcano's lur-tmg fiame, •, sounding o\ r the cai th. Ih ,'ht years o! hopa And life are on the wing. Yon gl .riotis bow 01 Freedom, bended by the hand ofC®, la spanning time's dark surges. Its high arch, A tv ie of l.'.ve and Mercy ou tl-e cloud, T that the lti-uiv storms of human life Will pas# in silence, and the sinking wavw. ffaiheriu? the forms ,f g/'.y ,iad of peace, :.t the end mr i J bright if is the Heaver.#. lisll ilu tbu s. Last Days of Charles 11. of Spain. " e piinceon whom *o much depended was : e most mi-erable uf human beings. In old . -ho would have been exposed a# soon as ;ud3 into tlie world, and to expose him | • .!n r.e could be rocked and sung into sickly j siefji, was one long, piteous wail. i ill he was j ■ i tears old hi: days were passed ou the laps 'women, and he was never onen stiff-Ted to Hand en his rickety legs. None of those j tawny little urchins, clad in rags stolen from varccrows, whom Mnri'l > loved to pain beg ■„ing or rolling in the sand, owed less to edu < itum than this despotic mh ro! 30,000,000 of subjects. The most important events in the j . istory of his kingdom, the very n lines of pro- IT:: CK an! cities WH EN were nttior.g h s most ralimb'e possessions, were unknown to him. It nay well lie doubted whether lie was nwnre Vans by was an island, tliut Christopher! '' mi'iiis had discovered America, or that tlie E,y -h were not Molia tinieciuiis. In his voulb lever, liioug'.i too imbecile for study or i ■ MI --.fie was not incapable ot being amused, j 'Not liawked and hunted. He enjoyed with .• ght of a true Spaniard two (icliuhtfn! r 'u".--. ; a iiorsc with its bowels gored out ■ a Jew writhing in the (ire. The time came r 'lie mightiest of instincts ordinarily wa itns from its retiosc. It was Imped tlmt the " . king would not prove invincible to female ttlr-i.'lire y ami that lie would leave a Prince t Asturia< to succeed him. A consort was d for him in the royal family of France, 5 • ia: beauty and grace gave hun a languid I'nre. lie l.ked to adorn her with jewels ae her dance, and to teil lier whatsport lie '■: with his doga mid falcons. Ibit it was ■"in whispered that she was a wife only in ■ She died, and her place was supplied i i b< rm in princess nearly allied to the im- , i' r • liu'j.c, lint the second marriage, like * first, proved barren, and long before the lav' passed the prime of lite all the politi- ; I -'- s of Kuropehad begun to take it for granted i h : their calculations that he would lie the i a -eeiuiaiit in the male line of Charles A . while a sullen and abject melancholy took j <.f his soul. The diversions which •linen the serious employment of his youth '"totedistasteful to him. lie ceased to find I' -tire in the nets and boar spears, in the I '"'Co and the bullfight. Sometimes lie shut Iyiself nji in an inner chamber from the eyes i , ' conrtirrs. Sometimes he loitered alone, • '"sunrise to sunset, in the dreary and rug- j ; 1 " I'IITIICSS which surrounds the Kscuritil 1 " 'lours which he did not waste in listless ""ce were divided between childish sports ' ''- i'l k'i devotions. He delighted in rare ' -"'sis, ai„| S (||| IlU)re in dwarfs. When nei ' -traibeasts no little men could dispel *" ''®k thoughts which gathered in iris mind doited Avpp and Credos ; lie walked in ' "'••soiic; soniettincs he starved himself; i.j'." m ' s he whipped himself. At length a ~ ' Ation of maladies compl.ted the ruin of k i! ;; omach failed : nor was this strange, i n th# malforniH t ion of the jow. chr | acteristic of his family, was so serious in the habit of swallowing ollas and sweetmeats in the state in which they were set before him. While suffering from indigestion he was attacked by agne. Every third day his convulsive trem blings, his dejection, his fits of wandering, seemed to indicate the approach of dissolution. His misery was increased by the knowledge that everybody, was calculating how long he had to live, and wondering what would become of his kingdom when he should be dead. The statel) dignitaries of tlie household, the phy sicians wbo ministered to it is diseased body, j tlie divines whose business it was to sooth iiis not less diseased mind, the very wife who J should have been intent ou those gentle offices by which the female tenderness can alleviate | even tin misery of hopeless decay, were all thinking of the new world which was to com mence with his death, and would have been ! perfectly willing to see him in the hands of thu I erabalmar, if they could have been certain ' that his successor would be the prince who ; interest tliev espoused. I In n wry short time the king's malady took i a new form. That he was too weak to lift his j food to his misiiappen mouth ; that at thirty ; seven he had the baid head ami wrinkled face of a man of seventy ; that his complexion was turning from yellow to green ; that he fre quently fell down in fits, and remained long insensible—these were no longer the worst symptoms of his malady. He had always been afraid of ghosts and demons, and it had long ! been mcessaiy that three friars should watch every night by liis restless bed as a guard ; against hobgoblins. I>ut now he was firmly | convinced that he was bewitched, that he was possessed, that there was a devil wi hill him, j that there were devils ail around him. He ' was exercised according to the forms of his j church, but this ceremony, instead of quieting f him, seared him out of almost all the little rea son that nature had given him. In his misery I and despair he was induced to resort to irreg ular modes of relief. His confessor brought to court importers who pretended that they j could interrogate the powers of darkness. The ! devil w#s called up, sworn and examined. This ' strange deponent made oath, as in the pies- I eace of GOD, that his Catholic majesty was mi i ier a spell, which had been laid on him many veers before, for the purpose of preventing the ! continuation of the royal line. A drug had ■ been compounded out of the brains and kid : lICVS of a human corpse, and hud been admii.- i Utercd in a cup of chocolate. This potion had dried up all the sources of life, an 1 the best remedy to which the patient cou'd now I resbr: would be to swallow a bowl of coir.eera . tod oil every morning before breakfast. Unhappily, the authors of this story fell into contradictions .which they could excuse ■ oi-lv hv throwing the blame on Snten, who, thev suid, was an unwilling witness, and s i liar from the beginning, in the midst ol their jcntjnii g tlie inquisition came down upon i them It must be admitted that if the holy ofiic; hud reserved all its terrors lor such eas es, it would not lmve been remembered as the most hute'ul judicature that was ever known among civilized men. The subaltern impos tors were thrown into dungeons, lint the chief criminal continued to he master of the king and of the kingdom. Meanwhile, in the distempered mind of Charles one mama sue -1 needed another. A longing to pry into those mysttries of the grave from which human l beings avert their thoughts had long been | nereditarv in his house. .Juaiiu, front whom ! the mental constitution of he: posterity seems 1 to have dciived a morbid tuint, had set, year ; after year, by the bed on which lav the ghast- : ly remains of her husband, apparreh d in the 1 rich embroidery and jewels which lie had been wont to wear while living. Her -on Charles found an eccentric pleasure in celebrating his 1 : own obsequies, in pulling on his shroud, pla- ; ring himself in tlie coffin, covering himself ' with the pall, and lying as one dead till the j requiem hud been sung, find the mourners had j departed, leaving him alone in the tomb. — 1 Philip II found a similar pleasure in gazing \ on the huge chest of bronze in which his re mains were to be laid, and i specially on the I skull which, encircled with the crown of Spain, grinned at him from the cover. Phillip 1"\ ~ 1 too. hankered sftcr burials and burial places, gratified iiis curiosity by gazing on the remains cf liis great grandfather, the Emperor, ami sometimes stretched himself out at full length, hke a corpse, in the ii'che which he had select ed for himself in the royal cemetery. In that ; cemetery liis son was now attracted by a strange tascination. Europe could show no more magnificent place of sepulture. A .stair case incriistcd with jasper Ird down from the state ly eliireh of the Escurial into an octagon situated just beneath the high alter. The vault, impervious to tlie sun, was rich with gold and precious marbles, which reflected the blaze Irom a huge chandelier of silver. On the right and on tlie left reposed, each in a massive sar \ cophagns, the departed kings and queens of - Spain. Into this mausoleum the king descend ed with u long train of courtiers, and ordered the coffins to be unclosed, llis mother had been embalmed with such consummate skill : that she ap]H*nrcit as she had appeared on her death bed. The bodv < f liis grandfather, too, ! seemed intiro, but crumbled into du-t at the first touch. From Charles neither the remains ! of his mother nor those of his grandfather could j draw any signs of sensibility. l>ut when the t i gentle and graceful Louise, of Orleans, the ; miserable man's fir>t wife, she who lighted tip J ; his dark existence with one short and pale j gleam of his happiness, presents herself, after the lapse of ten years, to his eyes, his sullen 1 apathy gave way. " She is in heaven, lie cried, "and I shall soon be there with her ami, with ail the speed of which iiis : I mps were capable, lie tottered back to the , upper air. Caf Patrick Macfinagan, with a wheel-bar row, ran a race with a locomotive. —As the latter went out of sight, Mac observed, "AfT wid ye, ye roariif blaggard, or I'll be afther ! runniti" intoyeea I*' PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY R. W. STURROCK. ; | [From the (.X. Y.) World ] ■ A Thrilling Story of a Virginia Refugee. WASHINGTON, May 5, 19C1. I have obtained tlie data of tlie following 1 story from a Virginia gentleman, who had ' been compelled to " retire at short notice " , from a large estate in the Old Dominion, and , to submit to its confiscation on account of sup . posed sympathy with the Union party. He is ' , a gentleman ot high official position under the : . government, and I regret that prudence and i his own request requires me to suppress his ! name, which, by a long history of faitlifu' and j , unswerving devotion to t fie Union, has become ! , familiar at ihe North. To this very eircum- i , stance he ptobably owes his present :Afflictions, j [ the detail of which in itself may furnish mate- ! : rial for uu interesting sketch, at souie future : ! time. The subject of the following—John A. Ford : —was an intimate friend to the gentleman just , referred to, and an old soldier iu the Mexi an war. On his return he settled and married in j Petersburg, Vu., engaging in tiie trade ot a bookseller ami stationer. By prudence, indus try and integrity, he had made himself propri .: eior ola thriving little business, and had won , ; a circle ol warm friends. His stock two weeks . j ago was valued at $lO,OOO. He is now iu V. usliingtou, with very little hope of ever be . :ng able to recover any of. his property, and has very narrowly escaped with his life, as I ! ! shall show. The news of the battle of Baltimore, two : wei its ugo Friday, arrived in Petersburg the I same evening. Ihe following morning Mr. Ford, in conversation with a friend, casually I made the remark that had he been the Massa chusetts Regiment, instead of shooting four- • j teen or iilteei: of the mob who assailed the troops so brutally, lie would have shot four , lem or fiflaa hundred of them. lie thought j nothing more of the circumstance until just as ' evening was approaching ai d lie was quietly passing to his home from the business of the I day, when he wa. stopped in the street hysev- ; era! gentlemen who announced themselves as | a vigilance committee, appointed to examine 1 him as to his political sentiments. Conscious j of no disloyalty to the State or to his country, j he cheerfully consented to the examination, - utid told :l.cm to proceed. The remembrance ' of the letimrk lie had made had quite escaped \ his miiid at the time. A crowd immediately j began to collect about hint, and demonstra tions ot an insulting nature were commenced as the examination proceeded. "I) d ab- ! oltlionisl!'' " Hung him !" " Hang hun !*' " I il get a rope !" Ac., Ac., cried a number of the spectators, and the crowd rapidly increased, i ; until hundreds surrounded him and the commit- ' [ ; tee. Alter smno conversation, a test qnes- 1 tion was decided upon bv Ids interrogators, ! j and was put to fiiiu by tiie chairman of the I committee. Chairman: If our slaves should rise against 1, their masters iu this community, should you i fight with the Havesor with their masters ?'' Mr. Ford : Gentleman, I am surprised at j your question. I uiu u loyal and true-hearted cit zn of Petersburg and this State. I have i I lived w;th you sevetul years, and a!! 1 have , ( r hope to be is with you, and should a slave insurrection occur here, you will find me among ' tiie foremost iu defending you and the citizens ! ( ! of Petersburg against them." The answer was satisfactory to the commit- i • tee, ami the chairman, turning to the throng, j i announced it, and their conviction that Mr. , j Ford entertained no sentiments that were trea- I ' : sonable or disloyal. At this moment cries of ' "He's a Black Republican!" "Damn Lis ; Black Republican sonl!" "To hell with him!" ! ' : " Hung liiin " Ilang him !" Ac., rose in j I various quarters, and a scene of great confu sion followed, with indications that tiie eu ; raged mob would execute their threats, despite the conclusion announced by the committee. * j As it partly ceased, one of the spectators c I cried out to Mr. Ford, " Did you say this r j morning that yoa wished that the Massachu j setts troops had shot fourteen or fifteen hun- | I dred of the citizens of Baltimore yesterday ?" ' ® Tlifs Mr. Ford could not deny, and he dis- j regarded the question. The fury of the popu- 1 C lice at. his hesitancy knew no bound-, and , ! yells and screams, and threats of the most pro j lane and diabolical character were heaped up t ! on him, and followed by a rush of a number of the most daring to rescue him from the hands ! , j of the committee, who still stood next to him. j A number of liis friends near by, and among j them two or three members of the Masonic Lodge, to whom he belonged iu Petersburg, then pressed toward him, and succeeded iu f the darkness which hai come 011 during tlie examination, in pulling him along the street, and out of the reach of the rush, into a store, f j Through the store he was urged into an alley 1 wuy iu tiie rear, while the crowd in the street, who had lost track of him, were clamorously in search. A friend and Masonic brother ac companied him rapidly through the alley and conducted linn to the only place of safety j w liicn probably could have concealed him—a ( * tomb iu his family burying ground ! Taking j limy key of the vault hastily from his pocket, i £ he opened it, urged Mr. Ford iu among the 1 ! coffins, locked the door upou him aud quickly 1 , disappeared. That night and the following day every place and by place in the town was ruiisacked in the eager seagch of the mob for the victim w ho had so terribly and narrowly escaped their J clutches. They finally concluded that he had f 1 spirited away, and relaxed their vigilance. £ Meantime Mr. Ford remained undisturbed, with darkness and the dead. There weresev I eral bodies deposited there—far less feared wc { presume, by him than by the living. History t can surely point to few more thrilling incidents I j than this I ving ei.t mbmeat. s At 3 o'clock the following Monday morning s the train was to leave for Richmond. At an i early honr Mr Ford's protector ard friend, I like Belschuzzar of old, at the inouth of the li- ' oil's den for righteous Duiiel, stood to deliver ] the subject of this sketch from the charuel 1 house, where, for two nights and one day, I which lie will probably never forget, he bad I fasted witb *be dead. He was faint and weak < " HEFFIARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." from exhaustion, but the emergency lent liiin strength. While his friend went for his daugh ter, a charming little girl some seven years of age. (Mr. Ford's wife was and is still on a visit to South Carolina.) Mr. F. wended his way cautiously to tlie depot. Here they met again, and when the train rolled out of the station on its way North, Mr. F. sat on one of I thecar seats, with his child wrapped closely in | his arms. Arriving at Richmond, he attempt to procure a ticket, but was told nopassen* : | gets could go out for tlie North unless exliib- J | itiug a pass from Gov. Letcher. With many I misgivings,.Mr. F. (it was still early in the | ! morning) wended liis way to the executive ; I mansion. lie represented to the Governor j j that his business called liiin out of the State, j I aud desired credentials which would enable him to continue the journey. Mr. Letcher asked no questions, but promptly made out his papers and handed them to him. In due time he arrived with his little dugli- ' ter in this city. It will be remembered that wo stated that j Mr. Ford was engaged in the Mexican war. j Soon after arriving here lie called, in company with the gentleman to whom I have alluded, j upon Secretary Cameron, and solicited a lieu- i tenancy in the United States service. Mr. j Cameron examined his credentials, listened to the story with deepest interest, and when Mr. Ford had concluded, said, "No, tny noble sir, a lieutenancy is not enough for you ; wait a few days until the arrangements can be made, and then you shall receive a more honorable appointment." Yesterday afternoon Mr. F. received notice from Secretary Cameron that j lie would probably lie appointed a captain in ; the standing army uovv being mustered into service. POETICAI. VIEW OF CUII.DIIOOD —We could never have loved tlie earth so w ell if we had no childhood in it—if it w ere not the earth where ; the same flowers came up again every Spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass—l the same hip 3 and haws on the Autumn hedge rows tho sutne redbreasts tl'.p.t we used 1 to cull "God's birds," because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where every- ; tiling is known, and loved because it is known? \ The wood I waik is ou this mild May day, with tlie young, yellow, brown foliage of the j oaks between me and the blue sky, the white starflowers and tiie blueeved speedwell and the ground ivy at my feet—what grove of tro- ' pic pa'ms.what strange ferns orsp'enuid broad pe.al'ed blossoms, could ever thrill such deep j and deiicate fibres within me as this home ' scene ? These familiar flowers, these well re-' mem tiered bird notes, this sky with its fitful ! brightness, these furrowed and grassy £dds, each with a sort of personality given to it by j the capricious hedgerows—such tilings as tiiese ; arc the mother tongue of our imagination, the j language is laden with all tho subtle inextri- 1 cable associations the fleeing hours of child hood left behind them. Our delight iu the sunshine on the deep bladed grass to day might : be more than the faint perception of wearied soul.#, if it were not for the sunshine and the ! grass in far off years, which still live in us,and j transform our perception iuto love.— Mill on J the Floss. XCT DEEP ENOUGH FOR FRAYING. — WE henid, a night or two since, a tolerable good j story of a couple of raftsmen. The event occurred during the late big blow on tlie Mis sissippi, at wich time so many rafts were i swamped, and so many steamboats lost their j sky riggings. A raft, was just, emerging from j Luke Pepin as tlie squall came. In an in stant the raft was writhing and ditching ns if suddenly dropped into Charybodis, while the waves broke over with tremendous uproar, and expecting in an instant destruction, .one of the j raftsmen dropped on his knees and commenced praying with u vim equal to the emergency.— Happening to open his eves an instant, lie ob served his companion, not engaced in praying, hut pushing a pole iuto the water at the side \ of the rufi. "What's that yer (loin', Mike ?" said he— " get down on yer knees, now, for there isn't a mi'iit between us and Purgatory !" "Be aisy, Pat,' said the other, as lie coolly continued to punch tiie water with his pole ; "be ai>y, now ! what's the use of prnifin' tchen a fellr can touch bottom wid a pole?" Mike is a pretty good spcimen of a large class of christians, who prefer to omit prayer, us long us they can, "tetch bottom." A SOLDIER'S RATIONS. —For breakfast, 7 AM,, j there will lie furnished for each tnau prov.sions in the following quantities : One quart of good coffee. Eight ounces of bread. Three-eighths of a pound of beef. At 12, jr., for dinner : Five eighths of a pound of beef or mutton, well cooked, with potatoes. One quart baked bean# to every ten men, and every oilier day, in lieu of baked beans, rice, bean or vegetable soup, will be furnished at tlie rate of one pint per man. At 5 r. si. for supper : Eight ounces of bread. Three pints of coffee. One qnnrter pound of cold beef or mutton. Tlie coffee to be furnished will be propetiy sweetened, and milk iu due proportion will also be provided. PERSONAL INDENTITY.— Patrick O'Flanne gnn, being in an uncertain state, and not quite aide to distinguish nt ft late hour of the night liis own house from his neighbor's in a row of similar ones, decided on making a bold push and trust to luck. Ascending the s'eps, lie rang the bell,which was answered by tho lady living next him, and wbo knew him well.— "Can you t t-tell me where P P-atrick O' Flannegan lives ?" said he. " Why you are Patrick O'FlMnnegan," said the lady. Bb botheration ! I didn't ask you who Patrick O'Flinuegan is •, I want to know where the old chap firee * Humming Birds. The ruby-throat is very easily tamed, and is a most loving and trustful little creature. — Mr. Webber has given a most interesting nc count of a number of ruby-throats which lie 1 succeed ia taiuing. Ou several occasions lie j had enticed the living meteors into his room by placing vases of tempting flowers on the j table, and adroitly closing the sash as soon as ] ihey were engaged with the flowers ; but lie had always lest them by their dashing at tlm window and striking themselves against the glass. At lust, however, liis attempts were crowned with success ; and "Tais time 1 i succeeded in securing an nnwonnded captive, I | which, to my inexpressible delight, proved to : i bo one of the ruby-tlioated species, the most ! I splendid and diminutive that comes north of j Florida. It iminediatetly suggested itself to j me that a mixture of two parts refined loaf , i sugar, with one of fine honey, in ten of water, would make about the nearest approach to the | i nectar of flowers. While my sister ran to prepare it, 1 gradually opened my hand to look ! at my prisoner, and saw, to my no little amuse merit, as well as suspicion, that it was actu ally " playing poisum,—feigning to be dead most skillfully. It lay on my open palm mo I tionle?s for some minutes, during wiolt I ! watched it in breathless curiosity. I saw it gradual ly open its bright little eyes, and then close tnem slowly as it caught my eyes upon it. But when the manufactured nectar came, and a drop was touched upon the point of its | bill, it came to life very suddenly, and in a t moment was on legs drinking with eager gus i to of the refreshing draught from a silver tea spoon. When sated, it refused to take any more, and sat perched with the coolest self : composure cn my linger, and plumed itself ' quite ns artistically as if on its favorite spray 1 was enchanted with the bold, innocent con j Science with which it turned up its keen black | eyes to survey us, as much ns to sny, " Weil, : good folk®, who are you — liulUdge's liius lrated Statural History. llow TO MEASURE A TREE. —A mechanic wishes to cut a piece of timber thirty feet long. lie selects a tree but is not certain , whether the length will hold out. How shall | lie ascertain without feliiug it or climbing up to measure it? A simple principle in trigo 1 nometry will answer. If two sides of a right angled triangle are equal the triangle will be equilateral. Measure thirty feet from the tree on a level surface, cut u stick that will, after i being driven into the ground vertically, reach up to you eyes. New lie down with your feet against the stick thus driven into the ground, | and if the top of the stick ranges with the j place where you intend to saw the tree it will lie just the desired length. This principle will j hold good for measuring the height of any ob ! ject, always remembering to measure tlie dc ! sired length from the base of the object to ! where your eyes will be, or drive in the stick . at any place and calculate the length of the ol.ject by the equilateral triangle. Thus, if the j distance from the eyes of tiie observer is one | hundred feet, the height of the object will be i one hundred feet.— lad ocular. How TO CARE FOR THE HAIR. —As to men i ; we say, when the hair begins to fall out, the I best plan is to have it cut short, give it a good i ; brushing with a moderately stiff brush, while j tiie hair is dry, then wash it well with warm , soap suds, then rub into the scalp, about the j roots of the hair, a little bay ram, brandy, or I , camphor water. Do these things twice a month : —the brushing of the scalp may be profitably j done tw ice a week. Damp the hair with wa- j ter every time the toilet is made. Nothing I aver made is better for the hair than pure j soft water, if the scalp is kept clean iu the way j we have named. Tho use of oils, pomatum*, or grease of any j kind, is ruinous to the hair of man or woman. We consider it a filthy practice, almost uriiver i sul though it be, for it gathers du*t and dirt, j and soils whatever it touches. Nothing but i pure soft water should ever be allowed on the ! heads of children. It is a different practice ; that robs our women of their most beautiful i 1 ornament long before their prime ; tiie hair of 1 our daughters should be kept within two inch- I c*. until their twelfth year.— Halt's Journal of \ Health. a SINGULAR FANClES. —Napoleon died In his 1 military garb, his Field Marshal uniform and ; boots, which he ordered to be put on a short time before his death. Augustus Csesercho.se ! to die in a standing position, and was careful 1 to arrange and dress for the occasion. Sew- i ard, enrl of Northumberland, when on tlie I point of death, quitted iiis Led and put on his 1 armor, saying it became net a man to die like a brute, but to show his dignity. Maria Loa o isa, of Austria, the unfortunate cosort of Na-1 poieon, a soiirt time before her death fell into a sort of insensibility, and her eyes being c!o>-1 ed, one of the ladies in attendance remarked j that " her Majesty seemed to be asleep." " No," said she, " I could sleep if I could indulge in repose ; but I am sensible of tlie near approach of death, and I will not allow . myself to be surprised by him in my sleep. I wish to meet my dissolution awake." •— — " A beautiful day, Mr. Jenkins." " Yes, very pleasant, indeed." "Good day for the race." " Race—what race ?" " The human race." " Oh, go long with your stupid jukes ; get ; up a good one like tiie one I sold Day." " What Day ?" " The day we celebrate," said Jenkins, who weut on bis way rejoicing. fiSf In an Irish provincial journal there is : an advertisement running thus: " Wanted, e handy laborer, who can plough a married man , and a Protestant, with a son or daughter." lady who fell back cm ber dignity,, oaase osar breaking it. _______ VOL. XXI. —XO. 51 Origin of tlio Gipsies. The Gipsies are not Egyptians as is com monly supposed, but arc of the lowest classes of Indians among the estates of Ilmdostuu, commonly called Parians, or in iiindostao, Mnndnrs. They aia found in Persia, Turkey, Russia, Hungary, and most of the continental nations, aiuiaouit'.ing to more than 700,QU0 ; they all speak one language, differing only :■ a slight degree from each other, as the prwvia cial accents oi a kingdom may differ, and this language is nearly lite same as the Hindoo i tunee. The cmigiutioH of this jjeopie fro® their own country is attributed to the war of Tim j our Reg in India, (40S, Jat which pc-rinJ their arrival in Europe is confirmed by hislor j ical authorities. SJ cruel was the conqueror, ' that 100,000 who surrendered as slaves, were ' put to death; in consequence of which a nni* ; versa! panic seized ill# inhabitants, and they ; fled in a!! directions, tlie Soridars gradually j finding their way iuto Europe. The features of ' the Gipsies piaiuly showed their eastern origin | : but they had so well contrived to dupe the European inhabitants that, till the advance ment of oriental literature, their country would never be clearly traced. In England, when? they arrived in the time of Henry VIII, tliev met the taste of the vulgar by pretended skill in astrology, and the art of palmistry, bring ing with them their native tricks of juggling. That the Gipsies arc of the race mentioned, can scarcely be doubted, when wo put all the reasons together for establishing the theory. The date of th scattering of the Indian tribes by Timour Beg agrees with that of their emi gration to Eurjpa ; their persons stroungly re semble the people of that country—sa much so, that the troops of Hindostan struck the Brit ish c-ffiesrs surprise when they joined their arniie";, as so nearly resembling these people, and thsir customs and mode cf life, in every respect are perfectly in accordance with those of the Saurlars; both a filthy and disgusting in their habits ; both dislike to communicate their language to strangers; they tire remark ably fond of horses ; tliev prefer food killed by disease; they have similar dunces, they alike wanderers, uud are averse to civilized life; tliey equally dislike agricultural pursuits, and prac tice music, or travel about with their tinker's tools ready to woik at every door ; their mar riage customs are similar, 'i'he belief that the Gipsies were Egyptians arose from the report circulated by the first of them, that they were pilgrims from Egypt. The Gipsies have no | particular religion, all professedly conforming ■to that of t he countries where they dwell, but being for the most part, destitute of faith. THE FIRST POST OFFICE. —The first post office established in Franca was in 1401 : in England 1581; in Germany in 1041—although one authority attributes the authorship of the modern postal system to tlie Emperor Maxa | millian, of Germany, for tho purpose of facili tating an espionage ever his subjects through the medium of their correspondence, and also for the purpose of punching himself by the profits of the enterprise. The first post office in America was established in New York in 1619, and the Colonial Government. In 1759 the direction of the postal business was confer red on Congress by the terms of the Constitu tion. At that time there were but 75 post offices in the Union; in 1825 there was 5C77 ; at the commencement of 1559 there were 58,- 578. AN ARKANSAS MAGISTRATE. —In tec oariy days of Arkansas, a noted rnfiiti, named Bir doek,who was constantly engaged in some sav siire conflict*, and had killed several of his an tagonists, was arrested cn a charge of homi cide. It was not the first time he had been before the same Magistrate for the same crime, aud on tins occasion the judicial functionary became indignant. Addressing the culprit he said : " Bill Birdock, I might begin to think yea a hard case. This is the third time you've been up before me for killing a man. Mow, 1 wont you to know that 1 am going to put a s'on to this business, and if I catch you killing another man, I'iljust gut the grand jury to see about it." ROBCING AN EDITOR —One of onr rural breth ren was lately robbed while traveling. It will be seen, by the following indignant epistle, tho thief immediately sent to tho editor how much he (the tliiif) made by the operation : " Yon miserable cuss, here's your pocket book. I don't keep no sieh. For a man dress ed ns weil as yea to go round with a wallet with nothing in it but lot of newspaper scraps, a pair of wooden combs, two newspaper stamps, and a pass from a railroad director, is con temptible imposition on the public. As I hear you arc an editor, 1 return your trash. I nev er robs only gentlemen." The editor got out of it by saving that hia mouey was in the " other |>cckt !" B&3- A Tar. who had been boasting of the numerous foreign places he had seen, was ask ed if be bad ever seen Louisiana. " No," said Jack ; " what country does she live iu. ; " BfiF" A great, poet says that "the mountains stand fixed forever." We know, however, that it is no uncommon tbir.g for them to slope. A STR.VTCTTT FORWARD CaArr.AIN —Rev. John ITerpont, the poet, offers hirsself as an army chaplain, provided lie will not have to go AROUND Baltimore. Bay Sellnylkill county has sent 22 compa nies and 2000 men towards Washington—in cluding 15 or 20 common people sush as edi tors, lawyers Ac., StsT" Jeff. Davis' Cousin, a young man nt Rockford, ill , horn at Natchez, .Miss., has en listed ; lie expresses his great anxiety to be sent where be. will have a chance of pqttiag a ball through his trairdros# reiatr*.