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Pamphlets, &c. printed with licames- and despatch on reasonable rrillB, AT THE OFFICE OF THE JlSFFERSOfffAX. NOON AND MORNING. BY It. H. STODDARD. There are gains for all our louses, There are balms for all our pain; But when youth, the dream departs, It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again We are stronger, and are better Under manhood's sterner reign ; Still we feel that something sweet Followed youth with flying feet, And will never come again I Something beautiful is vanished, And we sigh for it in vain; We behold it everywhere, On the earth and in the air But it never comes again ! How to Cook Potatoes. Potatoes at this season are very poor eatinrr, unless rightly cooked, and not one out of a hundred knows how to do that Treated as in the fall and winter, they come upon tho table watery, solid, and every way disagreeable. A Vermont wo man, who has surprised us by making old potatoes -s good as new, dry, mealy,fresh, has disclosed to us the process she puts them through to effect so desirable a re sult. The potatoes are pared and put to soak in cold water from four to six hours; then dropped into water which is already boiling an essential point; and a little salt added to the water improves them. Take them from the water the moment they are done; pour off all the water and lot thctn stand uncovered in the kettle till the water evaporates from the surface, and they are ready for the table. The result will astonish those who try it for the first time, and they will never return to the old method of boiling them with the skins on. Springfield Rcjniblican. Good Brandy. A gentleman who not long ago returned from a visit to Europe, pays that he saw in some of the French vineyards the process of brandy-making. A large number of casks of Ohio Whis key, which had just arrived, were empt ied into a vat, with a small proportion of krandy afterwards, probably to be color ed flavored and sent to the United States as 'prime Cognac' The price of goo'd brandy in France, is S3 per gallon by the barrel ; added to that a duty of S3 more, and the necessary profits of the merchant, say 1, and we have the actual cost of real brandy in this country, viz: 7 per gallon. Notwithstan ding this plain case, however, there is plenty of excellent old brandy, 'warranted pure,' to be had in most of the cities for 3 50 and $4 per gallon. Two sons of Erin, moralizing on the j results of the late election in Massachus CttS. 'Bad news, Pat,' said Mike. 'Faith an' you're right there,' respon ded Pat. 'What would Gineral Jackson say to this, if he was alive now ? ejaculated ' Mike. Bo gora,' replied pat, 'he'd say he was j glad he was dead !' Give him Fits. "Because we ventured last week," says an exchange paper, "to introduce a few latin words into a para- graph just to make a little show of our knowledge, a cotemporary quotes Latin at us in a most lerocious manner He eays "Nihil fit." Who is Nihil ? did he fit, and what did he fit for ?" Who TV i' nMin fnllrttpinrr dfRnntnll went through by telegraph a month or two since: hG cb"7 ?f the Here it lay un Charlie and Julia met at S 's yester- Slivered. I opened it. It read as fol- .... . Inwa " fnftr IVlorw toiII Hid In ninlif chn day quarrelled and parted to meet no , i. - (i,;c o0Anin onrJ tvprp more met again this evening and were . , , warn cd! uv u'"'"'t"- , Wing over the door of a mantua ma- icr's shop, in Troy, N. Y., the concluning portion of which reads thus: "N. B. Dress (is made lower than ever. 'QJ3 A preacher took passage on one of the Lake Erie steamed on a Sunday lately, and before he had bccil long on board he applied to the captain for' Jeave i 13 - - : rni oJ to noiu a rengiuus uicuuug. xuucupw" replied, "No; for any minister who would , travel on Sunday is not fit to preach on 1 my boat." Widow Drizzle's husband lately died of cholera. In the midst of his most acute bodily pain, after the hand of death had touched him, and while writhing in agony, his gentle wife said to him "Well, Mr. Drizzle, you needn't .kick round so and wear the sheets all out, if you are dying !" THE TELEGRAPH DESPATCH. BY J. D. It. The mystic wire is in the air, It winds from shore to shore, By dark Missouri's turbid tide, By deep Niagara's roar. Bear along the lightng song, Down the Ohio; A thousand miles are already up, And thousands more to go. It was on a Saturday evening in De cember, 1847, that after finishing some engrossing correspondence, I arose with tho intention of immediately proceeding f0 mv nutpfc lodfrirnrq nn flhestnut Street . m 4nieB longings on onesinuG oircec, there to take the welcome rest that ushers in the day of sacred repose. It had been a busy day and a toilsome ono. I had been alone in oare of the two registers connecting with Baltimore and New York, the day cold and rainy, and both lines working with a fitful uncertainty, corres ponding well with the weather. Slowly and tediously had the now wonder per formed her office. The perfection to which Telegraphic Structure havesince arrived, was then unknown. It was the nursing of a rickety child, the guiding of a keeless craft. Yet the constant suspicion of my own ignorance had made me patient. Ilour after hour I repeated aye, to the seventh time each despatch to my patient associate at the other terminus. I aighed and longed for dinner, but sighed in vain. A cup of coffee from a neighboring res taurant gave new patience to my troubled spirit. Yet nine o'clock found me with my files all clear and letters all written, a wearied martyr to a new and unpromis ing pursuit. Before rising from the hard stool on which I had performed my martyrdom (we had no stuffed chairs in those days) I moralized a moment. The revolutions I had innocently caused on Wall-street gave me no concern. Wall Street affairs had no lodgment in my anxieties. Yet however the day had been eventful. Joy and sorrow had found in me an interested medium. I had seen some of the few phases of eventful life just beginning to be intrusted to the new messenger which the kind-hearted and ingenious student of Poughkeepsie had given to his country. It had identified me with my race. It was a necessity. Love had openened her heart to me, and in my faithful hands bad her secret been held. Agony bad forced me to a partnership. Jealousy had made me hear the uneasy gritting of her teeth. Joy had rung his merry laugh in my ears, and sorrow had wet my hands with tears that met my own. How various had been my mission ! How many vibrating chords had been sounded that day by my instrumentali to ! I had learned a lesson of human sor row which succeeding years have only widened and deepened. I learned to pre pare my own heart for the storm of life and the anguish of the years to come. It was well. Some of these have already come. 'Tis pleasant to know that amid life's sunshine as in its darkness, when the stara are cloudless as when they have one by one hid behind the gathering gloom of clouds, that the great pilot is at the helm, and the War-Ship of life, careering upon a thousand waves, is still steady on her course, safe in his hands. And now for home. My little room in the third story, with its modest furniture, but cleanjWhite bed-linnen and cheerful fire, held out new charms to me. Already I was within its clean warm blankets, thankful for its sweet and quiet repose, and dreaming of the coming day, when ' man and beast were alike to eniov the blessedness of the week's grand holliday. "Before turning off the gas, however, I went to the Messenger's table, to see wheth er that worthy had performed his duties, and his despatches dulv delivered. One only remained on his table j and, suppo sing it to have been one not delivered at so late an hour, was the point of leaving, wuen a vague suspicion crossed my memory, and of its import I returned to its examination. Late in the afternoon, a little after sun set I had received from Wilmington Del- a a brief d to "James Morn . Kensington," which had excitec j my iieen interest. its language was . terse yet touching. It uttered a name dear to me. I bad asked its quick deliv ery. The unfaithful hound had gone -'J :v, asks to sec you. Come quick, llebecca X T . j i Warrington." It was now half past nine. The cars left at Eleven, by great activity I T 13 T - . x couia aeuventm ume to secure us pur- pose, with an indignant malediction on subordinate; and an indignant ,J comm ' tha week an resolution to commence tne weeK Dy an act of summary decapitation, 1 plaoed the missive securoly in the breast-pocket of my coat, buttoned myself to the throat, tucked up my nether garments, and sal lied out into the storm. The communication of sorrowful, tidings is in itself a sorrowful task. To a sensi tive mind it produces all the agitation of ""DQ it proouces an uie aguauon o personal grief. The tear is ready to mm gle with the tear expected. The heart throbs with a painful consciousness of the possession of a secret, whioh discovered, must agonize j which tho possessor would gladly have die with him ; but which he must convey with delicate sympathy lest another, less moved by sympathy, might with indelicate hasto, sond, like an arrow doubly barbed to tho bosom it most con-corns. So, as through the storm I wended my way to a home I might render desolate, before me appeared thcirnmage of a suff ering girl, moaning, in her agony, for her distant Brother. Long before I reached my destination, I had marked, an imagi nation, all her features, penncilled her sorrowful eye, and enshrined her in my heart as a sister, whose pillow I should have rejoiced to smooth, and whose eb bing spirit I shuold have loved to solace with the hopes of a better land than this. A single light illumined a room of the house where Mornington resided, which seemed, from its looality and appearance, jtue pertormanco ot this was accompanied to be occupied by ono in the middle walks, by even deeper anxiety than thelangungc of life. No plate on the door indicated the occupant, but the number, G4, painted in plain hgures over it, and iignted Dy a lamp near by, satisfied me that I had reaohed the place. Knocking gently at the door, it was opened by an elderly la dy, who with a politeness I scarcely ex peotcd, invited me to walk in and await her son's return. "This is his birthday" she said, "and ! he and part of the familv have croue to a little merry-making near by, from whence I expect them every moment. They promised to return by ten, and it is now a few minutes beyond." "It is somewhat important I should see him soon," I replied ; "I have a message from his sister, to which I would be glad to carry a reply." "From My daughter Mary?" "I believe it must be from her." "From Wilmington?" "Yes, I received it from there this even- fog.", "You did not, then, come from Wil mington. I was in hopes you might have seen my daughter, and brought us news: of her health. Poor child: we sent her there to see if change of scene would re store her to health again. But she is a a tender plant, and needed a mother's care. But her brother proposed to change and to her his wish is her guide." "The despatoh I bear would indicate her ill health, and, fearing that it might be important to be delivered soon, I came thus late to deliver it." I said this in a tone of voice I intended should be easy and unagitated : yet. hav ing absorbed my mind with the subject of it, my speech was tremulous, and I saw at once that the preceptions of a mother's heart were aroused. The knitting nee dle dropped from her hand, and, with a hurried, anxious voice, she replied : "Has anything happened, sir is my daughter worse ? You seem to regard your errand here as urgent. Something must be wrong ! What keeps my son ? He seldom disappoints me I am aged and infirm, and could not join in their gathering." Then, lowering her head, she said, sorrowfully. "My poor Mary, I fear thou will soon leave us." And I saw the tears coursing each other down her aged cheeks, as shaking her head sor rowfully, she went to the window to see if there were indications of ;her son?s re turn. There was no time to lose. I might have handed my message to that aged mother ; I rose to do so. Had I done so, I would have hurried from the house. I know, and none knows more deeply, the power of a mother's love ; the clinging, living grasp with which it encompasses her children, and I dared not give her the chalice, which would surely induce ebullitions of a grief I could not bear; and yet I must accomplish my errand. That dying girl seemed following me with tears and low expostulating entreaties to grant her request. Fact I must not, and I was just about to propose to find tho object of my search amid his festivities, when a sound of footsteps at the door, and the ring of merry voices, assured mo of his return, "Ah," thought I, "what a mission is mine 1" I began to hate my avocation. I felt myself to be a misera ble raven, coming to croak a note of woe, where all was happiness and hilarity, and hope. The Party who thus came upon us wore, first, a-gentlemanly looking man of about thirty, with a gentle, benignant counte nance, deeply expressive of inward sensi tiveness and delicacy; a little lady of twenty-five, with a bright, cheerful counte nance the token of a trusting and open heart within. The third was a bright little girl of five summers, a merry, prat tling child, with little round cheeks and chin, who, with her hands full of confec tions, was struggling between the sleepi ness of so late an hour and the hilarity of the festive occasion from which she had returned. It was an interesting scene to, which l have betore alluded to broKo at see the beautiful tokens of affection pass nco upon raer and I remembered the between them and the aged lady, as she night in which I became a messenger boy, kissed, with true maternal warmth herand saw, for the first time, James Morn children, and little grand daughter, wisb-'ingion, his pretty little wife, and mother, ingher boy many a returning birthday and jit was certainly he; I could not be mis a long and happy union with his compan- taken. ion. Tokens which, in their delicacy and But who was she who thus closely re touching affeotionatcnesSjIfear are too rap- scmbled him in the winsomeness of her idly passing away from our households. 'pale features, tho interesting gentleness of This greeting, however, was soon termi-j whose countenance had, even more than nated by the conscious presence of astran- his own, riveted my attention, and caused ger. It was in vain to endeavor to pre- a momentary throb of deep personal in pare this loving circle for the message of terest, as if some kindred spirit had mag death. I essayed to do it. Kind words jnetized me with its presence. Mary! that were swelling from my heart, but they was the name of my first-born. The most refused arrangement in the preface work .beautiful name given to woman-kind a of consolation. I handed my message, 'name associated with woman's sincerity took my hat, hoping to escape the burst' and purity with obildhood's loveliness of emotion which I felt was to follow, and affection It was the name of that when I was paralized by a moan so deep sister, too, whose dying request had so and agonized tbafc three score years and excited my interest and roused niy syin ton shall pass in fruitless flfqrt to efface 'pathies. Was this that sister rostored it from my memory. In a moinc-Il that from the very ebbings of the tide of life ? little group were crowded together in a most touching altitude of mortal grief. The aged mother with her trembling hands clasped, her eyes closed, and her furrowed features livid, as if in death, could only exclaim, in agonized accents, "My poor child 1" and sank back motionless upon her chair. It was thus I left them unno ticed. I doubted not Mr. Mornington would make immediate preparation to leave by the train at 11 P. M., and my mind was relieved of a load of anxiety. Such duties, since then, have, alas! been too frequent to affect me thus deeply; but eeper of my narrative might seem to indicate. I was like a sailor boy, looking with awe on tho billows he sees for the first time, but which, afterwards, ho rides without the thought of their magnitude or danger. Instead of going direct to my lodgings, I returned to the office to assure myself that the machinery was carfully cut off from connection with the wires outside, in case of danger from lightning during the niebt. This I found I had neglected to do when the business of the day had closed, and 1 was surprised to notice, on examining the magnet, that some distant operator was endeavoring to call me, re lighting tho gas, I found the operator at Wilmington assiduously endeavoring to arouse me. Hopeless as must have been his task, as evidence of this, here he was indefatigably calling with a patience char nnin;,; e t tj t i 77 i i i i i i i i P, 77. which the click of my register brought to mo with a certain slowness of sound, as if hope was beginning to wane within him. These characters, Do it known, are the signals by which an office is oalled, and mean "Philadelphia! Phil adelphia! Philadelphia! are you ready to take a message from me?" Replying im mediately to his call, I found that the especially dear to her, and who, not re ceivmg any reply to nor message, nad shown sins of deep despondenoy, had any reply to hor message, had friends of the dying girl moved by her , restored me to tnis Kind nrotner ot mine, ;cluches at his heart with impatient hands, constant wailing for a brother, who, by and to my dear Mother. We are now jin that hourj hia heart flies home to tho some peculiar sympathies, had become . near home, if you will accept our invita- ttr arf.h of his child rvnnd. Will thnt ninths eome to the office and besought the ope- , our gratitude more fully, come." This rator to make the effort, thus apparently j was said with so much frankness and sin so providentially successful. Gladdened i cerity, that we accepted the unexpected by the singular coincidence, I immediate- request, and were soon ushered into a ly gave information of my delivery of tho j beautiful residence not far from where message, and my belief that the request the welcome invitation was given, of the sufferer would be answered by the j The circumstances of the family had speedy arrival of her brother in the night . much changed since I first saw them, a train. large legaey had fallen to Mornington, a A a n,:Tr fi- Jno0n ' which had justified the purchase of the I I I i 11 l J V 11 1 Lll I 11 I ITL LUL1 AJ LIUjOJ m our work, ye sellers of tape and sugar? was there not, good Joseph, a kind streak of peauliar sunshine pass 'athwart that onerous r,aunch of thine in thus minis- o r tering in the relief of human sorrow, es pecially when the subject of it was young and beautiful? .Even over our lean and cadaverous features a smile of warm com placency, and a certain gentleness and ap provingness about the heart, richly re paid me for ray weary and stormy jour ney; nor did I seek to repress an uprising prayer to Him who smoothes the couch of earthly sorrow and glides it with the lus tre of the better land, that life might bo prolonged until the longed for union of these loving hearts. Many months after all this had occur red, and other things had excluded it from my memory. I was walking on Chesnut St., Philadelphia, accompanied by a friend. In tho mutual enjoyment of an evening of peculiar tranquility when my eye fell upon the features of a gentleman and lady slowly approaching us, with whom my mind endeavored to associate some recollection of a past ac quaintance, but in vain. They seemed engrossed in a quiet, meditative conver sation, their eyes looking downward, but both countenances clowincr with an un speakable calmness and repose, as if heaven dwelt within, and convoying the impression of the meaning of those beau tiful words which speak of the possession of a "peace which passeth all understand ing." The features of the gentleman were especially familiar to me. Yet I racked the dustry corners of my memory in vain to assure myself of an acquaintance, but in vain. He was dressed with much plainness but true elegance; "his costume, howoverr bearing a subordinate part in my observation. After resting upon the strongly-marked yet delicately defined lines of sympathy around his eyes, fore head, and the corners of the mouth. My heart bounded to him as to a brother; and as they passed me, and I could but just bear him say; "Yes Mary, that was a dark night to us all." The occurrence to 1 -w- i All tho power of a woman's curiosity was upon mo. And so much engrossed had I the features of the sufferer. become, that I had paid no notice to the' "By morning the crisis had passed. request of my friend to enlighten him as The poor child opened her eyos, and found to the cause of my silence and abstrac- her brother holding her hand in his, and tion. , from that moment the work of restoration We continued our walk away to the began. Her recovery was very slow, but Schuylkill, enjoying the cheerful elegant there she sits, spared to us, we trust, for quiet that pervaded that part of the city, 'many years to come. In our couvcrsa and tho weather, which was most delight- tions respecting her sickness, wp often as ful, our conversation dwelling much on cribc her recovery, under IJini who holds the circumstances which I had just nar- human destiny in the hollow of his hand, rated, and which had awakened within ' to the use of the Telegraph. It must bo the highly religious and intelligent syma deep source of gratification to you, sir, pathies of my friend the source of much to have been thus instrumental in secur elpvated thought and comment, to which, ing us this great happiness, and for which, I became a pleased and gratified listener, j we assure you, you have our deep grati On returning, thus deeply and pleasantly tude." engaged, and just as we were about to; I replied expressive of tho happiness I turn the corner at Thirteenth St, we saw felt in having thu3 unconsciously contrib tho object of our conversation coming up uted to the happiness of so loving a fam Chestnut Street, and what was particular-, ily, and in the restoration of one so worthy ly pleasing to me, Mornington had cvi- to life. It has added a new tie to the dently recognized jne, and seemed to be business I had chosen, and I trusted that speaking of mo to his companion. Their it might be the means of enlarging the a eyes were both directed towards rac, and mount of human happiness. 1 trembled my friend and I agreed to keep on to- when I thought how nearly an unfaithful wards them. j messenger had plunged an amiable circle On approaching Morington's face into sorrow, which might have robbed it smiled in recognition, and I at once ad-of its chief charms, and left it desolate, vanced with out-stretched hand to join After a pleasant supper and a delight him in salutation. "I am much pleased ! ful hour spent with thU affectionate farn to see you" Mornington said; "Your visit ily, to whom I had become thus singular- j to ns on that stormy night is associated wim very pleasant recollections." "&is-,kind words, and a cordial invitation to lcr Maiy, dear," he added. "This the; call again, a kind farewell and returned frentlcman who dnlivernd thak mnssnrrn of tn nnr nnnrtmrmfs In ilrnnm nwr flm Tnl . . . . : r.: I wnich we have spoken so much" and wolcgraph m it3 new vocation, as the restor- j were thus introduced to each other in j manner leading directly to the objetft . y uunuwij. iuy menu y armaw was also introduced and at once a circle of sympathy seemed cstabliahed. "It should please me very much, Bliss Mornington replied, "to meet one who has uucouaoieuHiy, peruaps, saveo my me,auu tion to a simple supper with us, we will U- J1- Lii.l a- 1 J . u uunguieu to nave you ana your irieuu ! to jin us, and we can also then express beautiful Mansion into which we were now introduced. Every thing was suitable and weu uriuugeu, uuu ueauuiui. i e I terea 1 saw lhat same brignt-eyed little wire arranging late nowers in a vat2 near the window. To both her and the aged mother of Mornington we were kindly introduced. The old lady at once remem bering me, and entering into the details of my visit with a gratified recollection, which promised a quick solution of the whol f"01"' she immediately related to us as lollows : "My daughter Blary, here dear child, was the same who lay so ill at Wilming ton, and who so anxiously asked to see her brother. We knew how delicate she was, and little expected to see her pleas ant face again. One remembrance only sustained us. We knew she was ready to blossom in that better land where sorrow comes no more. Sho trusted in the lle deemer. That hope unites us. This was a plosant consciousness, oven amid the agony of parting. Yet, it was vcrj- hard to think of her being so far from us, with none of us present to cheer the last hours. Sho felt so too, and this rendered the ex pected approach of death less tranquil." "After the message was sent she seem ed calm, but receiving no reply, and hav ing no assurance of the coming of any of the family, she yielded to despondency, from which she was, late in the evening, partially aroused by a communication you sent after seeing us, and which was deemed by the friends at Wilmington an act of very unexpected kindness, both on your part and on that of the gentleman there. "The hours wore gradually away, but no train arrived at the time expected. The cars ran off the track near Darby, detaining them an hour and a half. I he dnlnv thrnw iU.nrv intn n dftnnor niolan- choly than before, and death seemed very 'spider, we yet lookupou the first with moro near. In the half delirious slate this favor thau the last; for it is a natural im found her, she gave way to the sorrow of'puko of the the human heart to prefer her heart, and exclaimed : "No, no, no,, that which is witty and suspicious, even I will see them no more; they are all gone gone;" and her head sunk in death like stillness uoon her pillow. It was, thoueht that a few moments would close " iha nnono xvhon .Ijimns arrived, rrrfi.it. v i excited by his delay. 'Seeing the frionds weeping around, tuu uww-r - - i --i J and supposing mat, ail was really over, ue rusueu 10 tue oeu, ana exciaitmng inft great agony ot mind, "xuy poor, poor sis - ter," kissed her fervently, and gazed on her pale features with all tho passionate affection with which he regarded her. That agony saved her lifo. She start- ed from the death-like stupor into which county) had to attend Court at New Ber she had fallen, recalled, as it were, to life in, last week ; and to save themselves by the sound of a voice so dear to her, from patronizing ahe New Berlin tavern clasped her arms for a moment wildly a- keepers, 'they took tents and their own round his neck, and, murmuring hi3 name, provisions with them. That's what wqi fell back again, exhausted, on her pillow, would call spimc. "The attending Physician arrived just: as this occurred, and intimated thatthis j jr New clothes are great promoters excitemont might, with great care, be pro- of piety. A new bonnet or a new dres ductive of happy results. He advised the . will induce a girl to go to church akleaat, withdrawal of all tho friends excopt her three times on Sunday, where she. dulnjt; brother, who sat by her bedside, watching use to go once before she got it. variation of ly attached, we bade them, amid many 1 i w "w a 'er to life of sweet Mary Mornixcto:. of! a Pleasant Thought. Perhan tbcre is no more woaderful illustration of the writing power of the Telegraph than in ca3CS of sicknes3 and sorrovr A Inoth. ;erha3 a bay very dear to her far from , bomo jje js arrested bv discase. Death er be written to ? His spirit would have fled, ere its dark tidings could reach her. But the Telegraph ! Blessed power ! His message flits along quick as his affec tion, to overwhelm her aged heart in grief. See her enter the Telegraph office, trem bling under her load of woe. With stream ing eyes she says, in her tear-washed re ply; "God bless thee, my boy, as thy sor rowing mother now does ! Is all well with thee my child? Has my boy peace in the prospect of death?" And that message is read to her suffering son, now on tue last dread iroiticr ot earth, with- ,iu hearing of Jordon's troublous waters -mis mother's venerable form seems bend- inr o er mm, life has almost gone; but that message revivifies his heart. with falterxnjr lips he exclaims: "All is well , my mother I ' and then those lips close forever. The Telegraph baa been conse crated to many a sorrowing spirit. This is one of its noblest uses; to mitigate sor row, to unite the parted, to repress the? fears of the anxious. J. D. B. Antipathy to Spiders. Few people like spiders. No doubt these insects must have their merits and their uses, since none of God's creatures are made in vain ; all living things are endowed with instinct more or less admi rable; but the spider's plotting, creeping ways, aud a sort of wicked expression a bout him, leads one to dislike him as a near neighbor. In a battle between a spi der and a fly, ono always sides with tho fly ; and yet of the two tho last is certain ly the most troublesome to man. But the fly is frauk and free in all his doings; ho s'eeks his food openly ; suspicions of others, or covert designs against them, arc quite unknown to him, and there is something almost confidiug in the way ho sails around you, when a single stroke of your hand might destroy him. The spider, on the contrary, lives by snares and plots; he is at the same timo very designing aud very suspicious, both cowardly and fierce ; ho always moves stealthily, and if among enemies, retreat ing before the least appearance of danger, solitary and morose, holding no commu nion with his fellows. His whole appear ance corresponds with his character, and it is not surnrising therefore, that while the fly is more mischievous to US thau the m the brute crcatiou. The cunimisi ami designing man himself, will, at times find a leeung ot respect and resmrd tor tho guileless and generous stealing over hinir 1HS neart. as 16 were. sriVMff iue ire 10 itli were, civing life. Miss Coojxr's Rural Honrs. Bad rCeH?ig.-thc people of Union conn- have worked themselves into a , d'eal of baj feejjng toward each other in regard- t0 tbe division of the county. To jsboW how high that feeling runs, it is but I necessary to stato that the Lcwistown people (Lcwistown is tho seat of the new with intense emotion every
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