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NEW SERIES, VOL. 13, NO. 33.
SUN1JUHY, NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, PA -SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1SG0. OLD SERIES, VOL. 21, NO 7.
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A TT ORNEY AT LAW,
SUNBVRT, PA.
B iisiiiesa attended to in the OJottntie of Nor
inmberlnnd, Union, Lycoming Montour and
"olumbia.
References in Philadelphia:
IT.iu. Jul. Tt.Tvann, Chas GiMsins.Fsn,
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CH.P.LSS MATTHEWS
1 1 o r n c u (itftw,
Xo. V2S Itroadwny. Vorli.
Will carrfnttv attend to Collections and all other matter.
intruMed to fit. rure.
May at. IWf.
FRANKLIN HOUSE,
R F. nUILT A N l) II K F V It N I S 17 F. D ,
Cor. of Howard and Franklin Streets, a fir
Squares West of the A". C. R. R. Depot,
BALTIMORE
Tttixa, 1 1 Dt
(V LEISENRINfi. Proprietor,
JiOt 111, IM9 tf From tfelnis Ornve. Pa.
i lit am r.. snsitm
CH1LK1ET tOXtli;
G. SOMERS k SON.
Importers and Drtilera in
Cloths, Cassimeres. Veetings, Taylers
Tnmmiugs, occ,
No 85 South Fourth Street, between Market and j
u i PLiu.t,.!,;.
b(f roUto(.g A ,,lclore of tha pcene was
Merchants others viilinB the ctty would End prHpurpj Wlth tl)e onilna iiaU,KUe, Bntl
it to their mlvrntngc to giv them a call and ex- Iiuuuj Ub iwt bul we jave nol ,B en(,raTj
uninc their etock. Ul hand. The diulofie is pleating aud in-
March 10. iStiO struutive, and should be read by every one
HARDWARE ! HARDWARE 1 1 'ZZi
RliST received by A. V. FlSlftiU. at hie. Mr. Smith-How i, it, neighbor Jones.
Drug btore, Sunbury. Pa.. J tlfot your puUllK.s e 0 Urga BuJ fiue wbiU
bCnOP.S. SHOVELS. FORKS, LOG- jst orer tue fence, on tuuilar toil, mine are
CHAINS, MILL S.4WJ, CKOSS- , ,8 tmj M pullet's eggs, and precious few
CUT SAWS. at that?
Also, .Screws, Butts, loor Knobs, Thumb j Mr. Jones I manured this field with
atelier., and all hordware necepnary far building;, i trains.
A splendid l.t of pocket and table cutlery, Scis- Mr.Smfth Tthaw ! All the Cincinnati
ora, German Silver Spoon j hog-killers couldn't supply brains enough for
Loolllug: GlnNNCfi. j this ten-acre field.
A l;irRe stock of Looking Glaa', received and ' , Mr- Jones I used kuvmn brains, of which
4,r sale l.y A. W. FISHEK. i th"8 8ro P'ty
Sunbury, July 17. 1P5B. Mr. Smith Nonsense now don't make
. . fun of me because I'm unlacky, and rrjvi-
DEFOREST. ARMSTRONG & CO. dence baj i yu g"d crop.
" 1 1? V CI () n r ? MIT HP IT A N T Mr t'rovideuce help9 those who
fcO om 82 Chamlert Street, -Veic 1 ork. ! this Geld
ould notify tho Trade thot they are opening j Mr. Smith So did I mine, and they are
Wetkly, in new and beautiful patterns, the as good as anybody's
VA.IISl'TTA IniXTs,
also the
A m o s k e a g ,
A New I'rint, which excels every print in the
f'ountrv for perfection of execution and design
in full Madder Colors. Our Prints are cheaper
tljo.it any in market, and meeting with extensive
,a!e.
Orders promptly attended to. .
February 4, l;iO. ly pi
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J. P. SHINDEL GOBIN,
ftnrniv Vrnilimplloiit I.ftW
STJlN"BTJIiTr, PA.
WILL attend fuithl'ully to the collection of claims
and all professional business in the counties of
Northumberland, Montour, Lmon and Snytfer.
Counsel jsiven iu the German language.
re"" Office one dooreaat of the Frothonotary's
oflUe.
hfunbury, May 30, 18CI. ly
THE INTERNATIONAL HOTEL,
KKOADWAY, CORXF.R OF FRA.NKUN 8TRKET
NEW YORK CITY,
OiTt-rs iiului-eitients to Merchants and Touri.ta viaiting
New N'orkj uuturpuued hy any lii-tel in the .Metropoha.
Tue I liiwuig; are ani.'iig tlia advantiigra which it possca-
a, nnJ wliu-li will tie nppret-ialej hy all tiavelera.
l.t. .V centrul lnciitinn,t!(iiiveaieiit In pLicca o( baaiiieM,
l. Well a. pliire. ul ainuicineiit.
I.M. N-riipnluu.ly clean, well furnished .iLinfr rma,
rt-iib a magnificent lad!es Pallor, comruanding aa exten
aive view of ltroadwuy
3d. Iiri;e and .upeibly fumi.hed Bitting moms, with a
manihent i'arlur, euuimandiug an cxienaive view of
liomdwny.
4th. lirnifr ennducted on the F.uropean plan, viaitors
ami live in the beat .tyle, with the greatest ocuaou.)'
5th. It ia couneeled with
Til) lor ' Celebrated Kaloon,
where vititoia can have their raeul., or, if theyde.ia
they will he furnished in their own rooms.
rtih. The ln:a served in the Nalonna and lintel ia ac.
knowlrdiird by epiruiea, to ba vuatly aupenoi ta that of
any other Hotel ill the city.
Willi all Ihe.e advantagee, tha enat of livinc in tha
International, ia much below that of anv other first class
Hotel. G1LSON at CO., fronnetora.
Aueust 4. I) IV
BLANKS! BLANKS!!
Anew supply of Summons', Executions.
Warrants, Supoinas, Deeds, Mortgages,
Bonds, Leases, Naturalization papers, Justises
snd Constables Fee bills, 4c., Ac, just printed
end for sale at this Office.
Sunbury. April 30, 1859.
SP ALDING'S Prepared Gloa, and Bhelltya Mucilage
Price per bottle and hrnvh ttt eettts.
Cordial lilixir of Citliaaj a Back k iieiixina, for ramoviag
crease.
FOR S VLK AT THIS OFFICK.
funhary, March 17, two.
A NEW LPT OF HARDWARE & SAD.
A DLERV". Also.'the beat assortment of Iron
Nails and Steel to be found in the county. at the
Mammoth store of TRILINU & Git ANT.
Sunbury, June 2, I860.
SKELETON SKIRTS-
4 T the Mammoth Btore will be found
V. Tery large assortment of Skeleton Skirtt
from seven boops up to tnirty.
Oct. 6, lSCi'RlO ORANT
II
O! YE LOVERB OF fOUP J Afresh
supply of Macaroni am Confectionery at
FRILINQ GRANT".
Sunbury, June t, 1 8 CO.
Select Bctrg
THE OLD MAN DREAMS
"Oh I Tor oce boor of youthful joy I
Give back my twentieth epriug I
I'd rather laugh a bright haired boy
Than reign a gray-bvard kiug I
"Off with tho wrinkled spoils of age t
Away with learning's crown I
Tear out life', wisdom written page,
And daah its trophies down I
"One moment let my life-blood stream
From boyhood's fount of flstije I '
Give me one giddy, reeling dream
Of Ilia all love and fame !
"My listening angel heard the prayer,
And calmly (mi lap, mid :
"If I but touch thy silvered hair
Thy hasty wish bath sped.
" 'But is there nothing in thy track
To bid thee fondly stay,
While the swift seasons hurry back
To God the wisbedfor day I'
"Ah ! truest soul of woman kind I
Witbuut thee, what were lilt) I
One bliss I cannot leave behind ;
I'll take tny precious wife 1
"The angel took sapphire pen,
And wrote in raiubow dew ;
'The mau would be a boy agaiu,
And be a husband too !"
" 'And is there nothing yet nnsaid
Before the change uppears T
Remember, all their gilts have fled
With those dissolving years 1"
"Why yes j for memory would recall
My fond paternal joys ;
I could nut bear to learn them all ;
I'll take my girl and boys I
. ''The smiling angel dropped big peD,
'Why, tbis will never do:
. The mao would be a boy again,
I And be a father too I"
I II A H.I f I I I ... 1 . li .. I. .
jiuu bu i mugoeu uiv luuguier wukc
The household with itei uoietj
And 1 wrote my dream wheu morning broke
To pleaso the gruyhuirod boys."
iliscflhmc0us.
A OOOD DIALOGUE.
The scene of tho following Interesting
Dialogue is tbiit of two fanners on opposite
sides of u fence. Mr. Smith, who bus beside
him a basket of very small potatoes, is lean-
""V'9 j' ok )M! 0Te' at,
Nr- Jones, who is digging a splendid crop f
Mr. Jone9 Ah! there s tbe trouble. You
kuow it all yourself: 1 dou't, and so I get
all tbti outside beln 1 cao. I've been cnl.
lecting other meu's brains for my land for
j years, and you doe one result in (A is
Crop.
! Mr. Smith Yes, I see the retult, but 1
don't understand it.
I Mr. Jones Well, when we began here 20
ly'arsago, I thought myself a good farmer,
; but 1 believ d others had good ideas, too,
. and I made it my business to get at their
thonghls ; some 1 found iu aerteultorol books
'r.ni1 I'8"- oll"'r 1 Jicked up at County
j raised, and often I've got a good bint from a
.' neighbor.
Mr. Smith I've always been down on this
"book lurunng, ' Uit your crops stagger me,
they're real knock down artumeuts. I'm
sic a ui toe poor enow i get lor all my work,
-: -1. . ,
and a in desperate enough to try anylbiag for
improvement.
Mr. Joces I'll give yon my experience:
it may aid you. About nineteen years ego I
heard that touio men who bad been brought
up on farm bad clubbed together, and one
of them was going to publt.h a paper, which
should constat mainly of accounts of how
different farmers cultivated various crops,
aud snch liko matters. 1 seut for tho paper
and have done so every year since, and now
I have nineteen large veluines, every page of
which I have read, a little at a time, aod the
whole has not cost the produce of a single
acre. Why, I am astonished when I thiuk
over the tea thousand thoughts, and hiuts,
aod suggestions 1 have thus gathered. What
a blank would be lofl in my bead, if these
thoughts were taken away.
He. Smith out does tho practice of far
mer n other kinds of soil and with a differ
ent climate, suit your wants ?
Mr. Jones hy no, not exactly, perhaps.
Bul then, every thought 1 geTlroui aeottur.
starts a neic thou i l.t in tnu ou-n mind, and
thus I am constantly improving my own skill
and practice You see, 1 get all the brains
I can Irom other men's beads, and compost
tbein well witbio my own head with a mixture
or common sense, and then make the a.pli
cation to my fields. In that way I have ma-1
nured this crop of potatoes with plenty of!
brains. 1 be editor called bwe lust week on
bis W eitern tour among farmers, aod teeiug
my good crops, be asked me te write out just j
how I b.ve treated this field for year, past, !
aud I promised to do it as soon as my strops
are gathered. U. w.ll probably print tt.T.
coosl.n'lly prtnt. all luch practical mat
teis, and perhaps a hundred thousand persons
w.l read it aod tboogh nobody else ma, do
just as 1 do, many will get a new hiut, and
improve dPoq it. You may read it if jo,
Mr. Smith I would like to borrow joor
paper.
Mr. Jones Better take it yoorself, for
then yon will be more likely to read it. You
will find hundreds of plain talk about various
kinds of crops, duriug a single yesr. One
bint gave live bushels of corn oo each acre of
a large field in siegle year.
Mr. Smith J, reo't afford to take it this
year.
Mr. Jones You would think nothing of
spending two csots a week for extra tobacco,
or a cigar, or candy, and that's all tbe paper
will cost. How little a week it costs to
supply yoorself aud family with a large
amount of information through any good
paper.
Mr. Smith What are the politics or that
paper ?
Mr. Joneg It doson't tooch politics. It
is devoted to such subjects ns Field end Gar
den crops, Animals, etc., and has, besides,
a good deal about woman's work, which wife
ays is worth more than ten times tbe few
pounds of butter it costs to pay for tbe pa
per. Then there ia also a department tor
the young folks containing many things
which plcuse the children not mere trashy
stuff, such as is teo often printed for them
but information that will have a good in
fluence on thetn. I would sell a dozen bushels
or wheat to have my young people get tbe
good reading in that paper, but the average
price of one bushel will pay for it a year.
My John says he cas pay for it ea?y with the
eggs from two or three hens. If 1 was a
mechanic or merchant and had only a littlo
garden, 1 shoult take the paper te tell me
how to make tbe best use of the little plot;
and if 1 had not a foot of land I should still
want it for my wife and children.
Mr. Smith Does the editor know any
thing about farming T
Mr. Jones The editor who owns and
publishes the paper was brought up on a
form, where he learned to work. He has
studied all the books on furming, and expe
rimented for years in ths laboratory, and bits
besides, traveled all over the country to
see what was doing. Then he has several
nssoclutes I-'urmors, Gardners, and House
keepers, who know what they writo about.
and among them nil they do 'gather up a
wouoenui mi 0i iniormation every year.
Language, ton, is so plain, so like talking
with you, that 1 enjoy reading it, Then,
too, every paper has engravings, which show
cme exactly how animals and plants, and
implements, and household furniture look,
much better than words could describe them.
Anions these are the plans Of buildings, thot
help one to plan others ; and also many very
fine large pictures, which are worth more
than tb coFt of a whole volume.
Mr. Smith 1 suppose those engravings
and descriptions are partly to help the editor
sell implements aud fertilizers.
Mr. Jones not at ul!. The editor keeps
uothing of tbe sort to sell, go thot he may be
perfectly free to pruiso or condemn anything,
acccrduig us it may be valua6le or worthless
to bis renders. You would luugh to see how
becomes down on poor inventions, patcul
manures, aud all kinds of humbugs.
Mr. Smith Is tbe paper adapted to our
part of tbe country t
Mr. Jones Kxaelly. Soils and crops oud
climates differ, but tbe general principles of
cuittvation ore the same everywhere, and
bere is the benefit of a paper published for
the whole country. Every reader gots rew
ideas by learning what if donn somewhere
else ; and further, 1 find that tbe paper has
letters from evory part of the country, and
one or more assooiate editors iu different
sections, so that we get information from
many regions aod our own too. One thing 1
must mention particularly. The editor is
constantly warning bis readers against Ham
bogs, telling bow sharpers take advantage
of people. Why, I was just going to send
a dollar for o article advertised in glowing
colors, when I found it shown up as a hum
bug in this paper. Hut I cannot stop to talk
more now 1 huve tuch a lot of potatoes to
harvest.
Mr. Smith I wish I had. I must try
that paper a year, and see what there is in it.
Mr. Jones Never fear ; if yoa don't find
it pays, I'll buy your copies at cost, for my
boys to keep.
Mr. Smith What did you say the paper
is culled ?
Mr. J ones Tbe American Agriculturist.
It is published in New York Citv. The
editor, though one of our couutry farmers,
ana living in toe country, Unas be can pub
lish it cheaper there, where priming, and
paper, and mailing facilities are all couveui
ent. Mr. Smith now shall I get it T
vMr. Jones Simply inclose a dollar bill
in a letter, giving your name, i'ost Office,
county, and State plaiuly and direct to
OmKug Jidd, 41 1'ark Kow, New York
City.
Mr. Smith Whendoes a volume begin?
Mr. Joues The 'J'wentieth vslume begins
January 1st, but all who feUid in tbe dollar
cow gel the remaining Dumbers of this
year, iu addition to the whole of next year's.
00 ii you suopcrihe now, yoo get fourteen
months' papers. The proprietor also offer
some valuable premiums to those who get
up lists of subscribers. Send for the paper,
aud you may afterwards find it well worth
while to make op a dab Some 1700 per
sons have got good premiums io this way
during twx years. 4Some or your German
neighbors aonld join you, perhaps, for the
Agriculturist it puirted separately it) German.
1 did lutend to start a club myself, bul I have
tu many potatoes to dig. I cant get the
lime My sister-in law in Iowa got op a
club last year, and received a premium of a
00 Wheeler fc Wilson suwiug machine ; an
old acqusinuance ia Wisconsin got two or
three good farming implements, aud a yoang
nephew of mine in Uhie got a beautiful copy
of Webster's great Dictionary, These things
only cost tbetn a little time, showing tbe pa
per evenings and election day. Send in your
subscription and the first paper will tell you
all about the premiums. 1 forgot to tell you
that every year the publisher also seuds out
to aft bis subscribers who want them a lot of
choice garden aod field seeds.
Mr. bmilb What does ba charge for
them I
Mr. Jones Nothing : they are sent free
except the postage. They are of the best
mud and one single parcel 1 got last year was
worth more to we tbau tbe price of the pa
per. Mr. Smith I'll try it a year, any way j if
half what you say is true it will be a good
ioveitment.
Mr. Jones You'll find every word I have
said true.
Mr- Smith I'll send this very night,
bile in tbe spirit or it.
Mr. Jones Do it, anJ you'll always thank
me for this talk. Good day, I must hurry up
digging my potatoes, I've tuck a lot of them
-thatiks to a hint in the Agriculturist.
air. bniiiD Uow did you say 1 should di
rect the letter containing tbe Dollar ?
Mr. Jooea Jo Orange Judd, 41 Park
Roie,Xtw JVJt City.
Mm Ate jiot aoasr butitlbo to eqcal
aioHTs.lt would be near tbe troth to say
that some were born with saddle on their
tarts, and others booted aod spurred to ride
tbetn and the riding does them good.
J.'L tndLiDHj are not inalienable.
lbs i Declaration of ladepeodeoe ie exho
"""ly rulsa and faHaoui..Wim.. i.
Letters from the Oil Region.
Franeli j, October S4lh, 1860.
Kditor True Fress : Sir i I arrived safely in
this town of "He" on Tuesday evening, aod this
morning at early dawn I took a stroll around this
lively boroufth, by wsy of giving myself sn ap
petite for breakfast. The School lot well I found
was yielding about the aame at it did two months
ago- say fourteen barre a and is an unmintnk
able fortune to i1s owners. The company is
composed of fifty shareholders, anil the shares
originally cost forty dollars each. Par value now
live hundred dollars.
The School Board cme.
..i..... .i :.u .i i
in for one-tenth the product, which makes them
the handsome futd ol three thousand dollar. er
iv. v.fviciim mo vnruuii. wiiitii uia.ca mem
year a pretty cood thinrt for tbe support of
. , ... ... ... ,
education.
After breakfast I journeyed lo the mouth of
Oil Creek; saw many good wells on my road,
and many not finished. At some, depth or other
they appear all vf them to strike oil, varying
from seventy feci lo five hundred and fifty fe.it.
I stopped at Two Mile run, and found Smith &.
Kunkle's well running a fine atream of oil. This
is one of thosn -.Isaling wells. How long it
will continue to run. without pumping, no one
can tell. It has thrown out within lortv eicht
hours, one hundred and twenty-seven barrels uf
oM. I viaited a well on the Wilson farm, owned
by John T. McCombs of PitUburnh, and John
Horner of Franklin. This well well is situited
about two miles below the mouth of Oil Creek,
on the Allegheny river. It is one of the best
wells 1 have seen in the oil region. It wss tested
te-day, and I think (without exagerating any,)
that it was puriVpingst the rata of one hnndred
barrels in twenty-four hours I If this well holds
out, it will be recond te none in the country.
The Keystone Company are boring three wells
one now rbree hundred and ninety-five feet
deep. They have struck seven veins of oil below
three hundred and eighty six feet, and bring up
a gallon or more in the sand pump. I will have
to close here, as I depend on Mr. I), to take this
to you, and he is about starting for the city of
smoke. I will write you soon again,
Yours, K.
A correspondent whose statements can be re
lied upon, sends us the following from "oiljom :"
Moltu OP Oil. crkkk, Oct. 22, 18C0.
Editor True Press, Sir : The oil excite
ment now extends along the Allegheny river
from Horse Creek to the Friburg well above
tbe town of President, and tbe work is being
pushed forward with great vigor and unprece
dented success. All the wells on the M'Crea
and Culberston farms have shown equal lo
the M'Clintock wells. On the other side of
tbe river, J. A. Heydrick . Co. have com
menced pumping at 15 to 20 barrels per day,
and improving. Nellis & Co. have had a
grfi5d show at 80 feet. Lenses run high, J lo
i with borers. At Tithole, White fc Go's,
have a well ready for puwpiDg, a short dis
tance below. Anderson, Kelley & Co'e well
yields 120 barrels every tweoty-luur hours
For two miles down the river tbreo fourths of
the wells are pumping or making ready to
pump, and in a few days this section of the
oil regin will be far ahead of even tbe best
parts or oil Creek. Drum, Arnold & Hamil
ton are pumping 40 barrels per day. At the
mouth of oil creek J. A. Heydrick, in com
pany with several gentlemen from Michigan,
have purchased t'he Nevins land, and bave
laid out a town and commenced building a
refinery. It seems to be the key to the lower
part of Oilcteek. Judoinc from the number
of buildings going op and the amount of busi
ness now being done, 1 get it down as a pluco
of some future importance. The name given
to this place is Potroliuni City. It is the oil
depot for tbe region in the neighborhood aud
above, and the large quantities in and around
toe place impregnates the whole atmospbero
with its fumes. There are four good taverns
io the place, which are most always full of
people, i stopped with that clover young
man, Thomas Moron, who is ever ready with
his smiling face, in his humble way, to attend
to the wauts of his customers. A few hours
6iuce, I made a visit to Corn Planter Hun,
three quarters of a mile distance from here.
Our Pittsburgh friends have made a nice
strike ou this run. Considerable iuterest is
felt on the result. J. A.
Pittslurgh True Press.
IIoiibs, the Locksmith, Rktcrnino. In
1851, duriug the Exhibition of ludustrv of
ail Motions in London, our countryman.
llobbs, astonished the cockneys by picking
Uroinuh's and all the most famous English
locks which bad bees represented as burglar
proof ; while, at the same time, not one of
their locksmiths were able to pick Newall's
American lock. These incidents were the
means ef making Mr. llobbs and Ibe locks
which bo took to London quite popular, so
that a very promising field wos presented for
their mouulucture iu England, and he, in
company, with an English capitalist, entered
upon Us occupancy. A large Inctory was
soon erected iu the viciuity of London, and
Mr. llobbs bad several ingenious machines
constructed to fabricate suverul parts of locks
which bad previously been executed solely
by band-labor io Eogland. His lock factory
became the first in thol country : be beat all
oppouents, aod success attended bis.ellorU.
Alter a residence of nine years in Ergluud,
we learn from the Loudon Mechanics' Mugn
zioe, that he has retired from business, and
is about to return permanently to America
witb big family. During bis residence in
London he has woo respect, and bis work
people seem to bave been greatly attached
to bim. l'hey have presented bun a band
some testimonial, and an address couched io
very etTuctiooale language. liostun Trans
cript. Dham Vitriol. At a factory in Chester
county, Pa., a little goo of Kbeoezer Speak
man, aged eight years, who bad frequeutly
brought water in the pitcher, went to it to
drink, and before noticed by tbe workmen or
detected by his owo taste, draok a gill or
more of sulphuric acid (oil or vitrol), whicb
bad been placed io tbe pitcher, to be used in
some part or ibe business. The boy ran to
the bouse immediately medical aid was sum
moned. The physician bad scarcely a hope
or saving Ibe child, under such adverse cir
cumstances ; but tbe stomach was first filled
with water aod then emptied by meaus of the
stomach pump. Common magnesia was ad
ministered, which combine witb tbe acid and
forms Epsom (alts. Tbe patient wss in ter
rible distress and continued to vomit large
quantities of blood and mucus for several
dajs. At first tbe blood Uowed from the
stomach almost as freely as from the opening
of a large blood vessel io tbe arm. Tbe
strangest part or tbi sad story is that tbe
child, although iu a very precarious situatiou,
i likely to recover. It is oueof'the most re
imarkable esses on record. A portion of the
acid wbicb we spilled on bis c'ltbes, tat
through them to tbe skin.
Tbe WorlJ, though rough, is, after all the
best schoolmaster better than study, for it
make mao hi own teacher. Aa Gibbon
said : "Every person bae two education
one wbicb be receive from others, and one
(how important 1) hitb be gltroe to fclanelf.''
Remarkable Queer Infernal Machine.
A SNAKE TnROl'OH THK I'Ot-T 6VFICR.
The Post Office in Chicago was thrown
Into a state of great excitement, day before
yesterday, says the Timet of the 24th, by th.e
strange antics of a necro woman, who had
just received a letter or package from one of
tne general delivery clerks. 1 be woman was
wringing her hands, screaming and acting
like one in a crary fit. Upon being question
ed, she pointed to a lively Utile greun adder
""JJT'' nTt- '"fT 1 , Ul
toward the door. This AfncanCleonatra.it
t , . .
! V pe'l ' 8 .alar.K. Antony living In the
oiuts oi ue
Georgia. Like their most illustri
ous predecessors, their social relations have
not been of the moot satisfuctnry description.
But the sooty Antouy was quite as deeply
enamored of bis Cleopatra os was bis Roman
prototype, and being unable to possees hpr he
resolved that no one else should. So he
canghPthe addo,r, enclosed it in a pasteboard
box and forwarded it to the object of all
his troubles. She upon receiving it was
slightly surprised at hearing a hiss in the dox,
and almost iustantly the green bead, glitter-
'nS eyes Bud barbed tongue of the aforesaid
odder shot up before ber astonished gazo.
i She dropped the box with a degree ofceleriry
analogous to that with which a hot will drop
a hot potato, and set op a hideous yell, which
caused the consternation mentioned. The
rollowing is a copy of the letter, which fully
discloses the motivess of the husband, and
the part tbe snake was to play :
Marion, October 17th, 1SC0.
Dear Wifk : 1 musTteil yon that I do
love yon witb all my heart, and ao other but
you. How do you think 1 can live without
you, dear, loving wife f How my very heart
does ache for you. Now dear wife, do helievo
me what 1 tell yoo, for God's sake, for I never
loved any other but you. Here is one of
your dear loving pets, aud take it and kiss it
Tor me, now, dear, uffecctionate wife. Why
don't yoa come home, iT you can, and take
your dear little Simon in your arms and press
bim to your bosom, as yoa bad so much love
Tor me. Margaret, 1 must say that tbis will
be tbo last that I will ever write to you, and
another thing ir you would live with me 1
would never live witb you, Tor 1 tun afraid of
you.
After me writing to you and telling you
thot 1 would live with you if you would pro
mise me that yon would do right ty me.
Well, by G-d, ir I con't get along without
you, 1 will kill myself for I never will bother
you auy more. 1 am going to get a bill from
you, now sure ; but 1 did wunt lo live with
you, but don't now, and never will so long as
I live, but 1 must say that I love you, but
that don't amount to anything now, and I
don't want it to amount to adything, but you
shall have Simon's picture, sure. If you don't
get it this wiuter you will never see him, lor
1 am going so for away thai you will never
see him. Simon is sick, now.
Yonrs truly, for a gonnsr.
PHILANDER PJERCB.
Kiss this dear little pet for mo, and take it
and sleep with it for God's sake.
P. S They say that the Maa is true and
let Ibis bile you and yt u wi.l find out that tbis
is a good little bed follow.
Tho Printer and tho Types.
Perhaps there is oo department or enter
prise whose details are less understood by in
telligent people than the art preservative
the achievements of the types.
Every day their lives long they are occus
tamed to read the newspapers, to find fault
witb its statements, its urrungements, looks,
to amuse themselves npou the discovery or
some roguish and acrobatic type that gets
into a frolic and stands upon his bead, or with
some word with a waste letter or two in it ;
but or tbe process in whicb the newspaper is
innde, of the myriuds of motions uud thou
sands of pieces necessary to composition they
know littlo und think less.
They imagine they discourse of a wonder
indued, when tbey speak of tbe fair white.
Carpet woven from thought to walk upon from
the rags that fluttered npoo the back of
the beggar yestert ay.
But there is something to 09 more wonder
ful in it. When we look at the hundred and
fifty little figures that compose a printer's
Cuse, uoiseless except tbe flaking of tjpes,
as one by one they take their march in grow
iug line we thiuk we have found tbe uiorvul
of the art.
Strewn in those little boxes are thin par
olelgrumes of metal, every one good for some
thing that goes to in uke np written language ;
the visible foot prints of thought upon carpet
of rags.
We think bow many fragments of fancy
there are iu the boxes; bow many atoms of
poetry or eloquence the printer can wake
here aud if ha ouly has a littlo chart to work
by, bow many lies ia small handfulls, how
much truth iu chaos. Now he picks the
scattered elements until he holds iu bis baud
a stanza of Grey's Elegy, a monody upon
Grime's coat ell buttoned down before. Now
he set up "puppy missing," aad now "Para
dise Lost." He arrays a bride, "in small
caps," aod a sonnet in "Nonpareil." He an
nounces that the languishing live, in one sen
tence transposes the word , and deplores
the days ttiul are evil in tbe next.
A poor jest ticks its way into tbe printer's
band like a little clocb just running down, add
a strain of elegance marches Into line. We
faucy we can tell the difference by bearing uf
tbe ear, but perhaps not.
The types that told or a weddiug yesterday,
announce a burial lo-morrow perhaps iu the
self same letters.
They are the elements to make a world of.
Those types are a world with something in it
as beautiful as spring, as neb as summer, and
autumn flowers tbat rrostcanool wilt, fruit that
sbull ripen for all tiuie.
A queer sort of fellow is Lord IJvron's
grandson, who, by tbo death of Lady liyron,
has lately become Duron Wf otwortb, aud to
wbotn will ultimately fall the great landed es
tate of the family. From a singular, caprice
be learned the trade or a blacksmith, and
went to work, some years ago, in tha Wool
wich Arsenal. He has occasionally visited
his mother, Lady Lovelace, oo a Sunday, but
always returned to bis work on Monday
moruiog. He is said to bave been emaut-af
tujtt ia his youth, who ran away from school,
turned common sailor, for variety, and then
for a new seosation, took to blacksmilhiog
which appears to bave pleased bim well, and
made a steady mao of biui. Qeeer ua his con
duct seem, be may chance to be a very sen
sible fellow.
Ilckoa -or the CAnriua). Tbe present
political campaign ha furnished nothing bap
pier than the following, on Everett' rumored
marriage to a Southern lady :
BELLE RINGING.
Mr. Everett "a rich Southern widow" soon weds.
And -'whoever it can be" mats fools rub their
beads;
But why myalary's made ef the thing I can tall,
As he's followed far sneoUi a wall knowa South
ern Bell.
Asckvt op Pikb' Prak rtr Two Lambs
A correspondent of the lioston Traveller
gives an account of a trip he and two New
England ladies recently made to the summit
of Pike's 1'eak. When we remember tbat
Pike' Peak is 14,500 feet above the sea
level, and is situated in an nnbrokeo wilder.
oess, the feat of these two lading is remarka
ble. The writer's occount or the trip is brier,
and as follows :
The ascent ia difficnlt and exhausting, os
several rugged monntnins ore passed over be-
ore ma Dase to l'Me's 1'eak i reached, and
the journey can bo accomplished only oo foot.
It- l
oenpeniuve ua among tne mountains,
and during two of them were almost entirely
out oi provisions. Italn tell incessantly, anil
forty-eight hours in the cold atmosphere we
passed iu drenched clot bin. Two members
of the party Mrs. Mark L. Blunt, frem
Boston, and Miss Addio M. Wniith, from
Derry, N. II , were the first ladies who ever
sot root upon the summit. Nothing bnt in
vincible determination carried them through
the hardships of tho journey ; hot though
tbey each lost eight pound "of flesh in less
than five days, they Tell amply rewarded Tor
their toil, for the view from the Peak is in.
deBcribably grand and impressive. It ex
tends in every direction about a hundred
miles, embracing everv variety of nunri
end enables one to look from the same stoud
point upon four different territories Kansas,
Nebraska, Utah aud New Mexico.
Cv
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ST We clip the following excellent parody
irom the Cleveland "Plain Dealer :"
THE BAVIN Q After "Poo's Haven."
Once, npon a mi inight dreary,
As be pondered, weak and weary,
Over dusty, dirty volumes, and great piles of
stately lore,
Sat Buchanan, nearly napping
Suddenly there came a rapping,
As of gome one gently tapping rapping at the
White House door
Open How the entrance door.
Lo 1 the western "Michigon der,"
With bis head up, aud his dander,
And 'Squire Black and Isaac Toucey quickly
passed the threshold o'er.
Took their scats beside their master.
And the while their thoughts run faster
Gn tbe subject laid before them, as they
gaznd upon the floor ;
Aod sot thinking nothing more.
Thon Buchanan, sudden turning,
All bis soul witbia bim burning,
Said, "Now Bluck and Cass and Toncey, tell
me, tell me, 1 implore,
How to whip this, Little Giant,
Wbo so proudly and defiant
Beards my minions in their den, and layg us
sprawling on the floor :
Sets us bawling evermore !"
"Well" said Cass "it's my intention
( If laid down in onr convention) '
l our convention, dear Buchanan, if we bold
them any more ;
As I said, it's my intention
To uphold your intervention,
And" I'll stop, for all the rest be said no
relevancy boro ;
All deceit but nothing more.
"Intervention I" answered Toucey,
"Lewis Cass, 1 gue6s you're boozy,
Thus to talk of intervention ; wby yoa great
old western boor,
Back in eighteen forty seven,
You declared by earth and heaven,
lo your note to Nicholson, you'd intervene
no more I"
Cass went out a private door I
Ho they talked, and jeered, and flouted,
Each the other's pluu be scouted,
Till tbe lamps grew dim, and vanished, and
but one of all the four,
James Buchanan, in his glory.
Democrat, aod big, and Tory,
IT ! - I .
Wrapped bim io bis sober niuntle, and lay
down upon the floor :
Ho lay down to dream and snore I
But again there came a rspping,
Such a rapping, and a tapping,
Old Dusk vowed bo never beard the like in
ell his life before 1
Up he rose, tbo' quite uncertain
W here be was, pulled back the curtain,
Woudering ho io all creation, could bo
knocking at tbe door I
Yawned aud stretched aod nothing
more.
Open then flew wide tbe shutter,
Witb a kiud of start and flutter,
When below be saw Abe Lincoln oo a rail
beside the door ;
Ah! said James, as ba espied him,
I wiah 1 was dowu beaide him,
If the people would not ride me as they've
riddeo Aim before,
Oo thai rail beside tbe door.
Buck gave Abe most marked attention,
Promised Danite intervention
Promised he would seud hit ojioious to the
polls by many a score ;
They should rally in October,
Work like devils, druuk or sober,
Tulk ef fusion witb the Giuuls 1:11 election
day is o'er ;
Talk and talk but nothing nioie.
Then OM Abe flt sure of wiuning,
Grinned aud bowed, aod still kept grinning,
Ituck tiok Bourbon, Abe took Bourbou,
seven glasses each aod more.
Kissed, embraced, and praised each other
Called each "hero," "frieud," aud "brother,"
I ledged anew to kill tbe Douglas a they
parted at the doer ;
Pledged and winked aud something
more.
Soon were sent those solij pl. dg.-s,
Gathered from the lanes and bedgtes
Ol Old Buck' administration, aud soon came
the Dur.ita roar.
Loudly then they fused and diddled.
Uncle Samuel's purse they riddled,
Lined a danced, the Haoites fiddled,
Fiddled Intervention tunas t.ll their finger
ends were sore ;
Played for boiling evermore.
Now Buchanan still is walking, .
To himself is loudly talking,
Tbal be now would ksep his pledges, though
be broke them all before ;
He wonld kill the Little Giuut
So beloved aod so defiant.
For no act could now disgrace h:oi or sink
bim any lower ;
Think or honor nevermore.
Tbe election told thp story,
Then Old Buck in all bis glory
Weut quite crazy with delight as be read tba
figures o'er ;
Fairly be adored lbs paper.
Kicked aod cot op socb a caper,
That tbe Cabiuet all voted bim a dotard and
a bore ;
II was tbat ad nothing more.
Cultivate Blackberries.
Seeing tin inquiry asliimr how to ret an-1
cultivate tbe Lawton blackberry, and bavin.,
hud a little experience in the cultivation i'f
the blackberry, I will answer the quHP'l ,n re.
far as 1 om able. To many it may seem en
idln waste of time nod paper. To oil sod. I
would answer, that, in many peetirt,s t f ' !
country the time is past, un 1 it ii tn hn hi.n. .1
that it 8000 will be in all. Hint people c..n p
to the hedges, along the fences and wm,i
grounds of thp farm to procire tho accustom
ed supply or berries. ' I vote fji pn.gre; s,''
and progress is ruud in a rrni"r's hm-iug n
pitch t.r blackberry plants yielding ot tho
rato or two hundred bus1 els to the tare,
instead or having them pcntternd all over the
premises, rmd at that yielding but a seamy
pittance for the spnep o; copied.
How to set thp plants f Iu llieCrtt pl.-c-.
it is necessary to prepare the prmnd, which
shonld be broken up to a good doptb, uni if
it were trenched or suhsoiletl, it were oil l!ft
better; bat this is Dot absolutely tu-c-sm-).
The soil should bi well manured ; anv kind of
manure will answer, uud there is no danger of
getting too much of any of tho munures com
monly used about the farm, as wit find tho
blackberry in the wild state growing va bind
as rich ns it con well be ma le, an.) it i m.nn
just such land as thol we find the handsomest
icnit.
The plants miy be set in the fall or spring.
Tbe more roots taken np witb the plant tbo
better ; the roots being the vital part or
plants, and not the tops, as many seem to
think, judging by the nianuer that thry plant,
trees, briurs, &e. Tha tops ought to be cut
off nearly level with the surfaco of the grotiud,
ns tho growth that is thrown in them is tskeu
from the suckers which spring op from the
roots, and ere destined 'to bear the fu.u:o
fruit. A good distance f get the pWt is
to bave tbe rows five feet apart, fi r ir toev
are nearer together than that, the briars wi'l
spreoa over und mike it inconvenient to cul
tivate tho plants or to gather the fruit.
Tlioy may set three feet apart in the row. or
closer, il desired ; the further distunce to ho
piererred, as the roots run far io search oi"
nourishment, and the dry weather will not
afiect them so mach. Tie the bri.m-re? up '
stakes, or, what is better, set a jv.st at t o
end of the row, rasteo a couple or wire
these posts, putting the lower wire about tw ,
reet from the ground, and the other four feet ;
then fasten the briars to those wires, spi,p
ing them apart as much as convt.tiieni- . he
berrie will ripen soounr ond be of bettor
flavor. It is a good pluu to give ther a good
mulch, as it keeps the ground moisi and
cIe?D- . Lotus.
tSultimore Week!; Sun.
A Few Hints to HocsEKHKi'itiis. House
keepers should remember, tbul coffee which
is purchased already roasted, should be kept
in a closo tin chest ; that tea, tl preserve its
full flavor, should olso have iho air excluded ;
that cakes should likewise bo kept in o tin
box with a tight-fitting top, and tbey will
keep fresh three times as loug as if I -.ft ix
posed. Dread pieservej in the samo wuv.
neve need be stale, go much dreaded by
young persons with strong digestive powers.
mm nuuuerries ,JSt now tnnit'no. 1 huie
... ."-
o('jeuiuiu-e, aim nj one Ba yon ever suw
will keep the whole wiuter if pl iced In a sweet
vessol with water, iu a pluco where tbe water
will not freeze much. Good, fresh rice has a
clear, bright look ; old rice is frequently
infested with a bluck insect which eats into
and buries itself io the grain. In laying up
your slock of lard for the winter, choose thr.t
for the longest keeping, from hogs over one
year old ; tbiit from ynnng hogs should be
used first, lo rotfkiug "sour crout," first
scald out the cask, place a few leaves ia the
bottom, then a layer of tho col cabbage, thn
stamp gently until the juice appears, thon
auoioer layer ut'.n tue
eftuu- ia lull . ...I.
layer should hove os touch Sue salt na'enn be
I grouped in the hand. When the cask is full.
another topping or cabbage leaver, then i lace
I Jl lC.' .. . .
o uuaru, tooauiy ninng, upon me top, and on
top or that a etoue or sufficient we;giit to
pres it down properly. Stand away in tbo
cellar. Remember, that io making eour
crout everjtbing must be perfectly clean ond
sweet, just oi much so as in making brtsj
and pies. (jermantown Telegraph.
r -
Mixes Pik. One and a half crackers,
three spoontulls of melted butter, half cup of
vinegar, one cap of molasses, raisins ond
spice to your laste. Melt tha hotter and
vinegar, thon add the rest, oud fill your paste ;
cover us usual.
Bologna Savsag. Ten pounds round i f
beer chopped Hue, 2J pound of tha fat of
pork, cut io very small pieces with a ktnfe,
(not chopped,) ounco mace, ounce gronnd
cloves, 2 ounces black pepper, bruised in a
mortar, not very Cue ; mil all together and
let it lay all night. Next day put it in skins
and let il lay four or five days in the sun.
U 111 0 r 0 U 5
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At a convention of clergymen, not loctr
siuce.it was proposed by one of tbo members
after Ibey had diued, that each man fli-oil I
entertaio the company with some interesting
retnurks. Among the rest, one drew up Ins
fancy and related a dream. In his dream be
went to Heaven, and be described the golden
slieeU, etc. As be concluded, one cfthe
divines, who was somewhat noted fir his pen
urious and money saving habits, st'-pped up
to the narrator end inquired jocosely ;
"Well, did you gee anything or me in your
dream t"
"Yes, I did."
"IndeeJ what wag I doing? Praying"
wag 1 1"
'No scraping op the gold I"
I Vant to schippen der I.ncilia." sard a
foreigner to tbe clerk io anbippiug rffu-e.
"Well," said tbe clerk, pea iu baud, "what's
yonr otitis t"
"it i Hang Yer.naonfel Iastiuidttadnednrs-rnaseighypworcbtflkvenxquigwpainswrirniipln-rity,"
said duchy, gravely, spitting out bis old
quid and taking in a fresh one.
"Heaven V said tba clerk, "I esn't write
that. Look here1. Mister, what i il Hi Eng
lish, do yoa know ?"
"Yaer. Icb doe. Ii Yon SmiJl?"
The poor clerk fainted.
Mr. Smith, you said yoa gurpertJ the pri
soner was a rogue the moment yon law bim.
Why did yon put suspect bim?' "Decos '
'ired my moms without beatiog down the
price." ' Is this a rule without any excep.
lions?' "It's a rule without no hexceptious,
yerwrsbip; 'onest men are balwayg stingy
and never satisfied hunles they get a htll
ii.g'a worth of bacilli wg for teopence "