NEW SEIUES, VOL. 10, NO. 12.
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ATTOUNEY AT LAW,
BOITBUUV, PA.
Business attended to in the Counties of N'or
l!.ur,ilprlati(l, Union, Lycoming Moaloui and
2lumbia-
Reference in Philadelphia :
H.in. Job R. Tvb.ui, Chn.. Gibbons. F.iq..
rioiner. Snodcrasa, Linn, Smith Co.
"LoWsf'siotllTAIJI COLLIERY
S U PER I 0 II W HIT E A S II
ANTHRACITE COAL,
""ram tlie Mammoth Vein, for Fum aros. Found
ries, Steamboats and Family use,
It. ClIDtt, NonTIIU.MSKBLAja CtTI, IV
SIZES OF COAL.
LUMP, for Ulaat Furnace, and Cupolas,
8TKAMBOAT, for Steamboat., Htl Air
Farnnrcs and Steam.
HUOKEN, ) f.or GrateS( Slave, and Stea.
STOVE, ) For Slovos, Steam ad barning
NUT, I J.irue.
PEA, for Limeburners and making Steam.
Order, received at Mt. Cariuel or Northum
berland Wharf, will receive prompt attention.
M. D. BEEL,
I). 1. LEWH,
WILLIAM MUIR.
Mnv S, U56.-tf
DILWOIiTH BRANSON & CO.
Hardware Merchants,
Having removed from No. 59 lo No. 78
Market Street, Philadelphia,
Are prepared, with greatly increased facilities,
t fill orders for HARDWARE of every variety
en best terms, from a full assortment, including
Railroad Shovels, Picks, ec.
Country merchants and others will find It to
their interest to call and examina aur atoek be
lem purchasing elsewhere.
April 12, 1856. ly
O. OF XT- .A- :Lvr.
tVUNBl'KY COUNCIL, No. 30, (). of U. A.
M. nict-ts every Ttk.pit evening in the
American Hull, opposite E. Y. lirighl's store.
Market street, Sunbury, Pa. Members of the
order are respectfully requested to attend.
M. L. SHIN DEI., C.
8. S. Hesihiiccs, R. S.
Sunbury, Jan. 5, 1857 oct 20. '55.
ITASllINCiTON CAMP, No. 19 J. S. of A
holds its Mated meetings every 1 hursdny
evening, in the American Hall, Market Street,
Kunbury.
VM. II. MUSSELMAN, P.
A. A. Shiult.r, It. M.
ftunliury. July 6, 1 856 If.
A. J. CONRAD,
HOLLOWING RUN.
I RiSPECTFULLY informs the public that
I, he ban rciili'iiiMu'il his Store with an ex-
rellent assortment of New (ioods just received
from Philadelphia, which he will sell on terms
a. reasonable as any other establishment. His
assortment eonsits in part of
CLOTHS, CASSI.M EKES & HATTINETT,
'.Timer Wear, for men and boy a, all styles and
prices
Laities Dress Coodst.
Consisting of Black Silks, Merinos, Alpacas,
He l.aines. Calicoes, Ginshanis, Muslins, Trim
mings, Ac.
Alsoatresh supply of GROCERIES of all
kinds.
HARDWARE and QTJEENSWARE,
Cedarwarc, U rooms, &c. Also a large assort
ment of Boots and Shoes, suitable for Men Wo
men and Children. Hats and Caps, Silk Hats,
ud all goods usually kept in a Country Store.
All the above named stock of goods will be
cold positively at low prices for cash, or in ex
change for country produce, at tho highest
to irkt-t price.
Hollowing Run. Nov. 89. !:,(! 1
l'ii:r lYU!:t:i, cutts,,;,
f jtlMS Grease is recommended to the notice of
JL Wagoners, Livery Stable keepers, See., as
being Si renioii to anything of tho kind ever iu
Iroducid. As it docs not gum upon the axles
is much more durable, and is not affected by
tho weuther, remaining the same in summer as
in winter, and put up in tin canister at 37J and
7 5 cents, for salo by A. W. FIsHER.
March II, IS3L
Jfront Street Wire Manufactory.
W iTSOS, VOX & Co.,
Ho t North Front fireet, corner of Coomb'. Allev,
beuvecil Market unit Mulberry (Arch) Street., I'hilnilel-
rlii.., inaimfaeture of .upariur Uallt, Itruss hkU Iron
V'ire Sieve, of nil kiu.U ; Itrais au.l Coppet Wire Cloth
for INprr Maker., Ae. Cylinder, and lJaucly Itull. co
vet eil in the best niHimer.
tlesvy Twilled Woe for Pnrk Culeher., ?iev- for
Rrnii. and Iron Fnundei., teieen Wire, Window Wire,
fe, TrHps, Pisli Covers, Crul and Sand Screen., k c.
Fancy Wire Work nf every daseriptin.
March 14, 1857. Sin e
josi:im n-ssEML.
UxsanLLi ixu PBAaotMi'riTViii,
No. North Fourth Street, N. W. Corer of
Market, Philadelphia.
IIASnow on hand an extensira assortment
of the newest and mast desirable kinds, in
eluding mxnyNEW STYLES not heretoforo
to be had in this marict. An examination of
our stock is solicited before purchasing elsewhere
March 7, 1857 3m
COUNTY ORDERS County orders taken
as rat.h f nf rtnH anil nm nnta n. I.
eonnt by
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B. V. tSKlOU r 4 HON.
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HOME WITHOUT A MOTHED.
What i. home without a mother t
What ore all the joys we meet,
When her loving amile no longer
(recta the coming of our feot t
The days teem long, the nights are dreary,
And time rolls .lowly on ;
And O, how few arc childhood', pleasure,
When her gentle care ia gone.
Things we prize are first to vanish;
Hearts we love to pass away ;
And how oon even in our childhood,
We behold her turning grey.
Her eye grows dim, her step ia alow,
Her joys of eorth arc past.
And before we learn to know her,
She has breathed on earth her last.
Other hearts may have their sorrows,
(Jiipfs that quickly die away;
Hut a mother lost in childhoad
Grieves the heart from day to day.
We miss her kind and willing hand,
Her fond and earnest care ;
And O, how drear is life around u,
What's home without a mother there!
THE PElttUTvED GOLDSMITH.
cr ). li. i.vraniuM.
A tnoik'i-t and cxceedinply pretly girl,
plainly nllirvd, entered one of the goldsmib's
stores on street, and seeing that n
gentlenmn was engaged with the proprietor,
she timidly shrunk usiile neur the door until
he Bliould be tit leisure. The assistants were
also occupied with customers whoso dress
and appearance showed them to belong to
the cluss of the rich, and she wna sufiereil to
remain for some time staiiding there beforo
Bin- tuuiu iiu uiieuueu to.
The gnntlvmnn, who wo3 n fine, noble
look in ir nersnn. with n rnmnrl-nUr m.li'An
adilress, seeing her waiting, cotirteouiily stood
aside, and said to the goldsmith
"l)o not occupy yourself with me now, Mr.
Hroochard, I can examine these wnlchcs by
myself, while you sec wlint this young poison
waiitg, who bus been waiting so lung and so
patiently to get on opportunity to speak to
yon."
'What do you want ?" asked the goldsmith,
with a look Unit conveyed a reproof lo her
for interrupting him while engaged with a
customer of more value to hint.
The girl hesilutiiigly upprnached tho coun
ter.Jiud takiiiL' from her bos. i in a snmll n-,,1,1
cliisn. bent over to him and suid. in n Ion-
trembling voice,
'l wish viil trmilit t.n n rtA m 4a 1.
this a few days, and let uie have seven dollars
on it."
I.OW fiA flllM STlllkp. llPr Snfl IrniliKlm-vtnnnB
reached the ears of Col. McIIeury, the gen
tleman who was present, and ho turned to
observe her face, and hear the reply of the
goldsmith to this timid and painfully uttered
- no I 1 ...i . , ,
iriucM. . i ue gumsiniiu iook tne Clasp scorn
fully bet wee n his fiuirei'S. nuil Ibrmvinrr if
down, said sharply to her
i nis is no puwnnroKer s shop, girl and
if it was, that thing is not worth two dollurs."
' It is of inestimable value tn me, sir
indeed ; it is the only thing valuablo 1 have,"
said she, earnestly, uud her check sliglitly
iiiiMiHu in inu ruue manner 01 uie reply.
"1 don't know what you may vuluo it nt,"
he said, with a cold laugh, glancing at Col.
Mcllenry, whom he saw severely eyeing him.
-I would not like to give you six shillings for
il."
'Hut, sir," plead tho girl, unconscious of
being overheard, "I must have seven dollars
to-day, mid have no other way of getting
it. 1 was in hope, sir, that you might let uie
have tho sum ou it. J will certainly come
back and takn it up again."
'1 tell you," uuswered he, angrily, "I keep
no pawnbroker's shop ; go to the Jews."
' They won't giro mo but two dollars, and I
want seven."
"And so you think to get it out of me t"
The young girl was about to speak again,
but, as if not knowing what further argument
to urire. hesitated, and who tiirninir uliiwK.
away, n hen she checked herself uud again
tipiova iu mm -
' Sir,'' sho said in a thrillinc tono of earnest
enlreuty, "my mother is lying very ill. und
our rent is due ut 12 o clock to-day, and the
nersons wn sow fur hnvinir (tijtiri,...itl.l ..-a
our pay, 1 have uo other resource than this.
ill. .. : - : 1 1 .i... . i : . t ,
vii, cm, nm iu in ho mis ciasp oniy lor a lew
days, and 1 will then repay you t"
Mr. Hroochard felt that Col. McIIenry's
eyes were upon him, awaiting on answer;
uud as ho wished him to '.hink him a man of
business (which meant in his notion a tnun
without b Leurt) he uuswered promptly und
ste:ti!y,
"Do you think we are simpletons here, to
throw away money in this way? If you have
nothing more to say, pleuse stand uside for
customers. Well, Colouel, whut do you think
of those? They ure the latest importations;
full jewelled and warranted in all points. 1
will sell you tho one just laid alown for one
hundred ur.d niucty-live dollars."
The gentleman, however, was not heeding
him, but wutching the young girl, whom he
saw leaving the counter with a heavy, droop
ing step, ami approached thodoor. Her fuco
hud struck liiiu for its sweet, intelligent love
liness, and her modesty had for Lint an irre
sistable charm, but her pita of poverty deeply
interested bis feelings aud enlisted his sym
pathies in her behulf. lie had sileully oh
served the progress of the interview with
him, with emotions of contempt lor one, and
pity for the other.
Her hand was on the knob of the door,
when advancing toward ber he said ;
' You asked, I believe, for seven dollars?"
he said, with a gentle iuterest in his tone,
lhat at once awakened hope iu her heart, and
again brought light to her eyes aud tho' hue
to her cheeks, as she dillideutly answered,
"Yes, sir, 1 should not have betu so'ur
gent "
"None too much to. Thero is a ten dollar
note ; 1 have no smaller bills."
"Sir, you are too kiud "
"Not a word. I am bappy to do you a
service."
"Take the clasp, sir, though I am ashumed
to tifl'er it to you, aiuce the gentleman says it
is so valueless. Hut to me it is as valuable
as life, and I foolishly thought it must be so
to others." "
''I do not want it, child," said Mcllenry,
feelingly putting the bund aside, while she
urged it upou him.
"Iudeed, sir, you must take it. for I shall
feel iu tooie degree under obligations to a
stranger. Besides I wish to call and redeem
ji. w ill you give dh jonr addrets, tir ?' god
Attt )ottq
ns sho spoke, lie still declining the jewel, she
luid it on the show box.
"Oh, no matter but if you Insist, it is tho
United States Hotel."
"Thank yon. air, yon can never know the
blessing to others that will follow vour kind
ness to mo to day." Thus speaking, and
looking upon him with an expression of grat
itude in her tearful eye, she left the shop, for
getting the clasp which sho left upon the
show ense.
'Will ynu look at one of theso watches,
now, Col. Mcllenry?'' superciliously asked
the goldsmith, without lifting his coudeiuuud
eyes.
"Xo, sir," answered the gentleman, sternly..
And taking his gloves and cune, wulked from
the shop of the nvaracious goldsmith, who,
too close to risk a trifle to relieve the wants
of a poor family, had probably lost a large
amount by the purchuse his wealthy customer
might have made, bb well as his own self
respect, such us it was ; for avarice always
sinks into its own rhell beforo the broad stiu
of benevoleuce.
"Now there noes ft man wlio throws ownv
ins money upon vagrants, while 1 keep tunic
to support my family," said the goldsmith
looking after him. "llo thinks mo a miser,
and I think him a fool. '(). here is that
clasp, after all 1 .She left it fur him on the
show case, and ho was too proud to take It
away, it lie saw it. seven dollars I It is not
worth more than five."
He opened it as he spoke, and tukina nn a
snarp instrument, tried the liiniucss ol the
gold.
"It is good old Mexican gold. It might
have once cost twenty dollars. Ah! what 1
a star of diamonds within it!" he exvlaimed,
as in working about with a point of steel he
discovered a cuvity. Twelve large diamonds
of the purest wuter! This is, indeed valua
ble. Let me see they are worth at leust
five hundred dollars ! What, to ask so little ?
No, no, she could not, either, for she would
not let it go for so smull a stun, or else
asked for neurer its value. I suppose the
was ignorant of the cavity, which 1 detected
only by an accident. She has stolen it, and
never will return Tor it " "Ah, nh, Abraham
Hroochard, thou hast made a good evening's
work or it !" he said exultingly to himself.
Then looking around among his shop boys
to see if ho was observed, he carefnllv, vet
with a cheerful air, locked the clasp in his
private drawer, aud taking out tho key,
pluced it in his pocket. He had hardly done
so, when Col. Mcllenry re-entered, end with
out speaking, or even looking at him, cast
his eyes upon the show case for the clasp,
which he recollected, after going out, the
young girl had laid down, but did not take it
up ugain, and so he returned back for it.
Abraham limochurd was very busily engaged
in replacing the watches to their doeskin
coverings, und preserved silence and igno
rance. At length Col. Mcllemy spoke :
"That young person laid her clasp on this
case, sir, which 1 neglected to take up. It
is a pity it should be lost, sho vulued it so
highly."
"The clasp. Oh, oh, I have not seeu it,
sir. She look it up agaiu."
"Did you see her ?"
"Yes; oh, yes. 1 had my eyes upon her.
and she said nt Ihe same time you'd never
see your ten dollars or the clasp again."
The gentleman eyed him steadily un instant,
and then glancing around the showcase again,
as if iu search of it, he quilted the shop.
CIIAl'TKR II.
Several days elapsed, and .Col. McTTenry
had quite forgotten the circumstance wo have
just narrated, when, ns ho was leisurely pas
sing ulong tho street, he felt his tleevo sud
denly pulled by some ono ho heard running
behind him, and looking around, he beheld,
with a cheek glowing with the pursuit, the
girl he hud seen at the goldsmith's.
"Oh, sir, 1 nm so happy to have found you,"
she said, at once addressing him ns he 'stop
ped, and with pleasure listened to her. "I
was nt length enabled to get my pay, and by
other work have earned enough to repay jou
the ten dollars you so kindly gave. Yon
don't know the good you did the suffering
you relieved the evil Jon timely adverted.
Here is the money, sir."
"Nay. my good girl, I do not want it. I
made you a present of it at the time, and did
not expect you to rctnrn it. I inn, however,
glad to lind you have the disposition to do so,
and that 1 was not deceived iu my estimation
ofyou."
"You must lake it," she said, w ith inge
nuous earnestness "1 should be distressed
to be longer under pecuniary obligation to
an entire stranger. liesides. sir, 1 would
bo very glad to have my clasp, if you please."
'Did you not take it from the case where
you laid it down?" he asked with much sur
prise und justly directed suspicion.
"No sir indeed, sir, 1 hope it is not lost.
It is of countless vuluo to me. It was. given
to me by by "
"Hy a sweetheart," added he, smiling.
"llo is now deud, sir," oho answered wilh
overflowing eyes.
"You do well to value it. I did not tuke
it up. Are you sure you left it there ?"
"Yes. sir, hoping you would tuke it and
keen it till I puid you tho money."
"Well, my child, I have not got it, but I
believe tho goldsmith has it. Let us go and
see him"
On their arrival at the shop, Mr. Hroochard
denied ever having seen it since the went out
und suid he saw her tuke it with her and place
it in her bosom us sho lelt tlio shop. The
young lady turned pule and was inconceivably
dis'.ressed-
"Come with me. I will find the clasp for
you," suid Col. Mcllenry, ofl'ering hei bis arm
and leaving the goldsmith's with her,
"1 do hope 1 shall lind it, sir," sho said, as
they walked ulong. "It was Robert's last
gilt. It was given him iu Cuba by a rich lady
whoso life ho saved by rescuing her from the
wuter. He was a sailor, sir, and had little to
leave me but his memory uud my poor clusp.
Oh, sir, if it is lost. I shull never forgive my
self for offering to pledgo it. Hut, sir, our
extremity was very great."
Col. Mcllenry stopped with her at a justi.
ce's office, and briefly and cleurly made his
complaint, and in a very few minutes Mr.
Hroochard was brought into the presence of
the magistrate. He uppeared to be in great
trepidation, and was pale as ashes ; for he had
been suddenly taken without warning from
behind his couuter, leaving his shop iu charge
ol his assistants. Col. Mcllenry and the
young lady beiag sworn, deposed that they
had last seen the clasp on the show case,
where each went out and left it. The former
further deposed that he bad uot gone three
steps from the door before he returned ud
found it missing, and no one in the vicinity
but the defenduut. '
The goldsmith was then called np to be
worn as to bit knowledge of the facts, lie
approached the stand where the magistrate
held the Uible, and laid his hands ou it with
a perceptible tremor of his whole body, but
love of money was stronger than the fear of
the law; and be took tbe oath. It appeared
as if he would sink throngh tho floor when he
took it ; but the moment he wus dune, he re
covered his audacity.
At this moment nn ofTicor, who at the gng
gestion of Col. Mcllenry, had been privately
depatched by the Justice with a search wnr
runt to tho shop of the goldsmith, now enter
ed and placed something in the magistrate's
hand, after briefly whispering to him.
"Did you ever see this gold ornament be
foro ?" udded the magistrate, holding up tho
clasp before the young lady's eyes.
"Oh, it is my clasp 1" she cried spring for
word. ' Yes it is the same," auswered the Col
onel. "And did you ever seo it before ?" deman
ded the justice sternly, holding it in the di
rection of the goldsmith, who hud seen it nt
first, and was uppaled with fear and conster
nation. Instead or replying he uttered a wild
hystricul laugh, and fell "his length in convul
sions on the floor.
He was a few weeks afterwards, taken from
his prison, and tried for perjury : but Ids rea-
son forsook him, and instead of prison, he i9
now raving iu a mad house. Thus was over
ice and pursimnny, and indifference to the
suflcrings of Ihe poor punished iu this life.
The acts of this sellieh man show to all how
that acquisitiveness, wrongly directed is fatal
to its possessors
Col. Mcllenry proved to be a bachelor ;
and though a little turned of thirty, his heurt
was keenly alive to all the sensibilities of our
nuture. He could feel Tor the dowu-trodden
poor, and sympathise with the unfortunate
To this truth none could more positively at-
len innn tue young iriend ol Hie golden clasp;
for ero two moons bad wuncd, she rejoiced in
tho euphonic title of Mrs. Col. Mcllenrv.
surrounded with all the appearances of wealth
wmi a gratciui iieart could enjoy or even
with.
Her poor afflicted mother was will nrnci.
ded for, when she recovered her health, and
happiucs and nrosncritv smiled unon them
all. ' "
From l.ieut. II:irlersliani's "My Last Cinisa."
Lifo in Java.
We have made the acquaintance of a Mr.
M. Squires, an American resident nf eleven
yeurs, and who subsequently joined the Han
cock in the capacity of assistant naturalist.
e wuro smoking our cheroots iu tho porch
of the Amsterdam Hotel.
While wo were thus smoking in the cool
evening breeze, we were joined by several
gentlemen, acquaintances of M r. Squires, and
who wero presented to us. The usual com
ments upou tho state of the weuther were
got off with happy success, and then every
one began lo wait for his neighbor to say
something else. Finally, ono of the new
arrivals, nn Knglishuiou, asked me abruptly,
if 1 hud ever seen a native uuder the iutiu
ence of tho muck.'
" 'The what ?' 1 asked.
"The muck ! the running muck.'
"I replied in tho negative, adding that I
had never before heard tho expression.
"lie expressed great surprise at this, and
proceeded to tell us that the running muck
wus often productive or many deaths.
"1 thought this a rather singular piece of
information to come by itseir, but contented
myself with observing, 'You don't suy so !'
"The Kuolishman cleared his throat, swell
ed very large, called tor a glass of ''urf und
'ui I',' uud continued us follows :
"'.Some few of the natives here consume
quuuti'.ies of opium iu various forms; and
the result is that, iu due course of lime, their
features become shurp, the skin is drawn
over them liko parchment, aud, losing their
mind, they become more ferocious and
bloodthirsty than tigers themselves. Armed
with the long and flexible kreiss (a sharp
dirk-kniTo. whose edges are wavy und of u
beautiful temper,) they rush frantically front
their houses und ruu as swiftly as their
limbs will curry them sometimes naked,
someliiiies clothed, ulways mad. liushiug
through tho crowded streets in this way,
their only aim seems to bo to destroy life
stabbing, biting, cursing, kicking every ono
whom chance throws across their path.
" "As soon as he is seen in this state, terror
proclaims Ihe news far and wide. "A monk I
umoak !" is screamed by tho whole popula
tion, just as "lire ! fite !" is in our own cities.
Lvery man grasps tho hrst weapon thut
comes to hand, aud follows the flvinir path of
the common euemy. I ti t louy spears, are,
however, preferred to thu shorter kreiss; aud i
with these they pen him up iu a comer, uud
luticu him to death with as much or moro
gusto than they would a tiger. As many as
forty persons were once killed by one of these
muniacs beforo bo could bo "cornered." nnd
yet there is no law agaiust the use of opium.'"
Tho word "muck ' is a corruption of the
Japanese "umoak" to kill; uud this latter is
seldom Heard, except when some poor wretch
is rungiug (he frightened town with strained
muscles and slsirtiug eyes, and with deulh
closing around his path ut every stride.
Rkadi.no Thero are few really good rea.
tiers among us, and even those who are most
accustomed to public speaking, are often sadly
deficient in this accompliehnieut. What
queer exumplss ol'faUe emphasis to mention
u common lault do we hear almost daily :
"Do you imagine uie to be a scoundrel sir?"
demanded one man indignantly of an other.
"No," was the reply, '1 do not imagine you
tube one." This illustration of the force of
emphasis, in giving meaning to a sentence, is
ollen paralleled iu the pulpit, on the stage
and rostrum. A cureless reader once gave a
passage from tho Uible with the following ac
cent aud pausea ; "Aud the old man suid
unto his sous, suddle me, the ass, and they
saddled Aim." We once heard a clergyman
tell his flock that "they had nut followed a
cunningly devised fable ;" the natural inter
ference being that he did lut deny the ruble
but only the cunning. Another clergymun,
uutcd for reading hymns with an abrupt, bit
ter emphsis once uttered tbu bears in the
following couplet so thut it seemed to his con
gregation a nouu iustead of a verb :
"lie take, yoaug chiUlrea iu hi. arms,
And iu In. bosom skas.."
We have all heard similar infectillilies of
expression a thousand tiaies, though all are
not equully sensitive to tbe jar which they
produced upon the cultivated ear. John
Raudulph when dying corrected the pronun
ciation of Dr Parrisb, who was reading aloud
to him. Few would desire to be critical nn.
dur similar circumstances; but we cannot
help respecting the instinct which to tho last
shrank from a mis-pronunciation N. li. I'ar
mer. Railroad Contracts. The Eoston (Pa )
Express states the contracts for the construc
tion of the East Pensylvania railroad, com
monly tbe Allentown aud Reading road, will
be let in a few days, aud the route put through
without delay.
There are now two hundred aud fifty pa
tients in tbe State Lunatic Hospital at
Haixisburj.
An Ir ishraan'a Resources.
Mr. Menclior. in his snpeeh nt. tho Ri
Patrick's day dinner in New Y'oik, told the
loiiowinir
l'uddy .Shannon was a bugler in the 87th
regiment tho l-'angh a Hullaghs and with
tintl regiment, under the command of Sir
Hugh Uonph, served till through the renin
Biilor campaign. When the campaign was
over i ouny nan noining lelt linn but tho re.
collections of it. His only solace was the
notice taken of him in the canteen. It is no
wonder, then, he became a convivial soul,
l'rom the bollle he eoou found his way to tho
uaiueiis.
The regiment wos paraded, tho proceeding
lead, and Paddy lied up. The signal was
given for the drummers to begin, wheu Daddy
Shannon exclaimed :
"Listeu now, Sir Hugh. Do yon mean to
say you uro going lo flog me? Just recollect
who it was Bounded the charge nt Horessa,
when you look the only French eagle ever
luken. Wasn't Daddy Shunnon? Little I
thought that day it would couio to this; and
the reeitneiit so proud of that same englo on
the colors."
"Tuke him down," said Sir Hugh, and
Paddy escaped unpunished.
A very shui t time, however, elapsed before
P.i.Uv I'...l l.;...lf .1 l :.. .'. :...:i.
j ""i". uiuici;ii 1'iuicu ii, eiiiiiiur cir
cumstances. "llo on," said tho Colonel.
"Don't be in a hurry," ejaculated Paddy ;
"I've a few words to say, Sir Hugh."
"The cngle won't save yon this time, sir."
"It is the eaglo indeed! then 1 wasn't
going to say anything about that same, though
you are and ought to be proud of it. Hut I
was just going to- ask if it wasn't Puddy
Shunnon who, wln n the breach ut Tariln was
stormed by 22.000 Trench, and onlv uTth in
defend it, if it wasn't Paddy Shannon who
struck up (.iurrytown, to glory, boys,' nnd
you, Sir Hugh, have got the same two tawers
and broach between them upon your cout of
urnis in testimony thereof."
"Take him down," said tho Colonel, and
Puddy was again unscathed.
Puddy, however, hud a long list of services
to get through, und a good deal of whiskey,
and ere another two mouths he was ugain
tiid np, the sentence read, nnd an assurance
from Sir Hugh Ootigh that nothing again
would make him relent. Paddv tried the
eagle it was no use. lie aiipeuled to Sir
Hugh's pride and the breach of Turifa with
out any avail.
Ami is it me,' ut last he broke out. "Hint
you are going to flog? I ask you, Sir Hugh
uoiign, ucinre the whole regiment, you know
it well, if it wos'i't Paddy Shunncn nho
picked tip the French Field Marshall's staff
at the baltlo of Yittorio that the Duke ir
Wellington sent to the Piinco Decent, nnd
for which he got that letter that will be long
remembered, und lhat inado hitr. a Field
Murshul into tho bargain ? The Prince He-
gent suid, 'You've scut me the stall' of a
rield Murshul of France; I return vou that
of a Field Marshal of Knelaiid.' Wasn't, it
Paddy Shannon that took it? Paddy Shan
non, nu never got rnp, or recompense, or ,
ribbon, or star, coat of onus, or murk of dis- i
linctinn, exeer t the flocciii!' vou are ruinr? tn !
give him. .
"lake him down,' said Sir Hugh, and
aguiu Puddy was forgiven.
Washington's Farewell.
The following extract is from a letter
written by a Lid y upwards of eighty veurs
j old, residing in Philadelphia, to her giandsou
Ill YN aMiilietoll
"When General Washington delivered his
Farewell Address, iu the room at the South
east corner of Chestnut and Sixth streets, I
sat immediately iu front of him. It was in
the room the Congress had occupied. '1 he
table of the Speaker was between the two
windows on Sixth street. The daughter of
Dr. C , of Alexandria, tho physician und
intimate friend of Wuslmiglon, Mrs. II ,
w Iioko l.iisDiiiul was tlie auditor, wus a very
dear friend of mi no. Her brother, vVnshiiig.
ton, was one of tho Secretaries of Geii.
Washington. Y'oung Datidridge, a nephew
of Mrs. Washington, was the other. 1 was
included in M is. 11 's partv to witness
i the august, the solemn scene. N C
i declined going with Mrs. II
I determined to go so early as to
, who hu J j
secure the .
I front bench. It vus fortunuta for N
C (afterwards Mrs. L.) thut she would
not trust herself to be so near her honored
grandfather. My dear lather stood very near
her ; she was terribly agitated. There was
a narrow passage from tho door or entrance
lo tho room, which was on the eas-t, dividing
tho rows id' benches. Gen.
ui lies. Gen. ushingtun
" "I'', . al L, .. , ' ' r A"s,K,!i Ps tu
t !0,l'1,a,ir- 1 "-' latter ways wore a lul suit
ol orient iiri.n, wmi momi, urn. met uiose
cull'jt. lie ulsn wore wrist ruffles. I'e had
not changed his fashions, llo was a short
man, with u good head. Willi his family hu
attended our church twice a day.
"General Washington's dress was a full
suit of black. His military hut had the
black cockade. There stood the Father oT
his Country, acknowledged by nations "iho
first in war, first in peace, first in the heurls
or his countrymen." No murshaU, with gold
colored scarfs ; uo cheering. The meet pro-
louml stillness greeted lnui, as il that great
assembly desired to hear him breathe und
catch his bro.it h the homage or the lit ait.
Mr. Adams covered his lace with both his
bauds. The sleeve of his cout und his hands
wero coveted with tears. Every now and
then there was a suppressed sob. 1 cannot
describe Washington's nppeurnnco as I felt
it perfectly composed and self-possessed till
the clo.-e-of Lis address. Then, when strong
men's sobs broke loose, when lenrs covered
their Taces, then the great man was shaken.
1 never took my eyes from his lace. Large
drops came from his eyes, lie lookrd to the
grateful children who wero parting with
their father, their friend, us if his heurt was
with theui and would be to tho cud."
The last surviving daughter of old King
George III., the Duchess of Gloucester, is
deud. She had reached her eighty-second
year.
Roiiiikrs Killed. Two men were killed on
ihe Harrisburg aud Lancaster Kuilroad last
week. From papers and other implements
found upon them it appears probable that
they were just returning from a rubbing ex
pedition at Middlctown.
Amemberoftho I.ary Society was com
plained of last week by another, for running.
Ills defence was he was going downhill and
that it was more labor to walk than run.
The highest price ever given for a horse of
which thero is any authentic account, was
paid in 1831, for a race horse that brought
$32,500.
Immigration There lave arrived iu tho
country, since Sept. 30, 1843, up to tho close
of lust yeur, 3,C3r),4C0 passengers. The grea
test number came in 1863, und more than
doubled tbe number in 1856.
TIIE DRIVE.
A Nf.tV IIAMI'SIIIRK PASTORAL.
A summer day, a bright blue sky,
Which b'oken clouds arc flying over,
Detachments from the tents, which lio
Above the western hills, pitched high ;
Green fields of grain and corn and clover;
And here and there a brown baked sparrow,
Perched on a bough, and ahrilly singing,
Or o'er Ihe dusty road nnd narrow,
A swnllow, darling like an anow
Or cawing crowing, his slow way winging;
Such rrc the sights that cheer the eyes,
Of Samuel, hnppy-heartcd lover.
As through the dust his earringe flies,
Vl bile he the whip wilh vigor plies,
And whistles like a blooding plover.
Well may he whistle as he rides.
He lias good reason to be merry;
His course of true love smoothly glides,
N o friend dissuades, no father chides,
And Tttbitha ia charming, ery.
This very night o!i, sweet reflection 1
She has agreed with him to go,
Without a nay-say or objection :
(Thus giving proof of her affection,)
To see the gaudy ciicua show.
And now, his fair one's house before,
He reins his steed up with a jork,
A lights, and stepping to the door,
Gently glides his features o'er,
A (imid and a hopeful smirk.
He knocks; she opes the door; he mutters
A vain attempt at salutation :
His manly heart so fiercely flutters,
That nut a syllable he utters
Can find its proper situation.
She's ready long ngn she spied
His coming at the window sitting ;
About her chin a comely pride,
Her white rape-bonnet on nhe tied.
And laid away her useless k tuning.
Her gayest finery glitters on her,
Enough to load a small felucca ;
She looks a most enchanting Donna,
Wits winning beauty ait upon her
Her best barege and sweetest pucker.
Go. happy lovers ! whirl away
Through whispering woods and meadows
green ;
Vc could not be more freety gay ;
If he Prince Albert were to.day.
And she were merric England's Queen.
Tbe roynl wealth of babes and Rold
Penurious fortune mny refuse;
2!ul they together shall grow old,
Anil renr their boys the plough to hold,
Their duughtcrs to bind Haverhill ahoes.
Their wedded lives in peace shall pai,
As June's long days How by
Some shadows flitting e'er the grass
Some winks to stir the sea of glass,
But mostly clear blue sky.
farmer's Drparimnif.
Clover Hay.
The clovers tire just considered as amons
j tho best uud most vuluuble of the cultivate
I vuted grasses. Yet, owing to cu error in
I cutting uud curing them, a very considerable
portion of the rich nutritive matters they
contuiti is lost. As n preventive of this, a
correspondent of the Germautowu Telegrnph
. gives the following :
! 1 have now a mow of red clover, sparsely
intermixed with which are small quantities of
j white clover, red top, brown top and herds
: grass, which was cut when the honeysuckle
was iu lull bloom, nnd made in grass cock,
j according to tho rules luid down some time
i since in tlie columns of your paper for curing
; this kind of hay. 1 must say thut although I
j hud not much faith in the mutter at first, the
j result has fully proved tho correctness of the
writer's viuws. and thnt. 1 nn lrmrri.r iLiiilif tlio
tilcory upou which the practice is bafed. 11
clover is cut when In bloom und norinittoil in
remain uiiuintui ueu in iiiesw'Qtn till tne lore
noon of the second day nnd then turned, ex
posing the uuder uud unwilled side to the sun
lor a lew hours, uud then pitched carefully
uiio cocks oi sixty pounds weigut, cured nay,
and there allowed to stand till cured, the hay
will bo heavier, blighted, of better flavor and
possessed ot fur greater nourishment than
Lay of the sume kind inado in tho ordinary
manner. I bo leaves and lino beads, which
lire inevitably lost by drjing iu the ordinary
way, in consequence ol their brunettes when
dried, ure in tins way preserved. 1 he llavor
ol the hay is also vastly nipeiior. One ton
of good clover, mudu in this wuy, is worth, for
teeuing, two tons cured in tlie old way, nnd
deprived by turning, spreading ami niching
ot its beads and leaves. Ihe tcrmcntution
which it undergoes in the cock is never suffi
ciently vigorous to dissipate auyoril.e uli
uieiilury properties, and is rarely suflitieiil to
be perceptible by the band. 1 hat the Leut
is very moderate is sufficiently utteeted by
the fact that the color, uot only of the foliage
wuicu is naturally ol a deep uud vivid green,
but the bright criuison of the flowers, is re
tained, which would not be the case were the
fermentation a$ vigorous as many would lead
us to believe. Any grass cured in this wuy
will be moro nutritive, ol better color uud
greater weight thau the same crass made in
the old wuy.
Young; Plants.
Mr. William Saunders, in the Ilorticultu
rUt, gives us the following excellent sugges
turn which you may now put to tho test :
A successful nitthod of combatting the
striped bug, so injurious to the melon and cu
cumber tribes, consists in covering the hills
with looso squares of glass, l our small
wooden pegs aro inserted in tho ground
so as to iucbiSd the hill of plants ; a square
or arlass suihciently large lo cover them is
then luid on tho pigs. This has been found
as effect iaI in scaring the insects as the com
mon contrivance of a small wocden box, with
out its defects. The plants are exposed oh
all sides to air and light, and the glass cover
further prevents tho soil being consolidated
bv heavy showers.
You nit plants should not be allowed to
crowd each other in tho seed bed. Thin
them out, so as to give space for each to be
exposed to light and "air. It is belter to
transplant in a shelter.'d border for two or
thiee weeks, to produce a mass of fibroin
roots, and if then carefully lifted uad set out,
will immediately start into vigorous growth.
Before planting make a furrow, wilh a hoe,
three or four inches deep, and plant in it.
The raised sides of lha furrow will protect
the pluuts for a long tiuio, and the first hoe
ing will level the soil entirely over ul! the
roots.
To "IIrad"' and Kxrtit. RatS A writer
in tho Hoston Cultivator rcconsmrbds potash
for this pnrposo. The rats troubled him ve
ry much. They oppeored in great numbers
and wero very troublesome, so that ho felt
justified in resorting to extreme measures to
effect their expulsion, llo ponnded up pot
ash nnd strewed it around their boles, and
rubbed some under the boards, and on tho
sides whero they camn through. Tho next
night ho heard a squealing among them, which
he supposed was from tho canstic nature of
tho potash that pot among their hair or on
their bare feet. They disappeared, and Tor a
long time he was exempt from any farther an
noyance. ' aaa.a ..
(it'ANO fob Mti.oNs We had a very fina
melon patch which was well nigh destroyed
by the stripod bug. The vines had just com
menced running, and in two or three days tho
bugs had stripped nearly every leaT. As a
desperate remedy, wo applied a handful of
guano on top of'the hill ns far as the tops
had run, taking care that it did not fall on
tho leaf. In twenty-fonr hours not a bug was
to bo be seen ; the vines had assumed a heal
thy and vigorous appearance, and aro now
loaded with fruit. This experiment was not
on one vine only, but several hundreds.
Exchange. . .
Cv Riot's Diskasr amo.no Cattle. A very
singular disease, of a contagcous nature, cul-
d the "black hoof, 13 stated to bo preva
lent in the neighborhood of London. C. W.
The Herald says the disease first appears in
the legs, causing a swelling, then an imme
diate and totul rot of the hoof and legs ; and
notwithstanding tlieteartulness ol the disease,
by its being of a contagious nuture, littlo or
no caro seems to be taken to prevent its
spreading to cattle unaffected. Some farmers
kavo lost from seven to ten head.
To Ci.r.ANsK tub Iksidrof Jars. Thera
is frequently some trouble in cleansing th
iuside of jurs that have had swealmeats or
other articles put in them for keeping, and
that when empty were wanted lor future use.
This can be done iu a few minutes without
scraping or soaking by filling up the jars with
hot water, (it need not be scalding hot.) and
then stirring in a teaspoonful or more of pertr
lash. Whatever of the former contonts bus
remained sticking upon tho sides and bottom
of tho jar will immediately bo seen to disen
gage itself and float loose through tho water
Then empty the jar at onco, and if any of tho
former oder remains about it fill it again with
warm water and let it stand undisturbed a
few hours, or till next day ; thcu empty it
again, and rinso it with cold water. Wash
phials in the same manner; also tho insido
or ketle's or anything which you w ish to puri
fy or clear from grmiso expeditiously and
completely. If you cannot conveniently ob
tain pearlash, tho same purpose may be an
swered nearly as well by filling tho vessel
with strong lye, poured off clean from the
wood ashes. For kegs, buckets, crocks, or
other very largo vessels, lyo may always ba
used.
0.i
hiimn.'-mK
A ('unstable, who has lately boeti inducted
into ollico was in attendance on tho Court
and was ordered by the Judge to "Call John
Hell and Elizabeth-Hell."
llo immediately began nt tho top of his
voice ; John Hell and Elizabeth Hell
.oin Jlrll ami Klizalcth Dell John Hell and
Elizabeth Bell !"
"One at a time," said the Judge.
"One at a time one at a tiiue ono at a
time !" shouted tho constable.
"Now ou've done it 1" exclaimed the
Judge out of patii uce.
"Now you'vo done it mnc ytu've done it
now you've done it !" yelled the consta
ble. Tbern wa3 no standing this. The court
bar and by-stunders broke into a heart laugh,
to the perfect surprise and ditmuy of tho us
touishtd constable.
' Sonny, do you love rae any ?" asked a
inoustuchcd dandy of un unsophisticated ur
chin.
"Oh ! don't I though."
"What for?''
"Hecause you always bring mo Bomo candy
when yon come to see sissy Juno. Oivo mu
some more ?''
"And what does Jaao like me for ?"
"O because you take her to the theatre aud
give her so many nice things. She says as
long us you are fool enough to fetch her
shawls and bonnets the won't sack you no
how now give mo seme candy.
Tim Last Fbrak in Hohsbtj Live nnd
lcaru Mrs. Onindy. Rend the I'ollut Fash
ion paper; you will always find something
nrw in it something to astonish you, as
this extract from Fashions for May perhaps
will :
"lionnots are still worn very open, thrown
back at the checks, and poiuted in front.
The curtain deep ; put on in plaits, arranged
in such a manner as not to fall over the shoul
ders, nor lo stand out too strtlly in tho mid
dlo of the back."
What next, Ma'am? and next? as Mr.
Cobden said. Bonnets with curtains! win
dow blinds will perhaps follow, and then pro
bably will come shutters or shall we say bed
posts and blankets ? Tho curtains must be
veils, Ma'am, must they not ? but then,
what business have they to stick out at all
in tho middle of Iho back ? Curtains indeed t
To be sure they are sufficiently called for by
the present bare faced fashion of bonnets.-
Ilighty-tigbty. Oh, fi r the good old times
of the good old coal sctittlo!
A green member of the Nebraska Legisla
ture, when the election cf the Assistant
Clerk came up called out, "Mr Speaker, I
move we vote rtV eersa." The tffect wus
electrical. Oreeny apoligi.-od by saying that
if ho was not in irdcr, bis excuse muit Is
that he didu't know any aboutuninwifidui-
rules.
A Western editor and his wife were walk
ing out iu the bright moonlight ono evening.
The wife was or an exceed ugly poetical na
ture, and said to her main : "Notico that
moon ; how bright, and calm, and beautiful."
wvnUn't think of noticiiia it." returned Ihe
editor, "for anything less than ibeuBual rate
a dollar ond' fifty cents for every twelvs
lints."
a L.n.l .nocnlitae ont West. In defending
i,;. .ir,,ni" , r i i , t tho charso of insalubrity,
declared thut it was to healthy "around there
tifficult for folks to die. that thein
habitants had to draw their last breuth with -coik-screw."
Modesty, says a cotcmporary, adorns a
w)u;an, but iu.ds a man.