ET HENRY - J. - STATILE; 38" YEAR. TERMS OF THE COMPILER 17 - The Ilepublican Compiler is published every Monday morning, by HENRY J. STAHLi, at $1,75 per annum' if paid in advance-52,00 per annum-if no paid in advance—No sub scription discontinued, unless at the option of the publisher, until all- arrearages are.•paid. ADVSHTI§EIiEgTS inserted at.the usual rates.- Jon %VOHs done, neatly, chealilv and with . dispatch. ru - 'office on South Baltimore street; direct= ly opposite Wainpler's Tinning Establishment, , one and a half squares from the Court_ House . tipice Patin). ' fErThe following beautiful little poem from Tennyson's new volume—'!Maud, and other Poems"-,-is said to be a true passage from the poet's own experience. Whether it L or not, it IS nrrtntat. enough to be thus set down : The Letters. Still on the tower stood the vane, A black yew gloomed the stagnant air, 1 peer'd athwart the chancel pane And saw the altar cold and bare. A clog of lead was round my feet, A band of pain across my brow ; "Cold altar, Heaven and earth shall meet Before you bear my marriage vow., I turol - and hummed a bitter song That mockld the wholesome humail'heart, And then-we met in wrath and wrong, We met, but only meant to part. Full cold mf greeting was and dry ; She faintly smiled ; she hardly moved; • I saw with half unconscious eye She wore the colors I approved. 'She took the little" ivory chest, ' With half a sigh she tnrn'd the key, ' Then raised her head with lips comprest, - And gave . roy letters back to me. And gave the trinkets and the rings, My gifts, when gifts of mine could please ; As looks a father on the things Of his dead son. I looked on these. She told me all her friends had said; raged against the public liar ; She tailed is if her love were dead, But in my words were seeds of fire. ""No more of love; your sex is known ; I never will be twice deceived, ' Henceforth I trust the man alone, The woman cannot be believed, tThro' slander, meanest spawn of Hell, (And woman's alanderis the worst,) And you, whom once I lovedso well, Thro' you my life will be accurst.' I spoke with heart, and heat and force, I shook her breast with vague alarms Like torrents from a mountain source We rushed into each:other's arms. We parted : sweetlygleam , d the' stars, And sweet tho vapor-braided blue, Low breezes faun'd the belfrey bars, 'As homeward by the'chureh 1 drew. The very graves appear'd to smile; So fresh they rose .in shadow'd swells ; "Dark porch," I said, •sand silent aisle. There conies a sound of marriage bells." ,G'clect Disciplining Fowls. The Chinese living in ,canal boats send their Sucks - ashore during the day time to earn their living, . and whistle them home at night. The last duck' gets a 'sviitching.- - Thete is constantly, a duck race—,each one trying not to be the last. Some years back I - 'kept some - fowls. and among them was a very fine large Dominique cock, that would get into my flower garden, and then call his Jamily around him. There was of course, great scratching among them, until 1 interrupted the sport by driving them off. The hens wou Id sy in great alarm ; not so chanticleer, but perching himself on the fence he would send ;:ne a crow of defiance, and as soon as my back was turned, cluck a recall to his hens. - This scene was repeated so often that at last I got out of patience with his impudence and run him down. When I caught him I thought that the Chinese method of drilling birds of 14,, another feather might have some effect on my 't prisoner ;so holding him-by his legs, I laid him down oft' hfs favorite scratching place, , :im - d with a switch, whipped him across the wings... Af ter he had been well chastised I let go of him and arose ;he lav still. I stepped back a foot or two, when he raised his head. At a motion of my switch, however, he laid his head down 'again. I then retreated some twenty feet, keeping my eye upon him, and holding the switch "in terrorem." lie lay almost per- . fectly quiet during the time. Occasionally he would raise his head, but the slightest motion k of my right arm at this distance was sufficient to make him resume this unnatural position.— Being much amused at the success of my ex periment, I held him in this position by the power of whip and eye (or some fifteen minutes, ' and in the end had a little difficulty in start ing him off. The consequence was a complete deformation in his moral character, and he .never afterwirds trespassed on ground that was forbidden him.—Maine Farmer. 'Extraordinary Fight between 'Eleven Hundred. Horses. ° Southey, in his History of the Peninsular War, relates the following :—"Two of - the Spanish regiments which had been quartered in Funen, were cavalry, mounted on - fine black long tailed Andalusian horses. It' was im practicable to bring off these horses, about 1.,- .100 in number—and Romano was not a man who could order them to be destroyed ; he was, fond of horses himself, and knew that every man was attac:led to the beast which had car ried him so far and so faithfully. Their bridles wee, therefore, taken off, and they were turn edloose upon the beach. A scene ensued such as probably never before was witnessed.— t v.- 1 • j were sensible a . under any restraint of human power. A gen eral conflict eniged, in which, retaining the discipline they Hid learned, they charged each `, , ,other in squadrons of ten or twelve together, then closely engaged. striking with their fore ket, and biting and tearing each other with Me most ferocious rage, and trampling over titiose who were beaten down, till the shore, in the courseof an hour, was strewn with the dead and disabled. Tart of them had been set free on rising groi:nd at a distance; they no sooner heard the roar of battle, than they came tifilliderirdcivro over-the intermediate"hedgcs, `Apd catching the contagious madness, plunged ,into the fight with equal fury. Sublime as the scene was, it was too horrible to be long contemplated, and Romano — ill -- Mercy, gave ,orders to destroy thcin ; but it was found too d angerous to attempt this, and after the last ,ticial, had quitted the beach, the few horses that red „were seen still engaged in the dread 4:Z mutual" of destruction. tpik Ilf)F - A Lawyer, being sick, made his last will d tes . L.ament. and gave all his estates to fools madmen ! Being asked- the reason for so or tg. he said, "Ftow such I got it, and to incta - I return it again." ,fantil gellspippr----Eruutrt ,q ,r garkrEs, erntral Enntrstir unit forrigu 3tttriligrurt, (21 Extraordinary Life Insurance Case. • A recently published-work upon insurance companies contains the following anecdote : "A merchant appeared in the commercial walks of_Liv_erpme,deerLin_the_my_sterics_ cotton and corn, a constant attendant at church, a subscriber to local charities, and a giver of good dinners, he was much respected. The hospitalities of the house were gracefully dis pensed by his niece. But at length. it became - whispered - that his speculations were unsuc cessful ;- and it was - necessary for him to bor row money. - This he did upon the security of property belonging to his niece. A certain amount of secrecy was necessary fur the sake - of his credit, and the Liverpool companies readily as sented. He in - Mired her life, with at least ten different life insurance companies, for .£2,000 each ; and the game was again played over.— The lady was taken ill, the docthr was sent for, and found her in convulsions. A specific was administered, but in the course of the night he . was agaiu sunimoued, but arrived too late. Next morning it was known to all Liverpool that she had died suddenly. The body lay in state, and the merchant retained his position, and • bore himself with a Accent dignity under his affliction / He .made no immediate appli cation for the money, and scarce alluded to it ; but he had selected his victims with skill.— They_were safe and honorable men ; and he duly received his £20,000, ($100,000.) From this period he appeared to decline in health, and was recommended change of climate. He went abroad, and with him his clever partner; who possessed. the wonderful--power of simu lating death, and deceiving the medical men." Amusing Metamorphosis. The St. Johnsbury (Vermont) Caledonian relates an amusing incident which recently oc curred at the Island 'Pond passenger depot, in that State. Among the passengers from Mon , treal was an ancient specimen of the human species, of gigantic proportions, apparently of the fethinine gender, who might have been, taken for Walter Scott's Meg Merriiies, or one of the witches in Macbeth.., Her - head and shoulders were covered with a large old fash ioned shawl, fastened under the chin, while from underneath the shawl a huge mass of un combed blaCk hair straggled in elfin locks down her cheeks,_ completely covering the upper part of her countenance. On her left arm swung a _somewhat dilapidated satchel, while with her right hand she vainly endeavored to keep the wandtring folds of a faded calico dress of magnificent dimensions from trailing upon the platform. Thus appareled, the traveller stepped forth amid the crowd, ogled by the giggling boys, 'and shunned by' the hotel run ners. To the astonishment of the bystanders. she boldly stepped forward and demanded if she was in the United States. Upon being an swered in the_ affirmative, she coolly remarked that she did not wish to sho3k the modesty of any one, but she should take the liberty of "shuffliii , ; off," not "the mortal coil," but a portion, of her unique garments.. No sooner said than done.. Off came the venerable shawl and the antiquated dress ; when lo and behold ! the iii. , eird-looking old wonian was metamor phosed into a bouncing young man of.twenty tive, who two days before (as he said) had de serted from .the service of Queen Victoria, in Canada, and had assumed this disguise to aid him in his escape. (r7The following is'good, but old. In fact, many editors have a great respect for age in the selection of funny things : The "hard shell Baptists" are a well known sect in the south and south west. They are not related that we know of to the hard shell democrats in York state, though their chrivian name is the same. They go dead against all Bible, temperance, and education societies ; hate missions to the heathen, and all modern schemes for converting the:rest of mankind.— Of course they are opposed to learning, and speak as they are suddenly moved. A Georgia correspondent writes to Drawer, and relates the following of one of their preachers Two of them were in the same pulpit to gether. While one was preaching he happened to say, "When Abraham built the ark." ' The one behind strove to correct his blunder by saying out loud, "ilbraham warn'l lhar." But the speaker pushed on; heedless of the in terruption, and only took occasion shortly to repeat, still more decidelly, "I say, when Abraham built the ark." "And I say," cried out the other, "Abraham warn'l Mar. The hard shell was too hard to be beaten down in this way, and addressing the people, exclaimed, with great indignation,"l say Abra hatn was thar, or Mar ABOUT'S !" FOUR MO:s7THS' EOITORIAL EXPERIENCE. I. M. Buckman, who„four months ago, started The Balance, a neat and spicy litt_Wpaper, in Mansfield, 'flogs county, retires perfcctly satis ed with his brief experience. He says : We have been weighed in the balance, and our side of the scale .has exile down thump. We com menced with nothing, and retire four hundred dollars worse off. Our aspirations have been knocked into ".pi"—our love fur the human family materially injured ; but we retire with the best feelings to the whole biped race, po liticians in particular." (17'The following is a literal copy of a list of questioni proposed to a debating club in a Western town : —Subgeck of ,Dislcussion—ls dansin morally rong ? Is the readin fiektklitis uks cuinurandi - b - le - ? Is it necessltry that_fe= malls sliud receive a thorough literary educa shun ? Ort &malls to take parts in politicts ? "Alice," said little Mary the other day, "let„us go to chi: boy's theatre to-morrow." “No." said Alice, —I can't go." "Why?" persisted Miry; "why can't you ?" ".Because," said .A!ice, "I can't go without having 8 1 contest with mother, and I don't want to du that." Remarkable juvenile precocity that. printer, whose talents were but in different, turned physician. Ile was asked the reason of it. ••In printing." he said, ••all the faults are exposed to the eye ; but in physic they are buried with the patient, and one gets off bore easily." r7-A extemporary, speaking of the report on gentlemen's fashions, says: "There is not much change in gent's pains this month."— Very likely. UP"Prisoner, you have heard the prosecu tion for habitual drunkenness, what have you to say in 'Sefence r' "Nothing, please your honor, but an habitual thirst.'' GETTYSBURG, PA.: MONDAY, NOV. 26, 1855. Laughable Occurrence. A f - ew days ago-a man-of-war's man, a regu lar "tar," stepped into the Post Office, and ad dressing one of the clerks, asked, "Do you Springfield z" - 64 1%3 " replied the clerk, surprised : "why-do you ask ?" The sailor replied, "Because I wanted you to give a letter to him," saying which. he produced an epistle. - "Very well," replied the clerk, "the letter will be sent to him, but you must put a stamp on it." "How the deuce can you se - nd - a - tetter to Jim Jenkins unless you know" him ?" replied the tar. "Oh! that does not matter," answered the clerk, "I can send the letter, but it willcost you three cents for a stamp." "Stamp !" Cried - the sailor; "show me. one." A stamp was accordingly shown to- him_ ,_when he, exclaimed, "no, shiver me, if I put Jim Jenkins off with three cents, for he often spent a dollar on me ; haven't you got anything handsomer than this ?" .The clerk replied in the affirmative, and showed him a Len cent stamp. "Well," cried the other, "this is decenter, but haven't you got any thing better ?" The clerk said no',' when Jack.a new idea occurring to him, remarked, "All right, !mt ten of them (the ten cent ones) on the letter ; confound my limbs, I will never send Jim Jenkins less than a dollar's worth.'' Saying this he threw down the dollar on the counter, took up the stamps and stuck them on the letter, which he threw into the letter box, with an expression of satisfaction at hav ing spent a dollar's worth on Jim Jenkins. M 'LLE RACHEL.—The presence of this ac complished actress in New York his roused the wits of that city either to make or to re member numerous anecdotes about her, some of which arc quite amusing. We translate the following from the "Courricr des Etats Unis." She ,owns quite a pretty country house in the valley of Montmorency, to 'which she has given the funny name of My Health. This leads occasionally to strange misconceptions. Being asked one day, "low is your health, Made moiselle ?" "Tolerable," she answered ; "but the hard wind the other day blew down its weather-vane." flee interlocutor, of course, did not understand her, and looked amazed,— A note is now going the rounds; addressed by hei• to a bricklayer, in the following terms : "Sir, on the receipt of this do me the favor to send to Montmorency three hundred well-but n ed bricks, wanted for the repair of my health." A BAD PROMISE, BETTER BROKEN-THAN KEPT. —My friend Richards, says en Eastern corres pondent, was an inveterate chewer of tobacco. To break himself of the habit, he took up 'another, which was that of making a pledge about once a month that ho would never ch.:w another piece. He broke his. pledge just as often as lie ine - de - it. - --The last-time I,had seen him he told me he.bad broken off for good. but now, as I met him, -he was taking another chew. "Why, Richards," says I, •you told the you had given up that habit, but I see you are at it again." "Yes," he replied, "I have gone to chewing and left (L6r lying." A Muxcn.A.usEN SNAKE STORY.—The Romu• lus (New York) Eagle says that Mr. J. Mild man, of Cato Four Corners, while returning fron► a visit to Romulus-in his carriage, recent ly, encountered a pair of immense rattle-snakes, engaged in fighting a bee's nest. The snakes used their tails to beat oil the bees, and in a short time were in possession of the honey of their antagonists. Mr. M. attacked and killed one of the snakes, which measured 35 feet, and had 67 rattles in his-tail. The skin and rattles may be seen at his residence at Cato. Proba bly Mr. Mildman wears multiplying spectacles. GOOD.-A man who is very rich now, was very poor when a boy. When asked how he got his riches, he replied : "My father taught me never to play till my work was finished, and never to spend my money till I had earned it. If I had but an hour's „work a day, I must do that the very first thing, in an hour. Af ter it was done I was allowed 'to play, with much more pleasure than if the thought of an unfinished task obtruded upon my,mind. I early formed the habit of doing everything in turn, and it soon became perfectly easy to do so. It is to this I owe my prosperity." Let every boy who reads this go and do likewise. r7A man who does not claim to be a judge of swine says :—.'Last spring I bought a little pig from a drove, and he was good for eating, but wouldn't grow much. lie got so after a week or two that he would eat a large bucket full, at a time, and then like Oliver Twist, call for more. Well, one morning I carried out a water bucket full of dough, and after he had swallowed it all, I picked the pig up and put it in the same bucket I had fed hiss from, and the little cuss didn't half fill it full." (1 - Dr. E. P. Fearing, of Nantucket, Mass., has taken from the stomach, abdomen and left side of a patient named Jane James, sixty-two needles. and it is probable, it is said, that quite a number remain to be removed. They were swallowed 12 years ago, when the patient was deranged, and imagined herself a pincushion ! COME TO 1115 SEN sEs.—The Seneca Falls Re veille tearfully tells the following -melancholy affair :" At Niagara 'Falls, last Friday night, a young man, name unknown, who had been disappointed in love, walked out to the preci pice, took off his hat and coat, and casting one lingering look into the gulf beneath him— turned and • . was found the next morning—in bed. HEAVY GRAIN OPERATION. —In one day, at Chicago. last week, a single party purchased six hundred thousand bushels of wheat. to be shipped for Boston. The price averaged 51,50 per bushel —inaicing the nice sum of nine hun dred thousand dollars. (J7•"Ma, who made the plums on these trees ?" "God.made them, my child:" “llid he make them all, the Mlle green ones too ?" "Yes, my dear, all of them." "I guens if he had to eat them, he wouldn't make them." A SUBJECT Foe BARNUM. —The editor of the Eddyville (Iowa) Free Press boasts that a lady of_that place, under 21 years of age, has been the mother of seven children. t7The Scotch have a saying, ‘• Who cheats the once, shame befall him ; if he cheats me twice, shame befall me." The good heart, the tender feelings and pleasant • dibpvlaition in.4l:te , 101 - e wad. sunshine everywhere. "TRUTH IS M'IGIITT, AND WILL PREVAIL." -That ! know'd I could dew it• I hain't" clew, spruces and white maples all my days for noLhin'i Good bye. Vika, an' envy of yeou ever come deosv a east, jest guy as a call." THE GREASED POLE. SHOWING 110'W &OLE PIIILPOT GOT SUCKED IN, AND TUNS AQAIN DOW LIE DIDN'T. where near the head waters of the Penobscot, and-when he arrived at the ago of nineteen, he had got his growth and '‘cut his eye teeth," a circumstance which was generally admitted by all 'wholinew him.--One bright morning in June, Zeke placed his long body in a clean shirt, run his long legs through a pair of striped trowsers, wrapped a st,an new waistcoat about his brea st, hauled up his - stiff cotton dickey and tied a check gingham about his neck, - and then donned his swallow-tailed coat, the brass buttons of which looked like a row of' newly risen stars,, ..Zeke was -literally a pioneer in the “Bloomer - costume," at least one would have thought so to see him as ho now stood. He disdained to have his trowsers legs dangling in the mud, or 'to have the cuffs. of his coat slopping in, the wash bowl, so his blue stock ings peeped foith froin beneath the tops of his cowhides thiit looked up full six inches to'the trowsers bottoms, while his bony wrists. had free scope from either shirt sleeve or cuff.— Zeke's hair, Which was of no color in particu lar, but bore all the lighter shades of the vege table kingdom, was down flat with pure bear's ile, and diiectly on-the top.of his head he pat a white hat, somewhat resemblin,,, ,, ,an inverted butter firkin, and after gazing at his .presenti went in the looking glass for four and a half minutes, was heard to say— •• Thar, Ir. Zeke Philpot, if Ton don't slide on that, then I guess wha t sin whai, that's all !" Zeke *as bound for Besting; with a load of genuine apple-sass, and he expected, ere he returned, to make a slight commotion., if not more, in the great metropolis. The old mare was harnessed, and in due course of time Zeke and his load arrived iii Busting, where 'the "sass" was disposed of to good advantage; and with seventy-five dollars in his pocket, our hero hegira- to look around to - see the sights. !" exclaimed Zeke, as he stopped one morning befOre blazing placard which adorned one of the back walls in Flag Alley ; "wat'n tar nation's that !—A. Golden Ladder— a Road to For-t-u-n-e—oh, fortin, that's lt—a road to fortin." _ . Zeke went on to decipher the reading' be neath, and gi adually he gained the intelligence that on Back Bay there was to be a pole twen ty feet high, and upon the top of which the proprietor would place a prize of - $2OO. to be obtained by any one who could obtain it. Chances $3. - tew hundred dollars is.soine pump kins," soliloquized Zeke. "I've chant) some" pooty skinny trees in my day. I'll just walk into that feller's tew huLdred,: rot me if I deon't." , With this feeling:of cupidity, Zehe started for the scene of action, and 'twas not - till ho had run down a dozen apple women, that he remembered his entire ignorance. of where Back Bay might be, and when this informa tion was gained, he appeared to remember that the "old mare" hadn t been seen to. Zelce, was economical in his horse-keeping. He hired a single stall in a small shed near the Providence Depot, bought his own hay, and took care of his own animal.—Thither he hastened his steps, and having fed and wa tered his beast, he took from his wagon-box 'an old wool-card. ant raked down the mare in the most approved manner. To be sure the steel teeth moved a little more harshly over the bones than usual, but then Zeke.was in a hur ry, for that "tew hundred" was in his eye. At length, by dint of much inquiry, Mr. Ezekiel Philpot found his way to the spot where the people had already began to collect, around the "Golden Ladder." "Hal-low. !" exclaimed Zeke, as he came np ; "whir's the chap wot keeps this ere pule ?" "I'm the man,-"answered a burly fellow with a red nose and a pimpled chin, whti occupied a chair near the pule ; ••want to try a chance 1, Walk up, gentlemen, 'walk up—only three dollars. Wno wants the two hundred ?" -Hold on,' ole feller," interrupted Zeke "dew yer mean to say as heow there's tow hundred dollars in that 'erebag upt' the top o' that pole 1" "Certainly." "An' if i ken git it it's mine 3" "You can have a chance for three dollars, Mr. Zeke." "Zackly. Wal. now, there'd yer three dol lars, an' neow here's what goes- for the hull lot." . Zeke divested himself of his coat, rolled up his shirt-sleeves, and giving a powerful leap, grasped the pole emu t ten feet from the ground. A single second —not longer—he staid there ; and then—slipped back upon terra it ilia. Zeke looked at his hands, and then down upon his his' striped trowscrs.—Then he looked at his hands again ; and raising them up - to his noSs, while a deep, long smell seemed to set his doubts and queries at rest, he uttered— •'The Deuce Hog's fat, by thunder !" A broad laugh from the crowd soon brought Zeke to his senses, and convinced him that he had been sold. But ere he could find his tongue again, an old salt, about •three sheets in the wind,"paid for his chance, and essayed to climb the pole. The sailor hugged half way up, and then he slid. The crowd laughed again, but this time their attention was turned from Zeke to the new aspirant, and after Waitptg a mo ment in a sort, of "brown study." our hero • 3" 3I iPP ' • • retnarkin_ to the red nosed man "he was goin' to git three dollars more, and he'd be darned of he didn't try it again." In an hour Zeke was again upon the ground. —Meow, ole feller," said he to the man who took the entrance money, "I want tew try that 'ere thing wunst more, an' I want yew s," un derstand, 'at I shall jis' take oil ray shews this time." -Got nothing in your stockings 7" suggested th: red-nosed wan. "Nothin' but my feet," returned Zeke, as he planted thirteen inches of flesh and bone in the lap of the querist. • Zeke paid his three dollars, and minus coat, vest and —strews," he grasped the pole. Slow ly, yet steadily he crept up from the ground. He hugged like a blood sucker to the grtased pole, and by degrees by neared the top. His hand was within a foot of the bag of dollars, and he stopped to get breath. One more lift, and then another, and the prize was within his grasp. Zeke slid to the earth with the two hundred dollars ! Zeke left the crowd in wonder, And made the best of kis way to the stable. He shut the door of the shed, and then pulling'up his crow sera, he untied frowthe inside of each knee one half of the steel-toothed leather of his old horse- car "Wall, old Dobbin," said Zeke, patting the mare of on the back, while he held the pieces of card-leather in his hand, the scat tering teeth of which had been . tiled sharp, "rather guess I ken 'cord to buy yeou a new , keird now." Eating Oysters. It was only a few evenings -ago. that I hap .penotl Lobe- sitting_ at a side table at R's. , eat-, ing saloon,,inthis place, indulging in "a few ' f going= to-bed.—The-oysters-were particularly-tine, and should have engrossed all my attention ; but visions of doctors aud dyspepsia Teal:-intrude themselves upon mo. ;pa opening of' the dourdisturbed my not very pleasant reveries, and When I raised thy head, my eyes fell upon a rather strange look ing specimen of hum euity. lie evidently -be longed to that class of persons called Yankees —not a genuine -Yankee, such as, come from Vertnont , State. and 'are notorioes for their wooden nutmeg.propensities ; not thatlital. Here we apply the term "Yankee" to those in dividuals who come down the river ' ally with lumber. - Well, as soon 'as he entered, he walked, or ' rather lounged, up to the counter, behind which It. was standing. and, after watchiyig his motions for a moment or two, broke ant "I Say, - captuitt; they look 'damp ; you open us a few raw." - A, plate was put. before him, and R. com menced serving them out pretty rapidly, as I thotiFlit, but not fast enough fur the inipati ent river Man. The oyster hardly touched the plate before the Yankee would hook it up whit his fork, and gulp it down at ono swallow, and then he wouldifourish his fork.before It's, face, andcry— "Hurry up' the cakes! Wake up. old mart &c., until' It:, whoihad always prided himself on his dexterity ;in ,uncasing,the "sea Leads.", became quite excited.. At last, in reply to, some cutting joke of* Yankee, R.' said in no very , gentle tone— - , "Look here, friend. you seem to pride your. self-on being a feet., eater., ..Now, bet you $2O I can open oysters 'taster . than You can pick up and iciallew theth. and not half try.'" "I don't like to be blufl'ed'otf itythat, way, _stranger," says. the 'Yankee ; "but you are. -a, icelle ahead, of my , pile.. S'pese you make it SR?, and I swan if I don't take you, and give . you - five fora starter." . ' This was agreed to, and both parties , pulled out their money, and deposited it in, my hands. After all was fixed. R. deliberately opened the five he was to start-with; and then rolling his sleeves up to his' elbows, called out. to the Yankee, who was standing, fork in baud, and anxiously - awaiti ng the commeneetuent— "Now for it.' Tho _words had hardly kit his mouth 'before he had-added another to the plate, and then a second, and a Lhir.d, iu quick suc cession. • . The Yankee was net all this time, but . had'been Stowing them away at' a rate that threatened soon to empty the plate before him. R. was beginning to look blunk,incl I was just thinking that he .was going to give up and • 'lick no altidge- the' cern - , when suddenly, by a- dexterous twitch,:he threw :one vat, oil the bar counter. Yankee ,stopped a moment to cry "fOul," but seeing that out hitd - been gained on him by his hesitation, swallowed it, dust and all. The next went clear over the counter. ou the floor,. and the nest, and the next. , , The Yankee evidently began to see the game, for instead of losing time eipostulating, he went scrambling over the floor after the oys ters, which now dew to all corners of the room, only waiting to give them a wipe on the sleeve of Lis coat before engulphing them. Thus we were kept in doubt,• which 'would beat, until R. capped the climax by making one alight—accidentally, of 'course—right in the Spit box ! Thu astonished man gazed for a moment 'at the oyster us it lay, half embedded in the dirty saw -dust, and then dropping his fork, made a straight .coat tail out ut a side door. As the door closed upon him, all hanJs joined in a hearty laugh at the expense of the van quished hero, in which R.'s voice wins most conspicuous; but a woful change came over his countenance as he examined the stakes which I just handed him. You may judge how the laugh turned, when he exclaimed, tit a voice -not unlike' the mauling of distant thunder— " Counterfeit, by the eternal !" INSTANTANEOUS GINGER BEM—Fill a bottle with pure ixnd water, then ha'u a cork ready to fit ►t, also a string or wire to tie it down with, and a mallet to driie the cork, so that no time may he lost ; now put into the bottle sugar to your taste (syrup is better,) and a tea spoonful' of good powdered ginger ; shake it well, then add the sixth part of an ounce of super-carbonate of soda'; cork,rapidly, and tie down—shako the .bottle well—cut the string— the cork will fly—then drink your ginger beer. AWKWARD PILEDICANENT FOIL A KNOW NOTH ING Eurron.—Mr. Van Antwerp, editor of The Repository, a Know Nothing paper at Hudson, New York, on election day went to the polls deposit his vote, aid wh i.he got there it ti as challenged. on the very courisient - ground that he , was no:, a citizen ! Mr. Van Antwerp '.acknowledged the corn" and retreated. STEAMING POLICE.—Two policemen re cently went to arrest a man in one of out great manufactories, wboin they found attending to a steam engine. No soon! was the engineer aware of their intention than, raising the safe ty valv e , the place was instantly enveloped in impenetrable mist. ►then the vapor had cleared away the man was away also. CARE OF QEEEN - VICTORIA. — A London eon , respondent says :—"lt often excites - remark, the danger to which the Queen is exposed by her travelling ,so frequently by railroad ; but you have no idea of ths: care taken of her sacred person. 'The royal saloon in which sho rides, has on top a signal telegraph, worked from the interior of the carriage. A man travels on the tender, looking backwards, so as to keep this telegraph constantly ill view. He his also tied round his aim the end of a cord. commu nicating with the guard at the end break, thus giving the guard free communication with the driver. By this means no accident can occar which vigilance can guard against." 1- hfr - Istlig, Imusrmtut, &r. . . , Fatten Swine Early. Many farmers defer fattening their styli e until the winter season, so as to-kill them the: last of January or first of February,-and tome. times later. The reasons.given for this course Fla for grinding corn and grain, ankmore time'to attend to feedinr—This is not; howeverv-the best economy, as a general thing, The tem perature of all warm blooded animals is, at most times, higher than. that of the surround ing atmosphere, and a constant consumption of fat in the body is required to keep up this elevation of temperature. The amount of heat given off frotu the surface of the body depe'nde upon the relative coldness of . the air. In cold weather, then, more heat producing,elementa, thatis.,_more_fat--is required to sustain the animal than in waits, weather ; so t froth m hat the sae amount of food there'wilt be less 'surplus fat left to increase the size of, the ani- , mal, To illustrate : Suppose that in Septem ber and October an animal , eatsls lbs: of corn per day, but, reqtiiieti only 10 'lbs. Per day to supply. the 'cite of heat. thero will then be left 5 lbs. of c0rn,,0r..38 per cent. to increase the bulk of the animal. _But in January and Feb ruary. owing to the , increased cUldness of the atmosphere, the - animal 'require at leist ime.litth more and—that-is - 12' lbs: of Corn— , to keep up the natural waruith.9l the This, leaves but 3. lbo,, out 9(15, or 20 wr, cent., to increase the weight. On this account alone it is quite evidentiluit early'fattenineit more profitable. •. l'he same reason, suggest s the, illEilic)t.t*P9o of keeping fatteninginituals, s espedially, in *arm pena or stalls as little expbseOcktold'as'eitti be. DIIVL ANb Thrritta.-Lln answer to'.:tho cittee‘' -show tnnelf milk doesit take,to make one. pound of butter.l" a correspondent - of the,,,,i*, ric!illural o Git.Fetfe states, as the, -result of 20, "expirience on ,dairy farina,: it takes 2 gallbits si.pints of ntliv.iiiilkstairiliko- , one pound of butter for the summer half year, and 2 gallons:41 1 041s for the*lntar half y ear; or for the 12 ' month s 2 lifts Of = fidir milk to make one pound of butter; and 2i pinta: of-cream to make one pound, of,bututr. The. stocks from which the experiments weWfrikpis were chiefly whit are knoviti thei - willAred Irish cow: h Trip Nisi Faison , -Oil •MAIrtiMI Bitaap:—Ryfoin experiMetit' tried at -the London PolytechnieinstitutionTie t!p one pound and ohalf of the besti , Americea nook'. a thick , linen bag, ,allowing - tttupto.reom to swell. boil it three or four hours until it be- comes smooth paste, mix thisiihlte warns With fourteen - pounds - of the bestileor,oidding usual quantities of yeast and salt; alloy ; the, dough to work .a certain time ,neer ,t!he fire. , after which divide it into loaies.' The 'breed' should 'be 'dtisted a'nd' intatt `-riplfettsly• kneaded." , Thisl . quantity ofleuriandsice—i. fifteen and a half pounds , e7has prOditegil ,tyfelt• ty-siz pounds thirteen 01340e3 Ot excelle nt breed', which kept' moist and ioreet longerihtie that made by the ordimuy proetisi. &Nam PLow.—The Baltimore ;Or/Perhaps, Sives the 'following account of the trial' Ora' team Plow an: the Ist& Of the &WY.; land - AgriculturellSocietyl , ,•' -: , After the, manta the.speed of :the: horse the track. as well as the ring ,was ! oleared i fof trial of : the #team plew. Four - large tirfPloirs were attached to it; and ft inoied up four furrows eaah , •ebolit-lonrte, inthet deep. Tice work was well ,done k en 4, ,itovia: the judgment of many practical farmers pies cot that it :mess AidmirablyYsubpted for the breaking - up ofintiirielondr• The Fachini . kili too heavy fort the,,la!id in this Feuer', of the country. bin the prineiple Ist a geed will lead to improvements ivhieb aril# make the; steam plow the means ((Pr-tilling the soil, with profit to tho (armor. , . RimiDERING TERM' INSinTSIBLICTO The Dublin Hospital. Gazelle • Mates that dis eased teeth have been rendered insensible to pain.by a cement composed of Canada baleen and slacked nano, whieli is to be inserted ins the hollow of a tooth likes pill.—lt is stated that such pills afford itnthediate relief in -aIL tooth-aches but chronic cases ofinflammation. This remedy for toothache is simple, safe, and can 'easily be tried by , any person. ECONOMICAL' USE OF NUTMEO3.—If ft person. begins, GO grate ,a nutmeg .at the btalk cod it Will prove hollow throughout; whereas, the same nutmeg, gritted at the other end, cited' have proved sound and solid•tothe 11F.wr Courermniii.:=A new Coil - nad a " eit made its appearanee'on Sa ttirditY. It is tat dui ss's of the COmmercial Bank of Philadelphia; and is of a character to , deceive, beirg-,welli executed. A number of them were passed oa Saturday. Our citizens should exercige tion in taking notes of this denomination on the Commercial Bank. as well as on tha Mechanic* Bank, the counterfeits of which we noticed last week.--Reading • A COIA)RED MINISTER'S ELoQuegcm.--"311y brudders," said a waggi sh . colored wan to a crowd, "in all infliction, in all ob yer troublei; dare is ono place you can always - find split*• t hy r , — , •Whar ! whar I" shouted several.:— .41n de dictionary," he replied, relling Wages skyward. , ter An old c , nic at concert the other J`• rend in the pro&ramn!v.he title of a song,' iiz: ..Oh give me a cot in the valley I lovc."-- ! Reading it over attentively the old fello4 I y growled, Well, if I had my choice, /Anita ask fur a bedstead !" • 'On the line of the New Jersey Railroad is a grave yard - in which stands a tombstone with the following touching and simple. ye equisitely poetic epitaph :—"ns was A 0006 EGG." rri-I thought ,you was born on the init o April, ' said a Benedict to his lovely wife, titio had mentioned the 21st as her birthday. 6•Most people might think so, from the choice I made of a husband," she replied. Ua - A love sick young gentleman, who hal taken very much of late to writing sonnets, has just hung himself with one of his own lines: POOR MAW !—Mr. Sinclair,- of Janesville county, Wisconsin, having- a-fortuna---- 000. cut his throat, a few days ‘since;'for fear of poverty. '" -. What. is joy ?—To count your %are and fiud it oval' run a hundred dollar's. TWO DOLLARS A;;YEAR:- NO. 9. MS ME +; _~ OE
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