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All solvent banks j dis t KIIMII.M , Hunk nf St Albans U Ml solvent bank. 4 dis All.olvent Imnk. di;rT"l'nder3" Si di. A CALL TO HOUSEKEEPERS At llie Cabinet Ware lloo'u of SEli'N 1IOUPT & CO. Market Square, rtjo at the enrntr nf Fawn street i" the Railroad, SUXBLTxV, PA. Thankful for tli patrnnarc nf his friend, snj customers during the 17 year, lie ha. lwcn in busi ness in this place, he solicits from the pub'ic a con tinuance of their favors. During this period he lias endeavored to keep up willi the improvements of the dsv, and lias accordingly e.tenitt'd his liusi- liass in every branch and variety. The public are therefore invited to the attention of the present stock of CABINET V. ARE AXD CHAIUS, Masufactubk.d by SEBASTIAN KOUPT & CO. At the Old StKiid, Where in addition to their former stuck f the VHtulili.hincnt they now manufacture Mahogany, Walnut & Cane-Seat Chairs, Lunre Spring Seat Mocking Chairs, Dressing Bureaus, Centre Tables, tMarble Top Wash Stands, and a variety of other new stifle and F;tliion:ibIc Furniture. Having secured a Hearse and made the neces sary arrangements for the purpose, they are now prepared for Undertaking in all it. bratiche., in this vicinity or at uny convenient distance. Ye inuiils and inistreysc, and husbands too, Here's furniture of every .tyle und hue, I-'rom side h.r.W down to kitchen tables, From rockinf chairs to locking crudlcs Hhould you not have the ready John to pay, We'll rait awhile for a brighter better day, Or take potatoes, out., corn, wheat and rye ; liurk, hoop poles, staves, or lumber wet and dry, Or any thing but yokes and threshing Hsils, Ftoin pigs aud turkies down to little quails. Come on thea friends, eome one and all, Keep trad, a moving, so .'goes on the bull." C7 Orders from a distance promptly attended to and work of all kind, delivered with dispatch. Sunbury, March 9, 1850. tf REFORM YOUR HABITS Come y., with gsrueut. hare .nd seedy, Ye boch'lors, wi.lo'ers and huslsi.ils too, If, in Hi outward man you'r aeedy; Mre soon can make you as good as uew. THE lulincribcr respectfully informs his friends and the public, that he will commence ui this place, on the 6th of April next, the TAIXOKIXG HI SI ESS in all it. branches. He will be careful to see tliut hi. work is made up in the best manner, and he flutter, himself, that he will lie able to (rive entire satisfaction in point of cut, fit and hiyle, as well a. hi price. He therefore rcsiiectl'ully solicit, hi friends and the public geuerully to cull and give him trial. Hi hoi is a new building in Fawn street lie- low Weaver's Hotel. JACOB O. BECK. Sunbury, March 30, 1850. Cm " E1)WIN1ULL, (T.iTi or TBI Finn or W.TKissoir & Hall,) Yo. 24 South Second Strut, Philadelphia, 1) ESPECTFL'LLY inform, hu old friends and customers, as well as the public generally, that hs has opened an entire new stock of elegant styles of Spring & Summer Sresi Goods. His aMurtment consists of the latest and most del fable styles of English, lierman, French Ac Ame rican Goods. Hucb as Delaines', Tissues, Urra gea, Silks, Lawns, M uslins, tSliawla, ll.lkfls, Gloves, and every variety of Dress and Fancy Goods. J'l.ilsd. March 16, 16i0.--ly SELECT POETRY. From the Daily New..J THE "LNIO.il FLAG. BY CHARLES J. LUKE.NJ. When kingly presumption loosed war's deso lation To sweep o'er Columbia and sully her eliarms, Our fathers united 1o found a new untion. Which Ihey symbolizt'd well in our blazon of arms. Their homes were thii ttsen j so they followed that number, Seven red and six white, in a serirsofbars; And paintini; love's vigilance, foreign to slumber They cho.se a blue quarter, besprinkled with stars. By the while of ihe field, they discarded op piessiod ; Showed a pasion for peace, and abhor rence of war; By tho red in excess, they premonished trans gression That it aye slioul.l be met nnd repulsed from their shore. Truth shines in Ihe quarter the tincture of heaven Youth and sirenglh. in ihe star that have ne'er paled or set ; Day by day more nppi-ar May God grant that their leavon. Increasing, the world shall rejuvenate yet ! So fashioned our fathers the FLAG OF THE UNION', Which glads every wave of woild-compas-1111" seas, Twice revered by euch man in our patriot communion, As the handsomest banner that rides on tho breee. Vi!h this sign they conquered '.Midst can non and mortar, Sword, musket and rill.', still glitters this shield, A quarter that stoops to no nation for qnar- ler A field flying ever where foes are a-ficld. As the stars and the stripes are our Slates inter-woven, Having grown thus from weakness to far- spreadino; might: Then perish the villian ! who, wanting them cloven, Would quench the blight rays in perpetual night. - May "A blacker than Cain," on his forohead be branded! May his race be accursed, as clods of a clod ! Mav tho talo to futurity's farthest bo handed That damns him, a traitor to man and to God ! a lcucr Skctcl). ' JOHN TAYLOR: TUB TIMON OF THE BACKWOODS BAR AND I'ULriT. BY CHAS. Sl'MMERFIELD. I can never forget my first vision of John laylor. It was in the court house at Lcwishurg, Conway county, Arkansas, in the summer of 1838. The occasion itself possessed terrible in terest. A vast concourse of spectators had assembled to witness the trial of a young and very beautiful girl, on an indictment lor murder. The judge waited at the mo ment for the sheriff to bring in his prisoner, and the eyes ol the impatient multitude all centered on the door ; when suddenly a stranger entered, whose appearance riveted universal attention. Here is his portrait ? a figure, tall, lean, sinewy and strait as an arrow ; a face, sal low, bilious, and twitching incessantly with nervous immunity ; a crow, nroaa, soaring, massive, seamed with wrinkles, but not from age for he was scarcely forty ; eyes, reddish yellow, like the wrathful eagle, as bright and piercing; and finally, a mouth with lips of cast iron, thin curled, cold, and sneering", the intense expression of which looked the living embodiment of an unbreathed curse. He was habited in a suit of new buck-skin, ornamented alter the fashion of Indian costume, with hues of every color of the rainbow. Elbowing his way slowly through thn crowd, and apparently unconscious that he was regarded as a phenomenon, needing explanation, this singular being advanced, and with the haughty air of a king ascend ing the throne, seated liimscli within the bar, thronged as it was with the disciples of Coke and Blackstone, several of whom, it was known, esteemed themselves as far superior to those old and famous masters. The conti'ast between the outlandish garb and disdainful countenance of the stranger, excited, especiallyj the risibility of the lawyers; and the junior members began a suppressed titter, which grew louder, and soon swept around the circle. They doubt less supposed the intruder to be some wild hunter of the mountain?, who had never before seen the interior of a hall of justice. Instantly, the cause and object of the laugh ter perceived it; turned his head gradually, so as to give each laughter a look; his lips curled with a killing smile of infinite scorn; his yellow eyes shot arrows of lightning: his tongue protruding through his teeth lit erally writhed like a serpent, and ejacula ted its asp-like poison in a single word: 'Savages !" No pen can describe the de fiant force which he threw into that term, no pencil can paint the infernal furor of his utterance, although it hardly exceeded a whisper. But he accented every letter as if it were a separate emission of fire that scorched his quiverinz lips : lavine horri ble emphasis on S, both at beginning and end of the word : "Savages!" It was the growl of a red tiger in the Aim of a rattlesnake. "Savages !" The general gaze, however, was imme diately diverted by the advent of the fair prisoner, who then came in, surrounded by her guard. The apparition was enough to drive a saint mad. For hers was a style of beauty to bewilder the tamest imagination, and melt the coldest heart, leaving in both imagination and heart a gleaming picture, enameled in fire and fixed in a frame of gold from the stars. It was the spell of an enchantment to be felt as well as seen. You might feel it in the flashes of her coun tenance, clear as a sunbeam, brilliant as the iris ; in the contour of her features symmetrical as if cut by tho chisel of an artist ; in her hair of rich auburn ringlets flowing without a braid, softer than silk, finer than gossamer ; in the eyes, blue as the heaven of southern summer, large, li quid, beamy ; in her motions, graceful, swimming, like the gentle waftures of a bird's wing in the sunny air; in the figure, slight, etherial a sylph's or a seraph's; and more than all, in the everlasting smile of the rosy lips, so arched, so serene, so like starlight, and yet possessing the power of magic or of magnetism to thrill the be holder's heart. As the unfortunate girl, so tastefully dressed, so incomparable as to personal charms, calm and smiling, took her place before the bar of her judge, a murmur of admiratidn arose from the multitude, which, the prompt interposition of the court, by a stern order of "Silence," could scarcely re press from swelling to a deafening cheer. The judge turned to the prisoner; "Em ma Miner, the court has been informed that your counsel, Col. Linton, is sick, have you employed any other V one answered in a voice sweet as the warble of the nightingale, and clear as the song of the sky-iark : "My enemies have bribed all the lawyers even my own to be nick: but God will defend the innocent!" At this response, so touching in its sim ple pathos, a portion of the auditors buzzed applause, and the rest wept. un the instant, however, tne stranger, whose appearance had previously excited such merriment, started to his feet, ap proached the prisoner,and whispered some thing in her ear. She bounded six inches from the floor, uttered a piercing shriek, and then stood trembling as if in the pre sence of a ghost from Eternity; while the singular being, who had caused her unac countable emotion, addressed the court in his sharp ringing voice, sonorous as the sound of bell-metal : "May it please your honor, I will assume the task of defending the lady." "What !" exclaimed the astonished judge, "are you a licensed attorney ?" "The question is irrevalant and imma terial," replied the stranger with a venom ous sneer, "as the recent statute entitles any person to act as counsel at the request of a party." "But does the prisoner request it!" in quired the judge. "Let her speak for herself," said the stranger. "I do," was her answer, as a long drawn sigh escaped, that seemed to rend her very heart strings. The case immediately progressed ; and as it had a tinge of romantic mystery, we will epitomise the substance of the evi dence. About twelve months before, the defend ant had arrived in the village, and opened an establishment of millinery, liesiding in a room connected with her shop, and all alone ; she prepared the article of her trade with unwearied labor and consum mate taste. Her habits were secluded, modest and retiring; and hence she might have hoped to avoid notoriety, but for the perilous gift of that extraordinary beauty, which too often, and to the poor and friend less always, proves a curse. She was soon sought alter by all those glittering fire-flies of fashion, the profession of whose life, every where, is seduction and ruin. But the beautilul stranger rejected them all with unutterable scorn and loathing. Among these rejected admirers was one of a character from which the fair milliner had everything to fear. Hiram Shore be longed to a family, at once, opulent, influ ential and dissipated.' He was himself li centious, brave and ferociously revengeful the most famous duellist of the South west. It was generally known that he had made advances to win the favor of the lovely Emma, and had shared the fate of all other wooers a disdainful repulse. At nine o'clock on Christmns night, 1S37, the people of LewlSburg were star tled by a loud scream, as of one in mortal terror, while, following that, with scarcely an interval, came successive reports of fire arms, one, two, three; a dozen dealentng roars. They flew to the shop of the mil liner, whence the sounds proceeded ; push ed back the unfastened door, and a scene of horror was presented. There she stood in the centre of the room, with a revolver in each hand, every barrel discharged, her features pale, her eyes flashing wildly, but her lips parted with a fearful smile. And there at her feet, weltering in his warm blood, his bosom literally riddled with bul lets, lay the all-dread duellist, Hiram Shore, gasping in the last agony. He articulated but a single rwetepce "Tell my mother that I am dead anufWTf'ilTfflell !" and in stantly expired. "In the name of God, who did this ?" exclaimed the appalled spectators "I did i'.," said the beautiful milliner, "1 did it to save my honor. As may be readily imagined, the deed caused an intense sensation. Public opin ion, however, was divided. The poorer classes, crediting the girl's version of the facts, lauded her heroism in terms of mea sureless eulogy. But the friends of the de ceased, and of his Wealthy family, gave a different and darker coloring to the affair, and denounced the lovely homicide as an atrocious criminal. .Unfortunately for her, the officers ol the law, especially the judge and sheriff, were devoted comrades of the I slain, and displayed their feelings in a re volting partiality. The judge committed her without the privilege of bail, and the sheriffchained her in the felon's dungeon ! Such is a brief abstract of the circumstan ces developed in the examination of wit nesses. The testimony closed and the pleading began. First of all, three advocates spoke in suc cession for the prosecutions ; but neither their names nor their arguments are worth preserving. Orators of the blood and thun der genus, they about equally pariioned their howling eloquence betwixt the priso ner and her leather-robed counsel, as if in doubt who of the twain was then on trial. As for the stranger, he seemed to pay not the slightest attention to his opponents, but remained motionless, with his forehead bowed on his hands, like one buried in deep thought cr slumber. When the proper time came, however, he suddenly sprang to his feet, crossed the bar, and took his position almost touching the jury. He then commenced in a whis per, but it was a "whisper so wild, so clear, so unutterably ringing and distinct, as to fill the hall from floor to galleries. At the out set, he dealt in puae logic, separating and combining the proven facts, till the whole mass of confused evidence looked transpa rent as a globe of glass, through which the innocence of his client shone, brilliant as a sunbeam; and the jurors nodded to each other signs of thorough conviction; that thrilling whisper, and fixed concentration, and the language, simple as a child's, had convinced all. lie then changed his posfure, so as to sweep the bar with his glance; and began to tear and rend his legal adversaries. His sallow face glowed t sa heated furnace; his eyes resembled living coals ; and his voice became the clangor of a trumpet, I have never, before or since, listened to such murderous denunciations. I was like Jove's eagle charging a flock c crows: it was like Jove himself hurling red-hot thunderbolts among the quaking ranks of a conspiracy of inferior gods! And yet, in the highest tempest of his fury, he seemed calm ; he employed no gesture save one the flash of a long, bony fore-finger direct in the eyes of his Iocs, lie painted their venality and unmanly meanness, in coal escing for money, to hunt down a poor and friendless woman, till a shout of stifled rage arose from the multitude, and even fome of the jury cried, "Shame!" Ho changed his theme once more. His voice grew mournful as a funeial song", and his eyes filled with tears, as he traced a vivid picture of man's cruelties and wo man's wrongs, with particular illustrations in the case of his client; till one-half of the audience wept like children. But it was iu the peroration that he reached his zenith, at once, of terror and sublimity. His features were livid as those of a corpse; his very hair appeared to stand on end ; his nerves shook as with a palsy; he tossed his hands wildly towards heaven, each fin ger stretched apart and quivering like the flame of a candle, as he closed with the last words of the deceased Hiram Shore: "Tell my mother that I am dead and gone to hell !" His emphasis on the word hell embodied the acme and ideal of all horror it was a wail of immeasurable despair. No language can depict the effect on us who heard it. Men groaned ; females screamed, and one poor mother fainted, and was borne away in convulsions. The whole speech occupied but an hour. The jury rendered a verdict of "Not Guilty," without leaving the box ; and three cheers, like successive roars of an earthquake, shook the old court house from the dome to the cornerstone, testifying the joy ot the people. After the adjournment, which occurred near sunset, the triumphant advocate arose and give out an appointment ; "I will preach in this hall to-night at 8 o'clock." He then glided off through the crowd, speaking to no one, though many attempted to draw him into conversation. At 8 o'clock the Court House was ajain thronged, and the stranger, according to promise, delivered his sermon. It evinced the same attributes as his previous elo quence of the bar ; the same compact logic, the same burning vehemence, and increased bitterness of denunciation. Indeed mis anthropy revealed itself as the prominent emotion. The discourse was a tirade against infidels, in which clasthe preacher seemed to include every body but himself; :t was a picture of hell, such as Lucifer might have drawn, with a world in flames for his pencil. But one paragraph pointed to heaven, and that only demonstrated the utter im possibility that any human being should ever get there. 6'rai ll'est. A Yoi'No gentleman was frequently cau tioned by his father to vote fur "measures, nut men." He promised to du so, and soon after received abouasto vote for a Mr. Feck. His father, astonished at his voting fur a man whom he deemed objecliouabl , inquired his reasons for doing so. ' Surely, father," said ihe youth, "you told me to vote for measures, and if Peck is not a measurey I don't know what is." Tin Honesdale, Wayne county, Pa., Her ald, of the 27ih ult. says : '-Quite an cxciie. ment has bwen creating among a portion of our citizens by an unaccountable 'tap! tap! lap!' which nightly disturbs the quiet of their slumber from their heavy eyelids. But what is it 1 what does it mean V fot'KD Peat. Oil Saturday morning of week before last, a stranger, name unknown was found dead in a stable belonging to the Commonwealth, at Berwick. He had been in the village for four or five days, and all that could be learned of him was that he was a jour, printer. loem.!i''rj Star. Qistorical. 1 HE BATTLE OF MOIST TABOR. Our readers, we are convinced, will feel a thrill of something deeper than pleasure, in reading the spirited description which follows; from Headley's "Sacnd Moun tains :" Forty years acroj a form Was seen stand ing on Mount Tabor with which the world has since become familiar. It was a bright spring morning, and as he sat on his steed in the clear sunlight, his eye rested on a scene in the vale below, which was sub lime and appalling enough to quicken the pulsations ol the calmest heart. That form was Napoleon Bonaparte, and the scene be fore him the fierce and terrible "Battle op Mot-NT Tahor." From Nazareth, where the Saviour once trod, Kleber had marched with fifteen thousand French soldiers forth into the plain when lo, at the foot of Mount Tabor he saw the whole Turkish army drawn up in order of battle. Fifteen thou sand infantry and twelve thousand splen did cavalry moved down on this band of three thousand French. Kleber had scarcely time to throw his handful of men into squares, with the cannon at the angles be fore these twelve thousand horses, making the earlh smoke and thunder as they came, burst in a headlong gallop upon them. But round those steady squat cs rolled a fierce devouring fire, emptying the saddles of those wild horsemen with frightful ra pidity, and strewing the earth with the bo dies of riders anil steeds together. Again and again did these splendid squadrons wheel, reform and charge with deafening shouts, while their uplifted and flashing cimclars gleamed like a forest of steel through the smoke of battle, but that same wasting fire received them till those squares seemed bound by a girdle of flame, so rapid and constant were the discharges. Before their certain and deadly aim, as they stood lighting for existence, the charging squad rons fell so fast that a rampart of dead bo dies was soon formed around them. Be hind this embankment of dead men and horses, this band of warriors stood and fought for six dreadful hours, and was still steadily thinning the ranks of the enemy, when Napoleon debouched with a single division on Mount Tabor, and turned his eye on the vale below. What a scene met his gazC. The whole plain was filled with inarching columns and squadrons of wildly galloping steeds while the thunder of can non and fierce rattle of musketry, amid which now and then was heard the blast of thousands of trumpets, and strains of mar tial music ; filled all the air. The smoke of battle was rolling furiously over the hosts, and all was confusion and chaos in his sisiht. Amid the twenty-seven thou sand Turks that crowded the plain and en veloped their enemy like a cloud, and amid the incessant discharge of artillery and musketry, Napoleon could not tell where his own brave troops were struggling, only by the steady, simultaneous volleys which showed how discipline was contending with the wild va!or of overpowering num bers. The constant flashes from behind that rampart ol dead bodies were like spots of flame on the tumultuous and chaotic fi. Id. Napoleon descended from Mount Tabor with his little hand, while a single twelve pounder fired from the heights, told the wearied Kleber that he was rushing to the rescue. Then for the first time he took the olleiisive, and poured his enthusiastic followers, on the fallen foe, carrying death and terror over the field. Thrown into confusion and trampled under foot, that mighty army rolled turbulently back to wards the Jordan, where Murat was an xiously waiting to mingle in the fight. Dashing with his cavalry among the disor dered ranks, he sabred them down without mercy, and ra,-;l like a lion amid the prey. This chivalric and romantic warrior de clared that the remembrance of the scenes that once transpired on Mount Tabor, and on these thrice consecrated spots came to him in the holiest of the fight and nerved him with tenfold courage. As the sun went down over the plains of Palestine, and twilight shed its dim ray over the r.'iit anil trodden and dead covered field, a sulphurous cloud hung around the summit of Mount Tabor. The smoke of battle had settled there where once the cloud of glory rested, while groans and shrieks and cries rent the air. Nazareth, Jordan and Mount Tabor what spots for a battle-field ! Boll back twenty centuries and again view that hill. The day is bright and beautiful as then, and the same rich orien tal landscape is smiling in the same sun. There is Nazareth with its busy population the same Nazareth from which Kleber inarched his army ; and there Is Jordan rolling its bright waters along the same Jordan along whose banks charged the glit tering squadrons of Murat's cavalry ; and there is Mount Tabor the rame on which Bonaparte stood with his cannon ; and the same beautiful plain where rolled the smoke ot mortal combat. But how different is the scene that is passing there. The Son of God stands on that height and casts his eye over the quiet valley through which Jordan winds its silver current. Three friends are beside him; they have walked together up the toilsome way, and now the four stand, mere specs on the distant sum mit. Far away to the north-west shines the blue Mediterranean all around is the great plain of Esdradon and Galilee east ward, the lake of Tiberias dots the land scape while Mount Carmel lifts its naked summit in the distance. But the glorious landscape at their feet it forgotten in a sublimer scene that is passing before them. The son of Mary the carpenter of Naza reth the wanderer with whom tbey have eaten and drank, and travelled on foot many a weary league, in all the intimacy ol companions and friends, begins to change before their eyes. Over his soiled and coarse garments is spreading a si range light, steadily brightening into intenser beauty, till that form glows with such splendour that it seems to wave to and fro and dissolve in the still radiance. The three Astonished friends gaze on it in speechless admiration, and then turn to that familiar face. But lo, a greater change has nassed over it. Tho man had nut nn the God, and that sad solemn countenanced wnicn has been so often stooping over the couch of the dying, and entering the door of the hut of poverty, and passing through the streets of Jerusalem, and paus ing by the wayside eye, bedewed with tears of pify now burns like the sun in his midday splendour. Meekness has given way to maiestv sadness to dazzlin? edorv the look of pity to the grandeur of God. THE TIN TANS Or Life In California. I heard of a 'good one' that occurred a few days previous to my arrival here, which shows that the Elephant can travel beyond hiscustomy limits when occasion requires. A ship-load of passengers had just arrived below, and a number from tho shore went off to meet their expected friends. One of them stepping up to a man who was about to toss an old tin pot over the side, exclaimed, with much surprise, 'Why, my dear sir, what are you about 1 Don't wasle such valuable pro perty in that way. Here, (taking some gold from his pocket) I'll give you an once for it they're worth two ashore.' Tho ruse succeeded j our passenger, think ing ho could do the same, like a true Yankee refused him. The other had 'let out' a Icetlc too much, nnd lost the trade. Down dove the passenger into the steerage, to buy up all tho tin pots, pans, kettles, &c, that he could muster, knowing his fortune would bo made in a hurry; but his earnestness to buy only aroused the suspicions ot the others, and they began to hold on to their valuable tin ware, till finally one had the boldness to ask an otinco for a new pan, not dreaming bo would pntchase, but he took him up and paid him the money. This was enough; ho couldn't buy any more nf the price; but he had been fortunate enough to obtain nearly a hundred, at a cost of ttro hundred dollarr, and, as he strung them together, he would mumble to j himself "This ono will bring me three ounces this one two here's a coffee pol, bran new, I won't sell under five,' till ho had completed his bundle. On deck he scrambled, and hailed the nearest boat for a passage ashore. 'Got an ounce to pay for it V mid he; 'and' (seeing his huge pile of tin afoot) 'another for your traps." This was a drain on his pocket he had not calculated on; but ho found it useless to ex postulate, so he reluctantly forked over the amount, and they shoved off. About half way to the shore, they were boarded by an officer of tho Customs, who informed him that he must return immediataly to the ship, until she had been inspected. Here was another 'damper. "Giro him an ounce for security, nnd he'll let you pass on,' whispered the boatman in his ear, at tho same moment loosing the sheet and making preparations to 'go about.' He hesitated, felt his empty pocket, looking at his certain fortune, and out with the dust gave his name with a long curse after it, and then left him. But he consoled himself with the enormous profit to be realized on his pre cious tins, till having reached the pier, he sang out to a loafer on the dock to catch his bundle. 'Do it for an ounce!' was tho only reply, as ho moved off. 'Deuce take your ounces, answered Ihe ped lar, 'you look as if you had taken one In drains at the last rum hole.' With the assistance of the lioatmnn, ho managed get on to terra firmn, and hastened off. The first man he saw, attracted bv his glittering prize, he fro.a to, but kept his ton gue tied, hoping to receive an offer, for he now began to imagine that he had set loo small a value on them; but the man passed on, merely saying tiiat he would find richer men than he was, farther up. This whs enough ; four ounces was now too small a sum for them, and away he went gazing at the thousand tents that covered tho ground on cither side, and looking with a air of pride at every one he met. Presently he saw some thing in the road that looked very much like tin ware,-and taking it from the mud, lo his great astonishment, found that it was a tin pan, as good, with the exception of a (mall hole and a dent in the bottom, as any in his bundle. This was a poser ; he began to 'smell a rat,' and going into the first tent with many sad forebodings, enquired the slate of Ihe tin market. 'Don't uso 'em ; nothing but the gilt ones suits me now,' said the man. 'Why, you must be joking ! They told me aboard they were worth two ounces ashore !' exclaimed the now crest-fallen pedlar. 'So use for 'em ; they won't go in this market,' said tho other, and at Ihe same mo ment his clerk placed his digit just beneath his right eye, and slightly drew itlown. ,:DuId, by Gemini!' said ihe pedlar, walk ing off, and flinging bis wares into ihe first vacant lot. Uut ol Iliat, tnal s my property !' cried a savage looking fellow, drawing a revolver and cocking it. 'Off with your rubbish, or I'll blow you to thunder !' Perhaps they did gooff a little the quickest Our emigrant began to open his eyes, but he was rm for it,' and determined lo make money or die game. Feeling hungry he step ped into a cotton lent, on which was painted in large green letters, 'Refreshments furniih ed at all hours, and Seating himself at a rough board bench, he railed for aornd fresh meat and a cup of coffee, which Wa food fat before him in a very small dish. Ten dollar, sare, if yon please ) very cheap sare,' sare the waiter, eyeing hii customer rather closely. Cheap' said our victim) rising, 't wouldn't give you one for it V 'You won't, hehP said the waiter, stepping up to him ; 'then pay me for my trouble ia cooking it for you.' No, I'll not do that either,4 was tha stub' born reply, but at tho sight ef a dagger, h began to soften a little. Down went the dollars, and down went th 3 fresh meat and coffee ; but era ha had finitihed, he had struck a bargain with the waiter to join capital and open a hotel to gether. Tho next week the famous 'Sacras mento House" was thrown open to the pub lie. FOR THE LADIES. Tho Hagerstown News says that the fol lowing recipe was handed to the editor ot that paper by a friend who, having tried ft) thinks it not only a saving of more than half: the labor of washing, but one that render that hitherto laborious task a mere "frolic. As gentlemen are not always vary good judge of such things, there may be soma mistake in it; but our lady readers can try it fof themselves: "Prepare a common wash tub full of warrA strong soap suds, take three spoons full ot spirits of Hartshorn, and nine teaspoons full of spirits of Turpentine j mix them and put them into the tub and stir Ihcm well, put the clothes into the water thus prepared, let them remain in it 30 minutes, taking then! out of the suds, putting them in clear cold water, let them lie 10 minutes then rinse them in the usual way. If limestone water is used in making the suds, add a teaspoon full of Soda before putting in the Hartshorrt and Turpentine, this will be sufficient for a many clothes as will go into the tub. For more water increase the ingredients tairi water will do without Soda." ia jo i ix rnANKLix-report of HI9 SAFETY. We are indebted, says the New York Ad verliser, to Mr. John Randall, fur merchant in Water street, for tho following information forwarded by his agent or correspondent at St. Paul, Minnesota Territory. "St. Paul, Minnesota, March 12. :A dog train arrived here yesterday, froa some distance above Lake Superior, bringing news that an American vessel had ben seen by some of the Indians, and had sent letter saying that Sir John Franklin Was foundi The particulars I cannot learn. Howeter( they say he is safe," Tho writer of the letter is the brother rf Mr. Randall, and we have seen ihe letter containing the intelligence. Both are eeri' tlemcn of high respectability. lie writes by every mail, so that we hare through bis let' ter the most recent news. Our former ad' vices from St. Paul were to the 6th of March The dog team mentioned some ten days ago as having arrived at St. Paul, was from BcU kirk settlement which lies quite in another direction from Lake Superion It will be perceived that the Informal iorf is given as a report which reached the writer at the moment of closing his letter, and he had not time to inquire into its truth, ki such we give it, not feeling at liberty to with hold anything communicated Id good faith on so inteiesting a subject. The Amciican vessel spoken of must have been in James' or Hudson's Bay, which lie about three degrees north' of Lake Superior: In this Bay it is probable Sir John Franklirl will be found, if found at all. The report, though so indefinite, we hope may prove true. It comes just in lime for testing it by the Arctic Expedition now fitting out through tho liberality of an enterprising merohant of New Yoik, Mr. Henry Grinnell. We see that the merchants of New York are asking out Gov ernment for the services of thirty United States seaman as volunteers in this expedition and that tho discipline of the Navy may be extended over the men nnd Navy volunteers allowed. This we should consider essential to its success. The Fire Annihilator. Mr. Philips, tha inventor of this new apparatus, recently gave" an exhibition of its powers to a large compa ny assembled at the London gas works, Vaux hall. After some preliminary remarks on the vast losses from fire, amounting, annual' ly, in the three kingdoms, to 2,000,000, and the inellicacy of water in quencing a furious" conflagration, he set fire to a compartment ef a large open building, filled with partition and l-mporary joisting of light wood daubed with pitch and turpentine, and hurig wiih rags soaked with the same Combustibles. The' flames ascended, roaring with such vehe mence as to repel the spectators to a distance) of forty feet, reaching, apparently, beyenrJ all remedy by water; when Mr. P. with fJha of his hand machines, somewhat larger than a good sized coffee pot, front which a volume of gas and vapor was discharged, extinguish' ed the flames "in half a minute;" and then to prove that there was no noxious quality in tha resulting air, immediately walked; through the building with a lighted candle; in his hand. A company hat been formed to manufacture these new-styled fire engines which, if Ihey answer as well in practice at, they seem to do in experiment, will, soon make their way to this country, and find thoir field of operation in subduing flame and jir Hap, fit e tiots.
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