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SUNBURY, NORTH UMBERLAN1) COUNTY, TA.-SATURD AY. NOVEMBERS, 1850.
OLD SEIUES, VOL- IT. NO 7
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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.
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10(10
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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."
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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." .