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lttfer to
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SpfHIftO, 'iotlll & Co.,
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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
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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
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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?
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