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EUNBirznr, PA.
Buahipss attended to in the Counties of Nor
thumberland, Union, Lycoming aul Columbia,
liefer loi
T. A A. Rovnu.lt,
Lowpr & Barron.
Somer & 8nodirrn, Pulail.
Reynolds, McFarland &. Co.,
Ppcring, tiood A. Co.,
" JAMES J. NAILLE,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
STJNBURY, PA.
"IVMI.l. attend faithfully and promptly to all
' professional business, in iortliunurlniil
nl Union couiilie. He is familiar with the
(iermao lanKuae.
OFFICE :- Opposite the 'I,nwrcncc House,"
few doors from the Court House,
fciuuliurv. An?. 16, 1S51. ly.
sFama and summer clothing.
EVERYBODY" should einbnu-e this opportu- j
nitv to l-uy CI.OTIUNU for Men, Vouth
nml Bov. ill such priers n lme never yet been
luown'in thin Citv. lit UliOlMJK LTM.VS
:1ITHING ESTABMSHMEXT.Kouth-East j
.'uriier of Market and Second istrncts, Pltiladel
j.hia, emliracinj n choice of the best, most dL'ira
Mc, slid fasliionatiie
DRESS AND ER0CZ COATS,
jlaliit Clolh do., l.inen Drilling lo Tweeds.
Ac, &c, together with a great variety of !
Boys' ClotliLijj, ;
('onsisfiug f Sack ('oats. Plka -JaCi-ls, Mon
tevJt, Vt nnd Round Jackets in.ulo of
'I'wenl. I.men "DrilliiiB, Cloth, Aljiarra, Kersa
uiirr, Doeskin, &c, Af.
Taftieular carp has twen taken to procuw 'the
new ulyles for Men nnd Boys' Summer Coats.
Pantaloons, Vests, Ac, to which he would invite
special attention.
Furnishing ioods.,
nUttn f .SUirts, f.-iick, Hi!kerchieft, 6cei
all of which are offered ut e loirext PotnOIr
mtrh Piicru, nod o cheap as any oilier Clothing
flore in the Union.
Parents who desire TJoTa"' CloTIh-so are tar
firstly invited to examine the Stock.
Country Storekeepers cau be accommodated at
very low rates.
C.EORfiE CUUX,
S. K. Cnrr.er of Scconi ty Market Sis Phila.
April 19, 1851. if.
LIGHTNING RODsT
rrvjTE titscriler ks const rnUsii a MGHT---
KING ROD on tine PhtlosflplAesil pr'niei
Umi. In- which buildings supplied with them are
rendered perfectly secure auainst destruction by
liRhtiiiusr. The connecuon nJ iwulalinn of ttfe
Toil, as well as the prt-airatiou of the greund r.xl,
is on an entirely new plan, making a more per
fect conductor than any heretofore in use.
Measure have been taken to secure Letters
Patent for tic iniprovemeut.
Persons desirous of Heriirine: their lives and
projierty from destruction by linlitnhii?. fan have
voinliirtors put up to their buildings in the most
perfect and substantial manner, by applyins ei
ther personally or by letter, to the undersigned,
r.t tliA f.klluu-iucr nri.'cri :
For 40 ft. with a good i7rer plated point 10,00
For 40 ft. with gul.l plated point, '- I
a tip.
JCS0
And twenty cents for evcrv additional foot over
forty. 'T. S. MACKEV.
Milton, Sept. 6, 1851. ly.
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first volumes of Uinney a 1 cports. I lie i.rst vol-
time ol Aldru. roiitainum Dallas heporis, 4 vol- i
times; and Yeatea' RcporU, volume 1, U also on
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complete within themselves, and contain all of
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Reports, 4 volume, besides the two first volumes
ef Uinney'a RcporU. The third volume is ready
and will be put to presa immediately.
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Sunbury, Aug. 10, IS51.
NATIONAL HOTEL,
SH AM0KIN,
Northumberland County, Pa.
TH E aulsMriber respectfully informs hiafrienda
ami the public generally, that he haa open
ed a new Hotel in the town of Sliamokin, .Nor
thumberland county, on the corner of Buamokin
and Commerce streets, nearly opposite to the
Houae he formerly kept, He is well prepared to
accommodate hia gueaU, and is also provided
with good aUbling. He trusU hia experience,
and strict attention to business, will induce per
sona visiting the coal region to continue the lib
eral patronage he has heretofore received.
WILLIAM WEAVER,
ebamokin, April 19, 1850. if.
JAMES II. MAGEE
MAH removed from hi old Stand, No. 118
Vine street, to
A'o. 52 DillieyH St., (beVn CaThill If Willow,)
where he has constantly on hand,
BROWN STOUT, PORTER,
Ale and Cider,
FOR. HOME CONSUMPTION OR BIlirTlNO.
N. B Coloring, Bottling, Wire and Bottles,
Viivegar, &c For sale as aliove,
Philadelphia, April 12, 1851. ly.
Lycoming Mutual Insurance Company.
DR. J. B. M A8SER ia the local agent for the
above Inaurance Company, ia Northumber
- end county, and is at all tune ready to effect
inaurances against fire on real or personal pro
perty, or renaming policiea for the same. -r
Sunbury, April SO, 1851. tf.
I NK Boqwu' celebrated bik, and also Con
y f rea ink for Mia, wholesale and retail by
licike 88, 190, II 8 MASTER,
SELECT POETRY.
A DREAM. ,
I dreamed a dream in Hie midnt of my slum-
ber ;
An fiift n I drenmnd it, it ramp into number ;
My though! run along in ftucli beautiful me
ire, I am pure 1 never nw nny ro,'r)' "weeler;
II epenied lhil n Inw hail been recently mnde,
That a tax on old bachelors' pales ohould be
Iniil;
Arid in order lo make them all willing to
marry,
The tax was s large as a man could well
earry,
The bachelors :
rumbled, and said it was no
It ivni Knpiri iMinstir.. nnd prnpl ntltlSP !
Ami wild that to rave ih-'ir heart's bluod from i
spilling
Of such a vile tax they would not pay a fhil
lini! ;
The auoiiiineer deteimined them still to pur
sue, So he pt all old bachelors up at vendue;
A ciier was pent thritnih the town to and fro,
To rattle his bell and his trumpet to blow;
And lo call nut lo ull ho might meet in the
way
"Ho! forty old bachelor sold here to day "
And presently nil the old maids in the town,
Each in her very best bonnet and gown
Froiti thirty to sixty, fair, red and pale,
Of eveiy description, (locked all lo the sale.
The auctioneer then in hi labor began,
And cried aloud, as he held tip a man
How much for a bachelor who wants to
buy 1"
In a twink every maiden responded, "I, I."
In short, at a hiiih and extravagant price,
The bachelors were all sold oil' in a trice ;
And forty old maidens some younger, some
older
Each lupued an old bachelor homo on her
r-honlder.
A FRIEND TO THE LADIES.
3, Select alc.
Fi nn Guicy'i Ijidj'a Hook.
EE.
BY NOAHniAII 15VCKTHOUNK, M. D.
(Concluded.)
FART 1T.
Mr. Benjamin Gulic had managed to
secure a seat by the side of Miss Rebecca
Sabina Hall, and was paring with great skill
and rapidity, letting the parings (all into
the pun, which was in or rather on the (air
onVs lap. This of course "rendered it ne
cessary that he should sit very near her.
"When ere Mr. Foster's folks coming
fcome !" said Becky.
"Can't say," was Benjamin's laconic re
ply. "Do they trade a good deal at their j
store ?"
"'Can't say,"
"I should not think it would do lo shut
up the store."
Mr. Benjamin Gulic did not see fit to in
timate whether i.e did or did not agree
with her in opinion. He saw that her
mind was running on Mr. Foster, the pop
ular clerk ; that she was speculating on the
probabilities of his coming to the bee.
"How tick you pare your apples !" ex
claimed Becky. "Kesiah, Mr. Gulic ia
paring vour apples all awav!"
Kesiah was too much occupied w.tn her
partner to heed the remark
"Get somebody to pare with vou who ;
can suit you better," said Ben, in a low
voice. He then rose ar.d left the room,
under the pretence ol procuring a fresh
sunnly of apples. He walked forth and
look a survey of the stars, though not usu
ally given to astronomical speculations.-
"That girl," said he to himself confidently, '
'that girl" we do not quote his words i
accurately, for we wish to ntake them a :
little more complimentary to her than
they really were, "wants to know why
that soft-handed and soft-headed clerk isn't
here.
She may have hi.n, and see if tape j
an(J molasses keep her ; aj good e,;
., .. . "
as tne normern tarm wouin."
The northern farm was expected to come
into Mr, Benjamin F. Gulic's possession in
the spring. Like a sensible man, he was
desirous of finding some one whom it milit
be made over to with him "jointly."
"I'll let her alone," said Benjamin to
himself ; and, fearing lest his ear should
fail to catch the remark, he repeated it
several times with great distinctness. Hav
ing thus finished his communications to
himself, he seized a basket of apples, and
returning to the scene of operations. In
placing it on 'he table, which we have al
ready said was in the centre of the room,
the table was overthrown. This caused
the overthrow of several girls with tin pans
full of apples in their laps. Tables, pans,
girls, and apples, were thus mingled in
sweet confusion on the floor, while shrieks
ot affected terror and shouts of unaffected
laughter filled the house, and brought Mr.
Jones to the door of the apartment, A
grim smile was upon his lips as he survey,
ed the scene, and a profound silence fol
lowed his appearance.
Ben picked up the table, the young men
picked up the girls, and the girls picked up
the pans, and the girls and the young men
together picked up the apples, during
which operation many heads were acciden
tally brought in contact and, what was
very remarkable, it was invariably a male
and female head that came in contact. It
must have been something in the combs.
A more definite and satisfactory account
of the cause of the overthrow of the table
can be given. During Mr. Gulic's absence,
Mr. Foster entered and seated himself in
the chair left vacant by the side of Miss
Becky. The sight of him in that place had
no tendency to compose Mr. Gulic's nerves
and to increase'hii physical strength, while
it had a tendency to increase both the gra
vity of the apples and of his countenance.
Accordingly, when the basket was set nn
the bl-, it overiK".- :f
When order was restored, paring wai re
timed. Mr. Foster retained his eat by
Miss lietkv, and, with a silver knife,
daintily proceeeded in the work j he was
evidently afraid of soiling his hands. Ben
jamin took his place by the side of a very
quiet girl who was always behind some
body. It was plain that he was not pleas
ed with the exchange ot seats and of part
ner.1:. He did not sit so near Miss Mills as
he did to Miss Decky. He pared slowly,
silently, and thickly.
But, however preat may have been his
loss, it was counterbalanced by Miss Bec
ky's gain. She was manifestly delighted
j with the exchange. She talked and lauh
( ed Very loudly, though her partner's ideas
of gentility led mm to speak in a tone little
elevated ahove a whisper,
1 his was both
pleasant nnd painful to Miss Becky. It
was pleasant as indicative of confidential
communications, painful, as it marie his
complimentary remarks inaudible to the
company. She was driven to the necessity
of asking him, in a lone adapted to set ears
a-listening, "what did you say ?" and again
to repeat some of his remarks with a large
exclamation point after them. By this
means she managed to convey to Ben and
to others "what was going on between
them."
Pen at length determined, as a means of
self-defence, or of retaliation, to appear to
enjoy his position. As a preliminary, he
brought his chair nearer to that of Miss
Mills, and leaned over farther, so that his
paring might fall nearer the centre of the
pan. He put forth his best skill in paring,
and made a tew general observations,
which were replied to in a very sweet tone
of voice. Kre long they found themselves
talking sense, as lie afterward said a fact
that evidently throws the date of our his
tory somewhat into the past. He began to
feel better satisfied with the exchange he
had had made, and was stimulated to carry
on two somewhat distinct trains of thought
j the one necessary to the conversation
with Miss Mills, the other relating to a
; coirparison of her qualities, personal, men
tal, and social, with thos of Miss Becky.
The latur led himself occasionally to make
irrelavent replies to Miss Mills' remarks.
By ten o'clock, so busily had both male
and female fingers been employed, lh,p ap
ples were finished and set aside, the table
restored to its usual place, and it was pro
posed to proceed lo play not cards, city
reader, hut several exceedingly exciting
and innocent games which you know noth
ing about. Several were proposed, but
they were all objected to by Miss Sophia
Stehbins, who had been one quarter at a
boarding-school, lor which (extras inclu
ded) her father had paid '23 50, as not
sufliciently intellectual. This threw a
shadow over the prospect ; for the Yankee,
as is well known, is a logical animal, and
it is more than suspected that the intellec
tual and the logical are nearly allied. If a
thing is not intellectual, it is not logical,
I and if not logical it is not to be done. The
Yankee prefers the logical to everything
except money.
Miss Sophia was asked lo name a play.
She remarked, in reply, that her taste was
no rule lor others the was peculiar. Miss
Benson (the mistress of the boarding
school,) thought her remarkably peculiar.
She must confess she should prefer some
conversation to anything else.
"So should J," said Mr. Gulic. "If I
knew where to find it, 1 would go and get
a basket full."
This rental k made Miss Sophia's face
very red, and all the rest of the company
very good nattired. It was followed by an
explosion of latightpr, which was followed
by sundry plays, in which the intellectual
young lady jrudtially became more and
more interested. Finally it was voled nem.
con. to have a game of hide-and-seek. The
hiding and the bunting were in couples.
Miss Betkv and Mr. Foster were together,
aiwl ci ve..r tlliis Mille ami Mr. Gtilii'
.. Q , , . . hi t d ,0
One was to secure a good hiding-place for
himsell and partner, and the other to ob
serve thai of Miss Becky and Mr. Foster.
Trie latter took possession of a small pan
try, which was known in Mr. Jones' estab
lishment by the name of pie-pantry. 1 hey
remained in it l.ir some lime until, over
hearing the expressed ffurpose of the seek
ers to search it, they stole out, and entered
silently an apartment which had already
been examined. Mr. Gulic, shrewdly sus
pecting that they would return to the pie-
pantry, entered it, and placed in the only
chair it contained a pumpkin pie, which
was made not in an ordinary tin, but in an
earthen vessel, which formed the section
of a sphere. The depth of the pumpkin
was an inch and a half in the centre, from
which point it shoaled gradually to the cir
cumference.
. As Mr. Gulic had forseen, Becky and
her companion re-entered the pantry. A
shriek was soon heard, which caused Ben
to sieze a candle, and rush to see what was
the matter, or rather, to speak with strict
accuracy, to let others see. The demolish
ed pie, and Miss Becky's soiled dress, re
vealed the cause of the outcry. For a mo
ment there was a contest between a feeling
of sympathy for the poor girl s discomfiture,
and a sense of the ludicrous; the latter
prevailed, though, to their credit, it must
be spoken, sundry of the girls were taken
with sudden fits of coughing, and others
were seized with an insatiable desire for
water, which led them to go in search o
it in divers very improbable places. Miss
Becky at once set out for home ; 6b e was
attended by Mr. Foster a partial recom
pense for her mishap.
An animated discussion of the question
"How came the pie in the chair 1" took
place. Mr. Gulic took no part in it. Some
one suggested that it was placed there
when taken from the oven, and "-'ignt
was in the way of '-,. it to a'shelf.-
I A VA V..a. . I .!. .il.eJ :t
aft lti leaS aivnlankl'mn lUQa rH'rH - it
I '.cpf pUd, jtinl as all historial facts are.
After this interlude," the game of hide
and leek was renewed with increased viz-
or. ftiiss Mebmr.s, witn the magnanimity
becoming a superior mind, condescended to
engage in it heartily. In the course of
this second game, Mr. Gulic and Miss Mills
concealed themselves in a clothes-press. If
the reader is a Vankee, he knows what
that term means) and if he is not, here is
proof positive that he knows less than a
Yankee.. . Ben and his partner concealed
themselves in a clothes-press, and, of course,
were in total darkness, and in very close
contact. Ben felt a very great fluttering,
and was on the point of asking what it was,
when he found that it was the poor girl's
heart. It occurred to him that it was very
doubtful whether Becky had any heart to
flutter. Many thoughts rushed through his
brain while he was in that press, pressed
close to the side of Mary Mills. She was
immer and handsomer than Becky ; had
softer voice and a milder eye ; she did not
pretend to live without work ; everybody
said she was not proud ; and yet she was
Iways as neat as a pink. Y hat a fool he
had been that he had not thought of her be
fore ! How grateful she looked when he
brought those early appels to her sick mo
ther! How good she looked when she
atched day and night by Mrs. Allcutt's
ck child!
"AH found but Ben and Marv," said a
loud voice, "where are they !w Ben drew
little nearer to Mary, Whose heart flut
tered still worse. She made a slight effort
to move a iittle from him, but a she was
planted against the wall, which did not
give way, the ellort was not successful.
"I won't hurt you," whispered Hen :
you are the last being in the world I would
urt
Whether Mary lacked confidence in his
eracity, I cannot say, but she made ano
ther effort lo get farther off, which resulted
as such womanly eflorts often do) in a clo
ser contact.
"They are in the clothes-press," said the
otce, above alluded to. "iney ore not
p stairs, and they are not down celler,
nor in the long room, nor pantry, nor any-
bere else, and so they nr.st be here." It
as at length suggested to the seeker, who
remained at the door of the press, that he
should examine the premises' in question,
and thus tpst the truth ol his reasoning,
which suggestion he proceeded to act upon.
As he was entering, Miss Mills made an ef
fort to pass out, and as Ben made an eftort
to detain her till they were fairly discover-
d, there was a struggle, during which Ma
ry's cheek came vpry near Ben's face. In
considering the matter at a subsequent peri
od, when he was cool, and consequently
is judgment unbiased, he remarked to him
self confidently of course, "It is reasonable
to suppose that, under the circumstances of
the case, I must have kissed her -indeed I
have very little doubt about it in fact, I
remember in distinctly."
There is always some considerable ex-
ttement connected with the breaking up
f a party like the one under consideration.
There is always some embarrassment among
the rustic gentlemen when bonnet and
shawl time comes. He who can walk up
boldly to see her home, is regarded with
envy. low .Mis .Mary .Wills, as l nave
said, was always behind somebody, and of
course, she would not be one ol the first to
receive an oiler of attendance home. It
happened, on this occasion that she was
the one accessible, and that Ben was left to
go with her. It was with more than ordi
nary embarrassment that he offered her his
arm, end, though she accepted it, she kept
at a very respectable distance from him as
they walked along toward her mother's
humble dwelling. Ben felt that he had
a great deal that he wanted to say to her,
but did not know what to begin with. He
thought of saying "the moon is most down ;"
but, as the were walking loward the west,
it was to be presumed that she was already
as well convinced of that fact as she would
be after his most solemn assertion. He
thought of many other things, but in every
case some valid objection presented ilsell,
so that, though they had half a mile to
walk, they reached the door-stone belore a
word was spoken. Ben began lo grow
desperate, and at length succeeded in asking,
ii by no means a musical tone, "Shall you
be ut home to-morrow evening !"
"No, I am going away to-morrow," said
she, in a voice so sweet and plaintive that
a mist gathered over Ben's eyes."
"Where t.i ?" said he, too much interest
ed in the matter to pay much attention to
the manner of his phrase.
" I o western JNew-York,"
"How long are you going to stay 1"
"Till next spring."
"What for!"
"To teach school. Jwy mother's health
is ton feeble to work as she does. I am of
fered as much as we can both make by otir
needles here. She is to board this winter,
and not take in any work, but take care of
her health."
"Don't go.
"I must."
"You must not I T " There is no
telling what Ben might have said, if the
door had not opened, and Mrs. Mill had
not appeared. .
"Good night." said Mary
"Good night," said Ben; and he went
home to Pass a sleepless night.
The next morning he went early to Mrs.
.1ilU'j under pretence of purchasing her
corn.
"Why did you not tell me sooner that
vou were eoinz V said he to .Wary.
"I told you as soon as it came natural to
do so. I did not suppose you felt any par
ticular interest in my movements.".
"But I do, and can't bear to have you
go," and a tear broke out of bonds and ran
acio" cheek. ,
. "The stage has come," said Jhs. JMuls.
"Good by, toother," fervent
n a i ! ta I
embrace. "Oood oy, W. vujic," exieiW'
ing her asni
Ben walked by her side to the stage,
saying on the way, "Take care of yourself,
and don't feel uneasy about your mother.
I will take as good care of her as if she was
my own mother." JWary gave him a look
of thanks, which, as he afterward said, he
got framed and hung up in his memory.
He kept his promise in regard to -Mrs.
.Wills. Perhaps he made her write to her
daughter a little more frequently than was
perfectly convenient , but the accounts of
his fidelity to his promise, which the let- j
ters contained, prepared Mary, on her re
turn in the spring, to consent to his having
a legal right to call Mrs. MiUs mother a
right which he assumed in advance. Early
in April they jointly took possession of the
Northern Farm.
SKTTLI.HG A UISPITE. ; I
A late San Francisco paper has the fol
lowing account of a root proceeding in that
city, which very forcibly illustrates life in
California :.
"A party of four persons were spending
the Sunday quietly in playing all-fours.
One of the parties, however not content with
the chances of the game, and determined to
chain the fickle goddess lo his side, estab
lished a kind of telegraph with his partner,
by laying his hand carelessly on the table I
after each deal, and extending his fingers,
designating very inlelligbly the number of
trumps which he held. The device was in
genious and highly successful for a while,
but was unfortunately discovered by one of
his opponents who, on a repetition of tbe of
fence, very dexterously whipped out a
bowie-knife and cut off two fingers t The
unfortunate hombrt screamed with pain and
having picked lip hia stumps rushed from
the room. His partner inquired of the
amateur surgeon what his reasons were for
such conduct, when he quietly replied, "It
was fortunate for your friend that he had
no more trumps, or he certainly would
have wulked ofT with fewer fingers."-
Cool, that.
THE RAZOR. STnoP.
Smith the Razor Strop Man, occasionally
breaks ofl" from the subject of the very en
perior quality of his strops, and gives his
audience a short lectore on temperance in
his own peculiar and dtoll way. Here is an
extract :
' "When I drank giog, I owned a cat, a
poor lean, Jnntern jawtd thintr, that was al
ways getting into a scrape. As I had noth
ing for her to eat, she was compelled to
take to the high way, and the neighbors
were continually crying out, 'confound that
Smith's cat, she's drunk all my milk.'
Poor thing she had to steal or die, for she
could find no pickings at borne, for even the
poor mice were so poor and scraggy, that it
look several of them to make a shadow, and
a decent cat would starve lo death in three
weeks on an allowance of eighteen a day-
Bat when I relumed, things took a different
turn. The Kitchen being provided, Ihe
crumbs were plenty, and the old cat grew
fat and honest together. Even ihe mice
grew fat and oily, and old tabby would
make a hearty supper on two of them, and
then lie down and snooze with the pleasing
consolation of knowing when she awoke,
there would be few more left of tbe same
sort.
If a mork M'.voi'T, touching end beautiful
song than the following ever came from the
depth of the human heart, says tne Raleigh
(J C.) llroiaier, we have not seen it. It
wait wiillen for end sung by Catharine
Haves ut tier recent conceit in Kostou. The
words by George P. Morris tbe music by
William Vincent Wallace.
THY WILL BE DOM:.
Searcher of Hearts from mine erase
All '.houehis that should not be
And in it deep recesses trace
My gratitude to Thee !
Hearer of prayer 1 oh ! guide aright
Each word and deed of mine,
Life's battle teach me how to tight
Ami be the viuioiy Thine.
Giver of All! for every good
lu ihe Redeemer came :
For shelter, raiment and fur food,
I thank Thee in bis name.
Father nnd Son and Holy Ghost !
Thou glorious Thiee in One !
Thou kuowest best what 1 need most,
And lei tby will be done.
Ma. HiRAsi Wiixux, of Dayton, Ohio, in
assisting, about two weeks ago, to lake a
drunken loafer to jail, was bit by him on
one of his fingers. He paid but little alien
lion lo it, until a lew days subsequent it
became swollen and painful, wilh every ap
pearance of erysipelas. The ordinary reme
dies in such cases were applied, but the In
flamation epiead rapidly from Ihe baud lo
the arm, and finally lo the body grewing
worse and worse, until mortification put an
end lo bis life.
A old gentleman, by the name of Barton
recently died at Milfoid, Pike county, Pa
who was born in New Jersey in 1762, and
had never renounced his allegiance to the
British government. At the lime of the Re
volution he held a lieutenant's commission
He died a subject and a pensioner of the
Queen.
Nw Yoaa CHavsiA. Pance. The use
of Reservoir, Square has been granted lo Mr
Riddbj and others, for the term of five years.
at a nominal rent, for the erection t a Crys
tal Palace. Funds have also been appropri.
led for flagging the square, and to maintain
a sufficient constabulary police during the
I reriod, of, the .rMWlfln...
X - '
WAfcHISOTOS.
From Lord Mahon's lliatory of the American
: Revolution.
During many years did Washington con-
nue to enjoy the pleasures and fulfil the du
ies of an independent country gentleman
ield sports divided his lime with the culti
vation and improvement of his land, nnd the
sales of his tobacco; ho showed kindness to
is dependents, and hospitality to his friends i
and having been elected one of the House of
urgesses in Virginia, he was, whenever that
House met, exact in his attendance. To
that well regulated mind nothing within the
course of its ordinary and appointed avoca
ions seemed unworthy of its care. His led
gers and day-books were kept by himself;
he took note of all the houses where he par
took of hospitality, so that not even the
smallest courtesies might pass by unremem-
bered ; and until his press of business in the
Revolutionary War he was wont every even
ing to set down the variations of the wealh-
duringthe piecoding day. It wag also bis
habit through life, whenever ho wished to
possess himself perfectly of the contents of
any paper, to transcribe it in his own hand
and apparently with deliberation, so that no
point might escape his notice. - Many copies
this kind were after his death found
among his manuscripts.
We may observe, however, that in the mind
of Washington punctuality and precision did
not, m we often find them, turn in any de
gree of selfishness. On the contrary, he was
ther careless of small points where only his
own comfort was concerned. Thus he could
Idom be persuaded to take any remedy, or
esist ftom any business, when he caught a
cold, but used to say, "let it go as it came!"
Nor yet was his constant regularity of hab-
s attended by undue formality of manner.
one of his most private letters there ap
pears, given incidentally, and as it were by
hauce, a golden rule upon that subject :
As to the gentleman you mention 1 cannot
harge myself with incivility, or what in my
pinion is tantamount, ceremonious civility."
figure Washington was thin and tall
bovj six feet high,) in countenance grave
unimpassioned and benign. An inborn
orth, an unaffected dignity, beamed forth
every look as in every word and deed,
s first appearance and address might
not convey the idea of superior talents ;
uch at least was the remark of his accom
plished countryman, Mr Gallatin ; but no
man, whether friend or enemy, ever viewed
without respect the noble simplicity of his
emcanor, ihe utter absence in him of every
artifice and every affectation.
It has been justly remarked that of Gen
eral Washington there are fewer anecdotes
to tell than perhaps of any other great man
on record. ?o equally irameu were me
features of his mind, so harmonious all its
roportions, that no one quality rose salient
bore the rest. There were none of those
hequered ques, none of those warring emo
tions, in which Biography delights. There
was no contrast of lights and shades, no
flickering of the flame ; it was a mild light
hat seldom darr.led, but that ever cheered
nd warmed. His contemporaries or his
lose observers, as Mr. Jefferson and Mr
Gallatin, assert that he had naturally strong
passions, but had attained complete mastery
over them. In self-control, indeed, he has
ever been surpased. If sometimes on rare
occasions, and on strong provocation, there
was wrung from him a burst of anger, it
was almost instantly quelled by the domin-
ion of his will. He decided surely, though
he deliberated slowly ; nor could any utgon-
y or peril move him from hi serene com
.. i i i i j.i i
posure, tits cairn and Clear iieauuit guou
sense. Integrity ana iruin were aito ever
present in bis tuind. Not a single instance,
as I believe, can be found in his whole
career, when he was impelled by any but
an upright motive, or endeavored to obtain
an object by any but worthy means. Such
are some of ihe high qualities wnicn nave
justly earned for General Washinglou the
admiration even of the country he opposed
and not merely the admiration but tbe prat-
titude and affection of bis own. Such was
tbe pure and upright spirit to which, when
its toils were over and its earuny course naa
been run, was offered the unanimous horn-
age of the assembled Congress, all clad in
deep mourning for tbeir common loss, as to
"ihe man first in war, first in peace, and
first in the hearts of bis fellow-citizens."
At this day in the United States the revet-
nee for his character is, as it should be,
deep and universal, and not confined as
with nearly all our English statesmen, lo
one parly, one province, or one creed. Such
reverence for Washington is felt even by
those who wander furthest from the paths in
which be trod. A President when recom
mending measures of aggression and inva.
sion can still refer to him w hose rule was
ever to arm only in self-defence a, to "ihe
greatest anJ best of men !" S'ates which
exult in tbeir bankruptcy as a proof of their
superior shrewdness, ap J have devised "Re.
pudiation" as a newer and more graceful
term for it, yet look up lo their great general
tbe very soul of good faith and honor
with theic reverence unimpaired I
Um Taea oh tub IiTu.Mts. Tbe Pa-
nama Star states tbat a man nani' J JajDes
Linn, while hunting on tbe Ge,rgoG Road,
grew lired and lay down o a',eep uuJer a
tree. On waking he found his limbs and
body swelling, and death soon ensued. Tbe
Star says that a tree giows on ibe Isthmus
aader which cattle avoid eating or rurai-jtin
AMERICA IN THE YEAR leoe. '
On Ihe I2th of October, 1765, John Ad
ams, writing lo a friend, records the remark
able prediction remarkable Ihe whole letter
must be called, as proceeding from a young ':
man not yet quite twenly-i-that our people,
according to the exactest compulations, will
in another century become more numerous
than England itself. Five year from this
the time designated in the letter the pre
diction will be realized. In fifty years from
this, the city of New York will contain a
population of two millions of souls. A hun
dred millions of people, will occupy lbs
soil of our extended territory. Remote
deserts, unknown to lis in the solitudes of
the west ; will be smiling under the culture
of happy freemen. Flocks of sheep and
herds of cattle will supplant the elk and
buffalo. Natural obstacles to intercourse
will be removed ; the Rocky Mountains
will be tunnelled, and two oceans will meet
together. The Banks of our rivers and the
shores of our lakes will shine wilh opulent
cities : commerce will whiten oor waters ;
agriculluie cover the continent with wheat
and corn, and places now unknown to civil
ized men will resound with all the bum and
stir of busy life. The school boue and
church, those engines and hopes of freemen
will be reared fasl a the forest drops before
the march of enterprise. The churches
which we are now planting on onr frontier
will then be strong and able to reproduce .
and return tbe benefits they have received,
farther onward, and the missionary labors
commenced in this generations, in the heart
of paganism, will develope we know not
what results.
Our thoughts run forward to meet the men
who shall stand in our pulpits lo preach the
gospel of Cluist on tbe first Sabbath of the
next century. We welcome them, ere yet
they may be born to the unspeakable privi
lege of living in such an epoch of time.
We who write and read, now in adult life
will lake no part on the earth in the . wor
ship of that day. Our children, now in
the bud and promise of life, will be in our
places with the honors of age. ,
On the morning of that Sabbath, the fami
liar hymns which we now sing in our houses
and sanctuaries, will be sung in the crowded
cities of our sea-board, repeated by millions
of a religious people in towns and cities
through our extended interior, tolled onward
wilh the progress of the hours farther and
farther lo the West, till with the setting of
the sun, they die away amid tbe soft mur
murs of tbe Pacific. Tbe Islands of the
sea will catch tbe strain and as morning
breaks again on the orient, theie will be
multitudes in swarty India to re-echo the
praise, end roll it onward again around the
world. The day of universal jubilee will
surely come. Every year bear tbe world
nearer to its promised Sabbath. Genera
tions pass from the earth, but time does not
sleep. Dr. Adams.
II AS SHE AMY TIN.
"Oh ! do not paint her charms to me,
I know that she is fair 1
I know her lips might tempt tbe bee,
Her eyes wilh stars compare t
Sueh transient gifts I ne'er could prise,
M heart ihey could aol win :
I do not scorn my Mary's eyes,
Bill I as she any 'tin V "
"The fairest cheek, alas ! may fade,
Beneath the touch of year I
The eyes where light and gladness played,
May soon grow dim with tears 1
I would love's fires should to tbe last
Still burn, as they begin :
But beauty's reign so soon is past
So ; has she any 'tin V "
TASTE OF TtRNirS IS BITTER.
The following, from the Gardentr't Chroif
hie, a most able periodical, published in
England, is of great interest to all our north
ern farmers :
"About six or seven year ago, 1 saw it
stated in a provincial newspaper, that to
feed cows with turnips immediately after
being milked, and on no account to give
them any a short time before milking, pre
vented ibe milk or butter from tasting Of
turnips. Tbe method 1 pursue is this -.immediately
after being milked in Ihe morn
ing, they get a many turnips as they can
eat. During tbe day they are fed on bay,
and immediately after milking at bight,
they get the same quantity of turnips.
Tbe milk and butler are very much admired
by all who take them, both for color and
flavor, and 1 have often been called upon to
give a statement of our feeding) by visitor.
I have several time given the cows turnips
a short lime before being milked, just to
prove the thing. On such occasions the
milk and butler lasted Very strongly of
luruips."
LlTTKRiaa HORSE.
It is said that, in Sweden, hor . .
never littered. Plank floor aif- j,, jn ,njr
stables, perforated with he'.e t0 eoab!a tha
urine to How on so tnar we, ..j
ja.
little moisture, ran remain n
Ibose planks, kept cU-un) alti ,he) My
ing supplied. Tais ..rsotioe will
cover-
praouoe will appear
airangej . man';, especially le sellers in
this coup.try. , the Swede, attribute ta it
the aouti'j.nea. of their horses' feet. Their
Bnim-j!, are rarely foundered or . Una in
'.'tieir feet and legs, and no other precaution
are lakeu to prevent lb evil than that above
named. , . , h t
A late lourisl, in remarking on Ibis sob
jeol, say a: "Tbe founder, I consider to be
occasioned, in some degree, by Ihe animals
standing iu soft straw, which ia generally
moist if not wet. The Swedish aorta, ia
never affected by it, as he stands on a dry,
hard floor, without any beddios at all."-
Ulm Branch. m