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NEW SERIES, VOL. 10, NO. 47.
SUNBUIIY, NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, r A. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1S5S.
OLD SERIES, VOL 18. NO- 21
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The Sunbury American.
PUBLISHED EVERY 6ATCJIDAT
BY K. B. MASSEB,
Market SquarcSunbury, Penna.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BUSTBTJB.V, PA-
Twines, attended fin the Counties of 1W
uml.erland, Union, I.ycom.ng Monlou.
oluinbia. .
References in r.tTn'c?;''""
,, , 11. Tvsoil, Slco?
Soincrs fc Snoclnross, pl"
newstobe.
elias eme1ucii,
5T) ESPECTFULLY inform, the citichs of
14 of Lower Augusta township and the pu b.
cer.crally. that he has purchased the Sto e
tely kept by Isaac Marti, in Lower Augusta
iwnship near Emcrieh's Tavern, and ha. just
iencj a splendid stock of
Tali and Winter ODS-
is stock consist, of Cloth., Caf aimcres, Cassi
lUof all kinds, linen, cotton and Worsted.
Also, Calicoes Gingham., Lawn", Mousscl.no
0 1,..ines and all kind- of Ladies Dress ..oods.
filiOCEKIES, Hardware, Quecnsware of va
3U3 style, and pitlerns.
Also, an assortment of Ttcadr Made Clothing
all descriptions, Bo,.!, and Shoes, its and
ana. S.1LT FISH. Ac, nnd a variety of
her article, such as are suitable to the trade,
1 of which will be sold nt the lowest prices,
rj- Country produce taken in exchange at
highest market price..
Lower Augu.ta twp., October 10, 1857 tf.
IMTE.Vr WHEEL. GKE4.SE.
lIIIS Grease U recommended to the notice of
I Wagoners, Livery Slablo keeper., &c.,as
ins SuesBiou to anything of the kind ever in
iduecd. As il does not gum upon the axles
is much more durable, and is not aflecled by
3 weather, remaining the same in summer af
winter, and put up in tin " "Vm-5
c nts, for sale hy A. W. I IM1L.K.
March H.1857.
avtrrsia i avrrjsia i
T" O K1MBM.L, lata of Elmira, having
i- become a resident of Sunbury, respectfully
wins the citizens and others, that he intends
form a Singing Class, boll, secular and sacrrd
J will impart instruction to all who may desire
place themselves under hi charge.
N. U Mrs. O. Kimball is prepared to give
,tructionsto a few more pupils on the . Piano
trie. -Sunbury,
September 19, 1857. tf
cv rniladclpliia Wry iools ! !
SHAKPLESs"" BROTHERS,
UTE ToWSSKKn SlIlBPLESS &Sow,
J AYE removed to their new store, N. W.
corner of Chcsnut and 8th Streets, and
vo opened their usual full assortment of Au
, and Winter DKY CiOODS. which they
'er at very low prices. Their stock includes
awls. Ulack and Fancy Pilks, Merino's and
other Dress Goods, Men's and Uoy s
Wear, Blankets, Housekeeping
Goods, and Goods for
Friend Wear."
Oct. 21, 1857. CmSc
fNBURY STEAM TLOURING MILL
MIK subseriliers respectfully announce to the
public, that their new Steam Flouring Mill
this place, has been completed, and will go
o operation on Monday the 8tBt day of A li
st, ins'. , , ,
Having engageJ a competent and .careful
Her, tiny trust they will be able, with all the
.dern improvements adopted in their mill, to
e entire satisfaction to all v. ho may favor them
h their c-stom.
t-N YUER, RINEHART & HARRISON.
Sunbury, August 2U, 1 857. tl
GILBERT ETJL3C1T,
SUCCKSSOB TO
. O. CAMPBELL & CO., AMD L. C. IVES,
(Formerly No. 15 North Wharves.)
J ALE R IX PRODUCE, FRUIT AND VE
ITAULES, No. 4 North Wharves, 4th door
rket street, Philadelphia,
iiigcs, Apples, Dried Fruits Butter,
mons, Onions, Mercer Potatoes, Cheese
jams', Tomatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Beans,
i Nuts, Peaches, Cranberries Eggs, &c.
Jrhersfor Shipping put up with care and die
ch. -jp GOODS sold on commission for Farmers
I Dealers.
October I. 1857.
e $10 and $15 Single and Double
Threaded Empire Family Sewing
Machines.
N AGENCY for the sale of these Sewing
- Machines can be secured on liberal terms for
County of Northumberland. No one need
ily without capital sufficient to conduct the
iuess properly and who cannot bring refer
is as to reliability and capacity, A personal
licalion will be necessary,
'ho peculiar adaptation of these Machines for
purposes of Family Sewing, will, wl.ere ever
f are oflercd for sale command a ready and
imited demand.
JOHNSON 4 UOODILL,
E. Corner of 6th and Arch Su., Pbiladel'a.
.ugustlS, 1857. tf
IlEiMiS! llLiXKS!
LANK Deeds, Mortgages, Bonds, Warrants
Attachments, Commitments, Summons, Su-
. : I , , ull r..1 . n .1 f ' r... .. .. 1
, Dills, Stc, &c, can bs bad by applying at
oiucv.
jjlCKLEd of aiioua kind, Lobsters, Sar.
dines, &c, &c, just received and for sal.
ie Drug Siora of A. W. FISHER,
'uitbary, August I, 1S57.- ,' , . .
Select IJoctrg;
OLD LETTERS.
OM letters ! wipe away the tear,
And gaze upon these pale mnrhentoes,
A pilgiim duels his joumnl here '
Since Hist he took to wa k on ten toes.
Yos, here are scrawls from Clnptmm R ire
Do mothers still their school-hoys pamper t
O, how 1 hated Doctor Wisej!
O, how I kiv'd a wcll-fill'il hamper I
How strangfi to commune with the Demi
Dead joys, dead loves, and wishes thwarted :
Here's eruil proof of friendships fled,
And and enough of friends departed.
A nd here's the offer tlint 1 wrote
In '33 to Lucy Diver j
And here's John Wylie's begging note
He never paid me back a stive.
And here mf feud with Mnjor SpiVe,
Out bet about the YW Invasi . i
On looking back I acted like
A doukuy npon that ocensim.
And here a Idler from "the Row,"
Huw mad I wis when first I learnt it !
They would not take my Book, and now
I'd give a I rifle to have burnt it.
And here a heap of notes, at Inst,
Wilh "love" and "dove," and "sever never"
Tii"ugh hope, through passion may he past,
Their peilarac is us sweet as ever.
A human heart should beat for two,
Whatever say your single scorueis,
And all the heurlus I ever knew
Had gt a pair of chimney corners.
Sec here a double violet
Two locks of hair a deal of scandal :
I'll burn what only brings regret
G j, Betty
CHRISTMAS-DAY ON AN ICE-BERG.
I posped my Christmas ilny, Rome years ago,
on board of the fine Enst 1 ndinn ship "South
ern Cross," one thousnnd tons register. I
was coming homo from Mclia wilh a two
yenrs' lenve of absence nnd a highly bluc
billious liver. On that Christmas-day we
were just south of tlio equator, with the ther
mometer standing at 00 decrees in the shade.
We dined with windows and doors opened
wide, and a foro-and-aft sail suspended over
the cabin skylight, punka fashion, making
ieoblo attempts to cool us with nir blown off
ho coast of A fried. Having, on that special
occasion, considered it necessary to appear
an at the cuddy-table in lull dress, it may be
imagined what relief we experienced, dinner
over and tho ladies bowed out, in uubuttes
ing our waistcoats, resigning our tight dress-
coats to the bucks of the seats, and ourselves
to tlio enjoyment of tho gentle evening
breeze of tho ocean cum diqnitute.
Having recounted . our remembrances or
any past Ibristinas-duys distinguished by
incidents worth relating, we hnd relapsed into
cheroots, brandy-pawnee, and meditation :
the latter expression, when nt sea, means
thinking of nothing, and tuking your time
about doing it.
'Who has got the hrlum ?" asked the cap
tain of tho steward, who chanced to enter the
cuddy. (I never discovered why he persisted
ji) making two syllables of that word.)
"lien bpmyan, sir, answered tho steward.
(The creaking from the motion of the wheel
hero becamo very regular and careful.)
"Oh," said the captain j "well, start one oT
tho men aft to take tlio helium, and send lien
in for a glass of grog."
Tho steward seemed inclined to stand on
his dignity, and object to the intrusion of
"lien" into bis domain. However, seeing
that every one around tho table looked ino
after-dinuerly good uatured, ho obeyed tho
captaiu's ordor.
"This fellow," said the skipper, alluding to
Ben, "is one cf the best specimens I have on
board of the genuine salt-water breed. A
capital sailor, he has been everywhere in tho
world and seen everything in or neur any
port where a vcssal can put In ; yet if we
were to drop anchor to-morrow among the
Tee-total Islamta, if there are any, Ben would
manage to get drunk within balf-a-doren
hours ufler being on shore, and to get done
out of all his money before returning to the
ship. He has been in all kinds of scrapes
and adventures, and I'd lay you a wager can
spin you any amount of yarns about queer
dpent Christmas-days at sea. I wish, gentle
men, that it lay iu my power to serve our
roast beef and plum-pudding to all these poor
fellows, for when we think of the hardships
of a sca-furing life"
This was one of the captain's grievances.
I believe the old villain (nho had a share iu
the ship) systematically served out the weak
est grog and the woodiest of beef that ho
could procure, yet as sure as he got the
"t'other glass," he began to talk nautical
philanthropy in the above strain. Luckily,
the entrance of the old seamen cut short his
prosings.
A well bunt, strong rollow was Ben Spin
yau, with a fine, open, impudent face, and a
pair of eyes that seemed to have caught their
color from the sea, and twinkled over the
ritn of the glass of rum that the doctor handed
to him ot the bottom of the table, with a
brightness that many a fair damsel would
bave envied. Not that the glass of rum was
tossed off without due observances and cere
monies, for lieu was one of nature's polite
men, and his hearty "Here's wishing a merry
Christmas and a good v'yage," had a geuuiue
nnrr about it pleasant to hear.
"Hottish weather fur Christmas-day, Ben,"
said 1, as be set down the empty glass with
iouneuse care that it should rust perfectly
upright on the tauio.
"Well, to be sore, sir," said Ben, stroking
his short bair frontward wilh bis hard brown
band, "1 bave knowed it a deal colder, espe
cially op about Uanedee."
'Why, wnatoa airtu urougin you id uanaua
at Christmas I" asked the doctor, a pleasant
and very clover Yankee, who was, what he
called, going round the world before begin
ning to go inrouga u.
"Why, you gee, sir" said Ben, "1 wasn t
exactly there, neither ; I should ba' been
precious glad to bave been there or anywhere
else on that Christmas-day."
"W hero were you then f" I asked.
" 'Doed, sir," said Ben, in tba simplest
matter-of-fact maimer possible, "1 was on an
ice-berg "
"Oo an iceberg, we echoed, and helping
Ben to another glass to wind him no. wa cot
from him the following story. : I baveendeav.
orea to renaur nis narrative as nearly as
possible In bis own words. His pronuncia
tion, bo water, of some of them is quite un
spellable. ...'-..
yW was loading from Quebec, good
many years ago now, when there was some
riots a going on op the country as kept back
the timber we was waiting for from coming
down the St. Lawrence so 'atwecn that,
and the laziness of the Btcvcdor, nnd the
captain, saving your presence, being, you
see just so, sir," (to the doctor, who was
raising bis glafs te bis lips) "we didn't get
down the LJulf till precious late in the season.
We come across lots of ico off Anticost, and
the captain being a mighty timorous rrnn,
we'd en awful time of it across tho Banks.
Well, sir, wo got becalmed just south of Cope
Race, Newfoundland, in About 42 degrees N.
latitude, on the night afore Christmas-day ; a
beautiful night it was to see the roaring
boreogolis (aurora borenlis) and the icebergs
in the moouebine a looking, for all the world,
like bongey (huge) palaces of white chaney.
I was a looking at one on 'em about half a
mile or more to the tiorrard of us, when tho
doctor came forward with a spy-glus9 to
take a look at tho same. He was an uncom
mon nice young gont, as bad romo out wilh
os in the spring v'yage a taking emigrants.
He'd been staying up tho country for the
summer and full, and was a goin homo wilh
us, as he'd agreed when wo first sailed.
'Ben,' says he to mo, nrtor looking a time
through the gin?, 'isu't that n bear on that
iceberg V He handed me tlio glass, and suro
enough, there was one of the biggest hours I
ever Bee; just on a sort of quarter-deck by
hisself at the bottom like, of a big mountuin
of ico as went op from it as straight as tho
tuizzcn-inast, the sort of iceberg they calls a
'hummock.' We eould see him quite plain
in the moonlight, and precious dismal ho
looked. "Well, sir," continued Ben, "I was
taken all aback by what bo says to me."
"What the bear said," oxcluimed I.
"No, sir, what the doctor said. He wn
always np to some lurk, ho was; but I'm
blowed if be didn't say to me, 'Bon, I must
have a shot at that chup ;' and don u he goes
to tho cabin to ask the captain's leave. Our
skipper had beeu a trying to keep the co'.J
out, lor it was awful cold, till I 'sprct lio'il
been ready to give in to most anything.
Howsotnever, presently up he coino on deck
a holding on by tho companion, for he couldn't
hold up of hisself, and orders us to do what
ever tho doctor wanted.
"Mr. Tinnell, that was tho doc-tor's name,
knotted how to tnanago as soon us ho heard
this here order; be come foirard lo m at
once, and sarved me cut n couplo of ti!hh
glasses of grog, nnd the like to nil my watch.
and I then lit. wb.speres me to put sonu,
hlnnkotn in thA niinrtnr. Imnt ninf .tn .. I i
ready to be off for a shot at the bear. There
,u ! '." ""S. or ..o was a ire-
hr l" Vl . HU T"8 ' . D'-?m
hPR mpa ttliiflt tin hrrmilit mil n rtfuinU ..f
i.t r ' . P ' . 1 f
ft" r."1 J boat with hia j
rmo ami ining, so u was not long aloro wo d
got off from the ship ; he and mo, and another
cbap, Bill Briltou as was poor Bill, lie
didn't think as bow be'd never come back
again.
' Well, sir, we pulled toward the iceberg
band over band, for it was dreadful cold, the
nir a coming oil' it regular fresh, and wo took
a good many pulls at the bottlu too, to keep
lus warm. Wo could see I lie bear a sucking
Dis paws, and hear him smifhng and growling
as if be smelt suminul wrong. Poor brute,
ho found it was wrong, aud no mistake, for
the doctor was a dead shot. Just us ho got
his rillo up to his shoulder, as gentlo as could
bo, whether the bcareaw'llie mooo shining on
the barrel or whut, I can't say, but down ho
came with a run ulonrr the Hut of ice ns ha
was on, as if he knowed it were all up, and
meant to swim for it. The doctor was too
quick for him, nnd we just saw him drop on
uis iianncues ami turn over, as we turned our
heads when be fired. Bo sure, sir, wo let go
heartily to get to him, tho doctor loading
again
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Zh l ir6 ' a greeri, as wo pulled j
Th JI V . r''6, t'g f,"'e I
stream. 1 hpm wns a lnnl r i in i.iia l
"us .upa " 'ct. u"3 '
like, lllflt 'ftlWApn lla nn,l tint fl... ,f ,a .rl.nr.. !
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the dead bear was lying,
nnu u was can iui
look aPlrn 5? g AU la"mn!?- came a sort tf Ewtmminess in my head, as I
a? last V rlnVn . ""r , '" n" ' Mt we w 8oil,fc' dun Sin Lt. and ex
JtM.ii . ?rtur,.a Ml?Bln lt:e fa'1 pected to feel myself go right under water.-
'""i l" u,s oel1' 10 G've me Dear a
uuoc, ua UO BBIU.
Yrrt J O ii tiiiwiigu ,ug nun I a, 4 npaua-
ben we got to the Iceberg we found , ing paco, for the spray came right up over us.
that it wosn't above a foot out of the water It tVcdhencd me a bit, und 1 just look out
the flat, I mean, where tho bear was so nfora me, when, sura enough, wo was a driv
wo made quick work and ran tho painter j ing on through tho water aa if the ice bad
round a big nub of Ice to hold the bout, and gone mad. I couldn't bear to look round for
all three of us climbed upon the ico. It was ' lliu others as was lying 'ntwtcn me and where
roognisn work getting over it, though it
looked so smooth at a distanco ; not a bit
slippy, more like bard 6now than ice. Tbe
flat us we was on was as big, ubnut,. as tbe
whole deck, fore end aft, of the Cross. Wre
wasn't long getting to the bear, aud tried to
heave him along to tho boat, but he was a
sight too beavy lor that, so we set to woik a
skinning him with our knives. The doctor,
all the while, looking upon tlio hummock of
ice, as went right up like the side of a ship,
over our heads. It's often come across my
mind since, that he looked too cool then, con
sideriog how op be'd been to etart.
"We'd well nigh finished our bear, when all
at once we felt the ice a beginning to rock
and shake. This got, after a miuute or two,
a regulur pitching, like a little cock-boat in a
channel breeze. Along with this we beard a
sort or roaring, and a hollow, splitting kind
of sound, as seemed to be all round us, and
under os, and all about, and which mado us
stop like us ir wu'd been shot. I looked at
my mate who looked as pooily as a sick cod,
and had got the skin or cue of the paws ns
be'd juBt finished held op to protect him like.
.jusnuen the doctor leans over me, and,
'Ben,' says be, 'bolt down to the boat us hurd
as you can, and we'll bring ou tbe skin. J
warn't long a going to where the boat had
been and sure enough it were clean goue,
paiuter and all. Not an oar or anything to
be seen.
"If I live till the age of ?Jotbusalom, I
shan't forgot that mouiout. 1 was regular
all of a heap like wheu tba doctor came up
with Ben and the skin. Tbe iceberg a rock
ing all the time like a big cradle, aud wilh a
regular heap of the weed we saw when we
was pulling to it, piled all round on the edge
of the ice.
"We was all three a holding togoather to
koep ourselves op, on account oftha working
of the ice, when all at once it became qniut
again and as firm as tbe earth. Depend
upon it, we looked at one another then, jubt
te keep op our pluck j and tbo doctor nsver
Baying a word, unstraps tfc? rum and bands
round the bottle. After a longi.b pall 'we
began to talk again, and theu we maoag'ed,
atween ourselves, to discover tbs.precios
Pickh. o iu (u, for a sort of fog bad come
down while be was skinning the beaj and we
couldu't see a cooply of fathoms nowtore j and
pig drops of rain, as big as built ts, was a
drifting hard in cur faces, Tor all tbe world as
it if was somebody a spitting.
"After a long talk and hollering ourselves
honrse to try and make 'urn bear aboard, we
dotermined-to wrap ourselves op in the boor
skin, and wait for daylight. It was pretty
well big enough to hold all three, and the
doctor bod got a blanket besides.
"It wasn't a very jolly sort of a thing, as
yen may guess ; but, somehow, wo could say
nothing to tho drctor, be seemed so treninn
dons down in the mouth at what he called his
'cursed folly' in coming At all. Ariorwe'd
takrn a suck or two at the bottle, we felt bet
ter, and then he told us what it was ns made
tbe cracking and roaring in thn ice, and bow
we come to lose the boat. All very notcral
it seemed too, only I've forgot how it wiip."
"Uo on with your6tory, Ben," said our doc
tor; "I'll tell how all thut happened when
you have done."
"Well, sir," said Ben, after turning off an
other gloss of ram ns if it had boon water,
"wo stopped without moving a peg for a mor
tal long while, only giving a holler now and
then to tho ship, just not to throw away a
chance. 1 should reckon it must hovo been
pretty far into Christinas day aforo we turn
ed out of tho bear's skin, for'lhe sun was be
ginning to got low, nnd so wns our spirits, I
can tell you. There wasn't no signs of its
getting clearer. I found irysi If a becoming
precious sleepy, and 1 knowed that warn't a
safe feel ; so wu turned out, all three, to Lavo
n walk, aud try if we could hit on nny way of
swarming op to tho top of tho iceberg.
Luckily, thin wasn't to bo done, nohow ; it
was ouo wnllofico going struight up ; and
afore the fug eoine, yuu bed to turn your head
buck wilh your fuco quite flat , to seo the top
of it, and it was as broad Again os tho Thames
at Uriunidgn.
"It struck me then as it wns quito straight
somehow, nnd the sott of deck was on seemed
to have got a slant since we first came on it.
I said as much to the doctor, aud off he star
ted like mad to the sido where our But bit
was joined on to tho body like of the ice. I
thought ho was gfin to pilch hinisi-lf in, for
ho went down ou his knees, and was n-lookiug
iuto tho water for ever so long, r.-esently
he camo back, quito cool nnd delorniined
looking; and ition 1 saw as ho was liko coin
ing down hill towards us. instead of coining
nlcnp a flat. 'Anything tho motler?" taid I.
Well,' says he, taking a stiff pull at the grog
t0"mtMng Uie maUcr.
a '
and wuitnig till we d ilolio tbe Same too, 'well,
wo d be6t
square ouiBelvee as bust we can, for uw're
ttirmnr over.
,.(Sure h ;t wns Tbe icQ b j
topheavy from the nulling of it down under
. ' n . .
uio voter wns turning over Muewnys ike
thut , id , as w B,ondjDtfVjth o
h,e
backs to thu ice behind us, and a looking out
i to f e from the flul wo was on. I went . on
gettiug more up hill every minute, till at lust
j wo wns obliged to lie down tilit on the lop
1 edgo where il wus a rising further cod fur
' ther out of tlio renter, ou the top of tho weed
, lying in a heap, tlieio. It was tho awfulest
i position 03 ever I was in. I dream about it
' sometimes now wLeu I'm aslmro, though it
; was o pood muuy ycuis ago. Thero was just
a littlo chopping sea ull round, and tlio ico
rising out of it underneath ns, as we looked
over the ed;;o whero we wns a lying on, was
; us clour as glass. The whole iceberg scorned
j to be a groaniug with pain, tliore was such a
1 splitting and crack, which seemed to como
j lioin its very middle. There was tlio doctor
j on my k-tl ham! a holding on, und with his ri-
flu right under him, nnd'iho bear skin cover
; ing the p air of us. Bill hnd got the blanket
uud was on the Tar side cf tho doctor ; ami,
, be sine, wo was precious quiet ; it warn't no
; time for talk. 1 heard tho doctor a sayiug
something to 'lisscif, quito solemn and low,
i ;. - i ... .1- ... . . - , u.
mil .v cvu.ivu lyu U ' I'll. 1.1 Ull (Uiuruun, in-
1 AVcll, we got very slowly
"b0"t couplo or fathom above the
al" ouce wo began to go up at
tremendous rule; wo was shot up ano her
couple of fathom iu no time, and then came
tbu mopt fo"oniesl cra.1, as ever 1 heard.-
'" "s could. I couldn't have
looke.l op to save my life j but 1 heard a
S0lneu,ing like a gun go off close to me, aud
a "creed, as would have frightened the (lead,
. ... ...........'
n.,,1 . nniso liL,. . If ..II lT. cb Ivi.l
fallen
. . ' . . ' . J
into tuo sea.
I don't kuow uylhing us I can
.i,;,,.. r Bu
it was more liko. 'I'heu thero
j pected
An at ot!C9 we sovva umi i r.,, we ., bn.
,,, ,,,.;., , . , ,. ... .,,.
tho body of tho iceberg had been when I last
looked. I was prelty near done, that's tbo
fact, and otily saw ouo thing clear, and that
wis us 1 must hold ou light anyhow 1 best
could.
"It might have beeu a matter of five min
utes afore tlu ico we was on stopped the uu
coinmon rale it was going at ; ami it was full
another live minutes aloro 1 could have tho
pluck to look op. I never saw so much in
one look in my life, and thought at first I was
gone mad or was dreaming. We were right
ou the top of a lump oT ico, about as big as
this ship. There wasn't uuthing to bo seen
of the hummock of ico as we'd been under
when wo was a skiouing the bear, . I kuew
how it was at once. Iu turuing over, the flat
of ice we was on had split off from the uiaiu
body, and bud dropped und lluuted with the
thickest end (which was luckily the ono we
was on) oppermost. I s'pose tbe iceberg a
turning over had driven tlu water afore it,
and so ut us on at tho rate w'd been going.
1 was a deal shorter time seeing all tin's than
it takes lue to tell it in, uud when I'd seen su
much I felt the swimming foul a comitig over
me aain so as I couldn't see no more for a
bit, except that I noticed thu fog bad cleared
away, aud il looked liko tvouin a comiug
dowu.
"I'rcsently I felt oma one a nudging mo
oo the sido, and I looked up unJ sou tho doc
tor a looking me iu tho fuco as 1 turned my
head. 1 cuu see the look as was ou his face
cow II ii eyes were wide apeu mid staring ;
the top of Lis face .(for LU cap lad fell cli)
was all white excepting two blue spots on bis
cheeks, bat bis cbiu wus as black as soot.
Ha was tryiug to sty something to me v.-ith
bis mouth open wide as if be was hollering.
After a bit I heard a sort of whisper, which
made my blood run cold. ' hem's Bill?'
was whut be taid, aud 'Where's the rifle V It
flashed over me ull ut once, tbe sound I'd
heard aud the screech a follerin it, aud brought
on the swimminess again. 1 felt Lin; a mov
ing up, and caught bold of liai juot e be was
a toppling over into tbe water. 'I've shot
biui, says ho, a trying to get loose, sod sure
enough be a thrown hisself in if I hadn't got
my legs agin biin, as it were, to keep him on
thu Ice. There wag the mark of the powder
from tho pan of thu riilu he'd boeu a lying oo,
all over bis breast and niakiug thu black
mark en bis cbiu. It bad gous off as we was
jerked from the iceberg, and must bave shot
poor Bill.
"1'vo a most done, tronllomrn." continued
Ben, after a short pause "Tho 'citemcnt or
saving rum roused mo a bit, and 1 looked out
Tor it was clear enough by this time, nnd there
was the ship a milo astern of us, all becalmed
and with a boat alongside. 1 managed to
give a hail after trying a good many times.
At last they sce'd us and fetched us off, pret
ty near dead beat. They cruised about, ever
so long, a looking for poor Bill,' but found
nothing cf him."
Ben was evidently effected, nnd we were all
silent for eon-.o time. I ponred liiui out a
tumbler of port with a trembling hand, and
asked him how the doctor fared nTtcr.
"Well, sir," suid Ben, "he was dreadfully
cut up. nnd hod a kind of fever on liim, nnd
tnlked nnd talked nnd raved liko nind. He
got better Aforo we arrived heme, and was
only melancholy liko. I heard tell as he
fouud that ho'd como into a henp or money.
Anyhow, I know as bo behaved very hund
como to two little una Bill had left behind
him witk ne'er a mother. He talked a good
deal to mo during the v'yogo, And 1 found
nbont a week after we'd go't to port that he'd
settled twenty pound a yenr on my poor old
mother, which is the only crcotur' in this
world as I has to care for, nnd fur which I
bore ns tlod will bless him," said Ben, wilh
a fine honest tenr in his cyo, and, taking np
his cap with a "Thnnk you kindly, gentlemen
or u listening to my yarn," ho left tho cabin.
The DourIh" Festival inWnshingtoii
How tho Peoplo Danced.
A Washington correspondent of the Cleave
laud (O.) I'lainde.'jlcr thus writes in relation to
ihn lale festival at the house of Senator Douglas,
at Wut-liingt n. Ilcsiys:
"The cntcrtair mont consisted of dancing, eat
ing, talking and laughing each one doing well
their pait. The dancing in Wahington is pe
culiar; as in New York, the Laneier Quadrilles
arc all the go. It is an EnlUh dunce, and in
vented by amateurs at Hie beige of Ketiaatnpol,
nnd dedicated lo ihe French. There is considera
ble bowing In it, reipiirinir a peculiar kind of
music olherwisc it resembles tlio well-known
Cal(leuian CJ t: ml r i lie. lint the fancy dances
here are horrible, there is neither grace nor gen
tility in them ; ihe poetry of motion islott in the
ferocity of action, a couple grapple wilh each
other as if wrestling, and turn ami trip, and trip
and turn, like amateur gladiators. This is all
done in a small rinr, formed circular, like a dog
fight ; Ihe lady held in close contact by the gen
lemnn, drops her chin oil the gentleman's bosom
ami looks up, because she has nowhere e'se to
look ; the gentleman bends over in the shape of
a halt' moon, and, of course, looks dewu, foe he
has nowhere else to look I Ihe right arm of the
gent and the left of the lady are used, for tile
grnpplcx, while lh other two arms, locked at the
lingers, eMenJ at length either at light angles or
parallel with their bodies, ofien changing posi
tions, and working up and down, on the princi
ples of a pump handle. Thus occoutered, they
slide into the line, whi.l and twirl a tew times,
und thru slide out, when another couple tal.o
their place. The spectators who are staid old
gentlemen and their wives, portly middle aged
ladies, ununited gentleman and unlearned fancy
dances of all clashes, form a ring around these
exhibitions from five to filly deep. They stand
nnd stare until the music stups, when the crowd
dispones. We saw tlio French ladies, conipo
simi in part the suit of Count "Sartiges, w atchimr
with much interest those gyrnturs, niul chattering
French inccssai tly, but did not dance."
Coffee nnd Milk.
1. I. A. Caron, of Taris, baa recently
been engaged iu investigating tlio effect of
breakfasting on this favorite beverage ; and,
from tho results, be thiuka be is justilied in
asserting that most of the nervous And allied
disorders which uffeCt tho dwellers iu large
cities, are traceable to this source He
farther informs us that w hen tho coffee i-3
mixed with milk its nutiiiirous properties
arc neutralised, because cf it' fermentation
being retnrded. Coffee and milk in a bottlu
were twenty-seven days before they began to
bucomposo, wbilo milk and sugar were only
three days. It is evident that tbe astringent
propjmes of the coffee, hiuder the digestion
of tho milk ; and as thu same time the cafe,
iue, or active principle of coffee id set free,
and acts ou tho membrane of the stomach in
the same, as vegetable ulkalies, producing
most disasterous censequeuces to the diges
tive apparatus. Ho tried many experiments
on himself and friends, aud found that in a
few hours the ptilse wus lowered from 60 to
68, from that il went down to SO, when ho
took some food, and it immediately rose to 72.
lie concludes by informing us thut many
cases of irritation, nervousness oud hysteria
huvo bfen entirely cured by a gentlo course
of tonics, aud giving np thu use of ceffxe.
Haciiki.'s Last Hoins. rartinp uilh Her
Jtwels. In tlio early Blages ol Hachel's final
illness her fonduess for gold and jewelry did
not desert her. fche frequently had her
jewels uud rich garments brought to her bed,
and beguiled tbe weary hours iu looking over
tbctn ; and on unu occasion, after taking one
long aud liugering look nt them she exclamed
with a sigh of heartfelt distress, " mil done
nnillir tout!" "( Must I theu abandon ull!" )
Her death straggle was long and severe, and
her last hours uru described as agonizing.
Caiiue3, the town in which Rachel breathed
her last, is, as a French journal assures us,
"a paradisaical resort in the south of France,
the honor of whoso discovery belongs to Lord
Brougham, who has for years had his country
seat iu it, aud recommended it to his country
man as a winter residence." 'i bis winter
Cannes has been over lion ing Kith visiter
Since the occupation of Nice by Russian',
such of tbe Kuglish as formerly wintered
there have resorted to Caunes. The recent
reports of the improving health of Rachel
for up to a few days provious to her death
hopes bad been entertained of her recovery
nttrnctud crowds of consumptives - to the
charmed spot. Rachel leaves two sons, the
oldest of whom, it is alleged, is the 'gruudson
of the great Napoleon, bis father being
Count Wnldwski, Napoleon's son by bis
Polish mistress, and now French Minister of
Foreign Affairs. -
A Good Match. A writer in tbe llmne
Journal describes a couple who were"uot un
eaquully yoked together i
la short, the msn was very poor
Aud what was worse, supremely lazy ;
A kiudjor trouble hard lo cure,
But such as rarely drives ouo crazy.
His wife was just bis proper match,
An idle gobsip, and a slulteru,
Whose, frock with time and frequuut
patch,
Look'd like a quilt or varied pattern.
Snails r. Oysters. The cousumptiou of
snails iu Paris has iccreascd to sucb an ex
tent as to seriously injure the oyster trade.
A whole side of the ue-w flab, market is da
voUd to these delicacies.
0 1 i x jj
(From Punch.
MX" FLORA.
A FASniONAVLS PA4T0RAL.
Tell mr, Gentles, have you seen,
My I'lorn pnr-s this way ?
Tlint you may know tlio Miss I mean,
Her briefly I'll portray.
No bonnet on her hend,
But on her head she wears ! (
An oystcr-thell 'tis said
In size wilh il compares.
Its shape no eye can brook,
Its usu is doubtful too ;
It hut Imparts a lmrefaeed t'Hik.
And biitigs much cheek to vievr.
Her drtsi may please the Swell
l'or its swolen exuberance i
Hie liKiks n Monster Belle
In such Big Ben expanse.
Thoe air-tulics filled with gns
Miglit lift her to Ihemoun j
The small bys mark it as they pass,
And screectMiut ; "Ah BalliK'ii !"
A parasol ptic bears
For ornament, tett osc :
For comfort gloves she wears
Too tight, and sleevess lo loose.
Behind her hanjs a hood
Just level wilh her chin,
All Indian Solium- miglit Cud it good
To put a baby in.
Of her h:iir the showa the roots,
Flium Mowers the rest conceal;
Ami rhe's crippled by her boots
With the uii!itaiy heel.
Streets r(T you hear them stalk
Whene'er she ventures out
Aih! she st-emslo waddle more thuu walk,
1Ut hoops su sway abjut.
Her lijiure may be good,
But Unit uo eye can tct! ;
A meie lay-figure would
Bh-jw oll'her figure ns well.
She nny have anklt-s neal,
But they're concealed by skirt,
Which chiefly serves to hide her feet,
And gtilhcr up the dirt.
Then, OeuMes, have you teen
My Flora this way come ?
She cannot huve unnoticed been,
Plie takes up too much rivwi
MOMONISM.
We mako the following extracts from tho
speech of Mr. John Thompson of this Statu,
delivered iu the House of Representatives Jan.
27:
Mormonism, as areligons Fystem, had its
origin in n romance written about the year
110 by Solomon Spoldlng a native of Con
necticut, who bad beon educated fur thu min
istry, but followed a merehuiitile employment
removed to Cherry Valley, N. Y. where he
amused his leisure hours by weaving iuto a
book entitled by him 'The MSS. Found tho
notion entertained or suggested by some
writers that tho American Indians are the
descendants of tho lost ten tribes of Israel.
lletico be starts them from Pnlestiuo, invents
for thorn various fortuues by blood oud field,
wars, quarrels, turmoils, strifes, separations,
until they people this continent, and leave be
hind them tho vestiges of mounds, tumuli,
fortifications, sculpture, and cities dilapidated,
which ore discovered iu Northern and Cen
tral America. It is written somewhat in
Scripture style, and uses ihe machinery of
Ibo Jewish economy throughout. He read
his manuscript to various persons, who yet
remember it, but was not successful in pro
curing its publication. Somewhere about tlio
year 18'J3 this manuscript fell into the hands
of Jo Smith, a native of Windsor county Yer
uiout. Smith was about tweuty yeurs of age
uud already exhibited that singular compound
of geniuYof folly, of cunning and absurdity
of indolence and energy, of craft und earn
estness, which distinguished bim to the end
of bis career.
"Under the new-light preacher cf that day,
Smith became imbued with ull tho wild and
extravagant notious of seeing sights, hearing
voices, receiving revelations, meeting and
lighting the devil in bodily farm, which indi
cate a deceased imagination aud wuut of all
solid instruclion and fixed principles on relig
ious subjects. Enthusiasm run mad through
the wbolu region where ho dwelt, ami Smith
was cue of its most brilliant exemplifications,
ultimately having a revelation tbai all exis
ting systems of rrligiou were wrong, and that
ho khould bo mode ihe prophet of a new faith.
For more than five years ho vibrate J between
bis caution and his enthusiasm, giving out oc
casionally dark hiuts about certain mysterious
plutes to be dug up by him, containing a new
revelation. Part of Lis time was spent iu
lying, swindling and debauchery, uud Ihe re
mainder iu visions and repentance thn vul
gar habits of the brute couteuding with the
higher functions of the prophet. At length
ho pretended to dig out the plutes from the
sido df a hill iu Pulinira, Wayne County, N.
)., placed himself behind a curtain permitting
oo ouo to enter from which sanctum he truus
lated from the plates the book of Mormon to
an amanuensis, reading it nil rrom Spalding's
manuscript iu his possession, one hundred and
eighteen pages of it having been etoleu by
Martiu Harris. With this new Koran our
modern Mohammed started upon his career.
"Ou tho 5tbof May John thu Baptist
cume back to earth to baptise Smith ; and on
tht bib. of April, 18U, the first church of
I.uller-1'ay Saiuts wus organized ot Manches
ter, New-York, consisting of four Smiths aud
two converts out of thu family Pratt, Rig
don, Kimball, and Young joining afterward.
This Biblti, oulike that i t thu Christian or
Mussulman, purports to bo cliicliy historical
and docs nut euuuciutu or enl'oico a system I
moral uud roligoos truth in a philof e t.ic or
didactic form j all its incidetitul lessuus upon
lifu or manners being derived from current
doctrines of this duy.' lt is consequently in
capable of comparison with any other extaut
form of religious fuitti. Ouo might as well
compare tho CbrUitiaii religion with Ffluclou's
Telemachus, oroue of June's novels.
"Tbe history of this fanaticism is soon
told. Tho church was organized iu 18i0. Iu
August 1S31, they commcuced a seltlomout
at Independence, Jackson Coouly Missouri
revealed to Smith as the site of 'Now Jeru
salem.' Smith wavered long between this
place and Kirtland Ohio, where in tii, they
cuiniuonccd building their first temple, which
was liuished iu ItiM, at a cost of ubout fifty
thooiunJ dollars. In ltM'J they relaid the
foundation? of their tomple in Missouri. They
left ibis region again fur Nuuvoo, iu Illinois,
where another temple was soon erected. Jo
Smith's life and labors ended together iu Car
tba;o Jail, where, ou tbu 2,(1) of June, lcll
ho was shot by a gang of Border Ruffians
from Missouri.
"In 1845 they turned their eyes wcstwAnl
to Vancouver's Island, to Texos, to Cnli
fornlu, And finnlly to a valley in the Rocky
Mountains. In 1818 ns the young gross wus
peering from tho sod ond the buds wero burst
ing into flowers, in the month or Maf, the
exodus to Utah commenced. " .- ..
"From that day Young has reigned supremo
end thousands and tens of thousnns havo
flocked to his standard. The unsettled to
ligo'ts sentiment of tho lower g'odes of. mind
giavitute to Salt Luke. It is the Botany Boy .
of the world 1 There it stunt's, rampart and
defying a despotism consummate, - wearing
the show of popular approval, nnd bending
willingly to thu bed of a tyrant. There it
stondB--it is bofote yon in yonr path to the
Pacific it will not awny at yonr bidding; n
huge, ugly stubborn fact, which no ignorance!
can disregard und no political fatuity do '
pise.
' What will you do With it? Will you de
spoil and saber C0,000 souls because - they be
lievo in Brigbam Yonng and polygamy T
Will you meet the funuticism of folly nnd
Iraud by the fanaticism of extermination ?
Wiil you mako the city a desert nd tlio re
gion a howling wilderness on the one hand j
or will you suffer this moral concer, iuflamine;
political treason, to grow on untouched until
it. becomes too vast to handle? Will you
permit on independent aud deficient despot
ism, organized in thu very heart of this con
tinent aud embracing the vilest ond most in
tractable elements of which a community con
be composed, to compact and strengthen its
defenses, to train its batalliors, to call homo
its forces and light a Cro at your threshold
which all the forces of tho Republic counot
subdito ?
"I know some think wo should let thcnl
olo.e, and that tbo system must soon full to
pieces. Bit how long has Mohammedanism
lasted ? How mnch less rcliublo is the fan
alism or to-day than that or ten centuries
ago ? What element or this structure, gives
signs of impotence or decay? Whut limb of
this halo giant is already smitten with moral
paralysis, and gives tokens that its energies
aro spent or even wearied ? Sir, wo havo let
them alone, and from a contemptible hand
ful, they have grown into a nation I Tho ci
tizens of Illinois and MUsouri could eject
them without aid ; but now they stand behind
a wall of ten thousand bayonets, and dare you
to the oncouuter. Tlio unorganised fanati
cism of the world gravitates t Utah and thero
it is molded into armies. Light lontlis at
least of these elements are foreign, uneduca
ted by and unaccustomed to our institution.1,
with no love for Demccracy, nud no rever
ence for national law ; restless masses, impa
tient restraint, and fraternizing only on the
lust of license and tho hope ol' power."
4
aimer s
The Now Sugar Experiment.
Wfo havo received rrom M r. Joseph S. Lov
ering (the extensive sugar refiner of Philadel
phia.) a pamphlet account of his experiments
with the "Sorghum Saccharatum," or Chin
ese sugar cane. This poper in minuto iu its
descriptions of processes and results, not on
ly iu the making of the sugar, but the culture
of tho plant. AccompSLyiug tho pamphlet
were specimens of tho st gar and tho syrup
the latter of tbe tine quality, and tho former
ranging from imperfect sumples to quite a
superior article, The only question is ouo of
economy. Mr. Lovering, pronounces tho rc
suit "highly oucouroging." Tho pamphlet
will be sought with great interest. We sub
join tips conclusions at which the writer nr.
rives ; and we need hardly remark thut ho
is the most excellent authority iu the premi
ses ;
1st. That it is obvious thai thero is a cul
minating point in the developoment or the su
gar in tlio cane, which is the best time Tor su.
gar muking. This point or season 1 consider
to bo, when most if not all the seeds ore ripe,
and afterwards several frosts, say when thu
temperature falls to 25 degrees or oO de
grees F.
2d. Tho frost or even hard freezing, doeg
not injure thu juice nor the sugar, but that
warm Indian summer weather, cfter the frost
and hard freezing, docs injure thorn very ma
terially, and reduces both quautity uud quul
ity. 3d. That if the cane is cut nnd housed, or
shocked in tho field when in its most favora
ble condition, it will probably keep uncharged
for a long time.
4th. That when tho juico is obtained, tho
process should proceed coutinuoujiy und
without delay.
Mb. 1 he clanlicatioa should be as perfect
as possible by tho time tbj density reaches
13 deg. Benume, tho syrup taving the ap
pearance uf good brundy.
Cth. That although "Cggs were ued in
these small experiments, mi account of their
Convenience, bullock's blood, if to be had, is
equally good, and thu milk of lino alouo will
answer the purpose ; in tho latter c.i how.
evor, more constaut ond prolonged skimming
will be required to produce a perfect clr.iiu
cution, which is highly important.
7lh. That the concentration, or boiling
down, after clarification, should bu as rapid
as possible without scorching shallow evap
orations being the best.
With thero conditions secured, it is ar ooi
ns easy to make good sug.ir from the Chinejo
cane os to make a pot of good mush, and
much easier than lo mako a kettle cf "Wd
apple bulter.
Recipes.
Flora the Uernniitowii Telegraph
To Baks Beaks Com. M.u l'ci.inxu.
Boii a quart of white beans in two or litre
quarts ot water, until they begin to crack. Pui
in a teaspouniull of saleralus while Ihev are?
boiling;. Then strain oJl' all the wutcr in which
thoy huve ber-n boiled, ui.J ie,l them iu a pun cr
basin large enough to hold them uud a piece of
nice fat rib of corned pork, which weiglu tivu
pounds or so ; score the puik and settle it iu llm
middle of the beans, su thai the fat is a Ihvio
higher than the beans; cover ill wkli water ami
atlj two tablespoonfu!! of iuolaie-, and hake
ilia moderate oven three hours.' When done,
tho top should be a nice Baowa. Don't forget
Ihe molasses, or you won't kuow Yaukee LakeJ
1 eans. ' .t -
As a Citing accompaniment, J will a'd a
rtcipe for Isi'lAs Uaksii fcmiMn i
Take two quarts of sweet milk, and boil oner
quart, and v.luje boiling alii in as much fiuu
l.'ulun meal ss will umke a verv s'ill' baiter ;
Si'il a trinpaonful of salt and amke it verv sweet
with .nolitses. Butter a pin and pour the
batter in, nd pour Ihe remand:-.; uart of cold
milk ever it. r.u llt-.!e bits ol butler and put on
the top, and hake, two hours in a moderate ovi-u.
Any persuu who 1ms uever ate of it before, vtili
think ihey are eatinj custard. UETTHi.
fmirfivifni