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THE CAItRIEIl'S ADDRESS
to the Pali wis of the
SUNBURY AMERICAN.
January 1st 1853.
Patrons of the American ! give ear,
And that you may understand, us well as hear,
Ju?t let me say,
Tht lo day,
You've got j our can ier (or the devil) lo pay
How punctually, and how well
He has served you all,
Through ruin and snow and sleet and hail
You know full well.
And Iheiefore I need not tell.
But this much let me slate,
Before it grows loo late,
Nor think it all tneie vapor ;
That you never can conceive.
Much less, believe,
The loil, the trouble and the pains,
The amount of pen nud ink and brains,
It weekly lakes,
To servo ou wiih u decent papet.
But let lh:s p,is, as ihere :s much to say
On this eventlul day,
In tn y peculiar way
Much graver subjects lor my pen.
Death! has stalked through tho land,
And wilh palsied hand,
Has laid low our greatest men.
Those iip iii whose words, old and young,
And listening Senates liur.a
Whose praises were on every tongue
Have gone
To that bourne,
From whence no traveler can return.
No more tho gallant Clay, wiih manly form,
Will lake his stand.
And wiih ou'.sticlchcd hand,
Point out l he way,
In sunshine and in slurm,
No mure will his clarion voice be heard,
Wilh ils silvery tones,
Musical as a bird
His Hashing wit and sarcastic? ire,
Burning, as wiih living coals of tire,
Every traitor, upon whom
lie piouounccd a tiuilois doom.
And Webster ton New England's sturdy son,
That man of massive mind
Anil aiant thought,
Who iilwajs brought,
Wilh crushing force,
His mountain intellect,
This greet Union lo protect,
And lo unhorse
All traitors, or demagogues,
Who dared lo rise
Against the Union or the Compjomise.
Near Marshfieid's rugged shore,
Wilhin the murmur anil ihe roar
Of the ocean wave.
' In liis narrow cell forever laid"
Bnieaih Ihe elm trees sha le,
iTIie patriot, statesman, now lies at rest,
Willi all his country's honor blest.
Bui let us turn lo the living,
And leave the dead,
To sep, what can be said
Of those I hat remain
On this sublunary sphere.
Some made great
By nature,
And some by fate
And Sijrno no greater than they appear.
Perhaps, in Older, the next ereat event,
Was Ihe election ol our President.
When Gen. Pieiee, wiih tremendous sway,
Triumphed over "Old Chippew a"
When Ihe smoke of the battle was o'er
And the victory fairly won,
Leaving the old chief,
With scaice a single gun,
Ho rubbed his eyes,
Wilh great surprise,
And wondered how il was Joue.
A friend at his side
Quickly replied.
'The ihing is perfectly plain"
If you'l allow me lo explain
You have never learned to run.
And who is Pieice 1 some ardent whig ex
claims, What sei nb horse
What nag is he ?
VVh.it ore his claims.
Or w hat hid pedigiee ?
Who thus runs o'er the course
Asainsl Virginia's chivalry.
"Who is General Pierce" ; is it that
You wish lo know ?
Replied a sturdy democrat,
Lying low.
Just ask Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Tennessee,
New Yoik and New Jersey
Louisiana and Floiida,,
Virginia and Iowa,
Illinois, lndiauna,
California, Alabama,
Connecticut, Maryland,
And Texas, l tie laity land,
New Hampshire and
Hold, hold ! enough; Mr. whig replied,
You've quite restored my eight,
I now see through this mmky cloud.
But tell me, is it polile,
To answer a civil ques!ionquita
So thundering fast and loud 1
But I'll say no moic,
And close the door,
On every theme but this,
That is to say, on this happy day,
If you are willing,
I'll take a Quabter,
Or even a siiling
Rather lhan I shoufd miss"
Now friends and patrons, irreat and small,
1 wish "a happy New Year" to you all.
itftocrltauroujs sttattrr.
From the New York Tr.bune.
THE "SPIRITUAL" PHENOMENA.
Having heard, sometime since, that cer
tain very remarkable occurrences in con
nection with the alleged "Spiritual Mani
festations" of our day, had been witnessed
by Hon. James F. Simmons, late U. S. Sc
nator from Rhode Island, and widely known
as peculiarly fitted for keen and clear
sighted observation, we lately applied to a
Literary friend in Providence, who, as we
knew, had taken a deep interest from the
outset in these 'Manifestations,' for a true
account of Mr. Simmons' experience in the
premises. Her answer which we think
will repay a careful reading is as (ollowi :
Providence, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 1852.
Horace Greeley, Esq. Dear Sir: 1
have had no conversation with Mr. Sim
mons on the subject of your note until to
day. I took an early opportunity of ac
quainting him with its contents, and this
morning he called on me to say that he
was perfectly willing to impart to you the
particulars ot his experience in relation to
the mysterious writing performed under his
very eyes in broad day liht, ly on invisible
agent. In the fall ol 1S50, several messa
ges were telegraphed to Mrs. Simmons,
through the electric sounds, purporting to
come from her step-son, James D. Sim
mons, who died some weeks belore in Ca
lifornia. The messsges were calculated to
stimulate curiosity and Lad to an attentive
observation ol the phenomena. Mrs. S.,
having heard that messages in the hand
writing of deceased persons Were sometimes
written through the same medium, asked if
her son would give her this evidence of liis
identity. She was informed (throurli Ihe
sounds)" (hat the attempt should be made,
and was directed to place a slip of paper in
a certain drawer at the house of the me
dium, and to lay beside i,t her own pencil,
which liau been given her by the deceased.
Y ecks passed, and although frequent inqui
ries were made, no wrilintr was found on
the paper. Mrs. Simmons, happening to
Call at tllM llmio.J nni .'i, n mn, r, ..A kit
ner nusuanii, made the usual inquiry and
received the usual answer. The drawer
rawer
had been opened not two hours before, and
nothing was seen in it but the pencil lvini
on the blank paper. At the suggestion of
Mrs. S. however, another investigation was
made, and on the paper was now found a
few penciled lines resembling the hand
writing of the deceased, but not so closely
astosaliofy the mother's doubt?. Mrs. S.
handed the paper to her husband. lie
thought there was a slight resemblance, but
should probably not have remarked it had
the writing been casually presented to him.
Had the signature been given, he could at
once have decided on the resemblance. He
proposed, if Ihe spirit of his son were in
deed present, as alphabetical communica
tions received through the sounds affirmed
liiiii to be, that he should then and there
aliix lii-i signature to the suspicious docu
ment. In order to facilitate the operation, Mr.
S. placed Ihe closed points of a pair of scis
sors in the hands of the medium and drop
ped his pencil through one of the rings or
boughs, the paper being placed beneath.
Her hand presently began to tremble and
it was with difficulty she could retain her
hold of the scissors. Mr. Simmons then
took them into his own hand, and again
dropped his pencil through the ling. It
could not readily be sustained in this posi
tion. After a few moments-, however, it
stood as if firmly poised and perfectly still.
then brtrin slowly to move. .1r. .V. saw
the letters traced lenadh his eyes. The
words Jaii:s D. Simmons were distinctly
and deliberately written, and the handxrri-
iinq was n facsimile of his son's signature.
Hut what Mr. S. regards as the most aston
ishing part of this seeming miracle is yet
to be told.
Bending down to scrutinize the writing
more closely, he observed just as the last
word was finished that Ihe top of the pen
cil leaned to the right. He thought it was
about to slip through the ring, but to his
infinite astonishment, he saw the point slide
slowly bach along Ihe word 'Simmons,' till
it rested over the letter i, where it deliberate
ly imprinted a dot. This was a punctilio
utterly unthought of by him; he had not
noticed the omission, and was therefore en
tirely unprepared for the amendment. He
suggested the experiment, and hitherto it
had kept pace only wilh his will or desire ;
but how will thos" who deny the agency
of disembodied spirits in these marvels, as
cribing all to the unassisted powers of the
human will, or to the blind action of elec
tricity how will they dispose ot this last
significant and curious fact. The only pe
culiarity observable in the writing was that
the lines seemed sometimes slightly broken
as if the pencil had been lilted and then
set down again.
Another circumstance I am permitted to
relate which is not readily to be accounted
for on any other theory than that of a spi
ritual agency. Mr. S. who had received
no particulars of his son's death until sever
al months after his decease, purposing to
send for his remains, questioned the spirit
as to the manner in which the body had
been disposed of, and received a very mi
nute and circumstancial account of the
means which had been resorted to for its
preservation, it being at the time unburied.
Improbable as some cl these statements
seemed, they were, after an interval of
four months, confirmed as literally true Dy
gentleman, then recently returned from
California, who was with young Simmons
at the period of his death. Intending soon
to return to San Francisco, he called on
Mr. Simmons to learn his wishes relative
to the final disposition of his son's remains.
1 took down these particulars in writing
by permission of Mr. s., during his relation
ol the facts. I have many other narratives
of a like character from persons of intelli
gence and veracity, hut they could add
nothing to the weight ol that wlncli 1 nave
lust reported to you. An eminent clergy
man oi tne episcopal i.nurcii saiu, uoi ma
r.i ti i I. I i
ny days ago, to one of his communicants
who had unwittingly become a medium,
"When I talked with vou a year since in
relation to this matter, I was disposed to
think that the whole thing might be resol
ved in a combination of mesmeric influence,
imposition, collusion and credulity; now
I am constrained to adopt a very disagreea
ble alternative, and to believe that it is a
device of the arch-fnemv.
a orii roLAti stix.
It has previously been announced, that
Dr. Kane, who is now a Lieutenant in ihe
United Slales Navy, has been assigned ihe
command of the Advance, one of Ihe vessels
of the expedilion which, through the liberal
ity of Mr. Henry Grinncll, of New York,
and Mr. l'eabody, of London, is lo be short
ly despatched in search of Sir John Frank
lin. Dr. K., in a lecture delivered by him,
before Ihe Geographical Society of New
York, advocated ihe theory of an open Polar
Sea and cited ns fao!s to sustain the theory,
among other things, that ihe esluaiies of
Baffin's and Hudson's Bay, nud Bhering's
Slrait, indicate tho existenco of a Polar
Basin, having an active supply and dis
charge, as well ns ait internal circulation ;
tho intercommunication of whales between
tho Atlantic and Pacific oceans, as shown by
Maury ; ihe increaso of waimlh in many
places in very high latitudes; the initiation
of unimals, and the llighl of bird of passage
some of which incubate in regions of un
known iioithuess ; llio phenomena of the
Polar diifi. which indicates thai the thaw
commences on the northern n rid no! on ihe
southern side. His p'an of search is based
upon tho probable extension of ihe land
masses of Greenland to ihe far north ; a
view yet lo be demonstrated by actual ex
ploialion, but sustained by the analogies of
physical geoguiphv. Believing in such an
extension, in endeavoring to reach the open
, , t, , ,. , ,. ' ' . .
" i""-" " "
all, are supposed to be, ho proposes to reach
by vessels the huhust attainable point of
j Baihu's Bay, as tha most eligible site of
reaching tho North Pole. Fiom thence ho
will push oveilnnd with a paily of thirty
j men, piovided wilh Fledges, Esquimaux
j ilngs, a couple of launches on boats, n sup
j ply of dried meat, packed in cases, and fol
lowing me lrea:l ol the coast, endeavor to
reach the op?n water. "Once there," ex
claims the lecturer, with noble ardor, "wu
launch our links boats, and bidding God
speed us, embark upon ils waters."
The Whekli.nu Uridug Public attention
will soon be called lo tho rernaikable con
flict between the United States Supreme
Court and Ihe legislative branch of Ihe Gov
ernment, in the Wheeling bridge case.
The Couit, by a decree at ils lale session,
afler a .e-heaiing of ihe case, decreed that
llio biidge should be removed, as an obstruc
tion to the navigation, or elevated to a cer
tain heig'il, and then allowed a certain time
wilhin which ihe bridge company should
comply with llio teims of llio decree. Con
gress, al the lale si shoii, and after the ad
journment of Iho Court, constituted tho
bridge a post-road, wilh a view lo save tho
bridge and evade the decree. They under
take to legalize what Ihe judiciary has deci
ded to be a nuisance. In February, the U.
Slates Maii-hal will proceed to execute Ihe
decree, and niinmon a posse, ami, if need
be, call upon Ihe President for military aid.
The Governor of Virginia, on ihe other hand
will resist the execution of tha decree, and
employ the militia for that purpose. There
is a clash of nuthoiity between co-ordinate
branches of ihe Government, and in w hich
Slales are deeply iuloiesled on one side and
the other. Whether Congress or the Court
is to yield is Ihe question. Baltimore Sun,
Dec. 27.
Knbki.i.sc tu Ladies. One of the diollest
occurrence in the annals of gallantry, is rela
led of Gibbon, the historian, who was short
in stature and fat. One day being alone
with tho beautiful Madame do Crouus, he
dropped on his knees before her, and made
a declaration of love in tho most passionate
terms Tho astonished lady ejected his
suit and requested him lo rise. The abashed
historian remained on his knees. "Ilise, Mr.
Gibbon, 1 beseech you, rise" Mr. Gibbon
still kept bis postuie. "Mr, Gibbon, will
you have the goodness to get upl" -'Alas,
madam," faltered tho unlucky lover "I can
not.-' Ho was too fat to regain his feet
without asssistanee. Madame do Crouas
rang the bell, and said to her seivaul, "lift
up Mr. Gibbon."
A Clergyman, named G. J. Garretson, lale
pastor of ihe Dutch Hefoimed Church, at
Lodi, N. Y., i at present confined in the
County Jail under ihe following circuinstan
ces. About a year since he was prosecuted
by he Overseers of Ihe Poor, of iho town of
Lodi, for the maiutaiiiance of a child of a
young gill who had lived in his lamily loi
several mouths pievious, and-whose oath as
cribed ils paternity to Ihe Reverend gentle
man. The case was tried, and the accused
hold lo bail lor ihe eupporl of ihe child.
Subsequently, the case was carried lo the
County Courl, where il was tried ill August
last. Efforts were mado lo invalidate I lie
tertimonv of Ihegiil. but in vain. He was
held for ihe suppoil of the child by a majori
of the bench. Though reputed to be a man
of wealth, he refuses lo give bonds, and
adapts Ihe alternative of taking up his abode
in the County prison. Ihe tales County
Whig says he protests, as he always has, his
entire innocence, and says that he regards
Ihe mother as the piime conspirator for Ihe
procurement of his downfall. The girl has
recently died.
What is a Man 1 A thing to waltz with
to flirt with, to lake you to the theatre, to
laugh at, to be married lo, to pay one s bills,
and to keep one coinfoitable. We are sorry
to be obliged to say that many young ladies
of Ihe present day consider this a true den
nition.
THE MAMMAL SHOW. I
Fio:n ihe Southern nnd Southwestern
Sketches-Published by J. W. Randolph,
Richmond.
The following sketch, taken from the Ala
bama Journal, of a 'few' who really did see
Ihe 'Elephant,' is by Ihe graphic .feather of
Johnson J. Honpet, a native of the old North,
but now practising Law in Chambere and the
adjoining countiesof Alabama. We consider
him, next to Longslreet, the best delineator
of country life, manner, and customs:
The monotony of our villiage life was
agreeably broken, on lasl Monday, by the
advent nf Raymond's Menagerie. Not ihe
juveniles only, but the whole adull popula
tion, male and female, wilhin five miles of
the Courl House, were alive with excitement.
Tho North wind whs culling ns a note shaver,
bul in spile of lhal and the supposed scarcity
of coin the 'davilion' was thronged. A more
mutely assemblage 1 never saw Iho ani
mals were nothing in ihe comparison and
in point of decorum the spectalms mi"ht
have taken lessons fiom Ihe Griely Bear.
It was the only public nssembly that I ever
heard of in the connlry which iho presence
of Indies did not control into pinpricty of
speech and manners. Even the professional
beast tamers themselves. Mr. and Mrs
Schaffer, failed to subdue Ihe rampant ani
mals outside the cages.
r The Elephant was tho great point of at
traction, as usually. Many were tho remarks
ciled by its immenee size and docility.
'1 want his hide and frame for a com crib,'
aid a fellow from Pan Handle Beat.
Save me bis ears for skeils lo my old wag-
in saddle,' remarked another.
Goodness gracious,' ejaculated a sallow
girl, with a dirty blue ribbon around a dirty
ow neck, was it oorned with that ugly
vinke-thintr stuck to its face?'
It's got a'inost the least har to as much
idc thai I ever seed,' quoth Jerry Brumbe
low.'
Whar do they raise 'em V asked some
honest searcher after knowledge.
'Nol here not here in this (llic) country,'
replied Jim McGaffey, with a would-be-sober
hake of the head.
'Vhar, then V
'That animal,' said Jim, who was very
drunk, 'lhat nuimal wasn't raised in Iho Is-
and (hie) of Ameriky. It comes all the way
from (hie) Ireland.1
Give us your ham!, my friend, exclaimed
old Tom Martin, wiih an ironical air, 'give
your hand for the true words yo're tellin' the
boys. Don't you see the crealm s fut 1
tok at this fut? Sara 'twas made for the
Jogs of the ould country !'
This thing, tho', is bul a heifer, as ye may
pay. W Hal would ye say, n ye count see a
giniwine gtown up Airish Bull?'
Satis! jam satit'.' soliliqnized a corpulent
lawyer, as he walked up, unconscious latiniz-
ihe spiiit of Tom Haines' remark on a
similar occasion, made lo Tom Jefferson.
They adjourned lo tho vicinity of ihe Li
on g cage
'Why didn't they shurr (shear) that crit
ter's fore parts, as well as his hind one?' Ask
ed some one.
You see,' said his keeper, a man wilh
lingo whiskers, and a green blanket coat
he's got a breast complaint, and we were
aliaid of increasing his cold.'
Well bo granny. 1 did notice he was
Aocirsc, w hen he hollered, awhile ago.'
Whar did ho come from, Jim ?' said one
of the cmwd.
From Ireland, too, be Jabers said old Tom
the Irishman, taking the word out of Jim's
mouth 'Didn't he McGaffey?'
'I Judge (hie) did,' said Mack.
'I'll lake my corp'ral of il,' relumed Mar
tin; 'the groves of Blarney is hill ol em !'
Presently the crowd . was ordered back,
and Mr. and Mrs. Schafer entered the cage
wilh the lion, tiger and other animals.
'That takes Billy's horns clean smooth off
to the scull now don't it?' said Tom litis-
'Its tho first time I ever seed ihe likes,
and I'm sixty-five come fall,' rcmaiked an
old gray-headed man.
'Is it a rail woman in the: ?' asked a skep
tical dirl-ealer.
'Why, you see,' said Jim McGatTey, 'its a
rale woman, but she's goi gieal sperets.
Some people, tho,' (hie) think Iheso show
peoplo (hie) ain't regular human, no how.'
'No more, and they ai-i'l' said old Tom.
'What are ihey then ?' .
'Airish, lo be sure !'
'Well ain't ihe Irish human ?'
'Devil the bit of it !' responded old Tom,
'they're all subjects of the Queen of Gnat
Britain.'
That's (hie) a fact,' said Jim McGaffey;
and the point was eellled.
Mrs. Schafer shook her whip at the ijger
which dashed by her, and crouched in a cor.
ner of the cage, growling furiously.
Take care, the bar legs, the old boy's rat
tling his chain as my old woman tells Dick,
when he cries,' said John Davis.
,i ,ay( John,' observed a half worn out
man in a slouched hat '1 ain't no objeciion
to lhat woman showin' off hei legs lhat way ;
but it Betsy was to.'
'Let Betsey's name alone you lazy good-for-nothing,'
interrupted a sharp nosed fe
male, with ore child in her arms, aud ano
ther at her knee, 'let Betsey's name alone,
goodness knows! she can get along without
sich notice as that. 'twas the blessed Eliza
both herself 'and come here and tote Jack.
Hei the've been, scroug'.n' and running'
over ihe poor child all day and yon a jiwin j
thtr! und a talking about you know not
wnal! Its only the Lord's mercy the elephant
didn't tromp on him, and squash him to
death. Come along !'
The hii pecked meekly obeyed ; took Ja
cob into Ins paternal aims; and I ceased
to lake notes.
The Tuwer of London is an ancient roy.
al fotlress, not subieel to the ordinary con
trol of the army oflice. The garrison is un
der the immediate command of the sover
eign. It is Queen Vicloiia's particular furt,
and all the orders issued are by direct man
date, through Ihe Secretary of War, and not
from the military service. To cany on this
government there is a Constable with his
depulies, at a cost of .4,000 Hy $20,000 a
year. Of these, only one deputy is resident,
and his duty is to lake care of "the key."
He is therefore a sort of a gate keeper, and
this is all the duty done for w hich the coun
try pays 20,P00 per annum. The cere
monies are amusing. Every night the guard
or watchmen turn out at midnight in proces
sion, lo the oflice of tho Major lhat is the
title. The call is made, "Who goes '.here?''
"Keys," is the reply. 'What keys?"
'Queen Victoria's keys." ' Pass Queen Vic
loria's keys." "God save Queen Vicloiia"
and ihe night work is over. Tho Major
lakes the keys, and his snperiots, who never
come there, get fat salaries for doing even
less. Among the well paid officers about
ihe tower is a physician for State prisoners,
although there has nol been one there since Sir
Francis Burdett ; and one small one is a 10
salary for a man to pull a bell where there is
none.
We do not think lhat such abuses would
be allowed long to exist in a country where
republican institutions prevailed,, and whore
there were no privileged orders whose inter
ests were subserved by them.
New York Extravagance. The New
York Express says : The extravagance the
city, and the people of the city are going
into, exceeds any thing in our previous his
tory. Costly houses of 75,000 and $100,
000 with furniture, mirrors, carpeting, pic
ture?, frescoes, kc , to malch, ore not un
common but their are dinners, soirees
fetes, dresses, &c, lo match. We hear of
balls the past week, in which diamonds and
emeralds were worn worth $30,000, on the
person. Thousand dollar diesses are not
uncommon. Dinner parties aro spoken of
when ladies appear in cloaks embroidered
with peails, &c. What are we coming to ?
An Important Invention.. Gen. Crosby,
of Chautauque, is well known to the lumber
woild as the inventor of seveiul useful im
provementa in the sawing departments. His
last invention is a long sought desideratum
a citcular saw for sowing clapboards and pa
nel stuff; or, in other winds, for splitting
plank or board to any desired thinness.
Tho process, now in general use, is cumber
some and slow, comparatively, three hundred
feel an hour being deemed fast woik. This
saw will do a thousand feet per hour, straight
or bevelled; and is, in its construction, neat
and compact. Workers in wood will appre
ciate the importance of such a machine. One
of them would be a handsome fortune to any
man Albany Evening Jour.
We learn from the Observer that tho Rev
James Calvert expired in ihe pulpit, while
engaged in the performance of religious
service, at Orion, Catterangns county, N. Y.,
a short timo since. Ho was reading from
the 13th chapter of St. Luke, and after ut
tering tho words, "I will arise and go to my
." exclaimed. "O, my friends !" fell
down in ihe pulpit, and almost instantly
expired.
Gen. Pierce's California Ring. Tho
Boston Transcript says of this ring: It is of
the purest gold, weighs 174 ounces, und
would be a very becoming ornament for the
little finger of the "King of Giants," of whom
we read in fairy lales. The ring is beauti
fully chased, and has a number of uppropii
ate representations of scenes chaiaclerislic
of the modern Opuir. They musl have ar
lists of Ihe fust order of skill in San Francis
co, to have produced such a work. The cost
was about jfiOOO, ni.d Iho value of ihe gold
is upwards of 51200. By touching a spring,
a lid llies up, and you see imbeded various
specimens ul California oies. This marvell
ous ring is well worth teeing.
Perhaps il is not geneially know,?, ns il
should be, thai salt put in llio mouih, will
instantly relieve ihe convulsive movements
in fits, either of children or animals.
An extraordinary rise has Uken p'aco in
France, in the pi ice of brandy. This i
partly owing to the falling off in this year's
vintage, and partly the demand from Aus
tralia. The Bloomer costume is again itching
for a "rage." Wilhin a week past, some half
dozen ambitious females have pautalooaed il
in silk and satin in Boston.
A recent biblical wiiter mentioiis as a sin
gular fact in human nature, lhat when men
fall Ihey love company, bul when they rise
they always prefer to stand aloua.
Corn Bread. Tha following is said lo
be a new and good receipt for making Corn
Broad :
"One quail of sour milk; two tablespoon-
fuls of salaralus; four oz. of butler; three
eggs: three lablespoonfuls of flour ; aud corn
meal sufficient to make a stiff batter."
MV WIFE is THE cai se of it.
li L now more than forty years ago that
Mr. L called at the house of Dr. B
one very cold morning, on his way to
II .
"Sir," said the Doctor, "ilia weather is
very frosty ; will you nol have somelhiug to
drink befoie you starl ?"
In that early day, aulent spirits were
deemed indispensible to warmih in the win
ler. When commencing a journey, and at
every slopping place along the road, the
traveller always used intoxicating drinks to
keep him warm.
"No," said Mr. L , "I never touch
any thing of the kind, aud I will tell you tho
reason -, mu wife is the cause of it. I had
been in the habit of meeting some of our
neighbors every evening, for the purpose
of playing cards. We assembled at each
other's shop, and liquors were introduced.
After a while we met not so much for play
ing ns diiuking, and used to return home
late in the evening more or hss intoxicated.
My wife always met me at ihe door affec
tionately and when 1 eluded her for silling
up so late for me, she kindly replied, "I
prefer doing so, for I cannot bleep when you
are out."
"This always troubled me ; 1 wished in
my heait that she would only begin to scold
me, for Ihen I could have retorted and re.
licved my conscience. But she alway,
met mo, wilh Iho same gentle aud loving
spirit.
"Things passed on thus for some timea
when 1 was at last resolved that I would, by
remaining veiy iate and returning much in
toxicated, provoke her displeasure so much
as to lecture me, when I meant to answer
her wilh severity, and thus by creating an
other issuo between us, unburden my bosom
of ils present trouble.
"1 returned in such plight about four
o'clock in the morning. She mut me at tho
door with her usual tenderness, and said,
"Come in husband : 1 had just been making
a warm fire for you, because I knew you
would bo cold. Take off your boots and
warm for your feet, aud here is a cup of hot
coffee."
"Doctor, that was too much. I could not
endure it any longer, and I resolved that
moment lhal moment that I would never
louch another drop while I live, and I never
will.
He never did. He lived aud died practi
cing total abstinence from all intoxication
drinks, in a village- which intemperance
has raged as much as any other in this
Slate.
That man was my father and that woman
my mother, the lact above related 1 re
ceived from tho doctor of my native village
not long since.
May we not safely assert thai were there
more wives like my blessed mother, there
would bo fewer confirmed drunkards ?
A SEASONABLE HECEIPT.
Rendering Lard. One of the best House
keeper in the county of Philadelphia, has
communicated to us Ihe following receipt for
rendering lard, which was obtained from
Charleston, and which possesses many im
portant advantages over the common mode,
It is simply to put in the kettle before the
lard say fire pints of ley made of hickory
ashes, to a common barrel kettle, (generally
holding less than a barrel.) The advantages
of this aro, lhat the lard renders easier, 6c
comes much witsr, is sweeter, and will keep
longer. This melhod has been pursued for
several years, with tho highest satisfaction.
Editor Telegraph.
Js Slavery a Sin ? Six hundred and six
ty thousand five hundred and sixty three
slaves are owned in this country by minis
ters of the gospel and members of ihe dif
ferent churches, viz : 219,563 by the Me
thodists, "7,000 by ihe Presbyterians, 125,-
000 by the Baptists, 88;000 by ihe F.pisco-
palians, 101,000 by the Campbellites, and
50,000 by other denominations,
Young Trees. Take away all stubble,
grass or weeds from their stems, so that mice
may not find materials for their nests; then
bank ihe lrees with clear earth, and they are
ready for winter. Where trees stand in
mowing ground it will be well to clear away
the grass roots and throw fine manure or loam
close to their tiunks. This will keep mice
away, ami be a good fertiliser when spread
early in the spring.
Worth Rem embhisu. Reese's Medical
Gazette says, ' In case of any burn or scald,
however extensive, all ihe acute suffering of
ihe patient may be at once aud permanently
relieved, and lhat in a moment, by sprinkling
over the surface a thick layer of wheat
flour."
President Fillmore. The New York
Journal of Commerce states that an effort ia
making on the part of the friends of Mr. Fill
more, and of the American Colonization So
ciety, lu constitute him a life Director of the
same, by raising one thousand dollars, to be
appropriated to assisting emigrants to Liberia
while a suitable tribute of respect is ihua
paid to Ih retiring President.
Franklin and Marshall Colieues
The difficulties in the way of the Union of
Franklin and Marshall colleges are about to
bo overcome. Last week, tha subscription
by the citizens of Lancaster city and county
of $25,000, rendered necessary by Ihe act
incorporating the Joint Insiiiution, wa con
pie ed, and the money deposited in Bank.