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PHILADELPHIA.
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NEWS EXTRAORDINARY FBOM CALIFOR.
MA.
We find the following letter in a New York
paper. It must be read to be appreciated.
Whatever doubts may be entertained of the
other accounts we have had from Sacramento,
it will hardly do for ntiy one to doubt this.
Some may laugh nt it; but their laughing
cannot but be good.
"A Letter from the Diggln.'
Valley of me Sacrymento, April 20, 1840.
Eddyturs of the Snndy Times : When I
wrote before, spades was trumps now it's
dimunds. These preshus stuns is found in
brilyant perfusion on the brow of the Sarah
Nevady, and several as large as fenix egus
has been seen in a mountain of gold, diski
vered last week, near the Sam Joking, and
when the snow melts, it is supposed that
many of the first water will come down with
the current. Reed dimunds is remarkabul
plenty, but ft law has been made agen ga
thoi in 'em, because it spoils the fulur crop.
None is aloud to be gathered under the size
of a piece of chaulk. Kmrulds abounds, but
nobody is green enough to pick 'em up when
they can pet dimunds. Oilier jooils is a
drug. Beyond the plains, on what they call
a plato of the mountains, bushels of little
pieces of silver has been dug up, which is
very convenient for small change.
A stream ruiiniu' into Feather River, and
partikarly rich in gold, has recently been dis
kivered by a German kunipany, and they
have skewered the joint onership by the
threatening to knife any one they calch
poaching on their fork. In honor of some
outlandish Dutch water privilege, they call
it the River Rhine-o. Some of the vplorin
'sociatiuii which has gone far into the into
reyur, sends word that the sile there is all
solid sot wilh roobees, but nobody bleves
these out lying parties.
The depth of the odiferous sands on the
Sacrymento is forty feet eleven inches and
three quarters. Wherever we find traces of
gold, we sink shafts and draw it up wilh
horses The sand is so tarnation heavy it
puts the mustancs to their metal. I tell you;
but ther's no help for 'em ; they must hang
on with all their might ami mane, or down
they go, and then its all up wilh em.
'Mense quantities of gold, at the very least,
has been sent to Pan Francisco for some time
back, ami as fast as it is got in it is turned into
ingots. Theves cannot egzist at the dignins
being hung on theslbhtest sn'pishun. Grub is
moderate; Hoods of a spiritus natur very
dear. All kinds of salt provisions is sold for
a song; the tavern keepers most given 'em
away in order to promote thirst. Salt pork
is 85 a hogshead, and brandy S10 a half pint.
Hows'ever, as gold i plenty, every Jack has
his gill.
This puts me in mind of the noose by the
steamer Calilorny, that a ship load of young
wimmen was a coming out on a marryin'
spekelashun, with one Mrs. Farnhain as
shonpercarpo. We look for the same anx-
shnsly. What is gold what is preshus stuns
without wimmen 1 Nuthin but vanity and
vexsashun of spirit. Solomon says I red it
'tulher day on a page of Proverbs I was nsoin
to ue for valil in Solomon says a wurtshus
'unman is more preshus than roobies, and in
a kutitry without pettyeoats one feels the
force of the remark. When a man has
wealth he wants hares to leave it to ; and in
. i i" n
ennrse no wives no nares. i ou commit
send me out one, could you ! I mean a wife,
not a hare. If she's sum pitted with the
small-po.t even, 1 wootlenl care. The ordina
ries! goods are valuable when there is none
in tho market. There's duzzens I woodent
n lnnkoit fit in IKa Klntne ihnt 'wt nntv a
thankfully received ami no questions axed.
You can say, and truly, that I'm worth more
an my weight in gold, for I've got quarter
orn ,un of i( j,, g,ore u, San Frm)ci8C0 b9.
Mesa sprinkling of dimnnds.
... ,
Wo have a sort of make shift government
here, (no allusion to the paragraph above,)
got up extruperry, as one may say, that an-
sers purty well for a nu kuntry. Cen. Smith
n i nt nobody. Ho is a clever chap and a
spunky, no doubt o that; but he huinst got
no more authority than a child in arms, if
thar war sich a thing in the settlement. He
ishoos general orders and proclamashuns and
sich truck, and the people read 'em, perlite
literatoor being scarce ; but wen they've red
'cm they larf, and shet one eye, and go and
do just as they d n plcese. It's alius so in
nu kuntries.
Agriculture in Californey is purty much
left to nutur. It sticks in folks' crop to be
srning corn when they can dig gold, and so
they all go to the placers to make hay while
the sun shines. This is the monster deposit
bank of the mieversal world, and we're all
cashiers and directors. Bring yer 'talers
here if you want 'em dug, we can't take the
trouble to raise 'em. Tho only wegetable
we cultyvale is the root of all evil, and if
vou'll send us the frules of the earth, you
fan have that exchange.
The rainy season being over, the weather
is settled, I bleeve the heat hasn't been be
low 99 for a week, which, with bad rum, has
proved fatal to some const itooshuns. Erai
grants of all kinds and kuntries keeps pourin
iu by land and water, aud the populashun is
very piomiscous. We Mericans keep the
upper hand of furriners so far; but it takes
considerable powder and ball. Colt's pills is
Una lor niunily. I tie bottle causes a fcood
many musses, but the barrel alus stone 'em.
t shall probably ship my pile by the Califor-
ny, and if 1 escape the cholera, the Injuns,
and the yallar fever going through Mex!co(
yon may 'spect to see ma before very long,
and perhaps sootier. cl '
A Disbanded Volunteer.
THE "ItlXNIXO OF SLAVES."
The Extraordinary Escort of Henry Box
Brown.
At the anniversary meeting of the Anti
Slavery Society of Boston, on Wednesday,
Brown, the fugitive slave, whose extraordi
nary escape from servitude in Richmond, and
almost miraculous nrrivnl at Philadelphia,
created such a sensation about two weeks
since, was introduced to the audience. He
was transported three hundred miles through
a slave-holding country, and by public tho
roughfares, in a box, by measurement, exact
ly fAret; feet one inch long, two feet wide, and
two fctx six inches deep. The following ab
stract of his story we find in the Traveller
of last evening '.
While at Richmond, though the box was
legibly aud distinctly marked "this side up
with care," it was placed on end, with his
head downwards. lie felt strange paiu,
and was preparing himself to die, preferring
liberty or death to slavery, and he gave no
sign. He was, however, relieved from this
painful position, and encountered no other
danger than the roujh handling of the box,
until it arrived in Washinaton. When the
porters who had charge of it reached the de
pot there, they threw ordiopped it wilh vio
lence to the ground, and it rolled down a
small hill, turning over two or three times.
This he thought was bad enough but the
words he heard filled him with anguish, and
brought wilh them the blacknesss of despair.
They were that the box was so heavy it
could not be forwarded on that night, but of
must lay over twenty-four hours. In the
language of the fugitive, "My heart swelled
in my throat ; I could scarcely breathe ;
great sweats came over me; 1 gave up all
hope. But it was put into my remembrance
that the preacher had said, it is good to pray
at all times. So 1 tried to pray. 'Lord Je
sus, put it into the hearts of these men to find
a war to send this box forward. While 1
was yet praying, a man came in and said,
'that box must goon : it's tho express mail.'
Oh, what relief I felt. It was taken into the
depot, and I was placed head downwards
again for the space of half an hour. My
eyes were swollen almost out of my head,
and I was fust becoming insensible, when
the position was changed."
IIii arrived in Philadelphia after many
hair-breadlh 'scapes, and the box was taken
to the house to'which it was directed. The
panting inmate heard voices whispering; af
terwards niore men came in. They were
doubtful or fearful about opening the box.
He lay still, not knowing w ho the people were
Finally, one of them knocked on the box,
and, '-U all right here!'' "All right," echoed
from the box. The finale of this simple tale
was received with deafening shouts.
In corroboration of it, Rev. S. J. May said
he was in Philadelphia in the midst of the
excitement caused by this wonderful adven
ture. llesaid that, for obvious reasons, ho
could not give tho name of the gentleman to
whom the box was consigned, but he knew
him as a warm-hearted friend of humanity.
That gentleman had told him, Mr M., that
when the box arrived at this house, he was
overcomo wilh airitution. The man mi-'ht
be dead. He hoped, yet feared. It might
be necessary to call a Coroner. He finally
assembled several true friends and then
remblingly asked, "Is all right herel" The
voice came up, ns if from the grave "All
ht." The reaction of his feelings was so
great as to stop his breath; but when he
could speak, ha wildly exclaimed, "You are
the greatest man in America."
COLD AVATLlt.
Last summer (says the New York Evening
Post) an Iri-h girl, on Long Island, attacked
with fever and ague after, being two or threo
imes cured as it was culled, by quinine, im
patient at the obstinate recurrence of the
disorder, ran, in the height of the fever, and
juiTied into a mill pond wilh her clothes on;
she came out cured ; the disorder never re-
turned. An Ohio practioner of the name of
Cook, adnptsa similar practice; our readers
(ire aware that wilh the learned it is called
hydropathy. The editor of the Layfayette
Daily Journal thus describes the method in
his own case.
"He literally dragged me from my bsd,
forced me under a showerbaih while the chill
was on me, my lips, nose, and fingers purple ;
my teelh chattering, and my whole convulsed
body giving terrible evidence of the severe
nature of the malady. There he field me,
changing niy positions under the drip for
more than a minute and the chill teas gone
It was the second,' and of congestive type,
that I had in the space of five hours. Next,
he put me under warm blankets. I slept for
over an hour. Finding the fever to be con
suming me, he again pulled me out of bed,
and forced me a second time tinder the bath.
In less than five minutes all traces of the
fever had disappeared ; and the bath, from
having at first been horrible beyond descrip.
lion, became delightful; and I could have
stood under it for hours, wooing the droppings
of it congenial waters. I came out a restored
man."
Takino Pap Ens. "What paper . do you
take 1" asked one loafer pf another.
"Why," replied the other, "I take everyone
I can lay my hands upon."
The world produces too many such news
paper taker.
URITISII rtOVALTV.
- Tat Quera and Her Hea.cboU. 1 -r
, : . vr-!"i--f-Tf . ,i'H t ' i
What constitutes the belongings of royalty
is an unsatisfied question with many. There
is a vague idea of crowds of '(teryitors( from,
the noble down to the meanly born, attend
ing upon majesty, and making ' up1 tl -great
show at a great cost, nnd Id very little pur
pose, except as regards show. The follewing
extract of a letter from the London corres
pondent of the New York Courier and En
quirer, will furnish interesting information
iu the matter:- . '
Although, as far as respecte the personal
exercise of political power, the British sove
reign can hardly be called a substantial enti
ty, yet theie is one way in which sho makes
her existence obvious to the dullest sensibili
ties of her subjects. The civil list conferred
by act of Parliament on her JMajesly, as her
regular annual allowance, is 385,000 sterling
or nearly 53,000,000. Of this enormous sum
A'60.000 are assigned for her own private use,
and the remainder is expended in the depart
ments of the Lord Chamberlin, the Lord
Steward, and the Master of. the Horse ; and
in royal bounties, charities, pensions, and spe
cial services. .. , .
Tho function of the Lord Chamberlin. who
is always a Peer of the realm, is to exercise
general supervision over the Queen's apart
ments, nnd to make arrangements in regard
to f hapluins, physicians, artisans, musicians,
and in regard to furniture, wardrobe, &c.
The appointment is always political, nnd ter
minates at the close of every administration.
Tha Lord Chamberlin never performs the
duties of his oflico in person, but his salary
is none the less on that account. It amounts
to 2.000, or nearly S10.000 annually. In
his department are a vast number of function
aries, or rather dignitaries, since, very many
of the offices are mere sinecures. .
A Master of tha Robes, whose elation is
merely honorary, receives annually $2500
I reduce it to Federal money for the conve
nience of our readers ; c-ijjht Ladies of the
Bedchamber, whose only duty is to visit and
dine wilh her Majesty three fortnights in lite
year, and w ho invariably tire the wives or
daughters, of Peers have a salary of. 42300
each; eight Maids of Honor, and eight Bed
chamber Women, who are also ladiesof hiirh
birth, and w Ins:; duty is merely to give the
Queen the "pleasure of their company" for a
few weeks in this year, have each an annual
salary of S1500; t-i-hl Lords in Waiting, and
eight Grooms in Wailing, whose business is
to ;imily visit and dine with tha Queen three
frtnig:iis in the year, have, tho former 3000
each, and the latter S1300 each; ;t Master of
Ceremonies, who introduces Ambassadors to
the Sovereign on State occasions, has S1500:
sixteen Gentlemen Ushers, wilh no duties,
have from SG00 to $1000 each; fourteen
Giooms of the Chamber, and eight Sergeants-at-Arms,
whose offices are complete sinecures
receive salaries ranging from S200 to 500.
Four Officers of Ihe Rubes, three Kings of
Arms, six Heralds, two Slate Pages, five
Pages of the Backstairs, six Pages of the
Presence, four Queen's Messengers, all re-
eive salaries us large ns most of our Slate
Governors some having real and others
merely nominal duties. Tha poet laureate,
at present Wordsworlh, receives $500 per
annum, tho Examiner of Plays $2000, and
he Surveyor of Pictures und the Muster of
Pictures and the Master of the Tenuis Court,
each high salaries. Sixty chaplains and twen-
y different physicians are attached to the
Court, some perlorming service and receiving
pay, and others not. One hundred and forly
eomen of the Guard, whose only duty is to
attend upon her Majesty on State occasions,
iu the King's costume of the sixteenth centu
ry, enjoy salaries amounting in the aggregate
to $60,000. The entire sum expended in the
Lord Chamberlin's department, including
household salaries aud tradesmen's bills, is
8350,000.
The Lord High Steward, always of noble
bitih, has a salaiy of $10,000; his duty,
which is always performed pioxy, is to govern
the Queen's household, and to provide , for
the culinary department. Ho has under him
quite a little army of treasure is, comptrollers,
secretaries, clerks, storekeepers, "yeomen of
the pantry," bakers, confectioners, cooks,
table deckers, porters, &c. Ho is also chief
judge of the Court of the Marshalsea, w hich
consists of nine murshalmeu. whose business
is the administration of justice between the
Queen's servants. The total expenditure of
tha Lord Steward's department amounts an
nually to about $600,000. , .
The Master of the Horse, who has charge
of Her Majesty's horses and stables, has a
salary of S 12,000, and he has under him a
large number of equerries, pages, postillions,
coachmen, grooms, footmen, '&o , all paid
with liberal salaries. In nis department, ns
in every other In the British Government,
there is no want of sinecures. A Master pf
the Buckhuunds, who has uo duties whatever
receives $8000 annually ; and a. Grand Fal
coner, although her Majesty possesses not a
single hawk, has en annual salary of tQOOO.
The total expenses of the Master of the Hor
ses' Department is $325,000 annually. The
office is now held by tho ' Duke of Norfolk,
the peer next in precedence to thVTtoyal
Family. His ancestors, clear back to the
Reformation, were, as he himself is, of'ihe
Roman, Catholic faith, and suffered heavy
disabilities and amercements aq account pi
their religion. It was a eiitht, curious and
suggestive enough, Iq behold, as I did last
September, on the occasion of the royal pro.
rogation of Parliament, this sturdy disoiple of
Rome seated in his official eapaoity, in the
Royal' Slate carnage',' all the special attendant
of Her Majesty, the Head ot the Established
Church. , i.-i,ij .7 , ,
' Besides the enormous list, specified above,
large nppropiiations are constantly mnde for
the maintenance of the royal palaces, castles,
pavilions, mews, parks, gardens, pleasure
grounds, stables, &c. The royal family also
draw heavily upon the public purse. Prince
Albert, as Royal Consort, the duties of w hich
station are pretty much limited to the regis
tration at Somerset House of the additions to
his family, receives annually '30,000, or
nearly 8150,000! And as Field Marshal in
the Army, a Colonel in the Foot Guards, Con
stable of .Windsor Castle, Ranger of Windsor
Purk, and Lord Warden of ihe Statuaries,
most pf which posts are absolute sinecures,
he obtains every year at least $40,000 more.
Adelaide, the Queen Dowager, relict of the
lute William IV., has an annual allowance
of 100,000. The Duchess of Kent, the
Queen's mother, receives 30,000. One of
the Queen's uncles, the Duke of Cambridge,
receives 27.000 ; another, the Duke of Cum
berland, now King of Hanover, 20,000. An
other member of the Royal Family, Leopold,
King of the Belgians, receives 50,000; and
the Duchess of Gloucester, the Queen's aunt,
16,000. . :
The grants made by Parliament from year
to year for the Royal accommodation, and
for royal salaries and pensions, do not average
less than three millions and a half of dollars
For ihe maintenance of the Royal dignity, a
very larga sum, which does not appear 'in
this calculation, is sunk in plates, jewels, &o.
The Queen's plates, at St, James's palace
alone is estimated to be worth two millions of
pounds. The crown worn by her Majesty
on state occasions, is worth SU5.000! and
that used by her at her coronation, as I was
told by its showman is priced at one million
pounds. For the consideration of a single
si.vpense; my republican vision has been daz
r.led by this latter magnificent diadem. The
ground-work is red" velvet, and it is covered
with one blnzin.g mass of opals, sapphires and
diamonds. ' Around this imperial crown)
were ranged various diadems, sceptrrs, orbs,
swords of justice and mercy, golden spurs, a
golden wine fountain three feet high and of
Ihe same circumference, a golden baptismal
font, chalices, tankards, salt ccllais, spoons,
and many other massive utensils of gold used
ut the coronation of the sovereign, or at the
christening of children of the royal family.
Besides the annual appropriations made by
Parliament, the Crown receives large revenues
from other sources, from the immense estates
it posscsies in all parts of the kingdom, fiom
admiralty droits, from Gibraltar duties, (rom
escheats, forfeitures, waifs, est rays, treasure,
troves, Sic. The revenues of the Duchy of
Cornwall amount to 20,000 annually, aud go
to the support of the young Prince of Wales J
the revenues of the Duchy of Lancaster a
mount to S 10,000, and are paid into the privy
purse of royally.
THE DEAD SEA.
We hastily noticed Lea & Blanchard's
"Narrative of the Dead Sea Expedition,"
the other day : since then we have found
lime to read it carefully through. Lieut.
Lynch says that, at the time the expedition
entered the Dead Sea, one of its members
was skeptical as to the truth of the Biblical
account respecting the cities o( the Plain,
and another was a professed disbeliever;
yet that both, when the survey had closed,
were convinced of the truth of the narra
tive in Genesis. The, Sea, according to
Lieut. Lynch, is divided into two parts,
one of which averages thirteen feet in
depth, ond the other thirteen hundred,
I- rom the manner in which the torrents
precipitate themselves down the overhang
ing mountains into this deeper part of the
tea, as well as from other signs, the expedi
tion arrived tit the conclusion that here had
once stood Sodom and Gomorrah and that
the entire plain had been sunk, by volca
nic agencies. ; . . .
The whole volume, indeed, Is full of con
firmation of the scriptural narrative. Many
of the stories, heretofore (old of the Dead
Sea, havejjeen. disproved however. Birds
are seen to fly over its waters continually )
out no nsnes are menuonea as naving oeen
caught. I ne insalubrity of trie atmospnere
ii corroborated, as well as the density of the
water, ond the greasy, atickv , feWing it
leaves. ' The entire valley of the Jordan k
once so fertile, is now described as bare and
desolate.: The 'habits of the people, all
through Palestine, still retain the same gen
eral characteristics described In the New
Testament; and, in reading descriptions of
rural scenes, in this book, similar ones, re
corded in the gospels, rise vividly before us.
The reader becomes deeply interested in
the Sherif and Akil, two Arab chieftains
who accompanied the , Expedition from
Acrej and to whose presence Lieut.. Lynch
partly alfrihutes its immunity from attack.
The Sherif was bflhe family ofthe Prophet,
and brother oft former governor of Mecca.
Akil was a Bedwioi of fine, manly pre.
sence. , cfnertius qnajuics, an indomitable
courage, aHogether a noble a specimen of
. L - I I " . ' U I -J J '1.1
me naroanan as we iiuve ueura uescnoen.
Lieu(.rLynch epppars to have visited the
holy places of Palestine, with a proper de
gree of faith. - He is far removed from
skepticism', ! yei without ti grairt of super
stition.' (Certainly, if any historical fact is
proved, the antiquity ol the Bible j that
fact ,:Thes researches, a well ,as those
of Layard at Nineveh corroborate,' not the
more modern, "but some of the -most ancient
portion! ofthe Scripture narrative.-1 1 -
''Let the iouj be, oW woman," aa the
boarder said when, his landlady was about to
fesaeve Ike plate. : . f
' ANECDOTE OF WASHINGTON;
1 The following anecdote of Washington
was told many years since j the name of
the relator is not now recollected, but it is
remembered that the connection of the in
dividual with the events of the Revolution,
was calculated to inspire confidence in its
authenticity t
C. S. one ofthe contractors for supply
ing the American Army, then (1780) sta
tioned at West Point, with fresh provisions,
had, on several occasions, when the high
price of cattle threatened to make the ful
filment of the terms of the contract not quite
so lucrative as was by him originally cal
culated, failed to furnish the requisite sup
ply, and in lieu thereof, ad interim, gave
to the Quartermaster of each regiment, a
certificate, specifying that there was due to
such regiment, so many rations of beef, &c.
These certificates did pretty well for a
while, and the privation was borne with
characteristic patience by a soldier, ac
customed to hardships, and ready to endure
anything in the cause of liberty and their
country. But even patience has its limits
the cause of the omission became at last
understood, and dissatisfaction manifested
itself throughout the ranks. Remonstran
ces from the subordinate officers had been
repeatedly made, and promises of amend
ment readily and repeatedly given, till at
last, finding that nothing but promises came,
it was found necessary to complain to the
Commander-in-Chief.
Washington after hearing the story, gave
immediate orders for the arrest of Mr. S.
Upon his being brought into camp and pla.
ced under guard, the officer having him in
charge waited upon the General to apprise
him of the fact, and to enquire in what way
and by whom the prisoner was to be fed.
"Give yourself no trouble, sir," said
Washington, "the gentleman will be sup
plied from my table.
The several hours of breakfast, dinner
and supper passed, but not a mouthful was
furnished to the delinquent prisoner. On
the ensuing day, at an early hour in the
morning, a waiter in the livery of the Gen
eral, was seen bearing upon a silver salver,
all the seeming requisites for a meal care
fully covered, and wending his way to the
prisoner's room. Lpon raising the cover,
besides the apparatus for breakfast, there
was found nothing more than a certificate
that "there was due to Mr. C. S. one break
fast, one dinner, and one supper," and
signed "G. Vashinsion.n
After the lapse of a reasonable time the
delinquent was conveyed to head-quarters.
when Washington, in his peculiarly signih-
cant and emphatic way, addressed him
with :
"Well, Mr. S. I presume that by this
time you are perfectly convinced how in
adequate to satisly tne cravings of hunger is
the certificate of a meal. I trust after this
you will furnish no further occasion for
complaint."
I hen inviting Mr. a. to share in the
meal to which he was just sitting down, he
improved the lesson bv some Inencliy admo
nitions, and gave the order forhisdischarge.
Metropolis.
SALLY CARTER.
On tho Blue Mountain there did dwell,
'A lovely damsel known full well,
Leftenant Carter's only gal,
Her father's joy and named Sail.
i One day this damsel tript it quick
Down to a stream to berries pick,
She hadn't picked but two or three
When her tool slipt, and iu went she.
' And when into' the stream she fell
' She uttered an awful yell,
And then sunk down beneath the wave,
Because no hand was near to save.
Her lover saw the horrid sight,
' And to her ran with all his miaht ;
But when from out Ihe stream he took her,
All signs of hie had quite forsook her.
He roll'd and roll'd her all about,
Aud quickly brought the water out ;
But when he found her life had tied,
' He wrung his hands and cr-i-i-ed.
And then her lifeless form he bore
Unto her anxious mother's door,
cuyiug, Mrs. Carter, here you see,
AU u hat is lett of your Sal-ee ;
: The awful news shot through her brain,
Aud down she fell nor spoke again,
' The lover he some pisen took,
And told his ghost to follow arter
. His own dear Sail and Mrs. Carter.
the Dandy and his turkey.
' Chief Justice Marshall was in the habit of
going to market himself, and carrying home
his purchases. Frequently he could be seen
at sunrise, wilh poultry In one hand and
vegetables in the other. On one of these oc
casions a fashionable young man from L ,
was swearing violently, because he could find
no one to carry home his turkey; Marshall
stepped up aud said to him :
' "This is on my way, and I will take it for
you."
When he came to the house, the young
man inquired "What shall I pay you V
"0, nothing" said the Chief Justice, "it was
on my way home, and no trouble."
. :Who was that polite old man man man
that brought heme my turkey 1 inquired the
young man of ft bystander. ,
"That," replied he f'is John Marshall,
Chief Justice of the United Stales.",
Why did he bring home my turkey!"
asked the young man. -" ' -
"To give you a severe reprimand, and
teach yotf t attend to your . own business,"
was the reply... - --..-'.. -..'..
. True, genuine greatness never feels above
doing any thins that is useful ; but especially
the truly great mail will, never feel above
helping himself .' ' ' '
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New Flour is advertised for sale in the pa
per el Augoste, Gov :.-
Am AuTO'BioGAtHT of Daniel Waster
It is stated that in the preparation of the Life
of Buckminster by Mrs. Lee, which is soon
to be published, she has had access to many
interesting pnvale papers. Among these is
a manuscript auto-biography of Daniel Web
ster. A paragraph quoted from this, shows
Us a fact which will be bolh encouraging and
consoling to diffident school boys. Mr. Web
ster says: .
"My first le'sons in Latin were recited to
Joseph Stevens Buckminster, at that time an
assistant at the academy. I made tolerable
progress in all the branches I attended to tin
der his instruction, but there was one thing
I could not do-1 I could not make a declama
tion, t could not speak before Ihe school.
The kind and excellent Buckminster espe
cially, sought to persuade me to perform the
exercise of declamation, like the other boys,
but 1 could not do it. Many a piece did I
Commit to memory, and rehearse It In my
own room, over and over again ', but wherl
the day came, when the school was collect
ed, when my name was called, and I saw all
eyes turned upon my seat, I could not raise
myself from it. Sometimes the masters
frowned, sometimes they smiled. Mr. Buck
minster always pressed and entreated with
the most winning kindness, that I would
only venture once but I could not command
sufficient resolution, and when the occasion
was over, I went home and wept bitier tears
of mortification."
A Genuine Progressive. Major Lewis
Figg, of Nelson county, Kentucky, who claims
to bo the real and genuine "Tecumseh Kil
ler," odors himself as a candidate for the
Convention to remodel the Constitution of
that State. Ho announces that he will not
only advocate the election of Judges, Magis
trates, &c, kc, by the people, but will also
go for ihe ejection of Preachers, School mas
ters, nnd Tavern-keepers. As to Sheriffs,
Constables. &c, he regards them as nuisan
ces, and says he will go for abolishing them
He considers it quite Anti-Democratic to
grant any set of men exclusive privileges,
merely to be-devil other people about paying
their debts, while they never pay their
own. Ilarrisburg Argus.
John Qcincy Adams. A life of this good
man has just been published by Gov. W. H.
Seward, of New Y'ork. The last scene of his
life is thus impressively described in it :
"He could not shake ciT the dews of death
that gathered on his brow. He could not
pierce the thick shades that rose before him.
But he knew that eternity lay closu by tho
shores of time. He knew that his Redeemer
lived. Eloquence, even in that hour, inspired
him with his ancient sublimity of utterance.
'This,' said the dying man, 'is the last of
earth !' He paused for a moment, and then
added, 'I am content.' Angels might well
draw aside the curtains of the skies to look
down on such a sceno "
Zinc Pails for Milk. An article recently
appeared in a French paper, culled the Or
leans, stating that several experiments have
been tried to find out whethei zinc could not
be advantageously substituted for pewter or
tin for milk pails. The result has proved
that milk kept iu zinc pails will curd four or
five hours later than that kept in pails of dif
ferent material, which allows all the cream
to separate. In one of the trials, three cine
pails, each Containing two gallons of milk,
have been compared with three tin pails con
taining an equal quantity of milk.
The six pails were filled with new milk on
a Monday afternoon, at thrert o'clbck; at
nine on the following Wednesday, the milk
in the pails was found almost entirely curded
while the curding In the zinc pails had
scarcely begun ; and the cream could not be
removed before two in the afternoon. The
Cream taken from the tin pans yielded two
pounds of butter, and the other two pounds
ond a half. The butter made fiom the
cream taken from the zir.o pails proved
sweeter and more agreeable to the tasie
than that which had been made from the
cream preserved iu tin pails.
What is more ctf certaIs than Life?
The editor of the Cincinnati Commercial
says, that three young men whom he saw on
Monday, at one table, in the heighih of hil
arity and social mirth, died within an hour
of each other, on Mount Adams, Wednesday
morning, of cholera! Their names were
Mussler, Scheiner and Shall. The, fourth
case occurred during the same hour a fe
male. Ji R. Underwood, whig U. S. Senator
from Kentucky, addressed a meeting in
favor of emancipation, at Bowling Green,
on the 18th ult., in which he said it had
been intimated that he and Mr. Clay would
be Instructed by the next legislature to resign
their sentsin the Senate on account of f heir
advocacy pf emancipation "But," said
he, "I will do m y duty let the consequences
be as they may." Mr. Underwood's speech,
which occupied two hours iu the delivery,
it spoked of at very able; t '
i i a I s i i - 1 '"
A Large Bsld Eagu eapturfct, alive
last week in tha Potomac, between Alexan
dria and Washing""'- Helitupoeastiok in
the titer having a book in it, which went
through his foot;
A Pssttt Kippli. "I will consent to all
yon desire," said a young female to her lover,
"oa condition that yea give what you have
not, what you never cen have, and yet what
you can give ma." .. ('What did she ash him
ftarl" 'A husband." -