Sixiiiiiirij - -s r '. 1 ' J 1. v ' NEW SEMES, VOL. 9, NO. 33. SUNBURY, NORTH UMBERLAN1) COUNTY, TA.-SATURD AY. NOVEMBERS, 1850. OLD SEIUES, VOL- IT. NO 7 II The Sunbury American. rURLlMIKI) KVKRT I1TUBD1I BY II. B. MASSER, Market Square, Sunbury, Vcnua. TERMS OK SUBSCRIPTION. . . j i,m nulillinirvrurl iWaiice. Ne papoi diicontirued uiitilAil. arrearages are VV ..f loiters on liusinem THlntliig to AM eoramu ' ,., POSTPAID. vws PA,D Three cooios H one addtes. msn" too" ,eve" r a"" K.vedollar. in .lv,.,.ca will ly ft three ye.fi tub- i.,.i maulers will plnueact ns our A grills, ! frank ..P !l r,-, !,," olripti".. money. They .r. permit- Ud tod" this under the lMt Office Law. TERMS OF ADVERTISING, OnoSnwueof 14 Unci, 3 times, l On Kvcrv iiuuseg'ienv On Stumc, J montlii, HlX HI'MllllS, Usui, of F.ve line., ner annmn, Merhants and olhen, mlvertisiM b ver. with 11,0 P"vi,,;" ,,f J jdll PRINTING. . I ...111 - ..uflllllKlimt'1lt 10(10 we I sa-uicw"''-' ATTORNEY AT LAW, SUNBURY, PA. Business attended to in Uio Counties or Nor thumbcrlend, Union, Lycoming Montour a,,d Columbia. tlefrrrnec ill 1'hilittMl'hiii : Suincr. & anodemss, l.innmh & t. L0" UST MOUNTAIN COLLIERY SUPERIOR WHITE A S 11 ANTHRACITE COAL, From tho Mammoth Vein, for Furnaces. Found rics, Steamboats and 'aniily use, Mr. CAiiM;i.,'iN'oiiTiiiMiiKiii.A.'u Count? , Pa SIZES OF COAL. LUMP, for Must Furnaces uml Cupolas, KTl'.AMllOAT, for Slcuinbouls, Hot Air Furnaces niul Steam. J1.','1'' l'or tirates, Stoves and Stca STOVE, I For Stoves, Steam and liurning NUT, I.imc. PEA, for Limcburners and milking Steam. Orders received at Ml. Caruiel or Northum berland Wharf, will receive prompt attention. M. II. BELL, 1). J. LEWI, WILLIAM ML'Ilt. May 3, 1856. tf "dILWORTH BRANSON & CO. Hardware Merchants, Having removed from No. 59 to No. 73 Market Street, Philadelphia, to nil otters Tor fllC'llDWAR'ii'of every variety on best terms, from a full assortment, including IUilroad Shovels, Picks, 4 c. Couutry merchants and others will find it to their interest to call and examine our stock be fore purchasing elsewhere. April 12, 1N56. ly XT. S. OP -A.- "Clod anil our Kalire J.fimL" feJUSQUEHANNA CAMP, No. tlie 0. O of the U. S. A. holds its staled sessions every MoxntT evening in their New Hall, opposite E. Y. n rights store. Sunbury, Pa. Initiation and recalia, $2,00. ga u, v john o V0L.N.Gi w c F.m'i. Wiivru r, 1!. S. Sunbury, July IS. 18.r.0. oct 20 '55 OTOF TJ. -A.. 1- Sl'NBUKY COUNCIL, No. HO, O. of 17. A. M. meets every Ttesiiat evening in tho K iin.rii'H 11 Hull, nnnosite F.. Y. Urisht's store, Market street, Snnbury, Pa. Members of the order are resuectlully reipiesieu lo atieno. VVM. A. UHUNEK, C G. W. Smith, K. S. Sunbury, Julv 5, 1856 oct 20, 55. J. S- OP ITtsHIXIiTOX CAMP. No. lit J. S. of A holds its stated moetinas every Thursday evening, in the American ll'ilt, Market Street, Sunbury. WM. II. MUSSELMAN, P .. A. Shisslkh, IS. H. Munhury, July 5, 185U tf. JUHE OLIVE OIL for table use, two size ut ail and C2J cents just received by WM. A.BKUNEU, Juno 21, '50. WJHEKM, full, tanners, flaxseed and pine Oil, ' nainis. ilasf. nuttv. eooal varnish, snts. tur iirntiue, fluid and paint brushes lor sale by May Jl, '50. E. Y. BlilUHT & Si SOX Illackbcra'y lira inly! 1 UST received a fresh supply of Blackberry Brandy and invaluable remedy for Summer complaints by U M. A. UKLISbK. August 2, 1056. ISTE"W" C3-003DS AT V. W. GRAY'S STORE. A larea assortment just received from Phila clphia, and sold cheaper than ever lor cash or country produce. Among his stock will bo lound Fancy Dress GooiIm, of all kinds and the latest and most fashionable stiles, Black and Fancy Dress Silks, Challies, Braize Lie l.aii'.s, Ginghams, Lawns, Shawls, Prints, II rem Trimmincs, Hose Gloves, Stocks, Cloths, Cassimeies, Vestings, Linen Drills, Irish Linens, Muslins, Parasuls and Umbrellas, Ac, Ae. HA ItDWAUE a general assortment. (iKOCEKIES, Fish, Cheese, Kaisins, Tobacco and Cigars, Queensware, Boots, Shots, Hats and Caps, and a general variety. n"PLEASE CALL AND SEEci P. W. UK AY. Sunbury, May 21, 1836. if FOR BALK I U PTEAM ENGINES 'JO Horse power each, with boilers. Would make etcellent pump ing angines, together with 2 large blowing cylin ders, suitable lor a blast furnace. Apply to 11ENK Y LONGENECKER it CO. buauiokin Iron Works, Shamokin, Pa. Khamakin, July 21, 185A, STOVES- IOR gALE an excellent second-hand Cook ing Stove, also several Cylinder Coal Moves. Enquire at this nlHre. UAlSINrt, Figs, Jujube Paste. Hock Candy. Jelly 4'skrs and Gum Drops fur sale by May 31, '(. WM. A. U lit NEK. (Fmin the Jouranl of Commerce THE BROOK AND SPARROW. , A FA III, E. "Oh wliitlicr eo Fust, my luily Brook, Oh wbitlier so fust to-day T Tarry owliilo from yourouwitnl dance, And peep out huto, with your niorry glance, To chut with a friend, 1 pmy." And the brook uiade answer "I cannot bIuj Sweet Sparrow, to prate with you, l-'or tho morning hours nre Hitting nway, Aud I have my task to do." "And wbnt may your work bo, I.ndy Drook, i lint you cannot stop to-Uny i Habhliiiir over the stones you go. Aud a noisy tongue you liuve 1 trow, Hut what are your tasks. 1 pray 7 Nothing, I weoti, but uu idle sung To tsiut: as you wuudur by ; Nothing, 1 ween, but to catch the gleam Ol the sun in the deep blue sky Nothing, but dimple, and llirt with I lie bco, Or tho yellow butterfly." "Friend Sparrow,'' rcpliod the little Brook, "Mine nre but humble tasks, Yet a willing step, mid a cheerful look, My gieul r.mployer asks, Am! gladly 1 fulfil them all, Simple ullhunuk they be, And I sing, or the retry joy of my limit, io the luiUeilly and tuu Oeu. And what nre thosu wonderous tusk?, I piny t" Ouoth thu Sparrow in disdain : ' And kIio liinghcd ouiight, while the little ISrouk Made unswer yet again t 'I huthu tho roots of tho willow trees, Heneulh whoso boughs I pars, And the hazel bush, and tho aider low. And frosbeu the nieudows through which I flow, And strengthen tho tender crass ; I'he sweet wild flowers would droop and die, II not for my nursing cure, And on my verge is the greenest moss I bat croweth onvwhere. The birds alight at tho morning's priino 1 o plash in mv coolinc breast, And tho weary o.en come down to drink, At t lie noon-day hour at rest, And the lowing kiue from tho meadows come And 1 irive thum a uratt so clear, You may believe they ore loth to leavo A fotiut of such iluinty cheer, Simple indeed, friend Spurrow, I know, Are the tusks that 1 lullil, Yet methinks tho humhhst work should bo Performed with an earnest will ; It giveth a feeling of such content, 1 o do in all thincs our bent. ' Rut now 1 must bid you a kind good day," I hen the Uivulct hastened ou its way, And tho Sparrow, with nothing else to say, rlew buck iiiuin to her iipst. Cnrresnoiuleiiee of the New York Hemld.J IMPORTANT FROM UTAH. Armed Jnter'ertnce of the Saiuti with the United iitules Mails Attempt to Assassi nate a United States Ojjicer The l'crjie trators of the Outrage Encouraged by the Authorities Exhortations in the Tcmjile to to "do and do Likewise" EjJ'oris Made by the Mormons to J'ropitiute the Jndianst .V- frc. Salt Lakh City, Aug. 31, 1830. When the United States mail was prepa ring to leave this place on the '2d of the mouth, we were much astonished to Bee a body of fourteen horsemen, with arms secre ted uhont their persons among whom were Bill Hickman, Jlirani Clauson, J. C Little and Jirighain Young, Jr. ride down to the United States mail carriages and, follow them wherever they went, and forming in a line alongside of them whenever they stopped. They escorted the mail in this manner until it reached the mouth of Immigration Kanyon, when Mr. Maxwell, the conductor, stopped the carriages, and riding back to the pose, told them that ho would proceed no further until they gave him the reasons for their un warrantable conduct. They gave him as uu excuse, thut when the mail camo into the city, the in nil curriers had shouted and made a great deal noise, aud thut to prevent them from doiug so in going out they hud been ordured to escort them. They then returned to the city, and the mail proceeded oo its wuy. It was, however, rumored in the city, and generally believed, thut there were per sons who intended to go in the mail carriage whom they wished to prevent Irout leuviug the couutry. Tho following Snnday Iiiigham Young told the people in the tabernacle that any man who would sell a bushel of wheat tu a ' Uentilp," would have to givo the same a mount for the beuelit of the church, aud that if they persisted in doing so his properly should all be confiscated. Again, lie said. ' If you owe anything to the Gentile mer chants, sutler yourselves to be sued, and your horses, cattle, lauds, &c to be taken from you, bel'oro you allow a bushel of wheat to go Irani your granaries. llius simply telling them that if they did not pay the merchants the wheat, which many uf them art under bonds to deliver for debts which they liavo incurred, iu inticipntion of the harvest, that he would see that they vould lose uotbing by being sued. Also, in sneaking of the Gen tiles, ho said that ho hated the very sight of them, "aud it you were all," said he, "real good Mormons such Mormons as 1 should like to see you not a single Gentile would ruuuiu in the place a minute. It would be too hot for them here. You would make it hotter for them than the southeast coruer of u Methodist hell." But the event which has created the greatest excitement in this city, was a most outrageous attempt ut assassination, which was uiucio upon a United States officer in the public streets under the sanction and coun tenance of the authorities of the Mormon church. The facta are these : About dusk one eveiunir, Mj. Joseph Troskalawski, United States Deputy Surveyor, weut to the store of Messrs. llooper & Williams to make a few purchass. Here ho met Hill Hickman, a notorious member of the Dunite Hand, who engulfed m conversation with him in a friend ly manner, no one having any suspicion that he had the least unkind feeling towards hiiu. Mr. T. then left the store alone, to go to his lodgings, lie had gone but a few steps when three men, associates of Hickmun, .stormed nn behind b ill) and knocked him down. One of them comtpcuced beotiug him about the bead with tho butt of a heavy loaded whip, and the other stamped upon and kicked him, being assisted by Dill Ilick nian, who had followed him up from tho store and who cried out to the other villians : "Kill him quick, J '11 stand the consequences." Messrs. Hooper and Williams, hearing a cry in the Btreet, ran to their door, and seeing those fellows beating a man, rushed to the spot just in time to save Mr. T.'s life. Mr. llooper seized Hickman by the collar, when the latter drew a kuife upou him. He how ever, succeeded in throwing him off. Mr. Williams, iu tho meantime throwing the other two lellows oil, liberated Mr. J ., who staggered, blind and strangling iu his blood, towards the oDice of tho mail agent, aud was caught by Mr. Dotsou, who carried him iu. Hickman and his associates theu jumped ou their horses and rode oil unmolested, yelling uud shouting like luuiatis. On examination Mr. Troskolawski was found to be very seriously hurt, having re ceived a severe internal injury and being dreadfully cut up and bruised, "lie hud re ceived heavy blows behind each car and on his forehead, lie passed four days iu tho greatest agony, his friends expecting every moment thut he would die; but under the cure of Dr. Lee, the inllummution was arrested und he is uow slowly recovering. N cause was assigned for the attack, except that Mr. T. hud used too great freedom of speech iu expressing his views of Mormon religion. Bill Hickmun was in town the next day boast ing of what he had done, and saying that ho was uot afraid, that he could pay damages und stand a trial, for his counsel was a high one. Towards the middle of the tiny Brig hum Young, the Governor of the Territory, sent for Hickman, who remained with him somo two hours. There wus n great deal of excitement iu the city, and the sympathy of thu muss of tho people was for Mr. T., al though many of tho leaders suid they were sorry the d d Gentilo had not been killed. Hickmun wus in town every day Unit week, und no effort wus made by the authorities to bring the offender to justice. It is useless for the Gentile to make complaint, for there is not the least shadow of law or justice in Utah. Brigham Young is absolute monarch, uud his word is the only law acknowledged. On the Sunday ul'teruoon following, Jede diuh M. Grunt, the second counsellor of Brig ham, made tho following remarks in the Ta bernacle, rebuking the people for the sympa thy which they hud evinced for Mr. T. lie suid : "lam sick of this sympathising spirit which you, as individuals, have with tho Gen tiles and apostate Mormons. 1 iiblinr this sympiilhetr. feeling you have towards tho wretches who would cut our throats, and of whom I can say, as 1 have said of Martin Van Buren, thut they 6hould bo winked at by blind men, they should be kicked across lots by cripples, they should bo nibbled to death by young ducks, und be drawn through the key hole to hell by bumble bees. Because a poor scoundrel will come into our streets drunk aud fall into u ditch, and somo of our shadpip' brethren buppoiied to stumble over him, you should sympathise with him. I run ashamed of you," "We ask no odds of the Gentiles, we cure not what they say or do. nor r . .i.ui tuey eun uo." (l)rignnm repented "yes, we ask uo odds of any of them ") He spoke in this manner for on hour, using lan guage which would uot be tolerated among the lowest und most degraded class of per sons anywhere in the world. After Jodediab had fiuished speaking, He ber C. Kimball, Urigham's first counsellor, rose and remarked that ho agreed with all that Jedcdiuh had said, und then added : "This occurrence, alluded to by brother ( irulit I never heard of until a day or two ago, and if another such occurrence takes place, "you'll not I. ear u it ut all, ' uml theu continued m about the same strain us the preeeediug speaker. They then finished by ordering Thomas S. Williams to go on a missiou as a reward lor his inlerlerence in the ulliiir. The above are the passages which are fit to be published ; for some were loo indecent to bo repeated. Tho whole drift of the aflcr noon's discourses wus tlmt the church ap proved of this deed and upheld thu"shunpip brethren" (not Dauitn as formerly) iu what they had done thut the people hud no busi ness to be surprised that tliey reproved them or the excitement which had been created, uud that the next time such a deed wns com mitted there would be no occasion for any uoise to be made about it. Bill Hickmun was sent out to Green river the week after with a couple of wagon loads of goods for Wash-a-keek, the Chief of. the Snake tribe. Why he wus sent instead of Armstrong, the Indian Agent, remains to be ascertained ; but probably it is part of the excellent peace policy which Brigham has found to work so well, and in pursuuuee of which he distiibutes presents to tho Indians iu thu name of tho Mormons, (taking care to make the distinction broad betwecu -fmeri-cans und Mormons.) which presents are paid for by the United States government. The immediate cause of these presents being sent is that news has been received from the upper country thut the Snake and Boiunick Indians are all reudy at a moment's warning to make war upon the Mormon's, and thut they ure only waiting to hear the success of thu war iu Oregon to commence hostilities A Sn.tMKi'Ti. Affair A Boy Almost KiTF.x Up hy a Dog, Yesterday afternoon, while a boy named James O'Coiiuell, aged about 12 years, son of Mr. Barney O'Con nell, who lives on Third street, South Troy, wus passing along tho sidewalk near his father's residence, a man, tuiniu uukuuwu, set upou him a large and savage bull dog. The boy, ou turning, and seeing the dog coming full speed on hint, natnrully became very much frightened, and endeavored t escape by running the man meanwhile encouraging the nobler brute onward. Of course the dog speedily overtook the boy. He caught the lad in the middle of the buck, his teeth sinking to tho bone, when, by clasping his jaws, and jerking with thum, he tore out a strip clean to the bone, as large us a man's hand. His rago increased with tho taste of blood, it was now impossible to shake off the dog. He again caught the boy by the thigh, uud bit out a piece as large as he could grasp with his teeth, laying the bone bare here. Another bite was iuUicted upon the leg, but it wus not so serious as the other. Over two pounds of flesh must have been extracted by the dog. The boy was literally being eateu up by the monster. The brute who set the dog upou tho boy deserves, as we hope he will receive, severe punishment. Dr. Burton, who was culled to attend the rase, did every thing for the boy that lay in his power, but it is hardly possible that he cau recover. Tue Fire is York, Pa. The tire which occurred at York, I'a., on Thursday, destroy, ed an entire square. It broke out iu the stable of (I Hartmaii, aud consumed iu all eighteen frame buildings six dwellings and twelve stables and barus. Daniel Spungler, C. A. Morris, William Stino, Jacob Lauuius tor, Jacob Brown, Judge Fuhor, aud Mr. 1 Haitmau cro tbo suflurcis, From the Chicago Tribtine, Sept. S7 ) The Burning of the Steamer Niagara Heroism of a Mother. Tho greatest heroism displayed, of which we hnvo any knowledge, wna shown at the burning of the steamer Niagara, on Lake Krio, by a mother in her efforts to save the lives of her eight children, the oldest of whom was only fourteen, and the youngest only one year old. She was picked up by the Trav eler insensible, and nearly perished, but was restored by great exertions, and brongh to this city. She did not know, Inst evening, whether or not ony of her children were saved, but heard that three were taken ashore iu the only boat that pulled off from the burning steamer. If so, they will reach her this morning by the Arctic. She and her husband are at the Merchants' Hotel. The names of those afflicted parents are Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Chalmers, of Clous ter county, New Brunswick. They had, by great industry and economy, laid up a few hundred dollurs, and were moving to Minne sota to buy a small farm, and lost everything they had iu the world on the boat, but a few shillings in their pockets. But they sny they care tiothing lor that; if they hud their children they could begin life again at the bottom of Hip ladder with u good heart. Wo sincerely hopo that some of their lost ones may be restored to them. Mrs. Chalmers says that when the Are broko out sho was outside the steerage cabin on the main deck, with her husband und children. She suw tho stern boat lowered, and observing in it a woman whom sho knew, she thought if the boat reached the shore and she herself did not, that womau would be like a mother to her children, so she com menced throwing her smaller children into it, intending to keep the buby by her, because sho could easier support it in the water than the others. She imd thrown two into the bout when it shoved off. She hud one in her hands to throw, but it was too late to throw so large n one to the bout, accordingly she seized the babe, supposing she had strength to throw it to the retreating boat. Sho had not, however, the baby fell into the water a foot from tho boot; she screamed to the woman in tho boat to save it, and hud tho satisfaction of seeing ber reach out, grasp it, and druw it into the boat. She then directed her efforts tr the fivo children about her. She pushed the oldest boy of twelve years into the water, with directions to swim after the small boat and cling to it ir they would not take dim in. one uiiiiKs ue uiu actually reach it. but can not be ccrtuin. Sho then put her eldest child, a girl of fourteen, into the water, in hopes she could cling to something. She has heard since arriving here that a girl of that nge was rescued, und thinks may be it was this one. She then had three Rmull children remuiuing. Her husband got into uu, nnier, nun sne pusseu tliem tiown 10 Mm, and he placed them on one of tho capsized boats floating neur. She then got dowu by a rope. On reaching tho water she fonnd the wuve had washed two of the children off the small boot. She managed to catch them lw.u ;!, , ,., am, f0j tliem stil( clinging to the rope with the other hand and maintained Uer bold l n, ..,iaot of ll the desperate struggles around her. At last the ropo burned off above, and she sunk down, down, down, with others who had been cling ing to tho same rope. When she came up again, she had lost one child. Sho managed to throw her disengaged arm over n stick and uung on to it witn the child in the other. She then looked for the child 6he had lost, but although many heads wero around her, and somo of them children's beads, they were all so begrimed with the oil and ashes and soot on tho surface of tho water that she could not distinguish their features, and they sunk one aftrr another, without her being able to recognize her own. She then directed all her effort to save the one iu her urms, and she feels confident thut sho could hove dono so, but some man she thinks ho was un old man pulled her arm off from tho slick which supported her. Sho reguincd her hold, aud her hand was again pulled off and herself pushed away by the same man. Then she sunk down, down, down again. Sho struggled to rise, and Dually did rise, but tho last child was gone, though she thought, until sho reached tho surface and saw to the contrary, that she bad it still in her arms. She was then alone on the water without support. Sho had floated some distance away from the steamer, but she saw ber husband upon tho capsized bout, holding one of tho children. That sight inspired her with fresh courago. Alas I she knew not at thut moment that the little one he held iu his arms wus already lifeless, but it was eveu so. At that instant a plunk struck her breast; she threw her arms around it and tried to reach her husband, but could uot propel herself iu the water. She felt her strength now rapidly fuilfhg. Sho wsb entirely alone ; she saw the schooner and tho Traveler, but suw also that they were far, fur awny ; she knew she could not hold on to her buoy until they came up ; but she remembered having heard that persons in drowning always shut their teeth firmly. She therefore seized her dress at tho bottom, in front, brought it up aronud tho plank, nud put it between her teeth, so that it held the plank fast across ber breast. She found that it would support her thus, and settled calmly back to await tho result. She remembered nothing more. Sho was picked up by the 'iVaveler, and when restored to consciousness, bud the pleasure of finding her bnsbund at her side, lint her children, where are they? The presence of miud uud heroism this poor mother displayed under tho circumstan ces are indeed remarkable. She related the circumstances to us yesterday, without any apparent conviction that she had done more than others, but with the evident wish that sho could have dene more for her childreu. The Now York Herald gives us the fo'. lowing description of the lust Wall street rocket : "The career of Huntington has been like a display of fireworks brilliunt, but evan pscent. For a little while he spent money like water. He had six or eight horses two pairs for carriages for himself and wife, and several fust trotters. His sideboard was brilliunt with massive plate. He was a great mun at Saratoga, Niagara, and Itockaway, where his wifo had more trunks and more diamonds than any one else ; and in town he kept up two matrimonial establishments, one rcgulur and the other irregular one a Chris tian horn" the other a Mohammedan seraglio t .u acordinr to the laws of New York, and the otucr . urding to the customs of the Mormons within a fow doors of each other. He was a prince for an hour. People ate at his diuners, drove bis horses, drank liis wiuo, borrowed his money, and wondered how he got it all. But tho crash came at last, and what are nil his former splendors com pared with bis present posit iou! He bought iiii luxuries at a tremendous high price." 0 C t r IJ . DISSOLVE THE UNION. Dissolve the Union 1 Who would part The chain that binds us heart to heart ? Kach link wns forged by Painted sires Amid the Revolution's fires ; And cooled oh where so rich a flood In Warren's and in Sumter's blood. Dissolve the Union! Bo like France When "Terror"' reared her blood v lance, And Man became destruction a child. And womun, in her passions wild. i 'anced in tlie Ute-lilood ot her IJueeu, Besides thu dreadful guillotiue 1 Dissolve the Union I 1!r11 int The spangled Flag of Glory's day ; Dioi oui me History r,t t lie nrave, And desecrate each Patriot's grave; And then, above tho wreck of years, (Juaff un eternity of tears. Dissolve the Utiion ! Unn it be That they who speak bucIi words are free ? Great God ! Did any die to save Such sordid wretches from the grave When breast to breast, aud brand to brand Our patriot-futbur's freed the land ? Dissolve the Union ! Ho! Foibeur! The sword of Damocles is there ; Cut but the hair, and earth shall know A dui ker, dcudlier tule of woe, Than Hist'ry's crimson page has told, Since Ni ro's car in blond e'er Tolled. Dissolve the Union ! Speak, ye hills, Ye everlasting mountains, cry, Shriek out, ye streams nud mingling rills, And ocean roar in atony; Dead heroes 1 leap from Glory's sod 1 Aud shield the munor of your" God ! The Boarding-School Nuisance. Mussns. Editors: I doubt if you con fill part of a column of your puppr more usefully than with the cuclosed. Very truly. 11. L. Tub Boariiixo-Sciiooi. NYisancr. While our sanitary police is engnged in inspecting emigruut boarding-houses, the tenant houses of tho poor, and iu ferreting out the causes of disease in alleys and unventilated courts of cities, equully fruitful sources of ill health exist among our higher classes, producing evils as serious and as lasting. A few weeks ago wo were called to see n young girl suH'erine from eeneral debility, neuralgic poins, vertigo, and headache. She had just returned from a boarding-school in a neighboring city, where she had spent only a month before her health, previously good, failed. On inquiry we found the routine of the school to bo as follows, and to bo certain of th Porrcvllico of hur ocoount wo bavo made inquiries of others familiar with its management : Tho pupils rise at five in the morning. They study from five to seven o'clock. From seven to eight o'clock they have breakfast. From eight iu the morning to two P. M. is spent in tho school-room, a period of six hours. At two they have dinner ; and from three to five nre allowed to walk or take other exercise. From five to six thev study;" at six have tea, and then study from seven to nine, when they are sent to bed. Their diet is light and unsubstantial, and their appetites under such a regimen are as feeble as the diet. Now, here tho day of n Yonncr. rrrowinsr. spirited school girl is divided into periods of seven hours lor sleep, three for meals, two for exercise, and twelve for study. Every person under full adult age needs' eight or nine hours' sleep, and, in order that sleep 6hould be healthful and refreshing, they re quire at least sis hours of recreation und active exercise. The time for meals is suffi ciently umplo in tho instance here mentioned, but to allow only two hours for exercise, and that in the afternoon, when heut and ratigno dispose them to rest, is positively murderous. And twelve hours' study per day is at least nve nours too much lor any young person. A child in full, vigorous health will acquire more knowledge in six hours daily than iu twelve, for full health and mental vigor are incompatible with the discipliue we have described. This system of education tnkes Young, robust, romping girls and transforms them to slow, languid, pale, worthless women. To afqiiiro skill ou the piano, a little bad French, and a namby-pamhy knowledge of a few of the "English brunches," they sacritico health, energy, all capacity for tho duties of womanhood, and not (infrequently health itself. lluffalo Medical Journal. TiiiiKsiiiNo by Steam Powf.k, E. S. Judd' of Stevens' Point, Wisconsin, informs us that lust spring bo and his brother, II. A. Judd, purchased a four-horse power steam engine, of Hoard k Son, of Watortown, N. Y., which they liuve applied with much success to threshing grain. They first tried it with a common thresher, and separator, usuully driven by four horses, but finding it more powerful than they expected, they ap plied it to an eight-horse thresher, which it worked with case to the astonishment of those who first witnessed it, uud who were so will pleased with its purfurmunce that they threw up their huts and gave three cheers for steam. He informs us thut competent judges assert that their fotir-horse steam engine drives thu thresher and separator with greater ease ihun eight horses. The farmers all like it, us it is twelve per cent, cheaper than horso power for threshing. Jt is mounted on wheels ; the fanners furnish them with fuel and water, and they go from pluco to place threshing by steam. This portublo steam thresheris a groat acquisition to agriculture, and be thinks thut thu tanners of Illinois should devote their at tention to steam threshing as well as steam plowing. With a four horse thresher, they have threshed 100 bushels of wheut per hour. Scientific American. Monads. It is said that Monads, tho smallest of all creatures, swim by myriads iu a drop of water ; for it bus been computed thut within this small space five hundred mil lions could bo comprised. Tho monud is nev er found to attain a length greater than the twelve thousandth part of an inch. Jn a cu bic inch of a certain kind of mould, consisting entirely of suimulcuhe, more thuu forty-ono millions of distinct beings were estimated, by Ehrenbeig, to exist. A OoiiRRSFOKDKKT of the. "lady's Daily Companion,' wants to know" whether the steep and thorny path, cun bo traveled in hoops T" Not by a barrelful. A Rrmarkart.e Invention. M. Burrcrc. a French inventor, has exhibited a machine which engraves lines so minnte as to bo undi?. tinguisbnble, and almcst imperceptible to the naked eye. It is designed for the production of private marks iu bunk notes, And is capa ble of producing two hundred thousand dif ferent combinations of minute kaleidescopic line-figures, only to be seen by the aid of a powerful microscope, yet perfectly rogulor end distinct, and insusceptible of being imi tated. At every turn of the tiny wheels which work it, the machine produces four en tirely new designs, exceedingly complicated, and quite differeut from each other. Mr. Maiky's ('incci.AR. Tho Loudon Post, speaking of Mr. Marcy's maritime cir cular, says: We do not want war with Amcricn. but wo must look upon it as an eventuality not impossible, and wo must con sider how it is to be enrried on ; not by land, for there she is unassailable ; hardly against her wur navy, for with such disproportionate numbers it could do but little misci.ief. It is in her commerce that she is chiefly vulnerable. A lady, a disbeliever in the science, nsked n learned phrenologist, with a view of puz zling him, "What kind of people nre those who have destrnetiveness ond benevolence equally and largely developed ?" "These, ma dam, are those who kill with kindness. ThkArtop Fkrvormikm. Tromiso little that you may perform much ; but if yon want to perform little, you can promise as much as you like. The Prairie House at Terra Haute, and one of tho finest hotels in Indinuna, was de stroyed by fire on tbo 14th lust. Lnst winter, it issnid. a cow floated down the Mississippi on a piece of ice. and became so cold that she has milked nothing but ice cream ever since. A Yankee at Panama sought shelter at tho American otisul's fiom the arthqnake; he thought even the eurthquuke would respect our flog. What a glorious thing it is for a young man to have the smiles of approval and good wishes ot everybody. Jt is a certain sign, if ho preserve on honesty of purpose, and on unsullied reputation for veracity, that he will bo successful in any business he may engage iu ; and it is nlso ono of the surest puths to speedy wealth. Mind that, now, young men. Jimicks snys that when he was in love he felt as i! ho were being hung and had a cat in his hat ond a peck of bumble bees under his waistcoat. Jimicks knows the symtomps. Juliana soys that she felt oh my as if she were in a bower of moonbeams sinking in a bath of effulgent honey beneath a blaze of balmjr etam to the lUUG Of slow music. Liff.'s Irritabilities. "What's tho use of it t Dou't worry yourself to death en account of what other people may say to you, as long as you know it is not true. Take care of the truth; that's your business. All falsehoods gu iu the bosom of their father, the devil and their framers soon follow. So much us to falsehood of you. As to tho falsehood to you aud as to every tale the most remotely prejn diciul to another, treat it and tho iiutrator with tho utmost possible indifference, until you hear the story of the other party; this only is just and wiso and kind. Jfanncr's gepnrimcnt. Fattening Animals. The following hints on tho subject, from that vukiublc agricultural journal, t he Albany Cultivator, will be found of interest : "Substanco in which the nutriment is much concentrated should be fed with care. There is danger, especially when the animal is first put to feed, that more may be eaten at once than the congestive organs can manage. Meal of Indian corn is highly nutritive, and wheu properly fed, causes animals to fatten faster than almost any other food. They will not, however, bear to be exclusively kept on this article for any length of time. Meal made from the heaviest varieties of corn, especially that grown in the northern ond eastern States, is quite too strong food for cattle, sheep or horses to be fnl I -fed upon. Hence one of the advantages of having the cob ground with the corn, by which the nutriment is diffused through a greater bulk, lays lighter on the stomach, mid is more thoroughly digested The effect of pure corn meal on animals we suppose to bo similar to that sometimes produced on our own species, by the nsa of fine wheateu flour the subject becomes dyspeptic, uud is furccd to nse bread which has the bran mixed with the flour. The mixture of tho cob with the com, answers tho purpose of bran the heultb of the animal is preserved and the process of di gestion goes on tiniiiterrupteuly. In fact, the advantages of grinding the cob nud corn together for feeding cuttle, may be said to bo well established. For bogs the benefit of the cob is not, we think so evident, those uuiuials appearing to be better udapted to taking their iiotiriehmctit in a concentrated form than those which ruminate or chew their cud. Yret food siilliciently bulky to effect tho dis tension of the bowels is uecessary for hogs. "Hay or straw cut into lengths so short us to be readily mixed with meal, answers a good purpose in rendering the meal easy of digestion, and iu enabling tho uuimul to extract all the nutriment from it. "Thu conclusion arrived at from the result of a series of experiments, instituled by the llighlund Society of Scot land, a few years ago, wus thut tho superiority of cooked over uncooked food for cuttl", is but trilling, and not sufficient to balance the cost; but for hogs, the extra cust of preparation was rapid. "Tho appetite and beullh of tho animals are promoted by giving a variety of food. This fact bus led to the preparations for Cut ter.ing stock. For fattening hogs wo have used with advantage the following mixtures : 1, Two parts potatoes aud two parts pump kins ; boil together until they cun be easily mashed line, then add one part meal, stirring und mixing intimately together. The heart of thu potatoes and pumpkins will scald or cook the meal, and when cold, the mixture will he a stiff pudding, 2. Two parts of potatoes and two of ripe palatable apples, (either sweet or sour;) boil till they can be mashed flue, theu add one part meal, (either from corn, barley or outs and peas, allowing the same weights,) aud mix together while the potatoes and apples are hot. "Hogs ure more fond of food when it is slightly fermented, (not becoming pungently sour,) and they appear t'o fatten faster if it is given to them in this state. We hoe never seen hogs thrive fuster than wheu fed ou these mixtures, with occasionally a little dairy slop, and wo havo alwuys fuund the pork solid uud good quality, "We find the following now receipts iu the Jlural Netc. Yorker : Goon Plum Cake. 1 ecrir. 1 teacun of an. gar, 1 of battcrmilk, J teacup of buutter, 1 teasnoonfull of nalerfttim flnvnr with nntnino. 3 teacup of flour, beat it well ; then add your ruisius, roiieu in nour ; bake in a quick oven. (jJflOP .TnilVKV CaVR 1 ftlinrt nt mill umITi 2 tnblespoons of molasses, warmed to boiling heat, then thickened with India menl till stiff add one nint of hm tni-milL- with i aapnnnn full of salt, 1 do. of Ealuratai, bake it in a moaerate oven. Baked Appi.kDi'mpi.inor. Mixvonrcrnst tho samo as fur short buiscct i roll' out thin. and put 4 quarts in a bniscet ; place them in a pan and bake fn a moderate oven ; sauce sugar and butter ; you can use berries or any dried fruit as well as apples. These are far oetter man boiled apple dumplings. BUTTERNUT CfSTA II n. Take n nint nferonin and a nuart of milk, stir it well tnirpihur thro eggs and the meats of a dozou butternuts pounacu in a mortar, ond hnll a tancup or su gar ; stir the sugar and ggs together, then mix in me ouuernuis witn tne milk, stir tilt Willi mixed, add liutmec nud linWn ami ran will havo very rich custard. To Cook Uii-e Tomatoes. Tfemnvn thn skins, and season them to the taste. Boll them in flour, and place them iu a deep dish, and add a little water and butler, place in a quick oven, and bake until teuder. Serve hot uud you will have a delicious dish. Tt Plll'.VKVT .TaIS nrrtu (la uvivn A ortw respondent informs us Hint t preserves, etc., from graining, a teuspoonfull' ui tieiiiii-iariar must oe nuueu to every gal lon of the jam or preserve. d.EAK'Tn Staitb Kin,.. 1 , . - maim wnen mix ed with turpentine mid applied in the usual " ""-e, more glossy and durable than if pot on with unv nthor i:,,,.i.i -n... j iiuuiu. x U turpentine prevents rust and when put on J v.u iu?,; eiuve win muiie it look as well atnow-, ,'1-eodorof the turpentine pusses off quickly. 1 r. ....j,,.,. ,v a nris letter soys Hint a remedy has ot lust been found for the nidi- ,,,,1 1 ll.l iliaAiian ...LIaI. 1 J . ukii ii us uono sucn exten sive damnge to the grapes of Europo, the last lew years. This remedy is sulphur lichtly distributed over the diseased plonts. Its sue cess has been more marked this year than ast, perhaps because the diseuse is less ma lignunt in it3 character. Diimonms. Mr, Showman,. what nnimal is that ?"-That my dear, is the rhynocercow. He is cousin German or Dutch relative to the nuicorn. bamboo ond missionaries. He is very cou rageous and never leaves borpe unless ho moves, in which case, ho goes somewhere else unless overtaken by the dark Ho was brought to this country mnch against his own wi I, which accounts for bis low spiriti whc he's melancholy or dejected, lie s now somewhat aged, although he has seen he day when he was the youngest specimen of anima ted nature in the world. Pass on, my little dear and allow the ladies surway the li dom of Providence as displayed in the ring tailed monkey a hanimal that can stand L. g iug like a feller critter, only it's reversed." ma ?" ..i7;rn - . "' "0 gai. now's your ma ? "Hain t got none here reckon she's dead hv tlna I ma u J - Mlliu, L"U. ,1ir i i . . wen, uow is l'ii?" "He was hung lust May." "Hump. What are yuii doing? "Just looking about." "Zackly what I's doing. S'posen wo hitch and proximate?" "Zacklybut who'll pny the Judge "Beckon I'll fodder up one half the pro vender, if yoa can go the other bent." note?" Uly got a counterfeit "Just zackly.'my own premises. Come if " j'mge we can another so come on gal-hero take my arm-we'll try anv how." ' " " Aud they did. A Retort. Men scorn to kiss among themselves. And scarce would kiss a brother ; But. women wunt to kiss so bnd, Ihey kiss and kiss each other. Whereupon, a lady penciled this reply, and left it Tor the fool's instruction : Men do not kiss among themselves And it's well thut they refrain ; The bitter dose would vex them so, They would never kiss again. As sometimes on poor woman's lip I applied this nauseous lotion, We have to kiss among ourselves' As a counteracting potion. Sioxev Smith says. "The god's do not be stow such a face as Mrs. Siddous' on a stngo more than once in a century. J know her very well, and she had the" good taste to, laugh heartily at my jokes ; she was un excil lent woman, Imt the was not remarkable out orber profession, and never out or tragedy even iu common life. Sho used to stab the potatoes." A young gentleman committed suicdo in a very novo, maimer last week. He ute a pint of dried apples uud drunk water till he "weut in." The rash act was caused by his father forbidding him to grease his moustaches with the butter-kuile. 'i'he your.g ladies in crowds and tears, attended his funeral with consider able bustlo. An old ludy had a favorite nephew, who wns a student ut Catharine Hall, and about whom she was very unxious. She enquired of his tutor how he conducted himself. "Ob, very well, indeed madamo, replied the other, he sticks to Catharine J I all." "Sticks to Catharine Hall, does he, tho reprobate, but his father wus just like him alwuvs loud of the girls." .A clergyman lecturing one ufternoon to his femulo parishioners, suid: "Be not proud thut our Lord paid your sex the distinguished honor of ujpering'first tO a ToninlA uf'lpp tliu l-jtEnmml ii,,, fnm it una only done that the news might pass the euuuur A Punster at the point of death being advised to eat a piece of pullet, declined, suy iiin that ho feared it midH "lay on bis stom ach." .
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