JDcuotet la fltoliiics, literature, Agriculture, Sdeuce, iiloralitn, ana eucrai jfatdlisencc. VOL is. STROUDSBURGr. MONROE COUNTY, PA. SEPTEMBER 22, IS59. NO. 38, Published by Theodore Sehocli- TERMS. Two dollars per annum in advance lnrs per annum in advance-Two , half ycariv and if notpaiiibe euHau dollars and a quarter fore tho cntl of the yea No miners discnntfnu fixcent at Llie ont ion of the Editor JO" Advertisements of one square (ten lines) or less, bnc or three insertions, $1 00. Bach additional nisc Uoiii 23 cents. Loscr ones m proportion. scr JOB PRIWTIKG. Having a general assortment of large, plain and or namental Type, we arc prepared to execute every de Ecription of Cards, Circulars, Bill Heads. Notes. Blank Receipts, .TiiMinns. Leal and other niiinks. Paninhlcts. fee, prin tcJ.;ithJ,ClltnessunJdcspjlch' ,m ro:lsonrtl)IC tcnns Q. DUCKWORTH. JU mvx. DUCKWORTH. JOHN HAA'N. To Country Dealers. DUCKWORTH & HAYN, wiiolusale dealhrs in f it, having barely soil enough in their crev- GrOCCl'icS, PrOFiSiOllS, LiqU0rS,&C.;i to support a few dwarfish Pines. at on . nt vl. Irive miles above this is the Devil s bate No. 80 Dey street, New lork. f . c . . t , iesn 1.. a passage of the Sweetwater thronch a June 16, 1S59. ly. ,:j ,i AN OVERLAND JOURNEY xvir. laramidTo South Pass. South Pass, Rocky Mountains, ) July 5, ibso. T II 1 I 1 c L , I exhausted all the possibilities, ot ot- , . "IT taining a lodging m Laramie betore aP'; plying to the commander of the post but no one else could (ot would) afford "lG a thelter on any terms, so a lv,r tue of necessity and r'l.rl- tvlm nt. nnnfl a applied to Capt. if r ,.w o me a room i there ueiug lew troops at nus poat ai primitive methods ot Keeping coio n pay. I was treated with more than hospitality ; with generous kindness ty uapr. Clark. Lciuts. Jascc . . n n .a i 11 and loi eir, an Y u.. Dr .Tolm.s ntid vet the came at length irks because I bad already lost too much time, and was most ansious to be movini? westward. Finallv. tho mail stage from the tast! hove to sight on the morniog of June 'AUth hat baked iu-st across Laramie Riv er P on as passenger he who had occupied that exalted post thus far kindly giving way for me, and agreeing to take the slower wagon that was to follow next morning. We forded the swollen Laramie two miles above the Fort, in the tast vestiges of twi light had tae usual trouble with the mules turning about in mid-.stream, tang ling up the team and threatening to upset tho wagon but overcame it after a while, got safely out, drove on fifteen miles to Warm Spring a fountain which throws out half water enough for a grist mill, all of which is drank up by the thirsty eauds through which it takes its course before it would reach the Platte, only three or four miles di-tant. We eamped here till daylight, then lest two hours in hunting up our mules, which had been simply tied in pairs and allowed to go at large in quest of the scanty grass of this region. They were found at last, and we went on our way rejoicing. I shall not weary my readers with a journal of our travels for the last four days. nitherto since I left civilized Kansas, I traversed routes either newly opened or scarcely known to our reader"; but from Laramie I have followed the regular California and Oregon Orerland Trail, already many times described, and by this lime familiar to hundreds of thou sands. Suffice it that, for over two hun dred miles from Laramie, it traverses a region substantially described in my noteB of my journey from the Buffalo range to Denver and from Denver to Laramie, a region for tbe most part, rainless in Sum mer and Autumn, yet one whose soil of more or less sandy clay, lacking support from ridges of underlying rock, has been more seamed, and gouged, and gullied, aud washed away, by tho action of floods! 6 and streams than any other on earth a region of Huffs, and butte, and deep ra- .-0.. i a ci..nna. oiir.iinn 1 all day, repairing coacu, . m. when it started i alone percoedi ui tn v , , , ,' , . .... . -:t u ujiivo uiuiu uciun uo,c iu uv,uav.c so a a i orma. wnicii was iormer v me . ' n' an L uu the' mountains near us in several directions, rnnniiif uiilkv. even when low, witnine,'" . . . .... . w B J , ... . Aisx, mimed from their banks and sent off to render the Missourri a river of mud, and to fertilize the bottoms of tbe lower Mississippi. Occasionally, but not so frequently as south of Laramie, tho clay bills hardened into rocH Dy some aicne , KT-t U nornonii Cll hr uiy ui xavu, Ft;.u. . j. . .-- ; fronts and ruinous-castle aspects already jets aireaay ae"cn , 7 , r.mi,0!tv miles than ou any twenty miles pre tv creeks which make their way from tbe CJ lu J f. nt J . . " xt .! pi.,;o tho vou-lv; and the swift streams that tre- mountains to the North Platte or tbe , J, Sweetwater run though cano us of such q J ! the Sweetwater rock; but usually each ereek h.s washed trce or 'bush rowiDg 0D cd out for itself a wide valley and the , H J ,IttU trn? on bluffs or buttes, where 7 " am writing, on a box in the Mail ! mltl "u0" Z 'Company's stationent, there is glorious UULU. are so stunte usually tbe prospect is composed of roll- . . r r . ..i j e 1 ,ng prairie very scantily gr.8wu .uu lasting Sagebush of this desolate region. , This fs not an anomaly as might be sup-! posed tbe stem lives for years perhaps centuries, though the shoots and leaves die every Autumn. Another shrub, less common, but which often thickly covers hundreds of agrees, is tbe Greasewood a low prickly bush, growing in bunches like the Sage-bush, and looking like a bad imitation of tbe English Priret Besides the two miserable shrubs, the dry iand otheF thaD tho mountains, for hun- ,ureu8 01 uiwua, p.uuuo u burnt-up grass id patches, ond a good weeda of no known or presumed value. Of wood, the rlatle and it tributaries have at intervals a thrcd of tho eternal Cottonwood of the Plain?, much of it the more scrubby and worthless species known as Bitter Cotton wood, with a very little of the equally worthless Box Elder and that is all. But, 140 miles this side of Laramie, we leave the Platte, which here comes from the south, and strikes nearly forty miles across a barren divldo to its triuuiary, the Sweetwater, which we find jus't by - - 'this desolate rogion, with several low ! mountains of almost naked rock around porpuuuiuuiui vauuuu u icut niuu ou 1 . t r r.-i. t.jt 'which must have been cut while the rock I aiu to De uuw icet ninu a pas&agu was ttill clay. Here a large party of . ceiver at twenty-five cents. Why should IMormons were caught by the hhows of J this business go onl 'Why not "reform j Winter while on their way to Salt Lake ' it altogether!" Let Congress print wbat ; some vears since, and forced to onoamn ever documents are needed for its own j 1 Anfl that ' LUI KIIU I t lUUtj JV Ofliuill 1 pi w . ium tut. , unAt.A nf.unm a:a nrh..n. i IUUU UUI1UI w aiw.u swv w mmu j an hardship before Spring. Many I mngt haye fa),en victirag ha(J nofc ft sunnlv trin from Salt Lake reached them : early in the Spring. And here is a foun-1 . J e r t nin nf nnlrl water the first that I bad seeD for more than a hundred miles, though there is another on the long stretch Sweetwater which , but a drove of cattle ... -. , we d - tfaa weary crowd of . flalifornia were to pather to California were to gather - . . f pnihmiinn of tho "ftlo- tho "GIo- I w f w t, nous" Fourth, a and I was warmly invited jily wish I had, since I find that all oar , T1 S . r 4 e j haste was in vain. It was midnight of tho 3d when we reached the mailroute station known as the Three Crossing, from the fact that so within the next mile. We had been de- . . mHIlV lUrUIIM'a Ol LUU OnUL'lHaii: lUCiU nn na nH- hn Hi root nn1 onr ttjnll.hnnton layed two huors by the breaking away jcr, at the head of a U. S. exploring and of our two lead mules, in crossing a deep pioneer party, has just marked aud near gully after dark or rather by the fruit- jy 0pened a D0W road through tho Canon less efforts of our conductor to recover aforesaid, which makes a Northern cut them. I had been made sick by the bad 0 aut Btrikes the old Oregon trail some water I ban drank from the brooks we fourteen miles south of Fort Hall, saving crosed during the hot day, and rose in Bjxtv mieg on the journey to Oregon.and a not veYy patriotio, certainly not a joy- 8triking through to California on a north ful mood, unable to eat, but ready to- er route, which I think pushes through move on. So we started a little after to tf,e noTtb of Honey Lake, and thence suurie, and, at the very first crossing, over tnc Sierra down one of tho forks of one of our lead mules turned about and Yuba. I cannot, of course, say that ran ioto his mate, whom he threw down thig j better than the old route, but it and tangled so that be could not get up, oao hardly be more destitute of grass, and in a minute another mule was down whij0 tbe naljed fact that it divides the and tbe two in imminent danger of drown- travel affords cheering hope of a mitiga ing. They were soon liberated from tbe t;on 0f tue sufferings and hardships of tbe harness and got up, and we went out; but l0Dg journey. I missed seeing Col. Lan jun then an emigrant on the bank espied derto my regret; but I am sure he is do a carpet bag in tho water mine, of courso jng a g00f worijj for wnich thousands and fibbed it out. An examination nave reason to bless him. At all o was then had, and showed that ray trunk veDts, a great majority of the California, was missing the boot of the stage bav- , w-ltQ aij tne Oregon emigration, is turn ing been opened the night beforo our ar-1 jng 0$ on tne new roote, and I pray that rival at the Station and culpably left un- ' tuj may find on it food for their weary, fastened. We made a hasty search for fan,isbed cattle, and a safe journey to tbe estray, but without succes, and after the;r cnosen homes, an hour's, delay, our conductor drove off, Though theelevation of thePass isnear leaving my trunk still in the bottom of 8,000 feet above the ocean level, I nev tbe Sweetwater, which is said to be ten ; er en(3ured heat exceeding that of yester feet deep ju.-t below our ford. I would day in and about tho station-tent. Tbe rather have sunk a thousand dollars BUU roge clear a8 it almost always does there. Efforts were directed to be made here in Summer, soon dispelling the chill to fish it out; but my hope of ever seeing t wbiCD attends every uight in this region, it again is a faint one. Wo forded tho i aQ(j by 9 O'cl00k the heat was most in Sweetwatcr six times yesterday after that 1 tense J3ut the afternoon brought clouds, without a single mishap; but I have bard-1 an(j a pettv rajn-6quall, and the following ly yet become reconciled to the loss of'nightwas cold enough to still any mos my trunk, and, on tbe whole my Fourth . qoes but those of the Rocky Mountains, of July was not a happy one. !j 8Uspcct these would sing and bite even Our road left a soutbernly bend of with the mercury at eero. Sweotwater after dinner and took its way J per the hills, so as not to strike it again 1 1 ...1 r. 1 1. . . 1 1 :i ' a.1 a P" luruo 1,WU1 I where 1 now write. and one largo snow-bank by tbe side of a , creek we crossed ten miles back. Yet j our yesterday's road was no rougher, j while it was decidedly better, than that of any former day this aide of Laramie, as may be judged lrora the tact that, witu 11 Jl BlUH, no uiu oiAkjr uii.to ...... 1 a. m Wn aivfvr MillnO tXTltll tff heflVV-laden wag- v" .... ' . . V The grass is better for the last twen- quer's Fork, five hundred miles away.-- a cnnm.konlr tnr t w rnd 1 nn tr and several - y tbe brook; the wind blows cold at night, and we bad a little rain squall-just enough Jo lay the dust yesterday afternoon. lbe Mail Agent whom w nether? had orders not to run into Salt Lake ahead of time; so bo keeps us over hero to-day, and will then take hi days to reaoh Salt Lake, which we ratgfet reach in four. I am but a passenger, end must study patience -A word on Salt Lake Mail. Of thp seventeen bags on which I have ridden for tho last four days and better, at least sixteen are filled with large bound books, mainly Patent Office Reports, I judge but all of them undoubtedly works order cd printed at public cost your cosl, read er! by Congress, and now on their way to certain favored Mormons, franked (by proxy) "Pub. Dec. Free. J.M. Bernhisel, -M. C." I do not blame Mr. B. for clutch ing his sharo of this public plunder, and distributing it so as to increase nis own popularity and importance; but I do pro test against this business of printing books by wholesale at tho cost of the whole People for freo distribution to a part only. It is every way wrong and pernicious. Of the 8190,000 per annum paid for earrying the Salt Lake Mail, niue-tentbs is absorbed in the cost of car rying these franked documents to people who contribute little or nothing to tho support of the Government in any way. Is this fair? Each Patent Office Report will have cost the Treasury four or five dollars by the time it reaches its destin- ation, and will not be valued by tho re information, and leave tho Peonle to - . 1 - f elmnsn and hnv for themselves? I have J " speut four days and fi?e nights in close C0Qtact with tbQ Bharp edgea of Mr Bernhisel's "Pub. Doc." have done my very utmost to make them present a smooth, or at least endurable surface; and I am sure there is no slumber to be extracted therefrom unless by reading them a desperate resort which no ra- tional person would recommend, .bor all II - l- 4. 11 now that the Printer has been paid for them be where I heartily wish thev were in the bottom of the sea. XVIII. South. Pass to Bridger. Big Sandy, Oregon, July 6, 1859. I wrote last from the Mail Company's station-tentjn "Quaking Asp Canon," at the East end of the South Pass, three mad to Orefrnn as -well. But Col. Lan- Toward evening, I climbed the hill on the east of the Canon, and obtained from 1 . : .1 1 t,.. 1. . A bum mis b . P'W w f upheaved almost perpendicularly, the r- ... . . . . surface shattered and shingly, with veins 0f bard Quartz running across them. There is scarcely a bushel of sou to each square rod, and of course no grass, and ' little vegetation of any kind. To tho north, say ten or twenty miles away, is a puun - suwatu '""S" "UVJ ' " nmin Pnnn td VATA r T fllA ICAAO I fl II M tains: to the south. SOm o miles aoross the ------, Sweetwater, aro lower and less barren liil i h. with some enow-banks and eome wood Quaking Asp and Yellow Pine on their northern Blopes. lbe bweetwa tor beads among the mountains to tbe north north-west. There is a little well- gnawed crass on its immediate banks and on those tributaries on tho bigh rolling laud which fills all beside of tbe wide space between tho mountains north and tboso south, there is not a mule feed to tnnh aora. Some Greane-wood atinter- oifl tha rnrnnl Snirehiish. and a few weeds, with tho Quaking Asp and Yellow Pine Rforesaid, and a thick tangle or JUit - ter Cottonwood (which is a bad caricature of our Swamp Alder) thatching portions of a few of the smallor streaaas, comprise tho entire vegetation of this forlorn re gion We started at 7 this morning, came down to the old Salt Lake, Oregon, and gquaws each are quite common through California trail at tbo Sweetwater, oro.ss-'out this region, and young and relativc ed and left that creek finally, and trav-My comely Indian girls aro bought from ersed a slightly rolling oountry for. seven tbeir fibers by white men as regularly miles to the "Twin Buttes'' two low, clay- and opedy as Circassians at Constantino- topped mounds which mark the point from which the water run3 easterly to the Gulf of Mexico and westerly to the Pa - ciao. it any one lias pictured to uimseii the South Pass as running through some r is always brisk on Green River aud tbe narrow, winding, difficult, rocky mountain ( North Platte. That womcu so purchased : gorge, he is grievously mistaken. The j Bhould be discarded or traded off, as sa-1 road through the South Pass is the best tiety or avarice may suggest, and that , part of the route from Atchison to Cali-; they should desert or deceive their pur- J ibrnia; tbe clay has here been almost f chasors on tbe slightest temptation, can j wholly washed away and carried off, so ' surprise no one. I met an Irishman ou , that the road -passes over a coarse, heavy j Big Sandy whose squaw had recently gone gravelly sand, usually as compact and ( off with an Indian admirer, leaving him smooth as the best illustrations of the ge-, two clever, bright, half-breed children of nius of MaoAdam. I never before trav- seven and five years. I trust that plank ersed forty-five miles of purely natural in tbe Republican National Platform j road so. faultless as that through the South which affirms the right and duty of Con- -Pass which I have traveled to-day. But gressional Prohibition not only of Slavery 1 tuis tract should be pood tor roads, as it . seems eood for nothing: else. The natu ral obstaolcs to constructing s railroad through this region are not comparable to those overcome in the construction of the Camden and Amboy. Passing the Iwiu Buttes the distance between the mountains on the north and the hills on the south being not less than thirty miles, and thenceforth wesward rapidly widening we run downside of a dry, shallow water-course some five miles to a wet, springy marsh or morass of fif teen or twenty acres, covered with poor coarse grass, in which arc found the so called "Paoific Springs." The water is clear and cold but bad. Perhaps the number of dead cattle, of which tbe skel etons dot the marsh, made it so distaste ful to me. At all events, I could not drink it. This bog is long and narrow; and from its western end issues a petty brook which takes its way soutbwestwardly to the Sandy, Green River, the Colorado and the Gulf of California. Henceforth, toward the south and west, no hills are visible nothing but a sandy, barren plain, mainly covered with the miserable Sagebnsh. Twelve miles further on, we crossed Dry Sandy not quite dry at this point, but its thirsty sands would surely drink tbe last of it a mile or so further south. Fivo miles beyond this, tho old and well-beaten Oregon trail strikes off to the northwest while our road bends to the south-west. We are out of the South Pass, which many have traversed unconsciously and gone on wondering and inquiring when they should reach it. Bcven miles further brought us to Little Sandy, and eight more to Big Sandy, whereon is tbe station at which, at 4 p. m., we (by order), stopped for the night. All these creeks . . i i i-: appear to rise in me nigu mountains uiauy miles north of us and to run off with con- ctontlw rliminiahinrr volnme together to ioin the Colorado at the south. Neither has a tree on its banks that 1 have seen onlv a few low willow bushes at lone intervals though I hear that some Cot tonwood is found on this creek ten miles above. Each has a "bottom" or inter- vale of perhaps fourrods in average width , horses and let their wagon down a steep in wbiob a littio grass is found, but next pilch by ropes. They found the water of to none on tbe bigh sandy plains that sep- j Bitter Creek-along which lies their road ,rt T)rnnth nnd ster itv reum i u i t i v vu ' - , O here without a rival. Fort Bridger, Utah, July 8, 1859. WTo crossed Big Sandy twice before quitting it-onoe just at the station where , .1 l -Ci ln nnH nwim Alfhtaftfl iue auove wua wiiiieu, uuu guiu tigun-m miles further on. Twelve miles more brought us to Green River a stream here perhaps as large as the Mohawk at Sche nectady or the Hudson at Waterford. It winds with arapid, muddy current through a deep, narraw valley, mucn oi ic sanay . and barren, but the residue producing i some grass wim a lew migu juuuuuuua at intervals, and somo worthless bushes. There are three rope ferries within a short distance, and two or three trading-posts, somewhat frequented by Indians of tbe Snake tribe. Eighteen miles more of per fect desolation brought us to the next Mail Company's station on Black's Fork, at the junction of Ham's Pork, two large mill-streams that rise in the mountains south and west of this point, and run to gether into Green .River. They have scarcely any timber on their banks, but a, sufficiency of bushes Bitter Uottonwood, Willow, Choke Cherry, and some others new to me with more crass than 1 have found this side of tbe South Pass. On these streamB live several old mountaineers, who bavo large herds of cattle wbioh they aro rapidly increasing by a lucrative traf fic with tho emigrants, who are compelled toexehango their tired, guant oxenand steers for fresh ones on almost any terms. R. D., whoso tent wo passed last evening, is said to have six or eight hundred head, and, knowing the country perfectly, finds no difficulty in keeping them through Summer and Winter by frequently shift ing them from place to place over a cir cuit of thirty or forty miles J.R., who has been here some twenty odd years, began with littio or nothing, and has qui etly accumulated some fifty horses, three or four hundred head of neat cattle, three snuaws. and any number of half-breed ' children. Ho is said to be worth seven 'ty-fivo thousand dollars, though he has jnot eveu a garden, uas prouuujj uu ted an apple or a peach those ten years, and lives in a tent which woqld bo dear at fifty dollars. I instance this gentlo man's wayof life not by auy means tocooa mend it, but to illustrate tho habits of a nlaaa. White men with two qr three f pie. The usual range of prices in from : $40 to SSO about that of Indian horses. 1 1 hear it stated that though all other . trade, may De dull, that in voung squaws m tue lern tones nut ot roiygam.v also is destined to be speedily embodied in a law. We passed yesterday tbe two places at which a body of Mormons late in 1857 surprised and burned the supply trains following in the rear of the federal troops sent against them. The wagons were burned in corral, and tbe places where each stood is still distinctly marked on tbe ground. In view of all the antece dent facts, it seems inoredible that the commanding officer who allowed bis sup ply trains to follow thus in his rear, ut terly uuguarded and unwatobed, should not have been brought before a court martial. We have been passing for the last two days scores of good log or ox-chains in one instance a hundred feet together which having beon thrown away by Cali fornia emigrants to lighten the load3 of their famished, failing cattle, have been in the road for months, if not years, pass ed and noted by thousands, but by none thought worth pickiug up. One would suppose that tho traders, the herdsmen, tbe Indians or soQe other of the residents of this region, would deem these chains worth having, but they do not. I bad alreadj become accustamed to the sight of wagon-tire, wagon-boxes, &c, rejected and spurned in this way, but good, new chains thus begging for owners I have only noted this side of the South Pass. Tbey are said to be still more abundant further on, This morning, I was agreeably sur prised by a greeting from three acquain tances I made in Denver, who invited me to share their outfit and journey to California, who left Denver the morn ing before I did, and beside whom I camp ed my first night on the road to Laramie. They are just through the Cherokee trail, entering tbe mountains at Cache-la-Pou- ; dre and crossing Green River by a ferry some thirty miles below the point at which mu- - uciamuu uuu uj king a raft on which to lerry tbeir wag- on over the North Platte, and found some rough places in tbe mountains; at one of wbieh they were obliged to unhitch their ior a nunurea muea or so umur mueeu, and in some places grass was deficient; but their horses look nearly as well as when they left Denver. Their route has of course been some 250 miles shorter ' than mine, and tbey will reach Salt Lake 80a, ft d behind mQ I wish I had beon able to accompany them on their rugged and littlo-traveled route. On the other side of the Pass, we had mainly clear, hot days; on this side, they are cloudy and cool. We had a littio shower of rain with abundance of wind . fat hefore lagt another snower ast j mQre rajn -g now threateDd Yet all old residents assure me that raiu in Summer is vary rare throughout this i regiou. We stop to night at a point only 100 miles from Salt Lake, with two rugged mountains to cross, so that we are not to reach that stopping-place till Monday. II ORACE G ItEELEY. Chaffing under the Collar. A gentleman who has tried tbe plan successfully for five years, communicates the annexed methed for preventing horses from chafinp under tbe collar. He J be ts a piece 0f ieather and has what savs he calls a false collar made, which is sim ply a piece of leather cut in such a shape as to lie singly, between the shoulders of the horse and the collar. This fends off the friction, and tho collar slips and moves on the leather, and not on tho shoulders of the horse. Chafing is caused by frio tion, hence, you see the thing is entirely plausiBle. Some persons put pads or sheep-skins under the .collar; these, they say do as niuoh hurt as good for they augment the beat. A single piece of leather, like that composing tbe outside of a collar, without lining or stuffing he as sures us, is bettor than anything else. Boston Journal. Tho barber who 'dressed the bead of a barrel, has been engaged to fix up tho looks of a canal. Another argument in favor of-wearing hoops ha just beengiven at-Salisbury Point, Where a vicious cow attacked a young lady, and would have killed her, had not her hoops kept off the creature's horn. Tho qow rolled her over like a big barrel. m r -Iff- ' "" A "colored lady" attired in the heigh! of fashion, sailed into a store and electri fied the clerk, by inquiring if he had one S'S". dige7.."bU , 7)i baatle ?" Save the Han with the Bed Hair. It requires great coolness and experi ence to steer a canoe down these rapids, (the Saut St. Marie,) and a short time before our arrival (writes a correspond ent) two Americans had ventured to de scend them without boatmen, and were, consequently, upset. As tbe story was: reported to us, one of them owed bis sal vation to a singular coincidence. As tbe accident took place immediately opposite, the town, many of tho inhabitants were attracted to the bank of tbe river tor watch the struggles of the unfortunate men, thinking any attempt at a resciie would be helpless. Suddenly, however, a person appeared rushing toward tfae group, frantic with excitement. "Save' tbe man with the red hair!" be vehement ly shouted; and the exertions which were' made in consequence of his earnest ap- peals proved successful, and the red-hair-' ed individual, in an exhausted condition, was safely landed. "He owes me eigh teen dollars," said bis rescuer, drawing ar long breath, and looking approvingly oir his assistants. The red-haired man's friend had not a creditor at the Saut, andf in default of a competing olaim, was al lowed to pay the debt to nature. "And I'll tell you what it is, stranger," said the narrator of the foregoing incident, complacently drawing a moral therefrom, "a man '11 never know how necessary ho is to society if he don't make his life val uable to his friends as well as to himself."' The Distance of the Sun Increasing A German publication has given the calculation to prove that tbe distance between the earth and tbe run is annually increasing, and attributes to this fact the increasing humidity of our summers, and the loss of fertility in the soil of the for--mcrly mo3t favored regions of the earth The vegetable and animal remains found even within the recent strata of the Arc tic circle, show a degree of heat formerly prevailed there which equalled that of equatorial regions of the preseut time, and although many ingenious theories have been started to account for this desolaV tion of a ouce sunny region, none seemsr so rational as the very obvious one of a gradual withdrawal of the great source of light and heat. The Egyptians, Chinese aud other nations have traditions that at a very early period of their history the apparent diameter of the sun-was double what it now is, and according to the ta bles of tbe German savant, in tbe course of six thousand years more tbe disc of that luminary will have diminished sa that we shall receive but one eighth part of tbe solar influence which we at present enjoy, the whole earth being covered witfr eternal ice. It is now admitted by tbe most orthodox school of science that the earth and other planets were thrown ofi? from the sun, so that our globe has con--fesscdly traveled one hundred millions of miles from its birth place, and no absurdS ity exists in the supposition that it ha? not yet ceased receding, though at a con-" atantly diminished rate, which may or may not reach the 0 point before it ar rives at such a distance as to be unin habitable, when following the anology of all other known perturbations and eccen tricities among the different bodies of tne universe, it will undoubtedly retrace its steps to a point much nearer than any it hai occupied during the historic period,, and so move back and forth, like a migh ty pendulum forever, measuring off per haps thousands of ages at each beat. Or perchance, having run its course, it will" fall back into the sun as a man, who springs from dust, returns to dust again to be again evolved in the form of neb ulous matter, and again condensed into a habitable globe. Ncwburyport, Herald. How to Stop Blood. Housekeepers, mechanics and other,in handling knives, tools or any ""harp in strument, very frequently receive severe cuts, from which blood flows profusely and often times endangers life itself. Blood may be made to cease to flow as fol lows: Take the fine dust of tea, and bind it close to the wound; at all times accessi ble, and easily to be obtained. After the blood has ceased to flow, laudanum may be advantageously applied to the wound. Due regard to tbeso instruetion" will save agitation of the osind, and run ning for tho surgeon, who would, proba bly, make no better prescription if he was present. What are you staring at, sir, may 1 a9jl' eaJd an imperial mustached blood to a Hoosier, on a Mississippi steamboat' who bad been walehing him as $ caS .. watches a mouse, for some fifteen in-' utes. I thought so,' exclaimed the Hoosier, the moment tbo other spoke; 'I said you'd1 got a saouth, and I was only waitiag to be aartin about it, "to ask you to liquor. Stranger, what will. you drink ! or had you rather fight ! I don't oare whioh my self.' "Father," said a cobbler's lad, as he was pegging away at an old shoe, "they, say that trout bite good now." "WeJl, ; well,1' replied the old gentleman, "yqa ' stick to your work, sad tkey toon't bite you." "Can you tell me, Bill how it ii tVat;i rooster always keep his feathers sleek aid ' "No " .aid PHI. W1 carries an comb with nm. amootn i
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