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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.
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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, :
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