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He is also owning at " time, a large asaortment of Hooks, in every i. -r I ;i..ratnr. ronsistinz of roelry, History, Novels, Komances Scientific - i Modii-ine. School and Children a ... iiiid,:, S. I.00I. Pocket and Family, both with and without Engravi..Bs,and every of vari. ,;...i;. frnver Ilooks. of all kinds. Uo ju.: recci-d and fo, ...e. Purdon. Di s of liie luwa of Pennsylvania, edition of 185 1, . a r nn "T" a" yu...i. i.titimi of Blackstoncs Commen ruuT.. o ".I- a formerly sold at 5f 10,00, ",d now offered' f fresh binding) at the low P,A ffi on the law. of Penn.y.vania r. specting the estates ol ueceucma, u, Ve. and Adven.ure-.U ot -ui-k .ill I sold low, cither lor casn, or cu 1. 1 1 1 . " try produce. 'February, 81, 1852.- -tt. NOTICE, ... 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Take, lake away the festive cup IN or tempi me Willi llio winning glass For painly o'er its minor brim, D.uk lorms of vice, like specters, pass; Each flu wing bowl each sparkling drop, la pregnant with milium ber' J. ills- wakened memory oil unfolds, l ast scene, at winch the bosom thrill. Take, take away the feslive cup io more its potent spell 1 leel Twill tear each germ of virlue up, And o'er the heart, like shadows, steal; For (hough 'lis wrealh'd in rosy smiles, And seeming pleasures on it ride. There's misery, woe, mul wretchedness, commingling with Us purple tide! ake, iRke away the festive cup It ctiills my soul with lion id tears ! Tis filled wilh woe with wretchedness M'i'h widows' and with orphans' tears! Oh may I, wilh supernatural aid, 1H guarded Irom Its mamrs powers, Then will Ihe heart beat light and free, And gladsome as in boyhood s hours. vtljrilling Skctcl). THE OLD MAN'S STORY. 1 shall never forget the commencement of the temperance reformation ; I was a child at the time, of some ten years of age. Our home had every comfort, and my pa rents idolized me their child. Wine was often on the table, and both my father and mother frequently gave it to me in the bot tom of my morning r!ass. One bunday at church, a startling an nouncement was made to our people. I knew nothing of its purport, but there was much whispering among the men. The pastor said on the next evening there would be a meeting, and an address upon the evils of intemperance in the use of alcoholic drinks. He expressed himself ignorant of the object of the meeting, and could not say what course it would be best to pursue in the matter. The subject of the meeting came up at our table after the service, and I questioned my lather about it with all the curious ea gerness ot a cnilJ. ihe whispers, and words which had been dropped in my ring, clothed the whole affair with a reat mystery to me, and I was all eager ness to learn the strange thing. My father merely said it was some scheme to unite church and state. The night came, and groups of people gathered on the tavern steps, and I heard the jests and the laugh, and saw drunken men come reeling out ot the bar-room. J urged my father to let me go, but he at first refused Finally, thinking that it would be an innocent gratification of my curiosity, he put on his hat and we passed across the green to the church. 1 remember well how the people appeared as they came in, seeming to wonder what kind of an exhi bition was to come off. In the corner was the tavern keeper, and around him a number of friends, l or an hour the people of the place continued to come in, until there was a fair house full. All were curiously watching at the door wondering what would appear next. The pastor stole in and took a seat behind a pillar under the gallery as it doubtful ol the propriety ol being in church at all. Two men finally came in and went to the altar and took their seats. All eyes were fixed upon them, and a general stil.' ness pervaded throughout the room. 1 he men wore unlike in appearance, one being short, thick set in his build : the other tall and well formed. The younger had the manner and dress of a clergyman, a full round face, and a quiet, good natured look, as he leisurely looked around over the audience. But mv childish interest was all in the old man. His broad, deep chest, and unti sual height, looked giant-like as he strode slowly up the aisle. His hair was white, his brow deeply seamed with furrows, and around his handsome mouth, lines of calm and touching sadness. His eye was black and restless, and kindled as the tavern keeper uttered a low jest aloud. His lips were compressed and a crimson Hush went and came over his pale cheek. One arm was otf above the elbow, and there was a wide scar over his right eye. The younger finally arose and stated the object of the meeting, and asked if there was a clergyman present to open it with a prayer, Our pastor kept his seat, and the speaker himself made a short praver, and then made a short address, af the conclusion calling upon any one present to make re' marks. The pastor arose under the gallery, and attacked the positions ol the speaker, uiing the arguments which I have olten heard since, and concluded by denouncing those ensased in the new movement as meddlesome fanatics, who wished to break ur the time-honored usages of good socie. ly, and injure the business of respertable men. At the conclusion 01 nis remarks the tavern keeper and his friends got up a cheer, and the current of feeling was evi. dently against the strangers and their plan While the pastor was speaking, the old man had fixed his dark ey upon him, and leaned forward as if to catch every word, Ai the pastor took his seat the old man rose, his tall form towering in its symmetry anA I,;. rhi swellin? as he inhaled his hr-aih through his dilated nostrils. To me ai that time, there was something we-in anirin? and erand in the appearance of tbs old man as he stood with bis full eye upon ih a idience. his teeth shut hard, ana a si Lnra Ii b that of death throughout the iu.ure.lu SUNBUIIY, N O UT1 I UM SUNBUIIY. NOIITII ITIUniv.lll.ANiT, rniTVTV 1A ciTimntv AnntTom . iDrn t o..,,r..c. t, He bent his gaze upon the tavern keep er, and that peculiar eye lingered and kin dled for half a moment. The scar grew red upon his forehead and beneath the heavy eyebrows his eyes glittered and glowed like a serpent's. The taven keeper quailed before that searching glance, and I felt a relief when the old man withdrew his gaze. For a moment he seemed lost in thought, and then in a low tremulous lone commenced. There was n depth in that voice, a thrilling pathos and sweetness which rivited every heart in the house before the first period had been rounded. My father's attention had be come fixed on the eye of the speaker with an interest which I had never belore seen him exhibit. I can but briefly remember the substance of what the old man said, though the scene is as vivid before me as any that 1 ever witnessed. "My friends! lam a stranger in your village, and I trust I may call you friends. A new star has arisen, and there is hope in the dark night which hangs like a pall of gloom over our country." With a thril ling depth of voice, the speaker locked his hands together and continued 'Oh ! God, thou who lookrst with compassion upon the most erring of earth's children, 1 thank thee that a brazen serpent has been lifted, upon which the drunkard can look and be healed ; that a beacon has burst out upon the darkness that surrounds him, which shall guide back to honor and heaven the bruised and veary wanderer." It is strange what power there is in some voices. Ttie speaker's voice was low and measured, but a tear trembled in every tone, and before I knew why, a tear drop ped upon my hand, followed by others like rain drops. The old man brushed one from his own eyes and continued : "Men and Christians! You have just heard that I am a vagrant fanatic. 1 am not. As God knows my own sad heart, I came here to do good. Hear me and be just. "1 am an old man, standing alone at the end of life's journey. There is a deep sor row in my heart and tears in my eyes. I have journeyed over a dark beaconless ocean, and life's hopes have been wrecked. 1 am without friends, home or kindred on earth, and look with longing to the rest of the night of death- Without fiiends, kin dred or home ! It was not once so ! No one could withstand the touching pathos of the old man. I noticed a tear trembling on the lid of my father's eye, and 1 no more lelt ashamed of my own, "No, my friends, it was not so once. Away over the dark waves which have wrecked my hopes, there is the blessed light of happiness and home. I reach again convulsively for the shrines of house' hold idols that once were mine, now mine no more." 1 he old man seemed looking away through fancy upon some bright vision, his lips apart and his fingers extended. I in oluntarily turned in the direction where it was pointed, dreading to see some sha dow invoked by its magic movement. I once had a mother. With her old heart crushed wilh sorrows, she went down to her grave. 1 once had a wife, a fair, angel-hearted creature as ever smiled in an arthly home. Her eyes as mild as a sum mer sky, and her heart as faithlul and true as ever guarded and cherished a husband's love. Her blue eye grew dim as the floods of sorrow washed away its brightness, and the living heart I wrung until every fibre was broken. I once had a noble, a brave and beautiful boy, but he was driven out from the ruins of his home, and my old heart yearns to know if he vet lives. I once had a babe, a sweet tender blossom but these hands destroyed it, and it liveth with one who loveth children. "Do not be startled, friends I am not a murderer in the common acceptation of the term. Yet there is light in my evening sky. A spirit mother rejoices over Ihe re turn of her prodigal son. The wife smiles upon him who again turns back to virlue and honor. The child angel visits me at nightfall, and I feel the tiny palm upon my feverish cheek. My brave boy, i I he yet lives, would lorgive the sorrowing old man for treatment which drove him into the world, and the blow that maimed him for life. God forgive me for the ruin I have brought upon me and mine.", He again wiped a tear from his eye My father watched him with a strange in tensity, and a countenance unsually pale and excited by some strong emotion. "I was once a fanatic, and madly follow ed the malign light which led me to ruin. I was a fanatic when I sacrificeo my wife, children, happiness and home, to the ac cursed demon of the bowl. I once adored the gentle being whom I injured so deeply. "1 was a drunkard, i rom respectability and affluence, I plunged into degradation and poverty. I dragged my family down with me t or years I saw her pale cheek, and her step grew weary. I left her alone amid the wreck of her home idols and riot ed at the tavern. She never complained, yi t she and the children went hungry for bread. "One New Year's night I returned late to the hut where charity had given us roof. She was yet up, and shiverins over the coals. I demanded food, but she burst in to tears and told me there was none. I fiercely ordered her to get tome. She turn ed her eyes sadly upon me, the tears falling last over her pale cheek. At this moment the child in its cradle awoke and sent up tarnished wail, startling the despairing mother like serpent's sting. " 'We have no food, James have had none for several days. I have nothing for the babe. My once kind husband, roust we starve V 'That tad pleading face and those streaming eyes, and the feeble wail of the child, maddened me, and Iyes, I struck her a fierce blow ia the face, and she tell forward upon the hearth. The Juries of II E II LA N D COUNTY. PA., EATUHDAY, AUGUST SO. hell boiled in my bosom, and with deeper intensity as I felt I had committed a wrong. I had never struck Mary before, but now some terrible impulse bore me on, and I stooped down as well as I could in my drunken state and clenched both hands in her hair. "God of mercy, James!'-exclaimed my wife, as she looked up in my fiendish coun tenance, "you will not kill us you will not harm Willie,' and she sprang to the cradle and grasped him in her embrace. I caught her again by the hair and dragged her to the door, and as I lifted the latch, the wind burst in with a cloud of snow. With a yell of a fiend, I still dragged her on and hurled her out into the oarknessand storm. With a wild ha ! ha ! I closed the door and turned the button, her pleading moans min gled with the wail of the blast, and sharp cry ot her babe. Hut my work was not yet complete. "I turned on the little bed where lay my older son, and snatched him fiom his slumbers, and against his half awakened struggles, opened the door and thrust him out. In the agony of tear, he called me by a name I was no longer fit to bear, and locked bis fingers in my side pocket. 1 could not wrench that frenzied grasp away, and with the coolness ol a devil, as 1 was, shut the door upon the arm, and with my knife severed it at the wrist." The speaker ceased a moment and buried his face in his hands as if to shut out some fearful dream, and his chest heaved like a stoam-swept sea. My father had arisen from his seat, and was leaning forward, his countenance bloodlems, and the large drops standing out upon his brow. Chills crept back to my young heart, and I wished 1 was at home. The old man looked up, and I never have since beheld such mortal ago ny pictured upon a human face as there was on his. "It was morning when I awoke, and the storm had ceased. I first secured a drink of water, and then looked in the ac customed place for Mary. As I missed her, for the first time a shadowy scene of some horrible nightmare began to dawn upon my wandering mind. 1 thought I had a fearful dream, but involuntarily opened the outside door with a shuddering dread. As the door opened, the snow buret in, followed by Ihe fall of something across (be thresh-hold, scattering the snow, and striking the floor with a sharp, bad sound. My blood shot like red hot arrows through my veins, and I rubbed my eyps to shut out the sight. It was ii O ! God, I how horrible ! it was my own injured Ma- ry and her babe, Irozeu to ice ! 1 he ever true mother had bowed herself over the child to shield it, and wrapped all her clo thing around it, leaving her own person stark and bare to the stoim. She had pla ced her hair over the lace of the child, and Ihe sleel had frozen it to the white cheek. The frost was white in its half-opened eyes and upon his tiny fingers. I know not what became ol my brave boy." Again the old man bowed his head and wept, and all that were in the house wept with him. My father sobbed like a child. In tones of low and heart-broken pathos, the old man concluded. "I was arrested and for long months I raved in delirium. I awoke, was senten ced to prison for ten years, but no tortures could have been like those I endured with in my own bosom. Oh, God, no! Iam not a fanatic. I wish to injure no one. But while I live, let me strive to warn others not to enter the path which has been so dark and fearlul a one to me. I would see my wife and children beyond this vale of tears. The old man sat down, but a spell as deep and strong as that wrought by some wizaid's breath, rested upon the audience. Hearts could have been heard in their beat ing, and tears to fall. The old man then asked the people to sign the pledge. My father leaped from his seat and snatched at it eagerly. I had followed him, and as he hesitated a moment with the pen in the ink, a tear fell from the old man's eye on the paper. "Sign it, sign it, young man. Angels would sicn it. 1 would write mv name there ten thousand times in blood il it would bring back my loved and lost ones." My father wrote "Mortimer Hudson." The old man looked, wiped his tearful eyes, and looked, again, his countenance alternately flushed with a red and death like paleness. "It is no, it cannot be -yet how strange," muttered the old man. "Pardon me, sir, but that was the nameol my brave boy." My father trembled and held up his left arm from which the hand had been severed. They looked for a moment in each oth er's eyes, but reeled and gasped "My own injured boy "My father!" They fell upon each other's necks until it seemed that their souls would grow and mingle into one. There was weeping in that church, and I turned bewildered upon the streaming faces around me. "Let me thank God for the great blessing which has gladdened my guilt-burdened soul," exclaimed the old man, and kneeled down, pouring out his heart in one of the most melting prayers I ever heard. Ihe spell was then broken, and all eagerly signed the pledge, slowly, going to their homes, as it loth to leave the spot. The old man is dead, but the lesson he taught his grandchild on the knee, as his evening sun went down without a cloud, will never be forgotten. Hi fanaticism hai lost none of iti fire ia my manhood's neart. Tue Franklih Railroad Book of sub scription lo the capital slock of the Franklin Railroad were opened in Charobersburg, Pa., on Wednesday of last week. On the same day the whole amount required wai taken. Science ana the arts, aarfculturr, ittarJicts, amusements, Sec A GREEN 'UK 1.1 A SANCTUM. As we sat quietly at work in out ' Sanc tum," says the editor of the Albany Express, a decidedly "green 'un" entered the outer room, and shuffling up to the clerk, queried: "Is the ediior in neow V "Yes." "Is he &t it now 1" "At what?'' "Why editin', la be sure." "Oh, 1 suppose io, he is usually at work at this lime of day '' "Is he quiet to-day ?" ' Perfectly so. "Can I see him safely V "Oh yes; wulk right in !" "Thunder, no ! let me got a peak at him first, can't I !" 'Certainly, juM climb up on this desk, look over carefully into Ihe den, and you'll be able to see him." In a moment we heard our visitor climb ing up to get a sight of the "critter." Sit ting back in our chair, elevating our blessed feet higher than our blessed head, clutching a large walking stick in one hand, holding a pen in the other, and puffing vigorougly at a cigar, we stared him full in his face the moment that interesting component part of bis animal economy appeared at the edge of the partiiion. And what a phiz it was! What a compound of verdancy, cunning, cu riosity, apprehension and astonishment! A single look seamed to be just enough, fur he reached the floor on the other side at a leap. "Great ox gad ! yeon!" he exclaimed to ihe clerk, "the critter's in one of his tan. trums I reckon ! Would'nt go in there for tew shillings in cash !" "Oh, he'll tame down in a minute or two." "Think he will! Hope so, for I'm bound to talk to him, and see him edit to boot." The cleik looked into the room, and re turning, announced that the coast was clear. In a minute or two we heard him exclaim. "Neow or never, by the livin' pie-plant !'' and presently he edge-wised into the room, and stood in "ihe presence," twirling his hat in his fingers, and rolling his eyes about "like a duck in thunder " We were scissor ing, leading and scribbling by turns, and taking it rather easy. "Good morning, sir take a seat." "No, lhank ye ; I'm in considerable hurry. Calc'lnte yeou ain't editen' neow !" "Oh, yes; this is a share of the job. "Yeou don't say. But yeou ain't goin' it vety steep, ate ye 1" "No, we are only skirmishing with the exrhanp.es a little, preparatory to Ihe usual heavy work." "1 thought so! 1 thought so!" he ex claimed, with evident delight. "I'm in a desput hurry, but I should like to see you edit for kill just onc't. Take your roat off and up sleeves then I recon 1 Who larn'l you to edit? Did'ut it cum kinder luff at first 1 Half to keep at it nil Ihe time '!" To this swarm of queries we replied with nods und shakes of the head. Our visitor wandered into the compositor's room, and after asking numberless questions there, and getting wofully sold by Ihe Imp of that do main, returned to the Sanctum. In the meantime we had got into a sharp engage ment wilh the "leader" for the next morn ing, and our pen was making frequent jour neys to and from the inkstand. Greeny fairly danced wilh excitement, exclaiming Neow yeou are editin , am l yeou, old boss ? By scarecrow, Sou ire, yeou are a goin ! it the pizenest kind. Who are yeou pitchiu' in tew? Give it to 'em ! Don't let 'em up a mile ! They deserve it all, bust their con sumed picturs !" Stopping a moment, he clapped us on the shouldeis with a hand like a side of pork, and remarking that he was in a great hurry, asked if that ( pointing to the was "agoin" inter the paper next day 1 We re plied wilh some little impatience, that it was, provided we could oe alone long enougn j to finish ii, and intimated that we should be 1 happy to bid him good bye. "Oh, sartin!" he exclaimed, "no wonder you're a little riled given il lew 'em so rot iheir picturs! I'm in a mosaus hurry., myself, but I want you to send that paper to me to-morrow morniu V. Green, Green's Corner, Green Co., New York. Will yeou neow 1" Oh, yes ! Good morning friend !" "To be sure ! in a minute. What's the damage V For what!" "Fur one day's subscription to the paper." Oh, nothing! Now do go!" "Sartin 1 will. I want my folks, and Sal and all on 'em, tew see the piece that 1 seen veou edit. That's all. Ef I warn't in such a drefful hurry, I'd make yeou quite a stop. 'Skuse me this time. Good bye, Squire!" "Good bye." And away went our friend, and we went at it again, to make up for lost lime Scarce ly had we achieved a aingle sentence ere back again he shuffled. "I say, Squire ; for mawy's sake pilch il . . , . . . intew 'em toe biggest sort, uive 'em scis sors towards Ike bottom of the piece will yeou?" The apparition of our cane, and the toe of a very uneasy boot iusianily rid us of Mr. Green, of Greene's Corner, Green County, and be vanished into Ibe street, firm in Ibe belief that the eritier was in another tan- trurn. The death of Col. Bliss is oonfirmed. He was attached lo Ibe Staff of Gen. Twiggs, a Esl Pascacoula. He died of billtou tevsr. MR. IIOBDS AMD THE ENGLISH LOCK SMITHS). It is now pretty generally known that until the year of the Great Exhibition nobody had succeeded in obtaining the "200 guineas" offered by Messrs. Bramah to anv nerann who ouuld pick their celebrated lock. This piece of mechanical ingenuity was at last performed by Mr. Hobbs, Irom America, who was not a lockmaker but a lockpicker; since then the art of picking locks has be come somewhat elevated, and has attracted the attention of several of our first-rate engi neers. The Society of Arts, in John street, Adelphi, being desirous of promoting Ihe skill of English locksmiths, issued a circular last year for premiums on various articles of manufactures, among which was one "for the invention of a cood look." combining strength, and great security from fraudulent attempts, cheapness, freedom from disar rangement by dirt, and requiring only a small key. The conditions upon which the prize of 10 was to be awarded seem to be some what inconsistent with the object required ; but nevertheless the offer commanded alten. tion, and the successful competitor was Mr. Saxley, of Sheerness; and to him the prize was awarded by the committee, the chair man being Mr. Chubb, the lockmaker in St. Paul's churchyard. By a letter from Mr. Hobbs, which apppars in the Journal of the Society of Arts, of the 24th of June, we find that Air. Hobb's curiosity induced him to inspect this piece of mechanism which the committe, presided over by Mr. Chubb, had pronounced to be one most in accordance with the prescribed rules of the society : when, so from its possessing that "great se cuiity" required, he discoveied that it was constructed on the principle of the "Yale lock," such as are manufactured by Mr. Cotterill, of Birmingham; and to prove to the persons present that it possessed no "se curity," Mr. Hobbs, taking a small straight iron wire from his pocket, and a thin strip of steel, opened it in ihe presence of several members of the society in three minutes. London Bankers Circular. ClltMlCAL MEDITATION. Messrs. Waler and Oil, One day had a broil. As down in the glass they were dropping; Aim would not unite, But continued to fiht Without any prospect ol slopping. Mr. Pearlash o'erheard, And quick as a word. He jumped in the midst of the clashing ; When all three agreed, And united with speed, And Soap came out ready for washing. Ri'M Dnors. The New York Times com ments in severe but just terms of censure up on a new form of confectionary calculated to cheat Ihe young and unsuspecting into ac. quiring a taste for intoxicating liquors This disguised emissary of the fiend is a sugar preparation of alcohol in the ahxpe of drops or lozenges, and which michl bo more op, propnateiy named "Hum 1'iH." Ihey are manufactured by confectioners nol as pep permint and other essential oil drops are prepared by combination, but Ihe brandy, rum, or gin is enclosed in sweet globules. In this form the drops are sold at the most respectable saloons. Ladies and young gills, who would shrink from Ihe touch of the in toxical iug cup as they would from pollution do not hesitate to swallow in this form the disguised and sugar-coated poison, which is made doubly dangerous by the form in which it is presented to the palate. Judge Edmonds on Spiritual Kappincs.- Judge Edmonds, ol New York, is out in a long aiticle on tha spirit rappings. He throws no new light upon the subject, but reiletates the writer's implicit belief that the rappings and table movings are ihe woiks of spirits, and repeats thai he has had frequent communications from the dead. He profes ses to have sought earnestly for the motive of these manifestations, and to have found it out, but he reserves telling what it is until he publishes his book on the subject. A "Slip-" A travelling lecturer picked up a candidate for a wife a few days ago in Lynn, whom he selected through bis know! edge of "bumps," as he ' had never known her until an hour and a half before. He pro cured a marriage certificate and they pro- ceeded to Salem, whon ihe gilt, who had been nothing loth lo accept ihe otter, found the house of her iiitendod, who had buried his wife four days before, well stocked with ebildron, but having little else in it. She was immediately seized with home sickness and borrowed money enough to return in the cars. Boston Courier. DIFFERENT THREAT ST liOJTUl. I nnea into a forest fai, My maiden want to seek, And fell apnu tha neck, when, "Ab '" Slie threatened, "I will ahrtek" Then cried I haughtily : "I'll crush Tha man tliat dure, come uear Uiee V "Hush !" whispered she, "my loved sue, hush Or else they'll overhear thee '." The friends of Ihe Maine law in Carroll counly, ld., held a convention ai wenmin ster, on Ihe 30lh nil., and resolved to vote for no man for th Legislating who would not pledge himself lo go for said law, and in ease the candidates to be nominated by the two political parlie refuse lo ao pledg ik.mulvea. thev further resolved lo norm ...... - , . nste a ticket of iheir own. A Recifs The Jorod ia to love. way to make yourself AlODtSOF PR EPA Rl ltd THE PEACH. A wiiler in Ihe New York Times, pub lishes a long account of Ihe Peach, its usee ihe manner of preparing and preserving it. He concludes his artiole with Ihe follow ing receipts, which we commend our female) readers, if they observe anything new in Ihem, to keep until the proper time arrive to test their application : Peaches in Brandt. Wipe, weigh and carefully select the fruit, and have ready a quarter of the weight of powdered white su gar: put the fruit into a vessel that shut closely, throw the sugar over it, and then cover the fruit with brandy, between Ihe top and eover of the pot put a piece of double cap paper,; set the pot into a saucepan of water till the brandy is quite hot, but not boiling : put the'fruit into a jar, and pour the brandy upon il, and when cold put a bladder over and tie it down tightly. Pickled Peaches. Take a gallon of good vinegar, add a few pounds of sugar, boil it for a few minutes, and remove any scum that may rise; then take cling stone peaches that are fully ripe, rub them with a flannel cloth, to gel of the down upon them, and stick three or four cloves in each; put then into a glass or earthen vessel, and pour the) liquor upon Ihem boiling hot ; cover them, up and let ihem stand in a cool place for a week or ten days, then pour off Ibe liquor, and boil as before, after whioh return il boil ing to the peaches, which should be carefully covered up and stored away for future use. Peach Preserve. Take enough clarified sugar lo cover the fruit, boil it till ibe yrup blubbers on the opposite side of ihe skim mer, then put in the fruit and let it boil lively two minutes, remove ihe same; let it stand from the fire till the next day; then take out Ihe fruit, boil the syrup again, and as soon as the fruit boils take them from Ihe fire and when cold put into jars, and keep free from beat or moisture. Peach Jm Gather the fruit when ripe. peal and stone them, put into the pan, and ma.h them over the fire till hot; rub them through a sieve, and to each pound of pulp Id a pound of white susar and half an ounce of bitter almonds, blanched and counded 1 let ii boil ten or fifteen minutes, atir and skim it well. Peach Jelly. Take fiee 'ones, not tco ripe, whips ihem, and cut into quarters; rack ihe atones and break Ibe kernels small ; put the peaches and kernels into a covered set them in bmliiii: water, und let them do till soft , strain them Iht'iuuh a iel!v bu; till the juice is squeezed out; allow a pun of white sugar lo pun of a juice; put the si)i:ar and juice into a preserving kettle, and boil them twenty minutes, skimming very care fully ; put the jelly warm into glasses or jars and when cold, lie up wilh brandied papeis- Peach Wine. Take nearly ripe fruit stone it and bruise the pulp to one quart of water, and let it stand twenty-four houis, then squeeze out the juice, and to eveiy gal lon of it add two pounds white sugar; then put into a cask, and when it has fermented and become perfectly clear, bottle il up and use at pleasure. COOKING EGG PLANTS. As we shall now, iti the course of a few weeks, have this excellent vegetable in sea son, we publish in advance, Ibe lollowinz mode of cooking the Egg plant in the South, which we find in a monthly agricultural pub lication, called Ihe Sod of ihe South: Are you fond of sweet oysters? If so, wt w ill give you a dish equal to the Mobile Bay oysters. First, peel the iruit, and slice it thin, boil it in salt and waler until thorough ly done. Now drain off the water, cover it wilh tweet milk, crumble in tome toasted bread and crackers, with pepper, and such, other condiments at the laste may dictate. Now break in two or three eggs, and a it simmers over ihe fire, stir all together; as soon as the egg begins to harden the meta morphosis is complete ; the oysters are ready for Ibe table. To fry the egg plant, they should be (list peeled and parboiled, then dipped into batter and dropped into boiling lard taking care to season ihem piuperly. before frying. BttooM Corn and Wkkpino Willows. la the Mohawk Valley, says the bcientifio American, vast quantities of ihis crop are annually grown. Pennsylvania, Ohio and Connecticut are the next largest producers of it. Its origin as a cultivated plant in this country, is attributed to l)r. r raiiKiin. ii is a native of India. Franklin saw an imported whisk of corn in ihe possession of a lady iit Philadelphia, and, while examining il as a curiosity, found a seed, wnicn ne pianieuf and from this small beginning arose this val uable product of industry in ibe Uuited States. In Ibe same manner England and America are indebted for ihe weeping wil low lo the poet Pope, w ho, finding a green stick in a basket of figs senl to bim as a present, from Turkey, stuck it in his garden at Twickenham, anil thence propagated this beautiful tree. , Am Interesting Postal Question Set tled. The Post Office Department have recently decided that under Ihe law of 1852, s mbsciiber residing in ihe county in which a paper may be primed and published, is en. tilled lo receive through Ihe mails free of postage from the post otfioe atithiu the deli very of which be may reside, even ihough that offiee may be situated wilheut Ihe limits of the counly aforesaid. "Exopi's" it the fashionable word now for emigrating, or "putting out."
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