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MASSER '-firRITINa FLUID and aelf aealing Enve- w T lopes, just received and for sale by AprU 13, 1851 II. B, MASSER. Sl jromfla airtaspgprr-arbotea to aotfcst aftrraturr, Toratrtg, 'jforttfltt ang Domestic ntas, SELECT POETIIY. THE LORD S PRAYER. AN ACROSTIC. Our Lord and King who reign'st enthroned on high, Father of Light! Mysterious Deity! Who ait the great 1 AM tho last, the first Art righteous, holy, merciful ami just In realms of glory, scenes where angels sing, Heaven is the dwelling-place of God our King. Hallowed thy name, which dolh all names transcend. Be thou adored, our great Almighty Friend, Thy glory shines beyond crention's space, Named in the book of justice and of grace ; Tur kingdom towers beyond thy starry skies ; Kingdom salanio falls, but thine shall rise. Come let thine empire, 0, thou Holy One, Tur great and everlasting will be done ! Will God mako known his will, his power display 1 Be it the work of mortals to obey. Done is the great, the wondrous work of love, On Calvary's cross he died, but reigns above, Earth bears llie record in thy holy word. As heaven adores thy love, let earth, 0 Lord ; It shines transcendent in the eternal skies, Is praised in fjeaveu for man the Saviour dies. In songs immotlal, angels laud his name, Heaven shouts with joy, and saints bis love proclaim. Give us, oh Lord, our food, nor cease to give Vt proper food, on which our souls may live. lin j be our boon to-day, and days to coma, Day without end, in our eternal home; Oi'R needy souls supply from day to day, Daily assist, and aid us when we pray: Bread though we ask, yet, Lord, thy blessing lend, And make us grateful when thy gifts descend. Forgive our sins, which in destruction place Us i he vile rebels of a rebel race. Our follies, fruits and trespasses forgive Debts which we ne'er can pay, or ihou re ceive. As we, oh Lord, our neighbors' faults o'erlook, We beg thoud'st blot curs from thy memo ry's book, Fouoive our enemies: extend thy grace, Oua souls to save, e'en Adam's guilty race, Debtors to thee in gratitude and love, And in that duty paid by saints above. Lead us from sin, and in thy mercy laise Us from the (emptor and his hellish ways; Nor in our own, but in bis name who bled, Into lUine ear we pour our every need. Temptation's fatal charms help us to shun, But may we conquer through thy conquering Son. Deliver us from all which can annoy US in this world, and may our souls destroy ; From all calamities which men betide,' Kvn. and death, oh turn our feet aside, Fou we are mortal worms, and cleave to clay ; Thine 'tis the rule, and mortals to obey. Is not thy mercy, Lord, forever free? The whole creation knows no God but thee. Kingdom and empire In thy presence fall; The King Eternal reigns the King of all. Power is with thee to thee bo glory given. And be thy name adored by earth and hea ven. The praise of saints and angels in thy own, Glory to thee, the Everlasting One, Forever be thy triune name adored. Amen! Hosanna! blessed be the Lord ! tf tocrllffiirouff iutcv. APSLEY HOUSE-A PEEP AT WEL LINGTON'S STUDIO. In this his studio, all the tools and means of a consumate artist who knows the value of time were a, hand ; while all show and tinsel are absent, everything present it solid and substantial, and indicative of a mascu line nerve and sinew, of the energy and intention of one who could bear anything but idleness, and to whom occupation was happiness. In truth he was the nation's servant o( all work, from the clerk to the commander in chief, who never stinted counsel or labor, whether called for by Iriend or foe, when the honor and welfare of his Prince might be forwarded. His secret oi getting ihrough each day's work was simple- He rose early to attend to the things in hand, one at a time, well know ing mat those who run alter two hares catch neither. He sat down with a fixed tenacity of purpose, bringing to bear on bis subject patience, industry, capacity, tact, and every blossom of good sense. He had in perfection the rare faculty of ab straction, and could concentrate all bis powers into one focus. "Uther men." said Mr. Arbuthnot, when near hit end under his roof "other meu may have had particular talents in high perfection, but I don't believe there ever was any man that had the same gift and habit ot bringing all his resources to bear upon anything that be took into his con sideration at all." "How few are there," said Mr. Arbuthnot, "that in general set at work upon any given point or topic more than a corner of their brain." This, dearest friend of the Duke's, himself the gentlest of human beings, bad been a keen observer nevertheless! Everything in his Workshop is calcula ted to insure quiet and exclude draught; lor the Duke, however bardy out of doors. was chilly, and loved warmth when chain ed down to the daily desk Within easy reach we see the books he most frenuentlv consulted, chiefly historical i nor is there. any lack ol easy chairs for their student.- i nai in wnicn a medal is Inserted was made of the elm under which he stood at Waterloo. It was elven him bv Mr. Children that gentleman having in 1818, purchased the tree of the farmer Papillote, wno cut it aown Because plagued by visi tors, just as Shakspeare't mulberry was dealt with by the Rev. Goth Gastrell. In another chair made from the oak of the Temearie, Mr. Arbuthnot usually sat; the duke's place was naturally in front ol the fire, where his own habitual chair with red leather cushions, and moveable desks still remains. In it he was wont, when-his work was done, to amuse himself with the papers and lighter literature of the day, of which last, when out or olnce, be was diligent devourer and eviscerstor of mar- I row and meaning and occasionally a nap, SUNBURY, 'NOIlTIlUMnRRLAND COUNTY. 1M SATURDAY, JULY 3. 1839. withstanding At first entrance an impression of confu sion is conveyed by the multitudinous ob jects heaped on tables and sofas, but order and method may soon be detected amid the chaos. As nothing ever placed by the Duke was moved, he knew where at once to find what he wanted. On the central tables still lie his overcoats, of various col ors and textures, suited to meet all changes of the wealher. Close at hand are despatch-boxes and courier valises, which bear the marks of rough service all ready lor immediate use near, a small equestrian statuette of the Queen marks the Polar star of his course. He to the last used the good old-fashioned, loyal phrase of "her Majes ty's servants," and centered in the Crown all his notions of country. Near also at hand is a private box, now covered with a leather case, which he un locked with an unduplicale key, it being the depository ol a constant supply of bank notes for those disbursements as to which he did not think proper to make "Coult's clerks" his confidants; and seldom that tJay passed when it was not often opened to di rect 5 and jCIO notet to be sent in regis tered letters to never-faililg applicants for relief. The Duke, a Samarifan, not a Pharisee, did not blazon forth his name in printed subscription lists or choose be made a decoy like many who have their re ward, but had a heart open to charity, and a hand that knew not what the oilier gave. It was useless to prove to him that his bounty was often abused. He held thai, as much as had been given, him by his country, much was required; and howev er close and circumspect as paymaster qf state money, he was generous to a fault with his own nay, he was infinitely amu sed when ingenious tricks were played on him. He wat fond of telling and he did so at great length and with infinite humor the particular case of the female Stan ley, who, by a scheme followed up for sev en years, contrived to do him out of some ,500. "An orphan daughter of a soldier," he would say and we can only give an epi tome "petitioned for relief! I sent her 10; soon comes a grateful application for a little aid to set up a shop granted ; alter a time trade very bad and some assis tance begged given ; presently a prospect announced of a marriage with an industri ous young man wedding present of course, indue time a child born baby linen provided y by and by the infant sick ens apothecafy settled with ; next, the poor suflerer dies undertaker satisfied ; then the heart-broken parents wish to em igrate outfit and passage paid ; after a few months, news from the United States that it does not answer passage paid back ; when an accidental discovery by the police brought an untimely end to my poor or phan." The Duke wrote close to the fire, and formerly seated himself on a stool at the circular-headed, old fashionable mahogany bureau, still here; latterly he stood, and almost on the rug, at an upright desk, where papers and letters remain just as ho left them. The mantel-piece is no less charac teristic of the man ; on it a chronometer nd pendulum clock mark his appreciation of time and punctuality, the soul of busi ness. Jn fondness for watches he rivalled Charles V., who amused his "cloister life" by trying horologies! experiments with his mechanician, Juanele : and such the fa- mout Breguet was to Wellington, who de lighted not only in his work but in his con- ersation. Well knew the veteran-norter that M. Cresuet was to be let in at anv The Duke seldom had less than half a dozen watches going at once ; and when e travelled stowed away as many more in portmanteau made to fit his carriage. He was curious about the exact time, which like fllr. Stirling's hero, he could never get any two watches to keep, possibly because ne wound or lorgol to wind them up him self. In London he relied on an old clock his hall, which, like that at the Horse Guards, was always riarht. With all his partiality for Breguet, his favorite watch was one of old fashioned English make : it once belonged to Tippoo Saib, and had been the companion of all his own campaigns irom benngapalam onward ; we almost fancy he would have risked giving a battle rather than lose it. Col. Garwood used to relate bow, when hard pressed during some retrograde movement, the Duke, having occasion to alight, left it on the ground and did not miss it until he had ridden three miles, when be went back amid the wondering defilers, and fortunately fouud it. A second watch had an odd history. mis was ordered ofBrezuet bv Napoleon. wno cesigned it lor the lob of bis brother Joseph, and as a delicate attention directed a minature map of Spain to be wrought in niello cn one side, with the imperial and royal a.'mt on the other. Unluckily, just as it wa.- finished, the duke drove Joseph out of his kingdom ; and the Emperor finding the times out of loint, refused either to take or to pay for it. At the peace it was bought Irom Breguet by Sir E. Paget, ana presented to the Duke, tie bad an other which the same artist had made for Junot, the marshal so trounced by him In Portugal ; this is Quite an borogical curios ity oi wuicn oniy two were ever con structed marking the lunar and weekly movements. Latterly tbe Duke usually wore montret de touche, of which he had many contrived bv lireeuet. with eertaio studs or knobs, by which he could fed what o'clock it was, without the aonarent rudeness of pulling out bis watch; accord ingly when be seemed to be merely furn- -....s uisj pw.ei, oe wm really bndtng out now be killed the enemy, lime. The Washington Monument is now 130 icet nign. PEDITION. Certainly no man ol the oge has gradua ted in such a course of preparatory disci pline as he to whom is now entrusted the search for the long lost navigator. He has taken his diploma in the College of Dangers. In the brief enumeration of his studies, we find him trpmping for several wet ks on foot, through the orange-groves of Brazil : then for a month, chasing the tiger near Bombay ; then, a surgeon of the American Legation to China, where, after numerous unavailing endeavors to penetrate the for bidden portions of the Celestial regions, he goes to the Phillipiues, and succeeds through the good offices of the monks of the interior of Manilla, in visiting ils fastnesses and exploring its volcanic wonders : then, with bamboo cord around his waist, de scending two hundred feel below the brink, into the great crater of Tael, returning with a bottle of its sulphur water, and lea ving his crisped boots amid its cinders and lava; then again, visiting China and en countering shipwreck, he passes to India as physician of the Dremendhar Dagore, and for tliree months, from his palanquin, looks out upon the glories of that country which displays, in prodigiality, its physical wonders, and gathers around it the most romantic associations; then, we trace him in Upper Egypt and Abvssinia, imprinting the temporary footsteps of the camel on the shilling sands, traversing the Sahara to the base ol Jupiter Ammon at the imminent risk of life, applying bis ear to the lips of Memnon, that speak their morning words high in the clouds for several weeks with Professor Lepsins. disturbing the ancient dust of the Pharoalis; again wrecked as he descends the Nile wounded in a combat near Alexandria then hunting out each scene of interest in classic Greece, and sleeping under the sky that arches the shores of Marathon then whirling through Italy, France and England cruising on the coast of Africa, he avails himself of his Brazillian acquaintance, and is permitted to penetrate the interior and examine the whole machinery of the slave trade then ghting with the coast fever, and though coming off conqueror, yet so disabled as to be obliged to return home an invalid then volunteering for Mexico, carrying des patches to Gen. Scott in a mad race through the country out troops had left ; at Perote obtaining an escort of a miscreant spy company, and becoming involved in a se ries of fights, he received the swords of Gen. Caona and Gen. Torreion : had his horse killed under him, and was himself esperately wounded in protecting the ves of prisoners against his own men then engaged in hydrogrsphic service on he uoast Survey then as Surgeon of the expedition in search of Sir John Franklin; pending a long and dismal winter on the ozen waters of the Polar Sea then re- urnin'g amidst the congratulations of his countrymen, he descends from the attitude I an iceberg to the heat of the lecture- room, and lays before the people the results nis northern investigations and we now see him thus familiarized with every peril and acclimated in every region : aving successfully struggled with the rice fever in the Canton Rivei, with the plague n r-gypt, with the yellow lever at Kio. with the congestive at Puebla, with the African fever on the coast, with an organic isease of the heart, which has from boy hood been assailing the citidal of lile. with dangerous wounds. Thus disciplined and accredited, we see this young, slender and plastic American, under aid of a benevo- ence that stretches beyond home and coun try, freighting his stout ship in our harbor, with the implements and means of subsis tence which ore necessary, to enable him o undertake a second and novel expedition. to hnd, it it be possible, amidst the ices of the Pole, the form, living or dead, ol that aiiant explorer whose unknown fate at tracts the liveliest interest of the nations. Filled with wonders are those dominions of thu North. With what interest the eve ins over the map lines which set apart those mystic boundaries of now and ice, and impenetrable Winter. Grander and more sublime, are those formidable masses ol snow, the weird glimmering of the long twilight: the stretched out nicht. the elec trie nasnes tnut dart to tbe zenilli and counterfeit the day, than the gardens of the woriu, wnere unental sunshine, fruits and flowers, and the gorgeous exuberance of Xaflir.'. VAffal.linn I. .11 J ,L dreary senses into a pleasin? inertness The imagination bounds with a new vigor, and seeks to pierce the untrodden ree?ons me nome oi me tiorealis around which the glittering battlements of ice stretch their effectual guard. There is rich music to the ear ol the adventurous in the wild wail o( those mournful, frozen seas, those whirl ing .snow-dnlts, that cracking, crumbling ice that holds him momently on the preci pice of danger; and there is beauty to his eye in the varying hues that mount strangely and fitfully in the aurora of the iNortnern. zone, and fling their radiance o'er the dazzling minarets that shoot into the sky. , So long as there may remain one leaf of the vast volume of nature to be turned over, whether it be in the craters of her volcanoes or on the summit of her glaciers ; whether in festive moments she lies in smi ling beauty, or flowers in verdure, or wraps hersell in impervious snow mantles, and caning urr laio against me clouds bidding defiance to the scrutiny of eighteen centu- nes so long ana mere, will restless explo rers lake themselves, and spurred by mo tives of fame, of curiosity, or of benevo lence, ooiaiy Knock at her most, cherished secrets. In these Artie explorations, : dangers come thick and imminent. Columbus bap tised bis brow in the waving influences of a genial sea. But in the Central North, tne elements war witrj man; he is no. &tUntt airt the arts, rftiilture7lttarlietsf amusements, c where afp, whether in lonely marches, isolated and frozen, on snow shoe or sled ges, or amidst those gigantic bergs whose heavy touch splinters his little ship like a thing of straw. Let us wish all success to the gallant spirit, who, with his gallant company, is now preparing to assault the North. We hope be may restore the lamented Franklin to his constant wife and to the world. Dr. Kane, more than another man, deserves such fortune ; deserves the honor of re vealing the secrets of those regions where the storm blast whistles the wildest, of standing alone with the genius ol Frost, and of carving his solitary name on the icy knob of the North Pole. JV. Y. Times. A lll'f.E ANATOMICAL DEMONSTRATION. A Dr. Caitwright, of New Orleans, amuses himself with the anntomical dissection of al ligators, his object being, as be alleges, the demonstration of certain new physiological views that he entertains. On a recent occa sion he cut op three of these monsters in the presence of a large number of scientific gen tlemen, with the following results, according to a leporler : "He divided the cpiunl marrow in three places at tho base of the neck, in the mid. die, and at the bnse of the back ; nay, ho divideil the nerves emerging from the spine and still, on irritating the nerve between the section ar.d the extremity, he demon strated that the animal possessed a diffused sensibility, a capacity to tecognise pain, and even an intelligent power to net against, or attempt to escape the cause of the pain. Cutting of tho head of tho animal, jobbing out the spinal marrow, dividing the nerves coming from them, and irritating them along their distal portion, they still retain this in dependent sensibility, and the mutilated limbs of the headless animal would make in telligent motions for get'.ing rid of the local torture. These are curious ar.d important discoveries. ,:Dr. Carlwright contends, Against long odds, it is true, that in the Inner not the heart, resides the motive power of the circu- ation ; that literally, as Moses asserted, the blood is the life of the flesh, and the air the life of the blood. Ho affirms that after death, when the pulse has stopped, the heart is still, and tho body is insensible, to pain; by producing artificial reoperation, by inflat ing, the lungs, the blood can be started anew, ils life revived, and the body resurrected ab solutely fiom the cold abstractions of death. Both of his alligators had their windpipes tied, one of them had his chest opened, with his heart, lungs and stomach, &c, exposed. In the course of two hours both animals were dead, pulseless, and quiet over flames of fire. Then, a bellows-nozzle being in serted into the trachea, inflation was begun, and continued for some minutes. We saw the motionless heart throb, the blood begin ning lo flow from the lungs to that organ the eyes of the alligator opened, & the hapless "victim" lived again ! The alligator whose chest was exposed, had his carotid artery accidentally cut, thereby losing a considera ble quantity of blood, and honce it was not made so briskly alive as the other, who re tained all its vital fluid." Declivity or Rivers. A very alight de clivity suffices to give the running motion to water. Tliree inches per mile, in a smooth, straight channel, gives a velocity of about three miles an hour. The Ganges, which gal hers t lie waters ofthe Himalaya Mountains, the loftiest in the world, is, at 1800 miles from its moiuh, only about 800 fe?t above the level o! the sea about twice tbe height of St. Paul', in London, or the height ol Arthur's Seat, in Edinburg and to full these 800 feet in its long course, the water requires more than a month. Tbe great river &lugda!ena, in South America, running for l'JOO miles be tween two ridges of Ihe Andus, falls only 500 feet in all thai distance; above the commence ment of thelOOO miles, it is seen descending in rapids and cataracts from the mountains. Tbe gigantic Rio do la Plata has so gentle a descent to the ocean, that, in Paraguay, 1500 miles from its mouth, luign ships are seen which have sailed ngainst the current all the way by the foico of the wind alone that is to say, which, on the beautifully inclined plane of the slieam, have been gradually lif ted by the soft wind, and even against the curient, to an elevation greater than that of our loftiest spires. ArnotCt Vhyskt. All funerals in Paris are performed by one chartered, registered company. They have gut a privilege, a concession, a monop oly fiom the government. If you die hi the Catholic religion, nobody elso can bury you. They have an olfico that is open fouiteen hours out of the twenty-lour) they own five hundred black horses, eighty heaises of vari. ous sizes, (one expressly for giauis,) drivers, niou ners, bier-carriers, carpenters, drapers, without number; they have shielda and ar morial bearings, ready pain ed for the titled families in Paris; they have hangings for doorways and chuiches, with every combi nation of embroidered initial in (be alpha bet i they supply water, whetMor blessed or not, makes no difference ; they undertake everything with nothing, do the whole, and then send you, or rather your executors and survivors, a swinging bill.' The tariff f pri ces shows that there are pompesfrom 3,967f. down to 5f. Horn Journal. Foreign Coal It is estimated that during Ihe last twelves months there have been im ported into New York, from Englaud and colonies, 100,000 tons of bituminous coal, which, at $10 ton, would aineui.il to ooo(noo, THE LOKOesT PSALM. The remaikable perfection of the several parts of ihe one hundred and nineteenth plalm and yet their connection with each other, are well entitled to our admiration. In the language of Calvin, '-Wherever we begin, we seem to be at the commencement; and wherever we slop the sense is complete ; and yet the poem does not consist of detach ed sentences, but is whole, cousis'iug of many parts, all of which seem necessary to its peifectiun." It is another peculiarity of this psalm, that long as it is, and various as it is, the uniform and consistent object ia to extol the law the word of God. There are in the entire one hundred and seventy-six verses, not more than two or three in which there is not some word or other signifying the law of God. fen difierent terms, correctly represented in our authorized version, are employed for the purpose the Low, the Testimonies, Ihe Statutes, tho Commandment, the Judgments, the Precepts, the Righteousness, the Ordi nances, the Word, and the truth of God and sometimes two of these terms present themselves in the same verse. These terms partly apply, to, or, rather, they comprise the intercourse between God and the soul of the believer which give to it a law of spiritual life. But there is doubtless a primary refer ence in them to the written Law The Word of God. And what was that at the lime this Psalm was written'! It could have compri sed little more than the five books of Moses. These to a pious Jew might be, and where, when tightly understood, full of heavenly instruction. This portion, however, compri ses not quite one-fifth of Ihe Word of Godi as we have it in our possession. We have beside it the Historical and Poetical books, and Prophecies, the Gospels, the Epistlo; and of the Psalmist, knowing only so small a portion of the sacred Scriptures, was so deeply impressed with a sense of its incalcu lable value with what intensity of apprecia tion with what strong emotions of thankful ness and gratitude should we not regard our richer treasure, in the completed Work ! . It may not be that the expression of out rever ence should surpass those of the Psalmist, or our feelings of love and joy be more intense than his. It is enough if, with far greater or at least far riper, oause, we can but come near to him in his sense of the unutterable value of ihe Lord's testimonies; if they had become to ourselves as to him, "A light unto our feet, and a lamp to our path ; and if we can but say with him, "Oh, how I love thy law; it is my meditation all the day." But we are left without excuse, if, with the greater blessing, our thankfulness be less than his; and if, with our highei obligations, our emotions, in the completed manifestation of God's will and way, aie but faint compa red with his. There is peihaps no equal portion of ihe Old Testament which is more nourishing than this noble Psalm, and this is from the striking manner in which it sets forth the workings of true Godliness in the regenerate soul. This was perceived by Jonathan Ed wards, who. in his work on the "Religious Affections," says: "1 know no pait of the Holy Scriptures in which the nature and evi dence of true Godliness are so fully ar.d largely insisted on and delineated as in the one hundred and nineteenth Psalm. The Psalmist declares his design in the first verse of ihe Psalm, keeps his eye on it all along! and pursues it to the end. The excellence of holiness is represented as the immediate object of a spiritual tust'e and delight. God's law that great expression and emanation of holiness to the creature is all along re presented a the object of the love, and com placence and the rejoicings of the gracious nature which prizes God's command 'above gold, yea, the finest gold,' and to which they re 'sweeter than honey and the honey comb.' " lit this quality of tho Psalm which so fre quently brings us lo a pause in the perusal of it, that we may ponder over some sacred maxim, treasure up some golden sentence, or try our own heart by tome golden rule. We have been particularly interested in noticing this process in the exercises of Chalmers on this Psalm. Any earnest reader of ibe Psalm will make to him an equally copious, but probably different list ol remarkable passages, and when he returns to it again, another diffcicnt till : for according to Ihe stale of mind and spirit at I lie lime we read, lexis w hich im pressed it but slightly yesterday, will lo-day strike home lo tbe beau; and others which to-day scarcely detain our thoughts shall to. morrow arrest our mind with a ginni's grasp. This is true indeed of all Scripture, but it more preeeptible in a piece like this, composed of senleuces which teem but loose ly connected with each other. And it it this quality which gives Scripturti its x hauailess variety, and always freshening interest. We may read it continually, we may even learn it by heart, and yet always find something new, something very pre cious, that had before escaped our notice. Those who dig this mind come away with gold and with more the last day than the first. Dr. A'lMo. ' a r V .. . . n i'.uiiui.. merauer oi ins Indian Legislature was, one day at dinner, asked bv 8i what, in bis opinion, ought lo be done with a man who would deliberately commit suioiae lor love. The law-giver looked puz. lied, but aoou gathered himself tocatheV and replied, "I go in for mainir bin mv I e r. - . .... nny uoiiart to toe fcttte, and marry riW t,rt ! OLD SERIES VOL. 13, NO. 41. STBAWBERRYCLXTint IN CEOIIOM CotOMTOs, Ga., May 16th. ' ' Having heard much of Mr. Peaborty', Strawberry culture, throuph ar enntrnveray he once had with Mr. Loncwnrth, Dr. War ier and others, of Cincinnati, I paid him a ,j.jt yesterday, and spent Ihe lime most pleasant ly with his family. They have a very heal thy location on a hill in the pine woods over 600 acres; and when they went on it, thirteen years ago, not a tree hod been rat. He cleared a space for his honsr, arid ihey moved in the next tpring. Ifo hn p.oved the most successful cultivator of many kind of fruits, berries and molont, in this country, I saw lOOahilltof watermelons, on vihicb will be ripe fruit by the 10th or 15thof June ; he says he has frequently picked trmm weigh, ing 50 ponn.lt. Hie great peculiarity with; Strawberries, ia the quantity of fruit, its size and flavor, and the roiui.mrt bearing of thw vines ; always hat plenty of fine berries for six months froqaently eight-and last season he had them every month in the year. Recoil lect this is in Ihe open air-in hit open fieldt. I saw yesterday eight acres of ?trawberriea ihe vines are very tmalf, and covered (the 1 li.. n i jjruuim ineiariy jooks red with most deli cious, largo Hoveyberrios. These vines have been in just as full bearing since the 10th of March, and he says will continue until mid. die of September, and as much longer as frost keeps swy, if he chooses to attend them. Mr. P. sends to this market from 150 to 200 quarts per day, and says he could pick dou ble the quantity if the market was larger The opening of (he Railway through will give" mm the fllacon market, and he expects lo send to Savannah. Nobody else has succee ded with them ; his are about the only ber- reg Drought to market. People ear it is all owing to bis locality j he says it is no such thing that any of therfi can have the same results if they will puisne the tame coarse . and he has given to the public all his knowl edge upon the subject, through the column ofthe horticultural journal which he edits. His wife is just as much of an enthusiast in horticulture, and they have six or eight pie. ces of plate, received ss premiums from va rious societies. DRt.lKE.N FORK. The largest distillery in the Uuiled Statee is said to be in New Richmond, Ohio.. From' it 128 barrels of whiskey are turned out daily. Another in the same place turns out 85 barrels per day. They are distinguished as the upper and lower distilleries the upper being the larger one. In the pens of the upper one are kept 9,000 hogs, and in lower 7,000, to be fattened on the slops and groins after the alcohol is ex traded. The "slops" have enough of alco hol in them to keep the animals well stimu lated continually, and many of them die from disease produced by it. About 100 hogs per week die at these distilleries; of these lard oil is manufactured, last year 3000 of these victims were thus disposed of, and their val ue was $12,000. No hogt that are confined in these pens and fed on the refuse of the distillery, die, or are killed, without being diseased, and the pork bears in rt the seeds of disease elmosl as surely as the vile liquid manufactured. ftEWSPAr'Eit F ILES. ' ! Even the poorest newspaper published in the world is worth being filed away for fu ture reference. They are snre to come op some day as important leminiscences, and even as evidence in important lawsuits. We see this daily illustrated. Persons are con stantly calling to examine your files, and not a circuit court is held but that some on and often two or three connected with our office, receive a summons to attend with filet of the paper, to be used In evidence. This subjects us at times to no little annoy ance, besides loss of time. We do dot no lice the matter,' however, for the purpose of complaining, but to suggest that the archive of every county in which a newspaper it published, should contain a file of soch paper, nd that tome provision thould be made by law, lo make it the duty of the prokato judge or clerk of the circuit court, or both, to provide and preaerve these files. Such is Ibe law in several of the Stales of Ihe Union, and such a law should be established in Ala bama. Montgomery Advtrtiter. - i Wolves The Bangor, (Me.) Mercury says lhat David Moore, Esq., of Burlington, on the night of the 28ih ult., lost S3 sheep and lambs, being the whole of his flock ex cept six sheep and four lambt. They were It killed by wolves. Tbe wolves tapped Iheir jugulars, nd tucked their blood wilh- out otherwise mangling them. Cisioft EriTarus. In a country grave yard in New Jertey, there is plain ,iou, erected over the grave of beoutirul young lady, with only that inscription upon it ; "Julia Adams, died of thin thoet, Apt il 17, 1839, aged 19." One ttone more conspicuous than Ihe rest, hat this lingular inscription opon it: "Here liet the body of John Jones, icho never held an office. An honest man." '. Btroaa the days of the Teetotaller, a, neighbor of Mr. Bitbee taw that genll.maa at an early hour of the day crawling lewly homeward on bit hand ud knee over the frexen ground. ; v , v. , "Why do', , get p, Mi. Why don', you ge, lnd w,jk neighbor. ;,',... .f I .w.wouU, bbbo it', s 'alsnig'kiT fain bei. ibat I'm --,fl,d ,,aU b.b, : throu-h '." i . ..
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