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I Yearn for the Spring.
1 .yearn for the Spring, when the birds shall sing,
And each morning awake fresh !lowers;
We have waited long for the lark's blithe song,
And the lengthening evening hours..
A shroud of snow had lain on the earth,
An icy hand ou each stream,
The sun in the sky opened its languid eye,
And sent but a sickly gleam ;
Awl the frosty breeze moaned among the trees,
And the rattling hail and rain •
Came sweeping past in the angry blast,
And dash'd 'Rairiat the window ,pane ; '
And nover a flower, in the stormy hour,
Dared raise up -its head—
For all gentle thiniN tied on Summer's Wings,
' Or else in the snow- lay dead!:
1 yearn for the Spring, when - the birds shall sing,.
And each morn shall awake fresh flowers :
We have listenediong for the woodlark's song, -
And the thrush at the evening hours. .
'Tis a beauteous time when the bud first bursts,
And child-like the young leaf stands,
And catches the drops of the gentle shower
In its small and velvety' hands !
- When the tender grass feels the south wand pass,
In its chariot unseen, , - •
ind old Mother Earth, at the new Spring's birth,
' Airays her in robes of green—
' When the bounding stream, as if in a dream,
Murmurs on to its unknown' home,
And tells the tall reeds, as it onward speeds,
That the fair Lady Spring bath come !
0, -1 yearn for the Spring—for the balmy Spring—,
Who boats like a fairy queen. • '
And toucheth the land with a magic wand,
Till all beauteous things are seen.
1 long to be out at early dawn,
When the•-eastern -.light is new,
'Along the odors borne from the scented thorn,
And .the showers-of-silver dew,-
Oh, I cannot tell bow my soul oth swell, ,
-With an inward happiness;
For- simply to be is a bliss to me,
For the which my God I bless! -
From an unknown source comes a nameless force,
Which perrades my being through—
, A - joy and a lore, and a strength from above,
And I seem to be made °anew !-
Oh, come then, Spring.—let the woodlark sing—
Let the floweret ope its eye :
Like the lark Pd soar to the heaven's blue floor— -
Like the flower,,gaze up to. the tkitt:
Stied Illisrellann.
Olti THE CAPTIVITY OF FRANCIS SLOCUM.
Among the inhabitants of the beautiful val
. ley of Wyoming. at the period of its invasion
by that blood thirsty baud of tories and sav
ages who, with a barbarity Seldom equalled,
. laid waste and destroyed every vestige of that.
lovely settlement, murdering the inhabitants
and driving off their'cattle. was a Quaker by
the name of Jonathan Slocum; whose peaceful
disposition and many acts of kindness to. the
Indians, saved his dwelling from the torch,
and his family from annoyance. while .his
neighbors were butchered, their houses burnt.
and their children taken captive. This im- -
punity, however, was of short duration. Mr.
Slocum had a son, Giles, who was in the bat
tles, and it is supposed that the Indians be
coming aware 'of the fact, determined on a
bloody revenge. In, the family of Mr. S. was
the wife of a neighbor, who had been taken
captive by, the Indians, and her two sons, one
ftfteen• and the other t welve years of age. One
morning in November, some four months after
the bloody massacre whin made the valley—a
desolation, a party of redskin warriors was
seen prAwling around the vicinity of Wilkes
bane 'Mt. The two boys had gone to the
grindstone to sharpen a knife, and the women
were engaged in their domestic duties, when
Mrs. Slocum was startled by a shot, and a
shriek from -one of the boys. Stepping to the
door, she beheld a swarthy warrior, in the act
of scalping the oldest boy with the knife he
had been grinding. Horror stricken at the
' sight she staggered back, and was followed by
the Indian, with the still warm and reeking
scalp in his hand. Looking about him for
plunder, - he discovered nothing to tempt his
cupidity. worth the risk of carrying off, but a
little son of Mrs. Slocum, who stood in his
way as he turned to the door. Seizinc , him in
Ins arms. he was about to depart, when Mrs.
S., with all a mother's feeling, caught him by
the atm and besought him, in tones of earnest
entreaty, not to deprive her .of her boy.
"Seel" said she, “he can do thee no good, he
is lame."
Dropping the boy, he took up a little daugh
ter of five years, who had crouched in fear be
hind a high-backed chair. and was making his
way cut, when the mother again stopped him.
and pleaded for her child. In the west pathet
ic tones, she implored him to leave her bright
tied darling, the light of her home, and the
- joy of her household. As well might. she have
wasted her words upon the stern rocks or the
idle wind ; the rugged nature of ate savage
was not to he moved by the earnest appeals of
the - pale faced _squaw. 'grasping with one
band the mantle which enwrapt him. and with
the other the dress of her child, she clung to
both with a tenacity which had well nigh ac
complished her purpose ; finding himself im
peded in his exit, and fearful of approaching
assistance, the savage drew his tomahawk to
finish at a blmv her - importunity -and her life.
Reading in his eyes his stern determination,
and wrought to a pitch of agonyond which
her system refused to go, she yielded her grasp,
and sank in a swoon at his feet. The Indian,
relieved of her annoyance, now took his de
parture with little Frances,in his arms, and as
he passed through the yard, seized upon the
other son of :Nlrs. Kingsley, whom he also Lore
off a prisoner. All this was the scene of-but a
e w 1110ments ---- yet -how - rnhch - of - terror - and
heart-breaking agony was embraced within
that short period of time. How many years of
terrible suspense and deep despair had their
birth in those few brief moments. 3rrs•:-
Kingsley who had stood a beholderof
the
the scene, when she saw her second and Only
living child, torn from her and carried into
captivity, sank under the affliction and gave
herself up to_a stolid apathy, little short ofde-
E.pair. One of Mrs. Slocum's children had,
with a sagacity beyond her years, at the first
a rauce of the savages,- snatched up the
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3:erumpapt.---ileuntrit . tti 3griritittrr, ritrrattirr i 3115 anti 'Sfirurrs 1 .3i!nitris, (grunt Ilunwitir Surrigit 4 Jutrltigrurry . 511furrtithng, ?auttsrulcut i ---_tr.,
op
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for the.'house, Ina the
_lndians - were alreadY
beyond the .reach, of successful pursuit.
In a short tine after the above melancholy
bereavement, Mrs. Slocum was called upon to
part with her linsbancLand father, who were
both shot and scalped by a, party of Indians.
while fuddei-itig cattle near the house. Thus .
in the short space of six weeks, Has that hap
,v household broken up and destroyed -
red
its surviving memb►r wrapped in misery as
with•a, mantle." Her religion sustained Airs.
Slocun► in her day of trial, and she thre.w her
self and her nine remaining children upon the•
mercy of her Heavenly. Father, and bowed her
head.. without a murmur, to His decreis. For
the dead she did not mourn ; they were at rest.
and no sorrow or useless repinings could re
store them, to her again. But her - lost daugh
ter. her darling Frances, was ever present in
her thoughts. Like Rachael weeping for her
children, she` refused" to be comforted. and en
tertained a lively hope that she would one day
be restored to her arms again. Her spirits
seemed. buoyed up with this hope, and she
lived in the anticipation of• again seeing her and
pressing-her to her bosom. • - •
Days. months and years rolled on, and the
lamp of hope stilled burned as brightly as
ever. •No tidings had ever reached her of her
child, and all gave up but her poor heart
stricken mother. When peace was declared,
and many captives .returned to their homes
and families, she sent two of her sons to Cana
,da in search.of their lost sister. They sought
her wherever there was the slightest chance of
her presence. They offered re wards for her re
covery, but all in vain : and they returned to
their mother • with the cheerless tidings, con
vinced of her death. Not so with her. She
felt satisfied that her Frances still lived, and
would not listen to any other supposition. At
length her long cherished hope seemed to be
realized—as a woman was found among the
Indians, who had been carried away when a
child from the Susquehanna, and she was sent
for by Mrs. Slocum, who cherighedlier, and
endeavored to feel that her child was restored.
But the invisible link which binds a mother to
her offspring was wanting, and the bereaved
mother was bereaved still. The foundling,
too, felt that she was not the long-lost and
looked for daughter, and ultimately returned
to her Indian friends.
Years rolled on. Time had whitened the
locks of the confiding mother with age : her
sons had passed the meridian of life, and their
children had grown to manhood, and yet she
still entertained the belief that- her Frances
lived. At length she was called away to join
her husband in another world, and she went
"down into the grave mourning" that she was
not permitted this side the grave to embrace
her darling.
. I • b. -
ers were grey-haired 'men, and when all had
ceased-to-entertain-thought of-the lost sister,
their feelings were aroused by an announce
ment which placed beyond question the fact
that she still lived, and remembered her for
mer home' and friends. An Indian agent in
Ohio wrote to the editor of one of the pewspa•
pers in Pennsylvania. inliirming him, that he
had seen and talked with a white woman
among the Indians, who had told him that her
name was Slocum, that her father was a Qua
ker, and wore a broad brimmed hat: That he
lived at a place -on the Susquehanna river,
which was near a town where there, was a
fort, and that she was taken from thence while
a, child, by the Indians. This letter the edi
tor—who deemed the matter a hoax—t brew'
among his waste papers, where it laid for a
year Or more, until his wife, one day,-in look
ing them over, came across it. Her sympa
thetic feelings were aroused, and she sent it to
the Intelligencer, in which it was published.
It happened that, on account of a temperance
address it contained, an extra number was
printed, one of which found its way to Wyom
ing, and the two brothers and a sister immedi
ately started to the-West to find the long lost
Frances. They found her, but oh, how chang
ed ! She was now an aged woman, with
grand-children about her; and fast approach
ing the- gr - avel The interview which took
place between the long separated brothers and
sisters was afn-cting in 'the extreme.
She informed them through an interpreter,
(she had lost her native language) that after
her capture she was treated in the most ten
der manner by the Indians, who took her to
their towns, where she soon become attached
to their roving, romaniio, life, and came to
dread being discovered by- her friends. When
she grew up and her foster parents died, she
_married a young chief of the - Delawares, (the
tribe to which her captors belonged) and after
his death she joined the Miamis with her peo
ple, and married again. She had been a
widow now for many years, children and
grand-children were growing up around her,
and herself was passing pleasantly away. She'
was comparatively wealthy, having a large
stock and all the rude comforts of tin Indian
life in abundance, besides one thousand dollars
in specie that she had saved from an annuity
which as an Indian, she had drawn -from
Government. Afuir spending several days
with her, her friends bade her a final farewell.
She died a few years, since, and was buried
with considerable pomp. for she was-regard - ed
as a queen among her people.
FIELDS or BATTLE IN THE ClaMEA.—lnker
mann, or. the City of Caverns, stands on the
great Bay of Akhar, and was built by the
Russians about the year 1700. The hay was
called Sebastopol : by the Russians diving the
reign of Catharine If,whence the name of the
strong fort besieged by the allies. •' The great
harbor of Inkermann, said to recemble that of
is one of the finest in the world. It
has .a depth of water varying from twenty-one
to seventy feet, in which the largest vessels
can ride at a cable's length from the snore.
The old town of Inkerman stood on the north
of the harbor. but there are scarcely any ves
tiges of it remaining. The country surround
ing Iqerniann is the wonder of trayelb rs.
Here is truly a City of Caverns, for the white
rocks that overlauli_the_BayL_of_Akbar., ( white
rocks) are full of excavations of the most ex
traordinary character. They consist of chain
bets, with Gothic windows, cut out 61 the
solid stone. Near the harbor the rocks are
hewn into chapels, monasteries and sepulPhres.
They are considered by same authorities to
have been the retreats of Christians in the
early ages. There arc several Grecian an
ticfuities in the neighborhood, of the ruined
town, which travellers have endeavored to
perpetuate, and antiquaries to restore, but the
Russians have made bad havoc of these • splen
did remains.
PIJI , IIiIV exempt from fear
GETTYSBURG, PA..: "MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1855.
How John ChieaMan makes. his 'Donkey
cease Braying. • ,
Tn 1-840 We-were once making a journey . in
a wagon in the province - of Pekin: ‘ Our equip
' age was under the gnidance done of our cate
chists, an old schoolmaster,' Mounted - on a tong
mficent aSs,.so full of ardor ,and that
the two mules' which completed our team bad
all the difficulty-in-the-World—tOLkeep-up with
him. This ass, however, was' so 'tilled' with
the Sense of his own superiority, and so proud
of it, that wheneVer he became aware, of the
presence of any of his brethren, let' them be ay;
ever so great a distance, he never faded to be-'
gin boasting of it in sueh-loud and sonorous
tones, that his folly bccume quite insupporta
ble.. When we got to an iii, instead of trying
to rest himself, this indefatigable beast passed
the whole night in practicing his music; and
there appeared to he something so peculiarly
provoking in the tones of his voice, that all the
asses within hearing, influenced, it would
seem, by the power of some magnetic fluid,
were quite sure to respond in a magnificent
bravura, as the Italians say, so that all to
gether it became impossible, to close our eyes.
Ooe evening when our catechist Was vaunting
the qualities of hiC less, we could not help iri
terrupeng him.. f•Your ass," said - we, "is an
abominable brute. ' During the whale journey
he has prevented us getting a wink of sleep."
"Why did you not tell toe so before'?"•said the
catechist ; "I would soon have stopped his
singing." As the ancient schoolmaster was
something of a wag, and indulged occasionally
in a small joke. we took little notice of his re
ply, but that night we slept quite soindly.
"Well, did the ass make a noise last night ?"
said he, when we-met in the morning. "Per
haps not ; at all events we certainly did not
hear. "No, no ; I think not ; I saw to
that before I went to bed. You must have
noticed,"- he continued, -that when an ass is
going-to bray he always begins by raisin , * his
tail, and he keeps it extended horizontally as
long as his song lasts. To ensure his silence
therefore you have only to tie a large stone to
the end of his tail; so that he cannot raise it."
We smiled without reply, thinking this was
another' piece of Pleasantry ; but he cried,
-Come now and see ; you can easily convince
yourselves."' And accordingly, we folloWed
hint to the court-yard, where we beheld, sure
enough, the poor ass with a large stone at
tached to his tail. and with the air of having
entirely lost his accustomed spirits. His eyes
were fixed on the ground, his ears hung down.'
his whole appearance denoted humility and
dejection. .We tilt quite compassionate to
wards him, and begged his master' to untie the
stone directly : and as soon as ever he felt his
musical appendag e at liberty, the creature
raised first his had, then ears, then his
wonted enthusiasm.—Hut's Chinese Empire.
Queer Time Pieces in China—Cat Clocks.
Monsieur Hoc, in his new work, -The Chi
nese Empire." has the following : "One day.
when we went to pay a visit to some families
of Chinese Christian peasants, we Met near a
farm a young lad _who was taking a buffalo to
graze along our path. We asked hitn careless
ly, as we passed, - whether it was yet noon.
The boy raised his head to look at the sun,
but ft was'hidden behind thick clouds, and he
could read no answer there. "The sky is so
cloudy," said he; "but wait a moment ; ' and
with these words he ran towards the farm. and
came back a lew minutes afterwards with a
cat in his arms. "Look here,'!. said he, "it is
not noon yet," and he showed us the cat's eyes
by pushing up the lids with his hands. We
lofted at the child with surprise. but he was
evidently in earnest: and the cat, though as- -
tonished, and not much pleased at the experi
ment Made on her eyes, behaved with most
exemplary complaisance. "Very well," said
we, "thank yon ;'' and he then let-go the cat,
who made her escape pretty quickly, and we
continued our route. To s - ay, - ihe truth, we
had not at all understooirtfie proceeding ; but
we dal not wish to question the little pagan,
lest he should find out that we were Europeans
by our ignorance. As soon as we reached the
farm, however, we made haste to ask our
Christians whether they could tell the clock by
looking into a cat's eyes. They seemed sur
prised at the question ; but as there was no
danger in confessing to them our ignorance of
the properties of cat's eyes, we related what
had just taken place. That was all that was
necessary ; our complaisant neophytes imme
diately gave chase to all the cats in the neigh
-I,orhood. They brought us three or four, and
explained in what manner they might be made
use of for watches. They pointed out that the
pupil of their eyes went on growing narrower
until 12 o'clock, when they became like a fine
line, as thin as a hair, drawn perpendicularly
across the eye, and that after 12 the dilation
recommenced. When we had attentively ex
amined the eyes of all the cats at our disposal,
we concluded that it was past noon, as all the
eyes perfectly agreed upon the point."
AN INTERINTING CAsE.—Juhn Windsor was
convicted in Delaware, in 1851, of murder, and
sentenced to be hung, but on three several oc
casions was granted a respite;-:until the March
17th: .153. It appears, however, that he has
not vet been executed. and a few days ago he
was brought out on a habeas corpus, and his
discharge demanded, on the ground that the
(lay api.ointed for his execution was passed
and there being no power to fix the day, the
prisoner was entitled to be set at liberty. The
court, however, remanded him to the custody
of the sheriff.
ICE INSTEAD OF CirLottoPoitx.—The editor
of the Landon Lancet says that by experi
ence he has found that the same effects can
be pioduced by the benumbing influence of
ice as with chloroform. lie says : "I have
hied the ice in several cases, in both hospital
and private practice, and in almost every in
stance the success was evident, the patient,
when blindfolded, being ignorant of the use of
the knife."
of Our exchanges mention the fact of
a "Know-Nothing" having beer-turned out of
the society of which he was a Member, fur
drinking an Irish whiskey punch with a Ger
man silver spoon in it.
1:7P.1s inany writers have taken the - trouble
to define what a wife ought to he. we may as
well add our idea on tlief.ullject to the general
fund. A wife should Le like a roast ofialulr—
tender and nicely dressed.
ME FORLORN HOPS OF LADlES.—Expecting
an old sweetheart to marry you on the death
(21 . his 'third 14 M.
, ; •
"xrarni,ls suGarr, IND mix ritrx.ttr..."
The Knickerbocker tel Is . the
,following good
yarn in its editor's table :
' - Me of our western farmers, being very
Much annoyed last summer - by his best sow
breaking into the corn field, search was insti•
tuted in vain for a hole in the rail fence.' Fail
ing to find any, an attempt was next made, to
drive out; the animal by the same way of her
entrance : but. of course without success. The
owner then resolved to watch her proceedings:
and posting hiMself at night in a fence corner,
he saw her enter at one end of a hollow - log,
outside the field, and emerge at the other end
within the enclosure. 'Eureka cried he,
have you now, old lady.'—Accordingly. be pro
ceeded, after turning her out once more, to so
arrange the log (it toeing very crooked) that
both ends opened out on the outside of the field.
The next day the animal was observed to enter
at her accustomed place, and shortly emerge
again.
'Her astonishment,' says-our informant, 'al
finding herself in the same field whence- she
had started is too ludicrous to he described !
She looked this way and then that. grunting
dissatisfaction, and finally returning to her
JI i g ;,,al-sttming-pl ace ; and-after-9.-&1-iltern
survey of matters, to satisfy herself that it was
all right she - again entered - the - log. — On - emerg
ing yet once more on the wrong side, she evinc
ed even more surprise than befbre, and turning
about, retraced the Tog in an opposite direction.
Finding this effort likewise in vain, After look
ing long and attentively at the- position of
things, with a short, angry grunt m disappoint
ment, and -perhaps tear, she turned short. round
and started off on a bi isk run. nor could either
coaxing or driving ever after induce, her to vis
it Mat part of the field ! She seemed to have
a supersututiou concerning the spot."
About 2 Miles frown Tha sub scri
ber will seel at-Publick sale On tha 27 toy of
march tha folding Property to wiit 1 horse
awoone horse Waggon and tha wont woork of
awoon horse Waggon 1 ham waggon I - fool:in
tdop buggy One slay a weel harow shnvvel
ant fork 2 seets of harnis 1 hesh Mild' Cow
hay & Corn fottar also house bolt & kitchen
furnit ur 1 teen plated sto'we 1. hathaway
Coock stoov limit 40 foot of Stoove pipe aCor
nor Cub bart Chares tables ant sink wont
Chost one 8 toy Markle Cloock 1 burrow bets
ant betting Spinning weels 1 wool weal meet
vesles ant Tubbs 1 kettle ant patts - 1 Churn
Arocking Crattle 1 Grain Ciattle 2 maying
Siths ant snet 1 tesk ristnoath hurt riffle Two
shurnaker bentches sliumoker tools With is
ferst rate shutch as lasts boat Trees Crimping"
boorts also aloot of Corpen Ter tools stitch ac
1 hant saw traWing 'lives Augers & Chisles 1
Brase ant bitts ant avari Aty of other thing
stoo too noamers to mench En alnt of batten
ant hat 1 print Stone Sale to Comonse at
aleven aclock Ween atent ans will bee givven
out Ant termes Mate rowing by me
"If he will perform some act which is char
acteristic of him. and without any directions
as to what it shall be, I shall believe in it."
ris - The -Know-Nothing who would not use
the word patriot because it began with pot, has
concluded to emigrate Rwileu,lit-re; because he
his at last found out that "America was dis
covered by n preigner."
{77 — The know-Nnthings of Rochester. N. Y.,
undertook a few nights since to break up a
meeting of citizens called together to remon
strate against their principles. Quite a row
ensued. and men who prate so much about re
spectability, exhibited anything but that which
should charartcrile flevtia men.
A Gallant Feat.
'Corporal Tierney,.of the 49th., *Tiling borne
to his wife, after describing thelaattle of biker-
Man and the wound he got, says Sat
down and tied my handkerchief ,round -my
wound. • T loaded my rifle and. picked up .a
patent revolver, dropped by a wounded officer.
when just about ten yards from me, there were,
Jou Russian sold iers_tind an _ °Beer' creepin
through the hroshirood and Massacreing .all
the --wounded they came acros.s ; fortunately.
- only one of them was loaded, as I tbund out
'hy his placing his Omni; on the lock of his
!.-firelock. Crack ! went my rifle: and down he
fell ; one of the others noticing this came run
ning pith his bayonet. fixed, followed by the.
other -two, .I saw plainly E had no .chance
with the whole, so I threw my firelock at the
foremost,one like a larice, and struck the 'bay
onet threugh his heart. I had still three to
contend with—one was loading ; that I had no
time to do. I took, this revolving pistol. and
taking advantage of the bushes, I succeeded
in wounding the other two ;' the cowardly offi
cer threw down his sword. took him prtson
er, and marched him oft' to the right,,,erneng
the bushes and got up near the linesovlten I
was getting weak from loss of blood: When
seeing one of our men lying dead , and stooping
for his water bottle, this cowardly dog. took lin:-
advantage, snatched his - sword .out of my left
hand and inflicted a wound in the fleshy, part
of iny.arm. Ile never dreamt of another shot
being in the pistol, which I,vis in . him i,ll less
than a second."
A. Dumbfounded Pig.
One of the Sale Bills.
A written handbill, found "•stuck r►p" a
few years ago, not a thousand miles from -----,
has been handed us by a friend, with a request
to publish, just to show that •some. things
may be done as well as others"—of which the
fol:owing is as nearly a copy as the type will
allow. It - occurs to us that the "spelling" is
not "adzactly" according to Webster—but we
won't decide:
Publick Salo
a" - The latest instance of "Spiritual Mani
festations" that we have seen, is that repordrd
of an incredulous young man '•Down East,"
whose father had promised: before his death.
to hold invisible communion with him :
The spirit of the gentleman (who, by the
way: had been somewhat Revere in matters of
discipline) was called up, rind held some con•
vcrsation with the boy. • Rut the massages
were not at all convincing, and the yor►th
would not believe that his father had anything
to do with them.
"Well," said the medium, "what can your
father do to remove Your doubts ?" - • -
"Very well," said the medium ; "we wait
some manifestations from the spirit land."
This was no sooner said than (as the story
goes) the table walked up- to the youth, and.
without ceremony . . kicked _him out.of The room !.
"hold on ! stop him !" cried the terrified
young convert : "that's the old man ! 1 be•
lievein the rappinp:s !"
The hero has never since had a desire to
"stir up the old gentleman !"
Immenio ; 14eamplgp.,
&recent, number of the:Ediuhtsegh
'gives a detailed account Of the immense iron
steamship now building
.upon the 'Clyde; the
completion of Which will' signalize arit eta in
naval arehiteettire. ' The hull of this'ship will
; he finishedrearly the.coming,summer, and her
machinery is in. process of rapid consirnction.
She is .680 feet long. 85 feet wide at her great
est breadth Of beam, and 'OO feet' depth in iliTe
hold. , and she will inert - suit -from- L. ) 2,00010
25.000.t0n5. She,w ill be furnished With both
paddle wheels and screw propeller, the-former
of a nominal' pow( r Of 1000 horses: the latter
of 1600 horses. "The - fourcylinders in whic4
the pistons. are .to work are the largest in, the
world r each, of, them :weighs 28 tons., ~The
engines, when erected and put tegether."Will
be upwards of 50 feet' high; and 'the 'Weight
of the machinery is estimated at 3000 -
.The struCture of -this vessel is - novel. be!ing
cellular. .Two tight iron partitions, run the,
entire length, while there will be ten partition's
entirely across her, and "four docks r the hull'
will this consist of - 1.20 large rooms with vetoer
tight sides: "'Them three feet outside- the hull
is an outer hull. extending, above the. water
line. The -strength of this form of strueture
is estimated •as• if entirely solid. iron. The'
:cost of this ship is set down as likely - to exe'ud
two millions of dollars:- carry several- -
thousand tens of coat and, inerchandize, nod •
will easily accommodate 1600 passengers*.
llur'draf of Water - will be small, not exceeding
20 feet When in ballast, and-30 feet when ful
,fy loaded. She is :to. have , tiv,e or , six masts
and five, funnels, and her eidipary'speed is ex
pected to bo 18 or 20 Miles 'an hour. She is
intended 'for' the Australian trade, '"and her
owners.expect she will make the voyage from+
.England to Australia in 30 days, and retain
by way of Cape, Horn in 30'days more, thus
making the 'circuit of the glebe in 'two Months.
There will be. it is said. 10,000 tonsof iron
used in the'construction of the hull.
Volcanic Repeating Fi3tol.
Weltave seen, and flied a,pi.tol. recently in!.
vented and patented. which ,bids
,fair to excel
-everything in that line that Ms yet been offered
to the. public attention. - It seems to combine
'lOl that could be desired in such-,a .welipon.
Colt's pistol compared with it scums like a tbs•
tortion. or a clumsy, uncouth, and ridiculous
affair tbr a fire-nim.—The volcanic - 'pistol 'Car;
ties a -Millie or conical hall, in -a rifle barrel,
a - nd Will put it through a three inch plank at
a distance of ninety rods. The receiving tube
will hold ten ball enrtridges, which:may be
deposited in two seconds of time: The pistol
may be discharged thirty times in fifty seconds..
It is so contrived that it is not liable to'
.acci
dental discharge. There is no printing, no
apsT-and—therek,re ne atlgeritn-theey-es-frota--
any ignition,near the breach,' Neither is-there
any recoiloto—nsto-jar-the—arm-ot 4 disturb a
sure aiM. The whole constrtietion is so
pie as :not to get out of order even -from.long
use. The powder and ball aroenclosedin the
same metallic cover,-so that - a -person could
swim a river with one of these in his belt with,-
out, in the Slightest degree, injuring the , pow--
der. In short, the -weapon- is in all respects
one of the most perfect things iii the shooting
I;no that we ever took into our hands.—Acto
Baum Palladium.
Marry a- Woman.
Some yottnrnen marry dimples. some ettra;%
the mouth, too, is occasionally married ; the
chin not so often. Out tt'theother day, a young
fellow fell head over heels and ears in love with
a braid—bra/S.l believe; ydung ladies style
that mass of hair that descending from, the
forehead, forms a sort of mouse's, nest over the
car. lie 'vrttaso far gone in his .infatnation.
that he became engaged to this braid, but the
Eugenie mode of hair dressing coining in just
then, the charni was dissolved,, and the match,
was happily broken Ar. and there is - no present
appearance of its being renewed. IThat do
young men mat ry i Why, they marry these
and many other bits of scraps of a tuift,, in
stead of the true thing. And then 'riper the
wedding, are surprised to find that; though
married, they have no wives.
IVRALTIT OP Ut tGIOt7S DENOMINATIONS.--
The richest cienomitottion„ we see by the cett
sits tahles. is the Methodist, «hich is set, dot,en,
Rt* , :14.ft3ft,671. The next is the Preshvteriatt,
which is wed at tl 4,369.889. The Episco
pal. which in number of Churches stands firth,
ranks third for its church property, being es
timated at 811 .261.970. The fourth is the
Baptist, 10,931,3fi1 ; the fifth. 'the Roman
Catholics, 88,973.838: and the 6th, the Con
gregational, 87.973,062.
A'CCNNING OLD Iltnur.—At one of onriate
agricultural meetings, a gentleman related that
he possessed a Spanishhen, which waS a great
fa write te it Whet. mistress, .and was acctistotned
to be fed with a dainty tncal 'everylinte she
laid an egg. Dame Partlett soon found this out,
and would go to her nest and sit there a "few
minutes. and then conic forth culling as loud
- as if she had - performed a great feat, and for a
day or two got her usual reward ; but on no
tgg being found on several occasions, it was
suspected that the feathered - old - lady was play
ing false ; and her usual feed being withheld.
it was tbund that for two or three times togeth
er on the same day. she repeat the'dodge
of going and sitting for a short time upon her
nest, and then come forth cm'tling as loud as
she could for her expected reward.,
rri - Liquor Laws sharpen the inveffifon • a
those who traffic in - intoxicating drinks; and
various plans are adopted for evading the pen
alties of a violation of the law. .11 keeper of a
lager beer establishment in New York evades
the Sunday law by holding pretended religions
services therein, ollitiatinglihnselfus the lead
er of ceremonies. 'lle takes the Bible. reads a
chapter,or two, serves each of his beart.rs with
- a - glass - of beer, and !ahem up a cwheara4!
frf — They tell a good storv-of a Rnow-Nuth
ing member of the Alassuehosutts Legislature.
who arriving late on the first day of the .ses
sion, rushed into the Representatives '
hurried to the Speaker and astonished hire with
this salutation: "Mr. Speaker, good mot ning
how do ye do ? Rather late : missed the cars.
I %rich you would show me op to my Er-Ann right
off ?"
rx — lhe 'lrishman who wrote to his friend in
forming him of the devoted attentions of his
y oung wif e during his sickness, couldn't hide
a national tendency to waggery, as he added—
"Ah Dennis ; Urn more than ever convinced of
the truth of the Poet's remarks, that_thc whole
v...nrld is nuthbi g to a titan if his wife bt a w•id-
TWO DOLLARS
Productive _, • -
On New Year* day, 11354. .we had thirty
ens, which were ahout - onpfutirth Shanghai.
and two crowers. ontrof Which *as' ahoin one
half Shanghais Which had mired with our com
mon or mongrel breed. In the spring we sold
eight of our liens, whichLleft twenty-two. from
whiCh we. sold 2780 .eggsi. and raised' 145
chickens. The.eggs , used in our family, or
.etun• er • to ens an I- nn la c ,
when young. are not takenintortecount. - . Our
hens run at large. and were fl:d'otkcorn, oats. "
and the screenings. of wheat,. and wade their
nests where they Could find a place. - -
'm
'• You' ai see that I have not got. this Shang.,
flai, Cochin China, Black Spanish, or any other
imported chicken fever 'very, badly: nor do I
'think i'll'Atike 'it very 1 -, vrilF just-add
that a little. pot skimming, or salty fat, rubbed..
on the chicken's head. - . aral a small portion put
in their feed has "egetwilly Mired 'the - gapes
with tis...Fdras'faiirniii,'. •
CoehilinvillevCheateeto4.Pit..;
Small l'6ttaci'ee - foi Seed.'
C. T. Alvord of Wihnington, erment
says years..pirwe l , the, , time ,
of planting' my petfttees. 1 came ; 'Short of Seed
'to plant. - lirevions - tO thig"tirrie` litietiSed .
large Whole; Potatue's the' eedi.eriils.Ctit
for seed; andl'Aupposoil that no.other. would-,an-.
'sway—. I. resolved expexint_ent s of',
planting ,_ small , potatoes;: the '3,arget3t being
about the size . of Cointrion, Owns.' bUt thembit
of them being smaller: l carried Ueveriilimsh
tit; of ,titeinat little things to ,the field, ,iind,w,tn , ..•
menced pluming patting - 'rota itirb- to
four in - shill. ", '
"The potatoes in the different.paTts et the
field came - ; tip at-the sainei Opel. Jantc, the „vines.
from the small ; potatoes were nOVati large:yid
as thrifty as these front ilielitigeonis': - OAt the
'firkt hoeing. thererwini.'soine: , differencis 113' 7 the
tops, but after, that the tops frelnrthe,swutl ,
potatoes looked as well as any of the field. and
continued through the season: ~ W heicl.. came
to dig theta, the,pota,Mes Avhero,,the
small Heed IVllR : Oantyio. to bets io,Od, in, every,
respect. asiho'se Where ' the'lirge . potiitOeiirerei
planted. There were as many in a' hilliqrtid- 1 j
the-,potatoes , werty..tis?. la rgtii,timi , withuir. few 3.
mutat ones, as those-Sreisi the large_seiid f ,
•61.11 any of the farmers in this vietnity,..afler
Seeing the , experiment' fairly. - tried* , :ate...tising
potatockfer, 5e04.3 ..a hits wirings.. ,1,14 Ye
had several applications, crerndealers in
toes for said-,
whom they 'purchase from altrgerierillyadopt- '
ing:the Warof using smalltiotatoartforliseed.'l,
_ ,
tow Apply 'Outgo to •
Dr. Eeyntilds ..in slihject, -
in the New England partner; says t•-;--Cointorther
-hetst-Mds_oftothich Law in thislo_wrilitO
:past season., was,rsieed withguano,in thefolf, _
lowing--manner.-:-.After _the ground had
.prope.rly prepared, forrovir;wits jaidelhi tho
row 'of the common
sprinkled •into furrow, through itll.: entire.-
-
It , wtts.,then ; covered ,with the,h 9 e
,the depth .of two. or three:itiches and thq;COrti.
dropped upon -thiii'Covering; thn'tertelit _belt*: • •
placed' eight Or ten' inches - -tiptirt:-•:ille4leld
was 'estlinated,-notywithstanding -.the :drought. -
at a hundred bushels. per acre.- Where.; it is, _
.preferred to plant in hills. ritherlhan in dtillri,
'the guano should, iflused unti44l,Jui sprink
led over a ,square foot of SurfaCe it the battens,
of the 'furrow, and lie covered
'inches of soil', andthetorn be,dripped uponthio.-4
FARms - 7 -Socra te,s w as, ft, farm e r
filed .cOltir)g the ; glory' ofhiti iinutertal
philosojihy.
St. Luke. wes
the subjeeiing. 'the 'or
.the ` aa, ' o, ,r.,'•
it; uSe of iirarr:' . .
eincionains"Was a faiMer, and - link' of "th,ii
noblest Roinans.': , • ' ~,,,;•*
' Burns was' a fanner, inld 'the inuse, fohnd
him' at the. Plow, and fillefilds Koul with - preetry,
Washington was a farmer.. arid retired"ftrun
the' highest earthly station - tO.' enjoy the quiet
of rural life, and presented w the world speci
men of human greatness.
• A FAcr FOst Fmutons.--,johnson Noyis.'of
Havethill, not, hiving m anure enotigh to thot-'
oughly tininere a spate acre of land, Manitred
one-halfand ploughettit in. lIP planted it with
black Chen:lngo potatoes, and the yield wit:tone
:hundred 'bushels.' The 'other: -half of the:aero
he prepared in the same manner, with the ex
ception of the manure, and planted it, with the
Kline kind of potatoes, and the yield w'as only,
eighteen bushels.
A ..New NEGETAISLE.r4t is said.that, the
Townie, or Sandwich Island Potato, has,beert
. ,
introduced into cultivation in 'seieral'Of the a)
Southern States. It is described - a's
CiOUS , vegetable," and the San Antonio Texan
says that a gentleman in That raised
six bushels ort,haarticle upon a piece ofo2ound
fifteen feet Stinare. ,
. ,
.
SrBSTITLITF; FOlt TOLLACCO.—MCSSTIL Jo s ep h '
0. Goshen and Samuel 'M. Edgy, of Sllirleys
burg. Pa.,- have obtained a pa tentfor the pre;
pa ratiOntef;ratiize leaf, as a substitute for tobac
co..Ace.ordii:g to the account of a third par
ty, the. patentees claim fur the inanufactOred
weed . anti-nervous qualities, 'and thit it is
pleasant tonic. and therefore promotive of good
health.. lt,has a sweet and pungent flavor, and .
would, perhaps, answer, the. purposes of juven- -
lies jii4 beginning to chew, hut veterans 'Woitid
exercise not a little selfdenial in repudiating the
Indian plant and subitituting the prepared
tnaihe leaf for the gratification of theiritalaws,
Waskinglim Sentinel.
CRANBERRIES AND EaYstym.As.'—,The
(Michigan) Jl4-publican says . : A lady visited our
family 'a felt' days since, and stated - thit . hei
datighterhad the erysipeiaa very bad.: We cr t it.
NI to mind the remedy recouttuended.by
Haven editor. On returning home it; the
‘evt,n
in... f .,he rotmdAhc,,cliseaso spreading 'rapidly,
and had assumed frightful appearance. Sue
immediately applied a poultice made of emu•
beri ies. which seemed to arrest it at once, and
the second poultice efleftted-aCOMplete--eitra."
To Curti?. EknActtr.. Earache may_ be
...re
lieved by dropping a little sweet oil and• land*.
anin, :rartn. into the ear, 'and applying hot
salt in flannel bags, so as co keep the pure
eons:au:lv - warm. •
J.,...rA5, certainly as Spring will ritirn - arler
the lapse of whiter, so certainly will hie:ids,
lovers, and kindred meet again : they will meet
again in the piesenee of the all-lovinr4 Father ;
and then first will they 101111 kliole with
each other and with evelything good.
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which They gotten !Ind vtrnre in e—'
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