tTh tt ink tkt MmWwn
AMER
SUN
H. 15. MASSER, EDITOlt AND PROPRIETOR
OFFICE, MARKET STREET, OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE.
SI jFamfln ilttospnptr-DrtotrU to VolWts, aftrraturr, iWornlfty, jrorrton m& Borarsuc iictos, Stfcittr an the arts, acrfculturr, JHiuUcts, amusements, fvt.
NEW SERIES VOL. 3. NO. 4i.
SUXnUltY, NOIlTlIUMIHiULANl) COUNTY. PA.. SA'JTKDAY, JANUARY 23. 18.11.
(11.1) SERIES VOL. I, ISO.
TERMS OP TCIE AMEItlCAtV
THE AMKRICAN i nhli"h-it .very Siitiiritny nt TWO
DOIXAHS per nmiuin In lir piihl hull' yearly in nilvmice,
No naner ilitonlhmeil until AM. air.-rng nre pnid
All communieiiliiin. or letter on I""1"; T to th
Alee, to iiiuraltiiii"n, must lie I'tJM 1AIU.
TO CM'BS.
TKret copict tn one wMrem, J'''
Fivo iMIart in a'tvnnce will pny fur three year's tubtctip
lion to the American.
On Souaie iif in linen. 3 timet, t) 00
Ererv SMlincunenl tiisrrili'lt,
cnt Square, '6 months,
Six mnntlis,
e)s. year,
Juainera Cants of Five tinea, per nnnnin,
M.rrhant. ami nihera. iiilvcrtisiiw l.y llie
yaar, with the privilege "1 inaertingilir
ailveO iHemenl 8 weekly.
3WI
4'0
0(111
aim
10 80
jy I.nrget Atlvurtineiiicni, in per ngrermen'.
H. 3. 1A33EP,
ATTORN K Y . A T LAW,
SUNBUHV, PA.
Business attended Join the Counties of Nor
,timbrland, Union, Lycoming nnd Columbia.
Krlrr lol
P. A A. UotnuiiT, T
LnwKft & UAHnns,
Knmuun & Xsoiiobam, yi'hitpil.
Rktwolii. Mcr aki.anm & Co.
Sfxhiko, 'toon & Co., J
THE VERY EAT EST AURIVAE
NEW GOODS,
AT THE STORE OF
XHA T. CLE1CE1TT,
WHO Inkes thin method of inforniinif hi
friends mill customers, Ilint lie lias just re
ceived and opened a splendid nssortmciit of
N E V V, OOl) S.
which he oilers to tlie public ul the lowest prices.
Hi stork consists of every variety and quality,
tieeessnrv for the farmer, mechanic, and laborer,
ai well as tli professional man, viz : nil kinds of
M ens' A p u r i I .
WUCII AS CI.OTII. rASSIMKIIl'.S, 8ATT1NETT8'
vi;riNiiS. ic
ALSO :
a lari assortment of
Calicoes, Monsseline l)e. Raines. Alpaccas,
Merinos, Shairls. llaiulkerthiij's,
(Hovis. own;. Checks,
Cambrics, (Ging
hams, o'c.
Also a Urtre assortment of
Jiaoh ami Shoes, litis and Cup,
iuin over Shoes,
Also ax Assoutmcnt of
REAOY MADE CLOTH INT..
A j?nfial assort tiu'iit of (irocerii's, Sugar,
Coill'i', Tea. Clicfsc, Mo
liisscs, Spices.
An assortment of
Harihvare, Sails. Stctl old Iron-
Liquors,
Such as Jimnilij, din, Rmn, Whhkey, fee.
C?" Proline of nil kiwis will ! taken in ex
change, and the highest m nket price paid for the
Mine.
Suiiburv, Nov. 30, 1 SSO-
-lv.
GEEAT AEEIVAL
or
NEW GOODS!
Mavkct Street, Simlury, Pa.,
rOHN V. VKIL!N(i ic peel I'u lly informs lno
friends anil ci.l .m'.its tinit he lias just re
ceived a Inie and handsoiiie assortment ol
Drv C.oixis.
CoiiKirilini! of 'Iot!. Cn.inirres, Sattinelts,
Do Luines, Caiieoes, Kuucy
anil St;i.U ( I. hh'.-;.
ALSO:
GROCERTKS of every drsrriplion,
Dltl l.S AM) Ml.llll'iNI'.s
dTTEESSVARE AND HAEDWABE.
Vit, Salt, Plarter iiml h general assortment of
till tnili nooi'.s as will suit all classes ; the Fur
iner, Moi haiiic, l.ulnnvr a.id (iendeineii of all
jirofessiimii.
T In L a cl i e
"M find a priat variety of all mcli article at
Ihey will need for Ihe present Krasnn.
jC (.'ouiilrv prmliiee of all kinds taken In ex
thanne ot the hiirhi st market price.
bnnbury, Nov. !l. lS.'il).
KOrS KE7 GOODS
Ai the rVi-w More of
JOHN lilJYKItS&COoi
Market Street, Sunbury.
Wild hail just iCceivcd and opened a large as
sortment of new mid fasliimialile Riioils, of
every variety, suitable for thft fall and winU'r sea
Ion, for all persons ; and to which lie calls the at
tention of friends und customers. 11 iK steels con
iiita in part of
uitv c.ooirs.
SUCH AS
Cloth, Cassimeret, Satttnctts, Merino',
J)e Laincs, Calicoct, Sluiwls, Hand
kerchiefs, ami all kinds of wear
iiig apparel.
ALSO:
Hardware, iueenware,
Groceries, Fish, Salt and Plaster;
An4 all article that may be w anted by the com
munity. The Lndies
Will find, by eallinir at his store, thnt he has not
teen unmindful of their wants, and respectfully
invites them to examine his selection.
Cy Country produce cf all kinds taken in ex
change for goods at the highest market price.
Sunbury, Nov. 8, 1S51). ly.
NEW STAGE LINE
FROM POTTSVILLE TO SHAMOKfN.
A new line of stages is' now running daily be
tween the above places. A comfortable two horse
stage will leave Mt. Cariucl for Khamokin, imme
diately arter the arrival of the Portsville stage at
(hat place, anil will return the next day from
fibamokin, So as to meet the Pottaville stago on
As return to Potuvillc.
From Shamokin to Trevorton
there will be established a DAILY LINE hyiiert
spring to a to connect with tins line at rJhaiuokin
In the mean time private conveyances will be in
readiness at eliamokm on the arrival of fasten
fen.
CONRAD KER6HNER.
Shaniokin. Dec. 14, 1850. tf.
INK. Boureau's celebrated ink, and also Con
great uik fur tale, wholesale and retail by
' H. 1).-MASSES.
December 29, 1850,
SELECT POETRY.
A riMll'KIM ME.
At fi-slal board in Vnnkoo land,
We Imil thn Pumpkin Pi-,
Where plenty crowns the frnonl hand.
Anil Freedom's tnrelipj (ly.
Delicious treat with lirown burnt face,
New England's dish of yore,
Willi thankful hearts no'stiiitcd praco
We sing its tnerils o'er.
Old Scotia's son, far famed in ?ong,
For dnrintj lea! mid deed,
May sin:; of nut'i's, loud and long,
And on its inei its Iced.
And England's" Ii.,ril brave Sa.xon Chief.
A noble piper Id,
May chant in strains of Jimmied Kerf,
lis swelling measures bold !
8t. Patrick's merry rovinjr child,
A anest in every laud !
If "Praters'' yield, then Pat is wild,
Willi open heart and hand !
And Chowhrcd France, with Ragout
rare,
And Simps nf every name,
Leads oil' in Fashion's circlo fair
Polite, yet lickle game.
The Dutchman, with no fear nf gout,
In quietude nnd ease !
Give bim his Pipe mid dish of Krout,
His Ihtttermill; and Cheese !
Let Russians dine on Mutton Hams
'Mid cold eternal snows !
And Finland's bonis survive on Clams.
When mad the Hallic lluws !
Let India father Fruit and Spice,
And sparing feed on meat
'Tis best her sons should live on rice,
'Mid plai'iies and ilealh and heat,
So may old China feed on Duus,
And dine on reptile rare
Still feed her Kins on seasoned Fros,
We crave no kingly fare.
Hut here beneath bright Freedom's sky,
A land that valor won,
We'll sing our famous Pumpkin Pie-
From morn to senilis sun !
With bannock, pastry, pork, and greens,
On Week days let us dine
On Sundays, bless the Pot o' Rcans,
Nutritious rich and fine !
t;v
r I
THE LATE WAR IN HUNGARY.
The baroness Von Beck, by birth nn
Hungarian, saw her husband fall when
cheering on his men to defend a barricade
during the October revolution in Vienna.
Broken-hearted and desperate, she deter
mined thencelorth to devote herself to the
rood ot her country ; and, on the invitation
of some members of the Austrian Diet, un
dertook to carry a message to Kossuth and
the Hungarian army. She persisted, in
spite of extraordinary difficulties and dan-
gers. She was stopped at the frontiers by j
the army ol H iiiiiisehgratz, and turned
back three or four times. At lat she man
aged to give the enemy the slip in the guise
of a fisherman, and arrived safely at I'res
burg, where she declared fur message to
Csanyi. Hereupon (ioorgey, who was pre
sent at time, requested Inr to undertake a
mission to the north of Hungary, to ascer
tain the strength ol Simoiiii h's army. In
two days her preparations wi re made, and
she was a?ain on the road.
But we will give In r own .story, as rela
ted in the narrative ol her personal adven
tures, by Bentley, Loudon ;
On the loth ol November I received my
charge, namely, to obtain accurate intelli
gence concerning the strength and position
of Simonich's troops. I immediately took
the railway to Tyrnan, and travelled thence
by post-carriage through Nadasli and Se
nitz to my own estate. My people were
in the greatest terror and anxiety, expect
ing momentarily a visit from Simonich's
soldiers. Their fears, however, proved
happily unfounded. 1 remained here until
the 21st, and, having received and returned
the visits of my neighbors, took my depart
ure for Neutra, where I fell in with the
first divUion of Simonich's corps, and an
uncouth mob of peasants under thp com
mand ot Pastor Durban-, a fanatical Sclavisli
priest. The division was on its march to
Senitz, and was about two thousand strong.
Having ascertained, bv calculating the
quantity of provisions they consumed, that
the whole force of Smionich amounted to
about iiK thousand men, and having made
accurate observations on their position. I
returned to my residence, where I made
such arrangements of my most necessary
allairs as a haity visit would permit, and
set out once more fr Presburg, to give an
account of my mission. At Senitz, which
lay in the route, I found the head-quarters
of a Hungarian division, commanded bv
Colonel Ordody, to whom, as it imported
nun especially, on account of r.i. prox
imity to the enemy, I communicated all
the information I had obtained, and authen
ticated it by my papers. I then started by
pust-carriage for Presburg, and waited upon
Corgey at once with a full report of my
mission. He thanked me for the services
I had rendered to the cause of Hungary,
and handed me a letter which had come by
express from Kossuth. He 'also entrusted
me with a despatch for the Lmbassy
at Vienna. Baron Motoschitzky requested
me, at the same time, to bear a letter from
him . to Prince Windischgralz, containing
the intelligence that his newly purchased
estate at Leska had been reduced to ashes
by the Hungarian bombardment. I was
glad of this last commission, as a letter to
the field-marshal would be a sufficient pass
port for inn through any part of the Aus
trian encampment. And should I be for
tunate enough to receive an answer from
Windischgratz, it would protect me from
all interruption on my return.
The same evening all the preparations
for my journey back to Vienna were fin
ished. I had now entrusted to me a letter
from Kossuth to the Embassy, a letter
from Baron Motoschitzy to Prince Wind
ischgratz, and many private letters from
the officer to persons iu Vienna. My
military friends advised me to conceal the
letters in mv haversack. This did not op -
j pear to me good counsel ; for I knew that,
should 1 he stopped by the Croats, they
would ransack and turn inside out every
thing likely to contain food ; my letters
would thus be discovered, and myself in
cvitably put to death. I had determined
to make the journey in a peasant's cart, ns
it would expose me to fewer inquiries and
stoppages than a vehicle of more imposing
appearance. 1 caused one of the planks ol
the cart to be hollowed out at the end,
without breaking the surface of the side,
nnd placed nil mv letters in the space thus
r,- i ti,.. .."ii. . ii ..ntn.i
j i 'I 1 1 1' i . I nr jiltiuiv w tis men I i!iiiiii,
and the joining at the end rubbed over with
clay. 1 now felt perfectly certain that
they could not be discovered by even the
prying Croats.
On the evening of December the .r)th, I
left Presburg, nnd soon reached Wolfsthal,
where Jellachich's corps was posted. As
usual, I was seized at the outposts, and sub
jected to a rigid examination. In anticipa
tion of such an event, I had provided my
sWfw'ith papers) from a well-known fruit
warehouse at Presburg, and represented
myself as an arrent of that house going to
Vienna, 'to collect in some debts. In spite
of nil my precautions, however, I was pla
ced under military surveillance as far as
Sominering. I was stopped and examined
six-and-twenty times, but in all cases my
papers proved a sufficient passport. At
length, early on the (ill), the cupolas and
lowers of the once jay, hut now humbled
and mourning, city of Kaisers appeared in
view.
I entered Vienna. It appeared to my
imagination invested with a sombre nnd
tragic hue, and the ruins which marked the
fierceness of the recent struggle against ty
ranny seemed fraught with solemn admoni
tion to all despotic rulers. The figure of
my slaughtered hesbund came before my
mind ; but the thronging memories which
accompanied it I cannot, even did I desire
to, depict. It was now exactly a month
since 1 had left the city, but the exciting
events which I had passed through made it
appear a much longer period. I repaired
to the Hotel of the Embassy, where I
was received with the greatest attention,
and an immediate answer promised to Kos
suth's! despatch. From thence I proceeded
to Schouiiiun, with the letter to Prince
Windischgratz; but was informed that lie
was gone to Jellachich to the Imperial
Court at Olniutz, and would not return till
the next day. His nephew, Count Wind
ishgratz, whom I saw soon alter with Count
Tbun and Prince Lichtenstein, confirmed
this information. 1 returned, therefore, to
Vienna, and occupied myself in delivering
the various letters with which I was char
ged. In the evening I received the promi
sed answers of the Ambassador to
KossiillTs letter.
On the next day I again visited S'clion
brun, and was admitted to an interview
with Windischgratz and Jellachich the
two pillars of the House of Hapsbnrg.
They received me with distinguished court
esy. LVuld they have divined the thoughts
that filled my heart, how difleretit would
have been my reception ! 1 handed my
letter to Windischgratz; he read it, and
seemed struck with terror at its contents.
I conless it was not without a secret feel
ing of satisfaction I saw this man taste some
of tlie bitterness of that misery into which,
with a remorseless hand, he had plunged
myriads ol his own, and of my countrymen.
He went into his cabinet to write an an
swer to Motoschitzy, and Jellachich re
mained standing in the presence of his
deadly enemy. 1 now looked, for the
first time, upon the calumniator of Hunga
rian honor the plunderer and destroyer of
Vienna. I could scarcely refrain from giv
ing utterance to the feelings of disgust and
scorn that swelled within me; but I could
serve my country more effectually and was
silent. He questioned me as to the num
ber and condition of the Hungarian troops.
I represented them as double their actual
force. Cpon which he said, with apparent
carelessness, that those divisions which I
had not seen were probably still stronger.
His drift was evidently to draw from me
some information respecting the position
of the various corps, but I defeated it by
taking refuge in the general ignorance of
mv sex upon such matters. Windisch
gratz now returned with his written an
swer to Motoschitzy. He thanked ine
again for the trouble I had taken on his
account, and, what pleased me much more,
he directed Count Thun to make out an or
der, giving me liberty to pass, wherever
I chose, unmolested by the Austrian troops,
to which he appended his own signature.
I took my leave ; my object was accom
plished, and the two great generals the
conquerors ol Prague and Vienna were
outwitted by a woman.
In such dangerous expeditions as these
in fact as a spy when death would have
instantly followed on detection,' did this
enthusiastic and brave woman pass the en
tire time, with scarcely a few weeks' rest,
from November, 1S4S, to (he end of IS 49.
So extraordinary an iustance of passionate
devotion to a cause, and of perfect indiffer
ence to danger when a service could be
rendered, we scarcely recollect to have
heard or read of. Certainly it has never
been surpassed.
During this anxious and busy period the
Baroness Von Beck passed repeatedly
through the very midst of the Austrian and
Russian armies. Some half dozen times
she penetrated into Vienna itself. She was
present at two great battles, those of Moor
and Branitzscka. She took part in the sur
render at Villages, and the evacuation of
Comorn. At one time we find her stirring
up the Poles to insurrection at Lemburg
and Cracow; at another, she is intriguing
with Germans at Dresden and Cseks in
Prague. She was now feasting the con
querors of Buda, or dancing with the he
roes of Kapolua; and now dressing the
I wounds of the patriots, or superintending
I the hospitals and prisons. At one moment
she draws out plans of Campaigns for Gor-
gey, and gives counsel on slate alhnrs to
Kossuth; at another she is steaming down
thp Danube, listening to the silly boastings
of Welden, or engaged in pleasant conver
sation with Paskievich himnelf.
Her masterpiece, however, was her visit
to Haynnti. in the derperate hope of sa
ving the life of a friend, this intrepid wo
man actually bearded the tiger in his own
den ; and thnt, foo, nt the very time when
he was revelling in the blood of his victims,
Had she been discovered, she would not
have had twenty-four hou s to live ; yet
sue actually placed herself of her own ac
cord in the power of the hangman, and es
caped unsuspected.
Cf all the multitude tn the NeugoSaude,
die only one (o whom I could bring any
comfort was Danielis. I lis affairs were in
a fair way of arrangement, but his personal
danger was still great. He begged me. to
see lfaynnu, and to prevail upon him, if
possible, nt least, to hear Danielis :n his
own defence. 1 he prisoners knew of the
death of Balhyanyi, but as yet the fatal
tidings from Arad had not reached them,
and every one made it a duty to conceal
these atrocities from them.
I left this lilac e of mourning, and retired
to my hotel. 1 had pledged myself to see
Hayiinn on Danielis' behalf, and my pro
mise must now be fulfilled. I went to 1 1 ay
nau's residence, and, after wpiting a long
time, was introduced to his presence. He
received me politely, and I lelt encouraged.
I told him that I had come on behalf of
Colonel Danielis, and mentioned that he
was the father of a helpless fimily; that
he had not fought against Austria, and
dwelt particularly on his having saved the
roval estates from destruction, of which, I
said, I could bring him satisfactory evi
dence. Haynau said that the chief baililf
ol the crown property had been already
with him, and had repiesented the services
of the prisoner upon that occasion in a very
favorable light; -that this ail'orded sufficient
ground for his pardon, bufslill he could not
be liberated until it came to bis turn to be
examined. This was very satisfactory.
I felt emboldened to present a petition
which Kossuth's mother had intrusted to
me, praying that his children might be
placed with herself, lie took the paper
and read it, and his natural character re
turned ; he was Haynau once inure ; a dark
frown, like a thunder cloud, gathered upon
his brow. "What !" said lie, in a voice
hoarse with passion, "what! tin you want
the children to receive the same revolution
ary training as their father? The women
of Hungary have the devil in their hearts,
and are guilty of infinite mischief. No, 1
teJI you ; the girl shall be placed in a con
vent, and the hoys brought up in ienna,
under serveillance. (Jo; that is the will
ol his Majesty." He a.sked me how I had
become acquainted with Kossuth and his
mother; I told him what I thought pro
per, and he left me with a volley of filthy
abuse agpiiifit the illustrious exile and bis
family. These were bad tidings to bring
to the aged mother. 1 tried to comfort her
as well I could, and alter this visited her
much more frequently than I did before.
ni T( II BlvAt'TlllS.
The late llev. Henry Column, w ho was as
irreat nil admirer of female beauty ns he was
of huiie pumpkins nnd cahbares, in his "Eu
ropean Life and Manners," yives tlm follow
ing luscious account of the Dutch womcm
which tbo Chevalier (who has travelled ex
tensively in Holland) says does no more than
exact justice to their transparent beauty :
' think so mo of them the fairest hand
somest creatures I ever looked upon, and
made of the. finest unmixed porcelain clay.
llefoie 1 left England I thought the English
women the lineM I had ever seen I now
consider tiiein as belonging to the colored
races. Tho Dutch women much exceed
llieni. Take the fairest iodo that was ever
plucked, with the glittering dewdrops hang
ing among its petals take tin' fairest peach
that ever bung upon tho tree, with its charm,
jug blending lints of red mid white am!
they aio eclipsed by the tianspaieucy nnd
beauty of complexion of the fairest of the
Dutch women, ns I saw them at Jlioeck and
Saaiilam. If llieir minds are as fair, and
their manners us winning, ;'s their faces, then
1 can easily understand the history of Adam's
full. It was imHissible, poor fellow that he
should resist. A'.iriuiige.
I'OW 111 Hl:l ALl.Vf.
Applied by the finger to the part alTected,
very seldom fails to cure iiillamatioii of the
throat in a few days. The efficacy of this
remedy, says tho author, M. Velpeau, is as
marvellous ns it is rapid. Employed is the
first, second, third or fourth day. while there
is yet no abscess in the tonsils, it tirrests all
symptons as it were by enchantment ; the
fever abiites, the swelling diminishes, appe
tite returns, and (he convalescence, is quickly
decided and completed. Ify showing that
this remedy is as powerful in simple inflam.
matioii ns imllanimation of the tonsils, M.
Velpeau hopes that the practitioners will no
longer hesitate to maks proof of its ctlicacy,
and rescue thereby hundreds of human beings
from the grave.
Gam bum; in Washington city is very lu
crative. One firm of faro dealers was able
to buy a property which sold ut $48,000, out
of the prolits realized during the last session
of Congress.
A dead whale, measuiing seventy feet in
length, was found on Barnstable Beach, on
Friday lust, supposed to have been driver!
thbro by one Of tho luto stoiriis.'
REAL LIFE.
The Despair of a Disappointed Love A Sad
Scene in a Telegraph OflicJ.
The Cleveland Plaindealer furnishes the
following iiceoiint of a pitiable ceno which
occurred a few days ago in the telegiapn
oitico ol that city :
A case of melancholy interest, to one of
tho parties nt least, occutred here the other
day which wo will relate for tho public good
A young lady arrived here from tho Stalo of
New York, on her way into the Southern part
nf tho State, whither she was going to con
snmale a marriage contract entered into some
ten years since. Her intended was a young
man w ho had been born nnd raised near her
father's residence, but w ho in all things did
not suit the old folks, nnd consequently they
opposed tho match. The result was, t
young man left tho country, but has kept lip
a most intimate coriespondence with tho
lady ever since until last summer, he wrote
'o her that as she could not bo married nt
home she had better meet him nt ,
this stale, in the month nf August and be
mariifd. To this she consented, but it was
inconvenient for her to leavo home at tiny
time, nnd she did not arrive on her mission
of lovo until a few days since.
She stopped nt one of our best hotels, pre
paratory to her voyage South. She appeared
cheerful, was exceedingly welldressed, sport
ed a gold watch nnd other paniphernalia pe
culiar to the 'geniilitv.' Previous to depart
ure, she stepped into the Telegraph Office to
inform her lover, w ho wits an operator him
self stationed iu a southern Office on the same
lino that sho had got so lar on her joyous
way and would like to hear from him at this
point. After her despatch was sent and
waiting a reply, ene of the operators who was
very well acquainted with her intended, re
marked that the young gentlemen to w hom
she had sent her message, had fallen into a
'streak of good luck.' The lady wns ob
served to startle considerably, and asked
what he meant by a streak of luck.' He
told her the young man wns married. She
fell back iu her chair, and fainted, almost
instantly. The operators and clerks were
much frightened, but mnunsed to bring her
to by the use of water. She could not be
lieve tho report, and requested them to telo-
xraph again and ascertain tho truth. Tho
operator stepped to his key, called the office
of tho young man but found him not in. A
eloik iu tho office, however, answered the
message saying Mr. was actually mar
ried on the 17th of October, and was then
keeping house.' When this was read to tho
weeping lady she instantly swooned away
nn, nnd for a limo -eemed lifeless. She
was resuscitated and taken to her hotel in a
moft frantic condition, where fur days the
remained entirely insane.
'I li. criel' I'eyi'tiil all oilier priefa. when Tate
First leavr tlie iuiif; hmrl desi'late
In 1 lie will'- wnrlij, villtlt Unit only tie.
I'nr winch it wislnnl to live or lYiired to die.'
Kind care nnd time, that curer of most
heart's diseases, have now nearly restored
her. She exhibits letters showing with what
fidelity sho had trusted in the one now false
to her; that during the ten years of their en
gagement she had refused several olfers ; had
furnished her betrothed money, her parents
being rich and he poor, bad endured the con
tumely of her friends at home opposed to the
match ; and all for his sake. She is now iu
our city, among strangers, alone as it were,
in the world, having clandestinely left her
father's roof to meet her lover, and now de
serted by him; her constitution shattered
and broken. Earth seldom produces iu hu
man form so miserable an object. No won
dei she went mad :
Iter wreu-hnl brain pnve wny,
Ami she Uvumc u wrn-k ul nnnlniii drivf n, .
Without one j.'liinpiii'1'f en"n or of lienvcii."
She is now belter, but the picture of deso
lation. Young men can here see the daugcr
of trilling w ith such infectious, yea, the dark
sin of creating hopes or raising expectations
in a hca it too true and confiding to survive
such disappointment.
Coincidence ok Invention. A letter wri
ter in Washington states "that veiy fre
quently patents are granted to different per
sons for the same invention, the parties hav.
iug had their minds led into the same train
of though', from the existance of the same
difficulties. Thus some lime ago, a patent
was granted for a certain churn but before
this could havo been known far beyond the
walls of tho Patent office, two other inventions,
each from diffident parts of the country, laid
claim to the identical improvement. An in
terference was accordingly declared, and no
sooner had the decision been made in favot of
tho patentee, than three other inventors were
found pressing their claims to the sunie inven
tion, il presented nil unprecedented case iu
the history of the Patent OtRce, of seven per
sons, each' a bona fSe inventor all' claiming
thesatns thing, and about the same time, and
all from dillereut portions of the country."
Makuiaoe in Hiuii Like in Europe. It
is affirmed that negotiations for a marriage
between llie Emperor of Austria and the
Princess Sidonia, el Saxony, havo been
brought to a conclusion, and that the mar
lingo will be celebrated next May, with
great splendor. The Princess in only IT", and
very beautiful. Her father, the Prince John
brother of the reigning king, is, owing to the
latter having nO offspring next heir 10 the
throne. As the Princess is' a Catholic, the
alliance will give great satisfaction to the
Pope, while it must, on the other hand, be
disagreeable to Prussia, from the additional'
weight likely to be derived' by Austria and
Germany.
IIOW TO TOAST WELL.
In toasting bread, we wish to pet out tho
wnii-r il.i.t r,.n,..!i,a nuil which makes tho
bread cold, waxy, nnd heavy of digestion
Perhaps we shall be lest understood if wo
first explain what makes bnd toast of a piece
of bread, or rather no toast nt nil, but merely
a pieco of brend with two burned sulfates',
more wet nnd waxy in the heart than even
and which not n particle of butter will enter,
and if put by for nnd hour or two and nllow.
ed to cool, will get ns tough as posrfble. If
the slice of bread is brought into closo con.
tact with a strong fire, tho surface becomes
covered with, or rather converted into char
coal, before the heat produces any rffiect on
the interior of the slice. This being done,
the other side is turned, and has i!s surfaco
converted into charcoal in the same manner.
The consequence of this will be, that not a
panicle of butter will niter such a piece of
toast, but only remain upon the surface, and
if vexed with additional the, (urns to a ran
cid oil of the most unwholesome description.
Charcoal, as every one knows, is a very bad
Conductor of heat, ns such is used between
the cyleuders and casings of steam engines
it is of no consequence whether the said
charcoal be formed of wood, of flour, or any
other substance, for its qualities arc in every
case tho Fame. Now, when the surface of
the slice of bread an; overeharied in this
manner, there is an end to all toasting, ns no
heat can be communicated to the interior,' and
not one drop can be evaporated or drawn
awav. In t.na state the slice ot bread tiiiiv
be wholly burned to charcoal: but until it i"1
altogether so burned, t ho tinburned part will
become more wet and unwholesome. Hence.
if you would have a slice of bread so toasted
as to bt; pleasetit to the palate, and whole
some und oasily dige:ted, never let one par
ticle of the ftn face be chaned. Chesiiut
brown is even fur too deep for a good toast ;
and the color of a fox is rather too deep.
The nearer It can be kept ton straw color,
the moie delicious to the taste, and I'm more
wholesome it will be. The method of ob
taining this is very obvious. It consists in
keeping tho bread at the proper distance
from the fire, ami exposing it to a proper heat
for a duo length of time ; or it may bo done,
placed on edge the same way as dry toast is
brought tolable. in a rack, in an iron or brick
oven of a proper heat. For those w ho 'make
the tons!," i specially il" a largo quantity Oo
required; it is generally a tedious process, and
for this rea:on it is commonly hurried. Cut
'f the loasting fork was discarded, ami its
place supplied by a small apparatus mado of
wire, long enough to hold three or four pieces
at a time, and so contrived as to slide in cl
out to any requited distance fiom the lire, the j
bread may be placed in it, and the process of
toasting carried on, while the seivant was at
liberty to do her other work, Ol eoui.se the
"Toast Holder'' would require to be made
differently to suit panicular shaped giale3 and
fire places.
If not cut too thin, if placed at the proper
distance from the lire, and continued long
enough, care being taken that not a single
black, or even dark brown spot, makes ii ap
pearance on the surface, and slfee of bread
may be toasted thiough and through ; mid it
is this operation which makes properly toast
ed bread so much mere wholesome than
bread which is not toasted, and slid moie
preferable to bread buiiiedou thetuilace and
sodden iu the interior. !y this means the
whole of the water may be drawn out of it,
and it may be changed from dough, w hich
has alwayj a tendency to undeigo the ace
tous fermentation in ihe stomach, to the pure
farina of w heat, w hich is iu itself one of tho
most wholesome species of tood we have, not
only for the strong and healthy, but more
particularly eo for tho ilelitated nnd disease'
As it is turned to pine latina, ihe tough and
gluey nature is gone, every part can be pen
etrated, all parts nie equally warm, and no
part is so warm ns to turn the butter into oil,
w hich, even iu the case of tho best butter, is
invariably turning a wholesome substance in
to an injurious substance. There is another
circumstance regarding llie biitteiing of a
rightly toasted blicu. The dough, bciug a
compound of w'aler, repels llie fuller, which
is nil oil ; tint t!u dried farina allows the but
ter to penetrate tho whole slice equally
through.' There is mere advantage in t! is
than some may suppose. I'mltei iu maeses
(whatever may be ils quality) is too heavy
for the stomach : though butler divided with
sufficient minuteness, and not sulleied to pass
into an oil, makes a most valuable addition
to many kinds of lood. . The pioperly toasted
bread absorbs tho butter, but does not con
vert it 10 oil, and both butter and lariua are
iu u state of very minute division, and one
serving to expose tho other to ihe lieo action
of gush ie fluid iu the stomach ; and that this
fluid shall be tiblo to penetrate tho whole
mass of the food, and act upon it in small
portions, is the grand secret of lieullhlul di
gestion ; so that when a slice of toast is right,
ly prepared, there is, perhaps not a lighter
article in tho whole vocabulary of cookery.
Unfcnneiiled brown bread, treated' in this
way, forms un excellent substitute lor biscuits
and is iu some respects superior, as il may
be eaten with impunity by thoso pciaous
with whom biscuits may disagree.
Tub Rev- Mfi WhiiefielJ was once accu
sed, by one of his hearers, of wandering in
his discourse ; to which he replied: "If you
will ramble like a lust sheep, I must tamblo
after you."
In Omka a man condemned to death rimy
procuie a substitute, which can easily be dene
for money.
IXTI Itl.STIMI KA( TS.-l ltlMlXi.
Common, or letter press printing, such ns
ho iks, newspaper, kc, is carried on by a
large number of tools or types, every ono of
which cost money, labor and ingenuity to fil
for use There nre about two or three men in
he United States w ho can make tho matrino
in which types are oust, so peculiar, complcta
proportioned, uniform and exact, must tlm
work bo done ; the letters nre made princi
pally of Ii ad, mixed w ith other metals, in or:
der to baiden it sufficiently w hen cool.
For every sized and differently shaped
type, new matrices have to bo made, and
each with lln; same exactness, or Ihe font is
defective. In Koman each loiter must bo
made three times large nnd small capitals
lowercase, points, figures and other indis
pensable characters. To give some idea of
the number of characters and letters w hich
go to form a font of types, we will state that
there are two cares, as the printers call them
the lower case containing nil tho common or
small letters, w ith the figures and points or
punctuation, double liters, spaces nnd quad
rants ; this case has 5-1 boxes, and every ono
is occupied. The upper case containing tho
lare and small capitals, and numerous marks
and characters which are in common Use, has
93 boxes. Thus it seems the typo founder,
iu order to supply n common font of Poman
letters, has to have constructed 150 matrices
and tho Italics are not included hero'
which will make over 100 more just to
manufacture loiter, &c, of si,:o nnd corres
ponding faces. line then, there must be
about Sol) characters, nnd some of them a
good many limes o.er. to print a newsrainer
To give the uninitiated the number and mo.
portion of type' used it may answer just to
state that we use, say for a common avetago
font.
a 8.500 : b I. GOO ; c. S000 ,1 j.nno : o
12,000; f 2.000; g 1.G00; h 0,000; i 8.000 )
j -100; k S00 ; p 2,000; m .1.000; n sjooo ;
0 8,000 ; p J.(K)i) ; 5-)0 ; r s.ooo ; s 8,000 ;
t 0.000 ; 4,000 ; v 1.000 : w D00 ; x 500 ,'
V 2.000 ; z 200.
.Nothing is here said of points, figures, dou
ble letter, and otiier characters, which would
swell 1U ;.;, amazingly. And till this makes
ono item in a common newspaper office
Nor is nnythiug raid of llie numerous pic
tures, floweis, ornamental shades, condensed,
extended, lc, types used in i .'j and news
paper printing, all of which is necessary to
make ihe stock of an oniinary newspaper
establishment. Tlie lypcs cost fiom 30 cents
to S3 a pound.
A common newspaper offieo ought to bo
supplied with fiom 1000 to 1500 lbs; of type.
These with some 200 woith ol" wood work,
f 2?0 for a hand press, a good many dollars
fur bra.-.s rules, and still moro foi iron mate
rials, ink, Jcc, will make a very large ab
straction from 51.000. The usual width of
newspaper column's is about 17 m's wide.
And an em is Ihe thickness of a line.
Tin: following is an epitaph w ritten by a
schoolmaster in an inland town in Connecti
cut, on the death of a favoiitu child, which
tell into Ihe water ol a saw mill dam and was
drowned :
JlM lie! v :i l".l Mil it:illl
. ("iuiil wns ili-nvv'ni! Slam
!!:i k :itiT li-le hrait
Tin- I'luM win. Ki!t slim ilrail.
ri.i iil:!i!t iMinr-d.iwn Hutu tlie wjtci
Ml I' rlnM-i; what was Ihe innMiT
'J'il'-V 1111:1 lhtir W(1VMS V-'.t J ! 1 . 1 LT'lOtiOll
i'. -r I In ti .'ii a i"tt! . .iilr v:.s ilriwin-.l.
lNin:it oe Kisstxi; a Woman auainst her
Will. A curious trial was recently held at
Middlesex Session England. Thomas Saver
land, the prosecutor, elated that he was iu
thu lap-iooni where the defendant, Carolino
Newton, and lur sisler, who had come from
l'iimiugham, were present. Tho latter jok
ingly obseivcd that foil J bad promised her
sweetheart that no man should kiss her w hile
absent It bciirr holiday lime, Saverland
couriered this a challenge, and caught hold
01 her and kissed Tier. Thu young woman
took it as a joke, but her sister, the defendant
said she wculd like as little of that kind of
fun as he ph ased, Severland told her if sho
was" angry he would kiss her a!o ; he then
tried to do it, and they fell to the ground.
On rising, ihe woman struck him; be again
tried to kiss her, and in the scniile sho bit oil
his nose, which she spit out of her month
The action was biought to recover damages
for the loss of llie nose. The defendant said
he had no business to kiss her ; if she wan.
ted kissing, she had a husband to kiss her, a
better lookjng man than ever tho prosecutor
w as. The jury, without he.-ilation, acquitted
her ; and the chairman said, "that if any
man attempted to kiss a woman against her
w ill, she had a Knurr bite off his uusi if
she hail a Jane i) Jur s o doing .'
Dipn't Like tiik Jit..--A wealthy, popu-'
lar und gay young gentleman once boasted'
that ho could walk home with any one of the
members of a certain division of llie Daugh
ters of Tern pen; nee, from church : accord-"
ingly he, alter services were tivei the i:: xl
Sabbath, pruced up to a fair durmel, and
with a pi lite bow tendered his arm. Tha
young lady, as by instinct, drew back as
from a serpent and exclaimed .' "No sir .'
I'll m rcr put arm through another jug
handle as long as I live !"
Formcblv, it was a maxim, that a young
woman rhould never be married till she had'
spin herself u full set of linen. Hence, all
unmarried women have been culled spinsters:'
an appellation they still retain in certain deeds'
and law pioccedius; ihoLh many uiu uut'
entitled to il.
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