TRY &'f A IffllK 1 (fl A fa . 1 r MB 1 NO H; B. MASSER, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. " OFFICE, MARKET STREET, OPPOSITE THil POST OFFICE; mmmmmmmmm mwmm wmmsmssmtsm mm m mmm mmimmm bSm smmsm a fmtlu ftrtefpprr-Crtotrt to JJoHttw, ittrritvrr, ttovMts, jFcrtton ana Bomrstlt etoB, Sttmc n the jRrts, a.rtcttUttrr, 13wkrt4, Bwiuirwtniii e. NEW 8EHIRI VOL , No. m. 8 UN BURY, NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY. PA.. SATURDAY, AUGUST 11. 1849. oiti series Vol. , no. 46. JL lb JL P Crm 1 AL IV JL 1LJ JL b JL XJ I L m mm vmr wz TERM OF TUB ANGKICA. .THE AMMUCAN 1 ssbJianad tvenr Ultrtor at TWO IXlLLAk psr uiiiu lo b paid kW rMrlr in tdrsac. Wo stoat dMOwtln mtl iu ttrttrtgtt rs mM, All swwiii tiont or ietlsre at) bstiiMM rskuiac te lira St, W UHI1 SWUWU, BUM St I'VS 1 F Ail). TO CLUBS. Tkrtt espies to one asanas, , acoo rmeea va - wo Muv nve a.n in Hnim will ptv lot tkree rtar'tMbecfip. 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Dittoctad Mapa and Gamea, Cheaiinan.CarOt, Gold I ent, &.c ' Philadelphia, Junt 2, IS49. 3in STRAW E01T1TET r HAT MANUFACTORY, No. SO North Second street, opposite the Madison House flMIE tubtcrUieri would call the attention of 1. Country Merchant! snd Milliner to their es tentivt assortment of fashionable 8 rim a a no 9uMMte Bonhcti anii Ht of the newest styles. Also, a large and general assortment of French ' and American Artificial Flower, Ribbon, Crown Liaings, Oil Silk, Wire, Quilling, Duckraro, eke, which they ofler at prices thtt defy competition. IS'. B. Palm Leaf Hat bv the case or dotan. W. M. & J.'E. MAULL, Bonnet snd Hat Manufacturers, 30 North 3d street. PhUtdelphl June , 1840. HEIVXOVAL. DR. J. fe. MA8SER has removed kit enV, to tht office formerly ac tftitrSea hy H. B. Matter, as the printing Ofnce ef wit Bunbury American, back of H Milters slort. Sunbury, Feb. U; Mr Bit OWN PATJUVT AOXVf. Art:NN k Cs, wibuahars of the "SCIEKTl- i'l FIO AMERICAN," have favoured us with Phsrhphlct trwtaininf Ihs PatentLaar. of the tius mtn. toiretner wiw " Sja aeplyinf for a PaWut,iuformation in regard . f cu ....il with remaris oe, iu use, etc, a- meuntV M required at the Pstoet Oftce, and very ether information that i necetasry to inatmct a pertor4 Ri (Mama mim - rr-- " vJ-Twk .u ..nrl. or IS eopie foe sue dot lleenl b U U any parWth. United Butea. Address aiunw m. V Msw-10. - Tin rVTiDirio. THE subscriber will continue to sosive and ac commodate rait e r"?""' B.As-S,earSatdMl8wbury. Th. fXunauyaVt part the woMtlMikdina Slua view oftha Sutoushan. KauaUtaad god the soanew adjacent h (he eouhtry during the summss ssv sUHtr, worrss, aMOtmS SELECT POETKY. tum tYMfl MOTHER. T ALICE CAtCY. W wers weeping round her pillow, n For vre know that h must die : II was night within our boaomt, It wai uight within the sky, There were seven of us children, I the oldest ol them all, So I triej to whisper comfort, But the blinding tear would fall. Oh ! be kind to one another, Was my mother' pleading prayer, A her hand lay like a snow Hake On the baby's golden hair. Then s glory bound her forehead, Like the glory of crown, And in the tilent sea of death The star of lite went down. Her latest breath was bore away Upon that loving prayer, And the hand grew heavier, paler, In the baby's golden hair. TUB CHOSS OF CURIST. r mss. w. o. s. I turn, my Cod, to thee in need, And never turn in vain: I think of thy protecting love, And all is calm again. Tho' care and sorrow on me press, Thy love dipel the gloom ; And brighter joy and greater bleis My path ol lite illume. Tho' friendship's smile may b withdrawn And love's bright hope betray, Thy ernile, dear Lord, is still the same, Thy love cun ne'er decay. The mourn of life may o'ercast, And cloud hang o'er at even ; The fioss of Christ still points above, And speaks of bless in Heaven ! Tim MOTHER AND HOY. BY T. S. ARTHUR. "Tom, let that alone!" exclaimed a mother, petulantly, to a boy of seven years of age, who was playing with a tassel that hung Irom one ol the window blinds, to the imminent danger of iti destruction. The hoy did not seem to hear, but kept on fingering the tassel. "Let that be, I tell you ! Must I speak a hundred tiniest Why don't you mind at once V The child slowly relinquished his hold oi the tassel, and commenced runniug his hand up and down the Venilian blinds "1 litre! there! Do for gracious' rake let thorn blinds alone. Go away Irom the window this moment and try to keep your hands olF of things. 1 declare you are the most trying child I ever saw." Tom left the window and threw himself at full length into the cradle, where he commenced rocking himself with the force and rapidity that made everything crack again. Get out of the cradle Y What do you meau ! The child really seems possessed." And the mother caught him by the arm and jerked him from the cradle. Tom said nothing, but with the most lire perturable air in the world, walked twice around the room, and then pushing a chair up be lore the dressing bureau, took there Irom a bottle of hair lustra), and pouring the palm ol his little hands full of the liquid, commenced rubbing it upon his head. Twice had this operation been performed, and Tom was pulling open a drawer to get the hair brush, when the odor of the oily compound reached the nostrils of the lad's mother, who was sitting with her back to wards him. Turning quickly, she saw what was going on. "You!" fell angrily from her lips, as she dropped the baby in the cradle. "Isn't it too much 1" she continued, as she swept across the room to where 1 om was stand ing at the bureau dressing-glass. "I here, sir," and the child's ear rang again with the box it received. "There, sir !" and the box was repeated. "Havn't I told you a hundred times not to touch that hair out Just see what a spot ot grease you have made on the carpet. Look at your hands!" loin looked at nit nands. and seeing them lull ot oil, clapped tnem down quick ly on his jacket, and tried to rub them clean, "There! Stop! Mercy! Now tee your jacket that you put on this morning. urease irom top to bottom: Jtnt it too bad 1 I am in despair !" And the mother let her hands fall by her side, and Doay drop into a chair. "It's no use to try," she continued. "I'll give it up. Just see that jacket ! It's totally ruined. And that carpet too. Wat there ever such a trying boy T . Go down stairs this instant, and tell Jane to come up here.' Tom had reason to know that hit mother was not in a mood to be trifled with, to he went oil' briskly and called Jane, who was directed to get tome fuller's earth and put upon the carpet where trie on bad been spilled. Not at all liking toe atmosphere or nit mothers room, Tom being once in the kitchen, felt no inclination to return. Hit first work there, after delivering hit mes sage to Jane, was to commence turning the conee-mill. "Tommy," taid the cook mildly, yet nrmiy, "you know I've, told you that it was wrong to touch the coffee-mill. See here on the floor, where you bare tcattered tne cones about, and bow 1 must get broom and tweep it uo. If you tk) to, I cant let you come down here. The boy stood op and looked at the cook seriously, whilst the got the broom and twent ud the dirt be had anade. It1 all dean again aowf said tke cook pleasantly "And yon won't do to any more win your "No, I wontt touch the coflVi-mill.w And as Tom said this he sidled up to the Kniie-uoi tnat stood upon the dresser, and made a dive into it with hit hand. "Oh, no, no, Tommy ! That won't do either." said the cook. "The knives have all been cleaned, and they are to go on the table to eat with." "Then what can I play with.' Marea- rett" asked the child as he left the dresser. "I want something to play with." - I he cook thought a moment, and then went to a closet and brought out a basket filled with clothes-pins. . At the held them in ber hand, she said "Tommy, if you will be careful not to break any of these, nor scatter them about, you may have them to play with. But, remember, now. that as soon as vou be?in to throw them about the room, f will put them up again." "Uh, no, l won't throw them about." said the little fellow, with brightening eyes, at he reathed for the basket of pins. In a little while he had a circle formed on the table, which he called his fort; and inside of this he had men, cannon, sentry boxes, and other things that were suggested to hi fancy. "Where's Thomas!" asked his mother. about the time he had become fairly inter ested in his fort. "I lelt him down in the kitchen." said Jane. "Go down and tell him to come tin in stantly." Down went Jane. "Come right along up stairs to your moth er,'' said she. "No, I won't," replied the boy. "Very well, Mister! You can do as you like ; but your mother tent for you." "Tell mother I am plavinz here so wood. I am not in any mischief, am I Margaret?" ".o tommy. Hut your mother has sent lor you and you had better go." "l don't want to." Just as you like," said Jane, indiffer ently, as she left the kitchen and went up stairs. "Where's Tommy 1" was the question with which she was met on returning to the chamber. "He won't come ma'am." "Go and tell him, that if he does not come to me instantly, I will put on his night clothes and shut him up in the closet." l he threat ol the closet was generally uttered ten times where it was executed once. It made but little impression upon the child, who was all absorbed in his fort. Jane returned. In a few moments after wards, the quick angry voice of the mother was heard ringing down the stair-way. "You Tom! Come up here this in stant." 'I'm not troubling anything, mother." "Come up, I say." "Margaret savs I may play with the clothes pint. I'm only building a fort with them." "Do you hear roe !" "Mother." "Tom! If you don't come to me in a moment I'll almost tkin you ! Margaret, take them clothes pins away. Pretty play things, indeed, for you to give a boy like him. JMo wonder 1 have to get a dozen new ones every two or three months. Margaret now spoke. "Tommy you must go to your mother." She now took the clothes pins and com menced putting them in the basket where they belonged. Her words and action had a more instant effect than all the mother's storm of passion. The boy left the kitchen and went slowly upstairs. "Why did'nt you come when I told your Say?" I he mother seized her little boy by the arms the moment he came within reach of her, and dragged rather than led him up stairs, uttering such exclamations as these by the way "I never saw such a child : You might as well talk to the wind ! Humph ! Clothes pins, indeed ! Pretty playthings to give a child ! Everything goes to ruin ! There !" And as the last word was uttered, loin my was thrust into his mother's room with a force that nearly threw him prostrate. "Now, take on them clothes, sir." "What for, mother ! I hav'nt done any thing, l did'nt hurt the clothes pins. Margaret said 1 might play with them." "D'ye hear! Take off them clothes, say." "I did'nt do anything, mother." A word more, and I'll box your ears till they ring for a month. Take off them clothes I say. I'll teach vou to come when when I send for you. I'll let you know whether 1 am to be minded or not." Tommy slowly disrobed himself, while bit mother, fretted to the point of resolu tion, eyed him with unrelenting aspect. 1 be jacket and trowtert were removed, and the night drawers ordered to be put on in .L . J Ml L ' I ineir sieaa, tommy an tne wnue protest' ing fearfully that he had done nothing. "Will you hush V was all the satisfac tion he received for hit protestations. Now, Jane, take him up stairs (0 bed. He's got to lie there all afternoon." It was then tour, and the tun did not set until nearly right o'clock. Up stairs the poor child bad to go, and then the mother had tome quiet. Her babe slept soundly in the cradle, undisturbed by Tommy's racket and the enjoyed a new novel to the. extent of almost forgetting her lonely boy shut up in tne cnamoer aoove. "Where's Tommy t" taid ner friend who dropped in at six o'clock. In bed," taid the mother with a sigh. "What's the matter I . It be tick V "Oh bo. J almost wish be were." What a etraife wish! Why do you wish sot" u "Oh. because bet like a little ange when be it sick good m he can be. No, I bad him sent to bed as a punishment for ditobodieate I think I never taw one just like him. But you know obedience is everything. It is our duty to require a ,str:ci regard to tins in our children." "Certainly. If they do not obey their parent! at children, they will not obey the Jawt at men." "That it precisely the view I take. 'And I make it a point to require implicit obedi ence in my boy. This is my duly at a pa rent. But it it hard work." "It is, doubtless. Still we must perse vere, and in patience possessing our souls." "To be patient with a boy like mine is a hard task. Sometimes I feel as if I would go wild," said the mother. "But, under the influence of such a feel ing," remarked the friend, "what we say makes little or no impression. A calmly uttered word, in which there is an expres sion ot interest, and .sympathy for the child, does more good than the sternest commands. This I have long since dis covered. I never scold my children. Scolding does no good but harm. My old est boy is restless, excitable and impulsive. If 1 were not to provide him with the means of employing himself, or in some way interest him, his hands would be on everything in the hous, and both he and I would be made unhappy." "But how can you interest him?" "In various ways. Sometimes I read to him, sometimes I set him doing things by way of assisting me. I take him out when lean, and let him go with the girls when 1 send them on errands. I provide him with things suited to his age. In a word, I try to keep him in my mind, and therefore find it not very dillicult to meet his varying states. I never thrust him aside, and say I am too busy to attend him when he comes with a request. If I cannot grant it, I trv and not say no, for that word comes too coldly upon the eager desire of an ardent minded boy.-' "But how can you help saying no if the request is one you cannot grant ?.' , . "Sometimes I ask it something else will not do as well. And sometimes I endeavor to create a new interest in his mind. There are various ways in which it must be done, that readily suggest themselves to those de sirous for the good of their children. It is affection that inspires thought. The love of children always brings a quick intelli gence touching their good. ' Much more was said not ncedlul to re peat. When the friend was away, Tom my a mother, whose heart convicted her ot wrung to her little bov, wont up to the room where she had sent him to spend four five lonely hours as a punishment for what was in reality her own fault, not his. hree hours of the weary time had already passed. She did not remember to have heard a sound from him, since she drove im away with angry words. Iu fact she had been too deeply interested in the new book she was reading, to have heard any noise that was not extraordinarily loud. at the door ol the chamber she stood and istened for a moment. All was silent within. The mother's heart beat with a heavy motion. On entering, she found the order of the room undisturbed. Tom my was asleep on the bed. And his moth er bent over him, she saw that tears were upon his cheeks and eyelids, and that the pillow was wet. A choking sigh struggled up from her bosom. She felt a rebuking conscientiousness or having wronged her boy. She laid her hand upon his red cheek, but drew it back instantly. It was hot with fever. She caught up his hand ; it was also in a burning glow. Alarm took the place of grief for having wronged her child. She tried to awaken him, but he only moaned and muttered. The excite. ment had brought on a lever. When the father came home and laid his hand npon the hot cheek of his sleeping hoy, he uttered an exclamation of alarm, and started off instantly for a physician. All night the wretched mother watched by the side of her sick child, unable from fear and self-reproach to sleep. When the morning broke, and Thomas looked up into her face with a elance of affection, his fe ver was gone and his pulse calm, the moth er laid her hand thankfully against that of her boy, and prayed Heaven tor strength lo bear with nun, and wisdom to guide ber feet aright ; and as she did so in the silence of her overflowing heart, the lad drew his arms around her neck, and kissing her said "Mother I do love you !" That tears came Rushing down the moth' er's face is no cause of wonder, nor that she returned half wildly the embrace and kis of her child. Let us hope that in her future conduct towards her ardent, restless boy, the may be able to control herself-, for then . she will not find it hard to bring him into sub jection to what it right. Last Degreb op Relationship. A Hoosier ttepped on board a steamboat as she was lying at a certain port on the Ohio river, and bawled out, "Is tne captain aboard?" The captain, who wat standing among the crowd, responded' "ies; what do you want with him?' .... , K)b, nothing particular; he'ia distant re lation o. mine, and I'd like to see him." "A relation ol yours?" inquired the cap tain, somewhat surprised. ; "Yes, a slight relation; he't the father of mv first child." ' Vnu'd hitler believe the captain alooed. while the crowd enjoyed the sport to their heart's content. A Connecticut dame, the mother of large family, was one day asked the number of her children. ' - - ' - ' "La me ! she replied, rocking herself to and fro,"I,ve got fourteen j mostly boyiand Where there is no corn there will be found no crows, and where there is no money you - will find no mend ' A CAPITAL 8TORT. : Everybody hat heard of the hoax that Powers, the great sculptor, is said to have played off on Peyton S. Symmes, of Cincin nati. The sloiy has recently been resusci tated and embellished by some additions not in the original, and has been repeated so of ten tbaf Symmes naturally felt annoyed, and to relieve him, Powers was written to, and in the reply he wrote the subjoined amusing account of tho affair. It will be seon that Mr. Symmes was not the subject of the hoax and we are glnd the stojy is shifted to some body else's shoulder, for Mr. S. is one of the worthiest men we know of, his only failing eing rather too diffusive punning. But to Powers letter. Here it it, and a capital let ter it is too. Florence, March 27, 1849. To Piytoh S. Symmes, Esq. My dear Sir : In a letter from Mr. Kellogg, I am requested to state the fact,'a to an alleged imposition upon you by Mr. Henderson, the actor. It has been said In some of our papers that you weieofthe number upon whom Mr. H. im posed himself as a traxigiire, in the Western Museum, some fifteen or twenty years ago, and my name has been given as authoiity for the truth of the story. It is natural that you should disrelish such an imputation, and as the story, so far as you are concerned in it, is untrue, it is but just that you should de sire refutation fiom me. t remember to have said, whenever the story was told, that Mr. Heiidoreon had de signs upon several of our most respectable citizens, yourself of the number; but these designs were never executed, excepting upon half a doen or more persons residing in the immediate vicinity of the Museum. This was done in order to satisfy me that the thing was practicable; for Mr. Henderson hoped to prevail upon me to allow him the use of one of the large glass enclosures in the Museum for hi experiments upon a larger scale. He succeeded perfectly in duping the half dozen individuals above alluded to, but I withheld my consent to any further pro ceedings, and so tho matter ended. I allow ed hitn the ne of a small room for perform ing the experiment for I thought he would fail and that thus I should get rid of hi re quest for tho use of a case in the Museum without having to deny him a favor. When Henderson had prepared himself, one of his acquaintance was invited into the room to see an unfinished representation of Henderson, the actor, in the chaiacler of Sir Francis Gripe." On entering, ihe figure was seen standing in a corner of the room with the head leaning against an old coat, folded in such a manner us to afford a back ground, and thus prevent unsteadiness, which ini'hl lead to detection. A while wig made of horse hait decorated the head. The face was dnubbed with ochre, vermillion and lamp' black ; the features were much distorted, so that had my reputation as an artist depended upon their resemblance to the original, I mmhl have feared for the result ot the ex amination about to take place. The visitor, however, seemed disposed to flatter me ; and grateful for the permission to see an unfinith. ed work, assured me that I had been very successful in the likeness. He thought, in deed, that I had improved upon the original. f begged him to suggest any improvement that might occur to him. He replied: "Per haps you might modify that peculiar cock of the eye a little ; and if I were you, I would !'ive him a better leg, instead of those spindle shanks of his." This last remnk occasioned a decided change in the expression of the wax figure, for Hendersou thought a good deal of his legs. This change, however, was not observed by the visitor, who still regard ed the legs; but 1 had a great difficulty iu containing my own countenance, so ludicrous was the scene. The wax face had now re covered its proper expression, when our visi tor took up the lamp, and, against my dissua sive remarks lhat'the effect was best a dis tance, that the thing was not yet finished, and consequently would not bear close in spection he walked directly up to the figure and stood within a foot of it, face to face. It was evident that no trick was even suspected as be held the lamp now lo one side, them below, &e. &c, the better to examine to work. The actor's eyes had now been kept so long open without winking, that moisture was beginning to collect in the corners; ob serving which, our critic exclaimed, "Mar vellout ! How in the world did you contrive to make those tears t Did you use gum Arabic, or copal varnish ', At this, the friend who stood at my side eould refrain no longer, but laughed outright. I was obliged to laugh also but the actor still maintained the ludi orous gravity of his countenance. The critio appeared confused for a moment, staling at us inquiringly but he soon became aware that a trick bad beeu played upon him, and suddenly turning again upon the wax hgure he seised it by the nose, and the tweak he gave it would havt) proved fatal lo the syra metry of a waxen proboeis. A it was bow. ever, it did no damage to thai organ, but it brought some additional moisture to Hender son's eyes and an exclamation from bis mouth of "D n it, don't ! You forget that my note it made of vox " .Others were Introduced after this to sea the wax figure, bat I shall not attempt to describe any more of these in terviews ... V You are at liberty to make use of the above statement in a private manner, er Weed publicly, should you deem it eeesary to re fute any statements of an apposite character. With pleasant reooltoctlons of yw kind ness and civilities at Cinoinnatti. 1 beg yse believe me, very sincerely yours, . His. AM Pewits. raooRui in CALtrotittu. The rapid progress made In California, par ticularly in San Francisco, towards the stand ard of society and habits of life of our Atlan tic population, is in nothing more clearly shown than in loosing over a file of papera from that wonderful country. Wo have be fore us some numbers of the "Alta Califor nia," and as their miscellaneous and political news has been already pretty thoroughly exhausted, ws have entertained ourselves with examining their well filled advertising columns, which afford at true a picture of some branches of life in California; as can be obtained anywhere else. Conspicuous among the advertisements, we find the card of our townsman and cor respondent, Joshua P. Haven, who performs the business of Notary Public, (commissioned by Gen. Riley,) Custom House and Insurance Broker," at his office in "Portsmouth Square," Mr, Haven is not alone in the business, as we see the card of another Notary Public, who 'holds forth" in the same high-sounding locality, Portsmouth Square. The mercan tile advertisements are numerous, and the honest Yankee names engaged in such busi ness give good token of its activity. An ,:Agent for "Lloyds" and for the "Liverpool Association of Underwriters," also has his card; showing that our step father, John Bull, has an eye to the commercial advan tages of El Dorado. The variety and quality of the goods land ing from various ships and offered for sale, is astonishing. There are foulard silks and bed ticks, bar iron and fancy jewelry, brass bedsteads and cooking stoves, ready made houses and piano fortes, blankets, parasols, hams, perfumery, cod fish, cambric handker chiefs, cigars, Salamander safes, bowie knives revolvers, lifles, and every variety of dry goods, hardware, kc. The erocery and li quor trade seems to be equally well supplied. We see Pennsylvania cheese, sugar, molasses, sardines, preserves, and an infinite quantity of Cognac brandy, gin, rum, whiskey, claret; madeira, sherry, port, and other liquors, in such variety as seems to make a visit from Father Mathew desirable at San Francisco. The mania for "first rate town lots" is get ting up in California. Advantageous location!), fronting on some public square in San Francisco, "New York of the Pacific," (Phoe bus, what a name!) Benicla, Stockton, and other towns, are announced with a great flourish. The price of lots is not in all cases stated, but one advertiser offers a number at prices from $500 to S'0,0(JO pef lot. There seems to be, in the number of notice against trespassers and squatteis, abundant material for litigation, and the cards of several "At torneys at Law," ready to do the business for them, are in the same columns. Doctors drugs and patent medicines go hand in hand with civilization, & seem to be already estub lished on a sure foundation at San Francisco. The advertisements peculiar to a gold country are numerous. One tirra wants 3500 ounces in gold dust what an extravagant want '.and many others want it in various quantities- Apparatuses for assaying and Smelting gold are offered for sale, while gold scales and gold washers of the only true con Struction, seem to be abundant. A free ferry at "Gold or Mormon Island" is announced to be just established, and the steamboat 'J. A cutter" is advertised to commence running as a regular packet between San Fiancisco and Suttersville, on the 1st of July. It is a lamentable fact that among all the rticles advertised, we do not see books men tionedonce; but as a counterpoise to thi there are several notices of regular religious services, which will keep up the spirit of civilization until the shipments of books, which surely have been made, arrive- Altogether there is much to gratify in read ing the advertising columns of a San Francis co paper. 1 be womieritii transiormation irom a lifeless, rarely visited Mexican village, lo a lively, prosperous city, all affected by the in flux of our energetic and go ahead population must be welcome to every lover of humanity Some may censure the spirit that has led to this unexampled progress the love of gold But gold has done and is still doing many worse things than that; ami if the love of it leads to the development of a glorious conn try, the civilization of a semi barbarian Mexi can and Indian population, who will censure it t Who can point out, in all the previou history of the world, a result So glorious, Springing from a thirst for gold 1 Italian Women still maintain their fepu tation for love of their country, as well a its defenders- A vessel, destined for Rome, has been captured on the Tiber by the French, apparently laden with wbeUtones, but which was found to have been equip ped by a Lombard Countess, and to contain a supply of aaltpetere and 3J00 sacks of lead. The Countess wm tsken to the head quarters of Gen. Moliere, and thence to Civita Vtcchia, under the surveillance of the polite. The same lady received a medal from Cbarlet Albeit, of Savoyi for her conduct in an engagement at Pescheir, in which she lost a finger, but immediately ihot ber assailant dead. HAKttt,' said a father to bis son, while they wera working fn a saw-mill, What possesses you to associate with such girls as you dot When I was ef your age, I could go with the first cut.' . But, said Cbarlet, 'the first cut is always a slab did you know the.il' - 'Help me to turn this log, Cbarlet quick.' It is a singular fact that other diseases show most a eorresoadiof decline la the cholera ! why is this so 1 . Alt KLOPRSiBNT IN UfsUI TIME. ; The dowager Lady Ashburton died at Got-, port, England, fc short time since, and her history contains materials for a splendid to-" mance. This lady wai an American, and among other incidents of note recorded ' in connection with ber name, the following will ba read with interest : , She was the daughter of Hon. William. Bingham, a Senator in Congress, and fifty years since, her father was a wealthy and prbmlnent merchant Id Philadelphia. Ho was a man of fashion, and tne lamiiy were among the leaders of the ton in the Quaker city at that period. Then he was identified with the institution of the United States; he was recognized as one of the aristocracy, and was always remarkably attentive to the no bility visiting thitcountry. About the period he was elected by tho State of Pennsylvania, he built what was then called a Splendid and costly mansion, occupying an entire square of ground, with gardens and all kinds of em bellishments, enclosed by a brick wall, front ing on Third and Spruce stieets, and now known as Head's MakJiok House. Mr. Bingham entertained strangers, senators, and Ihe cabinet, with piincely hospitality. His family led the fashions of those limes, and a very friendly intimacy existed between him and General Washington. The French Revolutiondfove several noble men to the United States as exiles, among whom were two professed duelists, Count do Tilly and Viscount de Noailles. The Vis count either brought letters to Mr. Bingham from General Lafayette, or he obtained an introduction to him which led his admittance as an inmate in the family. Having acquired the confidenc of Mr. Bingham by his address and accomplishments, he managed to intro duce the Count de Tilly into that hospitable mansion. The Count was as noted for his profligacy as he was for hi skill with the sword ; and understanding all the arts of a seducer, he soon obtained the good opinion and admiration of Mrs. Bingham; and Miss Maria Matilda Bingham, an only daughter. In those times, and even since, a nobleman French, English; or German was received with marked attention in all wealthy families. There was much patrlc.'an blood Coursing through the Veins of the young Republic royalty and nobility were not thon, as now, at a discount. Marquises, Viscounts and Ba rons, were lionized whenevei they made their appearance, and young ladies were enamored with the titled. This Count de Tilly soon persuaded Miss Bingham to elope with him and also bribed some clergyman to unite them. The city was not then very populous and the whole world of fashion was thrown into the greatest excitement at hearing that MisS Biugliam had runaway with the French Count de Tilly ; and Mr. Bingham himself a very honest, well-meaning, but not very distinguished man; except for wealth was dreadfully mortified at this rash step of his daughter, then not iixteen years of age. The whole city called it a vile abduction. The greatest indignation was everywhere expres sed ; and Captain Barry, commanding a pac ket ship, and a man of fashion, took occasion to thrash the Count for some insolence. The couple wait forthwith separated and the affair was the subject of tea-table conversation for some time such an event seldom occurring in those quiet and innocent periods. i Mr. Euigham almost sank under the blow; but it became necessary to open tome nego tiations with the Count to buy him off, as ho only ran away with the girl for her fortune. The Count, in the course of these negotiations represented himself to be deeply in debt, and that it wai impossible to leave the coun try, without satisfying his creditors to the amount of X5,000 in ready money, and an annuity of 600, which waS paid and secured to him, and he left for France, the marriage having been declared fraudulent. ?lr and Mrs. Bingham never recovered from tho shock, and died shortly afterwards. A young English merchant, by the name of Baring, subsequently arrived in TNils-del-phia, with letters, to Mr. Bingham, and form iug an attachment for his daughter, married and carried her home. Her husband, after wards the head of tha great banking bouse of Baring il Brothers, wa created a baron, under the title of Lord Ashburton, and was the negotiator here of the celebrated Ash burton, treaty. The Dowager Lady Ashbur ton, recently deceased, was the gill who had excited so much attention and polite gossip when run sway with by the Count de Tilly, in Philadelphia, some fifty years ago. Bullion in the Banx or England. The extraordinary accumulation of bullion in the Bank of England, and which promise to go on steadily increasing for months, if not for years to coma is beginning to attract the at tention of all reflecting men. Even now there is upwards of XI 5,000,000 of gold in the leviathan establishment in Threadneedle street, and there can be no doubt that in' the course of a few weeks the amount will hava approached X 17,000,000, for no less than 700,000 is expected frortl Rossis in ten or twelve days, and nriwner iou,ov irom Panama, chiefly cousisimgw uuuumw goiuj Contemporaneously wltn wis exiraoroir, accumulation of treasure, mere it an an of unemployed notes in the Bank of 1 altogether unprecedented, tna notes now exceeds 40,500,000 jj from its diminishing, it has I oreeaing for Iho last twelvs i Dexter Ballou, the tttrtr of Woonaookat, Isge a few dtyt since, r r 1 f beef r ttas. ).) - .
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