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Notices cifneatlis, in which invitations are exiended to the friends and relatives of the deceased, to attend the ru m l. will be charged as advertisements Fan THE MlNEtts' lionle. had left thee,my home' for R distant land I lid fled the fair scenes of my youth. dwelt far 3 way where the stranger's fare, Only hroughtito my heart the sad truth— That I moored 'my barlOn a desert chore, Where I :•nehor.'d ttfr from thee: And felt that the frientis I had known beFore, %Vere the only friendsf for me. The hird•like jny that rrty At 11 heart knew ; As I roamed o'er the `iinntintain track; Rr the murmur:n..2 rill Where the red-berries grew Ali drat in gay visions back ; And the lovely Brett where we used to rest, When. the joy and the frolic was o'er; Alt brin:z to the vanderer'..fait hful breast; Bright tnetnones of yore. (me day, 1 remember the time full well, We hrd stray'd away far from home; Mir the rugged path 'tieath the tin -kv dell . . Where naught hut the wild dm r roam; And night with her sable curtain swept Across our gloomy path ; And well I remember how each child wept, For fear of its parent's wrath. Ned the lowering hroiv e,ith the heart felt kiss, They gave to :heir etr:yibg fiwn ; . Alltell to the . ..heart wltb gashing bliss, As I loiter o'er moments gone. And once againl am with thee, my home, I am changed since I saw thee last; Vet IfrirrY bright memories over me come, To s* (41 the re , iew of the past. Rot those halcyon days are by and none; Where no are the friends of my youth? Time's erho replies to my. heart sad and Inne They have passed !and I feel the dark !nub. E LI.A F.lll. TII F: M I :V ER. ' .1011 ; ll :V AL A Page hi my Elatary :I'was still, calm, Juidnight., I had just re, tutued to my native village from Whence I had emit• forth eight long years before, ii wanderer, full in life and hope.' Long arid lonely, had been Mat pilgrimage, far and wide, its extent - I had ta'en the habitants of faireigr, climes-1 had dwelt aiming them and associated with their great—l bad hi-dent - A to all languages, and inquired into all religions ; and now returned to nv home, 'inged in all, but one blighted feeling, which, like the curse'of the Israelite, had gone with me and clung, to me; and from whose influence I ml id timer free my soul. Ile, who Can de scribe the mingled feelings of joy, hope, and fear, which ., rowdy upon the wanderer's heart as he returns to the place of his nativity ; can paint the sensa tions which, moved me, as I entered the birth place Cf my early associations. 'Stopping at the first, well known, hotel in the Village, I saw th e nolle animal which bo'rd me snugly stalled and wall atteuded to, and.entcring the*house, register ed myself on the banks of the hotel by a strange name. The tavern' had changed its keeper, and the present host was a stranger to me. -Having or veered sortie Yew questions concerning my stay, ,[ withdrew into a retired part of the roam, and drawing trey hat down over my brow, endeavored a. recognise, without being recognised, the fiwes c I those passing and repassing ane. All were Changed, and I wits about giving up the under taking as fruitless, -When one, who had been My most intimate friend 'and bosom companion of my eilh, entered. As his careless ghance fell upon 311.`, he stopped, and gdzedifor an 4`istant as if a thought of recognition had come over: him, but nron examining the register and seeing there the name, he went out cons inced that his suspicions, be had any, were incorrect, and that I was a. =TIM 'T was now midnight, the quiet hour I always I “b-hen all heaven and earth are still," I strode forth thrihigh the noiseless, deserted streets,- to commune in silence with my own thoughts, a alone among the many, with feelings and ilt-sires, different from all. I had learnt a new lesson front the book of life, and was so altered from the joyous light hearted youth I ,as,.when I left my holue,•that it was a,mystery and a,won aer even to me. I had walked forth thus for sonic time, sadly and thoughtfully, tincom , eious whither . my steps were tetaling ; hen 'some e,.ternal oh t drew sense ftem the alisotling condition the rr sews of the mind had thrown it in, and gazing round awakened from this temporary abstraction, I started tnfind that I had ; unv.ittingly stopped' t-t tiire the h,rase that once held all that was dear • to me, and albthat I 'once thtiught life worth Icy , mg for: Oh! there is As a' fearful commotion of the spirit within nit', sni hiAls , s'ho say the spirit carnet fr el, err madly, wildly, in their doctrine. Then the strange ' , belling thoughts of other years, came rushing like a tempest o'er my soul. 'weeping all other thoughts away. I gazed upon a until my vision tartly ached, and in that whirl rc of feeling, commenced Ea re:iew of the long Hid torturing past, the unslttlitied present, and !he vague uncertain 4;ture. ( i Then the hours of onth and of youthful folly,,i-ame upon me, and m those joyoini hours, when all was heyday and . 'Aapj•int`ts to my voting heart, let it suffice to say, loved. I had alwayS, 'a ,headlong, impetuous . hqicisition, continually erring from passion, - not hem prinCiple, with a temper like the hurricane, often hurried me into actions and words, t. brr h sober reason afterwards condemned. An& ith suell ? a temperament, this feeling was a per : ! fi rt Irma:7r. It, had - grown upon me rapidly runt! Curiously. I met her often, and admired and wondered at her beauty, until admiration deepen .d, thn ugh all the stages poets tell of,. into that one absorbing feeling. none can express. She was beautiful, although to analyze her face, not one single feature would excite admiration. Rather, above than 'below the common hcightj 'twos a countenance in which the charm lay—on' hers tnit could read the inmost feelings of her heart, and see in all its silent workings, the quick pulses which heat with hope and fear, and the gentle ones that Move in a more quiet course of patience - and resignation. 'Twas a hopeless,pas sion, and I left my home with the strong antici pation that time and travel would eradicate the feeling. :I had seen and paid empty.worship to the high proud beauties of other lands ; and, fool like, endeavoring to school my heart in forgetful ness. poured ruin their ears, that universal 11111- g uaze, the hurning•wordsbf passion—unavailing - was the effort ;'I returned, weary and toil-worn ; changed in every thing but love for her. I had stood thus for nearly an hour, intently • • watching the room I kneW she once used to oc- MI) ITS "I WILL TEACH TOO TO PIERCE THE BOWELS OF THE EARTH, AND BRING VOL XVIII cupy, and wrapped in contemplation and reverie, had not noticed until nearly upon me, the ap proach,of ti,o persons running from the direction in which I was gazing.- I shrunk back in the dark, and as they brushed by me, the taller of the two muttered between his .closed teeth, •ilf that don't silence hint, we'll try the knife,"—a vague and undefined suspicion flashed .upon me that all was nut right, and following the impulse such a thought created. I hurried aft•ir them quietly, yet swiftly. Scarcely had I gained a hundred yards, before my progress was arrested for an instant by the shadow of a bright light upon the wall of the house before me—turning to see from whence it sprung, I saw the house I had just hen contem plating on fire in about twenty places. The . whole truth loot° upon me at once, and gliding. forward just as the scoundrel gave utterance to a low. chuckling, sprung-upon him, and grappled him by the throat ; in tin instant we were on the ground engaged in deadly conflict. The villirtn who accompanied him fled, and left his companion writhing and shrugging fearfully, with one whose resolution was capture, or death. The whole fawn, by this time, was illuminated by the light of the fire. The man struggled hard for escape, but my hold on his throat was fixed and firm; we were down, and with my knee on his breasi and my -hand on his throat, I was fast_ hurrying him to str ingulation. Suddenly a thought seemed to flash over him, and ere I could prevent it, a knife, large and glittering, flashed before my eyes, and with the energy of fast fad ing strength, was buried deep in my shoulder 'Twas his last effort, and in an instant after I rose from- his lifeless body, exhausted with the exer tion, yet still with an unquenched desire for strife raging in my heart. Leaving hint lying. T unconsciously turned my steps toward the burning house ; by this time, the whole town was in an uproar— bells ringing, and persons Item all directions hurrying to the scene of desolation. An immense crowd had aftvady gathered around it, and .with the shouting of the bystanders—the ineffectual endeavors of the fire inen—tlir roaring and cracking of the flames-- and the thundering of the falling timber, it was such a scene of wildness and confuiVon, as rarely falls to the lot of man to witness, and when once seen is clever forgotten. Now was lin my ele ment, and heedless of consequence, r forced my scab through the mote until I stood the foremost of the scnturous crowd nearest the fire; and here let me digress for a Imi:tient—l have often fried since that eventful night to analyt..2 my feelings at that time, and every efiiart has proved unSuc cessful. It seems to me,,noiv, that every thought. every remembrance, welt swalowed up in the en_ trancing, all absorbing excitement of the moment. I could feel my eye dilate, and my heart swell, and Lc. uld have shouted in perfect phrenzy at the scene as I stood there (apparently,) the only calm and immoveable soul present. 'Twas a glo rious pastime for my spirit, and I fairly laughed, to sec the ineffectual attempt 4 of the bystanders to to arrest the flames, and the affright and horror of all around me. I hail watched the affrighted inmates, all fares bintliar to me,.as they hurried from the building; and nosc remembered that me was not among the number. A horrible sickly feeling came over me, riddling ray very blood—pulsation actually ceased, the ter'overy however mans instant--calmly and coolly (It was the calmness of desperate resolu tion) I walked towel.: the townies; door-way, and as, collectreg teyielf for ax instant, I rushed through the smoke and flames of the hall, I could distinctly hear the mob yell, and shout, in amaze meet and anxicty . at my rashness and danger.— Half st filed and tuffrotted with the smoke and fire, I hurried along, the well known corridor—up the staircase, the timber t iring way and crashing at ahnost,every lest), and then along the second passage until I arrived at the door of what I -con jrretUred to - bo her apartment. Here I hesitated— a thought of its sacredness—the idea of nfy intro sion--rven'at that crisis, for an instant withheld me. - Iler danger—the furious progress t f the de vouring clement around me, imMediately broke the stultifying spell—bounding fern aid, I tried the door and found it fastened; swiping hack, with the fury of a maniac I threw myself bodily uplan it, it hurst in and staggering after it, I was in the apartment The room was clouded with smoke, and for a moment a sinking sen-ation at my heart whispered the h trritile thomilit that I hail mistak en the spar:mem ; a bright II .me from the open door may, however, immediately lit up the intent or—and then, oh, God ! what a sight met my straining scorched gsze ! There, on her knees in the centre of the room," knelt the olject of n y search; and even in that scum of &isolation and despair, was rffering up her pure and innocent ant als to•the Giver of all good, The floor was giving t-ay, and it were death to pause. I could herd her • tourtnoring, sobbing voice, and could re strain myself no longer—screaming the name, I Lnever before dared to utter, and stretching forth my arms, I tottered forward With a wild shriek of Idtope„she sprang to her feet and rushing towards „fp r, • qrew herself iota my arms; betiding my head dos n ever her countenance, with n yell of disap- Aindicnti hurled her from me—Fiends of Ter ditidn !—I embraced a NzonEss. Twee eleven o'clock at night—on the floor of his sanctum, alongside of a glowing, red hot "Kis terbock"lay his lordship, your humble servant, writhing and kicking, in all, the delightful evolu ti•ms, of a real genuine. Simon Pure, nightmare:— Raising his lobster colored profile, to witness the awful conflagration he had just passed thygi , * his watery eyes met those of that worthy 4-griite ry of the establishment—the office devil, who was grinning with delight at the unique, gymnastic ex hibition, he had just been contemplating. And now, gentle reader, listen to the moral—we 'be seech of you never to eat flannel cakes for supper. Il H A BOD. There are people who think that no article can be good for any thing unless it be an imported one. Such portions ore the enemies to the towns in which they live. They do what they can to re tard progress and discourage its citizens. It is wholly wrong, unjuft and foolish. ,Every real friend to the place in which he lives, should'do all he can to encourage its mechanics; and he who has n just conception of the duties of a. good neighbor and a true American citizen, will ever take pride in doing so, and not run after every thing, thinking that by so do l ing It renders him a man of the fon, by such an act of injustice to his fellow citizens.—.E.r. Pape": • - A little !earning is a dangerous ihing, es the selionlbny blubbered when he received severe cnr• pOre4 punishment for inattention to his lesson. AND POT WEEJ(LY BY BENJAMIN BANNAN, POTT`VILLE, SCHUYKILL COUNTY, PA. - - Forest' Worship. BY FBNE,ELLIOT, TI CORN I.l* POET OF ENGLAND Within the sun-lit forest, Our roof the bright blue sky, • Where fountains How-and wild flowers blow, We lilt our hearts•on high : Beneath the frown of wicked men Our country's strength is bowing, But thanks to God ! they can't prevent The lone wild flower from blowing. Hark ! high above the tree toph The lark is soaring free, Where streams the light through broken clouds, His speckled breasti see. Beneath the rnig ht of wicked men, The poor man's worth is thing; Bit thank' , to God !in spite of them, The lark still warbles, flying, The preacher prate.'Lord, bless us!' • Lord, bless us r echo cries, Amen!' the breezrs murmur row, ' Amen !' the rill replies; The ceasless toil of wo-worn hearts, The proud with pangs are paying; But Here—O! God of earth and beaten, The humble heart is praying! softly, in the pauses Of song, re-echoed wide, The aioshat's coo—the linnet's lay, ' O'er rill and river elide! With evil deeds oread•men, The affrighted land is ringing; But still, 0! Lord, the pious heart - And soul-tun'd voice are singing. Rush ! flush !—the preacher preacheth, • Woe to the oppressor, no!' But sudden gloo,n o'ercast the sun„. Nod sadden'd iloW'rs below. ' So frowns the Lord! but, tyrants, ye Deride his indignation, And see not, in his gtither'd brow, Your day of tribulation. Speak low, thou heavn paid teacher! I'h9 tempests burkt ato.ve ; (hod whispers in the thunder—hear The terrors of his love! On useful hands, and honest hearts„ The base their wrath are wreaking: thank'd be God! they can't prevent The storm of heaven from speaking. In the Senate ef the United States on Mr. Clay's resolutions, has some of the best and strong,st hits and iilustrationa that we have seen for a long time. Calhour.'s mode of explaining it: Thi•i - euggestion of the honorable. Senator (rum New Hampshire brings to my mind an illustra tion of the doctrine of nullification, presented to me by a distinguished Scruitor who.is supposed to be ro oster 1 f the subject ; and I have his authori ty In rep , atimr, it. He sly s his doctrine is, that a State, if it thinks general law is unconstitution al or oppressive, has a right to cog the wheels and stop the machine of Government: This was his first mode of illustration, but this morning I am told it is, that the Senate has a right to uncog and. throw flue wheels out of gear. This, according to my understanding, has the same effect. Such n mode of explaining his theory to me does credit to the honorable Senator's discernment and taste. He knew I was acquainted with the operation of machinery, and that he could, in this mode make me comprehend his doctrine;-and he has also discovered that I .do not perplex myself with mereabstract theories. In this be was right; and I think I can discover that his doctrine, Illus trated either way, is destructive if put in practice, to the entire machinery of our system of Government. 'lilts I could easily sh,w, I think, mechanically; but as the other Senators may not be 08 familiar with the perations of wheels and tearing as I am,. I will take another mods of Plustraiing this doc trine. The doctrine is, that any individual-State tins a right to place an obstruction on the railway. and throw the engine aid cars off the track, and down the bank, tl there happens to he one, when ever the individual thinks the cars are travelling at greeter speed than suits kis taste or notions of safety. This may be a peactfal remedy in theo ry, but in practice it would not lie very satisfacto ry to any who travel and hare nicks to break ! Our next quotation is a refutation of some of Mr. Calhoun's superfine theories, (ridiculous these seem to us if they were not mischievous !) reaper tiog the alleged unequal operation of dutierin the South and North : It is affirmed 'that the South sulTer from the mode of imposing the duties upon unpoits, because it imposes an undue proportion o'f the burdens up on them ; and also Iv the unequal distribution of the disbursements of the Government, which fol lows from it. ' This last point was elaborately argued the last summer by the honorable Senator from South Car . ,lina, (Mr. Calhoun,) who attempted to prove that the dv , trilmtivc administration oldie mone)s of this government was unequal and oppressive, and unto/ he so; and that this inequality might be carried so far as to ruin the South. This was il lustrated by supposing that two neighboring coun ties, Loudon and Fairfax, should unite and form a Republic under a form of .government like ours; that Loudon had 100,000 people, and Fairfield tin more, FO fIF to give it a majority; that their annual profits were three , hundred thousand dol lars each, making an aggregate of six hundred thousand, and the disbursements two hundred thousand a year—each alike contributing one hun dred thousand ; that Fairfax, from its majority of ten should expend the whole sum contributed in that county; the result, he said; would be, that, at the end of the year, Fairfax wo l uld haie four, and Loudon two, of the six hundred thousand dollars; and by repeating thta for three years, Fairfax wcrold have the whole currency. C::::::i When he had,cencluded, a friend who sits near me remarked, that's very clear.' The honorat le Senator has token another methed to illustrate it, and shorter one. A committee of nine, five sit ting en one side of the table, and four on the oth er—they each take five wafers representing the wealth of.tho community ; one•wafer each to be the annual contribution. The five on One side of the table, out-voting the other four, order this con iribution to be laid out among themselves, for the expenses of the Government., To continue this for five years, would transfer the whole wealth a mong the five. ' Each mode of stating the process he il.ou;ht conclusively proved the correctness of his therry. Ali this may ho very good abstract theory; but in practice there Is no soundness in it. As a practical matter, its error IP, in suppdsing that itleso minorities do nothing, while the majority earn the public looney. by employment en the public works or iri public (Area. In.the case put by the Senator, of the two coun ties of Virginia, the profits would depend upon which class of citizens was employed at the beet wages, or in the most productive labor ; thoso of Fairfax by the Government, on public works and in the offices, or those of Loudon, in raising pro- visions and producing other' upplieefer their sub aistence. It is plain, if all other things were equal, and the people of the two counties deal' with each Mr. Slairnon's L^peeell, SATURDAY MORNING' MAY 7, 1842 other, as those of these States do, hat it would make very little difTerence, in pnt of w ea l t h , -e which county ' had the public inllom loyment ; but c i take account the dependent a bnii.s.ion, and at the same time the extravagant %habits of both body and mind-, that gradually unr.rmine those who feed at the public crib, and the \ condition of the people of Loudon, who raise the corn and po tatoes for those of Fairfax to animist 'Von, while at work for the public, is greatly to be preferred for its independence and eventual ascendancy in wealth. (Here the Senator from South Cm!lila inter posed and said o `The honorable Senator states my argument very fairly, bid he does rot take the same view of it that I took. I stated that such-a course would draw all the money into Fairfax ; they would command the currency.") Mr. Simmons resumed. lam glad I have sta ted the Senator's argument correctly. I did net mean to take the same view of it which he took, but was trying to show the correct one, in prac tire. Anil I thought it was made out pretty clear ly that it depended upon which of the two closes of citizens, if eizually industrious, was best paid for thrir,eervires. The Currency next comes up for a capital ales ' tration I regard a good currency as thetools of trade,' and a good tariff as furnishing the people with. employment. It is a haVd case to have to do a j.ib with poor tools ; but it is still hair to have no work to do. The people n ant both, to pros per. Hut these free-trade folks of the late admin istration, by their tampering with the currency, have been dulling the tools of trade Io years, and its friends t ow pr , pose tree-trade, to take a way the work from our people and dive it to for rivers so that hereafter labor in this country is to have neither work nor tools ! Upon this subject of employment, I am glad the honorable senator has such correct vies,, 1-I. e says it is more valuable than money ; and I agree with hits.—His argument iawithott practical s 'until-less when applied, as he applies it, to a pen. pie who interchange labor, and when the aggre- gate employment is enjoyed by them alone. It i s then a question merely as to which made, public or private employment, is most profitable; hut when it is connected with the subject now before us . ; it is a good argument for the protection of our labor against the cheap tabor of Europ;; for to buy of nations who will not, or do not, buy of you, no scatter how cheap you buy, will eventually bring us to the condition which he tried to bring the people of Loudon into; by loosing the offices and work, too, we shall lose all, and foreigners will get all the wealth. . This is 'Understood by those who teach free trade in' England, if it be not by their friends who advocate it here. They put that doctrine forth for tia to follow, but have too much good sense to pillow it themselves. AMERICAN FEMALE La non.—We are happy to express our concurrence in the views taken, in a well written article in the New. Bedford Bullet in of Monday last, on the subject of-granting pro tection to Female labor. The imperatively low price at which women ere required to perform la bor, in many instances as tedious and severe as that performed by laborers of the other sex, is cer taii.ly an evil that demands redress. We offer the following extract from the Bulletin : There are in the United States scone eight millions of women, a great proportion of whom are dependent upon their daily labor fur their daily bread. They form v largo proportion at the in dustrial-community, and as such they are worthy of all protection. They are the mothers and datighters of the land, exercising the most incal culable influence upon the morals, the fortunes, the destinies and. the happiness el the republic. As such; should not every effort he made to swi'eten their daily toil, and to afford them an adequate compensation for their daily labor? ff they aro forced by misfortune or poverty to a dependence upon their own industry, should we not stretch out for them a helping hand? Forced as they are to an utter reliance upon our gen erosity, should we not be careful how ne tamper with the sacred trust confided to us The wages of female laborers are, generally speaking, miserably. low. They afford nothing like an adequate compensation for the work per formed, and it is always supposed that a wo man must do identical tasks cheaper than man. Why this is so, we cannot conceive; there is no good beacon for it-- none at all. Women are for ced. to work constantly for a miserable pittance, hardly sufficient to support life, w'th no pros. pegt beyond, save the dark one of beggary ant: starvation• The terriblo consequences of this stole of things are too well known. A portion of the reform in ibis matter must com mence with woman herself. If those whom Prov idence has p essed with affluence see fit, merely to gratify ra silly vaidty or a depraved taste, to wear only articles of foreign manufacture, they have their part to take in,the responsibility that follow. Foreign dresses ! it makes us sick to think of the sums lavished to pander to this mis erable mistake, that en article cannot be valua ble, fashionable, wearable, or decent, unless it *has crossed the Atlantic. Women of New Eng -I;nd ! If you would see your sisters elevated -and your sex respected, for the sake of humanity and justice, give up this silly idea that a thing is excellent because it iskoseign. is a duty you owe to yourselves, yeah country and your sisters. Wear American fabrics, employ American nee dle-women, do not be ashamed to wear American bonnets; deem it an offence against great moral laws, to squander money on a Parfsion cloak or a Parisian cap, while thousands of your country women are driven to beggary and worse than beg gary for want of employment." MATOTMONT ADD BLOOD.- We copy the fol lowing from the La Grange (Tenn.) Gatherer : Oo Thursday evening last, a horrible transac tion took place nine or ten Tufea.from this place, which resulted . in the death of David Jarnegan, Esq., end the wounding of several other persons. It appears that a Mr. Morgan bageirranged a mat rimonial elopement with a daughter of the deceas ed, which, with the aid of friends, was' accom plished eo Thursday; the parties having repair ed to a home in the neighborhood where the mar riage ceremony was legally performer'. Upon learnitig the fact of the elopement, Jarnegan be came very indignant and determined to go in pur suit. Taking a few friends he reached the house where the marriage party was 'assembled. He forced the door end entered, when an attack com menced, in which the deceased received sundry wounds : which produced his dcatit yesterday morn ing. Some others were wounded; among th em Mr. J. F.• Simmons, who is seriously, if not dan gerously injured. J I URA AL, ADVERTISER, wiTn TO 017 R: BANDS A : D SUBJECT ALL NATURE TO OUR USE AND PLEASURE -70-ILNSON From the London New id onthly hirgarane for Deer. A Tole of Terror..—by the Editor. The following story I I had from the lips of a well known Aeronaut„ and nearly in the same words : It was on one of my ascents from Vauxhall, and a gentleman by the name of Mayor had en gaged himself as a companion in my aetial excur sion. But when the dine Fame his nerves failed him, and I looked vainly round for the person who was to occupy the vacant seat in the car. Hay. ing waited for him till -the last possible moment, and the crowd in the garden becoming impatient, I prepared to ascend slime ; and the last cord that a.tached me to the earth was about to he cast offi, when suddenly a strange gentleman pushed for ward, and volunteered to go pp with me into the clouds. We pressed the request with an much earnestness, that, having satisfied myself, by a few questions, of his respectability, and received his promise to submit in every point to my directions, I consented to receive hitt. in lieu of the absentee; whereupon he stepped with evident eagerness and alacrity into the machine. In another minute we were rising above the trees, and in justice to my companion, I must say; that in all my experience, no person at a first assent bad ever shown such perfect coolness and self-possession. The sudden rise of the machine, the novelty of the situation, the real and exaggeray dangers of the voyage, and the cheering of the spectators, are apt to cause some trepidation, or at any rate excitement in the boldest individuals; whereas the stronger was as composed and comfortable, as if he had been quite at home in his own litUary chair. A bird could not have seemed more It ease, or more in its ele ment, and yet he soleutnly assured me upon his honor, that he had never been up. before in his life. Instead of exhibiting any alarm at our great height from the earth, he evinced tho liveliest pleasure whenever I emptied ono Cif my bags of sand, and even once or twice urged me to part with more of the ballast. In the meantime, the wind, which was very light, carried us gently on in a north-east direction, and the day being panic ulai ly bright and clear, we enjoyed a delightful birds eye view of the great metropolis, and the surrounding country. My companion listened with great interest, while I pointed out to hint the various objects over which we passed, till I observ ed:that the Saloon must be directly over Brixton. My fellow-traveller then for the first time helm) ed same uneasiness, and anxiously inquired whether I thought he could be recognized at our then dis tance from the eaith. It was, I told him, quite .impossible. Nevertheless he continued very Un easy, frequently repeating, el hope they don't see," and entreating me earnestly to discharge more ballast. It then ifiashed upon me for the first time, that his offer' to ascend with me had been a whim of the moment, and that he feared the being seen at that perilous elevation by any member of his own family. I therefore asked him if he resided at lloxton, to which he replied in the affirmative; urging again, and with great vehemence, the emptying of the remaining saud bags. This, however, was out of the question. consid- ering the altitude of the balloon, the coursemf the wind, the proximity of the sea-coast. But my comrade was deaf to these reasons—he insisted oil going higher, and'on my refusal todischarge more ballast, deliberately pulled off and threw his bat, coat, and waistcoat overboard. i•Hurrah, that lightexwd her !" he shouted, ••but it's not enough yet," and he began unloosing his cravat ..Nonsense," said 1, "rny good fellow, nobody can recognise you at ibis distance, even with a telescope." o Don't be too sure of that," he retorted, rather sharply; "they have shlirp eyes at . Miles's." "At where?" "At Ml4's Madhouse !" Gracious Heaven !—Athe truth flashed upon me in an instant. I was sitting in*the frail car of a balloon, at least u mile above the earth, with a Lunatic ! The horrors of the situation for a min ute, seemed to deprive me of my own senses. A sudden freak of a distempered fancy—a transient fury—the slightest struggle, might send us both, at a moment's notice, into eternity; In the meantime, the Maniac, still repeating his insane cry of 'high er, higher, higher,' divested himself, successively, of every remaining article of clothing, throwing each portion. as sson as taken off to the winds.— The inutility of remonstrance, or rather the prob. ability of iteproducind a fatal irritation, kept me silent during these operations; but judge of my terror, when having thrown his stockings over board, I heard him say, a We aro not yet high e nough by ten thousand miles—one of us must throw out the other." To describe my feelings at this speech is impos. Bible. Not only the :awfulness of my position, but its novelty, conspired to bewilder me—for cer tainly no flight of imagination—no, not the wild est night mare dream,, had ever placed me in so desperate and forlorn a situation. It was horrible —horrible! Words, pleadings, remonstrances were useless, and resistance would be certain de struction. I had better have been unarmed, in an American wilderness,' et the, mercy of a savage Indian ! And now, without daring lb stir a hand in opposition, I saw the Lunatic deliberately heave first one, and the other bag of ballast from the car, the balloon of course rising with proportionate ra pidity. tip, up,.it soared—to en altitude I had never even dared to contemplate—the earth lost to my eyes, and nothing but the bugs clouds roll. ed beneath us ! Thei world was gone I felt forev 7 . ell The Maniac, however, was still dissatisfied with our ascent, and again began to mutter. " Have you a wile and children he asked, abruptly. • Prompted by a natural instinct, and with a .par donable deviation horn the truth, I replied that I Was married, and bad fourteen young ones who depended on mo for their bread !" " Ha! ha! ha !" laughed the maniac, with a sparkling of his eyes that chilled my very marrow. a I have three hundred wives, and five thousand children ; and if the balloon had not bean so heavy by carrying double, t should have been home to them by this time." r , s And where do they live !" I asked, anxious to gain. time by any luestion that first occurred to me. 4 . In the moon," replied the manilla ; ""and when I have lightened the ,c.ur,-I shall be there in no time." I heard no more, fir suddenly approaching me, and throwing his arnis round wet body--.. A man in Kenituilry smoked so long and so hard.that he beasmrd hot, and did not r disiciiiir rhe.faat till he hisse in,an Wein' ,to eme - to. rate. Foreign Item THE PrIONIECIED EARTHQYA 111 LONDov. —The papers of o the tireat Metropolis " state that the alarm which many credulous persons en tertain of an impending earthquake which will bring destruction to all London, is found e d on t h e ancient prophecies one professing to he pronoun. ced in the year 1203, the other by Dr. Dee, the astrologer, in 1598. There is nothing particular. ly alarming in the coincidence of the assigned pe riod of the earthquake, for the knowledge of the preceding prophecy would, of course, Corn the foundation of the second : In eighteen hundred and forty-two 'Four thing'. the Pun shall view : London's rich and famnoP town Hungry earth stall swallow down ; Strom and rain in France shall be, Till every river rune a pee ; Spam shall be rent in twain, And famice waste the land again ; So say I, the Monk of Dee, In the twelve hundreth veer and three • (Har!einn Collection (Britis4 Museum,) 8 00S, folio 319. The Lotd have mercy on von all, Prepare yonraelvea for dreadful till Of house and land and human soul— The measure of your sin is lull. In the year one eight and forty-two, Of the year that is so new, In the third month, of that sixteen, It may be a day or two betaeen. Perhaps you'll soon be stiff end cold, Dear Christian, be not stout and hold ; The mighty kingly proud will see This comes to pass, as my name's Dee. (1598. MS. in the British Museum. There were no fewer than forty steamers eng-- ged on the Thames on Monday, in conveying'•is. kers to Greenwich Easter Fair, and the business done by the railway was immense. It is estima ted that at five o'clock there were 200,000 visitors in the- town, and of three two-thirds were from The-late Mar q uis of Hertford, it is said, notwith standing his en rums wealth,. lived in constant ° apprehension 1' coming to !avory. A similar fear is said to haunt a vcly rich man in Liverpool. London A number of people were playing at Judge and Jury' in the county of Fermanagh a week or two ago—and having found one of their number guil ty; they proceeded to perform what they intend ed to be a•sham execution, but, alas! the poor fellow whom they had 'tucked up' in sport, was hanged is earnest, and taken down dead. According to a calculation recently made, there are 180 canals in Great Britain, extending :.GB2 miles. formed at the expense of £ :10,000,000. The Emperor Nicholas, after a struggle of a whole year against his councillors and moat influ ential ministers, has decided on the construction of the railway from St. Petershurgh to Moscow, at the cost of the State. It has been calculated that, since 1830, the Eu ropean Governments have expended in the organ ization of (felts and armies, upwards of twenty two thousand millions of francs. In Belgium, during ten months of the veer - JOS, from the very low fares, upwards rf 2 000,- 000 persons"travelled on the railways, the whole population of the kingdom not exceeding 4,000,- 000. The Rev. Dr. Fletcher, of Stepney, at a recent public meeting in aid of the funds ut the Religious Tract Society, slated that nearly seventy thous and publications were daily issueiLfrom the depot of the society. A women died the ocher day in the Centel, Fronde, et the age of 110. The day before slip died, the old lady was beating her daughter, aged 72, with a stick! The statue bor k, to the present minute, con tains an unrepealed ordinance of the 10th Ed ward 111, sec. 3, commanding thnt no man ►ball be served at the dinner or supper with more than tyro courses, except on great holidays, (those specified,) at which he may be served with three. The Academy of Sciences, at St. Petersburgh. has formed the project of exploring the northeto part of Siberia, which has hitherto remained almost an unknown country. Vita ANOUS.—It may remembered that Ja ties I Reeside of Philadelphia recently recovered a vet , 'diet against the United States for-$190.000. lle had in, his employ a man of the name of John Gray, whom he employed to cast up his accounts and.prepare his papers for the trial, who managed to get out of turn about $3OOO in cash for his ser vices. Not content with fleecing him to this tune, Gray got hold of all his papers, keeps them and refuses to give them up. The Admiral took out a writ on Tuesday from the Supreme Court, and held Gray to bail in the sum of $200,000. Gray was arrested and lodged in jail. It is said that this same Gray has fraudulently tricked Mr. Res. side out of an absolute powir of attorney, or an assignment of the whole claim of $ 190,000, and has been endeavoring to get the money into his hands. A Bill of Equity has been presented to the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, di• reeled to Gray to reoluire him to produce and can cel any such power of attorney or transfer, or show cause what he ever paid for it. Reeside has been ill for nearly six months, and it seems Gray took the advantage of his ill healil to get 'rations bonds, notes, and other papers signed by him, What has become of them is the question to be tried.— N. Y. Tribune. A LESSON FOR tiCOLDINO WIVES. • And I dare say you have scolded your wife very often, Newman,' said I, once. Old Newman looked down, and the wife took up the reply. • Never to signify—end if he has, I deserved It.' • And I dare say, if the truth were told, you have scolded him . guite as often.' Nay,' said the old woman, with a beauty of kindness which all the poetry in the world cannot excel, how can a wife scald her good man, who has been working for her and her little ones all the day I_ It may be for a man to be peevish, for it is he who bears the crosses of the world ; but who should make him forget them but his own wife I And she bad best, for her own sake—for nobody can scold much when the scolding is all on one tide.'—[Bulwer's Student. Judge Humphrey, President of the Judicial Circuit north of us, to a law Temperance speech at Ravenna said : ~O f some seventy individuals sentenced by him to the' t eisitenfiary since' he had been appointed on the, Circuit, now five years, about silty were known to.bje addicted to the intemperate use of alcoholic drinks."— Ohio Re übliean. Low ExoAlm—Flour %vas selling, at qinein matt on the 15th jest. at $3 81. aiIOP., , APTTin is an ertlCle always in domande ' and tit 131rsemons of the year will command a good . pried, it yiy-le it Met, so little,:Ottention is Paid to the rdenitir of making ,Mote,thstiltalf the, , butter sent t 4 ms4te; is absolutely until to be set,. before an Esquiiiiiiikt.• The public Wind, hooray % or. appears to be difected to this, subject., At e. late agrtcultoral meeting held at Boated:, Aft. Put:. nam stated that it is a general role,orhenir the; quantity of milk required fora given ittiantity or, butter is largo, the butter is better, The mode of milking is of much consequence. operation should be performed quickly atufgeiniy, Among . the bays, the second Crop, or after math, and fine, cloier, are the beat for milk. 0r the , rcioto i pots., . toes uncooked will produce ,rt large quontjty c [l!4 the quality is poor; :then cooked, the quality et. the milk is better, but it is leas in qUantity. Car-. ruts make rich milk. tlugar-beeto make a largq.! quantity of good qual i ty. huts- b ags, increase! the milk, hut generally giv,es an , unpleasant flavor to milk and butter. • This may be .romedird by, pursing a half pint of boiling water .o cacti gallon. of milk. immediately after it to dto!ra from the, The great cause of had butter lai l ha pollute to work out ,the buttermilk. The ilifTerepp!, fr tween the worth of good •nd bad butter is so rifest that our diary-women ought, if possible, todo (:!et ter than is usual with them. NO. 19 EIM Mr. Dodge agreed with the fer;arks in Welkin to the worth of-corn fodder. Ho sowed half an . acre in May, upon sward land. ft was small . kind, and the drought hurt it. But kg fpl, well twelve cows and some young stock, from t,hi i a,fiy• cry night for five weeks. The effects wens very good ; his cows did npt fall off in their nitlit like his neighbors'• They were carried well through the dry season, and did better through the whole autumn for this summer (ceding. 'Pile labor of growing the half ecru is not greet; Mr. Buckminister agreed that cows should me milked rapidly—has aseeitained, by exprrienee,_ that it makes a great difference. If the milk be not taken„away last when it begins to flow freilly into the bag, it seems to be drawl; bark again. In making butter, the imp/tont point is to seperato the buttermilk thoroughly. some insist that washing with water hurts the butter, but he deems this the result of prejudice. He puts water_ into the churn as soon as the [utter bee come, and keeps drawing off, adding and churning until the water ceases to be white. You may make good butter from sear cream if the butter is properly worked over. It a gocil , ,platt to dry the salt— then it helps to absorb the moisture. Mr. Dodge finds tkie Women in ,his neighborhood fall Into the belief that wafer hurts the butter.— He has been laughed at for asking to have it tri ed—believes that where an opinion among practi cal dairy-women is universal, that there is some good foundation for the opinion, Mr. Putnam says the wishing of butter iv done in Esser: county. l'ineh that has obtained pre miums there has been washed, but it is worked o ver by hand afterward. Mr. Roles stated that in his vicinity it is thought important to have the cram sweet. If water is put upon the butter after it has been set away and, become cool, the effects are bail. Some dairy women aro particular about the kind of salt used. Rock salt ground is much better than common salt. Mr. Cole, when he gives salt to cows feeding upon turnips, and feeds the cows after milking, finds no unpleasant taste to the milk. Cornstalks • are the cheapest fodder we can raise. A gentle man of Worcester county obtained 40 tuns per acre of the Chinese tree-corn. Io Pennsylvanig, the dairy•houses usually have a stream of water running through them. and the vessels are set in water. This keeps the milk cool, while the room is well ventilated—prefers stone-ware to any oth er for dairy purposes. The kind of salt is impor tant. The rock salt is best. Doubts whether it is well to put water to butter—thinki it may 10 7 jure the flavor. Butter should not he worked by the hands ; this makes it soft and greasy. Mr. Thayer said cows must be kept clean and sweet. He washed his butter. You cannot get out all the buttermilk witl.out washing. Carrots are the very hest food. Mr. Merrian °Feigned five' causes of had butter; viz: sour vessels, buttermilk left in, bad salt, bad firkins, and artificial substances to give it color.— It is difficult to make cows give much milk is winter--one cause is that they do not drink freely. It is well to give them some warm water eftor they have taken as much as they 'vill of cold. Mr. French, of Braintree, thinks'tbat ho is de riving much advantage from having water all .14 time immediately before his stock, where Al stand in the born. The water runs in a small trough, fJur or fl‘e inches square, immediately be. fore the feet of each animal, and the stock drink better there than at the trough in the yard or s,t the sprtng. Tut MIRIIOII be COIIIIUPTION.—UiIder this title and on a .. blood sheet," are printed the an nual cost of Royalty.; the cost of the Queen's istf3ra ; the expenses of the Queen i beaii cook ; - the cost of law, the army, navy, chtttrat,itcC..,Ac. From this penny trifle we learn that in the civil list, coachmen, postillions and footmen, are charged to the public at 12,563 per annum. Thus it appears that a few ignorant jockles received dou ble as much fur guiding the heads of a stud of over-fed horses, as the President of America for governing with justice and equity nrwardp ofsev eoteen millions of people. We have also £ $,301, charged on account of seven ladies,eighf i Inside of honor,' and eight bed chambq woinen, which exceeds the A mencen President's pay by .f, 2,301. —Whether the nestling places of royal Persons ges are of a wildly different nature to our own; we know not; we are certain, however, that if ell these bed chamber attendants are necessary for the fulfilment of . unmentionable offices," there is some mystery in the afraiwwo cannot reveal. Then ogitin we have charged £ 5,800 fur officers ttho take charge of the royal furniture, only £ Igt . fese than the American President ! But esßeyeity is thus dear to u., who would sigh for repp?.?ly:tip• g overnment.? - Tus rows A ASTER.--1 planted it with my own band,' said my little aisttr, holding up the withered China Aster, plucked . up by the roots .1 covered it from the sun, I watered it night and morning—after sll (wiping .her eyes with the corner nf 'her frock.) after all ; it is dead.' Alas ! how many are the occurrences in life, thought,l, which resemble Mary's flower. - pit easily believing what we wish, we adopt pcime pretty trifle, and laying it, as it Were, in ottrb;- som, love it as a daughter—fancy. paints kings" colors—increasing in beauty, we see its yaves es, pand, and trace its progress with anstoil solici tude, from the swelling bud to the full blown; and then, when we are fondly expecting,to enjoy it, reality tells us,--after all, it is deadl An old lady living on the hoe of a- railroad in Michigan, loot her pigs and tattle; their beiog run over. She de manded payment jhe direct.: ors for the loss of her property ; this they reluse.l to mute. In revenge she greased the tragit .fs:v some distance, which at once pot en end to ell locomotion, and it wee only by ittee use of sand on the rails that the trafn cot ti Piocted. She con tinued this daily for some time. when the direr,. tors were glad .to comptomiee Ole _Ofairliy, paying her the amount of daMager claimed.: He .. aelio w w contend. with ade mined omsit.: wit{ alien" in theetuf,come off second -•- - otterfly, by a tragspositipa:- , ,.. Asit!la,64 comas a fiutterby—perk ~7niin. 11 II II II
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