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SPRING AND SUMMER CLOTHING. IjVEKVBOUY should embrace this opportu nity to buy CLOTHING for Men, Youth and llovs, nt such price as have never yet In-en known 'in this City. t GiiOUCK (il.I.V CLOTH ING EST A BI.IMUM KNT, Sniith-Enst "nrner of Market and Second Streets, Philadel phia, cinbraoiiiEt a choice of the best, most desira ble, mid tsshioimhlo DRESS AND FROCK COATS, Habit Cloth do., l.men Drilling do,, Tweeds, At., iif; 'together with a great ariety of Boys' Clothing, V'orisitinr of Sack Coat, Polka Jnc-ls, Mon key Jackets, Vests and Kound Jackets made of Tweed. Linen Ilrillinp, Cloth, Alpacca, Kersa mier, Doeskin, etc., Ac. Particular care has been taken to procure the new atyles for Men and Boys' Hummer Coats, Pantaloons, Vests, &c.,to which hr would invite wpecfal Attention. Funilsliinpj tlonil-s. 'Consisting of Shirrs. Stocks, Handkerchiefs, etc.; u!l of which are oft'creiS tft the Ivimt l'otlr 'errk Price, and as cheap as rtny otlier Clothing "Hi rt re in 'the I'liion. 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Persons desirous of securintt their live and property from destruction by lightning, can have conductors put up to their buildintM in the most perfect and substantial manner, by appoint; ei ther personalty or by lette r, to the uudrtsigned, -at the follmviiiir prices : For 40 ft. with a good .lYrcr plated point !?10,00 For 40 fu w ith gulJ plated puint, vatip, 1?,S0 And twenty cents for every additionnl fuot over forty. T. S. MACKEY. Milton. Sept. 6, 1F5! ly. Aldca's Conden?ed Reports of Peaaa. "W lrS'f Puhl'sheil, and for sale by the subscri 5 l.er the Vrorf Yulinnt of A Iden's Con densed Pennsylvuuia Reports, containing the last three volumes of Yeales' RcporU. anil two first volumes of Biuney's KeporU. 'J'he lirst vol ume of Alden, containing liallai,' Reports, 4 vol umes; and Von lis' Reports, volume l.is also on hand, and for sale. Tlio alxne two volumes are complete within themselves, and contain all of Dallas' Keports, 4 volumes, and all of Ycuti's' Haports, 4 volutnes, hesiilea the two first volumes W BVnney's Reports. The third volume is ready and will In' put to press immediately. H. B. MASSE U, Afent 8unhury, Aug. 10, 1851. NATION AXi IIOTSL, SH ALI0KIN, Northumberland County, Pa. THE aulicrtler respectfully informs hisfriends and the public generally, that he has open ed a new Hotel in the town of Shamokin, Nor thumberland county, on the corner of Mi.iinukin nd Commerce atreels, nearly opposite to the House he formerly kept. He is well prepared to accommodate his guests, and is also provided with good stabling. He trusts his experience, and strict attention to business, will induce per sons visiting the coal region to continue the lib eral patronage he has heretofore received. WILLIAM WEAVER. Shamokin, April 19, 1850 tf. JAMES II. MAGEE HAH removed from his old bland, No. 118 Vine street, to No. 52 Dillwyn St., (bet'n Cul kill Sf H'illo;) where he has eonatantly on hand, BROWN STOUT, PORTER, Ale and Cider, rOR HOME CONSUMPTION OE SHIPPING. N. B. Coloring, Bottling, Wire and Bottles, Vinegar, ice. For sale as aliove. Philadelphia, April 12, 1851. ly. Lycoming Mutual Insurance Company. TTR- J. B. MASSER ia the local agent for the U above Insurance Company, in Northumher land county, and ii at all times ready to slfect Insurances against fire on real or personal pro perty, of renewing policies for the same, ' Kunbury, April 3o, 1B31.--4A INK Boureau'a celebrated Ink, anil also Con. area ink for aale, wholesale and retail by peuBibe W, H B MASSER. SELECT POETRY. THE PRINTER BOY. i WORDS BIT JKSE HUTCHINSON. Written for the Allfoii anians and Sung by them at the New York Printer's Festivnl.J I'll rmiij yon ft s nu of n Pi inteis's Boy WhosH lnijht and h'lnnifil harm) Stands ntil in iilinvii'fr capitals, L pou Hit) scinii til lam Who in tin; days that tried mon's soul, In freedom's darkest niuht Stood manfully wilh Wiihiiigloii, And battled for tht right. Men franklin was lhnt Printer Boy one of the olden timu. And 'inas that boy who flew his kite To thu thunder clouds on high, And broil'.: ht the) fiikod lightning down From lh,' rccionst.f llie eky ; 'Twas ht' who catiaht lilts liery hors'1, And trained him for Hip ctfisc, 'Till now hw's diiven safe by Morse Ui'jUl into tliH Piintor's Cne. I5h:i Fiunkliii was that Printer Boy ono of llie olden lime. Lou? shall the world extol his name, The patriot and wise. Who fullv jns'ificil by f.iith. Was proved mi ovei v piire': II' form, enrrre'rd ami rtvised. Is mnv trnrkril ujf and presfid ; A new ed ii ion in ihe skies, A slat iitnoiej the blest. All honor to that Pi inter Hoy, ono of llie olden lime. And now my brother Typo, take This Under (or your pntV'r, Follow corrected ropy, niui All errors maik outside lie Irtisnl, chaste Htul lemperale, Stick to the L'nlden rclc, An I yon shall fliine anion-: Ihe stws, In Ihe Piintiiie Ollice school. Just itniiate that Pi inter Boy, one of llie olden iim. Qbiorica!. Fron the N. V. Evening Post. RUSSIAN DIPLOMACY. It is difficult fully to understand in this country the autocracy of the Emperor of Russia that is to say, the absolute power of a single in.ni over the liberty, prosperity and lile of (,o many millions of men. It seems as firmly established as it is mighty, i let however absolute ibis power, it is sur rounded with great and iinforseen dangers. Open the history of .Russia, and you meet with two or three of those catastrophies, which are splendid but terrible illustrations of it. It has been said of the monarchy of France, before ITS!), that it was an abso lute monarchy, moderated by sonirs. It was so to a certain extent ; but with more I truth can it be said, that the absolute mon archy of Russia is a monarchy moderated by assassination. Let one remember the tragic death of Peter HI. and Paul 1.! An anecdote will hotter illustrate from what quarter come the deep-concealed dangers. Lord Cloncurry relates, in his recently published Personal Kecollectionss that be iti at Rome in the last years of the past century, be g.,t acquainted with many Russians of iiioh rank, such as Orlofl, the lavorite of Catharine II., and Potemkin, son of the celebrated minister. The intro duction of the Muscovite element, he says, made a strange mixture in our society; when sometimes discussions arose that brought the habitual steady English love of freedom into a conflict of argument wilh the fierce barbarian vigor of the Russians ; and that, too, in presence of the polished feebleness of some noble su!.-j"Ct of the church. Oil one occasion, the compara tive merits of democracy and despotism be ing under debate, the risk of mischief at ihe hands of a senseles, ill-conditioned ly. rant was urged as more than a counterpoise for Ihe good that could be done bv a be nevolent and wise autocrat : "Against that risk exclaimed Count I'alben, who was present, we have a sife-guard. Here is the i'onMitution of Russia !" and starting up, he closed the argument hy drawing a dag ger from his pocket, and flinging it upon the table with nn earnestness and energy that lelt no doubt of his personal willing ness to put that sharp constitutional remedy in operation, if necessary for a wrong! A few years slier, the terrible eaints'- ness of his words was fully realized ; lor this same Count Palhen, then military governor of Si. Petersburg, played the most prominent part in the assassination of Paul I. The government being absolute, the natural consequenre is, that absolute obedi- nee becomes the first duty and chief merit of agents in every station. To obey and to succeed, whatever Ihe purpose, becomes the paramount qualification to secure favor and promotion. Thus the diplomacy. which represents talent, skill, and Attain ments of highest order, and the mighty in terests of the state, has gradually assumed that character, by which the rutin gspirit of the government is strongly and faiihlully reflected. Talents can be applied in two ways; to achieve noble things, beneficial to civiliza tion and mankind or to serve selfish ends, ambition and usurpation. Both spring from the principles of the government. When free, it promotes liberty and the real welfare of nations; when absolute, it is an engine of despotism, producing iis natural effects, ignorance and a slavish spirit. How admirably are both exemplified in the char- acter ana policy of the United slates and Russia ! It follows that Russian diplomacy is led to use as its lavorite means, intrigue, craft, and deceitful artifice or, haughtiness, ar rogance, and domineering, according to cases. It is conscious that it is the surest way to please the Master; and it is coa aciou also that behind it stand the armies, rdy to support and eiecuta e?ry politi cal scheme. Personally, the diplomatic agents may be worthy, talented and refin ed ; but as agents, a mischievious, intrigu ing system of policy is forced upon them. They must comply, or (always a hard sac rifice !) resign. Many striking illustrations are found in history, of the working of this diplomacy. We will only mention now the partition of unfortunate Poland in 1772; which was prepared and accomplished by Russian di plomacy ; a crime, the parent of other fu ture crimes, the fatal cause of bloody ca tasfophies ! Sir James Mackintosh says : "The two great powrr?, England and France alike deserters of the rights of na lionsj and betrayers of the liberties of Eu rope, saw the crime consummated without stretching forth an arm to prevent it. Had there been a .park of spirit, or a Try of wise policy in the councils of these conn tries, (liny would have been followed in their resistance by all the secondary pow ers, whose very existence depended on the general reverence for justice." The first partition cousummaled, (and it must especially bear upon Catharine II., who was, says Mackintosh, the greatest criminal,) a second was deemed right and necessary, because useful, (1793) and the third which dislroved the last shadow of I -nationality and independence (179S) and j the two last were attended with such hor rors of war, such dreadful hecatombs, that history itself shudders with abhorrence ' "These tremendous scenes," Mackintosh eloquently says, "closed the resistance of Poland, and completed the triumph of her oppressors! Thus lell Ihe Polish people, alter a w ise and virtuous attempt to estab lish liberty, and nn tieroic struggle to de fend it, by the flagitious wickedness of Russia, by the loul treachery of Prussia, by the unprincipled accession of Austria, and by the short-sighted, as well as mean-spirited, acquiescence of all the other nations of Europe "' The Russian ministers at Warsaw, be fore the last partition, were really the vice roys of the Czarina. Here is a masterly sketch ol three, by Mackintosh : "Keyserling, a crafty and smoolh Ger man jurist ; Saidern, a desperate adventu rer, banished from Holsteirt for forgery, and Reptiin, a haughty and brutal Musco vite, were selected, perhaps from the va riety of their character, to suit the fluctua ting circumstances of the country ; but all of them spoke in that tone of authority which has ever since continued to distin guish Russian diplomacy." After the partition, Poland was suffered to enjoy for sixteen years a comparative tranquility. Hut Russian ministers contin ued to act their part of viceroys, in pre. sence of the weak, though accomplished, King Stanislaus. One ol them at that time was Count Stackelherg, a man of high abilities and consummate experience, but who, conscious of the power of his court, showed himself proud, haughty, :md .anx ious to engross homage and profound re spect from all. He once received a heavy and well-deserved rebuke. A new foreign minister arrived at the court. He went to pay his ilevoiu to the king and present his credentials. In the recepiion hall, in the midst of courtiers, generals, nobles and for eign n.inisters, blazed forth a magnificently dressed individual, the object of profound respert. Thinking it was the king, he be gan the three formal bows, prescribed by etiquette ; he find got through two of them, when a slight flutter among the cour tiers warned him that all was not right-, and at the same time, a good-natured gen eral whispered in his ear: "It is not the king, it is the Russian Ambassador!" It was indeed he, who, with the most cool air and the most dignified countenance, without the slightest warning to a brother minister of his error, had received the hom age intended lor another. In a few mo ments, the king appeared, and the ceremo ny was performed in a proper way. In the evening, the new minister was invited to Ihe king's card-table. Mean while the morning's adventure had been extensively circulated, and he was aware of it. Smarting with the wound, lie de termined upim revenge. But the rules of courts prescribe courtesy, the laughers must be ou his sine, and the ambassador ol Russia was mighty. After beginning the play he soon made a slight mistake. Jt was corrected; but presently he threw down a knat'f, and exclaimed : "Here is the king !" "You mistake," said Stanis laus, "it is a knave." "Ah ! pardon, sir, it is the second time to-day that I have mis taken a Jinave fot a king!" The king s;iiiled imperceptibly; the Ambassador of Russia looked more dignified than ever, and tnis time the laughers wete on the side of the happy retoiter. Alter this, the min ister played well much better than the Russian Ambassador. We have dwelt the longer on this grand and dismal episode of Poland, because it is a characteristic of Russian policy in that age, because the crime is still living and bleeding in our time, and because it has been levived by the recent example of crushing another generous and patriotic nation. Though the Russian diplomacy of pur times has somewhat improved and grown better than the old, yet Russia has in a great part preserved the former spirit ; to meddle, to encroach, to domineer inso lently and as the representative and sup porter of despotism, she is eager to fight against, and to rru-h liberty nationality, which she calls rebellion and anarchy. Besides its official ministers at the divers capitals of Europe, the Russian Cabinet has a large number of other agents, shrewd and refined people in general, such as travel lers, counts or princes, women to pry into certain secrets, journalists to right with the pen, spies to mix with the humbler classes and report their spirit. Sometimes, more over, adventurers, men of ?Iecution, as the French call them, are intrusted with pecu liar duties. Acknowledger eoundrli are ... i paid and employed by the Russian Court. Mackintosh says, in a note to his account of the partition of Poland : ' "It was about that time (1782) that Count de Goertz, then Prussian Ambassador at Petersburg!), gave an account of the Court of Russia to the Prince Royal of Prussia, who was about to visit Petersburgh, of which the following passage is a curious specimen : Le Prince Bariafinslci est re connue scelerat, et mcme, commetd employe encore de lemps on temps.' " Young noblemen, too, possessing polish ed manners, have been intrusted wilh the delicate mission of having intrigues with women ol the courts, to obtain slate secrets, which could in no other way be procured. Tilled women likewise have a busy and important part to act, for the official minis ter cannot reach every secret, and he ac quainted with the intimate feelings of cer tain classes or persons. An elegant, refin ed and apparently wealthy lady, familiar with ladies of high life, can easily in an ungarded moment, penetrate into the se crets of a tamily, of an important person age, and supply the minister with an avail able, and sometimes necessary information. Sometimes young men ol rank are in trusted wilh the same commission, and if handsome, ingenious and adroit, so much the better for attraction and success. One of these envoys deceived, in the most cun ning way, Napoleon himself, who was not easily entrapped. Some months before the formidable expedition to Russia, 1312, a Prince CzernichetT, a young man, went to Paris, as a traveller, to enjoy, as he said, the thousand refined luxuries of the Me tropolis of Europe. He had plenty of money, and he lavished it in the most splendid manner. He was peculiarly fond of ladies, and assiduous in his attentions to the ses. He seemed solely engrossed with the pleasures of elegant society. Yet he found time enough to fulfil a very impor tant mission, that is to say, to obtain offi cial accounts of the forces and resources which the Emperor intended to use in the i expedition. He effected this by bribing a j clerk of the Department of War. When j Napoleon got intimation of it, he ordered i 1 rince Czernicheff to be instantly arrest- , ed ; but the Prince had already fled, and was sate beyond the frontier. Ihe clerk was convicted and shot. It is said that England likes to boast of having covered the country with a vast net of railroads, which secures the most rapid, constant and highly beneficial communica tion throughout tlitlerent parts of the king- (lom. KtlSStan diplomacy IS to Its Country accomplices anu. llie necrei passage, no of the same efficiency for information and I 'eM 'he." three hundred maidens were sac power, as the system ol railroads to Eng. rifieed on the alter of vanity and superslilion. land. It is a complete, admirable, but Several years had been occupied in this much to be watched organization ! pifil.- slaughter, and no suspicion of Ihe truth was excited, though the greatest amaze Thr Religion or Payiso Dr-.nTS.-Oi.e of; ,. , ,,' ' .,. our religious -exchanges has iho following strong remarks on this subject. They drive the 'nail into Ihe head and then clinch it : "Men may sophisticate as they please, but (hey can never make it right, and all the bankrupt laws in the universe cannot make it right, for them not to pay their debts There is a sin in this neglect as clear and a deserving church discipline as stealing or false swearing. He who violates his promise to pay, or withholds the pay ment of a debt when il is ju his power to merl his engagement , onubt to be made 10 feel that in the sigh) of all honest men he is a swindler. Religion may be a very corn- foriable cloak Under which to hide, bntif anj demanded judgment nyainst her. Su religion does not make n man, "deal justly," grave an accusation, brought against a per it is not worth having." j Mn llf hjh illlki demanded tho most l, ' I serious attention, and the Palatine uudeitook I'AnsoN BaowNLow mokes the following . . ,' . . . , - .. , I to investigate Ihe Btfair in person. Proceed- that the parson is so prone to discontent and so much desires to have things his own way that he would quarrel with the angels in Heaven : 1 expect to go to heaven when I die, but whether I create any 'discord' there or not) depends upon atftrumtive answers to ihe fol lowing questions : Will there be any Senatorial eleclions there 1 Will the nominations of candidates luL-tt ... ..w.i.s 1 A ...I iC n .. ;il n... . ' , i lac I ion attempt lo cast any more votes Ihan . . , , . . . . .,, lt is entitled lo ? In either case 1 will raise a row. Gut those with whom 1 am at war in this world, need have no feais of being in- . , ... , i i , m , ciij Hirj f,v imi ii i" fc -. tlol'KKnoi.D Measukks. As ull families are not provided u it ti scales and weights re ferring to ingredients in general use by every housewife, the following may be use ful : Wheat flour, one pound is one quart. Indian meal, one pound two ounces is one quart. Butter, when soft, one pound one ounce is one (piart. Loaf sugar, broken, one pound is one quart. White sugar, powdered, one pound one ounce is one quart. Best brown sugar, one pound two ounces is one quart. EgL's, average size, ten eggs are one pound. Sixteen large table. spoonfuls are half a pint, eight are one gill, four, half a gill, Lo. Tut Duke of Richmond's daughter, Lady Augusta Lennox, married on 27lh of No vember last to Prince Wilheltn of Saxe Weiruer, has received from the Great Duke of Weimar the title of Countess of Dorn beig. Not being of princely blood, she could only be marrsj morganaficolfv, or ia tho left hand, and cannot recsiva th" title of Princess. - We presume, however, she tbonght Prince Wilhelm "a good enough Morgan" for her, without the title. ' THK BATH OF BLOOD. - From the proof-sheets of "The History of Hungary" in De Puy's Kossuth and his Gen erals," now in the press, the Buffalo Com mercial extracts a most thrilling tale of ro mantic history : About the year 1610, Elizabeth Bathori, sisier to the king of Poland, and wife of a rich and powerful Hungarian mRgnate, was the principal actor in the most singular and horrible tragedy mentioned in history. She occupied Ihe castle of Csejta, in Transylvania. Like most other ladies of that period, she was surrounded by a troop of young girls, generally the danchters of poor but noble pa rents, who lived in- honorable servitude; in return for which, their education was cared for, and their dowry secured. Eliz-ibeth whs of a Severe and cruel disposition, And her hand-maidens led no joyous life. Slitrht fanlls are said to have been punished by most merciless torltires. One day, as the lady of Csejta was ad miring nt a mirror those charms which that faithful monilor told her were fast waning, she gave way to her ungovernable temper, excited, perhaps, by the mirror's unwelcome hint, and struck her unoffending maid wilh such force in the face as to draw blood. As she washed from her hands the stain, she fancied the part which the blood had touched grew whiter, softer, and, as it were, younger. Imbued with thj credulity of the age, she be lieved she had discovered what so many philosophers had wasted years in seeking for. She supposed that in a virgin's blood she had found the elixer vita, :he fountain of never fail ing youth and beauty. Remorseless by nature, anil now urged on by irrepressible vanity, the thought no sooner flashed across her brain than her resolution was taken ; llie. life of her luckless hatul-tniiideu was not to be compared with the precious boon her death promised to secure. Elizabeth, however, wa warv w"" "' rnel Al ,,ie f"" of ,nro("k on which Csejta stood, was n small collage, inhabited by ln-o eld women, and between the cellar of this cottage and the castle was a subterranean paBsnge, known only to one or t-.vo persons, and never used but in times of danger. With the aid of these old crones and her steward, Elizabeth led the poor girl through Ihe secret passace to the cottnrxe, and nfler murdering her, bath ed in her blood. Not satisfied with the first essay, nt difiorent intervals, by the aid of SSIV.SIV si viativai IIIU LUllllll J lit IliU VI 1 3t 'JJCrs I - ance of so many persons. At last, however, Elizabeth called into play against her two passions even stronger than vanity and cun ning. Love and revenue became interested in Ihn discovery of the- mystery. Among the victims of Csejta was a beautiful virgin, who was beloved by and betrothed lonyoting man of the nemhboihood. In despair nl the loss of his mistress, he followed her tiaees wilh such perseveiauce, I hat, in spile of the hitherto successful camion of the nmi.leress, ho penetrated the bloody seciets of the cas tle, and burning for revenge, Hew to Pres burgh, boldly ncciised Elizabeth Bathori of minder, before the Palatine, in open court, ing immediately to Csejta, before the mur deress or her accomplices had any idea of the accusation, he discovered Ihe still warm body of a young girl, whom they had been destroying as ihe Palatine approached, and had not time to dispose of before he appre hended them. The rank of Elizabeth miti gated her punishment lo imprisonment for life, but her assistants wete burned at the stake. Legal documents sltll exist to attest the trulh of this apparently improbable ciictim- ,. . siHiice. Paget, a disiinguirhed fcaighslj ha ,, . . . , . , veiier, wno visneu v.ejia ntioui twenty years ago, says; "With this tale fresh in uur minds, i . i ,i... i.... i,;n ..;,,...! , i,.. ivo IISCIIUITVI IDC7 iuiii; mil, L:niiiru ,uc ini-nci, and wandered over ils descried ruins. The shades of evening were just spreading over the valley, the bare, gray walls stood up against the red sky, the solemn l illness of evening reigned over the scene, and as two ravens, which had made their nesis on the castle's highest towers, came toward it, wing, ing their heavy flight, and wheeling once round, each cawing a hoarse welcome to Ihe olhet, alighted on their favorite turret, I could have fancied them the spirits of the two crones, condemned to haunt the scene of theit former crimes, while their infernal mis tress was cursed by some more wretched doom " Tub "BtAa Waltz." We hear with pleasure that a new waits, bearing litis liile is lo be introduced in our ball rooms this season, the principal feature of which is Ihe bug. It is already quite ihe ia in small parties and private reunions, where the hug has met with such very high favor, that its production in the ball room has been deci. ded upon by a very large number of the votaries of the new waltz. Sf. ,&uii Organ and Reveille. "Loot ovt ,p j,,, how you irow bricks guess ou want lo kill dis nigga" said a lusty 'olack hod carrier the other day whan a large brick fell from a two aiory scaffold upon bis head and broke in two without any further Mamsaje. .MELTING OF METAL. The enclosed memorandum, cut from an exchange, has elicited some discussion, and the query is, from w hat did Farenheit base zero or 0 in his scale was it the point al which alcohol freezes or not 1 An arlicle in your paper explaining this would be inlet esling. J. L. C. The following are temperatures on Faren hcil's scale, at which some of the most re markable effects of hea. are produced : 2,786s Cast iron melts. 2,200 Gold melts. 1,986" Copper melts. 1,878 Silver melts. 1,560 Brass melts. 1,141 Heat of a common fire. 980' Red heat. 218 Sulphur melts. 212 Waler boils. 184 Alcohol boils. 98' Blood heat. 36 Olive oil freezes. 31 Water freezes. 20 Wine freezes. 14 Oil of turpentine freezes. 1 Oil of vilriol freezes. 39 Mercury freezes. 45 Nitric acid freezes. 60 Grealesl cold ever observed in the Arctic regions. 135 Greatest cold yet produced by ar tificial means. A mixture of 7 parts of snow and 4 of di luted nitrio acid, gives a cold ef 30 below zero. Three pans of snow and two of diluted acid reduce the tempeiature to 46 below zero. VALUABLE COW. Isaiah Michner, of Buckingham, commu nicates to the Bucks County Iiitcftgenccr nn account of a productive cow of his that gave, three weeks after calving, during a period of seven days, an aggtegate of 46 gallons of milk -the cream from which weighed 39 lbs. ihe butter from which weighed 21 lbs. Her feed during the week, was one quart of cake meal, and three quarts of corn meal, weighing five and a half pounds, night and morning, made into a mash wilh clover heads ; at noon, font quarts of wheat bran, weighing three lbs., made into slop with hot water, and given warm, and Ihe same at night at 9 o'clock ; making seven teen lbs. of corn meal, cake meal, and bran united, for each twenty-four hours, or one hundred and nineteen lbs. nett weight, for the week, which was worth, at mill price, $1,28, or 185 cents per day. The hay that she ate I suppose lo be 150 lbs., (I did not weigh il) worth 75 cents, making cost of keeping during the week, 82.03. The Knickerbocker Magazine ludicrously illustrates the necessity of a reform in medi cal nomenclature.' Very much confounded, he says, was Dr Doane, a few years since, by a remark of one of his patients. The day previous, the Doctor had prescribed lliat safe and palatable remedy, ihe syrup of buck ihoin, and left his piescription duly written in the usual cabalistic chaiacters "Syr. Rham Calh." On inquiring if the palient had taken the medicine, a thunder-cloud darkened her face, lightning darted from her eye, s she roared out "No! 1 can read your doctor writing, and ain't a-going to take the syrup of lam-cuts for anybody under Heaven 1" Sorrowfvl Occurrence One of the young ladies at Westlown Boarding School a daughter of Homer Eachus, of Delaware county fell ftom one of the third story windows, on Saturday morning week, and was seriously injured that she died in a very few minutes. It is supposed tnat on being awakened by the six o'clock bell, she hurried to the window to open the shutters, and that they being frozen lo the frame, she applied loo much toice, and when they gave way, lost her balance uud fell out. A legal friend of ours the other day was about entering a haberdasher's shop in Broadway when a young buck, with a large moustache and small income, bom like Jaf tier 'with elegant desires,' drove up a pair ol spanking bays flittering with their splen did caparison. 'Ah, G said he, how de do 1 how de do 1 How d' you like me ho'ses ! Fine animals, but very costly. What do you think I gave for the pair ?' I guess you gave your note,' said G 'Good roawning 1' responded the blood ; 'good mawning !' Knickerbocker. How to Make Nice Caudles. Candle wick, if steeped in lime and saltpetre, and diied in the sun, will give a clearer light and be less apt to run. Good candles may be made thus : Melt together ten ounces of mutton lullow, a quarter of an ounce of camphor, four unoea of beeswax, and two ounces of alum ; then run it into moulds, or dip ihe candles. These caudles furnish a beautiful light. Small Pox. Dr. Win. Fields, of Wil miiigton, Del., says in a letter to the Blue, Hen's Chicken, that one table spoonful of good brewer's yeast, mixed wilh two table spoonful of cold water, and -given from L-reeto four times a day loan adult, and. in less quantities to children, is a cer'.aiu cure for the small pox. A Largi: Load. In Philadelphia, on Thursday afternoon, the 2 1st insl., one hun dred and two passengei were slowed ia the immense sleigh Kossuth, on the route from the Exchange to the Girard College. It was ijrawn by six hoi ses. ANOTHER KOlTH. One of the most devoted and successful Proleslant pastors in Bohemia, at the pre sent time, is Rev. Frederick William Kos suth. He is said to be near related to the Governor of Hungary. In 1846, he under took to gather a church of Bohemian Pro teslant at Prague, the scene of the labor of the Bohemian martyrs, Jerome and John Huss. Several converts were made from among the Papists previous to the year 1848. The revolutions of that year gave religious liberty to the Austrians, and Kos suth availed himself of the precarious boon. His preaching place was soon crowded, and hundreds of Papists became converts ta his doctrine. In 1849, he commenced a period lid by the name of The Herald of the Soke m:an Brethren, which soon attracted that no tice of ihe Government and was suppressed. Very severe opposition, of course, haa been excited on the part of the Papal priest hood. They have denounced him in terms the most bitter and uncompromising; setting him forth as the real Antichrist, and pub lishing Ihe most absurd calumnies against him, so as to provoke the insults of the mob and to ci tit. h hirn as their fathers did the Bohemian martys. But they could not ar rest the progress of the truth. His congre. gation numbered, last July, (as we learn from a correspondent of Count Valerian Krasinski, at Prague,) eleven hundred souls, of whom seven hundred are converts from Popery, including three priests. At that time he had purchased an old Hussite church, (which had been shut up since the year 1620,) for 2750, of which sum he had, wilh creat pains, collected and paid 600. The remainder was to be paid in an nual instalments of 300. It will be re membered that after the battle on the Weis senberg, near Prague, in 1620, "the Breth ren were subjee'ed to all manner of perse cutions, their ministers banished, their churches closed, and they themselves, in 1624, expelled the country." Blessings on the man who labors for Ihe restoration of those ancient sanctuaries ! Let him be re membered by all who have learned to revere the name of Kossuth, and much more by those w ho glory in the cross of Christ. N. Y. Evangelic. A correspondent of the John Bull says ; "1 happen lo know one of our bishops, second in worth to none on the bench, who was thus reproved by a noble Roman lady l wonder, my lord, you are not ashamed to have a wife and half a dozen children.' 'I should be more ashamed,' he answered very gravely, 'to have the children without the wife." A "pem rotN" young gentleman, in turn ing swiftly ou his heel yesterday, ran his head against a young lady. He put himself in a position lo apologise. "Not a word," said the quick-witted beauty ; "It isn't hard enough lo hurt anybody." The coxcomb frowned and sloped the young lady smiled and cuurlesied as gracefully as an angel. The Direct Railroad from West Chester to Philadelphia was placed under contract, on Ihe 1 7 1 li insl., Messrs Clark, Malone, and Gouder, of this State, are the contractors, and they have agreed to lake $15,000 in the stock of lha Company. The road will pro bably be completed in the year 1S53. Lord Campbell has laid down as a rule, that every plaintiff or defendant who is lo called as a witness must be out of court from the commencement of the case unti he is put into the box, and that as soon as be has been examined he must again leave) the court. One of the worst things to fat on ia Envy. In our opinion, it is as difficult for a grudging man to raise a double-chin, as it ia for a bankrupt to raise a loan. Plumpness comes not from roast beef, but from a good heart and a cheerful disposition. Albany Dutchman, A Rabbi in a Legislative. At Albany, on the 19th insl., the opening prayer in tho State Senate was made by Rabbi Wise, the minister of the Jewish Synagogue in Al bany. Rabbi Wise is a German by birth, and is ono of the most talented of the He brew clergy in this country. An old Soldier of the Imperial Guard, named Caniillon, of whom the Emperor Na poleon made mention in his will, has j'jit died at Rancey. He was accused in 1819 of having fired a pistol shot at the Piuke of Wellington. The Emperor bequeathed hin 10,000 francs. Evidence. ' How," ae I a ooontry coart Judge to a witness, "ho'.v do you know thai the plainiifl was intoxicated on Ihe eveniug teferred lo 1" "Because I saw him, a few minutes after aupper, trying to pull off bis, trousers wj;tt a boot-jack Verdict to the defep jaut. Great numbers of partridges have been frozen .0 death in New Jersey daring the re oe,'A severe weather. A Washington paper eta'.ea that nut less than 600. of these fowla weie offered fur aale in that market, last Saturday. Tua writer ia afraid the wholti race of partridges will become extinct. As Organ grinder, of Vienna, died latlely in that cily, leaving a fortuue of about 500. ... , Lola Momtei' has diamonds in her paa lese'Min valued at f 200,000.
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