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Dtw'mesB Bttcniled to in tlio Counties of Nor
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Refer toi
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CITIZENS AND STKAKOKR8 rnn linvc
a sittitiR for Portraits or Mininturcs, and
receive them beautifully rnacd, in morocco, Silk
velvet, Papier Maclic, or other fancy styles, or sets
in Medallions, Lockets, &.C., in a few minutes.
Daguerreotypes, Paintings, Drawings,
&c. Copied.
Out door Views, and .Miniatures of deceased
persons, tnken at short notice.
For Portraits of Adults by our process, and Im
proved InstrnmenU, a tlntidy day is quito as fa
vorable us clear weather.
For Child en, a clear day (between 1 1 and 2)
is preferable. CC7"In Dress avoid white, blue
or light pink.
' Our Gallery with fts Six Pri.c Medals and
Works of Art, is open ill all hours, nnd Free.
Whether visitors wih pictures tnk;ui or not, we
shall at nil times be happy to sec them.
June 22, 1850.
NOV YORK & PIIIUJtELl'HIA
JOURNEYMEN
I flitter .tNNOclaUuii,
Cor. of Oth a,id Chestnut Srcct, Philadelphia.
( ONTINTE to make and sell a finer mid more
durable Hat for the money than any other
ctab:ilimi'iit in the Kniti'ii Nates standard
price of HaN $3 l!0. dent " and Hoy's Cloth nnd
Cla-wd Caps. Vmbrellus, Carpet Da;s, Calnly
Punnnia and Straw Hats at equally low prices.
May 25, 1830. ly
JO!. J. IMECSl a'c to.
I.MPDKTKIli OF
Wctches, Jewelry, Plated Ware,
xn imc& .oois,
1 12 Chesunl St.. between 3d iS4i Streets.
PHILADELPHIA.
A LAV AYS keep on hand on excellent assort
ment of the above articles, which they will
sell on terms as low as any in the city.
June 15, 1850. Cm
W. F.P ED Dili si;:' 3
(T.ATK PARTNKR OF C. SCI1UACK)
TiiiiiiMli Maiuirartoiy and Taint
Store,
Ko 78 Korth Fuurth Street,
A FKW DHORS ABOVE C1IEHHV, WEST fclDi:,
PHILADELPHIA.
Constantly on hand and fnr sal', at reduced
prices, uud of nnjnrinr ipHililij, the fol
lowing articles, viz :
C'rh. Cabiiirt. Japsimera' and Oil Cloth Varnishes :
Drying iititfin; B'Mit unit Uarncsii VHriiif.li : Urown, While
and R'rt Pnirit do; Truiufer n ; ArliMn', ll"iise mid
I'.iarfi Pninlfrs1 nnd Vlluislles, AIiitiTinln ; Pt T'I'V IN
QOANTITIKS, FAINTS, DRY. IN Oil.. AM) FRK
1'AIU t) FOR 1.MMKD1ATK I'SKj .Milliners' Varnish,
olae an Ariils; llhi-k Jupnii fir Iron ; Adhesive d'. t'nr
I'nney W"rk; l'irinre and Window (ilass; Artists" Co.
.mrs. Dry a4 in Tnlw. ; Neat's Fct Oil: iold. Silver,
in. I icrin.ni Iaf ; i"Ul. Silver, and Cupper nnnixe i lila
t ier's Uism-mrts. Ataii, very snpemir tli hi. Ulucking and
iVriting iak.
Jane ill, If. 50.
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PllIlADKLrHIA,
Tt'liolesale DrusiprlsH,
AND PF.Al.Kns IN
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it Glass, Vabsihivs. Dvi Srirv, Patent
vl ininsES, Meiiicikf. Chests, Si-roical Iv
TtiTMK-iTS, Arc, &c; and manufacturers of the
celebrated
Congress Ink,
3Iuck, Blue and Red. The quality of this Ink is
insurpassed, and wo are now prepared to furnish
t of all sizes, neatly packed in boxes from one to
liree dozen each.
L. 8. & Co., endeavor to have always on hand
. full assortment of good and genuine Drujjs, at
he lowest possible rates. Particular attention is
I so paid to the manner of putting up and packing
heir goods, to that they feel prepared to warrant
heir tarrying any distance with perfect safety,
ill orders by letter or otherwiso will receive
Tempt attention.
Philadelphia, June 15, 1850. 6in
HIALAOELPIIIA WISE fc LIQUOR STORE.
BITTING & WATERMAN,
Importers and Dealers in Liquors,
No. 22C Market street, Philatlelpha,
"FFER for sale, the cheapest and best assort-
ment of Liquors in Philadelphia, such as
Champagne, Sherries, Port, Rtcck, Claret, Bur
gundies, (Jauturn, Barsac, Madoria, Lisbon,
. Teiierifle and Sicily Wines,
, Brandies of the choicest hrunds, viz i
, Maglina, Otard, Ponet, Hennesy, &c. 4c.
Fine Holland Gin, Monongahcla, Scotch and
f Ian V hiskey, &.c., &C. .
Hotels and the country trade supplied at Phi!a
etphia prices on the most liberal terms.
July 13, 1850-
1 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
C1IAS. DUMIYIIG,
$6, 207 Chesnut Street, front Arcade,
. PkllLABlilKHlA.
MPORTCR and Manufacturer of all kinds of
- Musical Instrument, Fancy Articlea and roya.
lt urlces ar lower than those of any other store
..('hiladelubiu. All kinds of Musical Instru-
nU repaired in the bast workmanship, and also
ken lit T'auc. ,
Philalflj)u, May 85, 1850 ly
SELECT POETRY.
THF POOR MAN'S ItlCHKS.
BY CHAKLES MACKAV.
Poor! Hi J you call me 1
My wants are but few, .
And generous nature
Gives more) than my due;
The nir and the nnshiiip,
Frpsh water nnd health,
And heart to enjoy them .
All these aro my wealth.
No r.'oe-hnndcd miser
That e'er hnd n hoard .
Could reckon such treasure
As. I can afford :
TIip wood in its verdure, '
The stream in its flow,
Are mine in their beauty
Wherever 1 go. .
My wealth is substantial,
Although in the mart
I cannot convey it,
In whole or in part ;
Yet if I enjoy it,
What signifies morel
I'm lord ot the ocean ;
I'm king of the shore.
Wealth could procure mo
But pleasure nnd ease;
I've both in my garden
Beneath the preen trees.
I've both in my collage,
M v fancies to feed ;
I'v" both in my conscience
What more do I need 1
The joys that dcliuht me
Are free as my thought ;
'They've common as sunshine
They cannot be bnuyht.
I've servants nnd minstrels,
And boundless domains,
I've rivers nnd mountains,
And forests and plains.
The robin's ray minstrel,
My friftid, and my ward ;
Tin' lark is my poet.
The thrush i9 my bard.
No creat prima donna, .
The pride of her hour,
Can yield mil moie music
Titan birds in the bower.
The rich and the mighty
Have chaplains in pay ;
And I, too, have chaplains
As pious as ! hey
Who preach to my spirit
As with them I bend
To God the Creator.
My Father and Friend.
In whispering foliage
They soothe and persuade J
They sing in the Minliyht,
They talk in the frhudu ;
1 hear them in tempests.
I see them in cloud
In the voice of the thunder
They reason aloud.
Though gold has its friendships
That cling to it well,
Acquaintance and lovers
Too many to tell t
Yet, I loo, by myriads
Have friends of my own,
Who pay me sweet visits
When 1 am alone.
All saints and apostles,
All prophets divine,
All sages and pools,
Are teachers of mine :
My friends nnd my teachers
Wherever 1 roam,
The guides of my spirit,
The lights of my homo.
And, crown of all riches,
Far betler than pelf,
I've a true In-art who loves me
For sake of myself.
With these and my patience,
And strength to endure,
My health, ami my honor,
How can 1 be puor !
Skctcl).
CONFESSIONS OF A SWORD SWALLOWF.lt.
I have been connected with the conjur
ing and tumbling prob-ssion, and every
branch ol them for forty-six years. I lost
my mother when a child, and my father
was a carpenter, and allowed me to go with
the tumblers. I continued tumbling twen
ty-three or twenty-lour years. It was nev
er what you call a good business, only a
living. I got JL.3 a week certainly, at one
time, and sometimes jC'4- ; but you had . to
live up to it, or you were nothing thought
ol ; that is to say, it you kept "good com
pany." Now, there is not a living to bp
made at the trade, bix and twenty years
ago I began to practice sword swallowing
ap-ainst the celebrated Ramo Samee, who
was then getting Jt25 or JE30 a week.
first practised with a cane, and found it
dillirult to get the cane down. When I
fust did it with the cane, I thought I was a
dead man. There's an aperture in the chest
which opens and shuts; and it keeps open
and shutting, as I understand it ; but I knew
nothing about what they call anatomv, and
never thought about such things. Well, if
the cane or sword goes down upon this
aperture when shut, it can go no farther,
and the pain is dreadful. If its open the
weapon can go through the aperture clos
ing on the weapon. I he first time 1 put
down the cane I got it back easily, but put
my head on the table and was very sick,
vomiting dreadfully. I tried again the
same afternoon,, however, three or four
hours afterwards, and did it without pain.
I did it two or three timet more, the nest
day boldly tried it with a sword and suc
ceeded. 1 he sword wa blunt, and was
thirty-six inches long, an inch wide, and
pernaps a iixiu oi an men inicK. l leu
frightened with the cane, but not with the
word. Before the sword was Used, it was
rubbed with a handkerchief, and made
warm by friction. ' I swallowed swords lor
lourteeo years. 1 ' -
At one time I used to swallow three
words, a knife, and two forks, of course
keeping the handles in my mouth, and
having all the blades in' my stomach to
gether. I felt no paiti. No doubt many
of the audience felt more pain in seeing it
than I did in doing it. I wore a Turkish
dress both in the streets and in the theatres.
I never saw ladies faint nt my performance
no, there was no nonsense! of that kind.
Gentlemen olten pulled the sword and
knives by their handles out ol my mouth,
to convince themselves that it was real,
and it was real, though the people to this
day generally believe it is not. I've some
times seen people shudder nt my perfor
mance,' bnt I generally had loud applause.
I used to hold my head back with the
swords in my stotnach for two or three
minutes. I've had a guinea a day for
sword swallowing. This guinea a day was
only for a few days nt lair times. I was
with old "salt box" BroWn, too, and swal
lowed swords nnd conjured with him. I
swallowed swords with him thirty limes a
day ; more than one each time sometimes
three or four. 1 had a third of the profits ;
Urown had two-thirds. We divided after
all the expenses were paid. My third
might have been thirty shillings a week,
but it wouldn't be half so much now, if I 1
could swallow a tea-kettle now, the people
would scarcely look at me. Sometimes
indeed, a great many times say twenty
I have brought up oysters out of my stom
ach after eating them, just as I swallowed
them, on the end of the sword. At other
times there was blood on the end of the
blade. I always felt faint after the blood,
and used to take gin or anything I could
get at hand to relieve me, which it did for
a time. At last I injured my health so
much that I was obliged to go to the doc
tor's. I iispd to eat well, and drink too.
When 1 felt myself injured by the swal
lowing I had lost my appetite, and the doc
tor advised me to take honey and liquids,
tea, beer, and sometimes a drop of grog.
At three months' end, he told me il I swal
lowed swords it would be my death ; hut
for all that I was forced to swallow swords
three or four years after this, not feeling
any great sulk-ring. 1 then thought 1
would swallow a live snake. I'd never
heard of any one, Indian or anybody, swal
lowing a live snake. It came into my
head once by catching a grass snake in the
,ds in INorfolk. I said to mvself as I
held it by the neck, "There seems to be no
harm in this fellow. I'll try if I can swal
low him."
I tried then and there, nnd I did swallow
him. It fell cold and slintv as it went
lown. I did'nt feel afraid, for I kept tight
hold of him by the tail; and no one has
any right to be afraid of a grass snake.
When I brought the snake up a-'ain in
about three minutes, it seemed dead. After
that I introduced snake-swallowing into
my public performances, and did so lor
about four years. I have taken five shil-
ings, and ns low as one shtllitir, when 1
swallowed snakes in the streets ol London.
I catched my own snakes a few miles from
London, and killed very few through swal
lowing on 'em. Six snakes, properly fed
on milk, lasted me a vear. 1 he snakes
never injured me ; and I shouldn't have
given it up, but the performance grew stale,
and the people would not give any thing
for it. I have swallowed swords in the
streets thirty to lofty times a da v. and
snakes as often, both in town and country.
I thought once I couldn't have followed
any other sort of lile ; you see I'd been so
long accustomed to public Jtle ; besides, I
may have liked it far better than labor, as
most voung men no, but no labor can be
harder than mine has been.
If my father had been what he ought, lie
might have checked my childish doings and
wishes. I have tried other things though,
in the hope of bettering myself. I have
tried shoeinaking lor five or six years, but
could'nt get a living at it. I wasn't com
petent lor it that's two years ago so now
I'm riHiician to a school of acrobats.
Very many like me remain in the street busi
ness, because they can't get out of it, that's
the fact. Whilst I swallowed swords and
snakes I played the fire-eater. I did it
once or twice last week. I eat red-hot
cinders from the grate ; at least I have put
them in my mouth. I only use a bit of
chalk. I chalk my palate, tongue and fin
gers; it hardens the skin of the tongue and
palate, but that's all. Tile rating affects
the taste for a time, or rather it prevents
one tasting anything particularly. I've
eaten (ire lor twenty years in the streets
and in public places. It hasn't brought
any money of late years. I wasn't afraid
when I first tried it by eating a lightrd
link a small flambeau I felt no inconve
nience. The chalk did every thing that
was right. You mav stroke a red hot no-
r with chalked hands and not be burnt.
I make the same as the acrobats; perhaps
average 12s. a week, and have a wile
and six children, the oldest under eleven,
to maintain out of that. Often we're obli-
2ed to live unon nothing. hen I was
slipperatnaking 1 had from 3s Cd. to 4s. a
dozen, the grindery costing me Is. bd
leaving 2s. for a dozen. I could only
clear Gs. a week by it ; that's all I could
get out ol the slop-shops. I here's one
thing coming from sword swallowing that
ought to mention. I'm satisfied that
Ramo Samee and 1 gave the doctors their
notions about a stomach pump. Edinburg
Jievuw. '
A very modest lady sent her very mod
est daughter (a pretty young damsel) out
one morning to purchase some articles.
Among' the many, she informed the plerk
in one of our stores that her mother wanted
to get three yards of cloath for "primitive
triangular appendages fpr her baby."
It is baid that a gentleman of New York
will leave Saratoga some $100,000 worse
oil than when he-went there,. He cultiva
ted too close an acoiaintanct with the black
legs.
C AN'T AFFORD TO TAKK THF. FAPFIl.
BY MRS. M. A. PENMSON.
"Look here, Madam D.. you that can't
nfTord to take a paper, what are you doing
just now?" .
"Why, what I do every week, making a
few custards, some doughnuts, nnd cup
cakes, two or three mince or apple pies,
some bird's nest pudding for dinner, and
getting up some little trifles for the chil
dren." "Mercy ! and how miich of your time
do these things consume?"
"Time '! why it is such a pleasure, and I
am so fond of niceties, that I don't think
how the time passes. I have such low
spirits, and this diverts mv mind so r-adily
that I olten employ myself in making these
things, when, J suppose, I don't really need
them. Hut then husband loves them, and
carries a great deal with him, into the city;
nnd, as to Ihe children, they would as soon
think of going undressed to school, as to go
without their doughnuts or their pie."
"Now do tell me what the materials of
that bird's nest pudding will cost you? I
am curious to know, as 1 never made one
1 of the kind."
"Cost rne ? why it's not expensive at all:
stop let me see, the articles I have used
to-day, cost perhaps fifty cents, or may
be a little more; my family is large you
know."
"Then you use sauce."
"Well, yes generally. Husbands won't
have any but the best, so I make it up cold
with while surar and butter."
"And do your puddings cost as much
every day ?t
"Well, I 'most always have one for din
ner, of some kind, .sometimes more expen
sive, sometimes less. Hitsliand will live
well, if we don't save a penny. We have
always managed to get along, and just keep
our heads above the water."
"La! really, no, two dollars seems so
much to give, just for a paltry paper. The
children aint fond of reading and husband's
away evenings, most ot the time, at neigh
bor Harris' sitting on the door stoop. There
seems to be a magnetism there."
"Ah ! Harris lakes the paper."
"Yes, but they live dreadlul common,
and keep a mean table."
"Oil ! no, vou are mistaken there : they
have a plenty of everything that is good.
J o be sure they have no pies, nnd seldom
cake, and their desserls are simple rice,
eaten with the richest ol milk, or a plain
apple or berry pudding. U is a real luxury
to take a bite ol their bread and butter; the
bread so delirious and light, the butter so
sweet and golden."
"Hut mv husband couldn't get along
without such things, and 1 confess it Would
come hard to me."
Yet look nt your children, neighbor D.
S'-e- the sallow hue on that little, pale
cheek, when, instead, the red rose of health
should bloom here. .Not one of your chil
dren looks healthy, neighbor 1)., and you
say yourself, that you are sick half the
tune."
"La! food aint got anything to do with
that ! its's constitutional."
"Constitutional or not, the manner in
which vou live, is hurrying you all into an
early grave. The children of neighbor
Harris are bright and rosy, cheerful and
intellectual. Take mv advice neighbor D ;
talk with your husband, and urge him to
give up these luxuries. In one week by
dispensing with such puddings as you have
to-day, you save two dollars, the prire of a
year's subscription. By living more sim
ply, your little Anna will not go Irettmg
about you, with those unsightly bloches
covering her face, the natural outlets of
grease and indigestible food. You will not
obliged to send for Dr. Henry every
little while because Henry has fits. You,
yourself, will carry a clearer head, and a
lighter heart, and take more interest in what
is transpiring abroad and around you.. It is
this kind of food that makes you at all
times so nervous and low spirited ; banish
it, and you restore health nnd happiness.
iNowtell me, in view ol all these things, if
you would then be too poor to take Ihe pa
per. How nice it would be to hear James
or John read some interesting story these
long evenings."
"La! you have such a way of talking ;
I s'pose I might take the paper, but as to
giving up what we've been so long accus
tomed to"
Poor neighbor D.
Jenny Lixi. A Poem, no', intended for
the Prize. .
On the wings of every wind
Comes the broad fume of Jenny Liud
"Atlantic" stoami r, iiivor'd of her kind,
M ill bear ihe treasured freight of Ji-imv Lind
Mermaid rejoice ! long tailed and finii'd,
To hear the notes ol' Jenny Lind !
Neptune his cur d shell duth wind,
To welcome the fair Jenny Lind
The mighty whaler to sportiveness ineliu'd,
Spouts up his jet of brine for Jenny Lind
While all the fishes of tlio sea
Leap up, to hear her minstrelsy ! -V. i P0Jt.
' TheChown or England. The crown of
England contains Hie following valuable
jewel !
. Twenty diamond round the circle, XI, 500
each, i'30,000 j two largo centre diamonds,
2,000 each, 4,000 5 fifty-four smaller dia
mond placed at ihe angle of the former,
100 ; four crosses, eacli 01 29 aiumouus, i,
000 ; four large diamonds, on the top of thu
orosaoa, 40,000 ; twelve diamonds contained
in fluer de lis, 10,000 ; eighteen smaller dia
monds contained iu the same, 2,000 j pearls,
diamonds, &c, upon Ihe arches and crosses,
10,000 J also, Ml . small . diamonds, 500 ;
twiily-aix diamonds io the upper cross, 3,
000 ; two oi teles of pearls about the rim, 200.
Cost of iho stones in the Crown, exclusive of
ihe metal, AIU00.
' MAJOR SHERMAN'S IIATTERt.
Thu drill ol" Ihis battery on Ihe common,
01 Krid.-iy afternoon, ill the presrnsn of some
tiit can or twenty .thousand persons, of which
ladies constituted the majority, is tlio ihemo
of praise from all lips to-day.
The sluggish movements which character,
ize tlio inaiKi.-uvres of ordinary ani I ;ry, are
entirely dispensed with. Each cannon is
drawn by four hotscs. All the men rido
upon the guns or tumbrils, and every move,
ment is made at full speed. The gnns are
linlimbered in the twinkling of an eye, pla
ced in battery, loadpd and fired, nnd limber
ed up Rsain in nlmott ns liltle time ns it
lakes to wrilo these words. The men spring
upon the guns like cats, s'art off at full gal
lop, whirl round, tnaiiu-nvre, change front
and lake now positions, with the swiftness
of cavalry. They pitch tho cannon from its
carriage, pull nway tho wheels, take the.
whole to pieces, put it together again, and
mount the cannon with ns much speed and
precision as one could open nnd shut a snuff
box. Every movement displays tlio utmost
perfection of discipline and accomplished
drilling . The drilling is a severe one for
officers, men, nnd horses ; mid serious acci
dents must of course be frequent, for evury
movement is executed at lightning speed. It
jS said that the gallant llinggnld lost twelve
men, by fatal accidents, in dulling his Fly
ing Artillery men to the same nianu-uvies
by Sherman's men, thai were witnessed yes
terday. Several very narrow escapes woto wit
nessed yesterday. One of tho company was
tnrown over his horse's head by coming in
collision with a tree : another was lamed in
tho foot in unlimbering before the carriage
had stopped : and a horse was wounded, in
wheeling, sn lli'it the blood (lowed profusely;
yet all these litllj accidents did not in the
loast clu ck any one movement. Tho horses
were admirably trained to their wo. k, nnd
appear to understand the word of command)
an I the sound of the bugle, equally as well
as the men.
The history of Mnjor Sherman is a happy
illustration of Ihe democratic character of
our institutions, nnd of tho fact that true merit
will work its way in spite of obstacles. Some
twenty years since he was a poor boy at
Newport, It. I., and worked out on tho farm
with his father. Our informant has often
seen him going his mnrninc rounds, with his
milk cans, serving his customers. He pos
sessed, however, the adventitious spirit of a
Yankee, nnd determined not to go barefoot
and carry milk all bis days. He. saved tip
his small charge, accordingly, until he had
accumulated enough to pay his expenses on
to Washington.
Armed with n simple certificate of good
moral character from one of his good custom
ers, who was known at Washington, ho put
his trunk in n wheelbarrow, and trundled it
down to the steamboat landing, nnd started,
in the humble accoutrements of a farmer's
boy. for head-quarters. Arriving at the sent
of government, he found the means of pre
senting himself to t Andrew Jackson, Presi
dent of the United States. That keen-sighted
old soldier recognised in the enterprising:
bold-spirited youth tho qualities that lead to
trust and advancement. The result of the
interview was nn order for Sherman's admis
sion at West Posiit. Here his industry, at
tention to duty nnd good natural ability soon
placed him at the head of his class. He
graduated with the highest honors of the in
stitution. His career since has been brilliant
and successful ; and his name will be hence
forth found on 0110 of the brightest pages in
the military ptinals of his county. Boston
Transcript.
A FituiTixo Mayoii. The lirownsvilln
(Tex.) correspondent of the New Oilcans
Delta sends the following:
''Within thu last week our Chief Magis
trate has twice exhibited his pugilistic pow
er, in ihe shape of roi'.gA fll tumble fights
once with a Justice, and onco with a member
o! tho learned profession. In the last case
ho is said to have got tho worst of it, as he
was uot seen in the streets for loui days
afterwards, and a certain druggist trpuits hav
ing sold a quantity of sugar of lead. The
people ara satisfied that the Mayor lias turn
ed out to be a perfect horsc.,'
Tut: Mai:fislite, an India paper one day
begun its editorial thus : "The (Jorham case;
d n the Gorham case." A few days after
the editor apologized lor the unseemly lan
guage by saying that during a temporary
absence, his paper had been left in charge
of a clergyman -V. Y. Post.
Some Schoolmaster!) are in the habit of
drawling .their words very badly. We
have heard of one who called up a little fel
low in school and said to him, "Ben!
paarte child!" To which the little lelloW
replied, ".No, I ain't ! Iam mother's!"
Qrn.p rays that a married woman, with
out children, is inconceivably behind the
time. Lustun Pvtl.
An Epigram. Punch having been pro
hibited at Kouingsburg, C. T, B., in the
Literary World, translates an epigram,
which appeared in the Leipsic Charivaris,
thus: , .
We Germans get our rights, to K-"siire,
As far and as fast as we need 'em
We have the freedom of caricature,.
And a caricature of freedom."
Bishop Bascom, who has been siok iu
Louisville, is improving.' His physicians
pronounce him convalescent.
A TALE OF HORROR.
While travelling a couple weeks since, We
heard from tho lips of a friend one bf the
most heart-rending recitals we have listened
to for a long time. Ito wns put off from a
steamboat at or near Wolf Island, about twenty-five
miles below the mouth of the Ohio,
for tho purpose of collecting a debt frcm a
man living about tivo miles back in the coun
try, on tho Missouri side, we think. Willi a
carpet bag in his hand, he had followed a
narrow path about three miles, when he
camo across a small cabin. Yet "cabin '
would not describe tlio place of habitation,
for such it proved to bo. It was a littlo di
lapidated shed with no boards on one side
nnd great crevices on the other sides nnd in
thu roof. Ho would hnve passed it by, but
moans from the insido told that it was occu
pied. Wishing to inquire his road, ho stop
ped, and stood before the open side of tho
shed, and gazed upon a spectacle, which, ns
he said, wns present before his eyes days
afterwards and haunted his sleep. We de
scribe what he saw, ns ho told us, only say
ing that strange ns the story may seem, full
reliance can be placed upon his words.
There was not a bed or chair in the shed,
but stretched upon the bare ground lay the
body of a youngish looking woman, who had
evidently just died. Her form was almost a
perfect skeleton, yet the face was that of a
refined and beautiful woman. On her breast
lay nn infant of about six months nge, with
its mouth to tho breast of its mother, and
dead. And sitting up in a corner of the shed,
and staring the traveller in the faco with
glazed eyes, was what ho thought another
corpse, but life was yet in it. The figure
was that of a girl apparently about ten years
old. She could not rise to her feet, and yet
she was not sick. She was literally dying of
starvation. By tho side of tho woman, and
clasping her hand, lay a man covered with
blood, and apparently in a dying state. Add
to this tho filth of the room and tho half
naked condition of tho sufTercr3, and we
wonder not that the scene long haunted the
observer. He went in. The girl could not
speak, but the man cried "water" in a feeble
voice, and pointed to the girl as if to attract
the stranger's attention to her. The travel
ler, Mr. J., of Cincinnati, hastened away,
taking with him a tin pan, and says ho never
ran harder in his life than he did about a
half milo to a small stream he had passed.
On his return, he found tho man still alive,
and gave him water, which He engcrly drank.
He could then speak in a whisper. He point
ed to the girl and said "she's starving."
Mr. J. gave the girl some water, which ap
peared to revive her, nnd she tried to talk,
but could not. With much difficulty he
learned from tho man that there was a house
nbout u mile distant, to which ho hurried.
On his arrival there, ho found only a negro.
While getting some provisions and hastening
back wifh tho man, tho latter informed him
that tho cholera had broken out in that neigh
borhood, and the family owning him had left
for the time being. lie faid ihe little girl of
tho shed hud daily made her appearance
there for provisions until about threo days
back that tho man nnd woman hail been
sick for a long time, &c. On their return
the man was dying, and lived but an hour
The little girl was revived by lood, and be.
foro they took her away Could talk. She
said she hud been sick herself and could not
walk to the house for food, and that her mo
ther died the day previous, and tho baby
about tho same time and that her lallier
had tried to kill himself when they died. It
was horrid.
The child was taken in the house, and the
rest of tho unfortunate family buried. The
child afterwards staled her linmo was Mary
Williams, and Mr. J. thought, from what he
could gather, the family had formerly lived
in New Albany, but in what New Albany ho
could not ascertain, more than as tho child
said, there were a great many houses there
nnd it was evidently New Albany. N. Y.
The negro said the family had been there
j geveral weeks, and came, directly nfter his
master had left. As there was not a family
in tho neighborhood, tho person having also
gone whom Mr. J. wished to see, tho girl
w ho was sick and exhausted, was left with
the negro, who promised faithfully to attend
10 her. Yet thoro was but litttle hopes of
her recovery. It has never been our misfor.
tune to hear a more horrible talu of reality
than this. Evansrille la.) Journal.
Watt Street. A Frenchman slopped a
lad iu the street to make some inquiries of
hjs w hereabouts.
"Mon fren, wat is ze nome of zis street?"
"Well, who said 'twunt?''
"Wat you call zis street?"
"Of course we do !"
"Pardonnez ! I have not zo name you call
him."
"Yes, Watts you call It."
How you call ze nnme of zis street ?"
''Watts street, I told yer."
'Zis street?' .
"Watts street, old fuller, and dou't yer go
ter make game o' me "
,;Sacre! 1 ask you 0110, two, tree several
times oftin, vill you tell to me ze name of Zo
street eh 1"
"Watts street, I told yer; Yer drunk, ain'l
yer?" 7 .
.'Mon little fren, vere you lif, en?"
A kecro living with while woman,
was tarred and feathered iu iew Albany,
lnd., on Saturday.
Crcem Muskmelom, fried, like cjgplanli
is aid to be delicious, and far superior to t,
CASE OF LACTATION I A MAtfe.
By C. V. IloRNF-n, M. D, or Philadel
phia. Dear Sir According to your request,
I send the particulars of the case of lactation
in an adult male. It occurred 'n the person'
of nn athletic American, named Charles Col
lins, aged 22 years, a blacksmith, working at
his trade in New York. About the 10th of
February liistj his attention Was first drawn
to his left breast, which appeared to be en
larging, and continued to inciease in size for
threo weeks, when hd came (0 Philadelphia.
After being in this city for three weeks, ha
became quito anxious in regaid to his condi
tion, forj nlihough ho suffered very little painj
tho mamma had become quite as large ns
that of a female nursinr;. He; thereforei
through the persuasion of an aunt, wag, on
the twenty-third of March, induced to apply
nt the Clinic of the Jefferson Medical College,
to consult the faculty of that Institution.
His case came up before Prof. Mutter, who,'
upon examination, found the mammary gland
largely developed, and filled with the lacteal
secretion which differed In nrj wise from that
of a mother. He could assign no cause for
this freak of nature 5 his health was very
good, aud Iho other breast natural. A soap"
plaster was prescribed; and compression or-
dered to bo kept up, which he persisted in
for full six weeks, when the gland returned
to its usual size; and when I saw him this
morning at Fairmount, whera ha now residesj
it was in every respect like the Other. Led
gcr.
AsToirxntsu Disclosures. fhi Madisotl
Hunk Robbery, be. Among the victims of the
cholera on Monday night last, was a convict
in tho Indiana penitentiary, at jolTersonville,
named Root. He was sentenced to the pen
itentiary for six years, under a charge of hav
ing robbed the batik at Madison, Indiana, of
some ?Jf.000, and his sentence would have
expired next month. Our readers will recol
lect that this robbery took plado about seven
years Since, and created great excitement at
the time, and suspicion was cast upon some
men occupying high places. The money was)
never found, and to this day; as has been as
certained by memoranda kept by the bank)
not a dollar of tlio stolen notes has never been!
put in circulation. Root was a man of bad
character, and ns he was at Madison about
the time of the robbery; he was pursued, arJ
rested, and; on trial, was convicted of the)
crime, although nothing positively was pro
ven against him, and notwithstanding he al
most positively proved nn nfM. On his death
bed on Monday night, he freely cdnfessed td
a number of forgeries and crimes, and impli
cated, as being connected with him in his
forgery transaction, a persoii who is at present
a resident of this city, and irho is ttotc reputed
to he worth his hundred thousand dollars! He,
however, most earnestly and solemnly denied
having ever had anything whatever to do)
with the Madison Bank robbery, orof knowJ
ing anything about it, either directly or indi-
rectly. As we have: already said; he freely
acknowledged to many other crimes, but with
a full knowledge that death would Soon claim
him as a victim, he asseverated to the last
that he was suffering Iho penalties for a crime'
of which he was entirely innocent. The con
fession were made to his physician, Dr. W;
F. Cullum; and from all the attending cir
cumstances, his statements are believed to be
true. L'juisville Courier, Aug. 14.
French Politeness. In a battle between
tho French and Neapolitans, during the)
French levolution, tho soldiers on both sides
were instructed to give no quarter. A Nea
politan soldier having been disarmed by a
petty French officer, ihe former kneeled and
begged his life. "Ah, Monsieur." says thai
the Frenchman, '-I pity you very much, and
would be extremely happy to serve you ask
any ether favor, and it shall be granted." '
I'pon saying which, he plunged his Sword
into his heart.
Getting Insured. The Troy Post relates
a "good one" of Jacob Barker, the Quaker,
who hearing of tlio loss of one of his vessels
which he had omitted to get insured, wrote
to a broker with whom he had spoken ou the
subject, as follows :
'Dear Friend
If thee has not filled up the policy which I
bespoke on Saturday, the need not; as I have
heard from the vessel."
The broker, in fact had not filled up the!
policy, but presuming from tho tenor of Ja
cob's note tlin.t his vessel was safe, and temp
ted by what seemed a good chance to clutch
his per centage w ithout risk, he filled it up"
forthwith and sent it to Jcob with the assu
ranee that it had been made all ready for
him on Saturday. On Monday morning the
first thing that met his eyes on opening his
newspaper was the loss of Jacob's vessel,
which he had wickedly insured ou Sunday.
Then also he discovered the cunning ambi
guity of Jacob's note "he had heard front
the vessel !''
A Clever Jew. A foreign paper States
that lately a deputation on Sir Moses Monte-1
11 .ire, to ask his assistance in their efforts to
build a church. "You know mjr religious
opinions," replied the excellent Jew, "1 can
not give you money to build a church there
are five hundred guineas for you to do what
jou like with."
Physicians m America A corespondent
of the Limerick Examiner, writing from Cin
cinnati, says that in that Iowa there ara over
two hundred doctors, and, "I am sorry to add,
all doing well; but this must hot be attributed
entirely to disease, as an American will eoa
suit a doctor for a pain in his little finger.'