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NEW SERIES, VOL. 10, NO. 14.
SUNBUItY, NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, PA .-SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1857.
OLD SERIES, VOL- 17. NO- 40.
The Sunbury American.
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By n. B. MASSES,
Market Sytfre, Sunbury, Pennt.
KB. MS OF SU B8CRIPTIOH.
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Mttm. Io I'.pei (liscuirtii.Med uul all atmigts are
Ali wimininiicatiun or lettere on li.sinrta relating U
th. olfii'a, to iiwii. atleiitimi, muat b. fllttX PAID.
TO CLUBS.
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Fifteen Do Do tow
Five MIr. In advance will pay f ' yw'ssub-
aripti'in ! Hie America.
Postmasters will pl set r Agouti, mil frn
t r. cnim mill .uliscripti.m m-iney. 'I lie)- sr. pyram
id to d-lhis owier Hie I'.wi OiBc. L.w.
TKRM8 OF AUVEHTIIIK9.
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tve .innwted with slar.llshment wl
..eted JOI1 OFFICR. which will enable u. to
3. B. lASS3E.s
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
thumr-Hand, Union, Lycoming Mentout ami
solumhia.
Reference in Philadelphia:
I! Ih It. Trson. Ch.. OiM.;. F.sq.-
Homer, 9endtra.., Linn, - ,
TOCUST MOUNTAIN COLLIERY
SUPERIOR. WHITE ASH
ANTHBACITB COAX.,
rom Ihe Mammoth Vein, for Turn aces, reund
ries, Staambo.t. and Family use,
IB -ESiap !UEW2S & CB.,
4T.CiMl-. NuTHBalltA Co-ITX, A
SIZES OF COAL.
LUMP, for Hla.l Furnacee and Cupolas,
8TB AMUOAT, fur Steamboate, Hot Air
fnniirra and Steam.
BROKEN, 1 Fof (jrltea,8lovandStea.
KH(3. S , . .
STOVE, For Stove., Steam and burning
NLT, Lime.
I'E , for Limeburner. and making nte.m.
Order, received at Ml. Carmel or Northum
terl.nd Wliarf, will receiva prompt attention.
M. D. HKI.I-,
U. J. 1.KWI",
VVI1.LIAM ML'IR.
My 3, 1856.- if 4
DILWORTH BRANSON & CO.
Hardware Merchants,
Having removed from No. 69 to .No. 11
Market Street, PliilaJll'l".
Ar rr'P'"''. w'1t,, Kret(y increaaed facilitiet,
to fill order, for HAKDWAKE of .very v.rie.y
wt terma, from a full ...ortment, including
ItailrnaJ SlioveU, I'ick., 4-e. .-,..
Country merchant, and oilier, will find it to
their intere.t to ral! and etamin. .ur .lock l
lore nurc'tiattnF etw!ir.
AjirU IS, 1856-ly .
O. OF XT- -A.. IvI.
li;nui;ky cuu.ncii., no. 30, o. of r. a.
it. nireta .very Tthmi evening in the
American Hall, o..o.ile E. V. Uriglil. .tor.
Market alri-et, Snnbury, P. Member, of til.
order u ;u-iicctfully reqiifatcil to t'''J;
M. L. SHIMJEI.. C.
S. S. IIkiiihck, 15. S.
Sunl.ury. J.n. 5. 18ft7.-oct 0.
U'ASHINUTON CAMP. No. 1'J J. "f A
hohla it l.t"' meeling. vry Thurad.y
vening. in the American Market Str.et,
SU,,bUfy- WM.H.MUS8ELMAN.P.
K. A. Snmmm. U. S.
Kun'.iury. July S. 1 856 tf. ,
A. J. CONHAD,
HOLLOWING RUN.
EPECTFI'I.LY inform, the public lhat
c: . , t-..:i....i i.;. Ki,r wiih an ei-
B u. lie naa ri'ji-ii"' ,
rellc.it a...rtiiieut of Nexv Oood. jual received
, . in.'.i ..i .i.. i.;, .hi,li he will aell on term.
irom i uiiioi'i" - ...
a, f, a.oual-le other etahli.hmcnl. Hi.
aorlineiit c.inia in purl of
CLOTHS, (;A8fI.MEHE8 & KATUN Ell ,
'.Vinter Weara for men and boya, llaiyle. and
price.
fnlie IreJ fiood.
Con.l.llnfi of Black Silk., Merino.. Alp.c,
Ue L.i.ie. Calicoe.. Gintfhama. Mu.lina. 1 rim-
WA"iil.h .upvly of GROCERIES .f .11
kinila. .
HARDWARE and QTJEENSWARE,
CJarwre. room. &c. Al.o large .wort
moot of Boon and rthoea. amiable for Men W c
men and Children. Hat and Cap. Silk HaU,
and all gooda usunllv kept in a Country Start.
All the .hove named e.ock of gooda will be
..1J ufuiliveiy at low pricea for ca.h. or in ex
haeje for country produce, .1 the highe.t
narVet prie.
H..llowing Run. Nov. 29. lUSfi.l
rtii'kT wutji.L. (.uutsi'.
fltiriJ ftreaee'i. recommendid to the notice of
I Wagoner.. I.ivery Ktabl keepers, &c.,aa
being SuemioH to anything of the kind ever in-troduc-4.
As it doe. not gum uion the xle
ia much more durable, and is not affected by
the weather, ri'inoining the unit in summer s
in winter, and put up in tin canistere at 871 tud
7 5 cents, f.r aale hy A. W, r lSUEK.
March M. I8S7.
jront Street Wire Manufactory.
W iTSO, CO & '0.,
Sn ti N irth Finnt 8lrrt, enriiel ( Cumb'i Alky,
-b,lwr.il Mvkrt awl Mull-wry (Areh) rVrert., Phlta.1.1
phi., inn n.if.iei lire of uuri.ir quaUiv, Brn.. .ad Irml
Wir. .v. tf U kill U i Brass m-l C-ippai "
f.ir P-inrr Makers, c. Cyliiil-'s and DuuO)- Kolls eo
T.rl ill the lw.1 mnilier. , ' ,M
He-vyTwilM W.i. f.w Pp. Ortcriera, ror
Br.M .ud Itun F.ioii lcii. P.Teen Wire. W lilw W lie.
.Pf, Traps. Tli.li C.iv.r.. C. .I anil nl bctwua, .
Fsney Wir. W. rk .very dasuriplioa.
M.rch U, Ib57. am. '
jostrn Fissr.i.i,,
Uhbb.lla ao P.sisulM tai'tiCTcaia,
No. 9 North Fourth Street, N. W. Corner f
Market, Philadelphia.
HAS now on hand an extensive assortment
of the newest and ml desirable kinds, in
cludi ig miuy NEW STYLES not heretofore
to be bad in this marzet. An examination of
pur stick i. solicited before purchasing elsewhere.
March 7. I".7. 3m
CuLNTY ORDEII8 County order, taken
a. ea.h for good., and on note or book ac
taont by E. V. BRIOHT BON.
Kb", t. 1S.
Select Ipocirg.
'TIS WELL TO HAVE A MEERT
HEART.
'Ti. well to have a merry h.art,
Howev.r .hort w. .lay t
There'a witdom in ( merry heart,
W liate'er the world may .ay,
Fliiloaophy may lilt it. head.
And find out many a flaw,
But give me that !'hilouihy
'J hat', happy with a air.w,
tf life but bring. Ui happineaa
It hrinna mm Mr r ..,lil.
NVhal'a hard to buy, though rich on
a try.
tt an an ineir neap. 01 gom :
Then laugh away let oilier, boa.t
Whate'er they will of mirth :
V ho laugh the mu.t mny truly .ay
11 e'i got the wealth of earth.
There'a beauty in merry laugh,
A moral beauty too
It .how. the heart an honeat heart,
That', paid each man hia due.
And lent a all are of what', to epnre,
Deapite of wisdom', for..
Ami made the check lea. .orrow apeak,
The eye wrep fewer tear..
The eye may ahro d itself in cloud,
The tcmpe.t wrath begin i
It find. .park to cheer the dark,
Ita aunli(hl i. within !
7hen laugh .way, let other, .ay
hale'er they will of mir.h ;
Who laugh the moat may truly boaat
He', got the wealth of earth.
THE LAWYER'S STRATAGEM.
VKHBiriED ET CROWS.
A gay youn f .park who long had aighei
To lake an hcirea. for hia bride,
Though not in rain h. had assayed
To win the favor of the maid,
Vet, fearing from hia humble at.tion,
To meet her father, cold negation,
Made up hia mind without drlay
To take the girl and run away !
A pretty p!un what could be finer!
But a. the m.iJ wa. jet a minor,
There a'ill remained thia alight ohatrurtioa I
liu might be puninhed for ''abduction '."
Accordingly, lie thought it wine
To ace '.quire and take advice
A running knave who loved a trick
A. well a fere, anil .killed to pick,
A. lawyers can, some latent flaw,
To help client cheat the law.
Before him straight the case wa. laid,
Who, when the proper fee waa paid,
Conceiv.d .1 once a happy plan,
And thus the counsellor began :
Young man, no doubt, your wiiest court
I. this: to-nijht you get a horse,
And let ynur lady love get on ,
As soon as ever that is done,
You get on too hut, hark ye, mind
.She ride, bef ir ; you ride behind ;
And thus, you ace, you make it true,
The Inriy run away icith ytu !
That very night he got the horce,
And put the lawyer, plan in force;
W hofo.niJ next uay no laughin; matter
The truant laily w.ahi. daughter!
V ORAL.
When lawyer, counsel craft and guile,
It may, .oinetiinc k. worth the while.
If they'd avoid the deepest thimes,
So uncertain thejiortiet' namti
Select (fait.
(Krum P;er.u'i Magr-ixiiit J
ARISTOCRACY.
Billy was coming home, Billy her heart's
jy. Mrr. Ciruy amoothed ouca more the
corners of the already smooth rag carpet,
duHted once more the dustlesu table, and then
mt'u a liidk of iuCnile saliffactioti, took her
swat in the chimney corner to libluu, for Billy
was comitij; home.
Tmo lunjr minutes she listened, and tlii'i) it
si'pmed to her tho blitzing liro would bear
another stick, so to the abed went M re. Ciray
her wood pile waj sennty, ami enrued with
those feeblo old hud.t, but Itilly was coming
home !
Dear Hilly ! his mother', home should look
clean and bright and cheery to the boy, if bo
did mm there the polished city luruiiure.
Tbui what sniilo overran the wrinkle, in
the good dd ludv's face, as she thought of
the supper in store ; Pervert upon porcelain,
spiced. with c'.ty coudiments it might not be ;
but there were the sweet cuke and the mutton-chop
that Hilly had reln-hed whuo a boy,
and for the cooking what man, rich or poor,
will not aver that there is but one cook iu
tho world his mother.
Mm. lr.y thook up the cushion or her
chair and was seating herself, when she saw
that the table-cloth opposite was just acrain
awry; she. evened this, bru.-bed the cleuu
beui tb nguin, unrolled her knitting, and re
sumed her neat.
Was that a snood ? Though only liulf way
toward tho middle of tho need's, Mr. (Jruy
let fall her sock and ran as fust as her old
feet C00.1J travel to the door. No, only the
niuter wind was beating for admission.
Mizht not tho clock have stopped! its bands
did move so slowly 1 No, younger ears could
have ho ud its tick outside through the pan
eled door.
Well, went the sweet-cakes rising? as
tho supper re.ully so tempting to look upon ?
Could she think of no improvement? Mrs.
U my opened tho cupboard door, and gazed
with doting eyes upou the viands which should
touch dear Billy's lips : no connoiseur ever
studied his pictured Adonis or Cleopatra hull'
so lovingly as she the rising dough, the un
cooked chop, the three pickles, Uio sinootn
slice, of butler, the scrap of cheese, and in a
balf-tillod cup most precious of them all
the pinch of powdered herb, with that deli
cious dusty-green bue, that make it knowu
to loveis of genuine tea.
"AH that lor me, mother?'
''llless my hoart, Hilly I bow could you
havo come in, ami I have watched aud waited
this hour past? But never mind, I'm glad to
see you, my son ; here, sit ia the rockiug
chair and rest, and I will take your coat."
"Seeing that you are seventy-one years old
and 1 aui tweoty-ouu, we'd belter reverse thai
arrangement, lo you sit down, Why, mo.
tuer, bow handsome you look i A dear eld
soul, aren't you I '
A bappy old soul she wat as the watched
her boy, aod traTked bow spruce and manly
be bad grown ; and yet bow be had all the
old fami'.liur wayt, aud remembered all the
old placet about the bouse ; buDg the new
overcoat upon bit peg, aud took bis cbair
for seat at hit corner of the firedear Bil-
''I declare, how good it is to be home again
bow clean aed nice it is here, how the tnbles
shine ; how natural that border of tulips looks
around the floor and the rug-carpet bow J
remember cutting up the cloth for it that
pink stripe wus poor little Annie's buhy-cloak
don't sigh, mother, I wus a thoughtless boy
to tease it owoy from you."
'No, Billy, you wanted to make my carpel
handsome; and Annie wears better garments
now she has gone to onr Father's home: 1
was otily thinking how she would enjoy this
night your first return."
".Maybe she does enjoy it. Who can tell ?
If 1 should be culled ubove, do you suppose
I'd forget my old mother? But we won't be
solemn to-night. Look I this purple stripe
was made from tho first gny wnistcoat I ever
had. Didn't I feel proud to wear it when it
was new aud shouldn't I be ashamed of such
a gaudy thing now ? Then the stripe next it
looks block, but in the dny time it's bottle
green how well I remember 1 That's the
remainder of pa's old military pants after 1
had worn them a year or two, cut down."
So the young unit run on. seizing whatever
topics seemed to pleaso the good old Indy
most.
"There, Billv, now supper is ready. And
this is a chop, Billy. And, Billy, don't you
remember how you used to like sweet eakea?
Well, here they ore, and these are pickles,
Billv."
"I declare, I haven't seen such a bountiful
supper since I went away from home ; bow
good the chop smells 1"
"Yes, and do taste one of the cakes, Billy,
they're light as puff-balls."
"All in good time, 1 can't eat too many
things at once. Mother, to change the sub
ject, don't you think that now I'm of age, yes
aimon l-enty-two v imam sounds Detter
than Billy?"
"I've never called yon William ; your fath
er never did, and little Annie, tleur soul I
wouldn't know her brother by tbnt nume.
But tllium you shall bo, if you wish ; J pro
mise not to call vim uny other name ; uow
eat your supper Billy."
"1 ve finished. Come, let us clear the in
1e together: and then you shall see how you
ike the things I've brought from the Federal
city."
" hnt, more present?, when you scnl the
flannel hardly a week ago ?''
"You wouldn't cull flannel a present 1 St.
Anthony, I've broken a suueer ! But never
tnintl, I remembered some ol our plates were
budly cracked, and so there's a whole new
ten-set in my trunk."
Tho trunk was opened, and Mrs. Cray
smiled and sighed by tnrns, think Billy hud
spent a good third of bis income ia hr mely
but useful gifts for her ; patent foot-warmers
patent Bat-irons, patent kettles they were
enough to keep the old Indy happy nud inter
ested until her son i-hould return again.
On the morrow, Muster William Cray was
gnno. At parting ho gave, once more the
often repeated injunction concerning bis
uamn.
'-But what difference can it make in my
letter?, nobody hears me, Billy ; and I like
tho looks of the word."
"Doesn't any onu hear them ? You know
how proud I am of ynur handsome hand, and
your good sensible reflections ; suppose there
were a friend that would read my letters
sometimes?" -
The old lady looked through her spectacles
sharply enough to breuk them. Billy blush
ed, and bade his mother farewell.
The scenes change now to a city; the inte
rior of a large boarding-house, and the private
parlor ol its mist'ess.
Another aged woman sits by her fireside at
work ; her mind astir with pleasant anticipa
tions but far different ones from tlicst. of Mrs.
ii ray.
Ah, what strange contrasts, what delicate
shades of difference must be seen by the im
partial eye which looks down from above!
Take, for instance, the nged : lift the roofs
from a hundred homes, and listen for slow
footsteps, look for withered forms j some you
shull find in the household chuir of state cush
ioned about by luxury, claiming honor love,
obedience ; some you shall find contented
with crumbs that fall from their children's
tables, slightid and only tolerated in the
home ; some sit alone by cheerless firesides,
with the Book which hulli given comfort to
so many cheerless hearts ; feme seek to for
get their age by decking fur this world's vani
ty fair; vh.l- for others, the roof need not
be lifted, for ub'ive their grey beads stretch
es only the starred roof of heaven, and the
book of bumun love, toward which their hun
gry eyes turn, is the desolate street.
It was cheerful in Madame Sneling's little
room ; brightly the fire blazed, unil the criin
son carpet reflected its wurm glow. A door
was opened not by aged hands, und u young
girl appeared. "Oh, grandmn, you're ut work
still; what a dear soul 1 aud letting me gad
about the streets."
"But, Joey, (Joan was the damsel's name.)
didn't you think to buy some more spangles I
I ueed a full hundred uow."
"And hero they arc But isn't it a lovely
dress, and shan't I make some hearts ache
when it's worn ; and shan't 1 care as much as
these steel spangles for their aching too I"
"Thut's right, Joey, don't fall in love. I
want you to choose a husband with your eyes
wide open. Try your skill on these young
men, and when Mr. Wright comes afterwaid,
you'll be bright enough to catch him. I have
set my heart upon a hint-rate match fur you,
child."
"Yes, an elegant man, with beautiful black
eyes and whiskers, aud to well dressed, and
so tuliP
"Nonsense, I've seen fool men answering
that description. Look out for elegant man
ners, Joey, not elegant eyes; looK ont lor
family, uol height of iiuller ulouu ; look out
for money to pay for clothes his and your'n
not merely to see if bis tailor bus dressed
him well."
"That reminds me. grandma how ever
came you to take a tailor to board ? Deb says
young Mr. (Jruy, thai bus the upper room, is
not hint; but a tailor, lie Uus very goou-
looking buggage though; 1 peeped over the
balustrade wheu tbe coathmau brought it up
stairs."
"It's agin my rule, to be sure, to take any
boarders but the fust To tell the truth, 1
waa to pleased with this young' man he's
very pretty spoken inui i promised me room
before ever asking what his trude miubt be.
Besides, be isn't one of tbe common sort ;
he's what they cull a merchant tailor. Hand
me more spangles, Jo i" all this time tbe old
lady bad bueti sewing busily.
"There, don't work too steadily, don't put
your eyes out, grandma ; I'll be back in half
a minute; 1 heard a carriage stop, and per.
haps it's Mr. Gray. I'll run and wutcb for
bis entrauce it's sT droll, the idea of our
boarding a tailor I '
Madame Snelling wat a person of more
education than polish, more manner than
elegauce. 1'ossessiug a little fortune, she
still preferred tbe cares of ber present life,
accompanied at they were, tbe taid, by a
targer spbere c tir'n!ness; tonmpanreo; r
they were, she knew, by a larger chance in the
matrimonial market for J opt. her adopted
child. Her character presenting that frequent
combination of shrewdness and simplicity
every one saw through madame and humored
ner.
But Joey's "chance" was none tbe less for
the good old ludy'e absurdities. Joey was
fair and sprightly, with the bloom of seven
teen on her cheeks, and the mischief of seven.
teen in hor behaviour. Witty if not wise,
and graceful if not elegant, merry, coquettish,
and careless or all the world, Joan was a
standing favorite amid Madame Snelling's
respeciaoia hoarders.
"Why, crondma. be isn't lame, after all I
and such a clean bosom and such a stiffditkey,
ne must nave come Iresh Irom the laundress.
"A very good looking young man."
"I call him handsome. What eyes be has,
and how much diguilt, and how woll be
uresscs. '
"Joey, Mr. Gray is a tailor."'
"I know it, grandma, never fear me ! But
1 thought oil tailors were lame. Don't yon
remember old Sulger, down to the Vineyard,
how he limped? And don't yon remember
that Mary walked with a crutch I
"Yes, you little nonsense; but two club
footed men don't make their whole) class
lame. And besides, I tell you, Mr. Gray is
a merchant tailor.
A week or two passed. Joey went to her
party, planted daggers or spangles in her
suitors' hearts ; and the spangled dress had
grown shabby with ufp, when Joey sat in the
upper chamber, one dny, conversing if it
most t e told with ner grandmother s wait-ing-maid,
Deb.
"I fonud it, Miss Joey, jnst where he had
hidden it under his pillow. See 1"
"Yon did I now that's a joke. when, for all
my coaxing he wouldn't let me read a word ;
hut of course I shall not meddle with his
letter, lay it in the drawer ; and by-the-way,
Deb, grandma needs you in ber room below."
"Yes, Miss, soon as ever I've picked np
these things." Debby departed, muttering,
"1 wonder if the takes me now for a fool,
wonder if I wou't catch her spelling out that
letter yet."
Joey sat watching the elm, whose young
leaves told that spring had come; yes, even
into tho paved courts of the city. "I suppose
ill Gray sits here, she mused, "und thinks
of his mother's cottage: dear old Indy, 1
should likn to see her. But what can that
letter contain, besides the usual advice ? She
can't have beard or bis fancy for my bumble
self! Ha, ha, perhaps she objects to me, per
haps I am not worthy of his Worship, the
merchant tailor I It could be no other cause
that maitu him so shy about the letter ; and
if his mother hae presumed to criticise me,
why I have a right to improve by her criti
cism, surel
"Yes, here it is ; how well she writes, how
neatly the letter is folded 'Dear Billy' he
never would let me reud that first line, yet
how sweet it it in the dear old lady I I've
half a mind to fall in love Mto the boy, if
oily for his mother's sake ; or rather, I should
have hall a mind, if poor v ill wereu t a
tuilor. What "
Joey's fuce reddened, as her eyes ran over
the mother's letter. "Not be deceived not
let his. senses Sutter him not be smitten
with a pret'y face grandma, a poor, simple,
shallow soul; mid after all. Its true, true,
every word. What are we, that we should
sneer ut this good old lady aud bar ton, we
are not worthy of them."
"J oey I"
Why did the maiden's face grow redder?
Whose eyes had followed her own across the
letter, liue by line ? Who dared to clusp her
trembling hand in both or his ? Ab, the uew
boarder the tailor Billy Gray I
"What makes you tremble? Jetty?"
"It it was so dishonorable in ma I didn't
dream you were ut home, 1"
Die tailor laughed, "so tlie dishonor all
lay iu detection I On my sbesjldcrs let it rent,
then. But why should you care for my good
opinion. What can 1 ever be to you ?"
I heir eyes mj.t, Joey s limiu ana asnamnd;
his frank but sad ; a coquettish answer arose
to her lips, but bis grieved look checked her.
"U but can 1 ever be 7
The eyes were averted eow. "With so
much character, to much energy, so much
goodness, I think you can attaiu to almost
any lot you choose."
'Ah, Joey, I wonder il you believe in sucu
a sentiment as love! You .Ueut our hearts as
if I hey were made for playtnmgs. '
lie turned away now sua bit collar
looked.
'And what we like best, sometimes we
pretend to acorn becausetiCil not ours."
"Hotter strive lor it, ana make it ours."
"That's not my way. I'm a spoiled child.
and expect to be humored by Providence. I
don't know how to strive; sometimes 1 think
it it better for woixuurto wait, in these
mutters."
"What matters?"
"Love, for instance. If man loves me,
here I stand ready to giv tVstnk answers to
fruuk questions. If be ?utiiv and experi
ment and hiut, why be', fair game for co
quetry." ?
"Perhaps he dare not speak. His position
may be such th.t frank qiiestioot would appear
impertinent" .
"Let bun dare, wno wriu win."
"Joey, what's the need of all this circum
locution ? You know tbasvl love you, 1 know
that yoo know it " -
Uut. Willie youptnorher s letter."
' But, Joey your grandmother's plans."
"Two negatives rowis affirmative, gram
marians say.
"1 cannot endure lo be tantalised any
longer. Dear Joey, mR you be my wife ?
riay no if you must, but "
o, no."
"I am grateful for your frankness, Miss
Snelling. Heueeforlh 1 will never annoy
you "
'There were two naatuves."
No one knew it "-Vv Biddy, who was
looking through the knhole ; and Joey's self,
who loved her lover knirVtrfol the meekuess
but leurs came into tbe young tailor'l eyes.
"1 deserve this trifling BHrbapa."
"This trifle," and W put her little hand in
hia, "why take it ) boy obtuse you are. Of
course I'll be your wtfe; of course knowing
you for a good eotvrf-J a-true gentleman,
und a lover besides ; think myself more
blest, than if you lucked there finer trails,
und could boast twe uatpe of Senator or
President. 1 only ftel that such a giddy
girl as I can never be worthy of you, Willie."
Iu this lust opinion Joey and Mrs Snelling
always disagreed, 'the engagement cost the
old lady a serious illness but, that, over, she
pacified herself and her friends with pro
claiming that after all Joey bad married a
merchant tuilor.
Tug Spied -2mi"Tii. -A recent writer
liaMAia Nina vf t Waw mL 4 . rf Pnmat. lliaiawi
WirVUHIBillg S-KW BJBBj iff. W V W VU3 Lw( UI IIIU
lion, ic, says tbe-ped of tbe Comet of 1840
was at the rate of 1,800,000 miles ao boor, or
eighty timet fasUsHttan the telegraph net
ssge Is triBittiH,
Sensations of the Dying1.
The pain of dying must be dirlingnished
irotn i he pain or prrumus direase, for when
life ebbs sensibilitv declines. Asdenthis
the final extinction of corporeal feelings, so
numoness increases as tlealli comes on. The
prostration of disease, like healthful f.itigne,
engenders a growing stupor a sensation ol
subsiding softly into a covered repose. The
transition resembles- what may be seen in
those lofty mortmains whose skies exhibit
every climate in rec'ilitr crudation : vegeta
tion iuxuriutes at their base, and dwindles in
the approach to the regions of snow, till ils
feeblest manifestation is repressed by the
cold. The so called agony can never be more
lonniuable than when the brain is the last to
go, and when the mind preserves to the end a
rational cognipance of the state of the body.
Yet persons thus situated commonly attest
mat mere are Tew thiol's in lile less patntul
than tbe close. "If I rd strength to hold a
Den." said Willimn Honor "I wmil.l writ
how easy and delightful il in to dio." "If
Ibis be djirg," said the niece of Newton of
umey, "it is a pleasant thing to die ;" "the
very expression,-' adils her uncle, "which ano
ther friend of mine made une of on her death
bed a few yeurs bko." The same words have
so often been uttered tinder similar circum
stances, that we could fill Daces with instan
ces which are only vuried by tbe name of
speaker.
Origin of Great Men.
Some of the greatest men the world has
evor produced, either iu ancient or modern
times, were of very humblo and obscure
origin. Columbus, the discoverer of Ameri
ca, was the son of a weaver, and a weaver
himself. Homer, tho great Greek poet, and
the prince of ancient poets, was a beggar.
Demosthenes, the greut Grecian orator, was
the ton of a cutler. Oliver Cromwell was
the son of a brewer. Benjamin Franklin was
a journeyman printer. Ferguson, the Scotch
astronomer, was a shepherd. Edmund llul
ley, an eminent English astronomer, was the
son of a soap boiler at Shoreditch. Hogarth,
the celebruted Kuglitsb painter, was put ap-
prentice to an engraver of pewter pets.
Vigil, the great Latin poet, was tho son of a
potter; and Horace, of a shopkeeper.
Shakespeare, tho greatest of English dra
matic poets, was the son of a woolstapler ;
and M.llon, the greatest of English epic
poet, was the son of a money-scrivener.
rope was l lie son or a merchant : and Dr.
Samuel Johnson, ofa bookseller at Liluhfield.
Akenside, the author of that eleiranl rtoem.
the "Pleasures of the lmnpioation." wus the
ton of a butcher nt Newcastle, Robert
Burns was a plowman of Ayrshire, Scotland ;
Gray, Ihe English poet, the son of a money-
scrivener; end Henry Kiiko White, of a
butcher at .Nottingham, England. Bloom
field and GiR'ord were shoemakers ; and Ad
dison. Goldsmith, Otway, und Canning were
SOUS of cloravmen. Tim nreuent. l.nnl l.vnj.
TJurst, the Lord Chief Justiro of England,
was tne son ol tho painter Copley, und on
American by birtl. This kl could be dou.
blod, but it is unnecessary. These examples
show that there is no stute or condition of
life, however humblo or obscure, from which
talents and genius may not rise by individual
exertion to eminence and dit-tinctinn. Par
ticularly is this thu case in our own country,
where there is no nobility, and no privileges
conferred by birth, and where the rond to
the highest nflices and the proudest distinc
tion is alike open to all.
St.loiiri.T Pkrsokai. The following cor
reeprmdvnee between Guv. Giles, of Virginia,
and Putrit k Henry a generation ago is
re. produced by the Louisville Journal :
"Sir: 1 understand that you havo called
me a 'bobtail' politician. I wish to know if
il be true, and if true, your meaning.
Wii B. Giles."
"Sih : I do not recollect having called you
a bobtail politician ut any time, but think it
probable 1 bave. Not recollecting the time
or the occasion, I can't say what 1 did mean ;
but if you will tell me what you think 1
meant, 1 will say whether you are correct or
not. Very respectfully,
1'atkick IIbnrt."
Vt't find the following capital parody on
McKay's 'Tell me, ye winged wiuda?' going
the rounds :
Tell me, ye winged winds.
Thai round my pathway roar,
Do ye not know some spot
Where women fret no more?
Some lone and pleasant dell.
Some 'holler iu the ground,'
Wheie babies never yell,
And cradles ure not found ?
Tbe loud wind blew the snow into his face.
And suivkered as it answered, 'Nary place.'
A Gentleman Diary of Hit Wife Temper.
Monday A thick fog; no seeing through
il. Tuesday Gloomy and very chilly; un
reasonable weuther. Wednesday l'rosty;
at times sharp. Thursday Bittercold iu tne
morning; red sunset, with flying clouds, por
tending hard weather. Friday Storm in
the morning with peals of thunder : air clear
afterwards. Saturday Gleams of sunshine
with partial thaw, frost again ut night. Sun
dayA light south-wester in the morning.
Calm and pleusanl tit dinner time, burricunu
and earthquake at night.
Pknssyi.vanu Fkarls. The Lancaster
Express gives uu acountofsome peurls found
in mnsels by Dr. W. B. Fuhnohtnck, Wm.
Gill, and J. F. Ueigarl, at Ueigarl's landing,
Conestoga river. One shell contained about
eighty pearls, several being of the size of
Urge peas. The mussel shels have been pnl
i lo d, and exhibit the most beautiful tiutsuud
colors of any pearls shells ever seen-
Ci.kroimkm Expelled. Tho Wesleyan
Methodist Conference, now iu session at To
ronto, C. W., has expelled two of its minis
ters; tbe He v. Mr. Huugh. f.ir carrying a
pistol to shoot a man who hud eloped with
his daughter, and the Reverend Mr. Jones,
because be jilted a young lady for a better
match.
The Iron horse now pursues hia way with
out stop or important deviation from a direct
line, from Bangor, Maiue, to Jt-O'erson city,
Missouri, a distunce ofa little over seventeen
hundred miles half as far as to London iu
three days.
In the Middle Age in France, a person
convicted of being a calmuiuator wus con.
demmed to place himself on all fours, aud
bark like a nog for a quarter of an hoar. If
Ibis custoo were adopted at the present day,
there would be some bow-wowing.
"A Penny for your thoughts," said a gen
tleman to a pert beauty. "They are not
worth a farthing, tir," tbe replied, "I was
thinking of you.
Pompey taid he once worked for a man who
raised nit w.get so high that he roald only
ytttb bm tic It two Jtafs.
1 8 c It 2 .
IIOOPS.
POMTPXT DKDICATED TO TUB "LORDS OP CUBA.
TloJI.
Y., hoop, hurrah ! ye noSle lords,
We'll join you in tho shout,
And trust that ere the echo die..
You'll learn what you're about.
Vive lei Hoops J O let it ring,
On hill top and in vale,
For we would spread tlu-ir glory far
These skeletons of whale.
U blame us not because we wear
The thing that yu detest.
For remember 'tis a way we have,
To wear what we like best.
And if you cannot bear to see
Our flounces have their day,
Just turn your modest heads aside,
And look another way.
Vhat if it is a foreign mode 1
You're not behind us far,
You show it in your short -toed boots.
And all the clothe, you wear.
And wa have a. much a right ta Hoops
An any of you men
Have right to curl your pet goatee
A la Napolienne !
Ye married lorda, with woful phis,
Who caat your eye. askant,
When teazing wife lo lake them off,
She sharply say. ' I shunt,"
Co, and in penitence and teara.
Bow duwn those head, of thine.
And mount that till your sins can't hide
'Neath woman'a Crinoline 1
Ye .ingle lord. ! -''ti. distance lend.
Enchantment to '.he view,"
Ard we would keep you all at bay,
To prove the saying true.
For we have found too olt, alas,
Despite your lordly pride.
There's many snakey tongue behind
The gr.s. that grow, outside.
And as to these gre.l bugger-boos.
The more lhat you shall dresd 'em.
And the louder you shall preach 'em down,
Tho wider we will spread em.
If that won't do, then hearken this
With flounce, far unfurled,
We will .tart you all to Jardari;
And monopolise the world!
Maysville, Ky. Ivtt Gbss.
fanner's geptmcnt.
Cleansd the Roosts.
This comes appropriately under the head
of Spring work, yet it is too often overlooked
Some farmers allow the droppings of their
roosts to accumulate for years, without clean
sing them. The health of the fowls is greatly
injured by this neglect, and one of tho most
vuluuble fertilizers upou the farm is lost for
the season. The roosts is as good a guano
factory as a cultivator can have. Tbe drop,
pings should either be swept up as often us
once a week, or spriukled every morning with
plaster, and the mingled manure und plaster
be put up in barrels os they accumulate. A
tuble spoonful of this compound, dropped in
hill of corn, will be found to have very impor
tant influence in increasing tho yield. It
forms an excellent top-dressing for potatoes,
and for most other crops.
The ben dormitories should also be thor
oughly whitewashed at this season, (okill the
lice and vermin, which so often attack fowU,
and prepare the way for gapes ia chickens,
and for other diseases. Tho whitewash will
be death on insects, and will give the fowls a
new lease of life.
Straioiitkn Tim Trees. This may be done
with little trouble, while they are young.
It often happens that thpy are made to lean
by prevailing winds, or by some oversight in
planting. Sometimes the trunk is crooked
by natural growth. In this latter case the
crook may be reiuidied by lashing a stiff pole
or piece of plank to tho trunk and thus re
ducing the curve to a straight line.
When they simply lean, tbey may be put
np straight by a forked stick, inserted under
the (list limb upon the leaning sido of the
tree and the other end fastened in thegtound.
A padding of straw or littershoulubuinserted
iu the crotch to prevent chafing.
Where there is no suitable limbs for the
crotch, a stiff post may set a few feet from the
tree, aud a stout cord runuing from the top
of the post to tho trunk, will enable you to
briug tho tree to its truo position, a iruu
tree erect and well balanced, will be longer
lived and more fruitfull than a leaning one
aod not to liable to be thrown over by the
winds.
Orkook Potatoes. The Messrs. Gates,
grocers of this place, presented, us a lew days
ago, with a basket of Oregou Mercer Potatoes
raised in New-Jersey, thu seed of wh ch was
brought from Oregon by the Jerseymao who
cultivated them. They are the best potato
aud the largest of the Mercer variety thutwe
have ever sceu, and every one of them should
have been planted. They have a pinkish skin
sometimes the color penetrating half an inch
into the potato. About one huudred uud sixty
bushels were raised by the Jersey former last
year, who says they are very productive.
'I'ho frequent changing of the seed of tbe po
tato would doubtless add to its quality and
productiveness, aud be also a production
against the rot.
.
Quikce. It is a delusion that these tree
want a damp and shady position, and th. t
they do not require manuring. They should
bo placed iu good loam, and the earth to be
loosened deeply by the subsoil plow, or tren
ched by double spading, and well manured
with a good compost in the drills. Shorten
in the brunches (half of lust year's growth,)
give tbe roots a good drenching with wuter in
setting, leave the soil around the stem con
cave place them 10 feet apart and the rows 12
feet r prune just after the fall of the leaf, or
early in March ; fork in late in the full, throe
or four shovell'ulls of manure; after digging
and loosening the soil in the spring, then
give the whole abroadca.t of salt.
An Important Fact. A farmer in the
western part of New. York, expresses his be
lief that a branch or cuttiug from any tree,
will grow if properly planted and cured for,
and says that the contary hat never been sat
isfactorily ascertained.
I I IUI "' '
Salt and Linn. Pell, the extenaiv grow,
er of applet in New-York, taya that he has
found a composition of one part salt aod two
of tkell lime, a capital man a re for almost every
crep of frol, gru of T.ltfc!.
Trimming On ape ViNEs.For many yeart
wa have raised grapes by tbo bushel from
single vine, and trimming is done in the foI
lowing manner. The first work in July we)
commence and cot back to tho seconed loaf
or bad of the presont season's growth. Havo
a sharp kniTe and trim a portion every day,(n
little at time) until tho whole tine has been
gone over. Autumn, wintt r and spring pru
ning are avoided; but we bae large nico,
smooth grapes in abundance
How Deep to Plant Skbiis. Experiments
in France, with whunt, show thnt it yields the
best when planted H inches deen. Flax and
rut baga turnips half an inch. Barley and
oms will do well planting to Inches deep.
Corn halfan Inch ! and but few plants shoold
be planted over 1J inches deep. The best
drilling machine in France was invented by a
lawyer. It weiuhs 220 Bounds, is drawn b
one horse, and sows ten acres a day.
IjumoouSs
On Sight and on Demand. One of "Tor.
tor's'' stuff is responsible lor this anecdote i
Judge , a well known, hiehlv rcRnect..
ed Knickerbocker, ou the shady side of fifty,
a widower with five children full of fun and
frolic, ever reidy for a joke, to givo or take.
wus cantered tue other evening by a Bliss or
five and twenty, for not takinor another wife I
she urged that he was hnln and heartv and
deserved a matrimonial messmate. The
Judge acknowledged tho fact; admitted lhat
ne was convinced by the eloquence of his fair
friend that ho had been thuB far remiss, and
expressed contrition for the fault confessed t
ended with oflering himself to the lady, tell.
ing ner sue could not certainly reject mm
after pointing out his heinons offence.
Tbe lady replied that she would be most
happy to take the situation to nniqncly ad
vertised, and become bone of his bone and
flesh of his flesh j but there was one, to her,
serious obstacle.
"Well." savs the Jndo. "nsmo it. .
My profession is to surmouut such impedi
ments."
'Ah! Jndze. this is beyond vonr cowers.
I have vowed if ever I marry a widower, he
mast have ten children."
len children. Oh! that's nothing." save
the Judge, "I'll give yon five now, and my
noto on demand in instalments for the buf-
once."
Practical Sermon. Colored ministers
ofteti excel in those qualities in which many
of their white brethren aro deficient, pungen
cy and directness. Tim following sketch of
a sermon, for whose accuracy the editor ef an
exchange gives his personal voucher, is a
gnnd'illustratien of these important qualities.
Dropping into an African meeting-house in
the outskirts ot the city, we found the sermon
just commenced. Tho topic seemed to bo the
depravity of the hnmnn heart, and tho sable
divine thus illustrated his argument:
"Bredren, when I was in Virginia, one day
de ole woman's kitchen table got broke, an'
I was sent into de woods to cut a tree to
hiake a new leaf for it. Se I took de axe on
de shoulder and I wander into tho depth of
de forest.
"All nature was as beautiful as a lady going
to de wedding. De leaves glistened on do
maple trees liko new quarter dollars in do
missionary box, de tun shono as brilliant, and
nature looked as gay as a buck rabbit in a
parsley garden, and de little bell round de
sheep's neck tinkled softly and musically in
de distance.
"I spied a tree suitable for de purpose, and
I raised de axe to cut into de trunk. It wan
a bnutiful tree! De branches reached to de
four corners ob de earth, au' rise up so high
in de air above, and do squid's hop about in
de limbs like little angels flopping thoir
wings iu de kingdom of heaven. Dat tree
was full ob promise, my friends, just like a
great many ob you.
"Den I cut into de trnnk and mado da
chips fly like de mighty scales droppiug from
Paul's eyes. Two, three cut I gave da treo,
and alas, it was holler in de butt 1
"Dot tree was much like you my friends
full ob promise outside, but boiler in do
butt 1"
The groans from the amen corner of the
room were truly contrite and affecting; but
we will venture a small wuger thnt was tbe
most practical sermon preached in tho city,
en that day at least.
A 'eiern Editor aad his wife were walk
ing out in the bright moonlight ono evening.
The wife was of an exceedingly poetical na
tare, and fad t her muto; "Notice that
moon : how bright, how calm and beau'iiful."
"Couldu't think of noticing it," returned the
editor, "for anything less than the usual
rati s a dollor and fifty cents for twelve
lines."
When Dr. If. and Lawyer A. were walking
arm in arm, a wag said to a friend." These
two arc just equal 10 one highwaymen."
"Why?"w-HB the respons-. "Because," re
joined Ihe wug, "it is a lawyer and a doctor
ytur money or yoxir life.
A stranger with a brick in his hat, reread
entered the police court iu Rochester, MaBa.
and called for a quart of whiskey. A w iggish
policeman took bis bottle tilled it with water
took the man's twenty-five ctnts and let liim
go
"John, how I wish it was at much the fash
ion lo trad wives as-to trade horses."
"Why so Dick ?"
"I'd cheat somebody , 'most sbochingly be
fore night."
"I never was ruined but twice," said Vol
taire, "once when I lost a lawsuit, and once
when I gained one,"
Tbe editor of an exchange Bays he neer
saw but one ghosl, and that was tbe ghoet
of a sinner who d ed without paying for his
paper. 'Twal horrible to look upon.
"The early bird ratchet the worm."
"Served him right he had uo basiness to
be np to early."
"No, no. It means if you would eatch the
worms, yon must get np early."
"Well if any body wantt wormt for break
fast, let him get up and catch 'em. I don't."
A Laudable Thirtl ef Knowledge. Well
young man, your business ? Why, I beer'd
j l.na, , touch navigation. BO J tho't I'd
coma in and lam it this afternoon, 'cam I'm
goio' to sea in tbe morrio j daddy t capueg,
and I'm ma to.
"Ma," said a little girl to her mother "io
the men want to get married at winch at lbt
women doT "Pshaw, child, what art yoa
talking a boot?" Why, ma, tbe women who
?ome here are always talking about jetting
rgrrifd th met oca't do sc."