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Particular attention paid to Orphans' Court business and settlement ul decedents estates. 25-12. \F ERCT R A MORROW, Attorneys at La w, JJ-L To wanda, Penn'a, t he undersigned having associated themselvas togeth er in the practice of Law, offer their professional°ser vices to the public. ULYSSES MKKCUR, P. D. MORROW. March 9,1865. T>ATRI(JK & PECK, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, X Offices In Union Block, Towanda, Pa., formerly occupied by Hon. Wm. Elwell, and in Patrick's block, Athens, Pa. They may- be consulted at either place. U. W. PATRICK, apilS W. A. TECS. ÜB. M.KEAN, ATTORNE Y,t COLN • SELL OR AT I.A IF, Towanda, Pa. Par ti-alar attention paid to business in the Orphans' Court. July '2O, 1866. I nENKY PEET, Attorney at Law, Tow.tit la, Pa. jnn27,66. \Y 11. CARNOCHAN, A TTORNE Y j ? 1 • AT LA IF, Troy, Pa. Special attention giv-n to collecting claims against the Government 1 >r Boan'y, B - k Pay and Pensions. Office with E. B. Parsons. EM. June 12,1865. L 11) WARD OVERTON Jr., Attorney at .Li Liar, Towanda, Pa. Office in Montatr.es Block, over Frost's Store July Pith, 1565 10UN N. OALIFF, ATTORNEY AT 91 LAW, Tu.vaudu, Pa. Also, Govern nit- t Agent or the collection ol Pensions, Back Pay and Bounty. 99" No charge unless successful, office over the Post Office and News Room. Dec. 1,1861. i IVK.K.II M A SON. rIIYS ' ( 7.1 ,Y INh f S(//ttrA'O.Y,oflers his professional servii c-sto the peopleof Towanda and vicinity. Office at hisresidenc® on Pine street, where he can always befound when not professionally engaged. HENRY A. RECORD, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, having permanantly located in Mill- j view, Sullivan Co., Pa..would resoectfuliy offer his pr fessional services to the citizens oi the place a vicinity. Jan. 30, '66. OD. STILES, M. I)., Physician and Sur • geon, would announce to the people ot Rom- Bo rough and vicinity, that he has permanently located at the place lorinerly occupied by Dr. G W. Stone, f or the practice of his p ofession. Particular attention given to the treatment of women and children, as also t the - of operative and minor surgery. oct.2 ,'66. IYR. PRATT has removed t" State mJ (first above B. S. Russell A Co's Bank), l'eisons from a diltance desirous t con-nlting him, will be most likely to find him 011 Saturday nf each week. Especial attention will be given to surgical eases, and the extrac tion of teeth. Gas or Ether administered when desiied. July 18, 18C6. D. S. PRATT, M. 1 . IPDWARD MEEKS—AUCTION EER.— J All letters addressed to him at Sugar Run, Brad ford Co., Pa., will receive prompt attention. May7'C6tt. FRANCIS E. POST, Painter, Towanda, Pa, with 10 years experience, is confident he < m give the best satisfaction in Painting, Graining, Sta.u ing, Glazing, Papering, Ac. 93" Particular atteir n paid to Jobbing in the country. April 9, '6 . J J. NEWE LL , COUNTY SURVEYOR, Orwell, Bradford Co., Pa,, will promptly attend to all business in his line. Particular attention given to run ning and establishing old or disputed lines. Also to surveying of all unpattented lands as soon as warrant are obtained. May 17, ISC6. Dcntistrp. RP YVENTY-FIVE YEARS EXPERIENCE A tN DENTISTRY.—J. S. SMITH, M. D., would re spectfully inform the inhabitants of Bradford Connty that he is permanantly located in Waverly, N.Y., where he has been in the practice oi his profession for the past four years. He would say that from his long and suc cessful practice of 25 years duration, he is familiar with all the different styles of work done in any and all Den tai establishments in city or country, and is better pre pared than any other Dental operator in the vicinity to do work the best adapted to the many and different cases that present themselves oftentimes to the Dentist, as he understands the art of making his own artificial teeth, and has facilities for doing the same. To those requiring under sets of teeth he would call attention to his new sind of work which consists of porcelain tor both plate and teeth, and forming a continuous gum. It is more durable, more naturai in appearance, and much better adapted to the gum than any other kind of work. Those in need of tht same are invited to call and exam ine specimens. Teeth filled to last for years and often t mes for life, t'hloroj >.vi, ether, and "Sitroux oxide'' administered with perfect safety, as over four hundred patients within the last four years can testify. I will be in Towanda from the 15th to 30th of every month, at the office of W. K. TAYLOR, (formerly oc cupied by Dr. O. 11. Woodruff.) Having made arrange ments with Mr. Taylor. I am prepared to do all work in the very best style, at his office. Nov. .'7. 1 . yj _ I )if- II WESTON, DENTIST. Office Lz in Pattern's Block,oter B.irstow A Gore's D.og and Chemical Siors. Ijan66 HOTEL, TOWANDA, PA., Having purchased this well known Hotel oa Bridge Street, I have refurnished and refitted it with every convenience for the accommodation of all who may pat r n.zeme. No pains will be spared to make all Ideas ant and agreeable. J. S. PATTERSON, proo. May 3, '66. —tf. WARD HOUSE, TUWANDA, PENN'A On Main Street, near the Court House. C. T. SMITH, Proprietor. Oct. 8, 1966. 1 C NYDER HOUSE, a four story brick ed- Lr iiice near the depot, with large airy rooms, el gant arlors, newly furuisued. has a recess in new addition for Ladies use, and is the most convenient and only first class hotel at Waverly. N. It is the prii .ipal office ior stages south and express. Also for-ale of Western Tickets, and in Canada, on Grand Trunk Rail ,ae to Detroit from Buffalo, $l, is cheapt: than route. Apply for tickets as above to C. WARFORD. \TV,r r 5„ kng and care of Horses at reasonable rates. a\erly. ft. v 0ct.26,1866-3m. C. W. ~ Q.ROCERIES and PROVISIONS WHOLESALE AVD RETAIL, JOHN MEIUDETH, GL *>OERIKS AND PROVISION.-. West rates* H wholcsale aQ d retail, at the vory and sold. stock, which will be found ten! i- ? invited to my prices and will be sold at tin 1 ■ ght 4t iow Towandi, July 17, L 66. i amgly iow ra te - E. <>. GOODRICH, Inbliwlior. VOLUME XXVII. ..§rlnUcl JVtnu LEISURE. IJY JEAN INGELOW. Grand is the leisure of the earth ; She give her happy myriads birth, And after harvest fears not death, But goes to sleep in snow-wreaths dim. Dread is the leisure up above, The while He sits, whose name is Love, And waits, as Noah did, the dove, To wit, if she would fly to him. He waits for us, while houseless things, We beat about with braised wings, On ths dark floods and water-springs, The ruined world, the desolate sea: With open windows from the prime All night, all day. he waits sublime, Until the fullness of the time Decreed from Ilis eternity. Where is our leisure? Give us rest! Where is the quiet we possessed? We must have had it once—were blest With peace, whoso phantoms yet entice. 8 rely the mother of mankind I. uged for gardens left behind ; 1 rwe still prove some yearnings blind, Inherited from from Paradise. ALL ABOUT A BONNET : OR, THE I.AW OF DIVORCE. Not many miles from Springfield, 111., there lived, and, we presume, there still lives, a couple who one liue day fell head over heels in love with each over; and noth ing would satisfy them—Henry Wilson and Mary Spencer—but that they should wear the same name, live under the same roof, and drink out of the same teapot, for the rest of their natural lives. Wilson is a well-to-do farmer—peculiar ly independent of the world ; and his wife, the daughter of a stock-raiser, who is not without some hundreds of dollars in Uncle Samuel's five-twenties aud ten-forties. Each felt quite independent of the other in mone tary matters—which, in this world, is not always the ease. Henry met Mary at a Lull, and they lik ed each other so well that they polked, mazourked, and waltzed together through the night, and finally parted with the un derstanding that they were excellent part ners in a dauce. Waltzing is productive of a good many things besides scandal. In this instance, it led \\ ilsou to propose to Maty, and Mary led to marriage. But—how happy this great, round globe of ours would be if those conjunctions but and if were not in any vo cabulary ? They never stopped in their ardor to speculate upon or philosophize about "incompatibility of temper," and hence the rock on which they split. The honeymoon was, as honeymoons gen j erally are, redolent with the perfumes ex- I tracted from those exotics—"my dear," "my love," "mv darling," and it lasted even beyond the usual phase of corkscrew journeyings of Luna around her master Earth. In fact, it is related of Mr. and Mrs. Wil son, that for the space of one whole year not a cloud darkened the atmosphere of their matrimonial heaven—that all was se rene ; but it was neither noticed nor known that the barque in which they had taken passage should always float on the connu bial sea without encountering storms or contrary winds. Well, the tempest did come. It came up -11 them suddenly, and entered abruptly in to a law court; aud it was about a bounet, i hich didn't suit the complexion of pleas ant faced Mary, but did exactly hit the fan cy of her " lord and master." Henry had some business in Springfield, which transacting to his satisfaction, he concluded he would look around him and make a note of the fashions. While saun tering along, thinking of nothing in partic ular, his eye chanced to fall on a bonnet, not in a milliner's window, but on the head of a lady, who was strolling through the streets, taking her usual " afteruooning." " What a nice hat 1" ejaculated Henry. By some chance the person who wore it heard the comment, and not at all displeas ed, turned her head until her face confront ed that of the critic ; and then out of as pretty a pair of violent eyes as it is possi ble to conceive in woman, beamed her thanks, while her rosy lips wreathed them selves into smiles that set the heart of the young Benedict, who ought to have kuown better, palpitating at the rate of one hun dred and ten to the minute. For a time it was all over with Henry. He forgot all about his Mary, and his eyes, being expressive ones, somehow informed the lady that she had made a momentary conquest. " You admire my bonnet ?" said she, in a low, silvery voice, with a chirrup in it that sounded like bird music heard at a dis tance, in the cars of the infatuated man " Yes'm—Miss," he answered tremulous ly, removing his hat as he spoke. " I—l like it very much indeed. I thought how very nice my—my wife would look in one just like it." A light, a very light cloud passed over the face of the lady when she heard the word " wife," but instantly her eyes bright ened and her lips became radiant as it was possible to make them, with good nature. " \s ell, sir," said she, " as I have nothing particular to do, and as I like to assist peo ple out of difficulties, if you have no objec tions I will accompany you to my millin er's, where I have 110 doubt you can get a hat made precisely like mine in a few hours." Henry was delighted—charmed at the condescension of the fair stranger. He could not think of words sufficiently point ed to thank her. As .a matter of course, he could not de cline an invitation so gratuitousl}* extend ed,and at once, escorted by the lady,march ed to the milliner's. There he found a bon net that was, if anything, even an improve ment on the one worn by his new acquain tance ; but it could not be got ready for at least half a day. This was unfortunate, as it would, it he purchased it, detain him in Springfield over night. He finally resolved on possessing the bat, delighted with the '.ea of the surprise his Mary would have. Ho left the store of the milliner accompanied by the aflable lady, TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., NOVEMBER 2D, 1866. who hinted that her husband was at home, and she would be happy to receive him at her house. Could any woman be more agreeable, thought Y\ ilson,as he parted from the pret ty stranger who had so kindly—putting all coi ventioualities aside, and utterly regard less of the fro a us of Mrs. Grundy—assisted him to the purchase of a fashionable bonnet for his young wife? Now, although there was something ex traordinary in the conduct of the lady, so unsual from the course ordinarily pursued by her sex, Henry forgot not his loyaltv to nor his love lor his Mary. He could not, it is true, obliterate from memory the sweet eyes, or the bright, inviting smiles of her who had done him so agreeable a service. r l his simple act on the part of a strange; was the cause of u storm which he little dreamed at the time. Had he turned his eyes back but once 011 the path he was pursuing, while by the side of his fair cicerone, he would have seen, closely following him, a gentleman who had been deeply enamored of Mary Spencer, and whom he (Henry) had, with out an effort, "cut out." The fact is Wilson is handsome, and iius a nameless way that is exceedingly attractive with women. The rejected instantly resolved 011 revenge.— That very night he wrote to Mary, in a feigned hand, an exaggerated account of iier husband's intercourse with a lady. Ma licious hints were thrown out to excite the poor woman to frenzy ; long before Henry had returned she had worked herself into such a fit of anger that it was dangerous for any one to speak to her. It was while laboring under this unreasonable lit ol pas sion that her husband made his appearance with a bandbox containing the precious bonnet. " Mary,my dear," he said, "I've got some thing nice for you." "For me !" she cried sarcastically; "for me, Sir ! Y'ou can't have anything for me! It's for that woman—that tinny you were seen with in Springfield ! "Y\ hat are you talking about ?" asked Henry, in utter astonishment. " What do you know about a woman in Springfield ?" Mary answered him by going into hys terics. When she recovered a little, she sprang at the box, tore off the lid, and seiz ing the delicate fragment in her hands, placed it for a moment upon her head. An gry as she was, she saw at a glance that it ui<l not exactly suit her features or her complexion—il it had,probably there would have been no catastrophe—and this added fuel to the all devouring fire of jealousy which was consuming her. Instautly she threw it on the floor, and jumping upon it, trampled flowers, ribbons, laces, etc., into an undistinguishable mass. This accom plished tn her satisfaction, she gathered up the ruin she had made and threw it into her husband's face, telling him at the same time, to go back to Springfield, and present it, with his wife's compliments, to the huzzy that he got it from. It was now Henry's turn to get angry, and the result was a matrimonial storm, that raged for hours with unabated fury.— The rain (tears) descended in never-ceasing torrents, the lightning flushed, the thunder rolled, and the winds shrieked through the cordage of the matrimonial barque, which was permitted to drift nearer to those dreadful rocks which are said to be found partly submerged everywhere in the sea of matrimony, where it stranded, a mere wreck. When the storm had somewhat exhausted itself, Mrs. Wilson sprang to her feet, and, with an injured air, which would have set well upon Mrs. Siddons or Fanny Kemble, as Queen Catharine or Lady Macbeth, de clared she would seek a divorce—a separa tion—death, even—rather than live anoth er day with so perfidious a wretch as he was. " Very well, said the husband ; "as you please, ma'am, I'll gratify you." Without auothcr word Henry returned to Springfield, there employed a lawyer, and almost before his wife had dried up her tears, returned to his home—no longer home, in its purest sense—and handed her, signed and sealed, the judgment of the Court. She opened the paper and read that she was 110 longer Mrs. Wilson, but Mary Spencer. Her anguish was painful. It was with difficulty she could command her feelings. " I am ready to go, Henry," Mrs. Wilson said, in her saddest tones. " I didn't mean what I said, but was betrayed into it.— I thought you 110 longer loved me. It was that odious George Gane that did it all. I found out that it was he who saw you with a woman walking the streets of Springfield, and he was determined on re venging himself on you for marrying me." " It is too late for explanation," sighed Henry, " You had no business to get mad, especially when 1 tried to please you by buying the handsomest b mnet I ever saw. The lady who was so kind as to assist me in getting it for you was a cousin of yours, although I did not know it at the time. She knew me, but from sudden freak of fancy refused to make herself known—Sarah Ad ams." " Sarah Adams !" exclaimed Mary, "why, it was she who got me this hat," and the divorced woman ran into another room, and returned with a bonnet that was in every particular like the one which had so pleas ed Wilson, and which in her frenzy, she had trampled into a shapeless nothing be fore him. " I bought it," she sighed, " and intended to wear it because 1 thought it would please you." Something stuck in the throat of Wilson. With an effort he got it down. When he found the {esophagus was more clear, he said in a voice that went to the heart of the woman— " Mary !" She looked at him, and with a choking sob, answered— " Oli ! Henry !" The next moment her head rested on his bosom, and his strong arms were wound around her, as if to protect her from some imminent danger. "Y\ hat a fool I have been !'' he at length said, as he seized the judgment of the Court, and flung it, seal and all, into the fire. " And how jealous, how cruel, was I !" sighed Mary. "\V e'll mend that," cried Henry, with sudden energy, as he seized his hat, put it with a jerk on Id's head, and disappeared through the doorway. REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER. In five minutes he returned, having at his heels one of the J. P's of the county, who at once proceeded to re-bind them as fast as the laws of Illinois will permit a man and women to be tied to each other. 1 have not since heard that, having en joyed the blessings of divorce once, the plaintiff or defendant in this case care to experience its pleasure- a second time. And now, having told my story, I would like to know of what possible worth or use is a separation, a vinculum matrimonii, bas ed on a childish quarrel about a woman's hat, in even the liberally disposed State of Illinois ? FOB THE REPORTER. THE TIPPLER'S VISION. IN a neighboring State, nestled tinong the hills, which like grim giants stand guard over the merry, sparkling river, are a few, cosy happy homes forming the little village of Glenbnrg. One little cottage you would notice particularly, because of an air of comfort and refinement which floated around. The yard was well filled with choice vines and evergreens tasteful ly arranged ; and the interior of the cot tage was in harmony with the beauties which Nature had lavished around. One bright starry evening, in the sum mer time, you might have seen a young man, of prepossessing appearance, enter the cottage, and throw himself upon a sofa, in his own room. Near by was a table, upon which were seen glasses and several empty bottles, showing too plainly, what his habits were. Suddenly he heard his name called, and hastily rising, and passing again into the street, he saw before him, the Empress Pleasure, with her attendant satellites, gor geously attired, beckoning to him but llee ing as he approached, His brain began to reel and everything to change, around him. The beautiful summer night, with its balmy breezes and odorous flowers, —the silvery moon, " hung like a gem on the brow of the sky," light, crystal clouds— had all disappeared. In the new, strange country, into which he had entered, were only rough, rugged hills and fruitless valleys, or filled only with noisome nettles, among which ser pents hissed and crawled. He looked tow ard the sky, expecting to see light, but the moon had sunk behind clouds of leaden blackness. He paused to think where he could be, and wonder why he had come thither, and looking back he saw two lights —the one of his father's counsels, the other his mother's prayers—but they immediate ly vanished, and looking a second time all was dark. Gazing into blackness and despair, bis heart sunk within him. As he reviewed his past short life, how little of good, how much of evil he saw, and looking before him, he saw the blue flames which the De mon Wine was burning around an open grave. The wretched man could no longer endure the agony but wept aloud. Pres ently he heard a song, low and thirilling, and again staring around he beheld a beautiful cherub, which was like the form of a little sister, that he had seen years be fore, with the sunny curls pressed gently back from the pure, pale brow, the light of the laughing blue eyes, put out forever, and witli white rosebuds in the dimpled hands folded lovingly over the sinless breast—laid to rest in a cold narrow bed. Nearer she came and the song was still more sweet. "It is surely little Elsie come back to me," he said. Coming so near that he could discern the waving wings and golden harp, she sung to the wretched man of a new life, high and holy—free from the fetters of sin and the gyves of intemper ance. Instinctively he arose as she de scribed in ecstatic strains, the triumph of a human heart over sin, and kneeling us she told of the great joy of the reward, and of the perfect bliss of the redeemed soul—he fervently prayed for the power to begin life anew—to strive once more to meet and overcome temptation. Aud his prayer was answered, for this was but a dream which had visited the slumber of a youth who was just entering the downward road—and by it was saved. M. 11. ECONOMY IS \\ EALTH. — There is nothing which goes so lar towards placing young people beyond the reach of poverty,a3 prou er economy in the management of house hold affairs It matters not whether a man furnishes little or much in his family, if there is a continued leakage in the parlor, it runs away, lie knows not how, and that demon Waste cries "More !" like the horse leech's daughter, till he that provides has no more to give. It is the husband's duty to bring into the house ; and it is the duty of the wife to see that none goes wrongful ly out of it. A man gets a wife to look after his af fairs, and to assist him in his journey through life ; to educate and prepare his children for a proper station in life. The husband's interest should be the wife's care, and her greatest ambition to carry her no farther than his welfare and happiness, to gether with that of her children. This should be her sole aim, and the theatre of her exploits in the bosom of her family ; where she may do as much toward making a foitune as he can in the counting room or work shop. It is uot the money earned that makes the man wealthy, it is what he saves from his earnings. Self-gratification in dress or indulgence in appetite, or get ting handsomer furniture, or entertaining more company than his purse will allow, are equally pernicious. "THERE are ties which should never be severed, ' as the ill-used wife said when she found her brute of a husband hanging in the hay-loft. [Corrtspondeii of the N. Y. Herald.] GREAT MASTODON DISCOVERY. fBO Y, N. Y„ Nov. 11. The scientific world is likely to be thor oughly aroused by the recent discoveries in the domain of natural history at Gohoes,the manufacturing village immediately adjacent to this city. During the process of an ex cavation some weeks since, on the site ola mill to be newly erected, a mammoth jaw bone was found about one hundred feet from the banks of the Mohawk river, embedded at a distance of sixty-live feet below the surface of the earth, uud being taken up, at once excited the attention of the naturalists uot only in this vicinity, but likewise far and wide. The length of the jaw was thir ty-two inches, twenty inches in width, and weighed somewhat more than forty-six pounds. On Thursday last the remains of a com plete skeleton of a huge mastodon were dis covered eighteen feet further down in the same excavation, and the attendant natur alists of Yale and Union colleges and the ltenssalaer Polytecnic institute of this city, are lully confirmed in the opinion that the frame can yet be made quite perfect. The remains have been carefully gathered to gether in the mill of the Harmony company, cleaned and oiled, and it is expected that they will be viewed and pronounced upon during the coming week by Professor Louis Agassiz, the learned naturalist and savun of Harvard University The jaw of tire I mastodon is four feet nine iuches in length from the mouth to the cranium, to which a portion of the backbone and jaw are still connected. The cranium rises very like that of an elephant. The two tusks each measure eight feet in length, and their true position is well marked on the upper jaw. The hip bone is five feet long, and weighs one hundred pounds, while the bhoulder blades measure ten feet nine inches, and weigh about fifty pounds each. The under jaw already alluded to as having been found some weeks since, precisely fits the upper jaw now exhumed, and the ribs are found to be four and a half feet in length, and, as before stated, the fossilists are of the opin ion that the completed frame will form a most essential and grave contribution to the science of natural history. The measurements show that the animal must have stood at least fifteen feet in height, and have been a little upwards of fifty feet in length,independent of the tusks already stated to be each eight feet in length Professor Marsh, of Y ale College Scientific School, gives it as his well grounded opin ion that the remains discovered are those of a great North American Mastodon, com paring in all its parts l'ully with the descrip tion ol the animal given in the scientific works, as follows : "The animal has the vaulted and cellular skull of the elephant, with large tusks in the upper jaw and hea vy form. From the character of the nasal bones and the shortness of the head and neck it has been concluded that it had a trunk." Whenever similiar remains have been discovered 011 this continent, the fact has never failed to awaken the deepest interest, not only in this country but in Europe.— Fragments were first discovered as early as the year 1705, and in 1801, the first com paratively complete skeleton of a mastedou was fouud somewhere in Orange county, 1 am told, and immediately transported to London, returned and kept oxl exhibition in Philadelphia for some years. Dr.Warren,of Harvard College,is said to be in possession of a large part of another frame, and in 18-15 it is stated th at a large and valuable collection of mastodon bones were found 011 the banks of the Mississippi river, and hav ing been wired together were exhibited through the country and in London as the great Missouriam. Harvard University is also in possession of a mastodon skeleton, independent of that belonging to Dr. War ren, and it is alleged that specimens of the primeval specie.-- have been found in sever al of the States,but in no instance anything like as perfect as the one now developed at Cohoes. Scientific investigations upon this controverted subject have been widely ex tended and marked by great industry, aud as this event shows, they have been char acterized by much success and truthful ness. One author says : "The food of the mas todon was entirely vegetable, as is proved by the remains of twigs of coniferous trees, and other vegetable matter found between the ribs, and the animal was doubtless fond of resorting to marshy or boggy places in search of succulent plants, where it was often in the very places where the remains have been extracted during the nineteenth century." Another writer remarks : "The geological position of the remains of this species (mastodon) has long been and still is a subject of dispute among geologists ; in a few instances they are said to have been found below the drift, in the pliocene, and even in the roiocene ; but they have generally been obtained from the post pito cene or alluvial formations at a depth of five to ten ftet, in lacustral deposit, bogs, and beds of infusorial earth. Some have thought that the mastodons became extinct since the advent of man on the earth. Ac cording to Lyell, the period of the destruc tion, though geologically modern, must have been many thousand years ago. The same causes probably acted in their extinct ion, as in the case of the fossil elephant, perhaps partly climatic changes, or more probably, some great convulsion on the sur face of the globe at an epoch auterior to man." A distinguished natural historian says : "One of the principal deposits of mastodon bones appears to have been the Big Bone Lick in the north part of Kentuc ky, near the Ohio, whence the mastodon has been called 'the animal of the Ohio.'— None of the remains have the appearance of having been rolled, but seem to have been removed since the death of the animal ; and it is worthy of remark that those which were found at the river of the Great Osage, which runs into the Missouri a little above its confluence with the Mississippi,were in a vertical position,as if the animals had been bogged 01* buried in the soil." Parkinson, in his Organic Remains,adds : "The country in which these remains (mas todons) are found, is like an immense plain, bordered on every side by mountains. On diggiug into the morasses, where those bones are found, the following stata are generally met with : One or two feet of peat, oue or two feet of yellow marl, with vegetable remains, about two feet of grey marl, like ashes, finally a bed of shell marl. per* Annum, in Advance. jii the grey marl the bones are generally lound." The soil in which the discovery at C'ohoes was found answers Parkinson's description in the above quotation exactly. It thus appears that a great and perma nent contribution is about to be made to science, and that in the bosom of the State of New York has been found the most im portant discovery tending to elucidate nat ural history made in many, many years. PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS- THE DANGER OF NEGLECTING GOLDS. Colds are generally considered but sim ple things, and, as a natural consequence, are too much neglected. How often do you hear the remark. "Oh, it is only a cold !" True, only a cold ; but what is being done for it? Frequently nothing. Many a long and dangerous,and sometimes fatal, fit of illness might be prevented by paying that proper attention to a cold which it so seriously demands. Most of the causes of consumption come from cold being in tire first instance neglected. To many other diseases does it also give rise. In u climate like this, where we have some times two and three changes in a day, it it is impossible to avoid taking cold, un less due precaution be observed. Persons should clothe themselves as much as possi ble in keeping with the temperature of the atmosphere. With the thermometer above zero cloth ing should not be so warm as at or below zero, as by so doing tho pores are opened to an undue extent, sometimes profuse per spiration induced, and as a natural conse quence cold is taken. Draft, in every way, Whether in or out of doors, ought to be avoided. Too much importance cannot be given lo this, but yet we see it daily neg lected. How often do we see persons in this city, on one of the bleakest days stop ping to talk at the corner of the street in a draft of wind. This, too, is generally the case after walking fast and becoming heated. How is it possible, under *such circumstances, to avoid taking cold ? And yet persons will so innocently tell, "1 don't know how I could have taken cold. I have not exposed myself in any way." As important, also, is the mode of life in-uoors, for on this much depends. Ladies are very apt to dress for going out, and then sit in a warm room for half an hour, perhaps more, if something delay them, by which perspiration is pruduced, aud in that state, from the warm house into the cool air they go. It must be remembered that to the corresponding temperature of the atmosphere do the pores close or open ; a uniform temperature should be observed,as by so doing the circulation is regularly maintained. Any one leaving an atmos phere ol eighty degrees, and going to one of sixty degrees, experiences a great change, and if they wish to avoid cold, should be clad in such a manner as to make up for the proportionate difference in the temperature. For this reason great uni formity in the temperature of the house should be observed. Change the atmos phere in the house frequently by admitting, as often as possible, during the day, fresh air. Every house should be thoroughly ven tilated the first thing every morning, so as to allow the atmosphere of the previous night to escape. This can be done by first airing one part and then another. By do ing this a house also can be more easily warmed. When there are many persons ' collected in a room, care should be observ ed to keep a few inches of the window open from the top, every one avoiding sett ing close to or under it as, after a time, when there are many collected together, the atmosphere of the room becomes im pregnated with their exhaltations, and the air is thus rendered impure. By perfect ventillatiou there is a uniform amount of oxygen which is the vital part of the at mosphere, and which is necessary to our very existence, maintained. Who has not noticed the disagreeable feeling produced on going from the fresh air into a room with many persons in which the ventila tion is imperfect ? At night, also, fresh air should be admit ted into the room, for it is, if anything, more necessary that there should be a plen tiful supply of oxygen, We have often been asked the ridiculous question, if en ough air did not come in through the key hole. Certainly not. That is not fresh air. Make it a rule always to sleep with part of your window open from the top, avoid ing its blowing on you. Fresh air never hurt any one, for by it wc live. It is the want of it that injures. Persons seem to forget that they spend one-third of their lives in their bed-rooms. AYe frequently see a man building a house bestowing all his attention on the p an of the parlors, while the bed-rooms are, to a great extent, and in some instances entirely neglected. It had better be cice vcrta. Another thing to which we wish to draw attention is that of neglecting to change shoes and stockings after being out on a damp or rainy day. Though they may nei ther appear nor feel damp, yet they should be changed, care being observed to keep the feet always warm, As long as one is walking, the circulation is kept up, no mat ter how wet the feet may be, but the in stant you remain quiet it is checked, un less the stock ugs and shoes be changed. Holding the feet but a few minutes to a fire or over a register, is not sufficient, as yon only by that dry the external part of the shoe or boot. If the feet are cold they should be rubbed thoroughly with a rough towel until warmth has been restored,when they might be, it desired held for a short time before the fire. Jumping out of bed and walking about on the carpet, as too often done, should be avoided. A pair of slippers can be so placed by the bed at night, when retiring, as to be accessible on rising. It is the duty of each member of the Mt. Holyoke F. male Seminary to write an annual letter stating whether she is mar ried or single, how many children she has, and other particulars concerning her status and progress. A young lady of the class of 1861 has just written to the class secre tary that she is not married, but that she thinks she can see a little cloud that arisc eth out of the sky of the future, like a man's hand. ANGER is like a full-hot horse, who being , allowed his own way, sell-metal tires him. j TUF. BENEFIT OF BEING 1" NOCKED AEOCT IN THE WOKI.I).— It is a good thing for a young man to bo ' knocked about the world," though bin soft-hearted parent* may not think so. All youths, <>r d Hot ail, certain ly nine teen-twentieths o' th • - in (total, enter life with a surplusage oi : ell-conceit. If, in measuring themselves with wiser and older men than themselves, they discovar that it is unwarranted, and get rid o! it gracefully, of their own accord, well and good ; if not, it is desirable for their own sake that it be "kuocked out of them." A boy who is sent to a large school soon finds his level. His will may have been paramount at home ; but school boys are democratic in their ideas, and if arrogant, he is sure lo be thrashed into recognition of the golden rule. The world is a great public school, and it soon teaches a new pupil his proper place. 11 he has the at tributes that belong to a leader, lie will be installed in the position of a leader ; if not, whatever his own opinion oi his abilities, lie will be compelled to fall in with the rank and file. If not destined to great ness, the next best thing to which he can aspire is respectability ; but no man can either be truly great or truly respectable who is vain, pompous and overbearing. By the time the novice has found his legiti mate social position, be the satnc high or low, the probability is that the disagree able traits of bis character will be soften ed down or worn away. Most likely the process of abrasion will be rough, perhaps very rough ; but when it is all over, and lie begius to see himself as others see him, and not as reflected in the mirror of self conceit, he will be thankful that he has run the gauntlet, and arrived, though by a rough road, at self knowledge. Upon the whole, whatever loving moth ers may think to the contrary, it is a good thing for youths to be knocked about in the world ; it makes men of them. NUMBER 27. AFTER THE GUILLOTINE. — Four men were executed by the guillotine at Brest. The evening before the execution every medi cal man in Brest received an invitation from Dr. Duval, director of the Board of Health, to meet him in the ampitheatre of the hospital at six on the following morn ing. Precisely at that hour all the men of science beluuging to that city assembled around four dissectiug tables covered with white cloths. As the clock struck, the four culprits were ushered into eternity. At <3:20 the hospital vau was seen to cross the court of the Pupilles de la Marine at a hand gallop, and in a few moments lour lifeless trunks were thrown on the dissecting ta bles, precisely eight minutes alter they had ceased to exist. The sight was indeed startling. The bodies : ppeared shrunk to the si/.e of that of a child—the neck utter ly disappeared, and in its place a trightlul, gaping wound. Next to the bodies, rolled up in napkins, were four livid heads, due work of dissection commenced instantly.-- The nerves quivered, and the flesh was still warm, flic continued contractability of the heart was proved, as well as in the aorta, where sensibility was extreme. The contractability was manifested on simply touching the part, and of course was still more apparent when subject to electric cur rents. The muscular contraction was so intense that, even after twenty minutes one of the doctors, on applying an electric cur rent, made the four heads grimace in the most horrible manner. A pencil was plac ed between the teeth of one : it was bitten through and smashed as though it had been made of glass. A LUNATIC IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE. —At Hanwell, England, recently, a young lady was put into a train alone to go to London. As the train was on the point of starting, a gentleman rushed up and got in. Shortly after the train had started, the gentleman jumped up and exclaimed : "This carriage is too heavy, aud it must be lightened ;' and straightway his carpet-bag disappeared out of the window. He sits still a few minutes, when he begins again, and this time his coat and waistcoat follow his bag. After a little while, he said : "Let us pray for the Duke of Gloucester." Down they go on their knees —the poor girl, only 17, too frightened to do anything but obey. \\ lien that wa\ done, they prayed for the Duke of York, and then for another—in fact,through a whole string of dukes ; then they sat down, the young lady frightened out of her senses. Alter a few minutes, he begins again : "It won't do ; 1 can't stand it ; the train is too • eavy, either you or I must get out ; I don't want to, so you The girl, in despair, says : we have not prayed tor the Duke of Northumberland." "Ah, no more we have." Down they go on their knees, when luckily the train stopped at a station, and the young lady called the guard,when it was discovered that the gen tleman was a lunetic escaped from Han well. VALUE OF INSECTS. —Great Britain pays annually $1,000,000 for dried carcasses of that tiny insect known as the cochineal ; while another—also peculiar to India— gum shellac, or rather its production, is scarcely less valuable. More than 1,500,- 000 human beings derive their sole support from the culture and manufacture of the fi bres spun by the silkworm oi which tin annual circulating medium fcis said to he $200,000,000. In England alone—to sac nothing of the other pa:ts of Europe— s.soo,ooo are spent every year in the pur chase of foreign honey, while the value of that which is native is not mentioned, and all that is the work f the bee ; but this makes no mention of 10,000 lbs. of wax im ported every year. Besides all this there are the gall-nuts, used for dying and mak ing ink ; the ear.tharides, or Spanish fly, used in medicine. In fact, every insect is contributing in some way— directly or in iudirectly— in swelling the amount of our commercial profits. ADVICE TO YOUNG MEM. —Let the business of every one alone and attend U> your own. Don't buy what you don't want. Use eve ry hour to advantage, study to make even leisure hours useful. Think twice before you spend a shilling—remember you will have another to make for it. Buy low, sell fair, and take care of the profits. Look over your books regularly, and if you find an er ror, trace it out. Should a stroke of misfor tune come upon you in trade, retrench, work harder, but never fly the track. Con front difficulties with unflinching persever ance, and they will disappear at last though you fail in the struggle, you will be honored, but shrink, and you will be de spised. SST Man is like a snowball. Leave him lie in idleness against the sunny fence of prosperity, and all that's good in him melts like butter ; but kick him around and he gathers strength with each successive rev olution, until he grows into an avalanche. To succeed, you must keep moving. ADVICE to ladies with stingy husbands : Set up bawling alleys, and y >u will be sure to get plenty of pin-money. THE gravest events often come with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising.
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