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S. B. IASSE?,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BUNDUHY, PA.
Business attended to in the Counties of Nor
thumberland, Union, Lycoming ami Columbia,
liefer tot
P. & A. Unvoildt,
I.uwrr & 13 a mm.
Somen ec Snnilarnss,
Reynolds, McKarlmul & Co.,
ISpcring, (iood & Co.,
y r hit ml.
NEW STORE AT HOLLOWING RUN.
At the Cross Roads, near J. I). Courads,
Loircr Anausln.
J. 15. KAl I'KUAX
RESPECTFULLY informs his friend anil
the public generally, that be has just receiv
ed and opened a new stocjj ol" goods, which be
now offers lor sab- on the most reasonable terms.
His stock consists in part nt'
MOM AS
'.'inlht, Oissimercs, Snltuielts, Meriiios, &'c.
"Mer ueir of nil kinds Muslins, Calicoes,
Ciiiidiitins. Checks, &c.
Al.st):
.',1 assortment of Hardware nf all kinds, most
poiu-r l'v in use.
Al.st):
(.poetries of till Kinds.
.! Siipiir, Coffee. Ti-ii, Moltifscs, Spiriitt, iVc.
ALSO: Qnccnsware and Croikery ware, u
'.'ill! assoittnenl.
Ui Silk Hats, Cbiii Hats, and Straw Hats.
ALSO : An assortment of Liquors, viz:
BllAMIY. Wini:, Wiiiskkv, &e.
liesides a variety of oilier articles, most gener
ally used and in want by farmers and other per
sons, all of which be will sell lo purchasers at a
saving often per cenl. by calling on him.
All kinds of produce taken in exchange for
goods at the highest market price.
Hollowing Kun, April '(i, 1S31. tf.
SPRINGAEDSTJHMEir CLOTHING.
EYKUYBODY slioiild embrace this opportu
nitv to l-ny ( ' I .OTill.N (! for Men, Youth
and liovs, at such prices as have never vet hecu
known 'in this Cite, at GF.ObMJK C'ULI.N'S
CLOTHING HsTAlll.lsll.M KNT, t-oiilh-lhtst
Comer of .Market and Second Streets. Philadel
phia, embracing a choice of the best, most desira- I
ble, and fashionable.
DRE33 AND FROCK COATS,
Habit (.'loth do., Linen Drilling do., Tweeds,
&(.'., &e., togellier with a grent variety of
Eoys' Clothing',
Consisting of Sack Coats, Polka Jae..ls, Mou
kev Jackets, Vests and Konnd Jackets made of
Tweed, Linen Drilling, Cloth, Alpacca, Kersa
mier, Doeskin, &e., eVe,
Particular care has been taken to procure the
new styles for Men and liovs' Summer fonts,
Pantaloons. Vests, eve., to which he would invite
special attention.
Furnishing Goods,
Consisting of Shirts. Slocks, Handkerchiefs, cVe.;
nil of which are offered at the luwr.st Vusihlr
tush l'ri-cts, nod as cheap as any other Clothing
btorc ill the Union.
Parents who desire liovs' Clotiiimi arc ear
nestly invited to examine the Stock.
Country Storekeepers can be accommodated at
very low rates.
(iEOUCE CULIN.
S. E. Comer of Second c MarUt Sis 1'hila.
April l'J, lfi3i. tf.
Teas ! Cheaper than Ever! ! !
100 Half Chests Ruse Flavor Black Tea,
15 " " Olono; "
15 " " Nine; Yon?; "
FiHESE Teas are better tor the price than
were ever ollered before in Philadelphia, es
pecially the liosc Flavor, which is of the very
best quality and finest flavor, and families that
Want a Half Chest or less hy sending soon will
net a first rate artrcle at a very low price. They
will be well packed up and sent to Depot or ears
ireo of charge. DAVID PEAsE,
Tea Dealer and (irocer,
S. V. Cor. Cth & Arch Sts.
Philadelphia.
May 10, 1851. 3mo.
NATIONAL HOTEL,
SHAMOKIN,
Northumberland County, Pa.
THE subserilier respectfully informs his f iends
and the public generally, that be has open
ed a new Hotel in the town of Sbainokin, Nor
thumberland county, on the corner of Sliamokiu
and Commerce streets, nearly opposite to the
House he formerly kept. He is well prepared to
accommodate bis guests, and is also provided
with good stabling. He trusts his experience,
and strict attention to business, will induce per
fcous visiting the coal region to continue the lib
end nulronage he has heretofore received.
1 WILLIAM WEAVEK.
Sbainokin, April VJ, IH.t tf.
JAM ES J 1 M A( i K E
Fi CAS removed from his old Stuud, No. 11S
fifi Vine street, to
A'o. 52 Dillwyn St., (bct'n CaYhill Sf Il'itow.)
where he has constantly on hand,
BROWN STOUT, PORTER,
Ale mul Cider,
FOR HOME CONSUMPTION Oft SHUTING.
M. B. Coloring. Bottling, Wire and Bottles,
Vinegar, Ac. r or sale ua ahove.
Philadelphia, April 18, 1X51. ly.
Lycoming Mutual Insurance Company
rv It. I. B. MASHER is the local agent for the
XJ above Insurance Company, in .Northuiulier
land county, and is at all times ready to direct
Insurances against fire on real or personal pro
perty, or renewing; policies lor the same.
Kunhury, April !it, IS31. tf.
""llUSTICES' FEE BILLS. For sale by
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SELECT POETRY.
Tho Bachelor'3 Lament.
They loll mo to hasten, and marry
But ah ! 'tis Ihi' cost that 1 fear ;
Anil piuili'iioo still warns me to tarry,
Kru seeking uiiiusfint'iil so dour.
Oh ; there' rapture untneasitrpil in wooing;,
Ami sweet the eoiifiHiiiin when won:
But the house-keeping horrors, pursuing,
Are suro lo make sentiment run.
Tints I mined t:o!her tiiaht, as fair Chloe
Swam round in u; dance by my side:
I must furnish that wardmlie so sliuwy,
If rashly I make her my biide.
Thai slim, fairy foob and ils fellow,
That tread tin light meiisme so nay,
Must with saliu be shod, and prunella,
And husband the piper must pay.
At a "liuioe of that anele so slender
My heart the dear bargain would close;
When my head bids me, ere I surrender,
Kemember the price of the hoso.
That hand so desired beyond measure,
The suitor, that venture to hold,
Can only secure siudi a treasure
By hooping the linyers with gold.
These eyes, though their vi.-ion surpasses
The eagle's that pierce, the light,
Must be uiihd with opera glasses,
Howe'er they enibanass the sight.
Though made up of roses thy face is,
Such roses bloom not in the sun ; t
We must veil them in thu best of point
laces,
Or freckles will soon overrun.
Sweetest mouth that e'er smiled upon mor
ul, Hides organs of hunger within ;
An. I dainties must pass the ted portal,
Or soon cherry lips will grow thin.
Ah ! that cliaims so desired by a lover
Have duties so costly assigned
That the peails, which thy smiles now un
cover, The choice of the rnaiket must grind !
Thy form richest fabrics must cumber
Will) many a garment of show ;
And Willi doubtless ol olhers a number
That bachelors never may know. '
Thy brow, the fair temple w here towers
llii'li honor in marble enshrined,
Must be thatched with sliaw, leathers, and
(lowers,
To keep out the sun and the wind.
Thy care must be constantly petting
With rarest cosmetics thy lace
Thv nose, be indulged in eoijuelling
Willi 'kerchiefs bewildered with lace.
Those tresses, ensnaring allures us,
With lillets of gol.l must we bind;
Thy ears must be fed with btavuras,
And hung with the jewels of hid.
Strange ! that man should embellish a
ci eat u re
Ahendy inure fail than the morn ;
That the being most gifted by Nature
Is the one we most love to udoiu.
Why was Eden so pleasant to Adam
So rid of connubial ills ?
Because his ingenuous madam
Ne'er bored him with milliners' bills.
No bonnets had she for her tresses
No silks did her person enroll :
So cheap were her costliest drrsses,
For a fig one hud purchased the whole.
Ah ! that was llie season to marry,
Kie fashion made women her thrall,
ller trumpery garments to carry
Yes ! clothes are the curse of the fall.
-I Select (talc.
OLD MAIDS.
OR, A MIVI'Aki: A1MIIT 31 Alt It I V(. I.'
BY" 51US. K. II. HAM..
Wiirc.v I was a little girl, I was a fat,
merry, "i'y iinmplin:, as linppy as the j
day was Ion.;. Kveiy body pim-hed my j
red cheeks, and I waddhd about w ith my
doll in my plump arms, finding- fun in eve
ry tliiiijr, and fully believing; that my lull
was as sensible as myself; anil perhaps she
wa?, almost. Hut, though I had a natural
antipathy to a spell'mrr-book, and no fond
ness for spending; a long summer's after
noon in poking a needle in an out of a bit
of calico, though I coi sicleied patchwork
all foolishness, and guests as utter superflui
ties, though I was called a simpleton for
asking my mother why she cut cloth up
and then sewed it together again, still. 1
was fond of picking up ideas alter my own
fashion. When the wise people around
me supposed I was thinking of nolhing but
my play, my two little cars were open to
everv worn spoken in my hearing. And
many was the word impressed on my me-
moiy winch the speaker lorgot next mo
ment. The talk aruiinJ me was my real
education, as it is of all children, send
them to what school you may.
U lien 1 was ten years old, I had one
sister aged, fifteen, ami another seventeen ;
and, as usual with gt of that age, they
had a set ol cronies, some very like and
some quite unlike them in character. One
afternoon, as 1 was tending my doll Ophe
lia, who was sick in bed, 1 heard a brisk
discussion among these girls, which, I may
almost say, decided my fate lor life.
The first words that caught my attention
came from an animated, romantic o-irl of
sixteen; scolding because the heroine of a
novel she had just read was left unmarried
at the end of the story. What surprise
was expressed at this catastrophe! what
indignation!
One of my sisters did not Reem to sym
pathise with this burst of disapprobation,
and then came the pithy question, "What!
would you be willing to die an old maid 1"
Mary said very quietly, "Yes ;" and sister
Ellen added, "So would I !"
Then such looks of amazement and in
credulity. "You can't mean what you
say," cried one. "II I did not know you
too well to think you a hypocrite, " said
another. "Why, it was meant that all
women should be married !" exclaimed a
third, "Then why are they not all mar
ried ?" asked Alary, with her usual simpli
city. Eager and hot grew the controversy,
and I lost not a word, while Ophelia lay
flat on lu r hack, her still kid arms sticking
out, and her croup quite forgotten. Then
first did I take notice of that terrible com
bination of monosyllables, "Old Maid."
In how many different tones of contempt,
dread, and deprecation, did I hear it utter
ed by those juvenile voices! What anec
dotes came forth about cross old maid?, and
fidget ty old maids, and ugly, and dressy,
and learned, and pious, and flirting, mid
mischief-making, old maids. Never did a
bevy of regular filly-year-old spinsters ut
ter so much scandal in one afternoon as
was poured forth by these blooming young
creatures. Two or three friends of my
mother whom I had always cherished in
my innocent affections, because they talk
ed so pleasantly and were so kind to me,
now appeared like new personages. "Miss
Z. was so ugly, she never could have had
an offer :" "Miss Y. dressed so shabby,
and wore green spectacles, to look litera
ry." And "Miss X. was for ever talking
about Sunday-school and society meetings,"
and so on.
You may be sure that the next time these
ladies came to our house, I scanned very
closely the face of Miss Y., a face that I
had always loved before; but now I saw
that it was exceedingly plain. I looked
hard at Miss Y.'s drab-colored bonnet and
shawl, perceived that they were old fash
ioned and ordinary, and that her green
spectacles looked pedantic. Then Miss
Y., beside whom I had always squeezed in
upon the sola, encouraged by her kindly
smile and delighted with her conservation
how uninteresting she had become !
They were all tUl vvi'nh .'
It must be observed that my sisters
right good, sensible, domestic girls thev
were bad no part in this bewilderment of
my young ideas. They were in the min
ority, so I took it for granted thev were in
the wrong. )3esides, what children are
ever as much influenced by what is utter
ed in the familiar voices of.their own fami
ly, as by words of comparative strangers?
Take care of what you say at a friend's
house, with the young folks catching up
every random sentiment you drop. Many
a judicious mother's morning exortalion has
been blown to the moon by some light re
mark from a dinner guest, who did net, af
ter all, mean to give his real opinion, or
whose opinion was not worth having.
And now, I assure you my education
went on rapidly. It is perfectly marvel
ous, in how many ways, and by what dif
ferent sorts of people, a young girl is taught
that it is a terrible thing to be an old maid.
Eools never show their folly more than in
their hackneyed jests upon this topic ; but
what shall we say of the wise folks w ho
sin almost as often in the same way ! What
shall we say of the refinement of him who
is gentlemanly in thought and expression
on all subjects but this .' of the humanity
and chivalry of him who assails the de
fenceless? of the justice of him who tax
es a class with the laulls of individuals, and
wounds with that meanest of weapons, a
sneer? or of the t'ln istianity of him who
indirectly censures and ridicules one of the
arrangements of Providence !
1 learned my lesson thoroughly, for it
came to me in some shape every week. 1
read it in every novel and newspaper, and
heard it from every lip. The wry men
who spoke truth and sense on the subject,
sometimes neutralised it by an idle jest in
some moment of levity, and the jest drove
out the truth from my young heart. At
eighteen, I lived only for the ignoble pur
pose 1 cannot bear to say of getting
married : but what could have been the
ruling wish of one who had been taught
by society to dread celibacy worse than
death? 1 dare say I betrayed it in the
ball-room, in the street, everywhere. 1
dare say 1 was duly laughed at.
At last, quaking on the verge of six and
twenty, 1 had an oiler; a most absurd
one. 1 was si years older than my lover,
had ten limes as much sense probably ex
cept on one point. I knew that as he was
"rather wild," as the gentle phrase goes in
short, I neither loved nor respected him;
but I was willing to marry him, because
then I would be Mrs. Somebody, and
should lwl be an old maid.
My parents said "No," positively. Of
course 1 thought tbein unreasonable and j
cruel, and made myself very miserable.
Still it was something to have had "an of
fer" of any kind, and my lips were not
hermetically sealed. 1 had several confi
dantes, who took care that all my acquain
tances should know the comfortable fact
that I had refus. d Mr. S.
I went on with increasing uneasiness a
few years longer, not seeking how to be
useful, or trying to find out for what good
purpose I was made. Neither was I look
ing for a companion who could sympathise
with my better aspirations and elevate my
whole character, for I had no right view's
of marriage. I was simply gazing about in
anxious suspense upon every unmarried
man of my acquaintance, for one who
would lift me out of that dismal Valley of
Humiliation into which I felt myself de
scending. Had I met Apollyoti himself
there with thu question on his lips, I be
lieve I should have said "Yes."
At thirty-six I wore more pink ribands
than ever, was seen everywhere that a re
spectable woman could go, wondered why
girls went into company so young, found I
was growing sharp-faced, and sharp-spoken,
and was becoming old maidish in the
worst sense of the word, because 1 was an
old maid against my will. I forgot that
voluntary celibacy never affects the tem
per.
My sisters, be it remembered, were old
er than 1. They, too, were single. But
they had lived more domestic lives than 1,
had read fewer works of fiction, had been
cultivating their own natures, and seeking
to make everybody around them happy.
And everybody reverenced them, and lov
ed to look upon their open, pleasant coun
tenances I mean everybody worth pleas
ing and they Were very happy.
At last our good parents died, and left
each of us a little independence. Within
a year 1 was married.
I was married for my money. That
was ten years ago, and they have been ten
years of purgatory.
I have had had luck as a wife, for my
husband and I have scarcely one taste in
common, lie wishes lo live in the coun
try, which I hate. I like the thermome
ter at ?.") (leg., which he hates. lie likes
to have the children brought up at home
instead of scNoul, which I hate. 1 like
music, and want to go to concerts, which
ho bales. There is but one thing which
we both like, and that is what we cannot
both have, though we are always trying
for it the last word.
I have had bad luck as a mother, for two
such huge, selfish, passionate, unmanage
able boys never tormented a feeble woman
since boys began. 1 wish I bad called
them both Cain. At this moment they
have just quarrelled over their marbles.
Mortimer has torn off Orville's collar, and
Orville has applied his coltlike heel to
Mortimer's ribs ; while the baby, Zenohia,
in my lap, who never sleeps more than
half an hour at a time, and cries all the
time she is awake, has been roused by their
din to scream in chorus.
I have had bad luck as a housekeeper,
for I never kept even a chambermaid more
than three weeks. And as lo conks, I look
back bewildered on the long phantasmago
ria of faces flitting stormily through my
kitchen, as a mariner remembers a rapid
succession of thiindergusts and hurricanes
in the ('ulf of Mexico. My new chamber
maid bounced out of the room yesterday,
flirting her duster, and muttering, "Real
old maid, after all !" just because I showed
her a table on which I could write "slut,"
with my linger, in the dust.
I never see my plump, happy sisters,
and then glance in the mirror at my own
cadaverous, long, doleful i.-age, without
wishing myself an old maid. 1 do it every
day of my life.
Yet half of my sex marry as I did ; not
for love, but for fear! for fear of dying
old maids.
They have their reward. And they
whose idle tongues create this mischievous
fear, and thus make so much domestic mis
ery, have their responsibility.
DFATtl IN r.VIUS OF It O VAT. 1) AVCIITMl
of nit; mix. 1 1. it i i:.
The Princes Aline d'F.idir. a royal daugh
ter of the- Mogul life, expired in Paris on
Wednesday week, at the advanced age of SO.
Iioin in Delhi, in the Imperial Palace, her
childhood was siii reiinded with nil the splen
dor of Eastern sovereignty. Being one day
at play upon a terrace of the palace garden,
which nvei bung the liver, she slipped from
the embankment, and fell in. Carried by
the swiftness of the tide soon beyond leach,
she was mourned by her family as lust. She
was, however, picked up by lishermeii, w ho
at sight of her rich attire, nint llie jewels
with which she was adorned immediately sei
zed her as their prize and bore l er oil' to
Chaiidernngor, where she was given into the
bands of the French to be held as hostage to
secnie tho neutrality of her relatives in ihe
war then going on between tho French and
F.nglish. Meaewhile, tin- recall of the Cap.
tain liotichaud do Lafonlaine, to u hum she
h.i been conli.led, caused her to bo brought
to France, where every honor was paid lo
her, and eveiy eaie taken of her education.
She was taken to coint, an became an espe
cial lavoiite 01 ..Marie A uloiuetle, muter
whose auspices she was placed in the Con- j
vent of Mount Calvaiv, and where she was
baptised, the whole couU, with the kii:g and
queen, assisting, in state, at thu ceremony.
During the 1'ioign of Terror, she was im
prisoned for daring to belong to an aristo
cratic race, and condemned to be guillotined,
having bad her hair already cut for the pur
pose, when the overthrow of Robespieire
restored her lo life and liberty once more.
The Eiupiefs Josephine took especial de
light in her society, and Napoleon would of
ten pla fully declare his inlentiju of pro
ceeding through Egypt lo the eoinie.esi of
India, for the express purpose of placing- her
on the throne of her uucestots. On the res.
toralion of the Bourbon, when intercourse
was re-established with the East, a p"iiiion
was presented lo Louis N.YIII., fur iri'iuquiry
into the existence of her family. The result
of this inquiry w-as 'lie arrival in Paris
nf the Sheik Ooulum-Mouhi Oud Din. sent
by Fei iaz Alii Khad, wilh express commis
sion to claim her at ihe hands of tho French
king, and bring her back with royal honor
to Delhi. But hero arose mi unexpected
dilliculty. The religion tho piolessed, and
in which she had been brought up, pieclu.b d
all Idea of her ever being udinitled back a
a member of her family. In vain was eve
ry promise, every inducement held out ;
nay, every threat resorted to, in order to oh
tain even a resemblance of change. Her
high soul rejected with scorn tho most allur
ing temptations and she prefuned to live in
the poverty and obscurity lo which both
England and Franco with the basest mean
ness und injustice, had condemned her, la
ther limn swerve from the Chrislain failh.
Tho East India Company, whose spoil her
rich heritage has become, has slithered her
to die without one single manifestation of in
terest. -Mus.
Elkvi:n chuich edifices
elected in Cincinnati
A IILMI WO OUT A-l-'SIIINU.
One of the little restaurants of Asniercs,
so frequented when in good order during
the summer months, was, on one of the
last Sundays of May, tlu theatre of a scene
w'hic.h seems copied almost from one of the
Parisian vaudevilles. Asniercs is a small
village on the Seine, some ten or twelve
miles from Paris, on the road to St. Ger
main, and is celebrated fur its fetes and
merry gatherings. It may here be stated
that Orleans is in fin opposite direction
from Paris. Hut to the story :
M. D , a retired merchant, lately
married to a young, amiable, rich, and
beautiful lady,slill found himself not com
pletely happy ; so true it is that perfect
happiness is not found in this world.
M. j) , under his calm and contented
inein, conceived a passion, of which wo
man was not the object, but which was not
on that account less honorable a passion
for fishing !
He concealed it, because his wife hav
ing a horror of it, had expressed it to him
before her marriage, to which naturally
M. ) , in his quality of suitor had an
swered, protesting his abhoience for such
exercise, if it is abowable lo call fishing by
that name.
AI. J) bad relied too much on his
s'rength for extinguishing his aquatic pas
sion in that more ardent one which led to
marriage he resisted a long time the al
lurements of Ihe tackle which chanced lo
meet his eye. Finally, he one day hap
pened to mpet one of hi.; old friends with
whom he had often gone, furnished with
pole and line, to Asniercs.
This friend so vividly awakened his re
collection, so victoriously overcame his
scruples, that the following was arranged :
M. D was lo pretend he had to go
on business to Orleans, anil instead, merely
go to his friend's house, from whence they
would depart, fully armed and equipped
as of old, for Asniercs. That evening M.
D was to sleep at his friend's house,
ami returning Monday morning, as though
he absolutely had come from Orleans.
So said so done and our two friends sat
themselves down on Sunday last on the
banks ol the island, nearest the bridge of
Asniercs, holding majestically their lines
in the water, w hen all of a sudden, M. D
, casting a glance on the opposite
batik, uttered an exclamation, and his line
lell from his hands. He saw his wife on
the arm of a gentleman, promenading.
His friend biting his lips, leigned not to
recognize Madame I) , but the hus
band had no doubt of it, and the passion for
fishing, which an inslant ago had been up
permost, now changed immediately into !
one for his wife.
To his friend's great displeasure, bo j
went lo seek a boat to cross the Seine.
When they touched the shore, Madame D !
and the gentlemen who accompanied j
her, entered the little restaurant ol which
we made mention, and had ordered rcfrosh
mens, in a little room fronting on the wa
ter. M. D made a sign, and in a state
of agitation which those experienced even
in a love of fishing can appreciate, pre
sented himself, suddenly followed by his
j friend, in the room in question. He com
menced by exclaiming loudly and no one
knows what leni'th he would have pro
ceeded if a word from his wife had not pa
cified him.
"My dear husband, let me introduce my
brother, who arrived yesterday from Eng
land, and whom you have not met. And
now will you be kind enough to inform
me when Asniercs changed its name to
Orleans?"
One may imagine Mr. D s confu
sion, inasmuch as the scene had drawn a
number of witnesses. I!ut after the first
minute, lie toou me ining piear-amiy, reia- ns, .iliiiougli lie lnul a most singular and un
tod every thing himself, confessed his fault, j accountable mode of expiessing himself.
timling himsell veiy happv since lus wile
had not, like him, been out a fishing.
a r nx'ri coritT st i;m:.
In the trial of Day, at Washington, for the
murder nf liis wife, in detailing the particu
lars of her daughter's death, the mother
said :
'Before I could get down to the outer
door he had run her into the house, r.ud had
shut h"r once. My little daughter run to
me ami said, 'Mother, John has shot Kate.'
I said, -Oh, no, my (Jod, I hope he has not
shot my poor child !' In an instant, and
before 1 could reach her, I heard the pistol
go oil again. I humd my daughter lying at
the door ; she looked me in the face and
said, 'Mother, John has given tno my last
blow.' 1 looked her in llie face and said,
Daughter, I think he has, from your appear
ance.' 1 raised her up against my breast ;
she assisted herself lo raise her head to my
breast. A couple of gentlemen and JIis.
Lamb came in, and we four took her into a
back room and laid her on llie sola.
(Throughout the whole of the testimony
of Mis. F., relating to ihe act of killing, and
ihe acclamations of her dying daughter, the
prisoner was all'eeted deeply, was in tears,
anil tiung ins head below Ilia railing ol the
box My daughter appeared to bo sensible
but sai l no more till the doctor came ; he
cauii) in fuur or five minutes ; Dr. Butt was
the one. Dr. Butt told her to lie on Ihe
side she was bhot in ; her reply was, in a
faint voice, 'I cannot lie on it.' She died in
half un hour utter. 1 went into the room
before she died, and asked her if she fell
any belter j the looked up at me as if she
wanted to kiss me ; I kissed her, and she
said, 'No, no, I'll soon be gone.' M V.
was so deeply moved by the reoitul of por
tions of her evidence, at to be frequently
obliged, to pause for inmates ; at such times
she would exclaim, 'Fxcute me, gentlemen,
my l;eii ia broken ; my poor, poor daugh
ter, when I think cf yet (, tun not my
self.'" S.c.1
CACTIIlNd Rl'LI.KTS IS THE MOUTH.
There is a man now living in East Dix
field, Oxford county, Me., who actually
caught in his mouth a ball discharged from
a musket. Ila was nt thu battle of Bridge
water, in the war of 1812, and while biting
oir tho end of a cartridge, for tho purpose of
loading his enn, was slruck by a ball, which
entered the left side of hi face, knocked
out eight of his teeth, cut off the cud of his
tongue, niul passed into his throat. He rai
sed it, went to tho hospital, staid out the re
mainder of tho enlistment, and returned
home with the bullet in his pocket. Ex
clam gv paper.
We can relate an incident even more
.stranger than this. At the seige of Monte
rey, in 1SI0, and while General Worth's
troops were advancing lo storm a smii! fort
known as I.a Soidada, a man named Waters,
an excellent soldier belonging to Cant. Ben
MeCnlloch's Hangers, caught a large grape
shot directly in his mouth. It was fully the
size of a hen's egg, rough, uneven in shape,
and in ils course completely carried out the
four upper front teeih of the ranger and part
of the jaw, cut off the four lower teeth as
with a chissel, split his tongue in twain, car
ried away his palate, went through tu the
back of his head, and striking n tendon
glanced down and lodged under the skin on
the shoulder blade, where it was extracted
by a surgeon and safely placed in ihe pock
et of Waters for futuie reference.
No man thought the wounded ranger
would live ho could swallow neither food
nor water Wo saw him two nights after
wards, in a room in the Bishop's Palace
which had been converted into a hospital)
sitting bolt upright among the wounded and
the dyinr, for the nature of his terrible hurt
was such that he could not lie down without
suffocating. 1 1 is face was swollen lo more
than twice its ordinary seize, he was
speechless of course, his wants were only
made known by means of a piece of broken
slate and pencil, and he was slowly applying
a wet sponge to his mouth, endeavoring lo
extract moisture which might quench the
fever and intolerable thirst under which he
was suffering. Ey his side lay young
Thomas, of Maryland, a member of the
same company, who was mortally wounded
the morning aft?.-, and who was now dy
ing. W.nmded men, struck that afternoon,
in Worth's advance upon the Grand Tlaza.
were constantly being brought in, the surge
ons were amputating and diessiug tho hurls
of the crippled soldiers by a pale and sickly
candle lig'.it. and the groans of those in
grcvinus pain added new horror to a scene
which was at best frightful. Wo recollect
peifectly well a poor fellow, struck in both
legs by a grape shot while advancing up one
of the streets. He was begging luslilv, after
one of his limbs had been amputated, that
the other might bo spared him on w hich to
h.ibbhi through the world. Poor Thomas,
as gallant a spirit as ever lived, finally
breathed his last ; we brought Waters u
fresh cup of water with which to moisten
his wound, and then left the rocm to catch
an hum's sleep ; but the recollections of
that tenible night will not soon be effaced
from our memory.
The above incidents occurred on the night
of the "Id and morning of tho 21 h Septem
ber, tSlt. During the rai'y part of ihe
month of February following, while passing
into the old St. Chailes in this city, wo were
accosted with a sliaugo voice by a fine look
ing man, who seemed extremely glad to see
VVl, ri.I.;,.l.u,d ,,u t,v il3 MIU we. had been
familiar with, but thu lower features of Ihe
face, although in no way disfigured, for the
life of us we could not make out.
'Why, don't yon know me !" in a mum
bling half indistinct and foiced manner said
the man, still shaking our baud vigorously ;
I'm Waters."
And Walejs it was, in reality, looking as
well and as healthy as ever, and without
tho least outward figu that ho had ever
caught a grape shot in his mnuth. A luxu
riant growth of moustachios completely cov
ered his upper lip, and concealed any sear
the iron missile might have made ; an im
pel ial on his under lip hid any appearance
of a wound at that point ; and with the ex
ception of his speech there was nothing lo
chow that he had ever icueived the slightest
injury about the face. His tongue, which
was teriibly shattered, was still partially
benumbed, rendering articulation both diffi
cult and liiesomo ; but he assured us ho
was every day gaining more and more the
use of it, and in his own words he was soon
to be "just as good as new."
It is needless to say that we were truly re
joiced to see him to meet one we had
never expected to encounter again in such
excellent plight. Any one who could have
seen him sitting in that apartment of the
Bishop' Palace, his face swollen, and with
a gravity of countenance which would have
been ludicrous even to the causing of laugh,
ter had it not be'jii for his own precarious
situation and the heart lending soenos
around, would have been tquaily aa much
astonished nnd rejoiced m wo were, on
again so unexpectedly beholding; him. .V. O.
Picflifwnc.
Nafoi.kon's Opinion or tub I'kkss. "A
journalist," suid the fieat Napoleon, :is a
grumblar, a ocnsuier, u giver ol advice, a re
cent sovereigns, a lolur of itglioni. Four
hostile newspapers are more to be fey red
l!un a bundled, thousand bayonets "
TRENCHER MEN.
Awriler in the Boston Post, tell the fol
lowing stories of great feeders:
"Somo twenty years since, the wdow F.
kept a tavern at Qnamphegan, she was n
stout, fat woman, nnd equal to the task of
landlord nnd lmullndy. One morning, a.
lumber dealer from Lebanon, called at this
tavern for a etip of tea. Ho sat down nt the
table, spread with nil the 'ffxins' for a sub
stancial breakfast, but look nothing except
his tea. On being asked what was lo pay,
Ihn parsimonious man of lumber was amazed
at the price two shillings. '1 took but one
enp of tea nothing else,' exclaimed he.
'It's the same, sir,' returned the widow, 'eat
and drink much or little as you please.'
'All tho same, eh 1' replied the tea custo
mer, as he drew forth his leathern purse nnd
paid tho two shillings ; 'we'll try that ero
game, I reckons' The lumberman then
went to ono of his teamsters, well known as
the greatest eater in the whole country
round about, and asked him if he thought ho
could eat a good breakfast, could he get it
gratuitously. 'Try me,' returned the tren
cher man, eagerly, smacking his lips, and
striking his lank stomach at the idea.
"The lumberman then led the way to tho
tavern, nnd told thu man of appetite to fol
low and do his best, lie did hi best his
very mightiest ! Falstafi", Dickeu's Fat
Boy, mid six aldermen together, could not
have made such havoc in llie widow's lar
der. Dish after dish was brought on nnd clear
ed in a twinkling, till not a morsel more of
food could be scraped up in the whole dom
icil ; anil when tho gourmand was told by
the astonished widow that there was noth
ing more for him, except he ate her, he
seemed to scan tho lusty landlady, as if ho
was calculating ihe best maimer to serve her
up ; but her unwieldly siZu brought him to
the conclusion that she was too much for
even himself. Finally he agreed lo leave
llie house if she would refund the money
paid ; so he could finish his breakfast else
where. There is another of these immense feeders
that 1 wot of, who resides in a village near
our city. This mar. actually eat two quails of
baked beans, with a good pound of poik ba
ked therein, beside? any quantity of bread,
for his Snudny breakfast. It did not inter
fere in the least with his luncheon, dinner
or supper, ho did ample justice to all thesO
meals besides. This man has been known
to eat a huge heaping milk pan full of
dough nuts at one lunch ! 'I wish exclaim
ed this man ol" tall feeding one day to a
grocer, as be was buying a drum of tigs fof
his wife ; 'I w ish they would put this fruit
in bigger drums ; one of these 'ere littlo
things wouldn't give inn a taste ; I'd like a
yase ilrnin lull ot 'em : 1 his marvellous
eator got sick once by eating a half bushel
of pears somewhat decayed, or as he after
wauls expressed it, "a ire tie to ripe by a
dained sight !; I chanced to meet him a
week after this event, and remarked to him
that he did not look so well as usual. 'Ah 1'
replied this extraordinary consumer of food
with a doleful look, 'I've had to diet somo
lately, and you know I aie'ut nothing with
out my vittcls !' '
uitAAntF.it in niivMi:.
1. Three little words you often seu
Are Articles i, mi, and the.
2. A Noun's the name of any thinpr,
As school, or gui ded, hoop or swing.
3. Adjectives tell the kind of noun:
As great, it;o((, pretty, white or brown.
4. Instead of Nouns the Pronouns stand
Hi r head, his lace, your urm, my hand.
5. Veibs tell of something being done
J o iKiif, tcWiY, cuioif, stiig, jump, or run,
(!. How things are done the Adverbs tell;
As slowly, qiiicLlij, til, or well.
1. Conjunctions join the words together;
As, men nnd women, wind or weather.
8. The Proposition stands before
A Nuuu ; as in or through a door.
9. The Interjection shows surprise;
As, vlt ! how pretty; alt! how wise.
The w hole are called Nine Parts of Speech,
Which Beading, Wriiing, Speaking, teach.
A Sack Br.T. Several gentlemen were
riding in the cars on one of iho Boston Kail
roads a few days ago, when ihe conversation
turned to the next Presidential election, and
thu prospect of Webster, Fillmore, Scott,
Cass, and others were discussed at large.
Aflei some lime, a suleinu individual w ho
had lioleiiL' d in silence, addressed the patty
thus :
M) friends, you are all of you wrong. .
Beforo the i lection of 1S52 ihe woild will
have come to an end, unit Jesus Christ will
be Picsideut of llie United Slates.
Up slatted an enthusiastic gentleman from
the Granite State, who stutteiingly said lu
the Millerite, ' S-ir I'll b-b bet you ten
d-d-d-dollars New Hampshiie w-w-w-won't
g-go for him.
A roar of laughter greeted the exit of the
Seooud Advent man, as he removed himself
to another car Courier.
'Comk here my lilll" man," said a gentle,
man to a younglor four yearn of age, while
sitting in a parlor where a large company
were" assembled. "Do you know who
urn V
Ves sir, I Ihiuk I do."
"Who am I the i let rue hear."
"You are the man what kissed sister Jano
last night ill the parlor "
Jane fainted.,