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"Oh, let me see \D strong rieht arm again I" ,„l.by, old arm!" the soldier said, V he clasped the fingers cold ; I Jown his pale but manly cheeks The tear-drops gently rolled : jjv strong right arm, no deed of yours \ • gives me cause to sigh ; ■ ;t's hard ti> part such trusty friends : : d-bv, old arm ! good-by ! Veuve served nic well these many years. [n sunlight and in shade ; it. comrade, we have done with war, — Let dreams of glory fade. u 11 nevermore my sabre swing. [n battle fierce and hot ; u'll never bear another fiag, ir Sir another shot. do not mourn to lose you now, . r L' mi and native land ; . proud am f to give my mite, •oi In i Join pure and grand! k God! uo selfish thought is mine A"L:ii- hert I bleeding lie ;' hear it tenderly away, •1-1 y. old arm! good-by!" C. S. Service Magazine. piscctomis. l DAY ON KILLENY HILL excellent father had left me in pos >l a tolerable capital, and a thriv .vness in which to invest it ; he had imeto his own pursuits, aud I had beyond them. I was pru- I ts well as industrious, and so it pass, that when I had reached my i-eotid year, 1 found myself the hon viier of somewhat more than fifty ad pounds, even in this age of milli ■ :s not to be despised. never seen the lady, old or young, i have liked to call by the endear me of "spouse." It is true that I - itnetiines over my solitary state, vied Tom Rivers and Jack Seedrift, nnced at their houses, and heard •T children playing at the piano, aud thy " squalling out its approval in : 1 might have continued, too, to le and repine, without having the rial shallows of my own heart soun id 1 not met with Lily Silver ton at a show in the morning, and in the s r of the same day danced with her muse oi Bob Greeushaw, whose im :u invitation a"a hop and supper " " means of bringing us into more in association. ■' at day and night 1 was a changed '■'A not require Lily's photograph, than a month she was always nic in some way or other, and "at ir of the day. When I shaved in "eng. she stood beside the glass and G.vcly to speak) directed my razor ; ■atto my breakfast, "in my mind's ■ - poured out the tea, and sweeten } i• r ever-beaming glances ; in my bewildered my invoice, and more • induced me to commence my an commercial correspondents with west Lily and when 1 went home with friends, still the flavor was on the mutton and the " breath gave to the port its best "mm." said I to myself at last, never do : you cannot go on in '•ridiculous way forever. Lily" " '"'ding up and down the room as "■d become rhetorical for the first 1 ,;:, ie in my life—"Lily is only • nod after all. It is true, so rent and peerless is she, that ■ fittei for her dwelling-place Hie blessed shades to which w '}eii the sleeping sou of .Eneas, "iibstituted Cupid in his place, in and conquer the wretched -''•' to be her eternal bower; I /'' la m unworthy of her ; I am not . •1 am aware of it; I want -races and refined accomplish i )i( ti are said to. go so far and t <aueh with the female heart. But [. " ' call her my Lily?—is beyond all 'his. I feel it, I know i (•• '*oi it; Greeushaw tells me I ' a jilt, a heartless coquette, | '•" as a bait—such was his odi l , various phrase- -to draw on that ; !' ' r Littleton, who is a vulgar " huse property is estimated at s , 1 '. s 11 calumny—a falsehood of r 'i, . i Us k'nd —concocted by that I 1 i.-haw to annoy me, because " r| mient contract was given " md not to his. I will end it i v i" a ' iat l ' one take the r iroa t should he presume to. fG p j l ' ' sta 'c 1 was rushing away k Li',r l i"; > V' w ''. en niy housekeeper, I mto. ' h - 1 rern ' nded me that I was r'.g''c*t without my hat. This I Tpr ,' lie ' 1,,1t I persisted. [ 4 Rbt ;,j , ' bouse—Lily lived with f-r.l ' r , Jora 'n street—l per- I Yl i UVe t ' u " "rush" ' has proposed and been E. O. GOODRICH, rvxt>li*liei-. VOLUME XXVI. rejected," whispered llope ; " how could the low bred booi expect a better fate?" I knocked and was instantly admitted—in stantly ; another good omen, I thought, which was heightened by tin; brilliancy of Lily's eye, and the Hush on her beautiful cheeks. \\ hen we had shaken hands—and never did her hand feel softer or its pres sure more palpable—she arose and said in a low tome to her aunt : " My dear aunt, Mr. Grantham must ex cuse me if 1 retire ; but you have my per mission to explain matters, and I am sure from the many marks of friendship which lie literally and liberally showered on me, he will be the first to congratulate us." She was gone but she left an able expo nent behind. In ten minutes I had heard it all, Sir Jas per Littleton had proposed, and had not | been rejected ! '"And so amiably generous ! (even mu nificent has he been !" went on the wretch ed go-between, in a tone of rapturous em otion, "he proposes to settle four thousand a year on our darling Lily," (ours, ha! ha!) "and as to horses, carriages and establish ments. Ah, Mr. Grantham our good for tune is almost overcoming, and I am sure that none of our many friends will more truly or sincerely—" 1 rushed from the chamber of deception and horrors, and left her to conclude her hypocritical speech ti> the disgusted air. Months passed away, during which I learned one thing, at all events —namely, that it is much easier to fall iuto love than to fall out of it. I did my best, however, and it was only by opposing the foulness of the treatment 1 had received to the im pressions which the beauty of the deceiver had left on me that 1 made head against the suffering I endured. Let no one say that I was a fool (as Greeushaw did, with his infernal "I always told you so," to back it), when I honestly admit that my liver sympathized with my heart, and that after a course of the blue pill and Moxon's mag nesia, my attendant physicians sent me abroad to look for health when 1 objected to any further dosing at their hands at home. I went up the Rhine and down the Dan ube ; from Alp to Appenine ; and at length went to Ireland, aud after "doing'' Killar ney, the Giant's Causeway, the rocks and ruggedneßß of Counemara and the llill of Howth, found myself one delicious morning on " Killiuey Hill." Yes, it was delicious ; I have every reason to call it so. This locally celebrated "Hill" is what your blase tourists would term "nothing to speak of as a hill." Neither is it ; it is rather an agreeable ascent than anything deserving of a more imposing name. But when you stand on the top of it, and look over the various scenery it commands, the term "maguificent" may well indeed be conferred on the whole without fearing that the speaker will say too much. In front of you is the "Bay of Dublin," second to none other in the world for variety and beauty. On one side the charming landscape which stretches on to "Brayhead," is before you, dotted with pasture-lands, villas, planta tions, through which "meanders," for we may say so, the Dublin and /Vicklow Railway, edge the shore, and giving addi tion life aud animation to the picturesque scene ; on the other side you have variety again : beneathjyou, almost, is the harbor of Kingstown, with its magnificent "piers," its fleet of large vessels and small. The citizens of Dublin have now made their favorite ground in summer for picnics and who find there every accommodation neces sary for the pleasant consummation of a ru ral fete." It was on this charming hill, then 1 found myself about noon, and after wandering over the ground and admiring its beauties for an hour or two, I began to perceive that numbers of holiday-makers began to crowd the scene accompanied by their "helps," male and female, some assisting in the transport of hampers and baskets, and others anxiously looking out for and supervising their proper setting down, and taking cure as they did so that pie-crusts wore their normal appearance, that cham pagne flasks were unbroken, and that neither "salt nor mustard" (which every picknicker contrives somehow or another to forget) was in this particular instance mislaid or forgotten. It is to be observed that there is an "obe lisk" topping this hill, raised there, as I have heard, as a sort of landmark for ves sels approaching the shore. Near to this obelisk 1 stood, when I was suddenly ar roused by a slap on the shoulder, accom panied in a moment after by a stentorian but exceedingly pleasant voice, roaring in to my ear the unexpected exclamation of. "What in the world are you doing here, old fellow ?" It was a question under my circumstan ces easier to ask than to answer, and so I felt it at the moment to be ; so 1 suddenly confronted my questioner, and answered him b}' the simple monosyllable, "Sir !" In a moment the stranger's (for such he was) hat was in his hand, and in the spirit of an Irish gentleman, whose tongue sel dom fails him, his answer was ready and his apologies was amply and frankly made. He had mistaken me for another, and made his excuse for the liberty he had taken with my scapula in a spirit of earnest sin cerity which went to my heart at once. Our mutual < xplanations led to further discourse, in the course of which I told him my name and occupation, and learned from him that he was a solicitor in good prac tice, and had been detained in court later than he wished—it was then five o'clock ; and his family and friends had preceded him to "the hill," and were now, he sup posed, either murmuring at his delay, or soothing their milled spirits over quarters of lamb, chicken pie, and such like calma tives to a wounded inind. "1 suppose," he said to me at last, 'that you are about to be engaged in pretty much the same way as myself, and there fore is unfair in me to detain you longer from your friends." "I have no friends here," was my answer "and 1 am only out on a tour of inspection, and mean to go back to my dinner at my hotel. "By your leave, then," he said to me, good-humoredly, "you shall do no such thing, if I can prevent it. 1 am as hun gry as a hawk myself, and I could not rec oncile it to my conscience to send a man seven or eight miles to look for his dinner, when a tolerable meal is within a stone's TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., JANUARY 11, 18(55. ; throw at him.. Do ne the.favor to waive , ceremony, and to take what in Ireland we call 'pot luck' with me once in away," "But as a stranger, sir I have no claim to your hospitality." "l'anlon me," he interrupted ; "you have i just stated the best claim any man could give to anotiierTor sharing his crust with him—at least so we think in Ireland, at all , events. As to your being a stranger, and j all that, is it all got over in a moment, and I will manage to spare your blushes. 1 will introduce you to my wife and friends |as Mr. Grantham —since such is your i name, you say—an English client of mine, ; just arrived, and whom 1 have induced to accompany tue. But we are wasting time : meanwhile, and if we don't quicken our i movements we shall come in for the lag 1 | end of the feast." To a hungry and a solitary man such an offer was not to be refused, and 1 followed my impromptu host, and in ten minutes found myself introduced in a round robin sort of way to a party numbering at least forty people—some young, some old, and some middle-aged ; some of the male sex, some ol the female, each of whom seemed to take my introduction as a compliment, and to be delighted that another item was added to their social aggregate. " Yts I "A love," said my jolly new friend to his wile, a very distinguished looking la dy. whose eye glanced pleasantly at both me and him, "1 assured Mr. Grantham that you would he delighted to welcome him,and that it he did not like your cookery lie need not try it again. By-and-by he will repay you in more than ore way, for he sings like an angel and will join Evelina there in a duet that, as Hhakespear has it,would draw nine souls out of one weaver, so that your hospitality shall not be squandered for noth ing on a nobody." * " But 1 never sing with angels, papa," said the brilliant Evelina, a bright and beautiful blonde of enchanting eighteen, who was seated opposite me, "and even the rustle of their wings would put me out and frighten me." " oil need not fear of being put to the test, Miss Riverdale, - ' 1 answered iu the same tone, "since, so far as my musical ca pabilities are concerned, your papa's Irish imagination lias galloped off with him ; 1 have the quality of a good listener, and can enjoy hearing a good song though I cannot sing one " " \\ e will test you by-and-by, however," she said ; "in the meantime 1 recommend you to try the raspberry tart, which is an excellent preparative to clear the voice." helped tne as 1 spoke, and I challeng ed her to a glass of wine, for the privilege of keeping up that glorious old fashion that seemed to be acknowledged there. In sensibly I was attracted to the fair Evelina, who, though she formed only a single star in the galaxy, had for mean interest super ior to the rest. Neither did it end there ; the day's enjoy ment ushered in a night of enjoyment quite as great. After dinner we broke into groups, and wandered on and around the hill. By this time my spirits had risen almost to fe ver height; 1 had "dropped from the clouds," as 1 might say and yet so well had I played my cards, that everybody seemed to like me, to pet me, to adopt me as a friend, and to wish that "we might often meet again." My old feeling about Lily had received what pugilists call "a settle ;" I did not envy Sir Jasper his unwholesome bargain ; I began to feel that if ever I had a liver at all it was now in a perfectly normal state ; and by a sort of "mentalists" (so my phy sician used to call it) that my heart was the organ which I should henceforth look out for the engagement most heedfuliy. As I walked accompanied by a doctor's wife on one side ol me, small, plump, pret ty and merry, and on the other by a charm ing widow, somewhat past her premiere jeunease, but those eyes still sparkled as brilliantly as ever, and whose temperament appeared to be a combination of solid un derstanding and a sincere and honest desire to be useful to every human being that came in the way,l was still further confirm ed in the justness of my incipient feelings towards the beautiful Evelina. Her friends (female friends too) spoke of her nobly, as one who was the idol of her family, and yet unspoiled by it, and equally the idol of all who even like myself could fee! a sort of intuition'that she desei ved the worship and admiration which universally attended her. In the evening we adjourned to thenouse of Mr and Mrs. Hazlewood,the former "one of the best fellows breathing," as every one called him, and as I have since found him to Le, and the latter only second in beauty to Evelina, and who backed the excellent qualities of her husband by additional qualities ofher own. Here we literally "made a night of it," and "did not go home tili morning—tiil daylight did appear." Did I dance ? Yes—with Evelina. Did I sing? 1 did, with Evelina, too. Did 1 make a speech when called upon by general ac claim to return thanks when the toast of "The Ladies" was proposed after supper ? Of course 1 did, and with a fluent tongue and a "surcharged heart," as 1 called it, there and then, commenced eulogizing "the glorious sex" general, and—Evelina in par ticular. In fact, everything 1 undertook on that suspicious day was "a success,"and when on returning thanks when my own health was proposed, 1 clapped the climax but honestly acknowledging the ruse prac tised in my favor by "my dear friend River dale," and by as candidly owning who I was, aud what 1 was, and that my present intention was to postpone my departure from Ireland sine die, in order to dip deeper into the social mysteries of so genial and generous a people, a perfect ovation re warded mv oratory, and I heard Evelina whisper an aside to mamma, which raised me still higher in my own esteem, simple as the words were, and consisting of the equally simple commendation of "Really, mamma, Mr. Grantham must be a very ac complished man, and quite an orator ; he speaks very well—and always like a gentle man." Do my readers suppose, after all these many-tinctured revelations, that my "little adveutures" stopped there? If so, they will be disappointed, since I "followed up my luck," as Irishmen say ; visited at the house of Riversdale ; revelled in the bright sunshine of "love's young dream," (which by the way, Evelina sings deliciously), and in the smile of the songstress ; courted— proposed—was accepted—was married, in a fact (> da sen for sir Jasper and his cold REGARDI.KSS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY qI'ARTF.R. • blooded wife !—and have just returned ; from my wedding trip to Killaruey, and have asked precisely the same party to meet us—us, glorious plural ?—on Killeny Hill to-morrow. FUN, FACTS AND FACETISL NOTHING SO much destroys our peace of mind as to hear another express an intention to give us a piece of bis. AN old gentleman of great experience says he is never satisfied that a lady understands a kiss unless he has it from her own mouth. AT an agricultural dinner the following toast was given : "The game of fortune ; shuffle j the cards as you will, spades must win." IHEY are trying to find a young man in j Chicago who is heir to SIOO,OOO. Several young ladies in other cities are looking for one just like liim. SOME people are never abreast of the age. They dive into the stream of the past aud don't come up again : their heads stick in the mud at the bottom. A farmer's son, a few days since, asktd his father what a man-of-war was like. "Why," | said his lather, who had never seen one, "it's just | like our threshing machine." MANY persons have their best society in . theii own hearts and souls—the purest memories ; oi earth and the sweetest hopes of heaven ; their j loneliness c innot be called solitude. i A gentleman has lately been placed under , j restraint. The first symptom he showed of mental ! | derangement was fancying himself a plant, and in- ! I sisting on his gardener watering him. THE following question is being argued 1 ; in the debating societies throughout the rural dis- ' ! tricts : "\Miieh is the most destructive to life ! j war, cholera, or railroads?" At last accounts the i I railroads are away ahead. BAII men are never completely happv, ! i although possessed of everything that "this world ' | can bestow ; and good men are never completely i miserable, although deprived of everything tha't ; I the world can take away. A I.ADY asked a minister whether a per son might not be fond of dress and ornament without being proud. "Madam," said the minis- i ter, • 'when you see a fox's tail peeping out of the ! hole, you may be sure the fox is within." "LOOK here, ma," said a young lady who , hud commenced taking lessens in painting of an ' eminent artist. "See my painting; can you tell what it is ?" Ma, after looking at it for some time j answered, "Well, it is either a cow or a rosebud. I j am sure 1 can't tell which." IN the Limerick papers an Irish gentle- 1 man, whose lady had absconded from him, thus cautions the public against trusting her : "Mv wife ! has eloped lrom mo without rhyme or reason, and I j desire no one to trust her on my account, for Jam \ not married to her." ONE Sunday, when the minister of I'lnev j entered the kirk, he was no less surprised than in- j dignant to find that draft Jamie Fleming had taken j possession of the pulpit. "Come doon, Jamie," said his reverence. "Come ye up, sir," answered j Jamie, a stiff neckit* and rebellious geuer- i at ion, sir, an' it 11 tak' us baith to manage them." j A gentleman, walking with twu ladies, ' stepped on a hogshead hoop, that Hew up and struck him in the face. "Good gracious!" said he, I "which of you dropped that ?' ; A DRIVER ola coach in Texas, stopping to get some water for the young ladies iu the car- j riage, being asked what he stopped for, replied. ' "I am watering my flowers." A. delicate oompli | ment THE editor of a country paper in Pennsyl- j vania, says that he felt called upon to publish Fa- i ther Lewis' sermon on the "Locality of Hell," as I it was a question in which nearly all our readers ; were interested. I MILTON was asked : "Jlow is it that in j some countries a King is allowed to take his place ! on the throne at fourteen years of age,but may not j marry until he is eighteen ?" "Because," said the | poet, "it is easier to govern a kingdom than a wo- ! man." THE young lady who could read the fol lowing ami "don't pity the sorrows of a poor young man, deserves to live and die an old girl ' "I wish 1 were a turkey-dove. A setting on your knee, I'd kiss your smilin' lips, love, To all e-ter-ni-tec." '* THE times are so hard 1 can scarcely manage to keep my head above water," said a hus band the other day to his wife, who was importun ing him for a new dress. "No," she replied, with some asperity, "but you manage to keep it above brandy easy enough." AN old criminal was asked what was the caase which led to his ruin, when he answered : "Cheating a printer out of two years subscription! When 1 had done that the devil took such a grip on me that I couldn't shake him off." A COPPER stock speculator in Cleveland, fell asb ep iu church, from which he was waked up by the pastor's reading—"Surely there is a vein for the silver and a p ace for the gold where they find it." Jumping to his feet ho shook his book lit the minister, crying --"I'll take five hundred shares. A GOOD deacon making an official visit to a dying neighbor, who was a very unpopular man, put the usual qnestkm : "Are you willing to go. my friend?" "<>, yes," said the dying man. "I am glad of that," said the deacon, "for all the neigh bors are willing." JOHN NEWTON says : "Wlien 1 get to heav en 1 shall see the wonders there. The first won der will be to see s > many people there whom I did not expect io see ; the second wonder will he to miss so many whom I did expect to see ; and the third and greatest womler of all x\ ill be to find myself there." \\ E see it recorded that a soap peddler was recently caught at sea during a violent storm, when lie saved his life by taking a cake of bis soap and washing himself asliore. This soap, or the story, must have been made from very strong tin. AT what time of life may a man he said ! to belong to the vegetable kingdom ?—When long j experience has made him sage. "SAU., what time does your folks dine?" i "Soon as you goes ; that's missus' orders." TIIF. man who boasts of his knowledge is ; usually ignorant, and wishes to blind the eves •>( i bis hearers. Merit and intelligence are always dis- j overed—in few instances unnoticed, unrewarded, j IF a man who takes a deposition is a de positor, does it necessarily follow that the man who makes an allegation is an alligator ? , A SECOND MOSES. —When Gen. Sully, last summer, on his expedition to the Devil's lake, passed Fort Jierthold, quite a num-; ber of Indians had gathered there to see him and make peace. They complained a great deal of dry weather, and wished the. General would make rain the same as Fatii- j et de Smet.the missionary who used to see them, had done. The General promised them lie would do the best he c nld. It happened that shortly afterwards a heavy thunder shower passed, flooding everything. The Indians were greatly pleased, an ■' called the General a great tiicd'cmc man. But they said it was a little too much at once. "Well," said the General, "1 know it but 1 couldn't help the thing after it started !' GEOLOGY OF OIL GREEK THE STRATA The strata of Oil Creek and vicinity con sists of conglomerates, sandstones, slates and shales. Conglomerate rock is made up of pebbles mixed with more or less sand, and all ce mented into a close, hard rock. These peb bles vary in size and quality, in different localities, being usually of quartz, through sometimes of sandstone ; and they are found from the size of a pea to that of a goose-egg, and occasionally even, though not in this part of the State, with a diame ter measuring four or five inches. They have evidently been formed into the shape in which we now find them, by the action of water, pushing, tumbling and rolliug them together and sweeping them along,by whie.i the sharp angles that they must have had when first torn from their native bed, have been broken and worn by attrition, until they present the well known smooth and rounded form which so distinctly char acterizes them. The conglomerate of this vicinity belongs to what is called the VESPERTINE formation, n the Pennsylvania Survey. It is founde in situ, or in its native bed. only upon th tops of our highest hills ; but pieces of i which have been broken off, generally by their own weight, after the softer rock be neath had been decomposed and washed a way, are found scattered over the hill-sides, sometimes in immense massejj, or blocks, which are so enduring as to defy the action of the elements, and to bear record in their ruins, of former conditions and chirges which their more yielding neighbors, the underlying sandstones and slates, could not survive. As found here, it is not coarse, the peb bles being rarely larger than hickory-nuts; and become smaller as we trace this forma tion westward, while the opposite will hold true if we go eastward. The accompany ing Vespertine sandstones and slates also become finer in their texture,and the whole formation becomes thinner as it spreads westward—from 2,000 on the Susquehanna River, to not over 100, or 150 feet at Oil < 'reek. From this thinning down of the mass, to wards the west,aud a corresponding change in the texture, from coarse to fine ; we are led to believe that the.materials from which the rocks of riffs formation are composed, were derived from a continent lying on the east or northeast of the Apuiachian range, previous to their upheaval ; and that these materials, after being brought down to the sea through the channels of rivers flowing west or south west, were distributed to their present locations by powerful ycean cur rents that were subject, doubtless, to laws similar to those which govern our present great Rivers of the tSea. For a familiar illustration, take a long mill-pond or lake, with a creek flowing in to it at one extremity and out at the oppo site—the creek will bring down, especially at the time of a flood, large quantities ol loose stones, pebbles, sand, black mud or vegetable mould, and blue mud or clay ; and it will dispose them over the bottom of the pond or lake in the order in which we have named them ; that is, at the upper end of the lake, at the mouth of the creek, will be found the large stones, than the sand carried beyond the pebbles, then as the force of the current becomes less, the black mud was deposited, and finally the clayey mud which the water held longest and carried farthest ; and the beds will be found to become thinner as they become liner in texture, thus corresponding to the conglomerates,sandstones,slates and shales ot tlie New York State and Pennsylvania formations of the secondary rocks. It will be readily inferred from the fore-! going, that a sandstone is only a very fine , conglomerate ; also that black carbonace ous slates may be attributed to a vegetable origin : and that argillaeious shales or the soapstones of the oil diggings, and derived ' front clayey formations. The VERGES'R SERIES of rocks—so called by Professor Rogers—is immediately be- j neath the VESPERTINE, aud it corresponds to the Chemung and Portage groups of the New York Stab Geologists. This forma tion consists of sandstones, slates and I siialcs interspersed, the sandstones in their i layers varying in thickness from five to fif tv feet, while the slates and shales are found in immense deposits, sometimes "t *OO to 1,000 feet in thickness. To this ser- 1 ies belong the sandstones, slates and shales ! which appear iu the bluffs of the creek j throughout its whole length, also the first, ; second and third saudrocks of the wells, with their intervening slates and shales, as | far as the drill has yet penetrated, and how ' much deeper it extends is unknown. It j will probably be found that the fourth sand-J lock of Pitholc corresponds to trie third of j Oil Creek, and thai the first at Pithole is' identical v. ith one found above the bottoms, ! along tlib bluffs of our valley; although it j is by no means impossible that the eoutiuu- i ity do. s not exist, for there were causes j operating at the time where these rocks j were deposit-d, which produced local cluing * ami Y aria ions of greater or less ' importance ; for instance, :• third sand is ! foiwid in Church Run, while no trace of one ; is found on the flats around Titusville; and j the third sand or great oil-hearing rock of j the lower end and middle of Oil Creek val-. ley, disappears at the upper end of the Fos- ! ter farm, and we have.not learned that any i lure been found in any portion of the valley ■ above. — Tititsville Herald. How DARE YOU ?—An amusing little ! episode recently occurred in a railroad ear. Shortly after the train had left the depot, au old lad}'jumped up and addressed a gen tleman seated behind her, with "How dare you ? What are you at ?" The astonished gentleman replied that he had done nothing. The lady again seated herself, but in a few moments arose full of rage and terror, and declared her neighbor was a "villi.m," and on arriving at the next station was about to have him arrested, when, luckily, the cause of* her agitation was discovered—in the shape of a goose, which, placed in a basket under the seat occupied by the lady, had during the voyage, amused itself by pecking at her "understandings." The discovery of the criminal created great l-sviit •• among the passengers. 'P>, they tell us about the angrj- ocean M int makes the ocean aiKjrv ! ' "Oh, it has been critssed so often. pei* Annum, in Advance. LOOUSTS CHOLERA. | There are several varieties of locusts. That which belongs to Asia, and may be j called the flying locusts, differs from the i other species iri the conformation of the head, the oval form of the eyes,the strength i of the mandibles, and the exceptional - size !of the posterior claws. The male is rather | smaller than the female, and of a yellow I color. The insects of this family are one of the most terrible plagues not only of Egypt but of all Asia, the Archipelago, and Orien tal Europe. For nearly two months, from Cairo to Damascus, the writer from whose account our description is taken,- accom panied a friend on a journey during the season when the locusts are expected ; and in the plains of Esdraelon and maratime Phamicia they were nearly blinded by the swarms which, attracted by the fertile val leys, regarded no obstacle to their passage, but even struck the faces of the travelers with the force of hailstones, and lay in thick masses on the road beneath the hor ses hoofs. The locusts is regarded by many of the Orientals as a forerunner of war or pesti lence, and it is recorded that they had not appeared either in Egypt or Syria for near ly fifteen years when, scarcely a month after their arrival, cholera and typhus rav aged the whole coast of the Mediteranean and the shores of the Black Sea. The ra pacity of the locust is not the only evil which characterizes it ; for when once the work of destruction is accomplished the insects die and cover a large extent of country with tlieir decaying carcasses, causing pestilential maladies of the worst description. In the course of the voyage of the travel ers with a caravan their party stopped to breakfast on the slope of a mountain over looking the plain of Esdraelon ; to the left was mount Tabor and the Little Lbrinou, and afar oil' the mountains of Samaria,while facing them at the end of the plain could be seen the tiny village of Djonin, which was almost lost in the haze ; although such was the clearness of the air above the plain that even distant objects could be seen with singular distinctness. Sudden ly a remarkable sound was heard, which resembled the hum of a great workshop, and the rays of the sun Vere obscured by a vast widely spreading cloud of locusts, which broke suddenly abuve the valley, upon which the insects dropped like snow flakes, covering the ground with their yel low bodies, which moved and undulated like foam upon water. Unless aliigh wind prevails, and the lo custs are driven towiird the sea, there is no remedy but to submit to the stripping of every green leaf from the trees, and the utter disappearance of every blade of grass from the earth, which they leave as bare as though it had been scorched with fire. In the valleys the chase of the locusts is effected in a very primitive manner ; viz., by the people—men, women, and children —arming themselves with long branches, and wooden drums or boxes, 011 which they beat, while they sing a sort of monotonous chant of-a religious character, at the same time spreading themselves over the plain in order to alarm the invaders. It is a singular spectacle to witness this ceremo ny from a neighboring height, where the gestures and the costumes of the people, and their wild songs, are strangely inter esting. HOW TO TALK. Dear reader, did it ever occur to you, (boys and girls,) that you might just as well learn to talk correctly as incorrectly '{ • Jt is no more labor to use genteel language , than to use awkward, uncouth and boorish phrases. Of course, children should be taught from their very cradles, by parents who should know how to speak correctly. Wherever that is the case, children grow j up without need of cultivation or amend ment in their manner of speaking, for " as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined." But unfortunately, but few persons know how to talk, and they teach their children all manner of awkward sayings before they go to school, and which must surely be un learned before the young man or woman can enter into genteel society. Unfortnn- j ately, even school teachers, in most places, j pay 110 attention whatever to the manner in which their pupils converse. Nay, the# even talk carelessly and more ruthlessly, "murder the King's English " themselves, for the reason that, notwithstanding tli#v do not know how to talk or read. If nei tlier parents or teachers can aid the young people, they must take the matter in their ' own hands, and resolve to correct their awkward manner of speaking. They can \ uo it it they determine upon it. They near ]y all know better than they do, in this as most other things. They know that hun dreds of words which they use are not cor rect, and would laugh at a public lecturer ! who would use such language. Learn to j "talk like a book." That is a good way, and the habit once formed will remain with yon Every nation and every localities in nations, even down to counties and town- j ships, have their idioms and localisms. We have one set of cant phrases in , Pennsylvania, and another in New York, a different one in Virginia, and still others in ) Tennessee find so on through all the States. The eastern Yankee will "guess," while in Pennsylvania we "reckon." In some of the Western and Southern States, they "calcu -1 late." All these phrases are really vulgar, ! and all used in the the place of "suppose" | or "presume," either of which is good Eng ! lish, wherever the English language is spo | ken, while the others are not. A word of Pennsylvania origin, unknown to the States ' North and East of it, is "ornary." It has I no place in the English language, but those i who use it, mean low, mean, vulgar. " I i want in," or "I want out," and similar ex | pressious are peculiar to this particular part of Pennsylvania. It is a short and very awkward way of saying, "I want.to come in," or "to go out," &e. Correct speakers never use such terms. "1 havn't sate him," is another Pennsylva nia idiom which is quite as awkward "1 seen him," yet it is quite common, event in j Philadelphia, and the cultivated counties around it, and in this part of the State it is ridiculously common. Such errors need only to he pointed out, to be seen by all who i knovv anything of the English lauguage. THE decadence of waterfalls will cause a great falling off of hair. BATTLES OF THE BWOBDFISH AND THE WHALE. Among the extraordinary spectacles sometimes witnessed by those who "go down to the sea in ships," none are more impressive than a coinbat for a supremacy between the monsters of the deep. The battles of the swordfish and the whale are described as Homeric in grandeur. The swordfish go in shoals like whales, and the attacks are often regular sea-fights. When the two troops meet, as soon as the sword fish have betrayed their presence by a few bounds in the air, the whales draw togeth er and close their ranks. The swordfish always endeavors to take the whale in flank, either because its cruel instinct has revealed to it the defect in the cuirass— for there exists near the brachial fins of the whale a spot where wounds are mortal—or NUMBER because the Hank presents a wider surface .to its blows. The swordfish recoils to se cure a greater impetus. If the movement escapes the keen eye of his adversary, the j whale is lost, receives the blow of the en emy, and dies almost instantly, but if the whale perceives the swordfish at the in stant of the rush, by a spontaneous bound it springs clear of the water its entire length, and falls on its Hank with a crash | that resounds many leagues, and whitens the sea with boiling foam. The gigantic animal has only its tail for defence. It tries to strike its enemy, and finish him with a single blow. Hut if the active swordfish avoids the fatal tail, the battle becomes more terrible. The aggressor springs from the water in its turn, falls upon the whale, and attempts, not to pierce, I but to saw it with the teeth that garnish j its weapon. The sea is stained with blood; i the fury of the whale is boundless. The ' swordfish harasses him, strikes on every ' side, kills him, and flies to other victories. Often the swordfish has not time to avoid i the fall of the whale, and contents itself with presenting its sharp saw to the lla.uk ,of the gigantic anirnai which is about to crush it. It dies then like Maccabaeus, smothered beneath the weight of the ele phant of the ocean. Finally, the whale ; gives a few last bounds into the air, drag j ging its assassin in its flight, and perishes as it kills the monster of which it was the victim. The heroic combats of the sword : fish with the whales would assuredly furn ish matter for a strange poem, in which the . grand would contend with the eccentric. : The sea of blood, loaded with monsters bodies devoid of life, and slain upon each other, would be a picture worthy of inspir -1 ing a rival ol the singer of the Batracho j inyomachia. If the divine Homer did not hesitate to celebrated the wars of mice and | frogs, why should not one of the sons of Apollo accord the recital of the exploits of ' the swordfish, and the formidable resis tance of the giant of the waters ? ME. BEEOHEE ON WORK Henry Ward Beecher, in a recent speech, | delivered the following just and spirited | sentiment : " If the people of the South do not work, they cannot eat. Ido not think it is well for a man to have many at work for him. If it is ever brought to pass that the young 1 mothers of this day shall be as those of the ; days gone by, who did not consider it in consistent witli a cultured lady's position j to work her full share in the household, working mornings till after the noonday meal, then changing her garments and re ! sorting to social enjoyment and recreation, it will be more creditable to us. Instead, therefore, of synipathing with those at the South who complain that their slaves have left them and they are obliged to do their own work, I am very glad of it. I am very glad of anything that teaches persons that they are able to work, and compels them to work if they are not inclined to do it. I like to see a man carry his own bun dles ; I like to see a man trundle his own wheelbarrow ; I like to see a woman tend her garden ; I like to see the economy of the house carried on by mother and daugh ter, as well as by father and son ; and it is a better state of society in which there is some work for every man's leisure, and some leisure for every man's werk. I am rejoiced to see that after all the suffering that has been undergone, there is coming to be a healthier state of things—a better condition in society. The first thing that Southern society wants is work, and re spect fur w-ork. If you want to make a man respect work, make In'rn work. And when he lias wrought, and eaten the bread that never tastes so sweet as -when he wipes the sweat from his brow, conscious that he is dependent upon nobody, he re spects work and workmen. Now, it is up on this wonderful power of work for the black man and for the white man in the South that i build my hopes for the future. THE RIGHT VlEW. —There are a number of people in this, as well as every other community, to whom we commend the fol lowing remarks of the New York Tribune: Nothing is more common than to hear people talk of what they pay newspapers for advertising, etc., as so much given to charity. Newspapers, by enhancing the value of property in their neighborhood, and giving the localities in which they are published a reputation abroad, benefit all such, particularly if they are merchants or real estate owners, thrice the amount year ly the meagre sum they pay for their sup port. Besides, every public-spirited citi zen feels a laudable pride in having a pa per of which he is not ashamed, even though he-should pick it up in New York or Washington. A good-looking, thriving sheet, helps to sell property, gives character to the locali ty, and in all respects is a desirable public convenience. If, from any cause, the mat ter in the local or editorial columns should not be tjuite up to your standard, do not cast it aside and pronounce it of no ac count until you are satisfied that there has been no more labor bestowed upon it than is paid for. Il you want a good, readable sheet, it must be supported. And it must not be supported in a spirit of charity ei ther, but because you feel a necessity to support it. So the local press is the "pow j er" that moves the people. —J ROMANTIC COVRTSHII'.—I gave her a rose and gave her a ring, and asked her to marry me then ; but she sent them all back, insensible thing, and said she'd no 1 notion of men. I told her 1 had oceans of money and goods, and tried to frighten her with a growl ; but she answered she wasn't , brought up in the woods to be scared by , the screech of an owl. I called her a beg gar and everything that was bad, 1 slight ed her features and form, till at length I succeeded in getting her mad, and she raged like u ship in a storm. And then iu a moment 1 turned and smiled, and ca'led her my angel and all, she fell into my arms i like a we a i rso me child, and exclaimed, "We'll marry this Fall." FUNNY —to see a young lady with both hands in solt dough, and a uiosquitoe on the end of her nose. THE young gentleman who "flew into a passion" has had his wings clipped.
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