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SELECT POETllY.
From the Ohio CaJtivalor.
AUTUMN AND WINTER. ,
BY FRANCIS OAGK.
Tha Autumn ; going with its beauty so
plowing, j
Ami Winter o'er all things is casting its
pall ;
The rose tree is fading, no longer 'tis shad
ing The arbor of lovo or tho bright water fall.
The dahlias are lopping, the ripe fruit is
dropping,
Tho corn-leaves are withered and dry on
the stalk,
Tho ring-dove is sighing, the grasshopper
dying,
Tho fire-fly no longer enlivens '.he walk.
The forests ate changing, the wild birds are
ranging,
To hunt out a hole where the skies are more
clear ; "
The stream deeply flowing, tho chilly winds
plowing,
And lulls us that Winter, cold Winter is
near.
Summer's sweets w hile we're lasting, away
all ute hasting
The days of the peach and iho melon are
o'er ;
Then let us be trying while Autumn is dy
inr. To lay up for Winter a plentiful store.
Work freer and harder, fill the barn and the
larder,
Then give to old Winter, when'er he shall
coma
A welcome most willing; we'll heed not his
chilling,
If there's warmth round the hearth stone
and plenty at home.
But while we are cheeiful no cause to be
Wnrlul.
Let us think of the children of Sorrow and
Wrong,
And give from our treasure, with no sliuteJ
mcasuie,
Of the good gifts of Heaven to help them
along.
3. Skctcl).
AN AMUSING SKETCH
STORY. A POTATO
The following amusing Sketch of some
of the jokes that Newspaper reporters play,
is taken from the Great Metropolis :
"About five and thirty years ago, when
only one sentence of a speech was given
on an average, every five or six minutes,
and when the reporters had to sit for many
hours at a time, they were often at a loss
to what to do with themselves. On one
occasion when laboring under an attack of
ennui, and also under the effects, Jack
Finnarty, a well known reporter of that
period, yawned out, "Mr. Speaker, will
you favor us with a song?" A roar of
laughter followed from all parts of the
house. One of the officers immediately
repaired to the gallery, and inquired who
the offender was; Jack Finnarty, without
opening his mouth, pointed to a Quaker, of
very diminutive stature, who was sitting in
Ihe front seat. The officers immediately
seized the unoffending little man by the
breast of his collarless coat without conde
scending to give a why and wherefore,
dragged him down stairs, and transferred
him to the care of the Sergeant-at-arms.
The latter, after keeping him in sale cus
tody during the night, and compelling him
to pay nearly 30 for his lodgings, set him
at liberty on the following day.
About the same time the debate, which
was about English laborers, being one even
ing unusually dull, Jack Finnarty, who
had but a shoit time before been imported
from Tipperary, said to the only other re
porter in the ga'lery at the lime, that lie
felt very drowsy and (bat he would be af
ter taking a little bit of a nap, if he would
tell him when he awoke any thing which
might take place. The other agreed, and
Jack in 9 moment was fast locked in the
arms of Morpheus. An hour elapsed, and
after half a dozen yawns Jack opened his
eyes.
"Has any thing happened ?" was the
tirst question to his friend.
" 1 o be sure there has." said the other,
whose name was Morjan O'Siillivan.
"Has there, by the powers?" exclaimed
-I. . ' I L ,i . ....
J"c.:' Peking up his ears in .the plei.titude
1 oi ins anxiety io near What It was,
"Yes, Jack, and very important too."
"Then, why don't you be after tellinz it
me al once 1 what was it about 1"
"About the virtue of the Irih nntatn.
Jack."
Was it the Irish potato you said, Mor-
gan 1"
"The Irish potato ; and a most eloquent
I u 1
eueecii it wus.
iThnn,W nr., I r.rrbiotr. t, i t.
J K'j. d why
"I'll read it from my note book. Jack.
and you'll take it down as I go on," said
Morgan.
"Och, it's myself, sure, that's ready at
any time to write what any member says
about our praties, are you ready to begin."
"Quite ready." answered Morgan.
"Now, then," said Jack with energy
that strangely contrasted with the previ
ous langour of his manner, "Now, Mor
gan, affecting to read from his notebook,
commenced thus : "The honorable mem
ber said that if"
"Och, be aisy a little bit," interrupted
Jack, "who was the honorable member V
Morgan, hesitating for a moment, "Was
it bis name you asked 1 sure, it was Mr
Wilherforce."
Morgan resumed, "Mr. Wilherforce said,
that it always appeared to him beyond all
question, that the great cause why the
Irisu laborers were, as a body, " mucn
stronger and capable of enduring so much
6 . ......
Ureat" Phy' t.gue than the English
was ins surpassing virtues oi meir potaio,
And he"
"Morgan, my dear felljw ?" shouted
Jack, el the mention of the Irish potato,
his countenance lighting up with ectasy as
he spoke, ' Morgan, my dear fellow, this
is sj important, that he must give it in the
first person."
"Do you think so?" said Morgan.
"Troth and I do," answered Jack.
"Very well," said the other.
Morgan then resumed "And I have no
dou'ot," continued Mr. Wilherforce, that
had it been my lot to be born and reared
in
"DiJ tho member say reared !" inter
rupted Jack oxullingly, evidently associa
ting the word with the growth of potatoes
in his "own blessed country."
"lie said reared," observed the other,
who then resumed, " had it been my
lot to be born and reared in Ireland, where
my (ood would have principally consisted
of the potato that must nutritious and sa
lubrious root instead of being the poor,
infirm, shrivelled and stunted creature
you, sir, and honorable gentleman, now be
hold me, I would have been a tall, stout,
athletic man, and able to cany an enor
mous wt'ighl,"
Here Jack Finnatty observed, looking
his friend Morgan eagerly in the face
"Faith, Morgan, and that's what I call
true eloqnence ! Go on."
"I hold the root to be invaluable ; and
the man who first cultivated it in Ireland,
I regard as a benefactor of the first magni
tude to his species. And my decided
opinion is, that never, until we grow pota
toes in England in sufficient quantities to
feed all our laborers, will those laborers be
as able-bodied a class as the Irish." (Hear!
hear .' from both sides of the House.)
"Well, by St. Patrick, but that bates
every thing," observed Jack, on finishing
his notes, "that's rale philosophy ! and the
other members cried, "Hear, hear!" did
they :"
"The members cried, "Hear! hear!"
answered Morgan.
In a quarter of an hour afterwards, the
House arose. Morgan went away direct
to the office of the paper for which he was
employed; while Jack, in perfect ecsta-j
sies al the euiogium which had been pro
nounced on the wrlueol the potatoes of
"old Ireland, ran in breathless haste to a
public house, where the reporters, who
should have been on duly for the morning
paper-, were assembled, f Re read over
his notes to them, wh'uTi Ihey copied ver
batim, and not being at the time in best
possible condition for judging of the pro
bability of Mr. Wilbct lbrce delivering such
a speech, they repaired to Iheir respective
offices, ami actually gave a copy of it into
Ihe hands of the printer. Next morning it
appeared in all the papers, except the one
wilh which Morgan O'Sullivan was con
nected. The sensation of surprise it crea
ted in town exceeded everything
Had it
only appeared in one or two of the papers,
persons oi no oruinary intelligence musi at
once have concluded that there was some
mistake about the mailer ; but its appear
ing in all of the journals except one, and
that one so very obscure, that scarcely any
body knew whether the speech was in it
or not, forced, as it were, people to the
conclusion that it must have been actually
spoken. The inference was plain. Eve
rybody, while regretting that the necessity
should exist, saw that no other course was
left but to put Mr. Wilherforce at once
into. a straight-jacket and provide him with
a keeper. Jn the evening, the house met
Speaker taking Ihe chair, rose, and begged !
Ihe indulgence of the House for one mo- !
as usual and mr. ilueriorce, on tne
tii 'i.!, to a mutter which concerned it, as '
well as himself, personally. "Every lion-
orable member," he observed "has doubt-
less read Ihe speech which 1 am represent-
ed as having made on the previous night,
Willi the permission of the House I wil! ' l)iey amoi. invariably dia.v the same infer
read it. (Here the honorable member read enPB from u,vk.a slli)iniKl.d lo their eonsid-
me speet.n, amiust uea.cu.ug ruais oi idugu-
' .Mr F.h.t nn! imfrcnii.'iitU- oivpa sprinllA nf-
I can assure the honorable members that
no one could read this speech with more
surprise than 1 myself did this morning,
when I found the paper on mv breakfast
table. For myself personally, I care but!
little about it though if I were callable of
uttering such nonsense as is here put into
my mouth, it is high time that, instead or
being a member of this House I were an
inmate ol some lunatic asylum, it is lor
Ihe dignity 01 inis iwiise mat I leei con -
t.cnic-u, ,u., .. ..uuu.uw...
capable of giving expression to it, it were
much more appropriate to call this a thea
tre for the performance of farces, than a
place for the legislative deliberation of the
representatives of the nation."
It was proposed by some members to call
the printers of the different papers in which
the speech appeared to Ihe bar of the
House, for a breach of privilege but the
matter was eventually allowed to drop.
To show the mistakes which such jokes
are apt to cause, the Missouri Republican
iniriv iiuuiisiieu tins lueiiucttl siiercu us
coming from Mr. Wilherforce, upon a bill
for the amelioration ol the laboring classes
of Great Britain and Ireland. Mr. VVilber-
force is made to say :
"Physically, he himself presented bul a
very unprepossessing specimen of humani
ty ; hut, had it not been for the Irish pota
to, it would nave been immensely worse
'..I. L ..... . . .
wun nun. uau u not been lor lhat inval
uable esculent, upon which he was mainly
ruseo. m ooay ana mind, he never would
have been in anything comparable with
what he was, inconsiderable as he might
be in both ; and, lo the great use of that
vegetable he attributed the stiperior bright
ness, shrewdness, wit and sagacity of the
Irish over the English, who lived mostly
on roast beef and pudding."
? r -. "Yi,irfF0"" personal anpeartnc was precUely
what it is here deacriljed to havakeen.
T At this time it wu no uaooounon thine f ill use re
fn, except one, to absent thenualvat fiom tha aallei y
lot houn at s timsthat cna cngsginf to tell Ultra .11 that
had happened c his return
TI1L' SIAMESE TWIN'S.
Many persons who, In days gone by, have
laken a lively interest in the welfare of Mes
srs. Eng and Chang Bunker, Ihe celebrated
Siamese Twins, may be glad lo learn thai
these gentlemen are well, and live at Mount
Airy, in this (Suiry) County, sutrrounded by
Iheir wives and children.
Mr. Eng has six and Mr. Chang five chil
dren, all of whom are apt scholars and re
markably well behaved, manifesting lie
strongest possible desire to learn their lessons
and to secure the good will nf their leacher.
They all partake Mronetv of iho most refin
ed Siamese cast of countenance, form and
' 1
manner of deporling themselve?. In truth,
they ore a credit to their parents and the
community in which they live.
Messrs. Chang and Eng are alike remark
able for Iheir industry and belligeient disposi
tions. They are strict and thorough-going
business men, and woe to the unfoiluuate
whito that dares lo insult litem.
Formerly ihey resided in Wilkes County,
bul in consequence of 1 he numerous actions
for assault ami battery brought against them
in the county, they removed into the adjoin
ir.g counly, shortly after which they were
fined $15 and costs ot Tvockford, Iho county
seat, for splitting a board into splinters over
the head of a tnun w ho had insulted them
As regards iho supposed sympathy exist
ing between them, it may be slated thai their
most intimate acquaintances deem them en
tiiely independent of cvery-thi.ig of the kind,
and give us instances to sustain their cpitiiom
that not long since Ihey attended an auction
sale of hogs, and bid against each other till
they ran up ihe prices altogether above the
market rates. Also, that on one occasion
Mr. Eng or Mr Chang, was laken ill and
look to his bed, w here he lav comDlaiiiinc
ror some lime, although his brother scolded
him severely all Ihe while for detaining him
in bed when he onghl lo have been unend
ing to the business of iheir plantation.
On another occasion, as Ihey were passing
"P 'ho road, a gentleman inquired of them
where they were going whereupon Mr.
Eng replied, ' l om going over the Blue
Ridgo in Iho stage ;" tit the same instant Mr.
Chang, looking over his shoulder, replied
wilh an arch smile, ' I am going back homo
to look nfler our wives and children."
When questioned nbout their mother some
lime since by an acquaintance, they stated
that Ihey had formerly received letters fiotn
her, but latterly they had heard no tidings of
her, and even if they were to receive letters
from her written in the Siamese) language,
they would not be able lo read them, as ihey
had forgotten their mother language.
lliey are excellent li.unl.-4 to carry up a
corner of a leg house exceeding all their
UBii,ilbl)ls j,, t.u,;j., sa,,nt.s am IU)U.IC
s in
corner logs both nf them wielding the e
wi'.h a power and de.xlurily supeiior to ai:y
of ihe most export wood cutters in this wood
en country. When they chop or fighl, Ihey
do so double handed ; and in driving a hoise
: or chastising their negroes, both of them use
the lash without mercy
A gentleman w ho puichased a black man
a shoit time ngo from them, informed the
writer he was "the worst whipped negro ho
ever saw." They are inveterate smokers
and chnwers of tobacco each chewing his
own quid ond smoking his own pipo; it has
bn """uike.1, however, in support of the
ympay opposed to prevail tluoughout
lllelr ylrms, that as a general rule, when
one lakes a fresh quid the other does the
' same. It is olso generally admitted lhat
: iheie is a maiked difference in tho systems
i and lemperameuls of ihe gentlemen, bul still
n,)d Qnive , simiiir co.lclusioll8..
..... ....0 , j r- - - -
fence to Mr. Chang, by jesting wilh him
"i'"ut n.s Having one more cnuu man no nas.
, When thuoimg, (a spoil they are very fotid
of,) one sight or takes aim and the other,
(it is said.) pulls ihe trigger; now if this be
; true, it would go far to prove the doctrine of
gupposed sympathy existing between the
' brothers, but it is questioned by most of tho
pyubori.
j Thej. rentiy nJmjl ni,j acknowledge
. ,,,,,.. , ,,,,.. a .,rQnf, Chr sl an
faith or belief, and ore regular attendants at
church and olher religious meetings, where
they deport themselves as becomes good cit-
izeus of the land of iheir adoption. They
are 6trong poliliciaus, and lake a lively inter-
est in all elections that occur in iheir disliict.
As the writer was informed by a lady of
Mount Airy, "ihey are mighty stay at home
people" rarely ever going from home un
less called away to business. ureensuoro
I y C 1 Patriot.
Ot Autumn, why si soon ;
Depuit thy hue. Hut make thr f Tests gUd
Thy gentle wind ami thy fair sonny noon,
And leave the ild ana sad
Ah 1 'twere a lot too blest,
Forever in thy colored .hade, to .tray,
Amid the kisses of the soft southwest
To love and dream for aye. Bbtakt.
A woman residing in Cincinnati, who has
been married thirty-four years, and ia now
in her sixty-ninth autumn, agreeably aston
Uhed her husband by presenting him last
week, with a pair of twins, bouncing boys,
the first children to which she ever gave
birth. Becoming a mother at this period,
and for the first lime, is not little singular.
. Tub chronicleis of tha 'hen fever in Eng
land throw our fanciers into the shade. The
following prices are obtained over the waters
for psirsof Cocbiu Chinas ;-$l6. S15P
For a sincle hen f 80 has paid.
From the New Orleans De't 1
LINES .
Supposed lo have been composed by tho cel
ebrated Feejee Poet tlcukemanivee, upon
tho Twenty-first Anniversary of the Biith
of King Kankcrnmsquankee.
Strike the hewgag! sound the tomjohn! .
Let the loud hosanna ling !
Beat the huzyfuzity ! awakelho gonggonng!
liunlum, fuzzlebr.m, ilingo, bim J
Shout aloud, Rumbuntumfoozle !
Anil let Ihe great humbug-binl sing '.
Bow before ihe great bamboozle
Hunkum, Bunkun, fumkensling I
Wake again tho great Sumpunkins !
A I . I . . . n
And in rumsquash, rouse once mote I
Hanguiu, bangum, chnnkem qumkins
Loudly let Iho wig-wag roar !
Slaughter now the great Krumsquankee,
Hang the bull call up to dry ;
II uiimskarum, slavnmhaukee
Make the great Rumluskns cry !
Note. Tho writing here becomes illegi
ble, bul the song is still sung among the Fcc-
jees upon each succeeding birth-day of their
late sovereign sung, loo, with a guslo that
none but i Feejee can realize. The Iransla-
lor is at present actively engaged in the col'
lection of the principle curiusiiies of the Fee'
jee literature, a: d will, in the couise of the
present year, publish a volume of some of
Iho choicest selections, in prose and verse
from tho most popular authors of that remote
but intensely interesting region. FRAN
CIS FREDERICK EICGIU.
Lale Sect clary to his most gracious Ma-
NeslJ-.
King KaiikeiumsquatiKce.
New Orleans, Sept. 19, 1852.
A YANKEE ENTERPRISE.
We learn from Ihe Boston Transcript that,
' " sctiooonor i.amainue, wmcn cieareu
al dial port on Thursday for Lumann, Vene
zueln, a parly of adventurers went out, fur
nished with a complement of machiuey, for
Iho purpose of raising treasure from the
wreck of iho Spanish vessel San Dedro,
which was lost off Venezuela more lhan a
century ago. It is supposed thai the vessel
had about $9. 000,000 on board, which was
sent by the home government to pay oil
troops in her dominions in the new world.
Some two years since a portion of the pres
ent party discovered the wreck, and wilh the
aid of the little aparatus for tho purpose, suc
ceeded in raising about 825,000, and cleared
the wreck, so that they now anticipate oper
ations will be comparatively easy. A steam
engine will be carried out, and also a diving
machine of ingenious construction, newly in
venled by Mr. James A Whipple, together
wilh a sub-marine armor, and all other ap'
pnratus deemed necessary for the most scl
entifiic fathomed of Ihe boundless deep.
Should ihis enterprising company secure the
whole of iheir supposed vastly rich prize,
ihey will not only mddenly become million-
aiies in wealth, but inill'onaries literally ' of
the first water."
Gheat Pipes. After hypocrites, the
greatest dupes the devil has are those who
exhaust an anxious existence in ihe disap
pointments ond vexatious of business, ond
live miserably and meanly only to die mag
nificently and rich. For, like the hypocrites,
ihe only disinterested action these men can
htccuso themselves of is, that of serving ihe
devil, without receiveing his wages, he that
stands every day of his life behind a counter,
until he diops from it inlo the grave, may
negotiate many very profitable batgains,
but ha has made a singlo bad one, so bad,
indeed, lhat il counterbalances all the rest :
foi iho empty foolery of dying rich, he has
paid down his health, his happiness, and his
integrity.
The Nepfiks Family. Old Mrs. Neppins,
of Long Island, bids fair to become famous
through Ihe exertions of her chronicler.
Hero is his last budget transmitted to the
A'ni'cACTuocicr Magazine ;
Mis. Neppins went to camp meeliit' here
last week, ond on being asked if Bhe loved
ihe Lord, replied, "Well, 1 ain't got nothing
ain mill. Also tier sou, oi me inuue ui
... ... . , , r . i. r
Conk lin Nennins. ale for a waser a w hole
roast goose, and iheu drank up the oily gravy ;
Un,l !,,;,, asked if t won J not make him
sjci r(.pied that ,;lhe goose sot well enough
;lll0 hjs gtummick, and as for ihe gravy, he
thought lhat the giease would kind o'work
out 0f njs kin! Bul it did make him sick,
for w hen our captain met Mrs Neppins, and
asked after her eon, she replied : "Well, he
enjoys very poor health, bul this morui.i' he
complains of being better." Whal is iho
mailer with him!" osked our caplaiu.
"Wol," replied Mrs. Neppins, "he'ii kind o
troubled wilh a dreadful risiti' of his wit
ties!"
A Culifornian writes that ho is so hard
run for victuals and olher edibles, thai nolh
ing but a miracle or highway ribbery can
save him from starvation For Iwo weeks
he says, he lived on a piece of oil cloth
boiled with an olJ bool lo give it o meaty
Havor. Here's a situation os is a situation
Composition or tus Moos. Every ob
ject ou its surface of the height of one nun
died feel is distinctly seen through Lord
Rusae'a telescooe. On lis suiface are craters
of extioot volcanoes, rocks and mases of
stone almost innumerable. But there aie no
aicna of inhabitants such as ours, no vestige
of architectural remains, to show lhat the
moon is or eves-was inhabiled by a race ol
mortals similar to ourselves. No waler is
visible, no ses, no liver J ail seem. u
I dale.
HINDS OF mtlT INHWrsTILLG.
The fact cannot bo too strongly impressed
nrou the public. It applies lo all fruit with
out exception, and includes also the pellicle
or skin of kernels and nuts of all kinds. The
edible part of the fiuit is particularly deli
cate, and liable to rapid decomposition if
exposed to the atmosphere j it is, therefore,
a provision nf nature to place a strong arid
impervious coating over it, as a protection
against accident, and lo prevent insect ene
mies from destroying the seed within. The
skin of all ihe plum tribe is wonderfully
strong, compared with ils substance, and re
sists the action of water and other solvents
in a remarkable manner. If not thoroughly
masticated beforo taken into the stomach,
the rind of plums is rarely, if ever, dissolved
by tho gastric juice. In some cases pieces
of it adhere to the coats of the stomach, the
same os wet paper clings to the body, causing
sickness and olher inconvenience. Dried
raisins and currants are particularly included
iu these remarks showing the best reasons
for placing the fruit upon ihe chopping board
with the suet in making a pudding of them ;
for if a tliied currant passes in the stomach
whole, it is never digested at all. When hor
ses cat oats or beans lhat bavo not been
through a crushing mill, much of this food is
swallowed whole, and, in this state, being
perfectly indigestible, the husk or pellicle
resisting the solvents of the stomnch, there
is so much lost lo nutrition Birds being des
titute of Iccth, are provided with the appar-
arus for grinding their seed, namely, with
the gizzard, through which the seed passes,
and is crushed prior to digestion. Tho peels
of apples and pears should always be cast
away. Oianges we need nut mention, as
this is always done. Urlcans, green gages,
damsons, and all plumbs, should be carefully
skinned, if eaten raw-; and if put into (arts,
they should be crushed beforo cooking.
Nuts are as indigestible as we could desire,
if Ihe brown skin bo not removed or blanch
ed, all almonds are generally treated.
Peaches should be denuded of their skins
before they are eaten, if any persons wishes
to know how to eat one, let him watch a
monkey at the operation.
Piucf.s fobty-two YCAtts Aoo. An Eng
lish cottager communicated lo a gentleman
recently a list of prices of the necessaries
of life in 1810, from which it appears that
most articles in cottage use have become
much cheaper lhan Ihey were formeily. In
18 10 a cattagers Sunday hat cost twenty
shillings, it now costs only seven shillings
A shirt then cost ten and six pence, w hich
can now be bought for three shillings. Cal
ico, which was then Iwo and nine pence a
yard, is now ix pence. Brown hollaud has
fallen from twenty pence to four pence a
yard j a bushel of flour, fiom one shilling to
five pence ; bacon, fiom eighteen pence to
lit pence a pound ; lea of an inferior
quality, from eight shilling to four ; btown
sugar, from ten pence to four pence ; butter,
fiom one shilling to eight pence ; soap,
from two and six pence to six pence; starch
from Iwo and six pence to eight pence. On
this side of the water most articles of cloth
ing have fallen in price during the same
period.
Descendants of Genius. With the ex
ception of the noble Surrey, we cannot point
out a repaescntativa in l he male line of any
English poet. The blood of beings of that
order can be seldom traced far dow n even i11
tho female line. There is no English poet
prior lo ihe eighteenth century and we be
lieve no great author, except Clarendoin, nnd
Shaftesbury of whom wo have any inheri
tance among us Chaucer's only son died
childless; Shakespeare's line expired in his
laguhter's only daughter. None of the olher
dramalistsof lhat age left any progeny; nei
ther did Raleigh, nor Bacon, nor Bow lep, nor
Butler. The grand-daughter of . Milton was
Ihe last of his family. Newton, Locke, Pope,
Swift, Arbulhnol, Hume, Gibbon, Cow-per,
Grey' Walpole, Cavendish, (and we might
easily extend Ihe list,) never married. Nei
ther Bolingbroke, nor Addison, nor Warbur-
Ion, nor Burke, transmitted descendants.
North Tribune.
litoitMoN Toasts. On the of July,
the fifth anniversary of the entrance of the
pioneeis in the Greal Salt l.ake Valley, was
celebrated throughout the territory wilh
pomp and display. Brigham Young deliver
ed an address at Salt Luke City. The fol
lowing are some of the loasts otfeied at the
celebrated dinner :
Brigham Young He is all he is, and
who says there is a lion in the paih.
Politics. Tlio pestilential "iii-lt" of
Government, cured only with hot biimalone.
Who scratches 1
LAWYERS-Cholera visible, following death
on Ihe pale horse, and emptying the pockets
of tho miserable.
The Rcnaway Ji'Dues. May they go
home to their own place, (hell.)
.Cheap Fcfl A noted ogriculiuialiBi,
Mr. Bergen, sajs thul fuel of an excellent
quality can ba grown quicker, easier, and
cheaper from peach lone, Iban any olher
mode within hi knowledge. From Ihis
source, he think the selllers upon the Wes
tern prairie might furui.h iheraelve, wiihT
in three or four years, with a constant sup
riv. .!
At "what time do your omnibute atari 1''
asked Londoner, lately, of one of the eon.
duotors. "Our buses," replied tbe function.
ry, 'ruDS a qaarter arter, arf arter, quarter
to, and at !'.' Ia English this rr.esus "eeiy
qnsiter of an hour."
WEBSTER'S HEAD.
He was a great man, a man of Ihe largest
moulJ, a great body and a great brain j h
he seemed made lo last a hundred year,.
Since Socrates, there has seldom been a
head so massive, huge. Since ihe stormy
features of Michael Angela,
"The hand that rounded Peter's dome
And groiued tha aisle, of Christian Rome.1'
He who sculptured Day and Night into
such beautiful forms ho looked them in his
face before he chisseled them in stone. Du
puytien and Cuvier are said lo be the only
men in our day that have had a brain so
vast. Since Charlemagne, I think there hat
not been such a grand figure in all Christen;
dom. A large man, decorous in dress, dig
nified in deportment, he walked as if he
felt himself a King. Men from the country
who knew him not, stared oi him as be pas
sed through our streets. The coal-heavers
and porters of London looked on him as on
a King. In the Senale of the United Slates;',
he looked an Emperor in that council. Even
ihe majestic Calhoun seemed common com
pared wilh him. What a mouth he had.
It was a lion's mouth. Yet there was a
sweet grandeur in his smile, and a w oman's
sweetness when he would. What a brow
it was! what eyes, like chaicoal fire in the
bottom of a deep, dark well. His face was
rugged wilh volcanic fires, greal passion's
and great thought.
"The front of Jove himself,
An eye like Murs, to threaten and command."
Theodore Parker.
Washing Made, Easy. The "crazy folks"
in Ihe asylum at Hartford, Ct., mix a gill of
alcohol with a gallon of soft soap, just as
ihey are going lo rub it on the clothes, .which'
they then soak two or three hours, and then
merely rinse out in clear water, and in al)
dirt is out as effectually as good sen bo, is out
of a fellow after drinking the same quantity
of the ' poisonous stufl." Just tell the wo
men lhat ihis is the easiest way to make
washing easy, and urge them lo Iry it, and
you will thereafter have no reason to run
away on washing day. In washing stairs and
passages, always use a sponge instead of a
cloth when washing the space between the
carpet and wall, and you will not soil Ihe
edges. Sponge is cheap,, and tin inlormalion
is cheap, but it ia valuable to all housekeep
ers. The Plough.
' - ' e i
Immense Iron Structure. The Oswego
Starch Factory is now the largest establish
ment of ihe kind ju Iho United States. The
factory and buildings cover one ond a half
acres of ground, nnd ore lighted by between
75 and 100 sky-lights. The buildings con
tain 600,000 pounds ol machinery, among
which are three cast iron kettles holding
1,000 gallons each ; eight little pumps ca
pable of discharging 80,000 gallons of btarcb
an hour, five rotary and foice pumps, capa
ble of discharging 5,000 gallons of wa'nr a
minute ; over one mile in length of water:
pipe ; 200 vats, used in the manufacture cf
starch, holding 800,000 gallons, and four
pair of cast iron rollers, weighing 10,000
pounds each. Thi9 establishment gives em
ployment to 100 men, and consumes annu
ally from 175,00? lo 200,000 bushels of corn
800 tons anthracite coal, and from 600.000
to 800,000 feet of lumber in the mah'ifRJ:
ture of boxes and for other purposes, and
makes 10,000 pounds of starch a day. The
machinery is propelled by four watei wheels
combining 80 horse power. Oswego Timet.
Ravid Enovgii for Eves a Yankee.
One may now take a railroad car in the
Scotch Highlands, and, wilh the singlo in
lerr'uptSon of a two hours' water transit from
Dover to Calais, ride by rail through London
Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Dresden, Vienna, to
Trieste on ihe Atlantic ; and, soon, War
saw, St. Petorburgh,. Moscow, Prague, Ge
neva, Milan, Rome, Turin, Marseilles, juaa
rid, Lisbon, etc., al ihe rale of five hundred
miles per day.
Thr editor of the Wheeling Intelligencer
has been shown a brass crucifix, of curious
and antique manufacture, which has. been
dug tip from an Indian mound in Wetzel
counly, Virginia. The mound from which
it was taken was covered with a full growth
of forest irees ; and the appearance of the
cross indicated that it had been butied for
many hundred years.
receipt ron f IRISO meat. 1
Several correspondents having desired us
to republish our receipt for curing beef and
l?'k': THE TELEGRAPH RECEIPT!
To 1 gallon of watt ',
Take 4 lb. salt,.,
i lb. sugar,
I oz. saltpetre, ! i s
tn this ratio the pickle la be increased. to;
any desirable quantity. Let these be boiled
together until ull the dirt fiom the salt ant
sugar (which will not bo a liitle arises to
Ihe top, and is skimmed, ofl,. Then throw
the pickle into a Jarge tub lo copl, and wheii
peifacily cool, pour over the beef or pork(
to remain the usual lime, say four or five
.eeks, according to the size o( Ihe pieces!
The meat must be well covered with the
pickle, and should not. be put down for af
least two days after slaughtering, during
which time it should be slightly spiinltlecl
with powdered saltpetre, lo free it from the'
blood, &o. This pickle has been tiled,
without boiling, and proved to be excellest,
Germantomri TtUgrafh.
At Richmond, Va, bulii sell si tl ti'
fer found!