f t II .( iMnl I I I. ,Ui i ,u; .: . '1 aw .sru 'i H. B. MASSER; EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, ' OFFICE, MARKET STREET, OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE. l jFamUu ilciuspapci-Dctootcu to ajolMes, SLftcrnturr, fWornUtj?, jrorefflit anB Domestic ileitis, Scfrnc ajti tivt arts, aarfculturr, -fHamts, grmusnnrnts, NKW Sb'.H.KS VO!,. .1. NO. J I. SUM HUH Y. NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY. PA.. EATUHDAY, JANUARY 4. 1 8.11. OLD SKR1 KH VOL. II. AO. is. reeve -xvy""'- R3g AMERICAN. tJ:N-B k3 TliUNSOF lllti 4MHKICH. THE AMERICAN is pnliliirinl .very 9turrlai- at TWO DOI.I.AliS primi...m i, ImmI hulf yearly n tctvaiiM, N. paper eie.nitlnued until u ""' " '!?,',,' id Ih. Acomrm..iic,,lur,ir letter. ' '"""''J .r"" 10 "" Act, to iiuur attention, " rusr ' Mu TO OI.IB3. Tare, eopit to on Mri, o0 3 S0 0 titm tit the American. On 8w of ""' S """' Kretv suLaocn""1' i"'l'oi, On Squar, 0'llh fSia month, a!i,.Y-M,Crd- of Fiv .n. P aiwum, M.rX'.t. " "Ih.r., advert.....:! hr th tWnt .dvetti.eme.il weekly. OT !' Atverlimeii, ft n.reeineiil. 1 00 300 j tvio 300 10 60 3.3.16A33E?,, ATTOKN K Y AT LAW, SCHBUSY, PA. iB u.ine-. attended to in t! 'nic of or tW.b.rland, Union, Lycoming and C ulumh.a. Itrinr ' I. & A. I'moi'i'T. "I ,wmi A U.Miins. I Rk,koi.m, Mcl i.'' , 'inou & n.. J U. R. RniKKFIil.UR, ?ittorne7 ct Law. nilneravilir. ScJin.Vlilll Co., I' a. BUSINESS wiil l prmnptlv Attended to in the eonntie of Schuylkill. Noithumhtrlaml, Union, (,'olumbia and Monlnur- Refer to : ' A. Jordan. H- Bell... H- B- M..r. E.qr... l,rv --Wm. De Haven EdivariMI". Holtmnn Shimlel. Miner.viilt C. M- Hall, " Mortimer, Pottsville Oct. 8. IRS0 lv- CHARLES W. IIF.CINS, ATTCP.1T2CT AT LAW, riiHavllle. . Will promptly attend to rollertioiu anil all buti iirM entruHted to Uia care. Juna 16, 184S. J. H. ZIHMERMAN, JlSritt; OF T8IK I'KACE. Siinbury, Pa. OIH in Deer Street, immediately oppotite the PuWie Pflinol Home. tlT MoniM eall.ft.! ort lii U.if. piomplly anil ci fall. Uidt in. April SO, 1850 KMT VOKK Sc ri:r.niB.I IIIA JOURNEYMEN Iluttrr 4 l.tli , Car. tftlh and Cli?stnt S"t, PtiilmUlphia. CONTINUE to maka and sell a finer and more durable Hat for Hie nionay tliau any other .taiilmnt in the. United tates-rlandard price af Hata $3 00. Gents and Boy Cloth and Olaxed Cap. Umltrellaa, Carpet lis, Ualaly Panama and Straw llal at equally low price. M.yJ5, 1850 ly JOI2V V. TABCIC & Co. JMroIlTEKS OK Wtchei, Jewelry, Plated Ware, AXO J'4.l V i.O IS, US Chfsnut St., bthrtin 3d If ith Strttti. PHXX.ADSXiE'SXXA. A LWAYfl keep on hand an excellent aort i Bent af the ai'ove articlea, wnicn uicy all an terma aa low at any in the city, iuna 15, lS.'.O 6m will AVM. M'CAVvTY, DO UK Si: LLC It , H roadway, STJNEURY, PA. H AS recentlv received, among other article!, a treat variety of New, Cheap and t,iueriain- int pualicationa tuch at Coapert iiae!, complete or teparate. Herbaria Do Koehvelt. Dum.a da ''""r1"' Sue Jo Halliburton, Ravndoli Jo Marry att, C.'ckton to '") Maiwell d M."1'. , ;,rroia do Amtworth, Morria do At the law price of from S5 to 50 ctt per volume. Suabury, Sept. 28, lbdO. tf. " JACOB UBED'S tl.OIIIIO ItOOMS, Southwest Corner of Fifth am Market Streett, PH1I.ADEI.VH1A, rvun .L..v. Lni mi hand, lane atock of every vanetv ul clotlnn? maue up oi B""" ....... - - materialt, and in the latest and liest style, ne would also inform the public, that he pave ronai darable attention ill getting up Military Clothing, in jeod atvle and on reatonable termn. Juna 15, 1850.- ly MUSICAL INSTHUMKMS. CIIAS. DUMIMIG, So. 207 Chetnut Street, front Arcade, liiniiri.Pili. IMPORTER and Manufacturer of all kinds "f M.iical Inat rumenta, Fancy Articlei andToys. Hia pricet are I ower than thotc of any other store ni Philadelphia- All kindt of Musical Instru menu repaired in the hast workmanship, and also taken in trade, Philadelphia, May 25. 1850. ly. EDWIN II A Mi, (Lati TB Fi WTHao & ILll,) , A'o, 2 V South Second Strtet, PhiladslpMa, I) ESPECTFl'I.LY informs hi old frienda and A curtoniera, aa well aa the public generally, that ha has opened an entire new stock of elegant ,t,U'8priruj & Summer Dress Goods. .u.irtm.nt consist of the latest and most dci- i.u .iv I, of Enalish. tierman. French A A me- fjj.. Buch aa Delaines', Tissues. Bera Bee, Silks, l.awns, Muslin, Sh Is, H dkffs, Gloves, and every variety ol Dreae ana r ancy uoou. Philad. Mrch 10, 1850 ly OBT.l.. SBTU. TH08. P. B. BETH, 8RTH&BWOTIIKR. WHOLESALE GROCERS Commf00f on fHrrrliitiUo NO. rBATTmBT, (Nii Bowly's WHAr,) "' ' RALT1M0RE, Will sv pajtieuUr .ttenlioo to the tale of GRAIN . . . I .1 ,K. fan.. B4 an oiner pfauacv w 'laar, Jaiary 5, 10. 1 SELECT POETRY. Temples not made With Hands. 'Ti noJ in temples mnile with harwli Tht areiit Crvitior ilwell. Cut on the it ion i t h t n lop lie lariclr Ami in llin lonely tielln ; Wherever fervent pmyer i h .id, He Kliimls, recording every wonl. In ilelln on tnininliiiii", every where; He never f.iil lo answer prayer. Vex in Ihe poor man's lowly .tall, Anil in the pi imeia' cell.., And in Ihe rich mini's lordly hull, The aieal Crpalor dwell ; Where two or Ihiee are joined in prayer, Mi. nui)ieiii;e II. ill. Ilia Huine i there; Wherever pray 'he ehihl of piaee, Is Him peculiar ilwelling-pluce. Think you that templen Iniilt of alone, And blea.M by priestly hand, Are more peuulutily His own, More reverence demand ? da to ihy closenl. Shut the dnor, Anil all Ihy niercie. ponder o'er ', Thi" all-pi-i Vinlmfj (jod ia there i He loves lo answer secret prayer. Tin temple thy Crealor own, Thai lempli; is the lieail : No lowerina pile of cosily atones, Nor any w in k of ai l ; The eloiul.cnp'il npire ihat points on hih, M.iy draw Ihe liuhlninj from the isky , Bin' 'lis ihe humble, modest (lower, Thai drinks in ihe lel'renhiiiif shower; And in return lor lavor uiven, It biealhes its lraraiift back to Heaven. Some clintr to Prelate's surplice strings; We how to no created things: One God we worship ; one alone ; K.ulh is His lootslool Heaven His throne. H(6ct Uauroittf inttct- A GOOD MOTHER. rnoM the lifi: of sir. fowf.ll bi'Xtun. It is of vast afKtnlas: to be born of healthy and virtuous parents ; it is a fur ther advantage to be the children ol (hose whose intellect has been thoroughly r'is riplined and developed; a further advan tage still, to be surrounded in infancy and early childhood wiih such ruiding and eievauns; nome-iniiuences as icua to in spire pure tastes and high aspirations, and lo create or slrenglher. repugnance to what ever is low, sensual, or lalse ; and, last of all, it is a blessing and an ndvanta?e, utterly incalculable, lo have (or a mother a wo man of sense, superiority, and goodness; with lorce of character; wilh latent and celverness; of solid information ; wiihlact, temper, patience, and ski I, filter! to train and mould the mind, to implant principles, and awaken a lofty and laudahle ambition : and all this presided over and purified by religious (iii t h, deep piety, and earnest de votion. These are the mothers that the church and the world alike want. The destinies of the race depend more on its future mothers than on anything else : that is to say, on the sort ol women that yoiinK girls and young ladies are to be made into, or into which they will make themselves; and the sort of wives that voung men will have the sense to prefer, Ihe judgment to ct, and the happiness to secure. 1 here is nothing so liltle thought of by the youn?, and no single (hing that would be in its issues ol such moment, as for the one sex to remember that they are horn to be the makers of future men, and for the other to feel that what they want in marriage are not merely mates lor themselves, but mo thers for their children. Clever women are of more importance to the world than clever men. 1 reler, of course, not to il lustrious individuals on whom society de pends for advance in the aits, in legislation or in science who extend the boundaries of knowledge, who recieve and pass the torch of genius, perpetuate eloquence, or preserve truth ; I relere to the culture and strength that may distinguish the general mind the characteristics of the mass of men and women who constitute society, and from whom not only posterity, as a whole, will receive an impress, but among whom the individual hero, too, must be born and bred. On the two suppositions that all men were clever and all women weak or that all the women were superior and all the men fools there would be by far the best prospect for the world on the latter alternative both wilh respect to the general condition of the race, and the ap pearance of I hose w ho should be personally eminent lor ability and genius. Ihe mo ther has most to do with all that awakens the VOW12 spirit in ils early lreshness, and that' makes tM child that is to be "lather to the niaif," and she gives, perhaps, more of Ihe impress of her whole being, physical and mental, to the original coiulitmion and capacities of her offspring. Weak men, wilh suoerior wives, have had sons distin guished by very high intellectual ability; but the greatest men, with tools lor their portion, have seldom been anything hut the fathers of fools. The great Lord Bacon was the represenlalive of one that would have been memorable and illustrious but fur the gigantic and overshadowing genius of his son. His father, Sir Nicholas, was twice married ; his first wife was a weak woman, and bore nothing but a mean and poor intellectual offspring; his second wife was distinguished and superior, a woman of capacity, of strong sense, mental culture, and great energy, ke wn tie mother of IS a con. vvuhout denying that there are many exceptions to what we affirm, we still do affirm, that the facts and phenomena are of such a nature, in relation to this question, as clearly to indicate the general law, that men, for the most part, constitu tionally, not only as to their bodies, but as to their intellectual powers, their moral instincts, and their capacity to take a high er or lower polish from external influence are. very much, not only what their re mote nrosrenitors in Paradise provided for. but what their immediate fathers and mo thers main them. Still, whalevi r may be the constitutional cnpiciiy of a hoy, th tmrn that h may take, the forms inh which, the general power may evolve, depend greatly on first impressions and early management ; and here it is ihat the mother is so. important to the future man. Weak, trifling, careless, and selfish mothers will neglect olten the finest material ; ignorant of the value of what they hold in their hands, incapable of f islu ning it, negligent and perverse, iney allow it to lemain raw, rude, and unwork ed or (hey give it a wrong and hurtful direction, or they suffer it to shape itself, moved from within by blind impulses which it was Iheir part to have purifn d and con trolled ; or ought by objects and inflm n ces fiom without, which act upon "the fl'sh" like ihe atmosphere on the dead. Now, I do not mean to say that Sir Fowell Buxton's mother was the wisest and most accomplished woman in the world ; that she Irad no weakness, or committed no error in (he management of her children. It is rather, perhaps, (o be admitted that she went lo an extreme in her methods of securing that one thing which she strongly and pre-eminenily desiderated for her son ; hut (hen she succeeded, we must remem ber that. He turned out the sort of man that she wi.shed to make him. Her desire was, thai he should have a strong, vigorous, decided character; have mental independ ence, moral courage an unconquerable will. Her idea of a man was, robustness, power, self-trust, general capacity for any achieve ment he might deem it right lo undertake, united, however, with candor and benevo lence, loving thoughts, sympathy with suf fering, and impatience wilh, and hostility to, injustice and wrong. She despised whatever was weak, effeminate and luxuri ous. She erred somewhat in allowing Fowell, as the eldest son, while yet but a boy, (o assume (he position of Ihe master ol the house, and in requiring his brothers and sisters to obey him. Jlut she peremptorily demanded his obedience herself. Her rules were, in one direction, 'little indulgence but much liberty ;" and in another, "impli cit obedience, unconditional submission." Fowell was encouraged lo converse wilh her as an equal, and to form and express his opinions without reserve. The conse quence was, (hat he had early acquired the haffit of resolutely thinking and acting for himself; and to this habitual independence and decision he was accustomed to say Ihat he stood indebted for all the success he had met with in life. Hut, along with this ele ment of power, it was Mrs. Buxton's ob ject (o inspire her children with sentiments that would induce sell-denial and self-sacn-fice, and render them thoughtful for the happiness of others. His father, when fill ing the office of sheriff", devoted his atten tion lo the condition of the prisoners and ihe discipline of the jail. His mother talk ed with him, there can be little doubt, of this circumstance, it is known that she did of the horrors of the slave Made and the sufferings of Ihe slaves. It is as natural, therefore, in fact as it is beautiful in itself and encouraging to others, to find him say ing to her, in the meridian of Ins manhood and in the midst of his multitudinous and merciful pursuits, constant! u feel, espe cially in action and exertion for others the rjlects of principles earhi implanted by you in my mind." He had a high idea of his mother's character; her large-mindedness, intellect, courage, disinterestedness, gener osity, and general excellence. His love for her was strong, and veneration great; and mothers who have really earned love and veneration are very seldom defrauded of either. She lived "to see him all that she could wish, and far more, perhaps, than she had once hoped. Time did more then justify the trust and fulfil (he predic tion, wnich, when his sell-will as a boy was remarked lo her, she expressed by say ing, "Never mind ; he is self-willed now you will see it turn out well in the end." A Prize Kssay on Independence. This being (say Western editoi) ihe ago of prize literature, we recently offered our old hat to Ihe person who would write th.' best essay on Independence. The following ob tained the prize : National independence is easier imagined than described ; personal independence con. isls emphatically in being situated in a clean hirt, diauers, socks, and nicely blacked boots, w ilh at least a dollar and a half, and a clean cambric in your pocket all on Sunday morning, with your wife on one arm anil your own baby on Ihe other, taking your own course toward youi own church, to ail under Ihe minislry of your own preacher, in blissful expectation of doin your own anooz. ing in your own pew, wherein no one dare venture to nudge you wilh hia elbow, or to tickle your nose wilh a straw !" Ring Found on Burcoynk'sCamp Gkoukd- We have seen a very handsome gold and en amel mourning ring Ihat was found in June last, in Greenwich, Washington comity, on the banks of ihe Hudson. This relic was found about two mile, north of the place where General Burgoyne surrendered lo Gen. Gales, October 7, 1777, and where ihe former Gen eral had hie encampment. The ling was found by a boy, w hile he wa planting a field and is in perfect stale, Ihe enamel bearing, in distinct gold tellers, "Robert Johnson, Ob. 16, Nov. 1773, iE, Tl." The probability it thai ihe ring belonged to some officer of the Brit ish Army Ileruld. The Pa a her Water Wheel Patent Iu (be case of Phelps' assignee of Parker wMoyer, which occupied eleven days in its invest iga. lion, before Judge Huntington, of tha Circuit Court of Ibe United Slates, tha jury returned a verdict far lit defendant. This ease pnt in issue tha validity of lho Patent right of U2n, and toe Air i igi.t neat, patenlea in if to. ldtmnptltt Journal. TIIK COUNTHY AKU MTV PR EM. The RenoTing Gazette says, "if the people wiih to be fern re from imposition, let Ihetn snbsi'sibe for fAat'r oirn county papers. There is no hnmbtsji about them. They make no fong parade of promises which they never in. tend to perform. One number is n ipecirri ef what Ihe rest will be; rd allliouh they may hot present ihe flashy 'appearance wilh, which some of Ihe Philadelphia weeklies are but loo iiccesfnl in pulliiv; the public, ihey possess more intrinsic value am interest to country readers than ihe verv bes papers tha1 come from abroad. Take your isumty paper by all means. If yon can afford the expense of another, be careful lo select some repuia. ble city sheet, w hich i iivsoed at u lair price, anil whose publishers are responsible men. lint beware of lho piratical half price con cerns, which have no real value, and only de signed to make money by playing upon Ihe credulity of Ihe publio " We have always held that the lira! duly of our country friends i to their local new-spa-peis; they kIiouKI be liberally supported, and no one should nejjlecl them for lhepnrpoe of subscribing lo a cily weekly. The local edi tors of the interior are often at heavy expense, and woik nijjrlu and day, both wilh head and hands, for the accommodation of their com munitics, and they should receive a liberal remuneration. Congress, when nctinff on the new Postage Law, should make every paper published out of ihe cilies, circulate fiee through Ihe Conpres.Monal district in which ihey are published. By doing this more sub" scribeis would be obtained, and the editors could therefore afford to publish public docu ments and olher mailers of national interest If the money foolishly squandered on Congres sional piinlers at Washington, were paid lo the papers of the interior, ihe information necessary to be imparted could be circulated more extensively and at a far cheaper rate. Some great reform isneressary, and the conn try press has ihe power to compel it if it chooses to be true to itself. The public docu. inents, which annually cost hundreds of dol lars, seldom reach "loiling millions," and when ten thousand copies of a message or olher Slate paper are published by Congress, they seldom meet the eye of Ihe reader in the interior, and are never known lo Ihe publio until they are republished in the newspapers. There is a Congressional Committee on Print ing, and we should like to see some sugges tions of a practical character emanate from it. Let a price be fixed fer the publication of eve ry important document, and let every paper Ihat publishes them receive compensation therefor. Do away with the vast expenditures among the Washington papers, and dislribule the same amount of funds among Ihe papers at large, and the quid pro quo will be largely increased. It is hardly fair I hut every paper in the country should publish ihe President's Message and ils accompanying documents! and none of them receive compensation for it except Ihose located at Washington. PhUa.Sun. TAXES'IS lr.l.AND. Who can be surprised that the masses of Great Britain are in a Stale of destitution and misery Wilh a population of 37,000,000 in England, Ireland and Scotland, Great Britain paid, in 1847, 56,000,000, or $2R0,000,000 taxes. Of this, S45. 000,000 was derived from property lho tax of aiislocracy and gentry while 8235,000,000 was derived from trade and industry, nr rather from the sweat and blood of the masses. William, Ihe Norman, who founded, in ihe tenth cen tury, ihe system of English taxation, is gen erally called a robber, but in Ihe period of six centuries, and from his conquest lo J600, English taxes never rose in a single year above 83.000,000: George ihe I, raised them lo $30,000,000; George III., the odious ty rant, w ho sought lo strangle our liberty, raited them lo 575,000,000; George IV., in 1S20. raised ibem to 9270,000,000, which divided among ihe population of Great Britain is S7 to 25 to every man, woman and child. BEAl'Tlf'lL IMIUEM'. Fifteen year ago the noble structure then known as the Melhodisl Book Establishment, in New York, was destroyed by firo. Among the burning fragments of books and pruned sheets which were whirled aloft on the w ings of the flames, and born onward upon Ihose of ihe wind, was a page of the Bible containing the sixty-fourth chapter of Isaiah. It wui picked up on Ihe morning of the con flagration about twelve mile distant on Long Island, and before Ibe catastrophe was known here. It was indeed a winged messenger of of truth, in a double sense, for Ihe fact is no less striking than authentic, that every word of Ihe page was lo marred a lo be illegible save ihe eleventh verse, which read in ihe following word: "Our holy nud beautiful house where our fathers praised ihee, is Bi'SNED i-r with Fi.E and all our pleasant thing. ARE LAID WASTE." Chiceem Pir. Poise.. Several caea of families having been poisoned by eating chicken pie havo been mentioned in the pa pers, and il i. suggested by the New York Sun that when chickens, after being cooked, are left lo stand for any length of lime cover ed closely, they breed a kind of poison ; and also that, in Ihe case of pies, it i. necessary ouwvs lo cut a bols through tha erust to let in the sir, and when cooked in any other way, it is necessary to leave them sufficiently open to allow free access to ihe air. Loao Caernarvon defined "limber" as "an excrescence on the face of the earth, placed there by Providenee for the payment of debi.' FLAX (OTTO. The London Chronicle give a long police of M. Donlau't improvement in preparing flax, which, by a combination of chemical and mechanical means avoid all Ihe expenses connected wiih siteping. The- GI?o may b prepared at a cost considerably below that incurred' in Ihe present process, and may be made applicable either foi fabrics of thr coarsenesaof mail bug ofcanvust. Mr. Clau se! has, by another invention, adapted Ihe flax fibe lo cotton machinery. The patent granted lo M. Clausten for England is for the preparation uf (lax in short staple, so as to so as la produce a substitute for wool and cot Ion machinary, and alsa fir the mixture of the materials thus obtained, which can be be carded together with silk, eoltcwa and wool or srperalely, as cotton for spinning into yarn. The riglil in also secured for preparing long fibre as a substitute for silk for bleaching, in the preparation of materials for spinning and felling, and also in yarns nud felts. Th Chronicle says of its practical results Ihat from liewt. of the (lax fibre prepared and cleaned upon the unsieeped proct, one cwl of a substance, identical wiih clean coltoiu can be produced at a cost for material of less than half a crown. The cost of manual or mechanical labor required in its preparation, including (he expense of bleaching, nn opera tion performed in a few seconds, does not amount to more than 7-lilih of a penny per pound. The mixture of the two substances, viz., wool with (lax reduced lo a short staple forms a fabric exceedingly durable, while ils coat may be judged by the facl that while wool costs 4s. 6d., Ihe flax prepared and rea dy for spinning may be obtained for sixpence per pound, so thai with flax and wool spun together in equal quantities, the cost would be reduced by nearly one hall. The Rich mond Whig, alluding to this improvement, aays If it should turn out. upon further trial, thai flax, prepared in a particular way, can be substituted for cotton, so as lo enable Great Britain to dispense with our Southern staplei a mighly effect will be produced upon the value or properly in the Southern Slates. The price of lands and slave property will at once be diminished, and business arrange ments entered into upon Ihe present value of ihat species of properly, will, after Ihey have matured produce a crash that w ill be tel. over the entire country. A leon would thus be read upon ihe mutability of human af. lairs. The political consequences resulting from the change would be mnsl important. A considerable diminution in ihe wealth and power of iheSoulhern States would of itself have a marked effect upon Iheir political re lations wiih olher Slates the importance of their friendship as well us ihe dread of their enmity wiauld thereby be decreased. The Cotton Treaty to be negotiated wilh England, which, not long since, we had oc- caaiou to discuss, and through which the SftntliMrn Clnta. ......... . - ll .L , r ......... nci. iw 1:111c un me evils Ol Disunion, would vanish into thin Hir, and Ihe Southern Slates be thrown upon iheir own re sources. Should flax be made lo aunnlv il place of cotton, then will be exemplified the impolicy heretofore pursued by ihe cotton Mates, of relying on one leading interest to the exclusion of all others. CATHOLICISM I fcKCLAXD. It appears from a late return, ihat the Catholio churches and missions in England have increnied from 282 in 1829, 10 583 in 1850. In 1838 no fewer than 800 conversions took place in the midland district The ave rage number in Ihe London district from 1837 lo 1844 was 600 yearly. In the year 1841 conventions among the established Church commenced. In that year there was one, in 1842 one, in 1843 and 1844 three each, and in 1845 no fewer than Iweuty-eighl in eluding Newman, Faber, Ward nnd olher ce lebrities, together with ten olher members of the Universities, and about thiny private and professional irentlemen. In the present vear twenty-five clergymen of the established Church have become members of Catholic re ligious ciders. The Man who didn't wast to be Mean In one of the back towns of a neighboring Stale, where il is (he custom for the district achoul teacher lo "board round,'1 Ihe follow ing incident occurred, and is vouched fur by the highest authority. A year or Iwo ago an allotment being made in ihe usual manner for the benefit of the school mistress, it hap pened ihe proportion of one man was just two days and a half. The teacher aal dow n to dinner 011 the third day, and was begin ning 10 eat, when the man of ilia house ad dressed her as follows :- ,;Madam, 1 suppose your boarding liine is out w hen you have eal half a dinner, but as I ilont w aul lo be mean about it, you may eat. if you choose about as much as usual !" Huriiig'on Sentinel. Wo.mdwkll, Ihe exhibitor of animals, is dead. Old and infirm, he could not bear lo be separated fiom his menagerie, and he traveled about with it in a bed-carriage. His menagerie was exhibiting when he diet!, and an announcement of his death was made by hia request, to the spectators ; after which the baud played the Dead March in Saul, and the exhibition closed. There are in Lowell, Ma.., twelve man ufacturing companies, with a capital stock of $13,210,000. Tha number of mills i. fifty . spindles, 219, B45; loom., 9,983 ; female, employed, $,990 J males employed, 1,744 ; cotton consumed per week,' 633,000 lb. weo! por week, .CO ISs. SUMS OIX-THE "fRAIV ANUEL." We notice by the southern papers, that Miss Dixk is still persevereing in her work of true philanthropy, in wuking up the minds of Ihe public in behalf of Ibf? insane She ia now at the capial of Alabama, be- seeching (he Legislature (o ereet a statr? asylum for Ihe unfortunale to that state. It will be recollected she was this staje a few yeas since, o the same charitable errand. The seeds thus sown among us have since germinated. Steps are now ta ken for one within our border. Nine yea,rs ago w had the pleasure of spending an evening wilh her. She tfcen slid if her We was spared she intended to beseech evey state where there were no asylums for the insane, for the errection of one. Seven states since tlwo, through her instrumentality anil perseverance, have erected asylums. While oil this subject, we take occasion to relate an anecdote in relation to the oue in Khode Island. As both of the parties are now dead to whom we allude, it is too good to be lost. Nicholas Brown, of Providence, R, I., was a grer,t friend to all charitable institu tions. There was no insane hospital in, the stale. Miss Dix visited him for the pur pose of gelling him enlisted for the erec tion of one. After much persuasion she got him committed lo the project, with a promise (o make a liberal subscription. Mr. Brown loved to draw the coppers from Cyrus Butler's huge purse. He would give away a thousand dollars at any time for a charitable purpose, provided a like amount could be obtained from his friend B., a millionaire, who was a noted miser. Mr. Brown headed the subscription with $30,000, and interlined the paper, slating that the institution was to take the name of Ihe largest subscriber. He thought in that way he would entrap his friend Kuller far a larger sum than he had put down. He succeeded. Miss Dix repeatedly called on Mr Butler but he kepi constantly putting her off, with out using his pen. She had learned his character and determined to importune (he old bachelor until she obtained a noble sum. One day she called on him at his counting room, where several were waiting their turn to do business. As she went in, Mr. B. was somewhat out of humor. He was disputing an item of some ten cents ' a carpenter's account. She geiilly tapped him on the shoulder and laid the subscrip tion belore him. He was impatient to get rid of her. She continued to importune him. Ije seized his pen and wrote "C. Butler, forty thousand dollars." Handing her Ihe paper he said, 'so much for Brown's introduction of the crazy an?el lo me ." Thirty thousand dollars was afterwards sub scribed by the citizens of Providence. Mr. liutier died the past vear, leaving an es tate of $4,000,000 to his niece Mrs. Dun can. Willi all his immense wealth he left 110 lasting monument to his memory, but the "Butler Insane Hospital," and that was done while in a pet, about a ten cent charge by his carpenter. Detroit Tribune. Sxow fell at Bath (Me.) on Monday last to the depth of two feet. Large Tcrnip. The Frederick (Md.) Herald has a turnip from the "Bloomfield" farm of S. G. Cockey, which weighs nine pounds, and measures 36 inches in circum ference. Mount Veh.no.v, the residence of Gen. Washington, in Virginia, was so named af ter the English Admiral Vernon, a brave oliicer, who first brought Washington to the notice of the Knglish cabinet, and which led to hit gelling his fiist commis sion, The Cleveland Piaindealer announces that among the Western inventions to b displayed at the World's Fair, it understands that Mr. Shutes will carry over for compe tition for the prize, the best game of Eucher, to be played against the world. Important Discovery Faraday, the dis tinguished chemist, at ihe last monthlv meet ing of the Royal Institution, London, announc. ed hi diseuvery that oxygen is magnetic; that this property of the gas is afl'eoled by hear, and that he believes ihe diurnal varia tion of ihe magnetic needle to be due lo the action of solar heat on this new discovery characteristic of oxygen. Methodist Missions. The domestic mis. sions of the Methodist church, according lo Bishop Janes, comprise three hundred nnd twenty stations, and employ three hundred and thirty-seven missionaries Connected wilh these are about thirty thousand church meuibeis, Gen. Radetskt is the only one of the Aus trian Generals w ho ha. ndvised the Court of Vienna lo abstain from war, alleging as a reason, ihat the withdrawal of any Ironps from Italy, would be the signal for another outbreak. The Pittrbibo American notioe an arri. val in that cily of a runaway couple, from Lancaster, Pa., the groom being an old far mei of 75, worth $30,000, and the bride a blooming girt of 18. "Mr. Smithes, how can you sleep .of The sun haa been up these two hour." 'Well, what if he has! (hiccup.) He goes to bed at dark, while I'm on a bender till after midnight." (Hiccup.) The proprietor, of the inn, where Gen, Haynau retreated, when he was mobbedj known a. ''Haynau Refuge," have become bankrupt. The reason of this was, that crowds of visitor, coming lo view the premi aet, the usual customer, for lunch and dinner, fell off, and Ihe keeper of ihe hotel was ruin. d in cs.'.is-usrjoei Tailors. A letter rei-eiveJ by ihe last steamer from London, tr,PU!iit,g. of 'heUailor says : There are over 24,000 tailors in Lon Ion, 1:6,000 of ihern ar. engaged on op wo.k, or h ap clothing in the employ of ihe siea'ers or middlemen, and are liiiserbly paid ; 4,000 are employed by th. first clas. tailors and gel fair wages, d 4,000 are out of employ, depending on the occasional char ities of Ihe tailor socie.ie., and association.. lUfi number was greater in August, bul .inc. then 1,500 have gone lo America, nnd the remaining 3,000 will go in the spring, or a. soon us ihey can raise the sum of one pound hve shillings, which will procure them (from ihe tailor societies) a savage, ticket worth 3. It in cheaper for ihe benevolent socirtie. to .end them out to America, than to main, tain lhem for months in so dear and expen-. ive a city as Loudon." The on! capital punishment Ihe dievaro m favoi of is hanging around the neck. Jennv I.ind, it is stated, talks or making Ihe Uahed State, her permanent home. We seek for riches and do not find them ; we do not aeek for death, but alas, he comes.. Goi.dk.v HAin sets are now quite fashion, able in England. Why is an ignorant judge like necenityt Because he knows no lew. A Lady Millionaire of Baltimore, Mis. Rachel Colvin, has been declared a lunali by a jury. THF.Rcare many Sriining Quali'ie. in th mind of man, bul few so valuable as discre-. tion. A I.ate Knsmsii writer, ill sneakinrr nf the United Stales, says: "It is the land of large (arms and thinly peopled graveyards." A Mammoth Cotton Mill has iust beer. erected at Manchester. N. 11. It is 400 feet long, and six stories high ; built of bn'cl. Venison is coming down to New Vork over ihe Ei ie Railroad is great abundance, from the region ol Delaware county. It will i0On b nearly as cheap as beef. First Shad The first shad caught ihis season at the South was sold in' the Savant nah market for live dollars, on the ISlh inst., and foiwaided lo Maoou. It is stated that the value of the internal commerce of Mississippi and Ohio, with their iriDutanes, will amount this year to $210., 000.000. Foktt pews in thouew Methodist Church. Norfolk, were sold on Thursday evening, for the turn of 810,000, which was a premium of five hundred dollars upon lho assusse.l value. One pair of rata with their progeny, w ill in three years produce as many as 646,8011 rats, winch will consume day by day, ait much loud as 04,680 men, to starve. leaving eighl lata There are in England, 140 trainers, 100 race courses, and ICO jockeys. There aro 2.UQ0 ihorungh bred hoises in liaiuing. The stakes, wiih all iheir deduction, amount an-, uually lo 208,000 It is said that some American wool, re cently sent from New Vork lo England, pro. ved to be so exquisitely line aa to make it impossible lo card il wiih Ihe present machi nery. It was line enough lo have imitated the cathnieru. The young nnd beautiful Countess Dem. biuski, who came to this country in July last, with her husband, who is now honestly and nobly suporting himself by selling cigar, in Nassau street, New York, next door to theof ficeof ihe Evening Post, was boin the Prin. cess Csartoriska. Emigration from Ireland to Ihe United States is going on briskly, muoh moreao than, is usual in winter. Buadkohu Cot-NTV -Tho census of this county, just completed, exhibits a population of42.7S7. The number of inhabitant, in 1840 was 32,769. Counterfeit Spanish Coins. Thompson's Bunk Xote Reporter cautions ihe public against receiving Spanish silver coins. Spanish doU lars are in circulation w hich rue such excel lent counterfeits tlul the ordinary tests with acids aie of no avail. They are of copper, thickly coated wilh silver, and can only be detecied by tiling. The musket that kicked the boy over haa been arrested, and made to live bail. The plea Ihat it was "cocked" was ruled out of Court. Use or Almcators. In Florida, alligaiors are now extensively killed for Iheir oil and hides ihe rough skin on their belly is tan ned nnd nsed for saddles. An iuexhaustibl supply is annually produced. The Wool Growing in Illinois The Peoria Republican publishes a leller from Mr, Truman Humphreys, an extensive woolgrower of Klmwood, Illinois, in which the writer oonlend. that wooi can be grown more profit, nbly in Illinois lhan anywhere elae in tha United Slate. lhal il i. profitable even at ths low price of 25 cent, per pound, to lho who have ihe right kind of flock. He says 1 "The calculation is a safe one, Ihat lho wool from one thousand sheep properly selected and cared for, will produce as many dollars, while, with a good management, tha lamb . will pay all tha expenses for tha year. M flecks d tl'ier than llist "
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