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A Treatise on the laws of Pennsylvania re pf cling the estates of Decedents, by Thomas F. Sordon, price only 81,00. Travels, Voyage and Adventures, all ol bicli will be sold low, either for cash, or coun y produce. 'February, 21, 1852. tt. NOTICE, Bisk or NoRT.itMiiKiiLiM), ) Northumberland, June 25, 1853. $ Ths Directors of the Bank of Norlhumlcrlaml ve notice that they intend to apply to the next igislature of this Commonwealth, for a renew, of it charter with the same capital, and with present title, location and privileges. By Icr of the Board. JNO. TAGGART, Prc.t. Tune 35, 1853. Gin. NOTICE tOTICE is hereby given, that application 1 will b made to the next Legislature of nsylvania. for the incorporation of a company, h discounting privileges, to b located in tne ugh of Sunbury, in the county of Northum and, with a capital of One hundred thousand ara, to be called the "Sutquthanua Savings' UlU$." unbury, June 25, ls53. 6m. 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I wish a common wish, indeed My purse was something fuller, That I might cheer the child of need, And not my pride lo (latter; That I might make oppression reel, As only gold can make it, And break lh tyrant's rod of steel, As only gold can break it! 1 w ish that Sympathy and Loye, Anil every human passion Thnt has its origin above, Would come, and keep, in fahion; That Scorn, and Jealous 'y, and hale, And every base emotion, Were buried fifty fathom deep Beneath the wavas of ocean! I wish lhat fiiunds were always true, and motives always pure : I wish I he good were not so few, I wish ihe bad were fewer; 1 wish thnt paisons ne'er foigot To heod their pious teaching J I wish lhat practising was not So different from preaching! 1 wish that modest worlh might be Appraised with truth and candor; I wish that innocence was free From treachery and slander ; I wish lhat men iheir vows would mind; That woman ne:er were rovers; I wish lhat wives were always kind. And husbands always lovers ! 1 wish in fine thai joy and mirth, And every good 1 deal. May come, erewhile, throughout the earth, To be Ihe glorious Real ; Till God shall every creature bless With his supremest blessing, And hope be lust in happiness, And wishing be possessing ! Spiritualism. lTI-.Rr.STIG 1NTKKVIKW BETWKLN JllMii; I tfflOMIS AD A HKVOIlTlitt OF TUB KUYV YOltK II tit At. D. The Now York Herald of (lie 3d lilt., contains a Ion?; and interesting account of an interview between Judge Edmonds and one of the Reporters of the Herald, on the subject of Spiritualism. Judge Edmonds is well known in New York as a distinguished Juiist. About a year since he became a convert to the doc trines of the "Spiritual rappers," and has since written a book on the subject. The Reporter of the Herald having called on the Ju!ge, and introduced himself, stated the object of his visit, when the following co!loquoy ensued : Reporter (loquitur). Ever since I read your letter, published in the Herald in Au gust last, on Spiritualism, I have taken a deep interest in the subject. I kbew you were not an impostor, and the only ques tion with me was whether you were decei ved yourself, which it is difficult to believe in the case of a gentleman of your educa tion and ability, and particularly a judge, whose office it is to scrutinize the character of human testimony. On reading your book I feel still more embarrassed, and am wholly at a loss to account for the phe nomena which it describes. Before you declared yourself a convert to Spiritualism, I regarded the matter as unworthy of seri ous attention ; but your public adhesion to the new creed enlirely alters the case. Jud'jre. What then? Reporter. I have come to get some further light upon the subject, and would like very much to witness some of the rappings and other phenomena. Jude. But we cannot control the Spir its. They come and go when they please. As for rappings, they are the smallest part of it. Any one can rap. (Here the speaker suited the action to the word, and gave two distinct raps on the floor with his knuckles, and, unless the Reporter's imagi nation greatly deceived him, he heard these knocks responded to by two fainter knocks, as if from the room underneath.) It is tho presence of an intelligence that can reveal your secret thoughts, or communicate what is going on in the farthest parts of the earth, and even in the spheres millions of miles distant. Q. Mr. Bennett takes a great interest in your book, and the progress of the new faith. He would be glad to have the views of the Spirits upon the affairs of this coun try and of Europe for instance, as to the result of the quarrel about the spoils In (he democratic party, and the issue of tbe war between Turkey and Russia. A. The Spirits da not trouble them selves much about politics or worldly af fairs. Q But if the Spirits would tell us what is now going on in Europe, or what would be the upshot of a series of events that are attracting tbe attention of mankind, would uot that go a great length to spread Spirit ualism all over the world 1 Not at all; people who don't want to believe will not believe from any amount of evidence J men every day witness in private stronger proofs than that, yet they do not believe ; wheu Christ fed the five thousand with the five barley loaves and two fishes, the multitude did not believe: notwithstanding all the miracles of Christ and his apostles, the progress of Christianity was very slow at first ; besides, with regard to future events, the Spirits have only the same means of judging of them that we have ourselves, unless it titey are nigiiiy developed Spirits they know the present better than we can, and therefore can form a belter judgement of the future ; Spiritual' ism is maxing silent progress, both in this country and in the Old World ; there are at least thirty thousand converts in this city, and there are a million in the country at large ; it was revealed to mo by the Spirits seven months beforehand that Spir itualism would break out in Europe as well as here, and now it is extended over Eng land and other countries of Europe, and it has found its way even into Asia ; the most intellectual and most learned men are be lievers in it. Q. Is that the case here! A. Yes; if you only saw what letters I got from nil parts of the country from judges, clergymen, editors of newspapers, men of high position vou would be as tonished ; in this city the most respectable and intelligent classes have become con verts. Q. I think the rapid sale of your Book at a dollar and a quarter per copy is a proof of that. I have learned from the publishers that it has already reached four editions, and is likely to equal the sale of Uncle Tom's Cabin A. Yes, they cannot supply the de mand. Q. Would it not have been better to have made it cheaper! A. That was my opinion; I wished to have it sold at fifly cents; but for the first 10,000 copies the publishers have an agree ment, and I cannot reduce the price till after that number is disposed of ; I don't want to make money of it, but to diffuse it among the people. Q. I perceive it is but the first volume. Is there another to come? A. Oh, yes. Look at that pile of man uscript under the table. There is more there than would make another volume of the same size. Besides, I have materials for still more. Q. What is lo be the nature of Ihe sec ond voiume 1 A. It will enter more in detail into (he occupations and employment of the Spirits in the spheres. The public mind is hardly prepared for thrse revelations as yet. There are some things we have seen and heard that we dare not tell now, because we would not be believed. Q. Is it not possible to account for the phenomena mentioned in your book by re lerring them lo the workings of Ihe imagi nation. A How thed 1 could ten persons' imaginations be affected in the same way at the same time 1 They have said that my imagination has become the prey of a mor bid melancholy on the account of the loss of my wife, and lhat this will account for what I have seen and heard. I candidly confess that I was laboring under mental depression about the time my attention was directed to the subject. But what has this to do with lacts witnessed equally by my self and others? It is useless (o talk of imagination when we know that we have been conversant with facts. What amount of persuasion wonld induce me lo believe that 1 am not now looking at you ? Then, when we find such men as Judge Fowler, of the Supreme Court of Kentucky, firm believers in the system, from their own ex perience, what other conclusion can any rational mind come to then that this is a tremendous reality ? Judge Fowler called on me some months ago, and I conversed with him on the subject, and introduced hint lo the circles. He not only became a convert, but is now preaching Spiiitualism in his own family, members of which are mediums. You have seen Gov. Tallmadge's letters. The first time I ever had any communication, was one night when I was afraid to speak out, on account of their con lying in bed awake, reading. I was not ' gregaiions. Thuy aie beginning, however, thinking on the subject at all. The mani- : to preach it from their pulpit. 1 had a let' testation was as distinct to my senses as any ter a day or two ago from a clergyman who thing ever was. When my friend Isaac j deliveied a sermon to his congregation on Hopper was sick, 1 called to see him, and ; i,e subject. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, uii my nay iioine i. visiiea a memum ana bsked a question mentally about the. health ; of Mr. Hopper, and whether he would re cover. The medium answered he was ; already di ad. No one present knew the ' question I asked. I went back and found i my friend dead. His spirit has since vis ilej me. Where is the imagination in 1 this? I could mention many names of per- 1 unnu in liiirll :il i,.-r ivhrt nru huliufd,. I.nl ' tor the learol the ridicule with which they would be visited. Look at Ihe manner in which I have been mtsrepresenler; in (he Times and the Journal of Commerce. This is what destroys the influence of the press. The Evenivg Pod is a good paper. Judge you lor yourself. H (his thing be Uue, (here is something worth knowing in it, and it deserves investigation. Unreasona ble tests ought not to be asked. For in stance, a man wrote to me to say that it would have been better that Bacon and Swedenborg had communicated with me in Latin, in which they wrote, when' liv ing, that the public might have an oppor ntuily of comparing their style. How many in the Uuited States are judges of the Latin style ol Bacon and Swedenborg? Q. I should like very much to be pres ent at some of these circles, and see and bear for myseif. A. We have private circles whicn are only for the initiated, and those somewhat developed. There is a private circle at my house twice in Ihe week Sundays and Thursdays ; but there are public circles where money is charged. There is a Mrs. Coan, ol White Street, and a Mrs. Brown, of West Twenty-sixth Stree(, at whose residences tappings and Spiritual communi cations can be witnessed. Q. And is money charged ! A.-Yes; I had to begin there, and plodding through much that was perplex iag, worked my own way upward. It re quires a vast amount of patience and perse verence. I know another lady a Mrs. Seymour of Sixth Avenue who it so ex quisite medium that she can describe most accurately the character of any person whose handwriting it inclosed in an enve- lope, or as many envelopes as you please, without breaking the seal. In every in stance she invaraibly succeeds in this. Q All (his is very wonderful, Judge, and I want to see it. A. There are things more wonderful yet to be told. What would you think ol a chair running up stairs? A gentleman a few days ago told me that a chair followed him through every part of the room in which he was, and he then went up stairs to see if it would follow him, and it did, step by step. Q. But can you rely on his telling you the truth. A. (rather indignantly.) -What the deuce motive could he have in deceiving me ? I have myself seen a chair shooting across the room like a rocket, in the pres ence ol a large company. (Here the Judge took a chair, and putting it on ils back on the floor, described the motion.) It would fly to the farthest end of th room, and then come back toward me, with the speed of a locomotive, and would inevitably have cut off my legs did it not stop suddenly within an inch of me. Then, when I put my foot upon it to hold it down, it darted away from me as if impelled by some irre sistable power. (Here (he Judge put his foot on (he chair and showed how it slid from him, as if by magic.) Then, again, a short lime ago, at one of our circles, in which we were in the habit of sitting in the dark, a box of lucifer matches was laid on the table to save the trouble of lighting the candles when the meeting was over. One of the ladies felt on the table for (he matches, but could not find them. Upon calling on the Spirits (or a light, an unseen hand rapidly rubbed a match against the wall over the mantlepiece, when it ignited and lighted the candle. The whole circle then saw the box of matches stuck against the ceiling, with two or three of them dropping down. The medium then called down the whole box, when it immediately came upon the (able, where it was origi nally placed. Q. Do the Spiritualists believe in the Bible? A. Most certainly they do both in the Old and new Testament. In both we read of the very communications of Ihe Spirit-world, now so much derided. The Spirits spoke "in unknown tongue?,' in the days of the Apostles, as they do now. In Ihe Catholic Church, during the dark ages, miracles were continued, and they are now revived. The present developments are but modifications ol what has taken place among the Wesleyans, the Quakers, and the bhakers. An ignorant man, brick-layer, at one of the circles, used the two Greek words, Gnothi seuuton ("know thyself"); and his wife used the word "microcosm," which she certainly had never heard before. At another circle one of the mediums used (he word "lole ;" whereupon I began to think what language that could be. I knew it was not Greek, Latin, French, or Italian. 1 asked, was it a word of an African tongue, or of some of the tribes of Asia ? The medium said : "No, it is none of these." "What then?'' I asked. She replied it was the language ol the Marsians. "Who are the Marsians?" I interrogated. "Why, of course," said she "the inhabitants of the planet Mars." The word meant an assemblage of worlds. The mediums frequently speak in Italian, French, Spanish, and other foreign tongues, without knowing a word of these lan guages. Q. Do any of the clergy believe in it ! A. Yes, many of them; but they are hearing of my views on Spiritualism, was de eiious of seeing ma. We met at Ihe house of a mutual fiiund in Brooklyn, and ihe result was lhat Mr. Heecher preached a course of four sermons on Spiritualism, covertly, and ns his congregation, cnuld bear; but ere long he will no doubt come out plainly. Ho believes now that he is preaching by in spiration. This, then, is a system of religion? A. Exactly so; and it is one which is calculated to lefnrm the woild. Something is wanting lo do so. Out of the twenty five millions of our population, about twenty millions never go to church ; and the ma jority of those who do go aie very little in fluenced by what they hear. The Mosaic and Christain dispensation were suited lo their day; but another and a better dispen salinn i now required, and i, about tu be established. Man is a being of piogiess, ana religion must keep wcn with thai pro grass, in order lo influence him beneficially. (J. How is the new system better calcu lated lo reform Ihe world than Ihe old? A. Because, when men know lhat Ih Spirits are ever present, and can read Iheir very thoughts, they will bo afraid even lo think what is wrong. Q. It not God always present ? A Yes) but we do not realize bis pre senee. It it imposible for a Spiritualist lo be a rogue. It will make men belter. 1 know it hat made mo belter. A curious ease occurred in a circle which shows Ihe importance of Spiritualism. A medium said to a friend of mine, "You have had a diaa greemenl with your wife, and have fallen oat with her because the did a very mean thing." This was literally true, and 1 was the only man present who knew it. What a solutary effect, therefore, must Ihi have upou domestic matters 1 See how it would reform onr legislation, too ! If men were Spiritualists Ibey would never consent lo capital putiisniiiuni lor crime. Q.-Whyso! A. Because it would be removing a man from a worse to a better condition. Q Do criminals that are hanged go di rectly to heaven ? A.So) but any conditio out of this world is better than their condition here. The wicked continue in hell after they die until they are developed and putifled. Q. Do the spirit ef negroes ever come ? A. No, not that I am aware of; I have never Ihonght of that, and it is impotlaiit, because you know they say the Afiicrn race have no souls. I saw two colored mediums in the South. Q. What is your view of hell ? A. II is a condition, and not a locality ; and though there is no literal fire, or that soil of thing, the Spit its of the wicked suiTer dreadfully ; they are in tho most horrible and black despair, and are kept in ignorance of the heaven that awaits them. When bad lie the are only delivered fioin the bondage of ihe body, and nol of the mind Q. Dj these Spirit ever communicate their sufferings to the circles? A They do, in the most fearful manner; and Ihe Spirits of ihe just also communicate Iheir happiness. Q. Have the Spirits bodies after death ? A Certainly; but Spiritual bodies, which are continually becoming more highly de veloped. They have homes, but they can wander fiom planet lo planet, and over the regions of infinite space. That is Ihe teason lhat sometimes they are not within call. In sleep the spirit is absent from the body, unless, perhaps, connected by some little umbilical cord. What the Spirit does in tleep it concealed from us in life. When we die it is all revealed, and then both our sleeping and waking moments will make tip our exisler.ee. such is the philosophy of sleep, and it shows how important that our waking life should be pure, fur our sleep will partake of the same character. Q. Do the Spirits always tell trulh ? A. No; for there are evil, lying Spiiils, as well as good, and we must learn to dis. tinuuish between Ihem bv our own reason just as we distinguish between Ihe good and Ihe evil in this life. Q. Then we are liable to be led astray by some of the Spirits? A. Certainly; and some of ihese lellows cut extraordinary pranks, and do immense mischief; and Ihe only way lo defeat tl em is by bringing discredit on their teachings, by the agency of good Spiiils. There is a great deal fan ilicism mixed up with Spirit ualism. A man who was led astray by a fanatical medium was cured in this way: He was diiecled lo dig into the earth six feet at a ceitain spot, when he would find a vast quantity of gold. He did so, but found none. He was then directed by the Spirits to dig two feel more; but still he found none. Again he was directed to dig another foot. He did, and found nothing- upon which he said lo the Spirit, ''You are humbugging me." The Spirit replied, '-To be sute I am ; go home, you fool, and attend to your business." There is another case of a man who is operating in stocks in Wall Street under the influence of a fanatical Spirit, which is keeping h m posted in ad vance of the mails about the operations of the Ruthscilds in Europe. This man will probably be ruined. How absurd it is lo consult the Spirits on such matters ! Q. Do ihe Spirits always know what i going on in Ihi world 1 A. That depends upon Ihe kuowlege or ignorance of the particular Spirit. Some are highly informed and developed In a higt stale of perlee.tion, while others remain coin paratively ignorant and undeveloped. Some, again, have wandered so far away from this world that they have never found theii way back, and sunie do not w ish to come back. Though my wife died only a few years ago, I have had fteqiietit visits from her. But my sisler, who went lo Ihe Spirit WoilJ in 18J7, lias only come twice, ami that re cently. Shu had much trouble in this life, and she did not desire lo return lo it. Lately a distinguished historical character, who lived in Ihe reign of Heuiy VIII , visited our circle, & was totally ignorant of Spiritualism, and of almost eveiy thing else I am very fond of reading "Pollock' Course of Time " Pollock i a very fine poel, who, like Milton, is only beginning now lo be appreciated. I expressed a desire lo have communication with Pollock' Spirit. He came and looked at me earnestly, and stalked all around tbe room. Q.--Did you see his person? A. Mo, ho spoke through a medium, a woman, ol whom he toek possession. Q Do you ever see the Spirits Ihem selves ? A. Yes, sometimes; bnt it will not do to tell that lo Ihe vulgar, for Ihey would not believe il. The Spirits of Bacon and Swe. denboig generally communicate by writing through Ihe hand of my associate, Dr. Dex ter, at a medium ; and w hat Is so singular, ha doet nol know what he wrilet till after, and hat lo read it to find out, and tometimet I have lo decipher it for him. In the same way, when I was in Central Ametica las, winter, Dr. Dexier consulted Ihe Spirits about Ihe state of my health, and wrote Ihe re sponse) In a book. Ha did now what he bad written, or had forgotten il. On comparing my journal with his, I found lhat Ihey ex actly corresponded. Q. How do yon know that the mediums are not imposing on you when ihey profess to be posseted by the Spirit? A. Jusl at I know when any other person is uot imposing on me. For instance, one niglif, just as the clock on the manlle i ce struck, the medium possessed by the Spir t of my wife, eje'nim "d, ii h ' unit it akab'e lone of the deceased, "Oh, lhat old, familiar sound !" We know that the medium it act deceiving nt by infallible testt. Q. Is (he writing of the Spiiils always done by the hand of a medium ? y!.-Not always; sometimes the Spirits wrile themselves. Q. The Spitits, then, have bodies? At Yes, Spiritual, sublimated bodies. You have mentioned lhat the Spirits are sometime seen. Do all nreient see Ihem ? A. No. For all have not the camo devel- opement nnd the snme ncuieness of vision. Q This reminds me of what I used In hear of ghosts when 1 was a child lhat when two or three person were logrihet one saw the Spirit while tho rost could see nothing. A Exactly so. 1 know a lady w ho can see a flame issue fiom a magnet ; and 1 have myself seen something like an electric flame proceed from Ihe top of the head in a con tinned stream. Have you seen the work of Reiuhenbach on this subject I mean his 'I'hysico-Physiologieal Researches ? Q. No, I have not ; but 1 will take a note of it. All this is most extraordinary. BuT.if it is a revelation Irom Heaven, why arj not the Spiritualists, who are so numerous, or ganized into a church? and why do Ihey not come openly before the world? because, if these wonders were only seen by the mul titude, converts would bo made in thousands. A. You will see something of lhat kin, very shortly. Belore another mouth we will appear before the public, and I myself wil take part in the matter. Q. You legard Ihe revelations made in your book as a following up of Ihe New Tes tament, and a step in advance in Ihe progress of man to perfection. A. Exactly so. And I tkiuk it will be the means of reforming the world. Q I have never attended any of Ihe cir cles; but from what you have told me, I am determined to do so. Goad-evening Judge A. Have faith, patience, and persever. ance ; begin at Ihe beginning, and go up on step by step, and you will arrive at the trulh at last. The stars were now beginning to twinkle in the heavens, and I took my leave of the Judge, strongly impressed with his usability and good-naltue In answering my questions so readily, and giving me so much iuforma' lion on the subject ol my inquiry. It was also struck with Ihe familiar way in which ho spoke of the apparitions, just as if they were evety-day acquaintances. The inter. view occupied Irom two to I Dree hours, anu was, to m, most interesting. Occasionally the Judge' eye would seem lo rest on va cancy, and again his lace would light up like that of a rapt prophet, a sybil, or a pyth oness. As 1 returned home, 1 meditated oi what I had heard, and made up my mind to carry my investigations to the utmost limits into this new phase ol the science of psy chology. GntiT ImPaovk.ment i.n Milling. The llarritburg Union, referring to a new kind of mill highly praised in England, say "Messrs. Wilson and M'Collough have re ceutiy completed a new steam mill in our borough, in which Ibey ron 41 feet flat French buns, two hundred revolutions minute, mat lurn out Hour taster man we ever taw it inn from a mill spout. These gentlemen calcuUte to grind regularly fiom six to seven barrels ol extra flour per hour on each run vf stones, and Ihey may be able to do mere. At high as thirty bushels of tehtat have been ground on one run of stones in this mill, in an hour! We ask if Ihi has ever been beaten any where ? If uny one hat bealen it, he will please send us woid We have been using the flour made at these mills for tho last two weeks, and find it su perior to any we have ever had." OfK National Financi-s. The Pari Con slilutiotiuel, treating of Ihe linanees of the American I'liiou, commence thus: ''The situation of M. Guthrie, Secretary of the Treasury, is unique in Ihe world; he nut only hat loo much money, bnl he forsecsand dieucls u considerable increase of his silt plus. The oilier Stales of Ihe woild experience the utmost possible diHiculiy in making the two end of the year meel ," Nkw York Elkctiok. The foil vole, and mostly olficial, for Secretary of State, iho highest candidate on the State Ticket, fouls up as follow i Whig, 160,671 Hard Democrat, . 9U.489 Soft Democrat, . - . 91,187 The Legislature will stand thus: Senate !2 Whigs, 8 Hard Democrat, 2 Sufi Dem ocrats, House 80 Whig, 34 Hard Demo crats, 23 Soft Democrats, 3 Free Soilert. A Bisiior't Palaci;. The following it given (in a new work, "Salad for tbe Solita ry," jutt published in Loudon,) at the epi taph of Samuel Rutler, Bishop of Soder and Man, ttanlaled from the Lalin inscription on hit tomb : In Ihit house which 1 have borrowed from my breihienihe worm, lie I, Samuel, by Divine permission Bishop of this 1. laud. biop, reader : behold and tmile at THE PALACE Or A BISHOP ! who died May 80 in the year 1653. DEATH OF A CtfMSCIEKTIOtia MISER. Aii old Dutchman named Shumm, wholiv. ed in one of ihe wretchedesthotel Ikat Hand in Ihe rear of Sheriff street, and whose appa' rent poverty and manifest sufferings from dreadful case of hernia had long excited Ihe sympathy of bis human neighbors, died of alhsma and a complication ol olhef diteate. He was well known lo be of a tery obstinate uud eccentric disposition ; and although he; had been confined lo his bed for some weekt,. he not only rejected all medical aid, but per' sisled to the last in bit habit of sleeping iir the whole of his wardrobe, which consisted ohiefly of a pairef breeches, thai at some re mote era had been constructed of blue velvet, and a sailor's jacket, and a frie.e overcoat, all of which exhibited accumulated proofs of (he old man's attachment. He sunt for Mr. Van Duerson, a respectable couutrymen of hit residing in Ihe neighborhood, who had given him charitable relief, and privately re quested him to make his will. To thit gen tleman'! great surprise, he beqneatfied Vari. ous sums of money, amounlins altogether to $3700, lo children and grandchildren, resi- dii.g in New York nnd Albany, and confiden' t mil v informed him where hit nronerlv wa leposiled. lie thon related lo Mr. Van Duerson the following remarkable facts in his history - He stated thnt about twenty-fire years ago. he wat a porter lo a mercantile bouse in Hamburg, and having been )on in ifs em' ploy, wat frequently entrusted with consid' erable sums of money for conveyance lo other establishments. In an honr of evil in fluence he was induced to violate his Uttst , and absconded to this country with a large sum . Having arrived, he invested the ereV. er part of it in the purchase of two houses, which adjoined each other, and which, be fore he had effected an insurance on them, were burnt to Ihe ground. Considering this a judgement of heaten opon his dishonesty he determined lo devote the remainder of hislifotoa severe course of industry and parsimony, with the single object in view of making full restitution of the persons whom ho had injured, or to their decendants. He adopted another name, and with the mea-,3 hn had left, commenced business in this city, as tobacconist ) and although hi trade was a retail one, and had suffered a heavy loss by fire, he had succeeded five year since in acquiring sufficient property to accomplish his jnst and elevated purpose. He then, accordingly, sold hit slock In trade, and was preparing lo transmit the necessary amount to Hamburg, where the mercantile firm he had defrauded still contii i. wliei. he ascertained that it had a bmueli s .l.i.slw ment or agency cuuutiiighouse at 1': I phia. Thither he went and paid th1 $1-1,000, being equivalent to tin .. ( sum he had embezzled, with a . i;i ral. of interest. The hitler, hoi. ever, n ieiier ously returned to him by the son i one m tho paitners, and thit, together M h sorr.e surplus money, he has bequeathed, ac ub- V stated. For the last five years he has lived iu u. ter obscurity, and in severe accordance s hit lung-formed habits of paisimony. executor, Mr. Van Duerson, found Ihe above named turn of 33700, principally in doo bloons, curiously concealed in a certain pri vate department of tbe tenacious breeches befoie specified; and it was ascertained that the old man't case of hernia wat a case of something far lest objectionable. The remainder of hi money wat found under (he patches of his jacket, with Ihe exception of a small sum iu shillings and sixpence, discov ered in an old iiutT jar, which seems to have been the. depository of bis curient funds. Albany paper. I.MrORTANT TO INVENTORS. In consequence of l be want of room in the 1'aluut office, the Commissioner has issued a circular iu reference to the size of model, as follows : "The model should be of durable materi als, and be firmly constructed, so as to bear the frequent handling lo which it is necessa rily exposed. If of any sort wood it should ba painted, stained or varnished. It exter nal dimensions should not, if piaclicable, ex. ceed one cubic foot in measure. The name of ihe inventor, and that of ihe assignee, if Ihe patent issue Iu him, should be perroa iiuntly affixed to it, either by engraving op otherwise. 1 Whon the rao.Mj or specimens eome unaccompanied with a name, so much diffi culty has been felt in assigning Ihem to their proper destination, lhat Ihe office cannot an swer foi ihe in if they are mislaid or even lo.t." A Candip Wits is. Iii ibe examination of an liish case before ihe Ceurl ef Magis trates, in Providence, for assault and battery, counsel, on crosi-examining on of the wit nesses, asked him what Ihey had at Ihe first place ihey Hopped? He antwered, "four glasse of ale." "What next t" "Two glaue of wine." "What next?" One glass of brandy." "What next ?" 'A fight of course, ' The Canal Commissioner have r-p. pointed Major John Cummiiigs, Cargo lu spector at Columbia and D. Shaefer, Esq., Inspector of Cara en the Columbia Railroad- A Svi toouM David waa a Jew bene "the Harp of David" was a Jewsharp. Que! lion-How the deuce did ha sing at p.loi and play ou it at lha tame time ? There are four hundred and thirty lioeuee4 oiwiibuste, hatkt and calt ia Button.
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