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All notices for meetings. &c. 4nd other noticeswhich have heretofore been inserted Erratis. iwill be charged 25 cents each, except Marriage: and Deaths. Pamphlets. Checks, Gardi r; liilli , of Lading and Handbills of every description, eatly printed: at this Ogeeat the lowest eash prices --1 PEA S 1 4 1E1 1 774 ILILL. POTTSVILLE, SCHUY LKIII,LCO. PA. This elegant and ifornidions establish meat will be open for he reception n 1111111114. ,„ . I 1 Et avellers from -this -It has been completely refitted. and supplied with Furniture entirely new ; the..yedding ale. is of the first quality, and particular attention his been der°_ ted to every , arranzeinerit that an contribute to com fort and convenience. The Wines and Liquors hack mostlarefill and libtoral expense.pr labor, and will ernht brand and stock. The Proprietor solicits the ti. his friends and the travelling 1 Should they think proper to'vi by as3idious attention to their! it such a character, as may-e favors I 'efore, the support of , lommunity in zenernl. it his hoo:se, Impes wants, to establish for sure a return of their FREDERICK D'ESI. Pottsville, Ps. June 22, I fz. N.. 13. The Refectory ir, 11 conducted under the superinte Silver. RAIL. ROA Alocmnleteassortment of Rat, to Ix l inch. RAIL ROAD TIRES frot i n :33in naliffinmet hirri RAIL ROAD AXLES. :30, 3 in.dir A x eq. ina. the!paten RAIL ROAD FELT. ror, Mari relt rto 4,14A1e R INDIA RUBBER ROVE 1111 7.e . -11 ed kcithii . intr;rided Just recei , sortment Ito I i itrartured SFIIP BOAT ANI) FAIT. 130 CHA.INS. tautly oh hand and for sale by 1. & G. It %LS Philadel n T. 6e. J. BEE T 11. AVE just received from :New , 2000 lbs superior Stoultt 0 Ike I 1000 do do new Mins; t 1000 do do Shoulde i rs, 4000 do do hairy Olieese 10 Bk. do Small Pnrk, 10 do do No. 1, Vtaekre sdo do Pickled 9000 lbs.. Codfish, All of which they offer on ;as go be obtained elsewhere. Nov. ‘25, NEW rritiE subscriber respectfully ink 'that he has opened &store in doors below T. & J. Bcat'S Storr weffian and Centre Streets, Where a general assrinent of Dry Goods, litticenswae, All persons desirous of ptierhas . for Cash, are respectfully invited to ine for themselves. November, 21, Plain & Figured_ isiNV supply of thoser4autiro -"able g oods, j ust received r ind for T. & J December 5. Old Established rasa CORNEA, OF PINE. AND SOUTII 4REET. -THE subscribers hat ' 7. 1 4 .gdpatp,„ their arrangcnien't for tliv rtti y il A t , the , purpose of *login passengers, beg ilenve friends and the public in general, th vessel will be despatched- freim Live York, on the Ist, sth, 10th, ljr,tli, of each month throughout tho year. ~ -. • Passengers oh their arrival tat Live out port.K - ' .. wilVbe tarnished with 1 convenient plade to cook in during t may bet detained there by Brad wi weather--free °luny expensilo them. plication at the company'; face t~ BYRNES, No 36 Waterloo Rhad, oh , nection with his numerous amts Inn land and Ireland, afford ever)/ assist• Who may be engaged to conic put by t ships.' Passengers will be found cFiti pro , passage for 910 extra, or 81.6 fur passa and hospital money. As usual in all cases, wherttlic pe coming; the money. v. ill be r qi unded whom it may have been reciaed, on I; the passage certificate. GLOVER Szji\l'Mli Corner of Pine atH The Auhscrier has been appointed above line, and is ready to reel:eve the ipit Mose who wish to endolheir fr oleo attend to tran , onittina n hnry to particulars apply at the Miners'Johr [ B Jan. c2d .-------, I 1 Gen. Mullis° APamphlet of 4 pages, 4titled t, ces of Gen. Harrison, Piresideni cents, just received and fore 1e by December 26, NEW G 0 113 ST received, n lar g e splen, " ornew Fall and Wintei' nods, v . Dry Goods of e'rer.4 descr Groceries of all kids. Glass it, queens4ar Fur, Clotkand Hair qeal C Mackerel, Salt 4-c. All persons wishing to potelase cash; are respectfully invite to ea for themselves October 10, . , incEvirsTEn , Pectoral lintu wOR the cure ofCntielis, ic, Spittin g of Blood, pain an the Breast, and Lungs, and all pillow Price, 25 cents per bottle. A supply of the above tnedi t ;ino ju• for sale at the brug Store of h JOIIIN S. C November 28, BOOK-BI BBA.NNAN hascomm:nced-a ' -in connection with h s Boot all iamic( B'o'bs will he hound n Aloe at yates• MEE= Seen selected In the r, wt;.hotit regard to ace the most favorite I M AVAIL E, Pi•oprietor. -tf Bisement story. is ndancc of Mr. Tulin H)N. MEE Iron from . to sfi in. rater et., turned i on ameterllailllond o , is•eo..red from t Iron. 11 , r bfilw. , en the r and stone block nitsvais. tthr.)etured from 6nd flax saturat 4in flohher. and nr Inditie Plapex rd a CillTlpliq TlS frha inq.frnirl prOved fi man 'mom the best co 11 SPIKES. .t sizes, kept con or(i 1 ITere ON. & rmtliFront fit 'T ' 1. nrk (late Fares) Herring, terms as can la • Inns the public., Cent re,,,St reel, 3 I, corner of Nor , e offers for sale t'gro, MEDI rifl Gooclq Cheap call and exam-- HUGHES. -40 EDWA Lancs. and fashiona sale he BEATTY. 49 re 011ie 0, NEW YOR-K. rm . completed year ' 1 tql, for out steerage inform their it a first class grpool to New h. and 25th, pool from the JkingA and a hn time they I ds or stormy :11r. P. W. 1. it con. lughout Eng. flee to those Ins company's ision3 fin the provisions sons decline o those from ;leir returning. ME Sou. h sts. Agent for the assage inaney rnds, and will Europe. For a lt) Tee.; BANNAN. ie civil servi— elect, price 3 BANNAN. 52- 01 id assortment &c. Vq, !ojs cheap for I kind examine L HART?.. 41- ME uenzn, Phihis weakness nt sly affections• !t received and AIARTIN. 48- ,Book Bindery Store, witre I t he shortem •).; I D ; ' , , . " I will teach you to pierce the bowels of the Earth, and bring opt from the Caverns of Mountains, Metals which will give strength to our Hands and subject all Natureto outage and pleasure.—Da • JOHNSON." VOL. XVtI. Foreign Items. From late English papers received by the Skamer Britlania On the morning of the 2d inst., one of the most destructive fires which has occurred in London for some .years past broke out in the premises formerly belonging to the celebrated Mr. Lackington, booksel ler, m Finsbury place, North Finsbury square, but since that occupied by Messrs. Painter, cabinet ma kers. Estimated extent of damages, .£' 25,000. At the Haymarket Theatre. Bulwer's new play of 'Money' continued the current attraction, and bid fair to attain the eclat of a fifteenth night. Mr. J. S. Buckingham was delivering a course of lectures on America and Americans. The celebrated physician, Sir Aetley Cooper, was severely ill, and the most serious apprehensions res pecting his recovery are entertained by his friends. A German Jew had recently died at an advanced age, leaving, the enormous fortune of £2,500,000. being, perhaps, the largest sum possessed by any sin gle private individual in modern times. Owing to the great distress in the manufacturing district of England, the emigration to New South \Vales is rapidly Increasing. Bertrand Barere lately died in France at the ad vanced age of 85. He was a conspicuous actor in the French Revolution. Daniel Brent, the American Consul at Paris is Onaturday last„says tt Bell's Life in London," Jane :Petreslor/Harris, who, it will he recollected, in the month of October last committed divers theft s in the ium, and hotels of Glasgow, was tried, con victed, and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment ; she had been a beautiful women, with piercing black eves, but, tram mental suffering, she now appeared with ,a squint, and her countenance exhibited marks of painful depression. Her origin is still involved in invsterv. A new vocaliA has appeared in Paris, by name Madame Loeve. The papers speak of her as an eiuhth wonder of the world, as a chanteuse with whom Persiani. Grisi. and others, will scarcely ven ture to sing as cauphees. The house of Garry and Curtis, a leading firm in the Riga trade, has stopped payment. Their en gagements are stated at $60,000. Several great flood:: had taken place in England, occasioned by an unusual quantity of snow which had suddeCly thawed, carrying away many houses, mills, ¢c. an destroying much property, attended with loss of life. prize fight for the Championship of England, between Caunt and Nic Ward, has been decided af tec a sliort fight in favor of Ward, Caunt having struck him a foul blow. Tit l e London and Dublin Company's steamer Thames, on her voyage from Dublin to London, was wrecked on the Southwest rocks of the Scilly Islands; and all on board, consisting of from sixty to seventy persons drowned, with the exception of a lady pas senger, two stewardesses, and one man. ' The Dublin Evening mail says that the state of , Ire!and is truly lamentable ; it was never much worse in the goldin days of Tom Steele the Pacificator in Chief—nor in the most halcyon weather of Norman by the Tranquilliser General. Carlow and Wick low ace harassed with thieatning notices ; in the fin mer, levelled against the landlords and The tenants who supported them at the late election—in the lat ter against the contractors for building the district workhouse for the poor. We have also the account of a murder perpetrated in the county of Kilken ny ; and very mysterious reports are in circulation, touching the death of a priest, the Rev. William .Downes, of Patrickewell, in the county of Limerick, who is now supposed to have been led into ambush and barbarously murdered, by some miscreants of ;his own persuation; whose crimes he had denounced from the altar. A London paper says—of the five new war stea mers of a latee class which have been built in her Majesty's dockyards, and are to be immediately fitted for active service, the first has arrived in the river, and is now lying at the Isle of Dogs, where on Wednesday her boilers were put on board. She is a most majestic vessel, of the same class as the Cy clops and Gorgon, lately found so effective in active service. She is to be fitted with two engines, of 140 horse power each, and her tonnage about 1400. She, is named the Driver, and is already commission ed, a great- part of the crew being now on board as sisting toward her completion. It is said that she will be furnished with two 98 pound guns on her upper deck, working on swivels, besides other guns of a large calibre on her lower deck, The steam power of the Driver is 20 horse power each engine less than- the Cyclops and the Gorgon but the pe culiar build of the tessel and the improvements in the engines will, it is stated, place her on a perfect equality with those war steamers. An unfortunate accident occurred at Boulonge on the 15th of Jan :—The French steamer from Lon don to Boulogne not being able to enter the harbor on account of its being law tide, several.persons un dertook to. go ashore in a boat with the mail bags, and among the'rest an American named Webster, of Virginia,—unfortunately the boat swampq, and Mr. Webster was drowned. • The splendid steamship Pre,ident was to leave Liverpool on the 10th with full freight, and a large number of paSsengers. She goes out under the com mand of Capt. Rodgers, R. N. 7 he packet ship Sheffield, carrying out the Presi dent's Message, arrived at Liverpool on the 14th of January. • Affairs are evidently in a very unsettled state in France. The pepple there appear to be ripe either foi a war or a revolution. The Eastern question is settled. The intelligence was received in London on the Ist instant in des patches from Admiral Stopford, in which it is stated that Commodore Napier had arranged affairs with such success at Alexandria, that the whole of the Turkish fleet was given up to Admiral Walker on the 11th January, and that Mehemit Ali had com pletely submitted to the Sultan. And on the 12th of January One of the officers of the Sultan left Con stantinople for - Alexandria, the bearer of a finnan, by which his highness officially accords to Mehemet Ali the hereditary possession of Egypt. The son-in-law of the English Commodore Napier is about to tie married to the daughter of• the Prince of Lebanon, which is considered likely tb consolidate. the pOWCT of Turkey in Syria wider the alliance of Great Britain. , L : e AND P Weekly by Benjamin Bannan, PostsTille, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. FOR THE MINER ' S JOURNAL THE MIND. • • The mind, what is it ? a point a world Infinite in its capabilities, unlimited in desire, Eternal in duration." Changeless as truth's immortal law, Unrneasur'd as creation's bound' O'er all above, beside, below,. The mind can wing its tireless round. Ere time and nature first began It wandered through the trackless void, Till earth, and earth's proud ruler man, Stepp'd forth the image of his God. Through the long past its journey takes, And present scenes, and scenes to be, Through "where the future mars or makes," Till time has brought eternity. Conscious of its immortal birth, Ascends to its Creator's throne, And leaving, fur the things of earth, Seeks what on earth can ne'cr be known When Time, when Earth, when Sea and Sky, And all that's mortal cease to be, Undying still, untaught to die, The Mind shalt roam renew'd and free. 1011.WIG,BURG, Fi b. tri 1841. E. A. R. A late number of Bell's Lite in. London, under the head of London Particulars, gives the following poetical sketch of a Billingsgate Fish Woman : Thou full blown bud of Billingsgate, In piscatory duty.uctive" In manners mild, w;th graceful gait, In face and figure all attractive. Thy beauty makes my heart rejoice, And every charmed beholder pleases, And, oh, the music of thy voice, Steals gently as the morning breezes. Ah fair one, to my prayer attend, And do excuse me that I ask it, As I have some hose change to spend, What are the treasures of thy basket? With thee, sweet Sal, I fain would deal, And to a bargain would seduce ye ; Flounder, or dab, of skate, or eel, Or native oyster plump and juicy: 0 floor me not with those bright eyes, That like a farthing rushlight glimmer, For, as , my peace of mind I prize, Would that those sparkling orbs were dimmer ;" Sir don't keep poking fun at me, I scorns your imperience, you tellor; So cut your lucky, or d'ye see Alaylaap you'll catch at on the smeller I wanly no co-stonier iike you, For may 1 never smoke my 'balky,' I don't believe you've got a screw, 2 To stand a drop of rum or jacky. With your swell togs you cuts a dash, Prigg'd from some tailor's shop no doubt, But let me ax,-rhy man of flesh, Does your old mother know you're out DETENTION OF AN ENGLISH STszirsitte.--The London Herald says—Much surprise and indigna lion has been expressed in the city at the detention of the General Steam Navigation Company's large steam ship James Watt, by the French authorities at Havre. It will be recollected that about three months ago a collision took place betw een the Bril tannia steamship and the Phiefitx, off Dungeness, by which the latter vessel was sunk, and a valuable car go, and property to a large amount, including the baggage,of M. Guizot, were lost. The Britannia, the largest and stoutest ship of the two, was the proper ty of the General Steam Navigation Company, and the Phcenix belonged to French owners. The Bri: tannia sustained considerable damage, and has ever since Been laid up, and' the James Watt, a first class aid powerful steamer, was substituted =in her place. l i An action has since been commenced in the Tribunal of Commerce, at Havre, against the General Steam Navigation Co., of London, for the recovery of se ven hundred thousand francs, the alleged value of the Phoenix, and the .proceedings have not yet ter minated. The French authorities in the meantime , have seized the James Watt as security for the amount of the loss, in the event of the award of the Tribunal of Commerce being in favor of the owners of the Phoenix, which there is no doubt will be the case, for the people at Havre are strongly prejudiced against the English, and the vessels and commerce of the British nation. The captain, crew, firemen and stokers have also been detained in Havre, and not allowed to leave port. The owners of the Bri tannia and James Watt have, we understand, pro tested against the' whole proceedings as illegal, and dispute the authority of the French Tribunal of Com merce to interfere in the matter, the General Steam Navigation Company being composed only of British subjects, amenable only'to the laws of England. A representation of the affair has been made to her Ma.- jesty's=goyernment, and it is said that the General Steam Navigntion•CDrepany have made a formal de mand for the restoration - of the.d . ames Watt, and the liberation of the crew, who are now prisoners in a foreign port. NEW Jertqkv SENATOR.—When the citizens of New JERSEY were engaged in canvassing the ques. tion of the successorship to Mr. WALL in the Senate of the United States, no name among her eons was received with 'more general favor for this honor than that of Captain STOCKTON. The letter which we annex explains tlie,reasons which induced his friend's to withdraw hie name from the canvass. PRINCETON Fcb. 16, 1841. To Charles G. McChesney and others: Dear Sirs—To be proposed as a candidate for the office of U. S. Senator from the State of New Jer sey by so many members of the Legislature as you have named, is certainly a high honor to be confer. fell upon me. It is especially gratifying, as it may be considered an approval of the state rights princi ples which 1 have so recently advocated ; recogni zing those principles which claim unconditionally foi New Jersey, the first allegiance, and best ser vices of all her citizens. I might Consent to be pre seated as a candidate for that office, and stand the chances of an election, were it not for the unfavor able aspect of our foreign relations. Holding the highest commission in the Navy, I may perhaps in the event of war be placed where I can better serve the interests of New Jersey, as well as of our whole country, than I could in any other situation. At all events should war unfortunately come, 1 woald pre. fer sharing with my brother officers the trials and hazard of so unequal a contest, .considering the present condition of our Navy, than to accept any place of honor or profit. If, therefore. if becomes indispensable for me to accept the office if I should be appointed, I desire that you will have the kindness to withhold my name as a candidate for U. S. Senator. With great esteem, I have the honor to be, your obedient servant,- R. F. STOCKTON. 4 , What's that long thing in the window?" asked one boy of another. „ a tallowe cope." What do they do with it ?" They look into foreign puts with it." 1 SATURDAY MORNING. MARCH 6. 1841. =MMEM!EMM DVERTISER. WHO'S THE LADY. All was bustle and confusion among the fashion. aides of a quiet little town in one of the western tiers of counties of our State, on the - day preceeding the evening for a select Ball. The ladies became great pedestrians, and were on foot, for hours together, whilst husbands and fathers were at home waiting in awful suspense for , their return. with the shop keeper's bill. The shop keepers were more polite than usual, inasmuch as gauze, lace and ribbons were the only articles in demand; and were bought without the irritating querie, , r can't you take less and not a milliner could complain at night of the want of custom and a full purse. Evening advanced and the bustle increased. Beaux Just from the band box might be seen with a glove in one hand and courage in the - tither, tapping at the door of the wealthy, and tipping and bowing as if made of vibra tory material, with as much cash in their pockets as brains in their noddles, .and more brass in their face than either. One of these mushroom gentry, who had the fac ulty of talking nonsense, had captivated the charm- Mehitable Clarissa Adelia Bacon, third daughter. of the wealthy Capt. Jacobus Bacon, of the invinci ble' volunteer company of heroes vulgarly called barefoot, " who, with remarkable valor during the late war, effected a bloodless (not a znisdless) retreat through a swamp two miles wide with the enemy in expectation at their heels. At the appointed hour and according to promise, this sprig o( the beau monde alluded to, pulled the bell at the door of the redoubtable Captain, whiChqvas answered by the female servant, who among the rest was preparing for the ball, and in her , 4 best bib and tucker, " made a polite how and invited the young coxcomb in. Twilight deceived his already defected vision, (de fective, fur it is sometimes said that love, like wine, makes men see double, especially if they run against a lamp post) anti he mistook the servant for his Me hitable. Doffing his hat and describing with his body all the figures of Euclid, such as circles, squares, and triangles, he at last completed his bow a la mode and lisped the fact that he had the onnew of bein g Teatlineth to ethcort her to the Athembly Room." I am engaged, sir, ' said the kitchen belle. • Engaged,' exclaimed the youth, chapfalleu, 'Mith Bacon engaged ' Oh ! It's Misc Bacon you wish to see, then,' re plied the girl. Whey yeth—l am mistaken—fauth—the devil ! bowing and talking to a thervant girl l—Wherthyour mistress ' • Walk into the parlor, sir, answered the insulted girl, • I will call her.' Reader, wouldst thou know who this servant girl might be, of whom we have been chatting ? Well, listen and I'll tell thee.. Deist ever hear of William K—, once a very wealthy shipping merchant of New York, who, through multiplied losses, was ex iled from the dominion of wealth, and consequently fashion, and for many years dwelt obscurely in a country village with the only remnant of a once large family, a charming daughter? This was the very child. At, the age of ten she became an orphan, but not friendless. • The gentle manly character of her father, even in poverty, had won the esteem of all, and this last survivor of his accumulated misfortunes found a home and a friend with a wealthy country gentleman. She grew up to womanhood, beautiful and accomplished, and beloved by all the family as a sister and a child. But death claimed her adopted mother as his, and her prospects changed. The woman who supplied her place a few months afterwards was her antipodes,•and Amanda K— stepped forth into the wide world dependant upon physical strength alone for subsistence. But the good wishes of her adopted family went with her, and a situation in the family of Capt. Bacon was se cured to her, at which' place the reader will recol lect he or she- found her, But I will resume my story. At an early hour the ball ioorri was filled with a Only brilliant assemblage. These were red cheeks in profusion, some painted by nature and others by art. Bright eyes in abundance, some sparkling with intelligence, others with joyous excitement, and among the rougher sex, many with wine. ' Mirth and hilarity bore regal sway, until a discovery was made—a discovery, considered by that Assembly, of equal importance to tierschers lunar observations. The dance was suspended, notwithstanding Sambo still sawed his cat-gut, and a whisper ran through the crowd. The purse-proud vinegar faced Mrs. Z—, had the honor of making the discovery—a drscovery in which was involved the reputation-of all present. It was nothing less than the lamenta ble fact, that Amanda K—, the servant girl of Captain Bacon, had impertinently -intruded herself into the company of her betters, and actually danced two cotillions with them before the degraded truth was known. .Did you ever see such impertinence ?' says one. What a brazen thing ! ' said another. Why, see how she's dressed !' said a third. Such a character ! ' whispered a fourth. They say—but never mind now ! ' A pot-slewer in our company—the wench,' chimed in Mrs. Z--, with that elegance of expres sion tvhich characterized her, and turning up her nose, advised the ladies to leave 'the room and no longer be insulted with her presence. This advice was assented to by the intelligent company, and the poor,'but infinitely superior girl, was left alone— abashed confused, and almost overcome with emo tion. He who invited her thither was the son of her adopted father, who united with intelligence a graceful and gentlemanly deportment, and the coin mend of extensive possessions in one of the most fer tile portions of our state.- Ho was absent when the revolution in the ball room took place, but returned just as it was evacuated by the ladies. Astonished at the change, and perceiving Amanda"standing with face suffused with blushes, he hastilTenquired the cause. A friend drew him aside, and con3munica ted the facts as I have penned them—the young man was enraged, and with an emphasis, adequate to his just excitement, he exclaimed, What's that purse proud fool—that ignorant: parrot of fashion worth, who acorns virtue hecause it is coupled with pov. erty. ' Ten thousand 'dollars,' answered his friend. Ten thousand dollars !eh 1 Well, Amanda is worth that Burn, and thelmughty fool in the bargain. Ten thousand dollars! and that, forsooth, balanced against Virtuous respectability. Here, Amanda, my girl,"frild he, tatting her by the hand, and bowing respectfully to the gentlemen present, ..let us leave this place, where haughty pride, pampered and fed "with crumbs of wealth, exercise an influence superi or to the dictates of good Sense, when virtue is en dangered." • saying, they left the place and returned home ,• . . . . . ..;,,:.: - - 0 --)'"•\'''. , . NI ... -A,'":/s". c,.. 7:. • , . , 7 t , 9 The very next morning after the ball, Amanda K--, the poor, the slighted, the abused girl, who was denied the boon of mixing in society, because she wore the russet mantle of poverty, received from the hands of the indignant young man, an instillment in vs riting,-securing to her possession the full and unaicided amount of ten thousand dollars. The gift, and the motives which prompted it.-were soon made known to the haughty Mrs. Z--, and envy, mole rankling and painful than disdain, supplied the place of the latter. Nor was the cup of bitterness yet'full. With all the solicitude of a mother, she had laid snares to entrap the young man in question, as a husband for her own charming gray-eyed daughter, and fondly imagined that his urbanity was an evi dence that she had caught him in her meshes. But, , alas ! how soon do the most towering expectations fallifrom high stations. Ere two months had elapsed, the! humble Amanda became the wife of Edgar N. Time rolled on in its silent course, bearing upon its tido sweet flowers and beaming sunshine, and every ingt , edient of happiness for the youthful pair ; and those who turned their backs upon Captain Bacon's servant girl, became the courtiers, the funning syco phahts of :qrs. N—, who, in her new station, was no snore amiable, no more worthy of esteem, no more beloved by the truly good. Twenty summers have sit:Me scattered their blossoms around her quiet mansion, and the slight touches of-the frost of age are'gathering upon the temples of her fond husband. Yet: love, pure and holy. still warms the domestic circle wherein the altar of true benevolence is reared. Thj good things of life are poured into her lap in abundance, while she distributes with a prodigal hand their blessings among the children of cheerless pov r frty ; and it may be truly said, that her chil dre 'rise up and call her blessed, her husband also, andihe praiseth her." 'hat an instructive moral may be gleaned from incidents of this kind—incidents which occur almost daily in the great mass of society. The simple tale I have told is not'the fillagree work of fancy,Wrought up from the tinsel of fancy, based upon fact How often are such• facts exhibited to our view, to the great discredit of intellectnal worth ! Virtue, beau ty, intelligence, moral worth, the highest. attributes of' intelligent creatures, are often forced to how be fore the gilded shrine of Mammon, whose altars are often built up amid the mouldering ruins of Genius, and whose sacrificial rites consist in great utter pros tration and destruction of all that is great and noble in nature, all that is Might and lovely in humanity. ' MCC ATION IN LONDON.-At Worship :street • Police office, London, the other day, the following scene took place : lad named Cotton was called into the witness : box to speak to the circumstances of a robbery, when the following colloquy took place : Magistrate.—How old are you 7 Witness —Fifteen. you caa read, I suppose ? No, I carn't. Why don't your mother teach you 7 Cos she carn't too. Nor your father? No, he carn't read nayther. 'DO you ever go to church ? No. Were you never there? I don't know as I ever was. What do you do with yourself on Sundays ? Fetches beer and 'batty fur father, and sleeps about. %What lacomes of wicked people when they die? They buries them. Did no one ever tell you that they are punished in another world ? Witness (with an incredulous grin:) Never heard o' such. Mr. Broughton ordered the boy to stand clown. and he deiired the officer to censure the parents cc. verely for having allowed him• to remain ,in such a shocking state of ignorance. A coon jobs.—l have heard a first-rate joke about John Turman, late of Athens. He was stop: ping at, a tavern up the country, and used to lounge about the bar, and come it over iitheiveople's Not a glass could be left for a moment but he would slily slip up, and drink its contents. One day a stage-driver came in and called for a stiff horn of brandy toddy. John, immediately shuffled up to the bar. The driver knew his man, and immediately played possum, by leaving his brandy while lie step ped to the door. The bait took—on returning he' saw the glass empty, and exclaimed with all the dia bolical horror he should affect— ,, Brandy and opium enough to kill forty men ! who drank that poison I !" stammered John, ready to yield up the ghost with affright. You're a dead man ` " said the driver. NVhatshall Ido " beseeched John, who thought himself a gone sucker. .• Down with a pint of lariij oil , or you are a dead man in three minutes," answered the wicked dri- And down went the lamp oil, up came the brandy and opium together with John's breakfast. The joke was! told, and he has never drank other people's h i quor since. is CAUGHT IN nix owir TAae.—The Portland Advcr. riser relates an amusing case, is which a beggar in that city received what ho asked for, but net what hp wished for: few days ago, a full grown able-bodied' man, pres'ented himself at the door ofone of our citizens, and solicited the lady of the house In give him two cents. :she remarked that she had none, and inqui rcd what he wanted of them. "To buy a dose of castor oil marm (was the reply) for 1 am dreadful The lady had no cents but she had plenty of oil, and she prepared him a stiff dose. He tried hard to get excused from taking it; but she was firm, he was a sick man, and It must go down. He was . caught in his own trap ; and where he meant to have a glass of liquor, he got a dose of physic ; but, making a virtue of necessity, tind with sundry wry ; faces, he gulphed it down and cleared. He'll not call at that house again, we dare say. A Paecricsr, AortArtrex.—Mister Asa Child, of Connecticut, late agent of the Norwich Railroo Company, who has left the company minus $33 60 vx ,o and committed eight forgeries and perjured mself four times before the Legislature, is one 9 the most rabid locofocos that ever railed again ethe banks, has been their candidatefor some;Wthe highest of fices in the state, and was on t. e Connecticbt Van Buren electoral ticket, last .vember. COL. ANDIUSW JACK ov Hurcursos, aged 28, an adopted son of the "old chieftian,"_ and educated in his family, died at the residence of the late General Coffee, in Alabama, on the 15th inst., of pulmonary consumption, ==M Saturday Afortainir,Vilarth 64 THE piano:ix:co eowErt.—The,Rochester Demo- - 'mat thus forcibly illustrates the high handed abuse . 'of the pardoning power by Governor Porter, in the notorious case of Hutter and Cantine, 'editors of the . 6 Magician :" taittsE OP POU'ER.--What would he said ot Gov ernor Seward, should he, now that McLeod is in dicted. grat,t a full and free par pon, left re trial, for any arsons murders that he may have heretofore committed or. our territory I He would, no doubt, he called a wretch, unfit for the station he holds, and the more guilty in proportion to the greatness of the intellect prostituted to so base a purpose. What then should be thought of Gov. Porter. the Loco Foco Governor of Pennsylvania, fur the par• doning two subservient partizans of his, at Harris. burg, before E. W. flutter, and J. J. C. Cantine had been endieted for a libel upon several gentlemen of the Whig party in Adams county, and when ar. reigned for trial, produced a raeocip: granted in od. Caere, by Gov. Porter, under, the, broad seal of the State; and were discharged ! Will not the reflect. ing ot both parties, perceive the evil tendency ot such contempt of law and justice, and mark the in dividuals who perpetrate Fuel' abusr s, or sanction them, as unlit for public confidence. In connection with the abo‘o read the following, which we copy from a neutral paper : The most imprudent and outrageous exercise of. power that we ever heard of in this country, It a • lately done by Gov. Porter. of Pennsylvania, by par dnning a fallow partizan (for an act charged to have been committed in fart as a par:min.) before the per:on tens tried for the effence. If this is not pu s hin g authority with a depot's hand we would like to hear what is. Jr is had enou g h to have one man's will bear dots n the judgment ot a whole jury after it has been solemnly declared. hut to have any body step between a court and a person char g ed wi h the violation of laws, except for reasons most rare and extraordinary. is a stretch of assurance and high , handed power insufferable in a government of laws. Such a man ought to be drummed out of office with his eycs blind-folded and his hands tied behind him. We would disgrace i.:2ch a trolow, u hether democrat, thry„hr what Tint, itt a way that should ef fectually cure his self conceit and despotic inclina— tion., at least for thi. , part of the world. lie would e., for a Turkish Bushaw, but not fur a republican NO 10. ' The present governor and lieutenant gover nor of the Old Bay State have been nominated for . the same offices by the Massachusetts Whig State' Convention cc'r The grand jury has found a bill against Mr. flawkins,'the late Cutrier of the Franklin Bank of Baltimore The Hon. Darnel Wens , er was in Thiladel phia the early part of this week. During the rear 1840, 850 new buildings were erected in the city of New York. This is an increase of 170 over the preceding year. The members !he editorialjr, flimsily who were in Washington to witness the Inaugurutien, (hued together et Gadsty's Hotel. C. S. SLNATOIt.-Mr. T. Morehead has been elected a Senator in Congress trom the stale of Ken tucky, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the Hon. J. J. Crittenden. STEAM tioAT Acci or:yr.—The steamboat Swan, belonging to the \ew York and Philadelphia Rail Road Co., went ashore last week, in a log, near Ber gen Point, N. J. She had about fifty pa:ssengera for Philadelphia on hoard at the tin , e. No lives lost, but it is feared that the steainhoJt will pruve a total loss. Mr. Clarke, the editor of the Philadelphia Ga zette, we are sorry to learn, is still seriously ill. Sparks, the hi,torian, is at Paris, engaged in his search of materials for his fli.tcry of the Ameri can lievulutioti. c--y Tho City Council of Phildd..lphia has appro priated the sum of $60,000 towards the completion of the Girard College. A mere drop in the bucket. r 7 The Hon. Samuel Walker. Speaker of the Alabattna House of Representat vce, is (lead. INDLCENT ATTACK.—We learn from the Madison. , ian that Mr. Webster announced 'to the Senate on the 224- inst., in a letter to the Vice President, his resignation of his scat in that body. After the let. , ter was read, a Senator from Georgia, (Mr. Cuth bert) made a most gratuitous and wanton attack up on him in his absence, which, we lulieve, must have mortified the political friends of that Senator. A more elsoOlirly exhibition has seldom been made in either branch of Congress. The attack was prompt ly repelled on the spat, by Mr. flay of Ky., Mr. Preston, and Mr. Riveo— . each of whom pronounced the highest eulogium on the iilustrious statesman and orator who had been assailed—and each of whom rebuked in.prOper terms the man who attacked him at a moment when all prorerly constituted minds must have felt the void in the senate produced by his resignation—by the absence of that commanding eloquence, and that unsurpassed logic which have ever been ex erted and raised to the highest power when' the defence of the rights and I\berties of the country demand their aid. EXTRA ScssioN.—The Itchmond Whig of Wed nesday says We understand that General Har rison makes no cecret of his detcrmination to call an extra session of Congress, prol.ahly in May, end that the netessity of so doing has urged itself upon his mind for several Mantle past." AN OFFICE OF HoNOO, NOT OF Pens IT.--In a recent debate in the Legislature of Illinois on the propriety of reducing the salaries of certain officers, Mr. Henderson said that "the Circuit Judges were so poorly paid they were compelled when on the circuit to swop horses and gamble in order to sup port their families." DEATe or Alit. Jr:Frier. BA uoun.—The Mir< Philip P. Barbour, one of the Associte Justice's of the Supreme Courtsof the United States, (lied very suddenly on Thurs i day morning, of ..osyification of the heart. He was in his usual heapti on the pre ceeding day, and *remained in cor›AtatiOn with the other Justices until 10 o'clock: in the evening. Mr. Barbour has filled many di fled offices in Virginia, previous to 1814, when / 14 was elected a member of Congress, where he re nined a number of years, dur ing s a parr of whi he filled the honorable office of Speaker of the ouse of Representatives. He sub-' sequensly p sided over the Convention of Virginia; and fina4 was appointed by Gen. Jackkop to the Ben which he occupied at the time of his death. Ma—what does cousin John hug.sister Bridget so for! La, Simon; you have such eyes—he's only a courting her, my child. Golly gracious, Ma—don't he court her hard though !' La, Simeon, do bosh !' The above is perpetrated by Corporal Streeter.— We wash our hands and face of the whole matter. Men J. LEWI9.-A letter from Galvestown, Tea— as, dated February 7th, published in the New York. Sun, says Levis, late Cashier of the Schuylkill Batik has been staying here for the last month. His sue_ a young man about twenty years of aim ernorrtpetw ies father. POTTSVILLE.
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