'I ERI C A.N TT T NB H. B. MASSER, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE, MARKET STREET, OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE. 1 jrarnHa ilctospnpcr-Dcuotcli to jjolttfcs, literature, JttoraUnj, iforcfflu anii Domestic ileitis, .Scfcncc ana the Clrts, aorfculturt, JHarltcts, amusements, &c. NEW SERIES A OL. 3, NO. 13. TERMS OF TUG AMERICA!!. THE AMERICAN is pul.lli.hrd every Sntunlny nt TWO POUVaBS pr iHinm I., lie paid halfyearly i. mlvaiice, No pw discontinued niitil ail nrrrannw re - . Alli.tam.miCTt...... or letter, on ;' ' " '8 office, to iiuwre attention, muit be 1 I 1 A IU. , . TO CLf B3. Tl.reeopie.toone address, . tif'een ft & , Five dollar, in advance will pay for tliree year ssabsi.rip- ... ilii, American. On. Sonata of lfl lines. 3 time., I'.vtry subsequent insorliun, One Square, 8 inolitlis, Uix months, SwiiSS'cBriU of Five lines, per antinm, .. . i ntl.orM nilvi'rLtmni; bv the 8100 a.- 2:n 1175 noil JIN) wiercnani" to'" " ,'. ve vear, with the pr.vil.-e of insortlnft d.f ferent advertisements weekly. 10 00 Larger Advertisements, as per agreement. ATTORNEY AT LAW, SXJNBUHY, PA. Business atlemleil 'to in the Counties of No' liuiplerland, Union. Lycoming nJ Columbia, lttfer to . ) & A. Kovouiit, Lownn & Baiiros, HoMtna &. !lllOBAl KtmoLiis, McFahlhh fc Co. SpfHIftO, 'iotlll & Co., Kl'.'ulatt. THE .ASSAM TEA COMPANY, No. 136 Greenwich Sired, A cw orfc. THE proprietors beg to cull tho attention i of connoisseur in Ten, ami the heads of families ' to tlx choice and rare election of Teas imported" liy tliem, and hitherto unknown in this country, 'which, l.y their fragrance anil delicacy, combined with virgin purity onii strength, produce an inlu sion of surpassing richness and flavor. THE TEAS OFKKREI) AKE THE FOL LOWING: 'Thcleddo Bloom, a Black Ten, at -1 00 peril.. " Nipliou, do 0 7i " ' Diari, do 0 51) " " ' " OKitccn, a linen Tea, 1 00 " " " Toivlsina, do 0 75 " " " Tieki-tsiaa, do 0 51) " " t d-li Mixture, n compound of the niost rare and choice Teas grown nil the fertile and genial soil of Ast-tim, 1 0" " " With a view to encourage the introduction of these matchless Teas, it is the intention of the pro prietors to distribute by lot,anioiiglhc purchasers, a quantity of Teas equal to Tlio first years' profits mi 'the sales effected. Each purchaser will receive enclosed in the pack age, a'tiumbcred certificate, entitling htm to One Chance in the Distribution!!! laid out, oi on the receipts amounting to $0,000, the undermentioned parcels of Tea, to the value of ten per cent., or Two Thou.nnd Dollars, will be given uwny as bonuses, according to the follow ing SCALE: 5 Priwsnf 50 Hi n( Ti n each at SI imperlhS'ifilborB'i'ill n i!" ' " . ' Ann .jtKi .Kl " til " " " " " .'SSI ' " SIKI IIKI aso s ' " " am " nun ' " " "...'.ll ' 2jfl 420 Prizes ill all. 8.(ilhs t&fltn Thost" persons 'who prefer lower priced Teas, can receive their priy.os in proportion, or they will he re-puri'lumcd for cash, st a reduction of 10 per cent. ft Country Agents required. Applications "to be addressed (postpaid,) to the Company's De ipot, as ahuve. June 8, lfioO. sToiu:'. A SKW STOCK OF GOODS, At ike Store formerly occupied bj John Iiogar, In Market Street, Sunbury. TIHE sulisi-ribers respectfully inform the puli A lie that (hey have jut", rtceived, and ure now 'oiening A HANDSOME ASSOKT.MKNT OK DRY 'GOODS, "Consisting in putt of "Co(i, Cassimeres, Satltnctts, Veatins, Panta loon Stuff, Calicoes, Ginghams, Lairns, ' I Md'igs, Flunnelt, Cambrics, Linens, Fine Muslins, Handkerchiefs, Gloves, ifc , Hardware, uceiiNvare, UniES an-ii HU'tilcisirs. ALSO: A Intje assortment of Groceries, Fish, Salt and Plaster. Ladies Shoes and Gaiters, Fluid and Fluid Lamps All oftvkicli will Ijc sold oh the most rcasona We terms. CiT CoxmVry produce ef all kinds taken in cx change at lire best prices. JOHN UL'VEKS & CO. SunlmTj, Ajnil 13, 1S50. ly GREAT ATTRACTION!! NEW A.D 1ICA1 GOODS, JOHN W. FRILING, Market Street, Sunbury, Fa., HAS just received and opened a large assort ment of superior and choice Fancy and Staple Dry Goods, well adapted to the coming sea ton, which he will sell at the luwcst prices. His slock coimisU of general assortment of almost all articles of use in the Dry Goods line, consisting in part of Cloths, Cassimeres, Summer-SiuJJ' for Clothing and Vesting, 1 a d i c s Dress (ood, (loves, Hosiery, Lares, Shawls, Muslins, Sheet ings, Tickings, Fine Muslins, Ginghams, Linens, &c. ALSO: A general assortment of GROCERIES, HARDWARE, QUEENS. WARE, LIQUORS, DRUGS, AND MEDICINES, PAINTS AND DYESWfF, and every variety of articles. IT?" Country produce of all kinds taken in ex change at the highest market price. Sunbury, April 87, 1850. NEW 'ARRANGEMENT And Prices Reduced. THOMPSON'S Susquehanna Express and Freight Line, IS MOW PBKPARED TO FORWARD Goods and Packages, .. Daily from Philadelphia to Selinsgrove, Northumberland, Sunbury, Danville, Bloomttburg, Millon, Lewi, burg, Muncy, Williamsport, frc. BiRaiiRoab ao ExraKss Casai Boats' NEW EXPRESS Offut 38 North Third St. Freinkt Office at CRAIG If HELLAS' Corner of Broad and Cktfty ttrtets, I'hiladi li'ltia. . fril jsjti.- ti SELECT POETRY. I DEAItliY I.OVK TIIK I R F.E. I ili'arly lovo tltis happy land, Its rivers rollinfj wide, list forests prL'cn, its silver lakes, ; ' Its mounlains in their pride: "'Beneath its banners' slurry folds, The wand'rer seeketh rest ; .Tito home of Irtic and tiiillanl hearts, The hope of tlie oppiessM. Oil ! still most dear litis country fair, Must ever prove to me, For well 1 lovo licr noble sons ; I dearly lovo tlio Free ! Where lato the Savage, bold and btave. Tho forest w ide did ronm, The sun of Nature, wild and free, In Nature's sylvan home ; The City in her wealth and pride, Now rears her hundred spires, No more is heard tlio sound of war, Around his council fires; How fair, and bright and beautiful, This land appears to me, I lovo it well and truly, For I dearly love the Free ! In every clime beneath the snn, Her banner bright is known, Her honor, wealth and greatness, Karlh's mifrhty nations own ; The tide of of her prosperity, Which onward still must roll, While Freedom's stripes ate waving, To cheer each gallant soul ; There's every tie to bind true hearts, Fair country, milo thee, Who love, as I do dearly love, The bold, the brave, tho Free ! In distant climes, in search of change, 1 do mil stirh to roam, Thy banner gives protection, Thy ample soil a home Here, plenty yields her blessings, With a riidi a liberal hand, And peace her downy pinions spread, Above this fertile land : Then be thou still my home and joy, Until life's sand are gone, And let me have a gtavo in thee, Thou land of Washington ! DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. I SAMMOL'SLV PASSEII BY Til E COXilt ESS OF THE THIRTEEN IMTEl) STATES OF AMERICA, JULY Jill, mil. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dis solve the political bonds which have con nected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separ- ; ate and equal station which the laws of nature and of nature's Cod entitle them, a i decent respect to the opinions o( mankind ! requires that they should declare the causes ! whicli. impel them to the separation. j We hold these these truths to be self evi- ; dent: that all men are created equal, that that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among i these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights go- i vernments are instituted among men, de- j riving their just powers from the consent of ; the governed ; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these j ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new govern- j ment, laying its foundation upon such prin- I ciplos, and organizing its powers in such i form as to them shall seem most likely to ' n . . . . . . V. I ettect tneir saiety and happiness. 1'ru dence, indeed, will dictate that govern ments long established should not be chan ged for light and transient causes ; and, ac cordingly, all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while events are suflerable, than to riiht them selves by abolishing the forms to which i they are accustomed. But when a long ! train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing in variably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their light, it is their duty to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security. Such' has been the patient sufferance of these Colo nies, such is now the necessity which con strains them to alter their former systems of government. 1 he history of the present King of Great ISritaiti, is a history of re peated injuries and usurpations, all having, in direct object, the establishment of an al j solute tyranny over these States. To prove j this, let the facts be submitted to a candid world. I He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the pub- j lie good. j He has forbidden his Governors to pass i laws of immediate and pressing importance, j unless suspended in their operation till Ins assent should be obtained, and when so sus pended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. lie has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large dis tricts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of a representation in the Legislature, a light inestimable to them j and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and dis tant from the repository of their public re cords, for the sole purpose of i'atigueing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing, with manly firm ness, his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected ; whereby the legislative powers incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large, for their exercise, the Slate remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions Mjithin. He has endeavored to prevent the popu lation of these States ; for that purpose ob structing the laws lor naturalization of for eigners ; refusing to pass others to encour age their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of land. He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing jmfruary powers. SUX11UHY, NORTH UMUKIILAN D COUNTY. 1A., SA'iTHHAY. JULY O, IS.TO. He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and tho amount and payment of their sala ries. lie has erected a multitude of new ofli ces, and sent hither swarms of officers, to harrass our people, and eat out their sub stance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our Legislatures. lie has affected to render the military independent of, and superior to the civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitu tion, and unacknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation. For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us : For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these States : For cutting off our trade from all parts of the world: For imposing taxes on us without our consent ; For depriving tis, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury: For transporting us beyond the seas, to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free system of Eng lish laws in a neighboring province, es tablishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries, so as to ren der it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies : For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fun damentally the forms of our governments : For suspending our own Legislatures, and " declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases what soever. He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection, and wa ging war against tis. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is, at this time, transporting large ar mies of foreign mercenaries, to complete the work of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun, with circumstances of cru elty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow-citizens taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fail themselves by their hands. He has excited domestic insurrections among us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merci less Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions. In every stage of these oppressions, we have petitioned lor redress, in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable ju risdiction over us. We have reminded them ol the circumstances of our emigra tion and settlement here. We have ap pealed to their native justice and magnan imity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred, to disavow these ustipations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspond ence. They, too, have been deaf to the voice of Justice and consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which pronounces our separation, and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind ene mies in war in peace, friends. We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in general con gress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world, for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in tho name and by the au thority of the good people of these colo nies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the lintish crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Jiritain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved, and that as free and independent Slates, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, estab lish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do. And for the support of this de claration, with a firm reliance on the pro tection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our bacred honor. JOHN HANCOCK, President. The following good story is from the Lit erary World : Two English tourists having arrived at Boston during the snow season, ordered a sleigh, having heard of such a thing in a general way, without being conversant with the particulars of it. Will you have one buflalo or two 1" ask ed the hostler. "Why says the cockney, looking a little frightened, "We'll have one the first time, as we're not ijsed to driving them '." Important Questions. Somebody says that a young lady should always ask the four following questions before accepting the hand of a young man : Is he honorable f Is be kind of heart? Can he support me comfortably ! Dors hf tuke a newwavrr iir pay for it I in mlvuncc t Correspondence. II. Ii. Massi-i:, Esq., Via' Sir: For the advantage of your readers, I furn ish you with a letter received by me, a few days since, on the subject of Domestic Poultry. The writer, as the letter indi cates, is a gentleman of learning and ability, who has given much time and attention to this important and interesting branch of rural economy. As the facts stated by him have a general bearing and apply with eqiial force to the breeding of all. animals, they have an inter est and a value beyond their immediate purpose : and will doubtless be read with pleasure by all who aim at the progression and advancement of science, in whatever form it may appear. 1 ours, truly. KtNSINlITON, PlIII.AOKI.I'IIIA Cor.vri', June 21d, 1S50. )' Dkar Sin : Your favor of 10th inst., is just received, and having :i few leisure mo ments, I will nt once briefly respond to your obliging inquiries. ly views have been somewhat modified with regatd lo tho different breeds and va rieties of Domestic Poultry since writing those letters, extracts from whicli, I presume you have seen in Dr. Beimel's "Poultry Book." For all practical ptupoM'S, L now consider the pure Shanghae J'i"l, of w hatever variety ex cepting iho t!-iifc tis decidedly the. fowl. Il is sufficiently well described in tho book in question. The Cochin China fowl is perhaps not quite so accurately described, or portray ed. At tho time of tho gelling out of the book Ihero were but few genuine birds ol that breed in the country, and they were so young, as not lo show fairly all their points. I have a few of the slock there depicted, and expect in a few weeks to receive a coop from a London fancier. I am nol yel prepared to say much about these fowls, further than, that they are neatly allied in every respect to the Shanghai's perhaps a lillle smaller. The comb wattles, plumage, forms of the wings, size, Into and form of the egg all agree in every particular. Good Shanghai's at maturity will average about IH lbs. per pair. My the hen 8 lbs. and the cock 1(1 lbs. I have a pair that weigh 2d lbs, the male weighing 12 lbs. It would be it i ill ft i It to get a pure Shanghai: hen to go over S lh. In Ihis, as in nil pure breeds, there is cousideiablu dillerence be tween the "izo of the unties and females. 1 disposed of a pullet, a pullrt mind ye, that had not laid her fi.st egg, and she weighed 111 lbs. Sho was it btown f'hitlazong the result ol crossing Malays and other large fowls from the South of China, and yet I would not give a good Shanghao pullet for a coop-full of such for breeding from. The stock from whicli she came was so crossed, jhat although sho was brown and bred lo a like crossed brown cock, some of her chicks would como while; so mo black; and some speckled and runny not come at all ! Nay so far as I have been able to ascertain fads, mongrels or hybrids that arc at all fertile, are only saved fiom being posleritylcss by their progeny rapidly reverting to tho type of one parent or tho other. No intermediate race is founded, but things tend to go on, as they did originally, or they ceaso to go on at all. This is even tho case with varieties, as well as with distinct species. It is well known to breeders, that one of the difficulties with which they have to contend is what they technically term "crying back." Mr. Dar win's discovety, tho result of his great indus try and experience, that l:lhu reproductive system seems far morn sensitive to any chan ges in external conditions, than any other part of tlit living economy," confirms my suspicion of the extreme improbability of tho origination of any permanent, intermediate reproductive breed by hybridising. It would thus seem, thai as. far as those otgaus are much changed, from their normal condition in ono or other parent, (which we may sup pose, shown by tin) fact of their producing young resembling not themselves but their own IHirents) they are fertile; but when so chan. god as to bo incapable of producing such young, they do not produce at all. At least, this is the way in which I am disposed to interpret the fact. The dissection of n fer tile hybrid and tho comparison of its repro ductive system with that of either parent, might throw souio light upon tho question, but it would be a nice undertaking. The fact must appear sufficiently obvious, that such a number of lusi.es and hybrids have been produced in the course of ages lo slock the wj.ld with un infinite variety of fouus, had not that class of mongrels and heteroge nous beings boon in themselves of a com paratively ii h prolific and transitory nature. But 1 must hold up. I find myself boring you with my views on breedings, instead of assigning as was my purpose, some reasons for avoiding mongrels, and not crossing. 1 shall not be able to spare you a pair of tho Grey Chiltagongs. 1 sent the only pair I had a few days ago to Charleston, S. C, I am entirely out of that variety now, wilh the exception of a few mixed fowls the progeny of the Gey and darker variety, which would not bo worth their freight to your place. As fur the Slmnghaes, leeching, etc., they are generally caught up and taken off, as soon as they are feathered sufliciently to bo out of danger. I vriH if you desiro it, try and hold back a pair fur you. 1 shoeld have said that besides the Bhang haes and Cochin Chinas, I um raising a few Doiking fowls. I like them as a vaiicty, more especially nt i'iaiki!ui hu.I nieilicr :rtrnftrtMM. iiwmi vwsim. rmu.ii iw is mmmmmsb A good pair might weigh some 11 or 12 lbs. They lay very well, but no belter than the other two breeds. I hope you will keep the ball in motion in your region advise me, please, of your own views, etc., from time to time on the sub ject of llcnoingii Let us take tho matter out of the hands of superannuated women nnu dairy maids, at least till we prove the supe rior advantage of a pure and, judiciously bred stock. Relieve rue, dear Sir, Yours, very truly, ' J. J. K. A MOORISH MATH. A Moorish bath i.t one of tho tortures wilh which the traveller itt the Kast must make acquaintance, and as 1 had lung in intended to undergo that martyrdom 1 resolved to do so to day along with jIadeuioiello it'll , whilst the warm sirocco prevented tho dan ger of our taking cold. Wo chose an hour at which the baths are not much frequented by native females, for otherwise wo might have found ourselves in tho midst of thirty or forty of llieni, since private bath chambers are not to be had. We louk with us a ltegrcss who understood a litllo Italian, so that wo might not b.i without help in case the treatment we received from tho attendants should bo more than we could endure. 'Wo first entered a vaulted quadrangular room, lighted from above; all lound it ran a broad, high stone divan, covered with mats, and w ith slniie blocks before it hen; and there so that with two enormous strides ono might ascend it. On this platform, where bathers just dripping from tho steam-rooms had sat to cool themselves, we undressed ourselves; and as there was neither chair, table, nor peg to put our clothes on, we were obliged to lay them till upon tho damp mats. In order to enter the next warmer room wo had to put on a kind of patsen, the sole of which was a piece of wood five or six inches think. Un accustomed as we were to such a kind of chassure, it was almost impossible for us to go alone, especially over the slippery marble lloor; eacoof us, therefore, had to be suppor ted by two women, and in that way wo pas sed through tho various bath-rooms, which were scantily lighted from above, and were filled with hotter and holler steam, in regular giadatioii from one end of the suite to the other. One would suppose that such a very elevated tentperuturo would be very disagree able, nay intolerable, but it only appeared so during tho first few minutes. When wo had entered the last chamber the fifth I believe it was, and the Hags wero so hot that I was obliged to stand now on ono side, now on another, for our thick pattens had been taken fiom us before this I felt a lively sympathy for those poor brutes who are taught to dance in that cruel way. Now at last began our real martyrdom, for all the torments of Otctis and Erebus seemed to have their abode in ihio last chamber. Large buckets full of almost boiling water, Dowls filled with tho most disgusted chocolate-like substance, and Iniish litteiibious tufts, made for scraping the skin, were tho attributes ol a band of dia bolical nymphs that only awaited tho signal to exercise their torturing arts ubon us. They were ncgrcsses and mulattoes, all of them old and most them one-eyed; and, save d scauty garmeat, their costume was that of paradisaical innocence. On our arrival they thought themselves bound to do tho honours of their elysiuih, and they set up a song that would well have become witches' sabbath; then they danced wild Moorish dances before us, and finally they fell upon us without mer cy, laid us down on the hot (lags, plastered us from head to foot with the chocolate-like stulT, scraped us down with tho rough fibrous lefts, and sluiced us with boiling water. In this last process some of them used small sieves, so that for a moment we might have fancied ourselves transformed into fair flow ers, wete it not lhat others of them now and then dashed buskels of hot water over us fiom head to fuot, so that we might rather have taken ourselves for dirty coaches. "The mysterious half light of the rooms( the streaming and diopping of tho water, the melancholy mowing of some amorous cats, iho infernal choir around us, whose demoni acal songs re-echoed through tho vaulted rooms, all this made an eternity of the feu hours we hero spent in pain and dread, asJ Mademoiselle d'll and 1 could only rei terate, '(Mice is all very well, but catch mo coming here a second time !' By this time wo wero in such a plight that we almost des paired of over again being fit to bo seen. Out hail, Mademoiselle d:H 's especiallyi which reached neatly to her knee was daub ed and streaked with tho brown unguent in a way that was really piteous to see. We had already been led back to the first room, stretchud out on llu divan and well kneaded by the women, wa heard tho voices of F and T- in tin utile-room, for they had grown uneasy about our Jong ubseuce, and concluded that wo had been taken ill during the operation. Wo called out to thuui lo wait for us, for we hoped soon to be out of (ho fangs of the furious. When that happy deliverence at last look place, and F asked mo how liked I liked a Moorish bath) 1 could only answer, 'So litllo lhat I would not inflict ona on my worst enemy." An American Citizen, Mr. Henry Wal ther, of Boston, has just been arrested at Strasbourg, where he was awaiting his pas, port from tho United States, (he hud lost his fust in Germany) and, if the account of the Strasbourg paper is correct, hurried off by the gendarmic lo Havre. :hcio to to foieej on KM. d. ' ' " CHARACTER AND INTEGRITY. Wo have somewhere seen a notice of a Rotterdam thread merchant, who had accu- initiated fifty thousand dollars by his own in dustry, punctuality and integrity; and it was remarked of him lhat he never let a yard of bad thread go out of his hands, and would never take mote than a reasonable profit. By theso means ho acquired such entire pub lic confidence, that his customers would as willingly send a blind man or a child to buy for them as to go themselves. Wo refer to tho case not to intimate that we havo no such instances among ourselves, but for tho purpose of suggesting the great value to any business man of such a charac ter, and the exceeding ttgreeableness to deal ers with him of the confidence he inspires. And we affirm nothing extravagant in saying, I that the character for strict integrity acquired is of as much real worth to its possessor ns tho pecuniary savings of his industry. Let such a man lose by any misfortune all his money, he is still a man of cental, of weight, of influence, and is the supior, on mere bu siness calculations, of many a man of largo moneyed means. But the beauty of the thing is this, that any man, however small his business and lim'iled his capital, has just as good an op portunity of winning confidence as a million aire. Integrity in small things is even more impressive than integrity in great things. And after all that men may say in praise of tho enterprise, skill, shrewdness and tact of particular business men, there is one charac ter towards which all minds instinctively render their reverence and that is. the man who had rather be honest than wealthy, and who prefers integrity to gold. New York Dry Goods Reporter. IIOYHOOll AND MANHOOD. Oh. for tho merry, merry mouth of Jime, When I was a liltle lad ! When tho small birds' throats vero all in tune, And tho very fields were glad, And the llowcrs that alas! were to fade too soon. In their holiday clothes wero clad. Oh. I remember remember well, The scent of the morning grass ; Nor was there a sight, sweet sound, or sweet smell That can e'er from my memory pass : For they lay on my heart with tho power of a spell, Like the first lovo I felt for a lass. Ay, there is the river in which I swam, The field where I used to play The fosse where 1 built the bridge and the dam, And the oak in whoso shade I lay ! But, oh, how changed a thing I am'? And how unchanged ate they! Time was ah! that was the happy time! When I longed a man to be; When a shaven chin was a thing sublime, And a lino thing to lie free; And melhought 1 had nought to do but climb To tho height of felicity. But, alas! my beard is waxen grey Since I mingled among men : And I'm not much wiser, nor half so gay, Nor so good as 1 was then ; Anil I'd give much more than I care to say To be a boy again. An Act of Devoted Heroism. The fol lowing iucidont is recorded of the pilot of tho steamer Grillith, who fell a victim to his own heroism : Mr. Holly, of Missouri, informed us that when the flames were making rapidly toward the pilot-houso of the Grilfith, he heard sonic one, the mate he thinks, inquire of the man at tho wheel if he would "stand to his post." The man gave a hearty response of "l will !'' This directed his attention to tho wheelman, and he watched his bearing; when the boat stopped, he stood there unmoved, firmly grasping tho wheel, completely enveloped in flames. Mr. Holly supposed ho must have been burned up; but, it appears, after tho boat ceased to move, ho passed through the flames and overboard. His body was found badly burnod. It was brought to this city, and buried in Oaxland Cemetery. This no blest of heroes, who could thus stand by his post and voluntary throw away his own life, in the hope of saving others from death, was Richard Mann, long a resident of our city and vicinity. No tomb deserves a nobler monu ment than his. Lieutenant Elliott, of tho l9ih Regi ment, has discovered in tho interior of West ern Australia, a race of cannibals w ho deviur tho bodies of friends and foes. Lieutenant Elliott writes: "Tho natives in three districts eat their dead ; old men, women and chil dren. The heart is given to the mother, as they say it assuages her grief!" Fall oe Aerolites. At a meeting of the London Astronomical Society, the following extract of a letter from Mr. Richardson, dated off Jerbah 25lh of January, 1850, was read: "I will trouble your lordship by the men lion of theastronomio phenomenon which ar rested und terrified theattenlion of tho whole of this coast some two mouths ago. This was the fall of a shower of aerolites, with a brilliant stream of light accompanying ihem, and which extended from Tunis to Tripoli, some of the stones falling in the latter city. The alarm was very great in Tunis, und seve ral Jews and Moors instinctively fled to the British Consulate, as the common rtfUn0 from every kind of evil aiid ,.,, The fall of these aevoUt wa r,,,,, ,,y lhe eVCrut and colde w inlet which the inhabi tants of Tunis and Tuptli hive cxfutiviiccd I f"t man ve'.'? OLD SERIES VOL. 10, NO. 41 Something New Under the Son. A ( thieves convention tins been held in London 1 for the purpose of adopting measures to pro cure an honest livelihood. Two hundred and seven avowed thieves attended. The meet, ing was opened with prayer and a hymn. An address was proposed to Lord Ashley, asking if any hopo was presented of their obtaining . an hottest living in the British Colonies. His Lordship expressed his willingnesstobefriend them, as it was his duty to do. He candidly told them that there was little hope for them, unless they turned their attention to the back settlements of the New World. Suggestive of levity as may be these facts, there is some thing serious and solemn in them. "Wj must steal or die," was the reponse of one of tho thieves; "prayer, is very good, but it will not fill an empty stomach." Can any thing be more expressive of the depraving influences of the social evils of English so ciety. An Indian Speech. The Minnesota Re gister contains the following report of a speech made by Nahtiakekah, alias Jim Two Bits, a Winnebago Chief, to his people, on the 16lti of May last: We have come to a poor coun try. There is no game here but bugs, frogs and mosquitoes. We can no longer live by hunting. I can hear the frogs and mosquitoes around me now. We must go to work, or we shall starve. We must live as white men do. Tho women must no longer do all the work the men must come out and help their wives and sisters to plant the corn. Another thing I wish you to hear. Our chil dren must all be sent to school. It is a great thing to know how to read and write well. It is what gives the white men such an ad vantage over us. Take all the children that are old enough to walk, and push them into a school-house, where they can learn to be skil ful and industrious ; and more, beside that, they will bring home bread and pork. The pork will afford you something to grease your hands with when they have become sore by hard work." General Jackson's First Appearance in Conruess. Mr. Gallatin was a member of Congress, in the year 1796, when Tennessee was admitted as a State into the Union, and sent her first member to Washington. One day, when in his seat in the House, M r. Gallatin noticed a tall, lank uncouth look ing individual, with long locks of hair bang ing over his brows and face while a queue hung down his back tied jn an eelskin. The dress of the individual was singular his manner and deportment that of a backwoods man. The appearance of so singular a char acter on the floor of the House of Represen tatives, naturally attracted attention, and a member at his side asked who he was. Mr. Gallatin replied that it was tho member for the new Slate. "Well," said his friend, "he seems just the sort of chap one might expect from such uncivilized region as Tennessee." The individual in question was Andrew Jack son. Minnesota Norwegians The St. Paol Chronicle and Register, of 3d inst., says: "More land has probably been entered at our laud office the past week than during the whole season previous. Among numerous otheis who are now looking at our country, is a delegation from a colony of 2,000 Nor wegians, who aro waiting below the action of those sent here in advance. They are pleased with what they have seen, and will probably induce their people to settle in Min nesota eventually. The Norwegians are an industrious, frugal and moral people just the kind of emigrants we desire. We want as many of them as will come." "Medicine," said Boiiaparto at St. Helena "is a collection ofuneertaiti prescriptions, the results of which taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. Water, air, and cleanliness, are the articles in my pnar inacupoia." More or the Lehigh Co. Bank Swindle. Moses Y. Beach, of New York, has been indicted by a grand jury of Lehigh county, l'a., in reference to his operations wilh the Lehigh Bank, which exploded a few years ago, and whose money he circulated as agent The Governor of Pennsylvania has sent an oilicer to New York, demanding Governor Fish to deliver up Moses Y. Beach to the authorities of Pennsylvania. It is said that lhe Governor is in a great dilemma about the business. Mr. Paine's Limit. A committee, con sisting of Dr. Torrey, Professor of Chemistry, James R. Chilton, and thiee oilier distin guished chemists, have published the result of theit visit to Mr. Paine's, and examination of his gas producing apparatus as far as they wero allowed to seo it. They pronounced the gas produced, hydrogen only, and not carburretted hydrogen, and to be totally unfit for illumination. Their account of the whole conduct of the parties exhibiting the light, leaves the impression of imposture. A suggestion has been mad to employ deaf mutes as operatives in the telegraph offices. It is a novel one, and the t-xpe-riment, it is said, will be tried. Mareikd Hi Newport, 3d instant, by e Key. Cr. Choulours. Mr. George H. I Diir,.ing, of this city, and Miss Maris A. Sweet, ot Newport. Sweet g'ul, and a darling wife. A contemporary says that cream may be, frozen by simply putting it into glass -el and tbn placing it in au old bachelor? l't'l'.iUl. "" '
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