1 f-rmjH-rVfrJ YJJ )'' 1 K ll '..i " 'l l IT. B, MASSER, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE, MARKET STREET, OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE. ' jW jramdg flrtosprbot to oimcS, Utttratutr, iKoralftj,, 0reffln contrstfc firta, settnce at the arts, aflr(tulturr, mnts, glmusemnus, c. v , M r ' ' Inv M II "! i t.-i j .i i yy ' ; 1 1 : 1 1 i 'II: . : i i tz wzjft jZa wfSTliXW . 6 " j." T-.!. , am drrry"-r. -r - -a a t-r-: i 1 ....,t. : 1 Tt'ltUC nd lit- I' v. h a a.nr. - b . . THE AMKRIPAN I. mMMI .. o.... (-...a. ,f DOLLARS priiiiuni to be pud hal ymrl in dvanc i, no Mer UMcmiUnuul until all arrwrweaira raui. . All eommimiuotioim or Icttur on lniini.'n relutini to ae, to imure ttuitkm, mint be P08T PAID. it "A TO CLl'DS. '' (he Threi eopiei to one addrew, CSOO r Uteen bo Do i 1000 i.T,"r, in.dv,11 will ly for threi year'iiubwrip tloa to the American. . ... r 9UU0 Obi Square of It linen, 3 time. " vr labaequent innenion, ne Bqnare, 0 moiitla, Kl.raontba. ..... On year, fc " ' 1 Buiineu Cards of Five Unri, per innum, , . Merchant! oiid otliew, ailvemnin by tin ' rear, with the privilege iiiaeninf diC ferent advei I ieeinonta weekly. ' . W Larger Ailvertiaciiieniig'ai per agreeoienf., flflO 375 I 10 00 . E..B.lA33Sx.,v : ' ATTORNEY AT LAW, ; SCKSURVjPA. 11 ' , Buefnrii itlrnileil to in the (Jouiitto of Nor luipl crlanJ, Union. I-y coming mid Columbia - UtflT to I r. &. a. PoTotjiT, tiOMicui Sl (Siunoium, . l'Mluil. l'hit Eiiroi.ir Mc ! nLn A Ca. tircKii. 'loon &. Co.. EORGE J. WBAVEH.J ED WIN It. I ITLKR. Gcrsc J. Weaver t. MOPE BlATTUTCTUltT:i:S & SHIP . CHANB1ERS. .. A'o. 19 -V. WuterSf., and It X fFtaiucs, PHii.APrxriin. HAV8 nwnt!T an hawl, penorsl nirtnienl of Mai.Jli Roi. 'farred Hope, lialuin U'pe, Bale Rpe nd Twin"-. Tow Linen, l"r Canal Kat', llow and Stern Line,, for di. Hcmij and Ci'tt-in S:iin- Twine, Linen and OMt.Hi Carpet Chain, t.'tion Vurn, Cnivile Wick, e. Gram Linen and C:t..ii, Tar. PitcS. Roam, and flakurn, Uv Cnb. PImurIi Lint. Tracca, 4.C, all ' of which thev will rii rie "f mi rnuirVe ternw. Runea or any Sixe or Detoriptiun, ' Order, at ahrtrt D'ltice. Philadelphia, Feb. 10, Ibl9. ly. SPERIIY & COOPER. COMMISSION MERCHANTS, jt : For the sale, of Fisli nnrl Provisions. .Vo. 9 M)XT1I WHARVES, PHH.AI53LPHIA. Mackerel, fclmd Kiiwon, Horrintr. Plutnlclpliiit, May .Mli, (.'oil anj Dun Fiih, Cliresc. lv. $ KHeS COOPER. URL' A CAMEKOX COOPER & CAMERON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, :, ' v V;, ; pottsvi LijTJ, KcbuyllLill Couuly, Pa., VI 7 ILL collect monica, atleinl to litigated euci, and art as a'.;rnt in the manaRcmPiU of Katttes, &r. 1'ornona deairing their irrvicei, may refer to the following gentlemen: PIIILAtlFXrlllA. David . Brrn, laaar R. T'avia. Gideon G. Werteott, Henry While, frain-ia X. Pock, Win. B. Reed. Kq., )hi Gibbmu. Fi. i el Cook, Eq., B. 11. Brewater, Etq C. Thampa.ju Jouea, NtW YORK. Won. MaeaH. Griimetl, K'ift- Oe.lni IIoiTiiwn, Hon. Jam, M'tnroe. Hon. ivm-.trd Curt i.. Moa. Alb. Lawrence, Boaro. John Aik.-a. Ij.;, Lowell.. Jan. 1, 1IM9 "Tlkx "ii TaKiTTr.?ATT ell. I'CCESSOR TO JAMKS M. E'lt-lOV. PECD.' COMMISSION k FOnwjRDiSQ MER- .'chant, , Ear tha isl. nf Crniu. Plnnr. Srrlt. Iran. Lnm. bi:r fcr. .0. 13 .ori;t iraarvis, I'llILXLCLCHTA. flood, torwdrdvd with care, to all po'utU on the Kehuylki.'l,; . Lniim, Soj-quelianna and Juniata '.'anala. lTP"lt, PIsattT, l.iritidslonei. cVr.. for sale at the lowest prices. I'liiladelpliia. June 2. 1619.ly 1 l tk TWTTtlT X3 A TV fit fi. ff . 160 Maiikct STt.i:r, I'iiiladki phia. importers of French, LnpUsh oitd formim Fancy and Staldc Stationery. - WAFERS' sa'"' "ft nd Back' " " (rammoii lioarda, 'l'a.e. Ink.itaiids, IJoini tioei, tnllott'i and other Kterl rtm, Ivory "and Bone FolJeri, PapeterK-s, (iold iitnl Silver Pencil , Cue, Briatol Doarda; Wlut.u.iit'!. I)rxwin; Pa 1 peri, Envclorm, Uond'i and .Amolti'i celelirated Inki for makinz Linrn, Portfolios. Dinincted Mun nd f laincn, MieiMtnuti, Cards, Ciold Pena, io Philadeliiliia, June S, 1S4U 3m STRAWSOITITET ' $ II AT MANUFACTORY, No. 30 North Seeond street, opposite the Madison House. THE auliecriViera would call the attention of Country Merchants and Milliner, to their fx . leniiva iHwrtracnt of fashionable eipRixo awu Svmmeu Uossiti akii Hati of (lio neweit itylei. Aiao, a large and general assortment of French ad American Artificial Flowers, Ribbons, Crown Linings, Oil Milk, Wire, Quillings, Buckram, Ac, which they offer at pricei that defy competition. N. B. Palm Leaf Hati by (he ca- or dozen. W. U. &. i. E. MAL'LL, ., . , Bonnet and Hat Manufacturers, 30 Ninth. Sd itrecL 1 Philadelphia June 8, 1S49 REMOVAL. ; , rn. J.,B. MASSER Vim removid his olliee, to the olTice formerly oc cupied by H. B. Maaser, ai the printing ofliee of the Kunbury American, back of 11. Maasor. store. SVERV KAJf HIS OWN PATBHT AGENT. MUXN A; Co, puUWien of the "SCIENTI PIC "AMERICAN," have favoured ui with a PhamDhlet conlaiililiff the Patent Laws of the United btatea, Unrether with all the furma oeceaaa- rr for applving for a Patent, mlonnatton in regard to filing caveata, with remarks on its usea, ete mount of fee required at the, Patent , Office, Hd eery other information that is neraavary to uwtruct a person in making nia own appucauoua, , , - Prica lit cents single, or 12 copies for one dol. lari Mill by mail to any part of the United Htatei. AddreaiMLMM & CU., ISew-Korlt. , .,. March 10,.84, . , , ., ,.k w ' , BO AXIDZNG. TtKE subscriber will canluMit I receive and ac- i JL. commodate a few Uanaient or permanent UOAaptai, at Oir reiiuence inouutmry. , j iie w pation iiinf handsome and pleaaant part of the town, coiiimaiiding a fine view of the Husquohin- M, Northumberland aiul the scenery adjauenU To persons from Uie city, wfco- wuu le efjend Um months in the country during theautnsaer m eoa, Bunbure slToads a dilightuil retreat ' ANN C. MORRIS Uvea 10, IH. Cm Select poetiiy. -m-i : A UIALOOIE BETWEKJI URAXDY AXD THE CIIOLKUA., . ; , . i- ' -f ' BRANDT, v , . . , ! ' Tell me drend pla?up, whvgofst thou fortli. Sprendmg dismay and' death, - . . ; From East to West, from South to North. With pestilential breath? , CHOLERA. 1 Font, poisonous drug! charge me no more. ' Willi crimes of such excew, My victims number many a core, , But thine are numberless. BRANDV. Thnt is not' truo, for I have sure ' Been often instrumentive. With pepper to effect a cure, I also am preventive. ' ' . CHOLERA. Ay, brandy, thy untimely birth, Ha caused perpetual "tears. While I hftve coursed around the earth But twice in sixteen years. iTho rich the pnor, ihn young, the old, - Are crushed bv Ihee each dav, hti.:i i r . - , . ' . it line ueaiu and evil matntold, . ' Are strewed in thy pathway, 1 Ah! many a widow' thou nasi made, And many an orphan pair O.i many a home has east a shade Of darkness and despair, So, brandy, say no more to mo Of Pest'ilent'ial breath, Awhile, and I will leavo to th?o To do the work of death. TUli ISLAM) OF C VBA. BV W. C. HRYAXT. Los Gcixt:?, April 18th, 1S49. In Uie lonp; circuit of railway which leads from Havana to Matanzas, I saw noth- n!; remarkably dimrent from what I ob served on my excursion lo San Antmiio. i here was the same smuolli country, of great apparent fertility, sometimes varied wiin gentle undulations, and sometimes, rising, in the distance, into hills covered with thickets. We swept by dark green fields planted with the yuca, an esculent root, of which the cassava bread is made, pale green fields of the cane, brown tracts of pasturage, partly formed of ubandoncd cofl'ee estates, where the palms and scat tered fruit trees were yet standing, and forests of shrubs and twining plants, grow. ng tor tne most part among rocks. Some I those rocky tracts have a peculiar appear ance ; they consist ol rouarh nrniections of rock a foot or two in height, of irregular shape and full ofholes: they are called di ente de yerro, or dog's teeth. Here the trees nd creepers had o;ieiuns filled with soil. by which they are nourished. We passed two or three country cemeteries, where that foulest of birds, the turkey vulture, was seen sitting on the white stuccoed walls, or hovering on his ragged wings in circles over them. , In passing over the neighborhood of the town in which I am now writing, I found myself on the black lands of the island. Here the rich dark earth of. the plain lies on a bed of chalk as while as snow, as was apparent where the earth had been excava ted to a little depth, on each side of the railway, to torm the causey on which it ran. Streams of clear water, diverted from a river to the left, traversed the plain with a swift current, almost even with the sur face of the soil, which' they keep in per petual freshness. As we approached Ma- tanzas, we saw more extensive tracts of cane clothing the broad slopes with their dense blades, as if the coarse sedge of a river had been transplanted to the uplands. At lenstlt the bav of Matanzas opened before us; a long tract of water stretching to the north-east, into which several rivers empty themselves. The town lay at the outh-western extremity, sheltered by hills, where the San Juan and the Yumuri pour themselves into the brine. It is a small but prosperous town, with a considerable trade, as wan indicated by the vessels at anchor in the harbor. A we passed along the harbor I remark ed an extensive, healthy-looking orchard of plantains growing on tine of those tracts which they call ditnle de perro. I could see nothing but the jagged teeth of whitish rock, and the green swelling stems of the plaintain, from ten to fifteen feet in height, and as large as a man's leg, or larger. The stalks of the plaintain are juicy and herba ceous, and of so yielding a texture, that with a sickle you might entirely sever the largest of them at a single' stroke. ' How such an array of succulent plants could find nourishment on what seemed to the eye little else than barren rock, I could not imagine. , ; ; ; . . The day after arriving at Matanzas we made an excursion on horseback to the summit of the hill immediately overlook ing the town, called the Lumbre. , Light, hardy horses oi the country were brought us, . with tiign pommels to the saddles, which are also raised behind in a manner making it difficult to throw the rider from his seat. A negro fitted a spur to my right heel, and mounting by the short stirrups, I crossed the river Yumuri with my compan ions, and began to climb the Cumbre, Thy boast at Matanzas of the perpetual coolrft'ss of temperature enjoyed upon the broad summit of this kill, where many of the opulent merchants of the town have their country houses, to which the mosqui toes and the iutermiUents which infest the town below, never come, and where, as one of them told me, you may play at bill iards in August without any inconvenient perspiration. ' ' ' . ; From the Cumbre you behold the entire ettent of the harbor : the town Km below you with its 'thicket of masts, and its dusty paAM?, where rows of the Cuba pine stand rooted in the red coil. On the opposite shore Vouf eve 1s directed to a chasm be. ' tween hich rocks, 'where the river Canl mar conr-s forth through Kinks of romantic SUNBURY, NORTIIUMBF.IlLANn COUNTY. PA.. SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1849. beauty so they are described to me and mingles with the sea. But the view to the west was much finer; there lay the valley of the Yumuri, and a sight of it is Worth a voyage to the island. In regard to this my expectations suffered no disap- jjoiiurneni. " ' Before me lay a deep valley, surrounded on all sides by hills and mountains, with the little river Yumuri twining at the bot tom. Smooth round hillocks rose from the side next to me, covered with clusters of palms, and the steeps of the southeastern corner of the valley were clothed with a wood ol intense green, where I could n t t . ll. . I ... auiiusi see me leaves glisten in the sun shine. The broad fields below were wa. ving with cane and maize, and collages of tne monreros were scattered among them, each with its tuft of bamboos and its little grove of plantains. In some parts the cliffs almost sepmed to impend over the valley : but to the west, in a eoft golden haze, rose summit behind Summit, and over them all, loftiest and most remote, towered the mountain called the Tan de Milamas. We stopped for a moment at a country seat on inc. top ot the Uumbre, where this beautiful view lay ever before the eye. Round it. in a garden, were cultivated the most showy plants of the tropics, but my attention' was attracted to a little plantation of damask roses blooming profusely. " They were scentless j the climate which supplies the orange blossom with intense odors ex hausts the fragrance of the rose. At night fall the night falls suddenly in this fati tutle we were again nt our hotel. We passed our Sunday on a sugar estate at the hospitable mansion of a planter from the United States about fifteen miles from Matanzas. The house stands on an emi nence, once embowered, in trees, which the hurricanes have levelled, overlooking a broad valley, where palms were scattered in every direction: for the estate had for merly been a coffee plantation. In the hlKro KlIliMi'nmj frntn ! ri! niv 4tia mntL? and other apparatus for making sugar, which stood at the foot of the eminence, the power of steam, which had been toil ing all the week was now at rest. As the hour of sunset approached, a smoke was seen issuing from its chimney, presently puffs of vapor issued from the engine, its motion began to be heard, and the negroes, men and women, were summoned to begin the work of the week. Some fed the fire under the boiler with coal ; others were seen rushing to the mill with ' their arms full of the stalks of the cane, freshly cut, which they took from a huge pile near the building; others lighted fires under a row of huge caldrons, .with the long italks of cane from which the juice had been crushed by the mill. It was a spectacle of activity such as I had not seen in Cuba. The sound of the engine was heard all night, for the work or grinding the cane, once begun, proceeds day and night, with the exception of Sundays, and some other holidays. I was early next morning at the mill A current of cane juice was flowing- from the mill in a long trunk to a vat in which it was clarified with lime, it was then made to pass successively from one caldron to another, as it obtained a thicker consistence by boiling. The negroes, with huge ladles turning on pivots, swept it from caldron to caldron and finally passed it into a trunk, which conveyed it to shal low tanks in another apartment, where it cooled into sugar. From these another set of workmen scooped it up in moist masses, carried it in buckets up a low flight of stairs, and poured it into rows of hogsheads pierced with holes at the bottom. These are placed over a large tank, into which the moisture dripping from the hogsheads is collected and forms molasses. This is the method of making the sugar called Muscovado. It is drained a few days, and then the railways take it to Ma tanzas or to Havana. We visited after wards a plantation in the neighborhood, in which clayed sugar is made. Our host furnished us with horses to make the excur sion and we took a winding road, over hill and valley, by plantations and forests, till we stopped at the gate of an extensive pas ture ground. An old negro, whose hut was at hand, opened it for us, and bowed low as we passed. A ride of halt a mile further brought us in sight ol the cane fields of the plantation called Saratoga, belonging to the house ol Drake & Company, of Ha vana, aud reputed one ot the finest of the isianu. u nau a uuiereni aspect irom any plantation we had seen. , Trees and shrubs there were none, but the canes, except where they had been duly cropped lor the mill, clothed the slopes and hollows with their light green bladesj like the herbage of a prairie. ' .' , ; e were kindly reeeived by the admin istrator of the estate, an intelligent Bisca- yan, who showed us the whole process of making clayed sugar. It does not difler from tbat of making the Muscovado, so far as concerns grinding and the boiling. When,, however, the sugar is nearly cool, it is poured into vessels of conical shape, with the point downwards, at which is an opening. The top of the sugar is thn covered with a sort of blact thick mud, which they , call clay, and which is several times renewed as it becomes dry. The moisture from the clay passes through the sugar, carrying with it the cruder por tions, which form molasses, in a few days the draining it complete. .'km-. We saw the workpeople of the Saratoga estate preparing ior the market the sugar thus cleansed, if we apply the word to such a process. With a rude Iron blade they cleft the large loaf of sugar just taken from the mould into three parta, called first, second and third quality, according to their whiteness. These are dried in the tun on separate platforms of wood with a 'raised' edge ; the women standing and walking in the fragments with their bare dirty feet, and be'in thrm smaller with wooden mallets and clubs. The sugar of the first quality is then acraped up and put into boxes; that of the second anA lliirrt min,r moister, is handled a third time and car ried into the drying room, where it is ex posed to the heat of a stove, and when snffi. cientiy dry, is boxed up lor the market like the other. . , . , The sight of these processes was not ol a nature to make one think with much sat. isfaclion of clayed sugar as an ingredient of loot), but the inhabitants of the island are superior to such prejudices, and use it with as liltle scruple osthey who do not know in wnai manner it is made. In the afternoon we returned to the dwelling of our American host, and taking the train at caobas, or Mahogany Trees so called from the former Growth of that tree on the spot we were at Matanzas an hour afterwards. The next morning the train brought us to this little town, situated half way between Matanzas and Havana, but a great way to the south of either. ' THE DMTROYKR. Truly the destroyer is in our midst. Among us is "the "nestilenee thnt wnlL-pth in darkness, and wasteth at noonday." Week after. week hundreds have fallen around, and, as yet, there is but little abate ment in the number- of deaths. ; Death is everywhere. We see his traces by the crape upon the door, by the "weeds" upon lamenting friends, and by the many lto- cessions which pass our streets. -ons it merely an individual here and there who falls a victim. Whole families are slwept away, 'and lascre buildings are left desolate. Directly between our riffire and residence the disease assumed a most mn- ignant aspect. The localitv is elevated from one to three hundred feet above the evel ot the river, and for a few weeks but ittle indication of sickness was manifest : but it came suddenly like the falline? of an avalanche, and the whole hill-side became a scene of suffering and wo. vilh one family we were personally ac quainted. . The parents were members of tne Church in Pittsourg, where we were stationed in 1834, and frequently had we met togetner in the house of God and in a praying circle. On Sunday, their son, a lad of some fourteen years, was severely attacked, and on Monday morning a daugh ter passed rapidly into collapse. We visi ted them on Monday, and the rest of the family appeared to be in good health. We expected to have called again, but that af ternoon we were our-flves put upon a bed of sU-kiicse-. . Jv. the. foKowiiiir Thursday. le father, mother and three daughters were swept away, the sun alone slowly recover- When we visited them, a lad v sat watch ing the boy while the parents with more particularly employed, in behalf ol their daughter, who was in severe pain. We noticed the countenance p the lady as she- sat by the bed-side. No tear dropped from her eye,' no word of sorrow broke from her ps. JJul she sat as it commun'msr with grief. She was their next door neighbor, a stranger recently from Baltimore. The j day before she had lost three children, and J one of them then lay unburied, while she was watching with her neighbors, who had been attentive to her poor departed ones. She, too, passed away," and the husband , alone remained, having, in a few days, buried his wife and all his children. Poor woman, we thought, she had met her chil dren ! Why should she weep for the sep aration of a few hours! Immediately across the street the entire family died at the same period, while in adjoining houses many were suddenly tut off. Thus has the cholera performed its office among us, removing alike the o!d man bending under the weirjht of years, and the child full of life and buoyancy. The poor and the rich have bowed before it; and though its greatest ravages have been among the foreign . population, yet many of the most estimable and pious of our native population have perished. We now hope that we have passed through the severest of the attack, and that henceforth it will diminish : but this i known only to God. Cincinnati Christian Advocate. Incidents or the Wreciof the Charles Bartlett -A lady passenger in the steamer Europa, in a tetter to the National Intelligen cer, relates the following incidents' in that terrible catnstrophe: ' ' " ' " "The wUd'tyiajr of ojlfj poor man I shall never forget ; he. literally lost his all his wife and four children, his aged parents, brother, wife, and j their children, and his whole fortune. The poor creature wrung his hands and tore his hair it .was heartrending to see him. There were 35 children under sixteen, and seven under eleven months on board,. ., Capt.' Forbes, of Bos. ton, as soon a the accident took place, pulled off bis eoal and shoes and plunged overboard rope in hand, to do. all he could; he saved one poor man, who died before he 'got him alongside the ship. .A .more heroic, deed T uever saw, and sturdy nieu shed tears when he came back to the cabin safe among us. The captuin of the wrecked bark is a 'un hurt old sailor, with thirty year of his pervjee to look back to, and, as he told us this is his first accident ; ho , had never buried a soul from any ship he had, commanded. ,j The tears rau down hi rough and sunburnt face a he told us the scene before his vessel went dOWn." , . 1 . V ... . . ..... . .. ! A lady wa asked to join a division of the Daughter, of Temperance. She replied, "It is unnecessary ; a it ii nay intention to join one of the Ron soon." '. ' ' ' , " Tub State Tax Berk county" ha paid it State tax tor the current yearf - amoun ting to $58,017. Westtrrorolap.d also has paid its dues, f Ifi.flliri. WHAT THli LADIES DO IN CALIFORNIA. A gentleman who made the trip to Califor nia via the Isthmus, writes an interesting account of his travels to a relative in Salem, which is published in the Register. We give the closing part of hi letter, dated Monterey, April" 82: Sabbath A bright and beautiful day. Distributed tract this morning to soldier. Monday All very still now in Monterey. Men at the mines. There is good society her Mr. Bott and family, (brother of Hon. John M. Bolts, of Va.;) Gen. Riley and fami- ly : Capt. Wentoott and family ; Major Canby and iamily; Mr. Larkin and family; Mr. Little and do., and others. There are sever al Pianos in town, and next to nobody to play. We do not go to theminesto preach, because of the enormous expenses of living there 33 or more a day and because people are en tirely scattered and moving. No service can be obtained, of any sort, without the greatest difficulty. Ladies have the worst of it. Mr. B. never did any work in Virginia, among troops of servants, but now she does all, and obliged to do all her work, 1 think, Including washing. "ery good when she saw she must do it, she doffed oil ceremony, and doe nobly, and it none of the worse for it yet. So Mrs. C, a woman of complete education and refinement she can do no other way, and she grows fat on it. Mrs. W. is a beautiful woman, and was brought up in luxury at home by an uncle. She brought out hired servants, and they had not done the first house clean ing, to move in, after they arrived, before they announced their intention to leave at once. Well, Mrs. W. cried awhile about it, and her husband offered $20 per month to the maid; but it was no inducement,' and away she went, and Mrs. W. has cleaned her own house, and is "well to do" yet. Gullibility of the Public The Hali fax Morning Chronicle has an article of some length on '-Bubbles," in which the present rush lo California is alluded to in connection with schemes for sudden enrichment - in for mer time. The writer says : Notwithstand ing the severity of the lesson taught by the South Sea Bubble, dupes were still to be found ready to embark in any company, how ever wild and visionary its projects might be- Some of those schemes were really so impro bable, ridiculous and absurd, that viewing them in a calm state of tniud, at the present day, we can scarcely believe it possible, that the piojectors would have had the effrontery j to lay them before the public, or that the must unsuspecting would have been gulled by them. Such, however, was the case. Whatever company was formed, had share holders whateverscheme was proposed took, 'flip re was one for a wheel for perpetual mo-1 tion, capital .1,000,000; another for impor ting walnut trees from Virginia; and another for insuring master and mistresses against losses they might sustain by their servants, 1 capital X300,000. , There was one for extract ing silver from lead, and one for fixing mer cury, and transmuting it into a fine malleable metal. We really are surprised that a com pany had not been formed, to fit out an expe dition to go in search of the philosopher's stone. But we have not yet reached the cli max. . There was ouu ingenious scoundrel, superior to all the rest, who is worthy of especial notice. He must have had a natural turn for swindling. He proposed "a Compa ny for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is" capital A'500,000, divided into 5000 shares of 100 each deposit 2 per share. In five hours after the projector had opened his office about a thousand infatuated dupes subscribed for slock end deposited each his 2 per share. The reader anticipates the result. The "un dertaking was one of great advantage," but only to the clever schemer, who decamped next day with X'2,000 in his pocket. Petkr Pence and America Neutrality. Tho New Orleans Cresent argues that our go vernment should interfere, by its neutral ob ligation, to prevent ihe collection taken up for the Pope to be tent lo him. Its argu ment is as follows: . . , "It is clear that according to the views promulgated by Mr. Clayton in regard to tha steamship United States, that the American Secretary of State must seize and sequester the sums which have been collected, for the relief of ' the Pope. The Roman Republic ha been in existence for live months, and is incontestably the government de facto of the Roman States, t But the United States being strictly neutral iu all foreign quarrels, must necessarily recognize the dt aito govern ment of a country. . If it recogui.et any oilier it cannot remain neutral. The collec tion in aid of the Pope is Tor the service of a set of rebels aiming at the overthrow of nil established government. How then can Mr. Clayton let these funds for the Pope leave tho country 1 Let him sequester them. No bond and security can be taken from tho bi shops who have made the collections; for money circulating freely from hand to hand cannpt be traced, and hence the money must be actually detained if we wish to be certain that it will not be used for belligerent purpo ses. , Let theSecrelaiy of State act promptly. The matter require immediate and decided action. . We hope the Secretary will not evade the question by saying that the United State government is bound yo prevent aid from being given tu liberal neutrals, but that it way wink at the assistance given to legiti mate sovereigns,.. If Mr. CMtou' ideas of international law are correct, they should be the same for the Papil rebel as for tho Or man liberal. MAIL ROBBERY Some desperate villain Or villains, managed to cut the traps attached to the canvass which covered the U. S. Mail, In the small vehicle which conveys it between this place and Muncy, on Friday evening last, and suc ceeded in taking the through bag for Nor thumberland and south of it, from the boot, unperceived by the driver, and conveying it to parts unknown. The robbery was first dis covered by the post master at Muncy, when about to examine the side mail for that place, when a number of citizens returned in search of it, but no trace, except portions of the straps, which were foundon Tool's Hill, about six miles from Muncy, could be discovered. From a careful examination of the road, it is evident that the robbery was committed while the vehicle was going up the above hill as the foot prints of a man were observed fur some distance west of this, apparently following the object coveted. Diligent search has since been instituted in all directions from the supposed place of robbery, but hitherto without success. The night was exceedingly dark and rainy, and precisely such an one as witnessed the memorable catastrophe recorded by Robert Burns "The wind did blow, as 'twould blow its last, The fathering storm roared on the blast j The light'niugs Hashed from pole to pole, Near, and more near the thunders roll'd; That ni'jhl a child might understand.. The De il had business on his hand." '.i Lycoming Gazette. A MONKEY'S MEMORY. Authors generally seem to think that the monkey race are not capable of retaining lasting impressions; but their memory is re markably tenacious when striking events call it into action. A monkey which was permit ted to run free had frequently seen the men servants in the great country kitchen, with its huge fire place, take down a powder horn that stood on the chimney piece, and throw a few grains into the fire, to make Jemima and the rest of the maids jump and scream, which they always did on snch occasions very prettily. : Pug watched his opportunity, and when all was still, and he had the kitch en entirely to himself, he clambered up, got possession of the well filled powder horn, perched himself very gingerly on one side of the horizontal wheels placed for tho support of sauce-pans, right over the waning ashes of an almost extinct wood fire, screwed off the top of the hoin, and reversed it over the grate. The explotsion sent him half way up the chimney ! Before he was blown up he was a snug, trim, well-conditioned monkey as you would wish to secon a summer's day ; he came down a carbonated nigger in minia ture, in an avalanche of burning soot. The thump with which he pitched upon the hot ashes in the midst of the general Hare uji aroused him to a sense of his condition. He was missing for days. Hunger at last drove him forth, and he sneaked into the house closed singed begrimmed, and looking scared and devilish. He recovered with care, but, like some other great personages, he never got over his sudden elevation and fall, but became a ladder if not a wiser monkey. If Pug forgot himself, and was troublesome, you had only to take down a powder horn in his presence, and he was off to his hole like a shot, screaming and clattering his jaws like a pair of castanets. The Last of Earth." The Irish have been grievous sufferers by the prevailing dis ease, as might be expected from the mode of life of vast numbers of them, their poor ac commodations, improper diet, and exposure. Three or four miles east of Williamsburg, there is a Roman Catholic Cemetry where great uumbeis of them are interred. The grounds occupy about three acies. They have been used for interment about two yeais. Already the whole space is occu pied with graves; yet bodies arestill interred there in great numbers. The gruve-diggers told us that for last two months there had been un average of more than 100 interments a day. During an hour and a half that we remained there, 25 bodies were brought in and interred. Tne grave are dug about eight feet deep, and several coffin are piled above each other, with a layer of earih be tween the upper colli n being within three feet of the surface. The fees are very high via: leu dollars for a grave guaranteed not to be disturbed; seven for one with tho possi bility of disturbance, two for an infant, and iu ptoportion for older children. The chances for continuance, even for those in whose be half ten dollar have been paid, our inform ant thinks, are very slight, if what he saw is to be taken as a specimen. A grave had tu be made for some person reoently dead; and . the ground being loo full to allow ihe sexton's man to conveniently ' select uncut earth, he thrust his spade into a grave which hud re ceived an occupant so recently as last Deeem bei j while, a a preliminary, he removed fron, 'he head the memorial thut some la menting relative bad, no doubt, erected there in the fond hope of it being allowed to re- main. , . . , Thi three acre of ground must be exceed ingly productive to somebody, as the fee for 100 bodie at an average of f 7 each would be $700 a day. ' Our informant supposes that bodies are interred there not only from this eity, but from Bropklin and elsewhere. The number of grave-diggers on duty was leu, I t Journal of Commerce, In a region not a hundred mites from this place, where tho "young idea" is taught "how lo shoot," they hang out a sign in the words and figure following, Jo i wit ;.- bOrD iNg FkoOl." Cin Pnpatrk. OLD SERIES VOL. 9, NO. 45. A SAD STORY. Fffect of the Will. We have thafol- lowing from a source perfectly reliable;, " A few days since there came to the Fourth street Hospital, a family of six persons, hus band and wife, two sons, and two daughter. The females were all sick the mother In the last stages of cholera. The resident physician told the father and sons, that the wife and mother were dying and could not be saved. She was, however, received, and with the girls cared for as well as the nature as the circumstances would admit. The girls were not very sick but the father and sons determined to stay and nurse them . and the mother. They were told that they could do them no good were already weary with wilh watching, and to preserve their health, had better go away and get at least one night' rest. They were persuaded; on the following morning early, they called and were informed that the mother had died but the girls were getting better. They were shown into the room where the corpse was lying. The father (a middle aged man) looked at it a few moments, calmly folded his arms and said, "I have lived long enough in this world I am ready to die." , .. I, Efforts were made to cheer him, but to no purpose. He walked back iu the yard, paced through it a short time, with hi arm folded, and his eyes fixed on the ground returned into the hospital, and said he was sick. The physician told him he thought uot, urged him not to give way lo his feelings, and wished him lo wulk out. He replied, "I am sick, and must lie down." He threw himself upon a bed, his feet and hands immediately began to cramp, and, without purging or vomiting, in a short time, he was dead. ' Soon after the father was attacked, the two boys sank down in the same way, and it was not long after his death, before they weie both in the spirit land. The girls are convalescent. This may, in a measure, account for what some have considered contagion, in cholera taking one after another in a family, until they are all gone. The progress of the dis ease is so rapid, many of the death-bed scene so heart-rending, that, upon sympathetic minds, not accustomed to sueh scenes, they must have a powerfully dangerous influence. Cincinnati Gazette. , The Freest Fashions and the Puri tans. ihe Puritan fathers watched over not only the conduct of persons, but the cut of their garments. The present style of dress, it will be ween by the following order, wa not much admired by that straight-laced sect ; July 7:h, 103!). No garment shall be made with short sleeves whereby the nakedness of the arm may be discovered in the wearing thereof, and sueh as have garments already made with short sleeves, shall not hereafter wear the same, unless they cover their arms to the wrist with linen or otherwise ; and that herufter no person whatever shall make any garment for women, or any of their sex, with sleeves more than half an ell wide in the widest place thereof, and so proportion able for bigger or smaller persons. A Bathing Companion The Boston Path. findet tells the following story : A gentle man "Down East" was accustomed to fill his bath with water at night, so as to have it ready for use when ho stepped out of bed in morning. Oil one occasion, as he was about to step into his bath, to take his usual morn iug shower, he saw Miss Puss sitting up as prim as a newly dipped candle, directly 'in the bottom of the baih, ami our hero; think ing he would havea little fun, stepped quiet ly in and closed the door. It is well known that cats have an utter abhorrence of being wet, and in this instance, when her ladyship found retreat cut off, and the water coming in upon her in torrents, she soon became desperate, and making a virtue of necetsity, used the gentleman's legs, arms, back and neck, as chtwholds to assist her in making her exit through the top opening of the bath. It is said that Ihe water emptied from the balk thut morning was considerably tinged wilh scarlet. New Invention in Baki.no. An invention ha been made in Glasgow, which promise to be of great sei vice in ihe process of baking. As it has not yet been patented, we are not at liberty to enter into detail. Some idea of its effects may, however, be formed from tha fact tbat a liltle model, a mere toy in ap pearance, standing upon a table less than a yard long, and only half a wide, is fully ca pable of doing the work of five or six baker a class of men whose labor is well known to be none of the lightest. The dough is both made and moulded by the machine into loaves of the required size and shape; and, by au original and ingenious process op mix ing and kneading, which can be doue either with or without barm, the usual loss of weight, attributed to evaporation in "raising the sponge," i avoided ; and a great miving in flour, as well as time and labor, is conse quently effected. The bread manufactured by the model of the niacliiue i of .the most excellent quality, Glasgow Citiztn. Porter is Everything. An Englishman once told an Irishman that porter was his mraf uutl drink and soon after Pat found him, having beoome heavily loaded lying in a ditch. After survey iug him for some time, he exclaimed; "Arrah my honey, you said it wa meat aud drink to you ; by my ow), it' a much better thing, for it' vAMg and Icdginj foe.
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