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NEW SERIES, VOL. 12, NO. 1.
SUNKURY, NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, PA -SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1859.
OLD SERIES, VOL 10. NO- 27-
The Sunbury American.
PUBLISHED EVERT BATURDAT
BY H. B. MASSER,
Market Square, Sunbury, Penna.
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References in Philadelphia :
ISliJOIL & WSATHEIt STORE
D KIUKPATRICK & SONS,
N 3l South Third ..S
Streets, PHIt-AUr."' '1,Ai
V tlre-n Salted Pat,i. Kipjw, 1A.NNV. ""j '
NLRS' AXU Cl ItKlKIW TOOl, ami general assort
l,.,ut ol Leather, Kii.i.hed and in the K.mgn.
ALSO IUlUOI.K I.EATHKR.
A!l..f whw'a w,ll be sold low lor Cash, or Ih. usual
1 r-'All kiiJ. of Leath.r hi the Rough wanted. , fr
w.nil,eh,"l.,n,.k.t pric. w.II bu g.veu, , cash, or
"'ir'" fr ofChuV.aud Sold on Commission.
I'liii-delphia, July 3, lb53.ly
idwareThardwaee ! !
-mVsT received by A. W. FISHER.. I hi.
Drug Store, Sunbury, Pa.,
SCOOPS. SHOVELS, FORKS, LOG
CHAINS, MILL SMWS.CUOJSS.
CUT SAWS.
Also, ,?crr,ws. Bu'ts, Door Knobs, Thumb
Latches, and all hardware necessary forbuildmg.
A splendid I vt of pocket and table cutlery, Sen
ora, German fcilvcr Spoons.
I.ucl:i"S Glasses.
A large stock of Looking Glasses, received and
or.aleby A. W. ITSHEK.
Sunbury, July 17, 1858.
iviTEXT wiiEEi. "au:iSR.
r llHIS Grease is recommended to the notice of
I Wagoners, Livery Stable, keepers, &c.,as
being Hi FKHioii toanvthing of the kind ever m
iroJured. As it doe. not gum upon the axles
- is much more .lurable. and is not .fleeted by
U weather. remaining the same in summer f
in winter, end put up in tin canisters at 37$ and
-,! cents, for sale by A. W. FISHER.
July2J, 18.'-8.
lil lT. l TS A.I I'llOViSIOXS !
N. IIKLL1NGS,
So. 12 Sortli Wharves, Philadelphia.
100,(100 lbs. Dried Apples,
",000 bushels I'ca Nuts,
100 barrels Green Applet,
tiOO boxes Oranges,
"no li,iii!s Lemoi.s.
2,000 bushels Potatoes,
1.000 bushels Baans,
1 00 don. I'ickles,
Also Raisins, Figs, Prunes, &c, in ere nd
V.ir s lie at the lowest prices.
April 10, lSfii ly
G-ILBE?wT 3TJLS01T,
Sltcessok to
j , lAMPUKuL A CO., At L. C. IVKS,
(Formerly No. 15 North V'harven.)
DKM.KRIN PRODUCE, FRUIT AND VE
GKTAbLES, No. 4 North Wharves, 4th door
Market street, Philadelphia,
r-sr-es, Apples, Dried Fruita Butter,
Lemons, Onions, luercer Potatoes, Chees.
Raisins, Tomatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Beans,
Pea Nuts, Peaches. Cranberries Lggs, &c
Orhers for Shipping put up w ith care and dis
Patch. . .
IV GOOD3 sold on commission for rurmcrs
in) Dealers.
October 24, 1857.
S0L0M0N B7 B0YER,
OITk. in Market street, opposite Weaver's Hotel,
S I' N II I' It V , PA.
Collections attended to in Northumberland and
adjoining Counties. Is acquainted with the
eitn.H Unguage.
Rkflhi.iu'1 !
II. J. Wolverton, Esq., Sunbury, Pa.,
Geo. F. Miller, Esq., Lewisburg. Pa.
J. H. Ziegenfus, Philadelphia, Pa.
Bcnjamiu'Kamerer, "
Sunbury, Aug. 14, 1858. ly.
IIIackinithins.
JAMES F. DEEN.
SUNBUBV,
OESPECTFULLY inform, tha public that
he ha. commenced the abova business In
Sunbury, and is prepared to do all kinds of black
smithing to order, including horseshoeing in the
best style.
Ha will also put up iron railing in tha most
approved style and patrern.
Country produce taken in exchange.
Sunbury, Oct. 16, 1858. if
FURNITURE POLISH,
fc. RAE'S Premium Patent Knamel Furniture
Polish This polish is highly valuable for resto
ring the polish on all kind, of Furniture, Glass,
Carriage Bodies, Hiir Cloth, &c. Alsn, fur re
moving .pots, hiding .cratches, 6ce., Ac War
ranted to dry immediately and retain iu gloss.
Price SO cU. per bottle. Sold by
A. W. FISHER.
July 17, 1858.
IlLtXKSt I1L4XKS!
BLANK Deeds, Mortgage., Bonds, Warr.nU
Attachments, Commitments, Summons, Su
poenas, Executions, Justices' and Constables'
Fee Bills, etc, cVc.c.n he bad by applying at
this oflice.
PICKLES of variou. kind., Lobster., Bar
dine., Ac, etc., iu.t received and for .ale
atthe Drugstore-of A. W.FISHER-
Hunburv, August, 157. ly
LAND WARRANTS. The bigbast price
will be given for Land Warrant, bythe sub
cifcw, H. B MASHER.
A HOME SCENE.
Come, let ua pull the curLim down,
And lay the work aside,
And gather up tbe plaything.
You've tcattered far and wide;
And place the lamp npon the ttand,
Benide tbe great arm chair,
Aud bring the last new magazine
And cut the leaves with care.
Now henp the coal opnn the grute
lie loves a cheerful fire
See how tbe flames dance merrily,
Acd leap up high aud higker!
Now place his slippers oo the tog,
AdiI set his dressing gown ;
For papa will be tired aud cold
When be conies back from town.
Come let me bathe your glowing cboeks,
Aud make your hair look cent,
And put yoar bright pink apron oo
There, dow, you're clean and sweet !
Now sil down oo tbe little bench.
That grand pa made, and see
How still you'll be while good mamma
Goes lav the cloth for tea.
The tea kettle sends forth its bum,
The biscuits are so light ;
I wish he'd come, it seems to mo
He's rather late to-night I
Hark ! wasn't that our gate that clicked
"Hurrah 1" shoots little Will,
And ere I've time to toll him hush,
He's bounded o'er the sill.
And "papa's come '." he shouts sgain,
And climbs up for a kiss ;
Aud "papa's turn ! Oh, papa's turn !"
Kchoes his little sis.
Oh ! happy group that live and love
Within that humble cot;
Many who dwell in palaces
Might eovy them their lot.
Select Calf.
THE ERICKSONS. j
aAP TLi: i. j
I never had a home like other children
when I was a child. I was early left without
father or mother, and almost without kith or
kin, I was left poor, too, without enough,
buby as I was, even to keep me from beiug a
burden on those who were forced to take tbe
charge of me. I was in the world simply
and solely a little, desolate, useless child.
The home, such as it was, tbat fell to my
lot, was in the bouse of an nunt of my fa
ther's, so old lady who took me to live with
her from a fueling rather of duty than of
love, and into whose formal household my
childish advent made, 1 am afraid, no very
welcome iuroud. Yet uiy aunt was kind to
me, if she was cold ; aud 1, who had never
known a more genial home, was content with
the one that bad fallen to my sbare. We led
a peaceful, quiet life. There was no poetry
in it, but we did without that ; there was lit
tle beauty iu it, too, but wo do not feel the
want of whut we have never known. 1 was
housed, and fed, and clad ; and if the world
tbat during those years hedged me iu was a
narrow oue, 1 did uot feel its narrowness, for
1 had never seen what lay beyond its limits.
This existence eudured for me until I was
eighteen ; then my graodaur.l died, I recol
lect that parting vividly still, as tbe first sor
row aud the first glimpse of the bidden things
outside our dayly life tbat I bad ever had.
My auut bud left oo all sbo was possessed
of, and after her death, 1 lived alone for a
few months. At the eud of that time I was
surprised ore day by a letter from my god
mother, Mr,. Krickson, which asked if I
would come and live with ber. Mrs. Krick
son had been a cousin of my mother's.
l.oug ago, when 1 bad beeu a little child, she
had shown me some kindness that 1 bad not
forgotten. Her proposal was pleasant to
me, and I accepted it. I set my bouse in
order aud obtained a tenant for it ; then, one
autumn day, when the sun shonu bright on
burvust fields, 1 bade furowell to the village
where 1 bud lived, and set forth upon my
juurnuy to my hoiir boiue.
Tbul journsy's end brought me to a quaint
old town, dark with long narrow streets,
whoso stones time had impressed with bis
seal of solemn coloring, whoso gloomy dim
ness only here and there stole into sudden
light at some unlooked-for opening, where
tbe sun shone upon tbe grans growing around
tbe pavement of au untrud square, or glinted
on tim bend of tbe bright silent river, or lin
gered lovingly upon the tall, grey, half-decaying
towers of some old time-eaten church.
I saw it linger so for tbe first time on that;
autumn evening, and tbe light, new to me at '
'.bat time, quickly grew familiar, for in the
opening before one sucb old church my god
mother bad ber boose, and summer and win
ter, between ber windows aud tbe rivulet,
there stood an eternal screen of blackeuing
stoue a mouldering pile, all rich with antique
aevices upon wan aud capital and arcbvault,
and delicate traceried windows, through whose
narrow lights tuere came to us all that we
ever saw of tbe gold aud crimson of the wes
tern sky.
It was a change from the village and bouse
tbat I bad left! Tbero all bud been tlat.
clear, open as a sea ; ueitber brick uor stone
obscured our view neither tree nor tower
darkened us; undulating fields and hedge
rows there shut eat uo prospect; .11 was
bright and sunny there, from zenith to hori
zon. This new confinement, at its first sight,
was strange and painful to me. I recollect
on the uigbt I came that I stood by one of
inose west windows and drew my traveline
cloak around me with an involuntary shiver.
1 . sua bad set, and tbe sky above was grey,
and the black decaying walls, in tbat cold
twilight, looked strangely sorrowful stern,
too, and pitiless, black cold shadow, whose
beauty 1 could not see, and whose solemn
age grim mouldering memorial of the vanish
ed centuries only chilled me.
I bad not seen sny grandm.tber for eleven
years. When w. last mat she was an active,
bright-looking woman, of five and tl.irty.
When she greeted me at ber threshold now,
I did not recognize ber : she bad grown faded
and pale, and old.
"I was stronger nd younger when I s.w
you last, Kuth," she said, gently, when I
spoke of the change in her ; but there was .
real and Anxious look in ber fact tbat I
thought mast be set there by other causes
than advancing years or failing strength.
"And my cousin, Noel 1"
He was her only son, man tea years or
older than I was. I bad teen bitn once
those .Uvea yean .go and bad on. day
been carried io bis strons? arms throoeh . ba-
zel copse, wbtu . long wanderi.f .mid failed
an in una leaves bad wet my Teat a small kind
cess tbat I bad remembered faithfully,
title answered : "Yoi will scarcely re mem
ber Noel ;" and I presently fonnd tbat she
said right. As we sat together a little whil.
after, talking by the fire, . man entered the
room, and coming up to me, put out bis band
with . single cold phrase of welcome. I look
ed np into bis face as I answered bis salute,
and with tbat look, something tbat had been
. kind of hope in me, sank down with a quirk
short pang. No ; 1 had no recognition for
this Noel Krickson. This cold repeliant face
was all strange to me. It was a small thing
to speak of a slight disuppoiulmeut ; and
yet, out of my child's prose life, it was some
thing to lose the sunshiue of one pleasant
memory.
We fell calmly, and at once, into . quiet
regular lifo. 1 bad little education and few
tastes. 1 bad been accustomed to spend
hours every day, passively laying stitch to
stitch upon some long nionotoneous work. I
set a square yard ol canvass now in . frame,
and with my pattern and my colored wools, 1
qaickly Bet to wotk. Tbe thing when finish
ed, I said, should be a cushion for my grand
mother. At which she thanked me. and took
up some humbler work herself. They were
not rich, and she bad other sewing to do than
to make cushions.
We passed eur days alone, for Noel trick
son, though he did not often leave tbe bouse,
had his own wotk. and his own room to work
iu. He was an artist, and be labored in his
studio early aud late. What came of bis la
boring I did not often see. Sometimes bis
mother took me to his work room, aud mude
me look al some completed drawing during
these first month, tbey were generally slight
water-color sketches before it left the house;
but these were all I saw, and among thum,
few of them pressed me much. I used to
tell Mrs. Kricksou (for it was necessary when
1 lookud at them to say something) that I was
oo judge of painting und tbut was true ; but
it was also true that iu my heart I did not
lika'my Cousin Noel's pictures. Evec in bis
slightest drawings there was at all times
something feverish and restless. They might
have puwer in them 1 did not know but
they had no repose. 1 say 1 did not like nor
understand thnm ; neither did I like nor un
derstand him. He wus .shadow in the house
an unsociable, careworn, silent man. His
presence made gloom in place of sunshine ;
bis aspect chilled mo winter's cold. He was
unhappy himself, aud ho brought discomfort
as his companion. 1 was afraid of him a lit
tle ; 1 pitied biui much ; I liked him not t
all.
Yet I did not regret coming to my god
mother's house If Noel chilled me, his mo
ther did not. 1 .had kuowu so little ulluctiou
in my life that tbe quiet love she presently
began to bestow on me, stole into my heart
like very sunshine. I r.lurned her what
she gave to me ; and in spite of Noel
Urickson, aud the gloominess of the ancient
town, my new home became very plensunt to
me. She said that I made it brighter to her,
too: pei Imps 1 did. lean still remember
the sound of my morry laughter, bb through
the month; of that first winter it used to riog
.waking smiles at least to join with it, through
tha low roofed rooms of the old house.
CHAI'TLll II.
It was an afternoon of early spring. The
days were long, aud the birds bud begun to
build their nests under the gables of tbe old
church. There were also blossoms too upon
the trees, aud pale spring Mowers iu the old
church. There were blossoms too upon tbe
trees, and palo spring Mowers in the old gar
den shuttered by the cburcb wull. 1 sat by
the window sewing and singing. It was a j
pleasant season for me this bright spring
time. 1 was uot thoughtful perhaps 1 un
derstood only one fraction of its meaning and
its meaning aud its loveliness ; but it had
spoken to uie till my life of youth and hope,
aud 1 wus young and hopeful. The sun shone
warm upon the old church towers ; far away
there was a sound of joy bells. 1 stopped
my singing at times to listen to them it was
. rigbt glad sound fur this spring day.
"Huth, will yo. come ? It is roudy," Mrs.
Krickson suid.
1 turned quickly. from the outer sunshine
with a momentary feeling of compunction :
something wus happening in tho housu today
and 1 had forgotten it. My godmother
thought it a great thing ; it was not great to
me, it was only this lliut Noel hud comple
ted the picture that bad been bis chief win
ter's work, and it was to bo sent to tbe "Aca
demy" to day.
I had never seen it yet. I rose at Mrs.
Kricksou's invention, and followed her up
stairs, bhe was excited uud glad, and ber
palu face was even brightened by a flush of
color. 1 wus not glad, nor almost even curi
ous. An entrance into my cousin's studio
bud long ceased to be looked upon by me as
even a possible pleasure. v
lie wus in the room when we came ID, but
not at bis easel. The space about that was
vacant, and upon it stood bis framed picture.
Wo went up aud stood before it.
It was a large picture, divided into two
compartments, both representing tbe samo
scene tbe sea shore, girt to the right by a
line of rocks ; but in oue the water was lying
calmly under an azure sky, and the spars of
me rocss giitterea in suusnine; in the other
tbe sea was lashed into high crests of foam,
and one red cleft iu tbe heavy thunder clouds
illumed the whole canvas with a lerid light.
I looked at both pictures, but 1 turned from
the second quickly. The warm, soft suushine,
the calm blue water these things I liked ;
that picture had rest and beauty aud quiet
light in it. 1 liked it as I liked no other cre
ation 1 bad ever seen of Noel's. I was glad
to be able to speak what 1 felt. 1 exclaimed
heartily :
"This is beautiful."
"Which is beautiful, KutbT" Noel sudden
ly asked.
1 looked at him as lie came toward us;
there was a slight contemptuous scorn it) bis
face that for . moment irritated me. I knew
tbe .nswer tbat be expected, and I gave it to
him half defiantly.
"Tbe first !"
"Do you not like tbe other, tben !"
"I am oo judge of pictures."
"Perhaps not. But yoo thiuk what?"
There was an ungentle smile upon his lips;
another look would have made me bumble,
but tbat angered me.
"I think," I answered quickly, "that pic
tures were meant to make as happy when we
look at them aud tbat one does not."
"Bet pictures cannot ouly be painted when
men are bappy, Kutb," my godmother said,
"and if they are unhappy, their pictures will
show signs of their sorrow."
"Wky ueed tbey V 1 answered boldly. "If
tbey feel sorrow, can they not learn to repress
it! Can they not straggle againt, instead of
giving way to it, and brooding over it, and
nursing it as it were some precious thing as
Noel does T"
It was a sudden impulse tbat made me
speak. Tbe thoughts bad tome impatiently
into my mind many a time before, but never
before bad I given utterance to them. I
spoke them botly tow, confident io my wis
dom and common sens.. When I ceased my
cousin Diet me witb this answer '
"Who told ynn, Ruth," he calmly demand
ed, "that sorrow was not a pleasant thing !
Hew do you know bow much strength lieB io
(t how weak ninny a heart and hand might
be if it were cast away t My cousin, yoo are
young, and you judge all people by yourself,
and would have all the world sucb as you are.
Take my advice, and in future condemn only
what you understand, lest you chance to con
demn some things that are immeasurably
above you.
He waited for no answer when he had spo
ken. In a few moments after he was again
engaged at the occupation he had left, aud 1
was silently on my way down stairs.
1 went hack nlnoe to tbe room, and tbe
seat that I bad left. My cheek was hot, but
I took up my sewing again, ond worked. It
was drawing toward evening then : I worked
till tbe sun set. 1 was still alone, and only
when twilight began to come did I lay my
work aside.
It was vory quiet. Tbe evening brightness
was stealing softly through the narrow lights
of tbe accustomed windows, and tbe church
was growing dark against the sky. I began
to think how it stood there, night by night,
strong, like on eternal shadow. Was it built
perhaps in the strength of tbe sorrow 1
I had heard tales of persecutions suffered
in this city long ago. With a strange inter
est I sat and pondered npon the men who
might have reared those blackened stones
npon the hands that might bave cut tbosj eld
devices. They were all solemn and stern
tbey were not joyous. There was no luxury
in them of waving leaves there were do birds
fluttering amid twisted branches. There was
neither joy nor laughter in the scultured
forms that, from tbe grisly heads and out
stretched grifild claws down to the solemn
ongels leaning toward tbe doors, stood io their
broken might and their stern silence.
The yellow light was fading back behind
the starry trefoils of the windows, and God's
stars wero coining out in heaven, liut these
were familliar mysteries : I did not thiuk of
them to night. With an earnestness 1 scarce
ly understood, I sat till it was dark, thinking
of the mysteries ef the dead hearts of them
who once, with living bauds and living
thoughts, cut out tho starry traceries upou
those widows.
To tin Convinced.
IHisccIIancmis.
Philip Tlio Second-
Prescolt, in tho third volume of bis " 1'biiip
the Second," gives the following sketch ef
tbut inscrutable monaicb :
Philip had a reserved and unsocial temper.
He preferred to work alone, in the seclusion
of bis closet, rather than iu the preseuce of
others. This may explain the reason iu part
why he scorned so much to perfer writing to
talking. Even with his private secretaries,
who were always oear at baud, he chose to
communicate by writing ; und they bad as
large a muss of his autograph notes io their
possession, as if tbe correspondence bad been
curried from different parts of the kingdom.
His thoughts, too ut any rule bis words
came slowly ; by writiug he gained time for
the utterance of them. The reserve, so no
ticeable in bis youth, increased with age.
He became more difficult of access. His
public audience were much less frequent.
lu the summer he would escape from tbem
altogether, by taking refuge in some oue of
his country places. His favorite retreat was
bis palace monastery of tbe P.scurial, then
slowly rising under bis putronago, and aflor
diug bim an occupation congenial with his
taste. He seems, however, to have sought
the country uot so much from the love of its
beuulie, as for the retreat it afforded him
from tho town. W ben ia tho latter, he rurely
showed himself to the public eye, going
abroad cbietly in a close carriage, and driving
ltu so as to return to the city after dark.
Thus be lived io solitude even in tbe heart
of his capital, knowing ruach lets of men from
his own observation thau from the reports
tbut wore made to bim. In availing himself
of thi'iM sources of information be was inde
fatigable He caused a statistical survey of
Spain to be prepared for bis own use. It
was a woik of iuiruenso labor, embracing .
vust amount of curious details, sucb as were
rurely brought together in those days. He
kept his spies ut the principul liuropeau
courts, who furnished him with intelligence ;
and he was as well acquainted with what was
passing in Knglund and in France, as if he
bad resided on the spot. He was content to
toil for bours, aud long ioto the night, at bis
solitary lubors. No expression of weariness
or of impatience was known to escape bim.
A characteristic anecdote ia told of him in
regard to this. Having written a dispatch,
lute at night, to be sent en the following
morning, be banded it to his secretary to
throw sand over it. This functionary, who
happened to be dozing, suddenly ronsed him
self, and, snatcbiutr up tbo inskstaud emptied
it on tbe paper. The king, cooly remarking
that "it would have been better to use the
sand," set bimself down without any com
plaint, to re-write the whole of tbe letter.
In bis eagerness for information, bis ear was
ever open to accusations against bis ministers
which, as tbey were sore to be lockod up in
in bis own bosom, were Dot slow in coming
to bim. This filled bis mind with suspicions.
He wailed till time bad proved tbeir truth,
treating the object of tbem with particular
fuvor till the hour of vengance bad arrived.
The reader will oot bave forgotten tbe terri
ble saying of Philips own historian: "His
dagger followed close upon his smile."
Philip was an economist of time, and regu
lated tbe distribution of it with great pre
cision. In the morning, he gave audiance to
foreign ambassadors. He afterwards heard
mass. After mass came dinner, in bis father's
fashion, but dinner was not .0 affair with
Philip, of so much moment .8 it was with
Charles. He was exceedingly temperate
both io eating and driuking, and Dot (infre
quently against any provocative of tbe gout
tbe hereditary disease whirb at a very
early period had begun to affect bis health.
After a light repast, be gave audience to
sucb of bis subjects as desired to preseut
tbeir memorials. He received tbe petitioners
graciously, and listened to .11 they bad to
say with patience for tbat was bis virtue.
But bis counteoauc. was exceedingly grave
which, in truth, was its natural expression ;
aid there was a reserve io his deportment,
wbicb made the boldest feel ill at ease in bis
preseuce. Ou such occasions be would say
"Compose yoarself" a recommendation that
bad not always tb. tranquilizing effect in
tended. Ouce when a papal nuncio forgot,
io bis confusion, tbe address be had prepared,
tbe Kiug cooly remarked : "If you will bring
it in writiog, I will read it myself, and ex
pediteyour business." It was natural that
men of even the highest raok should b. over
awed in tb. presence of . monarch wbo held
tbe destinies of so many millions io bis bands,
and wbo surrounded bimself with . veil of
mystery wbicb tbe most conning political
could Dot penetrate.
A Hatter in search nf Russia Fur.
On one occasion a hatter Darned Walter
Dibble, called to buy some furs of ns. For
certain r asons I was anxious to play a joke
upon him. I sold hira several kind of. fur,
including ' hoover" and "coney." He wanted
emo "Kussia." I told him we had none, but
Mrs. Wbeeler, where I boarded, bad several
hundred pounds.
"What on earth is a woman doing with
Russia ? he said.
I could not aoswer, hut assured bim that
there were 130 pounds of old Itushia and l.r0
pounds of young Riishiu in Mrs. Wheeler's
bouse, and nndcr her charge, but whether it
was for sale I could not guy.
Off he started with a view to make a pur
chase. He knocked at tho door. Mrs.
Wheler the elder, made hor appearance.
"I want to get your Russia," said the but
ter, smiling.
Mrs. Wheeler asked him to walk in and be
seated. Sim. of course, supposed he bad com
after her daughter 'liushia."
"Whut do you waut of Kueliia ?" asked tbo
old ludy.
"To make hats," was the reply.
"To trim hats, I suppose you mean," re
sponded Mrs. Wheeler.
"No for tho outsido of hats," replied the
hatter.
"Well, I don't know much about hats, but
1 will call my daughter," suid the old ludy.
Pulsing iuto another room where 'Kushia,'
the younger, was at work, she informed ber
thai a man wanted her to make huts.
' 0, he means sister Mary probably, I sup
pose ho wauts some ladies hats," replied Ru
Buia, as she passed into the parlor. .
"I suppose you wish to see my sister Mary;
she is our Milliner," suid the younger Ru
shiu. "I wish to see whoovcr owns the property,'
said the batter.
Sister Mury was sent for and soon made
ber appearauco. As sooti as she wus intro
duced, the hatter informed her that he wished
to buy "Russia."
"liuy Rushiu I" exclaimed Mary, ia sur
prise, "1 don't understand you."
"Your name is Miss heeler, I believe ;"
said tho butter, who was annoyed al the diffi
culty he met with iu buiug uudurstood,
"It is, sir."
"Ah! very well. Is there old and youDg
Russia iu the house."
"1 lieliuvu thert) is," said Mary surprised at
the familliar manner in which be spoke of ber
mother uud sister, both of whom were pre
sent. "What is the piico of old Russia per
pound,' asked the batter.
"1 believe, sir, that the old RuBbia is Dot
for sale," replied Mary indignautly.
"Well, what do you ask for youog RuBsin?"
pursued tbe batter.
"Sir," suid Mit-s Rutbio, the younger,
springing to ber feet, do yoa come here to in
sult defenceless females 1 If you do we will
sonn cull our brother, who is iu tha garden,
and will punish you as you deserve."
"Ladies'." exclaimed the hatter, io aston
ishment, "what on earth have I done to offend
you ? 1 came here oo a business matter. 1
wunt to buy some Russia. 1 wus told you
had old aud young lluesia in the house. In
deed, this young ludy just stated sucb to be
the fact, but she suys the old Russia is not
for sale. Now, if 1 can bay the young 1 want
to do to but if tbat can't be done, please
say so, aud 1 will trouble you do further."
"Mother open the door, and let the gentle
man pats out ; he is uudoubtedly crazy," suid
Miss Mary.
"Uy thuuder ! I believe I shall be if I re
main here long," exclaimed the hatter, con
siderably excited. "1 wonder if folks never
do business in these purts, that you thiuk it
mmi is crazy if he attempts such a thing 7','...
"Husiness ! poor man," said Mary, scc'.'i
iugly, approaching the door.
"I am not a poor mau, Madam," replied tbe
batter. "My name is Walter Dibble ; 1 car
ry oo battiog extensively in l'uubury ; 1 cunie
to Grassy Plains to buy fur, aud have purcha
sed some 'beaver' and 'coney,' aud now it
seems I cm to be culled 'crazy' uud a 'poor
man' because I waut to buy a little 'Russia,'
to uuke up an assortment "
The ladies begau to opeu their eyes a little
They saw that Mr. Dibble was , quite iu ear.
uesl, and bis explanation threw a considera
ble light on the subject.
"Who sent you here?" nsked sister Mary.
"The clerk at the store opposite," was the
reply.
"He is a wicked young fellow for makiug
this trouble," ;aid the old lady. "He has
beeu doing this for a joLe," she continued.
"A joke !" exclaimed Dibble, iu surprise.
"Have you not got any Russia then?"
"My uamn is Jerusbiu, and so is my daugh
ter's," said Mr. Wheeler, "aud tbut I sup
pose is what be meant by lulling you about
old aud young Rushiu."
Mr. Dibble bolted through the door with,
out a word of explanation, aad made directly
for our store. "You young scamp !" said be,
as be entered, "what do you mean by sending
me over there to buy Russia ?"
"1 did not send you to buy Rushia. I sup
posed you were either a bachelor or a widow
er ; and wanted to marry Rushia," 1 replied
with a serious countenance.
"You lie, yoa dog, and you know it," be
replied ; "but never mind, I'll pay you off for
tbut some day." Aud takiug his furs he de
parted, less ill-humored thau could have been
expected under the circumstances.
. - - .
A Wandkrinu Frintkr Kail foglinp,
a journeyman priuter, died ot Detroit u few
days ago, after wandering over a lurgo por
tion of tbe world. According to the Ohio
Statesman, be was bauished from Duden,
Germany, for participating iu the revolution
of 1SJ8. He reached the United States just
io time to volunteer in the Mexican war, and
was wounded aud disfigured for life at the
battle of liuena Vista. After tho war be
traveled from Maiue to Louisiana, and to the
frontiers of civilization, a a journeyman prin
ter ; commenced the first German paper ever
published iu San Francisco, subsequently
joined a theatrical company in Cincinnati,
and was everywhere knowQ as a scholar, poet
musician, and wit. He uever remained loug
enough iu one place to cull it his home, bat
whereever be went he lefl frienJj who admir
ed bis extraordinary talents and bis cburac.
teristic vagaries, llecould spin a yarn, write
a poem, make a speech, sing, a song, bring a
melody from a guitar, or tip a glass of lager
beer wi'.b unequaled spirit aud cosmopolitan
elegance,
t
"Talk .boat mean oi.u I" said old Fox,
"Why, there's tbat Bill Johnson, he's the
meanest man I aver heard tell ou Bill was a
constable here. Wby, don't you think be had
an execution against me for a little matter of
groceries, and came out and levied ou my old
woman's ducks, and wanted me to drive 'em
up and catch 'am for bim, and I told bim to
catch 'em himself ; and so be chased 'em rouud
and round tb. bouse, aud every time bed
catab a duck, be'd sit down aud wring its be.d
off, aud charge cileage 1"
Tho American Man.
We copy tbe following amusing conjectures
as to what the American man will be, from
the Baltimore mirfcon. It is evidently a
compound based upon trait, already develo
ped. Tb. Amtrlean tikes the several threads
and weaves them iuto one piece. The result
is natural a man full of energy, full of every
thing that constitutes the business iiihu, but
totally destitute or refinement, of sociality, of
domesticity. His insatiuble ncqiiisitivei-css
finds nothing to gratify it at borne ; restless
and prying, home, home is tbe lust place in
tbe world to w hich he goes, of his own will,
eud is even tben attracted to it by inquisitive
Less, to satisfy his curiosity as to what chan
ges time may have a flee tod. When the rest
of tbe continent is thickly settled and tbe
"coming in an" can find uo new place upon
wbicb to set bis foot aud make "a nice thing"
by speculation when, by the force of circum
stances be shall be compelled to stay at home
when this time arrive, the "coining man,"
unless some wonderful change be wrought in
his nature, may be about as insigniticunt a
type as tbe world has ever produced. But
we will append the pen sketch which the
American has drawn out :
"What sort of n man is the American man
going 'to be?' That is the great question
with the Massachusetts prophets. Tbe uu
swor may be easily inferred. Men whose
boast is the uuiversul Yankee nation is the
'greatest in creation,' are uot apt to admit the
inferiority or even the equulity ol any other
men whatsoever. Hence tho speculative
New Engluoders conclude that, although the
existing American man may be icted with
a few trivial defects aud ephemeral blemishes
the 'coming American man' will be a gentle
man sucb as the world never saw. He will
be no weuk copy of his ancestors, no duodeci
mo Britisher, nay, not even an enlarged and
revised editiou of John Bull, illustrated with
cuts and copious appendix ; but an eutirely
new, origiuul, unique, uurivulled, and unsur
passed man, different from any tbat ever
walked tbe earth, and hotter than any ; in
Gne, tbe very climax of humanity. He will
uot have drawn of tbe Englishman, nor the
impossibility of the German, nor tbe levity of
the Frenchman, nor the luziness of the ltal
liaa. Ho will not be able to eut beef by .tbe
cord, nor drink brandy by the pipe; will cour
high above luger bier and pretzel, look dowu
witb disdain upon frog legs and sour wines,
and utterly scorn maccuroui and garlic. Lean
of person, shurp of feature, active io motion,
persistent in effect, inquisitive iu nature,
slightly obtrusive iu address, independent iu
conduct, careless iu attire, invenlive, uequisi
tive, communicative, locomotive, recuperative
and iudominitable, he will 'staud upon bis
bind legs ;' tbe weuder of the sun and the joy
of tbe planetary system. He will no louger
be dyspeptic; be will quit chewing tobacco,
cease to drink whiskey, devote more time to
healthful recreation aud less to 'trading,' de
sist from the manufacture of wooden nutmegs
end peddle tin wure uo more forevor. But,
above all, he will be intensely speculative.
He will continue to prosecute bis investiga
tions into spiritualism until the entire house
hold and kilchuu furniture of the land assumes
the aspect of perpetual motion. To remedy
auy iuconveuieuco resulting from this univer
sal mobility, be will hold a grand auctiou.srll
out tbo personal effects of tbe nation, aud
thenceforth cast the bouses of tbe Republic,
furniture, clocks and ull, iu a solid pieco. In
brief, lie will be tbe reconciliation of human
characteristics heretofore considered entirely
antagonistic. He will be a busiuess mun und
a philosopher at the same time. He will
sway burlotv knives aud discuss theology iu
the suuio breath ; run en engino eighleeu
hundred miles in a day aud deliver a lecture
on phrenology ut nighl ; write a poem before
going to bed and opeu a dry goods store in
the morning ; start a newspaper after break
lust, invent a machine for killing cockroaches
at dinner, aud get elected to Cougress before
dark. This appears to be the 'coming man,'
as depicted io the essays of the New Eugluud
seers."
A Mother's Word.
The following passage from a speech of
Wendell Phillips is at once full of beauty and
great lessons. We especially commend it to
youug ineB who have oot learned the impor
tance of total abstinence from intoxicating
liquors :
T was told to-day, a story so touching in
reference to this, tbat yoa must let me tell it.
It i. thu atnrv of a mother on the hill, of
i . . l,,.l.i;nIV h I,m. in,t l..n,1 n an, i
sixteen years old, mad with the love of the
sea. And as she stood by tbe garden gate,
oue sunny morning she said : "Edward, tbey
tell me that the great temptation of a sea
niuu's life is drink. Promise me, before you
quit you mother's baud, that you will uever
drink." And said be lor be told uie the
story "1 gave ber the promise, aad 1 went
the broad globe over Calcutta, tbe Mediter
ranean, San Francisco the Cupe of Good
Hope, the North Polo aud tbe fcouth 1 saw
them ull iu forty years, and 1 never saw a
glass filled witb sparkling liquors, that my
mother's form by tbe garden gate, on the
green bill side of Vermont, did nut rise be
fore me ; and to-day, at sixty, my lips are
innocent, of the taste of liquor."
Was not that sweet evidence of the power
of a single word? Yes that was not one
half. "For," said he, "yesUrd iy. there camo
a man into my counting room, a mat, of forty
and usked me," "do you know me?" "No.''
"Well," said be, "I was ouce brought drunk
iuto your preseuce on ship board ; you were
a passenger ; the cuptaiu kicked me aside ;
you took ma to your berth and kept me there
uutil I hud slept the skep of intoxication ;
you then asked uie if I had a mother ; I said
I uover knew a word from her lips ; you told
me of yours at the garden gate, uud to-day I
am the master of oue of tbe finest packets in
New York, aud 1 came to ask you Io cull and
see nie." How fir tbat little candle, throws
its beams I . That mother's word on tbe green
hill side of Vermont ! Oh, God be thanked
for the Almighty power of a single work.
Ci bk for Bhoni iiiti. Tbe follow ing. says
the Scientific American, is riot the remedy of
. "retired physician, who? rands of lif have
nearly ruu out," but of one of the cleverest
and most reliable of our frieuds, wbo has
tried it bimself and seen it tried on others,
aud bus never known it to full in effecting a
permanent aud radical cure :
Take the common mullein leaves, after
ba viug been properly dried, aud use I hem iu
a clean new pipe, tbe saine.es smoking to
bacco. Tbe patient will soon be able to dis
cover whether it affords relief, aud goveru
himself accordingly.
Toaacco cHtcwitas will be gratified to learo
that fre. whit, girls r. ppw employed in the
Virginia factories, to put up tobacco. Ibe
Richmond paper which announces the fact
says that bilkerto tbe manipulation "bas been
performed by filthy, greasy nigger." which
u. ahaatar ran maka nnta of. to be remember
ed With any fash mouthful of stock oo bind.
Cmif roR Shvino, If a lady's hots e bp
addicted to shying, I will give her a suie and
simple cure for the same ; oue which 1 have
uever known to Tnil. Let us, for itistanco
suppose the existence of a heap of stones on
the near side of the road. Tbe horse sees an
indistinct grey object, and prepares to shy at
it. The moment he shows such symptoms,
let bis fair rider turn both her eyes on exactly
tbe opposite side of the rnad, and look steadily
swoy from the offending heap, and I'll cngngo
that tbe horse will walk quietly by. For
many years I hare ridden horses it all tem
pers and disposition, some of them inuci
given to tbying, aud have never yet found
this simple remedy to fail in i's effect. Let
those who scotl at me try it. The reason is
this : The human eye has, doubtless, a Rrv-'
inUuence on all animals, and there is a strong
and secret sympathy between the horse and
his rider. The boree sees an indistinct object
and tooks deublTully at it ; bis rider becomoi
alarmed, imagining tbat the animal is going
to commit some eccentricity; the. fears is
comHiauicated to the aoimul, and be sturls iu
terror from the object which has frig'.iteiied
bim ; whereas, if he finds that his rider sits
unmoved unJ unconcernedly, he regains hi,
confidedce, and goes on "in tbe even tencr of
his way." I believe tbat one-liulf of our
horses ore ruined for life by being "bit over
the head" by grooms, to cure them of shying.
Uvrse Taming.
Ha!r Wash for Dandlrkf. A correspon
dent writing to us requests a receipe for "pre
paring beur's grease,'' to preveut.his iiuir
fulling out, and to free his bead from dandruff.
We are not acquainted with any preparation
of bear's grease which is rapablo of effecting
sncb important results. If there is any virtue
iu bear's grease to accomplish sucb objects,
we thiuk the genuine article must be superior
to any chemical preparation of it, and the
only way to obtain it pure, to a certainty, is
to nab "Bruin," und.lnake sure of his pork.
We give, an follows, bowover, a very good
receipe for making a hair-Rash which will
remove duudruQ and keep the scalp clean and
soft, so as to prevent tho huir, 1:1 ordinary
circumBtauces, from falling out: lake one
I piut of alcohol aud a tabiespoonful of Custer
' oil, mix thiui together in a bottle by shaking
tbem well for a lew miuutos, then scent it
witb a few drops of oil of lavender. Alcohol
dissolves caster oil, like gum camphor, leaving
tbe liquid or vush quite cltar. It does not
seem to dissolve any other aoctuous oil so
perfectly, hence no other is equally good for
Ibis purpose. Scientific American.
I Mistake at a Fi'nk.rai.. About the end
! of lust month tbe following singular mistake
wns made at Dole, France :
j Two persons bud died at the hospital of
' that town, and were to be buried at the saino
time. Tho deceused were a youug girl uud a
soldier of the garribon. Both coffins being
; placed alongside of each other, they wero so
! confounded that the girl wus accompanied to
i ber last bomo by a platoon of dragoons, with
! military honors, while the young soldier, cov
; er ed with a white pall of flowers, pious em
blems, of purity und innocence, was bi me or.
! four feminine shoulders, and followed by a
procession of young girls reciting prayers.
I.iHJK Yield. The mauufacturo of Rail
' Road Iron at this place has been brought to
groat perfection since its coinsiensemeot
about thirteen years ago. We have DOticed
repeated y tho extraordinary large woekly
product of the "Rough .t Reud Mill," uud
we now learn, tbat during last week tha
"Montour Mill" turned out tha enormous
quantity of 0'.'3 tons of finished Rails. Of
! this, they made ia one day, 2fi" tons a feat
! which bus cbVor yet oeeu surpassed here nor
' elsewhere at any establishment iu this couu
j try. Jlunville JJemecrat.
i. Touching: Very. A person following
close behind a couple returning from a juven-
ile party, at u fashionable residence iu Pitts-
flield , a few weeks since, bappoued to ovor
I boar the youug gentleman thus addressed
' bis companion in a vcice of the teoderesi
solicitude;
"Chorlotte Angelina, you must not set
1 your youthful affections upon me, for 1 am
doomed to an early grave Mother says 1 ana
troubled with worms."
An involuntary "cough" from tbe listener
interrupted tbu self-devoting reply which, of
; course, was leaping to Chariot. Angelina's
! , The Openiug Verses of Uaua's Buccauior
are very fiue :
i Tb. isluud lies nine leagues away ;
: Along its solitary shore
Of craggy rock and sandy bay,
No sound but ocean's roar,
Save where tbe bold, wild sea-bird makes her
borne,
Hor shrill cry coming through the sparkling
foam.
But when the light winds lie at rest,
. And oo the glassy, heaving sea,
Tim black dnck, witb ber glossy breast,
tiit swinging sileutly ;
How buautit'ul ! no ripples break the reach,
And silvery waves go uoisjluss up "the beach.
Among the unmarked graves in the cem
etery at Cumden, Ark., is tbut of a brother
of the illustrious Henry Clay his only monu
ment is en oak tree, with the initials of bis
name ruduly carved iu its rough bark. He
was a devoted minister of the Gospel.
One of tho deacooB of a certuia church
asked the bishop if be usually kissed the brida
at weddings.
"Always," was tbe reply.
"And how do yon muuug9 when the hsppy
pair u. negroes ?"
"In ull sucb cuses,'' replied tbe bishop, "tbo
duty of kissing is appointed to tbe dcucous."
The Deacoo caved iu.
. There Seems a chancs of felting a current
ikrough tbu Atlantic cable. A genius ra
ta rks thai he don't care ay for their fur
rens, if they only give us a lewrut dates.
'IIoi.ii on Par 1" The piqua (S. C.) Reg
Uter bus tbu following in a recent issue, de
scribing au incident among tbe slaves :
Quit a revival is now iu progress at tbe
African Church io this city. W were prr
sent a few eveuings since, aud witnessed, with
much gratification, tbeir earnest devotion
Of the inciduuts w. cannot fail to not oue :
A brother was supplicating the throne elo
quently, when another brother called out, ia
. stentorian voicy :
"Wbq dut pray u.obes dar ?", .. ,
The response was.; "Dul's brqdder Mose."
Hold on dar, .rudder Mos. 1" was tb
dictum of the former, "yon let brudder Ryan,
pray ; he's better 'quainted wid de Lord dun.
you am 1" Bruddur Mosa dried .p, and
brudderRyao prayed.
Should y. a b. talking to a tbio, Judy, vl
another tbio lady, you oeed'nt describe tb.
arty i lluded to as a '.craggy old to aid."