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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SUNBUHY, PA.
Business nttencled to in the Counties of Nor
thumberland, Union, Lycoming ud Columbia.
Iteivr to I
P. & A. HtwouiiT,
Low UK Si Uahmiih,
NoKr.li rV. Km no m a,
RiTKOLiia, MrKimiM' A Co.
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yi'Sihil.
Tilt VCIU I.ATCST AUIUVAL.
NEAV GOODS,
AT THE STORE OF
IRA T. C L EMail T,
W1
fHO take this mptliotl of informing his
frienda anil rustomora, tliut Isc ha iunl re-
ceivrtl ond oiicned a aplciulid nssorlmcnt of
NEW (iOODS,
which lie ofl'cra to the public at the lowest prices'
His stock consists of every vnricly nnd quality,
necessary for the farmer, mechanic, and laborer,
as well as the profcMsional man, viz: all kinds of
31 e ii s ' A ) pa re 1 .
UCH AS CLOTil. CASS1MKIII.S, SATTI.NKTTS,
VF.STINCf, 4c.
A 1.80:
a largo assortment of
'Calkoes, Memidine lie Laincs. Alpaccan,
Ithrinns, Sltairh. Ifuiulkcrchitff,
Glovn, oiscn. Checks,
Cunxhrics, 'Ging'
Aunt.., Ij'C.
Also a lurye asforlnicut of
Boats and Shoes, Jltis and Caps,
Gun over Shoes,
Also an AssoitTMCNT of
ItEAUY MADE CLOTHING.
A general assort mi-nt of Groceries, Sugar,
Coljw, Tee, Cheese, Mo
lassrs, Spices.
An assortment of
ilardwart, Hails, Steel end Iron.
Liquors,
Such as Brandy, Gin, Rum, Whinkcy, Sfc
fjF Prodnco of all kinds will be taken in ex
change, and tile liigho luurLet priue paid fdr tlie
ante.
Simliury, Nov. 30, 18,10. ly.
GEEAT ARRIVAL
OF
NEW GOODS!
, Market Street, Sunbury, Pa.,
JOHN W. ritn.IN(j rcietrully informs his
friends and rtistomers thnt he has just re
ceived a lurgr and hnndsome assortment of
Dry Goods,
Consisting of Cloilis. Cnssimcres, Sattinetts,
L I.aines, Calicoes, Fancy
und htaplo Guods.
AUSO:
GROCERIES of every description,
nntv.s and mmjicixka
ftTJEENSYTARE AND HARDWARE.
Fish, Halt, risstcr nnd a general assortment of
all audi goods as will suit all elussex J the far
mer. Mechanic, Laborer and (ientli'iiu'ii of all
professions.
The L:nlic
Will find a great variety of ull such articles as
they will need for the present season,
CV Country produce of all kinds taken in ex
change at the highest market price.
Sunbury, Nov. 9, 1850.
MORE NEW GOODS
At the iew More of
JOHN BUYERS & CO.,
Market Street, Sunbury.
WHO baa just received and opened a large as
sortment of new and fashionable goods, of
every variety, suitable for the fall and winter sea
son, for all persons -, and to which he calls the at
tention of friends and customers. Ilia slock con
aiau in part of
DUV GOODS.
MUCH AS
Cloth, Cauimrret, Sattinetts, Merinos,
De Lames, Calicoes, SUaicls, Jimid
kerchiefs, and all kinds uf wear,
ing apparel.
ALSO:
Hardware, Queentiwnre,
Groceries, Fish, Salt and Plaster, .
Ana all articles that may be wanted by tba eoin
raunity.
' The Ladies
Will find, by calling at his Uro, (hat he baa not
baan unmtiititul ol ineir wiuu, aim respecuuiiy
invites them u axamiiio his selection.
UT Country produce ef all kinds taken in ex
change for goods at the highest market price,
Sunbury, Nov, 0, 1850.-Iy,
NEW STAGE LINE
FROM I'OTTSVILLE TO SHAMOKIN.
X 'new line of stages is now running daily be
tween the above places. A comfortable two horse
stags will Wave Ml Carmel for Hhauiokin, imme
diataly after tba arrival of the Pottaville stage at
that plaea, S4 will return the next day from
Bhamokin, so to meet tba Pottaville stage on
its return to PotUvill.
From Shamokin to Trevortoa .
there will be established a DAILY LINE by next
apring so as to connect witnuus una at Bhamokin
la the mean time urivata conveyances will be in
read I new at btumofcjit on tba arrival of paaaen-
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SELECT POETRY.
The Blind Mother.
BY ABDV ALLIN.
Say, shall I nevpr ee t lay fur.e, my chili! 1
My heart is full of feeling utranite. ami wild ;
A molher's hopes and heart full joys are
mine,
My soul is fil led with etmnjr half divine,
And never more, my child, ntn I alone,
Since thy young heart dolh echo to mine
own.
Bui shnll 1 never see tliee ? cmi it be,
Thai all may gaze, my preeiuus boy, on
thee,
And yet eMie heart that loves tliee most tore,
po,
The denrest pleasnra other mothers know,
This, this is anuuish, agony reliued !
Oh God, forgive me ! Buoy, 1 am blind.
es, yes 1 never knew before
The depth of my iillliclion nh, for power,
For one short thrilling moment, child, to
sraze
On thy sweel liny face, llinl others praise,
And yet I must lint murmur : (jud is kind
But THIS IS DARKNESS HOW I KKEL TlTI
blind !
Nay, do not start, mv child, it was a tear
That wet thy brow; Ihy mother, boy, is
here ;
And tlionch I niav not see thee, vet 1 feel
Thy velvet cheek against my bosom steal,
And none ran harm thee there, nor hand un
kind Shall touch mv darling, even thouah I'm
blind'!
List list it is thy fathr-r step I hear ;
Now let me smooth my brow, press back the
lear ;
Ho shall not timl me weepins. when so bles
sed, Willi tbe, my darling, cradled on my
breast ;
lint could I only see Ihee ! Yel God"s will,
Be dune ! Peaoe, thiobbing heart be still.
Wrt nre alone nsain. he never enessed
What yearnina anguish filled thy mother's
breast,
When lie diil praise thy features half de
fined, He quite forgot that his vonn?; wife was
blind.
And yet, when his lond arm was round us
thrown.
His lip half trembled, when it met my
own f
Oh, should he e'er repent him, he hath
weil,
A beini burdened wilh n woe so dread ;
Should ha grow tired of one so frail and
weak,
My heart, in that dark hour, would joy to
hreak ;
Or should bis lip grow cold, his Hand un
kind,
God help me. badv, then indeed I'm
blind !
Rut ehall I never see then Ye my bny.
Some future hour my heart shall know that
y ;
It may not be on earih, bat in thp skies,
l yet shall gaze, my itarlmg, in thine eyes,
So I will patient he, for frod is kind,
roi in yon heaven nol one eye is blind :
Select Sale.
From th (sftdic1 Nntlwul Mittjnzmr.
BERTHA'S FIRST OF APRIL.
1IY MARY v. srExcnn.
It was the evening before the first of
April, and at the season was backward, a
bright hickory fire blazed in the parlor of
the Tiverton mansion. With her feet on a
footstool, directly in front of the hearth,
sat Miss Tiverton, the heiress of the stately
old dwelling; and of hundreds of broad
acres around it. She was apparently about
twenty-five, with very blonde hair and
very light ryes, and wilh a supercilious
expression of countenance indicative of a
haushty, if not an ill-tempered character.
Perhops she looked more ill-tempered
than usual (hit evening, for she had been
in a bad humor all the afternoon, in fact
all day. The reason was this. Miss Tiv
erton had long made up her mind that
there was but one person in the village,
whom young Harry Warwick, the son of
old Judge Warwick, and the most talented
member of the bar in three counties, could
posfibly marry and that person was herself.
All tne other young ladies of the place,
she had persuaded herself, were either too
juvenile, too flippant, or loo vulvar', while
she was rich and accomplished, and, at she
nattered herself, exactly thp right age.
Moreover the old iitdse and her mother
had often talked the matter over. As the
two families had been intimate for fenera.
lions, Harry had always visited at the old
mansion, anil this was an additional reason
why Miss Tiverton considered him as her
especial property.
Laurriy, however, iiarrv had called ess
frequently than of old, a fact which had
considerably annoyed the heiress. She
naa given no outward expression to her
feelings, however, until alia had heard that
he was a constant visitor at pretty Berths
Howard's. Now the heiress, though she
considered it impossible that a marriage
could i take place between Harrv anda
maiitua-maker, for that was Jlertha'i pro
fession, yet was jealous nevertheless. She
well knew that an idle fancy misht deprive
her of her intended husband almost as effec
tually at a serious one, Harry only in
tended to flirt little, aha knew : his father
would never hear of hit marrvinz t Door
girl ; but still If he flirted with one. he
might with another, and then farewell to
her chance of becoming Mrs. Warwick.
This growing uneasiness had been in
creased to positive rsge at Berths, the day
betore our story oegins. it nsd been Sun
day, and in going to church, Miss Tiverton
had met Harry. A somewhat loud chal
lenge to him, as he walked abstractedly
along, and a flow of unceasing small talk
from which he could not have escaped if
he had wished, had first brought him to her
aids and afterward retained hint there.
They entered the church together, and as
Miss Tiverton invitingly opened her own
pew-door, Harry instead of going into his
father's, entered hers. Miss Tiverton cal
culated, to a certainty, that, after this, Har
ry would escort ber home ; but what was
her indignation to see him, when the ser
vice was over, hurry out before her. She
heard, afterward, that he had been seen to
join Bertha, but she was oa vexed and
proud fo look for herself. However, she
went home in ill-humor, rose the next day
with a wors one, ond continued to grow
more bad-tempered until evening.
Suddenly she looked up, and addressed
her continent, Miss Brooks, vho sat at one
side of the fire-place. They had been
talking about Henna, and the conversation,
after a five minutes' silence, was now re
sumed,
"The girl ia a fool," she said, "to im
agine, as 1 hear she does, that Harry is se
rious. Her father was nobody, at Jeast
only a mechanic, and his father before him
used to chop wood for my grandfather; and
now she goes about, from house to house, at
fifty cents a day, making dresses."
"A pretty bride for a young lawyer,"
replied Miss Brooks, with a scornful laugh."
"But 1 hear she hasher head filled with all
sorts of romantic notions; and fancies be
cause she is pretty that some great prince
will drive up to her mother's cabin, some
of these days, and ask her in marriage."
And, at this ironical picture, both ladies
laughed.
"She is coming here to-morrow, to alter
one ol my dresses," said Miss I iverton,
"but I've a great mind to send her away,
telling her she won't do. I never did trust
her yet to make up anything new ; and the
last dress she altered 1 dont wear, it's such
friu'ht."
Aliss Tiverton knew this was an untruth,
and that until she had begun to hate Ber
tha, there was no dress she liked better.
What will not an envious spirit dot
"Slay," said Miss Brooks, "a bright idea
has struck me. Keep this stuck-up man-tua-maker,
by . all means, and we'll have
rare fun with the romantic little fool.
We'll write her a letter, as if from Harry,
full of expressions ol passionate attachment,
and concluding with an offer of his hand.
She'll receive it here, before us, and we'll
see how ridiculous she'll make herself.
Oh! it will be great sport."
J he cruel and inhuman proposition thus
made was eagerly accepted bv Miss Tiver
ton, who saw in it an easy way to crush
and humble Bertha by making her ridicu
lous.
"What nn April-fool she'll bp," said the
heiress, wilh an almost sardonic smile.
"To think of her going home and telling
her mother that Harry has offered himself:
and then of the jeers at her when her folly
is found out. We must manage matters,
however, so that we cannot be suspected."
"Never fear that," said the companion.
"I am excellent at imitating handwritings,
and, if you've a single scinpol Harry's, I'll
write a letter that he'll almost pronounce
his own, it shall be so like."
"I've several' notes of his," said Miss
Tiver'on, and she produced more than one,
all written in answer to invitations. And
then pen, ink and paper being brought, the
two confederates sat down to their nefari
ous task.
The next morning, punctual to the ap
pointed hour, Bertha made her oppearance
at the Tiverton mansion. Any one, whose
heart was not steeled against her, would
have been won over to loving the orphan
girl, by her gentle manners and kind heart.
But her present employer only hated her
the more for her good qualities. It was a
painful morning to Bertha. In a hundred
ways she was made to feel her dependent
position, by the pitiless Miss Tiverton end
her companion, Alas! none can be so
cruel to woman as those of her own sex.
About mid-day a knock was heard at the
door, and a letter was left for Bertha,-
Miss Brooks herself had answered the sum
mons, and brought in the missive.
"This was left, just now," she said, giv
ing the letter a toss superciliously into B--
tha's lap, "by a strange boy, who asked if
the mantua-maker was working here to
day. 1 see it is addressed to yon." And
then, with an insolent laugh, she added,
"you must have very impatient correspon
dents, miss."
When Bertha's eye fell on the letter she
blushed crimson and became excessively
agitated. She did not, however, open the
missive, but laying it on the table beside
her, went on with her work. Her hand
trembled perceptibly. After cruelly en
joying this agitation for awhile, Miss Tiv
erton said coldly,
"Pray open your letter, miss; and never
mind us. It may be, you know, a love-lel
ter, and very important." And she gig'
gled, looking at Miss Brooks.
Again isertha blushed crimson; and her
voice was low and tremulous and said,
"Thank vou I can wait."
"N'o, I insist on it," said Miss Tiverton,
"Come let us go out of the room, Miss
Brooks, since the young lady," and she pro
nounced these words ironically, "cannot
read the letter unless she is alone," .
She rose, as if to go, but Bertha, with a
proud effort, picked up the letter, and beg'
ging her to be seated, proceeded to open it.
1 he fact was that uertha had recognised
the handwriting, and hence not only ber
conlusion, but her unwillingness to read
the letter before prying eyes. Unly once
before had she received a note from Harry,
and then it bad been couched in but hill's
dozen lines. Those lines, however, had
been dearly treasured ; every word and let
ter were indelibly fixed in her memory
and, when she saw the present missive, she
knew at once who it was that bad written
it. '
She foreboded, loo, something of its con'
tents.' Harry and Bertha had first met, at
the judge's house, where Bertha had been
making up dresses for bif sifter, Tbe gen
tie manaers, intelligent mind and thorough
good principles of Bertha had rendered her
a great favorite with Isabel Warwick, who,
with the enthusiasm natural to her, treated
Bertha rather as a friend than otherwise.
But though Isabel had been, for several
months, absent in the city, Harry had not
forgotten Bertha. A walk home with her,
from his father's, one rainy night, had giv
en him an excuse for railing occasionally.
Unconsciously his visits had become mote
frequent. Unconsciously also Bertha, so
little used to the companionship of one so
elevated in mind and manners, had tost her
virgin heart.
It had been many weeks now since Her
tha first made this discovery, which had
been brought about by a long absence of
Harry from her mother's house. From the
day that she discovered her weakness, if
weakness it can be called, she had resolutely
struggled to forget Harry, But yet there
was frequently that in his manner which
filled her with blissful hope; a sort of tacit
sympathy with her evinced as much by his
silence, or by a look, ns by words. In fact,
Bertha was in a state of doubt more embar
rassing, and almost as painful as hopeless
disappoint rnent.
To do Harry justice, he was not aware
of the effect his vUits had produced. He
had sought Bertha's society because it was
a relief to him : there was something fresh
and soothing in it to his overtasked brain
or wearied heart. Of lore he had never
thought, Had any one asked him if he in
tended to marry a mantua-maker, he would
have laughed perhaps, the idea was so op
posed to the somewhat aristocratic habits
in which he had been educated. But had
any one osked him if he would marry Ber
tha, he might have hesitated ', and it is a
pity some one had nof, for he would then
have either ceased his visits, or made up hu
mind to wed her in spite of prejudices.
Unfortunately no one spoke to him on the
subject, and so, in perfect innocence, and
thinking only of his own pleasure, he con-'
tinned to call on Bertha,
The reader can now understand why it
was that Bertha, when she had opened the
letter, and found that in it Harry offered
himself to her, could not, .in spite of the
knowledge that prying eyes were on her,
restrain her agitation. She made a power
ful pffbrt to control herself, and succeeded
until she came to the close; but then the
certainty, nevpr yet more than vaguely
hoped lux, was too much for the poor girl,
and she burst into happy tears.
iliss I iverton winked at Miss 13 rooks, at
which Miss Brooks drew down her face:
and both for a minute, remained silent, At
the end of that time Bertha hurriedly fold
ed up the letter, placed it in her bosom,
wiped her tears away, and began to stitch
at the dress on her lap. But her torment
ors were not willing to let her off" so easily.
"Your letter seems to have affected vou,"
saiJ Miss Tiverton, "I hope it brought no
bad news."
"No," faintly answered Bertha.
"It's very impertinent in me, I know,"
said Miss Brooks, "but may 1 ask if it was
very good news. People only cry at very
bad or very good news."
Bertha felt that Miss Brooks wished to
insult her; but her heart was too full to
speak ; so she made no answer. This si
lence was mistaken for tameness, and it urg
ed the two pitiless women on.
"Perhaps it was, as We suggested, a love-
letter, after all," said Miss Tiverton.
"I'm sure it was a proposal," said Miss
Brooks.
"And from Mr, Warwick, of course,"
said Miss Tiverton, 'eeringlv. "They say
he's desperately in love with you."
Bertha looked i'p, for an instant, with
eyes flashing indignantly; and had hall a
mind to fling down her work and leave the
house. At this evidence of spirit the heir
ess fired up.
"lloity toity," she said, "you are as
proud, miss, as a tragedy queen. But let
me give you a word of advice, Mr. Henry
Warwick would never marry a mantua-
maker."
This insolent and heartless speech roused
the gentle Bertha, at last, to retaliation.
She rose haughtily to her feet, letting her
work fall on the floor, and said, lor the mo
ment forgetting herself,
"Whether Mr. Warwick will ever mar
ry me, time will show, but he has, at least,
offered to do so, and in this very letter."
As she spoke she held the missive up.
Then suddenly recollecting that the had
exposed her secret, she became covered
with confusion, stopped, replaced the letter
in her bosom, and bursting into tears, ran
out of the room. As she fled up stairs to
seek her bonnet, resolved to leave the house
where the had been so insulted, the loud
and mocking laughter of the two confeder
ates pursued her.
she remained but a few minutes, only
long enough to vent her first passion of
weeping, and then, hastily drying her eves,
hurried down stairs, hoping, by treading
lightly, to leave the house unobserved.
But her tormentors were lying in wait for
her, to give the point to their bitter jest,
and beard her footfall, soft as it was. Sud
denly opening the door, as she approached,
they stepped out before her, courtesymg
mockingly. . ,
"And so Mr. Warwick has onered him
self to you, in that letter, has he" said
Miss 1 iverton. "A lawyer to a mantua
maker. It looks likely, Jane, don't it!"
And she turned sneeringly to her confidant.
"But, perhaps, after all," she continued
again addressing Bertha, "it would be as
well to wait till Mr. Warwick comes in
person, in a coach and four, to take you,
Miss, for it's not safe to believe letters that
irs dated on the first of April.
Jhe blood went back upon Bertha's heart
as she beard these words, for the whole
cruel jest now became evident to her. She
felt as if she could have welcomed an earth-
3uake, if it had come at that moment, to
elive r per from her tormentors, wbof piti
less and mocking, knowing that, for hen
own sake, she dare not accuse them, stood i
jeering at ber. But no eacthquake came. 1
Unabl to endure her agonji, Bertha, with
a groan, rushed past ker inaulters, and gain-t
ed the street.
She was not even sensiblie of the direc
tion Rhe took, so terrible vras the whirl of
her emotions. She saw nothing, heard no
thing, felt aothing, but that she had been,
mocked, ia her deadest and most sacred'
affections. . She did pot go far, however
Before she had walked a hundred ya-pds her
limbs tailed her, and she fell senseless to the
ground.
We have said she did not even know
what directions she had taken ; she had in
fact, gone the opposite way from the one
she had intended ; and now, when she sank
to the earth, she was where she wcAild least
have chosen, in front of Judge Warwick's
house.
Harry himself was at the door, about to
go out with bis mother. He saw Bertha
totter, and rushed forward, but not in time
to save her. Lifting her in his arms, he
bore her into, the house, bis mother, with
womai)lo sympathy, opening the parlor
door herself, that Bertha might be laid on
the sofa. Harry tenderly laid his burden
down, but in so doing a letter fell from
Bertha's bosom to the carpet. He picked
it up, to preserve for her, when his eye
caught what looked like his own handwri
ting; and just nt that instant Bertha faintly
opening her eyes, perceived him with it.
"Oh ! give it to me," she exclaimed,
scarcely knowing what she said, "I know
yo did not write it that it was a jest
played at my expense give it to mp and
let me go I will go to my mother," she
said, staggering to her feet, wilh a wild
look, and shrinking from Harry's eyes, "let
me g.j ti my mother."
Her words, incoherent as they were, re
vealed to Harry that some cruel jest had
been perpetrated on-her, in which the let
ter he held in his hand had been made to
play a principal part. In the impulse of
the moment he stepped forward, and took
Bertha's hand.
"Stay, dear Miss Howard," he said with
emotion. "Yon ore without brother, father,
or other protector, and if, as you hint, some
one has been playing a jest on you, I will
defend you. Pon't turn away from me,
Bertha, dear Bertha mother, intercede for
me, for you are a woman there has been
some cruel, cruel insult here, by forging a
letter in my name."
He could lesist no longer, but, as Bertha
sank sobbing on the sofa, where Mrs. War
wick supported her, opened and read I he
letter.
"Now, in heaven's name," he exclaim
ed, "this is too bad. But 1 will shame the
perpetrators of this wicked jest, and pro
tect you, Bertha, by endorsing what the
letter contains. Will you really be
mine ?" he continued, kneeling at her, and
his mother's feet, while, with the rush of a
whirlwind, came over him the revelation
that he had long, unknown to himself, lov
ed Bertha. "Will you accept my heart
and hand 1 It is no sudden affection," he
exclaimed, passionately. "1 have known
you long. My mother and sisters appre
ciate you and will welcome you to their
midst. Is it not so, mother! Tell her for
me she will listen to you."
Had Mrs. Warwick been osked, that
morning, if she was willing that her only
son should marry Bertha, she might, per
haps, have hesitated, much as she valued
the gentle girl, for she had, like the wife of
a judge is expected to have, very aristo
cratic notions. But Mrs. Warwick posses
sed a heart, and she was so indignant at the
base trick played on Bertha, and wished so
much to comfort the sufferer, that she pres
sed the fair hand tenderly and became a
more eloquent petitioner than even her con.
What could Bertha reply! Her own
loving heart pleadedly secretly in Harry's
favor, and it was only pride that led her to
hold back. However, after much entreaty,
she was won to consent, which she did at
last between blushes and tears.
She felt, the next day, almost ready (o
retract, fearful that Harry's pity, and not
his love, had led to his declaration. But
when the judge himself came to solicit the
connection for he, too, forgot all minor
considerations on hearing of the brutal jest
and when Harry recounted to her how
he had long loved tier, without really
knowing it, she was fain to ratify her ooji
sent. It was a bitter nay for Miss Tiverton
when she heard how her jt had turned put.
But our heroine has long since forgiven her.
Occasionally Harry and his wife even talk,
with a smile, or JJcitTiu's Fst of &rs.u
Bostok pHiLaVTiiBorr. Some of the
newspapers of Boston are rather aevere on
the philanthropists of that city, who vwdd
overturn the constitution and sunder the
union for the take of ameliorating the con
dition of those unfortunate sous of Africa,
now held in slavery, and j-et allow an un
fortunate white deUur, ia the last stages of
consumption, to be eetit to jail and to die
there. This was done under a law which,
notwithstanding the detestation against sla
very, is allowed on the statute books, and
which gives a creditor power not only over
the liberty, but, as in this jnance over the
life of the debtor.
, . . . ; ) II
TmqColb Btrrr BrBBi.E.-The Placer
Times calls the Gold Bluff excitement an
audacious deception. . The effort is made
by peculators to keep up the excitement,
but the thing is decidedly dead, and those
who were caught are decidedly "done."
; ' 1 . ).
. Tsadb. Scene, a grocery storer-Exit
customer with a jug Grocery keeper to
his sons "4qna(hn, did you charge thai
liquerl" Yes, sir." Joseph, did you charge
that liquor V Yes, sir-ree."; All rigM
so hay? J,."
, EUILY LIFE OF BISHOP HUGHES, (
Ol (he tatholle t liuroh I
A Washington correspondent of the N. Y .
Sun writes ns follows of the eminent divine
whose mime heads this reticle :;
"Circumstances have Recently brought to
my knowledge facts connected! with the for
mer times of Archbishop llugbs, which go
ing strong to illustinte the force of his char
acter, can hardly fail to interest the general
reader. A distinguished gentleman,, now of
this city, distinctly recollects when tis cele
brated, htarntd and powerful Divine,, suppor
ted not wily himself, but an aged parent, by
sodding, planting and trimming gardens, in
Chambersburg. Pa. He has often seen him
wheeling hie burrow, wilh rake and spade,
from dwelling to dwelling, when engaged in
this woik, for which he was usually paid fifty
cents per diem. John flushes was one of the
very best Latin and Greek liugu,ksls in Arrver
ica, when just entering upon mntihood. Sub
sequently, he made his way to Emmittsburg,
Jld., and entered into the service of the cele
brated Jesuits' College there as a grower of
cabbage! The Institution, according to. the
custom with the Roman Csitholio Colleges in
this enntttry, has a highly cultivated small
farm attached to il, and Hughes being em
ployed as a laborer upon it, was placed in
charge of the cabbage beds. On one occa
sion, seeing one of the lads of the Institution,
puzzling over his lasV in Cicero, Hushes re
quested him to lei hirp look nt the book, nnd
asking him to explain the meaning of a par
agraph, to the astonishment of the youth, cor.
reeled his rending, lin nlso diclosPil to the
boy in the same way the fact that he was a
proficient in Greek. .Shortly afterwards, the
boy getting stumped on a lesson in !lomer(
repaired to thn gardener nnd procured u
translation, which when produced as his own,
satisfied his tutor by the elegance and perfect
correctness wilh which it was rendered int0
English, that it was not the work of llie boy.
The latter was then questioned as to who
had helped him on in the lesson, ond surpti
sed all by declaring that it was '(only Johnny,
the gardener lad." Hughes was instantly
summoned before the faculty, who were in.
credulous ns to the truth of the pupil's story.
A Prelect onderlook to examine him, when
it turned out that ho was by far the best
Greek mid Latin scholar in tho Institution.
Wilh the capital judgment of those who
mannsa the affairs of the Jesuits everywhere,
John Hughes wag instantly made to exchange
his cabbages for his humanities, and at onoe
became a lutor in the Institution.
This was the commencement of the super
structure of his fortune and fame, the foundar
lion being his native intellect and (lisenergj
industry and probity, from his earliest infan
cy. Ilu soon became the lending spirit of
the Institution, where he remained, until his
fame spreading throughout the country, hi
church authorities called him to labor in the
wider and more important field of the world,
Therq are lesous in these excerpt from tlje
history of John Hughes, which, youth every
where may treasure in memory to its gret
futuio advantage."
MOT IL ALONE.
BY ALiftlC A. WATTS.
Xot all alone; for thou const hold
Communion sweat with faint u;)d sage ;
Ami gather gems, of price pnlolJ,
From many a concentrated page;
Yon lh' d tenuis, the golden lights of age,
Tim poel'a lore, are still thine own ;
Then, while such themes tby thought engage,
Oh, how canst tLou be ull aloue .'
Not nil alone ; the lark's riWi note
As, iiiouiiliutf up to heaven, lie sings;
Tha thousand silvery sounds that float
Above, below, on morning' wings :
The softer murmurs twilight brjjigs
The cricket's cferip, cicada's glee ;
All earth, that lyre of myrjad strings,
ts jubilant wilh fife for ih'.'e J
Not all nlone; tUe whispeijiig twes.,
The rippling buxik, the rlarry ky,
Have eni-u peculiar hutmouie
To soothe, subiLie, nnd tauctiy ;
Tb low, sweet beutb of .eveniw!'' f igh,
Yor thee Jballi oft n fiieudly tone,
To lift thy frateluj I hong at on fiit'll,
And say thou art not asi ulwne !
Xot ij'l alone : a waicWul Eye,
That note iho wondering spairow' fall,
A paring baud i eer nigh,
A yjoiioiis Power attend Iha call -When
fadneos holds the heart in thrall,
Oft i Ilia tenderest merries shown ;
eek, then, iio balm vouchsafed to ,
Aud ihou canst never be alone !
A voesi: gentleman in describing ihe effect
f bis tirst waltz, say Jie thOfjsht be was go
ing to heaven on a baud of eiusic. For fif
teen piinules he appeared Uf be swimming
in n sea of rose leaves, with fi blue angel.
This soon changed, he says, to delirium of
peacock feathers, in yhich his bfiu nt an
much mixed up with low necked (rick, musk
and melody, thai o ia fed on flutes ever
since. i
Wash ron Apilk Tsee- Dissolve two
pound of potash in a pail of water apply
with a brush. It l a very eueciuai warn
iestroyinc, if properly applied, most of the
Insect tribe taking aheller under (tie bark,
beside giving health to the tree by ihor
oujh cleansing.
Gsttino His Name Up. "I ay, Mr. High
flier 'won't you lets feller go with you in
that ere balloon 1' '-I could stot poasiidy as
bommodate you my dear friend.1 Well,
then, be kind enough to Ulr.a my card along,
for 1 am determined to gel ro name p eom
how or other." ' 1 ' (
Faib words breuk n bone, but foul wo'd
manyaona. "" ' ''
THE TIIUKE DEGREES Of MASOKRY..
As nn entered apprentice, a lesson of hu-.
millity and contempt of worldly riches and
enrlhly granduer, is impressed upon hisy
mind by symbolic ceremonies, too important
in iheircharHCtersevcr to be forgotten. The
beauty nnd holiness of chniily are depicted)
in emblematic modes, stronger and mora
Insting than mere. language can express, and1
the neophjlo ixdirecled to lay a corner stone
of virtue,, nnd purity, upon which ha is
charged lo erect a superstructure, alilte hon
orable to himself nnd the fraternity of which
he is hereafter to compoap a patt.
In the degree of entered: apprentice every
emblematic ceremony is. directedi lo the il
lustrations of the heart; in I hat of fellow
craft, to the enlargement of the mind. Al
ready clotheil in tho. while garment of inno-.
cence, tbe advancing candidate is now
invented with, the deep ard unutterable
trutks of science. Ai length he passes the.
porcb of the Temple,, and in his. progress to,
the middle chamber, is tangHt the ancient,
and unerring melhodl of distinguishing
friend Irom a fo
But it is not until the third or master' rank;
V reached by arduous labor, by study and by
worthy conduct, that full uinlimmed ef
fulgence of masonry light upon llie enraptur
ed vision. In this which is, the perfection of
symbolic masonry the purest of truths are
unveiled amid the sublime ceremonies
None Lut he who has visitpd the holy of
holies, nnd travelled in the road of peril, can
have any conception of the mysteries un
folded in this degree, lis solemn observance
defuses a sacred awe and inculcates a lesson,
of religious truth, nod it is not until the tieo
phyle has rpaohed this summit of our rural,
that he exclaimed wilh joyful accent, in, Uie
language of the sage of old "Eureka, Eur,eka
I huve found at last the long sought trea
sure." hi the languaiie of the learned Hut
chinson, somewhat enlarged in its illusion,
the master mason is a man under the drip
trine of love ; saved from tha grave of in
iquity, mid raised to the faith of salvation.
It is said that the English Governmeni
recommended Ilia Pope, indirectly, lo with
draw the offensive parts of the bull conslitu-.
ting the Ilnmnn Catholic hierarchy in Eng
land, particularly the tiliies of the bishops'
sees. The Pope, however, turned $ dea,f ear
to the recommendation.
Rino for Ges.Cass. ring weishing six
ounces has been manufactured nt fcan Fran
cisco ns a present for Gen. Cass from George
H. Make, one of the workmen j;i Jacks ond
Brother jewelry establishment Tha tnp is
constructed w i'.l, a box nnd glass containing
four compartment-, wjth pftjmen fif gold
from four distticis.
Lake Fi-rr.RiGn. Trie CWsland Herald
notes the arrival there of a pa, fly of persons,
who have sppnl the past winter in 'he cupper
legion. They bring lich nccoynts from ihe
copper and iron mines, Ihe winter Iftqra
having been very successful.
Tiir. President of llie United Btatps, has
recognise Jose Haria Gailen, a Consul Gen
eial of the Republic of New Grenada, for the
United Staves, and J. U flemery as Consul
of Mecklenburg chwerin for San Fracisco,
Csulornia.
Vnitkb Statcs and osta Kica. M.
Molliui, wiio arrived in this country, some
week ago, was on Monday last presented lr
tike President of tbe United Stales, in Ihe ca
pacity of .diplomatic representative lo this
government from she government of Costa
Siea, and received as such.
Tue Cot Accounted Fob. Tbe Boston
fnst account for the recent cold weather by
supposing that Sir John Franklin in going
through the North-West passage, forgot to
shut t&e front door nfier him.
Nitpoleon slew more men in a month than,
all tbe Doctor in Europe did in a year. To
increase the price of mourning goods, it is
supposed that one hero i wwth twu cholera.
Nothing softens the heart like sorrow. We
never feel so kind towards the distressed as
the day we are ruined. Hearts are like op.
plea, ihe power that crush I he in makes'
itiem mellow.
We know a lady who corrects her children
when they nre disobedient, by threatening
them with a do. of castor oil. When we-
were a boy, the prescription for such disor
ders was a dose of hickory oil.
The Corernoio, Sardinian loop-3f-war, haa
brought a cargo to England, for tbe great
Exhibition, consisting nf live hundred packa
ge of objects of oil, gold work, velvets and
silk.
The iMiAlirANT of tf Western High
land of JJroijRiid, have been rraduallyt
desceni!ng. in tlie FCalti of. civilization for thi
last forty years.
Cot iiH in Horsks. 1 iasaiJ that ihe tmai
twigs of cedar chopped fine nnd mixed with, '
Ibeir grain, will cure a coojjh, ami shut il has
been used with complete t.m.xets.
A foreign mediesl wriija poaaeesing ran
dor, ha lately aeied l bit, "phyaici lb art
of amusing the patient, wkile nature cures
the disease-"
. lis that cotuideta how tyile he-dwellsspon
the condition of others, will learn bow little
the attention of others is attracted bj him
self. It is a sign cf wiides lobe willing to rs-
Ve instruction ; the raost iolslliiteuf sone-
-stUi ased of it-