El)c Jctfcvaonitttt.
THXJRSDAY,"jTJLy"5, 1855.
Stroudsbunr Union School.
The regular monthly examination of the
ippor dcpirtmenl took place last Friday.
Those friends of the School who were pros
rut, at the examination had satisfactory evi
dence of the thorough and efficient manner
in which instruction is there given. The
examination was conducted by the preceptors
with a promptness, a minuteness and a thor
oughness which bespoke the confidence which
the teachers had in their pupilp, and it was
sustained by the pupils in a manner which
thowed Chat confidence to be well founded,
it was, in short, such an examination as in
dicated a systematic and practical method of
instruction and discipline in the School.
Dr. V. M. Swayze, Surgeon Dentist.
We have no doubt that our readers will be
pleased to learn that Dr. Swathe, is now in
Hits place, on a professional visit, and will re
main about two weeks, which will afford all
who stand in need of any dental operations,
nn opportunity to have their teeth fixed or new
ones inserted. As a skillful and scientific ope
rator, the Dr. stands at the head of the pro
fession. Office at S. J. Hollishead's Hotel.
Indian Outrages and Murder McCrca
imprisoned iteportea ngnz Deiween
uov. Keener ana mr. btrongtenow.
St. Lours, July 1. A party of seven
men on the route from Fort Union to
Fori Sharpy, were attacked on the 1st of
May by a band of 300 armed Sioux, and
(Jcorge Sikes, of Quincy, Illinois, was
killed. The remainder of the party was
detained some time by the Indians, but
were finally permitted to proceed. They
u ached Fort Sharpy, but suffered great
Ij on the route.
The Sioux, are congregated in great
numbers around Fort Pierre.
It is stated from Fort Leavenworth
that McCrca, who shot Malcbolm Clark,
has been committed to jail on the charge
of murder. Bail was refused.
It is reported that a violent personal
ncountcr had occurred in Kansas, be
tween Governor Reeder and Mr. Strong
fellow. The Governor is said to have
been badly beaten.
Crops in Illinois.
A corre.-pondent of Missouri Republi
can, writing from Alton, (Til.) under date
of June 22d, says : ''The harvest is now
progressing finely, and hands are wanted
in every direction, and wages are up to
$2 per day. A farmer of Greene county
-ajs he never saw finer, heavier wheat in
hi- life, on a general average, than is to
i r seen this year all through Greene and
j. t.ey counties. Jlie wheat nelds on
'timber farms' in these counties, are fully
r.pc and ready for the reapers, but the
v heat on praries is a week or ten days
r. However, out on the praries at
Madison and Macoupin counties, the reap
ing machine are laying low the golden
piain this morning at a rapid rate.
Wheat 'came down" yesterday with a ruh
jo clt-0 in our streets. Some stray loads
- f granary scrapings were sold at that,
rry much to the dissatisfaction of one
r farmer, who had refused 2 for the
-ame two months ago, and delivered at
ins barn door, in plice of hauling twenty
jive miles. A farmer living eicbt miles
in the interior, brought in a load of fine
yellow corn, in the ear yesterday, stood a
1 out iu the streets all day, was offered
fi"ij cent-- per bushel refused it, and at
Kiht drove homo with it. Several loads
rf corn sold at fifty cents per bushel with
iu two daj-s past."
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Wheat Harvest. A letter from Nash
!le (Tcnn.) in the Louisville Times, says
ibe wheat from the Kentucky hue to that
place has been harvested, and the yield
i- unparalleled; the same number of acres
i aped double that of any former year.
AH saved without the slightest blemish
Judge Strong, of the Supreme Court of
Suffolk county, N. x., has decided that
le does not come within the category of
ftrong drink, and its sale is therefore not
illegal uuder the new law.
Enormous Yield of Potatoes. We saw
pome potatoes on Thursday last from the
ranch of Judge Ladd, which were the fi
nest we have ever seen in California.
They averaged teo pounds to the hill, at
which rate the acre which he has planted
-w ill yield 46,000 pounds. They arc sell
ing readily here at six cents per pound.
At this rate the acre of potatoes will a
ruount to the sura of 82,904 1 San Die
o (Col.) Herald.
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Indian Scourge. The Quebec Chroni
cle reports that the small pox is killing
the Oswego Indians to an alarming extent.
Furing the sbace of two weeks nearly 200
died. When taken with the disease they
immediately get into the water, and there
lie until death ends their lives.
Land Warrants. The National Intel
ligencer states that the market is by no
means glutted. Not more than four thous
and warrants have been issued, and these
have been scattered over the whole Union,
bo that no one point has been overstocked.
Washington seems thus far. to havo been
the best market, the prico ranging from
S1.09 to SI. 10 per acre, acoording to the
t-ize of the warrant; whilst at New-York
and Philadelphia, 81-07 has been the pre
vailing price. We understand the ten
dency is now downward, as there will be
a large i&sue of eighty's on the first of
July.
Earthquake at Baltimore.
We abridge from the Baltimoro Patri
ot of last evening, the 29th ult., the fol
lowing account of an earthquake which
appears to have been sensibly felt in that
city at an early hour yesterday morning:
Probable Earthquake. The citi
zens of Baltimore, with but few excep
tions, were startled from their slumbers
between twelve and one o'clock this morn
ing by a singular rumbling noise and os
cillatory movement of the earth resem
bling an earthquake. It was, so far as we
have been able to learn, heard and felt in
all parts of the city. Many were startled
from a sound sleep, and in amazement
rushed to their windows and doors. 'Ihc
shock was preceded by a deep rumbling
noise, a slight trcmulousncss of the earth,
and this was succeeded by two shocks;
the third so severe that houses were sha
ken to their foundations, windows and
doors rattled furiously, the furniture sha
king, and some instances detached articles
slightly removed from their places. In a
very few minutes after this singular phc
nomenon, though at an hour when one
half the world is wrapped in slumbers,
probably two-thirds of our inhabitants
were awake, anxious to divine the cause
of so novel a sensation. Some, who hap
pened to be up at the lime, describe the
shock as remarkably severe. The earth
vibrated, and seemed to be laboring un
dcr some powerful convulsion. The du
ration of the shocks was probably a half
minute, dying off in a deep toned rum
bling sound, like distant thunder or the
rolling of a heavy car upon the pavement,
losing itself in a southern direction. We
have heard of many who were seriously
alarmed, in apprehension of a succeeding
shock or pending destructive calanuty.-
We infer that the phenomenon was the
effect of an earthquake at Eome distant
point, probably m some of the est In
dia Islands. Telegraphic reports states
that no symptoms of au earthquake were
felt either at Washington, Philadelphia,
or New lork.
B-Gor. ReC-der of Kansas, has proved
to be too independent a man to suit VuC
views of our present corrupt administra
tion. It is the determination of Pierce
it Co, to get rid of him ; and for a lack of
a better reason, they intend to make it
appear that he has purchased lands of the
Indians in violation of the law. With
this design a correspondence has been
commenced with the Governor in which
the President informs him that he cannot
be continued in office unless those land
speculations shall be satisfactorily ex
plained. The joke of the matter is that
the administration has known for months
all about Boeder's real estate operations,
and never deemed them at all illegal, un
til he manfully denounced the election
outrages committed in Kansas by Atch
eson's gang of Missouri ruffians. It is
safe to say, that if Reeder had only per
mitted the negro-drivers to ride rough
shod over the territory, Pierce & Co. nev
er would have objected to any land spec
ulations which he might be disposed to
enter into, no matter how extensive or
how lucrative. True, they would doubt
less have put in a claim to share in the
plunder, nothing more. Cheating the In-
dians is not contrary to the doctrines and
usages of the Sham Democracy, and may,
therefore, be legitimately practiced ; but
the doing of any act which may obstruct
the progress of Slavery aggression is an
unpardonal crime. Gov. Reeder has com
mitted this latter offence, aud his official
head must therefore be brought to the
block. Sussex Register.
Important from Cuba.
The Charleston (S. C.) Mercury states
that it ha3 received, from a high and per
fectly reliable source, intelligence of the
most interesting character lrom the Isl
and of Cuba. The pacific turn which the
relations between Spain and the United
State have recently taken, has thrown
complete gloom over the prospects and
hopes of the Creoles. Despairing of re
ceiving aid from the United States Gov
einment, and their friends here being pre
vented by the neutralit laws from going
to their assistance, they have, it seems,
resolved upon a desperate leap for free
dom. They have determined to revive
the original idea of Lord Palmerston, of
throwing themselves into the arms of
England, which was not agreed to at the
time, because of the condition of the abo
lition of slavery. The new Club of Inde
pendence now consent to admit of grad
ual emancipation, in order to obtain from
England a guarantee of independence,
aud they have referred the subject not on
ly to Lord Palmerston, but to the-aboli-
tion societies of Englaud and France.
From the recent rapid and increasing en
listment of blacks, numbering now six
thousand men, and from other indications,
the Cubans are convinced that the design
of Spain is to Africauise the Island, and
they arc willing to anticipate her design,
if by it, they can secure the protection of
England, and deliverance from Spanish
oppression. The announcement of such
a scheme cannot fail to excite attention in
all quarters of the country.
It is calculated that the German emi
gration to the United States this year ac
cording to the rate at which it is going on
will number about 170,000 souls; and
that the British emigration to the same
parts will number about 70,000 souls.
The St. Louis brings us intelligence
that Horace Greeley had been arrested
in Paris on the complaint of a certain
sculpture whose contribution to our Crys
tal Palace, valued at twelve thousand
francs, had not been returned, and Mr.
Greeley, having been one of the Directors
of the Exhibition Association, was set. upon
by the sculptor for damages. The arrest
took place on a. Saturday, and, as Mr.
Greeley was unable to offer satisfactory
security, and refused to let a friend depos
ite the money claimed as a guarantee, he
remained in durance vile until the follow
ing Monday, when a trial was had, and
the tribunal dismissed the complaint and
discharged the defendant,
A Pleasant Country for a Uervous Han.
A Texas correspondent of an Eastern
paper describes the domestic products of
that favored land in plowing terms. If
o a
the half of his account is true it must be
a pleasant place for a nervous man:
" The cattle arc not tho sole occupants
of the prairie by any means. Droves of
wild horses are not unfrcquent, and deer
are
in countless numbers. luc small
brown wolf or caycute is quite common,
and you occasionally get a glimpse of his
lanre black brother. But Texas is the
paradise of reptiles aud creeping thing3
Battle aud moccasin snakes are numerous
even to shake a stick at; tho bite of the
St 1 T 1
tormcr is easily cured dv unuKin? raw
whiskey till it produces complete intoxi
cation; but for the latter-there is no cure
The tarantula is a pleasant institution to
get into a quarrel with. lie is a spider,
with a body about the size of a hen's egg
and legs five or six inches long, and cov
ered with loner coarse black hair. lie
a
lies in the cattle tracks, and if you see
him, move out of his path, as his bite is
absolutely certain death, and he never
gets out of any one's way, but can jump
eight ar ten feet to inflict his deadly bite.
Then there is the centipede, furnished
with an unlimited number of legs, each
leg armed with a claw,and each claw in-
flictinsr a separate wound. If he walks
over you at night you will have cause to
remember him for many months to come,
as the wound is of a particularly poison
ous nature and is very difficult to heal.
The stinging lizard is a lesser evil, the
sensation of its wound bcrna likened to
the application of "a red-hot iron to the
person; but one is too thankful to escape
with life to consider these lesser evils any
annoyance. But the insects! flying, creep
ing, jumping, running, digging, buzzing.
stinging, they are every where. Ask for
a cup of Water, and the rcjoinedcr in our
camp U, :'Will you have it with a bug or
without!" Tho horned-frog is one of the
greatest curiosities hero, and is perfectly
harmless. It has none of the cold slimy
qualities of his northern brother, but is
frequently made a pet of. Chamelions
are innumerable, darting over the prairie
in every direction with inconceivable
swiftness andergoing their peculiar chang
ing of color, corresponding to the color of
the object under which they may be.
The woods on the banks of the bayous
perfectly alievo with mocking-birds sing
ing most beautifully, and feathered game
is abundant and very tame, as it is scar
cely ever sought after. The only varie
ties that I have seen are the quail, par
tridge, snipe, mallard, plover, and prai
rie hen."
Ornamental Judge, Q-
was
elected "side Judge" in one of the coun
try courts in Vermont. Tie was not very
well versed " in legal lore," so he called
on a friend of his who had served as side
Judge, to make some inquiries concern
ing the duties pf the office. To his in
terrogatories the answer ; " Sir, I have
filled this important and honorable office
several years, but have never been con
sulted with regard to but one question.
On the last day of the spring term, 184
the judge, after listening to three or four
windy speeches of an hour's length each,
turned to me and whispered, '0 ain't
this seat made out of rather hard wood ?
and I told him I rather thought it was.'
Improvement in Soap. The wife of an
American Agriculturist has been experi
menting on soaps, and finds that the ad
dition of three quarters of a pound of bo
rax to a pound of soap, melted in without
boiling, makes a saving one-half in cost
of soap, and of three-fourths the labor of
washing, and improves the whitenss of the
fairies; besides, the usual caustic effect
is thus removed, and the hands are left
with peculiar soft and silky feeling, leav
ing nothing mose to be desired by the
most ambitious washwoman.
flgifA gentleman who has recently trav
eled over 3800 miles through portions of
the states of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana,
Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Michigan, Penn
sylvania, and performed during the past
weeks, and mostly by daylight, says "my
heart has been constantly gladdened by
prospects of the growing crop3." lie is
decidedly of opinion that, if no accidents
happen, there must be a very abundant
harvest in all these States.
Tlie Lieut. Generalship. A Washing
ton correspondent of the New York Ex
press says the Secretary of War has de
cided that General Scott is not entitled to
any pay for arrears, or the future, in con
sequence of his rank of Lieut. General.
The Attorney General is reviewing the
opinion.
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An old gentleman of eighty having ta
ken to the altar a young damsal of sixteen,
the clergyman said to him :
"The font is at the othor end of the
church,"
"What do I want with the font?'' asked
the old gentleman.
"I beg pardon," said the clerical wit,
"I thought you had' brought this child to
be christened."
One house in Trenton contains
one hundred and seventeen persons.
only
A Conscientious Mayor. Tho Mayor
of a city in Ohio got drunk not long since,
when, sobered, he went before a squire,
informed on himself, paid his fine and re-
signed his
office.
An act has been passed by the Legis
lature of Massachusetts, requiring the dai
ly readinc. in the public schools of some
portion of the Bible, i,n pommonjS--fficuliar
nsn verjeioq,
1UH
One Week Later from Europe.
ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC.
Further Success toy Uic Allies.
Neiv York, June 28. 1 o'clock, A. M.
The steamship Baltic, from Liverpool,
with European dates to the 1 6th inst., has
just reached her berth.
The papers furnish the details of the
French capture of the Mamelon and White
Works, after a sanguinary conflict, in
which 5000 men were killed and wounded.
The French took sixty-two guns and 500
prisoners ;.and their new position enables
them to shell the shipping in the harbor
of Sebastopol.
Simultaneously with this gallant action
by the French, the English stormed and
took the riflemen's works in the quarries,
but lost 500 men in killed and wounded.
Since then the firing has been slak.
The Allied fleets havo achieved fresh
successes in the Sea of Azoff, and have
burned the stores at Tajaurog, Mariopol
aud Genitsack, and a boat expedition is
fitting out against Perekep.
The Hussians are reported to have e
vacuated Anapa.
There is nothing from Tchernaya or
the Baltic.
Tho latest telegraphio advices bring
nothing of special importance.
Commercial Intelligence.
Liverpool Cotton Market, June 15.
The leading circulars report the Cotton
Market quiet during the week, but hold
ers are not prossmg and the prices of last
week are well maintained, closing steady
Fair Orleans 7id.
The sales of the week foot up 38,700
bales including 17,000 bales on specula
tion, and 1,900 for export.
Breadstuff's Influenced by tho fine
weather, the market for Breadstuff's has
been dull and prices have considerably
declined. Wheat is 3 a 4d. lower; Flour
Is a 2s., and Corn 6d. a Is., but holders
do not evince a willingness to operate at
these rates.
Provisions The market is generally
unchanged and quiet. Lard is quiet, at
49s Gd a 50s.
Naval Store Rosin is lower, with sales
at 3s9da4 for common, and'Csa8s for fine
Spirits of turpentine is dull, at 30s.
Lo?idon Money Market. Money is plen
ty, and the Bank rate of discount has
been reduced to 3 per cent
Consols 9l.
Iron ia steady and orders are rather
plenty.
Oregon.
We have files of Oregon papers to May
26 two weeks later than previous advices.
Political. I he papers are crowded with
political disqusitionB and violent partisan
abuse. In lact, they contain nothing else
The general election takes place through
out the Territory on the first Monday in
Juno, at which times -a Delegate is to be
elected to Congress, and members of the
Legislature and other County officers to
be chosen. Gen. Gaines, the Whig and
Know-Nothing candidate, and Gen. Lane,
tho Democratic candidate, have been
stumping the Territory for a month past
At a meeting in Dallas, Polk County, they
got so excited that Lane called Gaines a
liar, whereupon a fight took place on the
stand in presence of an interested and ex
cited audience. The bihgercnt candi
dates were separated just in time to pre
vent a free fight between their friends all
around. They continued their canvass
together afterward notwithstanding, and
were to address the people of Portland
on the 2Gth. To judge by the fury of the
Oregon papers one would suppose that
upon the result of the political campaign
depended the destinies of the world.
The Largest Brook "Trout. The
Buffalo Express says : "A friend who has
recently made a trip over the New York
and Eric railroad informs us of having
seen at one of the stations in the moun
tainous region of the Bouthcrn tier a brook
trout, caught in a mountain stream, that
weighed six pounds and five ouncesl The
lad who caught it sold it for sovonty-five
cents; it was then sold to a third party
for two dollars; and when our friend saw
the same, and had admired its beautiful
and liberal proporions, he offered ten
dollars for the speckled beauty. But it
Was no go. The remarkable specimen of
the finny tribe had found an admirer
whose affection had resolved to persue it
to the fork's end."
Levenworth City, Kansas territory,
having become the starting point of the
Salt Lake traders, is doing a thriving
business. Such is the quantity of goods
passing through the place that in the
space of one week 17,474 was paid for
freight on goods landed there. At the
last dates, a train of six hundred wagons
laden with government stores, was about
to start for the Salt Lake, the draught
cattle of which train would number four
thousand oxen, besides several hundred
horses and mules. Several of tho Salt
trading firms have sent off twelve hundred
wagons, a like number of teamsters, and
over ten thousand draught cattle.
Weevil in Wheat. The Columbia, Pa.,
Democrat says Mr. Jacob Gerard of
llohrsburg, in that county, claims to have
d iscovered a cure for weevil in wheat.
Ie says that several days ago observing
that the weevil was destroying his crop,
ho sowed over the field a moderate quan
tity of slaked: lime, and since that time
their ravagessecm to.have ceased entirely.
An exciting case relative to the identi
ty of a dog, is going on at Cincinnati.
About fifty witnesses have been before
the court, and there are five lawyers em
ployed. The animal is worth $25.
What, will tho costs bo ?
Grasshoppers in countless hosts are
sweeping over the fields in the Guadalupe
and San Antonio valleys in Texas, but
they are followed by immense flocks of a
kind of a bird, wbicbj feeds upon
From the Lehigh Valley Times.
Henry Huebner.
This gentleman, formerly a resident of
this Borougbybut now residing in Chest
nuthill, Monroe county, near the old In
dian missionary station, Wechquctunk of
former days, where he itinerates on his
own hook, independent of support from
or connection with any church, the
love of Christ constraining him, addressed
a respectable and quite numerous audi
ence, last Sunday afternoon in that part of
the great temple of nature, which our cn
ternrisins townsman John H. Bice has
appropriated for the purpose of building
Round Bows and JJiac bottoms, cann
ing upon a rudo "pulpit of wood," per
chance "made for the purpose" with the
singing choir on his left, and his audience
seated before and besido him, on seats
hastily constructed in primitive manner,
between tho sheds of the establishment,
giving to the whole somewhat the appear
ance of a Methodist camp-meeting, our
old townsman held forth in a free and
easy, off-hand style, fluently, and unham
pered by notes, for about half an hour, to
the edification of some, and the satisfac
tion of all, some few over fastidious, per
haps only excepted.
The fact of the case is simply this.
Curiosity to hear Mr. Huebner, induced
the majority of those present to repair to
to tho spot, and whatever their opinions
about his preaching beyond the mountain
may have been heretofore, they are now
convinced that his services may accom
plish good in his adopted home. His
language is such as may be understood
by all who hear him, and his discourse
is certainly thoroughly evangelical, and
if report speaks true, that many sermons
heretofore preached in his locality, might
as fitly have been preached by a Jew or
Unitarian, without doing violence to their
convictions and consciences, evangelical
discourses will surely not come amiss.
In days of yore our forefathers held to
Solomon's declaration, that "the race is
not to the swift, nor the battle to the
strong," and therefore they sent out their
evangelists and itenerant preachers under
the conviction that, no matter who, or
what the instrument might be. "the bat
tie is the Lord's," and the success they
had, cannot be gainsayed. And, while
in theory, we may still hold to these same
principles, yet, somehow or other, rather
afloat on the Dead sea as we are, our
practice does not exactly accord with our
theory, and for that reason it seems rath
er odd and strange to us that a man whom
we all know so well, and who, while liv
ing in our midst never made any preten
sions to the office and function of teacher,
should at some other place turn up as
preacher of the Gospel, and not a whi tthe
worse because what he does, he does at his
own expense. Whether the late Synod in
its tender concern for the conversion of
heathen in foreign realms, and heathen
within the bounds of our own land, has
done aught to revive our work as of old,
will first become known to every man,wo
man and child in the Church, when the
enormous edition of 300 say three hun
dred copies of the journal of their pro
ceedings shall once, at some future unde
fined day be published, and distributed
or perhaps suffered to rest quietly on the
shelves of the church library.
Whether churches or church authorities
approve of Mr. IPs services or not, need
not discomfort nor discourage him. But
though the countenance and support of
these is not indispensably necessary to
the preacher's success, they may yet be
very desirable and convenient, and Mr.
II. was not a little encouraged in his la
bours, by the kind notices taken of him
and his usefulness by the late venerable
Bishop Van Yleck. Aside from all this
however, Mr. H. seems to be fully con
vinced in his own conscience, that he is
called to labour as an apostle by bis mas
ter Jesus, and so thoroughly persuaded is
he that the change from his former la
bors in his temporal vineyard, the rem
nant of which was in sight from his pulpit
of last Sunday, to his present toils in the
spiritual vineyard, is by divine authority,
that he is ready to exclaim with Paul of
old "woe is unto me if I preach not the
Gospel." So, old neighbor, ultramontane,
go on in your heaven appointed work on
your self-chosen field, and preach the
Gospel in all simplicity, taking heed, how
ever, to yourself not to become elated at
your success your labors may be crowned,
be ever willing to ascribe to God alone
all praise and glory.
A Sc hool Teacher Mordered by a Boy
Another Matt Ward Affair.
We learn from a gentleman who was
an eye-witness, the following particulars
of a most horrible and tragical affair that
accurred at Pontiac, Miss., on Monday
last. It appears that Mr. Brown, tho
principal of tho male academy at Ponti
ac, had punished one of his pupils about
a week since. A brother of the boy that
was whipped, by the name of Wray, made
threats against Mr. Brown for the afore
said punishment, to which but little at
tention was paid. On Monday, young
Wray, a youth of some seventeen or eigh
teen years old took a position where Brown
would pass on his on his way home from
school, and waited until he came along
when Wray attacked him.
The two clinched, Brown only acting
in self defence, and those who saw it
thought it only to be a scuffle between
them, until they saw Brown run a few
yards, his hands upon his nbdomcn, and
fall down lifeless. While they were
clinched, Wray bad inflicted two wounds
upon Brown with a large bowie knife,
which killed- him almost instantly. The
young man was arrested at once. Mr.
Brown was a man much respected, and
leaves a young widow, to whom he had
been married but a few months, to mourn
his untimely end. This is one of tho
the most horrible, cold-blooded murders
we have noticed for some time, and is a
deeper outrage than tho Matt Ward oaso.
Nashville Whig, June 18.
A man recently died at Stamford, Conn.,
leaving fiye children, all of whom were
borq. after, he was 70 years of age.
He's Nothing but a Mechanic.
"He's a poor boy and a mechanic !"
contemptuously sneered a village belle as
i ; ii J i .
ner companions rauieu uer upon tue at-
. . ti l .! 1 1
tentiorrol a young DiacKsmuu. Anu so
American aristocracy sneers at the hardy
sons of toil. This belle's father had ris
en from hostler to shoemaker, and from
shoemaker to pork speculator. A fortu-
nate land purchase carried mm clean in
to the "upper circles," and his family put
on airs about as natural and becoming as
the colors of the homely-footed peacock.
l no blacksmith asked the hand of pork
speculator's daughter and was refused.
She looked higher. Sho scorned a me
chanic ! She belonged to an aristocratic
family !
The said belle soared high and, lit low
she married a stranger who proved to
be a penniless loafer a penniless loafer
a journeyman tinker.
The blacksmith lias been in the Amer
ican Congress, and enjoys an inviablo -name
as a statesman of talent, integrity
and rare moral worth.
Yet he is nothing but a mechanic I
Dress.
As the tailors are constantly puffing off
their goods as "London Fashions," the
following extract from the London Week
ly Times may give some idea of the taste
of that metropolis :
"It is somewhat singular that the pass
ion for dress, among males, is almost en-'
tirely confined to tradesmen, andwws
in the loiccst ranks of life. There arc no
people in tho world who dress so plainly
as those of the House of Lords and IIouso
of Commons. Indeed, there are but few
members of those august bodies, whom a
Fleet-street shopman would not turn up
his nose at in the street. There are many
people who are not yet aware that in good
society it iscousidered a mark of vulgari
ty to be dressed particularly well."
In tho streets of London, the style of
dress is an indication of the character of
females, those of character and fortune
may be seen in rich but chaste attire ;
while those who have renounced every
claim to decency, are fluttering in all the
glare of frippery, and of what in some
parts of America would be called fash
ion. Too Anxous, by Half.
An amusing affair happened lately be
tween a coal dealer and a purchaser.
The latter was very anxious to eee "that
the former did not cheat him; so he (the
purchaser) inspected the weighing of tho
coal himself, and felt perfectly satisfied1
that he got his full allowance, without any
desire on the part of the coal dealer to
'shave.' However, while the ccal: was'
weighing, the driver of the tcanr c'dOlu?
not help laughing, aware at the time that
the purchaser was particular about his
full weight of coal. The purchaser, no
ticing the laughing of the driver, asked
him, when he received his coa what it
was all about ; so the driver told' him :
'Why,' Baid" he, 'when your" coal was
weighing you were standing on the scales t
and was weighed with it.' 'Is it possi
ble! Whyr I-weighed nearly two hun
dred pounds!' 'Well, sir,' said the driver,
'you are sold.' 'Yes,' was the reply, 'and
I have bought myself too.' Patriot.
A very Tough Story Sixty yoke
of red bulls, according to the Frontier
News, were seen last week by an old la
dy in Kansas, hitched to an empty wag
on, which was mired in the streets of this
city. The team reached entirely from
hill to hill, across ono of our valleys, vul
garly called guts. The wagon, being
very tight in the mud refused to move;
tho consequence was, when that portion
or the team in the lead on the other hill,
spread themselves in a strong pull, and
straightened the chains, that twenty-seven-yoke
of the bulla in the centre, were sus
pended in mid air by their necks, some
thing les3 than fifty feet above ground.
We did not see it, but understand that a
profile vicw was taken on the spot for the
News office. Kansas City Eiiterjtrise
'New York Marketer
Tuesday, July 3d. Cotton tho
market is unchanged. Flour prices are
a trifle higher, the advance being a shil
ling, with sales of 5000 brls., at SS,25n
8,74; for Ohio, S8,44a9. Southern, i
firm with sales of 700 brls at S10 50alK
Wheat prices are a little lower, sales of
2250 bushels at $2,45. Corn prices arc
somewhat higher, sales of 40,000 bushels
at 89a82.. Pork- prices are casiear.
The market for Besf is unchanged. Lard
firm. Whiskey firm, 225 brls at 41.
MARRIED.
Thursday, July 5th, 1855, by the Rev.
J. E. Miller, Rev. Cornelius R. Lano of
of Tunkhannook, Pa., and Ann D. S.,
daughter of Joseph Kerr,lisq., of Strouds
burg, Pa.
175,000 BRICK
Just burnt and for sale by tho subscriber,
at his kiln in Stroudsburg. Thcee brick arc
of a large size, superior quality and will be
sold as low and lower, according to quality,
than any other brick in the County. A por
tion of ihem are pressed or front and cornice
brick of different kinds. Said brick are com
posed of materials that will stand the fire with
impunity, thus answering for the purpose of
building bake-ovens, lining cupolas, &c. Al
so, a large portion of those brick arc bu&iX
hard and are well calculated for paving and
will stand for that purpose equal to any brick
ihat can be produced in this or a,ny other
place.
WM. S. WINTEMUTE.
July 5, 1855.
Jfoticc,
Merchants and keepers of Restaurants, &c.
within the county of Monroe, are hereby no
tified to take up their License on or before
the 20th day of July next, or they will -be
placed in the hands of a Justice of the Peace
for collection according to law.
LEVI SLUTTER,
June 28, 1855. Treasurer.
BLANK DEEDS
For. sa.e at.tfys Office