'j?- : ~ * ' •• t •' r v •" \|T t r-rr 'HUHM ly; V SYJ /\ P| \/Awrr im , fil , . butio ; ufi ftlwiUfH liivAulntH. i In nUVnrli.Lt Ult " TOW A ND A : XJi-i-.-Uy Sloruing, May 14, 1863. V^ottrn. IMPERISHABLE. r • '0 tAebright,the beautiful, our hearts iu youth, i-i .i wordless prayer, Tlu- ditauis of love and truth. # •;... h after something lost, iiie spirit's yearning cry ; The stritiuga after better hopes. These things can never die. The timid hand stretched forth to aid, A brother iu his need, The kindly word in griefs dark hour, That proves the friend indeed. The 'ilea for mercy, softly breathed. When justice threatens high The sorrow of a contrite heart, These things shall never die. The memory of a clasping hand, The pressure of a kiss, \r.d all the triilcs, sweet and frail, That make up love's first bliss. I; i,-.it: a ira: unchanging faith, And : !y trust and high . : iiids have clasped, those !ip have met, "" ti'i'o'N ii.tii never die i. ' v " • • . ni;-.:tiiy, W •- • '.l it n- v. i tell. • teal hi is tin heart, . >!'.. ivOpt. . re: l.aud • t oiv, - • • thee, " s. ' 1 "T An/:rnr-d d< -•■••ir stalk liko crinnts! through the camp of the Israelites. The fiery | serpents ! >ve ouuio among thetn, and many of the iiiiit'inuriiig Hebrews now lio cold and life less. Moses has been petitioned to intercede with that Great IL-ing whom they have of fended : but will his intercessions avail ? Is not tHrtl iti [ilsout to doom thorn ad iodeatu; ..'on reign triumphant. Ih-hoi , tie • y- ig girl who rushed from a tint nen.r io. : grief and horror in her look, in r I n .. hair dross disordered : —scarcely have the folds of the entrance closed behind her, v- hen on- • -f the in-Anments of death wings its ,v 11. 5 . art! irer. Oh, sUo is young and itt nisftsi! May she not be spared ? in her tender Hash tun fiorv lnng ? [l'ur.ged ; hern down by pain r.nd fright. she risks swooning on the gronnd. While she thus lies, another form is soon slowly aj pi oaching ; ; this, tn i, is a woman, young and beautiful, hat j trith depths of gloom in her dark eyes. Site sees her friend prostrate before her,ami though i 'me. '• sciV. so-, ks to Indp Ikr. With nn-! certain steps she draws hear the spot : the j i! - iv v■ i ns is in her veins, and the thicken- j ii-H hloo . bib e'.'. heavily through her oppress ed hikl struggling heart as she stoops to raise the unconscious girl. The poor sufferer, wak ing once more to pain and anguish, looks wild ly around her. ' " A!i, Milctih," she cries with a sob, as she reeogniz •* the face bending over her, '* I am bitten hy oue of the sorpeuts of God's anger. tMi, save me, caus't thou not save me, dear Milcah ?" She moans and pauis as the poison creeps through her quiverieg form. On Mihum the ▼irus lias progressed farther in its work—the death-ike pallor of her face,the swelling limbs, the fr •><.-;' gra'ing for breath, show that too !y 1 nth draw near ; turning on Tir tah her eyes, darkening beneath the shadow of death, .he murmurs in hollow tones : " God's wrath falls heavily upon us. Tir zth, for tbeo I eou'.d weep ; for myself I have no tears, bitter is my heart ; Jehovah is a fearful God who has led Ilis people from the pleasant land of Egypt, to suffer famine and thirst, aud a death of agony in the wilder ness." But Tirzah, lifting her head from her com panion's knee against which it rests, replies in gentle, trembling tones : " Milcah, beloved; speak not in these words, they aro displeasing to our God. Ho now "oiiy punishes the sins of Ilis people ; bow *>iten iiiive murinurs and rebellion been the re turns lot- the mercies bestowed upon us, the niraeh-s wrought iu our favor. The land of Egypt, v.'os to us the land of oppression, and •'•ln ti,p Lord in his might and power brought fro y the way of the Red Sea —" W th a cry of despair Milcah interrupts her. " Wv on lie :.o;:r v.leu I passed through the '•liters of death that closed on the one dear to ?a )' wil } vV'oc on the hour when Miriam's 60 "g of triumph sounded in mine beloved, or -hut 1 h:i j tarried in the pathway between the "•igl'.ty waters, until he came among the hosts ' li,-yi)ti;y tongue cleaves to the roof of my mouth." " Milcah, dear Milcah, but one look, it will restore thee ; the mercy of tho Lord is CV ni'ony of sc;-plication, with ; ; v:'d sub.:, as She withdraws the mantle j j d Mil the face of tho unhappy one, who lias |no Di,; v.r the strength to oppose her. Mil ! cah's heart begins to soften : " My GOD and !i)j j •have mercey," she faintly sighs; her i breath has almost gone; as she raises her eyes dim with the shades of death, she can scarce distinguish tue hand ot Tirzah pointing in the direction of the brazen serpent. " Lave me and dense me from my sin. O, Gon," is her voiceless prayer —it is heard. Sho can now preceive the outlines of the object lovvaiJs which she so earnestly gazes. As she looks, tears of penitence and thankfulness fall from those eyes which so lately gleamed with defi ance and despair; and from her parted iips is sue prayerful words of humble adoration ; kneeling" beside !ier,T:rz-iVs praises and thanks blend with those of the forgiven penitent. - —'3—— —— i . • Many years ego, Ir. England, when tra velers were wont to journey or horseback,and to sleep t wo in abed at taverns, the following occurred at Chester : j Two young bloods stopped at the Ilea I ox tavern, and while going up to bed late at night (it being hot weather) they discovered the door of ono of tho bed-rooms open. It so happeued that a Scotchman and Irishman were both asleep in the bed ; aud the Irishman had " kicked the kiver off" and one of his legs lay uuked and nearly out of bed. " I'll have some sport now,' said one to the other, " if you'll bold the light a minute." j The candle was held while the young chap j went in, aud, taking up one ot tho Irishman's • spurs, buckled it on one heel of Paddy's naked ! foor. He then gave Paddy's leg a piueh, and , hid himself behind the door. Paddy—though not awakened —drew his leg suddenly ouck, and in this way sadiy damaged the Scotch man's naked leg with tho spur. I " The de'el d—n you !" exclaimed Donald, ' robbing his leg, " and if you dinua gan ocrt o' heJ, an % cut your toe nui.s, I'H soon be j up aud throw yeroot tii' window, yo mot. ; Tho Iri- jnuci slept soundly, and roon put ! his log back in its old position, when tneyouag joker who had put on tho spur stole up to the ; bed aud pinched his leg tho second time. In | went the log again, tho spur striking the | Scotchman's leg, who got in a torribio passion aud began to pummel l'adoy, exclaiming, as 1 usual, " Get oot o' and cut your too nail-, yc loot! ■ Do you fash a Cur'stiau mou to stand such a j diggin' ?" Thi; waked up tho Irishman, win* at ti ' ' "lore- nt bringing* tho spur to bear on his other | leg, vaulted oat of bod. Having procured a IL-h'.be looked down at tho spur with tuo | :atcst astonishment. j ", y hOWt, s;iu no, ' what a siupij !oo: is the hostler of this inn : rare ne ; ho tuk off j my boots when I weut to bed, aud bus left ou i one ->v lii' .purs otraDge it is he diu t u'- tic • o " FUBLiSiiisD EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. 0. GOODRICH. Swindling by Machinery. Wo'do not know who is the inventor of the system of machinery described below, but ho i or they managed to obtain possession of large i sums of money by the operation of it, which, ifo rtunately for the Government, was nearly j all recovered. We once read an account of a machine, used in a Paris gambling house,which ; operated by smothering tho " unfortunate-for tunote" winner after he had retired for the night ; the top of the bed, wherein he was reposing,descended hv a screw working through tho ceiling abovo, and thus extinguished birn. The apparatus was detected by one person who refused to bo " put out," and he escaped by tho window and brought the detective to tho house immediately. Modern gamblers are moro polite ; they aro averse to the shedding of blood, and therefore confine their irrepressi ble genius to simply robbing without the pos sibility of failure. Annexed is a description of the apparatus used in Cleveland, Ohio, to rol) Paytna; tor Cook, whose case was recently noticed so generally by the press. Conli.sk, one of the men concerned in " fleecing" the paymaster Cook, was a frequent visitor to Cleveland, and occupied rooms in the third story of the Parsons Block on Superior street. The rooms occupied by Conlisk eonsist of a sitting-room, where the gambling was done, and u bed-room. The sitting room was finish • ed in the usual manner, and had a faro tabic j i near the windows, and a draw-poker table tn ■ : the centre of the room, with chairs pbtced to j each. Tl;:; weds n.t i ceiling ; .f the room as. j ! pap red with paper oi a . tar pattern. J/irect- ' ; iv over the rooms are two other rooms, also i j occupied by Conli.-k, but not furnished. A j ! portion of the flooring has been removed in | i tho room Im:;;. dLbly over the gambling-room, j J ...id a .small hole nored tlirougii L.ie ceiinig oi j j the room below, A' ove "iielt of t MO tables. As ! the hole comes d'rectly through the center of | 1 star pat<"n tho paper, tliev are scarcely | distinguishable from below. Each hoD is so j ! -a.;. ; : U ; . - rnabi ■ a rar >n applying hh eye i to it, to look di? :ctly into the hand of tho | egraj hie signal machine was discovered com-1 ; hub's in the room ao VC Ail; i..t: Cisa . Ot tl'.O gauiti.tll' a IttC wOIR 1 . ; - * •"*??. h n rirg a ha mile near the hole, pa r a liong between the flooring of the room abovo and the cHling or the room below to the corner of the gambingroom and bed room. It enters the bed room and passes down in the corner being concealed by a strip of boaiu nailed ut> aud paper over, xt thru p. - scs under the floor of the gambling-room to the table, where a small piece of the flooring has been cut away close by the table leg, where the left foot of the gambler would be placed whilst playing. There it terminates in a spring and hammer, concealed by the carpet. The method of working this invention for rob bing by machinery seems to have been us foi lows : The victim to bo operated upon finds two chairs drawn up to the table. In one of theso the gambling thief scats himself, at once placing his foot over the telegraph hammer The victim is obliged to take the other, which is placed in the proper po lion for playing. The gambler's accomplice in the room above ! stretches himself cn a mattress, with his eye j ;ut the peep-hole—and one lmnd grasping the j U legraph handle. The hole is so placed that he can 'look directly down into the hand of his victim. As soon ns he sees the cards he tele graphs their description according to an ar- j ranged code of signals by palling the handle, j when the hammer strikes the desired number ; of runs on the sole of the gambler's boot or slipper, the sound being muiiicd vvit.n the car pet. Of course, it is easy to see that the man who sits down to play with such a gambler is robbed as surely, completely and systematical ly, us if had been bound hand and foot, and delivered over to a highwayma ; and of the two robbers, the highwayman would be the more decent man. It will thus be seen that that the gambling mitul i - equal to all emergencies. There are gamblers in this city, and it behooves those persons who are fond ot throwing away their money, to consider the above paragraph well, for if'they be not robbed through the agency of the method described, they may be assured that some other plan equally forcible, will be put in practice, whereby they are suredy, but uot slowly, deprived of their money. We read in tho " Vicar of Wakefield " that poor Mo ses (son of the vicar) was badly taken in by a sharper who represented himself as of the reverend " persuasion," and did tho inexperi enced youth out of a promising colt which the worthy vicar hoped would bring him a large sura of money. The " spectacles in shagreon cases," the only equivalent received for the beast, operated as well as the best machinery for tho purpose ; even they, however, uid uot prevent the same swindler from enveloping MOSES iu his toils a second time, if our memo ry serves us. The systematic pursuit of gaming as a pas sion, and not as a profession, in England and France, during tho* last fifty years, led several men of more than ordinary mathematical abil ities to make accurate calculations of the real ! chances of various games. In doicg this it I was discovered that, in ail cases, the " banks 'so am need their games that there could be no positive fair play. In rogue e* noir, which j was once a very fashionable game in tuo gam j bltng hells of this country, the certain and in* : alinablo advantage of tno banks against tho i players, made by a peculiar rule ot the game, j amounts to about 1 1-2 per cent, on all the ! moneys Finked on one evcut —or to about 100 1 per cent per hour against each steady pinyor! j And this deadly odds neither skill nor cabals | tion on his part can in the slightest degree di- j : vert The vice of gambling R.-suruos us many i difi- rent aspect-. as a chameleon ~:= :oh.>rs. J j There are individuals iu tiiis City who jvo by 1 commanding various nnseaworthy watches to j public favor, and who make au immense profit by swindling countrymen who come to this ' ciiv There is -uch uu establishment near the I Museum, but the cries >f the uuctioueor arc • hkely 'o be- hushed for u time, ua we saw, tho • a kef -lav j ? ; ui"'urt poi. .'-Ojiiu pacing no " REGUR-DLESS OF LNXTIHCIATLOIF FROM ANY QUARTER.'" down in front, for the purpose of warning off all persons in danger of being " fleeced."— Wrath aud furtile anger wero depicted on the faces of the sharpers, while the expression on the countenances of the psendo-purchaser, who arehircd as decoys, was ludicrous in tho ex treme. Thcreis tic law, it seem?, that will reach their cases.— Scientific American. jfcly It would be hard to match the follow ing for the truthfulness to Irish character, and the unfoauunate experience of some who have had Irish help. Patrick had been recently hired to do tho chores, but I was uot altogether sure of his being able to do all that he promised. He boasted so loudly of his nniversal knowledge of out-of-door work that I doubted of; bis knowing much of anything. I said to him one day ; " Patrick, do yon think I could trust you to give tho black filly a warm mash this even ing ?" Pat stared for a minute or two without re plying, and I repeated the question, when he broke the silence and said, " Is it a mash, sir ? Sure an' I'd like to be plazin' yer honor any way ; that's no lie." As he spoke, however, I fancied that I saw a strange sort of puzzled expression flit across his face, " 1 beg yer pardon, Sir, 't is bothered iu ; tir o!y lam Will I give her nn Ould Gouu i try mash cr an A mot-iky mash ?" " Look here. Pntrfi k ?>Tulroonev," said I, ' j impatiently, " I want you to put about two ! double handful! -> of bran into a but s- f of wa | ter, and after stirring it well give it to the i black fillv Nnw, do yon rightly understand ! -V) j me I • j " Good Inch to yer honor," replied Patrick, j looking very much relieved, for he had now I got-just the information ho was fishing for, I " Good luck to ver honor ; what would I be | good for if I did n't ? Sure it'.' the Ouid j ('ountry mash after all " j " I thought as much," paid I;" so new ! away with you, ami be sure you tuako no aiL j take " J " Its n-"**. likely I'll do that, sir," said he, i look in . ... 1 15m Flour per bl>l GO ui> Turkius apiece IS 00 Chickens apiece . 0 -lOfi 000 Fkeil pel M>! . 00 Butter per H> - - o''w 00 Coffee per ft 4 iWiJ 5 CO Candies per D: 3 25 Yours, Ac., B. l>. II A 3lonster of tho Beep. In some parts of tho ocean thero arc enor mous sea animals, called Sepia, which are a kind of polypi. They have very long legs,aud are said sometimes to seize upon the coral di vers along the coast of Italy. Mr. Ileale tells the following adventure with a creature of this sort: " While upon the Bouin Islands, searching for shells on the rock-; which had just been left by the receding tide, I was much aston ished nt seeing at my feet a most extraordina ry looking animal, crawling towards the re treating surf. I had never seen one like it before, it was creeping on its eight legs, which, from their soft aud flexible nature,bent considerably under the weight of its bouy, so that it was lifted by the efforts of the tentacu la only a smail distance from the rocks. "It appeared much alarmed at seeing mo, and made every effort to escape, while I was not much in the humor of endeavoring to cap ture so ugly customer, whose appearance ex cited feelings of distrust, not unmixed with fear. I, however, endeavored to prevent its escape by pressing on otic of its legs with my foot ; but, although I used considerable force for the purpose, its strength was so great that it sev crai times quickly liberated its member in spite of all the efforts I could employ, in this way, on wet, slippery rocks. I now laid hold of one of the tentacles with my bauds aud held it firmly, so that the limbs appeared us if it would be torn asunder by our united strength. I gave it a powerful jerk, wishing to disen gage it from the rocks to which it clung so forcibly its suckers, which effectually resisted —but, the moment after, the apparently eurag | ed animal lifted its head, with its large eye? protrudind from the middle of its body, and letting go its hold of tho rocks, sprang upon my arm, which I had ny.L 1 bared to the shoulder for tho pur, "1 5; . ~ .ieks to discover in? it into the holes m S|icker , t0 it witb shells, and to get its beak;which great j )otweei , t j lc root;j 0 ? q g arms I con !'\ou to bite. !a *'' A sensation ot terror pervaded my wholo frame when 1 found this monstrous animal,for it was about four feet long, fixed so firmly to my arm. Its cold, slimy grasp was t-xtrem :!y sickening, and J immediately called to the captain, who was also sear hiug for MIK-US at some distance, to come a id release use from it by taking tuo down to tho boat, during which liiue I was enployed in keeping the beak away from my baud, quicklv rcleuscd uc by destroy- V< )L. XXIJ \ - K<). r>o. ing my tormentor with the boat knife, when disengaged it by portions fit a time. This an imal was that species of Sepia which is callod by whalers " rock squib.'' Thus aro these re markable creature-, from the adaptation of their tentacles and modifications of their bo dies capable of sailing, hying, iwiming and creeping on the shore, white their senses, if wo judge from the elaborate mechanism of their organs, must pos.< •?;* corresponding neatness and perfection." CURIOSITY OK rji.r.nr.—ln Turkey, if a man fails asleep in the neighborhood of a poppy field, and tho wind blows toward him, ho be comes narcotszed, and would die if the country people, who are well acquainted with the cir cumstance, did not bring him to the next well or stream, and empty pitcher after pitcher of water on his face and body. Appeuheim,dur ing his residence in Turkey, owed his life to this simple and efficacious treatment. Dr. Graves,from whomc this anecdotcjis quoted,al so reports the case of a gentleman thirty years of age, who, from long continued sleepiness, was reduced to a complete living skeleton, un able to stand on his legs. It was partly ow ing to disease, but chiefly to the abuse of opi um ; until at last, unable to pursue his busi ness he sank into object poverty and woo. Dr. lieid mentions a friend of his who whenever anything occurred to distress him soon became drowsy and fell asleep. A student at Edin bnrg, upon hearing suddenly of the unexpect ed death of n near relative, threw himself on his bed end almost iuslancously, amid tho a iaro of noouday, sank into profuod slumber. Another person, l oading to one of his dear est friends stretched on Ids deathbed, fell fast asleep, and with the book still in his hand, went on reading, utterly unconscious of what he was doing. A woman at Homedt slept seventeen or eighteen hours a day for fifteen years. Another is recorded to have slcpts once in four days. Dr. Mancish mentions a W'ia.m who spent three fourths of iter Ilfo in *!--r\ fta-l Rr El Hot son mole a case of ft young lady who slept for six weeks tad recovered. — Tin venerable St, Aagustioe of Hippo, pru dently divided his hours into three parts— eight to be devoted to sleep, eight to medita tion,, and eight to converse with the world.— Maniac o are reported, particularly in tho east ern hemisphere, to become furiously vigilant during tho full of the moon, more especially when tho deteriorating ray: of its paralized light arc permitted to fall into their apart ments, hence the name of lunatics. Their cer tainly is greater prone." s to disease during sleep than in the waking state, for those who pass the night in the Campagna di Roma in evitably become nlTocted with its noxious air ; while travelers who go through without stop ping, escape the miasma, lutcuse cold pro duces sleep, and those who perish in the snow, sieep on till the sleep of death. TF.A IN RUSSIA. —The Russians attribute tho superiority of their tea to the fact that it is sent overland from China, und does not get spoiled by the sea air I should bo iueliued to think that the real reason is that it comes from provinces in China near the Russian fron tier, where there is a better article of tea than :i to provinces from which comes the article ve use. I think, also, that they understand infusing the tea better than wo do. They drink it as soon as the boiiing water is poured on it, whilst .ve allow it to stand until* it b come: as black us one's hat and as bitter as hops. The gentlemen mostly drink their tea in tamblers, without milk, sometimes adding a slice of a lemon, whilst tho ladies take it in cups, with any amount of cream. We were afterward, especially after traveling on tho Moscow and Nijui railroads, surprised at the large and constant nRe of this beverage at all hours of the day and night, bet wo very soon became as large consummers of it ns the na tive Russians themselves Indeed, after a night in the railway-carriage, we found a turn early morning more exMbtt* rting tl ■ n tho " blest sherbet," and more re venl soda-water. When at St Petersburg, s a small quantity of a fine sample ot caravan tea, for which we paid at the rate of thirty-eight shillings the pound 1 v. of course this was one of tho fancy sorts,and uot that which is in common use, which costs about six shil lings and sixpeuce tho pound. At the shop where we bought this tea wo were informed that they hud some as high as seventy shillings the pouud. As we were accompanied by a resident in the city who always dealt thero, we knew that wc were uot beiug victimized.— Bentley's Miscellany. MISTAKES. —The editor of the Star of the IVcst furnishes tho following modest attempt at correcting rather wide-spread mistakes : It is n mistake to suppose that the subscrip tion price of a paper is clear gain to tho pub lisher. It is a raistako to thiuk that ho gets his white paper for nothing. It is a mistake to suppose that it is printed without cost. It is a mistake to suppose than ' " uao bodiij by faith. „ osc that it is easy to It is r. mistake to - • • J j'. : ~ v y Vatic to suppose that money duo -ip . >ufd : as good to us iu a year im it wold bo now. It i mistake to ; that ho woald not be thankful for what is duo him and for new subscribers. A young lady of eighteen was engag ed to be married to a gentleman of thirty-six,., ifev mother having noticed her low spirits for some time, inquired the reason. "Oh dear, epl " I was think >ut n bu band being twice my age." " That's very truo,' only thirty-six." " lie is only tuirty atx now, bat when I uot sixty " " Well." ■' Oh dour ' -vlly then he'd be u nuudred and twenty."