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LIFE IS SWEET.
4, 0 h, life is sweet," .sajd a merry child,
"And I love, I love to - roam
' In the meadows green, 'neat!' the sky serene,.
! the world is a fairy home.
There are trees hung -thick with blossoms fair,
And •!lowers gay and bright ;
There's the 1000111'8 clear ray, and the sun-lit day,
Oh, the world is -a world of light."
, •Oh, life is sweet, ,, said a gallant youth.
As he coun'd the storied page;
And he ponder'd en the days by-gone,
And the fuue -of a former -age.,
There was hope in his bright beaming eye,
And he lung'd.for — aver years;
lie clung to life—he (tared its strife—
felt,EiO dread nor fears•
ciOh, life is swet," came merrily
Flom the lips of a fair ymmg bride ;
An , l • a happy smile she gave the, while
To the-dear one Abp her side.
,l•Oh. life is sweet. fur we shall live
One constancy to prove,
Thy sorrows mule, m}• trials thine,
Our sultu:e in uur love."
“013, life is sweet,” said a mother fond,
.%s she gazed on her helpless child ;
Awl the closer pressed to her gladdened breast
Her babe, who unconscious, smiled.
'•lly — life shill be. for thee, my child,
Pure, guiltless, as thin". art ;
Awl ‘‘ho shall dare my soul to tear
From the tie that'forms a part"'
“Oh, life is sweet,” said an aged sire,
Whose eye Wag sunk and dim;
llis form wis bent—his strength was spent--
Could life be sweet to him ?
Q, yes; for round the old man's chair
His children's children clung ;
And e tch dear face and warm embrace
Made life seem ever young.
Thus life is swe et, from early youth
"To weal: enfeebled age ; •
Love twines with life, through care and strife, Al
In every varied stage
rou•r,, perchance. the path we tread,
tud da k tile sky above,
—ln"every state there's somethiug yet
't'o live for and to love.
vtlect 111i5clicani).
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Singular History,
• C. F. Clarkson, formerly editor of the huh -
ana .17me t rican who is now traveling in Tennes
see, narrates the following story in a letter
published in the Brw,kvil/e (Ind.) Denutcral :
Let me recite to you 'the true history of a
man whose farm we passed over yesterday.
About fifteen yam; ago a Presbyterian clergy
man of New York had a wayward son. We
have his name and location. but choose to
withholdit at present. Before he was seven.
teen he became so reckless and unruly that
his father could no longer control him. He
left for the wicked and corrupt city of New
'York, where he tetatn'e a clerk in a drinking
saloon, but his character was too bad to be re
tained, there. He next was a bar keeper in a
theatre, hut was dismissed. He went lower
and still . lower, until he slept in empty cellars
and on the wharves of the city, perfect nuis
ance and a disgrace to his race.
At this stage of his _career an . old college
mate—for our hero was a graduate of one of
the best colleges in the State of New York
determined that he would hunt him up and
make One more effort to save him. He went to
New York, and after a week of diligent search,
with the aid of the police, he found him. lie
washed and clothed him;took him back to the
country, and by every inducement that could
be held out to him, persuaded him to try to
be a man. He -made the effort, and was suc
cessful. The friend who sought him out and
who saved him we are well acquainted with.
They both determined to come to Tennessee to
teach school. They soon reached here, and
with the high recommendations they brought,
soon obtained good places. '
The reclaimed son of the Presbyteri an clergy
man, within six months after - his arrival, mar
tied an orphan: girl worth $40,000 in cash.
She had a younger sister and a brother who
each had equal amounts. The sister soon after
died, leaving one-half her estate to our hero
and wife, and the other half to her brother,
thus increasing his estate to .:-.M.OttO. When
the_Mexican ‘var broke out, the brother enlist
ed, and made a will leaving all his estate to
his brother-in-law (our hero) and his wife. in
case he never returned from the war. He, like
many other of our noble youths, was killed at.
Buena Vista. Thus our hero Caine into posses
slut' of the entire estate of the family, which--
at first was ;t3•120,000, which has inerea•ed by
advance of lands and inerea , :e of nt'groes to
over ',:30t),t)00. He is now of richest
planters of Middle Tennessee, and does not
live twenty-five mites from 'Nashville.
INFirENTE OF LOANDS ON N.trot.Eox's Des-
TINV.—An island gave birth to Napoleon. ar
rested in his career, he seeks shelter in an
island, and from that island returns again to
shake•the world with the thunder of his ve ad :
fallen, he is sent from an island to die un an
island. killed by an island pOwer. lie issues
from the sea to begin his course : and that
course fulfilled. sinks again in s the ocean.
'What mav not the future fonnd iipuu these
curious coincidencies, when elihemeral history
On!l have disappeared. and given place to im
mortal poetry.—Gatzutier's
1 1 4, Day.
CC7Mrs. Ann Ruyan, died at her residence
in Washington, I). C.. on Sunday week, at a
very advanced age. She wzi3; the widow of a
revolutionary officer, Royall, and
she sublishz,lit new4taper in -WtNhinf , ton fl.r
many years, tirt as the Paw Pry. Which
Mule was afterwards chauged CO The Iluntres.
3 ifunil4 V.nuripaprr----13r,untrh to nlitiru, lgriruttnrr, Titrrnturr, 3rtn nuh L'krirurrs, .X4e 311arltrtg, Orittrat ihmrbiir nut ,furrign .sntritignirr, 3111urrtising, 3untoclurut, r.
Railivad Sketch.
Some time since, on one of our roads, a road
in which all attention is given to the comfort
and safety of the passengers, one of the most
rapid trains left a city at its regular time, and
all having care of the train were satisfied ,that
all the movement was ordinary and right.
There was no peculiar jar—no sudden change
of sound. The wheels went round rapidly as
aracer could require, and the well known blow
of the 'wheel upon the rail, succeeded by the -
roll when the continuous rail was reached, as-'
sured that all was right. A short time after
the train had started, one of the workmen em
ployed at the station came to the superinten
dent, bringing him a piece of a long bolt he
had just found. upon the track. It was, he .
thought, something pertaining 'to the cars.
The superintendent, with a thrill of feeling,
recognized it. as the king bolt of one of the car
riages. The train was-too far gone—inaeed,
as several minutes had elapsed—gone far be
yound recall or reach.. These express driving
wheels devour • distance so, that voice is but
mockery and pursuit impossibility. He kept
cool, though every nerve thrilled. He saw at
a glance that it was an accident, the occurrence
of.which it was utteily impossible for the con
ductor to ascertain : and not being of the engine,
there would be -nothing to induce the engineer
to close his throttle valve. The only hope was
that by. its weight the car might stay on the
track. He took his course in pronipt decision.
The triumphs of art, by the blessing of Heaven;
have placed an agency in advance of the loco
motive: He went .to the - telegraph ; and this
.as I' he --1.
ms message; 'itt --- Was acalm one - , and ••noC
of impulse or dismay : "Examine the trucks on
the express train, and See if all is_tight." . He
.had thus far done all he could. In the mean
.time, - on that train, the. pleasant conversation,
the absorbed 'reading, the glance at seemly;
the recollection of a charming hour passed
away, or the hope of a glad welcome—all the
incidents that mark every, transit of intelligent
travellers was in occurrence. There were those
who could sleep; though quantity and quality
were disordered and mingled. By one of those
fatal ties in . telegraphic movement, which
brings news of the woeful disease of a friend.
whose return must be immediate, after the
last and-worst issue has passed,- this dispatch
of the superintendent did not reach the fiikt
station till the train had passed ! But even
in this exigency there*, was a - beam of hope.
Thus far at, least the train had gone safely.
When the operator at the first station did re
ceive the message, he compreheuded a mo
n- lent the urgent necessity, and the imminent
need of haste,' Like a man of sense, he pushed
the signal on, and to the very first place where
the telegraph could be . used, he sent on the
superintendent's message. In all these hours,
that officer could not shake off his mind the
keen anxieties. There bethre him was the
faithless iron, and he knew that without it ev
ery turn of the wheel brought peril.' Better
success attended the re-issue of the despatch.
Long before the hour Tor the train to arrive,
the instructions were read, and the superinten
dent had companions in his anxieties. They
awaited keenly the minute when the train
should be due. -It catpe--as - rushing - . as tre= ,
mendous in its speed as ever. First the white'
steam showed itself over the trees, then the
tall, dark smoke-stack, with its breasip - We ;
the polished, shining silver concave of. the lan
tern ; then the sharp whistle to the brakeman,
and all was accomplished accurately. The
train brought up all right; and 'the hurrying
traveller plunged eagerly for his hag E rsg e .
The conductor. stepping front his train with
that customary businesslike movement, found
hiniself at once called by the station- men to
keener action. Ile could nisiThelieVe that
itiiy
thing was wrong, for—as a fact is declared of '
greater truth than a theory, the in i iles run with
winged speed in safety, told of - Complete order
and security. There was a busy scrutiny
about and under the train. The order of the
superintendent told that he was in earnest.
Men got under trucks, in places where, &Alm
locomotive should but take a breath, they
would he crushed ; wheels were tried, brakes
exiimined, beams and bumpers overhauled,
and nothinc , ° seen defective ; and 1112 des
patch that had used the—lightning , to travel
upon seemed a false' alarm. There was one of
that examiningparty not quite satisfied. That,
faithful, earnest, constant. accurate officer, -
never absent, never neglectful, took that one.
more last look, which seems so- often to con
centrate success, and discovered that, from one
of the cars the king bolt was gone !—and he
knew by the fact that from the point of Start
ing the message of warning had been sent, that
all over this journey this car had been kept
from destruction by its weightbon the groove.
The minute had the value-of life that cannot
be recalledin it: if the engineer had seen any
unusual object before him—checked his speed
--found his way unimpeded--given on steam
again--the quick, sudden movement would, it
-is-most-probable,- have -pul led—the—truck—from—
the car, and written sad memories in'the his i.
-
tory of that day. But - so smoothly—so easily
—with such steady roll, that engine moved,
that in this unknown danger its course was as
safe as if all the strength of iron had encom
passed it. Heaven changes that dread word
-danger by its mercies. When the superintem ;
' dent heard that his train had reached its des
tination safely, and that his message was yet
in time for the remedy. the remainder of that
day he wore a smiling and gentle look. The
compressed lip could' let the breath come free
again. The anxious feelings that had strug
gled in his heart were replaced by a tide of
pleasant and happy ernotion.---New .g.r
preas. •
(Q='"Mr. Brown, you said the defendant was
honest and intelligent. What makes you
think - so—ate you acquainted with him
—No, sir, I never seen
"Why then do you come to : such a conclu
sion ?"
"Cause he lakes ten newipvers and pip fiur
Ik in in adrance•" -
Verdict for the defendant.
A Prz7.LEI Jt - DGC—A tnan was arrested in
Wu° iccently for getting_drfinii—lie_pleai
that he had not been guilty of violation of the
new law, and claimed the right of being tried
bv the old, on the 'ground that he got drunk
under the old law, and hadn't lien sober smee,.
Lie Judge was puzzled and held the case over
for advisement.
Bt - LwEn. wer, the novelNt. in a letter
to a gentleman in Boston. : havc, closed
my 4_-.areer ai a writer of fiction. lam gloomy
exbausiell_ths.t pt>a•erit
life, diming pleasure -"where it is uut to be
found."
id !mil i
GETTYSBITRG,' PA.: MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1854.
Effect of Imagination.
Many years ago a celebrated ph
- 4 - 7" an exce ent wor on t ee • ect o •t e
imagination, wished to combine • theory with
practice, in order to confirm the truth of this
supposition. To this end he begged the minis
ter of justice to allow him to try an experiment
on a man condemned to death. The minister
consented and delivered to him an assassin. of
distinguished rank. Our savant sought the
culprit and .thus addressed him seve
ral persons who are interested) in your family
have prevailed on the judge not to require of
you to mount the. scaffold, and expose yourself
to the gaze of the populace. He has, therefore.
commuted your. sentence, and santions your
being bled to death within, the precincts of your
prison ; your dissolution will be gradual and
free from pain."
The criminal submitted to his fate : thought
his family would be less disgraced,, and con
sidered it a favor not to be cotnpelled . to walk
to the place of execution. He was conducted
to the appointed room, where every prepara
,on was made beforehand ; his eyes were
daged, he was strapped to a table, and. at
a preconcerted signal, four of his veins were
gently packed with the point of a pin. At
each corner of the table was a small fountain
of water so contrived as to flow gently into
basins placed to receive it. The patient, be
lieving that it, was blood be heard flowing,
gradually become weak, and the conversation
of the doctors in an undertone, continued
this opinion. -•
. "What fine blood !" said one. "What
pity this man should be condemned to die ! he
would have live& a long time." •
"flush said the other, then approaching
the first, he asked in a low' voice, but so loud
as to be heard by the criminal, '',how . many
pounds of blood are there in the human body ?"
"Twenty-four. You see "already about ten
pounds extracted : that man is,,now to a-hope
less state." .
The physicians then receded by degrees and
continued to lower their voices. The stillness
which reigned , in , the apartment, broken only
by the dripping fountain ; the sound of which
was also gradually lessened, so affected the
brain of the poor patient, that although a man
of very strong constitution, he fainted. and died
without losing a drop of blood.--N. Y. Tribune.
Cholera at London.
A correspondent of the Boston Post says this
dreadfill scourge is greatly on the increase , in
London. The published accounts give you no
idea of its terrible fatality. In the neighbor
hood of - Golden Square four htindred persOnS
are said to have died within a few hours. This
is a part Of the town formerly and for nearly
two hundred years—until built upon—used as
a receptacle for the dead in the prevalence of
any fatal epidemic. Ilene. in a huge pit. the
dead bodies of thousands were' thrown during
the - last great plague. In sonic excavations
recen,ly made for improving the' st wers here,
the Mould was a jet black, and grev,nninhers
of human hones were thrown
_aut. Whether
it he possible for infection - to have bee-n'ye
tained within the earth for nearly two hundred
years, or whether the excited fears of the pop
ulation residing there have acted as' an incen
live to the cholera, certain it is that its rava
ges there at the . present moment are frightful.
Many of the inhabitants, have fled to•the coun
try or to other parts of the town, And many of
the streets in that neighborhood are shut
The local authorities all over the metropolis
are doing everything in their flower to allay
excitement : house to house visitation is adopt;
ed thioughout most parts : disinfecting agents
arc g,rittoi9msly distributed, andsta Ifs of phy
sicians are established in all the parishes. _ One
singular peculiarity of the attaeks'for the List
few days is, that the greaternumber of those
who have died possessed a good constitution,
were in coo tertable or attlueut circumstances,
and resided in houses where there was ri;) com
plaint of defective drainage: The deaths from
the cholera 'during the last nine weeks have
been 1,5, 26, 133, 399, 644, 729, 847, 1287.
This does not include deaths hour dturrhwui
TAPE ix NEw- lonic. —Eighteen thousand
people in the city of New York live under
ground—that. is to_say, in cellars, vaults and
holes. So Bev. Mr. Guyler asserts, and his in
formation is ,aid to he derived from actual in
vestigation. lie tells of one neglected (planer
single lodging room or den—in which one
hundred outcasts of both sexes herd together: -
indiscriminately, every night. That why be
called life' in New York under f;round.
PotT-OPFIct.: ITENts.—A postage slainp, cut
front a stamped envelope, vannut tie used fur
po,tage
A postmaster, under no circumstances, is
allowed to open a letter not addressed to him.
When letters are iniSAent, it is not lawful to
charge postage for forwarding.
All news vipers having words written on or
in them. are subject to letter postage. To en
title papers to be, sent to bona tide subscribers
at half a cent each, a full quarter's postage is
required in advance.
• It is improper for deputy postmaqters to re
move the wrappers of public documents frank
ed by 'nein hers of Congress.
Anr 'nark with a pen ,on a circular. such as
date or anything of the kind, subjects it to let
ter postage.
ClAtli FOR. A Fi;Lux. —.Apply a solulion of
lunar caustic, on the first appearrinPe,of a felon.
antrit is ill seldiarr if ever fail a cure. Of the
truth of this, we are assured by a gentleman
ho has seen it tried in a great number of in
stances.— Ex. priper. .
A LONG A JISENCE.-A man formerly- belong
ing to this city, says the Salem E% ening Jour
nal, returned home on Tuesday. after an. ab
sence of forty-two years. lie left a wife. and
a child one year" old, behind, and when he re
turned he found his daughter the mother of
twelve children, some of whom are married.
His wife lived a widow, as she supposed. over
twenty years, and married again slime twenty
years since, and now resides in Sal.eni.
r.ll. (I t:(srfial - Fif.dt-;
been asked why it. is considered tisilto4ite for
gentlemen to g;.> into the presence of ladies in
their shirt sleeves, it is considered 'in
every, Vac correct for the ladies th.etfiselves - t;
appear before gentlemen without any sleeves
at. all.
3:77 - A negro went to a store and bought his
wife two red calico handkerchiefs. On retin ti
ing home he rushed into his cabin, exclaiming :
'
hainhatnina hankerchWs : take your clwice,
' lub, date bof fury ou :"
"TRUTH IS 311GWIT, AND WILL PREVAIL."
sam=l
Andrew's face brightened up
''t\Wait a minute,''said he,
Some years ago. an awkward chap in west
ern New York. who obtained his livelihood by
fi- g uru, in a blacksmith's shop. hired a horse
one day to carry a load of wrought nails to the
next town, a few miles- distant. Through his
own awkwardness, and that at the horse, and
by ihe, united exertions of the two. a very pret
ty catastrophe was brought about. While de
scending a steep hill, the sinith gave, his ani•
oral a few extra cu:. , , thinking t ):IC.Tlerate his
speed in a place where gravitation seconded the
motions of the whip. but the stead stumbled.
floundered into the dit , :h, and ki,:ked-the buck
et. The , blacksmith, upon turning the body
over; iccovered that the anatomical harmony
of the beast's neck was destroyed, that his spine
m,
e .; dislocat e d beyond 111E1)one-setter's art,
and that, in faztc'the "hoss"-i,v114 . 4e1id. -
a rueful countenance, he repaired to the owner
of the nag, and asked hint what was to be
done. Tlw reply was, "Yon most pay me finr
the horse." The blacksmith demurred, and
went to consult a lawyer.
The lawyer happened to be away fiotn home,
but his wile, who was prone to mischievow:: -
fun, thought site saw in the client food, for a
little sport, and, inviting him to' enter' the
house, remarked that she soinetiows gore le•
gel advice in her husband's absence, and re
quested him to state his case.
-Very %veil." said the blacksmith, seating
himself leisurely, ••I will suppose a case."
"If you Please—that will do as well as to
state your own," said the handsome attorney.'
"Welli yer see.it's just like this. 'Sposin'
you was an old boss -and I should drive yet
--drive yer to the Mill. And s'posin' I should
tt-yer-up-the-leastest-mi te-rmr-the-Ifard
you should rain up, and kick up, and break
the breechin.', and timidly yer should fall inter
the ditch, and break yer cussed neck—who'di.
pay for yer Would I.?" asked the e-xeited '
Vulcan, in a voice of thunder. "No be
hammered into horse-shoe nails, and driven
into the devil's cloven foot, afore I'd pay the
fast red cent !"
By this time the vr tmteercounsellor had re
treated to the door of, the apaffiliCilt, and after
intimning her client tat Ins was a very plain
ease, and he need not fe:a an action for dama
ges, she disappeared, resolving never again to
Bive.adviee to her li.tishand's customers.
LEARNED ELEPIIANT.--"That ' s a werry know
ing hanitual olyour's." said a cockney,.gentle
man to the keeper of an elephant.
"Very," was the cool rejoinder.
"lle performs strange tricks and hantie.s,
does he ?" inquired the cockney, eyeing, the
animal through the glass.
—Surprising." retorted the keeper, "we've
learnt him to put money in that box you see
array up there. Try hitn with a dollar."
Tile cockney banded the elephant a .dollar.
and sure enough he took it in his trunk, and
pi:wed it in a pox high out of reach.
Vell 7 —t.hat's we+Ty ,-
tonishin', truly Now let's see him, take it
not and hand it hack."
never learnt him to do that," returned
the keeper with a roguish leer, a - ad then turn
ed to stir up the monkeys and punch the hyenas.
—Spirit 'f the Times.
• f i rs , ; ,,, , F, RiGirrs.--There is an institution ; ,T7 - ..1 body of' fifteen persons lately left Salt
in Ilas aim called the Penal, a sort of hospital. : lake city, di%ii,ted with the oppression and
where husbands hare the power to confine
o
.1,4 r t r,12.g_1ti...3...Ar ives, ----Th4-power - ils fi cq (Jell t - - . .r.
immorality prevalent among the Mormons. ,
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s,lases. Dr. - 11 - aifiel - Parker, has be:en arrested in
.Jirt" f Cas.+in. , .--1,
ly eNerclNed. tile husband awing the durrnee '
of hi:, Ali: paying the jail and bLI bzistaucc fees.' Hamilton, Ohio, fur murder.
A Mistake in the Weight.
Ands ew W man was like Lord B ro
respect: cad a great horror of growing fat.
What added to his appreherfsion on this score
was the fact that his father. before he died, at
tained a degree of rotundity which would have
enabled him to fill, respectably, the office of
Alderman.
Andrew stood five feet eight in his stockings.
and weighed one hundred and fort y•five pounds
—a very respectable weight—within which he
endeavored to keep himself by the free use of
vinegar and other acids, which are reported to
diminish any tendency to pingeidity.'
Andrew was in-the habit of weighing him
self once a fortnight, in order to make sure that
he Was not transgressing proper bounds.
He had been absent from hoMe rather more
than a week. and just stepped out of the cars
into the depot, when his attention was arrest
ed by an instrument for determining the
Weight.
Mechanically he placed himself on the plat
form. and adjusted the weight to one hundred
and forty-five. To his surprise he found this
not sufficient.
With an air of alarm he ,advanced it five
pounds—still ineffectual. imagine' his con
sternation when the scales fell at one hundred
and seventy-five.
"Goodheaven !" said he to himself. - "There
can't be any mistake - about it—l've . gained
thirty pounds within the last fortnight ! T was
afraid it would he so. It was so with my
father before me. -At this rate I shall go be
yond him in a few-weeks."
11e entered alehouse with an air settled
melancholy upcin his face, which excited the
-fears of his wife, who:, had, come forward to
greet 'him after his abTence.
"Why, Andrew—Mr. Wyman—what's. the
matter - 1" she asked.
‘•l\latter enough !" he groaned, weigh
one hundred and seventy-five'pounds! Gain
ed thirty pounds within a fortnight—or at the
rate of fifteen per week. Suppose I should go
on at this rate, or even ten pounds a week, in
three months I shall be a perfect monster. ,
am the most unfortunate of_inen."
"I ain sure you don't Wok any larger," said
Mrs. Wyman. •
“You don't find that" your clothes have
grown small for you ?"
"Why, no."
- "I'll tell you what, Mr. Wyman," said his
wife, struck with a sudden idea ; "are you sure
you didn't have your valise in your hand, when
you were tiieighed ?•' ,„
ife sped out of the ho . fiik.---like an arrow—flew
to the depot and renewed the experiment.
A moment after he entered the house again,
his face glowing with joy.
"You've hit it, wife," he exclaimed. "I've
weighed myself again, and only weigh- one
hundred and forty-three."
Mr. was so -elated by the altered
Mate of the case, that he at once gave his wife
money enough to purchase a •love of a collar"
that she had seen at Mr. Leask's the day be
(Ore.
goo " d l . L: , s an ill wind that blows nobody any
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A Hypothetical Case.
Self-Sacrificing Father.
• (in • ,
mayor of one- of the neighboring cities, who
seemed very anxious to prepare his family and
fellow-citizens to meet the anticipated - dreadful
ravages of the cholera. - He would allow no
' food to be "eaten by his family, htit plain salted
meat, fish, bread, ,tc.. and whenever any of
them wished for something a little extra, they
had to shy over to an obliging neighbor where
they never failed to get a fine slice of excellent
pie, cake or pudding. Previous to this, how
ever, they could boast of, all these dehcacies at
home. Things thus went on for a week. The
mayor, it was noticed by his worthy half, did
.not have a very good appetite whenever he
came to his meals, (for the good reason, proba
bly, that there are many good' eating saloons
in the place,) and she thought that good rhu
barb pie would do no harm, but, 'rather give
her husband a relish for his dinner. She ac
cordingly placed one at his side, when he sat
down to the noon-day meal. A cloud passed
over the brow of the head of the family.
"Wife," said he, "how often must I speak
of- these things ? It seems as if you de
termined to give us the cholera, despite all my
precautions. Please take away this detestable
green stuff."
The meek dame silently removed the offend
ing delicacy to the kitchen, followed by the
greedy eyes
. of half a dozen disappointed
youngsters.. The father soon got through with
his dinner, arose from the table -mid passed
out ; leaving the.others to finish their meal of
plain bfead and cadtish. The son, however,_
not The 'fear of the father - efrore his
eyes, and withal sighing for' the "flesh pots- of
Egypt," as soon as he thotight the father
well gone out of sight, crept into the kitchen to
get a slice of the coveted pie. . But, "when he
got there
.the table was bare ;" the rhutsirb
pie was gone! perhaps, that Bridget
had thrown l it into the swill barrel, he went tet
the door of the wood-shed, when to I what. a
sight presented itself to the boy. Hamlet
could not have been more surprised at the sight
of his father's Bost, than was our hero at the
veritable mayor seated on a saw buck with the
half-devoured rhubarb pie (detestable - green
stuff) in his hand ! He was sacrificing hint
self to save his family, and eating the - pie,
cholera and all !
The sop got' a - good
.share of the priaby
giving a promise not to tell ; and the old man
slid fit his otlice. lle has not been heard to
sa hything aOinst "green stuff" -since.—
refutitu Blade. f •
Short Letters.
If "brevity is the sotil of wit," the following
correspondence form models, we should think:
• The ~ l emphis Eaglegives thelollowing.letter
from a Hat boatman to his father. lie and his
brother 443111" had Hatted a load of corn to
New Orleans:
- ' Nu Orleens, Gune 5.
Deer Dad--Markets is dull corn is nifty la
and Bills dead. Your affectionate son, J. B.
This reminds ns of the celebrated correspon
dence between a stay-at-home mother and tier
absent son :
• Penobscot, Maine.
Dear John--Come home. A -rolling stone
gathers no moss. Your loving mother, --
The-awswer was not long in coming back,
and was not long when it got back. • .
Red River, Texas*.
Dear Mother—Come hem. A setting hen
never gets fat. Your loving son.
And here is a still shorter:
The editor of the Bradford (Vt.) Inquirer had
inserted the nanteef - Abel Underwood in - his
ticket instead of the coalition candidate. Where
upon the following correspondence ensued :
Wells River, Aug. IG. 1854.
Robert—Take toy imtue out-of yOni paper.
UNDER:wooI:).
Bradford, Aug. 17. 1854.
Abel--I won't. Ronp:lt'r.
BE the shortest correspondence on record is
the one between the Amsterdam merchant in'
want of news, and his -Loudon agent. The
letter ran thus :
And the tun4ver thus
tieing the hr icfcst posisible.intitnation that there
was nothing stirring.
MoDEsT AssruANv.i , :. —A good looking young
fellow stopped all last week at Major Hell's
hotel. Ca ha w ha, .( Ala.) and ordered his bag
down to the boat and went down himself,
without paying his bill. Said the Major :
"Sir. you must not leave without paying
your bill. I can't afford to hire servants, and
pay for provisions, and board people for no
thing !"
'.You can't ?"
"No!"
thunder then don't ynts sell
mil to semselmfly lhol con P'
Our in f6rm a ritin an mon. to chalk that man's
_liat- i -botif;•ays, as a slight tribute of respect
fur his magnificent impudence.
"A Flag IN TIM 1.1.v.mt !"—The Rinisburg ,
Ifillaxer tells - a good story of an exceedingly
anxious individual who was "most crazy" to
obtain sonic account of the Know Nothings.
The anxious individual was told by a wag one
day, that if he would come out to that
night at ten o'clock, and advance fourteen paces
into the barn, he would there find a party to
initiate him in due form into the mysterious
order. The proposition "took," and he accord
„ingly went to the place at the time appointed :
lie had scarcely entered. however, when he
was ;saluted with a tno.,t, unceremonious "grip”
in the rear, which caused him to vacate -the
premises in quick time, leaving a part of his
-hinder" garments in the teeth of acaretul
watchdog, whose owner had given him the
euphonious title of "Know Nothing."
bachelor friend of ours passing up the
street yesterday. picked up a thimble. He
stood for a moment mc.ditating an the probable
owner, when pre:sing it to his lips, in said :
• • z, tha-t—t-his ero—tho—fair—lip of_ the
wearer."
Jost-a-s he had finiz.hed, a big fat, ugly,
hlxrk wench. looked out of an upper window,
and sail]:
jisVease frow dat-fimble in de intry,
jis drap it.''
Potatoes.
icultumtfriend_w-ho-mturned-a—wet . .k
since from France. informs us that the farmers
there have discovered that by leaving a por
tion of their potatoes, intended for seed, in die
ground during winter, digging them up, and
replanting in spring, is a remedy against the.
continuance of the various diseases to which •
the potato has of late years been subjected.
It will be recollected that this process was that
recommended in this country by Mr. Roberts.
, We have tried this experiment by leaving po
tatoes in the ground last year, mulching them.
slightly during winter with brush. When we
dug them this spring, we found the potatoes
perfect and very solid, and have planted them
along Side of others, kept in the cellar during
winter: the growth of the crop gives fair ev
idence of the superiority of the seed left in the
ground, and from present appearance,:our-ex
periment, backed by the result claimed by
Roberts, and by the French farmers, is likely
to sustain the recommendation ofthe Farmer's
CIO of the American Institute for the trial' (If
this plan, and those of the agricultural press
who attempted to laugh it down at the time of
its publication, will be able to review their
jokes with sonic profit to their readers.—Work.
lug Farmer.
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Weight of Seasoned Wood. •
The following table shows the weight of a
cord of wood: ' , - - . - ' -lbs.
White ash. - 3450
_ .
Reach - . '.3236 .
Chestimt...„ :.... , . , - 1,---:._.: - . -- .._._—_.2_2333__
White elm • •-- ' • .2592
Scaly bark hickory .•• * - • - ' . ~4409..
Pig nut hickory , 4241 .
.
Red heart hickory 3705.
Iron wood 3218
Hard maple . 2878
..
Soft maple • .
.2668
White oak ` . . ''' 3821
Pin oak • ' .. 3339
Red oak . .... • . 3254
Cliestutit oak . .3030
--- .
,
Pine... - . , . l9OO
Lombardypoplar ' i r:'....1774
----,
LAWN; LEtTUCE:—A correspondent writin{
from G reen Springs . Cal., to the editor of the
11'
Ca liftwitia Farmer, says : "1 have one head d
lettuce that measures six feet in circumference,'
and the head is as closely packed as a drum- -
head cabbage ; its height is twenty•two inches
and 1 shim ldjudge it would weigh ten pounds."
LA ROE TOMATO VOL —Mr. James Campbell;
of Tansborai, has a tomato vine nine feet four
inches high. which covers a space thirty-one
feet in circumference, and has from fifteen hun
dred to two thousand tomatet,inpon it.
Goan rx PItIti:4SYLVANTA. —A n .tngish gento
gis t 'named G.. J. Philips, now on a tour of
mineralogical research in Berko county, is said
to have discovered gold in a vein of quartz
near Reading. The Gentle. of the latter
place r which has seen several of the specimens,
speaks of the-gold as remarkably pure.
A ilmw DoDGE,--Two men lately drove up
to the door of a merchant in the: vicinity of
Cairo, Illinois, and requested the privilege of
depositing the bOx they had with them in the
house for the night. which was refused, but
they were' allowed to place it in the store.
The next morning the men called for the box,
but tbe storekeeper had missed iv piece of cloth
from his counter, and on further examination
he found that lie had been robbed of five hun
dred dollars, and consequently he - ref Used t o
,
let theM have the box. The storekeeper - ob
tained assistance, secured the two men and
opened the box, when lo! out jumped a man,
and in the box were-found the money, goods,
etc., which had been stolen.
Albany Transcript informs us of a
mournful death-bed confession : In the west
ern part (tithe city there has for many years
resided rt - singular being, whose only occupa
tion
,was that of drawing sand. Yesterday,
near noon, he paid the great;debt of • nature.
Before ho died he called his friend to him and
said, "—, I haven't got a friend in the world
but you, and-,to you I give all that I have.
There is but one thing that troubles my mind,
and that is that in the last five years I have
sold Mr. the grocer, thirty loads of sand."
"But," said his friend "why ,should that trou
ble you 7" "Att." said the dying man, his
voice growing faint, "to think how he has
shaved his customers, retailing that sand at
eight cents per pound for sugar—that's what
bo—" The sentence was not finished. .
7Many a true heart, that would have come
back, like a dove to the . -ark, after its first
transgression, has been frightened beyond re
call by the angry look and menace—the taunt,
the savage churity of an unforgiving spirit.
- 1.-- Excuses are the pickpockets of time.—
The sun does not wait for his hot water; or his
boots to be blackened,, but get - s up at once. •
'l:'l‘llave you much fish in your bag ?"
asked a person 'of a fisherman, who was re
turning home. "Yes ; a good eel," was the
slippery reply.
Lry-wlien you feel a little blue, take to phil
anthropy, dutub-bells, and giving quarter-dot,
tars and old clothes to poor people. Nothing
like agitating the brain; muscles, pulse and
heart.
r_r_ - ,r' - Good manners is the art of making
thwqr persons easy with whom we converse.
Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is
the best bred in the company.
^' - The Ilindoo law says :—"Strike not even
with a blossom, a wife, though she -be guilty
of a thousand faults." The. English law would
let yoli -hit her again" with what the blostiorn
grow., on. - -- . --
TUE LATEST grvLE.—Parasols, ornamented
with a large bow of ribbon on the top, are
coining into favor for full dress toilet in Paris.
D:781 all transgressions become• great tue tiers
frequent repetition ; - as small expenses:lra - David
plied, insensibly waste a large revenue. 'Ctlemseo..
Jdersigned,
OC7Willia in l'a Trot, Who fought undoerebt gives
eral Washin,,, ,, z(ni, died near Luray, 17
:n said
estate
lately, aged lot) years and 7 months n d t i me . having
(There are in New York cityilepror t. nt t
w
schools, with 1004 teachers, V
WEST, Ex'r. -
amount to over $300,000.
. ye urg ' • ewe
an honest man will some -time .
thotight good for something. ,
'DWO-DOLLUt-S-:A - -MM.
NO. 3.