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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.
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U. R. RniKKFIil.UR,
?ittorne7 ct Law.
nilneravilir. ScJin.Vlilll Co.,
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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"""
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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 "