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THE VW.IV LATEST ARRIVAL
NEW GOODS,
AT THE ST0EE 0E
IP.A T. CJLSXS1TT,
XTSTHO taken tliig mrtlioil of infonniriff lii.
friemU nnil customers, tlint lie has just re
ceived und o cned a splendid assortment of
N E v r. OO 1 s,
wliii li lie offers to the public at tlic lowest priees
His ftoik consists of every variety and quality,
necessary for the tanner, mei lianic, and laborer,
as well as the professional mini, viz: all kinds of
M p n s' A re 1.
SUCH AS CLOTH. CASSIMKIICS, 8ATTINETT9,
VKSTlNliS, Ac.
AI,SO: ,
a large assortment of
Calicnes, Mtwfsrliiie lie Laincf, Alpaccas,
Merinos. Slimcls. llnnilkrrchiffsj
Ulurrs, Hoiseri). Checks,
Cambrics, "'g
lmms, 4'c.
Also a large assortment of
Boots und Shoes, lltttund Cops,
Gum over Shoes,
Also as Assortment of
tIEAOY MAOlfi CLOTHINR.
A general assortment of Groceries, Sugar,
Coflve, Tea, Cheese, Mo
lasses, Sjiices.
An assortment of
Hardware, Kails, Slrel cud Iron.
Liquors,
Such as Brandy, Gin, Rum, Whiskey, &'C
!y Produce of all kinds will be taken in ei
change, and the highest market price paid for the
same.
."uiibury, Nov. Sit, 18,r0 ly. .
GSLEAT ARRIVAL
OF
NEW GOODS!
Uaiket Etrcct, Sunbury, Pa.,
"fiOHX V. IT.IUNt; rcsietfully informs his
Oi? friends and rtisloiners that he lias just re
keived a large nnd hundsome assortment of
Dry Goods,
Consisting of Cloths, f "nssiincrcs, Sattinclts,
Co 1. nines, Calicoes, Fancy
pud (Staple (ioods.
ALSO:
GROCERIES of every description,
lHU liS AND MK.DICINKS.
aiTEEIJSWARS A1TD HARDWARE.
l'ish. Salt. Tlaster and a general assortment of
all Midi Roods as will suit all classes ; the Far
mer, Mechanic, Laborer and Gentlemen of all
professions.
Will find a great variety of all such article as
they will need for the present season.
i t'' Country produce of all kinds taken in ex
change at the highest market price.
Sunliiirv, No. 'J, 1850.
IICRE KET7 GOODS
At tSse ftcw wtorc of
joiin m:ykks&C0m
Kjukct Ctrcct, Sunbury.
T7I10 bus just teceived and owned a large as-
' aortmcut of new and fashionable goods, of
cverv variety, suitable for the fall and winter sea
con, for all persona; and to which he calls the at
tention of friends and customers. His stock con
sists in part of
DEIY KOUHS.
SUCH AS
Cloth, Cassimeres, Satlmetls, Merinos,
J)e Laines, Calicoes, Shawls, Hand
kerchiefs, and all kinds of wear
ing apparel.
ALSO:
Hardware, Cjuccnsware,
Groceries, Pish, Salt and Plaster,
And all articles that may be wanted by the com
munity. The Ladies
Will find, by railing at his store, that he has not
brn unmindlul ot tneir wants, and respectlully
invites them to examine his selection.
tV Country produce ef all kinds taken in ei
change for goods at the highest market price.
Sunbury, -Nov. 9, 185U.ly.
NnW STAGE LINE
FUOM I'OTTSVILLE TO SUAMOKlN
A new lino of stages is now running daily be
tween the above places. A comfortable two horse
stage will leave Ml. Carmel for Nhainokin, imme
diately alter the arrival of the l'ottsville stage at
that lJuce, and will return the next day from
tshainokin, so as to meet the 1'otUville stage on
its return to J'ottsville,
From SbarooVin to Trevorton
there will J tt'lUh4 DAILY LINE by next
prin.' so a to cuuiM-'ct with this line at Hhamokim
In the mean time private conveyance will be in
readihew at ShaiuokHl pn yi srrivu 01 pajweu.
NK liourtW celebrnted ink, And to Cot
Krei ink tor ittle, wholesale and reuu oy
I J. AJ. Hla7JUUt
SELECT POETRY.
SI'IU-NO MUDS.
Sweet minstrels, fiom n sunny clime,
Welcome your noles of mirili,
Thou, bringest cladness to the heart,
And joy to all the earth.
Ye come to us like loving friends,
Who have been absent I0112
There's cheerfulness in all thy strains,
And musio in thy song.
Ye come with morniim's earliest breath,
Tuniurj your notes of lov,
Ye tell the f?oodne.s nnd the power,
Of One who dwells ubove.
1 love to hear your free wild notes,
Kiiifr sweetly in the air,
I love your soft and plaintive songs,
So free from taint or fare.
Would that my heart were as light as
yours,
liinls of the tiol.len ung,
I, then, would sins; a merry song,
To welcome back the spring.
Your noles, sweet birds, are full of joy.
Hut yet, ye cannot briiifi.
B.iek to the weary heart, one song
Of life's pure, radiant spring.
For, hushed the lyre, whose music sweet;
Oft filled tlio heart with ulee,
It gives no nnswerius! note of thine,
Sweet warbles wild and free.
Then siiifr, bright birds, beneath sunny
skies,
This is your hour of glee.
Ah ! soon, to soon, dread autumn's gloom
.Must shroud your gaiety !
Sine, while the sky is free from clouds,
And ere the leallels fade ;
Sing, pi is the (lowers of sweet spring
time, In eaith are softly laid.
u :.irKAV.,rww'.-.k'.
Qtstovtcol SliCtd).
Vnwi liluckw'V.Hl's Ilinliiirji !I;i!.i.ine.
THE FIEND'S FESTIVAL.
It was a dark niht in the town of St.
Thomas. Not a star was visible. Well
was it that the heavens saw not what then
occurred upon the earth.
Men who had grown pray together in
love and friendship, dwelling in the same
street, under the very same roof, vho were
bound to each other by ties ot blood and
kindred, of gratitude and duty, who were
wont to share each other's joys and griefs,
began upon a sudden, as if frantic with in
fernal inspirations, to plot each other's ex
termination, and to fill their souls with
bloody hatred against those who had never
wronged them.
It was St. Eustace' day. The Raiten
assembled in the church, to worship God,
as they said. Hut no words of God were
there, nor solemn organ-notes;, wild voices
announced approaching horrors, and the
sainted roof resounded with strains ominous
of strife.
The town's people were tranquil. Those
amongst them who noticed that their neigh
bors' windows were lighted up, and who
saw gloomy faces hurrying to the church,
said to themsijvcs, "To-day the Raitzen
hold high festival ; and thought no more of
it, but went their ways to beds. Towards
midnight the alarnri-bell sounded, the doors
of the temple opened, and the nocturnal
revel began.
With wild howl the excited mob burst
into the bouses of their sleeping neighbors.
It was as though they had some ancient and
inveterate grudge to avenge, so fierce and
bitter was the furv with which they mur
dered all whose windows showed no lights
the token the Raitzen had adopted, least
by error they should assail each other's
dwellings.
In two hours the Magvar population of
the town was exterminated, with the ex
ception of a scanty few who escaped in
carts and carriages. These, however, were
pursued; and when the uproar in the town,
the sounds of strife and lamentation, and
the clang of bells, were hushed, cries of
agony and despair were still heard, issuing
at intervals from the adjacent country, as
vehicles, stuck last in the treacherous
swamps, were overtaken, and the luckless
ugitives ruthlessly butchered. At last
these heart-rending sounds also ceased.
Voices of complaint were no longer audi
ble, but in their stead, in more than one
quarter of the illuminated town, were
heard music, and dancing, and merriment.
It was long past midnight when a cart
drove through the streets of St. Thomas.
In it sat a man wrapped in his cloak, mar
velling greatly at the lights in the houses,
and the sounds of festivity and joy. At his
own house-door he stopped his horse. To
his great surprise, his dwelling was also
lighted up, and within were sounds of mu
sic, a hum of voices, and the noise of danc
ing feet. Astounded and anxious, he step
ped silently to a window, and through it
he beheld a crowd of well-known faces
The company, flushed with wine and ex
citement, sang and shouted, and drank out
of lis glasses, and danced madly round the
room. They were all old acquaintances,
and inhabitants ot the town.
Ignorant of the events of the night, the
man thought he was dreaming.
Presently his attention was attracted by
the licentious garb and demeanor of a wo
man, who circulated among the guests with
loud laugh and libertine gestures, sharing in
and stimulating the orgies. At first, he
could not discern who this woman was.
Then he recognized her. It was his own
wife.
IIold !" he shouted, and strode into the
room where these saturnalia were in pro
gress. He knew not what to door say ; it
were bard to find a word which should ex
Dress the rage that possessed him.
"Hold!" he thundered out, erery fibre
quivering with fury, "what do you beret"
The guests stood aghast at that apparition
of wrath.. The boldest started at sight of
the man, as he stood amongst them, terrible
and deadly pale. For a while none dared
approach him. He went up to his wife, a
dark-haired, black-eyed red cheeked wan
ton, who stood as if turned to stone. He
fixed his eyes upon hers with a deadly gaze.
"On your knees !"
. The woman stirred not.
"On your knees, wretch!" vociferated
the husband, and struck her in the face, so
that she fell to the ground.
'Hold, dog !" was shouted on all sides.
The Raitzen rushed forward, and the man
was seized by twenty hands. He struggled
against them, grasped the throat of one, and
relaxed not his clutch, even when thrown
down and trampled under foot, until he had
choked his adversary to death. They
bound his hands and thrust him into a cor
ner. The Raitzen formed a circle around
him.
"What would ye of me ?"- he asked, the
blood flowing from his mouth.
"What would we? Look around you.
See you not all here arc Raitzen V replied
a tall dark browed Serb, scowling scornfully
and cruelly at the sufferer.
"And 1 a Magyar. What then ?"
"Ask thy neighbors. Hast thou not
heard that to-day is our festival ? The fes
tival of the extermination of the Magyars.
You are one, the last in the town. All the
others are dead. As the last, you (shall
choose the manner of your death."
"So you are the executioner, Basil ?"
"If lam the chosen of my people."
With indescribable loathing, the Magyar
spat in his face.
"Scoundrel:" yelled the insulted man,
"(or this you shall weep tears of blood."
"Weep: 1? who ever saw me weep?
You mav slay me, vou may torture me, or
tear me limb from limb. There are enough
of you to do it. But weep you shall not
see me, though you burst for impotent
rage."
"Weep thou shalt, and 'tis I will make
thee. Know that it is I who seduced vour
wife, and for honi she betrayed you."
"1 hat is thy shame, not mine."
"All thy kinsmen are slain."
"Better they should lie dead in thestreet
than breath the same air with thee."
"Thy property is annihilated,"
"May (Jod destroy those who did it.
"Truly, thou art a cool fellow. But
you had a daughter, a fair and innocent
child."
George looked upon his tormentor, and
shuddered.
"Lina, I think, was her name, continued
the Serb, drawling out his words with a re
finement of cruelty.
"What what mean vou?" asked the
trembling father.
A comely maiden, by mv word. Fair to
look upon, is she not ?"
" I he devil seize thee ! hat next ?"'
"So young and delicate, and yet six
husbands. Hard to choose. Your wife
could not decide lo which she should be
long, 1 stepped in, and settled the matter.
I married her to all six " He burst into
fiendish laughter.
Mule and giddv with horror, the father
raised himself from the ground.
"I am sorrv," continued the Serb, "that
you were not here for the wedding."
Mav God's justice fall upon you:"
shrieked the wretched father, stifling his
tears. But th- parents bean overpowered
the pride of the man. He fell with his
face upon the ground, and wept tears ol
blood.
"Lift him up," said Basil, "that we may
see him weep for the first time in bis life.
Weep a little, George, and vou, sot, tune
up your pipes, that he may have accompa
niment to his tears."
And thereupon the drunken band began
to dance round their victim with shouts of
laughter and seeding gestures, striking and
kicking him as they passed. Now, how
ever, he wept 110 longer, lie closed Ins
eyes and kept silence, enduring their ill
treatment without sign or sound of com
plaint.
"Away with him!" cried Basil. "Ihrow
him into the garret, and put a sentry over
him. To-day we have celebrated his
daughter's wedding; to-morrow we will
drink at his funeral. Good night, friend
George."
He was dragged up to the garret, and
locked in. Where they threw him, there
he lay, motionless upon the floor, as though
all sensation had departed from both body
and soul, awaiting the hour of death, and
rejoicing that it was near at hand, for a
while the dancing and singing continued;
then the Serhs departed to sleep, and all
was still His eyes were unvisited by
slumber. Yet a little while, he thought to
himself, and eternal repose will be mine.
lie fay with his senses thus benumbed,
thinking neither of the past nor the future,
when he heard a rustle at the garret win
dow. Through the darkness he saw a
white figure pass through the small open
ing, and grope its way towards him. Was
it a dream ? or a reality ? The figure's
steps were noiseless. But presently it
spoke in a scarcely audible whisper.
"Father! father!" it said.
"Lina!"
He looked up, seeking to discern the fea
tures of his visitor. She hurried to' him,
kissed him, and cut the rope that bound his
hands.
"My child!" murmured George, and
clasped his daughter's tottering knees. "My
dear, my only child!"
"Let us fly !" said the maiden, in faint
and suflering tones. "The ladder is at the
window. Quick father quick!"
George clasped his panting child to his
arms, and bore her through the opening in
the garret roof, and down the ladder, rest
ing her head upon his shoulder, and cover
ing her cold cheek with his kisses. Near
the ladder-foot, he stumbled over some
thing. "What is that! A spade. We
will take it with ns."
1 "For weapon !P said the father.
"To dig a grave!" said the daughter.
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On the other side ol the house was heard
a heavy monotonous step
It Was a Serb
on sentry.
"Slay here! keep close to the wall?"
said George to his daughter, lie grasped
the spade, nnd crept noiselessly to the cor
ner of the house. The steps came nearer
nnd nearer. George raised the. spade.
Th -Seib turned the comer, and lay the
next moment upon the ground, with his
skull split. He had not time for a single
cry.
George took the dead man's clothes nnd
weapons, took his daughter in his arms, and
left the town. The morning star glittered
in the brightening sky. Towards day
break, and without having exchanged a
word, father and daughter rcat lied the
nearest village. George had many ac
quaintances there, and with onenf them he
thought, lie could leave his daughter. He
found hut a poor reception. Nowhere was
ne sufTered to cross the threshold. None
offered him as much as a crust of bread.
All closed their doors, and implored him
to depart, lest he should bring destruction
on their heads. The vilbgers were neither
hard-hearted nor cowardly; but they fear
ed that if the Serbs of SI. Thomas heard of
their sheltering a fugitive, they also would
be murdered or plundered. Willi anguish
in his soul, the wretched man ngain took
his child in his arms, and resumed his jour
ney. For six days he walked on, over stubble
and fallnw, through storm and cold by night
and parched heat by day his child, his be
loved child, on his arm. He asked not
what ailed her, and she uttered no com
plaint. On the sixth day the maiden died, of
hunger, misery and grief.
The lather felt his burden heavier : the
arms that clasped his neck slackened their
hold, and the pale cheek that nestled on his
shoulder was chill nnd cold.
But the spires ol Szeged in now glittered
in the distance. George hurried on, and at
last exhausted by his speed, he reached at
noon-day the large and populous city.
In front of it, on the vast plain, a great
multitude was assembled ; more than twen
ty thousand souls were gathered together,
listening to the words of a popular orator
evnltid upon a scaffolding in the midst.
George made his way into the throng; the
speaker was relating the incredible atroci
ties of the Raitzen. Several of bis hearers
noticed the weary, wild-looking, travi I
stuiued man, carrying in bis arms a pale
girl with closed eyes, who stood amongst
them like a fugitive from a mad-house.
"Whene.e come you ?" they asked him.
"From St. Thomas."
"Ha! Up! up with him on the scaf
fold !" cried those who heard his reply.
"A man is here from 'St. Thomas. Up
with him, and let him speak to the peo
ple I"
The crowd opened a passage, and George
was hurried to the scaffold. When, from
this elevation, his emaciated and ghastlv
countenance, furrowed by sulii'iing and
despair, his failing limbs, and the f.ided anil
ashy pale features of the child upon his
shoulder, became visi'ile to the assembled
multitude, a deep shuddering milliner ran
through ili masses, like that the Flatten
Lake gives forth when tempests near ils
shores. At sight ami sound of the heaving
throni, a hectic (lush flamed upon George's
ch ek, an unwonted lire burned in bis bo
som ; he felt the spirit of revenge descend
upon his head like a forked and fiery
toiiiriie.
"Magyars!', he exclaimed, in loud and
manly tones, "I come from Si. Thomas, the
sole survivor of nil who there prayed to
(Jod in the Magyar tongue. My goods aie
plundered, my kinsmen slain. Have any
of 3 oil friends there ! prepare your mount
ing, for of a surety they are dead. Of ail
I possessed I have saved hut one treasure
my unhappy child. Approach! ye that
are fathers, think of your virgin daughters,
and behold what they have made of mine !"
As he spoke, he lifted his child from bis
shoulder; and then only did he perceive
that slip was dead. Until that moment, he
had thought she was only faint and silent,
as she had constantly been for six days past.
"Dead!" shrieked the despairing man,
and clasped the corps to his heart. "She
is dead!" he repeated. The words died
away upon bis lips', and he fell, like one
thunderstruck headlong to the ground.
"Revenge! a bloody revenge!" thun
dered a voice: and the tumult that now
arose was like the howling of the storm.
"To arms! to arms! all who are men!"
was bhouted on every side, and the people
thronged through the streets and lanes of
the city. "To arms to arms'." was re
echoed from house to house, and in an
hour's time ten thousand furious men stood
armed and equipped, and ready to set out
for St. Thomas.
Then there got abroad a sullen apprehen
sion, speedily succeeded by a fierce re
solve. Some one chanced to say :
"Hut what if, when we march away, the
Raitzen rise up and murder our children ?"
The word pjss"d from mouth to mouth.
"They shall die!" exclaimed many voi
ces. "Let them perish, ns our brothers
perished at St'. Thomas ! They must die !"
And with a terrible ferocity the people
turned against their own city, and like a
mountain torrent, overpowering all re
straint, poured into their neighbors' dwel
lings and slew the Raitzen to tue very last
man.
This occurred on the sixth day after the
extermination of the Magyars from St.
Thomas.
The nam. of Raitxen if synonyinnui with fer
"Araeuiu. Cxeruojewio, under' lUHjd I., triuis-, . 7
larire uutuber of Serli. t r.su the uncient Kitm-ia f ..
Hence the unit of Kurrn, Harzeu, Hmtieii. "angary.
'The k-rU urn annul the lsaiu.nl ut UV ... r;-.(ri. .
Muiryur iieitrhb r. l. sated Keue. of
lruetialcd by the rVrl atHiuat I he Miurvar. a,ul nUI'" 1
Ulinlmh.t tW d,,.et, (The B,cV-.,T" "''.
imweeu ,hc Uuuub. u,",) lJt'Z"o
ol ui".iuiry tuociiiea, audi aa our aye hud hoped crer , ,,
e reimtted. Tin commencement of Uoauiiuea ia du i.
Hi fctovo-W-ata-hiao lace: eld. Ut 2..,.Z 7
combined with an haute th ret fur Wool, marked the ri.inij
I "f ""' f"1"'' eVhv rare from the firm ns one i f ihu
bi,VKi. ei,r.ier. .., ii,h ,m,r,i.r . i.m. n,,. .mi
I ,,,K revoluti m of m H'erii tinvs the Rnie i'reiieli
: ituvMiiiiinii i,,ii except"! m o;n'Kiieu wnn riicd nnrrniw
nntriiiffi ne this : the iletniln tuny he t' liml 111 1 Ii. eWhtrm
nnil Mngynr j"urimlj nntl one w, u' fuin Itnve hnpiit Unit
llir liiT illiits en Itnlli nlilefl were rx-iueemti'tl. l'lilniipily,
snrli s h'tpe Is illumry ; nor erni 1lie historian indulge 'it
Witlinnt till. il'yii iff thi; truth. Llei-en Invt' been pprprlriiteil
which call to mind the lltinnis and Mukisof Hie Amcriemi
f'Trm. Like tlirtn, ihc rVrlis we-e 111: stern in the nrt ef
torture and murder; like tht-m. Iliy nitule their tuilHipsy
Victims prrviniiftly inid'T? 1 nil the dreadful stepeol tirlii,-iit,
pud niiinp the irniisitim frmn life I" denih wall a refine
ment nf cruelty ; li'ie them, they vaunted the deeds of hor
ror, nnd honored He ir Micitlioners 111 her-ie.. . . . . .
Siti'Ii unheard of ntmeities iiievit.-iMv called lerlh retaliation.
Minrynr nnd German became savaffei, among' savages ?"
SciiLEjixoKS. Puliiky'. edition i vK-'-M.
TIME'S TREASURE.
The fiiM dear thing that ever I loved
Was .1 mother's jjeutle eye,
Thai smiled us 1 woke on the dreary couch
That cradled my infancy.
1 never forgot the joyous thrill
That smile in my spirit stirred,
Nor hnw it could charm me against my will,
Till 1 laughed like a joyous bird.
And the next fair thing that ever I loved,
Was a bunch of summer (lowers,
Willi odors, and hues, nnd loveliness.
Fresh ns. from Eden's bowers'.
I ueVr can find such hues agniu,
Nor smell such sweet perlume;
And if there be odors as sweet as these,
!Tis t that have lost my bloom.
And the next fair thinu 1 was lond to love
Is tenderer far to lell ;
'Twits a voice, ami a band, and a gentle eye,
That dazzled mo with ils spell ;
Ami the loveliest ibiuus I had loved before
Were only the landscape now
On the canvass bright, where I pictured her,
In the glow of my early vow.
A VISIT TO THE MI:ICA3 CATIinilR AL.
A correspondent of the Washington Union,
writing from the City of Mexico, says:
"One day last week I spent a whole moru
ins: (six hours) in examining the Cathedral
and ils treasures. By special favor they
showed us everything ; mnuugothers the cus
todian, in which the consecrated host is ex
posed on certain oerasions ft cost $200,000, I
but is worth 6500,000; and yon will not vron
der at this when I inform ynu that is full lour
feet high, made of solid gold, and studded
with pieeir.ns stones. Tim pedestal is a foot
and a half square, inlaid willl diamonds and
rubies. At each corner is the golden figure
of an angel, exquisitely carved. Around bis
waist and neck are strings of ihe finest pearls.
His wings are inlaid or covered with dia"
nionds, rubies and emeralds. In his tight
hand he holds sheaves of w heat, made of yel
low topaz ; in his left bunches of grape made
of amethysts. The shaft is also studded with
diamonds nnd rubies The upper part, con
taining the. host, is made lo represent the sun,
and is a foot and a half in circumference.
the rays that emanate on ono side ate mado
entirely of diamonds of the first water, begin
ning with some of large si;!e, and gradually
tapering off. Tlio cross that siiriotiuds the
top is also on this side, mado of diamonds
and is supeib. On the other side, both the
cross and the rays of the must beautiful em
eralds perhaps larger than ihu diamonds."
A Map-Ckddi.cr, in pursuance of his voca.
lion, chanced to slop at the piincipal hotel in
one of the plcasanu st of our western state
villages. A friend, whom ho had known in
fotnier jeurs in Yankee-laud, seeing him at
the hotel, invited him 10 a large party which
he was to give tho same evening. The old
friend came; and when received by his host peel of 0110 lemon shred very line, and the
at tho door, was found with ihtee maps in his I j"i';e six spoonfuls of sweet wine, mace, nut
hand : ''ilow-de-du?" said he; '-got any ' m B"ri a very little salt, orange and
nails?;' Thought us p'raps there waste bo '; candied. -Muke a light paste for
a good many folks here to-night, I'd hang up them.
someo' my ; here, and let 'em look at j T0 r Pb",, v MApply the
'em. Good chance-fust rate. May ba whj(. of M wjtl, a guilabe bruih ,Q fc
some on 'em would like to buy 'em; and 1 1 ilJjlo ,uil;Unesj of wltile tissuu paper) willl
could explain 'em as well as not; uolliiu' L,..,, , .
else Id do.
poo.y much. Cot a small ham-
Know where I'd be liable to dispose
of a few beans?"
Sharp practice, that, eh?
A'liicteioocilcr.
Katiom WiTiini r Fihk. During tho an
cient day of Welch Koyulty, among the
twenty-four ranks of seivauis that attended
the Com t, was one called ''The King's Feel
Beaier." This young geutlmun, whose duty
jt was to sit Upon the' floor with his back to-
waids the fire and hold the King's feel in his
bosom all the time he sat at tho table, to keen
them warm and comfortable.
. It is said that fire was entirely unknown lo
manv of the nations of nuliouitv. and even
at tho present day it is unknown in some
...
pai ls of Africa.
The inhabitants of the Marian Islands,
w hich were discovered iu 1551, had no idea
of lire, and expressed the greatest astonish
ment on ti ist beholding it believing it lo ba
some kind of living animal which lived on
wood.
Maxufacacres in Geouuu. There are,
it is Kiid, 36 cotton mills in Georgia, 43 pro.
pellet by water, 2 by sleam. The tota
capital invested is $1,611,000; cost of taw
mateiial annually, $805,548; annual product)
81,636,485; bale of cotton consumed each
year, 18,244.
, Cannot Kkad an White. Accordire 0
tables made out from the schedule j
Assistant Marshall, there are he Com.
monweallh rf Virginia, ei;;h,y.three
thousand, white p?;i(0ni over Ul9 of
lwe.'iiy pne wb;rf eann0 road anj write.
f.1 in mot a .The Legislature has abolished
the use ol Latin terms in the laws of that
territory, and substituted therefor the synon
oinou Ruglish woids.
Th Sword wwa by Napoleon, at Meren.
go, has been bought by the Czarf fif ni),000
rubles (t 32,000.)
FARMNIS RKF.W.
We believe in small farms, and thorough
cultivation.
We believe that the soil loves to ont,
as its own owner, and ought to be ma
nured. We believe in large crops which leave
tho land better than tbey found it, mak
ing both tho farmer and the farm rich at
once.
We believe in going to the bottom of
things and tberofoje in deep ploughing and
enough of it. All the better with a sub-soil
plough.
We believ.o tho best fertilizer of any soil
is a spirit of industry, enterprise and intelli
gence without this lime and gypsum, bones
and preen manure, marl and guano, will be
of little use.
Wo believe in good fences, good barns,
good farm houses, good stock, pood or
chards and children enough lo gather the
fruit.
We believe in a clean kitchen, a neat wife
in it, a spinning piano, a clean cupboatd, a
clear conscience.
Wc disbelieve in farmers who will not im
prove in farms that grow poorer every year
farmer's boss turning into clerks and mer
chants in funnel ashamed of their voca
tion. The good Farmer weais mssot clothes, but
makes golden payments, having tin in his
buttons, and silver in his pockets. In his
house ho is bountiful both to strangers
nnd pnnr people. Tie seldom goes far
abroad, and bis credit stretches fnrther than
his travel, lie improveth his land to a dou
b!o value by his good husbandry. In time
of famine, ho is the Joseph of the country,
and keeps the poor from starving.
To ki-.ep Dues 1'p.om Snr.r.r. Sheep will
bo protected from being killed or in any way
molested by dogs by putting common sheep
bells upon them to every 2j sheep put on
two bells, which will make sulfieient noisu
to frighten thern, as all sheep dogs arc cow
ards, and will run away at the fust sound.
This fact has been amply tested by many
farmers around me. Some who had no belie
on their sheep, had many of them killed in
one night ; others, myself among the number
w ho had bells on their flocks, were not in
the least disturbed.
To Desthov Wkcds in Walks. Saturate
water wi'h chloride, of sodium, and pour it
boiling hot on tlio weeds. fie careful you
get the right article. It is not expensive.
You will find a description of ihis substance
in almost any chemical. We recommend
you to look for it, and satisfy yourself that
it is not
about.
a dangerous substance to have
To ci.f.as RisTr.n Iiion Wouk. Cover the
woik with oil and let it stand for live or six
hours. Then wash it on" with strong soap
suds and a good brush. The brush must be
long in the biislles. Iron work should never
be left wet any length of time.
Ei:s Mince Puis. Hoil six eggs hard, shred
them small ; double tlio quantity of suet :
then put currants washed and picked, ono
pound or more, if the eggs were large ; the
, b .ma.,,,!.. )ar,.e t0 cov..r ovur lha ej,.
, illch or Uv U1)J wi!, ; ,
becoming, when dry, inconceivably tight and
strong, and impervious lo ihe uir.
liiiKAD Omi.i.kt. Put into a stew-pan a
tea-cup of bread crumbs, a tea-cup of cream,
a spoonful of butter, with sail, pepper, nnd
tiulmeg, when tha bre.nl has absoibed the
.'cream, break in the eggs, beat ihem a littla
with the mixture, and fry like plain omelet.
I Takk thk
To TAKK
Mildkw oi'T of Links.
, Taka soaP aMl1 r"b il wel1 ,lle" ser;lP
u"w chulk mul r"b tlml ",s0 m ,ho
f e,1 la)' il 011 "10 Vra a (,rie, wut il a
little
and it will soon come out.
To Ci.fau Cotfr.i:. The Turkish manner
of clearing coffeo is very implo and without,
trouble or expense. The colieo is os clo'ir
as water. As soon as your coffee boils pouc
somo into a cup, and. fling back into tl0 uat
whereupon the grounds sink to the bo'.tom'
repeal the operation, and it will pour off a
clear as pessiblo. This simple plan was
coiumunicaied lo jour COTrcarxMdeut ly a
Turk of high rauk,
lsoN.'l0l.j DSIN A xEN.-Iiou-inonldsshould
he w ttej then laid on a hot water plate, and
"".',e essential salt of lemons put on the
I
part. If tho linen becomes ury, wet 11 aim
renew the process; observing that the plate
is kept boiling hot. Much of the powdery
sold under the name of salt of lemons is a
sputious preparation ; and, therefore, it is ne
cessary to dip the linen in a good deal of
water, and wash il as soon as ttie stain is re
moved, to prevent the part from being worn
into holes by the acid.
it you desire to bo Viser, think not your
self wise enough. fe that instiuots one that
thinks himself wise enough, hath, a foal' to
his scholar; he that think himself wise
enough lo instruct himself, halh, fool o bis
master,
Till; JKSNY LI.MI LIFT.
largo proportion of the luliis of New
Yoik have adopted the Ni :litiug:,'c's fashion
of lining Iheir hair ubove ihe temples, there
by giving the phrenologist a peep ns 'iwero
behind the curtain of some very interesting
localities.
To some ladies," says the X. Y. Mirror,
"the style is quite bcconiinc?, but to i,e ma
jority of ladies it is decidedly otherwise, giv
ing them a bold, barefaced look, reminding
one of obstinate 'cowlicks' upon ihe sides of
their foreheads."
There is another fashion, s'.ill moro trying
lo a lady's beauty. It is combing the hair
backward over tho top of the heud somehow
we are not master of lh arlislical term
if there be one. To make this at all tolera
ble, a stylo of head dilfering as widely as
possible, from Ichabod Crane's, is requisite,
and then it is nothing but a negative stylo
after all, with no particular graco to recom
mend it.
In nothing is a lady's taste, good or bad
moro evident than in tho disposition of her
hair. We have seen fine heads so tied up,
like com in a busk, and so brushed up and
braided up, 'as to givo one a painful impres
sion merely to look at them. Others again
with beautiful locks rolled up and stowed
away behind their ears, like a trooper's port
manteau on his saddle, and others still, but
no matter "handsome is, ihat handsome
does,' and it make not a hair's difference,
how one wears her hair, if she only wears
her heart in the right place. Chicago Jour.
A Si.NufLAti Car. A lady in Cambridge
(Mass.,) died on Wednesday last so the
physicians said and was laid out for burial
in her winding sheet, but from the fact that
the body still retained an apparent warmth,
though there was not the slightest appear
ance of respiration, interment was suspen
ded. On Sunday the lady opened her eves
and called to her husband, 'Albert, give "me
some water.'
A Li:soN ion tiinr.s An intelligent
gentleman of fortune, says the Bangor
Whig, visited a country vilage in Main, not
far Irotri Bangor, and was hospitably enter
tained and lodged by a gentleman" having
three daughters two of whom, in rich
dresses, entertained the distinguished stran
ger in the parlor, while one kept herself in
the kitchen, assisting her mother in prepar
ing the food and setting the ta'ile (or tea,
and after supper, in doing the work till it
was finally completed, when she also joined
her sisters in the parlor lor the remainder of
the evening. The next morning the same
daughter was again early in the kitchen,
while the other two were in the pirlor.
The gentleman, like Franklin, possessed a
discriminating mind was aclos cb-erverof
the habits of the young ladies watched an
opportunity and whispered something in
the ear of the industrious one, and then left
lor a tune, revisited the same lamilv, and in
about a year the young lady of the kitchen
was conveyed to Boston the wife of the
same gentleman visiter, where she now
presides at an elegant mansion. The gen
tleman, who.e fortune she shares, she won
by a judicious department ami well direct
ed industry. So much for an industrious
young lady.
Fitot-Ess or Caxvassim; Hams. Nine
men, in Cincinnati, a lew days ago, canvass
ed 3, 1 OS hams in nine hours. The Gazette of
that city gives the following account ol the
process :
The ham after beingsmoked, is inspected
by one individual, and passed to the paperer;
it is then folded into a sheet of slronj hard
paper, and in such a manner as to exactly
fit Ihe ham. This papering is extremely
difficult lo do as we noticed that the hands
of the individual doing (his work were worn
through the skin in places, producing now
and then drops of blood on the paper. The
ham is passed to the cutter of the canvass,,
who fits it with cotton sheiting; it is then
carried off by a boy, who places it on tho
floor in frontaof t!ie sewers. The sewers are
arranged in two lines, running parallel from
the rear of the stand where the papering
and cutting is done. The speed ai.d per
fect system with which this canvassing is
carried on, is truly remarkable, i.'ach sew
er is compelled to take the ham from the
floor, thread his needles, knot the thread,
make fine stitches, sew in a strap for tho
ham to hang by, &c. This is done with,
each ham.
Victor. Hn.o has published nothing for
P.evr rjl years, in consequence of a contract
with his publisher, who paid him a large
sum for so doing. The terms has nearly
expired, when he will at once i-tno three
volumes of poetry and twelve ot romances
entitled Misery.
Encoi racing. An exchang paper, an
nouncing the death of a gentleman out
West, says that "the deceased though a
Bank Director, it is generally believed died
a christian, and universally respected.
Cato sai,l ho had rather people would
wonder why he had no statute eiocted lo his
memory, than that lliey should inquire why
he had.
If you would never have any enemies,
never recognise any as such. Treat all as
friends, and they will ba compelled to treat.
) ou the same way.
' When I am a man," is tho poetry of
childhood ; "wueu I was young," is the poe
try of old age.
Society, like a shaded silk, must be viewr
eJ in all situations, or its color will deceive,
u- ' , . .. . .
Formality. The more polished the so
ciety is, the less formality there is in it.