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SUMHJJIY, N () liTl 1 UiM 11 E U LAN I) COUNTY, PA., SATUJIDAY, MAY lO, I 851.
OLD SEI1IES VOL. 1 I, No. 33.
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TWO lHU.t.AKS t" i. humid M 1" puid hnlf veiiiy in
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pai .
AM rtninimiratinn Ml cm on lusiut; rrlrt'intj tit
thtotlice, tujucu eoitcnti n. mint Iw I'OM' PAID,
TO CI.LL5.
Three cepies t: hiki inMrcas, f .(io
Stfwn .- U 10 no
FilWii 1 ' I' ' VUOU
I'ive il 'liars in nlvmire will rny fur tlitce year ul
Scrip in t liic AiihTu'uii.
Oni Sau.nr -f 10 lim .1 lin.ts,
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b. ii asses.,
A T T C) U N i ; V A T LAW,
EDIiEUKV, rA.
B iisinrss attended in in the Counties of Nor
thumberland, Cuiou, l.vr hi ; unii Columbia.
Krlrr Inl
P. A. A. I! ivouilt,
Lower & Barron,
Sainers Js; Snod'.Trn-'s,
Kcyim! Is. McKarland CV To.,
S'pfrittc;, Good cv Co.,
r Phil a,!.
NEW STOLE AT HOLLOWING RUN.
Al the Cross Hawk, near J. 1). Conrads,
Lenecr Ai'S'tstn.
J. IL K.UFFMAX
"OEsrEfM'Kn.l.Y informs his friends mid
the public generally, Hint he has just iccciv
ed and opened a new slock of (roods, which he
How oilers for s.ilo on Hie most reasonable terms.
His atock consisis in part nf
BJS5T UOODS.
' S'lfll AS
' Clotht, Casfimcrrs. Rultnictls, T'Icrinos, fyc.
Summer wear of all Uimls Miu'ins, CaliLoes,
A I, SO :
An asjorJimMt of Ilardw.i.-c of n'd kind, most
goiii'Mllv in ue.
AI():
nrufcrK's oi':)U Kinds,
-4s Svpiir, C'T.:e. Tea, M'lhtsus. Spirits, fa.
AI..O: Queriif w.iro and Cr.itkcry ware, a
f.jll a l.iv-nt.
AUn lias, ( 'h;.; H its, :nid Straw IIuU.
AI.O : A n s-'.ntini 'it nf .iiu.ns, viz :
Qua nry. Vum;. Wiiiskky, &:.
tJfsi.!!--! a vnrii'iy of ut!n r siriieln. nmst cencr
a'iy nvtd in w.ii'l lv fai-i-o-rs and oTlier (.t-r-
Rons, ail of Wiri.Ii l.e will m!1 to iurilia.sors at a
avin uf lf-n l' r criit. l.y e:,l!in on liii:u
.Al! kinils of pr.tdueo taUeo in cxcliar.c for
good;; ;:l the lii';!ir.-t market .r:fe.
ll jll.nviii'j Bun, April Si), 1851. tf.
eIrixg";!) i.j.Mi'-iEit clothing".
TT Ell Y1M 1 V (ilm'i'd rmhraeo this opportn-i-
n:ty 1r. Vuv ( 1,1 ) I'illMJ f ir Mm, Youth
tind Bov-s, i t Mull priif s ;.s i,ae never v. t luen
jviiowii'iu thw t iii ;i:i)ki;i: ci;i.i.-
C'IOTIUM; i:sTABI.Il!.Mi:Nr, South-l'aM
,orner of Market and heroin! Street'!. IMiihdel
ihi:i. e:nr:i',ir,i: : i:!:oice of : !u !c..t, ino.st desira
ble, an ! f.i.-diionl'V
L'Ress aiid rr.cci: coats,
JInMt (.'li'tli 1.. 1 .iiM-ii l;i!!in;r tin,, Tweeds,
Ac, Ac, tr;f.V'"r ui'.lt ; tr-!; t vaiiuly of
L'.-vs' n-.thinfr,
Ceiis'.'iiiii'j ef :.ek 'o -Is. Vo'ka .Jackets. Mon
it v J..e. A'e-' end l,oend .lai-kets made of
Tweed, I men l.t.i.liitir, t 'lolii, Alptieen, Ke.sa
?nier, Vtekin, tVe., e.
i'.iili.'ular e:ire l:is heen taken ti procure the
lieue styles for Men and Boys' Summer ('o;its,
Bn'ittiloons. Yost. &c, to wliieh lie would invite
ypeeial attention.
Fin jiishiti Tioodfi,
Cor.i'atintr ol Slnils. Storks, Handkeichiefa, &e.;
ail of Vkiueli are oili iid at the luirr.t iV ..'
,1-1
'1'
' any
oilier Clothing
IStoiC in the ni'.n.
I'.i ent v ho .li si e Both Clothing ar ear
Ticstiy iuiied to exaTiiiue liie Slu.'k.
Country Mi.ri::.iej:n a'i acceniMiodated at
very low i.Avt
ur.oiujE cut.ix.
,S'. E. Cnm r i f S' rond v Market Sts Fliila.
April 19, 1.M. tf.
TO "OVERTISERS.
en rr.vr. ''( i.iofMf.f.
tlult
General A'.lveili:bij Newspaper Ajen
It AS Tilt: AI.I.NCY
For itil p ipers cj.t e'..7.' u in the V. Siulctt.
A l)VEBT!v.!:i;s c m idwayii we their ndver
jtjtt. tisiunent.s uion pu'.i'.islicd, us In: wishes to
Keep tt regular fi!j of all pa pes he advertises in.
From his t". jieiienee with Newspaper ill adver
1iin in city and eoiintiy, adviiti-em would find
it t their iule.e.-t to consult with him upon the
suhjeet. C. l'lKKCK,
Gen. AJvrrtising Az1-, TlulUttn Untitling.
Philadelphia, Ap il 1U, IS31. ly.
NATION AIj HOTEL,
S II A M 0 K I N ,
Nortliumberland County, Pa.
rlIIE subscriber respectfully informs his friends
- mid the iiuiilic ccneially, tlmt lie has open
ed a new Hotel in the town of tshamokiii, Nor
thumberland county, on the corner of iSliamokin
nnj Commerce streets, nearly opposite to the
House lie formerly kept. He is well prepared to
accommodate his guests, and is also provided
with good tljhiiii. He trusts Ins experience,
end stru t attention to business, will induce iier
cons visiting tlx' ro' regi.m to continue the lib
eral patronage lie lias heretofore received.
' ... . WILLIAM WEAVER
Shamokin, April 1, 1850. tf.
JAMES II. MAGEE
"BttAS removed from his old .Stand, No. 118
M M Vine strett, to
fi'o. 52 Ji((ti.mi St., het'n CaVhill if Willow,
where he has constantly on Lnd,
BROWN STOUT, PORTER,
Ale iind Cider,
FOR HOMR CONSUMPTION OR SUltTlNG.
N. B. Coloring, Boltlinir, Wire and Bottles,
X mefriir, & c. r or sale as uhove.
HliitadeljdiU, April 12, 1851 ly.
Iycomin Mutual Insurance Company,
DR. J. B. MA.SSER is the local scent for the
above Insurance Company, in Nortliunilr-
lund county, ami is at all limes ready to sfTei
Insurances ugainsl fire on real or personal pro-
peny, or renewing policies lor ine same.
Kuubury, April Sti, 1851. tf.
JUSTICES' r'EE BILLS. For sale l.y
II. B. MASISEli.
Wunlmry, April SG, 1351.
81'XECT POETRY.
The Happiest Land.
THANSLATt:D rlin.M TUB CERMAM.
BY II. W
I.oN(;rt:t.i.ov.
TIump 5;it onr tlity in (jniot,
By mi hIoIi'iiim! on tin Bliine,
Four Itiili? nml lieutly fellows.
A:ol di. mi; tin; piecioiis wino.
Tiie l.-inilloril' iliiiurlilnr filloil t tie j r cups,
Aroinnl the rustic linanl ;
Then sal lliey all o calm and still,
An, I spake not oni! rui'u word.
But when llin maid departed,
A Swabian raised hia hanil,
And nieil, all hot, ami Hushed with wine,
"Long live the Swahian laud !
''The greatest kingdom upon earth
Cannot with ih it compare ;
With all the stout ami heaity men
And tlin nut-brow n maidens there. "
'H.i V cried tin- Saxnn, lanyhinsr
And dashed his beard with wine,
1 had rather live in Lapland,
Than that Swubian laud of liiini; !
'The condlie.st hind on nil the earth,
It is I ho Sa.von land !
Thete have I as tnanv maidens,
As fingers on this hand !"
' Hold your tongues ! both Swabian and
Saxon,"
A bold Bohemian cties ;
"If there's n heaven upon the earth,
In Bohemia it lies.
''There the tailor blows the flute,
And the cobbler blows the horn,
Ami the minor blows the bugle.
Over mountain gnrgn mid bourn."
And then the landlord's daughter,
l"p to heaven raised her hand,
Ami said, '-Ye may no more contend,
There lies the happiest land !:'
3, jjistovical Skctclj.
THE GOVERNOR & THE PRINTER.
a tali: or, tuvtii.
Franklin had just returned from assisting
poor Collins lo bed, when the Captain of
the vessel which had brought him to New
York, stepped uj and in a very respectful
manner put a note into his hand. Ilen
opened, not without some agitation, and
lead as follows :
'G. Hiiniett's compliments await young
Mr. Franklin, and should be glad to have
half an hour's chat with him over a glass
of wine."
'C ljurnett, said Ben, "who can that
be?"
"Why, 'tis the fiovernor," replied the
Captain with a smile; "I have just been
to see him with some letters I brought him
from Huston ; and when I told him what
a world of books you have, he expressed
curiosity to see you, and begged I would
return with you to his palace."
lien instantly s t oil" with the Captain, I
nit not without a sigh as he cast a look al
the door of the poor Collins' bed-room, to
link what an honor that wretched man had
ost for the sake of two or three gulphs of
filth v prog.
I'lie Governor's looks at the approach of
Ben, showed somewhat a disappointment.
Ii.ul, it seems, expected considerable
ntertainment from lien's conversation.
Hut his fresh and ruddy countenance show-
d lii in so mucii younger than he had
counted on, that he gave up all his pro
mised cmenaiiimeins a lost nope, lie
received Den, however, with great polite-
s, anil aller pressing on lnm a elass of
wine, took him into an adjoining room
which was his library, consisting of a large
and well chosen selection.
Seeing the pleasure which sparkled in
Hen's eyes, as he surveyed so many elegant
authors, and thought of the rich stores of
knowledge which lliey contained,Mhe Gov
ernor with a smile of complacency, as on
il young pupil ol stteuce, sjul to htm
"Hill, Mr. iranklin, I am told bv the
Captain, here, that )ou have a fine collec
tion, loo."
"Only a trunk full, sir," said Cen.
"A trunk full, sir !" replied the Gover
nor, "why w hat use can vou have for so
many books ? Young people at your age,
have seldom read beyond the tenth chanter
of Nehemiah."
"I can't boast," r-plied H.-n, "of havin"
read a gnat deal beyond that myself; but
still 1 should be sorry if I could not get a
trunk full to read every six months."
At this, the Governor, regardin;: him
with a look of surprise, said :
"xou inuat then, though 60 young, he a
scholar perhaps a teacher of the langua
ges !"
"No, sir," said Cen, "I know no lan
guage but my own."
"What, not Latin or Greek ?"
"No, sir, not a word of either."
'IV hy, don't you think them necessa-
ry !" . . , .
"I don't set myself up as a judge but I
should not suppose them necessary."
"Aye i wen i stiouia like to Hear your
reasons."
"Why, sir, I am not competent to give
reasons that may satisfy a gentleman ol
your learning, but the following are the
reasons with which I satisfy myself. I
look on language, sir, merely as arbitrary
sounds or characters, whereby men com
municate their ideas to each other. Now
I already possess a language which is capa
ble of conveying more ideas than I shall
ever acquire. Were it not wiser in me to
improve my time in sense through that one
language, than waste it in getting mere
sounds through fifty languages, even if I
could learn as many."
Here the Governor paused a moment,
though not without a little red on his
cheeks (or having put Ben and the tenth
chapter of Nelieniiah so close together. one, JUr. Franklin ; but surely it is over
Howcver. catcliitirr a new idea he look an. strained."
other start
rj - i
"Well, but my dear sir, you ccrlainly
differ from the learned world, which is,
you know, decidedly in favor of the lan
guages." "I would not wish wantonly to differ
from the learned world," said lien, "espe
cially when they maintain opinions that
seem to be founded on truth. Hut when
this is not the case, lo differ from them 1
have ever thought my duty ; and especially
since I studied Jicke."
"Locke!" cried the Governor with sur
prise, "you studied Locke?"
"Yes, sir, I studied Locke on the Un
derstanding, three years ago, when I was
thirteen !"
"You amaze me, sir. You study Locke
on the Understanding at thirteen V'
"Yes, sir, I did."
"Well, and pray at what college did
you study Locke at thirteen ? for at Cam
bridge college in old England, where I got
iny education, they never allowed the se.
nior class to sludy Locke until eighteen."
"Why, sir, it was my misfortune never
to be at college or even at grammar school,
except nine months when I was a child."
Here the Governor sprang from his seat
and staling at Hen, cried out :
"Never at college ! well, and where
where did you get your education, prav?"
"At home, sir, in a tallow chandler's
shop."
"In a tallow chandler's thop ?" scream
ed the Covernor.
"Yes, sir, my father was a poor old tal
low chandler with sixteen children, and I
was the youngest of all; at eight years ol
age he put me to school, but finding la
could not spare the money from the rest of
the children to keep me there, he took me
home in the shop, where I assisted him by
twisting the candle wicks and filling the
moulds all day, and at nieht I read by my
self. At twelve, my father bound me to
my brother, a printer, in Hoston, and then
1 worked there nil day at the case and
press, and again read by myself at night."
lb-re the Governor spanked his hands
together, and put up a loud whistle, while
his cyc-halls, wild with surprise, rolled
about in their sockets as if in a mighty
nn ml to hop out."
"Impossible, young man !" he exclaim
ed, "impossible, yon are only sounding my
credulity." Then turning to the Captain,
he said "Captain, you are an intelligent
man, and from Hoston ; pray tell me, can
Ibis young man bo aiming at anything but
to quiz me
"No, indeed, phase your excellency,"
replied the Captain, "Air. Franklin is not
quizzing you; he is saying what is really
true, for I am acquainted with his father
and family."
The Governor then turning to Hen, said,
more moderately ; "well, my dear wonder
ful boy, I ask your pardon ; anil now pray
tell me, for 1 feel a stronger desire than
ever to hear your objection to learning the
dead languages."
"Why, sir, I object lo it piincipallv on
account of the shortness of human life.
Taking them one with another, men do not
live above forty year-. Plutarch, indeed,
only puts it at thirty-three. Hut say forty.
Well, of this, ten years are lost in child
hood, before any boy think of a Latin
grammar. Tins brings the forty down to
thirty. Now ol such a moment as this to
spend five or six years to learn the dead
languages, especially when all the best
books in those language; arc translated into
ours, and besides, we have already more
books on every subject than such short
lived creatures can ever acquire, seems
very preposterous."
"Well, what are you to do with their
great poets, Virgil and Homer, for exam
ple ; I suppose you would not think, of
translating Homer out of his rich native
Greek into your p.or homespun English,
would vou f"
"Why not, sir ?"
"Whv I should as soon think of trans-
plaritinj a pine-apple from Jamaica to
Huston."
"Well, sir, a skilful gardener, with his
hot-house, would give us nearly as fine a
pine-apple as any in Jamaica. And so
Mr. Hope with his fine imagination, has
given us Homer in F.nglish, with more of
lis beauties than ordinary scholars would
find in him by forty years' study of the
Greek. And. besides, sir, if Homer were
not translated, I am far from thinking it
would he worth spending five or six years
to read bun in hn own lartguagp."
"You differ from the critics, Mr. Frank
lin, for the critics all tell us his beauties
are inimitable."
"Yes, sir, and the naturalists tell us that
the beauties of the hasjlisk are inimitable."
"The basilisk, sir! Homer compared
with the basilisk! I really don't under
stand you, sir."
"Why, I mean, sir, that as the basilisk
is the more to be dreaded from the beauti
ful skin which covers its poison, so is Ho
mer for the bright coloring he throws over
bad characters and passions. Now, as I
don't think the beauties of poetry are com
parable to thore of philanthropy, nor a
thousandth part so important to human hap
piness, i must conless I dread Homer, es
pecially as the companion of youth. The
humane and gentle virtue are certainly
the greatest charms and sweetness of life.
And I suppose, sir, you would hardly think
of sending your son to Achilles to learn
these?"
"I agree he has too much revenge in his
composition."
"Yes, sir, and when painted in the coj
ors which Homer's glowing fancy lead,
what youth but must run the most irtimi
nent risk of catching a spark ot Lad fire
Irom such a blaze as he throws upon his
pictures."
"Whv, this, thous'li an uncommon view
of the suhjeet, is, I confess, an ingenious
"Not at all, sir; we are told Irom good
authority, that it was the reading of Homer
that first put it into the head of Alexander
the Great to become a hero, and after him
of Charles NIL What millions have been
slaughtered hy these two great butchers is
not known, but still probably not a tithe
of what have perished in duels between
individuals, from pride and revenge, nursed
by reading Homer."
"Will, sir," replied the Governor, "I
never heard the prince of bards treated in
this way before. You must certainly be
singular in your charges against Horner."
"I ask your pardon, sir; 1 have the
honor lo think of Homer exactly as did the
greatest philosopher of antiquity. I mean
Plato, wlio strictly forbade the reading of
Homer in his republic. And yet Tlato
was a heathen. I don't boast myself as a
Christian ; and yet 1 am shocked at the
inconsistency of our Latin and Greek
teachers, (generally Christians and die nes
too,) who can one day put Homer into the
hands of their pupils, and in the midst ol
their recitations can stop them short, to
point out divine beauties and sublimities
which the poet gives to his hero in the
bloody work of slaughtering the poor Tro
jans ; and the next day take them to church
to a discourse Irom Christ on the blessed
ness of meekness and forgiveness. No
wonder that the hot-livered young men,
thus educated, despite meekness and for
giveness as a coward's virtues, and nothing
so glorious as fighting duels and blowing
out brains."
Here the Governor came to a pause, like
a gamester at his iast trump. Hut perceiv
ing Hen cast his eye on a splendid copy of
Pope, he suddenly seized that as a fine op
portunity to turn the conversation. So,
stepping up, he placed his hand on his
shoulder, and, in a very familiar manner,
said :
"Well, Mr. Franklin, there's nn author
I am sure you will nol quarrel with an
author that I think yon will pronounce
faultless. It would puzzle you, keen critic
as you are, to point out one."
"Well, sir," said Hen, hastily turning lo
the place," what do you think of this fa
mous couplet of Pope's
'Iiiiiti- il-st wauls ml.iiit nf nn defence
F'T want i.f ili ceat y is want ef use."
"No indeed !" replied Hen. "Why
now to my mind a man can ask no better
excuse for anything he does wrong that his
w iat of sense."
"How so !"
"Well sir, if I might presume to alter a
line in this great poet, I would do it in this
way :
-hn:n !'-st w els a-tinit nf tiih il- f. rie
I've rtuutoi .Uccjicy l waul el' Kia.s,.."
Here the Governor caught Het; in his
arms as a delighted fuller would his son,
calling out at the same time to to the cap
lain :
"How greatly I am obliged lo you, sir,
for bringing ine to acquaintance with this
charming youth! Oh, what a delightful
thing it would be for us to converse with
such a sprightly youth as he. Hut the
worst of it is, most parents are as blind as
bats to the true glory and happiness of
their children. Most parents never look
higher for their sons, than to see them
delvinz like muckworms for monev. or
hopping about like jay-birds in fine feath
ers. Hence tlu ir conversation is no better
than froth or nonsense."
Alter several other handsome compli
ments on lien, and the captain expressing
a wish to be going, the governor shook
hands with Hen, begging at the same time,
that he would forever consider him one of
his lastest friends, and also never to come
to N ew York, without coming to see hint,
A vtll.I.IOMlP. C S FEAJT.
A Paris letter gives this account of a din
ner given by Baron Biihschild to Narvaez
at which were presented only twenty cihl
giie.sts, (he flower of tho Fieneh aiislocra
cy :
In the (list place, there was the splendid
service of Sevres poreelaiue, which belonged
to the nnliirtiinute. Maiio Antoinette, sunt
w hich wa bought by KoJischihl foi 150.0f0
francs. Beside lliis enormous pi ice, he still
pays an annuity of 10. (100 francs lo the pei
sou who consented In give it up lo biin.
Hiiring the repast, iho uholo service of the
table was changed four limes, the last beiujj
of silver and gold, winked by lite most cele
bialeil artists of Europe. It uaa almost
impossible to tell by what end, by what
side, to lake hold of the thinrrs. the use of
which almost disappeared beneath the ma
terial and the woikmatisbip, both so pre
cious as lo make of most ordinary articles
veritable works of art. The knives, for
instance, were ro ornamented, so carved,
that it was quite difficult to handle them.
Ml these, riches were sent off lo London
the day after the revolution of February,
and were lbs wonder of the nobility of
England, when displayed nt a grand dinner
given to Ihe unknot w jitingion. As to
the eatables of the dinner I am deseiibing,
ihey consisted, says a reporter, of "all Iho
impossibilities of iho season, sought out
from the most celebrated hot-houses, and
hunted from the most noleJ hunting grounds
in France. Peaches, cherries, strawberries,
appeared in Iho greatest abundance at the
dessert, by the side of pino apples, which,
says the same reporter, blushed at having
cost only ono hundred fiancs a niece. Be
sides these were various rare fruits from
tropical climates in short, the luxury was
of Ihe most unheard of character, and Ihe
guesis did not rise from table until after ten
o'clock.
One ungrateful man does an ,,jury lo al
who are wretched,
From tin "Pris Vnet's Friend," for April.
Cincr.XHTANTtAl. EVIDENCE.
We know not when a more singular case
has been presented than the following from
an English paper, it shows how likely jud
ges and jurors are lo be mistaken, and how
often the innocent have been convicted :
A young genlleman, articled to an attorney
in London, was tried on five indictments for
diffeieut nets of theft. A person resembling
ihe prisoner in size and general appearance
bad called at vatious shops in the metropolis,
for the purpose of looking nt jewelry, books,
and other articles, with the pretended inten
tion of making purchases, but made olT with
tho property placed before him while the
shop-keepers were engaged in looking out
the other articles. In each nf these cases
tho prisoner was positively identified by
several persons, while in a majority of ihem
an alibi was clearly and positively establish
ed, and Ihe young man was proved lo be of
orderly habits and irreproachable character)
and under no temptation, from want of
money, lo resort lo acts of dishonesty.
Similar depredation on other tradesmen had
been committed by a person resembling Iho
piisoner, and those persons proved that,
though there was a considerable resemblance
to the piisoner, he was not the poison who
had robbed them. The prisoner was con
victed on one indictment, but acquitted on
all the others: and the judges and jurors
who irieil the three last eases expressed their
conviction, that Iho prosecutor had been rob
bed by another poison resembling tho pri
soner. A pardon was immediately ptocuien
in respect of that charge on w hich ihe con
viction hail taken place.
Not many months before ihe last mention
ed case, a respectable young man was tried
for highway robbeiy committed in Ihe neigh
bin hood of Belhnal Green, in which neigh-
rhood both he and the prosecutor resided.
The prosecutor swore positively that ihe
prisoner was ihe man who robbed him of his
watch. The counsel for the piisoner called
a genteel young woman, lo whom the pri
soner paid his adilicsses, who gave evidence
which proved a complete alibi. The prose
cutor was then ordered out of court, and in
the intctval another young man of I lie name
of Greenwood, who awaited his trial on a
capital charge of felony, was introduced, and
placed by th side of ihe prisoner.
The prosecutor was again placed in Ihe
witness box, ami addressed thus: "Remem
ber, sir, Iho life of this young man depends
upon your reply lo the question 1 am about
lo put. Will you swear again that tho
young man at ihe bar is the person who as
saulted you ?" The w itness turned towards
the dock, when, beholding two men so near
alike, he became petrified with astonish
ment, dropped hi bat, and was speechless
for a time, but at length declined swearing
to either. The young man was of course
acquitted. GieenwooJ was tried for another
offence and executed ; and a few hours be
fore his death acknowledged that he had
committed ihe robbeiy with which the other
was charged.
The Farmer.
Drive on, thou stuidy farmer,
Drive cheerfully o'er I lie field,
Tiie pleasures of a tanner's lite
No other life can yield.
Tlmu riseth with ihe morning sun
To (ill ihe fruillul eaith.
Am) when thy daily task is done,
Thou seek'st thy peaceful health.
Thou lovest not the gaudy town,
Willi its tumultuous roar,
Plenty and peace thy firesnlo crown,
And thou dost ask no mure.
Monarchs in robes with crimson dyed,
Are low compared with thee,
They are pampers, I sous of piide,
Thou url God's nobility.
Go on, lhou sturdy farmer,
Tread proudly on thy sod,
Thv proud and goodly henuige,
'i'buu chosen sou ol God !
'Cousin William,' said a merry, mischie
vous yung girl, .'w hat do you think 1 heaid
a prelty lass say of you ?'
'I don't know something good, I hope.
What was it, coz ?'
'Sha'u'l tell you ! but it's ihe truth a
very prelly girl did say something about
you.'
'Well, tell mo what it was.'
'I bha'u'l unless you will give me that
annual that you buughl.'
'Well, agreed you shall have il now
tell me.'
'Well, now don't Hush so she said you
were the ugliest looking man she ever laid
eyes on '.'
Beoin Early. Sir Tvoburl Peel's father
lelermiued to bring up his son expressly for
Ihe (louse of Commons.' When quite
chilit he would frequently sot him on a la
ble, and promise him a cherry if he would
make a speech. The applause that followed
his efforts stimulated exertion, ao that
before he was ten yeais old he could address
company with some degrco of eloquence.
As he grew up, his father made him repeat
every Sunday, as well as ha coulJ, th
sermon which had been preached, by which
his habit of attention grew powerful.
'Are you fond of novels, Mr. Jones V
Very,' responded the interrogated gentle
man who wished to be thought by the lady
questioner fond of literature.
'Have yon, continued tbj inquisitive laJy,
'ever re rtlJ TBI, Thousand a Year V '
'No madam I never lead that many nov
els in all my life.'
A GOOD STORY.
A young American gentleman, a Mr.
P , who is visiting Paris, wiih tho
"old folks," went lo ihe masked ball to see
tho elephant and to have some fun. His
great desire was to meet an angel of the
fair sex. He first looked all around, waiting
to make a decision the moment he should
find a fine waist and small feet. These
beauties he discovered in a domino of small
figure, who took his arm and began to intri
gue wiih him. The lady told him his name
the city of Ihe United States from which ho
was, and after all these pteliminaries, she
related to him many filling excursions which
he had made last year at Saratoga and at
Newport. All these things, whispered in
good English, were puzzling to Mr. P. ; and
in order lo find out who was his fair com
panion, he invited hor to supper in a private
cabinet. The lady at first refused ; but af
ter some lime, she consented, and the cou
ple started in a carriage for the well known
restaurant of Vachetle where all the Ameri
cans take their meals. A cabinet was open"
ed, Ihe final petit sonper was ordered, and
when lliey came lo eat, the lady was obli
ged to take off her mask, M:. P. discovered
her who ? Guess it. You give il
up f les. Nio was his mother! The
romance was over, and he took the joke the
best way ho could. Mrs. P. is one of the
prettiest American ladies in Paris, and no
ono, when lookinn at her, coiisideiiiiir Ihe
reshness of her complexion and the beauty
of her charms, would suppose that bhe had a
sou twenty-three years old.
WIFE MISTHISS LADY.
Translated from the German for the AT. Y.
Evening Mirror.
Who marries for love takes a wife ; who
for the sake of convenience, tales a mistress;
ho marries from consideration, takes a
uly. You are loved by your wife, regarded
by your mistress, tolerated by your ludy.
on have a wife for yourself, a mistress for
our house and its friends, a lady for the
otld. Your wife will agree with you, your
mistress will accommodate you, your lady
rill manage you. Your wife will lake care
f your household, your mistress of your
house, your lady of appearances. If you are
sick, your wife will nurse you, your mistress
ill visit. you, and your lady will inquire af
ter your health. You lake a walk with your
ifc, a ride with your mistress, and join par
ties wild your lady. Your wife will share
our grief, your tnistrccs your money, ami
your lady your debts. If you are dead, your
wife will shed tears, your mistress lament,
and your lady wear mourning. A year after
our death marries again your wife, in six
months your mistress, ami in six weeks or
sooner, when mourning is over, your lady.
Di RAniLiTY or Wood. The piles under
ihe London Bridge havo been driven 500
years, and upon examining them in 184fi
lliey were found to be little decayed. They
are principally elm. Old Savoy Place, in
the city of Loudon, was buill 950 years ago,
and the wooden piles consisting of oak, elm,
beech, and chestnut were found upon re
cent examination to be perfectly sound. Of
ihe durability of timber in a wet state, the
piles of the bridges built by Emperor Trajan
over ihe Danube afford a striking example.
One of these piles was taken up, and found
to be pertified lo ihe depth of of an inch ;
but Ihe rest of the wood was not different
from its former state, though it had been
Iriven 1,600 years.
Hideous Fashion. There are lew wo
men handsome enough to stand the present
little bonnets, which arc placed on the lop
of the head, and look as if ihey wero about
to fall off behind. They are of the lopback
order, and make the woman look as hideous
as Chinese and as brazin as ihe Colossus of
Rhodes. Truly does the N'fic Yorker say
that Fashion, at this precise epoch of the
Chrislain era, with both male ami female
exquisites and with shades of difference
the same may be said of all who pretend lo
style is untasteful, vulgar, filthy, or ridicu
lous : a mere concoction of tailors ami
millinets, etc., who must get up some
lliing new monthly or quaiteily, to keep
their trade good and involve vanity in ex
travagances.
Read this. George Thompson says in
one of his Canadian speeches :
"I do not believe there is one ministers in
the United States who believes what he
says. I know enough of ministers in lhat
countiy lo believe that ihey preach wilfully
and designedly what iho know to be false !
These men deliberately go lo their closets,
and for purely political ami pro-slavery pur
poses, write sermons for Ihe Sabbaih day
which Ihey all the while know to be palpa
bly and damnably untrue ! !''
When people are laiJ up with Ihe rheu
matism, always press them to come over
and take lea with you. While such acts of
kindness entail no expense on your pocket
book, they procure for you a largo reputa
tion for sympathy and neighborly kinduesj
Willi proper discrimination, there is nothing
that pays a better profit than "guodiiCM of
heurl."
A Faimer in the neighborhood of Paisley,
Scotland, slates that, by palling gailio in
the bollom of hi grain stack b,e has for
some years past kept them fiee fiom rats oi
mioe. The garlio placed at a sufficient dis
tance from the corn to prevent its imparting
a Auvur,
IM NEW
ENGLAND.
An instance of Yankee shrewdness has
recently come lo my knowledge, which
well illustrates the advantages of knowing
something on this subject. In the sp, ig of
1846, a Mr. W. was engaged in grafting ap.
pie trees in various parts of Rockingham
county, and among Ihe rest, grafted enough
lo amount to about twelve dollars, for Mr.
R., of Braintree, upon an old orchard of na
tural fruit consisting of about one hundred
trees. Mr. R. thought it lather extravagant
lo expend so much in an experiment so
hopeless, und W. finally proposed Ihat hn
would go on in subsequent ye.s, and graft
as many of Ihe old trees as he choose, do
the necessary pruning, ami receive for his
pay ono half the fruit that should grow on
bis grafts during the next twelve years, and
R should cultivate Ihe land among them,
for bis own profit. This was considered a
very liberal proposition, anil al once accept
ed, and the contract was reduced lo writing,
and executed. I happened lo be nt Brent
woml during the past autumn, just after W.
had called for his share of ihe fruit, and
learned that the scions get in 1346, for sel
ling which, he bad charged twelve dollars,
produced si.rtccn larrcla of maiketable Bald
win Apples, worth twenty four dollars. Mr.
R had become so far convinced of his mis
take, that he offered W. one hundred dollars
to release his interest in the orchard which
W. promptly declined. I soon afterwards
met W. and conversed with him on Ihe sub
ject, and he said that so fur from releasing
his interest in the contract, for that sum, he
would not sell his share of the finit for one
year, for that amount, and allow tho purcha
ser to choose it out ol the term.
lie has now grafted most of the trees with
the Baldwin Apple, and thinks he shall get
more than a hundred dollars a year, in each
of tho even years of the last half of his
term. Tim even year is, as yon well know,
the bearing year for ihe Baldwin, throughout
New F.iiglaiid. Mr. R. further informs me
lhat be has made many similar contracts in
the neighborhood, and has acquired .in in
terest in about one thousand ttees ; that his
share of apples, grown on land of other peo
ple Iho last fall, was ninety barrels, and lhat
none of ihe scions which produced were set
prior to 1845. Ho graftd ono tree in 1844,
which produced in 1 R50 six barrels of fruit,
and ho knows fifty trees which this year
piodnced ton barrels each, worth in all,
S750. Vermont Chronicle.
IIe.uitrknijINi; Tkaoedy. All affray oc
curred at Greensboro', Ala., on the 11th
iust. The parties engaged in it weio Mr.
Elisha W. Harris, Dr. Plait doom, and Mr.
Tleasant May. Mr. Harris was killed. Dr.
Croom was shot, we learn, in both arms, and
one shoulder his wounds, however, are not
considered dangerous. May was also badly
though not dangerously wounded. Some
six or eight pistol shots were fired, and the
wonder is that all three of Iho parlies were
not killed. The fighting was commenced
near Ihe Post-office door, and was continued
across the street to ihe old Mansion House,
where Mr, Harris received a bowie-knife
wound, inflicted, we understand, by Dr.
Croom, which caused his death almost in
stantaneously. The affair had its origin in
a disagreement between Mr. Harris, and
Dr. Cioom, in regard to a fence boundary.
Tug Mining Register says that one of
Page's Circular Saws has recently been
erected on the property of the Farmer's
Bank of Reading and iho estate of S. Gris
com, near Lewcllyn, in Schuylkill county.
For culling limber il exceeds any other
mill in Ibis part of the country. Upon trial
of ordinary speed, it has sawed a cut through
a 35 feel pine log in one minute. On ano
ther trial, a log 12 feet long was sawed in
five minutes, making 12 boards 125 feet.
This mill will cut limber, pine, oak, and
hemlock, to iho length of 50 feet.
It has been said that Napoleon never in
dulged in more than six houi'a sleep. A
pocl has said :
Nuture requires live,
Custom gives seven !
IjizineM lakes nine,
And Wickednesi eleven 1
A French Woik recently published con.
tains an interesting account of ihe rage for
gaming at the Court of Louis XIV. Madumt
de Montespaii was in tho habit uf losing
$70 or 830,000. She once bet 200.000
upon three cards and won. On one Christ
mas eve she lost about f 600,000. A cour
tier named Dargeau had such knowledge of
Algebra, that he calculated the chances du
ring the schuffling of ihe cards, and often
wou enormous sums by it. .
A Movstrk Ballon. Mr. Wise, the
great American reronaut and distinguished)
author on the art of balloon, has now in,
preparation a monster balloon, holding fifty
thousand cubio fwet of gas, and capable of
carrying up sixteen persons of one hundred
and fifty pounds each. He expvel to have.
il ready fur ascension from this city about
Ihe 1st of June, Speaking of balloon. .
inindd lhat next wMk an ascension is la
be madii in this city by Mr. Pusey. Ltd,
S'l- , rr
Tut Late Aerial Yoyage of Ihe Puke of
Brunswick cost hi IiigUneu pot lea than
100u. ills expenditure during eight days'
resilience at Hasting exceeded 400, net,
withstanding the assumption of the humbly
incognito of Smith..
"l" ABOUT ORCHARDS