ERIC AN
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II. B. MASSER, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
OFFICE, MARKET STREET, OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE.
l jramHa'ilcuispapcrHDirtotrt to 3Jol(t(cs, aacr.iturc, jfttoralfis, jForcfflit ana gomrstrc ilttos, atfcnce nutt the guts, agrtculturr, XHarfctug, amusements, &c
SS SKK1KS VOL. J, NO.
SUMIUIlf, NOKTIMJMnKHLANI) COUNTY. PA., RATtliliAY. MARCH SO.
OLD SKItlES VOL. ia, NO. 20
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JEMS OF THE AMERICAN.
AMERICAN l pntili.lied every Isiittirdav nt
.gnl.l.AKN per annum to lie paid half yearly in
A ,c paper Uiacontinued until all arrearages are
-inunicalion or letter, on lios'nieM relating to
t. to imure attention, rnn.t La 1'lifT PAID.
TO CLlllS.
eriei M addreaa, Pa no
JM Dl 10 IK)
, IJn ))i) 3(1 00
,inllir ill advance will pay for three year's enli
mto ll' American.
ounif of 1 liiiox. 3 tjinee,
nile(L'iit hin'rttoii,
iqimre, ii umuliiS,
J-'llHl!
rir.
CirJ f Fve """i annum,
kiuits hikI oilier.. iidverttBtntr by tlie
- wild lie privilege nf ijinurtiitf
"i'.-bi n(li'cili!inii weekly.
Iiojii AiiverrneiiiciitB, a. pit agreement.
ffi nn
45
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300
1000
mm IT a
tu a
AT LAW,
Somcr iiodjrass.
UfvmilJ. Mil'nrlund A: Co.,
!ieriiiK, Good A Co.,
T 'J' O It N H Y
ECSfEUHTT, PA.
nines attended loin the Counties of Nor
iKrlauil, l nion, Lycoming and Columbia.
Metier lot
V. ft A. Km omit,
l.nnrr ct llsirron,
Ittoniey and Cotmsellor at Law,
StfNBURY, PA.
ni.I. attend faithfi.'.'v and promptly to all
' professional husincsj, in Northuinl erland
IVion counties. J I o is tuniliar with the
man Isiifuaite.
iKFK.'K :- Opposite tlie "Lawrence House,"
Joors from the Court 1 1. nine,
miliary. Aim. 10. 1!1. ly.
SKG AUD SUKHER CLOTHING.
VniJVllODV should pmhrarc thi npportii- I
nity to Imiv Cl.f'TIMNt for .Men. Voulh I
Urn's. "I Mi'li prifcn n have n.-vor v?t hceu j
an'iu iiiii ic. m t;t;oiii;r. ("i.l.I.N'S !
jiiiiMi i'.sr.rii.iMiMr,.NT.south-F.!ist i
ncr nf Market ami f-.vnd StrcrU, l'liilnilid- J
, eml'rai inir rlioioc of the best, most dcsii u- j
lllnl i;iflli'Plull'le I
BSESS AITD TROCi: COATS, !
lit Clot'u do., J.incn Mriliiiiij do,, Tweeds.
, dr., together with H RreSt vtirivty of
Boys' Clothin0;,
fi.tine nf Pack Coiits. Polka J t .M, Mon
J.irki'tK, esis uml Hocnd ilarkcta made of
ed, Linen Dtilliiisr, Cloih, Alpncca, Kersa
, Uociikin, A;c.. &c.
articular care lma lieen (nken to procure the
lie.. alte-A" md Hoys' Smiiincr Coats,
rt)lnUiw, Vfit,-iW V ?r,i','h be wuulJ i"vi1''
apecial ulteiitioii.
Viinii!' Ww fioods.
CoDsistins of Shirts. Stocks. Handkerchief. cVv,
f which ore ollcrrd ut the (ii"cr romtue
1'rirrt, and n cheap as any other I I0U1I115
jti the loiion.
kts who desire Pots' Ci.othuo are ear-
nvir Vi rvutiHiip the Slock.
(hlry Stoiekeepera can he ucconimodalcd nt
low rates.
r;r.oi:cr. cn,ix,
5. Corner of Sicnnd If Market Sts Phila.
.pril 19, IS51. tf.
LIQHTNHJ'cf RODS.
lin auliserilier has constructed a I.IC5HT
NlNli Klll) on true I'hilosophiial priuri
1, hv which huildiuirs supplied with them are
lered pcrfcclly fcure against destruction l.y
Ininir. 'lTlc connection and insulation of the
. as well as the preparation ol Hie ground rod, ;
11 an entirely new pluii, makim; a more per- j
conductor than nnv heretofore in ue. j
deasiuea hove hecn taken to secure Letters
cut for the improvement.
wrurinir
SKLKCT POETRY.
TOO POOR TO PAY.
We; wpre so poor whon baby iliid,
And iiiollmr atilehnd his shroml,
Tl't oiliers in llicir liimair c-rieil
Willi aorrows wild ami loud i
U'e were so poor we I'ould nol psy
The innn to carry him away.
I fp liim at ill bpforo mv 05 en;
It lies upon tny bed ;
And tnothrr whispi-is I h rotryli lier sighs,
'Tim little buy I dead."
A lillle box of rumtmin pitto
liis collin wns mid nmy be mine !
Thoy laid onr lillle brntlier tml
And urappd his lorm in hilo,
Ai d ns ihcy turned his head about,
We s.nv 1 liu solemn sisjli',
And wept ns lit.le cliildicn werp,
And kihsed lite dead one in Ins sleep!
We looted our l ist upon his fiice,
And said our last iinod bin.
Whiles moltier l iid bitn in ihn place
When iIiosh me laid w ho die ;
The si'Ktou shoved llm box away,
Heeaueu wr? weie loo poor lo pay.
We were too poor In hire a lienrse,
Ami euiild'nt sji't a pall :
And when we druvn Intii lo t lie Riave,
A watrnu held us all :
'Twns I w ho drove the hnise, and I
Who told my mother not lo cry.
We rode alontr the crowded town,
And felt so lone and drear.
That oft our le us rami! Iiieklirifi down,
lv-ranse no friends were near.
Tlie foiks were strangers sellisli men,
Who ha In't Inst a baby Itien.
We reached ihe jrrnve and laid him there,
With all the d-ad around
There was no priest lo pay a prayer,
And bless the Indv proiind.
Po hum" w e went in iief and pain,
But hme was never home auuiu.
And there lie sleeps without n stone
In murk ibe s-ieied pot ;
lint ilinuli lo all the world unknown,
Bv us 'tis i.e'er fnrcot ;
We mean lo raise a stone some Hay,
B'it now we are loo poor lo pay.
a 'Sli etc I).
In the evening
f I 1
THE KECHAKICS' WIFE.
OK TIIC RtSl l.TS !' rrRSEVtRAXt E.
"Well, Augustus," Mid Marianne, as tlie
(ormer entered a little rnom which, with
out carpet, curtain or ornament of any
kind, served as kitchen, sitti nn room and
nursery, "we are really settled down at
house-keeping. J)on't it seem comfortable,
alter so many privations !"
"Yes," answered the youncr husband,
trying to smile, as he glanced first at his
handsome wile, and then at the neat little
pine supper table, and then at the cradle,
where slept a little charminv boy of six
mouths, "but mine is such a life of toil that
I have no time to enjoy anything not
even to play with Fred."
"J5ut it seems to me," returned the wife,
The connection and insulation of llm I very tliouplltlillly, "that it need not tie Usl
so. V e are not 111 nebt ; we both have
health, and I am willing to be very eco
nomical, in order that we may have time
for eniox nuTl and improvement, too. Say,
.1.-11 ... .i. . i
1... f M.,.r;., llm r ves an, Sliail we irv me e liriiui. 111 ;
Verty from dcstruciion hv liidilninij. can have j She handed him a etipol tea as sbe spoke,
ahiciors put up to their huihliiiirs in the most and looked up into his lace with a sweet
feet und aul.siautial manner, by nppWiiis ei- j an(j u,pe(u smile ; hut his lace was dead I V
Vr personally or hy letter, to the undendgued. . un,li(idt.n (ejr n njs eye
Tor 40 fu wiih soil pi tted point, ii- 1 u don't know how that can bo. Every
na tip, . ,:'rirt I moment taken Irom mv labor, is so much
Ami tucntv cents lor cverv aiiiiiuonai 1001 over
rortv. ' T. S. MACK K V.
Slilton. S.pt. n, lr,l ly.
taken Irom our scanty income. We can-
not afTord to attend places ol public amuse-
. meut 11 our present low style 01 iivinjr, fp,.ll(j lls college vara'ion at
we cannot nniiirle 111 the lust soriety, and ; 0l,,,r vvas a la trraceful uirl
Alden'a ronflensed RcnortS of Peillia
at-S-I Puhlishcd, and for sale l.y the auhscri- j I will never consent to enter any oilier
9$ her Iho Stfunit Volume of Alden'a Con- than good society, it we live alone ; and
densrj lViinsylvania Keporls, conUinin? the iU f.)r improvement, my erincalioil was so
lail three volumes of Yemen' lieports. ami two ,1M1,,.,.tHl jn mv childhood, that I have lit
'irst volumes of llinney'a KepmU. The lirst vol- j ' ,aslt, far fUy,, ad besides, we have
111110 oi lmen, couiiiitiiiit; i.iii , .
uiiips: and Yeales" IleiiorU. volume I, is also on
vice and the Bible Class,
we will read."
"I've no objection to that, but as a com
pensation for my Bible Class, you inut join
the Ladies' Sewing Circle, and I will take
care of Fred one alternooti in the week, to
let you go."
"Thank you, dear husband, I will gladly
accept your oiler, if you will let me btay
alone one evening in the week, while you
attend our excellent Lyceum Lecture.
And now let us begin this very evening,
1 (eel that every moment is lost till we do.
We have much encouragement. Only
think of the many learned men who have
educated themselves, and risen lo respecta
bility and usefulness, wholly through their
own exertions, even after they were some
what advanced in life. Roger Sherman
for instance, and Elihu Burritt, and a host
ol others."
The vonnz wife became quite enlhusias-
tic as she proceeded, and would have spent
the whole eveningjn her disquisition upon
self-education, had not Freddy, awaking
from his nap, required some maternal at
tention. Augustus look up the Bible, and read a
good chapter in Proverbs, on Ihe practical
duties ol lite, and declared that he had nev
er before read such a chapter. The plan
was fait ly begun.
Augustus was a pale, spare young man
of nine and twenty. His education, as he
said, had been sadly neglected in his youth.
He hail been bound apprentice to a rough
shoemaker in the country, and had unhap
pily settled the question in his own mind,
that he was doomed to ignorance, and a
low and degrading employment for life.
lie had imagined, also, that his relations
were willing lo loe sight of him, and his
sensitive nature was stung lo ihe quick.
After a few years of vexation and toil, he
wandered far away from home and friends
1 and familiar i ssocialions : and a wonder it
I was, that he w-ts not hurried away by the
! awful whirlpool of error and vice, and
dabbed upon the rocks of utter destruction !
He had, however, been favored with the
instructions and prayers of a christian mo
ther, and had seen examples in his own
family, of high purpose and noble and snc
cesslul eflort. lie had, therelore, preserv-
l ed an unsullied reputation, had acquired a
j little property, had married an intelligenl,
cnei-riui, iieaiiny gin 01 twenty summers,
had removed to a city of shoemakers,'
where his occupation was honorable, and
where his aspiration after respectability
and independence might hope lo be real
ized. But on the afternoon preceding his con
versation, he had been unusually annoyed.
He had sufiered some embarrassment in get
ting settled in his humble tenement had
sustained some losses, and heard a bitter
sarcastic remark from an aristocrat of that
place, which crimsoned his pale cheek and
sent him home through a cold rainstorm,
wearied ill body, depressed, vexed in spirit,
and almost determined never to make an
other effort.
He was, and supposed he ever must be a
poor shoemaker of L.
Twenty years had elapsed, and a fimily
group were arranged around a marble cen
tre table, in the parlor of a magnificent
house in the cily ol L . A gentleman
of some fifty years, had jut divested hiin
sell ol his outer garments, and dressed in a
rich velvet gown mid embroidered slippers,
sat reading the journals of the day. A la
dy some years younger, sat by his side, her
face beaming with intelligence, benevo
lence and gratified pride, as she gazed at
her dignified and honored husband, and
then at the lovely group ol children around
the table.
One was a noble youth just returned to
home; an
of sixteen,
tears, his lip quivered, he covered his face
with his handkerchief, and tor some time
no whisper was heard from the astonished
audience around him. He was thinking of
the poverty and iannrance of his early
days of the religious errors which had
well nigh caused his destruction of Ihe
way in which ft kind watchful Providence
bad led his thoughtless steps, amid all Ihe
dangers around him of the blessing he had
received in his lowly, admirable wife, of
the days of toil, and nights of hard study,
in which she had shared, and cheered him
on like an angel ol light and love, and
honors which now surrounded him. At
length he uncovered his face and amid sti
fled sobs said to his wife, "tell the children,
dear, the conversation we had together,
just twenty years a?o to-night, around our
little pine tea table."
He was the shoemaker of L .
and indeed an extremely
Bui, with Ihe cry of agony,
IS siOT THIS TOO Tlltf,
"Tlie guy will lnuh(r
VVlien tlion art K",ie, the solemn brood of care
Plod 011 and each one us liefme will chane
His favorite pliuiil'itn.,'-l)aVA?fT.
A few friends will go and bury us af
fection will rear a stone, and plant a few
flowers over our prave in a brief period
the lillle hillock will be smoothed down,
and the stone will fall, and neither friend
nor stranger will be concerned to ask which
of the forgotten millions of the earth was
buried there. Every vestige that we ever
lived upon earth will have vanished away.
All the little memorials of our remem
brance the lock ol hair encased in gold,
or the portrait that hung in our dwelling,
will cease to have the slightest value to
any living being.
VALUABLE inrnoVEMKMT IN FIREARMS, had expected,
We had an iinDorlnnilv on yesterday, of aareeable one.
inspection the self-loading rifle, recently in- I she answered that there wns no rest in hell;
that they must ever toil at on tnose very
easnres 1 and innumerable voices echoed
venlrd and patented bv Col. P. W. Porter,
of Tennessee. Onr attention had been drawn
to Ibis subject some weeks since by observ
ing the pioeeediugs of the Tennessee legisla
turf, in which this fire-arm was spoken of in
the strongest terms of commendation, and in
w hich Ihe poTernor of ihe Slate was instruct
ed to call fni the use of this arm lor the use
of the milil irt of Tennessee, instead of Ihe
musket. After examining the pun for our
selves, we have arrived at the same conclu
sion of Ihe members nf the Tennessee Legis
lature and Ibe prominent military men of
thai Stale. We n-aard it as the most impor
tant impiovemeiit made jn small arms for
years and one of w hich Ihe government ought
to avail itself.
The rifle is used either as a revolver or a
self loader. As a revolver, it fires eight
times in succession, and may be immediately
converted into n self-loader, when it fires
from thirty to sixty limes in succession, ac
cording to the sizu of the magazine used.
As a revolver, it can be discharged sixteen
times in half a minute; and as a self-loader,
from thirty to fifly limes in a minute. It is
a beautiful gun, and is liuht, and easily bun
dled. The piiuciple may be applied to the
shot (run and pistol, and we are informed by
Col Porter thai he is having finished one of
each, which will be exhibited iua short lime.
The rule shoots with as much accuracy as
Ihe ordinal y tide, und with greatly more
force; whilst it can be used with efficacy in
any kind of weather.
Col. Porter i haviup; his rifles manufactur
ed nt Taunton nnd Worcester, in Alassachn
setts. liuth these manufactories are exten
sively prepared for this business. Washing
ton Union.
Pi
through the interminable vaults, "There is
rest in hell !" whilst throwing open
their
ever
A M Mil I. Alt IlltEAM.
Pome ninety years aso, there flourished
1 (Jlasgoiv n club of younu men, which
0'Coxxri.t.'3 Last Appearance 1 nir.
IIoisk or Commons. D'lsraeli inscribes this
scene in lite ' Life of Lord (leorge Bciilinck
"He sat in histiual place in thai ceneral-
ly occupied by Ihe leader of the opposition,
and spnkfl from the red bov, convenient to
him from ihe number of documents lo which
he had lo refer. His appearance was of ureal
,i..i.ii;i,r n.,,i 1,;. ...... -1.11 11,
... . ' from the extreme profligacy of its members,
ivnr.la in. !.,... I mil., I. ... I it...-. . I J t
....... a Kill. I, .III, -,. ir. 1 Mu.u III' A If I . I I . ' t . I
, and Ihe licentiousness of their orgies, was
immediately around him, and the listeners ' . 1.. 11 1 .1.. 11 11 ri 1 u 1
' . commonly called Ihe Hell Club. Besides
nniiiiL: ,ii inn innn i uu i llie "reeil : u e, .1 1 .1 11 . .t l 1 1
n I their iiiiMitlv or week v meet nr. thnv held
" J J n 1
one piand annual saturnalia, in which each
one tried to excel the other in drunkenness
and blaspbemv ; and on these occasions
there was no star amongst thein whose lurid
light was more conspicuous than that of
young Mr. Archibald It., who endowed with
and listening with that interest and respect
ful attention which becomes the occasion.
It was a strange and touching spectacle lo
those who remembered Ihe funn of cullossal
energy, and Ihe clear and thrilling tones that
had once disunited and controlled senates
Mr. O'Connell was 011 his legs foi neatly two
hnursjiissistod occasionally in Ihe management
nothing to read."
"O, yes," said the wife, "we have enough
to begin with. Here is our beautiful new
gilt Bi'de, which we must read every morn
ing and evening; and here is our newspaper,
iiuu.l 11 ml lor ..lc. 1' he otiove two volumes are
complete within themselves, and contain all of
Dallas' Ktports, 4 volumes, and all of Yc.itcs'
KeporL, 4 volumes, besides Ihe two firat volume
if Uituicy's lteporl. The third volume is ready
tad will bo put to press immediately.
II. U. MASfiEIt, A sent.
Runbury, Aug. 1G, IrtSI.
NATIONAIt HOTEL,
SHAMOKIN, j
Horthumbrftand County, Pa.
THE auliserilier respectfully informs hisf.ien.ls
and the puhlic generally, that he has upen- j
J a new Hotel in the town of Hhamokiii. .or- ;
fcumlK-rland county, on the corner 01 isiiaiuokin . . . ... , jito fi am) QW
. nd.rlU nillMlHIIH 111 1. 11 ...
ina voinuierc mcci., ... -ri
louse he formerly kept. He is well prepared lo
who had finished a long recitation to her
brother, and vvas pi epaiing to cheer the cir
cle with In r ever welcome music nil the
piano. A bright boy of twelve was per
forming a problem in mathematics, and a
little cherry-clucked girl was drawing pic
tures on her slate, and teazing every body
to teach her.
Presently the doorbell announced a visW
tor. A person entered and presented a
with good improving matter enough tiast tu()9rriptioii for religious charily
one or two evenings in a week, and you p . , hundred dollars." said
tan easily have a share in a public library ,ip , anJ )e co,ector parted
to till up Hlf rest
"Rut how shall I find time, my good
pluming wile."
"Thank you, Angus! 11s, for the compU-m-
nl, and now I w ill plan on : We will
rise early, and work diligently all d.iy.
Then, if von think you need to work lon
ger, von can bring your work into my room,
xcoinmuilale his gueaU, and 1 also provided
sitU Rood stabling. He trusts hia exrience,
ind strict attention to business, will induce per
ions visiting the coal reiou to continue the lili
iral patronage he has heretofore received.
F WILLIAM WKAVEK.
-okiii. April 19, 18R0. tf.
JAMES II. MAGEi:
B A IS removed from bis old Stand, .No. 118
Q U Vine .trce.t, to ,
Vo. 52 Diltwyn St., (brt'n Crf'hilt If Willow,)
vhere he has constantly on hand,
BROWN STOUT, PORTER,
Ale and Cider,
FOR HOME CONSUMPTION OR BHIPriNO.
N. B Coloring, Ttottling, Wire and Bottlea,
t'ine gar, Ac. For sale as above.
Philadelphia, April IS, 1851 ly.
Lycoming Mutual Insurance Company.
DR. I. B. MASKER is the local agent for the
above Insurance Company, in Northumher-
and county, and ia at all times ready to affect
naurances againat fire on real or personal pro
terty, or renewing policiea for the same.
Hunhury, April 36, 1851. tf.
f NK Boureau's celebrated ink, and also Con'
grea ink for tale, wholesale and retail hv
pMambei 38, 180. H B MA65ER.
of us will read and tend the baby while the
other works. Won't that be a good plan 1"
"I rather think it will," said the husband,
beginning to show a little more interest,
"but I'm thinking also, that my hesitating
and hlundering manner of reading will not
be very edifying to you. 1 shall make but
sorrv work of it."
"Well, suppose you do. I have a Web
ster's Dictiouary, and we will have that
open before us, and look out every word of
which we do not understand the meaning.
If our progress is slow at first, we shall
have nobody to laugh at us, and we shall
soon find ourselves improving rapidly."
Augustus smiled incredulously, but seem
ed disposed to encourage his wife to go on.
You are indeed a noble planner; but what
shall we do on the Sabbath T I suppose yon
expect to advance fast in the 'inarch ol
mind,' when we have a whole day to our
selves. "Yet,M said Marianne, "I think we may ;
though our arrangements rru:t be somewhat
modified. You know we have a seat in
Dr. C ' Church. You must join the
young men's Bible Class, and prepare the
lesson-in the morning, while I attend the
meeting. Then I will stay in the after
noon, and let you go to th afternoon ser.
blessing the giver.
When he was gone, the gentleman said
"my dear, did you think to send Ihe coal
and flour to the poor woman on the cor
ner?" Yes, and Frederick and Mary have
been to see that sick family, and car
ried the clothes and the medicines." "Yes
papa, said little Kate, looking up from the
house she was drawing, "they carried away
my new stockings." "Shall 1 send and get
them back again?" said the father. "O
no, indeed," said the child, "I sent them.
Poor little Charley's feet were cold and
bleeding,"
The father now remarked that it was
time for family woiship. In a moment all
was silent honks, slates, papers and work
were all laid aside. A neat gilt bible, bear
ing the marks of constant usage, was
brought. The son read an interesting pop
tion. The whole family joined in a Cam'
iliar hymn, and the father led in prayer,
and worshiped the Father of mercies in
spirit and truth, from the fulness or a grate
ful heart.
After an interval of silence, the son look
ed up as if from a reverie and said "Fa
ther, I think 1 have heard you say, that
your youth was neglected, that you were
once poor, illiterate, almost an infidel and
entirely discouraged. It would be ex
tremely interesting to us to learn by what
means the mayor of this good city, the
honored trustee of our college, the superin
tendent of our Sabbath school, and the dea
con of our church, has arisen from so un.
promising beginnings, to hia present sta.
tion."
Tbs eyes of the good man filled wtth
brilliant talents and a handsome person, had
lill.l n.t i.ru.1 ,An....lfia 1., I.ta Kn.-l.nn.l n .. 1 1
. i . , r . i .- . . I i".-'.. ;ii. ri'.niipn in iiic uui iiuuii, mi"
... . . ,, , ', raised hope which had been completely
III lhf hnil.A rTMIIOr'.ltt If IV- I. 1 .rnrm nna ' ' '
. , , , r , , , ,, . '. frustrated by his subsequent reckless dissi
of dumb shew, a feeble old miitleriiiB b( fore p.,,j01
a table ; but respect for l ho "real parliamen- n r. . r .x
' ' ,, .- One morning after reluming from Ihe an
lary personnce kept all as orderly as if the , r , , , , , ,, ,
. ' ' . ' . i nual festival, Mr. Arcbbald B., having re
lnrtniit.fi nt n njrlv limirv iimin hid rnalnrii. ' ! ' 0
, , , , , , . ,' tired lo bed be dreamed the following
ami nllliminrl, mil ,. ., a...,.,! pu.inl.ml Ilia ....!- I
- .s... ...c g-i-
lery, means were taken tho next morning that
I ho country should not loose Ihe last, and not
the least interesting speeches of one who
had so long occupied and agitated the mind
of nations.
i nc km iiicr.
'I noticed," said Fiauklin, "a mechanic
among olheis, at wotk on a house erecting
but a lillle way from my otliee, who al
ways appeared lo bo in a merry humor, who
had a kind wuul and a cheerful smile, for
eveiy one be met. Let I lie day be ever so
cold, gloomy or sunless, a happy smile dan
ced like a sunbeam on his choeiful counte
nance. Meeting him one morning I asked
him lo tell me the secret of his co istaul happy
thnv of spirits. "No secret, 0 .'' he replied,
"I have got one of the best of wives, and
when I lo work, she idways has a kind . his desperate efforts to escape, the rider was
word of encouragement for me, and when j thrown ; but instead of being dashed lo ihe
I go home, she meets me with a smile and a cailh as he expected, he found himself still
kiss, and Ihen tea ir. sure to be ready, and , falling, falling falling stilt, ns it sinking m
she has done so many little things through , the bowels of l lie eailb
Iho day to please me, ihat I cauimt find it j At lengih n period being put to this mys
in my heart to speak an unkind word to ' terious descent, he found breath to inquire
anvbodv." What an influence ihen halh of his companion, who was still beside
woman over the heart of man, lo soften il ' him, wbilherthey weie going. 'Where am It
and make it the fountain of cheerful and j Where are ymi taking me V he exclaimed.
pure emotions hpeak gently, Ihen ; a hap- ; "To hell !" replied the stranger, and irn-
py smile and a kind word of greeting, after mediately interminable echoes repealed
the toils of the day ate over, cost nothing, ; ihe feaiful sound 'lo hell ! lo hell ! to
und (o far toward making a home happy , hell !'
and peaceful." j At length a light appeared, which soon
ineieased to a blaze ! but instead of the
Ixm-sTR.ocs Ta.o in California. Near i . lim(.Mlaiions which
Formuu. ranch, about ten miles south oft ,ho ,,.rrifi,.,, raveler expected, nothing met
Ibis place, may be see,, daily wo.king in a . ig bu, of mir,h am, jr,i(J.
gluch, wtth commendable perseve.ance and', ... f(m.,(, himself at the entrance of a
d ream
He fancied that he himself was mounted
on a favniite black horse that he always
rode, nnd he was proceeding towards hi
own bouse then a country seat embow
ercd with trees, and l.irming pait of Ihe
city when a stranger whom the daikness
of Ilia night prevented his distinctly discern
ing, suddenly seized Ins horse's rein, saj ing
"You must go with me !"
' And who are you V exclaimed Ihe
nnng mi
he struggled to fiee himself.
"That J on will see by nnd by," returned
the other, in a tune that excited unaccnuuta'
; Lie terror in llm youth, who plunged his
; spurs iulo his lmrsc attempted lo fly but in
' vain. However fast the animal flew, the
' stranger was beside linn, till at length,
vests, each disclosed in his bosom an
burning flame. These they said,
were the pleasures of hell ; their choice on
earth was now their inevitable doom. In
Ihe midst of the horror this scene inspired,
his conductor returned, and, at his earnest
entreaty, restored him again lo earth ; but,
as he quilted him, he said, ' Remember, in a
year and a day we meet again."
At this crisis of his dream, the sleeper a-
woke, foveiish and ill ; and, whether from
the eflect of the dream or of bis preceding
ies, be was so unwell as to bo obliged lo
keep his bed for several days ; during
hich period hn had lime for many serious
reflections, which terminated in a resolution
to abandon the club and his licentious com
panions altogether.
He was no sooner well, however, Ihen
they flocked around him, bent on recovering
so valuable a member of their society ; and
having wrung from him a confession of the
cause of his defection, which, as may be
supposed, appeared lo Ihem eminently ridi
culous, they soon contrived to make him
ashamed of his good resolutions. He joined
them again : nnd resumed his former course
f life; and when the annual saturnalia
came round, he found himself with his glass
in his hand at the table, when the president
rising lo make Ihe accustomed speech, be
an with saying, ' Gentlemen, this being
leap year, il is a year and a day since our
ast anniversary." &e. The words struck
upon the young man's ear like a knell ; but
ashamed to expose his weakness to the
jeers of bis companions, he sat out the feast
plying himself with wine even more liber
ally than usual, in order to drown his in
trusivc thoughts, till, in ihe gloom of a win
ter's morning he mounted bis horse to ride
home. Some hours afterwards, his hoise
was found with his saddle nnd bridle on,
quietly grazing by the road side, about half
way between the cily and B's house, whilst
a few yards oil' lay the coipse of his mas
ter.
This Is a true story and no ficlion ; the
circumstances happened as bete related.
An account of it was published at the time,
but the copies were brought up by Ihe
family. Two or three, however, were pie
served, and Ihe narrative was printed.
Mrs. Crow's Nightside of Nature.
THE PRINTERS AHEAD.
At the printer's Festival, given last week
in ihe city of Boston, Mr. Bigelow, of the
Evening Post, in responding lo a toast, allu
ded to tho honesty and good character of
practical printers. He said he esteemed it
an honor at all times to appear as the repre
sentative of the Press, but he felt it more
highly when called to be its representative
among a company ol rriulers. lie might
stale a reason why he made that distiuc
lion.
Some six or seven years ago he had the
honor of being the inspector of Piisons, and
he visited Sing Sing more than once. Il
was pail of bis duly to observe tho interest
ing features of the interior of that institution
and lo notice their difference from the fea
tures of the exterior world. There were
nine hundred prisoners there of every nation
age and sex, as well as of every color He
found represented there every giade of
character, calling and pursuit, with one ex
ception. There were tradesmen, mechan
ics, doctors, ministers, all represented, but
he never knew a practical printer lo bo an
inmate of ihe Slate Piison, nor had one
been known for a quarter of a century pro
vinns. That was a very creditable fact, and
be would conclude by proposing
"The memory of that honorable calling
hich was unrepresented in the State Pri
son." Cheers.
DUTCH DA.V I.HU IN OLDEN TIMES.
An antiquarian correspondent of ihe Knick.
erbockcr Magazine, has contributed a remin
iscence of by gone days, w hich shows that
Ihe polka was not unknown among the early
I'litcli setllersoflhe Jerseys, although ilscon-
comitanls of dress, as well as Ihe 'poetry of
motion,' have been somewhat ctherialized
since the days of 'Old Diedrich.' The cor
respondent of the Knickerbocker says :
All the girls in the neighbothood came
in wagons late in the afternoon, each ac
companied by an old Dutch negro, to Make
care of the horses and young missus.' The
boys arrived rather later, and found the girls
sealed cloe together on one side of the
room, and each a blaze of gaudy colors !
Could chromatography have been known in
those days ! Red boddicevith sky bluo
skirts, and green ribbons nroWrl tho waist i
artificial loses in their hair asarge as tha
one that used to suimount the haggis at
Mistress Nicholson's on a Burn's festival,
and cheeks as red almost as (he hoddice ;
blood-red cornelian beads around the neck,
and occasionally pea green gloves ! The
boys wore their hats with a new pipo in the
hat-band, and nails in their shoes, which
had a pyrotechnic effect when brought
in collision with the sand on the floor.
I really believe that some of these nails,
must have been made j?jateel, for they
made the fire fly UjsJmlously, about the
lime they took 4ssTueir coats to dance in
earnest.
After the boys had gin slings all around,
and offered the last gill in each glass, with
an extra doso of nutmeg, to some favorite
girl, the dancing began. The first boy that
threw a sixpence in ihe fiddler's hat was
entitled lo ihe first partner. He usually se
lected her by a wink ; but such a wink !
All the upper part of his body winked, hat
included ; and after putting Ihe end of her
linger inlo her mouth, and throwing her
head a Utile nn one side, to show a proper
degree of coyness, up rose tho fair paitner ;
and her father's best negro, usually crouch
ed in the corner of the fire place, would
sometimes call out : "Dai's my young mis
sus ; can't she dance, dough ?" And so
she would ; for with a shuffling step, both
she and her partner seemed intent on tiring
each other out. When the parties became
really faggjd, off went the boy's coat, and
then the nails in his shoes were brought to
bear on a fresh handful of white sand
thrown on the floor fur his especial benefit.
FORMATION OF HABITS.
Success in life depends in a great measure)
on the early formation of our habits. Whe
ther our giand object be wealth or fame, Or
that nobler or.e, exalted virtue, we must
shape our habits to that object ot we fail.
What enabled Franklin to obtain Ihe highest
honors of philosophic fame ; lo stand, as hm
expesses it, "before kings," and what is bet
ter, lo live in Ihe memory of his countrymen 1
The early formation of good habits. The1
persual of his auto-bigrnphy, which no young
man should omit, w ill show what those habit
wore. What made Girard the richest citizen
of our country, and Ihe benefactor of his
race! The formation of early habits of fru
gality, disinterestedness and self-denial.
Such habits are not formed in a day, nor will
I hey result from a few faint resolutions.
They are the result of continued efioit.
energy, a liio composed of two American la
dies an 1 a enllenian. While Ihe gei.l picks
and shovels, one ot the ladies whoso cos
tu tuts is a silk dress covered wiih a man's
coat, as near, we suppose, us she can imitate
the Bloomer in the mines carries Ihe diit lu
lite rocker, where the oilier lady sila work
ing wiih all the assiduity of an old miner.
We wish California was well supplied w ith
such ladies as these, w ho, instead of hanass
ing their husbands about "woman's lights''
and "Tiiikish costumes," would wash as i
well as rock the cradle.
Death or a Military Doc The Dutch
papers announce Ihe deaih of Nestor, a dug,
who has followed the fifth division of infan
try, now in garrison at Maestrict, in all their
marches since 1837. lid was with the regi
ment in their last campaign, and at the siege
of Antwerp lost a claw by a shot from a how
itzer. Returned to Muestricht, be spent
there the last twenty years of his life, and
died in his tweniy-fourih year. He was sol
emnly interred under ibe wall of the fortress
Tuc best dowry to advance the marriage
of a young lady, is to have in her counte
nance mildness, in her speech wisdom,' and
in her behaviour modesty.
so pa ib building, far exceeding any he had
seen constiucled by human hands. Within,
too, wa a scene ! No amusement, employ
ment, or pursuit uf man on earth but there
was being carried on wiih a vehemence that
excited his unutleiable amazement. There
lha young and lovely still swarm through
tho maze of the giddy dance ! There the
panting steed still bore his brutal rider
through the excieineut nf Ihe goaded race !
There, over Ihe midnight bowl, the intem
perate still drawled out the wanton song or
maudeling blasphemy ! The gambler plied
forever his endless game, ami llm slaves of
mammon toiled through eternity their bitter
task ; whilst all the magnificence of earth
paled bsfore lhat which now met his view
He soon perceived that he was among old
acquaintances, whom be knew te be dead
and each, he observed, was pursuing the ob
ject, whatever it was, that had formerly en
grossed him ; when, finding himself relieved
of the presence of his unwelcome conductor
he tentured to address his former friend,
Mrs. D , whom he saw sitting, as had
been her wont on earth, absorbed at loo
requested ber to rest from lha game, and
introduce him to the pleasures of tha plaoo
which appealed lo ba vary unlike what he
Time and Eternity. We step the earth
we look abroad over it, and il seems im
mense so does the sea. What ages had
men lived and knew but a small portion.
They circiimnnvigate it now with a speed
under which its vast bulk shrinks. But let
the) ustronomer lift up his glass and he
learns to believe in a total mass of matter,
compared with which this great globe itself
becomes an imponderable grain of dust.
And so to teach us walking along the road of
life, a year, a day, or an hour shall seem
long. As we grow older Ihe time shortens ;
but when we lift up our eyes lo look beyond
this earth, our seventy years, and the few
thousands of year which have rolled over
ihe human race, vanish into a point ; for
then we are measuring Time againat F.ter-
nity.
The amount of freight received from the
east is now very large. The agents of the
Pennsylvania Rail Road Company, Covode
and Graham, yesterday received fifty wagon
loads, one of which contained probably the
greatest weight ever brought to Pittsburgh
in one wagon viz: 11,871 pounds. riris.
eurga Gazette.
To ci.EAa a well of foul air, pot a quart or
two of unslacked lime in a bucket and be
fora lowering it inlo the well, pour a suili
oient quantity of water on the lime to slack
it ; then let it down to the water but nut so
as lo go inlo it. In a few minutes the well
will ba cleared of foul air, tha slacking
lima either taking up lha noxious air or foi.
cing it out of tha well.
A Tar growing sick of his business, de
serted bis ship and went into ihe country
and hired himself out to a faimer. He was
immediately set to plowing, with a yoke of
oxen and an old mare, called Jin.
The sailor being wholly unacquainted
with llie management of Ihe tacks, sheets,
and bow lines of his old mare and oxen, in
hit first Rttempl to put about, missed stays,
by turning the yoke, threw Jin and the ox
en all down in a heap together.
Jack, frightened with the confusion, baw
led out for help. The farmer asked, "What
is the matter V
"Mailer I matter enough," by conscience,
replied Jack, "The larboard ox has got on
the staiboard side old Jin has got foul in
the rigging, and they are all going to the
bottom stern formost."
Icinr ior Cakes. Beat Ihe whites of
two eggs to a high froth ; then add a quar
ter of a pound of ground or powdered sugar ;
beat It well till it will lio in a heap ; flavor
with lemon or rose. This will fiosl the top
of a common sized cake. Place w hat wilt
be sufficient on the top of the cake, then
dip a bioad-bladed knife in cold water and
spread the ice evenly over Ihe whole
surfute.
Bread without Cbist. When tha
loaves are moulded, and before they aro
set down to "rise," take a small portion of
clean laid, warm it and rud it lightly over
the loaves. The result will be a crust beau
tifully soft and tender throughout ; this is
cot guess work.
I PITT the unbeliever. He sees nothing
above, around, or beneath him, lhat evinces
the existence of a God ; he denies yea,
while standing on the foolstool of omnipo
tence, and while gazing upon the dazzling
throne of the Eternal, he shuts his intellect
lo the light of reason, and Denies there i
A aoU.Ckatmers.
Fraud in Gold Piec It is stated that
a number of ten and twenty dollar gold pie.
ces are in circulation at Pituburg, having
boles first bored through Ihem, and then aq
uioely filled up as lo render dateotjon very
difficult.