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NEW SEltlKS VOL. 5, NO.
StJMMIltV, NOIITIIUMUKIILANI) COUNTY. PA., SATL'JIDAY, AUGUST 91, 18.19.
OLD SERIES VOL. 12, NO. 48.
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TERMS OF THE AMERICAN.
tX"Ei amer1CAN i" pul.li.heil evev Salnnloy at
TWO DOI.LAltSJ per milium to be luiid I';ilf ye.-irlv in
eiu panel iHRcuiiliiuu-d until all arrears ure
ipaid.
All communications or letter, on business rrlnnng to
tht uffice, to insure attention, mint Iw POST 1'AIU.
To CLUBS.
Three copie. to one adtlrew, f ''0
Hr.vrn u Do iii(K)
Fiiteen jj u ti 1
Fivedollnri In ailvmicn will nay for three yaiu's nuli
eriptiou to the American.
One Sounie of 16 line, 3 tinu-i,
r very uliaeqitrnt inat-rliiiii,
Jne 8(unre, 3 muntli.,
Hix months,
One year,
IfiiKiness Cards of Five linrs, per umintn,
Merchant, nnd others, iidvcrtisinir hy Hie
year, with the privilege of inserting
ilitrereut adx-ertisemeiits weekly.
fa Larger Adverliseiucnts, as per agreement.
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Business attended to in the Counties of Nor
thumberland, Union, Lycoming ami Columbia.
Krfvr tot
P. fi A. lhwoudt,
Lower & liarron,
Homers & -noilirrnss,
Reynolds, McKarland & Co.
Snoring, (ioud A Co.,
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Phil ml.
H. J. WOLVERTON,
ATTCPJlTET AT L-T7".
OKFICK in Market street, Sinihun , ailj.'iiiim;
(lie Ollicc of tin' "American" and opposite
the I'ost Ollicc.
Dusiuoss promptly ntlended to in Nortlntinher
laud and the ntliuiiiiiiK Counties.
K:rKn to: lion. ('. W. llesiiis and 11
nan. I'littsvillu : lion. A. .Ionian and 11 II
ISan-Mos-
scr, Suiihurv.
April 10," 1832. ly.
J. STEWART DEPUY.
I
4 T North 2d street, above Wood,
L- dtnrnt District.1! l'llilaili'lnliill. would
- -" . I
respectfully rail llio attention nlli'isl'iii-nils
and the public, in m-ncral, tn his Inrue. and
well selected utofk of Carpets, Oil (,'leths,
Mattings, Window chides, Mair Kuds,
Ac., &.c.
Venilian Cnrpelinf: from 7 ets lo 1011 elspervil.
lucrum " 1- " Wl " '
Three Ply Inn " IT, "
lliussels " 111! ' t-'ill "
Door Malls. He would invite the atten
tion of di alers and others to his Inrjro Mock
of Dont Mulls wliii'h he manufactures
in jreat variety ond of splendid quality.
Oil Cloths, from 1 yard to S yards wide
wholesale, and retail.
April 10, l.r)2. fun.
HARRISBURG STEAM WOOD j
riH'H.MXO AND SCKDI.I, NAvVIxr:
81101'. Wood Tuniinir in all its brunches,
in city style and ill city prices. Kvcrv variety of
Cabinet nnd Carpenter work either on hand or
turned to order.
lied Posts, llalusters, liosrlts, Slal and liar- i
ter Mouldings, Table I.cl'S Nfwell Posts, I'al- .
terns, Awning Posts, Wagon Hub', Columns, j
Kound or Octagon Chisel Hand'es. tVe. I
IxT 'Phis shop is in TIt A WIli'liUY AL
liKY, near Third Street, and as we intend to
please nit our customers who want sood work :
clone, it is hojwil that all the trade wil' give us a
call.
tr"i?" Ten-Pins and Ten-Pin Halls made lo or
der or returned.
The. attention of Cabinet Makers arid Carpen
ters is called to our new style of TAVIST
MOi;i,Dl.NUS. Printer's Pi'ets at if l per 100
"Vet. W. O. HICK OK.
February 7, 1852. ly.
HARDWARE, CUTLERY AND GUNS,
Ji'oi 31 J- :i:t Market Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
XVI K subscribers would rail the altenlion of
hovers to their stork of Hardware, consistiu"
if Table, and Pocket Knives, (inns. Chains,
.neks, Hollowarc, &c. &.c W is would recuin
.irnil to all, our
I Endless Cliiiin Pumps,
new article now petting into jreneral use which
e can furnish complete nt about one half the
rice paid for the old style Puinpi, also a new ar-
cle of .1 a iiiisi I'ncc Door Lock, each
ink suited either for ritjlit or left hand doors,
ilh mineral or white knobs.
Our stock of C.llll4 is lartre and well select
, comprising itngle and double barrels, Knlisli
d (iermau make. All Roods can be relumed
not found to be as represented. Country mer
ants would do well to call on us before piu
ssiin elsewhere.
WheelwrijrhW and uirriaec makers supplied
th coods suited to their busiiirss, bv ralliin; on
w. h. & (J. v. ai.i.i:n.
Nos. 31 & 33 Market Street, Philadelphia.
February, 21, 1852. Umo.
WM. McCARTY, Bookseller,
HKOIIMVAY, Sl'f VIII UV. IM.
II s inst received ami lor sa e, ruinous lm- - t , , . , , ...
J , , I-1, i .:. i;,;, f In two minutes lie returned, smiling
ce! of the laws ot Pennsylvania, edition ot . , . ' ,
.. lu tr m , "Miss Lmd snvs she won t make von
il, price only ?i),(io. i , ... ,
udgc KeaiU edition of Ulackstonej Commen- wait till Christmas; please sit in the par
es, in 3 vols. 8 vo. formerly gold ut $10,00, Joe, su will be With VOU in ten minutes."
now olVercd (in fiesli biudins) ul tho low j (l. noVt,r seen -Miss Lind. The door
teofSM". . opened, I advanced, she met me with a
.Treatise on the laws . P. ? 'llick ep both ,)ailris FXtendl.c, . I h,.M
tiim the estates ol Decedents, by 1 lamina 1 . I i . , i i-
don price only Sl.OU j her rrlt hand my 1Wl' hpr p,t l,anJ ,n
ossulh and tho Hunsariaii war: c nir.prisins my right. Approximating as near as com
niplcU) history of the Inte stru?u!e for freedom ; lon sense would permit, and looking in
,at rountrv, with notices of Hie lemli.nr chiefs . u,r riiee Anj u Jenny Lind," said 1,
statesmen, who distinguished I hem-elves ml , , ,()fjk anJ Bllvancin,r a foot.
,cil and in the fie d, contaiuliiK !iM panes ol , , r p i i -i i cl
i. ii ami ' nonmiis I "And tins is Laurie Todd," said she. She
eslnitf mailer w ith autbentic. portraits. . .
otsulh's addresa to the uc"l,le of ,l" 1 l,laceJ a chalr ,ront ' tne 8ola' s,le sal
s with a portrait, printed on broadcast, and on the sola, I fat on the chair ; thus we
on rollers after the manner of maps, price , u;i.d on one another, face to face, and
sale, Punlons Di-
50 cents. asiiiuRiou iaruwi.ii .
nn stvie who i
bniury, SI, 1S53. .
leivV Condensed Reports of Penna.
;ssT Published, and for sale by the subscri
berthe tiecuiid Volume of Alden'a Con
d Pennsylvania Report, containim; the
th'ca volumes of Yeatea' KeporU, und two
o'lume of Uiuney'i lteports. The first vol
of Alden, containing Dallas' Repurls, 4 vol
i and Yeatf ' Reports, volume I, is also on
and for sale. The above two volumes arc
lete within themselves, and contain all of
Reports, 4 volumes, and all of Yeatea'
Is 4 volumes, besides the two Cist volumes
m'ey's Reports. The third volume is ready
ill be put to press immediately.
H. B. MASSER, Agent,
.bury, Aug. 16. 185L
"" WANTED TO BORROW
ELVB HUNDRED DOLLARS in two
uma of aix hundred dollar each, for which
free-hold security will be given. Address
'bury, Feb. , 1352. tf.
Doureau'f celebrated ink, tml also Con
s ink for sale, wholrsale and retail by
Haher 8, U50. H B MASSER.
SJXECT POETRY.
THE HUSBAND'S PETITION.
Come hilher, my heart's diirling,
Coino, sit upon my knt'o,
And listen, while I whisper
A boon I ak of ihee.
You iii-ihI not pull my whisker
Si iiiiinioiisly, my ilove ;
'Tis KtimiMliiiih' tpiite apart from
The jjtrti tie cares of lovo.
I fri'l a hitler rraviiif;
A dark and dorp desire,
Thai ulows beiii'iilh my bosom
I. ike lis of kindled tire.
Tin1 passion of tins ninhtiiipilcj
WIipii siniu to the rose,
Is fi'i bh'r limn the sioony
That murdeis my repose!
Nay. ili'iiicst ! do no doubt me,
ThiMioli iniully thus 1 spenk
I feel thy iit about me,
Thy tresses on my eheek.
I know tlie sweet devotion
That links my heart with mhiu
1 know my soul's emotion
Is doubly felt by thine.
Ami deem not that a shadow
I litl It billen across ttiv love:
No. sweet, my love is shadow los,
As yonder heaven above.
These In taper lingers
Ah, Jane! how wliite Ihey be !
Can well supply tin' cruel want
That almost maddens me.
Thou wilt not deny mo
My lirst and fond n qiiest ;
1 pray thee, by the memory
Of all we cherish best
Hy all the dear remembtance
Of those delicious days,
When, hand in hand, we wandered
Alou the summer braes;
Iy all we fell, unspoken.
When 'nea'.h the enily moon,
We sat beside the rivulet,
In the leafy monlli of June ;
And by the broken whisper
That fell upon my ear,
More sweet than anjiel-nilisic,
When lirst 1 woo'd thee, dear !
l!y that ureal vow which bound theu
For ever lo my side,
And by the lin that made Ihee
My ilailin: and my bride!
Thou will no! fail nor falter,
lint bend ihee lo the task
A lien. i.i) siit:i:r's huaii on Si'.np.w,
U all the boon 1 ask !
Skctcl).
t'l'ul.l the .New York OliMJrvei.
(I lilOl MKU.V1 IM.
A VISIT TO JENNY LIND.
BY CHANT THOniilTlX.
Hilhcrtii, the time, talents and conver
satiiiii ul .Miss Li nd has been so much mo
i noiolized by the good, the great and the
; noble of the land, that a small mortal like
my self, could not so much as jee the hem
i of her garment. Hearing that, to escape
j from the beat, noise and fashionable crou d
! of New York, she was about removing to
: the pleasant Heights in Brooklyn, I obtain
; ed from Mr. liannim a letter, as tallows :
Ni:w Yokks May Ql, 'frl
i The hearer, Mr. Thorburn, is a man of
the highest respectability, a funny old
: Scotchman, and an author, &.c. Mis Land
; will be pleased to talk with him. He is a
j very celebrated man well known lo all
I the Literati ; he is wealthy and don't come
begging.
P. T. IJarxi-m.
i Armed with this missive, 1 stood by the
door ol her mansion next morning at 9 A.
M. I rang, the servant came.
Says 1, "This note is for MissLind, from
; Mr. JJarnuir:."
j Says lie, "She aint up."
! ".No iratter," says I, "the sun's tip, (lie
can read that note in bed. Tell her, if she
: is willing to see me, I will wait in the par
I lor till Christmas, it she says so." I knew
i she would not say so it was only a figure
of speech, to denote the sincerity of my
j wish. The man looked in my lace with
j out moving; 1 dare say he thought I was
I crazy. "(Jo ahead," says I "and deliver
vnnr li.essa r,. "
,Us htf Imwuage ol her speaking eyes con
firmed the words that diopped lioiu her
lips.
She remarked, she read my history, I, ni
ne Todd, about three years ago in Europe,
that she thought the description there giv
en of the baptism of Rebecca, was the most
interesting scene she ever read ill the Eng
lish books. She' continued, "Can you re
peat that scene from memory?" Says I,
"Death only can blot it out." "Will you
oblige me,"' she continued. Says I, "You
have seen the painting of the Goddess of
Liberty; that is the costume which adorn
ed the person of the ladies at that period.
Her father had been already dead better
than three hundred days, the dress there
fore was in half mourning. Her hat was a
small black beaver, all the fashion at that
day, the rim turned up on each side, so as
to have the ears visible; the hair was in a
broad fold, resting between the shoulders,
having the extreme ends fastened with a
pin on the crown. Hers was very long,
and verv flaxen : she was clothed in a.
white garment, fine, neat and clean, her
neck encircled with a black bracelet, and
around her waist was a black ribbon. The
train of her garment was hanging on her
lelt arm. 1 he thought, that before another
hour the eyes of the whole congregation
would be fastened upon her alone, brought
a faint bluli on the cheek. When she
walked up the middle aisle and sat down,
in the third pew from the pulpit, I thought
I never had beheld anything half as lovely.
The lecture being ended, the preacher
proclaimed, "Let the person present herself
for baptism." She walked to the altar, a
tall, slim figure, straight as an Indian ar
row, with a measured step, like asentrvon
duty helore the tent of his general. While
the minister was binding the vow ol God
upon her heart, In-fore tin? whole congrega
tion, she made the responses with the same
thoughtful composure, as if none but the
eye of Omnipotence was there. While the
minister was slowly descending the fifteen
J steps which led from the pulpit, she was un
tying tie.- strings which held on her hat.
There she stood, her black hat in her hand,
a white muslin baiuikerchiel in the other,
her beautiful and neatly arranged flaxen
locks all exposed, under a blaze of light.
When the minister dropped the water on
her while transparent brow, she shut her
eyes, and turned her lace to heaven. As
the crystal drops rolled down her blushing
cheeks, 1 thought her lace shone like an
angel, and I swuiv in my heart, if it so wil
led Heaven, that nothing but death should
part us."
Here Miss Lind stood up wilh excite
ment, "Stop, Grant," she exclaimed, "You
ought to have been a painter, you place
Rebecca before me." "And whv not." i
said I, "Perhaps her ransomed spirit is hov
ering over that xiil ndi I Hills," pointing)
lo the centre table, "and smiling to see
two kindred spirits enjoying a fortaste of!
pleasures so divine " i-l dnnht it nd ' tho I
i - ......... ...... .....
observed; "for with Young, your English
poet, I believe that 'Friends departed', are
angels sent from heaven on errands full of
love.'" "And with Paul," I added, "They
are ministering angels sent to minister to
the heirs of salvation.
Here we entered invisible space, and
soared to worlds on high. She repeated
with fine pathos, the beautiful legend cur
rent among the peasantry on her native
mountains. It concerned a mother, who
at the dead watches in every night, visited
the beds of h. r six motherless babes, cover
ing their lilllo bands, and smoothing their
pillow. It is a beautiful illusion.
We spoke ul the especial care which
God Likes of little children, how many in
stances are recorded in our weekly jour
nals of chit. lien being lost in the woods,
for days, sometimes lor weeks, the weather
inclement, the feet naked, the clothes scant,
yet found iinhuit. They were fed on man
na from Heaven, and the angel of the cov
enant muzKd the mouths of the ravenous
beasts of prey.
Having I'eaatjfsurie Todd, s'je put sev
eral explanatory questions about the yellow
(ever, and other scenes recorded, &.c. On
these and similar subjects we conversed
more than an hour, without being inter
rupted, but the limp ol mv departure was
at band. We rose simultaneously. We
held each other's hands. We promised to
remember one and other at our morning
and evening sacrifice, that God would so
prepare our hearts that we meet where the
assembly never breaks us, where friendship
never ends.
Here the fountain of the great deep was
broken up, a big tear oVrflowed its banks,
I caught the infection. Now, 1 never saw
a tear on a woman's cheek but 1 longeil.to
ki.-s it from its resting place : that is to say,
provided the thing was rracticable, and
whether or not 1 reduced this principle
into practice on the present occasion, I
can't conceive the sovereign people have
any right to inquire. JJe this as it may, at
that time her lips were her own ; she had
no lord Goldsthmi.lt to dispute an old man's
privilege.
A IIAMIIMi VOt Mi VI IIIOW.
Of all things in creation there is nothing
so captivating as a blooming young widow,
nothing so loviiip;, nothing so loveable.
The following, from the Lawrence Rosxs-
tii; is a case in point : While in Arkan
sas in December last We saw and conversed
with a young and h-aiililul widow, only
twenty-eight years old, who bad followed
to the grave the bodies ol lour husbands. It
was at a country party in that wild region
we first saw her. We liked her appear
ance and obtained an iuoductif:i. She
was all life and animation. The pleasure
of tho dance was her delight, and she ap
peared the gayest of the gay. We spent
half an hour in conversation w ith the Ar
kansas belle. We talked of the country,
wild game, different kinds of life, single
and matrimonial, &c, about which she
spoke well and correctly.
In a tender tone of voice, (for we felt in
terested in this dazzling beauty,) we inquir
ed, "Madam how long has your last Hus
band been dead V "Ten days yesterday,"
replied the alllicted widow. "Good Heav
ens!" thought we, "a husband dead onfy
ten days, and his widow one of the gayest
dancers at a ball. We were so much as
tonished that we left her without cere
mony. On inquiry, next morning, we
found out what she had told us was true.
Her husband No. , for several years had
represented his county in the Legislature,
and was highly esteemed, not as a talented
legislator, but as a clever, jolly kind of a
man. The man this wild woods belle en
traps lor No. 5 may the gods forfend.
A Fortune from Flowp.rs. A peddler
in flowers in the public streets of New
York is said to have amass-ed $9000 hy the
salp of bouquets in the couise of the last
lew seasons. This is peddling to some pur
pose. It tells favorably also for the good
taste of the citizens.
THE MAIDEN AMI Till; Iltno.
On the night of the Battle ol Brandy
wine, I was sent with a message from Gen.
Green to Count Pulaski, a noble Polander,
who took a prominent part in our freedom.
He was quartered in a neat farm house,
near the upper fords. After our business
w-as finished, the Count asked me to lake
some refreshments, and at the same time he
called out
"Mary, my lass, Mary ?"
In an instant a rosy-cheeked girl entered,
her face beaming with joy, it would seem,
at the very sound of Pulaski's Voice.
"Did you call tne, Count V said she,
timidly.
"How often have I told you, my little
love," he said, bending his tall form to kiss
her cheek, "not to call me Count ; call me
your dear Pulaski This is a republic, my
little favorite. We have no Counts, you
know."
"Put you are a Count, sir, when at home,
and they say you come a long way over
the ocean to fight for us."
"Yes, Mary,' very true, 1 did come a long
way ; but one reason why was, had to
come, in a measure. Now can you get lor
this gentleman and myself a little refresh
ment 1 He has a long way to ride tonight."
"Certainly, sit," and she went out of the
room like a fairy.
"A fine, pleasant girl," said Pulaski,
"would that I had the wealth that I once
had, I would give her a portion that would
send half the youth hereabout after her
sweet face."
On the morning of the eleventh of Sep
tember, 1777, the British army advanced
in full force to Chadd's Ford, ior the pur
pose of crossing the Brandy wine Creek, and
bring on an action with Washington. Sir
William Howe drove Maxwell's division
across the creek by ten o'clock, at one of
the lower fords.
The Hessian General, Knyphansen, with
a large force advancing up the side of the
creek and uniting with Lord Cornwallis,
who commanded the left wing of the army,
crossed at the upper fords of the river and
creek.
It soon happened that during the raging
of the conflict, in carrying orders I passed
immediately in the direction of Pulaski's
quarters, that I had visited the night before.
Situated as the house was, in the midst of
battle, curiosity induced me to ride up.
Suddenly a sheet of flame burst forth. The
house was on fire. Near the door step lay
the body of Mary, her head cut open by a
sabre, and her brains oozing out of the ter
rible wound! I had not been there mWe
than half a minute, when Pulaski, at the
head of a troop of cavalry, galloped rapidly
to the house. Never shail I forget the ex
pression of his face, as he shouted like a de
mon on seeing the inanimate form :
"Who did this"
A little boy that had not been before no
ticed, who was lying amid the grass, his
leg dreadfully mangled, said :
"There, they go !"
He pointed to a company of Hessians,
then some distance oft".
"Right wheel, men, charge !"
And they did charge; I do not think
that one man of the Hessian corpse ever
left the field, except to be placed in the
grave.
The last I saw of Pulaski was on the bat
tle ground of Brandywine.
THE MAMMOTH CAVE IT COST.
Iii cue of Willis' recent lelteis to the
Ht;ne Journal we find the follo-ving para
graph relating to the original purchase and
the amount paid fur ilia Mammoth Cave in
Kentucky :
Col. Ciogau, to whose family it belongs,
was a resident of Louisville. He went to
Europe, some twenty years ago, and, as an
American, found himself frequently ques
tioned of the wonders of the Mammoth
I - i i i,... i : i r
LilVK rt .-iai:u no nau nuvci .ibuum, uuu ui
w hich, at home, ihotigb living within ninety
miles of it, be had heard very little. He
went there immediately, upon his return,
and the idea struck him to purchase and
make it a family inheiiianee. In fifteen
iiiiiiulea' bargaining, he bought it for ten
thousand dollars, an. I shortly after it was ot
tered one hundred lliou-.md dollais for his
pi.rih.ise. In bis will he lie, I il up in such
a way thai it must remain in his family for
two generations, thus appending its celebrity
to bis name. There are nineteen hundred
acres in the estale--lhiee squaie miles
above pround mid the cave probably runs
under the pioperty of a great number of
other land owueis. For fear of ihose who
iniyhl dio down and establish an entrance to
the cava on their own property a man's
pmpeity extending up lo the zenith and
don to the nadir yreat vigilance is exerci.
sed to prevent such subterranean surveys
and measurements as would enable them to
sink a shaft with any certainly. The cava
extends ten or twelve miles in several direc
tions, and there is probably many a back
woodsman silting in bis log hut within ten
miles of the cave, quite unconscious that the
most fashionable ladies and gentleman of
Euiope and America are walking, without
leave, under his corn and potatoes!
Jenny Lind has concluded to quit the
world of song and turn authoress. At last
accounts, a cotemporary says, she was pre
paring a small edition of "GoldsclmidVt Ani
mated Nature." Transcript,
Whereupon the boston Post poetically
adds
fha en the rosy couch reposes,
Warbling thai in voci totTO
"I havs nowdiatillMl my rosea,
And produced a littla ano !"
Alwats dn as the sun does look at the
bright side of everything ; it is just as cheap
and three times as good for digestion.
A BROKEN HEART.
The interesting cane of a literally broken
heart we subjoin, was related by Dr. J. K
Wilohcll, of the Jefferson College, Philadel
phia, to his class last winter, while lecturing
upon the diseases of the heart. It will be
seen, on perusing it, that the expression,
"broken hearted," is not merely figurative:
In the early part of bis medical career Dr.
M. accompanied as a surgeon a packet that
sailed between Liverpool and one of our
southern ports. On the return voyage, soon
aller leaving Liverpool, while the doctor and
the captain of the vessel, a weather-beaten
son of Neptune, but possessed of uncommonly
fine feelings and strong impulses, were con
versing in the lalter's state-room, the captain
opened a large chest and carefully took out
a number of articles of various description,
which he arranged upon a table Dr. M.,
surprised at the display of costly jewels, or
naments, dresses, and nil the varied paraph
ernolia of which ladies are naturally fond,
inquired of the captain his object in having
made so many valuable purchases. The
sailor, in reply, said that for seven or eight
years he had been devotedly attached to a
lady, to whom he had several times made
proposals of marrinjre, but wag as often re
jected ; lhat her refusal to wed him, how
ever, had only stimulated his love to greater
exertion ; and that finally, upon renewing his
offer, declaring in the ardency of his pp.ssion
that without her society life was not worth
having, she consented to become his bride
upon his return from his next voyage. He
was so overjoyed at the prospect of a mar
riage, from which in the warmth of his feel
ings, he probably anticipated more happi
ness than is usually allotted to mortals, that
he spent all his ready money, while in Lon
don, for bridal gifts. After gazing at them
fondly for some time, and remarking on them
in turn, ' 1 think this will please Annie," and
'I am sure the will like that," he replaced
them with the utmost care. This ceremony
he repeated evety day during the voyage;
and the docter often observed a tear glisten
ing in his eye, as he spoke of the pleasure he
would have in presenting them to his affian
ced bride.
On reaching his destination, the eaptain
arrayed himself with more than usual pre
cision, and disembarked as soon as possible,
to hasten to his love. As he was about to
step into the carriage awaiting him, he was
called aside by two gentlemen, who desired
to make a communication, the purport of
which was that the lady had proved unfaith
ful to the trust reposed in her, and married
another, with whom she had decamped
shortly before. Instantly the captain was
observed to clap bis hand to his breast and
fall to the ground. He was taken upand con
veyed to his room on the vessel. Dr. M.
was immediately summoned : but befoie he
reached the poor captain he was dead. A
post mortem examination levealed the cause
of his unfortunate decease. His heart was
found liteially torn in twain! Tho tremen
dous propulsion of the blood, consequent up
such a violent nervous shock, forced tho pow
eifull muscular tissues asunder, and life was
at an end. The heart was brokou.
Ths Schoolmaster, and his Pcpus.
Joseph, where is Africa V
' On the map, sir."
"I mean, Joseph, In what continent the
Eastern or the Western continent
"Well, the laud of Africa is in the Eastern
continent ; but the people, sir, are all of 'em
down South."
"What are its products 1"
"Africa, sir, or down South?"
"Africa, you blockhead !"
"Well, sir it hasn't got any ; it never had
any."
"How do the African people live V
"Hy drawing."
"D.aw ing what water ?"
"No sir ; by drawing their breath !"
"Sit down, Joseph !"
"Thomas, what is the equator V
' Why, sir, il's a horizontal polo running
perpendicularly through the Imagination of
a.stionomers and old ueugiapheis ''
"tJo lo your seat, Thomas. Willia.n Slings
what do you mean by an eclipse V
"An old race horse, sii."
"Silencp. Next Jack, what is an eclipse'!"
"An eclipse is a thing as appears when
the moon gits in a bust, and runs agin ihe
sun ; consequently the sun blacks the moons
face !" "Class is dismissed."
A PaAVEa to t Resconoed To. The
Chaplain in the Indiana Legislature recently
opened the session wilh a general prayer,
which he closed with the following invoca
tion : "And the Lord have mercy on our
legislators. Spare their lives until Ihey may
return to their homes and hen put it into
the hearts of the people lo keep them there
and return men of temperate habits and sen
timents, who will do some good." If a sim
ilar prayer were offered at the close of some
of the legislative session in Pennsylvania,
we have no doubt that all the people would
say "Amen," most fervently. As delegates
will soon be in session to choose a Legisla
tive lo ticket, il is to be hoped that Ihe polit
ical parties will give the people one, which
they will not be ashamed of when they come
to consider its acts. .
It is som cwh at singular lhat Washington
drew his last breath in the last hour of the
hut day in the lust week of the last month of
the fast year of the last century. He expi
red on Saturday night, at 13 o'clock, Decem
ber 31, 1799. Not so. He died Dec. Nth.
Co. American.
A KNOT OF EEL-GRASS.
The Oswego River isn't navigable far up ;
fur it is cut off by a bridge about half n mile
from the lake, and a mile further up it is cut
o(T again by a dam.
Between this btidge and the dam there is
a rift, which is a famous place for catching
fish in wears, built out into the middle of the
liver, in form like a Y, with the forks up
stream, and down to the lower end there isa
crib into which the water and fish run, pitch
ing down a little fall of about three feet, and
then as the crib is built o! slats the water
runs out, leaving the fish to be piked out by
Ihe proprietors of the wears.
They used to catch lots of eels Ihere, nnd
a rousing fellow as big as a boy's leg, and as
long as stick of wood was thought dear in
Oswego at foui pence. But somehow, buy
ing eels, even if we got them for nothing,
didn't suit me, and I determined to steal a
few out of them wears up there.
I told Mis. Werts, Ihe young widow lhat
I boarded with, what I was going at ; and I
reckon she was up to them games, for she
furnished me with a pillowcsso to bag my
game, two pairs of wollen mittens to aid me
in nabbing the slippery customers; and thus
armed and equipped I set out on my mid
night eeling expedition.
When 1 came abreast of the wear, I dis
covered thai iho skiff had seen there at
sundown was gone ; but as 1 knew the water
wasn't more'n up to my arms, 1 didn't care
much , and so I waded ofl to the wear, where
I found and bagged about twenty real swin
gers. My pillow case was nearly full, and I was
just about to get under weigh forborne, when
the great-grand-daddy of all eels came wal
loping down into the water. 1 pitched into
him, but my mittens bad got so slippery wilh
the slime of captured eels that I couldn't hold
him a second. There we had it for about
ten minutes up and down, over and unden
slip slop till nt last 1 got mad, and making
a desperate dive for the old fellow, I got his
head into my mouth, and Wall! faugh!
what a taste, as my teeth crunched through
and through his head till they met, and the
big eel dropped quietly down, leaving part
of his cutwater, bit off somewhere about the
eyes, in my mouth. I spit it out quicker,
and about all my inside '-lixins'' wilh it.
"0, Lord! wasn't I sick? For twenty
minutes I tried to turn myself wrong side
out like a stocking; and then I pillow-cased
the old eel, waded ashore, and mizzled fur
home feeling as if I had swallowed a land-
crab, and been ridden for mouths by a dou-
ple and twisted attack tor Maumee fever.
Next morning, before 1 turned out, I heard
the little "widder" singing out in the back
entry, where IM slung my bag of eels.
"Oh, Charley ! Charley ! come here,
quick !"
Well, 1 did ; and, as I'm a live sinner,
there on the Door, among the eels, and Ihe
biggest of them all, was a thundering great
black Water Snake, with his nuse bit jf
just about the eyes !
Those two pigs in back yard had an eel
breakfast that morning, and Clewline swore
an oath never to go wading about in the.
night after other people's eels again. Car
pet Bag.
A LOVELY Wlr'E.
Notwithstanding Wesley had wiillen a
treaties in favor of celibacy, he married a
widow, named Vielle, wilh four children,
and an independent forlune. She proved.
however, a complete termagant, was jealous,
ill-natured and overbearing. It is said, says
Soulhey, that she has freqi.enlly traveled a
hundred miles, for the purpose of watching
from a w idow who was in the carnage with
him w hen he entered a town. She searched
his pockets, opened his letters, put his letters
and papers into the hands of his enemies, in
hopes that they might be made ue of lo
blast his character; and sometimes laid vio
lent hands upon him and tore his hail. She
frequently left his house, and upon bis earn
est entreaties returned again ; till, afier hav
ing disqniled twenly years of his life, as far
as il was possible fur any domestic vexatious
lo disquiet a man whose life was passed iii
locumolioti, she seized on pari of his journals,
and many oilier papers, which were never
restored, and departed, leaving word that
she never intended to return.
Seven Wives SirGervaso Clifton, agen
lleinan of Voikshire, was "blessed with seven
wives" so the epilogue of his own writings
says. The first three who were maidens, lu
called honrrable. The second three, who
were widows, he call worshipful; and the
seventh, w ho was a servant maid, bom under
his own roof, he calls his well beloved.
Each of the six agreed to the marriage of tho
next before her death, and at the awtul peri
od were attended by their successors. Sir
Gervase had several children by his last wite,
some of whose deceudants now enjoy the
family estate, lie lies buried at the head of
his wives.
Marshal Soilt, once showingthe pictures
he had stole in Spain, stopped before oueaud
remarked, "I value that picture very much
it saved the lives of two estimable persons."
An aid-de-camp whispered in the listeners
ear "he threatened to have them both shot en
the spot unless they gave it up."
A boy and girl, aged respectively thirteen
and fourteen, were married last week, by
one of ihe Justices of the Peace of Cincinnati-
Th. hrida and bridecroom were natives ol
Ihe "sunny Stulh," and bore ihe appearance
of at least four additional summeis.
A REACH MX UK ETCH.
We are indebted to a writer in the Chica
go Journal for the followinff sketeh of do
mestic scene that cannot fail to loach chord!
in every parent's heart :
"Yesterday we saw a wnpon loaded wilh
wheal coining into town nothing strange in
that, certainly. And a man driving tho
team, and a woman porched on the load
beside him, and a child throned in the wo
man's lap nothing stranpe in that, eilhor.
Atul it required no particular shrewdness to
determine that ihe woman was the property,
p-rsoiial, of course of Ihe man, and that
the black-eyed, lotnid-facud child was the
properly of both of ihem. So much we saw
so much we suppose everybody saw, who
looked. It is a fair inference that the wife
came in to help her husband to "trade out"
a portion of ihe proceeds of Ihe wheat. th
product of so much labor, und so many sun-
sniiies aim rams. J he pair were soraewhern
this side a tine point of observation, isn't it
this side of forty, and it is presumptive, if
uiesseu ime their neighbors, they left two or
three at home "to keep house," while thev
fame to town peihaps two girls and a boy,
or, as it is immateiial to us. two bovs and
one girl. Well, follow Ihe pair, in and
through, iintill ihe wheal was sold, the mon
ey paid, and then for Ihe trade. The baby
was shifted from shoulder to shoulder, or sat
down upon the floor, to run off into mischief,
like a sparking globule of quicksilver on a
marble table, while calicoes were priced, au
ger and tea tasted, and plates "rung." Tho
wife looks askance at a large mirror that
would be just the thing for the best room.
and the roll of carpeting, of most becoming-
pattern" but in wan t do, they must wait till
next year. Ah! there is music in those next
year, that orchestras cannot make. And so-
they look, and price, and purchase the sum
mer supplies, the hu-band the while eyeing
the litilo roll of bank notes nrowinir .mall hv-
degrees and beautifully less. Then comes an
"aside" conference, particularly confidential.
Nio takes him affectionately by the button,
and looks up in his face she has fine eyes,
by the by wilh an expiession eloquent of
"do now it will please them so." And
what do you suppose they talk of? Toys for
the children ; John wauls a drum, and Jann a
doll, and Jenny a book, all pictuies, "jjst liko
Susan so-and-so's." The father looks "nou
sense," and feels in hi.- nocket for thn re
quired silver, and the mother, havinir trained
the point, hastensaway, baby and nil, for tho
toys. There acts the mother she had half
promised, not all, that she would bring them
something, and t-he. is happy all the way
nome not tor ihe bargms she made, but for
the pleasent m:i prise in ihose three brown
parcels. And you ought lo havo been there
when she got home, when the drum, and the
doll, and the book were produced and
thumped, and cradled, and ihumped wasn't
il a great house! Happiness is so cheap,
what a wonder there i no more of it in tho
world.
A N'r.'w Xosr. Mr. Eward Clarke, of Pitts
burg, publishes a statement describing a new
nose, made for him by Dr. I'aneotst, of this,
city, to suppiy the one he h id Inst some lfV
years ago. A piece of tlesh from the fore
head was sewed into the cheeks; a gutta
peicha mould of his father's nose was placed
over it to give it the proper shape, and gold
tubes were inserted for the nostrils. He saya
he has now a new nose, and well-formed,
with the senses of feeling and smell as fiuo
as ihey ever were.
A writer in the London Lancet tecom
mends puie lime juice (two lo six uunces per
diem) as an almost curtain en in fur ihe acute
rheumatism. Hooper, of the L.if.iyelle ( A!a.)
Tribune, says he once had a friend in Mont
gomery alllicted wilh the disease, who used
tho following compound : Lemon juice,
about one tablespoon full; sugar, two do.;
water, ad libitum ; maraschinemo, half a wine
glass; dash with old Jamaica rum and
swallow. lie never got well, though.
Baiiies- The delight of the days tho
torment of the rights elegant in full dressi
but horrible in dishabille beautiful on the
smile, but madness on the yell exquisitely
in place in the nursery, but awfully aYfro? in
Ihe pailor, stage or railroad car the foun
tains of all joy, and something else the
wcll-sprmgs of delight, and the recipient of
unlimited spanking--,.he glory of "pa,"
the happiness of "ma"tcio tcoidd'nt have
1 em ?
A M'boolbov being asked lo repeat twenty-
j si woi.U begiuiug successfully with letter
I of iho alphabet, in one sentence, said :--"A
boy canui'l dig easily for gold ; benoe if just
keeping lead melted needs oxyen, put
quicksilver, rapidly saturated, timidly under
vitriol, when xbecs yearn, zeolite.
Powt.r or Electric Fliid. A fw days
ago, a nee wfts sliuck with lightning, under
which was lying a bull and a cow, Ibal wer
thrown thirty feel from the tree, in opposil
direolionsthe bull falling ''" P of
fence.
Good Business Kcis If you '" to buy
anything if you want to sell anything if
you waut lo hear anything it jou want to
tell anything if you want to do anything
if you want anything done ApveRTist !
"Ma'amselie, 1 navei beg, but dal I hat
von wife wid several small family dat i
growing very lurfre, and nossing tc- mak
deir bread out of, but 4 prrart if miss
OU'il enehroiti ''